Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....METHODIST CHURCHES' PROBATIONERS1896-1905 in Sebewa Corners, Sunfield and Sebewa Center. 1896-1905 & Members 1888-1905 April 1977 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett lib@dogsbark.com February 14, 2007, 5:38 pm THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR (MI), April 1977, Volume 12, Number 5; Submitted With Written Permission Of Current Editor, Grayden D. Slowins April 1977 PROBATIONERS - From the records of the Methodist Church from 1896 to 1905 under the pastorates of Rev. N. E. Gibbs, Rev. A. K. Steward, Rev. Ira T. Weldon, Rev. E. W. Laing and Rev. Chas. Hayward, we have the list of probationers for membership to the Sebewa Corners, Sunfield and Sebewa Center Churches. Many of these were taken in to full membership. Some are listed as “gone away” and several others were “dropped” and, at times at their own request. The list is given in chronological order. Emory W. Gunn, Orville B. Brown, Frank C. Keefer, Elizabeth Tran, Lewis E. Staples, James Barry, Minnie M. Gunn, Leonard D. Cross, Della Cross, Guy A. Green, Ralph Friend, Rufus E. Morgan, Farley D. Deatsman, Grace F. Erdman, Geo. A. Earthman, Archie L. Brown, Arthur L. Halladay, May Darrow, Dora M. Frantz, Sarah I. Grantz, Maude Darrow, Chas. E. Darrow, John E. Trowbridge, Etta M. Young, Alvah B. Deatsman, Maude E. Wolcott, Nancy Linhart, Maggie E. Eldred, Hannah York, Maud E. Knapp, Millie D. Davis, Goldie B. Williams, Elaine Strang, O. F. Skinner, Mrs. O. F. Skinner, David F. Erkid, Isaac Trann, Minnie L. Trann, Hattie M. Trann, Wm. L. Priestman, Sarah E. Priestman, Norah B. Priestman, Ida Franks, Franklin E. Cross, Ellen A. Cross, Emeline Greiner, Florence L. Ralston, Eliza C. Reeder, Edith R. Beard, Jennie Benedict, Clarence H. Sayer, Beulah A. Gunn, Edna Luscher, John Luscher, Rossie Estep, Archie Meyers, T. J. Spencer, Susie M. Kenyon, Nettie M. Alberts, Ryde M. Kelley, Chas. P. Kelley, Guy Green, Howard C. Lawrence, Grace G. Gang, Selleck Reeder, Edna Griswold, Willis E. McClelland, Ernest B. McClelland, Geo. W. Chase, Guy DeCamp, Rosa Frantz, Edna R. Showerman, H. Ruth Showerman, A. J. Weippert, Archie Friend, Robert Merrifield, Gertie Bickle, Thomas Leman, Laura Baughman, Emmett March, Sarah Marcy, Elsie Gregg, Ida Van Buren, Perry Arnold, Ella Arnold, Maud Arnold, Frank Puffer, Ada Puffer, Emerson M. Ray, H. A. Meyers, Myrtle Briggs, Minnie Briggs, Homer Reams, Rena Springett, Alice Rogers, Lizzie Friedly, Bessie Ramsey, Adda Weaver, Edith Preston, Frank Davis, Eva Davis, Ira Hopkins, Warren West, J. T. Mansell, Ward Estep, Frank Skinner, Mary Stemler, Phil Wolcott, Roe Hulett, Truman Iampam, Leana Fogle, Amy Knapp, Ernest Knapp, Jennie Keefer, Ellen Parks, Olive Turner, William Arnold, S. E. Burus, Mrs. R. M. Burus, Ella Lowe, Elmer J. Showerman, Lucy Friend, Otho Lowe, Walter Halladay, Floyd Haight, Ralph Felton, Benj. Smith, Ernest O. Showerman, Sydney Hubbard, John Hill, Jane Smith, Mrs. Archie Brown, Clara Halladay, Mrs. Guy Green, Mrs. Jose Binns, Elsie Brown, Edna Allen, Ruth Halladay, Mary Baker, Vernon Allen, Jessie Briggs, Blanche Briggs, Mrs. Walch, Cora Witherell, Nettie Witherell, Maud Linhart, Mable Rawlson, Rhoda Deatsman, Gladys Peabody, Josephine Witherell, Mable Gorham, Alice Townsend, David Gunn, Ernest Shilton, Iril Shilton, Dannie Shilton, Alton Gunn, Ross Tran, Verney Cassel, Elvira Miller, Louise Reeder, Ruby Ralston, Florence Ralston, Florence Tran, Floyd Greiner, Chas. Kenyon, Elem Tran, Raymond Kenyon. The membership list in the same book goes back to 1888 and includes 1905. Rozella Allen, Ora Allen, Carrie Allen, Merritt Allen, I. A. Brown, Delia Brown, Stacy Brown, Irving Brown, Heman Brown, Armenia Brown, Mary J. Brown, Millie Brown, Evelyn Brown, Ira S. Brown, Herbert Brown, Louise Brown, Wm. C. Brooks, Amanda Brooks, Anna M. Brooks, Pearl M. Brownfield, Robt. Berrell, Nettie M. Berrell, Dora Bera, Maggie Brown, Emmett Benedict, Lucy Benedict, Irvin Beard, Rosetta Barclay, Ida Bare, John Benedict, S. C. Burns, Mrs. R. M. Burns, Elsie Brown, Mrs. Edith Brown, Omar Baker, Mary Baker, C. P. Becker, Wesley Becker, Roxie Brown, Elisabeth Becker, Elias Becker, Jonah Carpenter, Franklin Cornell, Jessie Cornell, Lizzie J. Cornell, Nancy Chase, Emma J. Cross, Nellie M. Creighton, Geo. A. Creaser, Bernice Creaser, Simeon DeCamp, Elizabeth Deatsman, Anna DeCamp, Mary I. DeCamp, Elizabeth Davenstratt, Nellie Derby, Sanford F. Deatsman, Minnie Deatsman, John Day, Millie Day, Wm. F. Davis, Sarah A. Davis, J. Alfred Davis, E. H. Deatsman, Rilla Deatsman, Emma Duffey, Farley Deatsman, Sarah Emery, Lotta Erdman, Agnes M. Erdman, Sylvanus Franks, Rebecca Franks, Jas. G. Flower, Hannah Green, Mary E. Green, Theodore Gunn, Agnes Gunn, Ella H. Gunn, Geo. Gunn, Viola Gunn, Isaac Gunn, Nettie Gunn, Joshua Gunn, Norman Gibbs, Mary E. Gibbs, Emma Gibbs, Eunice Gibbs, Lena A. Gibbs, Louise Gunn, Edna Griswold, Cora Green, David Gunn, Josephine High, Jacob High, Mary High, Geo. D. Halladay, Mary Halladay, Emma Hartwell, Mildred E. Halladay, Lucy E. Halladay, Ernest Halladay, Anson Hitchcock, Jane Halladay, Cora B. Henry, Alice Hogle, Alice Hulett, Anna Hulett, L. J. Hulett, Edith Henry, Daniel Hill, Eva Hill, J. C. Haskins, M. A. Halladay, Geo. Halladay, Clara Halladay, Eliza Hayward, Effie Hayward, May Jackson, Ada Johnson, Ella M. Kenyon, Dora F. Kenyon, Nora G. Kenyon, Grace E. Kenyon, Mrs. E. A. Kelley, Cyrus Lawrence, Benjamin Lowe, Jacob Luscher, Emma Luscher, Sarah Lawrence, Eva Leigh, Willard Lumbard, Mrs. Willard Lumbard, Etta Lowe, J. H. McClelland, Louisa McClelland, Chase McClelland, Adelia McClelland, Rose Merrifield, Sarah Merrifield, Edith Merrifield, Minnie R. Merrifield, Albert W. Meyers, Lydia Meyers, M. M. W. McClelland, Jessie Morehouse, Wilton E. McClelland, Mrs. Valentine Meyers, Mina Mighan, Mary McClelland, Lewis A. Olry, Louisa Olry, Lora Olry, Elvira Olmstead, Simeon Oatley, Henry Pettingill, Mary Pettingill, Almira Parkhurst, Josiah Perkins, Emma Perkins, L. J. Peck, Mary E. Peck, L. M. Peck, Phebe Peck, Sarah Raymond, Maud W. Richard, William Roseveare, Lucy Roseveare, Joseph Roseveare, Harley Rogers, Wesley Reeder, Hannah Reeder, Olivia Roseveare, Mrs. G. W. Rogers, Kitty Showerman, O. V. Showerman, Myrtle D. Showerman, Andrew J. Sayer, Sarah A. Sayer, Jacob Sayer, Mary I. Sayer, Clarence H. Sayer, Ethyleen Sears, Hannah J. Smith, Julia Staples, Mary Staples, Daniel Shilton, Isaac Shotwell, Elizabeth Sindlinger, Lydia Sindlinger, Minnie Sindlinger, Angerena Shipman, Clement Strang, Nevada Strang, Claud E. Sisson, Rath L. Stewart, Elam Strang, Sarah E. Spencer, T. J. Spencer, Ernest Showerman, Dulsie Showerman, H. A. Smith, Jessie Showerman, Hannah Sayer, Oliver Smith, Emanuel Tran, Elizabeth Tran, Elem Tran, Sarah Tran, Ida Turner, Alpha Turner, Maggie Vedder, Sophia Wyman, Griffin Weippert, Emma Weippert, Leon Williamson, Henry Whorley, Maggie Whorley, Goldie Williams, Wm. Whitwright, Drusilla R. Williams, Adda Weaver, Reva Weippert, Mary Weippert, Hattie Wilson, Orlo Wheeler, Robert J. York, Mary T. York, Ruth A. York. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/newspapers/methodis51gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 7.5 Kb