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From: "Candy" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quakers in Wyoming, Iowa
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 18:38:41 -0700
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I would like information on what county Laurens, IA would be and information
about cemeteries in that area. I just found our family bible and it states
that my great grandfather was buried in a Laurens. Any information would be
welcomed.
Thanks in advance,
Candy
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Subject: [Q-R] Quakers in Wyoming, Iowa


> This mailing is in response to the mailing dated 05/03/2001 to the
> Quaker-Roots List from Palmer McGrew.
>
> He is searching for information on MCGREWS who lived in Wyoming, IA during
> the last half of the 19th Century. They were Quakers, and at least one,
> Simon Blackburn MCGREW, was a minister. Does anyone have any information
> about that Meeting?
>
> I live in west-central Iowa and am not well acquainted with the
eastern
> part of the State, but I find that the town of Wyoming is located in Jones
> county, just east of Linn County and somewhat northeast of the city of
Cedar
> Rapids.
>
> To my knowledge, there was never a Meeting called Wyoming in the Jones
> County area. There may have been a small Indulged Meeting for worship,
> allowed by another Monthly Meeting, with a name other than Wyoming.----
> However, during the last half of the nineteenth century, there was a
> significant settlement of Wilburite Friends, many from eastern Ohio, who
> settled in eastern Linn County. There were two Preparative Meetingss,
> Whittier and Hopewell, which in the later part of the century constituted
> Springville Monthly Meeting, later called Whittier Monthly Meeting.
> Springville Monthly Meeting was affiliated with Hickory Grove Quarterly
> Meeting which also included Hickory Grove Monthly Meeting near West Branch
,
> Iowa and Coal Creek Monthly Meeting near What Cheer, Iowa. Hickory Grove
> Quarterly Meeting was affiliated with Ohio Yearly Meeting (Wilburite)
> centered at Stillwater Meeting near Barnesville, Ohio. About 1917,
Hickory
> Grove Quarterly Meeting was transferred to Iowa Yearly Meeting
> (Conservative). ----- Of the Meetings of Springville Monthly Meeting,
> Hopewell Meeting , the oldest, was located about five miles south of Stone
> City, Iowa, near the Linn County/Jones County line. The other Meeting was
> Whittier Meeting located in the village of Whittier about 2 and 1/2 miles
> north of Springville, Iowa. Hopewell Meeting was laid down in 1908.
> Whittier Meeting continues until the present day, although its resident
> membership is quite small. It is a Monthly Meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting
> (Conservative). The records of Whittier Monthly Meeting are kept at the
Iowa
> State Historical Library at Iowa City, Iowa. I believe that Whittier
records
> were abstracted under the direction of William Wade Hinshaw, but these
> abstracts of Iowa Quaker records were published separately from the
> multi-volume "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy".
>
> I know that some of the McGrew family were members of Whittier Meeting
as
> late as 1950, but I don't believe that anyone with the McGrew name is on
the
> membership list now. Blackburn has been a familiar family name in Ohio
> Yearly Meeting (Conservative) for many years.
>
> If Simon Blackburn McGrew was a minister among the Wilburite or
> Conservative Friends, he would have been a "recorded minister" whose gift
in
> the ministry was recognized by Friends, but he would have received no
> monetary compensation, except perhaps for travel expenses when he had a
> concern to visit distant Meetings.
>
> If Palmer McGrew believes that Simon Blackburn McGrew was associated
with
> this group of Friends, I might be able to guide him to other specific
items
> of information.
>
> ----- Herbert Standing, 1806 Bear Creek Road, Earlham, Iowa 50072.
> ---- Member of Archives Committee of Iowa Yearly Meeting
> (Conservative).
>
>
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