Hackney Family Tree

Rachel Hackney4 was born 6 December 1780, in Frederick County, Virginia, the fifth child and third daughter of Joseph and Martha (McCool) Hackney. She died there 20 Third Month 1863. On 15 April 1801 at the Lower Ridge meeting house under the care of Hopewell MM she married John GRIFFITH. The signatures on their marriage certificate were in three columns. Traditionally the family signed on the right, so the placement of names is a helpful clue.[50]

Mary Smith
Ann Eyre
Eliza Antrim
Mary Crumbly
John Dillon
Abraham Woodrow
Mary Rees
Enoch Rees
Jonathan Morris
Charles Kidd
William Healfer
Lewis McCoole
John Thompson

Susanna Wright
Ruth Downing
Henry Crumbly
Thomas Rees
Morris Rees
Cate McCoole
Marth [sic] Morgan
Nathaniel White
Isaac Smith
John Antrim
Richard Barrett
Jonathan Barrett
Phebe White
Hannah Rees
Phebe Baldwin John Griffith
Joseph Hackney
Mary Griffith
Mary Hackney
Aaron Hackney
Joseph Hackney Jr.
Ann Antrim
James Hackney
Martha Hackney
Asa Hoge
Richard Sidwell
John Antrim
John Wright

So, starting at the top of the right hand column, John Griffith is the groom's father. Next comes the bride's father, followed by the groom's step-mother, Next come siblings of the bride: Mary, Aaron, Joseph, Jr., Ann (Hackney) ANTRIM (and her husband John farther down the column), James, and Martha. Charity wasn't there (perhaps busy with motherly duties) but her husband Richard SIDWELL came. John WRIGHT was a relative of the bride's grandmother, Ann (Wright) McCOOL PUGH. I'm not sure where Asa HOGE fits into the family. Other relatives of the bride's mother are sprinkled through the other two columns.

Many years later, Rachel was remembered as "a young woman of good understanding, and of deep, earnest piety" whose own "consistent religious deportment" confirmed and strengthened her husband's Christian course.[51]

Griffith cradle
Rachel and John had ten children, all of whom were probably rocked in this cradle that has come down through the family of Martha Ann, their oldest daughter to have children of her own. By the early twenty-first century the cradle had lost the tip of one rocker, and the top of one side. It seems surprisingly flimsy, with only slats to support a mattress.

At the time of the separation in 1828, the majority of Friends joined with the Hicksites. However, the Griffiths and Wrights aligned themselves with the Orthodox branch. Later, Rachel's obituary was in the Orthodox Friends' Review, and her daughter, Martha Ann, was a faithful Orthodox member of Northern District Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia.

Rachel and John were active, highly esteemed members of Hopewell Meeting, serving first as overseers, then as elders.[52]

Rachel died in the midst of the Civil War on 20 March 1863 in her 83rd year. She was “calm, patient and resigned during her last illness”. Her obituary in the Friends’ Review reads: Rachel Hackney Griffith and John Griffith

    As a member of religious society, she was consistent and exemplary; as an Overseer in the Church, she discharged its duties with fidelity, tenderness and love; as an Elder, in which station she served for many years, she was an example of watchful care and uprightness, zealous for the Law and the Testimony, and deservedly honored as a mother in our Israel. Naturally diffident and unobtrusive in her manners, the depth of her hidden religious life was best known and exemplified in the bosom of her own family. Few were better versed in sacred Scripture, and none, perhaps, more firm in the faith, or unfaltering in belief in the doctrines of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. . . .    Though so advanced in age, she will be greatly missed in the little meeting of which she was a useful member, and. when of ability, a faithful and diligent attender. Calm, patient and resigned during her last illness, the closing scene was serene and peaceful, and though she had but little to say, no doubt remained that her peace was made, and that the reward of the righteous is her portion forever in the mansions of the blessed.[53]

Children of John and Rachel (Hackney) Griffith:

Aaron H[ackney] Griffith5, b. 11 Mar. 1801; d. 8 Feb. 1877; m. 15 Apr. 1830 Mary PARKINS.[54] He was condemned for marrying contrary to Friends' discipline, 8/4/1830, but his acknowledgment of his wrong was accepted. Four years later his wife and minor children Elizabeth B. and Hannah P. were accepted into membership by request, Aaron joining in the request for his children. He served as clerk of Hopewell Monthly Meeting. During the Civil War his mill was robbed of over $20,000 worth of cloth, and the machinery was taken away and placed in the mill of a neighbor. He was never reimbursed for the machinery.[55]

Mary Griffith, b. 27 May 1804; d. 8 Jan. 1892; m. 12 Dec. 1822 David WRIGHT; no children. She served as clerk of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting of Women. There is a photo of David Wright in the album; he worked on Rockefeller's Sanitary Commission using DDT to fight malaria. It may have been Mary, the unnamed sister of Robert, who resisted a Confederate officer attempt to take her horse, "but she refused to let go of the bridle-rein. With drawn revolver he commanded her to loose it or he would shoot. She replied, 'I cannot be robbed of many years. Shoot if that is the way with you Southern gentlemen, who so boast of your chivalry. I do not propose to give up my horse,' The officer rode on, leaving the horse in her possession."[56]

Martha Ann Griffith, b. 14 Dec. 1807 ; d. 8 Nov. 1894; m. 11 Nov. 1835 Samuel F. BALDERSTON; 8 children.

Joseph H[ackney] Griffith, b. 14 Dec. 1809; d. 3 Mar. 1870;[57] unmar. On 1/3/1856 he and his brother Richard S. were granted certificates and removed to Baltimore.

James H. Griffith, b. 3 Feb. 1812; d. 9 Sept. 1899; m. 6 May 1841 Jane R. LUPTON. Jane was disowned for marrying contrary to discipline, 3/10/1842. His acknowledgment of marriage contrary to discipline was accepted, 1/6/1842. Jane was reinstated, and their children David L. and Virginia were accepted into membership on the request of both parents, 8/6/1845.[58] On 5/6/1863, during the Civil War, the family removed to Rocksylvania MM in Iowa.

Lydia H. Griffith, b. 17 Aug. 1814; m. Oct. 1842 Jesse WRIGHT; [children??] Their home was between the picket lines of the opposing forces during the Civil War, and bullets sometimes entered the rooms, but none of the family were hit.

John W. Griffith, b. 17 Sept. 1816; d. 3? Sept. 1902; m. 24 Jan. 1844 Keziah T. SMITH. On 12/7/1859 they and their children, Seth Smith, Rachel, Mary, Anna J., and Alice B. were granted a certificate of removal from Hopewell to Radnor Mo. Mtg. in Delaware Co., Penna.

Richard Sidwell Griffith, b. 27 May 1819; d. 21 Jan. 1900; m. 2 June 1858 Mary L. NEWBOLD, of Woodbury, NJ; their daughter Anna T. Griffith was a "gay Quaker" who later became very strict. On 1/3/1856 he and his brother Joseph H. were granted certificates and removed to Baltimore.

Robert Daniel Griffith, b. 19 Aug. 1821; unmar. Sympathized with the Union but upheld the Friends peace testimony during the Civil War. In Sixth mo 1899 Robert D. resigned his membership in Hopewell MM.

William P. Griffith, b. 8 Mar. 1824; m. 30 May 186_ Mary V. BANNING; [children??]

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