EBENEZER METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
MEMORIAL BLOCK
This wooden block formed a part of the altar in the Methodist Ebenezer Church. The date at the conclusion of the signatures is 1892, Ebenezer, Ohio (1963 - Carl Brown of Roseville, Ohio is now in possession of it.)
Ebenezer Society was organized in the home of W. B. Underwood in the year of 1830, by John Reed and Samuel Harvey, two local preachers and in the following year was added to Putnam Circuit. In 1842 Putnam became a station and the name of the circuit was changed to Asbury. In 1849 another change was made and the name of Roseville was given the Circuit which name it still retains. James Gilruth and Abner Goff were the pastors when the Society became an appointment of Roseville Circuit, The first Meeting House was hewn logs and stood about eighty rods west of the present site and served as a place of worship until 1849 when the frame church now to be abandoned was built This church was dedicated by Ebenezer Chase by whom also it was christened in honor of himself. The Society when first organized consisted of the following;
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BENJAMIN BROWN, LEADER JACOB COX ANN RION SALLY SOWERS ELIZA THRUSH ELIZABETH WON NANCY BROWN S. DAVIS W. Z. SOWERS CATHERINE SOWERS J. W. THRUSH VIOLET WON SARAH BROWN ELIZABETH EBERT MARY SOWERS JOHN THRUSH JOHN WON ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD |
MAHALA BROWN MARY JENNINGS AQUILLA SOWERS LAURENA SOWERS WILLIAM UNDERWOOD NANCY UNDERWOOD SAMUEL BROWN CATHERINE LEECH ELIZABETH SOWERS ELIZA SMITH ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD W. B. UNDERWOOD SUSAN BROWN JOHN RIDER JOHN SOWERS HENRIETTA THRUSH THOMAS UNDERWOOD |
Document submitted to Carole Williams by William R. Brown, son of Carl Brown, July 2000.
submitted to MCOTP by Carole Williams
Last Updated on Feb 10, 2002.
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