JOHN WESLEY CHURCH PARSONAGE SITE The Reverend Charles Ernest Smallwood (1891–1972),54 his wife Mildred, and their three daughters are listed in the 1930 census record for Aquasco.55 His occupation is given as “preacher.”56 Ten years later the Smallwoods— now with six daughters—had moved on to Chapel HillPiscataway Road where Smallwood ministered to another congregation.57 By 1940 the Reverend Joseph N. Yearwood, Sr. (born circa 1880) had moved from Washington, D.C. and was serving as the John Wesley Methodist Church’s minister and living in the parsonage on what was, by this time, called Eagle Harbor Road.58 The Reverend Yearwood and his wife Lillian were natives of what was then the British West Indies, and today the Commonwealth Caribbean, although their (by that time adult) sons Joseph Jr. and Edward were born in Washington, D.C. and West Virginia, respectively.59 Further research should be undertaken with the United Methodist Church and other records to determine the location of the original Douglas parcel, which other clergy and their families lived in the parsonage on Eagle Harbor Road, and how it came to be acquired, used, and ultimately demolished by 1977.60
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Figure 7. 1968 Aerial, John Wesley Church Parsonage Site The clearest aerial photograph of the parsonage is from 1968, which shows that the part of the property fronting Eagle Harbor Road was well-cared-for, not wooded, and that a two-story, pyramidal-roof house with an east wing and full-width back porch was situated near the northeast corner of the property, at the end of a short driveway. Two outbuildings can be seen to the west and south of the house. Source: pgatlas.com.
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