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wails, one 01 inese ureicss ana or Second Street Church at the zealou? riders, organized the Sec- close of the Civil War, oecame ond Street society on Wills Creek a bishop and returned to Zanes-circmt in 180S. That was the be- ville to dedicate the site and Ruining of Grace Methodist the sanctuary of Grace Church. Church,* * * a station, a single and completeTHE MEMBERS of this 5o-,Pasforal charge with a residentciety met in their log cabin Pre*cherhomes and in the courthouse. The ^ev Leroy Swarmsted, 8 Muskingum county commission- man °f 25. was the firsters recorded m Ihcir minutes on1 roaster. The total income of the Dec 6. 1810, that the Methodists rewards m 1823 was $199.97. Anhad met in the old hewed log.^^ned pastor received boardInterior of Second Street Methodist Church as It appeared in 1909 when congregation moved to Grace Church.radical organization which con*| “Arise and build/’ scructed its first building on the I Rev. David Young, whosue cl the A M E Church on South street, the second on Pear street, and the last on West Mamcourthouse and that the) werc;31^ lodging and $87,40 a year aim permitted to worship in the w*th an allowance of $7 for ex-now state cap.tol building ponsesThe town grew rapidly wbde People took their religion scri-l street, the the state legislature met here °rK‘ w those days. Leaders of Church, from 1810 to 1812. Believing that the church at Second street fre- jm ln spitc o[ lhls loss thcre they had enough members to auentty tried their fellow mem-j^cre successful revivals in the build a church of their own, the bcis at the quarterly conference.churd at Second street in 1831-32 Zanesville Methodists paid $100 for Iving. slander and gossip. If unfTu Rev_ j M Tr.mble, in 1837 for lot number eight m square the charges «rc ^ proved, the under Rev William Simmons, number 3 on Second street, the guilty person was 'unchurched' 'anc| in 1540^4 under Rev Uriah third lot south of Main Jonathan Rev. Courtenay wrote: “The|Heath. These revivals increasedhadmarried John Mclnlirc’s widow,died in 1858 am) bequeathed $12 * choosisive 1 Epved at the u. Youlh In Methc ity m and c Me tin. Socic t c)ilt;! A Nex the ci Secoathe p030 to Second street church for present Coburn a new budding. Edward Ball of ^orlhZanesville, then a member of Congress, suggested that the dc-, sign of the Wesley chapel m1 All' Washington, D C, be adopted, for the new structure. His sug* iQui gcstion wai accepted and the! new church was completed in WAS 1360 at a total cost of $13,153 31 joting 1Zane and Hannah his wife and numbci expelled by regular trial rnembership to 800 and re* John Mclntrre and Sarah his wife for immorality is surprisingly. q,uref’ jhi* appointment of two sold the lot to the following trus-'groat One cannot but muse preachers to the charge tecs- Christian Spangler, Samuel the fate of those poor souls, sm-; As ,h( I(nsn twa„, th(Frazer, Jesse Miller, James Vic-in.ng sadly and thrust out cf the ^ k whf} ha(j {() wd(k hers. Joseph Hankins. John Spry, fellowship of believers, with gen- b|nrks (n c)wch d„L,]tleHand Barney Monroe Although the I tie but unsparing hand deed was not signed until Feb 2,' During the pastorate of Rev 1 £14, work on the church as be ,Nathan Emory m 182S-29, a sue-gun in 1813. Jcessful revival doubled the mem-Th:r site was chosen because ber*hip of the church and m* the town at that date was crowd creased it tu 350 For this con ed on lower Mam street near the gregation the old fiamc building river. Residences were on the completed m 1814 was too small side streets, and the lot purchas jOn April 22, 1829, the trustees deed bv the trustees was central!) i cided to build a new meeting1 ocaled jhou^e 50 by 60 feet in size.Thomas Moorchead and Wtl-j * * *bam Craig had the contract fori THE SECOND church stoodfgat[0n on Seventh S[rcct t0 ({,. tcr constructing a frame building 40 near Second street and extended!vide members fatrk, a lmc was ihcandis nowIt is still standing used for storage The new building was dedicaU eel on Friday, Dec *1, 1RW). be-to build their own house or wi-sbip As Rev Courtenay seid, There was a swarming of the old hive” Seventh Street Methodist, later Trmitv, was built in IS 19 The old chuicli. predecessor of Grace then became Second Street Methodist churchTV Promotion Brings ResultsHOLLYWOOD CUP!) -Annebv 60 feet in size on the rear of | west to the old frame structure [drawn at Sixih si root and all the lot Four large hewed logjlt wa built of brick and had a Methodists east of the line wire prist* supported the roof The ga~ basement with a floor two and a supposed lo attend Seventh streetchurchLockhart, 5, and another smallgirl named Linda Wrather, willbe sees m 1 Swami,” a play inthe ’Lassie” TV scries It’s no accidentAPPROXIMATELY 50fl mem-' Anne Lockhart is the daughter bers left the Second Street of June Lockhart, star of the Church to form the new congre- series And Linda is the daugh-on Seventh street To di- tnr 0f Jack Wrather, who own*seriesnation crate than \ a nebnot scThe bstruct i of nvt stop t ncenn( pallcn revise*and r ed.WeiPopVandium Found(he line__to scr- First In 1801billow edGARY, IND — Vanadium was discovered m 1801 but ii was nothie end facing Second street had,half feet below ground The audi- church and all west of two doors, each opening inlo an'icrum had four windows on each were expected to come a’slo | side, two doors in front between1 ond street But peopleAfter the walls and roof were which was a platform for the their own inclinationscompleted, it was found that j choir, and a window on each side1 With a membership of only 300there was no seasoned lumber of ihrt high pulpit on the west .left after ihlt; Seventh street con* ur,nl HNavailable for the floor. But the]end. The tota' lack of a floor did not prevent $700.the members from holding scrv-i Tcr old frame budding wasjthc 1840 s and 1850’s. Many were ^cc\ ices in the building While the1 used For prayer meetings and converted in revivals in 1847 and dmm was produced mlumber for the floor was racked! Sunday school In 1839 it w as j 1812 The material and spiritual the first time In 1050up m the west end of the church rented to the town of Zanesvilleiprogressleft after ihlt; Seventh street con* ur,nl years later that the cost was about1'gregation withdrew. Second street metal became commercially unchurch labored faiihfullv dunng port ini as an alloying agent inThe pure form of vana-to season, the members sat onfas a school for SCO per year jthe flat upper surfaces of thes The western end of the base-jsills with their feet on thej^icm m the new church in 1830jground. A four-lcggcd sewing was divided into Sunday Schoolstand served as a pulpit. (class rooms. The east end on• * * 'Second street was rented to mcr-j.WHEN WE church was com-(chanlf for the storage of salt and pitted in 1814, it had a partilion]other merchandise Rev Courte-through the center. The men sat nay said: “This salt saturated on one side and the women on the bricks which were built inlo the Other. The structure was \]-,r present structure And {his is caded the Zanesville Methodist ^jd to explain the incurable Church It was the f:rst church nirust patches in our wallsmembers to1927 formaterial and spiritual the first time In 1950 a .stmi-of the rhiKch inspired t onuritreial process was develop answer the call — ed for producing the pure metalBONhas a fore V hisses oopula 11 *000.1 tion rl( of the and E have 000 000 900 In West !Char name nor vbuilt in Zanesville outside of Tlv first Sabbath school was Putnam recorded in 1833 The Aid SocietyTwr other important events oc- was organized in the secondcurred in the year this building,budding in 1853. was completed Zanesville was] Scon after the second building incorporated, and the first of four was completed, Methodism was Y bridges was built nrn bv' the “radical conlroFt i ten years ihc services in versy” which resulted in the or*j‘he new church woC conducted gan.ration of the Methodist Prot-GREINEICREAMEDCOTTAGE ClFOR A LENTEAdd Zip To Your Unt«i With Our Delicious Cottage Makes Ideal Salads The Familby circuit riders. according to an nrticlf Rev A. M. Courtenayi/incstar.t Church. From one-third to „ nnc-halt the members of the Tune I Zanf-sviltf Fni«?rA-ALWAYS ASK FOR GREINER DAIRY PRODUCTS««ll WAYNE AVE.
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Times Signal
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Sun, Mar 01, 1959
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