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University Daily Kansan, October 29, 1982
Flory clan stays close with faith
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
In 1864, Abraham and Lavina Flory, both German Baptist Brethren, moved from Indiana to Douglas County and settled at Pleasant Grove, south of Lawrence.
In 1880, groups across the country who were not satisfied with the German Baptist church broke off and formed the Church of the Brethren.
Today, Abraham and Lavina's many descendants, belonging both to the German Baptist and Brethren churches, continue to inhabit Pleasant Grove, Lone Star, Willow Creek, Baldwin and Lawrence.
In fact, there are so many Florys that Harve Flocke, a German Baptist and a great-grandson of Abraham and Lavina, and Anna Flocke, a Brethren and
great-great granddaughter of Lavina's family, have no idea how many Floyers work, worship and pray in Douglas County.
THE FLORYS hold an annual reunion to see all their relatives, and usually 100 people attend, they said.
"The woods are full of them," Anna said.
harve said that a sect of the German, Baptists, known as Dunkers for the way they baptize, fied to Pennsylvania from Germany early in the 18th century to escape religious persecution. In 1783, the group settled in County, Penn, according to the Flory family history compiled by Leslie Florv, Princeton, T.J.
Harve and his wife, Elsie, live $2 \frac{1}{2}$ miles south of Pleasant Grove and eight miles south of Baldwin. Anna and her husband, Homer, live about a mile
THOSE FLORYS who have remained German Baptists have retained many of the customs of their ancestors, Harve said.
northwest of Lone Star and 11 miles south of Lawrence.
Harve said the Bible instructed the German Bantists to dress similarly.
Harve and Elsie, for example, both dress in the uniform of the German Baptists. A stiff, white beard jutted from Harve's chin, as is fashionable among German Baptists. He was dressed in a blue shirt, pants and suspenders. Elsie was dressed in a white bonnet and ankle-length dress.
"The Bible says, 'Be a separate people known and read by all men.'"
Harve said the German Baptists would not know each other if they did not dress the same.
"If we see a member dressed in our uniform we salute him." he said.
HARVE AND HIS wife have no television or radio in their house because the church does not allow these women, the church also does not allow dancing, he said.
The German Baptists also do not believe in fighting in war.
Harve said the closest he had come to a dance was about 60 years ago, when he brought pops to a neighborhood where they did. He said they did not go to movies, either.
Harve said his grandsons, Donald and Eldon, both worked in various non-combat roles as conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War. He said that he and his sons, Wayne and Katie, were trained for combat draft during World War II but that the government said they could remain on their farm.
TODAY, HOWEVER, some of the Flories, including some of their eight grandchildren, are no longer German Bantists.
Myra Banning, whose maiden name was Flory, said her father was a German Baptist, but her mother was an English Baptist who lives in Lawrence, is a Lutheran.
Anna and Myra said that the Brethren branched off from the German Baptists because the Brethren wanted to become modern. Unlike the German Baptists, the Brethren play and sing in their churches, they said.
However, Anna said both religions took part in the Lord's Supper, a full communion, in which they ate unleaveen bread, and beef. Before a Lord's Supper she had to tell her Jesus as Jesus told his disciples to do before the Last Supper, she said.
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