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From: "Charlotte Coats" <>
Subject: Re: Bush River MM, SC
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 13:14:02 PDT

Did you by chance write down or take notes of any of the information on
the stones in the little graveyard...?

Charlotte

>From:
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 13:07:04 -0400 (EDT)
>To:
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>Subject: Bush River MM, SC
>
>Hi list:
>
>This message contains no genealogical data. However, for all you SC
>Quaker-hunters, I hunted down the site of the Bush River MM this past
>weekend. There is an historical marker at the site with pertinent
>information about the meeting, when it ended and why, etc. We
cautiously
>walked a short distance through the weeds and vines into the forest and
found
>a small graveyard. True to form, there were very few
tombstones--Herberts
>and Hunts and I think one Chandler. No mounds nor rocks to mark a
burial
>place but then, after nearly 200 years, one couldn't really expect to
find
>any if they were ever there. Obviously, the Herberts are frequently
spelled
>Harbert in the records.
>
>Newberry, the nearest town, is lovely and reflects more of the German
>heritage of the Dutch Fork. There are still a few Quaker names in the
phone
>book--Pugh being one of them and some of the streetnames reflect Quaker
>connections. Somewhere in the area there was a Mendenhall street or
road. I
>can only describe this as a "connecting" experience to walk on Quaker
paths.
> But then, I'm sort of weird that way.
>
>DJ
>
>
>
>

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