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PROVIDENCE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Written by Margaret Bouic October 1984
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The Providence Church was organized Dec. 5, 1860, with nine members, by Rev. H.B. Brinkeroff. It is located three miles south of Ostrander. J.H.P. Bouic and Benjamin Turney were the first elders, and Rev. Mr. Brinkeroff was the first supply. They went to the Congressional church with their minister, at the same time mentioned in connection with the Jerome Church (1862). In 1878, under the ministry of Rev. Thomas Hill, they again came back to the Presbyterian Church. The church since that time has been supplied at the same time and y the same ministers that have preached to the Ostrander Church. John S. Smart, Richard Clark, Joseph Hutchinson, Asa Smart, Daniel Bouic, George Clark and N.C. Bown have since their return to the Presbyterian Church have served as elders. During the time the church was under the control of the Congregationalists, a frame church was erected, wth the help of their Church Erection Society. After their return, the Presbytery of Marion paid the mortgage owed by that society, and now holds a mortgage on this church building (copied from "The History of Marion Presbytery" by Rev. A.C. Crist (1908), page 160, 161). The following list of members is taken from the minute book of Providence Church. Except for dates the individuals joined the church, the information is from family records, census, cemetery, and court records. For information about persons with "OPC __", see that number in History of Ostrander Church". Benjamin Turney,
1860, Dismissed to Ostrander Presbyterian Church, OPC232 |
