Today Rosalie Yoakam comes for another visit and tells the remarkable story of Quaker Jane Finley Wales Nicholson (b. February 1st, 1806 in Iredale Co., North Carolina - d. September 9th, 1906 in Indiana), an early pioneer of the Waynesville-Harveysburg area.  Jane and her husband, Valentine, were conductors on the Underground Railroad and were involved in other liberal reform movements of the time. Both Jane  and Valentine Nicholson left memoirs of their lives.

For more information see:

Valentine and Jane F. Wales Nicholson  

There is a twelve page article about Valentine and Jane F. Wales Nicholson in the 2007 Report of the Research Committee for the Third Annual Quaker Genealogy & History Conference: Anti-Slavery & the Underground Railroad ~ Taking a Risk for Freedom.  The report is available for $15.00 + 2.00 postage.  The money goes into the Ohioana Room Fund which supports the conference and other Ohioana Room activities. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the "Report", contact Karen at campbeka@oplin.org.

 Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php. 

 
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Today local historian Denny Dalton comes for a visit and tells the unusual story of St. Marys  Episcopal Church in Waynesville, Ohio.  He also invites everyone to come and celebrate St. Mary's 140th Anniversary. 

The celebrationwill be held at the church on Sunday, September 30th, 2007
TOURS AT:  3:00 PM and 5:30 PM
1869 CHURCH SERVICE AT: 4:00 PM
Refreshments will be available.

Denny is a native of Waynesville and is the official Town Crier of Warren County, Ohio.  Denny is a local historican and researcher.  He is also famous for his interest in the ghosts of Waynesville.

To contact Denny:  1-513-228-0186

Related Links:
Israel Hopkins Harris ~ Waynesville Banker, Businessman and Scholar

J. Drew Sweet (1839-1893) ~ Publisher of the Miami-Gazette

Achilles Henry Pugh (1805-1876) ~ Orthodox Quaker, Publisher, Anti-Slavery Leader, Ecumenist, and Resident of Waynesville & Cincinnati

Achilles Henry Pugh ~ Publishing Against Slavery (Podcast)

A. E. Merritt ~ Contractor and Builder  

Another Murder in Waynesville? ~ Captain William Rion Hoel

The Brown Family ~ Publishers of the Miami~Gazette

Enoch Jacobs ~ Business Man, Civil War Hero, Public Servant, and United States Consul to Montevideo, in the Republic of Uruguay, South America

St. Mary's Episcopal Church 

Today, Ruth Dobyns, the curator of the Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College, tells us of a new Quaker Tour with stops in Waynesville, Harveysburg, and Wilmington, Ohio.

Right: The White Brick Meetinghouse in Waynesville, Ohio.

For more information about the sites see:

Miami Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends in Waynesville, Ohio

THE 1905 FRIENDS BOARDING HOME TIMELINE & FURTHER INFORMATION

THE BLACK SCHOOL IN HARVEYSBURG, OHIO

THE HARVEYSBURG ACADEMIES

Quaker Heritage Center

For further information contact:

The Friends Home Museum:  http://www.friendshomemuseum.org/

The Quaker Heritage Center: http://www2.wilmington.edu/qhc/faculty.cfm 

Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php.

 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License.