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Beaver Valley Church 1964 Centennial-Preachers.htm
Excerpted from the Beaver Valley Church 1964 Centennial
Program. The church was initially aligned with the Evangelical United Brethren.
It is now United Methodist after the merger of the Methodist Church and
Evangelical United Brethren.
A LIST OF OUR PREACHERS
From early church records of the Fallen Timber Circuit which
gave the names of the ministers who baptixed and married early church members we
have compiled this list. Time has prevented research on these early
pastors.
In the year 1823 we have Rev's. Ondyke and Sneck. In 1828
a Rev. Flegal. In 1833 the Rev's S. S. Snyder and Sexsmith; 1825, Rev. J.
Wild; 1845 Rev. Ivern Florence; 1846 Rev. George Snyder; 1850 Rev's. Thomas
Thomas and Gambel; 1855 Rev. J. Cidman and Rev. R. Bartow; 1856 Rev. Thomas
Vanscoyc; 1857 Rev. H. Moore; 1859 Rev. Jeptah Potts; 1861 Rev's. W. H. Keys and
Thomas Hollen; 1862 Rev. Cyrus Jefferies; 1868 Rev. Eister; 1869 Rev's. J.
Reynolds, D. Sheerer, and R. Williams; 1871 Rev. J. B. Empfield.
Our records are more complete starting with Rev. J. B. Empfield
in 1871. Them came Rev. J. A. Clemm in 1873; Rev. J. McCord in 1874, Rev.
D. A. Messinger in 1875, Rev. John L. Baker in 1878, Rev. Potter Davidson in
1880.
Rev. B. J. Hummell
....................1885-1887 Rev. J. A.
Mills .................1917-1919
Rev. George C. Cook
..................1887
Rev. Summers ..................1920
Rev. R. F. Noon
.........................1888
Rev. G. E. Householder .......1921-1926
Rev. Buell
................................1889
Rev. Doloway ..................1926
Rev. Hayes
...............................1890-1893 Rev. W.
G. Hawk ..............1927-1929
Rev. J. H. Pershing
.....................1893-1896 Rev. Rhodes
....................1929
Rev. E. F. Ott
...........................1896
Rev. J. P. Rauch ...............1930-1933
Rev. W. H. Spangler
....................1897
Rev. John Winwood ...........1933
Rev. A. B. Wilson
.......................1898-1901 Rev. G. O. Neff
................1934-1939
Rev. B. C. Shaw
........................1901-1904 Rev. Cecil C.
Cowder .........1939-1943
Rev. Barshinger
.........................1904-1906 Rev. A. J.
Steiner ..............1943-1946
Rev. H. A. Buffington
..................1906-1910 Rev. J. C. Moses
................1946
Rev. L. B. Fasick
.......................1910
Rev. R. U. Jones ................1947-1952
Rev. J. C. Rupp
........................1911-1914 Rev. W. S.
Harr .................1952-1954
Rev. J. H. Bridigum
...................1914
Rev. G. O. Pearce ..............1954-1956
Rev. J. F. Kelly
........................1914
Rev. Melvin Himes .............1956-1958
Rev. M. L. Wilt
........................1915-1916
Rev. J. Robert Singleton ......1958-
Contributed by John and Mary Gates
Beaver Valley
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