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From: "Glen/Vicki/Mariah Draper" <>
Subject: Re: BRETHREN-D Digest V99 #306
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:23:29 -0500


> From:
> My grandmother (Bertha Swartz Hull) belonged to the Church of the
Brethren in
> Osceola,Iowa in 1940s. > Are there any records showing their memberships
in the Brethren Church?

Iola,
In the History of the Northern Plains 1844-1977, there is 1.5 pages about
the Osceola Church,
started in 1872. However this book only lists pastors, elders, and
occasionally family names
of founders of a church. I don't find any names you mention, but there's
no doubt about there
being a church which you attended. Church work ended after 1944 with only
two active families.
The building was rented to a Lutheran congregation and later sold to the
Reorganized LDS and
the congregation "officially disorganized" in 1962.

The only idea I have presently for finding church records would be the
Northern Plains District
Office, Connie Burkholder, District Executive. You'll have to type in the
email address, as
I haven't learned how to create a "clickable" one.
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Glen Draper

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