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before 1862 – after 1880 · township class
The township's third historic society is the Advent Society, which met in the Olive Branch school-house, held two-week tent meetings in August 1862, and dedicated its own church on 18 July 1880. Chapman's passage, in substance whole: before 1862 the society held its meetings in the school-house at Olive Branch; in August 1862 it held tent meetings under ministers J. W. Himes, D. R. Mansfield, and Philip Holler; baptisms included Elijah Aultman and wife, Isaac Wright and wife, and Hattie Wright; the society was formed with Edward Cordray and wife, Albert Cordray and wife, and B. F. Cordray and wife among its members, Edward Cordray an Elder; it numbered about 60 members; its church building was commenced about 1 March 1880, built 32 by 46 feet at a cost of $1,162, dedicated 18 July 1880, the debt paid and $100 over. Howard confirms: "The Advent Society erected a church in 1880. For a great number of years previous to this the society held meetings in the school-houses and in private houses." The passage as read does not state the 1880 building's location — village or Olive Branch — and that unsettled point is what keeps the Advent building standing as the named alternative in the 1880 census article above. No modern carrier for an Advent congregation at Lakeville was found; its closing is not proven and not asserted. The gap banks with the Advent Christian General Conference directory and township records as settlers.