PART 1	PART 2
I. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1	THE FAMILIES: Genealogy
II. THE FOUR MILE COMMUNITY . . . . 4	M1 MILLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Includes Photographs
III. THE VIRGINIA FAMILIES . . . . . . . . . 10	K1 KINGERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Includes Photographs
IV. THE SETTLEMENT ON THE FOUR MILE . . 18	L1 LYBROOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Includes Photographs
V. THE FRONTIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25	M3 MOSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 176 Includes Photographs
VI. THE DUNKERS . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 35	T1 TONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 188 Includes Photographs
VII. FOUR MILE JOURNAL . . . . . . . . . . . 47	W1 WITTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Includes Photographs
VIII. NEW LANDS WEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67	H1 HART . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . 205 Includes Photographs
IX. THE MODERN FARMERS . . . . . . . . . 71	E1 EIKENBERRY . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Includes Photographs
X. THE HOUSEWIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81	B1 BROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 212 Includes Photographs
XI. FOUR MILE: THE LATER DAYS . . . 89	L3 LANDIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
	R1 RITTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Appendix 1. The William Miller Letters . . . 93	M2 MILLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Includes Photographs
Appendix 2. William Toney Newspaper Article . 117	H3 HUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Includes Photographs
Appendix 3. Marie Lybrook Hart History . . . 124	R2 RINEHART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Appendix 4. Potter John Miller House . . . . 127	R3 RIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Includes Photographs
Appendix 5. Lybrook Cemetary History . . . . 128	R4 RIDENOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Includes Photographs
Appendix 6. Kanawha Route Way Bill . . . . . 129	S1 SHIDELER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
	F1 FOSHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 (not available) 1820 Map 1830 Map 1850 Map Kanawha Trace	F2 FIANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 241
John Miller House Drawing	OTHER FAMILIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Allen - Brown - Crawford - Cunningham - Gaby- McCarty
Other Photographs	Genealogical Name Index . . . . . . 252

This manuscript is a reconstructed History of the Four Mile Church, in Union Co IN, about 5 miles south of Boston, IN. The church records were lost in a house fire in the 1890's. The only actual history was printed by Otho Winger History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana, 1917 p59-62. This is printed in the file RIFE.BK --it was submitted by Elder Carey Toney (T1992) from data compiled by Elder Jacob Rife, dec (R36). This History thus is necessarily incomplete -already families are found whose descendents present reasonable proof that they were part of the church, but we have no record of them, and they have not been included in this study. The basic History covers the years 1800 to 1860.

The outline for the Book manuscript is given in the Table of Contents -INDX.BK. The pagination given in the Table of Contents is for a print-out of the book, and even then was found to be inaccurate -due to different size print and its result in line spacing.

RIFE.BK --Jacob Rife's History - from Winger's History

INTRO.BK --Introduction to the book

4MCOM.BK --The Four Mile Community --a description of the area/people

VIRFAM.BK -The Virginia Families --into the background of the families in VA/PA especially into Franklin Co VA

STLMNT.BK -The Settlement on the Four Mile --The route and known family movement from Franklin Co Va to the Four Mile

FRNTR.BK --The Frontier --What it was like to live on the Four Mile in 1820, using a number of writings from that period, from this area

DNKRS.BK --The Dunkers --A history of the Brethren, especially as it applied to the Four Mile Church

JRNL.BK --Four Mile Journal --an attempt by the author to portray a yearly record of the events effecting the Four Mile, as if by an elderly member of one of the families.

WST.BK --New Lands West --the Migration westward of the Four Mile youth as lands opened in Indiana, and to Iowa in 1855

FMRS.BK --The Modern Farmers --Set about 1840, what the daily labor of a Four Mile Farmer would be like, over a year

HSWF.BK --The Housewife --Similarly, about 1840, the labor of the home, by season, and daily through a week

LATR.BK --The Later Days --covering the stabilized Four Mile Community, after the 1820 -1830s migrations out of the Church

APND1ML.BK --The William Miller Letters --letters discovered South Bend IN in the home of Senator Wm Miller (M166), from Mary's family 1833-1860.

APND2TNY.BK --William Toney Newspaper Artical --from Oregon, 1840s events from Missouri to Oregon (T1711)

APND3LYH.BK --Marie Lybrook Hart --History of Lybrook Family (H15)

APND4PJH.BK --Potter John Miller House -original brick building -1815

APND5LYC.BK --Lybrook Cemetery History -discovered paper of cemetery, 1900

APND6QKT.BK --Kanawha Route Way Bill --pre-1820, migration route way bill - discovered in Richmond IN, Quakers, from NC to Richmond

KANAWHA.TR --personal plotting of the Kanawha Route

FOURMILE.PPR --paper of History of Four Mile Church, published: "Brethren Roots"

EJMILLER.PPR --paper -querying traditional history of Elder Jacob Miller, based on findings during research above, published: "Brethren Roots"--each file is one chapter. This disk does not contain the maps in the printed manuscript.

The subdirectory [FAM] is the geneology section, containing 27 files of families. The 19 main families are listed in the Table of Contents. Each family is given an identification code: M1 = MILLER the children of Elder Jacob Miller. There is an M2 = MILLER -the family of Col John Miller, who is considered by this author to be a nephew of Elder Jacob Miller, who came out with his son: Tobias. An index of the surnames, with given names of prominent families, is given in the Genealogical Name Index -GDX2.BK. They are each identified by their particular identification code (Carey Toney T1992 -above: T -for Toney;

T1 -William Toney of Franklin Co VA, progenitor of family;

T19 -Carey Toney, who came to the Four Mile, 9th child of William;

T199 -Harmon Toney, farmer, 9th child of Carey Sr -married Fanny Kingery (K159);

T1992 -Carey Toney, Elder of the Four Mile Church, 2nd child (ancestor -of wife)

As common in most early Brethren Churches, there was considerable intermarriage among the church families. This was one factor driving the writing of this manuscript -the identification of common given names, by who they were married to. The spouse is identified with the same personal identification code when they are a member of one of the other church families. The code is given to the right of their name, in parenthesis: Fanny Kingery (K159) [9th dau of Jacob Kingery Jr, who married Barbara Lybrook (L11)]. The family grouping is by the surname line. The author tried to obtain data of families that move away from the Four Mile and include the children of these families who lived here. The GDX2 does Not index references to the individual where they are mentioned in the body of the manuscript (could not determine a way, with the multiple files).

The Families covered in the Genealogy: (code) -File.BK

Miller -Elder Jacob family -(M1)-MILLER.BK;	Rinehart -(R2)-RNHRT.BK;
Kingery -(K1)-KINGERY.BK;	Rife -(R3)-RF.BK;
Lybrook -Philip family -(L1)-LYBRK.BK;	Ridenour -(R4)-RDNR.BK;
Moss -(M3)-MOSS.BK;	Shideler -(S1)-SHDLR.BK;
Toney -(T1)-TONEY.BK;	Fosher -(F1)-FSHR.BK;
Witter -(W1)-WITTER.BK;	Fiant -(F2)-FIANT.BK;
Hart -(H1)-HART.BK;	Allen -(A1)-ALLEN.BK;
Eikenberry -(E1)-IDNBRY.BK;	Brown -(B2)-BROWN.BK;
Brower -(B1)-BRWR.BK;	Crawford -(C1)-CRFRD.BK;
Landis -(L3)-LNDS.BK;	Cunningham -(C2)-CNGHM.BK;
Ritter -(R1)-RTR.BK;	Gaby -(C5)-GABY.BK;
Miller -Col John family -(M2)-MLR2.BK;	Lybrook -Henry family -(L2)-LBRK2.BK;
Huston -(H3)-HSTN.BK;	McCarty -(M4)-MCRTY.BK;

I want to repeat: This research manuscript was a study of the Four Mile Church between the years 1800 to 1860. Pre and post data are incidental. Further research is necessary on the family of Elder Jacob Miller. Patricia Johnson wrote her book: Elder Jacob Miller, while research on this material was in its infancy --a small amount of this material was submitted to her with query whether she wanted more, she published with no response although she included the submission, with minimal credit to source. She presented family information that is different from accepted traditions on Elder Jacob. Further traditions were discovered among the Miller/Lybrook/Kingery descendents of this community.

Considerable assistance was received from: Al Brown, Bob Witter, Cheska Wheatley, Ross LaFuze, Ansel Toney, Elsie Petry, Elsie Creek, Bob Stevens, the Perry Toney research, The Union Co Library, Lane Library -Oxford OH, and many family members.

Happy Reading: Rev. Merle C. Rummel