Some of the people that Mary Ewen Zetrouer Dreher wrote about in the "History of the Shiloh Methodist Church":
Mary Ewen Zetrouer was born June 6, 1866, at Wacahoota, Alachua County, Florida, the daughter of James Carlisle Zetrouer and Mary Jane Bridges. She died in 1965 and is buried at the Shiloh Cemetery. On Dec. 14, 1887, she married William Robert "Willie" Dreher in Alachua County. The son of Luther Melanchton Dreher and Martha Elizabeth Ann Geiger, he was born Oct. 12, 1860, in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. He died Dec. 14, 1916, and is buried at the Shiloh Cemetery. He is also the grandson of the founder of the Shiloh Church.
Daniel Remshart (D.R.) - Zetrouer was Mary Ewen Zetrouer's brother. He married one of her husband's first cousins — Dora L. Leitner — who was also the granddaughter of the founder of the church. Remshart Zetrouer is buried at the Shiloh Cemetery. The Zetrouer Chapel was built in his and his wife Dora's honor.
Mrs. Mary Geiger - Mary ("Polly") Geiger moved to Florida after the death of her husband, Emanuel, coming to an area settled by many of her husband's relatives. She and all her surviving children would move to what is now known as Shiloh and cut their farms from the virgin woods. The land where the Shiloh Church, cemetery and the Shiloh community now stand were part of her original land, and it was her descendants who donated additional lands to the church.
Mr. Jake (Jacob M.) Feaster - Jacob Muscoe Feaster was born in HiSouth Carolina. According to the Alachua County, Florida Census of 1850, he was age 15 at that time. Mr. Feaster married Elizabeth Susannah Laney, one of the early members of the Shiloh Church. They raised their family on a parcel of land that borders Alachua County and adjoins other families in the Shiloh Area. Mr. Feaster also owned a sawmill where the wood for the original Shiloh Church building was cut. The wood that was used, according to tradition, was the long leaf pines that grew on the property surrounding the present day church. You can find his descendants still active in the Shiloh Church.
Mr. George Leitner, Sr.
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George Wesley Leitner was born in Cedar Creek, S.C., and moved to
Florida with his parents, Jacob and Charlotte Souter Leitner. The
Leitners settled in what is now the Anthony area of Marion County in
1854. In Cedar Creek one of the Leitner neighbors was Nancy Anna
Geiger Turnipseed, who was his wife Caroline's aunt.
Mr. J.J. "Jake" Leitner - Jacob Jefferson "Jake" Leitner was the son of George Wesley and Caroline Geiger Leitner. A farmer, he lived his life on the family land adjoining the Shiloh Church. He married Dillie A. Leitner.
Dillie A. Leitner - Dillie Augusta McCullough Leitner was born in Chester, S.C., and moved to Center Point (between McIntosh and Evinston — U.S. 441 bisects this lost community) with her family at an early age. She married Jake Leitner, and they lived and farmed the land near the church and cemetery. She was known to the community as "Aunt Dillie."
John C. Ley - J.C. Ley was once the president of the East Florida Seminary and served as a circuit rider for many of the early Methodist Churches in this area of Florida. He served the Shiloh Church from 1895 to 1912. He was also the District Superintendent for the Gainesville District from 1890 to 1891. He is buried in the Micanopy Historic Cemetery.
E.F. Stenmire - W. H. Steinmeyer served the Shiloh Church as minister from 1889 to 1891.