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Palmyra Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]), (now extinct), located two miles east of Palmyra, [[Marion County (Missouri, USA)|Marion County]], Missouri, USA), a member of the [[South Central Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|South Central Mennonite Conference]], had its beginning in 1884, when Jacob Rohrer and family moved here, followed by the Isaac Rohrer, E. L. Buckwalter, and J. M. Hershey families. J. M. Kreider was ordained minister for the work in 1898, and moved here with his family, accompanied by the J. H. Hershey family, all of [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], PA. The meetinghouse was built in 1907. The membership in 1955 was 15, with Harry R. Buckwalter and Harold Kreider as ministers. In that year the congregation dissolved.
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