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From: K <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Omie Wise
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:45:42 -0700
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Regarding Omie Wise, I recognized the name right off from a college
classin American Ballad and Folk Song I took over 30 years ago from
Dr. William Koon. Dr. Koon had collected ballads and songs in the
Carolina's and other areas in the south during the 1960s, and he had
written our text for the class. Included in it was the Ballad of Omie
Wise. I remember it clearly as one of several murder ballads we
encountered. How interesting to hear of it all these years later in
the context of Quaker ancestry and history. Thank you Marsha.
-Kim


On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:01 AM, wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. Omie Wise (marsha moses)
> 2. Re: Omie Wise (Violet O. Guy)
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> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:47:28 -0400
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> 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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