Summer 2015 - Boehm`s Chapel

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Part V: Long peace
ends for the family
In conclucsion of Boehm
family saga, after escaping
Europe’s wars, Jacob’s family
choose side in the American
Revolution. Page 2-3.
Heritage Sunday
topic is announced
Rev. Alfred T.
Day III will
speak on the
“transformational task of
history” on
June 28. Page 3.
Civil War ends,
Methodists react
Meet Isaac Doulin, who
served one day as an underage recruit. A look at
reaction of church to peace.
Page 6
Photos by Dolores Myers
Members of
brotherhood
The men who lie beneath
these stones have something
in common. Stumped? See
Page 7 for answer.
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Part V: A family divided by revolution
Boehm family lived in peaceful new land until war again found them.
Following is the conclusion of Böhm family history
by R. Robert Murtrie as found
in “Beam/Boehm Family,
Immigration to Canada
1788-2000.” It is used with
the permission of the author,
Lawrence R. Beam.
By R. Robert Mutrie
Small orchards were planted
on virtually every Pennsylvania
pioneer farm, with the apple
predominating.
This fruit served a variety of
purposes in the pioneer settlement, including eating out of
hand, flavoring for meals and
feeding livestock, but primarily
was pressed to produce the
juices for cider. In some instances, a sale of land involved
the delivery of more than 1,000
gallons of apple liquor by the
purchaser to the seller.
Barbara Herr Nissley, the
wife of Canadian pioneer
Abraham Beam, developed
a variety known as “Mama
Beam’s Apple,” also known as
the “Belmont,” cultivated in
Ohio by Jacob Nissley, a son of
her first marriage.
Jacob and Barbara Böhm
lived long peaceful lives in
their adopted Pennsylvania
home. Along the coast of
North America, England and
Spain waged a war during the
1740s. To the north along the
New York-Quebec border, The
Seven Years War raged from
1767 to 1773 during which
England took Canada from
France. All this passed by the
pacifist Mennonite families of
inland Pennsylvania.
Most of the couple’s children
and grandchildren grew up
around them at Pequea and the
neighboring townships, with
the exception of son John who
ventured to pioneer in Virginia. The lands given by Jacob
and Barbara to their family
members formed homesteadfor
Shown above is the HessBoehm cemetery where
Jacob Böhm and his wife are
believed to be buried. At left
is Jacob’s will.
the next generation.
The events of the American
Revolution starting in 1775
disrupted the peaceful family
life of the aged couple, as did
the momentous events in all
colonial American families.
British and Patriot recruiters
came into the quiet Pequea
community seeking soldiers for
their ranks. Jacob and Barbara
lived to see the turbulent times
that led to the imprisonment of
their second son Abraham for
his support of the British cause,
and some of their grandchildren abandoning pacifism to
join the ranks of the Patriots.
In a momentous move, their
youngest son, Martin, a bishop
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Boehm: Family saga
Continued from Page 2
of the Mennonite Church,
split with the faith to found
the United Brethren and then
joined the new Methodist sect,
a departure from the whole
philosophy of the Böhm household, which some adopted and
others opposed.
In the midst of the war and
family conflict, Jacob Böhm of
Conestoga Township, yeoman,
made out his will dated Sept.
18, 1778. To his wife, Barbara,
he gave the use of his dwelling
house and its contents, his garden and a list of farm produce.
The 180-acre home property
was confirmed to his youngest
son, Martin, with the condition
that Martin meet the specified
provisions to his mother and
make payment of £300 to three
of his sisters: Mary, wife of
Henry Stiggler; Anna, wife of
Martin Byer; and Elizabeth,
wife of Michael Myer.
Jacob mentioned that he had
already provided for the rest
of his children: Jacob Beam;
Abraham Beam; John Beam;
Barbara (deceased); Susannah,
wife of Henry Resh; Magdalena, wife of Fridrich Shoaff; and
Fronica, wife of Jacob Shoaff.
(Lancaster County Will Book
D, Vol 1, p.6).
The family patriarch did not
live to see the conclusion of the
conflict that polarized his family, departing for the peace of
the grave in 1780.* His will was
probated on July 12, 1781, and
Jacob may have been buried in
the Hess-Boehm Cemetery, followed by his wife, although no
stone has survived the ravages
of more than two centuries.
In their manuscript, M.
Stanley Boehm and Donald
Beam wrote of a visit to the
family cemetery:
“In a dense thicket of locust
trees and brambles a half-mile
distant from the house, the
old family burying ground
and the graves of twenty-five
of his ancestors. The graves
were marked with headstones
of field slate, with the name cut
with a cold chisel.
“It is of interest to note the
various spellings of the name
there, which includes ‘Beam,’
‘Behm’, ‘Bohm’ and ‘Boheme’
The earliest stone bore the date
1725.”
Over the next decade, the
cemetery was restored and
in 1929, M. Stanley Boehm
returned to unveil a monument erected by the Methodist
Episcopal Church and the
Church of the United Brethren
in Christ to the pioneers’ son,
Rev. Martin Boehm.*
More Böhm immigrants
to Pennsylvania
More men of the Böhm
surname, whose relationship,
if any, is not known, came
to Pennsylvania after Jacob.
One in particular, Rudolph, is
known by mentions in “The
Journals of Henry Boehm” to
have been Jacob’s brother. Rudolph came to America in 1727
and settled at Warwick Township, Lancaster County, about
10 miles north of the city of
Lancaster. Rudolph “Behme”
was naturalized at Lancaster
in 1743 (Persons Nat. in PA
1740-1773, Genea. Publ Co.).
Like Jacob, he was a blacksmith
and served as a lay elder of the
Rapho Mennonite Church.
Family historian professor Jacob L. Beam compiled
a list of 23 men of the Böhm
(and variations) surname who
arrived at the Port of Philadelphia from 1738 to 1787.
There were certain circumstantial traits which some of
the immigrant families had
in common with our ancestor
Jacob.
One was the predominance of the Christian names,
HERITAGE SUNDAY
‘Transformational task of
history’ is historian’s subject
The Rev. Alfred T. Day III,
chief historian of the United
Methodist Church, will serve
as the speaker for Boehm’s
Heritage Sunday 2015, scheduled June 28 at 4 p.m.
Before his 2014 appointment as General Secretary of
the General Commission on
Archives and History, Pastor
Day served churches in the
Eastern Pennsylvania Annual
Conference, including a term
as a district superintendent.
He most recently completed nine years of service
at Historic St. George’s in
Philadelphia, also designated
as a Methodist Heritage Landmark. In addition, Pastor Day
serves as editor of “Methodist
History.”
Pastor Day’s address, titled
“Almost Anamnesis: The
Transformational Task of
History,” will reflect on the
gospel of Luke’s story of Jesus’
surprise post-resurrection
meeting with despondent disciples on the road to Emmaus
and how there is a temptation
in doing the work of history
to look backward; and how
reflecting and reckoning with
the past has an important, life
and mind-changing function
in both the present moment
and pointing to the future.
A brief business meeting
will open the hour-long program, which will segue directly into the worship portion of
the service. A light meal will
be provided in the fellowship
hall of Boehm’s United Methodist Church following the
service. The program is free
and open to the public. A love
offering will be received.
Adam, Christian, Jacob, John,
Michael, Peter and Barbara.
Secondly, several were blacksmiths. In Germany the same
trade, the same shop with the
same equipment, and the same
pride in excellence of work
was passed down through
the generations. Some of the
Boehm families who immigrated shared the Mennonite faith.
Others were Lutheran.
Please see the spring 2015
newsletter for information on
how to order a copy of Lawrence Beam’s 613- page book:
Beam/Boehm Family-Immigration to Canada 1788-2000.
*Jacob Böhm’s date of death
has been determined to be May
18-20, 1781.
*The stone erected to the
memory of Rev. Martin Boehm
and his wife, Eve, is located in
the Boehms United Methodist
Cemetery, not the Hans Hess/
(Boehm) family cemetery
located some distance away
from the chapel. The HessBoehm cemetery was restored
circa 1986 by the Hans Hess
Associates.
Rev. Alfred T. Day III
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Chapel membership for 2014-15
Patron Life
Bertha Adams
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Beam
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Betty
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Boehm
Dr. and Mrs. Edward Dagen
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Frey family
James Galloway
Mr. and Mrs. David Hess
W. Paul McCardell
Helen McLean
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Nicholson
Michael Rhineer
Mrs. John Shenk
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ulmer
Benefactor Life
Bishop and Mrs. George Bashore
Lawrence Beam
William and Sally Brown
Denise Claycomb
Dianne Cox
Marilyn and Bruce Dewey
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ellis
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Eshleman
Dr. Paul Fisher
June H. Galebach
Glenn Hackman
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Behm Harbage
Pat Hartranft
Jamie Heckendorn
E. Marvin Herr
Jean Hess
Nancy Beam Holloway
Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. James Jolly
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Karr
Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Kreider
James McCullough
Mr. and Mrs. Marris McCullough
Mr. and Mrs. Michael McCullough
Sharon McCullough
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Meck
Rev.. and Mrs. Steven Meck
Martha Rudolph-Maher
Mary Louise Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Seebach
Rev. Daniel Shearer
Rev. and Mrs. Dennis Snovel
Rev. William Spiegelhalder
Rev. Samuel Stoner
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tribit
Donald L. Walters
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Winters
Clarissa Wolcott
Contributor
Marv, Helen and Abby Adams
R. Ted Boehm
G.R. Mitchell
Jim and Charlene Mylin
Ruth E Groff
Richard A Haas
Family
Harold and Doris Bailey
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Beam
Guy and Sandy Carrigan
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Frey, Sr
John and Lynn Gebhart
Joe and Jane Hoover
Barton, Lynne and Betty Kastor
Dorothy Meck Kurkis
Mrs. Richard Beam/Kathy Langkamp
Robert and Fay Marvel
Paul and Evelyn Merriam
Dennis and Dolores Myers
Robert and Elizabeth Myers
Carl and Judith Mylin
Sue and Bob Radocy
Andrew and Bethany Railing
Dorothy Kreider Reed
Dorothy Shoff
Patricia Thompson
Rob and Donna Trubiano
Mildred and Bill White
Individual
John C. Beam
Eunice Boehm
Harvey J. Bomberger
William R. Boyle Jr.
Victor Brinton
Rose S. Brooks
Rev. Robert Olyn Bryant
Margaret Campbell
William J. Charles Jr.
William T. Cherry
Merle E. Ciesielski
Cheryl Beahm Connors
Joe DiPaola
Fay L. Erb
Marjorie Ferguson
Jessie Frey
Joe Garber
Dorothy Garboczi
Robert George
Darlene Gerhardt
Albert Guenthner
Patsy K. Harsh
Joyce E. Hendrickson
Mrs. Richard Hess
Phyllis Y. Holton
Louise P. Holtry
Robert Hostetter
Dorothy Jones
Elaine C. Kreider
Marian Beam Kurapka
William McIlwaine
B.G. Mellinger and Sons
Rev. Fred Moury
Margaret Nolan
Jody O’Neal
Carol Pearse
Elva Perry
Nancy Beam Pexa
Rev. Kevin Readman
Elaine M. Reed
Kathryn M. Rhineer
Marcia Robbins
Vivian Beahm Seibert
Rev. Michael Sigman
Wayne Strasbaugh
William H. Tonkin
Janet M. Wilson
J.M. Witmer
David C. Wold
Charles Yrigoyen Jr.
Donations
Mr. and Mrs. John Beam
Harvey J. Bomberger
Guy and Sandy Carrigan
Richard Dagen-in memoriam
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Dewey
Darlene Gerhardt
Henry Behm Harbage
Mrs. Richard Beam/Kathy Langkamp
Robert and Fay Marvel
Virgil and Maxine Meck
Lois and Alvin Mummaw
Nancy Beam Pexa
Dorothy Kreider Reed
Martha L.Rudolph-Maher
Rev. Daniel Shearer
Rev. William W. Spiegelhalder
Wayne Strasbaugh
Patricia Thompson
Rob and Donna Trubiano
Donald Walters
Clarissa M Wolcott
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Your membership dues will help many
Please remember to return
your membership form for
2014-2015. The present membership year for the Boehm’s
Chapel Society began on June
1. 2014, and ended on May
31, 2015.
A membership envelope
is included in this newsletter.
You can also go to our website at www.boehmschapel.
org and click on the link for
membership.
Membership dues help
support chapel preservation
and programs, aid with the
cost of printing and mailing
quarterly newsletters and
allow the society to support
local evangelical outreaches,
including Rawlinsville Camp
Meeting, LUMINA, Homes of
Hope (see article below) and
the Evangelical Theological
Seminary in Myerstown.
If you prefer to have your
newletter and other information sent to you electronically,
please contact Chapel Society
executive director Dolores
Myers at 717-872-4133, or
email boehmschapel@gmail.
com.
Children in LUMINA learn
basics of cooking.
Shown is the home at 5 W. Boehms Road that is owned by the Chapel Society and used by Homes of Hope.
Providing haven and hope for families
By Jim McCullough
Past Chapel board president
Around 2009 I approached
the Lenhart family, Chris
and Sheila, about having the
first opportunity to purchase
the property at 5 W. Boehms
Road, if they wanted to sell the
property in the future.
In 2011 they called to tell
me that they were planning to
sell their property and move
to Quarryville, seeking more
space for a growing family
and to be closer to Chris’ work
as the youth pastor at Wesley
United Methodist Church in
the Quarryville area.
The transaction went
smoothly and a price of
$180,000 was reached. The
Lenhart family was happy,
knowing the future use of their
property.
At the time of settlement,
the Chapel Society planned to
rent out the home and use the
back part of the property for
the construction of an auxiliary
building for the Chapel. In a short time the Chapel
Society became aware of
Homes of Hope, a nonprofit
organization whose goal is
provide transitional housing to
help qualified families achieve
self-sufficiency. Rather than
the Chapel Society becoming
a landlord, it has become
a ministry assistant to help
troubled families. The house has provided
shelter for four families since
being turned over to Homes of
Hope for its use.
The Society provides the
shelter, its maintenance and
lawn care; Homes of Hope
provides regular mentoring,
furnishings and other family
needs.
The families are selected
from the Penn Manor School
District with the help of district
social workers. The board of
Homes of Hope in the Penn
Manor district is chaired by the
Rev. Helen L. Adams, pastor
of Stehman Memorial United
Methodist Church and a board
member of the Chapel Society.
The congregation of
Boehm’s United Methodist
Church also benefits from the
purchase of the property.
The Chapel Society turned
use of the garage on the
property over to the church
for use as storage for its lawn
and grounds equipment, along
with workshop space. The
move saved the church from
having to construct its own
building. The church trustees
paid to have garage doors put
on the back of the garage so
that the residents would not
be disturbed by moving of
equipment.
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End of the Civil War, 150 years ago
By Dolores Myers
Executive Director
Boehm’s Chapel Society
By the beginning of January
1865 the dreadful Civil War was
drawing to an end. Desertion
among the men of Lee’s once
proud Army of Northern Virginia was high due to disease and
starvation.
Confederate forces were
unable to oppose Sherman’s advances through the Carolinas. A
second combined assault waged
on Fort Fisher, the last accessible
Confederate seaport, in Wilmington, N.C., resulted in a Union
victory. On Jan. 31 the U.S.
House of Representatives passed
the 13th Amendment abolishing
slavery by a two-thirds majority.
Isaac Doulin,
soldier for a day
In the North, one man was
in a hurry to get into the war.
On Feb. 7, 1865, in southern
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
recently turned 17-year-old Isaac
Doulin enlisted, for one year, in
Co D, 83rd PA Vol. in Reading,
Berks County. He was, however,
listed as being 18 years of age on
the muster roll.
He was described as 5 feet,
1 inch tall, gray eyes, light hair
and a light complexion. He was
mustered in the following day.
Significantly, that is the only
piece of information contained
in Isaac’s military file in the
National Archives in Washington, D C.
To the left of Isaac’s name
appears an “X” and at the bottom
of the Muster Roll a second “X”
indicates: “Entry canceled by red
line.” No reason is given. His
name does not appear with any
company of the 83rd PA Vol. in
Samuel Bates’, “The History of
Pennsylvania Volunteers, 186165.” There is no indication that
Isaac served for more than one
day.
Isaac was born Dec. 10,
1847, the son of John and Mary
Reynolds Doulin of Drumore
Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
His father died when he was very
young and at the age of 11 Isaac
years ago he moved to
Parkesburg where he
has since resided. [The
information regarding
Isaac’s residence in
Parkesburg is not correct
because Isaac and Adaline were still living in
Pequea Township in the
1910 census.]
When a resident of
this county he was a
member of Boehm’s
church. He is survived
by his wife and the
following children: Mrs.
Isaac and Adaline Doulin at their
Elmer Rineer, Pequea
home in Martic Township.
Township: Frank,
Providence township:
William, of this city,[Lanwas living with Reynolds relacaster], and Mrs. Annie Kunkel,
tives at Rawlinsville Post Office,
Columbia. The funeral services
Martic Township.
will be held on Wednesday
By 1870, Isaac had married
afternoon at 2 o’clock at Boehm’s
Adaline Miller and was living
church. Interment will be in the
in Martic Township with their
cemetery adjoining.”
infant daughter. Isaac listed
his occupation as a laborer. His
death certificate and obituary
A Methodist
specify his occupation as “tree
agent” or nurseryman. Isaac and Episcopal Church
Adaline had six children. The
statement at the end
family resided in Providence,
of the Conflict
Martic and Pequea townships.
Both Adeline and Isaac are
When the 79th session of the
listed as being received into
Philadelphia Annual Conferfull membership in Boehm’s
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church on Jan. 20, 1898, by Rev.
Church convened at St. George’s
Delaphan Gollie. They would
Methodist Episcopal Church,
have been among the last memPhiladelphia, March 14, 1866,
bers received into membership
the following statements on
in the Old Chapel.
“The State of the Country” were
Rev. Gollie was instrumental
entered into the minute books:
in sparking a revival within the
Boehm congregation and sur“Whereas, A great war, howrounding neighborhood, which
ever just the cause and imperaresulted in the need for a larger
tive the necessity, is an unspeakspace in which to worship. The
able calamity; and
new church was built in 1899.
Whereas, a ‘civil war’ is of all
Isaac passed away July 7,
others most to be deprecated;
1923. His obituary states the
and
following:
Whereas, We as ministers
“Isaac R Doulin, a former
of the Gospel in the Methodist
resident of this county, died SatEpiscopal Church, are as deeply
urday evening at 5 o’clock in his
concerned in all that relates to
home at Parkesburg. He was 75
our country’s welfare, as can be
years old and death was due to
any other class of our fellow-citia complication of diseases. Mr.
zens; therefore
Doulin was a native of Lancaster
Resolved, 1st . That we greatly
County having been born in
rejoice at the return of peace to
Providence township. He was a
our country, as the result of the
nurseryman by occupation and
overthrow of the rebellion, and
was well known to many resithe signal maintenance of the
dents of the county. Thirty-five
authority of the general Govern-
5 vets buried
in 2014-15
The following veterans
were interred in Boehm’s Cemetery in 2014-2015:
▄Richard Dagen,1924-2014,
WWII, US Navy, Motor Machinist’s Mate Third Class.
▄C. Russel Kauffman 19212014, WWII, Sgt T/4, 544
Amphibious Engineer,
2nd Batt. South Pacific.
▄Ronald Kneisley, 1943-2014,
U.S. Army Engineers.
▄Robert Sherrard, 19212014, WWII, 11th Airborne
Paratroopers, Okinawa;
Japan post-war WWII; Korean
War.
▄Boyd R. Wenger Jr. 19232015, WWII, U.S. Army,
Philippines, Asiatic-Pacific
campaign.
▄Florence Williams, 19192014, WWII, U.S. Army Nurse
Corps, 1st Lt., Pacific Theater.
Mr. Dagen, Mr. Kauffman
and Mr. Kneisley were members of Boehm’s UMC.
ment.
Resolved, 2d. That we are devoutly thankful to Almighty God
for the compensation we have
received for the things we have
suffered by the abolition of slavery, as the result of the combined
causes of a patriotic war and a
Constitutional Amendment.
Resolved 3d. That no words
of ours can adequately express
the sorrow we feel at the untimely death of the late President
Lincoln, or our sense of horror at
the crime of his assassination.
Resolved, 4th. That not as
political partisans, but as American citizens, we will ever use
our influence in every prudent
way to strengthen the basis of
our free institutions, that in the
language of the lamented dead,
“Government of the people, for
the people, by the people, may
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Nine who served at Boehm’s Chapel
Tombstones of nine ministers
known to have served at Boehm’s
Chapel were recently located in
various cemeteries within Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Their names are listed below
in chronological order, reflecting the years they served at the
chapel.
Biographical information for
additional ministers, known to
have served the Boehms congregations between 1775-2015, will
be included in a 225th anniversary book, hoped to be ready for
Heritage Sunday 2016.
The stones shown on the
first page are for the following
pastors: large photo, Gollie; at
right, from top, Rhinier, Barr
and Gray; bottom left, Bailey;
and bottom right, Jackson.
1839 and first appointed to the
Dauphin Circuit. He married Sarah Taylor of Lancaster
County. He served in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia. He was assaulted by a
mob during his service on the
Northampton Circuit in 1846.
He was removed from the pulpit, due to differences of opinion
regarding abolition for fear he
would plant ideas of uprising
among the slaves. He died in
1887 in Gap, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, and is buried in
the Bellevue Presbyterian Cemetery, Gap, Pennsylvania.
1. Eliphalet Reed ­—1831,
1832, 1848. Rev. Reed was born
in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland, in 1792. He was converted
while still a youth and joined the
Philadelphia Conference at the
age of 25. After his first year, he
returned home for the next two
years but was readmitted to The
Conference in 1821. He served
in Maryland, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey until his death in
1863. He is buried in Mount Joy
Cemetery, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
4. Mark Bailey —1855. Rev.
Bailey was born in 1824 in
Kilham, Yorkshire, England. He
may be the same Mark Bailey
who arrived in Philadelphia in
1853 aboard the ship “City of
Glasglow,” age 27 years, occupation listed as weaver. He was
admitted to the Conference, on
trial, in 1854 and assigned to the
Radnor Circuit in Pennsylvania. The following year he was
assigned to the Strasburg Circuit,
which included both Boehm’s
Chapel and Bird-in-Hand Methodist Episcopal Church. He died
July 2, 1855, and is buried in the
Bird-in-Hand United Methodist
Church Cemetery, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania.
2. John Edwards — 1832.
Rev. Edwards was born in Union
County, New Jersey, in 1802. He
was admitted to the Philadelphia
Conference in 1831 and assigned
to the Dorchester Circuit,
Maryland. He served Maryland,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware. He married Dorinda
Stacy from Strasburg, Pennsylvania. His name was listed among
the supernumerary in 1868 after
37 years of faithful service. He
died in 1879 and is buried in
Strasburg Cemetery, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania.
3. Valentine Gray — 1840,
1853-1854. Rev. Gray was born
in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1815. He was converted
in 1834 while attending a camp
meeting held in Chester County.
He was received on trial in
6. Gideon T. Barr —1858.
Rev. Barr was born near
Quarryville, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, in 1832. In 1855
he taught school in Hempfield
Township, Lancaster County. He
joined the Conference in 1856
and was appointed to the Halifax
Circuit. He served churches in
5. Daniel Rhinier — 1857.
Rev. Rhinier was a local preacher
from Conestoga. In 1856 a great
revival occurred in Willow Street
under the leadership of local
ministers Dan Rhinier and Frederick Brady. Rev. Rhinier was
ordained as an elder and served
in the Safe Harbor Circuit until
his retirement at the age of 85.
He died in 1909 and is buried
at Conestoga United Methodist
Cemetery, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
From left, the gravestones of Eliphalet Reed, John Edwards
and Frederick Brady. Below is the stained glass window in the
“new” Boehm’s Church, dedicated to Delaplan Gollie.
both Pennsylvania
and Maryland. He
was not able to
rally after he caught
a cold in February of
1867and died three
months later, in
Enterprise, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania. He is buried in
Bird-in Hand United
Methodist Cemetery,
Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
7. Thomas M. Jackson —
1871. Rev. Dr. Jackson was born
in Landisville, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, in 1851. He
joined the Columbia Methodist Church, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, in 1867 and soon
after was licensed to preach. He
served with the Philadelphia
Conference for 41 years in 16
charges. He married Catherine
Kauffman of Washington Boro,
Pennsylvania. After he retired
from the ministry he pursued
the study of neuropathy and
served as the dean of the College
of Neuropathy, Philadelphia. He
died in a sanitarium in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1929 and
is buried in Washington Boro
Church of God Cemetery, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
8. Frederick Brady —18761878. Rev. Brady was born in
Conestoga Township, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, in 1825.
He was converted at Mount
Nebo Methodist Episcopal
Church, Lancaster County, in
1846. When he served as a local
preacher, Rev. Brady was noted
as instrumental in affecting an
1856 revival in the Willow Street
area. He is first mentioned as a
local preacher in the Conference
minutes, circa 1856. He was
subsequently admitted on trial to
the Philadelphia Conference in
1866. He was a charter member of the Conestoga Methodist
Episcopal Church. He died in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1910 and is interred in
Conestoga United Methodist
Cemetery, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania.
9. Delaplan Gollie —18971901. Rev. Gollie was assigned
to Boehm’s circuit during the
period when the Boehm’s
congregation ceased meeting
for worship in the Old Chapel built in 1791 and the brick
church that was erected in 1899.
There is a small notation in
the 1916 yearbook for Boehm’s
Methodist Episcopal Church,
which states during Rev Gollie’s
pastorate “a wonderful revival
was enjoyed and more than one
hundred souls were converted to
God, most of whom were soon
received into the church.” Rev.
Gollie died in 1905 and is buried
in Boehm’s United Methodist
Church Cemetery, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania.
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Civil War: Sorrow
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not perish from the earth.”
Matthew Simpson,
Methodist Bishop of
Philadelphia
Matthew Simpson was a
Methodist Bishop of Philadelphia who gave many lectures
and sermons around the country
during the Civil War. He was a
supporter of the Union, emancipation and President Lincoln.
The Lincoln administration
Boehm’s Chapel Society newsletter
placed particular importance on
maintaining the Union support of Methodists and Bishop
Simpson was a key leader of the
Methodists. Occasionally, President Lincoln worshiped at one of
the Methodist churches in Washington, such as the Foundry
Church, where Bishop Simpson
preached in January 1863.
“Secretary Edwin Stanton and
his wife were in front, on chairs;
President Lincoln in the altar,”
Simpson later wrote. “The President made by contribution a life
member ...” Frank A. Flower,
“Edwin McMasters Stanton.”
“Mr. Lincoln also appreciated
Bishop Simpson’s non-religious
views, according to Dr. Thomas
Bowman, a fellow Methodist
who was the Senate chaplain:
It was well known that the
President occasionally sent for
the Bishop in order to procure
information about the affairs of
the nation. The President said
in substance, ‘Bishop Simpson
is a wise and thoughtful man.
He travels extensively over the
country and sees things as they
are. He has no axe to grind, and
therefore I can depend upon him
for such information as I need.’”
(DeWitt Jones, “Lincoln and the
Preachers,” p. 56.) As found in
Boehm’s Chapel Society
“Sermons Given on the Occasion
of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” Bishop Simpson
offered the following statement
as part of the eulogy he delivered
at the graveside of his friend.
“The time will come when, in the
beautiful words of him whose
lips are now forever sealed,
The mystic cords of memory,
stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living
heart and hearthstone all over
this broad land, will yet swell
the chorus of the Union, when
again touched, as surely they will
be, by the better angels of our
nature.”
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Help us in planning events for Chapel’s 225th anniversary
In 2016, we will mark
the 225th anniversary of the
erection of Boehm’s Chapel. A
special celebration is in the planning for Heritage Weekend, June
24-26, 2016. Input is needed
to determine where interests lie,
and what type of events will be
most likely attended by visiting
Böhm descendants, the Boehm
congregation and general public.
Please indicate below if you
have interest in any or all of
the suggested activities. Small
fees, to be determined, will
be required for events such
as local bus trips and Böhm
history classes, to offset the cost
of speakers, bus rentals and
entrance fees, etc. If it is determined there is enough interest
to proceed, updates will appear
in future editions of the Boehm’s
Chapel newsletter.
Please return to Boehm’s
Chapel, PO Box 272, Willow
Street, PA 17584 or scan and
send to boehmschapel@gmail.
com prior to Aug. 31, 2015.
Friday evening, June 24, 2016:
____Evening meal at local
restaurant followed by time
to mix, meet and share family
findings and memborabilia with
Böhm cousins.
Saturday, June 25, 2016:
____ Morning bus trip to nearby
sites relating to Böhm history and local historical sites of
interest.
____Afternoon genealogical
type classes, with local historians, relating to original Böhm
properties in Lancaster County
and updated information on
Böhm DNA studies, which allow
us to follow our Böhm ancestors
through time.
____I am interested purchasing lucheon type foods, onsite at
Boehm’s campus.
____I want to a purchase a
Böhm family T-shirt with chapel
logo.
____Old-fashioned early evening
hymn sing in Boehm’s Chapel
Sunday, June 26, 2016:
____Annual afternoon Heritage
Sunday service in Boehm’s Chapel followed by light luncheon
fare for purchase on Boehm’s
Campus site.
____Late afternoon outdoor
Praise and Worship Service on
Boehm’s Campus.
___ I would like to suggest the
following activty.