This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: White Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zcB.2ACI/893.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have this in my files. Is it the same person. Mr. John R White of Waitsburg, Washington writes: " In the winter of 1898 I was on a visit with my parents, visiting some of my uncles and cousins, around Lebanon Oregon, and I attend the little old Dunkard Church. Located in the Valley between Albany and Lebanon, The minister was one of the resident farmers by the name of Bowers, The building had moss all over the roof and almost hung to the ground, and in the yard was one of those old wooden pumps with a brass bucket. During church services the women and girls sat on one side of the church and the men and boys on the other side. They also held the "feet washing " ceremony that day, which to me as a child of eleven years was very impressing in more ways than one. ((John White parents were James D & American Ellen (Ritter) White)) The church was organized in the Baltimore-Hardman neighborhood and the first held its meetings in residences, halls and local schoolhouses. About the year 1878 a church building was erected. It was first called the Willamette Valley Church, later the Lebanon Church. The congregation finally dwindled and the society grew weak and the building was taken over by the Mennonites, Finally the society was reorganized and moved to Albany, where a new building was erected on Santiam Rd (Salem Rd?) and Pine St. The Original church building first stood on the corner of the road intersection on the Philip Baltimore claim. This was just north of the Santiam Canal and about two miles west of the Old Spicer Station. The church building was later sold. It was purchased by my niece, Ava Reed, who moved it about one-fourth mile east and converted it into a residence. Thus remodeled, it is still standing and occupied. Information by Anthony M Baltimore Apr. 17, 1940