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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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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, […]
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William and Mary Crawford Pancake married in Ohio in 1818. They affiliated with the first of the churches in the area which was Methodist. As this compiled History of Warsaw, Ohio indicates, “Mr. and Mrs. Pancake” were among the first members.
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Mary Crawford was born in Columbiana County, Ohio to Samuel Crawford and Anne Bates. Although we do not know the number or names of any siblings she might have had, we know that she had at least one brother because a child with the last name of Crawford lived in the home she and William […]
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We knew that direct ancestor William Pancake was buried where the Mohawk Methodist Church once stood because his obituary told us so. We assumed that his wife Mary Crawford was buried with him. We didn’t expect to find three grandchildren of William and Mary Pancake whose names we had never seen. Emma and Pauline were […]
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Mary Lucinda Pancake was born in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio to William Pancake (Junior) and Maria Wilmot Gallagher. She was the second child of four born to her parents. Mary Lucinda and both sisters lived to adulthood while a younger brother Oliver died as a young child. Mary’s family lived in the same vicinity […]
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Rachel Ann Thompson was the daughter of Jane Pancake and William Thompson. Jane, Rachel’s mother was the daughter of William Pancake and Mary Crawford and the oldest of three children: Jane, Samuel and William Pancake. Thus, Rachel was the first cousin of our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous and the niece of Glendora’s father Samuel […]