Goose Creek Friends
Newsletter March 2021
Goose Creek Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Lincoln, Virginia
Queries for Third Month –
Stewardship of the Earth
• How do we show appreciation for the
interconnectedness of all life?
• How do we use the world’s resources with care and
consideration for future generations and with respect for
all life?
• In what other ways do we carry out our commitment to
stewardship of the Earth?
• Do we intentionally explore and live our conviction that
there is that of God in all creation?
Monthly Meeting for Worship with a
Concern for Business: Third Month
The Meeting House will remain closed for now. In April a
facing bench Friend will be added to outdoor worship and
children will be welcomed to worship on the lawn if they
obey restrictions such as social distancing and the wearing
of masks. The ad-hoc committee on re-opening the
Meeting House will continue to monitor Virginia and CDC
recommendations and will report as conditions change.
Because of Easter’s falling on April 4, Friends approved
moving Fourth Month’s Meeting for Worship with a
Concern for Business to the second First Day, April 11.
A worship-sharing session will take place on March 21
after the rise of Meeting. Friends are invited to read and
contemplate the Easter story and bring their thoughts to
this session.
Friends approved listing committee memberships on
our website. Patricia Barber will add a note requesting
that Friends who want to get in touch with a committee
member contact her for their information. This is in lieu of
including contact information in a public space.
Friends are warmly invited to attend Ministry and Worship
Committee meetings. Committee members were thanked
for their reception of Friends’ concerns about the role of
the Committee in Meeting. They have been taking these
concerns seriously and are undertaking research to find
out more about how other monthly meetings’ equivalent
committees are run. A threshing session has been
postponed to a future time.
Children’s Meeting for Worship
March 21st, 9:45-10:00 am
Our regular Meeting for Worship via Zoom will
open with a 15-minute Meeting for Worship for
the children. This will be followed by an optional
breakout room for the children at 10:00.
Martha Claire Catlin, historian of Alexandria Monthly
Meeting, has written a book about Quaker history and
has asked for permission to include our historic 19th-
century photograph of Goose Creek Friends standing
outside our Meeting House, with appropriate attribution.
Friends approved.
The Meeting Cares Committee wishes to document
the historic times in which we are living. They have
created a subcommittee – Judy Ross, Ann Travell, Sue
McCollum, and Chuck Hedges – and that subcommittee
invites Friends’ participation in creating a pandemic book
including artifacts, timelines, masks, photographs, written
accounts, oral histories, perhaps a time capsule made by
Meeting’s young Friends. Friends approved this project.
Friends approved May 23 as the date for this year’s Book
Sunday. There will be no Easter egg hunt this year. The
Unity with Nature Committee is providing First Day
School’s lessons in April.
Patricia Barber is our liaison with Baltimore Yearly
Meeting’s 350th anniversary celebration committee. She
will be in charge of outreach to communities outside BYM
monthly meetings.
What is the meaning of Easter for
you? – March 21
Friends are invited to read the Easter stories in the Bible
and ponder this question. After the rise of Meeting on
March 21, we will re-gather on the Zoom site for a
worship sharing – speaking out of the silence as we are
moved to do.
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From the Meeting Cares Committee:
Call for Children’s Artwork
The Meeting Cares Committee invites all First Day
School students ages 7 and up to participate in the
design of greeting cards. We hope to select up to 10
different submissions to create printed cards for the
get-well wishes, thinking-of-you cards, and personal
notes that we send out to members and attenders of
Goose Creek Friends Meeting. Parents, if your child
likes to draw, please encourage them to make a picture to
illustrate our cards. There is no guarantee that all entries
will be used by the committee; however, every student
who submits an entry (or entries) will receive a small
token of appreciation from the Meeting Cares committee. host 130 Friends. Please visit the web page above for
– Sue McCollum, for the Committee
Here are the guidelines:
1. All entries should be on 8.5” x 11” plain white paper.
Images can be in black & white or color (using paint,
markers, crayons and/or colored pencils).
2. Artwork can be portrait (tall) or landscape (wide) and
should be signed by the artist in the bottom right of
the page.
3. We prefer artwork without writing. However, if text
is used in the image, please consider Get Well Soon,
Thinking of You, or Peace and Joy.
4. Each student may submit up to three entries. Deadline
for submissions is April 2, 2021.
5. Original artwork or a scanned image (jpeg preferred)
is acceptable. Jpeg files can be sent to Peggy King at
stoneleighpeg@aol.com. If you’d like original artwork
picked up at your home, please call Sue McCollum
(703-244-3687). All original artwork will be returned
to the artist.
Quaker News and Events:
From Baltimore Yearly Meeting
(For more information about any of these announcements,
please visit https://t.e2ma.net/message/g7lhui/o90k7t)
• BYM Camps registration is open.
• Workshop Proposals for Annual Session 2021 are
being accepted now. The theme for this year’s August
gathering is “Seeking Wholeness: Knowing our
Shadow and Our Light.”
• Various scholarships and educational grants are
available.
• The latest draft revision to the marriage provisions of
Faith and Practice is available.
From Pendle Hill:
Join Us Online for Worship in the Barn
https://pendlehill.org/explore/worship/join-us-online-for-
worship-in-the-barn/
“A few resident staff continue to gather daily in the
Barn from 8:30am to 9:10am Eastern Time, extending the
90-year-long tradition of daily worship here on the Pendle
Hill campus. Beginning the week of March 16, 2020, we
started an experiment of opening the circle of worship to
YOU in your home.”
Friends from all over – including Goose Creek Meeting –
have found this daily worship via Zoom to be nurturing.
You’ll see only a few Friends at a time, but they regularly
more information, or to connect with Pendle Hill’s
morning meeting.
Now and Then – Daniel Cockerill
In 1819 our meetinghouse was newly built. The contract
for its construction had been given to a young man named
Daniel Cockerill…who was Daniel Cockerill?
Born in Loudoun County in 1792, Daniel Cockerill
came from a large family who had lived in Virginia for
generations. One of his descendants is Goose Creek
Friend Martha Parks. Daniel Cockerill’s father and
uncles served as officers in the Revolutionary War.
Young Daniel Cockerill fought in the War of 1812,
rising to the rank of Sergeant of Artillery. By 1818,
an officer and veteran, Daniel Cockerill was back in
Loudoun County. According to research, he earned his
living by “carpentry.” Then, rather curiously, Goose
Creek Meeting minutes for 12th mo. 1818 state:
“Daniel Cockrill desirous of occupying half the old
meetinghouse, at this place, this winter.” Perhaps he
wanted to board near to where he would soon work?
Cockerill had contracted with Goose Creek Meeting to
build a new meetinghouse for $3550. Inflation caused
Cockerill to spend more on building supplies than initially
figured, so in 1819 the Meeting agreed to pay him $500
more for his labor and materials. As well as the building,
Cockerill made the benches. His benches are on our
meetinghouse porch, still beautiful and serviceable.
Daniel married and in 1837 his young family moved to
Adams County, Ohio. They settled on farmland along
the Ohio River, prospering and raising four sons and
two daughters.
By the 1840’s Daniel had been elected to Ohio’s state
congress. He became Major General of the 8th Ohio
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Militia. Though he had loved Virginia, Daniel was
dismayed when in the spring of 1861 his home state
left the Union. All four Cockerill sons enlisted as
Ohio regimental officers during the Civil War. Daniel
Cockerill died in 1864 and his wife, Esther, died in
1873. The couple are buried in the Mt. Leigh, Adams
County cemetery.
Before we leave Daniel Cockerill, there is one fact about
him not included in Ohio history books, from which
much of this information has come. In February 1828,
Yardley Taylor was arrested for helping an enslaved man
escape Virginia. According to Loudoun County court
records, it was Daniel Cockerill (still living in Loudoun
at the time) who paid the $300 bail that allowed Yardley
Hot Cross Buns for Easter
Sadly, we won’t be able to gather for breakfast
on Easter morning. One Friend lamented that
we’ll miss our annual hot cross buns, and others
joined the lamentation. We asked Lisa Payne
whether she would share her recipe for the buns
that she brings to Easter breakfast each year,
and she has graciously done so. Lisa mostly
follows the recipe from the 1963 Better Homes
and Gardens Bread Cook Book:
2 pkgs. active dry yeast or 2 cakes
compressed yeast
½ cup water
¼ cup warm milk, scalded
½ cup salad oil, melted shortening, or softened,
unsalted butter
½ cup sugar
¾ teaspoon salt
3 ½ - 4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
½-1 teaspoon cinnamon
As desired: ¼ heaping teaspoon each of nutmeg
and allspice, 1-2 teaspoons each of finely grated
orange and lemon peel
3 beaten eggs
2/3 cup currants (Lisa uses a mixture of golden
raisin, currants, raisins, sometimes chopped dried
apricots)
White of one egg
Remaining egg white (Lisa uses water instead)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
¾ cup sifted confectioner’s sugar
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to leave jail while awaiting trial. We may wonder: why
did Yardley turn to Daniel Cockerill, and, why did
Cockerill step up and help him? Cockerill had no known
special connection to Yardley Taylor, nor is there record
of Cockerill having involvement with anti-slavery or
abolitionist causes. But who knows?
The answers to these questions were buried 408 miles
away from our meetinghouse, at a quiet graveyard in
Adams County, Ohio.
Soften active dry yeast in warm water or
compressed yeast in lukewarm water. Combine
milk, salad oil [or butter], sugar, and salt. Cool to
lukewarm. Sift together 1 cup of the flour and the
cinnamon [and other spices]; stir into milk mixture.
Add eggs; beat well. Stir in softened yeast and
currants [and other dried fruit, as determined].
Add remaining flour (or enough to make a soft
dough), beating well. ¶ Cover dough with a damp
cloth and let rise in a warm place till double (about
1 ½ hours). Punch down and turn out on a lightly
floured surface. Roll or pat to ½ inch thick. Cut
dough in rounds with a floured, 2 ½ inch biscuit
cutter. ¶ Shape buns with fingers and place on
a greased baking sheet, about 1½ inches apart.
Cover and let rise in a warm place till almost double
(about 1 hour). If desired, snip shallow cross in
each bun with sharp scissors or knife. Brush tops
with 1 slightly beaten egg white. (You’ll have some
left over – save it to use in the frosting.) ¶ Bake in a
moderate oven (375˚) for 15 minutes or until lightly
browned. Remove buns to rack to cool slightly.
For frosting, add vanilla and about ¾ cup sifted
confectioner’s sugar to the remaining egg white.
¶ Pipe frosting crosses on while buns are warm.
Serve while warm. Makes about 2 dozen.
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Sundays Facing Bench

Meeting for worship at 9:45 am MARCH
Wednesdays Catherine Cox (Zoom)
Discussion Group at 7:00 pm COVID-19 NOTICE april
Our in-person First Day School and Peggy King (Zoom)
Discussion Groups are postponed
Sheila Kryston (Lawn)
Calendar until further notice. However,
Meetings for Worship are being held
All events are via Zoom or Google
Meet unless otherwise noted.
via Zoom each week, and outdoors
again in April. See calendar below.
First Day School
New lessons are posted
MARCH weekly on our website:
3.14 Sunday 9:45 am Meeting for Worship http://www.goosecreekfriends.
3.21 Sunday 9:45 am Children’s Meeting for Worship org/first-day-school/
10:00 am Meeting for Worship
11:00 am Worship sharing about the meaning of Easter JOIN US ONLINE!*
3.28 Sunday 9:45am Meeting for Worship 03/27/21, 1:00 PM
Parent Get-together via
APRIL Google Meet
4.04 Sunday 9:45 am Meeting for Worship on Easter Sunday,
(Lawn & Zoom) 03/28/21, 1:00 PM
4.11 Sunday 9:45 am Meeting for Worship (Zoom) Teen Group via
Google Meet
11:00 am Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business
4.18 Sunday 9:45 am Meeting for Worship (Lawn & Zoom) *Login info sent out via the list serv.
4.21 Wed. 6:00 pm Religious Education Committee Meeting
4.25 Sunday 9:45am Meeting for Worship (Lawn & Zoom)
11:00 am Ministry & Worship Committee meeting
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