--- On Wed, 3/23/11, Wayne Lucore <[email protected]> wrote: From: Wayne Lucore <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BRE] Was there really a Grayson County, Kentucky, Brethren Church? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 4:38 PM In looking at my tree, it appears the main family I find in Grayson Co, KY is Stovers, - Joseph b 1803 VA, sons Albert b 1825 and Lewis b 1840.  These were descendants of Rev Wm Stover of Antietam and thus distant cousins of mine, probably Brethren.   Wayne Lucore --- On Wed, 3/23/11, Dwayne Wrightsman <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dwayne Wrightsman <[email protected]> Subject: [BRE] Was there really a Grayson County, Kentucky, Brethren Church? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 3:02 PM Other than a document written by Elder Joseph Roland of Western Kentucky Brethren fame, in which he claims he organized a Brethren church in Grayson County, Kentucky, in October 1814, I have yet to see anyone ever write anything about it in the Brethren literature.  I'm speaking of the writings of David B. Eller, our own Merle Rummel, Roger Sappington, Rolland F. Flory, J. H. Moore, the Brethren Encyclopedia, etc.  There's nothing out there that I can find. Was there really such a church? There are names in the 1810 census for Grayson County that look like Brethren names, but I don't know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. I chose the 1810 census (preceding the alleged 1814 organization) since Brethren congregations usually seem to be officially organized after the fact from already established groups of preaching-point members and participants. I would have liked to copy the list of names from the 1810 census to this site but could not without permission and a lot of red tape.  Maybe some of you have the time and interest to see if you can find any familiar names. The census is easy to access by Googling "1810 census Grayson County Kentucky" which brings you to the page for Kentucky counties that start with the letter G.  From there one just scrolls down to Grayson.  There were not many families living there back in 1810, and it has a low population even today. Dwayne Wrightsman