DISCONTINUED FRIENDS MEETINGS IN GRANT COUNTY
Deer Creek Monthly Meeting
Location: 4 miles south of Marion, Mill twp., Grant Co., Ind.
Date Organized a Meeting: A preparative meeting was set up under the care of
Mississinewa Monthly Meeting in 1835.
The Meeting was laid down in 1848 due to antislavery friends, but a preparative
meeting was again set up in 1858.
In 1869 a monthly meeting was established. The meeting was laid down in 1928.
Mississinewa Friends Meeting
Location: The old meetinghouse was located on land that is now within the city of
Marion. Next to it was the cemetery
which is now a part of the I.O.O.F. Cemetery on Lincoln Blvd. In 1837 a new meeting
house was built on-half mile south of the
first one at Thirtieth and Lincoln Blvd.
Date Organized As A Meeting: A preparative meeting was opened April 17, 1831.
As A Monthly Meeting: November 14, 1832.
Organized by Authority of: Whitewater Monthly Meeting.
Origin of Name: The meetinghouse was located near the Mississinewa River.
Family Names of Charter or early Members: Overman, Ballenger, Elliott, Benbow,
Small, Lamb, Thomas and Baldwin.
First Clerk of Men's Meeting: Charles Baldwin
First Clerk of Women's Meeting: Charity Benbow
Other information: In 1870 Marion Preparative Meeting was established by
Mississinewa Monthly Meeting. During the next
several years, Mississinewa decreased until the Mississinewa meeting was discontinued
and merged with the Marion meeting
in 1887.
Walnut Creek Friends Meeting
Location: 3 miles northeast of Upland in Grant County, Indiana
Date Organized as a Meeting: In 1886 a preparative meeting was established under
the jurisdiction of Fairmount Monthly
Meeting. The Meeting was laid down about 1931.
A list of discontinued meetings that Willard Heiss collected. Little information is
available on these and in many instances their location is uncertain as several were laid
down at an early date.
East Branch in Grant Co. it was laid down in 1911
Farrington in Grant Co. it was laid down in 1898
Glenwood, not certain if it was in Grant Co. or when it was laid down.
Pleasant Plain, not certain if it was in Grant Co. it was laid down about 1880
Sugar Grove, not certain if it was in Grant Co. it was laid down about 1880
West Branch, not certain if it was in grant Co. it was laid down in 1924
From our Special Heritage, Sesquicentennial History of Indiana Yearly Meeting of
Friends.
JCT