History of Overton Church of God
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- In the year of 1835, Rev. Thomas Kickernell, with sufficient members of the Moniece church organizaed a Church of God at what is known as Chester Corners.
- Chester Corners was a point one and one fourth miles east of the old Historical Eight Square; and one half mile east of the present Oak Grove schoolhouse where the Wooster road and Congress road crosses the east and west road.
- At this point, John Funk, a pioneer settler of Chester Township, and a Church of God minister, owned the land (376 acres) on the south side of the road, today owned by Stephen Yoder, Peter Bucholz, H. U. Mowery and Mrs. Quimby Mowery.