Randolph  County,  Indiana  Family  History
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Farmland   Friends




Erected in 1903

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Tucker History Page 148-149
FRIENDS' MEETINGS.
Farmland. --Benjamin Morris, of the Cedar Preparative Meeting, has a minute from that society allowing him to hold meetings at Farmland. He does so every other week, Sabbath and Sabbath evenings.
There are about thirty members. Their services were at first held in the old schoolhouse. During the present year (1881), they have bought the old Christian (New Light) Church at a cost of $350, and are undertaking, under the leadings of the enlightening Spirit, to establish in that village a permanent, religious work, in connection with their order of faith and practice.

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Sesquicentennial History of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers)Page 104
Farmland Friends Meeting
Location: Town of Farmland, Monroe Twp., Randolph Co., IN.
Address: East Henry Street, Farmland, IN.
Date organized as a meeting: In 1882 a preparative meeting was set off from Poplar Run Monthly Meeting.
Origin of name: Named after the town of Farmland.
Family names of Charter or Early members: HUBBARD, TOWNSEND, WASSON, ODLE, FOWLER, MACY, THORNBURG, BRANSON, HUNT, FODREA, WATSON, PERKINS and GARRETT.
First paid minister: Fred Smith.
Date 1898.
Present membership: 143.
History of physical facilities: Two meetinghouses have served Farmland Friends.
The first served the congregation from 1881 until it burned in 1903.
The present meetinghouse was built that same year.

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