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In South Fork township, near the fork of Salt
river, on the road from Florida to Mexico, was constituted an
organization by Dr. Samuel C. McConnell, October 22, 1853. The
names appearing on the records as original members are John Kerr,
Hester Kerr, Elizabeth Anderson, Isabel M. Hanna, Robert B. Kerr,
Susan I. Botts, William H. Kerr, Sarelda M. Kerr, J. C. Heizer,
Mary Heizer, James Smiley, Elizabeth A. Smiley, S. I. Bates,
Daniel H. Kerr, Nancy V. Heizer, Joseph Heizer, Nancy Heizer, Mary
I. Kerr, John W. Heizer, James Hanna, John Hanna, Esther I. Hanna,
William Hanna, Amelia Hanna, R. M. Hanna, Joseph Hanna, David
Hanna, Eliza Hanna, Susan C. Hanna, James E. Crawford, Mitchel
Meteer, Mary B. Meteer and Ellen Finks. The membership now numbers
130. From 1853 to 1858 Rev. George Van Erman filled this pulpit,
and he was succeeded by J. M. Travis, from May, 1859, to the
present. Their frame church edifice was built in 1857. A
Sabbath-school of 50 pupils has for its superintendent George W.
Crawford. A large proportion of the members of this church who
organized Florida and Bethel churches, were taken from South Fork.
Over 400 persons have been enrolled as communicants of the church.
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