Randolph township churches of Tippecanoe County Indiana

Members of the Tippecanoe County Area area Genealogy Society are working on this list of early churches of Tippecanoe County. We hope to add photographs of each one. If you or someone you know has a photograph of any Church below we would love to post it. This database is an effort to help others find genealogy resources in your search to find family information and preserve the history. Please remember this information came mainly from early history books of the past. The beginning of many churches started in building of other denominations. The main tables were created from TIPCOA members Susan Y. Clawson and Joyce Watterson. Many photographs came from myself or Kathy & Keith Hiser, who enjoyed their trip around Tippecanoe County finding what was left of the buildings. Thanks ladies and Keith, we really appreciate your time and effort on this project.

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Denomination	Church name	Origin date & location	Founder	Buildings	Significant events / cemeteries	Address & possible records available
Methodist Episcopal	Romney ME	began in log school house (BR)		1830s circuit riders on Crawfordsville Circuit; 1st building 1835 (BR); then 1849 (Hatton); 3rd building 1875, was named House chapel for George House, who gave most of cost of building; remodeled and enlarged in 1918. (Fink; BR; Wood and Martin; Thompson); 1878 map shows the church on High St, about a block west of US 231.	In the early days the men sat on one side of the central aisle, and the women sat on the other; lighting by tallow candles; (DeHart; Woods and Martin); Romney cemetery in Romney on CR 1150 S. Old Romney Cemetery	Romney United Methodist 21 W 1150 S. Romney, IN 47981 765-538-2506
Presbyterian	Romney Presbyterian this Church is now gone. 1944 history Centennial Service part 2	1843 (DeHart; Sargent), on Main St. (US 231)	Rev. Briar appt. 1848 (Rev. William W. Brier?)	First preaching 1843 by Rev. James Carnahan and others; 1^st building 1845 or 1846 (BR). 1878 map shows the church on Main St (US 231). 2^nd building 1912. (DeHart; Thompson; Woods and Martin).	Rev. WW Brier and wife, Elizabeth Naylor, left for CA about 1852 as missionaries for Am Home Miss Society. Other ministers: Daniel Cooper, shared with Glen Hall Presbyterian; Edgar L. Buchanan, 1909, shared with Spring Grove Presbyterian.	Closed; dissolved 22 Mar 1998; records to Presbyterian Historical Society 425 Lombard St. Philadelphia, PA 19147 215-627-1852
Lutheran	Romney Lutheran We need a photo.	???	1941 Directory, but not mentioned in Waltmann