If any of you drive east on RT 125 from the RT 222 South traffic light about a mile, you will come to the metal towers on a high power line carrying electricy from the power plant,on the Ohio east of New Richmond, to the Uranium plant in Pike Co,Oh. My hikes are carrying me under this power line all the time. Nobody wanted it to cross their farms. 1950-52 era. Our next door neighbor was farmer,but mostly lawyer, Robert Justice Harris, and the plans put the tall metal towers on his land. Three times, where a tower was planned on his farm,he established a 'paper" cemetary. And,three ties the power company moved their towers slightly. As I hike, I note the 3 towers out of line with the main power line,and chuckle at the giant game of checkers once played there. I don't know how many churchyards started out as family cemetaries,but several Calvery west of RT 743,on 756's old section was 1st the Alexander Buchanan family cemetary with several burials before it became a church yard in 1816. The church may have buried on my Rev George Brown's cemetary, w RT 743,and n Indian creek til then. Maybe. The church once called by Alexander Thompson,and now called Mt Holly Christian , had Murdock's and kin before that. S side RT 125 EAST OF Rt 132 nORTH. Could be the widow Chandler buried her husband at Old Bethel before Rev John Collins buried a son in 1807. The pioneer churchyard of n Main,Bethel was the Denham's,and kin,but they were also,mostly the Baptist church. I'll guess Mt Moriah started as the Witham extended family Baptist ceetary. Gatch's became Milford's. Almost all those early churches were built on land beside a little run of water. Smyrna,Hopewell,Calvery,Old Bethel,Bethel,Clover,Mt Moriah, etc. Maybe there was [is?] a spring nearby. Certainly Witham's Big Spring was at Mt Moriah., People and horses needed some water. Camp meeting grounds needed water. I've always thought the lone well at the RT 743-756 intersection might have been dug for Gregg';s camp grounds. . [Where was the water for the great Cane Ridge camp meeting on 1801 8 miles n e of Paris,Ky.

> [Where was the water for the great Cane Ridge camp meeting on 1801 8 miles n e of Paris,Ky. Hermon: Can you tell us anything about this Camp Meeting? My gf, Joseph F. Wilmoth from Clermont, married Mary E. Warnock, whose family lived near Paris. Her Scots-Irish family had been Presbyterian, but she was a member of the Christian Church, which I have read was founded by a dissidant Presbyter. Her time period was way later than 1801 (in the 1870s), but I wonder if this was part of that movement. Thanks, Virginia --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.214 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 11/16/00