Calvary Episcopal Church
Calvary Episcopal Church, Broadway and Ohio avenues. the first Episcopal Church services held in Sedalia were conducted by the Rt. Rev. Cicero S. Hawks, D. D., bishop of Missouri, in a frame store room on the old Gallie Lumber Yard site, in the summer of 1865. An organization of the members of the Church was effected in December of that year, and the present name of the parish was adopted. The first vestry consisted of the following gentlemen: O. A. Crandall, A. H. Thompson, S. M. Vinton, Thomas E. Bassett and Charles A. Meyers. The present church edifice was Commenced in 1885 and the cornerstone laid by the Rt. Rev. Garreett, bishop of northern Texas, dedicated the church. This building is of native stone, completed during the rectorship of Rev. J. J. Wilkins. The new rectory was completed in 1918. The present membership is 200 with a Sunday school attendance of fifty. The rector is the superintendent. Present vestry consists of the present rector, Rev. H. E. Martin, A. D. Stanley, S. W.; J. W. Mellor, J. W.; C. P. Brown, J. N. Hinman, George Trader, Harvey Mcfarland, Charles E. Messerly, Jr., C. W. Fry, Col. H. Demuth, Charles D. Guy, Victor Winnberg and Fred Jackson.
(History of Pettis County Missouri by Mark A McGruder 1919)