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