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From: "KayLamb" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] John & Abigail Overman Pike
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:31:59 -0700
References: <25.19816f48.28a74ffe@cs.com>


Thank you for the information. Kay
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Subject: [Q-R] John & Abigail Overman Pike


> In a message dated 8/11/01 12:43:07 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> << Year ago I was at a cemetery and saw the stones of my husbands
ancestors
> John and Abigail Overman PIKE. His stone called him overseer and hers
said
> minister.
> Do you know where the cemetery is ? Do you know why they called them
that?
> >>
>
> The grave stone you saw for John & Abigail Overman Pike is at the cemetery
of
> the Cane Creek Meeting in Orange Co. (now Alamance Co) NC--though Abigail
is
> not actually buried there. Abigail who was a recorded Friends minister
was
> on a visit (of ministry) to Muddy Creek Meeting when she sickened and
died.
> She is buried there (no markings), though the death is recorded in minutes
of
> Deep River Monthly Meeting because Muddy Creek was part of Deep River
Monthly
> Meeting. John Pike is buried at Cane Creek, which was their home meeting
and
> the memorial stone--for both of them--was put up at a later date (exact
date
> I don't know) by descendants of theirs.
>
> John apparently had served as an Overseer of the Meeting. Elders &
Overseers
> were seasoned and experienced Friends who were appointed by the Meeting to
> watchover the spiritual as well as everyday life of the Meeting and its
> members.
>
> Joyce Overman Bowman
>
>
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