Washitaw County AFAM (Ancient Free Asiatic Moors) is an administrative arm, County, Archdiocese, and Parish of the ecclesiastical government- the Zionst Temple of 1875 for Orphans and Widows. It is is located at: Longitude -84.234800 Latitude 39.744000, 2426 Jerome Ave Dayton, OH [45417].
Washitaw County AFAM serves church and temple members, Moorish-Americans, members of the lost-found tribe of Shabazz, and others. Washitaw is one of the names of lineage that belong to ArchBishop Thelma Moore Foster, Matriarch of the Heritage House, “the House that Hercules Built”. In honor of her lineage, the family county government was named for Washitaw County AFAM.
Historically, “The Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah was recorded as The Oldest Indigenous People on Earth in the final list of all attendees.” In 1993, The Washitaw Indigenous Nation of Mound Builders received its United Nations number: 215/93. The previous Empress, as one of the living heirs of Henry Turner, recovered the title to 68,883 acres of land comprising most of the northern part of the ‘said state of Louisiana. The Washitaw are the original inhabitants of all theses lands from wherever you find mound sites you find part of the Empire in so called north America ( A-Meri- Ta ).
The area from Alleghenies to the Rocky Mountains, from Canada down to the Gulphe of Mexico, including East and west Floridaes: and the Pecos River, encompasses the domain of the Empire Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah. A land mass over 30 million acres. This is one of the regions that the United States claim as part of the Louisiana Purchase. It’s the same region Abraham Lincoln coined as, The Egypt of the West. We honor the Washitaw Empire.
The Heritage House is approximately 75 miles from the Serpent Mound, an internationally known National Historic Landmark built by the ancient American Indian cultures of Ohio. The Estate was blessed as holy by Dean Dr. Isiah Henry Harrison Moore in 1953, when he visited his daughter and son-in laws’ home after its completion. He quoted scripture from the book of Exodus, told to our Chief Rabbi Moses, to the family as he entered and removed his shoes and declared the temple and estate as Holy.
Washitaw County performs essential administrative functions such as registering voters, supervising elections, keeping records, providing police protection, and administrating health and welfare services. It also focuses on registration of vital records, birth records, properties, deeds, and more. It has includes and ecclesiastical court and maintains ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
As an agent of the church, the county government serves the entire county in these ways: (1) through elected officials, it administers and enforces laws, collects taxes, assesses property, records public documents, conducts elections, issues licenses; (2) through appointed boards and officials, it provides parks, libraries, sewers, emergency management, public assistance, and hospitals.
As eligible by law, county government may also serve unincorporated areas by providing such purely local government facilities and services as highways, police protection, building inspection, planning and zoning, or the like. Elected county officials oversee most of these services. A city or village may contract with the county to receive a service.
The Washitaw County AFAM government recognizes the Ohio General Assembly that has legislative power in Ohio Republic; the Washitaw County courts have ecclesiastical judicial powers and a board of county commissioners and other county officials that have administrative powers.
The county government may have a number of semi-independent boards, committees and commissions created by the county, or permitted by law and created by the authorities specified when the need arises.
Washitaw County courts have jurisdiction over all disputes concerning discipline or administration of the church, property claimed by the clergy or ecclesiastical corporate bodies, tithes and benefices, questions touching on oaths and vows, and also heresy.
Washitaw County court is an ecclesiastical court, a tribunal set up through our religious authority to deal with disputes among clerics or with spiritual matters involving either clerics or laymen. Washitaw County court deal with “Jews” bet din" "bet Isra-El" Muslims (Sharīʿah), as well as the various Christian sects. Our courts govern ecclesiastic matters. Our ecclesiastical courts may have jurisdiction over sacramental matters including anything having to do with marriage cases involving wills, matters of succession to personal property, also jurisdiction over clergy accused of most types of crimes.
The Office of the Sheriff for Washitaw County carries with it all of the ecclesiastic common law powers, duties and responsibilities to preserve the peace, enforce the laws, and arrest and commit to jail felons and other infractors of the law. The powers and duties of the Sheriff are analogous to those imposed upon police departments. The Sheriff is the principle conservator of the peace within the County.