Anna Marie,
Try calling this number: 812-723-2965
Call in the afternoon.
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From: "Anne-Marie" <panacea(a)toledotel.com>
To: <INORANGE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:24 PM
Subject: [INORANGE] M.E. Church contact assistance
Anyone there in Orange County able to provide me with a contact for
finding early church records? The past two years I have written the church
x2 and called several times to no avail (no answers). I would like to try
by phone again but maybe there is another number someone can provide me.
The church is the Paoli United Methodist Church, address 794 E. State Road
56. I only have the parsonage number (812) 723-2763. I usually get voice
mail of the minister and since I am long distance, I do not leave my phone
number. Although, I did one time saying they could call collect, but still
no return call. Is someone local able to call the number for me until they
can get a live voice or leave a local number for the parsonage to call back
and get me another number to call--or snail and/or email contact. I am
trying to find out if they have early records. The Paoli church is
consolidated from others. I am hoping there are records from 1838-1870
somewhere. The regional archi!
ves for IN has membership records dating 1876 on but nothing else on
this
church, so where are the earlier records--if any at all? During the period
my ancestors in question were established with the church, the minister was
David Osborn and the church was simply M.E. Church in Paoli. The info at
the Genweb Orange County site has provided me with great info so I know the
church was consolidated in the 1880s. Anne-Marie