<<The direct descendants of this courageous pioneer woman are now scattered all across the state, and indeed all across the nation.>> And I'm one of them! Here's what I have: NOTE: from Cane Creek Mother of Meetings page 35-36: John and Abigail Overman Pike were honored in 1928. Both were leaders and "weighty" friends during their lifetimes. After the death of her husband, Abigail Pike left Cane Creek and went to Muddy Creek, near Deep River, to live with her son. She died and was buried there in February of 1781. The cemetery of this meeting still exists on the outskirts of the town of Kernersville in Forsyth County, and the grave which is thought to be Abigail's is outlined in handmade brick. Thus, the marker at Cane Creek honors her memory, not her actual grave." from Cane Creek MM website from Genealogy of the Lee Family from William Lee of Ireland by T.J Morgan, Edna Harvey Joseph, Rosa Lee et al c. 1930: Abigail Overman Pike...was a minister in the Society of friends, and was in the habit of riding out to the Army camps to preach to the soldiers; she was said to be the only minister allowed within the lines, and she was not permitted to dismount, but had to preach from her saddle. Returning one evening with a company of Friends from such a mission, they came to where the road divided, one fork going straight home and the other leading up past the "graveyard;" they were debating which to take; one had remarked that a ghost was to be seen every evening in the graveyard; Abigail whipped up her horse saying, "We will go this way. I have long wanted to see a real ghost, shake hands with it and ask, 'is it well with thee?'" Arriving at the cemetery, sure enough: there it was with arms outstretched; Abigail rode up to it and called back, "Come on Friends, it is only a big cobweb on a bush." My line from Abigail Overman/John Pike Ruth Pike/John Hinshaw John Hinshaw jr/Lydia Macy Miriam Hinshaw/Jonathan L. Beeson William Meredith Beeson/Malinda Mason Lillie Mae Beeson/the Rev. Stephen Davis Horine Ruth Denalda Horine/Robert Glen Hoag (my grandparents) Leslie Hoag Hope Santa Monica Cyn -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:42 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Q-R] Abigsil Overman In a message dated 12/3/08 8:56:17 AM, [email protected] writes: > I am very interested to know more about the trip of Rachel Wright and > Abigail Overman who was my husband's ancestress. > > Kay in Tennessee > > > ------------------------------- > Kay, included herein is an account of Abagail Overman Pike and Rachel Wright's(my gggggggrandmother) 200 mile trip to the coast to establish Cane Creek as a meeting.: CAROLINA QUAKERS - OUR HERITAGE OUR HOPE - 1672-1972 by Seth B Hinshaw and Mary Edith Hinshaw, page 23: "Abigail Pike - Pioneer Woman" During the seventeen-thirties John and Abigail Pike were living in the "Pasquotank Precient." Hearing that a new Meeting, Hopewell, had been established in Frederick Co., VA, they felt a concern to go and add their strength to the new Quaker settlement. Abigail was a minister. Almost hurriedly, so the story goes, they made ready for the journey. At this time they had two small children, Sarah and Anne. During the eleven years that they lived in the Hopewell community, the number of children increased to eight. When a number of Quakers from Pennsylvania came through the Hopewell community headed toward the Piedmont section of North Carolina, once again John and Abigail Pike felt led to leave their home, and to start life all over again in a new settlement. In a few months a home was built on the bank of Cane Creek. In early 1751 when the youngest and tenth child, Nathan, was almost two, Abigail said to Cane Creek Friends, 'If Rachel Wright will go with me, we will attend Quarterly Meeting at Little River in Perquimans County and ask that a Meeting be set up here.' Friends concurred. Thus it was that these two women rode horseback two hundred miles through the wilderness to Quarterly Meeting, and made the return trip home safely, mission accomplished. Cane Creek Meeting was set up June 31, 1751. Abigail Pike next helped in the establishment of New Garden Meeting, thirty-five miles to the west, through more wilderness country. The direct descendants of this courageous pioneer woman are now scattered all across the state, and indeed all across the nation. The one-room log structure known as "the Abigail Pike house" was used as a classroom in the early days of the Sylvan Academy. Howard W Cook ************** Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. 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