Marshes Chapel still stands but has been made into a home. The church bell is out front in the yard and the beautiful wooden doors are still in place. Interesting to see if you have ancestors who went there. Records for the Marshes Chapel have been microfilmed (it was in the charge with the Rushville M.E. Church) and are in the Fairfield County District Library. At 07:24 PM 11/08/98 -0500, Lynn Scheu wrote: >Hi Sheila, > >In Crossroads and Fence Corners by Charles Goslin, I found two references >to an Oakthorpe in Richland Twp. > >The first is on P. 196: "Some distance north in this township [Richland] >is the small community of Oakthorpe, once known as Slabtown. East of this >community is the Marshes Crossroads, near which still stands the Marshes >Chapel, an early Methodist Church of Richland Township." > >"The second is on p. 202: The last of the land of Richland Township which >was disposed of was that of Section 16, known as school lands [this is >usually the section of each twp assigned to schools as a means of financing >them]. Divided into tracts of 40, 80 and 160 acres, this land was sold by >the governors of Ohio. > >"It was Ohio Governor Robert Lucas who sold the school land of Richland >Twp. The community of Oakthorpe is at the north edge of this Section 16." > >I think if you examine Ssection 16 in your Atlas, you will see a cluster of >landowners on small plots. I didn't see a Saum though. > >Lynn Scheu >Louisville, KY > >>Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:22:15 -0500 >>From: "Paul F. Wilson" <pwilson@methodist.edu> >>To: OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com >>Message-ID: <000501be0b2b$94a9ae40$150a0a0a@PaulF.Wilson> >>Subject: [OHFAIRFI-L] Oakthorpe >>Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset="iso-8859-1" >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >>Does anyone know where Oakthorpe is/was? I was researching some SAUMS, many >>of whom where from Richland Township, and I found an individual who was >>born, resided and died in Oakthorpe. I could not find such a place in my >>1875 Combination Atlas Map of Fairfield County. >> >>By the way, are there any plans to reprint or otherwise make available the >>above atlas? >> >>Sheila Rider >>North Carolina >> > > > Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com Admistrator of OHFAIRFI-L OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com Fairfield County OGS Webpage: http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org Fairfield County Genweb: http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org/genweb.html Searching Fairfield County Families: Swinehart, Homrighouser, Betz,Foltz,Quickel,Anspach,Spohn,Troutman,Zartman Church Archive Links: http://www.greenapple.com/~cshart/chlinks.html