Due to the rough and muddy roads, the bell was jostled off in transit and damaged. He engaged the local blacksmith, James Alexander, to repait it. Of course, we're all aware of that Tuesday night, June 22, 1976 when fire destroyed our church and the bell fell from the belfry into the ashes. But our pioneer spirit prevailed and we build our present brick church and erected a place for the bell. "Leffel's History of Posey County", mentions the early church in Stewartsville. T.M. Weaver wrote in the New Harmony newspaper in 1876, the first curch was organized by the Rev James Scrip, with Samuel Griffin and others as members. John Schrader, in his writings indicates a church prior to 1812. In the writingls of Robert Owen of New Harmony in the late 1820's, he mentions the strong Methodist influence here.