I've known years about the Madison Co,Ky marriages. My colony of Browns, McQueens,Sappingtons,Sapps, Logsdons,Durbins,Wells,Baxters, Stevensons,etc lived in Madison Co,Ky abt 1787-98+.They had lived at Westminster-Hampstead,Md,and at Weirton,WV-NW Wash co,Pa.before Boonesboro,Ky,and they would,in part,live on either bank of the Ohio River along Clermont Co,Ohio. Some were Catholic,and some Episcopal,and they were beginning to be a sect called Methodist. Looking at your Becklehymer web page recently, they might have been Frederick Co,Md neighbors about 1773.But none,except the Sapps[?] were Germanic. In Madison Co,Ky,they lived on 'Trading Hill," or Foxtown,,or White Hall,or Wm Hoy's,aka George Boone's fort,and carried on a packhorse trade between Vincines,Ind and Washington Co,sw Va. The McQueen's spoke French.

Does any one have info on plainview cemetery in clermont. Gracie

Elias Logsdon married Cecelia Hymer circa 1 Feb 1839 in Madison Co, KY. John Hymer married Mary E Durbin circa 1848. These Hymers, Logsdons and Durbins lived in Estill Co, KY with the Hymers being a branch of the same family that is known as Behymer in Clermont Co. I wonder if there is a connection? John Charles Tippet [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [OHCLER] Question for Herman Fagley re: Logsdons > I'm from Capt-Lt-Rev-JP George Brown,d 1814 s Clermont,and his > wife,Elizabeth,of > Thomas,of Dugal McQueen. He was migrating with a colony of his kinsmen,and > with > John Sapp's sons,which included Ky George Sapp.[m to a Logsdon.]My memory > confuses > Logsdons and Durbins. Brown's uncle,Edward's 1st wife was a Durbin,with a > Logsdon mother-memory for all above. Dugal's dau m Edward Logsdon,Sr. > Edward Jr m > George Brown's sister,Mary,of John,of George,Brown. 1798,my GEORGE bROWN > WAS > local > Methodist ministering in the neighborhood of Logsdon's Ferryy,at Ohio Rt > 133,and US RT > 52. > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

I'm from Capt-Lt-Rev-JP George Brown,d 1814 s Clermont,and his wife,Elizabeth,of Thomas,of Dugal McQueen. He was migrating with a colony of his kinsmen,and with John Sapp's sons,which included Ky George Sapp.[m to a Logsdon.]My memory confuses Logsdons and Durbins. Brown's uncle,Edward's 1st wife was a Durbin,with a Logsdon mother-memory for all above. Dugal's dau m Edward Logsdon,Sr. Edward Jr m George Brown's sister,Mary,of John,of George,Brown. 1798,my GEORGE bROWN WAS local Methodist ministering in the neighborhood of Logsdon's Ferryy,at Ohio Rt 133,and US RT 52.

Herman, you know so much about Clermont County, the areas around it,and the people who have lived there, that I have to pose a question or two to you. I descend from a Joseph Logsdon who married Susan Durbin. Determining his parentage is getting confusing. I know that both a John and Joseph Logsdon ran a ferry on Bullskin Creek who appear to be father and son. Was this Joseph the one known as "Bulger" or "Bugler" Joe who died in Ft. Massac, IL? And did this Logsdon family come through Pennsylvania in the 1780s before coming to Ohio? Help! Thanks, Ladonna Viertel

That is wonderful! Are the LDS filming them now or has it already taken place. Do you know when they will be available to see? I may have family who attended way back near the begining of the church. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:35 PM Subject: [OHCLER] Herm Fagley knew Donnie Johns-Old Bethel records. > OLD BETHEL CHURCH AND CEMETERY > by Norma Johns Wuichet > It is difficult to determine when an interest in a particular place > develops. > In the case of Old Bethel Cemetery my interest probably began when I was > about seven years old. At that time Uncle Henry's body was shipped back > from > overseas. Uncle Henry was the son of William David and Isabell Powers > Johns in > Bantam, Ohio. He and his brother, Clarence, were in the Ohio National > Guard and > were called into service during World War I. Henry was killed in action in > France on October 31, 1918, just eleven days before the war ended. He was > buried in > Old Bethel Cemetery and for several years after that the American Legion > held > a service at his grave every Memorial Day. The sound of the rifles being > fired was frightening to me, but family and friends gathered there every > year. Now > on Memorial Day the Legion gathers just inside the cemetery gates and > honors > all the veterans. > The Old Bethel Church was within walking distance of the Johns home and > several members of the family were members there. My mother and dad, > Donnie Lou and > Mamie Miller Johns, were married in Batavia December 24, 1910. They > attended > the Christmas Eve service at Old Bethel that night. They lived in Bantam > for a > few years after their marriage and I was born there. Later we lived in > Batavia for many years, and when I was in high school I took piano, pipe > organ and > voice lessons. When we visited my Johns grandparents on Sundays Geneva > (she is > really my aunt but since she is only five years older than I, I never call > her aunt) and I would go to church at Old Bethel. Invariably the person in > charge would say "Norma is here so she can play the organ for the > service," or > "Norma is here and she can sing a solo, or she and Geneva can sing a > duet." Now > all this is part of the reason for my interest in The Old Bethel Church, > but > there is more. > Grandma Johns died in 1928 while I was in High school, and Grandpa Johns > died > in 1934 while I attending The Ohio State University. This put an end to my > attending church at Old Bethel. Bantam grew smaller as families died and > people > moved away. Church membership dwindled to twenty in 1965 and could not > financially support a minister. At Conference that year Old Bethel became > an OUT-POST > CHURCH SCHOOL. Finally the Conference of the Methodist Church closed the > church. The last services were held on December 21, 1969. > The U.S. government purchased the property in 1972. The church was vacant, > and the building deteriorated. The roof was about gone and the state was > thinking of tearing the church down when it bought the property to > construct the East > Fork State Park. In 1975 a small group of people, many of whom were former > members or whose family had been former members, banded together and > formed The > Old Bethel Church Historical Society. Its purpose was to save the church. > About 1978 they obtained a lease from the Ohio Department of Natural > Resources, > and had the church listed on the National Register. > The Historical Society repaired the roof, refinished the pews, restored > the > pulpit, rebuilt the bell tower, and painted the inside and outside of the > church. Of the original 77 lifetime members of the Society approximately > 20 remain > in the area and perhaps 10 are active. I am a lifetime member but can not > help > because I live in Columbus, Ohio. Without new blood it will be difficult > for > the Historical Society to survive. They have services at the church twice > a > year; on Memorial Day and a Homecoming each fall. When my father, Donnie > Johns, > died in 1978 I suggested that those who wished could make contribution to > the > Historical Society in his memory. With that money the old pulpit chairs > were > refinished and reupholstered. > All that I have written thus far tells how my interest in The Old Bethel > Church and Cemetery developed but it doesn't indicate why and how I found > the > original historical journals of the church. The WHY is because I am a > person > filled with curiosity and an interest in history. So one day when I was > thinking > about the closing of the Old Bethel Church I wondered what happens to the > records of any church when it ceases to function, and that is where the > HOW comes > into the story. Since I am a Methodist I concluded that if anyone knew the > answer to that question it should be the Bishop. So I called the Bishop of > our > district and he said that the records should have been given to the > District > Superintendent, and ultimately to The Methodist Archives at Ohio Wesleyan > University, Delaware, Ohio. The Curator at The Beeghly Library at Ohio > Wesleyan said > that they didn't have any records from the Old Bethel Church. Being a very > determined person, I set about to find them. > I called the office of the Superintendent of the Wilmington District of > the > West Ohio Conference and asked them to see if they had the records. I > received > a letter saying that a thorough search of the records in their district > office > attic had been made but that no membership book nor records had been > found. > They did find the folder with the records of the last Charge Conference > held at > Old Bethel, and they sent copies of those. > Still not being willing to admit that I had come to the end of a blind > alley, > I pondered about what some lay person could have decided to do with those > records under the stress of closing the church for the last time. The > closest > Methodist church would have been the one in Bethel. So I called the United > Methodist Church in Bethel, Ohio and was fortunate to find the secretary > in. When I > told her what I was searching for she said that she thought she remembered > seeing a box marked Old Bethel way back in the corner of a storage. room. > I told > her that I would stay on the line if she would please find the box and > after > opening it tell me what she found. She found some hard-bound journals from > Old > BetheL I asked her if they had a copying machine. When she said that they > had > one, of course I also asked if she would please copy a few random pages > and > send them to me. > When they arrived I was delighted. They were beautifully handwritten pages > entitled History of Old Bethel Church! They included the story of the > first > church made of logs from the surrounding forest, constructed in 1804 on > land > donated by Rev. John Collins and later replaced by the frame church. I > immediately > called the Methodist Archives at Ohio Wesleyan University and the Curator > wrote to the United Methodist Church in Bethel telling them to release all > of the > records to me. I made an appointment with the secretary and my husband and > I > drove down and picked them up. There were four journals and I read them > all > before taking them to The Methodist Archives. By this time I had spent > more than > $100 including phone calls, trips to Delaware and Bethel, meals enroute > and > postage. I didn't expect to be reimbursed but when the Curator said that > the > library would like to show its appreciation in some way, I suggested that > they > xerox the journals for me. They did exactly that. > When the large box of the copies arrived I thought about various ways I > could > use them, and wondered how I could share anything I might write from the > information in those wonderful Old Bethel Journals. The obvious way would > be to > give a copy of whatever I wrote to The Clermont County Genealogical > Society to > put on the shelf in the genealogical section of The Doris Wood Library in > Batavia, Ohio. At that moment I knew exactly what to do. Having very > strong family > and emotional ties to Batavia and being a lifetime member of the Society, > I > contributed the Old Bethel Church Journals to The Clermont County > Genealogical > Society. The Society has made an index for the journals and will give a > copy to > the Methodist Archives in addition to the one in the Batavia Library. > Sections of the Old Bethel Church Journals may be printed in the Society's > newsletters from time to time, and The Church of The Latter Day Saints is > putting > everything on microfilm. Now that is really sharing what I finally found! > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

Thank you. Doris On Oct 11, 2005, at 8:02 PM, John Charles Tippet wrote: > Doris: > > I am not aware of Clermont Co newspapers on line, however, you may > order microfilms of the Clermont Courier and Clermont Sun via > interlibrary loan for a nominal fee from the Ohio Historical > Society through your local library. Alternatively, if you live > close to Clermont, the Doris Wood Library in Batavia also has the > microfilms. See: http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/newspaper/home.cfm > > John Charles Tippet > [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doris Christian" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:31 PM > Subject: [OHCLER] Re: Old newspapers > > > >> >> Does anyone know if there are any old newspaper Clermont Co. on >> line am looking for obits 1872 and 1894. >> >> Doris >> >> **************************** >> Visit: http://www.dmkheritage.com >> To check on the latest County Histories and Parish Records on CDs >> Indexed and searchable >> >> >> >> >> ============================== >> New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your >> ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and >> friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/ >> 2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >> >> > > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > **************************** Visit: http://www.dmkheritage.com To check on the latest County Histories and Parish Records on CDs Indexed and searchable

Doris: I am not aware of Clermont Co newspapers on line, however, you may order microfilms of the Clermont Courier and Clermont Sun via interlibrary loan for a nominal fee from the Ohio Historical Society through your local library. Alternatively, if you live close to Clermont, the Doris Wood Library in Batavia also has the microfilms. See: http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/newspaper/home.cfm John Charles Tippet [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doris Christian" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:31 PM Subject: [OHCLER] Re: Old newspapers > > Does anyone know if there are any old newspaper Clermont Co. on line am > looking for obits 1872 and 1894. > > Doris > > **************************** > Visit: http://www.dmkheritage.com > To check on the latest County Histories and Parish Records on CDs > Indexed and searchable > > > > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > >

OLD BETHEL CHURCH AND CEMETERY by Norma Johns Wuichet It is difficult to determine when an interest in a particular place develops. In the case of Old Bethel Cemetery my interest probably began when I was about seven years old. At that time Uncle Henry's body was shipped back from overseas. Uncle Henry was the son of William David and Isabell Powers Johns in Bantam, Ohio. He and his brother, Clarence, were in the Ohio National Guard and were called into service during World War I. Henry was killed in action in France on October 31, 1918, just eleven days before the war ended. He was buried in Old Bethel Cemetery and for several years after that the American Legion held a service at his grave every Memorial Day. The sound of the rifles being fired was frightening to me, but family and friends gathered there every year. Now on Memorial Day the Legion gathers just inside the cemetery gates and honors all the veterans. The Old Bethel Church was within walking distance of the Johns home and several members of the family were members there. My mother and dad, Donnie Lou and Mamie Miller Johns, were married in Batavia December 24, 1910. They attended the Christmas Eve service at Old Bethel that night. They lived in Bantam for a few years after their marriage and I was born there. Later we lived in Batavia for many years, and when I was in high school I took piano, pipe organ and voice lessons. When we visited my Johns grandparents on Sundays Geneva (she is really my aunt but since she is only five years older than I, I never call her aunt) and I would go to church at Old Bethel. Invariably the person in charge would say "Norma is here so she can play the organ for the service," or "Norma is here and she can sing a solo, or she and Geneva can sing a duet." Now all this is part of the reason for my interest in The Old Bethel Church, but there is more. Grandma Johns died in 1928 while I was in High school, and Grandpa Johns died in 1934 while I attending The Ohio State University. This put an end to my attending church at Old Bethel. Bantam grew smaller as families died and people moved away. Church membership dwindled to twenty in 1965 and could not financially support a minister. At Conference that year Old Bethel became an OUT-POST CHURCH SCHOOL. Finally the Conference of the Methodist Church closed the church. The last services were held on December 21, 1969. The U.S. government purchased the property in 1972. The church was vacant, and the building deteriorated. The roof was about gone and the state was thinking of tearing the church down when it bought the property to construct the East Fork State Park. In 1975 a small group of people, many of whom were former members or whose family had been former members, banded together and formed The Old Bethel Church Historical Society. Its purpose was to save the church. About 1978 they obtained a lease from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and had the church listed on the National Register. The Historical Society repaired the roof, refinished the pews, restored the pulpit, rebuilt the bell tower, and painted the inside and outside of the church. Of the original 77 lifetime members of the Society approximately 20 remain in the area and perhaps 10 are active. I am a lifetime member but can not help because I live in Columbus, Ohio. Without new blood it will be difficult for the Historical Society to survive. They have services at the church twice a year; on Memorial Day and a Homecoming each fall. When my father, Donnie Johns, died in 1978 I suggested that those who wished could make contribution to the Historical Society in his memory. With that money the old pulpit chairs were refinished and reupholstered. All that I have written thus far tells how my interest in The Old Bethel Church and Cemetery developed but it doesn't indicate why and how I found the original historical journals of the church. The WHY is because I am a person filled with curiosity and an interest in history. So one day when I was thinking about the closing of the Old Bethel Church I wondered what happens to the records of any church when it ceases to function, and that is where the HOW comes into the story. Since I am a Methodist I concluded that if anyone knew the answer to that question it should be the Bishop. So I called the Bishop of our district and he said that the records should have been given to the District Superintendent, and ultimately to The Methodist Archives at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. The Curator at The Beeghly Library at Ohio Wesleyan said that they didn't have any records from the Old Bethel Church. Being a very determined person, I set about to find them. I called the office of the Superintendent of the Wilmington District of the West Ohio Conference and asked them to see if they had the records. I received a letter saying that a thorough search of the records in their district office attic had been made but that no membership book nor records had been found. They did find the folder with the records of the last Charge Conference held at Old Bethel, and they sent copies of those. Still not being willing to admit that I had come to the end of a blind alley, I pondered about what some lay person could have decided to do with those records under the stress of closing the church for the last time. The closest Methodist church would have been the one in Bethel. So I called the United Methodist Church in Bethel, Ohio and was fortunate to find the secretary in. When I told her what I was searching for she said that she thought she remembered seeing a box marked Old Bethel way back in the corner of a storage. room. I told her that I would stay on the line if she would please find the box and after opening it tell me what she found. She found some hard-bound journals from Old BetheL I asked her if they had a copying machine. When she said that they had one, of course I also asked if she would please copy a few random pages and send them to me. When they arrived I was delighted. They were beautifully handwritten pages entitled History of Old Bethel Church! They included the story of the first church made of logs from the surrounding forest, constructed in 1804 on land donated by Rev. John Collins and later replaced by the frame church. I immediately called the Methodist Archives at Ohio Wesleyan University and the Curator wrote to the United Methodist Church in Bethel telling them to release all of the records to me. I made an appointment with the secretary and my husband and I drove down and picked them up. There were four journals and I read them all before taking them to The Methodist Archives. By this time I had spent more than $100 including phone calls, trips to Delaware and Bethel, meals enroute and postage. I didn't expect to be reimbursed but when the Curator said that the library would like to show its appreciation in some way, I suggested that they xerox the journals for me. They did exactly that. When the large box of the copies arrived I thought about various ways I could use them, and wondered how I could share anything I might write from the information in those wonderful Old Bethel Journals. The obvious way would be to give a copy of whatever I wrote to The Clermont County Genealogical Society to put on the shelf in the genealogical section of The Doris Wood Library in Batavia, Ohio. At that moment I knew exactly what to do. Having very strong family and emotional ties to Batavia and being a lifetime member of the Society, I contributed the Old Bethel Church Journals to The Clermont County Genealogical Society. The Society has made an index for the journals and will give a copy to the Methodist Archives in addition to the one in the Batavia Library. Sections of the Old Bethel Church Journals may be printed in the Society's newsletters from time to time, and The Church of The Latter Day Saints is putting everything on microfilm. Now that is really sharing what I finally found!

I just recently took over Clermont County for the OHGenWeb and have totally redone the site. I have added several links to Cemeteries in Clermont which has tombstone inscriptions. Just trying to get all these cemeteries straight as to what is actually what. One of the links I added had 350 inscriptions through FindAGrave for Bethel Cemetery, so since I do not presently live in the area and not familiar enough with the area down to cemeteries changing their names over their history, I wanted to make sure I had the names straight for the researcher that may visit the Clermont County site so they are able reference their material correctly. I'd hate for someone, being a researcher myself, to get the incorrect info and source the incorrect info. Thank you so much for the information, it really does help. Chyrl Lawrence-Bulger n a message dated 10/11/2005 8:54:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Tate Township cemetary is far bigger than 350. Great Uncle Samuel Justice gave it's first land about 1840's.It's still in use after 150+ years. I'll guess it's 30 acres,with little wasted space.The 1798 Bethel cemetary might be 3 acres. Clermont County has never had a courthouse fire.I know the marriage ledger of about 1808-11 was lost years ago.Clermont Co,NW Territory ,was founded in 1800,and Ohio in 1803. 1818 Brown Co removed about 40% of 1800 Clermont. Between the Beech Forest DAR,AND THE Clermont Co Genealogy Sopciety,and it's 1st president,Aileen Whitt,et al, many resource books have been published since 1970.

Andrew Justice married Catherine Stanton [Stonmetz] about then. Jonathan Leeds son Robert,to Bantam,Clermont Co,Ohio ,in 1804. Andrew Justice's son,Rev Jesse Justice,settled 1 1/2 mile east of Robert Leeds in 1805. 1806,Rev Jesse Justice named a son,Robert Justice. Is this a clue who Amy Stanton was? Was she from Oldman's Creek?

Does anyone know if there are any old newspaper Clermont Co. on line am looking for obits 1872 and 1894. Doris **************************** Visit: http://www.dmkheritage.com To check on the latest County Histories and Parish Records on CDs Indexed and searchable

Hermon, you mentioned that Indian Creek Baptist cemetery was copied, but not published. Where might I find a copy of this? WAs Clermont Chapel Methodist also copied? Amy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:00:40 EDT Subject: [OHCLER] DAR CEMETARY BOOK[S] About 1970,Beech Forest DAR republished the 10 softbound cemetary books, "and 10 indexes" issues 1948-59 rebound as 1 large,fat ,hard bound volume. "Monument Inscriptions prior to 1900 from cemetaries in Clermont County,Ohio" Important,the huge book includes 10 [ten] indexes,not one. 2nd,when the DAR started recording the 1st cemetaries,rural Clermont County's road did 'NOT" have road signs. Carl Rush,the Clermont Co Engineer named,and placed road signs about 1950-53. Clermont County did not have a county library until 1955. About 1/3 of the way thru the DAR cemetary book,the DAR ladies started using county road names to tell how to find a cemetary. In most cemetaries,they included few tombstones later than 1900. They did 'not" include all family cemetaries. They did include,Moyer's, New Harmony and Taylor's Chapel cemetaries,which are just in Brown Co. They did not include Bloom Rose UB,and Mt Zion Methodist that are also just in Brown Co.Oh. Two churchyards missed in my Tate twnsp were Clermont Chapel Methodist,1833,and Indian Creek Baptist,1806 [copied but not published. A churchyard [?] in sw Will iamsburg twnsp was dug up,and removed to Old Bethel cemetary by the Corps of Enginneers about 1972. 3 tombstones and 50 UNMARKED graves.[Forerunner of Concord Methodist,formed 1835..] DAR ladies,until Aileen Whitt, skipped New Richmonnd's cemetaries for blacks. 1/2 mile west of me are 3 'PAPER" cemetaries formed by lawyer Robert Justice Harris in his attempt to halt the erection of electric line towers thru his,and our,.farms about 1950. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Hermon and all, There is also one (separate) overall index for the DAR book, compiled by a member (or members) of the genealogical society years ago. One copy is kept with "Monument Inscriptions" in the society's collection at the Doris Wood library in Batavia. However, due to a previous theft, both books are kept behind the counter and you must ask a librarian to retrieve them for you. Also, as you said that Tate Township Cemetery was well over 350....about two years ago, the genealogical society published "Tate Township Cemetery Cemetery Records" and it contains over 11,000 burials between 1832 and 1996. This book was compiled over a number of years by members of the Society and indexed by Barbara McCarthy. It is available for use in the genealogical society's collectiion at the library, and is also for sale on the CCGS website. (www.rootsweb.com/~ohclecgs/) Amy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:00:40 EDT Subject: [OHCLER] DAR CEMETARY BOOK[S] About 1970,Beech Forest DAR republished the 10 softbound cemetary books, "and 10 indexes" issues 1948-59 rebound as 1 large,fat ,hard bound volume. "Monument Inscriptions prior to 1900 from cemetaries in Clermont County,Ohio" Important,the huge book includes 10 [ten] indexes,not one. 2nd,when the DAR started recording the 1st cemetaries,rural Clermont County's road did 'NOT" have road signs. Carl Rush,the Clermont Co Engineer named,and placed road signs about 1950-53. Clermont County did not have a county library until 1955. About 1/3 of the way thru the DAR cemetary book,the DAR ladies started using county road names to tell how to find a cemetary. In most cemetaries,they included few tombstones later than 1900. They did 'not" include all family cemetaries. They did include,Moyer's, New Harmony and Taylor's Chapel cemetaries,which are just in Brown Co. They did not include Bloom Rose UB,and Mt Zion Methodist that are also just in Brown Co.Oh. Two churchyards missed in my Tate twnsp were Clermont Chapel Methodist,1833,and Indian Creek Baptist,1806 [copied but not published. A churchyard [?] in sw Will iamsburg twnsp was dug up,and removed to Old Bethel cemetary by the Corps of Enginneers about 1972. 3 tombstones and 50 UNMARKED graves.[Forerunner of Concord Methodist,formed 1835..] DAR ladies,until Aileen Whitt, skipped New Richmonnd's cemetaries for blacks. 1/2 mile west of me are 3 'PAPER" cemetaries formed by lawyer Robert Justice Harris in his attempt to halt the erection of electric line towers thru his,and our,.farms about 1950. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

About 1970,Beech Forest DAR republished the 10 softbound cemetary books, "and 10 indexes" issues 1948-59 rebound as 1 large,fat ,hard bound volume. "Monument Inscriptions prior to 1900 from cemetaries in Clermont County,Ohio" Important,the huge book includes 10 [ten] indexes,not one. 2nd,when the DAR started recording the 1st cemetaries,rural Clermont County's road did 'NOT" have road signs. Carl Rush,the Clermont Co Engineer named,and placed road signs about 1950-53. Clermont County did not have a county library until 1955. About 1/3 of the way thru the DAR cemetary book,the DAR ladies started using county road names to tell how to find a cemetary. In most cemetaries,they included few tombstones later than 1900. They did 'not" include all family cemetaries. They did include,Moyer's, New Harmony and Taylor's Chapel cemetaries,which are just in Brown Co. They did not include Bloom Rose UB,and Mt Zion Methodist that are also just in Brown Co.Oh. Two churchyards missed in my Tate twnsp were Clermont Chapel Methodist,1833,and Indian Creek Baptist,1806 [copied but not published. A churchyard [?] in sw Will iamsburg twnsp was dug up,and removed to Old Bethel cemetary by the Corps of Enginneers about 1972. 3 tombstones and 50 UNMARKED graves.[Forerunner of Concord Methodist,formed 1835..] DAR ladies,until Aileen Whitt, skipped New Richmonnd's cemetaries for blacks. 1/2 mile west of me are 3 'PAPER" cemetaries formed by lawyer Robert Justice Harris in his attempt to halt the erection of electric line towers thru his,and our,.farms about 1950.

Tate Township cemetary is far bigger than 350. Great Uncle Samuel Justice gave it's first land about 1840's.It's still in use after 150+ years. I'll guess it's 30 acres,with little wasted space.The 1798 Bethel cemetary might be 3 acres. Clermont County has never had a courthouse fire.I know the marriage ledger of about 1808-11 was lost years ago.Clermont Co,NW Territory ,was founded in 1800,and Ohio in 1803. 1818 Brown Co removed about 40% of 1800 Clermont. Between the Beech Forest DAR,AND THE Clermont Co Genealogy Sopciety,and it's 1st president,Aileen Whitt,et al, many resource books have been published since 1970.

Thank you so much for the information. I guess the next time I make a trip from my home in Pittsburgh to my daughters home and go through the area I will have to take some time and stop to see if I can review the Deed Book and see what they have it recorded as and it's transfers over the years. Might be interesting to view. I am going to assume that the cemetery 350+ inscriptions listed on FindAGrave.com under Bethel Cemetery is actually the one you are referring to as Tate Township Cemetery. Again, thank you for the information. Chyrl-Lawrence Bulger. In a message dated 10/10/2005 9:42:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: In the 1970's,a sign calling it the [?] "Pioneer cemetary " was erected. 1798,it was the cemetary of the "BETHEL" Baptist church. Some years later,the village took the name of the church,after being called Denhamstown and Plainnfield. Dr John Charles TTippet,PhD and I were in the oldest secttion a couple weeks ago. We walked to Dr Wm Thompson,d 1840's grave,but we were within 20 feet of the town founders grave- Obed and Mary Ball Denham. Perhaps the most importantt thing is that this-the "old" cemetary in Bethel ,is 5 miles east of "Old Bethel" Methodist cemetary north of Bantam,Ohio. In 1949, Beech Forest DAR's ladies called it "Bethel Cemetary" Main Street in their cemetary book,and the newer and larger cemetary a mile s e,they called TATE TOWNSHIP cemetary.

In the 1970's,a sign calling it the [?] "Pioneer cemetary " was erected. 1798,it was the cemetary of the "BETHEL" Baptist church. Some years later,the village took the name of the church,after being called Denhamstown and Plainnfield. Dr John Charles TTippet,PhD and I were in the oldest secttion a couple weeks ago. We walked to Dr Wm Thompson,d 1840's grave,but we were within 20 feet of the town founders grave- Obed and Mary Ball Denham. Perhaps the most importantt thing is that this-the "old" cemetary in Bethel ,is 5 miles east of "Old Bethel" Methodist cemetary north of Bantam,Ohio. In 1949, Beech Forest DAR's ladies called it "Bethel Cemetary" Main Street in their cemetary book,and the newer and larger cemetary a mile s e,they called TATE TOWNSHIP cemetary.

Does anyone know what the "official" name of this cemetery is. Political Grave Yards has it listed as First Bethel Cemetery. Is it that or Old Settler's Cemetery (Denham-Burke Cemetery) as listed on the link below or some other name. Chyrl Lawrence Bulger In a message dated 10/10/2005 5:25:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: _http://genforum.genealogy.com/denham/messages/980.html_ (http://genforum.genealogy.com/denham/messages/980.html) I could arrow it to a handful of ladies who could add so much data to the aged tombstones inscriptions. Louise Abbott Fisher. Florence Leever. My mother. Miss Hassie Crane ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

The URL got clipped off at the end. I have corrected it below. http://genforum.genealogy.com/denham/messages/980.html I found several ancestors. Thanks Hermon. Walter Wood http://mywoodfamily.us -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 5:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OHCLER] Data on Bethel,Tate Twnsp,Clermont's oldest [1798] cemetary http://genforum.genealogy.com/denham/messages/980.h I could arrow it to a handful of ladies who could add so much data to the aged tombstones inscriptions. Louise Abbott Fisher. Florence Leever. My mother. Miss Hassie Crane ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx