CCBQT #3 Rebecca's Freedom Lily Traditional Cache
CCBQT #3 Rebecca's Freedom Lily
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The Clinton County Visitors and Convention Bureau has established a geotrail featuring over 30 of the 54 barn quilts in Clinton County. The Clinton County Bicentennial Barn Quilt Trail has a total of 54 barn quilt patterns located throughout Clinton County. Many thanks to the landowners and groups within Clinton County that have donated time and material to create the beautiful patterns for all to enjoy.
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This barn on the Quilt Trail is on the Hadley Farms at 1133 Lebanon Road in Adams Township has been in the same family since 1806.
The quilt square, “Rebecca’s Freedom Lilly,” is from a friendship quilt made in the 1840s by a group of Quaker women that included Rebecca Harvey Hadley (1795-1876) and her four daughters. Research revealed that the women whose signatures appear on their squares were members of the Anti-Slavery Friends, and the quilt may have been made to raise funds for the anti-slavery cause. The “Hadley Abolitionist Quilt” is on permanent display at the Clinton County Historical Society Museum.
Rebecca Harvey, daughter of Isaac and Lydia Dicks Harvey, was 11 years old in 1806 when they came over the mountains in covered wagons from North Carolina, leaving behind the slave economy of the south to make a new home in the wilderness of the free Ohio country. The families of the five brothers Isaac, Eli, William, Caleb, Joshua Harvey and two sisters Martha H. Hale and Lydia H. Hadley settled the 2000 acre Baytop Survey 2372 of the Virginia Military District, which they had purchased from its Virginia owner in early 1806. From 1806-1809 the extended family settled along Todds Fork in what is now Adams Township. They set to work clearing the forests for farming, building cabins, a schoolhouse, mills, and a Meetinghouse that became Springfield Friends Meeting.
Rebecca Harvey in 1815 married Jonathan T. Hadley, and they became ancestors of many families of western Clinton County. Her account of the settlement of the community appears in “Quaker Historical Collections 1809-2009” published by Springfield Friends Meeting. Lebanon Road was cut through the settlement after 1810 to connect the new Clinton County seat of Wilmington to Lebanon, the county seat of Warren County. The red barn and brick house, facing Lebanon Road, were built by Eli Harvey (1803-1872), son of William and Mary Vestal Harvey, probably soon after his marriage to Sarah Fallis in early 1824. Their oldest daughter Mary Jane Harvey (1825-1885) in early 1844 married Samuel L. Hadley (1821-1897), son of Jonathan T. and Rebecca Harvey Hadley.
Over time the 2000 acres was divided among family members and parcels were sold and inherited. Beginning in 1935 the farmstead with the original house and barn was purchased from other heirs by Herbert M. Hadley (1912-1991), who was a great-great-grandson of both Eli Harvey, the builder of the house and barn and Rebecca Harvey Hadley, the quilt maker.
Herbert M. Hadley married Lucile Fisher at Fairview Meeting in 1938, and they moved into the old brick house and lived there for 53 years, raising five children- Mary Ellen, Harriett, Christine, Anna Jean and Herbert Jonathan.
The farms evolved from general family farming with hogs and sheep and crop rotation into grain farms. There are more than 200 acres of cropland, plus creeks and woodland, now owned by the four daughters.
The farmhouse and the barn are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The barn is one of the oldest in the area still standing, with a pegged frame of hand-hewn beams and wide floorboards and roof boards which evidence the huge trees found here by the settlers.
The roof rafters and haymow supports are long straight tree trunks with the bark still intact. There was a horse stable for the workhorses used through the 1940s and a cow stable for the two milk cows, used through the 1950s.
The south side of the barn was modified to accommodate lambing and shearing and a feeding floor for market pigs. Many 4-H project lambs were raised and groomed there by the Hadley girls in the 1950s and 1960s.
A windstorm in 2002 took off the tin roof that had covered the original wooden shingles, so a new metal roof replaced the old one, preserving as much as possible of the original structure.
The barn remains as a vestige of more than 200 years of family farming in Adams Township. The barn quilt is sponsored by Hadley Farms LLC.
Here are the remaining barn quilt caches in this series:
CCBQT #1 Crossing Ohio
CCBQT #3 Rebecca’s Freedom Lily
CCBQT #4 Maple Leaf
CCBQT #10 Star of the Night
CCBQT #11 Rose of Sharon
CCBQT #12 54-40 or Fight
CCBQT #13 Berry Basket
CCBQT #16 Log Cabin
CCBQT #17 Beautiful Star
CCBQT #22 Sunbonnet Sue
CCBQT #25 Corn & Beans
CCBQT #26 Indian Trail
CCBQT #28 Grandmother’s Fan
CCBQT #30 Next Door Neighbor
CCBQT #31 College Hall
CCBQT #33 Ohio Star
CCBQT #35 Pathways
CCBQT #41 Carpenter’s Wheel
CCBQT #44 Old Spanish Tile
CCBQT #47 Weaving Paths
CCBQT #49 Crocus
CCBQT #51 Grandma’s Nine Patch
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