Show 10 WIN ET MARK NOW BEING REMOVED stacy completes deal for presbyterian church property the presbyterian church building on main street a familiar landmark in richfield which dates back to 1889 is being wrecked this week following the sale of the property by the national board of missions of the church to J C stacy of cedar city an agent of the standard oil company who plans to lease the part of the ground on which the church now mow stands for the building of a service station As a gesture of farewell to the old building a few members of the congregation gathered there for an informal supper monday evening the me work of wrecking the building in g was started monday when the window from the entrance hall and the steeple were removed but tuesday saw much of th the wooden part of the structure torn tom down in removing the old steeple the workmen found revl several ral small boards orr off which messages some cf some of humor had been written evidently by builders or others connected with the erection of the edifice among the names that appeared on the boards were those of G W poston of springfield ohio samuel A salt lake forra form erly of canada D C macgregor frank burke charles Lef lard E S gilbert miss M jepsen stanley gilbert and martina M jepson ministers who have served a at t the church are N E clemenson n J H meteor meteer E J hanks T G nethery Net bery geo A wallace W S young S H maxwell and charles tl H hamilton the present minister at the church vy r the building made of large j blocks of sandstone was erected in 1889 and for a few years after its erection was used not only for church services but also as a mission school which was attended by a number of people still living in richfield the marker that has stood near the ent entrance rande bearing ite ar the date 1886 was taken from theold the old methodist church when the two churches united and the methodist church building was sold the graceful old elm trees which have surrounded the church and added to its as a church typical of that early period were planted by president joseph A young a son of brigham young who also built the manse which stands near the church president young planted a Q nursery of elm trees but most of the trees were later transplanted or otherwise removed president young came here in may 1872 and built what is now the manse shortly after he came it was sold to the presbyterian church by his widow in the late seventies as nearly as old timers recall and the first mission school was conducted there by the te church early in the eighties with julia alice olmstead of new york as the teacher the manse according to the rev charles H hamilton will not be wrecked and for the time being at least he and his bis v wife ife will continue to reside there and meetings of the church will tie be held there until other arrange merits can be made the church hopes to build a small but modern structure but plans have not yet been formulated |