INDIANA TRAILS
MT. ZION METHODIST
Deed Bk. V,
Pg.551. Election of Trustees. The undersigned Clerk of a meeting held
at Seacats School House on the 13th day of April, 1850, do certify that
this meeting was held according to a previous appointment for the
purpose of electing five trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church to
hold a certain lot of land to be occupied by the said church for the
purpose of building a Meeting House thereon. And that Wm. E. Cole, John
Briscow, Jacob Lincoln, Jefferson Seacat and George Seacat was duly
elected. Henry Winders, Clerk.
Deed Bk.V, Pg.550. April 15, 1850.
Blue River Twp. Jacob Lincoln and wife Martha A., convey to Wm. B.
Cole, John Briscow, George Seacat and Jacob Lincoln, Trustees of the
Methodist Episcopal Church to wit:
Commencing at the
NE corner of the SW Quarter of the NE Quarter of Sect. 7, Twp. 2, Range
3..., making said lot so deeded in a three cornered shape, for the
purpose of erecting thereon a house of public worship, for the use and
benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Peed Bk.H-4, Pg.172. May 11, 1904.
George W. Churchill and Alice M. his wife, convey to A.M. Goss, W.P.
Seacat and H.H. Friedley, Trustees of Mt. Zion Church to wit: A small
part or fraction of an acre out of the NW corner of the SE fourth of
the NE Quarter of Sect. 7, Twp. 2, Range 3, beginning at the SE corner
of said Mt. Zion cemetry
From Blue River Twp. History
Scrapbook of Mrs. David F. Adams and edited by Mrs. Paul Smith.
‘Before the first
church was built, church services were held at the residenco of Peter
Seacat. It is thought the services were held there soon after he bought
the farm in 1835, and held there for one or two years. The first
construction was a log cabin which is believed to have been used 15 or
20 years. The second was a frame building used until 1886 when it was
torn down, the lumber used by David Howerton to construct a barn. The
third one was a frame one built in 1886 or 1887.
Though Mt. Zion
was left off the circuit when the church was built at Depauw in 1918,
services were held there on occasion.
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