By Dr. Danene Brown Vincent
© 1999
NOTES
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
- 1Willard Heiss, ed., Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends
in Indiana, Part One, in the series Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VII
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1974) p. ix.
- 2Ibid.
- 3Ibid., p. xviii.
- 4Ibid., p. xiii.
- 5Ibid.
- 6Ibid., p. xiv.
- 7Ibid., p. xv.
- 8Ibid.
- 9Ibid.
- 10William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker
Genealogy, Vol. I (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1936), p. x.
- 11Heiss, Abstracts, pp. xvii-xxi.
CHAPTER 2: THE RUBOTTOM NAME
- 1Charles Wareing Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh
Surnames with Special American Instances (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.), p.
656.
- 2Ibid.
CHAPTER 3: THOMAS RUBOTTOM--A WELSH IMMIGRANT
- 1Thomas W. Rubottom, "Bicentennial Series: The Rubottom Family,
Early Area Settlers, " The Journal-Banner, photocopy submitted to the author by Mary
Nater, Tuscola, IL.
- 2Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri, (Washington, DC:
Goodspeed, 1888), Ramfre Reprint, 1964, p. 1144.
- 3Rubottom, Rubottom Family.
- 4Ibid.
- 5Albert Cook Meyers, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into
Pennsylvania 1682-1750 (Swarthmore, PA: The author, 1902), p. 319.
- 6Herbert Standing, "Quakers in Delaware in the Time of William
Penn," Delaware History, XX-2, Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, p.
127.
- 7Meyers, Immigration, p. 319.
- 8Standing, "Quakers in Delaware. . .," p. 127.
- 9Meyers, Immigration, p. 319.
- 10Ibid.
- 11Ibid.
- 12Ibid.; and, Standing, "Quakers in Delaware. . .," pp. 127-128.
- 13Meyers, Immigration, p. 319.
- 14Standing, "Quakers in Delaware. . .," p. 132.
- 15Standing, "Quakers in Delaware. . .," p. 134.
- 16Ibid.
- 17Meyers, Immigration, p. 319.
- 18Ibid.
- 19Standing, "Quakers in Delaware. . .," p. 134.
- 20The William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records,
Concord Monthly Meetings, Vol. I (Kokomo, IN: Selby Publishing and Printing, 1990),
p. 63.
- 21The William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records,
Kennett Monthly Meetings, Vol. VI (Kokomo, IN: Selby Publishing and Printing, 1990),
p. 74.
- 22Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records, Concord MM, Vol I., p. 63.
- 23Ibid.
- 24Rubottom, Rubottom Family.
- 25Ibid.
- 26Wade Hampton Hadley, Doris Goerch Horton, & Neil Craig Stowd,
Chatham County, 1771-1791 (Durham, NC: Moore Publ. Co., 1976) p. 449.
- 27Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri, pp. 1088 & 1144.
- 28First Census of the United States: Heads of Families--North
Carolina (1790); Fayette District, Moore County, p. 44, middle column.
- 29Rassie E. Wicker, Miscellaneous Ancient Records of Moore County,
North Carolina (Moore County, NC: Moore County Historical Society), p. 332.
- 30"Deed of Sale from Thomas Rubottom to James Underwood," 17
JUN 1790, Chatham County, NC, Deed Book D, p. 89, Family History Center Microfilm.
- 31William Perry Johnsone, ed., 1815 Tax List of Chatham County,
N.C., 1975, p. 4.
- 32 1800 U.S. Census, Chatham County, NC; p. 219; National Archives
Microfilm Microfilm M-252, Roll 39.
- 33Rubottom, Rubottom Family
CHAPTER 4: SIMON RUBOTTOM--THE ELDEST SON
- 1Willard Heiss, ed., Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends
in Indiana, Part Five, in the series Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VII
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1974) p.18.
- 2Ibid., p. 228.
- 3William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker
Genealogy, Vol. I (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1936), p. 417.
- 4First Census of the United States: Heads of Families--North Carolina
(1790); Fayette District, Moore County, p. 44, middle column.
- 5Ibid.
- 6Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 18.
- 7Ibid.
- 8Hinshaw, Encyclopedia, p. 417.
- 9Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five p. 18.
- 10Hinshaw, Encyclopedia, p. 417.
- 11Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 18.
- 12Hinshaw, Encyclopedia, p. 417.
- 13Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 18.
- 14William Perry Johnson, ed., 1815 Tax List of Chatham County,
N.C., 1975, p. 44.
- 15Edwin Tunis, Frontier Living (Cleveland, OH: World Publ. Co.,
1961), p. 60.
- 16Ray Allen Billington and Martin Ridge, Westward Expansion: A
History of the American Frontier (NY: Macmillan, 1982), p. 219.
- 17Ibid., p. 220.
- 18H. W. Beckwith, History of Vigo and Parke Counties: Together
with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley (Chicago: H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Publ.,
1880), p. 275.
- 19Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 1
- 20Orange County Heritage, compiled by Arthur L. Dillard, (Paoli, IN:
Stout's Print Shop, 1971), p. 237.
- 21Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p.1.
- 22Hinshaw, Encyclopedia, p. 318.
- 23Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 45.
- 24Marriage Certificate of Samuel Rubottom and Sarah Spivey,
Crawford Co., IL, 8-MAR-1866; certified copy in possession of the author.
- 25Hinshaw, Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 417.
- 26George Rubottom, Letter written to Nathan Dixon, Illiana
Genealogist, XII-4,
pp. 121-124; letter submitted for publication by Mrs. Eunice Morrison of Georgetown,
Illinois.
- 27Hinshaw, Encyclopedia, Vol. I, pp. 386, 388, 391, 417, 420, 448,
452, 736.
- 28Lawrence County Genealogical and Historical Society (LCGHS),
History of Lawrence County, Indiana (Bedford, IN: By the society, 1990), p. 22.
- 29Ibid.
- 30Ibid., p. 24.
- 31"Orange County Land Records," The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry,
XI-1, pp. 47 & 48.
- 32LCGHS, Lawrence County, p. 82.
- 33Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 45.
- 34Ibid.
- 35Ibid.
- 36Ibid.
- 37Hinshaw, Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 47.
- 38Ibid.
- 39Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 45.
- 40Marriage Certificate of Samuel Rubottom and Louisa Williams,
Lawrence Co., IN, 26-JUN-1823; photocopy in possession of the author.
- 41Greene County, Indiana Marriage Index 1821-1920, Microfilm
Series Z121, Roll 19, Indiana WPA, 1940; original marriage certificate examined by the
author in Greene County Courthouse, Bloomfield, IN in OCT-1992; original too fragile to
copy.
- 42Marriage Certificate of Allen Cox and Dinah Rubottom, Lawrence
Co., IN,
24-DEC-1823; photocopy in possession of the author.
- 43Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 45.
- 44LCGHS, Lawrence County, p. 29.
- 45Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 45.
- 46Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 45.
- 47Beckwith, Vigo and Parke Counties, p. 282.
- 48Mary Welch, History of Bloomfield Monthly Meeting
(Bloomingdale, IN: July 1907), p. 1; unpublished document; photocopy obtained by the
author in OCT-1992 from Darlene Newby, Pastor, Bloomingdale Friends Meeting.
- 49Mrs. Lowell Osbourne, History of Bloomingdale, Indiana
(Bloomingdale, IN), p. 7; unpublished document; photocopy obtained by the author in
OCT-1992 from Darlene Newby, Pastor, Bloomingdale Friends Meeting.
- 50Ibid.
- 51Welch, Bloomingdale Monthly Meeting, p. 1.
- 52Ibid.
- 53Ibid.
- 54Bloomingdale Cemetery Records (1827-1867), compiled by Mrs.
Marvin Williams for the DAR; nonpublished source, photocopies housed in the Rockville
Township Library, Parke County, Indiana.
- 55Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 197.
- 56Ibid., p. 198.
- 57Beckwith, Vigo and Parke Counties, p. 282.
- 58Ibid.
- 59Ibid., pp. 282 & 283.
- 60Ibid., pp. 283 & 284.
- 61Ibid., p. 284.
- 62Ibid., p. 279.
- 63Ibid.
- 64Ibid., p. 281.
- 65Ibid., p. 282.
- 66Osbourne, Bloomingdale, p. 8.
- 67Ibid.
- 681820 U. S. Census, Orange Co., IN, p. 132, National Archives
Microfilm M-33, Roll 14.
- 691830 U. S. Census, Parke Co., IN, p. 182, Line 22, National
Archives Microfilm M-19, Roll 32.
- 701840 U. S. Census, Greene Co., IN, p. 192, Line 14, National
Archives Microfilm M-704, Roll 81; and, 1850 U. S. Census, Greene Co., IN (Cass
Township), p. 425, Line 35, Family 988, Dwelling 53, National Archives Microfilm M-
432, Roll 148.
- 71Crawford County Historical Society, "Mary Catherine Rubottom,"
History of Crawford County, Illinois (Robinson, IL: By the society, 1980), p. 295.
- 721820 U. S. Census, Lawrence Co., IN, p. 100, National Archives
Microfilm M-33, Roll 14.
- 731840 U. S. Census, Parke Co., IN, written page 326, Line 14,
National Archives Microfilm M-704, Roll 89.
- 741850 U. S. Census, Crawford Co., IL, p. 196, Line 2, Family 412,
Dwelling 412, National Archives Microfilm T-6, Roll 78.
- 75Ibid., p. 195, Line 29, Family 404, Dwelling 404.
- 76Ibid., p. 196, Line 36, Family 411, Dwelling 411.
- 771820 U. S. Census, Lawrence Co., IN, p. 100, Line 10, National
Archives Microfilm M-33, Roll 14.
- 78Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 45.
- 79Ibid., p. 344.
- 80Ibid., p. 289.
- 81Charles Blanchard, ed. Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown
Indiana; Historical and Biographical (F. A. Battey & Co., 1884), p. 126.
- 82Bloomingdale Cemetery Records.
- 83Marriage Certificate of Samuel Rubottom and Deniza Evans,
Lawrence Co., IN, 15-MAY-1831; photocopy in possession of the author.
- 84Marriage Certificate of Samuel Rubottom and Deborah Evans,
Lawrence Co., IN, 26-SEP-1836; photocopy in possession of the author.
- 851840 U. S. Census, Lawrence Co., IN, p. 380, Line 2, National
Archives Microfilm M-704, Roll 86.
- 86Clark County, Illinois Marriages, 1845-1851 (Clark County
Genealogical Society), p. 10; marriage certificate found in 1845-1851 Book, p. 112, Clark
County Courthouse.
- 871850 U. S. Census, Clark Co., IL, p. 233, Dwelling 960, Family 960,
National Archives Microfilm T-6, Roll 76.
- 88Clark County, Illinois Cemetery Records, Vol. 1-2, Auburn
Cemetery (Clark County Genealogical Society), p. 13.
- 891850 U. S. Census, Lawrence Co., IN, p. 100, Line 10, National
Archives Microfilm M-33, Roll 14.
- 90Marriage Certificate of John Rubottom and Anna Fisher, Lawrence
Co., IN, 4-JUL-1830; photocopy in possession of the author.
- 91Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 228.
- 92"Will of Simon Rubottom," 20-MAY-1837, Parke Co., IN, Will
Book I, pp. 37-39, Parke County Courthouse; photocopy in possession of the author.
- 93Marriage Certificate of Allen Middleton and Semira Rubottom,
Parke Co., IN, 5-MAR-1846; photocopy in possession of the author.
- 94Heiss, Abstracts, Part Five, p. 262.
- 95Errol T. Elliott, Quakers of the American Frontier, (Richmond, IN:
Friends United Press, 1969), p. 86.
- 96Blanchard, Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, p. 130.
- 97Ibid.
- 98Osbourne, Bloomingdale, p. 21.
- 99Louis Thomas Jones, The Quakers of Iowa (Iowa City, IA: State
Historical Society of Iowa, 1914), p. 40.
- 100Ibid., p. 40-41.
- 101Ibid., p. 43.
- 102Ibid., p. 44.
- 103Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers
Who Served in Organizations from the State of Indiana, Microfilm M-540, Rolls 63 and
66; on file in the Dallas Public Library.
- 104Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers
Who Served in Organizations from the State of Illinois, Microfilm M-539, Roll 78; on
file in the Dallas Public Library.
- 105Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers
Who Served in Organizations from the State of Iowa, Microfilm M-541, Roll 23; on file
in the Dallas Public Library.
- 106Marriage Certificate of Samuel Rubottom and Sarah Spivey,
Crawford Co., IL, 8-MAR-1866; photocopy in possession of the author.
- 1071870 U. S. Census, Benton Co., AR, p. 42, Line 36, Family 262,
Dwelling 260, National Archives Microfilm M-593, Roll 47.
- 108Personal interviews with Mrs. Inez (Hindman) Cook, Mrs. Grace
(Hindman) Drain, Mrs. MaryAnna (Hindman) Wiginton, and Mrs. Billie (Dawson)
Stanley, grandaughters of Samuel and Sarah Jane (Spivey) Rubottom.
- 109Ibid.
- 110Cemeteries of Benton County, Arkansas, Ruddick Cemetery, p. 98.
CHAPTER 5: EZEKIEL RUBOTTOM--THE SECOND SON
- 1Rose Fulton Cramer, Wayne County, Missouri, (Cape Girardeau,
MO: Ramfre Press, 1972), p. 65.
- 2Thomas W. Rubottom, "Bicentennial Series: The Rubottom Family,
Early Area Settlers, " The Journal-Banner, photocopy submitted to the author by Mary
Nater, Tuscola, IL.
- 3Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri, (Washington, DC:
Ramfre Press, 1964), p. 283.
- 4Rubottom, Bicentennial.
- 5Ibid.
- 6Ibid.
- 7Cramer, Wayne County, p. 67.
- 8Rubottom, Bicentennial.
- 9Cramer, Wayne County, p. 67.
- 10Goodspeed's, p. 336.
- 11Cramer, Wayne County, p. 98.
- 12Cramer, Wayne County, pp. 98-99.
- 13Cramer, Wayne County, p. 218.
- 14Cramer, Wayne County, p. 221.
- 15Cramer, Wayne County, p. 495.
- 16Rubottom, Bicentennial.