322 – Mary Taylor Squires
In the early 1800s, amid the hills and hollows of Lewis County, (West) Virginia, Mary Taylor Squires was born into a world of rugged terrain and deep faith. The daughter of Asa Squires and Sarah Eastep, Mary grew up along Salt Lick Creek, where her family helped build one of the region’s earliest Methodist meeting…
321 – A Methodist Circuit Rider
On Wednesday, October 9, 1793, in a log cabin in the Pennsylvania Appalachian Mountains, Martha Cheney gave birth to her ninth child. She named him Shadrach, a namesake of his paternal grandfather. Shadrach Cheney is our 4th great-grandparent. Shadrach grew up in a large family. He was second youngest of ten children. His eldest sibling…
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