Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXVIII - Methodist Episcopal Church 1909
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.



    In 1885 Rev. Thomas Simmons was appointed by the Dakota Annual Conference,

missionary for Faulk county, and located his family in Faulkton. And from that

time there has been regular Methodist religious services held in this place.



    For two years the society was without any fixed place of worship, but in

1887 the present commodious church building was erected under the direction of

Rev. Thomas Simmons.



    For three years Rev. Simmons continued in charge of his missionary work in

the county. After the dedication of the Faulkton church, Faulkton and Orient

became an independent charge.



    At that time, with the failure of crops and hard times that necessarily

followed, it was a Herculanean effort to accomplish such a work, for which Rev.

Simmons and the members, and the friends of the church, are deserving of great

credit.



    This church, like others, has had its seasons of prosperity and adversity,

but through all these years  has sustained Methodist preaching. At the present

time under the pastorate of Rev. Ernest Holgate, who has entered upon the fourth

year of his labors with this church, there is a very prosperous condition of

affairs, a church membership of one hundred, a Sunday school of one hundred and

fifty, an Epworth League of sixty and a Ladies Aid of fifty active, working
members.



    In 1903 the present parsonage property was purchased. This makes the

Methodist Episcopal church property in Faulkton worth eight thousand dollars

without a dollar of indebtedness against it.



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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9

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