Henry County, Iowa   

HISTORY

     The first Friends meeting west of the Mississippi River was organized at Salem, Henry County, Iowa Territory, 1838. Meetings had been held regularly at the house of Henry Jay for a year before that. The committee directed to set up the meeting was composed of: Abraham Holoday, Thomas Reubottom, Jeremiah H. Seler, Henry Pickard, Achsah Newlin.

     The meeting was set off from Vermillion M.M., Illinois, under the direction of Western Y.M. at Bloomfield, Indiana. In 1839, a lot of 5 acres was purchased, a log meeting house erected. The first meeting set off from Salem was Cedar Creek M.M., January 1841, followed in February, 1841, by Pleasant Prairie, later called Pleasant Plain. New Garden, East Grove and Chestnut Hill meetings were also soon established.

10-8-1838 M.M. Henry County, Iowa, opened.
08-10-1839 Women Friends first opened and held at Salem, Henry County, Iowa Territory.
03-01-1879 Joint sessions of men and women.

     The following are surnames found in these records which include Births and Deaths 1840-1919; Minutes 1838-1934 and Women's Minutes 1838-1879.

     Abbott, Adamson, Adcock, Addington, Adell, Albman, Albright, Alford, Allen, Allender, Allman / Allmon, Almond, Aminson, Ammonson, Anderson, Andrew / Andrews, Arnold, Arnate, Asborn, Athalinda, Atkins, Austin, Ayers, Bacon, Bailes, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Baley / Raley, Ball, Ballard, Banta, Barber, Barclay, Barker, Barnett, Barton, Beals, Beard, Beasley, Bedell, Bedinger, Beeler, Beeson, Bell, Bench, Bennet / Bennett, Binford, Bishop, Blackledge, Blackman, BOGUE, Bond, Bonnell / Bonnel, Bonsall, Bowen, Bowersock, Bowles, Boyce, Brackett, Branson, Bray, Brede, Bride, Brantingham, Braun, Briggs, Broadhead, Brown, Brud, Bruff, Bulla, Bundy, Bunker, Burkes, Burroughs, Bush, Buson, Butter, Button, Byers, Cadwalader, Cain, Caldwell, Calhoun, Campbell, Canaday / Canada, Cane, Canne, Carey, Carlisle, Carlilies, Carter, Cattell, Cawn, Chandler, Child, Clark, Claypool, Clement, Coburn, Coffin, Coil, Coin, Colrock, Coltrane / Coletrane, Colwell, Collott, Collett, COLLINS, Comer / Comar, Comfort, Comock / Cammack / Commack, Common, Compton, Comstock, Conner, Cook, Cooper, Copeland, Capelen, Coppock, Corsbie, Cotton, Coulson, Cowgill, Cox, Crompton / Crampton, Crazier, CREW, Crozier, Curl, Darlington, David, Davis, Davison / Davidson, Dean, Denny, Derbyshire, Despaine, Dewese, Dillavon, Dillon, Dengee, Doan, Dobbins, Dorland, Dorman, Douglas, Dow, DRAPER, Drury, Dudley, Duncon, Duncanson, Dyer / Dyre, Dyzart, Edmunds / Edmonds, Edwards, Ellerman / Elerman, Elliott, Ellis, Elleson, Elmore, Embrey / Embrie, Embree, Emery, Endersby, Fairman, Falkner, Fardon, Fawcett, Faylor, Fenn, Fisher, Fletcher, Fogg, Folkner, Fop, Ford, Foredice, Foss, Foster, Frame, Frazier / Frazer, Friend, Fuller, Furgeson, Gaines, Gardner, Garretson/  Garrettson, Gibbs, Gibson, Glass, Glendening, Glover, Gordon, Gough, Graber, Gray, Greenough, Greenup, Greenwich, Gregory, Grinnell, Grim, Hackett, Hadley, Hail, Haisley, Hall, Hallowell, Hamberger, Hamblen, Hammans, Hammer, Hammond / Hammons, Hampton, Hancock, Hanks, Hanson, Hargrove / Horgrove, Harris, Harrison, Harrold, Harsley, Harshbarger / Harshberger, Harter, Hartley, Harve, Harvey, Hasket, Hawkins, Hawley, Hawnhurst, Haworth / Hayworth, Haycock, Hazley, Hancock, Heald, Heals, Heckenberg, Hemingway, Herring, Heston, Hiatt, Hightower, Hill, Hillis, Hinshaw, Hoag, Hobson, HOCKETT, HODSON, Hoggott / Haggott, Hagan, Hogan, Hogt, Holliday / Holiday, HOLLEN, HOLLING, Hollingsworth, Honts, Hormer, Horner, Horter, Hosdon, Hosbake, Hoskins, Hough, Hought, Howe, Hoyt, Huff, Hull, Hunnicut, Hunt / Hunts, Hunting, Husband, Hussey, Ingle, Ingram, Ingraim, Irish, Jackson, Jacob, Jacobs, James, Jay, Jenings/ Jennings, Jessop / Jessup, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Kellum, Kenney, Kenworthy, Kersey, Kimberly, King, Kinney, Kirk, Kirkpatrick, Knight, Knowles / Knowls, Knudson / Kneudson, Kindson, KOLLING, Lacy, Lafevre / Lefever, Lamb, Lanim, Lane, Langston, Larson, Laurence, Leeland, Lester, Lewelling / Luelling, Lewis, Long, Lowden, Lowder, Lupton, Lynch, McBride, McDorland, McDoriman, McDowell, McGrew, Mace, McKinzie / McKinsey /  McKenzie, McMillan / McMillon, McPherson, McQuarter, McVey, McWhorter, Macy, Maddock, Mandlin, Manning, Mareds, Marshall / Marshalls, Marshman, Martin, Masden / Masdan / Masdon, Mason, Massey / Massay, Massie, Mather, Matthews, Maulden / Malden, MAXWELL, McGowen, Melton, MENDENHALL, Mercer, Michiner / Michener, Middaugh, Miles, Miller, Millikan, Millison, Mills, Mexon, Moon, Moor / Moore, Morden, Morgan, Morris, Morrison, Mosier, Mosher, Mosier, Mote, Munden, Munson, Murphy, Negus, Newby, Newman, Nichols, Nicholson, Nixon, Nordyke, North, Oliphant, Olson, Osborn / Ozbun, Overman, Overton, Packer, Palen / Palin, Painter, Paliner, Palmer, Parisho / Perisho, Parker, Parkins, Patterson / Paterson, Paxton, Pearson, Peas / Pease, Peasley, Pegg / Pigg, Pemberston, Pembuton, Pennabaker, Perkins, Permentier, Peterson, Phillips, Pickard, Pickerell, Pickering, Pickett, Pidgeon / Pigeon, Pierce, Pierson, Pinkum / Pinkham, Pitman, Pointer, Pope, Poulter, Powel, Pray / Prey, Price, Prichards, Prisneck, Pruett, Pucket / Puckett, Quaintance, Radcliff, Raley, Randolph, Ransom, Rapaly, Rash, Ratliff / Ratliffe, Ratcliff, Ravnass / Ravnaas, Reece, Reeder, Rees / Reese, Reeves, Reuben, Rhode / Rhodes, Richardson, Ridgway / Ridgeway, ROBERTS, Robins, Robinson, Rogers, Rood, Reece, Ruder / Reeder, Runyon, Rush, Russell, Saint, Samma, Sams / Samms, Saunders, Sarenson, Savage, Scarborough, Schalfield / Schafield, Schooley, Scott, Seong, Septer, Shalkly, Shampnoes, Sharpless, Shay, Sheale, Sheyak, Shelman, Sheldon, Sheridan, Shockley, Shriner, Shriver, Simkins / Simpkin / Simpkin, Sivain, Siviter / Siveter, Skinner, Slack, Smith, Sneath, Snider, Sorenson, Southwick, Spake, Spaulding, Spencer, Spray, Spurgeon, Spurrier, Sriner, Stanley, Stansberry, Stanton, Star, Stevens, Stack, Stonehawker, Stover, Stratton, Street, Strahl, Stuart, Stubbs, Sucath / Succath, Swain, Swan, Switer, Symond, Tabor, Talbert, Tomlinson, Tatum, Taylor, Teas, Terrell, Thacker, Thatcher, Thomas, Thompson, Thornburg, Timberlake, TRUEBLOOD, Tucker, Vandoren, Vandusen, Vanhorn, Varney, Venable, Vataro, Votaw, Wagner, Wahser, Wall, WAY, Watson, Watts, Weaver, Weeks, Wetmore, Whitacre, White, Weddefield, Wilcoxon / Wilcoxen, Wilkinson, Willford, Williams, Wilmuth, Willson, Wilson, Wing, Winslow, Withrow, Witmore, Wood, Woodard, Woodward, Woody, Woolman, Wright, Wroe.

     Example entry: pg. 88.

CREW

For further information on the Salem MM story see Jean Hallowell Leeper's pages:

The Story of Salem Friend's Monthly Meeting

Quakers Settlement at Salem

Cedar Creek MM History

Jean also says:

I also have the microfilms of early Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting and 
Salem Monthly Meeting actual records as well as the extracts printed by 
Selby Publishing and Printing ©1991 for Iowa Yearly Meeting and 
cemetery listings of Salem cemeteries and Cedar Creek Cemetery.  Cedar 
Creeks Cemetery listings is the most complete record and is my 
personnel work, contains 40 burials that no stone exists for.

NEWS from Jean:   I recently published this book that I feel 
would be of interest for many who have Quaker roots in Henry County, 
Iowa.  The below link goes into detail about the book - "Cedar Creek Friends and Its People"

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanlee/ccfbook.htm

Jean Leeper:
grannyroots@iowatelecom.net  or   jeansjots@yahoo.com