Editing Shakers (section)

===Lucy Wright and westward expansion===
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After Joseph Meacham died, Lucy Wright continued Ann Lee's missionary tradition. Shaker missionaries proselytized at [[Revival meeting|revivals]], not only in New England and New York but also farther west. Missionaries such as [[Issachar Bates]] and Benjamin Seth Youngs (older brother of [[Isaac N. Youngs|Isaac Newton Youngs]]) gathered hundreds of proselytes into the faith.<ref name="Stein"/>{{rp|55, 110}}

On April 12 of 1805, Benjamin Youngs and two companions held the first ceremony west of the Allegheny Mountains. It was held at [https://www.wchsmuseum.org/ourproperties.html the cabin of James Beedle], East of Lebanon, Ohio. In 2019, the cabin was relocated, by the Warren County Historical Society, to its current site next to Harmon Museum in Lebanon, Ohio.

Mother Lucy Wright introduced new hymns and dances to make sermons more lively. She also helped write Benjamin S. Youngs' book ''The Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing'' (1808).

Shaker missionaries entered Kentucky and Ohio after the [[Cane Ridge, Kentucky]] [[Revival (religious)|revival]] of 1801–1803, which was an outgrowth of the Logan County, Kentucky, [[Revival of 1800]]. From 1805 to 1807, they founded Shaker societies at [[Union Township, Warren County, Ohio|Union Village, Ohio]]; South Union, [[Logan County, Kentucky]]; and [[Pleasant Hill, Kentucky]] (in [[Mercer County, Kentucky]]). In 1806, a Shaker village, named [[Watervliet Shaker Village (Ohio)|Watervliet]], after the New York town that was the site of the first Shaker settlement, was established in what is today [[Kettering, Ohio]], surviving until 1900 when its remaining adherents joined the [[Union Village Shaker settlement]].<ref name="Ohio Historical Marker">[https://www.beavercreekliving.com/book/item/50-book-thirtyfive ''Ohio roadside historical marker #6–57, Watervliet Shaker Community''.] "Beavercreek Living" website article on "Watervliet, Vale of Peace...", with photo of and text from roadside historical marker (retrieved March 2, 2022).</ref> In 1824, the [[Whitewater Shaker Settlement]] was established in southwestern [[Ohio]]. The westernmost Shaker community was located at [[West Union (Busro), Indiana|West Union]] (called Busro because it was on Busseron Creek) on the Wabash River a few miles north of Vincennes in [[Knox County, Indiana]].<ref name=" Stein"/>{{rp|62–54}}