Rice Township Tool Shed. Formerly Zoar German Methodist Church built in 1873. At CR 170 (Church Rd) at CR 119

This may have been the earliest, first church one set of my immigrating grandparent's may have attended. The Ohio Wesleyan University which has archived records of Methodist churches, has this one listed as Zoar Methodist Episcopal. The church was supposedly 'yoked' into St Paul's German Methodist, located in Elmore Ohio, at some later date in the 1930's.

This land was purchased in 1873, according to land deeds at the Sandusky County Courthouse, with this church being built the same year. Trustees for land purchase were; Chas Ziegraff, Nicholus Younker, Andrew Kline, Jacob Goneweine, and Gottlieb Meffort. Land was sold-not the building-(deed) in 1935. The building today is minus a bell tower/steeple-certainly it must have had one to call members to worship. Also, if one looks closely at the side of building, one can make out the 'faint' outline of the 3 large windows, much like what one would see if on a church.

Looking SW
Section 3 Rice Township