Randolph  County,  Indiana  Family  History
Stoney  Creek  Township

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Cedar  /  Cabin  Creek  Friends




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Tucker History Page 147
FRIENDS' MEETINGS.
MINISTERS.
Recorded ministers belonging to Winchester Quarterly Meeting in 1881:
Cedar; William Wright, Cedar; Lyndley M. Jackson, Cedar; Lydia Ann Wright, Cedar; Levi Cox.
Cabin Creek was established in 1834.
Cabin Creek went mostly Anti-slavery in 1848, and continued such until that society died out. A new meeting, called Cedar, was set up at the same place in 1860, which is now strong and flourishing.

At Cedar Creek, in 1881, has been built a new and very neat and convenient meeting- house near the old place of worship.
The new house was first occupied for service, though unfurnished, in August, 1881, for the Monthly Meeting. The occasion was a blessed season and the attendance was large.
Many Friends were there from a distance, and the assembly were deeply sensible of the overshadowing presence and melting power of the precious Spirit to cause all hearts to flow into one free channel of Christian love. That consecration of their new house of worship will long be remembered by the Friends who were present as a bright and blessed time to all their souls, and a day to reckon from as the beginning of new and still better things.


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Sesquicentennial History of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) Page 99
Cedar Friends Meeting
Location: 2 miles southwest of Farmland, Stony Creek Twp, Randolph County, IN.
Date Organized as a Meeting: In 1858 a preparative meeting was set up and the name changed from Cabin Creek. As a Monthly Meeting: 1948.
Organized by Authority of: Poplar Run Monthly Meeting.
Family name of Charter or early members: THORNBURG.
Present membership: 17.

Page 138 Discontinued Meetings
Cabin Creek Friends Meeting
Location: Stony Creek Twp., Randolph Co., IN. (2 miles southwest of Farmland).
Date organized as a meeting: A preparative meeting was set up by White River Monthly Meeting in 1835.
In 1844 the preparative was combined with Sparrow Creek but held at Poplar Run.
In 1845, due to anti-slavery activity, the preparative was laid down. An indulged meeting was set up under Poplar Run Monthly Meeting in 1854 and in 1858 the name was changed to Cedar.

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