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    1. Anyone know anything about these Friends Ministers?
    2. S. Newton
    3. Fred and Effie Comfort were pastors at the N. Lewisburg, OH, Friends Church from 1919-24; Mt. Carmel Friends Church, near Mingo, OH, 1920-24; and of Alum Creek Friends Church, near Marengo, OH, from 1924-28, also 1932-37. (Observing the 175th Anniv. of the EFC-ER, Canton, OH, 1987, 120pp., see pp. 115 and 100) According to the American Friend Obituary Index (online), Fred Comfort died in 1951 at age 89, in University Park, IA (see the Am. Friend for 3/29/1951, p.110, for Fred, but I do not find Effie in this Index.) Also in the Am. Fr. Obit. Index are Anna Hargrave Smith (1877-1958) and John Melvin Smith (1873-1958) both of whom died in Louisville, KY but were buried at Cedar Creek MM, Iowa. (see the Am. Friend for 5/15/1958, p.158, and 8/21/1858, p,270) Both of them, along with my father, then a pastor at Lynnville, IA, and several other ministers [Tristram Dillon of Stanford; Taylor Guthrie of LeGrand; Guilford Street of Hartland; and Rosa Harding (maybe not a Friend?) of Marshalltown] took part in the funeral service for my great- grandfather, Nereus Hodgin, which was held in the Bangor Friends Church in July 1932, according to a newspaper clipping I have. I do not have any information on Barrett, Hawk, or McClellan.

    03/27/2005 10:18:51