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From: Jane Davis <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] United Brethren Church--Washington Co, PA
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:55:21 -0600
References: <201110062143534.SM12080@[216.235.172.45]>
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Dan, Thanks for this post on the United Brethren and United Brethren in Christ. I have gotten several queries on "Brethren" in Missouri whose ancestors were supposedly Church of the Brethren, but were instead related to the United Brethren. I am particularly interested in your reference to the Brethren in Gentry County, MO. Your comment about the Brethren intermarrying with the United Brethren in Gentry County MO is interesting and could help explain what happened to these early Brethren who seemed to just disappear after they move into Gentry County. Perhaps this is part of the answer. Do you have more information on the Gentry County, MO Brethren? Also, where can I find information on the history of the United Brethren in Christ in Missouri? Would that information be with the Huntington College Library collection in Huntington, Indiana? Pat Seaver's list of members in the Zion Chapel United Brethren Church of Washington County, PA reads very closely to those Brethren names of families who did move west. Perhaps there are more ties here than has been realized earlier. Jane Davis.
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> Subject: Re: [BRE] United Brethren Church--Washington Co, PA
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> Correction,
> The United Brethren have not disappeared from the scene and are not all part of the Methodist denomination.
> Years ago when the Untied Brethren were merging with the German, Evangelical denomination, they formed the EUB or Evangelical United Brethren Church.
> This EUB denomination merged with the Methodists to form the United Methodist Church.
> There was/is a remnant of the U Brethren who at the time of the EUB merger refused to go in with it. They remained apart from the merger and continued with the original United Brethren in Christ denomination under Bishop Milton Wright, the father of the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilber.
> The United Brethren in Christ denomination was born not of the Methodist, Wesleyan tradition but actually from the work of a German Reformed minister and a Mennonite minister in Lancaster and York counties in PA in the late 1700's and actually the church was started in 1800
> Many "Brethren" names appear on the rolls of United Brethren Churches. When Brethren families lived in an area where there were no Brethren churches but the UB was available, that's where they went.
> In Gentry Co, MO, there was much intermarriage between the UBC church and the Brethren, with historically Brethren names found among both groups.
> If you'd like to know the actual history of the Untied Brethren who are NOT part of the Methodists, please check out: http://www.ub.org/United Brethren Church has no historical connection with the Church of the
> Brethren or any of its original forms. United Brethren is now part of the
> United Methodist Church. They have a different theology (Wesleyan) and
> different origin (founded by Philip Otterbein and Martin Boehm).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> On Behalf Of Patricia Seaver
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:35 AM
> To:
> Subject: [BRE] United Brethren Church--Washington Co, PA
> I came across this reference in my research into the Spangle/Spangler family
> (note that the history was published in 1882):
> History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of
> Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men
> Boyd Crumrine, ed.
> Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. 1882
> p. 758
> Zion Chapel of the United Brethren Church dates back to the year 1800, when
> the first organization was effected. The members at about that time (and
> who, as is believed, were the original ones) were Christopher Winter, Daniel
> Rice, George Crider, William Barnhart, George Framer, Capt. Jacob Miller,
> Andrew Deeds, David Simmns, William Sheller, George Kerns. Among the
> preachers to this church during its long period of existence were and have
> been ___Flemmer, Jacob Winter, John Wallace, Jacob Ritter, John Fohl,
> ___Holmes, William Beighell, J.L. Baker, Martin Spangler, Joseph Medsgar,
> M.O. Lane.
> The first house of worship of this congregation was erected on Christopher
> Winter's land, at about the time of the organization. It was a log
> building, two stories high, with a gallery. The second meetinghouse was
> built in 1839, and after being in use for twenty years gave place, in 1859,
> to the edifice which has since been the place of worship of the
> congregation. The present membership of this church includes about fifty
> persons.
> Pat Seaver
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