In a message dated 5/19/2008 8:35:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: http://picasaweb.google.com/marshamoses47/BushRiverHomecoming2008?pli=1 Great pics!! I wondered if the gully looking place might not have been part of the wagon road. Thanks for posting these for those of us who couldn't be there. Burnis Argo **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)

For anyone who has not heard, the 2008 Bush River Homecoming was a great success. Judy, Ann, and Susan did an amazing job of making the entire event unforgettable. I am sure that each of you will hear details as time goes by. Thanks to our wonderful Reunion committee for their hard work. I have put a few photos at the following site: http://picasaweb.google.com/marshamoses47/BushRiverHomecoming2008?pli=1 Susan Wyatt and I believe that the gully in the photos that look as if someone took shots in the middle of a forest are remnants of the Great Wagon Road. I think that I can add other photos to this site if anyone would like to e-mail me a few photos to add. Marsha Moses

Hi Judy, I got the same thing Steve did when I tried the name/password that you indicated we try. Robert In a message dated 5/19/2008 5:45:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Judy, I am not getting what you describe at www.myfamily.com the login is on the upper right and it does not take me to any pictures. It leaves me in limbo on a generic page stating soemthing about not being able to find your site. Can you help? I'd love to see the pictures. Thanks, Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith F. Russell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:44 PM Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Photos of 2008 Homecoming > I've uploaded some of my Bush River Homecoming photos to our myfamily.com > Quaker web site. Some of you are already members of this password > protected > site. > > For others, I've created a generic membership which I hope will work for > all > of us. > > 1. go to www.myfamily.com > > 2. look to the left where it says "members log in here." > > 3. For Username type in Welcome50 (need the capital W) > > 4. for Password type in welcome > > 5. click on secure login > > > my photos are in an album called Bush River Reunion 2008. I'm not sure > whether more than one person at a time can log in with this same > password...we'll see what happens. > > Other people's photos would be welcome, too. Just follow the directions. > to upload. > > judyr > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)

Hi Judy, I am not getting what you describe at www.myfamily.com the login is on the upper right and it does not take me to any pictures. It leaves me in limbo on a generic page stating soemthing about not being able to find your site. Can you help? I'd love to see the pictures. Thanks, Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith F. Russell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:44 PM Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Photos of 2008 Homecoming > I've uploaded some of my Bush River Homecoming photos to our myfamily.com > Quaker web site. Some of you are already members of this password > protected > site. > > For others, I've created a generic membership which I hope will work for > all > of us. > > 1. go to www.myfamily.com > > 2. look to the left where it says "members log in here." > > 3. For Username type in Welcome50 (need the capital W) > > 4. for Password type in welcome > > 5. click on secure login > > > my photos are in an album called Bush River Reunion 2008. I'm not sure > whether more than one person at a time can log in with this same > password...we'll see what happens. > > Other people's photos would be welcome, too. Just follow the directions. > to upload. > > judyr > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

yes, I think all told we had about 50 people at our different events. I'll try to get a report out this week. jr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlotte Tucker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Photos of 2008 Homecoming > Hello Judy - > enjoyed looking at your pictures. What a great turnout you had for the > 2008 > Homecoming!!! > > Charlotte Green Tucker > A Leverett Researcher - > 1736 VA -1790 Newberry/Pendleton Dist. - present Perry Co., AL > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.20/1453 - Release Date: > 5/18/2008 9:31 AM > >

Hello Judy - enjoyed looking at your pictures. What a great turnout you had for the 2008 Homecoming!!! Charlotte Green Tucker A Leverett Researcher - 1736 VA -1790 Newberry/Pendleton Dist. - present Perry Co., AL

I've uploaded some of my Bush River Homecoming photos to our myfamily.com Quaker web site. Some of you are already members of this password protected site. For others, I've created a generic membership which I hope will work for all of us. 1. go to www.myfamily.com 2. look to the left where it says "members log in here." 3. For Username type in Welcome50 (need the capital W) 4. for Password type in welcome 5. click on secure login my photos are in an album called Bush River Reunion 2008. I'm not sure whether more than one person at a time can log in with this same password...we'll see what happens. Other people's photos would be welcome, too. Just follow the directions. to upload. judyr

We are back from a fabulous weekend in Newberry and I'll be sending a detailed report to the list later this week along with a link to some of our photos. In the meantime, several people asked if there would be an opportunity to acquire the Registration materials, handouts, Newberry pamphlets, etc. If you are interested in this, please write to me off list [email protected] for details of costs, etc. thank you, JudyR

Bruce, I think that you and I have probably gotten our information from the same place.--Ruby Mundell Barry's book. However, I do have a copy of the marriage certificate for Nehemiah and Catherine that I made on a trip to Ohio several years ago so I can document the marriage: 28 Mar 1816 Lebanon, Ohio in Warren County, Ohio ref. Marriages, book1, page 109, record #877 I will write another will transcription of interest from Bush River in my next e-mail. I just ran out of time last night. Marsha Bruce Locken wrote: >Hi Marsha, > Nehemiah McKinsey was born about 1795, in South Carolina, married Catherine Elliot about 1826 in Ohio, and died about 1874 in Indiana. He would only have about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years old at the time Nehemiah died. > Bruce > > > > >

Hi. I am not the organizer, but I paid for 1 reservation with $20, so maybe you bought 3 reservations for the $60. The box lunches and the dinner buffet were extra. See you Friday, Barnett Warren

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HELLO WE ARE IN NEWBERRY FOR THE WEEKEND EVENTS MAY 16 AND WE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT ALL WE HAVE PAID FOR WITH A $60. WORTH OF RESERVATIONS, BECAUSE THE LADY THAT SENT THE MONEY IN CAN NOT REMEMBER WHAT ALL SHE PAID FOR. IS THERE ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN HELP ME? THE NAMES ARE: DANA LYDAY, SARAH SWINDELL, FRANCES DEWITT THANK YOU, DANA LYDAY "Wyatt, Susan D." <[email protected]> wrote: What a wonderful schedule of events! Thank you so much for making this possible! Thanks, Sue Wyatt ZC Sterling Cash Processing Dept Direct Dial (919) 297-3599 Fax (866)667-3450 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Judith F. Russell Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 1:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Registration form: Bush River QuakersHomecoming May 16 - 18, 2008 Below you will find the plain text version of the registration form for the May 16 - 18, 2008, Homecoming for Bush River Quaker Descendants and Friends. Our rootsweb list does not allow attachments, so we had to send the form this way to the group. However, if you would prefer an individual email of the form with formatting and a photo, but with all the information exactly the same, I will be glad to send it to you as an email attachment. Please let me know at [email protected] (do not just hit REPLY, send me an email at [email protected] ) Also I'd be glad to answer any questions you might have at the same email address. We are very excited about this event and can't wait to hear from all of you! It will be a wonderful time for us all. Your Homecoming Committee Ann Crowley Judy Russell Susan Webber %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%% Bush River Quaker Cemetery Descendants and Friends Homecoming Our Quaker Ancestors and the Great Wagon Road May 16 and 17th, 2008 Historic DeWalt House, Newberry, South Carolina, Sharon Shaw, proprietor 1217 Walnut Street at Main 803-276-3954 Our 2008 Bush River Quaker Cemetery Descendants and Friends Homecoming headquarters will be the historic DeWalt House, 1217 Walnut Street, at the corner of Walnut and Main, just a few blocks east of the Historic Downtown District of Newberry, SC. The beautiful public rooms and wonderful porches of the DeWalt House will be available for our group's use during the weekend. Enjoy southern hospitality at its best! We hope you will use our DeWalt House headquarters house to visit, exchange family information, and get acquainted with your "cousins." Please make your own individual hotel/motel reservations in Newberry. There are several motels and Bed and Breakfast options from which to choose. See the Newberry website: http://www.sciway.net/hotels/newberry.html Friday, May 16 (DeWalt House common areas open for Homecoming participants today after 4:00 pm) >From 4: 00 to 5:30 pm: Registration at the DeWalt House, Main and Walnut Streets. Day free to do research, explore, and shop. There are walking and driving tours of this historic area. You can inquire about a tour of the restored 1881 Opera House by email to [email protected] or by phone at (803) 276-6264. Lunch on your own. Today or during your other free time you might want to visit the Star Fort at Ninety Six, SC, the Musgrove Mills Revolutionary War site, the SC Archives and the South Caroliniana Collection at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, the Newberry Library and Courthouse, Bush River Baptist Church and Cemetery, Carter and Holmes Orchid Nurseries, the brand new Enoree River Vineyards, or Newberry College. After 4:00 pm The DeWalt House public areas will be open for registration, visiting, and exchanging information. Of course, you could choose to visit the Bush River Quaker Cemetery (and/or the nearby Reagin Cemetery) during your free time today in addition to our group gathering on Saturday. 6:00 - 7:30 pm: Reception, sponsored by the Homecoming Planning Committee, at the Gauntt House, 1503 Nance Street. The Gauntt House is the oldest house in Newberry, built about 1806 by James Gauntt son of Israel Gauntt. Dinner on your own. 8:30 - 9:30 pm: Visiting at Dewalt, light refreshments. Registration packets available. Saturday, May 17 (DeWalt House common areas open for Homecoming participants all day) Morning 8:30 am - Registration at the DeWalt House, Main and Walnut Streets. 8:30 - 9:15: Free continental breakfast at DeWalt House, sponsored by the Homecoming Planning Committee 9:00: Front porch of DeWalt House: Greetings and Family introductions. Local historian Ernest Shealy will speak about Newberry as a destination for our Quaker ancestors. Box lunches available for those who have pre-ordered (see registration form) 9:30 am: Group carpools to the Quaker Cemetery with Bench presentation at 10:15 10:45 am: Group carpools to Wagon Road vista at Molly's Rock Road between Molly's Rock Park and Mt. Bethel-Garmany Road with Ernest Shealy as our guide. Afternoon Lunch at Rose Hill picnic grounds or on your own. Be sure and pick up your pre-ordered box lunch at 9:00 am at the Dewalt House. 2:00 pm: Rose Hill Plantation tour ($3.00 per person) and visit to the Old Quaker Cemetery at Padgett's Creek near Sedalia. WEAR COMFORTABLE SHOES. Rose Hill is about 30 miles from Newberry; it has picnic areas and walking trails in addition to the beautiful home of South Carolina's fiery secessionist governor, William H. Gist. Our Quaker relatives undoubtedly knew of him since many of them lived nearby. At Rose Hill, Charles Barreras will be our interpretive guide. He will also join us at the Quaker Cemetery where Barnett Warren, whose Cooper ancestors were early Union County Quakers, will also relate some local history. (Mapquest says allow 50 minutes from Newberry. See map in registration packet. The Padgett's Creek Quaker Cemetery is about 2 miles from Rose Hill, accessible by 4-wheel drive vehicles or by an easy half mile walk from parking on the Old Buncombe Road.) Evening 5:45 pm: Reception at Steven W's at 110 W. Main Street. Cash bar for beverages and wine. 6:15 pm: Buffet dinner and program at Steven W's. Welcome from the Homecoming Committee. Tonight's topic will be "Getting to Newberry in the 18th Century, Highlights of the Great Wagon Road." Marsha Moses will speak on the northern part of the road, Nancy Magnuson on its Virginia portions, and Susan Wyatt on the road in North and South Carolina. Report of the Cemetery Project Committee. Adjourn. (Some of us will want to leave about 7:45 pm for the Opera House event.) Sunday, May 18 (DeWalt House common areas open for Homecoming participants until 10 am) 8:30 - 10:00 Continental breakfast at DeWalt House, sponsored by the Homecoming Planning Committee. ************************************************************************ ******** Please copy for your records. Your check is your receipt. Last date for receipt is April 25, 2008 I/We plan to attend the Homecoming: Name(s): (Please list each attendee's name as you want it on the nametag.) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________________________ _____ Phone:_____________________ Email for confirmation:___________________________________________ Family Names with Bush River connections (use the back of this sheet if you need more room): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ ************************************************************************ ************* Will you be going to Rose Hill Plantation? We need to tell the Rangers how many of us to expect. We will each pay $3.00 at the door, but please let us know Your planned number of Rose Hill visitors: __________ To calculate your costs: $20.00 Registration Fee per person* Non Refundable $20.00 x ( ) =_______ Saturday box lunch (sandwich, fruit, chips, cookie, pasta salad and a bottle of water) available for pickup at DeWalt house 9:00 am Number of Ham Sandwich lunches $6.00 x ( )= _______ Number of Turkey Sandwich lunches $6.00 x ( )= _______ Saturday Buffet Dinner at Steven W's Restaurant, Main Street $30.00 x ( ) =_______ Optional donation to the Quaker Cemetery Clean Up Fund. Whether or not you will attend this year's Homecoming, we are always very grateful for donations for our ongoing project of Bush River Cemetery Maintenance. It is only with your help that we can keep the Cemetery accessible every day of the year. 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While packing for my trip to Newberry County for the homecoming this weekend of the Historic Bush River Quaker Cemetery I found my copy of the transcription of Nehemiah Thomas's Will of 1796. Here it is: Box 361, Pkg. 38 1796 Nehemiah Thomas Abegail Thomas Exec. LWT 26 of 5t Month 1796 Proven 17 Oct 1796 Bk. B, p. 80 _Nephew, Edward Thomas s/o Edward Thomas of NC. 10 shillings plus residue of my estate after paying legacies and debts. Wife, Abigail to be sole executor and receives lands for use during her lifetime. after death of wife lands to Nehemiah Mills, s/o Thomas Mills a blacksmith of SC Newberry County if wife should die before Nehemiah Mills becomes 21 yrs. of age, lands to be rented and proceeds to be given to Nehemiah McKenzie s/o Geroge McKenzie until Nehemiah Mills becomes 21 years of age. after deato of wife, executors to be Thomas Mills, George McKenzie, and Hugh O'Neal after death of wife, all movables sold and given to: nephew John Dobbins, 10 pounds, nephew James Dobbins, 10 pounds, nephew Thomas Johnston, 10 pounds, overplus equally divided between Sarah w/o George McKenzie and Sarah w/o Thomas Mills. Witnesses: Sarah Buffington, Wm Ham, and Hugh Oneal So I think that you can see why I am not convinced one way or the other whether Sarah Thomas McKinsey is sister or niece to Nehemiah Thomas. Nehemiah McKenzie is said to have been born 7 March 1795. I have not documented that so don't know where I got that date. But that would have made him VERY young when this will was made. Abigail died at the age of 81 in 1821 according to the minutes of the Miami MM in Ohio. So in 1796 she would have been 56. That would seem to me to be a generation older than Sarah who is still having babies in 1796. Also Sarah is named at the end of a list of nephews and it seems to me that no other of Nehemiah's siblings are named....it is their children who are legatees. So here are my notes about the siblings of Nehemiah: Edward in NC sister who married Dobbins and has sons John and James sister who married Johnston and had son named Thomas father of Sarah who married George McKinsey (unless Edward in NC is the father of this Sarah) father of Sarah who married thomas Mills. My notes say that Edward's wife is also Sarah.....but no documentation for that. I'll send another note about another Sarah...but this one is getting too long. marsha in WV

Hi Marsha, Nehemiah McKinsey was born about 1795, in South Carolina, married Catherine Elliot about 1826 in Ohio, and died about 1874 in Indiana. He would only have about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years old at the time Nehemiah died. Bruce marsha moses <[email protected]> wrote: While packing for my trip to Newberry County for the homecoming this weekend of the Historic Bush River Quaker Cemetery I found my copy of the transcription of Nehemiah Thomas's Will of 1796. Here it is: Box 361, Pkg. 38 1796 Nehemiah Thomas Abegail Thomas Exec. LWT 26 of 5t Month 1796 Proven 17 Oct 1796 Bk. B, p. 80 _Nephew, Edward Thomas s/o Edward Thomas of NC. 10 shillings plus residue of my estate after paying legacies and debts. Wife, Abigail to be sole executor and receives lands for use during her lifetime. after death of wife lands to Nehemiah Mills, s/o Thomas Mills a blacksmith of SC Newberry County if wife should die before Nehemiah Mills becomes 21 yrs. of age, lands to be rented and proceeds to be given to Nehemiah McKenzie s/o Geroge McKenzie until Nehemiah Mills becomes 21 years of age. after deato of wife, executors to be Thomas Mills, George McKenzie, and Hugh O'Neal after death of wife, all movables sold and given to: nephew John Dobbins, 10 pounds, nephew James Dobbins, 10 pounds, nephew Thomas Johnston, 10 pounds, overplus equally divided between Sarah w/o George McKenzie and Sarah w/o Thomas Mills. Witnesses: Sarah Buffington, Wm Ham, and Hugh Oneal So I think that you can see why I am not convinced one way or the other whether Sarah Thomas McKinsey is sister or niece to Nehemiah Thomas. Nehemiah McKenzie is said to have been born 7 March 1795. I have not documented that so don't know where I got that date. But that would have made him VERY young when this will was made. Abigail died at the age of 81 in 1821 according to the minutes of the Miami MM in Ohio. So in 1796 she would have been 56. That would seem to me to be a generation older than Sarah who is still having babies in 1796. Also Sarah is named at the end of a list of nephews and it seems to me that no other of Nehemiah's siblings are named....it is their children who are legatees. So here are my notes about the siblings of Nehemiah: Edward in NC sister who married Dobbins and has sons John and James sister who married Johnston and had son named Thomas father of Sarah who married George McKinsey (unless Edward in NC is the father of this Sarah) father of Sarah who married thomas Mills. My notes say that Edward's wife is also Sarah.....but no documentation for that. I'll send another note about another Sarah...but this one is getting too long. marsha in WV ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Ruth, I have looked at the transcription of the will over and over again. But not recently.... I'll try to be on-line Thursday night in case you and Bruce and I can think of things that I might look for for all of us on Friday if I have extra time. And I am happy to send photos. Marsha > > [email protected] wrote: >The will of Nehemiah Thomas names his nephews, including James and John >Dobbins. Does anyone know which sister married the father of the Dobbins boys? >Legend says it is Sarah, but could there be two Sarah Thomas's, sisters of >Nehemiah? I descend from John Dobbins and Phebe Pearson. Their oldest son is >named Reason, probably after Reason Reagan. > >Any thoughts out there? >Ruth Dobbins Bennett > > > >**************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family >favorites at AOL Food. >(http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Well, I'll try to keep you in the loop...and I'll try to send you a few photos while I am there. The rest of my comments I'll make interspersed with the below: sbgorilla wrote: >Hi Marsha, >..... I have to correct a mistake I made in my previous e-mail. It >looks like Nehemiah Thomas was Sarah's brother, not her father. > > I have not been absolutely sure if I think that Nehemiah is brother or Uncle to Sarah. We'll chat about that after I pull out my files and piles in this family. I probably won't get it done until I actually get to SC. I have a LOT of "stuff" I need to get done in order to get out of here on Thursday. Do you have copies of the transcriptions of the will of Nehemiah and Abigail? I'll try to dig them out if you don't. >Currently I have a copy of Ruby Mundell Barry's book The McKinsey's: >Descendents of George W. Mckinsey and his wife Sarah Thomas-Mckinsey of >Newberry County, South Caorlina and Warren County, Ohio and the migrations >of their children into Indiana." What a mouthful. This is a self published >bok and I "lucked" into a copy. Since a copy was provided to me at cost I'm >thinking of making copies for others and providing them at cost. > I also have a copy of Ruby's book. I am missing a few pages. I might ask you to make copies of the pages that I am missing if you wouldn't mind. >I also have >a copies of histories for Clinton, Boone, and Montgomery Counties in >Indiana. I still need to get the Annals of Newberry and find a history of >Frederick County Virginia. > I am thinking that the Annals of Newberry are on-line. Again remind me to look to see if I can figure out where. I do have a copy that I have had for several years. I have the Hopewell MM book. All are packed to go to SC with me on Thursday....so remind me....I thought that I had Wilmer Kerns' book on Frederick County, but I just looked and can't find it anywhere. I think that it is available at my local libraries....I'll have to look. >So far everything I have found in the books and >on the web indicates that George and his children were closely tied to the >Quaker families where they lived, married into those families, and followed >the same migratory through the U.S.. > >While I don't have proof that it's the same George Mckinsey/McKenzie, I have >found a copy of a baptism record from April, 1752 at Inverarity and Methy >Parish, Scotland for a George McKenzie, son of John McKenzie. And I have a >note somewhere that I was sent saying that someone had found a record of a >John Mckenzie living in Virginia at about the same time as George was moving >into South Carolina. In the Mundell-Barry book there's an undocumented >reference to George and his parents coming to America in 1753. > > I do remember Ruby's explanation of the confusion on where George was born. But I am thinking that I have found a deed that says that George is buying land .....wait, I just found my notes on this: > George McKinsey settled in SC on 8 Jan 1773 as evidenced by a land > deed. It reads in part, George McKinsey of Craven County in the > Province of South Carolina, paid 250 pounds to Thomas Shaw for 150 > acres of land more or less, 8 January 1773. This land was bought in > the 13th year of the Reign of King George III. Note: In 1683 Craven > County as shown on the deed was one of the first couties extablished > in SC. All three counties were later abolished. This area was made > District Ninety Six in 1769. In 1798 it became the present county of > Newberry, SC. I did not make a good note on this....and I have never looked for the deed for myself. Perhaps I will find time to look on this trip. >Oh, I almost forgot, my connection to George and Sarah is through their son >Mordecai and his wife Catherine Reagan. Here's a summary of my lineage: > > >George W. McKinsey and Sara Thomas > >Mordecai Mckinsey and Catherine Reagan > >George W. Mckinsey and Hester Ann Leach > >Jasper Okane Mckinsey/McKenzie (spelling change around the Civil War) and >Martha Caroline Gentry > >George Reagan Mckenzie and Mary Colista Wiswell > >Homer Dan Mckenzie and Elizabeth Czoberek > >Rosemary Mckenzie and Lawrence Locken > >Bruce Locken > >One of my Uncles is George Reagan McKenzie as is his son and grandson. > >I have to go, I'm at work right now. Hope to hear from you soon. > >Bruce Locken >California > > > I'll see what I can dig up for you. Thanks for telling me that you have the book by Ruby Mundell Barry. She did lots of research that we can build upon. marsha > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of marsha >moses >Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:48 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] SC- Bush River Quakers Mckinsey-Thomas > > >Oh, my gosh, Bruce, your timing is amazing. I am leaving this Thursday >to attend the homecoming for these families in Newberry County! If you >are close enough to come, please join us! I would LOVE to spend time >talking and exchanging information! Wow! there is too much to talk >about....but let me start! > >I believe that Sarah Thomas McKinsey is buried in the cemetery that >adjoined the Bush River Monthly Meeting. That is one of my biggest >goals on this trip....to talk to the "experts" who have written the book >on the cemetery (who are going to be there) to see what there opinion is >on this theory. And to see if the stone that I believe is hers still >lies in the place that I believe it should lie. > >My gut feeling about Sarah (EXTREMELY iffy....definitely not proven...) >is that she descends from the Quaker Thomas family that we find at >Hopewell MM in the early to mid 1700's. And again, I will share why I >believe this to be true when I have more time. I do think that the >family was Quaker at one time, but Sarah did not raise her children >Quaker as one of her children's spouses is dis mou in Ohio at the >marriage. If George had ever been Quaker, he wasn't after the death of >Sarah about 1809 before the family moved to Ohio. However, some of his >children intermarried with Quaker families in the Newberry area and the >whole family moved to Ohio with the mass exodus of the Quaker families >out of the south in the first decade of the 1800's. Sarah's >sister-in-law or aunt, Abigail Thomas, remained close to George's family >in Ohio and left a will that named Sarah and George's children as the >heirs. Abigail remained Quaker throughout her life....thus reinforcing >my thought that Sarah's Thomas family had been Quaker. > >I have never found a marriage for George and Sarah. I think that the >date of marriage has been circulated by using dates of births of older >children. I descend from their son Nehemiah who married Catherine >Elliott in Ohio. > >THe only piece of information that I question in your below information >is Sarah's father. Hmmmmm.....I am stumped right now on her father. I >have looked at Edward Thomas as a possible father a WHOLE lot....just >don't know yet. There are a lot of Nehemiah Thomas's....but the one who >is Abigail's husband and would seem to be likely leaves a will when he >dies....it is very evident that he is childless as he leaves most of his >bequests to nephews and nieces. > >I am VERY interested in your information that George moved to SC from >Frederick County, Virginia! My gut feeling is that is where the Thomas >family came from as well. > >Can't wait to hear back from you! Marsha Moses in WV > >sbgorilla wrote: > > > >>Hello, >>I'm looking for information about my 5-G grandfather George W. >>Mckinsey/McKenzie and his wife Sarah Thomas-Mckinsey. I know that George >>bought land near Newberry in 1773 and married Sarah Thomas about 1780 to >>1784 in or near Newberry. I've heard but haven't confirmed that she was a >>Quaker and he wasn't. A couple other family's they were close to were the >>Spray's, Elmore's, Weeks, Elliot's, and Ham's. Also I believe that Sarah's >>father was Nehemiah Thomas. Also I believe that George came through >>Frederick County, Virginia on his way to South Carolina. Please let me know >>if you have any information about the marriage of George and Sarah or if >> >> >you > > >>have any information about him coming from Virginia. >>Thank you, >>Bruce >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >> >> >> > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

I think that it is the right man. I am bringing all of my files and piles with me to the homecoming and I'll look to see what the date on Nehemiah's death is. But I am thinking that that should be about the right time period. I don't pay a lot of attention to spelling in the 1700's. I don't think that they paid much attention either. I hope to take some photos and do some figuring while we are in Newberry. I do have the book, but being there in person makes it make more sense to me. Marsha Judith F. Russell wrote: >There is a tombstone in the Bush River Cemetery engraved NEMIAH (not >Nehemiah) Thomas born 1740 died 1790. I've often wondered if this was a >alternate spelling, the preferred spelling, or a typo by the engraver. > >I've never seen the Nemiah spelling used when people are discussion the >family. What do folks think? > >JudyR >----- Original Message ----- >From: "sbgorilla" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:09 PM >Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] SC- Bush River Quakers Mckinsey-Thomas > > > > >>Hi Marsha, >>Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Unfortunately I won't be able to >>go to the Newberry homecoming. I'm in California and I'm trying to rebuild >>my vacation balance at work after having taken a lot of time off the last >>couple years. I have to correct a mistake I made in my previous e-mail. It >>looks like Nehemiah Thomas was Sarah's brother, not her father. >> >>Currently I have a copy of Ruby Mundell Barry's book The McKinsey's: >>Descendents of George W. Mckinsey and his wife Sarah Thomas-Mckinsey of >>Newberry County, South Caorlina and Warren County, Ohio and the migrations >>of their children into Indiana." What a mouthful. This is a self published >>bok and I "lucked" into a copy. Since a copy was provided to me at cost >>I'm >>thinking of making copies for others and providing them at cost. I also >>have >>a copies of histories for Clinton, Boone, and Montgomery Counties in >>Indiana. I still need to get the Annals of Newberry and find a history of >>Frederick County Virginia. So far everything I have found in the books and >>on the web indicates that George and his children were closely tied to the >>Quaker families where they lived, married into those families, and >>followed >>the same migratory through the U.S.. >> >>While I don't have proof that it's the same George Mckinsey/McKenzie, I >>have >>found a copy of a baptism record from April, 1752 at Inverarity and Methy >>Parish, Scotland for a George McKenzie, son of John McKenzie. And I have a >>note somewhere that I was sent saying that someone had found a record of a >>John Mckenzie living in Virginia at about the same time as George was >>moving >>into South Carolina. In the Mundell-Barry book there's an undocumented >>reference to George and his parents coming to America in 1753. >> >>Oh, I almost forgot, my connection to George and Sarah is through their >>son >>Mordecai and his wife Catherine Reagan. Here's a summary of my lineage: >> >> >>George W. McKinsey and Sara Thomas >> >>Mordecai Mckinsey and Catherine Reagan >> >>George W. Mckinsey and Hester Ann Leach >> >>Jasper Okane Mckinsey/McKenzie (spelling change around the Civil War) and >>Martha Caroline Gentry >> >>George Reagan Mckenzie and Mary Colista Wiswell >> >>Homer Dan Mckenzie and Elizabeth Czoberek >> >>Rosemary Mckenzie and Lawrence Locken >> >>Bruce Locken >> >>One of my Uncles is George Reagan McKenzie as is his son and grandson. >> >>I have to go, I'm at work right now. Hope to hear from you soon. >> >>Bruce Locken >>California >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of marsha >>moses >>Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:48 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] SC- Bush River Quakers Mckinsey-Thomas >> >> >>Oh, my gosh, Bruce, your timing is amazing. I am leaving this Thursday >>to attend the homecoming for these families in Newberry County! If you >>are close enough to come, please join us! I would LOVE to spend time >>talking and exchanging information! Wow! there is too much to talk >>about....but let me start! >> >>I believe that Sarah Thomas McKinsey is buried in the cemetery that >>adjoined the Bush River Monthly Meeting. That is one of my biggest >>goals on this trip....to talk to the "experts" who have written the book >>on the cemetery (who are going to be there) to see what there opinion is >>on this theory. And to see if the stone that I believe is hers still >>lies in the place that I believe it should lie. >> >>My gut feeling about Sarah (EXTREMELY iffy....definitely not proven...) >>is that she descends from the Quaker Thomas family that we find at >>Hopewell MM in the early to mid 1700's. And again, I will share why I >>believe this to be true when I have more time. I do think that the >>family was Quaker at one time, but Sarah did not raise her children >>Quaker as one of her children's spouses is dis mou in Ohio at the >>marriage. If George had ever been Quaker, he wasn't after the death of >>Sarah about 1809 before the family moved to Ohio. However, some of his >>children intermarried with Quaker families in the Newberry area and the >>whole family moved to Ohio with the mass exodus of the Quaker families >>out of the south in the first decade of the 1800's. Sarah's >>sister-in-law or aunt, Abigail Thomas, remained close to George's family >>in Ohio and left a will that named Sarah and George's children as the >>heirs. Abigail remained Quaker throughout her life....thus reinforcing >>my thought that Sarah's Thomas family had been Quaker. >> >>I have never found a marriage for George and Sarah. I think that the >>date of marriage has been circulated by using dates of births of older >>children. I descend from their son Nehemiah who married Catherine >>Elliott in Ohio. >> >>THe only piece of information that I question in your below information >>is Sarah's father. Hmmmmm.....I am stumped right now on her father. I >>have looked at Edward Thomas as a possible father a WHOLE lot....just >>don't know yet. There are a lot of Nehemiah Thomas's....but the one who >>is Abigail's husband and would seem to be likely leaves a will when he >>dies....it is very evident that he is childless as he leaves most of his >>bequests to nephews and nieces. >> >>I am VERY interested in your information that George moved to SC from >>Frederick County, Virginia! My gut feeling is that is where the Thomas >>family came from as well. >> >>Can't wait to hear back from you! Marsha Moses in WV >> >>sbgorilla wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hello, >>>I'm looking for information about my 5-G grandfather George W. >>>Mckinsey/McKenzie and his wife Sarah Thomas-Mckinsey. I know that George >>>bought land near Newberry in 1773 and married Sarah Thomas about 1780 to >>>1784 in or near Newberry. I've heard but haven't confirmed that she was a >>>Quaker and he wasn't. A couple other family's they were close to were the >>>Spray's, Elmore's, Weeks, Elliot's, and Ham's. Also I believe that Sarah's >>>father was Nehemiah Thomas. Also I believe that George came through >>>Frederick County, Virginia on his way to South Carolina. Please let me >>>know >>>if you have any information about the marriage of George and Sarah or if >>> >>> >>you >> >> >>>have any information about him coming from Virginia. >>>Thank you, >>>Bruce >>> >>> >>>------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> >>> >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without >>the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without >>the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >>-- >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG. >>Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1430 - Release Date: >>5/13/2008 7:31 AM >> >> >> >> > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

The will of Nehemiah Thomas names his nephews, including James and John Dobbins. Does anyone know which sister married the father of the Dobbins boys? Legend says it is Sarah, but could there be two Sarah Thomas's, sisters of Nehemiah? I descend from John Dobbins and Phebe Pearson. Their oldest son is named Reason, probably after Reason Reagan. Any thoughts out there? Ruth Dobbins Bennett **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)

In those days, in England and its colonies, there was no such thing as standard spelling. Perfectly literate people often spelled the same words differently, sometimes even within the same document. It's true that Dr. Johnson wrote his dictionary earlier, I think definition was his goal, and the concept of spelling didn't really catch on for a long time. Karen Groton, MA On 5/13/08 1:55 PM, "sbgorilla" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > based on my own experience with my Mackenzie, McKenzie, McKinsey, McKinzie, > McKensey, and even McKinney ancestory, I'd have to say that Nemiah is very > likely the same as Nehemiah. I've found that literacy levels have varied > wildly. If one or more of the people involved in a transaction were > marinally literate or illiterate that could be a problem. And if the parties > involved had heavy accents that could be a problem as well. I've seen old > documents in which a persons name was spelled several different ways as a > means to ward off confusion and claerly identify a buyer, seller, etc.. > Bruce > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Judith F. > Russell > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] NEMIAH Thomas > > > There is a tombstone in the Bush River Cemetery engraved NEMIAH (not > Nehemiah) Thomas born 1740 died 1790. I've often wondered if this was a > alternate spelling, the preferred spelling, or a typo by the engraver. > > I've never seen the Nemiah spelling used when people are discussion the > family. What do folks think? > > JudyR > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "sbgorilla" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:09 PM > Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] SC- Bush River Quakers Mckinsey-Thomas > > >> Hi Marsha, >> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Unfortunately I won't be able to >> go to the Newberry homecoming. I'm in California and I'm trying to rebuild >> my vacation balance at work after having taken a lot of time off the last >> couple years. I have to correct a mistake I made in my previous e-mail. It >> looks like Nehemiah Thomas was Sarah's brother, not her father. >> >> Currently I have a copy of Ruby Mundell Barry's book The McKinsey's: >> Descendents of George W. Mckinsey and his wife Sarah Thomas-Mckinsey of >> Newberry County, South Caorlina and Warren County, Ohio and the migrations >> of their children into Indiana." What a mouthful. This is a self published >> bok and I "lucked" into a copy. Since a copy was provided to me at cost >> I'm >> thinking of making copies for others and providing them at cost. I also >> have >> a copies of histories for Clinton, Boone, and Montgomery Counties in >> Indiana. I still need to get the Annals of Newberry and find a history of >> Frederick County Virginia. So far everything I have found in the books and >> on the web indicates that George and his children were closely tied to the >> Quaker families where they lived, married into those families, and >> followed >> the same migratory through the U.S.. >> >> While I don't have proof that it's the same George Mckinsey/McKenzie, I >> have >> found a copy of a baptism record from April, 1752 at Inverarity and Methy >> Parish, Scotland for a George McKenzie, son of John McKenzie. And I have a >> note somewhere that I was sent saying that someone had found a record of a >> John Mckenzie living in Virginia at about the same time as George was >> moving >> into South Carolina. In the Mundell-Barry book there's an undocumented >> reference to George and his parents coming to America in 1753. >> >> Oh, I almost forgot, my connection to George and Sarah is through their >> son >> Mordecai and his wife Catherine Reagan. Here's a summary of my lineage: >> >> >> George W. McKinsey and Sara Thomas >> >> Mordecai Mckinsey and Catherine Reagan >> >> George W. Mckinsey and Hester Ann Leach >> >> Jasper Okane Mckinsey/McKenzie (spelling change around the Civil War) and >> Martha Caroline Gentry >> >> George Reagan Mckenzie and Mary Colista Wiswell >> >> Homer Dan Mckenzie and Elizabeth Czoberek >> >> Rosemary Mckenzie and Lawrence Locken >> >> Bruce Locken >> >> One of my Uncles is George Reagan McKenzie as is his son and grandson. >> >> I have to go, I'm at work right now. Hope to hear from you soon. >> >> Bruce Locken >> California >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of marsha >> moses >> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:48 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] SC- Bush River Quakers Mckinsey-Thomas >> >> >> Oh, my gosh, Bruce, your timing is amazing. I am leaving this Thursday >> to attend the homecoming for these families in Newberry County! If you >> are close enough to come, please join us! I would LOVE to spend time >> talking and exchanging information! Wow! there is too much to talk >> about....but let me start! >> >> I believe that Sarah Thomas McKinsey is buried in the cemetery that >> adjoined the Bush River Monthly Meeting. That is one of my biggest >> goals on this trip....to talk to the "experts" who have written the book >> on the cemetery (who are going to be there) to see what there opinion is >> on this theory. And to see if the stone that I believe is hers still >> lies in the place that I believe it should lie. >> >> My gut feeling about Sarah (EXTREMELY iffy....definitely not proven...) >> is that she descends from the Quaker Thomas family that we find at >> Hopewell MM in the early to mid 1700's. And again, I will share why I >> believe this to be true when I have more time. I do think that the >> family was Quaker at one time, but Sarah did not raise her children >> Quaker as one of her children's spouses is dis mou in Ohio at the >> marriage. If George had ever been Quaker, he wasn't after the death of >> Sarah about 1809 before the family moved to Ohio. However, some of his >> children intermarried with Quaker families in the Newberry area and the >> whole family moved to Ohio with the mass exodus of the Quaker families >> out of the south in the first decade of the 1800's. Sarah's >> sister-in-law or aunt, Abigail Thomas, remained close to George's family >> in Ohio and left a will that named Sarah and George's children as the >> heirs. Abigail remained Quaker throughout her life....thus reinforcing >> my thought that Sarah's Thomas family had been Quaker. >> >> I have never found a marriage for George and Sarah. I think that the >> date of marriage has been circulated by using dates of births of older >> children. I descend from their son Nehemiah who married Catherine >> Elliott in Ohio. >> >> THe only piece of information that I question in your below information >> is Sarah's father. Hmmmmm.....I am stumped right now on her father. I >> have looked at Edward Thomas as a possible father a WHOLE lot....just >> don't know yet. There are a lot of Nehemiah Thomas's....but the one who >> is Abigail's husband and would seem to be likely leaves a will when he >> dies....it is very evident that he is childless as he leaves most of his >> bequests to nephews and nieces. >> >> I am VERY interested in your information that George moved to SC from >> Frederick County, Virginia! My gut feeling is that is where the Thomas >> family came from as well. >> >> Can't wait to hear back from you! Marsha Moses in WV >> >> sbgorilla wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I'm looking for information about my 5-G grandfather George W. >>> Mckinsey/McKenzie and his wife Sarah Thomas-Mckinsey. I know that George >>> bought land near Newberry in 1773 and married Sarah Thomas about 1780 to >>> 1784 in or near Newberry. I've heard but haven't confirmed that she was a >>> Quaker and he wasn't. A couple other family's they were close to were the >>> Spray's, Elmore's, Weeks, Elliot's, and Ham's. Also I believe that Sarah's >>> father was Nehemiah Thomas. Also I believe that George came through >>> Frederick County, Virginia on his way to South Carolina. Please let me >>> know >>> if you have any information about the marriage of George and Sarah or if >> you >>> have any information about him coming from Virginia. >>> Thank you, >>> Bruce >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1430 - Release Date: >> 5/13/2008 7:31 AM >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

There is a tombstone in the Bush River Cemetery engraved NEMIAH (not Nehemiah) Thomas born 1740 died 1790. I've often wondered if this was a alternate spelling, the preferred spelling, or a typo by the engraver. I've never seen the Nemiah spelling used when people are discussion the family. What do folks think? JudyR ----- Original Message ----- From: "sbgorilla" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] SC- Bush River Quakers Mckinsey-Thomas > Hi Marsha, > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Unfortunately I won't be able to > go to the Newberry homecoming. I'm in California and I'm trying to rebuild > my vacation balance at work after having taken a lot of time off the last > couple years. I have to correct a mistake I made in my previous e-mail. It > looks like Nehemiah Thomas was Sarah's brother, not her father. > > Currently I have a copy of Ruby Mundell Barry's book The McKinsey's: > Descendents of George W. Mckinsey and his wife Sarah Thomas-Mckinsey of > Newberry County, South Caorlina and Warren County, Ohio and the migrations > of their children into Indiana." What a mouthful. This is a self published > bok and I "lucked" into a copy. Since a copy was provided to me at cost > I'm > thinking of making copies for others and providing them at cost. I also > have > a copies of histories for Clinton, Boone, and Montgomery Counties in > Indiana. I still need to get the Annals of Newberry and find a history of > Frederick County Virginia. So far everything I have found in the books and > on the web indicates that George and his children were closely tied to the > Quaker families where they lived, married into those families, and > followed > the same migratory through the U.S.. > > While I don't have proof that it's the same George Mckinsey/McKenzie, I > have > found a copy of a baptism record from April, 1752 at Inverarity and Methy > Parish, Scotland for a George McKenzie, son of John McKenzie. And I have a > note somewhere that I was sent saying that someone had found a record of a > John Mckenzie living in Virginia at about the same time as George was > moving > into South Carolina. In the Mundell-Barry book there's an undocumented > reference to George and his parents coming to America in 1753. > > Oh, I almost forgot, my connection to George and Sarah is through their > son > Mordecai and his wife Catherine Reagan. Here's a summary of my lineage: > > > George W. McKinsey and Sara Thomas > > Mordecai Mckinsey and Catherine Reagan > > George W. Mckinsey and Hester Ann Leach > > Jasper Okane Mckinsey/McKenzie (spelling change around the Civil War) and > Martha Caroline Gentry > > George Reagan Mckenzie and Mary Colista Wiswell > > Homer Dan Mckenzie and Elizabeth Czoberek > > Rosemary Mckenzie and Lawrence Locken > > Bruce Locken > > One of my Uncles is George Reagan McKenzie as is his son and grandson. > > I have to go, I'm at work right now. Hope to hear from you soon. > > Bruce Locken > California > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of marsha > moses > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] SC- Bush River Quakers Mckinsey-Thomas > > > Oh, my gosh, Bruce, your timing is amazing. I am leaving this Thursday > to attend the homecoming for these families in Newberry County! If you > are close enough to come, please join us! I would LOVE to spend time > talking and exchanging information! Wow! there is too much to talk > about....but let me start! > > I believe that Sarah Thomas McKinsey is buried in the cemetery that > adjoined the Bush River Monthly Meeting. That is one of my biggest > goals on this trip....to talk to the "experts" who have written the book > on the cemetery (who are going to be there) to see what there opinion is > on this theory. And to see if the stone that I believe is hers still > lies in the place that I believe it should lie. > > My gut feeling about Sarah (EXTREMELY iffy....definitely not proven...) > is that she descends from the Quaker Thomas family that we find at > Hopewell MM in the early to mid 1700's. And again, I will share why I > believe this to be true when I have more time. I do think that the > family was Quaker at one time, but Sarah did not raise her children > Quaker as one of her children's spouses is dis mou in Ohio at the > marriage. If George had ever been Quaker, he wasn't after the death of > Sarah about 1809 before the family moved to Ohio. However, some of his > children intermarried with Quaker families in the Newberry area and the > whole family moved to Ohio with the mass exodus of the Quaker families > out of the south in the first decade of the 1800's. Sarah's > sister-in-law or aunt, Abigail Thomas, remained close to George's family > in Ohio and left a will that named Sarah and George's children as the > heirs. Abigail remained Quaker throughout her life....thus reinforcing > my thought that Sarah's Thomas family had been Quaker. > > I have never found a marriage for George and Sarah. I think that the > date of marriage has been circulated by using dates of births of older > children. I descend from their son Nehemiah who married Catherine > Elliott in Ohio. > > THe only piece of information that I question in your below information > is Sarah's father. Hmmmmm.....I am stumped right now on her father. I > have looked at Edward Thomas as a possible father a WHOLE lot....just > don't know yet. There are a lot of Nehemiah Thomas's....but the one who > is Abigail's husband and would seem to be likely leaves a will when he > dies....it is very evident that he is childless as he leaves most of his > bequests to nephews and nieces. > > I am VERY interested in your information that George moved to SC from > Frederick County, Virginia! My gut feeling is that is where the Thomas > family came from as well. > > Can't wait to hear back from you! Marsha Moses in WV > > sbgorilla wrote: > >>Hello, >>I'm looking for information about my 5-G grandfather George W. >>Mckinsey/McKenzie and his wife Sarah Thomas-Mckinsey. I know that George >>bought land near Newberry in 1773 and married Sarah Thomas about 1780 to >>1784 in or near Newberry. I've heard but haven't confirmed that she was a >>Quaker and he wasn't. A couple other family's they were close to were the >>Spray's, Elmore's, Weeks, Elliot's, and Ham's. Also I believe that Sarah's >>father was Nehemiah Thomas. Also I believe that George came through >>Frederick County, Virginia on his way to South Carolina. Please let me >>know >>if you have any information about the marriage of George and Sarah or if > you >>have any information about him coming from Virginia. >>Thank you, >>Bruce >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1430 - Release Date: > 5/13/2008 7:31 AM > >