Randolph  County,  Indiana  Family  History
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Deerfield  United  Methodist




Contributed by Andrea Long, 2005

Tucker History Page 152.
METHODIST CHURCHES.
Deerfield-- The class was formed about 1837. The meetings were held at first in a log schoolhouse east of town, then at Perry Fields' for some years, then in a log schoolhouse half a mile south of Perry Fields', and in other places also. The church at Deerfield has been built about thirty years.
Some of the early members were Anthony Ritenour, Perry Fields, Caleb Odle, William Odle, Ephraim Collins (exhorter), William B. Fields (exhorter).
Some of the preachers for Ritenour's, Prospect and Deerfield have been Revs. Burns, Bartlett, Hall, Bradshaw, Bradbury, Kent, Campbell, Newton, Herrick, Ramsey, Blake, Kerwood, Madden. The present incumbent is Rev. Harrison.
Among the present members are Fletcher Barrett, David Harker, John Garwin, Perry Fields, Willis Whipple, Isaac Thomson.

Page 159.
PROTESTANT METHODISTS.
Deerfield. This body of Christians has never been numerous in Randolph County. About 1837 or 1838, they established a preaching place at Charles Sumption's, north of the river, opposite Deerfield, and maintained it for ten or twelve years. There were but few, Charles Sumption and his family being the chief members. Rev. Elisha Barnett was the preacher, having been previously an Episcopal Methodist. About 1850, Rev. Mr. Young, a Protestant Methodist clergyman, was active and prominent through Randolph County, but no detailed statement of his labors or of their results is at hand, and of him we can at present say no more,

Past & Present of Randolph County, Indiana 1914. Page 705.
The Protestant Methodist have never had any very large societies in the county. About 1837 they established a preaching place, near Deerfield, but were never able to affect a permanent organization. The only one in the county at this time is at Hopewell, north of Farmland.

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Ward Township, Sunday Schools
Denomination - Superintendent, Address - Enrollment
Deerfield, Methodist Episcopal, Mrs. John Stick, Ridgeville, 15, 175;

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