St. Peter\’s Reformed Church, of Somerset township, was organized from Beam\’s church, Jenner township, by Rev. William H. Bates, in 1880. Its original members were:
Jonathan Rhoads and wife
Israel Hemminger and family
George Geisel and family
Levi Berkey and family
John Freidline and family
Jonathan Miller and family
Samuel Berkey and family
Joseph F. Rhoads and family
Noah Brendel and family
David B. Ash and family
John A. Moore and family
Rev. William H. Bates, the first pastor, was succeeded by Rev. Moses Diffenderfer.
A ehurch edifice was erected in 1888 at a cost of seventeen hundred dollars. The present members of the congregation number forty-five and the sabbath-school scholars ninety.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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