A man
named Godbey now owns it. Old man. He was there when Mutiny and I
went camping on that farm about 35 years ago. His mother was a
Durham. Well, since we were there, the Pioneer Mothers or DAR or
Methodists or somebody have erected a granite monument to my
great, great grandpappy, one John Durham. He owned the farm, and
in 1783 he organized the first Methodist Church--then called
"Methodist Society"--west of the Allegheny Mountains. He built a
log church on his farm about 300 feet from where the monument now
stands. The marker says that, and the records in the First
Methodist Church of Danville back it up. My great Uncle Milton
Durham in the 1890's, put a stained glass window in said church,
with a full size picture in colored glass of what they must have
imagined John Durham looked like. But there it is, brass marker
and all. Uncle Milton graduated from Old Asbury in 1844, I think
it was. Grandpa Durham put him through college. I have seen him.
He carried the cane for a few years prior to his death. He was
tall, and the cane didn't reach the ground. He was the first
Comptroller of the Currency the U.S. ever had. Grover Cleveland
appointed him in the '80s.
Now what do you think of all that? And to think this Methodist
DePauw University some 50 odd years ago broke relations with me,
and the faculty gave me 24 hours to leave--23 of which I still
have coming to me.
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