The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-08-08

tnat denomination TO take fOrci-
BILE possession of the church.
Itseems that either by standing
/ arrangement or by previous ap-
pointment the Reformed people
were entitled to the use of the
church on that particular Sab
bath. Hence the attempt of
the United Brethren was resisted
and a row ensued. This resulted
in suit being instituted by the
Reformed people against the of
Tending party of the United
Brethren church, four in num-
ber, in which they were charged
with riot, forcible entry and as
sault and battery.
On Oct. "a, 1854, the grand
jury ignored the first count in the
indictment rio0 and found true
bill on the second and third
counts (forcible entry and as
sault and battery. On the same
day the petit jury found the four
defendants guilty of forcible
entry, and one of them of assault
and battery also. And on the
following day they were SEN
fenced to pay the costs and each
defendant fine of one dollar.
In this suit the question of title
to the property was not at all in
volved, but it was simply ques-
ton as to who was entitled to the
use of the church that day.
OWNERSHIP OF THE PROPERTY.
The old Stone or White church
has not been occupied as place
of worship since 1896, when the
Reformed people erected their
beautiful and convenient house of
worship and ceased to occupy the
old church.
At the time of the erection of
the church no title to the land on
which it stands was given by Mr..
Darrah, to whom the farm from
which the lot was taken belonged
On the 10Th of January 1889,
Mr.. George w. Darrah, then liv-
ing in Michigan, made his will,
appointing his son, Lewis Darrah,
and John Duffield executors. On
April %, 1845, Lewis Darrah, who
describes himself as the surviv-
ing executor of Geo. w. Darrah,
taking into account that the
Society" in whose interest the
house of worship had been erect
ed on his fathers land had ceased
to exist, and that the formation
of this Society" through the eff
forts aud influence of Mr.. Jewett
had grown out of the Presbyter-
ian church and had received its
financial aid and impulse mainly
from those who had previously
belonged to the Presbyterian
church and who afterwards re-
sumed their places in it, (such
people as the Agnews, the Hokes,
the Austins, the Bohns, the Nc
Clellands, &C., made the deed of
the property to the Presbyterian
congregation, then under the pas
toral care of the Rev. N. G. White
''for the only proper use and be-
hoof of the same, their success
ors and descendants forever. "
This deed was recorded in Bed
ford in 1916, Fulton county at that
time being part of Bedford
county.
This deed is held by the Pres
byterian congregation through
their board of trustees. The Re-
formed congregation have occu-
pied the building for about half
century.
There is no evidence that any
contribution toward the erection
of the Stone church came from
persons of the Reformed church.
1t is said by one who claims to
know that the name Of none are
to be found in the list of sub
scribers to that object. This was
to have been expected of people
of so commercially conservative
and churchly spirit.
They have kept up the repairs
while occupying it, having had
free use of it beyond this. Five
years ago they vacated it TO oc-
cupy their new church edifice.