Perry township is Brown Co's largest,and most northern,and most settled by Catholic immigrants. Before Interstate highways, US highways were our most important,and Perry township has,in the village of Fayetteville, the inter- section of 2. US RT 68 and US RT 50. The latter replaced an 1806 road between Cincinnati and the Ohio state capital then at Chillacothe-the Anderson State Rd. The latter is yet the name of the county road n e of Fayetteville to the Catholic center at St. Martin's,and it's tiny,today, Chatfield College. The northern line is north of St Martin's 2-3 miles at my friends,the Adae's "A +M Fruit farm. The s w corner of Perry township,1814, was at [my wife's] Samuel Ashton's "old place". or,roughly where Ohio Rt 286 crosses the East Fork of the Miami River. The latter stream provides well drained soils amid the too flat lands that were white oak swamps. Roughly,the East Fork runs from the s w corner to the n e corner via Fayetteville. Formed in 1814 as a Clermont Co township,Perry township fell into Brown Co in 1818. 1st settlement seems in the 1811-20 era,and in the unevan lands along the East Fork, and then later in the 1820's and 1830's the swamps were drained by Europeans sometimes exeperienced in Europe with Low Land FARMING. Today,huge combines harvest soybeans on the flatter lands. Cincinnati Catholic Bishop Purcell had something to do with the several Catholic buildings built in-near Fayetteville and St Martins. That's another tale. Let's say that the area from Stonelick Creek west of Owensville, east thru Marathon,Vera Cuse,Fayetteville,to St Martins along US RT 50, became,in part, a rural settlement of Cincinnati's Catholic immigrants. Ripley,on the Ohio River,and mid Brown Co's German settlement of the 1830's at Arnheim,also had Catholic churches,but I count 5 from Stonelick to St Martin's. Besides their churchyards, there was on RT 50,east of Marathon, a Methodist cemetary named for Samuel Cranmer. It dates from about 1820,or too late for the grave of Samuel Ashton's 1st wife, Hannah Johnson,once of Tom's River,NJ shore. There is a big,and current ,cemetary west of FIVE MIle,on RT 286,of the Church of Christ,and just sw,but out of the township, BloomRose current cemetary. The nw corner of Perry may have buried at West Woodville cemetary,in Clermont. There is a big cemetary just east of Perry township, at the Anderson State Rd,and the highway from Dodsonville to Lynchburg.[Highland Co]. I've isted a Holden family cemetary sw of Fayetteville,on the north side of the East Fork,and a Fritz cemetary ne of Fayetteville. Northern Perry may have buried just north,in Clinton Co,at Midland and Westboro n RT 68. They had the closest RR. Some portion of n w Perry township has to be in Blanchester,Clinton Co schools. Indeed,my very own uncle,Savyl Brown,who farmed in n w Perry township,was buried in Blanchester,Clinton Co ,cemetary. There is a Quaker church just north of Perry township,so there may be a Quaker cemetary. Wilmington College,to the north, is a Quaker college. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!