The Outlook White Oaks, NM May 18 1905 Superintendent Complimented The Chicago Journal of Education in a recent issue, pays Prof Hiram Hadley, superintendent of public instruction of the territory the following compliment: "New Mexico has honored herself by placing at the head of the territorial school sysem the most distinguished school man in the state, Hiram Hadley a native of Ohio, educated in Pennsylvaina, one of Indiana's most noted educators for a quarter of a century , and a leader of educational thought in New Mexico for eighteen years. he was for ten years the western representative of Scribner & Company and an author of widely used text books. He will be a leader personally as well as officially. If you are interested in the article contact my daughter at: michelle@usaonline.net Vickye

Just wanted to share about a book and a genealogy book site that I just found out about. Closson Press (www.ClossonPress.com) has a book about Medina Co. Pioneers dealing with only H surnames from 1800's to 1900's. The book store has tons of genealogy books. Emerald Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S. http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp

Greetings from England! I joined this list nearly a month ago in the hope of making some contacts, but it seems to be the quietest list on the Net !! My paternal grandmother was a Hadley, and I am therefore researching the Hadley ancestors. Mostly they lived in the County of Gloucestershire, England and also London, England. I have quite a bit of information on them already, but am looking to extend it further. I am in contact with a branch that moved to New Zealand 100 years ago, but have not been able to make contact with any "pure" living Hadleys in England - yet. If there are any Hadleys on this list who think they may have any connection to my Hadleys, I would be very pleased to hear from them. Finally, my Hadley grandfather was Charles Harman Hadley. He was born in the village of Frocester in Gloucestershire, England, in 1844 but "disappeared" around 1880 and I have been unable to trace any further reference to him. If his name means anything to anyone, I would be grateful for any information. He is not listed in the English 1881 Census, so I assume he had either died by then, or he had gone abroad. Best Wishes to All Julian F.H. Shepherd Coventry, England

Hi gang....it's sure been quiet lately.. I am subscribed to receive a daily upload list from Rootsweb. I'm sure some of you are too. I happened to be scrolling thru a list and found Simon Hadley's name. If anyone's interested, this is the page: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/1pa/history/local/colonialoff01.t xt He's listed as a Justice of the Peace. The above record extends into another file, same as the first, except that it's 02.txt at the end. Maybe it's commonly known already, but I thought I'd just throw it in, just in case. Hope everyone's well. Connie ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

Hello, Looking for information on descendents and ancestors of my 6th Great Grandparents Joseph Hadley b. 1700 Ire and Amy Gregg b. 1700 m. 25 Oct 1721 Centre MM. I have a lot of data on these lines and collateral lines that I would like to share. Thanks in advance, Dave Colorado Springs, CO.

Hello, Anyone else get just the cover letter this time? Maybe someone in the post office is thinking about getting into genealogy. I hope that I get another copy so that I can read all of the news letter (not much in just the cover letter). Thanks, Dave Colorado Springs, CO.

Hi Cousins, Despite the recent tragedies, our family reunion in Whittier California will go on as scheduled. I am flying down there on Thursday night. I am not about to sit at home in fear and let these terrorists win out. It's time for all of us to be brave and get on with our lives, not stay home in fear. This is a good time to get together with our family and reconfirm those values that make America great. I hope to see you there. John Hadley president, Hadley Society

Hi Cousins, Just wanted to drop you a note about our reunion at the end of September in Whittier California. You have likely seen the details with the times, etc. I just wanted to add that one feature will be very interesting. For decades, the Hadley Society collected materials sent by people from all over the US and beyond. No one really had the time to do much with this material except put it in boxes according to categories. Last year, Sherri Hadley Rice, Terry McLean and myself, spent the day prior to the reunion sorting through these boxes and divided up the materials according to subject matter. Jim and Jean Hadley took some additional materials that were relevant to researchers from their area. There were about 15 large boxes, enough to fill the back of a pick-up truck!! Sooooo, this year we will be presenting some brief details of "What is in the boxes!!" While digging through the materials last year we found a copy of an original document from the early 1700s with Simon, Ruth and Joshua's signatures. That may be the highlight, but who knows? Like most of the others, I have yet to read through most of it, so as of now none of us know what is there either!! I think there will be some good stuff, so if you can make it, please attend. We will be spending all day Friday doing some brainstorming, prior to the reunion on Saturday. One of our key topics will be how to make the HS more of a national and international organization. Since the advent of the internet, our membership has gained a much wider scope. We would like to help organize regional HS chapters and reunions. We would really appreciate your input as to how we could do this more effectively. There are several existing Hadley family reunions, and some areas that have fairly dense Hadley relative populations. These are the obvious choices but what really makes these functions work is the involvement of a few people that can take charge and make it a success. We are thinking that the HS could send some officers, members, speakers, etc to help give these efforts some backing from the "mother" branch and make everyone feel more a part of the whole. Make sense? We know it's difficult and expensive to travel great distances. Many of you would like to attend but can't justify the time and money. So regional reunions would give all of us a better opportunity to meet each other and share information, photographs and a few laughs. Please help us with this effort and we will all be the richer for it. We are a small group, with only a hand full of people doing most all of the work. Every extra helping hand is really appreciated and important. This isn't just a hobby, it's our family. Think about this and come to Whittier if you can make it. Thanks John Hadley president, Hadley Society

hello, i am looking for any and all info anyone may have on my gggrandmother, Mary Louisa Hadley b 1878 in adair county ky she married in bell county texas in 1890 Peter Powell, son of Oliver Powell of ky. Later they settled in Wagoner, OK where most of the family is laid to rest in the elmwood cemetery. Together they had a large family, Mae Powell Jones McLimans, Rosetta Powell, Lizzie Powell-Cash, Elzie Powell, Johnnie Powell, Charlie Powell, Jake Powell, Hattie Marie Powell-Ramsey, Ola Powell, Willie Powell. Family tradition holds that she was full blood cherokee who gave up her tribal rights when she married gggrandfather Powell (a picture that i have of her shows her in a tear dress of cherokee style). her mothers last name was white or whited or whitehead. her father was killed by lighting while he ate lunch under a tree. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Thanking you for your help bunny

Sherri has invited you already, but here is a bit more detail PLEASE NOTE A CORRECTION in the time we start on Saturday. It is 10am not 1pm. Sherri offers her apologies! THE HADLEY SOCIETY Invites you to attend our 79th Annual Reunion Sep 22, 2001 - Whittier CA First Friends Church in Whittier, California 10am sharp until 3pm The Meeting is being held in September this year, instead of October, so that we might determine if the earlier date will enable more people to attend. More people are traveling in from out of town, and we have had requests for more time together. Based on that, we have also planned a get-together on Friday afternoon. During this time you can share stories, compare family information, get help getting started with research, etc. You don't have to make a reservation to attend however we DO NEED an approximate idea of numbers attending, so your RSVP would be helpful. The meeting on Saturday is traditionally a potluck. If you are coming from out of town, you may want to consider picking up KFC, sandwiches or something. If you need help with that, contact Terry McLean. We REALLY NEED to know how many to expect on Friday, so we can find a meeting place of the appropriate size. If you plan to attend on Friday afternoon, contact Terry McLean. NOTE that Friday's meeting will be in a different location - you must contact Sherri, John, or Terry for details. [addresses at the end of this message] If you are bringing children, there is a play-yard connected to the side of the church. However the Society is not providing any supervision or childcare. Check the website for any last minute information. Annual Dues can be paid to Alice at the meeting or mailed. If you need a mailing address, contact Terry, Sherri, or John. Once again we want to express our most profound appreciation to Martha Cush who, each year, makes all the arrangements for our meeting facility in Whittier. Thank You, Martha! ELECTIONS: 2001 is an Election Year. Officers are elected to serve 2-year terms. Volunteer positions are for an unspecified length of time. The election takes place during the business portion of Saturday's meeting (about 11am). Nominations and Recommendations will be accepted from the floor. Vote is by raise of hands. NOMINATIONS and/or RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OFFICERS - PROPOSED SLATE OF OFFICERS: The following are elected positions and are Officers and members of the General Board: President: John Hadley, Portland Oregon Secretary/Treasurer: [position open] The following are volunteer positions and are considered officers and members of the General Board: Webmaster: Sherri Hadley Rice, Kerrville, Texas Database Manager: [position open] Publications/Publicity: [position open] Newsletter: [position open] Publications Committee: traditionally comprised of all officers and any volunteers. We look forward to seeing you in Southern California! Terry - tmclean@earthlink.net Sherri - sherririce@personalcomputer.net John - agchem5@gte.net "I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by..." from Dilbert's Words of Wisdom

Cindy Smith sent some updates on the family of Nancy Frances HADLEY and Newton STIGLER. In the endnotes she made note that Erath co TX marriages had a mg 29 Dec 1897, Norah HADLEY md L. L. GLOVER. This must be mg of Lewis Lum GLOVER and Lenora HADLEY, d/o Amos and Margaret (HADLEY) HADLEY. However, Hadley Society records show Nora born 1887, which could not possibly be correct, or she would be married at age 10. Looking over the records of the family of Amos and Margaret (HADLEY) HADLEY, I see the dates for the birth of all their children seem to be questionable. They md in 1878. I show their first child born 1881 - not bad. But it gets worse from there. Next child (Nora) born 1887 - 9 years later, then children #3-10 born 1890-1908. Isn't that a rather large gap for a couple married in 1878? Does anyone have more detailed information regarding this family? Thanks Terry

Hello everyone! Just a reminder from your webmaster here that the 79th annual Reunion of the Hadley Society is fast approaching! If you haven't already done so, mark your calendars and make plans to attend the reunion this year. While the official Hadley Society meeting will be held on Saturday afternoon, September 22 at the First Friends Church (Quaker Meeting House) in Whittier, California, many of us are planning to make a weekend of it. Some of us are traveling a long way to participate (I'm driving all the way from Texas!), and we want to spend more time together. We had lots of fun last year meeting each other, sharing our family trees, photographs, documents, and just plain visiting! With our ever increasing presence on the web, our membership is becoming much more widespread and diversified. We want to be certain that everyone feels included and we really need your input. Among the many things to be discussed at this years meeting is moving the site of the annual reunion. Would more people be able to attend if the reunion were held elsewhere? I've offered to host a Hadley Society Reunion here in central (Kerrville) Texas - what do you think? Would you come? Several of us are staying at the same hotel in order to be able to visit even more. If you would like to join us, contact me and I'll send you the information. (This particular hotel has a special discount rate that weekend, too!) I will be posting Reunion highlights and pictures on our website as soon as I get home. If there is any particular thing you would like to know about (or see a picture of), please, let me know. I'll be glad to include it in my Reunion coverage. (However, getting our HS President, John Hadley, to stand still for a decent picture may prove to be impossible - again!) You don't have to make a reservation to attend - just show up! We would like to know if you're coming however because we have a pot-luck lunch and need to be sure there's enough food. (But really - has there ever not been enough food at a family reunion???) You can contact me, Terry McLean, Alice Platon, or John Hadley with your plans. Here is the location information: When: Saturday, September 22, 2001 at 1:00pm Where: First Friends Church on the corner of Washington & Philadelphia streets in Whittier, California. I'll post any further details and last minute information on the website. Make plans now and I hope to see you there. I'm really looking forward to meeting more of my "cyber cousins!" Regards, Sherri Hadley Rice www.HadleySociety.org

Would appreciate it if anyone knows of the descendants of Herbert Spencer Hadley, they would contact me. He was Governor of the State of Missouri from 1908-1912. Thanks. BAAHON@aol.com Betty A. Honeycutt

I am forwarding this to the list at the request of Paul Weaver. His interest is in the WEAVER family. Anyone with information or connections to this line may email him directly at pweaver@nc.rr.com "...I am interested in Charles WEAVER b. 1886 [who married Carrie HADLEY, d/o Albert and Matilda]. Do you know if he had any children...? I'm trying to put together a listing of descendants of Amos WEAVER, of whom Charles is a grandchild. Paul" Terry (Pickens) McLean tmclean@earthlink.net calgrups@netscape.net

I am trying to find Helen Young Holliday, daughter of Gustie Kerns and granddaughter of Flora Hadley, great granddaughter of Hiram Mead Hadley. She had been living in Whiting, KS. Does anyone know where she is living now? Thanks for the help.

I came across this while searching for something else. Maybe it will help someone. Terry Davidson County, Tennessee Vol 1: 1784-1794: Davidson County Clerk Records 228 Hadley Joshua Bill of sale Davidson Terry (Pickens) McLean tmclean@earthlink.net calgrups@netscape.net

At 10:00 PM 8/8/01 -0600, you wrote: >From: Patricia Oates <pattiann@eramp.net> >Cindy & Terry - This Simon Peter Hadley family ended up in Limestone Co. TX... Pat - it turns out it probably isn't what Cindy needs. However, I have a question. Do you know anything about the BOWEN side? As to the rest, all I know is what is on the database - which isn't a lot - it isn't my line so haven't researched it, and haven't had a lot of activity on that line... Thanks. Terry alt. email = calgrups@netscape.net

Cindy & Terry This Simon Peter Hadley family ended up in Limestone Co. TX & married into my family & others I am working on in Limestone Co. TX. After Simon Peter died Sarah Davis Hadley married a Thompson & was in Leon Co. TX for one census year. If this is the family you are looking for I would like to talk with you about it. Sarah Davis Hadley is buried in Ferguson Cem in Limestone Co. Tx in a un marked grave at the foot of her son Duncan Hadley who married my Grandmother's Sister. Also Harriet Hadley Roberts sister of Duncan is buried at Ferguson Cem. in Limestone Co. TX. Pat Oates in TX. At 11:02 AM 8/7/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Cindy, I don't have the answer to your question, but doing some 'creative >sorting' on the database, here are some tidbits: > >The descendants of Simon Peter HADLEY and Sarah Benton DAVIS appear to be >ones who lived in the Gregg co. area in the proper time frame. > >One of Simons' sons, Louis Christopher HADLEY was married to Elizabeth A. >BOWEN. > > >Benjamin HADLEY, s/o William and Sallie STUART HADLEY, had cousins named >'Amos' in his line. Unkown if Benjamin had a middle name. >Other members of the William and Sallie family were known to be in Harrison >Co TX in the right time period. > >Hoping this will give you a lead or two. >Terry > > >At 09:00 AM 8/7/01 -0600, you wrote:> >>Does anyone have a line of Hadleys in Gregg Co., Texas? I'm looking for an >>Amos Ben Hadley, died about 1878. I can't find a likely suspect on the >>Hadley Society database, and I don't have him in my database. >> >>Cindy Smith >alt. email = calgrups@netscape.net > > >==== HADLEY Mailing List ==== >Information on how to subscribe, unsubscribe, post to the list, and mailing list policies can all be found at the mailing list website: >http://hadleylist.freeservers.com > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

Cindy, I don't have the answer to your question, but doing some 'creative sorting' on the database, here are some tidbits: The descendants of Simon Peter HADLEY and Sarah Benton DAVIS appear to be ones who lived in the Gregg co. area in the proper time frame. One of Simons' sons, Louis Christopher HADLEY was married to Elizabeth A. BOWEN. Benjamin HADLEY, s/o William and Sallie STUART HADLEY, had cousins named 'Amos' in his line. Unkown if Benjamin had a middle name. Other members of the William and Sallie family were known to be in Harrison Co TX in the right time period. Hoping this will give you a lead or two. Terry At 09:00 AM 8/7/01 -0600, you wrote:> >Does anyone have a line of Hadleys in Gregg Co., Texas? I'm looking for an >Amos Ben Hadley, died about 1878. I can't find a likely suspect on the >Hadley Society database, and I don't have him in my database. > >Cindy Smith alt. email = calgrups@netscape.net

This was sent to me by someone who knows I am interested in Hadleys in Texas. Thought some of you would be interested. ". . .I'm reading a book by Rick Miller, "Bloody Bill Longley", about the outlaw Bill Longley of Texas. He lived around Belton and Lampasas Counties, south of here, but he roamed throughout the area. In one place the author says that Amos Ben Hadley was hanged at Longview, TX on Aug 30, 1878 for the Dec 1877 murder of a Gregg County grocer. Hadley was said to be an associate of Brown Bowen and John Wesley Hardin." Quoting from the book: "Prior to the execution, Hadley was interviewed, at which time he made a rambling statement to the "people of Texas" claiming that he was with Brown Bowen and John Wesley Hardin just prior to a murder for which Bowen was executed, but asserting that Hardin was responsible. Then he went on: Those murders that people are putting on Bill Longley God is putting on mob law. He is not guilty of a third of them. I was with him the day before he killed Anderson. He had a good right to kill him, for Anderson made the first attempt." "Longley denied any knowledge of Hadley and his claims." That's the only reference to a Hadley in the book. Gregg County is next to Harrison County. Longview was on the border between the counties. Jesse Hadley and his brother William lived in Harrison County in 1850, but Jesse moved to Erath Co. by 1860. William remained in Harrison County, but I think died before 1880, as his son Ben was living with his Aunt Cynthia Duffle by then. Does anyone know who Amos Ben Hadley is? Cindy Smith _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp