> I suspect that the Rhoads families of Grayson County might have been a part > of the Grayson County, KY, Brethren church of 1814 organized by Joseph > Roland. But if they were, they were not Brethren after they arrived in > Illinois. Jacob Rhoads was moderator and Henry Rhoads was clerk of the > five-member Baptist Church located in Medora, organized by them 21 April > 1832. If you have followed the transition that occurred following the 1820-1826 actions of Annual Meeting, and the Annual Meeting Elders - against the "Frontier Brethren", many brethren in Kentucky did become Primitive Baptists and General Baptists - in records that I found, frequently the family (those that remained "behind") can be traced to lists of founding members in local Baptist churches. The Brethren Association, reported as 16 congregations, of Kentucky and Indiana refused to accept the legalisms of Annual Meeting, and said that they were "expelled". All of the congregations that I studied - some 22-23 - did not remain in the Brethren denomination - and by 1830 and 1840 are definitely other denomination. I have found a few since the study - and they mostly became Baptist or Disciples of Christ. A large group of the Kentucky Brethren went with the "Great Revival" (or the "Reformation" as the Disciples called it). These were sometimes Disciples of Christ and other times Church of Christ - both Campbellite. Many Baptist churches were found in the locales where there originally were Brethren congregaitons (occasional there were early records that included Brethren family names in the Baptist Churches). As above stated - some were Primitive Baptist, some General Baptist - and at the Drakes Creek Church (where many Brethren had gone on to Missouri as Universalists) - the Brethren Minister William Lowe afterward served the Trammel's Creek General Baptist Church and the Lick Creek Primitive Baptist Church, both being areas in the original Drakes Creek Church. Lick Creek records included Brethren family names - I found no records on early Trammel's Creek. Asbury College/University had as a founding father, a grandson of Elder Jacob Rohrer, who had taken the Jessamine Creek Church to the Methodists, after being condemned by the Brethren Elders. Similar occured with the Shively Family, and the Parkview Methodist Church (earliest Methodist Church in Louisville) was originally Brethren with the Shively family at Shively KY. As mentioned above, many of the Pietist "Eternal Restorationists" of the Carolinas had gone to Kentucky. Mostly from the Drakes Creek Church, the connected Hendricks families (Roland, et al) moved on to Missouri, as Universalists. But I have found a similar trace among others of these early churches - including Miller families here at Four Mile (Union Co IN). I have found it interesting, in messages from some of you on the List, stating that you ancestor family was Brethren, but went Baptist or Methodist. Usually the date of change occurred about the time they lived in Kentucky. Merle C Rummel

Hello, does anyone have access to a copy of this book, and be willing to do a lookup? I'm still trying to determine if Abraham Kintzinger/Kensinger was Mennonote or Brethren, and I'm researching his neighbors to see if there are any clues there. Abraham had land warranted in Lancaster county, but never had it patented. Thanks, Ken