Claughton
Chapel
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.
The above coordinates are
not for the cache location they are for a
plaque containing the year the
Fairview-Kiger cemetery was established. "Subtract 1408 from the
year found on the plaque and use the result as the last three
digits in the north coordinates. Then subtract 1139 from the year
and use this result as the last three digits in the west
coordinates."
