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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