Platteville
congregation? #482333
created 2017-04-19 by daniel m. kelty
official name: Platteville?
assertion #3732149 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 0%.
is a(n): branch?
assertion #3732152 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-04-19: confidence 50%.
started: 1841
toured the site
assertion #3732148 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 100%.
ended: 1860
toured the site
assertion #3746148 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 100%.
description: In 1841 elder William O. Clark held services in the Methodist church thanks to the hosting by James Vineyard. A group of members under the leadership of Joshua Fairchild left Nauvoo and moved to Grant County Wisconsin after the death of Joseph Smith. Here they lived in the settlement. In later years the church was used as a “pest house” during epidemics. Some Strangites moved to Plattville after 1856. Ebenezer Page and several others went to live on land now belonging to part of the State Teachers Agricultrural College. There were several log houses and a church building. The latter was twenty by thirty feet in ground dimensions, and was built of rock. It was situated on a side hill just east of the Bell fence and some thirty yards from the stream known as the old Perry branch. This church was constructed of flat stones, none of them very safe, which was laid as the old fences were laid. The entrance was on the south, facing the settlement, most of the houses of which were south of Perry Branch. In all, there were about twenty houses in the settlement. There is no record of a store every having been maintained at this place. The indentations of some of the buildings may still be seen. The strangites remained here until 1865. ?
assertion #3732150 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-04-11: confidence 0%.
religion: RLDS
assertion #3732151 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 100%.
religion: Strang
assertion #4001776 by mpra on 2017-04-20: confidence 100%.
location: 42°44'10"N, 90°30'7"W
assertion #3720351 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 0%.
located at: Grant County, Wisconsin, United States
assertion #3714333 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 100%.
see also: Brookover 1957 (source part: p.123)
entity #700017, assertion #4001773 by mpra on 2017-04-19: confidence 100%.
see also: History of Old Crawford County, short biography of William O. Clark
assertion #3711333 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 100%.
notes: Not sure if there was ever an organized branch here
assertion #4001775 by mpra on 2017-04-19: confidence 100%.
