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R Shannondale Community Church-Center.
15 Scrapbook-history,
1930-1967.
Nine volumes.
MICROFILM
This collection consists of printed
material, letters, and photographs from Shannondale Community Church-Center in
Shannon County, Missouri. The materials
detail the establishment of Shannondale and of various religious and social
projects.
The Shannondale enterprise was initiated
on 4 November 1929 as a result of mission work begun earlier by the Rev. Paul
A. Wobus and local evangelist “Brother” Zenith (“Zene”) Yount. Supported by the Board of Missions of the
Evangelical and Reformed Church, Shannondale was to be a nonsectarian
community church for the area. Other
details of early mission work in the area can be found in a manuscript by the
Rev. Wobus, “Early Days in Our Ozark Church Program,” Western Historical
Manuscript Collection-Rolla, collection R008.
The program was expanded in the summer of
1931 with the arrival at Shannondale of Vincent W. Bucher, a student of
theology at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. Bucher returned with his wife and son in 1934 to begin a
thirty-three year career as resident pastor at Shannondale. The Buchers left Shannondale in 1967. The Rev. Bucher now resides in Getzville,
New York.
The Rev. Bucher compiled seven of the
nine scrapbooks in the Shannondale collection. The remaining volumes (volumes eight and nine in the collection)
were compiled by Grace May Baldwin of Florissant, Missouri. These volumes are entitled “A Pictoral (sic) History of Shannondale and
Related Activities” and contain photographs and printed material. The Rev. Bucher and Mrs. Baldwin have
identified and dated the materials wherever possible, and have provided
typewritten commentaries in some instances.
The scrapbooks contain many photographs of the upper Current River and
Shannon County area, and many of the residents of the region are profiled.
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