UNITY WASHINGTON CHURCH HURLOCK MARYLAND

UNITY WASHINGTON METHODIST CHURCH

HURLOCK, MARYLAND

Sunday, October 30, 1960, the Unity Washington Methodist church of Hurlock

observed 159 years of Methodism in Hurlock.

1801 the first Methodist meeting house was built and named Washington Chapel two

miles out of town toward Waddells Corners on property where the Unity Washington

Cemetery is now.

Washington Chapel was moved to the town of Hurlock in 1888 to the corner of Main

and Oak Streets on property donated by John Martin Hurlock and eleven years later was

expanded by adding a new sanctuary and an addition that were dedicated February 4, 1900.

The land for this chapel was donated by Thomas L. and Elizabeth Johnson Wright. Unity

Washington Methodist became a member of Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist

Protestant Church.

In 1960, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wright, Mrs Daniel Ccorkran , was living and

active in church affairs as the oldest living member of Unity Washington church.

Both Unity and Washington churches served rural Hurlock and merged May 4, 1953 when

Rev. John J. Bunting was pastor but died one year later. Rev Carlisle Hubbard the new

pastor, continued Rev Buntings plans for an education building and May 1956 the new

$117,000 had it's foundation poured and a new pastor, Rev Edwin Horney, from Ebenezer

Churrch in Newark, Delaware took the pulpit at Hurlock. He and Herman Eugene Rue

chairman of the building committee saw the22 room addition completed and opened March

10, 1957.

By 1960, the $117,000 debt has been reduced to $20,900 and on Sunday, October 30, the

Director of Maryland House, Rev. Dr. George Pigueron will preach and a lunch by The

Women Society, headed by Ms Russel Stevens will be served. Afternoon, the Rev. Dr. Roy

Tawes, a former pastor at Hurlock in 1938 to 1942, now superintendent of Peninsula

Conference, will speak.

Abstract: March 24, 2018 by Harrison Howeth, from Salisbury Daily Times, Saturday

October 29, 1960, newsppers.com for Rembering Hurlock facebook page &

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