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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.
===1918===
On Oct. 10, 1918, the Abilene Weekly Reflector chronicled on the front page:
"There will be a conference of prayer and study of the word of God and preaching of the gospel in the Gospel Hall, two miles east of Bonaccord store, eight south and four miles west of Abilene, beginning Wednesday evening, Oct. 16, 1918, and continuing over the following Lord's Day. Hours for the meetings as follows: 11:00 a.m. bible study, 3:30 address, 9:00 preaching of the gospel. All are cordially invited."
===1919===
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 Bonaccord'' 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, Bonaccord. 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.
* Linneas Engle (b. 1862 PA)
For a time in 1927, there was advertised an upcoming open brethren assembly, in the Faithful Words (OB) assembly address book (pub. in St. Louis) of that year, with John A. Deardorff as the contact.
==1930's==
By 1936, 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.
===1936 split===
Evidently in 1936 there was another split that resulted in another exclusive meeting in Abilene, courtesy Orville Robson via Marvin Studnicka. 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 the continued Grant meeting carrying over from 1927, also.
==1940's==
