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 Cottage
Methodist Episcopal Church was organized before 1856, by Rev.
Dillon Pearson, in what was known as Cape-Horn School-house. The
original members were George Jones and
wife, John Webb and wife, Mrs.
Doratha Pete, Mary Black, Rev. Robert Boyd and John
Dight and wife. The following summer a small church edifice was
constructed, costing about $300. It was subsequently sold to John
Wilson for a dwelling, and on the same site, two miles west of
Jackson Centre, on the Franklin and Mercer road, in 1870, a fine frame
building was erected, costing $2,000. Rev. McGill was
probably the first regular pastor. The present [1888] minister is
Nathaniel Morris, and the membership is 100. A Sabbath-school is kept
up, with William Pew as superintendent.
History of Mercer
County, 1888, page 544 |
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