Children playing at recess in summer Bible school, Protection Mennonite Church, Comanche County, Kansas, circa 1948.
Photo courtesy of Twyla White

• Antioch Church, Avilla Township, 1917 Dedication and 1959 History.

• First Christian Church, Coldwater, Kansas

• Report of the Wilmore Church of Christ, August 23, 1953.

• Dedication of the Wilmore Christian Church, March 15, 1913

• James Allen NICHOLS, Pastor of the Wilmore Church of Christ in 1952
  Funeral, Marriage & Baptismal records from his Pastoral Record Book.
  Surnames: Berrey, Bish, Cruzan, Delaney, Emerick, Ferrin, Fleming, Fry, Hansen, Huck, Lenertz, Mangels, Mathews, Monroe, Nichols, Raney, Schauf, Skinner, Swaney, Toothaker & Trummel.

• Baptist Church, Wilmore, Kansas by David Lawrence

• Mennonites In Comanche County, Kansas by Ursula Miller, 1948.

• Protection Mennonite Church by Orlin Loucks, 1997.

• The Wilmore Methodist-Christian Butchering Bee Prelude to Supper
  A photograph of the 18 men from the Wilmore Methodist & Christian churches with some of the 8 hogs they'd slaughtered for the community's annual Methodist - Christian Brotherhood groundhog supper to which the entire community was invited. Pictured circa 1954 are: Ed Baker, Lew Baker, Rod Baker, Marvin Belcher, Jack Bond, Gene Dorsey, Ernest Ferrin, Wendel Ferrin, Bob Hackney, Louis Helm, George Kennedy, Charley Lenertz, Rev. Wayne Riggs, Homer Ring, Fay Smith, Melvin Smith, Leo Thornberry and Ord Trummel.

• Obituary of James Marion ALEXANDER
  Organized the first Methodist Church in Wilmore, Kansas
  Surnames: Alexander, Faber, Farney, Freeman, Gray, Harris, Irwin, Nelson, Ruff, Seaman, Snyder, Spellmeyer, Turner, Whitman & Williams.

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Audio: Bringing In The Sheaves

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This webpage will eventually include a listing of all the churches in Comanche County. If you'd like to have your church featured on this website, and can email me the text you'd like to have on the page featuring your church, I'll be happy to put the information online.

One of the expressions I recall my grandfather, Ernest Ferrin, using is "You have to do what you can with what's on hand". For that reason, the first page on a Comanche County, Ks, church to be added to this site is on the Wilmore Christian Church, to which my family belonged and which a few of my earliest memories concern, such as being at a service in the church and a "Sunday Potluck Picnic" on the lawn beside the church one sunny afternoon. -- Jerry Ferrin