Person talk:Tamar Cammack (1)

Old Inquiries [3 November 2022]

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Hi all,
Am trying to find out anything about Insco surname. My fifth g-grandfather m. Joanna Insco at Bush River MM in the 1770's. His name was James Cammack b. 1746. Don't know Joannas father, but did find an Edward Insco as being a taxpayer in the 96 District in 1779. Could that have been her father, and a non-quaker. I know her mother was, as were her two brothers, Abel and James.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mary Lynn (McManus) Toluchanian, Compiler of "The Families of Joseph and Margaret (Cammack) Pearson of Montgomery County, Ohio and Jonas and Hester (Clark) Pearson of Miami Co., Ohio, with notes on James Cammack and John Insco" May 1995, updated August, 1997.

There were a number of the Cammack and Jay families associated with the Bush River Monthly Meeting of Friends in Newberry County, South Carolina. At my home here in Iowa, I have a copy of abstracted records of Bush River Monthly Meeting which indicate that some members of the Cammack family were members of Bush River Monthly Meeting, while some were not. Tamer Jane Cammack's name is not listed, but on 2 mo. 23, 1793 a Mary Camack (formerly Hall) was disowned from the Monthly Meeting for marriage out of unity. Her husband was evidently not a member of Friends.---- One cannot tell for certain whether the name of the Thomas Jay who married Tamer Jane Cammack is listed in the Bush River records. There is a Thomas Jay, b. 6 mo. 18, 1775, son of John and Elizabeth Jay, but if it was he who married Tamer Jane Cammack, it was probably his second marriage when he was about 40 years old.

It is most likely that Tamer Jane Cammack and Thomas Jay were married in Ohio, since a great majority of the Quaker community had left Bush River by 1815.

During the years from about 1803 to 1808 there was a mass migration of Friends and probably a number of their neighbors from Bush River in South Carolina to southwestern Ohio. The first Monthly Meeting to be established in that area of Ohio was Miami Monthly Meeting, established in 1803, centered in the area of Warren and Clinton Counties in Ohio. Monthly Meetings were rapidly set off from Miami Monthly Meeting, such as Caesars Creek Monthly Meeting and Center Monthly Meeting. Records of these Monthly Meetings have been abstracted and included in Volume V of the work, "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy", compiled by William Wade Hishaw and available in large genealogical libraries.

In my records of the early members of Bear Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends centered in Union Township, Dallas County, Iowa, I have the following family listed:

Henry Cammack, son of John and Jane (Hollingsworth) Cammack born 11 mo. 2'8, 1814 - Warren County, Ohio. died 3 mo. 4, 1898 married 12 mo. 23, 1841 at Raysville Meetinghouse, Spiceland MM, IN, Sally Horner, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Compton) Horner born 12 mo. 19, 1812 - Warren County, Ohio. died 1 mo. 30, 1893.

Children:

• Rachel Cammack
• Emmaline Cammack, b. 1846, d. 12 mo. 8, 1869, aged 23 yrs., 9 mo., 26 days, buried in Bear Creek Cemetery.
• Elwood Cammack b 1847, d. 3 mo. 1, 1869, aged 22 years, 1 mo., 20 days, buried in Bear Creek Cemetery.
• John H. Cammack, b. 1849, d. 11 mo. 20, 1868, aged 19 years, 5 mo., 12 days, buried in Bear Creek Cemetery.
• Elizabeth H. Cammack married 8 mo. 11, 1869, Dallas County, Iowa, Jacob A. Bullock.

9 mo. 7, 1867 Henry Cammack and wife, Sally, and children: Rachel, Emeline, Elwood, John, and Elizabeth, granted certificate to Bear Creek MM, Iowa.

Spiceland MM, IN, Certificate received by Bear Creek MM on 9 mo. 28, 1867.

5 mo. 5, 1877 Henry Cammack and Sally received on certificate from North Branch MM, Iowa. ---- Bear Creek MM, IA.

North Branch MM was set off from Bear Creek MM, IA about 1869. It consisted of North Branch Preparative Meeting three miles east of the present town of Earlham, Iowa, and Union MM, a mile or more west of Earlham. It is likely that Henry and Sally moved a few miles from the Earlham area to the Bear Creek community five miles northwest of Earlham ca. 1877. However, there is no record that Henry and Sally were buried in the Bear Creek Cemetery, so they probably moved away from Bear Creek in the 1880's or early 1890's.

Jacob Bullock, who married Elizabeth Cammack, was probably not a member of Friends, but evidently he attended Bear Creek School near the Bear Creek Meetinghouse in Union Twp., Dallas County, Iowa. An annual reunion of Bear Creek School scholars was held for many years, ca. 1913-1962. Jacob Bullock sent greetings to the Bear Creek School Reunion of 1928. A memorial was given for Jacob Bullock of Chicago, Illinois at the Bear Creek School Reunion of 1939. Previous to his illness, he had been living in Alabama.

Perhaps this will give a few guidelines in the search for the more immediate family of Tamer Jane Cammack and Thomas Jay.

Herbert Standing, 1806 Bear Creek Road, Earlham, Iowa 50072.--cos1776 21:24, 3 November 2022 (UTC)