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Internal correspondence and memo between Dianne Humes, Gwen King, and Eliska Hasek on Waynesville's 175th Anniversary. 2 pages. [Letter], 5/1/1972
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon. Re: Nixon's "Millhouse" relatives in Waynesville, OH. Includes report: "A History of Indiana Yearly Meeting" by Seth E. Furnas, Sr. 19 pages total. [Letter], 5/2/1972
From Dennis Dalton toMrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon; re: structure built by Millhouse family in Waynesville, Ohio. 2 pages with photograph. [Letter], 3/13/1972
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon; re: Nixon's family burial sites at Caesar's Creek Friends Cemetery. Newspaper and pamphlet included. 3 pages with attachments. Newspaper not scanned. [Letter], 3/8/19
From Mrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon to Mr. Dennis Dalton; re: thank you regarding genealogy research. 1 page. [Letter], 3/1/1972
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for mrs. Nixon; re: genealogical information needed from the President for Warren County Park District. 2 pages. [Letter], 3/25/1972
"Second Log Cabin Found Near Original Lukens Site" by Janet Goode. Note: preservation of Ohio log cabin with possible connection to President. Not scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
Dianne Humes to Dr. Jean Spencer; re: John Nixon. 1 page. [Memo], 5/11/1971
Note of Carol Bronson, Vice President's Office: notes on Nixon family genealogy. 1 page. [Other Document], n.d.
Noble Melencamp to Rose Mary Woods; re: Well-known Presidential Relatives. Includes hand-written notes. 1 page with attachment. [Memo], 1/19/1970
From "Marje" to RMW [Rose Mary Woods]; re: ancestral pictures from Noble for President and family. 1 page. [Memo], 4/27/1970
Nixon relatives. 9 pages. [Report], n.d.
From Rose Mary Woods, Personal Secretary to the President to Dr. Bell; re: information on George Nixon I and the Milhous family. Includes note to Melencamp and Bell's original letter dated 16 April 1969. 3 pages. [Letter], 4/25/1969
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This file contains:
Internal correspondence and memo between Dianne Humes, Gwen King, and Eliska Hasek on Waynesville's 175th Anniversary. 2 pages. [Letter], 5/1/1972
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon. Re: Nixon's "Millhouse" relatives in Waynesville, OH. Includes report: "A History of Indiana Yearly Meeting" by Seth E. Furnas, Sr. 19 pages total. [Letter], 5/2/1972
From Dennis Dalton toMrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon; re: structure built by Millhouse family in Waynesville, Ohio. 2 pages with photograph. [Letter], 3/13/1972
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon; re: Nixon's family burial sites at Caesar's Creek Friends Cemetery. Newspaper and pamphlet included. 3 pages with attachments. Newspaper not scanned. [Letter], 3/8/19
From Mrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon to Mr. Dennis Dalton; re: thank you regarding genealogy research. 1 page. [Letter], 3/1/1972
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King, Director of Correspondence for mrs. Nixon; re: genealogical information needed from the President for Warren County Park District. 2 pages. [Letter], 3/25/1972
"Second Log Cabin Found Near Original Lukens Site" by Janet Goode. Note: preservation of Ohio log cabin with possible connection to President. Not scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
Dianne Humes to Dr. Jean Spencer; re: John Nixon. 1 page. [Memo], 5/11/1971
Note of Carol Bronson, Vice President's Office: notes on Nixon family genealogy. 1 page. [Other Document], n.d.
Noble Melencamp to Rose Mary Woods; re: Well-known Presidential Relatives. Includes hand-written notes. 1 page with attachment. [Memo], 1/19/1970
From "Marje" to RMW [Rose Mary Woods]; re: ancestral pictures from Noble for President and family. 1 page. [Memo], 4/27/1970
Nixon relatives. 9 pages. [Report], n.d.
From Rose Mary Woods, Personal Secretary to the President to Dr. Bell; re: information on George Nixon I and the Milhous family. Includes note to Melencamp and Bell's original letter dated 16 April 1969. 3 pages. [Letter], 4/25/1969
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Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
12
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05/1972
Letter
Internal correspondence and memo between
Dianne Humes, Gwen King, and Eliska
Hasek on Waynesville's 175th Anniversary. 2
pages.
12
4
05/02/1972
Letter
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King,
Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon.
Re: Nixon's "Millhouse" relatives in
Waynesville, OH. Includes report: "A
History of Indiana Yearly Meeting" by Seth
E. Furnas, Sr. 19 pages total.
12
4
03/13/1972
Letter
From Dennis Dalton toMrs. Gwen King,
Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon;
re: structure built by Millhouse family in
Waynesville, Ohio. 2 pages with photograph.
12
4
03/08/1972
Letter
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King,
Director of Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon;
re: Nixon's family burial sites at Caesar's
Creek Friends Cemetery. Newspaper and
pamphlet included. 3 pages with attachments.
Newspaper not scanned.
12
4
03/01/1972
Letter
From Mrs. Gwen King, Director of
Correspondence for Mrs. Nixon to Mr.
Dennis Dalton; re: thank you regarding
genealogy research. 1 page.
12
4
03/25/1972
Letter
From Dennis Dalton to Mrs. Gwen King,
Director of Correspondence for mrs. Nixon;
re: genealogical information needed from the
President for Warren County Park District. 2
pages.
Monday, May 21, 2007
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Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
12
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n.d.
Newspaper
"Second Log Cabin Found Near Original
Lukens Site" by Janet Goode. Note:
preservation of Ohio log cabin with possible
connection to President. Not scanned.
12
4
05/11/1971
Memo
Dianne Humes to Dr. Jean Spencer; re: John
Nixon. 1 page.
12
4
n.d.
Other Document
Note of Carol Bronson, Vice President's
Office: notes on Nixon family genealogy. 1
page.
12
4
01/19/1970
Memo
Noble Melencamp to Rose Mary Woods; re:
Well-known Presidential Relatives. Includes
hand-written notes. 1 page with attachment.
12
4
04/27/1970
Memo
From "Marje" to RMW [Rose Mary Woods];
re: ancestral pictures from Noble for
President and family. 1 page.
12
4
n.d.
Report
Nixon relatives. 9 pages.
12
4
04/25/1969
Letter
From Rose Mary Woods, Personal Secretary
to the President to Dr. Bell; re: information
on George Nixon I and the Milhous family.
Includes note to Melencamp and Bell's
original letter dated 16 April 1969. 3 pages.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Page 2 of 2
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Eliska:
I am forwarding this request
transmitted by Gwen King to
you as it involves the 175th
anniversary of a town.
Thank you.
Dianne 668
(I include the backup material
with the thought that it may
be useful.)
please refurn
to me when thru
Thanks. Dit
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 10, 1972
MEMO FOR DIANE HUMES
I don't want to continue burdening
you with this gentlemen's contributions
if you have not interest
I do think, though, that Eliska
Hasek might wish to do a Presidential
letter for the 175th anniversary of
Waynesville.
Let me know if I should continue
sending these to you!
Thanks,
Gwen
Gwen King
Dennis Dalton
P.O. Box 194
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
May 2, 1972
Mrs. Gwen King
Director of Correspondence
for Mrs. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mrs. King,
I have been doing further Nixon "Millhouse" relative research since my last letter to you
concerning the President's family tree rooted here in Waynesville.
From early records kept by the Miami Monthly Meeting of Friends at Waynesville, I have
gleaned some very interesting tidbits which I thought Mr. Nixon might like to have.
It seems that Mr. Nixon's fifth cousin, Henry Millhouse, settled here first before
building a log house near the Caesar's Creek Meeting of Frineds which he was instrumental
in organizing having helped build the meeting's first log Meeting House. I have indicated
these findings in the published records of that year. Miami Monthly Meeting of Friends here
is also an affiliate of the Indiana Yearly Meeting.
We also have Nixons living here in Warren County and Corwin Nixon is our local State
Representative. From Corwin Nixon's 2,000 page Nixon Family Genealogy, I have retrieved
the names and genealogical data of all Waynesville Nixon family relatives, Corwin's family
is descended from Allan Nixon who was apparently the brother of President Nixon's first
American ancestor. Amidst my findings I find that between the Nixons and Millhouses half or
more of the population of this rural village (Waynesville's population is about 1,700) can
claim 7th or 8th cousins kinship to the President.
It would certainly be wonderful if the President and Mrs. Nixon could visit here and meet
their country "kissin' cousins". The old "White Brick" Hicksite Friends Meeting House,
built in 1811 and the oldest Quaker meeting house West of the Allegheny Mountains) is still
being used by Millhouse relatives. Henry Millhouse, who settled here before 1805, and his
descendants and relatives worshiped there before transfering to Center Meeting and later
Caesar's Creek Meeting.
I would be most appreciative if you would please see that the President receives this letter
and enclosed information. It is Waynesville's 175th anniversary this year and we are most
proud that the Millhouses decided to settle here near our village.
A HISTORY OF INDIANA YEARLY MEETING
by Seth E. Furnes, Sr.
Indiana Yearly Meeting
Religious Society of Friends
general conference
FRIENDS MONTHLY MEETING-HOUSE WAYNESVILLE. OHIO. BUILT. 1811
GRANDMOTHER'S STORY
During the 133rd session of Indiana Yearly Meeting, held at Pendleton,
Indiana, a concern was expressed by Barret Hollister that a history of
Indiana Yearly Meeting be written and published. The concern was approv-
ed and stated that Seth E. Furnas should, with others, write the history
of the Meeting.
When I learned of this decision, I wondered what the history should con-
tain - beliefs and doctrines? Establishment of meetings and basis of
membership? Efforts for peace, temperance, etc.? As I considered these
ideas, my memory kept traveling back to that Friendly atmosphere that I
remembered as a boy and I lived again with Friends that are no more.
Well do I remember a hot afternoon in late August. I was riding on the
back seat of my grandfather's carriage, returning home after a long day
of meeting. I heard Grandfather telling Grandmother what had happened
in the men's meeting. Then, after a quiet moment, he turned to her and
said, "Now tell me what happened in the women's meeting." It was in
1895, when the two meetings were still held separately. I could hear
them talking but couldn't understand what they said. Before long, I
went to sleep and I only remember that as Grandfather carried me into
the house, Grandmother was saying, "Meeting was too much for him."
Now, after more than sixty years, we are grandfathers and grandmothers.
We have grandchildren just as the grandfathers and grandmothers for over
130 years have had, and yet, during all this time, there has been one
yearly meeting. What has it meant to the grandfathers and grandmother
What have we meant to the meeting? Has each relationship supplement
the other?
What of these 130 years? Do they not tell of the devotion and loyalty
to Indiana Yearly Meeting of many grandmothers and grandfathers and of
what it has done for them? What of the different problems that each
generation faced? What of their differences and the goals that each
tried to reach? Did they achieve them with the help of the Heavenly
Father inspiring them in their collective search for truth? Were they
able, amidst the problems of their time, to translate grace and truth
in their outward lives with love for their fellow men? Their efforts
to achieve these goals; some realized, some not; make the history of
Indiana Yearly Meeting.
How shall it be told? Shall I be the judge? There have been too many
judges already. As I look back into the past, I see once more that
scene in the old carriage and hear Grandfather say to Grandmother, "Tell
what happened in the women's meeting." It makes me say, "Why not?" Why
not let Grandmother tell the story - the problems that the women met and
solved; the glory and the beauty they were able to find in their lives.
Grandmother and Grandfather have left a written record. There are also
traditions and stories handed down by word of mouth that tell how Indiana
Yearly Meeting was formed and kept alive to this day. As much as can be,
let her tell it in her own way.
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- THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE GRANDMOTHERS -
First, let's get acquainted with the grandmothers and grandfathers of our
generation. How satisfied we are, dressed in simple taste; avoiding both
extreme plainness and too much adornment in dress. We are thankful to
have lived in a time when grandmother saw the wood-burning cook stove re-
placed by an electric range. The baking, the churning, the laundry and
other household chores are easier now. And grandfather, if a farmer, has
seen many-labor-saving tools ease the hard work that he remembers as a boy.
Surely it's a wonderful time to livel
However, if we look closely, we can see on their countenances the strain
left by the first World War, when brothers and lovers answered the call of
duty with the army and ambulance units. More cares were added when the
second World War called sons to army duty and C.P.S. camps. Yes, they had
to face stern realities. They met them.
The grandfathers and grandmothers just before them lived at a time of low
prices, panics and decreasing crop yields. Some progress had been made
toward labor-saving appliances. However, they were more concerned with
keeping ahead financially and reviving the waning interest in meeting. As
we look at them, we can see how it affected them. In an effort to retain
the prestige of the past, simple plaimess was replaced by fashionable
appearance. It is to their credit that they carried on.
the back another generation, we sea the prosperous years at the close
the Civil War. In their younger years, these grandparents faced the
At its close, they were concerned with mending the wounds of the
and the meeting. They saw changes in their homes and on their
They had improved machinery and livestock, better heating, 1m-
proved lighting, note comfortable homes, more efficient tillage tools,
seens of harvesting grain and, at the close of the Civil War, bet-
prices Pictures of that time show touches of refinement and luxury
in the traditional Quaker dress.
The preceding generation shows a sternness of belief and an effort to
a changing society and still live according to the demands of Quaker
doctrine. It was a time of economic hardship while the political question
lavery and the plight of those to the South who were held in bondage,
vas of grave concern, Truly, they lived and raised their families at a
time when preserving the tradition of the past required economy and hard
work.
In the generation before were the pioneers. They left their comfortable
homes and came to a wilderness where they built new homes. They met many
hardships but insisted on a way of life that carried out the ideals of
their beloved society. Here, with the simplest of tools, they built their
homes and their meeting and demanded the strictest adherence to the prin-
ciples of membership.
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A progress report was given to Yearly Meeting in 1954. These five genera-
tions appeared and were photographed by Dr. Emma G. Holloway. This report
was short and given orally.
Four women from Caesar's Creek Meeting represented the pioneers. Let us
think of each as a grandmother from one of the four different areas from
which Friends came to what is now Indiana Yearly Meeting. Let one of
these grandmothers represent the group of Friends who came from six month-
1y meetings in Virginia (55 certificates and 269 persons) and six monthly
meetings in Maryland (8 certificates numbering 25 persons). Another
grandmother represents Friends from six monthly meetings in Pennsylvania
(16 certificates numbering 45 persons) and seven monthly meetings in New
Jersey (14 certificates numbering 69 persons). The third grandmother
represents pioneers who came from one monthly meeting in Georgia (28 cer-
tificates numbering 155 persons) and two monthly meetings in Tennessee
(45 certificates numbering 221 persons). The last grandmother stands for
members from 11 monthly meetings in North Carolina (90 certificates num-
bering 387 persons) and from Bush River Quarterly Meeting (171 certifi-
cates numbering 810 persons).
The above represents the years 1803 to 1807 and makes the estimated num-
ber of Friends belonging to Miami Monthly Meeting 2,000 members. When
Miami Monthly Meeting was set up, in 1803, it had about 200 members. By
1807, Friends were located in Warren, Clinton, Highland, Montgomery,
Miami and Preble Counties in Ohio, and Wayne County in Indiana. (Eli Jay,
Richmond, Indiana.)
Behind all these meetings and migrations are many stories. Many Friends,
after the Revolutionary War, migrated to the South where there was land
and opportunity. The Indians were more friendly, too. While in the
North, Friends were asked to aid in war measures to defend the outlying
settlements.
Then, about 1800, there was the temptation of cheap land in the newly
formed Northwest Territory. However, the grandmother from the Carolinas
tells of the greatest problem the Friends faced - "to live righteously."
Let her tell her story. (The following, while based on the minutes of
the meeting, is told as a traditional story that makes the history of In-
diana Yearly Meeting more dramatic and beautiful.)
I will have to go back to the time that there was no yearly meeting, no
quarterly meeting, no monthly meeting, and not even a meeting for worship.
In fact, I go back to the time that all of us lived in our comfortable
homes in the East. I remember a First-day in our home in South Carolina.
We mounted horses that were brought to the 'upon' block by Mose, our slave,
and rode through the woods to Bush River meeting house. About 400 Friends
were assembled in a meeting for worship.
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After a time of silent worship, Zachariah Dix, a minister, rose to speak.
Be spoke on the question of holding slaves, an issue that was rapidly di-
viding the meeting. Reminding the meeting of the equality of all men as
taught by Fox and Penn, he said, "0, Bush River
there are those
among you who have within your household a wedge of gold and the Babylon-
ish garment. You are depriving your fellow men of their God-given rights.
You have bought them like cattle in pens; you have sold them like sheep
at the slaughter; you have held them for gain, them, their wives and their
children.
0, young men of Bush River, the awful curse of human slavery will never be
conquered or its crimes avenged until this land shall flow in blood. The
cry of the slave beneath the driver's lash, the terror of the slave mother
for her baby boy sold at the block, the immorality incident to the very
system itself will be avenged
0, Bush River, purge thyself. Young men, young women, to you I appeal
Go to the Northwest Territory. Look not behind you into this Sodom of
human slavery
How do you expect, in the midst of this curse, to
bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? 0, sell
your lands, sell your homes, and, in the virgin forests of the Northwest
Territory, build homes whose sanctity shall forever be secure
"
Never before had such an invective against slavery been uttered in that
meeting house. To me, it was very painful, for my father was one of
those who Ioved his alaves and they loved him. AB he had treated them
kindly, he could see no harm in alavery. I felt the criticism was unjust.
Im disturbed me, for I could not think of Father doing a cruel or unjust
thing.
Criticism seemed to echo from every side. I felt that I must escape.
When dinner was over, I said to Betty, our Negro cook, "When thee has
done the dishes, put some of the pudding in two porringers and take some
of the corn pone thee baked yesterday and pack them in the willow basket
and come with as to carry it to Ebenezer Brown's"
Uncle Eb, as he was called, was a relic of the past. He had lost his arm
in the battle of Guilford Court House and, for going to war, was disowned
by his meeting. Now, old and nearly blind, he and his wife Matilda were,
for the most part, objects of charity. I felt that by relieving the dis-
comforts of others, I would relieve my discomfort.
After following the path through the woods and arriving at Uncle Eb's, I
said, "Uncle Eb, I thought some pudding and some of Betty's corn pone
might taste good to thee.'
"
You setting here," said he, "feeding me, reminds me of the day after
the battle of Guilford Court House. In the early morning, thar came a
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bunch of Quakers with their wagons and picked us up, British and Continen-
tals all alike, and bandaged our wounds and made us beds on the floor and
fed and nursed us."
Then, turning his eyes toward his wife, he said, "Tildy, pull out the chest
from under the bed and give Hannah them land papers The documents prov-
ed to be a land warrant issued to Ebenezer Brown for his services in the
Revolutionary War. It called for 200 acres of land in the valley of the
Miami River.
"Dear Uncle Eb, doesn't thee know that being here with thee and Matilda is
reward enough for anything I may do? I'll take the paper and treasure it
as a token of our friendship - not as a gift of, land in a faraway wilder-
ness."
"Jes take it, Hannah, dear," interrupted Matilda. "Thee might have use for
it. I heard some say, coming home from meeting, that Robert Evans was power-
ful took with Zachariah Dix's idea of moving to the Northwest Territory."
"I really don't see what that has to do with me and Uncle Eb's gift." Then
all at once, overcome with emotion and calling Betty to follow, I darted
quickly out of the cabin and up the woodland path. Suddenly, I heard Robert
say, "Why, Hannah, thee's crying!" And then, somehow, I found myself in his
arms.
Robert, too, had his troubles; he had been arrested for freeing a slave.
Thus, on this woodland path, we comforted each other and knew and felt that
together we might find a way that would be right for both of us.
At his trial, Robert pleaded not guilty for liberating a Negro slave. Elisha
Coffin appeared at the trial as one of the trustees of North Carolina Yearly
Meeting, with a bill of sale for this slave, which had been sold to North
Carolina Yearly Meeting. It was accepted by the court and Robert was dis-
charged.
It was not long after this that first my father and then my mother died.
"Time's changes seem often to linger long
then,
suddenly,
all
is
changed.
We rush to new duties and new cares. Some call this fate, some call it luck,
some call it chance, and some call it God."
Robert's life and my life seemed to come together. We planned our marriage
and were married in Bush River Meeting. We planned, as soon as it could be
arranged, to make our home in the Northwest Territory where some Friends had
already gone. So it came about that, after a journey of seven weeks in the
company of other families, we came to the confines of what later became Miami
Monthly Meeting.
It was necessary for Friends to sell their homes and farms for less than half
of what they were worth. They were able to buy land in the wilderness of the
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Northwest Territory for $1.25 an acre - what was price and hardship comp.
to "the living devotion to a great principle"?
In Robert's pocket was a letter dated 25th of 5th month 1802. It was Wt
by Borden Stanton who had moved to Concord, Ohio, "beyond doubting, that
was the ordering of Wisdom for us to remove; and that the Lord was open
way for our enlargement, if found worthy." The loafers on the boxes in
of the village store that morning were sufficiently moved, in spite of
scoffing, to wave a genial goodbye and mutter, "Mighty good neighbors,
set of fanatics."
The Friends records show that North Carolina Yearly Meeting, under a law
1796 and its amendments, owned, over a period of sixty years. more than
three thousand slaves. This was done so that the owners could avoid pro*
cution for freeing their slaves. Technically, the Yearly Meeting owned t
slaves who were, by intent, free.
Among the Friends who were living at Waynesville, Ohio, (which was settle
in 1797,) were the families of Robert Kelly, Abijah O'Neall and James Mills
who came 11th month 20th, 1799, from Bush River Meeting. On 4-25-1800,
David Falkner and David Painter came from Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Fred-
erick County, Virginia. David Holloway and Rowland Richards came the same
year. Later in the year, Joseph Cloud, a minister from Cane Creek Monthly
Meeting, North Carolina, (who later settled here himself), held several
meetings among them.
Other Friends continued to arrive and on 2-26-1801, a number of Friends,
consisting of twenty-four parents and forty-seven children, met at the
home of Rowland and Lydia Richards in a voluntary meeting for worship. The
Richards lived near the center of the block bounded by North, Third, Miami
and Fourth Streets, in Waynesville.
In the later part of the 18th century, two monthly meetings (Westland in
1785, and Redstone in 1793,) were established in southwestern Pennsylvania.
These united, in 1798, to form Redatone Quarterly Meeting of Baltimore Year-
ly Meeting. Certificates of removal for Friends moving to Waynesville were
sent to Westland Monthly Meeting.
The Friends at Waynesville continued their meeting for worship during the
summer. In the following winter, they sent a request to Westland Monthly
Meeting, 300 miles away, asking that a recognized meeting for worship be
held on First-days and the middle of the week. On 12-26-1801, Westland
Monthly Meeting adopted the following minute:
"A number of Friends being settled near the Little Miami River,
request has been made for the privilege of holding meetings of
worship on first and fifth days of the week. After weighty
deliberation, it appears to be the sense of the meeting that a
committee be appointed to sit with them, inspect their situation
and judge of the propriety of granting their request. Jacob
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Griffith, Abram Smith, David Grave and Henry Mills are appoint-
ed to the service, to report when called on by this meeting."
The following minute from the same meeting is dated 9-25-1802.
"The representatives to the Quarterly Meeting (Redatone) report
they all attended the same and that meeting united in leaving
this at liberty to act in respect to request of Friends near
the Little Miami as way may open in truth. After divers
sentiments were expressed, it appeared the sense of Friends
that the request be granted till otherwise directed. David
Grave, Joseph Townsend, Abraham Smith and Henry Lewis were
appointed to write to the Friends there on the occasion and
forward the substance of this minute when opportunity offers."
The meeting was set up accordingly and appears to have met in a log build-
ing that had been erected for a dwelling by Ezekiel Cleaver. This, their
meeting house, stood on the northeast corner of Third and Miami Streets in
Waynesville. However, tradition tells that a small meeting house was built
near where the Red Brick Meeting House now stands and was heated by live
coals of fire placed in the meeting house.
- THE FOUNDING OF MIAMI MONTHLY MEETING -
The action of Redstone Quarterly Meeting satisfied the need for a meeting
for worship but in matters of business, the Monthly Meeting was 300 miles
away. Therefore, it was necessary that the first marriage among Friends. -
William Mills and Mary Richards - be solemnized by a Baptist minister - a
method used at that time.
Early in. 1803, the number of Friends settled in and about Waynesville had
become large. Many of them were, or soon became, members of Westland Month-
ly Meeting. By 9-25-1802, there were certified to Westland Monthly Meeting
from Bush River Monthly Meeting, Abijah and Anna (Kelly) O'Neall and chil-
dren, 9 persons; Samuel and Hannah (Pearson) Kelly and children, 8 persons;
Mary Jay Patty, wife of Charles Patty, 1 person; Layton and Elizabeth (Mills)
Jay and children, 8 persons; Ann Horner, wife of Thomas Horner, and Ellis
Pugh and Phebe, his wife, 3 persons.
From Cane Creek, South Carolina, before 10-13-1803: Amos and Elizabeth (Town-
send) Cook and family; Levi and Ann (Frazier) Cook and family; Esther Camp-
bell, Naomi Spray; Samuel and Mary (Wilson) Spray and family; Robert and
Hannah (Wilson) Furnas and family; Dinah (Cook) Wilson; Jehu and Sarah
(Hawkins) Wilson and family; Christopher and Mary (Cox) Wilson and family;
Thomas and Tamar Cox; this partial list includes about 40 persons.
Other names - Ezekiel and Abigail Cleaver and family; Samuel Linton and five
children; Edward and Margaret Kindley and family; John Mullen and family;
Benjamin and Hannah Evans and family; as well as others not named, make a
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8-9-1804 - Thomas Nixon produced to this meeting, a paper concerning his
misconduct, which was read and received.
10-11-1804 - The preparative informs this meeting William Pope and Eliza-
beth Pope request to be joined in membership with Friends. Asher Brown
and David Faulkner are appointed to visit them on the occasion and report
to next meeting the state they may find them in.
11-8-1804 - One of the Friends appointed to visit William and Elizabeth
Pope, reports that he, in company with several other Friends, performed
the service and they believed their request to be in a good degree of
sincerity and thought it best to continue it under the care of Friends.
Phineus Hunt and John Bails are appointed to have it under care and re-
port to a future meeting.
12-13-1804 - One of the Friends who had the request of William Pope under
care, reports they had an opportunity with him to pretty good satisfaction
and the meeting appearing easy to receive him as a member, he is according-
ly received in membership.
Enos Baldwin and Sarah Hunt propose their intention of marriage with each
other, to this meeting. David Faulkner and Asher Brown are appointed to
make inquiry concerning Enos' clearness in relation to marriage, and re-
port to next meeting.
Enos Baldwin and Sarah Hunt continue their intention of marriage
with each other. Inquiry being made, concerning Enos' clearness, and no-
thing appearing to obstruct, they are left at liberty to consummate their
marriage according to good order used among Friends. John Bails and Evan
Evans are requested to attend the marriage and report how it is accomplish-
ed, to next meeting, and return the marriage certificate to be recorded.
(There were 229 marriages recorded to 1954.)
10-10-1805 - The meeting appoints Isaac Stubs, Henry Millhouse, Thomas Hor-
ner, David Preis, Abijah O'Neall, Jehu Wilson, and Henry Steddom to prepare
a petition to represent the state of our suffering under the military law,
(before the House of Assembly), and produce to next meeting.
11-14-1805 - The committee appointed produced a petition which was approved
and signed. Isaac Ward, Abijah O'Neall, and Mordicai Walker are appointed
to attend. the Legislature therewith and report to next meeting.
12-12-1805 - The committee appointed to attend the Assembly, report they at-
tended and were favorably received and produced a bill of their expense, be-
ing $22.94-1/2, which this meeting recommends to be produced to next meeting.
7-25-1810 - The committee appointed to take an account of the suffering of
Friends for military fines, produced as follows, namely from two Friends in
the year 1805, to the amount $3.00
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in a book produced for this purpose, and report to next meeting.
3-13-1806 George Hayworth and 13 others are appointed to unite with a
like committee of women Friends, in a visit to the several indulged meet-
ings within the limits of this meeting and afford them such advice and
assistance as they may be enabled and report their care to next meeting.
5-8-1806 - (Request of indulged meetings to be preparative and monthly
meetings.) Friends of Todd's Fork (Center) and Caesars Creek request to
have meetings for worship and discipline established, a preparative at
each place and also, a monthly meeting and that to be held circular.
Friends of the southwest branch of the Big Miami, request to have meet-
ings for worship and discipline established; preparative and monthly
meetings.
Friends, of Elk Creek, request to have a meeting; unite in forwarding to
the quarterly meeting.
Following is the account of the first monthly meetings set up by Redstone
Quarterly Meeting:
1-8-1807 The following minute of the Quarterly Meeting (Redstone) held
12-1-1806, was produced and read, namely ... A part of the committee, on
the request of Miami Monthly Meeting, reported, in writing, as follows:
to the ensuing quarterly meeting. We, of the committee appointed on
the request of Miami Monthly Meeting, have attended our appointments and
visited Miami Monthly Meeting and the several meetings that made the re-
quest and unitedly agree to report that we think it would be best to
grant their request in the following manner, to wit:
1st - West Branch meetings for worship on first and fifth days of the
week and the preparative meeting to be held on the third Fifth-day of
each month and the monthly meeting to be held on the Seventh-day follow-
ing, to be known by the name of West Branch Monthly Meeting.
2nd - Elk Creek meeting for worship on first and fifth days of the week
and the preparative meeting on the first Fifth-day of the month, to be
known by the name of Elk Preparative Meeting, to be a branch of Miami
Monthly Meeting.
3rd Caesars Creek meeting for worship on the first and fifth days of
the week and the preparative meeting on the first Fifth-day preceding the
first Seventh-day in each month, to be known by the name of Caesars Creek
Preparative Meeting.
4th - Center meetings for worship on the first and fourth days of the week
and the preparative meeting to be held on the fourth day of the week pre-
ceding the first Seventh-day in each month, to be known by the name of
Center Preparative Meeting, and, also, a monthly meeting to be held alter-
Coocore Creek and Center, on the first Seventh-day in each
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quarterly meeting be established by the name of Miami Quarterly Meeting,
to be held at Waynesville the second Seventh-day in the 2nd, 5th, 8th and
11th months, and the meeting for ministers and elders the day preceding,
each at the eleventh hour. Which was concurred with. It was directed
that the first meeting be held at the time mentioned in the 5th month next
and that a committee be appointed to attend the opening thereof and report
to the meeting next year. The following Friends were accordingly appoint-
ed to that service, namely, Jonas Cattell, Samuel Cope, Horton Howard,
George Kinsey, William Keets and Isaac Votaw.
Pursuant to the above minute, a quarterly meeting was opened and held at
Miami, at the time proposed by the Yearly Meeting; the minutes and pro-
ceedings of which are as follows:
At Miami Quarterly Meeting held the 13th of the 5th month, 1809. Jonas
Cattell, Horton Howard, William Keats and Isaac Votaw, part of the com-
mittee appointed by the Yearly Meeting, attended.
The reports from the several monthly meetings inform that the following
named Friends have been appointed representatives to this meeting: from
Miami, Isaae Fedrick, Asher Brown, John Stubbs and Nathan Stubbs; from
West Branch, Benjamin Iddings, William Hail, Jeremiah Mote, Isaac Embree
and Samuel Pierce; from Center, Jonathan Wright, Isaac Perkins, Samuel
Spray and Henry Millhouse; from Fairfield, Josiah Tomlinson, Enon Wil-
liams, Richard Barrett and Zebulon Ruinnan, who, being called, were all
present. Benjamin Hopkins is appointed clerk at this time.
The following Friends are appointed to propose to next meeting, a Friend
for clerk and one for assistant, namely, Benjamin Iddings and eight others.
West Branch Monthly Meeting informed that Friends of Whitewater request
their meeting for worship established; also, a preparative and monthly
meeting. After solid consideration, Jacob Jackson and five others are ap-
pointed to visit them in a collective capacity, judge the propriety of
granting their request and report to next meeting.
A number of copies of the extracts from the minutes of our last Yearly
Meeting were received and directed to be handed to the representatives and
the important matters, therein contained, recommended to the consideration
of each monthly meeting.
Redatone Quarterly Meeting forwarded to this meeting several copies of an
address from the meeting for Suffering relative to the school education of
the beloved youth, which, claiming the attention of this meeting, are di-
rected to be handed to the different monthly meetings for their care.
Thomas Horner and five others are appointed to propose to next meeting
their prospect respecting building a house to accommodate this meeting. No
further business appearing, the meeting concludes. (5th month, 1809)
At Miami Quarterly Meeting held the 12th of 8th month, 1809. The repre-
sentatives all attended.
Which, being several times read and deliberately considered, is united with
and Miami Monthly Meeting is directed to appoint a committee to attend the
openings of the several meetings at such times as may appear suitable to
that meeting and report their care to next quarterly meeting. (Copied from
the minutes of said meeting by Thomas Farquhar, Clerk at this time.)
1-8-1807 - Steven Brown and three others are appointed to attend the opening
of West Branch Preparative Meeting on the third Fifth-day in the present
month and the monthly meeting on the Seventh-day following.
2-12-1807 - The committee to attend the opening of West Branch Preparative
Meeting, 1-15-1807, and monthly meeting, 1-17-1807, report they attended,
except one.
Henry Millhouse and three others are appointed to attend the opening of Elk
Preparative Meeting on the first Fifth-day in 2nd month. (The Friends later
reported they attended, except one.)
Jacob Jackson and five others are appointed to attend the opening of Center
and Caesars Creek Preparative Meetings on the Fourth and Fifth-days preced-
ing the first Seventh-day in 2nd month and of Center Monthly Meeting, to be
held at Center on the Seventh-day following, and report their service to the
next meeting.
2-12-1807 - The Friends that were also appointed to attend the opening of
Center, 2-4-1807, report three attended to the appointment.
The grandfathers and grandmothers first had an indulged meeting; then, they
had a monthly meeting. With three monthly meetings under Redstone Quarter,
which was 300 miles away, they asked for a quarterly meeting.
2-12-1807 - This meeting (Miami) proposes taking under consideration the mak-
ing request for a quarterly meeting be forwarded to the Quarterly Meeting in
the sixth month next, if the other meetings unite with our proposal. Abijah
O'Neall and Joel Wright are appointed to attend West Branch Monthly Meeting
on the occasion and implant their care to next or the succeeding meeting.
Joseph Cloud and Mordicai Walker are appointed to attend Center on the same
occasion and report likewise.
5-14-1807 - The monthly meetings of Miami, Center and West Branch united in
a request for a quarterly meeting to be established and held at Miami, which
is directed to be forwarded to the Quarterly Meeting.
- MIAMI QUARTERLY MEETING - ITS BEGINNINGS AND FIRST ACTIVITIES -
At Baltimore Yearly Meeting, held by adjournments in 10th month, 1808 -
The committee appointed last year to take into consideration the united re-
quest of Miami, West Branch and Center Monthly Meetings including the Friends
who now constitute Fairfield Monthly Meeting, report as their sense that the
NEYON
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8-9-1804 - Thomas Nixon produced to this meeting, a paper concerning his
misconduct, which was read and received.
10-11-1804 - The preparative informs this meeting William Pope and Eliza-
beth Pope request to be joined in membership with Friends. Asher Brown
and David Faulkner are appointed to visit them on the occasion and report
to next meeting the state they may find them in.
11-8-1804 - One of the Friends appointed to visit William and Elizabeth
Pope, reports that he, in company with several other Friends, performed
the service and they believed their request to be in a good degree of
sincerity and thought it best to continue it under the care of Friends.
Phineus Hunt and John Bails are appointed to have it under care and re-
port to a future meeting.
12-13-1804 - One of the Friends who had the request of William Pope under
care, reports they had an opportunity with him to pretty good satisfaction
and the meeting appearing easy to receive him as a member, he is according-
ly received in membership.
Enos Baldwin and Sarah Hunt propose their intention of marriage with each
other, to this meeting. David Faulkner and Asher Brown are appointed to
make inquiry concerning Enos' clearness in relation to marriage, and re-
port to next meeting.
Enos Baldwin and Sarah Hunt continue their intention of marriage
with each other. Inquiry being made, concerning Enos' clearness, and no-
thing appearing to obstruct, they are left at liberty to consummate their
marriage according to good order used among Friends. John Bails and Evan
Evans are requested to attend the marriage and report how it is accomplish-
ed to next meeting, and return the marriage certificate to be recorded.
(There were 229 marriages recorded to 1954.)
10-10-1805 - The meeting appoints Isaac Stubs, Henry Millhouse, Thomas Hor-
ner, David Preis, Abijah O'Neall, Jehu Wilson, and Henry Steddom to prepare
a petition to represent the state of our suffering under the military law,
(before the House of Assembly), and produce to next meeting.
11-14-1805 - The committee appointed produced a petition which was approved
and signed. Isaac Ward, Abijah O'Neall, and Mordicai Walker are appointed
to attend the Legislature therewith and report to next meeting.
12-12-1805 - The committee appointed to attend the Assembly, report they at-
tended and were favorably received and produced a bill of their expense, be-
ing $22.94-1/2, which this meeting recommends to be produced to next meeting.
7-25-1810 - The committee appointed to take an account of the suffering of
The MIAMI GAZETTE
Second class postage paid at Waynesville, Ohio
Vol. 4 No. 10
March 8, 1972 - Waynesville, Ohio
Single Copy 10c
Nixon Family Tree Rooted
Near Waynesville
by Mary Bellman
Meeting Cemetery. He did not
Dinah Millhouse married Step-
History has been made near
know the name of the relative
hen Compton in 1796. Robert
this community with the dis-
at that time. The family are
Millhouse Jr., Henry Millhouse's
covery that President Richard
cousins of Richard Nixon. Hen-
grandson, was married in Cae-
Milhous Nixon has kin folks
ry Millhouse Sr. and his wife
sar's Creek Meeting House to
buried at the Caesar's Creek
Rebecca had six children. Mary,
Dinah Furnas, daughter of Ro-
Friends Cemetery.
born May 2, 1763 married David!
bert and Hannah Furnas of War-
H. Thomas Sweet, Jr., Re-
Whitson in Union County,
ren County. The Millhouses also
source Planner, Environmental
South Carolina in 1800. Rebecca
married into the Mendenhall,
Resources Branch, Corp of En-
Millhouse was born November 8,
Scott, Owen, and Homer famil-
gineers Louisville, Kentucky, told
1767 and married Amos Comp-
ies. A number of the Millhouses
Dennis Dalton, local historical
ton in 1793, Sarah, born March
were members of the Miami
writer, and Richard Workman,
25, 1770 married Mordecai
Monthly Meeting of Friends at
Park Board Administrator, in
Spray in 1793. Ann was born
Waynesville.
December 1971 that a relative
January 24, 1772 and married
There were several people in-
of the President was supposedly
Amos Hawkins in 1796. Robert
volved in putting all this infor-
buried in Caesar's Creek Friends
married Sarah Compton in 1791.
mation together. Mrs. Martha
Continued on Page 2
Town Square
Restaurant Opens
by Mary Bellman
Hartsock. The Scotts have three
children, Greg 14 years old. Al-
The newly named "Town
len 12 years old. and daughter
Square Restaurant and Coffee
Lynn who is five Phylis Hart
Shop" opened for business on
sock is the manage and also hus-
February 14th. New owners
band David is seen occasionally
Don and Mary Frances Scott
doing his part.
would like to take this oppor-
The Scotts ann is to please
tunity to welcome patrons past
you the customer Scott said he
and present to their new estab-
felt Waynesville should be able
lishment. They are catering to
to support a good restaurant
family style dining and also to
and have a place for young peo.
the younger set.
ple also.
The Scott family is well
Scott has been in the light
known in the area. Scott is a
excavating business but is now
native of South Lebanon and his
wife is the former Mary Frances
Continued on Page 2
Caesar's Creek Friends Meeting House and Cemetery on New Burlington Road, 8 miles from Waynesville.
- Photo Mary Bellman --
Gazette Names
man. Mary is the mother of
interest in community activities
five children and has five grand-
and past historical events.
New Editor
children.
The Gazette is proud to wel-
Mary has been in the news-
come Mary to their staff as edi-
paper business for SIX years, and
tor.
The Miami Gazette is happy
has been a correspondent for
to announce the appointment
The Miami Gazette for one year.
of a new editor, Mrs. Mary Bell-
She has been in several local
man.
charity organizations and for the
Girl Scout Sunday
Mrs. Bellman has lived in
past two years she has served
Waynesville 20 years, and is a
as U.S.O. chairman. being the
Girl Scout Sunday is March
native of Warren County, hav-
only Warren County resident to
12th. There will be a program
ing lived here all her life. She
do so.
at the Junior High Gym from
Don Scott owner of Town Square Restaurant and Coffee Shop
2:00 P.M. until 4:00 P.M. Par-
presently resides on North Fifth
Through her writings, Mrs.
located in shopping center. Don is discussing business with sister-
Street with her husband Her-
Bellman has displayed an intense
ents of girls to attend.
in-law, Phyllis Hartsock who is the restaurant manager.
Page 2
MIAMI GAZETTE
March 8. 1972
THE MIAMI GAZETTE
Nixon Family Tree
Restaurant Opens
Continued from Page I
P.O. BOX 78, WAYNESVILLE
PHONE 897-5921
Continued from Page 1
RENT TOOLS
FROM
Edmiston of the Dayton Journal
devoting his time to the restau-
Mary Bellman
Editor
Herald's "Action Line" staff
rant business.
AGRI-URBAN, INC.
Phillip Morgan
Advertising Manager
Vicki Hilton
Asst. Advertising Manager
played a very important part.
The restaurant is open 7 A.M.
Corwin Rd.
Publishers
Dennis Dalton and Richard
till 9 P.M. weekly and from 11
The Valley Shopper, Inc.
Waynesville, Ohio
Workman copied Millhouse line-
A.M. till 8 P.M. on Sunday. They
age from "Henshaw's Quaker
are closed on Monday but in the
Rotary Tillers
Encyclopedia" at Wilmington
near future could possibly be
Cyclone Fertilizer Spreader
College. They had extra copies
open seven days a week. They
Lawn Spreader
made at the Mary L. Cook Public
are equipped to handle 100 guests
Lawn Seed Sowers
Library at Waynesville. Mrs. Re-
at a party in the main dining
Tree Sprayer
gina Wolfa, assistant Librarian
room and approximately 30 peo-
Orchard Trimmer
The Mary L. Cook
made the copies and through
ple in the Lantern Room. There
Post Hole Digger
acute observation noticed Mill-
are twelve people employed at
Spud Bar Post Drivers
house's name. Later without tell-
the.restaurant.
Public Library
Fence Stretcher
ing anyone, she dug out library
Welcome Don and Mary Scott
in your new business venture in
Coop Heaters
books and worked until 10:00
downtown Waynesville.
(90,000 BTU & 140,000 BTU)
P.M. two hours past library clos-
ing to copy all materials. All
Murdoch
An Accidental Man
research with the exception of
HARVEYSBURG
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Gainham
Takeover Bid
that done at Wilmington College
Haas
The Chandler Heritage
and information provided by
By Marjean Price
LANDMARK
Dr. Raymond Martin Bell, Nixon
Ph. 897-6172
Lathen
The Longer The Thread
OHIO'S COMPLETE ONE-SOURCE
genealogist, was done at the
Several ladies ot Jonahs Run
FARM SUPPLY SERVICE
Mary L. Cook Library which
Church met at Camp Kirkwood
has an excellent historical re-
for a luncheon and retreat at the
ARTIST OF THE MONTH: MR. HOMER RAMBY
ference library.
Lodge Tuesday. Rev. Camp for
Mrs. Lucy Price visited Mr.
and Mrs. W. O. McClelland of
Dr. Willis Hall the college
the Granville office was the
Clarksville Monday.
4th STREET WAYNESVILLE, OHIO PH. 897-4826
librarian at Wilmington College
speaker. The meeting was spon-
The WECS of the United
was very cooperative when con-
sored by the ladies of the Clinton
Methodist Church will meet
tacted and confirmed that the
Baptist Association.
records were stored in the college
The joint community World
Thursday at 2:00 P.M. at the
church. Mrs. H. S. Tucker and
vault and could be seen anytime.
Day of Prayer was observed Fri-
Dalton consulted with Mrs.
day afternoon at the Springfield
Mrs. Jenny Lee Runyon will be
Kenneth Hough of Waynesville
Friends Church.
program leaders.
Boot
TM
A Grand Inspection of War-
Cut™
concerning Nixonx in the Har
lan family. Mrs. Hough, a retired
ren Chapter 224 OES was held
TOPS Club Has New Title
high school teacher and Waynes-
Thursday night at the school
ville historian and descendant of
house with approximately 160
TOPS Club OH 129 Waynes-
Friends who settled near Way.
in attendance.
ville is having a membership
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ellison,
drive to recruit new members.
nesville in 1799, gave Dalton a
list of Nixons who had married
Chip and Holly spent Sunday at
Anyone interested in becoming
Harlans and other pertient genea-
the home of her brother and
a member should contact Mrs.
logical data.
family Mr. and Mrs. Milo Hart-
Kay Lutes at R. R. 3 Waynes-
ville.
of Delaware.
County History". A week ago
will be held Thursday night
save in Adams for being
Angel of the Month for the sec
Dalton wrote Gwen King, Dir-
March 9th, at the church.
ond straight month in a row
ector of Correspondence for Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Taylor
This is awarded to the membe
Richard Nixon since he had had
of Xenia were Sunday afternoon
with the most weight lost.
previous correspondence with
visitors at the Clint Taylor home.
her, sending along the Millhouse
Debbie Gibson spent Satur-
The group meets on Tuesda
data. She replied this week and
day night with her sister and
night at 7:00 P.M. at the St
said his letter had been forward-
family Mr. and Mrs. Don Smed-
Mary's Episcopal Church.
ed to the proper genological
ley and Ricky of near Wilming-
channels. A lot of hard work
ton.
Cynthia Huffman was rein
nad persistence has finally paid
stated as a member.
off with the discovery.
Another discovery was made
by Regina Wolfe at the library.
The records of the war between
the states show that George Nix-
COLONIAL GIFT SHOP
on III of Clinton County, enlist-
ed with Company B, 73rd Ohio
Voluntary Infantry Regiment.
He is buried at Gettysburg, one
THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL
of the last to die in that terrible
and decisive battle. His son Sam-
FROM OUR
uel Brady Nixon, married Sally
Ann Wadsworth, a descendant
of the first American Comman-
do, General "Mad Anthony"
Gift Shop
Wayne. Their son Francis An-
Lee RIDERS R
thony Nixon is Richard's father.
Waynesville was named for Gen-
Dish
eral "Mad Anthony" Wayne. The
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Dennis Dalton
P.O. Box 194
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
March 13, 1972
Mrs. Gwen King
Director of Correspondence
for Mrs. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mrs. King:
I and a friend, Mrs. Mary Bellman, also of Waynesville, a newspaper correspondent
have made another Millhouse discovery.
In one of my first letters to you, I mentioned that historical records showed that
the Millhouses had built mills on Buck Run near here and that one of the mills had
been torn down in 1828 and moved to the Jay property and rebuilt into a school house
under Friends' supervision. That exact record from the 1882 Clinton County Ohio
history states:
"Among the first mills in the township (Chester Twp.) was a saw-mill
built at the mouth of Buck Run by Robert Millhouse but operated by the waters of
Caesar Creek. In after years, a corn stone was placed there-in, and corn grists
were ground there. Lower down on Buck Run, the Millhouses erected a carding and
fulling mill which remained there until 1828, when it was torn down and removed to
the lands of David Jay, Sr., where it was made into a schoolhouse, under the
supervision of the Caesrr Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends".
Sunday Mrs. Bellman and I got a lead on that school house and investigated. After
investigating the old "Blackberry School" on Mound Road near Center Road, I was
compelled for some reason to investigate a section of Center Road I had not been
over.
Finally I asked directions to Buck Run and explained in detail why it was so
important I find the stream and where it emptied into Caesar's Creek. We were
taken by Mr. William Creager of Kingman to the home of Mr. Elmer C. LeMar near
New Burlington in the vicinity of the area we were investigating. I repeated the
same information as above concerning the mill turned school and questioned Mr.
LeMar, who will celebrate his 89th birthday May 7. Mr. LeMar was born in a log
cabin northeast of New Burlington, Ohio and moved to his present farm at the
age of 9 and (1892) lived there in an early pioneer log cabin which is still
standing there today. During our conversation, it was extablished and confirmed
that it was Buck Run school that I was looking for and that it was still in
existance having been moved from its site on Buck Run Road to the Amos DeHaven
farm on Buck Run Road and used as a storage building. Mr. LeMar was able to tell
me that the Buck Run School was located on the Jay farm. He graduated with the
class of 1898 and readily recites: "A pocket full of rocks and a head full of
knowledge, I'd rather go to Buck Run than any other college", a verse he wrote while
attending the school.
I was taken to the DeHaven farm where I examined the construction of the former
Buck Run School which was the original Millhouse carding and fulling mill and
found it somewhat altered but in excellent condition. Some of the framework is
hand hewn but most of the construction is sawed having been sawed at the Robert
Millhouse saw-mill which preceeded the carding and fulling mill. The structure
is mortised and pegged together with wooden pins. It still has a little of
its original clapboard siding under the plank siding now protecting it. I was
able to get a piece of the original siding and bring it home. Mrs. Bellman
took photos of the building and I am enclosing one in order that the President
may see the existant structure built from the mill that was removed by the
Millhouses in 1828.
The DeHaven farm is now abandoned due to the death of Mr. DeHaven and Mrs. DeHaven
has moved to Dayton, Ohio I believe. I am currently checking to find her in order
that I may contact her and acquire the Buck Run School in order that it be
preserved as a national historic landmark. It is thought that Millhouses attended
the Buck Run School during its early history.
I am also checking a story that the Wilmington News Journal at Wirmington, Ohio
carried last week. It seems that Buck Run was being dredged near where the
Robert Millhouse mills once stood and workmen dug up a Millhouse tombstone. I
hear that the site will be fenced and preserved as an historic site. When I have
confirmed this tory I will send you the details.
Please forward this letter and photo to the President if you will be so kind.
Most Sincerely
Dennis Dalton
US
WAYNESVILLE
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Dennis Dalton
P.O. Box 194
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
1972
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Mrs. Gwen King
Director of Correspondence
for Mrs. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D.C.
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Dennis Dalton
P.O. Box 194
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
March 8, 1972
Mrs. Gwen King
Director of Correspondence
for Mrs. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mrs. King:
Thank you for your kind reply of March 1 and your kind help.
I need your help again and sincerely hope you will be able to assist. I do
hope my requests of you haven't been inconvenient or an imposition but I do
not have the name and address of Mr. Nixon's personal secretary so I must
channel my inquiries through you.
You may or may not know by this writing that we were able to confirm that
the President's relatives are buried here at Caesar's Creek Friends Cemetery.
My friend, Martha Edmiston, who is a member of the Action Line staff of the
Journal Herald at Dayton, Ohio phoned Dr. Raymond Martin Bell and received a
verification that the Henry Millhouse, Sr. buried here and President Richard
Milhous Nixon are fifth cousins. Dr. Bell said that he had lost the family
(Millhouse) after they left Union County, South Carolina in 1805. Our branch
of the Nixon family tree here seems to be the important missing link.
H. Thomas Sweet, Jr., Resource Planner, Environmental Resources Branch,
Louisville District, Corps of Engineers, Louisville, Kentucky, brought it to
my attention and that of Warren County Park District Administrator, Richard
Workman, that a relative of President Nixon's was supposedly buried in Caesar's
Creek Cemetery. I immediately began drawing upon my storehouse of historical data
and phone Waynesville Friends whom I knew had Nixons listed in their family
genealogies. I also phoned Dr. Willis Hall, Librarian, at Wilmington College,
Wilmington, Ohio. Dr. Hall has charge of all the early Quaker records of this area.
I set up an appointment for Mr. Sweet but he wasn't able to make connection and I
did not meet Dr. Hall and examine his records until recently since we at first didn't
realize that it was Millhouse we were looking for and not Nixon. Then one day I
discovered in Wayne Township marriage records that "Henry Millhouse married Sarah
Horner in Wayne Township in 1817" and I knew then that Milhous was the name I was
looking for, the name having been spelled later without the 1 or e. Then in the
Clinton County History of 1882 (Clinton County Ohio) Workman and I found that
Henry Millhouse, Sr. and son, Robert and wife and family and the other Millhouse
children and families had settled on Caesar's Creek near Waynesville around 1305
and that Henry and Robert had helped organize the Caes' r's Creek Monthly Meeting
of Friends and had assisted in raising the first log meeting house in 1805.
From there the search for the Nixon relatives, gained momentum and excitement.
Dr. Bell was consulted by Mrs. Edmiston and I and Workman poured over Quaker
Records at Wilmington College and were able to obtain vital information from
Henshaw's Quaker Encyclopedia and record books brought from Cane Creek Friends
Meeting, Union County, South Carolina in 1805.
We had the Henshaw history copied at the college and later had extra copies
made at the Mary L. Cook Public Library at Waynesville where all the Millhouse
research had been done with exception of Dr. Bell and Dr. Hall's information.
Mrs. Regina Wolfe, assistant librarian, made the copies and noticed the Millhouse
name. Later, on her own, she dug out Civil War and Revolutionary War Rosters and
books on President Nixon and made an interesting discovery that until that time
remained unknown. She found that President Nixon is a direct descendant to
General Anthony Wayne. Anythony Waynes soldiers camped at Waynesville in 1793
and the creek along which they camped is still known here as "CamptCreek".
Waynesville, which celebrates its 175th birthday this year, was named for Anthony
Wayne who visited this area frequently. Wayne Township is also named for him.
The early Millhouses married into several old Quaker families around here. The
Spray, Compton, Mendenhall, Owen, Mills, Scott, Hawkins and Furnas families were
married into by Henry, Srs.' children and grandchildren. Robert, a grandson,
married Dinah Furnas, daughter of Robert and Hannah Furnas of Waynesville. There
are still Furnases who make up Waynesville's population and attend Friends Meeting
in the 1811 vintage brick Hicksite Meeting House (oldest Friends Meeting House
West of the Alleghenies) where Henry Millhouse, Sr's. grandson, Henry Millhouse
was married in 1817. All the family names previously mentioned would be distant
cousins of President Nixon as would be their descendants. Consequently it is
most interesting to note that half or more of Waynesville's 1,700 population can
claim kinship to the President of The United States.
One of the persons who can claim Mr. Nixon as a cousin is Mrs. Sarah Furnas Cook,
a descendant of Robert and Hannah and a cousin of Dinah Furnas Millhouse. Mrs.
Cook is currently serving on the Board of Trustees of the Mary L. Cook Public
Library which is named for Dr. Mary L. Cook, Waynesville's noted horse and buggy
physician, who founded the library in April, 1917 and was its board president for
many years and guided its growth until her death several years ago at age 95. Dr.
Mary, one of few female physicians for her time, was born at Harveysburg near here
and lived all her life in Waynesville. I believe that her family was in some way
connected with the Millhouses and I'm working on research now to prove it.
April is National Library Week and the Mary L. Cook Public Library is planning a
special celebration since it has been newly repainted, air conditioned and will
announced Wednesday hours making it available to the public six days a week. The
Mary L. Cook Library has one of the finest historical research and reference
departments in Warren County and since that is where the biggest part of the missing
Millhouse research was done, since one of its Board Members and possibly its founder
is a distant cousin of the President and since April is National Library Month I
feel that it deserves a letter of recognition (a personal letter) from U.S. President
Richard Nixon. It would mean a lot to us here on our 175th birthday year and even
more to Mrs. George Current, Mary L. Cook Librarian.
Can you help me achieve this by seeing that this letter is delivered into the hands
of President Nixon? I will certainly appreciate any personal attention you can give
it.
A little country village like Waynesville seldom becomes known for anything and
receives little public notice. Waynesville has made no great gifts to the
nation other than Millhouses and that's the greatest in my estimation.
I am a Democrat who loves history, his heritage and his country. I also
voted for Mr. Nixon and most probably will again.
WAYNESVILLE, OHIO
settled - 1797
Where History
And
Heritage Hospitality
Are The Pace
Waynesville's physical beginnings originated in 1796
in Shropshire, England, where its founder, Samuel
8
Heighway and associate, Dr. Evan Banes, platted it to
g
include parks and squares similiar to an English vill-
age. Heighway, Banes and five other English pioneers
settled Waynesville on the banks of the scenic Little
Miami River March 8, 1797. Heighway's original in-
tent was a plantation. With him, this giant among pio-
neers (Heighway weighed over 300 pounds and stood
over 6 feet tall) brought over 30 tons of goods, laud-
ed in legend as the largest store inventory in the Nor-
thwest Territory. The site of Heighway's log store
and his second home (built in 1818 but torn down in
1905) can be visited at Sciota Square. The restored
FIRST DADY
8-01
FL5-1
March 1, 1972
Dear Mr. Dalton,
Thank you for your most interesting letter and
your inquiry about certain details of the President's
geneology. I have forwarded your letter on to the
individual on the President's staff who will not only
be pleased to have the information you have provided
but will also be in a better position to respond to
your specific questions.
with appreciation and all best wishes,
Sincerely,
Mrs. Gwen King
Director of Correspondence
for Mrs. Nixon
X
Mr. Dennis Dalton
Post Office BOX 194
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
GK/cls
CC: Diane Humes
Room 17, EOB
RECEIVED
MAR R 1972
SOCIAL FILES
Warren County Park District
LEBANON, OHIO 45036
Board of
PARK COMMISSIONERS
FRED W. BYERS Chairman
406 Lake Avenue
Franklin, Ohio 45005
CORWIN FRED - Vice Chairman
February 25, 1972
395 West Railroad
South Lebanon, Ohio 45065
DR. D. C. CHRISTIANSON - Secretary
200 East Furbee Drive
Mason, Ohio 45040
Mrs. Gwen King
Director of Correspondence
for Mrs. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mrs. King:
I am in need of some genealogical information from the President and thought perhaps
you might be able to direct this inquirey to the proper sources.
I am presently engaged in doing historical research as a part of my volunteer service
to the new Warren County Park District here. The biggest project currently assumed
by Park Board and Park Administrator, Richard Workman and myself has been the
preservation of historical buildings slated for destruction by the Caesar's Creek
Reservoir Project, a Federal flood control program. We have been successful in saving
two log houses, the Levi Lukens house, built in 1807 and a grist mill, built prior to
1815, to date. Log structures are mushrooming throughout the reservoir project area
and we are trying to save all of them.
A second two story log house here may have national historical significance if historica
records can be confirmed. The house, the remaining half of a "saddlebag" log house
(two identical two story log houses connected by a central fireplace and chimney) which
is extremely rare in Ohio, is believed to have been built around 1813 by Amos Hawkins
who married Ann Millhouse in 1796 in Union County, South Carolina. Ann Millhouse was
the daughter of Henry and Rebeccs Millhouse who settled in 1806 along Caesar's Creek
in Clinton County now in Warren County. Her father, Henry Millhouse, was born "in
the parish of Timahoe, County of Kildare, Ireland, 1st of 5th month, 1736, O.S."
according to the 1882 edition of Beer's History of Clinton County Ohio.
Beer's further states that "As early as 1807, the settlers along Caesar's Creek
erected the 'old log house', yet standing on their grounds, and on which the Caesar's
Warren County Park District
LEBANON, OHIO 45036
Board of
PARK COMMISSIONERS
FRED W. BYERS Chairman
406 Lake Avenue
Franklin, Ohio 45005
CORWIN FRED - Vice Chairman
395 West Railroad
South Lebanon, Ohio 45065
DR. D. C. CHRISTIANSON - Secretary
200 East Furbee Drive
Mason, Ohio 45040
Creek Monthly Meeting House (Society of Frinds) now stands, in Warren County. The
meetings held in those days were 'indulged', and among those known to its earliest
organization were Henry Millhouse, Sr. and Robert Millhouse, Sr. (his son). " "Among
the first mills in Chester Township, Clinton County was a saw-mill built at the
mouth of Buck Run by Robert Millhouse and operated by the waters of Caesar Creek. In
after years, a corn stone was placed there-in, and corn grists were ground there.
Lower down on Buck Run, the Millhouses erected a carding and fulling mill which
remained there until 1828, when it was torn down and removed to the lands of David
Jay, Sr., where it was made into a schoolhouse, under the supervision of the Caesar
Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends".
Henry Millhouse, Sr. died May 22, 1821 and Ann Millhouse Hawkins died February 4,
1855. Both are buried in the Caesar Creek Friends cemetery which with its 1849
frame meeting house are in the Caesar's Creek Project area. The meeting house and
its cemetery might be moved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
I realize that the resident is Richard Milhous Nixon but that it possibly might
have originally been Millhouse. Is there any way to prove or disprove that our
Henry Millhouse was an ancestor or relative of President Nixon? Henry Millhouse
settled in Union County, South Carolina after emigrating to the United States.
I have enclosed a newspaper clipping which relates the story of our latest log
acquisition. The Levi Lukens log house is the ancestral homestead of Ohio Senator
and former Congressman Donald E. "Buz" Lukens, Levi's great-great-great grandson.
I do hope that the Richard Nixon genealogy will give us the needed information.
Most Sincerely,
Dennis Dalton
P.O. Box 194
Waynesville, Ohio 45068
May 11, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Dr. Jean Spencer
SUBJECT: John Nixon
Carol Bronson in the Vice President's office has asked me to
send you this note. Not having seen the letter in question, 1
am going by what Carol told me over the phone.
In the President's background, according to our very limited
information, these are two John Nixons who could have been
living in the year 1863 (see attached sheets under #32 and #16).
The John Nixon, who is the sea of William Wilson Nixon, does
have among his brothers and sisters a Mary and a Samantha.
But this is the extent of the information which at all seems to
fit and is very little on which to establish the identity of the
letter writer.
AttachmentsGeaology information
Dianne Humes
Carol Bronson
Vice President's Office
THE WHITE HOUSE X 2198
WASHINGTON
John F. Nixon
Sister Mary who married F.C. Garri-
son
Brother Sam
Uncle William or Williams
Cousin Maggie
2 children Ida and Bishop mentioned
Carrie and Laura Gibson mentioned
January 19, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR
Rose Mary Woods
Subject: Well-known Presidential Relatives
If you think It appropriate, you might want to lot the President
know that he is related to the following famous Americans, This
information contes from Dr. Dell and other relatives and citizens
who have written since last January:
1. Depiel Webster. The President thares D instrual 10 prosts
grandisther with Elm - the deverend Stephen Bachilor who
came to Massechusetts in 1633.
2. John Greenleaf Whittier. His mother, Abigail, was 2
sictor of the President's 5 greate grandisther, John Hussey,
3. The late Robert Taylor, the befor. He and the Fresident
are about Sth cousing through the Trinspor family.
4. The ReckeAller brothers. They are related to the
President through the Trimmers. Their commits
ancestor WAS Johnunes Trimmer, who came to America
in 1738.
5. John Bortonm, the famous 10th certary betahlst. L He
married a Mandenhall and is the President's 6th great
unclo. Dr. Bell's Intest entimate is that the President
has 2 million Montificable consins.
Two-thirds of the President's ancestors were Quaker and on the
average they Inaded in America about 1695. There is no record
of any arriving after 1775.
Noble Metercemp
Jane Milhous
Daughter of Wellam
b. June 10, 1790
M. grenbury Plummer
sister of William P'S 2 qu an
<<
born Dec 31, 1820
genge Ruce
Joseph Waters
Jane R. Milhous
b.s.4.9 1560 b. Sep.9 1560
dud Oct. 16,1860
Jane B. mehrs
Dec 29.1889
in Hand Beason
RMW
April 27, 1970
From Noble -- for your thoughts and recommendation
He is going to dig out of files archives, etc. all of the pictures
they can find of the President's ancestors.
Then, if you concur, have Ollie make up 10 sets for:
1
President
1
Julie
1
Tricia
1
RMW
1
Don Nixon
1
Ed Nixon
1
Celia Bellinger
idea
1
Archives
1
Files
1
Extra
Marje
might to early be and
NIXON RELATIVES
NAME
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
TIE
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
Francis Donald Nixon (Don)
Brother of RN
Brother
11/23/14
Clara Jane Lemke Nixon
Wife of Don
Sister-in-law of RN
11/16/19
Lawrene Mae Nixon
Daughter of Don
Niece of RN
7/18/43
Donald Anthony Nixon
Son of Don
Nephew of RN
12/12/45
Richard Calvert Nixon (Rick)
Son of Don
Nephew of RN
8/28/52
Edward Calvert Nixon
Brother of RN
Brother
5/3/30
Gay Lynne Woods Nixon
Wife of Ed
Sister-in-law of RN
7/8/37
Amelie Nixon (Amy)
Daughter of Ed
Niece of RN
6/4/58
Elizabeth Nixon (Beth)
Daughter of Ed
Niece of RN
4/14/60
VEdith Milhous Timberlake
Sister of Hannah Nixon
Aunt of RN
6/30/80
Philip Hunter Timberlake (Tim)
Brother-in-law of Hannah
Uncle of RN
6/5/82
Elizabeth T. Paldanius
Daughter of Edith
1st cousin of RN
11/7/18
Martha Ellen R. Cartmill
Daughter of Elizabeth
2nd cousin of RN
8/12/43
G. Ronald Cartmill
Son-in-law of Elizabeth
"
"
"
11/19/42
Jennifer Rae Cartmill
Daughter of Martha Ellen
3rd cousin of RN
7/19/61
Randall Scott Cartmill
Son of Martha Ellen
"
"
"
9/30/62
John Edward Richardson
Son of Elizabeth
2nd cousin of RN
3/21/49
Dennis Lee Richardson
Son of Elizabeth
"
"
"
9/17/50
Dr. Philip Franklin Timberlake
Son of Edith
1st cousin of RN
2/29/20
Frances. Louise Jones Timberlake
Daughter-in-law of Edith
"
"
"
1/10/21
Philip Louis Timberlake (Dec.)
Son of Philip
2nd cousin of RN
8/13/45
Kathyrn Louise Timberlake
Daughter of Philip
"
"
"
5/14/47
Carolyn Edith Timberlake
Daughter of Philip
"
"
"
1/28/52
Mary Alice Timberlake
Daughter of Philip
"
"
"
9/27/53
Page 2
NAME
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
TIE
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
Priscilla Timberlake MacLeod
Daughter of Edith
1st cousin of RN
11/2/23
Bower MacLeod
Son-in-law of Edith
"
"
"
3/4/20
Roseanne MacLeod
Daughter of Priscilla
2nd cousin of RN
5/29/49
Patricia Jane MacLeod
Daughter of Priscilla
"
"
"
10/27/50
Thomas Kenneth MacLeod
Son of Priscilla
"
"
"
10/13/52
Jeanne Elizabeth MacLeod
Daughter of Priscilla
"
"
"
7/21/59
Robert Bower MacLeod
Son of Priscilla
"
"
"
6/4/64
Ezra C. Milhous
Brother of Hannah
Uncle of RN
3/18/87
Ruth Taber Milhous (2nd wife)
Sister-in-law of Hannah
Aunt of RN
1/18/93
Robert Franklin Milhous
Son of Ezra
1st cousin of RN
11/9/10
Lura Ethel Halfhill Milhous
Daughter-in-law of Ezra
"
"
"
9/28/12
Howard Nicholas Milhous
Son of Robert
2nd cousin of R
5/7/33
Eloise J. Milhous Price
Daughter of Robert
"
"
"
3/12/35
Daughter of Robert
"
"
"
Carolyn M. Milhous Penrod
5/10/38
Donna Jane Milhous
"
"
"
Daughter of Robert
11/19/44
Charles Eric Milhous
Son of Ezra
1st cousin of RN
Lucile Halfhill Milhous
Daughter-in-law of Ezra
"
"
"
Barbara A. Milhous Langley
Daughter of Charles Eric
2nd cousin of RN
8/31/34
Richard C. Langley
Son of Barbara
3rd cousin of RN
7/2/64
Melissa J. Langley
Daughter of Barbara
"
"
"
6/19/66
Charles William Milhous
Son of Charles Eric
2nd cousin of RN
1/20/37
David P. Milhous
Son of Charles William
3rd cousin of RN
3/17/57
Son of Charles William
"
"
"
John W. Milhous
12/18/58
Lisa A. Milhous
Daughter of Charles William
"
"
"
7/2/61
Philip Milhous
Son of Ezra
1st cousin of RN
Oliver G. Milhous
Son of Ezra
"
"
"
5/6/17
Frances Baudino Milhous
Daughter-in-law of Ezra
"
"
"
8/19/22
Richard J. Milhous
Son of Oliver
2nd cousin of RN
7/7/41
Frank W. Milhous
Son of Oliver
"
"
"
11/4/42
Jane Milhous Barr
Daughter of Ezra
1st cousin of RN
11/19/18
Son-in-law of Ezra
"
"
"
Charles H. Barr
9/11/09
Stephen Lawrence Barr
Son of Jane
2nd " cousin of RN "
10/5/42
Nancy Lynn Barr Prat
Daughter of Jane
2/25/45
"
"
"
Gary Francis Barr
Son of Jane
5/8/46
Page 3
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
NAME
TIE
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
Alice May Milhous Needham
Daughter of Ezra
1st cousin of RN
5/22/20
Eugene Richard Needham
Son-in-law of Ezra
"
"
"
9/30/20
Susan Marie Needham Victorino
Daughter of Alice
2nd cousin of RN
3/15/45
Penny Jean Needham Dorman
Daughter of Alice
"
"
"
11/29/47
Cheri Lynn Needham
Daughter of Alice
"
"
"
12/20/51
Robert Bruce Needham
Son of Alice
"
"
"
8/16/53
William Theodore Milhous
Son of Ezra
1st cousin of RN
9/11/21
Thelma Baudino Milhous
Daughter-in-law of Ezra
"
"
"
7/19/26
Gary Milhous
Son of William Theodore
2nd cousin of RN
7/14/45
Michael Milhous
Son of William Theodore
"
"
"
2/11/50
Calvin Burdge Milhous
Son of Ezra
1st cousin of RN
8/29/26
Caludette L. Dahle Milhous
Daughter-in-law of Ezra
"
"
"
5/23/36
Vickie Milhous
Daughter of Calvin
2nd cousin of RN
9/13/48
Monty Milhous
Son of Calvin
"
"
"
5/30/50
John. Milhous
Son of Calvin
"
"
"
12/19/56
Robert Reed
Step-son of Calvin
Mark Reed
Step-son of Calvin
Sandra Reed
Step-daughter of Calvin
Hannah Elizabeth M. Reeves (Elizabeth)
Daughter of Ezra
1st cousin of RN
11/20/28
S. Truman Reeves
Son-in-law of Ezra
"
"
"
10/7/26
Debra Sue Reeves
Daughter of Elizabeth
2nd cousin of RN
1/17/54
Larry Duane Reeves
Son of Elizabeth
"
"
"
6/27/61
Le Anne Darlene Reeves
Daughter of Elizabeth
"
"
"
10/17/62
Jane Milhous Beeson
Sister of Hannah Nixon
Aunt of RN
12/29/89
Harold C. Beeson (Dec.)
Joseph Alden Beeson
Son of Jane
1st cousin of RN
5/16/13
Jean Thomson Beeson
Daughter-in-law of Jane
"
"
"
3/28/14
Richard Alden Beeson
Son of Joseph
2nd cousin of RN
8/22/41
Donald Harold Beeson
Son of Joseph
"
"
"
9/30/44
Ronald Thomas Beeson
Son of Joseph
"
"
"
9/30/44
Page 4
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
NAME
TIE
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
Sheldon Chantry Beeson
Son of Jane
1st cousin of RN
10/4/16
Dorothy Robinson Beeson
Daughter-in-law of Jane
"
"
"
2/11/18
Roberta Jane Beeson
Daughter of Sheldon
2nd cousin of RN
6/13/40
David Allan Beeson
Son of Sheldon
"
"
"
2/24/45
Harold Eugene Beeson
Son of Sheldon
"
"
"
4/1/48
Carol Jean Beeson
Daughter of Sheldon
"
"
"
6/28/50
Barbara Jane Beeson Brightup
Daughter of Jane
1st cousin of RN
4/9/30
Marvin E. Brightup (divorced)
Charlyn Grace Brightup
Daughter of Barbara Jane
2nd cousin of RN
1/24/49
John Edward Brightup
Son of Barbara Jane
"
"
"
4/14/51
Janelle Jane Brightup
Daughter of Barbara Jane
"
"
"
3/22/53
James Harold Brightup
Son of Barbara Jane
"
"
"
6/29/55
Daughter of Barbara Jane
"
"
"
Marsha Jean Brightup
7/21/56
Rose Olive Milhous Marshburn (Olive)
Sister of Hannah Nixon
Aunt of RN
1/23/95
Oscar O. Marshburn
Brother-in-law of Hannah
Uncle of RN
6/14/96
Hadley E. Marshburn
Son of Olive
1st cousin of RN
6/26/21
Joan Ackerman Marshburn
Daughter-in-law of Olive
"
"
"
11/14/29
Suzie Marshburn
Daughter of Hadley
2nd cousin of RN
10/2/45
Beth Marshburn
Daughter of Hadley
"
"
"
9/3/54
Deborah Cossey
Step-daughter of Hadley
8/23/54
Howard A. Marshburn
Son of Olive
1st cousin of RN
2/4/24
Madelyn Fenzl Marshburn
Daughter-in-law of Olive
"
"
"
10/8/25
Gary Marshburn
Son of Howard
2nd cousin of RN
8/26/52
Marygene Marshburn Wright
Daughter of Olive
1st cousin of RN
11/22/27
William-H. Wright, Jr.
Son-in-law of Olive
"
"
"
10/26/27
Jeananne Wright Coop
Daughter of Marygene
2nd cousin of RN
4/4/47
William Howard Wright
Son of Marygene
"
"
"
2/8/49
Lea Mae Wright
Daughter of Marygene
"
"
"
9/21/51
Norman Alan Wright
Son of Marygene
"
"
"
11/12/53
Kirk Hadley Wright
Son of Marygene
"
"
"
10/14/58
Betsy Rose Wright
Daughter of Marygene
"
"
"
2/6/63
Page 5
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
NAME
TIE
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
Theodore F. Marshburn
Son of Olive
1st cousin of RN
12/13/29
Mary Louise Delkin Marshburn
Daughter- law of Olive
11
"
"
2/5/32
Carol Ann Marshburn
Daughter of Theodore
2nd cousin of RN
12/5/55
David Edward Marshburn
Son of Theodore
"
11
"
10/3/57
John Steven Marshburn
Son of Theodore
"
"
"
5/13/62
Paul William Marshburn
Son of Theodore
"
"
"
10/23/64
Mary Kennedy Nixon
Wife of Frank's dec.
Aunt of RN
10/2/87
brother (Dr. Ernest L.)
Alice Nixon Linton
Daughter of Ernest
1st cousin of RN
9/20/15
Levan Linton
Son-in-law of Ernest
"
"
11
2/5/15
Janet Linton Fay
Daughter of Alice.
2nd cousin of RN
11/27/40
Thomas Leland Linton
Son of Alice
"
"
"
6/13/47
Ernestine Nixon Noll
Daughter of Ernest
1st cousin of RN
12/7/18
C. Joseph Noll
Son-in-law of Ernest
"
"
"
11/22/13
Joseph Nixon Noll
Son of Ernestine
2nd cousin of RN
9/16/48
Michael Ernest Noll
Son of Ernestine
"
"
"
7/10/55
Leland W. Nixon
Son of Ernest
1st cousin of RN
6/15/27
Jacqueline Rimmey Nixon
Daughter-in-law of Ernest
"
"
"
1/21/33
Deborah Lou Nixon
Daughter of Leland
2nd cousin of RN
8/5/51
Judith Ann Nixon
Daughter of Leland
"
"
"
9/17/51
Floyd E. Wildermuth
Son of sister of Frank
1st cousin of RN
12/17/09
Ruby I. Aabel Wildermuth
Daughter-in-law of sister
"
"
"
8/9/14
of Frank (?)
Ann Marie W. Homiczewski
Daughter of Floyd
2nd cousin of RN
6/20/40
Daughter of Floyd
"
"
"
Betty- Diane Wildermuth
12/29/43
Edith Gibbons Nunes
Daughter of Hannah's
1st cousin of RN
11/4/13
dec. sister (Martha M.
Gibbons)
Son-in-law of Martha
"
"
"
John D. Nunes
4/17/12
Geoffrey C. Nunes
Son of Edith
2nd cousin of RN
9/21/39
Page 6
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
NAME
TIE
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
Mildred Gibbons Fink
Daughter of Hannah's
1st cousin of RN
1/1/18
dec. sister Martha M. Gibbons
John Edmond Fink
Son-in-law of Martha
"
"
"
10/5/17
Laurence Edward Fink
Son of Mildred
2nd cousin of RN
5/23/42
Dana Damron Fink
Daughter-in-law of Mildred
"
"
"
3/28/42
Karen Laureen Fink
Daughter of Laurence
3rd cousin of RN
12/4/63
Daniel Laurence Fink
Son of Laurence
11
"
"
11/11/65
John William Fink
Son of Mildred
2nd cousin of RN
5/19/45
Martha Elizabeth Fink Hamilton
Daughter of Mildred
"
"
11
3/15/47
Russell E. Harrison
Husband of Hannah's dec.
Uncle of RN
1/8/93
sister (Elizabeth)
Lucile Hogue Harrison (3rd wife)
Russell E. Harrison, Jr.
Step-son of Elizabeth
7/24/13
Ruth Evelyn Gilbert Harrison
Wife of Russell, Jr.
2/20/13
Lucille Harrison Parsons
Daughter of Elizabeth
1st cousin of RN
2/19/17
Richard Beryl Parsons (Beryl)
Son-in-law of Elizabeth
"
"
11
6/19/15
Patricia Parsons Henderson
Daughter of Lucille
2nd cousin of RN
8/19/39
Sherry Ann Henderson
Daughter of Patricia
3rd cousin of RN
6/25/59
Rick Leo Henderson
Son of Patricia
11
"
"
5/30/62
William Russell Parsons
Son of Lucille
2nd cousin of RN
7/31/41
Christy Lee Parsons
Daughter of Wm. Russell
3rd cousin of RN
11/1/65
Richard B. Parsons, Jr.
Son of Lucille
2nd cousin of RN
10/11/42
Lana M. Charlton Parsons
Daughter-in-law of Lucille
"
"
"
7/30/43
John Howard Parsons
Son of Lucille
"
"
"
2/4/46
Judy Ann Keeney Parsons
Daughter-in-law of Lucille
"
"
"
8/22/45
Helene H. Nixon (2nd wife)
Wife of Frank's dec.
Aunt of RN
3/4/97
brother (Hugh)
Joyce Nixon Sanden
Daughter of Hugh
1st cousin of RN
1/1/21
Dr. Milton R. Sanden
Son-in-law of Hugh
"
"
"
8/26/20
Sharron Sanden Weakley
Daughter of Joyce
2nd cousin of RN
10/16/42
Nick Robert Sanden
Son of Joyce
"
"
"
10/13/47
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FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
NAME
TIE
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
Neva Nixon Cotter
Daughter of Hugh
1st cousin of RN
3/20/30
Thomas W. Cotter
Son-in-law of Hugh
11
"
"
4/25/29
Roger Lee Nixon
Son of Hugh
"
"
"
9/16/25
Barbara Ann Body Nixon
Daughter-in-law of Hugh
"
"
"
5/9/46
June M. Nixon Gynn
Daughter of Roger
2nd cousin of RN
8/23/44
Nancy Ann Nixon Kana
Daughter of Roger
"
"
"
7/22/47
Henry Wadsworth Nixon
Son of Frank's dec.
1st cousin of RN
1/7/08
brother (?)
Margaret Nickelwarth Nixon
Daughter-in-law of Frank's
"
"
"
7/17/09
dec. brother
Christine A. Nixon Van Soest
Daughter of Henry
2nd cousin of RN
9/28/31
W. Carleton Milhous
Son of Hannah's dec.
1st cousin of RN
10/28/07
half-brother Griffith)
Virginia Milhous Hughey
Daughter of Carleton
2nd cousin of RN
12/16/29
Rev. Kenneth E. Milhous
Son of Carleton
"
"
"
8/24/37
Dr. Raymond L. Milhous
Son of Carleton
"
"
"
8/24/37
Esther Milhous Dodson
Daughter of Hannah's dec.
1st cousin of RN
10/23/1900
half-brother (Griffith)
Charles William Milhous II(Bill) Son of Hannah's uncle
2nd cousin of RN
11/1/96
(Charles Wm. Milhous I)
Sara Milhous Biggs
Daughter of Chas. Wm. II
3rd cousin of RN
1917
Beula Milhous Kewish
Daughter of Chas. Wm.. II
"
"
"
2/17/18
Wesley Kewish
Son-in-law of Chas. Wm. II
11
1!
"
1/4/18
Dan Kewish
Son of Beula
4th cousin of RN
12/20/42
Dean Kewish
Son of Beula
"
"
"
4/20/54
William Alan Milhous (Bill)
Son of Chas. Wm. II
3rd cousin of RN
12/11/22
Dorothy M. Roberts Milhous
Daughter-in-law of C.W. II
"
"
11
7/8/23
Marianne Milhous Wiggins
Daughter of William A. .
4th cousin of RN
10/3/45
Gary A. Milhous
Son of William A.
"
"
"
4/2/48
Sharon K. Milhous
Daughter of William A.
"
"
"
3/24/56
Scott W. Milhous
Son of William A.
"
"
"
8/13/58
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FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
NAME
TIE
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
Charles L. Milhous (Chuck)
Son of Hannah's 1st cousin 3rd cousin of RN
9/13/24
Frank (Frank was C.W.I's son)
Patricia Magneson Milhous
Wife of Charles L. Milhous
"
"
"
7/20/34
John C. Milhous
Son of Charles L.
4th cousin of RN
6/4/51
Helen Seulke Letts
Daughter of Hannah's 1st
2nd cousin of RN
cousin Blanche (Blanche
was Chas. Wm. I's daughter)
Janice Marie Letts
Daughter of Helen
3rd cousin of RN
2/9/40
Jeanette A. Letts Stiles
Daughter of Helen
"
"
"
2/9/40
Jim Stiles
Son-in-law of Helen
11
"
"
8/22/42
Thomas T. Seulke
Son of Hannah's 1st cousin 2nd cousin of RN
4/9/18
Blanche (Blanche was Chas.
Wm. I's daughter)
Kathryn Harvey Seulke
Wife of Tom Seulke
11
"
"
1/24/20
James Thomas Seulke
Son of Tom
3rd cousin of RN
11/24/41
Sheila K. Seulke
Daughter-in-law of Tom
"
11
"
10/1/41
Karen. R. Seulke
Daughter of James
4th cousin of RN
3/26/67
Gerald A. Seulke
Son of Tom
3rd cousin of RN
10/9/43
Carole Murt Seulke
Daughter-in-law of Tom
"
"
"
4/4/43
Marikay Seulke
Daughter of Gerald
4th cousin of RN
11/23/61
James Theodore Seulke
Son of Gerald
"
"
"
11/13/62
William Hurless Barton
related through Hannah's
7/5/95
mother Elmira Burdge Milhous
Laurietta Cram Barton
Wife of William Hurless
3/14/02
Edith Barton Grimm
Daughter of William Hurless
11/15/24
Leroy Barton
Son of William Hurless
11/23/28
Kenneth Barton
Son of William Hurless
11/20/34
RYAN RELATIVES
NAME
FAMILY TIE
RELATIONSHIP
DATE OF
TO PRESIDENT
BIRTH
William G. Ryan
Brother of PN
Brother-in-law
1/31/10
Marie C. Morris Ryan
Sister-in-law of PN
Sister-in-law
9/29/12
Glenn William Ryan
Son of William
Nephew
8/10/48
Richard Matthew Ryan
Son of William
Nephew
5/3/51
Thomas Sanford Ryan
Brother of PN
Brother-in-law
2/24/11
Dorothy Sinclair Ryan
Sister-in-law of PN
Sister-in-law
12/15/13
Barbara Ryan Baumann
Daughter of Tom
Niece of RN
3/1/39
Rolf A. Baumann
Son-in-law of Tom
Nephew of RN
11/14/35
Timothy Michael Baumann
Son of Barbara
Grand Nephew
4/27/57
Julie Baumann
Daughter of Barbara
Grand Niece
4/1/63
Thomas Sinclair Ryan
Son of Tom
Nephew of RN
11/16/45
Rosemary Ann Martin
Daughter-in-law of Tom
Niece of RN
12/27/46
Michael William Ryan
Son of Tom
Nephew of RN
10/26/47
Patrick B. Ryan
Son of Tom
Nephew of RN
5/20/49
Matthew G. Bender
Half-brother of PN
Brother-in-law
8/7/03
April 25, 1969
Dear Dr. Bell:
This is just a note to thank you for your letter of
April 16, giving us further information on George
Nixon I and on the Milhous family.
As you can imagine, we receive numerous inquiries
concerning the President's ancestry, and we would
be happy to have all the information you are able
to send pertaining to the Nixon and Milhous family
trees.
With all good wishes,
Sincerely,
Rose Mary Woods
Personal Secretary
to the President
Dr. Raymond M. Bell
Department of Physics
Washington and Jefferson College
Washington, Pennsylvania 15301
cc: Noble Melencamp
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 25, 1969
To:
NOBLE MELENCAMP
From:
ROSE MARY WOODS
I thought you might like to have the
attached note from Dr. Raymond Bell
for inclusion in the Nixon genealogy files.
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE
WASHINGTON. PENNSYLVANIA
15301
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
16 April 1969
Dear Miss Woods,
You may be interested to know that George Nixon I, Revolutionary
soldier, died 5 August 1842 in Rock Island Co., Ill.
I also have data which traces the Milhous family back to about
1640 at Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland.
Sincerely yours,
Raymond M. Bell