Jane, If you check your back issues of Brethren Roots you will find an article about Thomas Miller that if memory serves me correctly discusses Jacob Ronk. And to answer your question yes it is the same individual. The dispute that Merle is discussing is part of the reason that some of the Miller family, Thomas Miller is related to Elder Jacob Miller, went Christian Church. Wayne Webb Back in the Saddle again. ----- Original Message ----- > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 17:52:10 -0600 > From: Jane Davis <jneherda@msn.com> > Subject: [BRE] Jacob Ronk > To: "BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com" <brethren-l@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BLU137-W33270EC9DAD0C003A5E528DED70@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Merle--I have a Jacob Ronk [b.1778, d.1860] and his wife, Amy (Tucker) > Ronk [b. 1803, d. 1863] buried in the Noffsinger Cemetery, Linn Township, > Cedar County, MO. As far as is known, they were Brethren. Is this the > same Jacob Ronk you are mentioning in the Raccoon Creek church? It is > known that Thomas Miller and others came to Cedar County from this church > and helped with organizing the church in MO in 1852 or 1853. > > However, the more that is revealed about this group it appears to have > been spread out through several counties in southwestern MO prior to the > Civil War. It most likely had several preaching points rather than one > central location with the one the 3 Moore families attended near Stockton > being one of several preaching points, or locations, of this church as > there were a number of ministers located within the bounds of this church. > This is perhaps one of the reasons a building was never erected. Jane > Davis.

Thanks, Wayne, for the reminder. I was questioning whether the Jacob Ronk in MO was the same as the one in Indiana since the names of the wives were different. Amy Tucker is buried beside Jacob Ronk in the Cedar County MO cemetery and the Jacob Ronk in IN was married to a Hannah Brothers. I have already found that this Jacob Ronk is the same person--two wives. Hannah died in Indiana and he married Amy before coming to MO. Yes, one of his children (Sarah) is married to Thomas Miller, the minister who remained with the Brethren in Cedar County and who moved to near Fort Scott KS at the beginning of the War. Several of his children were there already, several of them stayed in MO and weathered the war, and several of them returned to Iowa where they lived before coming to MO. The story of Thomas Miller being killed as he fled to KS did not happen, but most likely this story is true. There is another Brethren living in Cedar County who was killed in November 1861, but whether he was fleeing from the bushwhackers is not verified yet, although family accounts say he was killed by guerrillas or bushwhackers. A very close friend of Thomas Miller was forced to leave Dade County (where Miller lived also) and who went to Lawrence KS because of their acquaintance with other Indiana Brethren who lived there. This friend's brother was killed along the KS-MO border later. So, there are several stories of Brethren who were killed, but none of them were Thomas Miller who died on his farm in KS later. Jane. > From: SpiWebb@aol.com> To: brethren@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 07:42:18 -0400> Subject: Re: [BRE] Jacob Ronk> > Jane,> > If you check your back issues of Brethren Roots you will find an article > about Thomas Miller that if memory serves me correctly discusses Jacob Ronk. > And to answer your question yes it is the same individual. The dispute that > Merle is discussing is part of the reason that some of the Miller family, > Thomas Miller is related to Elder Jacob Miller, went Christian Church.> > Wayne Webb> Back in the Saddle again.> > ----- Original Message ----- > > Message: 3> > Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 17:52:10 -0600> > From: Jane Davis <jneherda@msn.com>> > Subject: [BRE] Jacob Ronk> > To: "BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com" <brethren-l@rootsweb.com>> > Message-ID: <BLU137-W33270EC9DAD0C003A5E528DED70@phx.gbl>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> >> > Merle--I have a Jacob Ronk [b.1778, d.1860] and his wife, Amy (Tucker) > > Ronk [b. 1803, d. 1863] buried in the Noffsinger Cemetery, Linn Township, > > Cedar County, MO. As far as is known, they were Brethren. Is this the > > same Jacob Ronk you are mentioning in the Raccoon Creek church? It is > > known that Thomas Miller and others came to Cedar County from this church > > and helped with organizing the church in MO in 1852 or 1853.> >> > However, the more that is revealed about this group it appears to have > > been spread out through several counties in southwestern MO prior to the > > Civil War. It most likely had several preaching points rather than one > > central location with the one the 3 Moore families attended near Stockton > > being one of several preaching points, or locations, of this church as > > there were a number of ministers located within the bounds of this church. > > This is perhaps one of the reasons a building was never erected. Jane > > Davis. > > > ------------------------> Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN> ------------------------> Support Our Sponsoring Agency> The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG)> For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:McAdamsr@hotmail.com> ------------------------> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live SkyDrive lets you share files with faraway friends. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_052008