Show Whim Church W With 1 M Member ember To Be Closed A P that was built on a womans woman's whir almost a century ago and which ha habut habut habut but one member today is to be aban abai cloned More than 90 years ago Sally An Am Gruver and her husband Daniel sturdy leader of the mountain settlement settle ment attended a protracted mee meet meeting meeting ing at Brier Creek But there wa something depressing about the ol meeting place the attractive yo youn un wife told her husband husband so so he decide to build her a church of her own Hardy mountain men drove thel oxen into the forests and brough forth Jorth logs The church was built hewn o 01 land hewn timbers and they named hame it ML Mt Zion Evangelical church an and folks came from miles around round to woi WOl worship ship The congregation grew with the thi community while farming and tim tiro timbering bering were among the busiest o 01 Pennsylvania's industries But stee tee and coal lured many to other center and the flock dwindled Other members mem members bers died and others joined new V con coil Twenty years ago regular Sunda services were discontinued Oc Occa Occasional Occasional a small meetings were held bu few visited the church except th thE day funeral services were held for J J woman who was murdered Today the church stands d In the snowy mountains with mountains with onI one name remaining on its register She is Mrs Frank Everard of Wap Wapwallopen Wapwallopen wallop en a granddaughter of the weman we wo man Ihan on whose whim the edifice wa built |