By Rev. Merle C. Rummel II. The FOUR MILE CHURCH III. The
Virginia Families IV. The Settlement on the Four Mile V. The
Frontier VI. The Dunkers VII Four Mile Journal General Anthony
Wayne named it the Four Mile Creek, he crossed it four miles
after he left Fort Hamilton as he moved north against the
Indians. It came down from the northwest, from the stateline
area of the new State of Ohio. In 1803 the first settlers came
to the headwaters of the creek, and settled on the Little Four
Mile, at the Ohio state line. They were: two brothers, James
Huston (w. Sarah) and Samuel Huston (w. Elizabeth Brown), who
had heard of the area from their cousin, Matthew Huston, a
wagoner for General Wayne. They came from Bedford Co PA
(brother, Thomas Jr -w. Tabitha Wright came later). Then there
was Joseph Kingery and his brothers-in-law, John Miller and
Abraham Miller. Elder Jacob Miller came out from Franklin Co VA
to the Miami River Valley (Dayton area) in 1802, where John and
Joseph then lived. Now, they were surveying the