Cemetery Index:
Legal description of the Spring Run Cemetery, N.E. 1/4 of N.E. 1/4 fo Sec. 23, Twp. 74N Range W (Elm Grove Twp.)

Only the cemetery and the original church built in 1872 remains of what was once a thriving community with a country school, blacksmith shop, and several houses.  The church was nearby across the 'holler'. While tales about the source of the name of Pitch In abound, the truth may be that it was named for Pitch In, Ohio from whence some of the residents amed Bond had emigrated.  The Evangelical Association started holding services in the Pitchin school house around 1870.

Following a revival service, during the pastorate of the Rev. Obed Long, the Spring Run church was built at its present location in 1872.  The ground was donated by John H. Brower who lived nearby.

Originally the enterance to the church was from the east and the pulpit was in the west end. In 1860 the floor plan was changed to what it is now at an approximate cost of $2600

Until 1915 when the Evangelical Church in Cairo was built (church no longer standing) Spring Run was on on a circuit with Grandview. In 1923, the basement was dug ot provide even more space for the active congregation .  In 1950-51, a water pressure system was installed and the basement was redecorated as was teh interior of the sanctuary upstairs.  In 1958 plans were drawn up for adding rest rooms and an educational unit. At first the congregation voted to make this a basement addition only but as the work progressed they voted to add the structure on the north also.  This 18 by 42 ft. addition cost approximately $5000 net not counting  donated labor.

Elijah Jennings is listed as one of the earliest landowners in Elm Grove Twp. of Louisa County in Springer's History of Louisa County.   He arrived in 1854, one of forty two people who joined the caravan in its trek from Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. Some of the others were: Mifflin Jeffries, his wife Jane Mullen, the daughter of Alexander and Nancy Ann (Mendenhall) Mullen,  and their grown children, Taylor Jeffries, Eliza (Jeffries) Mallaby, a widow; Esther Jeffries, Lydia Jeffries, wife of Elijah Jennings; Rachel Jeffries, wife of Henry Jennings; and Nancy Ann Jeffries, wife of Benjamin Jennings.  Elijah and Henry Jennings sold their land in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and requested church certificates to move before they left.  They stopped briefly at their brother John's house in Ohio because of an ill child in the caravan.  Benjamin, Enoch and Jarred Jennings and their families who were living in Ohio, joined the caravan and traveled with the caravan as far as Peoria, Illinois.  Isaac Hague, son of Mifflin Jeffries sister Rebecca Jefferies and her husband Isaac Hague had traveled west as far as Knox County, Illinois in 1851, where Enoch and Jarred left the caravan to travel northward and settle in Wisconsin.

Benjamin, Elijah and Henry proceeded on to Iowa with their father-in-law and settled in Louisa County.  The sixth brother, John Jennings, remained behind in Green Co., Ohio where he died. More extensive history regarding the Jeffries (Jefferis} can be found in Gilbert Cope's History of Chester Co., Pa. and also on the webpages Bender, Jennings and Associated Families.

Burial Records in Spring Run Cemetery:

Names beginning with: A - C

Names beginning with: D - H

Names beginning with: I - K

Names beginning with: L - P

Names beginning with: Q - Z

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