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From: "dorene ford" <>
Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] John Paul Vogt
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:02:45 -0600
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Pat I live in Calico Rock Arkansas. it's about a hundred and thirty , forty
miles from you. The Faught road is just west of the Frieden's church, when
you turn down the Faught road, I would say about a quarter of a mile, there
is an old farm house sitting close to the same creek the church is on. it
has an old stone spring house setting there in the yard beside the creek.
you can tell it is very old. there is also a Hugh barn, German in style.
of course this does not mean it is their home place but the stone
springhouse would have lasted through the years with only replacing the
roof. I have no proof of it being the home place but I feel it is very
likely. I don't know how to find out for sure. if it wasn't for the rise
of the pasture you could see the church from it. when we passed by I took a
picture of the springhouse, I can try to send you a copy of it. I didn't
get any more pictures because the people that lived there might not have
been to happy with me, it's a good way to get shot. ha ha. I have written
the library there and tried to get them to put me in contact with the family
that lives there but I didn't get a response from them.
by the way if you get any of these books that is mentioned would you
please tell me how to order them? thank you for writing me again. Dorene
Ford
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Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] John Paul Vogt


> When my husband, sister, and I drove "over the mountain" to Rockingham
County
> in search of the Frieden's Church, we also walked through the cemetery
there.
> We did not find a stone either, for JP Vogt (or related spellings). But
> that was last February and it was VERY cold out that day. We did not find
the
> Faught Road. How did you determine that it might have been where JPF's
house
> stood, Dorene? Could you give me directions to Faught Road? My only
sister
> lives in Culpeper, VA, and we travel often to that area. Imagine my
delight a
> few years ago to find that JPF's first property in VA was "just down the
road"
> from Culpeper!! I have read some stories that indicate that some of the
> "original" Vogt's were members of the Peaked Mountain Church, which is
also near the
> second home of the Vogts. I do not have any records of membership in
either
> church. Often those old churches burned and the very old records were
lost.
> Some of the Vogt's migrated south to Wythe County, VA, but my records do
not
> indicate that my ancestors migrated there. They did, however, migrate to
> Licking County, Ohio, then on to East Central Illinois, where I was born
(I live in
> Memphis, TN now).
>
> Also, thank you Andreas for the info on obtaining a revised map of the
Hebron
> Valley from John Blankenbaker. I'll give him a few days to recover, then
> contact him. It is interesting to read, also, about the cases you cited.
After
> all, our ancestors were flesh and blood and subjected to all kinds of
> circumstances. The Rev. Caspar Stover was not one of my direct line. It
seems that
> there is A LOT of info out there on the Reverend, some of it quite
interesting.
> If anyone has additional info on the Vogt's or Stover's, I'd appreciate
> hearing from you.
>
> Dorene, where do you live now?
>
> Sincerely, Pat Bledsoe
>
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