This morning I made a list of the family names of those who attended the 2008 Bush River Reunion in Newberry. Someone suggested that it would be a good way to get some family discussion going and help people make some connections. That's a very good idea. So I'm sending this list out to the Bush River list. If you want to comment on your family name or names PLEASE, after you hit reply, click on the subject line of your message and change the subject to your family names. Otherwise, we'll just see endless repetitions of the old subject line and miss your new material. Remember, CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE, please, when you respond. Thanks, JudyR > Bobo > > Brewer > > Calvin > > Cannon > > Chapman > > Coate > > Cook > > Cook, Isaac > > Cooper > > Coppock > > Dodd > > Edmundson > > Edwards > > Elleman > > Evans > > Flanagan > > Furnas > > Garry > > Gauntt > > Gifford, Thomas > > Gilbert > > Hawkins > > Henderson > > Hendrix > > Hollingsworth > > Hopgood > > Jones > > Jones, John and Mary > > Kelly > > Leavell > > Lewis > > Martin > > McKay(McKoy) > > McKinney > > McNeil > > Mills > > Monk > > Morris, Rebecca Minton > > Mote > > Neal > > O'Dell > > Pearson > > Pemberton > > Phillips > > Pitts > > Poole > > Prather > > Pressley > > Reagin > > Sanders > > Smith > > Thomas > > Townsend > > Wells > > Wells, Rachel > > Williams > > Wilson > > Wright, Patty > > Wright, Charity > > Wright, James >

I can claim these five names. I live in Springfield Ohio and my lines were definitely involved in the mass exodus to Ohio. Glad to share anything that I have.

You know, Vivian....I keep thinking that we may want to have a little min-reunion in Ohio! I only live a few hours away from the Waynesville/Warren County/Prebble County/ Wayne County, Indiana area.....I am in Huntington, WV. We should think about it. marsha Vivian Markley wrote: >I can claim these five names. I live in Springfield Ohio and my lines were >definitely involved in the mass exodus to Ohio. Glad to share anything that >I have. > > >------------------------------- >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 have a new book "A Sense of the Meeting" A History of Elk Monthly Meeting 1805-2005 by Donne Hayden. This will be Preble Co, Ohio. I would be glad to do look ups. These surnames from you list are in the book but there are lots of other surnames so if anyone wants me to look for other names please feel free to ask. > Chapman > Cook > Evans > Gauntt > Gifford > Hawkins > Henderson > Hollingsworth > Jones > Kelly > Mills > Pitts > Reagin > Smith > Thomas > Williams > Wilson > Wright > Wright > Wright Vivian Markley Springfield, Ohio

Vivian, I am interested in the Hawkins, Cook, and Chapmans. Would you give some of the first names of these? If it is too much, I understand. Thanks, Hope [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vivian Markley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 7:28 PM Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] New Book >I have a new book "A Sense of the Meeting" A History of Elk Monthly Meeting > 1805-2005 by Donne Hayden. This will be Preble Co, Ohio. I would be glad > to do look ups. These surnames from you list are in the book but there are > lots of other surnames so if anyone wants me to look for other names > please > feel free to ask. >> Chapman >> Cook >> Evans >> Gauntt >> Gifford >> Hawkins >> Henderson >> Hollingsworth >> Jones >> Kelly >> Mills >> Pitts >> Reagin >> Smith >> Thomas >> Williams >> Wilson >> Wright >> Wright >> Wright > > > Vivian Markley > Springfield, Ohio > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Hope, I am a Hawkins researcher, but not of this Quaker line. However, I can tell you that the administrator of the Hawkins surname DNA project does descend from a Hawkins line that was first in PA and then in SC and then in Ohio. His name is Phil Hawkins. His website is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/ Click on family pages and then go down to group #4. You will find many people associated with Prebble County, Ohio in his charts. And scrolling down to group #14 will give you the decendents of .1 Peter Hawkins b: 1745 VA d: 1801 Newberry, SC ...... +Prudance Thomas b: 1753 VA m: Abt. 1769 d: SC The ones that I see there seem to have stayed more in the south....such as TN. Marsha Moses William and Hope Creasman wrote: >Vivian, >I am interested in the Hawkins, Cook, and Chapmans. Would you give some of >the first names of these? If it is too much, I understand. >Thanks, >Hope >[email protected] >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Vivian Markley" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 7:28 PM >Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] New Book > > > > >>I have a new book "A Sense of the Meeting" A History of Elk Monthly Meeting >>1805-2005 by Donne Hayden. This will be Preble Co, Ohio. I would be glad >>to do look ups. These surnames from you list are in the book but there are >>lots of other surnames so if anyone wants me to look for other names >>please >>feel free to ask. >> >> >>>Chapman >>>Cook >>>Evans >>>Gauntt >>>Gifford >>>Hawkins >>>Henderson >>>Hollingsworth >>>Jones >>>Kelly >>>Mills >>>Pitts >>>Reagin >>>Smith >>>Thomas >>>Williams >>>Wilson >>>Wright >>>Wright >>>Wright >>> >>> >>Vivian Markley >>Springfield, Ohio >> >> >>------------------------------- >>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 > > >

This is on the Cooks. Page 5 Talking about the founding of Elk Monthly Meeting "For the rest of that winter (1805) and into the spring, West Elkton Friends met on Thursdays and Sundays for worship, usually at Eli Cook's farm about 2 1/2 Miles southwest of the village of West Elkton." Page 20 Example of unusual and curious Minutes "Late in 1814 'Elenor Cook produced an offering to this meeting condemning the burning of her father's will that was read and after a time of consideration and with the consent of the men's meeting it was accepted." Author's note: Surely, in the meeting her "offering" was read not the will. My note: Love to know more about this. Page 63 This is occurring during the Hicksite split " Orthodox: 8th Month 1830 The subject of the Separatists breaking into this house and yard coming weightly before this meeting resulted in appointing Azariah Denny, Jesse Kenworthy, Nathan Cook, Mordecai Moore, Newton Stubbs, John Hixson and William Kenworthy to endeavour as far as is consistent with the truth to keep this house and lot in our possession and attend here at the time of their holding their meetings here and produce a narrative of what they many find and what has already occurred to the next meeting. These are from the "Diary of Joseph Maddock" part of the book Page 279 " On the Seventh Day [Saturday} 13th (1832), Isaac Cook, who was with me,(this is a trip to Indiana), concluded to go on to his brother's at Rockwell and accordingly left. I expected to meet him in a few days. On the third day {Tuesday} 16th rode on for Rockville a distance of about 40 miles. Arrived late in the evening at Eli Cook's. Met a very kind reception, he being one I had spent much of my time in early days in school on through farming and various other ways. He goes on to visit Levi Hawkins (already sent that story) On the Seventh Day {Saturday] morning 27th, I thought I would have to go home alone as Isaac had not arrived yet. After the moring had passed, Isaac came and we concluded to go on for home." Page 291 1857 "On the Fifthe Day afternoon, Brother Samuel and wife took us in his wagon to Uncle James and Aunt Eleanor Cook's, about six miles, in Clark county (Eastern Indiana). They had been living here some two or three years and had greatly settled on land they bought in the woods. There were little improvements on it, and it seemed far from being a comfortable home as they once had in Ohio. Yet they appeared pretty well satisfied and glad to see us as well as we them. We spent the night very agreeably with them. On Sixth Day, we parted with our aged relatives and felt for their lonely situation, and it may be that last farwell with some of us here on earth." Page 381 1883 Joseph Maddox in 72 years of age "On the sixth Day, 15th, Samuel (Maddox, his brother) and family with myself went to Obadiah Cook's about 2 miles south of Salem. Stayed all night with them. Very interesting people; they manifested much kindness to me. He lived on his late father's, Nathan Cook's farm, were I saw the old clock that His father Eli Cook owned at Elk and who died there many years ago. It was brought by him from South Carolina in the first settlement of Preble Count, Ohio. It showed the changes of the moon and was a curiosity and came from Germany, perhaps more than a hundred years ago. Page 382-383 "First Day, 24th, Samuel took me over to J.Cook;'s on Big Cedar about 5 miles to the Bible school at west grove. An indulged meeting place, about 60 in attendance. Afterwards attended the Meeting in the Grove, about double attended the Meeting that were in the school. They seem to exercise in song yet it was a pretty good Meeting. Took dinner at Payton Cook's who married in the Bailes family. Interesting young people. Returned to Samuel's in the evening. 390 "Quarterly Meeting in 9th Month, attendance about as usual by friend from Salem; very large on First Day. Thomas Jay of West Branch a;nd Eli Cook and Dillon H William of West Grove, very acceptably with us on First Day evening."

Thanks, so much, Vivian! I am now very interested in the book. Can you give information about how to buy a copy? Mordecai Moore is a fairly unusual name. I have found new information just since the 2008 Bush River Reunion (much credit goes to Harriet) that I am following up on. It is possible that my Sarah McKinsey, wife of George McKinsey, of Newberry County had maiden name Moore rather than Thomas. And it is quite possible that her father was Mordecai Moore. The Mordecai Moore below is not the same man.....he is much too young....but with that name, he is a likely candidate to be a grandson.....And Newton Stubbs is VERY likely to be a member of the Stubbs family that I look at a little bit as my Catherine Elliott who married Nehemiah McKinsey in Lebanon Ohio in 1816 had a brother, Abner who married Hannah Stubbs. This family moved from Wrightsboro, Ga to Prebble County in the mass exodus of the Quaker families out of the south and into Ohio and Indiana in the first decade of the 1800's. I find Abner living among the Stubbs family in Prebble County until 1840 when he is found in the census to be in Henry County, Indiana. And it looks likely that Levi Hawkins below might possibly have been a son or grandson of > 4 Benjamin Hawkins b: 19 May 1747 PA d: 18 Jun 1815 Butler > Co., OH > ................. +Martha Hollingsworth b: Craven Co., SC m: > 10 Oct 1771 Craven Co., SC d: Abt. 1797 > ................... 5 Thomas Hawkins b: 20 Aug 1772 > ................... 5 Isaac Hawkins b: 1774 > ................... 5 Willaim Hawkins b: 1775 > ................... 5 Eli Hawkins b: 1777 > ................... 5 Joseph Hawkins b: 1780 > ................... 5 Amos Hawkins b: 1782 > ................... 5 Levi Hawkins b: 10 Jan 1785 Union Co., > SC d: 25 Jul 1834 Tippecanoe Co., IN > ....................... +Mary Evans b: 08 Dec 1792 Bush River > MM, SC m: 08 Sep 1809 Butler Co., OH d: 21 Feb 1827 Preble Co., OH > ........................ 6 Hanna Hawkins b: 01 May 1810 > ............................ +Jesse Patty m: Bef. 1826 this fromPhil's website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/tree_g-1.html#Group-04 Thanks so much for sharing! Marsha Moses Vivian Markley wrote: >This is on the Cooks. > >.... >Page 63 >This is occurring during the Hicksite split >" Orthodox: 8th Month 1830 >The subject of the Separatists breaking into this house and yard coming >weightly before this meeting resulted in appointing Azariah Denny, Jesse >Kenworthy, Nathan Cook, Mordecai Moore, Newton Stubbs, John Hixson and >William Kenworthy to endeavour as far as is consistent with the truth to >keep this house and lot in our possession and attend here at the time of >their holding their meetings here and produce a narrative of what they many >find and what has already occurred to the next meeting. > > > > > ..... >He goes on to visit Levi Hawkins (already sent that story) > >On the Seventh Day {Saturday] morning 27th, I thought I would have to go >home alone as Isaac had not arrived yet. After the moring had passed, Isaac >came and we concluded to go on for home." > >..... > >

I just have to post this. Hope it makes you giggle, it is so quaint. Joseph Maddox is 72 years old in 1884 and evidently loved to travel. He was attending the Quarterly meeting and made this journal entry. He had just arrived at Indianapolis. "Stopped at the California House to see about my teeth that I left there when I returned from the West some two months ago. The landlord denied ever seeing tghem and appeared not willing to give any satisfaction about them. Learning that the hotel was not a place of any credit, I found there was little or nothing that could be done towards obtaining them." Evidently nothing slowed this man down. Vivian

Although I do not have specific family connections, I suspect that I am kin to Abel Thomas, a Quaker minister who visited along the wagon road and into the Carolinas during Revolutionary War times.  He had an authorization from General Nathaniel Greene, and I suspect that he may have had relatives down there somewhere, as well as being on a mission from God. I have a copy of the Abel Thomas memoir that has been passed down to me that recounts some of his travels.  The Thomas family I am from was settled in Avondale PA near Kennett Square and had membership in New Garden Friends Meeting.  I would love to hear about other Thomas descendents. Thanks,  Grace -----Original Message----- From: Judith F. Russell <[email protected]> To: sc-bushriverquak[email protected] Sent: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:46 pm Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Family Names at the 2008 Homecoming This morning I made a list of the family names of those who attended the 2008 Bush River Reunion in Newberry. Someone suggested that it would be a good way to get some family discussion going and help people make some connections. That's a very good idea. So I'm sending this list out to the Bush River list. If you want to comment on your family name or names PLEASE, after you hit reply, click on the subject line of your message and change the subject to your family names. Otherwise, we'll just see endless repetitions of the old subject line and miss your new material. R emember, CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE, please, when you respond. Thanks, JudyR > Bobo > > Brewer > > Calvin > > Cannon > > Chapman > > Coate > > Cook > > Cook, Isaac > > Cooper > > Coppock > > Dodd > > Edmundson > > Edwards > > Elleman > > Evans > > Flanagan > > Furnas > > Garry > > Gauntt > > Gifford, Thomas > > Gilbert > > Hawkins > > Henderson > > Hendrix > > Hollingsworth > > Hopgood > > Jones > > Jones, John and Mary > > Kelly > > Leavell > > Lewis > > Martin > > McKay(McKoy) > > McKinney > > McNeil > > Mills > > Monk > > Morris, Rebecca Minton > > Mote > > Neal > > O'Dell > > Pearson > > Pemberton > > Phillips > > Pitts > > Poole > > Prather > > Pressley > > Reagin > > Sanders > > Smith > > Thomas > > Townsend > > Wells > > Wells, Rachel > > Williams > > Wilson > > Wright, Patty > > Wright, Charity > > Wright, James > ------------------------------- 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