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St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church - Munjor

The Catholic church in Munjor is called St. Francis of Assisi. The first church was a frame building, 41 feet x 20 feet, begun in the autumn of 1877 and completed in February 1878. To support a growing congregation, a second building was constructed with the cornerstone laid on Palm Sunday, 1889. By December of that year, the roof was completed and the new church was dedicated in honor of St. Francis of Assisi on the Feast of the Holy Trinity in 1890. The church was 105 feet long, 39 feet wide, and 50 feet high.

Emmanuel Baptist Church - Marion

Emmanuel Baptist Church traces its history back to the arrival of Mennonites in Marion County in 1873. The group that established Emmanuel Baptist was not historically Mennonite, but came in 1876 from the Volga German colonies around Yagodnaya Polyana. This group worshiped originally in a little stone school house on the Jacob Ehrlich farm, one and one-half miles northwest of Marion.

St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church - Loretto

The congregation of St. Mary, Help of Christians at Loretto was founded in Illinois, Kansas, about four and one-half miles south of Pfeifer as is an offshoot parish. The founders of the new parish were:

Peter Basgall
John W. Basgall
John K. Basgall
Casper Holzmeister
John P. Roth
Jacob Stremel
Leo Stremel
Anton J. Stremel
John R. Stremel
Adam Stremel
John P. Stegman
Adam S. Urban
George J. Urban
Joseph M. Urban
Adam Urban, Sr.
Martin Urban
George G. Urban

St. Joseph's Catholic Church - Liebenthal

At first, church services for Liebenthal residents were held in homes or in the open air (weather permitting) whenever an itinerate priest would visit the village. The first Roman Catholic church was completed in October 1878. The complete church measured 48x28 feet, with a sacristy of 15x15 feet on the west side, all of native stone. In the fall of 1889, a parish house was erected and in the year 1897 the first parochial school, measuring 60x3O feet, was built.

Seventh Day Adventist Church - Lehigh

By 1891, a large church building had already been constructed by the Seventh Day Adventists who had settled in and around Lehigh. Among the early members of this congregation were:

A. Harder
F. Becker
George A. Ehrlich
Heinrich Stabel
Jacob Weber
Conrad Sell
Peter Becker
Christian Stabel

In 1901, a large part of the congregation relocated to Shattuck, Oklahoma, and joined the Seventh Day Adventist Congregation there.

St. Michael's Catholic Parish - Lacrosse

St. Michaels Parish was founded in 1911 and in 1922 became a mission of the Sacred Heart Parish in Cordia. By 1929, the Sacred Heart Parish was in dire financial circumstances, while the LaCrosse congregation was growing rapidly. This prompted the Rt. Rev. August J. Schwertner, Bishop of Wichita, to move Rev. Fr. Hard, resident Priest in Cordia, to LaCrosse. The residents of Cordia agreed to sell their rectory to LaCrosse and in spring of 1929, the house was moved to the corner of 9th & Lincoln Streets in LaCrosse where it stood until being dismantled in the mid-1960s.

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