On This Date in 1829 ...

Nancy Ryan [age 17], granddaughter of Joseph and Jane Runyon] departs Pleasant Hill

On This Date in 1869 ...

Matilda Runyon [Joseph's daughter] [went on a] trip to South Union.

Matilda was one of four daughters of Joseph and Ginny Runyon who lived the remainder of their lives at Pleasant Hill. She was Jane Sutton's aunt.

On This Date in 1846 ...

from "The Shaker Spiritual" by Daniel Patterson

Lucinda Shain (Schoen) received her song -- a typical Shaker gift --on March 22, 1846, from "Br. Vincent Runyon and others of our deceased friends, who played it on their instruments of music." Vincent, a believer of British and Huguenot stock, had died only five days before, at the age of fifty-six. Both he and Lucinda, who was then 44, had come to Pleasant Hill with their parents and their siblings in its first wave of converts. Through most of Lucinda's life, William [Runyon] was the dominant musician at Pleasant Hill. In the gift of singing he had no equal there. For more than fifty years his "shrill, melodious voice rang with clarion tones, through the consecrated halls & sacred sanctuaries of this holy hill, cheering the minds & thrilling the hearts of the pious worshippers & beholders."

On This Date in 1846 ...

Vincent Runyon [age 56] deceased. He was second Elder in the First Order from the 19th of Jan. 1824 till Dec. 20th, 1838.

On This Date in 1831 ...

March 14, 1831 - Katharine (Kitty) Badgett [age 19], daughter of Mercy Runyon and John Badgett] departs Pleasant Hill

On This Date in 1815 ...

This photo appears in "The Shakers of Union Village" by Cheryl Bauer

Today Patience and Martin Runyon mov'd from the West Family to the North Family and Lydia Balance and Matilda Runyon mov'd from the North Family to the West Family and Betsy Runyon from the East Family to the West Family.

These are daughters of Martin and Patience Runyon.

On This Date in 1817 ...

March 8, 1817, Saturday - This day was a rainy day, Today Ephraim McBride mov'd from Lebanon to the Roben Denny farm, Today Betsy Baxter departed this life. I believe with old age, she was the Mother of Patience Runyon who joined this Society in 1813, her Mother came here to stay a little while with her daughter, and being so old and feble she slipped off; she never joined this Society.

This Month, 204 Years Ago...

March 1810 - ...an entire new Family established at the fraim house Joseph Runyon with a very large family and John Bryant and his family and in the fall James Congleton and his family from Bourbon Co all three make quite a respectable Family.