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AUDIT ROW #280 · THE BANKED RECORD RESTATED AT ITS STRENGTH; GRAND LODGE SETTLER NAMED
The Odd Fellows stand on this ground in three kinds of record, and this article gathers their positions without inventing the lodge numbers the record does not carry. The town's founding generation gave the order a hall: the Odd Fellows Hall in Jacob Bender's brick store building. The modern register carries the order at two township addresses in the IRS exempt-organizations record (this history, read November 11, 2026). And the Rebekah line — the order's women's branch, which the checklist asks after by name — stands in the same register family at the same strength. What none of the reached records carries is the lodge's number or the Rebekahs' number, and the numbers are not supplied from the checklist: the floor's numbers belong to another city's lodges, and printing them here would be the exact defect this build exists to avoid. The Grand Lodge of Indiana, IOOF, and its Rebekah Assembly are the named settlers, and the item closes mixed — the order's presence, hall, and survival established; its charter numbers open under the settler.
Principal sources: Businesses (Bender's building and the Odd Fellows Hall); this history (the IRS register lines, read November 11, 2026); settler named — Grand Lodge of Indiana IOOF and the Rebekah Assembly of Indiana.