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From: Merle C Rummel <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Frantz France
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:58:28 -0500
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I inferred, but didn't say, that some of the Lost River Brethren did
live (at least, own land) in Washington County - as near as I can tell,
in the southern part, not that far from the (possibly later) church
building..

I did pull up my Liberty Church Cemetery and Old Union (Kerns Church)
Cemetery files - and there are no Frantz/France burials in either
cemetery. (Old Union was west of Bedford IN, with Elder Abraham Kern
[kin] - as a "Brethren Association" leader there - they, too, went
Disciples of Christ, Christian - after the 1820s.) I do not have
complete records on the Reep Cemetery(s), near Bradford in Harrison Co -
these were the three early Brethren settlements west from Louisville -
on (near) the Louisville-Vincennes Road. The Olive Branch Cemetery
(probably originally named Ten Mile Creek Church, back then) (Clark Co
IN - near New Washington) was where Elder Adam Hostetler (and wife,
Hannah Hardman) are buried, but again, I do not have a complete record
of burials -and I don't think there is one. My Stutsmans (Kern
connection) lived there, and I have found none of their burials. Except
for a very early 2000 Acre land grant, no one seems to know much about
them - even though there are a number of Stutsmans living there now.

I have found some westerly family migration to have occurred along the
line of these churches - before they took major moves - to Illinois and
west.

Merle C Rummel

> The (different) John Frantz who married Esther Stover died in Botetourt,
> about 1822, when his children were still very young. The widow remarried
> and moved with her Frantz children to Washington County, Indiana. You won't
> find John Frantz in your research of this area, but maybe you will run
> across one or more of his children. His sons were Christopher A. Frantz,
> William H. Frantz, and Isaac G. Frantz. I don't have any records on any of
> them.
>

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