Jonah's Run Baptist Church / Underwood Farms Rural Historic District

Jonah's Run Baptist Church / Underwood Farms Rural Historic District (HM2M4L)

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N 39° 29.775', W 83° 58.774'

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Jonah's Run Baptist Church.
The comingling of faiths in an area settled predominantly by
Quakers helps explain the origins of Jonah's Run Baptist Church.
Ministered to by a Baptist preacher, the children and neighbors of
Daniel Collett (1752-1835), an Episcopalian and private in the
Revolutionary War, and his wife Mary Haines Collett (1753-1826),
a Quaker from Virginia, became Baptists and started the church in
1838. Levi Lukens (1767-1860), a Quaker from Pennsylvania by way
of Virginia, purchased the land where the church stands in 1812
and sold it in 1839 to a founder of the congregation. Like local
Ouaker meetinghouses, the church had separate entrances for men
and women and a partition between the two that divided the
sanctuary. The congregation's sons and daughters lived their faith.
Howard McCune (1852-1923) was the Clinton Baptist Association's
moderator and president of the Ohio Baptist Convention's state board.
Anne Cossum (1894-1977) was a missionary in China from 1920-1927.

Underwood Farms Rural Historic District.
The District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005,
preserves 280 acres of landscapes and buildings depicting rural life
in Clinton County from about 1838 to 1955. The District encompasses
the Amos-Elihu-Daniel Underwood ("west brick")



and Zephaniah Underwood
("east brick") farms, the Zephaniah and Matilda Underwood house
(the "Tower House," circa 1884) and Jonah's Run Baptist Church (side 1).
The Underwoods were famous for their commercial apple orchards,
although like other farmers raised a variety of crops and livestock.
The Zephaniah and Matilda Underwood farm includes a circa 1900 brick
fruit storage building, insulated by sawdust. The Underwoods were
leaders in other areas. Matilda Downing Underwood (1851-1932) was
a Quaker minister and active in the temperance and women's suffrage
movements. Matilda's sister, Maria Downing Romine (1848-1922), was
a medical doctor, a pioneering career for women of her time.
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HM NumberHM2M4L
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Year Placed2019
Placed ByJonah’s Run Baptist Church and The Ohio History Connection
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 at 2:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 243783 N 4376087
Decimal Degrees39.49625000, -83.97956667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 29.775', W 83° 58.774'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 29' 46.5" N, 83° 58' 46.44" W
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