Randolph  County,  Indiana  Family  History
Green Township

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Hopewell  United  Methodist  Church

Tucker History Page 159
PROTESTANT METHODISTS
Hopewell (southwest of Fairview). -The society was organized before 1845.
The first preaching was by Rev. Jonathan Flood at his own house, he being the pioneer of his denomination in the region.
The first church was a frame, built about 1853. The society was small.
The principal members were John Woodard and family, Jonathan Flood and family (wife and four children), William McCracken, etc.
There are now about sixty, as also there is a Sunday school of sixty to seventy pupils.
Preachers, Messrs. Flood, Howly, Williams, Patty, Bodell, Outkelt, William Williams, Bateman, McCollum, Conn, Jones, Richmond, Prim (present minister).
There used to be a circuit, with three points-Hopewell, Bear Creek (in a schoolhouse) and Deerfield.
Hopewell alone has survived, Some of the members are Howell French and wife, John McCamish and wife, John Q. French and wife, Samuel French and wife, Lorenzo Gantz, John Demint, William Bailey and wife, William Mills and wife, Matilda French, Christopher James, William James and others.
Preaching occurs once in three weeks.


Past & Present of Randolph County, Indiana 1914 Page 721
Green Township, Sunday Schools
Hopewell; denomination, Methodiest Protestant; superintendent, George French; address, Farmland; enrollment, 64;


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