Jehu Wickersham
BIRTH 30 May 1746
Marlboro, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 27 Apr 1838 (aged 91)
Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana, USA
BURIAL
West Grove Cemetery
Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana, USA
Jehu visited Nantucket Island for a time, then made a prospecting journey into North Carolina in 1767. After his marriage he settled in Guilford County, where he attended New Garden and later Deep River MM. He also sojourned for six years, 1772-1778 , in Newberry County, South Carolina where he was a member of Bush River MM. After several moves in the Carolinas, he moved to Indiana in 1814 and is found in West Grove MM, Wayne County. He was appointed to lay out a road in 1824 from the Quaker meeting house at Duck Creek in Henry County, Indiana to intersect with the county road leading from New Castle, Indiana.
Source: Yoder, Quaker Sketches, p. 67; Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Genealogy, vol i, pp 581, 844; Heller, Historic Henry County 1820-1849, vol i, pp 47, 91.
Source: Yoder Quaker Sketches, p. 68
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc. 2001
Jehu Wickersham and Mary Kirk Wickersham had ten children. Among them was a daughter named Sarah, who was the mother of William G Wickersham. On 6 Nov 1809 the women's meeting of Deep River MM, Guilford, NC entered the following. "Deep River preparative meeting complains of Sarah Wickersham for having a child in an unmarried state. Jemima Baldwin and Ann Bond are appointed to visit her on the occasion and report their care to the next meeting." Society of Friends, Deep river Monthly Meeting, Women's' Minutes
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