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Williams Creek Church
History (1910-23)
The Brethren Encyclopedia Vol. 2 Page
1346
Williams Church of the Brethren, Or, located
in the Rogue River Valley in Jackson Co. Brethren Families named Wimer and
Rummel were living in the area by 1871.
They and other were
organized as the Rogue Rive congregation in the spring of 1877 (1879) with eight
members. * George A. Hoxie soon arrived from California to become their elder,
serving for more than thirty years.
Ashland (1903) and Williams, also known as Williams Creek, (1910) were two daughter
congregations of Rouge River, which moved its place of meeting from its
churchhouse, and in 1883, to a new building in Talent, built in 1890. Rogue Rive took the name Talent in
1913. In 1900 the congregation
reported sixty-four members, three churchhouse, and seven preaching points. The Rogue River/Talent body dwindled to
five members in 1919 and was disorganized in 1920. Williams maintained an average
membership of just under twenty for a decade before increasing its numbers to
forty-four in 1922. However, many of its members moved to Grants Pass
(Fruitdale), where a separate organization had been effected in 1911. Soon, Williams was absorbed by its own
offshoot. It was last listed in
district records in 1923. G. E. Muir, Pacific Slope (1939) 56-58, 61-62,
222-23: “Oregon” 1944 11; MV (1906)H.
Miller, Record (1882) 60.
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