BUNTS, Conrad
Husband of Elizabeth nee Williams
B. 27 Feb 1777 in NY
D. 10 Apr 1862 in Ellsworth Twp., Mahoning Co. OH at 85y 1m 11d
Burial – Apr 1862 in Ellsworth Cemetery, Section B Row 5, Ellsworth, Mahoning Co. OH
Geeburg Honors Reverend Nicholas Gee and the Site of Early Church
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 8 Sep 1939
"Geeburg Honors Pioneer; Site of Early Church" by George W. Kunkle
"What has been long know as Geefield-Palmyra road about five miles northwest of Canfield in Ellsworth township, about three miles northeast of Ellsworth Center. A little hall for dancing and other social uses and four or fives residents are about all there is at Geeburg today. It derived its name from a progressive public-spirited early pioneer Methodist minister who settled there, the Rev. Nicholas Gee. Rev. Nicholas Gee was a native of New York and moved to Ellsworth township in 1823. He was licensed to preach in Ohio in 1824 and among his first activities in the new-found Ohio home was to organize a church society. Gee acting as the society's leader and worker.
Meetings at first were held at the homes of society members and in the neighboring school building. About 1835 a church was built, completed and dedicated, it standing at the edge of the little cemetery noted to the south of the road, this church on what was then the Gee farm. From that time to the present the place has ever been known as Geeburg.
In the building of the church Rev. Gee and C.A. Bunts are said to have furnished most of the material and money. Prominent members of this old church were the Gee, Bunts, Leonard, Smith and Hoyle families. In addition to this church a school house stood nearby, to the east, two or three residences perhaps and an old water power grist mill originally built by Ezekiel Hoover and known as the Hoover mill. In its final years owned and operated by Adam Diehl, stood north of the church on a branch of the Meander creek. This was all there was to the community of Geeburg.
The old homestead farm of the Rev. Nicholas Gee is now the property of Urias Yeager. Services in the church were regularly conducted to about 1856 when the organization became dormant by reason of its people moving elsewhere and other causes, but a splendid Sunday school was maintained and flourished for some years thereafter. A good singing school was conducted the also more than sixty years ago. Among families recalled of the neighborhood were the Gee, Bunts, Eastman, Stroup, Miller and McNeilly families.
The old church was still standing in 1882, but sometime between that and 1886, the old edifice was purchased by Warren Ripley, taken down and moved to Ellsworth where it was re-erected on the Miller farm and used as a wagon house. In 1859 a Methodist church organization was formed at Ellsworth Center and a church building erected largely also through effort of Rev. Gee and C.A. Bunts. Associated with them were Dr. Hughes, John and L.D. Smith and others. Jacob Lower, Miller and Ripley Jefferson, Eli Diehl and John Cronick, it is said, gave liberally.
This is the early story and history of the Methodist church at the center, it really is an offspring of the former Geeburg church. The little school house stood upon a corner of what was known as the Joshua Gee farm, it being abandoned at the opening of the Ellsworth centralized school about 25 years ago. The school property was purchased by Urias Yeager who converted it into a hall for social activities, later building an addition to it and as such it is used today. The Rev. Nicholas Gee and his wife both repose in the little church cemetery at Geeburg on lands once their own property. Stone slabs mark the place their graves. Rev. Gee died November 16, 1867, his age 85 years. His wife, Nancy Gee, preceded him in death, passing away August 9, 1855 at age 70. Adam Diehl, final owner and proprietor of Geeburg grist mill also sleeps within this cemetery, his death occurring August 21, 1872. This old mill, too, has long been gone. Joshua Gee was a son of Nicholas Gee and is remembered as a great sheep farmer, his flocks numbering anywhere from 150 to 200 or more. He is spoken of as a kindly and good man, devout and frugal in his nature."
Husband of Elizabeth nee Williams
B. 27 Feb 1777 in NY
D. 10 Apr 1862 in Ellsworth Twp., Mahoning Co. OH at 85y 1m 11d
Burial – Apr 1862 in Ellsworth Cemetery, Section B Row 5, Ellsworth, Mahoning Co. OH
Geeburg Honors Reverend Nicholas Gee and the Site of Early Church
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 8 Sep 1939
"Geeburg Honors Pioneer; Site of Early Church" by George W. Kunkle
"What has been long know as Geefield-Palmyra road about five miles northwest of Canfield in Ellsworth township, about three miles northeast of Ellsworth Center. A little hall for dancing and other social uses and four or fives residents are about all there is at Geeburg today. It derived its name from a progressive public-spirited early pioneer Methodist minister who settled there, the Rev. Nicholas Gee. Rev. Nicholas Gee was a native of New York and moved to Ellsworth township in 1823. He was licensed to preach in Ohio in 1824 and among his first activities in the new-found Ohio home was to organize a church society. Gee acting as the society's leader and worker.
Meetings at first were held at the homes of society members and in the neighboring school building. About 1835 a church was built, completed and dedicated, it standing at the edge of the little cemetery noted to the south of the road, this church on what was then the Gee farm. From that time to the present the place has ever been known as Geeburg.
In the building of the church Rev. Gee and C.A. Bunts are said to have furnished most of the material and money. Prominent members of this old church were the Gee, Bunts, Leonard, Smith and Hoyle families. In addition to this church a school house stood nearby, to the east, two or three residences perhaps and an old water power grist mill originally built by Ezekiel Hoover and known as the Hoover mill. In its final years owned and operated by Adam Diehl, stood north of the church on a branch of the Meander creek. This was all there was to the community of Geeburg.
The old homestead farm of the Rev. Nicholas Gee is now the property of Urias Yeager. Services in the church were regularly conducted to about 1856 when the organization became dormant by reason of its people moving elsewhere and other causes, but a splendid Sunday school was maintained and flourished for some years thereafter. A good singing school was conducted the also more than sixty years ago. Among families recalled of the neighborhood were the Gee, Bunts, Eastman, Stroup, Miller and McNeilly families.
The old church was still standing in 1882, but sometime between that and 1886, the old edifice was purchased by Warren Ripley, taken down and moved to Ellsworth where it was re-erected on the Miller farm and used as a wagon house. In 1859 a Methodist church organization was formed at Ellsworth Center and a church building erected largely also through effort of Rev. Gee and C.A. Bunts. Associated with them were Dr. Hughes, John and L.D. Smith and others. Jacob Lower, Miller and Ripley Jefferson, Eli Diehl and John Cronick, it is said, gave liberally.
This is the early story and history of the Methodist church at the center, it really is an offspring of the former Geeburg church. The little school house stood upon a corner of what was known as the Joshua Gee farm, it being abandoned at the opening of the Ellsworth centralized school about 25 years ago. The school property was purchased by Urias Yeager who converted it into a hall for social activities, later building an addition to it and as such it is used today. The Rev. Nicholas Gee and his wife both repose in the little church cemetery at Geeburg on lands once their own property. Stone slabs mark the place their graves. Rev. Gee died November 16, 1867, his age 85 years. His wife, Nancy Gee, preceded him in death, passing away August 9, 1855 at age 70. Adam Diehl, final owner and proprietor of Geeburg grist mill also sleeps within this cemetery, his death occurring August 21, 1872. This old mill, too, has long been gone. Joshua Gee was a son of Nicholas Gee and is remembered as a great sheep farmer, his flocks numbering anywhere from 150 to 200 or more. He is spoken of as a kindly and good man, devout and frugal in his nature."
BUNTS, Conrad
Husband of Elizabeth nee Williams
B. 27 Feb 1777 in NY
D. 10 Apr 1862 in Ellsworth Twp., Mahoning Co. OH at 85y 1m 11d
Burial – Apr 1862 in Ellsworth Cemetery, Section B Row 5, Ellsworth, Mahoning Co. OH
Geeburg Honors Reverend Nicholas Gee and the Site of Early Church
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 8 Sep 1939
"Geeburg Honors Pioneer; Site of Early Church" by George W. Kunkle
"What has been long know as Geefield-Palmyra road about five miles northwest of Canfield in Ellsworth township, about three miles northeast of Ellsworth Center. A little hall for dancing and other social uses and four or fives residents are about all there is at Geeburg today. It derived its name from a progressive public-spirited early pioneer Methodist minister who settled there, the Rev. Nicholas Gee. Rev. Nicholas Gee was a native of New York and moved to Ellsworth township in 1823. He was licensed to preach in Ohio in 1824 and among his first activities in the new-found Ohio home was to organize a church society. Gee acting as the society's leader and worker.
Meetings at first were held at the homes of society members and in the neighboring school building. About 1835 a church was built, completed and dedicated, it standing at the edge of the little cemetery noted to the south of the road, this church on what was then the Gee farm. From that time to the present the place has ever been known as Geeburg.
In the building of the church Rev. Gee and C.A. Bunts are said to have furnished most of the material and money. Prominent members of this old church were the Gee, Bunts, Leonard, Smith and Hoyle families. In addition to this church a school house stood nearby, to the east, two or three residences perhaps and an old water power grist mill originally built by Ezekiel Hoover and known as the Hoover mill. In its final years owned and operated by Adam Diehl, stood north of the church on a branch of the Meander creek. This was all there was to the community of Geeburg.
The old homestead farm of the Rev. Nicholas Gee is now the property of Urias Yeager. Services in the church were regularly conducted to about 1856 when the organization became dormant by reason of its people moving elsewhere and other causes, but a splendid Sunday school was maintained and flourished for some years thereafter. A good singing school was conducted the also more than sixty years ago. Among families recalled of the neighborhood were the Gee, Bunts, Eastman, Stroup, Miller and McNeilly families.
The old church was still standing in 1882, but sometime between that and 1886, the old edifice was purchased by Warren Ripley, taken down and moved to Ellsworth where it was re-erected on the Miller farm and used as a wagon house. In 1859 a Methodist church organization was formed at Ellsworth Center and a church building erected largely also through effort of Rev. Gee and C.A. Bunts. Associated with them were Dr. Hughes, John and L.D. Smith and others. Jacob Lower, Miller and Ripley Jefferson, Eli Diehl and John Cronick, it is said, gave liberally.
This is the early story and history of the Methodist church at the center, it really is an offspring of the former Geeburg church. The little school house stood upon a corner of what was known as the Joshua Gee farm, it being abandoned at the opening of the Ellsworth centralized school about 25 years ago. The school property was purchased by Urias Yeager who converted it into a hall for social activities, later building an addition to it and as such it is used today. The Rev. Nicholas Gee and his wife both repose in the little church cemetery at Geeburg on lands once their own property. Stone slabs mark the place their graves. Rev. Gee died November 16, 1867, his age 85 years. His wife, Nancy Gee, preceded him in death, passing away August 9, 1855 at age 70. Adam Diehl, final owner and proprietor of Geeburg grist mill also sleeps within this cemetery, his death occurring August 21, 1872. This old mill, too, has long been gone. Joshua Gee was a son of Nicholas Gee and is remembered as a great sheep farmer, his flocks numbering anywhere from 150 to 200 or more. He is spoken of as a kindly and good man, devout and frugal in his nature."
Husband of Elizabeth nee Williams
B. 27 Feb 1777 in NY
D. 10 Apr 1862 in Ellsworth Twp., Mahoning Co. OH at 85y 1m 11d
Burial – Apr 1862 in Ellsworth Cemetery, Section B Row 5, Ellsworth, Mahoning Co. OH
Geeburg Honors Reverend Nicholas Gee and the Site of Early Church
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 8 Sep 1939
"Geeburg Honors Pioneer; Site of Early Church" by George W. Kunkle
"What has been long know as Geefield-Palmyra road about five miles northwest of Canfield in Ellsworth township, about three miles northeast of Ellsworth Center. A little hall for dancing and other social uses and four or fives residents are about all there is at Geeburg today. It derived its name from a progressive public-spirited early pioneer Methodist minister who settled there, the Rev. Nicholas Gee. Rev. Nicholas Gee was a native of New York and moved to Ellsworth township in 1823. He was licensed to preach in Ohio in 1824 and among his first activities in the new-found Ohio home was to organize a church society. Gee acting as the society's leader and worker.
Meetings at first were held at the homes of society members and in the neighboring school building. About 1835 a church was built, completed and dedicated, it standing at the edge of the little cemetery noted to the south of the road, this church on what was then the Gee farm. From that time to the present the place has ever been known as Geeburg.
In the building of the church Rev. Gee and C.A. Bunts are said to have furnished most of the material and money. Prominent members of this old church were the Gee, Bunts, Leonard, Smith and Hoyle families. In addition to this church a school house stood nearby, to the east, two or three residences perhaps and an old water power grist mill originally built by Ezekiel Hoover and known as the Hoover mill. In its final years owned and operated by Adam Diehl, stood north of the church on a branch of the Meander creek. This was all there was to the community of Geeburg.
The old homestead farm of the Rev. Nicholas Gee is now the property of Urias Yeager. Services in the church were regularly conducted to about 1856 when the organization became dormant by reason of its people moving elsewhere and other causes, but a splendid Sunday school was maintained and flourished for some years thereafter. A good singing school was conducted the also more than sixty years ago. Among families recalled of the neighborhood were the Gee, Bunts, Eastman, Stroup, Miller and McNeilly families.
The old church was still standing in 1882, but sometime between that and 1886, the old edifice was purchased by Warren Ripley, taken down and moved to Ellsworth where it was re-erected on the Miller farm and used as a wagon house. In 1859 a Methodist church organization was formed at Ellsworth Center and a church building erected largely also through effort of Rev. Gee and C.A. Bunts. Associated with them were Dr. Hughes, John and L.D. Smith and others. Jacob Lower, Miller and Ripley Jefferson, Eli Diehl and John Cronick, it is said, gave liberally.
This is the early story and history of the Methodist church at the center, it really is an offspring of the former Geeburg church. The little school house stood upon a corner of what was known as the Joshua Gee farm, it being abandoned at the opening of the Ellsworth centralized school about 25 years ago. The school property was purchased by Urias Yeager who converted it into a hall for social activities, later building an addition to it and as such it is used today. The Rev. Nicholas Gee and his wife both repose in the little church cemetery at Geeburg on lands once their own property. Stone slabs mark the place their graves. Rev. Gee died November 16, 1867, his age 85 years. His wife, Nancy Gee, preceded him in death, passing away August 9, 1855 at age 70. Adam Diehl, final owner and proprietor of Geeburg grist mill also sleeps within this cemetery, his death occurring August 21, 1872. This old mill, too, has long been gone. Joshua Gee was a son of Nicholas Gee and is remembered as a great sheep farmer, his flocks numbering anywhere from 150 to 200 or more. He is spoken of as a kindly and good man, devout and frugal in his nature."
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