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    Quaker Runes
    Quaker Runes
    Quaker Runes
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    Quaker Runes

    By Mary Jane Russell

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    In 1866, Judy Candler was nineteen and had lived in Ohio attending school since the death of her mother in 1857. Her mother’s family fled Virginia in 1840 due to the conflict between their Quaker beliefs and slavery. Her mother returned to Virginia to marry and bore five children before her death. It was time for Judy to return home to help her father and surviving siblings in the years after the Civil War. Classmates and family in Ohio filled a thin volume with keepsake verses written with the mindset of pacifists during war and in the cadence of well-educated Quaker Seminary students. These are their words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary Jane Russell
    Release dateSep 29, 2018
    ISBN9780463820797
    Quaker Runes
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    Mary Jane Russell

    Mary Jane Russell was born to William Withers Russell and Alma Keith Harvey Russell. She grew up on the Flat Creek farm in Campbell County, VA that had been in the Russell family for five previous generations.She was employed by the City of Lynchburg, VA for thirty-one years during which she accomplished a series of firsts—first female draftsman, staff engineer, project manager, and first female director of economic development.Since retirement, she’s written and had published four novels by Intaglio Publications, Walker, LA, self-published two print nonfiction books, and published nine novels with Smashwords.She lives at Smith Mountain Lake in Hardy, VA with her partner, surrounded by books, cats, dogs.

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      Quaker Runes - Mary Jane Russell

      Judith Douglas Candler circa 1866

      b. 14 Sep 1847, Harrison Co, OH (parents, William Buford Candler and Susanna Johnson; siblings, Achilles Johnson, Mildred, Jonathan, Mary E)

      m. 03 Jan 1882 (husband, William Harris Russell)

      Children: William Buford, Robert Achilles

      d. 01 May 1917, Campbell County, VA (Russell Family Cemetery)

      According to the 1860 Census, my great-grandmother, Judith Douglas Candler, lived in Short Creek, Harrison County, Ohio with her uncle and aunt, Micajah and Edna Johnson, attending school. School was District School #10 followed by the Mount Pleasant Friends Boarding School also known as Quaker Seminary.

      Digging deeper for the reason JDC was in Ohio rather than our family’s native Virginia, I found a notation in The Descendants of William and John Johnson, Colonial Friends of Virginia by Lorand V. Johnson, MD. It explained that Micajah Johnson moved from Virginia to Harrison County, Ohio in 1831 and was a teacher and surveyor and that his home was a station of the Underground Railway. In the margin, my great uncle, Robert A. Russell, noted "My mother (JDC) was there during the Civil

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