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This is Mohawk Village in Coshocton County, Ohio as of 2005.  It is in this place that we find the site of the original Mohawk Methodist Church and its churchyard burial ground.  This cemetery is the final resting place of direct ancestor William Pancake, his wife Mary Crawford and several of their descendants.

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William Pancake was born near Harrisburg in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to Johann George Pfannekuchen and his wife Anna.  He was the oldest of seven children born to his parents. His father changed his name to George Pancake  and went by that surname from the late 1700s forward.  Direct ancestor William was always known by the […]

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There is no face for ancestor Edith Glendora.  We have faces for some brothers but only one for her sisters,  the face of her mother but not the face of her father. So, we will have to imagine her face. Edith Glendora Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio near the town of […]

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It was the obituary for our ancestor William Pancake in 1867 that told us where he was buried.  The first Methodist Church in Jefferson Township was built on this spot in Warsaw, Ohio. Our ancestors were among the founding members of the church.  Soon, a graveyard was plotted and grew up around the church.  By […]

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We are without most of the faces of our ancestors, the Pancake family, who came from Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio.  But, we know that from 1820 until almost 1880, they lived here.  Their children were born here and buried here.  This wonderful photograph of a funeral procession in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, […]