Joyce, Yes they were brothers. A third brother, William H. Frantz, married Nancy Martin. The parents of the three Frantz brothers who married the women you are researching were John Frantz and Esther Stover. To learn more about the Stover side you might try reading from Richard Weber's book , STOVER BRETHREN, pp. 140, 240-241. For the Frantz side you might try the Winter 2007 issue of BRETHREN ROOTS. Dwayne Wrightsman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Underwood" <groovygrammy@insightbb.com> To: <brethren@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 10:47 AM Subject: Re: [BRE] Frantz France- Washington County, Indiana > > I have A Christopher Frantz (1816-1900) married Polly Wright 1836. I > don't have parents of Christopher as Wright is the name I'm researching. > They went to Illinois. > I also have a Isaac G. Frantz (1820-1879) married Eliza Ann Voyles 1842 > in Washington County, Indiana. Again I don't have parents of Isaac as > Voyles > is the name I'm researching. They also moved to Illinois. > Am I correct in assuming that these gentlemen were brothers? > Joyce

If I may ask, where can I find subscription information to this magazine AND is there a comprehensive name index available so that one can purchace past issues that are relavent to their searches? Blessings, Janet Rogers

Be aware that Wright is an important name in the problems between the Brethren Association of Indiana/Kentucky and the Annual Meeting Elders of Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Amos Wright (wife: Elizabeth Lowe/Lau - Brethren family) was a Dunker from the Uwharrie Church in North Carolina. His brother, Philbert Wright, married into the Brethren Sears Family (a Brethren family of Carolina, who had come to Kentucky and now is prominent in these southern Indiana Churches). John Wright (1785-1851), son of Amos, is credited with being a preacher at the Olive Branch Church (Brethren - probably originally called Ten Mile Creek Church), in Clark Co IN (baptized 1808 in the Ohio River -by William Summers of Kentucky -possibly a Brethren Preacher) - but in 1811, under the influence of the Stone Revival and the Restoration movement of Kentucky, he with Amos, Philbert, and others (including Peter, brother of Amos and Philbert) started the "free-will" Blue River Baptist Church, in Washington Co IN. The "Restoration" movement, coming out of the Great Revival, and the immediately succeeding New Madrid Earthquake, directly involved the Pietist Frontier Brethren -including these 'Brethren Association" churches. How much of Pietism this included is only a hazard guess, but the concept of unity and cooperation among Christians is common from Pietism and present in the "Restoration" movement. This was different from the isolationist stance of the Annual Meeting Brethren, resulting from the persecutions of the recent past American Revolution, and resulted in the advice by the Annual Meeting Elders, of "avoidance" (rejection - Ban) toward these "strange brethren" (Pietist concepts of the earlier Brethren of the Frontier) . By 1827 a type of "merger" between the Wrights' Blue River Association, and the nearby member churches of the Brethren Association resulted in what became later the "Disciples of Christ, Christian". Many of the Brethren of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio were involved - and this resulted in the Brethren Churches of that area being lost to the denomination. I do not know where this Polly Wright connects to John Wright - but this puts these Frantz brothers right in the middle of the whole Brethren problem there in southern Indiana - a problem that resulted in the loss of maybe half of the denomination of that day. Merle C Rummel >> I have A Christopher Frantz (1816-1900) married Polly Wright 1836.