From the History of Muskingum County, Ohio with illustrations andbiographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers, 1882, p349, Harrison Township.
TAYLORSVILLE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
In the year 1830, Rev. Mr. Goff organized a class, at JamesHammet's, on Duncan's run, which was subsequently changed to Taylorsville. The members of the first class were: James Hammet and wife, Peter Sheppard and wife, James Seright and wife, Daniel Dutro and wife, James Neff and wife, Silas White and wife, Robert Sheppard and wife, Robert Prescott, St., and wife, Sanford Burdett and wife, Lucy Baker, Jacob Baker, and Rhoda Hammet. The class leader was James Hammet.
For several years the meetings were held in such buildings ascould be procured, until 1840, when a meeting-house was erected on lots six and seven, block thirty-six. This was a frame building, forty by fifty, and was dedicated by Rev. Joseph Trimble. The present number of members is one hundred and twenty. Leaders --- David W. Seright and Aquilla Neff, Steward --- E. Jasper Souders.
(Taylorsville, the only village in the bounds of Harrisontownship, at that time, was laid out by James Taylor in 1833.)
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