Wheatland-Farrell
Methodist Church, former the Grace Methodist Church and the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Wheatland
The
Methodist Episcopal Church of Wheatland owes its existence to
the beneficence of Mrs. James Wood, wife of
the man who laid out and named the town. She gave the lot and furnished
the means for erecting the building. The organization occurred about
1868, Rev. J. Perry supervising the matter.
The strength of the congregation depending upon the mills, its
prosperity fluctuated with the changes occurring in their business. The
neat little edifice was erected about 1870. The congregation was
incorporated September 24, 1870. Following is the list of its preachers:
J. Perry, 1869; G.
Dunmire, 1870; B. F. Delo, 1871; J.
H. Vance, 1872-74; J. F. Hill, 1875;
J. Graham, 1876; W.
P. Graham, 1877-78; C. E. Locke,
1879; James Ballantine, 1880-82; Otho
Brant, 1883; John Crill, 1884; John
C. Womer, 1885-87; Rev. Knowles,
1887.
The
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 490
History
of the Wheatland-Farrell Methodist Church, 1868-1959
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