Keysville Grace Reformed Church (Keymar, MD)

Grace United church of Christ, Keysville, MD began with a gift of a half-acre of land, a part of the “Terra Rubra” estate by Francis Scott Key in 1828, as the deed states “For School and church purposes”. In that same year was erected the first building, occupied on weekdays by the Community School and on Sunday in rotation, by four groups of church people, Lutheran, Methodist, United Brethren and Reformed. The State Public School System gave up the building in 1868 to buy a new tract of land and build a new school. By June 2, 1919, the Reformed Church bought the last share of the church from the Lutherans for a sum of $500.

Pastors who have served; George Leidy 1828-1831 Dietrich Graves 1831-1832 Henry Aurand 1833-1834 Elias Heiner 1834-1835 S. R. Fisher 1835-1838 Daniel Feete 1838-1841 John G. Wolff 1841-1850 Charles M. Jameson 1851-1852 John G. Fritchey 1852-1865 Nicholas E. Gilds 1865-1867 Jesse Steiner 1867-1871 John Lantz 1872-1873 P. Allison Long 1873-1884 Henry Ditzler 1885-1893 Alexander Bateman 1893-1903 David J. Wolf 1904-1915 Guy P. Bready 1915-1948 Morgan Andreas 1949-1960 William F. Wiley 1961-1970 Donald Evanson 1970-1971 Frederick Wenner 1971-1976 Donald Stevenson 1976-1977 Joseph Chukla 1977-1978 Frederick Stiegemeier 1978-1983 David E. Denham 1984-1988 W. Joris Beckman 1989-1999 John Silassy 1999-