I ran across this old e-mail from the Brethren Church rootsweb list and I thought I would
share it with you. Merle C Rummel is the Brethren Church Historian and an expert on
Religious migrations. Lynn
Do you and anyone know the connection between the Hartman family and the
Steele family from Pleasant Dale Church? Lynn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Merle C Rummel" <cliffr(a)infocom.com>
To: <BRETHREN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:34 AM
Subject: [BRE] Re: migration
>Does anyone have any information to the migration to Adams Co, In? Lynn
Wingers History says (of the Pleasant Dale Church):
In the autumn of 1844, when part of Indiana was yet a vast wilderness,
unknown to civilization, a brother, by the name of Philip Hartman, with
his
family emigrated from Westmoreland County Pennsylvania, to what was
then
the Far West. The only mode of conveyance at tht time was the wagon.
Many
days they traveled through dismal swamps, fording swollen streams
and
facing many hardships, going through rain and storm, until finally they
landed at the banks of what is known as Peterson Creek, Kirkland Township,
Adams County, Indiana --from a History of the Pleasant Dale Church by Murl
E Fulk