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====Bay County (Bay City metro)====
=====Bay City=====
* [[Bay City Gospel Hall, MI]] (OB) +19011897-2010+** @ 1610 Broadway Ave. +19041897-1927+, location now "Dad's Workshop" (Joe Hampton's craft supplies). @ Dean & Denny St.; 2484 7 Mile Rd. Kawkawlin, MI - ?-present. folded when Ron Armstrong died, he was in SS with Norman Crawford.
** c/o Mr. Barr, 1706 S. Eric St. +1922+; Roger Allan Mowat +1922-1924 (1857-1924); William Nelson Mowat @ 618 Stanton St. 1924-1927+ (b. 1893 Bay City, MI - d. 1979 [[Longport Gospel Hall Home, NJ|Longport Gospel Hall Home]], Longport, Atlantic, [[New Jersey|N.J.]]); Son of Robert Allan Mowat (b. 1857 [[Scotland|Scot.]] - d. 1924 Bay City, MI) & Anna Nelson Mowat (b. 1868 Sweden - d. 1908 Bay City, MI). Wife: Margaret Kathleen Phillips Mowat (b. 1899 Camden, Chatham-Kent, ON - d. 1963 Bay City, MI), daughter of Archibald Phillips (b. 1861 Camden, Chatham-Kent, ON - d. 1942 London, Middlesex, ON) & Isabella Lovina Kelly Phillips (1867-1909 Camden, Chatham-Kent, ON). William served with the U.S. Army 1918-1919 during WWI. Bookkeeper @ Lewis Mfg. Co., and Peoples Commercial & Savings Bank.
** [https://omeka.religiousecologies.org/files/original/145cca2c50c9d71e565a54c21ef36d3375ec1f9d.jpg 1926 USCoRB] indicated that there were 42 in fellowship (16 men, 26 women) including 5 S.S. teachers presiding over 35 children (for a total of 77). The Hall was a rented facility (with $430 in annual expenses), and $500 was additionally spent towards the Lord's work in 1926.
** LOI 1935-2: F.W. Schwartz, Detroit, Michigan: "I have spent most of my time recently in Michigan during the whole summer in school houses, etc., and more recently in a series at Bay City, with a few calls at other places, and then a brief series at Deckerville. God has been using His Word for which we praise Him. Am just now in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan with Bro. Sheldrake in a series of Gospel meetings. A few interested folks have been coming and we trust that God will give them deliverance at this time. Shall appreciate prayer."
=====Mount Forest=====
====Sanilac County====
=====Croswell=====
* [[Croswell Gospel Assembly Hall, MI]] (OB) +19041897-1915+
** c/o Dr. George Robert Martin +1904+ (b. 1861 Paisley, Bruce, ON, raised in Clinton, ON, d. 1959 Croswell, MI), dentist '''1889-1952''' at Croswell, graduated @ Philadelphia Dental College (later Temple University). Oldest practicing dentist in Michigan at the age of 91.
*** m. Eliza Gee Avery (b. 1864 Oxford, ON - d. 1946 Croswell, MI)
===Alpena County===
====Alpena====
* [[Alpena Gospel Hall, MI]] (OB) +19041897-1915+ +1943-1966+** @ 135 Oldfield St. East +1897+; Third St., near Washington Ave. +1904+
===Arenac County===
*** 2nd wife 1943: Anne Havenga Dixon (b. 1902 Arlene, Missaukee, MI - d. 1969 Sault Ste. Marie, MI), daughter of William "Wubbo" Havinga (b. 1879 Hoorn, Bellingwedde, Netherlands - d. 1960 Grandville, Kent, MI) & Neeltje "Nellie" Van Korlaar Havinga (b. 1869 Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands - d. 1953 Grandville, Kent, MI). Officiated by Baptist pastor Ralph L. Hill @ Sault Ste. Marie, MI.
** [https://omeka.religiousecologies.org/files/original/b04006cb355125d350dd96473e3d1a9a738a69ad.jpg 1926 USCoRB] indicated that there were 48 in fellowship (16 men, 32 women) including 4 S.S. teachers presiding over 45 children (for a total of 93). The Hall was a rented facility (with $527 in annual expenses), and $1,080 was additionally spent towards the Lord's work in 1926.
** LOI 1935-2: F.W. Schwartz, Detroit, Michigan: "I have spent most of my time recently in Michigan during the whole summer in school houses, etc., and more recently in a series at Bay City, with a few calls at other places, and then a brief series at Deckerville. God has been using His Word for which we praise Him. Am just now in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan with Bro. Sheldrake in a series of Gospel meetings. A few interested folks have been coming and we trust that God will give them deliverance at this time. Shall appreciate prayer."
