Please view this website and select on left menu info on Smith cemetery. http://rowanroots.gorowan.com Abraham Braun had grist mill on Persimmon Branch off Crane Creek.. Jacob Braun families lived in same area and many of Jacob's family moved toward Washington Co., TN. Also info on Braun family on same page. Dan Patterson Rowan County Information On-Line www.GoRowan.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Linda Monticelli Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 11:51 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] Schmidts and Brauns on Crane Creek Both Peter Schmidt/Smith and Stephan Braun/Brown were members of the Muddy Creek Lutheran Church in East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and both had some of their children baptized at the Muddy Creek Lutheran Church.  (Source: Hinke and Weiser, Sources & Documents of the Penna.. Germans: Vol. 5, p. 37 and p. 48)   Peter Schmidt/Smith later joined the Ephrata Cloisters in Lancaster County and was baptized there in 1748.  Peter Smith remained what they called a "Householder", meaning that he remained married and lived outside of the Ephrata community on his own land.  When Peter Smith moved to Rowan County, North Carolina he was an Elder of the Church of the Brethren or Dunkard faith.   So far as I know, Peter Smith was the only member of his family who was baptized at Ephrata.  Peter was baptized at Ephrata on 9 April 1748, and his son John was baptized at Muddy Creek Lutheran Church, East Cocalico Township on 19 June 1748.   Some descendants of the Stephan Braun/Brown family are buried at the Union Lutheran Cemetery in Rowan County, leaving one to believe that the Braun family continued in their Lutheran faith after moving to North Carolina..   Linda Monticelli     --- On Sun, 8/31/08, Dwayne Wrightsman <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dwayne Wrightsman <[email protected]> Subject: [ROWANROOTS] Schmidts and Brauns on Crane Creek To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 6:43 PM Two German families--Schmidt/Smith and Braun/Brown--were close neighbors in East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, PA, until the mid-to-late 1750s, when both families settled in the Crane Creek area south of Salisbury, Rowan County, NC. Peter Schmidt headed the Smith family and Stephen Braun headed the Brown family. These two men and their sons and sons-in-law are named on pages 13, 36, 51-52, 66-67, 163, 200-201, etc. of Jo White Linn's early tax lists for Rowan County. Question One: What, other than this, if any, was the connection between these two families? Question Two: What was the religion of the Braun/Brown family? (I am aware that the Schmidt/Smith family had Brethren or Dunkard ties.) Dwayne Wrightsman ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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