Early Churches of Tippecanoe County Indiana
Members of the Tippecanoe
County 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. We would love help, connecting any additional information or webpage's. I can link them to help us all learn the past history. Already many links have gone bad. Please share new ones at E-mail: TIPCOA CHURCH INFO |
Fairfield, Jackson,
Lauramie,
Perry,
Randolph, Sheffield,
Shelby, Tippecanoe,
Union, Washington,
Wayne &
Wea
Wabash township
Denomination |
Church name |
Origin date |
Founder |
Buildings & cemeteries |
Address & possible |
Methodist
Episcopal |
AKA Chauncey ME church New church photograph |
The first meeting in 1847 was in the wood working shop of Capt. Samuel B. Castor, by Jonathan Hoffman;
society org. 1869 (DeHart) |
First
pastor was Rev. Wm Davisson; church dedicated to Rev. Granville C. Moody of OH, the
"fighting parson" (DeHart; BR) |
Building dedicated Main
and South dedicated |
First United Methodist |
Methodist
Episcopal |
Private home now. |
24
March 1847; first meetings at Rawles School house; first bldg at NW corner of Sec
36, Twp. 24 N, Range 5 W. This is about 1/4 mi E of present church (web site); on
1878 map |
Montmorenci
circuit (DeHart); Harrisonville [Battle Ground] circuit (web site) |
(DeHart)
1st church bldg erected 1849; 2nd bldg 1899. |
Church closed. It is now a family home. |
Methodist
Episcopal |
Fair
Haven church Also called Octogon in some records. |
org
1874 at Octagon (Mt Zion web site); church at Octagon on 1878 map labeled UB |
|
church
built about 1874; closed in 1907 membership transferred to Mt Zion church and
Montmorenci church (DeHart) |
|
Methodist
Episcopal |
No 10. and Colfax
schoolhouse
|
preaching
at Colfax schoolhouse in South part of twp, or at No. 10 |
|
both
abandoned by 1909 (DeHart) |
Closed
1909 |
Methodist
Episcopal |
Burton
Need photo |
at
|
|
|
Closing unknown |
United
Brethren, 1946 became EUB |
1890,
Charles Shearer, at Number Ten (“Churches”) |
Charles
Shearer, Rev. E. A. Goodwin first minister (“Churches”) |
Abt
1890 Charles Shearer, Supt. of Sunday School at Sharon Chapel, persuaded Rev
Miller, pastor there, to hold revivals in No. Ten School house; 1st bldg 1892
(“Churches”); burned; 1896 rebuilt (“Fire”) |
Now:
Weaver United Methodist; 2013. |
|
German
Baptist |
Chauncey
Baptist Church AKA Need photo |
Rev.
O. B. Stone first pastor (DeHart) |
|
held
services in Kingston school house; erected bldg 1869; Sunday School; new brick
bldg in 1901 cor of Main and Columbia, on site of old church (DeHart) |
|
Baptist |
|
June 18, 1831. "building located on North side of Hebron Cemetery nearly where county Road 500 now runs. (QR) Sec
35 (1878) |
|
TCHA has a ledger for the Grand Prairie Baptist church. |
|
Evangelical
United Brethren, then United Methodist |
|
When
established In1968 EUB merged with ME to become United Methodist |
|
New
bldg in |
St.
Andrews United Methodist |
Methodist? |
Sand
Need photo
|
near
Ft. |
|
bldg
1851; razed May 1930 (Goetz et al.) |
Closed
Journa |
United
Brethren |
Sharon
Chapel Need photo |
1840s?
|
|
Land
donated by John and Mary Layton in 1840s. (Sylvester Layton Obit) |
Closed
sometime after 1915. |
Bibliography use for Wabash township Churches
1878 Atlas of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Knightstown, Ind.: Kingman Bros, 1878.
1941 Directory of Churches of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Tippecanoe County Public Library. Lafayette, Indiana.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. [BR] Chicago: Lewis, 1888.
DeHart, Richard P. Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Indianapolis: Bowen, 1909. 2 vols.
“Fire No Deterrent.” Heritage of Faith. Lafayette Journal and Courier 16 Nov 1974.
Goetz, Donna, et al. The Battleground Chapel: The History and the Mystery. 1984.
“Number Ten Community.” TIPCOA Newsletter No. 3 (2008): 6.
Sylvester Layton Obit, Lafayette Journal and Courier 21 July 1915
“Churches.” Montmorenci and Shelby Township 1829-1979. Shelby Township Historical Association. [1979]. 22-48.QR, Quentin Robinson additions. Note from map research and family journals.
Lafayette Journal and Courier, May 24, 1930, p 13. Newspapers.com
Another area you will find help are the cemeteries that were connected. This list is also by township.
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