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CERES KANE DISTRICT METHODIST EPISCOPAL - GENESEE CONFERENCE 1832 Mailing Address: RD 2, Box
554Y, Shinglehouse, PA 16748 ID: 150720
LOCATION: Located on route 17, twelve miles east of Olean, New York. Church property is located
partly in New York and partly in McKean County, Pennsylvania.
HISTORY: Methodist Episcopal - Genesee Conference. Class organized in 1832. It became a part
of the Friendship, New York, Circuit. John Smith gave land on which to build a church. Mr. Smith died the next summer after
it was built. His was the first funeral held in the church. A Reverend Benjamin drew plans for the church, which was dedicated
in 1839. A bell was placed in the church in 1862. Sunday School rooms were added in 1890. A parsonage was built in 1861. An
addition was built on to the Sunday School rooms in 1965. The church was put on the Bolivar, NY Circuit in 1844. In 1866 it
became the main church on the Ceres-Oswayo Circuit. In 1872 they started the Ceres, Honeyoye, Shinglehouse Circuit. In 1879
it became the Ceres, Bell Run Circuit. In 1928 Ceres was put on the Shinglehouse Charge. It was in the Genesee Conference
until 1962 when the adjustment of Conference boundaries to State lines placed the Ceres Church in the Western Pennsylvania
Conference. Ceres and Shinglehouse have been a two-point charge since 1928. The membership in 1968 was fifty-nine. The membership
on January 1, 2003 was 75.
PASTORS: Friendship, New York Circuit: Merritt Preston 1840-1841; Merritt
Preston and Summer Cyrus Smith 1841-1842; Augustine Anderson and Ranson Goodsell 1842-1843; Daniel Anderson and Egbert J.
Sellick 1843-1844; Bolivar: New York Circuit: Anson D. Burlingaine and Horace Harris 1844-1845; Josiah F. Mason and John Nolan
1843-1846; Joseph Mason and John Kennard 1846-1847; Samuel B. Rooney 1847-1848; Edward B. Pratt 1848-1850; Gilbert DeLamatyr
1850-1851; Hiram Hood 1851-1852; Robert Elisha Thomas 1852-1853; J. J. Roberts 1853-1854; A. F. Curry 1854-1855; Thomas W.
Eaton 1855-1856; A. McIntyre 1856-1857; William L. Leake 1857-1858; William W. Hurd 1858-1859; Owen St. Clair Chamberlayne
1859-1863; Lowell L. Rogers 1863-1864; Roswell K. Pierce 1864-1866. Pastors:Ceres/Oswayo Circuit: William Weber 1866-1868;
John Anderson and Ebenezer B. Williams 1868-1869; Roswell K. Pierce 1869-1872. Pastors: Ceres/Honeyoye/Shinglehouse Circuit:
J. K. Torry 1872-1874; Charles N. Patterson 1874-1877; Anson T. West 1877 1879. Pastors: Ceres/Bell Run Circuit: Anson T.
West 1879-1881; Woodruff Post 1881-1883; A. J. Blanchard 1883-1885; W. H. Farnham 1886-1889; John S. Brown 1889-1891; Emmett
Martin Kelley 1891-1894; Daniel Columbus Irwin 1894-1895; Thomas Haddon Carryer 1895-1898; John A. Gardner 1898-1904; Levi
D. Adams 1904-1908; William W. Heim 1908-1910; John Melvin Leach 1910-1915; Arthur Gregson 1915-1916; Charles Watson Tyler
1916-1921; William E. Slocum 1921-1924; Charles Lewis Carpenter 1924-1928. Pastors: Ceres/Shinglehouse: Thomas S. Alty 1928-1933;
Clarence H. Nash 1933-1934; Arthur J. Bailey 1934-1943; Harold M. Sherman 1949-1954, Roy M. Black 1954-1960; George D. Snow
1960-1962; Transferred to Western Pennsylvania Conference: George D. Snow 1962-March 1966; Alvin H. Rhodes March 1966-1971;
Floyd Martin Bell 1971-1975; John Herbert Clark 1975-1980; Allen Wendell Jones 1980-February 15, 1982; Ceres: Allen Wendell
Jones February 15, 1982-1984; John Edward Gerber 1984-1987; Richard J. Coscia 1987-1988; Paul Lawrence Thompson September
1, 1988-1994; Carol A. Thayer 1994-1995; Randall Walter Headley 1995-2002; Dwight Ronald Libengood 2002-2005; Daniel P. Grimes
2005--.
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