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Subject: Re: Morton/Harader (BLACKBURN)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:35:46 EST

In a message dated 12/28/98 21:08:31 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Subj: Morton/Harader (Feich/Dellenbach)
Date:12/28/98 21:08:31 PM Eastern Standard Time
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In the most recent issue of BLACKBURN BEGINNINGS (Dec. 1998) I was surprised
to find a Brethren family featured, because all my husband's Blackburns were
Quaker. These folks aren't mine, but I thought somebody might be looking for
them:

"John D. Morton and Mary Harader," by Myron Henderson says that the senior
Mortons (BLACKBURN descendants) were indeed Quaker, but on 30 Nov 1804
William
Morton was disowned for marrying out of unity. John D. Morton, Williams'
fifth child, married Mary "Polly" Harader, "third daughter of John Harader II
and Mariah (Marie) Fike, daughter of John Fike Sr and Mary Barbara
Dellenbach,
Amish who had become devout German Baptists..." The grandfather was
Christian Feick Sr who lived in Berks Co. PA.

Henderson's article follows the Feicks into the Brothersvalley area of
Somerset County and outlines where their children went, including the village
of Mt. Etna IA. "It was here in John and Polly Morton's new barn that the
first Dunker love feast was held in southwest Iowa, and it was in the mill
pond that the Dunker pioneers performed their baptisms...Back of Mansfield's
store was kept a large iron kettle, used by the Dunkers when they held their
'soup meetings' at Morton's barn..."

{What, pray tell, might a soup meeting be? Have I been missing out on a
grand old tradition?)

"...A true pioneer of the Great American Western Movement, John D. Morton had
migrated from his native Preston County, VA to Darke Co. OH to Grand Co IN,
to
Jefferson and Adams counties, IA, and then to Barry Co. MO, where he died of
pneumonia, at almost 77 years of age, on 1 Apr. 1892."

Jan T

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Jan,

My true nephew, Steve Clopper, is just beginning to research his mother's
BLACKBURN side. (I started him off with my PAF.bak, so he begins with my 20k+
Mennonite-Brethren database, surnames at the end)

Would you mind giving him a start on BLACKBURN by identifying how he might
obtain "the most recent issue of BLACKBURN BEGINNINGS (Dec. 1998)"?

I'm sure that he would appreciate anything else that you might consider
helpful. He comes from CumberlandCoPa, just north of Carlisle and those
BLACKBURNs are from New Berlin, AdamsCoPa. He's under the impression that his
are English.

In your note you continue:>>>

>>>"I was surprised to find a Brethren family featured, because all my
husband's Blackburns were Quaker. These folks aren't mine, but I thought
somebody might be looking for them:">>>

I'm sure that he would also appreciate your comments explaining the above.

Thank you for your consideration,

Jack Clopper in Alexandria, VA

Surnames: ACKER, BAR, BEAR, BECHTEL, BRENNEMAN, BROUGH, BRUGH, BUYERS,
CLAPPER, CLOPPER, COOVER, COVER, DIERDORFF, ENGEL, FORRER, FUNK, GROFF, GROVE,
HERR, HESS, HOLLINGER, HOOVER, KENDIG, MELLINGER, MEYER, MYERS, MYLIN,
NICHODEMUS, OELLIG, RITTER, ROYER, SCHENK, SHANK, SHENK, SHEAFFER, SHELLY,
SIMON, SHUGHART, STONER, STEINER, TRIMMER, TROSTEL, WENGER, WIDDER, YEAGER.
(generally before 1850 - in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and Lancaster counties
PA & WashingtonCoMd; Eggiwil, Bern, SWZ & Ibersheim, Pfalz, Germany)

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