The original document the below came from is part of the Crawford County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society’s Church Collection and is dated April 12, 2012, but there is not a date of when the document was written.
The earliest foundation of the German Methodist work in Bucyrus was laid with the organization of a Sunday school in 1852. Two years later the church itself was organized, and a lot was purchased on the southwest corner of East Warren and Lane Streets, more recently the site of the Riddell Corporation, where the first edifice was built the same year. In 1835, during the service of Rev. Alfred Wuensch, the churches in the vicinity of Bucyrus were separated from the Galion mission and became known as the Bucyrus Circuit. Churches on the Bucyrus Circuit in 1855 included Chatfield (known then as Richville), Tabor (known then as Cranberry Marsh), Brokensword, and Plains.
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