Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting
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Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).[1] It is one of the seven bodies that represent the five different branches of the Society of Friends in Ohio.[2]
It is affiliated with Friends General Conference and encompasses 20 monthly meetings in Southwest Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.[3]
After the formation of the Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1821, a number of offshoot organizations were formed, stretching from Ohio to Illinois.[4] After a number of organizational changes and splits starting in 1830, the new name Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting was selected, and the meetings continue to date.[5][6]