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From: Merle C Rummel <>
Subject: [BRE] Re: Some Brethren history (St. Joseph Co. Indiana, etc.)
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 06:25:18 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20010903.201014.-250693.0.helenira@juno.com>



>I have a question for Merle C. Rummel. Did I properly copy the material
>about the Brethren in the article below? My branch of the Hardmans were
>Brethren from the 1700's until 1914 when my Dad married my Mother and
>joined her church (Methodist). I would like to know more about the
>history of the Brethren.
> Ira Hardman
>
>Yolanda (Mrs. Chester Newman) sent me a copy of this in the 1970s It
>appears to be a 3rd or 4th carbon copy done on an old typewriter, so it
>is difficult to read, and I might have misread some words. I dont know
>the source of her information. ............. Ira Hardman)
>SO THAT WE MAY KNOW
>So many authors have written in detail of Indianas history that readers
>have a treasury to turn to for information on that subject. Briefly,

This is tremendous --I sent a copy to the Four Mile Pastor, Clyde Hilton
(the church is celebrating an aniversary this year).

There were two Brethren Congregations in Wayne Co IN -- Four Mile and
Nettle Creek -- in opposite corners of the county. Four Mile is now in
Union Co which took the southern part of the old Wayne Co. Your Hardmans
were at Nettle Creek.

I think there is some error in the dates of arrival of the Witter and
Ritter families from the Four Mile (there was a Squire Thompson, who also
went up -on to Nile MI -c1823) - I have them earlier than this artical
indicates. The brothers, Ministers David and Aaron Miller, were pastors at
the Nettle Creek Church, and were sent up after several Brethren families
(kin) had already moved up there and were meeting for fellowship. In my
records, they went up in 1829.


Merle C Rummel
Church Historian

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