Mary (Polly) Modlin

1811 - 1892  (80 years)

• Name	Mary (Polly) Modlin
  Born	17 Dec 1811	Randolph, North Carolina, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	18 Nov 1892	Story, Iowa, USA
  Buried	Peoria Cemetery, Story County, Iowa
  Person ID	I18871	Krings
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Joseph Modlin,   b. 8 May 1775, Perquimans, North Carolina, USA ,   d. 1860, Harrison, Henry, Indiana, USA  (Age 84 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Violet Bell,   b. 21 Dec 1775,   d. 16 Jun 1848, Henry County, Indiana  (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	16 Jan 1800	Randolph, North Carolina, USA
  Family ID	F5431	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	James Hutson,   b. 25 Feb 1808, Randolph, North Carolina, USA ,   d. 25 Sep 1879, Story, Iowa, USA  (Age 71 years)
  Married	3 Feb 1831	Henry, Indiana, USA
  Children	1. Mary V. Hutson,   b. 4 Jan 1848, Henry County, Indiana ,   d. 4 Mar 1920, Story County, Iowa  (Age 72 years)  [natural]   2. Catherine W. Hutson,   b. 2 Feb 1850, Henry, Indiana, USA ,   d. 14 Jun 1898, Polk, Iowa, USA  (Age 48 years)  [natural]   3. Martin Luther Hutson,   b. 25 Feb 1852, Henry, Indiana, USA ,   d. 23 Dec 1913, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA  (Age 61 years)  [natural]   4. Nancy Hutson,   b. 5 Jan 1839  [natural]   5. Penelope Hutson,   b. 30 Jul 1836  [natural]   6. Lydia Hutson,   b. 21 Aug 1846  [natural]   7. Elizabeth A. (Betty) Hutson,   b. 29 Apr 1842, Henry Co, IN ,   d. 28 Sep 1898, Polk Co, IA  (Age 56 years)  [natural]   8. Oliver Hutson,   b. 30 Jun 1834, Henry Co, IN ,   d. 2 Apr 1907, Polk Co, IA  (Age 72 years)  [natural]   9. Jane Hutson,   b. 21 Feb 1833, Henry County, Indiana ,   d. 5 Jan 1908, Story County, Iowa  (Age 74 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2021
  Family ID	F313	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 17 Dec 1811 - Randolph, North Carolina, USA Married - 3 Feb 1831 - Henry, Indiana, USA Died - 18 Nov 1892 - Story, Iowa, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  "A QUAKER ELOPEMENT" Contributed by Mrs. Earl Parmenter ;l 1106 Hoffman Avenue ; Des Moines, Iowa 50316 Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, Henry County, Indiana, minutes read: "1831,02 mo,24 Mary Hutson (fore Maudlin Duck Creel; Preparative Meeting complained of for marrying contrary to discipline and deviation from plainness. Condemned her misconduct.. This entry in Quaker records is explained in a family story handed down through several generations. Joseph and Violet (Bell) Maudlin/Modlin did not approve of their daughter's planned marriage to James Hutson. The cause of their disapproval is not known as James was the son of Quakers Nathan and Lydia (Presnall) Hutson. "Polly" Maudlin defiantly announced her plans on the day of the planned elopement, 1831?Feb?03. Her family took action ? boosted her up the ladder to the loft of their home, shut the trap door and held the would?be bride prisoner. Polly pathetically complained of the cold prison in which she was being held so they passed a pan of coals from the fireplace up to her so she could warm herself. Her family had not reckoned with Polly's inventiveness. When she heard the commotion of the grooms arrival she set f1re to a p11e of wool cardings stored in the attic. Her shouts of "Fire! Fire!" brought results: she was quickly freed. Her father and brothers rushed into the task of putting out the fire while Polly rode away with her soon?to?be husband. After many years of marriage, a large family and an 1853 migration from Henry County to the new state of Iowa, their story ends with two small markers in the Peoria Cemetery in Story County, Iowa: Rev. James Hutson, 1808?Feb?25 ? 1879?Sep?25.; Mary Hutson, 1811,Dec-17 1892,Nov,18. This story came through their daughter, Elizabeth (Hutson) Dunlap to her son, James T. Dunlop, who passed it along to his son George Dunlap, named for his grandfather who died in the Civil Mar, father of Mrs. Parmenter, who first heard it as a small child, long before she knew of any connection to the Quaker religion or the possibility that the story could be verified in the minutes kept ny a meeting so long ago.