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1880 – fates not reached
Chapman counts an Evangelical church and a United Brethren church standing in Liberty Township in 1880; no carrier reached names either congregation, gives a site, or tells a fate. The whole of the first-hand record is two sentences a generation apart. Chapman, 1880: among the five churches outside the town stand "one Evangelical, one German Lutheran, and one United Brethren church" — the Lutheran house is treated in its own article below. Howard, 1907: "The Evangelical denomination is also represented. Also the Lutheran and the United Brethren." Neither county history names a congregation, a minister, a building site, or a date for either body; the genealogical society's records index carries no Evangelical or United Brethren entry at North Liberty; and no present successor was found for either. The denominational mergers that followed — the Evangelical Association into the Evangelical United Brethren in 1946, and that body into the United Methodist Church in 1968 — are denominational background, not North Liberty facts, and no read carrier ties either township church to the town's Methodist congregation or to any other congregation in this section; the tempting connection to Beaver Creek Wesleyan, which stands in the same township country and dates itself to the late 1800s, is likewise untested in read sources and is not asserted. The two houses stand in this section at the size their record carries: counted, dated to their counters' years, and unnamed. The settlers are the Evangelical Association and United Brethren conference records for St. Joseph County charges, the 1941 federal church directory for Indiana, and the 1875 atlas's Liberty Township map read for church symbols (G-RL-8).