Priests of Saint Patrick's Little Creek Catholic Church

History		Between 1875 and 1900, the priests who served Saint Patrick's at Little Creek came from other parishes, such as Armah and What Cheer. The first priest to hold Mass at Little Creek in 1875 was Father King. One early priest, Father McCarville, (left) is said to have traveled from Armah by foot and by horse to say Mass in Liberty on Sunday. Father McCarville was also a telephone switchboard operator at Armah. In 1900 it was decided to build a rectory, and Father Thomas Sheehy was the first resident priest to move into it. Beginning in 1906, Saint Patrick's was served by the resident priests from the Sacred Heart Parish in Kinross, four miles to the south, when a new church was built there.
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Father McCarville was an early priest at St. Patrick's, and resident priest at Immaculate Conception at Armah.

		In 1913, Father Hartigan was the next pastor for St. Patrick's Little Creek and Sacred Heart, Kinross, and stayed until 1915. We have not found any records on this priest.
Father Thomas Sheehy - 1900-1906	Father Francis Nugent - 1907-1913	Father Hartigan - 1913-1915


Father Henry Corcoran - 1915-1918	Father James Peters 1918-1925	Father Leo Kerrigan - 1925-1926


Father William B. Schmidt - 1926 -1928	Father Thomas L. Wolfe- 1928-1933	Father John Manning - 1933-1937


Father Daniel C. Brown - 1937-1940	Father Leo V. Kuebrich - 1940-1958	Father Martin Manning- 1958-1965

Saint Patrick's at Little Creek was torn down in 1965. In its later years, the priests who served Saint Patrick's also served the Sacred Heart Church in Kinross, and the Catholic Church in Wellman. During these years, services were held at Little Creek approximately once a month in the summer, and for special occasions and funerals.

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Father James S. Peters - Kinross and Liberty	Father Leo Kerrigan at Liberty