Venango County - Sites
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Reverend Henderson, pastor, worships in a frame church building in the Second ward erected in 1881. The society was formed in 1876 by Reverend J.M. Morris with six members, of whom James Lawson was leader. Reverends Wheeler, Parmer, Countee, Phillips, Brown, Jones, and Washington were among Mr. Henderson’s predecessors.