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From: "Tom & Carol McGuire" <>
Subject: Re: Dague/Rittenhouse/Showalter/Dickey
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:21:18 -0500
References: <20010304.154241.-4045521.104.martin.abba@juno.com>


My GG Grandfather was David Franklin Showalter (of Everett, Pa?). Can we
determine whether or not he was Brethren and related to the Joseph Showalter
mentioned?

Tom McGuire, Pittsford, N. Y.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy Martin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: Dague/Rittenhouse/Showalter/Dickey


> Dear Fern and List Members
>
> A little more than two years ago you sent me the message below regarding
> my family in the Black River Brethren Church in Chatham, Medina Co., OH.
> Frederick DAGUE was my gg grandfather and the two Levi DAGUES and John
> DAGUE were different degrees of great uncles.
>
> I have a discrepancy, and would be grateful to know that your date is
> correct, but wonder also if the last two numbers of the date that you
> gave below (for the establishment of the Black River church) could be
> transposed? According to one of our DAGUE family researchers, the
> Centiseptiquinarian Black River History gives the date of official
> organization of the church as Sept. 30, 1854 at the home of Joseph
> RITTENHOUSE. Besides the names of my Frederick and Maria DAGUE, a
> couple other names in the Black River History are: Elder Joseph
> SHOWALTER of Stark Co., OH and Elias DICKEY of Ashland who conducted the
> organization of the new church.
>
> If your date is correct, this may be the reason I couldn't find my gg
> grandparents, in the 1850 Wayne Co. Census. We thought that they had
> moved from Wayne county in 1851. Could there have been an unofficial
> organization of the church in 1845 and an official one later? Were John
> DAGUE and either of the Levi DAGUES listed along with my Frederick DAGUE
> as charter members? Ferne, I would be grateful for any clarification
> that you or anyone else could give us on these dates.
>
> Cathy Martin
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> >From: AFBaldwin%Faculty%
> >To: <>
> >Date: Fri, 11 Dec 98 11:59:01 EST
> >Subject: re: ARNOLD / SMITH; Berks Co., PA>Stark Co., OH; 1824
> >
> >
> >In fact, Frederick Dague and his wife (not named) were charter members
> of
> >the
> >Black River church organized September 30, 1845... and both were
> baptized
> >
> >that day.. A Levi Dague was elected deacon Oct 14, 1899 A John Dague
> >was a
> >Sunday School superintendent sometime after 1868.
> >
> >A Levi Dague... I assume not the same as above was a minister with a
> >Custer
> >Mich address in 1884,
> >
> >Ferne Baldwin
> >Manchester College
> >
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