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History of Brushy Fork protestant churches
History of Licking County, Ohio: its Past and Present, pages 461-462.
The Protestant Methodist church down on Brushy fork, in the southern part of the township, was among the earliest. It was established by Joseph Thrap, and he and the Rev. C. Springer were the earliest preachers here. Among the early members Messrs. Phillips and Skinner were prominent, and were leaders in the organization. The church - a hewed log - was erected near the main fork of Brushy fork, and about 1829 or 1830, and was used until 1852, when the present building was erected. The church building, probably, did not cost over four or five hundred dollars, being built mostly by volunteer labor. The present membership is forty-five; serves are held every two weeks, and an active Sunday-school is maintained during the summer.
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Jacob Winter, esq., gives the following brief history of the "Brushy Fork congregation," or Disciple church, located on Brushy fork, in the southern part of this township.
"The first preaching here was by Jesse B. Ferguson, about 1837, and afterwards by William Hathaway, Albert Law, Ziba Brown, Dr. William Hayes, J. H. Jones, Asbury Gardner, and William Atherton. This congregation was organized in the latter part of 1837., with Artemas Baker, his wife, one son and two daughters, Robert Wills and wife, John Oatman and wife, Jacob Palmer and wife, John Palmer and son, Ezekiel Skinner and wife, William Coomes and wife, and John Perry and wife, as first members. Artemas Baker, Jacob Palmer and John Perry were its first elders.
Their church edifice is a substantial stone structure, and was erected in 1838. It is situated about two and a half miles southest of Clay Lick station, on the Central Ohio rail road, on the road across from the Flint ridge to Zanesville, sometimes called the Mount Sterling road. The whole number of members enrolled from the commencement to the present time (about 1870) is above three hundred. Many of the original members have died, and many others removed west, leaving the present number about seventy-five or eighty."
| Owner/Source | History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present |
| Linked to | William Coomes; Martha Jane Haley; Mary E. Haley; Simeon Phillips; Asa William Gray Skinner, Sr.; Ezekiel Ludwell Skinner, Jr; Lucinda Skinner |
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