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Brick Church and Cemetery, 39.569699, 81.778359 State Route 376, Stockport - The Windsor Township Baptist Association was organized Jan. 11, 1818 by Elder William Davis with 35 members who met in homes, barns & school houses. At the death of the 6 year old grandaughter of Samuel and Tabitha 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 $1000. It served the community until the road & church were washed out by the flood of 1913. More than 30 men from the area served in the Civil War, 26 veterans are buried here, 4 of the war of 1812 as well as William Davis veteran of the American Revolution. Obediah Brokaw founder of Big Bottom State memorial and Isaac Newton Hook, river boat pilot at the age of ten and US Master of Navigation 1840-1873 who ran supplies on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers for the Union Army. At Captain Hooks death in 1906the Valley Gem Zanesville from Marietta in his honor landed passengers at the church here for his funeral.