Randolph  County,  Indiana  Family  History
Union  Township

Churches


Bethel  -  Cabin  Creek




Contributed by:  Gina Richardson, 2004

African Methodist Episcopal Church

1833- c.1989
Located on Highway 1 between County Roads 300 & 400 South until about 1865.
Then was located on Highway 1 between County Roads 500 & 600 South, in Union Township.

Tucker History Page 135 & 136
Cabin Creek (Colored) M. E. Church. -Began in 1833.
The first meeting-house was at their old graveyard southeast of Poplar Run Friends' Meeting-House. That house has been gone many years (closed in 1865), and they have worshiped in their schoolhouse to the present time. They are now erecting a tasteful and commodious church near their public school building, which will furnish ample accommodations for worshiping assemblies for years to come. The size is 28x38; cost, $760. Among their early members were Nathan Ward (Rev.), Benjamin Skipworth (Rev.), Burrell Jones (Rev.), Job Felton, Willis Cram, Harrison Hurdle, Elisha Hurdle, Hardy Evans, B. Perkins, Elias Watkins, Richard Robbins, John Smith, James Ferguson, Alexander Williams, William Davison (Rev.), Benjamin Outland, Samuel Outland.

Some of their preachers have been John Turner, McIntosh, Dove, Davison, Ward, William Trevan, Skipworth, Stokes, Winslow, Quinn, Crosby, Crosby, Daniel Burden, Harper, Price, McSmith, Nichols, Alexander Smith, Chavis.

The members now are P. Perkins, Charles Smothers and wife, Peter Ladd and wife, Maria Stafford, Edward Bolden and wife, Minerva Moore, Anna Weaver, Rev. Isaac Ward, Elias Watkins, Mary Jane Smith, Mahala Perkins, Eveline Jennings, Emily Barber, Rebecca Wood, Armeta Wood, etc.

The settlement used to be seven miles long and two miles wide; now, only about two miles long.
The meeting-house is in West River Township, two miles southeast of Pleasant View. A large part of the settlement is in Nettle Creek Township, though it used to extend into three-West River and Stony Creek also.

The first preacher in the settlement was Rev. Paul Quinn, then circuit-rider, afterward, during many years, Bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Church, and dying at Richmond, Ind., several years ago.

There were once eighty or one hundred families in that colored settlement, and the Methodist class was strong and flourishing. The settlement and the Methodist society are both much smaller than of old.

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