--part1_15c.2c9ea7a.29048e08_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_15c.2c9ea7a.29048e08_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <BRETHREN-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (rly-yc01.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.33]) by air-yc02.mail.aol.com (v81.9) with ESMTP id MAILINYC23-1021142345; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:23:45 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (v81.9) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYC15-1021142315; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:23:15 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f9LIKaB15529; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:20:36 -0600 Resent-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:20:36 -0600 X-Original-Sender: ebitting@bridgewater.edu Sun Oct 21 12:20:35 2001 From: "Emmert Bittinger" <ebitting@bridgewater.edu> Old-To: <BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com> Old-Cc: <[mailto:rsdmn@aurora.uaf.edu> Subject: RE: [BRE] Valentine Powers Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:18:46 -0400 Message-ID: <MABBIJKMKNCKDDHOFFNBAEEECDAA.ebitting@bridgewater.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <v01540b02b7f717debb2c@[137.229.95.11]> Resent-Message-ID: <JdBsIC.A.dyD.0Hx07@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/20185 X-Loop: BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: BRETHREN-L-request@rootsweb.com REPLY FROM EMMERT: Diana, this is in response to your question about Valentine Powers. Valentine Powers was put out of the church because of his pro-military stance. First he was counseled by the Annual Meeting in 1785, but because he continued in "error" he was put out in the Annual Meeting of 1790. His brother, Martin Powers, apparently continued to serve the remnants of the South Branch Congregation, until his death in 1811. The congregation apparently split over the V. Power issue in 1790, and Valentine P. went to another congregation. The original spelling of the last name of Valentine and Martin was BOWERS, and they had come to the South Branch about 20 or 30 years earlier with a group of migrants from Pennsylvania. Incidentally, there is a lengthy history of the Brethren families that settled on the South Branch and made up this congregation in the 1770s and 1780s. It is found in Chapter 6 of Allegheny Passage. Also, the Powers Family history is included in that chapter, as well as in a more detailed article published in Brethren Life and Thought, Fall, 1989 (Vol. XXIV, No. 4.) Emmert Bittinger -----Original Message----- From: Diana M. Nelson ] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:12 AM To: BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BRE] Valentine Powers Merle Rummel writes about the history of the church: http://www.cob-net.org/docs/brethrenlife_journal.htm 1772 "South Branch Church (Grant County, WV) Martin Power, minister -in 1785 this church is the center of a dispute over pacificism, Valentine Powers is Banned." Merle, Thank you giving us such access to the history of this church. I have just found out from the Hardy Co.(Grant Co) site on Rootsweb that Valentine Powers was a minister of the Brethren Church. Then when I read your information, I was wondering if you could tell me more about what was going on with the South Branch Church. The Hardy Co. site does have a lot of marriages done by Valentine Powers, but is there any records of the baptisms for the church or records of the membership. Was Martin Power related to Valentine Powers? I have also seen Valentine Powers named also spelled Pfost? Do you know who his parents were and where he was from? Thank you, Diana in AK ==== BRETHREN Mailing List ==== 5 ---------------------------------------------- This is the Brethren Genealogy and History Network we are sponsored by The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists You are invited to join the membership of FOBG For further information e-mail McAdams@udayton.edu ------------------------ ==== BRETHREN Mailing List ==== 3 ---------------------------------------------- This is the Brethren Genealogy and History Network we are sponsored by The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists You are invited to join the membership of FOBG For further information e-mail McAdams@udayton.edu ------------------------ --part1_15c.2c9ea7a.29048e08_boundary--