assertion #3732136 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-04-11: confidence 0%.
is a(n):branch?
assertion #3732139 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 0%.
started:between 1860 and 1866
toured the area
assertion #3732135 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-04-11: confidence 100%.
ended:about 1914
toured the area
assertion #3746135 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-04-11: confidence 100%.
description:The members began meeting and organized before 1866. At the 1868 general conference, they requested to be included in the Illinois district. Brother Southwick was the spiritual leader and considered “father of the branch." For several years the group met occasionally when missionaries came through the neighborhood. “On the Old Geneva Road, in Walworth County, in the midst of a large cornfield, is the only Mormon church in Wisconsin. The worshippers who congregate there belong to the Iowa Saints, known as 'Young Josephites.' They abhor both the Brighamite and Strangite doctrines. The church is situated at a cross-roads, almost within view of beautiful Geneva Lake, six or seven miles south of Elkhorn. Glancing to the four points of the compass, one sees great fields of waving corn, interspersed here and there with a strip of yellow barley glinting in the sunlight, or a clump of trees through which peers a substantial looking farmhouse. The little church is a plain building with belfry, neatly painted white, and bearing on a tablet above the wide front door this legend in raised letters of wood: LATTER DAY SAINTS’ CHURCH.” (Legler Moses of the Mormons p 1 footnote). Members came from miles around to the location. Most came from Lyons about 11 miles to the east. Many members died and some moved away. In later years, some joined the Hedrickite movement. "Another small Mormon group remains in Walworth County, though belonging to that split or branch of the original Mormons known as the 'Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints' which was formed by Joseph Smith, Jr., in 1860. Of considerable numbers throughout the country, they have no connection with the Salt Lake branch and sect. This group was formed in Delavan and Geneva townships in 1886, and a year later built a church near Delap’s Corners, on the Williams Bay. Elkhorn Road, a mile and a half north of the Bay. There are about sixty nominal members of this organization. Their simple, little old white frame building bears upon its front only the mystic letters, “L.D.S.,” a designation which leads many a passing motorist to wonder, “What kind of a church can that be ?”—a question which, so far as the knowledge of most of them goes, remains forever unanswered.' Members: McDowells, Delapps, Charles H. Burr, Albert Hare, Catherine and Roswell Wilcox, Sam Andrews, and Joshua Hackett. Henry Sherman and wife, Uriah and Mary Nickerson, Charles and Ann Davis, Sarah Askin, Joseph Pendleton and sister Rosella, brother and sister Campbell, Fred and Martha, Floyd Kirshner and Daisy, William and Jane Barnes., Fred A. and Laura Ball, Anthony and Harriet DeLapp, Henry and Laura Southwick, Albert and Emma Delapp, Lester and Caroline Williams, Charles and Martha , Lastella burr, Albert, Eunice, Ethel, James Hare, Jennie Leland, Mary Johnson, Emma Haxton, Minnie Perry, Carrie Wilcox, Samantha Cogswell, Brother Carnegie, Mary Burnsk, Hilas Dalrymple, Howard and Lena Delapp, Paul and Catheine Delapp, Floyd and Mildred Fabian, sister Brown. Delapp, anthony Lowe and Harrington, Isaac Morey, Darius J Morey, Isaac Morey, lived at east Delavan. Mary Richardson, Sarah Scott. Later the Marble family living at Racine joined when Geneva branch closed. Howard Delapp was the last branch president.?
assertion #3732137 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-04-11: confidence 0%.
religion:RLDS
assertion #3732138 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 100%.
located at:Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States
assertion #3714331 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 100%.
location:42°36'0"N, 88°32'28"W
assertion #3720349 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-08-17: confidence 0%.
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assertion #4023064 by bplewe on 2024-06-05: confidence 100%.
see also:Legler. Moses of the Mormons page 1
assertion #3711331 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-04-11: confidence 100%.
