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Author: LouAnn_Clugh
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Located at Oxford Church on the Tippecanoe County Line Road East and south of CR 100 S.
This sits in Perry township, Tippecanoe County, IN. Congerations come and go.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=6661457&CRi...
I have a photo posted to the Find_A_Grave site.
Not all burials are listed yet.
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I have a sheet that list some history, here is most of it:
In 1830 this church building was made of logs and had a dirt floor. Slabs were laid on
chunks of wood to form the seats. Mary Elizabeth Darland, who later married William Gray
Parker, joined church there when she was a child. It was originally Presbyterian. Some
of the early founders were the families of Wallace, Sharpe, Snoddy, Clapper, Warwick,
Parke, Darland and Perrin. The next church building was frame,very plain. It had a high
peaked roof which came down to very low side walls. The present brick church went in with
the Presbyterians. Differences of opinions led some of the members to leave and to to
Dayton. Later some of the members went to churches in Mulberry. The descendants of the
original founders are scattered and few of them every came back to the cemetery where most
of the original members are buried.
Written by Forest Waldren Bowen, grandaughter of W. Gray Parke.
~The cornerstone in the building now sates.
[Build A.D. 1871]
L.A.
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