Joshua D. Tam & Hannah Rae

Joshua D. Tam

A Standard History of
White County Indiana
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern
Developments in the Progress of Town and Country
Under the Supervision of
W. H. HAMELLE
VOLUMES I and II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1915


THE METHODISTS
The Methodists effected a regular organization at Farmington, or the old
Town of Burnettsville, about 1843, under Rev. G. W. Stafford, with the
following twenty-five members: John Herman and wife, Stephen McPherson
and wife, Caleb Mahuren and wife, Larkin Herman and wife, John Shaw and
wife, William Shaw, Eli Shaw, Catherine Davis, Isaac Mahuren, John E.
Dale, Joshua Tam, Mitchell Tam, Catherine Dodge, Prudence Dale, Maria
Davis, Mary Shaw, Martha Million, Margaret Dale, William Stewart and
Sarah Stewart. The successive pastors have been, after Mr. Stafford: B.
Webster, G. W. Warner, J. Hatfield, B. Williams, J. M. Rodgers, J. B.
Ball, W. J. Coptner, D. Dunham, William Reeder, P. J. Beswick, W.
Hancock, F. Cox, J. B. Mershan, W. Beckner, J. B. Adell, J. S. Budd, J.
L. Boyd, C. W. Farr, H. C. Fraley, G. W. Warner, J. S. Budd, C. L. Smith,
J. W. Pierce, L. T. Armstrong, W. H. Wood, S. Barcus, B. F. Nadell, F.
Mason, J. E. Steel, J. W. Jackson, Jephtha Boicourt, R. H. Calvert, C. R.
Ball, W. Hall, Z. Lambert, Jephtha Boicourt (second pastorate), William
Davis, A. L. Miller, Jacob Rohm, R. W. Burton, J. N. Thompson, A. M.
Bowen, C. C. Harold, J. H. Kenrich, C. H. Hickman, W. I. Boyd and C. O.
Smock. Mr. Smock has also charge of the Lake Sicott [sic] (Cass County)
Church. The two have a membership of over 220. In 1901, while Rev. J. N.
Thompson was pastor, the church erected a new house of worship, which was
remodeled in 1906.

Hannah Rae