Protestant
Methodist Church.
—About 1836 or 1837 a number of families of English descent came to
Sharon. They were disposed to join a Protestant Methodist rather than a
Methodist Episcopal congregation. The result was an organization of a
church of that faith about the time just referred to. Among the original
members of the congregation were Moses Troutman
and wife, Benjamin Troutman and wife, John
Urmson and wife, Fred Urmsom and
wife, and others whose names cannot be recalled. In the ranks of its
primitive preachers were Revs. Inskip and Clark. The
house of worship, the second one erected in the place, was a frame
building of spacious dimensions, and was, for a time, owned jointly by
the Protestant Methodists and the Presbyterians. The latter finally sold
their interest to Judge David T. Porter. It
is still standing, and is owned and used as a dwelling. The congregation
was disorganized many years ago.
History
of Mercer County, 1888, page 389
