Betsy Bates, Issachar Bates' daughter visited Pleasant Hill in 1862 at the height of the Civil War. Nine members of the Runyon family were still living as Shakers at this time and would have greeted and worshiped with Betsy. They were Charlotte, George, Matilda, and William - children of Joseph and Jane, plus two of the grandchildren, James and Jane Sutton; Sally Runyon, daughter of Martin and Patience; Amy Runyon, daughter of Emley and Lydia; and finally, Charity Badgett, daughter of Mercy Runyon and her husband John Badgett.
Fifty-seven years earlier in New York State, Betsy Bates had waved goodbye to her father as he set out on his mission with John Meacham and Benjamin Seth Youngs in search of converts on the western frontier, which sparked the creation of Pleasant Hill.
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6/01/2018
3/19/2018
Cane Ridge Meeting House ~ Sowing the Seeds
August 1801 - Bourbon County, Kentucky
The 'Second Great Awakening,' a series of religious revival meetings was punctuated by one particularly large and exuberant meeting that took place in early August 1801. The location was the Cane Ridge Meeting House in Bourbon County, about twenty-five miles northeast of Lexington. It must have been a well-planned and well-advertised event to have drawn such a large crowd from the sparsely populated surrounding frontier. Two hundred years later, the site remains rural and agricultural.
The organizer was Presbyterian preacher Barton W. Stone. During the event, which lasted several days, an estimated ten to twenty thousand people converged on Cane Ridge. Stone had arranged for dozens of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist preachers to speak. Rousing sermons are said to have induced shrieks, cries, dancing and jerking, trance-like states, barking, speaking in tongues, and visions among the huge crowds. Communion was given, confessions were heard, and hundreds, if not thousands, were saved.
Bourbon County is the very county that Charity Runyon and her husband Samuel Parks had migrated to from North Carolina seven or eight years before the Cane Ridge event. Mercy Runyon and her husband John Badgett had also made the trek from North Carolina about 1787, settling in nearby Fayette County. By the turn of the century, family patriarch Phineas Runyon and his wife Charity had settled along Otter Creek in Madison County.
We can only speculate about whether any Parks, Badgett, or Runyon family members attended the revival meetings at Cane Ridge. They were certainly influenced by them and the change they sparked over the coming years. As congregations and churches sprang up as a result of the revivals, so did Shakerism.
The Parks family would move on to Preble County Ohio while the Badgett and Runyon families stayed put and would soon make the pivotal decision that would change their lives and the lives of their children forever.
The 'Second Great Awakening,' a series of religious revival meetings was punctuated by one particularly large and exuberant meeting that took place in early August 1801. The location was the Cane Ridge Meeting House in Bourbon County, about twenty-five miles northeast of Lexington. It must have been a well-planned and well-advertised event to have drawn such a large crowd from the sparsely populated surrounding frontier. Two hundred years later, the site remains rural and agricultural.
The organizer was Presbyterian preacher Barton W. Stone. During the event, which lasted several days, an estimated ten to twenty thousand people converged on Cane Ridge. Stone had arranged for dozens of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist preachers to speak. Rousing sermons are said to have induced shrieks, cries, dancing and jerking, trance-like states, barking, speaking in tongues, and visions among the huge crowds. Communion was given, confessions were heard, and hundreds, if not thousands, were saved.
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| Cane Ridge Meeting House - LOC collection |
In less than a decade, Pleasant Hill would be one of several established frontier outposts of Shakerism. All the pieces were falling into place at just the right time.
We can only speculate about whether any Parks, Badgett, or Runyon family members attended the revival meetings at Cane Ridge. They were certainly influenced by them and the change they sparked over the coming years. As congregations and churches sprang up as a result of the revivals, so did Shakerism.
The Parks family would move on to Preble County Ohio while the Badgett and Runyon families stayed put and would soon make the pivotal decision that would change their lives and the lives of their children forever.
5/13/2016
Shaker records on Find a Grave
I've been working to make sure all of the Runyon relations who were Pleasant Hill Shakers are available and accurate on Find a Grave. While now part of Ancestry.com Find a Grave assures its members that its data will remain free and available to all.
To look up any Runyon, Badgett, Ryan, Sutton, etc. enter the last name below and click on search.
Many links to Phineas and Charity's non-Shaker descendants are starting to appear as well so that connections can easily be understood.
Remember that markers for individual Shakers were usually not placed in the graveyard (none exists for the Runyon family members) so requesting a photo will not result in a gravestone photo.
To look up any Runyon, Badgett, Ryan, Sutton, etc. enter the last name below and click on search.
Many links to Phineas and Charity's non-Shaker descendants are starting to appear as well so that connections can easily be understood.
Remember that markers for individual Shakers were usually not placed in the graveyard (none exists for the Runyon family members) so requesting a photo will not result in a gravestone photo.
8/25/2014
On This Date in 1828 ...
William Badgett [age 33] departs Pleasant Hill.
William Badgett arrived at Pleasant Hill with his parents and siblings at age 16. He signed the church covenant at nineteen and again four years later. But William eventually left the Shakers in 1828 and less than two months later he married Janie Hover in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Janie Hover was a fellow Shaker and their bondsman at the wedding in Mercer County was Isaac Lineback, another fellow Shaker.
William Badgett is on the tax list of Mercer County in 1834 and after that the family moved to the Mackville area of Washington County, Kentucky. I believe William died when his children were young, but do not know the cause of death, nor do I know when Jane died or where they are buried.
William and Jane had four children born in Washington County:
John Wesley Badgett, who died in April 1863 (Civil War casualty?)
Hardin Badgett, who served the Union in the Civil War, married, had children and left Kentucky for Logan County, Illinois
Lucinda (Lucy) Ann Badgett, married, had children and remained in Washington County, Kentucky the remainder of her life
Calvin Badgett, who died February 1864 of cholera and dysentery at a POW camp Richmond, Virginia.
William Badgett arrived at Pleasant Hill with his parents and siblings at age 16. He signed the church covenant at nineteen and again four years later. But William eventually left the Shakers in 1828 and less than two months later he married Janie Hover in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Janie Hover was a fellow Shaker and their bondsman at the wedding in Mercer County was Isaac Lineback, another fellow Shaker.
William Badgett is on the tax list of Mercer County in 1834 and after that the family moved to the Mackville area of Washington County, Kentucky. I believe William died when his children were young, but do not know the cause of death, nor do I know when Jane died or where they are buried.
William and Jane had four children born in Washington County:
John Wesley Badgett, who died in April 1863 (Civil War casualty?)
Hardin Badgett, who served the Union in the Civil War, married, had children and left Kentucky for Logan County, Illinois
Lucinda (Lucy) Ann Badgett, married, had children and remained in Washington County, Kentucky the remainder of her life
Calvin Badgett, who died February 1864 of cholera and dysentery at a POW camp Richmond, Virginia.
4/27/2014
The Runyon Shaker Genealogy
Joseph. Mercy, Martin, and Emley were the four adult children of Phineas and Charity Runyon who, along with their 30 children, joined the Shakers at Pleasant Hill in the early 19th century. Members who remained with the Shakers are shown in red; those who departed (or, “went to the world”) are shown in blue.
Phineas Runyon b: February 13, 1744 + Charity Coates b: December 23, 1744
and their children and grandchildren...
Joseph Runyon b: January 24, 1765 +Jane (aka Ginny) b: December 12, 1766
and their children...
Charlotte (aka Sally C.) Runyon b: July 25, 1785
Nancy Runyon b: May 27, 1787 + Ryan (left husband to live at PH)
-Lawson Ryan b: November 24, 1808 (twin), arrived PH May 1815
-Wesley Ryan b: November 24, 1808 (twin), arrived PH May 1815
-Nancy Ryan b: January 12, 1812, arrived PH May 1815
Vincent Runyon b: August 16, 1789
Marcy Runyon b: August 21, 1792
George Runyon b: September 13, 1795
William Runyon b: July 12, 1799
Guilford D. Runyon b: January 8, 1802 (departed, returned, was expelled)-read more
Matilda Runyon b: July 27, 1804
Polly Runyon b: August 4, 1807 m. Sutton
-Jane Sutton b: February 14, 1832 brought by her mother to PH June 7, 1834
-James Sutton b: February 14, 1830 in Fayette Co., KY, brought by his mother to PH May 1834, departed Shakertown December 1849 and returned October 29, 1850
Benjamin Runyon b: May 16, 1809
Mercy Runyon b: December 23, 1768 + John Badgett b. Nov. 23, 1766and their children...
Charity Badgett b: October 15, 1791
Prudence (aka Sally) Badgett b: October 14, 1794
William Badgett b: November 15, 1795+Janie Hover
Salome Badgett b: January 14, 1798
John R. Badgett, Jr. b: April 3, 1800 + America Bosley
Ginny (aka Jinny or Jane) Badgett b: September 13, 1802 +James C. Hutton
Polly Badgett b: November 16, 1805
Hardin Badgett b: January 19, 1808
Katherine (aka Kitty) Badgett b: June 11, 1811
Martin Runyon b: April 20, 1778 +Patience Baxter b: September 17, 1782and their children...
John Runyon b: May 7, 1800
Betsy (aka Elizabeth?) Runyon b: October 12, 1801
Matilda (aka Rebecca) Runyon b: June 24, 1803 +Lewis Gillespie
Asa G. Runyon b: June 20, 1805 +Mary F. Arthur
Silas Baxter Runyon b: November 22, 1807 + Rebecca Tye + Cynthia Ann (aka Sintha) Cornelius
Charity C. Runyon b: August 2, 1809 +Isaac N. Hawkins
Peggy Runyon b: June 11, 1810
Sally Runyon b: August 22, 1813 +? Philips died Aug 24, 1876, age 63 in Garrard County, KY; listed in Vital statistics of Garrard as a "female, married, housekeeper, daughter of Martin & Patience Runyon, died of unknown causes.
Emley (aka Embly) Runyon b: September 22, 1784 + Lydia Burton b: September 12, 1788and their children...
Lawson Runyon b: October 10, 1807 +Emily Ross
Amy Runyon b: August 25, 1809
Robert (Comstock) Runyon b: February 4, 1812 + Betsy Thompson
4/01/2014
3/14/2014
On This Date in 1831 ...
March 14, 1831 - Katharine (Kitty) Badgett [age 19], daughter of Mercy Runyon and John Badgett] departs Pleasant Hill
2/15/2014
On This Date in 1826 ...
Salome Badgett [age 28] deceased.
Her hymn "A Pretty Lesson" appears in Paulina Bryant's hymn book
Her hymn "A Pretty Lesson" appears in Paulina Bryant's hymn book
10/20/2013
7/01/2013
On This Date in 1825
Hardin Badgett [age 17] departs Pleasant Hill (Bio)
Hardin was Mercy Runyon and John Badgett's youngest son. Is Hardin an ancestor of yours? Update us on what became of him after he left Pleasant Hill.
Hardin was Mercy Runyon and John Badgett's youngest son. Is Hardin an ancestor of yours? Update us on what became of him after he left Pleasant Hill.
3/14/2013
On This Date in 1831 ...
March 14, 1831 - Katharine (Kitty) Badgett [age 19] departs Pleasant Hill
Kitty, daughter of Mercy Runyon and John Badgett, was born June 11, 1811 and the youngest of their nine children. The family arrived at Pleasant Hill just six months after her birth.
Kitty, daughter of Mercy Runyon and John Badgett, was born June 11, 1811 and the youngest of their nine children. The family arrived at Pleasant Hill just six months after her birth.
2/19/2013
On This Date in 1824 ...
On this date 189 years ago Polly Badgett, one of the youngest children of Mercy Runyon and John Badgett, departed the Shaker community at eighteen years of age.
Is Polly an ancestor of yours? Update us on what became of her after she left Pleasant Hill.
Is Polly an ancestor of yours? Update us on what became of her after she left Pleasant Hill.
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