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Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Early Baptists of Loudoun Co
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:21:43 -0600
References: <20031107.081340.3936.1.hermfagley@juno.com>
Most of the Marks went to Western Kentucky
Sandra
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From: "Hermon B Fagley" <>
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Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU-L] Early Baptists of Loudoun Co
> Your Ketoctin church had John Gerrard and John Gano as ministers.
> At the mouth of the Little Miami River,in eastern Cincinnati's
> Columbia settlement was bothElder Elias Gerrard bro?] and John Stites
> Gano. [son]
> While reading of Goshen Baptist in very sw Pa yesterday, I noted slave
> members given letters to go to [now] Elizabethtown ,Ky with their owners.
>
> [a church organized by Fristo [of Stafford Co,Va] and Henry Crosley. in
> 1773.
> It was during my Prodigy years,but I read once the records of a Baptist
> church a county
> south of Ketoctin,in Va. And that church,at a time about 1790,when Ohio
> and
> Ky migration was favored, was down to 11 white men members,and 90 slave
> members.
> The slaves being owned,mostly,by others in the neighborhood. Knowing how
> anti-slavery Quaker and Presbyterian churches could be,and knowing my own
>
> Bethel,sw Ohio Baptist church was anti-slavery from it's
> 1st,1797,records, that
> 11 and 90 ratio caused me to wonder [?] Let's go a step further.
> Cincinnati is building a big building honoring the Underground RR near
> it's Ohio
> River landing. Va,and then Ky,owned the Ohio River,and slavery was legal
> nearly
> to this new building.
> Stop- you have a sister DAR chapter at Mocksville, Davie Co,NC [was
> Rowan]. A chapter
> named for Col Jonathan Hunt,who was raised,like Gano,at Hopewell,NJ. And
> their
> baptist church at Mocksville,NC was named for the same Heaton-Eaton
> family of,once,
> Morrs Co,NJ, that ministered at Kecoctin and Hopewell. The church of the
> Boone's and
> Bryan's.
>
> Did the Marks go to Fayette Co,sw Ohio?
>
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:35:19 EST writes:
> > Jere:
> >
> > There is a picture of John Marks in Ketoctin Church. A new
> > church was recently started there, but it has nothing to do
> > with the original church, other than it pays rent to the
> > Ketoctin Association. The old church has a service each
> > first Sunday in June and that it is the extent of its activity,
> > other than the cemetery is continuing to grow. They bought
> > additional land several years ago. There are no records
> > other than the minute books I mentioned previously.
> >
> > I am a member of Ketoctin Chapter, DAR and our chapter
> > placed a plaque in the church with John, Isaiah and Abel
> > Marks names on it in 1977. The grave of Isaiah was marked
> > in 1954. The CAR (Children of the American Revolution)
> > Chapter here is named for John Marks. He is buried in
> > Ketoctin Cemetery at the church
> >
> > The Balch Library (a genealogy library) in Leesburg, VA
> > would have some information on John Marks. When you
> > get the website, you will notice off to the side Cemetery
> > Database. Click on that and write in Marks (no first name)
> > and you will see a number of them. That database covers
> > all the cemeteries in the Loudoun County.
> >
> > This is their website:
> > http://www.leesburgva.org/town_services/thomas_balch.asp
> >
> > Jane Bogle
> >
> >
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