CHAPTER XV.
CHURCHES AND RELIGION. (CONT'D)
From History of Audubon Co., Iowa (1915)
by H. F. Andrews
UNITED BRETHREN.
There are two United Brethren churches in the county. One is located at Gray and the other at the northeast corner of section 23, Cameron township, both comprising one circuit, with one pastor.
GRAY U. B. CHURCH.
The society at Gray was organized in 1889, with twenty-one charter members. The church edifice, erected in 1890, is twenty-eight by thirty-six feet in size, and cost approximately one thousand five hundred dollars. The present membership is fifty-one. The following have served as pastors of this church: Revs. N. F. Hicks, A. J. Patterson, J. H. Young, H. M. Potter, Rev. Wickwire, L. Nichols, J. M. Harper, J. L. Hayden, G. N. Porter, G. E. Bertch, H. G. Hicks, L. A. Fleming, H. A. Hayes, C. J. Stark, G. N. Arnold, A. H. McVey, F. M. Boyd and J. A. Mitchell, who is the present pastor.
EDEN VALLEY U. B. CHURCH.
The Eden Valley United Brtehren [sic Brethren] church is located at the northeast corner of section 23, Cameron township, and was named by T. J. Sheley. The class was organized about 1883. and among the early members were Joshua Rodgers and wife, Myrtle Rodgers, James Kilpatrick and wife, W. R. Neitzel and wife, William Ballou and wife and William Pangborn and wife. Not one of these charter members is now living. Services were held in Sands' school house until the erection of the present church building, in 1901, during the pastorate of the Rev. G. E. Bertch. The size of the building is twenty-eight by thirty-six feet, with vestibule and spire, and the cost was one thousand five hundred dollars. Sunday school is held each Sunday, followed by preaching. The present membership is about forty, and the pastor in charge is Rev. J. A. Mitchell. The list of pastors who have served the charge is the same as the Gray list, is being a part of the Gray circuit. This church is well located and occupies a splendid field for active Christian work.
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Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, November, 2018, from History of Audubon Co., Iowa (1915), by H. F. Andrews, pp. 214-215.
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