Joel THORNBURGH

   Another name for Joel was Joel THORNBURG.

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• Biography. Joel Thornbrough was dismissed 8/5/1782 at Hopewell Monthly Meeting for disunity. His marriage appears to be listed in Jefferson County civil marriages as licensed on 7/5/1802 to Dinah Perdy. This was actually Dinah Pendry, a Quaker girl who was granted a certificate to Lost Creek Monthly Meeting from Springfield Monthly Meeting (North Carolina) on 11/2/1799. Dinah remained tenaciously a Quaker and on 4/23/1803 condemned her marriage contrary to discipline at Lost Creek MM. On 6/30/1804 she was granted a certificate to Miami Monthly Meeting in Ohio which was received there 6/13/1805. Center Monthly Meeting was set up 2/7/1807 in Clinton County, Ohio. Here Dinah was finally successful in returning Joel to the Quaker fold (there is some information he may have been a Baptist preacher). On 12/20/1817 Joel and children Jane, Thomas, Judith, Jemimah, Nancy, Betsy and Joel were received by request at Center MM. Dinah's certificate from Miami Monthly Meeting was presented at Center on 2/21/1818. Joel and Dinah then had addition children recorded as Quakers at Center: Eli P. (8/19/1819); James A. (10/9/1822); William (11/19/1824) and Josiah (7/28/1828). Dinah, wife of Joel, died 5/17/1850, age 68 yr 4 mo and is buried at New Hope. Joel died 5/3/1861, age 84 yr 1 mo 21 dy and is buried at New Hope. If this record is transcribed correctly [Center Meeting, Hinshaw] it would make Joel born 3rd month 1777 and he would have then been son of Benjamin and Sarah Hutton. Marriages of their children are recorded at Center Monthly Meeting. Son Thomas is likely the Thomas Thornburg found in Greene County in 1850, next to Clinton County.

• Residence: Caesar Creek Township, 1804, Greene County, OH.

• Reference: History of Greene County, Ohio, 1918, Greene County, OH. p540
NEW HOPE QUAKER CHURCH
It was not long after the beginning of a social order in that part of Greene county now comprised within the bounds of Caesarscreek township that the Quakers who had put in their lot with the settlers of that community effected a formal organization for worship and began to hold Sabbath Day meetings in the homes of such of the Friends thereabout whose humble abodes would properly lend themselves to the purposes of small public assemblages Meetings continued thus to be held until about 1830 when the Society of Friends in that neighborhood erected a meeting house about a mile west of the present village of Paintersville where they were able to meet amid conditions less likely to create confusion Among the early ministers of the New Hope church were those ardent Quakers Jesse Faulkner Thomas Arnett and Joel Thornburg whose influence for good throughout that community was so firmly fixed on the social life of the settlement that it has been a continuing force to this day During the latter 703 and early 8os Eber Haines was the minister at the New Hope meeting house but after his day the congregation gradually decreased in membership until it was no longer able to support a minister It has not held regular services for some years

• Cemetery: New Hope, Paintersville : Greene County, OH. Thornburg Dinah - 1783 May 17, 1850 67
Thornburg James - 1823 Sep 10, 1844 21
Thornburg Joel - 1777 May 3, 1861 84
Thornburg Judith - 1807 Oct 5, 1837 30
Thornburg Rachel - 1836 Feb 24, 1875 39

Joel married Dinah PENDRY, daughter of James PENDRY and Jemima REDDICK, on 5 Jul 1802 in Jefferson County, TN. (Dinah PENDRY was born in 1783 and died on 17 May 1850 in Greene County, OH.)