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Jeddo churches
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- Jeddo Methodist Episcopal Church
- Primitive Methodist Church of Jeddo
Jeddo Methodist Episcopal Church
From W. W. Munsell’s History of Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyoming Counties, Pa., …, 1880:
The Heberton circuit of the Methodist Episcopal church was organized May 15th, 1875, and embraced the following appointments: Upper Lehigh, South Heberton, Highland and Jeddo borough in the township of Foster, and Latimer, Milnesville, Ebervale and Humbolt in the township of Hazle. Eckley was added, and Humbolt was dropped the same year. In 1876 Harleigh, in Hazle township, and Sandy Run, in Foster, were added to the circuit. All of the above were school-house appointments except South Heberton and Milnesville.
[In the section on Jeddo] - The Methodist Episcopal Church at Jeddo was formerly a large school-house, and was purchased by the society, remodeled and fitted up for a church. The trustees are Jacob Mack, Robert Cowen, William Thomas, Edward Johnsen, and Thomas Miller.
This
article by Curtis Stewart in the “Remembering When” series
recalled the Jeddo Methodist Church. The photo was provided to him by
Mrs. William Lowrie, Sr. 
Freeland
Tribune, March 2, 1893: The weekly directory of local
church
services included the Jeddo Methodist Episcopal Church, in charge of
Rev. E. M. Chilcoat.July 10, 1919 local newspaper item: "Jeddo will soon be without a church. The only edifice in the town, that of the M. E. denomination, is being torn down." (photocopied by Charlie Stumpf, date typed at top, source newspaper not named)
Standard-Speaker, February 12, 1996: From the Our Towns series, “Jeddo Borough has a Far East connection” – Part one of two, by Richard W. Funk:
“... The village, which was part of Foster Township, was incorporated as a borough on Oct. 23, 1871. The first general election was held on Nov. 18 in the Public House of Henry Reichard, better known as the ‘Old Jeddo Hotel.’ As the town grew, a Methodist church was built halfway between the crossroads and Drifton. The congregation was made up of people from not only Jeddo, but Harleigh, Japan and Oakdale. This building was heated by the reliable pot-bellied stove and light was supplied by an oil chandelier. One of the high points each year was the Methodist picnic which was held at Hazle Park. Almost every resident of Jeddo, regardless of their religion, looked forward to the picnic. The manager of the company store, J. K. Ellis, supplied the store wagon to take picnic baskets to the trolley station where they were put on a special car. …”
Primitive Methodist Church of Jeddo
A notice appeared in the Luzerne Legal Register, volume XI, 1882 (Wilkes-Barre: Printed by E. B. Yordy, 1882, page 36):
“Notice is hereby given that an application will be made on Saturday, March 4, 1882, at 10 o’clock A.M., to a Law Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county, for the incorporation of a church, to be known as “The Primitive Methodist Church of Jeddo,” with the object of worshipping God according to the faith and usages of the Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America, which said church is intended to be located at Jeddo, Luzerne county.
Geo. H Troutman, Solicitor”
This church, originally organized in Jeddo, was physically moved to Fern street in Freeland a decade or so after that legal notice, in late 1892 or 1893.
Thanks to Charlie Stumpf and Ed Merrick, and to C. Stewart and Mrs. William Lowrie, Sr. for Remembering When article and photo.