. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. -mond Stephen Park, son of Elijah Park, wasborn December 22, 1814, in Granville, Wash-ington county. In 1828 he came to this 27, 1834, he married Rhoda Ann Bakerand settled in French Creek in 1836. Mr. Parkrepresented his town on the board of super-visors in the year 1863. Lewis H. Park wasborn March 2, 1843. He married Mary , November 14, 1869. French Creek was included in 1816 in theparochial charge of Rev. Karl Wilhelm(Charles Williams) Colson, an early Lutheranmissionary to the scattered Germans in Ohio,Northwest
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. -mond Stephen Park, son of Elijah Park, wasborn December 22, 1814, in Granville, Wash-ington county. In 1828 he came to this 27, 1834, he married Rhoda Ann Bakerand settled in French Creek in 1836. Mr. Parkrepresented his town on the board of super-visors in the year 1863. Lewis H. Park wasborn March 2, 1843. He married Mary , November 14, 1869. French Creek was included in 1816 in theparochial charge of Rev. Karl Wilhelm(Charles Williams) Colson, an early Lutheranmissionary to the scattered Germans in Ohio,Northwestern Pennsylvania and adjacent local-ities. The first services to form a church wereheld in 1818, on lot 46, at the house of AlansonRoot by Elder Ashford, who in 1821 organ-ized a Baptist church in a log school house onlot 56. Among the first members were: Na-thaniel and William Thompson, WilliamAdams, A. M. Higgins, the wives of all ofthese ; Roswell Coe, Amon Beebe. This church ^^/ ^-^5 rc r Tr HItL BK^orj ?MJL |gr .^d^g JLD PEOPLES HOME -GERRY, X :i??i: \i, so ? i 11: i .1 - s 1:1 i;tii , i;ei;i;i TOWNS—GERRY 187 had a brief existence, most of the members re-moving from the town. Several subsequentabortive attempts to keep up a Baptist churchwere made. A Methodist Episcopal churchwas organized in the northwest part in 1830 byRev. J. K. Hallock and Rev. J. Chandler. Themembers were Isaiah and Betsey Golding, andWilliam and Amy Adams. Moses Olds andwife and Mrs. Bowles were early society built a fine church costing $2,000on lot 46, in 1858, which was completed, paintedand carpeted in 1867. This society receivedfifty acres of gospel land from the HollandLand Company. It was on lot 30, and wassold by order of the county court and themoney used in building the church. A Chris-tian church, in which the ceremony of washingfeet was literally carried out, was formed in1834, with a membership of twenty-four,among them Benjamin and Calvin Bloss. Supervisors—183
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