The next destination on my Virtual Hike was Log Union Cemetery, Kentucky.

The previous destination on my virtual hike was Ashland, Kentucky.

You can see in the map above that I have made it out of the hills and into the flatter areas of Kentucky.

Log Union Cemetery is where the Log Union Church was located in Fleming County. More on the church later.

The route leaving Ashland was along a four lane highway, but it was through hills and very scenic.

The route was soon down to only two lanes, but still went through the hills as it headed west through rural ares.

One the route made it through the hills into the flatter areas the view opened up and I started passing some horse farms.

I finally made it to where the Log Union Church had been. There is still a cemetery there. The Log Union Church was one of the churches that Peter Hon ministered for. He was listed as their minister for 50 years from the 1820’s to the 1870’s.

In 1824 Peter Hon took over as minister of the East Union church in Nicholas County, Kentucky. His father had started East Union as a Dunkard church in the 1790’s. By the time that Peter Hon took over from his father he and Joseph Hostetler had already been dismissed by the Dunkards and formed a loose association of churches following the New Testament pattern. Those congregations that were not dismissed by the Dunkards were known as the Hoosier Brethren. The Hostetler/Hon association was dissolved in 1828 when they merged with the Blue River Baptist association of John Wright, the Hoosier Brethren and the Newlights of Barton W. Stone.

There is a family connection with Peter Hon as his father Jonas was the stepson of Johannes Zaher who was my 6th Great Grandfather.

For those in my family that always ask, here are the family surnames back to Johannes Zaher.

Braman>Van Duzor>Cochran>Ramsey>Sears (Zaher)

Now that I am virtually in Kentucky I have made my way to where some of my ancestors lived in the early 1800’s and also where a significant religious event took place. I will spend some time in this area visiting a few other places and building on the history shared in this post.

Most of the next stops will have family connections as well as connections to early Restoration Movement History.The next location is where another significant early Restoration Movement congregation was organized.

I am still working on the route past this area as I learn a lot more about how migration routes changed as the frontier pressed further west.

Steven

Images in this post are from Google Maps and Street View

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