Ingomar United Methodist Church

History: Methodist Episcopal - Pittsburgh Conference. The church originated on a
small tract of land purchased from a local farmer, John Robertson, in 1837 for
the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00). The Reverend Abner Jackson on the Harmony
Circuit was the first pastor. The Little Log Church on Pine Creek was replaced
prior to the Civil War by a vertical frame structure. It was known as the "Up
and Down Church." In 1886 another church was built of frame structure and was
much more comfortable. In 1915, the first brick building was erected on the same
site. The building was expanded and modernized under the ministry of Reverend
Elmer Lewis Parks, Jr. in 1953. On May 1, 1965 an educational building was
dedicated. It is located just across the Ingomar Road from the new church. The
Ingomar Church has been on several circuits in its long history. In 1913 it
became a Station Church. The membership in 1968 was 1880. The membership on
January 1, 2003 was 1796.

Pastors: Ingomar: Abner Jackson and William C. Henderson 1837-1838; William C.
Henderson and David R. Hawkins 1838-1839; John White 1839-1839; Joseph Wright
and Joshua Monroe 1839-1840; Joshua Monroe 1840-1841; Peter M. McGowan and H.
McHall 1841-1842; John Houston 1842-1843; David Sharp 1843-1844; William Page
Blackburn 1844-1845; Warner Long and John Wesley Baker 1845-1846; John L.
Williams 1846-1848; Benjamin F. Sawhill 1848-1850; George Washington Cranage
1850-1851; Joseph Horner and Robert Finley Hopkins 1851-1852; William H. Tibbles
and Thomas Storer 1852-1855; James Beacom and Sylvester Burt 1855-1856; Samuel
Crouse 1856-1858; Robert Finley Hopkins 1858-1859; John McCarty 1859-1861; Adna
Bradway Leonard 1861-1863; Abraham J. Rich 1863-1865; David Hess 1865-1867; S.
L. Moore 1867-1870; Homer J. Smith and James J. Swan 1870-1871; James M. Swan
1871-1873; Jeremiah W. Kessler 1873-1876; James B. Gray 1876-1878; James M. Swan 1878-1879; William Carson Weaver 1879-1882; David King Stevenson 1882-1883; Albert Freeman 1883-1884; Shields Winfield McCurdy 1884-1887; John J. Davis
1887-1890; No Record 1890-1891; William Medley, Sr. 1891-1893; John Anderson
Banks 1893-1896; John Coleman High 1896-1897; J. D. Brown 1897-1902; William P.
Townsend 1902-1903; William S. Cummings 1903-1906; Thomas H. Morris 1906-1907;
F. M. Clark 1907-1908; William H. Kirkland 1908-1910; Zenas M. Silbaugh
1910-1912; Homer Carpenter Renten 1912-1913; William Medley, Jr. 1913-1917;
Henry A. Welday 1917-1924; Earl Creal Lindsay 1924-1926; Reuben Secrist Harding
1926-1929; Joseph Francis Dipner 1929-1932; Clyde Lewis Nevins 1932-1934; Hodge
MacIlvain Eagleson 1934-1941; Harry Heffner Price 1941-1948; Wilhelm Eurenius
Chellgren 1948-1952; Elmer Lewis Parks 1952-1982; Harry Heffner Price Associate
1956-1957; Leslie Walters, Associate 1958-1960; James A. Kees Associate
1960-1963; Ferd Brownlee Park Associate 1963-1965; William Robert Wilson
Associate 1965-November 1968; David Jordan Lutz November 10, 1968-1976; Joseph
Warren Jacobs Associate Youth Director 1966-1967; David Darrell Woomer Associate
1970-1972; Robert Keith Moffat Associate 1979-1986; Albert Allen Bryan Associate
August 11, 1981-1985; Larry Bartlett Hauck 1982-1996; James Preston Fogg, Jr.
Associate 1986-1991; Lauren Lynn Chaffee Farley Associate 1991-July 1, 1992;
William Michael Pieringer Associate 1990-1993; Duane LaVern Morford 1996--2006; Kenneth Ralph Rippen Associate 1996-2000; David Burfield Bowman Associate
2000-2002; Tracy June Weigant Cox 2002--; E. David Streets 2006 --

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