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Madison Methodist Episcopal
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Located at Madison, in Marion township, is found
this little band, now numbering 56 members. It was organized in
1868 by Rev. John R. Taylor, and on the records appear the
following names as original members: Thomas Brownfield and wife,
Nathaniel Brownfield and wife, Robert E. Thomas and wife, Rachel
Thomas, Mary Thomas, Josiah Thomas, Solon Burnsworth and wife,
Elmer Burnsworth, Caroline Harley, Jacob Lenhart, John W. Lenhart
and wife, George H. Lenhart, Charles Lenhart, Nancy A. Pool, Annie
E. Dawson, Edward Dawson, James A. Dawson, May Frazee, Ella F.
Wood, Anna Adkisson and Millie Crim. About $1,500 were raised for
a frame house of worship which was completed in 1872. Rev. Walter
Toole is the present pastor of the congregation. His predecessors
were Revs. William Wood, Baldwin, William Sutton, R. G. Loving, H.
1 See church of same page, W. James, Joseph Row, John S. Rooker,
William M. Sarter, William M. Sutton and W. G. Shackleford.
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