|
You are using an insecure version of your web browser. Please update your browser!
Using an outdated browser makes your computer unsafe. For a safer, faster, more enjoyable user experience, please update your browser today or try a newer browser.
|
|
Founded by David Zeisberger, a Moravian Missionary. |
What: Celebration for Reverend Lee who has been at our church for 33 years.
When: March 4, 2012
Time: Begins at 9:30 and continues through the 11:30 service
Pine Ridge Boys will be at the church and a dinner will be held
in the fellowship hall after services.
Everyone is welcome!
Waldon Leggett’s Home – Right Hibbs’ Home -Left
A cluster of crosses erected at the Zeisberger Memorial Cemetery, in Goshen, is quite a site for residents and visitors alike. The 25 ft. gold cross that is flanked by two, 20 ft. pale blue crosses, symbolize Christ on the cross and the two thieves who were crucified with Him. The crosses were put there by the late Rev. Bernard Coffindaffer, of Charleston. W.V., who was a businessman and evangelist.
Coffindaffer began setting the crosses after undergoing open-heart surgery in 1982, explaining that a spirit appeared to him telling him to start erecting the crosses.
“The crosses are to remind people to remember that Jesus was crucified on a cross at Calvary for our sins, and he will return soon,” Coffindaffer said in an interview prior to his death, in October of 1993, at the age of 68. It is estimated that more than $3 million was spent on the crosses that were set in 29 eastern and southern states plus Zambia and the Philipines. The cost of each cluster is approximately $850. There are 158 clusters of crosses in Ohio alone.
Landowners were asked to donate land for the crosses, many of which were erected near well-travelled roadways or in towns having biblical names. After setting each trio of crosses, a prayer was said to bless them. More than 1860 clusters were set during Coffindaffer’s lifetime. Sara Abraham of Vicksburg, MS formed Crosses Across America, Inc. in 1999, picking up where Coffindaffer left off.
The crosses at Goshen are inspected each year during the annual Zeisberger Cemetery Clean Up and have been repainted once.
Pictures from the 2009 Goshen Reunion
Submitted by: Treva “Sue” Maurer Cope
My Grandfather (Ralph Warner) had property in Goshen, quite a few acres, 100 or more. He had a coal mine close to where we used to live (on Goshen Hill Rd.) and had horses pull the coal wagons. My mom (Faye) who was Ralph’s daughter, lived with and cared for her dad until his death. Faye’s sister was Agnes Warner Wolfe. She and her husband Edward Wolfe, also lived in Goshen. Edward Warner (Bertie’s husband) was another of Ralph’s children but was raised by an aunt, Laura Carlisle. Another brother, Ralph Warner, had for awhile sold Warner’s Eggs, near Stonecreek. His wife was Erma.
As far as I know, all of my brothers and sisters were born in Goshen and lived there most of their lives, added Cope, who enclosed a list of her family as follows: Shirley Maurer Davis married Richard L. Davis (“Red” as he was often called, passed away about 3 years ago) They had two children, Michael R. Davis and Christopher D. Davis and wife Lori (Roth) Davis; Warner E. Maurer married Rowena Maurer and they had three children Sherri L. Maurer, Cindy S. Maurer and Douglas Maurer; Jim Maurer; Treva Sue Maurer Cope married LeRoy D. Cope and had two daughters, Staci S. Cope and Tricia F. McKinney; Rick Maurer married Bambi and had two children, Erin Maurer (Brian) Gersting and Jason Maurer.
There was a paragraph about the Maurer family in “Recollections of a Community, Part 1” (published in 1997) and reads as follows: Paul W. and Thelma Faye Warner Maurer moved to Goshen about 61 years (now would be 86 years) ago from the New Philadelphia area to reside with Faye’s father, Ralph Warner, in his Goshen Hill Road home. Ralph was a coal miner and had many mines dotting his 100 acre property. Paul and Faye later moved down the road to another home where they raised their five children.
By: Arlene McWilliams Transou
Lloyd C.McWilliams married Mary Catherine Richards November 30th of 1956, there are 4 children from this union, Dennis, Lea, myself, and Scott, while all except myself still live within a 2 mile radius, I’m the only one thats relocated to Wooster, Ohio, Dad bought a piece of the old Schaar farm, he and Mom lived upstairs in the old house, while Dad’s parents, the late Raymond and Lillie V along with Dads 2 youngest sisters, Bonnie (Zavasky) and Nancy (Kohler),lived in the downstairs, in the meantime, Dad and probably alot of others were building the basement home that was at the end of the property, when it was complete, Dad and company moved there, Grandpa passed, Aunt Bonnie married, my Aunt Nancy bought a house on the southside of New Phila, she and Grandma moved there, then the larger house was ours to move into, I remember the new carpet being put in, along with the new furniture, my brothers each had a bedroom, while my sister and I shared, we never had more than enough, and that was fine by all, Dad and Mom were a great team, and the 4 of us were extremely blessed to have them as parents! There are memories of our house/property that many, many, MANY Goshenites share with us, using the the basement home turned into a local hang-out, sled riding in the winter, football in the field behind the long closed Goshen School,we played baseball in the Schaar field behind us, we rode bikes all day every day, I would need more room to list them all, one last thing though…we have so many wonderful childhood friendships, the next generation friendships are extensions of us, all in all, I’d have to say we had it pretty darn good growing up!
