NOTES ABOUT THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

JENKSVILLE, TOWN OF NEWARK VALLEY,
TIOGA CO., N.Y.

Contributor:
Martha S. Magill

Organized in 1852 with twenty-five members. First pastor Rev. William Silsbee. This organization was brought about through the untiring efforts of Mrs. Philena Robinson Comstock, wife of Ichabod Comstock, who named it the "Alpha Church." They met to organize in Scott school house, near home of Capt. William Scott.

Source: Miscellaneous Compiled Records of the N.Y.S. Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 67, page 203, 1934.


LIST OF MEMBERS

Ichabod Comstock
Philena Robinson Comstock
Josiah Perry
Joel Hastings
Alfred Brigham
William Nixon
Silas P. Gleason
Beri Strong
Jacob Van Valehnar

No doubt there were other women who made up the rest of the membership. They are not recorded.

1852 - Michael Jenks tendered his resignation from the Board. (Jenksville was named for Michael Jenks. He went down the river on a raft of lumber and was never heard from.)

1855 - W.H. Pearne, Presiding Elder, in the chair at first meeting in Jenksville Church of quarterly conference. (Church built between 1852 and 1855.) The following Official Brethren responded to their names:

Preachers:
D. Worrell, P.S Worden

Stewards:
William Curtis, J.H. Snow, Beri Strong, William Nixon, Isaac Bush

Class Leaders:
Ichabod Comstock, Leander Legg
James H. Snow, Secretary and Record Steward

Ichabod Comstock died 1875, September 8th.
Philena R. Comstock died 1884, at Healdsburg, Calif.

A note at the bottom of the page says:
This was copied from "Records for Stewards", published by Levi Scott and George Lane, 200 Milbury St., N.Y.C., by Mrs. W.E. Comstock, Beulah P. Brown Chapter DAR, Newark Valley, N.Y.


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