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The following is the list of Lutheran pas- tors from its organization to the present: Revs. Carl Frederick Wildbahn, 1751-52; John George Bager, 1753; John Daniel Schroeder, 1790; Frederick Valentine Mels- heimer, 1790-1814; John Frederick Mels- heimer, 1814-29; Jacob Albert, 1829-39; Jeremiah Harpel, 1839-42; P. Williard, 1842-43; Frederick Ruthrauf, 1843-45; Eli Swartz, 1845-48; Jacob Kempfer, 1848-53; 1857-63; P. Warner, 1863-65; M. J. Alle- man, 1865-68; S. Yingling, 1868-72; D. J. Hauer, 1873-82; J. A. Metzgar, 1882 to date.
The Reformed congregation for a long time was served by the pastors of Emman -. uel Reformed Chuch of Hanover. Among those of later date were Revs. J. C. Kurtz, Samuel Gutelius, J. D. Zehring, W. K. Zieber, Jacob Sechler, Henry Hilbish, E. D. Miller and J. H. Hartman. The combined membership of the two congregations in 1907 was nearly 700. A union Sunday
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Some of the Reformed pastors have been ment mentioned was on that portion of J. C. Kurtz, Samuel Gutelius, Jacob Sechler, "Digges' Choice " in and around the pres- W. K. Zieber, D. D., H. Hilbish, Edward D. ent site of Hanover. The same company in Miller and J. H. Hartman. A union Sun- 1766 petitioned for a road from their fur- day school is held in this church which was erected in 1881, at a cost of $3,000.
nace to the Monocacy Road at Frederick Eichelberger's tavern, which was on the Mt. situated in West Manheim. Mt. Zion United Brethren Church is present road from Hanover to York, about Rev. four miles southeast of the former. This Zion. Samuel Enterline first preached the petition was granted and the road opened doctrines of the church of the United Brethren in Christ in the present limits of West Manheim Township, and on January 29, 1847, effected an organization. « For many years revival services and other re- ligious worship had been conducted in the private house of John Wentz. During the year 1861, a building committee was ap- pointed, composed of John Wentz, Philip Wentz and Benjamin Wentz, and during the summer of the same year a church was built at a cost of $1,000. Since the organ- ization the following named ministers have by Richard McAllister, Marks Forney, Michael Danner, Adam Eichelberger and Jacob Bollinger. According to facts fur- nished the writer by James M. Swank, sec- retary of the American Iron and Steel Asso- ciation, this was the first furnace erected in Pennsylvania, west of the Susquehanna River. Peter Dicks started his bloomary at Spring Forge in 1755 and opened ore mines along the southeast slope of the Pigeon Hills. The Mary Ann Furnace Company obtained much valuable ore on the south slope of these hills, about four miles east had charge of this congregation, in connec- of Hanover, and also a short distance south tion with others belonging to the same cir- of Hanover. The cause of the erection of cuit : Samuel Enterline, W. B. Raber, T. Mary Ann Furnace in West Manheim T. Hallowell, F. Grim, Jacob S. Wentz, Township was on account of the abundance Tobias Crider, Peter Corl, J. G. Clair, W. of chestnut timber in the vicinity, which H. Craumer, J. B. Jones, Abraham Rudisill, was burned into charcoal and used in smelt- 'Lewis Kohr, L. R. Kramer, J. L. Nicholas, ing the ore. In 1780 the company was as- Walter J. Beamer, John E. Cleffman, A. Kirakofe, Lewis Kohr and J. P. Koontz.
There are six schools in West Manheim as follows: Centre, Matthias, Nace's, Ban- danna, Hoffacker's, Myers'.
In June, 1750, John Hunsicker, a
sessed with 5000 acres of woodland, sixteen horses, eight cows, one slave, all valued at £666 13s. 4d. and an additional rent of £600. The land was all located in Man- heim Township which then extended north to the Pigeon Hills. How much business was done by the original firm cannot be stated. In 1790 the land and furnace were purchased by John Steinmetz, a prominent a lawyer of the same city.
Mary German immigrant, obtained Ann from the proprietaries of Penn- Furnace. sylvania a grant of land within the present limits of West Man- merchant of Philadelphia, and John Brinton, heim Township, four miles south of the site of Hanover. William Matthews, the Quaker In 1801 John Steinmetz was assessed with 3,150 acres of land in Manheim and Pigeon Hills and a furnace all valued at $14,260. The former soon after became the sole pro- prietor, who in 1806 transferred the prop- erty to David Meyer, a farmer. It was a few years before this that the furnace ceased operation. There are now no traces of the furnace but the pits where the charcoal was burned are indicated by the black soil along the hillside, and the race through which passed the water used as a motive power, is still observable. surveyor, named this tract "Friendship." A level meadow four acres in area of this land was crossed by the headwaters of what has since been known as Furnace Creek. George Ross, a lawyer of Lancaster, and Mark Bird of Philadelphia, in 1762 leased the four acres mentioned and on it in the same year began the erection of Mary Ann Furnace. In 1763 they petitioned the York Court for a public road from their " furnace lately built at a great expense " to the road from the Conewago settlement to Balti- more. This was one year before the found- At the foot of this race some years ago, nearly a cartload of balls was found while ing of Hanover, and the Conewago settle-
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excavating the soil that had accumulated. West Manheim, it was guarded by a Bri- During the war of the Revolution while the gade of Confederate cavalry under General Continental Congress was in session at Fitzhugh Lee. Almost the entire wagon York in the winter of 1777-8, this furnace train had been captured by these Confeder- and the Hellam Iron Works at the mouth of ate raiders, two days before, shortly after they had crossed the Potomac River below Poolesville, Maryland. While the fight was going on at Hanover, the wagon train moved eastward. After the battle had ended, Stuart's force marched southward, and most of it crossed the turnpike at Cen- the Codorus, were put to use in manufactur- ing cannon balls and grape shot for the American army and navy. Some of these balls are yet found scattered over the farm on which this furnace was located, which farm was owned for many years by William Dusman. They vary from the size of a tre School House, near the Brockley farm, minie ball to the four inch cannon ball. and moved toward Jefferson.
Years ago school boys amused themselves searching for them and in innocent play car- A Skirmish. ried them away which explains why they are found scattered over the surrounding country.
Mary Ann Furnace was operated for a period of fifty years. A great many stoves were made here. In 1903 Robert C. Bair of York, found the plate of one of these stoves. It bears the following inscription: "Mary Ann Furnace, 1763." This plate Mr. Bair presented to the York County Historical Society.
George Ross, the projector, was a resident of Lancaster and a member of Continental Congress. In 1776 he became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. After the Revolution he was appointed judge of the court of admiralty at Phila- delphia and died a few months later. In 1895 the furnace property was sold to the Consumers' Water Company of Hanover and upon the site of the furnace is a large reservoir.
On the morning of June 30, Confederate Invasion. 1863, the Confederate cavalry force, commanded by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, entered West Manheim Township, coming through West- minster and Union Mills from Maryland. In the afternoon of this day Stuart engaged in a hard fight with Kilpatrick's division of Union cavalry at Hanover. During the greater part of the time that the engage- ment was in progress, Stuart's battle line extended along the northern part of West Manheim, overlooking Hanover. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of June 30, an im- mense train of 125 wagons left the West- minster road leading to Hanover and began to cross through West Manheim Township toward Jefferson. When this train entered
A few hundred yards east of this school house a small squad of Union Cavalry was concealed in the woods watching the move- ments of the enemy. They had dashed down the pike from Hanover, after the fight was over. A farmer in the vicinity knew that the Union troops were in the woods. When the rear guard of Stuart's cavalry passed his house, an officer asked if there were any "Yankees" in the vicinity. The farmer could speak but little English. He thought he would not betray a trust and an- swered in the negative, but his little son, an innocent boy of twelve years, corrected his father, and pointing in the direction of the woods, told the enemy the Federal soldiers were stationed there. About 100 Confeder- ates dashed after the scouts, who fell back because of their inferiority of numbers. Several shots were exchanged. One soldier was wounded and two or three horses killed, in this little skirmish in West Manheim Township. The southern soldiers then joined their comrades and moved on to Jef- ferson.
On the following day, July I, a vast body of Union soldiers crossed the southwestern corner of West Manheim Township. This was the Sixth Corps of the Army of the Po- tomac, in all about 16,000 men, commanded by the famous General Sedgwick, who one year later was killed in the battle of Spott- sylvania. Sedgwick commanded the extreme right of the Potomac army and had been sent to Manchester, Maryland, to prevent the enemy from moving toward Baltimore or Washington. A despatch bearer from General Meade's headquarters at Taney- town, Md., delivered orders for Sedgwick at Manchester, commanding him to move to- ward Gettysburg, with all possible speed for
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a battle had opened around that town. The Hellam were in one, a division line was ob- Sixth Corps under Sedgwick in its move- tained which did not prove convenient or ment from Manchester to Gettysburg was satisfactory ; therefore we request that com- one of the marvels of the campaign. He missioners be appointed by your worship- followed the Hanover Turnpike for a con- fuls to lay off the new township."
siderable distance northward through West Manheim and then moved in a direct line to- ward Gettysburg, arriving there at an event- ful time in the history of the battle, in which the Sixth Corps took a conspicuous part. Military critics have commended Sedgwick in the highest degree for the rapidity with which he made this famous march from Manchester to Gettysburg.
WINDSOR TOWNSHIP.
The township of Windsor formed a part of Hellam ,which was laid out by authority of the Provincial court at Lancaster, in 1739. Windsor remained within the boundaries of Hellam until 1753, when York Township, embracing a large area and extending to the Susquehanna River, was organized into a new township out of Hellam. Five years after this, or in 1758, Windsor Township, which then included the present area of Lower Windsor, was formed out of York Township. The origin of the name may be attributed to Thomas Armor, one of the early agents of the Penns at York, and pres- ident judge of the county courts, when Windsor Township was laid out. Thomas Armor was born at Windsor, England, and this township, although at first settled by Germans, like nearly all the other townships of York County, was given an English name. A petition was presented to the court at York in 1757, signed by John Wright, Jr., and others, asking that " Hel- lam Township be divided by a line on Stony Ridge, running across the valley to the next ridge of hills on the south side of Grist (Kreutz) Creek Valley, and also eastward along the last named ridge to the Susque- hanna River." The above mentioned line formed the northern and eastern boundary of the new township of York, which then in- cluded what is now Windsor, Lower Wind- sor, York and a portion of Spring Garden. York Township, thus formed, was very large; consequently in 1758 the following petition was presented at the April session of court :
"We, your humble petitioners, hereby state that when the townships of York and
The presiding justice, Thomas Armor, then apointed John Shultz, John Schyrack, Christian Shank and Michael Bart, to view and run the boundary lines, which, accord- ing to their confirmed report at the next ses- sion of court, was as follows :
" Beginning at the plantation of Peter Peterman, thence with the road to David Hunter's, thence with the same to Shrews- bury Township (now Springfield and Hope- well), thence with the same township and the township of Chanceford to the Susque- hanna, and up the same to Hellam Town- ship, thence along the middle ridge of hills to Peter Peterman's plantation and place of beginning; which last described township is to be called by the name of Windsor."
The township thus described constituted what is now Windsor and Lower Windsor, which formed one township for nearly one hundred years. Upon the erection of Lower Windsor in 1838, Windsor was re- duced to its present area.
The population of Windsor
Windsor Township in 1783 was 1, 118;
in 1783. number of barns that year 190;
number of houses 184; number of mills 10; number of acres of assessable lands, 22,054.
The following is a list of the taxable in- habitants for 1783:
George Addick, still, 200 acres. £278
George Able, 88 acres. II7
Michael Albright, ground rents, 50 acres. 69
William Allison, 100 acres. 129
Christian Althous 13
John Arndt, 175 acres. 194
George Anstein, 300 acres 343
Philip Byer, 2 stills, 112 acres 356
John Barr, 1 mill, 212 acres 570
Widow Bengel, 90 acres 88
Michael Baymiller, 10 acres. 45
Henry Barr, 141 acres
631
Nicholas Baker
30
Conrad Brubaker, I saw mill, 136 acres
558
Tert Bonher, 169 acres
251
Henry Busser, f1 9 ground rent.
Jacob Berckle, 175 acres
Widow Cross, 50 acres.
100
John Dellinger, 100 acres.
100
Jacob Dellinger, 100 acres
I20
George Deisson, 100 acres
Abraham Demuth I22
Henry Dohm, 150 acres 136
Conrad Beverson, 5 acres
14
George Bonher, £1 6 ground rent.
23
173
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Thomas Diaon, 60 acres.
68
Jacob Weltzhoffer, 170 acres 672
Ulrich Elleberger, 150 acres.
Wendal Golf
20
Sebastian Edie
34
Michael Welland 20
Jacob Erb, 149 acres.
851
Samuel Wright, 400 acres. 1,850
John Eby, 120 acres
199
Jacob Witmer
73
Jacob Erb, 59 acres
John Wright, 500 acres, 2 slaves. 2,055
Jacob Erhert, 100 acres
II7
William Willis 20
Nathan Forsythe, 100 acres
Solomon Williams
78
Philip Fry
394 36
John Wyland, 99 acres.
235
Frederick Felty, 120 acres.
145
John Steiner, weaver
Conrad Fry, 83 acres.
IOI
William Holtzinger
20
Peter Fry, 53 acres.
74
Simon Holtzinger
20
Barnet Fry, II0 acres.
144
Michael Fonkennen
43
Freddila Foster, 160 acres
I33
Jacob Fister, 187 acres
262
Jacob Fry, 2 stills, 80 acres
II2
Solomon Williams
20
Frederick Fry, 4 stills, 52 acres.
65
Widow Grove, 100 acres.
394
Andrew Galbreath, 124 acres.
208
George Gardner, 84 acres
Rudolph Goldset
Jacob Gipe
IO
Michael Derstein.
Casper Wolf. Jacob Longenecker,
Abraham Gallagher, 144 acres
I38
Joseph Reed. blacksmith.
Philip Gohn
43 Nicholas Hertzly.
George Druck. John Armend.
Adam Gohn .
200 Jacob Shultz, blacksmith.
John Anhle.
Widow Gohn, 250 acres.
281 Martin Huber.
Jacob Grieglebaum.
David Good, 50 acres
I00 Henry Bannise, weaver.
Michael Glessner.
David Good, Jr., 200 acres
Henry Geip.
Randall Cross.
James Heines, IOI acres.
IOI
John Ewing.
Jacob Keyser.
James Herrington, 140 acres
John Holder, 160 acres
Jacob Heltzel, 200 acres.
Widow Hershinger, 200 acres
Adam Heindel, 210 acres
Stoffel Heindel, 130 acres
John Heckendorn, 175 acres
John Jones, 20 acres ..
Peter Imsweiler, 126 acres.
Anthony Keller, 100 acres
Michael Kauffelt, 275 acres
Kegeritz, II0 acres
Kaltreiter, II0 acres.
Jacob Kauffelt, 285 acres.
469
Jacob Kimmerly, 97 acres
Frederick Liebenknect, 40 acres
John Liphart, 200 acres.
Jacob Leber, 116 acres
John Landis, 200 acres
Conrad Leber, 10 acres
Samuel Landis, 200 acres
Philip Lantz, 113 acres.
Andrew Lautz, 200 acres.
William Liggett, 50 acres
Jacob Myers, 112 acres
Henry Michael, 100 acres.
John Mann, 200 acres
John Mckesson, 300 acres
Philip Milhoe, 173 acres
Abraham Mosser, 142 acres
John McCoy, 150 acres.
Jacob Neas, 200 acres.
208
Frederick Oleweiler, 50 acres.
125
Jacob Oleweiler, 116 acres
George Oberdorf, 100 acres.
Benjamin Tyson, Esq., 120 acres.
John Schmuck, 100 acres.
Baltzer Shenberger, 150 acres.
200 310
Moses Scott, 300 acres.
Michael Tush, 390 acres. 300
Jacob Dritt, 146 acres 200
Philip Thomas, 90 acres 139
Abraham Dem, 100 acres 129
The population of Windsor Township in 1820, was 2,096; in1830, 2,760; 1840, I, IIO; 1850, 1,250; 1860, 1,627; 1870, 2,024; 1880, 2,155 ; 1890, 2,372; 1900, 2,516.
There are fourteen schools in Windsor bearing the following names : Snell's, Small's, Grim's, Cross, Diehl's, Miller's, East End, Brillhart's, Cedar Hill, Locust Grove, Windsor, Freysville, Fairview, Gehley's.
Frysville is an interesting ham-
Frysville. let surrounding the Lutheran and Reformed Church, whose history dates back to the time of the Revo- lution. The village is situated on a tract of fertile land on Springettsbury Manor. The region round about was first occupied by white settlers in 1735. Among the earliest to take up lands here was Conrad Fry, in honor of whom the village and church were named. There are several beautiful homes in the vicinity and the cigar industry is carried on extensively. Among the manufacturers of cigars are M. F. Zieg- ler, Daniel Anstine and David Ziegler.
Adjoining the Frysville Church is a large burying ground. The first headstones placed here were sandstone. Succeeding these, slate tablets were placed at the heads of the graves. Although it was originally
450
Tikabat Stater
20
James Williams 20
Abraham Bruckhardt, 300 acres ..
394
SINGLE MEN.
104 16 Christian Reist, weaver.
Frederick Glosbrenner, 150 acres.
316 I36
John Fritz, weaver. James Cross.
Widow Geiger, 172 acres
103
John Peterman. John Cross.
John Strickler, Jr. John Robinson.
280 318 340 369 3II 180
349 62 130 I69 381 54 140
I19 68 269 I29 285 83 299 170 233 72 700 170 350
280 195 186 153
107 96 200 170
Jacob Geiger, 160 acres.
290 Godlieb Rupp.
Widow Morgan, 200 acres
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a German settlement, the inscriptions on all Smith, E. G. Williams, A. Wanner, D. D .; the stones are in the English language. The William Loose, C. B. Kehl and John Mc- earliest graves that are marked in this bury- Kee. Rev. R. F. Edress was pastor in 1907. ing ground are those of Anna Frey and The Lutheran congregation for many years was served by pastors of the Hellam and Red Lion charges. Rev. Ulysses Appel was pastor in 1907. Mary Nichols, both of whom died in 1748. Emanuel Lutheran and Re- Churches. formed Church, familiarly known as "Frysville Church,' Zion United Brethren Church is located near Springvale. As early as 1820 Rev. John Neidig, Christian Newcomer, John Schneider, Samuel Huber, William Brown, John Kroch and other fathers of the United Brethren Church, preached in houses and barns of the neighborhood of this house of worship. A quarterly conference held in 1843, appointed Adam Stabley, Adam Strayer and Frederick Grove a board of trustees, under whose administration that year was built the first church of the United Brethren in Christ in York County on the lands of Adam Stabley. Rev. John Russell, then presiding elder, dedicated this church, assisted by Rev. Christian Crider, then preacher in charge of this circuit including the church at York. The second church was built in 1881 under the pastorate of Rev. George W. Lightner. Jonathan Smiech, Jacob Stabley, John Stabley, John Seitz and John Neff were trustees. Rev. J. C. Smith, of York, officiated when the cornerstone was laid. Rev. Ezekiel Light, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, dedicated the church. Some of the pastors have been Christian S. Crider, Henry Greenblade, J. S. Wentz, Tobias Crider, W. H. Craumer, J. H. Young, Peter Corl, A. H. Rice, Samuel Enterline, Isaac Coomes, \V. B. Raber, Jesse Cline and L. Kohr. is located in the southern part of Windsor and according to the deed and records, was founded March 28,1771. The surrounding land was owned by Conrad Fry, an early settler, who on the date mentioned deeded a church lot containing one and a half acres, for five shillings, to Jacob Segner, Adam Heindel, Jacob Ruby, and Stephen Slifer, in trust for the "Lutheran and Presbyterian congregations." (At an early date the Ger- man Reformed Church was thought to be the same as the Presbyterian, except that the worship of the former was conducted in the German language.) A log church was first built. The spaces between the logs were "chucked " and had no outside plas- tering, according to the custom of those times. The gable end and window frames were painted red. The front door and walls inside were painted white. The church was heated by a heavy plated stove, long enough to receive cordwood full length. From the boxed door-sill to the floor inside was a step of unusual height, over which full grown persons could walk without much difficulty, while the children delighted to jump from the door-sill down on the floor inside. About 1830 the building was much im- proved. It was made higher, weather- boarded, an end gallery added, and used un- til 1852, when a brick church was built, In 1899, this congregation erected a hand- some new church at a cost of $9,000. This building is especially noted for its architect- ural beauty and its convenience and adapt- ability for church purposes. It was de- signed by Joseph Dise, of Glen Rock. The membership of the congregation in 1905, under the pastorate of Rev. S. M. Moyer, was 190. about three hundred yards from the site of the first building. A part of the land sur- rounding the present church was used as a burying ground as early as 1745. It was deeded by M. Deis to Simon Anstine, Peter Steffy, Peter Lefever, Peter Schmuck and Conrad Fox, in trust for the two congrega- tions. In 1884 two and one-fourth acres adjoining were purchased from Henry Stein. Union Church is situated near Windsor- ville. Rev. Charles Stabley, of the United Brethren in Christ, organized the first class. For many years the preaching was held in the house of Michael Heindel. In 1853 a brick church was built, the first trustees be- ing Michael Heindel, Michael Anstine and The church was remodeled in 1884 and was rededicated. The names of all Reformed ministers who have served here cannot be given. Adam Ettinger, C. Becker, Jacob Scholl, Jacob Moyer, H. Hablestein, J. Forscht, John Reineka, William F. Vander- slot, William A. Good, David Bossler, R. Jacob Allison. Rev. J. C. Smith, of York,
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was the pastor in 1885. The previous pas- sor, preaching was supplied by ministers of tors were the same as at Zion Church. This the West York Circuit from Goldsboro. congregation now worships in Windsor Borough. The church was built in 1876, at a cost of $1,400, and was dedicated by Rev. John Weishampel of Lancaster the same year.
Bethlehem United Evangelical Church was founded about the year 1835. Services were held in private houses of the members, frequently in the dwelling of Daniel Ober- dorf. The organization was called " Ober- dorf's Class." Bishop Seymour and Rev. G. Dunlap were among the clergymen who ministered to the spiritual wants of the first members.
Locust Grove, a Reformed church, was built in 1866, at a cost of $1,500. Much of the material and work were voluntarily con- tributed. The building committee were Daniel Kaltreider, J. W. Landis and D. Ar- mold. The congregation was organized in 1874 with thirteen members by Rev. R. Rahauser. He was succeeded by Rev. E. G. Williams. In the spring of 1884, by order of Classis, Rev. A. Wanner, D. D., became the supply. The Sunday School in the church was organized in 1866 with 125
A church long known as the " stone pile," was built in 1853, near Springvale Station on the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, and dedicated by Rev. Philip Wagner, the presiding elder, March 16, 1854. Rev. pupils. George Dellinger was the preacher. The Windsor and adjoining townships title given was "The New Bethlehem Iron contain deposits of iron ore, which Evangelical Church of Windsor Township." Ore. were taken out in large quantities from 1820 to 1890. As early as 1820, the York Furnace Company opened a bank on the Moser farm and conveyed this val- uable ore to their furnace on the Susque- John Landis, who subsequently moved to Ohio, gave the land. The trustees then were Daniel Oberdorf, Joseph Strayer and Aaron Snyder. Revs. Bennington, Wilson, Zulauf, H. A. Stoke, M. J. Carrothers, Z. hanna in Lower Chanceford Township.
Hornberger, A. Longsdorf and A. Krause preached in the first building. In 1871, the second church was built, and was dedicated by Rev. Swengel of York. The trustees then were Barnitz Knisley, Samuel Barsh- inger and Joseph Strayer. Early pastors who have officiated in this building were Revs. Manbeck, H. Conrad, S. Aurand, A. Yearick, H. N. Greninger, A. W. Shenber- ger, Lilly, Brownmiller, D. Kline, G. Car- rothers, H. W. Gross, C. W. Finkbinder, C. H. Goodling, M. J. Snyder, L. E. Crumb- ling. Some of the recent pastors have been Revs. Foss, Hoke and G. L. Maice.
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