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UNION BAPTIST CHURCHOn September 12, 1840, a small group of five men and one woman came from Indian Creek Baptist Church north of Sampsel to help a group of four persons to form a church. The four were William Garwood, Thomas Williams, Nancy Williams, and Zerah Williams. A Church was organized and it became the first Baptist Church in Livingston County. This event took place on the farm of Thomas Williams about five miles northeast of Chillicothe near the location where the Bethel Methodist Church used to stand. Thomas Williams had entered this land from the Government in October 1839. The church was to be known as the Chillicothe United Baptist Church of Christ. The first members were Isiah Austin, Polly Austin, Frances Preston, James Pennington, Elizabeth Pennington, Elizabeth Moberly and Nancy Wilson. Elijah Merrill was the first pastor. The church held regular meetings in private homes once a month until June, 1844. That same year a large hewn log house was erected about six miles north of Chillicothe known as the Macedonia meeting house. It had been built by the entire neighborhood as a meeting house for all denominations and for a school house. This was the first house of worship and the first meeting there was the second Saturday in June of 1844. The first two deacons were ordained in March, 1845; a Mr. Botts and John May. On the second Saturday August, 1859, the name of the church was changed from the Chillicothe United Baptist Church of Christ to the Union United Baptist Church and later dropped to Union Baptist Church. Not long after the Civil War the church changed the meeting place to a school house about a half mile north of where it now stands. In 1874, a large frame house was built on the spot where this church now stands. The ground was donated by Jackson Perrin. In 1899, the present building was erected and dedicated in June, 1900. The first clerk was Thomas Williams. The early treasurers included such names as - Steen – May - Hooker - and others. In September, 1940, the church celebrated its 100th anniversary. Six ministerial students have gone from Union Church to preach the Gospel. The present pastor is David Cartwright and the following are officers: Sandy Hooker, clerk; Howard Meneely, treasurer; Lee Steen, Earl Benskin, Howard Meneely, deacons and Judy Eishler, Sunday School, superintendant. Over the years the church has had many struggles to stay alive, but through the efforts of many faithful members it is still thriving. Through its influence for good in the community many have been helped and many souls have been saved. The effects of the spiritual ministry of Union Church can only be measured in eternity. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF CHILLICOTHEThe Southern Methodist Episcopal Church was the first religious organization established in the city of Chillicothe, Missouri, Livingston County, in the year 1833. The first church built in the county was built in Chillicothe on North Locust Street, with Reverend William Penn as pastor in 1855, destroyed by fire in 1863. Earliest records and traditions of 1833 give the first preachings in the home of John Graves, founder of the town and friend of Methodist ministers, and living in what is now called Gravesville. The First Methodist Episcopal South, was organized in Chillicothe in 1846, by the Reverend Daniel Penney and their first Church was built on the west side of Locust Street about half way between Webster and Calhoun Streets in 1855. After the fire a second church was built on part of the Elm Street lot in 1866. In 1889 another part of this lot was purchased and The Last Elm Street Methodist Episcopal Church Cornerstone laid, April 5, 1901. The First Methodist Episcopal Church in Chillicothe, Missouri was organized in 1862, with the first official board meeting on May 28, 1864, and Utica included in this charge. This church was located on the northeast corner of Locust and Ann Streets. The first quarterly conference for the Chillicothe First Methodist Episcopal Church alone was April 17, 1865. In 1868 a new two story brick church was erected on the northeast corner of Webster and Cherry Streets, was torn down in 1903. The building is now owned by the Masons, and was dedicated on February 28, 1904, The Fall of 1954, fact finding committees met for a possible merger of these two Methodist Churches. After extensive efforts a combined Quarterly Conference was held September 12, 1955, with a Confirmed Merger, September 21, 1955. On March 8, 1959, ground breaking ceremonies were conducted and services for The Laying of The Cornerstone, held September 20, 1959. Sunday, June 26, 1960, the first service was conducted in the completed edifice by the pastor, Reverend Donald W. Cook, who later transferred to The Kansas Conference and Dr. Carl A. Bergsten and wife, came to serve as pastor until 1963, when Dr. and Mrs. Earl C. Griffith and their three young sons began serving this present church, at 1414 Walnut Street. In 1968, the name of ALL METHODIST CHURCHES was changed to “The United Methodist Church”, and continues to be a “House of Prayer For All People”, where you may be a stranger only once, as the doors stand open wide for all to enter in and pray; to bring their needs, confess the sins, fresh courage take, then journey on their way. The Methodist Church of Chillicothe, Missouri, Inc. became the United Methodist Church of Chillicothe, Missouri, Inc. WHEELING UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIn May of 1868 a small group of Methodist families met in the home of Henry Nay, a pioneer from Wheeling, West Virginia. It was Mr. Nay who laid out the village of Wheeling, in 1865. He built the first frame dwelling and all denominations worshiped there. The Reverend Burr was the first pastor. Mr. Nay gave ground for a building, the Methodists could call their own in 1874, the cost being $1600 and this was the first church in Wheeling. In 1907, the building underwent remodeling, a room was added to the west side and new stained glass windows were installed. A few years later the Harmony Chapel Methodist Church building located six miles north of Wheeling was given to the members of Wheeling Methodist church and in 1921 annexed to the west side of the church. John Goff willed his home to the church for a parsonage if needed, and if not the proceeds as rental property was to be used for the upkeep of the church. The church has had a women’s organization since 1916. Through the years many ministers have served the Wheeling church. The present minister is Rev. 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