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This is something I had found under a website of church records. It doesn't actually
mention Carnahans - it does mention a Mrs. Black - but it may help shed some light on the
Zion subject :) I don't know how well it will paste in, but here goes:
Church Records
Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
Compiled and Edited by Rev. Norman Carlysle Young, M.Div.; M.Ed.
MUNDERF: ZION
INDIANA DISTRICT
METHODIST EPISCOPAL – ERIE CONFERENCE
1847
Mailing Address: RD 5, Box 139, Brookville, PA 15825
ID: 85630
Location: Located on Legislative Route 968 approximately fourteen miles northeast of
Brookville. Jefferson County, PA.
History: Methodist Episcopal - Erie Conference. The first class of Zion Church was
organized in May 1847 with seven members: Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Hetrick, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob McFadden and Mrs. Black. The small but devoted Christian band
held weekly prayer meetings in their homes until a log schoolhouse was built in 1850.
After considerable struggle, a building was put up and dedicated to God's service in
1863. It was erected on the farm of Shannon McFadden, then the property of his father
Jacob McFadden. The next building was built in 1900 by Thomas Craven. It was dedicated in
1901. The class had 70 members representing 25 families among those were: Mr. and Mrs.
Amos Reigle, John and Fulton Schaffner. There were 15 memorial stained glass windows, some
of which are still in use. Zion was the second church built on the Warsaw or Richardsville
Charge the first being Mayville (Hazen). In 1964-1965 the annex and bell tower were
removed and a larger annex or!
vestibule erected. In 1968 Munderf Zion Church was one of five churches on the Hazen
Charge: the others being Hazen, Allen's Mills, Richardsville and Lake City. The 1968
membership was 58. The Circuit name was later change to Good Shepherd Charge. The
membership On January 1, 2003 was 56.
Pastors: Warsaw/Munderf: Zion: Friend W. Smith 1854-1855; Warsaw Mission/ Munderf: Zion:
James R. Mendenhall 1855-1856; George W. Moore 1856-1858 Gabriel Dunmire 1858-1860; Joseph
W. Weldon 1860-1861; Samuel Coon 1861-1863; John H. Starrett 1863-1865; Abraham Bashline
1865-1867; E. C. McElhatten 1867-1868; Isaac N. Clover 1868-1870; Warsaw/Munderf:
Zion/Hazen: John M. Zeile 1870-1873; William M. Taylor 1873-1876;
Richardsville/Hazen/Munderf: Zion: James M. Groves 1876-1878; Richard Peet 1878-1879;
Mayville (Hazen)/Munderf: Zion: William Burnham Holt 1879-1880;
Richardsville/Hazen/Munderf: Zion: James Bell Neff 1880-1882; William Jacob Barton
1882-1884; Orley H. Sibley 1884-1887; William Burnham Holt 1887-1888; Richardsville/
Hazen/Munderf: Zion/Allen’s Mills: Newman’s Chapel: James C. Wharton 1888-1889;
Hazen/Richardsville/Munderf: Zion: James C. Wharton 1889-1891; Hazen/Allen’s Mills:
Newman’s Chapel /Munderf: Zion: Hardman F. Miller 1891-189!
4; Alonzo G. Mills 1894-1897; William Robert Buzza 1897-1899; Lewis W. Wick 1899-1901;
James K. Adams 1901-1904; John E. Drake 1904-1906; Frank Hurlbutt Frampton 1906-1909;
David R. Palmer 1910-1912; Orley H. Sibley 1912-1915; Ebenezer Wilson Springer 1915-1917;
David O. May 1917-1919; Omar L. Winger 1919-1925; Ralph C. Brooks 1925-1927; Hazen/Allens
Mills: Newman’s Chapel/ Arroyo/Munderf: Zion/Richardsville: Ralph C. Brooks 1927-1934;
Hazen/Arroyo/Allens Mills: Newmans Chapel/Lake City/Munderf: Zion: Arthur Allen Swanson
1934-1935; Hazen/Allen Mills/Lake City/Munderf: Zion: William B. Allison 1935-1938; Elroy
Mervin Sayers 1938-1939; Arnold W. Lundberg 1939-1940; Rollin E. Ferry 1940-1941; M.
Saxman 1941-1944; Bernard C. Himes 1944-1948; Edward Charles Hasenplug 1948-1950; Milton
I. Thomas 1951-1954; Hazen/Allen’s Mills/Munderf: Zion: Clair Arden Lundberg 1954-1961;
Jay Sterling Pifer 1961-1964; George Edward Himes 1964-1967; Ivan DeWayne Johnson
1967-Febru!
ary 1, 1971; LaVerne R. Howard February 1, 1972-1985; Hazen/Allen Mill
s/Lake City/Munderf: Zion/Richardsville: John Duane Gustafson 1985-1987; Howard Sherman
Hess 1987-1994; North Clarion: Good Shepherd Parish: Allen Mills: Newmans Chapel/Falls
Creek/Hazen/Lake City/Munderf: Zion/Richardsville: Ellen Louise Walch Blade Bullock
1994-2001; John Robert Bullock Associate 1994-2001; Good Shepherd Parish: Allen Mills:
Newmans Chapel/Lake City/Hazen/Munderf: Zion/Richardsville: Ellen Louise Walch Bullock
2001-2005; John Robert Bullock Associate 2001-2005; John Doyle Hollis 2005-2006; Joni K.
Brewer Williams Associate 2005--; Donald Ray Henderson 2006--;