Macy, Prof. Jesse *1842-1919

MACY, TEMPLE, STANLEY, GAUSE, HIATT, HAROLD, RYAL, MEREDITH

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 4/23/2011 at 16:04:19

MACY. The Macys. Prof. Macy arrived Nov. 1, 1856. His father, a Quaker from near Indianapolis, went to Kansas expecting to migrate to that state but for various reasons came back and stopped at Lynnville and decided to settle there. With him were Jack Temple, Burling Stanley, and two others; Wm. and wife and two daughters, Asenith, after Mrs. L. Gause, and Esther who m. John Hiatt; Jesse and a school teacher named Isaac Harold. A brother of Henry Macy settled in Hardin county, and another, Nathan, in Cedar county, and Jonathan Macy moved to Prairie City. Hymenius Rayl married a sister of Prof. Macy and came to Sugar Creek in 1854. Jason Macy, another brother of Jesse, came to Sugar Creek later. When Mrs. Wm Macy d. the family numbered 180 descendants. Two of Prof. Macy's sisters m. Merediths. The Macys were part of quite a colony of Quakers whose original home was North Carolina.

Transcriber Note: *Birth/Death Dates taken from WPA Records; burial in Hazelwood Cem. in Grinnell, Iowa.