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It is also worth noting that in one of the very first Mennonite churches planted Nebraska, known as Bethesda Mennonite Church, in Hendersonville, planted in 1874 by 35 Russian Mennonite families, there was a secondary school built in 1902, with classes 1903-1943, and the first two teachers were J.J. Friesen, and Christian Hege (b. 1878 Germany - d. 1971 San Miguel, CA), the latter being a son of Jacob & Elizabeth Hege (elder brother of Paula Hege Klassen). Jacob & Elizabeth later relocated to Hot Springs, California, and nearby Paso Robles where Jacob pastored a Mennonite church, and owned a ranch that employed Cornelius Klassen. This is where Cornelius met Jacob's daughter, and married her at the age of 18. Jacob & Elizabeth Hege and their family, including their married daughter Paula and her husband Cornelius Klassen homesteaded at Aberdeen, Idaho in the spring of 1904, and Jacob was the founding pastor of the First Mennonite Church of Aberdeen in 1907. Christian Hege later pastored the same Mennonite church in Paso Robles that his father did.
=Locations=
* Railroad Station, American Falls +1911+
** Su R 2pm
=Early Correspondents=