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610 HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY.
the old-time annual reunions of teachers. Paul Newton for inany years
has iven much attention to the institute.
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Nethodist Episcopal church of Penn township,
is contemporary with thatq at Wyoming, but the early records of it
were imperfect. From '36 to '46 William Hall, of Osceola Grove, mas
leader at Wall's. The class which met at Wall's schooll~ouse in '51-2
corn risecl John Drawyer, leader ; Rachel, IIiram ancl Mary Dramyer,
Sara Y 1 Wall, Ph~be
Smith, Mary Stairbook, John T. Phenix, ~ i d ~ a
Phcenix, Martha ICarman, Nimcy Geer, Barbara Dunn, ~hcebe A.
Mason (who diecl in '53), Henry Seeley, Daniel Drslvyer, Esther Ticknor,
William Shurtleff, ~ i~~or;il~ Warren. In '52 this class llTas divitlecl,
Drarvyer taking charge of the class at Seeley's Point. Seth Davison
was a'Ppointecl leader, and ~vith hiin were Sarah Wall, Phcebe Smith,
Zipporah Warren, Catherine Merritt and Daniel Prunclc.
Holrrate's class met at I-Iol~ate's sclloolhouse in '51-2 with John
Pryor, Teader. , The member re : John and Mary Pryor. Clarissa
Rickey, Sylvania Rolgate, Timothy antl liexiah Hollister, Dan ant1
Mary Burnell, Draper Hitchcock, ~erinelia Winter, Lydia Snare ancl
Temperance .Briggs.
The class-book of the church at Castleton gives the following names of
members in January, '71: J. B. Robertson. ~arbara ~obertsog, Th0111its
ancl Emma Robertson, Dr. Selclon Minor, Eliza Minor, Elizabeth Brorvn,
Hattie Shoemaker, E. B. Norris, Lizzie Norris, John McFatlclen and
wife, Jose h McFadclen, Thomas ancl Sarah Starli, James ancl Perlnelja
Woods, El P en Griffin, Jane Ackley, Elizabeth Payne. William Unclerwood
was presiding elder, with E. Ransom, Gjssionary. In '73, C.
Springer was presiding elder, E. Eansom, P. C., and Ezra Griffin, C. L.
with o111.y twelve members in class. In November, '74, the names of
Sarah Westfall, Emma 13. McKinstry, Matilcla Wilson, Calvin Davison,
Nettie Kohn, Temperance Bacon, and other inembers of the families
named in '71 appear on the list. In '76 there were Inany aclditions,
including the Bunnells, Fosters, Sini ths, Birds, Gleason s, Douglass,
Martins. Clarks a.ncl E. B. Drawyer. In '82 H. D. D. Martin was
class leader, with Rev. G. C. Wooclruff, preacher. In '84 the naines of
Amanda Wright, Jennie McMillen, four ineinbers of the Drawy er
family and members of other families named above appear on the list.
Methodist Protestant church of Castleton antl circoi t dates back to
the year '49, when Moses Jared, of Canton, pastor of Lafayette circuit,
being informed that a party of Methodist Protestants had removed from
Pennsylvania to the neighborhood in the eastern part of Stark county,
now known as Snarerille, visited them and organized "Snare's class "
of three members, as a part of the Lafayette circuit. From various
causes the circuit weakened at Zafayette, and wa.s changed between '53
and '56 to Spoon River Circuit. Subsequently the work extended eastwarcl
and, to satisfy the neitT classes. another change to " Pleasant View
circuit " was tsuthorixecl in '64. Eev. Mr. Jared served his fill1 terin on
the Lafayette circuit and was followed by others whose names are not
given in the recorcl. In '58 Spoon River circuit advanced, ancl, down
to the present time, there is an unbroken history. In '59, or early in
'60 the parsonage at Snareville was purchased, during the pastorate of