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RE-UNION OF THE 
 
 Davis, Noble and Kinder Families 
 
 Held at Bethel M, E. Church 
 October 27th, 1885. 
 
 ARLY in the eighteenth century, allured by the 
 salubrity of the climate, the fertility of the soil 
 and the beneficent government of William Penn 
 and Lord Baltimore, there settled within a 
 radius of ten miles from a point midway between 
 Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware, and Federalsburg, 
 Caroline County, Maryland, three families the descendents 
 of whom, now numbered by the hundreds, have literally 
 made the wilderness blossom as the rose, and have given 
 character and distinctiveness to that section of country. 
 Although one of the families, the Noble, was originally of 
 the followers of George Fox and Wm. Penn, all three of the 
 families, the Davis and Kinder, especially, early joined the 
 societies of John Wesley, and, accordingly, in 1781 built 
 themselves a neat and commodious house of worship, called 
 at first, Brown's Chapel, but afterwards named Bethel; and 
 it has been in reality a very "House of God" to thousands 
 who have already gone to worship in the "Upper Sanc- 
 tuary." The old house is still standing and in a very good 
 state of preservation, although not more than $700 have 
 been spent in repairs since it was first built; the pic- 
 ture forming the frontispiece to this pamphlet gives a very 
 good view of the time-honored sanctuary. The centennial 
 
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 of its existence was celebrated with appropriate ceremonies 
 in a three days meeting in August, 1881. 
 
 During a recent visit of Rev. Edward Davis, the present 
 pastor of the old church, to Dr. Jacob Noble, of Tay- 
 lor's Island, Dorchester Count} 7 , Mar3dand, the Dr. broach- 
 ed the idea of a re-union of the three families, at the time- 
 honored sanctuary, Bethel. Mr. Davis, at his next ap- 
 pointment, mentioned the conversation between the Dr. 
 and himself and asked for an expression of the sentiments 
 of the congregation, which was a unanimous one in favor 
 of such a re-union, and the time set, October 27th. A 
 committee of arrangements was subsequently appointed, 
 composed of Mrs. Mary Davis, Mr. Joseph T. 
 Davis, Mrs. Castelia Corbin, Mrs. Emily Davis, Mr. S. 
 Maddux Noble and Mr. and Mrs. Isaac S. Warren, to 
 which committee Rev. Edward Davis was afterwards added. 
 The committee met and elected Mr. E. Frank Davis, of 
 Federalsburg, to have charge of the singing, and Mrs. 
 James H. Davis, of Federalsburg, to preside at the organ; 
 they also adopted following programme which, on October 
 27th, was carried into execution. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 Voluntary by Miss Bertie Davis. 
 
 Organization, by electing Rev. P. H. Rawlins to the 
 chair, and Isaac S. Warren, Secretary. 
 
 Anthem, "Jerusalem My Glorious Home." 
 
 Prayer by Rev. W. W, Morgan. 
 
 Singing, No. 1105, Methodist Hymnal. 
 
 Historical sketch of Davis family, by Rev. Edward 
 Davis. 
 
 Singing by Rev. Edward Davis and family, ' %ead Me 
 Gently Home, Father." 
 
 Singing, No. 789, Hymnal. 
 
 RECESS UNTIL 1.30 O'CLOCK, P. M. 
 
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 Voluntary by Miss Bertie Davis. 
 
 Singing by James H. Davis and family, "Angels are 
 Waiting for Me." 
 
 Historical sketch of Kinder family, by Samuel W. Kin- 
 der, Esq. 
 
 Singing, No. 798, Hymnal. 
 
 Historical sketch of Noble family, by Dr. j. I*. Noble, 
 represented by Col. James M. McCarter. 
 
 Singing, No. 796, Hymnal. 
 
 Speech by Rev. P. H. Rawlins. 
 
 Singing, No. 442, Hymnal. 
 
 Speech by Rev. A. W. Milby, P. E. 
 
 Singing by Rev. Edward Davis and family, * 'God be 
 with you till we meet again." 
 
 Speech by Rev. W. S. Robinson, late pastor. 
 
 Singing, No. 807, Hymnal. 
 
 Dismission by Rev. W. E. England. 
 
 Before the meeting came to a close a resolution was 
 adopted appointing a committee to have the proceedings 
 published, consisting of Samuel W. Kinder, Jonathan T. 
 Noble, and Joseph T. Davis, Esqs., to which committee 
 Mr. Isaac S. Warren was afterwards added. 
 
 The 27th of October 1885 dawned a beautiful, balmy 
 day, such a day as only October can give; the woods, gor- 
 geous with their autumnal tints, the arrangements perfect, 
 the music inspiring, the speeches stirring, and taken as a 
 whole, a most enjoyable day; the mid-day meal was eaten 
 in the shade of the old trees, which, had, for upwards of a 
 century, cast their shadows athwart the Temple raised by 
 the Fathers. 
 
 There were upwards of five hundred persons present, 
 most of whom could lay claim to kinship with one or more 
 of the families; and the reunion of the Davis, Noble and 
 Kinder families, marks an epoch in the local history of 
 this section of the Peninsula. 
 
A Historical Sketch 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Davis Family 
 
 As raised up in the neighborhood of Bethel M* E. Church, 
 
 By Rev. E. Davis. 
 
 In giving a correct historical statement of this family, we 
 ought to be able to go back to the first one of this connection 
 that settled in this country. But of that we have but little in- 
 formation. Therefore, our knowledge of that part is very limited, 
 and, of course, we can say but little. However, we have learned 
 through the older members of the family that we here represent, 
 that about one hundred and fifty years ago, or more, there was a 
 man came over from England, by the name of Solomon Davis, 
 and settled in Dorchester County, Maryland, near what was called 
 at that time "North West Fork Bridge," but now known as the 
 town of Federalsburg. We are informed that this man was mar- 
 ried three times, and had born unto him nine children by each 
 wife, making a total of twenty-seven children. 
 
 How many of these children lived to grow up to maturity, 
 we have no records to show, or what became of those that did 
 grow up to manhood or womanhood, we have but little knowledge 
 with the exception of one, and that one we here represent to-day 
 in this social gathering, and to this one our sketch will be chiefly 
 confined. 
 
 Lemuel Davis, son of Solomon Davis, settled in Caroline 
 f z^^oun^y^^ary1tano!7 over one hundred years ago, within about two 
 miles of this place where Bethel M. E. Church now stands. He 
 / was married to Miss Marj Ann Ndble, and raised nine children, 
 six sons and three daugnfers, ~oy ibe following names: William, 
 ;.' Solomon, Tilghman, Ennals, Caleb, Sovern, Elizabeth, Kitturah 
 \ and Amelia. Each of these grew up to maturity, married and became 
 the head of families. William Davis had born unto him eleven 
 children, Solomon Davis lia^^borni ^unto him eight children, 
 Tilghman Davis had born unto him nine children, Ennals Davis 
 
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 had born unto him six children, Caleb P. Davis had born unto 
 him fourteen children, Sovern Davis had born unto him four 
 children, Elizableth Davis Vickers had born unto her four 
 children, Kitturah Davis Cannon had born unto her three child- 
 ren, Amelia Davis Williams had born unto her two children, 
 making a total of sixty-one grandchildren. 
 
 A majority of these grandchildren grew up to manhood and 
 womanhood, and have married and raised up children, so that the 
 number of great-grandchildren of Lemuel Davis far exceeds the 
 number of grandchildren. 
 
 From the best information that we have at command, the 
 number of great-grandchildren, born unto Lemuel Davis, was 
 about one hundred and seventy-five and the number cf great, great 
 grandchildren, born unto Lemuel Davis, was from one hundred and 
 fifty to one hundred and seventy ; so that, if the children, grand- 
 children, great grandchildren, great, great grandchildren, of 
 Lemuel Davis, were all living and here at this re-union to-day, 
 we should have about 400 persons of the descendants of Lemuel 
 Davis. But all the children of Lemuel Davis have died and 
 passed away many years ago; and of the sixty-one grand children, 
 there are but seven living today; but of the great, and great, great 
 grandchildren, there are many living, but we had no means of 
 ascertaining their accurate number. Lemuel Davis, together with 
 Jacob Kinder and White Brown, were the leading men in the 
 erecting and building of this time-honored Church in which we 
 are assembled to-day, which has been standing now one hundred 
 and four years. 
 
 Lemuel Davis was a plain, unassuming christian gentleman, 
 f uprighTTn alT'Eis dealings with his fellow men; he was also a 
 minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, filling the local 
 ranks, as a methodist preacher, with great credit to himself and 
 I., the church. So that the mantle of this man of God, this father 
 
 in Israel, has seemingly fallen upon his posterity, for there has 
 been a minister of the gospel connected with this family, and 
 \J'r& t' L - the M. E. Church, and retaining the name of Davis, with the 
 exception of a very short interval, for about one hundred years. 
 Another feature in connection with this family is worthy of 
 Vi hvU notice, that the great majority of the descendants of Lemuel 
 Davis, have been, and are, members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and are a church-going people. 
 ^/[^^fWilliam Davis, one of the sons of Lemuel Davis, was a very 
 popular local preacher in the M. E. Church, and served the people, 
 at Bethel, faithfully, for many years. The record shows that he 
 married over 200 couples during his ministry. 
 
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 And we would further state in connection with this family, 
 that, by an allwise Providence, an event has occurred which is 
 very rare in the history of Methodism. That is this; that one of 
 the grand sons of Lemuel Davis has become, and is at this time, 
 the pastor of a people that worship God in the same church that 
 the grandfather took so much interest in building, and in which 
 the grandfather and one of his sons preached the gospel as local 
 preacher for many years. And no doubt this event has had 
 something to do in leading our brother, Dr. Jacob I* Noble, to 
 conceive the idea of proposing this family gathering; we call it 
 a family gathering, because the Nobles, Kinders and Davises have 
 married and intermarried, unil it seems almost like one great 
 family, and as we look over these families here assembled to-day, 
 in this time-honored temple, built by the hands of our fore- 
 fathers, we can truthfully say that we are "not ashamed to call 
 }ou brethren." And this re-union of these christian families 
 here assembled to-day, causes our minds to go back to many long 
 years ago, and to bring to us, by memory, many pleasant and de- 
 lightful recollections of the past It was here, in this temple, 
 this sacred spot, that our fathers and mothers led us, in our child- 
 hood days, to hear the joyful sound of the gospel, and the songs 
 of praise, and taught us to worship the true and living God. And 
 while we look over this respectable assembly, and witness such 
 love and christian fellowship that has brought us together at this 
 re-union, it kindles the fire of love in our hearts, and moves us to 
 say that we feel proud that we are Methodists, but prouder still that 
 we are Christians; and we are led tc say, in the language of the 
 Psalmist, "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren 
 to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious ointment up- 
 on the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, 
 that went down to the skirts of his garments ; as the dew of 
 Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of 
 Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for 
 evermore. ' ' 
 
 But this re-union at Bethel is only for a day ; we meet here in 
 these happy greetings, and spend a few delightful hours together 
 as christian friends, but in a few hours we will have to take the 
 parting hand and bid each other farewell, and in all probability 
 never be permitted again to see each other in the flesh. 
 
 But this happy event, this re-union of these families here, on 
 this 27th day of October, 1885, turns our minds forward also, to 
 a future, a brighter, a happier re-union, in the upper Temple, in 
 that heavenly home, where many of our loved ones, who have 
 gone on before us, are waiting to greet us in the mansions of 
 
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 light. That re-union will not be for a single day ; it will not be 
 to meet for a few hours in a temple made by men's hands, which 
 is subjected to decay, and crumble to the dust. It will not be 
 in a world blighted by sin, stamped with morality, where our 
 hearts are often made sad by death entering our homes, and cut- 
 ting down our loved ones by our side, and we are called to follow 
 their lifeless forms, and see them buried in the grave. 
 
 No, no, but that future re-union will be in the ' ' house not made 
 with hands, eternal in the heavens, " where there will be no sick- 
 ness, no sorrow, pain nor death, but where the people of God 
 shall dwell forever in that beautiful home, that land of rest, to 
 behold the King in his beauty, and never part again. Then, 
 
 "Forever with the Lord," 
 
 Amen, so let it be! 
 Life from the dead is in that word; 
 
 'Tis immortality. 
 
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 The Kinder Family 
 
 By S. W. Kinder, Esq. 
 
 Jacob Kinder was born in Rotterdam, South Holland, about 
 the year 1736, and was married to Miss Katey Clay, in the year 
 1760. 
 
 The happy couple elected, for a "bridal tour," a trip across 
 the wide, wide ocean, and started forthwith for the continent of 
 America. With modern facilities for travel, we can now cross 
 the broad expanse of water in eight days; it is probable that, 
 then, it required more than as many weeks. The good Book de- 
 clares that "man is born unto trouble," and a crushing sorrow 
 met this man and wife upon the very threshold of their newly 
 begun life. On reaching this country, they ascertained that they 
 had failed to take the proper vouchers for the money paid for 
 their fare, and the proprietor of the boat demanded that it should 
 be paid again. This must have been a sore conflict at the very 
 outset of their married life. Strangers in a strange land, with- 
 out money and without friends. However, nothing daunted, and 
 possessed of those characteristics of German blood — honesty, in- 
 dustry, and unfaltering courage — they devised a plan equal to the 
 emergency, and light broke again long their pathway. 
 
 They met a man who proved himself to be a high-toned 
 gentleman, and a friend to them in time of need. 
 
 His name was Lightfoot, and the proprietor of an iron fur- 
 nace, located about the spot where the town of Millsboro now 
 stands, along the Indian River Shore. They agreed, if Mr. Light- 
 foot would repay the fare, that they would work for him until 
 the debt was canceled. Lightfoot accepted the proposition, and 
 when the obligation was met, he gave the man an honorable dis- 
 charge, and the happy hearts full of hope, and inspired with 
 self-reliance, began life anew. 
 
 On reaching this country, this party proposed to locate in 
 Lancaster County, Pa. But, probably, owing to the trouble to 
 which we have just adverted, their plans were thwarted, and they 
 came, instead, to what was called Deep Creek ; now Concord, Del. 
 At the latter place, in the year 1770, their first child was born, 
 whom they called Jacob. 
 
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 From Deep Creek they moved to the farm now owned and 
 occupied by Mr. Joseph B. Allen, situated along the Delaware 
 Railroad, near Cannon's Crossing. Mr. Kinder rented this farm 
 of a man named Bradley — there being a number of families of 
 that name living in that vicinity. While living on this farm, 
 their second child was born, and they called him Isaac, after a 
 prominent man living in that community, named Isaac Bradley. 
 
 While living on the aforesaid farm, he ascertained that there 
 was a piece of vacant land — land which had never been surveyed 
 or taken up — close by. 
 
 He walked to Philadelphia, a distance of 125 miles, took out 
 a Patent, had the land entered to his account, and returned, per- 
 forming the tedious journey in about one week. This tract of 
 land he called " Jacob's Choice, " and is the identical piece of 
 land now owned and occupied by Mr. Jesse Allen, located about 
 three miles north-west of the town of Seaford. 
 
 While Jacob Kinder lived on the Bradley farm, Mr. Bradley 
 died, and bequeathed to Mr. Kinder, as a legacy, the use of the 
 farm for three years free of rent, showing his deep interest in, 
 and high appreciation of, the man. 
 
 At the expiration of this time, by selling the tract of land he 
 had taken up, he was enabled to purchase the farm located one 
 and a half miles from this church, now owned and occupied by 
 one of his great grand-sons, William Kinder. Mr. Kinder 
 moved to this farm in the latter part of the year 1777. About 
 this time a daughter was born unto this family, whom they 
 called Nancy. 
 
 In the year 1781, this time-honored Temple, Bethel M. K. 
 Church, was built. 
 
 The same year, Mr. White Brown, who owned and lived on the 
 farm adjoining the church lot, (now belonging to the heirs of John 
 Twiford, deceased, ) built the brick dwelling which still stands, 
 despite the weight of years and the peltings of the storms. Mr. 
 Brown was a prominent man in this community, and a leading 
 spirit in the erection of this church. . 
 
 His time was so occupied with his own building and the 
 building of the church, he proposed that Jacob Kinder should 
 take his, Brown's hands and his own hands, and cultivate both 
 farms without remuneration. Mr. Kinder, anxious to help in 
 every good enterprise, accepted the proposition, and all things 
 moved along smoothly and harmoniously while this house of God 
 was being built. 
 
 Jacob Kinder remained on the farm where he last settled, un- 
 til the year 1790, at which time he died, aged 54 years, leaving 
 
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 three children, viz. Jacob, Isaac and Nancy. His widow survived 
 him about 32 years. 
 
 Some years before his death he received a letter from Holland, 
 stating that his father was dead, and that there was property left 
 him, and if he or any of his children would come, they could 
 obtain it. He thought for a time he would go in quest if it. but 
 the matter was postponed from time to time, and finally alto- 
 gether abandoned. 
 
 Their eldest son, Jacob, married quite young, before he had 
 reached his majority, Miss Ji^aghael Owens, who resided in Cedar 
 Creek Hundred, Susses County. There were born unto this mar- 
 riage eight children, viz. Isaac, Lizzie. Polly. Lovey, Katy 
 Owens, Milley and Nancy. 
 
 For want of information we are obliged to pass this interest- 
 ing family,, excepting a brief sketch of the two sons. Isaac and 
 Owens. 
 
 - Isaac Kinder spent his boyhood on the farm in his father's 
 home. His early manhood was given to educational and mer- 
 cantile pursuits, in the city of Philadelphia. 
 
 At the age of 25 years he sought his fortune in the west. He 
 located in the State of Ohio, Pickaway County, and engaged in 
 school-teaching for a livelihood. It was while teaching and 
 boarding around as a country school master, that he made the 
 acquaintance of the fair-haired girl who afterward became his 
 wife. 
 
 On May 4th, 1S19. he was married to Miss Maria Brown, 
 eldest daughter of Peter and Mary Polk Brown, and grand- 
 daughter of Judge William Polk, of the Superior Court of Del., 
 the ceremony being performed by Squire Stephen Horsey, also of 
 the State of Delaware. 
 
 Some two years later, emigration set in toward Indiana, and 
 it was thought that fortunes lay in that direction. Mr. Kinder 
 drifted with the tide, traveled extensively through the State, 
 entered government land, and in March, 1S22. removed his family 
 into the very midst of the ' * Western Wilds." The journey was 
 long and perilous, through the almost trackless forest, through 
 swollen gorges, and over frozen streams, until at length it was 
 ended. The log cabin was reared, and for ten long years he 
 worked steadily and hard, the farm all the time improving, from 
 the cabin to a handsome two-story brick, which still stands in 
 good repair. 
 
 At this juncture, owing to impaired health, he was obliged to 
 quit the farm and moved his family to the rapidly growing city 
 of Indianapolis, 
 
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 Having served as County Surveyor for several years, he added 
 to this the dry goods business, and became one of the leading 
 merchants of that mighty, prosperous city. 
 
 Mr. Kinder purchased property in the latter place, which 
 proved in the course of time to be the spot-nucleus of the Grand 
 Central Depot of that mighty metropolis. This investment greatly 
 enhanced in value by the rapid growth of the city, not only blessed 
 his children with competence, but rendered them quite wealthy. 
 
 There were born unto this union of Isaac and Maria Brown 
 Kinder, thirteen children, two sons and eleven daughters. Four 
 of the daughters have visited their relatives in Delaware, and 
 have exhibited unmistakable signs of broad culture, extensive 
 travel, and are useful, influential members of society. 
 
 The only son who grew to maturity was called Trustin Brown 
 Kinder. No expense or pains was spared in educating this young 
 man for the law. He was admitted to the bar, and bade fair to 
 make one of the first lawyers of the city. 
 
 This ambitious young man enlisted in the Mexican war in 
 1846, was made Captain of Co. B, 2d Indiana Volunteers, and fell, 
 sorely wounded, February 23d, 1847, at the battle of Buena Vista. 
 His comrades seized him, and while en route for the hospital, 
 was overtaken by the Mexican Lancers, and cruelly murdered and 
 robbed. , ft 
 
 young lady named Miss Sarah T. Bolton, who contributed the 
 following lines as a tender tribute of respect for the young man 
 and gallant soldier, whom she had loved : 
 
 Sing a dirge full of woe, 
 For the noble and gifted, 
 
 For his head lieth low, 
 And the sword is unlifted; 
 
 Sad requiems may swell 
 O'er the land that he cherished; 
 
 Storied marble may tell 
 Where the young hero perished. 
 
 We may blazon his name, 
 We may weep and deplore him; 
 
 We may give him to fame, 
 But we cannot restore him. 
 
 affianced to a 
 
 There is a tear for all who die, 
 
 A mourner o'er the humblest grave; 
 
 But nations swell the funeral cry, 
 And triumph weeps above the brave. 
 
 — Byron. 
 
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 Gallant Soldier, farewell; 
 True thy country has proved thee, 
 
 And thy memory will dwell 
 
 In the warm hearts that loved thee. 
 
 They have made thee a grave 
 In the field of thy glory, 
 
 They have written thee brave 
 On the pages of story; 
 
 And fair Freedom will come 
 Her sad tribute to render, 
 
 O'er the low, silent tomb, 
 Of her gallant defender. 
 
 Thou didst pass from our sight, 
 In the hour of life's morning, 
 
 When thy pathway was bright 
 With hope's brilliant adorning. 
 
 In thy home once so dear, 
 There is weeping and wailing; 
 
 But the sigh and the tear 
 Are alike unavailing; 
 
 For the conflict is o'er, 
 And life's ties are all riven, 
 
 We will meet thee no more 
 Till we meet thee in Heaven. 
 
 Isaac Kinder never recovered from the shock this sad event 
 occasioned, and in two short years death came suddenly, and a 
 good husband, a devoted father, and an esteemed citizen, was 
 called from labor to reward. His widow survived him 32 years, 
 and died March 19th, 1885, with a hope full of immoitality and 
 eternal life. 
 
 Owens, the younger son of Jacob and Rachel Owens Kinder, 
 married Miss Alice Smith, who lived in Cedar Creek Hundred, 
 Sussex County. 
 
 Thirteen children were bom of this marriage. He lived and 
 died in the home of his fathers. He was good man, a useful 
 member of society, and the writer will never forget his earnest, 
 zealous, ardent prayers, and his fiery zeal for God's house. 
 ■^p? Isaac^ the second son of Jacob and Katy Clay Kinder, located y a 
 on the farm now owned and occupied by his youngest son, r^ajnjj^l 
 Byas Kinder, situated about two miles from this church, with his 
 widowed mother to keep his house. 
 
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 the enjoyment, and perhaps edification of US young folks, he 
 feels strongly tempted, just at this juncture, to divulge a little ^ / 
 family secret. 
 
 This young man, Isaac Kinder, had met and was favorably 
 
 The writer is said to be a good hand to keep a secret, but for 
 
impressed with a Miss Stevens, a young lady who resided near St. 
 Johnstown, in Sussex County. 
 
 He had visited her a few times, and while on his way to a 
 "Beach Party," held at some point on the Delaware Bay, passing 
 this lady's home, called to see her, and spent the night. Kinder 
 like, (with a few exceptions), he was not slow to speak to her of 
 the purposes of his mind and heart, and asked her to accept his 
 hand m marriage. 
 
 Like all true, thoughtful young ladies, she hesitated to 
 answer so serious and important a question. 
 
 He told her he would call to see her again on his return, at 
 which time she promised him a definite answer. While at the 
 beach party, he met a sweet, mpressive young lady whom he had 
 known in early girlhood, Miss Rhoda Warren, daughter of Alex- 
 ander and Sina Warren, who lived in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sus- 
 sex County. 
 
 This young lady so won upon his heart during his stay at the 
 party, that he changed his mind, and determined if he could win 
 her heart, he would call her his wife. 
 
 On his return home, as good as his word, he called to see 
 Miss Stevens. Supper over, and once in the parlor, the subject 
 of matrimony was again introduced. She told him she had come 
 to the conclusion that she was too young to marry, and he had 
 better look further for a wife. He joined her, told her he thought 
 so too, and if she would wait longer, doubtless, she might do 
 better. 
 
 Soon tiring of " bachelor's hall, " and "single blessedness, " 
 he addressed, wooed, won, and married Miss Rhoda Warren in 
 her father's home, on the 19th day of October, 1797. 
 
 There were no carriages in this section of the country at that 
 time, and they were accompanied from the bride's father's, a dis- 
 tance of twenty-five miles, by a cavalcade of twenty-five couples, 
 on horse-back, to his quiet country home. 
 
 The modern "bridal tourists" to Washington, New York, 
 Saratoga and other fashionable centers of the Country, by rail and 
 steamer, know but little of the real romance and solid joy which 
 filled the minds and flooded the hearts of that happy couple, as 
 their noble steeds loped over hill and dale, and brought them in 
 safety to their rustic home. 
 
 Isaac Kinder, soon after his marriage, sat under the preaching 
 of the Gospel of Jesus, and went to his home convinced of "sin, 
 righteousness and of judgment to come " For weeks, he sought 
 an interest in the blood of Christ, about his home. One day 
 while walking on his farm in great distress of mind and heart, 
 
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 asking what he must do to be saved, these sweet words of Jesus 
 flashed like a jewel upon his mind. — "Come unto me all ye that 
 labor, and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. " "Take my 
 yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in 
 heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls." That was the 
 glad hour when the darkness dispersed, and the light broke in, 
 when the burden rolled away, and his soul, light and happy, 
 held uninterrupted communion with his Savior and his God. 
 
 Rhoda Warren Kinder, his happy bride, was one of the best 
 women who ever lived. There was a motherly love and tenderness 
 pervading her heart and life which baffled human description. 
 She proved to be, to her confiding husband, the kind of woman 
 described by Solomon — "who can find a virtuous woman ? for her 
 price is far above rubies — the heart of her husband doth safely 
 trust in her, she will do him good and not evil all the days of 
 her life. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with 
 her hands. She riseth, also, while it is yet night, and giveth 
 meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She 
 maketh fine linen and selleth it. She openeth her mouth with 
 wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. 
 
 "Her children arise and call her blessed, her husband, also, 
 and he prizeth her. " 
 
 There were born unto this happy union nine children, viz: 
 Nancy, Warren, John, Stephen, Jacob, Sina, Daniel Byas, Eliza- 
 beth Riley and Mary Hudson. ' ~" 
 
 Nancy, the first-born, died when nine years old. 
 
 Warren Kinder married, 1st, Miss Annie M. Davis, daughter 
 of Caleb and Nancy Cannon Davis; 2nd, Mrs. Eliza Bradley; 3rd, 
 Miss Emeline Davis sister to his first wife. 
 
 John Kinder married, 1st, Miss Castelia Davis, daughter of 
 Tilghman and Mary Wilson Davis; 2nd, Miss Catherine Davis, 
 sister to his first wife. 
 
 Stephen Kinder married Miss Mary Wright, daughter of Jacob 
 and Milky Wright. 
 
 Jacob Kinder married Miss Mary Cannon, daughter of Wiugate 
 and Sallie Wilson Cannon. 
 
 Daniel Byas married, 1st, Miss Mary Dukes; 2nd, Miss Emily 
 Davis, 'daughter of Jess\e Davis. 
 
 Sina Kinder, the only daughter of Isaac and Rhoda Warren 
 Kinder who lived to maturity, married Lewis N. Wright, a man 
 of precious memory, whose noble, industrious, heroic life, de 
 serves many pages in this brief record. He died December 25th, 
 1883, and passed to his eternal rest. 
 
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 Sephen Kinder was powerfully converted to God in his early 
 manhood — was considered the more pious of the sons — was ap- 
 pointed class-leader at Bethel M. K. Church, and in eight short 
 months after his marriage died in full hope of a better life at the 
 early age of 23 years. It was thought by those who knew him 
 best, had he lived, he would have become a minister of the ever- 
 lasting Gospel. 
 
 Elizabeth Riley Kinder embraced the christian religion in her 
 14th year, and at about the age of 15, in the very bloom of youth, 
 passed to the eternal life, with a bright hope of a blissful im- 
 mortality. We are told there were no doubts to cloud her mind, 
 and that the last words she uttered were : ' ' My ransomed soul 
 shall soar away to sing God's praise in endless days." 
 
 Mary Hudsou Kinder died in her 17th year. Iyike Mary in 
 the New Testament, she remembered her creator in the days of 
 her youth. We are told her life seemed to be "hid with Christ 
 in God," that she was sweet-spirited and amiable in her life, 
 and most interesting and lovely in her death. 
 
 A fitting epitaph upon her tombstone would have been — 
 'Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excelleth them all. ' 
 
 Nancy Kinder, the only daughter of Isaac and Katy Clay 
 Kinder, was married quite young to Mr. Robert Owens, who 
 lived but a few years and died without issue. 
 
 She afterward married Mr. Stephen Warren, of Sussex County, 
 Delaware. 
 
 There were born of this marriage five children, viz: Mary, 
 David, Rhoda, Katy and Stephen. 
 
 We are sorry that for the want of information we cannot speak 
 more particularly of this family. 
 
 Jacob Kinder, the eldest, son of the first Jacob, remaiued on the 
 farm now occupied by William F. Kinder, until the year 1831, 
 when he gave it into the hands of his son, Owens, and purchased 
 and moved to a farm located one and a half miles west of the 
 town of Bridgeville, familiarly known as the "Laws Farm," and 
 remained at the latter place until his death, which occurred in 
 the year 1837, in the 68th year of his age. 
 
 Isaac Kinder greatly improved his temporal condition, pur- 
 chaseoTmahy hundred acres of land, lived a life of great activity 
 and usefulness, and came down to a good old age like a ripe shock 
 of corn, ready to be garnered in the skies. 
 
 He remained on the farm where he first settled, now occupied 
 by his youngest son— Daniel Byas — until his death, which took 
 place in the year 1855, aged 82 years. 
 
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 Nancy Kinder, afterward Nancy Warren, settled with her hus- 
 band in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex County, and there remained 
 until the year 1852, when she died, aged about 77 years. 
 
 There were born unto Jacob and Katy Clay Kinder, who came 
 from Holland to this continent in 1760, three children, twenty- 
 two grandchildren, and one hundred and two great grandchildren. 
 Being unable to trace the fourth generation accurately, we think 
 we approximate the truth, when we say there were about one 
 hundred and fifty, great, great grandchildren. 
 
 We have reserved our last page to speak more particularly of 
 the three sons of Isaac and Rboda__Warren Kinder, who have 
 fought life's battles successfully, and have gone to their eternal 
 reward; viz: Warren, John and Jacob, three of the noblest and 
 grandest men who ever lived in this communty. 
 
 In a general respect, they all reminded me of the Ocean. The 
 Ocean is grand, so were those men. 
 
 The Ocean is majestic, so were those men. And yet, each 
 one reminded me of the Ocean under varied circumstances. War- 
 ren reminded me of the Ocean when it stretches on and on in its 
 majestic grandeur, under the solemn stillness of an autumn's sun. 
 John reminded me of the Ocean, when the breezes have fanned 
 themselves into a brisk gale, and have piled up its bosom into 
 mighty, towering columns of strength and power. Jacob remind- 
 ed me of the Ocean when the dark storm-cloud gathers, and the 
 driving winds lash it into fury, and its mighty huge billows, 
 rolling mountains high, dash and break upon the shore as if they 
 would submerge and engulf the very earth. Jacob Kinder pos- 
 sessed a restless, riggling activity, which would not let him be 
 still. But give him something to do, something that was worthy 
 of his doing, and he was up and at it, and never succumbed until 
 the task was accomplished, and thoroughly accomplished. 
 
 Like the seabird, happiest when riding the highest wave of 
 the storm, Jacob Kinder was most and greatest and mightiest when 
 he was ascending the very crest of some mountain barrier, and 
 had but to reach forth his hand, nerved by his mighty indomi- 
 table will, and wrench success from the very jaws of apparent 
 death. 
 
 Those men were firm men. Men of the staunchest type of 
 integrity. Men, wherever known, whose word was as good as 
 their bond. Men who always exerted an influence for good, and 
 impressed their noble spirits upon all with whom they came in 
 contact. Men who did their own thinking, and arrived at their 
 own conclusions, and when they had once reached a conclusion, 
 
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 you had might as well try to move the earth with a crowbar, as to 
 move those men from their conviction of right and duty. 
 
 We are not here to say that those men were perfect, or free 
 from weakness which are "the common lot^of^liumanity — else they 
 had not been human — we are not here to say that those men did 
 not study policy in their actions and transactions among men, but 
 we are here to say that whenevei a question of policy or right 
 was presented to those men for decision, there was such a deep 
 sense of abiding rectitude and right in the very constitution of 
 their natures, that they invariably vergd to the right, let the out- 
 come be loss or gain^ 
 
 They were good men. Since their death many tender tributes 
 of respect have greeted my ears from men who knew them well all 
 their lifetime. The writer was standing at the desk of a promi- 
 nent merchant, who is struggling to accumulate this world's 
 goods, when the news of the death of my uncle, Lewis N. Wright, 
 came, and said this man: "I envy such men as Warren Kinder, 
 your father, and Lewis Wright, when I hear of their death. Men 
 who have acted a noble part in life, and have come down to its 
 final close with honor and credit to themselves, and the respect 
 and love of all who knew them. " 
 
 A few weeks after my father's death, I met one of the most 
 prominent men who ever lived in this State, Senator Saulsbury, 
 who knew him long and well, and speaking of his noble life, 
 said he, "John Kinder was the salt of the earth." 
 
 Men who have made it the business of their lives to find fault 
 with christian men and to point out their weaknesses rather than 
 their strength, men who knew Jacob Kinder well, were compelled 
 to acknowledge the purity and uprightness of his life, and the 
 holy triumph of his death. Many men have been made by cir- 
 cumstances, but the process was too slow for Jacob Kinder. He 
 made circumstances, and pushed all the interests of his vocation 
 to their utmost bounds, and at the same time lived a life devoted 
 to God, and the great interests of His Church. 
 
 These facts have been mentioned to show that those men's 
 noble, active lives were impressed upon all lives about them, and 
 that there is a power in the Christianity which they professed and 
 lived, which raised them above the suspicion of men, and crowned 
 their years with honor, goodness and success. 
 
 Those men had an unconquerable faith in their Mother's Bible 
 and their Mother's God. Several ministers visited Warren on 
 one occasion. During the day they took a walk on his farm. 
 One of the ministers could not be satisfied long at a tim« without 
 
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 a book in his hand, and he said in the walk, "I wish I had a good 
 book to read." My uncle remarked "he had a very good book 
 in his house." The minister felt somewhat elated to think he 
 was in such close proximity to a good book and on returning to 
 his home Warren Kinder handed him a copy of the Holy Bible 
 saying: "That is the best book I ever read." 
 
 Those men lived close together in their lives and were not far 
 apart in their death, and at a good ripe old age closed their eyes 
 upon the conflicts of mortality and have gone to live and grow 
 and sing forever in the Paradise of Angels and God. 
 
 And now as we look upon the friendly, familiar faces which 
 compose this re-union — earth-born and fleeing — and as we look 
 beyond it and beyond this Church — this time-honored Temple — 
 and beyond these grounds and beyond the horizon, and beyond 
 the clouds and beyond the stars let us ask ourselves the question: 
 "Shall we all meet in that grand re-union in the upper Temple 
 and with Abraham and Isaac and Warien and John and Jacob be 
 eternally shut in to go out no more forever?" 
 
The Noble Family 
 
 By Col. J. M. McCartbr. 
 
 The first of this f amity, we think, came to America from 
 England settling on the Eastern Shore of the Province of Mary- 
 land about A. D. 1650. At this time about fifty families among 
 whom were the Richards, the Wrights, and the Nobles, and others, 
 followed John Richards to Dorchester County who had patented 
 large tracts of land lying in what is now known as North West 
 Fork Hundred in the State of Delaware, and in several of the 
 upper election districts of Dorchester County, Md. The writer 
 of this sketch has seen and examined the original title deeds 
 from King Charles I of England to the aforesaid John Richards, 
 one or more of which is yet in the possession of his lineal de- 
 scendant, Mrs. Doctor Hugh Martin, nee Richards, of Seaford, 
 Delaware. 
 
 We have no means of ascertaining tha christian name of the 
 first immigrant bearing the name of Noble in the early settlement 
 in Dorchester County. He and his descendants, for several gene- 
 rations, lived unconspicuous and quiet lives. When the celebrated 
 Dr. Johnson, author of the English dictionary, was refused mar- 
 riage by the lady whom he addressed with that view, and he 
 pressed her to know the reason of such refusal, she is said to 
 have replied, that an insuperble obstacle was in the fact that her 
 father had been hung ; to which he made answer, that the hang- 
 ing of several of his ancestors was, he had no doubt, richly 
 deserved, if it had not been effected., and instead of its being an 
 objection, was an honor. This era in English history was the 
 period of death for political offences, and we know that : 
 
 "Whether on the gallows high, 
 
 Or in the battle's van, 
 The noblest place for man to die 
 
 Is, where he dies for man." 
 
 We know of none of the Nobles who have been hung, or who 
 have been lifted into notice in history by either heroic or crimi- 
 nal conduct. The generations succeeding the first immigrant 
 bearing this name, lived through exciting periods, but no one 
 
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 bearing the name of Noble was conspicuous in the disputed 
 boundary question between Delaware and Maryland ; nor in the 
 Claiborne or Cromwellian wars of Maryland. Even in the struggle 
 for independence, we have no knowledge of one of this name 
 fighting either in the ranks of the "'Maryland Line,'' or in those 
 of the ''Blue Hen's Chickens,'' as the soldiers of Delaware were 
 called. So far back as we can trace them., they were Quakers. 
 
 The origin of name designating individuals and families 
 sometimes was found in the qualities, or characterisics of the 
 person. We flatter ourself that this was the case in the name of 
 Noble; and strange and incongruous as it seems in a Republican 
 Government and a Democratic State, we have had Nobles (a nobil- 
 ity) from its beginning, and today finds us surrounded if not 
 indeed, overawed, by NOBLES. 
 
 The grandfather of our present Sheriff William Noble was a 
 member of the Society of Friends ; a Dorchester citizen who was 
 twice married. By his first marriage were two sons. John and 
 William. His second wife was a Miss Jackson of Dorchester 
 County ; by this marriage there were two sons also ; Joshua and 
 Mark Noble who are the progenitors of the family here today 
 assembled. Of the other and earlier brothers, we are without 
 record. 
 
 The father of Joshua and Mark Noble was removed from them 
 by death when they were quite young: and their mother married, 
 for a second husband a gentleman by the name of Brooks, who 
 squandered a very considerable estate of his own and of his wife's, 
 in gambling and horse-racing. The extent to which horse-racing 
 was indulged in. at the close of the last century, and indeed 
 throughout the entire century, by those residing in the colonies 
 settled by the English, may be iearned by reading the July num- 
 ber of The Century Magazine. 1885, in an article by Dr. Eggles- 
 ton. Mr. Brooks was devoted to this sport, and when Joshua, 
 the elder of his two step-sons, became old enough to manage a 
 race-horse, he, under the control of his step-father, became a race- 
 rider; going, not unfrequently. the distance of one hundred miles 
 from home, to ride in races for Mr. Brooks. When Joshua ar- 
 rived at the age of seventeen years, after mature deliberation, he 
 determined never to ride again, and so informed his step-father. 
 He expected to be severely chastised for this avowal. Mr. Brooks 
 did not. much to his surprise, even threaten him, and never 
 afterward asked him to get into a saddle for a race. Joshua was 
 ever after the most determined foe of horse-racing. Soon after 
 this Mr. Brooks died and left his two step-children and their 
 
mother almost pennyless. These boys kept her, as long as she 
 lived, by their earnings; devoting themselves, for her sake, to 
 hard and self-denying manual labor. Upon his arrival at man's 
 estate, Joshua came over the line into Delaware, and soon after 
 purchased the farm now known as Kirk farm, almost in sight of 
 where we are now assembled. He then married Sally, daughter 
 of Solomon Twiford. This marriage occurred in the year 1797. 
 Their children were Charles, Daniel, John, Archibald, Lovey, 
 Elizabeth, Solomon, Hester, James, Alexander, William 1st, 
 Amelia, William 2d, now Sheriff Noble, Twiford, Rhoda and 
 Jane; sixteen, of whom twelve grew to maturity. Daniel and 
 John died when young men, unmarried. Daniel at his father's, 
 and John near Chillicothe, Ohio. 
 
 Charles Noble married Mahala, daughter of Rev. Wm. Davis. 
 He died leaving four ""children": Mary, Jonathan, William and 
 Sarah Ann. Mary and Jonathan are with us today. Sarah 
 married twice. Her first husband, Arthur Neal, died, leaving 
 two sons, James and Jonathan Neal, deceased. Her second husband 
 was Samuel Ward. She died leaving two children of this mar- 
 riage, Mary and William Ward. 
 
 Mary, daughter of Charles Noble, is the wife of Alfred Davis. 
 Their children are Emily, wife of Henry Cannon, of Seaford ; 
 Augusta, now Mrs. Booth, of Philadelphia ; Mary Adaline, de- 
 ceased 1874, married Joseph James, of Seaford, and left three 
 children, Rose, Frederick and Lena. Charles, resident of this 
 vicinity; and Sallie C. , wife of W. E. Carpenter, of Cannon's 
 Ferry, Anna, who died 1883; James, and Laura A., wife of 
 Oliver Obier, of Seaford, Delaware. 
 
 Jonathan Noble, of Charles, married Eliza Ward ; their child- 
 ren are Mary, wife of Isaac S. Warren ; Sarah, wife of George 
 Williams ; Joseph, who died in early manhood, 1871, and Charles, 
 now in Arizona Territory. 
 
 William Noble, of Charles, known as Dr. Noble, died in 
 Federalsburg, 1879, after years of successful practice in his pro- 
 fession ; one of the nobility of earth ; a man of honor and worth ; 
 a scholar, a man of rare genius and a christian gentleman. He 
 was twice married, first to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Vickers, 
 and of this marriage there is one survivor, Mrs. Corinne Johnson, 
 of Sioux Rapids, Iowa. For his second wife he married Miss 
 Mary A. Houston, who survives him. By this second marriage 
 are four sons, William H. Noble, M. D. , of Port Deposit, Md ; 
 Robert, Lieutenant U. S. Army, a graduate of West Point, and 
 now stationed in Arizona; Charles Noble, M. D., Philadelphia, 
 Pa., and Herbert, a student of St. John's College, Annapolis. 
 
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 Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Noble, married Anthony R. 
 Adams. She died at the house of Sheriff Noble, 1S75, leaving 
 one surviving daughter, Ruth, wife of James Harris, of Seaford, 
 Delaware. 
 
 Emily married Noah Lednum ; she died leaving one son, 
 Francis Lednum. 
 
 Margaret died unmarried. 
 Hester, also died unmarried. 
 
 Solomon, son of Joshua Noble, born 1809, married Harriet, 
 daughter of Noble Williams. He died February, 1868, leaving a 
 widow and ten children, of whom eight are yet living ; those are 
 Lottie, now Mrs. Raimey. of Baltimore, Md. ; Martha ; Joseph 
 died April, 1835 ; Rhoda, wife of John Mark Davis, of Baltimore, 
 Md. ; Harriet, wife of Win. Alberger, Federalsburg ; Clementine, 
 now Mrs. Zebdice Fountain, of Andersontown, Md. ; Hally, wife 
 of Alfred Noble, Federalsburg ; S. Maddux and Robert. 
 
 Hester, daughter of Joshua Noble, married Charles Smith ; she 
 died leaving one daughter, the late Mrs. Ross, who left two sons, 
 William, and Noble Rolph, children by her second husband, Mr. 
 James Rolph. 
 
 James, of Joshua, married Mary Howard, of Somerset County, 
 Md. He died 1866, leaving a widow and four children, all liv- 
 ing. These are Frances Josephine, now Mrs. Lieutenant Wind- 
 sor, U. S. Navy ; Ella, wife of Alva Hubbard, of Baltimore, and 
 Mary Belle. 
 
 Alexander, of Joshua, married Louisa, daughter of Aaron 
 Wright; died 1853, leaving five children; Daniel F, ; James A., 
 merchant, Linchester, Caroline County; Mary C. , wife of R. 
 D. Bradley, Charles W. , who died 1860, and Harriet, wife of John 
 Pert, of Andersontown. 
 
 Amelia married William N. Collins. Rev. Wm. Collins, of 
 St. Louis, is one of ten surviving children ; Joshua, who died 
 1883, left a wife and children; Henry, a resident of Indiana; 
 Sallie, widow of Robert Bratton ; he died 1884; Georgiana, now 
 Mrs. Studly, of Kansas; Emily married Henry Schock ; Henry 
 and Laura are married, and Rhoda and Edward yet unmarried ; 
 all residents of Kansas except William and Henry Collins. 
 
 William 2d, known as Sheriff Noble, of Caroline County, 
 born 1818, married Rhoda Ann, daughter of Warren and Anna 
 Maria (Davis) Kinder. Three of their children died in infancy, 
 and Sallie, wife of James M. Andrews, of Dorchester County, is 
 their only surviving child. 
 
 TwifordS., of Joshua, was born 1820, and died February, 
 
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 1882, leaving a widow and four children. He married first, Ruth 
 Hannah, daughter of Jacob and Hannah Leverton. She died 
 leaving two sons, Jacob L. Noble, M. D. , engaged in the practice 
 of medicine on Taylor's Island, and Rufus, a merchant, also of 
 Taylor's Island. His second wife was Caroline, daughter of 
 Caleb P. and Nancy Davis, who died leaving Ada, now Mrs. 
 Robert Jarrell, and Alexander, farmer, at the homestead near 
 Preston. His third wife was Levisa A. Martin, widow of James 
 Rumbold, who survives him. 
 
 Jane, daughter of Joshua Noble, born Jan. 21st, 1824, was 
 twice married ; first to Wm. Henry Wright ; of this marriage 
 were four children : Twiford N. , Sally C. , who married Tilgh- 
 man Davis; l/ouisa, now Mrs Daniel Moore, of Federalsburg, 
 and Maggie, now widow of Eli Gullett, late of Federalsburg. 
 For her second husband she married John T. Fleetwood and died 
 leaving one child, Ida Fleetwood. 
 
 Mark Noble, younger brother of Joshua, of whose family we 
 have given the foregoing sketch, was married three times. His 
 last wife^was Betsey, daughter of William Maloney, of Delaware. 
 
 His children were Daniel, Nathan, Milly, Joshua and Ridson. 
 
 Daniel, of Mark, married Nancy, daughter of Garey Leverton. 
 Of this marriage, five children grew to maturity. Willis Noble; 
 Isaac, a resident of Preston, Caroline County ; Amelia, now Mrs. 
 Bland, of Cambridge; Daniel James, and Garey L. , who became a 
 oldier in the late war; a m ember of the 8th Maryland Regiment, 
 U. S. Service; died 1863 in the 23d year of his age. 
 
 Nathan, of Mark, married Mary Hubbard, of Bloomery, Caro- 
 line County. They had four children: Henry, deceased; Elisha 
 and James, residing in the west ; and Elizabeth, widow of Green- 
 bury Nichols, residing near Pine Grove Church, Caroline County, 
 Md. 
 
 Joshua, of Mark, became extensively known as a minister of the 
 Society of Friends. He resided near Federalsburg, where he died 
 18th of August, 1870, in the 62d year of his age. His children 
 are Joseph M., of Hurlock's Station, Dorchester County, Md ; 
 John H. , Mark E., and Alfred Noble, all of whom are living 
 within a few miles of the parental homestead. 
 
 In intelligence, integrity and industry, this family has a most 
 honorable record, and as eulogy is inappropriate in such a paper 
 as this, we submit this brief sketch of the history of Noble 
 family. 
 
Address of 
 
 Rev, P. H. Rawlins 
 
 Dear friends and kindred : I am neither a Davis, a Noble, 
 nor a Kinder, but I number among my most intimate friends, 
 members of each of these families; and my wife, as you all know, 
 is a descendant of the Kinder family, and her father, Lewis N. 
 Wright, has had honorable^ mention today. 
 
 We have met on historic ground, and have come from far 
 and near to greet each other in this old, time-honored temple. 
 We have come to renew our friendships, and re-kindle in each 
 other's hearts the fires of kindred love, and to extend our ac- 
 quaintance to others who claim a relationship of consanguinity or 
 affinity. But few remain to meet with us that were acquainted 
 and associated with the fathers of the past generation. A few 
 yet linger to whom we look up and call "the fathers and 
 mothers. ' ' 
 
 The fathers, whose memories are recalled today, have passed to 
 their long home. Their graves are with us, and on them we 
 would place fresh immortelles, as we are reminded of their names, 
 and deeds, and heroic struggles, They labored long and well to 
 make the "desert rejoice and blossom as the rose." 
 
 It is not mine to repeat the story of their lives and the histo- 
 ries of their families; that has been the work of others better 
 prepared than I am to do them justice. 
 
 Could the Nobles, Kinders and Davises, of a hundred years 
 ago, look down upon this audience today as we are gathered here, 
 what an army of their descendants would they behold ! And who 
 shall say that they do not, from the battlements of the upper 
 world, behold this assembled multitude ? 
 
 Who knows how near they are permitted to come to this 
 congregation ? The veil is thin that intervenes, find with the 
 clearer vision of the disembodied, they may be permitted to look 
 through upon us now. Many of us cannot claim to be their lineal 
 descendants, but charmed by their virtues and fascinated by the 
 smiles of their fair daughters and granddaughters, we sought a 
 place in their circle, and to be twigs on their family trees. Thus, 
 
 " 'Tis but one family, the sound is balm, 
 
 A seraph whisper to the wounded heart." 
 
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 No towering obelisks mark the resting places of our ancestors. 
 No long drawn histories tell their noble deeds. No poets have 
 sung of their virtues and thus embalmed their memories; but we, 
 their descendants, have embalmed them in our hearts. Bring the 
 spices and lay around their sleeping forms! Polish their tombs 
 and re-write their names. Tell the story of their lives to our 
 children Honor the fathers and the mothers. 
 
 " 'Tis memory of the pious dead, 
 
 "To earth-worn pilgrim's wistful eye 
 "The brightest rays of cheering shed, 
 "To point to immortality. 
 
 "A twinkling speck, but fixed and bright, 
 
 "To guide us through the dreary night, 
 "Bach hero shines, and lures the soul, 
 
 "To gain the distant happy goal. 
 
 "For there is one who, musing o'er the grave 
 
 "Where lies interred the good, the wise the brave, 
 "Can poorly think, beneath the mouldering heap 
 ' 'That noble being shall forever sleep? 
 
 " 'No,' says the generous heart, and proudly swells, 
 
 " 'Though his cered corpse lies here, 
 " 'With God his spirit dwells.' " 
 
 There are lessons for us to learn today. We are not to make 
 this simply a festival, an hour of pleasant intercourse, which, 
 like a dream, is forgotten when one awaketh, shall pass from our 
 memories, as we go forth again into the battle of life. Every heart 
 here should be glad to greet its kindred hearts, and every hand to 
 grasp its kindred hands. But then, we may be profited by 
 relating to each other something of life's struggle — the hopes and 
 fears that alternately prevail. 
 
 Oh ! who has not a story to tell, an experience to relate ? To 
 some, the wind has seemed to be tempered, while upon other 
 heads it has poured out its ^severe, tempestuous blasts. With some 
 perhaps the pathway has been comparatively smooth while others 
 have found it rough and thorny. A benign Providence has smiled 
 upon some and their barns have been filled ; no bands have seemed 
 to bind them while others again have sown in tears and reaped in 
 sadness. Yet let us remember that we be brethren. If Joseph 
 rules, it is his brethren that have come to buy corn ; let no sac- 
 riligious hand destroy the band that would bind together their 
 hearts, or invade the sacred precincts where, falling upon each 
 other's necks, they weep. The re-union has long been deferred. 
 The dark waves have rolled between them and threatened to 
 separate them forever, but the hour has come for these things to 
 
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 be past. Inquire now, ye brethren, for each other's family and 
 health. Judah and Simeon, and Joseph and Benjamin, inquire 
 for the "old folks at home." Some are not here — "The old 
 man of whom ye spake." This meeting should teach each one of 
 us something we did not know before about the different mem- 
 bers of the family. Our acquaintance may have been long and 
 intimate, but some trait of hidden virtue may be developed, some 
 new cord woven which shall bind us the more intimately together. 
 Our acquaintance is to be enlarged. 
 
 Why, here are a host of little ones and big ones, young in 
 years, that "knew not Joseph" 'till today. They are members of 
 these families, and at some future re-union, wll be among the 
 fathers and mothers, and foremost in the movement. When we, 
 whose heads are now gray, and on whose brows the "crow feet" 
 but foreshadow the coming winter of life, shall have gone to our 
 long home, when these stalwart young men, and cheerful 
 maidens, with rosy cheeks, have grown old with age, may the 
 experiences of this day be repeated, and the story told in the ears 
 of the unborn multitude. And as we weave garlands and place 
 them around the names of our ancestors, and make their graves 
 beautiful with the flowers that affection strews upon them, so may 
 others remember our names and deeds. 
 
 Let us learn more than ever to honor the fathers and mothers 
 that remain with us, and bow at their feet to receive their coun- 
 sel and blessing. There is no more beautiful picture, to my 
 mind, than that of the children of the old patriarch Jacob, as they 
 gather around his dying bed to receive his parting blessing. 
 They had often gathered about him before. They had doubtless 
 told him their little jealousies. How they envied Joseph on 
 account of the favorism shown him. Of their intention to slay 
 him, and of Reuben's intercession for him, and Judah's propo- 
 sition to sell him as a slave to the Ishmaelites. The whole 
 story had come to the ears of Jacob, and he had been constrained 
 to say that God overruled it all for good. Now they gather for 
 his last blessing upon them. He calls to their remembrance the 
 names of his ancestors, and the blessings God had promised them 
 and their descendants, and requests them to bury him with his 
 fathers, even in the cave which Abraham bought in the land of 
 promise. The spirit longs to be with the fathers in the land of 
 rest, and desires the body to be laid with theirs in the tomb. A 
 few of the fathers and mothers who knew a former generation, yet 
 remain with us. Their number is growing rapidly less. New made 
 graves are almost constantly being opened to receive some saintly, 
 
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 beloved form. Let us prize those that remain, more than ever. 
 Oh ! I want their blessing upon my head before the}' go hence. 
 I want to hear more of their counsel and experience, before their 
 lips are closed in death. 
 
 Once more, let us be reminded of the time coming, when there 
 is to be a grand re-union of the saintly hosts around the throne of 
 God. We are surrounded to-day by an innumerable crowd of 
 witnesses. What a company ! It seems to me, I can almost see 
 them ! It seems that the old fathers and mothers who worshiped 
 in this temple years ago, are with us. I go back a hundred years, 
 in imagination, and the Kinders, and Davises, and Nobles, of 
 that age and day, with a host of others, are around us. How they 
 sang and prayed. This old temple seems to echo again with their 
 shouts and songs. There are the grey-headed sires, and the infant 
 of days. They are in the unseen multitude now — the host of 
 disembodied saints ! Our eyes are holden, we cannot see them, it 
 is only a flight of imagination ! But let us move on down the 
 ages, until the cycling years of time are ended. The Arch-Angel 
 with the trumpet declares that time shall be no more. The 
 tombs are bursting. All these old grave yards are torn in pieces, 
 and the graves are opened. Behold the multitude as they come 
 forth ! See that saintly host gathering at the right hand of the 
 throne! What a company! It is a re-union of the godly of all 
 ages, and our faith is, that a multitude of these families repre- 
 sented hereto-day, will be there. Oh, may we all be there! 
 
 "Over the river they beckon to me, 
 
 Loved ones who have crossed to the further side, 
 The gleam of their shadowy robes I see, 
 
 Their voices are drowned in the rushing tide. 
 They crossed in the twilight grey and cold, 
 
 And the pale mist hid them from mortal view. 
 We saw not the angels who met them there, 
 
 The gates of the city we could not see. 
 Over the river, over the river, 
 
 Our fathers are waiting for you and me." 
 
 "Over the river, the boatman pale 
 
 Carried others— our household pets, 
 Their brown curls waved in the gentle gale, 
 
 Darling children! I see them yet. 
 They crossed on their bosoms their dimpled hands, 
 
 And fearlessly entered the phantom bark; 
 We watched it glide from the silver sands, 
 
 And all our sunshine grew strangely dark. 
 We know they are safe on the other side, 
 
 Where all the ransomed and angels be; 
 Over the river, the mystic river, 
 
 Our household idols wait for you and me," 
 
Address of 
 
 Rev. A. W. Milby, P. E. 
 
 We are assembled to celebrate the re-union of thiee families, 
 to wit ; Davis, Kinder, and Noble. 
 
 Mankind exists in three conditions ordained of God; in the 
 family; in the nation ; in the church. The family includes per- 
 son, the nation is composed of families, and the church compre- 
 hends nations. And as the family is the first, so it will be the 
 last form of human development, as the Apostle speaks of the 
 whole family in heaven and earth. 
 
 This general introduction prepares the way for a four-fold 
 division of the subject. We will then consider you, firstly, 
 analytically ; secondly, synthetically ; thirdly, anithetically ; 
 and, in the fourth place, potentially. 
 
 In considering you analytically, we must resolve you into 
 parts, and thus address you individually, and impress upon you, 
 severally, the great idea of personal responsibility. A thought- 
 ful man asks, what is time? Who can readily and briefly explain 
 this? Who can, even in thought, comprehend it, so as to utter 
 a word about it? But what, in discourse, do we mention more 
 familiarly and knowingly than time? And we understand when 
 we speak of it; we understand, also, when we hear it spoken of 
 by another. What, then, is time ? If no one asks me I know ; 
 if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not ; yet I say 
 boldly that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were 
 not; and if nothing were coming, a time to come were not; and 
 if nothing were, time present were not. Those two times s past 
 and to come, how are they ? Seeing the past now is not, and 
 that to come is not yet, but the present, should it always be 
 present, and never pass into time past, verily, it should not be 
 time, but eternity. If, therefore, time present, in order to be 
 time at all, comes into existence only because it passes into tim e 
 past, how can we say that that is in existence whose cause of being 
 is, that it shall not be? How is it we can not truly say that time 
 is, but because it is tending not to be? 
 
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 The difficulty of properly appreciating the present moment 
 arises from a delusion practiced upon the understanding. As the 
 ancients, in their ignorance, imagined the earth to be a vast plain 
 instead of an immense globe, so we, in our foil}', conceive of 
 time past, present and to come, as a continuous line; whereas 
 the time present more truly resembles a point at which an infinite 
 number of imaginary circles meet. 
 
 Thus the present hour touches the present moment; the 
 present day meets the present hour at the point of the immediate 
 now ; and the present week coalesces with the present day and the 
 present hour in the present time ; and the present month meets 
 the present week and the present day, and the present hour in 
 the immediate present moments. So, also, the present year 
 touches the present month, and the present week, and the present 
 day, and the hour in the present moment. 
 
 Thus we may go on until we shall see, that in reality as to 
 all the consequences of our being and well-being, the great cycle 
 or infinite orb of eternity touches upon this particular, punctual 
 spot. 
 
 Hence, instead of considering this moment as part of an imag- 
 inary line of unbroken continuity, we ought to regard it as a 
 centre of power developing itself concentrically, and the various 
 acts of our lives in this world as having a controlling power over 
 our destiny in that world where an eternal now forever lasts. 
 
 In order to correct impressions made upon the mind by exter- 
 nal objects, let us imagine a man with his feet firmly planted 
 upon a block of wood, which rests securely upon the ground; he 
 would feel safe ; proximity to the earth, and the presence of 
 surrounding objects, would impart an air of composure and self- 
 possession ; but suppose by some mechanical power that piece of 
 wood is made to rise, silently and steadily, with every fluxion of 
 its advance there would creep over him a feeling of insecurity, and 
 his ascent, if continued to a great altitude would become abso- 
 lutely perilous. Now why is this ? You cannot resolve the 
 whole question by a simple reference to the law of gravitation, 
 for according to our supposition, the power beneath him is amply 
 sufficient to counteract the force of gravity. 
 
 The present moment is, then, the summing up — the epitome — 
 the abridgment of eternity. Your present character is the result 
 of the combination of circumstances which have entered into your 
 antecedent history; causes external and internal, have acted and 
 reached and made you what you now are; what you will be de- 
 pends very much upon the decisions of the present time. 
 
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 We can, with the utmost precision, tell an eclipse of the 
 moon, and of the sun ; we can determine the distance of a fixed 
 star scarcely visable by the aid of the most powerful telescope. 
 We can calculate the velocity of the planets, as they move in 
 their orbits through the regions of infinite space. We can do 
 almost anything and everything but sound the mysterious depths 
 of the human will. The decisions of the present can only be 
 made manifest by the time to come. 
 
 'Tis not for man to trifle. Iyife is brief 
 
 And sin is here; 
 Our age is but the falling of a leaf, 
 
 A dropping tear. 
 We have no time to sport away the hours; 
 All must be earnest in a world like ours; 
 
 Not many lives, but only one, have we — 
 
 One, only one; 
 How sacred should that one life ever be, 
 
 That narrow span! 
 Day after day filled up with blessed toil, 
 Hour after hour still brings in new spoil. 
 
 We come now to the second part of our subject which is to 
 consider you synthetically. Now in this we are obliged to put 
 you back into your original places where Providence has put you 
 in the family, in society, and in the church. As the christian 
 is the highest style of man, we exhort you as travelers upon the 
 highway of life. Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill 
 the law of Christ. 
 
 Some there are who are, contitutionally, very desponding, 
 always looking on the dark side of every picture, and harassing 
 their minds with the apprehension of imaginary evils. Such are 
 subject to great depression of spirits, and in that state no more 
 capable of judging of their religious condition than the eye can 
 see itelf. How prone are persons of such temperament to write 
 bitter things against themselves. The ailments of their body 
 give a color to their spiritual exercises, and while their des- 
 pondency is a hindrance to their own spiritual enjoyment, they 
 frequently infuse their melancholy forebodings into the cup of 
 pleasure of those around them. With such minds there can be little 
 sympathy with those who are of a more joyous and buoyant spirit; 
 and without mutual forbearance and due consideration of diver- 
 sities of temperament, the asperities of life's journey will be 
 greatly augmented. Christian kindness should teach you to study 
 well the character and disposition of such, and not aggravate 
 
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 their already afflicted minds by any harsh and unkind expressions. 
 
 There are others who are naturally light and volatile. Such 
 is the peculiarity of their disposition, that they never get credit 
 for the piety they actually possess. It was the remark of Mr. 
 Whitefield that an ounce of grace would show more in some per- 
 sons, than a pound would in others. Moroseness and stern 
 austerity have often passed in this world as true godliness, and 
 many a man has obtained reputation for piety more through a 
 bad stomach, than a good heart. The austere, unsocial virtues of 
 John the Baptist made a more profound impression upon the pub- 
 lic mind than the meek unostentatious piety of the Son of Man. 
 Our Savious does not condemn that type of piety which was exem- 
 plified in his forerunner without its natural abuses, but He does 
 not extol it as the most desirable, and His own example favors 
 the more amiable virtues. 
 
 I make not these observations to extenuate folly or excuse 
 levity, but to caution persons of an opposite temperament not to 
 be too hasty to blot from the book of life the names of those 
 whose infirmity is an exuberance of animal spirit. 
 
 Others there are of a peculiar serious and thoughtful turn of 
 mind. Religion with them is an exceedingly solemn concern. 
 Their very solemnity, in fact, has more the appearance of super- 
 stitious dread, than of a filial, loving fear of offending God, 
 When reminded that like as a Father pitieth his children, so the 
 Lord pitieth them that fear Him, they are ready to reply ; it is a 
 fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. You would 
 imagine them continually, musing on such sentiment, as those 
 expressed by the poet : 
 
 No room for mirth and trifling here, 
 For worldly hope or worldly fear 
 If life so soon be gone; 
 If now the judge is at the door 
 And all mankind must stand before 
 The inexorable throne! 
 
 Now without objecting to the poetry questioning the senti- 
 ment expressed, we do, nevertheless, think that this world is 
 something more than a place to diet in, and man should not al- 
 ways look as if he were going to a funeral. The very rejoicings 
 of the bouyant and hopeful are, to such minds, indications of 
 presumptious confidence. And they are often surprised that 
 others, by whom they are surrounded, who are by no means remark- 
 able in their religious life, can go from the enjoyment of the 
 innocent festivities of pleasure to the Sanctuary, and unite with 
 
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 fervor with the assembly of God's people, as though, like Anna, 
 they departed, not from the temple. Others there are who are 
 exceedingly fond of decorating their persons, very much to the 
 annoyance of those who regard plainness of apparel as no bad in- 
 dication of inward holiness. Now such persons are disposed to 
 say to the remonstrances of those who are more plain in their 
 dress, such things don't hurt me; which is certainly true. 
 
 Gold and costly apparel never hurt anybody, but they are 
 frequently the sign that those who wear them have been most 
 seriously injured. But how shall we settle this interminable 
 controversy between two distinct classes in the church of God ? 
 Though we may not all agree as to what is wrong, yet there is by 
 no means unanimity of opinion concerning what is precisely 
 right. 
 
 With the variety of tastes among men and women, uniformity 
 of dress is by no means possible, if desirable. The question is 
 not to be determined by the subtle rules of logic or the arts of 
 casuists, but must come for adjudication before the bar of every 
 christian conscience. In the mean time bear one another's burden. 
 
 Again, there are others who are, naturally, censorious ; dis- 
 posed to find fault with everything ; their aim being, as they 
 would fain have others believe, to bring the church up to a more 
 commanding style of life and duty. You observe I present not 
 this disposition in contrast with any other of an opposite 
 character, but as viewed in opposition to every other disposi- 
 tion ; for the individual possessing it assumes the unenviable 
 position of public censor, and every one must pass, if possible, 
 the inspection of his jaundiced eye ; nor would I so much as 
 mention this as an infirmity, but as a virtue, if the complaints of 
 such persons terminated upon themselves; but such is not the 
 case; they, in their own conceit, are perfect paragons of excel- 
 lence, and the faults are all in their brethren. [f such persons 
 will not give up the offensive practice, and correct the infirmity 
 by a strict and careful watchfulness, it is a burden that must be 
 endured. 
 
 What a burden ! ! Lord help ! ! 
 
 The last we shall notice, are those which arise out of the man- 
 ifestation of religious emotion. These are as various as the dispo- 
 sitions of men. Some there are who are, constitutionally, very 
 quiet. They move with the regularity and precision of the most 
 exquisite piece of mechanism. 
 
 No transports or rhapsodies disturb the even tenor of their 
 experience; with feet firmly planted upon earth, and eye steadily 
 gazing upon the recompense of reward, the vanities of this world 
 
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 obscure not their vision of heavenly beatitudes, and their foot- 
 steps are as sure as the earth upon which they tread. Their lives 
 are marked by no great and sudden transitions, as if by a leap 
 they had passed some fearful chasm ; while others, all emotion and 
 sensibility, are either borne aloft upon the topmost wave of 
 glorious expectation, or precipitated into abysmal depths of self- 
 dejection. 
 
 How is it possible to mould temperaments of such opposite 
 character after the same pattern ? Nothing is more common 
 than to hear persons of the former character saying, religion does 
 not consist in noise and extravagant expressions of the feelings; 
 while those of the latter, skeptically ask, how is it possible to 
 have the love of God without shouting aloud the praises of Him 
 who loved us and gave himself for us ? 
 
 Now both are wrong ; religion does not make us the same 
 creatures, but new creatures, with all that variety of disposition 
 after, as before, that wonderful transformation. 
 
 We come now to the anithetical part of our subject, which, 
 for completeness, we must not omit. We are necessitated to 
 compare; comparisons are often invidious, and sometimes odious. 
 I will endeavor to pursue my way through the intricacies of this 
 part of my subject without giving any offense. Without saying 
 anything as to the wisdom of your forefathers, I venture to affirm 
 you surpass them amazingly in self-conceit. You would do well 
 to remember that this age, though an age of railroads, telegraph 
 and telephones, yet it is also an age of gas, and every jet is not 
 an electric light. 
 
 Again, you are not as good looking as your parents fondly 
 hoped you would be. In this you have wonderfully disappointed 
 expectations. Bright, beautiful, and charming creatures you 
 once were when looked at by your parents through the glittering 
 iris of their affections, but you have developed into mortals very 
 much after the common mould. 
 
 Then you are not as good as you would have been had you, 
 in all respects, followed the example and obeyed the precepts of 
 those who have gone on before you. 
 
 We come now to that part of our subject which, for the want 
 of a better word, we call the potential aspect, which, in the 
 main, is very dark and difficult to unfold. 
 
 The only point luminous is, that the occasion gives the 
 grandest scope to the possibilities of an old bechelor's nature. 
 If he looks forward, he beholds the dark shadow of death — and 
 death will swallow him up, and blot out his memorial forever. 
 Hence, an old bachelor must look backward, or down his nose; 
 
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 he cannot look forward, and this is the time to look back. 
 
 What further I have to say I can best present in the form of 
 interrogatories. 
 
 To-wit : Had your mothers not have had your fathers, would 
 you have had a re-union ? If so, tell us ; When ? How ? and 
 Where ? 
 
 If not; Is not, then, this assemblage a rebuke to a self-chosen, 
 self-inflicted state of bachelorism ? 
 
Address of 
 
 Judge Levi D. Travers* 
 
 I look, today, upon the faces of nearly all of this large assem- 
 bly for the first time. As I stand before you and speak the 
 inquiry may arise in your minds : who is this stranger that dares 
 to break in upon the unity of this family gathering with his 
 presence and address? It will not surprise you, long, when I tell 
 you, lam a lineal descendant — (and four generations away)— of 
 Henry the 1st, from England— (not King Henry) — who, less than 
 two centuries agone, came to the colony of Maryland, as a school 
 teacher, and soon became absolute ruler of 11 acres of land on 
 Taylor's Island. For forty years, perhaps, he lived in his 
 castle and reigned peaceably over his empire, without conquest of 
 territory or purchase of addition to his kingdom. 
 
 His life was devoted to the cause of education and the admin- 
 istration of justice, subservient to the authority of Lord Baltimore, 
 and as a representative of the people in the Colonial legislature. 
 His living, eldest male descendant, is myself with two others, 
 only surviving in manhood. 
 
 But why am I here ? The two little boys attendant with me 
 in this visitation, may, in fact, furnish the answer. They can 
 tell you that through their bodies courses the Trayers as well as 
 the Noble blood. I modestly confess how distinguished my 
 relations are here today ; in the fact that my eldest daughter is 
 the wife of a Noble-man's son, and my little grandsons bid fair 
 to be Noble-men themselves. 
 
 It is that which makes my appearance among you justifiable 
 in immediate association with Noble men and Noble women. 
 
 How it lifts a man up, in the world, especially in his own 
 estimation, to have conspicuous and Noble family connections! I 
 fully appreciate the dignity of these relations. I estimate family 
 dignity, principally, by the standard of uniform, good, innate 
 principles ; the establishment of good character, good citizenship 
 and piety, rather than by a lofty family ancestry, without regard 
 to those virtues, upon which elevation and royalty in life ought 
 to be dependent. 
 
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 I esteem it an honor, therefore, and a blessing to humanity 
 to have kindred associations with the Davis', Kinders', and Noble 
 families. It is a privilege and a joy to me, to be here. This 
 is an auspicious occasion. All nature tranquilly smiles upon 
 this scene. 
 
 The sun never shone upon a more beautiful, bracing, balmy 
 day; fit emblem of the life and character of this triune family. 
 
 The passing year has come to full maturity of life, and is 
 appproaching its termination, now, with gilded beauty and 
 mellowness. So have the aged sires of these families, in all their 
 history, passed into the autumn of their lives, with characters 
 adorned with moral beauty and christian attractiveness. 
 
 I have listened with interest, and admiration, to the several 
 representative addresses, which have mainly guided me in my 
 words of compliment and eulogy. You may well be proud, in 
 the spiiit of gratitude to God, of your family history. Its pages 
 are well and nobly written in the lives of your ancestry. What 
 worthy examples have the young, in the lives of departed sires, 
 and in many of the fathers yet living, of moral excellence, 
 christian devotion, and firmness of purpose ! The record of their 
 lives has been kept by the rule of double-entry — The day book of 
 this life and in the Lamb's book of life!' When I view and con- 
 template this grand old church edifice, that is co-existent with the 
 independence and liberty of our great country, and with the work 
 of Methodism on this Peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Vir- 
 ginia, and associate these families with the christian instruction 
 here imparted to them, with the happy experiences they have 
 received within her hallowed courts, I am forced to the conclusion 
 that Methodism has indeed been a "Bethel" to them, yea, one of 
 the chief agencies of the success and happiness they have attained 
 in this life. Methodist doctrine and spirit has been well suited 
 to constitute them worthy citizens, good christians, and a uni- 
 formly happy and contented people. The conjugal relations of 
 these families have been fortunate, in that there was the blending 
 of a natural bent towards good dispositions and principles ; — when 
 exception has occurred in the lives of any of their offspring, it 
 was the probable result of the admixture of blood, making a 
 combination in nature, of the naturally bad, with the naturally 
 good dispositions, followed by the influence of bad social com- 
 panions in youth. I would guard the young, entering now upon 
 maturing life, in respect to the company they keep and against 
 any matrimonial alliance that would associate bad natural dispo- 
 sitions, habits and tastes, so out of harmony with that of your 
 own families. 
 
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 I do not discourage, but greatly approve, judicious marital 
 selections, outside of family kindred, for both physical and 
 mental reasons. This is a re-union of the living. Many links of 
 the family chain have been broken off at the grave and are hid- 
 den from mortal view. There is, today, a fond memory of the 
 Davis, Kinder, and Noble dead. The links, of the family chain, 
 are only broken in earthen vessels ; in spirit the chain is unbroken 
 — mutual love, binds it forever: Spirit blends with spirit — un- 
 perceived, the glorified departed may now throng with you in 
 this sacred place. Angels are looking on with wonder, at this 
 exhibition of love and unity in a fallen world. The dozen min- 
 isters of God present, successors to those they have followed in 
 the ministry of this church and vicinity, are cheered in the 
 midst of their toils, with the evident success of the gospel, in 
 the history of your families. May this hallowed occasion, which 
 has brought to your minds and hearts, such pleasant memories of 
 family history, encourage and stimulate you to more glorious deeds 
 in the race of life, and a fuller consecration of yourselves to the 
 God of your fathers. May your family history, in the future, possess 
 all the excellences of its past, and more, and exhibit greater force 
 and capacity in its influence in the world^for good, [as the years of 
 time roll on. And when the world's record is fully made up, 
 preparatory to the general assizes, and heaven's loud auditor shall 
 step down upon the earth's platform of land and sea, and sound 
 out the funeral dirge of time, to the hearing of both the living 
 and the dead ; when Jesus comes in the clouds, bringing the spirits 
 of the just made perfect, may you, and all of yours, who now lie 
 in the cemeteries of the dead, come forth in bodily form, and 
 rising with transfigured splendor to meet your coming Lord in the 
 air. May you then with him ascend above the arches of the 
 etherial sky, to the heaven of heavens, and be crowned and 
 quartered upon the everlasting hills of glory. You have sweetly 
 sung today. May you then, flushed with an overpowering joy of 
 full and final victory, with harps in hand, sing "Unto Him that 
 loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath 
 made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to Him be 
 glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen." 
 
Thoughts on Visiting Bethel ♦ 
 
 A Country Church. 
 
 Oh, Bethel! 'round thy sacred walls 
 My memory lingers and recalls, 
 Full many a scene of other days, 
 Cemented with this holy place. 
 
 'Twas here where first my voice did raise 
 In song, to lisp a Saviour's praise — 
 'Twas here my youthful footsteps trod, 
 To bow my infant knees to God. 
 
 And here, beneath this hallowed roof, 
 I first beheld the light of truth 
 Shine from the sacred page divine — 
 A Saviour's love to all mankind. 
 
 Full many a storm has swept amain 
 O'er my frail bark, but now again 
 I sit within thy walls, to join 
 In praises to thy sacred shrine. 
 
 But, as I turn my eyes, they meet 
 With many a long and vacant seat; 
 Where once gray fathers sat to sing 
 The praises of their Heavenly King. 
 
 But, they are gone, and 'neath the sod 
 Their bodies slumber; while with God 
 Their spirits swell the courts above, 
 "With praises of redeeming love." 
 
 Yes, Bethel, 'round thy sacred walls 
 
 My memory lingers and recalls 
 
 Some friend of youth, that death has borne, 
 
 To that bourne from whence there's no return. 
 
 Oh! when the dream of life is past, 
 And Death's cold arms are round me cast, 
 Then lay me 'neath the oaks to rest, 
 That shade the sepulcher of the blest. 
 
 Federalsburg, 1849. 
 
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Second ffie^nion 
 
RE-UNION OF THE 
 
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 Davis, Noble and Kinder Families 
 
 Held at Bethel M. E. Church 
 October 29th, 1895. 
 
 |HE second Re-union of the Noble, Davis and Kin- 
 der Families was held at Bethel M. E. Church 
 October 29th, 1895. The day decided on dawned 
 clear, bright and crisp, everything conspired to 
 make it an ideal October day. The following program 
 was ushered in as early as could be. 
 
 PROGRAMME 
 
 Organ voluntary, Miss M. P. Warren. 
 Organization by electing Dr. J. Noble, Chairman, 
 J. Noble Warren, Secretary. 
 
 Singing, "And are we yet alive." 
 Prayer by Rev. T. G. Eiswald. 
 Singing, "Safely." 
 
 Address of Welcome by pastor, Rev. T. S. Williams, 
 D. D. 
 
 Reply to Address of Welcome, Rev. P. H. Rawlins. 
 Solo, ''The ninety and nine," Rev. Edward Davis. 
 "Singing, "Thus far the Lord has led us on." 
 Address, History of Kinder Family, S. W. Kinder. 
 Address, History of Noble Family, I. S. Warren. 
 Address, History of Davie Family, Rev. Edward Davis. 
 Singing, "One family, etc." 
 Adjournment for dinner. 
 
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 Afternoon services were opened with organ voluntary 
 by Miss Blanche Davis. 
 
 Singing in charge of Federalsburg Choir who sang 
 some very fine selections. 
 
 Solo by Rev. Edward Davis. 
 
 Address by Hon. J. S. Willis. 
 
 Poem by Mrs. A. O. Kinder read by Master Warren 
 Kinder. w-'^^v^-x^'N^ a- V ^--A^W Y^'W^w 
 
 ^"^Smgtng, "We'll never say good-bye." 
 Dismission. 
 
 There having been no provision made for publishing 
 the proceedings in pamphlet form, the Federalsburg Cour- 
 ier very kindly offered to publish the addresses of the sev- 
 eral speakers, which can be found in the issues of Novem- 
 ber 9 and November 16, 1895, also on the following pages. 
 
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The Kinder Family 
 
 By S. W. Kinder, Esq. 
 
 Chosen by the committee of arrangements to represent, and 
 note the changes in the Kinder family during the decade past. 
 
 In a retrospect of the ten years which have elapsed since our 
 last reunion in 1885 many have been the changes. What hopes, 
 what fears, what joys, what heartaches have we met since we 
 assembled last, "but out of all the Lord has led us by his love." 
 And we meet in this beautiful new house this bright October day 
 finding the balance on the right side of Life's Ledger, and note 
 with sadness, not however unmingled with hope, those who have 
 met in the great Re-union above. 
 
 Mary Cannon Kinder, widow of Jacob Kinder, was born March 
 3, 1813, and died at the residence of her son-in-law, Samuel A. 
 Melson, in Sussex County, Del., December 13, 1887. On De- 
 cember 20, 1832, she was married to Jacob Kinder, a man of 
 sterling integrity and devoted attachment to the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. Their home was a house of prayer and a resting 
 place for the weary itinerant. Her religious life was a decided 
 one. Her place in the church, when she was able to attend, was 
 never vacant. She was of a very quiet temperament but all who 
 met her felt that her life was guided and controlled by the Holy 
 Spirit. Her end was peace. 
 
 Sina Kinder Wright was born March 14, 1811, and died in 
 Harrington M. B. Parsonage, May 26, 1895. She was converted 
 when in her 17th year, and joined the M. E. Church at Bethel. 
 Was married to Lewis N. Wright, October 28, 1828, and moved 
 into the neighborhood of Trinity, 1836. Soon after, they had 
 prayer meeting and preaching services in their barn. She was 
 left a widow, December 25, 1883. The five closing years of her 
 life were spent with her daughter, Mrs. P. H. Rawlins. Most 
 of that time, too feeble to attempt any work, and, for the last two 
 years, could not see well enough to read. For 32 years, she had 
 read the Bible through from Genesis to Revelations — once each 
 year. Her christian experience was always of a positive character, 
 always regular at all the services of the church. She was a 
 woman of strong personality, and of affairs. She made and left 
 
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 her impress upon all minds ; she gave shape, order and consistency 
 to all matters which came within the range and province of her 
 undertakings. While all secular matters received due and 
 prompt attention, she always found time to attend to her 
 religious duties — visiting the sick, administering the balm of 
 consolation to the sorrowing, and rich in aim-deeds, and helpful- 
 ness to the poor and those in need. What was said of one in the 
 New Testament, may well be said of her— "She hath done what 
 she could. " On Monday night, May 27, there was a memorial 
 service held in Harrington M. E. Church, Dr. Martinale, of 
 Milford in charge, who delivered an appropriate and impressive 
 address. May 28 funeral services took place at Trinity M. E. 
 Church, the place and scene of her long and arduous labors. 
 
 Revs. H. Miller, John Poole, and Wm. Harris, who had 
 known her throughout the long years of usefulness, vied with 
 each other in recalling and rehearsing the good works and noble 
 deeds of her life, which must expand and grow and live, though 
 she be dead. She was laid to rest in the Bridgeville Cemetery. 
 
 John Morgan Rawlins was born September 7, 1819. Mr. 
 Rawlins was prominent among his compeers. He held for five 
 years the office of Clerk of the Peace for Sussex County, Del. For 
 many years was ticket agent at the R. R. Station in Georgetown. 
 In 1883 was chosen Pay Teller of the Farmers Bank of Georgetown. 
 The latter position he held until his last illness made it necessary 
 for him to resign. He filled all these places of responsibility and 
 high trust with great fidelity and credit to himself and to the 
 entire satisfaction of all parties concerned. Mr. Rawlins never 
 formally connected himself with any branch of the christian 
 church, except by baptism, but he was a liberal contributor and 
 regular attendant upon the services of the Protestant Episcopal 
 church. 
 
 He could well be called an upright man, and an honest christian 
 gentleman. He was married to Sina Kinder Rawlins December 
 7, 1879 and died July 30, 1893, after a long and painful illness 
 which he bore with great patience and christian fortitude. His 
 end was peace. 
 
 Minnie Castelia, daughter of Thomas and Mary Kinder Lay- 
 ton, who was with us in the delightful services of '85, has since 
 gone out like a meteor through the heavens. Minnie remembered 
 her Creator in the days of her youth. In her social qualities she 
 excelled. One of those bright sunshiny spirits which scatter 
 light, hope and good cheer all around. Whatever of sadness or 
 gloom might rest upon the social circle, when Minnie appeared, 
 it vanished like the mist before the rising sun. There was a 
 
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 subtle mystic influence which no human tongue can explain or pen 
 describe, bubbling out of the very fountains of her life, which 
 made her the shining mark of every circle, and the charm and 
 delight of all hearts. 
 
 Being in somewhat delicate health, she left her home in the 
 early part of October 1887, to visit her sister, Mrs. Fred Callo- 
 way, of Denver, Col., hoping by change of scenery and climate 
 to recuperate and regain her wonted strength. For a time her 
 health improved, frequently writing her friends that she was much 
 better and all the time gaining in weight. Thus she continued 
 through the winter, but in the spring time she was seized with a 
 fever which, after two short weeks, affected her brain, and not- 
 withstanding the intervention of the highest order of medical 
 skill and all that loving hearts and tender hands could do, on 
 the 10th day of April, 1888, the pale horse and his rider strode 
 right on, and seized the shining mark for his own. Her remains 
 were conveyed to her country home, and she quietly sleeps, on 
 the hill, in the Bridgeville Cemetery. 
 
 Catharine Warren Shockley, widow of Wm. V. Shockley, who 
 was with us at re-union of '85, has passed to hei heavenly 
 rest. Some inquiry of her neighbors and friends brought the 
 answer that she was a bright, sweet, sunny, christian woman, not 
 only highly esteemed for her liberality and work's sake, but 
 greatly beloved by all who knew her. From girlhood she was a 
 member of New Market M. E. Church, Bllendale circuit. The 
 writer frequently passes the quiet country cemetery where she 
 sleeps, and a few days ago stood by her grave and copied the fol- 
 lowing epitaph from her tombstone with the accompanying verse: 
 
 OUR MOTHER 
 Catharine K. Shockley, wife of Wm. V. Shockley. Born 
 February^, 1819, died February 18, 1888. Aged 69 years and 16 days. 
 
 " Farewell mother but not forever, 
 There will be a glorious dawn ; 
 We shall meet to part, no never 
 On the resurrection morn." 
 
The Noble Family 
 
 By I. S. Warren. 
 
 Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen : The choice of the 
 committee to represent the Noble family was in my opinion an 
 unfortunate one; and I have become more confirmed in that 
 opinion, and the unfitness for the duty of the one chosen, since 
 I have heard the ornate and scholarly utterances of the gentlemen 
 chosen to represent the Davis and Kinder families. But having 
 enjoyed such a treat you will scarcely want to be surfeited with 
 good things, and my lame effort may act as an alternative; my 
 speech, however, will have one excellent feature, viz. its brevity. 
 
 In the interval since our re-union of 1885 time has dealt leni- 
 ently with the members of the Noble family. 
 
 The changes have been comparatively few. Some have passed 
 off thisstageof action. Prominent amongst the deaths are William 
 Noble, or as he was more familiarly known, "Sheriff Noble," 
 who died suddenly while on a visit to his friend, James Redden, 
 Esq., in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland, in the spring of 
 1890. A remarkable coincidence connected with this death was 
 the death, within 24 hours, of his nephew, Daniel F. Noble, son 
 of Alexander, who had married Addie Kinder, a sister of his 
 uncle's wife, Rhoda, daughter of the late Warren Kinder, thus 
 leaving two sisters widows almost by the same stroke, each 
 leaving one daughter. 
 
 Next in this necrology comes Corinne Johnson, wife of Lyman 
 Johnson, of Sioux Rapids, Iowa, a daughter of the late Dr. 
 William D. Noble, after a protracted and painful illness, on 
 November 3rd, 1890, leaving three children. 
 
 Then following, we find Addie Jarrel, wife of Robert Jarrel, 
 of Greensboro, Maryland, a sister of Alexander and half sister, of 
 Rufus and Dr. J. L. Noble, our president for today. 
 
 Amelia Collins, a sister of Sheriff Noble, who had married 
 William Collins and moved to Kansas, died during the decade. 
 
 Eliza, wife of Jonathan T. Noble, who is with us today, died 
 August 3rd, 1892, leaving three children well known in this 
 community. And lastly George W. Williams, who had married 
 Sarah, daughter of J. T. Noble, died suddenly last March of 
 apoplexy. 
 
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 Some have married. Lillian, daughter of Daniel F. and 
 Addie Kinder Noble, married Albert Handy, who have been 
 living in Philadelphia, but who have decided to cast in their lot 
 with us and will soon be living on the farm of the late Daniel F. 
 Noble. 
 
 George E. Noble, son of Daniel J. Noble, married Alverda 
 Handy, and who have resided since their marriage in New Haven, 
 Connecticut, are now living on the farm known as the Solomon 
 Noble, or Kirk Farm, which they have purchased. 
 
 More or less have been born ; perhaps more. 
 
 Mr. President, to my mind's eye appears a broad, and elevated 
 roadway. Looking backward the prospective is lost in the dim 
 and shadowy past. Straining my eyes looking forward I am 
 dazzled by the brightness of the sight for it reaches to the portals 
 of Eternity ; the arch of this highway which claims our attention 
 today, is supported by two pillars on which I see 1885 — 1895. 
 
 Looking backward a century or more on this thoroughfare, 
 crowded from side to side I particularly notice three men, one 
 of whom comes from a stock who with unparallelled courage, more 
 or less sufficiently battled with the Roman power, and retreated 
 sullenly, disputing every inch of ground to the fastness of the 
 Welsh Hills, where they have ever maintained their independence 
 and freedom and afterwards coming to this favored land with all 
 the instincts of independence and freedom unimpaired. 
 
 Again I look and behold a sturdy yeoman of the Netherlands, 
 strong in purpose, brawny of form, a fit representative of a stock 
 who by indomitable patience have wrested a kingdom from the 
 sea and who like Archimedes when he said "give me a rest for 
 my fulcome and I will lift the Earth,'' say give me a place to 
 put the water and I will undertake not alone to dam and pump 
 out the Zayder Zoe, but the Atlantic Ocean itself. 
 
 Once more I look and from the cut of his garments and the 
 peaceful expression of his countenance I judge the remaining one 
 to be a follower of George Fox and William Penn, a Quaker. 
 For a time they journey together, strangers to all and to each other, 
 but being mutually attracted, they form an alliance, offensive 
 and defensive, and together occupy the land until now their 
 descendants have become a somewhat homogeneous family, and 
 counted by the myriads have made the wilderness blossom as the 
 rose; and today, Mr. President, we are met in our second or 
 Decennial Re-union to pledge each to the other a renewed friend- 
 ship. 
 
 We see with us today representatives of all three of the men, 
 some of whom, as Mr. Daniel B. Kinder, Rev. Edward Davis, 
 
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 Mr. Jonathan T. Noble and Mrs. Elizabeth Sorden were contem- 
 porary with the fathers still lingering with the children. May 
 many and peaceful be their years. 
 
 We see with us young men and maidens who are anxious and 
 ambitious to take up the burdens when laid down by the feeble 
 hands. 
 
 We see boys and girls, large and small, who will soon be 
 crowding to the front eager to take part in the fray. May they be 
 
 " Not like dumb driven cattle 
 But heroes in the strife." 
 
 May we all wage a good warfare and go up on this grand 
 highway to that Everlasting Reunion hard by the Eternal Throne. 
 
The Davis Family 
 
 By Rev. E. Davis. Cl^ 1 LJ 
 
 Mr. Chairman and near friends, I find my name on your 
 program and assigned to give a short sketch of the changes that 
 have occurred in the Davis family during the past decade. I think 
 it would have been better to have assigned this duty to some one 
 living in your midst as my fields of labor have been so far distant 
 from your community during the last ten years that I have been 
 deprived of the means to note the many changes that have 
 occurred. Therefore T will only refer to the changes that have 
 taken place among the grandchildren of my grandfather Samuel 
 Davis, who was one of the founders of the old church, Bethel, 
 which stood a few feet from this building and remained for the 
 period of 114 years. When we met here ten years ago in our first 
 re-union, he had living at that time seven grandchildren. Since 
 that time two have died, viz., Trustin P. Davis and Alfred Davis. 
 They have passed away. 
 
 Dear friends, it affords me great pleasure on this bright and 
 beautiful day to be present to look into the faces of so many 
 dear friends and relatives. On my way from Federalsburg to this 
 place this morning, in company with one of my grandnephews, he 
 informed me that this re-union was being held on his birthday ; 
 this remark brought to my mind that this was also the birthday 
 of one of the great men of our nation, viz., John Adams, who was 
 born October 29th, 1735, and became the second president of the 
 United States of America. His birth occurred 160 yeais ago 
 today. 
 
 The circumstances that have brought us together today seem 
 to carry me back to the days of my childhood, when I attended 
 school in the old school-house which stood on these historic 
 grounds, I remember that I used to go to the front door of the 
 old church, and peep through the cracks and regard it as being 
 the house of God, the place where His people assembled to wor- 
 ship the true and living God. This made a deep impression on 
 my mind and from that time I have always had a reverence for 
 the house of God. 
 
 Great have been the changes in almost everything since that 
 
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 time ; great changes in the mode of cultivating the soil. I 
 remember when the farmers in this neighborhood used the old 
 wooden plow. I was very anxious to learn to guide the plow 
 when a very small boy I would go into the fields w T here the men 
 were plowing, and would ask them to let me try. 
 
 I would have to take hold of the under part of the plow 
 handles, but could not guide it very well. But the farmers do 
 not break the soil with that kind of a plow today. 
 
 Great changes in the mode of travel since those days. I re- 
 member when Andrew Harris and Joseph Dawson with their families 
 left my father's house in this neighborhood in covered wagons to 
 go West. But people do not travel that way now. God raised up 
 a Fulton and endowed him with a mind to conceive the idea to 
 convert steam power with machinery to drive the boat upon the 
 waters and hence it has also been arranged to drive the car upon 
 the rail at the rate of 60 to 100 miles an hour, so now the people 
 travel by steam power. Also there have been great changes in the 
 mode of conveying news. God raised up a Morse and endowed 
 him with a mind to conceive the idea of sending messages 
 with lighning speed, so that man can now stand on the shore of 
 the Atlantic and talk to his friends on the shore of the Pacific. 
 So great is the speed with which a message goes that were it 
 possible to stretch a wire around our globe and attach this power 
 it would flash around our globe 380 times in a single minute. And 
 now they use electricity to run the cars in our cities, and so great 
 is its power that a short time ago in the city of Baltimore they 
 attached it to a heavy loaded train of cars and drew it through 
 the great tunnel in that city. 
 
 And now in looking around over these historic grounds I see 
 a great change has taken place in your midst since we met here 
 and held our first re-union ten years ago. I observe that the old 
 Bethel has disappeared and I find ourselves assembled in this 
 beautiful temple that you have built since that time. Allow 
 me to congratulate you on your fine taste and success in building 
 such a beautiful church. In looking behind me on the window 
 in the rear of the pulpit I see my grandfather's name. I re- ■ " 
 garded it as an honor to have his name inscribed there and 1 also 
 regard it as an honor being his grandson. I was permitted on 
 the 6th of January, 1895, to preach the first sermon that was 
 preached in the new Bethel. 
 
 A few weeks ago I was forcibly struck as I read in the Sun- 
 day School Journal, "The Power of Song," it was on this wise: 
 
 "At the session of the Newark Conference which met at St. 
 Paul's Church, Toltonville, Staten Island, N. Y., in the spring 
 
 ^hi cLi^i VMi irr&rd* Wm ciirur Umj hLiuU 
 
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 of 1867. Bishop Simpson presided. On the morning of the 
 Conference Sunday he preached with extraordinary eloquence 
 from Matt. 28, 18-20. Dr. J. W. Wiley, at that time editor of 
 the Ladies' Repository, and afterwards more widely known as 
 Bishop Wiley, was greatly moved by the eloquence of the preacher. 
 Though the Doctor was noted for great self-control, he was com- 
 pletely carried away on that occasion as the speaker rose fiom one 
 climax to another, the audience wondering meanwhile where 
 those lofty flights of the preacher would lead them. At the close 
 of one of these remarkable outbursts, when speaker and hearers 
 were compelled to pause for a moment to take breath, Dr. Wiley 
 brought his hand upon the knee of a friend who sat by his side 
 and calling him familiarly by name; said, 'I can never preach 
 again! I can never preach again!' This was especially noticeable 
 in view of the fact that he had been assigned to preach in the 
 afternoon ; but the marvelous eloquence of the Bishop had so 
 wrought upon the feelings of this usually impassive man that he 
 was completely broken up, and doubtless felt, as he expressed it, 
 that he was utterly unfitted to follow such a sublime discourse. 
 
 "At the close of the Bishop's sermon, Phillip Phillips took 
 his seat at the organ, and after a softly played prelude, he sang 
 as only he could sing, one of his favorite songs, 'Brother you can 
 sing for Jesus. ' As verse after verse proceeded, each one telling 
 what might be done for the Master, and as he sang, ' Brother, you 
 can work for Jesus,' and still again, 'Brother you can die for 
 Jesus,' Dr. Wiley's frame, trembled with emotion, his face was 
 illumined with joy, and again he brought his hand upon the knee 
 of his friend and exclaimed, 'I can preach now ; I can preach now !' 
 and he did preach. The sermon will ever dwell in the memory 
 of those who heard it that afternoon in the old Bethel Church. 
 Very few could hope to follow Bishop Simpson as Dr. Wiley did 
 on that memorable occasion." 
 
 I close my remarks with a little song. The lesson to be drawn 
 from this song is Christ's great love for a wandering sheep of his: 
 
 "HE I<EFT THE NINETY AND NINE." 
 
 " The sheep were sleeping within the fold, 
 
 The shepherd counted the line, 
 The night was dark, and the wind was cold, 
 
 He counted ninety and nine, 
 But one was lost on the mountain track, 
 
 The Shepherd started to bring him back 
 And left the ninety and nine. 
 
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 CHORUS : "He left the ninety and nine, 
 He left the ninety and nine, 
 How great was the cost, for the one 
 that was lost, 
 
 He left the ninety and nine. 
 
 "Securely sheltered within the fold, 
 Remained the ninety and nine, 
 
 Knjoying the shepherd's wealth untold, 
 Those happy ninety and nine. 
 
 They little knew of the shepherd's pain, 
 Who, suffering thus one sheep to gain, 
 
 Had left the ninety and nine. Chorus. 
 
 "But at last went up a joyful cry, 
 I've found this lost one of mine, 
 
 He'll live with me in a home on high, 
 Safe with the ninety and nine. 
 
 Then heaven and earth took up the cry, 
 
 To save one sheep that was doomed to die 
 
 Christ left the ninety and nine." Chorus. 
 
Address of 
 
 Hon. J. S. Willis, M. C. 
 
 The wild duck flies not alone before the march of winter to 
 ample and congenial feeding-grounds in southern lagoons. Her 
 children and friends are with her. The nesting and rearing were 
 the work of individual life : the migration is in companies and 
 tribes. And while there is a living, quivering wing to cleve 
 the sky, or an instinct to guide the flight of birds through the 
 pathless heavens, this law will remain a controlling force among 
 the families of animated nature. 
 
 In man there are laws paradoxical and contradictory, touching 
 the mutual relationships of life — one law of the animal leads the 
 strong to dominate and devour the weak — the other law of the 
 spiritual, and intellectual, attracts, unites and nurtures — under 
 the reign of the one the race would become extinct ; under the 
 reign of the other it would multiply and fill the earth. The one 
 would enthrone jealousy, hate, and cruelty. The other would 
 inaugurate the prevalence of love and peace. 
 
 Moreover the principle of union would be closer and intense 
 in the ratio of the intimacy of blood relationship. Out of this 
 grows the family, then the community, then the nation. 
 
 A perfectly unhindered spiritual law would subordinate and 
 concede individual interests to the common good. This is the 
 law of Christ, and this I take it, is the law which has drawn you 
 people together, and superinduced these festivals of re-union. 
 It is a blessed ovation to some of the higher qualities of human 
 nature. 
 
 Your family pride is a contribution to civilized society. I 
 speak not of pride in the sense of vanity or vain glory, but in the 
 sense of moral conservation, self-respect, rectitude and righteous- 
 ness. A living commendation and endorsement of various forces, 
 which have prevailed through generations, and have preserved 
 these honorable households. 
 
 Yours is a record not so famous as the genealogies of princes 
 and lords, but far more beautiful, as it has been marked by 
 justice to man and reverence to God. Your escutcheon is not 
 
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 stained with oppression and violence; your fortunes are not the 
 result of misused power; your memories are not those of wreck 
 and desolation; your thrones have been built in affection, and 
 they rest in the hearts of loving friends ; you will be complaisant, 
 if not delighted, when you review the past and contemplate your 
 domestic structure standing in the adornments of innocence and 
 symmetery, as the fruit of love, justice, dilgience, and frugality. 
 
 I intended to emphasize the idea that this pride of family is a 
 prime conservator of organized and civilized society. It lies at 
 the bed rocks of human fraternity. It is the seed corn of the 
 nations. For where there are no families there are no nations. 
 It subsisted and wrought in the very dawn of the race. It was 
 potent in Abraham. It was characteristically strong in Jacob, 
 whose dexterity in dealing, was only equalled by his dexterity 
 in social building. It filled an important place in all Jewish 
 history, and preserved that strange people from the encroachments 
 of pagan deteroration. And it has been a fixed factor in British 
 potency and enlargement. And although in the light of this 
 century English privilege and paternalism amount almost to an 
 abomination ; yet it cannot be denied that these privileged 
 familes have done much to strengthen and exalt the English 
 dominions and the English name. 
 
 The time is approaching when hereditary titles will have lost 
 their charm, and class privilege will have become extinct; but 
 the time will never come when honest industry and intelligence 
 will not adorn the fireside, and give value to family descent. 
 
 The common people are destined to rebuild the waste places of 
 social life; but they will build better than those who preceded 
 them. The foundations will be relaid with truth and moral 
 worth, and the superstructure will be the measure of well in- 
 formed and upright manhood. Sacred history and prophecy made 
 much of the genealogies of the Messiah. But the Messiah him- 
 self taught the lesson of a higher nobility when he gave the 
 touchstone of the "Golden Rule," and inculcated the imitation 
 of Him after whom "the whole family of earth and Heaven are 
 named. ' ' 
 
 If you will strip earthly titles of their glamour and trap- 
 pings, you will find nothing left but a few gouty and imbecile 
 pretenders; the degenerate offspring of an early band of robbers, 
 cut throats, and petty tyrants and the family pride of the Kin- 
 ders, Davises and Nobles is thoroughly out of tune with those old 
 monsters of the past, and with their bloated and helpless progeny. 
 It reaches higher for its honors, works harder for its fortune, 
 builds more nobly its manhood, makes more permanent its glory. 
 
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 These people believe that 
 
 "The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 
 The man's the gold for a' that." 
 
 It is needless, my friends, that I should here restate your 
 family genealogies — and tell of the worthy men and faithful 
 women who have honored your households. This has been well 
 done on former occasions. The record is before you, and in your 
 archives you have stowed it away as a precious souvenir to be 
 reviewed in your leisure hours, and dwelt upon with profitable 
 reflection. 
 
 "Lives of 'good' men all remind us 
 We may make our lives sublime." 
 
 The record of the saints is the dearest legacy of the Church. 
 The annals of our heroes are the most useful and instructive 
 inheritance of statesmen. And the simple story of our honorable 
 forefathers may serve to stimulate us in the attainment of a 
 character which will be a benediction to our offspring after we 
 have entered the long and mysterious sleep of the grave. 
 
 There are some counsels which I might give you as the result 
 of my experience in life, which, if followed, would augment the 
 sum of your happiness for the time to come. 
 
 First. — Cultivate a spirit of justice. — Selfishness is the mildew 
 of life; but generous justice will drop the honey of gladness in- 
 to the cup of every experience. The highest attainments, the 
 largest possessions, the widest fame, will not atone for the lack 
 of this heaven-born virtue. Without it the wings of devotion 
 would fall paralized before the holiest shrines. Without it the 
 pillow of death would be hard and thorny, and life otherwise 
 comely, would be bitter at its close, and dangerously uncertain 
 in its transition. Without it the whole scheme of life is a fail- 
 ure and the battle ends in defeat. Injustice corrodes the heart, 
 taints the intent, falsifies the action, deteriorates the moral scope, 
 shames manhood, dishonors God, drivels the soul and secures 
 perdition. 
 
 Second. — Foster that kindled qualiy, viz. : A tolerant spirit 
 toward the opinions and convictions of others. — He who assumes 
 such superiority as to demand the surrender of all others' judg- 
 ments to his own, is more stupid than Ajax when he defied the 
 lightning, or than Xerxes when he bridged the Hellespont. The 
 world's shocking tortures of saintly men for conscience sake; the 
 ghastly agencies of stake and fire ; the grim dungeons stained 
 with the blood of the fathers, the holocaust of agonies arising 
 
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 from amidst the altars dedicated to peace and God, are all the 
 fruits of intolerance in those who professed to be the followers of 
 the meek and lowly Jesus. The Millennium itself will not be 
 able to wipe out the gory defilements of the Church, perpetrated 
 by hellish hypocrites against the right of free opinion and free 
 speech ; and when the judgment scrolls are opened, exaltation 
 will come to the victim, and damnation to the opppressor. 
 
 Tn the great day of God, opinions will count for nothing, but 
 conscience for everything. A thousand accidents may occur to 
 frame and shape the one, but the other must reign the immortal 
 queen in the citadel of the soul. Creeds and professions will fly 
 as chaff before the winds of truth ; or be treated as the vagaries, 
 and insubstantial visions of finite minds, while love and inno- 
 cence will reign supreme. 
 
 "He who knows our sorest needs 
 Cares not how men may count their beads 
 For righteousness is not in creeds 
 
 Nor solemn faces ; 
 But rather lies in kindly deeds 
 
 And christian graces." 
 
 Third. — Practice hospitality. — It is advised by St. Paul, 
 endorsed and practiced by Christ, and is verified by the experience 
 of ages. It thaws the prejudices, warms the affections, enlarges 
 the scope of moral vision, dethrones selfishness and is in keeping 
 with that charity and fraternity of which the gospel is the divine 
 guarantee and faith the prophetic outlook. 
 
 Fourth. — Cherish the sentiment of hope. —It will solve the 
 riddle of life. It will bring the sunshine of gladness through 
 the clouds of an irksome day. It will give strength to the soul, 
 nerve to the arm, speed to the feet and bring this immortal 
 being safely amid the storms that rage on the river of death. 
 
 "Eternal Hope, when yonder spheres sublime 
 Pealed their first notes to sound the march of time 
 Thy joyous youth began, but not to fade, 
 When all the sister planets have decayed. 
 When wrapt in fire the realms of other glow 
 And heavens last thunder shakes the world below 
 Thou undismayed shall o'er the ruins smile, 
 And light thy torch at nature's funeral pile." 
 
 Your re-union, dear friends, will doubtless lend a charm to 
 memory in the declining years of life. Your intermarriages will 
 be as they have been like enchanted bridges, by which you have 
 crossed thrice enchanted streams, and lingering in the Arcadia of 
 sanctified love you have peopled and shall people these ancient 
 
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 soltiudes with a thrifty generation of which as in the past, so in 
 the future, no man may be ashamed. 
 
 "Ill fares the land to hastening ill a prey 
 Where wealth accumulates and men decay. 
 Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, 
 A breath can make them as a breath hath made, 
 But a bold yeomanry, a country pride 
 When once destroyed can never be supplied." 
 
A RE-UNION, 
 
 To-day a re-union three families hold 
 Knit close by the strongest of ties ; 
 The Nobles, the Kinders and Davises too 
 And how could it be otherwise. 
 
 For a century past they have intertwined 
 Upon a most intricate plan. -z^^£, 
 Till a lawyer skilled in the-lo¥A of the Hub 
 Could not tell where the branches began. 
 
 But a school-boy dumb, with pencil and slate, 
 By figures could readily see 
 That the Davises, Nobles and Kinders 
 Belong, to one family tree. 
 Tho' many they're one by their faith in God ; 
 The faith that their fathers bore ; 
 And Bethel upholds the work of the sires 
 When they rest on the golden shore. 
 
 How wonderfully altered is this place 
 Since closed was the last decade ; 
 Changed is the plan of the homestead church 
 And Time sad ravages made. 
 
 Come home from the coast the Atlantic sweeps 
 And the one the Pacific laves ; 
 
 From the North and South — your brethren to greet 
 And visit your ancestors' graves. /-'/»< 
 Greet with your best Priscie, Mary, Lkcmda, d > d J[ / a i 
 Their stay with us here will be brief, 
 And Nattie, Daniel, Johnathan and Edward, 
 Who compare with the sear autumn leaf. 
 
 We've summoned you now, lest you fall asleep ~~ 
 Like for Verdie, the call sounds in vain 
 And 'tis lost on our Truston, William and John 
 Who will sing for us never again 
 
 "The home of the soul" how sweet Edward sang 
 When they laid our Alfred to rest, 
 Now with Daniel, Eliza, Joseph, Corinne, 
 He sings in the home of the blest. 
 There are buds Orrie, Gertie, Alvin and Fred 
 That we hope to meet on that strand. 
 With Lewis, loved Sin a we'll know by her smile, 
 And Luie, the clasp of her hand. 
 
 O blessed hope, how it cheers us all ! 
 That with friends beyond the river, 
 We will hold reunions in the skies 
 Nor will break them up forever. 
 
 And though, perchance, the Angel come 
 With scarce a friendly warning, 
 We hope to bid good-bye on earth — 
 If not — in Heaven, good-morning. 
 
 — Adelaide Waters Kinder. 
 
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RE-UNION OF THE 
 
 Davis, Noble and Kinder Families 
 
 Held at Bethel M. E. Church 
 October 26th, 1905. 
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 §T having become a custom with the Noble, Davis 
 and Kinder Families to hold a Re-union every 
 RHHtl ten years, and in accordance with that custom, 
 representative members of the respective families 
 met at Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, on Seaford 
 Circuit, Sept. 6th, 1905. Mr. Joseph T. Davis was elected 
 Chairman, and Isaac S. Warren Secretary of the meeting. 
 
 It was decided to hold the Re-union Oct. 26th, and at 
 the same time the following Committee on program was 
 appointed: I. S. Warren, S. M. Noble, J. T. Davis, W. 
 W. Kinder, R. F. Noble, G. E. Noble and Mrs. C. K. Cor- 
 bin. The Committee was authorized to make all the nec- 
 essary arrangements. The Committee invited Rev. W. S. 
 Robinson, D. D., of Summerfield M. E. Church, Newark, 
 N. J. , a former pastor at Bethel, and Mr. Herbert Noble, 
 youngest son of the late Dr. W. D. Noble 
 oTlhe lawTmn*l5F~No^^ Hubbard of New 
 
 York City, to make addresses at the Reunion. 
 
 The Committee decided to have the proceedings of the 
 two preceding Re-unions, with the proceedings of the pres- 
 ent one published in one pamphlet. 
 
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 The Committee also appointed the following Commit- 
 tees : 
 
 On publishing proceedings — I. S. Warren, G. E. Noble, 
 Charles Davis, W^JJ^JOnder, Dr. J. L. Noble. 
 
 On securing subscriptions to the published proceedings 
 —Charles S. Lewis, Mrs. C. K. Corbin, S. M. Noble, J.T. 
 Davis, Charles Davis. 
 
 On Registration — Hon. T. N. Rawlins, Linden Noble, 
 W. J. Warren. 
 
 Ushers— Fred H. Noble, C. L. Warren. 
 
 The Committee also recommended that Dr. J. L. Noble 
 be elected to preside at the Re union, and that I. S. Warren 
 be elected Secretary and S. M. Noble, Treasurer. 
 
 The Committee also adopted the following program : 
 
 PROGRAMME 
 
 9,30 Organization, by election of Dr. J. L. Noble, of 
 Preston, President ; I. S. Warren, of Oak Grove, 
 Secretary ; S. M. Noble, of Federalsburg, Treas- 
 urer. 
 Organ Voluntary. 
 Singing. 1082 Hymnal. 
 Invocation. S. M. Noble. 
 Singing. Auld Lang Syne. 
 10.00 Address of Welcome. Rev. J. L. Johnson, Pastor 
 
 of Church. 
 10.15 Reply. Rev. P. H. Rawlins. 
 10.25 Address. 
 10.35 Singing. 
 
 10.45 History of Kinder Family. S. W. Kinder, Esq. 
 11.05 History of Davis Family. Charles Davis, Esq. 
 11.25 History of Noble Family. I. S. Warren. 
 11.35 Singing. 235 Hymnal. 
 
 Announcements. 
 
 Call to Refreshments. 
 
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 2.00 Singing. Duett. Mrs. Dr. J. L. Noble and Mrs. 
 Clara Payne. 
 
 2.15 Introduction of Visitors. (2 minute addresses). 
 2.30 Address. Rev. W. S. Robinson, D. D., of Newark, 
 
 N. J. 
 3.00 Singing. 
 
 3.15 Address. Herbert Noble, Esq., of New York. 
 3.45 Closing Exercises, conducted by Rev. S. M. Morg- 
 an, D. D. 
 
 Singing. ' 'Blest Be the Tie that Binds.' ' 
 
 Owing to the unfavorable and threatening state of the 
 weather on Oct. 26th, the program was not carried out as 
 completely as it could have been wished, i. e., we could 
 not begin on schedule time and several of the speakers who 
 had been invited to officiate at the opening exercises were 
 not present. Rev. J. L- Johnson, Pastor, who was to have 
 made an address of welcome, has however kindly furnished 
 manuscript which will be found in proceedings ; Rev. P. 
 H. Rawlins, who was expected to reply, has kindly fur- 
 nished the accompanying letter. Rev. W. S. Robinson, 
 D. D., who made a very eloquent and suitable address, 
 spoke extemporaneously, therefore the reader will be un- 
 avoidably deprived of the pleasure of reading his address. 
 The address of Mr. Herbert Noble, which will be found in 
 these pages, speaks for itself. Taken as a whole our Re- 
 union was a success and very enjoyable, and the Commit- 
 tee regrets that the threatening weather prevented so many 
 from being present. 
 
Address of Welcome 
 
 By Rev. J. L,. Johnson. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Members of the Noble, Davis and Kinder 
 Families; Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 I have been selected by your committee to speak the word of 
 welcome on his occasion though that is hardly the proper term to 
 use, for many of you brought your welcome with you when you 
 came into the world. 
 
 I, with a great many others realize, one of the greatest mis- 
 takes of my life is; that I was not born either a Noble, a Davis, 
 or a Kinder, but when I was born I did not know there existed 
 such a historic family trio, had I, it might have been otherwise, 
 no one however told me, so I am not to blame. I have partially 
 overcome my mistake by a certain species of adoption ; and today 
 I find myself thrice blessed, for I claim now to be related to all 
 three of the families. 
 
 This is not the first time you have received the greetings of 
 Bethel Church and been the recipients of the hospitality ; you 
 know the warmth of the one and the unbounded generosity of the 
 other, and I voice the sentiment of each member of this Church 
 when I say that each of them appreciates the presence of such a 
 grand assemblage of representative men and women ; and they 
 rejoice in the privilege thus accorded you in visiting this historic 
 spot under such happy auspices. Our hearts welcome you and 
 our hands are extended in fraternal greetings. 
 
 We wanted you, and we sent for you, and you have come and 
 already our anticipations have been realized; we hope you will 
 sit among us not as strangers but as welcome guests, as neighbors, 
 as friends and brothers and sisters, after the lapse of years, 
 coming home to sit around the family fire-side and eat at the 
 family board. 
 
 Yours has been a noble past. It is not my purpose or promise 
 to enter into a discussion of the history of the families or pro 
 nounce eulogies on their work. The streams of your unostenta- 
 tious honesty, industry and sobriety have leaped the boundaries of 
 States and flowed out into many sections of our fair land, East, 
 West, North and South, bearing upon its bosom the same virtues 
 
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 and refining qualities that characterize it at its fountain head, 
 nor has it been retarded by the artificial distinctions of society. 
 In whatever State or community a member of these families has 
 been found they have taught their lessons of honesty and upright- 
 ness, and by their fruits they are known of men. "The wilder- 
 ness and the solitary place have been made to blossom as the rose" 
 under the magnetic touch of your hand ; you have taken the 
 unsightly and polished it into a thing of beauty; you have sawed 
 and planed and hammered the forests into dwelling places; you 
 have given character and distictiveness to this section of country, 
 until it stands second to none in the whole State. For what you 
 have been, for what you are and for what you are destined to be, 
 I greet you. 
 
 You meet today among a generous people and amidst historic 
 surroundings. 
 
 Here in the ancient days people of your own blood and kin 
 laid the foundations of a mighty work, the history of this church 
 is interwoven with the history of these families. 
 
 Ivike the Pilgrim Fathers, your ancestors must worship God, 
 and being staunch adherants of the Weslyan Doctrine their 
 homes were open and their hearts welcomed the early Missionaries 
 sent out by the Weslyan Societies. In the home of one, William 
 Davis, a Local Preacher, and for 62 years a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, situated less than a mile from where I 
 now stand, Bishops Asbury, Whatcoat and Waugh preached the 
 Word of Life. In 1781 on this very ground the first Chapel was 
 built, then called Brown's Chapel, afterwards called Bethel, this 
 being the 2nd M. E. Church built on this Peninsula. The same 
 year Mr. White Brown, a leading spirit in the community, who 
 owned the farm adjoining the Church Lot (now belonging to the 
 heirs of the late John H. Twiford) built the brick dwelling which 
 is still standing (and over the door are cut in the brick the 
 initials W. B. , 1781). Mr. Brown was so much engaged in the 
 work of building his own house and the church, he proposed 
 that Jacob Kinder should take his, Brown's hands, and his own, 
 and cultivate both farms so that he, Brown, might give all his 
 time and attention to the building of his own house and of the 
 church, which was done. Thus we see the spirit of sacrifice as 
 found in these two men; willing to sacrifice their own interests 
 that God's Temple might be erected. This spirit did not die 
 with them; it svas of the hereditary type; it descended to the sons 
 and daughters to the third and fourth generation. It is pre- 
 eminently fitting that you should assemble upon this historic spot 
 and upon this consecrated ground in this family re-union, no 
 
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 place like it, historic to you because of the sacred memories that 
 cluster about it ; to the Church because of the ministrations of 
 such men as Asbury, Whatcoat, Waugh and George, the very 
 founders of our beloved Methodism ; consecrated because here your 
 fathers labored, toiled, sacrificed and conquered; from here they 
 ascended and were glorified; their ashes remain with you and 
 their memory still abides, while their spirits basking in the 
 golden light of the Eternal World hover round us. And in their 
 name I greet you. 
 
 The committee who had charge of this affair, in my judgment, 
 exercised a very wise discretion, they have recognized the fact thai 
 man does not live by bread alone, but that there are other senses 
 to be gratified than mere taste, and it has been, evidently, their 
 desire that all five senses should have their proper share of enjoy- 
 ment. You have already felt the warm clasp of a brother's 
 hand. What is more pleasing to the eye than this array of 
 youth, grace and beauty that I see before me? And our ears 
 have been and will again be charmed by the concord of sweet 
 sounds, but you say where does the fifth sense come in ? We 
 have no sweet incense, but listen, "Behold how good and how 
 pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity; it is like 
 the precious ointment on the head," Who will say that this 
 precious ointment does not pervade this whole assembly ? It 
 would be unpardonable in me now to make furthei remarks; I 
 will only renew our thanks to you all for your presence with us, 
 and when you depart, if you are able to carry away with you the 
 slightest conception of the pleasure your company has given us, 
 then we shall feel amply repaid for any feeble effort we may have 
 put forth towards your enjoyment. 
 
Rev. P. H. Rawlins' Letter 
 
 Isaac S. Warren, Esq. , 
 
 Dear Brother :— You have requested a paper from me to be 
 printed with the proceedings of the Noble, Davis, Kinder re-union 
 held on October last at Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 In compliance with your request, I will write you this letter. 
 
 I regretted much that I was not able to reach the church on the 
 morning of the meeting to be at the opening of the services and 
 take the part which had been assigned me in the proceedings. 
 These re-unions have been profitable undoubtedly to all who have 
 been present to enjoy them. The meeting of friends not often 
 permitted to see each other, the forming of an acquaintance of the 
 younger generation with the older, and with each other, and also 
 the recognition of the fact that they are kindred, are things of 
 importance, and should be encouraged. 
 
 Just as the ancient Jews were careful to preserve their 
 family ties intact, so that their descendants from generation to 
 generation might trace their lineage, so it is well for the families 
 of today to do the same. And to my mind there is much in these 
 re-unions tending to preserve and keep in mind the honorable 
 families to which they belong. 
 
 Ten years bring many changes. In that time many, especially 
 of the older ones, pass away to the great re-union. Many others 
 have come into life. Young men and maidens have grown to 
 maturity and gone forth from their parental roofs to build homes 
 for themselves. The families represented at these re-unions are, 
 in many respects, remarkable families. Noted as the)' have always 
 been, for their industry, their integrity, their economy, and their 
 uprightness of character. 
 
 The ancestors of these families built on a solid foundation, 
 and so built that the influence of their lives, and the result of 
 their labors, live on, and are seen in the lives and work of their 
 descendants today. Many of us who were permitted to be present 
 at this last re-union cannot expect to be present at the next, if an- 
 other ten years is allowed to pass before it is held. I trust, how- 
 ever, that the younger generations will continue these happy 
 gatherings to the end of time, and then when time is no more 
 and the generations and families of all ages, shall gather, these fam- 
 ilies, the Noble, Davis, and Kinder families shall be with the 
 white robed ones, a great multitude, at the right hand of the 
 throne, a happy company, there to greet each other with holy 
 song, forever with the Lord. P. H. RAWLINS. 
 
The Kinder Family 
 
 By S. W. Kinder, Esq. 
 
 Owing to the limited time accorded us, we have chosen one 
 member of this large family, and as briefly as we may, shall hold up 
 ' 4 this life as a model, as a shining light and as a living example to 
 \~all who survive him, and to the generations yet unborn. We 
 V ~ believe that all mind and matter is governed by law. And we 
 believe in the law of heredity — that it is no small or insignifi- 
 c cant factor in a man's life to be well born. 
 rVi ✓^Daniel Byas Kinder was born Oct. 3, A. D. , 1816. His 
 ^ N^father, Isaac Kinder, was physically, mentally, and morally, made 
 up of sturdy genuine fibre. His mother, Rhoda WarrenKinder, was 
 a woman unsurpassed by motherly tenderness and love, while her 
 face was as cheerful and bright as the white light of a new born 
 day, and her voice was as gentle and wooing as that of a dove. 
 At different periods of his life, the writer has attempted to de- 
 j-N— ^ lineate and portray this exquisitely beautiful christian life, but 
 ^ the task has always baffled all efforts of both tongue and pen. 
 
 With such auspicious environments, Daniel Kinder grew up 
 ^ in this vicinity, and for many long, eventfuT"years"was a central 
 figure, and indeed a large and conspicuous part of the warp and 
 C^- woof of the life and actions and transactions of the generation 
 J^S in which he lived, and which he served with such constant fidel- 
 V \ itj r and trust. 
 
 Danjj^JKinder was a GpJJ^ man. He made the Bible his 
 daily study, and practiced its precepts in every walk of life. No 
 emergency could arise but he had on the end of his tongue a 
 Scripture text which would meet the conditions, and often solve 
 the knotty problems of life. It would be more than an idle waste 
 of words to say that he was scrupulously honest, and fair and 
 square in all his dealings with men. Like Daniel in sacred 
 history, "he purposed in his heart" that he would do right, and 
 leave results with God. 
 
 A Sussex Co. lawyer, who knew him intimately in business 
 | relations, was constrained to say : "That Daniel Kinder was the 
 Vt most careful, the most scrupulous, and the most conscientious 
 Vy man in business transactions it had ever been his good fortune to 
 know. ' ' 
 
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 He took a profound interest in the welfare of others, and 
 never thought his task done until he extended a helping hand and 
 brought light and good cheer to hearts and lives in need. His 
 daughter writes beautifully and says: "He was a kind and 
 affectionate father and ordered the affairs of his household by the 
 law of tenderness and parental love." He was a man of great 
 veneration and esteem. He almost worshipped good and great 
 men, and treasured in his mind and heart many of their wise 
 sayings, and never forgot to weave them into his conversations 
 with his friends. 
 
 He was a genuinely hospitable man. Hundreds of relatives 
 and friends have found shelter under his benign roof, and have 
 enjoyed the good things spread upon his bountiful table, and held 
 communion, sweet converse and Christian fellowship with this 
 devout man of God. His was a home for the itinerant preacher 
 through a long, long series of years, and no wayfaring man was 
 ever turned empty away from his door. He was a class leader for 
 many years, and as you see his name stands enrolled in the list 
 of Trustees in the Official Memorialwindow of thisctmrch^^, 
 
 WlTsTiaTT'melil^^ that his life 
 
 was completely under the control of the spirit of the Master 
 when He talked so tenderly and so lovingly to His disciples on 
 the Mount. 
 
 Some years before his death, he came to the writer's home and 
 brought corn to exchange for seed — a common custom among 
 farmers — and said he wanted five bushels. The corn was quickly 
 measured. While taking the corn which he brought from his 
 wagon, we discovered that there weie six bushels, and supposing 
 that he had made a mistake, we began to measure another bushel, 
 but he shook his head — in his significant way — and said "No." 
 And we shall never forget the expression of conscious satisfac- 
 tion and of honesty of purpose which danced like sunbeams from 
 every feature of his face as he extended his hand, and in his 
 familiar charcteristic way said: " Good-bye Sara ; I hope I have 
 done you no harm. " 
 
 Daniel Kinder in every walk of life gave Gospel measure, 
 shaken down, pressed together and running over. We never 
 counted the extra bushel in dollars and cents; we put an infini- 
 tely higher value upon it, and always regarded it as a gift of his 
 love, and as an expression of his very best wishes. 
 
 On one occasion when sick, his physician ordered that he 
 should procure some ardent spirits, and use as he had prescribed. 
 A messenger was despatched and upon reaching the store, the 
 druggist informed him that he had the article, but his license 
 
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 • for selling it had expired just a few days ago. But with a kindly 
 heart the package was neatly wrapped, and placing it into the 
 hand of the waiting man, said: "Tell Mr. Kinder I have no 
 right to sell it, but I gladly send it as a gift, with my sincere 
 
 * compliments." 
 
 As soon as he had recovered, and was able to ride, he went to 
 his poultry yard and selected the finest bird in his flock, took it 
 to the druggist and said : "Mr. C. here is a fowl I have brought 
 you" and turned and walked away. The merchant was puzzled to 
 know what such a transaction meant, but upon further reflection 
 recalled the facts above stated; Daniel Kinder could not have 
 lived happily or died in peace, if he had not in some way have 
 compensated this man for his kindness. 
 
 Upon the surface these incidents may seem homely and un- 
 important, but if we will take the pains to analyze them and get 
 down to the basic truths which they represent, we shall find that 
 they contain the very quintessence of the spirit of the "Golden 
 Rule." Daniel Kinder always tried to "do unto others as he 
 would have others do unto him." This spirit characterized this 
 good man in all his dealings with men, and was indeed the warp 
 and woof of his devoted Christian life. 
 
 Today, while we sit together in these sacred surroundings, 
 and recall these pleasing reminiscences, and recount his splendid 
 virtues, all that was mortal of Daniel Byas Kinder sleeps peace- 
 fully in the cemetery hard by the Sanctuary in which he wor- 
 shipped for so many long and happy years. While all that is 
 immortal and heavenly and divine, stands out like a beacon 
 light along the shore of life's dark, rough, tempestuous sea, and 
 with one hand pointing to the divine throne, while with the 
 other he beckons us on, and with a voice of triumphant victory, 
 says: "Follow me, as I followed the Man of Galilee." 
 
 "Servant of God, well done ; 
 Thy glorious warfare's past ; 
 The battle's fought, the race is won, 
 And thou art crowned at last." 
 
 Dear friends : After ten years of light and shadows, we have 
 met on this glad day to grasp each others' hands and exchange 
 our sincere hearty greetings. But some seats are vacant, and as 
 the record shows, many of our number have fallen in life's sore 
 battle. 
 
 The old book upon which we ventured our all for this life and 
 the life to come, is pregnant with admonitions concerning the 
 brevity of human life. The inspired writers use many symbols 
 
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 to tell the sad story. One calls it "a hand breadth" — another 
 speaks of it as "a vapor;" still another compares it to "grass 
 which cometh up in the morning, and in the evening is cut 
 down." And away back in the dark ages men kept this serious 
 thought before their mind. 
 
 God's old servant, Job, startles us with his unique expression— 
 "My days are swifter than the weavers' shuttle." 
 
 We lay along side these sad enunciations — which are the 
 result of sin— the "exceeding great and precious promises" which 
 pervade almost every page of the same old Book, and bring hope 
 and consolation and rest to our timid trembling hearts. There is 
 nothing in all literature half so sweet as the words of Jesus: 
 ''Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will 
 give you rest." Listen to old Paul; "For I reckon— that is, I 
 compute — that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy 
 to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." 
 
 The old prophet, under a mighty spell of inspiration, did 
 his best to soothe our troubled hearts, and quiet our anxious fears, 
 saying: "When thou passest through the waters I will be with 
 thee ; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be 
 burned: neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." Listen 
 again; Jesus says: "but the very hairs of your head are all 
 numbered." whether we stand or fall in the coming decade, 
 let us hold fast to the old Book; let's seek shelter and find safety 
 on the old Ship; she surely will land us over, and "God shall 
 wipe away all tears from our eyes." 
 
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 The Davis Family 
 
 By Charles M. Davis. 
 
 You already have the history of the Davis family up to 1895, > r 
 but the information extends no farther back than 150 years, and we 
 feel impelled to mention the fact that in 1617 a James Davis "N^ 
 came from England in the ship George to Virginia, from thence 
 he went to the Western Shore of Maryland, and his descendants 
 settled on the Eastern Shore where 7000 acres of land weie laid 
 off for them. 
 
 This same history states also that the name originated from 
 David, and for some reasons we may infer that King David of 
 Bible fame was our ancestor — first he was a great singer and 
 musician, and this Davis family have been noted for their musical 
 talent. Then David was a man of war, and the Davis family 
 have ever been found conspicuous in military affairs, ready to 
 respond when duty calls. ^ 
 
 This is the third meeting at this time-honored place, and 
 every member of the Davis family present, we believe, cherishes 
 an ardent affection for this temple and kindred hearts beneath 
 its roof. 
 
 There have been some changes since we met here ten years ago 
 — death has visited our ranks and removed some of our loved 
 ones from earth to heaven, and the thought comes today, they 
 may be listening, with door ajar, to our words of love and 
 renewed frienships. 
 
 Only one of Lemuel Davis'^ grandchilren is now living, 
 Elizabeth Sorden, daug^Ter^oK^aleb anal Nancy" Davis, who is a 
 resident of the "Old Ladies' Home" in Easton, Md., and would 
 have been with us today were it not for her affliction ; she is 
 totally blind and very feeble, and only waiting till the shadows 
 are a little longer grown, to respond to the call to "come up 
 higher." Two grandsons who were with us ten years ago, and 
 whose presence now would be a benediction, are numbered among ^ 
 the dead. 
 
 Nathaniel, son of Tilghman Davis, who was born September 
 20, 1811, and died July 29, 1900, and Rev. Edward Davis, son of 
 Caleb; he represented the Davis family in both the preceding 
 
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 re-unions, and rendered the church many years of faithful service. 
 Having finished his work, he is now reaping the reward of his 
 labors. 
 
 Others who have passed away from our midst since 1895 are 
 Tina wife of Fernandes Davis, Ivi Hie Kenney, grandaughter of 
 Curtis Davis, Rhoda widow of William Noble, Emily wife of 
 Nathaniel Davis, Amanda wife of Wm, Edward Cannon, L. Shanley 
 Davis son of Curtis, Mary W, Moore daughter of Isaac Davis, Lee 
 H. Davis son of James, Ruth May infant daughter of Fernandes 
 Davis, Augusta Booth daughter of Alfred and Mary Davis, War- 
 den Cooper grandson of John Davis, Florence Miles daughter of 
 Lottie Adams, and Eliazbeth P. Morgan and Sallie C. Davis 
 daughters of Charles L. Davis. 
 
 We will try to give a partial list of the surviving members 
 of this wonderful family. 
 
 Lemuel Davis' children have been named in a former hstory. 
 The children of Re^^Wini^na^Dayisvvere William, Greentree, 
 Mary Ann, Truston, Priscilla, Mahala and Jesse^ Of William 
 is Franklin Davis of Phladelpha. Of Greenfields Ann Amelia 
 living near Georgetown, Del. Truston Davis' children were 
 Edward and Winfield, neither of them living, but Edward who 
 married Emma Wrightson, left three daughters, Nellie, Nannie 
 and Winnie who reside in Cambridge, Md. 
 
 Of Mahala who married Charles Noble we have two living 
 representatives, Jonathan Noble and Mary the widow of Alfred 
 Davis. 
 
 y Of Jesse Dfcvis are Emilv^ ^inderjDf this vicinity and Harriet 
 Brown of Baltimore, Md. 
 
 The children of Solomon Davis were Lemuel, Mary Ann and 
 Solomon. 
 
 Of Lemuel is Dr. W. F. Davis of Dover, Del. Mary Ann 
 married W. A. Whealey and left four sons all living in Dorches- 
 ter County. 
 
 The children of Tilghman Davis were Isaac, James, Nathaniel, 
 Henry, Alfred, Samuel, Kittie, Castelia and Charlotte. 
 
 Of Isaac, are Celia wife of Edward Adams of Reliance, who 
 has six children all living ; Joseph T. Davis who married Annie 
 Williams, has three children, Raymond, married living in Phila- 
 delphia, Addie and Myra living with their parents at the old 
 homestead; Lottie Adams of Seaford, Del., one daughter living 
 and one grand-daughter, Florence Etta Miles living at Upper 
 Fairmount, Md. ; and Martha Sharpp of Seaford has one son. 
 
 Of James Davis son of Tilghman are Willie Prouse of Phila- 
 delphia, who has two sons living, Walter and Harry, and two 
 
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 small grandchildren; Georgia Pattern of New Jersey has three 
 children ; W. J. Davis of Federalsburg one daughter, Laura, and 
 Lydia Elliott has two daughters, Bessie wife of Earle Noble and 
 Anna the bride of Harry Kinder of Pittsburgh. 
 
 Of Nathaniel Davis are Tilghman of Easton, Md., Willard 
 living near Trinity church, Benjamin and three daughters, Leona, 
 Kate and Edith Davis Mulligan who has two children. 
 
 Of Henry Davis son of Tilghman are Jacob Tilghman, Harriet 
 McMahon who has two daughters Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Coffin, 
 and Ida Collins of New Jersey. 
 
 Of Alfred Davis are Emily wife of Henry Cannon of Seaford, 
 Charles T. a resident of this vicinity. Sallie C. wife of W E. 
 Carpenter of Woodland, James, and Laura widow of Oliver Obier 
 of Seaford, Del. 
 
 Of Castelia who married John Kinder are Isaac and Samuel 
 the only children living today. 
 
 Of Charlotte who married John L. Willis are Tilghman and 
 Sallie Samuel Brown both of Seaford, Del. 
 
 The children of Ennals Davis were Charles, Peggy, Betsy and 
 Eliza. 
 
 Of Charles Davis were Elizabeth V. Morgan, John Marcus, 
 Sallie and Emily; the first three deceased and Emily living 
 near the church. 
 
 Of Peggy who married Melvin Andrew, Auu Eliza, Lizzie 
 Hubbard, William D. and Kate Sisk of his vicinity. 
 
 Of Eliza who married Truston Cannon, Jacob, Mary E. . 
 Antoniette, Arcady, Elizabeth, Eliza Jane, Lillie Newton. Sallie 
 Tilghman, Augusta, Charles Davis and James Wilson. 
 
 The children of Caleb Davis were Curtis, Albert, John, 
 Washington, Edward, Lizzie, Mary, Ann, Emetine, Carrie and 
 Jerry. 
 
 Of Curtis Davis, Rebecca, his widow, who resides in Feder- 
 alsburg, L. Shanley Davis his eldest son, whose precious memory 
 lingers with us still, died in 1900, leaving one son who bears his 
 father's full name and lives in New York City; Charles M. Davis 
 residing in Federalsburg has two daughters, Eva the wife of Prof. 
 H. H. Murphy living now in Denton, and Lydia at home with 
 her parents, also one grandson. Rowena, wife of Rev. James T. 
 Kenney has two unmarried daughters all living in Philadelphia; 
 Oliver Davis has two sous, Curtis and Norman both married and 
 all living in New York, Jerome Davis of Goldsboro, Md. , is 
 married but has no children ; Oscar Davis of Hoboken, New 
 Jersey, has three children ; Elena Davis unmarried resides with 
 her mother; Fernandes, living in Federalsburg, has two children. 
 
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 Wilmer and Winter aie both married, living in New York, but 
 have no children ; Carrie Lewes wife of H. M. Carroll has one 
 son, and resides in Federalsburg. 
 
 Of Albert Davis are Edward F. Davis who has two daughters, 
 Roberta wife of Dr. R. Kemp Jefferson and Ethel Davis, also two 
 grandsons; James H. Davis has five children, two sons, Harry 
 W. Davis, cashier of Federalsburg bank and Albert Davis, and 
 three daughters, Blanche wife of Roland Webster who lives in 
 Cambridge and have one child, Iva and Nancy Davis who live at 
 home with their parents in Federalsburg. 
 
 Of John Davis, one daughter, Jennie Cooper, who is a widow 
 with two sons and lives at White Haven, Wicomico Co., Md. 
 
 Of Rev. Edward Davis, Mattie his widow who resides in 
 Newark, Md. , Leland and Belle Bailey of Wilmington; John of 
 Bridgeville and Ella Bowen, who has one son, Edward Farrell, 
 of Newark, Md. 
 
 Of Ann who mame^^ajre^^JCmder were Caleb, Rhoda, 
 Emily, Sina, Amanda, Cassie, Martha, Carrie and Addie. 
 
 Caleb, deceased, left one daughter. 
 
 Rhoda Noble left one daughter, Sal lie, who married James 
 Andrew and lives in Hurlock, Md. 
 
 Amanda Cannon left two sons living in Florida, and two 
 daughters, Mary Fooks of Georgetown, Del., and Ella Emery of 
 Seaford. 
 
 Carrie Wilson left two children, Maggie of Seaford, Del., 
 and Robert of California. 
 
 Sina Rawlins resides in Seaford, Cassie Corbin in this 
 vicinity, Martha Lewis who has one son, Warren lives in Laurel, 
 Del., and Addie Wright of Seaford has one daughter, Lillie 
 Handy. 
 
 Of Carrie who married Twiford Noble, Alex Noble of Preston, 
 Md. , and Addie, deceased, who married Robert Jarrell of Golds- 
 boro, Md. 
 
 In closing this historical sketch we are reminded that there 
 may be some mistakes and names omitted that should be recorded, 
 but we have gone according to our information, and wish to be 
 pardoned for any errors. 
 
 One characteristic of the Davis family is a fondness for 
 something good to eat, and the wives of these kind husbands seem 
 to know the art of cooking. To agree with this assertion you 
 have only to visit one of them and partake of their toothsome 
 viands. The latch string of their hospitable homes ever hangs 
 outside, 
 
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 We part today, but hope to meet again : 
 
 "Where the crystal stream doth flow, 
 And the trees of life doth bloom, 
 
 Where no chilling frost can fall, 
 On flowers that sweetly bloom. 
 
 Where the glory of the Lord 
 
 Shines thro' all the cloudless skies, 
 
 There, as endless ages roll, 
 
 Shall be no more good-byes." 
 
The Noble Family 
 
 By I. S. Warren. 
 
 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen. For the third time we 
 have met in re-union pf the families of Noble, Davis and Kinder, 
 
 Again the frosts of Autumn leave their mark on the forests 
 about us; giving color and beauty to the landscape, and in look- 
 in over this large gathering I see the autumn of life is giving 
 light and color to the heads of many in this audience, while the 
 frosts of many winters give notice to many of us that the time 
 of re-unions on Earth will soon be over. May we meet in that 
 grand re-union in Heaven where we shall meet again those with 
 whom we have met on occasions like unto this. 
 
 Although I was not the one first selected by the committee to 
 represent the Noble Family not being so well qualified as some 
 others and not a Noble by name, Dr. J. L. Noble our president of 
 today being the one chosen, but the Dr. finding his professional 
 duties of such a character as to preclude his giving the subject 
 matter the attention he would like, he turned it over to me, for 
 which you have my sincere regrets. When a man is so unforunate 
 as not to be borne a Noble, the very next best thing is to marry a 
 Noble which thing I did and that Noble has reigned in my home 
 not only as a Noble but as a Queen, and still reigns, happy 
 mother of eight children, six of whom are here with us today, 
 one of them the wife of Dr. W. F. Haines of Seaford, with her 
 little son, Harlan Fisher Haines, two are not, for God has taken 
 them since our last re-union. 
 
 The Grim Reaper has gathered an abundant harvest of Nobles 
 during the time since we last met on such an occasion as this, he 
 has seemed to love a shining mark. Comparatively few of the 
 older members of the family have fallen, Jonathan T. Noble the 
 Nestor of the Noble name, with his sister Mrs. Mary Noble Davis 
 still lingering with the children, are with us today. 
 
 The Nobles are not a long lived family, but Mrs. Davis has 
 reached the advanced age of 84 years and her brother Jonathan 82. 
 
 Two years almost today, after our last re-union, Oct. 30, 1897, 
 Sadie E. Warren, eldest daughter of I. S. Warren and Mary E. 
 Noble, a quiet unassuming but most loveable girl passed away , 
 and now awaits the resurrection of the just. 
 
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 May Noble, eldest daughter of S. M. Noble and Mary E. 
 Kinder, died April 10th, 1900. You will pardon tne if I make a 
 digression from the rule I had laid out for myself in regard to 
 these notices, I have about 20 death notices and 40 marriages, 
 and the time allowed me will not suffice but to give the barest 
 notice of each one, but this especial case calls for more than a 
 passing notice. 
 
 It might be well said of May Noble none knew her but to 
 love her, none spoke of her but to praise her. A lovely bud, 
 too fair for Earth, she blooms in Heaven. She and her father 
 were to have sung a selection at the Epworth League service on 
 the Sunday before she died, they are to sing it on the Eternal 
 Shore, let us all be there to hear it. 
 
 DEATHS 
 
 Harvey Fountain, Nov. 9, 1896. 
 Sadie E. Warren. Oct. 30, 1897. 
 Walton Williams, Sept. 27, 1898. 
 Verdie Noble. Oct., 1898. 
 Eunice Noble. June 17, 1S99. 
 Mav Noble. Apr. 10, 1900. 
 Ella Hubbard. Mav 16, 1900. 
 Frank Harris, Feb. 20, 1901. 
 Sallie Davis. March 20. 1901. 
 Rhoda A. Noble, Apr. 28. 1901. 
 Isaac Noble. Nov. 14, 1901. 
 Albert B. Chambers. Julv 3, 1902. 
 Elberta Wheatley, August 3, 1902. 
 J. Noble Warren. November 19, 1902. 
 William T. Piquette, February 7, 1903. 
 James A. Noble. Januarv 25, 1903. 
 Annie Noble High, August 4, 1904. 
 Helen Warren, August, 1904. 
 Dr. Hattie N. Purte, Mav 11, 1905. 
 Helen Noble. Julv 3, 1905. 
 Charles Noble, August 20, 1905. 
 
 MARRIAGES 
 
 Herbert Noble to Elsie Pattison, December 5, 1895. 
 Harvev N. Fountain to Nora A. Noble, October 3. 1896. 
 Charles S. Bradlev to Elizabeth C. Grannis, Januarv 13, 1897. 
 Mary Belle Noble" to William T. Piquette, October "] 6, 1*97. 
 Marv Bradlev to George T. Chambers, October 28, 1*97. 
 Blanche Noble to John W. Stowell, Dec 22, 1898. 
 Bertie Noble to Dr. W T. Kelley, June 7, 1899. 
 J. Noble Warren to Katherine Herbert, August 9, 1899. 
 Willie V. Alberger to George H. Jefferson, December 23, 1899. 
 Edgar Fountain to Annie M. Fountain, March 21, 1900. 
 Walter Fountain to Emma Cohee, May 20, 1900. 
 Mary Moore to Manning Merriken, June 14, 1900. 
 
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 Rink Noble to Miss Laudy, July 25, 1900. 
 
 Myra Purte to Arthur Prey, July 29, 1900. 
 
 Charles Fulton Noble to Cora Willis, October 26, 1900. 
 
 J. Twiford Williams to Mattie Morris, December 12, 1900. 
 
 Roberta Bradley to W. L. Wheatley, December 25, 1900. 
 
 George B Noble to Grace Handy, June, 1900. 
 
 Madge B. Warren to Dr. W. F. Haines, March 5, 1901. 
 
 Radie Belle Hubbard to William A. Jones, May 28, 1901. 
 
 Levi D. L. Noble to Jennie Lake, December 18, 1901. 
 
 Minnie Noble to F. W. Booker, January 29, 1902. 
 
 William Davis to , 1902. 
 
 Myrtle Harris to B. H. Fell, August 6, 1902. 
 
 L,. Barle Warren to Lelia C. Jones, June 18, 1902. 
 
 Clara Noble to John Payne, June 2, 1902. 
 
 Mary Andrews to J. H. Loux, May 28, 1903. 
 
 Carrie Andrews to F. N. Casson, November 26, 1903. 
 
 Hattie Fountain to Fred Peters, January 20, 1903. 
 
 Luanna Bradley to L. G. Christopher, January 12, 1904. 
 
 Barle Noble to Bessie Blliott, February 23, 1904. 
 
 Annie Noble High to Mr. Henning, January 1, 1904. 
 
 Herman Noble to Nell Hurr, June 22, 1904. 
 
 Herbert Nichols to Miss Poole. 1904. 
 
 Mary Harris to Frank Robertson, December 21, 1904. 
 
 Frank Fountain to Stella Noble, December 20, 1904. 
 
 Mary Jarrell to Dr. H. W. B. Rowe, March 16, 1904. 
 
 Fannie Jarrell to Dr. Raymond Downes, December 14, 1904. 
 
 William Noble Andrews to Bessie Walworth, October 18, 1904. 
 
 Grace Williams to Raymond P. Vickers, October 20, 1904. 
 
 Grace Noble to B. Lee Chipley, January 11, 1905. 
 
 Mary B. Noble to Dr. James A. Riedy, June 1, 1905. 
 
 A retrospect reveals the spring from which issues this stream 
 of stalwart men and women, men and women who stood for up- 
 right, clean living, who stood for civic righteousness, who made 
 the wilderness bud and blossom like the rose such as we see about 
 us today. 
 
 The prospect is that the future promises even greater achieve- 
 ments, worthy sons of worthy sires, brave and true men, fair, 
 chaste women, whose high destiny shall be fulfilled only when 
 they land in Bternity. 
 
 "May there be no sad farewells 
 When we at last embark." 
 
Address of 
 
 Herbert Noble, Esq* 
 
 It is no small pleasure to be again at this historic spot, 
 especially on such an occasion as this; and I am not insensible to 
 the honor of being asked to address you, nor of the buiden of so 
 doing. However, I feel that I am among my own people; and 
 that fact forces into prominence in my mind what I conceive to 
 have been and to be their distinguishing characteristics. 
 
 The Nobles settled in this region more than two hundred years 
 ago. They came from the counties of Northumberland and Cum- 
 berland, Enland, where they had lived for centuries. The first 
 mention of the name in English history was William le Noble, 
 who came to England with William the Conqueror, and was 
 granted an estate in the County of Northumberland for faithful 
 service and loyalty to his sovereign. 
 
 I have visited this home where his descendants reside, and the 
 family characteristics were most notable. The head of the 
 present family is William Noble, who might for all the world 
 have been taken for the brother of William Noble or Jonathan 
 Noble, or, my father, William Davis Noble. It was from these 
 Nobles that our ancestors came to Maryland. 
 
 But I do not desire to attempt an historical sketch of the Noble 
 family. What they and the others who have settled in this 
 region have accomplished and have stood for, is what I desire to 
 call your attention to. When they came here, there was before 
 them the primeval forests, the home of the Nanticoke Indians. 
 There were black bear, deer and other wild game in abundance; 
 but there were no roads, no farms, no buildings, no homes. 
 Their's it was to blaze the way for civilization; and it required 
 stout hearts to face such a situation for the purpose of making 
 homes. They did not come here seeking gold. They came to 
 make their homes under the beneficent Governments of Lord Bal- 
 timore and William Penn : In Maryland where no man's 
 pivilege to worship God according to the dictates of his con- 
 science could be violated, since the very charter secured that as a 
 right, and to the colony of William Penn who wanted his people 
 to live in peace and harmony with all men. 
 
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 And what did these early settlers accomplish ? They won 
 the forests for homes, for broad plantations, and they kept alive 
 in their hearts the love of God. They had no wars with the 
 Indians, for they dealt fairly with them; and they dealt justly 
 with each other. They were valant men of peace and fair 
 dealing. They gave in those days, as they give today, a quid pro 
 quo for all that they received. 
 
 These were not commonplace qualities. They were the 
 qualities of strong and virtuous men ; for in the forests, distant 
 from the outpost of civilization, where legal rights are very 
 difficult of enforcement, and where the views of men become 
 loose, because they are so free from restraint, it indicates high 
 personal character to deal justly. It means an imagination which 
 pictures a future in which a conscience void of a sense of wrong 
 doing is indispensable to the enjoyment of a home which was to 
 result from their unending toil and labor. They sought a future 
 which might be enjoyed in content and happiness. 
 
 As contrasted with the Puritans who went to New England, 
 the men who came to this region were of a nobler mould. Those 
 who went to New England were satisfied with nothing. Their 
 life was as hard as their beliefs were hard ; their sufferings as 
 extreme as their sympathies were narrow. They conceived of a 
 God who was continually visiting evil and harm upon the people, 
 who had elected some to be saved and all the rest of humanity to 
 be damned "in soul and body without intermission in hell fire 
 forever." And such was their attitude toward each other, that 
 if one did not believe these doctrines and treat one's neighbor 
 accordingly, one had the choice of having one's tongue bored, 
 ears clipped or leaving as Roger Williams did in 1636, when he 
 founded Rhode Island, or as Benjamin Franklin was obliged to do 
 more than one hundred years later. "The highest to the lowest 
 were firm believers in portents, prodigies, witchcraft and all the 
 black arts. Every unusual event was attributed to God or the 
 devil, and the latter especially seemed to have amused himself at 
 the expense of helpless humanity. " The burning of witches at 
 Salem, and the alleged communications from witches and the 
 spirits of the dead, affirmed to have taken place by Cotton and 
 Increase Mather are familiar history (1700-1750.) 
 
 "The Christianity believed in, and preached, and practiced 
 by the rank and file of the people was lurid and of merciless 
 cruelty and vengance " 
 
 From this period when they attributed the most horrid 
 qualities to a merciful God, they swung, within a few yeais, to 
 another equally extreme and equally abhorrent point of view, by 
 
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 denying the Divinity of our Saviour and becoming Unitarians. 
 And this change too was attended by similar conduct toward 
 those who failed to agree. 
 
 Speaking of the period of 1807, Barrett Wendell has said: 
 
 "In Boston Unitarianism had swept away the pristine religious 
 traditions. Among the older churches only the Old South had 
 stuck by its original Calvinistic colours, and its members gener- 
 ally remained orthodox at the expense of their visiting lists." 
 
 In a word, those people who dared to believe what had been 
 so stoutly taught even in Franklin's day, forty years before, were 
 made to feel that they were social outcasts, and that they had 
 no proper places in the community. 
 
 With this picture of religious intolerance, and, I might say, 
 degredation, of intellectual unrest, and utter social discontent, 
 compare the situation here. Faith, charity, mercy — these were 
 the qualities attributed by the people here to God. Episcopalians, 
 Roman Caholics, Calvinists and Jews all had an asylum here, 
 where every man sough to build a home in a community where 
 fair dealing was the standard of conduct and the measure of 
 respect, and where religious views deprived no man of his right 
 or his neighbor's respect, so long as he dealt justly and lived 
 honorably. Right living was what one's neighbor required of one; 
 end if a man's religious views were in his neighbor's opinion 
 unsound, he was cordially invited, in the early days, to the 
 Church of England ; later, in some parts, to Meeting, and yet 
 again to the Methodist Church. In the earlier days of the Colo- 
 nies of Marj'land, and, indeed under William Penn, the majority 
 of the Churches were those of the Church of England. But the 
 very reason that she lost her ground here, and the Quakers and 
 the Methodists supplanted her, was that the clergy sent out to 
 the Colonies in those days did not measure up to the standard 
 which had been set in this community by the people who lived 
 here. They were not men of high spiritual force. They held 
 their Churches largely as a means of support, with little or no 
 care for the spiritual welfare of the people. They were less 
 concerned with the eternal verities and honorable living than 
 with the mere means of support. So that when the Quakers came 
 preaching that God was not a grim autocrat, and that man was 
 not essentially lost ; that there was room for love, mercy and 
 charity, and that what was truly to be understood was "the truth 
 of the universal love of God to all men. That God so loved the 
 world that He sent His Son, that Christ died for all men, and 
 that His atonement availed for all who in every land accepted the 
 light with which He enlightened their minds and consciences, 
 
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 and who listening to His still small voice in the soul turned in 
 any true sense toward God away from evil" and to right living 
 and fair dealing, they appealed to the spiritual lives of the people 
 here, and many, and among them many Nobles, became Quakers. 
 But the coherence and aggressiveness of the Quakers were not 
 sufficient to satisfy the spiritual life of the people here; and 
 when the spiritual awakening came in England and John Weslej' 
 so eloquently and fervently protested against the then unspiritu- 
 alized condition of the English Church ; and when George White- 
 field, the great Evangelist, visited and preached in the Colonies, 
 there was aroused great religious fervor in his region. White- 
 field's preaching was very impassioned, and very remarkable. 
 Benjamin Franklin, in his autobiography, says of his preaching in 
 Phiadelphia : 
 
 "The multitudes of all sects and denominations that attended 
 his sermons were enormous and it was matter of speculation to 
 me, who was one of the number, to observe the extraordinary 
 influence of his oratory on his hearers, and how much they ad- 
 mired and respected him, notwithstanding his common abuse of 
 them, by assuring them they were naturally half beasts and half 
 devils. It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the 
 manner of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent 
 about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing reli- 
 gious, so that one could not walk thro' the town in an evening 
 without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street." 
 
 The enthusiasm which was aroused by Whitefield, and the 
 other great revivalists who came with him, was sweeping ; and it 
 was remarkable how they got funds together to build Churches. 
 On one occasion, writes Franklin, Whitefield desired to establish 
 a charitable orphanage in Georgia which Franklin thought was 
 impracticable, and he says in his autobiography : 
 
 "I therefore refused to contribute. I happened soon after to 
 attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he 
 intended to finish with a collection and I silently resolved he 
 should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of 
 copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in 
 gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give 
 the coppers. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of 
 that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so 
 admirably that I empty'd my pocket wholly into the collector's 
 dish, gold and all. ' ' 
 
 He must also have been a very genial, lovable man personally, 
 because while Franklin was not in sympathy with his preaching, 
 Whitefield and he seemed to have been great friends, and on one 
 
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 occasion Whitefield wrote asking Franklin if he might stay with 
 him. Franklin's reply was "You know my house ; if you can 
 make shift with its scant accommodations, you will be most 
 heartily welcome. 5 ' 
 
 Whitefield replied "If you made that kind offer for Christ's 
 sake, you should not miss of a reward." And says Franklin, "I 
 returned, 'Don't let me be mistaken ; it was not for Christ's sake, 
 but for your sake' " and adds Franklin, "One of our common 
 acquaintances jocosely remark'd that, knowing it to be the cus- 
 tom of the saints, when they received any favour, to shift the 
 burden of the obligaiton from off their own shoulders, and place 
 it in heaven, I had contriv'd to fix it on earth." 
 
 The preaching of Whitefield and his associates was an exhorta- 
 tion to give up bad habits; to live simply, without lewdness and 
 in virtue; to deal justly and fairly by all men; and to turn to- 
 ward a God to whom was attributed qualities of love, mercy and 
 fatherly kindness. 
 
 As I said before, his was s the kind of life the people in this 
 community had sought to live, and they responded to his appeal 
 and built chapels for worship; among them Bethel Chapel. Thus 
 Methodism, in its turn, became and has remained a great and 
 moving force for good here. 
 
 Referring now to material matters, the produce of the far ms 
 was and always has been abundant. Every man has always had 
 sufficient to live on, and many have had an abundance. There 
 were no attempts to take unfair advantage in the business dealings 
 of the community. The standards of honesty were high. Men 
 met their obligations. I cannot recall, as a boy, when I lived 
 in this communtiy, the occurrence of any serious breaches of the 
 law. I remember at my own home, that while the front door of 
 the house was always carefully locked at night, most of the others 
 were wide open. Life and personal property were secure. The 
 delights of life were enjoyed simply, merrily and thoroughtly 
 without undue show or ostentation. There was no pride of 
 wealth. Indeed the manner of living of most of the people was 
 too generous to permit of the accumulation of wealth, and men 
 and women enjoyed their lives freely and happily, without any 
 attempt on the part of their neighbors to limit their conduct or 
 control their beliefs. 
 
 I have attempted to draw a contrast between the lives of 
 descendants of Englishmen who settled in New England and the 
 lives of descendants of Englishmen, and others, who settled here. 
 On the one hand, in New England while they have undoubtedly 
 accumulated greater wealth than has been accumulated here, they 
 
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 have lived under the most serious and unlovely philosophy and 
 religious beliefs; and amid the most rigid social conditions, with 
 very little of that which is!; genial in their lives; whereas, on the 
 other hand, here, the people have lived simply, with a keen de- 
 sire to see the right and to do it, to be genial and gracious with 
 each other, and to get from life the joy, happiness and pleasure 
 which makes life a delight, and the world a place of beauty. 
 
 If the Nobles and the Davises and the Kinders and others, 
 who settled in this community have won for the people who reside 
 here what I have attempted to point out, and what I conceive is 
 the fact, then the result of their work has, to my mind, been more 
 worth while than bad they accumulated silver and gold, and at 
 the same time failed to win from life its sweetness and its beauty. 
 They have done more for themselves and the world than those 
 restless and discontented spirits who have lived and worked in 
 New England. 
 
 And what for the future? This seems to be an age of doing, 
 of building, of inventing, of organizing. The vast and sudden 
 accumulation of great fortunes, in various parts of the country, 
 seems to have set before the minds of many of our people solely 
 the accumulation of riches as an object of life. 
 
 In the great crowded centres the beautiful seems to be giving 
 place to the material. There seems no time to seek the eternal 
 truths, learning, scholarship and to cultivate the gentler side of 
 each other ; and, instead of seeking happiness and contentment 
 as an object, the acquirement of wealth for the material position 
 it can bring, seems to be the purpose of the day. 
 
 Millions of people in this country are today enjoying better 
 schools, are better clothed, better fed and better housed and they 
 live more securely and are better protected against disease and 
 oppression than ever before in the history of the world, because of 
 the material progress that has been made. 
 
 All this means system and organization. The necessities of 
 organization require the closest attention, and it seems unques- 
 tionably true that to many the perfecting of organization and 
 combination for the wealth that they will bring, seems an object 
 alone If this be true, generally, in this country, as is frequenty 
 asserted, the people have sold their birth -right for a mess of pot- 
 tage. 
 
 But, it is not true generally, and it is only seemingly true in 
 the great crowded centres. 
 
 The men needed there, to manage great organizations, are not 
 those thus sorded. The kind of men that are needed are those 
 who see clearly, who have no difficulty at any time in knowing 
 
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 that they have no right to another man's property, and who, 
 under no circumstances, will take an improper advantage of 
 other men; men of such quaities that they will be patient in the 
 doing of right, in dealing justly and fairly, and in making their 
 conquests the result of fair dealing. So that while on the one 
 hand wealth has been accumulated so suddenly that it seems fairly 
 to stagger the imagination, on the other hand, the qualities which 
 are required for its administration and for the administration and 
 accomplishment of great organizations and the doing of great 
 things, are those qalities and characteristics which those early 
 people, who settled in this community, set for their own living, 
 and which standard of life and of living is the proudest heritage 
 descended to their children. 
 
 When the Rev. Dr. Robinson, who has addressed you today, 
 left here more than twenty years ago, he closed his farewell ser- 
 mon, as I so well recall, with St. Paul's counsel to the Philip- 
 pi ans : 
 
 "Finally, brethren, whatsover things are true, whatsoever 
 things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things 
 are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of 
 good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, 
 think on these things." 
 
 No man could make a sorrier mistake than to suppose that 
 the seemingly materialistic tendencies of the day have done 
 away with the things that are true, the things that are honest, 
 the things that are just, the things that are pure, the things that 
 are lovely, the things that are cf good report. 
 
 The success of the untruthful and dishonest is ephemeral. 
 The men who in fact are succeeding in the great crowded centres, 
 as well as here, are those who ring true, who are honest and just, 
 whose purposes in affairs are free from guile, are direct and 
 straightforward, in other words, pure, whose lives are in fact 
 worthy of love and respect, and who earnestly seek to have only 
 good report of themselves. They know that "a good name is 
 rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather 
 than silver and gold." 
 
 So it would be entirely misleading to believe that there is 
 one test of success in the crowded centres, and another in a com- 
 munity like this. Real success in both places follows from the 
 exercise of the same, identical qualities. The cities are recruited 
 from the country ; and those who have the stamina of the men 
 whose settlement here we celebrate today, who have industry, 
 who deal fairly and justly whether here or elsewhere take their 
 important and responsible places in the great combinations and 
 
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 organizations of life to do things whether it be in one sphere or 
 another. 
 
 The men who settled here were right, theu, when they gave 
 to their children such standards of what is true, honest, just, 
 pure, lovely and of good report; for those standards are the true 
 ones and have endured throughout the ages. And it is the privi- 
 lege, as well as the duty of their descendants to protect their 
 names, preserve their story, and be a lasting monument to their 
 glory. 
 
Joinder ffiamilxj ^tqqs 
 
Descendants of Warren Kinder, 
 
 Bom Dec. 4, X 800.— Died Oct. l f 1883. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ANN DAVIS KINDER 
 
 GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Caleb Davis Kinder, born March 15, 1826. 
 Married Ann Coates. Died July 5, 
 1854. 
 
 Mary F. Kinder, born Nov. 3, 1849. 
 Married 1st, Aug. 12, 1869, Edward 
 Bosnian ; 2nd, April 23, 1881, Sam- 
 uel Williams. 
 
 Rhoda Ann Kinder, born Jan. 31, 1828. 
 Married Wm. Noble, Jan. 14, 1851. 
 Died Apr. 28, 1901. 
 
 Sallie Noble, born Nov. 14, 1852. Mar- 
 ried James Andrews. 
 
 Emily Kinder, born Dec. 5, 1829. Mar- 
 ried Nathaniel Davis, Jan. 16, 1849. 
 Died Sept. 29, 1897. 
 
 Mary Anna Davis, born Nov. 14, 1849 ; 
 died Dec. 25, 1849. 
 
 Tilghman W. Davis, born Nov. 4, 1850. 
 Married Martha Williams, Nov. 26, 
 1872. 
 
 I^eona Davis, born July 11, 1853. 
 
 Benjamin K. Davis, born Jan. 24, 1855. 
 Married Mary F. Whitely, Feb. 26, 
 
 ■i oor 
 
 lobo. 
 
 Margaret C. Davis, born Dec. 20, 1857 ; 
 died Aug. 20, 1858. 
 
 Willard S. Davis, born Jan. 19, 1859. 
 Married Annie Williams, Dec. 23, 
 1880. 
 
 Katie J. Davis, born Aug. 15, 1860. Mar- 
 ried Scott Collins, Aug. 5, 1896. 
 
 Edith Davis, born Dec. 23, 18§7. Mar- 
 ried Joseph Milligan, Feb. 13, 1890. 
 
 Alexander Warren Kinder, born Jan. 11, 
 1831 ; diedjuly 31, 1831. 
 
Married (1825) Ann M. Davis; (1848) Eliza A. Bradley; 
 (1859) Emeline Davis, 
 
 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Norman Bosman, born July 4, 1870 ; died Feb. 18, 1871. 
 
 Hattie Bosman, born Feb. 18, 1872, Married J. Hartzell, Jan. 31, 1905. 
 
 Minnie E. Williams, born Oct. 15, 1881. Married O. E. Wiley, Mar. 23, 1905. 
 Eva Mae Williams, born July 14, 1883. 
 
 William Noble Andrews, born Nov. 13, 1876. Married Bessie Walworth, Oct. 18, 
 1904. 
 
 Carrie Andrews, born Jan. 25, 1878. Married Frank Myers Casson, Nov. 26, 1903. 
 Mary Andrews, born May 25, 1881. Married John Hopkins Loux, May 28, 1903. 
 Stephen Kinder Andrews, born Feb. 21, 1885. 
 Helen Andrews, born Apr. 26, 1886. 
 James E. Andrews, born Apr. 5, 1892. 
 
 Howard N. Davis, born June 4, 1874. Married Golda Alford, Dec. 27, 1904. 
 Benjamin F. Davis, born June 23, 1880. Married Minnie Obier, Feb. 10, 1904. 
 Ora W. Davis, born Apr. 23, 1883. 
 
 William Davis, born Dec. 28, 1885. 
 Mary Leslie Davis, born Feb. 13, 1887. 
 Ella Castelia Davis, born May 14, 1888. 
 Emily Cecilia Davis, born July 30, 1889. 
 Benjamin Ray Davis, born Aug. 27, 1890. 
 Charles Davis, born Mar. 13, 1893. 
 Bessie Leona Davis, born Jan. 13, 1895. 
 
 Lewis Wright Davis, born Mar. 22, 1882 ; died Apr. 30, 1894. 
 Elsie May Davis, born Sept. 8, 1884. 
 
 Gertrude Williams Davis, born June 9, 1887 ; died Nov. 9, 1892. 
 
 Lulu Kinder Davis, born July 26, 1890. 
 
 Mary Emily Davis, born Apr. 7, 1895. 
 
 Frances Elizabeth Willard Davis, born Apr. 8, 1897. 
 
 Ruth Evelyn Davis, born June 29, 1903. 
 
 Warren Milligan, born July 12, 1897 ; died June 29, 1898. 
 Catkenne^Ross Milligan, born Jan. 30, 1902. 
 Emily Davis Milligan, born Jan. 30, 1902. 
 
Descendants of 
 
 Stephen Asbury Kinder, born July 19, 
 1832 ; died Nov. 10, 1837. 
 
 
 Sina Kinder, born Mar. 21, 1834. Mar- 
 ried, 1st, Thomas L. Rawlins, Jan. 
 17, 1855 ; 2nd, John Rawlins, Dec. 1, 
 1879. 
 
 Linden Kinder Rawlins, born July 18, 
 1859 ; died June 15, 1889. 
 
 Eliza Amanda Kinder, born Mar. 18, 
 1836. Married William B. Cannon, 
 Jan. 28, 1858. Died June 17, 1900. 
 
 Olin Penn Cannon, born Oct. 31, 1868. 
 Married Alice Brown, Sept., 1884. 
 
 Edmerson Everett Cannon, born Dec. 31, 
 1859. Married Sue Finley, July 29, 
 1893. 
 
 Harry Lee Cannon, born Mar., 1864; 
 died June, 1864. 
 
 Mary Cannon, born July 20, 1868. Mar- 
 ried Robert Houston Fooks, Jan. 2, 
 1890. 
 
 Ella Cannon, born Sept. 25, 1873. Mar- 
 ried George W. Emery, Dec. 4, 1901. 
 
 Castelia Kinder, born Jan. 3, 1838. Mar- 1 
 ried Amos K. Corbin, Dec. 16, 1880. | 
 
 Martha Ellen Kinder, born June 30,1840. 
 Married Henry C. Lewis, Feb. 9, 
 1881. 
 
 Warren Kendall Lewis, born Aug. 21, 
 
 William Edward Kinder, born Sept. 8, 
 1841 ; died Sept. 18, 1841. 
 
 
 Caroline Kinder, born Aug. 27, 1842. 
 Married Robert !H. Wilson, Dec. 20, 
 1864. Died Jan., 1875. 
 
 Margaret S. Wilson, born Sept. 3, 1865. 
 
 Robert G. Wilson, born June 26, 1870. 
 Married Lillie Silcott, Oct., 1893. 
 
 Mary Adelaide C. Kinder, born Dec. 12, 
 1843. Married, 1st, Daniel Noble, 
 Nov. 15, 1865; 2nd, Isaac K. Wright, 
 Oct., 1897. 
 
 Lillian C. Noble, born Apr. 17, 1869. 
 Married Albert Handy, 1889. 
 
Warren Kinder* (Continued.) 
 
 Henry Edward Cannon, born Mar. 6, 1887. 
 Annie Brown Cannon, born May 15, 1889. 
 Iyinden Kinder Cannon, born Feb. 15, 1891. 
 Mary Amanda Cannon, born Jan. 26, 1895. 
 Olin Penn Cannon, born Dec. 4, 1902. 
 
 Everett Finley Cannon, born Jan. 6, 1896. 
 Marjorie Cannon, born Nov. 7, 1898. 
 William Edward Cannon, born Oct. 28, 1900. 
 
 Carleton Cannon Fooks, born Oct. 10, 1890. 
 Warren Houston Fooks, born Sept. 20, 1892. 
 
 Elizabeth Cottingham Emery, born Oct. 1, 1903. 
 George William Emery, born Jan. 4, 1905. 
 
 Twiford Wilson, born Oct., 1894. , 
 Willard Saulsbury Wilson, born 1901. 
 
 Alvin N. Handy, born Feb. 12, 1892 ; died July 26, 1892. 
 
 Helen Handy, born Sept. 20, 1893, 
 
 Roland Handy, born July 1, 1898. 
 
 Mary N. Handy, born Jan. 9, 1901. 
 
 Albert D. Handy, born Nov. 5, 1902. 
 
 Noble Handy, born May 4, 1904. 
 
Descendants of John Kinder 
 
 Born June 18, (803— Died July J 7, 1883. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Elizabeth Kinder, born Oct. 29, 
 1828. Married Rev. Edward 
 Davis, March 24, 1846. Died, 
 July 2, 1874. 
 
 >C 
 
 Annie Castelia Davis, born October 14th, 1848. 
 Married James Davis. Died August 3, 1869. 
 
 Leland Ambrose Davis, born July 8, 1851. 
 Married Ella Boston, Nov. 5, 1884. 
 
 Mary Arribelle Davis, born Nov. 20,1853. Mar- 
 ried Abner Bailey Nov. 18, 1894. 
 
 John Emory Davis, born April 9, 1856. Married 
 Helena Ward, Feb. 1882. Helena died, 
 June 1, 1882. 
 
 Ella Chaplain Davis, born Feb. 6, 1865. Mar- 
 ried Elijah Thompson Bowen.Jan. 11, 1883. 
 
 Mary W. Kinder, born April 10, 
 1830. Died, Oct. 2, 1832. 
 
 
 Tilghman D. Kinder, born Dec. 
 
 22, 1831. Married Martha J. 
 
 Cannon, Jan. 19, 1854. Died, 
 Nov. 22, 1901. 
 
 Edgar L- Kinder, born May 1, 1855. Mar- 
 ried Mary E. Cutler, November 28, 1878. 
 
 Lelia F. Kinder, born July 25, 1858. Married 
 David J. Lewis, Oct. 25, 1882. 
 
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 Emily Josephine Simick, April 24, 1901. 
 
 Mary W. Kinder, born April 13, 
 1833. Married Thomas W. 
 Layton, May IT, 1852, Died, 
 May 12, 1899. 
 
 Ida Kitturah Lay ton, born Oct. 21, 1855. Mar- 
 ried Elias E. Ward Feb. 18,1884. 
 
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 ividry j.xiuiiia.o ±ya,yiuii lhjiu j ixiy xjl, 1000. ivj.d.r- 
 
 ried George Frederic Callaway Oct. 19, 
 1880. 
 
 Minnie Castelin Layton, born Nov. 6, 1861. 
 Died April 10, 1888. 
 
 Frederick Kinder Layton, born Apr. 26, 1867, 
 Died July 27, 1869. 
 
 Oscar Lin wood Layton, born Sept. 10, 1868. 
 Married, Mary Caroline Turpin Nov. 28, 
 1899. 
 
 Madeline White Layton, born Dec. 17, 1872. 
 Died, July 7, 1873. 
 
 Isaac A. Kinder, born Nov. 2, 1836. \ Katherine Castelia Kinder, born, Nov. 8, 1863. 
 Married, Sarah Lucetta Can- Died March 8, 1865. 
 
 non January 14, 1863. 
 
 Franklin Jefferson Kinder, born March 6,1865. 
 Married, Luella Watson March 31, 1892. 
 
 Emma Rosalie Kinder, born Apr. 28, 1868. Mar- 
 ried Edw. J. Winder Nov. 6, 1889. 
 
 Harry Edmondson Kinder, born Nov. 8, 1872. 
 Married, Anna Elliott Oct. 25, 1905. 
 
 Samuel W. Kinder, born Oct. 20, 1 
 1838. Married, Mary P. Rich- 
 ards March 20, 1890. 
 
 Mary Castelia Kinder, born May 8, 1891. 
 
Married, Castelia Davis, January 3, J 828; died, Sept. 17, 1857. 
 Married, Catherine Davis, June 3, 1858; died, Sept. 2J, i860. 
 
 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Ella Chaplain Davis, bora March 5, 1886. 
 
 Edward F, Bowen, born February 24, 1895. 
 
 Bessie Castelia Kinder, born September 4, 1879. 
 Katherine Cutler Kinder, born November 23, 1882. 
 Hurburt Bruce Kinder, born March 27, 1885. 
 Mabell Kinder, born February 28, 1887. 
 William Edgar Kinder, born March 31, 1893. 
 Mary Lectora Kinder , born September 6, 1900. 
 
 Walter H. Lewis, born Nov. 16, 1883, 
 
 Ethel Lewis, born October 6, 1886. 
 
 George C. Kinder, born February 14, 1902. 
 
 Edna Layton Ward, born September 15, 1886. 
 Nellie Ward, born January 30, 1890. 
 Minnie Ward, born April 10 1892. 
 Lois Ward, born May 5, 1894. 
 
 Marion Vaughan Callaway, born April 20, 1882. 
 Mary Layton Callaway, born August 29, 1888. 
 Howard Frederic Callaway, born October 10, 1890. 
 Laura Adele Callaway, born December 6, 1894. 
 
 Myra Demott Layton, born September 15, 1900. 
 Minnie Frances Layton, born February 3, 1903. 
 Madeline Love Layton, born June 28, 1905. 
 
 Evelyn Cannon Kinder, born September 9, 1893. 
 
 Katherine Elizabeth Kinder, born February 28, 1900. 
 
 Franklin Watson Kinder, born January 10, 1902. Died, March 7, 1906. 
 
 Crawford Cannon Winder, born April 4, 1891. Died, August 22, 1892. 
 Lucetta Frances Winder, born January 22, 1898. Died, July 3, 1898. 
 
Descendants of Jacob Kinder 
 
 Born Dec* \6 f \ 808— Died Aug, 18, \ 885, 
 
 ' CHILDREN OF MARY C. KINDER 
 
 GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Charlotte Clay Kinder, born May 20, 
 1834. Married Samuel H. Melson, 
 Dec. 22, 1858. 
 
 James P. Melson, born Nov. 14, 1859; 
 died Jan. 6, 1860. 
 
 Mary B. Melson, born June 22, 1861 ; 
 died April 1, 1876. 
 
 Daniel F. Melson, born June 14, 1863 ; 
 died Nov. 14, 1863. 
 
 John F. Melson, born May 23, 1864. 
 Married Willie S. Butler, Dec. 1, 
 1886. 
 
 Maria B. Melson, born Jan. 9, 1872; died 
 Aug. 13, 1872. 
 
 Lewis W. Kinder, born Dec. 27, 1836. 
 Married Catharine Ross, Jan. 15, 
 1862. 
 
 Wm. J. Kinder, born Oct., 1862; died 
 Feb. 16, 1863. 
 
 Charlie H. Kinder, born Feb. 7, 1864. 
 Married Alice Handy, Jan. 6, 1891. 
 
 Sallie M. Kinder, born Feb. 23, 1869. 
 Married Oliver W. Handy, June 3, 
 1905. 
 
 Samuel L. Kinder, born Aug. 18, 1870. 
 Married Sallie Bdgell, Jan. 6, 1898. 
 
 Mary C. Kinder, born Nov. 3, 1873. 
 Married Luther W. Handy, Jan. 4, 
 1899. 
 
 John H. Kinder, born Jan. 25, 1839. 
 Married Maria M. Melson, Dec. 19, 
 1860. 
 
 Castelia L. Kinder, born Dec. 21, 1861 ; 
 died Jan. 2, 1864. 
 
 Laura C. Kinder, born Sept. 4, 1863 ; 
 died April 5, 1870. 
 
 Mary B. Kinder, born Dec. 26, 1866. 
 Married W. Harry Brown, Dec. 24, 
 1890. 
 
 John J. Kinder, born March 23, 1871. 
 Married Bva W. Brown, July, 1891. 
 
 Lizzie R. Kinder, born Jan. 7, 1841. 
 Married James M. Hollis, Jan. 15, 
 1873. 
 
 Chas. M. Hollis, born Nov. 27, 1874. 
 Married Mary A. Kinney, Dec. 14, 
 1904. 
 
 Stephen W. Kinder, born June 4, 1843 ; 
 died Nov. 16, 1904. 
 
 
 Wesley S. Kinder, born Jan. 25, 1846. | 
 
 David B. Kinder, born June 8, 1848. 
 
 
 Daniel O. Kinder, born Jan. 20, 1852 ; 
 died Aug. 11, 1853. 
 
 
Married Mary Cannon, December 20, 1832* 
 
 GREAT-GRAXDCHILDREN 
 
 Charlie H. Melson, born Nov. 18, 1888. 
 Roland F, Melson, born Jan. 25, 1895. 
 S. Elmer Melson, born June 27, 1896. 
 Edith W. Melson, born May 16, 1898. 
 
 Lewis H. Kinder, born July 20. 1895. 
 Mary Catharine Kinder, born Dec. 2, 1905. 
 
 Harold E. Kinder, born Sept. 4, 1898. 
 
 Katie R. Kinder, born Apr. 4, 1901. 
 
 Leon P. Kinder, born Apr. 4, 1901 : died June 4, 1901. 
 
 Lizzie H. Kinder, born May 6, 1905. 
 
 Myra K. Handy, born Jan. 22, 1900. 
 
 Grace Brown, born Oct. 19, 1891. 
 
 Karl Kinder Brown, born Sept. 20. 1896. 
 
 Harlan W. Kinder, born May 27, 1892. 
 Granville B. Kinder, born Apr. 1, 1900. 
 Gladys Kinder, born Aug. 18, 1902. 
 
 Merle Madison Hollis, born Oct. 11, 1905 ; died in infancy. 
 
Descendants of Sina Kinder 
 
 Bom March 14, \ 8t J— Died May 26, J895- 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 GRAND CHILDREN 
 
 Isaac Kinder Wright, born Sept, 27,1829. 
 Married 1st, Nancy R. Liden, Jan. 
 10, 1854; 2nd, Mary A. C. Noble, 
 October 26, 1897. First wife died 
 October 21, 1896. He died October 
 21, 1905. 
 
 Jiuwara i^ewis wrignt, Dorn uct. o, ioo4. 
 Married Dec. 21, 1875, Anna Lamorah 
 Ross. Born Oct. 29, 1852. 
 
 xvnos .Beii wrignx, oorn oept. /, looo. 
 Married, Ella Melson Jan. 10, 1878. 
 
 Mary Selena Wright, born Feb. 16, 1859. 
 Died August o, looy. 
 
 Sallie Richards Wright, born Sept. 19, 
 looi. Married, Jan. y, io/7, .Benja- 
 min F. Melson. Born Mar. 26, 1847. 
 
 una v. wngnt, oorn .reD. lo, looo. 
 Married, Fernandes Davis Jan. 25, 
 1887. Died June 28, 1896. 
 
 Jacob Warren Wright, born Oct. 19, 1832. 
 DiedUec. 19, 1832. 
 
 
 Rhoda Ann Wright, born July 10, 1836. 
 Married, Dec. 12, 1855, to Philip 
 Henry Rawlins. Born Sept. 18,1834. 
 
 Salina Gabrella Rawlins, born Feb. 13, 
 1857. Died, Feb. 19, 1857. 
 
 Thomas Newton Rawlins, born Oct. 6, 1858. 
 Mar'd,S.AlbertaWright,Apr.l4,1896. 
 
 Windsor Rawlins, born Sept. 12, 1860. 
 Died same day. 
 
 Wilbur Fisk Rawlins, born March 29, 
 1863. Married Flora Jane Buell, 
 Oct. 1, 1891. 
 
 Henry Isaac Rawlins, born Oct. 4, 1874. 
 Died Dec. 25, 1877. 
 
 Elizabeth Warren Wright, born Aug. 13, 
 1839. Married, John Emory Rich- 
 ards Oct. 28, 1857. John E. Rich- 
 ards died Nov. 25, 1897. 
 
 John Richards, born Jan. 2, 1859. Mar- 
 ried, Nellie Lucretia Williams Feb. 7, 
 1888. She was born Feb. 7, 1869. 
 
 Mary Hughlett Riehards, born July 30, 
 1860. Married, Robert F. Leden- 
 Vmm Tan 28 1885 Rnrn Deo 15 
 
 XXcxLLl, J till. /wO, lOO'J. XJKJLll Xs\ZS**, Xv, 
 
 1852. 
 
 Sina Ann Richards, Jan. 24, 1863. Died 
 Nov. 14, 1865. 
 
 Sallie Russell Richards, born Dec. 21, 
 1864. Married, John Henry Willey, 
 Jan. 18, 1888. Born Jan. 11, 1859. 
 
 Elizabeth Causey Richards, born Oct. 
 30, 1871. Married, Jay Clarence 
 Lockerman, Dec. 25, 1902. Loeker- 
 man was born Sept. 19, 1875. 
 
 Lewis Wright Richards, born Apr. 9, 
 1874. Married, Mary Hargadine 
 Dill, Apr. 24, 1902. She died Jan. 
 20, 1905. 
 
 Mary Selena Wright, born Aug. 19, 1849. 
 Died July 6, 1850. 
 
 
Married October 23rd, 1828 to Lewis N* Wright who died 
 December 25th, \ 883, aged 79 years, 4 months and 7 days. 
 
 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Harry Kinder Wright, born July 17, 1879. 
 Glenna Ross Wright, born May 13, 1885. 
 
 Helen Fooks W T right, born January 18, 1880. Earnest Jefferson Wright, born Decem- 
 ber 15, 1882. Lewis Newton Wright, born July 15, 1889. 
 
 Walter Wright Melson, born 1877. Married Clara R. Strayham June 10, 1903. 
 Clarence Henry Melson, born 1880. Married Mary C. Simpson, Nov. 22, 1905. 
 Lewis Benjamin Melson, born 1882. Died November 22, 1882. 
 
 Sarah Wright Rawlins, born August 21, 1897. 
 Philip Joseph Thomas Rawlins, born March 29, 1902. 
 
 Rhoda Ellen Rawlins, born July 8, 1892. 
 Lois Rawlins, born August 26, 1893. 
 Flora Rawlins, born July 17, 1897. 
 
 John Williams Richards, born October 16th, 1889. 
 
 Anna Richards Ledenham, born February 23, 1886 
 Hubert Stanley Ledenham, born July 14, 1887. 
 Mary Elizabeth Ledenham, born October 12, 1896. 
 Emily Ruth Ledenham, born November 15, 1899. 
 
 Ralph Emory Willey, born December 21, 1888. Olive Elizabeth Willey, bora May 
 23, 1893. Rhoda Wright Willey, born February 22, 1896. Charles Henry Willey, 
 born November 10, 1900. 
 
 Mary Richards Lockerman, born November 25, 1903. 
 
 Anna Tamsey Lockerman, born April 27, 1905. Died July 15, 1905. 
 
 Mary Hargadine Dill Richards, born October 2, 1904. 
 
Descendants of Daniel B. Kinder 
 
 Born Oct. 3, 1816— Diedja)flf%3, 1898. ^ -^J^- 
 
 CHILDREN OF MARY E. DUKES KINDER 
 
 GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Sina W. Kinder, Born Oct. 17, 1846. 
 Married T. N. Wright, Jan. 3, 1867. 
 
 Ella Kinder Wright, born Sept. 28, 1867. 
 Married Samuel Calloway, April 8, 
 1891. 
 
 Frank L. Wright, born Sept. 18, 1869. 
 Married Ida Wheatley, Sept.22,1890. 
 
 Ada C. Wright, born Nov. 1, 1874. Mar- 
 ried Revel Bozman, Dec. 25, 1902, 
 
 Frederic N. Wright, bora July 12, 1877. 
 Married Laura Stroup, Aug. 20,1902. 
 
 CHILDREN OF M. EMII^Y KINDER^'" 
 
 
 Wm. Webster Kinder, born Jan. 11,1855. 
 Married Adelaide Waters, Dec. 31, 
 1878. 
 
 Warren L. Kinder, born Dec. 13, 1883. 
 
 Frederic W. W. Kinder, born Oct. 3, 
 1886; died Feb. 12, 1891. 
 
 Jesse Kinder, born June 28, 1856 ; died 
 Nov. 4, 1856. 
 
 
 Tattirsj T^inder born Oct. 5, 1857 ; died 
 Nov. 4, 1857. 
 
 
 Mary E. Kinder, born Dec. 19, 1858. 
 Married S. Maddox Noble, Feb. 4, 
 1879. 
 
 Linden C. Noble, born Nov. 1, 1879. 
 May Noble, bora Dec. 25, 1883; died 
 
 Apr. 10, 1900. 
 Elsie R. Noble, born Jan. 12, 1887. 
 winie v-. iNODie, Dora xnov. «7, 10017. 
 Robt. K. Noble, born Sept. 10, 1895. 
 Paul Noble, born Dec. 24, 1901. 
 
 J. Thomas Kinder, bora Aug. 30, 1861. 
 Married Anna Graham, Feb. 14, 
 1893. 
 
 
 Ida F. Kinder, born July 28, 1864. Mar- 
 ried Chas. S. Lewis, Dec. 7, 1898. 
 
 Helen May Lewis, born Jan. 17, 1900. 
 died Apr. 20, 1901. 
 
 Ella Kinder, born Oct. 3, 1867; died Oct. 
 24, 1867. 
 
Married (1st) Mary E, Dukes, February 18th, 1845; 
 (2nd) Mary Emily Davis, January 26th, 1854. 
 
 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Daniel Henry Calloway, born March 3, 1892. 
 Wm. Treat Calloway, bora Sept. 12, 1895. 
 Amos Noble Calloway, bora Jan. 11, 1898. 
 Esther A. Calloway, bora March 12, 1902. 
 
 Clara A. Wright, born June 18, 1892; died April 27, 1899. 
 Sina Emily Wright, bora Mar. 11, 1894. 
 
 Raymond Bozman, born Oct. 23, 1903 ; died Aug. 3, 1905. 
 
Descendants of Joshua Noble 
 
 Married 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Chas. Noble, mar- 
 ried MahjdaDa- 
 
 ^jdsjn 182rj~cTTed 
 1857. 
 
 GRAND-CHILDREN 
 
 Mary Noble, mar- 
 ried Alfred Davis 
 in 1842, ~ — 
 
 Jonathan T. Noble, 
 married 
 
 Eliza Ward in 
 1852. 
 
 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Emily Davis, married Henry Cannon. 
 Augusta Davis, married Robert Booth; 
 died 1903. 
 
 Mary Adeline Davis, married J. James ; 
 died 1875. 
 
 Chas. Davis, married Martha Watkins. 
 
 Isaac H. Davis, died 1854. 
 
 Sallie Davis, married Wm. Carpenter. 
 
 Annie Davis, died 1883. 
 
 James Davis. 
 
 Laura Davis, married Oliver O'bier. 
 
 Mary Noble, married Isaac S. Warren in 
 1873. 
 
 Sarah Noble, married Geo. Williams in 
 1872. 
 
 Wm, D. Noble, M.D. 
 married Elizabeth 
 Vickers 1851. 
 
 Wm. D. Noble, M.D. 
 married 
 
 Mary Houston in 
 1859; died 1880. 
 
 Sarah Ann Noble, 
 married Arthur 
 Neal in 1846. 
 
 Sarah Ann Noble, 
 married Samuel 
 Ward; died 1869. 
 
 Joseph W. Noble, died 1871. 
 Chas. Noble, married Nettie Borden in 
 1896 ; died 1905. 
 
 Wm. L. W. Noble, died 1853. 
 
 Corinne Noble, married Lyman Johnson 
 1879 ; died 1890. 
 
 Wm. H. Noble, M. D. 
 
 Robert H. Noble, U. S. A. 
 
 Chas. P. Noble, M. D., married Mira 
 
 Rose, 1885. 
 Mary D. Noble, died May 4, 1867. 
 Herbert Noble, married Elsie Patteson, 
 
 1895. 
 
 James Neal, died 1872. 
 Jonathan Neal, died 1874. 
 Chas. Neal, died 1861. 
 
 Mary Ward, married Chas. Smith ; died 
 1903. 
 
 Wm. Ward m. Bertha VanBurkalow,1884. 
 
and Sallie Twiford 
 
 J 797. 
 
 GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 
 
 Lenajaines. Fred James. Rosa James. 
 
 Sadie Davis. Annie Davis. Winnie Davis. 
 Norman Davis. Alfred Davis. 
 
 
 Gertie O'bier. LethaO'bier. LynnO'bier. 
 
 J. Noble Warren, married K. Herbert in 
 
 1899 ; died 1902. 
 Sadie E. Warren, died 1897. 
 Mary P. Warren. 
 
 Madge Warren, married Dr. W. F. 
 Haines in 1901. 
 
 Wm. J. Warren. Gretchen R. Warren. 
 Chas. L. Warren. Corinne Warren. 
 
 Harlan F. Haines. 
 
 
 Iyida Williams, married Wm. Murphy 
 1896. 
 
 j» J- • vv liiidixia, m. lYXdiiie ivi orris iyuu. 
 Walton Williams, died 1898. 
 Bessie Williams. 
 
 Grace Williams, m. R. L. Vickers 1904. 
 J. Oscar Williams. 
 
 Harry T. Murphy. 
 Mary E. Murphy. 
 
 
 R. L. Vickers. 
 
 
 
 Mary A. Noble. 
 Oliver W. Noble. 
 
 
 Lyman Johnson . Lloyd J ohnson . 
 Corinne Johnson. 
 
 
 Chas. P. Noble, Jr. Dorothy Noble. 
 Robert Noble. Eunice Noble, died 1899. 
 
 
 Herbert Noble. 
 Iyiston Noble. 
 
 
 Blanche Smith. Floyd Smith, died 1905. 
 Mary Smith. Chas. Smith, died 1894. 
 Sadie Smith. 
 
 Ethel Ward. 
 
Descendants of Joshua Noble and 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Elizabeth Noble married A. R. Adams. 
 Died 1875. 
 
 Emily Adams married Noah Iyednum, 
 1851. 
 
 
 Hester Adams, died. 
 
 
 Margaret Adams, died. 
 
 
 Tc li^ri A nitric tn *a f 1*1 fi/i TotnAO XTci» , t"io "I W7ll 
 XVULil rxLldJUb IXXal IlCU J dill Co Harris, lO/U* 
 
 Solomon T. Noble married Harriet 
 Williams. Died 1868. 
 
 Joseph W. Noble married Kate Jacobs, 
 18bU. Died 1885. 
 
 
 Lottie Noble married Mr. Ramey. 
 
 
 Martha Noble died 1906. 
 
 
 Rhoda E. Noble married J. M. A. Davis, 
 1868. 
 
 
 Harriet W. Noble married William H. 
 AlDurger, Jo7u. 
 
 
 Clementine Noble married Zebulon 
 Fountain, 1873. 
 
 
 S. Maddux Noble married Mary E. Kin- 
 der, 1879. 
 
Sallie Twiford* (Continued*) 
 
 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Francis L/ednuni married. Mary H. Rich- 
 ards, 1884. 
 
 Annie R. I^ednuni. 
 Herbert S. Lednum. 
 Mary E. Lednum. 
 Emily R. Iyednum. 
 
 
 
 Myrtle Harris married William Fell, 
 1902. 
 
 Mary Harris married Frank Robertson, 
 
 1904. 
 Walter Harris. 
 Geneva Harris. 
 Frank Harris, died 1901. 
 
 Ruth Hannah Fell. 
 Hiram S. Fell. 
 
 
 Warner Noble married Fannie Swain. 
 Dora Noble. 
 
 Rink Noble married Miss L,audy, 1900. 
 Minnie Noble mar. Fred.W Booker, 1902. 
 Karl Noble m. Elizabeth Elliott, 1904. 
 
 Howard Noble. Joseph Noble. 
 
 
 
 Helen J. Davis married Frank Reed. 
 Nettie K. Davis married I. E. Milbourn. 
 Katharine Bliss Davis. 
 
 Charles Reed. 
 
 Dorothy Milbourn. 
 
 
 Hettie Alburger married Charles Jeffer- 
 son, 1893. 
 
 Willie Alburger married George Jeffer- 
 son, 1899. 
 Eunice Alburger. 
 
 M. Marguerite Jefferson. 
 Wm. Herbert Jefferson. 
 Charles Roland Jefferson. 1 
 Dorothy Anna Jefferson. 
 
 Rowena May Jefferson. 
 
 
 Harvey Fountain married Nora A. No- 
 ble, 1896. Died 1896. 
 
 Edgar Fountain married Annie Foun- 
 tain, 1900. 
 
 Walter Fountain married Emma Cohee, 
 1900. 
 
 Hattie Fountain married Fred Peters, 1903 
 Frank Fountain married Stella Noble, 
 
 1904. 
 Tina Fountain. 
 Zeb Fountain. 
 
 Linden C. Noble married Margaret Jen- 
 nings, Nov. 1905. 
 May Noble, died 1900. 
 Elsie R. Noble. 
 William C. Noble. 
 Robert Noble. 
 Paul Noble. 
 
Descendants of Joshua Noble and 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 GRAND CHILDREN 
 
 Solomon T. Noble, continued. 
 
 Mahala Noble married Wm, Alfred No- 
 
 V»1f> 1871 
 
 
 Mary K. Noble married Iy. K. Warren, 
 1878. 
 
 
 Robert N. Noble married N. Amelia 
 Kldridge, 1884. 
 
 Hester Noble married Charles Smith. 
 
 Sarah E. Smith married James Rolf. 
 
 James Noble married Mary Howard. 
 Died 1866. 
 
 Frank Noble married Annie Edwards. 
 RadyJ. Noble married Rear Admiral W. 
 A. Windsor, U. S. N. 
 
 Ella Noble married Alva Hubbard. Died 
 1900. 
 
 Mary Belle Noble married W. F. Pi- 
 quette, 1897. 
 
 Alexander Noble married Louisa Wright. 
 
 Daniel F. Noble married Mary Adelaide 
 Kinder, 1865. Died 1890. 
 
 
 James A. Noble married Bessie A. Farqu- 
 harson. Died 1903. 
 
 
 Mary C. Noble Married Robert D. Brad- 
 ley, 1866. 
 
 
 Dr. Harriet Noble married John Purte, 
 1875. 
 
Sallie Twiford* (Continued*) 
 
 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Blanche Noble married John W. Stowell, 
 
 Dec. 22, 1898. 
 Herman Noble married Nellie Herr, June 
 
 22, 1904. 
 Robert Noble. 
 
 Grace Noble married Lee Chipley, June 
 
 11, 1905. 
 Clarence Noble. 
 Houston Noble. 
 
 
 Earl Warren married Lelia Jones, 1902. 
 Corinne Warren, died. 
 
 v ligii wdrrcii, u.icu.. 
 
 Ruskin B. Warren. 
 Gretha Warren. 
 Robert N. Warren. 
 M. Elizabeth Warren. 
 Kathleen C. Warren, died. 
 J. Mosena Warren. 
 
 Helen Warren, died 1904. 
 Philip Kirkwood Warren. 
 
 
 Harriet M. Noble, died 1891. 
 M. Eldredge Noble, died 1893. 
 Robert Lute Noble. 
 
 William Rolf, married. 
 Noble Rolf, married. 
 
 
 
 
 Rady Hubbard married W.A. Jones ,1901. 
 Myrtle Hubbard. 
 
 
 Lillian Noble married A. S. Handy, 1889. 
 Carrie S. Noble, died 1881. 
 
 A 1 « — XT TT„*. J _ J 1 OHO TT ^l,,*, TT„ J3 _ 
 
 Alvan N. Handy, d. lovz. Helen Handy. 
 
 D a1 n tl T-Tn^lrlvr TV/To Y~*7 ^Trf"kr"il£* T-T 1 tl ( TTT 
 
 xCOianu. xianay. iviary imolhc xidiiuy. 
 Albert Handy. George Noble Handy. 
 
 
 James Noble. 
 
 Helen Noble, died 1905. 
 
 
 Carrie Bradley. 
 
 Mary Bradley married G. T. Chambers, 
 1897. 
 
 Roberta Bradley married W. L. Wheat- 
 ley, 1900. 
 
 Luanna Bradley married L. G. Christo- 
 pher, 1904. 
 
 Charles S. Bradley married Elizabeth 
 Gromis, 1897. 
 
 
 Albert B. Chambers, died 1902. 
 Louise Chambers. 
 
 Elberta Wheatley, died 1905. 
 
 Lewis Christopher. 
 
 
 Myra Purte married Arthur Prey, 1900. 
 Aldred Purte, died 1895. 
 
Descendants of Joshua Noble and 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Amelia Noble married Win. N. Collins. 
 
 GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Rev. Wm. Collins. 
 
 Joshua Collins, died 1883. 
 
 Henry Collins married Miss Busby. 
 
 Sallie Collins married Robert Bratton. 
 
 Georgiana Collins married Mr. Studley. 
 
 Emily Collins married Henry Shock. 
 
 Hester Collins. Laura Collins. 
 
 Rhoda Collins married Charles Collins 
 
 of Bush rod. 
 Edward Collins. 
 
 Wm. Noble 2d married Rhoda A. Kinder, 
 1851, Wm. Noble died 1890. Rhoda 
 A. Noble died 1901. 
 
 Sallie Noble married Jas. 
 1876. 
 
 M. Andrews, 
 
 Twiford S. Noble married Ruth Hannah 
 I,everton, 1848. 
 
 Jaeob It- Noble, M. D., married Manie 
 Travers, 1877. 
 
 Rufus F. Noble married Kate B. Sewell, 
 1878. 
 
 Twiford S Noble married Caroline 
 Davis, 1854. 
 
 Twiford S. Noble married L,evisa Martin 
 Rumbold. Died 1882. 
 
 Alex'r Noble married Martha Todd, 1882. 
 
 Addie Noble married Robert Jarrell, 1877. 
 
 Jane Noble married Wm. H. Wright. 
 
 T. N. Wright married Sina Kinder, 1867. 
 
 Sally Wright married Tilghman Davis. 
 Died 1901. 
 
 Louisa Wright married Daniel Moore. 
 
 Jane Noble m. J.T.Fleetwood. Died 1879. 
 
 Maggie Wright married Eli Gullett. 
 
 Ida Fleetwood married Will Adams 
 
Sallie TwiforcL (Continued*) 
 
 GREAT -GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHIXDREN 
 
 Wm. N. Andrews married Bessie Wal- 
 worth 1 904 
 
 >\UI LI. J. ) 1 t/VTXa 
 
 Carrie Andrews married F. M. Casson, 
 1903. 
 
 Mary Andrews married J. H. Loux, 1904. 
 Stephen K. Andrews. Helen Andrews. 
 James Andrews. 
 
 
 Duncan Noble. 
 
 Levi D. L. Noble married Jennie Lake, 
 
 1901. 
 Ruth H. Noble. 
 
 Mary Noble married J. A. Reidy, M. D., 
 1905. 
 
 Clara Noble married John Payne, 1902. 
 Inez Noble Maud Noble. Wm. Noble. 
 Jane Noble. John Noble. 
 
 
 Virginia Lee Noble. 
 
 
 Rachel Payne. 
 
 T. Sewell Noble. 
 
 Fannie L. Noble married Norman Led- 
 
 num, 1906. 
 K. Marie Noble. 
 
 
 Fannie Jarrell married J. R. Downes, M. 
 D., 1904. 
 
 Mary Jarrell married H. W. B. Rowe, M. 
 
 D., 19Q4. 
 Addie Jarrell. Robert Jarrell. 
 Noble Jarrell. 
 
 Robert Noble Downes. 
 
 
 Ella Wnght married Samuel Calloway. 
 1891. 
 
 Frank Wright married Ida Wheatley, 
 1890. 
 
 Ada Wright married R. Bozman, 1902. 
 Died 1905. 
 
 Fred Wright married Laura Stroup,1902. 
 
 Will Davis married, 1902. 
 
 Orra Davis, died 1885. 
 
 Carrie Davis married Henry Wright. 
 
 Daniel K.Calloway. Wm. Treat Calloway. 
 Amos N. Calloway. Ksther A. Calloway. 
 
 Clara A Wright, died 1899. 
 Sina E. Wright. 
 
 Ramond Bozman, died 1905. 
 
 
 Florence Wright, died 1891. 
 Harlan Wright. Miriam Wright. 
 
 Mary Moore married M. Merriken, 1900. 
 Harvey Moore. 
 
 Richard Merriken. Elizabeth Merriken. 
 
 
 Clinton Gullett. 
 
 Theodore Adams. 
 
Descendants of Mark Noble 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 GRAND CHILDREN 
 
 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Daniel Noble mar- 
 ried Nancy Lev- 
 erton. 
 
 Willi* Noble married 
 Lizzie Phillips. 
 
 
 Isaac Noble married 
 M. B. Corchran, 
 died 1901. 
 
 Bertie Noble married Dr. Wm. Kelly, 
 
 1889. 
 Wilbnr Noble. 
 
 Chas. Fulton Noble married Cora Willis, 
 1900. 
 
 Fred Noble. Edith Noble. 
 
 Amelia Noble mar- 
 ried Robt. Bland. 
 
 Emma Bland. Klla Bland. 
 Chas. Bland. Geo. Bland. 
 
 Garey L,. Noble, died 
 1863, member 8th 
 Md.Reg.U. S. Ser- 
 vice, Civil War. 
 
 
 Daniel James Noble 
 married Caroline 
 Nichols. 
 
 ! 
 
 Julia Noble married W. S. Holt. 
 
 Geo. K. Noble married Alverda Handy, 
 1887. 
 
 Geo. K.Noble married Grace Handy, 1899. 
 
 Garey L,. Noble married Miss Head. 
 
 Albert Noble, died. 
 
 Mary Noble married George Morgan. 
 
 Annie Noble married Isaac Cannon. 
 
 Lewis Noble married Emma Dunkle- 
 burgher. 
 
 Nora Noble married Harvey Fountain. 
 
 Nora Noble Fountain married Norman 
 Van Scoy. 
 
 Alexander Noble. 
 
 Amantha Noble married Albert Cahall. 
 
 Daniel James Noble 
 married Martha 
 Carroll. 
 
 Raymond Noble. 
 
and Esther Adams 
 
 GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Carrie Holt married Thomas Hobbs. 
 Katie Holt. Minnie Holt. 
 Mary Holt. 
 Ivouise Holt. 
 
 Fred Noble. 
 
 
 Bertha Noble 
 
 
 Alice Noble. 
 
 
 Sina Noble. 
 
 
 Clara B. Noble. 
 
 
 Hubert Otis Noble. 
 
 
 Annie Noble 
 
 
 Hubert Noble. 
 
 
 Benjamin D. Noble. 
 
 
 Elmer Noble. 
 
 
 Noble Morgan. 
 Teresa Morgan. 
 Wesley Morgan. 
 Romain Morgan, 
 Mary Morgan. 
 
 Harold Cannon. 
 Edwin Cannon. 
 Albert Cannon. 
 
 Chester Noble, died. 
 
 Pearl Fountain. 
 
 Ruth Vanscoy. 
 Wilber Vanscoy. 
 
 J. Willard Hobbs. 
 
 Thomas Cahall. 
 
Descendants of Mark Noble and 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 Nathan Noble mar- 
 ried Mary Hub- 
 bard. 
 
 Henry Noble mar- 
 ried Jane Lewis. 
 Died. 
 
 
 Elisha Noble mar- 
 r i e d Klizabeth 
 Bennet. 
 
 James Noble. 
 
 Joseph Noble. 
 
 Elezabeth Noble 
 married Greenbu- 
 ry Nichols. Died 
 1906. 
 
 . . . 
 
 Joshua Nichols married Miss Dukes. 
 
 Walter Nichols. 
 
 Herbert Nichols married Miss Pool, 1904. 
 J. Allen Nichols married Miss Trice. 
 
 
 j Orra Nichols married Miss Wrightson. 
 Nettie Nichols married Mr. Venable 
 
 Joshua Noble mar- 
 ried Ann Mow- 
 bray 1831. Died 
 1870. 
 
 Joseph M. Noble 
 married Katherine 
 wrignt, loo4. 
 
 Joshua Noble, died 1855. 
 
 J. Walter Noble married K, Smith, 1879. 
 
 Twiford Noble married Miss Mowbray. 
 Thomas Noble married Miss Perry. 
 Kate Noble married J. W. Lipscomb. 
 Hettie Noble married T. C. Pindell. 
 
 Mark E. Noble mar- 
 ried Emily Collins. 
 
 Annie Noble married Mr. High. 
 Married Mr. Henning, 1904. Died 1904. 
 
 Wm. Alfred Noble 
 married M a h a 1 a 
 Noble. (See Solo- 
 mon Noble.) 
 
 
 John Henry Noble 
 married Edna 
 Flowers. 
 
 J. H. Noble married 
 Lavenia Corchran. 
 
 Addie Noble married L. Hignutt. 
 
 Chas. Noble married Laura Nichols. 
 
 Laura Noble married John Smith. 
 
 Albert Noble married Miss Marine. 
 
 John Noble married Miss Andrews. 
 Raymond Noble. 
 
Esther Adams* (Continued.) 
 
 GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 
 
 Blanche Nichols. 
 
 
 
 
 Olivia Noble. 
 Iola Noble. 
 Wilmer Noble. 
 
 Glen Noble. 
 
 Eunice Noble. 
 
 
 Atnei xiign marnea wm. xiuriocK lyyo. 
 
 Clarence Hignutt. 
 Harland Hignutt. 
 
 Alice Noble. 
 Gertrude Noble. 
 
 Wm. Smith. 
 Charles Smith. 
 
Descendants of Mark Noble and 
 
 Amelia Noble mar- 
 ried Cannon 
 Charles. 
 
 Isaac Charles, died. 
 
 Jacob Charles, died 
 
 Celia Charles mar- 
 ried Chas. Wright. 
 
 Aaron Wright married Amanda Corbin. 
 
 KHsha Wright married Sallie Voshell. 
 
 Henry Wright married Laura Williams. 
 
 Rebecca Wright, died. 
 
 James B. Wright married Annie Taylor. 
 
 Mary Wright married John Fleetwood. 
 
 Mary Charles mar- 
 ried Peter Wright. 
 Died 1859. 
 
 Jacob Wright, died. 
 
 Sarah Ellen Wright married George Ir- 
 win. Died 1905. 
 
 Mary C. Wright married David Hughes, 
 
Esther Adams* (Continued.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fannie Wright married Isaac Willin. 
 
 Gertrude Willin. Florence Corbin Wil- 
 lin. Marydell Willin. 
 
 Gertrude Wright married Dr. R.Andrews. 
 
 Florence Belle Andrews, died 1§98. 
 Walter Melvin Andrews. 
 Raymond Corbin Andrews. 
 
 Jennie Wright married Hiram Vaughn. 
 Died 1905. 
 
 Willie Vaughn. 
 Bessie Vaughn. 
 
 Mary V. Wright. 
 
 Annie Wright married William Norris. 
 Charles Wright, died 1895. 
 
 
 Laura Louise Norris. 
 
 
 
 Charles Wright. 
 
 Rufus Fleetwood. 
 Fred Fleetwood. 
 Wm. Fleetwood. 
 
 Mary Lillian Fleetwood, died 1895. 
 
 Susan Irwin, married Harry Porter. 
 
 Frank Porter. 
 William Porter. 
 
 Ellen Hughes. 
 George Hughes.