The Restoration Movement : Doty Settlement Cemetery Marker #23-9
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N 39° 33.466 W 084° 45.504
16S E 692580 N 4381075
Quick Description: In Doty Cemetery, north of Oxford, Ohio.
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 11/9/2006 8:32:38 AM
Waymark Code: WMY4G
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Long Description:Text : Side A
In the early years of the nineteenth century, a religious unrest
known as the Second Great Awakening spread across much of the
American frontier. Among the most influential of the evolving
religious organizations were the Campbellites, or Disciples of
Christ, founded in the 1820s by Thomas and Alexander Campbell. The
Campbellite movement sought to "restore" New Testament Christianity
by calling for a return to the primitive church revealed in the
gospels. Campbellites denied creeds and oath-taking and rejected
sectarianism. They believed in baptism by immersion and communion
on Sundays. Followers also dealt with problems and transgressions
of members within the church and did not use civil courts. They
held a millennial view that professed human happiness and the
belief that Christ would reign on earth for a thousand years.
Believers spread this word to the pioneers of the Doty Settlement
and elsewhere. By 1850, there were ninety Campbellite Churches in
Ohio.
Text : Side B
In 1844, one acre of land in the Doty Settlement was given by Job
Smith to the First Congregation of Christian Disciples
(Campbellites) of Oxford Township for church and burial purposes. A
24 by 36 foot frame meeting house was constructed, but the inside
was never completed. Over a period spanning nearly 100 years,
numerous burials occurred in the cemetery. Some graves were marked,
and others were not. The Smith, Morris, and Doty families were the
first in the settlement to embrace the Campbellite faith, and some
family members were buried here. The Moore family came into the
church after 1850, as did some Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian
families. The Doty Settlement church was dissolved by 1905, and the
cemetery was abandoned by the mid-20th century.
County
Butler
Directions
Lot One, Section Four, Oxford Township (W side of road)
Category(s)
Cemeteries (CEM), Religion (REL)
Keyword(s)
"Campbellites"
Sponsor(s)
The Oxford Museum Association, Oxford Township Trustees, and The
Ohio Historical Society
Year
2005
Condition
New