Billie, New Hope is between Day and Wiseman. I am not a good judge of distance, I would say less than 10 mi from Wiseman. I had wondered how far from Wheeling, I was looking at the road map last week, and it is not far 'as the crow flies'. I don't know if there is a road directly between the two, as far as I know there isn't. There must have been one then. I was surprised to see that New Hope was so close to the Fulton Co. line. Myrlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Billie Walsh" <bilwalsh@swbell.net> To: <arizard@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 8:27 PM Subject: [ARIZARD] New Hope [ Newhope ] > The other day I ran across an old map and got to looking at it and > something from the Prosperity papers about Newhope came to mind: > > "These families settled on the North side of the Strawberry, and below > the fork of Strawberry; and some 8 to 10 miles below where Properity now > is." > > Does anyone know how far it is from Wheeling to Wiseman? > > There's a fork of the Strawberry and the Little Strawberry just outside > of Wiseman. > > Would Newhope have been near Wiseman? > > -- > "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George > Washington > > _ _... ..._ _ > _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARIZARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Sorry to be so long getting back to this. We had something come up and left little time to research this a bit. If you go directly North out of Wiseman about five miles the road turns west and comes to the highway just south of Wheeling. Looking at the map I found it appears to be about seven miles between the two by that route. That would probably be closer to the main route of travel in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Seven miles by horse or wagon would be doable as a days trip both ways. For "meetings" they may have stayed over with someone, especially if the meetings tended to drag on into the evening. It took me a while to find Day. It appears that it doesn't really exist much anymore, kind of been absorbed by Horseshoe Bend. IF, and that's a big *IF*, I'm interpreting the sentence right, and the fork mentioned is the fork of the Little Strawberry River and Strawberry River, it appears that Newhope would have been about a mile and a half South-East of Wiseman. Figuring approximately seven miles between Wheeling and Wiseman and another mile and a half to two miles to the location that would make it about right for the "eight to ten" miles from Prosperity given in the records. On 12/09/2010 08:53 PM, Myrlene Hastings wrote: > Billie, New Hope is between Day and Wiseman. I am not a good judge > of distance, I would say less than 10 mi from Wiseman. I had wondered > how far from Wheeling, I was looking at the road map last week, and it > is not far 'as the crow flies'. I don't know if there is a road > directly between the two, as far as I know there isn't. There must > have been one then. I was surprised to see that New Hope was so > close to the Fulton Co. line. Myrlene > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Billie Walsh" <bilwalsh@swbell.net> > To: <arizard@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 8:27 PM > Subject: [ARIZARD] New Hope [ Newhope ] > > >> The other day I ran across an old map and got to looking at it and >> something from the Prosperity papers about Newhope came to mind: >> >> "These families settled on the North side of the Strawberry, and below >> the fork of Strawberry; and some 8 to 10 miles below where Properity now >> is." >> >> Does anyone know how far it is from Wheeling to Wiseman? >> >> There's a fork of the Strawberry and the Little Strawberry just outside >> of Wiseman. >> >> Would Newhope have been near Wiseman? >> >> -- >> "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George >> Washington >> >> _ _... ..._ _ >> _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ARIZARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._