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From: "Hill, Thomas C." <>
Subject: Re: Search = Friends Church- Wabash
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 99 14:53:00 -0500


I attach the property descriptions for the various meetings in Maple Grove
MM, still alive but weak in Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting (formerly named the
Hicksite, then Friends General Conference, branch of Indiana Yearly
Meeting). The original message references Rush Creek PM in Lincolnville,
which was set off from Fall Creek MM so early memberships would be reflected
there. My review of IYM-FGC minutes and Whitewater QM minutes did not
provide a clear time the meeting ceased meeting, but it continued showing up
in the statistical reports until after 1910. As I recall, the Pressler
family that continued Maple Grove MM first at the Huntington College in
Huntington, Indiana, then in Fort Wayne, came from the Rush Creek PM.

39. MEETING: Maple Grove Monthly
SUPERIOR MEETINGS: Whitewater M.M. until 1854/09/02
Whitewater Q.M.
ESTABLISHED: Voluntary 1845/05/04
Worship & Preparative 1847/12/04
Monthly 1854/09/02
STATUS: Active
BURIAL GROUNDS: NE Corner 750W & 500N
Dallas Twp., Sec. 2, Twp. 28N, Rge. 8E
Huntington Cty., Indiana
DEEDS, ETC.: 1. John Moore to Samuel Copeland & Jesse Moore, Trustees for
the Society of Friends; 1844/02/19; D.B. D, p. 185.
2. Formation of non-profit corporation named Maple Grove Friends
Cemetery Association; Formed 1934?
LOCATION 3: 6557 North Clinton Street
Ft. Wayne 46825
St. Joseph Twp., Sec. 18, Twp. 31N, Rge. 13E
Allen Cty., Indiana

49. MEETING: Rush Creek Preparative
SUPERIOR MEETINGS: Fall Creek M.M. until 1854/09/02
Maple Grove M.M. after 1854/09/02
Whitewater Q.M.
ESTABLISHED: Worship & Preparative 1846/09/05
LAID DOWN: By 1917/03/03
LOCATION 1: Friends Lane (C.R. 450S)
mi. N. of Lincolnville
Lagro Twp., Sec. 30, Twp. 27N, Rge. 8E
Wabash Cty., Indiana
DEEDS, ETC.: 1. William & Mary McKimmey to Jesse Halloway, Nathan
Casock(?) & Jesse K. James, Trustees of the Society of Friends; 1854/11/25;
D.B. D, p. 576.
2. [Reserving FBG] Jesse K. James, Jesse Halloway & John Halloway,
Trustees appointed by Rush Creek preparative meeting, to William Jackson;
1883/07/05; D.B. 37, p. 237.
LOCATION 2: Lincolnville Road (C.R. 500S)
Auditor's Map 86-A, Parcel 002-00110-00
Lagro Twp., Sec. 31, Twp. 27N, Rge. 8E
Wabash Cty., Indiana
DEEDS, ETC.: 4. Silas & Ellen R. Halloway to Jesse K. James, Jesse
Halloway & John Halloway, Trustees of the property of Rush Creek Preparative
Meeting; 1883/01/19; D.B. 36, p. 78.
5. J. Lincoln Pressler, Emma G. Halloway & M. Sherman Pressler,
Trustees of the Property of Rush Creek Preparative Meeting, to Bruce Brane;
1945/11/24; D.B. 151, pp. 581-582.

>From MONTHLY MEETINGS IN NORTH AMERICA: A QUAKER INDEX, FOURTH EDITION,
REVISED (with corrections through March 27, 1998) Copyright 1998, and
minor additions and format changes for the electronic version:

Monthly Meeting Name : FALL CREEK
State or Province : INDIANA County: MADISON
Location : PENDLETON 46064, 1794 W. S.R. 38, S.23, T.18N, R.7E
Latest Yearly Meeting : OHIO VALLEY
Other Affiliations : WHITEWATER Q.M.
Date Granted : 1839/09/07
Date of First Meeting : 1839/11/14
Current Status : ACTIVE
Where Records Kept : WILMINGTON mf LDS 364701, 908358, 1630340. IND.
H.S. F487
Records Known Extant : OVYM W.C. ARCHIVES: MIN 1888-1960, WOMEN MIN
1839-1895, BIRTHS, DEATHS & MEMB 1839-1896, REMOVALS & MEMB 1870-1916, MEMB,
MARRIAGES 1840-1964, M&E 1892-1921
Comments : PM 1838 FROM MILFORD MM. PMs: DUCK CREEK 1835/01/07-1915
CA. RUSH CREEK 1846/09/05-1854/09/02. SEE HEISS, ABSTRACTS OF THE RECORDS OF
FRIENDS IN INDIANA {"ENCYC AMER QUAKER GENEAL Vol VII"}, Part Four, pp.
121-151.

Monthly Meeting Name : MAPLE GROVE
State or Province : INDIANA County: ALLEN
Location : FT. WAYNE 46825, 6557 N. CLINTON
Latest Yearly Meeting : OHIO VALLEY
Other Affiliations : WHITEWATER Q.M.
Date Granted : 1854/09/02
Date of First Meeting : 1854/11/11
Current Status : ACTIVE
Where Records Kept : WILMINGTON COLLEGE mf LDS 371055
Records Known Extant : OVYM W.C. ARCHIVES: MIN 1867-1927, WOMEN MIN
1877-1881, BIRTHS, DEATHS & MEMB 1855-1923, MEMB 1920, PM 1887-1914, FIRST
DAY SCHOOL 1900-1903
Comments : MAPLE GROVE PM 1847/12/04-192? FROM WHITEWATER MM. [NW OF
HUNTINGTON, HUNTINGTON CTY.] RUSH CREEK PM UNTIL 1917/03/03 FROM FALL CREEK
MM. [SE OF WABASH, WABASH CTY.] SEE HEISS, ABSTRACTS OF THE RECORDS OF
FRIENDS IN INDIANA {"ENCYC AMER QUAKER GENEAL Vol VII"}, Part Three, pp.
539-553.

Tom Hill
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From: Thomas Hamm
To: hill; ''
Subject: Re: Search = Friends Church- Wabash
Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 11:59AM

>I have been doing a genealogy search on my family - OWEN. I have been able
to
>locate a cemetery in Lincolnville - Wabash Co., IN where many family
members
>are buried - it is called the FRIENDS-OWEN Cemetery. There was a Friends
>Church in Lincolnville - I'm trying to find out info on the Church. I went
>to the area last fall (I live in Florida) - no one seems to know what
became
>of the Church. I believe several family members were with the Church -
>possibly land was given by grandfather who was not Quaker - Can you lead me
>in any direction on how to get info on the Church, what happened to it,
>members, etc- anything?? Thank-you.
>Terri Stalker -

This was the Rush Creek Friends Meeting. Along with Maple Grove Meeting in
Huntington County, it made up Maple Grove Monthly Meeting. These were
Hicksite Friends. Abstracts of its records appear in volume III of Willard
Heiss's ABSTRACTS OF THE RECORDS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN INDIANA.
Heiss says that Rush Creek was laid down about 1900.

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