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 Formerly
Methodist Episcopal Church, Stoneboro
The
Methodist Episcopal congregation was organized in the winter of 1869,
through the agency of Rev. John Eckels. In
the first organization there were forty-one members. The first regular
services were held in the school house, then a two-story, two-roomed
building, The first class-leader was Edwin Egbert,
of Sandy Lake. Adam Davis was the first
steward. The building at present [1888] used by the congregation was
erected in the year 1875. It is a frame and is quite commodious. The
succession of pastors has been, as nearly as can be ascertained, Rev.
John Eckels, Rev. A. S. Goodrich, Rev. Robert Beatty, Rev. J. Kinney,
Rev. John Graham, Rev. A. R. Rich, Rev. Gilfillan. Rev.
Charles Reeves, under whose ministry the congregation became a
separate charge. Rev. W. S. Shepard and Rev.
John Eckels, the present pastor [1888], who began his labors in
the fall of 1886. The congregation is at present in a prosperous
condition, numbering ninety-five members. There is a Sunday-school
connected with it, of which the superintendent is Mr.
F. T. Mears. The enrollment of the school is 132.
from History of Mercer County,
1888., page 468.
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