"JAMES PELAN. Born in England. Became a preacher in the Methodist Protestant Church in this country; united with the Presbytery of Miami, from which he joined Marion Presbytery (Old School) and was pastor of Milford Center Church, 1849-1852. He afterward preached in Tiffin, McCutcheonville and Green Spring; went south in the spring of 1861; married his second wife and settled on a farm in Alabama [sic]. Being a northerner, and suspected of being a Union man, and of "disloyalty" to the south, he was cruelly murdered in his own house by the "vigilance committee" amid the disturbances and horrors of the late Rebellion, in the fall of 1861 [sic]. The justice of God will not sleep forever."
