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Early Anderson County Pioneers Build Plank Church and Flee Greeley Conflict
The article recalls pioneer days in Anderson County with early religious gatherings by United Presbyterians in a plank church near Berea, plus a warm winter march to a conflict near Greeley. A gun accident mortally wounds a young man, followed by a retaliatory skirmish and the Greeley retreat toward Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Adair
Jot Brown
John Blunt
James G. Blunt
Amos Fine
Gorge Yandel
John Walken
L. B. Dennis
William Fitten
Berea
Bowers
United Presbyterians
John Cunningham
Greeley
Ft. Lincoln
Colton
W. E. Palmer
Greeley Boys
William G. Nichols