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Brother’s Valley & Trent Churches of the Brethren

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Sep 14, 2015

Brother’s Valley church of the Brethren or German Baptists was organized in 1880, with one hundred and ten members. The present membership of this church is one hundred and eighteen. The charge now contains one meeting-house. The first meeting-house in the district was built in 1848.
Bishop: J. Blough
Ministers: G. Schrock, William Sevits, D. P. Walker, William G. Schrock, S. F. Raymen

Trent church of the Brethren, or German Baptists, was organized in 1866 with twenty-one members. The first (and only) meeting-house was erected in 1866. The present membership is seventy-five.
Bishop: H. R. Holsinger
Ministers: S. J. Baer, Michael Weyant, W. A. Seibert.

(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)

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