Bonnie, Your posting is a few days old, but I can't see where anyone replied to you. I have Willard Heiss' Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Part Four, which contains abstracts of the Walnut Ridge Monthly Meeting minutes. The Heiss abstracts are available in many better libraries--it would not surprise me if Anderson Public Library has them. Complete minutes are even better--see below. I did not find Dayton KYSER mentioned under Walnut Ridge or any other meeting in western Henry or Rush Counties. The Hancock County meetings are in a different volume (which I don't have). Mary Ellen HENBY is included in a family listing in Walnut Ridge. Let me know if you'd like me to transcribe the names and dates as they appear there. It names her parents, grandparents, stepmother and siblings, with partial dates. Her burial at Walnut Ridge is NOT noted, but one of her siblings' is. There is a minute dated 6-16-1877 which states that William B HENBY, wife Catherine and children were received on certificate from Westland Monthly Meeting. (Membership transfer. Westland is in rural Hancock County.) Another minute states that on 6-16-1883 William B HENBY was released on request. The family is not mentioned again. I think that this means that Mr. Henby left the Friends, possibly taking his family with him. They would not have had to be members for burial in the Friends cemetery. There might be more information in the actual minutes. I see that you are in Anderson--Walnut Ridge is about an hour away. With an appointment, you could probably see the records and visit the cemetery in one field trip--and you might want to visit Westland Friends too, just a few miles away. Many Indiana meetings have bound copies of their complete minutes on site, courtesy of the Earlham Archives (which is protecting many of the originals). However, some of the older minutes were lost between the time the abstracts were done and the time Earlham's service became available. Email me off list if you need phone numbers and directions. Have you looked for a civil marriage license for your couple? Given their location, you'd have three possible counties to check--Walnut Ridge is in Rush County but very close to both Henry and Hancock Counties. Best of luck, Penny Sitler Knightstown, IN >______________________________X-Message: #5 >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:35:06 -0500 >From: "Bonnie Lyons" <mbonlyons@netusa1.net> >To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <003901c516d3$43fd9550$2ac3e004@DGK4J631> >Subject: Dayton M KYSER/ Mary Ellen HENBY mar Indiana c. 1885 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hello Listers, > >Does anyone know the date and place for the marriage of my gr >grandparents, Dayton M KYSER and Mary Ellen "Mollie" HENBY? They had been >married 15 years according to the 1900 Hancock Co IN Blue River Twp >census. The Walnut Ridge Friends Meeting and Cemetery are just east of the >Hancock/Rush County line. Could they have been married at Walnut Ridge? >How could I access those records? Dayton H and Mollie are both buried at >Walnut Ridge although his funeral services were held in the Friend's >church in Dublin, IN. Thanks for any help. > >Bonnie Lyons >Anderson, IN > >Coffin/Kyser/Henby/Peacock/George/Adams/Grow/Lawrence