I've recently been going over some of my father's ancestry, and found a clue that leads me to believe that some of them may have been Quakers. Benjamin McCASHLAND and his wife Elizabeth WEEKLY and their six children migrated about 1830 from Culpeper Co., Virginia to the Whitewater Valley, Wayne Co., Indiana. Near the same time, Spencer STEVENS, his wife Elizabeth (possibly RHEBARTH) and eight children migrated to Centerville, Wayne Co., IN from Rowan Co., North Carolina. Their grandchildren, Joseph Marion STEVENS and Nancy Elizabeth McCASHLAND married in 1870, had eight children born in Wayne County, and migrated to Stevens Co. in south-west Kansas about 1887. Now, here's the clue I mentioned. Nancy Elizabeth and three of her children died in Haviland, Kiowa Co., Kansas, while Joseph Marion stayed with the farm in Stevens County. The only reason [speculation] I can think of for Nancy to go to Haviland is to be with someone she trusted, either family or church, or both. Haviland was settled by Quakers from Indiana. I never heard my father mention Quakers, and my mother was suprised when I mentioned this possibility to her. Not knowing up from down concerning Quaker genealogy, I thought it would be a good idea to talk to some people who do know the subject. Where do I go to find out if my speculation is valid? Bob Hill in AZ

There's no indication in any of the Waynje County Quaker records that these people were Friends. Wayne Count was a major Quaker center, but Friends were always a minority of the population. Tom Hamm >I've recently been going over some of my father's ancestry, and >found a clue that leads me to believe that some of them may have >been Quakers. > >Benjamin McCASHLAND and his wife Elizabeth WEEKLY and their six >children migrated about 1830 from Culpeper Co., Virginia to the >Whitewater Valley, Wayne Co., Indiana. > >Near the same time, Spencer STEVENS, his wife Elizabeth (possibly >RHEBARTH) and eight children migrated to Centerville, Wayne Co., IN >from Rowan Co., North Carolina. > >Their grandchildren, Joseph Marion STEVENS and Nancy Elizabeth >McCASHLAND married in 1870, had eight children born in Wayne >County, and migrated to Stevens Co. in south-west Kansas about 1887. > >Now, here's the clue I mentioned. Nancy Elizabeth and three of her >children died in Haviland, Kiowa Co., Kansas, while Joseph Marion >stayed with the farm in Stevens County. The only reason >[speculation] I can think of for Nancy to go to Haviland is to be >with someone she trusted, either family or church, or both. Haviland >was settled by Quakers from Indiana. I never heard my father mention >Quakers, and my mother was suprised when I mentioned this >possibility to her. > >Not knowing up from down concerning Quaker genealogy, I thought it >would be a good idea to talk to some people who do know the subject. >Where do I go to find out if my speculation is valid? > >Bob Hill in AZ > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

Friends, I may have missed a response to this inquiry, but it looked a good speculation. Seeing no response from someone with the facts, I went to the Monthly Meetings in North America site <www.QuakerMeetings.com> and found that the earliest of the four meetings in Stevens County, Kansas [Lafayette/Bethel] started in 1888. http://www.quakermeetings.com/search_display?MeetingName=&County=Stevens &StateOrProvince=Kansas&generalSearchWord= [two-line URL] In fact Haviland MM was settled slightly earlier, set off from Rose Hill MM closer to Wichita. So it seems that to research the possibilities one would need to study the records in the Mid-America Yearly Meeting archives at Friends University or the "Hinshaw" index cards for Kansas at Swarthmore, Friends University, William Penn College or (possibly) Earlham College. Sources: MMNA YM list: "The Quaker Collection of the Edmund Stanley Library, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas, holds the Heiss typescripts of the Hinshaw abstracts of Iowa and other midwest monthly meetings, and the Wilcox Library of William Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa holds photocopies." MMNA Definitions: "I generally do not list the location of unofficial records, such as the Hinshaw meeting-history and vital-information cards that Swarthmore retains or the Heiss typescripts of the Hinshaw data for mid-west meetings that exist in various libraries." I vaguely recall that one of the genealogical publishing houses put out a book of copies of the Heiss typescripts. Tom Thomas C. Hill 425 Walnut Street, Suite 1800 Cincinnati, OH 45202 U.S.A. e-mail: tomhill@nuvox.com www.quakermeetings.com -----Original Message----- From: Robert Hill [mailto:rlrhill@cox.net] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:43 PM To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Q-R] Possible Quaker ancestry - Wayne Co., IN I've recently been going over some of my father's ancestry, and found a clue that leads me to believe that some of them may have been Quakers. Benjamin McCASHLAND and his wife Elizabeth WEEKLY and their six children migrated about 1830 from Culpeper Co., Virginia to the Whitewater Valley, Wayne Co., Indiana. Near the same time, Spencer STEVENS, his wife Elizabeth (possibly RHEBARTH) and eight children migrated to Centerville, Wayne Co., IN from Rowan Co., North Carolina. Their grandchildren, Joseph Marion STEVENS and Nancy Elizabeth McCASHLAND married in 1870, had eight children born in Wayne County, and migrated to Stevens Co. in south-west Kansas about 1887. Now, here's the clue I mentioned. Nancy Elizabeth and three of her children died in Haviland, Kiowa Co., Kansas, while Joseph Marion stayed with the farm in Stevens County. The only reason [speculation] I can think of for Nancy to go to Haviland is to be with someone she trusted, either family or church, or both. Haviland was settled by Quakers from Indiana. I never heard my father mention Quakers, and my mother was surprised when I mentioned this possibility to her. Not knowing up from down concerning Quaker genealogy, I thought it would be a good idea to talk to some people who do know the subject. Where do I go to find out if my speculation is valid? Bob Hill in AZ