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From: "Tom Hill" <>
Subject: [MOBARRY] Quakers in Barry County, MO
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:29:12 -0400


Friends of a genealogical bent,

I have been researching the Quaker meeting at Flat Creek, apparently
now within the limits of Cassville. After Gerald Haddock provided some
information on the location of the Friends Burying Ground, I queried the
Quaker-Roots list and received the following responses:


-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel W Treadway [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, 06 July 2007 1:49 PM

Tom,

Perhaps you are already aware of this listing of burials at the "Quaker
Cemetery" in Barry County:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/cemetery/quaker/quaker1.htm

Another page:

http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/wrv/v7/N3/Sp8
0j.htm

You may hear from Herbert Standing. I think he has some knowledge of the
Hutchens family.

Dan Treadway
P. O. Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105

http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/


-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of
Sent: Sunday, 08 July 2007 1:22 AM

Tom Hill,

Following might be of interest; more details available. Simon and Millicent
Nixon Jones (originally from NC) must have been members of Ozark/Flat Creek
Meeting. Minutes show they were received from Spring Grove MM, KS into
Union MM (under Spring River) in Alba, MO in 1868. May be other records at
Friends Univ. When I contacted [the University], was looking into a
son-in-law's family who lived & stayed in Alba.

Millicent died in 1879 & Simon in 1880. They are both buried in the Quaker
Cemetery north of Cassville, near Flat Creek. 1870 census,
Flat Creek Township, Barry County


-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Carol
[]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2007 5:28 PM

There were a number of Hadley families in Flat Creek Township, Barry County,
Missouri according to 1880 and 1870 census records, and some records
indicate that they were descended from the Quaker Simon Hadley. However,
obit records indicate that at least part of these Hadleys were associated
with the Baptist Church, and had been while they were living in Kentucky,
before migrating to Missouri. There are quite a few other surnames I have
noted in that area which are names often found in Quaker research; i.e.;
Antel, Atterbury, Beeson, Davis, Grubb, Haworth, Inman, Osborn. The Haddock
Family Pages for the family in that area list Crumley, Lakey, and Addington
relatives as being Quakers.

There is a cemetery listing for Barry County, Missouri called Quaker
Cemetery Flat Creek Township; directions to it state that it "is on the west
side of the church in a fenced area of the pasture" but does not specify as
to what the church is, and the only listing for a burial in it that I have
is for Murl "Buck" Priest, who was born 1929, died 200l, son of Raymond
Wesley and Florence (Hilburn) Priest. The obit is from the Monett Times,
January 29, 2001 and there is an email address: (Mary
Homesley).


-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 July 2007 11:54 AM
Subject: Ozark/Flat Creek Meeting, Barry County, MO

Tom Hill,

* * *

I happen to have a set of the three-volume work by Rita Townsend,
_Hutchins-Hutchens: Descendants of Strangeman Hutchins_. I assisted her in
publishing certain sections of the last two volumes, but I did not
contribute any data concerning the Hutchens family in Barry County, MO.

It would appear to me that certain of this Hutchins family became
Conservative Friends at the time of the Separation of 1879 in Kansas Yearly
Meeting. Evidently the Conservative Friends in Barry County, MO maintained
a Flat Creek MM (Conservative) as late as 7 mo. 3, 1886, since a Hutchins
family member was granted a certificate to Westfield MM (Conservative)
Hamilton County, IN dated on that date.

It appears that the scattered Conservative Friends in Barry County,
MO and in Benton County, AR eventually became members of Spring River MM
(Conservative) near Galena in Cherokee County, KS. This was a large Monthly
Meeting in the years following the Separation and even supported an academy
at one time.

For many years I was chairperson of the Archives Committee of Iowa
Yearly Meeting (Conservative). Kansas Yearly Meeting (Cons.) was laid down
in the care of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Cons.) ca. 1928. During my time as
chairman of the Archives Committee, we succeeded in uniting some Kansas
Yearly Meeting records which had been kept in a safe at Scattergood Friends
School in Iowa with a small trunk of records from Emporia MM (Cons) which
had been kept at a depository in Philadelphia, placing these two sets of
records in the care of the Quaker Library at Friends University at Wichita,
Kansas. During this time, a large book of Births and Deaths had been kept
in the hands of certain former members of Spring River MM (Cons) residing in
Iowa. I have seen it, and I tried to impress upon the person whom I last
know to have had custody of this book how valuable it was. However, when
the estate of this person was being settled up, this book could not be
found. I fear it is lost. However, it could probably be somewhat
reconstructed from the older minutes of Spring River MM (Cons) on file at
Wichita. I believe that Helen Wood, at one time a librarian at the Quaker
Collection at Friends University, did some abstracting of these records.

The following are highlights of certain members of the
Hutchins/Hutchens family listed in Rita Townsend's work which might be of
interest. They may not all have been members of Friends at the times of
their deaths:

Rhoda Hutchens b. 8 of March 1824, d. 5 Dec. 1895 or 1 Dec. 1896,
Barry County, MO dau of John Hutchens and Elizabeth Vestal ; m. Nathan J.
Bond. Marriage bond dated 16 April 1850. No child.---- On 1851, 4 mo. 5th,
Rhoda Bond, formerly Hutchens, condemned her marrying out of unity. Deep
Creek MM, NC Hinshaw v. I, p. 989.

Charles Hutchens, b. 10 Nov. 1813, Surry Co. (now Yadkin Co.) N.C.;
d. 7 Nov. 1885, Barry Co., MO; m/1 8 Jan 1835 Surry Co., NC, Lydia Vestal;
m/2 Mary Delphina Hutchens; m/3 Ruth E. Davis, b. 27 Apr. 1842; d. 1901
Thorntown, Boone Co., IN. Charles was buried at the Quaker Cemetery two
miles northeast of Cassville, Barry Co., MO. --------- 1872- 4 mo. 24.
Charles Hutchens and Ruth and children: Asa, Lydia P., Enoch J., and
Benjamin Franklin, granted certificate to Ozark MM, Barry County, MO. (Sugar
Plain MM; Heiss: 5. 385.) ------- 1886 - 8 mo. 21. Ruth E. Hutchins and
minor children, Enoch J., Benjamin F., Rhoda E., James E., and Sarah F. M.
C., received on certificate from Flat Creek MM, MO, dated 7 mo. 3, 1886.
(Westfield Conservative MM, Hamilton Co., IN: Heiss 6:355).

Zachary Hutchins b. 14 Sept. 1815 Surry Co. (now Yadkin Co.) NC; d
11 Nov. 1883 Cassville, Barry County, MO; son of John Hutchens and Elizabeth
Vestal; m/1 ca. 1847 Surry Co., NC Margaret Jester ("Peggy"); m/2 Margaret
Quick b. 27 Aug. 1825; d 1908, who had m/1 Hezekiah Mathas. A farmer,
Zachary Hutcins was buried in the Quaker Cemetery at Cassville, Barry
County, MO. ----- (Source book: _ Zachary Hutchins, Pedigree, Posterity,
Pictures and Histories_, was published in 1969. Printed in Salt Lake City,
Utah, it was compiled by Mary Ellen Jex Jolley and others.)


-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 July 2007 12:36 PM

Tom Hill,

I could not fit all of my info into one e-mail so shall continue
with this e-mail no. 2:

John Benjamin Hutchens, b. 18 Dec. 1825 in Ohio (spent youth in NC),
d. 10 April 1878, Barry County, MO; son of John Hutchens and Elizabeth
Vestal; m. 7 Oct 1946 Surrey Co. (now Yadkin Co.), NC, Elizabeth Tolburt
(Tulbert), b. 1 Jan 1827 Surrey Co., NC; d. 23 Nov. 1910 at Purdy, Barry
County, NC, dau of William Tolbert (or Tulbert) and Mary Ann Howard. Both
were buried at the Quaker Cemetery, Cassville, Barry County, MO. ------
Elizabeth Hutchins died as a member of Spring River Monthly Meeting of
Friends in Kansas.
- according to _The Friend_ (Philadelphia) v. 5. Her son, Wilson Hutchins,
who died in 1920, was also a member and Elder of Spring River Monthly
Meeting _The Friend_ (Philadelphia), v. 5.

------ The data which I have provided concerning the
Hutchins-Hutchens family is taken primarily from Rita Hineman Townsend,
_Hutchins-Hutchens, Descendants of Strangeman Hutchins_, (Baltimore: Gateway
Press, Inc., 1979). Brief reference has been made to Supplemental volumes
Two and Three to this work, published privately, copyright 1992. This three
volume genealogy provides careful listing of the ancestry and descendants of
the members of the Hutchins/Hutchens family who lived in the Quaker
community near Cassville, Missouri. The compiler lived at Garden City,
Kansas, and copies of this set of books should be found in major Kansas and
Missouri genealogical libraries.

----- Herbert Standing, Earlham, Iowa.

[End of forwarded messages]

I have added the web references and the date of Herbert Standing's
last-known certificate of membership transfer to my website,

http://www.quakermeetings.com/meeting_view?anID=TST730L

and I will now unsubscribe from the Barry County list. It has been
satisfying to participate on your list for the last two months even though I
do no people genealogy, only Quaker-meeting genealogy. Feel free to e-mail
me directly if any of this information later stirs up some additional
records or dates of existence of the Friends (Quaker) meeting in Barry
County.

Cordially,

Tom Hill

Thomas C. Hill
425 Walnut Street, Suite 1800
Cincinnati, OH 45202 U.S.A.
e-mail:
www.QuakerMeetings.com

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