Thanks, Glee, for the info and memories of the Bear Creek and Concord churches. I, too, had ancestors in each. Hopefully someone around Fairview will have some more information on Bear Creek church. I'm ultimately trying to see if I can get more info on what townland Robert and Sarah Bovard Black came from in Donegal, Ireland. They were part of the Bear Creek church. And my father and his brothers always took us to Concord Cemetery on Memorial Day. It was an annual outing from Ohio where we grew up. Just want to wish all out there a great Easter. And many thanks for the all the help I've received from this terrific list. If I could be on just one, this is the one I'd choose. You guys are the nicest people around! Nancy GrannyGlee@aol.com wrote: >The local history books don't seem to give the names of the early members of >some of the early churches. On page 560 and 561 in Brown's 1895 Butler Co. >history there are members mentioned for >the North Butler Presbyterian congregation. They met in Fergus Hutchison's >house after the first church burned. Some of the early members of the church >included Samuel Jack, Joseph Thorn, John Russell, Wilson M. Call, Isaac Robb, >and all their wives, plus Mrs. Neyman. Some elders of the early church were >William Dinsmore, J. L. Neyman, Archibald McJunkin, A. McCaskey, William C. >Robb, Isaac Robb, John L. Neyman, W. J. Hutchison, W. H. Neyman, and Christy >Robb > >In the History of Butler County published by Waterman and Watkins, 1883, p. >372, there is an article on the Bearcreek Presbyterian Church in Fairview Tp. >According to it, the first worship was in a tent. It was called Deer Lick >Tent and was positioned in the middle of the "old" graveyard which was about >halfway between Fairview and Karns City. About 1800, the neighborhood >Presbyterians, including Sam Kinkaid, Joseph Smith and John Craig, erected a >log church. The site was in the Lower Bear Creek Cemetery. I assume that to >be on the left, in the trees, as you drive into the cemetery. >Maybe someone out Fairview way can tell us. >I wonder if my young teenage genealogy friend at Fairview can fill us in. >Twenty-five years ago more stones were observed at that site on the left, >even though only the top half of the stones were above ground. Today they're >gone completely, sunken all the way into the ground. There are only a very >few stones in the trees, now. [I still can't believe my sister and I got on >our knees in front of a Campbell stone in those trees. We were moving the >dirt away to see if a date could be read. Weird!] In Brown's History of >Butler Co., Pa., 1883, page 531, 532 is an article on the Bear Creek >Presbyterian Church. It really doesn't go into membership, either. > >The Butler Eagle put out a big bicentennial newspaper on Saturday, July 1, >1950. Many articles on Butler County churches and their beginning are in it. >The article on Concord Presbyterian Church is quite large. This is an excerpt >from it : "On this day, Reverend Mr. McPherrin preached on the text - Psalm >71:16, "I will go in the strength of the Lord: I will make mention of Thy >righteousness even thine only." Those who heard that serman were the families >who had come to this location a few years before. The names are still >familiar in the community - Edward Graham, George Meals, Robert Campbell, >James Cumberland, James Russell, Hugh Conway, Jeremiah Sutton, and David >Harper. These were among the first settlers." One of my uncles said he >thought Leroy Kuhn authored the article in that 1950 paper. The book Mr. >Sutton mentioned by Leroy Kuhn and Pastor Mathias would give you the best >information on Concord. There are two interesting Concord Sunday School >pictures that many folks inherited from their grandparents. Some surnames in >the men's picture are Campbell, Christie, Houk, Murtland, Bryan, Cumberland, >Coulter, Kinzer, Kuhn, Sutton, Fleming, Thompson, Adams, McCracken, >The surnames in the women's picture are Campbell, Fleming, Pisor, Woods, >Brown, Marshall, Cochran, Houk, Starr, Kinzer, and Alexander." > >G > > > > >==== PABUTLER Mailing List ==== >You can unsubscribe by clicking below for the regular list: > mailto:PABUTLER-L-request@rootsweb.com >Click below for the digest list: > mailto:PABUTLER-D-request@rootsweb.com >In the BODY include only one word: unsubscribe >(Please turn OFF your signature file when sending the message) > > > > > > > > > > > >