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From: Bonnie L. Lair< >
Subject: Re: Fwd: Richland Center
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 20:03:18 -0400


Was interested in the Kansas COB - My husband's gggrandfather was John
LAIR, who was the son of David LAIR and Susanna GARBER and was b in VA.
He m Catherine BOWMAN in Wash. Co., TN. They came north by train about
the end of the Civil War. And I mention this because he always were
traveling by train after this. John was in Clermont Co., OH, then
Huntington Co., IN and then to Missouri, I am not sure where and lastly
to Kansas. He was a preacher and possibly died about 1899.

What I would like to find out is when and where did John died. He went
with the COB that the time of the division, but I found info that he was
with the Progressives by 1883/84. One son Joseph B. Lair died c 1899 at
Olathe, KS.

Ggrandfather Henry Taylor LAIR m Deborah GROSSNICKLE in Clermont Co., OH
and had four children of whom the three sons moved to Preble, Mont. and
Clark Co, OH.

Thanks, Bonnie Layman Lair

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>Dear Jan
>
>I read the article about Richland Center COB with much interest.
>I have been to district meetings there while I was pastor of the
>McLouth
>church. The last time would have been in the 1950's or 60's, because
>we
>had Ronnie and Ruth.
>We began going to the Baptist church in 1970.
>
>I can still see it in my mind's eye. It was a pretty setting
>for
>a country church; good land along a country road, rolling, but not
>very
>steep. You could depend on the Brethren to choose good farmland..
>The
>building, while quite simple, was well cared for. The fact that this
>small church could entertain District Meeting, where well over one
>hundred might come, at a two or three day meeting, speaks volumes. My
>little church never was able to do it.
>I was pastor of the Mclouth church, along with farming, soil
>conservation contracting and service in the Kansas Legislature for
>more
>than 20 years. "District Meeting" was always an inspirational as well
>as
>fellowship event. I learned my theology from the Baptists, but I
>learned
>my way of life and my understanding of human relationships from the
>Brethren. Brethren pastors were underpaid--I ought yo know--but they
>were a tremendous group of dedicated servants of God. I was proud--as
>proud as Brethren humility allowed me to be--to be one of them. I
>miss
>that fellowship with other fellow churches since I am a Baptist. I
>knew
>people all over the district. I think I was in every church in the
>district, from Kansas City, Kansas to Ottawa to Morrill to Navarre
>(near
>Abilene).
>
>Summerfield was northwest of Seneca, on the old Kansas City
>Northwestern Railroad, which went through McLouth, but never ran after
>World War One. Thanks for the history.
>
>I assume you are aware Prof Craik of McPherson college
>published
>a history of all the COB churches in Kansas, some time around 1920. I
>have a copy, which I got while a student at McPherson in the 1930's.
>Again, thanks
>
>John D. Bower, grandson of David Bower and Henry Kimmel.
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