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<LEGEND>
           This schedule contains summary financial  information  extracted from
the registrant's  unaudited consolidated financial statements for the six months
ended June 30,  1998 and is  qualified  in its  entirety  by  reference  to such
statements.
</LEGEND>
<CIK>                                 0001046183
<NAME>                               Union Community Bancorp
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