Person:Adam Regula (1)

FINKENBACH is sometimes spelled "Findenbach" and is located about one mile north of the village of Waldgrehweiler, in the Palatinate.

Sources say he migrated to America in 1834, and settled in Bucks Township, which had just been formed in 1825, from Salem Township. Bucks had a large number of German settlers, most of whom migrated from the county of Rockenhausen, in the Palatinate. Adam may have been the first to arrive from the Waldgrehweiler area.

Bucks Township is even more remote that Jefferson or Auburn. Mostly county roads.

In 1979, a John Regula wrote a historical summary for the Fiat's St. Peter's Congregation. It mentioned how Adam Regula was visited by the famous local pastor, Rev. Henry Coloredo who wished to have a suit of clothes made. Adam was a tailor. Rev. Coloredo told Adam that if he would gather the settlers, he would come to preach to them. Thus was the organization of St. Peter's Congregation. Since the minister was from New Bedford, just across the county line in Coshocton County, St. Peter's became a German Reformed congregation. But Coloredo preached to Lutherans also. In several areas (such as Stone Creek's "Zion's Congregation") the different Protestant bodies shared buildings. The Fiat church was probably the only other church in all of Bucks Township, except a Lutheran church near Fiat. There was a church at Rowville (now Baltic) in the NW corner of the township, and was probably a German Reformed congregation. Rev. Coloredo was a tireless preacher, and visited congregations all over Tuscarawas, Coshocton, and Holmes Counties. At this time, the rural area Rev. Coloredo served was a wild country of dense forest, with bears abounding. The pastor traveled on horseback, and carried a gun to protect himself against the beasts.

The Regula Family mostly settled in Bucks Township, but later some of them moved to the area of Jefferson Township, around Stone Creek.

--White Creek 17:09, 17 August 2012 (EDT)

1.   The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio: containing a history of the county; its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc.; general and local statistics; military record; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest Territory; history of Ohio; miscellaneous matters, etc. etc. (Chicago [Illinois]: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884).
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