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The Supreme School

February 27, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Families, Historians, Kingwood Twp, Lair, Rockafellar, Rosemont, Williamson, Wolverton 2 Comments Tags: maps, schools

Having published Mr. Bush’s article, “The ‘Oregon’ and Other Schools,” and then a follow-up on Duck’s Flat, I thought I was done with this neighborhood for now. But I recently found another article by Mr. Bush continuing the story of Ducks’ Flat school. This article has allowed me to identify the mystery school I referred to previously, located down the road from the Ducks’ Flat school that Mr. Bush was familiar with. But I’ll wait until Mr. Bush has concluded before explaining.

Articles by J. M. Hoppock

February 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Historians, J. M. Hoppock 1 Comment

Jonathan M. Hoppock, known as ‘Jonty,’ was born Sep. 20, 1838 to Henry J. Hoppock and Lydia Wolverton. The family lived on a farm near Sand Brook in Delaware Township. Hoppock became a school teacher and developed a love of local history. Late in his life, the Democrat-Advertiser published articles he submitted about the places he knew best, nearly all of them in Delaware Township.

The Locktown Baptist Cemetery

February 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bonham, Bray, Dalrymple, Delaware Twp, Families, Heath, Kingwood Twp, Lair, Locktown, Myers, Opdycke, Rittenhouse, Sutton, Williamson 9 Comments Tags: cemeteries, early settlers

There has been a Baptist Church in Locktown since the early 19th century, and a cemetery associated with it. The church and the cemetery were located on land belonging to Daniel Rittenhouse, whose home was a short distance west of Locktown on the Kingwood-Locktown Road. Most of the names in this cemetery are of families that lived nearby in Kingwood and Delaware Townships, many of them descendants of original German immigrants. Many of the original stones are now missing, even ones that were inventoried in the 1940s. Old cemeteries are hard to preserve.