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History of Hocking Valley, Ohio
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Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political
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FREEMAN MARSHALL, son of
William and Susan Marshall, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, Oct. 2,
1823. His early life was spent on the farm and in attending the common
schools. In June, 1845, he married Ellen M. Twaddle, of
Jefferson County, Ohio. They have nine children - Mahan, David,
Ethan, William, Sylvester, Howard, Izetta, Ida and Ira. Mr.
Marshall purchased the farm where he now resides, in 1854. He has
300 acres of well, improved land, with a good residence and commodious farm
buildings. He is an influential man of his township and has served as
School Director for many years.
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ABRAM MARTIN, Superintendent of
the Athens County Infirmary, was born in Lee Township, this county, Nov. 29,
1824. His father, Samuel Martin, was a native of Virginia, and
an early settler of Athens County. His mother was Hepsibah Merritt
Martin. Our subject was the fourth of nine children, five of them
now living - David, of Vinton County, Ohio; Elijah, of Woodson
County, Kansas; Abraham; Josephus, of Vinton County, Ohio, and
Nancy M., now Mrs. Cottrell, of Chariton County, Mo. Three
of the deceased were grown - Harriet, Caleb and Thomas. Mr.
Martin was reared on the farm and had very limited educational
advantages, only having attended school for nine months in all. He was
a soldier in the late war, in Company C, Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry,
for three years and one month, and participated in the battles of Louisburg,
second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, and many others. He was
married Jan. 6, 1848, to Charlotte, daughter of George Robinette.
They had eight children, seven of whom are living - Ettie R., Hattie B.,
Charles W., George W., David M., John M. and Ella. Mr. Martin
has always living in this county except about six years spent in Vinton
County. He has held the present office since 1878. He owns a
farm of 100 acres in Waterloo Township.
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JOHN MASTEN was born in Ritchie
County, W. Va., Oct. 4, 1845. He came to Lee Township in 1864 and has
since resided here engaged in farming. He now has sixty acres of good
land on section 12. In October, 1873, he obtained a patent for his
Climax churn, which has taken the premium at several county fairs, and also
at the Ohio State Fair in 1878. Mr. Masten's address is Lee,
Athens Co., Ohio, and he will be pleased to correspond with any one wishing
a good churn. He was married Apr. 21, 1866, to Catherine Llewellen,
a native of Lee Township. They have eight children - Charles, Nora,
Ora, Perley, Lucy, John, Rawliegh and Leander.
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JOHN MATHENY, farmer, was
born in Athens Township, Mar. 20, 1841, the son of John and Rebecca
Matheny. He was reared on a farm, and has during his whole life
followed that occupation. On reaching his majority he purchased a farm
in Athens Township on which he resided about eight years. In 1867 he
came with his family to Ames Township and purchased his present home, which
is a fine farm containing 122 acres of improved land. He was married
Apr. 17, 1862, to Miss Mary E. Boyles. They are the parents of
three children— George G., Minerva E., and Electa F. Mr.
Matheny has been very successful through life and uses his accumulated
wealth in surrounding himself and family with the comforts of life.
Mrs. Matheny is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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LORING GLAIZER MATHENY,
farmer, Athens Township, oldest son of Isaac and Chistia Ann (HarperP
Matheny, was born June 1, 1840, in Tyler, Dover Township, Athens County.
He lived with his parents until manhood. He was educated in the common
schools, the Albany Manual Laboring Institute, and attended the Ohio
University at Athens three terms. He began teaching school at the age
of eighteen. Oct. 20, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Sixty-third Ohio
Infantry, as a private, and was mustered into the services at Chillicothe,
Ohio. He was appointed First Sergeant of his company, Feb. 20, 1862,
and served as such until June 27, 1863, when he was commissioned Second
Lieutenant of Company B, same regiment. He participated with his
command in the battles of New Madrid, Island No. 10, Fort Pillow,
Farmington, Tenn., Iuka, Corinth and Parker's Cross Roads, Tenn. He
was with Sherman from Chattanooga to the sea, and participated in all
the battles in which his regiment was engaged. He was mustered out of
the service and discharged near Savannah, Ga., Dec. 21, 1864. He then
returned to his home in Athens County, Ohio. During the year 1865 he
was in the employ of the Hocking Valley Oil Company. May, 1866, he
removed to Johnson County, Mo., and there engaged in school teaching until
the fall of 1868 when he returned to Athens County and taught until the
spring of 1870. He then engaged in farming until March, 1877, when he
removed to Scotland County, Mo., and there engaged in farming. March,
1879, he returned to Athens County, and has followed farming to the present
time. Nov. 17, 1869, he was married to Hannah M., daughter of
William and Mary Ann (Rodine) Martin, of Athens Township. They
have six children - Edward L., Gertrude M., Charles M., Luella,
William M., and Mary E. Mr. and Mrs. Matheny and two oldest
children are members of the Methodist church, and he is Steward of the
church and local preacher. He is a member of Columbus Golden Post, No.
89, G. A. R., of Athens.
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S. L. MATHEWS,
born in
Guernsey County, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1825, is a son of Newman Mathews, a
native of Massachusetts, but an early settler of Guernsey County. He
was married at the age of thirty-eight to Henrietta Matheny.
They have two children - Carrie Alta and Charles Grant. Mr.
Mathews bought the farm where he now resides, in 1865. He has 100
acres of good land, with commodious buildings, and is engaged in farming and
stock-raising. During the late war he enlisted in the One Hundred and
Forty-first Ohio Infantry. He has been Justice twelve years.
Mr. and Mrs. Mathews are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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ANDREW McCLELLAND
was
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1813, and when eight years of age
went to Pennsylvania. When sixteen years of age he commenced to learn
the shoemaker’s trade and served an apprenticeship of four years. He
was married Nov. 9, 1834, to Haney Pratt, a native of
Pennsylvania. They have had nine children, only seven now living—Mary,
Sarah, Harriet, Eliza, Catherine, Rebecca M. and Salina.
In 1847 Mr. McClellan came to Ohio and lived seven years in
Hebbardsviller and in 1854 came to Albany. He enlisted Dec. 18, 1861,
in the Seventy-ninth Ohio Infantry, afterward consolidated with the
Seventy-fifth Ohio, and served three years; was in the battles at McDowell,
second Bull Run, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He is a member of
Albany Lodge, No. 156, A. F. & A. M.
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HENRY F. McCOY, M. D., physician
and surgeon, Millfield, was born in Waterloo Township, Athens Co., Ohio, May
12, 1849, and and is a son of Daniel McCoy (deceased), a
native of East Scotland, who settled in Athens County about 1842. Our
subject's mother died when he was sixteen years old, and this broke up the
family and he was thrown entirely upon his own resources. He educated
himself and taught school for seven years. During the last two years
of his teaching he read medicine. During the winter of 1877-'78 eh
took a course of lectures at the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, and
practiced the following season in Nelsonville, Ohio. He then returned
to college, and graduated with high honors in the class of 1879. He at
once removed to Chauncey, where he has built up a large and lucrative
practice. He received two calls the day he located in Chauncey, and
has practiced more or less every day since. He was married Mar. 6,
1879, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Hawk of Athens
Township. They have one child - E. Maud. The Doctor is a
Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal cchurch.
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I. N. McCOY, school-teacher, was born in Waterloo
Township, Nov. 10, 1847, and is the son of Daniel and Eve (Enlow) McCoy,
natives of Washington County, Pa., who came to Athens County in 1836, and
located in this township, where they remained until their death. They
were both active members of the Methodist Episcopal church and were ever
mindful of the wants of others and friends of the deserving poor.
Mr. McCoy was politically a staunch Republican. Our subject
was reared on his father’s farm, and received his early education in the
common schools and completed it at the Ohio University at Athens. As a
teacher he has been very successful, always gaining the confidence of the
pupils and the respect of their parents. He married Carrie, the
youngest daughter of John Clutter, of Athens Township. This
union was blessed by the birth of two children—Myrtie A. and Don
Hadley. By the death of his wife, Oct. 22, 1879, Mr.
McCoy was bereft of an affectionate companion, and the children of a
loving mother. During the late civil war, when only seventeen years of
age, he enlisted, Feb. 26, 1864, in Company C, Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and went from Marietta, Ohio, where they were mustered in, to
Chattanooga, Tenn., and there joined the army of General Thomas,
and about May 1 was transferred to West Virginia, and was on the famous
Lynchburg raid, participating in the battle of Lynchburg; was mustered out
at Wheeling, W. Va., July 27, 1865, and returned to his native home.
He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Constitution Lodge, No. 426, being the
first to apply for membership after it received its charter. He, at
the present time, holds the office of Secretary.
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JACOB McCUEN, was born on
the 25th day of May, 1801, a son of John and Mary (Boyles) McCuen,
who were from Bedford County, Penn., and came to Ames Township, Athens Co.,
Ohio, in 1796, where they lived the remainder of their days. Our
subject spent his youth in assisting in clearing and improving the farm, and
received a limited education in the subscription schools. After he
grew to manhood, in connection with his farming pursuits, he worked at
carpentering for many years. Much of his leisure time was spent in
hunting wild game, which was abundant at that early day, and as a marksman
Mr. McCuen had no superior. He was united in marriage, Jan. 18,
1823, to Lyda Owens, a native of Washington County. By
this union are five children—Nancy, Vesta, Adaline,
Charles O. and Theodore A.
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CHARLES
B. McCUNE, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Bern Township, Oct.
14, 1843, the fourth son of Samuel McCune. He was reared on a
farm and educated in the common schools, living with his parents until the
breaking out of the late civil war, when he enlisted, in September, 1862, in
Company I, Seventh Ohio Cavalry. He participated in many hard fought
battles; among some of the more prominent were the siege of Atlanta and
Nashville. Just after they raised the siege of Atlanta he was taken
prisoner. While out gathering feed for the horses the enemy made a
charge and took several, and while going toward the enemy's lines our
subject started for the woods and hid behind the trees and thus escaped,
walking six miles without shoes, hat or coat. He was the only one who
escaped. Three others afterward died in Andersonville Prison. He
served for three years and at no time he unable to attend to his duty,
although once sent ot the hospital but returned to his regiment without
orders. He was discharged July 4, 1865, and returned to his native
home, where he engaged in the avocation of farming, which he has since
followed. He was married Nov. 28, 1871, to Nannie Marquis, a
daughter of William M. Marquis, a native of Noble County. They
have two children - Bernice G. and Effie I. HE first
purchased his present farm in 1871 containing fifty acres, and by strict
attention to his pursuits he has added to it from time to time until he has
a fine farm of 110 acres of good land under a high state of cultivation,
where in 1880 he erected a fine residence.
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JOHN RUSSELL McCUNE
was born in Lycoming County, Pa., June 24, 1795, a son of James and Martha
(Russell) McCune, who emigrated to America from Ireland in 1790. When
six years of age his friends reomved to Fayette County, Pa. After
arriving of age he worked the homestead farm till 1824, when, Nov. 24, he
married Maria King, of Somerset County, Pa., and purchased a farm, where he
lived till 1838, when he sold out and came to Athens County, Ohio, and
settled on a farm two miles south of Athens. In 1861 he moved into
Athens and lived four years, returning to the farm in 1865. In 1879 he
retired from farm life and moved into Athens to spend the remainder of his
days. Mr. McCune died Jan. 5, 1882. He has six children -
Harriet, now Mrs. W. P. Wilkin, of Missouri; Maria, now
Mrs. J. N. Patterson; Ellen, now Mrs. W. A. Thomas; Ann,
now Mrs. W. W. McVey; John King, and Samuel. The latter
son is supposed to b living somewhere in the West. IN 1861 he went to
California and remained till 1857, when he went to Oregon, a volunteer in
the war against the Indians. After serving about eighteen months he
was taken prisoner by the Indians, by whom he was kept in bondage three
years, and then exchanged to another tribe and kept by them three years.
He made his escape in 1863 and reached Fort Hall, where he first heard of
the Rebellion. From there he went to Salt Lake City and engaged in
teaching school and acting as Indian interpreter, since which he has never
been heard from. Mr. McCune has been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church over fifty years. In 1883 he visited Fayette County,
Pa., where he spent his boyhood and early manhood, and married his wife, and
was cordially received by relatives and friends.
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JOSEPH A. McKEE,
section 35, Dover Township, was born in Trimble Township, Dec. 26, 1835, and
is a son of William McKee, now of Morgan County, Ohio, but a native
of Greene County, Pal, who came to Athens County about 1820, and lived here
till 1881. He is the father of seven children, four living - George
W., Mary A., Sarah and Joseph A. One son, William
W., was killed at the battle of Resaca in the late war. Mr.
McKee was married Jan. 17, 1858, to Mahala Snyder, a daughter of
George Snyder. They had nine children, seven of whom are living
- Sarah E., Mary I., Clara, William A., George A., Joseph J. and
John A. Mr. McKee was Clerk of Trimble Township for six
years, and was elected Justice of the Peace for Dover Township in 1879, and
re-elected in 1882. He has been Clark of the Board of Education nearly
ever since he became of age. He came to this township in February,
1868. He owns eighty acres of land, and is engaged in general farming.
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JAMES McKITRICK, M. D.,
was born near Morristown, Belmont Co., Ohio, Oct. 1, 1815, and is a son of
John McKitrick (deceased), a native of Washington County, Pa., and an
early settler of Belmont County. James left home when quite
small, and early learned the blacksmith's trade. At the age of
twenty-one years he left the shop and engaged in the mercantile business in
Morganville, Ohio, where he remained five years. He then read medicine
under Dr. James Rusk, with whom he practiced six months. In
1844 he came to Millfield, where he built up a large practice and remained
until 1865, and then came to Chauncey and practiced until 1881, when failing
health compelled him to give up his practices, and he now resides on his
farm adjoining Chauncey. His successor, Dr. H. F. McCoy, is a
graduate from the Columbus Medical College, and a successful physician.
Dr. McKitrick has always been an industrious and useful man. He
has carried on his farm, and attended to his practice, enduring many
privations and hardships. He was married Mar. 29, 1845, to Miss
Sarah W. Hyde, daughter of William Hyde (deceased), an early
settler of Athens County. They have one son - William S., who
resides Chauncey, and is a farmer and stock-raiser. The Doctor is a
Presbyterian in religious faith, but is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Chauncey. He was always noted for his generosity and
liberality, and always visited poor families when called, with or without
pay.
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JOHN H. McPHERSON, born in Belmont
County, Jan. 18, 1828, son of Joseph McPherson, of Scotch ancestry.
At six years of age he moved with his parents to Morgan County, Ohio, where
he was reared and received a common-school education, together with
Methodistical religious culture, and upon the temperance question,
prohibition. It would be unjust to not here mention that his mother,
whose maiden name was Elizabeth Hart, of English descent upon her
mother's side, and German on her father's was an example of the finer
virtues of feminine character and especially that of self-government.
The subject of this narrative commenced teaching school at twenty years of
age. He married Maria J., daughter of Rezin and Nancy
Calvert, the former of German-English, and latter of Irish ancestry, and
both of religious aspirations. John H. and Maria J. McPherson's
children consist of two boys and eight girls - Rezin M., Flavius M., Mary
M., Susanah M., Elizabeth M., Florence M., Nancy M., Eliza M., Adah M.
and Emma M., all living and healthy. Mr. McPherson
enlisted in Company I, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Sept. 12, 1862; was
disabled in a charge on the enemy near Mount Sterling, Ky., Feb. 27, 1863,
by rupture and injury to diaphragm, the result of being thrown upon pommel
of saddle, after which he served the Government as clerk until June 7, 1865,
when he was discharged by reason of Surgeon's certificate of disability.
Politically he is a Prohibitionist Republican. His residence is at
Pleasanton, Athens County, Ohio. His present occupation
Legal
Studie.
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HOSEA McC.
MILLER was born in Preston County, W. Va., Feb. 19, 1846. He
was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools,
living with his parents until he grew to manhood. After he reached his
majority he learned the blacksmith’s trade with his father, working with him
three years. He then went to Grafton, W. Va., and worked in the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops two years. In 1873 he came to Hocking
County, O., and worked at the Union Furnaces until May 9, 1877, when he came
to Buchtel, where he has since been in the employ of the Akron Iron Company.
He was married Sept. 22, 1868, to Mary M. Rodeheaver, a native of
Preston County, W. Va. They have two children —Frank G. and
Clarence W. Mr. Miller is a member of the K. of P., York Lodge,
No. 75. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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A. D. MINEAR was born in Lee Township, Dec.
10, 1838. He enlisted in the late war in Company A, Ninety-second Ohio
Infantry, and served three years. He participated in the battles at
Chickamauga and Mission Ridge; was shot through the hips at the latter place
and lay in the hospital three months, then received a furlough of a month,
and returned to his regiment at Ringgold, Ga. From there went to
Atlanta, Savannah, the Carolinas, Richmond and Washington, where he was
mustered out; thence to Columbus, Ohio, for discharge. He returned to
Lee Township and has since been engaged in farming and stock-raising.
He has line farm of 345 acres, his residence being on section 16. He
was married Dec. 10, 1865, to Sarah J. Cooper, a native of Ohio, born
in 1847. She died Sept. 21, 1879, leaving two children—Aldo Z.,
born Jan. 3, 1868, and Holland M., born March 2, 1874. Mr.
Minear is a member of the Methodist church. He is prominently
associated with the Patrons of Husbandry.
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E. C. MOLER was born in Perry County, Ohio,
June 7, 1847, and when six years old went to Vinton County. He came to
Athens County in the spring of 1868 and settled in Lee Township, where he
now has a fine farm of sixty acres on fraction 36, and seven acres in the
limits of Albany. He is engaged in buying and selling stock in
connection with farming. He was married in September, 1868, to
Celestia A. Means, a native of Athens County, born Feb. 4, 1849.
They have five children—Herbert, Cora, James, Jennie and Minnie.
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CALVARY
MORRIS was born near Charleston, W. Va., in 1798, and spent his youth
in the Kanawha Valley, laboring on a farm, and battling with the hardships
of pioneer life. In 1818 he married the eldest daughter of Dr.
Leonard Jewett, of Athens, and in the spring of 1819 located permanently
in that town. “Finding myself,” said Mr. Morris,
"a stranger in a strange land, and obliged to make provision for the support
of my family, my first step was to rent five acres of ground, upon which to
raise a crop of corn. While cultivating that ground, during the summer
of 1819, the Rev. Jacob Lindley (then acting president
of the Ohio University) came to me and said that a school teacher was much
needed in our town, and proposed that I undertake it. I informed him
that I was not at all qualified—that reading, writing, spelling, and a
limited knowledge of arithmetic was the extent of my education. He
said that the wants of the community required that arithmetic, geography,
and English grammar be taught in the school, and ‘now,’ said he, 4 1 will
tell you what to' do. I have the books and you have brains; take my
books, go to studying, and recite to me every day for three weeks, and by
that time I will have a school made up for you; you will then find np
difficulty in keeping ahead of your scholars so as to give satisfaction in
teaching, and no one will ever suspect your present lack of qualifications.’
I consented, went to work, and at the end of three weeks went into the
school. I taught and studied during the day, and cultivated my
corn-field part of the time by moonlight, and if there was ever any
complaint of my lack of qualifications as a teacher, it never came to my
knowledge.”
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J. W. MORRIS, carpenter, was born in Kent
County, Md., Dec. 27, 1841. Oct. 11, 1869, he left Maryland and went
to Cincinnati, and from there to Meigs County, but in 1870 came to Athens
County and located in Albany. He was married in 1874 to E. M.
Martin, a native of Meigs County, born in February, 1852. They
have one child - C. R., born July 26, 1880. Mr.
Morris’s father, William Morris, was born in Maryland in
1811, and was killed by lightning in 1864. His mother, S. A.
(Kankey) Morris, was born in 1808, and died in 1869. There was a
family of seven children — C. K, J. H., W. T., E. S., G. W., J. W.
and Anna Jane.
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JEREMIAH
MORRIS, deceased, late of Dover Township, was born in Washington
County, Penn., Apr. 7, 1797, and was a son of Joseph Morris, a
native of New Jersey. He came to this county about 1825. He
married Mary A. Southerton, by whom he had five children, two living—Joseph
and Dianna; one son, Jeremiah, died at the age of twenty-one
years. Mrs. Morris died Jan. 19, 1832. Mr.
Morris married, July 14, 1833, Bethany L., daughter of
Hamilton Lapham. She was born in New York State, Aug. 21, 1811.
Mr. Morris died May 3, 1874. He was a member of the Christian
church.
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JOHN MOURN, merchant, Chauncey,
was born in York Township, Athens County, Oct. 14, 1831, and is a son of
John Mourn, deceased, a native of Ireland, who came from Maryland to
this county about 1818, and settled in the woods at Thompson's Ford, on
Hocking River. He was the father of nine boys and one girl, of whom
our subject was the third child. He was reared on the old homestead
and received a common-school education. He started to California in
the spring of 1852, overland route, arriving there the following October,
and returned by the Nicaraugua steamship route in the fall of 1855, and
settled in Dover Township, where he has since resided. He ran a
saw-mill near Chauncey for three years, and was foreman of the Chauncey Salt
Works for about eighteen years. In 1878 he became established in the
mercantile business in Chauncey. He keeps a full line of everything
usually kept. in a first-class general store, and is doing a good business.
He has held the office of Clerk of Dover Township for the past eight years,
and for the past five years has held the office of Postmaster at Chauncey.
In the fall of 1855 he married Sarah Six, a daughter of
Leonard Six, deceased. They had six children, of whom three are
living - Addie, John W. and James B. One daughter,
Araminta, died at the age of sixteen years, and a son, Saudell S.
died at the age of sox years. Three of Mr. Mourn's brothers,
Patrick, Robert and Thomas, were soldiers in the late war, in the
Sixty-third Ohio Infantry. The two other were stricken down with the
measles while in the service and died soon after returning home.
Mr. and Mrs. Mourn are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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