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From: "Rebecca Lucas" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Cooper - Rohrbaugh
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:19:14 -0500
References: <MABBIJKMKNCKDDHOFFNBAEFBCGAA.ebitting@bridgewater.edu>


Thanks for your reply, this is very fascinating to me. I appreciate your
response.
Becky Lucas - Ohio
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmert Bittinger" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: RE: [BRE] Cooper - Rohrbaugh


> Becky, Widow Cooper and the church in her log home on the west side of the
> mountain that divides the Atlantic from the Ohio River watersheds near
> Harman West Virginia (Route 33) is well know in history. It is described
in
> Bittinger, Hist of the Brethren in First District of W. Va., and in
> Allegheny Passage. Elder John Kline always stayed in her home on his west
> virginia mission trips and held services there. This is recorded in his
> "Diary" of 350 printed pages called "Life and Labors of Elder John Kline."
> Emmert Bittinger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Becky [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:48 AM
> To:
> Subject: [BRE] Cooper - Rohrbaugh
>
>
> Hi, I am new to this list. I recently read that my ancestor Maria
Rohrbaugh
> Cooper may have been a key figure in starting a Brethren Church in her
area
> of Virginia now West Virginia. Maria Rohrbaugh was born Jan. 16, 1807 in
> Hardy now Grant Co. Va. now WVa. She married on Feb.9, 1826 in Hardy Co
.to
> Jonas Cooper. I am told she was known as the widow Cooper and would walk
> barefoot for miles to get to the Brethren Church with her children on
> Sundays. She then started a church in her home (maybe so she wouldn't have
> to walk so far!!). Does anyone know if this is in the Brethren
Encyclopedia?
> Her son Samuel Cooper and wife Elizabeth Ann Wimer Cooper were my
> great-great grandparents. I have pictures of them with my
> great-grandparents, Frank Spessert and Mahala Cooper Spessert. Thanks.
> Becky
>
>
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> A New Brethren Heritage Center
> in Ohio's Miami Valley will open mid-November 2002.
> It's location will be in Brookville, Montgomery County Ohio
> near Interstate 70, a few miles west of Interstate 75.
> for further information contact Jim Denlinger
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