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 Mount
Hope M. E. Church—
In January 1851, a revival of religion took place, as a result of
Methodist preaching, in a school-house near New Lebanon, in Mill Creek
township. Many of the converts obtained, were residents of New Vernon
township, and, in the following spring, organized the Mount Hope Church,
at the house of George Marsteller. Rev’s Elisha
Wheeler and John Abbott, conducted their movements, and a class
was formed, with Elisha Moore as leader.
Meetings were continued at Marsteller’s residence, and at the
school-house, in New Vernon village, until 1854, when a meeting-house
was built, on land deeded by Joseph and Daniel
Halloway, for that purpose, and under the superintendence of the
zealous and active Robert Beatty, who hewed
the timbers himself. There were about twenty members, when it was built,
and the number has since increased to 128.
The
History of Mercer County, 1877, page 76.
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