TOWN OF WAYNE. 



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sisted of 9 male and 7 female members. About 150 per- 

 sons bad united witb tbe cburch up to 1 830. 



In 1830, 19th of January, at a meeting in the school- 

 house near Joseph Tompkins', the Wayne and Tyrone 

 society united under the name of the Presbyterian Society 

 of Wayne and Tyrone. Stephen Griffith and Gain McCoy 

 were ruling elders. Six trustees were chosen-, Enoch Web- 

 ster, President ; and Sylvester Wells, Clerk. 



In 1831 the association of the two societies was dissolved, 

 and the society of Wayne was again organized as the Pres- 

 byterian Society of Wayne, on the fifth day of November, 

 1831, with 9 trustees, viz., Matthew McDowell, David 

 Hall, E. S. Wells, Orlando Comstock, Stephen Griffith, 

 H. J. Brinkerhoff, J. Degraw, Enos Silsbee, and John 

 Earnest. David Hall was chosen President ; John Earn- 

 est, Treasurer; M. McDowell, Clerk. 



In 1837 a new building was erected on the present site 

 of the Episcopal church. J. Rowlett, pastor; D. B. Bal- 

 lard, carpenter and painter. Anson Truman while at work 

 on the steeple fell therefrom to the ground, from the effects 

 of which he died. 



The society held meetings there with more or less inter- 

 mission until 1869, when they transferred the house and 

 lot to the Episcopal society. Among the pastors were the 

 following : John Linsley (missionary), Joseph Merrill, Mr. 

 Bascom, Ebenezer Liizell, Joseph Crawford, David Higgins, 

 James Bowlett, M. J. Smith, B. J. Kussell. 



METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



Previous to the organization, the Methodist Episcopal 

 society of North Urbnna held meetings in the school-house 

 and in the Baptist church. The society was organized on 

 the twenty-eighth day of February, 1837, at a meeting of 

 which Joseph Pearsoll was chairman, and Daniel C. Bal- 

 lard w^as secretary. Five trustees were elected and classed 

 as follows, viz. : John S. Bailey and Moses Crookston, 1st 

 class; Daniel C. Ballard and Benjamin Woodruff, 2d class; 

 Simon I. Jacobus, 3d Class. At that time Abner Chase 

 was presiding elder. Afterwards the number of trustees 

 was increased to 6. 



About 1839 the present site was purchased of Ebenezer 

 Brundage, and the present building erected thereon, Daniel 

 C. Ballard carpenter and painter. Horace Tomlinson was 

 among the trustees and one of the building committee ; he 

 was also class-leader, which latter place he held up to the 

 time of his death in 1844. 



In 1870 the number of trustees was reduced to three. 

 In 1872 the church was repaired at a cost of $1200. John 

 FAjesi carpenter, and T. P. Purdy, of Bath, painter; Otis 

 W. Folsom, mason ; D. W. Gates was the preacher ; Wat- 

 son M. Tomlinson, A. N. Seamons, and Tompkins Covert 

 were trustees. Israel Wood also took great interest in the 

 repairs. A. F. Morey was presiding elder. 



The number of present members is about 30 ; present 

 trustees, Israel Wood, Richard H. Hall, and W. M. Tom- 

 linson; present class-leader, Watson M. Tomlinson; present 

 pastor, C. G. Curtis. 



The following list comprises nearly all the pastors : Asa 

 Orcutt, Joseph Pearsoll, H^nry Wisner, Asa Story, Mr. 

 Barckley, Mr. Bacon, J. D. Jewett, A. D. Edgar, Hiram 



Sanford, R. L. Stillwell, R. M. Beach, A. R. Jones, W. E. 

 Pinder, John J. Brown, A. Parsel, Stephen Brown, Reu- 

 ben Drake, S. B. Dickinson, Eli H. Brown, Charles Davis, 

 J. Bronson, C. Dillenbeck, S. Wetzel, D. W. Gates, E. B. 

 Pierce ; C. G. Curtis, present pastor. 



EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



About 1869 the Presbyterian Church property was trans- 

 ferred to the Episcopal society. The church was organized 

 on the 25th of March, 1872, as St. John's Church, Rev. 

 Wm. Atwell, Missionary, presiding at the meeting accord- 

 ing to the conditions of the bishop's order. J. B. Mitchell 

 and Jonathan Wood were elected church-wardens. George 

 P. Ford, John Grace, F. M. McDowell, Andrew Wood, 

 John Stanhope, Ira P. Ward, Jonas Wheeler were elected 

 vestrymen. 



The church was repaired, in 1870, at a cost of $1200, 

 and consecrated, on the 2d of September, 1875, by Bishop 

 A. Cleveland Coxe. Ten persons have since been baptized 

 by Rev. W. J. Pigot. • Four of these persons have been 

 confirmed by Bishop Coxe. 



Rev. Wm. Atwell was the first clergyman ; Rev. J. W. 

 Pigot, .the second ; Rev. Mr. Warner is the present rector. 



iAlILITAIlY RECORD OF WAYNE. 



Thomas Mitchell, privatp, 22d Cav., Co. G ; eiil. Dec. 11, 1863, three years ; was 



taken prisoner, and held as such about ten months at Andersonville and 



Florence, and died at Wilmington, N. C, March 5, 1865, from exposure 



and starvation. 



Clinton, Dewitt Earnest, 89th Inf., Co. A ; enl. Oct. 24, 1861, three years; 



wounded in thigh at Fredericksburg ; disch, about two months after. 

 Joseph Eveland, private, L41st Inf., Co. B; enl. Aug. 22, 1862, three years; pro. 



to sergt., Feb. 29, 1864 ; disch. June 23, 1865. 

 Israel S. Taylor, private, 89th Inf., Co. A : enl. Sept. 28, 1861, three years ; wounded 

 at Sharpsburg, in hip ; died at camp hosp., near Fredericksburg, Nov. 29, 

 1862, of chronic diarrhoea. 

 Egbert Jacobus, private ; three years ; disch. for disability. 

 Moses W. Cookston, private, 189th Inf., Co. H ; enl. Sept. 13, 1864, one year; 



discharged. 

 Hiram Brink Stone, sergt., 14th H. Art., Co. B ; enl. July 10, 1863, three years ; 

 pro. to Corp., June 10, 1864; to sergt., June 12, 1865 ; disch. Aug. 6, 1865. 

 John Lown, private, 14th H. Art., Co. B ; enl. Aug. 28, 186 5, three years; taken 

 pris. at Pegram Farm, Aug. 20, 1864; taken to Libby, thence to Belle 

 Isle and Salisbury ; disch. April 6, 1865. 

 Johnson Biink Margeson, 107th Inf., Co. H; enl. Aug. 1,1862; killed on the 



field at Dallas. 

 Stephen Edwards, private, 107th Inf., Co. H ; enl. July 28, 1862 ; wounded at 

 Antietam; disch. Jan. 13, 186 i; re-enl. in same rogt. and company, Feb. 

 24, 1864; died of chronic diarrhoea, Feb. 15, 1865. 

 Horace Wixson, corp., 141st Inf., Co. B; enl. Aug. 22, 1862, three years ; disch. 



for disability, Jan. 28, 1863. 

 Thomas Barrett, private, 141st Inf., Co. B ; enl. Aug. 26, 1862, three years ; disch . 



June 8, 1865. 

 Samuel Green, sergt., 107th Inf., Co. B; enl. Sept. 1, 1864, three years; disch. 



for disability, Jan. 1, 1863; rc-enl. Sept. 13, 1864; discharged. 

 Ira Margeson Wood, private, 14lst Inf., Co. B ; enl. Aug. 25, 1862, three years ; 



disch. June 29, 1865. 

 Henry Switzer Wood, orderly-sergt., 141st Inf., Co. B ; enl. Aug. 22, 1862, three 



years; died of typhoid fever, near Wairenton Junction, Aug. 16, 1863. 

 George W. Scott, private, 141st Inf., Co. B ; enl. Aug. 25, 1862, three years ; died 



at Shell Mound, Tenn., of chronic diarrhoea, April 2, 1864. 

 Franklin Gardner, private, 161st Inf., Co. B; enl. Aug. 11, 1862, three years; 



died in hospital on Long Island, of typhoid fever, Dec. 15, 1862. 

 Cyrus Alonzo Schuyler, private, 161st Inf., Co. B; enl. Aug. 11, 1862, three 



years; died of typhoid fever at Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 17, 1863. 

 Lewis J. Clark, private, 189th Inf., Co. H ; enl. Aug. 31, 1864, one year ; disch. 



May 30, 1865. 

 Elias Gasper Putnam, 1st sergt., 107th Inf., Co. H ; enl. July 25, 1862, three 



years ; disch. June 5, 1865. 

 Henry Wisner Smith, corp., 6th H. Art., Co. E; enl. Feb. 9, 1864, three years ; 



disch. Aug. 24, 1865. 

 George Washington Read, private, 107th Inf., Co. G; enl. Aug. 6, 1862, three 



years ; re-enlisted. 

 Jeremiah Rumsey, private, 107th Inf., Co. G ; enl. Aug. 7, 1862, three years. 

 John Kalahar, private, 107th Inf., Co. G; enl. Aug. 6, 1862, three years; killed 

 at Antietam. 



