MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO - Madison Twp., Wheelen Methodist Church (published 1882)
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 History of Muskingum County, Ohio  . J.F. Everhart and Co., 1882  page 362 

Madison Township, Wheelen Methodist Episcopal Church.  This was the first 
church built in Madison Township.  It was named for Martin Wheelen, because 
he donated the site where the church was built, a part of the southwest 
quarter of section 19, owned at present by George King.  The first class was
composed of Martin Wheelen, and Christiana, his wife, George Wheelen, and 
Harriet, his wife, Wm. Wheelen, and Lusanna, his wife, Peter Wheelen, and 
Sarah Wheelen, John Wheelen, Jacob Wheelen, James Wheelen, Charles R. 
Copeland, and Evalina, his wife, Elizabeth Van Horn, John Doughty, James 
Conklin and wife, Mary;  James being the leader.