The Seventh-day Adventist church: in Howard's five, gone from the town's own lists

by 1903–1913

The Seventh-day Adventist congregation is documented almost entirely by its own denomination's press, and it is gone from every modern list. Howard seats the Seventh-day Adventists among Walkerton's five church organizations in 1907, in both his township section and his town entry, without a founding date or a building date. The denomination's Indiana paper carries the congregation at work: the Indiana Reporter of 29 April 1903 and 12 April 1905 mentions Walkerton Adventist work and the Walkerton church taking books, and the Lake Union Herald of 5 November 1913 still lists Walkerton among the Indiana churches. The congregation does not appear in the Polk gazetteer's church line of 1916–17 — Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, and United Brethren only — a directory omission printed at directory strength, not as a closing date. No modern Seventh-day Adventist congregation at Walkerton was found: the denomination's locator results nearest the town are at Knox, La Porte, and Plymouth. No closing date, sale, or successor was reached, and none is printed; the Adventist course stands as a congregation attested 1903–1913 at denominational strength, seated in the town by Howard in 1907, and absent from the town's record thereafter.

Sources

1. Howard (1907), vol. 1, pp. 290–291, 316–317, read first-hand.
2. Indiana Reporter, 29 April 1903 and 12 April 1905; Lake Union Herald, 5 November 1913 (denominational press).
3. Polk, Indiana Gazetteer & Business Directory, 1916–17, Walkerton entry (churches line).
4. Seventh-day Adventist locator results for the Walkerton area, November 2026 (nearest congregations Knox, La Porte, Plymouth).