History of the Grover Hill Zion Methodist Church

A short excerpt — just the Zion Methodist Church chapter — from a Grover Hill local history book, likely History of Grover Hill (Latty and Washington Townships), this archive’s existing bibliography entry for the full 393-page book, though that isn’t confirmed.

Traces the congregation from Rev. Emanuel Kauffman’s pre-Civil War “Mt. Zion” class, meeting in a District 7 schoolhouse south of Grover Hill, through Philander Gilbert’s 1866 lumber mill settlement (“Gilbert’s Mills”), an 1880 church building, the 1895 merger of the Grover Hill and Gilbert’s Mills congregations, and the cornerstone (1912) and dedication (May 25, 1913) of the present church building.

See the full PDF for the complete chapter text.