Merle: The counties mentioned are where my Beckelhymers/Pickelesimers, etc. were living in the late 1700s and early 1800s. I have exhausted most of the land transactions for these names, but was just wondering if there might not be church records available that might have some genealogical information on this family. I do not believe the LDS church has any of the COB records for these counties on microfilm. John Charles Tippet JohnDoeTippet@csi.com ---------- > From: Merle Rummel <cliffr@infocom.com> > To: BRETHREN@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: VA COB > Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 1:03 PM > > >Does anyone know if there were COB churches in Montgomery, Botetourt or > >Franklin County, VA, and if so, if any church records available? > > > >John Charles Tippet > >JohnDoeTippet@csi.com > > > > > There were Brethren in Montgomery Co as early as 1740 (including Alexander > Mack Jr), Franklin Co settlement was established before Elder Jacob Miller > moved there in 1773 -and is one of our larger areas, Botetourt had > Brethren settlers about the same time. > > Why don't you ask about some names? There are some records, but ones I > know about are not church records. Gertrude Mann was the Franklin Co > Historian, she told me that her records were going to Ferrum College when > she died -and 30 years ago she was in her 70s. > > Merle C Rummel > Church Historian > > > ==== BRETHREN Mailing List ==== > 7 ------------------- > The Fellowship of Brethren Genealogists > (owners of this list-server) > Now have a Homepage on The World Wide Web > To visit it point your browser to > http://www.cob-net.org/fobg/ > ------------------ > > > > >