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=Earliest Brethren=
==Grant Exclusives==
In an exclusives assembly address list for 1879, there is a meeting listed for Abilene with no contact information or location. By 1884, the Grant division had taken place, and it is presumed that some of the brethren became affiliated with that, and others eventually formed the TW-Lowe group.
==Tunbridge-Wells Exclusives==
===1927===
==1930's==
By 19361934, the meeting at 12 miles SW of Abilene was rebranded as Grace and Truth Gospel Hall, and the contact was Frank H. Nicholson, who was also the contact for the Elm Springs Bible Hall, also active that year. Robert Alexander Robson also served in leadership at Grace and Truth.
In ''Light and Liberty'' in 1935, an annual conference was reported at the Gospel Hall beginning on a Thursday evening on Oct. 24th and continuing thru that Lord's Day. In 1936, John Walden had a series of tent meetings south of Abilene, KS. The attendance averaged over 100 nightly for the entire campaign, with good interest. It is debated as to when Grace & Truth changed names from Hall to Chapel, somewhere between the 1930's and 1950's.
Visiting itinerants at Elm Springs would include Ed Bucheneau, John Walden (founder of a children's home in Colorado), [[Henry Allan Ironside|Harry Ironside]] (Moody pastor and author), George MacKenzie, Tom Carroll, Walter Wilson (founder of Calvary Bible College), Leonard Lindsted, Tom McCullagh, O.E. McGee, and Richard Burson (founder of Kansas Bible Camp & [[Hutchinson Gospel Chapel, KS|Hutchinson Gospel Chapel]] in the mid-1940's).
===1936 splitNewbern Split===Evidently In 1934, several families left the Gospel Hall to rent a space at the old Newbern Brethren in 1936 there Christ church building down the road, and setup an exclusive table that met for nearly ten years, and was another split that resulted in another exclusive meeting in Abileneknown as the [[Newbern Assembly, courtesy Orville Robson via Marvin StudnickaKS|Newbern Assembly]]. The families included: * Benjamin F. Jury (1870-1947)* George & Elizabeth Roggendorff** Jonathan Roggendorff* [[George Gruen]] and family* Carl Botz and his wife May* Linneas Engle (b. 1862 PA) In obituaries for Carl & May (Jury) Botz, Christopher (b. 1869 Germany - d. 1946) & Mary Katherine Grimm Schwarz (b. 1872 NY - d. 1959), Fred & Anna (Jury) Peak, and Arrol William Taylor McBoyle (b. 1884 Abilene, KS), they were each noted as involved with a "Plymouth Brethren church" as a church different from Grace & Truth, and may have been part of this split. Fred & Anna (Jury) Peak may have had a connection to the forementioned Judson Alden family thru the Botz line. It is unknown how long this meeting lasted. This may have been ===First Baptist Church of Abilene===Around 1938, Tim Gruen married Lola Mae Cormack and left the [[Newbern Assembly, KS]] for an American Baptist church in Abilene known as First Baptist Church, where they raised their children. Their son T. Lee and his first wife Libby later returned to the assemblies in the continued Grant meeting carrying over from 1927late 1970's, to Grace and Truth to raise their own children. Benjamin Jury's son Paul Gruen alsoleft the Newbern assembly for First Baptist of Abilene, as did George Francis McBoyle earlier in 1916.
==1940's==