Re: Solomon Burtley Haworth IA>CA b. 186?
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In reply to:
Solomon Burtley Haworth IA>CA b. 186?
6/19/01
Dear HeatherDawn,
Here is a long email from Mr. Herbert Standing in Iowa about Solomon Barclay Haworth's parents and siblings.I'm sure you find this most informative.
Regards, Hugh R Haworth
From: [email protected]
Subject: [Q-R] Fwd: John Livingston Haworth
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:46:53 EDT
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From: Standcedargrove
To: [email protected]
CC: quaker-roots @rootsweb.coml
Sent: 6/9/2009 12:36:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: John Livingston Haworth
Marilyn Winton Totten,
I have received your mailing of 6/5/2009 in which you are inquiring as
to whether I can provide additional information concerning Charles M.
Haworth, son of John Livingston Haworth and Mary Moffitt. Ron Haworth has made
a similar inquiry to the Quaker-Roots web site about a year ago.
I do not believe I can provide much more information than is provided
in _Some Quaker Families: Scarborough/Haworth_, Vol I, pp. 438-439. I
might make a few observations:
John Littleberry Haworth had been first married to Susannah Mardock
ca.1830. He made acknowledgement to Vermilion MM on 6 Nov. 1830 of marriage
contrary to discipline and was evidently kept in membership. There was one
daughter of this marriage, Polly Ann Haworth, who married John Pearson.
------ Susannah (Mardock) Haworth died and John L. Haworth married 2] on 5
September 1836, Mary Moffitt, daughter of Sololmon and Rebecca Moffitt. On
20 Oct 1836 John Livingston Haworth was disowned by Vermilion MM for
drinking spirituous liquor to excess and using profane language. On 1 April 1837
Mary (Moffitt) Haworth condemned her misconduct in marrying contrary to the
discipline and was kept in membership by Vermilion MM. John L. Haworth
and Mary Moffitt appear to have had nine children.
----- It seems clear to me that John L. Haworth's daughter by his first
marriage would have been a birthright member of Friends since both of her
parents were members when she was born. However, I do not know whether John
L. Haworth was ever received back into membership after his disownment. If
he was not, his children by his second marriage would not have been
birthright Friends and would not have been listed on Friends records unless they
had requested membership.
On 1 Aug 1846 Mary (Moffitt) Haworth was granted a certificate to
Pleasand Plain MM, Iowa Territory.
This does not mean that the family first settled in the vicinity of
Pleasant Plain, Jefferson County, Iowa. At that time Pleasant Plain MM received
certificates for a number of Friends moving into unsettled areas of Iowa.
It appears that the John L. Haworth family first settled in the Ackworth
Friends community which was just beginning, centered in the present village
of Ackworth three miles east of Indianola, Warren County, Iowa. John L.
Haworth's name appears on the 1849 Warren County Tax List, as does also the
name of his brother, Moorman Haworth. In 1852 Three Rivers Monthly Meeting
was recognized, including the Ackworth settlement. In 1860 the name was
changed to South River Monthly Meeting, and after 1870 it became Ackworth
Monthly Meeting.
About 1847 there was a significant migration of Friends from Yadkin
County, North Carolina to Hardin County in north central Iowa. They became
the nucleus of Honey Creek Monthly Meeting, with a meeting-house about 2 1/2
miles from New Providence, IA. I believe this migration included some of
the Moffitt family. Perhaps Mary (Moffitt) Haworth had relatives at Honey
Creek. Between 1850 and 1865 the family may have sojourned for a time in
the Honey Creek community.
A history of Cherokee County, Kansas available on-line indicates that
the John L. Haworth family settled in Cherokee County in the summer of
1865. It appears that the family of Harmon Haworth, probably a brother of John
L. Haworth, soon joined them. There are some indications that some of
these Haworth resided in Clayton County, just north of Cherokee County in
later years. Elkanah Mardock had married in 1865 Sarah Haworth, a daughter of
the Harmon Haworth family. On 28 July 1866 Elkanah was granted a
certificate from South River MM, Warren County, Iowa, to Spring Grove MM., Crawford
County, Kansas.
Perhaps there was a confusion in addressing the certificate. Perhaps it
should have been addressed to South Grove MM in Miami County, Kansas, one of
the well established Meetings in Kansas at that time. Spring River MM in
Cherokee County, Kansas was organized in 1867. It first included Union
Meeting (later called Alba) in southwest Missouri. I know of no Monthly
Meeting in Clayton County. Lowell Monthly Meeting at Baxter Springs, Cherokee
County, dates from an early time.
In 1879 there was a traumatic separation in Kansas Yearly Meeting (now
Mid-American Yearly Meeting). between Evangelical and Conservative
Friends. There was a strong Spring River MM of Conservative Friends near Galena,
Kansas which operated an academy for a time in the later nineteenth
century, finally declining ca. 1960. Spring River (Evangelical) continues as
Riverton MM. There is probably still an Evangelical Meeting at Baxter Springs.
It is said that Charles M. Haworth is buried at Downey in Los Angeles
County, California. This seems to be near Whittier, California, a center
of California Yearly Meeting (now Southwestern Yearly Meeting).
Records of Ackworth Monthly Meeting and of Honey Creek Monthly Meeting
(now merged with New Providence MM) are kept in the vault in the basement
of the Iowa Yearly Meeting (FUM) office building on College Ave. in
Oskaloosa, IA.
Records of the Cherokee County, KS Meetings, both Evangelical and
Conservative, are kept in the Friends Library located in the Edmund Stanley
Library on the Friends University campus in Wichita, KS.
Records of California Friends Meetings are kept in the Quaker
Collection in the main library of Whittier College, Whittier, California.
- Herbert Standing, Earlham, Iowa.