Early Churches of Tippecanoe County Indiana
| Members of the Tippecanoe
County Area area Genealogy Society are working on this list of early
churches of Tippecanoe County. We hope to add photographs
of each one. If you or someone you know has a photograph of any
Church below we would love to post it. This database is an
effort to help others find genealogy resources in your search to find
family information and preserve the history. Please remember this
information came mainly from early history books of the past. The
beginning of many churches started in building of other denominations.
The main tables were created from TIPCOA members Susan Y. Clawson and
Joyce Watterson. Many photographs came from myself or Kathy
& Keith Hiser, who enjoyed their trip around Tippecanoe County
finding what was left of the buildings. Thanks ladies and Keith,
we really appreciate your time and effort on this project. We would love help, connecting any additional information or webpage's. I can link them to help us all learn the past history. Already many links have gone bad. Please share new ones at E-mail: TIPCOA CHURCH INFO |
Fairfield, Jackson,
Lauramie,
Perry,
Randolph, Sheffield,
Shelby, Tippecanoe,
Union, Wabash, Wayne
& Wea
Washington township
|
Denomination |
Church name |
Origin date |
Founder |
Buildings |
Significant events / cemeteries |
Address & possible |
|
Evangelical
Lutheran |
Zion Lutheran
Need photo |
Origin 5 Jan 1843(Waltmann); at Colburn/ Chapmanville; Sec 23 (1878) |
Elias
Markert (Waltmann)
|
made of logs, erected in 1845, at site of the present cemetery south of town (Heritage 75/76); still open in 1957, shared minister Rev. Joseph Radabaugh with Bethel Lutheran at Pettit (1957 Directory). Closed |
Cemetery
W side of 1000 E; footstone of church at entrance |
Closed.
Contact: Jennifer I. Long, Archivist |
|
Methodist
and United Brethren |
Americus Union Church (Community Church |
Methodist services held early at the
home of John Fisher |
Land donated by William Digby (“Americus”) |
1st church in twp built at Americus around 1843 (Crider); still open in 1957, minister Rev. Claude Crider (1957 Directory); rebuilt in 1893; renovated 1941 and 1969 (“Americus”) |
1983-2006
Vernon Stingley; then Larry Williams; Effie Emrich, historian |
Americus
Union |
|
Methodist
and United Brethren |
Jewettsport
North Union church (Crider) Need photo |
org.
about 1854; Sec 30 (1878) |
|
2nd church in twp built in 1854 by UB and Methodists, on Union Hill near Jewett’s Port (Heritage 75/76; DeHart) |
Torn
down about 1930 |
closed |
|
Methodist |
Colburn/Chapmanville
Methodist Need photo |
Chapmanville
(1878) |
|
built in 1875 by J. M. Saums (Heritage 75/76); closed 1902 or 1903; membership moved to Buck Creek (Crider; DeHart) |
Building
sold |
Closed.
But see Colburn United |
|
Methodist
Episcopal |
Org,
1829, home of John Fisher, by Hackaliah Vredenberg
|
Hackaliah
Vredenberg 1863, L. S. Buckles |
Bldg erected by Henry Stair along Buck Creek 1832; moved into town in 1863. new bldg 1908-09); repaired 1960 (Crider); 1968 became United Methodist |
100th
Ann Church bldg celebrated October 2008 |
Buck Creek
United Methodist |
|
|
United
Brethren (later EUB, then United Methodist) |
Rorick St. in Transitville (1878) |
|
Minister
on Transitville Circuit in 1868 was Warren Taylor |
|
Closed |
|
|
United
Brethren (later EUB, then United Methodist) |
Org.
1879; Chapmanville, labeled Breth (1878 map) |
|
built in 1879 (Heritage 75/76); still open in 1957 as Colburn Evangelical UB (1957 Directory); formed by group split from Colburn Methodist Church (“Colburn”) |
Cemetery
E side of 1000 E on edge of Colburn |
Colburn
United Methodist Kasey Schnepp, pastor |
|
| Need info | Colburn Church on St. Rd 25 N. |
Bibliography use for Washington township Churches
1878 Atlas of Tippecanoe County Indiana. Knightstown, Ind.: Kingman Bros, 1878.
1941 Directory of Churches of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Tippecanoe County Public Library. Lafayette, Indiana
1957 Tippecanoe County Rural Directory. Lafayette, IN: Wabash Valley Rural Directory Service, 1957.
Americus Union Church.” Heritage of Faith, Lafayette Journal and Courier December 1976.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. [BR] Chicago: Lewis, 1888.
Buck Creek United Methodist newsletters
“Colburn United Methodist.” Heritage of Faith, Lafayette Journal and Courier July 1976.
Crider, Ruth C. “History of the Methodist Church in Washington Township to 1933.” 23 Oct. 1933. Accessed
22 Feb. 2009 at http://www.gbgm-umc.org/bcumcin/history/1933/htm
DeHart, Richard P. Past and Present of Tippecanoe County Indiana .Indianapolis: Bowen, 1909. 2 vols.
Directory of Area Churches, Carroll County Comet. Accessed 27 Feb. 2009. http://www.carrollcountycomet.com/news/2009/0218/worship/035.html
Heritage 75/76: Commemorative Book of Tippecanoe County, 1826-1976. Ed. Allen Hayman. Lafayette, IN: Greater Lafayette
Chamber of Commerce, 1976.
Schnepp, Nancy. “A History.” With list of pastors 1829-present. Buck Creek UM Church Centennial Cookbook. Buck Creek, IN: BCUM Ladies Missionary Society, 2008.
St. Joseph Conference.” United Brethren Historical Center, Huntington University. Accessed 22 Feb. 2009 at
http://www.huntington.edu/ubhc/conferences/stjoseph/stjoseph.htm
Tippecanoe County Cemeteries Database Printout. Tippecanoe County Area Plan Committee, 2005.
Trinity Lutheran Seminary, ELCA Region 6 Archives. Accessed 27 Feb 2009, http://www.trinity lutheranseiminary.edu/elca
Memorial, Vernon Stingley, d. 2006, Rossville High School Alumni Web site. Accessed 27 Feb 2009. rossvilleclassof65.com/Memorials.htm and
http://www.hippensteelfuneralhome.com/index.php?sec=Obits&con=Archive&iid=299.
Waltmann, Henry G. “The Struggle to Establish Lutheranism in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 1826-1950.” Indiana Magazine of History 75.1 (Mar. 1979): 28-52.
Another area you will find help are the cemeteries that were connected. This list is also by township.
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