The Reverend Jacob Scammahorn came to Rockport / Spencer County Indiana in 1850 and founded the Mt Zion United Brethern Church. The church and grave stones pictured below can be found at this location on Google maps

Reverend Jacob Scammahorn
Birth: 1806-10-19 in Hamilton,Ohio
Death: 1878-06-21 in Spencer County Indiana
Wife: Jane - Father: Luther



Jane Gilliland Scammahorn
Birth: 1811-09-11 in Ohio
Death: 1879-04-26 in Spencer County Indiana
Mother’s name: Patience Gilliland




Luther (Luke) Scammahorn
Death: 1860-04-02 in Spencer County Indiana
Birth: 1770-03-15
Married: 1794-01-19 in Ohio County Virginia
Wife: Charissa Terrell
Father: Lucas Schermerhorn



Patience Gilliland
Born: 11 Dec 1777
Died: 20 Jan 1856
Married: James Gilliland

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Charissa Terrell - daughter of Jared and Sarah Terrell
Death: 1830 in Hamilton Ohio
Birth: 1770


Lucus Schermerhorn
Birth: 1750-05-01 in Reformed Dutch Church,Machackemeck,NY
Death: 1792 in Somerset,New Jersey
Married: 1769 Sarah Jones b: 1750 d: in Wellsburg,WV


The information about Lucus Schermerhorn and Charissa Terrell was obtained from http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=chapeau&id=P2372967314 and has not been verified, but believed to be true.

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IN MEMORY OF
Rev. Jacob Scammahorn, who died at his home in Spencer county, Indiana, June 21, 1878 aged seventy years, eight months and two days. Father Scammahorn was born in Hamilton county, Ohio Oct. 19, 1807. He embraced the religion of Jesus Christ in the year 1830, when at the age of twenty-three. In the year 1837 he was licensed by the United Brethren church to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and during a period of forty years he devoted all his time to build up the Master’s kingdom.
He moved from the state of Ohio to this State and settled in Spencer county in the year 1850. Shortly after selecting his new home he continued his labors as an itinerant minister and was the pioneer of the church of the United Brethren in Christ in Southern Indiana. He was four times elected delegate and represented his conference in the General Conference. He was many times elected and traveled as the Presiding Elder of the district of the Indiana Annual Conference. The burial services were conducted by the writer at Mt. Zion Chapel and the mortal remains were interned in the church cemetery, on the Sabbath, June 23rd 1878. There was in attendance a large concourse of neighbors, friends and relatives. He leaves an aged companion, two sons, one daughter all settled in life and heads of families, a number of grandchildren, and a host of warm friends. It is natural for us to lament the death of a friend, but while we grieve over the departure of this beloved friend, pastor and father, we have all assurances to believe that his spirit is in the realms of eternal bliss, that he has entered in to that rest that has been prepared for all those that love our blessed Saviour, and that he has received the happy welcome, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”. Although brother Scammahorn is gone, yet his works remain. He has built a monument in the hearts of the people that can not efface. He faithfully did with his might that which his hands found to do. It is impossible in this brief article to enumerate and extol the many virtues of this pious and exemplary minister. His mission in this world was to lift up fallen and deprived humanity, and to point them to the “Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” To this he devoted forty long years of his life. Not withstanding the bodily afflictions he had to pass through during the last years of his life, he has spiritually been at peace, and has bowed with humble submission to the will of God. In this dispensation of Providence the church is bereft of one of her most zealous and ardent workers, and the community one of its noble and worthy citizens. But these losses are his eternal gain. Peace be to his ashes until the resurrection morn, when Christ shall come in the glory of the Father to make up His Jewels. S.S. Riley