Stewart, Clark, Campbell

Ron Fleming joined our group Friday morning for the rest of the weekend.  His family that lived here in Warren County had a farm in Oregonia that is now preserved by the soaring club.  There are photos of the land available on website of Caesar Creek Soaring club.

 Ron's Stewart family was from Cane Creek in North Carolina.  Robert Stewart married Ann Hornaday at Cane Creek Meeting.     Mary Campbell Clark who was married to John Clark, son of Henry and Elizabeth Underhill Clark (this couple was married at Nottingham in Pennsylvania in 1741) was a widow at her husband's death in 1796.  John is buried at Padgett's Creek in South Carolina.  Mary Campbell Clark  came to Warren County Ohio  with children:  Mary, Johnathan, Rebecca.  She and her three children were accepted into Miami Meeting in 1805,6, 13.  rocf Cane Creek MM, SC dtd 1805, 2, 16.  On October 1, 1807 Rebecca Clark married Alexander Stewart.  The marriage was performed by John Buckles, a preacher, and that resulted in Rebecca being dis mou.


The below photo is the Henry Clark Farm in York Pennsylvania where Henry and Elizabeth Clark moved on their way to Padgett's Creek in South Carolina.  Both are buried in the Padgett's Creek Cemetery.  Their son and daughter, John and Hester, married Mary Campbell and John Campbell who were also siblings.  John and Hester Campbell are buried in the family graveyard in Mt. Holly just north of Waynesville.

Ron explains that the book mentioned below is about the migration of  30 families led by John Campbell from Padgett's Creek to Mt Holly Ohio. 

His book suggestion is a  book published by Sarah  
E Temple in 1939:

"OUR CAMPBELL ANCESTORS 1742 - 1937" being the
Traditions and History of the family of the five Campbell brothers  
and sisters:
JOHN, JAMES DOUGLAS, HESTER, MARY AND SAMUEL:
Including what is known of them in New Jersey; York County,  
Pennsylvania; Union County, South Carolina and in Ohio.
A GENEALOGY of the known descendants of
JOHN CAMPBELL, through his son James, and
SAMUEL CAMPBELL, through his son Ralph,
also brief ancestral notes on families connected by marriage with the  
foregoing; viz; Parnell, Clark, Spray, Wilson, Haskett, Mendenhall  
and Underhill".

What makes the book fascinating for me is the double Quaker braid of  
20 families who were all related as double cousins, and who made the  
canonical Quaker journey from Pennsylvania to the Carolinas and then  
to Ohio. The story begins with the famous wedding of Henry Clark and  
Elizabeth Underhill on "5th day 9th month 1741 at Public Meeting of  
Friends in East Nottingham". The Clark family moved to York, where  
they had two children (who lived into adulthood) John and Hester.  
They took in an orphaned boy named John Campbell, who would marry  
their daughter Hester. And John's sister Mary Campbell married John  
Clark. These two couples had 20 children between them (9 & 11), all  
of whom were either Clark Campbells or Campbell Clarks. Many of them  
moved to the Miami MM in Waynesville, and the Campbells have a very  
nice monument at the Mt Holly cemetery. The youngest Clark girl  
Rebecca, who was from Padgett's Creek,  came to Ohio with her mother  
Mary Campbell Clark in 1804, and she married Alexander Stewart who  
had come to Oregonia Ohio with his family from Cane Creek NC. My  
father's mother, who lived on the Stewart family farm in Paola  
Kansas, was Effie Mae Stewart Fleming. Rebecca and Alexander Stewart  
and their families have a very nice monument at the Woodland cemetery  
in Xenia, Ohio.

But Sarah Temple tells the story much better than I do, and her book  
is available to download or to buy, and it is also on the  
GenealogyCDs disk called "Genealogy and History of the Family  
Campbell". The original publisher was Ivan Deach, Jr. of Burbank,  
California.

- Ron Fleming
  Ann Arbor

and Ron adds an interesting story about the famiy's actual migration:

On page 34, she writes:

"When John Campbell and his family moved from South Carolina to Ohio,  
some thirty families migrated together and they were three months on  
the way. Hester Martindale Belew (granddaughter of John through his  
third child Elizabeth) claimed that they reached Cincinnati on her  
third birthday, May 7, 1803. Esther Clark Campbell, wife of John, was  
granted a certificate of membership from the Cane Creek SC Monthly  
Meeting on April 23, 1803, for presentation to the M.M. at Westland,  
Pa., but it was never presented there. ...

In the family of Mrs. John Clark Collett, Dayton, Ohio, is an  
heirloom of this migration. A cowbell, which they used on their cow,  
to keep from losing her when she was turned loose to pasture at night.

Northeastern Warren County, with Waynesville a little to the south,  
was the district in which John Campbell settled, surrounded by Quaker  
families bearing the names: Wilson, Spray, Furnas, Cook, Cox,  
Compton, Jay, Spear and others. The Sprays had been in district  
Ninety-six. SC with John Campbell, (1790 Census) as had the McKinley  
and Waldrip families ..."

Mrs Temple was writing before 1939, but the Collett family is a very  
prominent one in the SE Ohio area. The original Campbell property is  
now the village of Mt Holly Ohio. There are pictures online (thanks  
to Stephen Ridge) of the Campbell monuments in the Old Bethel  
Cemetery in My Holly.

Ron is also related to the Benson family  that is talked about in my blog post dated Thursday, Sept 12, 2013 when I added information from Brenda Brazell.  Here is Ron's addition to Brenda's information:

William Benson, The son of James Benson and Elizabeth Clark, was born 13 August 1784 in the Ninety-six District of South Carolina. He was later married in Warren County, Ohio on 14 January 1808 to Mary Stewart who was a native of North Carolina and was caluclated to have been born there is 1790.  She was the daughter of Robert Stewart and Ann Hornaday, and the brother of Alexander Stewart.  

Dinner at the Red Brick Meeting House

Dinner was wonderful tonight!  I told everyone that I talked to that I worried that Milton ended up with dinner to prepare in addition to everything else that he did for the event today.  But his dinner was wonderful, and it was sooooooo much more fun to be at the Red Brick Meeting House tonight where we had our books and "STUFF" and could talk and share information all evening that it would have been to have traipsed to some restaurant....and the food wouldn't have been as good!

Burgers from Milton's grass fed Cows.  Organic Tomaotes from Milton's garden that were delicious!

Even the hamburger buns were specially made of organic ingredients by a local.

Fingerling potatoes that Milton had grown on his farm and scalloped himself.  YUMMMMMY!

Local Organic Greens.....probably the only thing that Milton didn't do himself....actually purchased

And, oh, my gosh, the dessert was so wonderful that I had to discipline myself to not go up and get just one more!  Milton, correct me....it was a winter squash used to make something that tasted very much like gingerbread with REAL whipping cream on top!  WOW!

But the nicest part of dinner was that we didn't have to go out!  We could stay at the Red Brick Meeting house and share and talk and be together.  It was absolutely perfect!  Thanks Milton!

Furnas

Milton Cook, Marilyn Lang, and Ruth Varner are descended from Furnas.  I think that the Furnas line is on Milton's mother's line.  We took photos of the Furnas tombstones at the Caesar Creek Cemetery with the three cousins on Friday:

When the group reconvened at the Red Brick Meeting, the three cousins posed with photos of their ancestors, Robert and Hannah Wilson
Furnas:

Robert and Hannah Wilson Furnas and family came to Ohio 4, 23, 1803 

 from Cane Creek, SC Monthly Meeting.  

Milton's Cook family also came from Cane Creek 12, 19, 1803.  Amos and Elizabeth Townsend Cook and family

This information is from The Quakers; Their Migration to the Upper Ohio, etc.  p. 55

Hannah Furnas' parents were John and Dinah Cook Wilson.  

Descendents of Robert and Hannah Wilson Furnas and Amos and Elizabeth Townsend Cook married 17 June 1950  Ernest Cook and Sarah Furnas.  They are Milton Cook's parents.

Pugh, Coppock,Newman, Mills Beals, Baldwin, Hayworth, Jones, Mendenhall, Ellis

Saundra and Marvin Jackson are a part of our group on Thursday.  They are unable to attend the rest of the weekend because Saundra is involved in Levi Coffin House during the Levi Coffin Days Festival.  The festival is in Fountain City, Indiana.

Saundra's Newman family were in Grayson Virginia and Lost Creek TN with my Elliott family.

Saundra says that there is a pewter wash basin in the Levi Coffin House in Fountain City, Indiana that family folk lore says came over the ocean with Tristram and Dionis Coffin.

A Peaceable Pilgrimage

I started reading John Fitzgerald's book, A Peaceable Pilgrimage a couple of nights ago.  I am not going to get it finished before our homecoming event.  The book is published by Frederick Press of Leesburg, Ohio.  Inside information says that the book can be ordered directly from John Fitzgerald:

John Fitzgerald

149 South Street

PO Box 393

Leesburg, Ohio 45235

It struck me how suitable John's title for his book is for our own gathering.  It is a Peaceable Pilgrimage to honor out ancestors who were all about Peace and finding Peace for their families.  

 Kind of a crazy thing that I attended a very nice gathering on 9/11 this year with one of my good buddies.  I will put in a photo of what the group calls the healing field: 

This event takes place in the cemetery where many of my Cabell County ancestors are buried including my father, grandparents, etc...But the event made me think about how many times we have celebrations that are all about WAR....bravery....where our gathering is all about PEACE...bravery.....

In the first 18 pages that I read, I was very surprised to find the information that Thomas and Sarah Beals had made a stop at Quaker Bottom which is now Proctorville, Ohio just across the river from where I live now.

From Wikipedia:

The land where Proctorville is now situated was originally settled in 1797 and called Quaker Bottom. Situated on the Ohio River, Quaker Bottom grew throughout the 1800s as a trading center. In 1834, Jacob Proctor established a general store next to the wharf, and river boat captains knew the village as "Proctor's Landing".^[6] When the village was incorporated in 1878, the name was changed to Proctorville in Jacob's honor.

In the above map you will see Proctoville marked with an A and I live just to the East of Guyan Country Club.  The Ohio River is the boundary between Ohio and what is now WV.  

From my own ancestry, my Elliott family was probably acquaintances if not friends with Thomas and Sarah Beals.  A quick look at:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/bealthom.htm

and

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/u/c/Linda-S-Buchholz/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0499.html

and

http://www.swohioresearch.com/index.php?p=3_14_Thomas-Beals

tells me that my Elliot family and this Beals family were living in many of the same locations in the time period from Revolutionary War until first quarter of the 1800's.

Pugh, Beals, Claytons, Bowaters, Roberts, Chambers, Wright, Wells

This morning I am adding information from Vivian Markley:

Hello all, I may not be able to be there in body but I will be there in spirit for sure.  Like many of you, my Bush River Quakers came to the Miami Valley of Ohio with the exodus.  I also have many Fringe Quakers who had roots in the church.  Azariah Pugh and Hannah Beals are my grandparents who were the last generation to raise their children in the Church.  Their ancestors included the Claytons, Bowaters, Roberts, Chambers and Evans. 

I just put a database online as I have done the Autosomal DNA testing and the Newberry families that you might find in there are  Brooks, Cook, Coppock, Davenport, Evans, a few Gaunts, Hollingsworth, some Jays and Jenkins, Kelly, O’Neil, Pearson and Wright with a few other spouses. 

John Wright who married Rachel Wells is also my direct line through Rachel and most of their family migrated to Bush River.

If you find anyone of interest, feel free to contact me as I did not put my “notes” online.  An overwhelming amount of information that I have has come from a lot of other researchers and a large basket full are contributors on the list that have helped me off list as well.

My Fringe Quakers include the Stewarts, McClure and Juliens.

Link to my database, it is indexed.  Have fun and don’t get too confused.  Open to any correction or additions as well.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=gwmc2013&surname=A

Still hoping I might at least get in a visit at the Homecoming.

Treasure is best found under the rock that no one else had turned over.
Vivian Wenrick Markley
Springfield, Ohio

Benson, Quinn, Clark, and Kelly

Benson, Quinn, Clark and Kelly from Brenda Brazell

.

Brenda, descendant of James Benson and Martha Quinn, James Benson and Elizabeth Clark, Thomas Benson and Mary Kelly.

Brenda Brazell
sugarplumabc@yahoo.com


Brenda Brazell has shared information about her Benson family:

She descends from James Benson and Martha Quinn through the following:

James Emery Benson and Rosina Henrietta Barnes
James Henry Benson and Rosetta Jane Charles
Samuel Benson and Fidella Church
Thomas Benson and Mary Kelly
James Benson and Elizabeth Clark
James Benson and Martha Quinn

The two elder James and Thomas and spouses were known Quakers.  
James and Martha came from County Tyrone, Ireland, to Charlestown, SC, Union, SC, then to Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Oklahoma.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jacmac/benson.pdf

This is a beautiful writeup of James Benson and family.  The man who has written it is only doing his direct line, but has through Samuel Benson on it of my part.  When I first found it, I contacted him and gave him Samuel's information to add to it.  He had Samuel but not the spouse, etc.  

The author of the above site has researched and documented all the Quaker records for the Benson's.  You can contact him from his site if you want.  I am sure he would be glad to have it with the Ohio records.

I know I also have Pucketts in NC that were Quakers also.

Brenda