Please reply ONLY on the Board (link below): ============================================ This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0VB.2ACE/222 Message Board Post: Posted from a non subscribed person. Levi Minnich Levi Minnich, (March 19, 1862 in Franklin Twp., Darke Co., OH; died March 31, 1948 in Franklin Twp., Darke Co., OH; married (1) Susie Forney; married (2) Laura E. Netzley May 1888.) was quite a writer, as well as great preacher. He wrote genealogy for families, including the Stauffer's. He also wrote the two page interesting obit for my Great-Great-Great Grandfather, Rev. Tobias Kreider (1826-1902)(grandfather of TS Eikenberry)- Sent to me by Marge Royer Denlinger Weeks: (Somebody I know has a desk that has his name written on it from the Church) in 1947-LEVI MINNICH DEAD; PROMINENT FARMER AND CHURCH WORKER Levi Minnich, 86, prominent Darke county farmer, former educator and nationally known church worker, died at 10:50 a.m. today at his rural residence, one mile northwest of Painter Creek in Franklin township. He had been critically ill for the past week. A member of one of the county's pioneer families, he was born and reared in Franklin township and had resided on the farm where death occurred since 1889. His parents were the late Abraham and Elizabeth Swinger Minnich. He received his early education in rural schools near his home and later attended the old Ohio Normal college now Ohio Northern university at Ada. At the age of 20 he began teaching and for nine years served in schools in Franklin township. He later was superintendent of the Gettysburg school. He maintained an active interest in educational affairs throughout his entire life, serving first as a school director in Franklin township and then as a member of the township's first board of education. As a board member he sponsored the idea of a township high school and his efforts led to the erection of the present Franklin township centralized school. A lifelong member of the Church of the Brethren, he was particularly interested in religious training for the young people. He served several years as district Sunday school secretary in southern Ohio and later was elected for two terms of five years each as a member of the national board of the Brethren church. He was a devout attendant of the Painter Creek church of that denomination, where he was Sunday school superintendent for well over a quarter century. An active member of the Republican party in Darke county since young manhood, he was also an ardent dry worker and at one time was a member of the executive committee of the Darke County Local Option League. His immediate survivors include his wife, Susie; one son, Spencer Minnich, of Elgin, Ill.; two daughters, Mrs. T.S. Eikenberry, of Dayton, and Mrs. J.Q. Neher, Gettysburg; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Henry Groff, of Bradford R.R. His son now serves as secretary of the general board of the Church of the Brethren. Funeral services are to be conducted at the Painter Creek church at two p.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Newcomer's cemetery. Friends may call at the Minnich residence after seven o'clock Thursday evening.