Claughton Chapel United Methodist Church
1552 Big Shannon Run Road, Waynesburg, PA 15370 Phone: 724-852-6347
Our History
Methodist Episcopal, South West Virginia Conference. This was one of the churches of the Asbury Circuit, of the West Virginia Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, located north of the Mason and Dixon Line, that became a part of the Pittsburgh Conference at Methodist reunion in 1939. The history of the Church dates back to 1867 when Reverend William F. Claughton was assigned to Luke in Greene County. Services were held in the Duvall School at first. Land was purchased and the first Church was built in 1870. It burned in 1880 and a second building was erected. This building was severely damaged by a windstorm in 1907. The third Church was built in 1907-1908. Bishop Eugene R. Hendrix of the Methodist Episcopal Church South dedicated it in June 1909. The basement was added in 1954. It became a part of the Fairall Circuit in the Pittsburgh Conference in 1940, and continued in that Charge in 2001. Its membership in 1968 was 90. The membership on January 1, 2001 was 97.
Pastors: Methodist Episcopal South: West Virginia: William F. Claughton 1867-1869; W. R. Chambers 1869-1870; A. P. Sturm 1870-1874; C. L. Hanline 1874 (nine months); Charles R. Taylor 1874 (three months); J. C. Vaught 1875-1876; John S. Pullen 1876-1878; E. M. Murrill 1878-1879; E. W. Reynolds 1879-1880; Charles W. Shearer 1880-1882; William F. Claughton 1882-1883; S. H. Johnson 1883-1884; Warwick Briscoe 1884-1885; C. B. Fontaine 1885-1886; E. B. Jones 1886-1887; J. W. Flanigan 1887-1888; George R. Mays I888-1889; Hamilton Poling 1889-1892; A. P. Sturm 1892 (three months); John Shordon 1892-1896; E. R. Powers 1896-1899; G. S. Lightner 1899-1901; J. F. Richardson 1901-1902; H. K. Clark 1902-1904; A. B. Moore 1904-1909; L. S. Auvil 1909-1913; W. J. Richardson 1913-1915; C. W. O'Dell 1915-1918; W. H. Beale 1918-1920; S. H. Worrell 1920-1923; C. C. Jarvis 1923-1928; C. W. Scragg 1928-1934; W. T. Lantz 1934-1937; Lester W. Peters 1937-1940; Transferred to Pittsburgh Conference: Fairall Circuit (Fairall/Claughton Chapel/ Kirby/Valley Chapel): Albert Merz 1940-1943; William Edward Daugherty 1943 (three months); Robert Florin Conner 1943-1946; Merle Homer Jay 1946-1948; George Washington Stump 1948-1951; Norman Carlysle Young 1951-1955; Dean Earl Hughes 1955-1959; Herman B. David 1959-1962; Leslie Gwynn 1962-1963; David Henderson Lindberg 1963-1968; William Peter Hand 1968-1970; Floyd Edward Kelly 1970-1972; To Be Supplied 1972-1973; Allen David Pebley 1973-1976; Kathy Lynn Kosanovich Higgins 1976-1982; David James Hackenberg 1982-1986; Keith Byron Cutshall 1986-1991; Arthur Leroy Black 1991-1994; George Joseph Weaver, Jr 1994--2007.