Sorry, but I don't think I can be of much help. I don't have any Hannah Mendenhalls in my database. The Mendenhall's that I have are through marriages to other Bush River or Miami County Ohio people. I looked and do not have any Yarnell referernces either. On 12/20/2011 5:57 PM, Beverly Rampey wrote: > Hi Vivian - I've been a "lurking" member of the bushriver quaker site for > some time now because of various family Quaker connections on the eastern > seaboard. > > In looking at your website for Chester County folks, I see Mendenhall as > one of your names. In their family there are a couple of Hannahs with no > later families. I'm looking for a Hannah Mendenhall (I don't have her > parents) who was born 1/19/1720, d. 8/19/1760, md. Nathan Yarnall on > 5/10/1750. She and Nathan had Eli, b. 1753, Joshua, b. 1755 and Ellis, b. > 1757. This family is in my Yarnall relatives and we would like to add > Hannah's family if possible. I don't know what Meeting they belonged to, > but they lived in Edgemont Township, PA when the family came to the > States. > > Bev Rampey > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Vivian<vivm2007@woh.rr.com> wrote: > >> Happy Holidays everyone >> >> I have finally decided to work on get my genealogy data back online. I >> have a wide assortment of stuff I have collected over the years and I >> came across one today that may be of interest to some of you. I will >> continue to post more but it will be as time allows and could take >> years. LOL I try to put up all the original documents that I have >> gathered over the years. I have a search engine at the top of major >> pages so if you search on your family name, you should get whatever I >> might have on your family. A lot of these Chester Co Pa families >> migrated to Bush River. >> >> >> http://all-my-stuff.com/gene/Localities/Pennsylvania/chester_county_biographies_abstr.htm >> >> This link has the search engine >> http://www.all-my-stuff.com/gene/start.htm >> >> >> Enjoy. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com 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 SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Beverly Rampey: I believe I have your Mendenhall ~ Yarnall link. There was a Benjamin Mendenhall (sometimes Mendinghall) who was a wheelwright in Concord PA. He was the son of Moses Mendenhall of Wiltshire, England. He married Ann Pennell, daughter of Robert Pennell of Chester Creek on 17th day of 2nd month (April) 1689. They had a daughter named Hannah born in 1690, who later married Thomas Marshall of Concord., and a son named Benjamin. Benjamin Jr., b. 5 May 1691, married Lydia Roberts, daughter of Owen Roberts of Gwynedd, Philadelphia County, on 9 May 1717. Their 2nd child was Hannah, b. 19 January 1719/20. She is the one who married Nathan Yarnall, as appears in the minutes of the Chester Monthly Meeting dated "26/12/1749/50". That translates to 26 February 1750 New Style. The note states that Nathan Yarnall requested a certificate to New Garden to marry "Hannah Mendinghall, dau. of Benjamin Mendinghall dec'd." Chester MM minutes dated 30 July 1750 record that "Hannah Yarnall, wife of Nathan, produced a certificate from Newgarden." All the above was found in volumes 1 & 2 of EARLY CHURCH RECORDS OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, edited by John Pitts Launey et al. Paul C. Palmer (Comal County, TX)and the body of the message

Another of those lateral searches: I'm sure we all have one of those Willis middle names somewhere. This is a bit different. In our DNA subgroup for descendants of William Dodd (data from 1718-ca 1771), Quaker of probably Chester, PA, then Loudoun, VA, and finally the area that became Union, SC, we have matches at 67 markers to the surnames Campbell, Jennings, and now Willis. These are perfect 67/67 and near perfect 65/67 matches for a haplotype that has almost no other extraneous matches in the entire database, so a rather rare haplotype. Now we think we've can narrow down the Campbell and Jennings connection point to Loudoun, VA, in the 1747-1810 period when those randy Dodd men were not very good Quakers at all. Our matching participant for the Willis surname goes back to a James Henry Willis who appears in Greene, TN, in the later half of 1800s and who does not match the Willises that would seem to fit the paper trail. SO We still had Dodds in Leesburg and around Waterford in Loudoun, VA in the first half of 1800. That's just across the Potomac from MD counties, where we know the William Dodd earlier interacted with the Monocacy MM (his family was part of the Fairfax MM from 1745/6 on but were NOT Quakers in PA) and son Thomas dallied with a woman in one of the German settlements, and just east of the Hopewell MM in Frederick, VA, where son Edward Dodd married and lived. It's sons of Edward Dodd and wife Mary Littler that went on to Greene, TN, by 1796. Also after 1768 there were two Dodd sons Thomas and Jesse in the Padgett's Creek area of now Union, SC, each of whom had children that we have no names for (looking at 1790 census records and going on family oral histories). Thomas had bought land ca 1766 first in the Bush River MM area that Enos Elleman later owned, but moved to Union when his family, sibs, and probably the old couple William and Catherine came south in 1768. If you know of any Willis families around these areas prior to ca 1840, please help steer me in their direction. Merry Christmas to all of you. And if you have not yet ordered a DNA kit during the December sale at FamilyTreeDNA.com, this is the time to do it. This DNA research really is exciting. Anne Crocker Concord, NC