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 The
history of Nazareth Methodist Episcopal Church
would be incomplete without mention of James
Burns, one of the pioneer Methodists of Northwestern
Pennsylvania. He was born in Florence Court, near Inniskillin, Ireland,
in 1778. His father was a native of Scotland, and his mother of England.
About 1794 or ‘95 be immigrated to America, and settled in Carlisle,
Cumberland Co., Penn. The faith in which he had been reared was the
Episcopal, but in Carlisle he connected himself with the Methodist
Episcopal Church. in whose membership he ever after lived. After
remaining a few years at Carlisle he removed to Brownsville, Fayette
Co., Penn. In 1810 he was married to Mary Morrow,
near Bentleyville, Washington County, at which place he purchased a
farm. Remaining upon it but two years. he removed in the spring of 1812
to Slippery Rock Township, Mercer County, now Plain Grove Township,
Lawrence County, and settled on the farm on which he died in 1864. There
being no Methodist preaching in reach, Mr. Burns
supported and attended the Presbyterian Church at Plain Grove until
1818, when
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Nazareth
Methodist Episcopal Church, photographed Jun 2001, click
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