Interesting, information., Our great grandparents were married by a Bro. Oyler, of the Long Branch, congregation.  I don't know as when the church there was organized, but know by the 1880's there was a building that continued to stand until the last twenty to thirty years.  As I said, it was a Baptist church at the end, but it would seem the entire Long Branch Community came from Roanoke.  The cemetery is full of Brethren names.   Our great great grandfather Harris was suppose to have been a minister. Now, these people were already in Gentry County before the Civil War according to the census.  They were some of Gentry County's earliest residents.  Surely they didn't go without a church for thirty years.   I was hoping somewhere some specific information could be found about that particular church.   Whoever knew is either gone, or not telling.   I know one reason the Brethren seem to disappear by the 20's is they all moved away.  I'm thinking the original Brethren moved and the Baptists took up the church house and graveyard.  We had family move to KS and NE.  Then some came on to SOuth Dakota.  By the 20's there was a large group of these people in Gregory County, SD  with the names:  Harris, Carter, Gish, Hartman, Smith & Stevick.  THe latter name was a United Brethren family that had freely intermarried with the other said families.   I have, however, been unable to locate where there was a United Brethren church in that area.  Our great great grandfather Stevick's obituary states he was a SUnday School Superintendent in the United Brethren Church for over 50 years.  He's buried there a few miles from Long Branch in the Mt. Zion burrying ground next to the Mt. Zion church yet his name does not appear on the Mt. Zion registry nor was Mt. Zion ever a United Brethren church. Does anyone have information about the Brethren churches of Pawnee City, Table Rock, and Humboldt Nebraska areas?   The people there should have ties with Long Branch in Missouri. -----Original Message----- From: "Jane Davis" <[email protected]> Sent 3/26/2011 11:11:42 PM To: "Brethren Genealogy Network" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BRE] [BRE} Brethren, Gentry County, MissouriAmong other things, I work with the history of the Brethren in Missouri from 1795 to present. I was glad to see some interest in the Brethren in Gentry County. Interest in the Brethren in northern Missouri dates to the 1920's when an early history was begun on the Missouri Brethren. Never finished, E. R. Vanderau of Plattsburg, MO (Clinton County) gathered all he could locate for a thesis in 1945 on the Brethren in the Northern District of Missouri. The Gentry congregation takes up very little space in this thesis. Gentry Congregation: Much of the material on this group has been written by Elder W. B. Sell who kept a notebook of happenings within the churches over which he was elder; Gentry was one of these congregations. It was organized in late 1878 or 1879 with 8 charter members. Among those listed as members include W. B. Sell and wife, S. S. Garman and wife, Serenius Garman and wife, James Miller and wife, Epaphirus Garman and wife, and a Brother Whitestine and wife. Salathiel Garman was called to deaconship. Congregational name was Gentry after the county in which it was located. By 1881/2 the congregation had grown to 23 members with no church building. It is doubtful it ever had a building as it disappears from the records by late 1890's. W. B. Sell moved to Ettieville, located 7 miles southwest of Albany in 1879 and held the Love Feast at his home Oct 4-5. 1879. He was also present when the congregation was organized along with Daniel Glick of the Whitesville congregation. A Green Ridge is also mentioned but I am not sure this was a known community. In caring for this congregation and the Long Branch congregation earlier, Sell moved from Martinsville, Harrison County to Ettieville, Gentry County. He also had oversight of the Honey Creek and White Cloud congregations (Nodaway County) and the Whitesville congregation (Andrew County). Earlier, he had been involved with the Hamilton congregation in Caldwell and Daviess Counties, MO. He eventually moved to southeastern Kansas. Jane Davis. ------------------------ Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ Support Our Sponsoring Agency The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:[email protected] ------------------------ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message