Thanks - It was good hearing from you - - - - Bill KTompk7744@aol.com wrote: > I checked Brethren Encyclopedia for the earlier name for the congregation > near Stonycreek. Here's what it says: > > "Brotherton, PA< Brothersvalley Church of the Brethren. The first Brethren > reached the Glades, or Brudersthal, area in what became Somerset Co. ca. > 1770. Seventeen members under the leadershipi of Elder George Adam Martin > were organized as the Stony Creek congregation in 1770. Martin and several > others in the group had close ties with the Ephrata Community. Members met > in barns and homes, some of which, such as the Heinrich Roth (Rhoades) house, > were constructed to accommodate meetings for worship. Some of the Stony > Creek members maintain German Seventh Day Baptist sympathies for a time. > Elders succeeding Martin included Michael Meyers, Peter Cober (1776-1854) and > John Forney Sr. (1777-1846). > > "The STony Creek congregation built a number of meetinghouses and also used > schoolhouses for places for meeting. The Pleasant Grove house, built in > 1845, was a love feast house. The 1849 Annual Meeting held there divided > Stony Creek into the Queamoahoning (Maple Spring)< Middle Creek, Elk Lick > (Salisbury) and Berlin congregations. In turn, the Berlin congregation was > divided om 199- omtp tje Ner;om. Sp,ersey Cpimtu. Nrptjersva;;eu amd Sypmu > Creel cpmhrehatopms/ Yje Sp,ersey Cpimtu cpmhrehtopm ,erhed wotj > Nrptjersva;;eu om 1993. amd tje Sypmu Creel cpmhrehatopm dod tje sa,e om > 1990/ Heprhe Scjrpcl )1816-94) and William Sevits )1812-89) were elders at > brothersvalley....." > > Citations include Cooper's Brothersvalley book; also W Pennsylvania (1916) > 57-65 , (1953) 166-92; H. Miller, Record, (1882) 13; Gospel Messenger Nov > 24 1962. p21'; Colonial America 1967. 185; ... Old Home Week, Berlin PA > (1908); W H Welfley, "Berlin & brothersvalley" PG 10 (Oct 1909) 506-09, and > History of Somerset Co. PA (1906) 2:48, 49, 118, 496-99. > > Interestingly enough, when I checked the ministerial lists volume in Brethren > Encyclopedia, while there are a fair number of Kimmels listed, including John > M. Kimmel and David Kimmel, Philip Kimmel's name does not appear. Often > the names were simply gleaned from existing records, so some were bound to be > missed, but the only source I'm aware of for Philip's being a minister is > Cooper. > Hmmm. Apparently something happened as a result of his part in the > Whiskey Rebellion, but Cooper doesn't make it clear. I think the "training" > he took was supposed to have been simply a Bible study class or something > similar but don't recall where Cooper says it was. I could look that up. > > Sorry not to have found anything more helpful. I have to leave in a few > minutes to go give keys to a new tenant who has transferred here from Kansas > City. We finished installing blinds there after church so the family can > move in. > > Happy Sunday.