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From: "ROBERT HARTER" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Crossing the Potomac
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:14:54 -0400
References: <4A493FFC.2040301@ruraltek.com>


Reminds me of the little guy in Li'l Abner who always walked around with a
black cloud over his head! (I don't remember his name - something like Joe
P-----)

Bob Harter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Merle C Rummel" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 6:28 PM
Subject: [BRE] Crossing the Potomac


> Let me add another story to the Virginia Problem -
>
> There was a Reverend John Tanner (some wonder if he was of the Danner
> family) - he pastored a Baptist Church (possibly/likely Baptist
> Brethren) in Virginia - on the east side of the Blue Ridge mountains.
> Since the church was NOT Church of England - there was persecution,
> somewhere I have the details, but it was not good -
>
> He took his whole church, and they walked to Kentucky (maybe 1760s). He
> settled on the Ohio River, Boone Co area, just southwest of Cincinnati.
> The Indians hit them, two of his sons were killed.
>
> He moved west, to Missouri - of all places to New Madrid - in 1810 - and
> in 1811, Christmas, was the New Madrid Earthquake -the strongest
> earthquake we have known about in America (some 8.9 on the Richter
> Scale!)
>
> 1812 - the next year - he moved to the Whitewater Church (Brethren),
> near Cape Girardeau MO.
>
> Somehow - I don't think he was getting the guidance of the Lord!
>
> Merle C Rummel
>
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