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Boone County Germanna Study Group
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2nd Annual Boone Germanna Reunion

June 23, 2012

“Their Journey from Virginia to Kentucky ~ Oct-Nov 1805”

$15.00 Registration Fee for all Saturday presentations

and add $10.00 for great Lunch from Kremer's Market!

Click Here for the Registration Form

Registration Deadline is June 15, 2012

June 23 ~ Saturday

9:00 am ~ Check-in with coffee and donuts

10:00 am ~ "Migration Routes to Kentucky"
~ presentation by Don Rightmyer, Kentucky Historical Society
~ Learn about the different migration routes into Kentucky including the Wilderness Road our ancestors traveled in 1805.

11:15 am ~ “Traveling by Conestoga Wagon”
~ presentation by the Arthur Reist family, Lancaster PA
~ Details of the Conestoga Wagon which our ancestors used on their 1805 journey to Boone County.

12:00 pm ~ Box LUNCH ~ again this year, catered and served by Kremer’s Market!

2:00 pm ~ "The Genealogy of Three German Women Who Married Three Generations of Irish Men"
~ presentation by Germanna descendant Joe Stephens, Millersburg OH
~ An account of the families of Anna Crisler, Jemima Aylor, and Ada Alice Carpenter from Germany to Virginia to Boone County, Kentucky

3:00 pm ~ “Genealogy Research Exchange” ~ Any new discoveries to share?

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JUNE 24 ~ Sunday events

Hopeful Lutheran Church has been awarded a KY Historical Highway Marker!

June 24 ~ Sunday

9:30 am ~ Traditional Worship Service in the 1917 Sanctuary

2:00 pm ~ Dedication Ceremony and Unveiling of the new Historical Highway Marker for the Hopeful Lutheran Church

All events on this weekend will be held at the Hopeful Lutheran Church, Florence, Boone County, Ky

Our Next Meeting

We will have a Reunion Committee Meeting on June 9, 2012
at 10:30 a.m. at Hopeful Lutheran Church to discuss our June 23rd event.
If you would like to volunteer to help at the Reunion, please attend.

To sign up for our email list to receive updates, please email boonegermanna@fuse.net

Click here for an Information Form to complete in order to join this local Study Group

Our Mission Statement

To collect and preserve the family histories of the German Lutherans who traveled in 1805 from Madison County, Virginia to Boone County Ky
and of their descendants who remained here in Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties.

Please search your items and talk to family and friends
to aid us in collecting and preserving this history.

To contribute any items, please email boonegermanna@fuse.net

We are currently researching and collecting family histories of the following Germanna surnames:
Aylor, Beemon, Blankenbaker, Carpenter/Zimmerman, Clore, Crigler, Deer/Hirsch, Glore,
Hoffman/Huffman, Holsclau/Holtzclaw, House/Haus, Rouse/Rausch, Tanner, Utz, Weaver, Yager

In addition to those family histories, we are also seeking the below items relating
to Boone County Pre-1950 history:
-- Florence School and Burlington School pictures and yearbooks
-- Bibles – old Family Bibles with names or photographs in them
-- Diaries, Journals and Books – of persons with surnames from the above list
-- Hopeful Lutheran Church photos, programs, etc.
-- Postcards and Letters addressed to and from Boone County Ky and cities within
-- Photographs of Boone County families including cabinet cards and tin-types even if they
do not have names on them but they came from a Boone County home.
Please do not throw these items away even if you don't know who they are.
Maybe we can help identify them.

They Came from Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison County, Virginia

On October 3, 1805, eighteen members of the Hebron Lutheran Church of Madison County, Virginia,
(at that time known of the Old Dutch or German Church) received Holy Communion.
This was not celebrated on a Sunday, but was a special Communion service as the heading on the communion list states,
"Communicants were the following persons who had it in mind to move to the outlying regions (Boone County, Kentucky)."

Five days later after the above Communion List, a party of twelve adults and seventeen children
began their journey that would take them to Boone County, Kentucky.
The twelve adults were Ephraim and Susannah (House) Tanner, George and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Rouse, John and Susannah (Tanner) House,
John and Nancy (Zimmerman) Rouse, Frederick and Rosannah (Crigler) Zimmerman, and Solomon and Elizabeth (Tanner) Hoffman.
All but Solomon Hoffman were members of Hebron Church and had received the Sacrament on October 3rd.
Of the seventeen children, the oldest was ten years old, the youngest not yet a year old.
They traveled first to New Market, Virginia, then down the Shenandoah Valley to the Holston River.
Then they followed Daniel Boone’s route through the Cumberland Gap and on up to Lexington.
Following the Ridge Route (present day U.S. 25), they arrived in Boone County on November 25, forty-eight days after leaving Madison County.
Shortly thereafter, they founded The Hopeful Lutheran Church here in Boone County, Ky.

Hopeful Evangelical Lutheran Church

click here for Hopeful Church history and information