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* [[Wauwatosa Bible Chapel, WI|Wauwatosa Bible Chapel]], Milwaukee, [[Wisconsin|WI]] '''+1866'''-18811884; (KLCGrant-EBeb) 1881-1922; (G-EB?) 19221884-1933; (OB) 1933-present
=Families=
** Theophilus Edward "Ed" McCully, Jr. (b. 1927 Des Moines, [[Iowa|IA]] - d. 1956 Napo Pastaza, Ecuador). Killed with Jim Elliot, Peter Fleming, Nate Saint & Roger Youdarian.
** Capt. / Dr. John Thomas "Jay" / "J.T." McCully (b. 1930 Des Moines, IA - '''d. Dec. 30, 2021''' Des Moines, WA). Grad 1952 @ [[Wheaton College]]; 1956 @ Marquette Univ., Milwaukee as an Ob-Gyn, serving at Fort Sill, [[Oklahoma|OK]] 1956-1965+. Enlisted in the Army after medical school, which stationed him in Colorado, Hawaii, Oklahoma & Washington. Founder @ South Seattle Women's Clinic. Retired 1989. 1st wife (1951, met @ Wheaton College): Janet Christine Rust McCully (b. 1930 Chicago, IL - d. 1996), daughter of James Edmund Rust (b. 1898 Chicago, IL - d. 1988 Tacoma, Pierce, WA) & Clara Martha Johnson Rust (b. 1902 Chicago, IL - d. 1989 Seattle, WA); 2nd wife (2000): Betty Danenhour Lockhart-McCully. Memorial @ Des Moines Gospel Chapel, WA.
==Kroonemeyer family==
** John Kroonemeyer served 53 years as a Presbyterian pastor in several churches in the Coulee region, starting with New Amsterdam (1904+), then La Crosse, Mindoro, Holmen, West Salem, La Crescent, then Fellows, CA (1947-1950). He was orphaned at the age of 12, and in a home for children he "became interested in gardening and flowers. Through this talent he was one of six to be chosen to come to the U.S., landing at Grand Rapids, Mich," at the age of 17. When he was 20, he served with the U.S. Cavalry until he was 23, at a fort in [[Montana]]. His first wife, Mary, was daughter of his landlady. Ordained as an evangelist in 1897. "As a 'spiritual gardener' he was known for his kindness, faith and understanding".
* Esther Elizabeth Knippel Kroonemeyer (b. 1906 Milwaukee, WI; m. 1934 @ Milwaukee, WI; d. 1988 Waukesha Co., WI), daughter of William Albert Knippel (b. 1875 Milwaukee, WI), a carpenter, and Mary Anna Bolliger Knippel (b. 1877 Chicago, IL).
==Schwerdfager family==
Ida was raised Lutheran, but got saved and came into fellowship with the Grants about 1903, and was teaching a S.S. class by 1905. She met her widowed husband from [[Osgoode Bible Chapel, ON|Osgoode, ON]] thru a Grant laboring brother who recommended them to one another, which motivated him to take a train from Osgoode to Milwaukee to meet her, and they married within two weeks, settling in Osgoode. He had two children from his first marriage who both died of TB, and he and Ida had one daughter. Ida and her daughter came into fellowship with the TW's in 1935 where her daughter met her husband.
* Ambrose Schwerdfager '''1913''' (1854-1929)
* Ida Knippel Schwerdfager '''1903-1913''' (1873-1953)
=Sources=
* Ancestry.com
* Philip Bertram Allan 9-27-25 via FB