Here's another migration route --it goes into Indiana -and was one of the early MAIN roads into Indiana! -------------------------- The Delaware Indian Road Just above the bridge over the Whitewater River at Yankeetown, south in Richmond IN, is a hard packed ford some 6 ft. wide. The river bottom is soft and mucky on either side, but here the bottom is packed hard from its first use by buffalo, or the American Bison, that used to roam this woodlands, then to its use by the Indians and the "Indian Road" that is traced across the county. Early deeds identify this as "the Indian Road from Muncytown to Ft. Hamilton". The route across Union County IN has been plotted from surveyor records on early deeds and collected by former county surveyor and Four Mile Church deacon, Albert Brown. Some of the physical route has been identified by farmers, due to the improvement of the Indian trail by early settlers, who widened it to a wagon road and filled the low spots with gravel. Local farmers, when plowing, suddenly find gravel in their clayloam fields. The traced route started at Rossville, at Hamilton OH, directly acrossed the Great Miami River from old Fort Hamilton or the bridge over the river there. It is picked up west of Darrtown where it passed Chaw Raw Hill along the Four Mile Creek banks. [Chaw Raw Hill -its named that -because one early migrant father and sons decided to camp on top of the hill, along the Indian Path. They had killed a turkey for their meal, but just as they were getting ready to cook it -they discovered that a group of Indian warriors were coming down the trail. They dare not start a fire -so they "chawed the Turkey -Raw!"] The old road there has been washed away as the creek has shifted its banks. Somewhere north the old road crossed the creek and went past what became the town of Oxford, OH. Brown Road going north out of Oxford to the Hueston Woods State Park seems to be the old Indian Road. In the Park, the Indian Road would have started down the drive to the Sugar Camp, but where the drive turns right, the access road going ahead to the beach area follows an old road shown on early maps. The Indian Road is identified as about 1/2 mile from the juncture of the Middle and Little Four Mile Creeks, about where the circle drive cr osses the Little Four Mile, where the College Corner Road enters at Park Headquarters. The boat storage there could be the site of the old trading post and the Indian village was possibly in the open grounds by the office buildings. The Indian Road passed around the Indian Mound, at the far west end of the campgrounds on the ridge above the Little Four Mile. A long winding gully at the south-east corner of the campgrounds is probably the Road climbing out of the Four Mile creekbed where the settlers could pull their wagons. On the Eaton Pike, out of College Corner, just south of the Buck Paxton Road, there used to be a residence building sitting back of the current house. It faced southwest on an angle, just above the decline into the ravine there. This would be where the Indian Road crossed the ravine. Continued in Next Message

The Road went north from Goshen to those families of the Obannon Church (the Millers at Murdock and Bowmans unknown) who lived in Warren County. At Murdock it went on north to Lebanon (OH 48). Then an angling Indian path was followed (OH 123) to the ford over the Great Miami at Franklin. This put them on the west side of the River, where Elder Jacob Miller lived on Bear Creek (1800). The exact route north, on the west side of the Great Miami, is not known. There are a couple early references (1830's) to an old River Road on the banks of the Great Miami. Probabilities are that it followed the Soldier's Home Road along the River and then went nearly strait north on the Gettysburg Road to the Wolf Creek Road, the Salem Road and the Covington Road (Stillwater River). The John Aukerman family likely used this road to the Great Miami River Ford, then followed what became the extension of the Kanawha Trace, along the Twin Creek, into Preble Co OH. The John Bowman family likely used this route for their migration from the Obannon to Montgomery County about 1800. David Miller left about 1802, and already others of the Obannon Brethren had moved north. These families seem to have been displaced from their Hamilton County homesteads (now Clermont and Warren) when the government gave these lands to the Virginia Military District and Ohio land grants were given as bounties to Revolutionary Veterans in lieu of their cash pay. Local settlers, like the Aukermans and Bowmans, could not purchase their homesteads and had to move. Most of the earliest Brethren settlers to Ohio seem to have stopped among the Brethren already at Obannon/ Stonelick, before they found lands north (the Land Office was in Cincinnati, a days walk away), then followed one or the other of the Indian Roads north. Many Brethren moved up the Bullskin Trace to the east side of Dayton, to Green and Clark Counties OH, to the old Beaver Creek and Donnels Creek Church areas. Other Brethren crossed the ford on the Great Miami, and settled in the fertile lands west of the River, the Lower Miami Church, the Bear Creek Church, the Stillwater Church.

The Road went north through Felicity and Bethel, now OH 133, and crossed the East Fork of the Little Miami at Williamsburg. It crossed Stonelick Creek at Edenton (just 2 miles from the Stonelick Church). A stone marker at the east edge of Edenton is on the old Road as it goes cross-country to Clarksburg. A line of old trees shows part of the route. From Clarksburg it followed old OH 380 to Xenia, going through New Burlington, now submerged below the lake at Caesar's Creek State Park. It was called the Bullskin Road. From Xenia north to Detroit, it is US 68, the Detroit Road. It goes to Yellow Spring, where it leaves the Little Miami. Then to Springfield, where it follows the Mad River of the Great Miami to Urbana. Other cities on the Road are Bellefontaine, Kenton, Findlay, Bowling Green, Toledo. From Cygnet, north of Findlay, it becomes OH 25 and from Toledo to Detroit it is US 24. Earliest records show another old Indian path, that connected to the Bullskin Road (OH133), just north of Williamsburg (on OH276) Just before Owensville it turned north through Goshen and Lebanon to the Ford on the Great Miami River, Franklin OH, then headed north along the Great Miami and Stillwater rivers, where many of the early Brethren settled on the west side of Dayton. The earliest Brethren settlement in Ohio was in Clermont County, the Obannon Church, near Goshen (1795). The Olive Branch Church near Bullskin Landing soon followed (1800). But this was heavy clay soil, and many decided to move north to the good farmland on the Great Miami River. Frederick Weaver (in whose home the Obannon Church first met), Gabriel Kerns, and David and Daniel Miller lived in the western part of the Obannon Church area, near Manila Road, which goes south -east from Goshen. Just above Gabriel Kerns farm is Linton Road, which was the OLD route before Manila road was built, going through Goshen past the Cemetery, meeting the Murdoch/Lebanon Road above town. It now stops at the Cemetery. Continued in Next Message !^NavFont02F067F0008NM6AHM806504

The Great and Miami Rivers were accessible by canoe -but were almost impossible to movement of Ohio Flatboats -upstream against the current --instead -they used the The Bullskin Road The first State Road in Ohio, 1807, the Xenia State Road was the official recognition by the new State of Ohio of the old Shawnee Indian Road from British Fort Detroit to Bullskin Landing on the Ohio River, through the major Shawnee center, Old Chillicothe (Oldtown, at Xenia). It was long called the Old Xenia Road. It was down this road in 1778, that Simon Kenton ran the gauntlet at Old Chillicothe, and didn't stop running -clear to the Ohio River, outrunning the pursuing Shawnees. Down this road had come raiding armies of British Regulars and Indian allies as they attempted to destroy the Kentucky settlements. Up this road had gone the Kentucky militia when they attacked the Indians at Springfield in retaliation. In these new lands on the Northwest frontier, the Bullskin Road was a major thoroughfare. Bullskin Creek is flooded by the Ohio River for half a mile back from the River, a wide valley opening. It was the first major landing for Ohio R. flatboats above Fort Washington (Cincinnati). Here the flatboat was protected, off the river, with easy unloading facilities. This settlement in Clermont County is called Utopia. The Brethren settled on the Bullskin about 1800. (Miller, Moyer, Metzgar, Rohrer, Hoover, Houser; the old Olive Branch Church. It converted en-mass to Church of Christ in the New Light Revival of 1830's.) Being farmers, they lived mostly on the level lands above the high riverbank hills, at the head of Bullskin Creek. Continued in Next Message

Dunker settlement here was very early. Some of the children of Elder Jacob Miller from Franklin County VA, in the 1790's came up the Great Miami to Dayton, then by 1803, moved west to the state line. Philip and Anna (Miller) Lybrook followed the Trace in 1806, when he returned to Virginia and brought his wife and families of married children back to Indiana (Upper Four Mile Church). They came by wagon. From Eaton he came west on the Old Dayton Road (Dayton through Eaton and Boston IN, to Conners Trading Post, 1803). The Trace leaving Chillicothe was not in existance when the first Quaker into Ohio, Nathaniel Pope, settled Leesburg in 1802. He left Chillicothe on the old Indian Path to Old Chillicothe (now US 35 to Xenia) along the North Fork of Paint Creek. At Col. Massie's settlement, Frankfort, Pope went southwest to Leesburg. The path of the Trace from Chillicothe to Leesburg was a shortend route from his settlement. The Trace was not in existance in 1802, it was used clear across the state by 1806. The Waybill was after 1809. The Kanawha Trace is very important to the settlement of Southern Ohio. The Quakers and Dunkers, and many others from Southern Virginia and North Carolina, followed it as they came to Ohio Country. It was probably the most used land route for migration into Southern Ohio in the years before the Old National Road (c1827). Assistance on this study was given by several people living in communities along the route of the Trace. Especial thanks is to be given to Rev. Robert Roller, pastor of the Fraternity Church of the Brethen, Winston Salem NC; Stan Bumgardner, Historian, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Charleston, WV; and Harriet Foley, Franklin OH. Parts of the route through Virginia and West Virginia were determined from known locations, using US Topographical Maps.

The Trace went westward from Wilmington to Waynesville, along OH 73. It crossed Todd Fork Creek and at Caesar's Creek State Park went north at the Y, going through Harveysburg, where it wound down to Caesar's Creek (now under the reservoir). The Trace went to Corwin where it forded the Little Miami into Waynesville. Corwin is north of 73, the Trace separated at the Cemetary. It went up into the north part of Waynesville, and came back out on OH 73 on the west side of town. The Trace (and OH 73) continue on west to Springboro and Franklin along the present route (the Old Upper Springboro Pike to Waynesville coming into Franklin on 2nd Street). In the 1870's the ferry was replaced by a suspension bridge on 4th Street, later by the present Lion Bridge on 2nd Street. At Franklin, the Trace forded the Great Miami River below the 6th Street RailRoad Bridge, then William Barkalow started a ferry at his house in 1804 (at the Tressel). The Trace went back north along the river and turned west, OH 123, past Rev Tapscott's house (in front of his Primitive Baptist Church), just east of the town of Carlisle. The Trace continues on from Carlisle, until it crossed Twin Creek, there it turns on Sugar Street to Sunsbury and stayed south of Germantown and Big Twin Creek. At the five points, it went ahead (to the right) on the Mudlick and Sigel Road to where Henry Moyer lived, and where it met the road going west out of Germantown (OH 725). The Trace continues along 725 to Gratis. Keep right at the Y into Gratis, and OH 122 is the old winding Trace angling northwest to Eaton, where St Clair's Fort still stood from the Indian Wars. From Eaton, US 35 follows the Trace to Richmond IN. Whitewater Meeting was founded 1809, in a log church at a cemetary that stood almost directly under the US 27 overpass, just beyond the railroad tracks (200 feet west of the old brick church at North G street). Danuel DuBois traced his route from Monmouth County new Jersey to Carlisle in his diary in 1804. From Chillicothe to Franklin his route matches those of the Waybill. He averaged 40 miles per day. This is the first known use of the Trace across the state.

At Gallipolis, the Kanawha Trace followed Gen. Lewis' Army Road to Chillicothe (after the Battle of Point Pleasant, 1774, he pushed the Indians back to their main city, building a road for his cannon, now US 35: remnants of Old 35, and likely the Trace, are seen in various places through the valleys either side of the new road). The Army Road, and the Trace, started in downtown Gallipolis. Old 35 goes out of Gallipolis north of the old city and goes along Chicamauga Creek inland almost to Mills before it crosses the creek. This probably was the original route. (The creek enters the Ohio River south of Gallipolis, but swings north behind most of the city before it turns inland. It is quite swampy. Chillicothe Road, a street in the south part of Gallipolis crosses the swamps with a bridge and goes west till it junctions with OH 588 going on to Rodney. OH 588 starts in Gallipolis at the city park and bridges the top end of the swamp.) At Rodney, the Jackson Road is Old 35. Crossing Raccoon Creek at Adamsville, Woods was certainly Wood's Mill. The Trace then went on to Rio Grande, where the Adamsville Road is north of US 35, actually the back drive on Bob Evans farm. Judge Poor's (or Squire Poor) was at Winchester, south of 35 at OH 327. This is the original Old 35, or Gallipolis Pike, now called Dixon Run Road. Jackson is still a major Ohio town, the town and trace are both south of modern US 35. Richmond is now called Richmond Dale, and is on a stretch of the old road north of modern US 35. Kilgore's Ferry over the Scioto River is at the bridge on US 35/50, north of the mouth of Paint Creek. The Trace angled into Chillicothe on Eastern Ave (Jackson or Gallipolis Road). It then turned up Hickory Street to Main Street, and went west past the State Capitol. Chillicothe was the first Capitol of the State of Ohio. It had been a major Shawnee Indian center and is still noted for its Hopewell Indian mounds (Mound City). There were early settlers with Dunker family names along this stretch of the Trace, but we have no record of churches. Leaving Chillicothe, the Kanawha Trace followed the Zane Trace out of town on the Limestone Road (now Western Ave; Limestone was the original name for Maysville KY, the destination of the Zane Trace). They went west along Paint Creek (US 50). Elijah Johnson's would be north of Bourneville, and the Trace followed an old Indian trail that went west up a wide valley. The road is called Lower Twin, and goes to South Salem. From the Covered Bridge on Lower Twin, just west of So Salem, the Trace went north off the present road and kept to the highlands (going directly in front of Robt Smalley's house, which now sits far back a lane from the road) to Greenfield, where it forded Paint Creek on the rocky bottoms, just south of town (the old Fall Creek Church was farther south, west of Paint Creek on Fall Creek). From there, the Trace turned westward and crossed Rattlesnake Creek at Monroetown (East Monroe, on OH 28), to Leesburg (US 62 and OH 28), and on west to Joel Willis', now Highland, where the old Lexington Church was just south of town. In Highland, the Trace turned north on Wilmington or Antioch Rd. This is the same old winding Trace until it gets to Wilmington, where the Antioch Road met old 73, which turned west on the trace into town. Old 73 now deadends at the Airport, heading directly toward the control tower.

[Remember, also, that in those days Virginia went clear to the Ohio River.] Across West Virginia, the Kanawha Trace, by tradition, followed the Shawnee Indian War Path close to the New or Kanawha River. Peterstown is just in West Virginia at US 219 and WV 12. Christian Peter's home would have been out of Peterstown on WV 12. There Bozoo Road goes left and down into the old river bottom, a shorter route than WV 12. Bluestone Lake floods this area, but the Indian River enters the New below Indian Mills, coming down the valley from the Northeast. The Blue Stone River comes up the valley from the Southwest about 15 miles down stream and Pack's ferry would have been out in the lake, between them (before Wolf Creek Mountain). Unless there was a bottom land route (now flooded), the mountains push in close to the New River and the Trace would have followed a trail up to Pipe Stem, and followed the Pipestem Creek down to the Blue Stone River crossing. Following up another trail out of the Blue Stone, Pack's could possibly be at Nimitz and Jumping Branch, where another old road (WV 3) goes to Shady Spring. There modern US 19 shows sections of an old road near it. US 19 goes to Beckley, Mount Hope and Glen Jean (with Harvey just beyond) and on to Fayetteville on the downriver side of the New River Gorge. This is possibly "Road's Fork", where the Trace did not try to recross the New River, but took WV 16, to Beckwith where it took the very rugged Falls Creek Road over Cotton Hill. The creek and trail come out at the Falls of the New River, now Kanawha Falls (where the Kanawha River Dam now is). The Gauley River enters the New River at Gauley Bridge above the Dam, and the River changed, it is larger, and has a more constant flow. The valley widens. It is now called the Kanawha. Here below the falls, early settlers built flat boats and floated down the River to Point Pleasant, then down the Ohio to Kaintuck or Cincinnati. The Trace followed a country road along the south bank of the Kanawha River. It is pressed closely by high rugged mountains, the only level areas are where mountain streams enter the river. A couple of these have become towns, Deep Water, Eagle. Benjamin Morris probably lived where Montgomery is, where WV 61 comes down off the mountain. There is a better roadway, and towns of Crown Hill and Cabin Creek. At Chelyan the West Virginia Turnpike and US 119 come down to the River. Leonard Morris had a fortified log house ("fort") at Marmet, on the south side of the River just above Charleston, where the Toney's and others fled during the Indian raids of 1794. Venables would have been in the eastern area of South Charleston called Kanawha City, where there used to be a second branch of the Kanawha River by that name. Cobb's would also be in South Charleston near Vandalia. The Coal River enters the Kanawha at St Albans, where US 35 comes in from downstream and Ohio. There is quite a ridge, actually a mountain, between the two nearly parallel rivers for many miles. Hanley's, M'Collister's and Grice's would have been stops on the lower river before crossing to Gallipolis OH. The Trace followed the bank of the Kanawha River clear to the Ohio, then down the bank of the Ohio to across from Gallipolis, because of high ridges along both rivers. At Gallipolis, they would have rafted over the Ohio, landing at the old town dock area, today's City Park. Continued in Next Message

The Waybill that we have, begins at New Garden Friends Church on the Northwest side of Greensboro, near Guilliford Battlefield. (Another New Garden Friends Church, there are several of them, is north of Richmond IN, this waybill was for a specific family group). Clemmons was likely at Guilford, a small town on NC 66. By distance, Beesons would be the town of Colfax; and Kernersville, east of Winston Salem, is Kerners. Continuing on NC 66 to US 52, Bittings would likely be at Stanleyville or Rural Hall, Gordings would be at Pilot Mountain, and Unthanks at Mount Airy. Following the route of US 52 into Virginia, Perkins would be at Cana VA and Mankins at Ward's Gap might be the modern Fancy Gap on US 52 at the Blue Ridge Parkway. Going west the Trace went to Road's Fork at modern Hillsville on top of the ridge, where US 52 and VA 100 each continue their own route down into the New River Valley. The Trace followed VA 100 down Little Reed Island Creek through Popular Camp Mountain. It crosses Reed Island River at Patterson and then the New River (Fugat's Ferry, now a bridge). VA 100 does not cross Draper's Mountain to Pulaski, and John Feeley's would be at McAdam or possibly Draper. Crossing Walker Mountain, VA 100 comes to Poplar Hill, which would be Shannon's and comes back to the New River, which has taken a big loop, at Pearisburg, old Giles Court House, and US 460. Peter's Ferry could be located at Narrows, where they could recross the New River. (It must be remembered that in these early days, the lack of bridges in the frontier areas meant that obstacles that we now ignor drastically effected travel patterns. A Traveler sometimes went longer, or worse, routes, because there was no way they could cross a River. This is true of the routes here, and across West Virginia.) Continued in Next Message

The Kanawha Trace Merle C Rummel [Mr Argus Ogborn was a Quaker Historian in Richmond, Indiana. He gave me a copy of his copy of the Bill of the Road, which he had found in a collection (unspecified) some years ago. He saw it for what it was, the mile by mile progress a Quaker settler would walk with team and wagon to travel to Richmond, but I recognized many of the named places in the Way Bill from travel, residency and research in these regions. From this I drew up and gave him a map tracing the path of the Trace. In researching families on this trace for my book on the Four Mile Church, I recognized that the Brethren used this as a major path from Virginia to Ohio. -I had frequently asked myself a question about the route of the Dunkers in Virginia to Ohio and the West, since I had early found that most of them did not use Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road. (The Flat Creek Mission, Church of the Brethren, is right on the Old Wilderness Road - Goose Creek, mouth of Mudlick, near Manchester KY, my parents lived there at the mission, Mudlick Station, head of Mudlick. I occasionally visited there, and I followed the path and story of Daniel Boone and the early Dunkers in the Kaintuck lands.) Only a few of the Carolina Brethren who followed the Wilderness Road into Kentucky, came up into Ohio. I've followed Forbes' Road and Braddock's Road in Pennsylvania, when I pastored at Beaver Dam (Maryland) and with my brother, who still pastors in Western Pennsylvania. Maryland and Pennsylvania Brethren, including some in the upper part of the Valley, would have used those routes and come down the Ohio on flatboats. But many early Dunkers lived much farther south in the Valley, and there was a major early settlement of the Brethren below Roanoke, on the front of the Blue Ridge in Franklin and Floyd Counties, the old Carolina Road, (Elder Jacob Miller families and neighbors) who came from there to western Ohio. The Kanawha Trace was their route. Virginia Dunker Family Names are found along it.] The Kanawha Trace Bill of the Road, or Waybill, begins in the north central part of North Carolina where the Moravian Brethren, Friends (or Quakers) and German Baptist Brethren (Dunkers, Church of the Brethren) had major settlements. Early Dunker Churches were along the Yadkin River starting in Wilkes County, going east to Winston Salem, then south through Salisbury, this was the area from which Daniel Boone came. [So there were Two routes from there, through the mountains, to the west.] Continued in Next Message

Subject: Re: Earliest Migration Routes Date: 14-Dec-98 10:26 From: Merle Rummel <cliffr@infocom.com> Here are the papers I've written on them --the Kanawha Way/Kanawha Trace is in my Manuscript/Book on the History of the Four Mile Church of the Brethren (Dunkers -1809) -and was published in our "Brethren Roots" (History Genealogy Quarterly). The Bullskin Road was also published there, and is included in the Clermont County Webpage -on the Stonelick Church of the Brethren (1795). I live here at Boston IN, in the Four Mile Church community -my wife's family. I drive down and pastor the Stonelick Church -in Stonelick State Park at Edenton OH I think I have enough road information for you to easily trace the path of these routes across Ohio. If you have trouble -I can draw them out for you -but you will need to send me an address. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The Kanawha Trace Way Bill New Garden, Guilford County, N. Carolina Bill of the Road to Richmond, Indiana, Crossing the Blue Ridge at Ward's Gap, and traveling the Kanhaway Route ------------------------------------------------------------- (facing page) To Clemmons - - - - - 4 4 Peters' - - - - - - - 3 142 Beesons - - - - - 5 9 Mouth of Indian River- 7 149 Kerners - - - - - 3 12 Pack's ferry - - - - 10 159 Bitting's - - - - 17 26 Blue Stone River - - 5 164 Gording's - - - - 14 43 Pack's - - - - - - - 6 170 Unthank's - - - - 14 57 Hervey's - - - - - - 17 187 Perkin's - - - - - 4 61 Blake's - - - - - - - 6 193 Mankins' - - - - - 8 69 Road's fork - - - - - 16 209 (At Wards Gap) Cotton hill - - - - - 6 215 Cornelius' - - - - 5 74 (4 m. over) Road's fork - - - 6 80 Falls of New River - 5 220 Reedisland River - 14 94 Benjamin Morris's - - 8 228 Fugat's Ford Leonard Morris's - - 17 245 of New River- - 1 95 Venables' - - - - - - 5 250 John Feely's - - - 5 100 Cobb's - - - - - - - 7 257 Walker's Mountain- 15 115 Coal River and Coal Shannon's - - - - 3 118 Mountain in the way to Thos. Kirk's - - - 9 127 Hanley's - - - - - 18 265 Giles Court House- 2 129 M'Collister's - - - - 12 277 Peters ferry - - - 3 132 Grice's - - - - - - - 16 293 Peters town - - - 7 139 ------------------------------------------- (reverse page) Ohio River - - - - 9 302 Leisburg, in Highland 700 yds wide -Galliopolis County, Ohio - - - 3 396 Woods Joel Willis's - - - - 4 400 on Rackoon Ck- 11 313 Morgantown - - - - - 4 404 Judge Poor's - - - 15 328 Wilmington - - - - - 10 414 Town of Jackson - 8 336 Todd's fork Creek - - 3 417 Scioto Salt works. Ceasar's creek - - - 10 427 Coonts's - - - - - 11 347 Little Miami at Richmond - - - - - 5 352 Waynesville - - - 3 430 Highbank-Prairies- 5 357 Springborough - - - - 8 438 Kilgore's ferry - 5 362 Franklin on the (Scioto) Great Miami - - - 4 442 Chilicotho - - - - 4 366 Tapscott's - - - - - 2 444 Elijah Johnsons on Big twin Creek - - - 4 448 Paint Creek - 9 375 Eaton - - - - - - - 17 465 Greenfield - - - - 12 387 White Water Meet House Rattlesnake creek RICHMOND --------- 16 481 at Monroetown- 6 393 - This Bill may not be precisely correct in every instance - ------------------------------------------------------------- (foolscap paper - before 1820) obtained from Argus Ogborn - Quaker Historian, Richmond IN (New Garden was in Greensboro NC -- Whitewater Meeting was begun 1809) ---------------------

Subject: Earliest Migration Routes Date: 13-Dec-98 18:52 From: Merle C Rummel <cliffr@infocom.com> I've been researching my church history (Obannon/Stonelick Church of the Brethren, near Goshen OH -1795) and have found that migration north to the Dayton area was on a couple land routes -not much on the Miami Rivers. Used by the Dunkers -and others. It essentially was the Old Xenia Road -from Bullskin Landing, near Utopia -with a branch through Lebanon to Franklin and up the west side of the Great Miami. I also found a Waybill ("Kanawha Way") across the southern part of the state -c1806 -from North Carolina to Richmond IN -which I traced out and drove. This was a Quaker Waybill, used by many Dunkers from So Virginia. Merle C Rummel Church Historian <cliffr@infocom.com>

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------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 16-Dec-98 19:50 Subject: Query for Erie Co., Ohio ------------------------------------------------------------------ NAME: Joyce Friend EMAIL: info@catcandu.com DATE:1998-12-16 URL: QRYTEXT: FRIEND and SNOW in Erie County Ohio-Venice Seeking information on John Henry Friend and Margaret Snow known to be in Venice prior to 1930. John died in 1946 Boone Co, KY. John's father was Henry. His son was William Sherman. John is known to have a sister Nola and perhaps a sister Lillian. COSTIGAN is a tie in. !^NavFont02F02050006NGHHIN63BA

’was the Night before Christmas, he lived all alone, In a one Bedroom house made of plaster and stone . I had come down the chimney with presents to give And to see just who in this home did live. I looked all about,a strange sight I did see, No tinsel, no presents, not even a tree. No stocking by mantle, just boots filled with sand. On the wall hung pictures of far distant lands, With medals and badges, awards of all kinds, A sober thought came through my mind. For this house was different, it was dark and dreary, I found the home of a soldier, once I could see clearly. The soldier lay sleeping, silent, alone. Curled up on the floor in this one bedroom home The Face was so gentle, the room in such disorder, Not how I pictured a United States soldier. Was this the hero of whom I’d just read? Curled up on a poncho, the floor for a bed? I realized the Families that I saw this night, Owed their lives to these soldiers who were willing to fight . Soon ‘round the world the chrildren would play. And grown-ups would Celebrate a bright Christmas Day. They all enjoyed freedom each month of the Year, Because of the soldiers, like the one lying here. I couldn’t help wonder how many lie alone, On a cold Christmas Eve, in a land far from home. The very thought brought a tear to my eye, I dropped to my knee and started to cry. The soldier awakened and I heard a rough voice, “Santa don’t cry, this life is my choice I fight for Freedom, I don’t ask for more, My life is My God, my country , my Corps.” The Soldier rolled over and drifted to sleep, I couldn’t control it, I continued to weep. I kept watch for hours, so silent and still, And we both Shivered from the cold night’s chill I didn’t want to leave on that cold, dark night This Guardian of honor so willing to Fight Then the soldier rolled over , with a voice soft and pure, “Whispered, Carry on Santa, it’s Christmas Day , all is secure.” One Look at my watch, and I knew he was right Merry Christmas my Friend, and to all a Good Night , .

In a message dated 12/16/98 11:19:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 73777.25@compuserve.com writes: > > DATE:1998-12-16 > URL: > QRYTEXT: FRIEND and SNOW in Erie County Ohio-Venice > Seeking information on John Henry Friend > and Margaret Snow known to be in Venice > prior to 1930. John died in 1946 Boone Co, KY. > John's father was Henry. His son was William Sherman. > John is known to have a sister Nola and perhaps > a sister Lillian. COSTIGAN is a tie in. > William Alonzo, Sherman,b,Oct 8, 1839 In Milan , Huron Co Ohio died May 22,1898 Married Augusta L. Broughton, On August 13 1860 , b, abt 1840 Died Apr 4 1899 Kids Howard Sherman. b July 1 1861. Walter E, Sherman.b Oct 5 1862 Died ? Delno W , Twin Sherman,b, June 27 1864 ,died Delbert A. Twin Sherman, b,June 27 1864 ,died May 1924 Fredrick D Sherman ,b,May 1868, in Milan, Huron co.Ohio, Died Jan 5 1948 Mercosta co. Mi. Married Floral Pearl, Vining b, Aug 9, 1874 b in Milan, Ohio died at home Nov 29 1943, Morley, Mecosta co. Mi. Kids Marion Alonzo Sherman, b, May 24 1893. Died 1974 Deerfield co Mi . Married Flora E, Widdefeild abt 1873. Kids Flora E Vining Aug 9 1874, Eve E Vining Han 11,1884, Lester Vining July 13 1890, Marian Adel Vining b. Oct 11 1877 Ralph,Vining Sherman b,Dec,11 1899 Norwalk Huron Co, Ohio. Died Apr, 1 1990 Grand Rapids Mi Harry,Henry, Sherman b,12 Oct 1896...Norwalk Huron Co Ohio...... Married to Flossie, Anna BEEMER b, 19 Sept 1899, In Ingham co. Mi. Married 1917 Died 7 Nov ,1984, Cem Mecosta, Mi. BORN TO THEM Armeda,Jane Sherman b, 30 May 1918, Died at Birth. Emma Pearl Sherman b, 30 May 1918, Lakeview, Mi Died 13 Dec 1971, in California, Valhalla.N.Hollywood, California .Irene, Harriet Sherman b,28 Nov 1919, Bending Mi. Died 4 July 1965, Graying Mi. Glendale Cem. Mi Cleo, Elizabeth SHERMAN b, 4 Sept 1921 in Fowler Mi Died 30 April 1983. Burial In Deefield Cem Mi John , Fredrich Sherman b, 14 Feb 1923 Harry Henry Sherman Jr b,8 Oct 1925. Died in the war. 3 June 1950 Daisy, Dean SHERMAN b,31 Aug 1924 Died April 1925 Freda, Doris Sherman b,15 Aug 1930. Died 22 Aug 1932 Walter, Alonza Sherman b,17 March 1932 died at birth My name is Robert Neal Larner. My mother was Emma Pearl Sherman.Larner. I have the families of these members. or most of them./ Email Bob 4123 @aol.com

LDS has the filmed the records of the Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky. These records are held at Bowling Green University. If this is the home being discussed, I will be more than happy to post the film numbers. Carole

At 09:08 AM 12/16/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Folks, > Well I got some more pieces of the archives finished. Please view the >OH-FOOTSTEPS digests at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/oh-footsteps/1998.htm and let me know >if you like the format. I also update the following counties: >Belmont at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/belmont/belmont.htm >Brown at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/brown/brown.htm >Butler at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/butler/butler.htm >Columbiana at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/columbiana/columbia.htm >Crawford at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/crawford/crawford.htm > > Maggie > >P.S. Could Lori that had been assisting me with files and such please email >me? I have been sending you messages for a week and a half with no >response but I know you are on the list somewhere. (grin)Thanks I have >some work for you if you want it. > >!^NavFont02F02E10034NGHHG57NG91HGD9NHXHH_NH4CHH54NH8AHH96NHD2HHDCNI]HIE22EE >3 > > >==== OHERIE Mailing List ==== >This list is designed to provide a discussion forum for anyone who has an interest in Erie County Ohio. > > > > >

Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 15-Dec-98 19:18 > Subject: Query for Erie Co., Ohio > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > NAME: Dianne Howell > EMAIL: dhowell43@hotmail.com > DATE:1998-12-15 > URL: > QRYTEXT: Trying to get birth cert for my gmother Janis SHAW born > Sandusky, Erie County OH. Sent request to probate court, Erie Co, but they > said they couldn't find anything. My dad's birth cert states Janis born in > Sandusky; year would be 1906-07. Is there any other place that might have > the birth info? > Query 15 Dec 1998 > dhowell43@hotmail.com > Dianne Howell DIANNE: I have found that early records often give the township name for place of birth/death if they do not live in a city. There is a Sandusky Twp. in Sandusky County. I do not find a Janis Shaw in the Sandusky County Birth Index. I do find listed 18 Shaw, Shaub, Shawl and Shea sur-names. What was Janis's parents names. I will look it up under their names in case her given name was not originally Janis. The book that I am using is: SANDUSKY COUTY, OHIO Birth-Register Infant-Name Index 1867-1908 Extracted and Programmed by William Joseph Toeppe Proofed by Ruby Kapp and Eleanor Kiser Published by the Kin Hunters of Sandusky County Paul Cavalier Massapequa, NY email: lecavalier@sprintmail.com Researching: Cavalier, Momeny and French Canadian Ancestry Vonthron, Hauser, Detwiler and German Ancestry Purdy, Quisno, Davis, Grundy, Prevoncha, Moore, Mcneil, Monderschied ============================================================

Hi, I was told to check church records when I couldn't find a record...there were baptism records kept usually. Good luck. Ruth C. rcolburn@mail.cvn.net