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From: marsha moses <>
Subject: [Q-R] Lost Creek Meeting, Jefferson Co., TN
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:56:11 -0400
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There were several Elliott families at Lost Creek in the same time frame as the Haworth family. The Elliott families moved to Wayne County, Indiana from Lost Creek MM---they were "of Grassy Valley". These families were the children of Jacob and Elizabeth Elliott who had moved their own family from the Old Chester County area of Pa to the part of Rowen that later became Guilford and then became Randolph County, NC. My direct ancestor was Abraham Elliott. The following are his siblings who I believe to have been at Lost Creek:

Elizabeth had married Hugh Maxwell

Israel married Welmet Lamb (1807, Israel Elliott and family of Grassy Valley gct West Branch MM Ohio)

Jacob married Betty Beeson (1807 Jacob Elliott and family of Grassey Valley gct West Branch MM)

I don't have documentation in my data base for the other siblings and don't have time to look it up in Hinshaw.....there is an Abraham Elliott who is dis for excessive drinking when the Elliott group requests a move to Ohio/Indiana, but there is some indication that it may have been Israel's son, Abraham, rather than my Abraham who is brother to Israel. I don't know for sure yet....but I am relatively sure that MY Abraham was indeed in Grassy Valley with the others as his daughter, Rachel, shows her birth to have been in TN in both the 1850 and 1860 census. She was born in 1802.

I would be interested in reading where the other Lost Creek MM members were living before they moved to Lost Creek. My Elliott family moved up into Montgomery County, Virginia during the Revolution for safety as they were trying to sit out the war because of their religious beliefs. Did they move to Lost Creek with Virginia Quaker families? North Carolina Quaker families? I have never found a marriage record for Abraham and I don't know if he met his bride in NC, Va, or perhaps even TN. I would be very interested in reading more about the Lost Creek MM if someone can point me in the right direction to find materials.

You know, Marilyn, I may visit the area this summer as well. When do you think that you will be there? marsha moses


On May 22, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Tom Hill for MMNA wrote:

> My MMNA record gives current and original location and GPS coordinates of
> Lost Creek MM. Either way, Google can produce a map. As I recall, Lost
> Creek is just west of U.S. 11E about an hour east of Knoxville on Interstate
> 40.
>
> https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/meeting_view?anID=2084
>
> Tom Hill
>
> ...... His son Jonathan Haworth was born in 1798, two or three
> years before they left Lost Creek Meeting area to go to SW Ohio
> Much appreciated,
> Marilyn Winton Totten
>


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