Antioch Free Methodist
The town of Antioch was described by Josh Kirkpatrick on the Fountain County, Indiana Genealogy Page. He noted we could add Antioch as a town in Fountain - located on the Antioch Road which is two miles east of 341. The town was one mile east of Riverside on the north side of the road. In Davis Township, five miles east of Attica (Section 6) - it had a school, active church (Antioch Free Methodist Church - thanks Jeff B) a few homes in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Unknown if there were active businesses there. In the 1890s - Rev. JC Myers was minister but not sure how long he was there - on County Road 720 – this church was started by the Cambellites who left the Church of Christ (Fountain County History – Lesa Epperson p 203).
In 1895, purchasing an abandoned school house on Clay/Washington Streets in Mellott where they met until the fall of 1903 when they built a new church on the “east side of Main in the south part of town.” It was called the New Antioch Church then just back to Antioch and again the New. In 1955, Rev. ____ Hedrick was minister. In 1904, it was destroyed by high winds but they immediately rebuilt and this they used until Nov 1972 when the last service was held. After debts were paid, Lesa noted in her article that the “remaining funds were presented to the Mellott United Church of Christ!” On Jan 4, in 1976, the "New (new) Antioch Church building was reopened by a group of folks in the surrounding area with John Kiger as their pastor (followed by same year by Robert Hodshire. Christmas day, 1977 was the last service there. The building was sold to Sterling Christian Church and they in turn sold it to the Apostolic Bible Church Aug 4, 1980, Rev. Cliston Coverdale serving as their pastor. Note: Fairly sure this is correct but do let me know if it is incorrect