Re: John Reasoner 1774
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Re: John R. Reasoner>Jennie Given
12/20/99
I have the following in my note section on John Reasoner b. 1774:
A Presbyterian service -, On July 4th, 1803.John Reasoner coming from Pennsylvania with his family, established a home on Zane's Trace, a short distance east of the present site of New Concord.He was the fifth family to settle between Cambridge and Zanesville.When John Reasoner came here there were only six women living in what is now Guernsey County.He had married the Widow Thompson who was formerly Elizabeth Wilson.Robert Thompson, who was present at the service of her son.
Within the year following the arrival of John Reasoner he had two or three families as neighbors.Nothing is known about the Reverned Arbuthnot other than he conducted the first service.Travelling through to Zane's Trace he may have been invited to stay over Sunday to preach to the settlers.Harry Reasoner, a great grandson of John Reasoner, who is now living neat the home of his pioneer ancestor has a record of the meeting beneath the beech tree.According to it the persons named here "communed".Before coming here John Reasoner was active in the work of the Presbyterian Church and he so continued throughout his life. Excerpt from the "Reasoner Family Bulletin", 7 AUG 1986 as quoted from "Stories of Guernsey County, Ohio. History of an Average Ohio County." by William G. Wolfe, 1943, page 1031.
John Reasoner's is said to have been the fifth family to establish itself on the Zane Trace between Cambridge and Zanesville.It is stated by Reasoner descendants who have the records, that the first Presbyterian service in the County was conducted by a Rev, Arbuthnot an itinerant preacher, under a beech tree at the Reasoner home on July 4, 1803.In the following year Muskingum County was erected from Washingtom County. Henry Reasoner, the fourth son of Peter owned the land where the town of New Concord now stands. Excerpt from an aricle by Willaim M. Baker, 411-10th Street, Bakersfield, California.
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