HANNA TOWNSHIP.

The first church organization in the Township of Hanna, also the first in the county, was at the house of P. Hanna, in the Fail of 1835, where the Methodist Society was organized. Rev. Colin D. James was the first pastor. Among the active workers of the church were : John P. Hanna, C. Renshaw, James Searle, Thomas Hill, William Shafer, as class leaders ; P. K. Hanna, and Daniel Walsh, as local preachers. And also Henry Hand, who deserves to be mentioned as one of the most earnest supporters of the church.

In 1854, the society built a brick church at a cost of three thousand dollars, known as the " Rock River Chapel." This was used by the society until the Fall of 1875, when they built a much finer church in the village of Cleveland, at a cost of four thousand five hundred dollars. The board of trustees are P. K. Hanna, Henry Hand, Thomas Hill, Will Shafer, J. H. Sale, J. A. Sawyer, and Milton Hill. The present membership is eighty ; Sabbath-school attendance, one hundred. Rev. P. K. Hanna and wife, Geo. A. Colbert and wife, Mrs. Sullivan and two daughters, were among the original members.

The Evangelical Church was organized March .25,1873, in school-house No. 7, of Edford Township, in which place services had been held some time previous. The original membership was twenty-three persons, among whom were the following : Geo. Pobanz, Jno. Hintz, F. Pobanz, Win. Pobanz, Jno. Neumann, Jno. Erdmann, Julius Parpat, Carl Nitz. Their present church building , was erected at a cost of $3,000, and is under the pastorate of Rev. Gustav A. Regier. The membership is now sixty-two, and the Sunday-school fifteen.

 

 

 

 

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