Ohio Historical Marker // Brick Church And Cemetery // The Windsor Township Baptist Association was organized January 11, 1818 by Elder William Davis with 35 members who met in homes, barns, and schoolhouses. At the death of the six-year-old granddaughter of Samuel and Tabitha Davis Henery, this plot by the river was laid out for a church yard and deeded by John Henery in 1837. In 1838 a brick church was built at the cost of $1,000. It served this community until the road and church were destroyed by the flood of 1913. More than 50men from this area served in the Civil War. Twenty-six veterans are buried here, four of the War of 1812, as well as William Davis, veteran of the American Revolution; Obadiah Brokaw, founder of Big Bottom State Memorial; and Captain Isaac Newton Hook, river pilot at the age of ten and U.S. master of inland navigation, 1860-1873, who ran supplies on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers for the Union Army. At Captain Hook's death in 1906, the steamers Valley Gem, Zanesville, and Sonoma from Marietta in his honorlanded passengers at the church here for his funeral. "largest ever held in the Muskingum Valley." "The Lord and the River giveth and then taketh away." // 1969 Erected By the Henery (Henry) Family 2-58 // Photographed 13 Sept 2005, at the entrance drive to Brick Baptist Cemetery, Morgan County, Ohio.

Historical marker erected in 1969 by the Ohio Historical Society at the entrance of the cemetery

Photo credit Rick Shriver

Photographed in October of 2021.

The driveway leading back to the cemetery. Photographed in October of 2021.

Photographed in October of 2021.