 This church was attended by other members of the Madison and Payne families.On February 28, 1844, Madison was with President John Tyler while aboard the USS "Princeton" when a "Peacemaker" cannon exploded in the process of being fired.While Secretaries of State and Navy Abel P. Upshur and Thomas Walker Gilmer, Tyler's future father-in-law David Gardiner and three others were killed, President Tyler and Dolley Madison escaped unharmed.