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XV
A Brief History of George McKay s
Family
April 29 1918.
Moses McKay
our
g ra nd fa th er son of A nd re w a nd
Jane Ridgeway McKay was born September the 17 1766 in
Frederick County; Va.; died January the 28
1828
in War
ren County Ohio. In Friends MeetingHome Crooked Run
Frederick County Va. March the 3 1793 he married Abi
gail Shinn daughter of George and Rachel
Wright
Shinn.
She w as
born
in Stafford County Va. May
th e
3 1776; died
July
the 28
1828
in Warren Cou nty Ohio. Grand fath er
McK ay s and grandmother s people were Quakers for ^
generations. They moved to Warren
County
Ohio in the/
spring of 1818 and in
1821
they united with the Methodist
Church at
Bethel
near Mount
Holly
Warren
County
Ohio where they now lie buried.
They
had thirteen chil
dren : on e died when he wa s o n ly a few years o ld ;th e others
al l lived to be g ro wn and m ar rie d an d t he m os t of them
had l ar ge fami lies. My f at her G eorge McK ay was born
March
th e
11 1800 in Frederick County
Va.;
this county/
was divided some years later and the
portion where he^
l ived is
now
Warren
C ou nt y. My m ot he r M ar y M.
Fe r
guson was born in Fauquier County Va. September the
2 1802. . Father a nd m ot he r were married on th e sixth of
February
1823
and
the following
spring they
came to
Wa r
ren County Ohio where grandfather.
McKay s
people were
then
Hying
they
remained there till
the
t hi rd day of August
when they moved to t he ir own home in Clinton Co unty
Ohio.
They
had ten children.
Father
w as v er y muc h op
posed to the Old SchoolBaptist doctrine but when he was
led to believe by per sona l e xpe ri enc e he unite d with t he
Mercer s
Ru n
Church wh ic h w as o ne
of
th e churches
of
th e
Miami
Association
an d
it was a great
pleasure
to
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him to attend the meetings of his
Church
and the
Asso
ciation.
He was
naturally
very lively; an full of life an4
animation; he had good health
never
khdwing what it
was to be sick till he was stricken with typhoid fever and
died on the tenth of
June
1850; age 50 years 2 months
29 days. His departure was a great bereavement tous all
but we tried to be reconciled to it as much as possible.
Mother became a Baptist in early life and was a member
of
Mercer s Ru n Church
when
father united there; she was
often afflicted during the latter years of her
life
but she
always attended
her meetings
when
she w as able. The
last
year
ofher
life she was
just as
well
as
usual
till her
last sickness which was of short duration; a few months
before her death she had the presentment that she
would
not live long andshe would often talk
about
it
and
niade
all
arrangements
for her
burial
and she also made
other
ar
rangements for
her
departure for she felt sure
it
would
be
fully manifested in the
Lord s
appointed time;
and
in the
early
-morning
of
September
the
25
1878 she
passed
away
from
th e
scenes of earth
it
w as one of
th e
darkest scenes
of my
life
but I could not wish her back in this world of
affliction
a n d
s o r r o w .
Moses McKay
my oldest brother was born
November
the 6 1823. He married Miss Rachel Faulkner November
the
16 1848
and diedOctober the 13 1862. SamuelF. was
bom Maythe 8 1825; he married Miss
Angeline
A. Moore
March the 17 1850; he united with the Baptists at Mercer s
Run Church in May 1870 and died December the 28 1894.
Sarah Mildred my oldest sister was born July the 2 1827
an d
d ie d N o ve m be r
th e
8 1849.
. Abigail J. was born April the 7 1829; she married Levi
D. Shambaugh November the 7 1855 and unitedwith the
Baptist Church at Mercer s
Run
in
May 1870;
shehad
good
health till February 1918 when she became afflicted and
gradually grew worse; on
Sunday
the
seventh
day of
April she was eighty-nine years old; that morning she
spoke
of its
being
her
birthday
and said it appeared
strange to her that she had been permitted to live so many
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years; aftterthat day she was not so well and in the after
n oo n o f th e nejct Sunday between three
an d
four o clock
her long and useful life closed and she passed over the river
of death; it was hard for me to give up my last f^i l y
ti^ ^
bu t I could n ot w is h h er b ac k;
she
h a d b e en a widow mafiy=
years and had outlived her generation and her long
joUrr
ney of mortal life was fully accomplished. We had s pe nt
many years of o ur lives t og eth er a nd h ad a g re at deal of
spiritual enjoyment; he r f uner al w as at t he hom e w here s he
went
to
live w he n s he
wa s first married 62
y ea rs a go l as t
fall an d we followed her to he r last resting
place
in th e
cemetery at Ne w
Burlington.
; Wh y do we m ourn depar ti ng Fri ends
Or s h a k e at d e a t h s a l a rm s ?
T is b u t
th e
voice that
Jesus sends
To
call
t h e m to
hi s
a r m s .
Tilghman was
bom
November the 7 1830 and married
Miss Sarah J. Medsker October the 31 1853. He united
with th e
Methodist Church at Lumberton in February 1861
w he re he r em ai ne d d ur in g t h e r es t of his l if e; he died on
the 6th of A pril
1904.
W il li am F. was b or n J an ua ry the
12 1833; he married
Miss Elizabeth
Peterson October th e
20 1856; he u ni te d w it h t he B ap ti st C hu rc h at Mercei^s
Ru n in December 1869
an d
died
May
th e 4 1887.
Alfred
was born Juhe the 29
1835
a nd married Miss Sarah L.
Myers November
th e
7 1861; he die d on the 19th day of
November
1909.
Mary M. was bo m September th e 27
1837; she married Joshua Oglesbee March
th e
11 1858;
she un it ed w it h t h e B ap ti st Church
at
Mercer s Ru n in
February 1 87 0; she o ften talk ed on the subject of religion
a nd had a
great deal of spiritual en jo ym ent; she d ied o n th e
2 6t h d ay
of May 1908;
sh e
m ad e a ll he r funeral arrange
m e nt s a b ou t t hr ee w ee ks before he r death a nd i n a bo ut a
week after that o ne ev en ing ab ou t six o clo ck she repeated
o ne of
her
favorite
hymns
all through.
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I i bve to
steal
aWhile
away
From every cumbering care.
And spend the hours ofsetting day
In humble grateful prayer.
I l ov e in s ol it ud e to shed
Th e penitential tear.
And all his promises to plead
Where none bu t Go d can hear.
I love to
think
on me rc ies p a st.
And future good implore.
And all my c ar es and Sorrows cast
O n h im w h om I adore.
I loveby faith to take a view
Of b rig hter scenes in h eaven;
The prospect doth my strength renew.
While here by tempests driven.^
Thus when life s toilsome day is o er.
May its departing ray
Be calm as this impressive hour
An d
lead to
endless day.
And two weeks after
that at
six o clock in the evening she
passed to the great
beyond.
It was a great bereavement
to us all but 1
could
not wish her back in this vain de
lusive world of sorrow and affliction. Lucinda E. McKay
was
born
September the
7
1840;
George
W.
was
born April
the 29 1844; he married Miss
Emma Daniel November
the
4
1868; they
had three
children two
died in infancy their
mother
died on the 19th of
February
1917. Georgey
theV^yA
only child living was married to Joseph
Keiter
Sep V
tember the 2 1917 and resides at the old homestead; her
father died December the 21
1917.
He united with the
Metho dist Chu rch at Lum berton in 18 93 ;h is fun eral was
on Sunday the 23rd at the old
homestead
where he had
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spent hjs entire
life
He had
good
health
when h
youiigand Was capable of g^eatendurance be becatiae afflic
ted in the latter part of the
wintei^
two years
Wnd
gradually grew worse til l he had no hope of ever being
any better and he had a great desire to die and jpass
away from this mortal life; it was hard to give hint up/
but
under
the
circumstances
we ^ew it
was
far better
for hi m to pass away from his tria ls and afflictions a nd
be at r es t a nd peace. We f ol lo we d him to
his
last rest
ing place in our family cemetery and saw his coffin
l ow er ed i n t he grave.
It
is h ar d for me to realize that
the
youngest one
of
ou r
family
ha s
passed
over th e river
of
death and that I am the onlyoneleft of myfather s
family
My brothers all died and left
widows
except George
but none of them are now living except Tilghman s
wife^
who will be 88 years old if she lives till the 7th day of
June. When I could first remember our family consisted
of father motherand ten children
some
of
them
werevery
lively and full of life and animation and we all l ov ed th e
alluring vanities of
the
world around
us ;
fathe r s and Mil
dred s death were a
great
bereavement to us all bu t mother
was constrained to believethat it was the Lord s appointed
time for them to pass away from mortal life and we all
tried to be
as
submissive to it as
possible
Father and j
mother gave us good advice
and
tried to teach us
no t
to be
influenced
by worldly
fashion
and
folly
which they were
v er y much opposed to but they never tried to teach us to
be religious knowing that they neither had the power or
wisdom to control the spiritual destiny of their children.
Therefore we had the privilege of enjoying worldly amuse
ments as
long
as we cared anything
about them
Ohio in]
its primitive state was
considered
a beautiful country the\
most of it being covered with gigantic forests which were
enchanting t o behol d a nd t he re w as
none
of it more beau-
tiful and
sacred
tous
than
the
valley
ofthe
Little^Miami
ajidJ
its tributaries. During my youthful days I
gazed
over its
magnificent scenes with the greatest enjoyment and ad
miration
But in the
course
of
years people
began to clear
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oft
some of the hills
an d th e
giant frees vrhich w^
alongp
the streams when
tbe^
bottom land;was first cleared
in th e early settlenient of.the country; therefore there ar e
no large trees left in this country now like the forest mon-
archs of former days an d a great deal of
the
former beauty
of t hi s c ou nt ry has been destroyed. P ai nt er s Run
an d
Anderson s Creek ra n
through our
father s farm
and
from
my first recollection my youngest sisterand I rambled along
th e banks of t hese pleasant str eams and t hr ough t he f low
er y fields
a nd w oo dl an d
of ou r father s plantation an d
w he n o ur
youngest
brother
became old enought he also ac
companied
usin our delightful
rambles
in the orchard the
meadow the deep tangled wildwood and every loved spot
which
our
infancy
knew;
t herefore we had a
great
deal of
worldly enjoyment during bu r childhood days. It is a
great
consolation to me
now
to
meditate
on th e joyful
days
that we
spent
in
an d around this
old
homstead an d
it
is hard for me to realize that my familyplaymates have
both
departed from
mortal
life.
I t
is
n o t d e at h to die.
To
leave t h is w e ar y
road.
A nd m id st t he
brotherhood on high
To be a t home
with
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A Brief
Sketch
of Our
Grandmother
Ferguson^s
History
Som e of my r el at ive s have r eq ue st ed me to write as
much of my grandmother Ferguson s history as I can re
member hearing he r tell. Her maiden name
was Sar ah
Mildred Garrison; he r ancestors were natives of Scotland;
they emigrated from that country
to
North Carolina
at an
early day, w he re they r em ai ne d a number of years and
then removed to Old Virginia, not far f rom Washington
Ci ty, w he re she w as born on the 25th day of Ma y, 1782.
Her
parent^ were Episcop alians; her m other d ied when
s he was
a c hi ld ,
and her godmother, Mrs. Warner Wash-
y. . ,
ington,whose husband was
a f ir st
cousin
of
President Wash-
ington, took
her
home
with her and
cared
for her a number
of y ea rs . They had no
children
of their own, a nd t he y
t rea ted her with th e greatest love and veneration
;
she had
a very happy disposition and enjoyed
her
surroundings
very much. And as long as
she
lived it was a great
pleas
ur e to he r to tell us how
fascinating
the years
were
to
he r
w hi ch s he s pe nt u nd er that hospitable roof.
They
enter
t ai ne d a great deal of com pany , old fashion ed d an cing was
a f av or ite a mu se me nt in those days, and no one e njo ye d
it any more t ha n she d id ; therefore she always t ho ug ht
innocent amusement good for young
people s
health
and a
great
advantage to them as long as they enjoyed it. Bu t \
she
despised horse
racing;
she said she n ev er attended
bu t
one race and thought if she ever got forgiveness for that
she would never go
to
another one. Grandmother
was
o ne of the most humane persons I was ever acquainted with,
nothing
would
set heragainst
people more
than
to see
them
a bus e, or n egl ec t the l ivi ng c re at ur es , whi ch the God of
heaven has given us. Mr. W as hi ng to n had q ui te a n um be r
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bf sei vant s, t herefore grandmother was not t aught t o la-
ibbr in household duties. Mrs.
Washington
Vas a veryfine
sewer, and she taught her to be very efficient in that line of
work. Gr an dm ot he r was a g re at talker and as long as she -
. lived,she enjoyed telling us how much they all appreciated
j^esident
Washington s
visits at
their
lovely and hospit
able home, and how sbciable and pleas ant t hey were w it h
all whom they met t here. On the 9th dayof January, 1800
grandmother was married to Samuel Ferguson, of Fauquier
C ou nt y, V ir gin ia , w he re she w en t to live in a s ho rt time
after her marriage. She was the mother of twelve chil-^
. dren. It was fashionable in those days for married people
to
attend
ba ll s a nd p ar ti es as lortg as t he y enjoyed t he m,
and g ran d mo ther said she still con tinu ed to be just as much
enamo red with those scenes of g ay ety as she ever was till
Rebekah, he r oldest
child,
was burned to
death,
when she
was bu t a few ye ar s old, whic h put an end to all of her ,
worldly
amusements,
and she was forcibly reminded of the
Vanity and uncertainty of all earthly things. It was a
g^eat
and sudden
change
with
her , and
s he s oo n f ou nd ou t
that
she was no t
only
a mourner in
regard
to he r
lost
child,
bu t that s he was also
a mourne r on
account of
her
unworth-
inesis
and
i mpe rf ec tion, w hi ch she was una ble to o ve r
come. So a ft er s he was fully convinced that she
would
never be anybet ter while she was clothed with mortal
flesh,
she
was constrained
to
uni te w it h t he Primitive Baptist
Chutch, which was a great consolation to her, through her
long journey of life. She had a great many t ri al s to en
counter,
but
sh e
di d
no t
incline
to b e
overcome
wi th t rouble
an y
more
than
she c ou ld p os si bl y help, h op in g that
al l
things w ou ld w or k together for good. My grandfather
was a sol di er in the war of 1^1 whichwas a great t ri al to
he r and
he r
little
children;
bu t
a ft er t he w ar w as o ve r
he
came homewithout being wounded. In the month of Feb-^
Tuary, 1823,
my mother, he r second
child,
was married
to
^ George McKay,
whose fathe r and
family
then
r es id ed i n
^Warren County Ohio where
they
came
to
the
follow
in g s pr in g. G ra nd fa th er F er gu so n s family expected to
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XIV
Seventy Seventh
Birthday
September 7 9 7
According to this date I first saw the light of this world
seventy-seven years ago today and I am meditating on the
great change
which
has
taken place
during those longand
wearisome years
for
there
are but
few
people
living
in
this neighborhood n ow wh o were here when I was first
g rown
There has
not
only beeii
a great
change
in
regard
to
the peopleof this country but there has also been a wonder
ful change in regard to the church.
Our parents were among the first settlers of this coun
try and from my first recollection the Baptists had a great
deal of spiritualenjoyment and the things that pertain to
the Kingdom of God was the first object of their affection.
Plain simple life was fully manifested by all Arminian
denominations
in
those
days as
well
as the Baptists who
were then distinguished for their orderly conduct and hos
pitality.
During those days
the
Baptists were privileged
to have ^a ^^eat deal of spiritual
sunshine
and the
small remnant who are still living remember those
days with fond recollection and they should not be
to o m uch discouraged because t he re h as bee n division
and strife among them since the falling away commenced.
For when the Lord s appointed time comes for the
two wit nesses to be overcome and slain by the beast
it will come to pass no earthly power can prevent it. The
Savior was
overcome
in the flesh and
crucified
by His
enemies. And while i niq ui ty shall abound the love of
many shall wa x
cold.
Nevertheless
when the
Lord
comes
He w il l find f ai th on the earth: for in the midst of all
the
division
and strife
among
the Baptists of
today
and the
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war
a nd convulsion in the world the people of God still
have their days of spiritual sunshine when they feel as
thou gh they lack no thing ; for b y faith they are carried
away to the scenes of a better land and they feelconfident
that
the God of heaven
and
earth
will
work
all things after
the
counsel of His own will and knows the end from the
beginning. ^Therefore they are permitted to have that
spi ri tual enj oyment which t he w or ld can nei ther g^ve nor
take away.
And
they can s in g that song which no ne ca n
sing bu t t he peopl e of God w ho were r edeemed fr om t he
earth
by their Lord and Savior. L. E. McKay-
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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
Monday,
March 26,
1984
BYMICHELEORZANO \
EnquirerReporter ^
CORWIN, Ohio It may look like any
farmhouse, worn and forlorn, but
more
than 100
years
ago
It
served as
a
beacon of
freedom
for
The home,
Just east
of
Waynesvllle on Ne^url-
infftoti Road was
builtin
1818
by
a
Quaker from
Vir-
g'^^CMoses Mc ay But the
house
has been empty
llnce the Army Corps of Engineers built Caesar
Creek Lakein the late
1970s. ^K,aTTc=
But
now
it has
new
owners. The
U.S.
General
services Administration sold the
month to-two Dayton area couples, Paul and Nancy
Purcell of Centerville
and
Jim
and
Peggy
Schidecker
of Dayton. The purchase price
was
51,055.
ACCORDING
TO records, the home was built by
22 freed
slaves
who traveled to Waynesvllle with
McK^ and
his
family.
They were
Prohably attracted
to Ohio
because
of its
place
In tJmJerground RaUroad
historv
says Denny Dalton,
curator of the Ohioana
CoSon at the Mary L Cook Library
in
Waynes-
^^^^^''Belng Quakers, itwas.customary to ^y up large
groups of slaves and then
set
them
free,
Dalton
said^
The
house was a
stop along
the underground)
rai
-
coad
because
the
McKays were
very
strong
support-
or^lSS? ?
brick
addition
was
huht
that
>included a kitchen
with
a false hee-rth ^hat could
be,
rolled backto reveal a room to
hide
escaping slaves.
The
Cincinnati
Enquirer/Fred Straub
Sale
Of
Historic Farmhouse
BeingQuakers, itwas customary to
buy
up
large groups of
sJaves
and
then set them free. The house wasa
stop along
the
underground)
railroad because theMcKays were
very
strong supporters of the
abolitionists.^^
Denny Dalton
In fact.
Hackney
himself lives on a
^ce
ofper-
sonal history
tied
to
the McKay
family. His home in
Wilmington
sitsnot far from the
site
of a
log
house
built
by
his
other
great-great-grandfather, Aaron
Hackney
IT
WAS
a very modern house. It
was
coniwcted
to the other part
of
the house by abreezeway, Hack
ney
saW
theorizing that as
the
family grew Aaron
built another
structure for privacy.
One
of
Moses
daughters latermarried a
son
of
Aaron Hackney.
I
have
a
notion
the
two
famiUes
knew
^ch
other inVirginia,
he
said,
adding the
McKa^ family
fiime
irom the_ShenahdoB.h
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o u u
THE MOSES
McKay
home/
built
In 8 8 willbe renovated byits
new owners. The home,
wlilch Is listed In
the NationalRegisterofHistoricPlaces,was a stoponthe underground railroad for escapingslaves.
BYMICHELEORZANO
^
Enquirer Reporter
^
CdRWIN, OhioItmay look like any abandoned
farmhouse, worn a^d forlorn, but
more than
100 .
years ago it served as a beacon of freedom for slaves.
The home. Just east of Waynesvllle on New Burl
ington Road,was built In 1818 by a Quaker from Vir
ginia, MosesMcKay.But the house has been empty
since
the Army Corps of Engineers built
Caesar
Creek Lake i n t he late
1970s.
But now
It
has
new owners. The
U.S.
General
Services Administration
sold
th e home by .
bid
last
month to-two
Dayton
area couples; Paul
an d Nancy
Purcell
of Centervllle
and J im
and Peggy
Schldecker
ofDaj^n. Thepurchasepricewas51,055.
ACCORDING TO
records, the home
was built by
22 freed
slaves
who traveled to Waynesvllle with
McKay
and his
family. They were probably attracted
to Ohio because of it s
place
in
Underground
Railroad
history, says Denny Dalton, curator of
the Ohioana
Collection at th e Mary L.
Cook
Library
in
Waynes
vll le .
BeingQuakers, it was customary to buyup large
groups of slavesand then setthem free, Dalton said.
The house was a s top along
th e (underground)
rail
road because th e
McKays
were
very
strohg support
e r s o f
the abolitionists.
In 1836 or 1837, a brick addition
was
built
that
included a
kitchen
with a
false
hearth that could be
rolled back to reveal a
room
to hide escaping slaves.
The
room
still
exits
today;
.
These people were
no t
Just.field hands. It s ^elL;
built and w6 designed, Daltdh .i^ld, although
Jbif
canfindno
record
of the builders hameis. y ..
Howard
Hackney of
Wilmingtony^at^Breat^:
grandson
ofMoses McKay,
said
hehasngo^stories
that the male slaves left the homestead phce the
building wasbuilt. But whether it was to -strike out
Oh their own as fred men or just beca\;/se they felt
their obligationwascomplete, is
nd^^wn,,..
.
^
I'VE HEARD^that
the
vroi^n^jrhd
camet/with
,
them stayed with the McKay
f%mily
until their
death, Hackneysaid. We know that
MbKay
came,
downthe OhioRiveron a flatboat and then worked
hiswayup to the Waynesville area.^'
Hackney said his relative iripyhave visited Ohio
before arid sowas able to givedirections to his family
and the
rest of
the
freed slaves who weremoving the
livestock overland. ^
He owned 6,000 to 7,000 acres at one time,
Hackney said,
adding
McKay
must
have
been
fairly
oldbythe timehe
moved
north. Onestory
goes,
that
he was almost removed from the Society of Friends
(Quakers) duringthe RevolutionaryWar because he
was seen by Friends out doing (military) drilling;
with boys
with
sticks. .
The non-violent religious group apparenUy tOok
the indiscretion under advisement bu t dldtriot ois-
miss the
boy.
Hackney said,who
guessed that
Moses
was born in the late 1750s. ^ : - v ^
\ Although
Hackneyx
said he has never had the-
time to researchhis family, he has kept his eyas and
fats
open
along the way to pick
up
tidbits,.of his
pistory.
a
eing Quakers^
it
was customary to
buy up largegroups of slaves
and
then set them
free.
The
house
was a
stop along the (underground)
railroad
because the
McKays were
very strong supporters of the
abolitionists,^^
Denny
Dalton
In
fact, Hackney himself
lives
on
a
piece
of
pe r
sonal history tied to the McKay family. His home in
Wilmington sits
no t far
from
the
site of a log house
built by
his
other
great-great-grandfather, Aaron
Hackney.
IT WAS a very
modern
house. It was connected
to
the other part
of
th e
house by a breezeway, Hack
ney said, theorizing that as
the
family grew, Aaron
built another
structure fo r privacy.
One
of Moses
daughters latermarried a son ofAaron Hackney.
have a notion
the
two families knew
each
other
in Virginia, he said,
adding
the McKay family
camefrom the Shenahdoaharea of
Virginia.
. AUhovigl^ only Visited the Waynesville
house once
in t tia
nnh ^7bs-,*tb:craf^hianship made
^ a lasting ipipression on him. He wofketi
house
in tbe
National
Register
of
Historic
Places
tx>
preserve the architectureand hisbory ofthe area.
These,people were highly skilled artisans. This
is one of
the
contributions
they
made
that hasn t
been as
well recognized,
Hackney
said.
But if
the
new ownersthe
Purcells
and
th e
Schideckers -haye theh way ,/lt?will-^be recognized
and preserved as a link in the historicalchain.They
first saw th e house a few years agowhile on a fishing
trip,
Paul
Purcell said.
There s a good chance
that Jim
will move there.
,We both reallylikeJt but I vegotsixkids and they all
goto schoolhere in Centervllle, Purcell said, adding
theyare in the processof obtaining loans and insur
ance. We isaw a picture of it t aken in 1910, it was
white with
green
trim.
HESAID
they have
90
days
to
pay
th e
balance
on
the house, which sits on five acres
and
has five
out
buildings, but estimates it will be longer
than
that
before i t is
renovated.
We ll,take.our time,
it
will probably take
about
two years, he said. We always wondered why the
state never
fixed
i t up
and
rented it.
Purcell
said they have been gett ing telephone
calls from other people who have restored homes in
.theOregon District In Dayton offering
their
advice.
It s a charming old place, he said,
adding the
i
house is
surrounded
on
three
sWes by
Caesar
Creek i
park. I t s only a inile
from
th e lake.
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Mary
L Cook P u bl i c L ib ra ry
Ohioana
R o o m
Vertical
File
McKay G n e a l o g y / t r a n s c r i b e d from
o r i g i n a l fa m ily p ap er s
5 2 7 8 7
MCKAY
Andrew McKay
born
1 7 2 8 . Jane Ridgeway born
1 7 3 1 .
Andrew and J a n e
w e re m a r r i e d a b o u t
1 7 5 5 .
Andrew
McKay
d i e d a b o u t 1804 i n
F r e d e r i c k
C o u n t y
V i r g i n i a . J a n e
Ridgeway McKay d i e d
O c t o b e r
1806 n e a r
W a y n e s v i ll e
O hi o .
Moses
McKay
son o f Andrew and J a n e Ridgeway McKay born S e p t . 1 7
1 7 6 6 .
M a r r i e d
to A b i g a i l
Sh i nn
March 3 793
i n F r e d e r i c k
C o u n t y
V i r g i n i a ; d ie d Ja nu ary 28
1 8 2 8 / A b i g a i l
Shinn McKay born
May 3
1 7 7 6 ; d i e d J u l y 2 8
1 8 2 8 .
L i s t
o f
th e B i r t h s
and
D ea t hs
o f
th e c h i l d r e n g r a n d c h i l d r e n g r e a t
g r a n d c h i l d r e n and
g r e a t g r e a t g r a n d c h i l d re n o f Moses and A b i g a i l
McKay:
Children G Children G G r a n d .C G G G ra n d . Deaths
Rachel
7
1 5
3
2
4
Robert
1 0
1 6
7
Sarah 1 0
2 8
2
4 9
G e o r g e
1 0
3 2
1 8
2
Francis
1
1 5
3 4
2
M a r g a r e t
1 0
2 4
5
Jonas
V i r g i n i a
Mariah
8
1 3
Jonas T . 9
1 1
Levi D .
1 0
1 4
2
Jacob F .
2
M ary E .
1
1 1
3
M ary E . McKay
married
H a c k n e y .
Jonas Tilden
McKay w as
b o r n
May
1 0
1 8 1 3 ;
d i e d
T u e s d a y D e c .
1 1
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l/icKays
The fo llow ing ta ke n
from
a
book
McKay, t i t led Twentieth
Century
te r
15,
dated April
29,1918...
writt n
Medita t ion .
BRIEF HISTCKf OF
CtSOHCtE
MGKAT'S
FAMILY
by Lucinda E.
Page 90, Chap-
Moses
McKay,
our grandfather^ .son of
Andrew
and Jane
Ridgeway
McKay,
was born September 17,1?66, in Frederick Coun
ty, Va.;
died
January 28,1828, in rrenCounty,
Friends Meeting Home (House?),
Crooked
Run, Frederick Ooun y
Va., March 3,1793,
be
married. Abigail Shiiin,. dau^te r
and
Rachel
Wrifrht
Shinn.
She was
born in Stafford County, Va.,
Mav
3 1776: die'd July 28,1828, in
Ttavran
County, Ohio.
Grand
father McKay's and grandmother's people were Ciuakers
for
gener
ations. They moved to ^rren
County,
Ohio,
in the spring of
I8l8
and
in 1821 they united with the Methodist Church at^et
el near Mount Holly, Warren
County,
Ohio, where they
now lie
buried.
They had
thirteen children:
one
d^fid
when he
was
only
a few years old; the others
all
lived to
be gro'.vn and
mailed
and most
of
them had
large families. My father, George
McKay,
born
March 11,
1800 in Frederick County,
Va; this
ppunty
divided some years later and the portion where he lived is
* rren
County.
My
mother,
Mary M..
Ferguson, vvaa born in
Fauquier County, Va., September 2, 1802 ^
were married on the 6th of February,_ 1823, and following spring
they came
to
' rren County, Ohio, where
oeoDle
were
then
living; they
remained
there
t i l l
d?v of August
when they moved
to
their o'wn home in Clinton
County,
Ohio.
They had ten children. Father
was very
much op-
oosed to the
Old
School Baptist
doctrine,
but when ho was led
to
believe
bv personal experience
he
united
with the
kercer
s
Run ^hurch, which was
one
of the churches of the
tion and
it
was s ereat pleasure to
him
to at (.end the meeti.i....
of is ?h.;ch na
the Assooi-.tion.
He
was
naturally
very
live
ly and full of
life,
and animation; he had good health, never
knowing
what
it
was
to
he
sick
till he
was stricken
typh
oid fever,
and
died
on tie tenth
of June,
I85O, ae
50
2 m'^nths 2 davs. His departure was a
great
bereavement
an, but
W hied to
be Reconciled to it
as
n uch_as
pcssible
itother became a
Baptist
in early life, and was a .
cer's ain Church when father united there; she was often affl.ct
ed during
the latter years
of
her life, but
she always
attend
ed
'-er
meetincTs
when
she
was
able.
The
last
year of her
li
the wis lust 5s well as usual,
till her
last sickness, which
was of short duration; a few months before her death, she had
the presentment
that
she would not
live
long,
en
talk
about i t and made a l l
arrangements
she
also
made other
arrangements for
her x a ar^m
sure it would be fully manifested
in
the ^rd ^ '
and in the aarly morning of September 25,1878, f
Rom
the
scenes
of
eart.h; it
was
one of ^^e darkest scenes of
my life,
but
I
could
not wish her back in this
world of
t ion and sorrow.
w s
w s
now
and she would
o f t -
fo r
he r bu r i a l
and
deoar ture .
fo r
she
f e l t
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Two;
couples ha^=
bought;
a histwi^ ,
farmhouse
once
used
runaway slaves
and
hoi^
bish
It'and preserve
Itas|lr6minde8
of its fomjer
use.
| ^ '1^
Paiil
and
Nancy PurcllI
Ibf
(feh^
terville
and. Jim and P ' '
deckerof Day^ bough
doned farmhouser bulltll
from
the
U.S. Gener^
Administration
for 51,
The house just east
ville
has
been
empty
sihl,^^
Army
Corps of
Engineerli'^^uiTt
Caesar Creek Lake in the late
1970s.
According
to records, the house
was built by
Moses
McKay, a
Quaker, and 22 freed slaves, said
pennyVDalton, curator of the
Ohioana Collection at
the Mary L.
Cook
Library in Waynesville.
Being Quakers, it was
custom'*-
ary to buyup largegroups ofalaves
and then set them
fr^ Dalton
said. The house waa^ stop
atoiil
the
{Undergroundj'Railroatf
bcause
the M^^a^^were,,;^|ry stiibng
suppo ' of th0/nt|utiei^:^^
IaT836 oit,riTOi':d^^
was buim^apnclud^ kitchen
he ,
rolled back to' teveht ?
hiding escaped
slaves. The room
still ekists.
; These i^ople Were not just field
haflds. J|j 'weU'WUt and wellde-
signed,
Daltoii'Said^^
'
The couples saw thb 'fSrmhouse
on a fishing trip a few years ago,
Purcell said.
They
plan to fix it up
and
might use
it
as,
a
residence..
RepovaUod^pjE:
the fiye-acre es
tate, inciuiUi^'tbn faritthbuse and
five
dulbuilaings.
Will
probably
take about two years, Purcell said.
:
5Vn^l,
take bur time, hS said.
r fl ie U.S.
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PUBIiC
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WAYNESVILLE, OfflO 45068
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College Executive Hbrerina envision the McKay house being converted
into
a.n
interpretive library for the Caesar's Creek Valley, .-.s we see it the library, v ;ich
would have a live-in librarian, would house historical records, genealogy, infarm-^tion
log
and
Auaker architecture etc.,
folka.rt and
crafts native to
tiie
area,
recT^eation,
p r e - h i s t o r y
snd
so
on .
ba s i s .
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WAYNESVILLE. OHIO
45068
A
meetir^
with
Caesar s
Creek
Tioneer tillage. Inc.
in
.''ovenher drpw
the
faYor
of
i t s
off ic ia l s
and
mecihe-ship, h ioneer V i ll age
authorised
the idea
and
wrote to
the
U.S.
.-.rny Corps of i'^ngineers for the f ina l authorisation of the
Idea since
v/ha
ever individual or .oroup takes over
th e preservation
of t)ie i- cKa.y house must
lease
i
from Fioneer
ViiiH.ge
who wil l lease i t fron
the
Corps.
A figure of 25,000.00 biS been tossed around as initial funrin^^
for
rennovfiting the
KcKay
houses
heating
system,
electr ical
network ond plumbing.
Tlds is
w'here
yor.
'-nd
L.S.C.A,
funds come in . I
need
to know
i f
you can help
us
throsAgh an 1.2,C,A. -ro^T
grant
since
th is project enta i l s th e establishment
of o liur -.ry.
I
don t believe
that
a progrpjn
of this kind or nagnitnde Ins ever been
undert,A-en
in
Ohio or any.v'here else, flease d on t confuse our l ibrary ide: with public l ibrary
'^e
a ren t
trying to
establ ish
another
nubile
l ibrary.
V e
hope
to
found a
l ibrary
th
would historicsl ly and cu l tu ra lly in te rpre t the story of the entire
Caesar s
Greek
I ro jec t .
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X IV
Seventy-Seventh
Birthday
September 7 1917
According to this date I first saw the
light of
this world
seventy-seven
yep
ago
today and
I
am meditating
on the
great change which has taken place during those long and
winsome years
for
there are but few
people
living in
this neighborhood
now who
were here
when I
was first
g r own
^ There
has
not 6nly
been
a
great change
in regard
to
fte
people
of
this country
but
there
has also
been
a
wonder
ful change in regard to the church
^ Our ^rents
we^e
among
the
first settlers of
this
coun
and from
my first recollection the
Baptists had a
great
spiritual
enbyment and the things that pertain to
toeKingdom of
God
was the
first object
of their affection.
Plain simple life
was
fully
manifested by all Arminian
denominations
in
those days as
well
as the Baptists
who
were
then distinguished
for their
orderly
conduct and
hos
pitality.
During
those
days
the Baptists
were privileged
to
have^a^eat p i of spiritual sunshine and the
pll
repant who
are
still
living remember those
days with fond recollection and they should not be
too much
discouraged because
there
has been division
d stnfe among them since the
falling
away commenced.
For
when
the
Lord s appointed
time
comes for the
po
witnesses to j overcome and
slain
by
the
beast
it
will come
to pass no
earthly
power can prevent
it.
The
Savior was overcome in
the
flesh and crucified
by
His
enemies.
And
while
iniquity
shall
abound the
love
of
many shall
wax cold;
Nevertheless
when
the Lord comes
He will find faith on the earth
:
for in the midst of all the
division
and
strife apiong the Baptists of today and the
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war and convulsion in the world the people of God st il l
have their days of spiri tual sunshine when
they
feel as
though they lack
nothing
for by faith they are carried
away
to the scenes of a
better
land
and
they feel confident
that
the God of heaven and ear th
will work
all
things after
the counsel
of
His own will
and knows th e end
from th e
beginning ^ Therefore they are permitted to have that
spiri tual enjoyment which the world can neither give nor
take away And they can sing that song which none can
sing but
the people of God who
were
redeemed from the
earth by their Lord and Savior L E McKay
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XV
A Brief History
George
McKay s
Family
pril 29. 1918.
Moses McKay our g ra nd fa th er son of An dr ew and
Jane Ridgeway McKay was born September the 17, 17 56, in
Frederick County Va.; died January the 28
1828.
in W ar
ren County Ohio. In Friends Meeting Home Crooked Run
Frederick County Va. March the 3 1793 he married Abi
gail Shinn, daughter of
George
and Rachel Wright Shinn.
She was born in Stafford County Va. May the 3 1776; died
J uly the 28 1828, in Warren County Ohio. Grandfather
McKay s and grandmother s people were Quakers for
generations. They moved to Warren County Ohio in the-
spring of 1818, and in 1821 they united with the Methodist
Church
at Bethel, near
Mount Holly,
Warren
County,
Ohio where they now lie buried. They had thirteen chil
dren: one died when he was only a fewyears old ; the others
all lived to be grown and married and the most of them
had large families. My father George
McKay,
was born
March
the
11, 1800,
in Frederick
County,
Va.; this county
was divided some years later and the portion where he
lived is
now
Warren County. My mother Mary M. Fer
guson was born in Fauquier County Va. September the
2 1802. ather
and
mother were married on
the
s ixth of
February 1823, and the following springthey
came
to War
ren County, Ohio, where grandfather McKay s people were
then living, they remained there till the third day of August
when
they
moved
to their
own
home in
Clinton County,
Ohio.
They
had
ten
children.
Father
was very much
op
pos ed to the Old School B apti st doctrine but when he was
led to believe by personal experience he united with the
Mercer s Run Church which was one of the churches of
the
Miami Association,
and it was a great pleasure to
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him to attend the meetings of his Church and the Asso
ciation. He was naturally very
lively
and
full
of life and
animation; he had good health never knowing what it
wa.s
to be sick till he was s tri cken with typhoid fever and
died on the t en th of Ju ne 1850; age: 50 years 2 mo nths
29 days. His departure was a g re at bereavement to us all
but we tried to be reconciled to it as much as possible.
Motiier became a Baptist in early life and was a member
of Mer cer s Run C hu rc h when f at her u ni ted
there;
she was
often afflicted d uri ng the l at ter years of her life
but
she
a lw ays a tt ende d
her
m eet in gs when she was able. The
last year of her life she was
just
as well as usual till her
last
sickness
which was
of short duration; a
few
months
before her death she had the pre se ntme nt
that
she would
not live long and she wou ld o ft en t al k about it and made
all arrangements for
her
burial
and she
also
made other
ar
rangements for
he r
departure for
she
felt
sure
it wou ld be
fully manifested in the Lord s appointed t ime ; and in the
early morning of September the 25 178 she passed away
from
the
s ce ne s of earth it was one of the darkest scenes
of my life bu t I
could no t
wish
he r
back in thi s wor ld of
affliction a nd s or row
Moses McKay my oldest brother was born November
the 6 1823. He married Miss Rachel Faulkner November
the 16 1848
and
died October the 13 1|862. Samue l F.
was
born May the 8 1825; he married Miss Angeline A. Moore
March the
17
1850; he united with the Baptists at Mercer s
Run Church in May
1870
and died December the 28
1894.
Sarah
Mildred
my oldest sister was born July the 2
1827
and died Novembe r the
8 1849.
Abigail J. was bo rn April the 7 1829; she married Levi
D. Shambaugh November the 7 1855 and united with the
Baptist
Church
at Mercer s Run in May 1870; she had good
health till February
1918
when she became afflicted and
gradually grew worse; on Sunday the seventh day of
April she was eighty-nine years old; that morning she
spoke of its being her birthday and said it appeared
strange to her that she had been permitted to live so many
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t w e n t i e i h
c e n t u r y m e d i t a t i o n
years; after that
day she was
no t so well an d in t he a ft er
noon of
the next
Sunday between
t hr ee a nd
four o clock
he r long and useful life closed and she passed over
th e
river
of
death;
it was hard for me to give up my last family tie
but I cou d not wisl| her back; she
had been
a
widow many
years and had outlived he r generation and he r l on g j ou r
ney of mortal life was fully accomplished. We had spent
many years of our
lives
together and had a great
deal
of
spiritual enjoyment; her funeral was at the home where she
went
to live when she was first married 62 years ago las t
fall an d we followed he r to he r last resting place in th e
cemetery
at
Ne w Burlington.
Wh y do we mo ur n departing Friends
O r s h a k e
a t d e a t h s
a l a r m s
?
Tis b ut th e
voice that J es us s en ds
T o
call them to
h is a rm s.
Til gh man w as b orn N ov embe r th e 7 1830 an d married
Miss
Sarah J. M ed sk er O ct ob er t he 31 1853. He united
with the Methodist Church at Lumberton in February 1861
where he remained d ur in g t he rest of his life; he died on
the 6th of April
1904.
Will iam F was born J an ua ry the
12 1833; he married Miss Elizabeth Peterson O cto ber t h e
20 1856; he united with the Bap ti st Church at Mercer s
Run in December
1869
and died May the 4
1887.
Alfred
was born
June the
29 1835 a nd m ar ri ed Miss Sarah L.
Myers November the 7 1861; he died on the 19th day of
November
1909.
Mary M. was born September the 27
1837; she m arried Joshua Oglesbee March the 11 1858;
she united with
th e
Bapti st Churc h at Mercer s Run in
February 1870; she often talked on the subject of religion
an d
ha d
a great deal of spiritual enjoyment; sh e d ie d on th e
26th day of May 1908; she made all her funeral arrange
ments about three
^ veeks
before her death and in about a
week after that one evening about six o clock she repeated
one of her favorite hym ns all through.
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i
I love to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
I
love
in
solitude
to shed
The penitential tear
And all his promises to plead
Where
none but God
can
hear
I love to think on mercies past.
And future good implore
And
all my
cares
and
sorrows cast
On him
whom
I adore
I love by faith to take a view
Of brighter scenes in heaven;
The prospect doth my strength renew,
While here by tempests driven.
Thus, when life s toilsome day is o er,
May its departing ray
Becalm as this impressive hojur
And
lead to endless day.
And two weeks after that at six o clock in the evening she
passed to the great beyond. It was a great bereavement
to us all, but I could not wish her back in this vain, de
lusive
world
of sorrow and affliction iLucinda E. McKay *
wasborn September the 7, 1840;
George
W. was bornApril
the 29, 1844; he married Miss Emma Daniel, November the ^
4,
1868;
they had three children, two died in infancy their
mother died on
the
19th of February 1917 Georgey theV^^A
only child
living
was married to Joseph Keiter, Sep-
tember the 2, 1917 and resides at theiold homestead; her
father died December the 21, 1917. He united with
th e
Methodist Church at Lumberton in 1893; his funeral was
on Sunday the 23rd, at the old
homestead
where he
had
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spent his entire life. He had good health when he was
young
and was capable of great endurance be became afflic
ted in the latter p^rt of the winter two years ago. and
gradually grew worse till he had no hope of ever being
any better and he had a g^eat desire to die and pass
away from this mortal life; it was hard to give him up
but under
th e
circumstances
we knew
it was fa r
better
for him to pass away from his trials and afflictions and
be
at
re st and peace. We followed him to his last rest
ing place in our family cemetery and saw
hi s
coffin
lowered
in
the
grave.
It
is
hard
for me to realize
t ha t the
youngest one of our family has passed over the river of
death and that I am the only one left of my father s
family
My brothers all died and left widows except George
but none of them are now living except Tilghman s wifc
who will be 88 years old if she lives till the 7th day of
June. W he n I could first remember our family consisted
of father mother and ten children some of them were very
lively and full of life and
animation
and we all loved
the
a ll ur in g v anities of the w or ld a ro un d us father s
and
Mil
d re d s d ea th we re a
great
bereavement to us all but mother
was constrained to believe that it was the Lord s appointed
time for them to pass away from mortal life and we all
tried to be as submissive to it as possible Father and ^
mother gave us good advice and t ried to teach us no t to be
influenced
by worldly fashion and folly which they were
very much opposed to but
they
never tried to teach us to
be religious knowing that they neither had the power or
wisdom to control the spiritual destiny of their children.
Therefore we had the privilege of enjoying worldly amuse
ments as long as we cared anything about them. Ohio in -
its primitive state was considered a beautiful country the 1
most of it being coVered with gigantic forests which were
enchanting to behold and there was none of it more beau- i
tiful
and sacred to usthan the
valley
of the Littlg^^^ami ajidJ
its tributaries. During my youthful days I gazed over its
magnificent scenes with the greatest enjoyment and ad
miration. But in the course of years people began to clear
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