[or-roots] Fw: Re: [Q-R] Herbert's post SPRAY, LEMAR>Madison, Warren, Iowa
Paulette
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Wed Aug 19 16:52:49 PDT 2009
I hope you do not mind my sending this on in case it makes connections for someone on the list. It seems to me to be a marvel of genealogical prose.
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>From: Tom Hill for MMNA <monthlymeetings at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Q-R] Herbert's post SPRAY, LEMAR>Madison, Warren, Iowa
>
>A Quaker-Roots post by Herbert Standing is always a delight. I do too
>little real genealogy to add to this gem from his lifetime of work. One
>must marvel at Herbert's connections from Ireland to South Carolina to
>Caesars Creek MM in Warren County, Ohio to Madison County, Iowa. I did find
>that Google has digitized Mueller's Madison County history that Herbert
>mentions: < http://books.google.com/books?id=nX0UAAAAYAAJ >
>
> Tom Hill
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: quaker-roots-bounces at rootsweb.com
>[mailto:quaker-roots-bounces at rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of
>Standcedargrove at aol.com
>Sent: 10 July 2009 1:23 PM
>Subject: [Q-R] SPRAY, LEMAR > Madison, Warren, Iowa
>
>I have noted the mailing of Jennifer LeMar dated 7/1/2009 inquiring as to
>the ancestry of her husband's great-great-grandmother, Mary (Spray) LeMar,
>who was born in Ohio in 1838 and died in Earlham, Iowa on 7 May 1895.
>George was also from Ohio, and had a cousin, Samuel Kenton LeMar who is
>listed in the records of Caesars Creek Monthly Meeting.
>
>Since I live near Earlham, Iowa and have worked with records of Bear Creek
>Monthly Meeting and have had limited contact with members of the Spray
>family in my genealogical research, I will endeavor to transmit what my
>records indicate, which may help Jennifer LeMar to resolve her quest.
>
>In 1751 a little group of Quakers took ship from Dublin, Ireland, intending
>to disembark in North Carolina. However, it seemed that the ship's captain
>by-passed North Carolina, evidently leaving his passengers at Charleston,
>South Carolina. The Quakers probably journeyed up the Wateree River until
>they found a place of settlement at what is now Camden in present-day
>Kershaw County, South Carolina. Here they established a Friends Meeting
>known as Fredricksburg. A leader of this group was Robert Milhouse, who had
>several sons, including Henry Milhouse.
>
>About 1754, the family of Isaac and Mary (Houghton) Cook, including most of
>their large family of ten children, elected to move from their home in York
>County, Pennsylvania, with a certificate from Friends to settle in the
>Carolinas. They may have first come to Camden and brought their Friends
>certificate to Fredricksburg MM, but the minutes of Fredricksburg, Monthly
>Meeting have been lost. Fredricksburg was the only Monthly Meeting of
>Friends in up-country South Carolina at the time.
>
>The Quaker settlement at Camden did not prosper, but gradually diminished
>in numbers. Some of the members moved farther west to what is Newberry
>County, South Carolina and joined in the formation of a more vibrant Friends
>community, which was organized as Bush River Monthly Meeting by 1772. Bush
>River Monthly Meeting included a number of outlying worship groups, two of
>them in Union County, South Carolina, one called Padgett's Creek established
>by 1874, and another on the Tiger River called Cane Creek, established in
>1875. These two Meetings formed Cane Creek MM, SC, which was set off from
>Bush River Monthly Meeting in 1789. The Meeting at Cane Creek included the
>families of most of the children of Isaac and Mary (Houghton) Cook. One of
>the Cook daughters, Rebecca Cook, appears to have married Henry Milhouse,
>formerly of the Fredericksburg Meeting at Camden in Kershaw County, S.C.
>Henry Milhouse was a recognized minister of Cane Creek Meeting for many
>years. Another of the Cook daughters, Dinah Cook, married John Wilson, son
>of Christopher Wilson of New Castle County, Delaware..
>
>Another family of the Cane Creek Meeting was that of James and Sarah Spray,
>although it is not clear whether James and Sarah actually came to the
>Southland from Chester County, PA where they had been married about 1753.
>Samuel Spray was one of the sons of James and Sarah who was an active
>member of Cane Creek Meeting. He married Mary Wilson about 1788, daughter
>of John and Dinah (Cook) Wilson. Another son of James and Sarah who was a
>recognized member of Friends was Mordecai Spray, b. 2-3-1873. Mordecai
>married Sarah Milhouse, daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Cook) Milhouse, about
>1793.
>
>Mordecai and Sarah (Milhouse) Spray had the following children:
> Anna Mary b 3-1-1795
> Henry b. 12-22-1797
> William b. 11-6-1801
> Jesse b . 11-5-1803
> John b. 5-17-1807
>
>In the years from about 1802 until 1808 there was a large migration of
>Quakers from the Carolinas and Georgia to southwestern Ohio, primarily to
>escape the encroaching culture in the South relying upon slave labor. The
>exodus from South Carolina and Georgia was so large that the Monthly Meeting
>organizations there could not be maintained. Almost the entire membership
>of Cane Creek MM, SC made the move to Ohio, taking their record books with
>them to be continued by Caesars Creek Monthly Meeting set up in Clinton
>County, Ohio in 1807. Mordecai and Sarah (Milhouse) Spray were granted a
>certificate by Cane Creek MM, SC to Miami MM, Ohio on 3 mo. 23, 1805.
>Caesars Creek MM was set off from Miami MM. Sarah' father, Henry Milhouse,
>was still living at the time of the migration and made the journey to Ohio,
>where he died in 1821 at the age of 85
>
>>From 1988 to 1991 I carried on a correspondence on genealogical matters with
>Helen (Sole) Buche of East Moline, Illinois. She had grown up east of
>Earlham, Iowa and was a graduate of Earlham High School. She had written a
>genealogical account, distributed in typescript, entitled: "Stories of
>Ancestral Families of Eli Cox and Related Lines". She was a descendant of
>Eli Cox, son of Anna Mary Spray who had married Isaac Cox in Clinton County,
>Ohio, in 1818. Although they had married contrary to Quaker discipline,
>Isaac and Anna Mary were allowed to keep their membership with Friends.
>Anna Mary and Isaac had three children: Henry, Anne, and Eli, ---- Henry,
>who may have married Ann Martin, had probably passed from the scene by the
>time of the death of Isaac Cox in 1850. The sister, Ann Cox, had married
>Alfred Martin.
>
>Eli Cox, son of Isaac and Anna Mary (Spray) Cox, married about 1844 Mary
>Mills, of Quaker ancestry but not a birthright member. Eli Cox evidently
>lost his right of membership in the Society of Friends when he married Mary,
>a non-member. In 1856 Eli and Mary (Mills) Cox moved their young family
>from Clinton County, Ohio to Madison County, Iowa, settling in northern
>Union Township north of Winterset, county seat of Madison County.
>
>Eli's sister, Anna (Cox) Martin and her husband, Alfred Martin, had brought
>their family to the Madison County area, evidently a few months before the
>Eli Cox family reached Iowa. The Martins journeyed to Fort Des Moines
>(now Des Moines) to meet the grandmother, Anna Mary (Spray) Cox and the
>great-grandmother, Sarah (Milhouse) Spray who had come from Ohio to
>Burlington, Iowa by train and from Burlington to Fort Des Moines by
>stagecoach. On 7 mo. 12, 1756 the Martin family had brought a Friends
>certificate from Caesars Creek MM, Ohio dated 5 mo. 22, 1856 to Three
>Rivers Monthly Meeting centered at Ackworth near Indianola, Iowa. On 6 mo.
>16, 1858 Mary Cox brought a certificate dated 4 mo. 22, 1858 from Caesars
>Creek MM, Ohio to Bear Creek MM, Iowa. (It appears that this lady was
>commonly known as "Mary" , but on census returns and formal papers she was
>recorded as "Anna".)------ On 11 mo. 17, 1858 a certificate was received by
>Bear Creek MM dated 10 mo. 28, 1858 from Caesars Creek MM, Ohio for Sarah
>Spray.
>
>Sarah Spray appears to have been Sarah (Milhouse) Spray, mother of Anna
>Mary (Spray) Cox. This great-grandmother was born in 1770 and would have
>been quite elderly at this time.
>
>Three Rivers Monthly Meeting had been set off from Pleasant Plain MM in
>1852. In 1856 Bear Creek MM had been set off from Three Rivers Monthly
>Meeting, holding its first Monthly Meeting session in July of that year.
>At that time, Bear Creek Monthly Meeting consisted of Bear Creek
>Preparative Meeting in Union Township in southwestern Dallas County, Iowa
>and Summit Grove Preparative Meeting at the present town of Stuart on the
>southern edge of Guthrie County, Iowa. There were members of Bear Creek
>Monthly Meeting residing near the northern edge of northwest Madison County
>in 1856, but North Branch Preparative Meeting was not organized until 1863,
>building a permanent meetinghouse three miles west of the present town of
>Earlham about 1867, with a burial ground nearby which appears to have been
>first platted about 1864. North Branch Monthly Meeting was set off from Bear
>Creek MM in 1869, consisting of North Branch Preparative Meeting and Union
>Preparative Meeting which was moved from west of town into Earlham, Iowa
>after 1870.
>
>Madison County marriage records list the following marriages relating to the
>Spray family:
> G. W. LeMar married Mary Spray on the 19th of May 1858, B.F. Roberts,
>Justice of the Peace.
> Dayton Barnett married Sarah Spray on the 3rd of March 1859, A. W.
>Russell, Minister.
> Asa Barnett married Anna Spray on the 3rd of October 1867. A.M.
>Heizer, Minister of the Gospel.
>
>Dayton Barnett and Asa Barnett were sons of William Barnett and Julia Ann
>Ballard. The Barnett family had moved to northern Madison County in 1857
>from West Newton, Marion County, Indiana. Barnett family records indicate
>that these Barnett brothers married sisters, daughters of Henry Spray and
>Rhoda _____. The marriage of Asa Barnett and Anna Spray is said to have
>taken place at the home of Dayton Barnett. Although the Barnett family were
>members of Friends, Quaker discipline was becoming somewhat more relaxed so
>that members could marry non-members outside of Meeting without the
>certainty of being disowned. Young Quakers of this generation seemed to
>have intensely disliked being married according to Quaker procedure..
>After a Separation among Friends in 1877, a pastoral system was adopted by
>the Evangelical Friends and pastors could conduct marriages as was the
>general practice in other churches. On 12-30-1869 Sarah (Spray) Barnett,
>wife of Dayton Barnett, and her daughter, Laura, were received into
>membership by North Branch Monthly Meeting, indicating that Sarah had not
>been a member of Friends at the time of her marriage.
>
>George W. LeMar is recorded in an 1879 _History of Madison County, Iowa_ as
>possessing a prospering farm, including a large orchard, in section 11 of
>Madison Township, Madison County. George W. LeMar ( b, 1835, d. 9-17-1902,
>age 68 years, 6 mo., and 2 days) and Mary LeMar ( b. 1839, d. 5-7-1895, age
>57 years, 4 mo.) are buried in the Earlham Cemetery, sharing a common
>headstone. Nearby are buried four of their children: Alice d. 9-7-1869,
>age 1 yr., 9 mo., 2 days; Charlie d 7-2-1870 age 1 year; Grace d.
>10-10-1895 age 17 yr., 8 mo., 9 d.; Infant (No dates). There is a notation
>in the Earlham Cemetery records that the four children were originally
>buried in the North Branch Cemetery, but their graves were later moved to
>the Earlham Cemetery. (The North Branch Cemetery was originally laid out
>about 1864 and seemed to serve as something of a community cemetery until
>the Earlham Cemetery was begun about 1869 with the building of the railroad
>and the rapid growth of the new town of Earlham, incorporated in 1870.)
>
>I am quite aware of the family of Jesse and Mary (Spray) Kenworthy who
>settled on a farm about two miles north of Earlham on the southern border of
>Adams Township, Dallas County, across the line from Madison County. They
>brought a certificate to Bear Creek Monthly Meeting on 4 mo.-17, 1861 from
>Fairfield MM, Indiana dated 2-14-1861. My records indicate that Mary Spray,
>b. 1-27-1840 d. 1876) was a daughter of Joseph and Dinah (Wilson) Spray.
>There were many of the Quaker family of Wilson who settled in the Earlham
>area in pioneer times. From a genealogy of the descendants of Christopher
>Wilson of New Castle County, Delaware, I find that John Wilson, son of this
>Christopher Wilson, married in 1759, probably in Chester County, PA, Dinah
>Cook, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Houghton) Cook. Their son, Christopher
>Wilson III, married in 1800 Mary Cox, daughter of Thomas and Tamar Cox
>Their daughter, Dinah Wilson, married on the 4th of April 1829 Joseph
>Spray. Their daughter, Mary Spray, married in 1858 Jesse Kenworthy, son of
>William and Olive (Hiatt) Kenworthy. ----- I am inclined to believe that
>Mary (Spray) Kenworthy was a descendant of Samuel Spray who married Mary
>Cook, daughter of John and Dinah (Cook) Willson, back in South Carolina.
>The name "Dinah" seems to have been consistently transmitted through the
>generations..
>
>On this past Fourth of July, at the festivities at Earlham, Iowa, I happened
>to meet Byrl Kenworthy and his wife Avis. They are both 90 years old, but
>with good minds. Byrl Kenworthy is a grandson of Jesse and Mary (Spray)
>Kenworthy. They could remember that Mary's maiden name was Spray, but they
>seemed to have no remembrance of the LeMar family.
>
>I now tend to believe that Mary (Spray) LeMar was a grand-daughter of Sarah
>(Milhouse) Spray. She was probably a sister or a first cousin of Sarah
>Spray and Anna Spray, daughters of Henry and Rhoda Spray, who married the
>brothers Dayton and Asa Barnett. Jennifer Lamar seems to think that
>Rhoda's maiden name was Briggers. This is a very unusual name and surely
>not a Quaker name. Perhaps there is an error somewhere.
>
>The North Branch Monthly Meeting set off from Bear Creek MM in 1869 was
>divided by the Evangelical / Conservative Separation of 1877. The
>Evangelical branch centered in Earlham became Earlham Monthly Meeting after
>about 1880. The Conservative branch retained ownership of the North Branch
>meetinghouse, moving into Earlham about 1890, retaining the name of North
>Branch MM until it was laid down in 1908. I am fairly well acquainted with
>the records of both groups, not having carefully studied the Men's Minutes
>of North Branch MM, 1869-1877. I do not have the abstracted records of
>Ackworth area Meetings at hand, nor the Hinshaw and Heiss abstracts I do
>not believe that the George and Mary (Spray) LeMar family is mentioned in
>the Quaker records with which I am familiar.
>
>It is possible that the parents of Mary (Spray) LeMar are listed in the 1880
>U.S. Census of Madison Twp., Madison County, Iowa.
>
> ---Herbert Standing, Earlham, Iowa.
>
>
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