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��HISTORY OF RICHLAN^D COUNTY.

��J. F. Shearer, I). I. Foust, and D. Summers, the present Pastor, in the order named.

The principal original members were Mr. Hocksmith. John Snyder, Jonas Rex, .John Dull, Daniel Garnhart and Daniel Bloom.

The present membership is about one hun- dred and twenty -five.

A Sunday- school was organized about 1845, which is still continued, and is healthy and active. S. F. Eekes is the present Superin- tendent.

The first Evangelical Lutheran Church of Shelby was established nearly thirty 3'ears after the Myer's church, and both are, at present, under the pastoral care of Eev. D. Summers.

This church is located on the east side of North Broadway, and was organized January 31, 1860, by Rev. A. R. Brown. The first members of this organization were S. S. Bloom, John Hershiser, Sr., Abraham Bushey, Cor- nelius Fox, John Souder. Jacob Fletcher, Sam- uel Hershiser, Henry Bistline, John Hershiser, Jr., Elizabeth Bistline, Sarah Hershiser, Susan B. Martin, and Christina Bombaugh.

These members were mostly withdrawn from the society at Loudon. They organized and held services in the Glerman Reformed Church, at Shelby, until 1867, when they erected the present building at a cost of $6,000.

The Pastors have been A. R. Brown, D. Summers, J. F. Shearer, D. I. Foust, and D. Summers for a second time. The present mem- bership of this church is 112.

The Sunday school was organized about 1863, and now has an average attendance of seventy- five or eighty members. S. S. Bloom has gen- erally been Superintendent.

A Universalist Church was erected in Shelby in 1847. The principal members were Lemuel M- Raymond, Edwin Raymond, H. B. Gailord, Stephen Marvin, Levi Bargaheiser and A. B. Minnerly. The ministers were Rev. George R. Brown and Rev. Smead. This organization was kept up about twenty years.

��The present United Bretlu'en Church of Shel- b}", located on Washington street, was erected about 1857, and organized some 3'ears before by the Revs. Berry and Barlow.

The first members were Chas. Longe, Samuel Light, Geo. Longnecker, Amos Crall, David Crall and wife, Isaac Urich, Elijah Jones and others.

The ministers who followed those above men- tioned were Gideon Hoover^ D. W. Downey. William Mathews, Rev. Long, Rev. Bender, 0. H. Ramsey, Thomas Downej^ and Rev. 0. H. Brake, the present minister.

The membership of this church is, at present, about one hundi-ed.

The organization of the Sunday school was coeval with that of the church, and now con- tains about ninety members.

The Church of Christ (Disciple) of Shelby, is located on Broadway, and was organized in September, 1858, by Elder Benjamin Lockhart. Before this, however, meetings had been held in the house of -'Father Alleman."

The present church building was erected about the time the organization was effected, at a cost of about $1,600.

The first members of this societj^ were Dr. C. McMillen and wife, and Jacob Cline and wife. These four individuals soon succeeded in get- ting thirty -one names, with which the organiza- tion was effected.

The ministers after Lockhart were Elder Stannard, Israel Belton, Henry Reeves, J. S. Hughes, C. W. Loose, E. A. Bosworth, John W. Lowe, J. S. Lowe, S. E. Spencer, L. R. Gault and the present minister, A. Burns. The present membership is 105.

The 3'ear following the erection of the church, a Sunday school was organized. Dr. C. Mc- Millen was the first Superintendent. It 3'et con- tinues in a prosperous and healthy condition, with a meml^ership of al)out seventy-five. Will- iam Paul is present Superintendent.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus, Catholic Church, located on Section 20, about two miles west of

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