Presented by Catherine Noonan

Samuel W. & Elizabeth (Jones) Cox along with Elizabeth's father Dennis Jones, the Daniel Pennells, the David Potters and a few others in 1837 organized "A Society of Methodists" in the village, then called Forest Village. Services were held in the houses, barns and fields of the community. Some of the early services were conducted by a pioneer circuit preacher. In 1841 the society had grown enough to build its first real church building and in 1851 they appointed its first permanent pastor. Sam Cox Sr. was a blacksmith as well as his son, Sam Jr., who married Mary Jane Rice, sister of Rebecca Rice.