The following is a list of ministers who served the Farmwell church during the early years. Most of them served two or three churches concurrently. Some had service every two weeks and some were held at night. | 1878 - 1889 | | 1889 - 1893 | | 1893 - 1896 | | 1898 - 1903 | | 1903 - 1907 | | 1909 - 1912 | | 1912 - 1918 | Potomac Presbytery in Baltimore approved these names according to its record as in 1912 the session records of the Farmwell church were left on a streetcar en route to Presbytery and were lost. The next information involving the Farmwell church appeared in the statistical report of Presbytery dated March 12, 1912. According to that report Farmwell had eighty members. The Women’s Society as it was called at that time had seventeen members and the Sunday School reported ninety-three members with seven teachers. On March 30, 1914 the statistical report stated there were three elders and two deacons. There were sixty members and Sunday school attendance was eighty with ten teachers. By 1915 the church membership had declined even more with thirty-eight members, two elders and two deacons. Sunday school enrollment was at sixty-nine. On September 29, 1918 when the Reverend W.J. King was pastor, the church membership was thirty-nine and Sunday school attendance was eighty. They had worship service every two weeks but Sunday school every week. There was no electricity in the church until May 9, 1925. The wiring was a memorial gift given by Mrs. Eva LeFevre in memory of her aunt, Miss Fanny Hitaffer. The cost of the wiring was twenty dollars.
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