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Came across this site. Seems my Davis or French line were also "Dunkard/German Baptist" Highland Co. OH., to Maquon,Knox Co.IL. Crabill+Jacobus-Jacobus+Tharp-Tharp/Thorp+Noffsinger/Noftsker Helen Tharp/Noffsinger/Noftsker, may be living. Last known to be in Mass.(1962). Would like to make contact with her or decendants. Lots of info at site... http://www.cob-net.org/docs/brethrenlife_frontier.htm ... "The best known of the Kentucky Churches is the Muhlenberg or Dutch Settlement Church, near Owensboro Kentucky. This is where George Wolfe came [Moore: "Some Brethren Pathfinders"]. Austin Cooper identifies a number of settlers here who came from Brothers Valley in western Pennsylvania. Prominent leaders here were the Rhoads family, Frances Stump was minister, families here Kittinger, Landis, Kimmel, Molar, Welty, Shultz, Dick, Noffsinger, Shaver, Studebaker, Graybill, Eller, and Danner. The beginnings of "Far Western Brethren" of Illinois came from this church. The remnants of this church went Baptist....
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