Ringgold Record
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
May 29, 1879

Plans are being made to build the Siloam Church for the United Brethren in Washington Twp.

Ringgold Record
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
February 19. 1880

The new Brethren Church stands on FERTIG hill, about half-finished.

NOTE: The Siloam United Brethren Church was later sold and moved to Benton in 1895.

SOURCES:
Diagonal, Iowa: Centennial History p. 168. 1998.
Benton Centennial book

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2010