Hello Mr. Standing-- You are absolutely right, as far as I know, in what you have corrected and expanded from my earlier note. I had send in a correction on the cemetery name being Dickerson which apparently did not get printed. I knew my family had also stopped off in KY and that they had helped found a Methodist Church in IL; thanks to you I now appreciate knowing that this was typical of the resettlement there. How did you know that? Do you know why they lapsed in KY after keeping their faith for so many frontier miles and decades? Is it acceptable to use this Quaker site for family heritage when the families are no longer Quaker? I am new here. The Dickinson Historical cemetery is still active; Lucille Mendenhall was buried there in 2003; the most recent Carr in 1997, and I plan to carry on that tradition. Thank you for sharing your information. Elizabeth Carr McKay

Apologies to Elizabeth, to whom I sent this privately earlier, for the duplication. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:37:46 EST DaveBetsiMcKay@aol.com wrote: >I knew my family had also stopped off in KY and that they had helped >found a >Methodist Church in IL; thanks to you I now appreciate knowing that >this was >typical of the resettlement there. How did you know that? >Do you know why they lapsed in KY after keeping their faith for so >many >frontier miles and decades? Quaker awareness of the evil of slaveholding expanded greatly in the 25 years leading up to the Revolution. Some Quakers who moved to North Carolina in the 1750s and 1760s held slaves. By the 1780s or so, when Kentucky was being settled, slaveholding was cause for disownment. Because of this, my guess is that they didn't especially value their Quaker membership at the time they moved to Kentucky, as there were no other Quakers there, nor likely to be while slavery continuted. As far as I know, there were no Quaker meetings in Kentucky until after the Civil War. (A quick search at www.quakermeetings.com shows three monthly meetings have existed in Kentucky, and none before 1960.) -- Dan Treadway P O Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105 treadway@netins.net http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/