Family Heritage Series

Imlay Family

Source: This information was compiled by Gene Price, a professional genealogist in Larchmont, New York and Editor/Publisher of Pioneer Heritance, on behalf of Ruth S. Richins, my paternal grandmother.
Individual life summaries, Bible records and will transcriptions for six generations of Havens men inn America from William Havens who immigrated from Wales in 1638 to Samuel Havens who died in New Jersey in 1841.
Source: "The George Francis Sevey Family Book of Remembrance," compiled by Eileen Sevey Cluff (Also found in The Genealogy and Descendants of George Washington Sevey, compiled by Minerva Sevey Vance and Eileen Sevey Cluff, printed by Robert L. Pellet: Medford, OR, pages 160-165).
Margaret Nebraska Imlay was born June 5, 1853, on the plains of Nebraska, while her parents were traveling to Utah. Her father was James Havens Imlay and her mother was Anna Eliza Coward. After a stay in Salt Lake City the family moved to New Harmony in southern Utah. Shortly after her fifteenth birthday Margaret became the second wife of George W. Sevy. For a few years they lived in Panguitch, Utah, but in January 1888 she moved with George Colonia Juarez, Mexico where whe lived the remainder of her life. In 1897 she became a victim to cancer. In a last-dicth effort to save her life, George endeavored to take Margaret back to Utah where he hoped a Dr. Blackburn would be able to help her. However, the journey was too long and strenuous and Maggie died near Loa, Utah on October 19, 1897 before she reached the doctor. George took her to Panguitch and buried her there in his family plot, near his first wife, Phoebe.
Source: The worship service bulletin for the Annual Worship Service, Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House, Sunday, July 30, 1961. Original bulletin in the hands of Ty Richins.
A brief history of "Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House" near Red Valley, New Jersey – a brief history of the congregation of Baptists at Crosswick or Upper Freehold, New Jersey before it was formally organized as an independent church in 1766. Reverend John Coward, Sr., the great-great grandfather of Margaret Nebraska (Imlay) Sevey presided over this congregation for a time. Rev. Coward, who was there when the current "Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House" was built, was raised in the Church of England, which may account for the church's high pulpit.The old church, no longer used for regular worship services, is maintained as a historic site by the Friends of Old Yellow Meeting House, which is located in Imlaystown, NJ.
Source: This information was compiled by Gene Price, a professional genealogist in Larchmont, New York and Editor/Publisher of Pioneer Heritance, on behalf of Ruth S. Richins, my paternal grandmother.