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The History of Cornerstone United Methodist Church
TimeLine
1720 John Wesley Start university life at Christ Church College, Oxford England.
1725 19 September – John Wesley was Ordained Deacon in Oxford Cathedral by the then Bishop of Oxford, Dr. John Potter, and later that day preached in the village church of South Leigh, near Witney.
1729 “Holy Club” was formed where members were call Methodist because the being so methodical in there studies. The name stuck.
1735 14 October - John and Charles Wesley depart for America (Georgia) During the trip they encountered the Moravians.
1736 6 February – (3 Months, 24 days later) arrived in Georga.
1736 Charles Wesley left America to return to England
1737 22 December – John Wesley left America to return to England
1738 1 February – Arrived at Deal, England (1 Month 9 Days later). In May began preaching “The Love of God for all” in London churches. Was told “Sir, you must preach here no more”
1739 2 April - John Wesley preaches his first open air sermon just outside Bristol, England.
1740 John Wesley and his followers move to “The Foundry” after split-up of the group at Fetter Lane. Home of the movement for the next 38 years.
1741 John Wesley began his traveling ministry which he would do for the rest of his life.
1746 At the 3rd Methodist Conference, John Wesley began organizing a rapidly growing flock. The country was divided up into circuits and each circuit was put under the charge a one preacher known as the assistant superintendent.
1747 Expanded his preaching to Ireland.
1751 Expanded his preaching to Scotland
1775-1783 – Revolutionary War
1784 September - After America declared independence John Wesley agreed to ordain ministers in America. Dr Thomas Coke was ordained as the “Superintendent of the Societies in America”.
1785 He visited 150 different places to preach. (75 years old)
1788 Charles Wesley dies – Wrote over 6000 hymns.
1791 22 February – John Wesley preached his last of42,000 sermons over 54 years.
1791 2 March John Wesley died.
1789, April 30 - 1797, March 4 George Washington, President
1797, March 4 - 1801, March 4 John Adams, President
1798 Jacob(1752–1820) and Katherine Zumalt settle at Fort Zumwalt. Jacob is a Revolutionary War veteran. Methodist circuit riders came to private homes in St. Charles County to conduct services. Rev. John Clark conducted the first service in the log cabin of Jacob Zumwalt, now the site of Fort Zumwalt Park.
1799 July KATHERINE ZUMWALT DIES.
1801, March 4 - 1809, March 4 Thomas Jefferson, President
1804 President Jefferson purchases the Louisiana Territory
1806 First St. Charles Militia was created with 6 companies
1807 Rev. Jessie Walker held services within the walls of Fort Zumwalt and administered the first Methodist communion in Missouri to early Methodist pioneers. (Considered the
1808 The First Methodist Church was built near Peruque Creek (near railroad Trestle). It was a round one-room log building. This was not permanent because when the creek flooded, the church members could not cross it to get to church.
1809, March 4 - 1817, March 4 James Madison, President
1809 A log church with a strong stone foundation was built near the Zumwalt log cabin. The first stationary minister, Rev. Gray, was engaged for a salary of sixty-four dollars a year. Rev. John Travis organized The Mount Zion Methodist Society.
1810 – Rev Gray – first permanent appointment minister - $64/year
1812 - June to 1815 February -War of 1812
1817, March 4 - 1825, March 4 James Monroe, President
1817 - Major Nathan Heald purchased Zumwalt’s Fort. Jacob Zumwalt moved to Pike county, MO. The Healds were survivors of the 1812 Massacre of Fort Dearboarn. Their only son was born at Zumwalts Fort in 1822. He lived most of his life in the old log cabin which was raided by Union officers during the Civil War. Darius Heald gave land to builed a new Methodist church, Helped starta a school for young woment and serverd in the Missouri legislature in 1856. In 1886 he moved his family into the new hansom brick home he had build on the hilltop overlooking the log house.
1825, March 4 - 1829, March 4 John Quincy Adams, President
1857 Town was laid out and named for Mr. O'Fallon a well-known capitalist of St. Louis.
1829, March 4 - 1837, March 4 Andrew Jackson, President
1835-1836 - Texas Revolution (fall of the Alamo)
1837, March 4 - 1841, March 4 Martin Van Buren, President
1841, March 4 - 1841, April 4 William Henry Harrison, President
1841, April 4 - 1845, March 4 John Tyler, President
1845, March 4 - 1849, March 4 James K. Polk, President
1846-1848 Mexican-American War
1849, March 4 - 1850, July 9 Zachary Taylor[f], President
1850, July 9 - 1853, March 4 Millard Fillmore, President
1853, March 4 - 1857, March 4 Franklin Pierce, President
1853 The Mount Zion Methodist Society built a new church on five acres of the Jacob Zumwalt land grant. The Mount Zion Church was just 1.5 miles south of O’Fallon, east of Highway K. The men and women sat on opposite sides of the church. A “mourner’s bench” was used by a member whose weight of sin moved him to public confession. The “amen corner” across the aisle was for church elders and visiting pastors who had the privilege of accenting the sermons with loud “amens”.
1857, March 4 - 1861, March 4 James Buchanan, President
1857 O’Fallon station founded on North MO railroad (John O’Fallon)
1861, March 4 - 1865, April 15 Abraham Lincoln, President
1861-1865 - American Civil War
1863 Many people blamed the church for the war. When Rev. Joe Pritchett rode to his circuit churches, he carried a gun which he laid across the pulpit when he preached. A female seminary called Fairview was founded. Young ladies from St. Charles and St. Louis attended.
1865, April 15 - 1869, March 4 Andrew Johnson, President
1869, March 4 - 1877, March 4 Ulysses S. Grant, President
1874 – Rufus Gamble (gave an organ) cause of controversy.
1877, March 4 - 1881, March 4 Rutherford B. Hayes, President
1878 Woodlawn Female Seminary founded by Professor Pitman. It had three teachers; it continued until 1900.
1880 The first organized Sunday school was attended by 86 children. It was opened by Professor Pitman at the Masonic Hall on Elm Street.
1881, March 4 - 1881, September 19 James A. Garfield, President
1881, September 19 - 1885, March 4 Chester A. Arthur, President
1882 The church was hit by a tornado and because of the damage and the size of the growing congregation, a new church was needed. Dr. W.C. Willialms, Jacob Keithly, Capt Woods (Building committee for church in O’Fallon) The new Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church was to be built at the corner of Church and Wood Streets.
1883 – August 4th 1883 church debt-free – dedicated by Rev J.H. Prichett. As a boy he was a member of Mt. Zion Church. First ordained Minister of Methodist Episcopal Church of O’Fallon. First Methodist Church in O’Fallon - Organization of Womens Aid Society – Mrs. Pulliam (rep)
1885, March 4 - 1889, March 4 Grover Cleveland, President
1885 The church bell was cast and installed in the church steeple.
1889, March 4 - 1893, March 4 Benjamin Harrison, President
1893, March 4 - 1897, March 4 Grover Cleveland, President
1897, March 4 - 1901, September 14 William McKinley, President
1898 Spanish-American War
1899–1902 Philippine–American War
1901, September 14 - 1909, March 4 Theodore Roosevelt, President
1909, March 4 - 1913, March 4 William Howard Taft, President
1913, March 4 - 1921, March 4 Woodrow Wilson, President
1917–1918 - World War 1
1921, March 4 - 1923, August 2 Warren G. Harding, President
1923, August 2 - 1929, March 4 Calvin Coolidge, President
1929, March 4 - 1933, March 4 Herbert Hoover, President
1933, March 4 - 1945, April 12 Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
1939–1945 - World War II
1945, April 12 - 1953, January 20 Harry S. Truman, President
1950–1953 - Korean War
1953, January 20 - 1961, January 20 Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
1953 The Mount Zion congregation purchased the Public School building at Pitman and School Streets for $12,500. Services were held there until a new sanctuary was constructed.
1958 The new sanctuary was completed and The Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church became the Williams Memorial Methodist Church in honor of a substantial gift by Miss Marcia Williams and family.
1961, January 20 - 1963, November 22 John F. Kennedy, President
1963, November 22 - 1969, January 20 Lyndon B. Johnson, President
1966 Williams Memorial Methodist Church was formally consecrated following the final payment of indebtedness.
1968 The congregation erected a new education building to provide more classrooms, a fellowship hall, and a kitchen.
1969, January 20 - 1974, August 9 Richard Nixon, President
1974, August 9 - 1977, January 20 Gerald Ford, President
1977, January 20 - 1900, January 0 Jimmy Carter, President
1977 Adjoining property to the North was purchased to provide for an office and storage space.
1979 A mortgage burning was held by minister John van der Graaf.
1980 The sanctuary was completely remodeled and a vestibule was added to connect the sanctuary with the education building.
1981, January 20 - 1989, January 20 Ronald Reagan, President
1989, January 20 - 1993, January 20 George H. W. Bush, President
1993, January 20 - 2001, January 20 Bill Clinton, President
1999 A study committee proposed relocating as the Pitman site did not have enough land to accommodate the desired expansion.
2000 Accepting the Building Committee’s proposed location, the church purchased ten acres of land on Tom Ginnever. Plans for a new facility began. The Fort Zumwalt School District, who had sold us the Pitman property, reacquired it in June 2000 for a price of $1,050,000. In May 2000, groundbreaking was held. While the new facility was under construction, the church met across the street in the Fort Zumwalt North High School Auditorium.
2001, January 20 - 2009, January 20 George W. Bush, President
2001 Phase I of the new facility, renamed Cornerstone United Methodist Church, was completed at a cost of $2,800,000. The first worship service was held on April 21st and Bishop Anne Shearer consecrated the facility on September 9th.
2003 Cornerstone United Methodist Church is poised and ready to enter its third century of service to God and to the community.
2009, January 20 - 2017, January 20 Barack Obama, President
2015 The reconstructed Zumwalt’s Fort opened as a gift to the City from the O’Fallon Community Foundation. It is the only rebuilt War of
2017, January 20 - Incumbent Donald Trump, President
Notes
1857 O’Fallon station founded on North MO railroad (John o’Fallon) Laymen active prior to 1900 Mr. Jacob Zumwalt Mrs. Jacob Zumwalt (helped make communion elements) Mrs. Col. David Bailey (helped make communion elements) Major Nathan Heald (1817 bought Zumwalt place – in family 100 years) Mrs. Marth Heald Johnson 1867 – Leading members (stewards) Levi Smith, Samuel Keithly, R.H. Pitman, David K. Pitman, James Sanford, F.M A(u)drain, Caleb Dunlap Other family names – Smith Ferrell Dorsey, Heald, Williams McCluer, John Henry 1874 – Rufus Gamble (gave an organ) cause of controversy. Will Pitman, George Johnson, Ca??? Heald, Carrie Pitman John Boyd
1885 – Caleb Dunlap (superintendent of Sunday School 1890 – John Keithly, Marvin Keithly, Mr. & Mrs John Williams family, “Aunt” P???k Campbel, Mrs Larey(SP?) 1892 – Pitman & Family moved to California 1908 – 25th Anniversary of building in O’Fallon – Mr. Bramblet, Mrs. Dunlap (outstanding Sunday School superintendent – Dr Palmore of St Louis Ch. Adv. – speaker 1910 – Mrs Rosetta Keithly Brnablet c.1852
Raleigh Jessep – Founder of O’Fallon Historical Society
Religion has played an important role in the O'Fallon community since its origins. While Jacob Zumwalt's log house-the first of its kind built north of the Missouri River-provided protection to neighboring settlers during Indian raids, it also housed the first services of what today is Willlams Memorial Methodist Church. Methodism came to Amer ica from England in 1784. Fourteen years later. itcame to St. Charles County via "hard riding, shouting, long-praying" circuit preachers. The first of these circuit riders conducted the first service in the home of Jacob Zumwalt. The origi-n of today's Williams Memorial United Methodist Church ccngregation began in 1807 at the Zumwalt home when the first Methodist communion in Missouri was administered to the O'Fallon pioneers. The wine for the communion service was made by Mrs. Jacob Zumwalt and Mrs. Col. David Bailey from the juice of wild polk berries sweet ened with mapJe sugar. The crusts of cornbread were used for communion bread. After worshiping for one year in a one-room round log building, the Methodists in 1809 built a one-room log church near the Zumwalt house. It was called the Zumwalt Church and was of ten the setting for picnic-style Sunday dinners after worship services. The Mount Zion Meth- SO<'. . nri:1 t officially at the Zumwalt Church several years later. As the early 1800s passed, .thisdevout group of Christians increased in size.The Zumwalt Church was sold and in 1853 the congregation located their new church on five acres of land which had been a part of the original Jacob Zumwalt land grant. The new church was called Mt. Zion Church and was located 1 1/2 miles south of what is now O'Fallon, to the east of Highway K. Early O'Fallon families who wor shiped there included the Pitmans, Dorseys, Sanfords, Ferrells, Smiths, McCluers, Johnsons, Yates Keithlys, and Healds. The church continued to prosper during the later half of the nineteenth century, and its history was quite colorful. The upheaval of the Civil War brought anxiety to the congre gation. At that time, some accused "The Church" of caus ingthewar.The presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church's St. Charles District was arrested and banished from the state. The circuit preacher wh9 served the O'Fallon congregation at that time rode to the church with a gun, which he laid across the pulpit while he preached. Until the late 1860's, the church had no organ. Older members of the congregation considered the organ an in strument of the devil. After the war, a Rufus Gamble gave an organ to the church. It was left vn 1 f congregation to nguie out a way to get it installed in the church without causing a battle among members. A trip at midnight Saturday by some of the younger members accomplished the task. Church member Carrie Pitman posi tioned herself in front of the . organ the next mom!ng in time for worship services. However, much persuasion was needed to convince some older mem bers to attend church again. After the church was hit by a tornado in 1882, the congre gationdecided to relocate closer to the city. Asite at Church and Wood Streets was selected, where the church remained for 70 years. As the congregation grew, additional space was needed. The church purchased and relocated to the Public School Buildirig at Pitman and School Streets in 1953. In 1958, the brother-in-law of long-time church member Marcia Williams visited andwas appalled that services were being held in a school. He donated money for the con struction of a new church with the request that the church be named for the Williams family. Thefamily donated land at West Pitman and School Streets to the church after MissWilliams' death in 1960. Mt. Zion Meth odist Church became Williams Methodist Church. Since then, the church facilities have been expanded and renovated to accommodate
Tornado 9:26 PM hit Christian church – demolished. Church was 76 years old.
Williams Memorial United Methodist Church dedication had the following clergymen in attendance. – Rev. Gregory K. Poole, Superintendent of St. Louis North District; Resident Bishop of the Missouri Area Eugene M Frank; Rev. Ronald A Boone, Pastor; Rev Robert Hemmerla, Wentzville; Rev. M.G. Joyce, St. Louis; Rev Otto Dvorak, St. Charles; Rev. Robert Core, St. Louis Rev. HH Luetzow St. Louis, Rev. Paul Schlapbach, St. Louis; and Rev. Charles De La Haye. Methodist Church Dedication on May 30, 1954 – Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, Officiating Minister, Rev. L.M Starkey, District Superintendent, Robert L.. Mann Pastor.
Fort Zumwalt "dates back to the pioneer era in the early 19th century, shortly after the Louisiana Purchase, and was the fortification of the Zumwalt Family. In 1798 Jacob Zumwalt (1752–1820), a Revolutionary War veteran, settled on the spot. With the outbreak of the War of 1812 and increasing Indian problems, the Zumwalt's home was enlarged, portholes were added and the compound was enclosed within a stockade fence. It became the fortified gathering place for area settlers during times of Indian uprisings. It is said that the Zumwalt home was the first hewn-log house built on the west side of the Mississippi River. The first Methodist Sacrament in Missouri was said to have been celebrated in the Zumwalt home in 1807
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