In the early years of the nineteenth century, the Second Great Awakening spread religious unrest across much of the American frontier, and among the most influential emerging groups were the Campbellites, or Disciples of Christ, founded in the 1820s by Thomas and Alexander Campbell. The movement sought to restore New Testament Christianity through a return to the primitive church revealed in the gospels, denied creeds and oath-taking, rejected sectarianism, believed in baptism by immersion and Sunday communion, addressed members' problems and transgressions within the church rather than in civil courts, and held a millennial belief that Christ would reign on earth for a thousand years. This faith spread to the pioneers of the Doty Settlement and elsewhere, and by 1850 Ohio had ninety Campbellite churches. In 1844, Job Smith gave one acre in the Doty Settlement to the First Congregation of Christian Disciples of Oxford Township for church and burial purposes, and a 24 by 36 foot frame meeting house was built, though its interior was never completed. Over nearly 100 years, many burials took place in the cemetery, with some graves marked and others unmarked. The Smith, Morris, and Doty families were the first in the settlement to embrace the Campbellite faith, and some of their family members were buried there, while the Moore family joined after 1850 along with some Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian families. The Doty Settlement church was dissolved by 1905, and the cemetery was abandoned by the mid-20th century.