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The following is courtesy of John Ogden:
Page 167-- HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF WOODSFIELD, OHIO By Elizabeth (McElfresh) Ogden, Church Historian and John Ogden, 8th generation from original church member Levin Okey published Raven Rocks Press, 2004
1833-1834 Steubenville Cornelius D. Battelle & George Smith
Rev. Cornelius Battelle was admitted on trial to the Pittsburgh Conference in 1833 and received full membership 1835. In 1852, he transferred to Western Virginia Conference; in 1857, transferred to the Kentucky Conference, 1857 & later transferred to the Ohio Conference - died in 1896. (Page 156)
“Wesley M. E. Church - This church is situated on Jacob street in South Wheeling and was organized in 1850...They erected a small brick building and it was dedicated by Rev. Cornelius Battelle in 1851.” History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens, Edited and Compiled by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, "History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples." 1776-1900 Published by Biographical Pub. Co., George Richmond, Pres.; S. Harmer Neff, Sec'y; C.R. Arnold, Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1902.
Rev. George Smith was admitted on trial to the Pittsburgh Conference in 1832 and received full membership 1834 – Deacon, 1834 and transferred in 1834 to the Missouri Conference. In 1845 went with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. (Page 610)
From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY," Vol. I, pages 671-672.
Brant & Fuller, 1890--REV. CORNELIUS D. BATTELLE
Rev. Cornelius D. Battelle, of Moundsville, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, now retired from active service, was born in Belpre, Washington county, Ohio, July 13, 1807. He is the son of Ebenezer and Mary Battelle, the former of whom was a son of Ebenezer, a soldier of the revolution. Ebenezer and Mary, when Cornelius D. was an infant, came to Newport, Ohio, taking land under the Ohio company purchase, and they remained there until their decease, the father dying in 1876, at the age of ninety-seven years, and the mother in 1872, at the age of ninety-four. The subject of this mention, the eldest of their children, entered Marietta academy at fourteen years of age, and afterward worked on the farm until twenty-six, when he joined the Pittsburgh conference, and began a career as a preacher, which continued for fifty-six years. In 1833 he was put in charge of the Woodsfield circuit, embracing parts of Washington, Monroe and Belmont counties, and he traveled 300 miles every four weeks and preached thirty times. In the first year he received 500 and more into the church. Subsequently he was transferred to other conferences, being stationed in succession at Covington, Ky.; Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, and so on. Five years he has served as a circuit preacher, five years as presiding elder, thirty-five as regular pastor, three years as superintendent of the western
division of the Western Seaman's Friends society. He has taken into the church more than 3,000 members in all. The camp-ground at Moundsville he helped clear, and there preached the first sermon. At the outbreak of the civil war, in which his brother, Gordon D. D., who was a captain of the first West Virginia regiment, lost his life, he was presiding elder of the Wheeling district, and exerted a strong influence for the Union. The Rev. Mr. Battelle was married July 13, 1829, to Elizabeth Greenwood, by whom he had six children: Alpheus M.; William G., deceased; Amelia G., wife of Alexander Jones; Elizabeth A., wife of Winfield F. Holden; Mary and Melville, both deceased. The mother of these died June 16, 1856, and subsequently Mr. Battelle was married to Martha Guthrie, who died August 15, 1888, aged ninety-seven years.
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