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Subject: [INDIANA] Chenoweths, Lawrence, Hill, Bowen, Peacock
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 00:15:22 EST

The Chenoweths
Jericho Friends Meeting
And Its  Community
Randolph County, Indiana

Surnames in this are: Chenoweths, Lawrence, Hill, Bowen, Peacock

                                                 The Chenoweths
        
           John T. Chenoweth and his third wife, Emily (Lawrence) were the
first of the
Chenoweths to arrive in the Jericho neighborhood. He purchased the farm
originally
taken by Eenoni Hill (S31-T15E). He also owned land in S6 T19N R15E. John T.
Chenoweth brought with him four children (all from the third wife), namely,
Elenora,
William L., John Franklin, and George Edwin. The first two of these married
and
remained at Jericho. Both belonged to the Jericho Friends Meeting, The two
younger
boys left no permanent record in the Community. Neither John T nor his wife
were ever
members of the Meeting.  They came a littlebefore 1875 and remained until
their deaths
about the turn of the century.  Edwin MiltonChenoweth was the second to come.
He was
a younger brother of John T. Chenoweth and had married Ruth Bowen, daughter
of
Squire Bowen, of near Spartansburg. Edwin Chenoweth purchased the Henry Hill
farm
and much of the old Abram Peacock farm and lived there till his death in
1919. He
moved here in 1875 and brought with him four children; Hannah Belle, George
Fremont,
James Lincoln, and John William (Wick).  The Chenoweths were members of the
Christian Church. Edwin Chenoweth was never a member of the Jericho Meeting.
However,his wife, Ruth, and her son, John William (Wick), joined the Meeting
in 1894.
She remained a member until her death in 1900. Wick was released at an
unknown date,
perhaps when he removed from the neighborhood to become an oculist in
Winchester.
     

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