INDIANA TRAILS
PERSEVERANCE CHAPEL
Deed Bk.K. Pg.381.
Appointment of trustees for the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Dec. 1,
1837.
The following persons were duly appointed to receive a deed and
erect a
meeting house for the Methodist
Church on
a piece of ground
donated by Zachariah Kitterman, namely Samuel Row, Thomas
Posey,
John Reed, Isaac Fravel and Abraham Evans.Clerk, Isaac Owen.
Deed Bk.K, Pg.384. Dec. 6,
1837. Harrison Twp. Zachariah
Kitterman and wife Mary, convey to Samuel Row, Thomas Posey, John Reed,
Isaac
Fravel and Abraham Evans, Trustees to wit: A part of the NW Quarter of
Sect.
30, Twp. 4, Range 4,
beginning at the SW corner of said
Kitterman’s
fourth part..., containing one acre, with all the houses, woods and
waterways,
that they shall erect a house of worship.
From the church history:
“The first church was made of logs and located where the monument of Taylor Kitterman now stands.
The second church was built
in 1867 and 68 by Henry Huntsinger, who also made the benches.
Conference
minutes at that tThe published specifications for their making. This
church
stood south of the location of the old log church and was just in
front of
what is now the cemetery gate.
The third church, moved
again farther south to what is now our present parking lot, it was
built in
1883 by Alfred Kitterman, Sr. and James Kitterman for a sum of $500.
Alfred
Kitterman furnished much of the lumber, and the benches from the second
church
were used for a floor for the choir loft. It was razed in 1957
after the pre— sent sanctuary was
built.
The official ground-breaking
ceremony with Dr. Floyd Cook in charge was held May 6,
1956 and the
Consecration Service was held June 1, 1957.
The old bell is in the church
belfry.”
There should be a deed from
Win. H. Duley to the church in 1866, but the author has been unable to
find it.
In deed Bk.N-2, Pg.514. June 23,
1868.
Win. H. Duley and wife Catherine convey to Thomas S. Hedges, the SW
fourth of
the NW Quarter of Sect. 30, Twp. 5,
Range 4,
containing 63 acres and 19/100,
except of an acre deeded to the M.E. Church.
Deed Bk.V-4, Pg.479. April 6,
1916. Elsie A. Hasken and
her husband Leonard, convey to
Daniel Rhodes, Sack T. Kitterman, Amos W. Rhoades and Win. Singleton,
Trustees
of the Perseverance M.E. Church to wit: A part of the SW
Fourth of the NW Quarter of Sect. 30, Twp. 4, Range 4, beginning at a point in the West line..., to
the
place of beginning, except the church lot out of the north side of the
above
described tract...
Deed Bk.H-5, Pg.388. July 25,
1938.
Elsie A. Askren and husband Charles N., convey to George Chaffin, Mrs.
Bertha
Amy, George Kopp, Calvin Rosenbarger, Alfred Kitterman, James Frakes
and Mrs.
Jacie Kitterman, Trustees of Perseverance Chapel M.E. Church to wit: A
part of
the SW fourth of the NW Quarter of Sect. 30, Twp. 4, Range 4.
. . , there
is to be reserved one acre for the purpose of
a free cemetery for whoever may desire to use it.
Deed Bk.Z-7, Pg.274. April 6,
1981. Paul F. Wolf and wife
Patricia, convey to Trustees of Perseverance Chapel U.M.E. Church, a
part of
the SW Quarter of the NW Quarter of Sect. 30, Twp. 4, Range 4...,
containing 0.157 acres.
Local missionary gifts of
1850 (minutes) lists these names as life members, Win. Duley, Folly
Elliott,
Eliza Crisp and Mary Rowe. 1863 life members, Mary and James Elliott.
1867 life
members,
P.D.
Bean, S. Bean, J.
DeMoss, S. Rowe, Lizzie Shuck, W. Shuck, N. Dietrick, N.G.
Denbo, C.
Smith, J. Smith, J. Valtan Elliott, A. W. Rhodes, M.J. Brown
and J.
Albin.
From 1892 they were part of
Mauckport Charge made up of six churches: Mauckport, Wesley Chapel,
Laconia,
Perseverance Chapel, New Amsterdam and Cedar Farm, which was the same
church
also called Wesley Chapel, located on the Kintner farm in Boone Twp.
with J.F.
Fisher as minister.
In 1895-F.C. Raaf,
1897-Lawrence C. Jeffrey.
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