An excerpt from Samual M. Duncans 1869 "Moravian Families", "Jessamine Creek winds it's course through a soil of wonderful fertility, and then narrowing to a modest width, glides through meadows and woodland. Hard beaten roads intersect with each other over a fine landsape of rare beauty, at times winding past neat and pretty farm houses and spacious barns; and at others lost seemingly in the dark woods of oak and cedar which cast their shadows over the way". The Moravian community built their log cabins along this creek. From reliable sources, Rev. Jacob Rhorer, husband of Elizabeth Bruner, was the founder of the first Moravian church in Jessamine Co, organized on this very creek in 1798.
Following are the names of early settlers to this area. Arnspigers, Allcorns, Bowmans, Bruners, Cawbys, Cogars, Cooleys, Cormans, Earthenhouses, Easleys, Funks, Frazers, Gillmans, Goforths, Grows, Harboughs, Hiffners, Hoovers, Horines, Howsers, Ketrons, Masners, Naves, Overstreets, Quests, Rices, Ritters, Schmidths or Smiths, Shreves, Trislers, Turks, Turpins, Veatches, VanTrees, Waggaman, Warmsleys, Yosts, and the Zikes.
Photo by Tina (Trisler) Gilbert
Text by Shelia Bruner-Ramos