<center>METHODIST EPISCOPAL</center>The Draketown Methodist Episcopal Church is a tasty and beautiful church, erected in 1880, at a cost of eleven hundred dollars. The first trustees were A. S. Hyatt, Eli Conn and Thomas Ream. The first class leader, A. S. Hyatt; the first pastor, Rev. W. P. Hutchinson, was succeeded by Rev. B. Tannehill, the present pastor. The membership is about thirty.
<center>CHURCH OF GOD</center>A church of this denomination, situated about three-fourths of a mile from Draketown, was erected in 1819, during the pastorate of Rev. Wm. H. Long. It cost about nine hundred dollars. The first deacons were Jehu Rush and Frederick Krieger. This church has a small membership.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
Confluence Churches
<center>LUTHERAN</center>The first church in Confluence was erected in 1870—1, by the Evangelical Lutheran denomination. The house is a frame building, and cost about thirty-five hundred dollars. For list of pastors, see sketch of Lutheran church at Ursina.
<center>METHODIST EPISCOPAL</center>The Confluence Methodist Episcopal church was erected in 1872, under the pastorate of Rev. Wesley Davis. It cost about four thousand dollars. For A list of pastors, see history of the Ursina Methodist Episcopal church. The first trustees were:
Jonathan Frantz
A. G. Black
Daniel Mickey
William Pullin
Sebastian Tissue
First class leader was Job M. Flanagan.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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