179x Rachel Johnson was born. [1] [2]
1784 Samuel Schooley, son of Samuel & Elizabeth Schooley was born on 25 of month 8, in Hardwick Twp, Sussex County, New Jersey. [3]
1809 Rachel Johnson and Samuel Schooley were reported married. [4]
1841 On 19 of month 3, Benjamin Schooley and Lucinda Stout announced their intention to marry. [5] Benjamin Schooley of Grant County, Indiana, son of Samuel Schooley of Clinton County, Ohio and his wife Rachel, married Lucinda Stout on April 22. [6]
1844 Samuel Schooley died on January 27 and was buried at Center Friends Burying Ground, Clinton County, Ohio. Samuel Schooley was born on August 25, 1784. [7] [8]
1850 Rachel Schooley (age 60, born in Virginia) lived in Liberty Twp, Clinton County, Ohio, in a household with Thos Schooley (age 25), and Saml Schooley (age 16). [9]
1863 Rachel Johnson Schooley died on April 11 and was buried at Center Friends Burying Ground, Clinton County, Ohio. Rachel Johnson Schooley was born in 1792. [10] [11] [12] [13]
A biosketch of a descendant reports [14]:
Benjamin Schooley was born in Grayson county, Va., son of Samuel Schooley, and came to Indiana in 1834 as a pioneer, taking up 160 acres of wild wood land, there being no roads at this time and his nearest neighbors being two miles distant. He built a log cabin on his land, and commenced the task of clearing his farm, adding thereto from time to time until, at the time of his death, he was the owner of 320 acres. He died aged fifty-seven years, while his wife passed away at the age of seventy-six. They were both members of the Society of Friends. Their children were: Rachel, John. William, George W., Thomas, Eliza J., Samuel and Harvey. George Stout, the father of Mrs. Schooley, was a pioneer of Greene county. Ohio, whence he moved with a four-horse team, in Sept., 1827, to Indiana. With another farmer, Lugar by name, he cut six miles from the old Delphi road in order to reach his property.
[1] Frank D. Henderson, The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Vol. 3, (Columbus, Ohio: F. J. Heer, 1929), 191.
[2] Lorand Victor Johnson, The descendants of William and John Johnson, colonial Friends of Virginia (Privately published: 1940?), 17, [HathiTrust].
[3] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Women's Minutes, 1843-1892; Guilford, Deep River Monthly Meeting, 24, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Lorand Victor Johnson, The descendants of William and John Johnson, colonial Friends of Virginia (Privately published: 1940?), 17, [HathiTrust].
[5] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Women's Minutes, 1833; Mississinewa Monthly Meeting, Indiana, 145, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Women's Minutes, 1833; Mississinewa Monthly Meeting, Indiana, 27, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] Find A Grave Memorial 141890566, [FindAGrave].
[8] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[9] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryRecord].
[10] Find A Grave Memorial 141890555, [FindAGrave].
[11] Frank D. Henderson, The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Vol. 3, (Columbus, Ohio: F. J. Heer, 1929), 191.
[12] Lorand Victor Johnson, The descendants of William and John Johnson, colonial Friends of Virginia (Privately published: 1940?), 17, [HathiTrust].
[13] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[14] J.H. Beers & co., Commemorative biographical record of prominent and representative men of Indianapolis and vicinity (Chicago: 1908), 379, [HathiTrust].