New Hope Presbyterian, Strother

Now has a membership of 75, the pastor being Rev. John M. Travis. The frame church building, erected in 1858 at an expenditure of $1,000, is located one and a half miles south-west of Strother (in South Fork township). The organization was effected December 19, 1857, John Forsyth, Isabel Forsyth, William S. Forsyth, William M. Vaughn, Ann E. Vaughn, James M. Vaughn, Sarah J. Vaughn, Enoch Hunt, Harriet N. Hunt, Jane Alverson, Moses Hall, Mary E. Hall, Mary J. Guthrie, John N. Price, David Woolridge, Prudence Woolridge, Clifton E. Wills and Lewis A. Hunt being the original members. George H. Hersman is superintendent of the Sabbath-school of 25 scholars.