Mt. Pleasant had many Quakers, and their Yearly Meeting was located there. It is still an impressive brick building that would hold upwards of 2000 Friends, when they met there once a year. I"ve placed a photo of it on my pictures webpage, where I warehouse some of my pictures..... http://www.angelfire.com/wv2/photographs/ The meeting at Mt. Pleasant was known as the Short Creek MM, and some of the original names were Updegraph, Wilson, Hollaway, Cadwallader, Wright, Wealdon, Chandler, Schooly, Roman, Wood, Ong, Lewis, Talbot and Fouke.....none of your names of interest are listed as founding names. I checked the records and, while there are Walkers in this, and other MMs in Ohio, I find nothing for a Joseph. Many who were members of this , and other Ohio MMs were Friends whose families had been originally from Chester Co, PA (Roman, Cadwallader, EVans, for example) and who emigrated southward in the 1700s, to Va and NC.....then, when slavery became both a moral dilemma and an economic problem, they again emigrated, this time to Ohio, a free state that didn't allow slavery. Thus, it's good to check some of these MMs, looking for Ohio members. Many were from the Hopewell MM, in Va..this is at Winchester, VA...and, from the Goose Creek MM, in Loudon Co, Va. There was also a migration from the Brush River MM in SC, and some from NC, too, although the name of the MM escapes me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ward Walker" <wnkwalker@rogers.com> To: <OHJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:14 PM Subject: [OHJEFFER] WALKER/JOHNSON/ARTHUR in Mt. Pleasant > Hello, > > I just joined the list. I am researching the family of Joseph T. WALKER, b. > about 1842 in Ohio, d. 1919 in Mt. Pleasant. His wife was Maggie (JOHNSON) > Walker, b. in Ohio. A daughter, Elizabeth, married someone with the surname > ARTHUR. (My grandfather was a son, George A. Walker, b. 1874.) > > The 1880 census shows 5 Walker families in Mt. Pleasant township, all with > connections to PA. I don't know what the population was, but does this not > sound fairly likely that at least some of the other 4 families are related > to mine somehow? > > Another question. The history of Jefferson County, on the web page for this > list, says that Quakers settled in Mt. Pleasant. Are there any particular > surnames associated with the Quakers in this area? > > Thanks. > > Ward Walker > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >