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=Families=
==DeVoe family==
WiS 1975-4: "Our dear sister Mrs. Nellie O. DeVoe "went home" Feb. 23rd, aged 72. Saved and in fellowship a good number of years, she manifested a love for her Lord and God's people. Greatly missed."
* Angus Alman DeVoe (b. 1896 Argyle, WI - d. 1960 Brodhead, WI), son of Charles E. DeVoe (1863-1915 Argyle, WI) & Lena Gurina Olson Gilbertson DeVoe (b. 1870 Clifton, Grant, WI - d. 1919 Argyle, WI). WWI Vet.
* Nellie Olive Jacobs DeVoe '''+1975''' (b. 1903 Argyle, Lafayette, WI - d. 1975 Monroe, WI), daughter of Levi Jacobs (1875-1930 Argyle, WI) & Leona Shultz Jacobs (b. 1877 Wiota, Lafayette, WI - d. 1955 Eau Claire, WI).
==Gadow family==
Orvel Gadow (1902-1945) was considered the "town drunk" in 1935, and was the first to be saved under the efforts of Mehl & Sheldrake, and was gathered out.This ''Letters of Interest'' tribute by Leonard Sheldrake speaks of his testimony. Spelling typos left in. LOI 1945-5: Leonard Sheldrake, 3719 Penn. Ave., Kansas City, [[Missouri|MO]]: Fruits from Open Air Work: "There is an empty space now in the hearts of the Christians in Brodhead, [[Wisconsin]]. The Lord came and took Orville Godow (sic), the seeming main pillar of the assembly there. He was quite a remarkable man. He had an untarnished testimony as a child of God. For nine years he had preached Christ in and around Brodhead. Before his conversion he was a sinner without religion. Orville Godow was converted on the street corner through street preaching. The first Saturday night Orville heard Mr. Mehl and me, God awakened him. The next Saturday night, as we preached together, God saved him. He was a total stranger to us and did not tell us he was saved for many weeks. The first winter he read the Bible through three times and the next summer when we returned to Brodhead, Orville Gadow and Joe Clarkquist (who is now in Italy) were preaching together on the same corner. It thrilled us to hear them. Now Orville is gone. He was only 43. He leaves a wife and four children. At his funeral, Mr. Mehl and I preached to the largest crowd they ever had in the funeral home. Leading men of the town remarked what a tribute to Orville, a farm boy, that great crowd was. May the Lord Himself raise up others to continue Orville's work. Orville's awakening and conversion were wholly the result of open air work. He was never in a tent or in a hall before conversion."
* Franz Albert Gadow (b. 1871 Germany; emig. 1900; m. 1901 Green Co., WI; d. 1954 Brodhead, WI)
The American patriarch of the Pierce family was Thomas Pierce (b. 1583 Norwich, Norfolk, [[England|Eng. - d. 1666 Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk, [[Massachusetts|MA]]). Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston. His daughter Judith Pierce (1627-1649) was born at Watertown, Middlesex, MA which, considering the city was not officially founded until 1630, that would suggest that Thomas Pierce was among its founders. On [https://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com], some historians of the Pierce family have traced the lineage back to before the time of Christ.
==Gentz family==
WiS 1974-12: Brodhead, WI: "Our dear sister Mrs. Fred Gentz "went home" Oct. 2, aged 64. Saved in the Fall of 1935, while reading John 3:36 at home. With her husband in happy fellowship in this assembly."
* Fred Gentz '''+1974+'''
* Mrs. Fred Gentz '''1935-1974''' (1910-1974)
==Kederli family==
==Zimmerman family==
WiS 1988-2: Brodhead, WI: "Our dear brother, Gerald Zimmerman, age 84, passed into the Lord's presence on Dec. 11. He was saved in early November of 1935 through the preaching of the late brother, Frederick W. Mehl, in meetings held in Juda, WI. He and his wife, Jennie, who went home on May 10, 1971, were among the number who, in Dec. 1935, formed the Brodhead Assembly. Our brother maintained a steadfast course as to the truth of the assembly."
* Gerald Lee Zimmerman '''1935-1987''' (b. 1903 Stephenson, IL - d. 1987 Brodhead, WI), son of Amos Orson Zimmerman (b. 1868 Stephenson, IL - d. 1942 Spring Grove, WI) & Emma Jean Benjamin Zimmerman (b. 1869 Pedee, Spring Grove, Green, WI - d. 1955 Spring Grove, WI).
=Sources=
* Letters of Interest
** 1945-5; 1947-3
* Words in Season
** 1966-6; 1973-5; 1974-12; 1988-2