Virginia, Is there a listing of the names of those who left for the hinterlands in early 1800's (prior to 1805). My wife is a descendant of Cornelius Yowell and his wife Clara Ann. We're trying to locate where they lived in Virginia before moving to Ohio, and eventually to Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. What route was most likely taken to get to the Boone County area from where the Lutheran communicants lived in Virginia? Dick On 11/2/2010 9:49 PM, Virginia Nuta wrote: > > On 3 October 1803, several communicants in the Hebron Lutheran Church of Madison County, who were about to migrate to Kentucky, were noted in church records as leaving "for the hinterlands." The church was founded by 2nd Colony Germanna immigrants and familiar names such as Aylor, Beemon, Blankenbaker, Brumback, carpenter, Clore, Crigler, Crisler, Deer, Delph, Hoffman, Holsclaw, Holt, House, Rector, Rouse, Synder Stansifer, Tanner, Utz, Wayman, Waver, Wilhoit, Yager, Yowell and Zimmerman migrated to what is now Boone County, Kentucky. Many of their descendants live there today. > > In 1812-13, William Carpenter, pastor of the church, followed, and founded the Hopeful Lutheran Church in Boone County, after differences with church elders over whether the church should begin services in English, rather than German. > > Kathy Easton Caminiti, Rouse/Deer/Tanner descendant, with Michael Rouse and the former pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church, the Rev. Charles Aylor, are planning a "Germanna in the Hinterlands" meeting near Burlington, Boone County, KY, on the Wednesday following Germanna's July 15-17 Reunion in Virginia. It is hoped that the timing will allow travelers to Germanna to move on - just a little bit - to Kentucky. > > The area is just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. > > Planned so far are two lectures at the church: Germanna descendants in Boone County, and the History of the Hopeful Lutheran Church, as well as cemetery and courthouse tours and a special dinner at the 1819 Tousey House in Burlington Ky. > > Contact Kathy Caminiti for more details [email protected] > > > If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link to your on-line data. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16180) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16180) http://www.pctools.com/ =======

Dick -- The names we are aware of are in my original posting, and DOES include Yowell. As to routes, Madison County, VA, is kind of halfway between the usual northern route, which would have been the Monongahela to Pittsburgh and then down the Ohio, and the southern route through the Cumberland Gap. If there was a more direct route the WV that early, I haven't heard about it. I have often wondered how the very early Germanna migrants who went to Kentucky made the trip, and I would love to hear from others. But I do have know of an 1836 route. This is an account of the 1836 trip taken by Henry Washington Smith, who was both 1st and 2nd cousin to my ancestor Franklin W. Yager, through the Carpenter and Yager families. I believe my ancestor Franklin W. Yager was with this group: "First we went to Wolftown (in Madison Co., VA), crossed the Rapidan River, then the Middle River to Stanardsville, crossed the Blue Ridge Mts. into the Shenandoah Valley, crossed the Shenandoah River near Harrisonburg - then south-westerly for a long stretch and crossed the Warm Spring Mountains into the Valley of Warm Springs Mountains, in the Valley of Warm & Hot Springs; then crossed the Alleghenies into Greenbrier County (West Virginia) - through Lewisburg, thence Northwest along New River to Gauley River and crossing the Gauley River where it empties into the New River forming the Kanawa - thence down the Kanawa River to Charleston- crossed the Kanawa River and travelled west until we reached the mouth of the Big Sandy River where it empties into the Ohio - crossed at Catlesburg into Kentucky - thence westerly through Flemingsburg, Frankton, Newcastle, La Grange, Brownsboro into Oldham County where I lived three years with the family of cousin Isaac Smith. I was married to Permelia Garr October 1, 1840, and went to housekeeping in March 1841." This was dictated to Nancy Elon Smith. (Account obtained from the genealogical work of Debby Smith Beheler, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.) Virginia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Ferguson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Boone Co., KY, Germanna Meeting planned next July 20 > Virginia, > > Is there a listing of the names of those who left for the hinterlands in > early 1800's (prior to 1805). My wife is a descendant of Cornelius > Yowell and his wife Clara Ann. We're trying to locate where they lived > in Virginia before moving to Ohio, and eventually to Indiana, Kentucky > and Illinois. What route was most likely taken to get to the Boone > County area from where the Lutheran communicants lived in Virginia? > > Dick > > On 11/2/2010 9:49 PM, Virginia Nuta wrote: >> >> On 3 October 1803, several communicants in the Hebron Lutheran >> Church of Madison County, who were about to migrate to Kentucky, were >> noted in church records as leaving "for the hinterlands." The church was >> founded by 2nd Colony Germanna immigrants and familiar names such as >> Aylor, Beemon, Blankenbaker, Brumback, carpenter, Clore, Crigler, >> Crisler, Deer, Delph, Hoffman, Holsclaw, Holt, House, Rector, Rouse, >> Synder Stansifer, Tanner, Utz, Wayman, Waver, Wilhoit, Yager, Yowell and >> Zimmerman migrated to what is now Boone County, Kentucky. Many of their >> descendants live there today. >> >> In 1812-13, William Carpenter, pastor of the church, followed, and >> founded the Hopeful Lutheran Church in Boone County, after differences >> with church elders over whether the church should begin services in >> English, rather than German. >> >> Kathy Easton Caminiti, Rouse/Deer/Tanner descendant, with Michael >> Rouse and the former pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church, the Rev. >> Charles Aylor, are planning a "Germanna in the Hinterlands" meeting near >> Burlington, Boone County, KY, on the Wednesday following Germanna's July >> 15-17 Reunion in Virginia. It is hoped that the timing will allow >> travelers to Germanna to move on - just a little bit - to Kentucky. >> >> The area is just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. >> >> Planned so far are two lectures at the church: Germanna descendants >> in Boone County, and the History of the Hopeful Lutheran Church, as well >> as cemetery and courthouse tours and a special dinner at the 1819 Tousey >> House in Burlington Ky. >> >> Contact Kathy Caminiti for more details [email protected] >> >> >> If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link to your on-line >> data. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> ======= >> Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. >> (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16180) >> http://www.pctools.com/ >> ======= >> > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.16180) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link to your on-line > data. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5598 (20101107) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > >

"I have often wondered how the very early Germanna migrants who went to Kentucky made the trip, and I would love to hear from others." Your comment jolted a paper copy I have of the Vawter Family in America by Grace Vawter Bicknell, Indianapolis The Hollenbeck Press 1905. Found in Los Angeles Public Library Discarded It gives quite an insight to the many settlers that came Kentucky way. I have the copy due to the fact I am related to the Stapps and Wilhites(sic) It is an interesting read. "On the day's travel before reaching Crab Orchard, Uncle Achilles Stapp was so exhausted that he sat down at the root of a tree, determined to remain there alone, saying that if the Indians came, come they must, he could not and would not go any farther. Presently, along came Mollly Jackson, a cousin to my father, and gave the tired man a bottle of whisky. He drank, and it so revived him that he traveled on with the rest. That night the most of the company reached Crab Orchard. All except mother lay down as if all danger was over. She armed herself with a small ax and kept watch, but in the morning all were safe." " At night we reached Joseph Delaney's, where Richmond now is, in Madison county, Kentucky. We crossed the Kentucky river. One of the pack horses lay down in the river with mother's feather beds. We passed through Lexington that same day and arrived, all tired out, at Achilles Stapp's in about sundown on the 22nd of September, 1790" As I know Achilles is the brother of my Lucy Stapp it was interesting.