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Howard (1907); the obituary carriers of 1916 (South Bend News-Times) and 1928 (South Bend Tribune), at transcription strength
The congregation Howard plants in 1868 belonged to the German Baptist Brethren — the Dunkard church of the county's Pennsylvania-German settler belt. Its named pastors are the township's own first families: Jacob Cripe (of the Cripe settlers of 1830), Christian Wenger, and John B. Wrightsman — the ministry was the settlement preaching to itself. By the twentieth century the congregation is carried under a place-name: the Ullery church, from the Ulery settler family of the township's north (the spelling seam between the county books' Ulery and the church's Ullery is a fact of the record, printed as the carriers give it). The obituary record ties it to its burying ground across two generations: a 1916 funeral was held "from the Ullery church, Rev Cripe officiating," with burial in the Ullery cemetery; a 1928 funeral was officiated by the Rev. Clyde Forney "of the First Church of Brethren" — South Bend's congregation — with burial "at the Ullery cemetery, north of Roseland," which places the ground outside the town as the obituary's writer reckoned it, and shows the township congregation's people already served from the city's Brethren church by 1928. The church's own course after Howard — its building's fate, the year its services ended or its people were absorbed — was not reached in any carrier opened, and stands as a named gap (G-RL-2), with the Brethren district record and the county church-records file as its settlers.