The Rossville United Methodist Church had its very first beginnings in 1830, the year Ross Township was organized. William Smith, an early settler who came here from Ohio, dreamed of a church and gathered his family and a few neighbors to his home for services. By 1831, the group solidified and they organized a Methodist Church. Among the earliest members were William and Anna Smith and their children Thomas, Samuel, and Mary, Andrew and Hannah Waymire, William, William, David, Jacob and Amy Saylor, and Mary, Elizabeth and Rebecca Quick.
