Welsh Congregational Church

The Welsh Congregational Church was organized August 11, 1872, in the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Rev. John Edwards, assisted by Rev. O. Owens, of Pittsburgh, and Rev. O. W. Owen, of Coalburg. The original members consisted of W. Phillips and wife, I. David and wife, Mary Williams, John B. Bowers, M. A. Jenkins, Catt Phillips, J. Price, Nancy Edmunds, D. John and wife, Lewis Griffith, W. Brenan and wife, T. Richard and wife, W. Thomas and wife, W. S. Morgan, W. D. Lewis and wife, J. Jarrett and wife, John L. Phillips, Mrs. E. Armstrong, Ann Jenkins, D. Jenkins, Richard Jenkins, Hanna Williams, Enloe Evans, William Watkins, James Garrett, Ellen Goodhall, W. F. Morgan, Mary Rowlands, M. Yeenis, R. Jones, T. Z. Jones, Ella Thomas, Ann Jones. J. Richard and wife, D. J. Jones and Eliza Jones. The congregation has had but one regular pastor, the present [1888] one, Rev. Thomas M. Griffith. The church services are held at present in the school-house, as no regular church building has yet been built, but it is the intention to commence the erection of a suitable chapel in the near future, The congregation has a membership of thirty three.

History of Mercer County, 1888, page 490 

The Welsh residents of Wheatland organized a Congregational church in August, 1872. Thomas M. Griffith was their first pastor, and continued to serve his people for many years. 

The congregation worshiped in the village schoolhouse and elsewhere until the erection of their church.

Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909, page 286