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From: marsha moses <>
Subject: [Q-R] Omie Wise
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:47:28 -0400


I just finished reading an article in the North Carolina Friends
Historical Society's June 2009 Newsletter. The article is written by
Jayant Joshi and is named Poor Naomi Wise. It is said to be part 1 of
2 parts.

Some of the Quaker families that are named in the story are Elliott
(Benjamin Elliot is named as an employer of the murderer). The
murderer is Jonathan Lewis who is said to live near Polecat Creek in
Randolph county---that is where my Quaker Elliott family lived from
the mid 1700's until they moved to TN, Ohio, and Indiana with the mass
migration of the Quaker families out of the south in the first decade
of the 1800's. Naomi is said to have been an orphan living with the
Quaker family of William and Mary Adams. Another version has Naomi
living with the Cox family. Richard and Abigail Beeson are said to
have written a letter to their children in 1809 that references the
event. My 5-gr-grandfather, Abraham Elliott had a sister-in-law named
Betty Beeson who married his brother Jacob Elliot. My notes tell me
that Hinshaw shows this couple having moved from Lost Creek MM in TN
to West Branch MM in Miami County, Ohio just prior to the
murder....don't know just which Beeson's recieved the letter....but if
they were somewhere in Ohio, I bet that Betty and Jacob heard about
the terrible event from family and friends.

Just thought that I would send along a heads up in case anyone else is
interested in the story. marsha moses

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