Hi Joan - That would be lovely to see your CARTER scrapbook from Newberg, OR. When she Marjorie Eunice LEWIS was growing up in Newberg, her whole family were archers; Marjorie's father made the bows and arrows himself - from yew, I think. One of her brother's (Claude LEWIS) was a dentist. My children's grandmother, Mrs. Marjorie (Lewis) SIMMONS, born in Newberg in March 1913, never has had an ill word for anyone all these years I've known her. She came from a Quaker family of teachers in Newberg, OR, attended college in Wichita, KS, married W. G. SIMMONS ("Pete") there; their two sons Larry & Kenneth SIMMONS were born in Rose Hill, KS in the 1940s. Marjorie (Lewis) SIMMONS was a very femine woman, played classical music at the Eugene, OR Friends (Quaker) church - yet she worked along side her husband building new homes. She told me she had also raced a car once in a women's Powder Puff Derby! I literally saved her husband "Pete" from choking to death on a peanut-butter sandwich one day when I was a teenager and lived down the street. I hit him on the back with my fist as hard as a could (which took a lot of nerve, as I was very shy) and out shot the affending plug. Everyone else had thought he was having a heart attack and had been trying to phone the doctor. Minutes later, "Pete" and the rest of his family calmly went about their business as usual - I had to lie down to recover from my nerves! Marjorie told me she attended temperance church meetings with her mother as a child (must have been in Newberg, OR) and she sang a little ditty; I remember the third line was ... "We'll never, never drink the wine." She came to visit from Eugene, OR, to Spokane, WA, 3-4 years ago as a widow. Even in her 90's, Marjorie wanted to go to see the fireworks display in the park downtown; she also wished to ride the gondola strung on a cable line above the raging Spokane River/Fallss downtown, and her wishes were fulfilled. Everyone should have a mother-in-law like that! I just sent her a somewhat belated birthday present of a lovely print I purchased from a Spokane artist (little girl and her cat) - since she has always loved cats. My daughter matted and framed it beautifully and mailed it on down to Eugene. ***Now, I will have to recheck the HINSHAW website, but as a I recall a Quaker HINSHAW line that ties into "my" Quaker COX line go back in time to Quaker Meetings in Northern Ireland - perhaps Armagh. I'll check and compose another note.. I need to make a correction on my last note regarding my SIMMONS line - they were in Rose Hill, (Butler Co.) KS, in the early 1900s, but the generation before that they were in the Carolinas (likely NC). The first generation I am aware of is "my" William H. SIMMONS, SR. of NC (b. 7 Dec 1877) who apparently died 17 Dec1942 probably in Rose Hill (Butler Co. KS). I need to find a death notice on him!!!! He had married a young woman (17) in Clinton, IN, Mary Frances LYDA/LYDAY of that location in 1848, per Mary Frances' death notice. When she was 18, she and her husband were converted and united with the Baptist church. They later moved and there united with the Quaker church, probably in Rose Hill (Butler Co.) KS. They afterward united with the Free Methodist church where she belonged for over 16 years. They had nine children. Six were still living in the general area at the time of her death in Wichita, KS, in 1929 at the age of 81. Her husband, William H. SIMMONS had preceded her in death thirty years earlier. She remarried to Zopha Perry BALL on June 4, 1916. She had children, great-grandchildren, step children and stepchildren at the time of her death. (If memory serves me correctly William and Mary Frances SIMMONS' first son, Archibald, was born in Terre Haute, IN.) The next generation down ("Pete's) father, was William Henry "Chub" SIMMONS (JR.) who was a farmer in Rose Hill, KS, struck by lightening twice and lived to tell about it, husband of a very "no-nonsense" Quaker lady, Dora Ellen COX, who later died in OK but buried in Rose Hill, KS, and they farmed and had several children in that area.. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Whitney" <jwhitney@pacifier.com> To: <ireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [IRELAND] re your Newberg, OR Quaker connection,Kathryn -- Nora Sullivan 1869 > Hi Jean, we have corresponded before. My grandparents and their children > were Quakers and lived in Chehalem Center, (suburb of Newberg) from about > 1920 until the mid 1950's. My mother, Helen Carter, her sisters Edna, > Wanda > and Faye all attended Newberg High school, and also her brother Richard. > I > have a scrap book Nana put together of newspaper clippings and stories > about > the family and a lot of other Quaker families in the area. I have begun > to > put some of these articles online in the Quaker website- listed as, I > believe, Nana's scrapbook in the archives. When I get some time I will > try > to look and see if any of these names are mentioned. I will be making a > trip to Spokane this early summer ( I seem to remember you live there) My > memory may have failed me, but if you do live there, I will bring the > scrapbook for you to look thru if you are interested. <snip>