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INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Henrietta Hamilton McCormick, - - Frontispiece.
Abner Porter, M.D., . . - . 8
Hugh Blair Grigsby, LL.D., - - - - 17
Gen. John Warren Grigsby, ... 24
D. William Gwin, LL.D., - - - - 43
Capt. Reuben Grigsby, . . - . 46
Francis Augustus MacNutt, ... ^2
Andrew Jackson Paxton, - - - - 82
Gen. E. F. Paxton, .... 84
Gov. A. Gallatin McNutt, - - - - 89
Joseph P. McNutt, ----- 104
Gov. William A. McCorkle, - - - 118
Joseph Glasgow, - - - - - 119
Judge Josiah S. McNutt, - - - - Clal:^
John Richardson Hamilton, . - . . 146
John Gilbreath Hamilton, - - - - 159
Locust Hill, --..-- 184
John Hamilton (1829), .... 185
Elizabeth McNutt Hamilton (1829), - - - 185
John Hamilton (i860), .... 187
Elizabeth McNutt Hamilton (i860), - - - 187
James G. Hamilton, . - - . 189
Rachel Hamilton Osborne, .... jgi
Margaret Hamilton Krebs, ... 1^6
Martha Hamilton Smithson, .... 199
Alexander McNutt Hamilton, - - - 201
Isabella Hamilton, ..... 203
Leander James McCormick, ... 207
Robert Hall McCormick, - - -- - 211
Elizabeth Maria McCormick (1852) - - 212
Henrietta Laura McCormick Goodhart, - - 212
Leander Hamilton McCormick, - - - 213
McNutt Arms 53
\ Hamilton Arms 135
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PREFACE.
A most noticeable feature of the closing years of the nine-
teenth century is the attention given to family history, to the
tracing out of one's descent and the investigation of ancestry.
This may be accounted for partly by the increased interest in and
the recognized influence of heredity, and partly by the stimulus
given by such of our patriotic societies as are associated with our
Colonial history and the stirring events of the American Revolu-
tion, whose membership is dependent upon a direct lineal descent
from ancestors actively engaged in those memorable struggles.
The members of our American families are often separated
widely. To counteract the effect of this dispersive tendency in
our family life, it is the more important that there should be
easily accessible, to the members of families, a printed genealog-
ical record, that the traces of descent be not lost, and the names
of members of the past generations and their deeds, be saved from
oblivion. The noticeable deficiencies in this book are due to the
fact that the writer was too late in undertaking the work. The
former generation, and nearly all her contemporaries, having
passed away before it was begun.
" The Fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live
forever ?"
PORTER.
THE name, Porter, is not confined to any one section of the
of the United States, but is equally well known in the north
and south, east and west. It is not circumscribed or limited by
boundaries. To endeavor to localize it would be like catching
the breezes which float over the prairies of the west, to the
boundless seas of the east.
The family of Porter embraces within its fold, the names of
many distinguished personages. Its men have been leaders in
public affairs, both on land and sea, and have ever been promi-
nent in the higher walks of American life.
The branch of the family whose genealogies are here given,
was of English origin; and according to tradition, were of the
pure English type, handsome and vivacious, tall, of blond com-
plexion with an abundance of light hair.
i Benjamin Porter, great-grandfather of the author of this
book, was a native of England. He married Ann Campbell of
Wales, and came to America in 1730, settling in Orange
County, Virginia.
Had issue:
1. Ambrose.
2. Nicholas.
3- Thomas.
4. Charles.
Colonel Charles Porter was a member of the House of Bur-
gesses in Dinsmore's time, commanded a regiment at the siege
of Yorktown, and in 1777 was elected to the House of Dele-
gates from Orange County (now Culpeper) under the new con-
stitution of the previous year, when Mr. Madison lost his elec-
tion. Up to 1788 or 1789, Colonel Porter was an influential
member of the General Assembly, sustaining all of Mr. Jeffer-
son's revised bills, especially the act concerning religious free-
dom. He married Sarah Camp, of Williamsburg.
Had issue: .. i
Camp.
John. I
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Benjamin. |
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Rebecca.
Nancy.
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Mary. ^
Camp Porter, the eldest son, married, in December, 1797,
Frances, daughter of John and Martha Alcock, of Orange
County. He died November 11, 1807.
Had issue:
John Alcock married Mary Crump.
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Martha married James W. Walker.
George Camp married Susan Madison Wood.
Charles.
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Benjamin.
6.
Elizabeth.
B., February 27, 1734.
D., October 7, 1807.
M., John Grigsby.
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Frances.
8.
Joseph.
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Jane.
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Mary.
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Abner.
B.June 25, 1743.
M., Hannah Ingram,
B., August 16, 1750.
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Daughter of John and Elizabeth Hawkins Ingram
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M., November 13, 1768.
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Had issue:
Francis.
B., June 4, 1770-
M., J. Robertson.
b. Alexander. 1
B., December 7, 1772 j
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D.,June 20, 1773. !
c. Abner Porter, M. D. }
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B., June 6, 1774. ,
D., February 23, 1808.
e. Alexander.
B., May 11, 1776.
f. Elizabeth Hawkins.
B., September 21, 1778.
D., September i, 1843.
M., Elisha Grigsby.
Son of "Soldier John" and Elizabeth Porter
Grigsby, May 27, 1796.
g. Lucy.
B., 1780.
M., J. Beasley.
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3NER PORTER.
h. William.
B., April 9, 1783. , ,i
i. Maria.
B., 1785.
M., Richard Cave,
j. George.
B., November 25, 1787.
k. Benjamin F. )
and Nancy. )
B., March 6, 1790.
Benjamin.
M., first, Miss Gibbs; second, Mrs. Joseph
Grigsby.
Nancy.
M., Benjamin Beckham.
1. Verlinda.
B., April 6, 1793.
M., Reuben Grigsby.
m. Samuel.
B., May 27, 1795.
M., Mary Henshaw.
Here follows the will of the first mentioned Benjamin Porter :
Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Benjamin
Porter, 1761.
In the name of God, amen.
I, Benjamin Porter, of Orange County, Va., being in perfect
health and of sound mind and memory — thanks be to Almighty
God for the same — but knowing the uncertainty of this life, do
make and ordain this to be my last will and testament.
First, I resign my soul to God, hoping for pardon and
remission of all my sins through the merit and suffering of my
kind Saviour, Jesus Christ.
My body I yield to the earth, to be buried in Christian-like
manner.
As to my executors, hereinafter named, shall they meet, and
to such worldy estate as it hath pleased God to bestow on me,
I give, devise, and bequeath the same in manner and form the
following:
First, I give to my eldest son, Ambrose Porter, one shilling
current money of Virginia.
I give and devise all my land and tenements in the tract I
now live on, and that lies on the east side of my spring branch.
down to the river, unto my sons Nicholas, Thomas, Charles,
and Abner — to them and their heirs forever, to be equally
(divided among them; my son Nicholas having his choice either
of the manor home or the plantation where he now lives.
1 I give and devise to my sons Benjamin and Joseph all the
Sower tract of land I purchased of Mr. Nicholas Battail, and
tihe lands I purchased of Mr. Rowland Thomas, with a water-
front on the river — to them and their heirs. I empower and
order my executors to sell at public auction the upper part of
the land I purchased of the aforesaid Battail to the highest
bidder, and the money coming from such sale to be equall}'
divided between my daughters Elizabeth and Frances, and
their heirs.
I give and bequeath unto my following children — viz.: Ben-
jamin, Thomas, Charles, Joseph, Abner, Jane, Bettie, Mary,
and Frances — all my slaves and personal estate — to them and
their heirs forever, to be equally divided among them, except
as to my son Nicholas, which I give an equal part of the per-
sonal estate (negroes excepted), he having received his share of
them.
I desire that my grandchildren of my daughters may be
educated by my executors, out of the profits of my estate.
It is my desire, and I do order that if any of my sons should
die before they arrive at the age of twenty-one years, or
marry, that their part of the land be equall}- divided among
the surviving heirs to whom I have given my land.
Lastly, I do appoint Nicholas and Benjamin my executors of
this my last will and testament.
Witnesses:
George Taylor.
Lewis Taylor.
George Bledsoe.
James Madison (father of President Madison.)
GRIGSBY.
MANY American families, particularly Virginian, trace their
descent from John Grigsby, whose ancestors were
unquestionably of Welsh origin, and who settled in this coun-
try at a very early day, and were a potent factor in the social
and intellectual development of the communities in which they
lived. As a people, they have been noted for their refined
tastes, gracious manners, broad-mindedness and liberality, and
entire absence of anything like narrow clannishness, in relig-
ious or political matters, and for unswerving devotion to the
interests of higher education.
The members of this family, with which the present records
deal, were two brothers, James and John, who emigrated to
America about the year 1660, and settled in Stafford County,
Va., where John Grigsby was born in the year 1720.
In the year 1740, the latter accompanied Lawrence Wash-
ington, in the forces of Admiral Vernon, on the expedition
against Cartliagena, South America, which was " one of the
most important events of Gooch's Administration, as, taken in
connection with the other colonies, it was another step in the
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development of union." See " History of Augusta County
by J. Lewis Peyton; and "Collections of the Virginia Histor-
ical Society," volume ix. Afterward he commanded acompan}-
in the Thirteenth Regiment of the Virginia Line during the
Revolutionary War. This information was obtained from the
old war records in the archives at Washington. Owing to
participation in this Colonial War and in the Revolutionari/
War, he was afterward known as "Soldier John."
Six years later, in 1746, he married Rosanna Etchison,
(born 1730), and removed to Orange County, Va.
They had issue:
1. James.
B., November 10, 1748.
2. John.
B., October 5, 1752.
3. Charles.
B., April 6, 1755.
4. Sally.
B., December 30, 1757.
5. William.
B., September 6, 1761.
His wife died in 1761 or 1762.
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In 1764 he married Elizabeth Porter, (born Feb. 27, 1734;
died Oct. 7, 1807), daughter of Benjamin and Ann Campbell
Porter, sister of Colonel Charles Porter, of Orange County,
VW., and aunt of Abner Porter, M. D.
They had issue:
1. Ann.
B., Sept. 13, 1766.
2. Joseph.
B., Jan. 6, 1768.
3. Jane.
B., Oct. 19, 1769.
4. Rachel.
B., May 7, 1771.
5. Martha.
B., Sept. 19, 1772.
6. Elisha.
B., May 17, 1774.
7. Elizabeth.
B., March 10, 1776
8. Frances.
B., Feb. 2, 1778
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9- Reuben.
B., June 5, 1780-
With this family, in the autumn of i799; ^e, John Grigsby,
removed from Culpeper county to Rockbridge county (then
Augusta) and settled on Fruit Hill place, where his daughters
were married, and where he died April 7) i794- After the
surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown, the Marquis de Chas-
telleaux, an officer on the staff of LaFayette, made a tour of
Virginia, and visited the Natural Bridge. He stopped at the
Fancy Hill Inn, and was entertained by the gentry of the
neighborhood in the hospitable fashion of the time. He was
charmed with the beauty and wit of the Grigsby and Welch
daughters, and in the book which he wrote upon his travels,
described their graces to his compatriots.
John Grigsby was the first person buried in Falling Spring
churchyard, Rockbridge county.
His grave bears the following inscription: )
" Pause, reader, here, and look with solemn dread
Upon the last lone dwelling of the dead.
Though numerous graves appear on every hand,
This was the first of all the silent band."
Of his descendants, James, his eldest son, in 176S married
Frances Porter, sister of his stepmother, Elizabeth Porter
Grigsby, and of Abner Porter, of Orange County.
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KUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY. LL D
Had issue:
1. Benjamin Porter.
B., Sept. i8, 1770.
2. John.
]i., March 7. 1772.
3. Mary.
B., Ma}- 27, 1774.
4. Hannah.
B., October 16, 1777.
5. Simeon.
B., December 18, 1779.
Benjamin Porter Grigsby married Ehzabeth Blair McPherson.
Had issue:
I. Hugh Blair Grigsby, LL. D.
B., November 28, 1806.
Married Mary Venable Carrington, November 19, 1840.
Had issue:
Hugh Carrington.
Mary Blair.
Hugh Blair, died April 28, 1881.
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A few days before his decease he was heard to say: '• I
desire to live, yet I feel submissive to the Divine will."
An offering from his friend, the Honorable Robert C. Win-
throp, of Massachusetts, a box of exquisite white flowers,
reached him in his last moments, and served to decorate his
grave.
His remains rest beneath a chaste and stately marble obelisk,
erected by his widow, in Elmwood cemetery, Norfolk, Va. It
bears the following inscription:
HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY, LL. D.
Born in Norfolk, Va.., November 28, 1806.
Died at " Edgehill," Charlotte County, Va., April 28, 1881.
President of the Virginia Historical Society.
Member of the Virginia Convention, 1829-30.
Chancellor of the College of William and Mary.
A biographical sketch of Hugh Blair Grigsby* can be found
in the "Virginia Historical Collections," volume ix.
Sarah (Sally), daughter of John Grigsby, married Thomas
Welch.
Had issue:
1. Mildred.
M., Alexander McCorkle.
2. Nancy.
M., William McCorkle.
*He was the author of "History o( Virginia Convention of 1798," and also, " Life and
Character of Gov. Tazewell."
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M., William Cunningham.
4. Elizabeth.
M., Benjamin Darst.
5. Benjamin.
M., Charlotte Pitzer.
Had issue:
a. Sarah Jane.
M., William Brj'ant.
b. John.
c. Virginia.
M., Pitzer.
d. Ann Maria.
e. William Luckess.
f. Hannah Morgan.
g. Oliver.
6. Thomas.
M., Elizabeth Porter Grigsby.
Had issue:
a. Sarah F.
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B., September 3, 1829.
D., March 23, 1S90.
M., James William Buchanan.
B.. February 4. 1823.
D., July 18, 1880.
Had issue:
Seven sons and four daughters.
b. Mary Ashly.
M., William Kaylor.
c. Thomas A.
B., July 27, 1827.
M., Elizabeth Kelly, 1859.
D., September 3, 1895.
Had issue:
7. Jane.
M., Benjamin Holmes.
Had issue:
8. Rachel.
M., Thomas Wilson.
William Grigsby, son of John and Rosanna Etchison Grigsby,
born Dec. 6, 1761, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War;
was wounded at Guilford Court House, N. C. Married Sally
Porter. Died 1830.
Had issue:
1. William.
Died in early youth.
2. Elizabeth.
M., David Templeton.
3. Jane.
M., Fettigrew.
4. Cynthia.
M., Nathan Carpenter.
5. Phoebe.
M., William French.
6. Sarah Caroline.
M., William Carper.
7. Samuel.
B., May 30, 1803.
M., Sally Sharp in Illinois in 1836.
Had issue: !
Willis H. Grigsby. Born near Springfield,
Mo., Oct. 28, 1838.
Has had a remarkable career in various departments of use-
ful activity, including military, political and evangelical work in
several states of the union.
M.. Nellie Willard, Aug. 17, 1S68.
Had issue:
I. May Serena.
B., Jan. 6, 1870.
2. Willard Channing.
B., Feb. 28, 1873.
3. Bell.
B.. May 25, 1875.
D.,July II, 1876.
4. Ida Virginia.
B.,Oct. 19, 1878.
Jojseph Grigsby, son of John and Elizabeth Porter Grigsbj
married Mary Ashly Scott.
Had issue:
1. Jane Ashly.
B., 1814.
D., Aug. 8, 1895.
M., Rev. James W. Goss.
2. James Scott.
M., Judith Hannah Porter,
Had issue;
a. Benjamin Porter.
b. Fanny Churchill.
M., H. B. Barbor.
Had issue:
1. Mary Hannah.
M., S. P. Pearce.
2. Margaret Jane.
3. Alexander Holford.
M., C. A. Sutton.
4. Irene Huntingdon.
M., C. A. Marshall.
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5- Joseph Grigsby.
6. Elizabeth Jane. i
7. Charles Richardson (
8. Herbert Boyer.
9. Trixie Peares.
10. Camilla Seabrook.
11. Emma Adams.
12. Susan Porter.
13. William Burkhardt.
c. Joseph.
Killed in Battle of Fayette, 1862.
d. James.
D., November, 1881.
e. Andrew J.
f. Alonzo R.
g. Susan P.
John Warren Grigsb}-, born in Rockbridge County, Va.,
September 15, 1818. Married at Lexington, Ky., November
5, 185 1, Susan Preston Shelby, daughter of Abner Shelby, and
grand-daughter of Isaac Shelby, first Governor of Kentucky.
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GENF.RAL JOHN" WAKKKN GKIGSISV.
Had issue:
Alfred.
Virginia.
Louisiana.
Susan.
Hart Preston.
John Warren Grigsb}' was Consul at Bordeaux, France, dur-
ing the administrations of Presidents William Henry Harrison,
John Tjler, and James K. Polk. In the late Civil War he
raised the Sixth Kentucky Regiment of Cavalry, and attached
himself to the command of General Wheeler. He subsequentl}'
was appointed inspector-general of all the cavalry in Johnston's
command, which position he held until the close of the war, in
1865. He lived in Danville, Ky., and was a member of the
General Assembly of that state at the time of his death, January
12, 1877.
The Danville Advocate said:
" This entire people, from the humblest to the highest, had
other than ordinar}' regard for him; for in him were centered
all the qualities that makes a man at once noble and pure, gen-
erous, just and great. His faultless christian deportment, his
unswerving fidelity to correct principle in detail, his ready recog-
nition of merit in the humble or the more exalted, and his
abhorrence of meanness in either, rendered him eminently
adapted to the high social position he has always enjoyed at
home and abroad. As a benefactor and servant of the people.
of whom they were proud, his race is run; but in memory his
name will be revered."
Col. Andrew Jackson Grigsby was horn in Rockbridge
County, Va., November 2, 1819. When war with Mexico was
declared, he was residing in Missouri, and he enlisted in Colonel
Doniphan's well-known regiment, which distinguished itself in
that war.
In the spring of 1861. he was living in Giles County, Va.,
and at once entered the service of his state, becoming success-
ively Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the Twenty-
seventh Virginia Regiment, one of the five regiments of the
noted "Stonewall" brigade. He served with this brigade
through the campaigns of 1861 and 1862, becoming commander
of the brigade after Colonel W. H. S. Baylor was killed at
Second Manassas. At the battle of Sharpsburg, after the
retirement of General J. R. Jones, and the death of General
W. E. Starke, he became commander of Jackson's old division,
and led it with conspicuous ability and gallantry. Indeed, the
gallantry of Colonel Grigsby was conspicuous on every field
on which the " Stonewall " brigade was engaged.
In the fall of 1862, after the promotion of General E. F.
Paxton, formerly Major of his regiment, and at the time adju-
tant-general of Jackson's corps, to the command of the " Stone-
wall " brigade. Colonel Grigsby resigned his position, being
then in feeble health, and unable to endure further active
service.
He retired to the home of his relatives, the Goss family, in
Albemarle County, and ever afterwards resided there, dis-
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charging his duties as a citizen in a quiet and an unobtru-
sive manner.
Colonel Grigsby was a brother of General John W. Grigsby,
(who commanded a brigade in Morgan's division of cavalry.)
He was a man of great force of character, impulsive, and
decided in his views. He was brave almost to rashness, and in
battle exposed himself with a reckless disregard of his own
safety. He never said "Go," but always "Come." While a
stern disciplinarian, his regiment was devoted to him, and would
follow him anywhere.
At the unveiling of the Jackson statue in Lexington, in 1891,
he rode at the head of the remnant of the " Stonewall "
brigade, and seemed delighted to be the leader, on this peace-
ful occasion, of the men whom he so often had led in battle.
At the unveiling of the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument in
Richmond, in 1894, notwithstanding his seventy-five years, he
marched on foot, side by side, with the commander of John
Bowie Strange Camp, the whole distance.
Colonel Grigsby was taken sick with pneumonia, on Wednes
day, Dec. 18, 1895, and the disease progressed with such rapid-
ity that he died on Monday, Dec. 23, in the seventy-seventh
year of his age.
Martha, Daughter of John Grigsby, married Alexander
Trimble.
Martha Grigsby Trimble was born Sept. 19, 1772. This
superior lady died at her old home, on Sunday morning, Oct.
4, 1868, at the great age of ninety-six years. She was an
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honored member of the Grigsby family, so large!}' connected
in Virginia. It was near the close of the Revolutionary War
when she removed with her father's family to Rockbridge
County, and it was after the close of the Civil War when she
died, so that she was one of the very few persons who carried
the entire history of the United States in her memory from
original impressions. Her vigorous faculties remained in full
exercise to the last da}' of her life. She talked of all the wars
of the country.
Alexander ^Trimble, her iiusband, was born Feb. 15, 1762;
died Nov. 22, 1816.
Elisha, son of John Grigsby, born May 17, 1774? died May
24, 1847.
Married Elizabeth Hawkins Porter, daughter of Abner and
Hannah Ingram Porter, May 27, 1796.
Had issue:
a. Abner A. Porter.
B., Sept. 18, 1798.
D., April 4, 1861.
M., Margaret Thompson, Nov. 3, 1825.
Had issue:
I. Elisha.
B., Sept. 5, 1826.
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2. William Thompson. * '
B., Jan. 20, 1828.
3. Sarah Frances.
13., Aug, 17, 1830.
4. Elizabeth.
B., August 10, 1835.
5. Henry.
B., June 26, 1837.
6. John Porter.
B., April 4, 1840.
William Thompson Grigsb}-, son of Abner A. Porter and
Margaret Thompson Grigsby, married Emma Bright, May
31, 1854.
Had issue:
Ernest A.
B., April 6, 1855.
Eva Bell.
B., Nov. 4, 1856.
Sherwood.
B., May 3, 1858.
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Amelia A.
B., October ii, 1859.
Maud E.
B., August 26, 1861.
Robert E. Lee.
B., March 26, 1863.
Hugh S.
B., April 14, 1866.
Mary L.
B., November 8, 1868.
John Porter.
B., January 10, 1870.
William Erie.
B., April II, 1872.
Anna R.
B., December 6, 1876.
Virginia M.
B.,June 10, 1879.
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b. Hannah Ingram Grigsby, daughter of Elisha and
Elizabeth Porter Grigsb}'; born July 26, 1800;
married in 1818, David Greenlee; died Novem-
ber 10, 1862; born in 1781.
They had issue:
1. Elizabeth.
B., October 11, 1819.
M.,John M. Early, M. D., October 25, 1838.
D., Novembei- 9, 1889.
2. Hannah Mary.
B., May 28, 1821.
M., Joseph Dillard.
3. Emeline.
M., Thomas Wilson.
4. Lavinia.
M., William Dillard.
5. Elisha Grigsby Greenlee, M. D.; born January 11,
1828; Surgeon C. S. A.; removed to Mississippi;
died July 9, 1885; unmarried.
6. D. Robert B. Greenlee, M. D.; born 1829; removed
to Mississipi; married Mrs. Amanda Gifford,
granddaughter of Daniel Boone.
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Had issue:
a. Maud Grigsby. . ■■ r /--■> ,' ,, . • .
b. Kate Thornton; removed from Mississippi to Ma}'-
flower. Ark.
7. Jane Lewis.
M., Horace Burnley.
8. James S.
M., Sallie Harlan.
9. Virginia C.
M., Capt. James Walton.
10. Joseph.
11. William Woodville.
12. John Marshall.
c. John Trimble, son of Elisha and Elizabeth Porter
Grigsby; born November 21, 1803; died January
15, 1836; married Sally White; removed to Mis-
souri, in 1829.
Had issue:
1. Josheph White.
2. Elisha Feathers.
d. Eliza Porter Grigsby; born M.ay 9, 1806; married
Thomas Welch.
Had issue:
1. Sarah Frances.
M., James William Ijuchanan.
2. Mary Ashly.
M., William Kaylor.
D., November 15, 1840.
3. Thomas A.
M., Elizabeth Kelly, 1S59.
D., September 3, 1895.
e. Joseph Grigsby, son of Elisha and Elizabeth
Porter Grigsb}-.
B., December 2, 1808.
M., Frances Weir.
U., June 26, 1843.
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Had issue.
f. Berlinda Grigsby, daughter of Elisha and Eliza-
beth Porter Grigsb}-.
B.. November 15. iSio.
INI.. Thomas Scott.
D.. May 15, 1S42.
Had issue.
Frances Jane Grigsb}', daughter of Ehsha and
EHzabeth Porter Grigsb}-.
B.. February 11, 1812.
M., Jacob Mohler, March 30. 1834, ^* l^ose
Hill, Rockbridge Count}-, Va.
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Had issue:
1. John Trimblt:.
13., September 9, 1835.
D., Auf,fust 30, 1S59.
2. Elizabeth Hawkins.
B., October ro, 1S37.
M., Isaac Long, Jr., November 19, 1856.
3. Elisha Grigsby.
B., November 18, 1838.
M., Loiila Goodman, May 25, 1864.
4. Magdalene Rhinehart.
15 , Februar}' 12, 1840.
M.Thomas Thornton Gwin, January i, 1868.
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Had issue:
a. Fannie Grigsby.
P)., September 20. 186B.
b. Jacob iMohler.
15., February 26, 1S70.
c. Mary Ella.
15., June 9, 1S71.
d. Thomas Thornton.
B., February 19, 1873.
E. Betty Long.
B, June 20. 1877.
f. William Francis.
B., August 16, 1S80.
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5- Frances Jane. a ■. j" >
B., August 30, 1841.
M., Richard H. Lyell, February 24, 1886.
6. Abram Weaver.
B., February 14, 1843.
7. Jacob Abner Joseph.
B., April 4, 1844.
8. Octavius.
B., October 25, 1845.
9. David Gwin.
B., December 29, 1846.
M., Laura Lyell, October 10, 1878.
Frances Jane Grigsby Mohler, Died May 5, 1848.
Jane, daughter of John and Elizabeth Grigsby; born October
19, 1769; died November 15, 1832; married William Paxton,
June 21, 1787.
Had issue:
1. Joseph.
B., May 17, 1788.
2. Betsey.
B., July 19, 1789.
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3- Mary. ,
B., January 21, 1791-
M., in 1812, James Greenlee; born in 1769.
Had issue:
a. Hannah McClanahan.
B., December 14, 1812.
J\I., May 24, 1832, James Dorman Davidson.
James Dorman Davidson was born November 7> 1808. He
was the eldest son of the Reverend Andrew Baker Davidson,
and Susan Davidson, whose maiden name was Dorman, and
who was a sister of the late General Charles P. Dorman, who
was a distinguished lawyer, and represented Rockbridge
County in the State Legislature, during the decades of 1830
and 1840.
The Greenlees and the Paxtons were among the earliest
white inhabitants. James Greenlee and Mary Paxton were
married in 181 2, and their eldest daughter, Hannah McClan-
ahan Greenlee, was born near " Greenlee's Ferry," December
14, 1812. She was married to James Dorman Davidson, May
24, 1832, and died July 7, 1889.
Had issue:
The eldest son died in infancy.
Colonel Greenlee Davidson, the second son, was born June
21, 1834. ^" ^'^ veins flowed the blood of the Davidsons,
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Greenlees, McDowells, Grigsbys, Dormans and Paxtons —
names alike distinguished in the Revolution, the war of 1812,
and the recent Civil War.
He entered Washington College, September, 1852, and took
the master's degree in June, 1855. He then entered the law
school at the University of Virginia, and completed his course
at the law school of Judge John Brockenbrough, in June, 1857.
Commencing the practice of his profession, he rose rapidly
in it, and soon united with it the duties and responsibilities of
master commissioner in chancery.
At this period of his career the Civil War came on, and
Governor Letcher, who had known him from his childhood,
called him to his side as aide-de-camp, with the rank of lieu-
tenant colonel of cavalry. Afterward, Colonel Davidson
raised and equipped the Letcher Light Artiller}-, of which he
was elected captain, resigning his position as aid-de-camp, in
Feb., 1862, to enter upon his career of active soldier's life.
His battery was assigned to A. P. Hill's division, Stonewall
Jackson's corps, and first went into action at Mechanicsville,
June 26, 1862. Thereafter, led by its brave commander, Col-
onel Greenlee Davidson, the Letcher Artillery bore its full
share in the conflict until the fall of its brave commander at
Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863.
Frederick Davidson, the third son, was educated at Wash-
ington College, and from there marched with the first contin-
gent of troops, which afterward formed the Stonewall brigade.
He fell at the first battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861.
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Colonel Charles Andrew Davidson, the fourth son, was a
man of pronounced abilities, of rare business qualifications,
and successful in his pursuits. He was educated at the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, a graduate of the class of i860. The
beginning of hostilities found him pursuing his study of law at
the University of Virginia, from which place he proceeded
directly to the army. This prompt action was characteristic
of the man, as his after life testified. He was commissioned
by Governor Letcher, a lieutenant in the regular forces of Vir-
ginia, and assigned to the First Batallion, a command famed
for bravery and hard fighting. He, with his troops, was in the
struggle from Manassas to Appomattox. As the war pro-
ceeded, his rank increased, and at the close he was in command
of the batallion.
He died February 25, 1879.
Albert Davidson, the fifth son, graduated at Washington Col
lege, at the age of eighteen, and was pursuing his course at
the University of Virginia when the Civil War broke out. He
enlisted promptly, and went entirely through the war, dying
May 6, 1865, from a wound received April 9, after the war
really had come to an end, though the news of its cessation
had not reached the border of the army, where he was located
at the time. Had his life been spared, he would have become
a Presbyterian minister.
William Weaver Davidson, the sixth and youngest son, vol-
unteered in the Letcher Artillery when he was a mere lad.
A severe attack of camp fever unfitted him for active service.
At the close of the war he entered the Virginia Military Insti-
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tute,
comple
beloved
ber 25.
but
was obliged to leave, because of ill health, before he
ted his course. He was strikingly handsome, and was
by all who knew him. He died of typhoid fever, Octo-
Marjy Davidson, the eldest daughter, was a lady of brilliant
mind and rare literary culture, and her life was devoted unself-
ishly to doing good and making others happy. She died Jan-
uary lb, 1894.
Clarla Davidson, the youngest member of the family, mar-
ried A ndrew Dorman Estill, M. D., in 1883. Their home is in
Lexington, amid the immediate scenes of her childhood, sur-
rounde d by the old grove, where hallowed memories are ever
cherish)ed.
b. Mary J. Greenlee.
M., John T. Finley.
c. John F.
d. Martha.
M., Ebon Davis.
e. Sarah A. E.
M., Dr. J. Watson.
f. William P.
M., Lizzie Foster.
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g. Fannie.
M., P. T. Link.
3. Martha.
B., Feb. 18. 1792.
M., Joseph Steele.
D., July 21, i860.
Had issue:
a. Alexander Trimble.
B., September 19, 1818.
b. Agnes Jane.
B., December 19, 1820.
D., January 23, 1877.
c. Elizabeth Frances Martha Grigsby.
B., August 18, 1823.
M.John McNutt.
John was the eldest son of William and Elizabeth Gr
McNutt.
Had issue: \
William B. A. McNutt, M. D., and two daughters.
3S I
rsby
; d. David William.
i
I B., February 25, 1826.
M., Mildred Johnson.
e. Joseph Grigsby.
B., September 10, 1827.
M., Miss Sterrett.
f. Mary Ashly.
B., November 23, 1831.
M., Adolph Elhart.
g. Sarah Josephine.
B., October 8, 1834.
M., Granville Campbell,
h. Phoebe.
B., October 6, 1836.
M., Rev. John F. Baker.
5. Phoebe.
B.,July 7, 1793.
M., John Grigsby.
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6. Sally. ..-. '■ " ■ -
B., December 20, 1794.
M., William Templeton.
7. Rachel.
B., December 20, 1794.
8. Thomas.
B.. January 15, 1796.
9. John.
B., October 2, 1798.
10. Samuel.
B., March 15, 1800.
11. Benjamin P.
B., August 2, 1801.
12. William; born September I, 1803; died November, i
1879; married, December, 1837, Sally Pettit
Burks; born March 30, 1816.
Had issue:
a. William L.; born January, 1839; k^'Hed in the first
battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861.
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h. Klizabcth G.
B.,ju)y, 1840.
]\I.. I. \V'illiam R. Seymour, November, 1867.
2. Jesse Fisher, 1881.
c. Joseph S.
15., January. 1842.
M., Bertie McChire, 1869.
d. M. Luther; born September, 1843; killed in the
battle of Kernstown, 1863.
e. Mary Verlinda.
B., April, 1S45.
f. John Calvin.
B., March, 1847.
M., Rebecca Robinson. 1883.
g. Ella Frances.
B., October, 1840.
M., Yoon Pike, 1870.
h. Thomas Porter.
B., September, 1831.
M., Lulu Kerdolph. 1876.
'^SJi
'^sr^jj
i. Sarah Agnes.
B.. June, 1853. . ' '''
M., Frank Brockenbrough. Sept.. r88o. I
I
j. Charles H.
B.. Nov.. 1855.
iM., Ehzabeth May Smilhson. Dec. 21.1880.
k. Reuben Grigsby.
B., Feb., 1857.
M.. Frances Lackey, June, iSSo.
13. Frances Jane.
B.. June 3, 1805.
14. Agnes Ann.
B., June 6, 1807.
15. Hannah.
B., March 11, 1810.
16. Berhnda.
(
Frances, daughter of John and Ehzabeth Grigsby, married
Thomas Beckham, Ma}' 22, 1800.
D. WILLIAM GWIN, L, L. D.
1884,
Had issue: .1 ,■ ... 1
1. James A.
M., Frances Alcock, June 19, 1834.
2. Mary Ann.
M., Samuel Porter, September 28, 1824.
3. John Grigsby.
M., Mar}- Moore, June 11, 1831.
John Grigsby Beckham was the father of General R. Frank
Beckham, chief of artillery on the staff of General Hood,
who was killed in the Confederate service. General Beckham
was a graduate of West Point, and an officer in the United
States army, but resigned at the beginning of the war, and went
South. He died at his residence in Prince William County,
Va., September, 1887.
4. Hannah.
5. Eliza.
6. Martha.
M.. Dr. Lewis, June 17, 1828.
7. Frances. ,'
M., D. S. Gwin, June 19, 1834.
Had issue :
a. David William Gwin, A. M., M. D.,D. D., LL. D.
B., December 6, 1838.
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Dr. David William Gwin. graduated at Richmond College,
in 1859, tiefore he was of age, and subsequently, that college
conferred upon him its highest literar)- degree, A. M. Just
afterwards he went to Georgia, and from there to Knoxville,
Tenn.. at which latter place he taught school till he was ap-
pointed professor of Latin and Greek in Brownwood Institute,
La Grange. In the autumn of 1861 he was ordained a Baptist
minister, and assumed the pastorate of the First Baptist Church
of Rome, Ga. The Southwestern Baptist University conferred
upon him the degree of LL. D., and from the University of
Alabama he had previously received the degree of D. D. He
married Jennie Crawford Howell, daughter of the late Rev.
Dr. Howell, who was for several years pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Nashville.
They had issue:
Howell Beckham, M. D. *
B., December 16, 1864.
Crawford David.
B.. March 29, 1874.
Anna.
B., March i, 1868.
M.. Spartan Goodlette. November 14, 1888.
♦Howell U. Gwiu IS a ijiaduHlc ul liie Luuisvulc Uuivcrsity, aud was a posl craduate
student ol tlie N. V. I'ulycliiuic (or 3c\eral ycais. He, as well as his father, labored iude-
latigably arnoug the strickeu sufferers of the yellow fever, during the epidemic of 1888, iu
Decatur. Ala. The remembrance of their heroic efforts at that time is cherished by their
hosts of friends throughout the Soutli.
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Had issue: .,; , ,
Gwin Spartan Goodlette.
Gertrude.
B.,July 15, 1877.
Jennille.
B., March 11, 1880.
b. Thomas Thornton Gwin.
M., Magdalene R. Mohler.
c. Frances V. Gwin.
B.. May 6, 1850.
M., Rev. J. Pike Powers.
Had issue:
Frank Beckham Powers, M. D.
David Theophilus.
John Pike.
Laviece Gwin.
Fannie Montgomery.
Laura Diake.
Harold.
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Mrs. Powers, the mother of the above family, is a remark-
able woman. She prepared her children for college, and has
entered three of them at universities by her own instruction.
She has also taught them modern languages and to plaj- on
several instruments.
8. Abner.
Reid^en, son of John Grigsby, was born at Fruit Hill. June 6.
1780. He was educated at Washington College. He was a
member of the House of Delegates of Virginia, a captain in
the United States arm}' in the war of 181 2, sheriff of Rock-
bridge County, trustee of Washington College, 1830-1843.
He died Februar}- 6, 1863, at his residence, Hickory Hill,
Rockbridge County, Va. He married Verlinda Alexander
Porter, February 26, 1817.
Had issue:
1. Jacquline Ale.xander.
B., May 25, 1818.
2. Lucien P.
B., Jan. I, 1820.
3. Abner Joseph.
B.. November 10, 182 1.
,). Hugh Blair. •
B., August 24, 1823.
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CAPT, REUBEN GRIGbBY,
5- Hannah Frances. ,,,,.. , ,
B., Fcbniaiy 23, 1825.
I\l., John Gilbreath Hamilton.
D., April 4. 1887.
6. Elizabeth J.
B., March 15. 1827.
7. Mary Ann.
B.. May 18, 1828.
D.. June 17, 1878.
Married William Sanderson McCormick, son of Robert
McCormick, of Walnut Grove, Rockbridge County, Va., July
II, 1858; removed to Chicago, October, 1849.
Had issue:
a. Robert Sanderson McCormick; born in Virginia,
July 26, 1849; married Katharine Medill, June
8, 1876.
Had issue.
Joseph Medill.
Katharina.
Robert Rutherford.
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Robert Sanderson McCormick was second Secretary of the
American Lcj^ation in London, in JS92, under the Hon. Robert
b. William Grigsby McCormick. born June 4, 1851
married Eleanor Brooks, October 23, 1873.
Had issue :
Carrie.
William Sanderson.
Mary Grigsby.
Walter Brooks.
Eleanor Harryman.
Chauncey Brooks.
Reubenia.
c. Emma Louise McCormick.
B., October 14, 1854.
M., Perry H. Smith, Jr.. June, 1878.
Had issue:
1. Perry H.
2. Reubenia McCormick.
4«
3- Perr\- Herbert. ." • r ■ r i
4. Robert McCormick.
Emma Louise McCormick Smith, died March 4, 1893.
d. Anna Reubenia McCormick.
B., Ma}- 22, i860.
M., Edward T. Blair, May 24, 1882.
Had issue:
1. Edith.
2. WilHam McCormick.
3. Lucy.
4. Edward Seymour.
e. Virginia Lucy jMcCormick.
B., April II, 1865.
M., Samuel Rowntree Jewett, October 9.
188S.
Had issue:
1. McCormick.
2. Ellen.
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3- Emma McCormick. _ ,
4. Luc\' McCormick.
8. Lucy Maria, daughter of Reuben Grigsby, born
February 7, 1830; married December 5, 1850,
Norborne E. Chandler.
Had issue :
a. Reuben Grigsby.
b. Waher Temple.
c. Verlinda Porter.
d. Lucian Hamilton.
e. Mary Blair.
Died in her twenty-fifth year.
f. Elizabeth Gertrude.
g. Norborne S.
h. Lucy S.
i. Juliette S.
Lucy Maria Grigsby Chandler, died April 7, 1886.
9. Reubenia W., daughter of Reuben Grigsby; born
November 21, 183 1; married Samuel Temple
Chandler, M. D.
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Had issue : ., , . , .
a. De Lacey M.
b. Lucy Verlinda.
c. Joseph S.
d. Anna Hamilton.
e. Emma Temple.
f. Frank Paxton.
g. Warren M.
h. M. Louise.
lo. Emma Martha, daughter of Reuben Grigsby; born
August 24, 1833; married George S. Herbert.
Benjamin Porter Grigsby; born June 3, 1839.
Died in infancy.
Elizabeth, daughter of John Grigsby, was born March 10,
1776; married William McNutt, July 24, 1806; died December
13, 1842.
Rachel, daughter of John Grigsby, was born May 7, 1771.
and spent her girlhood at Fruit Hill Place, Rockbridge County,
Va. She was five feet eight inches in height; had gray eyes,
flaxen hair, and fair complexion. In 1788 she married Alexan-
der McNutt, of the same county, and had issue — thirteen child-
ren. Her husband's death, in 1812, left her a widow at forty-
one years of age, with this large family to bring up and edu-
cate. She was a Presbyterian, and, with her famil}', attended
Falling Spring Church. Notwithstanding all her domestic
cares and duties, in connection with her occupation, that of
planting, which she carried on with slave labor, she found time
to devote to the reading of politics and theolog}-. Mrs. Mc-
Nutt was known as a woman of remarkable worth and force
of character, and although fifty years have elapsed since her
decease, her name still commands the highest respect. After
marrying her daughters satisfactorily, and settling her sons in
professions and business, she departed this life, January 7, 1841.
Her death was caused by an accidental fall. She was buried
in the cemetery at Lexington.
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McNutt.
(The names McNutt was originally written MacNaught.)
THE MacNaughts were of the same stock as the Mac-
Naughtens, (i), of that ilk in Argyleshire, said by Nesbitt
to derive origin from one Nauchton, an eminent man in the
reign of Malcom IV, (A. D. 1153-1165), to whom he was
very useful in subduing the McDougalls, of Lorn, (2). The
Note (i).— The MacNaughtens were Thanes ol Toclitay and chiefs of a powerful fight-
ing clan. They were, later, strong adherents ol the Stuarts, and one of the last conspicu-
ous men of the house was Alexander MacNaughten, a brave and chivalrous gentleman.
who loyally ruined himself for Charles I, and after his sovereign's overthrow, went into
exile. .'\t the Restoration, King Charles If gave him a life pension, and he died in Lon-
don a lew years after his return to England, where he was well known at the court ol the
" Merry Monarch."
Note (2). See "Lauds and their Ow
Galloway," volume 4. page iqy.
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armorial bearings of the two families are, however, distinct,
(3). The earliest mention of the MacNaughts as proprietors
of the estates of Kilquhanitie, in Galloway, is in 1448, when
Fergus MacNaught, of Kilquhanitie, and John MacNaught,
of Craigow, were on an assize; Symaon, (1684), states that
of old, the land belonging to MacNaught, of Kilquhanitie,
was in the possession of a family named Durham.
Gilberd MacNaught, of the County of Dumfries, swore
fealty to Edward I, in 1296. James graduated at the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh in 1593.
Roger, of Kilquhanitie, sat in Parliament for Edinburgh
from 1593-98, (4). Some of the family were merchant bur-
gesses and baillies of Edinburgh about the same time, and in
the seventeenth century there was a family in Edinburgh to
whom the same arms as those used by MacNaught, of Kilqu-
hanitie, were assigned in their funeral scutcheons. This family
is now extinct. There is also a mention of "Fergussius Mac-
Naught de Culconnady," in an instrument of perambulation of
the Marches of the lands of Ardes, dated July 11, 1488, (5).
Note (3).— The arms registered by John MacNaughten, of Kilquhanitie, in 1672, are:
Sable, a chevron argent and azure, between three lions heads erased of the second. A fac
similie of this scutcheon of ancient Norman form is found in Sir David Lindsays work
on Heraldry. -Edinburgh, 1822.
Note (4).— See Stodart's Scottish Arms, volume 2, p.ige 187.
Note (5).— The same Fergus MacNaught, of Kilquhanitie, mentioned above as on an
•issize in 1448. The name of the estate is found with every variation of spelling, Kilquhan-
naty, Culconnady, Kilquharitie, etc., but the usual and modern spelling is Kilquhanitie.
The same nmy be remarked of the family name. The etymology of the name is simple
and obvious: thus the stem is Cnut. and indicative of Danish origin; from this root the
variations of Nauchton. Naughten, Naught and Nutt, with the prefix "Mac." which marked
the family as a laud owning one have sprung. The name is now stil further shorn by
most of its bearers and spelled McNutt.
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John MacNaught, of Kilquhanitie, married to Margaret
Gordon, daughter of John Gordon of Airds, and grand-
daughter of John Sinclair, of Earlstovvn, "found surety on
January ii, 1542, to underly the law at the next justice-aire
of Kirkcubright for art and part in the cruel slaughter of
William Sinclair, of Auchinfranco." This William Sinclair
was doubtless a relative of his wife's.
The younger son of this same John, also named John, was
killed, in 161 2, by Thomas Maxwell, of Arenyning, brother of
Alexander Maxwell, of Logan.
We next find Roger, Master at Kilquhanitie. He died
about 1640, leaving no male heirs, and on the 28th of Decem-
ber, 1641, John MacNaught, of Edinburgh, had retour of the
lands, and in 1642 he had sasine of the same. Roger, however,
had two sisters; Sara, married to John Lockhart, of Edin-
burgh, and Nicola married to Robert Lenox, of Dursdow, and
there are records of their several claims on their respective
shares of the Kilquhanitie estate.
There follow the records of several transactions connected
with the Gordon family, but these had to do with the marriage
settlements of Florence Gordon, who married John, the suc-
cessor of Roger. In 1669, John, and his wife, Florence, had
sasine of the lands of Holme in the parish of Balmachellan,
and in June following they granted a renunciation to Wm.
Gordon, of Holme, of the barony of over Deanstown, Nether-
Barhill, Holme, etc.
The eldest — and as far as known, the only — son of John
MacNaught and his wife, Florence Gordon, was also John.
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The last mention of his father is in 1673, and of his mother in
1669, so it is probable that he succeeded to Kilquhanitie and
its diminishing revenues, about 1675. He was twice married,
his first wife being Jean Glencorse, and of this marriar,^e there
was but one child, a daughter, Elizabeth, (i), who had sasine
of over Kilquhanitie in 1723, no doubt in regard to an annuit}'.
She was the last of the family at Kilquhanitie. Upon the
death of his first wife. John married a second time, and of this
marriage there were four sons, John, Alexander, William and
Samuel.
The records show the gradual impoverishment of the family,
and it is stated that after his second marriage, with debts, a life-
rentrix, (2), which absorbed the remainder of the estate, John
MacNaught left Kilquhanitie and Scotland, with the intention
of emigrating to America, and, with his four sons, crossed to
the north of Ireland. The last mention of him at Kilquhanitie
is in 1696.
Although it is impossible to fix the exact date of the aban-
donment of the family homestead at Kilquhanitie and the
departure for Ireland, this must have taken place towards the
very close of the seventeenth century, or in the first years of
the eighteenth, (i). The tradition handed down in various
Note (i).— Elizabeth married a Dunbar, and is usually styled, "Lady Kilquhanitie," in
the old records. Some of the lands were held in fief from the crown and some in fee
simple.
Note (2).— Elizabeth's annuity, probably.
Note (i).— There have been descendants of the family who alleged that their ances-
tors were covenanters and left Scotland on account o( religious persecutions. No warrant
for this can be found, however, and it would rather seem that the family adhered to the
Stuarts. In any case, the reasons for their leaving Kilquhanitie are clearly proved by the
l.>cal records to have been their money difficulties and the increasing poverty and dissola-
tion of tlie estate, and there is no mention or indication of any religious persecution dis-
turbing tliem. Their uninterrupted tenure of Kilquhanitie lasted for over two centuries.
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widely divergent branches of the family is everywhere the
same in asserting that John MacNaught, last of his name in
Scotland, crossed to Londonderrj', Ireland, with his four sons,
and that the names of these four sons were, Alexander, Wil-
liam, John and Samuel. The name MacNult is then found
for the first time, but there is no record of any formal or legal
change of name having been made, so that the change was
effected by a mere simplification of spelling, and the name
itself continued to be pronounced much the same as it had been.
Of these four sons of John, Alexander married in Ireland,
(2), and it would seem that he emigrated to America somewhat
before any other member of his family, and was followed a few
years later by his sons. He first settled in Maryland, near
the present site of Hagerstown, removing later to Orange
County, Virginia (about 1743). His sons were, Alexander,
William, John, Robert and James. In the court records of
Augusta County, in 1753, there is the entry: "From Benja-
min Borden, executor of Benjamin Borden, deceased, to Alex-
ander McNutt, eldest son and heir at law of Alexander Mc-
Nutt, deceased, late of Orange County, Va., for a tract of
land, part of the 'Big Survey;'" and another entry reads,
from same to "James McNutt, son of Alexander McNutt,
deceased, late of Orange County, Va.," for another tract in the
same survey.
Alexander McNutt.
Had issue:
Note (2.) — No record has been found giving the date of this marriage,
name of Alexander's wife; her christian name was Jane.
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1. Alexander. ' I iv j y f /,
2. William.
3- John.
4. Robert.
5. James.
There is said to have been another son, who was killed in
an Indian skirmish when a mere boy; also a daughter, who
married a Mr. Wier. of Nova Scotia. There is no record of
their names, however (i). The Rev. Robert H. Fleming, of
Lynchburg, Va., is a great grandson of Mrs. Weir, and there
are other descendents of the name living in Nova Scotia.
Robert, the fourth son of Alexander, 1st, inherited about
one-half of the original McNutt grant in Virginia, but selling
his estate in 1790 to a Mr. Berryhill, he removed to Kentucky.
He was married, and of his children, one, James, lived in 1848
near Grand View, Illinois, but this line has not been traced.
Colonel Alexander McNutt.
No researches have so far been able to fix the exact date
of the birth of Colonel Alexander McNutt, the eldest son
of Alexander. That he was the eldest son is shown by the
entry in the Records of Augusta County, Virginia, before
mentioned, in which he is so described. The entr}', it will
be remembered, is dated 1753. In 1756 he took part in the
Note (i). — The Christian name of Mrs. Weir is commonly believed to have been Jane.
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Sandy Creek expedition against the Shawnee Indians, hold-
ing the rank of lieutenant in that force, and as his death occur-
red in 1811, and he was then a very old man of more than
eighty years, he was most probably born some time between
1720 and 1725 in Ireland.
Alexander Withers, in his "Border Warfare," says: "A
journal of this campaign was kept by Lieutenant McNutt, a
gentleman of libei'al education and fine mind, and on his return
to Williamsburg he presented this to Governor Fauquier of Vir-
ginia, by whom it was placed in the executive archives." This
refers to the Sandy Creek Indian war. Mr. McNutt went
to Ireland and England several times, and taking letters from
Governor Dinwiddle, which procured him an audience of the
king, he was knighted by George II, in recognition of his
services and gallantry. The sword which was then presented
to him by the king is still preserved, though despoiled of its
silver mounting, chains and ornamented scabbard, by the sol-
diers of General Hunter's command, when they made their raid
in the Valley of Virginia during the Civil War.
After the expulsion of the French settlers from Acadia, large
grants of land were made in the Province of Nova Scotia to
Colonel Alexander McNutt, two hundred thousand acres in
Picton, and no less than one million six hundred thousand acres
in other parts of the Province. His grant in Picton was known
as the " Irish Grant." Another was known as the " Philadel-
phia Grant." In addition to these lands the greater part of
Prince Edward's Island was given to him, and another still
known as McNutt's Island, at the entrance of Shelbourne
Harbor, upon which he fixed his residence, and where he lived
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at intervals during about fifty years, (i). His Scottish names,
Clyde River, Argyle Bay, etc., attest Alexander's fond tradi-
tions of the land of his forefathers.
On the 30th of April, 1762, an application was made b}' Alex-
ander McNutt, acting on behalf of citizens of Philadelphia,
amongst whom was Benjamin Franklin, for a tract of land near
Port Rosewaj' (Port Razoir), sufiicient for a township, and.
further praying for a charter to found thereon a city to be
called "Jerusalem." This is the site of Shelbourne. The
council advised in favor of this application. Governor Wilmot
represented McNutt as an active and capable man, zealous in
promoting settlement, and the people whom he had already
introduced into the Province as useful and valuable settlers.
His first shipload of colonists landed in Nova Scotia, October
9th, 1 761, and consisted of more than three hundred people. On
the 7th of March, 1762, he brought over one hundred and
sevent}' others, also from the north of Ireland. The first Eng-
lish settlements had been made in i749i and Alexander McNutt
and his brother William first came to the Province in 1759.
There were about thirty men and no women in their party at
that time. With the exception of Lawrence, no single indi-
vidual played so active a part in the re-settlement of Nova
Scotia as McNutt, and what was actually achieved was as noth-
ing compared with the vast and comprehensive schemes and
NoTK (1)— For references upon the life and colouiziug work ol Alexander, see " A Short
History of the Canadian People."— George Bryce.
"Collection ol the Nova Scotian Hist. Society," iSSg^ji, Vol. VII and IX.
"The Scott in British North .'America." Rattcry, Vol. I.
"Murdock's Hist, of Nova Scotia." Vol. II.
Wither's "Border Warfare," (1831).
Waddell's " Annals of Augusta County."
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plans with which his fertile mind teemed. He was in intimate
relations with Governor Lawrence, and the two worked in har-
mony for the establishment and development of civilization in
the favored Province. Lawrence's untimel}' death deprived
him of the privilege of witnessing the degree of success attained,
and McNutt of a strong ally and supporter; the outbreak of
the American Revolution gave the death blow to McNutt's
undertakings. During the greater part of that long struggle
he was absent from Nova Scotia. The colony of Jerusalem,
bereft of his guidance and leadership, fell into confusion, the
colonists failed to fulfill their obligations to the crown and the
colony was taken possession of by the government. Alexander
was supposed to sympathize with the rebellious colonies in
New England, became suspect, and much of his land was con-
fiscated by the royal authorities.
As a matter of fact he joined the Continental Forces under
General Gates at Saratoga, and afterwards was known as a
meritorious oflicer on the staff of Baron DeKalb, in the South.
At the close of the war, however, he returned to his estate
on McNutt's Island. From this it would seem that his orig-
inal house in Halifax and his island estate were left untouched
by the British government.
In the "Annals of Augusta County," by Joseph A. Waddell,
member of the Virginia Historical Society, it is stated that
the diaries of the Shawnee Indian war were presented to Gov-
ernor Dinwiddle, and not to Fauquier, as elsewhere slated; and
all agree that it was Dinwiddie who presented him at the court
of George II, and paved the way for the honors and favors
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afterwards heaped upon him. It is difficuh to know in just
what capacity Alexander acted as a Crown agent, or to set
limits to the authority given him in Nova Scotia: In a letter
from General Amherst, dated New York, April 17, 1760, to
Governor Lawrence, and which was delivered by McNutt to
Lawrence, it states: "The bearer hereof, Alexander McNutt,
arrived here last night from New London, with a letter for me
from Governor Pownall, setting forth that as you supposed
some part of the New England levies would be sent to Nova
Scotia, etc., I should desire him to give McNutt Beating Orders
for that purpose." The General goes on to refuse to allow
troops to leave New England to reinforce those in Nova Sco-
tia, and concludes b}' saj'ing that McNutt seems convinced that
with the forces at hand and two companies of rangers. Gov-
ernor Lawrence has sufficient strength to defend and protect
his settler.
A certain Memorial, now in the British Museum, to the Right
Honorable Lords of Trade and Plantations, dated March 16,
1762, and Signed by Alexander, shows that the authority he
asked for was practically unlimited.
The Onslow patent reserved all mines of gold, silver, lead,
copper and coal, to the Crown, and also set aside one thousand
acres for a church, a school and the glebe.
In a letter from Jonathan Belcher, President of the Council,
and His Majesty's Commissioner ud inter/in over Nova Scotia,
to the Lord Commissioner for Trade and Plantations, it is
stated that Colonel McNutt had brought, in all, more than two
thousand people into the Province, and further, that the said
Colonel McNutt had contracted for ten thousand tons of ship-
ping, five thousand bushels of wheat and other grain and pro-
visions, and was preparing to bring over several thousand more
people. The character of the colonists is lauded, and it is
declared that for sobriety, industry, exemplary conduct and
standing, they are superior to the recent immigrants into the
New England colonies. The zeal and resolution of Col.
McNutt are highly commended.
There is a letter of Colonel McNutt's extant, dated from
London, July 31, 1707, addressed to two gentlemen of Truro,
in which he saj's: "Onslow people may hold their land upon
the same terms with you. His Majesty has been pleased to
order me all my grants according to my first agreement, with-
out any reservation of mines." The favor first shown him by
George II was evidently continued by George III.
From all that has been given it would appear that Alexander
McNutt was the principal grantee in the Province, and that
the range of his possessions and authority was vague and ill-
defined. Circumstances were against him; the outbreak of the
American Revolution blasted his prospects, and his sympathies
during that contest ruined him, but the Nova Scotia of to-day is
none the less his debtor for many of the pillars of her foun-
dation.
The last years of his life were passed upon the plantation of
his younger brother, John, in Virginia, and in 1796 he under-
took to convey by deed one hundred thousand acres of land in
Nova Scotia to the Synod of Virginia, in trust for Liberty
Hall Academy at Lexington; among other purposes, for "the
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support of public lectures in said Seminary, annually, on man's
state b}- nature and his recover}' by free and unmerited grace
through Christ Jesus, and against opposite errors." The next
3'ear he repeated this deed, making it directly to the Trustees
of Liberty Hall. This second deed was witnessed by Andrew
and Archibald Alexander and Conrad Speece. It is proper
to add, however, that the Academy did not obtain possession
of this bequest.
As long as he lived he wore the court costume of the reign
of George II, with buckles and ornamented buttons of silver,
and trimmings of gold lace, a cocked hat, powdered hair, and
top boots. His sword never left his side, and it is related of
him that when quite an old man one of his nephews pla3'ing
about him and climbing on his knee, asked why he alwaj's wore
a sword, he replied, ■' It would not do to hunt the weapon when
the enemy is at hand." He expired in 1811, (i), and was
interred in the cemetery at Lexington. Amongst the colonists
brought from Ireland there were several of the name of Mc-
Nutt, doubtless cousins of Alexander, and a town on the
coast of New Brunswick, now dwindled to a small fishing
village, was named in his honor.
William, the second son of Alexander and Jane McNutt,
joined his brother. Colonel Alexander, upon his first expedition
NoTH (i).— In the collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society it is erroneously
stated that Col. McNutt was drowned when crossing from his Island to Shelbourne. Mc-
Nutt's Island lies at the entrance of Shelbourne harbor, which is justly considered one of
the best on the Atlantic coast, both for its safety and accessibility. There is now a light-
house on its southern extremity in latitude 43-49 and longitude 65-8. The lantern is one
hundred and twenty-five feet above the sea-level, and its light is seen thirty miles out at
sea.— Haliburton, Vol. II.
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to Nova Scotia in 1759, ^^^ returning thither in 1761, with his
wife, became the progenitor of the Nova Scotia branch of the
family.
Tills lirst expedition, composed of about thirty men, partook
of the nature of a 7'cronnoissancc of the province and of the grants
recently made to Col. McNult by the King.
William received a large and valuable grant in Onslow Town-
ship, upon which he settled, and it is stated in the early records
of tlie Province that he drew the plans and acted as arcliitect
for the first Church built there.
William was accounted a rich man in the early days of the
colony. He was a lover of sport and a keen huntsman, and
amongst the relics still pieserved of him is a curiously carved
ivory powder horn, bearing his name and the date, 1764, now
in possession of Dr. Wm. F. McNutt of San Francisco.
Had issue:
1. Mary.
B., June 9, 1765.
D., August 15, 1765.
2. Gideon.
B., September 22, 1766.
3. Phineas.
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B., August II, 1768.
4. William.
B., 1769.
5. Samuel.
B., 1770.
6. Abner.
7. Mary.
B. August II, 1773.
8. Rufus.
Mary, the eldest child, who died in infanc}', was the first per-
son buried in the Onslow cemetery, (1765).
Gideon, eldest son of William and Elizabeth McNutt, was
twice married; of his first marriage in 1801, with Elizabeth
Thomson, born July 3, 1773, daughter of Aaron and Sarah
Thomson, of Onslow, there was born one son :
John Murray Upham.
B., July 26, 1802.
D., September 5, 1837.
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The second marriage, with Jane Lynds, took place December
25, 1806.
Had
issue :
Mary.
B.,
1808.
Robert.
13.,
1810.
Jacob.
B.,
1812.
Jane.
B.,
1814.
Martha.
B.
1816.
Abner.
B.
1818.
Lemuel
B.
1821.
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Hannah. /
B., 1823.
Phineas.
B.. 1825.
William.
B., 182S.
Aurelia.
B., 1831.
Jane Lynds, second wife of Gideon, was born in 1790, and
died in 1873.
John Murray Upham MacNutt, onl}' son of the lirst marriage,
received his earl}- education in the local school at Onslow, then
taught by Mary Blair, and finished his studies in New Jersey.
In 182 1 he went to the State of Ohio, where he was admitted
to the bar in Preble County in 1823. His rise in the profession
was rapid; as an advocate he had few equals; clients clustered
about him, and his practice was a very lucrative one. Before
his death, which prematurely cut short his already brilliant
career, he was acknowledged to be one of the ablest men in
the State.
John M. U. MacNutt was not only learned in the law, but he
was also a scholar of wide reading in several languages, and
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possessed a fine taste in literature. His library was well stocked
with his favorite classics and the best works of English, French
and Spanish authors. He had the love of the true bibliophile
for first editions, rare bindings, good margins, and all that is
best in the bibliographer's and binder's arts. His own compo-
sitions, in verse as well as in prose, reveal both delicacy and
power, and were written over the signature of Miami Bard.
In 1828, Mr. MacNutt was elected to the House of Representa-
tives, re-elected in 1829, and from 1832 he served two terms in
the State Senate, representing Preble and Montgomery Coun-
ties. He married, on the 28th of October, 1828, Jane C. Haw-
kins, daughter of Joseph C. Hawkins and his wife, Isabella
Pouge.
In person John MacNutt had the characteristic features of
his race, fair complexion, blue eyes, golden hair and regular
features. He was just six feet tall, well proportioned and
graceful.
Had issue :
Isabella.
B., 1829.
D., 1829.
Joseph Gideon.
B., October, 1833.
D., March, 1877.
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Joseph Gideon MacNutt graduated at Miami University, and
was admitted to the bar. He held the grade of Captain, A. Q. M.
in the Northern Army, during the Civil War, and was mus-
tered out June 14. 1865. He married Jan. 6, 1859, Laetitia
Jane, eldest daughter of Andrew Finley Scott, of Rockbridge
County, Va., and his wife, Martha B. McGlathery, of Mont-
gomery County, Penn. At the time of this marriage, which
took place in Cincinnati, Andrew F. Scott was established
in Wayne County, Ind.. adjoining the County of Preble in
Ohio, where the MacNutt and Hawkins families lived. Joseph
G. MacNutt died in March, 1S77, his wife, Laetitia. died Feb.
23, 1863.
Had issue:
Albert Scott.
B.. May 25, 1S60.
Francis Augustus.
B., Feb. 15, 1863.
Albert Scott, the eldest son. graduated at West Point in
1881. He married, February 20, 1S84, Helen, daughter of
John and Eliza Patterson, of Ridgeway, Penn., at that time
living in Cheyenne. Wj'oming, where Lieutenant MacNutt was
stationed at Fort Russell.
Had issue:
Scott P.
B..Jan. II, 1885.
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Joseph Jeffrey. ' ■ ' ■ ' r^ . - •,
B., January 7, 1887.
D., December 17, 1892.
Francis Augustus, second son of Joseph and Laetitia, studied
at Philips Academy, in Exeter, N. H., and read law at Harvard.
His studies were continued in Germany, Mexico and Spain, and
finally at the Accadania Ecclcsiastica in Rome. In 1889 he
returned to America, after some years absence, and was
appointed by President Harrison, Secretary of Legation at
Constantinople, and in 1892 was transferred, in the same capac-
ity, to Madrid, where he remained until the close of the admin-
istration. He also holds the post of Chamberlain at the Vatican.
William Fletcher, fifth son of William and Mary McNutt,
made his studies for the medical profession at Harvard, and
afterwards continued them in Paris, London and Edinburgh,
where he received the diplomas of the Royal College of Sur-
geons, and of the Royal College of Physicians, in 1865.
He served in the Unites States Navy during the Civil war,
practiced medicine for a time in Nova Scotia, and afterwards
removed to San Francisco.
John McNutt.
The third son of Alexander and his wife, Jane, emigrated
from Donegal County, Ireland, about the year 1745, and settled
in Orange (now Rockbridge) County, Va.,on the North River,
about six miles east of Lexington, where he had grants of land
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rT3£i
from the government. He married Katharine, daugher of Rob-
ert Anderson of Killagorvven.
John McNutt, on his arrival in Virginia with liis yoimg bride,
settled in what was then Orange County, lying west of the Blue
Ridge Mountains, where his fatlier had already established him-
self, and which b}- act of Assembly', approved in 173^^; was
established as the County of Augusta, and which since then has
been renamed Rockbridge.
In 1784, there was presented to the General Assembl}', in the
House of Delegates, a petition against religious assessments for
the support of ministers of the gospel of all denominations.
They, the petitioners, say that " by a general lax, all will be
rendered so independent of the will of the particular societies
for their support, that all will be infected with the common con-
tagion, and we shall be more likely to have the State swarming
with fools, soots and gamblers, than with a sober, sensible and
exemplary clergy." This had 122 signers; among them. John
McNutt.
Robert Anderson, of the parish Killagorwen, County Done-
gal, had a daughter Katharine, who married John McNutt, and
came to America, as heretofore stated. His son, Robert Ander-
son, (i) also emigrated to America. He married a Miss
Neeley.
Note (i).— Robert Anderson's mother is said to have been a daughter ol tlie Earl of
Montrose, and alter her death her husband married a second time. Robert, Junior, lelt
Ireland, when a mere boy of sixteen, and went first to the Canary Islands, and afterwards
came to tlie Virginia colony, where his sister, Katharine, had preceded him with her hus-
band, John McNutt. After his father's death, Robert inherited a part of the Irish estate,
and frequently, during his life, returned to Ireland. Upon his death, his share of the
properties in Ireland reverted to his half-brothers.
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FRANCIS AUGUSTUS McNUTT.
' '^ : Had issue:
William Anderson.
B., June 2, 1764.
M., May 15, 1796, Anne Thomas; born Dec-
ember 29, 1770.
They had issue:
1. (Hon.) John T. Anderson, of Fincastle.
2. William Anderson, M. D.
3. Judge Francis T. Anderson, of Lexington.
4. Katharine Anderson.
M., Robert Glasgow.
5. General Joseph R. Anderson, of Richmond.
General Anderson graduated at West Point, with distinction,
at the age of nineteen, served in the Florida War, was engineer
of his native State, and built up successfully the Tredegar Iron
Works, at Richmond.
Colonel William Anderson departed this life, at Walnut Hill,
September 13, 1838. Anne Thomas Anderson, his wife, died
July 23, 1848.
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John McNutt and his wife, Katharine Anderson McNutt.
Had issue:
1. John.
2. Alexander.
B., December lo, 1754.
4. William.
5. Margaret.
6. Joseph.
7. Benjamin.
8. Isaac.
9. Robert.
1. John was an alumnus of "Liberty Hah Academy"
Le.xington, Va. He married Mary Laird, aud remained
at the old homestead. No issue. He died January 13, 181S,
and he and his wife were buried in Lexington Churchyard.
2. Alexander, son of John and Katharine Anderson McNutt,
was born December 10, 1754. ^'^ 178S, he married Rachel,
daughter of John and Elizabeth Porter Grigsby, of Fruit Hill,
and had issue, thirteen children, as before stated. He was a
Revolutionary soldier, and fought against the British at the
battle of Cowpens. The powder-horn, which he carried in
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that engagement, is in the possession of his granddaughter,
Henrietta Hamilton McCormick. Alexander McNutt was a
planter, slaveholder, and Presbyterian. He had extensive
landed propert}' on North River, seven miles east of Lexing-
ton, on which he and his family resided, and which his widow
occupied afterward. A portion of this land was granted by
the Commonwealth to his father, John McNutt, in the year
1768. The place is situated about a mile west of the new
town, Buena Vista.
Alexander McNutt died of pneumonia, March 29, 181 2, and
was buried in the cemetery at Lexington, Virginia.
The children of Alexander and Rachel Grigsby McNutt,
were large, fine looking, and healthy, of the blonde and half-
blonde type, with gray or blue eyes, and light golden, or brown
hair, the daughters averaging, in height, five feet seven or
eight inches, and the sons about six feet. In all the relations
of life, they displayed great moral worth, combined with
remarkable energy. The following are their names:
1. John.
B., September 28, 1790.
D., July 23, 1817.
2. Peggy ( Margaret ).
B., July 8, 1792.
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3- Betsey (Elizabeth).
B., March 23, 1794-
4. Anderson.
B., March 24, 1796.
D., i860.
5. Patsy (Martha).
B., January 11, 1798-
6. Rebecca.
B., November 14, i799'
7. Alexander Gallatin.
B., January 3, 1802.
D., October 22, 1848.
8. Katherine Anderson.
B., April 19, 1804.
9. Janetta G.
B., April 19, 1804.
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, D., April 29, 1843.
■ 1-1 , , . .
10. Francis (Fanny) Ann.
B., September 6, 1806.
11. Joseph Porter.
B., September 27, 1808.
D., June 27, 1833.
12. Benjamin Franklin.
B., August 6, 1810.
13. Sarah (Sally) Alexander.
B., June 15, 1812.
1. John jMcNutt went south to Louisiana, and died unmarried.
2. Margaret (Peggy) McNutt; was married to Ehsha Pax-
ton, August 3, 1S09, by Rev. David Blaine.
died September 3, 1856.
Margaret McNutt Paxton was a woman of extraordinary
strength, mentall}', morally and phj'sically, and was the mother
of six fine sons, and one daughter, all of whom were finel}'
educated, and were sound in moralcharacter and high principles.
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Had issue:
a. William Hays.
B., April I, 1811.
Settled in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the practice of law,
with his brother, Alexander McNutt Paxton. Removed to
New Orleans in 1846, and died there May 28, 1868. He was
twice married.
Had three children:
Louisa.
Mary.
Virginia.
b. Alexander McNutt Paxton.
B., March 17, 1814.
After graduating at the University of Virginia, he removed
to Mississippi in 1836, and entered into the practice of law,
meeting with much success. Always active in public affairs,
his special interest was in the line of education. He was, for
many years. President of the Board of Trustees of the city
Public Schools, and for several years was a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Mississippi. Entering the Confederate service, he was made
a major quartermaster, and placed in charge of the manufacture
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and collection of supplies for the states of Alabama and Missis-
sippi. Married July lO, 1S37, Mary Louisa Ellis, of Freder-
icksburg, Va.
Had issue:
I. William Gallatin.
B., August 24, 1838.
Graduated at the Virginia Military Institute, and was in the
Confederate service from the earliest days to the latest hours,
closing as a major of cavalr3^ Served at the Centennial and
the New Orleans Exposition as State Commissioner. As a
Mason, he has received all the honors, state and local. Mar-
ried Lucy Irwin Gibbs, April 17, 1867.
Had issue:
a. Janie.
B., January 20, 1868.
M., Wm. Klein, July 3, 1889.
b. Mary Louisa.
B., November 16, 1869.
c. Alexander McNutt.
B., January 9, 1872.
D., September 11, 1873.
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d. Lucy Irwin.
D., November i8, 1S73.
e. William Gallatin.
B., February 20, 1876.
f. Henry Cook.
B., December 5, 1878.
g. Edward Gibbs.
B., May 31, 1881.
h. Shelby.
B., 1887.
2. Eudora Anderson.
B., September 20, 1840.
D., April 30, 1845.
3. Robert Ellis.
B., November 2, 1844.
M., Anna McClellan, May 20, 1872.
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Had issue:
4. Charles Buckner.
B., August 21, 1846.
5. McNutt.
B.,July3i, 1848.
D., August 6, 1870. (i)
6. Mary Margaret.
B., November 26, 1850.
M., Wm. L. Grum, January 18, 1870.
D., March 18, 1879.
7. Annie Ellis.
B., August 10, 1855.
D., May 6, 1879.
8. Alexander McNutt.
B., February 24, 1857.
Alexander McNutt Paxton, Sr., died at Vickburg, Missis-
sippi, June 18, 1886.
Note (i).— Graduated at the Uaiversity of Virginia, and was shortly afterwards Icilled in a
ailway accident.
c. Andrew Jackson, son of Elisha and Margaret McNutt
Paxton, born March i8, 1816, in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Removed to Mississippi. Admitted to the bar, January, 1838,
and became a partner in the law firm of W. H. & A. M. Pax-
ton, (his brothers), in Vicksburg. In 1846 he removed to
Jackson, and joined his uncle. Governor A. G. McNutt, in the
practice of law, and a few years later settled at Areola, where
he now resides. He was a venerable and useful member of the
Mississippi Constitutional Convention, which assembled August
20, 1890, and adjourned November i of the same 3ear. This
convention framed the new constitution of the State. He mar-
ried, October 28, 1847, Hannah Mary Beazley; born January
5, 1830. and died April 26, 1890. She was a loving, self-sac-
rificing Christian wife and mother, foremost in all good works.
She was the mother of fifteen children, of whom the following
survive:
Lucy.
B., January 20, 1853.
Andrew J.
B., September 5, 1856.
Hannah Mary.
B., December 3, 1865.
Alexander Gallatin.
Cornelia. I
B., November 4, 1869.
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/
ANDREW JACKSON PAXTON.
Elisha. ' ■ :'.
B., March i6, 1872.
Samuel Beazley.
B., March 12, 1874.
4. James Gardner Paxton, son of Elisha and Margaret Mc-
Nutt Paxton; born November 4, 1821. Remained in Virginia.
" For several years he represented Rockbridge as its Senator
and Delegate, with a tact and vigilance unusual in a delibera-
tive body." He was the promoter of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad. He married Ann Maria White, daughter of Matthew
White and his wife, Mary McChesney, of Lexington, Virginia,
November 26, 1846.
Had issue:
a. Mary White.
M., Rev. T. B. Webb.
Had issue.
b. Susan White.
c. Margaret.
d. James Gardner.
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James Gardner Paxton, and his son of the same name, and
also a nephew, McNutt Paxton, lost their lives in a railroad
accident on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, at Jerry's Run,
Aug. 6. 1S70.
5. Rachel Eleanor, daughter of Elisha and Margaret Mc-
Nutt Paxton; born March 4, 1825; married John W. E. Buck-
ner, Oct. 13, 1846; died Jul}- 25, 1S65.
Had issue :
a. Elisha Paxton.
B., April 4, 1S48.
b. Colin.
B., May 26, 185 1.
c. Martha Doswell.
B., April 6, 1854.
d. William Eppes.
B., November i, 1856.
6. Elisha Franklin, son of Elisha and Margaret McNutt
Paxton; born March 4, 1828. Entered Washington College,
and graduated in 1S45. He next became a graduate of Yale
College in 1S47, and afterward took the degree of Baclielor
of Law at the University of Virginia in 1849. He married
Elizabeth H. White, in Lexington, Nov. 20, 1854.
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GENERAL E F. PAXTON
Had issue:
1. Mary Louisa.
2. Matthew While.
3. John Gallatin.
4. Frank.
"On April 18, 1861, E. Franklin Paxton, as lieutenant of the
Rockbridge Rifles, marched for Harper's Ferry, and thence
forward his life was devoted to the cause which he held dearest,
the defense of his native State, and her liberties. He was
Brigadier General of the Stonewall Brigade, Colston's Division,
and fell on the same day as his great commander, on the memor-
able field of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863."
7. John Gallatin, son of Elisha and Margaret McNutt Pax-
ton, was born Nov. 19, 1S32. Died at Greenville, Miss., Sept.
15, 1859. Unmarried.
c. Elizabeth (Betsey) McNutt, daughter of Alexander and
Rachel Grigsby McNutt, was born March 23, 1794; married
John Hamilton.
d. Anderson, son of Alexander and Rachel Grigsby Mc-
Nutt, was born March 24, 1796. He removed to Louisiana
and was a wealthy sugar planter, owning a hundred and fifty
slaves, whom he freed by will. Remained a bachelor. Died
in i860.
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e. Martha (Patsy), daughter of Alexander and Rachel
Grigsby McNutt, was born Jan. ii, 1798; married March 9,
1815, John Glasgow, a son of Arthur Glasgow, of Rock-
bridge County, Va. She died Feb. 10, 1866. " Aunt Patsy
was noted for her currant wine and the neatness of her house-
keeping. Her floors were equaled only by the brilliantly
waxed floors of Aunt Verlinda. On them a boy might skate;
it was dangerous to walk."
Had issue:
1. Arthur.
2. Rachel Grigsby.
M., Robert McDowell.
Died early.
No issue.
3. Alexander McNutt Glasgow.
B., Oct. 24, 1820.
D., Aug. 4, 1894.
M., Laura Mackey, May 12, 1874.
Had issue:
a. Alexander McNutt.
B., July 4, 1875.
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b. John Henry.
c. Elizabeth Vance.
d. Lucy Goodwin.
e. Mary Thompson
f. Otelia McNutt.
4. Martha.
M., John C. Bell.
f. Rebecca, daughter of Alexander and Rachel Grigsby
McNutt, was born Nov. 14, 1799; married Hugh Hickman
Sept. 19, 1816. Removed to Missouri in 1830. They were
six weeks on their journey, which they made in wagons con-
taining all their household effects. Hugh and Rebecca Hick-
man were most prosperous in their adopted State, where they
purchased large landed property and brought up a numerous
family.
Had issue:
1. Alexander McNutt.
Died aged fifty-eight.
2. John Anderson.
Married.
Died aged sixty-five.
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Had issue:
3. Reuben Grigsby.
Died aged sixty-one.
4. Philander Allen.
Married.
Died aged sixty.
Had issue:
5. Jacob Jackson.
Married.
Died aged fifty-eight.
Had issue:
6. Hugh LaFayette.
7. Ann Louisa.
8. Benjamin Franklin.
B., 1830.
D., 1849.
SS
GOV. ALEXANDER GALLATIN McNUTT
9- Joseph Gallatin.
B, 1837.
Married.
Had issue:
10. James Gardner, the last survivor of the family.
B., 1840.
D., August, 1893.
lie was the author of a beautiful poem entitled, " The Red
Man." He gave to the writer the powder-horn which her
grandfather had carried during the Revolutionary War — the
rifle having been lost by his brother, 13enjamin F. Hickman, in
California, in 1849.
g. Alexander Gallatin McNutt, son of Alexander and Rachel
Grigsby McNutt, was born January 3, 1802. Graduated at
Washington College, Lexington, in 1821, and went, in 1823, to
Mississippi, where he settled in Jackson, but shortly afterwards
removed to Vicksburg.
The Commercial-Appeal, of Memphis, Tenn., recently pub-
lished a sketch of Governor Alexander Gallatin McNutt, of
Mississippi, which is as follows:
" No chapter in the history of Mississippi, as Territory or
State, marks a more important epoch than the two terms of two
3'ears each of the administration of Alexander G. McNutt. Let
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a brief pen sketch of the man precede a review of that adminis-
tration. Fully — perhaps over — six feet in height, of powerful
frame, and strikingl}- intelligent, broad, massive forehead — in a
word, his personnel impressed itself indelibly upon every one
who ever saw him. In the judgment of the writer, and, as he
believes, the unanimous opinion of his contemporaries, he was
the ablest man in the Democratic part}' of the State during his
public career. He was a native of Virginia, Rockbridge
County, born January 3, 1802. Was educated in Washington
College (now called Washington and Lee University) in which
institution he graduated with distinguished honor. He moved
to Mississippi, and settled in the City of Vicksburg as an attor-
ney at law, in 1826.
" In a recent memoir of him, it is said that, being a very tal-
ented and brilliant young man, he soon made an enviable repu-
tation for himself throughout the State. His ability as a lawyer
soon became appreciated, and he was elected a member of the
State Senate and president of the body, in which his compre-
hensive knowledge of law, and the soundness of his views, won
him immediate recognition. * * *
" In 1837, he was elected Governor of the State for the con-
stitutional term of two years, and re-elected in 1839 ^o'" '^ '''^^
term, in which capacity he discharged his official duties with the
same faithfulness that marked his career as a legislator. Being
a man of a very decided character, he was discreet in every
step, and so determined was he to do whatever he considered
right, regardless of consequences, that he sometimes, in carry-
ing out his principles, incurred the displeasure of his friends.
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" A very just and highly complimentary tribute to his
memory is paid by Lowry and McCardle in their ' History
of Mississippi,' which is entitled to all the more credit from
the fact that they were of an entirely different school of
politics, McCardle conducting the leading political journal
of the State as the organ of the party which actively
and zealously opposed the election and the administration
of Governor McNutt. It is there said of him, ' that he
was one of the most remarkable men known to Mississippi.
Endowed with a splendid intellect, with a tall, erect and
handsome person, a ruddy complexion, brown hair and
liquid blue eyes, he was a man of mark in any assemblage
in which he might chance to be thrown. With a classical
education, large reading, fine conversational powers, and a
brilliant writer, it is not at all wonderful that he soon became
popular.'
" His influence and power as a public speaker were simply
marvelous. I have seen him hold popular assemblies as firmly
in his grasp as Prentiss or Holt ever held their audiences.
" It was in his great canvass for Senator, in Congress, when
opposed by Foote, that he surprised his most intimate friends,
and those who held in highest appreciation his powers as a
debater by the exhibition of his rare and previously unknown
and undeveloped talents as an improvisatore in prose and verse,
in wit, repartee, and description, as well as his familiarity with
sacred and profane history and with classic literature. He
quoted and applied at will from the most renowned authors in
history, romance and poetry. In his faculty as an improvisatore
in verse, I have never seen his superior."
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Alexander McNutt married in 1S34, I^^'s- Eliza A. Cameron.
He died in De Soto County, in the midst of his campaign for the
United States Senatorship, on October 22, 1848, and is buried
in the cemeter}' at Jackson. He left no children.
h. Catharine A., dau<;hter of Alexander and Rachel Grigsby
McNutt, was born April 12. 1804; died in 1S74. Unmarried.
i. Janetta G., daughter of Alexander and Rachel Grigsby
McNutt, was born April 19, 1S04; died April 29. 1843. Mar-
ried William Jenkins, of Buffalo Forge, Rockbridge County.
They soon removed to " Green Bottom," his estate on the banks
of the Ohio.
Had issue:
I. Eustlatia.
M., Pembroke Waugh.
D., May 7, 1864.
Had issue:
a. Isabella Janetta.
M., J. T. Woods.
b. William McC.
c. Albert Gallatin.
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d. Edward Ashby Waugh, M. D.
2. Thomas Jefferson Jenkins.
M., Susan Holderby.
D., 1873.
Had issue:
a. Julia H.
b. Laura.
c. Dudley Jefferson.
d. Grace.
e. Albert Gallatin.
f. Robert G.
3. William A. Jenkins, M. D.
M., Julia Reed, December, 1853.
D., March 18, 1877.
Had issue:
a. Jeanette.
b. William Grigsby.
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c. Charles McNutt. • ' \ ,, i
d. Kenrick.
e. Julia.
f. Susie.
4. Albert Gallatin Jenkins, born November 10, 1S30. Was
educated at the Virginia Military Institute, and at Harvard Law
School, where he graduated in 1850. He was admitted to the
bar, but never practiced, devoting himself, instead, to agricul-
ture. He married Virginia Bowlin, of St. Louis.
Had issue:
a. Bowlin.
b. Albert Gallatin.
c. Margaret V.
He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in
Cincinnati in 1856, a member of Congress from Cabell County,
Virginia, 1S57-61, and a delegate from Virginia to the Provis-
ional Confederate Congress in the latter year. He then entered
the Confederate Army, and was appointed a brigadier general,
August 5, 1862. He commanded a brigade in A. P. Hill's
division, and afterward in Stuart's cavalry. He was in the field
at Gettysburg, and Served in the Shenandoah Valley and West-
ern Virginia. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Cloyd's
Mountain, and died May 7, 1S64, aged thirty-three years and
five months. '
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j. Francis Ann, daughter of Alexander and Rachel Grigsby
McNutt, was born September 6, 1806. Married in 1825, James
McChesney, born March 14, 1795. He was a captain in the
war of 1812. He died August 21, 1842.
Mrs. Frances McNutt McChesney was a woman of remark-
able energy and ability, and conducted her affairs so well, after
her husband's death, which occurred when she was thirty-six
j'ears of age, that she was enabled to bring up and educate her
large famil}' most successfully. Her fine old homestead, Wood-
lawn, with its handsomely carved woodwork and majestic
grounds, remains in a perfect state of preservation to the
present day. Frances Ann McChesney died August 20, 1877.
Had issue:
I. Elizabeth Johnston McChesney.
B., May 10, 1826.
M., Robert J. Echols, October 15, 1844.
D., June r, 1853.
Had issue:
a. Joseph.
B., November 28, 1847.
D., June 28, 1849.
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b. Frances McC.
B., August 5, 1S50.
IM., James Joiclon.
c. Elizabeth F.
B., May 28, 1852.
M., Robert Watts.
2. Alexander Gallatin McChesne}-.
B., August 31, 1829.
He received his education under the direction of Rev. James
Morrison, pastor of the New Providence Church, and at Wash-
ington College, Lexington. He was a student of medicine at
the University of Virginia, and continued his course at Jeffer-
son College, Pennsjdvania, where he took the degree of IM. D.,
in 1853. Shortly after graduating, he settled at Warm Springs,
Bath County, Virginia, and on April 11, 1S54, '^^''^^ united in
marriage to Sarah Gatewood Moffelt, of Pocahontas Count}-,
Virginia.
He was captain of the Bath compan}'. Eleventh Virginia
cavalry, Robinson's brigade, C. S. A. At the end of one year
he resigned his commission to resume the practice of his pro-
fession among a devoted people and friends. In 1S65, he re-
turned with his family to Rockbridge Count}-, whence he re-
moved, in 1871, to Charleston, West Virginia, chartering a
stage to carry his wife and nine children across the mountains.
There he had a large practice, standing in the front rank of
his profession, until his death. May 19, 1877.
He was a man of the purest heart, of undaunted courage,
the strictest integrity, and rare mental gifts, and in his noble
character left a priceless legacy to his children.
Had issue:
a. Mary Archer.
B.,July II, 1855.
M., Rev. Augustus H. Hamilton, June 8, 1876.
b. Fannie Ashton.
B., August 20, 1856.
M., John Francisco, January 29, 1S80.
c. Lucy Boyd.
B., May 20, 1858.
M., Charles H. Breckenstein, March 16, 18S1.
d. James.
B., October 20, 1859.
D., May 5, 1863.
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e. Elizabeth Johnston.
B., March 23, 1861.
M., W. A. Bradford, May 19, 1886.
f. Harry Moffett.
B., May 23, 1863.
g. Robert Alexander.
B., December 4, 1865.
M., Jennie Price,
h. Anna Lewis.
B., November 17, 186S.
M., Finley McClm-e, June 16, 1888,
i. Adam Gallatin.
B., February 21, 1871.
j. Hugh Blair.
B., February 13, 1875.
3. Robert McChesney.
B., June 30, 1832.
He was six feet two inches in height, of a well-knit frame,
capable of much endurance. He had a good business education
and qualifications. He entered the Confederate Army on the
first call for troops, as first lieutenant of cavalry, and served
under General Garnet in Western Virginia, taking an active
part in the campaign until June 29, 1S61, when he fell in a
skirmish. He was the first man killed in the war from Rock-
bridge County, and died admired and lamented by his friends,
and honored by his foes.
4. Rachel Grigsby McChesney.
B., August 30, 1834.
U., Dr. William M. Crawford.
Had issue:
a. Frances McNutt.
B., June I, 1859.
b. James Edward.
B., February 7, 1861.
c. Wilbur Lewis.
B., August 10, 1863.
d. Roberta McChesney.
B.,June 3, 1866.
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e. James Alexander.
B., July lo, 1S69.
f. Sarah Edna.
B., October 4, 1871.
g. Frank Herbert.
B., October 8, 1873.
h. Ernest Brown.
B., August 15, 1876.
i. Edgar Allen.
B., September 12, 1879.
5. Martha Evelyn McChesney.
B., October 25, 1836.
M., William B. RIoffett, May, 1862.
Had issue:
a. Frances Belle.
B., April 19, 1863.
M., M. B. Buchanan, October 26, 1878.
b. John. •' - I . ,
B., November 24, 1864.
D., December 2, 1864.
c. William.
B., November 24, 1864.
D., September 8, 1S65.
d. Margaret.
B., March 26, 1S66.
D., November 5, 1866.
e. Ileita.
B., October 21, 1867.
M., J. B. Harris, September 26, 1888.
D., February 12, 1892.
f. Marie Stuart.
B., December 4, 1869.
M., Dr. L. G. Caldwell, October 24, 1894.
g. James IMcChesney. ..,, .i ft
B., April 12, 1872.
h. Lucy.
B., June 14, 1874.
D., October 27, 1876.
i. M. Evelyn.
B., April 23, 1876.
j. Son.
B., January 1S78.
D., 1878.
6. Frances A. Louisa McChesney.
B., December 7, 1838.
M., Edward Lewis.
D., June, 1865.
Had issue:
a. Prudentia Wilson.
B., October 23,1861.
M., Dr. William C. Campbell,January 12,1882.
7- Mary A. McChesney. '
B., February 22, 1841.
M., Edward Lewis.
Had issue:
a. Frances McNutt.
B., September 19, 1868.
b. William A.
B., January 31, 1871.
c. James McC.
B., September 3, 1873.
d. John E.
B., May 22, 1876.
e. May.
B., September 15, 1878.
f. Lucy J.
B., August 24, 1881.
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8. James Z. McChesney. , ,^
B., March 7, 1843.
Served three years in the Confederate Army under General
Robert E. Lee, Company C, Fourteenth Virginia Cavah-y. He
was elected ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church of
Charleston, West Virginia. He married Lucy Johnson, April
4, 1865.
Had issue:
a. Lila Kemble.
B., September 24, 1S71.
b. Alexander Gallatin.
B., November 14, 187S.
c. Alice Johnson.
B., July 26, 1882.
d. Mortimer Howell.
B., December 18, 1S84.
k. Joseph P. McNutt, son of Alexander and Rachel Grigsby
McNutt, was born September 28, 180S, graduated at Washing-
ton College in 1827; removed to Vicksburg, Miss. He was a
distinguished lawyer and advocate. Died June 27, 1833.
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JOSEPH P McNUTT,
The following is a copy of the letter from Alexander to his
mother. Rachel Grigsby McNiitt, announcing his brother's
death :
VicicsBURG, Miss., June 27, 1S33.
I\lv Dear jMother :—
Joseph died of choler.i a few minutes since. He was taken sick of fever
ten (lays ago, and the doctors thought him out of danger day before yester-
day. IJut the disease changed to cholera night before last. He was attended
by three physicians, but all in vain. His last words were, "Gallatin, I'm
going to die. I want Benjamin to have my little property during his life,
and then it is to go to Sally. .Say to my mother and sisters that my last
thoughts were of them. Take good care of me while I am in this world;
God will take care of me in the next. Farewell."
I cannot write more. Your Son,
A. G. McNUTT.
1. Benjamin Franklin, son of Alexander and Rachel Grigsby
McNutt, was born August 6, 1810; graduated at Washington
College in 1S29; studied medicine in Philadelphia; removed to
Vicksburg. He was shipwrecked and drowned off the coast
of Mexico, between Vera Cruz and Tampico, February, 1835,
when the brig " Vigne" went down with all on board.
m. Sarah Alexandra, daughter of Alexander and Rachel
Grigsby McNutt, was born June 15, 1812; married, in 1836,
Ferdinand Sims, a lawyer of Vicksburg, Miss.; removed to
Galveston, where she died December 15, 1858.
Had issue;
I. Laura Sims.
B., September 11, 1838.
M., Henry de Veuve, July 7, 1B56.
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L.
Had issue:
a. Henry P.
B., March 23, 1S58.
b. Prentiss A.
B., December 15, 1B59.
c. James Hamilton.
B.. March 25, 1863.
d. JuHa Eugenia.
B., April 3, 1865.
M., Lieutenant F'red G. Dodge, U. S. N.
e. Clarence.
B., September 5, 1869.
f. Earle.
B., May 27, 1875.
g. Gardner.
B., October 2, 1S76.
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2. Smith D. Sims, born August 25, 1842. A gallant soldier
in Lee's army. Surrendered at Appomattox, and walked home
to Galveston (a thousand miles). Died December 31, 1891.
3. Eugenia M. Sims.
B., November 8, 1852.
M., Louis Alaric Clifton, of Galveston.
3. William, son of John and Katharine Anderson McNutt,
was born April 16, 1774; married, July 24, 1806, Elizabeth
Grigsby (born March 10, 1776; died December 13, i842)>
daughter of John and Elizabeth Porter Grigsby. They lived a
mile west of Falling Spring Church, of which William McNutt
was a ruling elder. He died December i, 1836.
Had issue:
a. Katharine Ann Campbell.
B., May 11, 1807.
D., September 29, 1818.
b. John.
B., November 6, 1808.
M., I. Mrs. Wells.
2. Elizabeth Frances Steele.
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Had issue:
William B. A. McNutt and two daughters.
c. William Graham.
B., June 24, iSio.
D., April 2, 1S14.
d. Reuben Alexander.
B.. April 21, 1S12.
Was an alumnus of Washington College, 1S30-31; was also
professor for a time. In 1842 he married Elizabeth Ruff, and
remained a while at the old home, then returned to Lexington,
where, soon after his wife died. He afterwards went South,
where he soon died, a victim to the climate.
e. Robert Blair.
B., February 9, 1S14.
D., 1894.
The Princeton, INIercer County, West Virginia Journal, said
of him:
" Dr. Robert B. McNutt is dead. For fifty-one years he had
lived in this town, honored and respected; as a physician, he
ranked high; as a citizen, he did his duty to his country and to
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his fellow man; as a husband and father, he was loving, gentle
and kind. Beneath his roof his friends always found hearty
hospitality.
"Dr. McNutt was in his eighty-first year. He was born in
Rockbridge County, Va. In 1842 he was married to Elizabeth
E. Peck, who survives him. His life could hardly have failed
to be a success when aided by the love and counsels of Mrs.
McNutt. She is one of the best women we ever knew. Six
children were born to them, five of whom are still living."
Dr. McNutt was named for his uncle Robert, who, as a
soldier of the Revolution, lost his life under Green, in the
Carolinas.
Had issue:
1. John W.
M., Jennie Black.
2. Josephine.
B., 1845.
D., 1S62.
3. Joseph P.
M., Jennie Adair.
;). Mary Grigsb} .
M., Colonel James B. Peck.
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5- Charles R.
M., Emma Baines.
6. Juanita.
f. Benjamin Grigsby McNutt.
B., February 15, 1816.
He lived in Giles County, Va., where he owned a large
property. He distinguished himself for gallantry in the Con-
federate service. Died unmarried.
g. Elizabeth Trimble McNult.
B., March 28, 1818.
After her mother's death, in December, 1842, she accom-
panied her brother, John McNutt, to Missouri. Where she
married Cowherd, and settled near Paris, Mo.
h. Elisha George Baxter McNutt.
B., August 12, 1820.
Married and removed to the northern part of Missouri.
Became an active, useful physician.
4. Rebecca McNutt, daughter of John and Katharine
Anderson McNutt, was born in 1755; married John McCorkle,
a Revolutionary' soldier, lieutenant in Colonel Morgan's com-
mand. The following is a copy of a letter written by him to
his wife, Rebecca:
Charlotte, N. C, Nov. 8th day, 1780.
My Dear Wife: —
I have longed for an opportunity to write to you, but have never yet
been so fortunate as to have any way to send the letter. I have written
letters and left them at different places. Perhaps you may get some of
them. I am well at present, thanks be to God for his mercies to me, and I
hope these few lines may find you and all my near and dear connexions in
the same state of health.
On the 7th day of November we arrived at headquarters, about ten miles
below Charlotte, where Major General Smallwood's regiment was in camp;
but we are to join Colonel Morgan's light infantry, and we cannot tell how
soon we must march from here, we expect to do most of the fighting.
The enemy have left Charlotte. Part of them went to Camden and crossed
the Catawba River. Some think they are on their way to Charleston.
We got to Hillsborough the 4th day of October, about ten o'clock; and that
day we marched six miles on our way to Guilford. I did not then have time to
write you. At Guilford I had the opportunity of seeing Colonel William
Campbell, who informs me that he defeated Ferguson, and, out of 1,125, te
killed and took 1,105 English and Tories. The lesson our side was not great —
only 28 killed and 8 wounded.
Nathaniel Dryden was killed and three of the Edmundsons.
Being at such a distance, I almost think myself buried to you, not having
many opportunities to write. If you can write to me you must do so. Write
in care of Captain James Gilmore's company of militia, under General Mor-
gan. Remember me to all my friends and neighbors. You may inform my
neighbors that their sons, Alexander and Robert McNutt, Trimble, Moore and
Alexander Stuart, are well.
I add no more at present, but remain
Your loving husband,
JOHN McCORKLE.
The original letter is in the possession of Mrs. Elizabeth
Glasgow Johns, of Glasgow, Va.
At the battle of Co\\pens, January 17, 17S1, he (John
McCorkle) was wounded in the thumb, which caused lock-jaw.
from which he died in a few da3s.
Had issue."
I. Alexander McCorkle.
B., August 7, 1773.
M., Mildred Welch, January i. 1794.
Had issue:
a. Sarah.
B., Januar}' i, 1795.
D., 1S42.
M., James Wilson.
b. John McCorkle.
B., February 14, i797-
M., Sarah Cunningham.
Had issue:
1. Alexander McCorkle. Lost his wife in the Mexi-
can War.
2. Elizabeth.
3. WilHam Douglas.
4. James Thomas.
5. John Newton.
6. Sarah.
7. George Baxter McCorkle. Lieutenant in the Rock-
bridge Artillery. Killed in the war.
8. Nannie Watts.
c. Samuel.
B., August 30, 1800.
D., August 6, 1866.
Samuel McCorkle was for more than forty years a promi-
nent merchant of Lj-nchburg, Va., and one of the leading and
most influential citizens of the place. He was a man of trans-
parent integrity, and his good name remains as fresh and hon-
ored in that vicinity as when he left it. He married Sarah
Bonwell Perry, (born August 11, 1808; died 1892).
Had issue:
1. Frances Mildred.
B., January 2, 1831.
2. Mary M.
B., June 9, 1832.
3. Alexander Reed.
B., January 17. 1S34.
4. Samuel Miller.
B., July 23, 1835.
5. Tazewell Morton.
B., June 5, 1837.
6. Calvin.
B., October 31, 1839.
7. Sarah Wilson.
B., November 25, 184;
8. Anna Maria.
B., February 2, 1844.
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9- William Owen.
B., March i6, 1846.
d. Captain Thomas.
B., May 25, 1804.
M., Susan Alexander, 1828.
Had issue:
1. William A.
B., May 24, 1830.
M., Susan Leftwich, January 29, 1857.
2. Alfred L.
B., August 19, 1832.
M., Mary Hutton, October 24, i860.
3. Sarah Mildred.
B., Jannuary 3, 1836.
M., Captain John Rice NcNutt, Sept. 22, 1859.
4. Jennie.
5- John Baxter.
B., June 29, 1840.
Killed at the battle of Fredericksburg, Decem-
ber 13, 1S62.
6. Thomas Edward.
B., February 27. 1S45.
M., Lulu V. Anderson, July 24, 1S67.
Had issue:
Sarah Anderson McCorkle.
7. Margaret.
B., August 26, 1S48.
M., James Montgomery.
8. Samuel.
B., July 22, 185 1.
M., Lulu Strain.
Thomas E. McCorkle, who was born February 27, 1845, the
son of Capt. Thomas and Susan Alexander McCorkle, passed
his early years at " Westwood," near Lexington. Va.; was edu-
cated at Washington and Lee University, where he took the
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degree of B. L., and has since practiced his profession at Lex-
ington. He is a great grandson of Lieutenant John McCorkle
and Katharine McNutt, and grandson of Alexander and
Mildred Welch McCorkle. His maternal ancestor was Robert
Alexander, who settled in Augusta, and established the first
classical school in the Valley, known as " Augusta Academy,"
in 1749, out of which grew " Liberty Hall," and afterwards
Washington and Lee University.
e. Alexander B. McCorkle, D. D.
B., October 15, 1800.
M., Lucilla Gambol.
Had issue:
f. Martha.
B., April 4, 1809.
M., James Wilson.
g. Jane.
B., February 22, 1812.
M., West.
h. Melinda.
B., May 6, 18 15.
M., James Bumgardner.
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i. William A.
B., October 24, 1817.
M., Hester Morrison.
Had issue:
1. William A. MacCorkle.
B., May 7, 1857.
Installed Governor of West Virginia, March 4, 1893.
2. May Willie.
3. Alvin Dave,
j. Rebecca E.
B., April 3, 1S20.
M., Baxter Brawford.
2. Samuel, son of John and Rebecca McNutt Mc-
Corkle.
B., 1775-
M., Katharine McCluer, April 25, 1804.
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GOV WILLIAM A McCORKLE
lOSEPH GLASGOW
3- Katharine, daughter of John and Rebecca McNutt
McCorkle.
B., 1780.
M., Joseph Walker, April 19, 1804.
Rebecca McNutt, after the death of her husband, John
McCorkle, married Arthur Glasgow, (born 1750).
Had issue:
1. Nancy.
2. Joseph.
B., Oct. 14, 1783.
He was a cavalry soldier in the war of 181 2. His father
established him on a farm in the beautiful valley of the James
and North Rivers. He married, Feb. 29, 1816, Nancy E.,
daughter of Elizabeth and Roderick McCulloch of Amherst
County. Died Nov. 4, 1856.
Had issue ;
1. Rebecca Jane.
B., 1S17.
2. Elizabeth M.
B., 1819.
3- John Glasgow; born Dec. 27, 1785. Settled at the mouth
of South River. Married Martha McNult, daughter of Alex-
ander and Rachel Grigsby McNutt, March 9, 1815. He died
July 23. 1S30.
4. Robert Glasgow; married Katharine, daughter of Colo-
nel William Anderson and Anna Thomas, his wife.
Had issue:
a. Margaret Gordon.
b. Joseph died early.
c. William Anderson Glasgow; born in Rockbridge County,
Va., February' 9, 1825. Attorney at Law and State Senator.
Married (i) Elizabeth M. Spears, June 16, 1847. She was
born September 11, 1826, and died February 21, 1862.
Had issue:
1. Joseph.
B., January 2, 1849.
D., May, 1849.
2. Charles.
B., January 2, 1849.
D., October 12, 1S52.
3- Margaret A.
B., March 20, 185 1.
M., Dr. William Dillon Armstrong, October
23, 1872.
4. Kate Chrisman.
B., December 19, 1S52.
D., February 7, 1862.
5. Frank Thomas.
B., November 16, 1854.
M., Grace Ellen McPheeters, Oct. 7, 1879.
6. Robert.
Al., Kate L. McPheeters, June, 18S0.
7. Elizabeth Spears.
B., Januarj' 2, 1859.
8. William A.
D., May 8, 1861.
William Anderson Glasgow's second wife was Grace Ellen
Woodson, nee Shanks, married July 21, 1864.
Had issue:
9. William A. Glasgow, Jr.
B., April 29, 1865.
10. Joseph A.
B., March 31, 1867.
11. S. McPheeters.
B., March 26, 1870.
d. Rebekah A., daughter of Robert and Katherine
Anderson Glasgow.
e. Francis Thomas Glasgow.
B., September 13, 1829.
M., July 14, 1S53, Anne Jane Gholson.
Had issue:
I. Anne.
M., Francis Tarleton.
2. Gary.
M., George W. McCormack.
3. Arthur Grahm.
4. Emily Taylor.
5. Francis Thomas.
6. Ellen Anderson.
7. Rebe Gordon.
f. Robert Glasgow.
Died earl}'.
g. Katharine Glasgow.
M., Colonel James H. Paxton.
h. Mary Glasgow.
M., John Dunlop.
4. Margaret Glasgow, daughter of Arthur and Re-
becca McNutt Glasgow.
M., James Edmundson.
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Had issue:
■ , J
a. Judge James K. Edmundson, of Lexington.
b. Rebecca.
M.. John Conevey.
5. Rebecca Glasgow, daughter of Arthur and Re-
becca McNutt Glasgow.
M.. John Carr, October, 1S14.
Arthur Glasgow, died May, 1822.
Rebecca McNutt Glasgow, died January, iSiS.
5. Margaret, daughter of John and Katharine Ander-
son McNutt.
B., 1757-
D., November 27, 1830.
M., Robert Rhodes.
6. Joseph, son of John and Katharine Anderson McNutt.
History unknown.
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7- Benjamin, son of John and Katharine Anderson McNutt,
removed to Tennessee; was a man of brilHant intellect, a leader
in his day, who used his talents to the advantage of his commu-
nity. Descendants of Benjamin McNutt are living in the neigh-
borhood of Knoxville. and in Memphis, but the genealogy of
this line has not been traced. He was the only one of the fam-
ily of small stature. The other men were generally over six
feet, and the women tali and slender. In j'outh they were
good looking, the women having a delicate bloom and com-
plexion. As a family they were noted for their good sense
and sterling qualities, being immovable where right was con-
cerned.
8. Isaac, son of John and Katharine Anderson McNutt,
was an alumnus of " Liberty Hall," at Lexington, graduat-
ing there in 1800, and was educated for the Presbyterian
ministry. He went to Louisiana when quite young. For
a long time no tidings were received of him. He was
the idol of his mother's heart. In her old age, after
her children were married and settled, the desire to see
her son became very intense. Though she did not know
just where he was, she decided to go in search of him.
She started on horseback, through the wild and almost
savage country, stopping to see her son Benjamin in Ten-
nessee. After she found Isaac, she returned to her home
in Rockbridge, satisfied with her visit.
9. Robert, son of John and Katharine Anderson McNutt,
fell mortally wounded at the battle of Cowpens, S. C, January
17, 1781.
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Waddell, in his " Annals of Augusta County," chronicles
a fact which has an innocently and quietly humorous phase,
when he says: " By the year 1815 many of the elements of
weahh in the county had increased very considerably, compared
with 1800." Some of the statistics of that time strike us now
as rather curious. There were five four-wheeled riding car-
riages in the first revenue district of the county, and the aristo-
cratic owners of these vehicles were William Black, Sr., Rev.
William Calhoun, Mrs. Nancy Kinney, James jMcNutt and
Edward Valentine.
James McNutt.
The youngest son of Alexander, ist, was born in Maryland
in 1 7 38. He married in 1768, Margaret McElroy, who was
born in 1744, and of this marriage there were six children:
1. Alexander.
B., 1771.
D., 1837.
2. James.
B.. 1773.
D., 1S51.
3. Margaret.
B., 1776.
D.. 1S05.
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4- Jant^-
B.. 1778.
D., 1856. Unmarried.
5. Samuel Hamilton.
B., 1789.
D., 1859.
6. Robert.
B., 1797-
D., 1870. Unmarried.
James McNutt died in Augusta County in 1810, and his
wife, Margaret, surviving him seven years, died in 1817.
Alexander, the eldest son of James and Margaret McNutt,
married a Miss Trotter, of Virginia, and had issue, two sons,
James, a physician, and Samuel, and one daughter, whose name
is not ascertained.
James, the second son, commonly known as Squire Mac-
Nutt, (i), married, in 1809. Mary Anderson Smith Morton,
Note (i).— Squire MacNutt did not abbreviate the name in spelling
done by other members ol the family.
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of Prince Edward Count}', Va. Mary Morton was born
March 15, 1790.
Had issue.
Mar}' Smith; born March 20, 181 1; died, 1878. She married
Rev. Henry Brown.
Had issue.
James Morton; born December 6, 1813; died in Prince
Edward County, 1876. He married Mary Carrington Venable
in 1814.
Had issue:
1. James Reid.
2. Mary Morton.
3. Flora.
4. Margaret.
5. Samuel Venable.
6. James Morton.
Margaret, third child of James and Mary Morton MacNutt,
was born February 2, 181 5; died in 1882; married Andrew
Withrow, of Rockbridge County, Va., and had issue, three
sons and three daughters, of whom four are living.
Samuel Alexander, fourth child of James and Mary MacNutt.
was born May 6, 1817; died, unmarried, in 1839.
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John Rice, fifth child of James and Maiy, was born Feb. 22,
1S19; died Jan., 1890; was first married to Frances Brown
Morrison; had issue, James M. and Mar}- M. His second
marriage was with Sarah Mildred McCorkle, of Rockbridge
Count\-.
Had issue:
1. Thomas M.
2. Susan.
3. William Morion.
^. John Rice.
5. A daughter.
William M., sixth child of James and Marj' MacNutt, was
born Jan. 24, 1821; died June, 18S6. He married Louisa
Venable, of Prince Edward County.
Had issue:
1. Margaret.
2. William Morton.
3. Jean Venable.
Robert, seventh son of James and Mar}- MacNutt, was born
Dec. 8, 1S23. He married Jane Gully, of Virginia, and resides
on a portion of the original McNutt grant.
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They had issue:
1. Mar}' E,
2. Robert.
Josiali Smith, eighth son of James and Mar}- MacNutt, was
born Oct. 9, 1S29; never married, and is at present, Judge of
the Court at Edna, Jackson County, Texas.
Benjamin F., ninth child of James and Mary MacNutt, was
born Feb. 28, 1827. He married Ellen Steele, of Augusta
County, and resides on a portion of the original grant.
No issue.
Eliza Jane, tenth child of James and Mary MacNutt, was
born Oct. 13, 1830; was twice married; first, to Robert
McBride, of Rockbridge County, and second, to Dr. Barton,
of Lexington, Va. Had issue, one son and one daughter.
Anne Rice, youngest child of James and Mary MacNutt,
was born June 28. 1836. She married William Steele, of
Augusta County, and had issue, one son and one daughter.
She died in 1879.
Margaret, eldest daughter of James and Margaret McNutti
married William Beard, of Rockbridge County. Had issue,
one son and one daughter.
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JUDGE J S. McNUTT.
Samuel Hamilton, youngest child of James and Margaret
McNutt, married Margaret McGavoch, of Wythe County, Va.
Had issue:
1. Margaret Anne.
2. Hugh.
3. James.
4. Samuel.
5. Robert.
6. Mariah.
7. Frances.
Of these children, Margaret Anne married William Allen,
of Indiana; Samuel was also married at Crawfordsville, and
Frances married James Cloyd, of Montgomery County, Va.
This line is not traced farther.
•'^' Samuel McNutt.
One of the four sons of John MacNaught, of Kilquhanitie,
settled in Ireland, near the County town of Lifford; married
and had issue, one son, Bernard. Bernard had three sons,
John, Patrick and Alexander. Patrick, the second of these,
married and had four children, Jane, Samuel, Nancy and
Mary. Samuel, the only son of Patrick, was born in 1788.
He married, Dec. 25, 18241, Hannah Stuart, who was born in
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1792- He died, Sept. 30, 1836, and his wife surviving him
forty years, died Dec. 24, 1S76.
Had issue:
1. Samuel.
2. Robert.
3. James.
4. Martha.
5. Mary.
6. Hannah.
7. Jane.
Samuel, the eldest son, was born Nov. 21, 1S25. and came
with his parents, in 1835, to the United States, settling, first, in
New Jersey, removing later, when a young man, to Mississippi,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1850, and took the position
of professor in the Hernando College. He married, April 14,
1857, Anna E. Lucas, of Ohio, a niece of Governor Robert
Lucas, of that State. His wife died Aug. 26, 1889.
Had issue:
1. William Lucas.
B., March i, 1861.
2. Robert Stuart.
B., Feb. 24, 1864.
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3- Samuel.
B., March 6, 1S70.
Samuel McNutt removed from Mississippi to the State of
Iowa, where he permanently settled at Muscatine. He was
Principal of the High School, editor of one of the leading
newspapers, and has served ten consecutive years in the Legis-
lature and Senate of the State.
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Hamilton.
The F'amily of Hamilton.
This very ancient and far-reaching family compares with, if
it does not excel, any other in Europe or America, both for
antiquity and dignity. The name originated and was taken
from the Manor of llambleden, otherwise " Hamilton," in the
Parish of Barkby in the County of Leicester, owned by the old
Earls of Leicester. The coats of arms were taken from the
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Earls of Leicester and Earl of Mellent in Normandy, both
of which arms were placed in St. Mar^-'s Church, Leicester.
The descent is authenticall}' traced from the Duke of Nor-
mand\' (great-grandfather of King William the Conquerer).
whose son was surnamed at baptism Humfrey, Lord Pont
Audemar, who married Alfreda of flaie Auberie, and bore a
son who was called Roger De Beaumont, who gave name to
the town of I^eaumont Le Roger in Normandy.
Roger persuaded the Norman Duke to invade England, in
fact accompanied him on that expedition. Roger married
Adelina, daughter of the Earl of Mellent, bv whom he had
two sons. The elder Robert proved to be a remarkable man
and a great commander. He led the right wing of the Duke of
Normandy's army in the decisive battle of Hastings, and on
account of these services he obtained ninety-one lordships and
manors in England, and was made Earl of Leicester, A. D.
1103.*
Robert I. married Elizabeth, a daughter of Magnus and
Anne, daughter of the King of Russia. They had a son,
Robert II., who succeeded to the Earldom of Leicester, land
and estates, turned a Canon in St. Mary's De Pratis, where he
served fifteen years, and died A. D. 1168.
His eldest son, Robert III., succeeded him as Earl of Leices-
ter. In 1 167 he married Petronilla, daughter of Lord Hinck-
ley, Great High Steward of England, by whom he had three
sons and two daughters.
*The Domesday Book mentions six manors held by des itamiltons in the time of Willian
the^onqueror.
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The eldest became Earl of Leicester, the second Bishop of
St. Andrews and Chancellor of Scotland. The third son, Wil-
liam De Bellomont, was siirnamed De " Hamillon," A. D. 1173,
from the place of his birth, the Manor of Hambleden or Ham-
ilton, in the Parish of Barkby, in the County of Leicester,
England. Thus he became tlic founder of the family of
" Hamilton^
Me married Mary, daughter of the Earl of Strathern, 1215,
in Scotland. He had a son, Sir Gilbert Hamilton, who was the
first of the name to go and settle in Scotland. (See note on
oiigin of crest.) He married Isabella, daughter of Sir James
Randolph, a niece of the king, Robert Bruce; and their eldest
son, Sir Walter, was created Baron Cadzow, now Hamilton, in
Lanarkshire. He married Mary, daughter of Lord Gordon.
and had two sons, Sir David and John.
Sir David was the king's Special Envoy and Attendant at the
battle of Durham in 1346.
He married Janet, daughter of Sir William Keith. Sir John,
his eldest son and successor, married Janet, daughter of Lord
Dalkeith.
Lord James, his heir and only son, was sent into England as
a hostage for the pa^'ment of 40,000 marcs. He married Janet,
daughter of Sir Alex Livingston of Calender, and had four
sons. The eldest and successor. Lord James II., was a man of
remarkable ability; he was a Privy Counsellor in 1440. He
married, by consent of Parliament, the sister of King James in
1474. He left one son, James, and one daughter, who after-
ward became the great-grandmother of Lord Darnley, husband
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of Mary, Queen of Scots, whose son James was the first king of
Great Britain under tlie name of James I. Lord James Ham-
ilton III. became tlie first Earl of Arran, and was presented
with the Island of Arran in 1503. He married Janet, daughter
of Sir David Beaton, and had two sons and two daughters.
The eldest, James II., Earl of Arran, a very able man, was
made Protector to Mar}-, Queen of Scots, and Governor of
Scotland; also was made Duke of Chatellerault in France, A. D.
1548. He married Margaret Douglas, eldest daughter of the
Earl of Morton, had four sons and four daughters. His eldest,
James, became the third Earl of Arran, and was made Captain
of the Life Guards b}- Henry II. of France; died without issue,
and John, his brother, succeeded him as the fourth Earl of Arran.
Was Privy Counsellor to King James IV.; was created Mar-
quis of Ha inilton, 19th of April, 1599. He married Margaret,
daughter of Lord Glammis, and had a son and a daughter.
James Hamilton Marquis II. succeeded him. He was a man
of great wisdom and piety; was created Lord High Commis-
sioner of Parliament in 162 1. He married Anne Cunningham,
daughter of the Earl of Glencairn. His eldest son, James,
became the third Marquis of Hamilton, who was created
Duke of Hamilton, 1643; was beheaded for his loyalty to King
Charles I., 1648. His six children died in youth, so he was
succeeded by his brother William, who became the second
Duke of Hamilton.
William died without male issue, and the estate and honors
descended to Sir Claude Hamilton, who had been created Lord
Paisley, 1587. He had six sons, five of whom died unmarried,
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and the sixth, James, succeeded him as Lord Paisley. Was
made Lord of the King's Bed Chamber, Baron of Abercorn,
Earl of Abercorn, and received a great grant of lands in the
Baron}' of Strabane, Ireland. He married Mariana, daughter
of Sir Thomas Boyd. He had five sons (James, Claude, Wil-
liam, George, and Alexander), and three daughters. Sir James
was successor and second Earl of Abercorn, and out of regard
for the services of his father and for the loyalty of the family to
the king during the rebellious times, the king asked him to go
and live in Ireland, and he would advance him to the peerage
with the title of Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane and Earl of
Abercorn, forever, A. D. 1617. He consented to go to Ireland,
and this marked the moving of the principal head of the Hamil-
ton family into Ireland.
He had three nephews, sons of Sir George Hamilton, son of
First Earl of Abercorn — William, George and James— who came
over to Ireland and settled with him on the estate, in the County
of Tyrone. James lived to a great age. His son, James, fell
heir to an estate half-way between Londonderry and Strabane,
at the village of Glen Garland. He had several sons, three of
whom moved to America in the year 1771 through the influ-
ence of a Col. Coward of Wells, Somersetshire, a relative by
marriage, who did business as a merchant in Virginia. — By
a Member of the British Historical Society, London and New
York.
Sir George Hamilton fiist married Isal^ella ol tlie family of Cirico of Flanders, and Ills
second marriage was to Mary, daughter of the Earl of Ossory. His tliree sous, William. George
and James, who moved to County of Tyrone, Ireland, were sons by the second wife.— " The
County Families of the United Kingdom,' by Walford, found in Trinity College Library,
Dublin.
Description of arms of James Hamilton, who was made Lord of the King's Bed Chamber.
Baron of Abercorn. Earl of Abercorn, and now in use by his legal descendants: Quarterly,
first and fourth gules, three cinque foils, pierced ermine for ''^ Hamilton C"" second and third
argent, a sliip witli sails furled and oars, sable for the Earls of " Arran.'"
Crest. Out of a ducal coronet, or an oak tree penetrated transversely in the main stem by a
frame sa-w f'roper. The blade inscribed with the word. " through;'''' the frame gold.
Supporters. Two antelopes, argent, horned, or ducally gorged, chained and hoofed.
The mottoes are: " J'hrough" znd " Sola nobilitas virtus," virtue alone is true nobility.
Origin of motto and crest. Sir Gilbert de Hamilton, his mother being Scotch, got into a
quarrel and killed John dc la Spencer, a favorite servant of King Edward of England. Sir
Gilbert was upholding the King of Scotland. He was pursued into the woods by the king's
officers. He and his servant changed their clothing with two wood-cutlers, took up the saw
and were cutting tlirough an oak tree, when the pursuers passed by; his servant got nervous
when they were passing, and Sir Gilbert called out to him, "Let us go ' through' it," which
word, together with the saw and tree, became his motto and crest.
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Addenda.
The three sons of James HamiUon (of Glen Garland) who
came to America in 1771 (John, Samuel, and James) settled in
the State of Virginia, John at Winchester, James in Botetourt
Coimty. and Samuel in Rockbridge Count}-.
Their father, James of Glen Garland, moved to America
late in life, and lived near his son John, at Winchester, Va.,
where he died near the close of the last century. His remains
lie interred in the Opequon church-yard. His son James, about
five years after his arrival in this country-, married Jane Gil-
breath, of Berkeley County, Virginia, and had seven children:
William, Margaret, Gilbreath, James, Isabella, John, and Jane.
He died in Botetourt County on the 19th of January, 181 2.
John, the youngest son, who was born on the 9th of June, 1789,
removed to Rockbridge County at the age of 24, and married
Elizabeth McNutt August 29, 18 16.
They had issue — seven children:
James Gilbreath.
Rachael Grigsby.
Henrietta Maria.
Margaret Jane.
Martha Elizabeth.
Alexander McNutt.
Isabella Rebecca.
October 22, 1845. Henrietta Maria married Leander James
McCormick. They removed to Chicago in 1S48, where they
have since resided.
They had issue :
Robert Hall.
Elizabeth Maria.
Henrietta Laura.
Leander Hamilton.
James Hamilton, father of James Hamilton of Glen Garland,
must have played a most active part in the great Revolution in
Ireland. The name Hamilton appears very frequently in the
history of the "Siege of Londonderry," by John MacKenzie.
He doubtless espoused the cause of James II. The Hamiltons,
having been essentially Loyalists for many generations, could
not have tolerated the dethronement of their lawful sovereign,
nor have given support and encouragement to the usurpation of
the crown. There were many Hamiltons who played a con-
spicuous part in that memorable siege, and they seem to have
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been about equally divided between Loyalists and Dissenters.
His son, James Hamilton of Glen Garland, was educated for
a Catholic priest, but changing his mind, or rather his religion,
declined to enter the priesthood, and, utilizing a portion of his
estate as a linen bleach green, thereafter devoted himself to
that industry.
He was born early in the eighteenth century. In 1776, after
the death of his wife in Tyrone County, he followed his three
sons, John, Samuel, and James, to America (bringing v^'ith him
the remainder of his family), and settled near Winchester, Va.,
where he died near the close of the eighteenth century, aged
eightj'-five years and six months. The Opequon Presby-
terian church, in which he worshiped, was organized in 1738,
built in 1790, rebuilt in 1896, and the grave in which he
was buried is located in the south diagonal corner of the
burying-ground just in front of the tower of the new Ope-
quon church. At the time of the late war his tombstone (with
its dates) was destroyed during "Sheridan's ride" through
Winchester, when the ancient and historical grave-yard was
trodden down by horses' hoofs, and the monuments of antiquity
carried off or broken to pieces. The Union troops used the
church for a stable, and the broken tombstones for bread-
boards. A new monument to his memory is now being
erected on the site of the old one.
John, his eldest son, was born near Londonderry, Ireland,
August 17, 1743. Owing to priority of birth, he fell heir to the
largest portion of his father's estate, whereby he made the bet-
ter start in life, and subsequently by untn-ing energy became the
wealthiest man in Frederick County. He owned a number of
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L.
farms near Winchester, besides slaves and mills, and had twelve
six-horse teams constantly at work hauling Hour to Alexandria,
lie lost 8,800 barrels of flour worth twent\'-three dollars per
barrel, or over $200,000, at sea b}- the French, and this is
still due his descendants, by the terms of arrangement of the
French spoliation claim at the time of the purchase of Louisiana
from France. His residence (built of red brick in the year
1800) is situated near the main turnpike leading to Staunton,
two miles south of Winchester, and is still in a good state
of preservation. He died September 2, 1S25, and was buried
in the old Opequon church-yard, near the last resting place
of his father (James Hamilton).
Sarah Wilson, wife of John Hamilton, was born August 17,
1763. in Frederick County, Va.; died December 19, 1820.
John Hamilton and Sarah Wilson were married May 10. 17S2.
Had issue:
Mary.
M.. Eleazer Taylor.
Elizabeth.
M.. Benjamin Touchstone.
Robert W.
B., April 4, 17S7.
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John.
James.
William.
Sarah Hollis.
M., — Lupton.
Wilson.
Joseph C.
George W.
Juliet.
M.,John Dowell.
Nancy.
M., John Griffith.
Robert W. Hamilton, and Betsey Earle, his wife, were mar-
ried February 26, 1811.
William Hamilton, son of John, born 1795; died November i,
1836. Mariam Earle, his wife, died 1867, William Hamihon
and Mariam Earle were married in 1816.
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Had issue:
Sarah Ann.
B.. September i, 1817.
Lucy E.
B., June 10, 1819.
Mary Eliza.
B., December 5, 1820.
Matilda Jane.
B., November i, 1822.
John Richardson.
B., April 6, 1S27.
Esaias Earle.
B., February 6, 1829.
Joseph Samuel.
B., May 2, 1831.
Sarah E. Martin, wife of John Richardson Hamilton, was
born June 11, 1S30. They were married November 2, 1848.
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JOHN RICHARDSON HAMILTON
L
Had issue:
' ■ ^ . ■■'■• '. .r.> . -I , ' , ,
Alexander Earle.
Annie.
Mariam.
Alice.
Frank Lee.
John William.
Fannie.
Joseph Turner Ashb}'.
Lizzie.
Robert Miller.
Samuel Hamilton, son of James, brother of John and James,
on his arrival in America, settled in Rockbridge County, Va.
(1771); but many years ago the family disappeared from
that section of the country, having removed to parts unknown
during the periodical flights of emigration to the South and
West, whereby their identity with other branches of the family
has been lost.
The following account of James ILimilton, third son of James
Hamilton of Glen Garland, was found in an old desk in 18S0,
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sixty-eight years after his death. Mr. John H. Sale, of Lex-
ington, Va., the finder, carefully preserved it and restored it to
the family.
This paper is given as follows :
'•I.James Hamilton, was born in Tyrone County, Ireland,
September 2, 174S. My original progenitors came from Stir-
ling, Scotland. Three brothers, at the time of the Great Rebel-
lion in Scotland, landed in the North of Ireland. My grandfath-
er's name was James Hamilton. He died at ninety years of age.
My fatlier's name was James Hamilton. He died aged eighty-
five }"ears and six months. He lived in the village of Glen Gar-
land, in the parish of Donagheady, County Tyrone, six miles
from Londonderry and seven from Strabane. The name of
my mother's father was James Laury, and of my mother's
mother Jean Bell. They lived in Coleraine. I landed in Phil-
adelphia, October 9, 1771, after a passage of seven weeks and
three days from Londonderry."
Besides the small paper given above, James Hamilton left a
journal of his life to his eldest son, William, who, before his
decease, gave it to his son John; but unfortunately it was lost
with much valuable data, and no one now is living who remem-
bers its contents.
James Hamilton's ancestors were Loyalists at the time of the
Great Rebellion, and in the political and religious strife of the
limes continued firm supporters of the crown. He was at school
in Londonderry seven years, and was especially proficient in
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mathematics. He also attended dancing school v/hile there.
When he arrived in Philadelphia, he was attired in the gentle-
man's costume of the period — knee breeches, with buckles, ruf-
fles, &c. In personal appearance he was of medium size, and
had blue eyes and fair complexion. About five years after his
arrival in the American colonies he married Jane Gilbreath, of
Berkeley Count}-, \"a., who was born at sea during the long and
perilous vo\'age which landed her and her parents in America
in 1754.
A few years after their marriage the young couple made
preparations to remove to Eastern Tennessee, at that time the
extreme Western frontier of civilization; and, well equipped
with horses and the great wagons necessary for such a journey,
they set out from Ijerkelc}' County; but their journey was con-
tinued no further than Pattonsburg in Botetourt County, where,
their horses becoming disabled, the}' were forced to stop. They
then decided to remain there, and purchasing some land on the
James River, a mile below the town, settled permanently amidst
the picturesque scenery of the noble James. He was a school-
teacher and farmer, and was considered the best surveyor in
the count}' at that time.
He departed this life January 19, 1812. A short time before
he breathed his last his son John asked him if he felt prepared
to die. His answer was :
"I feel that I have a building above, a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens."
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I. William, son of James Hamilton, and his wife, Jane
Gilbreath, was born in Berkeley County, Va., December 25,
1777.
He was a prominent and highly honorable man, and was for
many years an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Lexington,
The writer remembers to have heard him remark, that " in about
twenty-five years from this time the abolitionists of the North
will come South and help the negroes to gain their freedom."
This prediction was literally fulfilled. All the horrors of the
insurgents' torch and knife passed before her youthful imagina-
tion, and filled her with such alarm and terror as could never
be effaced from her memory. She was at that time about
fourteen years of age. During the second war with England
he furnished a substitute to fight the British. William Hamil-
ton died March i, 1839.
He married, first, Mary McCorkle, daughter of William Mc-
Corkle.
Had issue:
a. Jane.
B., June 26, 1804.
M., John McCown, May, 1821.
D.. October 30, i860.
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They had issue:
Margaret.
B., May 3, 1822.
M, Bernard Wood, June, 1844.
D., May, 1855.
Wilham.
B., March 3, 1S24.
Died in California, October, i860.
Mary Malvina.
B., February 3, 1826.
M., Samuel Paxton, February, 1845.
D., November, 1879.
Phoebe.
B.,June 26, 1829.
D., January, 1889.
Lucy.
B.. January lo, 1832.
D., October 16, 1883.
Julia Agnes.
B., March 23, 1834.
M., John Thompson, February 9, 1864.
SaUie.
B., January 25, 1838.
M., W. S. Beard, June 3. 1S73.
D., August I, 1880.
James.
B., February 19, 1840.
Killed in battle, November, 1861.
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Had issue,
b. Eliza Hamilton.
B., 1805.
M., James Douglas, 1821.
D., 1841.
Had issue.
1. Robert.
2. William.
3. James,
c. Phcebe.
B., 1807.
M., William H. Lackey, February 4, 1830.
Had issue.
I. John Thomas.
B., April 30, 1832.
M., Mary M. Kirkpatrick, February, 1861.
D., February, 1892.
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Issue eight children.
2. William.
B., March 6, 1835.
D., September 6, 1S35.
3. William Hamilton.
B., March 17, 1S36.
M., .
1. Esther Wilson.
2. Lizzie Stuart.
3. Rebecca Anderson.
The latter married, and had issue three children.
4. Mary Elizabeth.
B., March 27, 1838.
M., S. W. Wilson, 1S61.
D., February 18, 1897.
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Issue three children.
5. George White.
B., October i, 1840.
M., Nellie Burress, January, 1867.
D., 1SS9.
Issue five children.
6. Georgeanna.
B., September 3, 1842.
M., Col. J. A. Gibson in 1S64.
D., 1887.
Issue four children.
7. Horatio Armstrong.
B., July 7, 1845.
M., Maggie Wilson, November 10, 1869.
Issue five children.
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8. Julia Frances.
B.. August I, 1848.
I\I., George P. Richardson, 1870.
Phcebe Hamilton Lackey died in 1867.
d. Julia Hamilton.
B., 1809.
D., November, 1845, unmarried.
William Hamilton, married, second, Mary Thompson in 1815.
Had issue:
e. William Thompson Hamilton.
D., 1841, aged 24 years.
f. Nancy Isabel Hamilton.
B., March i, 1818.
M., Henry Mackey, May 25, 1837.
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Had issue:
1. William Hamilton Mackey, M. D.
B., January 7, 1840.
D., 1878.
2. John Henry.
B., December 12, 1842.
D., Februarj- 9, 1862.
3. George Armstrong.
B., December 6, 1846.
4. Mary A.
B., December 3, 1844.
D., September 14, 1850.
5. Martha Trimble.
B., November 6, 1849.
6. Winfield Scott.
B., January 21, 1851.
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7- Laura Bell.
B.July 21, 1853.
M., May 12, 1874, Alexander McNutt
Glasgo.
Had issue:
Alexander McNutt, Jr.
B.July 4, 1875.
John Henry.
B., October 27, 1877.
Martha Elizabeth Vance.
B., January iS, 1879.
Lucy Godwin.
B., April 18, 1881.
Mary Thompson.
B., May 17, 1887.
Otelia McNutt.
B., December 10, 1888.
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S. Lucy S. Mackey. ,, ,
B., September 27, 1853.
D., June 12, 1880.
Nancy I. Hamilton Mackey, died January 18, 1873.
John Gilbreath Hamilton, son of William, born in
Rockbridge County, Va., February 3, 1820.
M., Hannah Frances, daughter of Reuben
Grigsby, February 23, 1847. Removed
with his family to Chicago in 1865.
Had issue:
1. Ruby.
B., June 10, 1848. (Died young.)
2. Cornelia.
B., August 8, 1849.
M., Edward H. Noyes, October 4, 1870.
Had issue:
Edward Hamilton Noyes, August 8, 1871.
D., September 2, 1892.
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William Hamilton, March ii, 1877. ' '
Albert Hamilton, November 21, 1878.
3. Abbie Hamilton.
B„July 17, 1851.
M., Au<^ustus S. Campbell, October 14, 1880.
Had issue:
a. Benjamin Hamilton Campbell.
B., April 24, 1882.
b. Helen Hamilton.
B., April 13, 1889.
c. Augustus Scott.
B., April 9, 1890.
Abbie Hamilton Campbell.
D., January 16, 1897.
4. Maria Hamilton.
B., January 23, 1853.
M., William B. Keen, October i, 1874.
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Had issue:
a. William Brantley Keen.
B., April 26, 1875.;
b. Ethel.
B., August 30, 1877.
c. Violet Aglae.
B., July 23, 1882.
D., January 9, 1883.
5. William Taliaferro Hamilton.
B., June 26, 1856.
D., June 13, 1877.
6. Elizabeth Hamilton.
B., October 19, 1858.
M., Francis C. Pope, May 9, 1882.
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Had issue:
a. Francis Contarini Pope, June 23, 1883.
b. Virginia Hamilton, June 29, 1885.
7. Virginia Hamilton.
B., May 20, 1S61.
M., Reuben Grigsby Chandler, November 28,
1883.
Had issue:
a. Virginia Grigsby.
b. Ruby Hamilton.
c. Walter Hamilton.
Virginia Hamilton Chandler died November 8,
1894.
Mary Margaret, daughter of William Hamilton.
B., April 20, 1822.
Married Nathan Taliaferro, February 24, 1846, and removed
to Lynchburg, Va. She was a beautiful and accomplished
woman, possessing noble qualities of heart and mind.
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They had issue: • >• ■ .
1. William Hamilton Taliaferro, born September 27,
1847; was educated at the University of Vir-
ginia. Was drowned September, 1872.
2. Frank, born Februrary 11, 1849. Physician Chi-
cago. Married Mary Courtney Watkins, of
Richmond, Va., June 18, 1884.
She died February 13, 1889, leaving two children.
a. Mary Hamilton, ) Twins born February
b. Elizabeth Blair, J 7, 1889.
Lucy Taliaferro, )
^ ,. r^ .. r I- Twins born May 24, iSS2.
Juha Taliaferro, ) j t- j
Julia died in infancy.
Lucy married E. H. Pettit, of Nelson County, Va.,
February 24, 1875.
No issue.
5. Benjamin Berryman Taliaferro, born August 29,
1854, physician, died August 31, 1875.
6. Walter Taliaferro, born in May, 1857, died in
infancy.
Mary Margaret Hamilton Taliaferro, died June 17,
1857-
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I. Alfred Leyburn Hamilton, M. D., son of William
Hamilton.
B., 1824.
D., 1S64.
M., Lucy Steele.
No issue.
2. Margaret, daughter of James and Jane Gilbreath
Hamilton, was born May 15, 1780. Married William Miller of
Berkeley County, Va., October 20, 1808. Died November i,
1865.
Had issue:
a. James.
b. David.
c. William.
d. Mary Jane. Married Rev. Benjamin Davis of Mis-
souri. Had issue, seven children, all of whom died
early.
e. Nancy Miller, born May 10, 1818. Married James
William Henshaw, December 14, 1837.
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Had issue:
Hiram Joseph Henshaw.
B., October 22, 1838.
D., October 31, 1843.
William Hamilton.
B., June 15. 1841.
Mary Paulina.
B., June 22, 1843.
D., December 21, 1873.
John Moore.
B.,June 5, 1845.
James Merle.
B., July 9, 1847.
D., July 10, 1849.
Myra Aletta.
B., May 8, 1849.
D., October 17, 1881.
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Nora Alberta.
B., October 3, 185 1.
Nancy E. Miller.
D., November 9, 1893.
Gilbreath, son of James and Jane Gilbreath Hamilton, was
born September 29, 1782. He was an interesting and an agree-
able man, fond of relating anecdote and making his home
cheerful and happy. His life as a citizen was honorable and
useful. He brought up his children religiously and strictly.
He removed from W3'the County to Rockbridge in 1827,
where he purchased a good estate, consisting of a large farm,
well improved, and commanding a fine view of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Here his daughters were married, and his sons
held their " infairs." Gilbreath Hamilton married, first, Mrs.
Law, nee Cloyd.
Had issue:
James M. Hamilton.
B., August 15, 1808.
James M. Hamilton married Rachel Thompson, January 5,
1832. She was born July 30, 1812, and died September 30,
1882.
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They removed to Tennessee, where he remained during
Hfe, and died May, 1895.
Had issue:
1. William.
B., February 13, 1834.
M., Eliza Hall, 1865.
2. Margaret Virginia.
B., October 8, 1S35.
D., February 2, 1857.
M., Frank Elder, July 31, 1853.
3. Elizabeth S.
B., October 15, 1837.
M., William D. Black, January 15, 1857.
4. Alexander L.
B., November 10, 1839.
M., Laura Nailin, January 3, 1867.
D., December 10, 1870.
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5- James M. ■ . «
B., December 24, 1841.
M., Lettie Greason, November i, 1876.
6. Henrj- Clayton.
B., September 24, 1843.
M., Annie Browder, October 4, 1863.
7. Phoebe I.
B., April 15, 1846.
M., William P. Elrod, January 10, 1866.
8. Nancy C.
B., February 22, 1848.
D., November 19, 1857.
9. Tennessee.
B., April 16, 1850.
M., Dr. D. Tull, February 5, 1868.
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10. John T. ■ ^ ' ' • -^
B., February i, 1852.
M., Emma N. Zaricor, October 24, 1877.
11. James William.
B., December 25, 1878.
12. Thelbert R.
B., August 17, 1880.
13. John Guy.
B., August 28, 1882.
Gilbreath Hamilton, after the death of his first wife, married
Nancy Jacobs. The inscription on his tombstone at Weslej'
Chapel reads as follows:
" Sacred to the memory of Gilbreath Hamilton, who departed
this life June 18, 1S57, in the seventy-sixth year of his age.
"'Thou shah come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock
of corn cometh in his season.'
" Mrs. Nancy Hamihon departed this life March 26, 1848, in
the sixty-fourth 3ear of her age."
They had issue :
b. John W. HamiUon.
B., November 29, 181 2.
At the age of twenty-two he married Pauhna Ann Watts
(born August 18, 1816), of Bedford County, Va. He was
a very active and enterprising citizen, and lived on a large
plantation on North River, where he extended hospitality to his
numerous acquaintances. He was a noble specimen of Chris-
tian manhood. When John W. Hamilton had grown old, he
might be seen in his accustomed place in church with the same
fire of love and zeal flashing from his eyes, the same tear of
gratitude on his cheek, the same generous purse open in his
hand. He died January 20, 1881, aged sixt3'-nine years. Pau-
lina Ann Hamilton died March 4, 1884.
They had issue :
1. Elizabeth Ann Hamilton.
B., September 26, 1838.
M., Preston B. Hogshead, October 29, 1856.
2. Virginia W.
B., September 18, 1840.
D., September 5, 1842.
3. Mary Ella.
B., June 17, 1844.
M., Capt. Charles F. Jordan, Feb. 24, 1864.
Had issue.
4. William Watts.
B., July 4, 1846.
M., Virginia Mish.
Had issue.
5. Emma Buckner.
B., February 11, 1849.
M., Samuel McDowell Gold, M. D., Novem-
ber 2, 1870.
Had issue.
6. Frank Gilbreath.
B., October 14, 1852.
M., Gallic P. Miller, April 29, 1885.
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7- Hubert Alexander.
B., November 3, i860.
c. Eliza J., daughter of Gilbreath and Nancy Jacobs
Hamilton.
B., August 2, 1814.
M., James D. Watts.
Had issue:
1. Ann E. Watts.
2. Rebecca L.
3. James H.
4. Francis S. T.
5. Robert D.
d. Harriet, daughter of Gilbreath and Nancy Jacobs
Hamilton.
B., October 12, 1816
M., John S. Cummins, 1837.
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Had issue : u , , •, . ,
1. Andrew Hamilton Cummins. Killed at the battle
of Manassas, August 28, 1862.
2. Margaret J.
M., J. F. Moore.
3. Lizzie.
4. J. Miller.
M., Lizzie Wilson.
5. Charles A.
6. Lucy D.
M., D. E. Pierce.
7. Annie Jacobs.
D., 1868.
e. William Gilbreath, son of Gilbreath and Nancy
Jacobs Hamilton, was born October 18, 1818. He was a phy-
sician and farmer, but was hindered somewhat in his activities
by ill health. He married Evaline, daughter of Addison
McCormick, September 23, 1850. He died December 7, 1886.
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Had issue:
1. Hannah F. Hamilton.
B., 1851.
2. Emma B.
B., April 5, 1853.
M., Robert S. Craig, June 14, 1888.
3. William A.
B., March 15, 1856.
4. James W.
B., November 26, 1858.
M., Fannie Davidson, June 26, 1894.
5. Andrew Sidney.
B., January 3, 1864.
M., Myrtle Ijams, December 18, 1895.
Andrew Jackson, son of Gilbreath and Nancy Jacobs Ham-
ilton, was born May 13, 182 1. He married Mary E. Jones, of
Bedford County, June, 1848. Died October 4, 1879. ^^^ ^^^
educated at the Virginia Military Institute, and being a man
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well informed on the public questions of the da}' and of practi-
cal and liberal sentiments, was prepared to fill positions of honor
and trust. Of a genial disposition, warm-hearted in his attach-
ments, and sincere in his convictions, he could not fail to win
the respect and friendship of all with whom he was associated.
Living a good man, dying a Christian, he rests well,
tiad issue:
1. Warren Gilbreath Hamilton.
2. Fannie H.
M., William C. Gilmore, October 24, 1883.
Had issue:
Joseph Gilmore.
B., May 10, 1885.
g. Margaret Ann, daughter of Gilbreath and Nancy
Jacobs Hamilton, was born November 7, 1823.
M., James Thompson.
Had issue :
1. William Hamilton.
2. Sallie A.
3. Frank.
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Alice.
5. Emma.
6. John G.
7. Harry McG.
S. Laura.
9. Ashby.
h. Alexander Lockett, son of Gilbreath and Nancy Jacobs
Hamilton, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., September 13,
1827. He connected himself with the Methodist Episcopal
Church when about twelve years of age. from which time the
religious element was always prominent in his active life. After
completing his education at Washington College, he entered the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Virginia
Conference, where he remained several years. From there he
was transferred to the ministry of Wesley Chapel Church, St.
Louis, Mo., where the degree of Doctor of Divinity was con-
ferred upon him at the early age of twenty-five years. After-
ward he was appointed State School Commissioner for Mis-
souri. From this time he was engaged in literary pursuits save
when on active duty during the late war. Dr. Hamilton gladly
contributed what he might to the cause of his beloved South,
and was appointed chaplain to the Fifteenth Alabama Regi-
ment, Aug 20, 1861.
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At the close of the war he accepted the presidency of Andrew
Female College, Cuthbert, Ga.. to which he devoted his
energies in the interests of the higher education of women. His
labors in this field were eminentl}' successful in building up the
institution, and restoring it to its former prosperit}'. The diver-
sified character of the labor to which he was called from time
to time, and the success which rewarded his efforts, attested his
superiority of mind, and the versatility of his talents. He mar-
ried Frances Seawell, of Lebanon, Tenn., in 1853.
Had issue:
1. Nannie William.
M., Marion Francis Brimberry, of Camilla, Ga.
Had issue:
a. Annie Grace Brimberry.
After the death of his first wife, Dr. Hamilton married Dollie
May Eason, Huntsville, Ala., in 1857.
Had issue:
2. Ida Beaumont.
M., Daniel L. Hill, of Newnan, Ga.
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Had issue:
Eugene Hamilton.
Nannie Louise.
Alexander Lockett Hamilton, D. D.
D., May 7, 1881.
4. Elizabeth, daughter of James and Jane Gilbreath Hamil-
ton, was born December 19, 1783; died in childhood,
5. James, son of James and Jane Gilbreath Hamilton, was
born January 20, 1784. He was very religious and somewhat
eccentric. He had no profession, occupation, or home, no
money, and went about doing good. He might have been
called a " walking monk," as he seemed to live above the world
and its vanities. He lived and died a bachelor, but late in life
remarked, that had he seen in early life the verse " Whoso find-
eth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord,"
he would have married. His death from typhoid fever occurred
in 1850 at the home of his nephew, John W. Hamilton,
6. Isabella, daughter of James and Jane Gilbreath Hamilton,
was born February 13, 1786.
M., James Hartness.
D., February 4, 1866.
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Had issue:
a. Margaret Jane.
B., October 14, 1823.
M., Daniel Aiken.
D.June S, 1S88.
Had issue:
1. Samuel.
2. Jennie.
b. Mary Elizabeth Hartness.
B., March 27, 1825.
M., Henry Myers, January 26, 1843.
D., October 18, 1876.
Had issue:
Roberta.
B., January 20, 1844.
M., Henry Clay Smith, September 12, 1865.
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Had issue.
Jane, daughter of James and Jane Gilbreath Ham-
ilton, was born September 23, 1791.
M., Richard Lockett, November 26, 1818.
Removed with her family from Virginia to
Illinois in 1S36.
D., April 9, 18S0.
Had issue:
I. James Hamilton.
B., December 2, 1819.
M., first, E. P. Smith, November 2, 1843.
Had issue:
a. Martha Jane.
b. David Smith.
c. Charles Henry.
James H. Lockett married, second. Nancy E. Wal-
ston, November 20, i860.
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Had issue:
a. Benjamin Franklin.
b. Grace Greenwood.
c. Jessie Walston.
2. Daniel Gilbreath Lockett.
B., November 15, 1821.
M., Rosa Black.
Had issue:
a. John W.
b. Eliza Jane.
c. Edwilda.
d. Walter C.
e. Hannah D.
3. Eliza E. Lockett.
B., April 5, 1824.
M., Abram B. Smith.
D., December 6, 1897.
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Had issue:
a. Richard Lockett.
B.. August 3, 1841.
b. Sarah Jane.
B., December 27, 1843.
c. David Alexander.
B., June 8, 1846.
d. Matilda Ann.
B., January 30, 1849.
e. Joseph Hamilton.
B., October 26, 1851.
f. Oilman Clay.
B.,July 31, 1854.
g. Dora E.
B., April 23, 1857.
h. Mary Alice.
B., October 16, 1859.
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i. Charles Newton.
B., July 25, i860.
4. Margaret Jane Lockett.
B.June 18, 1828.
D., October 28, 1850.
5. Sarah Ann Lockett.
B., May 30, 1831.
M., Rev. Walton C. Smith
Had issue:
a. Lauretta Julia.
B., September 4, 1858.
b. Melissa Fisher.
B., December 29, 1864.
c. Oscar Newton.
B., September 7, 1867.
7. John, son of James and Jane Gilbreath Hamilton, and
grandson of James Hamilton, of Glen Garland, Ireland, was
born June 9, 1789, near Buchanan, Botetourt County, Va.
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He removed to Rockbridge when twenty-four years of age,
and married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander and Rachel
Grigsby McNutt, August 29, 1S16.
They had issue: ■ i'-
1. James Gilbreath.
2. Rachel Grigsby.
3. Henrietta Maria (named by her father for the wife
of Charles I.).
4. Margaret Jane.
5. Martha Elizabeth.
6. Alexander McNutt.
7. Isabella Rebecca.
A few }'ears after his marriage John Hamilton purchased an
estate five miles southeast of Lexington, on which he lived the
life of a typical Virginia planter the remainder of his days. A
most interesting feature of plantation life in that region in
those days was the presence of faithful and devoted negro
slaves, of whom John Hamilton owned a limited number, some
of whom lived in the famil}' for half a century.
In 1825 he built a brick residence, Locust Hill, where he
brought up his family, and led a happj' rural life, surrounded by
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1829
orchards, vines and forest trees, and in full view of the Blue
Ridge Mountains, four miles distant. He planted the lawn
with locust trees. The house still remains in a good state of
preservation ( 1897), although the interior was burned out in
1854 ^'^'^ afterward restored plainly. A few pieces of hand-
some furniture were saved from the fire.
He was energetic and enterprising, and in addition to his farm-
ing interests carried on a forwarding business to Richmond via
James River for some years. He was public-spirited, and
always took part in promoting any movement brought forward
for the public welfare. He was an exceptionally genial and
hospitable man, and was beloved and respected greatly by a
large circle of friends and acquaintances, over whom he exerted
a wide influence, as well as upon his children and servants.
When forty-three years of age he united with the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and by his confession " was born again,"
August 21, 1832. His conversion wrought a wonderful change
in him, and his life thereafter was governed by religious con-
victions. From that time until his death — a period of forty
years — he devoted himself to religious works and charities
mostly in connection with the church of his choice. He was
deeply interested in the Bible Society, in which he was a life
member and an active worker.
John Hamilton was a lover of nature, delighting in the
beauties of the fair valley and the grandeur of the Blue Ridge;
and in his old age it was his pleasure to ride to the Natural
Bridge, twelve miles distant, and feast his e3'es on that marvel
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of nature's handiwork. He and his wife made three visits to
their children in Chicago at a period when it required three or
four days to make the journey. On their first visit, in 1852, he
was impressed with the prospective greatness of the young
city, and bought forty acres of land in the southwestern quarter,
which afterward became valuable. Their second visit was in
the autumn of 1856. At that time he became enthusiastic over
the growth and enterprise of the place. Their third visit was
made in 1859-60, when they remained six months, returning
home to undergo the vicissitudes and privations of the Civil War,
which broke out the following spring. In politics, John Hamil-
ton was a Whig until over seventy years of age, and then only
embraced the Democratic or State's Rights doctrines when
compelled to do so by the secession of the State of Virginia,
which up to that time he had opposed as vigorously as a private
citizen could. But he yielded at last, when invasion was
threatened, and gave his support to the cause of the South.
They were not molested at any time during the great struggle.
He lived seven years after the close of the war, long enough to
behold with dismay the desolation and misery brought upon
his beloved state and people. He was a pall-bearer at the
funeral of Thomas J. Jackson ("Stonewall"). John Hamilton
died in his eighty-fourth year, August 7, 1872. At the moment
of his departure he expressed consciousness of the event by
throwing out both hands, as if to say, " Good-by, good-b}',"
to those around him, and immediately expired in the hope of a
blessed resurrection. Thus ended a long life of great useful-
ness and happiness.
He was five feet seven inches in height, had a fair complexion, light blue eyes. Roman nose,
and fine dark hair, and was very strong and healthy.
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ELIZABETH McNUTT HAMILTON,
Tribute of Respect.
At a Quarterly Conference of Lexington Circuit, Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, held at Wesley Chapel, August lo,
1872, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, Divine Providence has recently removed from
among us our late brother, John Hamilton, ripe in years, and
ready for his change;
And Whereas, In view of his long connection with this
Conference as a worth}' servant of the Church, it is but right
that we should express our appreciation of his life, and our sor-
row at his death; therefore.
Resolved, That in the death of our venerable friend and
brother, John Hamilton, our Church loses the service and ex-
ample of one whom it can only afford to spare in humble trust
that the great Head of the Church will raise up others to take
the place thus made vacant.
Resolved, That we rejoice in that grace which so long sus-
tained our brother in the enjoyment of a Saviour's love, and at
last so sweetly cheered him on to victory over his last foe.
Resolved, That we tender to his sorrowing family and friends
our sympathy with their grief, and commend them to Him who
alone can comfort us in our tribulation, humbl}' trusting that
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both they and ourselves may eventually gain admittance into
the "rest" remaining for "the people of God," there to enjoy
a part in the blessed re-union of heaven.
Resolved, That this minute be spread upon our journal, and
that it be published in the church papers and the papers of Lex-
ington, and copies be sent to the famil}'.
J. E. Armstrong, President.
A. J. Hamilton. Secretary.
c. Elizabeth, wife of John Hamilton, and third child of Al-
exander and Rachel Grigsby McNutt, was born in Rockbridge
County, Va., March 23, 1794.
When seventeen years of age she was a pupil at Ann Smith
Academy, Lexington, where her daughters afterward were
educated.
As before stated, she was married to John, son of James
Hamilton, on August 29, 1816, by George A. Baxter, D. D.
Her wedding dress was of closely woven white twilled silk,
called " Levantine," made demi-train, gored plain in the front
and sides, gathered in the back, the bodice short, with low neck
and short sleeves, and it was trimmed with a quilling of white
satin ribbon. She wore long white kid gloves and white kid
slippers. Her bridemaid was her first cousin, Hannah Ingram
Grigsby, and Charles P. Dorman, of Lexington, Va., acted as
groomsman. After the wedding the bride and groom made a
tour to Winchester, where the groom had relatives, amongst
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whom were an uncle, John Hamilton, and an aunt, Jane Bar-
ton, his father's sister. They made the journey in a new gig,
which was considered very stylish and novel in those primitive
days.
After enjoying the hospitality of their relatives they returned
to begin the journey of life together by laying the foundation
for a successful future. Their home, built in 1825, in which
they lived happily together nearly half a century, though in the
midst of hills and removed from the world's great thorough-
fares, was ever the dearest spot to them.
Elizabeth McNutt Hamilton was a most hospitable hostess to
her numerous friends, who loved to visit in the old Virginia
style. As with all gentlewomen of the olden time, her home
was her sphere. Her sound principles and her religious life,
by her exemplary walk and conversation, were impressed upon
her children and on others with whom she came in contact.
She was a person of fine breeding and culture, and of such
charity as is described in I Corinthians, xiii. 4, 5.
She died on Good Friday, April 7, 1871, aged 77 years, and
was buried on Easter Sunday.
Elizabeth McNutt Hamilton was five feet seven inches in
height; her complexion was very fair, her eyes were blue,
and the lines of her face were classic in type.
James Gilbreath Hamilton, the eldest child of John and his
wife Elizabeth McNutt Hamilton, was born in Rockbridge
County, Va., October 18, 1817. He pursued his studies at
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, where he graduated. He
was admitted to the bar in Staunton, Va., and in 1842 began
the practice of law in Lexington. In the same year he married
Martha Ann Smith, daughter of Abram and Martha Reid
Smith, of Rockingham County.
They removed to Chicago in 1853, and he engaged in the
real-estate business, which at that time offered great inducements,
and in which he accumulated a handsome fortune. The
panic of 1873, which brought ruin to so many throughout
the country, also crippled him financially.
The last twenty years of his life were passed in Evanston,
near Chicago, where, freed from the cares and distractions of
business, he and his wife interested themselves in the welfare of
the Northwestern University, in whose congenial religious and
learned atmosphere they found solace. He was for thirtj'-five
years a member of the Board of Trustees of the University,
and during that long period held every office in its gift save
only the presidency. He was elected a member of the Board of
Trustees in June, 1857, and remained a member until the time
of his death. He was vice-president of the board from 1870 to
1875, at which time he was elected secretary, and continued to
hold that office until 1891, when his health failed. During the
whole period of his connection with the University, he was a
very faithful and efficient officer. He constantly gave his best
efforts for the welfare of the University, and to his relatives
freely and without remuneration.
James G. Hamilton was a Unionist in sentiment, preceding
and during the late Civil War, and earnestly opposed secession.
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RACHEL HAMILTON OSBORNE,
He lived to see the day when results justified his foregone con-
clusions that the Union must and should be preserved. His
friends and foes alike now approve and admire the wisdom and
patriotism which influenced his opposition to a dissolution of the
United States.
The Methodist Episcopal Church was the denomination to
which he belonged, and for which he labored and prayed.
He died in Evanston, June 13, 1893, of paralysis, in his sev-
enty-sixth year, and was buried by the side of his wife in Grace-
land Cemetery, Chicago.
(b). Rachel Grigsby, daughter of John and Elizabeth
McNutt Hamilton, was born in Rockbridge County, April
24, 1820. She married the Rev. John W. Osborne, August 4,
1836. They, with their family, removed from Virginia to Chi-
cago in 1853. On November 26, 1863, Rachel Hamilton
Osborne died of heart disease, and was buried in Graceland,
Chicago. She was a woman of noble character, fine mental
ability, and superior worth. She was five feet eight inches in
height, and had a Roman nose, blue eyes, and dark hair.
Had issue:
I. Elizabeth Anderson.
B., July I, 1837.
D., October 23, 1838.
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2. Sarah Georgiana.
B., March 19, 1839. ' ' ''''
M., John G. Cress, October, 1871.
No issue.
Major Cress is the owner of the beautiful propert}' in Vir-
ginia, formerly the homestead of Gilbreath Hamilton.
3. Mary Josephine.
B., March 29, 1841.
M., James P. Clark, August 7, 1862.
D., July 14, 1887.
They had issue:
a. Ernest Lyle.
B., June 4, 1868.
M., Lillian Shaw, April 10, 1890.
Had issue:
Lyle Hamilton.
Grace Mortimer.
b. Tracy Hamilton.
B., December 18, 1872.
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4- John Hamilton Osborne.
B., March 8, 1843.
A man of noble qualities, of fine physique, with great powers
of resistance to severe trials and dangers, such as was experi-
enced during the civil war, and in his ranch life in New Mexico.
5. Virginia Henrietta Osborne.
B., October 20, 1845.
D., May 18, 1848.
6. William Yeatman Osborne.
B.,July 19, 1847.
M., Helen Cowgill.
Removed to Missouri, where he purchased a farm.
Had issue:
Perry.
Mary.
Earl.
Grace.
Robert.
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7- Frank Olin Osborne, '" ' ' ■
B., December 13, 1849.
Resides in St. Paul, Minn., where he is attorney at law. He
is A. B. and M. A. of Racine College, Wisconsin, and B. L.
of the University of Wisconsin. Married, first, Kate L. Smith,
May 10, 1876.
Had issue:
Rachelle Hamilton.
B., March 8, 1882.
Married, second, Elizabeth R. Bentley, April 4, r888.
Had issue:
Rowena DeKoven.
B., August 12, 1890.
8. Virginia Elizabeth Osborne, daughter of John W.
and Rachel Hamilton Osborne.
B., February 8, 1855.
M., George Ross, April 28, 1875.
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Had issue :
Irene.
B., July 26, 1877.
D., September 11, 1877.
Robert Hamilton.
B., April 13, 1879.
9. Grace Lee Osborne, daughter of John W. and
Rachel Hamilton Osborne.
B., August 22, i860.
M., William H. Mortimer, October 13, 1881.
Had issue :
Arthur Osborne.
B., October 16, 1882.
Elsie Maud.
B., May 20, 1884.
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c. Margaret Jane, Daughter of John and Elizabeth
McNutt Hamilton, was born in Rockbridge
Count)-, Va., September i6, 1824.
She received a good education at the country schools, and
afterward attended boarding school at Ann Smith Academy.
At seventeen years of age she united with the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, and thereafter was a leading and working mem-
ber of that denomination, her religious life and character being
marked with strong devotion.
On Februar}' 24. 1S48, she married the Rev. William Krebs,
a clergyman of the same church, who afterward became one of
the leading pastors in the Conference of Baltimore. Mrs.
Krebs, as a member of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, took an active part in extending the society's influence.
She was a woman of more than average intellectual ability.
Her mind, quick and logical in its operations, decided her to
take an active interest in questions of the day, such as temper-
ance and the advancement of women.
After her husband's death, Mrs. Krebs returned to her native
Rockbridge, where, with her youngest son, Alexander, she set-
tled upon a portion of the Alexander McNutt property, near
Buena Vista, and where she died of paralysis, September 20,
1896.
Had issue:
I. Betty Bell.
B., March 26, 1849.
M., William H. Crawford, of Baltimore, in 1875.
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MARGARET HAMILTON KREBS
1895.
Had issue: ;
Helen Hamilton.
B., October 25, 1875.
Krebs.
B., February 28, 1877.
Bettie Bell Crawford died on the day of her son's
birth, February 28, 1877.
2. Kate.
B., October 5, 1850.
M., William H. Beebe, of Chicago, October
19, 1871.
Had issue:
William Hempstead.
B., August 29, 1872.
Margaret Hamilton.
B., June 28, 1874.
Betty Bell.
B., February 21, 1877.
Krebs.
B., December 18, 1879.
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3- John Hamilton. . ;
B., March 9, 1852.
D., February 2, 1897.
M.,Jeanette Jones. April 30, 1879.
Had issue:
Florence.
B., March 22, 1880.
Robert Newton.
B., May 16, 1893.
4. William Samuel.
B., January 18, 1854.
Married, first, Carlotta C. Scattergood, December 20, 1882.
She died in 1883.
Married, second, A.ddie Batchelder, December 14, 1885.
Had issue:
William.
B., November 28, 1889.
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MARTHA HAMILTON SMITHSON,
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5. James Henry.
B., August 19, 1856.
M., Martha Grey Holton, June 26, 1886.
Graduated at St. John's College, Annapolis; attorney at law
in Chicago.
6. Alexander McNutt.
B., April 16, 1863.
M., Eva Hamilton Jordan, November 10, 1897.
e. Martha Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth
McNutt Hamilton, was born in Rockbridge County, Va.,
March 9, 1827. She finished her education at Ann Smith
Academy. On June 3, 1847, she married William T. Smithson,
of Lynchburg. She was a woman of strong character, very
conservative in temperament, and thoroughly devoted to the
interests of her family, and was greatly beloved by all who
knew her. She died June 9, 1896.
Had issue:
I. Walter Triplet.
B., November 23, 1848.
D., January 13, 1849.
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2. Lelia McNutt.
B., April 14, 1851.
D., January 15, 1853.
3. William Hamilton.
B., August 5, 1853.
D., December 12, 1853.
4. Elizabeth May. . ■ • -
B., November 8, 1855.
M., Charles H. Paxton, December 21, 1880.
Had issue :
Martha Hamilton.
B., December 22, 1881.
5. Ella Marshall.
B..July 12, 1859.
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6. Marg'aret Lee.
B., November 2, 1863.
M., Howard G. Avery, attorney at law, Octo-
ber II, 1892.
Had issue:
Howard Anrrus.
B., January 19, 1895.
f. Alexander McNutt Hamilton, the second son of John and
Elizabeth McNutt Hamilton, was born February 24, 1830. He
graduated at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, in 1850.
November 25, 1857, he married Virginia Burns Smith, daughter
of Abram Smith, and his third wife, Charlotte Gambill, of
Rockingham County, Va.
They had issue:
1. Lenwood.
B., September 18, 1858.
2. Henry Jewett.
B., July 6, i860.
D., May 4, 1862.
3- Alexander Burns. '
B., November 15, 1868.
Upon the outbreak of the civil war, Alexander McNutt
Hamilton enlisted in the Rockbridge Grays, Company H,
Fourth Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade. This company
was raised in the southern and eastern portion of Rockbridge,
principal!}- within a radius of five miles of Buffalo Forge.
It was organized for active service during the excitement of
the commencement of hostilities, and on the 22d of April, 1861,
it went into barracks at the Virginia Military Institute, where it
remained until the 14th of May, 1861. At Staunton the
company was mustered into the service of the Confederate
States by Colonel Harmon, and on May 16 left bj' railroad for
Harper's Ferry. When organized it had as captain, James G.
Updike; first lieutenant, Alexander M. Hamilton. On March
20, 1862, Captain James G. Updike tendered his resignation,
which was accepted April 20. The company was re-organized,
and the following officers were elected: Alexander M. Ham-
ilton, captain; A. H. Cummins, first lieutenant; George B.
McCorkle, second lieutenant; Robert A. Glasgow, Jr., third
lieutenant. Lieutenant Andrew H. Cummins and W. H. Selby
were killed at second battle of Manassas. Captain Hamilton
was engaged in the following battles: First and second battles
of Manassas, Cross Keys, the Wilderness, Port Republic, Fred-
ericksburg, battles around Richmond, and others, through all of
which he escaped uninjured, though shells burst around him,
and his comrades lay dead and wounded at his side, and
amongst them Lieutenant Cummins. Captain Hamilton died
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ISABELLA HAMILTON
September 7, 1880, greatly lamented. In all the relations of
life he displa^'ed those qualities of heart and mind, which go to
make up one of nature's noblemen, combined with cultivation
and education. He was buried in Harrisonburg, Va. His wife
had a tombstone erected to his memory bearing the inscription:
" Honorable to a fault." He was five feet ten inches in height,
and blonde of complexion.
g. Isabella Rebecca, daughter of John and Elizabeth
McNutt Hamilton, was born May 3, 1833.
February 6, 1855, she married Charles Edwin Haas, attorney
at law, of Harrisonburg, Va., who died December 16, 1886.
Had issue :
1. Elizabeth McNutt.
B., August I, 1858.
D., April 13, 1859.
2. Mary Samusls.
B., February 20, i860.
M.jjohn H. Christian, attorney at law, Lynch-
burg, Va., November 12, 1890.
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Had issue: i . , „: , ,
Arthur Hallam.
B., September 12, 1892.
John Hamilton.
B., July 29, 1894.
Muriel Dunscomb.
B.-Jul}' 10, 1896.
3. Talfourd Noon Haas.
B., February 22, 1864.
Graduated in law at the University of Virginia. Succeeded
his father in the practice of that profession in Harrisonburg.
4. Nettie McCormick.
B., March 24, 1869.
D., September 3, 1884, of typhoid fever.
She was an unusually beautiful and clever girl, and cut down
in the flower of her youth.
5. Harold Hamilton.
B., January 3, 1874.
Graduated in medicine at the University of Virginia in 1895.
A very promising young physician, and lately appointed sur-
geon in the United States Navy.
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c. Henrietta Maria, daughter of John and Elizabeth McNutt
Hamihon, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., five miles
east of Lexington and twelve miles north of the Natural
Bridge, May 25, 1822. Her childhood was passed principally
in the Oldfield school-house, sitting on hard benches from half-
past seven in the morning until five or six in the afternoon.
At fourteen years of age she was sent to boarding school at the
Ann Smith Academy, Lexington, of which Charles Chapin was
principal. Ann Smith, the founder of this institution, was one
of the earliest promoters of higher education for women in this
country. The school was established about the year 1812.
Among other pleasant reminiscences of her happy days at
this seminary, and of her dear schoolmates, she recalls the
occasion when she was unanimously chosen to be " Queen of
the May." The festival took place in 1838, on the school
grounds, amid a crowd of spectators, just as the sun was setting.
She remembers a few of the words spoken on that occasion.
The opening address was made by Marj' Cumings, who said:
" We have assembled this evening for the purpose of crowning
our favorite, Henrietta, ' Queen of May.' Nature hath greatly
aided in displaying her beauties in rich profusion, and our
youthful hearts beat high with pleasure as we hail thee,
Henrietta, ' Queen of May.'
" The crown decreed thy youthful brow
By those who stand around thee now —
May it a beauteous emblem prove
Of smiling joy, of hope and love."
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After the playing of an air by the band, Phebe Alexander
placed the crown of rare flowers on her head, saying:
" Accept, dear girl, this crown of flowers,
Becoming thee far more
Than the richest jeweled diadem
That ever monarch wore.
" Accept this gift of genuine love,
Of friendship pure and gay;
And, as we bind it on thy brow.
Hail Henrietta, Queen of May."
"And, oh! as sinks the setting sun.
Brightening the arch of heaven,
So may to thee, when life is done,
A glorious rest be given."
After the playing of another air, the Queen replied:
" Whilst all around have conspired to honor and render me
happy, shall I remain silent? No. My youthful heart beats
high with gratitude, first to our Creator, from whom we receive
every blessing, and then to you, my dear friends and school-
mates,
" Whose fairy footsteps press the green,
To hail me as your May-day Queen;
And may sweet hope her aid still lend,
And be to me and mine a friend."
After the playing of another air, a poetical closing address
was given by Ann Ruffner. There was a reception to in-
vited guests later in the evening in the large schoolroom.
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Among the distiguished personages present on that occasion
were the eminent American statesman, Thomas H. Benton,
and his daughter, Jessie, who afterward married the famous
General John C. Fremont.
As this is a book of reminiscences as well as genealogies,
the writer cannot conscientiously omit the most remarkable
event in her life, which occurred in October, 1841. It was a
vision of the Crucifixion — a supernatural phenomenon, which
ever afterward gave her unspeakable happiness and guidance.
She left school at the age of eighteen, and after spend-
ing five years at home with her parents she was married on
Wednesday, October 22, 1S45, at five o'clock in the afternoon,
by the Rev. B. L. Brown, to Leander James McCormick, of
Walnut Grove, same county.
Imagine a young man, six feet in height, well-proportioned,
perfectly healthy, with abundant dark hair, hazel eyes, and full
black beard. Such was Leander J. McCormick at the time of
his marriage. The wedding at Locust Hill was a quiet one;
but was followed a week later by a handsome reception, and a
similar entertainment at Walnut Grove, where they spent sev-
eral months. During this time Leander was enthusiastically
engaged in the development and manufacture of the reaper,
having already invented and applied the raker's seat and other
valuable and indispensable features. On July 4, 1846, his
father, Robert McCormick, inventor of the original McCormick
reaper, died, and thus ended the manufacture of those imple-
ments in Virginia.
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On August lo, 1846, Leander and his wife removed to a
farm on the south river, about 10 miles from either of the
old homesteads. This was a wild, romantic spot, embracing
hill, mountain, river, and vale. After enjoying this beautiful
scenery for two years, they decided to remove to Chicago.
On the last day of October, 1848, they sold their personal
property, and, after staying several days at Locust Hill, made
preparations for their removal to Chicago, where Leander had
formed a partnership with his brother, Cyrus H. McCormick.
After a brief visit to Walnut Grove, they, with their infant son,
Robert Hall, started on horseback, amidst a blinding snow
storm. At Steele's Tavern, Midwa}', they took the stage coach
to Winchester; then proceeded via Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York, Albany, Buffalo, thence by steamer Griffith to Detroit,
and from there by train and steamer Pacific from St. Joseph to
Chicago, arriving Monday evening, November 20, 1848, having
accomplished the journey in ten days, the shortest time possible.
On their arrival, they were met by Cyrus H. McCormick, who
conducted them to the Sherman House, where they remained ten
days. On December i they began housekeeping on the north
side of the river in the little frontier town with its population of
about twenty thousand souls. The primitive life in this western
town was novel and extremely interesting, and the people as
well, of whom many were New Englanders, whose provincial
ways and customs were quite amusing when contrasted with
those of Virginia. At that time the States preserved their
primitive habits and customs, which in this era of extensive
travel have been obliterated. The following extract from a
letter dated December 28, 1848, shows some of the market
prices at that time :
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" We have an excellent market here, and can get the best
meats of every kind at four cents per pound, including sausage,
venison, pork, beef, mutton, and ever3'thing except fowl, which
are quite high. The price of quail is fifty cents per dozen."
In Ma}', 1862, they made their first trip abroad in the steam-
ship " America," after a passage of fourteen days from Boston
to Liverpool. At this time they made quite a general tour of
Europe, including England, Scotland, Belgium, France, Swit-
zerland, and German}', returning home in December of the same
year. Afterward they made five other trips abroad, taking in
the principal cities and countries of Great Britain and the Con-
tinent.
In 1863 they erected a handsome residence at the corner
of Rush and Ohio Streets. It was a double house built of
yellow brick, with gray stone trimmings. They resided therein
until the great fire of October 9, 1871. At about half-past
three o'clock in the morning, when fires were breaking out all
around them, and the city gas works had exploded, they hastily
left their beautiful home, regretfully consigning it to the flames.
Their son, Robert Hall, took his newly married wife and his
sister behind a fast horse to the West Side, and found a place of
safety for them at the house of their uncle, the Rev. J. W.
Osborne, 51 South Curtis Street, where they were welcomed
and cared for kindly. A little later, the remainder of the fam-
ily, with their carriage and horses, drove across Chicago Avenue
bridge, amid a fiery shower, and joined the other members of
the family under the same hospitable roof, whence they
removed three days later to a new and unfurnished house, 515
West Adams Street. By this great calamity they lost very
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heavily financially and otherwise. Of the few articles saved
from the fire, were nine family portraits by G. P. A. Healy,
one by Theodore Pine, one large landscape, and some valuable
books.
With a rapidit}- which made the world wonder, the city was
rebuilt within three 3'ears, and the burnt district on the North
Side of the river, and facing the lake front, had risen from its
ashes, and become the most beautiful and desirable quarter of
the city, and thither the family returned on April 7, 1875.
The life work of Leander James McCormick has been
chiefly in connection with the McCormick reaper. As before
stated, he was associated, during his early \'ears, with his
father, Robert McCormick, and afterward with his brother, in
the practical application and development of the great invention.
The man}' and valuable additions of Leander, which have
contributed to the perfection of the reaper, and to its superla-
tive worth in the world of agriculture, are too well known to
require specification or description here. Under his personal
attention, the present reaper works were constructed shortly
after the great fire, with facilities for the manufacture of 120,000
reaping machines annually.
In 1889 he sold his interest in the reaper works to his
nephew, Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., retired from active busi-
ness, and invested largel}' in Chicago real estate.
He compiled and published, in 1896, an " Ancestral Record
and Biograph}' of the McCormick Famil)' from the Siege of
Londonderr}- to the Present Time."
His gift to the Universit}- of Virginia of the observatory,
with its refracting telescope and other instruments, attest his
interest in the advancement of astronomical science.
Of the marriage of Leander James McCormick and Henri-
etta Maria Hamilton were born four children.
I. Robert Hall, born at Locust Hill, Rockbridge County,
Va., September 6, 1847. He was brought to Chicago in
his infancy, and has made his home there ever since. He was
educated at the Chicago University, Cottage Grove. He mar-
ried, June I, 1871, Sarah Lord Day, daughter of Henry Day,
of the firm of Lord, Day & Lord, attorneys at law, of New
York City. They have issue :
Henrietta Hamilton.
B., February 22, 1872.
Elizabeth Day.
B., July 1 1> 1873.
Robert Hall.
B., July 10, 1878.
Phoebe Lord.
B., October 6, 1879.
Mildred Day.
B., September 11, 1888.
2. Elizabeth Maria was born in Chicago. IMay 2,
1S50. She died of scarlet fever, March 31,
1853-
3. Henrietta Laura was born in Chicago, south side
of Indiana Street, west of Rush Street, April 22,
1857.
November 14, 1883. she married Frederick E. Goodhart. of
Langley Park, Kent, England.
Had issue:
Leander McCormick.
B., August 10, 1884.
Frederick Hamilton.
B., November 13, 1887.
4. Leander Hamilton was born in Chicago, May 27 ^
1859, at the northeast corner of Indiana and
Cass Streets. He graduated at Amherst College
in 1 88 1, and afterward studied law at Columbia
Law School.
Married Constance, daughter of Edward Plummer, attorney
at law, of Canterbury. England, February 14, 1887.
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Had issue:
1. Leander James.
B., January 6, 1888.
2. Edward Hamilton.
B., August 3, 1889.
3. Allister Hamilton.
B., August 3, 1891.
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a n the second child ot the couple, and
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jrZ abroad for the last two years, and is
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While there are more than 100 ordinary
chamberlains of the cape and sword at the
Vatican, amon^ them half a dozen or so
Americans, whose office Is purely titular,
entitling them to wear a distinctive garb and
also the insignia of their rank, suspended
by a gilt chain from their neck, there are
only six grand chamberlains to the hob-
father, three of whom are Italians and three
foreigners. For the first time in the history
of the church an American— namely: Francis
McNutt— has now been appointed to fill a
vacancy In one of these offices which, aside
from the four great hereditary dignities be-
longing to the^ princely house of Colonna
Orslni, Massimo, and Altierl, are the highesi
to which a layman can aspire at the c
of the supreme pontiff. It is a lite appoint
ment and entails constant residence at Romt.
as the six grand chamberlains In question
are required to be present at all the grea
functions and ceremonies in which the pope
takes part. The garb is picturesque, for.
•although of black, the cut is altogether
medieval and includes a ruff. In fact. It is
almost the counterpart of the costume in
which Prince Colonna is invariably repre-
sented as figuring by the side of the holv
father Just to the left of his throne in the,
pictures that have portrayed the grand cere-
monies at the Vatican and in the basilica of
St. Peter. ' • . ■ .-
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