Judy's letter that did such a great job of summing up our weekend has inspired me to make a file to remind myself of just what I really did learn on this weekend. I would like to add to it names and addresses and e-mail addresses of the attendees. But more importantly, I would like to add who is researching which surnames connected to the Newberry/Bush River area. I will start by posting my own information. If you are uncomfortable putting information on such a public forum, would you please e-mail me privately. I remember thinking that I had something to add to several people's queries when we were standing on the porch....but there was so much going on all weekend that I forgot what everyone had said. If you are in touch with others who are not a part of this mail list, would you please forward this to them. Thanks so much. Here is what I said that morning and who I am: Marsha Moses Huntington, WV [email protected] I am "brickwalled" in Newberry County on two of my lines. I am looking at a couple: George and Sarah Thomas McKinsey. I know nothing about where George McKinsey had come from. I suspect that Sarah Thomas McKinsey is descended from the Thomas line that I find at Hopewell MM in northern Virginia in the early to mid 1700's. However, I am a long way from proving that. Sarah died in 1809 and I believe her to have been buried in the Bush River MM cemetery. There are no stones in the cemetery to prove that fact. George moved his family to Warren County, Ohio and lived near Waynesville, Ohio for the rest of his lfe. His children married into Quaker families before and after this move. Other researchers have told me that George and his family moved with: > It was during this period of time that George W. McKinsey, Reason > Raygan (Reagan) and some of the Elmores, came to Warren Co. Ohio One of George's sons married Rebecca Spray. And two other children of George and Sarah married Spray siblings as well. > Rebecca was disowned by the Quaker church May 29, 1813 for marrying > outside the church. > > In a packet at the Warren County Genealogical Society Feb 2000 > .....the outside said Carol Hyland 600 Valley Stream Dr. A1 Naples Fl > 33962 I found a mimeographed sheet that looks like it came from the > Marriage book 1: > > Oct 29 1812 Samuel McKinsey m Rebecca Spray by Thomas Reagan J.P. > (which I interpreted to mean Justice of the Peace) > > > on page 89 Ruby says that Rebecca Spray was the daughter of James and > Naomi Hollinsworth Spray. Rebecca was born 30 Nov. 1793 in South > Carolina and died 2 Oct 1855 (Ruby says that her tombstone is her > source) and is buried beside her husband. Thus I believe that George and his family were NOT Quaker by the time they had moved to Ohio...and perhaps had never been Quaker. I do believe that it is likely that George's wife, Sarah Thomas, had Quaker roots. That is my connection to the Bush River/Newberry area. Marsha Moses