I am not preparing to write about every township. Pike is wide,east to west,and narrow,north to south.US RT 68 and Ohio Rt 774 meet near 200 acre Grant Lake [and Lake Manor resturant] in eastern Pike. From Grant Lake east to White Oak Creek,and the very nw corner were the 1st settlements,on rolling ground,in what would become Pike township.There has never been a village,but several hamlets of general store-p.o.-blacksmith shop.Today,modern houses covers much of the township. New Harmony,in the nw corner,may be the largest church-cemetary. The "Moyer 'cemetary behind Meeker's "Locust Ridge Nursing Home'-the largest business, may have been an 1800 Baptist churchyard at Jasper Shotwell Sr's til 1816. I don't know the size of Brown's Chapel cemetary in the s e corner east of RT 68. Tiny Earhart's near the hamlet of Locust Ridge and Brooks cemetary. Mrs Margaret Burbage retired as a Hamersville elementary teacher,and lost her husband,and got bitten by this genealogy bug. She,and Dorothy Helton, took turns for yearsrunning the Brown Co Genealogy Library in Ye Old StoneJail in Georgetown,Oh. She made important additions to my own library,so I'm guessing she made many more to the library where she spent a couple afternoons a week. Hand written or typed groups of family group sheets bound together-not publications. Xeroxed journals,etc. S W Pike-N W Clark TOWNSHIP interested Margaret most. Bob Brown wrote a book of very s e Pike township's Vincent Brown's. My own Iden's,Stone's,and grandfather Fagley's were just west of s e Pike twnsp,in Tate twnsp,Clermont,and the FAGLEY Road street sign points the way to their farms. The Tate township cemetary in Bethel,and Warner cemetary on RT 774,IN N Clark TOWNSHIP have burials of Pike township people. ________________________________________________________________ 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!