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Note: Buried in Stouder Cemetery, Clermont Co. 13 Nov 98 From Obannon Creek/Stonelick Church History by Reverend Merle C. Rummel at Clermont County, Ohio USGenWeb Site: "The Obannon Creek/Stonelick Church was the first German Baptist Brethren ("Dunker", now -Church of the Brethren) congregation north of the Ohio River, founded 1795, and is probably our oldest existing church west of the Appalachians. As these ancestors planned their western move, this church became a destination point or goal. From Pennsylvania, Maryland and Northern Virginia, they traveled the Braddock and Forbes roads to Pittsburgh, where they floated down the Ohio River to Kentucky and Ohio. From the lower Valley of Virginia and North Carolina, they followed the Kanawha Trace through the Mountains to Charleston, where they built flatboats and came down the Kanawha River to the Ohio to Cincinnati. While others from North Carolina and Tennessee followed Daniel Boone's Wilderness road through the Cumberland Gap into Kaintuck, only very few of these came to Ohio... "There were three early Dunker settlements in Clermont County, Ohio. the earliest was Obannon Creek on the Warren County line, off the Little Miami River,...The Ten Mile Creek Settlement ...Earliest Obannon Church services were held in the home of Frederick Weaver, born in Frederick Co MD, married to Elizabeth Maugans. They lived on Obannon Creek just south of Goshen. His son, Frederick, lived at the Stouder Cemetery. He was a blacksmith. "The better farmland of the Stonelick attracted many of the younger children of the families. It was only about 5 miles from the old Obannon Church, but that is a long way to go in a horse and buggy. In 1854 the families living here built a brick meetinghouse, which is the present Stonelick Church of the Brethren (it has undergone some remodelling). It stands on the banks of Stonelick Creek, and the Stonelick State Park stretches behind the Church. There are some records which indicate that the building of the new church on the Stonelick caused quite a dispute in the Obannon Creek congregation. "David Grossnickle of Middletown Valley, Frederick Co MD, came to the Stonelick and married Mary, daughter of Frederick Weaver. Several descendents became prominent local ministers. The descendents are one of the main families of the present church." From Grossnickle Descendants in Maryland and Indiana: Buried in Stouder Cemetery, Goshen Twp, Clermont Co, OH
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