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| 101 |  | Lower Paxton German Baptist Meetinghouse George and Elizabeth Hoover belonged to this congregation, as well as Abrahm and Rebecca Hoover and Samuel and Sarah Hoover. Other members of this congregation included the Augst, Barnhart, Baum, Bivens, Bowman, Cassel, Chud, Damy, Dunn, Fackler, Fitz, Jones, Lyter, Miller, Rhinehart, Schmidt, Schertzer, Shope, and Smith families, amongst others. | |
| 102 |  | Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, PA In the south-eastern corner of Lower Paxton Township you may see red markers on George and Samuel Hoover's homes, as well as the German Baptist cemetery in George Smith's farm. | |
| 103 |  | Marriage of John and Elizabeth (Hoover) Wideman Jacob Sherk, John's uncle, appears as the witness at this marriage. Peter Doner, also a married man, and an uncle (through marriage) for Elizabeth, appears as the other witness in the marriage. Hence John and Barbara (Heise) Hoover do seem to be the parents of Elizabeth Hoover, as believed by Norman and Ezra Wideman. According to the statement at the end of this page, the Mennonite bishop Jacob Grove married the two couples listed here. But you may notice the initials "J Do" appearing next to Elizabeth Hoover's name. This may also indicate that the Tunker Bishop, John Doner, was also at the wedding and involved with the marriage celebration. | |
| 104 |  | Martyrs Mirror, Elkhart, Indiana, 1886 Published by John F. Funk, in Indiana, the Martyrs Mirror appeared in Canada after 1886. Peter and Maria Hoover bought one, hoping it might be of interest and blessing to his children and grandchildren. The book lies here in the Rocky Cape Community, in Australia. | |
| 105 |  | Mary Anna Hoover Brown Final Document of Mary Anna Hoover (1851-1931), wife of William Brown. Burial in Shoops Cemetery, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, PA. | |
| 106 |  | Masland Church.jpg | |
| 107 | | Masland Church.resized.jpg | |
| 108 |  | Masland Meetinghouse Along Julan Palau street in Sibu, on the shore of the wide Rajang River in what is now the Malaysian province of Sarawak. Earlier on, the entire island was known as Borneo. | |
| 109 |  | Masland Meetinghouse in Sibu, in mid-1900s This Chinese-speaking congregation quickly grew, in James M. Hoover's time, and is now surrounded by many daughter congregations. | |
| 110 |  | Masland Meetinghouse, Sibu A view of the meetinghouse in the mid-1900s. A much larger building and surrounding square has replaced this one in recent times. | |
| 111 |  | Membership List of the Paxton Church of the Brethren, Dauphin County, PA Abraham Jr. and Rebecca Hoover, George and Elizabeth Hoover, Samuel and Sarah Hoover, and Samuel E. Hoover Jr. belonged to this congregation in the mid-1800s. | |
| 112 |  | Menno and Leah Hoover's Farm Rainham, Township. Photo taken in 1999 with Justin, Stanley and Stefania Hoover, visitors from Pennsylvania. | |
| 113 |  | Menno and Leah Hoover's Places around the Conestoga River When the Hoovers settled near Hawkesville, in 1919, they bought a farm northwest of Hawkesville, Number 1 in this map. 1. Menno and Leah raised their children in this farm, later passed on to their daughter Mary and her husband Isaac Bauman. 2. For a while Menno and Leah lived in this farm, but they also passed it on to their son Amos and his wife Rebecca (Martin) Hoover. 3. Menno and Leah lived with their daughter Rebecca with her husband Daniel Bauman for while. 4. Menno bought this farm and divided it between his sons. A large part of it he planted in timber. 5. Near Crosshill Menno bought a beautiful sugar bush. Later he sold it to an Old Order Mennonite man, Elam Burkhart. 6. For some time Menno and Leah owned the historic Crystal Spring Farm along the Conestoga River, east of Hawkesville. This is where John W. Martin set up and owned a woollen mill. The building, with its dams and mill race still stood until recent years. Menno and Leah sold this place to deacon Samuel and Hannah (Martin) Horst. 7. Menno and Leah reserved one part of their property near Hawkesville. Here they built up a new farm, with new buildings. Their son Tilman with his wife Maryanne (Bowman) Hoover started farming here, while Menno built a cosy retirement home (a "Daadihaus"), where their daughter Saloma lived as well. Menno and Leah are both buried in the Orthodox Mennonite Cemetery nearby (visible on this map). | |
| 114 |  | Menno and Leah's "Daadihaus" After passing their farm at Hawkesville to their daughter Mary and her husband Isaac Bauman, Menno and Leah established a smaller farm just out of Hawkesville. Their youngest son, Tilman, farmed here and Menno and Leah lived for many years in this small house (in the foreground), with their daughter Saloma. Menno had a great interest in planting trees, taking care of a woodlot, and cutting timber from carefully selected trees. He bought two farms, one two miles to the northwest (north of the Redhill School), and one near Crosshill, a beautiful sugar bush. From local authorities he obtained permission to plant a shelter belt along what is now Herrgott Road between Hawkesville and Wallenstein, Ontario. | |
| 115 |  | Menno Hoover ca 1905 Youngest of the family of Peter and Maria Hoover, Menno eventually married and inherited the home place alongside the Rainham Mennonite Meetinghouse. He was a poet, wrote well, and greatly enjoyed his vast amount of friends of all creeds and culture. | |
| 116 |  | Menno Hoover's Autobiography Unlike most other Anabaptists of his time, Menno Hoover wrote his story in vivid detail. He kept on writing, with a beautiful Victorian hand, even after he lost his sight in his latter years (he died in his 94'th year). Thanks to a vision granted to him by the Lord in 1918, Menno chose to walk on the narrow way, leaving his beloved home in Rainham Township behind, in order to find a more serious and godly fellowship among the nonconformed Anabaptists of the Grand River Valley. For this, we (his descendants) are still deeply grateful. | |
| 117 | | Michael Brick.jpg | |
| 118 |  | Millers Cemetery and Site of Meetinghouse Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, PA. | |
| 119 |  | Millers German Baptist Cemetery Situated along the south side of Fishing Creek Valley Road, Middle Paxton Twp., Dauphen County, PA, the cemetery is carefully kept and still in use. Photo courtesy of Find-a-Grave. | |
| 120 |  | Millers Meetinghouse Site Nothing but the well and the old pump remains of what used to be the Middle Paxton German Baptist meetinghouse. The building was erected in the early 1800s, and the was well attended for over a hundred years. After World War II the congregation dwindled, and meetings eventually came to a close. In 1970 the building was torn down. | |
| 121 | | Nicholas Brick.jpg | |
| 122 | | Nicholas Brick.resized.jpg | |
| 123 |  | Oakville United Brethren in Christ, Shippensburg, PA Oakville United Methodist Church (originally United Brethren in Christ) was founded 4 May 1806 when Christian Newcomer first preached on the farm of Jacob Rhodes. Jacob Rhodes gave some land from his farm for the first church building to be erected in 1816. The church has been located in Oakville since 1859 and a new structure was built in 1901. A sanctuary was added in 1961. The church built a separate Christian Education and Youth Development Center in the spring of 1999. -- From The History of North Newton Township. | |
| 124 |  | Orthodox Mennonite Meetinghouse, Wellesley Twp Anson and Sarah Hoover took part in the first Orthodox Mennonite congregation, east of Linwood, from its birth in the early 1950s to 1976. This building, no longer used, was built on a lot bought from Daniel Bearinger, in 1962. | |
| 125 |  | Peter Hoover House along the German Sideroad Peter and Maria Hoover built this new house in 1895. Timber came from their own sugar bush and young men helped to bring the bricks from Jarvis in the winter, hauling them with horses and sleighs. | |
| 126 |  | Peter Hoover, ca 1865 An early tintype taken in Canada during the time of the Civil War, in the USA. | |
| 127 |  | Rainham Mennonite Meetinghouse In 1870 Peter and Maria Hoover donated a plot of land, out of their sugar bush, to the Mennonite congregation. Here they built a new meetinghouse, still standing and used by the Rainham Mennonite Church. In 1889 concerned families, including Peter and Maria, withdrew from this congregation to set up a more old-style Anabaptist fellowship. | |
| 128 |  | Rainham Mennonite Meetinghouse, 2005 Justin and Julian Hoover trying the door of the Rainham Meetinghouse in the summer of 2005. A small congregation still meets at this place, associated with the Mennonite Church of Eastern Canada. The Reformed Mennonite (Herrite) congregation closed in 1967, and the Old Order Mennonite Congregation, also meeting in this building, closed a year earlier, in 1966. | |
| 129 |  | Rainham Mennonite Meetinghouse, ca 1890 Menno Hoover attended meetings, both among the Old Order members and among the English-speaking Ontario Conference congregation. When Nathaniel Bergey, a young Mennonite evangelist of the Bethel Mennonite congregation in Kent County, Ontario, came to conduct a week of revivals, Menno was deeply stirred, convicted to follow Christ, and he would have loved to join this movement. But, in respect to his parents, and the lingering doubts he continued to have, regarding the worldliness amongst the "born again", he thought the better of it, and chose another much more conservative way. | |
| 130 |  | Rainham Township Map, 1879 Peter Hoover Farm visible between the Mennonite Meetinghouse, the S.S.#2 Rainham School. | |
| 131 | | Rhodes Cemetery.png | |
| 132 | | Rhodes Cemetery.resized.png | |
| 133 |  | S.S.#2 Rainham Menno Hoover not only attended school here, he also wrote about it in his characteristically vivid style. Local families knew this place as the "Bush School". Built in 1864 it served a many rural families, a good number of them Mennonites, until 1961. Nothing remains of this building and children now travel, on the bus, to Fisherville. | |
| 134 |  | Sarah Ann Hoover Leiter (1838-1919) Wife of Moses Lyter of Dauphin County, PA | |
| 135 |  | Sisters of the Big Swatara congregation in Dauphin County, mid-1900s German Baptist believers passionately attempted to follow Jesus and his instructions in every detail, during their first years in Pennsylvania. Their desire continues, but many changes have gradually taken place. The Big Swatara congregation, now associated with the Church of the Brethren, has gradually lost its disincentives and became more closely aligned with main-stream American Evangelicals. | |
| 136 |  | Site of Jacob and Elizabeth Hoover's Home along Lakeshore Road Site of Jacob and Elizabeth Hoover's Home along Lakeshore Road Jacob and Elizabeth's oldest son, Daniel, lived in the main farmhouse a short distance to the west, on Hoover's Point. Later Daniel built a new house and barn on the north side of the new road. You may notice on this map how the old Lakeshore Road skirted the south side of the Mennonite Cemetery and the Jacob Hoover residence. | |
| 137 |  | Site of the Huber / Hoover Family Cemetery along Bullfrog Valley Road, Hershey, PA Buried at this place were: Baum Anna (Sep 20 1720 - Nov 20 1785) 65y info from family April 2005 Baum Michael (Jul 1755 - Nov 17 1795) 40y info from family April 2005 Baum Veronica (1725 - Oct 3 1797) 72 y info from family April 2005 Crumel Elizabeth (21 Sep 1811 - 21 Feb 1836) Crumel Mary (23 Mar 1813 - 11 Jun 1823) d/o John & Rachel Crumel Rachel (14 Jan 1770 - 11 Jun 1823) Crumel William (23 Jul 1824 - 2 Nov 1824) Hoover Benjamin (29 Aug 1805 - 25 Oct 1877) Hoover Isaac (12 Feb 1843 - 28 Feb 1863) s/o Benjamin & Lydia Huber Anna (18 Mar 1820 - 26 Jul 1820) d/o Frederick & Susan Huber David ( 16 Mar 1818 - 25 Sep 1828) s/o George & Susan Huber Frederick (28 Jan 1813 - 11 May 1813) s/o Fred. & Susan Huber George (21 Oct 1774 - 11 Sep 1826) Huber Isaac (23 Feb 1809 - 28 May 1824) Huber Jacob (6 Aug 1813 - 2 Jan 1825) Huber Jacob (23 Jan 1806 - 29 Mar 1823) s/o Jacob & Elizabeth Huber John (Dec 1821 - 8 Mar 1822) s/o George & Susan Huber Maria (3 Feb 1741 - 2 Oct 1821) s/o Fred. & Susan Huber Michael (no date of death - 1810 illegible) Huber Samuel (11 May 1820 - 2 Oct 1821) s/o George & Susan Huber Samuel (no date of death - 25 Oct 1811) s/o George & Susan Reiter Ephraim (23 Feb 1817 - 18 Sep 1821) s/o George & Susan Reiter Henry (6 Mar 1801 - 29 Jun 1816) s/o Henry & Maria Reiter Jacob (1805 – 1811) s/o M. & S. Reiter Magdalena (2 Apr 1747 - 26 Aug 1821) s/o John & Susan w/o M Reiter Michael (29 Sep 1744 - 7 Sep 1821) s/o Henry & Magdalena Reiter Samuel (5 Jun 1816 - 20 Sep 1821) s/o Henry & Magdalena Grave Markers, and possibly some of the remains have been removed to the Spring Creek German Baptist (Church of the Brethren) cemetery, nearby. | |
| 138 |  | Spring Creek German Baptist Meetinghouse Built in 1848, this larger meetinghouse allowed the Spring Creek congregation to expand further, but continual growth soon called for new congregations in other parts of Dauphin and Lebanon County and across the mountains into northern Pennsylvania and New York. -- Photo from Elizabethtown College Church of the Brethren Picture Collection | |
| 139 |  | St Thomas Anglican Church, Kuching, Sarawak Because James M. Hoover turned sick and needed medical attention at the regional capital of Kuching, he died in this city and was buried in the Anglican cemetery. | |
| 140 |  | The Big Swatara Meetinghouse at Hanoverdale, Dauphin County, PA Brothers sat on the right side of the elders, facing the congregation from the pulpit, and sisters on the left. Meetings steadily grew during the 1800s as large families expanded and multiplied, making it necessary to branch off and build new meetinghouses here and there throughout the district. | |
| 141 |  | The Big Swatars German Baptist (Dunkard) Meetinhouse at Hanoverdale, Dauphin County, PA Because of its central location in the Big Swatera congregation (that included a number of meetinghouses) this one, at Hanoverdale, became the preferred location of spring and fall love feasts. For this reasons, a full basement, kitchen, benches, water facilities, and lodging for many visitors in the attic became necessary. | |
| 142 |  | The Nicholas Brick Farm in Rainham Township, Ontario This 1870 map of Rainham Township appears sideways, west at the top, with the Nicholas Brick farm (marked with a red dot) between Fisherville and Nelle's Corners. You may notice that the Brick family owned a double farm, with 200 acres. | |
| 143 |  | The Peter Brick Farm at New Prussia After spending a short time in Rainham Township, Peter and Barbara Brick settled at New Prussia, south of Wellesley. At one point a Catholic school was situated on their farm, at the corner of Nafziger and Berlett's Road. Later a public school was built on the opposite corner. | |
| 144 |  | The Rhoads German Baptist Cemetery, Somerset County, PA Located in Black Township, in what is now Somerset County, PA, German Baptist families, led by George Adam Martin, collaborator with Conrad Beissel of the Ephrata Community in Lancaster County, settled here in the 1760s. | |
| 145 |  | The Rhodes Farm at Oakville, Cumberland County, PA The farm of Jacob and Barbara Rhodes, marked with a red dot on the left, in Hopewell Township, eventually also became the home of Joseph and Ellen Rhodes. A meetinghouse stood at this site, and a family cemetery. But a larger meetinghouse was erected in 1859 in the village of Oakville, the site of today's Oakville United Methodist church-house. Hopewell Township appears on the upper left of this map. Newton Townshp on the right, and Southampton on the lower left, of Cumberland County, PA. -- From H. G. Bridgens' 1858 Map of Cumberland County, PA. | |
| 146 |  | The Widow's Oil In the Hoover Memorial Garden | |
| 147 | | tn_1 Peter Hoover small format.jpg | |
| 148 | | tn_Cleason, David, Nancy and Velina.jpg | |
| 149 |  | Tuan Hoover of Borneo If you wish to read the life story of James M. Hoover you may click on: http://thecommonlife.com.au/rainham/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Tuan-Hoover-of-Borneo-F-T-Cartwright.pdf Written by Frank T. Cartwright, it tells the entire story from John's beginnings in Pennsylvania and his death in Kuching, Sarawak, in 1935. | |
| 150 |  | Wedding Photo, 1904 James M. Hoover and his wife Mary Rebecca Young at Penang, Malaysia, where she lived with her mother and step-father, Amelia and G. F. Pykett. |