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From: "Seth and/or BJ Hinshaw" <>
Subject: Re: QUAKER WEDDINGS
Date: Sun, 03 May 98 04:44:24 PDT


Friends have recorded people as Ministers from the beginnings
of the Society. However, Friends have not used titles like
"reverend" to describe Ministers.

Normally, people are recorded when they have a gift in the spoken
ministry, although I have seen one case in which a man was
recorded who had a gift in the visiting ministry rather than having
a gift during the meeting for worship. Normally, the visitation of
members was part of the expectations of ministers.

Seth

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> Bruce,
> Thank you for sharing the excerpt from the Stanton book on the Quaker
> wedding customs, and first hand observation of Lindley Bailey. Do you know
> where the Stanton-Plummer wedding spoken of (in 1870) took place? I, like
> you, found the descriptions reassuring.
> It is always interesting to read of these personal recollections of the
> Quaker ways of our ancestors in the past. I'm sure other readers of the
> list could supply some entertaining stories. My mother's first cousin,
> Clova Haworth of Westfield, IN (now deceased) told me of a story she
> laughed about, which took place when she was quite a young girl. She was
> attending a Quaker wedding with her grandmother (Mary Ellen Robbins
> Haworth), and her great-grandfather, then a very old man who had been a
> Quaker "minister" (Seth Hinshaw tells me they were never actually called
> ministers) at Deming and Sheridan, IN for many years came up to greet her.
> She was wearing a straw hat with a ribbon and an artificial bird on it.
> William Haworth (my 2-gr. gr.father) admonished her, "Well, Clova, I
> suppose thee thinks that bird looks better on thy hat than in the tree."
> Clova was duly embarrassed and resolved to watch what she wore around the
> "very old folks." This must have taken place around 1908-1910.
>
> Marilyn Winton Misch
>
>

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