Notes

[NI0005] Robert Harrold was a "regular guy". From all accounts he worked hard, and did what was right for his family, friends, and country.

He was a fine athlete. In high school he played football, basketball, and was on the track team. Some say he could have played in college or the professional leagues.

World War II called him to France. In the war, he received a Bronze Star for his acts of courage. He put his life on the line for the men he fought beside, and for his country. When he returned from Europe he worked for the Sugar Creek Creamery as a salesman.

Robert's life was cut short in 1949. He died within a week from Polio.

Just a "regular guy"? Probably not. Robert lived so much life in such a short time: from Vermilion County, Illinois to the frontlines of World War II. Robert did what he could for those around him, and his death at the age of 32 from Polio surely left his friends and family asking, "why?"

[NI0006] met Don Pedersen on St. Patricks Day

[NI0008] Frank Harrold, a lifelong resident of Vermilion County and former Ridgefarm merchant, died at 5:30 a.m. Friday in Lake View Hospital where he had been a patient the past week. Mr. Harrold suffered a stroke nine years ago and since had been confined to his home at 103 West Harrison Street.

Mr. Harrold formerly operated a general dry goods store in Ridgefarm. The family moved to Danville about 12 years ago.

The son of Marion and Louise Harrold, he was born March 21, 1876 in Ridgefarm.

In 1903 he was married to Grace Rees, who survives together with three daughters, Mrs. George Clements, 213 E. Winter Ave., Mrs. Margaret Brady, and Mrs. Betty Wilson of Los Angeles, and a son, Sgt. Robert Harrold with the Army in France. Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Edith Hammond of Long Beach, California, a brother, Herbert Harrold of Chicago, and six grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at First Methodist Church in Ridgefarm, the time to be announced. The Rev. John W. R. Sumwalt, D.D., pastor of St. James Methodist Church of Danville, will officiate.

The body is at the Brewer Funeral Home in Ridgefarm and will be brought here Saturday to Calahan Funeral Home to remain until the time of the services. Further arrangements are incomplete pending arrival of the relatives.

(Obituary for Frank Harrold)

[NI0009] In the city of Danville, Ill, you will find a history of the only settlers of Ver. Co. These records are preserved in the city library where my insatiable curiosity led me to uncover the astonishing fact that my demise had occured at the time of my birth.
There it was in black & whte, Thomas C. Rees, his wife Jane, three sons and an infant daughter, deceased. I pinched myself to see if I was dreaming could it be that for [86] years I had been circulating among a and of angels instead of down to earth people. I decided that somewhere along the road there had been a terrible mistake for here at the age of 86 I was still going strong and very much alive.
I commenced (began) bxxxxx to mxxx some of the events of my long life which came before me vividly as I proceeded. It was no effort to remember the former sxxx xxx xx, my father's xxxx home, the grounds so famous for the many varities of fruit trees and the shady back yard with the big swing.
When I was old enough to go to school my teacher was always supplied with apples as my father had bins of all kins of them stored in the cellar which was dug at a short distance from the house and which kept them from freezing thru the long cold winters xxxx. A portion of the back yard was divided into rooms and served as my play house. It was religiously swept daily and furniture was of my own construction with bricks and wood.
Many happy hrs were spent here and under the grape harbor with my kittens. [which I insisted on dressing] My father, who was a cabinent maker, supplied me with a doll buggy whose wheels were the round wooden xxxx cut from the fancy brackets of that day. I insisted on dressing my kittens up and taking them for a ride in the little buggy but they struggled for release so that my mother instinct had to be content to hold them in my arms & eat grapes.
A real thrill to me as a little girl was a ride in the country in the cool fo the day. Father would hitch up the horses to the spring wagon and with a lunch we would drive past the farms with the many animals in the fields. I loved animals and the little baby colt across our back fence was assured of a drink of water every day from my little tin cup. I will never forget my happy childhood days so full of healthful activity and contentment.
My toys were usually of [my] the home made type as [we] my father was not rich in material thins but I realize now I had things money could not buy.
Every Sunday found me sitting with my father & mother in the little Friends church [on] situtated but a short distance from our home. However the S.S. (Sunday School) was my favorite part of the church for there I enjoyed the colored charts and stories about the Bible along with the other children of my age.
The years passed and [I lxxxed] finally I was old enough to start to school. I loved it from the start but I'm afraid my shielded life at home had not prepared me for rough times ahead.
[The children] In our little town the children who lived on Smoky Row had come up the hard way and were well trained in the art of combat.
My heart had been broked several times especially when the beautiful silk ribbon ties on my new red toboggan leaving big holes in the yxxx and leaving it unfit to wear. Also the time whn a girl much larger than I ripped the pleatings from my little wool princess. [My sister had] so they hung down to the ground. I had to tried to keep out of their way for I knew I was no match for them however I am afraid the desire for revenge kept alive in my hear so when about 10 years of age after an especially disturbing incident I felt I had been down trodden long enough, I felt I was old enough to put up a good fight myself.
After school was out I waited on the corner for the girl to show her I was a good fighter too, but [my] the enemy got in a few good licks which blacked one of my eyes and also ruffled me up a bit so I left the scene leaving behind my new geography which I never saw again. Needles to say I had learned my lesson.
[I think I knew very early in my school life what I wanted to do when I grew up for most of my time was spent teaching school. my xxxx dolls were my pupils each one having its own note books made by the teacher and each lesson carefully written by me.
I think I knew what I wanted to be...

(Handwritten by Grace, and transcribed by her grandson Robert F. Harrold II)

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June 1972 - obituary for Grace E. Rees Harrold

Grace Rees Harrold, 92, descendant of a pioneer Ridgefarm family, died in Presbyterian hospital, Whittier, Calif., Tuesday, June 6, 1972, 10:30 am., where she had broken a hip ten days ago.

Born July 24, 1879 in Ridgefarm, she was the daughter of Clarkson and Jane Mendenhall Rees, whose families had settled in Vermilion County in 1830. She married Frank Harrold, May 31, 1903. He preceded her in death in 1945.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Mariam Clements, Hoopeston; Mrs. Margaret Brady, Huntington Harbor, California; Mrs. Betty Wilson, Santa Fe Springs, California; nine grand-children and seven great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Harrold graduated from Ridgefarm high school 77 years ago and at the time of her death was one of the oldest living graduates. She attended alumni association meetings here until three years ago and was an honorary president of the association.

She taught school in Vermilion County after her marriage while she and her husband also operated a store in Ridgefarm for many years.

After her husband's death, Mrs. Harrold moved to Danville and worked at Block and Kuhl as well as the Parisian. She moved to Whittier 17 years ago.

At the age of 85, a book entitled "A Journey Through The New Testament" which she authored, was published.

She was a member of the First United Methodist church of Whittier, and attended regulary until the last year.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Hamilton Funeral home, Hoopeston,. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetary, Ridgefarm.

[NI0021] He moved to New Mexico from Colorado in the late 1800s. He was considered a pioneer in New Mexico. He worked hard all of his life, but always had time for his family. He raised all of his children in an environment of love and affection without alcohol or violence. He became a Baptist after he married Cynthia. She was better known as Irene.

One of the ironies of his life - He worked many years in Logan, and was instrumental in the building of Ute dam which was at the convergence of Canadian River and Ute creek. The dam was built, but soon after it was built he drowned in it.

The dam was strictly built as a recreational lake. - Hazel M. Kelley

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From the Enchantment (a Quay County, New Mexico Newspaper), August, 1978, page 4:

IF SIM MCFARLAND were living today, you would probably find him inside the McFarland Brothers Bank at Logan, New Mexico. He spent more than two-thirds of his long life looking after this banking business which he and his brother, Fred, establishd here in 1904. If he were not too occupied he could tell you how he became a banker, and why he promoted Logan's Ute Dam.

But he might be busily composing a letter inside the red sandstone building which has housed the banking firm for more than 70 years. His typewriter would be an old Oliver machine with a wornout keyboard.

"When my typewriter wore out several years ago, I couldn't get another one like it," he once explained. "Finally, I found this one at a junk dealer's place during the depression days of the Dust Bowl. He wanted two dollars and a half for it, so I bought it."

After Mr. Sim reparied and adjusted the typewriter he used it for another 25 years. Wastefulness and welfare bothered him. "Some of us have to produce," was the philosophy which he firmly typed in a letter concerning government doles.

McFarland always intended to be a producer, but he didn't really intend to be a banker. That came through various steps.

BORN IN ILLINOIS, February 26, 1875, he was Robert Simeon McFarland whose father had been born in Scotland. Simeon's family moved to Colorado while he was yet a baby, bringing him and his small, older sister. Here, near La Junta, the third child, Fred, was born. A few months later in 1878, the father died. When young Sim's mother married John Ritter, the family moved to La Veta. Eventually, there were eight Ritter children also.

Sim loved and respected his Papa Ritter so much that he worked with him and stayed near Colorado until he was 19. Then he came to New Mexico "on a little gray hourse with $23 in my pocket." He went to work on a ranch near Nara Visa, for Coots and Ritter (his step-uncle) for $30 a month and his board.

Out of his wages, Sim was able to save enough money to do some profitable cattle trading. By the time he reached age 24, the cowboy-trader decided that he needed more education. Consequently, with a thousand dollars cash, he resigned from his ranching job to go to Kansas City where he enrolled in business college for nine months. He signed up for the regular course which included a class in banking.

"I HAD NO THOUGHT of ever using banking knowledge," he said, although he applied himself to all the instruction offered.

Besides the buisness information, the tall, slim erstwhile wrangle found another attraction at the college. Her name was Cynthia Irene Brayton from Logan, Iowa.

But when his term of study ended, Sim McFarland returned to Nara Visa, still single, broke and jobless. He always said, however, that his education paid off, for soon he got a job with the New Mexico Sanitary Board as a cattle inspector at $75 a month. In this position, he rode over the open range getting better acquainted with "all these fine people," often eating beans and potatoes with them, and occasionally buying some of their livestock. In later years, McFarland counted 35 years spent in the saddle.

In 1902 he became more sedentary when he and Fred filed on each side of the railroad track at Nara Visa. here, they formed a partnership and opened a box-car-sized store in which they installed a safe for their money. Soon, they began in the service of keeping their customers' money in the safe also, and paying it out when written orders came in. The crude checks, scrawled with a lead pencil on scraps of envelopes or brown paper sacks, were always honored because the McFarlands were familiar with every signature.

ALTHOUGH BUSINESS was good, Sim kept remembering the opinion of M. Bishop, the superintendent of the gang that had built the railroad bridge across the Canadian River 25 miles southwest where the little town of Logan had developed. Bishop said that in order for a town to amount to anything it had to be located on a water course. Logan had that advantage.

The McFarland brothers decided to move their enterprises there, where they continued their money exchange service. This quickly became so important that they opened the private McFarland Brothers Bank in 1904. Now, Sim McFarland was a banker, almost 30 years old, and still a bachelor.

Fred was married, but Sim was still thinking about the girl he had met in Kansas City. Suddenly, he concluded that he would visit the World's Fair in St. Louis, and make a special side trip to see Miss Brayton in Iowa.

That was a successful call, for the following year the fair lady became Mrs. Sim McFarland, in her home town, June 20, 1905. After the honeymoon, Sim brought his bride to Logan, New Mexico where they made their home all the rest of their lives. There may have beem some qualms that first year when Mrs. McFarland had to wait for her husband to haul their drinking water home in a wooden barrel. But together they overcame the inconveniences, and extended their interests to the community. She wanted a church for the Sunday School which was meeting in the railroad depot. He was ready to help. When they aided the organization of the First Baptist Church of Logan, the McFarlands became charter - and life-long - members.

He became a school director who promoted a new building in 1910. Between banking duties, Sim discussed ways to develop the water course with depositors and county officials. A dam across the river to create a recreation lake seemed to be the answer. Still, it didn't develop.

The McFarland brothers continued their banking business, lending money and guarding checking accounts. As the business grew, it appeared to be so well funded that in the early1920's, a couple of hold-up men entered the bank and demanded money. The robbers forced bank' President Sim, his sister-in-law Mrs. Fred McFarland, and others who were present, into the vault, and slammed the door which they tried to lock. Then they scooped up bills and heavy silver coins, and left town in a stripped-down Model T Ford.

MEANWHILE, THE president yelled and hollered inside the vault, trying to attract attention and help. Then he leaned against the heavy door and shoved mightily. Slowly, the door swung open. McFarland, intent on catching the thieves, grabbed a gun which was inside the bank, and ran into the street. He located a fellow with a car who was willing to follow the cloud of dust that rose up from the dirt road leading northward. Sim climbed in and directed the driver.

After several miles the pursuit car sputtered and quit running at a farmer's gate. The determined banker borrowed a saddle horse from the farmer and continued the chase alone.

"l.didn't intend for them to get away," he explained afterward.

Some miles ahead, the hold-up men reached a creek where they stopped to bury their loot in the sandy bank.

Back in Logan, Fred's wife had alerted officers to the north by telephone. Before the day was over, the temporarily rich bandits found themselves confronted by a sheriff in front and a demanding horseman in the rear. They surrendered.

The cash was recovered. Later they were tried and convicted.

In succeeding months, the McFarland Brothers Bank progressed so that it became a state bank in 1924. After another 20 years of bank work, brother Fred died. Sim kept on, operating the bank as a family concern. He often talked about the benefits a dam would bring to the town of Logan and the surrounding area. He sat at his trusty typewriter to compose dozens of letters to influential people.

AS THE YEARS advanced, Sim's son Robert assumed many of the banking duties, but the president still liked to open the front door every mornning to greet the customers and mention the need for a dam.

Farther upstream, Conchas Dam had been erected on the Canadian. But a dam below the mouth of Ute Creek after it poured into the Canadian, would catch a lot of water for fishing, boating and skiing. Finally, the possibility of that dam became a certainty.

In 1962, Sim McFarland, now slightly stooped, stood beside Governor Edwin L. Mechem, who is presently a federal judge, while the governor broke the ground for Ute Dam with a gold-plated shovel. Then the bank president received the shovel as a gift of recognition for his many years of effort and promotion of this project.

Mr. Sim was there again for the dedication of the dam in 1963, located about two miles west of Logan. During the next two years, McFarland saw the lake develop, the visitors come, and the town improve. He watched the start of a housing growth around the lake shores. And he still checked the bank.

In June of 1965, Mr. and Mrs. Sim McFarland celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary at their home in Logan. Five of their six children were living to pay homage to their parents. One of them, Robert, who was active in the bank at that time, is presently Logan's retired banker.

A FEW DAYS AFTER the happy anniversary occasion, the spry couple took a friend out to the reservoir behind Ute Dam to enjoy the scene. Here they got out of the car to look at the lake which Mr. Sim had helped to create. Without warning, the car started its tragic movement toward the embankment. The banker tried desperately to stop it, but the momentum of the vehicle took Mr. Sim with it over the edge into deep water, where he drowned. He was 90 years old.

Mrs. McFarland's death came a year later.

Today, you can walk into the McFarland Brothers Bank and see the pictures of the founders with their wives: Mr. and Mrs. Fred McFarland, and Mr. and Mrs. Sim McFarland.

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From Mary Grooms Clark's book, "A Mark of Time":

"One of the earliest and most prominent families that came to Logan was the McFarland family. Sim McFarland rode into New Mexico on horseback in 1894, arriving at the Kim Ritter Ranch, located on the Canadian River. Accepting work as a cowpuncher for his uncle, Sim later worked for numerous ranches, among these was the well-known Howery Cattle Company, headquartered at Tana, located twenty-three miles southeast of Logan, New Mexico.

Sim often remarked that when he arrived in the territory all that he had with him was a bedroll and a about all he had in it was a plug of tobacco. ----------------

In 1895, Fred McFarland followed his brother to New Mexico and also took a job with the Howery Cattle Company. The two brothers saved their $30 a month and in 1902 they filed on what was later to be the Nara Visa town site. -------------- They purchased a mercantile store from a Little Dutchman for three hundred dollars and formed a partnership. Fred managed the store while Sim worked for wages.------

In the mercantile is where the McFarland's got their start in the banking business. Cowboys in the area knew the brothers and begin bringing their cash to them, not wanting to carry it in their bedrolls. The situation grew and some form of bookkeeping had to be worked out. ------------

In 1904, Sim and Fred McFarland went into official banking business with the building of the McFarland Brothers Bank in Logan, New Mexico. The bank was built on contract for $1,000."

[NI0023] BRAYTON - William BRAYTON of Logan, one of the early settlers of Harrison County, was born in
Rock Island, Illinois, September 15, 1838. He is the son of Stephen and Catherine (COLEMAN)
BRAYTON. The father was born in Lower Canada, and the mother in Pennsylvania. The father died in
Rock Island County, Illinois, in 1882, at the age of seventy-five years. He settled in the above county
in 1834. The mother still (in 1891) survives and is seventy-eight years of age. They were farmers
throughout their days, and reared a family of eleven children, as follows: Mary J., widow of B.F.
BROWN, a resident of Dallas County, Iowa; Joseph, deceased, was in Company H, Forty-fifth Illinois
Infantry, and died while in the service of his country; Stephen, a resident of Illinois, was in Company
H, Forty-fifth Illinois Infantry, and lost his right arm at the siege of Vicksburg; William, our subject;
Coleman, a resident of Illinois, served three month's service in the Civil War; Gideon F., a resident of
Persia, Harrison County, Iowa, served in Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry
for three years; Lucy A., deceased, wife of B.F. BROWN; Elizabeth, wife of James SEDAM, of Rock
Island, Illinois; John, a resident of Nebraska, and two children who died in early childhood.
William, our subject, was reared in Rock Island County, Ill., amid the scenes of farm-life, and educated
in the public schools. At the age of twenty-one he commenced to do for himself. For ten summers in
succession he broke prairie, before and after he was of age. August 11, 1862, when the mutterings of
the great conflict -- the Civil War -- were heard and men were being offered by the hundreds of
thousands, our subject enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry, and
served until August 12, 1865. After his discharge he returned to his old home in Illinois, and in
September of the same year, he engaged in the Government employ, in the telegraph service, and
was sent to Arkansas, and remained at this until April 1866, and then went to Kansas and spent a year
at various pursuits, spent the following winter in Illinois, and in March, 1868, came to Harrison
County, Iowa, crossing the Mississippi River on the fourth day of that month, on the ice, with wagon
and team, making the entire trip by wagon. For two years he rented a farm, and engaged at breaking
prairie. His first crop of wheat was taken by the grasshoppers, which was rather discouraging to a
new beginner in a new country, but he kept pressing onward toward success. After having been in
the country a little over one year, in July, 1869, his father-in-law gave him a deed to sixty acres of
prairie and timber land, and he purchased a tract of forty acres of slightly improved land, located on
section 7, of Jefferson Township, and October 15, of that year he moved his family, consisting of
himself and wife, to his new home, where they lived and labored until 1891, with the exception of two
years, 1882-83, when they lived with the father of our subject's wife (Henry REEL). Mr. BRAYTON kept
adding to his landed estate from time to time, until he owned two hundred and sixteen acres. They
first commenced house keeping in a shanty fourteen feet square and one story high, which served
them four years, at which time they erected a more commodious abode. And again in 1881, they
erected a fine two-story brick farm house, which now graces the farm.
Our subject made valuable improvements upon this land, and put in a fine system of water-works for
stock purposes. He has always devoted himself to farming and stock-raising, and MArch 2, 1891,
having sold his farm, moved to the old homestead farm belonging to the late Henry REEL, who was
his wife's father. This place adjoins the northwest corner of the corporation of Logan. The same
consists of fifty-one acres, which he purchased and is now improving, having made an addition to
the residence, and has contructed a system of water-works for domestic and stock purposes. August
22, 1891, he purchased the livery barn of G.O. CURTIS, of Logan.
Our subject was united in marriage December 27, 1868, to Lydia REEL, the only surviving child of
pioneers Henry and Catherine REEL, whose sketch appears in this work. Mrs. BRAYTON was born
May 31, 1841, in Putnam County, Indiana, and came to Iowa with her parents early in the 1850's. Mr.
and Mrs. BRAYTON are the parents of eight children -- a daughter who died in infancy; and Effie C.,
born August 31, 1870; Henrietta E, June 14, 1872; John B., December 4, 1873, died April 25, 1874;
Martha J., Jauary 14, 1875; Cynthia I., January 8, 1877; William P., March 31, 1878; and Mary A.,
August 8, 1880.
Our subject and his wife are members of the Regular Predestinarian Baptist Church. Politically, Mr.
BRAYTON is a radical Republican.
Source: 1891 History of Harrison County Iowa.

[NI0024] Lydia Reel left Putnam County, Indiana with her father, mother, three brothers, and three sisters for a home in the West. Early in September, 1853 they headed out, and in October landed in Council Bluffs, Iowa. In March, 1854, they came to Harrison County, Iowa, and located where Logan would eventually be.

All her life she was much interested in education, being instrumental in locating the city school, and in organizing the city library.

For two years, later in life, she (and her husband William Brayton) lived in New Mexico.

She was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. She was a faithful member attending church as long as her health would permit. Later in life she hosted church services in her own home.

She was a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, being a past president of the organization.

She was an earnest and patriotic worker, often expressing her love for our flag and for what it represents. She was much interested in child welfare work and gave liberally to the Christian Home of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and other institutions of like character.

She is buried by her husband William in Logan, Iowa.

[NI0025] 1850 Indiana census (Putnam County) shows his occupation as "Cabinet Maker", and his real estate value as $6000

1860 Iowa Census (Harrison County) shows Henry's real-estate value at $12,000. The same census shows his personal estate with a value of $1,000.

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"Henry Reel, early proprietor of the town of Logan, secured the establishment of a postoffice in December, 1867." - The Logan Observer, Thursday, May 5, 1938

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REEL - Henry REEL (deceased), better known to the people of Logan as "Uncle Henry REEL," was the founder of the town of Logan, and named the same in honor of one of the chieftains of the Civil War - General John A. LOGAN.

Mr. REEL departed this life March 5, 1890.

No more truly praiseworthy name can be mentioned in connection with the history of Logan than the one heading this sketch. He was of the old-fashioned back woods stripe of pioneers. He loved the life of a frontiersmen, and wanted to be numbered with this class throughout his days. But advanced civilized life and progress got ahead of him when he came to Harrison County, at least not many years later.

Mr. REEL was born March 16, 1803, in Montgomery County, Virginia. In 1822, he in company with his brother John REEL, removed from Dayton, Ohio, to Putname County, Indiana,which section was then a wilderness indeed. There the two brothers erected the first saw and grist mill in the community, doing the most of the millwright work from wood fashioned by their own hands.

They had to go on foot to Lawrenceburg, on the Ohio River, a distance of one hundred and thirty-five miles, to market. They usually had an axe strapped to their backs, for the purpose of building camp-fires and contructing rude "floats" or rafts, by which they were enabled to cross streams too deep and angry to wade. But when the iron rails of the first railway penetrated the forests of his farm land, "Uncle Henry" could no longer endure his Indiana home, hence emigrated West, and finally settled where Logan now stands.

He procured the lands hereabouts, together with a mill site where the Roller Mills are now situated. He came in the autumn of 1852 and built his log cabin, and not many months after had a sawmill and "corn cracker" in operation.

The space allotted to any one man's sketch is all to short to embrace the many deeds of pioneer hardships and genuine manhhod which went toward making up this man's eventful life. His later history is woven in and records with that of the city of Logan and the county of Harrison.

Among the special features of this old pioneer's life, may be mentioned his unyielding integrity and uprightness; his religious convictions; his loyalty to the Union of States, offering on the altar of his country as he did, three sons, who perished by reason of the Rebellion. He was a life-long walker, always preferring to walk, ather than to ride in any sort of conveyance. Not unfrequently would he walk from Logan to Council Bluffs, when teams were all along the way.

He was a member of the Predestinarian Baptist Church, and erected a church building at Logan
for that denomination, at his own expense. He held large landed interests, milling interests, town site interests, and at one time owned the only newspaper at Logan.

At the time of his death the remnant of his family consisted of his wife and one daughter, Mrs. William BRAYTON, of Logan. Mr. REEL's first wife was Catherine STARR, who bore him seven children. Thus one by one the scythe of time mows from the face of earth her children, and they sink to sleep in the bosom of that mother earth whose embrace shall at last envelop all mankind.

Source: 1891 History of Harrison County.

[NI0030] The 1920 Oklahoma census lists his occupation as, "Farmer / General Farm".

From the Obituary of James Odus Kelley:

"The Rev. James Odus Kelley, a Baptist pastor and a farmer here for 50 years, died at 2:40 pm., Saturday at his home, 1105 Ash, after being seriously ill for several months.

Kelley, a native of Amity, Arkansas, was born September 22, 1884. He came to the Duncan area in 1907 and preached here most of his life.

He had served as pastor of the Plato Mission, now Plato Baptist Church, and several other community organizations. He retired about 10 years ago."

[NI0031] Mattie wrote the following poem in memory of her husband James Odus Kelley,
after he passed away. It is touching for many reasons, and shows a great insight
into Mr. Kelley.

"Odus"

My dearest companion on earth has gone
His voice may be stilled,
And there's a vacant chair in this home
Which never can be filled.

He gave his life for others
As he labored on day by day,
Trying to soothe the aching brow
Of one sick across the way.

The night was never too dark
And the day never too bad,
For him to go see some one
Who was sick, suffering and sad.

His good life has been a great inspiration to me
As he helped so many others.
He never forgot his home
And never neglected his duties to me.

Some day I will meet him in Heaven.
What a happy day that will be,
When we meet at the throne of Jesus
Where we will live through all eternity.

- Mattie

[NI0032] Born in Georgia, James lived in Arkansas before he settled around Marlow, Oklahoma. In Oklahoma he planted probably close to 150 acres of farm land. He was a farmer, Baptist preacher, and could read & write.

James was described by his half-brother William J. Kelley, "Jim is a fine preacher and the strongest kind of Baptist.", in a letter to their sister Martha.

[NI0034] James was farmer and a "self made" Baptist preacher. No formal education, but began preaching around 1890 (served the Sycamore Baptist Church as pastor from 1899-1926). He celebrated the marriage and funeral rites of many of his family members. James kept a diary for a couple years around 1890 - put down something everyday. Depended on farming for a living and grew cotton, corn, potatoes and pretty much all their own food. James did not have electricity, nor indoor toilet for his family. For water they used an open well - used a bucket and pulley. No telephone. Just "country life".

His house "never had a paintbrush on it". The house had an open hall down the middle with two rooms on each side of the hall.

According to his son John, James Hamilton Smart was, "A good man. He came along at a time when most of the farmers did not try to make alot of money. They wanted to provide for their family. The Lord was really leading him in the field of preaching - he farmed so that his family would have something to eat. He was gone each weekend because at the time preachers did not really have set churches they preached in.

James Smart had black hair...

[NI0035] Had a spinning wheel. Spun cotton and thread. Crocheted socks. Used cotton for making quilts.

[NI0036] We have been unable to learn much about our ancestor Thomas Smart. We think he was born in Alabama or Tennessee, ca 1812-14. Through oral family history he and his sister, Elizabeth came to Arkansas to care for the minor children of his deceased brother, William Smart.

NOTE: Census records of 1850 show Thomas was born in Alabama and Elizabeth in Tennessee.

After arriving in Clark County in 1848, Thomas Smart, William's brother, married Rachel Crow on 14 December 1848. William's sister, Elizabeth Smart, married Rachel Crow's brother, William Crow, on 12 October, 1848. Both rites of matrimony were performed by the Crow siblings' brother-in-law, Abraham L. Weir, a Methodist Episcopal Church South minister, and the husband of their sister, Amanda Crow Weir. Amanda, Rachel, and William Crow's parents were Walter Crow and Margaret Hutchinson Crow of Okolona.

Thomas and Rachel Smart, in addition to being responsible for his brother's children, raised a large family of their own. Their children were: William Grover, Margaret Euphrates; Sarah Elizabeth; Mary Ellen; John Hampton; Talith Ann; Amanda Paralee; Thomas and Rachel Alice (twins); James Hamilton; and Harriet Alabama "Bama".

Thomas was a farmer in Clark County from 1848 until his death (the 1860 Arkansas Census shows his real estate valued at $3,000). His daughter Rachel Alice told how he made the family cross the street in Gurdon to avoid walking past some painted ladies, and each night after the dishes were done, the family gathered to listen to readings from the Bible. Indians would peek from behind trees at the family as they performed their chores.

[NI0037] The 1880 census shows that she was no longer part of the family. It also shows that her children's mother (ie herself) was born in Mississippi. Hmmm...

[NI0040] He and his wife, Ann, had many children, but his eldest son was killed in Tennessee by Indians. He applied for a Revolutionary War pension and stated that he was in Captain David Stinson's company, the 8th regiment of the Virginia line as a private. Because of a loss of his records, he never got that pension, but in 1971 the Arkadelphia Chapter of the DAR placed a memorial marker honoring him in section 7-8-22 at the intersection of Hwy 26(Old Military Road) and the Christian Campground(Bobo Road).

Shot in hip at Battle of Brandywine, 4th VA Regiment of Foot.

On 27 June 1806, Benjamin Crow, swore a statement on the claim
of Curtis Morris. This is in regard to Morris' claim on land at the
Bellevue settlement, Washington County, Missouri. Morris must have
settled here, when the area was still the Missouri Territory.

Benjamin Crow and his son, Walter, are mentioned in a number of
these depositions regarding the claims of citizens about their land
located in Missouri. Some of these claims place them there in the
early 1800's. Several family members are quoted in these "claims -
some giving relationships, and others adding confusion to
the relation.

Benjamin Crow did render service to the American fight for
Independence. He served as a private in the 3rd Virginia Regiment in
1777 and was at Valley Forge in May 1778. Later he was with the 4th
Virginia Regiment in Captain John Steed's Company at Ramapoo in
October 1779 and Morristown in December 1779. He was promoted to
Corporal and then to Sergeant during his three years service.

Benjamin Crow was born about 1756/57 in Rockingham County,
Virginia. Rockingham later became part of Augusta County. He died
in Clark County, Arkansas, after 1830.

[NI0042] The immigrant ancestor, WALTER CROW, is first mentioned in the book, Settlers By The Long Grey Trail. An early deed is dated 21June 1764, from George and William Skilleren to Walter Crow, for 343 acres on Linville's Creek on both sides of the Irish Road. (Chalkley, Vol. II, pp 46-47).

A deed, dated 22 March 1765, shows that Walter Crow purchased land from Alexander Heron (Herring) and his wife, Abigail, for 25 Pounds, 200 acres on South Fork of Linville's Creek at the corner of Samuel Harrison's land. (Deed Book 11, p 853, Augusta County Deed Books).

On 9 April 1764, Walter Crow witnessed a deed (recorded in Deed Book 11, p 647) from Samuel Harrison to Daniel Smith. Walter is also mentioned in the returns of 1768 of processioners Jeremiah Harrison and Robert Cravens. (Augusta Parish Vestry Book, p 444).

At court in Rockingham County, on 28 August 1782, Benjamin Crow, swore that he had a rifle gun, powder horn, shot pouch and knife taken from him when a continental soldier in the year 1777 and put into the magazine for which he received a certificate while he lived with Walter Crow. Walter came into court and made oath that he had lost the said certificates and never received any value for the same.

During the September 1782 court, Walter Crow made oath that upon 'this journey to Richmond, he was robbed of one bond of 10 Pounds Specie, Date November 6, 1773 to be paid the 6th May 1774, the bond upon Adam Walker and John North, securities, and one Bond of 15 pounds specie, upon Phillip Bleaten and Leddy Dickson, security, June 1776, to be paid in 1 October 1776, and one note of hand upon Joseph Pue of L 1.18.6 Specie.

Walter Crow was born 25 Aug 1717, in Sassafras, Cecil, MD, the son of John Crow and Martha Newman. About 1747, he was married to Ann Miller. She was the daughter of John Miller and Sarah Hadley. Ann was born 26 Apr 1720, in Christchurch, Middlesex Co., VA. She died 4 May 1811, Mercer, Mercer Co., KY.

A fee of 70 cents was paid to the county office by W. Roalston and H. J. Gambrill to record the will of Walter Crow, which is abstracted as follows I, Walter Crow, of Rockingham County. To wife, Ann. To eight children, viz: Mary Harnsberry, James, John, William, Benjamin, Jacob Crow, Nancy Gregg and Rachel Harnett. Will is signed 6 August 1789. Proved in court 28 September 1789, Rockingham County.

Walter Crow performed Patriotic Service during the American Revolution.

[NI0045] Mr. Brayton was an early settler at Scipio Township, La Porte County, IN, in 1831. He voted in the first county election on April 9, 1832. He also voted in the first presidential election in that county. He was elected as one of the first petit jurors in the county. In 1836, Mr. Brayton moved his family to Buffalo Prairie Township, Rock Island County, IL. And there, he bought 160 acres of land and became a member of a local Baptist church.

He & son Stephen resided on sec 17, Buffalo Prarie twp.
- IL land records Rock Island, IL (4)
- Biographical Record of Rock Island Co, IL, S. J. Clarke Pub Co., Chicago, 1897.

[NI0047] In the fall of 1816, he moved his family from Lower, Canada and settled in Oxford Township, Huron County, OH where he was listed as a farmer in the 1820 census. During 1822 he lived at Margaretta, Huron Co, Ohio, then moved to Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio. The 1830 Census lists him as a farmer at York Township, Sandusky Co, Ohio. He then moved again to La Porte County, IN where he was a deacon of the Dorr Village Baptist Church. He and his wife, Ruth (his first cousin), had 8 children.
In June of 1833 he settled in the southwestern part of Dorr Prarie, on Hog Creek, La Porte County, Indiana and was recorded there by the 1840 Census. He later moved to Rock Island Co, Illinois. - Brayton Family History

[NI0049] LDS also gives birth as 7/15/1759, which would make him closer to his wife's age. Perhaps Joseph of 1747 died young.

[NI0051] Born in Portsmouth, RI, Gideon moved his family to Clarendon, Rutland County, VT after he and his brother, Thomas inherited their father's property and land. On March 26, 1778, the U.S. Government ordered the land of Gideon Brayton to be confiscated for "notorious treasonable acts". Gideon was a Tory, and was considered an enemy. The irony of this situation is that his son, Matthew, was a private in the NY State militia.

Brayton Family History: Westfield renamed Fort Ann in 1808. Gideon disposed of his property at East
Greenwich and migrated with some of his family to Dutchess Co, in NY, and then to Clarendon, VT. Gideon, Thomas and Joseph Brayton are listed as owners of estates at Clarendon, VT which were ordered confiscated because of their "Notorious Treasonable Acts Committed against this and the United States of America" in 1778. A Court of Confiscation was appointed on 3/26/1778. On 4/23/1778 the Court of Confiscation declared that Gideon Brayton, of Clarendon, VT, together with 138 other Tories, in Vermont, were guilty of "Notorious Treasonable acts". On 4/10/1778, almost two weeks before the decision, the property of Gideon Brayton was sold at "Publick Vandue" (auction).

[NI0053] Will dated 3/11/1728, proved 4/19/1728. Exs. wife Mary and son Thomas. To son Thomas, all lands and housing in Portsmouth (with exception of right in Hunting Swamp), he paying my wife Mary L20, per year when he is of age, during her widowhood. If Thomas die, his part to go to my sons Gideon and Francis, but till Thomas is 21 the profits of Portsmouth estate to go toward finishing house in East Greenwich where I now live. To son Gideon at 21, farm where I dwell, with housing, &c. To son Francis, a farm. To daughters Mary and Hannah Brayton, land in Coweset; which father-in-law Gideon Freeborn gave
wife Mary in his will. To wife, the best room in house allowed for her use by son Gideon, and suitable attendance while widow, and firewood furnished. To son Thomas, negro boy Pero. To daughter Mary, negro girl Jude. To wife, negro woman Betty, and to her all the rest of lands, and right in sloop "Elizabeth & Mary," &c. Rest of personal to wife and children. Inventory, L934, 5s. 6d., viz: wearing apparel L15, 1s., books L2, 5 silver spoons, 4 silver cups, pewter, money scales, warming pan, negroes, Cuffe L76, Betty L60, Jude L40, Pompo L10, 1 pair oxen, 1 cow, 1 heifer, 2 steers, 1 horse, 1 mare, 20 gallons rum, 97 lbs. logwood, 1/4 sloop "Mary & Elizabeth " L118, 6s.- quoted from Microfilm 84/8004 (C) from Library of Congress, Brayton, Descendents of Francis and Mary Brayton, of Portsmouth, RI, 2/14/[18]85. Deputy 1719-21; East Greenwich, Deputy 1725-27 - same microfilm.

[NI0055] Will dated 1/6/1715, proved 2/10/1718. Exs. wife Mary and son Francis. Overseers, Jacob Mott, William Anthony and Preserved Fish. To wife, use of all housing and lands in Portsmouth while widow. To son Thomas and male heirs, land where son lives, &c., he allowing my son Benjamin liberty to cut two loads of hay yearly for ten years after death of my wife. To son Francis Brayton, all my homestead where I dwell, he paying in my son Benjamin, sum of L50. To son Benjamin, several pieces of land, 120 acres, 100 acres, 50 acres, 40 acres, &c., all in Tiverton. To daughter Mary Brayton, house lot of 9 acres in Tiverton, feather bed, &c., and L60. To daughter Mehitable Brayton, a feather bed and L100. To sons Thomas, Francis and Benjamin, a feather bed each. To wife Mary, rest of movables. To two daughters, one cow between them while unmarried. Inventory, L817, 16s, 10d., viz: wearing apparel, cane, gloves, pocket knife and razor L22, silver money L151, 16s, plate L1, 9s., pewter, warming pan, books L1, gun, 4 spinning wheels, beds, apples and cider L5, 10s., cider mill, 2 pair oxen, 7 cows, a bull, 2 calves, 3 horsekind, 50 sheep, service in an Indian boy and girl L25, &c. - quoted from Microfilm 84/8004 (C) from
Library of Congress, Brayton, Descendents of Francis and Mary Brayton, of Portsmouth, RI, 2/14/[18]85.

[NI0057] Very little is known about this man, but many feel he came from England. One fact is known: he is considered the American progenitor of the entire Brayton line. All across Rhode Island, there are towns which were once named after him or his offspring.

Progenitor for the Rhode Island Brayton lineage. No one has been able to prove where he came from, although many suspect he came from England. The first record he left was in a town meeting in Portsmouth on November 28, 1643. The record states that Francis "was received as an inhabitant, gave his engagement unto the government and propounded for a lot of land." Much of the information on the Brayton line until about 1800 comes from "Brayton Family History," Volumes 1 & 2, Clifford Ross Brayton, Jr., 1978 & 1982, Rochester, New York 14612 LCC 78-73857. Brayton gives the history of Francis and his descendents. ID numbers given here in the form of Brayton #n correspond to the ID numbers in Brayton's book. Will dated 10/17/1690, proved 9/5/1692 Exx. wife Mary. Overseers, friends George Brownell, John Borden and John Anthony. To wife, use and profit of all land I bought of Stephen Burton and housing thereon in Portsmouth, and she to have use of all movables and real estate, goods, cattle, chattels, &c. and if needful she may dispose of any part for comfortable maintenance. To eldest son Francis, all wearing appearel and confirmation of lands already given. To 2d son Stephen, confirmation of lands already given, and 5s. At death of wife the land bought of Stephen Burton, about 4 acres, and housing, to go to eldest son Francis he paying legacies. To eldest daughter Martha Pearce, 5s. To daughter Elizabeth Bourne, L2. To daughter Sarah Gatchel, L2. To grandson Francis, son of Francis, L2. To grandson Preserved, son of Stephen, L2. To grandson Francis Pearce, L2. To granddaughter Mary, wife of James Tallman, L2. At death of wife, movables (with some exceptions) to be divided to children and grandchildren, viz: sons Francis and Stephen, daughters Elizabeth Bourne and Sarah Gatchell, and my grandson Francis Pearce, and granddaughter Mary, wife of James Tallman. - quoted from Microfilm 84/8004 (C) from Library of Congress, Brayton, Descendents of Francis and Mary Brayton, of Portsmouth, RI, 2/14/[18]85. LDS gives name as Franas, gives father's name as Francis I; AFN: 18VB-DMM, born in England.

[NI0061] Silk Merchant

[NI0064] "Richard Nichols/son of Richard Nichols of E. Greenwich, RI/d. in 1720 age 72/ wife Phebe/ wp 25 Mar 1727 Warwick." NICHOLS FAMILY, NICHOLS GENEALOGY FROM 1648 TO 1952 WITH ORIGINS OF THE NAME by Agusta S. Nichols

[NI0067] Died of cancer. Had a twin brother Edward (not identical).
was a resident of Danville for 19 years til his death
mass was at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Danville
buried Greenwood Cemetary in Danville (family plot)

The Sweeney's and Hilliards did not like him.
Because they felt that Thomas Turner forced Mary Hilliard to marry him -
Mary went to visit her sister Kate, probably got pregnant by Thomas E. Turner
family not too happy

was a master mechanic
worked on "Stanley Steamer" autos

[NI0068] Was beautiful - (Mary E. Turner) when she died, the family asked if they could keep
her around for a couple days

birthdate also given as 9-23-1894 (Neva D. Hilliard)

Never cared that the Hilliards and Sweeneys did not visit.
After her and her second husband Casper Fulcher had some money, the family started to visit.
Had a beautiful disposition.

Buried in Sunset Memorial Mausoleum in Danville

[NI0069] Notes

Thomas was the son of John and Susannah (Dillon) Reese. He was a
carpenter.

Sources

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

History of Vermilion County, Illinois, H. W. Beckwith, 1879

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0070] 1850 Illinois Census, Vermilion County, Page 359 lists her birthdate as about 1833.

Sources

History of Vermilion County, Illinois, H. W. Beckwith, 1879

1850 US Census Illinois

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0071] came from Kentucky
settled in Illinois
was a Mechanic worker

[NI0073] Farmer (listed as occupation on 1880 Federal Census, death certificate)
According to Mary Esther Turner, the Hilliards and Sweeneys were, "huge"
Had a beard with a moustache that fell down on the sides (photos show this to be true!).
Birthdate also shown as 11-14-1858 (Hilliard, Billie)
Buried at Cariens Cemetary, Wayne County, Illinois
He spent his entire life near the place of his birth.
member of the Johnsonville Lodge No. 713, A.F. & A.M.


Died at the home of his daughter Kate's house, Mt. Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois at 8:00 PM from a stroke. His usual place of residence was in Johnsonville, Wayne County, Illinois. He was a member of Rock Branch General Baptist Church, but his funeral took place at the home of his son Sam. James was buried at Cariens Cemetary in Wayne County, he was 70 years, 2 months and 1 day old at the time of his death.

[NI0074] aka Jane Anders Sweeney (Hilliard, Neva)
death possibly d 29 Mar 1932 (Brumleve, Dorothy)

[NI0075] Sources

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

History of Vermilion County, Illinois, H. W. Beckwith, 1879

Sy E. Mendenhall, 1670 Blackland Road, Oil Trough, AR 72564

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

[NI0076] Sources:
The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059
History of Vermilion County, Illinois, H. W. Beckwith, 1879

Sy E. Mendenhall, 1670 Blackland Road, Oil Trough, AR 72564

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

[NI0077] Sources

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0078] Sources
History of Vermilion County, Illinois, H. W. Beckwith, 1879
1850 US Census Illinois

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

Sy E. Mendenhall, 1670 Blackland Road, Oil Trough, AR 72564

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

[NI0079]

Sources

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

Mendenhall Family, Nellie E. Evans, Route #1, Sheridan, IN 46069,
LDS film #1572051

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

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Also have date born as July 30, 1774 ****
Notes (from web at:http://www.gendex.com/~guest/69751/JohnBrattain/D0003/G0000005.html#I6353)
Millingas genealogy [Ridlon, Gideon Tibbetts, Sr., Rev., History of the Families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising Genealogies and Biographies of their Posterity Surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, A.D. 800 - A.D. 1907, published by the author, 1907] says he married Charity Mendenhall and lived at Lost Creek, Jefferson Co. TN. Is this a confusion with the Aaron Mills who married Charity Mendenhall, dau. of Mordecai Mendenhall and Charity Beeson, or another Charity? There are several contemporaneous Charity Mendenhalls.

[NI0081] Notes

Richard was part of a scouting party led by James Boone, brother of
Daniel, which was ambushed by Indians near Crab Orchard, KY. During the
American Revolution Daniel Boone made arrangements to sell what property that
he could not move with him and persuaded some of his wife's family, the Bryans,
to join him on a trip to claim new land in Kentucky. He was joined by his
brother, Squire, Squire's wife, Jane, and their three children, along with
Benjamin Cutbeard and his wife, who was a niece of Daniel's. Making a total of
five or six families, along with about 40 men who each had a horse or two to
help carry all the supplies. Among these 40 men were John and Richard
Mendenhall. Richard was 36 years of age. John Mendenhall, 25, was a first
cousins to Richard.

The party left the Yadkin on 25 Sep 1773. Travel was slow as the trail was
only wide enough for the pack horses, walking single file, and all who were
able-bodied had to walk. When they reached Wolf Hills, now Abingdon, VA, Daniel
sent his seventeen year old son, James, along with John and Richard Mendenhall
to go to Castle Woods, which was off the trail to the north about 25 miles.
They were to pick up supplies and meet the main party further west. The main
party would follow the old wilderness trail, through Moccasin Gap, over Wallens
Ridge at a point about 10 miles east of the Cumberland Gap, where they would
make camp and leave the women and children to rest until James and the
Mendenhall party overtook them. They feared that if the Indians would attack it
would be in that area and for protection they wanted the party to be
altogether.

Upon arriving at Captain Russell's home, on the Clinch River, Henry Russell,
the seventeen year old son of Captain Russell, a man by the name of Isaac
Crabtree and two Negro slaves named Charles and Adam, joined James Boone and
Richard and John Mendenhall to help out with the supplies and farm tools.
Captain Russell himself said he must follow along later as he had some
necessary work to do at home before leaving. He would join David Gass who lived
eight miles down the Clinch River.

James Boone and the Mendenhall party set out on 8 Oct 1773, following the
old Fincastle Trail down past David Gass's place and crossed Clinch River at
Hunters Ford, now Dungannon. From that point they passed through Rye Cove and
took the Wilderness Trail over Powell Mountain to the head waters of Wallens
Creek.

James and his companions could see signs, probably made by his father's
party; he knew that the place of rendezvous was but a few miles ahead. However,
darkness overtook them and fearing they might lose their way, went into camp
the evening of 9 Oct.

They built a fire and ate a scanty meal. Then, lying down beside the fire,
they tried to sleep. Although weary from the long hard walk, they couldn't
sleep for the incessant howling of wolves evidently disturbed by the fire
light. The Mendenhalls were so alarmed at the weird howling that they walked up
and down, listening and making no effort to conceal their fear. Isaac Crabtree,
although he also may have been afraid, joked about the howling.

The fire died down and its light dimmed. The howling reached further and
further into the forest. Little by little day dawned. The men sat up,
stretched, listening. For a while there was no sound but the whimper of the
waters of Wallens Creek and the eerie whisper of the wind in the trees.

But, suddenly, the calm was broken by the war whoop of Indians who rushed up
with knife blades raised and guns cracking. A man by the name of Drake and one
of the Mendenhalls were killed out right, the other Mendenhall crept off
mortally wounded. Henry Russell was shot through the hips and brought down.
Then an Indian attacked him with a hunting knife and began to stab him. He
grabbed the knife blade with his bare hands, trying to protect himself, but he
failed. Soon he lay dead. Yet, the Indians shot arrows into his body.

James was immediately attacked by a big Indian who he knew to be Big Jim, a
Shawnee, who had roamed the Yadkin Country and had pretended to be a friend of
his father. Big Jim seemed to delight in whacking James with a knife and
pounding him with a tomahawk. Instead of killing the boy instantly, the big
Indian prolonged the torture. The Negro, Adam, who had escaped to a pile of
driftwood heard James cry out.

Big Jim was intent upon making death come with all the torture possible, and
he continued to whack away with his knife. James, like Henry Russell, grabbed
onto the blade until his hands were cut to shreds. Even after death the
slashing went on until the bodies were horribly mutilated. Then, leaving a war
club on the scene, the Indians slunk away into the forest. The dead had not
been scalped. The Indians would not bring a white scalp into their towns in
time of peace.

All in the party were killed save Isaac Crabtree and the two Negroes slaves,
Adam and Charles. Adam, after watching the massacre from the driftwood, ran
into the woods, tried to find his way back to Castle Woods but got lost and
wandered alone several days before finding his way out.

Charles was taken prisoner and forced to travel with his captors. About
forty miles from the scene of attack, two Indians quarrelled over possession of
him, each wanting to take him North to sell him. Unable to settle the dispute,
the leader of the party slew Charles with a tomahawk, and then the disputants
ceased to argue.

Sources

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

Leo E. Rasor, 11550 W. Panther Creek Road, Bradford OH 45308-9403

John Kieffer, jvmusik@primenet.com

[NI0082] Sources
The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059
Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

[NI0083] OCCU Blacksmith

SOUR Louise Hutchinson

Lived under New Garden MM, NC until Deep River MM was set up in 1778. Removed
to Miami Meeting, OH by certificate dated at Lost Creek Meeting, TN
26 Jan 1805. Later removed to Ceasar's Creek, OH then to White Water
Meeting, IN by certificated dated 29 Apr 1819.


Sources

Genealogy of the Beeson-Beason Family, Henry Hart Beeson, 1968

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

[NI0085] OCCU Blacksmith/Farmer

SOUR Jean Evans

REFN 384

Was a farmer. According to Jean Evans - he was born at New Garden, NC.
Mordecai and Charity moved from New Garden, NC to Hopewell, VA by certificate
dated 27 Sep 1736. They remained there until 1751 when they moved to Cane
Creek Meeting, Guilford, NC by certificate dated 6 Mar 1751. His will is
recorded in Guilford, NC. Received a photo of the grave marker for Mordecai
and Charity Mendenhall from Leo Rasor and
have put it my files. It notes "Quaker Pioneers of the Piedmont." Mordecai
Mendenhall rendered material aid and supplies for the militia during the
Revolutionary War.

Leo Rasor has supplied me with a lot of documentation regarding Mordecai
Mendenhall, including a copy of his marriage announcement to Charity
Beeson. Witnesses included: Thomas McClun, William Evans, Hattill Varman,
Allice Gibson, Mary Ashton, John Mendenhall Sr, Richard Beeson, Susanna
Mendenhall, Rachel Beeson, among others.


Notes

Mordecai moved to Frederick County, VA in Sep 1736 shortly after marrying
Charity. In 1751 they moved to New Garden, NC, then to Deep River and finally
Springfield. He acquired hundreds of acres of land along Deep River. During the
Revolutionary War, Mordecai furnished quarters, food and horses for the
American Army and his home was used as a temporary hospital for the wounded.

Sources

Charity G. Monroe, 4315 W. Lora Ann Lane, Peoria, IL 61615

Dr. George E. Mendenhall, 1510 Cedar Bend Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2305

Morgan L. Jones, RR4, Box 209, Brevard, NC 28712, (704) 884-3860

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

Brenda Beattie, 221 N. Melendres, Las Cruces NM 88005, (505) 523-4481
bsbeattie@aol.com

[NI0086] A letter from Charity to her sister Phebe:

Loving Sister,

This is to let thee know that we have Received three letters from ye
and three presents therein I sent the(e) no letters; I had not freedom
Last winter was a year, I had a long time of sickness which brought me
very low in body, and mind and now I am troubled with short breath so
that I think I am going home softly. I thought it would Trouble Thee
more to let thee know my condition Then send no letters.

I goes to meeting sometimes; we have a meting every other fifth day at
our house, my husband grose weakly; the Lord who Lited our candled hath
not put them out. Our children Remember their loves to you all. I have
sente two presents to the(e) as a toacon of Love and youenity. We donte
know that thear heath bene any mischip done in the government as yet by
the Indins, but dont know how soon thear may be for some is doubtfull
thear my be before the truble some times be over. I desire the(e) to
remember oure kind Loves to all oure neare Relations and friends. We
under Stand that oure brother John Grubb is desesed, but we have no
Cartunty of it. I desire thee to let me know what is become of Peter
Grubb's widow. Remember my Love to brother Henry Grubb in particular.
So we ad no more at present but Remembering our kind Loves to thee and
thy family the 28th of ye fifth month, 1758.

Richard Beeson
Charity Beeson

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The reply letter from Phebe:

Loving Brother and Sister;

I received Your Letter this day, Dated ye 5th Month 1758, in which I had Great
statisfaction to hear of You, Except that Impediment and Stopage in my Sister's
Breath and my Brother's Weakness for which I am Ready to Sympathise With, Still hoping
that Light, the Grace of God, may be your instructor Until it may Please Him to Call us
Unto Himself Which is my Desire Both for you and myself, it Gives me Great Satisfaction
to hear of your Keeping to meeting knowing by Experience the Benefit of Waiting Upon
the Lord of help in this time of trouble. I have at this time no Child at home But
I Acknowledge for myself on the Behalf of my children the Love My cousins has Remembered
to us. The Present you have sent to me I Acknowledge and hope to keep as a Sure token of
friendship. My desire is that you may be Still kept from the Merciless hand of the Enemy
[Indians] and Above the fear of them by trusting in the god of all strength. We have
frequently heard of their doing Mischief in the Province.

According to Your desire I shall Let our Relations Know the Contents of your Letter as soon
as Possible; the time being so short I have not as yet had no Opportunity But I shall be Carefull.
Brother John Grubb is Certainly Deceased this Life he Died with the Gravel and Was decently
Buried at Chichester in Friends Buring Ground, the Corps Accompanied by Brothers Emanuel,
Samuel, Nathaniel and my self, With a great Company of Others. Brother John has set his two
oldest Negroes free and the Rest to be set free at twenty five Years of age. Sister Hannah
Grubb Lives at Wilmington & among her Children. I saw her Lately. She lives Exceeding Well
full and Plenty. My Children and family is at Present in health as Usual and their families.
My son Nathaniel and Isaac is out at Work at the mason trade. Joseph is at John Wall's.
John Wall, my son in Law has a daughter about nine months old and Calls Her Name Charity.

Our Brothers is all in Good health Except our Living and Beloved Brother Samuel; he is at this
time in Kingwood in Hunterton County in West Jersey or Was there Lately to be Cured of a Cancer
in his Under lip which is Very Painfull. Brother Richard, I have heard Lately of Joseph Gregg
and his family they are all in Reasonable Good health. I have heard nothing to the Contray
from thy Cousins by the River. So I Conclude Still Remembering that Love and Unity Which ought
to subsist among Brethern and Sisters in the fellowship of truth.

Please to Remember my Love to My Children and Grand Children by My Late husband and to William
Cox and his Wife Rachel Wright, With all Other Enquiring friend. Do no Neglect Writing to me
as often as Possible and the Circumstance of Your Affairs and Condition if you please, Concerning
these Troubelsome times.

This from your sister Phebe Hadly."

(originally published in "The Grubb Family", Gilbert Cope, 1893)

[NI0090] Lived at East Calne, Chester, PA until 1731. Moved to Lancaster,
PA. In 1747 moved to Frederick, VA and were members of Hopewell MM.
Came to America with William Penn in 1683. Documentation from Earl Peirce -
Info on dates is from the Concord Friends Meeting Records, Concordsville,
Chester, PA from the Family History Library at Salt Lake City, UT
film #432,022.

Sources

Macy Genealogy 1635-1868, Silvanus Macy, 1868

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

[NI0092] One of the first Mendenhalls to cross the Atlantic. Came with William Penn on
'The Welcome' in 1682 from the town of Deal, Sussex, England. The Commander
of the 300 ton ship was Robert Greenaway. See further info in 'Mendenhall
Ancestry' by Aaron B Mendenhall in file, copy courtesy of Earl Peirce.
According to Gale Honeyman *P* he was an original shareholder in the Concord
Mill in PA. In 1697 he and his wife gave to the Society
of Friends the site of the Concord Meeting House and the burial grounds.
Documentation from Earl Harvey Peirce lists Sources of Info as: 1.) Archives
FGR & TIB, FH Library, SLC, UT. 2.) Archives FGR shows Futhey & Cope,
History of Chester, Pennsylvania, D.A.R. Magazine, Vol 60 p 220, Compendium of
American Genealogy, Vol 5 Boston transcript. 3.) Algie Newlin, The Newlin
Family, 1965 FHL Call # 929.273 N461 5n.

Further info from Earl Peirce: Prosperity and Progress, Concord Township,
Pennsylvania, 1618-1983 Vol 1, The Colonial Legacy, by Robert P. Case PhD re:
early landowners. John Mendenhall acquired 300 acres in Concord, shortly after
arriving from England in 1683. The last parcel was sold in 1713. See further
info in the Mendenhall folder. Some evidence indicates he may have been part
owner, with William Brinton Jr, of the "Concord Mill". This mill was assessed
10 pounds in 1694. Was one of 5 mills in Chester County. He was the first
recorded individual to purchase land in Concord. He received a deed
from William Penn on 6 Feb 1683 for 300 acres.


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Notes

John bought 300 acres from William Penn on 14 Sep 1681 while still in
England, costing 6 lb. per 500 acres. On 6 Feb 1683 Penn requested a survey for
this land, which was laid out in Concord Township, John being the first
recorded purchaser of land in Concord. His patent is dated 27 Jun 1684.

It was probably in the autumn of 1682 that John made the voyage to PA. There
seems to be no record of the ship on which he made passage. It is likely that
it sailed from the port of Bristol. It is probable that he was accompanied by
his sister, Mary and his younger brother, Benjamin. He came to Concord township
in what was then Chester County, PA.

The Chester County court was held at the town of Chester on 17 Apr 1683. The
court records indicate that John Mynall was a juror, and at the same court John
Mendinhall was appointed constable for Concord, Liberty township.

A note written 6 Jul 1683 to J. Harding has been preserved saying:

If thou knowest any such man as John Minall, tell him he may expect a small
truss of cloth by ye shipp Francis & Mary, also a truss of goods by ye same
shipp for Jno. Kingman, both under ye charge Jno. Burns for delivery and of him
they must enquire for it when the said shipp comes. (Signed) John Hitchcock.

John Hitchcock of Bristol, England had close contact with the Mendenhall
family. In Concord Township, John was a close associate of John Harding. A
record of a somewhat later court session of the Chester County court indicates
that John Mendenhall and John Harding were accused of selling whiskey to the
Indians. It is possible that these young men might have done this as a means of
ensuring that the Indians would not steal their hogs.

John sold 100 acres of his tract to his brother-in-law, Thomas Martin on 27
Nov 1686. John placed the remainder of this tract in a trust for his three
young sons on 8 Mar 1692. John continued to enjoy the use of the property until
the sons reached their majority and did not prevent him from donating land for
the new Concord Meeting House, stables and graveyard on 13 Dec 1697.

John bought 250 acres in Concord Township from John Harding (who bought the
land from William Penn in England in September, 1681) which was surveyed to
Harding on 13 Feb 1683. John's patent is dated 26 Jun 1684. John assigned these
250 acres to his brother, Benjamin, in Jun 1686.

John was an original shareholder in the Concord Mill, one of five mills in
Chester County.

The deed by which John tranferred land to the Concord Monthly Meeting of the
Quakers follows:

Know all men by these presents that John Mendenhall of the township of
Concord in the County of Chester, yeoman, for the consideration of five
shillings amount money of Pennsylvania to him paid by Nicholas Newlin, Nicholas
Pyle both of the said Township, yeoman, George Pearce of the Township of
Thornbury in the said County, yeoman, and Peter Dix of Birmingham in the County
aforesaid, yeoman, the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge, hath given,
granted, aliened, released, enscrolled and confirmed and by these presents doth
give, grant, alien, release, enscroll and confirm unto the said Nicholas
Newlin, Nicholas Pyle, George Pearce and Peter Dix all that piece of land
situate and being in the said township of Concord beginning at a corner marked
stake thence north north east twenty-six perches by the said John Mendenhall's
fence to a corner marked stake thence west north west eight perches and eleven
feet to a corner marked stake then south south west twenty six perches to a
corner marked stake standing by Birmingham Road thence by the said road, east
south east eight perches and eleven feet to the place of beginning together
with all the messuages, buildings and improvements to the said piece of ground
belonging and all the estate rights, title and property of him, the said John
Mendenhall, of, in and to the same and the previous ___ rents and profits
thereof to have and hold the said messuages, piece of land and all other the
premises hereby granted with the appurtenances unto the said Nicholas Newlin,
Nicholas Pyle, George Pearce and Peter Dix and their heirs forever to the uses,
intents, and services hereinafter mentioned and declared and to no other use,
intent or purpose whatsoever that is to say the said messuages lately erected
upon the said piece of ground to be and remain for a meeting house for the use
and services of the People of God called Quakers the other building now also
erected upon the said piece of land shall be for a stable for the service of
the said people as also all the said piece of land hereby granted shall
likewise be and remain for the use of the said people to bury their dead upon
said part or parts thereof and for such other uses as they shall see proper,
paying unto the said John Mendenhall and his heirs one pepper corn yearly
forever if lawfully demanded provided always and it is the true intent and
meaning of these presents and of all the parties hereunto that nothing the said
Nicholas Newlin, Nicholas Pyle, George Pearce and Peter Dix nor any of them,
nor any other person or persons who shall be declared by the members of the
monthly meeting of the said people called Concord Meeting and belonging to the
said Meeting House for the time being to be out of unity with them shall be
capable to execute this trust or stand seized of the premises to the said uses
nor have any right or interest in the said meeting house, stable and piece of
ground and other premises, nor any part thereof while they shall so remain and
that in all such cases as also when any of the above named trustees or any
other succeeding them in the said trust, shall happen to depart this life then
it shall and may be lawful to and for Friends in their said Monthly Meeting as
often as occasion shall require to make choice of others to manage the
aforesaid trust instead of such as shall to fall away or be deceased and the
said John Mendenhall for himself, his heirs and Executors doth covenant and
grant to and with the said Nicholas Newlin, Nicholas Pyle, George Pearce and
Peter Dix, their heirs and successors in the said trust by these presents that
the said messuages, piece of ground and other the premises hereby granted with
the appurtenances shall be and remain unto the said people of God called
Quakers forever for the uses and under the restrictions herein before mentioned
or intended, freely acquitted and discharged of and from all claims, title
troubles and encumbrances whatsoever had or done or which hereafter may be had,
suffered or committed by him, the said John or his heirs or by heirs their
means privily or procurement. In writing whereof he hath hereunto set his hand
and seal the thirteenth day of December, anno Domini, 1697.

(Signed) John Mendenhall

Sources

Macy Genealogy 1635-1868, Silvanus Macy, 1868

The Newlin Family, Ancestors and Descendants, Algie I. Newlin, 1965,
Box 8345, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 27410

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

[NI0097] Notes

Two sons and a daughter of Thomas emigrated to America; Benjamin, John,
and Mary. They landed at Philadelphia in the fall of 1682. Benjamin and John
purchased two thousand acres of land from William Penn for the sum of three
pounds per hundred acres and a tax of ten shillings a year to England on every
one hundred acres. The land was located on both sides of the Brandywine River
in Chester County, PA. Later it was divided into farms and occupied by a number
of the descending families. It has all passed out of the family name, except
Springdale Farm which is located among the hills and fertile fields of
southeastern Pennsylvania, close to the beautiful historic Brandywine where
Washington and Lafayette played an important part during the Revolutionary War.
Another son, Moses and his older sister Margery and her husband, Thomas Martin
and their four young daughters, arrived on the ship, Unicorn, from Bristol,
England on 16 Dec 1685.

As the Mendenhalls were Quakers or members of the Society of Friends, of
high standing, they were opposed to war, refused to bear arms and were not
active participants in the Revolutionary nor Civil Wars. However, they often
provided medical care for the wounded of the battles and some of the
Mendenhalls used their teams to haul cannon and supplies at the Battle of
Brandywine which was fought upon and around the original Mendenhall farm. Some
of them were cast out of the Friends Meeting at Kennett, PA, for their
activities in the revolution, helping Generals Washington and LaFayette.

Thomas' will, dated 2 Jun 1682, was proved in Perogative Court of Canterbury
at Somerset House, London, England, 17 Nov 1682.

Sources

Charity G. Monroe, 4315 W. Lora Ann Lane, Peoria, IL 61615

Carol Mendenhall Duffy, 8190 13th Street #308, Westminster CA 92683-1965

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

[NI0098]
Sources

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

[NI0100] Notes

Thomas was a farmer. An inventory of his estate following his death showed
that his household goods, crops and stock were worth 41 pounds, 15 shillings
and 6 pence.

Sources

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

Carol Mendenhall Duffy, 8190 13th Street #308, Westminster CA 92683-1965

Sue Shreve, 5 Anderson Court, West Bay Shore, L.I., NY 11706-7701
(516) 665-7693

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

[NI0102] Notes

John was a self-styled ambassador to India, appointed by the East India
Company in 1599; he claimed to be the representative of Queen Elizabeth I. In
addition to his child born in England, he had two illegitimate children by a
Persian woman. A son and daughter were still living with their mother in Persia
at the time of John's death. John left London 12 Feb 1599 in the "Hector" with
Richard Parsons as its master. On 27 Apr they arrived at Zante where John hired
a "saettia" and went to Izmir, Turkey and on to Constantinople, arriving 29 Oct
1599. He stayed in Constantinople for six months, resuming his journey and
arriving at Aleppo 24 May 1600. He left Aleppo and arrived at Bir at the edge
of the Euphrates River with about 600 people. According to the East India
Company records, John made a second trip to India early in 1614. It was on this
trip that he fell ill and died. His body was buried in the Catholic Cemetery.

Sources

Sue Shreve, 5 Anderson Court, West Bay Shore, L.I., NY 11706-7701
(516) 665-7693

Mendenhalls, Stubbs, Brewers and Singletons, Gary Singleton, 1983

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

[NI0104] Notes

John was knighted and thus had the title of 'Sir.'

Sources

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

Edward L. Davis, 6017 Ponderosa NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110, (505) 881-7036

[NI0107] Edward Beeson and his wife, Rachel, came into the colonies by way of a
land grant from William Penn, a Quaker. It is not known if they were
Quakers. However, it is known that they lived in Chester Co., PA.

[NI0109] John Grubb with William Penn, Richard Buffington, and others, 3 Mar 1676, signed the Plan of Government for the Province of West Jersey and came to America in 1677 where he became a prominent pioneer as a legislator, magistrate, farmer, and leather manufacturer. He is buried in St. Martin Churchyard in Marcus Hook, PA. Frances Vane Grubb then married her husband's friend, Richard Buffington.

The Grubb family was first represented in John Grubb. There is still in existence a letter written to his uncle by King Charles I, in Nov. 1642, with the Royal Seal appended, asking for a loan "To aid the King in defending the Realm and the Church against his enemies." This letter was addressed to "Our truly and well-beloved John Grubb, Esq." Lord John Grubb's family are interred in the old manor churchyard on his estate in England, and on it were many Memorial Tablets bearing epitaphs in Latin and having the
family Arms and Crest. This family is descended from people who distinguished themselves as early as the tenth century.

John Grubb, the first of the family on these shores, was a son of John and helen Grubb. At the age of 25 years, he came to America to mend his fortunes, which had been impaired by the support he gave to the Royal Cause. Sailing from London in the ship "KENT" in 1677, he arrived at Burlington, West Jersey, and received 340 acres of land on Chester Creek. As early as 1682, Grubb's Landing, Brandywine Hundred, DE was known to fame. John Grubb became possessor of a tract of land 600 acres in extent as made one of the Colonial Justices in 1693 and was twice elected to the colonial assembly.

The historian's say of him, "He came from that stock of men second to none on the face of the earth--The English Country Gentleman." At Grubb's Landing, he erected a tannery, and was the first manufacturer of leather in Penn's Province. In 1703, he left Grubb's Landing and located in Marcus Hook, PA where he invested heavily in land. he was an extensive land owner in both PA and DE. Like his ancestors, he was a devout supporter of the Church of England.


From WFT:
John Grubb, with his wife Frances, was a resident of Upland as early as 1679, but does not appear to have been settled there as early as 1677. In 1679, jointly with Richard Buffington, he purchased 300 acres of land on the southwest side of Chester Creek above Cheater, and may have resided there some time. His occupation was that of a tanner. His children were Emanuel, John, Joseph, Henry, Samuel, Nataniel, Peter, Charity, and Phebe, all of whom were living at the time of his death in 1708. His daughter
Chariety was married to Richard Beeson prior to his death. He does not appear to have been a Quaker, probably was an Episcopalian. His age was about 60 years.

Samuel Grubb settled in East Bradford on the farm now of William Gibbons. Nataniel married Ann Moore and settled in Willistown. He was a member of Assembly, trustte of the loan office, etc. Peter Grubb went to what is now Lebanon County, where he was a prominet ironmaster. Phebe married Richard Buffington Jr., and Simon Hadly

[NI0110] She was the oldest child of Sir Henry Vane the Younger and became a Quaker after her first husband's, Edward Kewkewich, death. It was her money that enabled her second husband, John Grubb, to purchase land in America.

[NI0113] Isaac Pennington (1617-1679) was an expert in inward experience. He was a
man who knew the true meaning of mysticism. He was a Quaker whose life and
writings reflect the certainty, conviction, and commitment of a disciple of Christ.

Pennington was born into a prominent Puritan family; his father was once Lord
Mayor of London. His education was of the best for that period; his style of
writing reflects his wide acquaintance with literature and his absorption of the
flavor and beauty of the finest writers.

In 1658 Pennington and his wife joined the Quaker movement and devoted all
their talents to this renaissance of first-century Christianity. With George Fox,
Robert Barclay, James Naylor, William Penn, and others they helped to make
Quakerism a powerful force In the England of their day.

Pennington's greatest contribution was through his public ministry, through his
remarkable letters, and through his many publications. Robert Barclay was the
scholarly, logical protagonist of Quakerism; Pennington the literary, mystical
interpreter of the new movement. Eleven years of imprisonment was a price he
paid for his faith, but nothing daunted his devotion to Truth.

Across the years Pennington still speaks to our condition even though the quaint
phraseology of the 17th century may seem a bit strange to our ears.

ON HIS CONVERSION...

"…at last (when my nature was almost spent, and the pit of despair was even
closing its mouth upon me) mercy sprang, and deliverance came, and the Lord
my God owned me, and sealed his love unto me, and light sprang within me,
which made not only the Scriptures, but the very outward creatures glorious in
my eye, so that everything was sweet and pleasant and lightsome round about
me."

'Well, then, how came this about?' will some say. Why thus. The Lord opened
my spirit, the Lord gave me the certain and sensible feeling of the pure seed,
which had been with me from the beginning; the Lord caused his holy power to
fall upon me, and gave me such an inward demonstration and feeling of the seed
of life, that I cried out in my spirit, This is`he, this is he, This is he; there is not
another, there never was another. He was always near me, though I knew him
not. . . . oh! that I might now be joined to him and he alone might live in me."

"I gave up to be instructed, exercised, and led by him, in the waiting for and
reeling of his holy seed, that all might be wrought out of me which could not live
with the seed."

ON HIS COMPULSION TO TESTIFY...

"Now thus having met with the true way. . . . I cannot be silent (true love and
pure life stirring in me and moving me), but am necessitated to testify of it to
others; and this is it: to retire inwardly, arid wait to feel some what of the Lord,
somewhat of his holy spirit and power, discovering and drawing from that which
is contrary to him, and into his holy nature and heavenly image."

ON RELIGION…

"The main thing in religion is to receive a principle of life from God, whereby the
mind may be changed, and the heart made able to understand the mysteries of
his kingdom, and to see and walk in the way of life; and this is the travail of the
souls of the righteous, that they may abide, grow up, and walk with the Lord in
this principle; and that others also, who breathe after him, may be gathered into,
and feel the virtue of, the same principle."

"The beginning of this religion, of this power and holy inward covenant, is sweet;
but the pure progress and going on of it much more pleasant, as the Lord gives
to feel the growth and sweet living freshness of it; not withstanding the
temptations, tears, troubles, trials, oppositions, and great dangers, both within
and without..."

ON THE GOSPEL STATE...

"The gospel state is a state of substance, a state of enjoying the life, a state of
feeling the presence and power of the Lord in his pure holy spirit, a state of
binding up, a state of healing, a state of knowing the Lord and walking with him
in the light of his own spirit. It begins in a sweet, powerful touch of life, and there
is a growth in the life (in the power, in the divine virtue, in the rest, peace, and
satisfaction of the soul in God) to be administered and waited for daily. Now art
thou here, in the living power, in the divine life, joined to the spring of life,
drawing water of life out of the well of life with joy? Or art thou dry, dead,
barren, sapless, or at best but unsatisfied mourning after what thou wantest?"

ON CHRIST ...

"Christ is a perfect physician, and is able to work a perfect cure on the heart
that believeth in him, and waiteth upon him. Yea, he came to destroy the works
of the devil, to cleanse man's mind of the darkness and power of Satan, and to
fill it with the life and power of truth; and he sent forth a ministry not only for the
beginning but for the perfection of the work; yea, his sword in the mouth and
heart is powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, and he can cast out the
strong man, and cut down all that is corrupt and contrary to himself, and break
down every stronghold in the mind, and spoil all the goods of the enemy."

"Christ is the minister of the true sanctuary, which God hath pitched, and not
man. There is a city whose builder and maker is God. The foundation stone, the
cornerstone, the top stone of this city or building is Christ, He, therefore, that
would know Christ, and be built upon Christ, must find a holy thing revealed in
his heart, and his soul built thereon by him alone can raise this building, who can
rear up the tabernacle that hath long been fallen down. Who can build up the old
waste places, and restore the paths for the ransomed and he deemed of the
Lord to walk and travel is."

"Christ bath plainly chalked out the path of his rest to every weary, panting soul,
which he that walketh in cannot miss of . . . the rest is at the end of it, nay, the
rest is in it; he that believeth entereth into the rest."

ON THE SEED OF GOD IN MAN...

"The seed of God is the word of God: the seed of the kingdom is the word of
the kingdom. It is a measure of the light and life, of the grace and truth, which is
why Jesus Christ, whereof in his is the fullness. It is a heavenly talent, or
manifestation of his spirit in the heart, which is given to man for him, in the virtue
and strength of Christ, to improve for God. This which God hath placed in man,
to witness for himself, and to guide man from evil unto good (in the pure
breathing, quickenings, and shinings of it) this is the seed, which is freely
bestowed on man, to spring up and remain in him, and to gather him out of
himself into itself."

"The pure, living, heavenly knowledge of the Father, and of his Son Christ
Jesus, is wrapped up in this seed."

"...he that is united to the seed, to the measure of grace and truth from Christ...is
united to God, and ingrafted into Christ; and as the seed is formed in him, Christ
is formed in him; and as he is formed and new-created in the seed, he is the
workmanship of God, formed and new created in Christ."

"What is the nature of the seed of God, or the seed of the kingdom?

It is of an immortal, incorruptible nature...

It is of a gathering nature...

It is of a purging, cleansing nature...

It is of a seasoning, leavening, sanctifying nature...

It is of an enriching nature...

It is of an improving, growing nature, of a nature that will grow and be
improved..."

ON PRAYER...

"Prayer is the breath of the living child to the Father of Life, in that spirit which
quickened it, which giveth it the right sense or its wants, and suitable cries
proportionate to its state, in the proper season thereof ... Prayer is wholly out of
the will of the creature; wholly out of the time of the creature; wholly cut of the
power of the creature; in the spirit of the Father, who is the fountain of life, and
giveth forth breathings of life to his child at his pleasure."

"Lord, take care of all thy children. Oh thou tender Father, consider what they
suffer for the testimony of thy truth and for thy name's thyself. Oh carry on thy
glorious work which thy own mighty arm hath begun and cut it short in
righteousness for thine Elect's sake, that it may be finished by thee, to thine own
everlasting praise."

ON HOLY OBEDIENCE...

"Give over thine own willing, give over thine own running, give over thine own
desiring to know or be anything, and sink down to the seed which God sews in
thy heart and let that he in thee, and grow in thee, and breathe in thee, and act in
thee, and thou shalt find by sweet experience that the Lord knows that and
loves and owns that, and will lead it to the inheritance of life, which is his
portion."

ON THE QUAKER MEETING...

"And this is the manner of their worship. They are to wait upon the Lord, to
meet in the silence of flesh, and to watch for the stirrings of his life, and the
breaking forth of his power amongst them. And in the breakings forth of that
power they may pray, speak, exhort, rebuke, sin, or mourn, and so on,
according as the spirit teaches, requires, and gives utterance. But if the spirit do
not require to speak, and give to utter, then everyone is to sit still in his place (in
his heavenly place I mean) feeling his own measure, feeding there-upon,
receiving there from (Into his spirit) what the Lord giveth. Now in this is
edifying, pure edifying, precious edifying; his soul who thus waits is hereby
particularly edified by the spirit of the Lord at every meeting. And then also
there is the life of the whole felt in every vessel that is turned to its measure;
insomuch as the warmth of life in each vessel doth not only warm the particular,
but they are like an heap of fresh and living coals, warming one another,
insomuch as a great strength, freshness, and vigor of life flows into all. And if
any be burthened, tempted, buffeted by Satan, bowed down, overborne,
languishing, afflicted, distressed, and so on, the estate of such is felt in spirit, and
secret cries, or open (as the Lord pleaseth), ascend up to the Lord for them,
and they many times find ease and relief, in a few words spoken, or without
words, if it be the season of their help and relief with the Lord."

"...we wait on the Lord, either to feel him in words, or in silence of spirit without
words, as he pleaseth."

ON HIS TESTAMENT OF FAITH…

"But some may desire to know what I have at last met with. I answer, I have
met with the seed. Understand that word and thou wilt be satisfied. I have met
with my God; I have met with my Savior; and he hath not been present with me
without his salvation; but I have felt the healings drop upon my soul from under
his wings. I have met with the true knowledge, the knowledge of life, the living
knowledge, the knowledge which is life; and this hath had the true virtue in it,
which my soul hath rejoiced in, In the presence of the Lord. I have met with the
seed's Father, and in the seed I have felt him my Father. There I have read his
nature, his love, his compassions, his tenderness, which have melted, overcome,
and changed my heart before him. I have met with the seed's faith, which hath
done and doth that which the faith of man can never do. I have met with the true
birth, with the birth which is heir of the kingdom, and inherits the kingdom. I
have met with the true spirit of prayer and supplication, wherein the Lord is
prevailed with, and which draws from him whatever the condition needs; the
soul always looking up to him in the will, and in the time and way which is
acceptable to him."

"(Belief in the light) brings peace, joy, and glory. . . . And this is the true peace,
and certain peace. . . . Here is joy, unspeakable joy, joy which the world cannot
see or touch, nor the powers of darkness come near to interrupt ... and this Joy
is full of glory, which glory increaseth daily more and more, by the daily sight
and feeling of the living virtue and power in Christ the light.

[NI0137] According to the City of Glasgow Council (Marriage Section - see source), James' name is listed as "James McFarlane".

James immigrated to the U.S. in 1851 from Scotland. He settled in Pennsylvania as a servant to a farmer, "Crow". He ran away twice because of the farmer's mean wife, and the second time he got to Coles County, IL where he met and married Julia Beatrice Watson.

Died of TB. Moved from Illinois to Colorado to try and cure his TB. Apparently had enough money to buy a little ranch.

Had red hair and was supposedly quite attractive.

[NI0138] Her father was a tall English merchant who died when she was quite young. She was raised by her German grandmother until she met James MacFarland. They moved to Pueblo, CO in 1875, then purchased a wagon and a team of horses and settled in Rye, CO. James died in 1878, and in 1880 she remarried to John Ritter. (Kelley, Hazel Grace (McFarland))

[NI0145] The following is from "Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island Matthew Boomer", published in the American Genealogist, April, 1984.
- Before court (servant of Edmond Nedum/Needham in Lynn, MA) 5/9/1647 and 12/26/1649 for striking his master with a pitchfork and lying - author cites Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex Co, MA; Salem 1911; 1:133, 184.
- Moved to Newport RI by 1655. Appears in list of Freemen of Newport - author cites John R. Bartlett, Records of the Colony of RI and Providence Plantations in New England; Providence RI 1856 rpt. New York 1968; 1:300.
- House burned by Indians during the late war. On 2/26/1676 Henry Stevens stated that he sold the 10 acres to Matthew Boomer about 18 years ago - author cites RI Land Evidences (RILE), Volume 1, 1648-1696; Providence RI 1921, rpt Baltimore 1970; pp. 95, 96 - probably burnt after he moved to MA.
- Sold the 10 acres to George Browne of Newport on 2/26/1676.
- Frequently in RI and Plymouth Colony courts as member of Petty Jury on 10/24/1666, but usually as a defendant - author cites RI Court Records: Records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations, 1662-1670 2 vols.; Providence, 1922.
- Was sued by Nicholas Easton for damages 10/21/1668, charged with committing a riot.
- Wife charged with committing a felony.
- Jury found not guilty in all cases.
- He seems to have moved back to MA by 1675; a record in New Plymouth states, on 6/1/1675 "John Arthur, Mathew Boomer and John Leyton being sumoned to the court to answare for theire residing in the govment without order, and not attending the publicke worship of God, liveing lonely and in a heathenish way from good societie, this Court ordereth that they for the future shall frequent the publicke worship of [God], and live otherwise orderly, or that they depart the govment." (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, [Boston 1856, rpt. New York 1968].
- On 3/6/1676/7 Henry Brightman of Portsmouth sold one half of a lot lying on the east side of "Tanton River in the collony of New-Plymouth" to Matthew Boomer of Newport. Matthew sold the half lot to John Reade of Newport on 6/22/1677 - author cites RILE, pp. 121-122.
- Matthew and his son Matthew are on the 10/17/1688 tax list for Freetown, MA. The 6/25/1690 list gives only one Matthew Boomer - author cites Richard L. Bowen, Early Rehoboth , Rehoboth MA 1945, 1:86-88.
- On 1/5/1692, ack. 11/20/1694, "Matthew Bommer Sr. of Freetown sold to Matthew Bommer Jr. of Freetown one freeman's lot in Freetown where said Matthew Bommer Junr. now dweleth" - Bristol Co. LR 1:301. LDS gives father as Joshua, of Essex, born about 1578, married about 1609 in Essex. LDS shows Matthew's marriage and death in MA - could be right. Matthew moved from Lynn, MA to Newport, RI, then to Freetown, MA.

[NI0147] Source: Ancestral Lines Revised; Carl Boyer 3rd; Newhall, CA 1981. Name also spelled Freeborne. He lived at Batisfords Manor (also called Freebournes) in Witham until he sold it on 12/20/1633. It is said that Freebournes was built early in the 16th century & was reconstructed in 17th. It is now located on Newland Street. On 4/30/1634 he sailed on the Francis from Ipswitch, Suffolk to Boston with his wife, Mary 33, and children Mary 7, Sarah 2, and servant John Aldburg (or Albro) age 14. He gave his age as 40. Was freeman on 9/3/1634 when he may have been living in Roxbury, Massachussetts Bay, where Gideon may have been born. Later moved to Boston. On 3/7/1637/8 he and 18 others signed the Compact which incorporated Portsmouth, RI. Five days later he and eight of the other signers were formally banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court. He helped survey Rhode Island in 1639, and was freeman in Portsmouth on 3/16/1641. He purchased a mill from James Sands and Samuel Wilbor in 1655 and it stayed in family until after 1800.

[NI0149] Ancestral Lines Revised; Carl Boyer 3rd; Newhall, CA 1981. Boyer indicates that Alexander may have been the father of William. Alexander Free\born was a surveyor of record in Witham (now the hamlet of Newland), Essex in 1651.

[NI0150] Served as a private in Brown's Company, Van Woert Regiment, New York State Troops, during the American Revolution
- Brayton Family History Vol 2.

[NI0151] Alburg(h) became part of Grand Isle County in 1802

[NI0153] Deceased

[NI0154] Died of lung cancer at the age of 47. Had black curly hair, known to be quite handsome. Lived in California for a time.

[NI0163] Came to Camden, Arkansas in 1947 to work for a wholesale grocery house. Was drafted and spent two years in WWII in the Navy - at the time working for an aluminum company in Arkansas. Saw "every island from Pearl Harbor to South Korea". Was not in active combat, the ship he was on just moved occupation troops from the states.

One time rode a horse 16 miles to Pearl's house and had to cross a river - about in 1932. That was right down thru the woods. John did not own a car til about 1939-40.

"How John Smart met his future wife Pearl":
In 1931 his dad was a preacher at a little church and Pearl lived about a mile from that church. One Sunday John's dad was sick and asked a "preacher-boy", "...if John will drive you, will you preach for me?"

Well, the "preacher boy" agreed and John and he headed out.

The "preacher boy" preached and after the service a young lady asked if they would like to come over for lunch. That lady was friend of Pearl.

After lunch the lady said let's drive to Prescott. The trio fooled around in Prescott and then said, the lady then said, "...let's go out to Mrs. Ridgell's (Pearl's mother), she always has something to eat..." So, they went out to Mrs. Ridgell's.

At Mrs. Ridgell's, the "preacher boy" said he wanted to "brush up" on his sermon and went in a room and did just that. The lady that drove them there said she saw some turnips and wanted to pull them. That left John and Pearl alone, and the rest is history!

[NI0169] Robert was born in 1908, the son of Sim and Cynthia Irene McFarland in a 2 room frame house on the west end of Martinez St. (Main St.), Logan, NM. A couple of years later the family moved to the country.

Robert enjoyed growing up on the ranch and especially enjoyed freighting cattle feed and other supplies to the ranch farther north in the sand hills. The wagon was drawn by a "four up" of little Jennette mules. It was lots of fun when not loaded to sit down in the bottom of the wagon and see how fast the mules could run. The wheel team had to be held back slightly, to keep the lead team from coming unhitched from the wagon.

It wasn't much fun on a cold winter morning to milk 6 or 8 cows by hand, but was an important part of the family living to seperate milk and ship the cream to market in 5 gallon cans.

Robert had 2 brothers, Reel and Quinten (who died in infancy), 3 sisters, Cynthia, Wilma, and Hazel.

He graduated from Logan High School in 1926. He worked for New Mexico Highway Department until the fall of 1930, then registered in the engineering department of New Mexico State University. After two years economic conditions forced him to leave college and look for a job. Later that year he returned to the rance to help his father with the livestock. Drought and depressed market prices forced the final liquidation of the cattle business in 1934.

On May 3, 1934 Robert married Ovene, the daughter of a homestead family near Gallegos, NM. Ovene's parents, Otha and Mary Osborn moved to Logan and operated a grocery store until after she graduated from high school. Ovene had 1 brother, Otha Jr, 1 sister Mary Jean.

Before marriage Ovene liked to help Robert work cattle. After marriage, her husband like to tell that he married her to keep from paying a cowpuncher $1.50 a day. Ovene was a top hand for 46 years.

(Robert and Ovene) both went to work in the McFarland Bros. Bank in 1943, she worked the insurance business, at the ranch and home.

(Robert and Ovene) bought the McFarland Bros. Bank in 1962, retaining Sim as President, and Cynthia Irene (as) Vice President as long as they lived.

Robert and Ovene had one child, Robert Jr.

Bobby was active in school, graduating from Logan. He was active in 4-H, feeding calves from the family registered herd, and showing them in the County and State Fairs.

After College, Bobby was President of the Bank for a couple of years before his death in 1975.

The family worked together at the Bank, the enjoyed loading into the Bronco 4-wheel drive pickup, going to the sandhill ranch to check cattle, fix windmills or wells.

They were reluctant to give up the ranch because of the extra benefits of exercise and recreation. They loved the country where "The wind drew the water and the Cow chopped the wood."

The sandhill ranch was sold in 1973.

The bank building was doubled in size in 1972 to make room for an improved vault with safe deposit boxes and general use.

The bank was sold in 1977 with the present owners (*note this was written sometime after 1982), Marguerite Poling and family operating a good family business.

Robert and Ovene sponsored the construction of the educational building at the First Baptist Church when they retired from business in 1977. Ovene was a member of First Baptist Church, Logan, Parent Teachers Association, and Bethel Chapter #15, order of the Eastern Star, of Tucumcari, NM.

A malignancy condition claimed her life in 1980.

Robert was a Deacon in the First Baptist Church, a thirty second degree Mason, and the first Mayor of Logan, serving from 1959 until his term expired in 1982. The community gave him surprise party when he retired.

The first trustees of the Village in addition to the Mayor were, Johnie Dugger, Mike Moralez, Joe Shollenbarger, and T.H. Smith. Ruby Smith was clerk, also serving without a salary.

Robert Married Ruby Smith in 1981. She has always been active in community activities, a member of First Baptist Church and Bethel Chapter #15, order of the Eastern Star of Tucumcari, NM. She has reorganized the McFarland family reunion, having it each summer at our "Hill Top Home" on highway 39 north side of Logan.

By -- Robert McFarland

[NI0178] died at less than a year old, about 1916

[NI0184] A rancher in New Mexico. Served with the US Army from 1905 to 1908 in the Phillipines. Was a member of Logan Lodge No. 38, AF & AM. For 18 years he was employed by the Bureau of Reclamation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[NI0190] adopted by the Kings

[NI0224] [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Dec 18, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.27817.58]

Individual: Brehm, Frank
Social Security #: 505-30-6967
SS# issued in: Nebraska

Birth date: May 12, 1894
Death date: Mar 1985


Residence code: Nebraska

ZIP Code of last known residence: 68448
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Talmage, Nebraska

[NI0226] [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Dec 18, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.111104.181]

Individual: West, Mace
Social Security #: 507-42-2095
SS# issued in: Nebraska

Birth date: Nov 4, 1893
Death date: Feb 1986


Residence code: Nebraska

ZIP Code of last known residence: 68450
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Tecumseh, Nebraska

[NI0238] Alvin Rueter. Rueter received his B.A. from Dana with a major in English. He also has an M.Div. from
Capital Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and an M.A. and a Ph.D., both in speech
communication, from the University of Minnesota.
Early in his career Rueter served as pastor to two California congregations, in Monterey Park and
Inglewood. In 1955 he became pastor at a Lutheran mission congregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he found a culture he describes as "suspicious of a liturgical church."
To try to overcome this cultural bias, Rueter began a weekly church music broadcast, "hoping to establish common ground by the medium of traditional, vocal music."
In 1960 Rueter left Oklahoma to serve congregations first in Lincoln, Nebraska, and then in St. Paul,
Minnesota, but he also continued as host for the weekly half-hour broadcast that soon became known as "Sing for Joy." The program featured vocal music of the church related to the Lessons for the Day, with Rueter giving brief commentaries between selections on the relationship of the music to the readings.
In 1970 "Sing for Joy" was syndicated nationally; today it is broadcast on 276 stations in 41 states and seven other countries. From the beginning, Rueter's late wife, Beulah (Nielsen '44), worked closely with her husband on many aspects of the programming.
Rueter's career has also included teaching. From 1966-84, while serving a St. Paul congregation, he was an adjunct professor of homiletics (the art of writing and preaching sermons) at Luther Northwestern Seminary. Since 1979 he has conducted preaching workshops for pastors in many locations, including Dana, with the goal "of making good preaching better." In 1985 he became an assistant professor of homiletics and communication at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, teaching half-time in the graduate school of theology and half-time in the college. Since his retirement from St. John's in 1991 he has taught homiletics in the Permanent Deacon Formation Program of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Rueter has written four books, is writing another, and has published many articles and sermons. He has also prepared audio and video cassettes on preaching.
Two Rueter daughters are Dana graduates: Judith Brehm '67 and Christine Gilmore '71. Their other
children are Theodore, John, and Pauline, who is deceased.

[NI0240] Sources:
United States Certificate of Naturalization #7106184, April 14, 1955

[NI0241] Sources:
United States Certificate of Naturalization #7106183, April 14, 1955

[NI0251] According to the 1920 Louisiana census, Walter was the proprietor of a Meat Market in Alexandria, Rapides Parish.

[NI0253] William was a Ball, Louisiana native but spent the last 45 years of his life in Shreveport. He owned "Hill's Grocery Store" and "Hill's Hardware Store" in Shreveport. At the time of his death, he lived at 8912 Linwood, in Shreveport. William died in Schumpert Hospital after a lengthy illness (Acute pulmonary edema, caused by Arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease).

His tombstone shows his birthdate as July 28.

[NI0254] Clara was a lifelong resident of Shreveport, Louisiana. She attended Cedar Grove Methodist Church and was part owner of Hill's Hardware and Pet Shop. She is buried next to her husband, William Winn Hill, at Forest Park West Cemetary, Shreveport, Louisiana.

[NI0268] Died from complications due to Merrill Brayton Brown's birth.

[NI0286] Blacksmith.

[NI0307] William served as a 1st Sgt. in Capt. Wm. B. Hunt's Battalion of mountie volunteers in the war With the Florida Indians. He volunteered and was mustered into service at Claysville, Alabama on the 8th day of September 1836 and continued in active service until the 11th day of September 1837. He died on May 3, 1848.

A land grant was issued in the name of his minor children with his brother Thomas as guardian. Another land grant was issued to Thomas for 120 acres.

[NI0321] Marion Alexander Harrold was born in Green County, Tennessee, April 26, 1837. He died at his home in Ridgefarm, Illinois, December 26, 1906.

As a young boy, Marion mastered the trade of blacksmith, tought by his father, Uriah. (Uriah was a blacksmith.)

Marion spent the early part of his life near New Market, Tennessee. That is where he graduated college.

Marion's father died before the Civil War. Susannah (Marion's mother) took the family north (along with other Union supporters). The Harrold family arrived in Ridgefarm, Illinois in 1861.

Marion enlisted in the "Pioneer corps of the army" in 1864. Later he was assigned to the "blacksmith department". He served as a blacksmith in the Union army until the Civil War ended. It is ironic that Marion was located for a long time near his birthplace in Tennessee.

After the Civil War, Marion moved north again. In Ohio he met Mary Louisa McFarland. They were married at Jamestown, Ohio, November 15, 1869. Marion and Mary had five children: Mary, Harrison, Jennie, Charles and Frank. The three oldest children died in childhood. Marion's wife, Mary, died August, 1879.

January 13, 1881, Marion married Jane S. Smith. Marion and Jane had two children: Edith and Herbert.

Marion was a member of the Masonic Order. He joined the Russell Lodge No. 184 at Georgetown, Illinois, in the fall of 1861. When the Ridgefarm Lodge was instituted Marion was a charter member, and was its first Junior Warden. He was elected to the chapter at Danville, Illinois. On the day he was set to
take his degree, he joined the Union army.

According to the "Ridgefarm Republican" (January 3, 1907), Marion was a, "most highly respected citizen". He took an "active part" in the affairs of the village - in 1875 Marion was elected President of the Town Board.

Marion worked at his blacksmith trade until 1875. In 1875 he went into the "general merchandise business". Marion became involved in the "implement business" around 1885, and continued in that industry until his death.

Marion's entire building and stock were consumed by fire in 1902. However, he rebuilt immediately and continued with his business.

The "Ridgefarm Republican" said, "...above all other interests, Mr. Harrold placed his church, and his God. He was converted when he was 18 years of age during a series of meetings held in his home town ..." When the church burned he arranged for a new one. The "Ridgefarm Republican" reported, "...it was his great desire to it completed and to use his own expression, 'See souls born into the Kingdom within its walls.'"

[NI0323] Sources:
The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059
History of Vermilion County, Illinois, H. W. Beckwith, 1879

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0324] Irish

Sources:
The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059
History of Vermilion County, Illinois, H. W. Beckwith, 1879

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0338] John Rueter was pastor at Peace Lutheran Church, Sterling, Colorado then moved to Wauneta, Nebraska. He began his ministry about 1914 in Earl Grey, Sask, Canada. After 4 years or so, he moved to Orange Grove, Texas for his wife's health. (The 1920 Texas census shows his address as 304 Nanis, Seguin, Guadalupe, Texas) He was there for a few years until his wife died in the Grace Lutheran Sanatorium, San Antonio, Texas. He served for a brief time as interim pastor at Emanuel Lutheran Church, Seguin, Texas where he met Pauline Grenier. Before marrying, he and the 2 children (from the marriage to his first wife) moved to the Ozarks where he seems to have had something to do with a lumber mill. Then he married Pauline, and moved to Parkers Prairie, Minnesota. Then he became pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Goodland, Kansas. About 1933-36 he served Grace Lutheran Church, Englewood, Colorado. Then he moved to Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rosalie, Nebraska. About 1940 he came to American Lutheran Church, Enid, Oklahoma. Around 1944 he became pastor of Salem Lutheran Church, Superior, Nebraska. His farewell service there was on June 29, 1952. That afternoon after the reception, he and Pauline were driving to his new parish near Wilber, Nebraska, when there was an accident with another car and he died.

Sources:
copy of a letter written by Alvin Charles Rueter to the Reverend Dennis A. Kastens, Pastor, 411 Chapel Dr. , Collinsville, Illinois 62234

Peace Lutheran - ask for Jennifer
1404 South 9th Avenue
Sterling, Colorado 80751
970-522-3408

[NI0351] The youngest daughter of Frank and Grace Rees Harrold, born (June 13, 1915) in Ridgefarm, Ill. In 1932, the family moved to Danville, Ill. Grace (Betty) married Sterling Wilson (son of Sherman and Winifred Carter Wilson) in 1937. In 1941 Sterling and Betty were transferred by E.I.Dupont to Richland, Washington and worked in an atomic bomb plant. They moved to Los Angeles in 1943 and worked for North American Aviation until the end of the war. Then, they moved to Santa Fe Springs, California were Betty still lives today (March 1998).

Betty became involved in community affairs and helped the city to incorporate. She was elected to the first City Counsel and retired March of 1997 after serving for 40 years. Betty was the first woman ever elected as Mayor for a city in Los Angeles County.

"She was the Mayor of Santa Fe Springs for many, many years. She was also the President of the International Sister Cities Program and even ran for the state Senate in California. She has received the President's (Eisenhower) Peace Award among other honors. She is now in her 80's but still quite active, just retired from city hall two years ago." - Jeanne Eisenhauer, July 31, 1999

[NI0354] Sources

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0355] Sources

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0356] Sources

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0358] Sources

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0359] Sources

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0360] Sources

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

International Genealogical Index, LDS CD-ROM, 1990

Sy E. Mendenhall, 1670 Blackland Road, Oil Trough, AR 72564

[NI0380] Notes

Benjamin was one of the original Mendenhall immigrants to America, having
arrived in Chester County, PA about 1682. Benjamin sold 100 acres of the
Harding tract to his brother, Moses, on 27 Nov 1686 (the acreage and timing
intentionally matched that of brother John's sale to Thomas Martin). This
transfer was nullified on 5 Feb 1688, almost certainly because by then Moses
had returned to England. Benjamin bought 250 acres in Concord Township from
William Hitchcock (who bought the land from William Penn in England) on 8 Feb
1702. Benjamin bought 500 acres west of the Brandywine in Kennett (now
Pennsbury) Township from Isaac Few on 23 Mar 1703 with financial assistance
from his father-in-law, Robert Pennell. They jointly received title on 15 Jun
1703 and quickly sold off 100 acres to Thomas Hope on 20 Aug 1703.

He was trained as a wheelwright and made his living in that trade until he
accumulated enough land to farm. A trunk that Benjamin made shortly after his
arrival still exists and is in possession of the Historical Society in West
Chester, PA. It is carved with the initials, B.M. and the date 1684 on the
front and has wire hinges. This trunk was mentioned in his wife's will. In 1713
Benjamin and his wife built a substantial home on the western end of the 250
acres he had bought. The home is still standing and contains a date stone in
the gable in the shape of a half circle which read, "1713 Mendenhall, Ben &
Ann." In 1714 Benjamin was a member of the Provincial Assembly and in 1730 he
was tax collector for Concord Township. When he died he was the sixth
wealthiest person in Concord Township.

Sources

Henry B. Mendenhall, 6812 Burnside Drive, San Jose, CA 95120

Carol Mendenhall Duffy, 8190 13th Street #308, Westminster CA 92683-1965

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

A Mendenhall-Newlin Alliance, Russell Newlin Abel, 1989, Southeast Landing
Rt. 1 Box 55A, Church Hill MD 21623-9723, rabel@friend.ly.net

[NI0386] Ann Mendenhall (2)

[NI0387] Notes

Benjamin was recommended as a Friends minister 2 Jun 1725. He went to
preach in North Carolina with Samuel Hopgood where he died. His will is
probated in Chester County, PA 1 Oct 1743.

Sources

Henry B. Mendenhall, 6812 Burnside Drive, San Jose, CA 95120

Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Frederick A. Virkus, 1968

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

[NI0396] Notes

Lydia was the daughter of Owen and Mary (Hughes) Roberts. She married
secondly, William Hannum in 1752 and died only two months after this marriage.

Sources

Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Frederick A. Virkus, 1968

Pennsylvania Vital Records, Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 1983

Mendenhall Family, Nellie E. Evans, Route #1, Sheridan, IN 46069,
LDS film #1572051

A Mendenhall-Newlin Alliance, Russell Newlin Abel, 1989, Southeast Landing
Rt. 1 Box 55A, Church Hill MD 21623-9723, rabel@friend.ly.net

Charles W. Taylor, 2444 Warrensville Center, University Heights, OH 44118

[NI0402] Sources

Charity G. Monroe, 4315 W. Lora Ann Lane, Peoria, IL 61615

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

[NI0405] Sources

Charity G. Monroe, 4315 W. Lora Ann Lane, Peoria, IL 61615

Kay Edwards, 8140 E. Moonstone Drive, Tucson, AZ 85715, (602) 749-3114

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

John Kieffer, jvmusik@primenet.com

[NI0406] Original marriage certificate for Aaron Mendenhall and Rose Pierson is in the Library of Guilford College, Jamestown, Guilford , NC. The certificate is signed by 70 witnesses. Info from Tom Valentine. Source of information includes: Concord Friends Meeting Records, Concordville, Delaware county (Chester), PA @@ FHL, SLC, UT, film #432,022. Wrote short biography, copy from Earl Peirce is in file -
Aaron Mendenhall was the overseer of the church in Concord. He was a farmer, and died in East Calne. Notes from 'Mendenhall Ancestry' by Aaron Mendenhall.

There is a copy of the Will of Aaron Mendenhall in Mendenhall Matters, Volume 3, Number 1, January 1996, courtesy of Sue Shreve.

[NI0407] Sources

Macy Genealogy 1635-1868, Silvanus Macy, 1868

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

[NI0410] Sources

Mendenhall Family Chart and Letter, William F. Mendenhall, May 1970,
microfilm #4640, LDS, San Jose, CA

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

[NI0420] Sources

Mendenhall Family Chart and Letter, William F. Mendenhall, May 1970,
microfilm #4640, LDS, San Jose, CA

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

[NI0432] Sources

Mendenhall Family Chart and Letter, William F. Mendenhall, May 1970,
microfilm #4640, LDS, San Jose, CA

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

[NI0436] Notes

Franklin was a nurseryman. He migrated to the Quaker colony in Whittier,
CA in 1897.
2

Sources

Mendenhall Family Chart and Letter, William F. Mendenhall, May 1970,
microfilm #4640, LDS, San Jose, CA

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

Cemetery Records in possession of William D. Leonard, 14956 Ronda Drive,
San Jose, CA 95124-5115, (408) 377-8582

[NI0437] Notes

Almira was the daughter of Oliver and Jane M. (Hemingway) Burdg.

[NI0438] Sources

Mendenhall Family Chart and Letter, William F. Mendenhall, May 1970,
microfilm #4640, LDS, San Jose, CA

Burke's Presidential Families of the USA, 1975

Cemetery Records in possession of William D. Leonard, 14956 Ronda Drive,
San Jose, CA 95124-5115, (408) 377-8582

[NI0441] Notes

Richard obtained his education from Whittier (CA) College and Duke
University Law School. He served as U.S. congressman, senator, vice-president
and president of the U.S. He was forced to resign the presidency after being
accused of complicity in the affair surrounding the breaking and entering of
the Watergate Hotel.

Sources

Mendenhall Family Chart and Letter, William F. Mendenhall, May 1970,
microfilm #4640, LDS, San Jose, CA

Burke's Presidential Families of the USA, 1975

Max Dee Mendenhall, 31156 Carroll Avenue, Hayward CA 94544, (510) 471-2403
majemen@aol.com

[NI0447] "My father, Sidney Joseph Bell"
by Deborah Lynn Bell

Sidney Joseph Bell was born September 20, 1915 in Baldwin,
Florida and died September 17, 1974. We buried him on his
birthdate in Jacksonville, Florida. He was the youngest of 14
children born to Daniel E. Bell who was born December 24, l860 in
Duval County near Clay County and died January 25, 1925. He was
a farmer. Sidney's mother was Ella Oliver who was born January
30, 1872 in Duval County, Florida and died October 9, 1952. She
was a homemaker and telephone operator in her home.
Mr. Bell (my grandfather) is buried in the Bell Cemetery
which is located in Clay County, Florida. I don't ever remember
going to the Bell Cemetery - it was pretty far out in the county
and I think was probably inconvenient to get to and not
maintained like it should have been. My grandmother Ella is
buried in Jacksonville Memorial Garden Cemetery as are so many of
my relatives on my father's side. I remember attending a lot of
funerals as a kid - to me it was just another family reunion
because most of those dying while I was so young, I didn't know
or don't remember. On my grandmother's side is believed Dutch
ancestry. On my grandfather's side is his mother Hettie who was
born January 8, 1840 and died November 18, 1913 and his father,
my great-grandfather, Daniel Bell who was born June 9, 1836 and
died November 2, 1902. My grandmother died 43 years ago and my
grandfather died 70 years ago. I tried to obtain any information
about them but there is none to be found yet. I applied for a
census through the Mormon church but have not received the
information yet from Duval County in Florida. The only name
listed in the database at the Mormon church is the death date of
my father. There is only one living sibling of my father's -
Ethel Altman, who is 85 years old. She was unable to provide me
with any information about her mother or father or grandparents.
My aunt did relate to me however, that she is mad at my Dad for
leaving her (he died 21 years ago) and now there is no one to
come to her funeral.
In my father's family were seven sons, then six daughters
and then my Dad was the baby. I never knew any of my father's
brothers, but knew all of his sisters. I will address this later on.

My mother related the following information to me. My
father was nine years old when his father died. His mother
divided up the inheritance among the brothers and sisters with
the exception of the last two sisters who were still young. She
used the rest of the money to raise them. My mom said this was
the reason Dad was always so frugal in his life is because there
was very little money growing up and he always resented his
mother giving away what she should have kept for herself and him
and his sisters.
On occasion my Dad would help his mom and sisters with the
switchboard that they operated in their house, known as an
exchange house and would put calls through. My mother told me it
was like the television show "Green Acres" where the hotel owner
lady would answer the calls and then sometimes listen in. This is
one way they could earn money.
My mom told me that my Dad was very close to his Dad and
when his father would come home from the store in town (Baldwin,
Florida, near Jacksonville), he would bring my Dad a bag of
candy. My Dad would not share with his sisters and his father
would not make him share. This memory reminded me of the same
occurrence with my Dad. Every Friday afternoon he would bring
home a bag of french burnt peanuts and he would let me open the
bag first (always) and have some before my two sisters saw them.
At the time I thought this was just something he did because I
was the baby of the family but now realize he was continuing the
tradition of his father - just a little something extra to let
you know you're special. It may sound hokey, but I can remember
waiting for my Dad to get home to see what he brought - and
almost all of the time it was those peanuts!
My mom told me that my Dad's brothers were railroad men,
salesmen and one owned the hotel in Baldwin. My father enjoyed
playing basketball and played varsity in high school. After high
school he went to work for standard Oil Company in Jacksonville
and then went into the Air Force in Mississippi. He became an
aircraft mechanic and after the service worked for National
Airlines. When National Airlines moved to Miami, he did not want
to move, so he quit and went to work for civil service at the
Naval Air Station base in Jacksonville. He supervised the
mechanics working on planes.
Even though my Dad was very frugal during his lifetime we
lived very well. Since he built the house, we didn't have a
mortgage and he saved his money and paid cash for everything. I
remember one time he bought two cars in one week for cash. He
would take us on vacations all through Florida and we went to the
New York World's Fair in 1964 and Niagara Falls and one Christmas
during a blizzard in Iowa we had to spend Christmas Eve in a
hotel because we could not get to my aunt's house in Des Moines
until the blizzard stopped and the roads were cleared.
Even though my Dad would use his money for trips, on those
trips we would eat the cheapest on the menu. One of my father's
favorite games was "who can eat for under a dollar?" And the one
who eats the cheapest wins the game. There were never any prizes
for this game and I fell for it over and over because it pleased
my Dad so much.
This is representative of my Dad's attitude and philosophy
of life. Work hard, save, enjoy what is important and live your
life with dignity. I really miss him.

[NI0460] Buried: OMEGA CEMETERY APPLING CO. GA.

[NI0494] 1880 census shows that she was the stepdaughter of Chapman Oliver.

[NI0498] Deborah Bell's information shows her name as "Rosser", but the census records (1870-1900) show her name as "Rossa".

[NI0512] (Source: Census Ref: 1790 Robeson Co., NC; 1800 Montgomery Co.,
GA county records; 1810 Telfair jury list; 1820 Telfair widow only; 1830 Lowndes widow only--Grave
marked by DAR)

[NI0528] 1945 moved to Phoenix, Arizona
1959 moved to Colville, Washington St.
1965 came back to Montana

buried at St. Matthews Catholic church, Whitefish, Montana

[NI0529] had rough childbirth with Norma could not have kids after words

[NI0536] 1850 Georgia census lists his occupation as "farmer".

[NI0552] 1900 Arkansas cenus lists his name as "L. Edwin".

[NI0553] 1900 Arkansas cenus lists his name as "Everet". The 1920 Oklahoma census shows his occupation as, "Auto Garage".

[NI0554] 1900 Arkansas cenus lists his name as "E. Julia".

She adopted a son. Also, she and her husband seperated. After the seperation, Julia lived with Thurman and Hazel Kelley for a time in the 1940s.

[NI0555] 1900 Arkansas cenus lists his name as "G. Eujene".

[NI0556] 1900 Arkansas cenus lists his name as "B. Delaney".

[NI0563] Notes

The best marksman at the shooting matches held in the woods was an Indian
called Kit-ter-hoo, also known as George Moffett, but among his closest rivals
was Joseph Mendenhall.

Sources

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls, William and
Thomas A. Mendenhall, 1912

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

Russell Lain Ready, 521 E. Wilshire Street, Santa Ana CA 92707,
(714) 543-6462, vsxv10a@prodigy.com

John Kieffer, jvmusik@primenet.com

[NI0570] Notes

Benjamin helped organize and lay out Liberty Township, Wells Co.,
Tennessee. He was a fine man and excellent hunter.

Sources

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls, William and
Thomas A. Mendenhall, 1912

1850 US Census Indiana

Two Hundred & Ninty Years with the Mendenhalls, Ingabee Brineman Minniear,
1965, LDS microfilm #1572051

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

[NI0580] Sources

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

Two Hundred & Ninty Years with the Mendenhalls, Ingabee Brineman Minniear,
1965, LDS microfilm #1572051

George H. Miller, Apt. I-114 JKV, 4000 East Fletcher Avenue, Tampa, FL
33613-4819, (813) 977-5181

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

[NI0584] Notes

Banjamin served in the 97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil
War. While serving he became ill and was sent to a hospital and then home.

Sources

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

International Genealogical Index, LDS CD-ROM, 1990

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

Avice Mendenhall Woodard, 3330 Ironwood Drive, Nashville TN 37214-3808,
avice728@aol.com

[NI0586]

Sources

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

1850 US Census Ohio

Avice Mendenhall Woodard, 3330 Ironwood Drive, Nashville TN 37214-3808,
avice728@aol.com

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

[NI0593] Sources

Avice Mendenhall Woodard, 3330 Ironwood Drive, Nashville TN 37214-3808,
avice728@aol.com

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

[NI0600] Sources

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls, William and
Thomas A. Mendenhall, 1912

The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059

Phyllis M. Ward, 4004 Wyandotte Drive, Ft. Wayne IN 46815
yazzmene@worldnet.att.net

John Kieffer, jvmusik@primenet.com

[NI0622] Sources

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

[NI0623] Sources

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@calweb.com

[NI0641] Sources

Erbon W. Wise, Rt. 1, Box 1022, Sulphur, LA 70663

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

[NI0642] Sources

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

Mendenhalls, Stubbs, Brewers and Singletons, Gary Singleton, 1983

[NI0643] Sources

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@accessone.com

Mendenhalls, Stubbs, Brewers and Singletons, Gary Singleton, 1983

[NI0700] Born 27 10m 1712 Chester Co., PA 1
Removed probably to Hopewell MM 1732-4.
Owned 408 acres in Berkeley Co., VA, adjoining or near to
his father's patent on Mills' Creek. Deed recorded 9 Mar 1743/4,
from John Mills Jr., of Opekon in Frederick Co., Colony of Virginia
Cordwainer, to John Beals, of the same place, farmer, for 165
acres, being a part of this patent of 408 2 acres.
1 6m 1752 gct Cane Creek MM from Hopewell MM, NC
1 8m 1752 received from Hopewell MM, VA at Cane Creek MM,NC,
Died 18 4m 1794 age 82 Deep River MM, NC

[NI0701] Sarah came from a distinguished line that goes back to the Claytons and Edges of England. She was a minister in 1765.

Source: Mills History Book

Born 29 5m 1713 Chester Co., PA
Witness at wedding of Evan Rogers & Sarah Ballinger, 15 4m 1749
at Hopewell. 4
1765 appointed a minister of New Garden MM, NC.
Died 9 9m 1800 Deep River MM, NC

[NI0703] Hopewell, Jan. 27, 1736 New Garden MM, NC, 11/30/1754
Letter from Leslie W. Beason, 721 Jappa Road, Ely, Iowa 52227, Feb. 1, 1995

Richard Beeson or Beason was born in New Castle County, Delaware in October 1684. He moved with his parents to Berkley County, Virginia and from there to Chester County, Pennsylvania. He and Charity Grubb were married there at the Nottingham Meeting of Friends (Quakers) October 24, 1706. Charity was born Sept. 29, 1687. Richard was a Quaker minister throughout most of his life and traveled from place to place in carrying on his work. Records of him are found in various Quaker settlements in Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina. Charity was appointed Minister at Nottingham Meeting and continued in the ministry for many years. In Pennsylvania Archives, there is record that Richard obtained a warrant for five hundred acres of land on Dec. 10, 1716. Also 100 acres was granted ot him, and the warrent for the survey was dated Jan. 16, 1733. Charity died Nov. 22, 1761 at the age of 74; and Richard died Jan. 1, 1777 at age 93. Both were buried in Guilford County, North Carolina.

Notes
Beeson Genealogy, Line of descent of the St. Clair County Beesons, of Alabama.
In "the Grubb Family of Pennsylvania and Delaware" by Gilbert Cope on pg. 5, under the head of children of John and Frances Grubb, one finds the following:
4. Charity Grubb married before her father's death, Richard Beeson, son of Edward Beeson, of New Castle County, and later of Nottingham, on the borders of Maryland. They became Friends, and in 1728 Nottingham Meeting gave her the endorsement of minister. Five years later they removed to Leacock, Lancaster County, and after a few years sojourn there, went to Frederick County, Virginia. In a letter to her sister, Phebe, written 12th of 11 mo. 1742-3, Charity says:"My son William hath a daughter born the 30th of last month, and calls her name Welmett". This unusual name was doubtless given in remembrance of the ancestress in far away Cornwall and is strong evidence that Henry of Burlington, and John of New Castle County, were brothers. A memorandum, made a few years later, gives the children and grand-children of Richard and Charity Beeson as follows:
"John, married to Grace Varman, had a son, Nathaniel; Richard, married to Anne Brown, had Charith, Hannah, Richard, Messar, Jacob, Henry, John, and Edward; Charity married to Mordecai Mendenhall had Richard, John , thomas, Moses, and Stephen; Phebe, married to John Harris, had Elizabeth, Charity, Richard, Phebe, and Dinah; Edward, married to Martha, had Edward, Charity, Mary and Micajah; Benjamin was the father of Isaac, Benjamin, William, Francis, and Richard. William had Welmet, Charity, and Rachel. Stephen was the father of Stephen, Micajah and Phebe."
All of the children of the sons, Benjamin and William, were probably not born when the memorandum was made. They moved from Hopewell, VA and settled in North Carolina March 6, 1751, and the records of the entire family of each are to be found in the Minutes of New Garden Quarterly Meeting, now at Guilford College, North Carolina, in Volume I. The complete family record of Benjamin Beeson (II-VI) is to be found in the first genealogy of this publication, land that of William (12-VII) in the Beeson Genealogy by Pervis H. Beeson.

[NI0710] John BEALS (BALES) was born about 1657 in England. He may have been the John Beals who came
to America in 1677 with the John Fenwick Colony but this has not been proven. John was in Chester
Co., PA by 1689. He announced for the second time his intentions to marry 1 11th month 1682 at
Chester Monthly Meeting, PA to Mary CLAYTON (1665-1725), the daughter of William Clayton and
Prudence Lanckford. In 1711, John was residing in Nottingham, PA when his son John Jr. was
married. His will was made 11 8th month 1726 at Nottingham and proved 17 Dec 1726. He is buried in
the East Nottingham Friends Burial Ground in Chester Co., PA.

[NI0712] William Millikan was born about 1720, probably in Ireland, and died about 1800 in Randolph County NC. His first wife, Jane White, whom he married in Chester PA in 1740, appears to have been the mother of all his children with the possible exception of Martha. William moved from Pennsylvania to NC about 1758, and Jane died in the same year. By June 1759 William was married to Hannah Rowan, daughter of William and Elizabeth Rowan of Chester Co. PA. Family tradition says he married a third time, to Jane Rowan, but I have not yet found documentation for this marriage.

A Quaker, William Millikan did not bear arms during the Revolution, but is listed in the DAR Patriot Index: "He was so obnoxious to the Tories that on 10 March 1782, Colonel Fanning burned his home and barns with all their contents. He also furnished supplies."

Sources

DAR application for William Millikan filed 1979 by Janice Lee Johnson Klaus, seen as LDS film 1481377/22. This film lists all William's children by Jane White. The relevant DAR records are 406214 [Patriot Index 1966, p. 250] and 375358.

Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. 1

Randolph County, 1779-1979, published by Randolph County Historical Society and the Randolph Arts Guild, Hunter Publishing Co., Winston-Salem NC 1980

Springfield Friends Cemetery 1780-1991, Guilford County, High Point NC, prepared for Springfield Memorial Association by Brenda Gray Haworth, Historian and Editor

Colonial Records of NC, vol. 22, p. 397

Personal communications from Wally Garchow, Stewart Baldwin, and Jerry Murphy.

[NI0720] Her parents were probably from North Carolina.

[NI0784] SOURCE: Kathryn Moor, KMoor@in.net, buried at Arthur Cemetery, Moultrie County, Illinois

[NI0796] SOURCE: Kathryn Moor, KMoor@in.net, buried at Arthur Cemetery, Macon County, Illinois

[NI0804] SOURCE: Kathryn Moor, KMoor@in.net, buried at Cerro Gordo Cemetery, Platt County, Illinois

[NI0814] Notes
History of Macon County, Illinois. With Illustrations Descriptive Of Its Scenery, and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Phildelphia, 1880. Reproduced through efforts of The Decatur Genealogical Society, 1972. p.223 [Bourbon County].

THOMAS CHAMBERS was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, May 15th, 1827. James Chambers, his father, was also a native of the same state. He was a soldier in the war under the command of General William H. Harrison. In 1835 he moved to Indiana, where he lived eighteen months; then came to Illinois and settled in Vermillion county, and remained there six years, then came to Macon county, and settled permanently in Oakley township. He here entered forty acres of land, and purchased forty acres of school land in section 26, T. 17, R. 4 E. He remained in Oakley township until his death, which took place, August 25, 1877, in the seventy-fifty year of his age. He married Nancy Buoy. She died about the year 1855. By this marriage there were five children, three sons and two daughters; all living except Mary, who was married to Daniel Dickey. Laban is the eldest son. He was a soldier in the war with Mexico, and was wounded at the battle of Cerro Gordo, and suffered the amputation of his right arm. Thomas is the youngest son and fourth in the family. He received but an indifferent education in his youth. Confinement in school-houses was irksome to his naturally bouyant disposition. He could never bear confinement. He
wanted to roam around and enjoy the fine free air. This is his disposition yet. After the family removed to Macon county, Thomas purchased land in section 21, Town 17, Range 4. It was unimproved. Here he has resided up to the present time, and now has one of the best farms in the township. He married Miss Mary, daughter of Robert and Jennie Gates. Mr. Gates was a native of Kentucky, and his wife, of Tennessee. He died on a trip to California in 1849, and Mrs. Gates died in Missouri. There have been born to Thomas and Mary Chambers six children, five of whom are living. Their names are Margaret Ellen, wife of James K. Peck, Effie Jane, Elizabeth, Emma, and William R. Chambers. Politically Mr. Chambers is a republican. Before the formation of the Republican party he was an old-line whig, and cast his first presidential vote for General Taylor in 1848. Mr. Chambers has always followed the occupation of farming and stock raising and stock trading, in all of which he has been very successful. He started in life poor; and waht he has, has been the accumultionof patient toil, the practice of economical habits. In his manners he is pleasant and agreeable, and in his home a hospitable
gentleman.

BURIED: Peck Cemetery, Macon County, Illinois.

Portrait & Biographical Record of Macon County, IL--Published Sept. 1893 Page 514
Thomas Chambers resides on Section 21, Oakley Twp., Macon County. Native of Kentucky. Born May 15, 1826 in Pendleton County, second son of James Chambers. The family is of Irish lineage & was founded in America in the Colonial days. The father was born in 1791. Settled in Macon County, IL in 1836. Family of five: Laban, Thomas, James R., Mary, & Margaret. Thomas married Mary Yates of Scott County, IL (a lot about her family was not copied by researcher, Mabel Rea Hagan). They had five children: Margaret Ellen became the wife of J. K. Peck, died October 9, 1892. Effie C. married David
Pollard, a resident of Cerro Gordo, Piatt County, IL. Elizabeth, wife of J. K. Wheeler, who carried on farming on Sect. 21, Oakley Twp. Emma, wife of Samuel Hiser, a resident of Long Creek Twp. William Reed who resides at home with his father. Thomas was a town Supervisor & School Director, an extensive farmer & stock raiser. Kathryn Moor and Marilyn Spilker have copies of the signed Will of Thomas listing his heirs, & a description of real estate

[NI0823] Notes
BURIED: Peck Cemetery, Macon County, Illinois.

[NI0831] Notes
Robert was the middle brother in age of three brothers who came to America from Scotland before the Revolutionary War per oral history. He served in the Revolutionary War on two separate occasions. A farmer by trade he lived in Western Virginia, (Berkeley County), after the War. In about 1790-1793 took the family, probably four at that time, over the Allegheny Mountains to Bourbon County, Kentucky where they settled along the Licking River. They lived in Bourbon County and then in Pendleton County from 1799 to 1833. "Kentucky Genealogical Society", Bluegrass Roots, Winter 1978 Issue, Vol. V., No. 4,
Page 48.

TAX LISTS of PENDLETON COUNTY:
1799- Robert "Bohee", declares two black males.
1800- Robert "Buy", still has two black males in the household.
1801- Robert Buoy- no longer lists blacks, has acquired 87 acres along the Main Licking watercourse.
1802-1831- Appears regularly on tax list, does not appears afterwards.

CENSUS of PENDLETON COUNTY::
1810: Lists 2 boys under 10. and 5 girls
1814 -1815: Lists two white males over 21 in his household.
1817: Lists one white male over 21.
1823: Again shows 2 white males over 21.
1824: Lists one white male over 21 in his household.
1820: Again shows 2 white males over 21.
1829: Lists 2 adult males, 5 children age 4-15.
1830: Lists 1 adult male and 2 children 5-15 and now owns 430 acres.

Deeded Pendleton County land to son James Buoy on August 5, 1828. Deeded more Pendleton County land to James and his wife Polly on August 26, 1833. Was living in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinios in 1836. He is buried in Dougherty Cemetery, Fairmount, Vermilion County,IL.

**********************PENSION APPLICATION DATED AUGUST 13, 1836********************************

STATE OF ILLINOIS,
VERMILION COUNTY

On this 13th day of July, 1836, personally appeared in open Court, the Said Court being Probate Court in and for Said County,now siting, Robert Buoy, resident of Said County, Aged Eighty Years Old on the 29th day of January last, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress...June 7th A. D. , 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and Served as herein Stated....this declarant entered the service aforesaid in the County of Berkeley in the State of Virginia in the Company of the Captain John Vanmeter, .s Nicholas McIntire, a volunteer rendezvoused at the Town of Martinsburg, in said County, under the Command of Colonel Philip Pendleton, on the 15th day of April, 1777. Marched from Martinsburg, aforesaid to Old Town from thence, to Fort Cumberland, from thence to Fort Pette, there staid one or two days. There put aboard of a Boat and went down the Ohio River to Wheeling, then called Fort Henry, There Stationed and drew arms and ammunition, remained at said Fort till Captain Mason came and took possession of said fort and relieved us. We were marched back from Fort Henry by land, to Fort Pette, There drew our pay and was discharged, by Captain Vanmeter on the 7th day of September, 1777. Served four months and Twenty-two days on said tour.

On a second tour declarant entered the Service of the United States in the War of the Revolution, this declarant Volunteered in the county of Berkeley aforesaid rendezvoused at Martinsburg in the Month of October, 1781. Marched from Martinsburg, under the Command of Colonel Philip Pendleton having no Company Officers, to Winchester, from thence to Fredericksburg, there staid two days, there met Cornwallis prisoners on the third day marched with said prisoners to guard them to Manchester Barracks. There staid to guard said prisoners till said applicant mustered out tow month and eight days actual Service on said tour.

That he, this declarant,has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can process, who can testify to his Services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not in the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

Interrogations per …………….. by the Court;

Q. First, Where and in what year were you born?
A. In the year 1756.

Q. Have you ant record of your age and if so where is it?
A. I have in my Bible ……………. My home.

Q. Where were you living when called into Service?
A. In Berkeley County, Virginia, Have lived since in the State of Kentucky, lives now in Vermilion County, Illinois.

Decarant was a volunteer in the Revolutionary War and a Private in both tours. The names of the Regular Officers with whom the declarant served with, General Wayne, Colonel ………, Colonel Pendleton, …….., I received a discharge Signed by Captain Vanmeter.

James Newell and Valentine Leonard.

his
Robert Buoy
mark

the day and year aforesaid.
Amos Williams, Judge of the Probate Court.

[NI1010] On some of the children, the gender may not be correct.

[NI1081] AKA Charlotte Boka

[NI1179] He was a blacksmith.

[NI1180] 1860 Tennessee census lists his occupation as "blacksmith", his real-estate as $600, and his personal estate as $350.

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A resident of Ridgefarm, and a blacksmith.

[NI1191] Served as Corporal - Continental Line
Ref: (1) Seffels List of VA Soldiers of Revolution, page 13
(2) VA State Library Report, Vol 8, page 138
(3) VA State Library Cert for Service as Corporal Dillon
(4) Hodgson-Fisher-Hearvard Families, P 66-44-165-164-61-67

In 1759, a 552 acre tract surveyed for Daniel Dillon on Reedy Fork and Beaver Creeks and granted to him in 1759 by the Earl of Granville, on behalf of King George II of England. Land was transferred to him for a yearly payment forever of 22 shillings and 1 penny. When England lost the Revolutionary War, no
further payments were needed to be made. At this location, Daniel started a water-powered grist mill which is still in operation today (1996). It is a historical monument which has served the area for many more than 200 years. A brief chronological history of the mill ownership is in files of RLG as well as copies of the original deed and other information. Location of the mill is in Oak Ridge, NC and is located on Highway 68 between I-40 and Highway 150 - 5 miles North of the Greensboro-High Point Airport,
approximately half way between Winston-Salem and Greensboro.

[NI1266] age at death 29 years 11 months 20 days

[NI1295] William CLAYTON was baptized 9 Dec 1632 Boxgrove, Sussex, England. He married 7 Nov 1653 Pancras Parish, Chichester, Sussex, England to Prudence LANCKFORD, the daughter of William LANCKFORD of Broughton Parish, Hampshire, England. Early adherents to the teachings of George Fox, William and Prudence became members of the Society of Friends. On 7th day 12th month 1663 William was committed to jail in Sussex and fined 6 pounds for meeting with other Quakers. Having refused to pay his fines, William was jailed for six months in the House of Correction in the town of Arundel.

William Clayton and his family came to America about 1677 but the exact date of their arrival is uncertain. There was a William Clayton who arrived in 1677 in New Jersey on the ship "Kent" reportedly from London in the company of certain commissioners sent by the proprietors of New Jersey to purchase land from the Indians. This may have been another William Clayton who has been mistaken for our William Clayton by Hepburn and others over the years. On 6th day 8th month 1678, William Clayton Sr., William Clayton Jr. and Prudence Clayton were witnesses to the first marriage recorded at Burlington Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends, West Jersey. In March 1679 William Clayton purchased the share of Hans Oelson, one of the original grantees of Marcus Hook and settled at that place. Their daughter Honour Clayton married 6th month1679 at "Markers Hook" under the care of Burlington Monthly Meeting.

The family moved within the next decade to Chester Co., PA where William's estate was administered 1st day 8th month 1689.

[NI1334] She condemned her marriage out of unity in 1792 at Deep River
MM, NC. Her husband was ---- LOVE.

[NI1336] She was disowned in 1785 for marriage out of unity and was reinstated in 1791 by
Deep River MM, NC.

[NI1402] Named after his uncle, Robert Franklin Harrold. (Jeanne Eisenhauer, JSE613@webtv.net)

[NI1423] The following is information found on his website:

First saw light of day, February 6th 1924, in Danville, Illinois. Lived most of my early life in Aspen, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona. Live on the bluffs overlooking the beautiful American River in Carmichael, California with my wife, Iris and our black lab, Brandee

Retired from the US Airforce where I served as both a fighter pilot and a medic. Pre-Med University of Arizona, major in Chemistry, minor, Life Sciences, 1948. Graduated from UC Medical Center, San Francisco, California in 1952 with a DDS degree, later specializing in Orthodontics . Graduated from Twin Engine (P-38s) Fighter Advanced Training at Williams AFB, Chandler, AZ., 15 April 1944...Class 44-D. One of the proudest days of my life!!

I flew the Stearman PT17 in Primary Flying School. The school was the Morton Air Academy at Blythe, California. I arrived there in the Fall of 1943. These schools were hired by the United States Army Air Corps to train pilots and were mostly staffed by civilian instructors. The Commanding Officer was an AAF officer and usually there were AAF check pilots who made sure you were qualified to move on or move out. My civilian instructor was a Mr. Hal Howard, a band leader from Hollywood, who would later become VP of MCA. I had played drums in his band when he played at the Santa Rita Hotel in Tucson. Talk about a twist of fate when on the first day we met our civilian instructors and mine turned out to be Hal Howard. I almost dropped my teeth!!! He later was killed in an airplane crash between Reno and Las Vegas and to this day the accident site has never been found. The Commander at Blythe was Major Frank P. Fuller of the Fuller Paint Company fame. The civilian head was Roger Pryor of Hollywood fame who was a musical director for one of the film studios. His father was a famous band leader in the old days of Hollywood. I volunteered to fly the AT6 in Basic and the P38. actually the P322, in Advanced. I moved from Blythe to Marana Army Air Corps base at Tucson, Arizona...October 1943...for Basic Flying School...my home town..talk about luck!

[NI1440] Walter moved from Greene County, TN to Washington County, MO about 1802. In 1819, he moved to Clark County, AR to continue his trade as a cabinet maker.

Our ancestor, Walter Crow was born ca 1783 in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His father, Benjamin moved to eastern Tennessee, along with many of his in-laws. Walter was married in Tennessee.

Around 1802 Walter, his father, his brothers and sisters all floated the Tennessee on a flat boat and settled in a new frontier in Missouri Territory. It has been written that Walter's daughter, Elizabeth was born on the trip, thus, the name Elizabeth Waters.

During the fifteen to seventeen years in Missouri, Walter his father, and his brothers and brothers-in-laws bought land, some married while living there and raised their families.

The next migration brought the "clan" to Arkansas in 1819, being among the earliest settlers of Clark County. Walter first lived just a few miles west of Arkadelphia where he followed the occupation of cabinet-making and farming. He later moved north of Okolona where he died at age 75/6.

It has been said he was a genius in making articles from wood--spinning wheels, chairs and looms, also trunks, one of which remained in the possession of one of his ancestors for many years, maybe is yet.

He served on juries, made depositions for cases tried in county courts, as his name appears in many county records.

[NI1448] buried in Dobyville Cemetary

[NI1455] had 11 children...

[NI1457] Graduated from Lyngby Teachers College.
Was a teacher and then principal.

Had 11 children...

[NI1459] Had two wives...

[NI1465] SOUR William Dean Leonard (Dean)
San Jose, CA

Jamestown in Guilford , North Carolina is named after James Mendenhall. James Mendenhall was a Miller and one of the founders of the town. Home of Guilford College. Info from Tom Valentine. More info from Tom-Buried on his property in Taliaferro , GA. Had received 600 acres in land grant. Was
passed on to his son, Marmaduke Mendenhall. James died in his cabin. James Mendenhall's original land is now under the waters of High Point Lake, between High Point and Greensboro, NC.

Dean Leonard has his date of death as 1798 - quite a bit later than Tom, perhaps one of these is a typo.

[NI1489] 1850 Census of Greene County, Tennessee lists Andrew as a farmer.

[NI1493] probably in Civil War, 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, corp. Co. E

[NI1494] Was in Civil War, 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Priv. Co. E

[NI1495] was in civil war 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment (musician Co. E, enrolled at Greeneville)
farmed til he died

[NI1552] Was in a mental institution since her mid 20s...

[NI1553] Was a farmer/drover.

[NI1555] Abraham received 174 and one-fourth acres of land from his father in Colebrookdale 1 Sep 1762. He was first taxed at Colebrookdale in 1762. He sold some land in Hereford in 1795. Mennonite.

[NI1557] Farmer/Wood Work

Buried: in Bally Menn Cem, Washington Twp, Berks Co, PA 2
Immigrated: 1710 in nr Schuylkill Rv, Valley Forge, Chester Co, PA

Jacob was 13 when he left Alsheim with his parents. He first lived at Perkiomen and Skippach, Montgomery county. He married Barbara. He bought land at Colebrookdale, Berks county, in 1724 and sold it to his brother Daniel in 1730. In 1768, Jacob, then of Hereford, and his wife Barbara sold to their son, John, weaver of Hereford, land on Perkiomen Creek in Hereford that Jacob had patented in 1728. He moved to Bally, Washington township, Berks county, where he died in 1780. His wife died in 1785. He was a Mennonite. (Shirk genealogy, by D. NcN. Stauffer) On December 31, 1712, Hans' oldest son, Jacob Stauffer, bought from Samuel Powell of Philadelphia, 500 acres of land on the west branch of Perkiomen Creek in what is now Montgomery county, PA. (Perkiomen Creek flows through Berks and Montgomery counties) (Stauffer/Bauer book by Henry Bower, 1897) After Jacob was married, the area where he settled was one vast wilderness, and a remnant of an Indian tribe resided there. He was one of the first settlers and original purchaser of a plantation in that neighborhood, which adjoined the one on which the Roman Catholic chapel was afterward erected. At that time he took his grain on horseback to a gristmill somewhere below Norristown, a distance of twenty miles. Mr. Stauffer was a Mennonite, and many of his descendants are still to this day adherents of that faith. He is buried in the Mennonite graveyard adjoining his plantation.

[NI1559] Immigrated: 1710 in nr Schuylkill Rv, Valley Forge, Chester Co, PA

(from GENEALOGIES OF PENNSYLVANIA FAMILIES; p.44) . . . They were Mennonites, and, because
of the persecution of that faith, fled (Switzerland, 1668) to Alsheim in the neighborhood of Strassburg,
Germany, where he engaged in viniculture, renting an old estate and castle. (p. 46; lease with the Lord
Fieldmarshal General, Van Kaunter, for the citadel of the castle and the castle goods 1697 for three years 1700.) He inherited from his father 350 guldens and from his sister, Anneli, 23 guldens. (from Carol Scott Info) Hans was a prosperous farmer until the War of the Spanish Succession brought ruin and desolation to that part of Europe. Through the influence of his step son-in-law, Gerhart Clemens, Hans Stauffer migrated to America. He and his family and his daughter's family, left their home on November 5, 1709, and after a three days' journey embarked at Weissenau on the Rhine. After ten weeks' intermittent travel they reached London on January 26, 1710. From London, after a stormy and perilous voyage of sixty-seven days on the ship, "Maria Hope", they reached Philadelphia in the spring of 1710. They settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near Valley Forge. Hans and Kinget Hiestand Stauffer are buried in a Mennonite graveyard near that place. No tombstone, or record of their deaths has been discovered. ANABAPTISTS (from Guide to Genealogical records by Suess; Everton Pub.) The peaceful group of Anabaptists appeared with Ulrich Zwingli's own circle in most German-speaking areas of Switzerland in the decade of the 1520s. They referred to themselves at first as "brethren." They were also known as "Taufgesinnte" (baptismal minded), "Taufer" (baptists), "Wiedertaufer" and Mennonites. The Anabaptists wanted to restore Christianity to its earlier, more primitive, purer form. They felt that the early Christian was a heartfelt believer, a minority in a pagan state, rejected and persecuted. If this was the case with the early Christian Church it must also be the case for Christians at all times. For the Anabaptist the implication was that the state, even though its rulers might be Christian, must by necessity be un-Christian. They opposed any union of church and sate. The Anabaptist felt he must be distinguished from the rest of the population by a strict morality, including abstinence from alcohol, and also further by a visible token of his inward regeneration. Since Lutherans, Zwinglians, and Catholics accepted infant baptism, the Anabaptists appeared as rebaptizers, and therefore that name was applied to them. The Anabaptist were immediately persecuted, first by the Catholic Church, and then by the Protestants. Some Anabaptists were executed, some returned to the Protestant Church, others tried to exist in obscure places, but many left their homes for other countries. The three areas where they appeared very early and existed for a long time are the old states of Bern, Zurich, and Basel. Some Protestant parish registers recorded children of Anabaptist parents who were christened in their church. The Anabaptists in the canton of Bern have existed there through the centuries until the present time despite extreme difficulties in the past. The majority of Mennonites in America of Swiss background can trace their beginnings to Bernese territory. Most of the Bernese Mennonites who stayed in Switzerland fled to the Jura Mountains during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. This was the area of the Bishopric of Basel which was partly under the German empire and partly under Swiss Jurisdiction. Others settled in the southern part of the Jura which was the Principality of Neuchatel, a possession of Prussia. After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, the Bishopric of Basel was given to Canton Bern, and the Neuchatel became a canton in the Swiss Confederacy. Typical Bernese Anabaptist names included the following: Althaus, Amstutz, Augsburger, Brubacher, Bertschi, Bichsel, Baumgartner, Bösiger, Bieri, Burkhalter, Bucher, Brechbuhl, Badertscher, Duller, Eicher, Aeschlimann, Fluckiger, Aebersold, Frey, Geumann, Gerber, Gut, Grader, Geiger, Gungerich, Gunten, Gehrig, Haldemann, Habegger, Hochstettler, Hilti, Hirschi. Joder, Imhof, Krahenbuhl, Kannel, Kaufmann, Ledermann, Lehmann, Luginbuhl, Leichti, Moser, Mosimann, Neuenschwander, Nussbaum, Neuhauser, Oberli, Reusser, Rich, Rohrer, Reist, Rothlisberger, Reichenbach, Rupp, Roth, Ramseier, Schenk, Schrag, Schnegg, Steiner, Stutzmann, Stucki, Sommer, Tschanz, Suter, Stauffer, Schmucker, Dreier, Thut, Wurgler, Walti, Wenger, Wuthrich, and Zurcher. Special family records of Anabaptists kept by Protestant ministers during the latter 18th and 19th century in several parishes, especially in Trub and Langnau, are kept in the civil registrar's office. Already in 1526 there were Anabaptists in the canton of Aargau. They existed with great difficultly in this area until the early part of the 18th century. Some surnames include: Datwyler, Burger, Muller, Bachmann, Stahlin, Kunzli, Meier, Suter, Schuhmacher and Widmer. The beginnings of the Anabaptist movement in 1525 in the old republic of Zurich have been carefully recorded. A circle of well-educated persons broke with Zwingli's reform program, feeling it was not complete and failed to follow scriptural patterns. Extreme persecution started quickly and these people were either executed or fled. Wherever they went they started congregations. While the congregation in the city of Zurich soon became extinct, concentrations of Anabaptists were started in the southeastern part of the canton of Zurich in Gruningen, around Horgen, Wadenswil, and Knonau. Family names of Anabaptists in the canton of Zurich area were: Muller, Landis, Hess, Brubacher, Weber, Bachmann, Gut, Schneider, Hegli, Huber, Strickler, Graf, Frick, Schnebeli, Peter, Eberli, Kagi, Pfister, Hofmann, Tanner, Bar, Frey, Nageli, Studer, Wyss, Meyer,
Ringg, Egli, Oberholzer, Bosshard, and many others.

[NI1561] Hans was born at Luchsmatt, Eggiwil, Switzerland. He probably took over the farms at Luchsmatt and Glashutte after his father left in 1671. He was still living in Switzerland in 1685 when he sent money to his son Hans of Ibersheim at the time of his marriage. He is probably the Hans Stauffer who married Madlena Neuenschwander of Eggiwil.

[NI1562] Christian, a fugitive Anabaptist preacher, may have been part of a great "Taufer hunt" along with Uli Zaugg and Uli Neuhaus in 1644. They were all captured and placed in jail in Thun, where the authorities there were warned to keep these obstinate preachers out of the Emmenthal Valley. Christian Stauffer lived at Luchsmatt farm in his early married life and then probably at Glashutte, both in Eggiwil and located west of the Eggiwil village proper on the road to Rothenbach. He was exiled with his second wife from Glashutte farm in Eggiwil in the fall of 1671. He was living in Dirmstein, Germany, in December of 1671 and by January 1, 1672 in Ibersheim, Germany, where he probably died. His children were christened at Röthenbach, but were probably all born at Luchsmatt farm in Eggiwil which lies near the border of Eggiwil and Röthenbach parishes. The Emmenthal Valley was a hotbed of Anabaptist activity and their numbers were growing, which greatly alarmed the authorities in Bern. By 1671, Eggiwil had a large group of Anabaptists, numbering about 40 adults, which when you add in their children probably totaled over 100 people. On May 3, 1671, the magistrate of Signau received orders from Bern to seize the Anabaptists of Eggiwil and bring them to the prison in Bern, where they would then be led out of Switzerland. The village community of Eggiwil refused to permit this, probably because so many of them had relatives who were Anabaptists and also because many themselves had leanings toward the Mennonite faith. Shortly thereafter twelve of the wealthiest residents of Eggiwil were sent to the city of Bern as hostages until the Anabaptists agreed to be delivered to the Bern prison or to leave the land. They agreed to the latter. On October 16, 1671, the Reformed pastor of Eggiwil was able to report that the Anabaptists had left of their own accord. They were not allowed to take much and probably had some of their possessions and lands confiscated as an emigration tax, as well as having their citizenship taken away. They would become refugees without a county. According to Valentine Hutwohl, a Mennonite Minister in the Pfalz, on December 14, 1671, 450 Anabaptists from Bern had recently arrived in the Pfalz. "These are scattered among the fellow believers throughout the region over a twelve-mile territory. Among these you will find those who need canes, being 70, 80, and 90 years old. On the whole they need clothing sorely; they didn't take more along than what they had on their backs. With little bedding, we don't know how to keep them warm. Some amongst us have seven, eight or nine living with them. When you speak of their property, they sigh, wishing that they had their houses and farm land here as before. There are men who left their wives and children, and women, older as well as younger, who have left husbands and children; others who brought along some, leaving the rest with the husbands, also expectant mothers; also children who left father, mother, brothers and sisters behind". Included in the Hutwohl letter was a list of the Swiss refugees. Many were members of Christian Stauffer's family. All lived together, having 21 children. They had left large possessions in Switzerland. They had a large debt with a merchant. They brought along 100 Reichsthalers and were given 250 to pay the debt. They were living at Dirmstein.

[NI1563] Claus owned the Luchsmatt farm in Eggiwil in 1597 where he died in 1615.

[NI1564] Note: Ulrich lived at Luchsmatt farm, Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland.

[NI1565] Niclaus owned Luchsmatt farm in Eggiwil in 1547 and had two sons. Niclaus may have been the son of
Peter Stauffer who owned the Fröetsen farm nearby in 1501 and 1530. The Fröetsen farm in Eggiwil was
bought by the Stauffer family in 1485. The first Stauffer of record in the area was an Ulrich Stauffer who was living in Röthenbach in 1440.

[NI1569] Note: Heinrich lived in Samstagern, Richterswil, Switzerland.

[NI1578] both Jesse and Rosa are buried in Sycamore, Rose Hill

[NI1579] both Benjamin Franklin Crosslin and Adah (Presley) Crosslin are buried in the Bethel Cemetary, same as a number of other family members

[NI1584] both Benjamin Franklin Crosslin and Adah (Presley) Crosslin are buried in the Bethel Cemetary, same as a number of other family members

[NI1587] Buried at Weir Cemetery, Clark County, Arkansas

[NI1607] probably buried at the Midway Cemetary in Nevada County, Arkansas

[NI1613] "Val-Divia Octavia Kelly" according to Sarah Via Harrison...
probably aka "Divie" and is buried in Midway Cemetary, Nevada County, Arkansas

[NI1750] 1920 Texas census showed his native language was German.

[NI1751] 1920 Texas census showed her native language was German.

[NI1756] Funeral was at Wauneta, Nebraska. Cause of death was suicide.

[NI1971] This story has been told by several sources in the family: "Luke Dillon, a red headed weaver of Kilkenny, Ireland, won the heart and hand of Susanna Garret, daughter of a man of wealth and fame. Susanna's father disinherited her after marrying one whom he styled a "snotty nosed weaver". They emigrated to
Pennsylvania where Susanna learned to weave and they supported themselves by their calling. Luke was a drinking man and went to the mill on horseback five miles away, starting home in the evening facing a snowstorm with a bottle of liquor in his pocket, got off the horse, sat down by a tree, and there
froze to death and was not found for six weeks". He was married to Susan GARRETT about 1709 in Kilkearney, Ireland.

[NI1972] AKA Susannah Barrett

[NI1978] was a First Church of God minister at First Church of God in Greenville
started many churches including one in Kingsport, Tn and one in Morristown

[NI1994] Worked for the Pet Dairy company
Was a minister for several churches, including the Church of God in the Johnson City, TN area

[NI2021] He was a member of Moose Lodge 1001. He had farmed on West Newell Road. Entombed at Sunset Memorial Park (near Danville, Illinois?)

[NI2026] Spent many years as a clerk in the Land store at Johnsonville and later took over operation of the store.
(occupation listed as "Merchant/General Merchandise" on death certificate)
SS#342-01-5218

[NI2027] Twin to Thomas Everett Turner
Fought in WW I
died from wounds from war

[NI2076] Sources

Charity G. Monroe, 4315 W. Lora Ann Lane, Peoria, IL 61615

Herbert Standing, 1806 Bear Creek Road, Earlham, IA 50072 (515) 758-2338

W. Kenneth Mendenhall, P.O. Box 706, Mendenhall PA 19357

[NI2082] My guess is that the name is StansBury, not StansCury...

[NI2089] Buried at Cariens Cemetary, Wayne County, Illinois (Hilliard, Billie)
Died of "paralysis". Came from Ohio to Wayne County, Illinois in the spring of 1858.

From a history of Wayne County, Illinois:

"JAMES W. HILLIARD farmer, P.O. Jeffersonville, was born
November 29, 1826, in Fayette County, Penn., son of George B.
Hilliard, of Wayne County, Ill., and was educated in Noble and
Belmont Counties, Ohio. He came to Wayne County, Ill., in the spring
of 1858, and has been County Surveyor for 12 years, Deputy for 4 years,
Supervisor for 4 years, Town Clerk for 4 or 5 years, Highway
Commissioner for 9 years, and Justice of the Peace for 8 years.
He is a member of the Catholic Church, and was married in Monroe, Ohio,
August 22, 1852, to Sarah Daugherty, of the same county, by whom
he had ten children, nine living ---- George, John, William, James,
Thomas, David, Sylvester, Mary and Hannah. Subject owns 1,011 acres
of land in Wayne County, Ill. Politics, Democratic."

[NI2090] Buried at Cariens Cemetary, Wayne County, Illinois

[NI2091] "GEORGE B. HILLIARD ---- farmer, P.O. Jeffersonville. Among the oldest men of Arrington Township, Wayne County, Ill., yet living, is George B. Hilliard, who was born on a ship between Massachusetts and Connecticut, March 17, 1794, and is a son of James Hilliard, of Ireland. Subject was educated in Adams County, Penn., and was in the war of 1812, serving 18 months in the 5th Regiment under the command of Capt. Thompson, and being in the battles of Lundy's Lane, Fort George and several other skirmishes, where he was wounded in the leg by a rifle ball. Our subject came to Wayne County, Ill., in the fall of 1853, where he still resides in good health, with his son, James W. He was married, August 29, 1824, to Margaret Foreacre, of Virginia, by whom he had thirteen children, three of whom are living --- James W., George H., and Sarah. The following are those dead, who reached adulthood--- Nancy J., Creig, Margaret Windland, Susannah Galliager, William A., Mary Gutherty, Sarah Jeffers, Mariah Broche and John, who died in the late war. Politics, Democratic."

(From a history of Wayne County)

[NI2092] AKA Foreaker, Foraker etc...
Buried at Cariens Cemetary, Wayne County, Illinois

[NI2137] buried at Kalispall, Montana

[NI2140] Columbia Falls, Montana

[NI2141] of Seattle, Wash

[NI2142] Columbia Falls, Montana

[NI2150] was Mary E. Turner's first boyfriend...
Was a boxer. Fought Jake Lamotta, Cecil Hanson. Knew Cassius Clay, met Ronald Reagan
Was head of the Illinois Golden Gloves Commission
died at 7:13 pm in the arms of Mary of cancer
buried in Danville
Was a Catholic

Trained under his father
fought all over the world
did not smoke or drink
clean cut kid
professional boxer in Australia and Mexico
headed sporting dept at Danville, Ill VA hospital

[NI2157] When George was 5 years of age, his parents moved from Monroe County, Ohio to Wayne County, Illinois where he stayed til his death.

[NI2160] Drowned in the Dry Fork River

[NI2177] From a history of Wayne County, Illinois:

"GEORGE H. H ILLIARD ---- farmer, P.O. Jeffersonville. Among the
enterprising farmers of Lamard Township is George H. Hilliard, who
was born November 7, 1838, in Ohio. He is the son of George B.
Hilliard, of Ohio formerly of Scotland or Ireland. Our subject
came to Wayne County, Ill., with his parents in the fall of 1853.
His mother died in Wayne County, Ill., in 1874. Then George B.
Hilliard went to live with his son, James W., in Wayne County, Ill.
Our subject was married July 23, 1859, in Wayne County, Ill., to
Amanda E., daughter of Thomas P. Green, of Wayne County, Ill.
Subject had ten children by Mrs. Amanda, all living, Mary F.,
John W., Thomas J.,Sarah B., Joseph N., David A., Charles S., Frank B.,
Clara N., and James A. Mrs. Amanda Hilliard was born October
24,1839 , in Wayne County, Ill .,and died May 3l, 1881. Mary K. was
married to Dudley D. Davis, June 6, 1883 and moved to St. Louis, MO.
where they still reside. Subject has been a member of the Church of
Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints,for 16 years and a minister of the
same denomination for 15 years. He is also a member of the Masonic
order. He owns 420 acres of good land, and is engaged in farming
and stock raising. Politics, Republican."

[NI2180] Birth also shown as Oct 25, 1804 (WFT)
buried at Dougherty Cemetary

[NI2239] full-blooded Cherokee Indian

[NI2241] part Indian

[NI2257] Airman in the US Air Force. Trained at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas

[NI2383] African American

[NI2588] died of a gunshot wound

[NI2595] died in WWI

[NI2653] died of blood poisoning after a miscarriage

[NI2923] Elizabeth was a "full blooded Indian"

[NI2970] Obit for Casper Fulcher said "Jim", but I think it's probably James. - (Don Harrold)

[NI3084] Abt. 1805, through 1808, migrated from Henry County, VA. to Kentucky

March 28, 1818, Residing in Cumberland County, KY., deed land to son Lewis of Patrick Co.,VA. (Source: Henry Co., VA. deed book 8
page 299)

August 19, 1819, Bought 559 acres on Mudcamp Creek from James O'Bannon (Source: Cumberland Co. Deed Book A)

Place of residence: Black Hollow of Mud Camp Creek, Cumberland County, Ky.

[NI3088] The Last Will and Testament of Shadrack Turner

October 25, 1783

Will is on file in Henry County, Virginia in Will Bk. 1 (1779-1799) pg. 90-91.

In the Name of God Amen. October the 25th One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Three. I, Shadrack Turner of Henry County, being in sound memory at present, thanks to Almighty God for it, and knowing the uncertainty of life, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in the following manner.

Item: I give to my sons Larkin Turner and Jeremiah Turner, the Land and Plantation that I now live upon as far as the right hand Branch and up the Branch to the Creek above the Road thence up the said Branch Sick is as far as the Road, also one horse and one saddle to each of them.

Item: I give to my son William Turner the Land over the right hand Branch and up the branch to the Dreen. Thence up the Dreen to theRoad. Thence along the road to the line of the final survey, thence along the line till it comes to Daniel Smith s corner, thence a straight line below the Mess place, thence a straight line to the Waggon ford by the Apple Orchard, thence along the Creek to the mouth of the right hand branch, thence up the Branch to the beginning.

Item: I give to my daughter Excony Turner, One Horse and Saddle and two cows and calves and a Ewe and Lamb and one Sow and Piggs and the land upon the Turkey Penn Branch and up to my son William s line on both sides of the creek, thence a straight line to the corner tree in the gap of the hill, thence along the Ridge to the back line, the remaining part to Larkin and Jeremiah Turner to them and heirs forever.

Item: I also give to my daughter, Excony Turner, One Feather Bed and Furniture to her and her heirs forever, if she dies without heirs, her part to be Divided amongst the rest of my children.

Item: The House to be finished out of the estate.

Item: I give to my beloved wife Ann Turner the Plantation I now live upon and all the movable Estate, after my debts are paid, during her life time, then to be Divided between all my children, and my Grand daughter, Elizabeth, John, Josiah, William, Mary, Larkin, Jeremiah, Excony, Mary Hunter, if any of the above mentioned children should die without an heir, then parts to be returned to the remainder part of the children. I appoint my two sons John Turner and Wm. to be executors to the within Written Will. In Witness thereof I have set y hand and seal, the Day and year above Written.

Shadrack Turner Sr.

PostScript: I expected I had finished the Will but since the other children I give my Executors power at time of marriage Lucia Robb have a cow and calf and other necessaries as my Executors may think needful, but if Lucia or Sally die without issue Lawfully begotten, may their part to return to the Estate.

Item: I desire my children may have learning as far as may do County (that is the boys). The girls to read-out of the Estate. In witness their of I set my hand and seal

Shadrack Turner Sr.

Tes.

Sam l Critchfield

John Hunter

Richard Stone (X his mark)

MORE NOTES ON SHADRACK TURNER

Originally from Caroline County, Virginia. Many of the records of Caroline County were burned in the Civil War and only the order book remains. Shadrack was the nephew of ancestor, James Turner. When the mother of the children died Shadrack was already sixteen, so no guardian was named for him. They were named for the other children in the family. At this time the father was already deceased or no guardian wuld have been named. He, the father, was apparently John Turner, brother of James Turner, and son of Richard Turner, who died in 1744.

All of the Turners moved west, James into Bedford County and Shadrack into Henry, which was apparently cut from Bedford. Descendents of James also lived in Henry and Franklin Counties. "Pioneer Families of Franklin County, Virginia" page 220, states that three brothers Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego living in VA prior to 1748; 1748 patent gave Shadrack land in Halifax County, VA. He later moved to Pittsylvania then Henry County, VA.

In previous publications, it has been written that Shadrack Turner owned 4400 acres of land in Halifax County, Virginia which had been granted to him by patents. The writer wrote to the Virginia State Archives and the only land patent on record for Shadrack Turner is 104 acres made 10 August 1759 in Lunenburg County for which he paid ten shillings. Copy of this patent has been deposited along with all of the documents used in this book at the Georgia State Archives. Patent Bk. 34, Virginia Archives 1756-1762, Reel 33-34 p. 403. In1767, he is on the Tithe list of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 256 acres (reference Virginia Magazine Vol. 24, pg. 190). He is in Virginia Magazine, Vol. 15, p. 92, 1777, shows he gave aid to Capt. Rubels Company, Henry County Militia. Virginia Magazine Vol. 10 p. 239, 1783 shows he gave aid to Virginia Militia; received certificates 14 and 143 for said aid.

In "History of Henry County, Virginia" by J.P.A Hill, Shadrack was appointed Road Commissioner for Henry County and was also instrumental in having Henry County formed into a separate county from Pittsylvania.

BOOKS & MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON SHADRACK TURNER

The Turner family magazine, genealogical, historical and biographical. New York City, N.Y., W.W. Clemens, 1916-17. Microfilm 18446 CS Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 2 (Apr. 1916); title from cover.
Note: Has a brief account of Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednigo Turner.

Turner, James H. (James Henry), 1922- Cathell, Rangeley, Turner : a family history -- Baltimore : Gateway Press (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD) ; Salisbury, MD : J.H. Turner {distributor}, 1988. x, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. CS71.C36 1988 Note: The progenitor of the Turner branch is Shadrack Turner, one of "three brothers" in Virginia.

[NI3094] Served in the Revolutionary War. Moved to Monroe County, Kentucky. Served South Carolina Troops from Union District.

[NI3101] He married John Mrs Browning in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, about 1699. John was born in Jamestown, James City, Virginia 1680. Genealogy of the Brownings in America from 1621 to 1908 by Edward Franklin Browning 1908 page 445 #1656 John Browning Junior son of John Browning 1655 Born about 1666 or 1676 at Jamestown, Virginia He was married about 1699 at Jamestown, Virginia He had sons atleast, and may have other children namely; 1657 Francis Senior born about 1700. 1658 John 3rd born about 1702. 1659 Edmund born about 1704 1660 James born about 1706 Thomas born about
1708 1674 William born about 1710 Nicholas born about 1712

[NI3102] He married an unknown person in Jamestown, Virginia, about 1665/1675. Genealogy of the Brownings in America from 1621 to 1908 Edward Franklin Browning page 445 #1656 John son of William Browning Born about 1646 at Jamestown. He married about 1665 or 1675 at Jamestown and had at least one son who was named after his father namely, 1656. John Junior born about 1666 or 1676 He is mentioned Oct 6 1682 as connected with the Somers Island Company as having signed a petition to the Governor of the somers Islands

[NI3103] Came to "America" with his father and settled in Jamestown, Virginia.

He married an unknown person in Jamestown, Virginia, about 1645. Genealogy of the Brownings in America 1608 to 1908 by Edward Franklin Browning page 443 #1653 William Browning came over with his father in 1622 and settled at Jamestown, Virginia. He married in Jamestown, but we do not know whom, probably about 1645. He had at least one son namely: John Browning. William Browning is mentioned as having received from his father Capt. John Browning, 250 acres of land, deed recorded in 1646. He pruchased from the Crown (George the second) 400 acres in Amelia County, on the upper side of Buffalo River.

[NI3104] Sailed to "America" in 1622 on the ship, the "Abigail".

He married an unknown person in England, about 1614. Genealogy of the Brownings in America from 1621 to 1908 by Edward Franklin Browning page 443 #1651 Born in England about 1588. He came to America in the "Abigail", in 1622, having sailed from Gravesend, England, and landed on College Lands, and settled in Elizabeth City, Virginia. He is supposed to have been the brother of William Browning. He was married in England about 1614, and had a number of children among whom were William Browning and George Browning. William was born in England about 1615, and George Browning was born in England about 1614. This John Browning was generally known as Capt John. He served as a Burgess in Elizabeth City in 1629 and in the same year he purchased 250 acres of land. He is mentioned in a deed recorded in 1646 to his son William Browning. He is also mentioned as a Burgess of Morris Bay in 1632 and a Burgess of Elizabeth City in 1635. In 1638 He purchased for 3,000 pounds of tobacco, all lands lying in Mounds Bay and belonging to Thomas Grindon. Among his children were: 1654. George born about 1614 1653. William born about 1615. This Capt. John Browning was the founder of one of the oldest and first families of Virginia. The plantation on which he lived is from three to four miles from Williamsburg, which latter place is about five miles from Jamestown. Cavaliers and Pioneers Patent Book 1 Part Given to Capt John Browning inconsideration of 3000 lb of tobacco 10 Nov 1638.

[NI3106] George Browning came to America along with his father in 1622, and settled at Jamestown, Virginia. He entered "Head Rights" in Cockes County, Virginia in 1634 and was granted 400 acres in the Half-way Swamp in 1663. He died about 1679 aged about 64 years.

[NI3113] According to 1870 Arkansas Census of Columbia County:

William was a farmer who could read and write. His mother and father were not of foreign birth. Some of his children were born in Louisiana, so he probably lived there for a time. The value of his real estate was 500, and the value of his personal estate was 200.

On his tombstone is the name "William O. KELLY" (Spring Branch Baptist Church Cemetary, Springhill, Louisiana / Taylor, Arkansas)

[NI3114] buried at La Grange Township, Iowa

[NI3154] died of spinal meningitis during civil war

[NI3229] Was a tailor by profession. Knew he could only be tailor in England. Heard Brigham Young speak in England, and was attracted to the Mormons. Came to America, worked for 5 years in Philadelphia. In1859 came west on the Mormon trail.

[NI3285] Neve, Ebenhart D.,

[NI3291] The family of Aaron & Charity Mills moved several times. First from Jefferson County, TN to North Carolina, to Indiana 1830, and to Oregon with the first immigration of Dr. Marcus Whitman and his group. Oregon City, Oregon was the place where Emily Mills, daughter of Isaac met and married Enos Thomas Mendenhall. Aaron was described as one of the stoutest men of his day.

[NI3294] John & Mary Davis Mills lived in Jefferson County, Tennessee. In 1807 they moved to the state of Ohio and settled on the Big Miami, fifteen miles above Dayton, where they remained four years. At the end of that time they moved farther west and bought land on the Mad River about nine miles east of Urbana. About 1815 the family moved to Indiana where other relatives had already settled, having moved from Tennessee about two years previously. Land was purchased in the County of Wayne and there they
lived until the death of John in 1824.
(Mills Family: Early Arrivals)

[NI3298] SHORT SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SETH MILLS, 1805-1846
from The Henry Mills Family
State of Illinois, Vermilion County, 2nd Mo. 4th, 1846. This is a memorandum of the most particular events of my life, penned down in order that I can look over and see what has happened through my life.
Their first five years of my life.--I was born in the State of Tennessee, Jefferson County on the third day of the 10th month A.D. 1805. My parents names were John and Mary Mills, and at the age of one year old they moved to the State of Ohio and settled on the Big Miami, fifteen miles above Dayton, where they remained about four years. At the end of that time they moved on further east and bought land on Mad River about nine miles east of Urbana.
This happened not far from the fifth year of my age. There they lived five years, which brought me to my tenth year, without anything worth notice. except that we lived about eight miles from meeting until about one year before we left that place, there was a small meeting set up which my father took me to for the first time that I was at meeting of any kind that I can recollect, having had but three months schooling to this date.
About the year 1815 my father sold his possessions in Ohio and moved to Indiana, where his mother, brothers and sisters all had settled, having moved from Tennessee about two years previous to that time. My father bought land in the county of Wayne or rather where that county was laid out, for he moved to that county while it was yet a territory and settled among the beech some three miles from meeting or school which proved to be a sad misfortune to me. I being the oldest child except one sister and the land being wonderful heavily timbered, it required a great deal of labor before it could be cultivated, so I was suffered to grow up without the advantage of education. But I had to work very hard to help my father make a farm, to support a large family, there being twelve children, six of each. The girls were the oldest save myself, which made it harder on me. It appeared almost impossible for me to get time to go to school, which was a very great cross to me, for I would often plead with my father to let me
go to school, but he would say that he could not let me go for there was too much work to do, but at some other time I should go. But alas that time did not come, for about the eighteenth year of my life it was my lot, with the rest of the family to be drprived of an affectionate father, who was removed by death tot ry the realities of another world. Oh what a trial it was for me to pass through; it appeared to me that it was more than I could go through.
But alas, there was the time of my troubles, or the time of the beginning of hardships, the care and labor devolving on me. Thus I continued to sow and reap. Once in a while I would get to go to school for a few weeks then something would turn up to stop me; thus I continued to labor for the support of the family. I did not only make the shoes, but I also tanned the leather, my father having taught me to tan in a trough, and it was no small job to tan leather and shoe as large a family as ours was. My mother's brother, Thomas Davis was a great help to me in the way of shoe making, having spent the winter after my father's death with us. He gave me some assistance in the way of shoe making for which I shall ever feel grateful. He lived at that time in the
state of Ohio, in Highland country.
Thus I lived and worked until I was in my twenty-third year, at which time I was married, on the twenty-first day of the third month, in the year of our Lord A.D. 1827 to Rebecca Canaday, a daughter of John and Julatha Canaday, highly respected and of good report. When we were married we lived in my mother's kitchen until I put in a crop and tended it, then in the fall we moved off and gave up the crop for the support of the family and went and bought corn to winter on. In the spring of 1828, on the twenty-third day of the third month I left my family and started to company with Hermon Canaday, my brother-in-law, to the state of Illinois in order to raise a crop to move to in the fall. We were gone from our families about three months, and on the second day of the seventh month, 1828, we got home. In the fall of the same year, my father-in-law Hermon Canaday, and myself moved to where we had raised our crops and all landed safe and sound on the Grand Prairie in Vermilion County. At this time I was able to own one small mare, two cows, two or three calves and a few sheep, and 50 cents in cash, that being all that I was worth. But I had two hands and was able to work, and I went at it. The first thing that I done after we landed was to buy a horse of my father-in-law for which I was able to pay him one hundred and ten days work, and in the course of that fall and the next winter and spring, I had my horse paid for, besides gathering my corn and a number of other things that I had to attend to. The first work that I done was to build a house, my father-in-law having bought land without any improvements. When the house was put up and about one-half of the floor laid we moved into it, that is my father-in-law and myself, with our families, where we remained until the twenty-fifth of the fifth month 1829, when I sold my afore-mentioned horse. With thirty-six dollars that father-in-law gave to my wife and soem more that I obtained somhow else I was enable to buy eighty acres of land. I then went to work and put up a house and we moved to it and were then at home for the first time.
We had forty acres of prairie where I built my house, and forty acres of timber just one mile from home. On this place we remained for some three or four years. I became dissatisfied and sold out for four hundred dollars and left the prairie. My mother-in-law having departed this life, father-in-law wanted us to move into the house with him and we accordingly done so, where we remained for two years. Some time in the course of that time I went to White Water or Wayne county, Indiana and bought a drove of sheep and brought them on the prairie and sold them to pretty good profit. At this time I bought a farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres, adjoining that of my father-in-law for which I paid five hundred dollars; a part of that I paid in cash and the balance in trade.
About the beginning of the year 1835 we moved once more to our own home where we have remained until the present time,
viz: 1846.
Seth Mills died 8-19-1846

[NI3302] HENRY MILLS, son of Seth and Rebecca Mills, was born near Georgetown, Vermilion Co, Illinois, March 23, 1830. He lived continuously in the same township for sixty nine years, removing then to Newberg, Oregon, which has since been his home.
One of his earliest recollections was of knowing the love and power of God in his heart as he walked in the meadow one day when about six years old. And from that day on thru his long life he never lived without this divine love and power. He was a birthwright member of the Friends Church, and was always found in all the church services unless prevented by unusual illness or other extraordinary circumstances.
His father and only brother died when he was just entering young manhood, leaving him the care of his mother and sisters. By his habits of industry and economy he was able to provide for his family, and to have the means to help every worthy cause or person coming to his notice. Members of his family can remember almost no instance when he refused to so minister where opportunity reached him.
Being brought up in a frontier country he had little chance for an education, but by constant observance, good reading, well chosen associations, he had a well informed mind, and a most unusual interest in educational institutions, especially those under the care of the Friends Church.
In the various activities of his long and useful life, his work alone for Pacific College was a great life-work. From the very infancy of the college, he had been on of its strongest supporters. At times had he not come to its rescue with his hundreds and his thousands, it seemed that the college doors must have closed. In so doing he has builded an imperishable monument for himself in the hearts and character of the young people of his generation. "And their works do follow them."
On Nov. 10, 1852 he was united in marriage with Mary Folger, and this union was maintained almost blameless for more than sixty-six years. To them were born eight children, of whom one died in infancy. The others: Dr. Aaron Mills, and Zimri Mills, of Parma, Idaho; Seth Mills of Greenleaf, Idaho, Alpheus R. Mills, Mrs. levi E. Lewis, Mrs. Justin Haworth of Springbrook, Oregon; and the youngest son Allen G. Mills, of Chicago, Illinois.
Surviving are the wife, seven children, twenty-eight grandchildren, and twenty-three great granchildren.
(The above was furnished by Dr. Mary E. Lewis)

Early Life of Henry Mills, written by Marietta Lewis,no date, written with pencil, almost faded out. It gives early life of Henry Mills.

When I was almost twelve years old father had means to build a good house for us. I was born in a fairly good house in a crountry neighborhood called Sharon, about two miles south of Georgetown, on the frm father bought soon after his marriage. We six older children were born there. We had hills that to us children were the biggest hills in the world, tho could I seen them now they would be very small. We had a good apple orchard, I especially remember the wine apples that ripened in the fall. Later in the winter we ate white Winter Pearmains. I remember we had beech trees at one edge of a large field, and how we scrambled after the nuts when the first frosts brought them to the ground. We also had a maple grove and father made delicious syrup and sugar each spring. When I was six years old father sold this farm and bought another in a neighborhood about three miles east of this. I think he made the change in location because the meeting house, where we attended meeting and "First Day School" was in this
place where we made our new home. Elwood neighborhood. Our house here was old and not large enough for our increasing family.
Father was fairly prosperous for a farmer and in five years had enough means to build a better home. He hired competent men, made and burned bricks, and built a large substantial house. We moved into this house a few days after I was twelve years old (1870).
He also raised sorghum and in the fall would hitch a horse to a pole ten feet long, one end of which was fastened to the mill, and he would drive the horse round and round the mill. He would put the stalks of cane between the two rollers, and as the rollers were turned by the horse going round the mill the juice was squeezed out. Father would put the juice into long flat pans, and boil it until it was sweet sorghum molasses. He had a place called a furnace, which was a wall built , about two feet high, and shaped like
a letter U laid flat on the ground. He would have a good pile of wood, and would start a fire under the pan, fire enough to keep the juice...
(here the paper suddenly breaks off)

Note: the Brick House built by Henry about 1870, near Georgetown, Illinois, and lived in by his family until about 1899, was still standing and in use in 1953.

[NI3303] MARY FOLGER; whose ancestry is traced to the Mayflower, was born Dec. 26, 1832. And was married to Henry Mills Nov. 10, 1852. To them were born eight children, one of whom, John Burney, died at the age of three months.
Their first fifty years of married life were spent in the neighborhood of Georgetown, Illinois. Some years after marriage Mary was injured. She was riding in a buggy when the horse became frightened and ran away. She was thrown from the buggy and hurt her back so that she was bedfast for five years. Nevertheless she directed the housework from her bed with a hired girl and the older children to provide the activity.
The family was thrifty and the commodious brick house was a model in those days, yet they knew nothing of twentieth century conveniences. The house was heated by three fireplaces and a coal heater. There was no running water in the house, but good water was plentiful from the pump in the "well house", an addition built on to the brick house for the pump, washing machine, honey extractor, etc. There was also the "milk trough", where crocks of milk were kept cool with water from the pump.
The family welfare was almost independent of the town stores. They raised their meats, grew fruits and vegetables, and corn and wheat for meal and flour. And if sugar was scarce in war time, their bees provided honey, and from their maple grove they had maple syrup and sugar.
Saturday was bake day for Mary, when enough pies were baked to last several days. And her older grandchildren still remember her corn-pone bread, baked in a big iron kettle that was swung into the kitchen fireplace.
By the early 1900's their children and families had moved to Oregon, with the exception of their youngest, Allen, was a Chicago lawyer for his entire life. So Mary and Henry followed the western migration and in their later years lived in a comfortable home in Newberg, Oregon, across the street from the Friends Church. Here they lived a leisurely, contented life, with several of their children and grandchildren near.
Always they were faithful church-goers, and many attenders of the Newberg Friends Church remember the sight of Mary and Henry coming to First Day Meeting, he leading her by the hand across the street, up the church walk, up the center aisle to the very front pew--truly symbolic of their faithful companionship.
Her husband died in 1919, and soon her memory began to fail. She lived for five years with her daughter, Marietta; and later with her son, Seth, passing away Feb. 17, 1925 at the age of 93.

[NI3314] The second daughter of Huber and Lola Haworth. Spent childhood in and about Whittier, CA. Huber was a tree surgeon, and fruit and citrus trees abound in that area. Attended college, earned a teaching degree, and went to work in the small town of Willets, CA. Later in life she was a counselor for the Jeuvenile Detention facility in Martinez, CA., but she stayed home to raise their 4 children during most of their school years. Sadly, Lois was stricken with Altzheimer's Disease at the young age of abt 52 or 53.
She was given 3 years to live, and lived another 15 yrs. She was a devoted mother and wife, and kept her faith in the "Friends Church", of the Quaker faith in which she was raised.

[NI3315] Roy Everett Merris, born on a farm in Humboldt Co, Iowa 6/6/1906, the 9th child of John Dalby and Hannah Melissa Mitchell Merris. He was active in high school sports, and contracted TB just out of high school. He was sent to Pennsylvania to live with his oldest brother Frank and his wife during his illness. Their son Richard D. Merris of Ohio remembers helping to care for Uncle Roy when he was ill. I think Roy visited his sister Ruth in Oregon when he was feeling better, and came to Calif. in the late 1930's or early 40's. Friends introduced him to Lois Huberta Haworth, a school teacher in Willits, CA, and they married. Lived in Oakland, Ca. when Roy Alan was born in 1945, moved to Larkey Lane, Walnut Creek, Ca. shortly thereafter. Janet Adeline and Kathryn Ruth were born in Peralta Hospital in Oakland, Ca, but home was Larkey Lane, Walnut Creek. Margaret Anne was born in Kaiser Hospital in Walnut Creek. Roy Everett was co-owner of a gas station in Oakland during this time. Worked for Craig Oil Company. His partner embezzled money from the company, and Roy had to declare bankruptcy and lost his business and his home. He never owned another business, but stayed in the service station business until his semi-retirement when he sold Amway Products. He said he had always wanted to be a salesman. He took excellent care of Lois when she fell ill to Altzheimer's disease in the late 1960's. Roy Everett was a hard working family man. He kept his sense of humor, and passed on quickly from a virus contracted after his immune system failed. His children and his dear friends miss him very much.

(by daughter, Kathryn Ruth, 1996-1997)

[NI3343] On her tombstone is the name "Mahala M. KELLY" (Spring Branch Baptist Church Cemetary, Springhill, Louisiana / Taylor, Arkansas)

[NI3344] Could read and write.

[NI3345] As of 1870 Census could not read or write.

[NI3346] As of 1870 Arkansas Census, could not read or write.

[NI3382] 1860 Iowa census lists his occupation as "miller".

[NI3389] Died in infancy.

[NI3390] Died in infancy.

[NI3392] died in infancy

[NI3393] died in infancy

[NI3403] 1850 Indiana census (Putnam county) lists his occupation as "miller", and his real-estate value at $8000.

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John Reel, born in Virginia, subsequently moved to Montgomery Co., OH. where he married and lived until he came to Putnam County in June, 1826 with his wife and four children. He located on the east side of Walnut Fork of Eel River 1/4 mile east of Reelsville but, feeling that side unhealthy, he built on the opposite side where Daniel now lives and the house he built is still standing and is used for a storeroom by his son. In this house John Reel breathed his last and lies buried in Reelsville cemetary, the land being donated by him. (Reelsville was platted by John Reel and laid out by county surveyor, Wm. Shields. Mr. Reel erected the first building before it was laid out and then built another dwelling and a storehouse, later used by Geo. M. Foster.)

John and his brother, Henry Reel, now of Harrison County; Iowa, at one time built a keel-boat and loaded it with various supplies of meat, flour, meal and whiskey and started down the Ohio River, thence down the Mississippi River and up the Arkansas to Little Rock where they sold the supplies and boat. They bought a mule which they loaded with guns and provisions and started the return trip on the Miami whence they had started. They came aaoss the Wabash near where Vincennes is now and struck the Eel River near Bowling Green and coming up the stream they found James Athey, a white man, and stayed overnight. He selected the site of a mill where Reelsville now is. It was in the fall of 1824 they passed through this part of Putnam County and In June, 1826 John Reel brought Ms family here. In November of the following year he built a log mill and commenced to grind corn about the middle of the month. He had one run of burrs, made of boulders, called "nigger heads" and these ran the mill for about 10 years. He then built a frame mill 5 x 54 feet and 3 run of stone which was swept away by a flood August, 1875. At that time the mill was owned by Daniel Reel. Daniel rebuilt the mill in 1876.

John Reel was the father of 11 children of whom 4 are living-Daniel, John A, Joseph H, and Elizabeth. His wife, Sarah Beason, was born in SC and, when a child, in 1808 emigrated to Montogmery Co., OH with her parents where she was reared and was married She survived her husband 2 years.

During the war of 1812 John ran away to join the army. He carried his gun and swam the Miami River in order to accomplish his purpose. The money that was paid him for his services was afterward used in Putnam Co. He paid $75 of this money to buy a skillet that could now be purchased for 50 cents.

[NI3405] From the 1891 History of Harrison County, Iowa:

REEL - John A. REEL - a highly respected farmer of St. John's Township came to Harrison County in 1854 with the vanguard of civilization. He came overland in a covered wagon from Putnam County, Indiana, making the journey in twenty-three days. His first location was on section 15, where he claimed one hundred and twenty acres, which is now included within the corporation of Missouri Valley, and at one time he owned the land where now stands the depot and switch yards. Our subject made some improvements on this land and in 1857 sold it to T. H. COOK, and purchased a quarter section of land on section 28, the site of his present home, and forty acres of timber land in
Pottawattamie County, Iowa.

When he bought his place the plowshare of modern civilization had never turned a furrow and in many places the grass was two feet higher than a man's head. He paid $4 per acre for his land, built a small frame house upon the place in 1857, building his present (1891) farmhouse in 1879. He now owns two hundred acres in the county, all enclosed with a good fence, and one hundred and sixty acres under cultivation.

At the time of his coming there were but two trees to be seen on the bottomlands where he now lives, the groves which adorn that locality having all been planted by pioneer hands. There were but two houses between the Willow and Boyer Rivers. The nearest milling point was "over the Pigeon," and all marketing had to be done at Council Bluffs. Our subject lived where Missouri Valley now stands during the winter of 1856-57, in a log cabin, with a clapboard roof through which the snow would drift, half filling their humble home. His stable was only sixty yards from the cabin, but the snow was drifted in such mountain-like piles that he could not get to his stock to attend them, and as a result lost three head of cattle which at that time were highly prized by our subject.

Our subject traces his ancestry back to Henry REEL, a native of Germany, who came to Muskingham County, Ohio, in 1803, where he followed farming. He married a German lady, and had eight children, among whom was the father of our subject, John REEL Sr., who was born in Virginia in 1793, and spent his early life in the Old Dominion State, coming to Ohio with his parents when he was ten years of age. John married Miss Sarah BEESON, of North Carolina, the daughter of Joseph BEESON. By this union eight children were born -- Mary, Martha, William, Jane, Daniel, Elizabeth, John (our subject) and Joseph, in Kansas City.

Our subject was born April 22, 1833. His early life was spent in Putnam County, Ind., where he attended the common schools. His father (John Sr.) was a miller and John assisted him in the mill, remaining at home until he was of age. He was united in marriage March 12, 1853, in Putnam County, Ind., to Miss Amanda JONES, the daughter of Hardin and Asenath (DEWEESE) JONES, of German descent, but from Kentucky. Eleven children have been born to our subject and his wife, ten of whom still survive -- Dorphas M., born June 22, 1854 and died February 17, 1866; Sarah A., Mrs. MATTOX, born September 3, 1856, now living in Pottawattamie County; Viola C., Mrs. JONES, born October 5, 1858, now living in Pott. County; John H., born February 11, 1861, also living in that county; Henry M., at home, born December 8, 1862; he married Laura WEST, September 25, 1884, a native of Harrison County, born June 5, 1864 - they had two children, Lena and Jesse; Mary A., - Mrs. JONES, now of Missouri Valley, born June 4, 1866; Martha J., now Mrs MOSS, of Missouri Valley, born February 27, 1868; William L., born March 13, 1870, now in Missouri Valley; George D., at home, born December 17, 1871; Daniel C., at home, born April 17, 1874; and Florence A., at home, born January 10, 1878.

Since coming to Harrison County, Mr. REEL has taken an active part in education matters, and has been President of the School Board and School Treasurer of his township for several years. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party. His wife belongs to the Baptist Church at Loveland.

[NI3432] There are apparently 2 Henry Reels from Virginia. Our Henry Reel's descendants moved from Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana to Iowa. Be careful about the information you find regarding this Henry Reel. The other documented Henry Reel's descendants settled in Tennessee (among other states).

[NI3438] 1850 Indiana census (Putnam county) shows his occupation as "miller", and his real estate value at $1000.

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DANIEL M. REEL was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, on October 25, 1825. In June, 1826, he was brought to Putnam County and reared on a farm until 14 years of age. John, his father, built a carding machine and leased it to an Englishman, Wm. Heap, who operated it for two years. He carded wool and manufactured cloth. He sold it to Wm. Neese. Daniel worked in the mill for some time. He was married November 28, 1844, to Rachel A. McElroy who was born in Muskingum Co., OH in 1827. Her father was Wm. McElroy, born in Pennsylvania of Irish parents. Her mother was born in Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania Scotch parents.

[NI3447] Phyllis Wingerak has birthdate 10-5-1858

[NI3463] Revolutionary War soldier.

[NI3466] The 1900 Texas census shows that Charles immigrated to the US in 1882. His occupation was farmer.

[NI3467] The 1900 Texas census shows that she was born in Texas. However, it is more likely that she was born in Germany. The evidence for her birth being in Germany is four-fold: #1) In the 1920 Texas census it shows that her parents were both born in Germany, and #2) in the 1920 Texas census it shows that her two oldest daughters' mother (ie Lydia) was born in Germany, #3) in the 1900 Texas census, on the same page there are numerous Ermel families, the heads of which were all born in Germany, and #4) the 1920 Texas census shows her citizenship status as "Alien". So, it is most likely that Lydia was born in Germany, and moved to Texas with the rest of her family. She probably could not speak English, and therein lies the mistakes in the census records.

[NI3468] Postal employee, rancher...

[NI3470] Leather worker...

[NI3471] Teacher...

[NI3474] Teacher...

[NI3476] Golf Pro

[NI3477] Minister (ELCA)

[NI3484] Nursing Professor...

[NI3500] Teacher...

[NI3520] Baptism sponsors: Albert Greiner, Hugo Herbold, Julia Greiner and Pauline Rueter

[NI3546] In the address list listed as a source, this is what is found:
Viol & Bjoure
Taasbunrauget 44
Tielt for Muedelstraep
Denmark

[NI3565] 1900 Mississippi Census shows he lived in Knoxville City, Franklin County
1910 Mississippi Census shows he lived in Knoxville City, Franklin County
1920 Mississippi Census shows he lived in Rosetta, Wilkinson County

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The 1910 Mississippi census shows that John was a blacksmith who owned his own shop. By the 1920 census, his employment was listed as "railroad".

[NI3566] Died from complications of diabetes.

[NI3567] Is listed as "Jennie" in the 1910 Mississippi census.

[NI3620] Mary's family were farmers in the Ridgefarm, Illinois area.

[NI3621] Brent's twin brother.

[NI3622] Bruce's twin brother.

[NI3627] Died in childbirth (Laura Neleen)

[NI3628] FOUND AT: http://www.scopesys.com/cgi/bio2.cgi?bio=L053

Name: Mitchell Sim Lane
Rank/Branch: O3/US Air Force
Unit: 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Tuy Hoa AB, South Vietnam
Date of Birth: 04 October 1940
Home City of Record: Albuquerque NM
Date of Loss: 04 January 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 120100N 1090200E (BP860291)
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F100C

Other Personnel in Incident: Bobby G. Neeld (missing from another F100)

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 with the assistance of
one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources,
correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS: The F100 Super Sabre, sometimes affectionately called "Hun" or "Lead
Sled" first saw action in Southeast Asia in May 1962 when several were sent to
Thailand from the 13th Air Force in response to communist incursions into
northwest Laos.

F100 operations in Vietnam began in 1965, and took part in Operation Flaming
Dart and Rolling Thunder attacks against North Vietnam and later in Wild Weasel
and Iron Hand anti-SAM operations. The F100 featured ground directed bombing
capability for night and bad weather, high-tech weapon firing systems, accurate
target-marking systems.

The only F100C's to serve in South Vietnam arrived in the spring of 1968 and
remained about a year. The aircraft belonged to the U.S. Air National Guard
squadrons mobilized as a result of North Korea's capture of the American
intelligence ship Pueblo. The F100's, with the exception of some of the F
models, were all single-seat aircraft.

On January 4, 1969, two F100C aircraft departed Tuy Hoa on a combat mission,
presumably over North Vietnam. Capt. Mitchell S. Lane was the pilot of one of
the aircraft and Major Bobby G. Neeld the pilot of the other. The two had
completed the combat portion of the mission and were diverted from the intended
recovery base due to weather conditions. Neither aircraft returned to friendly
control, and were last known to be about 10 miles northwest of Cam Ranh. Both
men were declared Missing in Action.

When the last American troops left Southeast Asia in 1975, some 2500 Americans
were unaccounted for. Reports received by the U.S. Government since that time
build a strong case for belief that hundreds of these "unaccounted for"
Americans are still alive and in captivity.

"Unaccounted for" is a term that should apply to numbers, not men. We do not
know if Lane and Neeld are alive or dead, but it seems certain that some are
alive. As long as even one American remains captive, we as a nation owe these
men our best effort to find them and bring them home. Until the fates of men
like Lane and Neeld are known, their families will wonder if they are dead or
alive - and why they were deserted.

[NI3770] Richard Beeson and his wife, Ann Brown (b. 5 mo. 28 day, 1711) were
members of West Nottingham Mtg. (PA) up until 1738 when they joined
Hopewell Mtg in Virginia. Ann Brown was the daughter of Messer Brown and
Jane (Richards) Brown. They lived on land previously owned by Richard's
father where Beeson's Meeting had once stood and remained there, in
Frederick Co., Va until Richard died. The will of Richard Beeson.

[NI3783] Henry Beeson and his wife, Mary Martin (18 Nov 1745 d. 1821) moved from Berkeley Co, VA
(now WVA) to Red Stone Creek, Fayette Co., PA about 1768 where he built a grist mill on the
stream. A settlement grew around his land which came to be known, first as Beeson's Mill, then
Beesontown. On July 4, 1776, Henry opened up the land to be sold in lots. In 1796, along with his
brother, Jacob, the two joined their settlements and formed Uniontown, PA.

On July 4th, 1776, Henry Beeson opened up his land in Fayette County, PA for purchase. It was to become, in 1796, the town of Uniontown, PA. The following excerpts were taken from a late 1800 newspaper article. It was published most recently in the "Fayette County Tourism Guide", Fall 1996, on the occasion of the Bicentennial Celebration of of the founding of Uniontown, PA.

"The erection of a mill by Henry Beeson naturally induced settlements to be made in the near vicinity. He received numerous communications from various sources requesting him as a matter of accommodation to sell off small tracts upon which new settlers and tradesmen might build homes. It is related that Col. Alexander McClean prevailed on him to lay out a town, as the tide of immigrations was beginning to flow this way, and that in the near future a town located here would attain some prominence. Mr. Beeson would have spurned the idea of being a "land boomer" in the sense that term is used today, but in
compliance with the expressed wishes of many friends he had a plot made for a small village. Col. McClean was said to be and no doubt was the surveyor who laid off the town and made the plot. The original copy was preserved and is now the prized inheritance of Mr. Beeson's great grand daughter, Miss Mary I. Beeson.

On the 4th day of July, 1776, the grandest assemblage that ever met was in session at Philadelphia and signed the grandest political document the world ever knew, thus laying out the foundation of the best government on the face of the globe, while at the same time there was gathered at the old Beeson mill, a motley crowd who there and then laid the corner stone of what was destined to be the shire town of Fayette County, and they cracked no bell either. This new town was ever recognized by its founder as Beesontown, but from Beeson's mill the transition was natural and easy to that of Beeson Town. From its very inception, Mr. Beeson named it "the town of Union.""

In the Uniontown Courthouse, a bronze table bears the following inscription:

In memory of Henry Beeson
Born May 19, 1743 Died Feb 23, 1819
Founder of Uniontown and the Donor of the
Central Public Grounds on which this
Court House Stands

[NI3792] Richard Beeson came to Ohio in 1801 and settled in Columbiana Co. He was a member of the first Ohio Legislature in 1803 and 1804. Richard married Anne Oliphant (b. 11 Oct 1785 d. 26 Apr 1878), the daughter of Samuel Oliphant and Elizabeth (Holmes) Harris. Both Richard and his wife, Anne died in Middletown, OH.

[NI3825] Loring W. Beeson grew up in Des Moines, Iowa then left for the east to
pursue an education in pharmacology. He attended and earned his degree
at George Washington College, in Washington, DC. Loring Beeson
married Mary Edith Fry and lived in Washington, DC. Mary Edith (b. 1
Mar 1882 d. 30 Sep 1943 in Arlington, VA)was the daughter of Samuel
Preston Fry and Fianna Melinda Grosscup. After Mary Edith's passing in
1943, she was buried in Arlington Cemetary and Loring moved to
Tampa, FL. Here he met and married another Mary. Her birth name is
not known. Mary Beeson is buried in Florida and, upon his death in
1961, Loring's ashes were scattered over Tampa Bay.

[NI3830] She married Willard
Malcom Garrett (b. 12 Aug 1905 d. 26 May 1957), the son of Harry Francis Garrett and Addie Florence
Sparrough. Willard and Edith lived in the Washington DC suburbs. Willard worked as a cartographer for
the USGS drawing maps and Edith was a registered nurse. They were both accomplished portrait artists.
Willard played several instruments (his favorite being the banjo) and was with a band as a hobby. After
Willard's death in 1957, Edith retired to Tampa, Florida where she passed away in 1965. Edith Virginia
Beeson Garrett was taken to Arlington Cemetary, were she was buried next to her husband, Willard
Garrett, and her mother, Mary Edith Fry Beeson.

[NI3843] buried at Hot Springs, Arkansas

[NI3888] buried at Nevada, Iowa

[NI3933] 1850 Indiana census lists his occupation as "farmer", and his real estate value at $9000. William probably died before the 1860 census - his wife Sarah is shown with a large real-estate/personal estate value, and living with their son William in the 1860 Iowa census.

According to Justin Reel (3340 Kingrow Ave., Apt. 214, Eugene, Oregon 97401), William Reel was a founding member of a Baptist Church at Loveland, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. And, Justin reports that William is buried at "Reel's Cemetary, Boomer Township, Iowa".

[NI4012] Daniel was a conductor (or brakeman) on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He lost an arm when two cars were coupled. (Kay Engelhardt, 1999)

[NI4014] Jane's father owned or ran "Shaw Advertising Agency" in Kansas City, Missouri.
(Kay Engelhardt, 1999)

[NI4016] After William died, (? Fearney) left their 2 youngest girls - Essie and Julia with Rachel?. (? Fearney) then went west with the two oldest - (?) and Carrie. (Kay Engelhardt, 1999)

[NI4019] Essie died young at Reelsville, Indiana. (Kay Engelhardt, 1999)

[NI4022] Conductor on the "Greencastle Trolley". (Kay Engelhardt, 1999)

[NI4033] Died as an infant.

[NI4108] According to the 1880 Arkansas census, Joseph B. Kelley was a farmer.

[NI4110] According to the 1880 Arkansas census, William J. Kelly was a farmer.

[NI4111] The 1860 Georgia census lists his personal estate with a value of $300, and his occupation as "Overser" (Overseer). The 1870 Louisiana census lists his property value as $500, and his occupation as "Farmer".

[NI4112] The 1870 Louisiana census shows her occupation as "keeping house".

[NI4115] William Mayo was a "rural Preacher". He settled around Durant, Oklahoma.

The 1920 Oklahoma census shows a "Lora Meadows" listed as his grand-daughter, and living in his home. Lora's race is listed as Indian, and her birth is listed as about 1907, in Arkansas (it shows her
parents both born in Arkansas, too).

[NI4118] The 1850 Ohio census shows his real estate value at $500. The 1860 Ohio census shows his real estate value increased to $16000, and his personal estate value was $4335.

[NI4119] The 1850 Ohio census lists her name as "Nancy A.", while the 1860 Ohio census is hard to read. The 1860 Ohio census lists her name as "Marnsa? A."???

[NI4144] 1900 LA census shows him as "Lonnie". Caddo Parish marriage records show him as "Alonzo". The 1920 Louisiana census shows that he lived with William W. and Clara G. HILL (his son-in-law and daughter).

[NI4146] WFT CD #16 shows her birthday in 1863. However, census records show otherwise. Also, WFT CD #16 shows the marriage date in 1882, but the Caddo Parish records show 1884.

[NI4148] First name probably Alonzo. 1900 LA census shows him as "Lonnie Jr.".

[NI4150] 1880 Louisiana census shows his name as B.G. HOLKUM.

[NI4158] William was born in Shreveport. He owned and published the Daily Legal News for 42 years prior to his death. William was a veteran of World War I. He was also member of the El Karubah Shrine, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion. He died at Schumpert Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is buried in Forest Park Cemetary, Shreveport.

[NI4179] There were two Kelley brothers who were very close. One joined the merchant marines (British) and the other, Samuel, had some apprentice experience as a millwright. Since Ireland was a poor country and the possibilities were not good economically, he spoke to his brother about coming to America. Of course his brother, having been to America on a merchant ship, related to Samuel Kelley that it was better economically than Ireland.

So the brother who was a merchant mariner finally found a captain of a merchant ship to allow Samuel passage if he would work his way across the Atlantic ocean to pay his fare.

Upon arrival at the port of Charleston, South Carolina, Samuel Kelley, being a millwright or at least having had some training in the trade began to look for work. After several days he met a young man who worked for the Buggy & Wagon Factory. They became friends and the young man introduced Samuel to his foreman. He asked his foreman about work and the foreman said they were building buggies and wagons for Charleston, S.C. to Atlanta, Georgia and could use some help. Since Samuel experience as a millwright, they put him to work in the big wagon & buggy shop. Of course nobody paid high wages back then, but Samuel Kelley, did have employment.

After several months in Charleston, Samuel Kelley met and married a young lady that was also from Ireland.

Next, Samuel Kelley moved to Atlanta, Georgia. He continued his work with a company in Atlanta and begin to raise a family. He and his wife had mostly boys. The oldest boy was Sidwell Kelley. The younger brothers left home after they were grown and moved to other states. One went to Arkansas, one to Texas, one to Alabama, and one to Mississippi. Not much is known about where these brothers lived in these states.

Sam Kelley owned a farm on Sandy Creek, where Griswoldville, also known as "Piney Woods," is located.

[NI4180] He picked up the trade of blacksmith from his father.

[NI4181] Sidwell Kelley was a blacksmith by trade.

[NI4199] Narcissa Kelley Perdue was described by her daughter-in-law, Alma Renfroe Perdue, as a very beautiful woman, who was a devoted wife and mother.

[NI4205] 1850 Illinois census shows Nancy Murphy as the head of a household which includes Rachel J., and Martha A. Maybe Martha and Rachel are sisters? Is Nancy their mother?

[NI4210] Listed as deceased in 1910 Mississippi census.

[NI4215] As of February 6, 1974, was a Shreveport, Louisiana resident.

[NI4216] SS# - 435-05-9149

Morrison was a retired employee of the auditing department for Kansas City Southern Railway. He was a member of Mangum Memorial United Methodist Church, and the Association of Railway Clerks.

A native of Fish Creek, Louisiana, Morrison spent the last 53 years of his life in Shreveport. At death, his address was, 3440 Frederick St. He died at Doctors Hospital of coronary heart disease.

[NI4217] As of February 6, 1974, was a resident of Ball, Louisiana.

[NI4218] As of February 6, 1974, lived in Strong, Arkansas.

[NI4219] As of February 6, 1974, was a Denver, Colorado resident.

[NI4220] SS# - 434-38-5072

[NI4221] According to the 1910 Lousiana census, William was a "day laborer" at a "saw mill".

[NI4222] On the death certificate for her son William W., her name is listed as, "Annie Mays". On the death certificate for her son Morrison T., her name is listed as, "Annie McManus".

Also, the 1910 Lousiana Census shows that she had 8 children, but only 7 were living.

[NI4229] As of February 6, 1974 was a resident of Palestine, Texas.

[NI4230] As of February 6, 1974, was a resident of Morgan City, La.

[NI4234] According to the 1920 Louisiana census, he was a propietor of a Grocery Store.

[NI4267] Was a Physician.

[NI4287] The 1900 Arkansas census showed Sarah was the mother of 16 children, with only 5 living.

[NI4323] 1920 Oklahoma census lists her race as Indian.

[NI4326] 1920 Oklahoma census lists her occupation as, "Bookkeeper / Bank", and her race as Indian.

[NI4327] 1920 Oklahoma census lists her occupation as "Bookkeeper / Water Dept.", and her race as Indian.

[NI4328] 1920 Oklahoma census lists her occupation as "Check Clerk / Bank", and her race as Indian (TP Kelley says he knew her, and that she "didn't look like an Indian"...).

[NI4331] 1920 Oklahoma census shows occupation as, "High-school teacher".

[NI4332] 1920 Oklahoma census shows occupation as, "operator / liner type"

[NI4333] 1920 Oklahoma census shows occupation as, "Primary-school" teacher.

[NI4334] 1920 Oklahoma census shows occupation as, "District-school teacher".

[NI4343] 1920 Oklahoma census shows occupation as, "Picture-show operator".

[NI4348] 1860 Iowa census shows her living with her son, William. The same census shows her real estate value at $10120.00, and her personal estate valued at $775.

According to Justin Reel (3340 Kingrow Ave., Apt. 214, Eugene, Oregon 97401), Sarah is buried at "Reel's Cemetary, Boomer Township, Iowa".

[NI4351] 1860 Iowa census lists his personal estate as $350.

[NI4352] 1860 Iowa census shows his real-estate value at $16000.00 and his personal estate at $1365. That was alot of money and property for a 22-year-old to have in 1860!

[NI4390] 1880 Florida census shows he had a broken rib. It list his occupation as farmer.

[NI4391] 1880 census shows that he was the stepson of Chapman Oliver.

[NI4392] 1880 census shows that he was the stepson of Chapman Oliver.

[NI4403] 1880 Georgia census lists her birthplace as Georgia. The 1900 Georgia census shows it as Arkansas.

[NS185831] Winnebago Pioneers Rowland
The Pioneers of Winnebago and Boone Counties, Illinois who came before 1841

AUTHOR: Katherine E. Rowland, C. G.
PUBLICATION: Baltimore, Gateway Press, Inc. 1990
REFERENCE (Book, Simple): 1

[NS139751] from an email 4-8-1998

[NS72621] Maris Genealogy Home Page
http://www.gendex.com/users/RayMaris/maris/maris.htm

[NS150431] phone conversation 6-20-1998 (found Erwin in Seguin, Texas phone directory)

[NS76231] Letter from Donald Brayton in Omaha to John Brayton in Iowa, circa 1991.

[NS141731] Ravenintx@aol.com

[NS95731] handwritten addition to the letter written by Perry Rees

[NS102821] Family history compiled by Billie Hilliard, Route 2, Box 699, Fairfield, Illinois, 62837

[NS76271] website

[NS76273] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6630/harroldfam.html

[NS152371] a 2 page typed list. no idea when it was put together.

[NS152441] pamphlet sent by Ruth Stewart.

[NS138293] http://www.surnames.com/gedcom/burgess_jim/i0001115.htm

[NS164833] http://www.pastracks.com/states/arkansas/clark/cqueries_97.htm

[NS300871] Justin Reel, 3340 Kingrow Ave., Apt. 214, Eugene, Oregon 97401

[NS191371] Vol.2, E.D. 20, Sheet 44, Line 7, Shreveport, Caddo Parish

[NS152541] Found on the web at: http://ddd.sa.dk/ddd2.htm

[NS182661] Son of Kay Engelhardt
email: orthoheads@en.com

[NS94181] Correspondence with Alvin Charles Rueter dated 9-10-1986

[NS18081] hand written note received as correspondence 1998

[NS76531] correspondence received 3-30-98

[NS76533] Neva D. Hilliard, Box 302, Cisne, Illinois 62823 (618) 673-2616

[NS58911] phone conversation 3-30-1998

[NS81931] Jack sent me note cards with information taken from tombstones in and around the Vermilion County, Illinois area. These were all Harrold names.

[NS71321] from his website family tree

[NS92591] email corresponce 12-24-97

[NS92593] perkycox@sprintmail.com

[NS80211] From part of a family history compiled by Sarah Via Harrison, PO Box 1078, Dickinson, Texas, 77539 (281) 337-3744

[NS172261] W. L. Robinson
Lot F-9
1510 E. Bus Hwy 83

email: wirobin@bkwebdesign.com

Mission, Tx 78572

[NS103281] delayed record of birth, certified 11-15-1954

[NS73201] My cousin...

[NS73203] California

[NS170561] 3rd floor genealogy section

[NS170563] Omaha Public Library

[NS193561] Russell B. Kelley 8148 McGlothlin Street, Jacksonville FL32210-6612

[NS94501] correspondence with Alvin Charles Rueter

[NS82131] Dorothy is deceased as of 1998 and I don't know if I'll get to her original research. I have spoken with her daughter-in-law, though.

[NS80371] From a phone conversation I had with John Smart, brother of Mattie Alabama Smart.

[NS156441] email received 7-15-98

[NS165431] Gerry Weir
1501 Cedar Street
West Monroe, Louisiana 71291-7103
(October 1998)

Gerry cites these sources:

Abercrombie, Janice L., Comp. by, "Virginia Publick Claims, Rockbridge County."

Chalkley, Lyman, "Records of Augusta County, Virginia, 1745-1800, Vol. III", Genealogical Printing, Baltimore. (OPPL)

Harrison, J. Houston, "Settlers By The Long Grey Trail", Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1975. (OPPL)

Levinson, Constance A. & Louise C., "Rockingham County, Virginia Minute Book, 1778-1792, Part I", Greystone Publishers, Harrisonburg, Va. (Albuquerque Public Library)

National Society of the DAR, "DAR Patriotic Index, Part 1, Washington:1990", page 720

Wayland, John W., "Virginia Valley Records.", (OPPL)

[NS186711] Jones County, 147th District, page 191

[NS99951] don't know how good the source is, but plan to follow up

[NS99953] http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/m/a/Anthony-David-Smart/

[NS101791] Obit of Sarah "Belle" ? who married Cornelius E. Turner, then William Daughtery

[NS154901] website

[NS154903] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2298/

[NS145981] from a Logan, Iowa newspaper clipping

[NS147841] unknown newspaper clipping

[NS91221] email 5/18/98
mad@pine-net.com

[NS163841] email correspondence October 1998. Family group sheets sent via snail mail October 21, 1998. (William Brown, 1328 Washington Street, Wilmington, Deleware, 19801, phone:1-302-656-2777 or 1-800-653-8992)

[NS91261] from an online version of the Nevada County (Arkansas) Depot Museum's database

[NS91263] http://www.pcfa.org/depot_museum/cemetery/cem-all.html

[NS146141] From a newspaper article he submitted to the Harrison County Herald, 1938

[NS146191] Tucumcari, New Mexico paper dated Tuesday, August 8, 1961, front page

[NS93101] email correspondence 3-13-98

[NS93103] harrold@iupui.edu

[NS57711] phone conversation 3-31-1998

[NS93111] phone conversation 3-12-98

[NS94911] handwritten letter transcribed by Gene Clements. This letter must have been written around 1900. Gene got the letter from his mother Mariam (Harrold) Clements, who got it from her mother Grace (Rees) Harrold.

[NS73703] http://www.surnames.com/gedcom/gibbs_robert/d55.htm

[NS186991] Jim Crosslin
32215 Camino Marea
Temecula, CA 92592
(909) 5065876
crosslin@lasercom.net
http://members.xoom.com/crosslin/

[NS13541] page 18, Georgia Township, Columbia County

[NS155141] Letter received 7-7-98 (Robert Sneddon, Chief Registrar)

City of Glasgow Council
Marriage Section
22 Park Circus
Glasgow G3 6BE

[NS149841] newspaper clipping, probably the Logan Observer, Logan, Iowa

[NS95001] correspondence with family 9-17-1986

[NS146341] Logan Herald-Observer, May 16, 1946

[NS33071] email correspondence March, 1998
gleitz@netpointe.com

[NS163941] Phyllis Wingerak
2803 Calder Avenue
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7J-1V9

Phyllis.Wingerak@Sk.sympatico.ca

[NS151701] found on the internet 6-20-1998

[NS151703] http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi97.dll?ln=RUETER&fn=PAULINE&st=

[NS148211] The Compton (California) News-Tribune

[NS114671] newspaper clipping with the date, "1916" written on it. This clipping also contained a photo and article on the "Reel Family Reunion" held in Logan, Iowa

[NS190841] Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Ward 4, Beauregard Street

[NS29771] Laura COOPER , 900 North Stafford Street , #2122 , Arlington, VA 22203 USA, Phone 703-351-6646 , FAX 703-351-6102 , Email: mslaw@ix.netcom.com

[NS59911] email correspondence 3-30-1998

[NS59913] trb@cu-online.com

[NS13901] email correspondence with John Chapman, Fredericksburg, Virginia 3-15-98

[NS91731] book loaned to me (Don Harrold) by Mary (Goodrich) Winings.

[NS150171] found at their website.
EDITOR: Miss Mabel Lindly, 1715 South Twentieth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska

[NS150173] http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/NSHS/NMGR/Vol05/nmgrp003.html#bd

[NS104141] copy of marriage license.

[NS74131] phone conversation 3-17-98

[NS100681] according to family history compiled by Billie Hilliard

[NS100682] unknown, as the original has not been seen by me

[NS153831] Book distributed to family members in 1995. Almost all research in this book was done by Don Peters, including trips to Germany.

[NS75941] From her home page

[NS75943] http://home.dwave.net/~skeeter/

[NS178601] Kay Engelhardt
10476 Ridge Lane
Marengo, IL 60152
kengel@owc.net

[NS72461] email correspondenance 2-16-98

[NS191001] Sec. II, Ch. 7, Caddo Parish Records, 1809-1893
)Found in a Family Treemaker Marriage CD)

[NS146831] clipping from a newspaper, after 5-11-1923

[NS102601] From an informal chat.

[NS56601] From Kathryn Moor's FTW File, submitted February 14, 1998.

[NS102633] Hilliard, Billie