Our next stop is White Church Christian Church, which started as a mission church in 1831. The original church was log. When it was destroyed, it was replaced by a white frame church that gives its name to the current structure that replaced the two previous ones. In the rear of the church is a cemetery which contains several Delaware graves. The Ketchum family was prominent, and one grave is of the Chief while two others belong to brothers who were ordained in the 1850’s.
The family members here chose a similar path to Annie’s as they adopted the new religion and culture of the Americans. Other groups chose to trap, trade, and occasionally scout for the United States Army. These individuals followed a mix of traditional means of self-sufficiency with getting something more than the promised allocations from the US.