JACKSON TOWNSHIP
1874
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Cemeteries
- Swope
- Rickel
- Albion - St. John's Reformed
- King
- Beacon Hill
- Polk
- A new book by the Ashland Co Chapter OGS will be released in June 2000
called "Church Records of Ashland County, Ohio, Volume 1". Here is a
listing of churches in the county, first by township, and second, by
denomination. The book includes a short history of each church and actual
records from selected churches.
JACKSON TOWNSHIP:
1. Methodist Church at Perrysburg was built in 1839
2. Methodist Church at Polk was built in 1839
3. Union Society, composed of the German Reformed congregation and the
Lutheran congregation in Orange and Jackson townships, organized in the
winter of 1829-30
4. Seceder Church was located a half mile west of Lafayette on south line
of township
5. Snowbarger's Meeting House - German Baptists - Mr. Snowbarger purchased
the building used by the Seceders and donated this to the German Baptists
on 29 Sep 1856
6. United Brethren - called Otterheim Chapel - In 1861, a building was
constructed near the southwest corner of the township and was called
"Otterheim Chapel"
7. German Reformed Church was organized 30 Mar 1851 under the leadership of
Rev. Joseph M. Dixon
8. Presbyterian Church of Polk - the Presbyterians in the village of Polk
were formerly connected with the Orange Church and organized themselves in
1875, building a nice frame building
9. Mount Pleasant Church - Evangelical Association, or Albright's Church
(also called Jackson Class)
began meeting in 1860 in the home of John and Lydia Swaisgood
10. St. John's German Reformed Church, later the United Church of Christ,
Albion - several families from Jackson Township left the Union Church and
built St. John's Reformed Church in 1840 a half mile west of Perrysburg
(Albion)
11. Lehman's Church - Evangelical Association - this group met 1 ½ miles
south of Polk at the home of Daniel and Mary Lehman as early as 1849.
Eventually, a church building was constructed two miles south of Polk
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