Cedar Creek Friends and Its People
Cedar Creek Friends is located in Salem
Township, Henry County, Iowa
© copyright 2007 by Jean
Hallowell Leeper
All Rights
Reserved
Update: March 17, 2008
Copies have been donated to:
Hege Library, Guilford College in Greensboro, N. C.
William Penn
University in Oskaloosa, Iowa
College Avenue Friends
in Oskaloosa, Iowa
Mount Pleasant Public
Library, Mount Pleasant, Iowa
and the Iowa Yearly Meeting Office in Oskaloosa, Iowa
The Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA and the Lilly Library at Earlham College
in Richmond, Indiana, also have copies.
I hope soon to place books in the:
The State
Historical Library in Des Moines, Iowa
The State Genealogical
Library in Des Moines, Iowa
and the Friends
University Library in Wichita, KS.
I worked for
the past six years gathering material for this book and compiling
this book. Cedar Creek Friends was the meeting of my childhood and
young adulthood. Many of my ancestors were founding fathers. Below is
the introduction and the table of contents for the book showing what
I have included.
For a description of what is on the CD go to end of
this web page.
Index to Cedar Creek Friends And Its People
[Compiled by Sabron (Reynolds) Newton 9/2007]
You may download a copy but give her credit
INTRODUCTION
"I
make no claim as to literary ability, but if some of ... ," wrote
Anna Frazer Winslow in 1910. This is how I feel, I am no literary
scholar but if I can leave something behind that will benefit others,
I will do my best Lord willing.
Cedar
Creek Monthly Meetings story is very interesting and important to
me. First, it was the church of my childhood and early adult
years. Second, several of my ancestors were important in the
development of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting. They had to work
many years trying to get Salem to set them free but finally they
became a monthly meeting in the fall of 1855, even thought they first
began holding documented meeting in their homes in January 1841. I am
sure they were already meeting in their homes long before Salem gave
them preparative meeting status and it was recorded.
I
began collecting and typing information on Cedar Creek in the spring
of 2000. I have a large database of the early families and
trace most of them back to the 1680s or early 1700s. I have
included family stories of the families, plus pictures. I
also made a CD with more data on some of the ancestors and/or
descendants with the book. When I was typing the second membership
list I found that I had all but two or three of the families in my
database. Oh how they intertwine together.
You
will find included the story of the church and the beginning of the
pastoral system as well as information and pictures pertaining to the
ministers who served. Included are complete membership listings
and some deaths. Also, all available cemetery burials information
collected, from a variety of primary sources, up to date through Feb
2007. Many original documents are included or portions
thereof.
The
names of my pioneer Cedar Creek ancestors are: William, Matthew and
William D. Trueblood, Enos Mendenhall and Charles Maxwell. The
Zachariah Hodson family was in the area but died soon after their
arrival.
In
researching I discovered that Quaker families were a lot the same as
families are today. There were adults and children who did things
that their parents or elders would not have liked like drinking or
swearing and there were the parents and children that took their
faith very seriously. There were even some families where it seemed
that they did not care if they broke the rules established by the
Society of Friends. Some would leave, some would be disowned and
others would say they were sorry (present an offering - letter of
apology) and stay in the meeting. Were the Quaker's too strict? Some
thought so, but I am not sure that they were. Some families got
in the habit of marrying when they pleased and then the family member
told the meeting they were sorry. I think not being willing to wait
the time period it took for the meeting to check to see if you were
cleared to marry and marrying someone not a member and who did not
choose to join were probably the most commonly broken rules. In the
beginning the Society of Friends were responsible for the marriages
of the people in their meeting. Here in Iowa, Quaker marriages were
not recorded in the courthouse until about fifteen years after the
Quakers came to Iowa, thus the need to check and see if the person
could be married. I believe their method of checking to see if
nothing stood in the way of marrying, which often took three months
or so, was based on the reading and posting of Banns for three
successive Sundays, in England telling that the couple planned to
marry and if anyone knew of a reason they should not marry to let the
parish know.
Out
of respect for their deceased spouses, Quaker men or women were not
allowed to marry within one year of the death of the spouse. Also,
would the meeting want to marry someone who was already married, thus
the need to check to see if they could marry. Letters might
need to be written to the meeting they had moved from to check into
their past, thus the time factor.
I
am glad I grew up in a family where a deep faith in God, being honest
and following the rules was demonstrated and taught. My mother's
family took their faith and church attendance very seriously and we
were a teetotaler family.
Enjoy
your time reading and researching your families with this
book.
Jean
(Hallowell) Leeper
Table of
Contents
Chapter One
Introduction To Cedar Creek Meeting and Its
People
Chapter
Two Move From Open Worship to the Pastoral
System
Chapter
Three More on Each of Our Pastors (Short biography on
each pastor most with picture.)
Chapter
Four Move to Adult and Children Sunday
School
Chapter
Five Cedar Creek Membership 1855 page 1 to
42
Chapter
Six Cedar Creek Membership Rewrite Page 43 to
86
Chapter Seven
Cedar Creek Membership 1985 to 1904
Chapter Eight
Cedar Creek Membership 1904 to 1921
Chapter
Nine Cedar Creek Membership 1922 to 1949
Chapter
Ten Cedar Creek Membership 1950 to
1969
Chapter
Eleven Cedar Creek From 1970 to The Present
Chapter Twelve Cedar
Creek Friends Cemetery History
Chapter Thirteen Cedar
Creek Friends Cemetery Burials
(From church
records and burial
records.)
Chapter Thirteen Early
Families - biographies/family stories - Those that are
included.
Jacob
Beals
Jacob and
Benjamin Brown and their families
Abigail
Brown Hallowell
Rachel
Brown Mendenhall
John M.
Corsbie/Crosbie
Francis
Henry Frazier
Alson G.
Frazer
Rebecca
Hockett Gregory, wife of Omar
Gregory
Stephen
Hockett Family Arrives In Henry
County
William
Hockett and sons Nathan, Thomas and Amos
Alvin,
son of Jehu Hockett and wagon train to Kansas
John A.
Hinshaw and daughter Sarah Hinshaw Lupton
Descendants
of William Jay
Rueben
Joy and daughter Rachel Joy Fisher
Mills
Rueben
Lamm
Jesse
Stubbs Lamm
Enos
Mendenhall and his daughter
Pamela
Jacob
Maxwell and his son Charles Maxwell,
Charles
Maxwell's sons Enos and Josiah, daughters Lydia and
Hannah
John
Mills
William
Osborn
Thomas
Saint and son William
William,
Matthew and William D. Trueblood
Dorson
Trueblood and his son Henry
Phineas
Trueblood
Matthew Winslow
Anna
Frazier Winslow
Appendix (Misc.
documents and stories) Listing of some of those included
below.
Oakridge Story
by Nellie Trueblood
William Draper
Trueblood and Lydia Maxwell marriage document
Biographical
Data of William D
Trueblood
Marriage of
Hannah Maxwell to Ira
Hunt
Marriage of
Charles Maxwell to Pamela
Mendenhall
1965 summary of
members
Sunday School
1911
Sunday School
1924
Sunday School
1925
Sunday School
1937
Sunday School
1939
Sunday School
1949
Sunday School
1956
Oregon Wagon
Train of 1847 (Nathan and Thomas Hockett families from Cedar
Creek)
CD
contains
More on some families -
Barrett, Beals,
Cooper, Crosbie, Hockett, Hodson, Jacob/Benj. Brown, Jay, Lamm,
Mills, Gregory,Bogue, Saint, and Buster.
Pictures of cemetery stones
pre 1900 - Most old
stones and some after 1900 included, over 200 stone pictures, ca 1/3
of the total stones.
Charter members Salem
meeting - Many of
the early Cedar Creek people were charter members at
Salem.
Anti-Slavery Meeting Salem,
Iowa - a document
in PDF format that I did showing the people who left the Salem
Meeting ca 1843-1847 and started the separatist meeting or
abolitionist meeting. Some of them had ties to Cedar Creek.
Maple Grove #6-
the story of
the school with pictures
PDF indexed file of book -
the complete book
in PDF format. type in a name and you can see every page that name
appears on
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