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Also in 1884, Christopher Frederick Schwarz emigrated to nearby Solomon, Kansas, and is remembered as having been involved with this assembly still in the 1930's.
On Oct. 25, 1894, it was reported in the Abilene Weekly Reflector that "Rev. Broadfoot of Iowa will hold a series of meeting at Mt. Pleasant beginning Tuesday evening." Mt. Pleasant is an Ev. Presbyterian church west of Grace & Truth.
In August of 1903, Harry Ironside ministered at the Grant exclusive assembly in Manchester, returning to the Bonaccord assembly in 1919 for a conference.
=Grace and Truth=
==1910's==
From 1910 thru 1917, the aforementioned Alexander "Sandy" Broadfoot, commuted from Iowa to Kansas to visit and hold Gospel meetings in schoolhouses including the Bonnacord Bonaccord schoolhouse, and many were saved. Robert Alexander Robson, of Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian, left to assist George McBoyle, Frank H. Nicholson and others to construct an assembly that met for a time in the large home of Alexander McBoyle, known as the Bonnacord Bonaccord Assembly. It was notable that as early as the 1880's, Alex's farm had electric lights and running water. Eventually the McBoyles donated land at what is now at the corner of Deer & 1400 where they built the Grace & Truth Gospel Hall, thru an indenture between Mary Jane A. McBoyle Deardorff and the original trustees, Grant Engle, Daniel W. Emig and John D. Emig.
Other early families included Roggendorff, Miller, and Jury. It is also believed that [[George Gruen]] may have been among the early saints also, who had relocated from the St. Louis area of Illinois to farm, who was involved with exclusive assemblies in the Highland, Illinois area. It is remembered that when George first came to Abilene, he settled with an established Grant exclusive meeting in the area, which may have been among those who eventually started Grace & Truth. It has been also recollected that in the early days of the Gospel Hall, the men and women were required to sit in separate areas during meetings.
As noted earlier, Harry Ironside gave ministry in 1903 at the assembly in nearby Manchester. In the Abilene Daily Reflector, 10-15-1919, it gives the following advertisement for ''Meeting at BonnacordBonaccord'' from from "Committee": "Haigh Lowry ([[Minnesota]]), Mrs. G.A. Branadt (Barnum, MN), Mr. Cress (Nashua, IA) and Scott Alton (Illinois), have already arrived for the usual annual meetings to be held in Gospel Hall, BonnacordBonaccord. Among others expected to be present are Mr. A.E. Booth, and Mr. Greenman, and Mr. Pearson from Canada, Mr. Ironside, Oakland, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Missionaries to the Walapi and Hopi Indians, Valentine, Arizona, and Mr. Elliott, Chicago, Ill.
These meetings commence Wednesday evening of this week and continue over Sunday as follows: Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 11:30 a.m., 3:30 and 8:30 p.m., Sunday at 3:30 and 8 p.m. All are cordially invited to be with us as we hope these meetings will be helpful and will be of special interest to Bible students and particularly to those interested in prophetic subjects."
==1920's==