Leah Weldin (1817 - 1901)

Born 25 Apr 1817 in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Beeson — married 1840 in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Mar 1901 at age 83 in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, United States

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Biography

Name: Leah Weldin. Given Name: Leah. Surname: Weldin. ^[1]

Born 25 APR 1817. Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. ^[1]

Died 2 MAR 1901. Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. ^[1]

Buried 2 MAR 1901. Newark Union Cemetery, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Map: Latitude: N39.78661. Longitude: W75.513766. ^[1]

Note: (N0487).

Marriage Husband Edward Beeson. Wife Leah Weldin. ^[1]

Research Notes

Note N0487 3/18/2012

Leah Weldin is supposedly decended from George Weldin who is also buried in the Newark Union Cemetery.

Note N0381 (Note Source S0111 below)

"New wark" or Newark Friends Meeting House on Carr Road, about 14 mile from Shipley Road, in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, DE. It is now the location of the present Newark Union Methodist Church.

Quoted from Newark Union Cemetery Records:

In December 1685, a group of Friends living in Brandywine Hundred, DE was given permission by the Chester Quarterly Quaker Meeting to hold meetings and to build a meeting house.

1637/38, meetings were held at Valentine Hollingsworth's home and at the house of Morgan Drewett. In 1688, Valentine Hollingsworth donated land on Carr Road, near Carrcroft, DE, to be used as a site for a Friend's Meeting House and burying ground. Newark was the name that Mr Hollingsworth had adopted for his entire operation on a tract of 2,000 acres of land which William Penn granted to him in 1683.

The Meeting House was built presumably of logs and was known as the Newark Friends Meeting House. Here monthly meetings were held until 1704, after which they alternated with Center Meeting at Centerville, DE.

In 1717, the monthly meetings at Newark were abandoned. Weekly meetings were continued until 1754, when they were also "raises", the membership having become so small.

Today, the Newark Union Methodist Church stands on the original site of the Newark or New Wark Quaker Meeting House. The present cemetery is a continuation of the old Quaker Meeting House burying grounds and the family lots of many Quaker families are there and headstones are in good condition.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Source: S0111 Beeson, Leah Weldin (1817-1901) 2 MAR 1901

• Source: S0170 Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63368524/leah-beeson : accessed 24 October 2021), memorial page for Leah Weldin Beeson (25 Apr 1817–2 Mar 1901), Find a Grave Memorial ID 63368524, citing Newark Union Cemetery, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA ; Maintained by Kimberly (contributor 47216585) .
• Source: S0111 Delaware, Newark Union Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions Newark Union Cemetery, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle Co, DE Publication: 1951-52, By Minshall & Haas Note: #N0380 Note: #N0381 25 JUL 2021 Time: 10:10:08

Note N0380 Strict Friends would not have grave stones marking their graves. It would be interesting to match records here with those obtained by Friends.

• 1870 U.S. Census