St. Paul's United Methodist Church — Celebrating 200 Years

200 YEARS OF CHRISTIAN MINISTRY PART ONE

“HERITAGE OF PRIDE – 150 YEARS” A HISTORY OF ST. PAUL’S METHODIST CHURCH, POSEYVILLE, INDIANA SEPTEMBER 1815 – JUNE 1966

In the Beginning – Pioneers In the year 1815 (some accounts give the date as 1816, but the earlier accounts give it as 1815), there came down the Ohio River in flat boats three families. The first boat contained the family of William Casey and his son-in-law, Joseph Endicott (some histories also list the name of a second son-in-law, Stephen Eaton, on the Casey boat). The second, Jonathan Jaquess and family. The third, Alexander Ferguson and family. The wives of these three men were sisters and daughters of a Scotchman named George Frazier. They located in what is now Robb Township, Posey County. In this colony from Harrison, Kentucky, counting women and children, were 44 persons. An article in the “Indiana Magazine of History,” March, 1921, gives this additional information on one of the pioneer, Jonathan Jaquess:

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