Welcome to the
Boone County KY Germanna Group
website
NEWS!
The Hopeful Lutheran Cemetery listing of burials is now online!
click here for a spreadsheet of burials in the Hopeful Lutheran Church Cemetery
An Original 1832 Election document for Boone County KY
has been found at an Auction House in Ohio!
This important historical document has now been returned to the Boone County KY Courthouse.
This document lists the Boone County KY residents' name and their votes
in this Election held in Burlington KY in August 1832.
Annual Election
August 1832
For to Elect a Governor, Lieut. Governor and one Legislator from Boone
For the Commonwealth of Kentucky
At the Courthouse in Burlington
Below you can view the SCANS of the actual 1832 Boone County KY ELECTION document
(split into 2 different pdfs)
view PAGES 1 thru 14 of original document 4.3 MB
view PAGES 15 thru 28 of original document 4.3 MB
view List of only the Germanna Names
taken from the 1832 ELECTION held in Boone County KY
Our Mission Statement
To collect and preserve the history of the Hopeful Lutheran Church
and the family histories of the German Lutherans who traveled from Madison County, Virginia to Boone County Ky
including their descendants who remained here in Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties.
Your Help Is Needed ~ Go On A Search
Share Your Discoveries and Pass It On
Please search your items and talk to family and friends
to aid us in collecting and preserving this history.
To contribute any items, please email boonegermanna@fuse.net
We are currently researching and collecting family histories of the following Germanna surnames:
Aylor, Beemon, Blankenbaker, Carpenter/Zimmerman, Clore, Crigler, Deer/Hirsch, Glore,
Hoffman/Huffman, Holsclau/Holtzclaw, House/Haus, Rouse/Rausch, Tanner, Utz, Weaver, Yager
In addition to those family histories, we are also seeking the below items relating
to Boone County Pre-1950 history:
-- Florence School and Burlington School pictures and yearbooks
-- Bibles - old Family Bibles with names or photographs in them
-- Diaries, Journals and Books of persons with surnames from the above list
-- Hopeful Lutheran Church photos, programs, etc.
-- Postcards and Letters addressed to and from Boone County Ky and cities within
-- Photographs of Boone County families including cabinet cards and tin-types even if they
do not have names on them but they came from a Boone County home.
Please do not throw these items away even if you don't know who they are.
Maybe we can help identify them.
Family Names ~ Photos and Genealogy Research
More names will be added as information is collected
If you would like to add information and old photos to any of the below family names, please email boonegermanna@fuse.net
Aylor
Clore
Glore
Hoffman / Huffman
House / Haus
Utz
Weaver
Yager
Zimmerman
The below image written in German was taken from the Hebron Church, Virginia records on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.
On October 3, 1805, eighteen members of the Hebron Lutheran Church of Madison County, Virginia,
Five days later after the above Communion List, a party of twelve adults and seventeen children
They traveled first to New Market, Virginia, then down the Shenandoah
Valley to the Holston River. Shortly thereafter, they founded the Hopeful Lutheran Church here in Boone County, Ky.
Photos below of the front and the back of Highway Marker
Don Rightmyer of the Kentucky Historical Society speaks during the Dedication Ceremony
View photos and information of our past Reunions and Events
click here for history and old pictures
click here for Cemetery listings and pictures
Florence, Kentucky ~ The First Century 1830-1930
Florence Ky information from Wikipedia encyclopedia
Florence Ky History
Florence Ky Churches
Boone County Historical Society
Boone County Library Local History & Genealogy
Northern Ky Views Boone County
More Links from Northern Ky Views Boone County
Boone County History at boonecountyky.org
A Journey into the Past by William Conrad
Boone County Baptist Church Histories
KY Counties Formation Slide Show
VA Counties Formation Slide Show
VA current counties & Independent Cities
Germanna Colonies website by the Germanna Research Group
Second Colony website by the Germanna Research Group
John Blankenbaker's Germanna Notes and Genealogy Comments
Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison County, Virginia
Hebron Lutheran Church in Virginia ~ more pictures
The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia
Cathi Clore Frost's database on RootsWeb
Kathy Easton Caminiti's database on RootsWeb
Germanna descendants' websites
email boonegermanna@fuse.net to arrange pickup of mug in Florence KY for $5.00
This website is sponsored by the Boone County Germanna Study Group
These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons.
Kathy's personal genealogy research includes the surnames:
NOTE: The website www.eastonhistory.com has been moved to the Boone Germanna's website at
www.boonegermanna.com/easton
They Came from Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison County, Virginia
(at that time known of the Old Dutch or German Church) received Holy Communion.
This was not celebrated on a Sunday, but was a special Communion service as the
heading on the communion list states,
"Communicants were the following persons who had it in mind to move to the outlying regions
(Boone County, Kentucky)."
began their journey that would take them to Boone County, Kentucky.
The twelve adults were Ephraim and Susannah (House) Tanner,
George and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Rouse, John and Susannah (Tanner)
House,
John and Nancy (Zimmerman) Rouse,
Frederick and Rosannah
(Crigler) Zimmerman, and Solomon and Elizabeth (Tanner) Hoffman.
All but Solomon Hoffman were members of Hebron Church and had
received the Sacrament on October 3rd.
Of the seventeen children, the
oldest was ten years old, the youngest not yet a year old.
Then they followed Daniel
Boone's route through the Cumberland Gap and on up to Lexington.
Following the Ridge Route (present day U.S. 25),
they arrived in Boone
County on November 25, forty-eight days after leaving Madison County.
with the first Constitution of the Church, written in German, adopted on January 6, 1806, Epiphany Day.
To view the first Constitution, please visit the Hopeful Church history page
Hopeful Evangelical Lutheran Church
click here for Hopeful Church history and information
Unidentified Photos
Hopeful Lutheran Church has been awarded a KY Historical Highway Marker!
Sincere thanks to the Boone County Historical Society
whose research and funding made this Historical Highway Marker possible.
The Dedication Ceremony and Unveiling of the new Historical Highway was held on June 24, 2012.
Past Reunions
Boone County Schools
Boone County Cemeteries
FLORENCE KY history and information
by Paul Tanner, July 1933
on Florence KY Online website
on Northern Ky Views website
LINKS to Boone County history and research information
Boone County Probate Records online at familysearch.org
includes: Administrator, Executor and Guardian Bonds and Settlements,
Will Records, and Inventories
Though these scans of the courthouse record books are not yet searchable by a name,
most of the volumes have an alpha index by last name in the front of each volume.
with a number of books and papers uploaded
A historical tour of Boone County's River Country
LINKS to KY and VA MAPS
LINKS to Germanna Websites
LINKS to researchers' websites
We have a few items left for sale
Hopeful Lutheran Church coffee mug
Mug with sketch of Hopeful Ev. Lutheran Church
and writing of: Hopeful Ev. Lutheran Church ~ Florence, Kentucky ~ Oldest Lutheran Church West of the Allegheny Mts.
Nice Reprinted Booklet of the 1854 ~ A History of Hopeful Church, Boone County, Ky by Rev. David Harbaugh
email boonegermanna@fuse.net to arrange pickup of booklet in Florence KY for $10.00
~ THIS WEBSITE ~
To add information or to correct any errors, please contact Kathy Easton Caminiti or Michael D. Rouse
at email: boonegermanna@fuse.net
Many Thanks to all the people that have donated their time, photos, and information
to this website and for sharing their passion of genealogy and local history!
~ IMPORTANT NOTICE ~
Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor.
The contributors have given permission to the Boone County Germanna Study Group to store the file permanently for free access.
Webmaster ~ Kathy Caminiti
Please report any non-working links on this website to Kathy at boonegermanna@fuse.net or eastonhistory@fuse.net
Easton,
Tanner, Rouse/Rausch, Vaughan,
Blankenbaker, Clore, Deer/Hirsch, Ellis, Gaar, Glore, Reed, Sanders, Schwietert, Stuckey,
Utz, Vining, Volck, Wallace, Weaver/Weber, Welch, Yager, Zimmerman and more families
