Wayne County, NC's Quakers-- Part 1

From the September 15, 2013, Goldsboro (NC) News-Argus "Local Quakers' impact on county history examined" by Phyllis Moore.

The speaker at the meeting, Dr. Doug Rader, is not a Quaker, but has gained a lot of expertise on them during his twenty years of genealogy research on his wife's family.

His wife, Lissa Peacock Rader, of the Nahunta Peacocks, is from Fremont. He admits that his first exposure to Quakers, like most of us, was through the Quaker guy on boxes of Quaker Oats. I myself have come across their name often in the Revolutionary War and colonial times.

Last week, representing the Wayne County Historical Association, Doug Rader spoke about "Contentea: The Quakers in Northern Wayne County."

--Cooter