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203 N Main St. - Old Methodist Parsonage



John Matthew, a native of England, who died in Culver , January 15, 1916, settled in Marmont around 1886. The family's first residence was in the old Methodist parsonage.

    The entire Matthew family became members of the M. E. Church when the original frame building stood on the present location. Mr. Matthew and his wife were for many years known as Uncle John and Aunt Betsy. They took a great interest in the church and were ever intimately associated with its affairs and progress. John Matthew died in 1916, Betsy in 1926, just ten years later, and they were buried side by side in the Culver Cemetery.


Parsonage of corner of Plymouth and Washington By article below it seems exact original location is up for debate, that it had possibly been moved several time - last location is not given but assumed from the narrative and maps - only that William R. Easterday had bought the property - it is assumed he used the lot to expand the gargae are for his hearse and ambulance.
    1957 - Oct 16 - Culver Landmark Soon to Disaapear

    This House In more than 100 Year Old

    One of the oldest residence buildings in Culver located just south of Washington on Plymouth Street is this old house which was recently purchased by Mr. and Mrs. William R. Easterday who plan to start razing it soon.

    It was formerly the Methodist parsonage and was probably constructed about 1846 on the site of the present parsonage. The house was later moved to the southwest corner of Washington and Plymouth streets.
    1906 Sanborn Map , the original location by what has been told as evidenced by the 1914 Sanborn map it was moved a few yards south in the intervening years to make way for another house which was much bigger.


    where it stood for several years before being moved to the present location. The framework is of poplar wood

    1914 Sanborn Map


    1924 Sanborn Map


    /td> 1937 Snborn Map


    Mr. Easterday states that his grandparents, the late Barabara Renrick and Austin Romig were married in the house Aug. 25, 1859 when it was the Methodist parsonage.

    He had heard his grandmother tell that on her wedding day Benjamin Street died in a cave in well at a residence near the grocery store building on S. Obispo Stree and that this incident concerned her more than her own wedding....


The parsonage lot and buildings were probably bought as to enlarge the ambulance/hearse garage for the Easterday funeral home which was directly east of the lot on Main Street.

NOTE: William R. Easterday built a residence "In October 1961 we moved into our newly built home at 311 West Washington Street." - before that they lived above the funeral home at 108 N. Main



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