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===First Baptist Church of Abilene===
Around 1938, Tim Gruen married Lola Mae Cormack and left the assembly 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, to Grace and Truth Gospel Chapel to raise their own children. Benjamin Jury's son Paul Gruen also left the Newbern assembly for First Baptist of Abilene, as did George Francis McBoyle earlier in 1916.
=Latter developments=
In the 1950's, Jan Engle Horst (daughter of Grant & Mabel Engle) and her 1st cousin Lynette Engle Stanger (daughter of Keith & Cleo Engle) remember playing in the empty building as children together, "preaching sermons", etc. So it is probable that that assembly had folded, or moved into a home by then. The property was sold in 1964 to Felix Paul Bolliger (b. 1906 Cosby, Andrew, MO - d. 1988 Abilene, KS) and his son Ronald Lee Bolliger (1936-2017) who razed it in the fall of 1965. Ronald had a sister Connie Bolliger Brax (1933-2019). The well-maintained cemetery still remains, which houses over 140 graves, including this author's great-great grandfather John M. Engle, and a large majority of his descendants, including my great-grandparents, grandparents and parents. The forementioned Linneas L. Engle is also a son of John M. Engle.
==Sources==
* [https://www.newspapers.com/image/40768387/ Salina Journal]. 1965-9-20 announcement of the building being razed.
* [https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/93187/newbern-cemetery Find A Grave Newbern] profile
* Jan Engle Horst
* Lynette Engle Stanger