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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Omie Wise
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:14:14 -0400
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The story of Naomi Wise is told in the records of the North Carolina State Archives for those who wish to delve deeper.

The truth and the folk ballad are not entirely in align with one another.


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From: Violet O. Guy <>
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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Omie Wise




Marsha Moses:

Could you send your old buddy, here, a copy of this notice?
Somewhere & in some file, maybe on the floor, I have another family group
that made this move: Lost Creek. TN to Miami County. Ohio == my Moores,
with one of these Moores being Samuel Moore md. Alice Mendenhall, a Quaker.
My Moores were not Quakers, but some of them did hang around those Quaker
girls. Samuel Moore's nephew, Hiram Moore md. Elvira Mendenhall, who
became a disowned Quaker, and they lived in Iowa. His widow, Elvira, moved
with sons to join a nother son, my grandfather, James W. Moore's's family in
Oregon! I'll try to see what I find in FTM's Family Archives {Genealogical
Records): The Encylopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750- 1930.

Let me know, if you need my snail mail address in Maryland.

Violet Guy
08-l3-2009.


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Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:47 PM
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Subject: [Q-R] Omie Wise

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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