Look at the date. The date of big moves can lead you to the reason or to an intelligent conjecture once you look up what was happening in the area for just prior and at the time in the place they moved. A RR opened? Land opened? Sumner Co. KS is in S. KS and a good place to wait for what was then the OK Territory to open to non-Native settlement. The OK Land Rush of 1889 for instance. Some of my ancestors went to Sumner Co. and then rode in the Land Rush - a good launching point. There were a number of years of Grover Cleveland making up his mind to open OK (and break yet another treaty with Natives) so people assumed it would open up. So - go back to dates and go from there. \ Winter On Dec 8, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Andrea Colley wrote: > I hope I've done this correctly, but I'm trying to find out why my GGG > Grandfather Elder John Wise left the Ten Mile Creek Congregation in > Washington County Pennsylvania and settled in the Mulberry Grove/ > Vandalia > area. Later Elder John and his son David Mathias moved to Sumner > County > Kansas but I haven't been able to identify any reason for the move > other > than homesteading. > > I'm assuming that they travelled the Cumberland Road since it passed > through > western PA and ended in Vandalia. > > I am also unable to find where David Mathias' first wife, Martha > Louise is > buried and if Elder John had any involvement in the church in > Illinois. I > do know that he attended many annual meetings serving as moderator or > reader. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Andrea Wise Kidd Colley > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message