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Wheatland |
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Welsh
Congregational Church |
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 The
Welsh Congregational Church was organized August 11, 1872, in
the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Rev. John
Edwards, assisted by Rev. O. Owens,
of Pittsburgh, and Rev. O. W. Owen, of
Coalburg. The original members consisted of W.
Phillips and wife, I. David and
wife, Mary Williams, John B. Bowers, M. A.
Jenkins, Catt Phillips, J. Price, Nancy Edmunds, D. John and
wife, Lewis Griffith, W. Brenan and wife, T.
Richard and wife, W. Thomas and
wife, W. S. Morgan, W. D. Lewis and wife, J.
Jarrett and wife, John L. Phillips, Mrs. E.
Armstrong, Ann Jenkins, D. Jenkins, Richard Jenkins, Hanna Williams,
Enloe Evans, William Watkins, James Garrett, Ellen Goodhall, W. F.
Morgan, Mary Rowlands, M. Yeenis, R. Jones, T. Z. Jones, Ella Thomas,
Ann Jones. J. Richard and wife, D. J. Jones
and Eliza Jones. The congregation has had
but one regular pastor, the present [1888] one, Rev.
Thomas M. Griffith. The church services are held at present in
the school-house, as no regular church building has yet been built, but
it is the intention to commence the erection of a suitable chapel in the
near future, The congregation has a membership of thirty three.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 490
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 The
Welsh residents of Wheatland organized a Congregational church in August,
1872. Thomas M. Griffith was their first
pastor, and continued to serve his people for many years. The congregation
worshiped in the village schoolhouse and elsewhere until the erection of
their church.
Twentieth
Century History of Mercer County, 1909, page 286.
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Wheatland
contains three churches.... The Welsh Calvinists also have
a congregation, and a small church was erected about 1872.
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The History of Mercer County, 1877, page 124 |
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