“METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

In the fall of 1840, Zara Norton, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, organized the first class in Bryan; first preaching-place at the hotel of Thomas Shorthill, …

There are about two hundred names enrolled in the Sabbath school, with the following-named officers and teachers, to wit: …Anna Ware, …”

Reference Data:

County of Williams, Ohio, by Weston Arthur Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard, 1882, page 329 and 331