The
Ebenezer Church was a Methodist congregation. The church building
was located about 2 miles southeast of Peru, in Walnut Township,
close to the border with Ohio township. A history of the church
has not been found but the most likely scenario is that it was
organized in the 1850s (the associated cemetery dates to 1855),
and built the church building in the 1870s. In August, 1898 the
Ebenezer Church was taken down and the materials used to enlarge
the Methodist Church at East Peru. A schoolhouse of the Washington
District was built on the vacant property. No photograph has been
found. From
various newspaper articles are found some of the Ebenezer Church
members and preachers including William Deardorff, Rev. McDougal,
Dr. Simon Clayton Carver, Rosa Carver, Rev. Patterson, Rev.
William F. & Matilda Hestwood, Mrs. John Howe, Thomas Husted,
Alfred Reese Simmons & Mary Simmons, Rev. J. R. Rawls, and
Rev. Charles Woolsey. ___________________
Source: "Old
Newspaper Article Records Church History", The
Winterset Madisonian, September 1, 1975. |
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