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among themselves as the Brethren.In the latter part of the summer of 1830, the church decided to hold a love feast. No beef could be procured; therefore Elder Cripe, gave, of his own free will, a yew lamb, the only one he had, for supper. As near as can be ascertained about twenty members communed. It was held in Elder Cripe’s house and was pronounced by some present as the most enjoyable feast they had ever attended.During the same year, David Miller, sr., came to and settled on Portage Prairie, in St. Joseph county, a few miles northwest of the present site of the city of South Bend; his brother, Aaron Miller, sr., followed the next year. They, with their familes, were the first members of the Brethren to settle in St. Joseph county. As near as can be ascertained, they were both ordained to the full ministry when they came. Other members followed and they, with the converts they made, were organized into a separate congregation in 1833, and called the Portage Prairie church. This, like the Elkhart church, included the scattered members for miles aronnd in both northern Indiana and southern Michigan.We shall not attempt to relate the troubles and'difficulties our forefathers had to meet in settling this country, further than give a few quaint yerses written by Jacob Studebaker in 1809, of whom we shall say more later on.
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Goshen Democrat
Goshen, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 10, 1897
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