Still later, Marion Kent, daughter of Agnes Joyce Kent and Sam Kent, Jr., (and a granddaughter of Sam Kent, Sr.), entered the Novitiate of Madames of the Sacred Heart where she is now known as Mother Kent. She is now stationed in Japan.

Agnes Arkfeld, daughter of Rose Hughes Arkfeld and Rupert M. Arkfeld (great granddaughter of P. A. Hughes) entered the Charity Novitiate at Xavier, Kansas. She took the name of Sister Mary Rosenda. She is now teaching in the parochial schools of Kansas City, Missouri.

Another nun, Sister Mary Remigius, who became a member of the Dominican Order was Rose McCole, daughter of Mary Nolan McCole and Jim McCole, who were early day settlers in St. Patrick's Parish where she was born and raised. At the time she entered the Order, her parents were living in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in Tilden. She died in 1966.

The first priest from this parish was Father Richard Arkfeld who was ordained to the priesthood in the spring of 1962. He is the son of Rose Hughes Arkfeld and Rupert M. Arkfeld and a great grandson of the first settler P. A. Hughes. He served his first year of his priesthood in St. Rose's Parish in Omaha and since that time has been assistant pastor in St. Joseph's parish in Atkinson, Nebraska.

St. Patrick's Parish, begun amid such hardships and with very small numbers, has prospered and enjoys complete religious activity in a well furnished and well maintained church. Its records contain the names of many early settlers (and not a few of their descendants) of all parts of Madison County who attended early day services here. Many people from other parts of the county are buried in St. Patrick's cemetery because it was the first and for some years, the only Catholic Cemetery in Madison County. In the present congregation are the descendants of those who moved in a little later and many who have come in recent years. Each has contributed and continues to contribute, to the growth and development and strong Christian life of the parish and to its influence in the community.

(Anna Hughes, now of Norfolk, supplied us with this story).

First records concerning the Methodist Church was gained from the Nebraska Methodist Historical Society in Lincoln furnished us by Mrs. Herbert Cox. These records show that "at the 20th session of the Nebraska Conference held in Nebraska City, September 30, 1880 (page 22) lists the appointment of W. T. Williams to Battle Creek."

There is no further mention of Battle Creek in the Nebraska Conference minutes prior to the organization of the North Nebraska Conference in September, 1882.

The North Nebraska Conference of the Methodist faith thereafter shows that in the 3rd session of the district held in September, 1884, C. S. Kathan was assigned to Battle Creek. In the

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