. History of Morrow County and Ohio. k, a preacher ofthe old-school Baptist Church; and most of hisneighbors who settled in the northeast section ofthe township were members of the same organiza-tion. Mr. Cook came in 1812, and organized asociety very soon after his coming, consisting ofsome twenty persons, among whom were SamuelHoofmire, Zebulon Ashley, Benjamin Hart, JohnAckerman, Henry Sams, Andrew Sams, HenrySams, Jr., and their wives, and Elizabeth Thrift, of Mount Vernon, and HenryGeorge, of Chester, assisted in the organization ofthis society, which was known as the Owl Cr

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. History of Morrow County and Ohio. k, a preacher ofthe old-school Baptist Church; and most of hisneighbors who settled in the northeast section ofthe township were members of the same organiza-tion. Mr. Cook came in 1812, and organized asociety very soon after his coming, consisting ofsome twenty persons, among whom were SamuelHoofmire, Zebulon Ashley, Benjamin Hart, JohnAckerman, Henry Sams, Andrew Sams, HenrySams, Jr., and their wives, and Elizabeth Thrift, of Mount Vernon, and HenryGeorge, of Chester, assisted in the organization ofthis society, which was known as the Owl CreekBaptist Church, North Branch, and preached occa-sionally at the settlement. Mr. Cook was thesettled Pastor, who preached for several years inthe cabins of the settlers. In 1815, a log meeting-house was put up on the site of the present Bap-tist Church, where Mr. Cook had given two acresfor a buildintr site and cemetery. The buildingwas a round-log structure, with but a single win-dow place; this was never supplied with anything V.

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