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 > > >