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THE REGISTER

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FKANKFORT, KENTUCKY

JANUARY, 1912
Vol. 10 No. 28

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OFFICERS

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KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY PrMident Ex^llicio

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General meeting of the Kentucky 8tate Historical Society, June 7th» the date of
Daniel Boone's first view of the "beautiful level of Kentucky.''

CONTENTS

JANUARY, 1912.

1. James Quthrie. By Geo. Baber.

2. Henry Clay. By the late Hon. Z. F. Smith, with picture of Henry

Clay's Bust, by Joel T. Hart Also Letters of Miss Clay and

Rev. Porter Clay's Account of the Clay family.

3. Tribute of Affection to Hon. Z. F. Smith. By W. H. Bartholomew.

4. Patriotic Songs of All Nations. By Mrs. Ella H. EUwanger.
6. Flye Hundred Pioneers. By A. C. Quisenberry.

6. Sonnets. By Rev. F. W. Eberhardt.

7. Department of Clippings and Paragraphs.

8. Department of Questions and Answers.

9. Report from Historical Society.

10. The Railey — Randolph Genealogy, Concluded.

CONTRIBUTORS.

Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Louisville, Ky.

Hon. L. F. Johnson, Frankfort, Ky.

Miss Martha Stephenson, Harrodsburg, Ky,

Hon. W. W. Stephenson, Harrodsburg, Ky.

W. W. LoNGMooR, Frankfort, Ky.

Prof. G. C. Downing, Frankfort, Ky.

Mrs. Ella H. Ellwanger, Frankfort, Ky.

George Barer, Washington, D. C.

Dr. Thos. E. Pickett, Maysville, Ky.

A. 0. QuiSENBERRY, HyattsviUe, Md.

JAMES GUTHIUE.

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JAMES GUTHRIE

LAWYER, FINANCIER AND STATESMAN
The Outline of a Great Kentnckian

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JAMES GUTHRIE
Lawyer, Financier and Statesman

(By George Baber.)

James Guthrie, as lawyer, finan-
cier and statesman, deserves a
high place in the history of Ken-
tucky, and yet so little has been
published about him that even
now, after only four decades since
his death, there are but few Ken-
tuckians who are familiar with his
career. His was a great example
of the self-made man who, reared
amidst the simplest environments,
unaided by the prestige of ances-
try and unsupported by wealth,
won both fame and wealth by his
fortitude, his industry, his self-
respect and his high ambition. His
father, Adam Guthrie, migrated
from Scotland to America. ^Ho
located first in Virginia and thence
came to Kentucky as soon as the
new commonwealth was made from
the Old Dominion, establishing his
home in what became as now the
County of Nelson, where James
was bom December 5th, 1792.
Schoolhouses were then scarce in
Kentucky, colleges were unknown,
and the most ordinary facilities
for the acquisition of learning
were hard to obtain in the State.
But young Guthrie resolutely faced
all difficulties, resolved to prepare
himself for a career which required
both a knowledge of books and
fitness for public service. Having
studied in a log school room under

the instructions of a Mr. McCal-
lister, he realized the need of money
and sought^ it courageously, making
successfully three trips down the
Mississippi in a flat boat loaded
with provisions for^the New Or-
leans trade; and then, nearing the
age of twenty years, he *^left the
river," and with Charles A. Wick-
liflfe and Ben Hardin, undertook to
study law under the great John
Rowan, who had set up a law oflSce
at the meagre village of Bardstown.
Young Guthrie was a hard student,
developed rapidly under the teach-
ing of Kowan, was licensed to prac-
tice, appeared in a few cases at
court, and at the age of twenty-
eight was appointed Common-
wealth's Attorney by Governor
Adair. This appointment, with its
importance and dignity, caused Mr.
Guthrie in 1820 to remove his oflSce
to Louisville, a village having more
pretensions than Bardstown, as the
struggling voung **City of the
Falls.*] Thus, Mr. Guthrie's op-
portunities were both widened and
multiplied, and the fidelity with
which his official duties were done
enlisted the public esteem, which,
from that time to the end, never
flagged, and which bore him on-
ward to high positions, large re-
sponsibilities, geat influence and
ample fortune. He acquired repu-

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tation as a safe and successful at-
torney. His practice became lucra-
tive, and falling into the habit of
that day, he actively engaged in
politics, became a zealous advo-
cate of Andrew Jackson, rose to
local prominence in the Democratic
party, and was repeatedly chosen
to represent Jefferson county in
either one or the other branch of
the Legislature. There was much
strenuosity in the party conflicts of
that day. The friends of Andrew
Jackson and of Henry Clay, re-
spectively, were severe in the cham-
pionship of their famous leaders.
But it is noteworthy that, whilst
Mr. Guthrie was an unquestionable
Jackson man, his self-poise and
equanimity as a political debater
kept him free from bitterness. He
was fair toward both parties, thus
strengthening the value of his pub-
lic service; and when he an-
noimced his determination to re-
tire from political warfare and de-
vote himself more closely to pri-
vate interests, three hundred active
Whigs of Jefferson county united
in an address soliciting him to be-
come once more a candidate for the
State Senate in order that the wel-
fare of his constituents might be
surely maintained and promoted.
To this non-partisan appeal he
yielded, and it may be assumed that
to this fact is attributable the con-
tinuation of a career which had
been already well begrin, and
which brought Mr. Guthrie at last
into the high places which he held
in connection with the National
Government.

Mr. Guthrie foresaw with a clear
eye the possible destiny of Louis-
ville as a seat of commerce and as

a center of industrial prosperity,
thereby giving impulse to the thrift,
not of local interests only, but to
those of the whole State. In the
early years of Louisville's growth,
Mr. Guthrie's life of industry was
an inspiration. He was ever active
in the development of the city. He
was constantly organizing and
moving men into action. He gave
energetic attention to the educa-
tional interests of the place. He pro-
cured the first sum of money that
was needed to establish the Univer-
sity of Louisville. He promoted
the building of churches and the
construction of streets at the same
time. He illustrated, in fact, the
axiom of Beaconsfield, that *'a
great man is one who affects the
mind of his generation,*' and that
other no less striking axiom, from
the pen of Don Piatt, that *Hhat
man is great who can use the brains
of others to carry on his own
work." Governed by this princi-
ple of co-operation and realizing
the need of transportation facili-
ties, he enlisted his fellow citizens
in the project of building the Louis-
ville, Frankfort and Lexington
Eailroad, beginning the task as
far back as 1833, in the very dawn
of railway construction in America,
thus laying the ground of that
system of railway building in Ken-
tucky which, having the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad as its
greatest achievement, has proved
to be the chief source of wealth and
development in the State. In 1837,
he was a zealous co-worker with the
late William F. Bullock in estab-
lishing our conmion school system,
and persistently labored in support
of it.

Mr. Guthrie was Ke^ntucky^s
greatest financier. He sustained a
leading part in perfecting legisla-
tion which laid the foundation of
the banking interests of the State.
He framed the charter of the Bank
of Kentucky which has uniformly
been conceded to be the most care-
fully and wisely constructed instru-
ment ever written for the creation
and government of a banking insti-
tution in any State of the Union.
It thus appears that Mr. Guthrie
was justly entitled to the designa-
tion of being a great business law-
yer. It was natural, too, that he
should have been frequently called
by courts and persons to settle com-
plicated questions in the adjust-
ment of large private estates, and
that his conclusions were invaria-
bly accepted as correct.

Few events in Mr. Guthrie's ca-
reer can be now more conclusively
cited to exemplify his usefulness in
dealing with the affairs of Ken-
tucky than his election and service
as the President of the memorable
Constitutional Convention of 1849,
which was called after long and
careful popular discussion. He was
chosen president of that body by
a vote of fifty-seven, as against
forty-three cast for H'on. Arclu-
bald Dixon, who was an eminent
Whig leader intimately associated
with Henry Clay and John X Crit-
tenden, and having the influence of
their great prestige. He presided
over the convention with consum-
mate ability, displaying a tact as
parliamentarian which enabled a
body composed of sharply conflict-
ing elements to act with commend-
able promptitude in solving prob-
lems that threatened to produce a

prolonged and vexatious agitation
in K-eutucky. In fact, he was the
master spirit in that great repre-
sentative assemblage.

Perhaps the most interesting
period in Mr. Guthrie's public
career was embraced in his four
years' service as Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States in
the Cabinet of President Pierce
from March 4th, 1853, to March
4th, 1857. President Pierce select-
ed Mr. Guthrie for this important
position on two accounts, first, be-
cause he had long exerted a com-
manding influence in Kentucky as
a Democratic leader, and, secondly,
because of his profound knowledge
of financial and economic questions.
In this selection no mistake was
made. Mr. Guthrie as a financier,
thus fully tried, is now properly
classed with the famous Albert Gal-
latin who served as Secretary of
the Treasury under the successive
administrations of Jefferson and
Madison. His annual reports, and
in fact all his official papers, writ-
ten in terse and clear English, were
notably able; while as an admin-
istrative and executive officer he
has never had a superior at the
National Capital. It has been free-
ly admitted that the greatest mem-
bers of the Pierce Cabinet were
•William L. Marcy, Secretary of
State; James Guthrie, Secretary of
the Treasury, and Jefferson Davis,
Secretary of War. Mr. Guthrie
was much beloved among the peo-
ple irrespective of party who were
employed in the Treasury Depart-
ment, owing to his kind considera-
tion for their comfort and pleasure
in the performance of their official
duties. In this particular he illus-

trated in a striking degree the
greatness and goodness of his char-
acter. In this connection the inter-
esting fact is recalled that Ken-
tucky has been honored to an ex-
traordinary extent in the selection
of Cabinet Officers since the forma-
tion of the Union. Mr. Clay was
Secretary of State; William T.
Barry, Amos Kendall and Charles
Wickliffe were Postjnasters-Gen-
eral; John J. Crittenden and
James Speed were Attorneys-Gen-
eral; Isaac Shelby and Joseph
Holt were Secretaries of War;
Judge Bibb, Jamesi Guthrie, Ben-
jamin H. Bristow and John G.
Carlisle were Secretaries of the
Treasury — each and all being great
characters in the country's his-
tory; and it may be said that Mr.
Guthrie wtas equal to the best of
them in their allotted places. Each
of them sprang from humble life,
but none of them in their laudable
ever encountered greater obstacles
than Mr. Guthrie in rising from
the lowly walks of Nelson county
to the high positions to which he
was exalted, and which he adorned
by his wisdom and patriotism.

In 1860, in view of the country's
critical condition, Mr. Guthrie's
. name was presented to the Nation-
al Democratic Convention as Ken-
tucky's choice for the Presidency
and had he been nominated, there-
by averting the controversy be-
tween Stephen A. Douglas and
John C. Breckenridge, it is quite
probable that he would have been
elected and the country saved from
the disasters of Civil War. He
would have made a grand Presi-
dent, being a man of affairs, an

advocate of material progress, and
a believer in the final overthrow
of all that is visionary and
Utopian.

Mr. Guthrie steadfastly held the
attitude of a conversative Unionist,
during the Civil War. He fully ai i-
preciated the magnitude of the
struggle, which he sought to pre-
vent, and was frequently called
into consultation upon public mat-
ters by President Lincoln who had
offered him the Secretaryship of
War in his Cabinet as originally
contemplated.

Mr. Guthrie was elected to the
Senate of the United States, tak-
ing his seat in that body March 4th,
1865. He served as Senator a little
more than three years, when, owing
to poor health, he resigned his seat,
returned to Louisville, spent his
closing days in quietude among the
people he dearly loved, and died at
his residence in that city March
13th, 1869. As a Senator Mr.
Guthrie was held in great esteem
by his colleagues without regard to
party, and was considered one of
the basest advisers of President
Johnson during the bitter conflicts
that occurred between that Chief
Magistrate and his antagonists in
Congress over the measures of * 're-
construction" which, between 1865
and 1868, greatly disturbed the
coimtry.

Thus ended the -'career of a great
Kentuckian. It is an interesting
incident that hia birth was coeval
with the admission of Kentucky
into the Federal Union in 1792.
The period of his public activities
from 1820 to 1869 waa replete with
notable events. It was distinguish-
ed also by the appearance of an

unusual number of remarkable
men in the history of the State —
men whose fame became national
and whose services are now his-
toric. It was a time of strong
political rivalries inspired by
great personal ambitions. Mr.
Guthrie was continuously one of
the prominent figures of that
period. His personality, however,
was dijfferent from that of his
great contemporaries in both tem-
perament and method. Whilst
Olay and Qrittenden, the More-
heads and Marehalls were winning
renown by the brilliancy of their
powers and the devices of their
eloquence, Mr. Guthrie, without the
finish of the schools, without the
advantages of wealth, and without
those gifts of intellect which

charm the multitude, was pushing
his way to the front by hard work
at the bar, and by straightfor-
ward, unostentatious deportment
in business. He always mastered
what he undertook. He knew his
cases thoroughly. He controlled
juries by the simplicity of his
speech. He influenced courts by
unvarnished statements of law and
evidence. His, in fact, was the
eloquence of truth. He gained
public confidence by the fidelity
with which he discharged every
trust, and finally laid down his
work as a completed task well done
in behalf of the Commonwealth
which had affectionately honored
him, and by which his name will be
cherished for many generations to
come.

HENRY CLAY.

HENRY CLAY

(1777-1852)

ZACHARIAH FREDEEICK SMITH

HENRY CLAY

(1777-1852)
Zachariah Frederick Smith

The life of Henry Clay possesses
an interest more individual, sug-
gestive and unique than that of any
other Anlerican statesman. His
biography in detail might be read
and studied as a resume of the po-
litical history of our Government,
for his era. During the half cen-
tury of his public career, he was the
recognized leader of forces, the ex-'
ponent and director of policies, and
the master of debate in advocacy
and defense of measures — ^the man
at the helm, steering the Ship of
State through the rocks and reefs of
experimental transition, to consti-
tutional order and stability. He
moved from Virginia and located
at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1797, at
the age of twenty years. He had
barely passed his majority when he
acquired local fame for those foren-
sic powers for which he became uni-
versally distinguished.^ The stormy
protest against the Alien and Sedi-
tion Acts of the Federal party in
power, and the angry cry for States
Rights, as set forth in the Ken-
tucky Resolution of 1798, gave oc-
casion for a display, before great
audiences of the people, of elo-
quence such as they had not before
heard. The next year, in the elec-
tion of delegates to frame a new
constitution for Kentucky, he as
boldly -and eloquently advocated a

provision in the new instrument for
the extirpation of slavery in the
State, in the face of an overpower-
ing opposition. At the bar and in
the Legislature to which he was
elected in 1803, he added laurels to
his reputation as an orator, and as a
leader of men and of measures.

In 1806, Mr. Clay, though he
lacked at the time three months of
the eligible age, was elected to
the United States Senate, to fill out
an unexpired term ; yet no objection
made to his taking his seat is of rec-
ord. For almost half a century he
shared the responsibilities of gov-
ernment with the eminent survivors
of the Revolution and with later dis-
tinguished contemporaries. It was
the pride and boast of the ancient
Greeks that, within the third and
fourth centuries of the Christian
era, the golden age of their intel-
lectual development, their country
produced seventeen men who were
the world's masters in philosophy,
in oratory, in science, and in fine
art. Our own country can claim that
in Washington, Lee, Adams, Ham-
ilton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Henry, Marshall, Mason, Pendleton,
Wythe, Webster, Oalhonn, Jackson,
Benton and Henry Clay, in the
golden age of intellectual develop-
ment in America, she, in a single
generation, produced seventeen

men, not so academic, but as great
as the Greek masters in oratory;
and as much greater in statesman-
ship, and in political and judicial
science, as were the latter in schol-
astic philosophy and fine art.
Among these men of genius pre-
eminently great in history, Henry
Clay was conspicuous for his part in
adjusting, without a precedent for
guidance, the constitutional func-
tions of government.

Some of the national events of
his public career, in which his name
appears most prominent as leader
and promoter, are engraved on a
gold medal presented him by the
citizens of New York:

Senator, 1806; Speaker of the
House, 1811; War with Engjand,
1812; Treaty with Ghent, 1814;
Spanish America, 1821; Missouri.
Compromise, 1821; American Sys-
tem, 1824; Greek Independence,
1824; Secretary of State, 1825;
Panama Instructions, 1826; Tariff
Compromise, 1833; Public Domain
and Internal Improvement, 1833;
Peace with France Preserved, 1835 ;
Compromise Measure, 1850.

On these and other questions of
national policy he performed no in-
ferior or obscure part. *'From the
day he entered the public service to
the close of his career, he was never
a follower, but always the most con-
spicuous, leader,'* said Senator
Seward.

Henry Clay was bom April 12,
1777, in Hanover county, Virginia.
His parents were Reverend John
and Elizabeth Hudson Clay, the lat-
ter the younger of two daughters of
George and Elizabeth Jennings
Hudson, of English descent, and

also of Hanover county. Elizabeth
Hudson married Reverend John
Clay in 1765, at the age of fifteen
years, and bore him nine children to
the time of his death in 1781; only
three of whom, John, Henry and
Porter Clay lived to manhood age.
In 1784 she married Henry Wat-
kins, to whom she bore seven other
children, sixteen in all. The im-
pression made upon the public mind
by historians and biographers that
Henry Clay was bom of lowly and
obscure parentage, and that his
youthful life was cast in an en-
vironment of poverty and toil, is
most erroneous and unjust. The
true story corrects this, as told in
the recent **Filson Club Publica-
tion,*' No. 14, of Louisville, Ken-
tucky, entitled **The Clay Family;
Part .First, The Mother of Henry
Clay; Part Second, The Genealogy
of the Clays, 1899.'' The informa-
tion of this book is derived from
authentic records in the possession
of the grandchildren of Henry
Clay, from genealogical records of
the Clay families, and from per-
sonal records of intimate friends of
the century past. The numerous
branches of the Clays of Virginia,
Kentucky and Alabama and other
states. South and West, trace back
three hundred years, to a common
ancestor. Sir John Clay of Wales.
His son, John Clay, immigrated to
Virginia, and located at Charles
City, in 1613, with a credit of ten
thousand pounds advanced by his
father. He was a captain in the
Kiing's service, and known as
**The English Grenadier."

In the line of descent were
Charles Clay, the son of Captain

John; Henry Clay, the son of
Charles; John Clay, the son of
Henry; Reverend John Clay, the
son ot John, and Henry the Lfreat,
the son of iJeverend John. From
the divergent families for three
centuries, there has been no genera-
tion in which the Clay family wa»
not represented in high public posi-
tions, such as senators and repre-
sentatives in Congress, ambassa-
dors abroad, diplomatic conmiis-
sioners, cabinet officers, chief jus^
tices and others of honor and trust.
No family of America has been
more prolific of eminent public men.
*'A goodly number of them have
filled positions of honor, who would
shine more brightly in reputation
but for the eclipsing rays of the
Gieat Commoner/' The Reverend
John Clay, the father of Henry, is
known to history as a minister of
the Baptist church and a citizen of
estimable character, and much dig-
nity of deportment, but of only local
reputation. It is said of him that
he was ** remarkable for his fine
voice and delivery.*' He lived in
the vears of revolutionary disor-
ders,' not a favorable environment
for the civilian to achieve fame. He
died in 1781, one year before the
close of hostilities. Of the broth-
ers of Henry Clay, Porter waa
Auditor of Kentucky in 1822. He
became also an able minister of the
Baptist church, and evangelized
throughout the then frontier set-
tlements of Missouri, Illinois and
Arkansas. At Camden, Arkansas,
he died, lamented, in 1850. He is
said to have preached the first Prot-
estant sermon west of the Missis-
sippi river. Of his brother John
we know but little, except that he

was a business man of New Orleans,
where he married «and died.

Of heredity on the maternal side
little or nothing was known, until
the recent Filson Olub Publication,
mentioned. Of the many biogra-
phies and histories of the life of
rienry Clay, the large majority
make no record of even the name of
the woman who gave him birth and
early rearing ; while a few but men-
tion her name, and the names of her
parents. Thus the study of this
source of the origin and outgrowth
of a great character of history has
been neglected by omission.

In this instance it is interesting
and important; the father died
when the child, Henry, was but four
years of age, and to the noble moth-
er was left the beginning and fash-
ioning of the son to become illus-
trious. Left an orphan and widow
herself, with three infant children,
and two large plantations, and some
thirty slaves to manage, she met
the task bravely amid the disasters
and wreckage of war, not unlike
that experienced by the Southern
people in the late Civil War. In her
extremity, a detachment of Tarle-
ton's Troopers raided her dwelling
premises, broke in pieces her furni-
ture, ransacked her bureaus and
closets for valuables, and cut open
her feather-ticks and threw them
out of the windows. They did their
devilish work under a torrent of in-
dignant scorn and invective from
the spirited woman who knew no
fear in defense of outraged rights.
She only wept as she beheld an offi-
cer, on the departure of the troop-
ers, throw across his saddle and
mount upon her wedding gown of
rare make, and ride away with the

Regfttei' of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

priceless memento, a bridal souve-
nir she had treasured with the pride
and jileasure of a loving wife. Soon
after Tarleton rode up, dismounted
and came in. He attempted apology
under the merciless fire of the an-
gry woman's tongue, and against
her protest, offered indemnity for
the damages done. Finding her ob-
stinate, he finally poured out a pile
of money upon a table and depart-
ed. When he was out of sight she
raked the money in her apron and
threw it into the fire, exclaiming
that **No British gold in her hands
should ever atone for British out-
rage and insult. ' *

The widow Clay afterward mar-
ried Henry Wiatkins, ten years her
junior. They moved to Kentucky
in 1792, and settled in Versailles,
where they conducted a hostelry,
famous as a typical tavern stand of
that day. She led a busy, energetic
life within the domestic sphere of
pioneer days, and with unfailing
cheerfulness and courage, met all
emergencies. Her removal to Ken-
tucky no doubt decided her devot-
ed son, Henry, to follow five years
later, and to locate at Lexington,
but thirteen miles away. The
ardent mutual affection displayed
through life between mother and
son was beautiful in the characters
of both. Some years after her
death, he had her remains removed
from a country burying ground and
re-interred in his own lot in the
cemetery of Lexington, erecting at
his own expense an imposing mon-
ument, on which he ordered the fol-
lowing inscription to her memory:

ELIZABETH WATKINS,

FOBMERIT

ELIZABETH CLAY,

BORN 1750 ; DIED 1829.

THIS MONUMENT, A TRIBUTE TO H£B
MANY DOMESTIC VIRTUES, HAS B££N
PBOMTTED BY THE FILIAL AFFECTION
AND VENERATION OF HER GRATEFUL
SON, H. CLAY.

As represented in the recorded
reminiscences of aged persons who
were neighbors and intimate
friends, the mother of Henry Glay
was a woman of rare personal at-
tractions. Her comely head and
luminous countenance ' indicated
great vigor of mind, which ex-
pressed itself in an ardent and sym-
pathetic temperament. Her well
rounded and shapely person, of me-
dium stature, betrayed unusual en-
ergy and endurance.

She unconsciously asserted much
of that imperiousness of will -which
was a distinguishing trait of her il-
lustrious son. Her individualitv
was striking. She spoke with au-
thority, yet always with respect and
kindness to others. Her ministriesi
of benevolence which were unceas-
ing, made her almost venerated by
neighbors and friends. In her home
life she was hospitable and kind.
She was bom of gentle blood, of the
old Virginia colonial stock. Her
parents, George and Elizabeth Jen-
nings Hudson, and her grand-
parents, John and Elizabeth Har-
ris Hudson, back into the seven-
teenth century, were of what was
called under the king's rule, the
** gentry,*' and were possessed of

■>'

lands and slaves, ample to enable
them to live in the pretentious
style indulged in by our forefath-
ers, of powdered wigs, silk stock-
ings and knee buckles of silver and
gold. On both the paternal and
maternal sides, the heredity of Hen-
ry Clay was as good as the best;
yes, Nature was in a lavish mood
when the child of Genius was bom
into the world.

As to the environment of poverty
and toil, and sore want, in the days
of his childhood and youth, the
stories told are mainly apocryphal.
We have before us the will of
George Hudson, the father of Mrs.
John Clay, probated in 1773, be-
queathing to his widow and two
children his homestead plantation
and thirty slaves, besides other
lands and personalty. One-half
of all went to Mrs. John Clay at
the death of her mother, in 1781.

We have also the will of Reverend
John Clay, probated in 1782, which
bequeathed to his widow and chil-
dren two well stocked plantations,
twenty negroes named and allot-
ted, and other negroes unnamed to
be equally allotted, besides other
personal property. With other evi-
dences, these documents attest that,
in the childhood years of Henry,
the Clay family was possessed of
sufficient estate to enable the mem-
bers to live in comfort; this was
later reduced by the disorders of
the times. It is a curious incident
unexplained, that in all formal pro-
ceedings, and in the court records
connected with these wills, the
father of Henry Clay is always ad-
dressed or mentioned as ^ ' Sir John

Clay, ' ' the title of the old ancestor,
''Sir John,'' of Wales.

To the age of fourteen, Henry
Clay received such instruction in
elementary studies as the typical
country school afforded.

His worthy stepfather, Captain
Watkins, obtained for him a posi-
tion in the store of Richard Penny
in Richmond. His exceptional fidel-
ity and diligence led a year later to
his appointment as a subordinate
in the office of the High Oburt of
Chancery, of which Peter Tinsley
was chief clerk. Those eminent
jurists of historic note, Edmund
Pendleton and George Wythe, were
then chancellors of the court. The
neat, lesrible and accurate penman-
ship of the youth, together with hrs
engaging and courteous address,
won the attention of Judge Wytlie,
the preceptor in law of John Mar-
shall, Jefferson and other eminent
men. Henry Clay became amanu-
ensis for him. A mutual intimacy
grew into mutual interest. The
fatherly and friendly coimseland
favors of Judge Wythe decided the
young man to study law under
Jud^e Brooke, Attomey-Gteneral
of Virginia. At the age of twenty
years he received his license to
practice, and soon after followed
his mother to Kentucky. Henry
Clay had little or none of academic
culture; but he was a diligent and
apt student in the school of experi-
ence and of character-lessons,
where he learned much that was
serviceable. The most letamed men
in legal science in Virginia were Ms
tutors and daily monitors, while il-
lustrious statesmen, such as Jeffer-

son, Madison, Monroe, Mason, Pat-
rick Henry of liis own county, Han-
over and others as great, were his
most constant and familiar ideals.
The youthful genius of Henry Clay
blossomed in the Garden of the
Gods.

That Henry Clay was preem-
inently a great man, is not ques-
tioned, but what were the qualities
and measure of that greatness
which placed him a conspicuous
figure in the front rank of the few
preeminently great characters of
history? No man has been endow-
ed, or can be endowed, with a
wealth of attributes to make him
greatest in all things above his fel-
lows. The genius of Heny Clay
bad its limitations. But, in the
gift of true oratory that moved the
souls of men, in comprehensive
and prophetic vision of statesman-
ship, in diplomacy to adjust foreign
relations, in advocacy of national
measures of importance, and in the
mastery and control of men and
political parties to accomplish
ends, he contests with peers in
America, and no less with peers of
the ancient and modem world, for
the honors of the title Primus inter
Pares. For a just and impartial
view of the great man of history,
we would inquire and know in what
estimation his name and fame were
held, when death, on June 29, 1852,
at Washington, closed his long^ and
brilliant career. The enthusiasm
of friends was then chastened, and
the animosities of enemies were
subdued, in the pervading grief of
the nation.

On the first of July his remains
were borne to the Senate Chamber,
where were assembled Congress-

men, the President and Qabinet,
ambassadors from foreign coun-
tries, officers of the army and navy,
and of the civic authorities, to pay
fitting tribute to the memory of the
deceased. In the many addresses
at the Capitol, and throughout the
States, upon the mournful occasion^
we have a chapter of monumental
eloquence unsurpassed in the
elegiac literature of the English
language. Tributes were paid by
orators and statesmen of more than
national repute. The deep grief of
our own coimtrymen, reflected in
the sjonpathetic grief of the friends
of liberty and democracy through-
out the world, bears witness to the
veneration in which Henry Clay
was held by his contemporaries. As
said by one orator: **The tidings
of his death, borne with electric
speed, have opened up the foun-
tains of sorrow. Every city, town,
village and hamlet wiU be clothed
in mourning. Alon^ the extended
coast, the commercial and naval
marines, with flags drooping at
half-mast, own the bereavements
State-houses draped in black, amid
the sounds of minute-guns and toll-
ing bells, proclaim the extinguish-
ment of one of the great lights of
the Senate; for amid the greatest
of our race, he was always an
equal. The nation's lament is a
fitting requiem for the illustrious
dead.*' And another in a distant
State Capital: **The whole people
rose up to pay such honors to his
memory, as had never been accord-
ed to any other statesman of this
country.'' The remains were borne
in state to Kentucky. As the fun-
eral cortege passed through Balti-
more, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cin-

cinnati, and other cities and towns,
the people assembled in thousands
to give expression to their venera-
tion in words of lament, and often
in tears.

The name of Henry Clay was
treasured in the gratitude and
affections of oppressed foreign
people, whom he had befriended in
the days of their struggle for free-
dom. His speeches of glowing elo-
quence, in plea for recognition of
independence for the Greeks in re-
volt against Turkish tyranny, and
for Mexico and the South Anaer-
ican provinces in revolt against
Spanish misrule, had been read to
the insurgent soldiers in their
camps, and cheered to the echo. Ad-
dresses of thanks had been voted
and ordered sent to him, by the
authorities of these young govern-
ments, recognizing him as the
champion of liberty and self-rule
for all peoples tiiroughout the
world. When tidings of the death
of their friend and benefactor were
borne to them on the shores of the
Hellespont, in Mexico, and* on the
slopes of the Alndes, flags were
again at half mast, and minute-
guns and tolling bells gave token
that the grief of our own nation
found response in world-wide sor-
rows. No higher evidence of dis-
tinctive greatness was ever bestow-
ed on any character of history.

Again, we are interested to know
in what light, and in what measure
of preeminence, the great tribune
of the people was viewed by his
colleagues in the councils of the
nation. In the words of Senator
Underwood of Kentucky, **By his
death our country has lost one of
its most eminent citizens ; and as I

believe, its greatest statesman. No
man was ever blessed by his Cre-
ator with faculties of a higher order
of excellence than those given to
Henry Clay.'*

By Senator Cass of the oppos-
sition party: '*He belonged to his
country, and has taken prominent
part both in peace and war, in all
the questions affecting its interest
and its honor, I believe he was as
pure a statesman as ever partici-
pated in the councils of a nation.
That he exercised a powerful in-
fluence throughout the whole coun-
try, we all feel and know, as we
know the eminent endowments to
which he owed this high distinc-
tion.'* By Senator Hunter: **He
had beyond any man known to me
the true mesmeric touch of the ora-
tor— the rare art of transferring
his impulses to others. Thoughts,
feelings, emotions, radiant and
glowing, came from the ready
mould of his genius, and commun-
icated their own warmth to every
heart that received them. His was
the gift of wielding the higher and
intenser powers of passion, with a
majesty of ease which none but the
great masters of the human heart
can employ.*'

By Senator Seward: **His per-
sonal endowments were the ele-
ments of the success of that ex-
traordinary man. He was indeed
eloquent ; all the world knows that.
He held the key to the hearts of
his countrymen, and he turned the
wards with a skill attained by no
other man. But eloquence was
only an instrument, and one of
many that he used. His conversa-
tion, his gestures, his very look,
were persuasive, irresistible. De-

feat only inspired him with new
resolution. He divided opposition
by the 'assiduity of address; while
he rallied and strengthened his
own ranks of supporters by the
confidence of success which, feeling
himself, he inspired among his f ol«
lowers. His affections were pure
and generous ; and chief est was his
love of native country, which ren-
dered him more impartial between
conflicting interests and sections
than any other st;atesman who has
lived since the Revolution, With
versatile talents, and the most
catholic equality of favor, he iden-
tified every question, whether of
domestic administration or foreign
policy, with his own great name,
and so became a perpetual tribune
of the people. He converted this
branch of the Legislature from a
negative position, or one of equi-
librium between the Executive and
the House of Representatives, into
the active ruling power of the Re-
public. ' '

By John C. Breckinridge, of the
opposition^ representing the Ash-
land District of Kentuc&^, and like
Mr. Clay, an eminent orator,
statesman, and leader of his party :
**As leader in a deliberative body,
Henry Clay had no equal in Amer-

ica. In him intellect, person^ elo-
quence and courage united to form
a character fit to command. He
fixed with enthusiasm, and control-
ed with his amazing will, individ-
uals and masses. No reverse could
subdue his spirit, nor defeat reduce
him to despair. In his long and
eventful life, he came in contact
with men of all ranks and profes-
sions ; but he never felt that he was
in the presence of a superior. In
the assemblies of the people, at the
bar, in the Senate, everywhere
within the circle of his personal
presence, he maintained a position
of preeminence. ' '

These are only a few impressions
of the many notable contempora-
ries of Henry Clay, who paid trib-
ute to him on the occasion of his
death ; but all are of the same tenor,
and many in terms far more eulo-
gistic. A common sentiment was
that, in the endowment of intuitive
genius, which, though but human,
IS nearest akin to inspiration, as
orator and statesman, and as lead-
er of men and forces in the advo-
cacy of public measures, Henry
Clay was the peer of the greatest
in American history, and as well in
the world's history, ancient and
modem.

LETTEE OF MISS LUCRETIA H. CLAY
TO HON. Z. F. SMITH

April 4th, 1911.

Hon. Z. F. Smith,
Dear Sir: —

I have read the notice, of the last
meeting of the Filson Olub, and as
you have expressed at all times an
interest in the Clay family, I am
sending you a few extracts from
a letter written by Henry Clay's
brother, Porter Clay, and publish-
ed in the New York Tribune many
years ago.

From my earliest youth I had
heard this same account, given by
older members of the family, but
it was not until a few months ago,
that I came across the published
letter of Porter Clay and the in-
teresting detidls contained therein,
which he states as a fact and not
family tradition. This same €tc-
count of the Clay family was also
given to the late Hon. Cassius M.
Clay, as stated in a letter from
him to one of my brothers, some
years ago. And this is the account
I have sent with a sketchy of my
father, to the Lewis Publishing Co.,
to be used in a history of Kentucky.

You who wrote such an interest-
ing and valuable account of my
great grandmother, Elizabeth Hud-
son Clay, may be interested in
knowing that the Hon. Francis Bur-
ton Harrison is descended from
this same family of Hudsons. Ac-
cording to their account, Ann Hud-
son, a sister of Elizabeth Hudson,
married Captain Isaac Burton, one
o£ the founders of the town^ of
Lvnchburg, Va. In a book recently

published, entitled, ' * The Harrisons
of Skimino,*' sent to me by the
Hon. Francis Burton Harrison, is
an interesting account of Ann Hud-
son's daughter, who married Sam-
uel Jordan Harrison.

With Porter Clay's account of
the Clay family, I will send a little
sketch of his life. The Rev. Mr.
Stackhouse, of the Baptist Church,
said of him a short tune ago, that
a monument should be erected to
him, as he was the most godly man
he had ever heard of.

Hoping that you are well, and
thanking you for the great interest
you have shown in Grandfather
Clay and his mother,
I am

Sincerely your friend,

LuoBBTiiL H. Clay.

P. S. — ^The mistake which has
always been made in regard to my
grandfather, is that people have
never taken into consideration the
conditions existing in Virginia
when he began life. We know that
a hostile army destroyed every-
thing in that part of Virginia in
which he lived. The slaves were
taken away from their masters, the
live stock driven off, and even
household furniture destroyed. In
fact, the conditions were similar to
those existing throughout the
South after the Civil War, and
Henry Clay had to make his own
way in the world, just as himdreds
and thousands of Southern boys
were forced to do after the Civil
War.— L. H. O.

THE REV. PORTEB CLAY'S ACCOUNT
OF THE CLAY FAMH^Y

In a letter written to a friend in
Franklin county, Maine, March
30th, 1848, and published in the
New York Tribune, May, 1859, he
says:

**Your wishes to know some-
thing about the history of our
family could not be gratified within
the limits of a letter. The follow-
ing concise account must suffice:
Among those who came over to the
Virginia plantations, were three
brothers, sons of Sir John Olay, of
Wales, England, who gave them
ten thousand pounds (fifty thou-
sand dollars) each. Their names
were Charles, Thomas and Henry.
They settled on James River near
Jamestown. Two of them, Charles
and Thomas had large families.
Henry had no children. The name
Henry has been handed down in
both branches of the family with
great tenacity ever since.

Cassius M. Clay (of whom you
have doubtless heard, for he made
considerable stir in the East during
the last Presidential canvass) is a
descendant of Charles Clay ; Henry
and myself of Thomas day. Thus
the two brothers alluded to are the
progenitors of all the Clays in the
United States. My father as you
have heard, was a clergyman of the
Baptist denomination. He died in
early life, leaving seven children
— ^four sons and three daughters,
all of whom died without children
with the exception of Henry and
myself.

^^Our father had one brother,
Edward Clay, who married at an

early period of life, and moved to
South Carolina, where he raised a
large family, I think thirteen chil-
dren. Judge CJay of whom you
speak, was one of them. He studied
law, became eminent in his profes-
sion, was appointed a judge; not
long afterwards was converted —
was ordained an Evangelist, and
was called to the care of the Bap-
tist Church in Bos»ton, previously
under the care of Dr. Stilhnan. He,
however, was soon removed from
the scene of his labor to the church
triumphant. ' *

PoBTEB Clay, Bbotheb of Hej^^ry

Clay.

Porter. Clay was in early life a
lawyer, practicing his profession in
the town of Versailles, Kentucky.
In or about 1816, Governor Gabriel
Slaughter appointed him Auditor
of Public Accounts for the State,
with a salary of $3,000 which
office he held for fourteen years.
Later in life he became a Baptist
minister and was an Evangelist
of note, preaching the Gospel of
Christ, as some one said of him,
^'with his old time tenderness and
power.** He died in 1850, as his
great brother wrote, ^^In the full
enjoyment of the Christian hope.*'

In his published letter, he says
of himself, among other things,
*^With regard to myself, I will
merely say I have been all my
life a child of God's peculiar
providence, etc., etc. In early

life I married an amiable lady,
by whom I had six children, three
of each sex, who are now all dead.
I buried the last, a son, two years
after my visit to the East. My
second daughter married a full
cousin of General Zachary Taylor.
She has left me two grand chil-
dren— a son and a daughter. They

are residing with their father in
St. Louis, Mo. My grandson was
a soldier with Col. Doniphan, in
his three thouaiand mile campaign
in Mexico, Tosing only one man at
the battle of Sacramento. ' ' After
the death of my first wife, I mar«
ried the widow of General Martin
D. Hardin, etc., etc.

TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION TO HON. Z. F. SMITH

(By W. H. Bartholomew)

John XIV:l-3; Thessl. IV:14-18;
Eev. XIV :13; Rev. XXTT;14
were read, after which the follow-
ing trioute to the memory of
Brother Smith was feelingly paid
by his warm friend and loyal co-
worker.

* ' My brethren and friends, we are
here this afternoon to pay our
affectionate respect to the mem-
ory, and our appreciation of the
life and work of Brother Smith,
our staunch friend and loyal co-
worker. A prince and a great
man has fallen. His ripeness of
experience and his richness of
service have endeared him to his
brethren and fellow-citizens.

He possessed in an unusual de-
gree, intellectual and moral en-
dowments, and these he cultivated
to a very high degree. His serv-
ices to the State were conscient-
iously and unstintingly rendered,
and in the various positions which
he filled his identity disappeared
that he might present the cause
for which he plead upon its own
merits. Personal ease and per-
sonal advantage were eliminated

from every effort which he put
forth. TMs was especially true
at the time he assumed the duties
of the responsible position of
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction. Out of chaos he
brought forth system, and out of
disorder, that of order, whatever
has come to the State, education-
ally through organization and
progress efficiency, was inaugu-
rated by him, and for this his fel-
low citizens owe him a debt of
gratitude.

Perhaps no man was better
versed in the history of the State
than he. His History of Ken-
tucky is a model of style and ac-
curacy, and it is the consensus of
opinion that it is the best history
of the State that has thus far ap-
peared.

Brother Smith was an inde-
fatigable worker and omnivorous
reader, especially was this true
when discussing or writing upon
any theme. No work was too dif-
ficult when truth and facts were
the object of search. He had an
abiding faith in the supremacy of

Roglttar of the Kentucky SUtt Historical Society.

truth, right and justice, because
these were the expressions of the
Divine will, these constituted the
foundation upon which he always
builded his arguments, therefore
they were always forceful and
convincing.

BiUt, while our brother has
wrought out much for the benefit
of this world, the splendor of his
character shines forth as a Chris-
tian gentleman. His ideals o{
life and siervice were inwrought
with those Divine precepts en-
forced by the Scriptures of Jesus
Christ.

His loyalty to Christ and His
word was characteristic of him in
all his dealings with mankind. At
the age of twenty-five he was call-
ed to the responsible position of
an elder, which position he held
at the time of his death. This
position he filled with remarkable
faithfulness, frequently miniBter-
ing to the congregation of which
he was a member, and always to
growth in Christian life. The in-

fluence of his Christian service
will exiert itself in the hearts and
lives of men and women in the
years to come. So he lived and so
he died.

His bright anticipations of a
blfessed immortality beyond the
grave are now fully realized, and
he knows what it is to be in that
beautiful country, the splendor and
purity of which cannot be express^
ed in human language.

Brother Smith has left his
honors to the world, and his re-
deemed spiritual nature to God.

My brethren, I close this aflfec-
tionate tribute to my friend and
brother by using the touching
words of Mrs. Barbauld.

Life, we've been long together

Through pleasant and through cloudy

weather,
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear;
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear:

Then steal away, give little warning.

Choose thine own time;

Say not "good night," but in some brighter

dime
Bid me "good morning."

Patriotic Songs of All Nations

ELLA HUTCHINSON ELLWANGEE.

PATRIOTIC SONGS OF ALL NATIONS

(By Ella Hutchinson EUwanger)

There are few people so unpa-
triotic as not to be stirred by]
some song or story of their native
land. If one day more than an-
other brings to mind the patriotic
songs of our own free America it
is the ** Glorious Fourth/'

When the order was given to
Eobert Charles, of London, to cast
a new bell for the State House of
Pennsylvania, and to contain in
well shaped letters around it, the
inscription:

"By order of the Province of Penn-
sylvania, for the State House in the
city of Philadelphia, 1752."

A order was also given to
place underneath this the fateful
and prophetic words from Levit-
icus XXV, 10:

"Proclaim liberty throughout the land
and to all the inhabitants thereof."

We hold but lightly the wonder-
ful possession handed to us from
a former generation. We are apt
to forget the sacrifices our fore-
fathers made that we may enjoy
the priceless blessings of liberty.
So let us pause and ponder upon
the reason why we celebrate the
*^ Glorious Fourth '* in the United
States of America.

"Let US gather the fragments that nothing

be lost,
To show the next ages what liberty cost."

Let our glorious flag speak to
us of more than mere possession.
Let it speak to us of duty done
through toil, through sickness,
privation and death. Eeverence
it next to your God, for there is no

other standard for which so many
men fought and died ; for which so
many women suffered privation
and widowhood.

The old saying: ^*Let me make
a nation's songs and I care not
who makes her laws,'' has been
quoted over-much, and yet, when
one comes to think of it, what law
could ever make a man do what a
simple song of country has done?
Small wonder that to the strains
of *^ America," or to the **Star
Spangled Banner," men have
marched to the very jaws of death
— yea, and entered in. Of all the
songs written and sung no other
country has written them because
they must. The national anthems
of our dearly beloved and dearly
bought America have all been
written under stress of circum-
stances that could have sprung
from nothing save an inspired
breast. Our national anthem has
for many years been an agitated
question. Opinion is about equally
divided between the ''Star Span-
gled Banner," and ''America."
Several years ago the secretary of
the navy decreed that the stirrins:
tune associated with Francis
Scott Key's poem should be play-
ed as our national air by naval
bands. The army had recognized
it as such long before.

The tune of "America" is state-
ly enough to be beloved of such
musicians as Beethovan and
Weber. It really is that of "God
Save the King." Its authorship

has been disputed but it was
probably written by Samuel Fran-
cis! Smith.

The most popular of our nation-
al anthems is, however, **The Star
Spangled Banner," and there is
not a school boy in America who
can refrain from yelling himself
hoarse when the band plays this
air and the ragged street arabs
yell and throw up their caps when
an old organ grinder reels it out
from his battered music box.

It was written by Francis Scott
Key, while a prisoner on board
an English vessel that rode at
anchor off Fort McHenry near
Baltimore.

(The Brittish general, Boss, had
boasted that the Americans would
yield in a few hours. After pac-
ing the deck all that night in sus-
pense for the fate that hung over
his comrades that immortal song
was bom in Kfey's brain in the bat-
tle's stress and storm.

Next day, ^*by the dawn's early
light," Key saw the glorious flag
of his country still flying from the
fort. There in the gray dawn he
wrote the words that make the
throat of all loyal Americans ache
with a laudable desire to cry when-
ever they hear it.

There are three national an-
thems that never fail to stir the
pulse and warm the blood— the
'* Marseillaise," the ** Watch on
the Bhine'* and the aforemention-
ed **Star Spangled Banner.'' All
three are chants of defiance to
tyranny and oppression and were
written in the hour of a nation's
peril.

Francis Scott Key was a young
lawyer of Georgetown and had
rowed out to the British fleet and
there was taken prisoner. He
wrote the words that will never
die on the back of an old envelope
and never dreamed of fame.
Jamee Lick, the California mil-
lionaire, gave $150,000 for the
erection of a handsome monument
to Key in San Francisco. Oliver
Wendell Holmes wrote the final
verse for the **Star Spangled Ban-
ner. ' '

** America" was written by a
Baptist minister by the name of
Samuel Francis Smith, of Massa-
chusetts. He had written many
other songs and hymns but noth-
ing ever equalled his *^ America."
Edward Everett Hale has told the
story of how he was walking down
Park street as a boy of ten, and
followed the crowd into an old
church on the Fourth of July
when he heard the song of ^* Amer-
ica" for the first time. It became
very popular during the Civil War
and will always dispute preemi-
nence with the '*Star Spangled
Banner" as the national air.

^*Hail Columbia" was written
by Joseph Hopkinson, LL. D., the
son of Francis Hopkinson, author
of the *' Battle of the Kegs."
Previous to this he had little
claim to be regarded as a poet,
but his *'Hail Columbia" brought
him instant fame. It was written
in the summer when war with
France was thought to be inevit-
able. The contest between Eng-
land and France was raging: and
the people of these United States
were divided into parties for one

Regltter of tho Kentucky Stata Hlatoriciil Society,

side or the other. Every school
lad and lassie knows his or her
**Hail Columbia,** beginning:

"Hail Columbia! Happy Land!

Hail ye heroes, heayen-bom band."

''Yankle Doodle** is and always
will be popular, but it is undig-
nified and of the ** ragtime** vari-
ety of national songs.

*^ Dixie** was written by Daniel
D. Emmett, who lived in Mt. Ver-
non, Ohio, and never was South.
The Civil War itself, without the
incentive of a prize, produced a
plentiful crop of patriotic songs.
Chief among them was *' Dixie**
and. is popular despite the fact
that it is also ragtime. It was
written by Emmett for some min-
strels and was first sung in New
York City in 1859.

Of all the songs produced dur-
ing the war of Secession only two
deserve to be called poetry.
'* Maryland, My Maryland,** was
regarded as the finest poem the
war has produced, and this, also,
has received the critical approval
of Lowell. The author was a pro-
fessor of English literature in a
school near New Orleans, when
he read of the attack on the Union
soldiers in the streets of Balti-
more, his native city. It was first
sung by a gathering of ladies and
gentlemen of strong Southern
sentiment to the tune of a German
student song, "Lauriger Hora-
tius** and the Christmas chorus,
beloved of Teutons, beginning:
**0 Tannebaum.** It was called
by Alexander Stephens, Vice-
President under Jefferson Davis,
**The Marseillaise of the Confed-

eracy

H. R.--3

** Marching Through Georgia**
was written by a journeyman
printer, who was ill and out of
work. He began writing war
songs that immediately became
very popular. He wrote ** March-
ing Through Georgia** in 1864,
shortly after Sherman began his
famous March to the Sea. It had
a most romantic history. The
author *s father had spent four
years at hard labor in a Missouri
prison, for telling some fugitive
slaves which way to go.

*'The Battle Cry of Freedom**
and ** Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the
Boys Aire Marching,** were writ-
ten by Dr. George F. Root, of
Chicago. Charles A. Dana of the
New York Sun, once said that
Root '*Did more to preserve the
Union than a great many briga-
dier-generals, and quite as much
as some brigades. * *

It is said that very few patriotic
songs of the highest order were
ever written by a great poet. The
*' Watch on the Rhine** was writ-
ten by a German iron-master
named Max Schneckenbuger, of
Thalheim, Wurtemburg. The
words have often been set to
music, but only one version, that
of Carl Wilhelm, formerly Cap-
pelmeister at Crefeld, Rhenish
Prussia, has become popular. It
is full of strong German sentiment
as the following verse of English
version will prove:

"A cry ascends like thunder crash;
Like oceans roar, like sabre clash;
Who*ll guard the Rhine, the German Rhine
To whom shall we the task assign?"

That most stirring of all battle
songs, irrespective of country, is

R«gl«ttr of tht Kertiidcy tUto Hittorloal •osltty.

the beautiful ^^Marseillaise," the
battle hyion of the French Repub-
lic and which has since come to be
regarded as the battle hymn of
France.

It was written by Boguet de
Lisle, a young French soldier sta-
tioned at Strasburg. Jt is con-
tended that the air was taken bod-
ily from the Credo of Holtzman's
Fourth Mass, which was composed
in the year 1776.

It was called at first the ^^ Chant
de Guerre de PArmee de Ehin"
and became instantly popular.
Young Lisle was imprisoned for
failure to agree with his party in
all things^ but after the fall of
Robespierre he was released. He
lived the rest of his life at Paris,
where he was pensioned by Louis
Phillipe.

He was buried at Choisy in
1836. Besides the ''MarBeillaise"
he was the author of a small
volume of poems that had no espe-
cial merit, but the writing of a
battle hynm that could stir the
hearts of men to do the valiant
tilings that the **Sons of France^'
accomplished should be glory
enough for one man.

It is an interesting fact to note
that no other country has furnish-
ed so much of the world ^s music as
Ireland. Her songs are number-
less but they are not, properly
speaking, national songs. They
are more on the order of ** Folk-
songs*' and are written in a sad
strain. The ones written in the
nature of laments seem to have
the strongest hold upon the hearts
of the warm-hearted Irish people.

'*The Wearing of the Green '*

possibly is the most popular and
might be considered as the Irish
national song. ^^St. Patrick's
Day'* and **Gkirry Owen*' are
among those best haown and sung
by all classes.

There is more real romance con-
nected with the popular songs of
Scotland than with any other coun-
try. Many were the songs and
ballads connected and inspired by
Bonnie Prince Charlie. One of the
favorites being, *' Welcome, Boyal
Charlie," wihich is a rival of
'* Charlie Is My Darling,'' in the
hearts of the loyal Scots.

Bobbie Bums has written so
many typically Scotch songs, both
sentimental and patriotic, that it
is no easy matter to make a chcHce
that would suit all readers. Bums '
**My Heart's in the Highlands "is
full of pathos and carries, as all
his verse has a way of doing, a
tender sympathy with the writer.
Another Scotch favorite is **When
the Blue Bonnets come over the
Border," but the most inspiring
of all the songs of Scotland was
that written by Burns as the ad-
dress of Bobert Bruce to his fol-
lowers before the battle of Ban-
nockbum.

The Swedish and Austrian
airs are not so musical nor so
pretty as the other national songs
and the words do not seem to ring
as if written on the impulse of the
heart or at the stirring time in
their country's history. They do
not possess the martial music that
generally characterizes other na-
tional anthems.

During the war between Great
Britain and the Boers in South

R«9i«t*r of th« K«ntiwfcy 9UU Mittorioal Society.

Africa the New York Tribune fur-
nished the following about the na-
tional war songs of the Boers:
* * They have no brass bands in the
Transvaal, but they know the
value of martial music, and, like
the Hussites of the fifteenth cen-
tury, they cheer themselves to
deeds of valor by singing their
patriotic hymns. Of these they
have several, but their Marseil-
laise is not only the war song of
today— it has been advanced to
the dignity of the national hymn
of the South African Republic.
Though it cannot be old its author-
ship seems to be unknown. The
translation of the song was made
by the Rev. Maurice C. Hansen. '*

Switzerland, the most pictur-
esque perhaps of any country on
earth, is not without her brave
heroes in battle. The life and
death of brave Winkelreid alone
shows the spirit of these hardy
home-loving mountaineers. There
is no peasant so poor in song and
spirit that cannot be heard yo-
delling his native song as he toils
among the mountain fastnesses.

If there is one country more
than another that the world is at
present interested in, that country
is Japan. We have ceased to ad-
mire the Japanese as *' little
brown men'* but, honor them for
their bravery, fortitude, skill, and
more than all, for the loving
abandon with which they lay down
their lives for their native land.
So, the air that thousands and
thousands of men have listened to
as they breathed their last and
what must have been sweet music

to their dying ears will be of in-
terest to all the world.

One writer tells us *Hhat not-
withstanding that the music of the
Orient is conceived and executed
without harmony, it is full of ex-
pression and meanmg. We have
very little music in which the
melody, pure and simple, begins
to express as much as do these
simple Oriental melodies.''

Another writer says : * * When the
Japanese began to remodel their
country and place it on equality
with other modem nations, they
did not omit music. In 1871 they
began by placing the art in the
public school curriculum."

The music in Japan is printed in
vertical rows like all other Japa-
nese literature. Their bands are
strong in brass and woodwind, but
weak in the string department.
In singing the national hymn they
usually repeat the one verse three
times, singing the melody all in
unison. The words of the nation-
al song are:*

"May our land's dominion last
Till a thoasand years have passed;
Twice four thousand times o'er told
Firm as changeless rock, earth rooted.
Mass of ages uncomputed."

If you read the Japanese words
in the original you would read
them thus :

"Kimi» ga. Towa Chiyoni Tachiyoni
Sazarelshino Iwahoto Narite
Kokeno musu made."

The national air of the Rus-
sians is a prayer for ''peace" and
according to one authority has
been the national air since 1799.
It is an old story, this crying for
peace and preparing for war. It
was written by Alexis Lvoff in

1799 and is entitled: *'God, the All
Terrible.''

Speaking of patriotic songs a
writer has aptly said: **It is not
the Goethes, Hugoes, Tennysons
and Poes who have produced the
national songs of their people.
There is a profound significance in
this fact. It shows that the song
writer, to reach the people's heart,
must be of the people, not dwelling
on the heights of Parnassus. It
reminds me of what happened in
old Greece six hundred years
before Christ. Sparta, hard
pressed during the second Mes-
senian War, consulted the oracle
of Delphi and was told to send to
Athens for a leader. Athens, un-
willing to help the rival city, sent
a poor lame schoolmaster. But
that little schoolmaster was Tyr-
taeus the poet, and he composed
such stirring war songs that the
Spartans were heartened and won
the victory.'' Truly, there was
deep wisdom in the sentence re-
corded by old Andrew Fletcher, of
Saltoun, and above set down, that
*4f a man were permitted to make
all. the ballads, he need not care
who should make the laws of a
nation."

Kentucky's Own Songs.

Strictly speaking Kentucky
could not have a national song.
But she has a song that is famous
— not alone in '*01d Kentucky"
but in the old world, where the air
of Stephen Collins Foster's/* My
Old Kentucky Home" is as fa-
miliar as any native song in. any
land on this or the other side of
the sea.

In Judge Eowan's home, ** Fed-
eral Hill" near Bardstown, Ky.,
this song was first written but the
manuscript was destroyed when
the mansion Avas burned. Stephen
Collins Foster was a poet of the
highest order but nothing he ever
wrote attained the lasting celeb-
rity of '*My Old Kentucky
Home."

During the **Home Coming
Week" of all loyal Kentuckians
there was one day set aside as
** Foster Day." On that day a
statue to the memory of the
author was unveiled. The funds
were contributed by the school
children of Kentucky.

The words of this deathless
song are well known but are given
here just as written by the im-
mortal Foster.

"MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME.»»

"The sun shines bright in the old Kentucksr
home;
'Tis summer, the darkies are gay;
The corn-top's ripe, and the meadow's in
the bloom.
While the birds make music all the day.
The youn^ folks roU on the little cabin
floor,
All merry, aU happy and bright;
By-'n-by hard times comes a-knocking at
the door;
Then my old Kentucky home, good night!

Weep no more, my lady

O, weep no more today!
We wiU sing one song for the old Kentucky

home.
For the old Kentucky home far away.

They hunt no more for the 'possum and the

coon.
On the meadow, the hill and the shore;
They sing no more by the glimmer of the

moon.

On the bench by the old cabin door.
The day goes by like a shadow o'er the
hearty
With sorrow, where all was delight;
The time has come when the darkies have
to mut;
Then my old Kentucky home, good night.

The head must bow, and the back will have
to bend,

Whereyer the darkey may go;
A few more days and the troubles all will
end.

In the fields where the sugar canes grow.
A few more days for to tote the weary load.

No matter, 'twill never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road;

Then my old Kentucky home, good night!

Weep no more, my lady,

0,.weep no more today;
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky

home.
For the old Kentucky home, far away.'

•»

Payi^'s **Homb Sweet Home.'*

While there are many national
songs that vie with each other for
beauty of rhythm, martial air and
what not, there is one inter-
national song that stands alone in
its pathetic sweetness, nnrivalled
and exquisite in its tender pathos
and joining the hearts of all na-*
tions by the tribute of a tear that
it never fails to bring, wh-en
heard far from one's native land.
T^at song is Payne's **Home
Sweet Home."

John Howard Payne was bom
in New York in 1792 and died,
whUe United States consul at Tu-
nis, in 1852.

While a very young man his
precocious literary and histrionic
talents attracted the attention of
prominent men and women to this

unusual boy — ^for he was not yet
fifteen when he enjoyed the friend-
ship of the noted men and women
of the day both in New York and
Boston.

His talents and incUnations in-
dicate a stage career and after
the business failure of his father
m 1808 he secured an engagement
and made his debut at the Park
Theater, in New York, in Febru-
ary, 1809.

'Tor the next fifteen years,"
says a writer in Scribner's Maga-
zine, ** until his return to America,
he devoted himself mostly to
translating and acting, dividing
his time between London and Par-
is, according to the varied neces-
sities of producing and marketing
his wares, and the state of his
pocketbook. ' '

In 1823 while in Paris under
contract to supply operas and
plays to Cbvent Garden, he wrote
the libretto for an operetta,
**Clari," the music being furnish-
ed by Sir Henry Bishop. A song
being required for one scene in the
opera, the home-sick Payne wrote
*^Home Sweet Home" and sug-
gested the music which Bishop so
well fitted to the words.

* Several years ago when the
noted Band-master Yesella and
his famous Italian band were at
Atlantic CSty he was requested by
a naval officer to play **Home
Sweet Home."

**I'm sorry," the noted director
wrote back on the slip of paper,
**but the Steel Pier would be
emptied of its thousands were I to
play that wonderful song."

R«fll>ter of th« Kantucky 8tat« Hlrtorlcal Soclaty.

H* "was right. That simple
melody, so strikingly sweet, so full
of haunting memories cannot be
heard in castle or hut by an exile
from home without tears.

Nearly all great poems or songs
have been written under stress of
circumstances, and it is more than
possible that Payne wrote the song

that will live forever, while de-
pressed and miserably homesick
and "far frae his hame."

Never was there a song to which
so many, irrespective of national-
ity, have paid tiie tribute of a tear,
as John Howard Payne's "Home
Sweet Home."

FIVE HUNDRED KENTUCKY

PIONEERS

A. C. QtnSENBEERY.

HVE HUNDRED KENTUCKY PIONEERS

(By A. C. Qiiisenberry)

Twenty years ago I was assign-
ed the duty of searching out, in
the archives of the Bevolutionary
war period that are preserved in
Washington, certain data that
were required for use in the prep-
aration of a historical work that
was to be published by the depart-
ment in which I was employed.
My duties included the examina-
tion of the original manuscript
documents comprising the private
papers of George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander
Hamilton, and other fathers of the
republic, and also of the original
manuscript documents pertaining
to the transactions of the Conti-
nental Qongress in all its sittings
from 1775 to 1783. I was engaged
upon this business for months;
and in going over those old papers
one by one I found many that were
of great historical interest on sub-
jects other than the object of my
search. By consent of the custo-
dian of the papers, I had copies of
some of them made, which I have
since published in the Virginia
Magazine, and other historical
periodicals. Among the papers of
the Continental Congress I found
two petitions from citizens of Ken-
tucky that date back to 1780, The
copies I had made of those two old
petitions were mislaid soon after-
wards, and have only recently been
found again ; and I now make them
the theme of this article.

The two petitions have an ag-
gregate of about five hundred and
fifty signatures, but there are du-
plications of some of them, — ^that
is,— about fifty men signed both
petitions. This leaves about five
hundred people whose residence
in Kentucky at that early date is
officially authenticated by their
signatures to these petitions.

The petitions originated just
five years after the first perma-
nent settlement of Kentucky at
Boonesboro in 1775 ; and date back
to a time (1780) when the entire
population of Kentucky, probably
did not amount to three thousand
people all told, men, women and
children, white and colored; so it
may be assumed that they were
signed by at least one-sixth of the
total residents of Kentucky at that
time, all the signers being appar-
ently heads of families. Many of
those signers still have numerous
descendants in the State who may
thus fix with close approximation
the date of the arrival of their an-
cestors in Kentucky. Many of the
signers also have descendants of
distinction, socially and in other
ways, in Kentucky and elsewhere.
For instance, there is the signa-
ture of Thomas Hart to one of the
petitions, and it is altogether prob-
able that he was the same Thomas
Hart (then living in Kentucky)
who was the grandfather of Thom-
as Hart Bbnton, one of the most

eminent statesmen our comitry has
produced.

Some of the names signed to the
petition are evidently misspelled,
and it was almost impossible to
decipher many of them.

TJie first petition is not dated,
but it is briefed on the back, by one
of the clerks of the Continental
Congress: ''Petition of the Inhab-
itants of Kentucke. Bead August
23, 1780. '^

It is as follows: (Original spell-
ing and capital letters preserved,
but the names arranged in alpha-
betical order by me for the con-
venience of the readers of The
Begister who may wish to seek
out the names of their ancestors
among them) :

**To the Honourable Continen-
tal Congress:

**The Petition of a number of
the true and loyal Subjects of the
United States of America at large
most humbly sheweth: —

**That your Petitioners having
heretofore been Inhabiters of the
different States of America since
the commencement of the contest
with Great Britain for the common
cause of Liberty, have ventured
their lives in a wild uncultivated
part of the Continent on the West-
em Waters of Ohio, called by the
general name of Kentuckey, where
they have made improvements on
what they allowed was King's un-
appropriated Lands before the
commencement of the said contest,
and that in the face of a Savage
Enemy, with the utmost hardships,
and in daily geopardy of being in-
humanly murdered.

Your Petitioners further allow-
ed ' that the Honourable Congress
would allow them a Beasonable
Betaliation in Lands for the Serv-
ioee your Petitioners did in de-
f^uding and Settling on their own
expence the Country aforesaid, to
the weakening of the Enemy and
the Strengthening of the United
States whenever the common con-
test with Britain, should be de-
sided in favour of America. In
the full assurance of which your
Petitioners Sold all their livings
in the Settled parts of the Conti-
nent and have removed with their
Wives and families and all their
effects to the Country aforesaid,
in order to take possession of their
improvements aforesaid. But
when they came found almost
all their Improvements granted
away by a Sfett of men which act-
ed or pretended to act under the
late Act of Virginia, which act
also allows large grants without
any reserve of Settlein^ and im-
proving the same. B|y which
means almost the whole of the
Lands in the Coimtry aforesaid
are Engrossed into the hands of a
few Interested men, the greater
part of which live at ease in
the internal parts of Virginia,
while your Petitioners are here
with their wives and children
daily exposed to the murders of
the Savages, to whom sundry of
their Acquaintance have fell a sac-
rifice since their arrival, though
as yet but a short time. Aigaiu,
the late Acts of Virginia require
your Petitioners to take a new
Oath of Allegiance to that State,
renouncing all other Kings,

Regitter of the Kentucky State HittorJeal Society.

Princes and States, and be true
to the State of Virginia only, and
the prospect of Military Govern-
ment talang place shortly in this
place gives your Petitioners the
greatest apprehension of the most
severe nsage, unless they comply
with their Mandates.

**Your Petitioners, considering
all those grievances, would gladly
return into the Settled parts of
the Continent again, but having
come seven hundred miles down
the River Ohio with the Expence
of the greater part of their for-
tune, find it impracticable to re-
turn back against the Stream with
their wives and children, were
they to suffer the most cruel death.

**Tour Petitioners, being drove
to the extremity aforesaid, have
but three things to chuse. One is
to tarry in this place, take the
Oath of Allegiance to Virginia,
and be true to that State only, and
also become Slaves to those En-
grossers of Lands and to the Court
of Virginia. The other is to re-
move down the River Ohio and
land on some part of Mexico, and
become Subjects to the King of
Spain. And the third is to Re-
move themselves Over the River
Ohio, with their wives and chil-
dren and their Hmall Effects re-
maining, which is now in posses-
sion of the Savage Enemy, to
whom they are didly exposed to
Murders. The two former ap-
pearing to your Petitioners to
have a Tendency to weaken the
United States and, as it were. Ban-
ish the common cause of Liberty,
Humbly Pray the Honourable
Continental Congress to grant

them the liberty of taking the lat-
ter choice, and removing their
wives and families and Effects to
the Indian side of the Ohio and
take possession of the same in the
name of the United States of
America at Large, where your
Petitioners suppose to support
themselves in an Enemy's Cotin-
try at their own risque and Ex-
pence, which they humbly conceive
will have a tendency to weaken
the poyrer of the Enemy, strength-
en the United States at Large, and
advance the common cause of
Liberty.

**Tour Petitioners further pray
the Honourable Congress to allow
them the liberty of making such
Regulations among themselves as
they shall find necessary to govern
themselves by, being subject to
the United States at Large, and
no other States or power what-
soever.

**Your Petitioners humbly pray
the Honourable Continental Con-
gress to consider their case and
grievances in its true light, and
grant them such Relief as they in
their great wisdom shall see meet.

**And your Petitioners as in
duty bound shall ever pray.**

(Signed) :—

John Adams, John Ainwin,
James Anderson, Thos. Apple-
gate, Hankerson Ashby, William
Armstrong, Harrison Averill,
John Averill, William Averill.

John Bailey, Thos. Bamfield,
Frederick Bamford, Albert Banta,
Cornelius Banta, Jacob Banta,
John Banta, Benjamin Bayard,
David Beach, William Bennett,

Reglttor of the Kentucky 8taU •Hictorlcal toelety.

John Beson, Hugh Biggerstaffy
Qbarles Bilderbach, Jacob Bilder-
bach, Charles Black, Gheorge Black,
Beuben. Blackford, Cornelius Bo-
gard, Abraham Bonta, Squire
Boone, Joseph Booth, Peter Bord-
mess, Isaac Boulde^, James Boyer,
Thomas Bioyd, Henry Brenton,
David Brinton, Jacob Brockman,
John Brookill, James Brown,
Joseph Brown, Eobert Brown,
William Brown, Robert Brusler,
James Burke, William Bumess,
Comfort Busier, Peter B^zard.
-~ Gerard Campbell, Henry Camp-
^ bell, James Campbell, John Camp-
- bell, John Capps, Meshech Carter,
Conrad Oarito, Reuben Cass,
Benj. Casselman, John Catlett,
Moses Cave, William Chraven,
George Clark, Jesse Clark, Wil-
liam Clave, Benjamin Cleaver,
Joshua Cleaver, John Clem, Wm.
Clenwell, John Cline, Spencer
CoUings, William CoUings, Thom-
as Collins, James Colmore, Mar-
tin Colmore, Joseph Conaway,
V George Oom, Jacob Coseman,
Benjamin CoSelman, Thomas
Covet, Theophilus Coxe, Andrew
Coyne, George Craventon, Samuel
Crise, George Crist, John Cross,
-^Charles Crump, Wm. Oommins,
Jonathan Cunningham, Thomas
Cunningham, George Cuward.

Charles Davis, David Davis,
Dennis Davis, James Delaney,
Peter Demaree, Jacob Denning,
Thomas Dillon, Andrew Dodds,
John Dongan, Jacob Doom, John
Dorland, Benjamin Doslie, Jacob
Dosson, James Dougherty, Thom-
as Dowdall, Dennis Downing, Wil-
liam .Drennon, James Dunbar,

Charles Duncan, Samuel Dunn,
Zachary Dye.

William Ewftng.

John Felty, John Finn, Fred-
erick Fox, James Foye, Amasa
Frisel, Isaac Froman, Paul Fro-
man, John Fugas, Jacob Funk.

James Galloway, John Gallo-
way, William Galloway, Ephraim
Gilding, George Gilmore, Robert
Gilmore, Samuel Gilmore, John
Glasher, Samuel Glass, Patrick
Gordon, Samuel Gordon, Andrew
Grady, Herman Greathouse, John
Greathouse, William Greathouse,
John Green, Joseph Green, John
Greenhaw, Jasyrk Greenwalt, Al-
len GriflSn, Joseph GriflSnwalt,
Adam Grounds, George Grundy,
John Grundy, Joseph Grundy.

David Hamilton, James Hamil-
ton, John Hamilton, Robert Ham-
ilton, Thomas Hamilton, Smith
Harborough, Jeremy Hardese,
Thomas Hargis, Jonathan Har-
ned, William Harker, James Har-
ris, John Grahue Harris, S. Har-
ris, Samuel Harris, Stephen Har-
ris, Elijah Hart, John Hart,
Thomas Hart, Aden Harten, John
Hase, Henry Haughlan, David
Hawkins, Ulrich Hevenbunk, Eze-
kiel Hickman, Lewis Hickman,
Hardy Hill, G^rge Hinch, David
Hockins, Zachariah Hold, Robert
Holmes, Benjamin Hook, Matthias
Hook, Henry Hoos, William Hop-
kins, John Houghland, William
Houghland, James Huard, John
Huewes, Chris. Huffman, Jacob
Huffman, Randolph Huffman,
Paul Humble, John Hunt, John
Hunter.

Joseph Inlow, Robert Insworth,

• *J*m t^m

Edward Irwin, John Irwin, Wil-
Uam Irwin.

Hugh Jackson, Matthew Ja-
feres, John Jail, Daniel James,
John James, Richard James, An-
thony Jenkins, David Johnson,
James Johnson, John Johnson,
Joseph Johnson, Thomas John-
son, Jeremiah Johnston, John
Johnston, James Judy.

John Keith, Samuel Kelly, John
Kennedy, Eobert Kennedy, Thom-
as Kennedy, Michael Kintner,
Michiel Kirkham, Joseph Kirk-
patrick, David Kfirkwood, Martin
Kurtz.

David Langhead, William Law-
rence, Charles Lecompte, John
Lee, Samuel Lee, John Light,
Benjamin Linn, William Linn,
Edward Liston, John Liston, John
Little, Joseph Little, Michael Lit-
tle, William Little, James Logan,
■ John Logan, Matthew Logan, Wil-
liam Logsdon, William Look, Peter
Lover.

John McCann, Joseph McClin-
tock, James McCoUoch, James Mc-
Elharton, James McKee, James
McLoughlin, David McQuale, Se-
neca McBakin, John Martin,
Charlefl Mason, Philip Mason,
Samuel Mason, John Massey,
Charles Masterson, Joseph Mat-
thews, Gabriel Melted, Anth. Mil-
ler, James Miller, John Miller,
Samuel Miller, John Mitchell, Wil-
liam Mitchell, Adam Money, John
Moore, Richard Moore, John Mor-
ris, Joseph Mounts.

George Neal, James Neavill,
John Nelson, James Newkirk,
Peter Newkirk, Tobias Newkirk.

Joseph Oldham, William Onie.

Arthur Parks, Benjamin Pat-
ten, Thomas Patten, Michael Paul,
Peter Paul, Thomas Phillips,
Peter Pohene, George Pomer, Ed-
ward Poomer, Abraham Powell,
Thomas Powser, HenryPrayter,
John Pringle, JSES Pro\anc5,
Joseph William Province, John
Puck, James Purse, Dennis Pur-
sell, Thos. .Pursell, John Purseley,
Thomas Putnam.

Elijah Quartermus, James
Quartermus.

Aaron Rawlings, George Ray,
Adam Raymond, Francis Reach,
Gerardis Rekid, George Reading,
Solomon Resiner, Edward Re-
walno, John Rice, William Rice,
Henry Richards, John Ridley,
Thomas Roach, Matthew Rogers,
Adam Rowe, John Ruth.

Jacob Salmon, Thomas Sander-
son, Chris. Schultze, Matthew Sel-
lad, John Sellers, Nathan Sellers,
Valentine Sewall, John Shaw,
John Sigwald, » Hector Simpson,
John Skaig, Edward Skidmore,
Daniel Spears, Jacob Spears,
Moses Speed, TJiomasi Spencer,
Thomas Stansbury, George Stew-
art, James Stewart, Basil Stock-
ton, Thomas Stone, Jesse Stuart,
John Stuart, Martin Stull, Joseph
Sullivan, John Sumet, William
Sutherland, William Sweden, Rob-
ert Sweeny.

Thomas Talbott, George Tay-
lor, Mike Tedenham, Jonathan
Thickston, John Thickston, Robert
Thirkman, Samuel Thirkman,
Michael Thomas, James Thomp-
son, John Thompson, Nicholas
Thurley, Mikel Titties, Benjamin
Tomlinson, Jesse Tomlinson, John

RoQltUr of tht Koniuclcy 8t«t« Hi«terio«l Society.

Tomlinson, John Townsend, Jere-
miah Trefar, Joseph Tumblestone,
Isaac Tune, John Turner, Edward
Tyler, John Unsel.

Jacob Vanmeter, John Vantress,
Cornelius Vorheis.

Henry Wade, Samuel Wadmes,
John Wager, Adam Wall, Josiah
Wallis, Henry Wasson, Samuel
Watkins, Edward Welch, Thomas
Welch, William Welch, Samuel
Wells, William Wellwood, Charles
West, John West, Jakob Wes-
teroeb. Burgess White, Isaac
White, John White, Thomas
Whithedge, John Wilkerson,
Daniel Williams, John Williams,
John Williamson, Evan Wilson,
William Winter, Michael Woods,

John Yery, Charles Young,
Peter Young.

Tlie second petition is neither
dated nor briefed, but it states
that **in the spring of the year
1780*' the signers settled in Ken-
tucky. Further along it refers to
the peace that had been establish-
ed between the United States and
Great Britain, and as the treaty
of peace between the two countries
was concluded on September 3,
1783, this petition was evidently
gotten up subsequent to that date.
It is as follows:

To the Honourable President
and Delegates of the Free United
States of America, in Congress
Assembled.

*'The Memorial and Petition of
a number of Inhabitants of Ken-
tuckey Settlement, of Low Dutch
Beformed Church persuasion, in

behalf of themselves and other in-
tended settlers. Humbly Sheweth:
**That in the Spring of the year
1780 they moved to Kentuckey with
their families and effects with a
view and expectation to procure a
Tract of Land to enable them to
settle together in a body for the
conveniency of civil society and
propagating the Gospel in their
known Language. When they ar-
rived there to their sorrow and
disappointment they were, thro'
the dangerousness of the times, by
a cruel savage enemy oblidged to
settle in Stations or Forts in such
places where there was the most
appearance of safety. Notwith-
standing all their precautions,
numbers of them suffered greatly
in their property, several killed
and others captivated by the
enemy. Living in such a distress-
ed confined way, always in dan-
ger, frequently on military duty,
it was impossible for them to do
more than barely support their
families with the necessaries of
life, by which means they are much
reduced, and what adds more to
their disappointment and afDiction
is that contrary to their expecta-
tion before their arrival and since,
the most or all of the Tillable
Land has been located and monop-
olized by persons that had the ad-
vantage of your Memorialists by
being acquainted with the country,
and your Memorialists being
strangers and confined as afore-
said ; and being so reduced are un-
able to purchase Land at the ad-
vanced price, and especially in
a body conveniently togeather,
agreeable to their wishes.

Reglttor of the Kentucky State Hieloricai Society.

Whereas, Providence has been
pleased to prosper and support the
virtuous resistance of the United
Stated in the glorious cause of
Liberty, which has enabled them
to obtain an Honourable Peace
whereby they have obtained a
large extent of unappropriated
Territory; and whereas, it is cur-
rently and repeatedly reported
amongst us that Congress has
broke or made void Virginia's
right or claim to Land in Ken-
tuckey Settlement.

Your Petitioners therefore hum-
bly pray in (behalf of themselves
and other intended friends of that
persuasion) the Honourable Con-
gressr would indulge them with the
grant of a Tract or Territory of
Land in Kentuckey Settlement, if
the Virginia claim thereto should
be made void, or otherwise in the
late ceeded land on the northwest
side of the Ohio river whereto
there is not any prior legal claim,
to enable them to settle in a body
together, on such reasonable terms
as Congress in their wisdom and
prudence shall see just and rea-
sonable, they complying with and
performing all reasonable condi-
tions required, to enable them to
put their intended plan and pur-
pose in execution, they having
principally in view the Glory of
God, the promotion of civil and
religious society, educating and
instructing their rising generation
in the principals of religion and
morality, hoping the Honourable
Congress will give all due encour-
agement to such a laudable under-
taking. The premises duly con-

sidered, your Petitioners as in
duty boimd shall ever pray; etc.*'
(Signed) : —

David Allen, William Arm-
strong.

Abraham Banta, Abraham Ban-
ta, Jr., Albert Banta, Cornelius
Banta, Daniel Banta, Hendrik
Banta, Henry Banta, Jr., Jacob
Banta, John Banta, Peter Banta,
Jr., Samuel Banta, Eicher Bers-
ley, John 0. Bleanes, John Bodine,
Cornelius Bogart, Henry Bogart,
Samuel Bogart, Daniel Brewer,
Jr., John Brewer, Daniel Brewer,
Sr., (Illegible) Brinkehoff, George
Brinkerhoff, Gilbert Brinkerhoff,
Jacob Brinkerhoff, Luke Brinker-
hoff, Samuel Briten, George Bur-
nett.

•

Peter Oarmichel, Samuel Cock,
Henry Cfomminger, John Com-
minger, Andrew Conine, James
Cook, Cornelius Cosine, David
Cossaart, Francis Cossaart, Jacob
Cossaart, Bergen Oouert, John
Cownover, Cornelius Qozine, Jr.,
Derrick Cozine, John Cozine, John
Oozine, Jr.

Catherine Darling (widow),
John Darling, Lambert Dar-
ling, Abraham DeBaen, Joseph
DeBaen, Abraham DeGroff, Wil-
helm DeGroff, Cornelius Demaree,
John Demaree, Peter Demaree,
Peter Demaree, Jr., Samuel Dem-
aree, Samuel Demaree, Jr., Sam-
uel Demarest, Albert Durie, Marga
Durie (widow)), Samuel Durie.

George Hall, Daniel Harris,
John Harris, Abraham Hooghte-
lin, Hezekiah Hooghtelin, Wil-
helmus Hooghtelin.

RtgliUr of tha K«ntutky 8tat« HMorlcal Society.

William Jewell, Abraham John-
son, Andrew Johnson,. Thomas
Johnson.

Barney Kipp, John Kipp, John
Knight, John Conrad Knight, Der-
rick Kooeeen.

Conrad D. Lowe, Gilbert Lowe.

Peter Monfort, Jr., Francis
Monfoort, Jacobus Monfoort, John
Monfoort, Lawrence Monfoort,
Peter Monfoort, Sr.

Martin Nevins.

John Obercow, Adrian Oten,
Cortielius Oten, John Oten.

John Persyl.

Alaron Bawlings, John Byker.

David Seaboum, Gfeorge Sea-
bonm, Peter Seabonm, William
Seabourn, Johanna Seabonm
(widow), Henry Shiveley, Andrew
Shoe, Mattis Shoe, Benjamin

Sloat, Barney Smock, Jacob
Smock, Matthis Smock, Bergen
Spader, James Stagg.

Cornelius Tueb, Laurens Tneb.

John Vanarsdal, Lucas Vanars-
daJ, Simon Vanarsdal, John Van-
arsdale, Gerritt Vanarsdalen, Si-
mon Vanasdal, John Vancleve,
William Vancleve, Peter Vandyke,
Timis Vanpelt, Charles Vantine,
Thomas Vantiue, Jaqnish Van-
tyne, James Voreis, John Voreis,
Sophia Voreis (widow), Albert
Vorheis, Cornelius Vorheis, John
Vorhis, Luke Vorhis, Eulef Vor-
his.

James Westervelt, Mary Wes-
tervelt (widow), Samuel Wester-
velt, Geo. Williamson, Peter Wye-
koff, Benedick Yurey, Heinrich
Yurey.

MEETING OF THE KENTUCKY

STATE HISTORICAL

SOCIETY

AT THE CAPITOL,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, AT TWO O'CLOCK, P. M.

H. R. ' "4.

MEETING OF THE
KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

AT THE CAPITOL,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, AT TWO O'CLOCK, P. M.

The Executive Committee met
in the Library of the Historical
Department, promptly at 2 p. m.

Hon. H. V. McChesney, Chair-
man of the Executive Committee
called the meeting to order. Full
attendance.

The reports of the Secretary-
Treasurer were laid before the
committee as approved by the
Executive Committee, the Gov-
ernor and the Curator, and pub-
lished in pamphlets, to be laid be-
fore the General Assembly of 1912.
These reports were endorsed by
the committee.

Mrs. Miles moved, and her mo-
tion was seconded by Prof. G. C.
Downing, that **Mrs. Morton now
as Regent, be empowered here-
after as formerly, to act for the
society, and in future, purchase
for its benefit, whatever in her
judgment will be for the good of
the society, and enlargement of
its influence, throughout the State
of Kentucky. '^ Motion carried
unanimously.

Mrs. Morton thanked the com-
mittee and said: **From these
reports is seen what we have ac-
quired to lend value to the State
and interesrt to the society. The
Register has lengthened its sub-
scription list and broadened its
scope of influence, until now it is

solicited by the leading Historical
Societies of this country and
Europe as an exchange. The
Register, bound for the year
1910, is before you, and those for
1911 are being bound. Renewing
my thanks for the new honor you
have conferred upon me, and the
hope, that as your Regent now, as
well as still your Secretary and
Treasurer, I may be able to keep
your approval and confidence in
the future as in the past, I remain
faithfully and truly yours. *'

Miss Sally Jackson then pre-
sented her type-written copy of
the list of the books and pam-
phlets received since June, 1910.
This list was too long to read, and
the Librarian who carefully com-
piled it for publication, could only
present the volume to be seen. She
made the estimate of the number
of visitors to the society — since
1910— as ten thousand (10,000).
Many schools, colleges and excur-
sion parties that could not regis-
ter by name, gave the number of
their parties, from one hundred to
ene thousand, making by estimate,
as well as by registered names,
about ten thousand persons. Miss
Jackson *s report was very grat-
ifying and accepted with congrat-
ulations. Lists of new members

R«gl«tor of the Konttidcy Statt HIvloricai 8ocMy.

and subscribers to Begister were
omitted, as the time was limited.

Mr. Longmoor, Curator, read
the following letter from Dr.
Bniner, which is filed herein.

Office of
SECRETARY OF STATE,

FB4KKF0BT

September 22, 1911.
Mr. Woodford W. Longmoor,
V-President and Curator,

Kentucky Historical Society,
Frankfort, Kentucky,

Dear Sir :—

I beg to acknowledge receipt of
the September number of The
Register, published by The Ken-
tucky Historical Society. It is a
handsome magazine, and does
much credit to those in charge of
the society.

Further, I desire to congratu-
late you, and all associated with
you, on the splendid service you
are rendering the State, in the
management of the society. The
historical interest in future years
in the preservation of the relics
kept by your society, will be of
much value to the coming genera-
tions.

I Assure you, that you shall have
my earnest support and hearty co-
operation, in your efforts to make
the society a suoeess.

Most sincerely,
Ben L. Bbuneb,
Acting Governor of Kentucky.

The election of officers resulted
in the re-election of the board for
the ensuing year.

The meeting then adjourned to
the Hall of Fame, where the open
annual meeting was held, and an
interesting program was carried
out.

The thanks of the society were
tendered Mr. Quisenberry for his
time honored silver watch, now
framed and hanging in the large
souvenir case. Also to all persons
who had contributed relics of any
kind, gold, silver, books, musical
instruments. Not the least attract-
ive among the gifts are the lovely
fans, showing the fashion of these
delightful breeze-catchers for
more than a hundred years.

The splendid new piano and the
magnificent harpsichord, both pur-
chased for the benefit of the so-
ciety, were the special new objects
of delight. In future they will af-
ford inspiration to our musicians
when open meetings are held, or
special concerts given in the his-
torical rooms.

SONNETS

F. W. EBERHARDT

'^^VfS^'^P^aifmmmmm

SONNETS

(P. W. Bberhardt.)

THE CHOIR INVISIBLE.

To James Lane Allen.

A lilt of nature love the pagan knew;

The BensuouB charm exhaling from the

breast
In Bacchic glory, carnally ezpreesed —

HymettuB honied, nectared through and

through
Ib then this Bong of phantom Bingers true?

Or like the painted "ButterflieB/' in toils

Of gorgeous fancy caught* or serpent coils
Of glamoured ylce the unwary soon muBt

rue?
What is this Hellene worship of the man —

The unyeiled man however fair and great

But lustful homage to the grosser Pan?

How far remoyed from even Plato's state!

80 fair it seems, yet all too rash and bold

For nature's truest message to unfold.

— ^P. W. Eberhardt.

THE KENTUCKIAN8.

To John Fox, Jr.

Seer of our mountains rude and strong.
Prophet of the children of our hills.
Where justice knows no law, but strikes,

and kills,
And shows no mercy, palliates no wrong.
Clean and pure the highland air we breathe
Through the rhododendron purpled page.
Unfolding Tisions of a primal age
Wer the vengeful blade men learned to

aheatha
Be thdu the prophet of our sensuous plain;
strength of oak into our veins Infuse;
^^Hrlle honesty of heart and brain—
Our languid blood with ruddier heat suffuse
Till welding lire of kindred love shaU flame
To make "Kentuckians" a peerless name.

— F. W. Bberhardt

THE POET.

To Robert Burns Wilson.

Poet, come out to the fields and sing again.
Sing as of old, when evening's solemn hush
Wooed thee from painted scenes to leave

thy brush
And canvas in the gloom, to wake the strain
Of fervent song in nature's sacred choir.
String up thy lute and thrill us with its fire;
We miss the vibrant hymns and glad refrain-
Of passion pure-^f greed, the high disdain.
Sing of the great white dog-wood fiowers

among
The cedars on the Elkhom hiSs; in song
Breathe the breath of the fruitful earUi, ii^

spire
Anew our souls to life and high desire.
O, poet-voice, the world hath need of thee!
The gift is thine, we claim the penalty.

— F. W. Eberhardt

THE OLD FOUNTAIN.
A Picture by Paul Sawyer.

As when the waves of ocean smite the

shore,
And all too soon take toll of places dear.
And one by one old land marks disappear
In Neptune's Caves, to greet us nevermore:
So do the tides of time, forevermore
Take toll of forms beloved by many here;
And oft for them we drop the longing tear.
And sigh for power their presence to restore.
How fine that gift which can anew create,
And give us back in pictured whole
This vanished fountain's form! environed

true;
But lovelier now, thus making fortunate
Our loss, a charm abiding ever new —
The fairy's Jewel, showing beauty's Soult

~F. W. Bberhardt.

Department of
Paragraphs and Clippings

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Department of
Paragraphs and CUppings

PARAGRAPHS AND CUPPINGS

GOVERNOR JAMES B. MoCREARY

The editors of the Register
heartily endorse every tribute to
Governor McCreary. As a states-
man, as a friend and as a citizen
he is an honor to Elentucky. A
man of wide information, a judicial
mind, cultured and eminently wise
—and, added to hisi fitness for his
position as Governor of Kentucky
he is a Christian gentleman. His
name leads the list of the distin-
guished men of world-wide reputa-
tion, as will be seen from the
World's Work for February, 1911
—thus; *'That America has the
leadership in the world's peace
movement, I have shown by ref-
erence to the achievements of such
distinguished Americans as James
B. McCreary (of Kentucky) and
Elihu Root, Andrew Cameirie, etc.,
etc/' (Register May, 1911.)

Governor McCreary has had in
his election a second time to the
gubernatorial chair, a magnifi-
cent endorsement from the people,
one alike honoring to the Com-
monwealth and to himself as ^^the
man who has come to the kingdom
for such a time as thi& ' ' Read the
following from the Frankfort
News- Journal :

GOVBBNOB OF KjBNTUCKY.

•

^^ Just thirty-six years ago James
B. McCreary, a native of Madison
county, was elected Governor of
Kentucky, by the Democrats of
the State. He defeated, at that

time, John M. Harlan, who recent-
ly died, art a ripe old age, as one
of the most distinguished justices
of the highest court in our land.

^^ Yesterday this same James B.
McCreary, looking but little older
and feeling but little older than he
was in 1875, was again elected
Governor of Kentucky. The Dem-
ocrats again elected him.

** Governor McCreary has been
through a grilling campaign in
which he has covered the entire
State, making one and two
speeches every day. He has stood
the strain remarkably well and is
as active and vigorous as any
younger man who accompanied
him on his trip. His vitality has
been shown to be wonderful. Age
does not seem to have touched him
at all and he will take up* the reins
of government with as firm a hand
as over a third of a century ago.
He will bring to the office this time
a mature judgment and a sounder
reason than he had when he was
first Governor. In the years that
have elapsed since he sat in the
Governor's chair he has been in
WashiQgton as Qongressman and
Senator for many years. He has
served in other positions of re-
sponsibility and tbiese things have
taught him more than any man
could have learned in his own
state. Kentucky will have the
benefit of this experience and it
means that the State will have a

splendid Governor. Governor Mc-
Creary always has been wise and
prudent but now more than ever
he has those qualities that go to
make a Governor of the people
who will look to the interest of the
people.

** Governor McCreary is known
all over the United States. He will
attract attention to Kentucky and
will aid the State in making rapid
strides to prosperity and its prop-
er place in the nation.^'

Gov. McCbeaby Teixs Plans —

WiiiL Earnestly Endeavor To

Carry Out Platform

Pledges.

(From (Fraibkfort JKewtKroomal.)

Governor elect James B. Mc-
Creary has issued the following
statement regarding his victory in
Tuesday's election and his course
when he becomes Governor of Ken-
tucky.

*'I am very gratefid to the
voters of Kentucky for the large
majority given me for the high
oflSce of Governor. I consider the
majority given me and to other
Democrats on the State ticket as
an endorsement of the time-tried
and time-honored Democratic party
and the principles for which it has
fought with courage and sincerity
for so many years.

*'The platform on which I
asked the support of the voters of
Kentucky represents my views on
public questions therein present-
ed, and I will earnestly endeavor
to carry out its pledges with the

assistance of the members of the
General Ass^nbly.

**I am in favor of progress,
improvements and advancement,
and it will be my ambition to make
Kentucky the most progressive
State in the Union, and I will en-
deavor to advance its interests in
every line and try to bring pros-
perity to the State and happiness
to the people. To the chairmen
and members of the Democratic
Campaign Committee I present
my sincere thanks for the success-
ful management of the campaign,
and I am thankful to my associates
on the ticket and to the Democratic
press of Kentucky and to the
speakers from this and other
states for their valuable and
splendid assistance.

**I am gratified to know that
this splendid victory was won
without receiving contributions
from any corporations, lobbyists
or other persons who might desire
or ask for any special privileges
or favors. I am also pleased to
believe that the victory in Ken-
tucky is a forerunner of a great
national Democratic victory to be
achieved next year in the election
of a Democratic President.''

Governor McCreary 's Inaugu-
ration.

The inauguration of a Governor
is always an event of great inter-
est, but the recent inauguration
of Governor McCreary occasioned
even greater interest than usually
attaches to this combined govern-
mental and social function. This

Heglcler «f tb« Kentucky tutt HIilorletl 8oel«ty.

is doubtless attribntable, in large
measure, to the unusual event of
an ex-Oovemor taking the Exec-
utive Chair after a lapse of thirty-
six years since his first inaugural.
This added quite a bit of senti-
ment to the occasion.

Another factor in the develop-
ment of the interest in the event
was the fact that Governor Mc-
Creary is a Confederate veteran.
The public felt that in all prob-
ability this was the last occasion
upon which they would see this
signal honor conferred upon a
follower of the Lost Cause. The
recent unveiling in Lexington of
the equestrian statue of General
John H. Morgan, under whom
Governor McOreary was a gallant
ofl5cer, still further heightened this
particular interest. AH this cul-
minated in the gathering at the
Capital of a large number of ex-
Confederates, who marched in the
parade with as light hearts as the
**Boy Scouts,'* even though their
steps may not have been quite so
elastic.

Still another feature of interest
was the ** reorganization" of the
**McCreary Guards" for the occa-
sion. As many of this famous
military organization of the
seventies as could be mustered
marched in the parade and attract-
ed much attention.

Many other things combined to
make the Inaugural a great suc-
cess, not the least of which was
Governor McOreary 's popularity,
not alone with his own party, but
with the whole people of the Com-
monwealth.

So auspicious an inaugural
presages a successful administra-
tion, and the Register desires to
express its best wishes to this end.

We give below some extracts
from Governor McCreary's In-
augural Address :

** Fellow Citizens — Called a sec-
ond time to the oflSce of Governor
of Kentucky by the suffrages of a
generous and patriotic people, I,
with sincerest pleasure, express
my. profound gratitude to the peo-
ple of my native State for the
honor conferred upon me.

In assuming this important trust
I am deeply sensible of its vast
responsibility, as well as its honor,
and I bring to it a conscientious
desire and determination to dis-
charge its duties faithfully, fear-
lessly and impartially.

I shall be Governor, not of any
particular class or section, but of
all the people of our great Com-
monwealth, and I will have no
individual schemes to advance,
and no peMonal aspirations to
promote, and I will endeavor in
every proper way to uphold and
advance all that will bring pros-
perity to the State and happiness
to the people.

Relying upon the support of
free, brave and patriotic Kentuck-
ians, and entreating the aid and
protection of ''The Lord of Hosts
—great in councils, and mighty in
works,'* I pledge whatever ability
or energy I posaess to the faithful
support and maintenance of the
Constitution and the laws.

We live in an age of progress
and development, and we should

have united, aggressive efforts
for industrial and commercial su*
premacy, and Kentucky should
forge to the front as one of the
leading States of the Republic, in
education, in agriculture, in de-
velopment, in internal improve-
ments, in manufactures, in min-
ing, and in all the varied interests
of a great people inhabiting a
great State.

The inestimable rights of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness should be secured to all per-
sons. Upon the maintenance of
these rights depends the prosper-
ity of the people, and the preserva-
tion of our institutions. To this
end law and order should be rigidly
observed. The law should be the
shield and armor of every person,
and I shall use all power and au-
thority vested in me as Governor
of the Commonwealth to preserver
law and order. In this I earnest-
ly ask the co-operation of all per-
sons, regardless of past political
affiliations.

I know of no State that is more
prosperous, or whose citizens are

happier and freer than ours.

• « * •

My countrymen, we have one
republic, with one Consititution,
and one destiny. Kentucky is a
component part of the great Fed-
eral Union, one State in a confed-
eration of States. That which
eflFects liberty in one State will
ultimately effect liberty in other
States. That which increases the
prosperity of one State will in
time be beneficial to other States.
That general law which is oppres-
sive or injurious in one State will

be oppressive or injurious in other
States, therefore our State shares
its part of the honor or dishonor,
the blessings or burdens of the Re-
public, and I desire our Common-
wealth to be in full accord and har-
mony with her sister States in sup-
porting the Constitution and in
striving to advance the best inter-
ests of the whole country, and in
endeavoring to add to the gran-
deur and glory of a wonderful
destiny.

On this great occasion my heart
is full of admiration and hope for
my country and love and gratitude
to the people of my native State,
who have elected me twice by the
largest majorities given in fifty
years to a Governor of the State
of Kentucky.

I shall by fidelity to duty and
obedience to the Constitution and
the laws strive to merit the confi-
dence reposed in me by the electors
of the State of Kentucky.

I succeed an honorable and pa-
triotic statesman, who, according
to his view has been a faithful and
an efficient Governor, and I wish
him during his retirement to pri-
vate life success and happiness.

Earnestly invoking the blessings
of Almighty God on our State and
on our people, I appeal to my fel-
low-citizens, regardless of their
political sentiments, to co-operate
with me in conducting an honest,
impartial and economical admin-
istration, which will uphold jus-
tice, freedom, education, progress
and righteousness and advance the
interests and maintain the integ-
rity of the Commonwealth of Ken-
tucky. ^ *

Roaistar of iho Mntuofcy Suta HIttorloal Society.

TO USE OLD INKSTAND

Which Was His When Hb Was

GOYEBNOB ThIBTY-TwO YbABS

Ago — State Histobioal Sooibty
LoAKs Gov. MgCbeaby Intbbest-
iKG Belic of the Past.

(From iFrankfort NewfrJoumal.)

• 111

Days of the past, when he was
Oovemor the first time, were re-
called pleasantly to Gov. Mc-
Creary yesterday afternoon when
he was ** loaned '* by the Kentucky
State Historical Society, the cut-
glass inkstand which he used when
he was Gt>vemor thirty-two years
ago. The inkstand was presented
to the Historical Society by Gov.
McCreary when he went out of
office thirty-two years ago. It has
been carefully preserved, as one
of the mosit valuable relics of the
society, ever since. Yesterday the
inkstand, mounted on a silver tray,
was presented to Gov. McCreary.

Just '* Loaned. '*

The presientation was made by
the officers of the society, Mrs.
Jennie C. Morton, Miss Sallie
Jackson, Miss Eliza Overton,
Wood W. Longmoor and Harry
V. McChesney. Mr. McChesney
made a short speech, telling of the
.vhistory of the inkstand and the
value that attaches to it. He
said to the Governor that it was
only *^ loaned" to him, for use dur-

ing the next four years, as the
Historical Society wants it back,
to preserve for future generations
of KentucMans.

With the inkstand, was present-
ed a handsome gold fountain pen,
with a silver rest for it. Gov. Mc-
Creary said he was deeply touch-
ed by the tiiought which prompted
the preservation of the inkstand
and the ' loaning '* of it to him for
four year& He said he would use
it on his desk during his term as
Governor.

Pbesentation Speech.
»
**Your Excellency: As an officer
of the Kentucky State Historical
Society, and speaking by its au-
thority, I wish to assure you of the
delight with which we greet you
as its President. There are many
reasons why this affords us great
pleasure, but there is one very
special reason, and that is, that
you were the society *s first presi-
dent, during your former adminis-
tration as Governor. There are
some of the officers of the society
present here today, Mrs. Jennie C.
Morton, our distinguished Regent
and Secretary, and Miss Sally
Jackson, our Librarian, who recall,
not only that you were the so-
ciety's first president, but that you
were one of its warmest and most
faithful friends; and many of us
know that you have so continued
throughout all the years of its his-
tory.

^'As an evidence of your regard
for the society, when you retired
from the office of Governor, thirty-
two years ago, you presented it

ll«0iil»r or tiM KontiMlcy WkaU HNHprlM ^oeMy.

with a souvenir of yonr adminis-
tration— the inkstand which yon
had used during your term. That
you may know how deeply the gift
was appreciated, we have called
today to show you that we have
preserved it. Amd as a token of
our esteem, we now propose to
Joan it to you for four years, and
to present you this pen, pen rest
and tray, and ask that you honor
the society by using them.

^^And, again speaking for the
society, let me assiure you of our
very best wishes for the success of
your administration, and of the
happiness we shall derive from
your as^sociation, counsel and ad-
vice. ' '

THE PEESIDENTS.

There was nothing new in the
visit of President Taft to the citv
of Frankfort, for the unveiling of
the Lincoln Statue, on the 8th
day of November, 1911. Wie, as the
people of Frankfort, are accus-
tomed in our day to visits of
the most distinguished statesmen,
writers, artists, poets of the world.
In our recollection, Hays, Grant,
and Arthur have been here. How
long they were here we do not
know, or whom they visited. Then
in early days, 1794, 1797, 1821, we
had Louis Phillippe, afterwards
King of France, as visitor for
some time. He went from here to
Bardstown to teach school, where
he remained (incognito) until re-

called to France. (See Begister,
Jan. 1909, Department Inquiries
and Answers.)

We had President Monroe, Pres-
ident Madison and Andrew Jack-
son. Just before Jackson came,
we learn, it was feared he would
receive a sound whipping for his
invidious remarks about the Ksn-
tuckians at the Battle of New Or-
leans, 1815. But when hearrived
he was received kindly. He was
then regarded as one of the great
war generals of the world and a
prospective candidate for Presi-
dent of the United States, which
he became at the next election.

James Buchanan lived in Eliz-
abethtown, Ky., and was often in
'* pretty little Frankfort.'^ Gen-
eral Zachary Taylor had the
warmest reception and most hon-
oring of any of the Presidents.
The old newspapers of 1849 are
filled with accounts of his tri-
umphal entry into the city, and
the honors paid him during his
stay. He was then on his way to
Washington to his Inauguration
on March 4, 1849. So it will be
seen that Frankfort is used to
great men and great occasions.

We understand President Taft
thought Frankfort **a cold little
town.^' Doubtless, he forgot for
the while, he came on a funeral oc-
casion, the unveiling of a monu-
ment to the dead. The conduct of
the people of Frankfort was mere-
ly in harmony with the spirit of
the occasion.

WHY KENTUCKY IS THE MOST EEMAEKABIiE

OF THE EAOBLY STATES.

INVENTOBS

Kentucky was the home and
burial place of at least three of
the earliest inventors of steam-
boats— John Fitch, James Bum-
sey and Edward West. The lat-
ter was bom in 1757 in Virginia,
and removed in 1788 (one account
says in 1785) to Lexington, where
he died August 23, 1827.

He was the first watchmaker
there, was a gunsmith by trade,
and a man of great inventive
genius. He constructed a steam-
boat on a small scale, which in
1794, in the presence of hundreds
of citizens, he had the proud satis-
faction to see move through the
water with great velocity, in an ex-
perimental trial on the town fork
of Elkhom, previously damned
up near the center of Lexington
for the purpose. This miniature
steamboat had no fly-wheels; but
to overcome the dead point, the
piston-rod was made to strike me-
tallic springs at every return mo-
tion given by the steam. The iden-
tical engine — or rather the cylin-
der, piston-rod, frame work, sup-
ply and escape pipe — ^were pre-
served for more than fifty years
in the museum of the Adelphi So-
ciety of Transylvania University,
and have since been transferred to

H. R— 6.

the museum of the Eastern Luna-
tic Asylum.

On July 6, 1802, Mr. West re-
ceived a United States patent for
his steamboat invention. Why he
delayed until then obtaining a
patent, we have not learned. On
the same day he was awarded
three other patents— for a gun-
lock, for a nail cutting machine,
and for a nail cutting and heading
machine* — the first ever invented,
and which the celebrated English
traveler, F. A. Michaux, in 1805,
said cut, in twelve hours, 5,320
pounds of nails, and the patent of
which **he sold at once for $10,-
000.*' Lexington, shortly after,
actually exported nails of her own
manufacture to Louisville, to Cin-
cinnati, and even to Pittsburg —
which is now the most extensive
nail manufacturing point in the
United States, if not in the world.

April 28, 1816 (only four and a
half years after the first steamboat
in the West), a steamboat made by
Bosworth and West, on Mr.
West's model, left the mouth of
Hickman creek, on the Kentucky
river, in Jessamine county, for
New Orleans. This boat, an edi-

♦Letter from Prof. Geo. C. Schaefer, U.
S. Patent Office.

torial notice in the Kentucky Ga-
zette says, was upon a plan distinct
from any other steamboat then in
use, and on a trial against the cur-
rent of the Kentucky river, at a
high stage, more than answered
the sanguine expectations of her
owners (a company of Lexington
gentlemen), and left no doubt that
she could stem the current of the
Mississippi with rapidity and ease.
She did not return.

In 1796, Nathan Burrows (who
had settled in Lexington four years
before, and died in 1846) intro-
duced into Kentucky the manufac-
ture of hemp — being the pioneer in
that branch of manufactures; but
through the unworthiness of
agents, he never reaped from it
any advantage, although he invent-
ed a machine for cleaning hemp.
He afterward introduced the man-
ufacture of mustard, and manu-
factured an article which has been
famous for fifty years — even tak-
ing the premium in England, at
the World's Fair in 1851, where it
was shown by his relative and suc-
cessor, Captain Samuel Davies Mc-
Cullough, who was still manufac-
turing it when he died January 11,
1873.

Dr. Joseph Buchanan, while
studying medicine in Lexington,
in 1805, invented a musical instru-
ment producing its music from
glasses of different chemical com-
position, and originated the con-
ception of the Music of Light — to
be executed by means of harmo-
nific colors luminously displayed.
The invention was never put in
operation.

About 1803, John Jones* (who
died in Lexington in 1849, aged 90)
invented a speeder spindle; and
also a machine for sawing stone.

Thomas Harris Barlow— bom
August 5, 1789, in Nicholas county,
Ky., and died June 22, 1865, in
Cincinnati, Ohio — ^was the most in-
genious and celebrated of Lexing-
ton inventors. His education was
limited. He was a soldier of the
War of 1812, in Colonel Richard
M. Johnson's regiment. He built
a steamboat at Augusta, Bracken
county. After his removal to Lex-
ington, he built in the winter of
1826-7, a steam locomotive, with
car attached, for two passengers,
and with power to ascend an ele-
vation of eighty feet to the mile.
In May, 1827, it was opened to the
public for exhibition, in a large
room over Joseph's Bruen's ma-
chine shop, where an oval track
around the room was constructed,
and the first '* train" in western
America put in motion. General
Leslie Combs, Dr. Wm. S. Chip-
ley, and other old citizens are still
living who took a ride at fifty cents
a ticket. Samuel Robb purchased
the novelty for travel— visiting
Louisville, Nashville, Memphis and
New Orleans, at which latter place
it was burned while on exhibition.
In 1827 he built another locomotive
and sold it to a party who found
it profitable to travel and exhibit
it. In 1835 another locomotive —
with two upright cylinders and
lever beams, both engines attach-
ed to one engine, with crooks at
right angles and upright boilers —

*Ranck, page 185.

was built by Joseph Bruen, for the
new railroad from Lexington to
Frankfort, constructed of strap-
iron rails spiked down to stone
sills, which proved to be as unsub-
stantial as its advocates claimed
it would be substantial.

In 1845, in the silversmith shop
of his son, Milton Barlow, he piade
a small rude planetarium, to illus-
trate the motion of the heavenly
bodies in teaching his grandchil-
dren. The idea grew as he studied
and labored, and his son and Wil-
liam J. Dalsem aided him in
working out such combinations of
gearing as produced the minute
fractional relative revolutions of
the planets. After three years
patient labor, the first fine instru-
ment was completed, and sold in
1849 to Girard Oollege, Phila-
delphia. Other instruments were
built during the next ten years,
and after the exhibition of one at
the World *s Fair in New York, in
1851, sold for $2,000 each; two of
the larger size to Congress for the
Military Academy at West Point,
N. T., and the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Md., and one to the
city of New Orleans — ^besides a
number of smaller ones to colleges
and public institutions. Thus has
Kentucky the honor of presenting
to the scientific world the only per-
fect instrument to show the mo-
tions of the solar system — the
dates of all eclipses, of the tran-
sits of Mercury and Venus, and
every other suggested problem
during hundreds of years, that sci-
entific men were curious to test it.
It is one of the most exact and

wonderful combinations of ma-
chinery ever made.

In 1840, Mr. Barlow had invent-
ed a rifled cannon, and made a
model, but laid it aside. In 1855,
encouraged by the liberality of
Congress;, in buying two of his
planetariums, he obtained for his
gun a patent, with the most com-
prehensive claims. Congress ap-
propriated $3,000 for an experi-
mental gun — ^which was cast at
Knapp and Totten's great foundry
in Pittsburg, and taken to Lexing-
ton to be rifled and completed by
the father and son. It weighed
finished 6,900 pounds, was five and
a half inches bore, and twisted one
turn in forty feet. It then was sent
to Washington navy yard to be
tested, and developed greater ac-
curacy and range than was expect-
ed. Although neglected for awhile
by our own government, it atti act-
ed the attention of foreign minis-
ters and agents, and is believed to
have originated or suggested most
of the rifled guns of Europe ami
the United States.

Previous to this Mr. Barlow in-
vented an automatic nail and tack
machine, which capitalists eagerly
purchased. About 1861, a stroke
of paralysis, from which he re-
covered but partially, cut short
Mr. Barlow's usefulness as an in-
ventor. His son Milton, on return-
ing from the Confederate army in
1865, gathered up the fragments
of $9,000 worth of planetariums
built for educational institutions
in the South — ^which could not
reach them on account of the Civil
War, and which were broken to

pieces or scattered by the malicious
and destructive spirit of some
Federal soldiers — ^and finished two
in elegant style. One of these, by
the liberality of the Kentucky Leg-
islature, he was enabled to exhibit
at the World's Exposition in
Paris, France, in 1867 — as Ken-
tucky's contribution to that grand
collection of the products of all
civilized nations. It received the
highest premium awarded to any
illustrative apparatus. (Collins'
History of Kentucky, Volume
Second.)

LONG AGO

In the Pioneer Days When the
First Churches Formed in
Kentucky, and Harrodsburg
Figures Largely in Their Or-
ganization— A Choice Bit of
History.

(Harrodsburg Republican.)

An article on the oldest churches
in Kentucky, published last week
by A. C. Quisenberry, the histo-
rian, contains some things very in-
teresting to Harrodsburg people.
He says that the first organized
church in the State was of the Bap-
tist denomination. It was formed
by a colony from Orange county,
Virginia, who started out to settle
at Boonesboro, taking their * bet-
ters'' from Pamunky Baptist
church. Meeting up with Eev.
Robert Elkin, a Baptist preacher,
just beyond what is now the bor-
der of the State, they formed

themselves into a church, making
him their minister, and marched
forward into the new country car-
rying their church constitution
with them, and built Old Provi-
dence church in Clark county. This
was in 1781, but there had of
course, been divine services held in
the State before, though no denom-
inational congregation had been
formed. 'Squire Boone, a brother
of Daniel Boone, was a Baptist
minister, and as early as 1776 Kev.
Thomas Tinsley was preaching
regularly at Harrodsburg.

This historian says that as far
back as he can verify the first
Presbyterian church was organ-
ized in 1783 by Rev. David Rice,
affectionately called * ^Father
Rice," at Danville. The same
year he established two other
Presbyterian churches, one at Cane
Run in Mercer county, and the
other at the Forks of Dix river.
He preached longest at Cane Run,
and is buried in the graveyard
adjacent to the church.

The first Catholic church was or-
ganized in Nelson county in 1787
by Bishop Whalen, sent out by the
Bishop of Baltimore for that pur-
pose. In 1783 the first Methodist
*' class" was organized in a neigh-
borhood about six miles from
where Danville now stands, but
the first regular church was not es-
tablished until 1790 at Masterson's
Station, in Fayette count}''.

This historian states that the
two branches of the Christian
church . developed in Kentucky
after 1804. The ^ ^ Newlights, "
followers of Barton W. Stone,

erected their first church during
that year at Cane Bidge, in Bour-
bon county. In 1825 the ''Carnp-
bellite'* branch, or the adherents
of Bev. Alexander Campbell, es-
tablished a church at South Elk-
horn, and the two branches united
into one body at a meeting in Lex-
ington on January 1, 1832.

The first regularly organized .
Episcopal church was what is now
Christ Cathedral, in Lexington
and it was formed in 1809 with

•

Bev. James Moore as the first rec-
tor. However, as early as May,
1775, there is a record that Bev.
Mr. Lythe, an Episcopal minister,
was a delegate from Harrodsburg
to a legislative assembly, opened
at Boonesboro on that date, and he
preached to the people here. Bev.
Mr. Lythe is generally conceded
by historians to be the first min-
ister who ever held divine service
in Kentucky, as he preached ** un-
der a magnificent elm tree at the
settlement at Harrod's Fort.'* In
the records of the Boonesboro as-
sembly is still to be seen this state-
ment: "Bev. Mr. Lythe, one of the
delegates from Harrodsburg, ob-
tained leave to bring a bill to pre-
vent profane swearing and Sab-
bath breaking.^'

It is also an interesting fact that
the sect known as **Soul Sleepers '*
sprang up in Mercer and Boyle
counties in 1782 under the minis-
tration of Bev. Wm. Terhune. The
principal articles of their faith was
that the soul sleeps with the body
after death xmtil the resurrection;
that Q-od is material; that Jesus
was the first created being and
that baptism is essential to salva-

tion. The Soul Sleepers built a
church several miles from Har-
rodsburg, not far from Nevada,
which stood for many years after
the sect had died out, and was only
torn down a few years ago.

ZACHABIAH FBEDEBICK

SMITH

Author; 6. Henry Co., Ky., Jan.
7, 1827; s. Zachariah and Mildred
(Dupuy) S.; ed. Bacon Coll., Ky.;
m. Sue Helm, of Shelby Co., Ky.,
Jan. 27, 1852; 2d, Anna A. Pitt-
man, of- Louisville, June 5, 1890.
Engaged in farming; pres. Henry
Coll., New Castle, Ky., during
Civil War; Sup. Pub. Instm. of
Ky., 1867-1871, and author of post-
bellum sch. system of Ky. ; origi-
nator, and pres. Cumberland and
Ohio B. B. Co., 1869-73; engaged
in ry. constrn. in Tex. ; 4 yrs. mgr.
of a dept. for D. Appleton & Co.,
pubs.. New York; one of founders
and 12 yrs. pres. Ky. Christian
Edn. Soc. ; a curator of Ky. (now
Transylvania) U., Lexington, since
1858. Mem. Ky. Hist. Soc, Ohio
Valley Hist. Soc. Ciuh: Filson.
Author: History of Kentucky;
Memoirs of the Mother of Henry
Clay; School History of Kentucky,
1889 ; Battle of New Orleans ; His-
tory of the Eeformation of the 19th
Century, Inaugurated, Advocated,
and Directed by Barton W. Stone,
of Kentucky, 1800 to 1832. Ad-
dress: 127 W. Btoadway, Louis-
ville, Ky.

Ttis biographical sketch above
appears in a book called, **Who'3
Who,'^ in Chicago.

COMPUMENT OF EDWARD W. BOK, TO THE SOUTR

For the Christian Observer.

*'THE HEART OF AMERICA. ''

By Rev. W. W. Moobe, D. D., LL.D.

The following delightful tribute
to the South and the Southern
people by Mr. Edward W. Bok, the
distinguished editor of the
** Ladies' Home Journal, '* appear-
ed sometime ago, but it is worthy
of reproduction from time to time:

**The most wholesome American
ideas, those ideas upon which our
government rests, are nowhere so
prevalent as they are at present in
the South. * * * They do not ques-
tion Divine laws in the South ; they
accept and perpetuate them. In-
tellectual progress there goes hand
in hand with strict adherence to
the accepted beliefs of religion.
The Southern mother does not ex-
plain the Bible to her children in
the light of so-called * modem
teadungs.' She places it in their
hands as her mother gave it to her.
And with the fundamental princi-
ples of religion the Southern child
is taught patriotism and a love of
country; hence religion and pa-
triotism stand side by side in the
education of a Southern child.

**The Southern people believe in
progress, but progress along
healthy, rational lines. Theories,
which mentally upset, find no sym-
pathy with them. They are con-
tent to move slowly, but sanely and
surely. And some day when the

vast majority of us who live in
other portions of this country get
through with our camping-out civ-
ilization, when we drop our boast-
ful manners, when we get old
enough to understand that there is
a stronghold of conservatism
which stands between tyranny and
anarchism, our eyes will turn to-
wards the South. And we will see
there a people who are American
in ideas and in living; a people
worshipful, progressive, earnest,
courageous and patriotic — a people
who have made of their land,
against defeat and prejudice, Hhe
heart of America.' ''
Richmond, Va.

CONFEDERATES WHO SLEEP
AT ARLINGTON.

HiSTOBY OF THE CaBB OP ThEIB

Gbavbs — Removal op Soubcb op
Sectional Bittebness — ^Pbesi-*

DENT McKiNIJBY's AiD.

(From a Rlchmoihl, Va. Bzchanffe.)

Arlington, once the home of
Robert E. Lee, nqw a national mil-
itary cemetery, years ago became
a shrine for the people of the
North, owing to the nearly 16,000
Union soldiers buried there; and
likewise in late years of the people
of the South in love and honor of
General Lee, and the Confederate
soldiers having graves in the Con-
federate section. The Lee mansion

has become an imposing memorial,
the grandest in that vast field of
monuments. And the most not-
able and beautiful site of graves in
the entire area of 400 acres is the
Confederate section.

The Southern visitor to Arling-
ton at once seeks the mansion, and
as he reverently treads its stately-
halls and apartments, and stands
within the eight pillars of its
Doric porch, his thoughts naturally
turn to reflection upon the purity
of life and character and the won-
derful military genius and career
of General Lee.

Arlington was the home with
which he was most closely identi-
fied, and his name can no more be
diisassociated from it than can be
George Washington's from Mount
Vernon. His name and fame will
cling to it as long as there is a tree
or a sAone left to mark the historic
spot. The extensive grove of
druidical oaks surrounding the
mansion, the multitude of monu-
ments and white headstones rest-
ing under the wide-spreading
branches; tl^e historic Potomac
flowing at its base, broadening out
for many miles in fair view; the
beautiful city of Washington, with
the Washin^on Monument, the
Capitol, the White House and other
public buildings, and the parks, all
in majestic panorama, make the
outlook from the Lee mansion su-
premely impressive and beautiful.

From the city of Washington,
on the farther side of the Potomac
river, Arlington appears as an
elevated plateau immersed in
trees of mature growth; from the
summit of the approach gleams

the exceedingly simple classic fac-
ade of the renowned mansion, re-
minding one of a Greek temple.
A pantheon at which Americans
assemble with patriotic pride and
reverence to heroes from all sec-
tions of the country.

These familiar facts are recited
here to emphasize the notable
change in sentiment that has come
in respect to Arlington since the
year 1868, when Federal soldiers
with fixed bayonets tore from the
graves of the Confederate soldiers
the wreaths of flowers which had
been laid upon them by their rela-
tives and friends, and compelled
those patriotic men and women to
leave the burial grounds at point of
bayonet.

It is the story of this change and
the manner in which it was brought
about that I wish to make better
known to your readers.

Soon after Colonel Bobert E.
Lee left his home in April, 1861, to
espouse the cause of his native
State, the Federal authorities took
possession of these admirably sit-
uated broad lands for military
uses, and so held them until Jan-
uary, 1864, when they were caused
to be sold for ijon-payment of war
taxes, the Federal government be-
coming the purchaser at a nominal
valuation. After the death of his:
mother, in 1873, George W. Custis;
Lee brought a suit in ejectment
and successfully contested the le-
gality of the title of the Federal
government under the tax sale.
But on these lands had been estab-
lished a military cemetery in 1864,
a graveyard for soldiers of the
Federal army, together with negro

Aegltier of the Kentucky State Hielorlcal Society.

contrabands, refugees and Con-
federate soldiers who had died in
hospital and prison in the District
of Columbia, designated as rebels.
In time this graveyard became a
sort of Walhalla for Union sol-
diers, and for a long period a large
number of the people of the North
seemed to find some grim satisfac-
tion in the fact that the old home
of the Lee family had been per-
verted forever to such purposes.
On the other side, the Southern
people felt that great outrage was
being done. They had borne with-
out murmur the hardships of war,
but thought it more than unseem-
ly that the government should mis-
use in this way the home of the
Lee family.

Under these irremediable cir-
cumstances General Custis Lee was
prevailed upon to consent to a
forced sale to the United States
government. Accordingly, the
United States Congress in 1883 ap-
propriated the sum of $150,000 for
the purpose, and General Lee, per-
force, made conveyance of these
broad landsi, most eligibly located,
of more than 1,100 acres, thus be-
ing ruthlessly wronged of his
rightful inheritance.

The Southern people will ever
hold that the Lee family have been
despoiled by the Federal govern-
ment, but they have come to rec-
ognize the fact that this action of
a past generation of the Federal
government is a deed accomplish-
ed, and beyond recall, repair or
remedy. Since the scattered re-
mains of Confederate soldiers have
been brought together in an appro-
priate plot and the graves suit-

ably marked, many Southern peo-
ple visiting Washington, journey
to the Confederate section to honor
the memory of those valiant sol-
diers; and once each year, thou-
sands go there to strew flowers
over those beloved dead ; and after
performing that sacred duty, flow-
ers are placed at the base of the
monument erected to the unknown
Union dead. How and by whom
was this great change in sentiment
brought about? Certainly gener-
ous-minded and patriotic men on
both sides must have joined in the
accomplishment of a result so
praiseworthy.

Twelve years ago. Dr. Samuel E.
Lewis, a generous and sympathetic
Confederate soldier veteran, and
and some of his comrades of
Washington, District of Columbia,
began an investigation to ascertain
the number and condition of the
graves of Confederate soldiers in
Arlington and in the District of
Columbia. At this time, it was the
general belief of the Southern peo-
ple that not exceeding a half
dozen Confederate dead were left
in Arlington, two hundred and
forty-one bodies having been re-
moved to the States of Virginia,
North Qarolina and South Caro-
lina in the early seventies. Dr.
Lewis and his associates pursued
their search among the seventeen
thousand graves in the cemetery
and, after considerable labor and
difficulty, finally located one hun-
dred and thirty-six graves of Con-
federate soldiers interspersed with
those of Union soldiers, negro con-
trabands, refugees and other civ-
ilians. There was nothing on the

plain headstone-slabs to indicate
that they were graves of Confed-
erate soldiers, or soldiers at all,
nor to distinguish them from negro
contrabands, nor did the registry
qf the dead in Arlington, which
was kept by the superintendent,
furnish any data concerning
them, except their names and that
they were Confederate soldiers.
The existence of many of these
graves was unknown to the super-
intendent of the cemetery, although
he had been in charge of the
grounds for seven years.

When this thorough and exhaust-
ive investigation was completed at
Arlington, the same gentlemen
proceeded to locate all the graves
of Confederate soldiers in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and found an
additional number of 128, which
were finally brought to Arlington,
making the total number recovered
264, and then the military record
of each of the dead soldiers was,
as far as possible, looked up and
made a matter of public record.
Dr. Lewis and his comrades had
been engaged in this work four or
five months when President Mc-
Kinley made his speech of Decem-
ber 14, 1898, at Atlanta, Ga., in
which he said that the time had
come for the people of the whole
country to share in the care of the
graves of Confederate soldiers.
Shortly after this time the Broad-
way Bouss Camp of Confederate
Veterans was organized by Dr.
Lewis and others for the purpose
of carrying on this work, and a
committee of the camp at once
petitioned President McKinley to
have a suitable plot of ground in

Arlington set apart where all of
the Confederate dead in that
cemetery and in other cemeteries
in the District of Columbia might
be collected and their graves
marked by appropriate head-
stones. This petition was most
kindly received by Mr. McKinley,
resulting in a site being selected
and platted, but there being no
law under which the bodies could
be removed and no appropriation
to pay the expense of such remov-
al, an appeal was made to Con-
gress for the necessary legislation.
Senator Hawley, of Connecti-
cut, a brave and fair-minded ex-
Union general, was at this time
Chairman of the Committee on
Military Affairs of the Senate,
and when he learned through his
friend. General Marcus J. Wright,
the condition of these graves, he
readily agreed to give the matter
prompt attention. A statement
of the facts, in writing, and an es-
timate of the probable cost were
furnished the proper Committees
of the Senate and House of Eepre-
sentatives, by Dr. Lewis and Gen-
eral Wright. At the request of
Senator Hawley, Dr. Lewis, and
General Wright, prepared a suit-
able bill providing for remedial
measures to be laid before Con-
gress. This bill was introduced
and passed both Houses and
became a law. It authorized
the Secretary of War to have re-
buried in some suitable spot in
Arlington Cemetery and the graves
marked with proper headstones*,
the bodies of the Confederate sol-
diers in Arlington and in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and appropri-

ated a sufficient sum of money to
cover the necessary expenses.

The bodies were all carefully
disinterred and reburied in the
presence of a committee of the
Broadway Bousa Qamp, of which
Dr. Lewis is the commander, and
each grave was properly marked
with a white marble headstone of
distinctive shape to distinguish
Confederate graves from those of
negro-contrabands and others, in-
scribed on it the name of the sol-
dier, his company, regiment and
State, and the letters *'C. S. A.,''
signifying Confederate States
Army. The ground in the Confed-
erate section was laid off and beau-
tifully improved by grading, con-
structing driveways and planting
of trees and by raising of a mound
in the centre of the section. All of
this work was done in the kindest
and most considerate manner by or
under the direction of the officials
of the War Department, and under
the observation of a committee of
the Broadway B!ouss Camp.

Each year, on the Sunday fol-
lowing the birthday anniversary of
Jefferson Davis, appropriate and
impressive ceremonies are con-
ducted in the Confederate section.
Orations are delivered by promi-
nent speakers!, Southern airs are
sung by selected choirs, and instru-
mental music is rendered by a mil-
itary band, acting under orders of
the Secretary of War. When these
ceremonies are concluded a South-
em cross is formed of young
women on the ground; then they
and others proceed to decorate all
of the gravea Large crowds of
Southern people participate in

these services, and in these assem-
blies may always be seen many in-
terested and sympathetic men who
were Union soldiers.

Following the reburial of the
Confederate dead in Arlington,
Dr. Lewis undertook an investiga-
tion of the locations and conditions
of the 30,000 Confederate graves
in the Northern States, and caused
to be introduced a bill in Congress
for an appropriation for remedial
measures regarding the same. The
appropriation was made in 1906,
and that great work is now in pro-
cess of accomplishment.

Thus has been removed a great
source of sectional bitterness ex-
isting since the downfall of the
Confederate government.

MONUMENT NEAE LOUIS-
VILLE TO VICTIMS IN
FLOYD'S DEFEAT

(LouiayiUe Courier-Journal.)

In the yard of the Silas Duncan
residence! at Eastwood, near Louis-
ville, ia the monument erected by
the State to conunemorate the
death of fourteen of the pioneers
who fell in Floyd's defeat and are
buried in a nearby ravine. The
monument gives date of 1783, but
authenticity times the disaster as
September, 1781.

Some twenty-five or thirty men,
commanded by Col. John Floyd,
were en route to bury the dead and
avenge the Long Bun massacre,
which had occurred the previous
day. Maj. Bland Ballard, who was
of the party, and who had com-

manded during the massacre of
the previous day, advised the pre-
cautionary measure of sending out
scouts to locate the enemy. His ad-
vice was disregarded, however,
and before reaching Long Run,
sixteen of their number fell at the
first fire of the Indians, who were
ambushed in the ravine.

The late Dr. Robert W. Pearce,
of Louisville, stated to the writer
that **near the sink where were
buried the fourteen pioneers, a
tree was standing marked by four-
teen tomahawk chops." He was at
one time owner of the land where-
on the fight occurred.

An incident connected with the
tragic event was the reconciliation
of Col. Floyd and Samuel Wells, a
boy of fourteen years.

For some time previous to the
defeat there had existed most
strained relations between Col.
Floyd and Wells. When the Long
Run expedition was forming,
Floyd ordered Wells to join the
party.

**I have no horse," replied the
boy.

**Then take one," conmianded
the officer and was doubtless sur-
prised that the youth promptly
obeyed by seizing the bridle of the
horse on which Col. Floyd was
mounted. What immediately fol-
lowed is not recorded, but Isaac
Boone, an eyewitness, related the
following incident bearing on it:

** During the retreat, Col. Floyd,
a large, fleahy man, was afoot and
almost exhausted. Wells discover-
ing hia condition, dismounted,
urged and assisted him to mount
the horse and walked beside him

until they reached a place of
safety.

** Colonel, that brought you to
your milk," remarked Boone.

**He is a noble boy and has
saved my life," was Floyd's re-
sponse.

Subsequently, Samuel Wells was
awarded the military promotion.

The Long Run Massacbe.

At Lynn Station two prospective
bridal parties awaited the coming
of a minister, and Maj. Bland Bal-
lard, with another, had started to
Brashear Station to secure the
services of the Baptist divine, John
Whitaker.

On the way, Ballard, discovering
the trail of a large body of Indians
evidently destined for Boone Sta-
tion, immediately returned to
Lynns, sent a messenger to Bear-
grass Station and hastened to
warn the settlers at Boones —
** Painted Stone."

A council was held and for some
onknown reason 'Squire Boone,
his family, including Enoch, the
first male child bom in the Ken-
tucky wilds, and a few other fam-
ilies, decided to delay until the
second day their departure for the
more secure Lynn Station.

Those who refused to remain
had reached the bed of the stream.
Long Run, when they were attack-
ed, front and rear, by a large body
of Indians.

Maj. Bbllard rushed to the sev-
eral points of attack, to and fro,
bravely aiding in the defense of the
women and children, but all in
vain; many were massacred, of

whom were the Misses Hans-
borough and 'Squire Boone's sis-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Van Cleave, whose
severed hand was later recognized
by the rings upon it.

The fighting was close and des-
perate throughout.

Maj. Ballard had just placed a
Mrs. Cline upon a horse and siruck
the animal a blow with his riding
switch when an Indian snatched
a sack from the animal's back.
Ballard killed the savage and
rushed to the rescue of others.

Much plunder and some captives
were taken by the savages; of
those massacred — about 100— was
a McCarty, brother of Mrs. Rich-
ard Chenoweth.

Some ten days later 'Squire
Boone and party safely arrived at
Lynns, where he remained some
months. At the close of the year
he returned to his station, which
was attacked in 1782 by Simon
Girty and Indians. In 1783 he
transferred the command to Col.
Lynch, after which this station, on
Clear creek, near present Shelby-
ville, was known as Lynch Station
— formerly Boone's Station or
Painted Stone.

Lou Catherine Clobe.

PEICELESS GIFTS TO HIS-
TORICAL SOOIETT.

Abticles Sent By A. C.

BEBRY AND AdDED TO
TIONS.

QUISEN-

Collec-

(From FranMort N'ewfi- Journal.)

The State Historical Society has
received the following valuable

gifts from A. C. Quisenberry, of
Hyattsville, Md., and they have
been placed in the priceless collec-
tions of antiquities in the His-'
torical Society rooms at the State
House.

An antique silver watch, with
description attached. It is 181
years old, having been made by
John Harrison the great London
watchmaker in 1730.

Copies of two petitions of Ken-
tucky to the Continental Congress
in 1780 and 1783. These contain
the names of many of the early
pioneers not found on any other
list and are invaluable records for
the society.

A letter from the Navy Depart-
ment relative to the Kentuckians
who fought on Perry's ship in bat-
tle of Lake Erie.

Mr. Quisenberry is considered a
most valuable member of the His-
torical Society. He is a patriotic
Kentuckian whose pen is ever
ready to defend his State and
polish brighter her escutcheon
with the half-forgotten names and
deeds that gave her world-wide
fame.

RARE RELIC IS SECURED.

Fob State Histobical Society —
The Famous Mobgan Habpsi-

CHOBD.

(From Fraoikfort IN'BWB-Jaumal.)

In response to enquiry about the
celebrated harpsichord, Mrs. Mor-
ton, the Regent of the Kentucky
State Historical Society, writes
the following:

**The harpsichord is now in the
*Hall of Fame,' where it will re-
main on exhibition until after the
meeting of the Historical Society
on the 3rd of October. After that
day it will be removed to the Read-
ing Boom to take its place beside
the time-honored spinnet, violin,
guitar and splendid new piano.

**This harpsichord is one of the
exclusive five harpsichords made
for this country — longer ago than
the historian can date — ^but in
1830 it was brought to Lexington,
Ky., the property of the Morgans.
It had been in that family until
Mrs. General Basil Duke (who was
Miss Morgan, of Lexington) died
some years ago, when she be-
queathed it to the Albert Sydney
Johnson Chapter of the U. D. C,
Louisville, of which chapter she
was a member. From its efficient
President, Mrs. Andrew Sea, it
was purchased for the Kentucky
State Historical Society. It is a
magnificent relic, and represents
the musical culture of the elegant,
wealthy people of that day in Lex-
ington.

''This harpsichord was loaned
by Mrs. Duke to the Kentucky
Building at the Chicago World's
Fair, and attracted the wonder and
admiration of the thousands who
visited the Kentucky Parlor. It is
hoped it can lend the old-time
sweetness of its musical strings as
soon as it can receive the attention
of a harp tuner, but it is 'a thing
of beauty' and a treasure as a
relic, for it once, like

"The harp that once thro* Tara's halls
The soul of music shed."

*'The harp is of great antiquity.
Only three kinds are known in
history— David 's harp, the Assy-
rian harp, and the harpsichord.
This last style of harp suggested
the piano to a German musician,
now about two hundred years ago.
Since itsi introduction, the harpsi-
chord (more difficult and expensive
than th^ piano) has passed to rich
collectors of rare musical instru-
ments as valuable antiques.

**We think the State Historical
Society is to be congratulated
upon the possession of one of the
rarest musical instruments known
and especially as it adorned once
an old Kentucky home, now dis-
tinguished in history as the * Mor-
gan home in Lexington.' ''

SONG DREW HIM

*'My Old Kentucky Home''
Brought a Filipino Boy to This
State.

Because hearing the song, "My
Old Kentucky Home," made him
think Kentucky would be a good
place to live. Primitive Deleon, of
Ylog, Occ Neg., Philippine Islands,
came to this State, and registered
as a student at Kentucky State
University. He will take a course
in agriculture, and make a special
study of the culture and cure of
tobacco, and when lie has gradu-
ated he expects to return to the
Philippines and engage in the to-
bacco industry. He is nineteen
years old, and for three years has
been a student at the University of
California. — Ex.

(Register of the Kentucky 8tate Historical Society.

STICK TO IT,

John Wanamaker, the big
Philadelphia merchant, says: ** Ad-
vertising is not an enterprise for
a quitter. If there is one enter-
prise on earth a quitter should
leave alone it is advertising. To
make a success of advertising one
must be prepared to stick like a
barnacle to a boat's bottom. He
should know before he begins that
he must spend money, lots of it.
Somebody must tell him that he
can not hope to obtain results com-
mensurate with his expenditures
early in the game. Advertising
doesn't jerk; it pulls. It begins
very gently at first, but the pull is
steady. It increases day by day
and year by year until it exerts an
irresistible power. ' ' — Ex.

FIEST AMERICAN NEWS-
PAPER.

The first newspaper published
in America was issued in Boston
on September 25, 1690. It was
* Sprinted by R. Pierce for Benja-
min Harris. ' * In the first issue the
publisher promised that the paper
*' shall be furnished once a moneth
(or if a Glut or Occurrences hap-
pen, oftener) with an account of
such considerable things as have
occurred unto our notice ; to give a
faithful relation of all such things,
and to enlighten the public as to
the occurrents of Divine Provi-
dence. ' ' It gave a summary of the
important news of the time and
was quite readable if not exactly
spicy. To usi it would appear a

very harmless sheet; but the au-
thorities of that day were very
rigid in their censorship of the
press, and after a few issues Mr.
Harris' paper was suppressed be-
cause *'it came out contrary to
law, and contained reflections of a
very high nature. '* — (Ex.)

INTERESTING ISSUE OF HIS-
TORICAL REGISTER.

The Register of the Kentucky
State Historical Society for Sep-
tember is just out, and its table of
contents insures to the reader an
unusual amount of fine reading.
Judge Samuel M. Wilson and A.
C. Quisenberry each contributes
an interesting article upon Ken-
tucky's part in the War of 1812,
with special reference to ** Perry's
Victory.'' These articles are of
unusual interest just now, in view
of the coming ** Perry's Victory
Centennial," to be held at Put-In-
Bay. Mr. Quisenberry 's article
embraces the first completed list
ever published of the Kentuckians
who participated in that famous
naval battle. This list of names
adds much value to the splendid
article.

The picture and biographical
sketch of the late Hon. Z. F. Smith
occupy the first page; there is
also an interesting article from the
pen of Dr. Thos. Pickett, of Mays-
ville, and the second installment
of the Randolph-Railey Genealogy,
with a picture of the author, Wm.
E. Railey, also, the Morton Gene-
alogy, by Miss Morton, of Bir-
mingham, Alabama; there is also

a picture from **The Lady of the
QuilP' of the Regent of the State
Historical Society, Mrs. Jennie C.
Morton, with an account of the in-
teresting proceedings in connec-
tion with the conferring of this
title.— ( Frankfort News- Journal. )

WAS EQUAL TO THE OCCA-
SION.

A PEDANT AT DEATH.

The elder Southern, the creator
of the Lord Dundreary fame, was
extremely sensitive to interrup-
tions of any sort. Seeing a man in
the act of leaving his box during
the delivery of one of the actor's
best speeches he shouted out : * * Hi,
you sir, do you know there is an-
other actf The offender was
equal to the occasion, however; he
turned to the actor and answered
cheerfully: **0h, yes; that's why
I'm going!" — ^In Lighter Vein.

MAN'S MANY WANTS.

How many ways there are in
which our peace may be assailed,
besides actual want I How many
comforts do we stand in need of,
besidesi meat and drink and cloth-
ing! Is it nothing to ** administer
to a mind diseased" — to heal a
wounded spirit? After all other
diflSculties are removed, we still
want some one to bear our infirm-
ities, to impart our confidence to,
to encourage us in our hobbies
(nay, to get up and ride behind
us,) and to like us with all our
faults.— Hazlitt.

Malherbe, the French poet, on
account of a delicate ear and refined
taste, and a habit of criticising
everything that he saw or heard,
was called *Hhe tyrant of words
and syllables." When dying, his
confessor, in speaking of the hap-
piness of heaven, expressed him-
self inaccurately. **Say no more
about it," said Malherbe, ** or your
style will disgust me with it." —
A. P. Eussell, Characteristics.

MUST KNOW HOW TO COOK.

CHRISTIANA, Sept. 14.— A bill
before the Norwegian Parliament
providing that no marriage shall be
performed unless the prospective
bride haa previously obtained a cer-
tificate attesting a satisfactory
knowledge of cooking, laundry and
dressmaking.

What two women can do is shown
by the present splendid condition of
Kentucky State Historical Society
and its collection of relics of inter-
est to the people of the State. Mrs.
Jennie C. Morton and Miss Sally
Jackson practically have done all
this by themselves. It is a great
work that they are doing for future
generations of Kentuckians and
their names will go down to fame as
a part of the present history of the
State.— Ex.

RegMer of the Kentucky State HMorical Society.

markable company of cavalry. In
the procession were many Confed-
erates of other commands, also a
number of Federal oflScers; and
soldiers — ^with bands playing stir-
ring martial music — as they march-
ed down Main street to the Court-
House.

The Daughters representing the
delegates from the different chap-
ters of the U. D. 0. came in ele-
gant automobiles, provided by the
citizensi — each one bearing a flag
with the nature of her chapter.
It was a magnificent pageant in
honor of the immortal **John Mor-
gan and His Men."

The unveiling took place after
the oration of E. Carlton Lee,
which was one of the finest efforts
of this orator. The cords were
drawn with graceful ease by Miss
Frances Breckenridge Steele, a
granddaughter of General John C.
Breckenridge — and two little girls,
one a granddaughter of General
Bazil Duke — ^the intrepid staff
officer of John Morgan, and the
other a granddaughter of General
John B. Castleman.

When the veils were drawn
aside, and the statue, bathed in the
glory of the evening sun, stood be-
fore the rapt spectators such a
shout of enthusiastic applause
rent the air, as was never heard in
the old city — since the days when
'*John Morgan and His Men"
dashed in thrilling triumph
through its streets, unheralded

and unexpected as streaks of light-
ning from a clear sky.

The monumentp the hero's name.
Is now the legacy of fame.

W. W. LONGMOOR WILL REP-
RESENT KENTUCKY.

At Celebration op Centennial of
River Navigation on the Ohio.

(From FraiLkfort New«-Journal.)

The fifth annual meeting of the
Ohio Valley Historical Association
will be held at Pittsburg, October
30 to November 1, inclusive, to
celebrate jointly with The Histor-
ical Society of Western Pennsyl-
vania and the City of Pittsburg,
the centennial of the launching and
sailing of the '^New Orleans,*'
October 20, 1811. This was the
first stteamboat on Western w^aters,
and its advent was the wonder and
admiration of that time, opening
up as it did great possibilities for
transportation and shipping
throughout the vast territory of
the Ohio and Mississippi.

[W. W. LonCTioor, of Frankfort,
Ky., isi Vice-President and also
Curator of the Kentuckv State
Historical Society and is sent by
the society to represent Kentucky
at this unique celebration. He is
Vice-President of the Ohio Valley
Historical Societv also — and is on
a committee of five who have had
charge of the program for this
occasion. The program includes
many interesting papers on steam-
boats.— Ed. The Register.]

Department of
Inquiries and Answers

DEPARTMENT OF INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS

Question Editob of the Registeb:

Why do you not write editorials
about the newspapers of the day?
It seems to me if I had your ability
and your courage, to say and write
as you think and please to, about
other things, I would touch them
up on their stunts, and scandalous
items. ''B.''

Answer. — It is not the province
of the Begister to reprove the
newspapers for their lawlessness,
their license and their liberties,
with what the Scripture tells
''should not so much as be men-
tioned among you.^' They are the
local collectors of the news and in-
spectors of the people and the
events of the day. It seems to us
the best way to remedy the condi-
tions you speak of is to improve
the people, and thus change the
events. When i^ physician is called
to heal one who is ill he inquires
into the conditions that led to the
illness. He removes these and the
patient is speedily restored to
health. So it is with our people
and onr country. The newspapers
point out the oonditions of evil.

The evils must be abolished by the
physic of enforced laws. Then we
will have refined and healthy news-
papers. We deplore as yon do the

want of refinement in much of the
literature of the day. We do not
buy books for our library, where
the sentiment of the book is not for
Christian refinement in act and
conversation. We are trying to
teach the heathen, and yet it is
said the heathen laughs at the idea
of our religion, that permits such
books and newspapers to be pub-
lished, and such crimes and immor-
alities to be committed. They do
not permit commercial activities to
interfere, or control social refine-
ment and literature. So they say
to the missionary: ''Your peo-
ple must reform their morality to
conform to their religion.'* They
are critics of our Christianity and
^ur civil gcTvemmeni It is with
the Christian people to reform the
newspapers and literature of the
day. If they were not bought they
could not long be published. And
if crime and scandal and immoral-
ity were punished severely it would
cease.

The sprinkling of the streets
and rock roadways of Kentucky
with oil has proved a sucessftd
treatment to avoid dust The high-
ways and thoroughfares of the
cities become intolerable from dust

Rsfllatar of tht K«ntucky State Hlatarlcal Society.

in the summer notwithstanding
they were watered heavily morning
and evening by hose. The oil has
solved the problem. Good roads
are everywhere, and many of them
are sprinkled copiously with oil —
which renders the drives in car-
riage and automobiles now delight-
ful—without the stain of dust, or
its suffocation in summer.

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found they have not renewed their
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Newspapers, Magazines, Books and Pamphlets

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NEWSPAPERS.

The Frankfort News-Journal.

Louisville Times.

Harrodsbnrg Republican.

Maysville Bulletin.

The World.

The Woodford Sun.

The Farmers* Home Journal.

The Kansas City Times.

The Lexington Herald.

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MAGAZINES.

The World's Work, New York.

Report of Library of Congress.

The Watchman, Sample Copy,
Nashville, Tenn.

The Ohio State Archaeological
and Historical Society, Columbus,
Ohio.

Wisconsin Women in the War,
by Ethel Alice Hum; Wisconsin
Historical Society; The Chatta-
nooga Campaign, by Fitch, Madi-
son, Wis.

Ohio Archaeological and Histor-
ical Quarterly.

The Appalachian Exposition
(Pamphlet), Knoxville, Tenn.

Bulletin of the New York Li-
brary, 476 Plfth Avenue, New
York.

Scribner's Magazine, The Cen-
tury.

The American Magazine.

America, &c., Karl W. Hierse-
mann.

Sherwood's Books — ^Leipsic Ger-
many, New York City, Maiden
Lane.

Annual Report of the American
Historical Association, 1908, two
volumes.

Annual Report of the Smith-
sonian, Washington, D. C.

**The Confederate Veteran,'*
Nashville, Tenn. We like to read
this faithful journal— so true to the
Sooth and true to its lost cause. It
is published monthly— and has in
each issue a list of creditable pub-
lications.

** Historic Letters, West Chester,
Penn." Principal Normal Stal^
School. Thanks for this valuable
souvenir.

Vol. n. Report of the Amer*
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Journal of The Presbyterian
Historical Society, Philadelphia,
Penn.

The History Teacher's Maga-
zine, Philadelphia, Pa.

Splendid Book. The Commis-
sion of Achives. Presented to the
State Historical Society by Sub-
Committee. Rev. Samuel Hart, D.
D., J. Pierpont Morgan,- LL. D.

The Quarterly Journal of the
University of North Dakota.

Publication Volume 2, No. 4, of
the University of California. The
Portola Expedition of 1769-1770.
Diary of Miguel Costanso, Berk-
ley, Cal.

Historia, Magazine of Oklahoma
Historical Society, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.

University of California Bulle-
tin, September 1, 1911. Third
Series, Vol. V, No. 3.

The New England Historic Gene-
alogical Magazine, October 1, 1911.

The Quarterly of Texas State
Historical Society, Austin, Texas.

The Empire, Magazine of the
Royal Colcmial Institute, London,
England.

The October number of the Iowa
Journal of History and Politics.
Much enlarged — full of interesting
information.

Seventeenth Biennial Report of
the State Historical Society of
Kansas.

The Missouri Historical Review.
Edited By F. A. Sampson, Colum-
bia, Mo.

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RAILEY-RANDOLPH HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

CHAPTER m

Thb Randolph-Bailey Gbitbaloqt.

With this issue of the 1912 Reg-
ister, this fine historical and gene^
alogical chapter of two remark-
able families^ is conclnded. De-
scendants! in any part of the United
States, Canada and England^ if
these have not been subscribers to
the Register since last May when
the first chapter was published—
can have copies of the magazine
which was enlarged to supply the
unusual demand for thisi history
and genealogy of one of the famous
families of America. All orders
promptly attended to at the stated
price— 25 cents single copies.— BJd.
Register.

Through the indulgence of the
Editor of the ** Register/' to whom
I am so deeply indebted for numer-
ous favors, 1 want to make a re-
quest of the relatives. I have ear-
nestly endeavored in my long and
patient effort to get my family
record correct in every detail, but
I recognioe the fact that with such
a multitude of notes to run over
for . v^iificatimi it is possible that a
few minor errors may have crept
in. If yon find such to be the ease
I will thank you to advise me of it
that I may correct my manuscript,
As^ I shall preserve it. I will idso
request that you continue the
record of names and dates of mar«

riages, birthsi and deaths as they
occur in your particular lines so
that if at some future period any
relative concludes to publish in a
more elaborate way a history of
these people, the additional data
will be more easily obtained. I
already have my manuscript pre-
pared with that object in view, giv-
ing to each descendant a short
sketch. Many of those sketches
are already written in my manu-
script.

To facilitate the work and re-
lieve me of so much correspondence
I urgently request that each rela-
tive who subscribed for the Regis-
ter make me up a list of all de-
scendants of whom they have any
knowledge telling me what busi-
ness each male is engaged in, his
religious tenets, political affilia-
tions! and other matters of interest.

Do likewise as to the husbands of
female descendants. In this way
I can complete my work in a short
while and have it ready for publi-
cation on short notice should any
of the relatives conclude to publish
it. In this way you could also com«
pensate me for my lon^ and ex-
pensive labor of love in placing be-
fore you your several lines (^ an-
cestry covering a period of more
than two und a hidf centuries. I
hope thai future generations will
not lower the standard of venera-

tion to God and respect for manly
men set by our ancestors.

In conclusion I will say that the
descendants of Thomas Bailey and
Martha Woodson, Isham Bailey
and Susanna Woodson and Wil-
liam Bailey and Judith Woodson
come from Col. John Woodson and
Dorothy Bandolph, while those of
Anna Bailey and Mathew Pleas-
ants and Bandolph Bailey and
Martha Bandolph Pleasants come
from Tarlton Woodson and Ursula
Fleming. Tarlton Woodson was
the uncle of Col. John Woodson.
In order that you may know all
about your Woodson relatives I
will suggest, that you will make no
mistake in subscribing for ^^The
Woodson Family** soon to be pub-
lished by Mr. H. M. Woodson of
Memphis, Tenn. He goes into full
detail about the Woodsons while
I merely bring down the direct line.
He has spent twenty years on the
work and I am sure it will be worth
having. Very truly and aflfection-
ately your kinsman,

Wm. E. Bailey,
September 12, 1911.

ANNA BAILEY

Fifth bom of John Bailey and
Elizabeth Bandolph. Married
Mathew Pleasants. Their descend-
ants!:

John Bailey ^ -Elizabeth Ban-
dolph.

Anna Bailey, * bom September
16, 1759; dii)d 1826.

Married Mathew Pleasants,
February, 1784.

Susanna Pleasants, * bom De-
cember 2, 1785; died 1865.

Caroline Fleming Pleasants, *
bom July 27, 1787; died February
21, 1852.

Married William Mayo, 1808.

Dr. Addison F. Mayo, * bom
December 6, 1809 ; died

Married first Francis St. Clair
September 7, 1831; married second
Susan M. Wilson, June 19, 1840.

Addison F. Mayo, Jr., ^ born
October 18, 1841.

Married Catherine Gertrude
Hands, September 30, 1862.

William Frederick Mayo, * bom
June 1, 1865.

Edward Everitt Mayo, * born
September 24, 1866.

Married Louisie Willoughby,
June 30, 1908.

Francis Gertrude Mayo, ® bom
April 1, 1869.

Married Bufus Edgar Turpin,
January 5, 1889.

Catherine Bandolph Mayo, •
bom July 28, 1871.

Thomas Jefferson Mayo, •
bom February 4, 1874.

Anna Lillian Mayo, ® bom July
4, 1879.

Married William Henry Tharp,
September 4, 1902.

Georgianna Mayo, 4 bom April
11, 1813; died October 16, 1840.

Married Dr. Williani P. Harri-
man, January 12, 1837.

Dr., William P. Harriman, Jr., *
bom May 28, 1838.

Married Elizabeth Bnssell,
April 5, 1866.

William Peyton Harriman, •
bom December 28, 1866; died May
8, 1883.

Bnssell Harriman, * bora March
24, 1868.

Married Josephine Stephens,
1906.

Russell Harriman, Jr., ^ born
January 31, 1907.

Albert C. Harriman, ® born No-
vember 22, 1870.

Married Hortense Adams, April
10, 1900.

Mary Margaret Harriman, ^ ''
born July 3, 1903.

Albert C. Harriman, Jr., ^ born
September 14, 1905.

William Adams Harriman, . ''
born April 6, 1909.

Elizabeth Belle Harriman, ® born
January 20, 1872; died May 18,
1908.

Married William C. Ross, June
1, 1892.

Margaret Ross, ^ born Septem-
ber 7, 1903.

Georgiaxma Harriman, ^ bom
April 30, 1840; died June 27, 1902.

Married J. F. Rodgers, Decem-
ber 31, 1861.

Frank Rodgers, ® bom February
22, 1869.

Married Emma Thro, November
28, 1893.

Etta Rodgers, ® born April 7,
1872.

Married A. J. Fluke, January
26, 1899.

George Fluke, ^ born June 16,
1900.

Vivian Fluke, '' born October
21, 1903.

Frederick E. Mayo, * born Jan-
uary 8, 1816; died.

Married first, Mary Rankin;
second, Mary McDowell.
F. E. Mayo, Jr. «

Peyton Randolph Mayo, * bom
May 9, 1818.

Married, first, Mary James; sec-
ond, Caroline Prentice.

Caroline L. Mayo, * born March
6, 1825 ; died January 7, 1873.

Married Dr. William P. Harri-
man, May, 1849. (Her brother-in-
law.)

John Hulsey Harriman^ '^ born
November 25, 1851.

Married MoUie Briggs, May 19,
1874.

Robert S. Harriman, ® born May
25, 1875.

Married Jennie Stites, June 29,
1904.

Lucile Harriman, ^ born May 31,
1905.

Jennie Harriman, "^ born Decem-
ber 31, 1907.

Joseph Halsey Harriman, ^ born
May 14, 1910.

Leslie M. Harriman, ® born
March 25, 1878.

Married Mabel Chamberlain,
June 11, 1900.

Briggs Harriman, ^ born Sep-
tember 30, 1886.

Married Iva True, March 28,
1910.

Belle Harriman, ° born 1853;
died 1866.

Jennie Harriman, ^ born Febru-
ary 27, 1854.

Married Joseph A. Thompson,
October 19, 1876.

Carolyne Thompson, ® born
January 8, 1879.

Married B. S. Buckridge, Octo-
ber 19, 1901.

Mary Elizabeth Buckridge, ^
born March 4, 1903.

Carolyne Buckridge, "^ born Sep-
tember 19, 1906.

Josephine Thompson, ® born De-
cember 5, 1881.

Reglater of th« Kentucky StaU Historical Society.

Married Edward T. McDavid,
November 9, 1904.

Emma Catherine McDavid, ^
born April 3, 1907.

Gertrude Thompson, ® born De-
cember 6, 1891.

Robert L. Harriman, * born
March 12, 1856.

Married Rosa Stephens, Febru-
ary 13, 1883.

Louise Harriman, ® born June
30, 1884.

Married Wilbur Wallace, March
21, 1906.

Helen Harriman, ® born July 16,
1890.

Regis A. Harriman, ° bom Sep-
tember 18, 1858.

Married Grace McCutchen,
April 24, 1889.

John McCutchen Harriman, •
born February 11, 1890.

Grace Virginia Harriman, ®
born December 19, 1898.

Caroline Mayo Harriman, ^ born
November 22, 1862.

Married John D. McCutchen,
November 8, 1885.

Louise McCutchen, ^ born De-
cember 1, 1886.

Married Griffin Olson, May 15,
1907.

John Olson, '' bom February 5,
1908.

Isabella McCutchen, ® bom July
23, 1893.

John D. McCutchen, Jr., ^ born
August 9, 1898.

George Woodson Pleasants, ^
born July 1, 1789 ; died 1812.

Peyton Randolph Pleasants, ^
born April 19, 1791; died 1817.

Married Ann Catherine Humph-
ries. (No issue.)

Pauline Pleasants, ^ bom July
16, 1793 ; died 1816.

Married Robert Johnston.

Jane Johnston, *

Married, first, William Agin;
second, John T. Lyle.

Pauline Lyle, * died, aged 14
years.

Annot Mary Lyle, ° died, aged
16 years.

John Lyle, * died young.

Robert Lyle, ^ died, aged 12
years.

Benjamine Franklin Pleasant 's,
born November 10, 1795; died
June 2, 1879.

Married Isabella McCalla Adair,
February, 1817.

Pauline Pleasauts, * bom De-
cember 13, 1817; died, June 23,
1829.

Ann Catherine Pleasants, * born
May 2?. 1820; died, September 5,
1880.

Married Rev. Mason Noble, 1836.

Rev. Joseph Franklin Noble, *
born August 25, 1837.

Married Emma M. Prime, June
4, 1862.

Mary Noble, ® born September
22, 1863.

Married Frederick R. Dudley,
June 8, 1892.

Margaret Adair Dudley, ^ born
April 23, 1895.

Isabella Pleasants Noble, ® born
December 22, 1864.

Married Henry McKeag, August
16, 1893.

Catherine McKeag, ^ born July
21, 1894.

Catherine Pauline Noble, ^ born
July 5, 1872; died January 23,

1878.

Henry Prime Noble, * born May
27, 1874.

Married Letitia M. Demarest,
October 12, 1905.

Henry Prime Noble, Jr., "^ born
January 30, 1907.

Bertha Demarest Noble, '' born
January 19, 1909.

Alice Noble, « bom May 24, 1878.

Married Francis M. Ball, No-
i^ember 28, 1906.

Francis M. Ball, Jr., "^ bom
AnfiTost 29, 1907.

Bev. Mason Noble, * bom Sep-
tember 12, 1842.

Married Mary E. Adams, Sep-
tember 12, 1867.

George Adams Noble, ® bom
Jnne 23, 1868.

Eatherine Pleasants Noble, *
1k>to Febmary 2, 1870.

Bose Noble, ® bom September
6, 1872.

Mason Noble, • bom October 16,
1874.

Married Minnie Carter, 1906.

Mary Elizabeth Noble, '' born
Anfzmst 31, 1907.

Mason Noble, Jr., ^ born May
9,1909.

John Adair Noble, ® bom De-
eember 30, 1879.

Carl Noble, • bom December
26, 1881.

Joseph Franklin Noble, ® born
Anirust 20, 1885; died A'ugust 22,
1887.

Bev. George Pleasants Noble, ^
bom January 4, 1844.

Married Elizabeth T. Ketcham,
September 15, 1868.

Dr. Henry T. Noble, • born Jan-
uary 27, 1870.

Married Caroline Leslie Place,
December 30, 1896.

George Pleasants Noble, ^ bom
November 4, 1897.

Rosalind Noble, ^ bom March
17, 1900.

Franklin Pleasants Noble, ^
bom March 25, 1872.

Married Jennie Francis Back-
hoven, June 18, 1898.

Jean Noble, ^ bom April 23,
1899.

Enid Noble, ^ born June 30,
1901.

Elizabeth Noble, '' born April 2,
1906.

Fannie Ketcham Noble, • bom
October 10, 1873.

Charles Noble, ® born January
8, 1877.

Married Grace Charlick, Oc-
tober 22, 1902.

Manly O. Noble, ^ born April 25,
1907.

George Pleasants Noble, ® born

May 29, 1881.

Rev. Charles Noble, ° bom De-
cember 3, 1847.

Married first Alice Thomas,
January 24, 1874, no issue; mar-
ried second Mary S. Carlisle, June
16, 1886.

Judge George W. Pleasants, *
born November 24, 1823, died
October 22, 1902.

Married Sarah Bulkley, Jan-
uarj^ 30, 1850,

Adair Pleasants, ^ born April 8,
1850.

Married Sarah Mary Crawford,
May 2, 1888.

Dorothy Pleasants, ® born
March 18, 1889.

Mathew Pleasantsi, ® bom Feb-
ruary 21, 1892.

Nannie Buell Pleasants, ^ bom
January 8, 1858.

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Married Samuel A. Lynde, Aug-
ust 27, 1879.

Cornelius Lynde, ® born Feb-
ruary 20, 1881.

Married Bertha L. Pollock,
November 25, 1908.

Margaret Emily Lynde, "^ born
September 13, 1909.

Isabel Adair Lynde, ® born Octo-
ber 9, 1883.

Married John Francis Dam-
mann, Jr., November 16, 1909.

George Pleasants Lynde, ® born
March 13, 1887.

Isabel Adair Pleasants, ^ born
April 13, 1860.

Married Benjamine Ford Orton,
April 10, 1888.

Elen Adair Orton, ® born De-
cember 12, 1890.

George B. Pleasants, ^ born June
26, 1867.

John Adair Pleasants, ^ born
May 17, 1826, died November 19,
1893.

Married Virginia Gary Mosbv,
May 6, 1852.

Marv Webster Pleasants, ^ born
February 21, 1853, died March 13,
1854.

Louise McLain Pleasants, ° born
October 24, 1855.

Catharine Noble Pleasants, °
born April 8, 1857.

Married Judge Edmund Chris-
tian Minor, April 18, 1877.

Louise McLain Minor, ® born
March 3, 1878, died May 27, 1880.

Catharine Pleasantsi Minor, ®
born November 5, 1879, died Sep-
tember 30, 1887. ^

Virginia Adair Minor, ® bom
July 19, 1882.

Married Edward Gilchrist, Sep-
tember 8, 1907.

Catharine Gilchrist, ^ bom.

Edmund Christian Minor, ® bont
January 10, 1885, died October 22,
1890.

Caroline Minor, ® born August
19, 1887.

Anna Hyde Minor, ^ bom De-
cember 3, 1890.

Lydia Mosby Pleasants, ^ bom
May 14, 1860.

Married Benjamine Ladd Pur-
cell, April 14, 1893.

Martha Webb Purcell, ® bont
March 26, 1894.

John Adair Purcell, ® bom May
13, 1900.

Lvdia Mosby Purcell, ^ bonr
May 9, 1902.

Benjamine Ladd Purcell, Jr., *
born July, 1903.

Rosaline Harrison Pleasants, •
born September 6, 1864.

Married William Wharton
Archer, May 24, 1893.

Adair Pleasants Archer, ® bom
AufTust 31, 1894.

Sheppard Archer, ® born Jan-
uary 19, 1898.

William Wharton Archer, Jr., •
born June 13, 1902.

Edmund Minor Archer, * born
September 28, 1904.

Mathew Franklin Pleasants, *
born September 17, 1829; died
November 2, 1906.

Married Lydia Mosbv, October
6, 1852.

Isabella Adair Pleasants, * bom
October 21, 1853.

Married Reginald Gilham, Octo-
ber 16, 1888, no issue.

Virginia Mosby Pleasants, •
born Januarv 10, 1856.

L. McLain Pleasants, " bom
June 21, 1860; died June 29, 1903.

Married Hester Roberta Kyle,
April 12, 1893.

Mathew Franklin Pleasants, ^
bom March 4, 1894.

Boberta Elyle Pleasants, ^ bom
November 30, 1896.

Catherine Cellers Pleasants, •
bom September 25, 1898.

Mathew Pleiasants, " bom July
22, 1865; died September 24, 1867.

John Adair Pleasants, ^ bom
May 14, 1870; died January 7,
1904.

Elizabeth Randolph Pleasants, '
bom January 9, 1796; died De-
cember, 1881.

Married Douglass Young, 1835.

Susanna Railey Young, * bom
March 31, 1836.

Married Dr. T. K. Layton, De-
cember 2, 1856.

Jennie Layton, " born August
27, 1857.

Married Andrew Wallace, July
19, 1888. (No issue.)

Elizabeth Layton, ^ bom Sep-
tember 16, 1859.

Married John M. Garth, Jan-
nary 28, 1879.

Jefferson Garth, ® born Febru-
ary 15, 1880.

Mattie Garth, • bom June 28,
1882.

Belle Garth, • bom December
3,1884.

Susanna Garth, • bom Febru-
ary 3, 1887.

David W. Layton, ' bom June
14, 1861.

Married Maude Vance, May 25,
1892.

Kelby Vance Layton, ^ bom
March 3, 1893.

Barbara Layton, ® bom Febru-
ary 15, 1896.

H. R.

Francis Layton, ® bom January
2, 1899.

David W. Layton, Jr., • bom
Febraary 7, 1903.

Annie Layton, • bom February
14, 1906.

Edward S. Layton, • bom Feb-
mary 16, 1908.

Wliitney Layton, " bom May 9,
1864; died April 27, 1907.

Married Ida Yeaman, February
26, 1890.

Douglass Young Layton, ^ bom
October 27, 1866.

Married , Zadah McCulIochi
April 12, 1894.

Benjamine Pleasants Layton, •
born May 20, 1896.

Douglassi Young Layton, Jr., •
bom August 4, 1900.

Thomas K. Layton, Jr., ^, bom
Febraary 28, 1869; died July 5,
1902.

Nannie Layton, ^ born Septem-
ber 18, 1871.

Married Charles J. Crabb,
April 27, 1893.

Charles Layton Cjrabb, ® bom
March 3, 1894.

Elizabeth Crabb, * born Jan-
uary 9, 1897.

!Sus)an L. Layton, * born March
20, 1874.

Married Marshall B.. Reid,
August 7, 1895.

Marshall B. Reid, Jr., ® bom
August 21, 1897.

Oscar L. Reid, • bom February
12, 1900.

Hugh P. Layton, ' bom Jan-
uary 18, 1877.

Ambrose Young Layton, ^ bom
May 8, 1880.

Thomas Jefferson Pleasants, ^
bom March 6, 1798; died 1817.

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Mathew Pleasants, ^ bom Feb-
ruary 14, 1800; died 1818.

Anna Bailey was the fifth born
of John Railey and Elizabeth Ran-
dolph born on ' * Stonehenge "
farm in 1759. She married
Mathew Pleasants, third of John
Pleasants of ^'Pique-nique" and
Susianna Woodson. Mathew Pleas-
ants was an uncle of Gov. Pleas-
ants, of Virginia, and of Martha
Randolph Pleasants, who married
Randolph Railey, hence Anna
Railey became by marriage the
aunt of her brother Randolph
Railey, and Mathew Pleasants, by
marriage was the brother-in-law
of his neice Martha Randolph
Pleasants. Beside this, Anna
Railey and Martha Randolph
Pleasants were first cousins, their
mothers being daughters of Col.
Isham Randolph of ' ^ Dungeness, "
Va.

Susanna Woodson, the mother
of Mathew Pleasants, was a
daughter of Tarleton Woodson
and Ursula Fleming from whom
the Venables, Bates and many
other prominent Virginia families
sprung, and she was a first
cousin of Col. John Woodson, who
married Dorothy Randolph, an-
other daughter of Ool. Isham Ran-
dolph. The three Woodson girls
who married three of the brothers
of Anna Railey were daughters of
Col. John Woodson and Dorothy
Randolph, and hence the three
Woodson girls married their first
cousins; and it follows that they
were second cousins and sisters-
in-law to Mathew Pleasants, and
first cousins and sisters-in-law of

Mathew Pleasants' wife, Anna
Railey.

Mathew Pleasiants and his wife
came to Kentucky from Virginia,
about 1800 »and settled in Wood-
ford county, in the old Railey
neighborhood where he died in
1816. His daughter Caroline
Fleming Pleasants married Wil-
liam Mayo, the seventh son of Col.
William Mavo and Catherine
Swann of Richmond, Va., This
couple moved to Cooper county,
Mo., about 1846. Their son. Dr.
Addison F. Mayo practiced medi-
cine for many years in Kentucky.
His descendants are now residents
of Colorado.

George Anna Mayo, sister of
Dr. Addison F. Mayo, married Dr.
William P. Harriman. Their son
Dr. Wm. P. Harriman, Jr., is in-
terested in the banking business in
Missouri, but has a \rinter resi-
dence in San Antonio, Texas,
where he and his wife, who is re-
lated to the Throckmortons of
Kentucky and Virginia, spend
much of their time. Quite a num-
ber of this line are in the banking
business in Missouri and Okla-
homa.

Peyton Randolph Pleasants,
fourth of Mathew Pleasants and
Anna Railey married Ann Catha-
rine Humphries. He died a few
years after his marriage. If they
had children I have not been able
to get a line on them. His widow
afterwards became Mrs. Knight,
of Louisville, Ky.

Benjamine F. Pleasants, the
sixth of Mathew Pleasants and
Anna Railev married Isabella

Adair, daughter of General John
Adair who served a term as Gov-
ernor of Kentucky. Benjamine F.
Pleasants lived at Harrodsburg,
Ky., for many years after his mar-
riage and was appointed to a
position in the Treasury Depart-
ment of the United States about
1830 under President Jackson's
administration and moved his
family to Washington City, where
he made his home until his death
in 1879. Many Kentuckians and
Virginians! who visited the Capital
City prior to the Civil War made
his hospitable home headquarters.
Benjamine Pleasants and Isabella
Adair had four children, one
daughter and three sons who mar-
ried and reared families. The
three sons all adopted the profes-
sion of law and were successful
lawyers'. The daughter, Ann
Catherine Pleasants, born at Har-
rodsburg, Ky., in 1820, married
Rev. Mason Noble, a Presby-
terian minister, in the City of
Washington in 1836. He was a
chaplain in the United States Navy
for many years. Four children
were born of this union all of
whom, like the father, studied for
the ministry. Joseph Franklin
Noble, Mason Noble, Jr., and
Charles Noble, being of the Con-
gregational persuasion, and
George Pleasants Noble adopted
the Presbyterian faith. The Rev.
Charles Noble is President of the
Iowa College at Grinnell, Iowa.
Carl Noble, son of the Rev. Mason
Noble, Jr., is a lawyer at Jackson-
ville, Fla.

George W. Pleasants, third of
Benjamine F. and Isabella, mar-

ried Sarah Bulkley and settled in
lUinoisi where he was elevated to
a seat on the Supreme Court
Bench and served consecutively
for thirty years. His son, Adair
Pleasants is now practicing law at
Rock Island, 111., and Nannie Buell
Pleasants, daughter of Judge
George W. Pleasants married
Samuel A. Lynde, a lawyer of
Chicago. They have two sons who
are lawyers in Chicago.

John Adair Pleasants, fourth
of Benjamine F. and Isabella,
married his cousin, Virginia Cary
Mosby, a descendant of Tarleton
Woodson and Ursula Fleming.
They settled at Richmond, Va.,
where he practiced law until his
death in 1893. Their daughter
Catharine Noble Pleasants mar-
ried Judge Edmund Christian
Minor, of Richmond, Va., where
she and her sisters now reside.

Mathew F. Pleasants, fifth of
Benjamine F. and Isabella, married
his cousin, Lydia Mosby, sister of
the wife of his brother John Adair
Pleasants. He, too, settled at
Richmond, Va., where he also
practiced law until his death in
1906. To their daughter, Virginia
Mosby Pleasants, I am very much
indebted for assistance in tracing
the line of her grandfather, Benja-
mine F. Pleasants. She and Jier
sisters and brothers are residents
of Richmond, Va.

Elizabeth Randolph Pleasants,
the seventh of Mathew Pleasants
and Anna Railey, was born at
Richmond, Va., in 1796. She came
with her parents to Kentucky
when a mere child. She married
Douglass Young in 1835 at Ver-

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saillea^ Ky., and resided on the
old Jackson farm near Versailles^
Ky.y until they reached an ad-
vanced age. Only one child bless-
ed this union whose name was
Snsan Bailey Young. She married
Dr. T. K. Layton and they raised
a large family of children who
have done well their part in life.
Mrs. Andrew Wallace, of Ver-
sailleSf Ky., is the only one of this
line left in Kentucky, her brothers
and sisters being residents of St.
Louis, Mo., and neighboring towns.
Mrs. Elizabeth Randolph Young
was an interesting old lady with a
thorough knowledge of family
history and traditions, and as a
boy I learned much from her con-
versations that has been of great
assistance to me in this work.

WILLIAM BAILEY

Sixth bom of John Bailey and
Elizabeth Bandolph. Married
Judith Woodson. Their descend-
ants:

John Bailey, ^ Elizabeth Ban-
dolph.

William Bailey, ^ born Febru-
ary 26, 1760; died February 8,
1818.

Married Jndith Woodson,
March, 1793.

William Randolph Bailey, * bom
Febmary 4, 1794 ; killed at the bat-
tle of the ''Biver Baision.'^

Sarah Bailey, ' bom March,
1796; died Angnst, 1862.

Married, first, Thomas Bailey,
Jr., 1820; second, Parham Walhn,
1829.

William Bandolph Bailey, * bom
1821; died 1840.

Judith Ann Walhn, * bom June^
1830; died August, 1862.

Married Dr. WiUiam Steele
White, March 18, 1853.

Dr. Thomas Phillip White, ^
bom June, 1855 ; died 1902.

Married Eugene Dillman. (No
issue.)

Judith Woodson Bailey, * bom
March 15, 1799; died October 31,
li342.

Married P. I. Bailey, August
21, 1817.

Martha Woodson Bailey, * bom
Febmary 10, 1820; died March 18,
1837.

Bichard Henry Bailey, * bom
April 26, 1823; died October 3,
1888.

Married Catherine Keith Haw-
kins, Febmary 25, 1852.

William Edward Bailey, " bom
December 25, 1852.

Married Annie H. Owsley, May
26, 1886.

Jennie Farris Bailey, ® bom
June 28, 1887.

Bertha Hontas Bailey, ^ bom
April 26, 1854.

Married, first, Chas. Bandolph
Darnell, 1882; second, P. D. Mc-
Bride, 1892.

P. Woodson Bailey, ^ born July

24, 1864.

P. I. Bailey, Jr., * bom August

25, 1829.

Married, first, Sarah E. Frazier,
October 22, 1851 j second, Bebecca
Gough, 1861; third, Seville
Church, 1898.

Josephine Bailey, bom Septem-
ber 22, 1852.

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Married Bobert Ward Macey,
November 21, 1872.

Pattie Bailey Macey, ® bom
March 24, 1876.

Sadie Macey, ® born June 9,
1877.

Bobert Ward Macey, Jr., ® bom
October 8, 1879.

Bailey Woodson Macey, ® bom
August 30, 1881.

Thomas Jefferson Bailey, * born
August 10, 1831: died August 18,
1851.

Laura L. Bailey, * born August
20, 1832 ; died August 24, 1847.

William Bailey, the sixth bom
of John Bailey and Elizabeth Ban-
dolph, was bom at ' * Stonehenge, * *
Chesterfield county, Virginia, Feb-
ruary 26th, 1760. He came to
Kentucky about 1784 and settled
on a farm near Versailles, Ky.,
that he called ** Liberty Hall.^^
Bailey's Station on the Louisville
Southern Bailway is located on
the border of this farm. He built
one of the first brick houses erect-
ed in Woodford county and it is
standing today, more than one
hundred and ten years after its
completion. After getting every-
thing in shape for a useful, busy
and prosperous life he returned to
Virginia, where in 1793 he married
Judith Woodson, tenth bom of
Col. John Woodson and Dorothy
Bandolph. He raised but three
children, one son and two daugh-
ters. His son William enlisted in
the War of 1812 and was killed in
battle at ''The Biver Baision.'' He
never recovered from this shock
and died from grief a few years
later. His descendants are but
few and the most of them reside in

Kentucky. There has been but one
professional man in this line. Dr.
Thomas Phillip White who was
educated in Paris, France. He lo-
cated at Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he built up a lucrative practice,
but death ensued when his useful-
ness was at its meridian height.

P. I. Bailey, Jr., is the only liv-
ing grandchild of William Bailey
and Judith Woodson and he has
passed his eightieth birthday.
His brother Bichard Henry Bailey
died in 1888 and the tribute of the
late Daniel M. Bowmar, Sr., in the
columns of the ''Woodford Sun*'
of that year is worth more than a
towering shaft of marble. It is
reproduced here:

"BicHABD H. Bailey.''

" 'Alas, poor Torick, I knew
him well.' The trite quotation is
not unmeaning, for we did know
him well, and he was, as. Torick
was, a ' fellow of infinite jest. '

"Bichard H. Bailey was the son
of P. I. Bailey, Sr., and his wife
Judith Woodson Baaley, of whose
children, P. I. Bailey, Jr., is now
the only survivor. Bichard was
bom April 26, 1823, on land set-
tled by his maternal grandfather,
adjoining the farm now owned by
Logan Bailey. He died at Bich
Hill, Mo., on October 3, 1888, and
was buried in Versailles, Ky., on
the fifth inat. His wife and three
children, Wm. E. Bailey, Bertha
Bailey and Woodson Bailey sur-
vive him.

"A kinder heart than Dick
Bailey's never animated a hmnan
breast. A sunnier nature never

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brightened the rugged pathway
of life. Gifted with a superb
physique, reared amid plenty, if
not luxury, a descendant of the
Eaileys, Randolphs and Wood-
sons of Virginia, a kinsman of
Jefferson, he was a gentleman by
instinct, and his joyous laugh was
as natural as the song of a bird.
He married one of Kentucky's un-
crowned queens. Miss Catherine
Hawkins, a lady who would adorn
a palace or a thatched cottage with
equal grace.

** Fortune smiled upon him more
than once, not with her 'winsome
smile,' but rather as if in mock-
ery. At once generous and im-
provident, money was to him
contemptible dross. Judged by
the world's standards he was not
a successful man, but if to illumine
his own home with sunshine, to
scatter gladness wherever he went,
to inspire his children to noble
aims be success, then the beauti-
ful flowers which decorated his
grave were laurels fairly won. His
closing years were brightened by
a steadfast faith in the promises
of God."

*'D. M. B."

No one knew Richard Henry
Eailey better than did Daniel M.
Bowmar, Sr., 'as they had been
friends) for a lifetime. The wife
of Richard H. Railey is compli-
mented by Mr. Bowmar aJso. Cath-
arine Keith Hawkins was the
great granddaughter of the Rev.
James Keith and Mary Isham
Randolph, hence she was a fourth
cousin of her husband, both of his

great grandmothers being daugh-
ters of Colonel Isham Randolph.
Richard H. Railey 'si eldest son,
Wm. Edward Railey, was one of
the very, few Raileys so foolish as
to engage in the undesirable game
of politics. Soon after reaching
his majority he was elected
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Ken-
tucky House of Representatives
in which capacity he served for
about ten years, then accepted a
position in the National House of
Representatives at Washington.
Afterwards he served four years
in the Internal Revenue service
and was four years postmaster at
Midway, Ky. By Kentucky's big-
hearted and whole-souled Gov.
Luke P. Blackburn, he was honor-
ed with a commission as Colonel
on his staff. Realizing after thirty
years of loyalty to his friends and
unwavering service to his party
that there wasi more bitterness
than pleasure or profit in politics
he abandoned that enticing game
and is devoting his time to other
pursuits.

William Railey 's two brothers,
Charles and Randolph, and his sis-
ter, Jane, accompanied him and his
wife to Kentuclcy in 1793. ''Lib-
erty Hall," their home, was al-
ways open to relatives and friends.

JAMES RAILEY

Seventh born of John Railey
and Elizabeth Randolph. Married
Nancy Watkins. Their descend-
ants:

John Railey, ^ Elizabeth Ran-
dolph.

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James Eailey, ^ born April 16,
1762.

Married Nancy Watkins, May,
1791.

Joseph Eandolph Eailey, ^ born
February 14, 1792; died July 18,
1824.

Married Nancy Mayo, July 13,
1809.

Amanda Malvina Eailey, * born
July 22, 1810; died January 12,
1888.

Married James Mount, August
30, 1847.

Joseph Eailey Mount, ^ bom
December 22, 1849.

Married, first, Carrie Alsop,
September 1, 1871; second, Annie
McEoberts, November 1, 1876.

Bessie Mount, ® born June 16,
1872.

Married Shelby L. Allen, April
20, 1898.

Caroline Hobson Allen, '' born
August 12, 1899.

Shelby L. Allen, Jr., '^ born
November 26, 1903.

Dorothy Eailey AJlen, '^ bom
November 26, 1903.

John McEoberts Mount, • born
August 14, 1877.

Married Jean Lynn, June 12,
1907.

Margaret Mount, ® born Decem-
ber 31, 1882.

Jo Ann Mount, ® bom June 14,
1884.

John James Mount, ^ bom June
20, 1852.

Married Euth Morrisi, January
8, 1878.

Eobert Morris Mount, ® bom
December 4, 1878.

Married Bessie Berry, June 29,
1903.

Euth Berry Mount, '' born.
October 2, 1904.

Alice Holmes Mount, "^ born.
September 26, 1906.

Mary Maude Mount, ® born
February 20, 1881.

Charlotte Amanda Mount, ®
born May 31, 1889.

Ella Morris Mount, ® born De-
cember 3, 1903.

Sara Eailey Mount, * born
October 5, 1906.

Lavinia Harrison Eailey, * bom
July 4, 1813; died September 18,
1899.

Married Camden Montague Bal-
lard, March 29, 1831.

Joseph James Ballard, ^ , bom
December 25, 1831; died Decem-
ber 23, 1861.

Married Sallie Hillyar, June

29, 1857.
Emma Louise Ballard, • bom

October 22, 1858.

Married George S. Graves, Sep-
tember 15, 1881.

Euth Graves, '' born March 24,

1885.

Edna Elizabeth Graves, ^ bom
December 20, 1888.

Julia Graves, "^ bom October 5,
1895.

John Thomas Ballard, ^ bom
January 6, 1834.

Married Effie Winlock, Septem-
ber 7, 1854.

Camden Winlock Ballard, • bom
December 31, 1856.

Married, first, Susan Eeynolds,
November 4, 1878; second, Var-
nette Gregg Eeynolds, December
16, 1899.

Fielding Edward Ballard, ^ bom
October 20, 1881.

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Married Hattie Thompson
Weakley, December 30, 1903.

Victoria Beynolds Ballard, ®
bom October 30, 1904.

Susan Mary Ballard, ® bom
January 15, 1908.

■Camden Winlock Ballard, ® bom
August 6, 1909.

Nancy Peyton Ballard, • born
January 25, 1859.

Lavinia Harrison Ballard, •
bom December 3, 1860.

Married George Robert Blake-
more, May 25, 1887.

EflSe Carrie Blakemore, '^ born
August 20, 1888.

Thomas Ballard Blakemore, ^
bom September 12, 1890.

Fielding Winlock Blakemore, '^
bom June 8, 1896.

Edmonia Blakemore, '^ bom De-
cember 30, 1897.

George Eobert Blakemore, Jr., '^
bom October 11, 1900.

Fielding Montague Ballard, •
bom August 31, 1862.

Married Grace Winnall, October
23, 1901.

Mary Peyton Ballard, '^ bom
August 10, 1902.

Nancy Winlock Ballard, '^ bom
October 27, 1907.

Florence Effie Ballard, « born
January 1, 1865.

Addison C Ballard, * bom May

8, 1840.

Married Helen M. Varry, June
28, 1860.
Lavinia Ballard, ® bom April

9, 1861.

Married Jamest Bobert Clark,
April 9, 1878.

Mildred Campbell Clark, ^ bom
January 10, 1879.

Married James Dudley Bussell,
November 16, 1898.

Mary Clark Eussell, ® bom
June 20, 1902.

Stuart Heth Clark, ^ bom Feb-
raary 29, 1881.

Joe Ballard Clark, "^ bom Sep-
tember 5, 1882.

James Eobert Clark, Jr., ^ bom
December 16, 1889.

Anna Belle Ballard, ^ bom
October 11, 1862.

Married KJirby Smith Collier,
July 12, 1888.

Clarence Calvert Collier, ^ bom
December 15, 1894.

Helen Elizabeth Collier, '^ bom
December 11, 1898.

Joseph James Ballard, • bom
March 16, 1864.

Married Anna Lee Hogsett,
October 24, 1895.

Anna Lee Ballard, ^ born Sep-
tember 5, 1898.

Jonathon Young Ballard, "^ bom
March 7, 1901.

Joseph James Ballard, Jr., ^
bom August 7, 1908.

Effie Winlock Ballard, « bora
November 12, 1866.

Married Samuel Simms Wil-
hoyte, December 19, 1888.

Allen Sims Wilhoyte, '^ born
June 18, 1892.

Nerval Joseph Wilhoyte, '' bom
October 12, 1901.

Anna Florence Wilhoyte, ^ bora
January 29, 1909.

Margaret Ballard, • bom July
16, 1870.

Married Jeptha Montgomery
Tharp, December 7, 1888.

Ballard Montgomery Tharp, ^
bom Febmary 7, 1891.

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William Ely Tharp, '' bom Sep-
tember 26, 1892.

Graham Ely Tharp, '' bom Sep-
tember 1, 1895.

Bachael Mayo Tharp, ^ born
November 3, 1898.

Elizabeth M. Ballard, ® bom
October 15, 1872.

Married, first, Eobert Emmet
Blakemore, September 4, 1895;
second, John William Paulger,
November 15, 1904.

Robert Emmet Blakemore, Jr.,
^ bom February 15, 1896.

Helen Verry Paulger, '^ born
Febmary 22, 1908.

John Norvil Ballard, • born
November 5, 1875.

Caroline Varry Ballard, • bom
May 6, 1878.

Married Samuel Franklin Si-
bert, October 1, 1898.

Samuel Franklin Sibert, Jr., ^
T)om July 29, 1899.

Elizabeth Armstrong Ballard, •
bom Febmary 9, 1886.

Married Julius Morris, July 5,
1903.

Margaret Reid Morris, ^ bom
November 8, 1905.

Blallard Emmanuel Morris, "^
bom January 17, 1907.

Frank Sidney Morris, "^ bom
June 17, 1909.

William Jordan Ballard, * born
July 22, 1845.

Married Mary B. Moody, De-
cember 13, 1865.

Curtis Warren Ballard, • bom
October 13, 1868.

Married Fannie L. Williamson,
July 15, 1911.

John Allen Ballard, • bom Feb-
mary 17, 1870.

William James Railey, * bom
September 14, 1816 ; died April 18,
1863.

Married, first, Edna C. Blake-
more, November 22, 1848; second,
Sarah Ann Verry, July 21, 1859.

Sina Keene Railey, * born April
1, 1851 ; died August 6, 1896.

Charles Randolph Railey, « born
November 9, 1852.

Married Elizabeth Belle Bailey,
December 19, 1878.

Cecil Railey, « bom March 9,
1880. '

Loula Railey, « born March 30,
1885. '

Joseph Lewis Railey, « bom
August 28, 1854: died March 2,
1890.

Sarah Catharine Railey, ^ bom
September 22, 1861..

Married William Ford, 1910.

Ann Catharine Railey, * bom
March 7, 1819; died Febmary 10,
1883.

Married Thomas S. Blakemore,
Febmary 21, 1837.

Henrietta Blakemore, * bom
July 4, 1838; died December 2,
1855.

Joseph William Blakemore, •
bom March 6, 1840; died Decem-
ber 28, 1905.

James Marcus Blakemore, ^ bom
October 3, 1842.

Married Elizabeth Taylor Arm-
strong, March 30, 1869.

William Thomas Blakemore, •
bom August 12, 1872.

Robert Emmet Blakemore, •
bom August 12, 1872.

Married Elizabeth Ballard,
April 14, 1895.

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Robert Emmet Blakemore, Jr., ^
born February 15, 1896.

Annabine Blakemore, ® born
December 28, 1874.

Married Frederick M. Craven,
June 20, 1906.

Virginia Hill Blakemore, ^ born
May 31, 1877.

Married Garnett S. Morris, No-
vember 27, 1895.

Garnet Elizabeth Morris, '' born
September 1, 1896.

Margaret Nelson Morris, "^ born
December 1, 1898.

James Scearce Morris, '' bom
January 26, 1903.

Marcus Blal^emore Morris, ^
born January 12, 1907.

William Emlmet Morris, ^ born
September 1, 1908.

Edmonia Blakemore, ^ born De-
cember 20, 1844 ; died July 2, 1878.

Married George W. Sparks, No-
vember 3, 1864. (No issue.)

George Eobert Blakemore, *^
bom March 5, 1852.

Married Lavinia Harrison Bal-
lard, May 25, 1887.

Effie Ciarrie Blakemore, ^ born
August 20, 1888.

Thomas Ballard Blakemore, •
bom September 12, 1890.

Fielding Winlock Blakemore, ®
born June 8, 1896.

Edmonia Blakemore, ® born De-
cember 30, 1897.

George Eobert Blakemore, Jr., •
born October 11, 1900.

Joseph Jordan Railey, * born
January 12, 1812; died May 16,
1898.

Married Anna E. Barnes, Sep-
tember 29, 1849.

Oretta Virginia Railey, *^ bom
May 14, 1853.

Married Dr. Charles A. Riley,
February 18, 1869.

Clarence A. Riley, * born Feb-
ruary 21, 1870.

Married Elvie C. Hampton, De-
cember 1, 1890.

Kenneth Riley, "^ bom Augu&t 4,
1896.

Ben Carleton Riley, ^ bom
August 25, 1906.

Courtland Riley, ® born April
16, 1873.

Married September 18, 1895.

Gipson Railey Riley, ^ born De-
cember, 1891.

John Gipson Railey, ^ born De-
cember 25, 1854.

Married Julia Garner, October
18, 1886.

Joseph Jordan Railev, ® bom
October 14, 1888.

Married Nellie Wa^er, Decem-
ber, 1909.

J. Garner Railey, ® born June
28, 1891.

George Alfred Railey, * bom
August 5, 1893.

Janette Railey, ® born August
28, 1902.

Anna Barnes Railey, ' bom
February 19, 1857.

Married J. 0. Barbour, May 12,

1881.

Josieph Railey Barbour, ® born
August 21, 1882.

Peachey Lee Railey, ' born
April 20, 1860.

Married A. P. Wilson, May 14,
1884. (No issue.)

Elizabeth Railey, ^ born June,
1793 ; died January 28, 1853.

Married John Railey, June 4,
1807.

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John Woodson Railey, * born
October 4, 1812; died September
30, 1874.

Married Nancy Farris Nnnn,
October 4, 1832.

Caroline Railev, ^ born March
6, 1835.

Married William Gary, May 18,
1854.

Evaline Gary, ® born March 13j
1855.

Julia Ann Oary, ® born Septem-
ber 27, 1856.

Married, first, Allen Kendrick
Walker, July 26, 1874; second,
James S. Gopeland, March, 1885.

Edna M. Walker, "^ bom Decem-
ber 10, 1875.

Married John Chappell, Sep-
tember 20, 1893.

Elmer Louis Ghappell, ® born
April 20, 1895.

Dean Jennings Chappell, ® born
January 3, 1897.

Walker Chappell, ® born Sep-
tember 22, 1899.

James Chappell, ® bom Januarj"
2, 1901.

Minnie N. Walker, "^ born Oc-
tober 4, 1877.

Allen J. Walker, '' bom July 24,
1880.

Married Mary Cunningham,
April 19, 1906.

Julia E. Walker, ® bom Febru-
ary 3, 1907.

Frank Kendrick Walker, ® born
July 17, 1908.

Hallie N. Walker, ® born August
15, 1910.

Bessie N. Gopeland, ^ bom Feb-
ruary 6, 1886.

Susie S. Cbpeland, ^ bom
August 29, 1888.

Robert W. Gopeland, "^ bom
September 26, 1890.

Ella W. Cbpeland, '' born Au-
gust 2, 1892.

Jesse J. Gopeland, '' bom De-
cember 30, 1893.

John Herbert Gopeland, ^ born
December 30, 1893.

Joseph F. Gopeland, ^ bora

April 23, 1895.

Mary E. Qary, ® born November
•j^9 1858

E. Elmore McAfee, ^ July 27,
1884.

Charles Elmore McAfee, "^ born
January 9, 1886.

Married Bertha Eailey, April
28, 1910.

William Leroy McAfee, ^ bom
February 13, 1889.

Viola A. McAfee, "^ born Febru-
ary 17, 1891.

Lady Eiachael McAfee, '' bom
Febmary 3, 1893.

William Woodson Gary, ® born
November 16, 1862.

Susan Ann Eailey, ** bom June
9, 1837 ; died Febmary 9, 1839.

Isham Tarleton Railey, ^ bom
December 18, 1840.

Married Loretta M. Bailey, De-
cember 2, 1869.

Annie Farrig Bailey, « bom
September 18, 1870.

Married W. L. Hemdon, No-
vember 24, 1891.

dara Hemdon, '' bom October,
1892.

Mary Elizabeth Eailey, ® bom
September 29, 1872.

Married F. E. Martin, Septem-
ber, 1889.

Laura Martin, "^ bom July 2,
1890.

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Annie Woodson Martin, ^ bom
March 1, 1894.

Ernest Martin, "^ bom Novem-
ber 4, 1898.

N. P. Bailey, • bom March
23, 1875.

John A. Bailey, • bom March
30, 1879.

Married Nannie Griffith, Feb-
ruary, 1905.

John A. Bailey, Jr., ^ bom Jan-
uary 7, 1906.

Robert Woodson Bailey, "^ born
September, 1907.

Aubrey Lee Bailey, '^ bom Sep-
tember, 1909.

Louis Bailey, • bom October 17,
1881.

Married Martha Ecton, January
22, 1909.

Woodson Tarleton Bailey, •
bom May 4, 1884.

Joseph W. Bailey, ® bom April

3, 1887.

Edward T. Bailey, ® bom Jan-
uary 16, 1890.

Itobert L. Bailey, ® bom March
2, 1894.

Isabella Bailey, ^ bom August

4, 1845.

John Bandolph Bailey, ^ bom
March 4, 1850.

Married Margaret French, Feb-
ruary 23, 1881.

Haydon W. Bailey, ® born De-
cember 13, 1881.

Married Lee W. Symms, Octo-
ber, 1906.

Bertha Bailey, • bom February
25, 1883.

Married Charles Elmore Mc-
Afee, April 29, 1910.

Estelle Bailey, ® bom July 25,
1886.

Mattie Bailey, ® bom July 10,
1889.

Married B e c t o r Hemdon,
March, 1910.

Boone Bailey, ^ bom August 20,
1852, died August 8, 187L

Caroline Bailey, * bom August,
1815, died, 1850.

Married firsft Dr. Joseph Wil-
son, 1833; married second Bev. W.
E. Milam, 1837.

Elizabeth McCormick Wilson, ^
bora 1834, died 1845.

James Bailey, 7th of John
Bailey, and Elizabeth Bandolph,
remained in Va., and married
Nancy Watkins in 1791. The date
of his birth was April 16, 1762, and
he died about 1795. A few years
after his marriage, his eldest son,
Joseph Bandolph Bailey, came to
Kentucky abouf 1812, and settled
on a farm near Lagrange, Oldham
county, where he died in 1824. Be-
fore he left his native State, and
while yet a youth he married
Nancy Mayo, 6th of Col. William
Mayo and Catharine Swann. She
was a younger sister of the two
Mayo girls who married Martin
and Charles Bailey, uncles of
Joseph Bandolph Bailey, and also
a sister of William Mayo, 7th of
Col. William Mayo and Catharine
Swann, who married Caroline
Fleming Pleasants, a first cousin
of Joseph Bandolph Bailey, hence
Joseph E. Bailey was a brother-in-
law to two of his uncles and also
to his first cousin. His oldest
daughter, Amanda Bailey, mar-
ried James Mount in 1847, and
their . son, Joseph Bailey Mount,'
represented Oldham County in the
Legislature during the memorable

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sesBion of IQOO, the excitiiig inci-
dents of which brought abont the
assassination of Governor GoebeL
The large families of Biallards^
Blakemores and Baileys of Old-
ham, Trimble and Shelby Counties
descend from Joseph Bandolph
Bailey and Nancy Mayo. His son,
Joseph Jordan Bailey, married
Miss Anna Barnes, and for many
years was engaged in business in
Louisville, Ky., and St. Louis,
Mo., raised a family of children,
who are residents of Missouri.
Some years ago he retired from
active business, after which he re-
sided with his son-in-law, A. P.
Wilson, a banker of Sweet Springs,
Mo. At the home of Joseph Ban-
dolph Bailey the latchstring was
always on the outside and during
the early part of the last century
the home was noted for the num-
ber of social gatherings and the
hospitality and cordiality dispens-
ed; and those characteristics seem
to have been a part of the inherit-
ance that has come down to each
generation. I know of no branch
of the Baileys who are more cor-
dial and hospitable. Elizabeth
Bailey, the second daughter of
James Bailey and Nancy Watkins,
married her cousin, John Bailey,
and their descendants were sketch-
ed under Isham Bandolph Bailey,
fourth of John Bailey and Eliza-
beth Bandolph. I know of but two
professional men, Dr. Charles A.
Bailey, of Missouri, and Jo Bal-
lard dark, a lawyer of LaGrange,
Ky., in the line of James Bailey
and Nancy Watkins. There may
be others. Curtis Warren Ballard
resides at JeflPersonville, Ind. He

was elected to the Legislature as
a Democrat in 1904 and before his
term expired was elected circuit
clerk. Was elected again in 1910 —
the only man ever re-elected to
that office in Clark County, Indi-
ana.

JANE BAILEY

Eighth bom of John Bailey and
Elizabeth Bandolph. Married
Aaron Darnell. Their descend-
ants:

John Bailey ^-Elizabeth Ban-
dolph.

Jane Bailey, ^ bom August 9,
1763 ; died July 16, 1824.

Married Aaron Darnell, Jan-
uary 21, 1797.

Elizabeth Pope Darnell, « bom
April 30, 1798.

Married Aaron Mershon, May

30, 1820.

Jane Bailey Mershon. *

Married Bandolph Darnell Mer-
shon. *

Lavinia Mershon. *

Married Boss Beed.

Mattie Beed. «

Fannie Beed. *

Ella Beed. «^ •

Benjamin Mershon, * killed at
the battle of Borne, Georgia.

Virginia Mershon. *

Married Orlander Mershon.

Minerva Mershon. *

Married James Booker.

Elemander Mershon. *

Bandolph Bailey Darnell, • bom
Febmary 12, 1800; died December
29, 1860.

Married Attalanta Whittington,
October 9, 1827.

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Aaron Darnell, ^ born Septem-
ber 23, 1828.

Married, first, Catharine Haw-
kins, November 7, 1850; second,
Sarah E. Pepper, 1857.

Judge IsJiam Eandolph Dar-
nell, 5 bom August 26, 1851.

Married Macie Carter, August
25, 1887.

Catharine Darnell, ® bom Jan-
uary 2, 1892.

Shapley Darnell, ^ born April
23, 1903.

Euth Elizabeth Darnell, ° bom
October 19, 1907.

Samuel Pepper Darnell. *^

Married Euth Chandler, Novem-
ber 25, 1885.

Mayme Darnell, ^ bom Novem-
ber 2, 1887.

Married J. E. DeEoulac, Novem-
ber, 1908.

Mahala Darnell. ^

John Eobb Darnell. *^

Married Bessie Davidson.

John E. Darnell, Jr. ^

Sarah E. Damell. ^

Aaron H. Darnell. '

Married Nellie Northop.

W. W. Damell, ^ bora March 19,
1830.

Married Sarah Taylor.

James S. Darnell. ^

John Darnell. ^

Eandolph Darnell. ^

John E. Darnell, * born March
2, 1832.

Married Susan Cotton.

Ann Elizabeth Darnell. ^
Southey Damell. ^
Charles Damell. ^
Dunlap C. Darnell. ^
Married Mrs. Mary E. Lucas,
May 5, 1910.

Dr. Mathew Ck)tton Darnell. *^

Married Ermina Jett, April 27,
1910.

Southy W. Damell, * born
August 31, 1839; died September
4, 1890.

Married Harvey Eandolph Dar-
nell. «^

Oeorge Lewis Darnell. '

Varsalina Darnell. ^

Virginia Darnell, ^ born June
20, 1841.

Married Thomas J. Jett.

Attalanta Darnell, * born April
9, 1843.

Married Thomas W. Edwards.

Charlesi Eugene Edwar(Js. ^

Virginia Pearl Edwards. '

Greorge Eandolph Edwards. ^

Wiley Edwards. ^

Charles Eandolph Darnell, •
bom September 26, 1845.

Married B. H. Eailey.

Virginia Damell, » born August

26, 1845.
Married John Markley.
Maria Louise Markley, * born

1838.
Married F. C. Blankenship,

1858.
Caroline Blankenship. ^
Ferdie C. Blankenship. ^
Married Eobinson L. Ireland,

1885.
Ann Eandolph Markley, * bom

1840.
Married William A. Gi^ens,

1865.

Agnes Givens, ^ bom 1866.

Married Edward J. Meyers,
1901.

Virginia Givens, ' died 1905.

Jane Eailey was the 8th bom f
John Eailey and Elizabeth Ean-
dolph. Bom in Virginia at the

Ill

old homestead * * Stonehenge " in
1763. She came to Kentucky with
her brothers Charles and B,?r.
dolph Railey about 1793. En-
route they were joined by Aaron
Darnell, a Virginian, w^ho was
making his way to Kentucky aloae.
Aaron Darnell had served through
the Eevolution as a drummer boy
and was used to such hardships
and dangers that one must of ne-
cessity encounter in overland
travel in those days.

The destination of the Railjys
-was Versailles, Kjy., and as Mr.
Darnell had no particular point in
view he remained with the party
tmtil they reached Woodford
county, where he, too, settled. In
the course of the long journey he
made himself very agreeable and
companionable, telling many thrill-
ing incidents of the Eevolution.
For several years after reaching
Kentucky he made it a point to
see Jane Railey, notwithstanding
the protests of her brothers, and
finally in 1797 they were married
and became residents of Woodford
county. He practiced medicine.
The most of their descendants
have been engaged in agricultural
pursuits. They are residents of
Kentucky and Missouri. I only
know of two professional men in
this line, Judge Isham Randolph
Darnell is a lawyer and resides in
Nebraska. Dr. Mathew C. Darnell
is a resident of Woodford county,
Kentucky.

I am sorry not to give more
dates and information concerning
these people, which I would have
gladly done if I could have gotten
them sufficiently interested. I hope

that some one among these fam-
ilies will yet secure the missing
dates and send them to me that I
may complete my manuscript
which I propose to hold for future
generations to have access to.

MARTIN RAILEY

Ninth bom of John Railey and
Elizabeth Randolph. Married
Elizabeth Mayo. Their descend-
ants :

John Railey ^-Elizabeth Ran-
dolph.

Martin Railey, ^ born October
27, 1764; died December 28, 1810.

Married Elizabeth Mayo, Feb-
ruary 27, 1794.

Daniel Mayo Railey, ^ bom Oc-
tober 20, 1796; died March 23,

1858.
Married Jane Elizabeth Watson,

November 26, 1816.

John Martin Riailey, * bom
November 29, 1821; died May 21,

1902.
Married Elizabeth Jane Steele,

October 6, 1842.

Sadie RaUey, ^ born October

27, 1847.
Married H. C. Gockrill, October

6, 1870.
Rev. Egbert Railey Gockrill, •

bom April 2, 1872.
Married Dura Brokaw, May,

1897.

Dura Louise Gockrill, '' bom
September 30, 1905.

Louise Mayo Gockrill, ® bom
November 19, 1873; died 1893.

Married 6. B. Richardson, June
7, 1891.

Beverly Randolph Richardson,^
born July 14, 1894.

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Henry QJifton Oockrill, • bom
November 30, 1884; died 1899.

Pocahontas Cockrill, • bom
August 19, 1886.

Married J. A. Hedger, June 3,
1907.

Harry Hedger, ^ born November
22, 1908.

Hampden Pleasants Railey, ^
bom Febraary 3, 1850.

Married Katharine Payne, April,
1875.

Elizabeth Bailey, ® bom October
1, 1877.

Married Luke Cowan, August
1903.

Jennie Bailey, « born 1882.

Erastug Williams, August, 1905.

Eva Williams, ^ born August,
1907.

Ella Bailey, • born January,
1884.

Married Charles King, Septem-
ber, 1908.

John Martin Bailey, • bom
August 14, 1886.

Married 1906.

Martin Bailey, "^ born August,
1907.

Sadie Bailey, ® born November
21, 1888.

Hampden Pleasants Bailey, Jr.,
^ born October 6, 1890.

John Watson Bailey, ^ born Feb-
mary 22, 1852.

Married Anna Tumer, October
6, 1875.

Arthur Bailey, ® bom August,
1876.

Martin Bailey, « born August,
1880.

Oliver Daniel Bailey, « born
June, 1857.

Married Emma Matthews, 1881.

Oliver Bailey, • bom December,

1882.

Charles Bailey, « bom Febraary^
1885.

Jerry Bailey, ® bom November*
1887.

Married Elizabeth Stewart, Jan-
uary, 1910.

Pocahontas Bailey, ^ bom
March 1, 1860.

Married Bichard Jacquimin^
October 6, 1878. (No issue.)

Eva Bailey, ^ bom October 27^
1863.

Married E. A. King, January,
1888. (No issue.)

Pocahontas Bailey, * bom Sep-
tember 10, 1824; died June 3, 1882.

Married Joseph V. Parrott, No-
cember 4, 1846.

Ella Parrott, « bom 1850; died
1873.

Elizabeth Jane Bailey, * bom
December 25, 1827; died June 30,
1902.

Married T. D. S. McDowell,
May 26, 1853.

Alexander Bailey McDowell, ^
born December 2, 1856.

Jane Bandolph McDowell, ^ bom
September 13. 1866.

Egbert Bailey, * bom June 6,
1830.

Married Mary E. McAdon, Sep-
tember 5, 1854.

Bertie Bailey, ^ bom November
18. 1858.

Married John Hardesty, Febra-
ary 17, 1881.

Egbert Hardesty, • bom De-
cember 3, 1881.

Married Minnie Allison, June
20, 1906.

Frank Hardesty. '^

Bert Hardesty. '^

0^ tn9 K#fitiKlQf

KM»rieal Sd#N(»>

iia

lis Hardoit J. ^

Shortridge Hardesty, * barm

_ il 13; 1884.

Married DcUa Terrill, Septem-
ber, 1910.

Mayo Hardesty, * bom Septem-
ber 15, 1891.

John Hardesty, • bom April 9,
1896.

Dixie Bailey, * bom March 15,
1861.

Married Joseph E. Mayo, 1881.

Bailey Mayo> • bora Anga&t 12,
1882.

Married Maude Newman, Sep-
tember 21, 1905.

Daniel Bailey, *^ bom December

16, 1863.

Married Anna Alderson, March

17, 1887.

James Bailey, • born December
29, 1887.

Egbert W. Bailey, • bom Jnly
5, 1889.

Aimabell Bailey, * bom June
28, 1833.

Emma Bailey, * born May 20,
1836.

Henry Heath Bailey, * bom
Jnly 17, 1838; died November 1,
1861.

Beverly Bandolph Bailey, * bom
Febraary 25, 1843; died December
5, 1864.

Catharine Bailey, " bom May 7,
1798; died Febmary 27, 1881.

Married Anderson Shefflett.

Mary Jane Shefflett. ^

Married Benjamin Sneed.

Edward Sneed. *

John A. Sneed, * died July 27,
1885.

Married Jane Price Bailey, De-
cember 15, 1874.

H. R— 8.

Lnla Oordon Sneed, bom Jnly
24, 1876.

Gary Anderson Sneed, bora
August 3, 1878; died Novembex
27, 19001

John Price Sneed, bom August
19, 1883.

Married Nellie Fitzhugh, Jan-
nary 20, 190&

Louise Price Smeed, bom An*
gust 4, 1907.

Charles Sneed. •

Alice Sneed. ^

Horace Sneed. ^

Noble Sneed^ ^

Lilbum Shefflett. *

Married Lavinia Gentry.

John Martin Bailey, • bom No-
vember 27, 1800; died January 13,
1835.
^ Married Mary Watson, 1825.

Carter Henry Bailey, * bom
February 3, 1826; died October 12,
1884.

Married Mary Jane Tanner, No-
vember 9, 1849.

Branch Bailey, * bom July 24,
1850.

Married Caroline Frick, June
9, 1880.

Bandolph Bailey, • bom April
6, 1881; died unmarried.

Branch Bailey, Jr., ® bom May
1, 1883.

Pocahontas Bailey, ^ born June
23, 1852.

Grace Churchill Bailey, *^ bom
November 18, 1854.

John Bandolph Bailey, " bom
September 4, 1856; died Novem^
ber 1, 1900.

Carter Harrison Bailey, ' bom
July 2, 1859 ; died June 7, 1887.

Married Ida Blanche Keith,
January, 1881.

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Charles Keith Bailey, ® bom
December 11, 1882.

Jamesi Faulkner Railey, • born
February 28, 1884.

Edwin Bailey, ® bom January,
1887.

Sterling Price Bailey, "^ bom
October 1, 1860.

Married Cecelia Jane Parker,
December 26, 1887.

Sterling Anglairs Railey, ® bom
November 3, 1893.

Mary Cecelia Bailey, * born Feb-
mary 28, 1896.

Earl Bacon Bailey, ® born May
12, 1903.

John Randolph Bailey, ® born
June 10, 1906.

Cabell Breckinridge Bailey, '^
born July 2, 1862.

Married Emma Percival, Sep-
tember 2, 1886.

Cabell Percival Bailey, ® bom
March 6, 1890.

William Montgomery Railey, *
born June 1, 1828; died July 28,
1909.

Mary Elizabeth Bailey, * bom
September 8, 1830; died July 28,
1904.

Martha Virginia Railey, * bom
August, 1832.

Married M. A. Moseby.

Arthur Moseby. ^

Lilburn Rogers Railey, ^ bom
April 26, 1804.

Married Lucy Jane Burks, Jan-
uary 28, 1825.

Elizabeth Railey, * bom April
12, 1826.

Married Thomas Bowman, Oc-
tober 11, 1854.

Lucy Railey Bowman, ^ born
October 21, 1862.

Lilburn Edward Bowman, * born
December 5, 1856.

James* Pleasants Railey, ^ bom
August 28, 1827; died July 21,
1908.

Married Cornelia Burnley, Da-
cember, 1864.

Carrie Pleasanta Railey, *^ bom
November 13, 1865.

Married William A. Beale, De-
cember 5, 1885.

Cornelius William Beale. •

Married Mary Elizabeth Gra-
ham.

Buth Burnley Beale. '^

William Stuart Beale. "^

Lilburn Burnley Bailey, ' bom
June 4, 1870.

Married Edna Elizabeth Lewis,
October, 1895.

Grace B. Bailey, ^ born Febru-
ary 28, 1872.

Isabella Watson Bailey, * bom
December 13, 1831 ; died 1908.

Married William Henderson.

Andrew Henderson. ^

Col. John Daniel Railey, * bom
October 14, 1833; died July 27,
1899.

Married Ellen Miller, August
12, 1855.

Charles Lilburn Bailey, ^ bom
August 27, 1856; died Febmary
16, 1886.

Married Jessie Merchison,
March 16, 1881.

Elizabeth Belle Bailey, *^ bom
March 12, 1862.

Married, first, Ben T. Duvall,

May 5, 1880; second, A. V. Harris,
March 29, 1910.

Edward Hood Bailey, ^ bom
May 17, 1864.

Married Catharine Biley, 1884.

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Walter Railey, • bom July 18,
1885.

Wesley Bailey, ® bom August 8,
1887.

Bandolph Stroud Bailey, ® born
November 23, 1889.

Vivian Bailey, • bom October
22, 1892.

John Bandolph Railey, ^ born
October 31, 1867.

Married Minnie Collins, October
15, 1890.

Collins Daniel Railey, bom
September 22, 1891.

Emma Catharine Bailey, * born
September 22, 1835.

Married William H. Inloe. (No
issue.)

Mary Ellen Bailey, * born Feb-
raarv 12, 1838; died February 26,
1880.

Married Jamea Warmouth. (No
issue. )

William Baxter Bailey, * bom
December 21, 1841; died Febru-
ary, 1910.

Married Cornelia Maupin, July,
1864.

Lin wood Walker Bailey, *^ born
October 26, 1866.

Elizabeth Belle Bailey, '^ born
March 6, 1870.

Married Arthur Stephens, June
29, 1898.

Logan J. Bailey, ^ bom MarcJi

3, 1872; died unmarried.

Mary Lucy Bailey, ^ born June

4, 1873.

Married P. Stanley Stevens,
April 6, 1910.

Willie Virginia Bailey, ^ bom
July 27, 1875.

Married Grayson Wood, Jan-
uary 20, 1900.

Bose Malvern Bailey, * bora
April 2, 1877 ; died August 5, 1897.

Emma Inloe Bailey, *^ bom April
20, 1879.

Merritt Maupin Bailey, ^ bom
March 18, 1881.

Married Cecil Johnson, Septem-
ber 14, 1910.

Cornelia Jane Bailey, * born
January 20, 1884.

Married Hugh Simms, December
29, 1909.

Ann Maria Bailey, * bom De-
cember 22, 1843.

Lilbum Bandolph Bailey, * bom
March 16, 1846.

Married MoUie Gordon, Febru-
ary 27, 1872.

Charles Gordon Bailey, '^ bom
December 20, 1872.

Married Marie Josephine Li van-
dais, August 26, 1901.

Bev. Fleming G. Bailey, * bom
July 20, 1848.

Married Sallie Goodloe Barclay,
September 25, 1879.

John Barclay Bailey, ^ born
January 20, 1881 ; died October 16,
1898.

Lilbum Bogers Bailey, Jr., ^
bom April 4, 1882.

Married T^Uie Wiggington,
April 4, 1910.

Fleming G. Bailey, Jr., '^ bom
May 31, 1884.

Married Alpha S. Wiggington,
September 18, 1907.

Howard Williams Bailey, ^ bom
April 28, 1886.

Married Lunonta Battaille
Blackerbv, January 27, 1909.

Bandolph Burks Bailey, ^ bora
May 25, 1888.

Lucy Bfelle Bailey, ^ born Oc-
tober 24, 1892.

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Ifegitter o^ the kentuelcy 8i«€e HItforical SocTdty.

Jane Price Bailey, ^ bom No-
vember 11, 1852.

Married John A. I^need, Decem-
ber 15, 1874,

Lula Gordon Sneed, ^ born Jan-
uary 24, 1876.

Cary Anderson Sneed, • born
Augusit 3, 1878; died November
27, 1900.

John Price Sneed, • born Au-
gust 19, 1883.

Married Nellie Fitzhugh, June
20, 1906.

Louise Price Sneed, ' bom Au-
gust 4, 1907.

Martin Bailey, ninth of John
Bailey and Elizabeth Bandolph,
was bom near Bichmond, Vir-
ginia, on the * * Stonehenge ' * farm
during the year 1764. Like his
brother James he lived and died
in Virginia, near the place of his
birth, the scenes of his childhood,
and amid the associations of his
young manhood. February 24,
1794, he married Elizabeth Mayo,
third bom of Col. William Mayo,
of Bichmond, Va., and his wife
Catharine Swann. They raised
three sons and one daughter all of
whom married, lived and died in
Virginia.

Daniel Mayo Bailey, their first
born, married Jane Elizabeth Wat-
son in 1816. Two of the sons of
this couple, John Martin Bailey,
Jr., who married Elizabeth Jane
Steele in 1842, and Egbert Bailey,
who married Mary E. McAdon in
1854, migrated to Missouri about
1866 and settled at Weston where
they engaged in the banking busi-
ness as Bailey and Bailey. John
Martin Bailey, Jr., died in 1902.
His daughter Sadie Bailey mar-

ried H. G. QockriU, a lawyer, and
they are now residents of Sail
Jose, California, and her sister,
Pocahontas Bailey, married Bich-
ard Jacquimine a merchant of
Kansas Oity, Mo., who retired
from business a few years ago in
affluence.

Egbert Bailey is still at the head
of the banking firm at Weston,
Mo., and hie three children, Mrs.
Bertie Bailey Hardesty, Mrs.
Dixie Bailey Mayo and Daniel
Bailey reside there.

Elizabeth Jane Bailey, daugh-
ter of Daniel Mayo Bailey and
Jane Elizabeth Watson, married
in Virginia, in 1853, T. D. S.
Macdonell. Their two children,
Alexander Bailey Macdonell and
Jane Bandolph Macdonell, are
now residents of Sault St. Marie,
Mich.

John Martin Bailey, Sr., third
born of Martin Bailey and Eliza-
beth Mayo, married Mary Watson
in Virginia, in 1826. He was born
in 1800. His grandson, Branch
Bailey, is in businesis in Chicago.
Another grandson, Carter Harri-
son Bailey, was in business at
Covington, Ky., where he died a
few years ago leaving three sons;
and another grandson, Sterling
Price Bailey is a lawyer of Cov-
ington, Ky., where- he resides^
while still another grandson,
Cabell Breckinridge Bailey was in
business in Cincinnati where he
died a few years ago.

Lilbum Bogers Bailey was the
4th bom of Martin Bailey and
Elizabeth Mayo. He was bom ill
Virginia in 1804 and married Luc3*
Jane Burks in 1825. He lived and

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died in tl3.e vicinity of the old
* * Stonehenge " farm. He raised a
large family of children the most
of whom are at present residents
of Virginia. His son Col. John
Daniel Railey served throughout
the Civil War in behalf of the
Confederate cause. After the war
he settled at Waco, Texasi, where
he died during the year 1899. His
children and grandchildren are
residents of that state. Lilburn
Randolph Railey, son of Lilburn
Rogers Railey, married MoUie
Gordon in 1871 and they have a
son, Charles Gordon Railey, in
business in New Orleans.

The Rev. Fleming G. Railey was
another son of Lilburn Rogers
Railey. He was bom in 1848 and
married Sallie Goodloe Barclay in
1879. He was prepared for the
law and practiced some years but
his convictions finally lead him into
the ministry since which time he
has devoted all of his time to work
in the Presbyterian church. He is
at present located at Selma, Ala-
bama, and has in his possession
the Family Tree started by John
Railey and Elizabeth Randolph.
At the age of fifteen yearsj while
a fierce battle was raging on his
father's farm during 1863, he
joined the cause of the Confed-
eracy and fought valiantly until
General Lee surrendered. An in-
cident in his life that had both a
serious and an amusing side oc-
curred while he was pastor of the
church at Glasgow, Ky. The
young men of thkt town had or-
ganized, or rather raised a com-
ply of State Guards. No one in
the company was sufficiently ac-

quainted with military tactics to
drill the men and they finally per-
suaded the Rev. F. G. Railey to ac-
cept the captaincy until some one
of the company qualified. How-
ever, was was declared with Spain
in a few weeks after his election as
Captain and under the advice of
the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, of
Louisville, Ky., he w^t forward
as both captain and chaplain of
his company. Mrs. John A. Sneed
and her sister Ann Maria Railey,
daughters of Lilburn Rogers
Railey, are residents of Charlottes-
ville, Va. The children of James
Pleasants Railey, who married
Cornelia Burnley are residents of
Albermarle and Fauquier counties
in Virginia.

Martin Railey became the pos-
sessor of the * * Stonehenge ' ' estate
after the death of his father, John
Railey, in 1783 and he lived on
•the estate until 1806, when he
purchased **Buck Island," (after-
ward known as **Buena Vista '0
the old home of President Monroe
in Albermarle county, where he
lived the remainder of his life and
reared his family. At his death
** Stonehenge ' * was transferred to
his son, Lilburn Rogers Railey, in
whose possession it remained
until about the period of the Civil
War when it was sold to a syndi-
cate of capitalists of Pittsburg for
coal mining purposes. The old
house was destroyed during the
Civil War. The house was of the
colonial type built about 1750. It
was a large square house, built of
stone with large columns in front.
In or about 1770, owing to the in-
crease in the family, John Railey

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built an addition of brick in the
rear. It was situated on the Mid-
lothian road near Chesterfield
Court House.

CHAELES RAilLEY,

Tenth bom of John Bailey and
Elizabeth Bandolph. Married'
Mary Mayo. Their descendants
follow :

John Railey, ^ Elizabeth Ban-
dolph.

Charles Bailey, ^ bom October
26, 1766, died October 27, 1837.

Married Mary Mayo, April 4,
1796.

James Bailey, * bom March 11,
1797, died September 2, 1860.

Married Matilda S. Green, De-
cember 14, 1820.

Mary Elizabeth Bailey, * bom
January 5, 1824, died April 28,
1910.

Bev. Frederick W. Boyd, 1844.

James Bailey Boyd, ^ bom Aug-
ust 13, 1846, died May 17, 1901.

Frederick William' Boyd, ^ born
November 4, 1848, died November
3, 1871.

Married Lutie Temple, 1871.

Walter Stuart Boyd, • bom
November 9, 1859.

Loyd Tilghman Boyd, ^ bom De-
cember 19, 1861.

Married Susian A. Patterson,
1895.

KMherine Patterson Boyd, ®
bom April 14, 1896.

Mary Bailey Boyd, ® bom May
5, 1900.

Charleo Mayo Boyd, ' bom De-
cember 15, 1866, died Febmary 1,
1904.

James Green Bailey, * bom
September 30, 1826, died Febmary
27, 1854.

Married Annie Hoop, 1851.

Ernest H. Bailey, * born Jan-
uary 31, 1852.

Charles Bandolph Bailey, * bom
May 24, 1833.

Married Emma Laws, October
22, 1860.

Qhapman Bailey, * bom August

I, 1862, died unmarried.
Caroline Green Bailey, * bom

May 24, 1835, died June 20, 1855.

Madie Matilda Bailey, * bom
March 24, 1837, died March 25,
1856.

Hervie Otie Bailey, * bom
August 27, 1841,

Married Irene W. Green, 1863.

Frank Bailey, ^ bom February
6, 1864, died 1907.

Charles Bailey, Jr., * born Aug-
ust 3, 1798, died.

Married Jane Beames, July 26,
1819.

Charles Bandolph Bailey, *
born August 4, 1820, died Feb-
mary 6, 1889.

Married Ann Elizabeth Helm^
January 18, 1849.

Ann Maria Bailey, * born Jan-
uary 6, 1850, died July 14, 1900.

Married Dr. W. W. Black, Octo-
ber 31, 1883.

Charles Bailey Black, ® bom
August 13, 1884.

Ben j amine Wyly Black, ® bom
March 12, 1886.

Mayo Walton Black, ® bom May

II, 1888.

Jennie Bailey, ^ bom March 30,
1851.

Married Andrew Alfred Woods,
May 22, 1873.

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1 '

Charles Bailey Woods, ® bom
October 8, 1874.

Andrew Alfred Woods, Jr., ®
bom March 22, 1876.

0. Clarence Woods, ® bom Sep-
tember 8, 1877.

Elizabeth Helm Woods, ® bom
December 31, 1878.

Henry Newton Woods, ® bom
July 4, 1880.

James^ Brison Woods, ® bom
March 22, 1882.

William Bailey Woods, ' bom
November 22, 1885.

William Mayo Bailey, ^ born
March 8, 1861.

Married Lina L. Howell, April
21, 1887.

Mary L. Bailey, ® born August
3, 1888.

William Mayo Bailey, * bom
March 17, 1890.

Hilton Howell Bailey, ® bom
August 1, 1895.

Charles Bandolph Bailey, * bom
August 1, 1895.

James Alexander Bailey, * bom
June 22, 1822, died January 24,
1892.

Married Mary Barry, 1844.

Augustus Bandolph Bailey, ^
bom.

Married Mary J. Dorden.

Laura Bailey, * bom,

Thomas Bailey, ' bom.

Joseph Bailey, ^ bom.

Oharles Bailey. '

Bichard Bailey, * bom June 4,
1824, died 1840.

Lewis Clark Bailey, * bom Sep-
tember 25, 1827, died November
15, 1876.

Margaret Jane Bailey, * bom
October 25, 1829, died December
27, 1837.

Alexander Bailey, * bom Decem-
ber 2, 1831.

Edwin Bailey, * bom December
20, 1833, died 1837.

Ellen Bailey * bom- January 8,
1836, died November 18, 1841.

Catharine Swaim Bailey, * bom
January 2, 1800, died January 29,
1872.

Married John Steele, January)
18, 1816.

Agnes Winfield Steele, * bom
April 19, 1817, died July 28, 1837.

Married Thomas ^ F. Thornton,
January 15, 1835.

Susan Catharine Thornton, ^
bom September 6, 1836.

Married Sandy Brown, Decem-
ber 22, 1856.

Charles Bowland Brown, * bom
October 8, 1857.

Married, first Mamie Edwards,
May 4, 1886, niece of Mrs. Abe
Lincoln; second Grace M. Hatch.

B. Alexander Brown, "^ born
April 5, 1888.

Agnes Steele Rrown, ® bom
July 31, 1860.

GFeorge Adams Brown, ® bom
November 16, 1861.

Bobert Alexander Brown, ® bom
November 2, 1864.

Married Catharine Everhart„
November 22, 1893.

Catharine Louise Brown, ^ born
December 16, 1897.

Thornton Lee Brown, ® bom
March 16, 1870.

Married Laura M. Spicer, Aug-
ust 23, 1894.

Dorothy Thornton Brown, ^
born April 1, 1896.

Helen Margaret Brown, ^ born
June 7, 1899.

N«ncy Scott fiailey^ ^ bom Sep- John Hubbard Railey, ^ bom

tember ^9, 1801, died September, Ahigust 1, 1832, died 1845.

1875. Matilda Oreen Bailey, ^ bom

Married Allen Bowland, Decern- March 8, 1834.

ber 23, 1828. Married James Sanf ord Payne,

Margaret Bowland, * bom Octo- 1855, in Missouri,

ber 7, 1829, died 1887. William Vemon Payne, ^ bora

Married, first Bobert A. Bass, September 6, 1856.

1854, no issue; married, second Married Elizabeth Applegate,

Joel I. Lyle, November, 1886, no March 6, 1884, in Missouri,

issue. William A. Payne, ® bom 1886.

Charles Wesley Bowland, * bom Hazel Oro Payne, ® bom March

November 17, 1831. 26, 1889.

Married Virginia Green, 1854. Balph Glenn Payne, ® bom

Samuel Bailey, * born June 11, March 21, 1896.

1803, died October 27, 1884. Charles We&ley Payne, ^ bom

Married, first Martha Bowland, January 29, 1861.

Febmary 28, 1825; married, sec- Married Mary E. Sandusky^

ond Sarah Tucker, December 4, March 14, 1888.

1850. Buby Payne, « born July 20,

Mary Bailey, * bom April *4, 1889.

1826, died August 27, 1898. Maggie Payne, « born October

Married Dr. Burr Harrison 14, 1891.

Cox, October 7, 1845. William Payne, « bom Septem-

Mary Jane Cox, ^ bom October ber 26, 1893.

13, 1846. Lucy Payne, « bom March 8,

( • ^

Married B. H. Gunn, October 1895.

10, 1871, no iissiue. Albert Payne, « bom Septem-

Samuel Turner Cox, ^ bom Sep- ber 16, 1897.

tember 20, 1850. Catharine Payne, ^ bom July

Ora Cox, ^ bom September 2, 12, 1900.

1887. Delia Payne, « bom April 13,

Married Bev. Oyras N. Broad- 1908.

hurst, March 2, 1887. Emily Bailey, * bom December

Cyrus N. Broadhurst, Jr.,« bom 2, 1828, died November 11, 1853.

July 24, 1888. Married Joel I. Lyle, December

Wesley Harris Bailey, * bom 4, 1849, in Versailles, Ky.

June 24, 1827, died in Oalifomia, Marion T. Lyle, ^ bom August

1883. 5, 1851.

Buth Ajnn Bailey, * bom July Married Mary Anderson Thom-

27, 1830. ton. May 3, 1882.

Married, first George Edgar Samuel Lindsey Bailey, ^ bom

Moore, September 25, 1855, in October 23, 1835, died in youth.

Versailles, Ky.; married second Francis Bailey, * bom Novem-

William A. Jack, in Cass Co., Mo. ber 21, 1837.

Jlctflitor 9ff tiM KftaHielcy Mflto Mitorical AooMy.

121

Manied Edward T. Payne, 1655
in MifiBoiirL

M. Douglas Payney ^ bom April
12, 1856.

Married Lola fiiggins.

ITathaiL Payne. ^

Fannie Payne, ®

Atnnie Payne. •

Sallie Payne. •

Lee Payne. ®

Edward Payne. •

Mary Payne. ®

Martha Ann Payne, ^ born April
9, 1861, died 1878.

Married Oampbell Williams.

Nathan Payne, ^ bom April 9,
186L

Married Mary Weyman, no is-
aae.

Watson Bailey, * bom Septem-
Jber 11, 1839.

Thornton Railey, * bom Ang-
.nst 6, 1841, died nnniarried.

Henry Newell Bailey, * bom
-October 26, 1851.

Married Delia Edith Conrtney,
September 22, 1890.

Oomelia Bailey, ^ bom April

14, 1892.

Samfuel Bailey, ^ bom July 25,
1896.

John Bailey, • bom September
19, 1906.

Margaret Kavanangh Bailey, *
bom December 13, 1853.

Charlotte Bailey, ® bom March
29, 1905 ; died January 31, 1882.

Married Davy Thornton, June
3, 1823, at Versailles, Ky.

Mary Eleanor Thornton, * bom
August 10, 1824.

Married David I. Porter, June

15, 1841, at Versailles, Ky.
Alice Porter, * bom September

26, 1842.

Married James M. Prestton,
Aiigust 23, 1664, at Versailles, Ky.

Mary Louise Preston, ^ born
July 11, 1865.

juarried Eev. Qharles N.
GfDulder, June 17, 1890, in Cali-
fornia.

Alice Goulder, ^ bom August
31, 1891.

Buth Goulder, ^ bom July 27,
1896.

Ernest Preston Goulder, ^ bom
April 22, 1901.

James William Goulder, ^ bom
April 22, 1901.

Hontas Preston, ® bom March
13, 1868.

Married William Shearer, July
11, 1888, in Oalifornia.

Gertrude Alice Shearer, ^ bom
June 11, 1889.

MellviUe Preston Shearer, ^
born December 23, 1891.

Leonora Shearer, ^ bom June
15, 1900.

Charlotte Preston, • bom Aug-
ust 24, 1870.

Bobert Irvine Preston, ® bom
November 28, 1872.

Thornton Porter Preston, •
bom December 10, 1874.

Married Mra Ida Wood, Octo-
ber 25, 1897.

James Oak Preston, • bom Sep-
.tember 30, 1877.

Married Helen Campbell, Octo-
bo- 19, 1900.

Woodford Campbell Preston, ^
bom August 30, 1901.

Martha Elowise Preston, "^ bom
July 20, 1903.

Alice Preston, • bom May 24,
1881, died January 19, 1886.

Eleanor Preston, ® born T': .
mary 6, 1884.

122

Thornton Porter, * bom July!
13, 1845, MUed at the baUle of
Vicksburg tinder command of
General Sterling Price, June 24,
1863.

Edward Lacey Porter, ^ bom
November 20, 1847.

Married Sallie Bbulden, Sep-
tember 28, 1870, in Pettius Co.,
Mo.

David Irvine Porter, ® bom Aug-
ust 8, 1871.

Married Jennie McFarland, De-
cember, 1900.

Edwin Clark Porter, ® born
May 28, 1873.

Married Susan Sparba.

Thornton Porter, • bom Jan-
uary 25, 1875.

Qiarles Porter, ® born August
24, 1877.

Bettie Porter, • bom May 20,
1879.

Woodford Porter, ® bom July 9,
1881, died December 8, 1901.

Mary Porter, * born November
13, 1849.

Married Daniel Cooper, May 22,
1867, at Versailles, Ky.

Thornton Cooper, ® born March
12, 1869.

Married Mary Louise King, De-
cember 11, 1902.

Mary Eleanor Cooper, '^ bom
July 1, 1905, died September 13,
1909.

John Daniel Cooper, ^ bom
April 30, 1907.

Charles Eandolph Porter, •
bom October 18, 1852, died May
23, 1876.

Married Elizabeth Bennett, Jan-
uary 7, 1875, at San Antonio, Tex.

Elfreda Oak Porter, ^ bom De-
cember 26, 1854.

Married Frederick Madeira, De-
cember 22, 1880, at Versailles, Ky.

Pauline Madeira, ^ bom May 7,
1883.

Married Dr. Andrew D. Hoidale,
December 27, 1905, at Kansas City,
Mo.

Porter Madeira Hoidale, ^ bom
January 16, 1910.

Louise Madeira, ® born Novem-
ber 26, 1887.

Married Herman Raymond
Seiter, May 2, 1907, at Kansas
Qty, Mo.

Herman Eidgely Seiter, ^ bom
March 9, 1909.

Pauline Porter, ^ bom Aligust
15, 1861, died May 5, 1892.

Married James Montgomery,
October 14, 1886, in Missouri.

Oak Montgomery, • born April
5, 1889.

Married Granville Blackburn,
March 22, 1909, in Missouri.

Paul Montgomery, ® born De-
cember 5, 1890.

Elizabeth Thornton, * bom Sep-
tember 19, 1827.

Married Ulysses. Turner, May
24, 1849, at Versailles, Ky.

Charlotte Turner, ^ born Octo-
ber 25, 1851.

Married Joseph Marshall Bow-
mar, June 15, 1876, at Versailles,

Ky.

Charlotte Thornton Bowmar, •
bom July 19, 1877.

Married WTiitley Sessions, June
8, 1904.

Charlotte Whitley Sessions, ^
bom Febmary 22, 1905.

Fannie Adams Bowmar, • bom
March 21, 1880.

Married Herman Bowmar, Sep-
tember 9, 1903.

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Elizabeth Bowmar, ® bom De-
cember 9, 1881.

Married George Taylor Fish-
back, June 12, 1906.

George Taylor Fishback, Jr., ^
born March 18, 1907.

Catharine 0. Fishback, ^ bom
April 12, 1908.

Catharine Hunter Bowmar, *
bom April 2, 1884.

Lester Turner, ^ born July 23,
1853.

Married Annie Eoe, June 1,
1876, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Charles Edwin Turner, • bom
March 8, 1877, died April 23, 1896.

Anna Turner, • bom May 12,

1878.

Lester N. Turner, • bom March
26, 1881.

EUa Steele Turner, * born May

15, 1855.

Hontas Virginia Turner, ^ bom
Febmary 16, 1857.

Edwin Thornton Turner, ^ bom
December 28, 1858, died March 6,
1885.

Fannie Turner, * bom October

16, 1860.

Mary Logan Turner, ^ born Oc-
tober 10, 1863.

Married William 0. Davis, Feb-
ruary 22, 1887, in Versailles, Ky.

Charlotte Railey Davis, • bom
December 12, 1887.

Ulysses Turner, Jr., ^ bom
A'pril 24, 1866.

Married, first Genevieve Mc-
Dougal, July, 1894; married sec-
ond Annabel Scearse, June 18,
1908.

Harry McDougal Turner, ® bom
January 3, 1899.

James T. Thomton, * bom June
29, 1834.

Married Mary Simpson, Octo-
ber 2, 1855.

Elizabeth Thornton, ^ bom Aug-
ust 19, 1856.

Married John James Stevens^
December 3, 1879, in San Antonio,
Texas.

Mary Stevens, ® born December

1880.

Married Claude Spingall, in

San Antonio, Texas.
Mary Thomton Spingall. ''
Thomton Stevens, « born July

31, 1882.

Married Mae Douglass, in San-
Antonio, Texas.

John James Stevens, Jr., « bom
November 19, 1883.

Married Katharine Douglas, in
San Antonio, Texas.

John James Stevens, m. ^

Dourfas Stevens. "^

Bettie Stevens, • bom July 16,
1887.

Married Raymond Keller, in
San Antonio, Texas.

Raymond Keller, Jr. ^

Eleanor Stevens, ® born Decem-
ber 15, 1892.

James Simpson Thomton, *
born April 2, 1861.

Married Catharine Foster, De-
cember 20, 1882, in San Antonio,
Texas.

Minnie Thomton. ®
Charlotte Thomton. •
Charlotte Thornton, ^ bom
April 10, 1865.

Mary Thomton, " bom August
3, 1871.

Eleanor Thomton, ^ bom April
22, 1876.

RKOtattr 9/1 tb# K^oUieky SUtt i4J«jterical SoQloty.

Qontas Thomtou, ^ l)om Sep-
tember 14, 1837.

Married Edwin S- Oraig, No-
vember 18, 1873, in Versailles, Ky.,
no issue.

Edwin Klavanaugh Thornton, *
bom November 4, 1840.

Married Lucrecia L. Hobbs,
May 2, 1861.

Wilbur Hobbs Thornton, • bom
March 12, 1862.

Married Laura Hiter, 1884, at
Versailles, Ky.

David Thornton, ' bom March
28, 1864.

Married Oatharine Haley, Jan-
uary 21, 1885, at Kansas Qity, Mo.

Mabel Thornton, ® bom Feb-
mary 11, 1886.

Married William Clay Arnold,
December 19, 1906.

Stanley Thornton, ^ bom Sep-
tember 27, 1867, died January ^3,
1894.

Married Virginia Woodson^ Oc-
tober 3, 1888, at Kan&as City, Mo.

Woodson Stanley Thornton, ®
bom October 15, 1890.

James Thornton, ^ bom Jui/ 2,

1870.

Edwin Thornton, ^ bom Feb-
raary 16, 1876.

Woodford Bailey Thornton, *
bom Auguist 19, 1844.

Married Lucy Dupuy Bailey,
May 22, 1866.

Charles Bandolph Thornton, *
born July 11, 1847, died un-
married.

Margaret Crittenden Bailey, •
bom January 5, 1807, died Octo-
ber 7, 1863.

Married, first William Green,

December 8, 1825, of Mississippi;
married, second Bishop H. H.
Kavanaugh, July 24, 1828.

Charles William Eiavanaugh, *
died young.

David Ella Kbvanaugh, * died
young.

Ben j amine Taylor Kavanaugh,^
died young.

John Hubbard Kavanaugh, *
died young.

Lewis C)|lark Bailey, ® bom De-
cember 27, 1808; died September
29, 1891.

Married Susan Mary Hardin,
August 16, 1830, at Harrodsburg,
Ky.

Martin H. Steele Bailey, * bom
June 19, 1831, died Febmary 13,
1888.

Married Maggie Templeton,
November 3, 1875, at Pueblo, Col-
orado.

Mary Hardin Bailey, ^ bom
November 10, 1877.

Married Irving Bliss Esmay,
November 1, 1905.

Susan Emory Bailey, * bom
September 15, 1832, died Septem-
ber 8, 1876.

Elizabeth White Bailey, * bom
November 9, 1833, died young.

Lewis dark Bailey, ^ born De-
Febmary 27, 1835.

Married Maggie Lee Patton, De-
cember 31, 1873, at Pueblo, Colo.

Bertie Hardin Bailey, ^ bom
May 6, 1875.

Josephine Bailey, * bom Aug-
ust 21, 1837.

Mark Hardin Bailey, * bom De-
cember 17, 1839.

. Married, first Martha Bandolph
Slaughter, January 15, 1868, in

lltftf Itft^ df tM i(€ittvl€ky tttM fntioi1e«l Aoelffy.

^exae; married, decbnd Ctemin-
tine Brown, 1880.

<*ary Sl«ug!lter fiailey, • born
Febfuary 16, 1869.

Married George Freeman
Schroeter, Febniary 16, 1893, of
I'exasL

Pattie Schroeter, • born Feb-
fnary 3, 1894. died young.

William Freeman Schroeter^ •
torn February 3, 1896.

Mark Lewis Schroeter, ® torn
September 26, 1897. .

Lnla Agnes Schroeter, • born
October ll. 1899.

Siisie Mae Schroeter, ® bom
April 15, 1902.

Hallie Emory Schroeter, ® born
May 3, 1904.

Qeorge Eailey Schroeter, * bom
December 18, 1905.

John Slaughter Eailey, ^ bom
February 13, 1871, died October
14, 1876.

Martin Hardin Eailey, Jr., •
bom April 1, 1872.

Married Daisy Speilman, Sep-
tember 29, 1894.

Mary Agnes Eailey, ® bom Jan-
uary 12, 1896.

Bonnie B. Eailey. •

Q-abriel Webster Eailey, ^ bom
May 31, 1874.

Married Beatricia Barton, Jan-
uary 1, 1896.

Eoy Eailey, « bom 1901.

Sarah Pleasants Eailey, ^ bom
September 23, 1876. Married Wil-
liam Pope LeMaster, Oct 18, 1905,
at Denver, Colo.

Nathaniel Field LeMaster, ®
bom April 22, 1909.

Tarleton Eailey, • bom Septem-
ber 1, 1810, died August 21, 1879.

Mai^i^, drst Sar^h McBrayer^
October 27, 1835, at Lawrenceburif,
Ky.j mairried second Mary W.
Blackwell, August 15, 1839, Law-
renceburg, K^^.

Mary Aim Eailey, * bom Feb-
ruary 17, 1838, died April 9, 1887.

Married Dr. Alfred Baxter
Sloan, t)ecember 20, 1855, at
Harrisonville, Mo,

Charles Clarence Sloan, ^ bom
October 18, 1856.

lUfarried, first Mary Townsend
Addams, November 27, 1878, in
Missouri; married second Helen
Gordon Brown, June, 1908, in Mo.

Edith Terrill Sloan, « bom, 1879.

Married Charles Gregory
Hutcheson, January 5, 1902, in
Missouri.

Elizabeth Hutcheson, ^ bom
September 12, 1903.

Charles Gregory Hucheson,
Jr., ^ bom May 31, 1907.

Martha Brown Sloan, • bom
October 16, 1909.

Sarah Lee Sloan, ^ bom April
3, 1859.

Married William Eankin "Sof^
sett, May 11, 1881, in Missouri.

William Sloan Hogsett, ® bont
September 29, 1883.

Married Sadie Estelle Cook,
March 11, 1908, in Missouri.

Dr. Eobert Tferleton Sloan, ^
born March 30, 1861.

Married Carrie Eoberta Parks,
May 25, 1887, in Kansas City, Mo.

Mary Eoberta Sloan, ® bom
May 17, 1888.

Helen Ewing Sloan, ® bom April
18, 1897.

Eoberta Tarleton Sloan, • bom
March 10, 1901.

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fiowland Boggess Sloan, • bom
December 29, 1866.

Alfred McOready Sloan, ' bom
July 10, 1870.

Married Edith Maude Bascom,

1902, in Missouri.

Olive J. Sloan, ® bom October
18, 1903.

Edith Bascom Sloan, • bom De-
cember 4, 1904.

Eoberta Lee Sloan, ® bom May
7, 1907.

Alice Patton Sloan, ^ born De-
cember 3, 1875.

Married William Sheldon Small-
wood, October 26, 1905, in Mis-
souri.

Sarah Elizabeth Railey, * bom
May 14, 1840, died December 19,

1903. Married Richard Gates
Boggess, January 20, 1860, in Cass
Co., Mo.

Earie Montrose Boggess. *^

Married Hattie Gough.

Leonidas C9ay Railey, * bom
Febraary 6, 1843, died July 26,
1871.

Robert; Tarieton Railey, * bom
January 19, 1850.

Married Martha Stuart Beatty,
September 3, 1874, in Harrison-
ville, Mo.

Thomas Tarieton Railey, " bom
Febraary, 1885.

Catharine Steele Railey, * bom
Febmary 6, 1853.

Married James E. Hocker, Feb-
mary 25, 1873, in Cass Co., Mo.

Leonidas Oates Hocker, ^ bom
November 21, 1873.

Married Mary Norris Berry,
June 15, 1904.

Edward Berry Hocker, ® bom
November 19, 1908.

Lon 0. Hocker, ® bom May 20,
1910.

Logan Railey, " bom February
17, 1813, died October 28, 1891.

Married Harriet M. Rowland,
June 19, 1836, in Versailles, Ky.

Belle Bailey, * born December

17, 1840, died April 28, 1884.
Married William G. Stone, May

21, 1861, at Versailles, Ky.

William Haydon Stone, ^ bom
1862.

Mary Hadley Stone. ^

Charles Logan Stone. ^

Married Reba Athey, Novem-
ber 26, 1890, at Covington, Ky.

Reba Athey Stone. •

Charles Logan Stone. ®

Cornelia Lyle Stone. ^

Cornelia Railey, * bom March
15, 1843, died October 31, 1881.

Married Joel Irvine Lyle, Feb-
raary 8, 1869.

J. Irvine Lyle, ^ bom February
14, 1874.

Married Elizabeth Biggarstaff,
December 23, 1901.

Cornelia Elizabeth Lyle, ® bom
September 22, 1902.

Joel Irvine Lyle, Jr., « bom
May 3, 1906.

Ernest Thornton Lyle, ^ born
December 6, 1879.

Married Grace Boynton, April

18, 1906.

Cornelius Railey Lyle, ^ bom
October 10, 1881.

Married Marie Leslie Brower,
June 2, 1908.

Charles Logan Railey, * bom
At)ril 17, 1844.

Married Ada Pepper, Novem-
ber 4, 1868.

127

Charles Elmer Bailey, ^ bom
August 18, 1869.

Married, first Mary Belle
Bradley, November 29, 1894;
married, second Elise Kane Castle-
man, April 20, 1904.

Bradley Stone Bailey, ® born
October 4, 1897.

Charles Logan Bailey, Jr., ®
bom June 21, 1905.

Elise Bailey, • bom May 17,
1909.

Ada Bailey, ^ bom May 19,
1871.

Married David Oastleman, De-
cember 23, 1902.

Ada Mayo Castleman, • bom
March 20, 1905.

Annette Bailey, * born, 1875.

Married Dr. Charles Stuart
Elliott, March 17, 1898.

E. Bayard Bailey, ^ born Sep-
tember 20, 1882.

Married Sue Metcalfe, July 19,
1904.

Bussell Bailey, * bom February

6, 1850, died September 1, 1911.

Married Elizabeth Walker, De-
cember 24, 1903.

Irvine Bailey, * born June 24,
1853.

Married Mrs. Victor Gray, (Nee
Morancey), January 2, 1900.

Agnes Morancey Biailey, ^ bom
January 24, 1906.

Hattie Bailey, * bom July 1,
1855.

Married Edward Ward, May,
1881.

Boberta Ward, ^ bom Septem-
ber 18, 1882.

Married W. Lacey Kirtley, Sep-
tember 28, 1904.

Elizabeth Bailey Kirtley, bom
June 28, 1905.

Boberta Ward Kirtley, bom
September 27, 1907.

Logan Bailey Ward, ^ bom Sep-
tember 29, 1884.

Married Katharine Weisenbach,
1908.

Logan Ward, bom July, 4, 1909.

A'nna Davis Ward, ^ bom Sep-
tember 19, 1888.

Married E. E. Hughes, Novem-
ber 11, 1904.

Edward Ward Hughes, bom
August 22, 1905.

Margaret Ward Hughes, bom
December 26, 1907. '

Thomas Elliott Hughes, bom
May 7, 1911.

Martin Bailey, * bom January

18, 1815, died September 23, 1837.

Francis Sweeney Bailey, ^ bom
November 17, 1816, died August

19, 1843.

Charles Bailey, tenth of John
Bailey and Elizabeth Bandolph,
was bom on * * Stonehenge ' * farm,
near Bichmond, Va., in 1766. He
and his brother, Bandolph Bailey,
came to Kentucky about 1793, and
he located near Versailles, Ky.,
on a farm adjoining the farm of
his brother William Bailey. After
making all necessary prepara-
tions for a comfortable future, he
returned to Virginia, in 1796 to
marry the girl who had looked up-
on him with favor before he left
the old Virginia home. This lady
was Mary Mayo, fourth of Col.
William Mayo and Catharine
Swann, of Bichmond. Although
his brother Martin Bailey had
married her sister two years be-

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n9flt9/t§t #f tiM Kdiflusly

fom without parental ^Tectioa it
was not so in the cade of Charles
Sailey, as the family frowned np-
on the thought of their daughter,
Mary^ being taken over the moun-
tains to the wilderness beyond, as
Kentucky was called at that period
by all Virginians east of the **Bhie
Ridge/' They dreaded the dan-
gers one must encounter owing to
the numerous tribes of savages
that had been driven to the inter-
ior as a result of the Revolution.
So determined was this opposition
to their daughter going to Ken-
tucky, that an elopement wsls
planned to take place from a ball
given by the young men of Rich-
mond, Va., on a night in April,
1796. Their plans were well exe-
cuted and as a result the marriage
occurred on the fourth day of
April, 1796. They came to Ken-
tucky during the following summer
and entered upon life's duties on
''Buck Eun" farm in the old
Eailey neighborhood, near Ver-
sailles, where they spent a long,
useful and happy life, rearing a
large family of children to bless
their old age. Russell Railey is
the present owner of ''Buck Run''
estate which passed to him
through his father Logan Railey,
tenth of Charles Railey and Mary
Mayo.

Charles Railey served a term in
the Kentucky Legislature as the
representative of Woodford coun-
ty, during the 40 's, but he posi-
tively refused ever afterward to
run for office. Their eldest son,
James Railey cast his lot in Miss-
issippi at an early age where he

OLorried Matilda £L Green^ tiie
daughter of a weaiiky planter oi
that State. Miiry Eliza Baiky,
the eldest bom of this couple^
married the Bev. Frederick W.
Boyd, a minister of the Episcopal
ehurch, in 1844. This couple rais-
ed four sons, one of whom Loyd
Tilghman Boyd is the pre&^ent
publisher of the Milwaukee Jour-
nal, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Charles Blailey^ Jr., the 2nd of
Chas. Railey and Mary Mayo,
settled in New Orleans at the age
of eighteen years where he married
Jane Reams soon thereafter. The
eldest son of this couple, Charles
Randolph Railey, married Eliz-
abeth Helm, of Natchez, Miss., and
their three children, Ann Maria
Railey who married Dr. W. W.
Black, Jennie Railey who married
Andrew AL Woods, and William
Mayo Railey who married Lina
Howell, are residents of New Or-
leans. William Mayo Railey is at
the head of a large marine and
fire insurance business that takes
in several states along the Gulf
Coast. Other children and grand-
children of Charles Railey, Jr.,
and Mary Reams live in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Texas.

Catharine Swann Railey, the
3rd of Charles Railey and Mary
Mayo was born near Versailles,
Ky., in 1800, and married John
Steele, of Versailles, Ky., in 1816.
Their daughter, Agnes Winfleld
Steele, who was the only child, v^as
bom in Woodford County, Ky., in
1817 and married Thomas F.
Thornton, of Versailles, in 1835,
and their daughter, an only child.

129

Susan Catharine Thornton, was
born in 1836. She married Sandy
Brown, of Versailles, Ky., in 1856.
They lived in St. Louis, Mo., for
many years, where Mr. Brown was
in business, but the family now
reside at Joplin, Mo. Mrs. Brown
has quite a good deal of family
data and is a most estimable wo-
man.

Nancy Scott Bailey, 4th of
Oharles Bailey and Mary Mayo,
was bom in Woodford county, 1^.,
in 1801, and married Allen Bow-
land, of that county, in 1828. Their
son, Oharles Wesley Bowland,
married Virginia Green and was
one of Cincinnati's business men
for many years.

Samuel Bailey, 5th of Charles
Railey and Mary Mayo, married
first Martha Bowland at Ver-
sailles, Ky., and second, Sallie
Tucker, of Paris, Ky. Their de-
scendants all live in Missouri and
possess much data relative to
their ancestors.

Charlotte Bailey, 6th of Charles
Railey and Mary Mayo, was bom
in Woodford county, in 1805 and
married David Thornton in lft23.
David Thornton was a banker at
Versailles, Ky., for many years
and served Woodford county in
both branches of the Kentucky
Legislature. Their eldest daugh-
ter, Eleanor Thornton, married
David I. Porter, of Versailles, Ky.,
in 1841. She is still living at the
advanced age of eighty-six years,
with her daughter, Mrs. Daniel
Cooper, at Sedalia, Mo., and al-
though quite old her mind is won-
derfully clear and much of the

H. R— 9.

data concerning the Bandolphs,
Mayos and Baileys was furnished
by her as she received it from her
grandparents and others of the
old Baileys in person. All of
her Kentucky relatives remember
her as a woman of many lovable
traits of character. Her descend-
ants are in Missouri, Texas and
California. Elizabeth Thornton
was the second of David Thornton
and Charlotte Bailey. She mar-
ried Ulysses Turner, a lawyer of
Versailles, Kjy., in 1849. The most
of their descendants live at Ver-
sailles, Ky. Their daughter, Mary
Logan Turner, married William 0.
Davis, an attorney of Versailles,
Ky. Hontas Thornton, fourth of
David Thornton and Charlotte
Bailey, married Edwin S. Craig,
an attorney at Versailles, Ky.

Edwin Kavanaugh Thornton and
Woodford Bailey Thornton, sons
of David and Charlotte Thornton,
were for many years bankers at
Kansas City, Mo., where their sons
are now connected with banking in-
stitutions.

Margaret Crittenden Bailey was
the 7th of Charles Bailey and Mary
Mayo. She married Bishop H. H.
K}avanaugh, of the Methodist
Church, at Versailles, Ky., in 1828.

Lewis Clark Bailey was the 8th
of Charles Bailey and Mary Mayo^
He married Susan Mary Hardin^
of Harrodsburg, Ky., in 1830. His
descendants live in Colorado, New
Mexico and Texas.

Tarleton Bailey was the 9th of
Charles Bailey and Mary Mayo.
He was twice married, first to
Sarah McBrayer, of Lawrence-^

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RegMcr of thg K«iiloeliy •!■*• Hlolorioal •ooletjr.

burg, Ky., and second to Mary W.
Blackwell, of the same town, his
second wife being a neice of his
first wife. He located at Harrison-
ville, Mo., before the Civil War
where h^ raised an interesting
family. His daughter, Mary Ann
Bailey, married Dr. Alfred Bax-
ter Sloan at Harrisonville, Mo., in
1855, and their eon, Dr. Bobert
Tarleton Sloan, is one of the lead-
ing physicians of Kansas City,
where he married* Carrie Boberta
Parks in 1882. WilUam Sloan
Hogsett, a lawyer of Kansas City,
is a grandson of Dr. Alfred Bax-
ter Sloan and Mary Ann Bailey.

Bobert Tarleton Bailey, son of
Tarleton Bailey and Mary Black-
well, married Mary Stuart Beatty,
daughter of Dr. Thomas Stuart
Beatty, in 1874. He is a lawyer
and is the general attorney
of the Missouri Pacific and
Iron Mountain railroads with
headquarters at St. Louis. His
son, Thomas Tarlton Bailey,
is also a lawyer. Having known
Bobert Tarleton Bailey from
childhood I must say that he
is universally esteemed for his
manlinese and high character.

Catharine Steele Bailey was the
youngest of the children of Tarl^
ton Blailey and Mary Blackwell.
She married James E. Hooker at
Harrisonville, Mo., in 1873, and
their only son, Leonidas Gates
Hocker, is one of the leading law-
yers of St. Louis. He married
Mary Norris Berry in 1904.

Logan Bailey was the 10th of
Charles Bailey and Mary Mayo.
He married Harriet M. Bowland

in VeiBaillefi, in 1836. He lived,
until his death, on '^Buck Bun*'
farm, the old home of his father
and his son Bussell Bailey is the
present owner of the estate.

Now to make plain the relation-
ship of the Biaileys to the Mayos
you must understand that Martin
and Charles Bailey, two sons of
John Bailey and Elizabeth Ban-
dolph, married Elizabeth and Mary
Mayo, daughters of Col. William
Mayo and Catharine Swann, of
Biohmond, Va. Joseph Bandolph
Bailey, nephew of Martin and
Charles Bailey, Married Nancy
M&yo who was a sister of Eliz-
abeth and Mary Mayo. William
Mayo, Jr., who was a brother of
these three girls married Caroline
Fleming Pleasants, daughter of
Mathew Pleasants and Anna
Bailey.

«*i

BANDOLPH BAILEY

Eleventh bom of John Bailey
and Elizabeth Bandolph. Married,
first, Mary Elizabeth Kteith; sec-
ond, Martha Pleasants. Their de^
scendants :

John Bailey ^ Elizabeth Ban-
dolph.

Bandolph Bailey, * bom May 14,
1770; died May 28, 1837.

Married, first, Elizabeth K^th,
1800; second, Martha Pleasants,
1819.

Isham Keith Bailey, ' bom 1801 ;
died 1803.

Boone Bailey, • bom October 26,
1820; died March 28, 1869.

Married Elizabeth Wheeler,
June 14, 1853.

•f Ih^ H%nt»ukr ttilft HlttariMl SMMyi,

ISl

Bandolidi Baiiey^ ^ bom 1854;
<Eed 1860.

Samuel Wheeler Bailey, ^ bora
February 16, 185&

Anna Bailey, ^ born April 29,
1860.

Married John Oalhoun Bnrnetty
November 16, 1883.

Gilbert Burnett, ^ bora October
8, 1887.

l^eodore L. Burnett, ^ born
January 1, 1890.

The posterity of Band^ijA
Bailey, the 11th born of John
Bailey and Elisabeth Bandolph,
occupies less space than is re-
quired for each of his brothers and
sisters. He was born on the
**Stonehenge'* farm in Chester-
field county, Virginia, and edu-
cated at Bichmond. The date of
his birth was 1770. He accom-
panied his brother Charles Bailey,
who came to Kentucky about 1793,
and they both settled in Woodford
county on farms adjacent to their
brother William. The home of
Bandolph Bailey was known as
* * Oanebreak. ' * This farm passed
out of the hands of the family
about ten years after the Civil
War. Bandolph Bailey first mar-
ried his cousin Mary Elizabeth
Keith, second bom of Captain
Isham Keith and Charlotte Ash-
more. The marriage ceremony
was performed at the home of Gen-
eral Humphrey Marshall, whose
wife was her first cousin. Only one
child blessed this union. Both
mother and child died within a
short period after the birth of the
latter. Bandolph Bailey's second
marriage was to his cousin Martha

Bandolph Pleasants. She was also
9 cousin, to hia first wife. Martha
Bandolph Pleasants was the 2nd
bom of James Pleasants and
Anna Bandolph and hence a sister
of Gtov. James Pleasants, of Vir-
ginia. Many of the older descend*
ants of the Baileys now living re-
member Bandolph Bailey and his
wife Pattie, as she was familiarly
known,, with muek pleasure. Many
have written of the hospitable old
home and speak of the old couple
in affectionate terms. Their
grandson, Samuel Wheeler Bailey,
is an attomey-at-law and has been
connected with the legal depart-
ment of the United States Treas-
ury at Washington City since
1886. His motto is liberty,
and hence he has never married.
He spends his vacations in travel-
ing and has made several trips
abroad besides taking in many
of the interesting points in
America. His presence would
assure you that he knew the
most fashionable tailor in the
community, and the writer knuws
that he is familiar with the best
hostelries. His sister, Anna
Bailey, married Mr. John Cal-
houn Burnett, a lawyer of Louis-
ville, Ky., and has several inter-
esting children. Chi^rles and Ban-
dolph Bailey accompanied their
brother William Bailey and his
wife, Judith Woodson, to Kien-
tucky. In the company was also
their sister Jane. Several other
Virginians whose names I do not
recall were in the company and all
settled in Kentucky.

Now to sum up the Bandolph re-
lationship you will understand that

132

the mother of these eleven chil-
dren was Elizabeth Randolph.
Thomas, William and Isham
Bailey married three of the daugh-
ters of Col. John Woodson and
his wife Dorothy Randolph. Ran-
dolph Railey's first wife was a
granddaughter of Mary Isham
Randolph and the Rev. James
Keith. His second wife was a
daughter of Anna Randolph and
James Pleasants, of ** Contention '*
and a sister of Governor James
Pleasants of Virginia. Elizabeth,
Dorothy and Anna Randolph were
daughters of Col. Isham Randolph
and Jane Rogers, and hence sis-
ters, of Thomas Jefferson's mother,
Jane Randolph. Mary Isham Ran-
dolph was a daughter of Thomas
Randolph and Judith Fleming.
The writer of these notes is
descended from Elizabeth and
Dorothy and also from Mary
Isham Randolph. Samuel Wheeler
Railey is descended from Eliza
beth and Anna Randolph.

The Strothers and their Railey
connections :

William Strother, ^ died 1702.

Married Dorothy (Strother).

Jeremiah Strother, ^ died 1741.

Married Eleanor (Strother).

Francis Strother, » of ''St.
Marks Parrish.'*

Married Susanna Dabney.

William Strother, * of ' ' Orange * '
bom 1728; died 1808.

Married, first, Sarah Pannill,
1751 (widow of Wm. Pannill) ;
second, Anna Kavanaugh. (No
issue.) (Widow of Philemon Kav-
anaugh).

William Dabney Strother, "^ an
oflScer in Revolution killed at bat-
tle of Guilford C. H.

Susanna Strother. '

Married, first, Capt. Moses Haw-
kins; second, Thomas Coleman.

William Strother Hawkins, •
bom June 1, 1772, died October
6, 1858.

Married Catharine Keith, Octo-
Ifr 14, 1802.

Catharine Keith Hawkins, ^ bom
October 18, 1825, died June 22,
1902.

Married Richard Henry Railey,
February 25, 1852.

William; Edward Railey, ® bom
December 25, 1852.

Married Annie H. Owsley, May
26, 1886.

Jennie Farris Railey, • bora
June 28, 1887.

Sarah Strother. ^

Married Col. Richard Taylor.

General Zachary Taylor, ® Presi-
dent, 1848.
Married Margaret Smith.

William Strother, the progeni-
tor of this line, is supposed to
have died about 1702. He was of
Northumberland county, Virginia,
where he settled on the Rappa-
hannock river near Fredricks-
burg about 1650. He had several
brothers of whose descendants I
have no record. He and his wife,
Dorothy, reared six children. His
will is of record in Richmond coun-
ty, afterward King George county,
and is dated 1700, his estate being
devised to his wife Dorothv for
life and then to his sons, William,
James, Jeremiah, Robert, Benja-
mine and Joseph. The above Jere-

133

miah married Eleanor — He lived
in that part of Orange county that
afterwards became Culpepper,
where he died in 1741. His will
was proven by J. Slaughter,
John Catlett and Wm. Lighffoot
and his estate was devised to his
wife Eleanor for life. They reared
eight children whose names were
James, William of ^'Stafford,"
Francis of **St. Marks,'' Jere-
miah, Jr.; Ohristopher, Catharine,

Elizabeth and . His

two eldest sons, James and Wil-
liam, of '^Stafford,'' (so-called
afterward to distinguish him
from his nephew William, of
** Orange,") were the executors of
his will. Many distinguished peo-
ple were descended from these
eight children. James married
Margaret French; William, of
* ^ Stafford, ' ' married Margaret
Watts and they were blessed with
thirteen daughters whose descend-
ants added much to Virginia's
social and political lustre.

Francis, of *'St. Marks," mar-
ried Susanna Dabney, and Jere-
miah, Jr., married Catharine Kim-
berly.

Frances, of St. Marks, who
married Susanna Dabney, daugh-
ter of John Dabney and Sarah
Jennings, was the proud parent of
ten children. The first was John
who married Mary Wade. They
were the ancestors of John Stroth-
er Pendleton, congressman and
foreign minister.

Anthony, the second, married
first Behethland Storke and sec-
ond Mary James. From the first
marriage came Col. John Strother,

of the War of 1812, and his son
General David Hunter Strother, of
*'Port Crayon" fame.

George, the third son, married
MoUie Kamberly and by this union
came General William Preston, of
Lexington, and General Albert
Sidney Johnston, who was killed
at Shiloh.

William, of '* Orange," fourth,
married, first, Sarah Pannill,
widow of William Pannill; second,
Anna Kavanaugh, widow of Phile-
mon Kavanaugh. By the last mar-
riage no issue. The first born was
William Dabney Strother, who
wasi an officer in Col. Richard Tay-
lor's command, who was his
brother-in-law. He was killed in
the engagement at Guilford C. H.
Susanna Strother was the second
bom of William, of Orange, and
Sarah Pannill. She married Cap-
tain Moses Hawkins who was kill-
ed in battle at Germantown, 1777.
Captain Moses Hawkins and Sus-
anna Strother were the great
grand parents of the compiler of
the Bailey-Randolph notes. A
few years after the death of Capt.
Moses Hawkins his widow married
Thomas Qoleman of Culpepper.
Thomas Coleman was a corporal
in Captain Hawkins' company.
Sarah Strother, the third of Wil-
liam, of Orange, and Sarah Pan-
nill married Col. Richard Taylor
and they were the parents of Gen-
eral Zachary Taylor who became
President in 1848.

In 1787 William Strother, of
Orange, in company with Thomas
Coleman and wife and her four
Hawkins children moved to Ken-

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tucky aisd settled ia Woodfofd
county near Versaillefik Hu» will
is of record in the clerk's •fliiee at
VeTscdUes ia Will Book C, Page
165. His soA-iBrlaw^ Col. Bichanl
Taylor^ and grandBon, Hancock
Taylor, are named as executors.

I have a great deal of data con-
cerning the Strothers and their
kin that is interesting. They were
intermarried with very many of
the prominent famdlies of Virginia
and held an enviable position in
the early history of that state.

NOTE.

Recently I have received quite a
number of letters from relatives
inquiring why I hadn't given an
account of the ancestors of John
Bailey. To them I will say that I
have no data except some memo-
randa I made when a boy from
conversations between relatives
long since dead, and from these
notes I was not able to trace the
exact line, hence left it out entire-
ly. Had I been able to visit Eng-
land and spend some time ponng
over old records I have no doubt
but that my efforts would have
been successful in running John
Bailey's line back several genera-
tions. I hope some relative, tak-
ing what I give him or her here,
will hereafter do that. In the
meantime we must rest contented
with this brief statement I made
from data in my possession.

When John Bailey landed in
America about 1740, his name was
John Baleigh. Court records in

Virginia^ if not destrcpyed durii^
the Civil War, wicU ^ow that h^
name was chwogc^l frM^i Jofai
Baleigh to John Bailey, wUieb
was the . ^^ronnnciaticA gives
Baleigh by his Virginia aeighhMB
at that time. A few of my old
relatives thought probably he wa»
a grandson of £&r Walter Baleigh^
but the most of those who ^9-
cussed it were positive that be
was a great nephew of the m»B
who lost his head by diso*
beying orders at the Battle of
Ft Thomas, Braail, S. A. How-
ever, that may be, it was known
by all of the older set that
**Stonehenge'' farm in Chester-
field county, Virginia, owned by
John Bailey, was a part of tbe
land grant to Sir Walter Baleigh
by the crown of England. It WM
further known to them that Johfi
Bailey was bom and reared on a
part of the possessions of Sir
Walter Baleigh in England, and
when he settled on the farm in
Virginia he called it * * Stonehenge "
on account of the stately oaks that
surrounded the house, as they so
much reminded him of the same
species of oak that surrounded the
home of the '* Druid Priests ^^ in
England, called ' * Stonehenge. ' '
The home of these Druid Priests,
I think, was adjacent to the large
estate of Sir Walter Baleigh.
These large oaks on the ** Stone-
henge'' farm in Virginia were still
standing in 1863 and were spoken
of as monarchs of the forest.

I am very glad that so many of
the relatives have manifested such
a decided interest in acquiring

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135

greater knowledge of John
Bailey's ancestors and it will give
.me mncli pleasure if some one of
the relation will take up this ques-
tion and add the links necessary to
run his line back several genera-
tions. I would have done so myself
but for lack of time and money.

That John Bailey's grandfather
was a brother of Sir Walter
Baleigh I feel satisfied, as that
was the impression of the old
Baileys who lived in the early half
of the last century. Through the
same source I learned that John
Bailey was a colonel of militia
and active in raising volunteers for
the Bevolution, but I was unable
to prove it by any record and I
didn't mention that in the record,
yet I am certain of it, and his rel-
atives all speak of him as Col.
John Bailey who served in the
Bevolution. I do not believe that
his neighbors and relatives called
liini Colonel because of **his an-
agosity and general understand-
ing in the neighborhood," as that
method of dubbing one colonel has
oome in vogue the last fifty years,
lution. I do not believe that his
neighbors and relatives called him
Colonel because of **hi8 anosity
and general understanding in the
neighborhood," as that method of
dubbing one colonel has come in
vogue the last fifty years.

Now, in accounting for John
Bailey's action in changing his
name from Baleigh to Bailey I
only know of two reasons, one of
which is certainly correct. In the
first place, the -early colonists soon
abandoned many of. the customs
of their English cousins, and there
was a distinct departure in the
manner of pronunciation— giving
for instance to a the same sound
in Baleigh that would be given in
Bailey. This may have actuated
John Bailey in his act, but I think
it most likely it was the result of
a sense of mortification, felt by all
of his relatives, over the untimely
and sad death of Sir Walter
Baleigh. John Bailey was much
embittered against the English
crown to the day of his death.
What gives me an additional rea-
son for taking the last view as the
most reasonable is the fact that
many of Sir Walter's relatives in
England have for two centuries
spelled the name Bayleigh and
Eayley.

Trusting that in this brief
statement I may arouse enough
interest in this subject to cause
some one to take it up and carry
it to a satisfactory conclusion.

I am,

Very truly,
Wm. E. Bailey.

INDEX

Page.

Contributors — List of 6

Department of Paragraphs and Clippings 57

Confederates Who Sleep at Arlington 70

Governor James B. McCreary 59

Governor McCreary *s Old Ink-stand 63

Kentucky Inventors 65

''Long Ago'' 68

Monument to Victims of Floyd 's Defeat 74

Miscellaneous Paragraphs and Clippings 76

Presidents, The 64

Tribute of Edward W. Bok to the South 70

Department of Inquiries and Answers 83

Five Hundred Kentucky Pioneers 39

Guthrie, James 7

Henry Cflay 15

Meeting of Kentucky State Historical Society 49

Patriotic Songs of all Nations 29

Bailey-Bandolph Genealogy (concluded) 89

Beport of Sec'y-Treas. Kentucky State Historical So-
ciety 87

Sonnets 53

Tribute to Hon. Z. F. Smith 27

INDEX.

Page.

Contributors 5

Colonel George Croghan 21

Clippings and Paragraphs 61

History Two-fold 41

Jefferson Davis, Recollections of 7

Joseph Rogers Underwood 47

Mero and Holmes Streets (Frankfort) 55

Officers of Society 3

Report of Secretary 77

Tables of Contents 6

What's In a Name! 31

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CONTENTS

MAY, 1912.

1. Recollections of Jefferson Davis when Secretary of War in

President Pierce's Administration, with Portrait of Him, also
Picture and History of the Statue of Liberty, with which
Jefferson Davis was Identified by Suggestions to the Artist
in Fashioning this, the Most Beautiful Figure and Face of a
Woman in the World. By Mrs. Hezekiah Sturges, Washing-
ton, D. C.

2. Col. George Croghan, The Hero of Fort Stephenson, 1812, with

Picture. By A. C. Quisenberry.

3. "What's in a Name." By Ella H. Ellwanger.

4. History Two-Fold — Then and Now. J. C. M.

5. Hon. Joseph Rogers Underwood. By Geo. Baber.

6. Sweet June, and Other Poems. By Alexander Lynd Lindsay.

7. Mero and Holmes Streets. By J. C. M.

8. Department of Clippings and Paragraphs. General Wm. O.

Butler, and "The Old Ellum Tree Whar Breckinridge Spoke."
By J. Tandy Ellis.

9. Report of Books and Magazines.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

^'■:^i

JEFFERSON DAVIS

MRS. ST URGES,

WASHINGTON, D. C,

RECOLLECTIONS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS,

By Mrs. Hezekiah Sturges.

Lapse of time has served to brighten the fame of Jefferson
Davis, enlarging his greatness as an American statesman and as the
leader in the greatest civil war since the dawn of modem civilization;
and there are memories of the distinguished man which, to those who
stood nearest to him, seem to outshine the deeds that won for him the
chief place in the annals of that drama in which he bore a preeminent
part. It is my present aim to recite a few such memories, illustrative
of his character, and to set them as jewels in the halo that encircles his
name. E. E. S.

When, as a girl in the fifties, I
received from my father, then a
member of Congress, my first invi-
tation to join Ihim in Washington,
an opportunity to enter the gates
of Paradise could scarcely have af-
forded me greater delight. As all
my previous travels had been with-
in my own Empire State and States
comprising New England, every
mile of the journey south from New
York possessed for me the charm
of novelty. The distance now
traversed by a train de luxe in five
hours, then frequently required
triple that lengtih of time, and only
one route was available. Among
my fellow-passengers were many
Senators and Representatives,
who, accompanied by their fam-
ilies, were returning to Washing-
ton.

A Dinner With Jefferson Davis,

Shortly after my arrival in
Washington, my father met the
Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of
War in the Cabinet of President
Pierce, who invited him to dine in-
formally that evening. When my
father announced that his little
daughter was with him in the city,
I was promptly included in the in-
viJtation. My toilet, though now
seeming very simple, was then a
matter of grave importance to me,
and I was careful that it should
meet the approval of the accom-
plished Mrs. John J. Crittenden,
the wife of the Kentucky Senator,
who, in tihe absence of my mother,
had consented to act as my chap-
eron. (My dinner gown was of
gosling gray cashmere, this color

always holding a conspicuous place
in my wardrobe, in deference to the
Quaker taste of my excellent
mother.) Secretary Davis resided
in the mansion built and occupied
by the Hon. Edward Everett, while*
Secretary of State in President
Fillmore's Cabinet. It was an im-
posing mansion of red brick, in a
neighborhood then highly favored
by statesmen, and still suggestive
of past grandeur. For many years
this property has been rented by
the Government, first as a naval
dispensary, and later as an annex
to the War Department.

I was eager to behold the man
whose oratory, when a young mem-
ber of the House of Representa-
tives, had caused John Quincy
Adams to exclaim : * * That young
gentleman is no ordinary man. He
will make his mark. Mr Davis is
a remarkable man." I was fa-
miliar, also, with the story of his
notable military service during the
Black Hawk war and in the battles
of Buena Vista and Monterey, and
of the dangerous wound that he re-
ceived while leading the gallant
and triumphant charge of the Miss-
issippi Volunteer Riflemen at
Buena Vista, and by reason of
which he received the cordial greet-
ings and warm praise of Gen.
Taylor, after a long period of
estrangement, since Col. Davis'
marriage to his daughter in Ken-
tucky. It is scarcely necessary to
describe Mr. Davis' personal ap-
pearance at that time. A presence
so striking could not but impress
tihe least observing. He was just
five feet eleven inches tall, very
slight and erect ; his hair was black.

his eyes dark gray, and the com-
posure of his features seemed the
index of his well-trained mind and
studious tastes. His clear enuncia-
tion and low but perfectly modu-
lated voice were pleasing to the
ear.

The dinner party, in addition to
the host and hostess, consisted of
Senator and Mrs. Brown, of Miss-
issippi, a distinguished German
army officer — a friend of the Davis
family, whose name in my journal
I cannot now decipher- my father
and myself. Secretary Davis,
though he had been Colonel of one
of tihe most noted regiments in the
Mexican War, was modestly silent
as to his own part in that memor-
able conflict, but was able to give
the foreign officer many items of
particular interest in regard to
Mexico and its people. This he
did in the stranger ^s own language,
which rather astonished me, for,
with the inconsistency of youth, I
had been accustomed to regard
disparagingly the German spoken
by my mother. Mr. Davis gave,
also, in the Mexican patois, an
anecdote of General Santa Anna,
which greatly amused his military
firuest, and which, being translated
into English, afforded us all a
hearty laugh.

Ole Bull and Patti Concebt.

The delightful dinner ended, tihe
entire party, including Secretary
Davis, repaired to Carusi's Hall,
then used for entertainments of
the highest class, but for the past
quarter of a century, under another
name, devoted to vaudeville. The

attractions of the evening were
thus described in the advertise-
ment, wihich I here copy verbatim :
* * Ole Bull will perform some of his
finest music, and little Signorina
Patti and Maurice Strakosch will
diversify the evening's entertain-
ment." The hall was crowded with
an audience, such as rarely had
been seen at the Capital, to witness
that ** marvel of human skill and
human thought. '* Ole Bull carried
his audience whither he would
tihrough *' regions of gladness and
tears," where nothing could be
heard but the heart's whisper;
and when he retired, the audi-
ence almost resented the pro-
posed appearance of a child,
said to be devoted chiefly to
dolls and pets. The curtain rose,
and Patti, the ''Wonder Child" of
song, then about ten years of age,
and with the smallness of stature
dharacteristic of the Latin races,
stood revfialed. Beautiful as a
dream-fairy was she, in her simple
white gown and blue silk sash.
Apparently imconscious of either
criticism or laudation, she sang
airs from La Somnambula, Norma,
and the Barber of Seville. Soon
carping discontent was changed
into unbounded admiration. **She
has brought spring birds into
winter — ^the sun into night!" and
similar expressions were ftieard on
all sides. Hats, handkerchiefs and
flowers filled the air. Encore fol-
lowed encore. In the midst of all
this enthusiasm, the artless uncon-
sciousness of Ihe child prima donna
appealed to every heart — ^yet, why
not? Already for more than four
years — almost half of her short life

^-she had enjoyed the benefit of
car ef ill instruction, and had heard
the great operas sung by all the
notable vocalists of the day. In
1850, when but seven years of age,
she had driven New York wild by
the manner in which she sang, at a
charity concert, the final rondo in
*^La Somnambula," and Jenny
Lind's famous **Echo Song."
Through the mist of years, I recall
those words of the divinely-gifted
Schiller : * * 0, music ! Thou speak-
est to me of things which in all my
life I have not found and shall not
find." No one in that large, re-
fined and appreciative audience at
Carusi's seemed to enjoy the in-
spiring music of Ole Bull, Sig-
norina Patti and Maurice Stra-
kosch more than Jefferson Davis,
the soldier and statesman, whose
attention to the musicians was that
of enraptured admiration. Mr.
Davis was a lover of art in all its
forms and phases.

As Secretary of War.

To statesmen and others who
followed the trend of political
events, there were several well-de-
fined reasons for Franklin Pierce's
appointment of Jefferson Davis to
the position of Secretary of War.
That the latter would Ihave pre-
ferred to remain in private life he
thus attests in his '^Rise and Fall
of the Confederate Government:"

*' Although warmly attached to
Mr. Pierce personally, and enter-
taining the highest estimate of his
character and political principles,
private and personal reasons led
me to decr'ne the office. This was

R«gitt«r of th« Kentucky Sute Hlitoriesl Sodaty.

followed by an invitation to attend
the ceremony of his inaugufation,
which took place on the 4th of
March, 1853. While in Washing-
ton, on this visit, I was induced by
public considerations to reconsider
my determination and accept the
office of Secretary of War/'

As he affirmed later, he had fol-
lowed the flag of the United States
** under tropical suns and over
Northern snows." His experiences
both as soldier and statesman had
made him conversant witti the re-
quirements of the War Depart-
ment, and from the beginning of
his service in the upper house of
Congress until Ihis resignation, in
1861, he had maintained the im-
portance of transportation by rail
through our then newly-^acquired
Western territory, giving speedy
communication with the Pacific
coast. He had concurred, also, in
the extension of the Capitol, by the
erection of a new Senate Chamber
and Hall of Representatives. These
improvements, together with the
enlargement of public buildings
and the construction of an aqueduct
system for the rapidly-growing
city of Washington, were appro-
priated for, and were shortly be-
gun. As Secretary of War, Mr.
Davis would be charged with tihe
direction and control of these
public works and the wise disburse-
ment of public funds; and, believ-
ing that he saw in the position of-
fered him wide opportunities to
render useful service, and add new
honors to his career, he acceded
to Mr. Pierce's solicitiation and
became a member of the distin-
guislhed circle of presidential coun-

cilors destined to be known in his-
tory as **the Constitutional Cabi-
net, ' ' as Disraeli said^ a Cabinet of
all the talents, because it included
such eminent statesmen as Marcy,
of New York, Cushing of Massa-
chusetts, and James Guthrie of
Kentuclgr.

Secbetaby Davis and thb Sculptob

Crawford.

Among the participants in the
competition to furnish . a suitable
model for the colossal statue orig-
inally designated * ' America, ' '
but from its inception known as
*' Freedom, '^ intended to surmount
the dome of the enlarged Capitol,
Tlhomas Crawford was the success-
ful contestant. This talented young
American had arrived in Washing-
ton to complete the arrangements
for the statue and other designs
for the adornment of the Capitol,
to be executed at hii^ studio in
Rome. Having been taken sud-
denly ill at the National Hotel, my
fatiher — one of his initimate friends
— offered to visit Secretary Davis
to learn whether he had yet made
his selection from the drawings of
the statue submitted to him. He
invited me to accompany him.
When we entered the library, a
man of heroic proportions, wear-
ing the uniform of tihe United
States Army, was standing beside
the Secretary, who presented us to
General Harney, the noted Indian
fighter. Greeting him, I said :

**I would not like to be an Indian
in your locality.''

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** Because,'' said I, **I should be

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Rfgltter of the Kentucky 8tat« Historical Sooioty.

afraid of you ; besides, in Otsego —
my home — Fenimore Cooper has
taught ,us to love the Indian. ' *

Turning to Secretary Davis, the
gallant General said, ^'I ftiave
never received a compliment that
pleased me more.*' He then took
his departure and my father men-
tioned to the Secretary the object
of his call. Thereupon, Mr. Davis
took from his desk several draw-
ings, and laid them on the table.
Pointing to one, he said: **This
figure— tihe more I study its details
— ^impresses me by its dignity,
grace and beauty of expression. ' '
Then, referring to the voluminous
correspondence which he, Mr.
Crawford and other persons bad
conducted in regard to the matter,
he informed us that, to replace the
'* Phrygian '* or ** liberty'' cap in
Mr. Crawford's designs, he had
taken the liberty to suggest a band
of eagle's feathers. **This modi-
fication," he said, * Vould give the
statue a national character, which
at present it lacks." ** However,"
he concluded, '*I leave all to Mr.
Crawford 's superior judgment. He
is a master in art. ' '

In a letter dated January 15,
1856, to Capt. Montgomery C.
Meigs, U. S. Engineer Corps, in
charge of the Capitol extension,
Mr. Davis placed on record his
ideas not only as to iiie cap but the
fasces land other features of Mr.
Crawford's designs. So clearly
and gracefully did he express
therein his reasons for wishing
certain changes in detail that the
letter ranks among the classics of
ofl5cial correspondence. Under

date of March 18, 1856, Mr. Craw-
ford wrote:

**I read with much pleasure the
letter of tlhe honorable Secretary,
and his remarks have induced me
to dispense with the *cap' and put
in its place a helmet, ttie crest of
which is composed of an eagle's
head and a bold arrangement of
feathers, suggested by the costume
of our Lidian tribes."

Secretary Davis presented to my
father a copy of the original design
wihich, when amended in accord-
ance with his suggestions, was cast
in plaster by Mr. Crawford, and
for many years has occupied the
center of the fountain in the U. S.
National Museum. On taking leave
of Secretary Davis, I expressed to
him my personal gratitude that he
had selected for tlhe dome of the
Capitol an Indian princess, in-
stead of a pagan goddess.

The next morning, entering the
breakfast-room of the hotel. Asso-
ciate Justice Samuel Nelson of the
United States Supreme Court, and
a citizen of Otsego county. New
York, invited me to sit at his table,
saying, '* There is plenty of shad
for both, Elizabeth." He inquired
how I was passing my time, and
was deeply interested in my ac-
count of my visit to Secretary
Davis, the evening before. He
fully caught the spirit of my en-
thusiasm for and loyalty to the
Indian, a feeling that seems inbred
in all true Otsegoans. While we
waited for our breakfast, Senator
Sumner entered to pay his respects
to a lady from his State. Justice
Nelson invited him to be seated

with us, and asked him whether he
had ** heard that the design for the
statne to crowk the dome of the
Capitol h<ad been selected/^
**Ye8,'' replied Senator Sumner,
''I have just come from Mr. Craw-
ford. I tihink the selection most
appropriate. As an old and very-
intimate friend of the sculptor, you
can readily imagine how all this
pleases me. I visited his studio in
Rome, <and it came to my knowl-
edge what poverty and self-denial
he had to contend with, and with
what manliness he bore tihe strug-
gle. Now his trials are over I * *

Senator Sumner did not refer to
the fact that to himself was due
the honor that Mr. Crawford's
trials were over. It was he who
had raised, by supscription, the
money to purchase for the- Boston
Athenaeum tihe group, *' Orpheus
and Cerberus, '* executed by Craw-
ford in 1839, and thus placed the
young sculptor beyond financial
diflSculties. Senator Sumner con-
tinued: **The idea of nationaliz-
ing the statue by the eagle's feath-
ers would never have occurred to
me, and the union of the classic
quiver and the helmet are worthy
of Secretary Davis' scholarly at-
tainments. No one ever yet has
found his judgment and taste at
fault. Yes, the eagle in lieu of the
* Phrygian Cap' is very clever. I
had never thought of it before."

Subsequent events made pecu-
liarly interesting this appreciation
of one history-making character
by another.

Two hours later, I went to drive
wilih Mrs. William M. Gwin, wife
of the first *Mong term" Senator

from California. Greeting me with
the charm of manner which had
given her the rank second only to
that of Mrs. John J. Crittenden
among the social leaders of that
period, Mrs. Gwin said: **Give an

account of yourself. Miss S !

I Ihave been searching for you all
over the house." Accompanied by
two young ladies from California,
we set out, our objective point
being the Senate, in all the pro-
ceedings of which Mrs. Gwin was
keenly interested. During our cir-
cuitous drive to Capitol Hill, I told
her of my visit to the Davis man-
sion, the evening before, and re-
peated the conversation, that morn-
ing, between Senator Sumner and
Justice Nelson. She said: **I am
glad that Secretary Davis ihas so
high an appreciation of the sculp-
tor of whom all Americans are
proud; and you, dear, are fortu-
nate in being able to meet and hear
the opinions of our country's great
men."

Shortly after the death of the
genial and talented Thomas Craw-
ford, the plaster model of *' Free-
dom" was shipped to tihe United
States and, eventually, was cast in
bronze by Clark Mills, who built
especially for this purpose a
foundry at Bladensburg, Md. In
the autumn of 1863 I was again in
Washington, and my thoughts re-
verted to the conversations here
narrated. For several months, the
statue, in five sections, lay on the
ground in tihe park surrounding the
Capitol, while arrangements for its
erection were in progress. Despite
the civil conflict then raging, impos-
ing ceremonies had been planned

for December 2, 1863, the date
chosen for the formal ** inaugura-
tion*' of the statue. In anticipa-
tion of this event, four of the five
sections were hoisted to the posi-
tion selected seven years earlier.
Twenty minutes after it left the
ground, the fifth section, crown-
ed with the helmet and eagle's
feathers, was swung into position
at the altitude of almost 350 feet
above sea level. As the majestic
figure settled to its place on the
dome, there to remain while the
Republic endures, a flag in the
hands of an intrepid sailor was un-
furled over one of the colossal
bronze shoulders. This feature
had been arranged by the War De-
partment as the signal for a
national salute of thirty-five guns,
from a field battery on Capitol Hill,
*'in commemoration of the event
and as an expression due from the
Department of respect for this ma-
terial symbol on which our Govern-
ment is based.'' This salute was
answered by the booming of cannon
from twelve of the chain of almost
seventy forts which then surround-
ed the city, and the edhoes of thous-
ands of voices— tamong them those
of the inmates of the Capitol prison
—all singing *'The Star-Spangled
Banner." From all the encircling
forts the national colors simulta-
neously waved in salute.

How sad it was that the gifted
sculptor who, in this work, had
given to the Nation his conception
of ** Armed Liberty" was not pres-
ent, unless in spirit! And the dis-
tinguished cabinet oflScer, to whom
we were indebted for the signifi-
cance of the symbol of * ' Freedom ' '

also was absent— the President of
a rival government.

'* America!" '^Freedom!"—
names synonymous in the mind of
the sculptor! Not alone to pre-
serve the harmony of architectural
design does the great bronze figure
face the East. In her right hand
the drawn sword, in her left the
laurel wreath of victory. For
forty-nine years, *' Freedom," her
face reflecting the glory of the
dawn, has welcomed the less fortu-
nate natives of other lands, in
search of personal liberty. Once
different interpretations of the
Constitution led to civil conflict, the
most fearful in history — because
the opposing forces were Ameri-
cans. Once more, that specter of
democracies — ^the centralization of
power — ^menaces the welfare of the
Nation. God forbid that ''Free-
dom," raised amidst the clasih of
arms to the most magnificent pedes-
tal in the world, should ever be de-
throned.

The ''Cabin John Bbidgb"
Ebasubb.

The name of Jefferson Davis,
not by its presence but by its ab-
sence, is inseparably connected
with "Cabin John Bridge." Soon
after Mr. Davis became Secretary
of War, he issued an oflicial order
for the construction of a conduit
bridge, to span the ravine known
as ' ' Cabin John ' ' and the creek that
flowed through it into the Potomac.
This bridge was to be a part of the
Washington aqueduct system
wihich had been inaugurated a year
earlier, under the direction of Cap-

tain Montgomery C. Meigs, but not
until 1861 did the building of the
bridge actually begin. In 1861,
Capt. Meigs was detailed to duty at
Fort Jefferson, Florida, and the
following year, the War Depari;-
ment being over burdened with the
work incident to the Civil War, the
construction of the bridge was
transferred to the Department of
the Interior. Soon afterward, the
Hon. Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of
the Interior, accompanied by a par-
ty of men prominent in public af-
fairs—among them Representative
Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania,
visited the structure, under the
guidance of Mr. William E. Hut-
ton, then chief engineer of the
bridge. Representative Grow,
reading gn the principal tablet the
name of Jefferson Davis, protested
strongly against it, and told the
Secretary of the Interior that it
must come off. Secretary Smitih
directed Mr. Hutton to see that the
name was removed, an order which
the chief engineer did not obey, as
de did not believe that it was given
seriously. A few days later Secre-
tary Smith, learning that the name
had not been erased, called into his
presence Robert Mclntyre, con-
tractor, and gave him peremptory
orders to erase it. Tfliis was done,
Mclntyre himself assisting in the
obliteration in June, 1862.

In 1867, the mighty stone arch
was removed from civil control,
and restored to the War Depart-
ment, under which it remains. For
fully thirty-tive years, the praise
or blame, according to the point of
view, of the erasure from the
bridge of tihe name of Jefferson

Davis was attributed to numerous
persons, all of whom were wholly
innocent. Among them were Pres-
ident Lincoln and Secretary Simon
Cameron. The first-named did not
even know that the act had been in
contemplation, and, when he learn-
ed that it had been consummated,
vigorously expressed his disap-
proval. The oflScial who always
bore the lion's share of the blame
was Capt. (later General) M. C.
Meigs. As to the erasure of the
name of Jefferson Davis, Capt.
Meigs subsequently expressed re-
gret, stating that Mr. Davis' of-
ficial position as chief of the * * Con-
federacy'' did not alter the histor-
ical fact that he was Secretary
of War when pursuant to an
act of Congress he gave the
order for the construction of
the famous Aqueduct. Not un-
til years ago did Mr. Hutton,
who had become one of New Yor!c*s
leading architects, reveal the true
story as to the vacant space on the
principal tablet on what was then
the longest single-arch stone bridge
in the world. Then, in a letter
which he intended should be given
to the public, he gave the facts as
here narrated.

Time has wrought changes. T3ie
once powerful Pennsylvania states-
man, Galusha A. Grow, who was in-
strumental in the erasure, died a
few years ago, alone and poor, with
» cloud upon his fame. Even tihe
mighty stone arch has been
eclipsed, its span of 220 feet being
now exceeded by two others — one
in the grand duchy of Luxem-
bourg, the other at Plauen, Saxony.
Slowly the tide of popular opinion

R9fii«tef off th« Ktntiicky aut* Historical SocKty.

has swung toward the preservation
of tihe integrity of history, and, in
the closing months of his Admin-
istration, President Roosevelt gave
an order requiring the restoration
of the name of Jefferson Davis to
the tablet from which it had been
long absent. The order was exe-
cuted in May, 1909, the stone cutter
being J. B. Home, an ex-Mississip-
pian, later a citizen of Virginia,

A Visit to Jbffbbson Davis.

Years after our civil strife had
passed into history, wittti my hus-
band and children I started for
California. At Salt Lake City, a
terrific storm compelled us to re-
trace our steps to Chicago. Thence
we journeyed to Cairo, were we
witnessed a scene that would have
done credit to the creative genius
of B'amum, the wizard of traveling
shows. An accident occurred to
our train, which was freighted
with flour. The barrels were blown
to pieces, and the passengers were
compelled to walk into town, look-
ing like a procession of statues.

After seven comfortless days in
Cairo, the hearts of all the storm-
bound were made glad by the ar-
rival of the ** Republic,'* the boat
that had carried the future Edward
VII down the Mississippi, when Jie
was a guest of tihe Nation.

As we stepped on board, Cairo
appeared but a speck. Those
mighty works of creation, the two
rivers, seemed to move side by side,
each bearing its distinctive com-
plexion until they met in a brother-
ly embrace — ^the watery pathway of
world-wide commerce.

We arrived at Memphis, our first
stopping place. I enquired of the
Captain what was of interest to be
seen here. He was for a moment
silent and, then, said: ** Jefferson
Davis, President of the Confed-
eracy, is living here, now.'* On
my expressing a desire to visit him,
the Captain sent a servarit to take
me to his house where, asking for
Mr. Davis, the butler requested my
card. I said: '*He will not recog-
nize me. Say that a lady from New
York wishes to see him.'' The li-
brary door opened and Mr. Davis
advanced. NotwitSistanding his
change of appearance brought
about by time, there still remained
the old-time dignity and repose.
At first, he failed to recognize me,
but soon recalled **Miss S

My husband, wljo had remained
with the children, now rejoined me,
and I introduced him to Mr. Davis,
whom the had never met. His salu-
tation was **How did you dare
visit met" I congratulated myself
on the happy accident which had
brought us to Memphis and afford-
'ed us an opportunity of meeting
one who had occupied such an alti-
tude among giants in the days of
my girlhood — ^in tihose days of
blessed peace ; and it is difficult now
to dwell, except in memory, on sub-
jects and events of those historic
times.

In the presence of the Ex-Presi-
dent of the Confederacy, one could
not help feeling the influence of a
truly great man. Of course, the
topics discussed were those nearest
to his heart, and bore tihe impress
of his own convictions. An open
book lay upon a hassock when I

entered. Taking it up, I found
**Schlegel on Dramatic Arf This
caused me to remind him of his
conversation with the German of-
ficer at my first dinner in Washing-
ton. He said, ''Turn to the fly-
leaf; it bears manv memories.'*
Tlhere I found the name of *^Mrs.
Harrison Grey Otis," of Boston,
whose generous magnanimity to all
is well known. He said : * * She sent
this with many other books, as well
as other comforts, when I was a
prisoner at Fortress Monroe.-'

The reputation for loyalty to the
Union of Mrs. Harrison Grey Otis
— the woman of highe&t culture, the
generous patron of art and of art-
ists— ^was never called into ques-
tion. She it was who did so much in
raising funds for the completion of
the great Washington monument;
and well does she deserve the
recognition subsequently proposed,
by the Eegents at Mt. Vernon, for
her exertions to preserve the
Washington home. During the late
war she spared neither time,
strength, nor money to secure the
comfort of the soldiers on the
battle field and in the hospital.

Mr. Davis spoke freely, but en-
tirely without bitterness, of the
failure of his hopes for the Con-
federacy; said that **our situation
was parallel to the contest with the
motiher country;*' that *'we suffer-
ed from grievances inflicted upon
us by the North, for which, as set
forth in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, we were not at faulf

Mr. S remarked, **Well, Mr.

Davis, they did not bring you to
trial 1 * * He replied :

*'I was most solicitous that they
should, but it would (have required
the enactment of a new law to do
so.*' Mr. Davis spoke lovingly of
the members of his Cabinet, partic-
ularly of Mr. Benjamin, his Secre-
tary of State, whom I had known in
my early life, and by whom I was
honored with subsequent tokens of
remembrance wihile he held the
high position of Queen's Counsel
in England.

The time arrived for departure,
and we were due on board the *^ Re-
public;'' but those three short
hours evoked the memories of
years and have many times since
found loud sounding echoes in my
heart.

These reminiscences, so inade-
quately told, bring to my recollec-
tion the illustrious figure of the
great American who, when I first
saw him in the Nation's Capital, as
a Cabinet oflicer, was, with full as-
surances of triumph, rising into the
very zenith of power and fame.
Born in Kentucky, June 3, 1803, on
the spot wihere stands the village
* of Fairview, in the county of Todd ;
^e was removed in infancy to
Wilkinson County, Mississippi,
whence he returned, in his teens,
to Kentucky to be partly educated
at Transylvania University until
he should enter the United States
Military Academy at West Point,
in 1824.

In this connection it should be
stated that Mr. Davis was twice
married. Witih reference to his first
marriage, he made in ^'Belford's
Magazine," January, 1890, the fol-
lowing statement, viz: ** After a

snccessful campaign against the
Indians, I resigned from the Army
in 1835, being anxious to fulfill a
long-existing engagement with a
daughter of Col. Zachary Taylor,
whom I married, not after a ro-
mantic elopement, as has often
been stated, but at the house of her
aunt and in the presence of many
of iher relatives, at a place near
Louisville, Kentucky. Then I be-
came a cotton planter in Warren
County, Mississippi. It was my
misfortune early in my married
life to lose my wife, and for many
years thereafter, I lived in quiet
seclusion on the plantation in the
swamps of Mississippi.'*

Mr. Davis' second marriage was
to Miss Varina Howell, a woman of
rare accomplishments and of noble
character, who -gave to the world
two instructive volumes embracing
a biography of her illustrious hus-
band.

Tftius were laid the foundations
of that brilliant career which he
led as a soldier, becoming a hero in
the battle of Buena Vista; a mem-
ber of Congress, winning laurels
in debate; a Senator engaging in
intellectual combats with Webster
and Clay; a Cabinet officer, estab-
lishing great reforms in the mili-
tary service; then, as the Eepre-
sentative of a brave and splendid
people, whose armies were equal to
tihe greatest soldiers of modem
centuries; and, finally, retiring
from the marvelous dranm of War
and Statesmanship, to complete
his four score years amid the tri-
butes of affection and veneration
that crowned the close of his great
life. It was then that Charles A.
Dana, a famous writer and thinker,
contemplating the end of his grand
career, exclaimed: **A majestic
soul has passed away.*'

COLONEL GEORGE CROGHAN,

'■The Hero of Fort Stephenson."

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I II

COL GEORGE CROGHAN

THE HERO OF FORT STEPHENSON

A. C. QUISENBERRY

WASHINOTOK, D. C.

COLONEL GEORGE CROGHAN

The Hero of Fort Stephenson.

By A. C. Quisenberry.

The defense of Fort Stephenson,
Ohio, was one of the most brilliant
of the few American victories in
the War of 1812. One historian
has characterized it as **one of the
most brilliant and remarkable de-
fenses in the history of all wars.''
This remarkable victory was won
by Colonel George Crogban (pro-
noimced **Crawn''), who was a
Major at ihe time; who there re-
flected undying glory upon the
State that gave him birth, Ken-
tucky, as well as upon American
arms. It is believed that no bio-
graphical sketch of Colonel
Croghan has ever been published —
not even a brief one — and it is cer-
tainly a fact that he Kas received
only the most meager mention in
the histories of Kentucky, of which
some twelve or fifteen have been
published. This article does not
profess to be a biographical sketch,
but is intended merely to bring
once more to the attention of Ken-
tuckians the matchless feat per-
formed by a Kentucky country boy
a century ago.

George Croghan was bom in
1792, just about the time that Ken-
tucky was admitted to the Union
as a State. His birthplace was at
* 'Locust Grove,'* Ins father's
country home on the Ohio river, a

few miles above Louisville. He was
the son of William Croghan and
Lucy Clark, his wife, she being the
sister of General George Rogers
Clark, who ^as dubbed '*the Han-
nibal of the West,*' by John Ran-
dolph of Boanoke. William
Crogban was an Irish Episcopalian
who came to America when quite
young, and settled in Virginia, He
was the nephew of the celebrated
Colonel George Croghan, who, in
colonial times, was long in the em-
ploy of the British as an Indian
agent under Sir William Johnson,
and who visited Kentucky in tihat
capacity as early as 1765, or four
years before Daniel Boone's first
visit to the country. This Colonel
George Croghan served the King
in our Revolutionary War. Early
in that war the nephew, William
Croghan, entered the American
army as a Captain in the 8th Vir-
ginia Continentals, and served to
the close of the war, during which
he served in several regiments^
and attained the rank of Major. He
was taken prisoner at Cliarleston,
South Carolina, when that place
surrendered to the British; and in
1784 he married Lucy Clark and
settled at ** Locust Grove, '* in Jef-
ferson County, Kentucky. So the
hero of Fort Stephenson inherited

his military predilections and
genius from **both sides of the
house. ' '

George Croghan received his ed-
ucation at a country school on
Beargrass Creek, near his father's
home; and was rarely fortunate in
having as his preceptor no less
famous an instructor than the cul-
tured Kean O'Hara (father of the
distinguished Theodore O'Hara), a
teacher who ranks with the famous
Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, Mark Hop-
kins, of Williams College, and the
late Jason W. Chenault, of Louis-
ville. Among young Crogihan's
fellow-pupils at this school was
Zachary Taylor, the hero of Buena
Vista. In November, 1811, volun-
teers were raised in Louisville to
march against the Indians in the
campaign that resulted in the
battle of Tippecanoe, and Greorge
Croghan, then about nineteen years
old, temporarily discontinued his
studies and went on the campaign
as a volunteer aid to Major George
Rogers Clark Floyd, commanding
the 4th United States Infantry. He
received his baptism of fire in the
victory at Tippecanoe, where he
distinguished lumself for gallantry.

Congress, in preparation for the
^ar of 1812, had authorized tbe
raising of several new regiments of
troops for the regular army, and
two of these— the 17th and 28th
Regiments of Infantry, were re-
cruited and oificered entirely in
Kentucky. On March 12, 1812,
George Croghan abandoned his
studies in O'Hara's school on
Beargrass, and accepted an ap-

pointment as Captain in the 17tii
Infantry, which was commanded
by Colonel Samuel Wells, an old
companion-in-arms of his uncle,
George Rogers Clark. We have
very little account of his military
services from that time until his
star rose with endurmg glory at
Fort Stephenson on Aug. 1 and 2,
1813; but they must have been
meritorious, for the War Depart-
ment records show that he was pro-
moted from Captam to Major in
the 17th Infantry on March 30,
1813, about a year from the time he
had entered the service, and while
he was not yet twenty-one years
old. Four companies of the 17th In-
fantry took part in the diastrous
battle of the River Raisin on Jan-
uary 22, 1813, and Captain
Croghan 's company was very prob-
ablv one of the four.

The defense of Fort Stephenson
was made on August 1 and 2, 1813.
The so-oalled fort was merely a
small fortification of picketed split
logs, surrounded by a moat, which
at that time was merely a dry ditch.
A town afterwards sprung up
around the little fort, wihich was
first called Lowi^r Sandusky, but
the name was aifterwards changed
to Fremont, which is now the
county seat of Sandusky County,
Ohio; and it is upon the Sandusky
river, which runs into Lake Erie,
not far away. In July, 1313, Fon
Stephenson was garrisoned by
parts of two companies of the 17th
Infantry, under Major George
Croghan, Captain James Hunter,
Jjieuienants Benjamin Johnston

Remitter of th^ Kentucky 9tate Hlttorical Society.

and Cyrus A. Baylor, and Ensigns
Joseph Duncan and Edmund
Shipp, all (both officers and men)
being Kentuckians. There was al-
so a small detachment of the 24tb
Infantry, commanded by Lieuten-
ant Anderson (Tennessee), of the
24th Infantry; and there were in-
cidentally at the post, unattached,
Lieutenant Jdhn Meek (Ohio) of
the 7th Infantry, and half a dozen
volunteer troops, belonging about
half and half to the Pittsburg
(Pennsylvania) Blues and the
Petersburg (Virginia) Volunteers.
AH told, Major Croghan's force
amounted to just about one hun-
dred and fifty men.

A large force of British troops
and Indians under General Proctor
and Tecumseh had been besieging
Fort Meigs, no great distance from
Fort Stephenson; but tihe siege
was a disgraceful failure, and on
July 29th it waa raised by Proctor,
whose next movements indicated
that he would soon attack Fort
Stephenson. An American council
of war called by General William
Henry Harrison concluded that
Fort Stephenson was untenable
against the heavy artillery that
Pyoctor would bring to bear upon
it; and General Harrison sent
orders to Major Crogfaan to aban-
don and burn the fort, and to marcb
with his forces and rejoin the main
anny at headquarters. When the
orders reached Major Croghan, the
little fort was already surrounded
by hordes of Indians, who were
skulking ia the adjoining forests;
so, after counselling with his of-
jfieers, he determined to hold the
place at all hazaj*^, as he could

not tflien withdraw with safety. So
he immediately sent the following
reply couched in stronger lan-
guage tihan would otherwise have
been proper because "Ee believed it
would almost certainly fall into the
hands of the enemy, to-wit:

' * Sir : I have just received yours
of yesterday, 10 o'clock, p. m.,
ordering me to destroy this place
and make good my retreat, wihich
was received too late to be carried
into execution. We have deter-
mined to maintain this place, and
by heavens we can I ' *

I'his was construed by General
Harrison as insubordination of a
grave character, and he wrote a
tart reply to Major Croghan; but
a meeting between the two was had
where everything was explained
and smoothed over; and Major
Croglhan returned to the command
of the fort.

On July 31st the enemy were dis-
covered approaching Fort Steph-
enson in gunboats, on the San-
dusky river ; and that same evening
they appeared before the fort in
great numbers. Two British of-
ficers. Majors Chambers and Dick-
son, advanced under a flag of truce,
and asked for a parley. Ensign
Shipp was sent to meet them, and
a surrender of tIhe fort was de-
manded on the groun4 that General
Proctor depi^d to prevept the ex-
termination of the garrison, which
lie could not do if he should be
under the necessity of reducing tihe
place with the powerful force of
artillery, British regulars and In-
dians under his comm^ad. Shipp

replied that there would be no snr-
render, as the garrison had deter-
mined to maintain the post, or bury
themselves in its ruins. Major
Dickson then said that their im-
mense body of Indians could not be
restrained from murdering the en-
tire garrison in ease of success, of
which there could be no doubt ; and
remarked that it would be a great
pity for so fine a young man as En-
sign Shipp to fall into the hands of
the savages, and . implored him :
*'For God's sake, surrender, and
prevent the dreadful massacre that
will be caused by your resistance. ' *
To this the gallant Shipp replied:
**When the fort is taken there will
be none to m*assacre,'* At this mo-
ment he was seized by an Indian
who attempted to take his sword,
but the British officers interfered
in his behalf, and he returned into
the fort in safety.

General Proctor, in command of
the enemy, had five hundred Brit-
ish regulars and eleven hundred
Indians; and Tecumseh with two
thousand other Indians was in the
woods a few miles away ready to
ambuscade and intercept any rein-
forcements that might be sent to
Croghan from Fort Meigs. Tlhe
British and Indian forces actually
engaged in the assault upon the
fort amounted to sixteen hundred,
and they had several pieces or ar-
tillery. Major Croghan had one
hundred and fifty men and a brass
six-pounder. Although out-num-
bered more than ten to one, (he was
in no wise daunted.

The enemy opened fire on Aug-
ust 1st with the six-pounders on
their gunboats and a brass howit-

zer on shore, and they continued
the fire thoughout the night with
scarcely any intermission, and with
hardly any effect. Croghan replied
now and then with his lone six-
pounder, occasionally changing its
place, so as to create the impres-
sion that he had several cannons.

The movements of the British
led Major Croghan to believe that
they would attempt to storm the
fort at its northwestern angle (as
afterwards proved to be the case),
and during the night he had Cap-
tain Hunter place the six-pounder
in a position where it would rake
that angle and the portion of the
moat or ditch leading to it. This
was done in secrecy, and the em-
brasure was masked. The gun was
loaded with half a charge of pow-
der and a double charge of slugs
and grapeshot.

On the morning of August 2nd,
the British opened fire with their
howitzer and three six-pounders
that they had landed during the
night and planted in advantageous
positions. A desultory fire was
kept up for some hours ; and at 4
o'clock in the afternoon they con-
centrated all their fire upon the
northwestern angle of the fort,
which confirmed Major Croghan 's
belief that they would try to make
a breach and storm the works at
that point. He had strengthened
that place with bags of flour and
sand, which served their purpose
so well that the defenses there were
not materially injured by the fierce
artillery fire that was poured upon
it.

Late in the afternoon, when the
cannonading had completely cover-

ed the fort with a dense cloud of
smoke, a column of the enemy led
by Colonel Short made the mam
assault upon the northwestern
angle of the fort, after two feints
had been made upon the southern
angle, and repulsed by the riflemen
under Captain Hunter. Colonel
Short ordered his men \,o leap into
the ditch, cut down the pickets, and
give the Americans no quarter. He
set the example by jumping into
the ditch and calling upon his men
to follow him. In a moment it was
crowded full of them. Croghan's
masked six-pounder loaded with
slugs and grape-sihot commanded
this ditch, pointing straight up it;
and in another moment it was un-
masked, and opened fire upon the
enemy at the distance of thirty
feet. Its fire was so destructive
that few who entered the ditch ever
got out again alive and unwounded.
Colonel Short himself, wllio only a
moment before had ordered that no
quarter be given, had fallen, mor-
tally wounded, and he hoisted a
white handkerchief on the end of
his sword, and begged for quarter.
A panic-stricken retreat of the
enemy followed inmaediately. They
were rallied, however, and another
assault was led against the works
by Colonel Warburton and Major
Chambers, which was disastrously
repulsed by the rifle fire of the
Kentuckians ; and then the whole
force of the enemy retreated pre-
cipitately into the cover of the
neighboring primeval forests. They
left Colonel Short, a Lieutenant
and twenty-five privates dead in
the ditch, and lost twenty-six pris-
oners, nearly all of whom were bad-

ly wounded. Their total loss in
killed and wounded during the en-
tire contest exceeded Major
Croghan's whole force. Major
Croghan's loss was one killed and
seven slightly wounded.

The wounded British left in the
ditch were in a very precarious sit-
uation. Their own friends could
not go to their relief, and the
Americans dared not, for fear o;f
being shot from ambush by skulk-
ing Indians. Major Croghan, how-
ever, managed to pass over to them
buckets of water to assuage the
fierce thirst that always torments
wounded men, and a ditch was
opened under the pickets through
which many of them weie taken in-
to the fort, and oared for.

At 3 o'clock on the morning of
August 4th the whole force of the
British and Indians began a dis-
orderly retreat, and retired to
Proctor's hepaquarters, at Maiden,
in Canada, About a month later
Commodore Perry won his great
victory on Lake Erie ; and early in
October the Kentuckians under
William Henry Harrison and Isaac
Shelby destroyed Proctor's army
and killed Tecumseh at the battle
of the Thames, and put an end **for
good and all" to the British power
on our northwestern border.

In his oflScial report on the de-
fense of Fort Stephenson, General
Harrison said: **It will not be
among the least of General Proc-
tor's mortifications, that he has
been baffled by a youth who had
just passed his twenty-first year.
He is, however, a hero worthy of
his gallant uncle. General George
Eogers Clark."

Rtgl«Ur of the Kentucky 8tatt Historical Society.

The defense of Fort Stephenson
was the first real victory won by the
Americans on land in the war of
1812, which ihad then been in pro-
gress for more than a year. Com-
ing, as it did, after a long train of
black disasters to onr arms, it was
a beacon light of hope to the whole
country. The people of this gen-
eration can hardly realize wlhat a
hero it made of the young Ken-
tucMan who commanded that gal-
lant defense. The President of the
United States immediately confer-
red upon Major Croghan the
brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
^^for his gallant conduct on that
occasion/^ The ladies of Chili-
cotihe, Ohio, presented him an ele-
gant sword, with a S'Uitable ad-
dress; and whenever he appeared
honors and distinctions were show-
ered upon him in great profusion.
Throughout the whole length and
breadth of the land Ihis name was
upon everybody's lips as ''the hero
p| Fort Stephenson.**

It was not until about twenty-
two years later (February 13,
1835) that the Congress of the
United States passed a resolu-
tion—

'I That the President of the
United States be requested to cause
a gold medal to be struck, with suit-
able emblems and devices, and pre-
sented to Colonel Croghan in testi-
mony of the high sense entertained
by Congress of his gallantry and
good conduct in defense of Fort
IStephenson; and that he present a
^wofd to each of the following of-
ficeirs engaged in that affair;

''Captain James Hunter, 17th
Infantry ;

' ' Lieutenant Benjamin John-
ston, deceased, 17th Infantry; (to
his eldest male representative).

"Lieutenant Cyrus A. Baylor,
17th Infantry.

"Lieutenant John Meek, 7th In-
fantry,

"Ensign Joseph 'Duncan, de-
ceased, 17th Infantry (to his eldest
male representative).

"Ensign Edmund Shipp, 17th
Infantry. ' *

Many years ago the good people
of the city of Fremont, Ohio, erect-
ed upon the very spot within their
borders where Fort Stephenson
once stood, a magnificent and tow-
ering monument to the memory of
Colonel George Croghan, who had
hallowed that ground forever with
a valor that shines like a morning
star in the annals of deeds of high
emprise.

Colonel Croghan remained in the
regular army not only during the
remainder of the War of 1812, but
during the remainder of his life.
On February 21, 1814, he was made
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second
United States Bifie Begiment (reg-
ulars), which was raised under the
act of Congress of February 14th
of the same year; and about half
of this regiment was recruited in
Kentucky. He was transferred to
the 17th Infantry on May 17, 1815,
after the close of the war, when the
Bifie Begiments were disbanded.
On December 21, 1825, he was made
inspector General of thje army
with the rank of Colonel, which
position he continued to hold dur-
ing the remainder of his life; and

Reglttar off the Kentucky State Historical Society.

he served in it with distinction dur-
ing the Mexican War. He died
January 8, 1849, the thirty-fourth
anniversary of the battle of New
Orleans, one of the most brilliant
victories in the world's history
but no more brilliant than his own
at the defense of Fort Stephenson,
except in the circumstance of num-
bers alone.

Early in life Colonel Croghan
married Miss Serena Livingston,
who bore him seven children, four
of whom died in infancy. Of the
three who survived, Mary Angelica

Croghan married Rev. Christopher
Wyatt; St. Q-eorge Croghan mar-
ried Cornelia Ridgely, and Serena
Livingston Croghan married Au-
gustus F. Rogers. All of these left
children, and Colonel George
Croghan has today a number of
living descendants to keep his mem-
ory green. Kentucky should never
cease to do his memory honor, for
Ms valor has conferred upon her
a glory which, **like a jewel on the
stretched forefinger of all time,
sparkles forever.''

WHATS IN A NAME?

ELLA HUTCHISON ELLWANGER

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WHAPS IN A NAME?
TeU Me Your Name and PU TeU You What You Are.

(By Ella Hntchason Ellwanger.)

(Copyrightecl.)

"O, my lord, The times and titles now are strangely changed."

—King Henry VIIL

What is your name? Is it
Scotch, Irish or Dutch? Has it
been tampered with, coining to you
down the years? Tell me and 1*11
tell you who you are. A good ety-
mologist can trace for you the
origin of your cognomen and, may-
hap, devise a coat-of-arms for you.
On the other hand, a good etymolo-
gist could be the means of show-
ing you that you have no right to
the coat-of-arms whiolh you have
modestly hung up in your study.

Of all the **ologies*' known,
philogy is the most fascinating
study of that branch known as
etymology, which traces the deriva-
tion and combination of the words
of a language from its root.

Space will not allow one^s going
very deeply into the scientific study
of words here and their derivation.
Neither will the scientific arrange-
ment be exact. I will leave that
for members of the Harleian So-
ciety and for people who have the
patience and the time to hunt up
the names away at the top of the
ancestral tree.

Many people love to tell that the
roots of their family trees are nour-
ished by the blood of William the
Conqueror and from celebrated
Norsemen and from this or that
clan in Scotland and from the
French Hugenots. Some enlarge
upon this, forgetting that the state-
meats could easily be proven or
disproven. It hasn't been such a
long time that any of the race had
more than one name to his or her
credit and the first double ones
were fastened upon our progeni-
tors to distinguish ** who's who'' in
the family. So ^f your father'©
name happened to be (in the long
ago) Allen Worth, and you, hisi son,
were married and lived several
miles from him in the dale, you
would be most likely christened
''Allen a Dale Worth."

Sometimes the given name was
a badge of the trade you followed,
and sometimes it was given to you
because your hair was black while
that of your brother was fair.

We make a mighty pother about
our names when we -should remem-

ber that now-a-days they have de-
scended to us very mixed.

But this little article is written
more to quote the curious in our
appellations, the length, and
the inharmonious in their construc-
tion.

Every community has its set of
peculiar names faatened for Idfe
upon innocent children; yea, even
unto the third and fourth genera-
tion. If any curious cognomens
are existant in your neighboithood,
Mr. Reader,' the writer would feel
gratified if they would be forward-
ed her^that one day, a longer and
a more fascinating list may be
printed.

A Bardstown family, whose sur-
name is Hamilton, was responsible
for research in curious nomencla-
ture. These poor children's names
sound as if they might be descend-
ed from African blood. This, how-
ever, is not true, but tihey are, as
might well be imagined, of rather
shiftless breed. Two daughters
bear the heart-breaking names of
**Hedl-in-th)B-Kitchen'' and *'South-
em Soil.'* No, these are not nick-
names— ^they were baptized such.

^he boys fared no better. At
the font they became the proud
possessors of the following:
** Roman Judge Hamilton,'* ** He-
brew Fashion Hamilton," and
** Greek-god Hamilton." Many will
be disposed to think this a mere
burlesque, as I did, but any of the
older Bardstown families will con-
firm this as true.

**Mrs. Wiggs" was not the only
mother who gave her offspring
**gography" names. There are
several families in Kentucky who

carried geographical names long
before the *'Wiggs" were ever
thougiht of.

Tlhere is a ''Miss California
Iphegenia Colvin" and a "Miss
Idaho Ellen Smith" living in the
State of Kentucky. There is a
"Miss Mississippi Alicia Duval"
in Indiana.

If you needed coal would you go
to a firm who bore the name of
"Robb and Steele!" Yet, I am
told that such a coal firm— no pun
intended — flourished many years
ago in the city of Frankfort, Ken-
tucky. Likewise would you |take
your law case to a firm wihose
shingle bore the words: "Ketchem
& Cheatham?" Both firms, as I
understand, had to dissolve. Their
names were against them.

"Robinson & Cbuso."

In London tbere comes to us a
few as curious, but not more start-
ling than the two just mentioned.
One sudh combination read : ' ' Spar-
row and Nightingale." Another,
"Shepard and Calvert." In Ox-
ford, England, there was a sign
which the firm hung out with much
hilarity and mudh misgiving: It
was: "Robinson & Cruso."

A few years ago in the Kentucky
Legislature a jingle was made of
the curious names of >some of its
members. Many will remember
this:

"A McElroy and a McElrath
A Bigger and a Biggeratafl."

A dentist in London, England,
had to have his name changed. No
wonder. Who would have the

nerve to have one's teeth filled by
a "Mr. Kiljoy?" But, at "tihat, he
had as good a chance as a barber
with the name " Hackenbutcher ' ^
at the top of his striped pole.

*'BtJSY Bee" and ''Second-hand''

Children.

Scarcely in line with the other
curious names but just as funny
are the titles that the children in a
business community bestowed upon
themselves. In a town not a hun-
dred miiles away from Louisville
I passed a group of children. I
said, putting my hand on a little
curly head, "Who are you!^* She
looked up and pointing to another
small tot, lisped: "We are the
"Busy Bee children, and they,''
pointing to another group, are the
little "Second-hand children." I
looked up. Theie was a clothing
sign and above dt was the name of
"The Busy Bee." A second-hand
clothing store next door explained
the otiher set of babies.

Miss LoNQ AND Miss Shobt.

At a church gathering a few
years ago the door opened and a
late member appeared. She was a
Miss Short. Talking to the group
in the room was a Miss Long.
Everybody present "bid" to intro-
duce Miss Long to Miss Short.
But that was not the queerest part
of the names. Miss Long was
short and Miss Short was very
tall.

Misnomers are always funny. A
few years ago while making a call
the hostess went to the door and

called: "0, Lillie— Lillie!" I near-
ly fell over when a diminutive
darkey as black as the ace of
spades answered the call.

"What is her surname?" I
asked.

"It's really very funny," laugh-
ed my hostess, but her name is
Lillie White."

The Longest Name.

Kings and queens and princes and
all other royalty at large are not
the only personages that can in-
dulge in many names. There is one
dear old lady, who has long since
passed to the Paradise iside of the
river of death, who was christened :
"Mary AUena Cecilia Josephine
AUoisious Carroll." Another well
known woman who answered to a
name several feet long would die —
or I should, if the surname were
added. In full it is: "Margaret
Sarina Jozerina Tocirilla, and she
hails from Prince Edward Co., Va.
But, iriy prize name, and beyond
the paradventure of a doubt, a
genuine one, also comes from
Prince Edward County. The dear
old lady being dead, we give it in
full: "Henringham Hager^ Har-
rington Carrington Oodrington
Elizabeth Ware Watkins." Here is
another one, of let's say, peculiar
construction : * * Eulalia Viroca
Viola Estella."

A Candy Name.

In New Orleans when a little
girl buys groceries for her mother
the storekeeper gives them "Lag-
niapps," a kind of candy. So one

Regltter of the Kentucky 8t«te Hietorlcal Society.

mother named her little girl **Lag-
niapps*' after the delicious dainty.

A Classic Name.

There is a professor in Kentucky
who will never forgive his parents
for naming him ** Cadmus Diony-
sus Leander . ' ^ He says that

he was engaged to be married six
months before he dared tell his
sweetheart his real name and only
told her when he knew he would
have to write it on the marriage
certificate.

Faith, Hope and Chamty.

In the registers of marriage at
Halifax parish church, England,
dated December 1, 1878, is the

name of a witness, Charity H .

He — it was a lie — is the third child
of his parents, two sisters. Faith
and Hope, having preceded him
into the world. His full baptismal
name is **And Charity'* and in his
own marriage certificate the name
is so written. In everyday busi-
ness affairs he is content to write
himself *' Charity.**

OuB Own ''Uncle Sam."

To come down to National nick-
names we will start with our own
''Uncle Sam/* to one child, at
least, not a myth. This originated,
of course, from the two initials.
One small child whose grandfather
drew a pension always believed
until she was ten years old that a
grand, old man, who was all the
soldiers uncle, came once in every
three [months to give them their

money. The disillusionment was
almost as bitter as when she found
there was not a really, truly Santa
Claus.

Our ** Brother Jonathan** arose
out of the person of Jonathan
Trumbull, the Governor of Connec-
ticut, whom General Washington
never failed to consult in cases of
emergency. '*We will refer the
matter to Brother Jona&an, * ' he
was wont to exclaim, ' * John Bull * *
occupies the same place to the Eng-
lishman that ** Uncle Sam'* does to
the American citizen. This name
came from Dr. Arbuthnot*s satire
of this title published in 1721,
There was a real John Bull, well
known as the composer of ''God
Save the King, * * but we are told by
Leopold Wagner that he died
many, many years before Dr. Ar-
buthnot*s performance was heard
of.

"Mrs. Geundy.**

This well known and delectable
lady who is feared and referred to
constantly, arose out of a passage
"What will Mrs. Grundy say,**
from the lines from a drama by
Thomas Morton. "Tommy At-
kins*' was a fictitious name that
figured in the soldiers* monthly
statements of accounts.

Historical. Nicknames.

Many persons of historical fame
are better known by their nick-
names than by the ones they re-
ceived at the font. For instance,
Mrs. Lilly Lans:try is still known
as the "Jersey Lily.** She resided

in Jersey and her name was Lily.
**The Swedish Nightingale" was
conferred upon Jenny Lind on ac-
connt of her vocal genius. **The
Fair Maid of Kenf in real life
was Joan, the wife of the Black
Prince. ''Fair Eosamond'' was the
beloved ''affinity" of Henry 11.
Then there was the "Maid of Or-
leans," born in 1412 and burnt at
the stake in 1431.

The noted English outlaw is
best known to readers of history
as "Eobin Hood." Two of his
band were called "Will Scarlet"
and "Friar Tuck." The first
named was William Scathlock and
the second named was so called
because he habitually tucked his
(habit into the girdle at his waist.

Of fashion there was the renown-
ed "Beau Brummel" and "Beau
Fielding" and "Beau Nash."
And we must not forget to list
^'The Grand Old Man" who ans-
wered to the name of Gladstone in
the House of Commons.

Called "Tim" Fob Shobt.

The most peculiar names w.ere
found among the Puritans and
their descendants. Of all the ex-
cesses those of a religious dharac-
ter are most intemperate in their
course. Prominent words of Scrip-
ture, short prayers and the like
were used to a startling degree,
such as "What-Timorous-Worms-
We-Mortals-Be," was burdened
upon one little soul too small to
utter a protest. He was called
"Tim" for short. But here is a
list that you can cull from if you
have run out of names for your

family : Increase Muchmore Jones,
Withlove Williamson, Eepentant
Thompson, Fear Brewster, Faith,
Hope and Charity Dunn, Loving
Bell. From a register in St. James,
Piccadilly, we have these: Nazar-
eth Eudde, Obedience Clark, Unity
Thompson, Comfort Starre, Hope-
still Foster, Ltfve Brewster, Re-
membrance Tibbbtt, Desire Minter,
Original Lewis, Thanks Sheppard,
all names being of emigrants from
England in 17th century.

The following entries are quoted
by Mr. Lower from the regisrters
at Warbleton:

1617— Be-Sfteadfast Elyar^.
1617 — Good-gift Gynnings.
1622— Lament Willard.
1624— Defend Outered.
1625— Faint-Not Digfhurst.
1625— Fere-Not Rhodes.
1677— Replenish French.

Of course in this age the names
of "Prudence" and "Faith" and
"Lamentation" and "Visitation"
and * * Experience ' ' were many. So
also were the "Thankfuls" and the
"Lovewells"^ and the "Live-
wells" and there was many a maid
called "Silence." We are not try-
ing to be facetious.

"Adam" and "Eve."

The names taken from the Bible
were not alone tihose of Mary, John,
Seth, Elizabeth, Ruth, St. James,
Matthew, etc., for it was inevitable
that "Adam" and "Eve" should
have been remembered at the font.
Then there were another set, main-
ly culled from tihe Bible and relat-
ing to it. We note these :

Reformation, Free-Gift, Eartih,
Dust, Delivery, More-Fruit, Tribu-
lation, The Lord-Is-Near, More-
Trial, Discipline, Joy-Again, From
Above, Praise-God-Barebones. The
brother of this last can boast a still
more fearful name than the dear,
old lady from Prince Edward Co.,
Virginia. It is in full : * ' If-Christ-
Had - Not-Died-For-You-You-Had-
BeeSQ-Dammed-Barebones. * ' The
historian tells uis that this last
named gentleman was called
** Damned Barebones" for short.
Tlhere was also another long name
given one of this generation. It
was : '' Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of -
Faith.''

**Chbistmas" and even ''Yulb-

TIDB."

Many names were derived from
certain days. Thus we have
*' Christmas '* and '*NoeP' and
** Midwinter.'' There was also a
young man named ** Yule-Tide,"
and doubtless be was thus named
because he made his debut into this
world on a bitter December day
near the Christmas season.

**FBn)AY" AND **MONDAY."

The days of the week were also
remembered in the naming of
children. Bobinson Crusoe was not
the first to introduce his man
** Friday." We also have among
us: ** Monday's" and *' Tues-
day's," and even ** Saturday's."
We all know that tihe Williamson's
and the Johnson's and the Thomp-
son's and others of that ilk came

from being called Smith's Son,
William's Son, etc., etc., because it
was common that children should
often pass current in the com-
munity in which they lived as the
sons of John and Thomas and
William.

The adding of the *'l-y" and the
*4-e," etc., was but the pet name
of John and Will and Nell, etc.
Pet, is of itself the diminutive of
** petite," or little one. We are
fond of adopting this diminutive
with those we love. The Dutch are
especialy loving towards their
** kinder," and thus we find they
must add something in the diminu-
tive even wihen the child's name
ends in **i-e." So, if it is **Min-
nie ' ' they have a way of calling her

* * Minni-lie. ' '

There are many queer names of
streets and towns and cities, but
tihat would be to double the length
of this article. We quote only one
that comes of queer origin. * * Wey-
bossettv" That in itself is a very
nice name for a street in Provi-
dence, Ehode Island. But once
that street was a village lane and
the yokels drove their cows along
its way. Thus from Whoa I
Bossie!" the name originated.

The most out-landish names
were found among the older set of
negroes. One will never be effaced
from my memory. I heard one old
wash woman call her small child

* * Exy . ' ' I wondered where she ob-
tained such a name. Finally I ask-
ed her. She said: **Law, Miss, her
name aint Exy. I just calls her
that for short— her real proper
name is Exema."

A Witty Eetobt.

Tthere is a very beautiful girl in
Keirtucky named **Miss Golden
Day." A Louisville gentleman was
attending a german given in her
home town and he was formally in-
troduced to her. He thought that
his friend was, to use a vulgar
term, ** stringing*' him. So he
bowed low and said: **I'm pleased
to meet you Miss Golden Day— I'm
** Darkest Nighf It took some
dozen citizens to assure him that
her name was a bona fide one.

Tavebk Signs.

A list of tavern signs will not
come amiss at the end of this arti-
cle. They are not only ludicrous but
most incongruous. For instance,
wenote: *'The Old Hat,'' *'The
Green Man," **The Bed Lion,"
**The Boar's Head," *'The Bed
Bose," *^The Boyal Oak," ''The
Tabard Inn," **The Bam and the
Teazle," **The Bell," **The Bar-
ley Mow," *'The Blue Pig," ''The
Pig and Whistle," ''The Cat and

Fiddle," "The Bano Nails," "The
Three Nuns" and "The Devil."

The following list of names were
taken from the jury in the county
of Sussex at this early date :
Accepted Trevor, of Norsham.
Eedeemed Compton, of Battle.
Faint-Not Hewett, of Heathfield.
Make-Peace Heaton, of Hare.
God-Beward Smart, of Fivehurst.
Stand-Fast-On High-Stringer, of

Crowhurst.
Earth Adams, of Waketon.
Called Lower, of the same.
Kill-Sin Pimple, of Witham.
Beturn Spelman, of Watling.
Be-Faithf ul Joiner, of Butling.
Fly Debates Boberts, of the same.
Fight - tihe - good - fight - of - faith-
White, of Ehner.
More-Fruit Fowler, of East Hadly.
Hope-For-Bending, of the same.
Graceful Herding, of Lewes.
Weep-Not-Billing, of the same.
Meek Brewer, of Oakeham.

"What's in a name!" seems in-
deed a pleasantry, but an exhaus-
tive study of the origin of names
and their derivatives is to know
history.

HISTORY TWO-FOLD

MBS. JENNIE C. MOETON

HISTORY TWO-FOLD.

Then and Now.

By J. C. M.

THEN.

When this Country did not ex-
tend from the Lakes to llie Gulf,
north and south, and from Ocean
to Ocean, east and west; when the
laws were not so many, or the busi-
ness so complicated, there was in
our State, as in many other souith-
em States, a simple form of com-
mercial exchange, and dealings
that did not require receipts,
checks and vouchers, in confusing
numberis, to aulihenticate a busi-
ness transaction.

It did not require an expert to
prepare a bank statement and there
were very few bank failures. It
did not require a scientific overseer
to have the farms planted, nor a
specialist to tell you what the
harvest would be. The harvest
was gathered into bams bursting
witii plenty. The land yielded its
abundance without much labor,
there was plenty for all and pover-
ty was almost unknown save in
large cities.

The activities of this, our world
made for happiness, prosperity
and general contentment. Our
people were a home-loving, gener-
ous christian people. Hospitality
was the cardinal virtue every-

where. There was no great wealth,
but independence abounded.
Churches, schools and colleges
could be found in neighborhoods
and towns, attesting that intelli-
gence and refinement were the out^
growth of these primal educators.

There were telegraphs, rail-
roads, stage-coaches and carriages
of imperial beauty and luxury. The
idea was to preserve home and all
the sacred relationships and senti-
ments that go with the word home ;
also to have a country of which
its citizens should be proud, and
loyal to.

We had great men from and be-
fore the founding of the govern-
ment of the United States. Thej
were the men that worked out the
problem of a. democratic form of
government; establisbed it, and
won for it the world-wide reputa-
tion, **the best government the
world ever saw.^' It is today a
world power.

AND NOW.

We live in an electrical age. We
whirl thro ^ the air in air-ships, and
over our road-ways in automobiles.
We talk to each other over tele-
phones, tho' (hundreds of miles

apart. Wireless telegraphy sends
US messages from the sea or the
ocean in storm or calm. There
seems to be nothing impossible to
the god-like genius of man. NOW
we have a country so large, the
oceans bound it, and its colonies
are the Isles of the Sea. The (Gov-
ernment is one so vast, so intricate
its responsibilities are so varied,
and so weighty they stagger the
strongest and confuse the !wisest
minds. The policy of the year be-
fore does not meet the exigencies
of the following year, so that the
laws seem in conflict and are
powerless to control and protect
the interest entrusted to them.
Systems are adopted, men and
women everywhere, like the
Greeks of old, want something new.
Land-marks are removed, and old
lines that guarded and protected
the rights of citizens are obliter-
ated, and the brave voice of the
people in protest is no more heard.

In the march of events we find
the *4ron hand with the velvet
glove*' pointing the way of the pro-
cession. We have spies and in-
spectors in offices and homes. We
have investigators and experts to
inquire into every department of
business or to make a business of
misrepresenting the necessity for
such espionage, and creating the
difficulty they do not find. We have
men and women teaching Science
so-called everywhere. They claim
to be teaching how to live, how to
breathe, how to die and then dis-
solve in air like a melon or an over-
ripe apple.

The men teach you how to get

rich and by these same methods
you get poor and they get rich. The
women have come to the front, not
as wives, mothers, daughters and
sisters in their refined depart-
ments, but in the bold, broad fields
of the law-maker, the tradesman,
the tourist and navigator. In any
or all of these departments of the
period Now of the world, tkej must
be heard. They dream, many of
them, that they are tihe incarnation
of Shakespeare's incomparable her-
oine, the lawyer Portia ; they be-
come lawyers without her genius,
her tact, her talent, or her trans-
cendent beauty. They dash into
the hitherto forbidden (to them)
territory of knowledge. They are
changed by the sadness and mys-
tery they discover. That which
has been concealed from them in
very kindness, is revolting to their
unfitted minds. They cannot con-
tend for the pound of flesh with the
Shylocks of the world. They are
not all Jews, but **to Icnow'' is their
new motto. In the fruitless search
for happiness in this wisdom they
fall by the way, weary, if success-
ful, and sadder, if wiser, and re-
gretting their natural birthright
and domain.

Then there are others who are
rising in otiher new phases of this
electrical, sensational age. Hiey
must be preachers, and they preach
gospels according to their own in-
terpretation. They must be teach-
ers and trainers. They must be
heard on the platform, on the
rostrum, in college and clubs. Last
there are pioneer teachers in iflie
new ways of marriage and rearing

humanity. Spinsters are found
teaching mothers how to nurse the
babes at their breasts.

They have gone through all the
information in the so-called re-
quisites for wifehood and mother-
hood in their fine colleges, namely:
Biology, psychology and sociology,
to say nothing of hygiene and the
science of anatomy and dissection.
The book-learning is in their heads,
but the husband is not in the home,
nor the baby in the cradle for them
to practice all these new ideas
upon.

The mother knows, if she loves
the child, how to watch over it in-
stinctively, tho' not scientifically
always; the wife knows how to
make home happy and comfortable
for her husband, tho ' she has never
been taught this scientifically. She
knows how to have his food prepar-
ed in the most tempting and pala-
table style, and how to set her table
according to her means, and her
taste. She may not know how to
give a lecture on the relation of
beans and butter, the fluids and the
solids, &c., and because of this
ignorance, the up-to-date, college-
bred, never-going-to-marry spin-
ster, comes forward to enlighten
wife and mother on biology first,
then some other ology related to it,
and the mother smiles at her.

It is said they must teach
mothers what to read, what to
think, how to pray, and what to
pray for. Hospitals must be built
and run by women, while servants
take charge of their homes, if they
have them, and thus the old time
historic home, of happy husband
and children must be a thing of the

past. Changes, out of the realm
of possibilities in other days, are
derangiiig and upturning life on
every side.

Disapproval is not listened to,
men who should be masters in their
own homes become often cowardly
or indifferent, or seek a divorce,
with scant reverence for God, love,
woman or child. The dramatic, the
sensational, the daring is the rage.
The indecent phases of life are
paraded in the newspapers. The
public has been fed in this new age
on the offensive variety of litera-
ture until its bad odor and danger-
ous influences are no longer no-
ticed, until its poison affects some
beloved object; then it is deplored,
but not ignored and suppressed as
it should be, and finally eliminated
from christian society. That which
is most unnatural, most contra-
dictory to our laws and customs as
an intelligent and christian people,
is most attractive and ensnaring.
Heroism ceases to be applauded,
grandeur of character has few im-
itators, but Liberalism, Socialism,
Communism, all boldly come for-
ward in our democratic govern-
ment to be reckoned with, and they
must be softly spoken to lest they
be offended. Such is the Chinese-
America. (This review has been
sugcested from reading the news
of the world ; historian, scientists-
writers, pessimists, all contribute
their views.)

But lo ! in the midst of this phan-
tasmagoria of new and impractical
ideas that may flash and go out like
meteors, we have the Conference
for the dawn of the world's Peace.
Perhaps this spirit comes with

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healing in its wings, wearing the
rainbow crescent of hope on its
brow. Its purity pervades an in-
candescent a'tmosphere only as yet,
but as it gently fills the world with
its sweetness and glory, we Phall
all know, it is said, its heavenly
power.

It is said to be the "far visioned
act of practical idealism,"when the
"Then and Now" sihall be trans-
figured, and the world shall abolish
war. Out of its chaos of old our

country shall rise a land of liberty
and peace, once more adorned to
meet its King in all His glory.

We cannot know the day or the
hour, but it is coming, whea the
earth shall be a new earlih like unto
paradise; the wicked shall be de-
stroyed and the righteous shall be
rewarded with life eternal, in a
world where there is no more sea
and no more night, for the River
of Life is there, and tihe Lord of
Glory is the light thereof.

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Jurist, Orator and Statesman.

By George Baber.

A review of the life of Joseph
Rogers Underwood recalls one of
the finest characters in Kentucky
history. It was the life of a man
who, for more than half a century,
main'tained a distinguished posi-
tion in the State as a jurist, as a
legislator and as an orator. He be-
longed to that coterie of remark-
able men who, rising from obscur-
ity in The Green River Section,
gave to that portion of the Com-
monwealth a renown peculiar to it-
self as the nursery of great lawyers
and brilliant public speakers, be-
tween 1820 and 1870. When, there-
fore, we think of Joseph B. Under-
wood, we tfaink also of John J.
Crittenden, James T. Morehead,
John Rowan, Charles A. Wickliffe,
Elijah Hise, Beverly L. Clarke,
Asher Graham, Pressley Ewing,
George C. Rogers, Warner L. Un-
derwood and William L. Dulaney;
and, at once, a throng of glowing
memories crowd upon us from the
counties of Logan, Warren, Nel-
son, Barren and Simpson, the his-
tory of which respectively was il-
luminated by the fame of tiheir il-
lustrious sons.

Bom in Goochland County, Va.,
October 24, 1791, young Underwood

moved with his uncle, Edmond
Rogers, to Barren County, Ken-
tucky, in 1803. He had a younger
brother, Warner, who remained in
Goochland to attend the school for
boys taught there by Mr. Thomas
Anderson Baber, but wiho followed
to Kentucky in good time, located
at Bowling Green, and became a
prominent lawyer and successful
politician, twice representing thQ
Bowling Green district in the lower
House of Congress, and being ap-
pointed Consul General to Glas-
gow, Scotland, under the Fillmore
administration. Joseph was edu-
cated mainly at a school in the vi-
cinity of Glasgow, in Barren
county, and, thence was sent to
Washington College at Lexington,
Va., where he was prepared for the
legal profession and entered the
law office of Robert Wickliffe *'01d
Bob, ' ' as he was usually called. Tlhe
war of 1812 was in progress, and in
March, 1813, young Underwood,
then twenty-two years old, laying
down his books, was the first volun-
teer to step forward to make up the
company then being raised by
Capt. John C. Morrison, of Fayette
Counlty, to complete the forming
regiment that was organized and

commanded by Col. William Dud-
ley. Underwood was chosen as
First Lieutenant of the company,
whidh, under the lead of Dudley,
participated in the bloody battle on
the Maumee River opposite Fort
Meigs, which became famous as
''Dudley's Defeat, '^ a defeat that
was due to the overwhelming force .
of the enemy. Underwood was
wounded in the battle and the he-
roic captain of his company, John
C. Morrison, was killed, wihereupon
Underwood was promptly promot-
ed to the Captaincy, by reason of
his own gallant action m the fatal
engagement. Immediately upon
his promotion. Captain Underwood
directed a riskful and courageous
movement of his men whereby he
was enabled to cover the retreat of
his comrades from the disastrous
assault of the enemy. He was him- '
self captured by the Indians and
forced to run the Indian gauntlet.
Tbe most perilous experience to
which he could be subjected with-
out loss of life. Thus, it appears,
began the public career of Joseph
R. Underwood, a volunteer soldier
in a Kentucky regiment, incurring
a wound in one of the most hotly
contested battles in 'the Northwest
campaign under General Harrison,
and receiving a merited distinction,
March 5, 1813, in recognition of his
gallant conduct on tihe field.

Eetuming from the war, young
Underwood resumed his residence
in Barren County. In 1816, he was
elected to the Legislature, in which
body he served, by repeated elec-
tions, until 1823.

Removing to Bowling Green in
1825, having begun the practice of

law, he again entered the political
arena, for which Ihe had a decided
bent, and was chosen to represent
Warren County in the Legislature.
From this date onward his career
was identified continuously with
the history of Warren County, ris-
ing thence in close succession to
the various distinctions which Ihe
attained. In 1825, he was the Clay
candidate for Lieutenant Governor
of the State on the ticket with Met-
calf, who was elected Governor;
but Underwood was defeated by
John Breathitt, who got a meagre
majority. Underwood's defeat be-
ing due to his position on tIhe no-
torious ^' Scalp Law'' whilst a
member of the Legislature, the en-
actment of which he had antagon-
ized.

Mr. Underwood, after settling at
Bowling Green, soon developed in-
to not only an able lawyer with a
constantly increasing practice, but
a popular orator whose eloquent
voice was potent throughout the
Green River Secition. He was
again elected to tihe Legislature.
When the famous controversy be-
tween the Old Court and New
Court parties, in regard to the so-
called '* Relief System," beginning
in 1820, with John Rowan as one
of the boldest of the New Court
party leaders, advocating in behalf
of debtors the replevin of Court
judgments from three to twelve
months, and supporting the legis-
lative enactment of November 29,
1820, crealting *^The Bank of the
Commonwealth, ' ' without any
other capital than the net proceeds
of the sales, as they might occur of
some vacant public lands, but with-

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oui the backing of the State Gov-
ernment, Mr. Underwood ranged
himself with tihe opposition to this
measnre, standing with George
Eobertson, John Boyle, Eobert J.
Breckinridge, John J. Crittenden,
James R. Sidles, and others of
similar importance, who supported
the ruling of John Boyle in his
great opinion delivered October 8,
1823, in the case of Blair vs. Wil-
liams, and who approved the sub-
sequent rulings of fflie Old Court in
the case of Lapsley vs. Brashear, in
declaring that the Replevin Act in
its retroactive features, and the
State Bank Charter, were alike, un-
constitutional and revolutionary.
This controversy, lasting about
four years, was the most aggravat-
ed and inflammatory agitation that
ever occurred in Kentucky. Under-
wood was one of the most effective
leaders of the Old Court party. He
canvassed his portion of the State
witih great vigor ; was a member of
the legislature of 1826, when the
agitation culminated, and was one
of the signers of the famous ad-
dress **To the Freemen of Ken-
tucky,^' written by George Robert-
son, of Lexington, and which was
distributed far and wide among
the people, bearing the signatures
of all the members of the legisla-
ture of 1826, who supported TBie
Old Court, and which furnished,
also, the ground on which was ulti-
mately won, in 1828, the victory of
the Old Court party, over-throwing
the revolutionary movement of
which JoOm Rowan, Ffancis P.
Blair, Wm. T. Barry and Robert B.
McAfee had been zealous and un-
compromising exponents. With

the re-establishment of the Old
Court, peace returned to Kentucky
and the credit of the State was
again put on a secure footing.

In 1828, Judge Underwood was
appointed by Governor Metcalf a
judge of the Court of Appeals
simultaneously with Hon. George
Robertson. His judicial career
was distinguished from the start.
He and Robertson were in every
way closely associated. They
usually followed the i^ame lines of
thought, and united in their de-
liverances from the bench. He
served with distinctive honor to
the State on that Court until 1835,
wihen, preferring the political
arena to the bench, he resigned ; re-
turned to his law office at Bowling
Green, and in 1836 became a candi-
date for Congress, to which body
he was elected as a Whig by a large
majority, serving continuously un-
til 1843. In 1844, he was an elector
for the State at large in support of
the presidential nomination of Mr.
Clay. His career on the stump was
brilliant, attracting great audiences
wherever he went and swelling the
current of popular enthusiasm for
' ' Harry of the West. ' ' Thomas F.
Marshall, Judge Underwood, and
General Leslie Combs, both of the
latter having heroically served in
the war of 1812, were among the
brag Whig orators of that cam-
paign, as they had been in the mem-
orable political battle for '* Tippe-
canoe and Tyler too, ' * in 1840. Mr.
Clay carried the State over Mr.
Polk, as he had always carried it,
by a large majority; and, then.
Governor Owsley, John J. Critten-
den, and others united their in-

fluence in making Mr. Underwood,
who had presided as Speaker of
the House at Frankfort, in 1845,
United States Senator in 1846. He
took his seat in the Senate, March
4, 1847, and but for the change in
political conditions consequent up-
on the death of Mr. Clay, the defeat
of Gen, Scott for the presidency in
1852, and the dismemberment of
the Whig party, culminating in the
election of Franklin Pierce to the
Presidency, he would have been
easily elected to another senatorial
term by the Kentucky Legislature.
As a Senator, Jud^re Underwood
was classed among the scholarly,
studious and thoroughly mformed
members of the Senate. He was
ever on duty. His speeches were
carefully prepared, dignified in ex-
pression, and always delivered in
ati engaging and impressive man-
ner. It may be said that he was
overshadowed by Mr. Clay, whose
magnetic presence was withQut a
parallel; but Senator Underwood's
admiration for the Sage of
Ashland was fully reciprocated and
ever appreciated with marks of af-
fectionate confidence. He gave de-
voted attention to the great Ken-
tuckian in fliis final illness which
terminated in July, 1852, at Wash-
ington, and was the Chairman of
the Senatorial Committee desig-
nated by the President of the. Sen-
ate, to escort to Kentucky the body
of Mr. Clay for its last repose.
Describing the imposing spectacle
that was presented at Lexington
upon the arrival of Mr. Clay's re-
mains in that city, Mr. D. C. Wick-
lifFe, editor of the Lexington Ob-
server, said: **The pageant was

probably never surpassed on any
similar occasion in the United
States, and the testimonial of re-
fipect and affection, furnished by
every outward indication, was such
as no man save Henry Clay cotdd
have commanded." It was in the
presence of this mighty display of
popular affection that Senator Un-
derwood delivered an address that
was notably eloquent, awakening a
sense of profound sorrow in the
hearts of the largest assembly that
any orator had ever addressed in
Kentucky. To Senator Underwood,
Judge George Robertson befitting-
ly responded in behalf of the people
and the vast concourse then pro-
ceeded to the burial spot in the
Lexington cemetery.

Ex-Senator Underwood deliver-
ed a series of political addresses in
the Presidential contest of 1856,
supporting Bell and Everett, in
compliance with urgent solicita-
tions; but he was thereafter inac-
tive in politics until the dark days
of 1861, when ihe appeared before
many audiences not only in Ken-
tucky but outside the State, plead-
ing for Peace and Union. The
writer hereof once heard George
D. Prentice, soon after the civil
war, declare : * * There are four men
in Kentucky whose voices chiefly
served in 1861 to hold the State in
the Union. They were James
Gutflirie, John J. Crittenden,
Charles A. Wickliffe and Joseph
R. Underwood. They constituted
the mighty quartet whose com-
manding influence saved Kentucky
from secession and for the time
suppressed the angry storm then
rising in her borders."

Judge Underwood was chosen as
a delegate from the State at large
to the National Democratic Con-
vention at Ohicago in 1864, and
there co-operated with James
Guthrie and John M. Harlan in se-
curing the nomination of General
George B. McClelland for presi-
dent, and whose election they sub-
sequently advocated in numerous
speeches throughout the State.

The last public occasion when
Judge Underwood appeared as a
leading spirit was tihe assembling
of the great convention held at
Frankfort, in 1865, after the dis-
bandment of the contending armies
of the civil war, and when the
whole land was resounding with ex-
pressions of gratitude at the re-
turn of peace. The convention rep-
resented all portions of the Com-
monwealth. It was composed of
Kentucky's best citizens^ irrespec-
tive of political affiliations, and in
disregard of former party ani-
mosities. TIhe occasion was an in-
spiring one. The voice of peace had
supplanted the voice of civil strife,
and the great throng vied with each
other in a determination to heal the
wounds of the past and reunite
Kentucky in a bond of fervent pa-
triotism. Judge Underwood was
properly chosen to preside over
the assemblage. His address on
the occasion was a superb exhibi-
tion of pathetic eloquence, and
seemed to weld all hearts in one
mighty impulse of devotion to the
State. A son of Judge Underwood,
John C. Underwood, was a brave
Confederate soldier, a fact that
seemed to deepen the note of tender
eloquence that pervaded his

father's address, and to strengthen
that noble resolve whidh has
prompted true Kentuckians every-
where to forgive if not to forget the
differences of civil war. This son
was afterward elected Lieutenant
Governor of the State, making in
that position a splendid official
record.

A memorable event in the career
of Judge Underwood occurred up-
on the completion for occupancy of
the large new courthouse at Bowl-
ing Green, in 1868. The whole bar
of tihe city was gathered in the
commodious circuit court room,
and many citizens not connected
with the legal profession were
present. It was an occasion of
geniune festivity and of hearty con-
gratulation. Hon. Geo. C. Rogers,
the distinguished judge of the cir-
cuit, a son-in-law of Judge Under-
wood, presided, and the occa-
sion proved to be, on ac-
count of prolonged sickness, his
last service on the bench. It
was detei*mined that Judge Un-
derwood, then 77 years of age,
should offer tiie first motion before
the court and to make the first ar-
gument in the new hall of justice.
With characteristic dignity, he per-
formed the pleasing duty, being
followed by other members of the
bar who made addresses appropri-
ate to the occasion — ^tihe remarks
of Judge Underwood being replete
with delightful reminiscences of his
career from the time when he came
to Kentucky from Gouchland
County, Va., in 1803, a period of
nearly seven decades, during which
Kentucky had developed from a
territorial condition into the pro-

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portions of a rich, prosperoue, pop-
ulous and grand Commonwealffli,
with a glorious history in the past
and yet more glorious future.

Judge Underwood spent the clos-
ing years of his busy life in the un-
spoiled solitude of his beautiful
country home, near Bowling Green,
passing away August 23, 1876, in
the 841h year of his age, with full
faith in tihe Christian religrion. His
long career in the public service,
beginning in the war of 1812, was
a life at once distinguished and
free from stain. He was a pro-
foundly conscientious man and was
never known to veer from the path
of duty. He was beloved univer-

sally in the community in which he
lived, and his memory is now re-
vered by every intelligent man and
woman in Warren County, which
never hesitated to honor him. As
was said of Abraham Lincoln, he
had "the plain man's genius— com-
mon sense." He fed his spirit with
the bread of books, and slaked his
thirst at all tflie wells of thought!
Recalling his sympathetic nature
and his rare judicial temperament,
it may be added that —

"HIb only fault — the (ault that boom of old.
Laid even on Qod—was' that he waa erer

vont.
To bend the law to let his mercy out."

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MERO AND HOLMES STREETS

FRANKFORT, KY.
BY

MES. JENNIE C. MOETON

Bead Before the Society of ** Colonial Daughters^'

Jtdy, 1898.

MERO AND HOLMES STREETS.

FRANKFORT, KY.

MEBO STEEET.

Hhis very important roadway for
the track of the electric railway to
its power house in the suburbs of
the city at tihe extremity of Wilkin-
son street, was called for the Gov-
ernor General, Miro, of Louisiana,
before it was ceded to the United
States. When Louisiana was pur-
chased from France for fifteen mil-
lion ($15,000,000) in 1803, General
Miro retired to his own country.
Kentucky then as now, thought a
word should be spelled as it was
pronounced in English, and Frank-
fort adopted tIhe phonetic mode of
pronouncing the General's name,
for its chirography, therefore we
find it written Mero.

Its best claim to any special
mention is that it shares the dis-
tinction of Clinton in being part
of the Buffalo Trace of early days.
Until this low lying ground next
to Fort Hill was drained, there
were no (houses here of any kind.
And now it has come to be a com-
mon thoroughfare, through what
is still a very undesirable part of
the city.

It begins at the river, as do all
these streets running eastward.
And it intersects High street at the
square in front of tihe penitentiary.
At the intersection of the streets

running northward across Mero,
the houses of any importance have
been named in the preceding chap-
ters of this History, and it is use-
less to repeat them (here. The
future historian we hope will find
Mero a better field of observation
and incident than it is now —

"As the people make it
So we receive and take it."

at the present time. It is macada-
mized, but not paved all along,
from end to end. This is no sur-
prise, when we learn from the
town records, how long it was be-
fore it was utilized, except as a
**big road'' through the marsh.

It was not until 1828 and 1829
that any arrangement was made
for turnpikes in Kentucky. The
first one of any length was from
Lexington to Maysville, made upon
the plan submitted by McAHams.
Daniel Boone's trace or road was
the first one made in Kentucky.
(Collins' History, Vol. I, First
Things).

From Lexington to Frankfort
was the second turnpike in 1829.
Then the streets were macada-
mized as far north as Hig|h and
Clinton; and in the newspapers of
that year we read an ordinance
dated April 4, 1829, thus, ''Sec. 1:

Be it ordained by the Board of
Trustees of the town of Frankfort ;
T^at no person shall ride, lead or
drive any horse or other b'east of
burden, or any cart, wagon or
other heavy carriage over the
brick pavements of this town under
penalty of two dollars for every
offense.''

This settles the question as to
brick pavements — they were here
at that time — ^but not all over the
city, only on St. CLair, Main, Mont-
gomery, Wilkinson, Washington,
Broadway, Anne and part of the
way on Clinton.

Hence we see Mero was not em-
braced in that improvement. Only
this year (1898), sixty-nine years
afterwards, we have by order of
the City Council, His Honor, the
Mayor, W. S. Dehoney, presiding,
a brick street: St. Clair, from
the comer of Broadway and St.
Clair, in front of the State House
Square, is laid in brick cement,
from curbing to curbing of side
pavements of brick up to the
bridge across the river to South
Frankfort.

The electric railway established
in 1894 popularized Mero, and it
has shown some signs of improve-
ment since exposed to public criti-
cism day by day by the fre-
quenters of the parks and pleasure-
seekers availing themselves of the
cars to enjoy a breezy ride through
the city.

The penitentiary has the ap-
pearance of an old stone castle as
you approach it on Mero. It was
finished in 1800, and had only one
prisoner. Its Keeper was John S.
Hunter. Here at the end of the

century this penitentiary is one of
the largest in the South, with an-
other branch penitentiary at Ed-
dyville, and both filled to their
utmost capacity with criminals.
This seems to be a strange com-
mentary on the 19th century,
especially so when we know that
the honest, industrious citizens of
the State are burdened beyond en-
durance almost, with taxation, to
support Public Schools, Beform
Schools and all manner of philan-
thropic and charitable institutions,
in order to keep apace with the
advanced theories based upon
Christian civilization for the im-
provement morally and mentally
of the race. Let us hope in the new
century about to dawn men may
become better by these blessings.
That they will not need correction
and punishment and task-masters
to teach them the severity of the
law, when they can follow the heav-
enly pointings in the better way,
and learn its dicipline of mercy,
and love and justice. Then pris-
ons may be turned into palaces,
the frowning walls overhung with
roses and the work-yards become
gardens and parks; free pleasure
grounds for the happy people of
the city.

HOLMES STBEET,

Holmes street was called for
Andrew Holmes, of centennial
memory. This avenue runs from
the comer of Mero and High
streets. It is the beginning of the
Owenton turnpike, and the street
continues to the city limits, and
now, though unpaved on the side-

RfO'tter of th« Kentucky State Hietorlcul Society.

walks, may be said to extend to
Cove Spring Park.

The electric street railway runs
along the north side of the road.
This improvement, in operation
since the first of June, has been a
beautiful blessing to tlhe city, as
well as to the citizens of the sub-
urbs, who ihave the convenience of
the cars, as well as the cheer and
unexpected recreation of the Park.

All honor to our enterprising
citizens, Mr. John T. Buckley and
Mr. Pat MacDonald, who have
engineered and brought to success
the splendid enterprise of the
electric street railway.

The most notable building now
standing, though no longer used,
on Holmes street is the pottery,
and the old brick house of Mr.
Walker (the potter), with its
small windows and low doorways.
When it was built we could not
ascertain, but it is one of the
ancient landmarks of the city (now
removed).

The homes and business houses
along this route are nearly all of
them new, or comparatively so. The
north wall of the penitentiary runs
about a hundred feet along the
street, from the entrance north-
east, and the industries of this in-
stitution furnish employment to
many persons living in this vicin-
ity.

They own or rent the pretty
homes with flower-yards in front,
tihat one Sices in riding along this
winding way to the park.*

The views in this valley, said
once to be ftihe river bed, are sur-
passingly beautiful. The hills on
the east and south as one comes

from under the shadow of the Fort
Hill, are wonderful in their abund-
ance of wild flowers and foliage.

The trees of every variety grow
to immense proportions and (height,
and they, with the dark, deep green
of the cedars, make a wall of
emerald coloring, rarely, if ever,
seen anywhere but in Frankfort.

Where tradition is obscure and
often unreliable testimony and
history is silent concerning a local-
ity, we have to fHum to the people
themselves who live here for infor-
mation; they often know nothing
of the city.

We learn, however, from some
sources that Holmes street, as a
street, is of comparative late date.
It was unsettled until the big road
leading out from the penitentiary
was cut. Then only sparsely set-
tled until a short while before the
Civil war, 1861-65, when it was
macadamized and incorporated as
the Frankfort and Owenton turn-
pike, since wbich time this street
has come to be recognized as one
of the most important of the city.

The electric street railway will
popularize it still further, and
open up for the tourist some of the
most beautiful iscenery in America.
The drive up and around Cove
Spring hill, overlooking the city
(where was located the first water-
works, 1804), and the river in the

*Since this chapter was written, alons
the route just described, ai>e the grounds,
and the pretty Country Club house. This
is the attractive pleasure grounds of the
city. Here ai^ given beautiful entextain-
ments, and all the popular out-door games
are enjoyed in the lovely spaces allotted
the players, the pleasure-seekers and the
looker»on.

valley below, is one of unrivaled
beauty, and is tihe further exten-
sion of Holmes street, though
called the Owenton pike. Here we
must leave the history of this
street of the future. Where so
much has been accomplished in the
last few years, we must hope much
for the beautiful Capital of Ken-
tucky.

Witih unity of purpose and con-
certed action among her citizens,
we feel sure that the long deferred
prosperity of the city, like that of
Liverpool, England, after its Cen-
tennial, will come in with its river
and railways and beautiful roads'

for advantages, it cannot fail of
becoming one of the most thriving,
as it is now the most important ci-^
in position and politics in the
South.

When the Spanish- American war
is over, there will be wider fields
covered with homes and streets be-
yond tIhe city limits of today and
the hills will be terraced to receive
electric railways, and where now
there are rocky stairways, there
will be firm foundations of great
business houses, and the flag of
new stars and greater enterprise
will wave from every height.

DEPARTMENT OF
CLIPPINGS AND PARAGRAPHS

CLIPPINGS AND PARAGRAPHS.

THE PORTEAIT OF JOHN C.
BRECKINRIDGE.

Members of ihe Historical So-
ciety everywhere will be pleased to
know that General P. P. Johnston,
that chivalric gentleman, at all
times 80 kind and generous to the
Society, upon leaving his oflBce at
the expiratton of his term as Ad-
jutant General of the State, De-
cember 31, 1911, presented to the
Kentucky State Historical Society
<his portrait of General John C.
Breckinridge.

As a loan to the gallery of por-
traits in the Hall of Fame, it had
hung on its walls for several years.
As the unforgotten idol of Ken-
tucky, John C. Breckinridge has
had more loving tributes paid him,
by men who stood and looked upon
his portrait, than any other Gov-
ernor, statesman, hero or soldier
in the vast collection of Kentucky's
great men 's portraits and pictures:.

We are sure our readers will be
pleased to read the following
charming poem, a tribute to John
C. Breckinridge, in Barbecue Days,
hj James Tandy Ellis: '^The Old
EUum Tree Whar Breckinridge
Spoke. ' ' It is taken from his book
of poems.— Ed. The Register.

'^THE OLD ELLUM TREE

WHAR BRECKINRIDGE

SPOKE. ^^

James Tandy Ellis.

At Sanders, Ky., in my native
county of Carroll, there is yet
standing a towering and magnifi-
cent elm tree, and it isi held in al-
most sacred reverence by the peo-
ple of that section, for it was under
this tree that John C. Breckinridge
delivered his famous speech in
1856.

It was the occasion for a great
barbecue, and there has never been
a gathering of such great magni-
tude in the Obio Valley. The sug-
gestions for itihe poem were given
to me by Uncle Boone Bradley, an
old citizen who was present on this
memorable day, and as he describ-
ed the pathetic beauty of Breck-
inridge ^s language, the tears flowed
from his eyes.

The impression of this speech,
remaining so clear, gives us sK)me
understanding as to the wonderful
fascination and power of this splen-
did Kentuckian.

"Tou see that ellum over thar?
WeU, jest four yearg afore the war.

Along in flfl74i<>
John Breoki]irldse-*4be great John C. —
Spoke over thar beneath thet tree;

His BubJec'--polttlc8.

"Wo hed the biggest barbecue
You «ver saw, and I'll tell you

1*11 never see again
Jest slch mighty multitudes—
An' them wus Um«8 we had no dudes

But men wus manly men.

"Old Eagle seem'd to flow along
Entirely conscious of the throng

That stood there by her side.
I kinder thought her face serene.
Gleamed brighter fi-om the happy'scene

And swell'd with honest pride.

"It made a feller bile clean o'er.
An' loTe the women more an' more —

It made the women feel
That they wuz worth their weight in gold
And sacred trumps for men to hold.

An' then he closed the deal.

tti

'He come down into politics.
An' showed us all the schemes an' tricki^

An' told the why an' cause
Of Abolition gas and slush.
An' how their ideas wuz to crush

All of the slavery laws.

"It seem'd that ev'ry singing bird
In all the State had somehow heard

About the barbecue;
Prom ev'ry bush and ev'ry tree
Thar seem'd to come sweet melody.

And it wuz music, too.

"An' then he took a sudden whack
At Fremont — ^ripped 'im up the back —

He tum'd agin an' smashed
Old Millard Fillmore in the neck,
Free-soilers thar looked mighty sick

To see their idol hash'd.

"Well, after we had gotten through
A messin' at the barbecue.

We gether'd round that tree—
The men and women left the creek.
For they had come to hear him speak-
To hear the great John C.

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'He took us back to Washington,
John Adams, an' old Jefferson,

And told us of the worth
Of these old statesmen, then he led
Us to the very fountain head

Of Democratic birth.

'An' when he rose— Lor', sech a yell!
But when he spoke, a magic spell

Seem'd dropping from each cloud;
An' ev'ry feUer held his breath.
The silence wuz as still as death

That settled o'er the crowd.

"An* then he slowly worked around
On to the Dark and Bloody Ground,

And told of heroes brave
Who died down In Old Mexico,
An' how the Nation's proud halo

Wuz hov'rlng o'er their grave.

**^

'He open'd in a quiet way
An' told us what a pleasant day

That It had been for him;
An' then into the dreamy sky
He slowly turned his mighty eye

Up past the ellum limb.

"All o'er his face thar come a smile.
An' with that manner soft and mild.

He spoke the sweetest words
About the ladies and their ways.
An' sech a flow of woman praise

Nobody ever heard.

"His voice wuz gitten' low and sweety
You felt as when the children greet

You at the winder pane;
He look'd into the far off sky.
An' softly said: 'Dear friends, good bye,.

I hope we'll meet again.'

"Well, thet wuz all, but time o' day?
You couldn't hold thet crowd in sway.

They struggled for the stand;
'Twuz fust a shout, an' then a yell,
They push'd an' pull'd an' tore up— jack

To git hold of his hand.

"John C. is sleepin/ so they say.
Close to the grave of Henry Clay,

Up in old Liexington;
An' I vould like to go and stan'
Beside his grave, an* touch it. Tan.,

Before my life is done.

'An' I would take along with me
A sprig o' that old ellum tree.

An' when I reach'd -the side
Of that low grave, I'd kneel me down
An' lay it on his grassy mound

Then go 'way satisfied.

««i

If there be orators in heav«n
When I git thar, an' I am given
A chance to hear them speak,
I'm goin' to say to old John C,
Jest say agin that speech fer me
You made on Eagle Creek.'

GENERAL WM. 0. BUTLER,
SOLDIER AND STATESMAN.

Read this beautiful tribute to his
memory published some years
ago. — Ed. The Register.

By James Tandy Ellis.

Among the historic places in
Kentucky which are visited every
year by numbers of people is the
beautiful home at Carrollton, of
Gen. William Orlando Butler, sol-
dier, statesman and writer. It was
here that the distingufished Ken-
tuckian spent the last years of ihis
life, after a career full of stirring
incidents.

Gen. Butler was born in Jessa-
mine county in 1791. He came of a
family remarkable for military re-
nown. His grandfather, a native
of Ireland, came to America the
middle of the Eighteenth century
and settled in Pennsylvania. He

had five sons, all of whom entered
the American army. The patriot-
ism and bravery of the whole fam-
ily became so celebrated that
Washington once gave as a toast:
''The Butlers, and Their Five
Sons.'^ Gen. Lafayette said:
**When I want a thing well done, I
order a Butler to do it. ' ^

William 0. Butler was the son of
Percival, a fourth of the brothers.
He was graduated from Transylva-
nia TJjiiversity dn 1812, and waisi
studying law under Robert Wick-
liffe, when war broke out between
the United States and England.
He enlisted as a private and took
part in the battle of the River
Raisin, and shared in the horrors
of that defeat.

One incident occurred in that
battle that is worty of mention.
Capt. Hickman, Maj. Thomas P.
Dudley, who was in after years a
prominent Baptist preacher in
Kentucky, and Butler were sta-
tioned behind a picket fence, and
were shooting at the British and
Indians through the cracks of itihe
fence. There was a gap in the
fence which they were compelled
to cross. Capt. Hickman went first
and was wounded; Maj. Dudley fol-
lowed and was also wounded. But-
ler came last, and escaped without
injury, although his clothes were
riddled by bullets from the foe.

Taken Prisoner In Battle.

Butler and a large number were
made prisoners in this battle, and
the next morning -started on the
long journey to Fort Niagara.
Capt. Hickman was left with the

Il»

Indians, and was murdered, along
with a great number of prisoners.
Butler and DucQey remained at
Fort Niagara imtil 1814, when
they were exchanged, and returned
to their homes in Kentucky. Both
greatly desiring to punish British
perfidy, joined the forces which
met the British and Indians at the
battle of tihe Thames, where the
Kentuckians under Colonel Rich-
ard M. Johnson, defeated, with
great slaughter, the murderers of
the gallant Hickman and his com-
rades.

Butler again distinguished him-
self in this fight. A large bam
filled wi'tlh straw stood before the
American lines. In this bam the
enemy had found protection
against the unerring aim of the
Kentucky riflemen. The command-
ing oflScer asked if there was any-
one who would «set fire to the barn.
Young Butler responded, **I will
try, sir," and with a lighted torch
hastened to the bam, under fire of
the Britisih, Sict fire to the structure
and returned to his place in the line
without injury, although he had
passed through the incessant fire
of the enemy.

After the battle, young Butler
was promoted to the rank of Col-
onel, and the division of the army
to which he belonged was ordered
south to protect Louisiana from
British invasion. New Orleans
being the point at which the Bfitish
were expected to concentrate.
General Jackson hastened there to
protect the city. In the afternoon
of December 2, 1814, Gen. Jackson
learned that the British forces had
disembarked from their ships and

were marching up toward the city.
Jackson immediately ordered Col-
onel Butler to take command of a
force sufficient tp hold the enemy
in check until the whole army could
join him.

Night came on and Butler with
his forces had to mardh through
darkness. Seeing the lights of
campfires, Butler halted and asked
if anyone could tell him who were
encamped on his front. A young
Kentuckian went ahead of the
command, and after the absence of
a half hour returned and said,
*'They are the British; I saw their
red coats. ^^ Colonel Butler gave
the command to charge, and it was
quickly obeyed. The British fled,
leaving their arms and supper.
Butler ordered a halt and was soon
joined by tihe forces under Jack-
son. This surprise caused the
British to delay for re-enforce-
ments and gave Jackson time to
prepare his breastworks and to ad-
minister to the British lion a pun-
ishment on January 8, 1815, hith-
erto unknown to British warfare.

At the battle of New Orleans,
General Jackson appointed Colonel
Butler to a membership on ihis
staff.

Wounded In Mexico.

We next hear of Butler in the
war between the United States and
Mexico, as Major General. At the
battle of Monterey, his division
was approaching a street that was
protected by a mortar battery,
which opened fire on the Ameri-
cans, and General Butler was
severely wounded and carried from

the field, by order of General Tay-
lor, who ordered the forces to fall
back and take a position wihere
they conld destroy that battery.

As soon as General Butler had
sufficiently recovered, he rejoined
the army before the City of Mexi-
co.

Owing to some misunderstand-
ing between General Scott and
some other officers, General Butler
was made Commander-in-Chief of
the American forces in Mexico, and
wihen peace was declared he return-
ed at the head of the army. This
ended his military career.

General Butler served in Con-
gress from 1839 to 1843, and made
a record there for ability and
statesmanship. His qualities were
again given recognition when he
was unanimously nominated for
Governor by the Democrats of
Kentucky in 1844. In that polit-
ical race he canvassed the State
thoroughly and reduced the Whig
majority from 27,000 to a little
over 4,000. He served in the Leg-
islature and was appointed Gover-
nor of Nebraska in 1855, but de-
clined it. The Democratic National
Convention of 1848 nominated him
for vice president along with Gen-
eral Cass, the ticket being defeated
by Van Buren and Adams. Gen-
eral Butler went to Washington as
a member of the *' Peace Con-
gress'^ in 1861. The rest of his
life he spent at his charming home
at CarroUton. The spacious yard
of the old house, shaded by stately
aspen 'trees, affords one of the most
exquisite views of the Ohio and
Kentucky river si. Amid the simple
beauty of home life there, he WdS

visited by many distinguished men
whom he entertained with true
Southern hospitality.

As old age crept upon him, he
still retained his erect and soldier-
ly bearing, and delighted in review-
ing his many campaigns.

He died at CarroUton, August 6,
1880, and was buried in the old
Butler family burying ground,
where other distinguished members
of thia family sleep.

T^e swords presented to Gen.*
Butler are treasured mementoes of
the' great Kentuckian. One, a mag-
nificent trophy presented by Con-
gress, is now kept by relatives in
Louisville. The other, presented
by the State of Kentucky, is still
preserved at CarroUton.

General Butler published a vol-
ume of poemsi, **The Boatman ^s
Horn, and Other Poems. '^ **The
Boatman's Horn,'' which is repro-
duced here, was well-known in its
day, and was inspired by the as-
sociation and memories of his child-
hood on the Ohio and Kentucky
rivers when listening to the large
and sonorous horns the boatmen
were Accustomed to blow to an-
nounce their coming to the landing
place.

THE BOATMA'N'8 HORN.

O, boatman, wind that horn again.
For never did the list'ning air
Upon its lambent bosom bear

So wild, so soft, so sweet a strain.
What though thy notes are sad and few.

By every simple boatman blown,
Tet is each pulse to nature true

And melody in every tone.
How oft in boyhood's Joyous day.

Reoltter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

Unmlndfal of the lapsing hours.

I've loitered on my homeward way
By wild Ohio's brink of flowers.

While some lone boatman from the deck
Poured his soft numbers to that tide.

As if to charm from storm to wreck
The boat where all his fortunes ride!
Delighted nature drank the sound.
Enchanted — echo bore it round
In whispers soft, and softer still.
From hill to plain and plain to hill.
Till e'en the thoughtless, frolicking boy
Elate with hope and wild with joy.
Who gamboled by the river side
And sported with the fretting tide,
Feels something new pervade his breast.
Bends o'er the flood his eager ear
To catch the sounds, far off, yet near —
Drink the sweet draught, but knows not
why

The tear of rapture fills his eye;
And can he now, to manhood grown.
Tell why those no4:es, simple and lone.
As on the ravished ear they fell.
Binds every sense in magic spell?
There is a tide of feeling given —
To all on earth — its fountain. Heaven,
Beginning with the dewy flower
Just ope'd in Flora's vernal bower.
Rising creation's orders through
With louder murmer, brighter hue.
That tide is sympathy; its ebb and flow
Give life its hues of Joy and woe;
Music, the master spirit that can mov«
Its waves to war, or lull them into love;
Can cheer the sinking sailor 'mid the wave
And bid the soldier on, nor fear the grave;
Inspire the fainting pilgrim on his road.
And elevate his soul to claim his God,
Then, boatman, wind that horn again!
Though much of sorrow mark its strain,
Yet are its notes to sorrow dear.
What, though they wake fond memory's

tear?
Tears are sad memory's sacred feast.
And rapture oft her chosen guest.

KENTUCKY A COMEDY.

In a recent number of the
World's Work, we read that Ken-
tucky is a comedy. The wit who
used the term perhaps had been
reading accounts of the Legisla-
tures aa given by the various news-
papers of the State.

While she may be a thing to
laugh at in the North, the Ken-
tuckians still take the *' Comedy'*
so called, seriously. Kentucky is a
tragedy, to those who must feel the
edge of the comedy of errors, to
which the writer alludes. A pain-
ful want of integrity and fidelity
is nothing to laugh at.

We do not know the course of
studies in the public schools of the
State, but we would suggest that
the scholars take a day oflf in each
week to study Kentucky History
alone. No matter whether the boys
and girls now living in Kentucky
will continue to live here or not,
but whether at home or abroad they
will have more frequent inquiries
for points of history about Ken-
tucky in the days of her good fame
for talent and courage than any
other State, South or West of the
Allegheny Mountains.

The ques-tions that come to us,
are those they may be asked; and
we have found very few school
children who can answer them:

1. When was Kentucky receiv-
ed into the Union?

2. What three counties were
formed out of Kentucky county be-
fore she became a State?

3. What counties represented
her in her petition for Statehood,

in the convention held in Danville,
Kentucky!

4. What President -signed the
petition and agreement when she
became a State?

5. When did Daniel Boone first
come to Kentucky!

6. Where was he bornt

7. What battles did he engage
in during the Eevolutiont

8. When did he . survey the
wilderness road from Virginia to
Kentucky!

9. When did ihe leave Kentucky
and where did he diet

10. Why was he not buried in
Kentucky when he died, and when
were his remains brought to Ken-
tucky!

11. Who was the first Gover-
nor of Kentucky, and how long did
he serve!

12. How many counties are in
the State, and how is it bounded!

Though the answers to these
questions may be found in geog-
raphies and in our histories, Col-
lins* History of Kentucky and
Smithes History of Kentucky, the
majority of people seem to be
ignorant of these facts, and the
school children, if they have known
them, have forgotten them, hence
we suggest, they give more time to
the history of Kentucky.

MY ATTAINMENT OF THE

POLE

By Db. Frbdbbick A. Cook

(From Book Notice Department In the
"United Empire" Journal of the Royal Colo-
nial Institnte, London, England. Exchange
with the Register.)

We are happy to read the follow-
ing article in the '* United Empire'^

Journal of the Royal Colonial In-
stitute, London, concerning Dr.
Cook's *'My Attainment of the
Pole.^' We like to be sustained in
our opinion of this real hero of the
discovery of the Pole, by such
learned ferities. We believe -still in
Dr. Cook.— (Ed. The Register.)

Db. Fbedkbick A. Cook.— My At-
tainment OP THE Pole.

In reading Dr. Cook^s narrative
of his journey towards what he
calls the ** boreal center^' one is
naturally led to compare his ac-
count with Peary's recently pub-
lished work on the same subject.
Whatever may be the ultimate de-
cision as to the merits of Dr.
Cook's claims^ this much may be
said for his written account, it is
quite as convincing to the lay read-
er and much more interesting than
that of his rival. Dr. Cook makes
out a case for a careful and un-
biased examination of the evidence
he produces, if &uch a thing be pos-
sible while the chief actors in the
controversy are still living. Whilst
not himself denying that Peary
may have attained the North Pole, .
he brings forward a number of
specific and grave charges against
the Admiral, which the latter can-
not afford to disregard. On the
face of it Dr. Cook's narrative ap-
pears honest and straight-forward,
and he would be a rash man who
summed up before all the evidence
has been carefully sifted, and re-
jected or corroborated. In one re-
spect Dr. Cook is entirely right.
The Peary-Oook dispute cannot be
threshed out in the newspaper and
magazine press, which has already

prejudged and prejudiced the case.
There are many who believe in Dr.
Cook. Amongst them may be men-
tioned Captain Evelyn Baldwin,
who was meteorologist in the Peary
expedition of 1893-94. Captain
Baldwin asserts that amongst
other supporters of Dr. Cook are
Admiral Sdhley, Greneral A. W.
Greeley, Captain Otto Sverdrup,
and Captain Eoald Amundsen. Dr.
Cook's book is well produced and
excellently written.

As a narrative and quite apart
from the controversial matter it is
of great interest. A student of
character will find much amuse-
ment in comparing Cook with
Peary, and students of phyw-
ognomy will not be slow to draw
conclusions from Dr. Cook's por-
trait.

TWO DEPARTMENTS
OMITTED.

The Department of Genealogy
and the Department of Inquiries
and Answers, are omitted from th^
May Register to give room to other
interesting and valuable articles
that are written especially for this
number.

The portrait of Major Henry T.
Stanton, by Ferdinand G. Walker,
the artist, has been received and
hung on the Wall of Fame. It is
conceded by all to be one of the
best in the collection.

sue of the Register the splendid
article on Jefferson Davis, from the
pen of Mrs. Elizabeth Sturges. It
is peculiarly appropriate judt at
this time, as the General Assembly,
whicih but recently adjourned, pass-
ed an act providing for the pur-
chase of the Davis home, in Todd
county, for the estabUshment of a
Davis memorial. In this connec-
tion we wish to commend the Leg-
islature for its patriotic act in pass-
ing this bill. It was a simple act of
justice, much too long delayed, to
a great KentucMan, a great South-
erner and a great American.

We are very glad to be able to
present to our readers in this is-

A recent addition to the list of
histories of Kentucky is Colonel E.
Polk Johnson's *' History of Ken-
tucky and Kentuckians. " It is
weU written, the style being pleas-
ing and entertaining, particularly
in the biographies, it is also attrac-
tively bound, and the illustrations
are good. It is to be deeply regret-
ted, however, that an otherwise val-
tiable contribution to the written
history of Kentucky should be mar-
red by the errors and distortions
whicih characterize the author's ac-
count of the events connected with
the death of Governor William
Goebel.

We shall make no reference to
the author 's account of the conven-
tion which nominated Mr. Goebel
for Governor, and the campaign
which followed, except to say tihat
it reflects the biased view of the
partisan, rather than the unpreju-
diced view of the historian. But
there are some statements as to
later events which the simple de-
mands of history require shall be

corrected. For instance, on page
513 of volume 1 of the work, the
author undertakes to give an ac-
count of the action of the General
Assembly in deciding the contest
and declaring Mr. Goebel elected
Governor. After referring to the
fact that the contest committee of
the two Houses had reported in
favor of seating Mr. Goebel, the
author proceeds as follows:

**Tlhe question being taken on
the adoption of the above report it
was adopted, fifty-six Democratic
Senators and Eepresentatives vot-
ing in the affirmative, no votes be-
ing cast in the negative. The Gen-
eral Assembly consists of thirty-
eight Senators and one hundred
Eepresentatives, a total of one
hundred and thirty-eight members
of which seventy is a majority. But
fifty-six votes proved sufficient in
this instance ; * ^ etc.

We do not know whether this
misstatement of the plain facts of
history was premeditated, or the
result of carelessness in examining
the records. Charity would incline
us to the latter view, but careless-
ness in one who attempts to write
history is well nigh as reprehen-
sible as a willful misstatement of a
fact. And this is peculiarly true
where the writer has access to
public records for tihis data.

The fifty-six votes cast for the
committees report, to which the
author evidently refers, were the
votes cast by the House. The com-
mittee was a joint committee, ap-
pointed in the manner prescribed
by law, and 6i course reported to
a Joint Assembly. The report was
adopted at this Joint Assembly, 56

House members and 19 Senators,
voting for the adoption of the re-
port, making 75 in all. Tihe 56
House votes were a majority of
that body, and the 19 Senate votes
were a majority of that body, as
Senator Goebel had resigned, leav-
ing only 37 Senators, and the 75
total votes was a majority of the
Joint Assembly.

All of the above facts are set out
in detail in the Senate Journal of
1900, pages 295 to 298 inclusive,
and in House Journal of 1900,
pages 296 to 299 inclusive. The
Journals show every detail of the
action of the Joint Assembly in the
matter, including the roll call, and
tihe names of the members present
and voting. These are the facts of
history, and we have felt it our
duty to set them out here. Of
course we can not hope by this cor-
rection to repair the great injury
done to the good name of the State
and the integrity of the General
Assembly by the publication in
question, but we shall have at least
done what we could to right the
wrong.

And we must notice one other
statement in the author ^s discus-
sion of the matter. On page 514 of
volume 1 he says:

*'No man not wholly blinded by
partisan prejudice believes that
Taylor knew aught of the assassi-
nation until tihe fateful shot was
fired. ^^

This statement is so completely
at variance with the proof brought
out in the various trials of those
accused of the crime that we do not
care to offer any comment upon it,
further than to again suggest that

the author was writing as a blind
partisan, rather than as a narrator
of the simple facts of history.

In conclusion we wish again to
express our regret that a work with
so many things to commend it
should be marred by one chapter
which is not Kentucky history.

APPROPEIATION FOE PEEEY
CENTENNIAL

The General Assembly of 1912
did many things to commend it to
the high esteem of the people of the
State, and among the list we wish
to mention the appropriation for
the ** Perry ^s Victory Centeimial, * '
to be held at Put-In-Bay, Ohio, in
1913. TIhe part Kentuckians play-
ed in the great victory over the
British fleet on Lake Erie was
graphically told in a recent number
of the Eegister. The Kentucky
riflemen, stationed in the rigging of
Perry's ships, won the battle; and
this victory was the turning point
of the war of 1812. The celebration
at Put-In-Bay next year would be
incomplete without the participa-
tion of Kentucky; and we take
great pleasure in recording the fact
that, thanks to the wisdom and
patriotism of the Kentucky Leg-
islature, the State will be credit-
ably represented.

'* SWEET JUNE'* AND OTHEE

POEMS.

By Alexandeb Hynd Lindsay, New
York.

(Maysville Bulletin.)

The many friends of this talented
gentleman and minister of tihe

Presbyterian Church, in Flemings-
burg, Ky., at one time, will be
pleased to read his Book of Poems
just published. Many of them
were written while in Kentucky,
and they breathe of the Blue Grass.
They are easily and naturally ex-
pressed, in language entirely free
from scholastic terms; indeed the
true art of the poet, is seen in the
sweet simplicity and tenderness of
the lines; direct as sunbeams,
whether in sadness or humor, they
touch the heart to tears or smiles.
It was while wandering by the
** banks and braes of bonny Elk-
horn,'^ we are sure he wrote the
exquisite tribute to its beauty, en-
titled **Elkhorn.'^ **I want to go
home'^ is its mate, in beauty, and
it is full of the pathos of the heart
that is hungry for Kentucky, and
its green pastures, its mountains,
its laughing waters, and its lovely
old homes. Buy the book and read
it— Wlhen you read the following
poems.

** SWEET JTJNE^^

Title of a Book of Poems Wbfttek
By Rev. A. H. Lijjtdsay, Fobm-
BBLY OF This Section.

The many friends and admirers
of the Rev. A. H. Lindsay of
Franklin, N. Y., fromerly pastor
of the Mayslick and Flemingsburg
^ Presbyterian churches, will be glad
' to know that a collection of his
poems entitled *' Sweet June*' has
just been edited by the Broadway
Publishing Company of New York.
In these poems this gifted young
author gives abundant evidence of

the fact that he springs from a race
of poets. Of him Mulligan in his
comment on a poem read before the
Caledonian Society of Lexington,
Ky., said they had a right to ex-
pect much, since Dr. Lindsay ^s an-
cestors were the poets of Scotland
200 years before Bobby Bums was
bom. With the delicate touch of
an artist he plays upon the keys of
varied emotions, first moving one
to tears with the beauty, pathos,
and soul-stiring -sentiment contain-
ed in some of his verses and then
with a bit of wit and shrewd phil-
osophy provoking laughter. In
his **Pot-House Politician*^ one
finds this student of human nature
has not observed the ways of men
in vain. For instance —

Old Kentucky Is the center of the world's
fair garden Bpot«

Dame Nature put fine finishing upon her
Blue Grass plot.

But the stain upon her honor, and the
blackest of her flaws

Is the breed of men that she has raised to
frame and pass her laws.

O the folks in Old Kentucky soon a Para-
dise would found

If her pot-house politicians were a-sleep-
ing under-ground.

Perhaps many will recall bearing
Dr. Lindsay read his **Ode to
Stephen Collins Foster ^^ during the
Mason county Home-coming cele-
bration at Beechwood Park in 1906,
and which received such favorable
comment and won the hearts of all
loyal Kentuckians. — ^W. H. E.

ELKHOEN.

Eev. Alexandeb Hynd Lindsay.
Fbanklin, New Yokk.

O Nature, thou art ever fair,

And erer fair thou art to me.
Thy radiant spirit's ererywhere

On mountain height and grassy lea.
In sweet Kentucky lore I thee!

Where laurel blooms and blue-grass
grows.
But thou art dearest all to me

Where dreamingly the Elkhom flows.

Sweet silver Elkhom,

I hear thy music in my dreams.
Clear, rippling Elkhom —

Queen of all the Blue Grass streams.

All through the sunny hours in June

I listen to thy limpid strain
That lulls to softer, sweeter tune

The music of my heart and brain.
But O to dream these hours away!

And feel the magic of thy flow
What more need I of charm to stay?

What more of simple Joy to know?

O Elkhom, thou must surely know

The time when I my lored one meet.
For in the erening's soft'ning glow

I hear thee say, "To lore is sweet."
**To lore is sweet," thou'rt whispering now.

With Toice untouched, untrained by art.
Sing on, fair Elkhom, gently thou!

Sing to my lore-awakened heart!

O Elkhom, fairest of the fair!

That shimmers in the sunlight's beams.
O Elkhom, rarest of the rare!

With dancing ripples, curls and gleams
Of all the Jewels I hare seen

In nature's realm, I prize thee best —
Thee Elkhom— diamond-pure serene

That glitters on Kentucky's breast

I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE

OLD TOWN.

A. H. L.

I want to go back to the old town
Where hallowed memories grow,

To see the old place

And look in the face
Of one who was young long ago.
I want to go back to the old home.
Where I first felt the throbbings of life.

Where tender caress

And smothering kiss
Were given by mother and wife.
I want to go back to the old town.
Where I lived in the days of yore.

While nature is smiling

With beauty beguiling.
I want to go back once more.

II.

I want to go back to the old stream,
Where I saw the finny tribe play

'Neath a shady nook

With bait on the hook
I have spent there many a day
I want to go back to the old field
That lies by the edge of the wood.

Where the corn used to grow

In a soldierly row.
And I used to day-dream and brood.
I want to go back to the old town.
Where I lived in the days of yore.

While sunshine and showers

Are making the flowers.
I want to go back once more.

III.

I want to go back to the old tree
And sit 'neath Its cooling shade,

Where I first felt the flame.

And whispered her name.
And breathed out th<e love God made.
I want to go back to the old well
And drink of its waters so free.

As it sings in the ground

With a leap and a bound
No music is sweeter to me.

I want to go back to the old town.
Where I lived in the days of yore.
While bird-folks assemble
And make the air tremble.
I want to go back once more.

IV.

I want to go back to the old flowers
That grow 'long the fence and the wall

The white columbine.
The fern and the vine,
And the rose that is sweetest of all.
I want to go baqk to the old scenes
And live them all over again.

The city's a bore;

I'm tired of its roar —
The pale faces of women and men.
I want to go back to the old town.
Where I lived in the days of yore.

Where spring is awaking

And blossoms are breaking.
I want to go back once more.

STANTON POETRAIT MUCH

ADMIEED.

(Frankfort News- Journal.)

In Historical Society Booms In
Capitol — ^Pabt of Valuable Col-
lection.

Among the most admired por-
traits in the historical rooms is the
recent one of Major Henry T. Stan-
ton, author of the Moneyless Man
and other poems.

While the ** Moneyless Man*'
gave him an international fame as
a poet, this bright soldier-bard of
Kentucky wrote many exquisite
poems superior to it, and which he
liked better — ^indeed, everything he
wrote was stamped with his genius.
He was universally admired, and
any poem from his pen was eager-

orates Daniel Boone's discovery of

Thy peeiiess name, 'gainst hostile tongues, we could not come,
Oh, friend,

Into thy sleeping presence here, where angels may stand veiled
And hear the measures of thy worth, and hear thy loss bewailed.
We could not come in this dark hour, when God*s indignant wrath
Is like a cyclone in the air, upon thy murderer's path.
*Twill send into an endless shame, Cain-browed plotters vile
Who planned thy cruel death, and yet, were making laws the while.
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay.** God will not break his word
Men cannot bribe this mighty Judge, nor sheath his cutting sword.
And so we rest our faith in Him — avenged thy death shall be.
But this will never bring thee back, and we had need of thee.
Precious thy message at the last. t"Say to those friends so fond
ril take their memories sweet, with me into the great beyond.**
No need to charge "be brave and true,*' we'll lift thy name on high
And place thy crown with martyrs there who dared for truth to die
Thy memory shall be consecrate, thy monument shall be
A shrine of patriot's deathless love, and loyalty to thee.

tWhen Governor Goebel was dying he sent this farewell message to the ladies
who were weeping (or him, and had been watching and praying (or him during his
illness.

The last lines o( this poem are inscribed on the Goebel monument at Frankfort,
erected in the cemetery by the people of Kentucky.

It
of

and a bound
eter to me.

He was imiversaiiy aximirea, asu
any poem from his pen was eager-

ly sought by lovers of song every-
where. He was a Confederate
soldier, and his Confederate poems
of metrical verse are among his
best.

Many of his friends have visited
the Hall of Fame in tihe historical
department to see his portrait and
express themselves as pleased to
see such a fine portrait of him
there.

WM. SMITH.

Information is wanted concern-
ing Wm. Smith, who married Mary
Ehodes. Both parties lived in Vir-
ginia. KentuclQr relatives desire to
know where in Louisa or Albemarle
counties their records may be
found. Son of Wm. Smith and
Mary Ehodes. Bodes Smitih mar-
ried Eunice Shomoon, Lydia Smith
married Capt. Willa Viley, War-
ren Viley married Catherine Jane
Martin, Martinette Viley married
Lister Witherspoon, Woodford
County, Ky.

McCreary Coutity has been add-
ed to the number of Counties in
Kentucky by the Legislature of
1912, making 120. It is named in
honor of Governor James B. Mc-
Creary.

MEETING OF THE STATE HIS-
TOEICAL SOCIETY.

Boone Day, 7th op June.

The meeting of the Historical So-
ciety on this date, which commem-
orates Daniel Boone ^s discovery of

Kentucky, promises to be one of
unusual interest. The program for
the occasion embraces Lexington,
Harrodsburg, Shelbyville and Car-
roUton, Ky.

President J. H. Shearin, of
Hamilton College and Professor in
the State University, will deliver
an address of great interest en-
titled, ** Memories and Melodies of
the Wilderness Eoad.^^ Tis enough
that he will deliver it, to insure at-
tention, a famous lecturer and
widely known as one of the most
delightful speakers in Kentucky.
Hon. W. W. Stephenson, will read
special chapters upon the **01d
Historic Homes of Harrodsburg.^^
This will be illustrated by pictures
of the places in and around this
cradle of the Commonwealth, as the
author proudly calls the town of
Harrodsburg. Qol. J. Tandy Ellis,
Poet and Literateur, will read a se-
lection from his poems. Col. Ellis
is now Assistant Adjutant Ghsneral
of the State and m^kes his home in
Frankfort. He is all around, one
of the most highly gifted men in
Kentucky, and his birthplace and
former home, CarroUton, is very
proud of him.

Mrs. Bailey, of Shelbyville, the
pianist, will furnish the music of
piano and violin, with her class as-
sisting her. This part of the pro-
gram will be enjoyed by all lovers
of music. Mrs. Bailey's ** Musical
Eecitals^' in Shelbyville, are
charming. With this forecast for
the meeting, we can promise one
equal to any meeting ever held be-
fore by the Historical Society.

REPORT OF SECRETARY KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL

SOCIETY.
Books, Magazines, Newspapers and Pamphlets

FROM NOVEMBER, 1911 TO MARCH, 1912.

Smithsonian report, 1909. Amer-
ical Historical Association, Cour-
teous mention of the ** Register'' of
the Kentucky State Historical So-
ciety, and its historical accounts of
the streets of Frankfort.

Smithsonian Institution — Report
of the American Bureau of Ethnol-
ogy, Wahington, D. C.

Bibliophile^ Press — Catalog of
rare and curious, ancient and
modem books — Edgware Road,
London, England.

The University Travel — Study
Club; Syracuse, New York.

Book List of Americana, New
York.

Monthly List of State Publica-
tions— ^Library of Congress, Wash-
ington, D. C.

The New Social Democracy, by
J. H. Harley, M. A.— Orchard
House, London.

Problems of Social Government,
P. S. King & Son, London, Eng-
land.

Librarie La Rouse — Grand Prix,
Paris, France.

Bulletin of Department in
Queen's University— Kingston, On-
tario, Canada.

Scribner's Magazine.

Century Magazine.

World's Work Magazine.

Leslie's Magazine.

'*The Chenowelih Massacre, &c,"
Series, by Alfred Pirtle — ^Publish-
ed by the Kentucky State Histor-
ical Society, Frankfort, Ky.

Journal of the Royal Colonial
Institute, London, England.

Bulletin of the New York Public
Library, New York.

Ohio Archaeological & Histor-
ical Quarterly, October, 1911.

Magazine and report of Secre-
tary of Kansas State Historical
Society, Topeka, Kan.

From Secretary of the Kentucky
Historical Society in New Orleans
—History of the Port ; Louisiana 's
Invitation; Autographs of Prom-
inent Men of tihe Confederacy,
(Soutihem) ; Historical Documents:
Ceremonies of the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Robert
Lee.

International Conciliation, Arbi-
tration Treaties of 1911 — ^Address
of the Mayor of New Orleans, La.,
at the Convention of the League of
American Municipalities, Atlanta,
Ga.

Addresses :

The Relation of the Public to the
School Boards, by the Hon. W. 0.
Hart, New Orleans, La.

Vicksburg for the Tourist, Vicks-
burg, Mississippi.

The Confederate Veteran, Nash-
ville, Tenn.

Local Preachers in Old Times in
Kentucky, by Lucius P. Little,
Owensboro, Ky.

The 27th Annual Meeting of the
American Historical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y., December 27-29-30,
1911.

Travel, Exploration, &«., 83 High
Street^ Marylebone, London, W.
England.

Signs of the Times, Mountain
View, California.

^^The Quest of Eternal Life.^'
An exquisite poem by the Eev. F.
W. Eberhardt, Frankfort, Ky.

The Kentucky Penitentiary,
Frankfort, Ky.— We are under ob-.
ligations to Mr. Mi H. Brown, Jr.,
for this beautiful ^ ' Souvenir. ' '
Great credit is due Mr. Brown for
the manner in which this booklet is
gotten up. It presents the Prison
in handsomer dress than it has ever
been presented before, and the
Commisision is to be congratulated
on the splendid condition of the
Penitentiaries, &c.

Montihly List of State Publica-
tions of the Library of Congress,
Washington, D. C.

^'Historia,'* The Journal of the
Oklahoma Historical Society. A
fine article upon History is the
leading one in it, followed by a long
list of donations to the Society
which evidences it popularity.

Bibliography of Wisconsin in the
Civil War, Wisconsin Historical
Society, Madison, Wisconsin.

Catalogue of Travels, Explora-
tion, &c., by Francis Edwards-
Bookseller, 83 High Street, Maryle-
bone, London, W. England.

Mitteilunger, B. T. Teubner, in
Leipzig.

To the Consul, Eome, Italy,
American Consulate.

Bulletin of tihe New York Public
Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, New
York.

United Empire:

The Eoyal Colonial Institute
Journal, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons,
L. Y. D., I Amen Corner, London,
E. C.

Publications of the Academy of
Pacific Coast History:

Expedition on the Sacremento
and San Joaquin rivers in 1817;
Diary of Fray Narcisco Duran,
Berkley, California.

Proceedings of the 'Sixth Annual
Conference of Historical Societies :

Reported by Waldo G. Leland,
Secretary of the Conference,
Washington, D. C.

New England Genealogical and
Historical Register, Boston, Mass.

Magazine, Papers and Reports
of Engineers and Architects Club,
Louisville, Ky., 1911.

United Empire. The Royal
Colonial Institute Journal, Amen
Corner, London, England.

The History of Kentucky, by E.
Polk Johnson, Louisville, Ky.

Bulletin of the Department of
History in Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

January, 1912, Monthly Maga-
zine, D. A. R.

January. The Quarterly Maga-
zine of the State Historical Society
of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1912.

The Iowa Journal of History
and Politics, Iowa City, Iowa.

State Publications, Library of
Congress, Washington, D. C.

DONATIONS.

Sword of Captain William Willis,
killed in the battle of Buena Vista,
February 23, 1847. Donated to the
State Historical Society by Dr.
Willis, of Lawrenceburg, Ky., and
presented to it in his name by
Lieut. Gov. Carter, of Lawrence-
burg, Ky.

A steel engraving portrait of E.
Polk Johnson, author of the His-
tory of Kentucky, 1911.

A steel engraving portrait of
Hon. Thomas D. Osborne, Louis-
ville, Ky.

Also handsome donations of his
foreign travels to the State Histor-
ical Society, in the following named
curios :

An Egyptian Newspaper— Tttie
Post, Cairo, Egypt.

The Gospel of Matthew in
Arabic.

A copy of the first American
Celtrotea Daily ''The Graphic.'^

A Chinese Booklet, very curious.

''Ocean Gazettes."

Many thanks we tender this gen-
erous hearted gentleman for these
very interesting curios, and his
valuable portrait to adorn this col-
lection, of such an author and
traveler. (Ed. The Eegister).

Minutes of the 18th Annual Con-
vention United Daughters of the
Confederacy, held in Richmond,

Virginia, November 7-11, 1911.
Mrs. McSherry, President; Mrs.
McKinley, Secretary.

The United Empire, Eoyal Colo-
nial Institute Journal, Northum-
berland Ave., London, England.

The Journal of the Illinois State
Historical Society, Springfield, 111.

Missouri Historical Review,
Columbia, Mo.

The First Constitution of Mis-
souri, by Floyd C. Shoemaker,
Columbia, Mo.

Catalogue of Rare Books, Lon-
don, England.

Catalogue, Leipsic, Germany.

T^e Reade Historical and Gen-
ealogical Association, Secretary
Charles F. Reade, Wellsley Hills,
Boston, Mass.

Library of Congress — ^Monthly
List of State Publications, Wash-
ington, D. C.

The National Geographic Maga-
zine of January, 1912 — ^splendid
number, Washington, D. C.

The Commoner, William J.
Bryan, Editor and Proprietor, Lin-
coln, Nebraska.

The American Monthly Maga-
zine of the D. A. R. Society, Wash-
ington, D. C.

The Outlook for January, 1912,
New York.

Annual Reports of the Phila-
delphia Museum, from 1904 to
1910, Philadelphia, Pa.

Missouri Historical Society Col-
lections, 1600 Locust Street, St.
Louis, Mo.

This number of the Missouri
Historical Society Magazine is one
of the most interesting and valu-
able of its publications. Every
chapter from the ''Journal of the

Founding of St. Louis, '* teems with
interest and valuable information,
to the last article ** Recollections
of an old Actor;" we congratulate
the Society upon its issue.

The Morton Genealogy, by Dr.
Daniel Morton, St. Joseph, Mo.

This valuable Genealogy per-
tains more especially to the Mor-
tons of what is known as Southern
Kentucky, or South-west Ken-
tucky. The large family by this
name scattered through different
parts of the Union from the coun-
ties in those parts of Kentucky,
should be very grateful to Dr.
Daniel Morton for this very valu-
able and interesting history and
genealogy of his and tiheir line of
the Morton family, wihose fore-
bears still lived in England. The de-

scendants that remained there, still
occupy their ancient homes, and
keep perfect their history.

''The Unwritten South'' Seventh
Edition, by J. Clarence Stone-
braker, Hagerstown, Maryland.

This tardy book cannot be too
highly comimended to the readers of
the South, and the schools of the
South; Too long has the South
waited for this history of the cause,
progress and result of the Civil
War. Too long has the South al-
lowed her lost cause to be misrep-
resented, her patriots and heroes to
De misunderstood by the world, and
her school children to be taught in
many false histories of the victor-
ious North. Let it arise now— read
this interesting history, and place
it in every school in the South.

THE REGISTER

Kentucky State Historical
Society

FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY

SUBSCRIPTION, YEARLY, $1.00.

PER COPY, 25c.

BACK NUMBERS, 50c PER COPY.

VOL 10. NO. 30.

OFFICERS

OF THB

KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY President Ex-Ofllcio

H. V. McCHESNEY Flret Vlce-Preeldent

W. W. LONGMOOR Second Vice-President and Curator

Mi88 SALLY JACKSON Third Vice-President and Librarian

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON Riegent and Secretary-Treasurer

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

H. V. McCHESNEY, Chairman.

MRS. ANNIE H. MILES.
MISS ELIZA OVERTON.

MRS. J. P. HOBSON.

MISS SALLY JACKSON, V^Prealdent.
W. W. LONGMOOR, 2 Ait Chm.

PROP. G. c. DOWN ma

HON. W. W. STEPHENSON.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Mnst be sent by check or money order. All comanunications for The
Begister should be addressed to Mbs. Jbknie C. Mobton, Editor and
Secretary-Treasurer, Kentncky State Historical Society, Frankfort, Ky.

Mbs. Jennib C. Mobtok, Editor-in-Chief.

H. V. MoChbsnby, Associate Editor.

TO SUBSCEIBEES.

If your copy of The Register is not received promptly, please advise

us. It is issued in January, May and September.

NOTICE.

If there is a blue X upon the first page of your Register, it denotes that

your subscription has expired, and that your

renewal is requested.

General meeting of the Kentucky State Historical Society, June 7tlif the date of
Daniel Boone'e first view of the "beautiful level of Kentucky."

1 1

CONTRIBUTORS.

Col. J. Stoddabd Johnston, Louisville, K7.

Hon. L. F. Johnson, Frankfort, Ky.

Miss Mabtha Stephenson, Harrodsburg, K7.

Hon. W. W. Stephenson, Harrodsburg, Ky.

W. W. LoNGMooB, Frankfort, Ky.

Pbop. G. C. Downing, Frankfort, Ky.

Mrs. Ella H. Ellwangeb, Frankfort, Ky.

Geobqe Babeb, Washington, D. C.

Db. Thos. E. Pickett, Maysville, Ky.

A. C. QinsENBEBBY, HyattsviUe, Md.

CONTENTS.

SEPTEMBER, 1912.

1. Historic Hoiikes of Harrodsburg (illustrated). By W. W.

Stephenson.

2. Mrs. Mary De Nevarro of England (nee "Our Mary" Anderson),

the World Famous Kentucky Actress. By Mrg. Ella H. Ell-
wanger.

3. The Three Grovernors. Hiatoric Incident. By Laurie Blakely,

Covington, Ky.

4. The Famous IXiel Between John Rowan and Dr. James iOiambers.
By J. Stoddard Johnston.

5. Kentucky Troops in the War of 1812. By A. 0. Quisenberry.

6. Poem Written by Gen. W. O. Butler, on the Battle Field, River

Raiein.

7. Resignation and the Fabric of Life. Poems by Mrs. Mary L.

CSady, Deceased, A well Known Poet of Maysville, in the
Sweet Long Ago.

8. Poems. "Nature Days in Gold"— J. C. M. "To An Old Friend"—

J. C. Ml

9. Sonnet to the Skylark. By A. H. Lindsay.

10. Sonnet Kentucky Com. By A. H. Lindsay.

11. Wapping Street, Frankfort, Ky. By Sally Jackson.

12. Department of Clippings and Paragraphs.
18. Genealogical Department.

14. Report of Books, Magazines, &c., for Historical Society Library.

HISTORIC HOMES

HARRODSBURG. KY.

ILLUSTRATED.
BY

W. W. STEPHENSON.

HISTORIC HOMES OF HARROD5BURG

Harrodsburgy the cradle of our
proud Commonwealthy was settled
one hundred and thirty-eight
years ago. The anniversary of the
laying out of the town site, in
which Daniel Boone took part, and
to whom a lot was assigned, is the
16th of this month (June, 1912).
It is natural that this First Settle-
ment of Kentucky should possess
many historic homes. Not only
has this old town given birth to
great events, but it has furnished
our nation with a long list of dis-
tinguished men and women. Every-
thing is relative; and, while 138
years is not old compared to the
civilizations of Europe and Asia,
this span of years represents the
oldest in Kentucky. The old fort
built in 1775-6 occupied one of the
four squares reserved in the origi-
nal plan of the town for siohool pur-
poses. The land office opened in
1779 was located at Harrodsburg.
Not only outlying lands, but town
lots also, were given in considera-
tion of settlements and improve-
ments. Just as soon as it was at
all safe to dwell outside of the
stockade, lots were improved with
log dwellings. This was as early
as 1780. On the east side of War-
wick street, immediately outside of
the school reservation which I have

mentioned, stand today two
weather-boarded log-houses of two
stories each which must date back
to the earliest pioneer days. Each
of the half -acre lots on which they
are located was deeded by the trus-
tees in 1787 in consideration of set-
tlement and improvement, one to
Ann Lindsay (McGinty) the other
to Samuel Dennis. The old Askew
building on the northeast corner of
Warwick and Lexiagton (Main-
Cross) streets for so many years
occupied by Prof. Eyre Askew, is
famous as .an old building. In the
same square, and north of it, is an-
other log house which is probably
the improvement for which the lot
was donated. It was at an early date
the meeeting place of the M. E.
Church, when it was owned by Mrs.
Eebecca Hart. It is practically
certain that these houses were built
over a century and a quarter ago,
just ss soon as the owners could
safely move out of the stockade.

On the west side of Warwick
street, opposite the buildings men-
tioned, and within a block of the
site of the old fort, on part of the
oflginal public square, reserved for
school purposes, stood until recent-
ly a two-story log house weather-
boarded, which is claimed by some
to have been the oldest building in
Harrodsburg. It was for some-

RegisUr of th« Kentucky SUU Hittorleal 8oel«ty.

time the home of Samuel Daviesa,
brother of Joseph Hamilton Da-
viess, both of whom were conspicu-
ous in Kentucky history. Samuel
Daviess was the father of Maj.
Wm. Daviess, who was husband
of Mrs. Maria T. Daviess. The
Harrodsburg Historical Society

has secured by gift of Mr. ^ —

ClemmenSy all tiie logs of the Lin-
coln home, on Beachland, Washing-
ton County, Ky., in which Thomas
Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were
married by Kev. Jesse Head, a
Harrodsburg minister, and in
which they went to housekeeping.
The Historical Society will, on its

lot adjoining the old fort site, soon
restore the Lincoln home, suppjle-
menting in the reconstruction with
materials from the olQ Daviess
home, recently torn down by
Squire J. C. Wilson, who has r^
placed it with a new building, and
has given the old material to this
Society.

Close by, on the west side of the
same street, on one of the four
blocks <3onstituting the first public
square, is the interesting old colo-
nial home of Miss Irene Moore,
who donated to the Harrodsburg
Historical Society a part of her lot
adjoining the old fort site. The
handsome interior is finished in old
colonial style and is in keeping
with the tradition of one 9f Mer-
cer's oldest and best families. The
grandfather of Miss Moore, James
Taylor, was for very many years
a leading lawyer and public-
spirited citizen of this place. His
father was Samuel Taylor, promi-
nent in the early history of the
county, who in 1790 built, near

Pleasant Hill, a stone house which
is one of the most historic homes of
Mercer County.

Every acre of the old Graham
Springs tract near by, at the south-
em termination of Warwick street,
is historic groimd* Before the
year 1800, Greenville Springs was
famous as a health resort. It was
composed of groups of log cabins
which were occupied by invalids
who brought their own furniture
and supplies. To these were aiter-
wards added commodious frame
buildings with numerous cottages.
The Greenville Springs tract em-
braced 227 aares immediately south
of the town of Harrodsburg as laid
out in 1786. A half interest in it
sold for $13,000, in 1819. In that
year Dr. Christopher C. Graham
came to Harrodsburg. He married
a daughter of IJavid Sutton.
David Sutton very early acquired
a number of lots in the southern
portion of Harrodsburg, including
the lot on which stood the Harrods-
burg Academy, the Catholic
Church lot and the lots south of
the Perryville turnpike on which
were built afterwards the Har-
rodsburg Springs "buildings. In
Feb., 1827, David Sutton conveyed
to Christopher Graham 60 or 70
acres of land in Harrodsburg, in-
cluding the ** Harrodsburg Springs
watering place," which Graham
had been managing some years
prior thereto, and including the
land on which stood Sutton's Hat
Factory. The present parsonage
of the Catholic Church, a one-
story brick building with ell,
formerly the hat facitory, now oc-
cupied as a dwelling by Father

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probably over one hundred years
old. It was used by Dr. Christo-
pher Graham as an office when he
was oondudting the Harrodsburg
Springs. After acquiring the Sut-
ton tract, Dr. Graham acquired all
of the 227-acre tract known as the
Greenville Springs tract. His
genius, personal charm and intelli-
gent energy madte this the most
popular and famous resort of the
South and Middle West, indeed, a
mecca for invalids from many
parts of the Union. The touch of
his genius and industry converted
ragged, broken, treeless lands into

a landscape garden of exceeding
beauty adorned' with many species
of trees obtained from distant
parts. He first built extensive two-
story frame houses and long rows
of one-story cottages and after-
wards erected an extensive hotel
and a magnificent ballroom of cor-
responding size, which could be
seen miles away looming up in a
beautiful setting of green.
Wealthy Southerners came in
splendid equipages with many ser-
vants as attendants. In its palmy
days, there were from four to six
thousand visitors each season,
sometimes twelve hundred at a
time. It was the Saratoga of the
South. This property was sold to
the U. S. Government, which con-
verted it into the Western Military
Asylum for its invalid soldiers in
1853, and the main buildings were
burned in 1865. The b&autiful
home of our Circuit Clerk, Ben
Casey AUin, at the famous *'01d
Saloon,'' whose waters have been
pronounced superior to that of the
Saratoga Springs, was last year

re-conver'ted into a summer resort;
and the great success at once at-
tendant gives earnest that it will
prove a worthy successor to the
celebrated springs of early days.

Near by, southeast of this, is
Beaumont College, formerly
Daughters College, successor to
Greenville Institute. I consider it
the most historic home in all our
old town. It embraced that part of
the Greenville Springs tract on
which the original groups of cabins
were situated. In 1830, Dr. Chris-
topher C. Graham sold 24 acres of
the original tract to Rev. Wm. D.
Jones, who on it established the
Greenville Female Academy. He
sold this property in 1834, to Hon.
Jas. Harlan, Sr., the father of Hon.
John M. Harlan and Jas. Harlan,
Jr., all three lawyers distinguished
in the history of State and Nation
for commanding ability. This was

the home of the Hiarlan family for
many years, Hon. John M. Harlan
being one year old when his par-
ents moved to this place. In 1841
Mr. Samuel G. MuUins established
on thio .ract GreenvUle Institute,
acquiring the property from Hon.
Jas. Harlan, together with some
additional land from Dr. Graham.
The property having burned,
many public-spirited citizens, fore-
most of whom were Dr. Graham
and Jas. Taylor, assisted in re-
building it. The present buildings
of Beaumont College ' attest the
appreciation at an early day of the
dignified Southern colonial archi-
tecture

In 1856, Dr. C. E. and Prof. Jno.
Aug, Williams purchased this
property and established Daugh-
ters College.

fl«9l8ter •! th« Kentueky State Hiitorleal toeiHy.

Time forbids detailed account
of the great educational work that
has been accomplished in this his-
toric and famous home of so many
illustrious daughters. Almost
every State has representatives
who got the inspiration for their
life work within these walls.

Adjoining Beaumont College
is Aspen Hall, the home at pres-
ent, of Mr. Lafon Biker. Bev.
James Shannon, President of Ba-
con College, purchased this land
from Dr. Chr. Graham in 1846.
Alexander Douglas in 1863, sold
this to Hon. John B. Bowman, a
distinguished educator, who was
largely instrumental in the estab-
lishment of Kentucky University,
first located at Harrodsburg and
afterwards removed to Lexington,
and was for very many years its
president Just across Danville
avenue from Beaumont and Aspen
Hall stood the interesting colonial
mansion of Governor Beriah Ma-
goffin. It was burned in 1907.
The mansion stood on the eastern
part of the old Graham Springs
tract; but adjoinig this on the east
was a tract of 459 acres, which was
acquired by Beriah Magoffin, Sr.,
father of Governor Beriah Magof-
fin, from the heirs of Johnathan
Clark, who was a brother of Gen.
George Rogers Clark. Isaac Hite,
whose company followed by a few
weeks the company of Capt Jas.
Harrod in the spring of 1774, pre-
empted 1,400 acres of land im-
mediately east of Harrodsburg,
and this was afterwards acquired
by Johnathan Clark. The Magof-
fin place was one of the most his-
toric of our homes, and it was a

genuine distress to many when it
burned. A modern addition of at-
tractive homes now occupies its
site.

Adjoiniiig the Gov. Magoffin
place on Danville avenue, just
north is a frame house which was

built by Mr. Jno. F. B. S. Solomon,
professor of music in Greenville

Institute, father of the celebrated
Dis Debar, who was famous be-
cause infamous.

Another handsome old colonial
home is that of Hon. John B.
Thompson, on the east side of
Danville avenue, embracing part
of the Jonathan Clark tract. It
was built by Beriah Magoffin, Sr.,
about 100 years ago, and was his
home until he built the Gov. Ma-
goffin mansion. On a commanding
eminence with very large lawn in
front sloping to the street, this old
two-story brick building with its
large columns in front and one-
story wings presents a most im-
posing appearance. Of similar
architecture is the historic Bonta
Brothers home, on Shawnee Run,
in the county. This style of colo-
nial architecture, large commo-
dious two-story brick with large
columns in front is represented by

many noble examples in town and
county. In the town, in addition to
Beaumont College and Aspen
Hall already mentioned, notable
examples are, the James L. Neal
home, the Stephenson home, and
C. D. Thompson home on College
or Warwick street, and the homes
of James M. Forsythe, Wm. Spil-

man, Allan Edelen, Mr.

Lord, in the country.

The Stephenson home was for-

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merly the home of Teruh T. Hag-
gin, the father of Jas. B. Haggin,
the multi-millionaire, whose gnuiu-
father, Capt. John Uaggin, was
one of the first settlers of
Harrodsburg, and very prominent
in the early history of Harrods-
burg and Mercer County.

The one-story brick building
with wings now owned and occu-

Eied by Squire Joe Morgan was
uilt by Dr. Wm. Kobertson, a
wealthy physician and manufac-
turer of this place over one him-
dred years ago. Near about the
same time he erected on a portion
of the premises owned by him a
very large cotton manufactory, the

most approved machinery having
been shipped from the east. This
property was afterwards acquired
by Judge Chr. Chinn, father of
Ex-Senator J. P. Chinn, and one of
the first merchants of Harrods-

burg. It was so long the home of
Judge Chinn who died there that it

is still known as the '* Chinn
Place.'' Mrs. Jane T. Cross, the

talented daughter of Judge Chinn,
was an authoress of note, one of
several who have given distinction
to our historic town.

Another interesting colonial
home adjoins the ** Chinn Place,"
and is now owned by Mr. Arthur
Harbison. It was btult about the
same time by Ool. Bichard M. Sut-
field. Its unique front with portico
and columns, faces the south and
not Main street to the east, which
now apj)ears unusual, but, when it
was built, it faced Factory street
in front, to whioh the large lawn
extended. Col. Sutfield afterwards
built the brick dwelling owned by

Miss BusseU Alexander, another
old colonial building on the south
end of his large lot. For some time
the Harbison place was the home
of Mr. Morgan Vance, who married
Susan Thompson, daughter of Col.
Geo. C. Thompson and grand-
daughter of Cal. Geo. Thompson,
who at one time owned nearly ten
thousand acres of fine land in Mer-
cer County. Dr. Ap. Vance is a son
of Morgan Vance. Col. Geo.
Thompson at his home place in the
county entertained in almost

royal style. His son, William
Thompson, built a fine gothic
dwelling of 30 rooms on the old
homestead, and this was after-
wards the home of Col. J. P.
Chinn. It burned some years ago.

In the northern limits of our
town stands another colonial brick
building about a hundred years
of age. It was built by Judge Jno.
L. Bridges, who married a daugh-
ter of Governor John Adair, and
who was for over a third of a cen-
tury Judge of the Mercer Circuit
Court. It was for a very long
while owned bytheBurford fam-
ily, afterwards by Dr. Chas. H.
Spilman, and now by Mr. Joseph
Vaught.

The interesting colonial build-
ing now occupied by Pr. W.
P. Harvey, was built at an early
date (near 100 years ago) by Hon.
John B. Thompson, father of the
sometime gifted Senator John B.
Thompson. Adioining this prop-
erty is that of Mr. A. G. Woods,
formerly owned by his father,
Archibald Woods, who was also
the ancestor of Harrodsburg's
poet laureate and literateur, Mr.

Henry Cleveland Woods. This
brick dwelling is more than three-
quarters of a century old. It
stands within fifty yards of the
site on which the five or six cabins
were built by Harrod's Company
in 1774. The land of Archibald
Woods embraced many acres in
that portion of the town, including
the site where Harrod's Company
first encamped and built their
cabins as the nucleus of Ken-
tucky's First Settlement.

Harrodsburg has other homes
of historic value by reason of as-
sociation with important person-
ages and events; but, in my lim-
ited time, I have confined myself
to those I consider most conspic-
uous.

I close with the earnest prayer
that we learn to prize and treas-
ure more the wealth of historic
material and association which
fortune has so generously be-
queathed to our ** Old Town.'*

A BRIEF SKETCH

MRS. DE NEVARRO

OF ENGLAND

(Nee MARY ANDERSON, the Actress)

MRS. ELLA HUTCHISON ELLWANGER.

MRS. DE NEVARRO (NEE "OUR MARY").

AS FRANKFORTERS KNEW MARY ANDERSON

By Ella Hutchison Ellwangbb.

With the production of Hich-
ens* ** Garden of Allah,** and the
return of Mary Anderson to this
country to colaborate with the
author in staging this wonderful
production, the old theatregoers
of Frankfort have forgotten to
discuss the new,, frothy plays of
today and their minds have
turned back to the day when the
'^Old Major Hall,*' a dingy
cramped amusement place, was
known to all the habitues of the
little Capital of Frankfort as the
*' opera house.'*

This house, remodeled again
and again, is still intact and has
a glory all its own, for did not
Mary Ajiderson, ''Our Mary,"
play here one blissful night— pass-
ing from Louisville, I think, to
O wensboro 1

A group of old ladies were dis-
cussing her flying visit to America
and lamenting that never again
would they be able to see such an-
other ** Juliet,'* when one of the
three softly opened the top
drawer of a tall mahogany ** high-
boy** and drew from it a box of
souvenirs of days of auld lang
syne.

I watched, curiously enough,
while with reverent and shaking
fingers she laid on the table a lock
of downy hair tied with a faded

blue ribbon ; then a tiny white sock
and a baby*s lace yoke made of
rolled and whipped puffing and
lace insertion; then came a tiny,
yellow baby cap and at the bottom
of the box was a yellow and
cracked hand-bill. This with
careful fingers and with a reminis-
cent smile playing about the cor-
ners of her mouth, she spread out
before the three pairs of curious
eyes.

Then, bless their hearts, those
three dear old women all gabbled
at once. One remembered this
thing, and didn't the others?
When I could I got the bill and
found it was issued by a Mr. Hall,
who was the lessee of the '* opera
house" at that time, and who had
issued this small hand-bill written
in the bombastic style of some
forty years ago.

**Our Mary" must have indeed
been a sweet and charming
** Juliet." Between the three
women I gathered that she wore
her hair in very girlish fashion,
tha^t of hanging down her back
and tied from her face with a
white ribbon. The white satin
dress was ** borrowed** from her
very dear friend, Mrs. Bacheal
Macauley, the wife of Mr. Barney
Macauley, who gave her her first

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opportunity of appearing before
a Louisville audience.

This appearance in the old Ma-
cauley Theater in Louisville was
Mary Anderson's first appear-
ance on any stage and that, too,
with only one rehearsal. This
would not have been so bad had
the rest of the cast been letter
perfect. But the cast was a local

one and eyed the young tragedy
queen with ill-concealed smiles
and frivolous remarks.

The following may give an idea
of the bombastic criticisms of that
day and generation, a criticism
that would bring forth screams of
laughter in the down-to-date
newspapers of today:

"OUR MARY" ANDERSON.
(Crowned In Louisville.)

THE

PLAY.

SIC

'•THB PI.AY'8 THB THING' '-aaJtasp^aro.

PUBLISHBD BY THOMAS A. HALL.

EASTER HOLIDAYS.

Mr. T. A. Hall respectfully announces
the appearance in this city of the

Joutbfdiand Distmguisb^ Tragedieim^

MISS

MARY ANDERSON

Whose extraordinary powers have

WON IMMBDIATB RECOGNITION.

From thronged and brilliant audiences, and

gained most enthusiastic praise from

the ablest oritic's

WHEREVER SHE HAS APPEARED.

M2is8 Andeivon's career has been quite
phenomenal. The annals of the stage cer-
tainly present no other case where a girl
of tender years, trained in the comparatfye
iecluslon of a beautiful home, bas suddenly
grasped the liighest honors of the stage,
and in an experience of fbut a few months,
been classed by able critics with sucb ar-
tiatetf as Ftony Kemble, Julia Dean, and
CharlottfB Cushman.

PAITLINX,

In Lord Lytton's famous and most popu-
lar play, the ''X4idy of Lyons, or Love and
Pride," is regarded as one of Miss Andef^
toon's most finished and beautiful ipersonft-
tiOBs. Hef years^ her queenly pnesemce aad
fraceful "beftrtnc specially fltUmg her te
fepresent the proud beauty of Bolwer'p im-
passioned loTe story.

MARY ANDERSON.
This young lady who has won a large
celebrity in a stage experience of less than
two years, was bom in Sacramento, Cal.,
in October, 1859. and is conaequenUy but
seventeen years old. This seems almost
Incredible In view of her admiraible rendi-
tion of such characters as Lady Macbeth
and Meg Merrilles. Her parents removed to
loulsvlUe, Ky., wlien she waa almost a bab«.
She comes of excellent family, both of her
parenU being persons of high culture. Her
father died several yean ago, and her
mother married Dr. Hamilton Griffin, a phy-
sician of considerable standing in Louisville,
and' belonging to a family known through-
out Kentucky for fine literary tastes. At
a very early age she oould recite passages
from Shakespeare, and seemed particularly
fond of Richard the Third, When she first
formed the intention of going upon the stage
this was the character she wished to afppear
in, but she was persuaded not to do so by
her fHeads. Miss Anderson suide htfr de-
but, as Juliet, InLeuisviUe, on tlie evening
of the 27tb of November, 1875, and was Im-
mediately extended an engagement by Mr.
Macauley, the well-known manager of the
Opera House. Her career since that %\t^^
has been one of unchecked success, and ibe
has appeared in several of the larger
southern and westdfti theatres. In disposi-
tion is singularly kind and lovable. Her

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greatest delight is sunshine and the open
air. When at home she walk« out in all
sorts of weather, never carrying protection
against sun and seldom any against rain.
As a student in studying her parts her
methods are peculiar. She is perfectly
familiar with Shakespeare'tf contempora-
ries, and is well up in the writings of
Dante, Homer and Plutarch. In Plutarch's
Lives she takes special delight, and
ae a pastime loves to go through Homer's
Iliad, and trace where Shakespeare and
Schiller obtained many of their most vital
ideas and some of their most catchy sen-
tences. The works of these writers she
constantly carries with her. A copy of the
Iliad she uses Is a curiosity In the way ot
marginal notes, giving the play, the part,
and even the circumstances by which the
lines have been transferred by some other
writer, and tpolntlng out the changes made
to cover the same. In the parlor Miss
Anderson is exceedingly simple and modest
In her manner; having neither affectation
nor falsely assumed reserve. She is con-
stantly acompanied by her mother, in whose
advice she places her whole confidence. Her
stepfather attends to her business and
leaves her entirely free to study. Her first
question to her mother on arising is
"Mother what do the papers say of my
acting last night?" but she never reads
them herself unless the criticism contains
some remark of unusual significance. She
seems unconscious of her fast advancing
fame and studies with great assiduity. —
Washington Star.

"The NaUon" alludes in the following

terms to the appearance of Miss Mary

Anderson in Washington.

Her acting was simply marvelous with
here and there, but rarely, a deflection. iSke
reached the fullness of every opportunity
in speech, in gesture, and action. Her im-
passioned prayer, the interruption, the greet-
ing of her lover, were marked with a power
totally beyond her years, and which, cer-
tainly, when she has become recognized as
a great actress, she cannot expect to ex-
cel. The confession of her love was a bit
of sweet acting that few, after seeing Mac-
beth or her Meg Merrilles, could expect.
The richness of her lower tones, usually
shown in entreaty, was heard with fine ef-
fect in the last act. In the role of Berthe,
we can safely say Miss Anderson has
achieved another triumph, of equal quality
to those secured as Meg Merrilles and Lady
Macbeth, without another look to her fast
increasing repertoire, three of the grandest
roles of the drama now in existence.

As this is probably the last criticism or
review of Miss Anderson that we eball givt
this season, we deem it proper to say, that
unbiased by the seeming flattering notices
given by our exchanges, we have from the
night of witnessing her first performance
been actuated by a sense of justice to the
patrons of the stage and to the stage itself,
and while not picking up every trifling flaw
and growling about it, we have at the same
time been on the lookout for the dangers
of "gUG^." Both 'have been avoided, and
our conclusion is that Mary Anderson, is
already a great and careful actress, not in
the very highest polish, hut of sufficient
merit to place her beside the great Char-
lotte Cushman, with probabilities out-
stripping the triumph of even that unex-
celled tragedienne.

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WSS MARY ANDERSON

Will appear at

MAJOR HALL FRANKFORT
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4th,

In her admired personation of

PAULINE^

In Lord Lytton's briUiant and fayorite flve-
act play, entitled the

LADY OF LYONS

OR, LOVE AND PRIDE.

The cast including all the prominent artlsta

of the Company.

She will appear at

MAY'S HALL, ELIZABETHTOWN

THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 5th,
At PAULINE In

THE LADY OF LYONS

The sale of seats will commence in each
city one week in advance.

The character pictures of Miss Mary
Anderson, prepared by "Mora/' the distin-
guished New York artist, are :beautiful
epecimens of photographic art. A limited
number of copies will be placed on sale in
advance of Miss Anderson's appearance.

Miss Anderson will be supfported by a
company of excellent artists.

Lady Macbeth of Miss Mary Anderson.

It was pleasant to find last Tiitfiit that
Miiss Mary Anderson's Lady Macbeth waB
all that we had anticipated, and more. The
acting of this gifted lady in "Romeo and
Juliet," in "Guy Mannering" and "Svadne"
had prepared her audience for a succeiNiful
rendering of a more exacting character, but
they could not have expected the distinct-

ness and deflnlteness of o^nception, and
sustained power, which mark. Miss Ander-
son's rendering of the part in whicSi the

Queens of the fitage have won the rarest

laurel^.

From the moment that M3bs Anderson ap-
peared upon the stage, last night, she had
entire command of tiie audience. Winning
enough, in gracious beauty, to hold the
heart of a sterner man than Mr. Boniface's
Macbeth.

The acting and declamation of Miss An-
derson were superb. It was the height of
art to allow passionate love misdirected to
gleam through the chinks of her ambitious
plotting. The Lady Macbeth of Miss An-
derson is womanly even in its excesses.
Even as thoughts of her children flit
across her mind as she screws Macbeth's
courage to the striking point, so in Dun-
can's chamber she recalls an earlier tie —

"Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done it**

At the close of the second act Miss An-
derson was called before the curtain. The
third act wac splendidly played. Attired
in royal robes, with the flailing diadem
upon her shapely head. Lady Macbeth has
reached the towering height to which she
aspired. Yet is she saddened by tihe thought
that Macbeth is ill at ease. Mtore murders
must ensue; Macbeth, familiar with blood,
contrives the assassination of Banquo. In
this he needs no urging. Nay, he fears per-
haps dissuasion, for he bids his wife be
innocent of the knowledge of what is in-
tended, until she may "applaud the deed."
It was a wonderfully realistic picture. Lady

Macbeth, with smiling face, solicitous for
the comfort of her friends, still casts anx-
ious glances at perturbed Macbeth. She
is ill at ease; and the audience know it.

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thought her frtends do not. Vainly she at*
tempta to conceal or explain away her lord's
in-flrmity. For him, exhortation and en-
treaty; tor the wondering nohlea, the eug-
geation that if they note him, they ehall
extend (his paaslon. It ie more than even
she can compaas. Half-erazed with anguiah,
she bids the peers go; and then, hearts
broken, crushed hy contending emotions,
she fell with an agonising shriek at the feet
of him for whom fftie dared so much, turn-
ing to him, even in that supreme moment.

a face lighted up )and glorified 4>y Ioys.
Genius alone can inspire acting at onoe so
natural and so affecting. As the curtain
fell there was a moment of breaUies silence,
followed by deafening applause* which waft
redoubled as the fair player bowed her ac-
knowledgments The soUlOQuy in the fourth
act, admirably as it was delivered, was com-
monplace in comparison with the superb
acting at the banquet That fiingle acens
was enough to establish a reputation.—
News and Courier.

How many other yellowing pro-
grammes are hidden away in
boxes with other precious souve-
nirs in Frankfort, I wonder?

When one thinks of the age of
the young actress; her determina-
tion to make a reputation on the
stage, the meager help she re-
ceived, the stinging criticisms she
had to endure, one wonders, while
admiring the efforts, how she had
the courage in the face of it all to
go on. Seventeen I A child almost,
and one who had but just left the
high walls of a convent. It makes
one subscribe to the statement:
**That genius is the capacity for
taking pains.**

It is the early struggle and the
early success and the early life
work of ''Our Mary** that is most
interesting to theatregoers and
the lovers of genius. Later life with
its success and adulation does
not bring the same thrill to either
the performer or to the lookers
on. It is the struggle, the ob-
stacles surmounted that appeal to
human nature and the best in us,
and make us take heart of grace

and in the very face of defeat to
snatch victory.

So, in this short sketch a few of
this wonderful woman's early
trials and early work will be
given. The successful years we
know of. Her recent visit to this
country for the purpose of colab-
orating with Hichens for the
dramatization of the ''Garden of
Allah'* is still being talked of in
theatrical circles, and her still
more recent determination to visit
Ireland and assist in dramatizing
the Irish Folk Plays has revived
the talk that Mrs. Antonio de Na-
varro may be thus induced to re-
turn to the stage.

This famous woman, as most of
us know, first saw the light of
day in a small California town.
Her mother, who married the man
of her choice against the wishes
of her parents, was but nineteen
years of age and was so greatly
distressed at the ugly, little red
face of the little Mary Anderson,
that to the consoling remark of
the nurse that she would some day
be very proud of her, was childish

enough to answer most emphati-
cally, ** never.'*

Mrs. de Navarro's parents left
Sacramento when she was quite a
baby and wishing to be near some
relative Mrs. Anderson located in
Louisville, Kentucky, to be near
her brother-in-law, who was at
that time a pastor of a small Ger-
man congregation. Her parents
had not forgiven her for marrying
against their wishes and she felt
the need of a friend during the
frequent absences of her husband
in England.

This uncle became the guardian
of little ** Mamie*' Anderson after
her father's early death.

It was at the age of twelve,
when Dr. GriflSn, who had in his
youth prided himself on his acting
as an amateur, took down a vol-
ume of Shakespeare, and said to
the -small and precocious Miss
Anderson: '*I am going to read
Hamlet to you."

Only a few days after this she
astonished the family by appear-
ing before them enveloped in a
large army cloak of Dr. Grifl5n
and scowling tremendously be-
gan:

"Angels and ministers of grace, defend us.
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned."

Her next performance was in
the kitchen, before the small maid
of all work. This maid, being
duly impressed slipped out to call
her ''ma" and Dr. GriflSn, who
was the family critic.

This time it was the fourth act
of the Lady of Lyons and Dr.
GrifBn clapped his hands and
called out:

''Bravo, you'll make a good
actress some day."

It was after many years of
labor and no engagement seemed
possible for the little stage-struck
girl. Dr. Griffin, her step-father,
at last appealed to Mr. John Mc-
CuUough to give her an audience
and tell them frankly what he
thought of her chances.

After behaving somewhat bear-
ishly over the matter and warning
the little girl he j^rould unsparing-
ly criticise her ^ork, Mary An-
derson went through the portico
scene of "Eomeo and Juliet" for
him. When she had finished his
manner had changed and he spent
several hours going through
scenes with her from all she knew.

After this her real and first
chance of appearing on a Louis-
ville stage came through her
friend, Mr. Barney Macauley.
Mr. Macauley 's wife was a fa-
mous actress and both interested
themselves in the young actress
and gave her the chance of ap-
pearing for the first time on any
stage.

In the serious illness of an
actress who could not fill the lat-
ter half of the week at Macauley 's
Theatre, Mr. Macauley sent for
Miss Anderson.

' ' Could you act for me the night
after tomorrow!"

"Could she!" Here was her
tide and she took it at the flood.
With only one rehearsal Miss An-
derson appeared the next night in
borrowed, white satin gown, and
played Juliet to a crowded Louis-
ville house.

Harsh criticisms followed.

24 RtglsUr of tha Kantueky 8utt Hlatorlul Soclrty.

Fellow actors were nnkiiid and friends knew her, never once lost

openly disdainfnl. Travel was her ideal and how bi^h it waa

not easy and debts grew. planted by her slender young

In the face of it all, little hands is history— world's history.
"Mamie" Anderson, as Louisville

THE DUEL BETWEEN
JOHN ROWAN

AND

DR. JAMES CHAMBERS

J. STODDARD JOHNSTON.

THE DUEL BETWEEN JOHN ROWAN AND DR. JAMES

CHAMBERS.

In the first half of the last cen-
tury a great many duels were
fought in Kentucky, the custom
having been inherited from Vir-
ginia, where, as in Great Britain,
it had long prevailed. The par-
ticipants were generally men of
prominence in public life, not-
withstanding the practice was
condemned by law, with heavy
penalties attached, but rarely en-
forced. The custom was only
eradicated in Kentucky when the
Constitution of 1850 went into ef-
fect, which provided that any per-
son who should directly or indi-
rectly give or accept a challenge,
or knowingly carry one, should be
deprived of the right to hold any
oflSce of honor or profit. It also
required all oflScers, before enter-
ing upon their duties, to take an
oath that they had not fought a
duel, sent or accepted a challenge
or acted as second in carrying one
to fight a duel with any citizen of
this State. Since then duelling in
Kentucky has ceased, the CJonsti-
tution of 1892 containing the same
provisions.

It is not my purpose in this
paper to say anything further
upon the general subject, but to

confine myself to the particulars
of one of the first duels in Ken-
tucky of general interest, and to
correct many erroneous state-
ments concerning it by giving, as
succinctly as possible, the facts
regarding it, which for more than
a century have been incorrectly
given. This was the duel between
John Bowan and Dr. Jaimes
Chambers. The generally ac-
cepted account has been that the
difficulty which occurred between
the principals leading to the duel
took place at Frankfort and was
fought in that vicinity, the sec-
onds of Judge Rowan being given
as Joseph Hamilton Daviess and
John Allen, his classmates. This
account was very elaborately pre-
sented in Harper *s Magazine for
August, 1860, by R. T. Coleman,
the place and all particulars not
according with the facts. In the
Courier-Journal of November,
1897, there appeared an article
upon Daviess, in which the duel
is stated to have been fought
about 1797, and that Daviess
was Rowan's second. Thesfe
statements, supplemented by
many in intervening years, have
never, as far as I have seen, been

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corrected. Having recently
come into possession of the facts
as to the time, place and parties
connected with the duel, I propose
to give them as succinctly as the
nature of the case will admit.

The personal difficulty which
led to the duel which was fought
near Bardstown, occurred in that
place on the night of January
29th, 1801, and the duel was
fought in that vicinity February
3rd, the challenge having been
sent by Dr. Chambers January
31st. These facts, together with
the particulars of the duel, I re-
cently found 'ip a letter from
Judge George M. Bibb, one of the
most prominent Kentuckians of
that day, the second of Judge
Bowan, in the Palladium, a week-
ly published in Frankfort in the
following spring. It being dif-
ficult to condense the facts ante-
cedent to the duel I have deemed
it best to give the letter so far as
it relates to the essential points,
in full:

Letteb Fbom Judge Bibb.

To the Editor of the Palladium;

Sir:

For the benefit of those who
loving truth have been, or might
be misled by the many false re-
ports which have been industri-
ously circulated respecting a duel
between Dr. Chambers, deceased,
and Mr. Rowan, I request you to
publish this letter, together with
the enclosed certificates, &c., re-
ferred to herein. This publication
would not have been made until
the return of Major Bullock from
New Orleans but for the manner

in which the subject has beeii in-
troduced into your paper of the
28th of April. For the causes of
the quarrel between the Doctor
and Mr. Rowan, I refer to the
certificates marked No. 1 and 2, as
also the copies of the Doctor's
letter No. 3.

On the 1st of February Mr.
Rowan and myself returned from
Bullitt County, I not until late in
the evening where we had been
the preceding week. The next
morning Mr. Rowan showed me
a note from Dr. Chambers of the
31st of January, requesting Mr.
Rowan to make known his time
and place of meeting, as well as
his friend's name, to which he re-
turned an answer the same day
by me, as his friend, appointing
the next morning as also a place.
In the evening of the 2nd of Feb-
ruary Major Bullock and myself
met at Mr. Wilson's tavern where
we had a conversation in which
Major Bullock expressed a desire
that an accommodation to the
satisfaction of both might be
reached. I supposed that could
not be unless the Doctor would
withdraw his note of the 31st of
January. We then had some con-
versation about the manner of
firing. Major Bullock proposed
that they should aim and fire by
the word, I that tHey should stand
with their backs toward each
other, in that position wait for the
word, then face and fire at pleas-
ure. Nothing of distance was
proposed on that evening, but
that and the manner of firing was
postponed, to be agreed on in the
morning.

n. Accordingly, when the
parties alighted from their horses,
Major Bullock and myself were
apart from the Doctor and Mr.
Rowan, to agree upon the subjects
postponed from the preceding
evening. Major Buillock again
spoke of an endeavor to accom-
modate the difference. I still
thought it could not be made un-
less the Doctor's note should be
withdrawn, to which the Major
would not assent. The distance
was then mentioned. Major Bul-
lock said he supposed the usual
distance; I requested him to men-
tion it; he said ten steps, to which
I agreed immediately, but said he
might add two steps, which he not
choosing to do, the distance re-
mained as agreed upon. We then
agreed they should, at that dis-
tance, stand with their backs, each
toward the other, and wait for the
word '*fire;" after which they
should face and fire when they
pleased. To prevent doubt it was
particularly mentioned and
agreed, that each might hold his
pistol as he pleased, and use in
firing one or both hands. No
other propositions than these, as
to distance or firing, were made or
signified to me, and these at such
a distance, and in such a voice that
I do not hesitate to say that they
were not heard by the Doctor or
Mr. Rowan. The Doctor and Mr.
Rowan had rode out in their great
coats, which they took off before
the pistols were handed to them.
As agreed upon they fired, each
long after they had faced, Mr.
Rowan first and then the Doctor.
Mr. Rowan rested his pistol on his

left hand— the Doctor his on the
left arm above the elbow. The de-
liberate and long aim of each
prompted each of their friends to
ask, if they were hurt. Dr. Cham-
bers said first **No,'' Mr. Rowan
also said *'I am not," to which the
Doctor replied, ^'I am sorry for
it;" Mr. Rowan said ''Well, try it
again," the Doctor said,

''Agreed."

As agreed upon from the first
they fired the second round, the
Doctor first, the interval between
their fires just distinguishable,
and shorter than before, each rest-
ing his pistol as formerly and tak-
ing deliberate aim. The Doctor
fell. Major Bullock and myself
ran to his assistance. We
searched, but searched too low for
the wound. The Doctor was un-
able to tell us, not knowing where.
Major Bullock then opened the
Doctor's waistcoat, raised his
left arm and found it. I saw the
wound. But little blood had
issued. I went to Mr. Rowan and
told him I thought the wound was
mortal; he answered "I am
sorry," and going to the Doctor
he said he supposed there was no
further use for him. Major Bul-
lock replied, "No." Mr. Rowan
was going, but turning to the Doc-
tor, with the pledge of his, Mr.
Rowan's honor to serve him, and
offered to send his carriage for
the Doctor. Major Bullock had
bound up the wound and was sup-
porting him. The Doctor was
restless and requested me to ex-
tend his left leg and unbound the
joint of the knee, in doing which
my head was near that of Major

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Bullock 'Sy which opportunity he
took of requesting me to go to
town and tell Mr. Caldwell to send
for the Doctor. I hastened to my
horse and on him was passing to
see the Doctor. Major Bullock
desired me to hasten. Mr. Cald-
well was absent from the town. I
informed Mr. McClean of my busi-
ness. The news spread and the
whole town was in haste to see the
Doctor. I returned as soon as
possible with Doctor Chapieze.

In the interview at Mr. Eowan's
house a few hours after we had
parted from the Doctor, Mr.
Rowan observed that Major Bul-
lock had taken whiffs at his words
to the Doctor when wounded, for
which he was sorry and they were
spoken without any intention of
giving offense, under the impres-
sion that having been called there
to satisfy the Doctor, it was
proper to have his leave to depart,
not judging the wound would
prove so quickly mortal. Major
Bullock told me he thought Mr.
Bowan was wrong. I then told
the Major of what Mr. Bowan had
said, in the interview above, of his
answer to my telling him of the
wound and mentioned his last
words to the Doctor, which
seemed to change the Major's
opinion, but he still expected Mr.
Bowan to mention the subject.
When I saw Mr. Bowan next he
had discussed with the Major
and satisfied him completely, of
which had I doubted Major Bul-
lock's conduct to Mr. Bowan
would have been ample proof.

Major Bnllock never sent any
challenge to Mr. Bowan by me.

Whether it be criminal in men to
suffer their prejudices and pas-
sions to gain ascendency over
their reason or judgment, I have
not leisure to discuss. But, Mr.
Printer, I believe, had the enemies
of Mr. Bowan opposed to their
prejudices a small exertion of
reason and dispassionate inquiry
about this unfortunate single com-
bat, the certificates on that subject
would not have differed from
those I herewith transmit to you,
marked No. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, ex-
cept that some of them would have
been rendered unnecessary. For
myself I say they fought bravely
and honestly. The wound was in
the left side, so that the arm, if
suffered to hang at ease would
have covered it. And here let me
refer to a certified copy of the
inquisition marked No. 10, and
also to the certificates marked No.
11, 12 and 13. These it is hoped,
Mr. Printer, will wipe the stain
from the honor of the deceased,
which the report of his having
been shot in the back would seem
to impart and which he so little
deserved.

And now Sir, through this me-
dium, I beg forgiveness of the real
friends of the deceased. Should
this remind them of his brave, yet
modest and unassuming worth,
renew their sorrows, let me plead
the sacred majesty of truth, the
respect due the sacred memory of
the dead, and the importance of
his good name to the living.
Counting myself in the number of
his friends, it is a pleasure I ea^
we never had a single iar and with
consolation I rememberi after he

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was senfiible of death's approach,
my hands administered drink at
his request and my ears heard him
express it.

Yonr fellow citizen,

Geobqe M. Bibb.
Bardstown, May, 1801.

The certificates referred to in
the foregoing letter are too long
to be inserted here. The main
facts established by them are,
first, as to the time and circum-
stances of the personal diflSculty
between the principals which led
to the challenge. The common
version has been that Mr. Bowan
and Dr. Chambers had been en-
gaged with two others in a game
of whist when the former having
said something offensive to Dr.
Chambers the latter rejoined
sharply, causing Mr. Bowan to
reply in such harsh terms as led
Dr. Chambers to send a challenge
which resulted in his death. As
previously stated, the incident is
said to have occurred at Frank-
fort, but the letter of Judge Bibb
and the certificates cited in it show
that it took place in Bardstown at
night, in a room at McLean's
tavern, in which a game of whist
was also going on between four
persons, but that Mr. Bowan and
Dr. Chambers were engaged in a
game known by its French name.
Vingt-un, once popular in Ken-
tucky within the memory of many
living, but of late years quite out
of fashion. It was a convivial
gathering and beverages frequent,
being ohiefly of ale of strong
quality, in which both Bowan and
Chambers indulged freely. The

first evidence which those at the
other table observed induced the
belief that it was a harmless ex-
change of epithets imtil blows fol-
lowed and Chambers said that he
would challenge Bowan and if he
did not fight he would publish him
as a coward in every gazette in the
State. This specific statement is
from the certificate of Thomas
Hubbard, one of the persons at
the other table. It will be ob-
served that just after the occur-
rence Mr. Bibb states that he aud
Mr. Bowan went to Bullitt County,
which adjoins Nelson, of which
Bardstown is the county seat, re*
turning on the 1st of February,
and next morning the challenge of
Dr. Chwnbers was recoived, and
the duel fought on the 3rd.

The communication ef Judge
Bibb which I have given, accom-
panied by the statements of
others cognizant of the salient
facts preceding the duel, is not
only interesting as giving the
only true history of the event,
with the correct date and location
of the duel, but is also valuable as
giving to posterity the full details
of the manner in which duels of
that and succeeding days were
conducted elsewhere in this coun-
try and in Europe, the variation
being in the choice of weapons, al-
though pistols were the favorite
weapons as compared with rifles
and swords. It would be difficult
to find a better description of a
custom once so widely practiced,
but now, fortunately, so complete*
ly relegated to the past.

There is one other feature of
historic incident which gives

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to it individuality— a degree of
special interest. They were all
young, being between twenty-five
and thirty. Less is known of Dr.
Chambers than of the other three,
owing to the fact that the others
achieved reputations from their
prolonged lives. He was a phy-
sician of high standing in the com-
munity and socially also, having
married the daughter of Benja-
min Sebastian, a gentleman of
English birth who came to Louis-
ville at an early day and was one
of the first Judges of the Court of
Appeals. The most prominent
among the other three may be
said to have been Judge Bibb, a
Virginian, bom in 1776, and a
graduate of both Hampden Sid-
ney and of William and Mary Col-
leges, moving to Lexington in 1796,
where he began the" practice of
law. In 1808 he was appointed
Judge of the Court of Appeals
and in the following year Chief
Justice. Resigning in 1810 he was
appointed in 1827 Chief Justice
for the second time, but resigned
the following year. He was twice
elected U. S. Senator, first in 1811,
resigning in 1814, and secondly in
1829, serving the full term of six
years. From 1833 to 1844 he was
Chancellor of the Louisville Chan-
cery Court, but in the latter year
resigned to become secretary if
the U. S. Treasury, serving the
term of four years. He died April
14, 1859.

John Bowan, the surviving prin-
cipal in the duel, was older than
Judge Bibb, having been born in
Pennsylvania in 1773. In 178i3
his father, who was a Revolution-

ary soldier, settled in Louisrille.
resumed his education in tiie
higher branches in a classical
school in Bardstown, kept by Dr.
Priestly. He was admitted to tie
bar in 1795, and began the prae
tice of law in Lexington. He to
a member of the Conventioi
which formed the Constitution of
1799, appointed Secretary of
State in 1804, and in 1805 elected
to Congress. After serving sev-
eral terms in the Legislature, ie
was appointed Judge of the Court
of Appeals. In 1824 he was
elected to the United States Sen
ate and served the full teim
This was his last elective office,
his only other public service bein^
that of Commissioner to adjust the
Claims of citizens of the Vmt^
States against Mexico. Ill healtb
restricted future public service
and he died at his residence ^
Louisville, July 13th, 1843, in i^^
seventieth year.

The prominence attained J^
public life by two of the partici-
pants in this famous duel is gi^^^
here to show the mental calibre f
those who took part in duels i^
Kentucky, and it may be said that
instead of its being a^ drawbacir
upon their promotion it was, on
the contrary, a potent element oi
their success in life, especially ^
the political arena. If we scsn
the long list of duelists among
Kentuckians who rose to P^^^j'
positions of high grade. State ana
national, despite their participa-
tion in the practice of duelliBg» ^^
shall find that they constitute/
very large majority over the vio-
lators of the then existing J»^

ed:'
is 1

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against the practice. In view of
snch conditions what praise, com-
mensurate with their valuable ser-
vice both to the State and en-
lightened civilization can we
award to the members of our Con-

stitutional (invention of 1850,
who put an end to this relic of bar-
barism by the prohibitory clause
therein embodied? Esto per-
petua.

J. Stoddabd Johkston.

THE STORY OF
THREE GOVERNORS

LAURIE J. BLAKELY

COVINGTON, KENTUCKY

THE STORY OF THREE GOVERNORS.

By Laurie J. Blakely, Covington, Kentucky.

The ''Fifty Years Since''
stories of the war between the
States deal only with the battles
of the conflict, the newspapers
seemingly overlooking, with rare
exceptions, the efforts that were
made to avert the beginning of
hostilities, being overlooked or
regarded as of slight interest be-
cause of their failure — a failure
that was inevitable when the bit-
terness of the feeling engendered
by the movements of the Abo-
litionists under the lead of Wil-
liam Lloyd Garrison and Wendell
Phillips, and accentuated by the
John Brown raid on Harper's
Ferry, is considered.

Yet the stories of efforts made
by men in public life, to the north
and to the south of Mason and
Dixon's line are of the greatest
interest, and Kentucky— unique in
all things — occupies a foremost
place in the story of an anxious
and a sincere desire to restore
fraternal relations not only be-
tween l^e states of the States of
the North but between all sec-
tions and the Federal Union. The
initiative in the Story of Three
Governors was taken by Gover-
nor Magofl^, of Kentucky, in the

early weeks of 1861. On his invi-
tation three Governors — Morton,
of Indiana; Dennison, of Ohio,
and himself, of Kentucky, were to
meet at the old Spencer House, in
Cincinnati, on April 30, 1861,
there to devise ways and means to
stay the certainty of hostilities
and **to bring about a truce be-
tween the general government and
the seceded states until the meet-
ing of Congress in extraordinary
session." One of the strange fea-
tures of the story is in the ready
acquiescence of Governor Morton
with, however, a speedy change of
views and declination to take part
in the conference which, in the be-
ginning, had met with his hearty
concurrence.

On April 24, 1861, Governor
Magoffin called the Legislature of
Kentucky in extra session. In his
call he cited the fact that the Fed-
eral government was bent on
prosecuting a war on the seceded
states and that it was the first
duty of Kentucky to place herself
in a position of complete defense
against invasion. He declared
that it was useless '*to longer re-
fuse to recognize the fact that the
American Union is dissolved."

In his opinion the determination
of the United States to invade the
seceded states would involve '*the
unlimited slaughter of their citi-
zens," and one of the questions
he submitted to the Legislature
was: ** Shall she (Kentucky) de-
clare her own independence and
prepare, single handed, to main-
tain itf He reported that an ap-
peal to the banks of the State had
met with generous response and
that with the funds provided, he
had *' employed every resource at
his command to supply the State
with the necessary means of de-
fense/' He recommended to the
Legislature that it provide means
for repayment of the loans and
submitted his correspondence
with Secretary of War Cameron
and with Governors Morton and
Dennison.

The first of the series was a
dispatch from Secretary Camer-
on, dated April 15, 1861, notifying
Governor MagoflSn that a call had
been made on Kentucky for four
regiments of militia. To that.
Governor Magoffin answered :
**Your dispatch received. In an-
swer I say, emphatically, that
Kentucky will furnish no troops
for the wicked purpose of subdu-
ing her sister Southern States.*'

Then follows a communication
from Governor Dennison, pre-
sented to Governor Magoffin by
the late Judge Thomas M. Key, of
the Superior Court bench of Cin-
cinnati, and himself a Kentuckian,
stating that the assurances which
Judge Key would give of the ** sin-
cere desire of the people of Ohio
that nothing might occur to inter-

rupt the kindly feeling between
the people of the two States"
were, also, his own sentiments and
that Governor Magoffin might
freely confer with Judge Key **in
regard to the people along the
common border and as to the
proper means of removing all ap-
prehension of strife between
them.'^

Thereupon Governor Magoffin
asked Governor Dennison if be
would co-operate with Kentucky
in a proposition to the Federal
government for peace by the Bor-
der States, as mediators between
the contending parties and added:
*'I have a similar understanding
with Governor Morton, of Indi-
ana.'' In response. Governor
Dennison designated Noah H.
Swayne, a Virginian by birth, and
later a Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, ap-
pointed from Ohio, as his Ambas-
sador and notified Governor Ma-
goffin of the fact receiving in re-
sponse a telegram from the latter
stating that he would be glad to
meet Colonel Swayne at the Spen-
cer House, in Cincinnati, on the
succeeding Tuesday, April 30,
1861, and that he had taken the
liberty of inviting Governor Mor-
ton to attend the conference. That
telegram was dated April 26, 1861.
In response Governor Dennison
expressed his gratification over
the coming conference and aiso
that Governor Morton had been
invited. The next step in the ef-
forts to maintain peace along the
border, while the three Governors
were acting as mediators between
the Union and the Confederacy, is

._-^

Bhojfm by the following official
letter from the Ambassador from
Kentucky :

*' Cincinnati, April 30, 1861.
**To the Honorable William
Dennison, Governor of Ohio.
Dear Sir: I have been commis-
sioned by the Honorable Beriah
Magoffin, JGovemor of Kentucky,
to solicit the co-operation of the
Honorable 0. P. Morton, Gover-
nor of Indiana, and yourself in an
effort to bring about a truce be-
tween the general government and
the seceded states until the meet-
ing* of Congress in extraordinary
session in the hope that the action
of that body may point the way
to a peaceful solution of our na-
tional troubles. I have the honor
to be, very respectfully,

**Your obedient servant,
**T. L. Crittenden.**

The ways of peace, at that junc-
ture, seemed broad and smooth,
Governor Magoffin, in the mean-
time, having received a letter
from Governor Morton stating
that he would ''unite in any effort
for the restoration of the Union
and peace which shall be constitu-
tional and honorable to Indiana
and the Federal government and
will, if you appoint, meet you at
Jeff ersonville tomorrow. ' * An-
swering Governor Morton *s let-
ter. Governor Magoffin called
attention to the fact that the con-
ference had been arranged for the
Spencer House, Cincinnati, and
urged Governor Morton to attend
the meeting. On April 26, Gover-
nor Morton answered: ''I will
meet your Excellency at the

Spencer House. I expect to meet
you in person.** For some reason,
however, Governor Magoffin pre-
ferred to conduct negotiations
through his representative. Colo-
nel Crittenden. But when the
fatal April 30 came about Colonel
Crittenden found neither the Gov-
ernor of Ohio nor the Governor of
Indiana at the Spencer House, as
is evident from the fact that on
that day he addressed a letter to
Governor Morton in like terms
with that addressed to Governor
Dennison :

''Cincinnati, April 30, 1861.
"To Honorable 0. P. Morton,

Governor of Indiana.

"Dear Sir: I have been com-
missioned by the Honorable B.
Magoffin, Governor of Kentucky,
to solicit the co-operation of your-
self and the Honorable William
Dennison, Governor of Ohio, iu an
effort to bring about a truce be-
tween the general government
and the seceded states until after
the meeting of Congress in
extraordinary session in the hope
that the action of that body may
point out the way to peaceful so-
lution of our national troubles. I
have the honor to be very respect-
fully,

"Your obedient' servant,

"T. L. Crittenden.** j

Whether the Governors of Indi-
ana and Ohio had been saying
things to each other during the
passage of the correspondence
with the other Governor, or
whether Secretary Cameron had
heard of the proposed conference
at the Spencer House, or whether

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events were marching too rapidly
and prevented Governor Morton
and Governor Dennison from
visiting Cincinnati, does not ap-
pear. But the fact that Governor
Ibennison set himself about fur-
nishing the quota of Ohio to the
Federal armies and that Gover-
nor Morton, ignoring Colonel
Crittenden ^s letter, addressed
himself to Governor MagoflSn di-
rect, gives strength to the belief
that the two Governors on the
other side of the Ohio had taken
later counsel with each other, or
with Washington, on the subject.
The letter of Governor Morton
to Governor Magoffin while plain,
forceful and direct, shows a sud-
den conversion from the desire
for peace to the desire for war.
First listening to the suggestion
of Governor Magoffin for a meet-
ing of the three Governors in the
interest of peace, and giving ap-
parently cordial approval and
hoping for the continuance of
friendly relations between the
three states, Governor Mk>rton,
on May 1, 1861, notified Governor
Mago^ that: **It becomes
my duty to state that I do
not recognize the right of any
state to act as mediator between
the Federal government and a re-
bellious state.*' He declared his
conviction and platform to be
that: ** Kentucky a(nd Indiana
were but integral parts of the
Union and, as such, are subject to
the government of the United
States and bound to obey the re-
quirements of the President
issued in pursuance of his consti-
tutional authority.'' He in-

voked Kentucky "By all the
sacred ties that bind us together
to take her stand with Indiana
promptly and efficiently on the
side of the Union." In cpnclnsion
he said:

"I take this occasion to renew
the expression of my earnest de-
sire that Kentucky remain in the
Union and that the intimate per-
sonal, social, political and com-
mercial relations which exist be-
tween her and Indiana may never
be disturbed but be cemented and
strengthened through all coming
years. ' '

And that ended the proposed
peace conference between the
three Governors on the patriotic
initiative of Governor Magoffin.

The old Spencer House has
many traditions endearing it to
Cincinnatians of the olden time,
and none so enduring as the tra-
ditions of the days when it was the
leading hotel of the West and the
abiding place, when in Cincinnati,
of the best blood and brain of the
South in the days before the war;
the hostelry of many romances
and of a* chef unexcelled. But not
all the memories of the now aban-
doned and dismantled Spencer
House would have given it a name
as enduring as would the meeting
of the three Governors in further-
ance of the effort of Governor Ma-
goffin to bring about '*a truce be-
tween the general government and
the seceded states."

But things moved quickly in
those days and the red light of
desolating war overshadowed/ the
plans of Governor Magoffin — sub-
sequently compelled to resign by

ll«tM*r vf tlw KMtiMky tlaW HMortai tttlity.

military pressure under orders
from Washington. But his effort
was none the less patriotic^ earn-
est and sincere, qualities made all
the more apparent by the resig-
nation demanded from him by an
authority having no jurisdiction

in the matter save that of force.
The Story of the Three Governors
is interesting, and all the more so
because of suggestions of peace
jubilees in 1915, or fifty years
from Appomattox.

r—-'m ■» ---'

IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND

MRS. W. LESLIE COLUNS

r i

IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND.

By Mrs. W. Leslie Collins.

About one hundred and eigh-
teen years ago there lived in
Franklin County, Ky., a well-to-do
farmer named Bourne. His farm
extended into the present adjoin-
ing county of Anderson, which
then formed a part of Woodford

County.

At that time civilization had
not driven out all of the primitive
denizens of the forests, and
wolves, catamounts and panthers
added the terrors of their pres-
ence to the density of the wood,
and ocasionally, impelled by hun-
ger, they approached the scat-
tered habitations of men to seize
upon, and devour, all unprotected
live stock — even if it was in the
doorway of its sturdy owner who
dared not venture out alone to the
rescue; and the watch dogs would
bark vociferously at a safe dis-
tance from the fierce marauder, or
would fly with drooping tails and
frightened yelps to a convenient
hiding place.

Many a belated hunter has
quickened his footsteps as he felt
his long hair almost rise from his
neck on hearing the awful screams
of a panther pierce the darkness,
or the far-off howls of wolves that

were perhaps on his trail. Often
the soft patter of stealthy foot-
falls greeted his ears, and often
gleaming eyes stared at him from
leafy hiding places. Often he was
called upon to combat the owner
of the fiery eyes, and not always
was thfe hunter the victor; but
Farmer Bourne never suffered
from worse than a semi-occasional
nocturnal visit from a hungry
catamount to his pig pen or hen
roost.

Mr. Bourne and his excellent
wife, with their large family of
bright young children and well
satisfied negroes, lived an indus-
trious and happy life. But one
day there happened an event that
threatened to cloud their lives
with sorrow. Their beautiful -lit-
tle daughter, Mary Ann, then six
years of age, was the very light of
their eyes.

One afternoon Mr. Bourne sent
one of his colored men into the ad-
jacent wood to fell trees, and,
after a while, unknown to anyone,
little Mary Ann tied her little sun-
bonnet over her fair curls, and ac-
companied by her pet lamb, fol-
lowed the man into the wood **to
gather flowers,*' as she after-
wards said, and fully expecting to

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find the colored man and return
home with him; but she did not
find him, and, in her search, wan-
dered farther and farther into the
forest until she became hopelessly
lost.

The shades of eve were falling
when Mrs. Bourne missed her lit-
tle daughter and alarmed the
household. Every nook and cor-
ner of the home place underwent
an unsuccessful search; then the
neighborhood was aroused, and
the half frantic mother gathered
her remaining children about her
and wept and prayed the long
night through, while men and
boys, with torches and dogs,
scoured the surrounding forest.
They found a few bunches of
withered wild flowers, and a tuft
of soft white wool on a thorn bush,
but it was dawn before they found
the little child who was half sitting,
half reclining against a tree,
miles from home, sound asleep
with her little sunbonnet drawn
over her tear-stained face, and the
bloody head of her pet lamb
clasped tightly in her chubby
arms.

The overjoyed father clasped
his child to his breast, and strong
men wept tears of horror and
sympathy when the child told the
story of the bloody lamb's head,
and the awful danger of which
she was entirely ignorant. She
told of how she was met in the
darkness — ^which was dimly il-
lumined by the straggling light of
the moon — by several *' funny
looking dogs,'* who sprang upon

her poor little lamb and almost
tore it to pieces before her eyes.
Then a *'big caf came and drove
the *Mogs'' away. In the strug-
gle the lamb's head was torn en-
tirely off, and *'the big cat" dis-
appeared with the gory, headless
body. Then the weeping child
took the bloody head of her un-
fortunate pet, and wandered on
and on until weariness overcame
her and she sank to rest in the
place where she was found.

Amid the weird night sounds of
the untracked forest, with the
hooting of the owl in the tree
above for a lullaby, the poor,
tired child soon fell asleep to
awaken in the strong arms of her
devoted father.

Investigation proved the
**funny looking dogs" to have
been wolves, and the **big cat" an
American panther of the largest
kind.

Thus did God hold the child in
the ** hollow of his hand" and no
evil thing touched her.

There are many persons now
living in Franklin and Anderson
counties, Kentucky, whose imme-
diate ancestors joined in that
memorable search.

Mary Ann Bourne lived to tell
her children and grandchildren
about the perils of that night.
She was a remarkable woman and,
about forty-eight years ago, met
a remarkable death— poisoned by
eating a catalpa blossom. She
left many descendants, one of
whom — a grandson — ^was the hus-
band of the present writer.

C/-

KENTUCKY TROOPS IN THE

WAR OF 1812

A. C. QUISENBERRY

KENTUCKY TROOPS IN THE WAR OF 1812,

By A. C. Q uisenberry.

The centennial of the beginning
of the War of 1812 has awakened
a new and intense interest in that
great struggle — our second war
for independence. That Ken-
tuckians should feel more than
ordinarily interested in that im-
portant war is onl^ to be ex-
pected, for it was a war that
lasted nearly three years, in
which we gained only five impor-
ts; nt -victories on land, four of
which — tlie seige of Fort Meigs,
a};!d the battles of Fort Stephen-
sen, the Thames, and New Or-
leans, were won almost entirely
by Kentuckians; who also con-
tributed essentially to Perry's
brilliant naval victory on Lake
Erie. The history of the world's
wars shows no more brilliant vic-
tories achieved anywhere than
those that were won by Ken-
tuckians on the River Thames, in
Canada, and at New Orleans.

There has always been a ques-
tion as to how many troops Ken-
tucky furnished in the War of
1812, and it is believed that this
article settles that question with
as close an approximation as it
will ever be possible to attain —
and the number is 25,010. These

25,000 of our grandfathers were
enrolled in four regiments of
United States regular troops
which were recruited entirely in
Kentucky, and 36 regiments, 4
battalions and 12 independent
companies of Kentucky militia,
including the organizations of
spies, which would be called
scouts today.

The statement here given is
based upon a roster published
many years ago by the Adjutant
General of the State of Kentucky
(although a great deal of it was
obtained from other sources), and
gives each regiment or other
organization, so far as is now
known, that was furnished by the
State, aild names also the general
and regimental and copapany of-
ficers, and ^ gives the actual
strength (by count) of each regi-
ment, battalion and company.

Many of the officers are named
two or more times, and it is also
certain that many of the enlisted
men served more than one enlist-
ment, as the enlistments were for
short terras, ranging from two to
six months, for the militiamen.
On the other hand, it has been
found impossible to secure the
names of more than a few of the

brigade and division staff oflScers,
of whom there were certainly-
several hundred, among whom it
is known that there were such men
as John J. Crittenden, William T.
Barry, George Walker, Charles
A- Wickliffe, Joseph McDowell
and Anthony Crockett; so, not-
withstanding the duplications of
names, the number of troops fur-
nished by Kentucky in the War of
1812, will remain at about 25,000.
There appears to be good evi-
dence that there were several regi-
ments of Kentucky militia in the
war, the rolls of which have been
lost. For instance, there are still
in existence a roll of the First
Eegiment of Kentucky Riflemen,
and of the Third Regiment
of Kentucky Riflemen, but there
is no roll now in exist-
ence of the Second Regiment of
Kentucky Riflemen, which would
have contained about 500 men.
Among the spoils of the battle of
the Thames was a British drum
which General William Henry
Harrison presented to a regiment
of Kentucky militia; and that old
drum may still be seen in the
rooms of the Kentucky State His-
torical Society, in the new Capitol
building in Frankfort, with the
following inscription in guilt let-
ters upon it: '*Drum taken at the
battle of the Thames and pre-
sented to the Forty-second Regi-
ment of Kentucky militia for turn-
ing out more volunteers durins;
the late war than any other regi-
ment in Kentucky.'' Yet there
are now in existence the records
of only thirty-six re^ments of
Kentucky militia in that war; so

it seems that the rolls of at least
six regiments have been lost.
There appears to have been a sys-
tem of numbering the regiments,
but it apparently has not de-
scended to these times.

Some of the regiments were
very small. Callaway's regiment
in the Thames campaign con-
tained only 288 men. On the other
hand, Richard M. Johnson's regi-
ment in the same campaign (in-
cluding Payne's company, which
was attached to it) contained 1,437
men, or enough for a brigade.
Colonel William Dudley's re^-
ment, a large part of which was
destroyed at *' Dudley's Defeat/'
contained 1,297 men.

The number of men (exclusive
of general officers) furnished by
Kentucky during each year of the
war, was as follows:

1811 96

1812 11,114

1813 8,793

1814 4,156

1815 834

Total 24,993

The census of 1810, immediate-
ly preceding the War of 1812, gave
Kentucky a white population of
324,237, only about one-half of
whom (162,118) were males; and
of these it may be assumed that
only about one-fifth (32,423) were
of military age and condition; so
it is seen that the young State
sent about five out of every six of
her fighting men into the war,
where they made a record and a
reputation that was not ap-
proached by the troops of any
other state in the Union.

RogltUr of th« Kentucky StaU Historical Society.

The battle of Tippecanoe was
fought seven months before the
declaration of war, but it was as
much an incident of the War of
1812 as the battle of the Thames
was.

Already many thousands of
Kentuckians are beginning to in-
quire as to what part their grand-
fathers aind great-grandfathers
took in the War of 1812, and it is
hoped that the following facts
may be of great utility, as well as
of great interest to them. In the
subjoined lists the troops are
given in classes (infantry,
mounted, dragoons, riflemen, etc.)
and each class is arranged chrono-
logically, according to the date
that the regiment, or other organi-
zation, was organized and mus-
tered into the service. The roster
now follows:

UNITED STATES REGULARS.

(1) Seventh Regiment, United States

Infantry.

Organized under the act of April 12,
1808, and was recruited in Kentucky for
the War of 1812. It was consolidated
May 17, 1816, with the 2nd, 3rd and 44th
regiments of infantry to form the present
Ist Regiment of Infantry, United States
Army.

Field and Staff— Colonel William Rus-
sell, Major George Gibson, John Nicks, and
five other officers, etc. (30, including
band).

1st Company — Officers names not gtven.
(51).

2nd Company— Lieut. Blisha H. Hall.
(51).

3rd Company — ^Lieut. Theodorlck B.
Rice. (39).

4th CompafLyr-Lieut Narcissus Brontin,

Ensigns John U. Carrick, Elisha T. Hall.
(101).

5th Company — 1st Lieut. James S. Wade,
2nd Lieut. Ethelred Taylor. (109.)

6th Company — Capt Uriah Blue, Lieuts.
Jacob Miller, Michael McClelland, En-
sign Thomas Blackstone. (107).

7th Company — Capt. Richard Oldham,
Lieut. Samuel Vail, Ensign Archibald
Wilson. (110).

8th Company — Capt Alexander A.
White, Lieut. Wm. Prosser. (99).

9th Company — Capt. Carey Nicholas,
Lieut. Elijah Montgomery, Ensign Andrew
Ross. (117).

10th Company — Capt. W. H. McClellan,
Ensigns French H. Gay, Wilson Creed.
(107).

Total strength of the regiment, 907 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(2) Seventeenth Regiment, United States

Infantry.

Organized under the acts of January 11
and June 26, 1812. Consolidated May 30,
1814, with the 1st, 24th« 28th and 29th regi-
ments of infantry to form the present 3rd
Regiment of Infantry, United States Army.

Field and Staft—^lJol. Samuel Wells,
■Lieut-'Colonels Wm. McMillan, George Todd,
Majors Richard Davenport, George Croghan,
Richard Graham, Richard Oldham, etc. (17).

let Company— Lieut. David L. Carney.
(47).

2nd CJompany— <Japt Henry Ctittenden,
Lieut. James Blair. (72).

3rd Company — Capt. Martin L. Hawkins,
Lieut. Chas. Scott, Ehisign Wm. H. Fisher.
(119).

4th Company — Capt. B. W. Sanders, (Ueut
Cyrus W. Baylor, Ensign Richard MitchelL
(117).

5th Company— Capt. Caleb H. Holder.
Lieuts. Chas. Mitchell, James Gray, Ensign
Owen Evans. (107).

6th Company — Capt. Thos. T. Chinn,
Lieut. Thos. Mountjoy, Ensign Mason Sew-
ard. (135).

7th Company— Caipt Wm. I. Adair, Lieuts.
James Hackley, Thos. W. Hawkins, Ensign
Thos. R. McKnight. (115).

fItgliUr off tN# Miit««ky MMt MMMlcal Irtity,

8tli CompaB7--C&pt David Holt, Urate.
JosetA T. Taylor, Ooorge M. Deall, John
Cochran.

9tlL Company-^apt. Harris H. Hldunaa,
•Uottte* Jamos HaeUey, Adam H Hoffman,
Gabriel T. Floyd. (121).

The HiBtorlcal Army "ResiBter abowa that
the following officers (all Kentuddans) also
served in the 17th Infantry during the War
of 1812; Captains: Wm. Bradford, James
Duncan, Jr., Robert Edwards, Ridhard High-
tower, James Hunter, James Meade, Charles
Query and Chas. Scott Todd (transferred
to 28th Infantry), let. Lieutenants: Ben-
jamin Desha, Meredith W. Fisher, Thos.
Coleman Graves, Parry Hawkins, Benjamin
Johnson, Philip King, Stephen Lee, Robert
Logan, Thos. J. Overton, Alexander Robert-
son. 2nd Lieutenants: Wm. M. Baylor,
Samuel S. Berry, Thos. M. Buckley, Saml
H. Craig, Joseph Duncan, Robt. W. Swing,
Ashton Garrett, John Hamilton, Philip
King, Nimrod H. Moore, James Munday,
JoBhua Norvell, James Overton, John T.
Redding, Edmund flhipp, David Trimble.
3rd Lieutenants: Hubbard Berry, Wm. Eu-
bank, Wm. Griffith, James Marshall, John
Mershon, Thos. S. Morgan, Rice iL. Stewart,
Reuben Taylor, Wm. Young. Ensigns: Tay-
lor Berry, Richard K. Doyle, Anderson
EhranB, Gabriel J. Floyd, Robert G. Foster,
Andrew Leeper, James Liggett, Wm. Nelson,
Buford Scrugigs, Philip Q. Shearer. The
companies to which these officers were
attached are not indicated. (56).

Total strength of the regiment, 979 offi-
cers, and enlisted men.

(3) Twenty-EightH Regimentp United
States Infantry.

Organized under the act of January 29,
1813. Consolidated May 17, 1815, with the
let, 17th, 19th, 24th, and 29th regiments of
Infantry to form the present 3rd Regiment
of Infantry, United States Army.

Field and Staff— Col. Thos. Dye Owings,
Lieut. Col. Anthony Butler, Majors Wkn.
Trigg and James Smiley, etc. (12).

Ist. Company — Capt. Johnston Megowan,
Lteuts. Wm. H. He^ry, Robt. B. Crook, En-
signs Jonas Ithodes, William Adams. (114).

2nd Company— Capt George Sto^Eton,
Lie«U. Thos. Edmonson, Joseph P. TajIot,
John Wyatt, James B. Flndley. Snaign
Richard Mitchell. (148).

3rd Company — Capt. Nimrod H. Moore,
Lieuts. John Trumbo, John Heddleson,
Thos. Griffith, Ensigns Chas. L. Harrison,
Willis N. Bayn. (127).

4th C:k>mpany— Capt. Jos. C. Belt, Uents.
John C. Kouns, David G. Cowan, Ensign
John Dawson. (124).

5th Company — Lieut. Granville N. Love,

(26).

6th Company— <3apt. Thos. L. Butler,
Lieuts. Jas. Hickman, Rezin H. Gist, Thos.

E. Boswell, Thos. (Mffith, Daniel Conner,
Overton W. Crockett, ESnsign Morgan H.
Heard. (123).

The above is evidently not a full roster,
as there should be at least three more
companies. The Historical Army Register
shows that the following officers (all Kea>
tucklans) also served in the 28th Infantry in
the War of 1812, viz.:

Captains: Henry Daniel, Jeptha Dudley,
Henry C. Gist, John 'Mason, Benjamin
Closely, John Scott Todd, let Lieutenants:
Joseph Clark, Wm. D. Haden, Hugh Innes.
Matthew H. Jouett, Wm. Stewart, Robt.
Stockton. 2nd Lieutenants: Thos. Berry,
Daniel G. Brown, Willis N. Bryan, Wm. Or-
lando Butler, John B. Clark, Peter Davis,
Wilson P. Greenup, Charles Larned, James

F. Moore, John O'Fallon, Richard Price,
Philip S. Richardson. 3rd Lieutenants:
Benj. Bridges, Joseph Dawson, Robt. R Hall,
Carlisle Harrison, James Howerton, Joseph
Madison, Richard Mitchell, James Nelson. -
ThoB. P. Wagnon. Ensigns: Wm. Preston
Smith Blair, Chas. L. Harrison, John Me-
Kenzie, John McNair, Rowland Madison.
(38).

Total strength of the regiment, as indi-
cated above, 712; but it was probably 20&
more than that on a full muster.

(4) Second Regiment, United States

Riflemen.
Organized under the act of February 10,
1814, and disbanded at the close of the War
of 1812. Six companies were enlisted In

It«|i«t«r 9t tiMi IfPUmy tut* Hl«torl««l «««i«ty.

Kentucky, tr more tihan two-Uiird« of the
fuU atrengtb of tbe regiment. No roster of
the regiment is available, but the following
of its princiiMtl officers were Kentuckians:

Colonel Anthony Butler, Iiieutenant-€ol-
onel George Croghan, Captaine Robert
Breckinridge, Benjamin Desha, James
Hickmipi, Hugh Innes, Benjamin Johnson.
John O'iFallon.

It is safe to assume that at least 600 of
the soldiers of this regiment were Ken-
tuckians.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.
General Officert.

General — Isaac Shelby, who took the field
as commander-in-cfhief of the Kentucky
militia in the Thames cam^paign, while Gov-
ernor of Kentucky, but yielded the chief
command U> Gen. William Henry Harrison.
(1.)

Major Generals— William Henry Har-
risen, of Indiana, who was acting under a
Kentucky commission; Joseph Desha, Wil-
liam Henry, John Thomas. (4.)

Brigadier Generals— John Adair, James
Allen, Samuel Caldwell, Marquis Calknes,
David Chiles, Green Clay, Samuel Hopkins,
John Payne, Jonathan Ramsey, James Ray,
James Taylor, George Trotter. (12.)
(1) Boswell's Regiment, Kentucky Volun-
teer 'Light Infantry.

Organized April 29, 1812. Field and sUfT:
Not given, hut they would amount to about
12 officers. The regiment was commanded
by Colonel William B. Boswell.

1st Company— Capt. Peter Dudley, Liieuts.
Ceorge Baltzell, Samuel Arnold, Ehisign
George M. Gayle. (118.)

2d Company-<;apt Ambrose Arthur,
Lieut. Joseph Parsons, Ensign James A.
Cartwright (81.)

3d Company— Capt. John Phillips. Ueut
Zacheus Card, Ensign Joseph Reld. (64.)

4th Company— C«pt Thomas -Metcalfe,
Ueut. John Baker, Ensign Robert C. HWL
(M.)

5th Company— Capt. John Baker, Lieut.
Benj. Bean, Ensign Joton Waller, (88.)

€th Company— Capt. John Du¥«jl, Lieut.
Richard Tyner, Ensign James Stuart. (74.)

7th Company — Ca(pt Thomas B}vans»
Lieut. Wm. Jordan, I^nsign James Young.
(75.)

8th Company — Capt. Wm. Sebree, Lieut.
Streshley Allen, Ensign Nathaniel Vice.
(86.)

9th Company— Capt. John D. Thomas,
l.ieut. George Pickett, Ensign Matthew
Wood. (68.)

10th Company — ^Capt. Manson Seamonds,
Lieut James Andera, Ensign Chas. Ruddell.'
(85.)

llCh Company— Capt. Isaac Gray, Lieut.
Hugh Clark, Ensign Will H. Fleming. (63.)

12th Company— Capt. Edmond Bacon,
Lieut. John Bennett, Ensign Robertson Gra-
ham. (43.)

Total strength of the Regiment, 958 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(2) Lewis' Regiment Kentucky Volunteers.

Organized August 14, 1812. Field and staff:
Lieut-Col., William Lewis; Majors, Joseph
Robb, Benjamin Graves; Adjutant, James
(Clark; Quartermaster, Pollard Keene;
Paymaster, Richard Blanton; Surgeons,
John Todd, Gustavue M. Boner, and four
sergeants, etc.

1st Company— Capt. Nathaniel G. S. Hart,
Lieut. Lyndon Comstock, Ensign James L.
Herron. (83.)

2d Company— <;apt. Stuart W. Megowan,
Lieut. Martin Wymore, Ensign Charles S.
Todd. (128.)

»d Company— Capt. James C. Price, Lieut.
William Caldwell, Ensigb David OBtoume.
(66.)

4th Company— Oapt. Wiley R. Brasfleld,
Lieut. Joseph Kelly, !E3nsign Stephen Rash.
(81.)

6th Company — Capt. Samuel U Williams,
Lieut Benjamin Warfield, XJnsign John
Higgins. (77.)

6th Company — Capt. John Hamilton,
Lieut. Wm. H. Moore, Bnsign Robert Ham-
ilton. (72.)

7th Company— Capt. John Martin, Lieut.
Wm. M<K>ulre, Ensign Jonathan Taylor. (75.)

Total strength of the regiment, 594 of-
ficers and enlisted men.

(3) Scctt'e Regiment, Kentucky Militia.
Organized August 16, 1812. Field and

fltafl: Lieut.. Col., John M. Scott; Majors,
Richard M. Gano and Elijah McClanahan;
Adjutant, Alfred Sanford; Quartermaster*
James King; Paymaster, Barnet Williams;
Surgeons, W. H. RichardBon, Robert M.
fiwlns, and four sergeants, etc.

1st Company--€apt. Joseph Redding,
Lieut. £)dward B. Rule, fBnsign Joseph
Bowles. (67.)

2d Company — Capt. Lynn West, Lieuts.
Thoma« Story, Mason Moss, Tavernor R.
Branham, David Gresham. (85.)

3d Company— Capt. Joseph Redding,
Lieut. Joseph McCauley, ESnsign Barnett
WlUiamB. (70.)

4th Comi>any — Capt. Coleman A. Collier,
Lieut. James W. Giillisple, Bnsign (Jesse
Daugherty. (52.)

5th Company — Michael Glaves, Lieut.
Thomas Coleman, Ensign James King. (59.)

6th Company— Oapt. George Pugh, Lieut.
James Johnson, Ensign Daniel Ralls. (89.)

7th Company— Capt. Will Sebree, lUeut.
Robert Kirtley, Ensign Barnett Rogers. (50.)

Total strength of the regiment, 484 of-
ficers and enlisted men.

(4) Barbee's Regiment, Kentucky Miiltla.
Organized Aug. 23, 1812. Field and staff:

Lieut. Ck>l., Joseph Barbee; Majors, Henry
Palmer, Creed Raskins; Adjutant, John WI
Powell; Quartermaster, George C. Cowan;
Paymaster, Thompson Gaines; Surgeons,
Jas. MclDowell, Duff Green, and four ser-
geants, etc.

1st Company — Capt. Garrett Peterson,
Lieut. David Phillips, flsansign Warren Har*
deen. (67.)

2d (Company — Capt. Robert Barnett,
Lieut. Thomas Cregor, Ensign Jacob
Pierce. (71.)

3d Company-— Capt. William Cross, Lieut
James Cowan, Ensign Henry Gabbert. (53.)

4th Company— Capt. Micah Taul, Lieut.
Joseph H. Woolfolk, Ensign John Barthol-
omew. (82.)

5th Company — Capt. Peter Jordan, Lieut.
John R. Cardwell, Ensign Hugh Evantf.
(46.)

6th Company— Capt. John W. Shirley,
Lieut. Thomas Turk, Ensign Andrew Wag-
goner. (60.)

7th Company— Capt David McNalr, Lieut.
(George Allen, ESneign Nimrod Maxwell. (77.)

Total strength of the regiment 542 of-
ficers and enlisted men.

(5) Poflue's fiegiment Kentucky iMIlitia.
Organized August 27, 1812. Field and

staff: Lieut-Col., Robert Pogue; Majors,
WlUUm Reed, David Hart; Adjutant, Ben-
jamin Norris; Quartermaster, Benedict
Bacon; Paymaster, George W. Botts; Sur
geons, Ardemufl D. Roberts, Thomas Doni-
phan, and four sergeants, etc.

1st Company — Capt. Washin«;ton Kennedy,
Lieut. Robert Hffiatson, Ensign John Da^
neil. (68.)

2id Company— Capt Joseph C. Belt, lient.
Ctoorge W. Botts, Bnsign Dorsey K. Stock-
ton. (79.)

3d Company— Capt. Simon R. Baker,
Lieut. Humphrey Brooke, Ensign Edward
S. Lee. (.53.)

4th Company— Oapt. William Brown,
Lieut David Rees, Bnsign Samuel Hlntoon.
(82.)

5th Company — Capt. John Dowden. Lieut
Benjamin Norris, Ensign Enoch Hatton.
(97.)

6th Company— Capt. John McKee, Lient
Jasper Morris, Ensign David Bryant (W^

7t3i Company — C^Sipt. Thompson Ward,
Lieut. George Bronaugh, Ensign Benedict
Bacon. (64.)

8th Company— Capt. (Jeorge Mattbews,
Lieut. John McRoberts, ifinsign Daniel M^
Intyre. (72.)

Total strength of the regiment 607 of-
flceiB and enlisted men.

(6) second Regiment, Kentucky Militia.
Organized September 1, 1812. Field and

staff: Lieut.-Col., William Jennings; Majors
John Faulkner, Joseph EJve; Adjutant Sa^i"
uel Lapsley; Surgeons, William Cra^-
David Nelson; Paymasters, Jonathan PT*
sart, Henry Beatty, and two sergeants, etc
1st Company — Capt. Daniel Ctarrard,
Lieut. Daniel Cockerell, Bnsign T^UlaO
Cunningham. (105.)

2d Company— Capt. Henry James, Lieut.

James Kennedy, ESnsign David BVr. (82.)

3d Company— Caipt. Tunstall Quarlee,

Lieut Llewellyn Hlclonan, Ensign Bobert

J. Poster. (50.)

4tli Company— tCairt William Spratt,
Lieut. Jonathan Bysart, Bnsign James
Forsyth. (82.)

6th Company — Catpt. David McNeils.
Lieut. Jarvis Jackson, ESnsign INatJhaniel D.
Moore. (74.)

6th Company — Capt. Wm. M. Morrison,
Lieut. Alexander Bamett, (EBusign Benjamin
Schooler. (65.)

7th Cnnvpany — Capt. James Anderson,
Lieut Samuel Lapeley> Ensign Isaac Mlyers.
(86.)

8th Company — Capt. Sylvanus Massie,
Lieut. Andrew Briscoe, ESnsign Henry
Beatty. (f7.)

Total itrength of the regiment, 634 of-
ficers ani enlisted men.

(7) SiMtli Regiment Kentucky Miiitla.

Organlaed September 1, 1812. Field and
staff: Litut.-Col., Philip Barbour; Majors,
William :t. Mc(Jary, Reuben Harrison; Ad-
jutant, :iobert Latham; Quartermaster,
'David Sttphens; Paymaster, John J. Rey-
nolds; J)dge Advocates, Samuel Tevis,
Joseph B. Bigger; Surgeons, James W. Tun-
stall, Thona« N. Gist, and Ave sergeants,
etc.

1st Company— Capt. William Sugg, Lieut
James Irvn, Ensign David Stephens. (72.)

2d' Cor pany— Capt. William Latham,
Ueut. ^-ight Taylor, Ensign Riobert
Latham. C^.)

3d Company — Capt. Presley Morehead,
Ueut Jola Hanold, Ensign Cline Davis.
(66).

4th Cajipany — Capt. Thomas Stokes,
Lieut. JaD^s C?raig, E^nslgn Joseph Robert-
son. (75).'

5th Co]»i)any — Capt. James iLove, Lieut
Arthur Qce, Ensign Will Harding. (80).

6th Coii;pany — Capt. BenJ. H. Reeves,
Lieut Wi^ C. Davis, Ensign John C.
Reynolds. ;98).

7th Coi^-pany— Capt. Robert Bamett,

Lieut. Samuel Tevis, Ensign Joseph
Bamett (75).

8th Company— Capt Philip Latham,
Lieuts. Wm. Harding, James Craig, Ehisign
Clement Daviess. (82).

^h Company — Capt. James Cook, Lieut
(David Scott Ensign Samuel Withrow. (72).

Total strength of the regiment, 706 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(8) Dudley's Regiment Kentuclcy Volunteer

Mllltla.

Organized March 29, 1813. Field and
staff: Lieutenant-Colonel William Dudley,
Majors James Shelby, James Dejamatt
Adjutant Paul Allen Prewitt, Quartermaster
William Ellis, (Paymaster Charles Carr,
Surgeons Samuel C. Cloud, William Letcher
and four sergeants, etc.

1st Company — Capt. John D. Thomas,
Lieut. George Pickett, Ensign Matthew
Wood. (63).

2d ComiMmy— Capt. Armstrong Kier,
Lieut. Benjamin Bethurum, Ensign Stephen
Brown. (111).

3d Company— <;apt. James Dyametto,
Lieut. Christopher Irvine, Ensign Joel
Ham. (135).

4th Company— Capt John Yantis, Lieut.
Wm. Anderson, Ensign James Henderson.
(123).

5th Company— Capt. Archibald Morrison,
Lieut Micajah McClenny, Ensign John
Smith. (181).

6th Company— Capt. Joseph. Clai%, Lieut
Ephraim Dooley, Ensign Nathan Dooley.
(125).

7th Ck)mpany — Capt Dudley Farrls, Lieut
John Evans, Ehsign Alexander Bamett
(130).

8th Company— Capt Ambrose Arthur,
QLieut. Joseph Parsons, Ensign James Ball-
inger. (116).

9th Company— Capt Joel Henry, (Lieut
Isaac Howard, Ensign Benjamin Howard.
(77).

10th Company — Capt. Thomas Lewis,
Lieut (3eorge S. Hemdon, Ensign William
iSallee. (131).

11th Company— €iapt. John C. Morrison,

Bmqk^mr of ih% Kentueky SUto HlaUr l«al tocMy.

Ueut JoM^ A. U»derwood» EbMlgii
Hubbard B. Smith. (93).

ToUl Btrength of the rogiment» 1,297
officers and ealiited men.
(9) Porter'a Regimonl, Kentucky VoJuntaor

MIHtla.
Organiaed September 10, 1814. Field and
staff: 'Ueut Colonel Andrew Porter, Majors
Stephen Threasher, Joseph Kennedy, Adju-
tant James Newton, Quartmaster John
Ciayle, Paymaster George W. Chilton, Sur-
geons Qeorge W. Timberlake, Joel C.
Frazer, and four sergeants, etc.
— lit Company — Capt. Joseph Logan, Lieut.
Henry Wood, ESnsign John Hunter. (101).

2d (Company — Capt. Robert Henley, Bn-
sign Benjamin Gilhreath. (62).

3d Company— 'Capt Darid Goodin, Lieut.

XaiJiUi Adkins, Bnsign iaaac Powell. (98).

4th Company — Capt George Bishop,

Lieut. Benedict Bacon, Ensign Thomas

Jones. (99).

5th Company — Capt James Conn, Lieut.
Wm. Brioe, Ensign Gahriel Miles. (100).

6th Company — Capt Aaron Gregg, Lieut.
Arthur Watson, lESaslgn Samuel (Forman.
(96).

7th Company — CB/pt Memorial Forrest,
Xieut Noah Halbert, Ifinsign John Mann.
(101).

8th 'Company— Capt. Samuel Gk>oden,
Lieut George Fleming, Snsign Andrew
Richart. (90).

9th Company — Capt. Henry Ellis, Ueut
Thomas Groltert. (82).

10th Company — Capt James Ellis, Lieut
John Frier, Ensign William Martin. (72).

11th Company — Capt IDd-ward Whaley,
Lieut. John Darnall, Ensign John Talbott.
(78).

Total strength of the regiment, 990 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(10) Francisco's lls0lmefiV Kentucky

Militia.
Organized February 8, 1815. Field and
staff: Lieut. Colonel John IFrancisco, Majors
John Bean, James Grant, Adjutant Thomas
SteTenson, Quartermaster Will Atwood,
JP^ymaster Josepli Kinhead, Supgeona Pat-

rtok Maior, A¥ery Gwyim, and nine ser-
geaota, ete.

1st Company-^apt. Joseph Straugfao.
Lieut Moses Tipton, Ensign William Krva-
naugh. (78.)

2d Company— Capt Andrew Conbs.
Lieut Edward Cornelius, EInsign John
Massie. (85).

3d Company--Capt. Stephen Htchie
Lieut David Anderscm, Ensign 'Rob^t Bur-
bridge. (96>.

4th Company— Capt Simon Cala^ie*
Lieut Henry lUngo, Ensign Williim Gor-
ham. (S^5).

5th Company — Capt James Dudl^, Lieut
Watter C. Carr, Ensign Thomaa J. Fenny
(84).

6th Company— Capt. Jonas T. Bash.
Lieut. Thomas F. Morrow. Ekislgi Thomas
F. Bush. (91).

7th Company— Capt. Robert Scobee.
•Ueut Henry Browning, Ensign Robert
Bush. (48).

8th Company— Capt Lydall Bacm, Lieuts.
Lewis B. Smith, Dennis Byrne. ,95).

9th Company— Capt William CaldvelU
Lieut John Hicks. Ensign Thomai R West
182).

10th Company— €apt. Abram *. Drake.
Lieut Gtoorge Flanagan, Ensign Eankerson
Bywater. (73).

Total strength of the reglmert, 834 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

Independent CompanLev

(1) Capt Dudley WiUiams company,
Kentucky militia, organized October 14.
1812. Ueut David Moore, OSnatsa Reub^
IJnn. (56).

(2) Capt. WUliam Davis' ooiqiany. Ken-
tucky militia, organised October 14, 1812.
Ueuts. Samuel Sayres, John «ave, John
Newton, Ensign Samuel Rankinl. (107).
(11) First Regknent, Kentueliy Mounted

MllltLa.
Organized September 18. 1812. Field and
staff: Lieut Colonel Samuel CaldweS.

Majors Joseph Winlock, Thonas Bell,

Adjutant Ze/ba Howard, Quartermaster
Samuel Worthington, Paymaater (George
Berry, Surgeons Thomas Polard, Levi

Atg^ater of th« Kontu^y BtMU Hlatosrlcal Soeioty.

Am«0, Jaei>% Wlllcer, Judger Advocate PMlip
Thompson, and two sorgoaBts, etc.

l8t Company — CaPt. Alney McLean, Lieut
•^ Charles Campbell, Bnsign Jero S. Cravens
(63).

2d Company — Capt. Thomas Alshury,
Lieut. Wm. Crabtree, 'Bnsign Josiah Ander-
son.

3d Company — Capt. John Hamilton, Lieut.
James McMillan, Ensign John Boswell.
(26).

4th Company — Caa;>t. Moses Shelby, Lieut.
Edward L. Head, Ensign Edward Robeson.
(71).

5th Company — Capt. Samuel Gordon,
Lieut. Warner W. Drew, Ensign George Mc-
Lean. (74).
•^ 6th Company — Capts. Thomas Bell,
Horatio D. Watklnn, Lieut H*ampton Jones,
Ensign Robert fimith. (30).

7th Company— Capt. Michal WoU. Lieut.

Matthew Adams, >Ebsign Alexander Ashby.
(57).

Sth Company— Capt. Hugh Brown, *Lieut.
Josiah Short, Ensign John Wolf. (44).

Total strength of the regiment, 465 ofTi-
cers and enlisted men.
(12> Seeond Re9iment« Kentucky Mounted

Militia.

Organized September 18, 1812. Field and
staff: Lieut. Colonel John Thomas, Majors
Thomas Speed, John Callaway, Adjutants
BeBiamin Helm, Wte. Akin, Quartermasters
Cyrus Talbert, Stephen Chenault, Surgeons
Henry Toung, David Brown, and 3 enlisted
men.

1st Company — Capt Edward Berry, Lieut.
James McMurray, Einsign John McKitsick.
(36).

2d GompaUiy-^apt. ESdward R. Gaither,
Lieut. Paul I. Booker, Ensign William
Slack. (53).

3d Company — Capt. John Hombeck, Lieut.
Rodelphus Bailey, E}ttsigtt Harmon (Sreat-
heuse. (43>.

4th Company — Capt. Thomas Speed,
L&eat Thomas Hubbard, Ensign Alexander
liCc^own. (8^).

Sth Comp«By«-Capt. Charles Hatdesty,

Lieut. Wm. BicMecdcin, Ensign Ellas Kia-

ctwloe. C63.)

eth Company — Capt Aaron Hart, Lieut.

Benjamin Helm, ESnaiga Joseph Monnie.
(47).

Tth Company— Capt. Wm. Keller, Lieut
Joseph Punk, Ensign James Taylor. (95).

Total strength of the regiment, 430 olTir
cers and enlisted men.

(13) South's Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer

Mounted Militia.

Organized September 18, 1812. Field and
staff: Lieut. Colonel Samuel South, Majors
Jeremiah Briscoe, Edward Baxter, Adjutant
John S. Smith, Quartermaster Robert Cun-
ningham, Paymaeter Joseph Barrett, Judge
Advocate fYederick Yeager, Surgeons John
Fry, James Reed, and three sergeants.

1st >Company--Capt. Rowland Burk, Lieut.
Abraham Wood, fitasign Richard Miason.
(31).

2d Company---Capt. George Murrell,
Lieut. Abraham Miller, Ensign Michael
Davidson (99).

3d Company--Capt. Peter Watts, Lieut.
James Harlan, Ehisign Benjamin H. Perkins.
(78).

4th Company — Capts. James Ray, Samuel
McCown, Lieut. George McAfee, Ensign
Samuel McAfee. (39).

5th Company— Capt. ThomaH Kennedy,
Lieut. Moses O. Bledsoe, Ehisign John Mer-
shon. (70).

6th Company — Capt. Thomas Womall,
Lieut. Robert Cunningham, Ehisign Corne-
lius Skinner. (68).

Tth Company — Csrpt. James White, Lieut.
Amos Richardson, Ensign Robert McCreary.
(28).

8th Company— Capt. Daniel ESlliott, Lieut
Joseph McKay, Ensign Joseph W. Snoddy.
(53).

9th Companr— Capt Robt. A. Sturgess.
Lieut. James Jones, Ehisign John Stpeed
Smith. (68).

Total strength of the regiment, 546 offi-
cen and mem.

(14) Allen's lle0lmeiit, Kentuoky Mounted

Volunteer Militia.
Organized September 18, 1812. Field and

staff: Lieut Colonel James Allen; Malors
James McBlroy, Jechonlas Singleton, Adju-
tant James McClelland, Quartermaster
James Bristow» Inspector James Ijywrj,
Judge Advocate Robert P. Letcher,
Surgeons Charles C Frazer, Jeremiah A.
Matthias, Aide James W. Barrett, and four
sergeants, etc.

1st Company— <3apt. Robert Berry, iUeut.
Samuel Caldwell, Bnsign John Archer. (44).

2d Company— €apt. Wm. M. Rice, Lieut
S. D. George, Ensign Joseph Thomas. (44).

3d Company — Capt. William Crouch,
Lieut. Andrew M;uldraugh, B^nsign Joseph
Tucker. (39).

4th Company—Capt Jechonias Singleton,
Lieut. Cornelius Edwards, Ensign Joseph
F. Taylor. (69).

5th Company— <^apt Josias Buskirk,
Lieut. Zachariah TerrlU, Ensign Robert
Tyler. (35).

6th Company— CJapt. Robt. Hambleton,
Lieut. Meator Hall, (ESnsign Micheal Han-
beck. (34).

7th Company — Capt David Allen, Lieut.
George Spears. (67).

8th Company— Oapt. Joseph Allen, Lieut.
John Sterrett, Eiusign Thomas Peckly. (56).

9th Company— €apt. James Williams,
Lieut. Bartholomew Kindred, Ensign James
Dunn. (61).

Total strength of the regiment, 407 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(15) Ewlng's iReglment, Kentucky Mounted

Militia.

Organized September 18, 1812. Field and
staff: Lieut Colonel Young E^^ing, Majors
Solomon P. fi^harp, Alexander Adair, Adju-
tant Joel Shaw, Quartermasters C. M. Cov-
ington, Wm. Whitaett Judge Advocate
James Blain, Surgeon John C. Ray, and
three sergeants.

1st Company— Capt. Samuel H. Curd,
Lieut. Wm. Stewart, Ensign Wilson Whlt-
sitt (63.)

2d Company— <:;apt John Butler, Lieut.
Robt. Trabue, Ensign James Leber. (67).

3d Company — Capt. Fidelio C. ShariP,
Lieut. Samuel A. Bowen, Ensigni James
Denman. (28).

4th Company — Capt. Wm. Bwiii^» Ueot
Seth Hargrave, E&isign Nathaniel filwiog.
(40).

5th Company-^Capt Samuel CaldweH
Lieut John Bryan, Ensign Henry Y. Bur-
gess. (32).

6th Company— <:;apt James Forbes. Lieut
Charles Haney, Ensign Wm. Thompson.
(69).

Total strength of the regiment 406 olS-
cers and enlisted men.

(16) Johnson's RegUnent, Kentucky
Mounted Volunteer infantry.

This regiment was first mustered in on
May 20, 1813, and was reorganized and en-
larged on August 15, 1813, in preparation
for the Thames campaign. Field and staff:
Colonel Richard M. Johnson, Lieut Colonel
James Johnson, Majors Deval (Payne, David
Thompson, James Suggett, Adjutant Jere-
miah Kirtley, Quartermaster Benjamin S.
Chambers, Paymaster James Johnson,
Judge Advocate Samuel Theobalds, Gar-
geons Robert M. E2wing, John C. Richard-
son, Wilson Cohurn, Jeremiah A. Miatthews,
and four sergeants, etc.

1st Company — Capts. Allen A. Hamilton
and Elijah Craig, Lieuts. Jos. Bell, John
HolUday, Thomas Easterday, Benj. Craig,
Ensign Robert Berry. (117).

2d Company— Capt* James Coleman,
Lieuts. John McMUllan, Samuel Logan, Wm."
Clarice, Ensign Carter Anderson. (118).

3d Company — Capt. Wm. M. Rice, Lieuts.
Morgan Bryan, Joseph Thomas, Matthew
Milsey, Ensign Elista Scott. (118).

4th Company — Capt. Jacob Eniiston.
Lieuts. John B. White, William McGinnis,
Leonard Seays, Ensign Edward Harris.
(82).

5th Company— Capt Samuel R. Combs,
Lieuts. H. P. Thornton, James H. Hill
James M. Cogswell. (133).

6th Company — Capt. James Davidson,
Lieuts. John Lapsley, Hiigh W. McKee,
Wier Tilford, Ensign Robert O. Fost^^
(U5).

7th Company— Capt. Richard Mlatson,
Lieuts. Robert Scroggins, Wm. McHatton,
Ralph Jacoby, Ensign John Brice. (112).

8th Company — Capt. Robert B. McAfee
LieutB. John R. Cardwell, David LdUard
"W^llUam Sharp, Ensign David Adams. (163)

9th Company — Capt. Jacob Stucker,
Ueutfi. Thomas Story, William Massie* An
drew Johnson, Ensign Tnrner Branham
(113).

10th Company — Capt. iRobert Berry/Lieut
Henley Roberts, ESnsign James Slott. (66)

11th Company— 'Cupts. Benjamin Bran
bam, John W. Reading, Ueut. Wm. GrifTith
Snsign Wim. Mosby. (67).

12th Company — Capt. William Church
Lrieut. John Hughey, Ensign James Ster
man. (48).

Total strength of the regiment, 1,384 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(17) Trotter's Regiment, Kentuclcy
Mounted Volunteer Militia.

Organized August 20, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff: Colonel
George Trotter, Majors Richard M. Gano,
Thomas Bodley, Adjutant Wm. Montgomery,
Quartermasters ^Nathan O. Dedman, Field-
ing Bradford, Paymaster Ambrose Dudley,
S-urgeons John Young, Archimides Smith,
John McDowell, and a Quartermaster-
Sergeant.

1st Company — Capt. I>avid Todd, Lieut.
George Y. Ross, Ensign John M. Heran.
(61).

2d CJompany— Capt. Gustavus W. Brown,
Lieut. Bartholomew Kindred, ESnsign Smith
Bradshaw. (86).

3d Company— Capt. John Christopher,
Lieut. Solomon Dunnegan, Ensign Thomas
W. Sellers. (82).

4 th Company — Capt. Mason Singleton,
Lieut. Benj. Williams, Ensign Thomas
Haydon. (52).

5th Company— Capt. Miatthew tFlournoy,
Lieut. John Wyatt, Ensign Thomas C.
Floumpy. (56).

6th Company-<;apt. Joseph Redding,
Lieut. Charles W. Hall, (Ensign Christopher
C. Acuff. (114).

7th CJompany— Capt. S. W. Megowan,
Lieut. James Megowan, Ensign James Mc-
Connell. (45).

Total strength of the regiment, 437 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(18) Davenport's Regiment, Kentucky
Mounted Volunteer Militia.

Organized August 25, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff. iLieut.
~X?0lonel Richard Davenport, '-Majors John
Falkner, Benjamin H. Perkins, Adjutant
Samuel I. McDowell, Quartermaster John
Glover, Paymaster Michael Q. Zonce, Sur-
geons Rol3ert McConnell, Joseph Berry, and
two sergeants.

1st Company— ^apt. Jesse Coffee, Lieut.
Thomas Kennedy, Ensign Robert T. Lewis.
(44).

2d Company— <Capt. John Falkner, Lieut.
Stephenson Richardson, iESnsign Isaac
Rentfrow. (80).

3d Company— Capt. Michael Davidson,
Lieut. John Bright, ETnsign Samuel Engle-
man. (63).

4th Company — Capt. Ahram Miller, Lieut
Alexander Givene, Ensign Joseph H. Wool-
folk. (63).

5th Company— Capt. Archibald Bilbo,
Lieuts. Silas Harlan, Thomas P. Moore,
Ensign Elijah Harlan. (98).

Total strength of the regiment, 358, offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(19) Donaldson's Regiment, Kentucky

Mounted Volunteer Militia.

Organized August 26, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff:
Colonel John iDonaldson, Majors William
Farrow and James Mason, Adjutant John
R Porter, Quartermasters James Daniel
and William V. Morris, Paymaster Wiley
R. Brasfleld, Surgeon Robert P. Taliaferro,
and four sergeants, etc.

1st Company — Capt. Richard Menefee,
Lieut. Daniel P. Moseley, Ehisign Harrison
Connor. (55).

2d Company— JCapt. Isaac Cunningham,
Lieut. John Bean, Ensign Henry Smith**
(69).

3d Company-^apt. George Matthews,
Lieut. John Taylor, Ensign George Taylor.
(87).

4th Company— Capt. James Sympson,

IMlHHr «r tli« K«MN#iy MUH MlnUrtOil tocMr*

Ltoul Eadinuo4 CaUaway, Eoaign PleaMnt
Bush. (61).

5th Company — Capt. Jamei Maaon, Lieut
John Crawford, Ensign Amos Richardson.
(48).

6th Compcuiy— Capt. George W. Botts,
Lieut. Dorsey K. Stockton, Shisign Thomas
Patton. (54).

Total strength of the regiment, 386 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(20) Taul's Regiment, Kentucky Mounted

Volunteer Militia.

Organized August 30, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff: Colonel
Mlcah Taul, Majors Samuel Wibson, Thomas
Laughlin, Adjutant Wilson Bowman, Quart-
ermaster William Scott, Paymaster Jona^
than Smith, Surgeons Henry B. Green,
Henry E. Innes, and two sergeants.

'1st Company — Capt. Micah Taul, Lieut.
Wm. Stephens, Ensign Bartholomew Hay-
den. (74).

2d Company — Capt. Samuel Wilson, Lieut.
James Qholson, BTnsign Samuel Stockton.
(60).

3d Company— Capt. William Wood, Lieut.
Arthur Progg, Shislgn (Edward Beck. (49).

4th Company-~<7apt. Samuel Tate, Lieut.
Robert Gllmore, Ensign Jonathan Smith.
(71).

5th Company — Capt. Thomas Laug'hlin,
UeutB. George W. Craig, Nathaniel D.
Moore, Ensign Joseph Early. (66).

Total strength of the regiment, 330 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(21) Poage's Regiment, Kentucky Mounted

Volunteer Militia.

Organized August 31, 1813 for the Thames
campaign. Field and staff: (Colonel John
Poage, Majors Aaron Stratton, Jeremiah
Martin, Adjutant John E. McDowell, Quart-
ermaster Samuel L. Crawford, Paymaster
John Hockaday, Surgeons Andrew Doni-
phan, Thomas Nelson, and two sergeants.

let Company — ^Lieut. Arise Throckmorton,
Ehisign William Reed. (36).

2d Company — Capt. Jeremiah Martin,
Lieuts. BenJ. Norris, Stephen Bayliss, En-
sign Thomas Anderson. (128).

3d Company — Capt. Moses Demitt, Lieut

Thomas Hord, Bneign Joseph Thorn. (49).

4th Company — Capt (Francis A. Gaines,
Ueut Thos. T. O. Waring» Ensign Thomas
Psge. Sr. (54).

5th Company — Capt. Aaron Stratton.
Lieuts. Ricliard Soward, Cteorge W. Dayis.
(67).

Total strength of the regiment, 344 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(22) Mountjoy's Regiment Kentucky
Mounted Volunteer Militia.

Organized August 31, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff: Colonel
William Mountjoy, Majors Conrad Over-
dewple, Zachariah Eastin, Adjutant Daniel
Bourne, Paymaster John M. Garrard, Quart-
ermaster Wm. Dickinson, Daniel Ayeis,
Surgeons John (Ik>nn, Innis Woodward.

Ist Company — Capt. James Armstrong.
Lieut. BnoB Woodward, Ensign Jesse Pig-
man. (65).

2d Company— C8(Pt. John H. Morria. Ueut
Coleman Ayres, ICnsign Martin Hoagland.
(37).

3d Company— <?apt. Thomas C^ilders.
Lieut. John Mountjoy, Ensign William
Little. (67).

4th Company— <^apt Wm. Hutchison, Jr..
Lieut. John Current, E2nsign William Thorn-
ton. (78).

5th Company — Capt. Squire Grant
Lieut Wm. Dickenson, Ensign Lowdea
Carl. (41).

6th Company — Capt. Thos. RaTensi^mft
Lieut Samuel Hinkson, David Wilson, Kn-
sign Samuel Snodgraas. (68).

Total strength of the reigment 357 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(23) Reniek's 'Regiment Kentucky Mounted
Volunteer Mllltla.

Organised August 31, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff: Colonel
Henry Renick, Majors Joseph Homhack,
Robert Garrett Adjutant Joseph M. Hoys,
Quartermaster Sherrard Atkerson, Pay-
master Martin H. Wickliffe, Surgeons
William Gray, Joseph McGriffin, and a
Quartermaster-Sergeant

hat Company — Capt. Samuel Robertson,

Rti<«tor ol th« fCtntiidcy WtmU Hi«lorlGal toeUly.

Lieut. ThouM flwd, iBbstsn Thomfts Hun-
gate. (69).

2d Compe&r-^Caiit JcAin Homback, Lieut
Daniel Brown, (E&iaisn Robert Lewis Pryor.
(W.

3d Company— Capt. Thos. W. Atkineon,
Lieut Jo0es>h M. Hays, Bnsiga EUijah Stapp.
<49).

4th CoB^pany-— Capt. Thos. S. T. Moes,
Lient Joehua Brents, Ensign Jesse F&ris.
(72).

,5tli (^mpany— €apt Win. R. McOary,
Lieut. Israel Davis, Ensign Henry Ashby.
(108).

Total etrength of the regiment, 364 ofti-
cers and enlisted men.

(24) Callaway's Regiment, Kentucky
Mounted Volunteer Militia.

Organized August 31, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff: Colonel
John Callaway, Majors John Arnold, Philip
White, Adjuunt Joshua Norvell, Quarter-
master and Paymaster Benjamin Bridges,
Surgeons Robert D. Dawson, James M.
Baxley, Gabriel Field, and one sergeant.

1st Company--Capt James Kite, Lieut.
Isaac Clark, Ensign Richard Mills. (42).

2d Company — Capt. Robinson Graham,
Lieut. John Hays, Ensign John R. Noland.
(29).

&d Company— <:Japt. Philip Shively, Lieut.
William Shively, Ensign V/m. 0. McKenney.
(60).

4th Company — Capt. Edward George,
Lieut. Benj. Coons. (65.)

6th Company — Capt. Samuel Kelly, Lieut.
John Shaw, Ensign Benjamin Bridges. (77).

6th Company— Capt. Elleazer Heddin.
Lieut. William Hall, Ensign Andrew Toung.
(44).

Total strength of the regiment, 288 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(26) Si^raire Regiment, Kentucky Mounted
Veluhteer Militia.

Organized August 31, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff: Lieut.
Colonel James Simrall, Majors Thomas
Johnston, Benjamin Logan, Adjutant Wm.
E. Young, Quartennatiter George Gay,
Paymaster Fielding Winlock, Surgeons

Robert Thurston, John Moore, and three
sergeants, etc.

1st Company— Capt. John Hall, Lteats.
fsaac Watklns, John Myles, Jr., Ikislgn
Alexander Ferguson. (76).

2d Company — Capt. Warner Elmore,
Lieut. Richard Patterson, Ensign Thomas
M. E:merson. (72).

3d Company — Capt Presley C. Smith,
Lieut. Martin Harding, Ebsign John Hardin.
(47).

4th Company— Capt. James S. Whittaker,
Lieuts. Jos. W. Knight, James L. Holmes,
Ensign John Whittaker. (71).

6th Company — Capt. Richard Bennett,
Lieut. Wm. Robineon, ^Ehisign Jesse Kenm&-
day. (43).

6th Company— 'Capt. Jos. Simrall, Lieuts.
William Adams, John Hall, Comet Samuel
Dupuy.

Total strength of the regiment, 452 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(26) Barbour's Regiment, Kentucky Mounted
Volunteer Militia.

Organized August 31, 1813, for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff. Lieut.
Colonel Philip Barbour, Majors Jamefi
Gorin, John Barnett, Adjutant Horatio D.
Owatkin, Quartermaster James T. Barbour,
Paymaster Thomas B. Lee. Surgeons
Thomas Pollard, Thomas Booth, and two
sergeants.

1st Company— Capt. William Ewing, En-
sign Daniel Hoy. (26).

2d Company — ^Ensign Young Ewing. (13).

3d Company — Capt Robert E. Tates,
Lieut. Robert Scobee, Ensign Isaac Thomas.
(34).

4th Company— Capt. Philip Bartwur,
Lieut. Daniel Wilson, Ensign Nevill Lind-
say. (28).

6th Company— Capt. Wm. Whitsitt,
Lieuts. Robt. P. B. Caldwell, Wtaa. S. Lof-
land. Ensign James McDonald. (82).

6th Company — Capt. Joseph McCloskey,
Lieuts. John Wooten, John Huston, Ensign
John Robinson. (61).

7th Company — Capt. Wm. R. Payne,
Lieuts. Richard D. Neale, James Maicey,
Ensign Hiram Roundtree. (77).

RegMer of th* K«fitu«lcy 8Ute HIttorlear Society.

8th ComiMuiy—Iiieut. Andrew Walker.
(17).

9th Company — Capt John Gorin, Lieut.
Charles Kanrey, Ensign Richard Waggoner.
(73).

10th Company — Capt. James Tyler»
Lleuts. Philip Thompson, Benjamin New-
ton, Ensign Thomas Moseley. (65).

Total strength of the regiment, 475 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(27) Dudley's Regiment, Kentucky Mou4ited
Volunteer Militia.

Organized September 20, 1814. Field and
staff: Major Peter Dudley, Adjutant Elijah
C. Berry, Quartermaster Robert Crouch,
Paymaster James I. Pendleton, Surgeon
John Roberts, and three sergeants, etc.

1st Company — Capt. Micajah McClung,
Lieut. Wm. W. Wilkerson, Ensign Aquila
Young. (55).

2d Company — Capt. James Sympson,
(Lieut. John Bruner, Ensign Robert Clark.
(53).

3d Company — Capt. Thomas P. JMJoore.
Lieuts. John R. Cardwell, John Sharp, En-
sign iRichard Power. (47).

4th Company — Capt. John Miller, Lieut.
Nicholas Miller, Ensign John Vertrees. (29).

5th Company— Capt. Martin H. Wickliffe,
Lieut. Hector McClean, (Ehislgn Alexander
Roberts. (28).

6th Company — Capt. Isaac Watkins,
Lieuts. Joslah Jackson, (Michael Collier, en-
sign Benjamin Whittaker. (77).

7th Company— Capt. Joe. B. Lancaster,
Lieut. Fleming Robertson, Ensign William
Myers. (44).

Total strength of the regiment, 344 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(2) Renlck's Battalion, Kentucky Mounted

Militia.

Organized September 18, 1812. Com-
manded by Major Henry Renick.

1st Company— Capt. William Black, Lieut.
Josiah Collins, Ensign Richard Benton.
(37).

2d Company— Capt. William Smith, Lieut
Samuel Lewie, Ensign Chas. C. Carson.
(35).

3rd Company— Capt. Thomas DoUarhlde,

Lieut. John Cowan, Ensign Jeaae ESrans.

(54).

Total strength of the battalion, 127 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(3) Batullon of Kentucky Mounted
Voiufiteer Militia.

Organized June 24, 1813, and attached to
Col. Wm. Russell's regiment of U. S, Reg-
ulars. Field and ataff: Majors Walt^-
Wilson, Robert B^ran8, Jas. Cox, John
Thomas, Adjutant Wm. Harding, Jr., Quart-
ermaster Joseph Allen, Aide-de-camp John
Bartholomew, and one Sergeant.

Ist Company— Capt. Thos. Kincheloe,
Lieut. David H. Moorman, Ensign Isaac
DeHaven. (42).

2d Company — Capt. Benjamin Shacklett,
Lieut. Edward Rawlins, Ensign Joseph
Mannin. (42).

3d Company — Capt. John Callaway, Lieut
George Roberts, Ensign Isaac Forbes. (45).

Total strength of the battalion, 129 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

Independent Companies.

(3) Capt. John Callaway's Company.
Kentucky Mounted MUltla, organized Sep-
tember 18, 1812. Lieut. George Roberta,
Ensign Isaac Forbes. (45).

(4) Capt. George Baltzell's Company.
Kentucky ^Mounted Volunteer Militia, organ-
ized September 22, 1813, for the Thames
camrpaign. X*ieut. Samuel Arnold, E^bsign
James Clark. (37).

(28) First Regiment, Kentucky Light

Dragoons.

Organized August 27, 1812.. Field and
staff: Colonel James Slmrall, Majors James
McDowell, Joseph Slmrall, Adjutant George
Grey, Quartermaster James Hlte, Pay-
master James Bradshaw, <Suiigeons Benja-
min Smith, Melancthon Pettltt, and 6
Sergeants, etc.

1st Company— Capt. George Trotter.
Lleuts. John ML Fisher, James G. Trotter.
(75).

2d Company — Capt. Thomas Johnstor,^
Lieuts. Wm. Adams, John Hall. (68).

3d C3ompany — Capt Warner Elmore,
Lleuts. Wm. Hobson, Thos. C. Pile. (44).

4th Company— Capt. Wm. K • Young;

Ldeuts. Isaac Newland, Wm. G. Boyd. CS4).

5tli €ompan7--<:;apt. Robt Smitli, Ideutfl.
John Payne, James Chiles. (38).

Total strength of the regiment, 294 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(29) Williams' Regiment, Kentucky Vol-
unteer Light Dragoons.

Organized August 31, 1813» for the
Thames campaign. Field and staff: Colonel
William Williams, Majors Jeremiah Strode,
Lewis Kincheloe, Adjutant Archibald
Woods, Quartermasters James Jones, Will
H. Ash'by, Paymaster Matthew Clarke, Sur-
geons Stephen Taylor, John Bennett, and 3
Sergeants.

1st Company — Capt. Benjamin Bayles,
liieutfi. Winslow Parker, James A. Paxton.
(75).

2d Company — Capt. Sylvanus Massle,
Lieut. Andrew Briscoe, Ensign Joseph
Black. (57).

3d Company — Capt. Lewis Kincheloe,
Lieut. Chas. F. Wing, Ensign John Dobyns.
(38.)

4th Company — Capt. Thomas McJiUon,
Lieut. Robert Baker, Ensign Pleasant
Parker. (32).

5th Company— Capt. Johnston Dysart,
Lieut. Chas. C. Carson, Ensign Joseph Hen-
derson. (47.)

6th Company— Capt. John C. McWlUiams,
Lieut. John W. Elliott, Ensign Richard Gen-
try. (54.

7th Company— Capt. Richard C Holder,
Lieut. Archibald Woods, Ensign William
Harris. (50).

8th Company— ^Capt. John Hayden, Lieuts.
Wm. Furnish, Jonathan Hedger, Ensign
David Ralston. (39).

9th Company — Capt. Wm. Berryman,
Lieut. Willis J. Williams, Ensign Henry
Collins. (51).

10th Company— Capt. Henry R. Lewis,
Lieut. R<>bert McClure, E^nsign Oreenleaf,
Norvell. (19).

Total strength of the regiment. 423 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(1) Battalion of Kentucky Light Dragoons.

Organized October 16, 1811, for the Tippe-
canoe campaign. Field and staff: Major

Samuel Wells, Adjutant James Hunter,
Aide-de-camp George Croghan.

1st Company — Capt. Peter Funk, Lieut
Lewis Hlte, Cornet Samuel Kelly. (30).

2d Company — Capt. Frank Geiger, Ldeut
Presley Ross, Comet WllUam Edwards.
(63).

Total strength of the battalion, 96 officers
and enlisted men.

Independent Company.

(5) Captain John iPayne's company of
Kentucky Light Dragoons, organized August
7, 1813, for the Thames campaign, and at-
tached to Col. Richard M. Johnson's regi-
ment, but not properly a part of It. Lieuts.
James W.' Cobum, John T. Parker, James
Ellis. (53).
(30) First Rifle Regiment, Kentucky Mllltla.

Organized August 15, 1812. Field and
staff: Colonel John Allen, Majors Martin
D. Hardin, George Madison. Adjutant Rich-
ard Bledsoe, Quartermaster Peter O.
Voorheis, Paymaster Peter Dudley, Sur-
geons Thomas C. Davis, 'Benjamin Logan,
Chaplain Thomas Mitchell, and six
sergeants, etc.

Ist Com-pany— Capt. William Ellis, Lieut.
Richard Matson, Ensign Francis Chinn.

(84).

2d Company—Capt. Wm. Kerley, Lieut.
Harrison Munday, Ensign Davis Hardine.

(86).

3d Company— Capt. John Simpson, Lieut.
Thomas Mitchell, Ensign George Cardwell.

(69).

4th Company— Capt. Bland W. Ballard,
Lieut. John Williamson, Ensign John W.
Nash. (86).

5th Company— Capt. Maurice Langmore,
Lieut. Abraham Keller, Ensign Joseph
Morin. (82).

6th Company— Capt. Virgil McCraeken,
Lieut. Thomas Brooks, Ensign Henry Stone.
(76).

7th (Company — Capt. John Edmlston,
Lieut. Richard Bledsoe, Ensign Paul Allen
Prewitt. (81).

8th Company — Capt. Paschal Hickman,
Lieut. Peter Dudley, Ensign Peter G.
Voorheis. (86).

RoQM«r off \h% Ktfltoeky WkmU HMortal SooMy.

Total strenstii of the regiment, 585 offi-
cers and emitted men.
<31) Third Rvalment, Kentucky Riflemen.

Organized September 1, 1812. Conmanded

by Colonel Richard y[, Johnson. Balance

of field and staff not given, would consist
of about 12 officers, etc.

iBt Company — Capt. Wm. Pkrrow, Lieut.
Jesse IDaniel, (E>nsign John Crawford. (73).

2d Company — Capt Geonge Means, Liieut.
John Boyd, Ensign Hugh Hanna. (31).

3d Company — Capt. Joseph Clark, Lieut.
Edmund Callaway, Ensign Samuel R.
Combs. (43).

4th Company — Capt. G«orge Stockton.
Lieuts. Benjamin Mosby, Henry Clay. (81).

5th Company — Capt. James Johnson,
Lieuts. Joseph Boyd, James Suggett, En-
sign Elijah Stapp. (72).

6th Company— Capt. Charles Wbrd,
Lieuts. Walker Reed, Wm. Holston, Ensign
James Dougherty. (52).

7th Company — Capt. Jacob Ellerston,
Lieut. Wm. Robinson, Ensigns Wm. Boyd,
'V^lm. W. Penny. (70).

8th Company — Ensign John Hunt. (14).

Total strength of the regiment, 448 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(32) Third Regiment, Kentucky Detached

MMitia.

Organized September 1, 1812. Field and
staff: Lieut. Colonel Nicholas Miller, Majors
Benjamin Shacklett, David Hardin, Adju-
tant Wm. Hardin, Quartermaster James
McCarty, Paymaster Samuel McClarty,
Surgeons Daniel B. Potter, Joseph Wlnlock,
and 3 Sergeants, etc.

Ist Company— Capt. Fredk. W. S. Gray-
son, Lieut. Robert Alexander, Ensign
Thomas I. Wilson. (87).

2d Company — Capt. James Hal!, Lieut.
Wm. Marsh, 'E^nslgn Thos. Evans. (68).

4th Company — Capt. Solomon Branden-
berg, Lieut. John Shehi, Ensign John* Fulk-
erson. (84).

5th Company — Capt Wm. Berryman,
Lieut. John M. Robinson, Ensign King L-
Williams. (90).

6th Company — Capt. Liberty Green, Lieut.

Samuel Durham. Enstgii Simeon Cowh«i

<72).

7th Company— Capt. Wm. W^ker, UesL
Samuel McCarty, Bnaign Aobt 6. Ttt«i.
(69).

8th Company--Capt Alexander Stoirt,
Ueut. John Grider, finsign Fielding Gate-
wood. (82).

9th Company— Capts. Wm. BerryxBta,
Alexander Stuart, Lieut. John Grider, Sn-
signs King L. WilMams, Edmund Hall,
(65).

Total strength of the regiment. 714 oifi-
cers and enlisted men.

(33) Boawell'a Regiment, Kentucky De-

tached Militia.

Organized Msich 6, jS13. Commanded bv
Lieut. Colonel William E. Boswell; refit of
field and staff (about 12) not named.

1st Company — Capt. Wm. Sebree, Lieut
Streshley Allen, Ensign Nathaniel Vice.
(96).

2d Company— CJapt. John *D. Thomas,
Lieut. George Pickett, Ensign Matthev
Woods. (78).

3d Company— Capt. Thomas Metcalfe,
Lieut. John Baker, Ensign Robt. C. HalL
(105).

4th Company — Capt. Manson Seamonds,
Lieut. Wm. McClanahan, Ensign James
Ardery. (99).

5th Company — Capt. Isaac Gray, U^^
John Leech, Ensign HAia;h Clark. (79).

6th Company— Capt. Peter Dudley, Ue«tB.
George Baltzell, Samuel Arnold. Ensign
George W. Gayle. (117).

7th Company— C:apt. John Baker, L'ent
Benjamin Bean, Ensign John Waller. (103)-

8th Company-— Capt. John Walker, Went
Wm. Johns, Ensign James Young. (105).

Total strength of the regiment, 794 otf-
cers and enlisted men.

(34) SfaugtheKs Regiment, Kentucky De-

tached Militia.
Organized November 10. 1814, for tfie
New Orleans campaign. Field and staffs
Lieut. Colonel Gabriel Slaughter, Majors
Lenty Armstrong, Wm. Wakefield, Lleutfc
Samuel Macoun, Wm. Rodes and K'»?er
Thompson, Assistant Quartermaster J<'^i^

Thompson, Surgeons Horatio Gaither,
George C. Berry, and three srergeants, etc.

Ist Company— Capt. George McAfee,
Lieut. Wm. Bohon, Ensign John M. Jordan.
(101).

2d Company — Capt. John 'E^ran8, Lieut.
John Cuppenbeifer, Eacign Robert 'Jilu.ore.
(78).

3d Company — Capt. Leonard P. Higden,
Lieut. David Huston, Ensign John Toung.
(86).

4th Company — Capt. Jonathan Owsley*
Lieut. Loftis Coo^, Ensign Stephen Lyons.
(88).

5th Company — Capt. John Farmer, Lieut.
Wllloughby Ashby, Ensign John Pigg. (73.)

6th Company— Capt. Adam Vickery,
Lieut. John Gkurner, Ensign John Barrow.
(87).

7th Company — Capt. Wm. Wood, Lieut.
Peter Oatman, Ensign Thomas Brown.
(91).

8th Company — Capt. Wm. Wade, Lieut.
John Riffe, Ensign Matthew Coffee. (86.)

9th Company — Capt. Edward Berry, Lieut.
David Rodman, Ensign Thomas Mclntlre.
(86).

10th Company-r-Capt. Wm. Phillips,
Lieut. Godhart Smack, (Ensign John Lud-
wlck. (87).

Total strength of the regiment, 789 offi-
cers and enlisted men.
(35) Gray's Aeffiment* Kentucky Detached

Mllltla.

Organized Novemer 10, 1814, for the New
Orleans campaign. Field and staff: Lieut.
Colonels Presley Gray, John Davis, Majors
James Johnson, WIm. Walker, Zeba Holt,
Adjutant S. C. Stephens, Quartermaster
Zachariah Terrill, Paymaster (3eorge P.
Miller, Surgeons Allen A. Hamilton, Henry
Winelow, Samuel Stewart, and 5 Sergeants*
etc.

1st Company — Captt Robert Thmston,
Lieut. Henry Oresham, I^nsign John D.
Gott. (77).

2d Company—^apt Thomas Joyes, Lieut
Andrew Porttorf, Ensign Samuel Brickson.
(76).

8d Company— Ci^t. William Wa&er,

Lieut. John Smith, Ensign John Wefbb.
(68).

4th Company — Capt. Joseph Funk, >Lieut
Thomas Todd, Ensign Martin Adams. (77).

5th Company — Capt*. Zeba Holt, Lieut.
John Mbntgomery, Ensign Adam Mowny.
(78).

6th Company — Capt. Wm. Ganaway,
Lieut. Julius C. Jackson, Ensign John Field.
(65).

7th Company— Capt. Jacob Peacock,
Lieut. 'Benjamin Henson, Ensign John
Kelly. (70).

8th Company— Capt. Zach Terrell, Lieut.
David Adams, Ensign James Perry. (78).

9th Company— Capt. Aaron Hart, Lieut.
Moses Hart, Ensign Nathan Tucker. (45).

10th Company — Capt. James Ford, Lieut.
Joel Honeybrough, Ensign John I. Roberts.
(72).

Total strength of the regiment, 721 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(36) Mitchusson's Regiment, Kentucky De-
tached Milltfa.

Organized November 20, 1814, for the
New Orleans campaign. Field and staff:
Lieut. Colonels William Mitchusson,
Samuel Parker, !M)aJors Reuben Harrison,
Thompson Crenshaw, Adjutant Josiah Ram-
sey, Quartermaster Christopher G. Honts,
Paymaster Wm. 'Prince, Surgeons John C.
Pentecost, Stephen C. Dorris, and three
sergeants, etc.

1st Company— <5apt. Thos. GrifFin, Lieut.
Boswell PuUiam, Dnoign Allen Hays. (77).

2d €k)mpany — Capt. Robert Smith, Lieut
Morton A. Rucker, Ensign Asa Turner.
(67).

3d Company-'Capt Thos. Sterrett, Lieut.
John Austin, Ensign Hienry Hines. (76).

4th Company — Capt Sam'l F. Malone,
Lieut. Elias Button, Ensign Dennis Cochran.
(64).

5th Company— Capt John C. Dodd, Lieut
Wm. Harrall, Ensign Bert Moore. (84.)

6th Company— Capt. Edward Wifbum,
Lieut John M. Cabiness, Ensign Jamea
Baring. (62).

7th Company — Capt. Robt Fazton, Lieut
Daniel Zlbb, Ensign WllUam Rhea. (80).

Sig. 6

Regitlm* of tM Kentucky OUto Hlttorleal SoeMy.

8th Company — €apt. James Robinflon,
Lieut Luke Nicholas, duBign George
Negley. (71).

9th Company— Capt. Alney McLean,
Lieuts. Bphraim M. Brank, Wm. Alexander,
Ehisign Isaac Davis. (79.)

10th Company— 'Capt. <Robt. Patterson,
Lieut. John Henry, Bhislgn James Porter.
(79).

Total strength of the regiment, 746 offi-
cers and enlisted men.

(Total in the New Orleans campaign,
2,256).

Independent Companies.

(6) Capt. John Duvall's Company of Ken-
tucky Detached Militia; organized March
4, 1813. Lieut. William Brown, ESnsigns
Richard Tyner, Daniel Johnson. (100).

(7) Lieut. John Boswell's Company Ken-
tuoky Detached Militia; organized February
12, 1814. (39.)

(8) Ensign William Clark's Company
Kentucky Detached Militia; organized Feb-
ruary 18, 1814. (27).

(1) Kentucky Battalion, Mounted Spies.

Organized September 18, 1812. Field and
staff: Major Toussaint Dubois, Adjutant
David Owens, and one Sergeant.

Ist Comapny— Capt William Smeathers.
(22).

2d Company— Capt. William Polk. (20).

3d Company--Capt. Christopher Miller.
(15).

4th (Company — >(^pt. Cornelius Washburn.
(23).

Total strength, officers and enlisted ses,
83.

Independent Companies of Spies.

(1) Capt. Leslie Comb's eompanr of
"Green Clay" spies; organized April 11.
1813. (13).

(2) Capt. Leslie Comb's Companj of
spies, attached to Col. Wm. Dudley's Regi-
ment; organised June 2, 1813. (6).

(3) Capt. Roland Burk's Company of
spies; organized September 30, 1813. (21).

(4) Capt. John B. London's Company of
spies; organized September 30, 1813. (33).

RECAPITULATION.

4 Regiments United States Regulars. S/lSS
General Officers Kentucky Militia... 1'
10 Regiments and 2 companies, in-
fantry militia 7,WS

17 Regiments, 2 battalions, 2 com-
panies mounted militia ^^

2 Regiments, 1 battalion, 1 company,
Kentucky Light Dragoons (miUtla) 8^

2 Rifle Regiments, Kentucky militia. \P

5 Regiments, 3 companies, Kentucky
detached militia ^^

1 Battalion, 4 companies, Kentucky
spies, or militia scouts

196'

Total Kentucky militia 21,312

Grand total, 4 regiments, Kentucky
regulars, 36 regiments, 4 battalions,
12 companies, Kentucky militia... 25.010

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WAPPING STREET, FRANKFORT, KY.

By Miss Sally Jackson.

gHAPTER 1.

This street begins at the river
and running parallel with it inter-
sects Wilkinson and Washington,
and terminates at the bridge, St.

Clair street. It was named by an
Englishman (a Mr. Instone)
*^Wapping" for the streeet on
which he lived in London, England.

Mr. Instone came to this town
at its founding. General Wilkin-
son's plat of the town, made in
1786, and still preserved in the
county clerk's oflBce here, has the
above described street on it mark-
ed **Wapping." Mr. Instone must
have had a considerable fortune,
for we find his name published
among the earliest owners of
steamboats on this river, plying
between here and New Orleans,
and early in this century* he built
for himself and family a handsome
residence on the site of the one
now owned by the Misses Burnley.

The two children of Mr. and
Mrs. Instone were daughters.
Anna Maria married Dr. James
Crockett, of this county, a promi-
nent physician, and nephew of

•Article was written In 1898.— Ed.

Governor Letcher; Judith, the
other daughter, married a Mr.
Botts, of Flemingsburg, Ky.

The first house on the north side
of the street, on the corner of
Wapping and Wilkinson, was
built in 1835 by the Hon. John
Brown, the first United States
Senator from this State, for his
son Orlando. It is an elegant old
style house, in a fine state of pres-
ervation at this date.

Col. Orlando Brown's talents
and fitness for high positions were
recognized in the high positions
he occupied. He was in President
Taylor's Cabinet as Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, and as a jour-
nalist (notably as editor of the
Frankfort Commonwealth) , he
was considered by many as the
peer of George D. Prentice. Col.
Brown was twice married. His first
wife was his cousin, Mary, a
daughter of Dr. Preston Brown.
Their three children were Euphe-
mia, Mason and Orlando, Jr. The
two first died unmarried. Orlando,
Lieutenant Colonel in the Federal
army in the late war, married in
1866, Miss Bettie Hord, daughter
of Judge Lysander Hord.

Col. Orlando Brown married a

Reglttor of th« Kentucky 8taU Historical Society.

second time in 1852, Mrs. Cordelia
Brodhead, (nee Price) widow of
Mr. Lucas Brodhead, Sr., of this
city.

On the northeast corner of Wap-
ping and Wilkinson was a house
built by Judge Thomas Todd, for
his sister, a widow from Virginia,
Mrs. Mildred Tunstall. The street
was then ungraded, and when this
was done some years afterward it
left the house on a considerable
elevation. A Mr. Dryden pur-
chased the place at the death of
Mrs. Tunstall, improved the lot,
leveling it to its present grade. Mr.
Dryden was an architect and
builder, an officer in fhe Presbyter-
ian Church, and brother of Mrs.
Matilda Beading.

The next owner was the Hon.
James Harlan. Mr. Harlan came
here from Lincoln County, to be
Secretary of State under Gover-
nor Eobert P. Letcher in 1840. He
married Miss Davenport of Mer-
cer County. They had eight
children, five sons, John M., and
Jas. Harlan, Jr., Eichard, William
and Clay, the last named was an in-
tellectual prodigy who died young —
about nineteen years old. John M.,
now in 1897 Justice on the Supreme
Bench of the United States, mar-
ried Miss Mallie Shanklin of
Evansville, Indiana. James is
also a distinguished jurist, Chan-
cellor of the Louisville Chancery
Court for many years. The three
daughters of Hon. James Harlan,
Sr., Mrs. Elizabeth Hatchitt,
widow of the late Dr. Hatchitt,
a physician and ex-postmaster of
this city, a woman of fine sense
and beautiful taste, now residing

with her only living child, Clay
Hatchitt a farmer in Scott County,
Ky. Miss Laura Harlan married
the Hon. Francis Cleveland, State
Senator. Sally married Porter
Hiter, a farmer of Woodford Coun-
ty, Kentucky. Only two of that
large family are living at this date,
•Justice Harlan and Mrs. Hatchitt.
Parents and children rest in '*the
village on the hill. ' ' The house was
torn away to make room for the
elegant one erected on the site by
Captain Harry I. Todd, 1871-72.
A biographical mention of this
family will be found in Mrs. Wood-
son ^s chapter on Washington
Street.

Judge William Lindsay, TJ. S.
Senator from Kentucky purchased
the place from Captain Todd, and
resides there. (Judge Lindsay
since deceased.)

The adjoining place east of the
Lindsays ' was built about 1820 by
Louis Sanders, who resided there
some years, and sold it to Mr?.
Hannah Price (nee Upshaw). Mr.
Lucas Brodhead, Sr., purchased it
from her, and enlarged it to it?
present proportions. He married
a daughter of Mrs. Price (Corde-
lia). This brilliant and fascinat-
ing lady held the admiration of the
city from childhood until her
death in 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Luca?
Brodhead had six children. The
eldest, **Blandina Ehnendorf"
married in August 1858, Mr. John
Bailor Temple, a lawyer from Kns-
sellville, Ky., afterward first cash-
ier of the Farmers Bank of this

*Since the above was wrttten J^^
John M. Harlan has died, October. WH

city. Annette Magdalene married
Daniel Swigert of this city. They
now reside near Lexington, Ken-
tucky. Cordelia* married Lieut.
Robert Phythian, afterward Com-
modore in the United States Navy.
Lucas, their only living son (Rich-
ard having died in youth), married
Miss Sallie Breck. Bonnie mar-
ried Lieut. Jack Todd, of the U. S.
Army. She died at Fort Russell
in 1869.

After the death of Mr. Brodhead
his widow married Col. Orlando
Brown, Sr., and removed to his
home on the comer of Wilkinson
and Wapping (before mentioned)
selling her former home to Dr.
Hugh Rodman, a prominent physi-
cian of this city. He greatly im-
proved the house and grounds. He
and his wife were among the most
notable people of society here. They
entertained charmingly, and de-
voted much of their time to good
works. Their children are Dr.
William Rodman, of this city; Dr.
John Rodman, of Abilene, Texas;
Ensign Hugh Rodman, U. S. Navy ;
Mrs. Nannie Duvall, Mrs. Lieut.
Wright (nee Pattie Rodman), D.
S. Army. After the death of Dr.
Hugh Rodman, Mrs. Rodman dis-
posed of the place, and Gen. Fay-
ette Hewitt became the purchaser.
He and his brother, Virgil Hewitt
who married Miss Judith Drane, as
his second wife, reside there.

The adjoining lot on the corner

of Wapping and Washington was

"^the property of Clement Bell, Esq.,

*(Botli are now dead.)

a pioneer settler, whose name is
upon the list of lot owners in the
city of Frankfort in 1797. (Collins
History.) He built the first house
on this lot, a two story frame build-
ing, and this remained up to the
year 1835, when Mr. Thomas Trip-
lett bought it and built the present
residence which Governor Letcher
afterward purchased, and he and
his beautiful and charming wife
dispensed there for many years
the most generous hospitality.
Mrs. Letcher survived the Gov-
ernor many years, and after
her death it was purchased by
Judge William Lindsay, and
modernized. He resided there some
years, when he exchanged houses
with Captain Harry Innes Todd.
Captain Todd lived here until his
death when it again changed hands,
Mr. James Saffell, then postmast-
er, becoming its owner. After a
few years he sold it to its present
owner. Judge W. H. Holt. Oppo-
site it is the elegant and historic
home of Mr. James Madison Todd.
This home has been so often de-
scribed and photographed that no
further description of it is neces-
sary. Mrs. Todd, its owner, as
we all know, was regarded as one
of the most beautiful, intelligent
and useful Christian women in the
city of Frankfort, indeed of the
State. Descended from the histor-
ic Lees, the daring McAfees,
who first surveyed this city, the
Rennicks and McAmies and witty
Steeles, she seems to have inherit-
ed the best traits of all, and is a
woman of whom Frankfort should
ever be proud. She and her sainted
sister, Mrs. Mary Willis Woodson

Regltter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

together made this home attractive
to citizens and strangers alike.*

Todd place is now owned by-
Mrs. Jouett Taylor James.

The house on the adjoining lot
is a substantial brick one. It was
built by tlie public spirited citizens
of the town to be used as a school
house. Mann Butler first taught
in it, and afterward a Mr. Kinnard.
It was then purchased by the Pres-
byterians, and improved and used
as a parsonage, they having bought
the adjoining lot and erected the
First Presbyterian church. This
property included the parsonage,
and was sold to the Catholics,
when the Presbyterians moved their
place of worship to the church on
Main Street in 1849.

The history of this famous
church on Wapping Street, erected
in 1826, and the distinguished
ministers who have occupied its
pulpit, has been published and
therefore needs no further notice
here.

The large brick building on the
comer of Wapping and St. Clair
was built about 1830 by Churchill
and Jamison Samuel (the father
and uncle of our esteemed citizen,
Mr. E. L. Samuel**) for a boat
ivharf house.

The company composed of the
Samuel brothers and Swigert
brothers (Jacob and Philip) was
one of the earliest boat owners
and shippers in the West, and be-

•Since writing the foregoing Mrs. Todd
died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Arthur Peter, In Louisville.

**E. L. Samuel now deceased.

oame wealthy by the trade with
Louisville and New Orleans.

The house has had many owners
and undergone many changes since
those prosperous days of Frant-
fort. It is now used for offices by
boat agents, and the Gas and Elec-
tric Light Company.

As before written, this corner is
the terminus of the north side of
Wapping Street.

CHAPTER II.

(Concluded.)

The first house on the site now
covered by the Government build-
ings, postoffice, etc., was a two
story frame house built by John
Dryden for a residence, in which
he lived with his family for some
years. It was included in the
square afterward purchased by Mr.
Philip Swigert. In the rear of
this modest home were two rooms
now historic, one of them used by
Mr. Philip Swigert as an oflSoe
when he was circuit clerk. Mr.
Walter Franklin was his deputy,
learning from Mr. Swigert that in-
tegrity and energy that enabled
Mr. Franklin to succeed to the of-
fice and hold it thirty (30) years.
The other room was used by Col
A. H. Rennick as an office when he
was clerk of the county court. The
Hon. B. Gratz Brown was his dep-
uty. Col. Rennick 's faithfulness
and excellent business methods
were considered invaluable. He
held this ofiice for fifty years.

The first effort made to obtain
an appropriation from Congress
for the erection of the'present gov-

EST^Pas

ernment building originated in the
office of Col. T. B. Ford, Clerk of
the Federal Court at that time. It
was suggested by Mr. Will Murray,
and seconded by Mr. Aleck G.
Brawner and Mr. Ford. The lat-
ter at once opened a correspondence
with our Eepresentative in Con-
gress, Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn, giv-
ing necessary data to draft a bill
asking for an appropriation. The
bill for some reason failed to pass.
Col. Ford then, January 21, 1881,
wrote and circulated a petition
that was signed by the leading citi-
zens, printed and sent to Washing-
ton and distributed among the mem-
bers of Congress; Senator James
B. Beck, then our senior Senator,
introduced the bill in the Senate,
and it was passed through both
houses. The erection of this hand-
some building was begun in 1882
and completed in 1887.

The remaining 300 feet of this
square includes the handsome
grounds and elegant home built by
Mr. Philip Swigert for a residence,
now owned by his daughter, Mrs.
Mary Hendrick (now deceased).
For history of this interesting
family see Mrs. Mary Willis
Woodson's ^'Annals of Washing-
ton Street.''

On the opposite corner of Wap-
ping and Washington streets, is
the home now owned by Mr. ^John
Lindsey. His grandmother, Mrs.
Daniel Weissiger a pioneer lady of
distinguished family, and of splen-
did executive ability was the third
owner of the place, Mr. John Lind-
sey's mother inheriting it from her.
(See history of this family in Mrs.

Mary Willis Woodson's Annals of
Washington Street.)

In the recollection of the writer
the next lot to the Lindseys' was
owned and used by Lucas Brodhead,
Sr., as a garden. About 1854 Major
Thomas Davis Carneal purchased
it from Mr. Brodhead 's heirs, and
had built the residence now on it.
Major Carneal had been in our
State Senate for several terms, and
was so charmed by the elegance of
the society in our then gay Capi-
tal that he was induced to locate
here. He with his great wealth and
lavish hospitality, was a great ad-
dition to the social life of the citv.
Soon after he moved into the above
residence, his son Louis Carneal
and his charming wife and lovely
family came to live with him, and
remained there until after Major
Carneal 's death in 1860.

The Military Board organized
soon after the beginning of the
Civil war occupied it a few months.
Mr. John B. Temple, Col. Geo. T.
Wood and the late Col. Edmund H.
Taylor, Sr., were the officers of
the Board. On the removal of the
Board to Broadway, the place was
purchased by Mr. Philip Swigert
and presented to his brother-in-
law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. John
Watson. Mr. Watson married Miss
Sallie Rhodes of Richmond, Ken-
tucky. Their children were Will,
Dudley, Howe, John, Pauline, Ad-
die and Lizzie. Mr. Howe Watson
who succeeded his father as cash-
ier of the Deposit Bank, and held
the position until his death in 1897,
married Miss Lottie Smith, of Bos-
ton, who with four children survive
him. John Watson was accidently

R«Ol«ter of the Kentucky ttate Historical Society.

killed in attempting to leave a
train near this city. Pauline mar-
ried Dr. Christy, a Presbyterian
minister. Addie married Mr. Knox
Brown, son of the late Judge Mason
Brown, a planter in Owen County.
Lizzie married the Rev. William
McEwen, pastor at this date of the
third Presbyterian church of Pitts-
burg, Pa. Mr. Howe Watson
bought out the other heirs and his
widow and children reside there.

Across the alley from the Wat-
son home is the site of the first
house built on this ground by Mr.
Instone. It had in early times, it
is said, been a very handsome house
but was very dilapidated when
bought and removed by Mr. John
B. Bibb to make room for the house
he afterward had built. Mr. Bibb
came to Frankfort from Russell-
ville, Logan County, in 1855, having
previously represented his county
several times in the Legislature,
and his district in the State Sen-
ate. He married in middle life the
lady to whom he had been deeply at-
tached in their youth, a widow, Mrs.
Sallie Horsley. She was a daugh-
ter of Greneral Samuel Hopkins of
Revolutionary fame. One of her
contemporaries said of her. *^She
was never handsome, but so cul-
tured in mind, so brilliant and
charming in conversation and man-
ners as to enthrall and keep in her
train a host of admirers, and she
counted her offers by the hundred.^'

Like Major Carneal and a host
of others, Mr. and Mrs. Bibb were
attracted to this city, by the reput-
ed charms of its people. In 1857
they built the home in which they
both died, she in April 1869; he

survived her until April 1884, dying
at the extreme age of 94 years and
six months. When Mrs. Bibb died
in 1869, Mrs. Francis Burnley and
her two daughters. Misses Pattie
and Lucy, went to live with him.
Mrs. Burnley's daughter, Mrs,
Eobert Crittenden, having married
and removed from the city, and her
only son, the gifted and gallant
Capt. George Bibb Burnley, having
died of a wound received in the bat-
tle of Murfreesboro. The writer
of these annals must be pardoned,
if in waiting the history of this ad-
mired and beloved lady, she adds
to the facts, a tribute to her many
virtues.

Mrs. Firancis Burnley (see his-
tory of the Bibb family, by Miss
Lucy Burnley, Colonial Daugh-
ters' Archives) was bom in Enssell-
ville, Ky., and was married in this
city at the home of her father.
Judge George M. Bibb, on the 28th
day of March, 1827, to Mr, Albert
T. Burnley, of Hanover County,
Virginia. She died in February,
1891.

Of Mrs. Burnley it truly may be
said, '4f any had cause to boast
of ancestry she had more." she
was a granddaughter of General
Charles S. Scott, a distinguished
Major-General in the army of the
American Revolution, and Govern-
or of Kentucky in 1808, and her
father the Hon. George M: Bibb,
married Governor Scott's daugh-
ter. Judge Bibb was twice U. S.
Senator from Kentucky, first
Chancellor of the Louisville Chan-
cery Court, which he held until he
was appointed Secretary of the
Treasury by President Tyler, was

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of this State.

Mrs. Burnley was a leader of so-
ciety in Washington and Louisville,
as \^ell as of this city, and her
friends here knew her as a noted
housekeeper. And yet with all
these honors and gifts, the least
ostentatious person I ever knew.
Her contemporaries who suv^dve
her tell me that from her youth to
her death she was the same loyal,
gentle friend, and devoted Chris-
tian. Mrs. Burnley's daughters.
Misses Pattie and Lucy, now own
the home and reside there.

The vacant lot adjoining is now
owned by Mr. Sam D. Johnson.
The next house was built and occu-
pied by Mr. Eichard Long. It had
several tenants, and was then
bought and improved by Mr. Daniel
Swigert,* who married Annette
Brodhead.* Their children were
Mary, who married Leslie Combs,
of Lexington, Ky., Jlobert Alexan-
der and Annette. Mr. Swigert sold
it to Mrs. Murphy* about 1874, who
now owns and resides there.

The spacious three story frame
building on the comer of Wapping
and Wilkinson streets was built by
Andrew Holmes, and purchased
from him on its completion, by Gen-
eral James Wilkinson, to be used
as a tavern. It was the second tem-
porary State House of Kentucky,
and was the scene of many notable
events already recited in history
and verse. It is known as the
''Love House, '^ and pictures of it
are preserved in Collins' History,
Vol. 2, and in the ** Illustrated

•Dead. ^

Centennial Poem," 1886, by Mrs.
Jennie C. Morton, entitled ''A
Rhyme of the Women of Frank-
fort." (See picture with this ar-
ticle. )

As the ''Lpve House" has be-
come so famous, I will, as a faith-
ful historian, record somewhat of
the remarkable women who from
time to time resided there.

Mr. James Love purchased the
place from General James Wilkin-
son, and in the usual fashion of
pioneer days, kept tavern tiiere.
Mr. Love was from Virginia, his
wife from Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania.

After Major Love's death his
widow continued to reside there,
their only child, a son, having re-
moved to Louisville. She invited
three friends — gentle women — to
live with her.

'^MES. LOVE."

*^ There now rises at this famous
name

Such a beautiful picture of grace
in a dame —

Whose house was the Mecca in
that early day.

Of the wise and distinguished that
journeyed this way." — (Cen-
tennial Poem.)

In addition to her beauty and
grace, she is said to have been a
skilful violinist, and the sweet
strains of the music often drew
around her a crowd of dancing
children. But the crowning grace
of her character, was her noble ef-
forts in behalf of religion. Mrs.
Love assisted Mrs. John Brown,

the grandmother of Mrs. Barrett,
Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Baily, in
founding the first Sunday School
in the city, in her own drawing
room, where the first sermon in
the town was preached; but like
Juliet's tomb at Verona, now a
mule trough, this same drawing
room was afterward used by a
traveling showman for the exhibi-
tion of a baby elephant. This is a
tradition of Col. A. H. Kennick.

Of Mrs. Love's three friends I
will give the pen portrait of them,
given me by Mrs. Mary Willis
Woodson, deceased. They lived at
the **Love House." Mrs. Eppes
was a widow, who came to Frank-
fort to live with her brother Major
John Mays. She was an eccentric
person, who had a great fancy for
cats, and like Professor Agassiz,
believed they had souls. Mrs.
Featherstone was a highly ac-
complished lady, and a sister to
Miss Priscilla Talbot, a woman of
talent, who was said in that re-
spect to be superior to their dis-
tinguished brother, the Hon. Is-
ham Talbot, United States Sena-
tor from Kentucky in 1815, and a
resident of this town. Miss Pris-
cilla was a musician, and owned
and played well on the piano, a
rare instrument in the west in her
day. The latter lady outlived the
other three, occupying the home
devised to her by Mrs. Love (dur-
ing her life). She died at an ad-
vanced age in 1870.

Mr. James Dudley purchased
the home from Mr. Love (Mrs.
Love's son), had it taken down,
and erected the present handsome
house, purchased from his widow
by Mrs. Mary Steele. Her daugh-

ter and son-in-law Judge and Mrs.
Bullitt, reside with her now in
1898. (All of these people dead
now).

Dr. Holmes, deceased, then post-
master, bought the vacant lot next
to Mrs. Steele, and built a hand-
some house on it; his lot extended
to the river, and terminates Wap-
ping Street on the south side.

• • • • •

1911. — Since writing this his-
tory in 1898, Wapping Street has
been extended to the river, the
house of Dr. Holmes has been
purchased from his widow by Dr.
John South, enlarged and other-
wise beautified into a very hand-
some residence. Dr. South mar-
ried Christine Bradley, only daugh-
ter of the present Senator from
Kentucky, and Mrs. Bradley. Op-
posite Dr. South 's on the north
side of the street, adjoining the
residence of Mrs. Orlando Brown,
Mr. Eugene Hoge has built a love-
ly modem residence. Mr. Hoge mar-
ried Miss Mary Threshley Morris,
daughter of Mr. Richard Morris, a
noted farmer of Franklin Comity.

Mr. Frank Chinn erected the
first house on the lot just below
and terraced to the river, a site of
picturesque beauty, and improved
by the beautiful residence, now oc-
cupied by Mr. Chinn and his two
daughters. Misses Lizzie and Vir-
ginia Chinn. He has two married
daughters; Anna Bell, married
Maurice H. Thatcher, Governor of
the Canal Zone and Mrs. Sam
Mason, who lives on a farm in
Franklin County. Her husband
Mr. Sam Mason is one of the
wealthy cattle exporters of the
Blue Grass region.

^^V ' .11 lie. »

DEPARTMENT OF

CLIPPINGS AND PARAGRAPHS

DEPARTMENT OF CLIPPINGS AND PARAGRAPHS.

AET TREASURES

Painted by Miss Margie Dudley,
OF Frankfobt, Ky.

(Miss Dudley is a great niece of Mathew
Jouett, the famous iwrtrait painter — ^also a
great-great niece of President Zachary Tay-
lor.— Ed.)

Among the rarest and most
beautiful additions made recently
to the Historical collection in the
Hall of Fame are two pieces paint-
ed by Miss Margie Dudley, a tall
Tankard, and a large plaque '*a la
Hollande.''

These pieces have been the envy
of artists wherever they have been
displayed, and the general com-
ment has been, * inimitable art,
no one competes with a Jouett.''
It is well known that Miss Dudley
is the great niece of the great
American artist Jouett; and from
childhood she has shown the tal-
ent for artistic work in her line

that Matthew H. Jouett did in his
portraits. They are incomparable.
As a flower and fruit painter
Miss Dudley is without a rival.
The tankard is one of the most ex-
quisite and valuable pieces of her
work in fruit and flower. The
plaque is equally beautiful as to
color and technique and brings to
uiind the antique china of Holland.
The Society is to be congratulated

upon the possession of such art
treasures in its collection.

Miss Margie Dudley has won
enviable distinction as an artist,
and as such it is interesting to
know who she is, STie is of one of
the most distinguished families in
Kentucky. She is the daughter of
that beloved, gifted and ever la-
mented member of the State His-
torical Society, Mrs. Mary Jouett
Dudley. She was a niece of Mat-
thew H. Jouett, the artist, and also
a great great niece of Hancock
Taylor, who surveyed the land on
which Frankfort is located. It was
she who unveiled the cornerstone
erected on Ann street, when it was
presented to the city in the pres-
ence of the largest audience ever
gathered in the Capital.

Mrs. Dudley, through the Tal-
bots, was descended from the Earl
of Shrewsbury, whose descendant,

Isham Talbot, a great lawyer
in pioneer days, built his oflSce in
the city of Frankfort, as near the
spot on which the cornerstone is
located as possible, to keep, it is
told, the marker from being dis-
turbed that Hancock Taylor caused
to be placed there when he sur-
veyed the laud.

The Talbots, the Taylors and
the Jouetts form a trio of famous
names few families possess. Miss

Roglster of tht Kentucky Stott Historical Society.

Dudley is descended through the
Dudleys, from the Earl of War-
wick, a notable warrior of Eng-
land. With the blood of such gen-
ius, it is not strange that she too
should attain distinction in her
line of art.

PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.

This has been a summer of un-
usual excitement and confusion in
the political world. It is the year
for nominating candidates for
President of the United States,
both by the Democrats and the Re-
publicans. They call themselves by
new names now. Progressives and
Reactionaries, but the American
of average intelligence under-
stands the old names of the two
dominant polical parties best, as
Democrats and Republicans. The
Republican party nominated the
present incumbent of the Presi-
dent's chair, W. H. Taft, for its can-
didate, and the Democrats after a
long contest in the convention at
Baltimore in June, between the
four candidates, selected as their
candidate that scholarly and fam-
ous author of **The History of the
American People. '^ and present
Governor of New Jersey, a Chris-
tian gentleman above reproach,
Woodrow Wilson. Just what the re-
suit will be we cannot confidently
predict, but the Democrats appear
to be very confident of Governor
Wilson's election, basing this con-
fidence on the popularity of their
candidate, as well as on the fact
that the Republicans have a
'*splif in their party, Colonel
Roosevelt having formed a new

party called the * ' Progressives, ,
of which he is the nominee fo: i
President.

As the Kentucky State Hislon
cal Society was founded in honor
of Daniel Boone, we place here
with pleasure the following e%
ping sent us from Philadelphia. I:
is well for Kentuckians to kncnr
the estimate placed upon this heD>
warrior of the wilderness, who^e
courage and intelligence fca-

brought world-wide renown to ii-
name.

Daniel Boone in Kentucky
By Rev. Thomas B. Gregorr.
April 30, 1769.

It was one hundred and forty
three years ago today, April 31
1769, that Daniel Boone got fc
first glimpse of the fair regies
now blown as Kentucky. On tiat
day Boone, with James Robinson,
a young Scotch-Irishman, stood ot
a mountain path and looked down
upon the Watauga winding alon?
through its enchanting valley, aD«i
he resolved that it should not fc
his last vision of the earthly para-
dise.

At the time of Boone's firs^
sight of Kentucky from the sm-
mit of the Blue Ridge it was a
vast hunting-ground upon wM^
the savage tribes killed the elk ana
buflfalo. No settlement existf^
within its borders. Its dark frr
ests separated the tribes of i^
Cherokees, Creeks and Catawbas
of the South from the hosti^
tribes of the North, who often en
countered one another in AeBoiJ
conflict. On this account the ^

gion had long been known among
the aborigines as the '^Dark and
Bloody Ground/'

The story of the man who gave
this glorious region to the white
man is one of the most interesting
in the world. Justin Winsor, one
of the greatest of our historians,
speaks of the Father of Kentucky
in words that are as true as they
are beautiful:

'* Boone's rugged but tender
personality was hard to shroud.
We see his tall and slender figure,
too muscular to be gaunt. His eyes
idealized his head. His experience
had toughened his sinews, and
made his senses alert. Any emer-
gency brought him well-nigh to
the normal perfection of a man.
His kindness draws us to him. His
audacity makes us as confident as
himself. His fringed hunting shirt,
belted so that its ample folds car-
ried his food, may be ragged; his
leggins may be tattered by the
brush; his mocassins cut by the
ledge; his knife clotted with the
blood of the wolf; but the rich
copse and the bounding elk share
our scrutiny with his person, and
we look to the magnolia, laurel
and ash, to the foaming stream and
the limestone cliffs as his back-
ground; and all that the man
stands for in bravery and con-
stancy is mated with the enchant-
ment of nature.''

No State in the Union has at the
forefront of its history a nobler
character than he who heads the
story of the '^Blue Grass State."

God never made a grander man
than Daniel Boone, and in every
public school in the land the story

Sig. 6

of his life should be made a regu-
lar part of the children's study. It
would be a moral tonic. It would
redden the children's blood and
help to make them brave, honor-
able and upright citizens.

Donations RECEisnED on Boone
Day, June 7.

The following (donations were
received: A small linen table
cloth. The flax was raised at
** Traveler's Rest," and spun and
woven into cloth by Susanna Hart,
wife of Governor Isaac Shelby,
first Governor of Kentucky. It
was presented by Mrs. Willis
Field, Versailles, Ky., a great
granddaughter of Gov. Shelby;
and a Mexican silver-mounted sad-
dle and bridle, captured during
the Mexican War by Lieut. La
Fayette Dunlap, and presented by

his nephew. Dr. Fayette Dunlap,
Danville, Ky.

PREPARATIONS FOR BOONE

DAY.

(From State Journal.)

Great preparations are being
made by Mrs. Jennie C. Morton
and Miss Sallie Jackson for the
celebration of '* Boone Day,"
June 7, when the State Historical
Society will hold its yearly meet-
ing in commemoration of the date
on which Daniel Boone first en-
tered Kentucky. This is the fif-
teenth annual celebration to be
held, and a program full of inter-
esting features will be given in the
Hall of Fame, and it is expected

Rnlstar of th« Mntucky ttato Hitttrlcal Soeitty.

that a large number of out-of-town
visitors, as well as home people,
will be present for this occasion.

Two particularFy interesting
features in connection with the
program will be the unveiling of a
picture of Henry T. Stanton, by
the artist, Ferdinand Q. Walker,
of Louisville. This portrait has
just been purchased by Mrs. Mor-
ton, and will be hung in Poets'
Corner in the Hall of Fame. Mr.
H. V. McChesney will preface the
unveiling, with a short reading
from an appreciation of Stanton's
papular poem, **The Moneyless
Man," followed by the reading of
the poem.

Hundleigh's picture of the
Shakertown Ferry and the Wil-
derness Boad will also be on ex-
hibition for the first time, and
President Shearin, of Hamilton
College, will give a talk on **The
Memories and Melodies of the
Wilderness Eoad," using the pic-
ture as an illustration of his sub-
ject.

Other features of the program
will be a paper on ** Historic
Homes of Harrodsburg, " by Mr.
W. W. Stephenson, who will bring
with him pictures of these homes,
which he claims are artistic gems;
a recitation by Mrs. C. W. Bell,
and an address, ** Under the Elum
Tree Whar Brackinridge Spoke,'*
by Col. James Tandy Ellis. Col-
onel Ellis is particularly well fit-
ted to speak on this subject, as
this tree is in his home county,
Carroll, and is held in sacred mem-
ory by its residents. Miss Aubyn
Chinn, teacher of domestic science
at Kentucky University, will be

another speaker, whose talk will
be of interest, as she will tell of her
visit to Cumberland Gap, **down
where the rhododendron grows."

Especial attention will be paid
to the musical part of the program
this year, and Mrs. Kate C.
Bailey, of Shelbyville, has been
appointed by Mrs. Morton to look
after this feature. Mrs. Bailey
will bring a number of her pupils
from Shelbyville, whose selections
will be interspersed between the
talks. Miss Lucy Chinn, of this
city, will also assist with the
music, and will play the prelude.

Qiovernor VJames B. McCreary,
as president ex-ofiicio of the so-
ciety, will preside.

INTERESTING PICTURES.

(From State Journal.)

The Kentucky State Historical
Society has received from Mr.
Hundleigh, the artist, his beauti-
ful painting of ** Shaker's Ferry,''
on the Kentucky River, which was
on exhibition in Lexington recent-
ly, and received enthusiastic ad-
miration from the crowds that
visited the window to see it. The
scene is quickly (recognized by
fishermen and campers at that
point on the river, where the wil-
derness road leads to the ferry.
The Ferryman's Cabin, em-
bowered in prodigal foliage, is
plainly seen, while the log ferry-
boat reposes at the landing. The
river at this point is wide, and the
artist's skill transforms it into a
long mirror, reflecting sky above
and bending trees and rocky cliff.
The ascent on the opposite side to

Shakertown over the hill is
marked by a ferryboat, hugging
the bank of the wilderness road
that continues up the hill.

It is a beautiful and suggestive
picture of the primitive wagoai-
road of the pioneers — called the
** Wilderness Eoad,*^ It will be on
exhibition in the Hall of Fame,
Boone Day, June 7.

The Dolly Madison Breakfast.

American womanhood typified
by one of its noblest examples, re-
ceived a brilliant tribute of appre-
ciation by the four hundred repre-
sentative women of the Democ-
racy, who assembled recently in
Washington, at a breakfast in
honor of Dolly Madison. Graced
with beauty, wit and wisdom, the
occasion was an auspicious one,
worthy in every way of her in
whose memory it was held.

Early American history pre-
sents no more fascinating person-
ality than that of Dolly Madison,
wife of the fourth President of the
United States. Her charm is last-
ing. Though an abyss of a hun-
dred years divides her day from
ours, public interest in her is un-
diminished. Books and reminiscen-
ces about her continually issue

from the press. The tact and good
sense with which she filled the dif-
ficult role of a President's wife in
the age when the social usages of
WasMngton were still unsettled,
when the customs of the White
House had few precedents to regu-
late them, are a source of pride to
all American women.

The city in which Dolly Madi-
son was honored the other day, is

the capital of the most powerful
nation on earth. In her time, it
was the capital of a poor and a
weak country, and this queen of
American womanhood had to leave
it because it was captured and
plundered by an invading foe.
Those were days which tried the
souls of men and women. Dolly
Madison was a heroine in an age
when the nation needed heroism
in order that it might survive. Her
name has gone down to posterity,
side by side with that of Martha
Washington. The large assem-
blage of leading women of the
country, who met to render just
meed of praise to Dolly Madison,
was a notable affirmance of the
principles she represented, the
womanly devotion, the public
spirit, the patriotism, of which
she was an example. — (Ex.)

Had we attended the Dolly
Madison breakfast here described
we should have taken two letters
of this notable lady, preserved in
our Historic Scrap Book. These
letters would have enchained the
fashionable assembly. Below axe
given extracts from her letters.
In them Dolly speaks for herself,

in the War of 1812. She is writing
to her friend, General James Tay-
lor, of Newport, Kentucky. The
letter is dated 13th March, 1814.
**The Hornet has just returned
from France, and brings us noth-
ing contradictory of the affection-
ate intentions of Napoleon. I
know, however, by the intense
study of Mr. Madison and his
cabinet, that affairs are trouble-
some and difficult. You see the

Reglcter of the Kentuek/ 8taU Historical Society.

English are still stubborn, but we
anticipate their yielding before
long.'*

In another letter she says: **We
have no further insight into the
state of things at this moment.
Vessels are expected hourly, and
the state of our relations in
Europe will decide if an extra
session will be called or necessary.
Some very wicked and silly doings
at home."

The while Dolly was helping
her husband, she kept her wise
eyes on the British; so she saved
the archives of our nation. — (Ed.
The Eegister).

MEETING

Of the State Historical Society
ON Boone Day, June 7, 1912, in
Its Rooms at the Capitol,
Frankfort, Ky.

Portrait of Major Stanton

Unveiled in Rooms of Historical
Society by his Granddaughter.

Boone Day Ceremonies — Repre-
sentative Audience Enjoys De-
lightful Program at the
New Capitol — Address by
Harry V. McChesney.

(From the Frankfort News-
Journal.)

Tributes to the memory of two
great Kentuckians were paid yes-
terday by the Kentucky State His-
torical Society. On- the anniver-
sary of the day on which Daniel
Boone first saw Kentuckv, a hand-
some painting of the Kentucky
poet, Major Henry T. Stanton,

was unveiled by his granddangli
ter, Miss Marguerite McLean, in
the presence of a representative
Kentucky audience gathered h
the rooms of the society in the
Capitol. An attractive program
was carried out, after wMch Miss
Sallie Jackson and Mrs. Jennie
C. Morton, who are the real heads
of the society, were the hostesses
at a luncheon.

Boone day usually is marked by
some special entertainment by the
historical society, and this year it
was decided to unveil the portrait
of Stanton then. Handsome invita-
tions had been sent out and by 11
o'clock, the time for the exercises
to begin, the beautiful, curio-filled
rooms were crowded with men anJ

women from Central Kentucky
who had gathered to join in the
tribute to Major Stanton and
Boone and enjoy the literary and
musical program.

GOVERNOB PRESIDES.

Gov. McCreary, who was one
of the founders of the society
when he was Governor thirty-six
years ago, presided at the meet-
ing, being president of the society
by virtue of his office. In calling
the meeting to order he told some-
thing of the historical society and
the great work that has been done
for Kentucky by Mrs. Morton and
Miss Jackson. He referred to his
connection with the society so
long ago and compared the rooms
of the society now and then.

After a musical selection by
Miss Lucy Chinn, of Frankfort,
Harry Y. McChesney was intro-
duced. He paid a tribute to the lau-
reate of Kentucky and then read

Rogicter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

Major Stanton's poem, ''The
Moneyless Man. ' ' After this the
portrait, on an easel covered with
white draperies, was unveiled by
Miss McLean. The portrait will
hang in Poet's Corner in the
rooms of the society apd is a fine
likeness.

Miss Boulware and Mrs. Kate
C. Bailey, of Shelbyville, then ren-
dered the sextette from Lucia by
Donizetti, after which H. G.
Shealrin, president of Hamilton
College, Lexington, read a paper
on the ** Memories and Melodies of
the Wilderness Road." His talk
was illustrated and was interest-
ing as well as historical. Miss
Aubyn Chinn told of '*A Visit to
Cumberland Gap, Where the Rho-
dodendron Blooms," in a charm-
ing and fascinating way, pictur-
ing the mountains in their most
beautiful season.

W. W. Stephenson, of Harrods-
burg, who has taken an active
part in the work of the Historical
Society, read a paper on ''His-
toric Homes of Harrodsburg. "
He told of some of the homes
thereabout with historic absocia-
tions. Col. James Tandy Ellis,
Acting Adjutant General, read a
poem, "Under the EUum Tree
Whar BracMnridge Spoke." This
was a big hit with the audience
and was loudly applauded.

MUSICAL PBOOBAM.

The following was the musical
program given during the exer-
cises:

Vocal Duet, "0, Beauteous
Nigiit" — Offenbach — Misses Nel-
lie Pace and Katherine Corimie
Bailey, Shelbyville.

Song, "Tie Beautiful Land of
Nod ' ' — Mrs. Barksdale Hamlett,
Frankfort.

Recitation, a Poem — Mrs. Char-
les W. Bell, Frankfort.

Piano Solo, "The Harp"—
Anna Errickson Jungman, Shelby-
ville.

Vocal Solo, "0, Dry Those
Tears" — Reigio — Miss Bailey,
with Violin Obligato by Priscilla
Williams.

Piaaao Duet, Melody in F— Ru-
benstein — Misses Elizabeth Giles
Thomas and Mary Henry Thomas,
Shelbyville.

Vocal Trio, "Twilight"— Abt—
Mrs. Bailey, Miss Van Dyke and
Miss Elizabeth Giles Thomas.

CHAMP CLABJk's EEGRBTS.

Mrs. Morton received the fol-
lowing letter from Champ Clark,
speaker of the House:

"Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, Frank-
fort, Kentucky. My Dear Mrs.
Morton :

"I have your very kind invita-
tion to attend the luncheon of the
Kentucky State Historical Society
on Friday, June 7, and would be
delighted to attend but it is impos-
sible. I cannot leave Washington
while the House is in session so
near the end of the session.

"I trust that it will prove a most
enjoyable occasion, as I am cer-
tain it will, and much regret that
I cannot enjoy it with you.

Your friend,
Champ Clabs:/'

BEOEFTION HAUj.

An informal reception was held
following the program, during
which a buffet luncheoii was

served the strangers who attended
the exercises, the members of the
society and a number of invited
guests. Miss Nina Hazelrigg, rep-
resenting SaflFePs branch store,

served a delicious two course
lunch, which comprised, chicken
salad, beaten biscuit, pimento and
ham sandwiches, country club
sherbet, wafers, cheese balls, ice
cream vdth strawberries, indivi-
dual cakes frosted with pink roses
and salted almonds.

Among the number of out-of-
town visitors who enjoyed the pro-
gram were Col. John A. Steele, of
Midway, one of the original incor-
porators of the Society, Miss
Martha Stephenson of Harrods-
burg, Mrs. Luke P. Blackburn of
Louisville, Mrs. Henry T. Stanton
and her daughters and grandchil-
dren, Mrs. Gray McLean, Mrs.
Boyd Robertson, of Louisville,
Mrs. George Willis, of Shelby-
ville, Miss Marguerite McLean,
Miss Miartha Bobertson, Miss Bet-
tie Tom Vimont of Millersburg,
Mrs. Jenny Kenney Lisle of Paris,
Mrs. Hubert Shearin of Lexing-
ton, Mrs. W. J. Thomas and two
children and Miss Alberta Du-
bourg of Shelbyville.

TO ATTEND BOONE DAY EXERCISES.

Added impressiveness will be
lent the Boone Day exercises at
the Historical rooms today by the
presence of Mrs. Henry Stanton,
wife of the Kentucky poet, Henry
T. Stanton, whose portrait will be
unveiled during the exercises fol-
lowing the reading of an appre-
ciation of Stanton *s poem, **The
Moneyless Man,'' by Mr. H. V.

McChesney. Mrs. Stanton arrived
yesterday from Louisville, and
¥dll be the g^est of Mrs. D. B.
Walcutt during her stay.

Mrs. Morton will place Stan-
ton's portrait in Poet's Comer of
the Hall of Fame.

MEXICAN RELIC FOE HIS-
TORICAL SOCIETY.

Db. Fayette Dunlap Sends Sad-
dle Captubed During The

War.

(From State Journal.)

Gov. McCreary has received a
letter from Dr. Fayette Dunlap,
of Danville, tendering to the Ken-
tucky Historical Society a silver-
mounted saddle and bridle, which
were captured during the Mexi-
can War by one of his ances-
tors whose name he bears. Dr.
Dunlap 's gift to the society will
be accepted and the saddle and
bridle will be shipped to Frank-
fort to be placed in the rooms of
the society.

Dr. Dunlap inherited the saddle
and bridle from Fayette Dunlap,
his great-uncle, and said to the
Governor that it was valuable not
only historically, but intrinsically,
but was too large to be kept in a
private family collection, he decid-
ed the historical society ought to
have it. The saddle is elaborately
mounted with silver, with a silver-
topped horn. It was brought back
from the Mexican War by Mr.
Dunlap.

The society adopted the follow-
ing resolution:

** Resolved, that the saddle and

R«gltt«r of th« Kontueky Statt Hittorieal 8oeltty.

bridle used by La Fayette Dunlap
who was First Lieutenant in Cap-
tain John Price's company of vol-
unteers in the war with Mexico^
now offered by his nephew, Doc-
tor Fayette Dunlap, to the Ken-
tucky State Historical Society be
accepted, and the members of the
society present their thanks to
Doctor Dunlap for these valued
and highly-appreciated relics.'*

SAGE ADVICE FROM AN

ORIENTAL.

Recently a number of persons
in the United States, chiefly wo-
men, have repudiated Christian-
ity and have taken up with the
cults of India, being carried away
by the plausible words of visiting
Swamis. A protest has recently
been uttered by Rustom Rustom-
gee, the editor of the ** Oriental
Review," of Bombay, on a visit to
this country. This Oriental editor
is not a professed Christian and
is not therefore prejudiced in
favor of Christianity. He says he
has investigated some of the so-
cieties organized in this country
and found them shams, and that
they are teaching the most per-
nicious doctrines. *'I am shock-i
ed," said he, **to see educated,
cultured American women run-
ning after so-called Swamis, one
holding an umbrella over his head
and another washing his clothes, ' '
and intimates that the moral char-
acter of the Swamis will not bear
investigation. In an address re-
cently given Mr. Rustomgee is re-
ported as saying, ** Gentlemen, I

have been a careful student of
comparative religions for a num-
ber of years, and I have come to
tell you that you have a religion
which can be set side by side with
any religion of the East. You have
a goodly heritage. Stick to it. * *
Let your anchor hold. • • I be-
lieve that Christianity supplies
all your spiritual needs and
wants." There is much else that he
might have said, but what he did
say is significant. He also praised
the American and European mis-
sionaries for their work during
the Indian famines. — (Ex.)

' • V.

« 1

-J

WORTHY AND FITTED

For the Place and a Man on
Whom You Can

RbIjY.

As the Board of Magistrates is
an important position and one that
should be filled by the very best
men obtainable it is a pleasure to
know the Hon. W. W. Stephenson,
who announces in this issue, con-
sented to make the race. Mr.
Stephenson is too well known to
need an extended notice, having
been tried and never found want-
ing in any respect. He wishes the

support of every man possible and
promises to use his talents to the
betterment of the county in every
way possible. Watchful, honest,

efiScient, it is not possible to make
a mistake in giving his claims due
consideration. Mr. Stephenson
has always been at the forefront
of every uplift movement in our
community and is doing, as he oft-

ReQltter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

en does, much gratuitous work as
Secretary of the Commercial Club.
—(Ex.)

MAY REGISTER FULL OF
GOOD THINGS.

Just Issued From Press And

Has Many Articles op

Much Interest.

(State Journal.)

The May number of the Regis-
ter of the Kentucky State Histori-
cal Society was issued yesterday.
The number comprises eighty
pages, all interesting matter that
it is wise to preserve in the records
of this Society. The contributors
are Col. J. Stoddard Johnson, of
Louisville; Hon. W. W. Stephen-
son, and Miss Martha Stephenson,
of Harrodsburg; George Baber
of Washington; A. C. Quisenberry
of Hyattsville, Md.; Dr. Thos. E.
Pickett, of Maysville, and Hon. L.
F. Johnson, W. W. Longmoor,
Prof. G. C. Downing and Mrs. Ella
H. EUwanger, of this city.

Probably the most interesting ar-
ticle, just at this time, is that by
Mr. Baber, on Joseph Rogers Un-
derwood, jurist, orator and states-
man, of Kentucky. It is a review,
at close range of the life of one of
Kentucky's most distinguished
men.

Other articles are on the Recol-
lections of Jefferson Davis; Col.
George Croghan the hero of Fort
Stephenson, and History Two-
fold— ^Then and Now, by Mrs. Mor-
ton, the editor of the Register,

NOTES FROM THE HISTORI-
CAL SOCIETY.

(From State Journal.)

Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, Kegent
of the Kentucky State Historical
Society, is daily receiving from
every part of America and
Europe, very interesting ex-
changes for its Register, the
magazine of the Society.

This week comes to its librarv
from Montevideo, Uruguay, South
America, the elegant volume of
1911, entitled ''Annuario Estadis-
tico De La Republica Oriental Del.
Uruguay Con. Varies Dates De
1909-1910-1911.'^

This volume contains splendid
engravings of the royal Represen-
tives— '*La Minis-tres. ' '

Another book of special inter-
est to Americans is **The Year
Book of the Pennsylvania Histori-
cal Society in New York.'' The
Year Books of this Pennsylvania
Historical Society are always in-
teresting and valuable— and have
added much to the history collect-
ed on the closely crowded shelves
of this library. But the import-
ance of this special book cannot be
overestimated. It gives the his-
tory of the Penn Memorial in Lon-
don, with illustrations of every
medal won by William Penn; his
portraits, and that most rare docu-
ment, William Penn 's. ** Frame of
the Government of the Province of
Pennsylvania in America, together
with certain Laws, agreed upon in
England by the Governor and Div-
ers Free Men of the aforesaid Prt)-
WHce. To be fuither texplained
and confirmed there by the First

Provisional Council and General
Assembly that shall be held if they

see meet." Printed in the year
1862.

The William Penn Memorial in
London was held in the Church
of All Hallows Barking, in which
he was baptized. It was dedicated
on July 13, 1911, by the Pennsylva-
nia Society, in the presence of the
Lord Mayor and other notable men
of England, and was one of the
grandest events of the "times. The
Penn descendents assisted in the
dedication, lending additional dis-
tinction to this august event. There
were at one time many descendents
of this Penn family in Kentucky,
and those who are left here will
feel interested in this celebration
of William Penn, which was in all
respects one of the most notable
ever held for a citizen.

The library of the Kentucky His-
torical Society, through purchase
and exchange, has now become a
storehouse of information, pertain-
ing not alone to Kentucky, but the
world, and will fill yet a high de-
^ee of usefulness to historians
and scholars.

Its general utility is acknowl-
edged by letters from all parts of
the United States, asking informa-
tion that has been sought else-
where in vain. State reports in re-
gard to soil, industries, and mater-
ial of inestimable value to leaders
in scientific and historical research.
It is because of the articles in the
Begister on the subjects of general
interest that it is sought, not only
; by leading uBiversities, for instruc-
tion, but by writers in quest of
biograi^y, genealogy and folkore,

and names and writings of authors
known and admired more than half
a century agone, whose works and
portraits are found in the rooms
of the State Historical Society.

PLEASURE BOATS.

Lest someone in the future should rise
and remark that the Kentucky River had
never a boat on it, but a steamboat, we ap-
pend the following from the News-Journal,
outlining the pleasures of the river for out-
ings in row-boats, canoes and gasoline
launches for the summer of 1912.

The river was the chief social
diversion in Frankfort last sum-
mer, and its delightful possibili-
ties for pleasure were never more
appreciated, and heroic stunts of
swimming, canoeing and living on
house boats were indulged in with
the greatest enthusiasm. From the
interest being manifested even at
this early date, indications are that
it will prove equally popular this
summer.

It will be welcome news to the
''water sports^' that the Y. M. C.
A. directors are planning to build
a pier and boat chute on the river
front of the Y. M. C. A. building,
and this will be a big improve-
ment over the old lancung on the
North Side, where no near ap-
proach to the bank is possible, and
the jump from the boat to the bank
more often than not ends in the
river, especially for those who
wear hobble skirts. The basement
of the Y. M. C. A. building will be
ntilixed this sununer for storing
canoes, and the boat chute will thus

Rtflister of tht Ktntueky Stato Historical Socioty.

prove the greatest convenience in
drawing them into the store room.
Among the number who own
boats and are looking forward to
a gay time on the river this sum-
mer, are: Mr. Paul Sawyier, who
has become so devoted to the river
that he lives in his houseboat at
High Bridge, and owns two
launches and a number of canoes,
besides; Mr. Henry Lindsey, whose
stunning new launch, the ** Cat's
Ankle," is the swiftest craft ever
on the Kentucky, and can make a
record of twenty-five miles easily;
Mr. John Cannon, who has over-
hauled his launch, **The Cricket,'*
for the summer use; Mr. Combs
Furr, who has treated his launch,
*'The Queen," to a similar over-
hauling; Messrs. Charles Dexter,
Bobert Hawkins, F. M. Spiller and
J. A. Bell, of the United Ameri-
can Insurance Company, who have
recently purchased a cruiser and
have christened it the ** Go-Devil,"
with which magic name they expect
to make a record also, both in
speed and pleasure; Mr. Charles
Whitehead, the owner of the
^' Ellen T.;" Mr. Fred Johnson,
who owns the ** Saucy Sally;"
Messrs. Isaac and Dabney Locke,
owners of a racing launch;
Messrs. C. M. Bridgeford, W.
W. Longmoor, William Wil-
liams and Morgan Chinn,
whose launch, ''The JBescue," was
remodeled last summer and is one
of the best equipped on the river;
Mr. Jack Martin, wtio owns the
*' Pomona;" Mr. Tom Moore,
owner of the ** Princess Alice;"
Mr. Dick Lynch, owner of the
*' Helen S." the Capital Lumber

Company owners of the ''Ger-
trude;" the Kenney Bros., owners
of the "Chariie Kenney,"
and Messrs. Steele and D.
V. Beading, who own a lausd
and several canoes. The T.
M. C. A. directors have bought
the houseboat formerly owned by
Messrs. Combs Furr, Coy WeDs
and Western Furr, and will have
it towed to Camp Daniel Boooe
this summer to be used as a dinii^
hall for the boys during »the en-
campment.

Those belonging to the canoe
brigade are the Misses Chinn, Misi
Florrie Rodman, Miss Lucy Chimi
Mr. James Barrett, Mr. Albert
Kaltenbrun, Edmund Power, Rich-
ard McClure.

DANES CHEER FOB NEV

RULER.

Christian X Takes up Eeiks

IN Place op Deceased

Fathbb.

Copenhagen, May 15. — ^Before
a tremendous crowd in front of
the royal palace this afternoon.
Christian X. was proclaimed the
new King of Denmark, succeedios
his father, Frederick VIII, who
died last night.

The reading of the proclamation
was hailed with a loud cheer froo
the enormous crowd. Throughout
the day the church bells of the city
have been tolling. At the palace
many telegrams of condolence
from chiefs of state have arrived,
including one from President Taft
The German Emperor is expected
to attend the funeral ceremony.

R«9ister of th« Ktntucky Stato Historical Sooioty.

Stbicken on Street.

Hambubo, Gebmant, May 15.
— King Frederick VIII, of Den-
mark, died alone, unrecognized
and unattended on a street of this
city last night, of apoplexy.

The King, traveling incognito,
arrived here Monday on his return
from a long trip to the South
where he had been convalescing
from a serious attack of inflamma-
tion of the lungs. With the Queen
and the royal suite, he took quart-
ers at the Hamburger Hotel.

At 10 o'clock last night the King
left the hotel, unaccompanied, for
his usual stroll before retiring. He
had gone only a short distance
when he was overcome on the street
by a sudden attack of apoplexy.

He fell unconscious to the pave-
ment and died instantly, and not
being recognized as a person of so
great prominence his body was
rushed to the nearest hospital in an
automobile.

When members of the King's
suite became alarmed over his fail-
ure to return to the hotel after a
reasonable time, they called in the
proprietor and a search was begun.
The searchers found his Majesty
dead at the hospital and brought
his body back to the hotel with
them.

PAYS COMPLIMENT TO
MRS. MORTON.

Maysvblle Man Wbites
SouvBNiB OP The Ken-
tucky Capital.

ville, Ky., author of »the ** Quest of
a Lost Race,'' etc., makes the fol-
lowing notice of the ** Souvenir*' of
the Kentucky State Historical So-
ciety by Mrs. Morton, the Regent:

**For this Souvenir she is entit-
led to the sincere admiration and
gratitude of all Kentuckians who
have been fortunate enough to re-
ceive a copy of this beautiful mem-
orial, which, go whither it may, is
destined to give honor and distiuc-
tion to our State.

**This Souvenir is a work that
should have been done by some one
long ago, but now it derives addi-
tional merit from having been the
product of her gifted pen. It is
creditable to her, to the city and
the State, and will do much to ex-
tend the reputation of the archi-
tects and artists who have effected
this superb revival of the renais-
sance in the new Capitol upon the
soil of Kentucky and in the city of
Frankfort."

(From State Journal.)
Dr. Thos. E. Pickett, of Mays-

COMPLIMENTS FOR THE
REGISTER.

(From State Journal.)

Yesterday's Louisville Courier-
Journal gave the following compli-
mentary notice of the May **Ken*
tucky Kegister," edited by Mrs.
Jennie C. Morton, of this city:

**Just as the General Assembly,
recently adjourned, has passed an
act for the purchase of the Davis
home in Todd County, it is fitting
that the State Register should have
as its first article for May Mrs.
Hezekiah Sturges' Recollections

of Jefferson Davis. Salient
among these are the writer's first
acquaintance with Mr. Davis.
This occurred when, as a girl, in
the fifties, she was taken to Wash-
ington by her congressman father.
Mr. Davis, then Secretary of War,
promptly invited the little girl to
accompany her father to the dinner
already arranged for the evening.
Following this the company ad-
journed to Carusi's Hall. This was
the attraction for the evening as
described in the advertisement:
*01e Bull will perform some of his
finest music and little Signorina
Patti and Maurice Strakosch will
diversify the evening's entertain-
ment. '

'*Mrs. Ella Hutchison Ellwang-
er's article, 'What's In a Name?'
Is one of the most agreeably writ-
ten contributions to this number.
Mrs. EUwanger has made some
clever researches into this matter
of names quaint and curious. The
reader is introduced to a young
lady, Miss Mississippi Alicia, a
young man, Greek — God Hamilton ;
to a barber named Hackenbutcher,
and to a dear, dead lady, of Prince
Edward County — Henringham
Hager Harrington Carrington
Oodington — Elizabeth Ware

Watkins. Both amusing and his-
torically interesting is Mrs. EU-
wanger's collection of strange
cognomens.

**Mrs. Morton's own contribu-
tion to the Register is an idealistic
little philosophical essay, *Then
and Now.' Among the other en-
tertaining contents are George
Baber's sketch of Joseph Bogers
UBderwood, a sketch of Mero and

Holmes streets, Frankfort, and tL
usual pleasant department of cfc
pings and paragraphs."

NOTICES OF MRS. MORTOX^
POEM, ''PICTURES IN
SILVER."

(Frankfort News-Jonmal.)

''Pictures In Silver."

Copies of ''Pictures In Silver."
by Mrs. Jennie C. Morton have j>
been issued in Frankfort, and tir
admirers of Mrs. Morton's ot;
charming and inspiring poems ^-
welcome this latest work from b^-

pen.

The delightful impression eresv
ed by the first glimpse of this litt^;
brochure, with its artistic cover ^:
silver and ivory white, with a silvj^*
star outside — representing tk"
guiding spirit of the story— is ^^
creased a hundred fold by the ^•
usual power and charm of te
story, which is that of a yo^ij
girl, whose married happiness i^
pictured, and then afterward fc^-
strength and beauty of characte-
shown, when she is widowed, J^J
finally her faithfulness rewarded
and her triumphant entry to^'

HeaveiL

Its purity of thought, its hig^
standard of Christian sentimes'
and its musical measure ma^^
**Pictures in Silver" a charmiij
poetic production, and one that ^
be cordially received.

Among the many flattering tno^
Qtes that Mrs. Morton has ^

ceived about her latest poem are
the following:

Notice of an author in an East-
em journal of this brochure: '^ 'Pic-
tures in Silver' is a souvenir to
be prized not only because it is the
work of Kentucky's great woman,
Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, but for its
poetic setting, radiant with a lite-
rary charm seldom if ever sur-
passed. It quickens the pulsations
of the heart by its spiritual tender-
ness, and softens to tears by the
sustained tragedy of the story —
told with musical expression, the

climax is divine.''

Another author and critic writes :

**I have just read * Pictures in Sil-
ver.' Only Mrs. Morton could have
written it. In this charming epic,
the touch is so delicate and the feel-
ing so fine, so impressive — the nar-
rative so engaging and noble.
Could any picture in silver, or
golden, be more exquisite than this
— it is poetry indeed:

"On tranETparent rosy texture
Rises now a wondrous picture,

Ftamcd in silver swaying there;
Memory draws it nearer, near —
And I see its figures clearer

In the moonlight soft and fair."

''Pictures in SHiVER."

A poem by Mrs. Jennie C. Mor-
ton, published by the Coyle Press,
Frankfort, Ky.

Mrs. Jennie C Morton, the State
ReJ2rent of the Kentucky Historical
Society, has just issued fresh from
the press a lovely brochure, entitled
''Pictures in Silver."

Mrs. Morton is as gifted as she
is versatile and she thinks in poetry
— ^in noble poetry. One wonders
how she has time to ascend into the
realms of lofty thought and bring
back the dainty and the inspiring
verse, when one knows that she is
at the same time the practical and
efficient head of the Historical So-
ciety.

Mrs. Morton's short and long
poems are the very essence of
purity, and in the Pictures in Sil-
ver she has excelled even Mrs. Mor-
ton. The rhythm is as sweet and
as pleasant as a sunny brook and
the language is faultless, the ideals
are high. Pictures in Silver might
be — who knows, Mrs. Morton's
own life devoid of the prose that
creeps in an earthly career.

The brochure itself is from the
Coyle Press at Frankfort and is in
blue and silver and white. It made
a stir in the Capital City as Easter
Souvenirs.— PI E. in Louisville
Courier-Journal.

Mrs. Whitcomb says in a New
York daily:

"I did not think Mrs. Morton
could ever surpass 'Her Dearest
Friend,' that pure, lovely story-
poem — ^but in 'Pictures in Silver'
we have its superior in the lofty
thought — of faithful love. This
poem in its suggestions goes be-
yond the earthy, and takes the
readers beyond the flight of song
— and leaves them crazing on a
heavenly picture in the region of
the stars —

" 'In silver radiance, swaying
there.' "

Rtfllster of tht Ktntueky State HIttoHcal Society.

''PiCTUBEs In Silvbb."
Editor of '^Historia,'' journal
of the Oklahoma Historical So-
ciety, has the following beautiful
compliment to ** Pictures in Sil-
ver/' by Mrs. Jennie C. Morton.

''This poem is a pretty design
and is in such an inspiring vein
that it is entitled to more than a
passing compliment. The title is
well chosen and clothes a lofty
sentiment in best words to sub-
serve the purpose of the plot. We
have had only time merely to read
the poem enough to appreciate
the drift, and its applicable force
to touch many hearts.

**To be fully appreciated and
understood, ** Pictures in Silver '^
should be carefully read, it is in-
deed a study-picture though not a
puzzle one, the plot being well fol-
lowed up, from love's emerging to
its final fulfillment in pathetic sac-
rifice. ' '

WHAT WE. BEAD.

When I take up a new book to
read, or a new magazine article, I
wonder if I shall be disappointed
in it. The outgoing generation
wants in literature something new,
yet it is the newness after all, of
the bloom of last smnmer's
roses, the fragrance of the carna-
tion, the odor of the honeysuckle
and the magnificence of the tree
foliage, only improved by culture,
by brighter sunshine, and gentler
rains, and glistening dews. We
want beauty, noble thought, re-
fined feeling, helpful suggestions,
for the life way winding toward
the sunset.

People in the maturity of life are
shocked by many of the popular
books of the day. They are shame-
ful and shameless. It is needless
for a grasping publisher to recom-
mend them. There is nothing in
them that one needs to know, noth-
ing helpful to brain or heart. The
average intelligent man or womac
wants to be entertained as they are
in their parlors and banqueting
halls, with conversation full of soul
and sparkling with wit; with the
beauty of pictured art, about them
music, interpreting some exquisite
lyric and breathing softly an old
song— that makes an appeal to
every heart and flowers in prodi-
gal abundance and sweetness
everywhere. Such story books
are entrancing.

We do not like the trend of tb?
modem novel, nor books of science,
so called, that refined Christian
people should forbid their library
tables. We never note their titles
in our book-lists, or notice their
wonderful recommendations, not-
withstanding we are told no well
equipped library can afford to omit
them from its shelves. Perhaps we
can omit them, and do.

''HALF HOURS IN SOUTHERN

HISTORY,''

Cbiticism by Mbs. Jeknis C. Mob-
ton, Regent Kentucky State
HiSTOBiCAL Society.

We wish this book had been writ-
ten years ago, and placed in every
schoolhouse, college and library of

Rtflister of tht Kentucky State Hietorlcal Society.

the South. It is history, with bruis-
ed and blood-streaming facts to au-
thenticate every chapter in it. If
it could have been written before
the children of .the South had been
infected by the poison of the
Northern books, out of which
they learned their first lessons,
this book then might have had
great influence in teaching the
children to love and reverence the
Lost Cause, in which the noble
fathers, brothers, husbands,
mothers, sisters and wives, lost
their lives; if not this, lost their
fortunes.

This book is instructive, not only
concerning the South, but the

North.

We can only hope with the au-
thor that patriotism may be taught
the children of the South, that they
may be taught now the value of the
flag that waves over them, to pro-
tect them, we hope in the future.
This book will teach them many
things they have never heard, and
that they should have known from
their own books and teachers, and
not from those who triumphed
over the splendid warriors of the
South,

The ultimatum was sorrow
and humiliation and poverty
for the lovely land its noble men
and women, with unexampled
heroism, and God-like courage and
integrity tried to save. If earthly
honor and fame can be any com-
fort, they have this, beyond any
people on the earth today.

**Half Hours'' tells the story in
most interesting style. We could
not lay the book down until we had
finished it. We heartily commend

it to every teacher in the South-
land, as a historic guide, through
the darkness of the Civil War in
the South, 1861-65.

A NEW HONOR.

The editor of the Register has
been apprised by letter and by cer-
tificate, of a new honor, conferred
upon her by the California Hist.-
Genealogical Society, of that
State, located in San Francisco.
She has been made an honorary
member of this Society. She is
sincerely grateful for the honor,
and hopes the Register in future
may be enriched by the informa-
tion that may be obtained by this
generous recognition of its serv-
ices through its editor to that So-
ciety.

Where one has honestly toiled
for an honor, and after long delay,
it is conferred, it is pleasant to the
winner, and where through that
honor, the person obtains a higher
one, it is more pleasing, but when
it comes as an unexpected mark of
distinction, the honor is delightful.
Thanks to those elegant people of
the Golden Gate, whose scholar-
ship and wealth make them the
pride of their city and the envy of
the world for writing our name on
their list of members. We are
simply by birth a Kentuckian, by
marriage a Kentuckian and by citi-
zenship a Kentuckian, and resi-
dent of no mean city, as Paul ex-
presses it, even the capital of Ken-
tucky, Frankfort.

The State Journal in noting this

R«9ittier of tht Kentucky 8tatt Historical 8oeloty.

beautiful compliment to us, has the
following to say :

Mrs. Morton's work for the His-
torical Society of Kentucky has
met deserved recognition, for it
was through her untiring efforts
that the Society has been brought
up to its present flourishing con-
dition, and that the valuable collec-
tion of portraits and relics has
been preserved. The Register is
now on exchange not only in nearly
every State in the Union, but in
Canada, Paraguay and Uruguay,
South America, Italy, Switzer-
land, England and Scotland,
and, as it has been put, it has
done more than any other Ken-
tucky publication to '* gather the
fragments that nothing be lost, to
show the next ages what liberty
cost.''

BIGGEST ISSUE OF ALL.

How is the cost of living to be
reduced? This is the most im-
portant question before the Ameri-
can people. Its solution is more
vital by far than the identity of
the next President.

Under the present system of
excessive protection, those who
toil are each year finding it more
difficult to make a living, while
the comparative handful of mil-
lionaires who chiefly reap the
benefit of this toil spend their
tiQie in idleness and disvsipation,
their fortunes meanwhile increas-
ing in almost exact proportion to
the increase in cost of living.
The result is that many Ameri-
cans, especially the hard working

PEEEY VICTORY CENTEX

NIAL.

We are in receipt of a very inter-
esting pamphlet, or bulletin, issue-i
by the Inter-State Board of tl>-
Perry's Victory Centennial Con:
missioners. It contains much vain-
able information about the Centec-
nial, which is to be held in 1913, t^
ginning on July 4th and ending od

poor, are becoming plainly dis-
gusted with the way things are
going, disgusted with even this
form of government. j

This feeling on the part of the
worker is simply history repeat-
ing itself. Extravagance and
misery, the history of the world
shows, never did make good bed-
fellows in a ^'cradle of liberty."
It is important that the high cost
of living problem be settled be^
fore the unrest grows to greater
proportions. The earlier it is
settled the better for the repub-
lic. Which party will solve ii.
the Republican party or the Dec-
ocratic party? The Republican
theory has always been that the
heavier the tariff tax on things
eaten, worn or used by the
people, the better for the people.
The Democratic theory is that to
reduce taxation is to rednee
prices. The people must choose
between the two policies, the
policy of protection or the policy
of merely enough tariff to raise
sufficient revenue to meet the
actual expenses of the govenunent.
-(Ex.)

Rtgister of tht Kentucky State Historical Society.

October 5th« It also contains a
picture of the Perry Memorial,
which is to be erected at Put-in-Bay
in time for the opening of the Cen-
tennialy the classic design of which
is very beautiful and impressive.

It is hoped that Kentuckians
will take great interest in the Cen-
tennialy as the State is to be signal-
ly honored in the celebration. The
people of the other States inter-
ested have generously recognized
the fact that Kentucky played a
more important part in the War of
1812 than any other State in the
Union. Not only has this been con-
ceded, but the additional fact, not
generally known till published in a
recent issue of the Uegister, that
Kentucky riflemen stationed in the
rigging of Perry ^s ships, con-
tributed largely to the brilliant
victory. Most of us recall the
statement in our school histories
that there was a frightful slaughter
of the British officers, there soon
being not enough left to command
the ships. The school histories did
not offer any explanation of this,
but we know now that it was the re-
sult of the deadly aim of these Ken-
tucky riflemen, who had been in-
structed by Commodore Perry to
pick off the fellows wearing red
coats.

As suggested above, because of
these things Kentucky is to play
an important part in the great cele-
bration. After the opening of the
Centennial at Put-in-Bay the cele-
bratiop is to be transferred to
several other cities for a week each,
the final culminating week bringing
it to Louisville. The exact char-
acter of the celebration for the

Sig. 7

different cities has not yet been de-
cided upon, but it is expected that
the celebration in Louisville will in-
clude a river pageant lasting
throughout the week, with possibly
a reproduction in fire works of the
Battle of Lake Erie.

The Register trusts that the
press of the State, and the people
generally, will join in making Ken-
tucky's week, as well as the entire
Centennial, a glorious success, for
only by so doing can we pay a
fitting tribute to the memory of the
illustrious Kentuckians whose part
in the War of 1812 added glory to
the name of both Kentucky and the
nation.

(nee

THE FABRIC OF LIFE.

By Mrs. Mary L. Cady

Mitchell.)

Backward and forward to and fro,

The tirelesft shuttle flies:
In and out, over and so.

With heayy and restless eyes,
I sit at the loom of life and weave

A fabric of many dyes.

Rose-hued and somber, dark with shade.

And crossed by many line,
That the fleeting changeful years have
made

In this varied web of mine.
Into its warp both flower and weed.

Their clasping tendrils twine.

Royal lilies with cup of gold,
Abrim with the sweetest breath.

And lying below, in the dark and mold.
The noisome hemlock of death.

Beauty and grace and life above,
And nightshade underneath.

Dreaming and weaving in and out,
A tangled and knotty thread.

Bud of promise and lines of doubt.
By the noitfelese shuttle sped.

Thus shall I sit at my mystic loom.

Working till white and cold.
Weaving and praying all the while,

That when my labors are told.
My work shall drop 'neath the Master's
smile,

Ih many a shining fold.
Shall fall, and spread at His precious feet.

The veriest cloth of gold.

At the request of friends, we
publish the following beautiful
poem, which was written for the
Maysville Bulletin in 1869, by Mrs.
Mary L. Cady, daughter of the late
Andrew Mitchell, It is truly a
worthy effort showing it emanated
from a soul full of poetic genius:

EESIGNATION.

Beat to be resigned; to trust in Heaven and
know
That God shall work out what he thinketh
right!
Let the dim future bring Its weal or woe, —

Its blissful mom or desolating night,
'Twill solace be, to know our feet have
striven,
To walk unblamed beneath the eye of
Heaven.

Best be resigned! not fretted or asgrlered.
With the scant portion of life's blesaifigi
given;
Our hearts should own the blesaed giifts re-
ceived,
And turn in gratitude for them towards
Heaven;
It Is a gracious thing to be resigned.
To what of earth our thirsting souls may
find.

Resigned? Even so best utter no complaint,
We needs must bear bereavement, pais
and woe;

'Tis not a Christian part to fall and faiat
In the rough paths our feet must go,

'T'were idle to regret; best be resigned!

I count it worse than vain, to sigh and

O'er lost treasures of departed years;
Of what avail is it, that we shall keep
Their memory fresh with unrelleviB^
tears?
Then better far the holier peace to find
And 'neath the will of God, to be re-
signed.

Tea, wherefore should we weep? The nlgbt
of death
Will soon close darkly around our weary
way;
How sweetly then to yield our breath
And live anew in God's eternal day!
Oh Savior, shed thine influence o'er oar
mind,
Help us to look to Thee, and be resigned

Kesigned? ah, truly yes, though tired and
worn.
And crushed beneath duU care's depress-
ing weight.
And wondering oft times how life'e iUs
borne,
When the dread burden seems so Very
great;
But thoughts like these are vain, what must
be must,
God is the King; whatever 1«, is just.

A NIGHT VIEW OF THE BAT-
OF THE RAISIN, JAN-
UARY 22, 1813.

Written on the Battlefield by Maj.
William O. Butler.

(This beautiful poem is from the MS. tad

R»9l«ler of th« Kentucky 8tiite HIstoNcftI Sooiety.

Wlks obUined through tfafe courtesy of P.
Fall Taylor, Tampa, Fla.)

The battle's o'er, the din Is past; night's

mantle on the field is cast;
The moon with sad and penrtve beam

hangs sorrowing o'er the bloody stream,
The Indian yell is heard no more and

silence broods on Erie's shore;
O! What an hour is this to tread the field

on which our warriors bled.
To raise the wounded chieftain's cretft or

warm with tears his icy breast.
To treasure up his last command and bear

it to his native land;
It may one ray of Joy impart to the fond

mother's bleeding heart.
Or for a moment it may dry the tear drop

in the widow's eye;
Vain Hope away! the widow ne'er her

warrior's dying wish shall hear;
The zephyr bears no feeble sigh, no strug-
gling chieftain meets the eye
Sound is his sleep on Erie's wave or

Raisin's waters are his grave;
Then mufiTle the cold funeral string and

give the harp to sorrow's hand
F>»r sad's the Dirge the Muse must sing fal-
len are the Flowers of the land.
How many hopea lie buried here? The

Father's joy, the Mother's pride,
The country's boast, the Foeman'ff fear in

wildered havoc side by side.
Of all the young and blooming train who to

the combat rushed amain
How few shall meet and fight again how

many strew the ftital plain;

O, Jentle moon, one ray of light throw on

the dusky face of Night»
And give to view each gallant form that

sunk beneath the morning storm;
The murky cloud has passed away, tii^

moonbeams on the waters play;
Upon the brink a soldier lay, his eye was

dim his visage pale.
And like a stranded vessel's sail his red

loclu wantoned in the gale.
It was the gay, the gallant Mead, in pMtce»

mild as the setting beam

That guides at eve the wildered stream; in

war the fiery battle Steed.
The foe, no more shall shun his arm, his

mirth no more the ear shall charm,
Tet o'er his low and silent grave the laurel

fresh and green shall wave;

And who is that so pale and low stretched

on his bier of Bloody snow.
Beside the water's silent flow? The fire of

his eye is gone;
The ruddy glow his cheek has flown, yet

sweet In death his corpse appears;
Smooth is his brow and few his years, for

thee sweet Youth the sigh shall start.
From a fond mother's anxious heart for

thee some Virgin's sheek shall feel
At midnight hour the tear drop steal, and

playmates of your childhood'a hour
Pour o'er your grave youth's generous

slower; O! could modest merit save
Its dear possessor from the grave, thy

corpse Montgomery ne'er had lain
Upon the wild unhallowed plain, but what

were modest merit here
Or what were Friendship's pleading tear,

the fiend that laid that flower low
Smiled as he hurled the fatal dart and saw

with pride the lifeblood flow
That warmed a young and generous heart

Here sleep, sweet youth! tho' far away
From home and friends thy relics lay,

yet oft' on Fancy's pinions borne
Friendship shall seek thy lowly urn; Spring

shall thy icy sheet untwine
And shrould thee with the roseate vine;

here shall the streamlet gently flow;
Here shall the zephyrs softly blow; hwe

shall the wild Flower love to bloom
And shed its fragrance round thy tomb;

here shall the wearied wild bird rest;
Here shall the ringdove build hef nest

and win from every passerby.
With note of saddest melody, a Tear for

young Montgomery.
Close by his side young Mcllvain lay

stretched along the bloody plain;
Upon his visage smooth and mild Deat^

calmly sat and sweetly smiled.

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'Tis thu0 an infant sinks to rest in 'Quiet

on its mother's breast,
Wben no rude thoughts its mind employ

to damp its present or future Joy,
Yet seemed his eye of tender blue still wet

with pitty's pearly dew;
Yes, Pitty was his better part, Pitty and

friendship formed his heart,
And ne'er was heart so good and kind ac-
companied by such noble mind;
No more the sentry from his post, while ell

the camp in sleep is lost.
Shall eee him by the sick man's side nurs-
ing life's feebly ebbing tide;
No more the soldier's latest breath shall

bless him on his bed of death.
Yet shall his cold and tuneless Bier be

warmed by many a tfilent tear.
Oh, Pittying Moon. Withdraw thy light and

leave the World in murkiest night.
For I have seen too much of Death, too

much of this dark fatal heath;
Mere Graves and Allen meet the eye and

Simpson's giant form is nigh,
And Bdmiston, a warrior old, and Hart, the

boldest of the bold —
These and their brave compatriot band ask

the sedate Historian's hand.
Mine only strews the fading Flower that

Mem'ry culls from Friendship's bower.
But his shall twine the Deathless bays that

fairer Grows through Future Days.

ORLANDO.
(MaJ. William Orlando Butler.)

KENTUCKY CORN.

Sonnet.

Tasselled and plumed Kentucky's King of

grain
Waves his sceptered blades in the warm

June air;
While on them dew drops sparkle every

where.
The golden sunbeams and the singing rain
Steal down tp root and stalk — the beaded

grain

Swell in their silken sheaths like pearls

rare.
While stirs the milk white 0ap which the

gods declare
Makes best ambrosia for the brawn and

brain.

When the days grow short and the nights

blow cold
And all the woods are out on dress parade.
While fruit hangs mellow in the autumn's

shade;
Thou standest there like burnished spears

of gold.
Ready to listen to the call of death;
Whose voice I hear in thy dry rustling

breath.

Alexander Hynd-Lindsay.

THE SKYLABK.

Sonnet.

I hear thy carol in the morning gray

And it falls on me as when the red dawn's

dew
Bathes the breast of the rose and eyes of

violets blue.
So soft yet clear and sweet is thy sky lay.
Within thy song zone I could forever stay.
And I would give sweet bird all I ever knew
Of blood bought truth, and woman's love so

true
If I had half thy gladness thou dost sing

today.
Lost in the cloud and thee I see no more
Trembles the ether blue with thy flood of

song.
As thou dost pour unstinted rich and strong
Thy Sun-Hymn sweeter as thou dost up-
ward soar
Till the sun smiles as he toils his westward

way
And the pale stars from dreaming break

away.

Alexander Hynd-Lindsat.

Reglftttr of tht Kentucky 8Ut« Historical Society*

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TO AN OLD FRIEND.

There's a llfflit In the eye it Is well to seek
And a warmth in a smile that inspires.
That you cannot find in your books that

speak
But of nature and it0 singular fires.

Tou will miss from your way as the sun

goes down,
And the evening of life comes on.
The friendship that's slighted as you have

grown
Away from the friends of your youth by«

gone.

When tne beautiful world you have sought

to win
Has lost its charm o'er your soul,
And its voice of applause is all too thin
To trust when you reach its goal.

When you need a light, not of sun or star.
And a tender warmth fire cannot lend,
'Tis the kindly light that is true, near or

far.
And its lamp ia the heart of a friend.

CM.

NATURE PAYS IN GOLD.
By Mrs. Jennie C. Morton.

The notes Spring gives, due in the fall,

Grand Nature pays in gold.
Ah! would that we poor toilers all

Could thus pay debts we hold.
Her Bank, the largest in the world,

(The trees in wood and fields)
No matter what demand is hurled.

Supply her treasure yields.

From maple to the golden rod.
From oak to apple green.

From all the richnes* of the sod
She does her great wealth glean.

And honest autumn, brave And tme^

Who stands from mom to mom.
Doth cash the notes as they fall due—
Though left bare and forlorn.

The apple's in the orchard now.

The nuts are on the trees.
And many good things doth the plow

Turn up, besides all these.
But they cannot be had for thank.

All nature's stores for sale.
But how make checks upon her bank

When rain and season fail.

Ah! it is sin to wish that we

Like trees could coin our gold.
And pay the debts of tenancy —

And calls, on what we hold.
If we could touch a limb and say —

Give! and plenty falls —
Then none from want, need go astray.

Or starve, in cot or halls.

When years roll by, and love grows cold

^st nature's debt is presffed
How sweet if we, in leaves of gold

Could pay, and fall to rest.
But not so here, doth God ordain —

His law we must obey,
And hopeful lift our crose again

And bide His better way.

THE REASON WHY.

(The following paper wag prepared to
read before the meeting on Boone Day, and
the reason why it was omitted was that the
Regent feared it would make the program
wearisome to the several hundred persons
present. It could be spared from the list
of good things prepared for them, and she
took the liberty of withdrawing it, with
the promise it should appear in the Sep-
tember Register, as well as publirtied in
the Brochure of the Proceedings of the
Meeting on Boone Day, 7th of Jane-*al«
ready sent out to the members and firiends
in all parts of the cQuntry.)

Address of the Begent, Mrs. Jen-

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R«9l«ter of th« KtntuQt^ 9Mm HittiMoftl teoUty.

nie C. Morton, which was omitted
from the program.
**Mr. President, Ladies and Gen-
tlemen :

In my great desire to have an
elegant occasion, I purposely omit-
ted the Begent of the State Histor-
ical Society — lest ego become an in-
trusion, an offense. On this 15th
annual conunemoration of Boone
Day, you have before you in large
part the work of the Secretary-
Treasurer, the Editor of the Reg-
ister, and the Begent. Dorcases
household needle work spoke for
her, in death. This is a larger,
more difficult and more compli-
cated work for the State of Ken-
tucky that is before you in this Hall
of Fame, and the able workers in
this department, officers of the
State Historical Society, are be-
fare you in life, asking your ap-
proval, your co-operation and your
good wishes, while you enjoy the
grand results before you of their
faithful endeavor.

I feel sure if the first founders
of the Kentucky State Historical
Society in 1836, now seventy-six
years ago, could look down on the
acorn of their planting, thev with
the world famous man, feoone,
would be amazed at its growth and
its foliage, now a wide spreading
tree with branches in Europe and
in the Isles of the Sep , They could
not have dreamed of this result.
They planted the seed, and
seemed to have cared for it no more.
It was left to struggle into exist-
ence now and then, battling with
neglect and poverty of soil, but
showing like the Jerusalem flower
when i)laced in water, there was
life in it somewhere.

It was after the Civil War that
•Governor James B. McCreary,
Captain John Andrew Steele, and
a number of such gallant and di»-
tinguis'hed men undertook its care.
For a few years it lived and
thrived under their protection, but
changes came, death and distance
removed many of the members, and
finally cold indifference remanded
the Kentucky Historical Society to
oblivion and its few curios, mss. &c,.
were hidden away in closefts in the
old Capitol.

In 1896 there came a little com-
pany of 20th century people into
the old Capitol (our Society).
When they saw the relics they re-
solved to restore the Society these
once represented. Today they
point you to the result of their
care, loyal protection and intelli-
gent vigilance.

We are proud of our Capitol, but
we are prouder still of our rooflOA
in it. Our splendid Library, with
its wealth of historical literature,
and the paintings and portraits of
inestimable value. These histor-
ical treasures that we have been
able to collect by purchase, by so-
licitation, and influence, with the aid
of our small State appropriation,
have been and will continue to be
of great service to the educatioBal
system of the State, as well as in-
structors for the masses that visit
the Historical Booms.

Our Society, under its charter^
occupies a unique position in the
State Government, being as one of
our most distinguished jurists has
said, a * ^ Protectorate, ' ' in the re-
cent usage of this term. It has its

*DuriB9 kis firtt admMatimtlaii, 1S95-TI.

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own rules governing the body, and
directing and controlling its own
interests, and electing its own offi-
cers; the while in close relation to
the State, upholding its laws and
extending the power of the Com-
monwealth under which it receives
its legitimate support and for
whose benefit it is conducted.

Our reports are now published
in pamphlet form, and when exam-
ined and approved by the Governor,
are laid before the Legislature at
each recurring session, and after-
wards filed in the Archives of the
State. It will be seen and known
by all that though a protectorate,
our time, our thought, and our
most faithful service is given for
the uplift, and continued success

and glory of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky.

HISTOEY AS WE FIND IT.

According to our rules, history
is confined to Kentucky and Ken-
tuckians of notable worth. And
this history of Kentucky began
with the County of Kentucky, in old
Virginia, then was taken up with

the three Counties, Fayette, Jeffer-
son and Lincoln, with a map of the
so-called State of Kentucky, made
by John Filson. We know very
little of this intelligent man. His
history begins there and ends in
the mysterious silence that neither
the savage or the forest has broken.
He disappears. It is supposed he
was killed by the Indians. His map
and bit of history survive him. Not
so with his companions, Daniel

Boone and other pioneers. Not
only do their good and great achive-
ments survive them, but Kentucky
has their histories from their birth
to their deaths, in newspapers,
pamphets and books.

There are beginnings and silenc-
es in all these histories that seem to
annoy the latter day inspector and
historians. We have been taught
in many instances where the links
are missing— they were not worth
preserving^-in others they were of
a character it was not desirable
to discuss. In either case, curi-
osity is barred from entrance.

We want the history of repre-
sentative people, and as nearly as
possible we have written of them,
and endeavored to bring their his-
tories before Kentucky.

And our libraries are full of this
valuable material. Yet we see this
age of the 20th century does not
feel that it can be taught anything
by the history of our forefathers.
The age differs so from the past.
The full range of the acts and ex-
periences of the founders of the
State, and the creators and pro-
moters of the government, are be-
ginning to read like blunders in ex-
periments to the lawmakers, the
teachers and the writers of this age,
now writing its history by electric-
ity, and conforming life to new
theories, unwise laws and question-
able teachings of religion and
morals. Yet we see men, unwilling-
ly ofttimes, fall back upon their
plans and principles which guided
their ancestors in founding a State
and forming a govemmient, tjhait
looked to the betterment of the

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conditiofQs of life in all classes of
men and conditions of society. They
give these plans new names, but
these are the same in design. Hence
we write the history as we find it,

leaving the silence unbroken
where there are seals upon them.
AH history should be written for
the betterment of the world, and its
repulsive chapters of War and
Crime, only given for warning.
Writers cannot change the past,
but under the enlightenment bf
Christian civilization they can
show the better way in the history
of the future.

TO DAY.

The unrest and distrust of the
present will be chronicled for the
future — ^to entertain or to warn,
or it may do both.

The political, social and com-
mercial problems of this age are
not worked out by the old arith-
metics and algebras' signs and
rules any more. Neither the well
equipped teacher, the divinely in-

spired preacher, the poet gifted
with insight into worlds he has
never seen, and mysteries of
thought above the masses nor
the learned, the wise, nor
the eloquent seem to be able
so far to still the turmoil
and clash of interests among the
masses that make a Democratic
government. *'Vox populi, vox
Dei" — like the illusive sibyl whose
prophecy and whose power was
invoked to reveal the truth, still
the tumult and lend faith and en-
thusiasm in victory. She looks
away to the stars and is silent
Hers is the occult knowledge that
is revealed by a more thrilling call,
than the protesting, wrangling
jarring voice of the untaught
masses, ever contending and never
achieving. Much time is wasted in
reading the theories of government
now. The future history will be
full of these vagaries, but that his-
tory will also be full of the result
of the contending forces of this
period. Let us see if lifers prob-
lems are solved by lightning flashes
without money and without price.

HISTORICAL

AND GENEALOGICAL

DEPARTMENT

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

THE WOOLFOLK AND HAE-
RIS FAMILIES.

By a Descendant.

(We have been requested to pub-
lish the following brief history and
genealogy as it is written by a
member of the family in Virginia.
We hope the Kentuckians who
have sought information of their
Woolfolk ancestry, may find many
of their questions answered in the
following paper.— Ed. The Regis-
ter).

Belmont, Albemarle, Va.,
March 7, 1887.
Mrs. C. A. Harris, '

Dear Madam : — Several weeks
ago I received your very kind and
welcome letter inquiring after our
family record. I commenced an
examination into the matter, as far
as record, and other information
in my possession. I find it a com-
plieated and difficult task to under-
stand when the intermarriages
into each branch take place, I
have table of family biography for
several years and had collected
some material aided by memory
and oral information, for 4hi» pur-

pose— ^finding it a difficult task, I
had almost abandoned it, but hav-
ing received several requests for
its record, I must try and give
what I have to my friends who
w^ish it — hoping that someone
may do more justice to the subject
than myself I beg leave, with this
preface to answer your inquiries

about our ancestors.

The first who came to this coun-
try about 1640, was William
Harris from Wales, and settled in
York, near Yorktown, Va. (this I
find in the fly leaf of the Bible of
Great Uncle Harris Coleman). He
raised a family, but no names
given except one of his sons named
William, who married Miss Eliza-
beth Lee, a sister, or near rela-
tive of Richard Henry Lee^ of
Eevolutionary fame. They had
two sons — nothing is said of their
daughters. The sons, William and
Lee, came to Albermarle Co., Va.
William, the oldest, settled near
the Green Mountains, on a stream
called Green Creek. Lee went to
Nelson and settled not far from
the Bock Fish River. William,
my great-grandfather, married a
Miss Netherland. This is our
branch. By this marriage they
had ten children — ^four sons and
six daughters, to-wit, Matthew, my

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R«gi«ttr of th« K«ntucky 8tat« Hfatorlcal Society.

great-grandfather; John, our old
great uncle; Major William Har-
ris, the great-grandfather of your
husband. He married a Miss
Wagstaff, a cousin down in York,
and the branch of the family who
married a Wagstaff. John 'first
married a Eonsy. She died with-
out issue. He next married the
widow Barclay, who had no chil-
dren by her last maniage. Benja-
min, the youngest, married a Miss
Wood. The daughters were Sally,
married David Mosby. Mary,
your grandmother, married Sowel
Woolfolk. Elizabeth married
John Diggs, Catherine married
Hawes Steger. Judith first mar-
ried George Coleman, a brother of
Clayton Coleman, of Spottsyl-
vania, who was the great-grand-
father by both sides of your hus-
band. He married a Baptist, a
branch also of the Harris family.
She had, by her marriage with
Geo. Coleman, four sons, William,
Euben, Eobert and Lindsay. After
the death of George Coleman she
married Daniel Tucker, by whom
she had two children — St. George
Tucker and Mary Tucker. He
married my sister. Mary married
Wilkins Watson, grandfather and
grandmother of your husband's
youngest brother William's wife.
Nancy, the youngest daughter,
married Hawes Coleman, of
Spottsylvania and settled in Nel-
son. By this marriage they had
four children — three sons and one
daughter, to-wit: William Cole-
man married Ann Hawes, a daugh-
ter of Eichard Hawes, of Ken-
tucky, the father of the late Gov.
Hawes, of Kentucky. The second

son, Hawes W. Coleman fi^1
married Miss Woods, who dieii
childless, and after her death
married Miss Lewis of Spottslyva
nia second, and then Miss CroDci
third, both of whom died witbon:
issue. By his fourth marriasfe
with Miss Snead he had one dangt
ter. John T. Coleman, the third
son, married ^Catherine Hawes of
Kentucky, a sister to his brother
William Coleman's wife-hi?
daughter Mary married John ^
Harris, the father of Wm. W. Har
ris an^ great uncle to your he-
band. (From George Coleman ad
several down are intermarriage?
into both branches.) It is believe-i
that William and Lee Harris hi
four sisters. One married a Wa?
staff, another a Baptist, as Clay
ton Coleman, your husband V
great-grandfather married a Bap^
tist, whose mother was a Miss Har
ris. Another married Egleston
and I hear he married a Miss Har
ris, and as Jefferson Davis' motier
was a Miss Harris, she being one
of the four sisters this brings up
the branches of the original stoct
I had a memorandum given me ot
this, I forget by whom. This mar
help in tracing the other branches
of intermarriages. Matthew Har
ris, my great-grandfather married
Elizabeth Tate, whose mother vaj
also a Miss Netherland. He had
six sons and eight daughters. To^
wit : Mary, your husband's grana
mother married Joseph Sheltoi
Elizabeth married Joseph Col^
man, another brother oi Geoip
and Clayton Coleman, of Spottsvl
vania. Judith married Williai»
Wharton, mother of Mrs, John, oi

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Texas. Francis married Lewis
Nicholas, brother of Governor Nich-
olas. Caroline married Eobert
Coleman, of Spottsylvania, anoth-
er intermarriage. Lucinda mar-
ried John Driggs, Jr., another in-
termarriage. These are the direct
descendants of Major William
Harris as nearly related to your
husband, Benjamin, family. He
married Miss Woods by whom
he had seven sons and four
daughters, i. e., William, Sam-
uel, Benjamin, John, James
George and Bushrod. Daugh-
ters: Mjary and Eebecca who
married Henry T. and Benjamin
Harris, my father's brothers, Mar-
garet first married Dr. Woods, of
Nelson, who died leaving one
daughter. She next married Dr.
Mahon, of Illinois, had three sons
who are nearly all dead. Jane
first married Hardin Perkins, had
one son and after his death mar-
ried James Roberts. They left two
children, Mary and George. Sally
Harris who married Daniel Mosby
was the parent of your husband's
grandfather's second wife and the
great-grandparent of Col. John
Singleton Mosby, the great Confed-
erate Guerilla. Mary Woolfolk,
your grandmother, whose husband
was Sowel Woolfolk, had five sons,
William, Sowel, John, Joseph and
Thomas — ^no daughters named. It
says John Woolfolk was aide to
General Winchester in the Battle of
the River Raisin, was taken to
prison and it was reported that the
Indians scalped him and put a fire
on his head. He acted a gallant
and heroic part in the battle. I be-
lieve I have given you the descend-

ants principally in the line of Wil-
liam Harris. I will now trace the
family of the younger brother Lee,
who married a Miss Phillips. They
had five sons, namely: William
Lee, who was your husband's
grandfather. He first married
a daughter of Clayton Cole-
man of Spottsylvania. By
this marriage he had three
daughters and two sons. C.
Coleman, who married a Miss Bap-
tist, a branch of the Harris family,
his sons, to-wit: Lee W. Harris,
your husband's father Carter B.
Harris — the daughters, Nancy,
Sally and Mary, who died. The
other two married Mr. Daly and
Mr. Coleman and moved away.
Clayton Coleman's second wife,
Mary Mosby, had two daughters
both married and left some family
—are all dead. Your husband's
father married Elizabeth Shelton,
the daughter of Col. James Shel-
ton and Mary, His wife was the
daughter of Major William Harris,
of Nelson. Lee W. Harris, the
father and Col. Joseph Shelton, the
grandfather, in their earlier life
represented Nelson County in the
Legislature of Virginia. Of the
children of your husband's father
you are well acquainted. Matthew
had a family and moved south
early — Matthew and also John mar-
ried a sister of William Lee's wife.
All three daughters of Clayton
Coleman, of Spottslyvania. John
lived at his father's old homestead.
He had three sons and four daugh-
ters— nearly all dead. Two or
three left families. Edward, anoth-
er brother married Catharine Diggs
— they were the parents of John

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ItH^ttM* •f tilt KvfitiMfcy SUrto HfslOfioftI •oelety.

L. Harris whom you know. They
moved south early and had four
sons and four daughters. Nathan,
youngest brother married Sally
Mosby, a sister of your husband's
grandfather's second wife and
great aunt to our relative Col.
John T. Mosby. He had four sons
and three daughters, all dead. One
or two left small families. There
were two daughters of the old stock
whose names I do not know. One
married a Mr. Burks and the other
a Mr. Eucker. I think they lived
in Bedford or Campbell County at
one time. Some may have gone
south. I think these are the imme-
diate descendants of the original
stock. There are intermarriages
on both sides, which make it more
necessary to trace that; also in
order to understand it. The record
I have only gives a short account
of the original stock, with some of
the immediate branches on both
sides. As there are intermarriages
on both sides, it is necessary to
understand the whole history, all
the families and intermarriages.
This you see is a difficult and ted-
ious undertaking. I will, if agree-
able to you send you a copy of the
record I have, after you receive
this. And as this is so lengthy,
although I have tried to condense
as much as possible, to contain a
synopsis of each branch leaving it
for further inquiry, if agreeable to
you, the intermarriages of the Cole-
uaans and other branches with the
Harris family. You will find this
requires close observation and con-
siderable explanation to be under-
stood. I hope you will excuse my
delay in replying to your very kind

letter. If you need any explain
tions upon any point I hope yr.
will not hesitate to make it kncr.
as I will most cheerfully explain t§
the best of my means.

Our great-grandmother TVoo.
folk was Miss Harris, daughter k
Major Harris, of Nelson Couba
Virginia. Her husband was So^^
Woolfolk. Her brother was Jit
Harris, one of the wealthiest p:
of Virginia, living in Jeffersoi?
old home **Monticello" from wLo:
he bought it. He lived in printf:
style and was noted for his magnit-
cent service of gold including cai
dlesticks, etc., from which gra^|
father Joseph Harris Woolfoii-
was duplicated in solid silver. P^;-
was named for this great uncle o:
ours — John Lee Harris. His ^
and great-grandmother's sist?:
married Gov. NichGls of Virginr
their daughter married Jo^<
Patterson, of Maryland, and tie::
daughter was Elizabeth Pattersc'^
who married Jerome Bonarpart'^

P. S. — My dearest Sarah,

Would you like your grandfati-
er's sword and epaulettes, ^f',
know he was in the War of IS-
had his full uniform once, ^t^
was very handsome being a Co >
nel, but in our various movings'
was stolen.

I have always had and dais^'
the sword and epaulette, and if T^
would care for them, had wtbf'
you would have them than anyoi^
Your Uncle Joe has his sptir^
which are of solid silver. Y*^'*'
Grandpa had expensive tastes «*
I believe all the raen and Colonic
dames had.
He had a brother for whoffll

Ill

bad the greatest admiration and for
whom yonr father was named,
John H. Woolfolk who was taken
prisoner and killed at the River
Baisin. I, of course, never saw
him, but I remember as a young
girl there was an old trunk m tte
attic at the farm filled with his let-
ters and speeches that I used to
pore over. He was a brilliant and
highly educated young lawyer, not
twenty-five when he was killed. The
last time I was in Frankfort I saw
his name on the Shaft in the Ceme-

tery dedicated to the Heroes of the
'*War of 1812. '* He was my grand-
mother's darling, and I have often
heard from her old servants how
she sat at her window and watched
and waited for him after the war
was over. News, at that time,
moved so slowly. I believe she
died before she ever had a confirma-
tion of his death.

I hope I have not bored you with
this bit of family history.

Devotedly,
Your Aunt M-

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Farmers* Home Journal.
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Historia of Historical Society
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The Century, Scribner, World's
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** James Nourse and his De-
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' ' Pictures in Silver ' ' — Do-
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The Lindsay Clan Publications
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Writings of James Tandy Ellis,
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The National Geographic Mag-
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Big. 8

Bulletin of the New York Pub-
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Annals of Iowa, March No.,
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Confederate Veteran for April,

Nashville, Tenn, This is one of
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Annual Report of the American
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Correspondence of the Republic
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**The Empire''— The Royal Co-
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Library of Congress— Monthly
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ton, D. C.

The Washington Historical
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Jones of Virginia, &c.

(This History and Genealogy of
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114

England, has jnst been received
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Annual Report of the Philadel-
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The Outlook.

The American Monthly Maga-
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Journal of the D. A. R. for
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The Quarterly Journal of the

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The New York Public Library,
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A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk
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The Outlook— New York.

The Quarterly of the Texas
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The National Geographic Mag-
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Hon. Boutwell Dunlap, Record-
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The Quarterly Journal of the
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Iowa Journal and Politio>,
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Annual Report of the Philadel-
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Journal of the Illinois State
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The Lindsay Family Associa-
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115

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Library of Congress — Monthly
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The Year Book of the Pennsyl-
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Journal of the Missouri State
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Descendants of William Prich-
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A CHAPTER FROM
HISTORY OF MUHLENBERG
COUNTY. KENTUCKY"

OTTO A. BOTHEET

INTRODUCTION.

We call attention to the following biographical
sketch of General Muhlenberg, one of the most remark-
able heroes of the Eevolutionary War in Virginia, and
the one for whom the County of Muhlenberg, Kentucky
was named. The author, Mr. Otto A. Eothert, of Louis-
ville, Ky., one of the most progressive and helpful mem-
bers of the State Historical Society, has given us per-
mission to publish this chapter in the Register, taken
from his forthcoming book ''History of Muhlenberg
County, Kentucky."

This history is one of the most interesting and val-
uable of the county histories of the State. It is written
in the author ^s best style, beautifully illustrated through-
out. The county should rise and give the author a pub-
lic thanksgiving meeting for his book, that brings from
obscurity the forgotten history of their county and its
notable people and works.

We append further fuller notice of this book in the
Historical Clipping Department.— Ed. The Register.

CHAPTER X

GENERAL MUHLE

By Otto A. Bothert, Louisv

Muhlenberg County was so which

called in honor of General John forme

Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, an of- after

ficer of the Revolution. Collins, in able t

his ''History of Kentucky,^' men- tion o

tions this fact, but makes no state- His 1

ment regarding the naming of the Muhk

county. Ed. Porter Thompson, in cause

his ''School History of Ken- his, b

tucky,^' page 162, says: "General pionee

Muhlenberg was at no time a resi- Revoli

dent of Kentucky. His name and career

his deeds, however, are of interest the R<

to us because some of the gallant of the

members of his church who fol- ter oi

lowed him when he left his pulpit strugj

to fight for independence, had Life o

grants of land, for military serv- lenber

ices, which they located on and be- Army,

low Green River, soon after the Henry

close of the Revolution, and made the d

their homes in what is now this v

Muhlenberg County. One of his facts:

men, the Hon. Henry Rhoads, was Rev

a member of the Legislature in berg, t

1798 when Muhlenberg County berg,

was established, and procured it to from ]

be named in honor of his pastor He foi

and general.*' Ameri

General Muhlenberg made two Philad

trips to Kentucky in 1784, but did His sc

not see any part of that section was be

on October 1, 1746. At the age of
sixteen Peter was sent to Halle,
Germany, to be educated. While
in Europe he incidentally gained a
little knowledge of military drills
that, in later life, was a great ad-
vantage to him. In 1767 he re-
turned to America and became a
minister in the Lutheran Church
and served as a pastor to various
congregations.

Previous to the Revolution there
was a union of Church and State in
Virginia where the Church of Eng-
land was established by law, * * and
in order that the rector could in-
force the payment of tithes, it was
necessary that he should have been
ordained by a Bishop of the Eng-
lish Church, in which case he came
under the provision of the law,
altho not a member of the estab-
lished church. * ' To meet these dif-
ficulties Muhlenberg decided to be
ordained in the oflScial church. In
1772 he went to England where he
was ordained by a Bishop of the
English Church, and then returned
to Virginia and preached at Wood-
stock until the Revolutionary War
broke out.

In the early part of 1776 he
organized a regiment of soldiers,
the Eighth Virginia, known as the
** German Eegiment.'^ He partici-
pated in the fight at Charleston
and Sullivan's Island. On Febru-
ary 21, 1777, he was made briga-
dier-general and took charge of the
Virginia line under Washington,
and was in chief command in Vir-
ginia in 1781 until the arrival of
Baron Von Steuben. He was in
the battles of Brandywine, Ger-
mantown and Monmouth and was

also at the capture of Stony Point
He was second in command to La-
Fayette in resisting the invasion of
the State by Cornwallis. He took
part in the siege of Yorktown and
was present when Cornwallis sur-
rendered on October 19, 1781. On
September 30, 1783, he was pro^
moted to the rank of major-gen-
eral. A few months later the anny
was formally disbanded and he re-
turned to his family in Woodstock.
In November he moved to Trappe
and shortly after made Philadel-
phia his home.

In 1784 he made two trips to the
Falls of the Ohio to superintend
the distribution of lands m Ken-
tucky granted to himself and other
officers and soldiers of the Viginia
Army. His diary kept on thes
trips shows that he did not go down
the Ohio below Louisville. In the
fall of 1785 General Muhlenberg
was elected Vice President of
Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklic
being . at the same time cho^n
President. He was re-elected to
that office every year until 178S,
when he was chosen one of A^
members of the First Congress, to
serve from March 4, 1789, to Mareb
4, 1791. He also served in the
Third Congress and Fourtii Cod
gress. In February, 1801, he was
elected United States Senator from
Pennsylvania. On the 30th of
June, 1801, having been appointed
Supervisor of Internal Bevenne
for Pennsylvania, he resigned
his seat in the Senate. In Jnlv.
1802, he was appointed Collector
of the Port of Philadelphia, whiok
office he held «up to the time of Ms
death, October 1, 1807. He is

RoQister ^ tha Kentucky •tste Historical Society.

buried at Trappe, PennsylvaBia,
where also rest the remaiBS of his
father.

His biographer commenting on
the career of General Muhlenberg,
says:

'^He was one of those characters
which in a revolution always find
their level. He was by nature a
soldier. • * * He entered the
church, doubtless, with as sincere
and honest purpose as any of her
mmistry, but the agony of his coun-
try called him from the altar with
a voice that touched every chord in
bis soul. The time for fighting had
come — the time to try men's souls.
His whole heart was with his coun-
try; rebellion against tyrants was
obedience to God, and so feeling
and so thinking, he went forth from
the temple to the field. He was
brave and generous to a fault, a
proper brigadier to Green, who
loved him. Cool in danger, sound
in judgment, indiflFerent to fame,
zealous in duty ; these were his dis-
tinguishing traits as a soldier. His
virtues in private and political life
were all cognate to these.''

Such, in brief, was the career of
General Muhlenberg. Many inter-
esting incidents occurred during his
life, the details of a number of
which are recorded in his biogra-
phy. Among them is the dramatic
event that took place at Woodstock,
Virginia, in the early days of
<( 76/' Times, as Muhlenberg
was wont to remark, had been
** troublesome " and the Colonies
were preparing to declare, and fight
for, their independence. Rev. Muh-
lenberg was appointed colonel of
the Eighth Regiment Which was

then far from fully organized. His
acceptance of this ofiice necessitat-
^ his resignation as pastor of his
churches. The scene that took
place when this *' fighting parson"
delivered his farewell sermon is
thus described by his biographer:

'^Upon his arrival at Wood-
stock, his different congregations,
widely scattered along the front-
ier, were notified that upon the fol-
lowing Sabbath their beloved pas-
tor would deliver his farewell ser-
mon. Of this event numerous tradi-
tionary accounts are still preserved
in the vicinity in which it took
place, all coinciding with the writ-
ten evidence. The fact itself merits
a prominent place in this sketch, for
in addition to the light it sheds
upon the feelings which actuated
the American people in the com-
mencemegit of the revolutionairy
struggle, it also shows with what
deep earnestness of purpose Mr.
Muhlenberg entered upon his new
career.

**The appointed day came. The
rude country church was filled to
overflowing with the hardy moun-
taineers of the frontier counties,
among whom were collected one
or more of the independent com-
panies to which tHe forethought
of the Convention had given birth.
So great was the assemblage, that
the quiet burial-place was filled
with crowds of stem, excited men,
who had gathered together, believ-
ing that something, they knew not
what, would be done in behalf of
their suffering country. We may
well imagine that the feelings
which actuated the assembly were
of no ordinary kind. The disturb-

ances of the country, the gather-
ings of armed men, the universal
feeling that liberty or slavery for
themselves and their children hung
upon the decision the Colonies then
made, and the decided step taken by
their pastor, all aroused the pa-
triotic enthusiasm of the vast mul-
titude, and rendered it a magazine
of fiery passion, which needed but
a spark to burst into an all-consum-
ing flame.

*'In this spirit the people await-
ed the arrival of him whom they
were now to hear for the last time.
He came, and ascended the pulpit,
his tall form arrayed in full uni-
form, over which his gown, the
symbol of his holy calling, was
thrown. He was a plain, straight-
forward speaker, whose native
eloquence was well suited to the
people among whom he laboured.
At all times capable of command-
ing the deepest attention, we may
well conceive that upon this great
occasion, when high, stern thoughts
were burning for utterance, the
people who heard him hung upon
his fiery words with all the inten-
sity of their souls. Of the matter
of the sermon various accounts re-
main. All concur, however, in at-
tributing to it great potency in
arousing the military ardour of
the people, and unite in describing
its conclusion. After recapitulat-
ing, in words that aroused the
coldest, the story of their suffer-
ings and their wrongs, and telling
them of the sacred character of the
struggle in which he had unsheathed
his sword, and for which he had
left the altar he had vowed to
ser\^e, he said, 'that, in the lang-

uage of holy writ, there 'was a time
for all things, a time to preacii
and a time to pray, but these time^
had passed away:' in a voice that
re-echoed through the church like
a trumpet-blast, Hhat there was a
time to fight, and that time had now
come. '

"The sermon finished he pro
nounced the benediction, A breath-
less stillness brooded over tte
congregation. Deliberately put-
ting off the gown, which thus fa:
had covered his martial figure, br
stood before them a girded war
rior ; and descending from the pul-
pit, ordered the drums at th*^
church door to beat for recruits.
Then followed a scene to whirli
even the American revolution, rioj
as it is in bright examples of th*^
patriotic devotion of the people,
affords no parallel. His audien<^.
excited in the highest degree h:
the impassioned words which hsi
fallen from his lips, flocked arouni
him, eager to be ranked among h>
followers. Old men were s^eii
bringing forward their children,
wives their husbands, and widowt-i
mothers their sons, sending ther
under his paternal care to fight th*
battles of their country. It mi:-*
have been a noble sight, f^nd tb
cause thus supported could n *
fail.

** Nearly three hundred mec c-'
the frontier churches that day er
listed under his banner; and ti-
gown then thrown off was worn f-
the last time. Henceforth his foo*
steps were destine^ foi- |a dt^^
career.

**This event occurred about ti-
middle of January, 1776; ar/

from that time until March, Col-
onel Muhlenberg seems to have
been busily engaged in recruiting.
After the great impulse already
received, it is natural to suppose
that his success was rapid; and
such accordingly we find to be the
fact. It was probably the first of
the Virginia regiments ready for
service, its ranks being full early
in March. By the middle of that
month he had already reported this
fact to the Governor, and received
orders to proceed with his com-
mand to Suffolk. On the 21st the
regiment conunenced its march for
that place.'*

A little less than a half century
after the death of General Muhlen-
berg and about five years after his
biography was written, a poem,
based on this incident that took
place at the church in Woodstock,
was published by Thomas Buch-
anan Bead. This poem, **The Ris-
ing, *' is printed in McGuflfey's old
Fifth Reader where most of us
have read it, and from which I
quote a few lines:

"Out of the North the wild news came
And swelled the discord of the hour.

'The pastor rose; the prayer -was strong;
The 'Psaim was Warrior David's son«^
Th^ tMct, a few short words of might —
The Lord of hosts shall arm the right!'

"When suddenly his mantle wide
His hands Impatient flung aside,
And lo! he met their wondering eyes
Complete in all a warrior's guise.

"The enlisting tnunipet's sudden roar
Rang through the ehapel, o'er and o'er.
And there the startling drum and fife
Fired the living with flercer life.

" 'Who dares'— this was the patriot's cry.
As striding from the desk he came —
'Come out with me, in Freedom's name.
For her to live, for her to die?'
A hundred hands flung up reply,
A hundred Toices answered 'I!' "

General Muhlenberg was less
than forty years of age when he
left Virginia and returned to Penn-
sylvania, where he spent the last
twenty-two years of his life in the
upbuilding of his native state and
the new nation. Pennsylvania has
expressed her appreciation of his
great works by placing a statue of
him in Statuary Hall, Washing-
ton, D. C. His memorial stands in
the southeast corner of Ihe Hall
and, although a graceful piece of
work, the sculptor, Blanche Nevin,
evidently was not familiar with the
stature and physiognomy of her
subject. Muhlenberg's biographer
and other writers describe him as
**tall in person" which statement
is verified, not only by paintings
now extant but also by tradition.
Nevertheless the sculpter repre-
sents Muhlenberg's height as not
more than five feet. His face, in
this marble statue, looks more like
that of a poet or musician and
not like that of a preacher and less
like that of a soldier. One the base
of the statue is carved the name
** Muhlenberg;*' the pedestal is
marked * * Pennsylvania. ' '

In October, 1910, the German
Society of Pennsylvania erected a
statue to General Muhlenberg in
Philadelphia on the City Hall
Plaza. It is a good likeness and a
masterly piece of work by J. Otto
Schweizer, of Philadelphia, one of
the foremost sculptors in America.
A portrait of this statue is here
produced. Every detail of this
grand piece of work is true to its
subject and is based on paintings
and descriptions still preserved.

The relief on the face of the

fM9lst»r o# the KMituoky Mito Historical 8ocl0y.

pedestal of this statue i£ by the
same artist and is probably the
best work of that character ia the
country. The elevations are so
delicately balanced that the depth
of the church with all pews and
people comes within a thickness or
height of only an inch and a half.
The scene represents Muhlenberg
in the act of finishing his farewell
sermon. The church portrayed is
the old one at Trappe, near Phila-
delphia, which has been preserved
unchanged since the middle of the
eighteenth century and is the same
in which General Muhlenberg and
his father often preached.

In the Pennsylvainia Capitol a
large painting was recently finish-
ed by Edwin A, Abbey, symboliz-
ing the ** Apotheosis of Pennsyl-
vania.'^ Among the celebrities
who appear in this large picture is
General Muhlenberg.

Such, as I have here given it, is
a glimpse of the life of the man
after whom Muhlenberg county is
named, and also a glimpse of the
esteem in which he was and still is

held. As already stated, (kmi
Muhlenberg probably never visited
any part of the county that now
helps perpetuate his name, Mr
even saw any part of the dm
River country. Nevertheless, p^
neer Henry Bhoads, in 1798, very
fittingly procured for the coimtj
the name of the man who was i
friend, pastor and general to vm)
of its earliest settlers.

This a&d other UhcideaU in the life e^
General Muhlen'beiigr are the sabject of ^
number of poems written In German by G*
man-Americana. Among them are tbe^
lowing, which are ipQ2>U8hed in the r«co!t|
of the German Society of PennsylTanU »sf
for copies of which I am Indebted to Mr.^
P. Hnch, of Phlladdphla, the cnitodlo «
the archives of that organization: "P^
Muhlenberg/' and 'X>eneral Peter" fcyJw
Zentmayer, "Brohlentoei*" by T. Mom "^
ter Muhlenfberg" by PhUip Halmfeach. JJJ
"The FfcpeweU Sermon" by WHHam MUM
Mr. Hnch also informs me that Oei»
MnhleBberg is the «iib]«ct of two diia»
that were written in Oennan aad arc oc»
slonally <prQdQced iby German dramatic c^
pantes: 'Teter M^ihlenberg, or ttbl^ii^
Sword,- ia five acta, by Fredaricb H. ^
of New York, and "Cowl and e»ori «
General Mnhlenberg," 4>y Victor Prechl

-^.A.i

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

€€

THE RIVER RAISIN

A. C. QUISENBERRY

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO -*THE RIVER RAISIN."

(By A. C. Quisenberry.)

On June 18, 1812, the Congress
of the United States declared war
against Great Britain. Although
it had been known for nearly a
year before that date that the war
was inevitable, yet there had been
but very little preparation for it.
For a long time after the war
began it was for the most part car-
ried on by inexperienced men, both
in the council and the field; and
at the end of the year 1812 the
American army had accomplished
practically nothing of which it
had reason to be proud.

At the very beginning of the war
General William Hull had been
given command of the Army of the
Northwest ; and after a bluff at in-
vading Canada, he had, within a
few weeks, surrendered the whole
of the army under his command,
with headquarters at Detroit, to
the British forces under General
Brock, together with all of the Ter-
ritory of Michigan. This left our
entire northwestern frontier un-
protected, and exposed to the at-
tacks of the British regulars, Can-
adian militia and Indians, com-
manded by General Brock, with
headquarters at Maiden, Canada,

no great distance from Detroit.
Hull had no Kentuckians under his
command, but at the time of his
surrender five regiments of Ken-
tucky troops had been raised, some
of them before and some im-
mediately after the declaration of
war, and these had just reached
Cincinnati, on their way to join
Hull at Detroit, when the news of
his disgraceful surrender reached
them.

General William Henry Harri-
son, *'the hero of Tippecanoe,''
was then placed in command of the
Army of the Northwest, and the
plan of his campaign was to retake
Detroit and the whole of Michigan
and then to invade Canada, and de-
stroy the British army there. It
was late in the season when he as-
sumed command (September 24,
1812), and conditions were such
that it was several months before
he could assume the aggressive
policy upon which he had deter-
mined. On January 1, 1813, he was
occupying a defensive position
among the snows of the wilderness,
on the banks of the Maumee River,
in Ohio, near where that river dis-
charges into Lake Erie, just south

of the Michigan boundary line. He
then had under his command seven
thousand Kentuckians, together
with some militia from Ohio, Penn-
sylvania and Virginia. The Ken-
tuckians were commanded by Brig-
adier General James Winchester,
of the regular army, who had been
an officer in the Revolutionary
War, and was at that time a citi-
zen of Tennessee. These Kentuck-
ians composed the left wing of Har-
rison's Army of the Northwest,
with headquarters at Fort Win-
chester, which was on the site of
the present city of Defiance, Ohio,
at the confluence of the Auglaize
and the Maumee Rivers. On De-
cember 25, 1812, Q-eneral Harrison's
headquarters were at Fort Ste-
phenson, then occupying the site
where the city of Fremont, Ohio,
now stands.

On December 30, 1813, General
Winchester left Fort Winchester,
and set out with his troops to
march to the Rapids of the Mau-
mee, and he despatched Leslie
Combs, of Clark County, Kentucky
(then a boy eighteen years old)
with a single guide, to convey in-
telligence of the movement to Gen-
eral Harrison; and young Combs
traversed the trackless wilderness
for at least a hundred miles, en-
during privations which almost de-
stroyed him, but delivering his
message safely, and receiving the
praise of his General. Winchester
reached the Rapids on January 16,
1813 ; and here messengers reached
him from the village of French-
town, on the River Raisin (now
Monroe, Michigan), bearing the
news that a body of Indians were

on the warpath for the purpose of
destroying the people of French-
town and its vicinity, and urgently
pleading for assistance. General
Harrison, the commander-in-chief,
was at Fort Stephenson, sixty miles
away, and could not be consulted
upon the matter; so a majority of
Winchester's oflScers, in conncil
assembled, advised an immediate
march to Frenchtown, which was
nearly forty miles away, and this
he decided to do.

On the morning of January 17,
1813, General Winchester detailed
Colonel William Lewis's regiment
of 550 Kentucky militiamen, and
Colonel John Allen, with 110 men
from his regiment of Kentucky
Riflemen, to march 1k> ttie relief
of Frenchtown. Lewis's instruc-
tions were ''to attack the enemv,
beat them, and take possession of
Frenchtown, and hold it."

Frenchtown was so named be-
cause of the fact that its inhabi-
tants (about two hundred in num-
ber at that timej were of French
nationality. They were very loyal
to the American Government,
under which they had been living
for years. On account of the great
abundance of grapes which grew
along the banks of the stream upon
which the town was situated, they
called that stream **La Riviere anx
Raisins," or the River Raisin. Two
days after the surrender of Detroit
by General Hull, Frenchtown was
taken possession of by Colonel El-
liott, of the British army, and had
had more or less of a BritiBh gar-
rison ever since; but the inhabi-
tants had not been given the pro-
tection they had been promised.

On January' 18, 1813, the village
was garrisoned by 200 Canadian
militia, under Major Reynolds,
and about 400 Indians under Chiefs
Round-Head and Walk-in-the-
Water; and they had a howitzer in
position. Colonel Lewis's force
consisted, as already stated, of 660
Kentuckians, without artillery.

Early on the morning of Jan-
uary 18 the Kentuckians crossed
Maumee Bay at the Western ex-
tremity of Lake Erie, upon the
solidly frozen ice, and advanced
rapidly upon Frenchtown in three
lines; the right composed of the
companies of Captains McCracken,
Bledsoe and Matson, commanded by
Colonel Allen ; the center composed
of the companies of Captains
Hightower, Collier and Sebree,
under Major Madison; the left
composed of the companies of Cap-
tains Hatailton, Kelly and Wil-
liams, commanded by Major Green,
and an advance guard was thrown
forward composed of the companies
of Captains Hickman, Graves and
James, led by Captain Ballard as
acting Major. Arriving at French-
town, these troops formed in line
of battle on the south side of the
river, which they crossed on the
solidly frozen ice, in the face of a
murderous fire of musketry,
charged gallantly up the river bank,
leaped the pickets, dislodged the
enemy, and drove them back in
disastrous defeat to the surround-
ing forests. The Kentuckians pur-
sued the enemy into the forest,
where the fighting was very hot
from 3 o'clock until dark.

The result of this day's battle
was a complete victory for the

Kentuckians — who, as General
Harrison stated in his official re-
port, ' ' amply supported the double
character of Kentuckians and
Americans." Their loss in the en-
gagement was twelve killed and
fifty-five wounded, among the lat-
ter being Captains Bland W. Bal-
lard, Paschal Hickman and Rich-
ard Matson. The enemy retreated
precipitately to Maiden, Canada,
eighteen miles distant, and their
loss is not known. They left fif-
teen dead in the open field, (while
the hottest fighting was in the for-
est), and carried away their wound-
ed.

The Kentuckians returned to the
village in the evening and encamped
for the night on the ground
which the enemy had occupied
within the picketed gardens, the
officers occupying the same build-
ings in which the British officers
had been quartered. That same
night Colonel Lewis despatched a
messenger to General Winchester,
with a report of the victory, who
immediately sent* an express to
General Harrison with the news.
Winchester's troops were in a fer-
ment of excitement, demanding to
be led at once to Frenchtown, the
place of the first land victory of
the war. It was believed by all
that this victory was the harbinger
of a series of successes that would
succeed each other until Detroit
should be regained and the enemy's
headquarters at Maiden taken, and
the disgrace of Hull's surrender
thus wiped out. But it was clear
that Colonel Lewis's position at
Frenchtown was a precarious and

dangerous one, for no one conld
doubt that the British would at once
put forth every possible effort to
regain what had been lost, and to
bar the further progress of the
Americans toward Detroit.

On January 19 General Winches-
ter, accompanied by Colonel Sam-
uel Wells, of the 17th United States
Infantry (a regiment of ''regu-
lars" which had been recruited en-
tirely in Kentucky), and about
three hundred men, marched from
his position on the Maumee, and ar-
rived at Frenchtown in the after-
noon of the next day. Here he
crossed the Kiver Raisin, and en-
camped the troops in an open field
on the right of Colonel Lewis's
forces. He disregarded Lewis's
advice that the troops be encamped
within the picketed enclosure, on
the ground that these were ''regu-
lars," and therefore entitled to the
post of honor on the right of the
position. General Winchester then
recrossed the river, and established
his headquarters at a house more
than a mile and a half from the
American lines. Colonel Wells
was left in command of the rein-
forcements, which consisted of
three companies of the 17th and
one company of the 19th Infantry;
and next day he was permitted to
return to the camp on the Maumee
on personal business.

Colonel Henry Proctor, the Com-
mander of the British forces in that
section, was at Maiden, Canada,
when the British and Indians who
were diefeatod at Frenchtown on
January 18 fell back to that place;
and he made immediate prepara-
tions to retrieve the disaster. He

assembled a force of about five hun-
dred British regulars and Cana-
dian militia with six pieces of artil-
lery, and six hundred Indians under
Round-Head and Walk-in-the-
Water. . With these he advanced
to within twelve miles of French-
town on January 21, and that night
marched to the immediate vicinity
of the town. Owing to General
Winchester's lack of vigilance,
Proctor's troops and artilVry
were ready for the assault the next
morning before their presence was
known to the Americans.

Late in the afternoon of the 21>t,
rumors reached General Wincbev
ter that the British and Indians
were approaching from Maiden ir.
great numbers, but it seems tlmt be
gave no credence to the news. H^
did not exercise much vigilance:
and, although the camp sentine!^
were well posted, the roads lead
ing into the to^n were left im
picketed, owing to the bitteny
cold weather.

Between 5 and 6 o 'clock the ih "^^
morning (January 22, 1813), wliil^
it was still dark, and just as the
reveille was beaten, a furious a-
sault was made upon the camp hy
an unknown force of British troop'
and yelling savages, who showem^
bombshells and canister UP'^^
the startled Americans. Wi'l^
regulars in the open field ^*^^r^
driven in toward Lewis's piekot-
camp. General Winchester arriv*
in great haste upon the field, ai '
vainlv endeavored to rally the «h'
moralized regular troops. \^"'
upon being flanked by a lar<re ho<lv
of Indians, fled in confusion aoro-

the river, carrying with theiQ cue
hundred men of Lewis's regiment
who had been sent to their support.
Colonels Lewis and Allen joined
General Winchester in the attempt
to rally the men behind the houses
and fences on the south side of the
Eiver Baisin, leaving the camp in
the picketed gardens on the north
side of the river in charge of
Majors Graves and Madison. But
all efforts to stop the flight of the
troops on the south side of the
river were in vain. The Indians had
gained their flank, and swarmed in
the woods along their line of re-
treat to the Maumee, and shot down
and scalped the Americans by
scores, so that but few escaped.
Within the space of one hundred
yards, near Mill Creek, nearly one
hundred Kentuckians were killed
and scalped. Even surrender did
not always save the fugitives from
assassination. No rule of civilized
warfare was observed. Blood and
scalps were the chief objects for
which the Indians fought, and they
were not disposed to take any pris-
oners. Scalps had a market value
in Maiden, where British agents
paid a stipulated price for every
** scalp-lock " that was brought to
them.

Colonel John Allen had been
wounded in the thigh in the attempt
to rally the troops. He had followed
the men for two miles, pleading
with them to rally and make an-
other stand; and then, abandoning
all hope, he wa^ compelled by sheer
exhaustion, while attempting to re-
turn to the camp, to sit down upon
a log. Here he was found by an
Indian chief, who, perceiving his

rank, promised him his protection
if he would surrender without re-
sistance, and he did so. About the
same moment two other Indians ap-
proached, evidently with murder-
ous intent, when, with a single
blow of his sword, Allen laid
one of them dead upon the ground.
His companion instantly shot the
Colonel dead. * ' He had the honor, * *
says Mac Af ee, * ' of 'shooting one of
the first and greatest citizens of
Kentucky.''

General Winchester and Colonel
Lewis were made prisoners by the
Indian Chief Eound-Head, who
stripped them of their clothing ex-
cept shirts, trousers and T)oots.
They were taken before the British
commander. Colonel Proctor, who
had great difficulty in restraining
Round-Head from murdering them
and in persuading him to give back
to them the militarv suits he had
stripped from them.

While the American troops under
Winchester and Lewis, south of the
River Raisin, were suffering de-
struction, those under Graves and
Madison were nobly defending
themselves in the picketed camp
north of the river. Although fierce-
ly assailed with artillery as well
as with musketry, they repulsed
every attack, and had not the re-
motest intention of surrendering
their position. The formidable Brit-
ish battery was soon silenced by
the Kentucky sharpshooters be-
hind the pickets, who killed the
horse and the driver of the sleigh
that brought the ammunition for
the guns, and then picked off thir-
teen of the sixteen artillerymen
who were serving the battery. At

Regittar of the Kentucky State HIetoricai Society.

10 o'clock in the morning Proctor
withdrew his forces to the woods,
and the Kentuckians within the
picketed inclosure quietly break-
fasted. While they were breakfast-
ing, a white flag approached from
the British lines, which Major
Madison supposed to be coming to
ask for a truce for the burial of the
dead. But the flag was borne by
Major Samuel R. Overton, of Gen-
eral Winchester's staflf, then a
prisoner, who was accompanied by
Colonel Proctor. The British com-
mander had taken advantage of
General Winchester's being his
prisoner to extort from him an
order to Major Madison to sur-
render at once. Proctor had assur-
ed Winchester that as soon as the
Indians returned from the pursuit
and massacre of that portion of his
troops that had fled, they would
easily capture the command of
Madison, and that then '* nothing
would save the Americans from an
indiscriminate massacre by the In-
dians." He carefully concealed
from Winchester the fact that Mad-
ison had defeated the British and
Indians, and had driven them baxik
in confusion to the shelter of the
woods. Being ignorant of this fact,
and horrified by the butcheries he
had just witnessed. General Win-
chester yielded, and sent Major
Overton to Madison with orders to
surrender.

Although this order came in writ-
ing from his commanding General,
]\radison refused to obey it except
upon the condition tliat the safety
and protection of all prisoners
from violence bv tlio Indians should
be stipulated. Proctor stamped his

foot, and said in an insulting tone:
*'Sir, do you mean to dictate to
tne" Madison replied: **I mean to
dictate for myself. We prefer sell-
ing our lives as dearly as possible,
rather than be massacred in cold
blood." A surrender was finally
arranged on the terms that all pri-
vate property should be respected;
that sleds should be sent the next
morning to remove the sick and
wounded to Amherstburg, Canada;
that the disabled should be pro-
tected by a proper guard ; and that
the side-arms of the oflScers should
be returned to them when they
should reach Maiden. Proctor
pledged his honor as a soldier and
a gentleman to observe these con-
ditions, but refused to commit
them to writing. He never had any
intention of keeping the terms.

The surrender was not fairly
completed before the Indians berai
to plunder, but Major Madison pnt
a stop to that by ordering his men
to resist it, even with ball and bay-
onet, as they had not yet surren-
dered their arms. Such of the ofn-
cers and men as were unwounded.
and all the wounded who were al 1<'
to march, were sent off at once to
Maiden, and none of them were m«'-
lested on the way. Alas, how differ-
ent the fate of the poor wound^^l
and sick Americans who were lef:
at Frenchtownl They had bee'j
promised that conveyances wouVi
be sent to carry them to Maiden the
next dav. But rumors had reached
Proctor that General Harrison wa^
rapidly advancing upon Froncii-
town at the head of an Amerit^ar.
armv, so, in order to assure hi^
own safety, the British eomnuuM-

er left at once witli all his white
troops, leaving the wounded Ameri-
cans without the promised guard,
and exposed to all the atrocities
which the Indians might choose to
perpetrate; and he refused to send
the conveyances to remove them to
safety. It was evident from the first
that he intended to abandon them
to their fate; and that he also in-
tended to accelerate that fate seems
assured from. the. fact that on that
night he gave his Indiap allies a
*^ frolic^' at Stony Creek, six miles
from Frenchtown, on the road to
Maiden, wh^re they were furnished
plenty of liquor to get drunk on,
and it was certain that they would
return to Frenchtown to glut their
appetite for blood and plunder.

The wounded were taken into
the houses of the sympathizing
villagers and cared for by Doctors
Todd and Bowers, of Lewis's regi-
ment, who had been left behind for
that purpose. On the morning after
the battle, instead of the promised
sleds from Maiden, some two hun-
dred half-drunken Indians, their
faces painted red and black in
token of their hellish purposes,
came whooping and yelling into
Frenchtown. They held a short
council and decided to kill and
scalp all the wounded who were un-
able to travel; and they then pro-
ceeded at once to carry their fero-
cious purposes into execution. They
first plundered the village; then
broke into the houses where the
wounded lay, stripped them of
everything and tomahawked and
scalped them. Two houses contain-
ing a large number of wounded men
were set on fire, and the men were

burned alive. Those who attempted
to escape through the doors and
windows were tomahawked and
scalped. Others, outside the build-
ing, were scalped alive and thrown
into the flames.

Those of the prisoners who could
walk were marched off toward
Maiden, and when any of them sank
from exhaustion they were killed
and scalped. Major Graves who had
been wounded in battle the day be-
fore, was never heard of after-
wards. Captain Hickman was mur-
dered in one of the houses. Major
Woolfolk, wounded, gave out in
the march, and was murdered. Cap-
tain Nathaniel G. T. Hart, of Lex-
ington, conunander of the historic
old Lexington Light Intantry com-
pany, and Inspector General of
Harrison's Army, was removed
from a burning house, ^^s he was
able to travel, although wounded.
He paid a friendly Pottawattomie
chief one hundred dollars to con-
vey him in safety to Maiden. The
Indian placed Captain Hart upon
a horse, and started, but while still
in Frenchtown a Wyandot Indian
claimed the prisoner as his own. A
dispute between the two Indians
arose over the matter, and they
compromised by agreeing to kill
Captain Hart and divide his money
and clothing between them. There
is also a local tradition that the
Pottawattomie attempted to defend
the prisoner, when the Wyandot
shot and scalped him. There are
many other versions of the tragedy
one of which is that Captain Hart 's
head was cut oflf and used by the
Indians to play football with. Cap-
tain Hart was buried near the place

of his mnrder, but the exact spot
is not known. Captain Elliott, of
the British army, was a personal
friend of Captain Hart's. He (El-
liott) had been in Lexington be-
fore the war, where he was very ill
of fever for a long time in the house
of Colonel Thomas Hart, the father
of Captain Hart. During that ill-
ness he had received many atten-
tions from the young gentleman
whom he now basely deserted in
his hour of greatest need. He had
sacredly promised Captain Hart
to send a sled to carry him to Mai-
den; but when reminded of that
promise coolly said: ''Charity be-
gins at home; my own wounded
must be carried to Maiden first. ^'
When asked for the aid of a sur-
geon for the American wounded,
he said, ' ' The Indians are most ex-
cellent surgeons."

A few days after the massacre
at the River Baisin Proctor ordered
all the inhabitants of the town
to leave their homes and to move
to Detroit. They did so, and for
some time afterwards Frenchtown
was a scene of desolation. The dead
bodies of the Americans were left
lying where they fell, but some of
them were buried a month or two
later by the men of Colonel Rich-
ard M. Johnson's Regiment of
Kentucky Cavalry, who passed hur-
riedlv over the battlefield on a
march to another point. But the re-
mains of the most of the massacred
Americans remained unburied
until October 15, 1813, when the
victorious Kentuckians, re!tuming
from the annihilation of Proctor's
army at the battle of the Thames,
in Canada (October 5, 1813), went

purposely to Frenchtown to bury
the remains. They interred with
military honors sixty-five skeletons
(all they could find) of those heroes
who had given their lives for
their country, and whose bones had
been bleaching in the wilderness,
unsepulchered for nine months. The
remains of those heroes were taken
up on July 4, 1818, and reinterred
in the cemetery of Monroe, Mich-
igan, the town which stands on the
site of the battle. In August of the
same year they were again taken
up and removed to Detroit, Mich-
igan, and interred in ttee Protest-
ant cemetery there. In 1834 they
were again taken up and removed
to the Clinton Street Cemetery, in
Detroit; and in September of the
same year (1834) they were once
more, and for the last time exhumed
and placed in boxes marked
''Kentucky's Gallant Dead, Jan-
uary 18, 1813, River Raisin, Mich-
igan," and at last and forever
placed at rest in the State Ceme-
tery, in Frankfort, Kentucky.

On February 25, 1871 while some
excavations were being made is
Monroe, Michigan, thirty human
skulls and numerous human bone?
were exhumed — the remains of
brave Kentuckians who were mas-
sacred there. These were probably
the remains of the men who had
been buried by Johnson ^s Kes;!-
ment, within a month or two after
the battle. They too should sleep
in the State Cemetery at Frank-
fort, beneath the shadow of the
Battle Monument, upon **Fame'>
Eternal Camping Ground. '^

Proctor reached Amherstbiir?.
Canada, with his prisoners on Jan-

uary 23, 1813, and on the 26th
proceeded to Sandwich and De-
troit. Some of the prisoners were
sent to Detroit, and others to Fort
George, on the Niagara Eiver, by-
way of the Thames. The latter suf-
fered much from tlie severity of
the weather and the bad treatment
received from their guards. At
Fort George they were mostly
paroled on condition that they
would not **bear arms against His
Majesty or his allies during the
war, or until exchanged." General
Winchester, Colonel Lewis and
Major Madison were sent to Que-
bec, and were confined at Beauport,
near that city, until the spring of
1814, when they were released by
a general exchange of prisoners
which took place at that time.

Except one company of the 19th
Infantry (** Regulars"), all of the
troops who took part in the vic-
tory at Frenchtown on January
18, and in the defeat at the same
place on January 22, 1813, were
Kentuckians ; and, altogether, there
were nearly a thousand of them.
Their losses in the defeat of Jan-
uary 22 were 290 killed and miss-
ing, and 644 made prisoners. Out
of the whole army only thirty-three
men escaped death or capture.
Proctor reported his losses as 24
killed and 158 wounded ; the loss of
his Indian allies has never been
known. He was made a Brigadier
General on account of his victory
at the River Raisin.

The tragedy of the River feaisin
touched nearly every home in Ken-
tucky; and the whole State was in
mourning, for the efflorescence of
its young manhood had been

stricken down upon that fatal field.
It was a terrible blow, which was
long remembered. The first shock
of horror and grief was deadening;
but this was quickly followed by a
feeling of intense exasperation;
and from that time on the battle-
cry of the Kentucky soldiers was
''Remember the River Raisin 1^*
Nine months later (October 5,
1813), at the battle of the Thames,
in Canada, they rushed impetuous-
ly into the conflict shouting ''Re-
member the River Raisin!" and
within an hour had destroyed Proc-
tor's entire army; though he him-
self escaped by craven flight. He re-
ceived his just deserts in the form
of the censure of his superiors, the
severe rebuke of his sovereign, and
the scorn of all honorable men. He
was courtmartialed on account of
his flight at the very beginning of
the battle of the Thames, and was
sentenced to be publicly repri-
manded and suspended from rank
and pay for six months; and the
sentence was read at the head ot
every regiment in the British army.
His Indian ally, Tecumseh, had
told him to his face that he was a
coward.

Among the heroes and martyrs
of the River Raisin, sublimely
glorious even in disaster, whom
Kentucky has always been proud to
honor, were the following:

Colonel John Allen, commander
of the First Kentucky Rifle Regi-
ment. Allen County, Kentucky,
formed in 1815, was named in his
honor. Allen County, Ohio, and Al-
len County, Indiana, were also
named in his honor.

Captain Bland W, Ballard, of
Allen *s Eifle Regiment. Ballard
County, Kentucky, formed in 1842,
was named in his honor.

Captain John Edmonson, of Al-
len's Bifle Begiment. Edmondson
County, formed in 1825, was named
in his honor.

Major Benjamin Graves, of
Lewis's Regiment of Kentucky
Volunteers. Graves County, Ken-
tucky, formed in 1823, was named
in his honor.

Captain Nathaniel G. T. Hart, of
Lewis's Regiment. Hart County,
Kentucky, formed in 1819, was
named in his honor.

Captain Paschal Hickman, of
Allen's Rifle Regiment. Hickman
County, Kentucky, formed in 1821,
was named in his honor.

Captain Virgil McCracken, of
Allen's Rifle Regiment. McCracken
County, Kentucky, formed in 1824,
was named in his honor.

Captain Alney McLean, of the
17th United States Infantry. Mc-
Lean County, Kentucky, formed in
1854, was named in his honor.

Major George Madison, of Al-
len's Rifle Regiment, was elected
Governor of Kentucky in 1816,
without ^opposition. There was al-
ready a county in Kentucky named
Madison, in honor of President
Madison.

Captain James Meade, of the
17th United States Infantry. Meade
County, Kentucky, formed in 1823,
was named in his honor.

Captain John Simpson, of Al-
len's Rifle Regiment. ' Simpson
County, Kentucky'', formed in 1819,
was named ni his honor. He was a
member of Congress at the time of

his death; and so was serving his
country both in the field and the
forum.

All of the above-named oflScers
except Major Madison and Captain
McLean were either killed in bat-
tle at the River Raisin, or were as-
sassinated by Indians after they
had surrendered as prisoners of
war.

Colonel John Allen.

Colonel John Allen, the most dis-
tinguished of the Kentuckians who
fell at the River Raisin, was in-
nately one of the greatest men who
ever lived in the United States. Al-
though only thirty-one years of age
at the time of his tragic but heroic
death, he had already attained the
front rank of eminence in Ken-
tucky, and that, too, at a time when
the stalwart young Commonwealth
was full to overflowing with bril-
liant and talented men, who then
gave her a name which still clings
to her in tradition. As a lawyer lie
had outstripped all competition,
and in the Legislature, as well as
at the bar, he was brought into for-
ensic collision with Henry Chiy.
Joseph Hamilton Daviess, Felix
Grundy, John Rowan, Jesse Bled-
soe, Isham Talbott, John Boyle,
Humphrey Marshall the elder, John
Breckinridge, John Brown, John
Pope, and the Hardins — any one of
whom would have been recognizee
as a great man in any age and in
any country. Among these able and
brilliant men John Allen had hnt
two rivals, Henry Clay and Josepl:
Hamilton Daviess. In the judgment
of all who knew him, and were capa-

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i;OLONEL JOHN ALLEN.

ble of judging, had he lived his
reputation and fame would not
have been dimmed even by those of
Henry Clay. In 1808, at the age of
twenty-seven years, he became a
candidate for Q-overnor of Ken-
tucky against the veteran soldier.
General Charles Scott, whose dis-
tinguished military record extend-
ed from Braddock 's defeat, in 1755,
all through the Eevolutionary War,
and down to Wayne's victory at
the Fallen Timbers, Ohio, in 1794.
At that time a man without a mili-
tary record had small chance for
election to any oflSce in Kentucky,
against a competitor who had. such
a record; and so John Allen was
defeated by a small majority.

^^When the War of 1812 com-
menced, all the surroundings of
John Allen prompted him to yield
to a spirit of patriotic elation
which impelled him to the front. It
was not for such as he to remain in
inglorious safety in peaceful Ken-
tucky while calls for help were
borne on every breeze that swept
from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.''
The first regiment raised in the
State for that war, the First Ken-
tucky Rifle Eegiment, was recruit-
ed before the war was declared, and
John Allen was commissioned as its
Colonel on June 5, 1812, or about
two weeks before the declaration
of war by Congress. **The hard-
ships of the memorable campaign
in the dead of the ensuing winter
are pictured in his private letters
to his wife. Those letters tell of the
departure and results of the expedi-
tion against Mississinewa. Fre-
quent mention is made in them of
* Little Bland' Ballard, son of the

old Indian fighter of the same
name ; and of the gallant Simpson,
whom he had induced to study law,
and in whose early distinction in
that profession he had a pardon-
able pride. They give details con-
cerning Q-eorge Madison, the sec-
ond Major of the command, after-
wards Governor ; of Martin D. Har-
din, the first Major, who had mar-
ried his wife's sister; and of her
young brothers. Dr. Ben and Eob-
ert Logan. One of the letters in-
forms Mrs. Allen of the death of
Lawba, an Indian son of Chief
Moluntha, who had been adopted i
and reared by Mrs. Allen 's father, f
General Benjamin Logan, and who
ever afterwards called himself
^Captain Logan.' In a letter writ-
ten on January 21, 1813, the night
before his death, he said: *We meet
the enemy tomorrow. I trust that
we will render a good account of
ourselves, or that I will never live
to tell the tale of our disgrace. ' ' '
He was not disappointed in the
fate he craved in case of defeat.
The manner of his death, after
surrender, has already been relat-
ed in this article. His body was
never recovered, so far as is posi-
tively known; but it is probable
that his remains were among those
gathered up on October 15, 1813,
and buried by the Kentuck}^ troops
on their way home from the vic-
tory at the battle of the Thames. If
this is true (and let us hope that it
is) the ashes of the brilliant and
heroic Colonel John Allen now
sleep the sleep that knows no wak-
ing in the beautiful State Cemetery
at Frankfort.

The only portrait of Colonel Al-
len known to be in existence was
the one in the possession of Judge
William M. Dickson, of Avondale,
Ohio, who married one of his
granddaughters. This portrait was
painted by Matthew H. Jouett, and
a reproduction of it is published in
connection with this article.

KENTUCKIANS KILLED AND
WOUNDED IN THE MEX-
ICAN WAH.

Collated by A. C. Quisenberry,
From Official Records.

In the Battle of Buena Vista.

Second Kentucky Infantry — Colo-
nel William R. McKee.

Colonel William E. McKee, killed.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Clay,
Jr., killed.

Captain W. T. Willis, killed.

Private W. T. Smith, Company A,
killed.

Private A. M. Chadowen, Com-
pany A, killed.

Sergeant H. Wolfe, Company B,
killed.

Private M. Updike, Company B,
killed.

Private W. Blackwell, Company
B, killed.

Private L. B. Bartlett, Company

B, killed.

Corporal S. M. Williams, Company

C, killed.

Private R. M. Baker, Companv C,

killed.
Private M. Barth, Company C.

killed.
Private W. Banks, Companv C.

killed.
Private J. Moffitt, Company C,

killed.
Corporal P. Shrough, Company D,

killed.
Private J. Walden, Companv D.

killed.
Private H. Jones, Companv R

killed.
Private Wm. Harmon, Company

D, killed.

Corporal J. Q. Carlin, Companv E,

killed.
Musician M. Randlebaugh , Com

pany E, killed.
Private H. Frazier, Companv E.

killed.
Private J. H. Harkins, Company

E, kUled.

Private K. McCurdy, Companv R

killed.
Private H. Snow, Companv E,

killed.
Private H. Trotter, Company F.

killed.

Private J. H. Gregory, Company
a, killed.

Private J. R. Ballard, Company
G, killed.

Private W. Vest, Company G-

killed.
Private J. J. Waller, Company G.

killed.

Sergeant J. King, Company H.
killed.

Ragitter of the Kentucky State Hietorical Society.

Sergeant J. M. Dunlap, Company
H, killed.

Private W. Gilbert, Company H,
killed.

Private W. Rham, Company H,
killed.

Private J. Williams, Company H,
killed.

Corporal H. Edwards, Company I,
killed.

Private J. J. Thoro, Company I,

killed.
Private A. Groodpaster, Company

I, killed.

Private J. Layton, Company K,
killed.

Private W. Bard, Company K,
killed.

Private J. Johnson, Company K,

killed.
Private D. Davis, Company K,

killed.
Private A. Thacker, Company K,

killed.
Private W. P. Reynolds, Company

K, killed.
Private J. W. Watson, Company

K, killed.
2nd Lieutenant E. L. Barber,

slightly wounded.
2nd Lieutenant Thos. W. Napier,

severely wounded.
Sergeant J. Minton, Company A,

slightly wounded.
Private E. Morris, Company A,

slightly wounded.
Private S. Wallace, Company A,

slightly wounded.
Private H. Winlock, Company A,

slightly wounded.
Private J. Burnett, Company A,

slightly wounded.
Coporal S. Mayhall, Company B,

mortally wounded.

Private B. 0. Branham, Company
B, severely wounded.

Private A. Brea, Company B, sev-
erely wounded.

Private J. Williams, Company B,
slightly wounded.

Private W. S. Bartlett, Company

B, slightly wounded.

Private E. Burton, Company C,
slightly wounded.

Acting 2nd Lieutenant W. S. With-
ers, Company C, severely wound-
ed.

Sefrgeant J. Wlheatley, Company
Q, slightly wounded.

Corporal C. C. Smedley, Company

C, slightly wounded.

Private J. Caliill, Company C,

slightly wounded.
Private J. Craw^ford, Company C,

slightly wounded.
Private M. Davidson, Company C,

slightly wounded.
Private W. Hendron, Company C,

mortally wounded.
Private H. Burdett, Company D,

mortally wounded.
Private P. Hamilton, Company D,

severely wounded.
Corporal J. Craig, Company D,

slightly wounded.
Private H. Vanfleet, Company D,

severely wounded.
Private A. S. Montgomery, Com-
pany D, severely wounded.
Corporal J. Jemison, Company E,

severelv wounded.
Private T. Welch, Company E,

severely wounded.
Private J. S. Vandiver, Company

E, severely wounded.
Private J. Honk, Company E,

slightly wounded.
Private W. Park, Company E,

slightly wounded.

Private D. Walker, Company E,
slightly wounded.

Private J. Yelton, Company E,
slightly wounded.

Private J. Hunter, Company F,
severely wounded.

Private T. J. Brenner, Company
F, slightly wounded.

Private W. Stringer, Company Q,
severely wounded. ,

Private T. Hughes, Company Q,
severely wounded.

Private M. A. Davenport, Com-
pany Gr, slightly wounded.

Sergeant J. Ward, Company H,

mortally wounded.
Private F. Oak, Company H,

mortally wounded.
Corporal F. Fox, Company H,

slightly wounded.
Corporal H. Craig, Company H,

slightly wounded.
Private William Daly, Company

H, slightly wounded.
Private R. Holder, Company H,

slightly wounded.
Private J. Willington, Company H,

slightly wounded.
Private Q. Simmons, Company H,

slightly wounded.
Private E. S. Cahill, Company I,

mortally wounded.
Private J. Redmon, Company I,

slightly wounded.
Private Ed McCuUar, Company I,

slightly wounded.
Private William Blunt, Company I,

slightly wounded.
Sergeant W. Lillard, Company K,

severely wounded.
Private W. Warford, Company K,

mortally wounded.
Private B. Perry, Company K,

severely wounded.

Private G. Searey, Company K,

slightly wounded.
Private W. Howard, Company K,

slightly wounded.
Private J. Montgomery, Comt>aDT

K, slightly wounded.
Private Gr. W. Reed, Company K,

slightly wounded.
Note. — The companies of this
regiment were from the following
counties :

Company A, from Green County.

Company B, from Franklin
County.

Company C, from Mercer Comity

Company D, from Boyle County.

Company E, from Kenton
County.

Company F, from Jessamine
County.

Company G, from Lincoln
County.

Company H, from Kenton
County.

Company I, from Montgomery
County.

Company K, from Anderson
County.

First Kentucky Cavalry — Colonel
Humphrey Marshall.

Adjutant E. M. Vaughan, killed.
Private J. C. Miller, Company A,

killed.
Private B. Warren, Company A,

killed.
Private David Lillard, Company B,

killed.
Private A. J. Martin, Company

B, killed.
Private Patrick Quigley, Company

B, killed.
Private Lewis Sanders, Company

B, killed.

Private J. EUingw^ood, Company
C, killed.

Private John Sanders, Company
C, killed.

Private James Seaton, Company

C, killed.

Private J. A. Jones, Company D,
killed.

Private W. A. McClintock, Com-
pany D, killed.

Private D. P. Eogers, Company

D, killed.

Private C. B. Thompson, Companv

E, killed.

Private C. B. Dement, Company

F, killed.

Private E. F. Lilly, Company G,

killed.
Private H. Danforth, Company G,

killed.
Private J. Martin, Company G,

killed.
Private E. Rontson, Company G,

killed. •

Private J. M. Rowlin, Company

G, killed.

Private John Bk>ss, Company G>

killed.
Private T. B. Wigart, Company I,

killed.
Private Henry Carty, Company K,

killed.
Private Clement Jones, Company

K, killed.
Private A. J. Morgan, Company

K, killed.
Private N. Raimy, Company K,

kiUed.
Private William Thwaits, Com-
pany K, killed.
Captain John Shawhan, wounded.
2nd Lieutenant J. M. Brown,

wounded.
2nd, Lieutenant John Merryfield,

wounded.

Private Thomas Coun, Company
A, slightly wounded.

Private John H. Clark, Company
A, slightly wounded.

Private Samuel G. Evans, Com-
pany A, slightly wounded.

Private William Hemdon, Com-
pany A, slightly wounded.

Private Joseph Murphy, Company

A, severely wounded.

Private Joseph Murphy, Com-
pany B, wounded.

Private E. W. Resor, Company B,
wounded.

Private Thomas Scandriff, Com-
pany B, wounded.

Private Bamett Spencer, Company

B, wounded.

Private John Walker, Company B,
wounded.

Private J. K. Gt)odloe, Company C,

wounded.
Private B. 0. Pearce, Company C,

wounded.
Private John Reddish, Company

C, wounded.

Private J. S. Byram, Company D,

wounded.
Private C. H. Fowler, Company D,

wounded.
Private W. C. Parker, Company D,

wounded.
Private J. M. VanHook, Company

D, wounded.

Private James Warford, Company

D, wounded.

Private George H. Wilson, Com-
pany D, wounded.

Private S. Maratta, Company E,
wounded.

Private James Pomeroy, Company

E, wounded.

Private H. E. Brady, Company F,
wounded.

Private Thomas Brown, Company
G, wounded.

Private L. Help, Company G,
wounded.

Private S. Jackson, Company G,
wounded.

Private James Sehooley, Company
I, wounded.

Private M. B. Callahan, Company
K, wounded.

Private James Levasey, Company
K, wounded.

Private Charles Shepperd, Com-
pany K, wounded.

Private Isaac Shepperd, Company
K, wounded.

Note. — The companies of this
regiment were from the following
counties :

Company A, from Jefferson
County.

Company B, from Jefferson
County.

Company C, from Fayette
County.

Company D, from Woodford
County.

Company E, from Hadison
County.

Company F, from Garrard
County.

Company G, from Fayette
County.

Company H, from Gallatin
County.

Company I, froin Harrison
County.

Company K, from Franklin
County.

Company H, being on detached
duty, did not take part in the battle
of Buena Vista.

In the Battle of Cebbo Gobdo.

Captain John S. WUliams' Mt-
pendent Company.

2nd Lieutenant George T. Suther-
land, severely wounded.

Sergeant E. T. Mockabee, mortally
wounded.

Private Henry Brower, mortally

wounded.
Private James Chisholm, slightly

wounded.
Private N. W. Keith, severely

wounded.
Private Joseph J. Langston,

severely wounded.
Private Willis F. Martin, sligtlily

wounded.
Private James Muir, slightly

wounded.
Private Minor T. Smith, severely

• wounded.
Private Ira T. Storm, severely

wounded.
Private Henry Williams, severely

wounded.

(Note.— This company ^^^
from Clark County.)

The following is dn pflScial Hf-
of casualties to Kentucky troops m
the battle of Cerro Gordo, but tk
regiment is not named:

Sergeant

Carson, Compary

A, severely wounded.
Private Aaron Capps, Company A.

slightly wounded.
Private Aaron Dockery, Compaq ;

A, severely w^ounded.
Private Henry Mowry, Company

A, severely wounded.

Private Peter Wheeler, Company

A, slightly wounded:
Private S. Q-. Williams, Company

A, slightly wounded.

Private B. F. Bibb, Company B,

slightly wounded.
Private Morris Brewer, Company

B, slightly wounded.

Private Jerry Kent, Company B,

mortally wounded.
Sergeant T. E. Bradley, Company

C, slightly wounded.
Sergeant E. H. McAdoo, Compai;iy

C, slightly wounded.

Private William Bennett, Com-
pany C, severely wounded.

Private Samuel Davis, Company

C, severely wounded.

Private J. N. Grraham, Company C,

severely wounded.
Private L. L. Jones, Company C,

severely wounded.
Private Ben O'Harre, Company D,

severely wounded.
Private Josiah Prescott, Company

D, severely wounded.
Private C. A. Boss, Company D,

severely wounded.
Private A. Gregory, Company E,

slightly wounded.
Private John Gregory, Company E,

slightly wounded.

Private John P. Isler, Company E,

slightly wounded.
Private B. Plunkett, Company E,

severely wounded.
Private E. G. Eoberson, Company

E, severely wounded.
Sergeant John Court, Company P,

severely wounded.

Sergeant George A. Smith, Com-
pany F, severely wounded.

Private John Burnes, Company F,
severely wounded.

Private Jason Cloud, Company F,
slightly wounded.

Private E. Johnson, Company P,
severely wounded.

Private Nathan Moore, Company

F, slightly wounded.

Private L. W. Eussell, Company F,
severely wounded.

Private Alonzo White, Company F,
severely wounded.

Private J. Whittington, Company
F, severely wounded.

Private James M. Allison, Com-
pany G, severely wounded.

Private John L. Dearman, Com-
pany H, slightly wounded.

Private James Wood, Company H,
severely wounded.

H, R.— 3

REGRETS

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON

REGRETS.

BY MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON,

Have I no regrets? Ah, my life Is full

Of sore regrets, for things I could not do,
And that I would have done, hut could not
pull
The weight I had to carry then and hear
me thru;
A pathway drear, not chosen of my will.
But one carved for me, hard and rough
and chill.
God rebuked my fine, hlgh-thoughted way,

And led me in an humbler harder one,
My spirit chafed and sickened day by day.
Thus many tasks were left for Him —
half-done.

It hurt my soul that God should treat me
so,
Yet when I thought of Christ, our pre-
cious Lord,
My courage came like sudden overflow,
« Then I rushed on with broken song and

word
(For His sake. I kept the path and gleaned
Where others feared the weeds and
stalk, I went
To have and hold, the few sheaves that I
gained.

So such days, such dreary days were

spent*
Sorrows came. Tears like a swollen river

swept
My hopes away, yet I toiled and prayed,

the while I wept.

Regret, that I could never be in life to
those
I loved the best, all that I might have
'been,
But for the bar across my way none could
unclose.
And tho' indignant, I kept the stinging
pain within.
At last I ceased to care if days were dark
or bright,
•So I had strength to live the ideal of my
thought
When lo! one day to my undreamed^ un-
known delignt,
God placed His blessing on the work I
wrought.
And on my life, and in my hand was laid
The rich inheritance of toil and prayer
long delayed.

^•m

KENTUCKY

A LAND OF HEROISM, ELOQUENCE,
STATESMANSHIP AND LETTERS

GEORGE BABEE.

While the newspapers are regaling the world with
accounts of the ignorance in Kentucky, the world
pays no attention to this latter day clap-trap about
education and the call for **more money and more
books/ ^ The world thinks of Kentucky as Mr. Baber
writes of her in the past, and as she really is to-
day among the well-bom intelligent people. She is as
highly educated as any people need be, as refined and cul-
tured as any people in America. We have lazaroni, as
Italy has, we have good-for-nothing, idle, ignorant peo-
ple as England has. But those countries do not point to
such cumberers of the ground as their representatives,
and parade such ignorance, with a call upon the treasury
of the country for *'more money and more books '* to
throw away upon them. — (Ed. Eegister.)

KENTUCKY

A LAND OF HEROISM, ELOQUENCE, STATES-
MANSHIP AND LETTERS

By Greorge Baber.

The history of Kentucky, illus-
trating the development of an
American Commonwtealth, is re-
plete with distinguished examples
of heroism, of patriotism and of
statesmanship. The events that
have marked her progress since the
time when her borders were a
wilderness are fraught with inter-
est to the whole human race. In
1750 the first steps of the Anglo-
Saxon impressed the soil of Ken-
tucky, bringing the seeds of a new
civilization!. TJiomas Walker, ^he
first pioneer whose footfalls broke
the stillness of her valleys, crossed
the Alleghanies from Virginia in
that year. Upon shortly returning
to Virginia, he gave a favorable
account of the new land but left no
well-marked trace behind. Thence-
forward, from time to time, brief
incursions were made by bands of
white men bent on mere adventure ;
but not until 1767, when John Fin-
ley first crossed the borders of
North Carolina and entered the
Elkhorn Valley, was a definite dis-
covery of Kentucky made. Then
from the banks of the Yadkin fol-
lowed Daniel Boone, the famous
pioneer, who, in 1769, ** after
traveling through a mountainous

wilderness,'' found himself on Red
River, *' where John Finley had
formerly been trading with the
Indians, and, from the top of an
eminence, saw with pleasure the
beautiful level of Kentucke.''
Thus, Finley and Boone, accom-
panied by others, explored the un-
broken domain; but it was not till
1774 that James Harrod built the
first log cabin in the solitude,
selecting the site of the present de-
lightful town of paarrodsburg in
the thriftiest portion of the State.
Kentucky then formed a part of
Fincastle County, Virginia. Her
extent was unknown, her bound-
aries undefined, and her rich re-
sources were unconceived by even
the most fertile brain. After two
years duration in the wilderness,
attended by their heroic compan-
ions, John Stuart, Joseph Holden,
James Mooney and William Cool,
Finley and Boone (their fancy
teeming with the future wealth of
beautiful rivers, boundless fields
and mighty forests), returned to
their old homes in North Carolina
and Virginia; and then they re-
newed their pilgrimage to Ken-
tucky as the forerunners of a pop-
ulation that was destined through

Tineqnaled perils to lay the f ounda-
tions of the State.

The geographical limits of Ken-
tucky were prescribed by the Leg-
islature of Virginia on the Slst of
December, 1776, when an act was
passed declaring thaf :

^'That part of Fincastle County
which lies south and westward of
a line beginning on the Ohio at the
mouth of the Great Sandy Creek,
and running up the same, and the
main or northwesterly branch
thereof to the j?reat Laurel Ridge
on Cumberland Mountain, thence
southwesterly along said moun-
tain to the line of North Carolina,
shall be hereafter known by the
name of the County of Kentucky. ' '
In this survey of history ap-
pears the origin of that geograph-
ical unity from which sprang the
Commonwealth. But Kentucky's
wide domain, so long concealed in
the shadows of trackless forests,
had evidently possessed a distinc-
tive and, perhaps, remarkable his-
tory centuries before the assump-
tion of the name which she now
wears in the sisterhood of States.
Humphrey Marshall, one of the
earliest historians of the Com-
monwealth, referring to this fact,
says :

**This delightful country and
these majestic rivers from time
immemorial had been the resort of
wild beasts and of men no less sav-
age, when, in the year 1767, it was
visited by John Finley and a ff>w
wandering white men from the
British Colony of North Carolina,
allured to the wilderness by love of
hunting and the desire of trading
with the Indians who were then

understood to be at peace. These
were a race of men whose origin
lies buried in the most profound
obscurity, the conjectures of the
learned notwithstanding; and who,
after a long intercourse with Euro-
pean Colonists, had not arrived at
the shepherd state, of course not
practised in the arts of Agricul-
ture or Mechanics, but dependent
on fishing and hunting by men, and
a scanty supply of maize raised
by women, with imperfect instru-
ments, for subsistence. Their
clothing they fabricates from the
skins of wild animals and the inci-
dental supply of coarse cloths ob-
tained from itinerant peddlers who,
at times, visited their camps and
towns.*'

There are conclusive evidences
that the ** savage race,'* portrayed
by Marshall, were either preceded
or succeeded by another race of a
higher type, for the first pioneers
who, with Boone and Finley,
traversed the untilled fields, dis-
cerned in Kentucky the broken and
scattered relics of men who had
once exercised a dominion that
bore the marks of a higher civiliza-
tion. Hundreds of years may have
passed away since they had lived
and ruled; but the fallen columns,
the crumbled walls, the mouldered
implements of war and the ves-
tiges of art which survived were
voiceless proofs that they were not
only different from but vastly
superior to the rude and unlettered
Cherokees, Shawnees and Wyaai-
dots whom Boone and Finley
first encountered. A mystery
which no investigation has yet
solved hangs over the unwritten

fl«Oittei* of th# K«filueky SUto HIttorioal Society.

annals of this extinct race. They
may have been a mighty people
whose temples gleamed in the sun-
light, whose cities adorned the
plain, whose researches unfolded
the intricacies of nature, whose
arts gave beauty to the products
of the soil, whose battlefields were
emblazoned by deeds of glory,
whose literature enshrined rich
trophies of genius, but, whose
name, origin and fate the Great
Destroyer has clothed in oblivion.
Immediately succeeding the
legal formation of Kentucky
County in 1776, a constantly in-
creasing tide of immigration
poured into its borders from Vir-
ginia and from the Carolinas,
drawn thither by the glowing ac-
counts that had been given by the
pioneers. It was surely a fair and
noble land, remote from northern
lakes and southern gulf, from east-
era sea, and from plains of the dis-
tant west, the heart and stronghold
of the Continent. It was a land
of hills and vales, of springs and
fountains, brooks and larger
streams, well watered with the
rains and dews of heaven, and
blessed with fertile soil and genial
sky. Now began in earnest the
perilous task of building homes
for the whites. The increase or
population proportionately in-
creased the hardships of border
life, inasmuch as the apprehension
of a predestined fate was thereby
lodged in the savage breast; and
with eyes of hate the red man wit-
nessed the steady invasion of his
hunting grounds. James Harrod
had constructed his cabin where
Harrodsburg is now located. Colo-

nel Bichard Henderson, the archi-
tect of the shortlived Colony of
Transylvania, had negotiated with
the Cherokees for all that import-
ant region lying south of the Ken-
tucky River; Daniel Boone had
chosen a location at Boones-
borough; Simon Kenton had
planted a fort in what is now
Mason County in the northeastern
portion of the territory, just south
of the Ohio; while Benjamin
Logan had established his quarters
in the vicinity of the present town
of Stanford. These habitations,
signal posts as they were of an ad-
vancing host and of a new order of
affairs, aroused the hostility of the
hitherto unmolested savage and
led to that series of bloody con-
flicts through which the old set--
tiers passed for more than a de-
cade, meeting alternate victory and
defeat in their efforts to erect a
government of liberty and of l^w.
The incidents of that memorable
period constitute a drama of dis-
tress, of suffering, and of death,
but were marked by deeds worthy
of the world's greatest Heroes.
Human nature was put to the
severest tests, and these ordeals
developed in men and women alike
the highest forms of virtue. The
battles which the Kentucky pio-
neers waged with savage foes were
fought against an enemy that
often proved most cruel and relent-
less. The very streams ran with
innocent blood, while the torch of
vengeance blazed along the fearful
warpath. But even the cruelties*
of savage warfare were not suffi-
cient to destroy the humane char-
acter of the Saxon race as illus-

trated by the heroic Kentuckians
of that awful day — a fact to which
the gifted Kentuckian, Colonel
John Mason Brown, eloquently
referred in his memorable oration
in commemoration of the centen-
nial anniversary of the battle of
the Blue Licks, which he delivered
on the old battle ground August
19, 1882, when he said :

'*In all the chronicles of those
long years from Finley's first jour-
ney in 1767 to the end of the
Indian Wars at the battle of the
Thames in 1813, no instance occurs
(save McGary's murder of Molun-
tha), where Kentuckians met the
foe on other than equal terms in
fair fight. Hundreds of instances
attest their equal readiness for
single combat or contests of num-
bers, and almost every encounter
brought death to either the pioneer
or his foe; but the escutcheon of
Kentucky has never Feen tarnished
with the blot of cruelty, nor her
lofty courage soiled by massacre of
the defenseless, or by indignity to
prisoners of war."

And, now, looking back to that
period of sacrifice, it may be said

that the defence from time to time

of Logan's Station, Boones-
borough, Bryant's Station, Har-
rodsburg and Estill Station, and
the terrible disaster of the Blue
Licks, into which the Kentuckians
were led by the heroic but reckless
Hugh McGary on the 19th of Aug-
ust, 1782, in most of which en-
gagements even the wives and
daughters of the pioneers took an
important part, gave to mankind
examples of chivalry which must
ever exalt the Saxon race; and

every Kentuckian recalls with pride
the names of Boone, Logan, Ken-
ton, Clark, Todd, McBride and
Trigg who led the spirits of that
day. Precious indeed are the
memories that enshrine each and
all of these heroes of the early
time, but Kentucky cherishes a
peculiar affection for the name of
Daniel Boone, whose history is
linked with the first settlement of
the State ; and we may rejoice that
though, after all his struggles with
adversity, death found him an ob-
scure citizen of a sister Common-
wealth (Missouri), whither he
had gone to escape the pangs of
pecuniary misfortune, his remains
with those of his devoted wife, hav-
ing been later brought back for
burial in Kentucky, a monnment
erected at the expense of the State
marks their graves in the cemetery
at Frankfort. The career of Dan
iel Boone, like a mirror, reflected
all that was original, unique and
daring in western adventure. He
was the personal embodiment of
his time; and in this connection
may be repeated a brief tribute to
the man from the lips of James T.
Morehead, once a Kentuckv Sena-
tor, who, standing on the spot
made famous as the former site of
Boone's first cabin in Kentncty,
said :

^ ' He came originally to the ^1-
derness not to settle and subdue it.
but to gratify an inordinate pas-
sion for adventure and discovery,
to hunt the deer and buffalo, to
roam through the woods, to admire
the beauties of nature— in a word.
to enjoy the lonely pastimes of a
hunter's life, remote from the so-

ciety of hi^ fellow men. He had
heard with admiration and delight
Finley^s description of the coun-
try of Kentucky, and, high as were
his expectations, he found a second
paradise. Its lofty forests, its
noble rivers, its picturesque scen-
ery, its beautiful valleys, but, above
all, the plentifulness of beasts of
every American kind — these were
the attractions that brought him to
it. His manners were simple and
unobtrusive, except from the rude-
ness of the backwoodsman. In his
person there was nothing remark-
ably striking. He was five feet ten
inches in height and of robust and
powerful proportions. His coun-
tenance was mild and contempla-
tive, indicating a frame of mind al-
together different from the rest-
lessness and activity that distin-
^guished him. His ordinary habili-
ments were those of a hunter— a
hunting shirt and moccasins uni-
formly composing a part of them.
He died as he had lived, in a cabin,
and, perhaps, his trusty rifle was
the most valuable of his chattels.''
Despite the ravages of border
war, permanent settlements and
immigration from adjacent States
steadily increased m Kentucky,
and in 1783 the Legislature of Vir-
ginia passed an Act which created
in the territory three subdivisions
to be known respectively as Lin-
coln, Fayette and Jefferson Coun-
ties. In conformity with this act
the garb of civil government, hav-
ing its own peculiar impress, was
assumed by Kentucky. The futile
attempt to establish the Colony of
Transylvania, begun on Tuesday,
May 23, 1775, and having its seat

of government at Boonesborough,
had passed away; but under 'the
Virginia legislative enactment a
substantial movement was inaugu-
rated in pursuance of which a Dis-
trict Court with general jurisdic-
tion was promptly established and,
in the following year, initiatory
steps were taken tpward a separate
State Government. This high con-
summation was not, however, to be
reached except through delay and
turmoil and, also, disappointment.
Kentucky seemed born to continual
conflict. Her first settlers encoun-
tered tribulations not only in blaz-
ing the way to State organization,
but, when the days of savage strife
were over, her brave sons were
destined to pass through an ordeal
that would sorely try their patriot-
ism. Old Virginia was evidently
loath to part from her offspring,
and owing to repeated disagree-
ments the Kentucky pioneers were
required to endure the agitation
and annoyance incidental to hold-
ing nine successive Conventions,
between 1784 anSf 1791, before the
government of Virginia gave
formal assent to the organization
of the State preparatory to the
necessary action of the Federal
Congress, admitting Kentucky as
a member of the American Union.
Those nine conventions, sitting
from time to time at Danville,
were bodies of remarkable men —
heroes, in fact, who had subdued
the Indian, conquered the wilder-
ness, and were struggling to coni-
mit to their children a heritage con-
secrated to peace, a(nd to the cause
of freedom for future generations.
The log cabin at Danville where

Regftter of the Kentucky State Hfetorical Society.

the assemblies met was dedicated
with prayer to God and made vocal
with tongues the melody of which
was inspired by that love of liberty
which is ever purest amid such
sacrifices as attended the birth of
Kentucky.

On the fourth day of February,
1791, the Federal Congress passed
an Act prospectively admitting
Kentucky into the Union, April
19, 1792; and, in due time, the
young Commonwealth took her
place in that glorious Sisterhood
on which she has never put a
stain. The loyalty of Kentucky
to the Union was tested in the very
infancy of the State. The vicissi-
tudes and vexations that had
marked the territorial condition
had been of the most trying char-
acter, and shortly after admission
into the Union a corrupt effort was
made by the Spanish Oovernment,
operating through domestic intri-
guers, to alienate the people of Ken-
tucky from the Government, and,
by appeals partly to public pas-
sion and partly to selfish commer-
cial interests, seduce them into an
alliance with Spain, with a view,
as alleged, to securing for Ken-
tucky and the western country the
free navigation of the Mississippi
Eiver. In 1797 formal negotiations
with this object in view were in-
stituted under the auspices of **His
Excellency, The Baron of Caron-
delet, Commander-in-Chief and
Governor of his Catholic Majesty's
Provinces of West Florida and
Louisiana," and the intriguers
found in Judge Sebastian, of Lou-
isville, Kentucky, a willing listener,
not to say a ready participant in

the proposals that were offered
for consideration. Without giving
a detailed account of this intrigue,
it is sufficient to say that the ex-
posure of it awakened popular in-
dignation, subjected its abettors
to public execration, deepened the
patriotism of the young State, and
led to the strengthening of the ties
that bound Kentucky to the fabric
which had been cemented by the
blood of the Revolution. This was
true, despite the fact that there
were not lacking at that critical
period a few able and ambitious
men in Kentucky who earnestly
favored the Spanish scheme; but
the people themselves esteemed as
above all price* their own good
faith to the sacred obligations
which bound them to Virginia;
hence, though swayed for a time by
passion, they nevertheless clung to
that sense of honor which distin-
guishes not only Kentuckians, but
true men everywhere.

In 1792, led by Isaac Shelby, her
first Governor, who had won endur-
ing fame at King's Mountain, Ken-
tucky began her career as a State.
She was to fulfill a grand niission,
bearing her own responsibilities
and contributing her own share to
the cause of good government. Hav-
ing inexhaustible natural resources
the young State at once attracted
a daily increasing volume of immi-
gration from the older Common-
wealths, especially from Virginia
and the Carolinas whence had been
derived her first settlers. Her
subsequent history abonnds with
examples of heroism and of states-
menship. The elements that com-
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make them essentially brave and
true. Commingling in their veins
was the blood of the Norman and
the Saxon. Faultless courage, a
deep love of justice, and withal a
pure devotion to the amenities and
graces of life, formed the traits
which then, as now, made up the
Kentucky character. The first
bom of Virginia, the people of the
State have ever been imbued with
the spirit which won for the Old
Dominion the renown that illumines
at once her annals of peace and of
war.

Kentucky has always borne her
escutcheon high on the battlefield.
The cry of public danger never
failed to awaken a patriotic re-
sponse from her courageous sons.
Her soldiers were first and fore-
most in the battles waged under
Clarke and Harrison, in the North-
west, with' the Indians whose great
leader, Tecumseh, fell at the final
battle of the Thames simultaneous-
ly with the infamous renegade,
Simon Girty, in front of the Ken-
tucky regiment commanded by
Bichard M. Johnson, who there-
after attained great distinction in
the history of the State. The
records of the War of 1812-14 are
ablaze with the deeds of her sol-
diers who with Johnson and Dud-
ley, Croghan, Daviess and Leslie
Combs, followed Harrison through
the carnage of Tippecanoe and the
Baisin, and who, with enthusiastic
ardour, stood with Adair by the
side of Andrew Jackson, in whose
wake the picked veterans of Wel-
lington were vanquished at New
Orleans. In all the wars of the Be-
public, Kentuckians have freely

bared their bosoms to the foe. With
intrepid steps they followed the
flag through the Florida cam-
paigns. The records of the struggle
with Mexico contain no names
more honorable than those which
Kentucky gave to that memorable
contest ; wMle, on both sides in the
melancholy strife of 1861 — 1865,
her brave sons bore themselves in
a manner that shed new lustre on
the State. In the war for the Union
Kentucky engaged with apparent
reluctance, not by reason of opposi-
tion to the National Government,
but because, at the beginning of
the struggle, the people of the
State were impelled by a supreme
desire to stay the tide of popular
passion and, if possible, avert the
prolonged fratricidal strife that
swept so many courageous Ameri-
cans into its vortex. Kentucky
was the birthplace of the two great
figures that commanded the world 's
attention during that unequaled
struggle. Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis were bom about
the same date and within the same
portion of Kentucky; and it may
be fairly said that those Kentuck-
ians who followed Jefferson Davis
in the cause of Secession were no
less patriotic and courageous than
those who, with similar heroism,
consecrated themselves to the cause
of the Union under the leadership
of Abraham Lincoln. When Ken-
tucky's hesitation proved unavail-
ing to restrain the tide of revolu-
tion, she placed herself in an atti-
tude of loyalty to the National
Flag, and in one hundred and
thirty-three engagements on her
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their courage between 1861 and
1865, thereby emulating the ex-
ample set in the beginning by her
heroic son, Eobert Anderson, who
maintained the distressful siej^e of
Fort Sumpter against the over-
powering assaults of General
Beauregard, Kentucky 's course
during the war for the Union was
equaled only by her magnanimity
toward her defeated sons at the
end of the strife; and now the
names of Albert Sidney Johnston,
John C. Breckinridge, Ben Hardin
Helm, Eoger Hanson, John H.
Morgan and Joseph H. Lewis are
honored by the people as are those
of Lovell H. Rousseau, Thomas J.
Wood, Walter C. Whitaker, Frank
Wolford and Thomas L. Critten-
den, who conspicuously figured on
the opposing side. Though the
trusty blades of these men crossed
each other amid fire and blood,
their deeds are alike a part of Ken-
tucky's glorious fame!

But Kentuckians have won im-
perishable distiriction lin conflicts
of another sort, but of no less sig-
nificance than those in which great
armies meet. Going back to an
early period in the Nineteenth Cen-
tury, we recall with pride the in-
tellectual combats in which Ken-
tucky's orators and statesmen have
engaged. They were combats
worthy of the gods themselves. Re-
call for a moment the famous strug-
gle between the Relief and the
Anti-Relief or, as they were called,
the yOld" and the ''New" Court
parties. It was a conflict in which
there were giants confronting each
other, giants in brain andgiart? in
will; and the issue between then in-

volved far more than mere party
passion or prejudice. It was an
issue of principle, fundamental and
vital. Following the War of 1812-
14, there occurred a monetary
panic in Kentucky. Financial dis-
tress prevailed throughout the
State. The system of State Bank-
ing then in vogue, coupled with a
widespread mania for speculation,
had proven a Pandora's Box from
which had sprung an Iliad of woe.s,
and from every part of the Com-
monwealth arose the cry for ** re-
lief." The politicians lent their
ears to the cry and made ready a
panacea for the times. The Legisla-
ture which met in 1819-20, guided
bv reckless demands, hastened to
enact what was known as the *' Re-
lief Bill," which gave each debtor
the right to replevy a judgment of
the court for from one to thref
vears. Then ensued a furious war-
fare between the creditor and debt-
or classes of the State. The stmsr-
gle assumed a violent phase and
soon enlisted the ablest lawvers
and politicians against each other.
The championship of the Relief
Party included such men as Wil-
liam T. Barry, subsequently Presi-
dent Jackson's Postmaster Gren-
eral; John Rowan, who became a
United States Senator; Solomon P.
Sharp, Attorney General of the
State and Member of Cong^ress:
and George M. Bibb, a distin-
guished jurist, and subsequently
President Tyler's Secretary of the
Treasury. Among the leaders of the
opposition were such spirits a?
Robert Wickliffe, Chilton Allen,
Thomas A. Marshall, Tlohn Boyle,
George Robertson, Joseph R.

Underwood, and.Eobert J. Breck-
inridge who thereafter abandoned
political ambition and rose to fame
in the ministry of the Presbyter-
ian Church. These men, gifted
with, a degree of eloquence seldom,
if ever, surpassed, went before the
people with tongues of flame. Their
clarion tones made the welkin
ring; the hustings were thronged
by the excited masses, and, as a
consequence, the State was aroused
well nigh to the point of civil
strife. The people, pinched by
financial distress, gave willing ears
to inflammatory appeals land, 'at
the following election, the Relief
Party swept the' State, electing by
large majorities a Legislature and
a Governor pledged to revolution-
ary measures. Finally a case was
submitted to the Clark County Cir-
cuit Court, involving the validity of
the so-called measure of *' Relief
which the Legislature had enacted,
and Judge James Clark pro-
nounced the law unconstitutional.
Then followed a storm of popular
indignation, which threatened
Judge Clark with political destruc-
tion. His name was hailed with de-
rision by the ^* Relief Party''
throughout the State. The firm-
ness and integrity of the Judiciary
were to be subjected to a fiery or-
deal. An appeal was taken from
Clark's decision to the Supreme
Court of the State and'T)ehold, that
august tribunal consisting of John
Boyle, William Owsley and Ben-
jamin Mills aflSrmed the ruling of
the lower court. This court inten-
sified the prevailing agitation in
the midst of which, in 1824, the

Legislature assumed to remove the
Judges of the Supreme Court with
a view to securing a contrary de-
cision. An act reorganizing the
court was passed. The. old court
was, in a sense, legislated out of
existence, and a new court, com-
posed of Wm. T. Barry, John
Trimble, James Hagin and Bezin
Davidge, with Francis P. Blair as
Clerk, was appointed by Q-ovemor
Desha. But the ^^Old'* Court
would not *^down'* at the bidding
of either legislative or executive
power ; it proceeded as before with
judicial work; and hence, arose the
ever memorable strife between the
Old and New Court parties in the
State. It was extreme and bitter.
It was all absorbing of popular
thought and action, being waged
with relentless fervor on the hust-
ings and in the press, while even
the pulpit did not escape the con-
tagious warfare. But the *'01d
Courf party at last prevailed.
Reason and common sense backed
by the Constitution of the State,
were victorious over passion. In
1826-7 the Legislature, coming as
a new voice from the people, re-
pealed the reorganizing act of
1823, reestablished the authority of
the Old Court, vindicates the honor
of the Kentucky Judiciary, and re-
stored peace to the Common-
wealth. In connection with this
episode in Kentucky liistory, it is
a significant fact, illustrative of
the changeful current of popular
sentiment, that, in 1838, the same
Judge Clark who had been merci-
lessly reviled in 1822 for rendering
the decision adverse to the **Ee-

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lief party, was carried by a wave
of popular enthusiasm into the
Gubernatorial Chair.

Looking back over the history of
Kentucky, we naturally recall one
man — the central figure — who,
more than all other men, gave tone
and complexion to popular thought
directing, as it were, the State's
very destiny. The influence of his
genius was felt in every Kentucky
home. His majestic presence was
an inspiration to the masses; his
voice never failed to sway the mul-
titude as effectually as the forest
is swayed by the storms. His foes
trembled before him, while his
friends bowed in affectionate rev-
erence at his feet. Wherever his
lofty plume adva/nced in |the old
party battlefields, between Whigs
and Democrats, the Kentucky peo-
ple usually followed. Thus, for
fifty years Henry Clay was all-po-
tent in the Commonwealth, and the
heart of Kentucky is filled now
with love for his name. In none of
those political battles in which he
led, did the people of Kentucky
ever turn their backs upon him.

The memorable contests which
were waged between 1820 and 1850
brought forth not only the peculiar
traits of the Kentucky character,
but a list of orators who might well
be classed with the most brilliant
spirits of the ancient forum, when
Cicero and Pericles inspired the
multitude, or with Pitt, O'Connell,
Fox and Sheridan, who, in modem
times, enchained the British House
of Commons. With a *^ greatness
all his own*' Mr. Clay was in the
front ; but his contemporaries were
also comparatively great. There

was never in one generation, in a
single State, such a coterie of ora-
tors as the Moreheads, John J.
Crittenden, Richard H. Menifee,
the Wickliffes, John Rowan, Wm. T.
Barry, Thomas F. Marshall, Felix
Grundy, Elijah Hise, Joseph Holt,
Ben Hardin, Presley Ewing and
John C. Breckinridge. They were
a matchless company of men, in
bearing, in eloquence, in learning,
in all the arts of popular leader-
ship. They were exemplars of that
exalted type which the Saxon race
alone has furnished mankind.

The material greatness of Ken-
tucky, in the period which has
elapsed since entering the Federal
Union, has not been of rapid
growth, and, yet, we may trace with
pride her advancement in all the
elements of power. Though hesitat-
ing, yet, at an early date, her sons
felt the vital importance of winn-
ing a prominent place in the van
of educational progress. In this
particular Kentucky has not re-
ceived the praise whicli is her due.
Art and Science and the industries
alike have been generously nur-
tured in her borders. Though it
was not until 1837 that a system of
free schools was, at the instance of
Hon. William F. Bullock^ of Louis-
ville, and his contemporaries even
partially inaugurated, yet, at the
beginning of the Nineteenth Cen-
tury, the first, the most conspicu-
ous, and the most influential insti-
tution of learning in the West vas
established at Lexington, Transyl-
vania University, planted on the
very spot that had lately been the
scene of savage warfare, became
the acolyte of educational prog-

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ress west of the Alleghanies. In
its halls was given the first series
of lectures on Medical ScieDtce ever
delivered in the West, and the first
lessons taught in the various stud-
ies embraced in a regular colle-
giate course. This famous seat of
learning furnished a class of men
who achieved world-wide fame in
the field of medicine. Daniel Drake,
Benjamin W. Dudley, Charles
Caldwell, Alban Goldsmith, Eph-
raim McDowell, Samuel Gross,
Lunsford P. Yandell and Theodore
S. Bell, distinguished first as grad-
uates and then as teachers in the
faculty of the venerable school, not
only enriched the science to which
their genius was dedicated, but be-
stowed imperishable lustre on the
State. Another famous* institution
of learning, whose history begins
in the early years of the last cen-
tury, is Centre College. Among the
men whose labors served to crown
this school with fame were: Doc-
tors Chamberlain, its first Presi-
dent, William L. Breckinridge,
John C. Young, Lewis W. Green,
Ormond Beatty, and Alfred Ryors.
The annals of this institution are
adorned with the names of men
who have won exalted places in the
Nation's history as Jurists, Sol-
diers and Statesmen; and the fact
of graduation from Centre Col-
lege has been, for nearly a century
a sure passport into the Republic
of Letters.

Thus the sources of Kentucky's
pride and power in the develop-
ment of her educational interests
are truly abundant ; but no feature
of her character, is more to be
admired than the beneficent care

which she has ever given her
stricken children. Not only have
her mighty arms been thrown

around her common schools and
such higher institutions of learn-
ing, as are accessible to those alone
whom nature has endowed with
healthy bodies and sound minds,
but her great heart has gone forth
with fullness and force toward
those of her sons and daughters
who, by nature, are denied the
blessings of speech, of hearing, or
of sight. Kentucky was the first
among the States of the Union to
erect asylums for the instruction
of the blind, and the care of the
insane, thereby setting an example
that inaugurated a system of phil-
anthropic measures which all men
may regard with gratitude. As the
outgrowth of this system there are
located at Lexington, Anchorage
and Hopkinsville, three great asy-
lums for the insane, and, at Frank-
fort, a splendid institution for the
education of feeble-minded chil-
dren ; while in the vicinity of Louis-
ville, the most thoroughly equipped
institution for the education of the
blind in America stands as a mon-
ument to the generous enterprise
and beneficent spirit of the Com-
monwealth. The measure intro-
duced in the Legislature by Wil-
liam F. Bullock, in 1837, and
adopted by that body as the organic
foundation of Kentucky's Common
Schools, has brought forth rich and
glorious fruit; and, now, the
precious food of knowledge may be
shared by every son and daughter
of the State. Whereas in 1840
there could be found only here and
there a common school under the

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patronage of the State, there are
now more than five thousand school
districts, in each of which at least
one good free school is taught;
and the blessings of this system
have been extended by legislation
to the children of whites and
blacks alike. These facts not only
indicate the disposition of the Ken-
tucky people, but show the moral
and intellectual growth of Ken-
tucky. Without them, the cold em-
blazonries of Art, or the abundant
displays of wealth were nothing!
Without them, our palatial homes,
our brilliant cities, our argosies of
commerce and all our ingenious
instruments of material growth
would lose their best significance;
for what were a people who, though
possessing every treasure of the
earth, yet lacked the richer adorn-
ments of heart and brain f

Kentucky has attained an almost
dizzy altitude since Boone and Fin-
ley first blazed her trackless for-
ests. The pioneers are in their
graves and the wilderness has been
well nigh swept away before the re-
sistless march of the Saxon, The
hunting grounds of old have become
the scene of a triumphant civiliza-
tion; and law, religion and liberty
reign in the former home of the
savage. Here all the agencies of
human progress have been active
for a century. The rude printing
press established by John Brad-
ford at Lexington, August 28, 1787,
and from which was issued *'The
Kentucky Gazette,*' the first news-
paper, not only in Kentuckjj but
west of the AUeghanies, ^as grown
to be a power of which its founder
scarcely dreamed, and its magical
influence penetrates every Ken-

tucky home where an inmiortal
soul hungers for the food of intel-
lectual life. The three counties of
Lincoln, Fayette and Jeflferson
have become the parents of a noble
progeny, having increased to one
hundred and twenty, any one of
which is greater in wealth and
population than the original three
combined at the beginning of the
State. Literature, Science, Indus-
try and Art have each their chosen
altars upon which the State has
placed the trophies of her own
gifted sons. Commerce has girdled
the Commonwealth and busy marts
of trade enliven the banks not only
of the Ohio but of six other majes-
tic rivers which have their source
within the State.

Kentucky now stands firm and
erect, with annals rich in the glor-
ies of a heroic past, and with her
radiant brow turned in confidence
to a future of limitless progress!
Let therefore the memory of onr
Wise, our Brave and our Good be
kept ever green in our hearts ; and,
inspired by their illustrious ex-
amples, let the men of this genera-
tion go forth with strong minds,
true faith and ready hands to
achieve for the State a destiny
that shall be worthy of her im-
mortal founders. Thus may Ken-
tuckians, irrespective of party,
clasp hands in pride as they con-
template the annals of {he Com-
monwealth, embracing more than
a century from the Govemorsbip
of Isaac Shelby to that of his pres-
ent and worthy successor, Jame?
B. McCreary, who enjoys ttie un-
usual distinction of having been
twice elected to the Chief Map>-
tracy of the State.

EPITAPHS

ELLA HUTCHISON ELLWANGEE.

EPITAPHS

By Ella Hutchison Ellwanger.

Epitaphs first originated vith
the Greeks, an evolution from their
practice of delivering funeral ora-
tions ( epitaphshon — * ' over the
tomb'') at the grave side. Prom
the earliest times it has been the
rule to respect and honor the dead.
The Patriarchs regarded with
veneration the resting place of
their Fathers. The Egyptians pre-
served the bodies of their relatives
and erected splendid pillars and
massive pyramids over them, to
make the spot sacred and to be a
perpetual reminder. The mounds
and the pyramids were the earliest
monuments of the Romans.

Epitaphs are so varied that it is
utterly impossible to attempt to
classify them. They run from the
sublime to the ridiculous and from
grave to gay; from humorous to
spiteful.

So from the earliest time to the
present twentieth century there is
a historical interest attached to
them and it is quite easy to mark
the different periods of the world 's
history through these bits of prose
and verse that the first Greeks
were responsible for. We have
sadly degenerated since Sinias of
Thebes wrote the following on the
tomb of Sophocles: These lines
are, of course, a translation:

"Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade
Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid.
Sweet ivy wind thy houghs, and intertwine
With blushing roses and the clustering

vine.
Then shall thy lasting leaves, with beauties

hung.
Prove grateful ennblems of the lays he

sung."

Another translation by Meri-
vale, from the inscription on a
Greek tomb, runs as follows:

"Human strength is unavailing;
Boastful tyranny unfailing;
All in life is care and labour;
And our unrelenting neighbor^
Death, is ever hovering round
Who's inevitable to wound.
When be comes prepared to strike.
Good and ibad must fall alike."

Here are two from the tombs of
Greek slaves:

"2iOzinia, who in her life, could only have
her body enslaved, now finds that free."

The other was from the tomb of
Epictetus, who was enfranchised
and became one of the greatest of
stoical philosophers. It runs thus:

"Bpictetus, who lies here, was a slave
and a cripple, poor as the beggar in the
OPpoverb, hut the f«vorite of heaven."

Greek epitaphs are always beau-
tiful, they nevefr descend to the
fantastic or the ridiculous.

The Boman epitaphs, though
much more numerous than the

Greeks, lack the beauty of expres-
sion of the latter. A very few sen-
tences and nearly all alike are
found on the tombs of the cata-
combs and on the roadside. It was
in these catacombs that the hunted
Christians found refuge from their
cruel persecutors. A few samples
are given:

"DormltluB Blpldis"— The resting place ot

Blpidis.
"In pace Gamela dormlt"— Gamela sleeps

in peace.
"Victoria dormit" — Victoria sleeps.

Here is one on a martyr to the
faith, a little different:

"In the time of the Emperor Adrian,
Marius, a young military offl<5er, who had
lived long enough, gave up his life, with
hie hlood to Christ; and at length rested in
peace. Those who loved him, set up this
In hope and fear, on the sixth of the Ides
of December."

Here is a pagan one of great
beauty :

"Adieu Septimla; may the earth lie light
upon thee. Whoever places a burning lamp
before this tomb, may golden soil cover
his ashes."

Her'e is another impressive and
brief Roman epitaph:

"Siste viator! heroam calsas." — Stop trav-
eler; thy tread is on a hero.

Here are some beautiful ones,
and a few conceited ones in various
cemeteries over the world.

This one was found in a ceme-
tery in Portsmouth, New Ham-
shire.

"Bevond the flight of time, beyond this
vale of death;
There surely is some blessed clime,

iWhose life is not a breath.

And faith beholds the dying here.
Transplanted to that happier sphere."

Here is one that takes the palm
for conceit, it is from Oxford, Eng-
land :

"To the glorious memory of that notole
Knight, Sir Cope D'Oyley. late Deputy
lieutenant of Oxfordshire and Justice of
Oyer and Termlners. (Heir of the ancient
and honorable family of the D'Oyleys of the
same county, founders of the noble A^bies
of Oyley, etc., who put on immortality, the
4th day of August in the year of our Re-
demption, 1633.

Ask not who is buried here. Ck> ask the

Commons, ask the Shire.
Oo ask the Church; they'll tell thee who,
As well as (blubbered eyes can do. Go ask

the Heralds, ask the poor
"Wlho've had enough to ask no more, then

if thine eye bedew this um,
(Each piteous drop a pearl will turn. To

adorn his tomb, who
Now sits and sings with angels, arch>

angels and Seraphims."

Between the above and the fol-
lowing one, which notes the versa-
tile accomplishments of a sister of
the renowned Edmund Burke,
found in the cemetery of Bedford-
shire, England, We leave you to de-
cide which you would prefer:

"Here lies the body of Iiady O'LiOoney.
great niece of Burke, commonly called the
'SubUme/ She was bland, passionate and
deeply religious; also she painted in water
colors, and sent several pictures to the
exhibition. She was first cousin to Lady
Jones, and of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven."

This is only equaled by a
*^pome'' that recently appeared in
the Cincinnati Enquirer. That
paper needs no funny sheet so long
as it allows the world to contribute
to the "In Memoriam'' dexjart-
ment. The verse went on to tell
of the sudden taking off of one lit-
tle Mary. After a quantity of

blank, and other verse, it ended
with this couplet:

"And this is added to our otlier fwoes;
Nevermore shall we see Mary In her fur-
belows."

In the same department was an-
other verse (T). This ended thus:

"O, O, O Lord, how could you do It?"

In an old Canadian burying
ground at Niagara-on-the-Lak€f,
many curios in the name of epi-
taphs have been found. Here are
a few from that section of the
world :

"Weep not

At Fort Niacn^,

Amasa "Snow.
Here lies brave Snow, full six feet deep.
Whose heart would liave melt to have

cause to weep. ^

Though winter's blast may freeze bis

frame,
Death's cold grasp can^ chill his fame."

This carries the commercial in-
stincts a little far:

"Here Ues the body of Ezra Black,

His soul has gone to Zlon.
His sons still do business

Down at the Golden {Lion."

Ehymes do not always come as
easy as one might wish. Some of
the verses on the tombstones of
the beloved dead did not always
fiet the right "jingle at ilka een."
This was ingeniously done away
with by changing the name of the
dead and writing a sort of ** post-
script^' as it were, at the bottom,
giving the man's real name. In one
epitaph the man's name was
^* Woodcock." It just wouldn't
rhyme. So the stone bears a naive
legend to the effect that they had
to change it to **Woodhen."

A favorite way of beginning the
epitaphs on the stones in old ceme-

teries is to bid the '* Stranger,
pause and drop a tear." In the
following it is likely that one did—
from laughing. The occasion for
this burst of poetry is the removal
of a man's first wife to a distant
city.

"Stranger, pause and drop a tear,
ForiOffimily iChurch lies burled here;
Mingled in some unaccountable manner
With Mary, Mathilda and i^robably Han-
nah."

In quoting from the tombstone
, of a Spaniard, we meet the quintes-
sence of self-esteem. We must
bear in mind, however, the words
of Lord Macauley to keep from
jeering at the epitaph. Macauley
says: **In the 16th century, Spain
was the land of Statesman and Sol-
diers. Their skill was renowned
through Europe. They had pride,
firmness and courage, a solemn de-
meanor, strong sense of humor,
and so remarkable were they for
warlike and literary ability, that
our ancestors regarded them with
awe. At the beginning of the 16th
century they were the first natives
of the world, and Phillip the 2d,
succeeded to a people capable of
conquering the world." So says
Macauley. I want to go on rec-
ord, though, as saying, I think they
must have been deficient in that
greatest of all gifts— the gift of
humor.

But here is the epitaph in all its
glory for you to read:

"Here lies the body of John Quebeca,
precenta (chief singer) to my lord, the
king. When his spirit shall enter the King-
dom of Heaven, the Almighty will say to
the angelic choir, *iSilence, ye calves! and
let me hear John Quebeca, precentor to the
king.' "

Can you beat that for pompos-
ity T

This is by an affectionate son
who also wished to advertise his
public house:

"Beneath this stone, in hopes of Zion,
Doth lie the landlord of the lion.

His son keeps on the 'business stilly
(Resided unto the heavenly will."

Speaking, or rather writing, of
trade epitaphs, here is one on the
tomb of Benjamin Franklin and
written by himself:

"The 'body of
(B. Franklin,
Printer,
IJke the cover of an old book.
Its contents torn out,

And stri-pped of its lettering and its gild-
ing, lies here, good for worms.
But the work shall not be wholly lost;
For it will, as he believed, appear once

more.
In a new and more .perfect edition.
Corrected and amended by the great Au-
thor."

This is from Scotland and is a
warning to all careless druggists:

'•He was a peacea'ble quiet mon, and to
all appearances, a sincere Christian. His
death was very much regretted, which was
caused by the stuipMity of Lawrence Tul-
loch, of Clotherton, who flold him nitre, in-
stead of epsom salts, 'by which he was
killed in the space of three hours, after
taking a dose of it."

That was too bad in the case of
TuUoch, but here we have another
death owing to the fact that they
did not restrict themselves to
taking Epsom salts. This is from a
tomb in Cheltenham, England.

"Here lies I, and my three daughters.
Killed by drinking the Cheltenham waters.
If we had stuck to epsom salts,
W^'d not been lying in these here vaults.

t»

Here we have another way out
of diflScult rhyming:

"Here lies John Bunn,

Who was killed by a gun.

His name wasn't Bunn; his real name i^

Wood,
But 'Wood* wouldn't rhyme with gun. so

I thought 'Bunn' could."

Here is another queer one from
Oakham, Surrey, England:

"The Lord saw good I was lapping oil
wood,

And down fell from a tree.
I met with a check and I broke my neck,

And so, death lopped off me."

Here is one of interest from Dy-
mock, Gloucestershire.

**Two sweeter babes you nare did see.
Than Godamighty geed to we.
But they were o'taken wi a^e fits,
And here they lie as d<ead as nitts."

At Sunderland, England:

"Sudden and unexpected was the end
Of our esteemed and belored friend.
He gave to all his frlendg a sudden shoci
By one day falling into Sunderland Doct

This epitaph on a tombstone at
Nottingham, England, on the deati
of a miserly man is clear and to
the point:

"Here lies John Hackett, in his woodea
Jacket,

He kept neither horses nor mules.
He lived like a hog and he died like a do^

And left all his money to fools."

This sort of wild and indiscrim-
inate rhyming, is, no doubt, the
way that our present day ** limer-
icks'' were started. Certainly few
limericks of this latter day can
equal the following:

Reglcter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

Here lies, returned to clay,
Miss Arabella Young,
WbiO on the first of May
Began to hold her tongue/

"Here lies William •Smith,
And what is somewhat rarlsh;

He was bom, bred and hanged
In this 'ere parish.'

»»

Here are one or two examples of
the punning period: upon a Liver-
pool brewer.

"Poor John Scott lies buried here,
Although he was both hale and stout.
Death stretched him on this bitter bier.
In another world he hops a'bout."

On the organist of St. Mary^s
Church, Winton, Oxford. His
name was Meredith:

"(Hie jadt — one blown out of 'breath —
He liyes a merry life and died a merry
death."

On a farmer's daughter named
Latitia :

"Grim death to please his liquorish palate.
Has taken my Latitia and put in his sal-
let."

On Potter, Archbishop of Can-
terbury :

"Alack and well-a-day,

Potter, himself, is turned to clay."

On a gentleman named Ayre:

"TJnder this marble fair

Lies the body of Gervaise Ajnre;

He died not of an ague fit.

Nor surfeited of too much wit.

Methinks thlg was a wondrous death,

That Ayre should die for want of breath.

We all know the much quoted
one of Mary Kent:

"Here lies the remains of Mary Kent,
She kicked up her heels and away she
weirt."

Then the abominable one from
the Inverness church yard, Scot-
land.

"Here lies my poor wife, without bed or

blanket^
But dead as a door nail, God be thankit."

Here is a most facetious one
from the French:

"Here lies my wife— here let her lie;
She's at rest, and so am I."

Another from Selby in York-
shire forgets the admonition that
we should speak nothing but good
of the dead and writes his wife's
lack of virtues on her tombstone
thus:

"Here lies my wife, a sad slattern and

Bhrew,
If I said I regretted her, I should lie, too."

Here is one by a pathetic and
courteous husband:

"She once wag mine;

And now
To Thee, O Lord, I her resign;
And am your humble, obedient servant,

•Robert Kemp."'

The following was written by
a rather stupid sort, who thought
he was no end of a ''wag.*^ It is
to be found in Hertford, England:

"Woman :

"Grieve not for me my husband dear,
I am not dead, but sleeping here.
With patience wait, prepare to die.
And in short time you'll come to I."

"Man:

"I am not grieved, my dearest life;
Sleep on, I've got another wife;
Therefore, I cannot come to thee,
For I must go and live with she."

From St. Phillips Churchyard,
Birmingham, England, is one

Realrter of the Kentucky State Hlatorieal Society.

slightly mixed in sentiment, not to
mention grammar:

Vn„*th! ,?i"i ''*'**'^' **"• Jeave me behind-

p7^'^ if i^^^"" ^^°™ Lands-end,
Cornwall^ England, from the tomb

of one Eev. John Chest, not too

much respected by his parish:

"Beneafb this apot Ues buried

One cheat within another.
TfcBontep cheat iraa a very good one

Who aaya ao of the other"'

On the tomb of a notorious
STfLI-I?'' i?.^" °^*^ churchyard
Letfom °^™® ^^ ^^^^°

I physic's, bleeds and aweats 'em-
«o"«^~ they Ure. sometimes a'ey die-
What's that to I— I, Letsome." ^ '

There used to be a tombstone in
the churchyard at ColeshlU, a few
miles from Birmingham, England
on a man who had an unusuaUy
large mouth. This was ordered re-
moved lately:

a babe, who possessed an nnn-
monly inquiring mind:

"Since I was so early done for
I wonder -what I was besnn for.'

Epitaphs seemed to grow mr.r^
and more sarcastic. This one on i
lawyer named Strange:

"Here Ues an honest lawyer
And that's Strange."

An honest Miller drew this:

"God worketh wonders now and then
Here Ueg a Miller and an honest msr.

Goldsmith wrote this on Li^
friend, Ned Purden, who follows
the profession of a writer for pub-
lishers :

"Here lies poor Ned iPurden, frwn mi«r
flee,

mo long waa a bookaeUer's back.

T li!l.?"f?, ll^mn^We We In this world
I dont think he'll want to come back."

Who has not smiled over this old
one?

I^e lies a man, as God shall me save,
mose mouth was wide, as Is his grive
R^der tread lighUy o'er this sod-
iFor H he gapes, you're gone, by "

Here is one on the leader of a
church choir:

"Stephen and Time

Are now both even;
Stephen beat Time,

Now Time's ibeat Stephen."

On a tomb in Northamptonshire,
England, are the following lines to

S^ed to the memory of Martha Gwlim,
Who was so very pure within.
She bust this outer shell of akin
And hatched herself a Cherubim.-

On the tomb of a mother that

u^^L ^^^® ™*^« *e heart of
"Teddy R." beat with pride:

"Some hare ohUdren. some haye none;
Here Ilea the mother of twenty-one.'

From Scotland:

^n death no difference is made
Betwixt the sceptre and the spade."

al$K9

Ker Keel:

i . •*

Under this sod lies John Round,
Who was lost at sea, and never found.

Gay, on himself:

Life's a jest and all things show it;
I thought so once, and now I know it.

Here is one on a philosopher:

«<

Here I lie, at the chancel door,
Here I lie because I'm «poor.
The farther in the more to pay.
But here I lie, as warm as they."

This is from the tomb of the

celebrated Ben Johnson:

"O rare Ben Johnson."

From the fantastic, and the queer
and the profane, and the sarcastic
we turn. The following are speci-
mens of love, devotion and ex-
amples of what is beautiful m epi-
taphs: This one is on the poet,
Burns: . '

"O Robbie Bums, the mon, the Brither,
And art thou gone, and gone forever;
And hast thou crossed the unknown river.

Life's dreary bound.
Go to your sculptured tombs, ye great.

In a' the tinserd trash of State;
But by thy honest turf 111 wait,

Thou man of worth.
And weep the sweetest poet's fate

E'er lived on earth."

On Mrs. Heman's tomb in St.
Anne's church, Dublin. From a
dirge written by herself:

Here is another from
English tombstone:

an old

"Poor Martha Snell, her's goed away;
Her wouldn't have goed, but her couldn't

stay.
iHer two sore legs "and a baddish cough,
"But her legs it was as carried her off."

Your great grandmothers were
given continual reminders of death,
the sudden taking off of your chil-
dren was always being talked of
before them and their literature
was always morbid. Even in a later
generation— and not so very late
either, how many of you have
wept over the ** Elsie Books'' and
the **Wide, Wide^orldT''

The following is the pleasant sort
of verse that was read daily to chil-
dren in colonial households:

"I, in the hurying place may see

Graves shorter than I;
From death's arrest no age is free.

Young children, too, may die."

"Calm on the bosom of thy God

Tb.It spirit, rest thee now.
E'en while on earth, thy footsteps trod.

His Seal, was on thy hrow.
Dust, to its narrow home beneath.

Soul, to its rest on high;
Those who have seen thy look in death.

No more may fear to die."

This majestic inscription, is on
the tomb of the great Addison, who
is buried next that of Lord
Montague, his dearest friend, in
Westminister Abbey, London.

"N'er to these chambers, where the mighty
rest —
Since their foundation, came a nobler
guest.
And n'er to the realm of Bliss conveyed,
A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade.
And art thou ^one? Then take our last
adieu.
And rest in peace, next thy loved Men*
tague/'

On a simple, but exquisite mar-
ble shaft, reared by a devoted
father to the memory of a dear
daughter, in the old cemetery in

,' •

" /;>* f**:v*r « r>;n* iat i>*o»*i..!0-,ii.

K..-.^ hr^jr'./Ur.^A, w.*& t.prTJt^ ear*

T;.^H fforrj Watt:

*'^/»if <1*7« »r^ llfcr^ Oj^ srraui^,

</f, »U<5 U^ m//ni.rrff fl</w<5rr;
If //f.* ftbarp v,U«t fC'nK^ ofr th« field

It yiV.U*^% i& aa bo-ir/*

ThiH i- to Uf fofjrKl on ^^\f^ tomb
of IJi^' t)ow'rii(or l)u(']ifrrtH of Pem-
broke- :

"f'fi/1«rrn<rath thlii xabU h*?ariie,

l>1*ri» th^ mMhct €tt all veru**;
H',^u*^y% H\%^JhT, VHTnhrokfi'n mother

f><'a>h, ere thou han ftlaln another
yfttr an/) learned and K^>od aji fihe.

Tlnu; nhall throw a dart at thee.**

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There Ls, p^^-ri^irs, no more jl-
mortal f-pitaph than that vr.r:-:
by Theodore O'Hara. It vi5 ^t
ten near the graves of tne 0:::^'->
erate dead, in the cemetery s:
Frankfort, Kentuekv. It has rr^-
used in nearlv everv ceiret-^y
where rest the remains of the - •
dier dead all over the world. ^-'^
can ever forget the words of t:*:
** Bivouac of the Dead/' beginri::
with the verse:

Thin \h a beautiful thought by
th<» po^jt, QuarleH:

'^iike the damaHk roue you »ee.
Or like the bloMHom on the tree,
C)r like th4* dainty flowem of May,
Or like the morning of the day.
Or like the nun, or like the fihade,
Or like the Kourd which Jonas had;
fOver no in man, whofie thread is spun,
Dniwn out, and cut, and so Is done.
Tlie roMe withers, the blossom blasteth,
Th« flower fades, the morning hasteth.
The sun sets, the shadow flies,
The gourd consumes, and man, he dies.

««,

Tlioro Ih an impoHing monument
in the garden of Newstead Abbey,

On Fame's eternal camping ground.
Their aflent tents are Hpi<*d
And gioiy gnards with solemn round
The BiTooac of the Dead.**

•

Credit for manv of these epi-
taphs is given to Mr. E. W. Tyrer,
of Bournemouth, England. In fact.
all the English epitaphs are from
his observation during a period of
thirty-five years of travel. In learn
ing that I was also a collector of
queer and striking epitaphs he gen-
erously sent me his own uiiiqn^
compilation to go witTi mine.

The Battle of Chickamauga.

Kentucky Heroism in the Engagement.

A Kentuckian Commemorates the Event in Verse.

GEORGE BABER.

Birmingham, England, is this one,
that for beauty cannot be excelled:

"Her father's Love, her Benediction/'

This epitaph can be found all

over England, on the tombs of

small children. It was written by
Coleridge :

"E'er ain could blight, or sorrow fade,
Kind Proridence, with tender care.

The opening bud to Heaven convoyed,
And bade it blossom there."

This from Watt:

"Our days are like the grass.

Or, like the morning flower;
If one sharp (blast sweeps o'er the field

It withers dn an hour."

This is to be found on the tomb
of the Dowager Duchess of Pem-
broke :

"Underneath this sable hearse,

Lfies the subject of all verse;
Sydney's Sister, Pembroke's mother

Death, ere thou hast slain another
Fair and learned and good as she.

Time shall throw a dart at thee."

This is a beautiful thought by
the poet, Quarles:

"Like the damask rose you see,

Or like the blossom on the tree.

Or like the dainty flowers of May,

Or like the morning of the day.

Or like the sun, or like the sf^ade.

Or like the gourd which Jonas had;

Elver so is man, whose thread is spun.

Drawn out, and cut, and so is done.

The rose withers, the blossom blasteth.

The florwer fades, the morning hasteth,

The sun sets, the shadow flies,

The gourd consumes, and man, he dies."

There is an imposing monument
in the garden of Newstead Abbey,

near the grave of Lord Byron^ that
bears this following inscription,
and is erected to the memory of
Lord Byron's Newfoundland dog,
* * Boatswain. ^ '

"Near thia spot, are deposited the re-
mains of one who possessed <beauty without
ranity; strength, without insolence, cour-
age without ferocity; and all the virtues
of man, without his vices. This praise.
which would be unmeaning flattery, if io*
scribed over human ashes, is but a just
tribute to the memory of "Boatswain," a
dog, who was bom in Newfoundland. May
1803, and died at Newstead Abbey, NoTem-
ber 18th. 1808."

There is, perhaps, no more im-
mortal epitaph than that written
by Theodore 0 'Hara. It was vrn\-
ten near the graves of the Confed-
erate dead, in the cemetery at
Frankfort, Kentucky. It has been
used in nearly every cemetery
where rest the remains of the sol-
dier dead all over the world. T^o
can ever forget the words of the
** Bivouac of the Dead,'* beginning
with the verse:

««,

On Fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards with solemn round
The Bivouac of the Dead."

Credit for many of these epi-
taphs is given to Mr. E. W. Tyrer,
of Bournemouth, England. In fact,
all the English epitaphs are from
his observation during a period of
thirty-five years of travel. In learn-
ing that I was also a collector of
queer and striking epitaphs he gen-
erously sent me his own uniqnf
compilation to go witTi mine.

The Battle of Chickamauga.

Kentucky Heroism in the Engagement.

A Kentuckian Commemorates the Event in Verse.

GEORGE BABER.

THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA.

KENTUCKY HEROISM IN THE ENGAGEMENT.
A Kentuckian Commemorates the Event in Verse.

By George Baber.

The battle of Chickamauga,
fought in the vicinity of Chatta-
nooga, ranks with the most severe
engagements of the Civil War. On
the Confederate side it was chiefly
directed under the intrepid com-
mand of Generals Bragg, Long-
street, Breckinridge, Buckner and
Bushrod Johnson; and on the side
of the Union it was conducted with
no less distinguished heroism by
such leaders as Generals Thomas,
Rosecrans, Buell, Crittenden, Mc-
Cook and Croxton. The battle was
prolonged through two days, Sat-
urday and Sunday, September 19
and 20, 1863. On the Confederate
side a large number of Kentuckians
bore a noteworthy part, including
such valiant spirits as General Ben
Hardin Helm, Major Bice E.
Graves, Lieutenant Colonel James
W. Hewitt, Colonel Joseph H.
Lewis and Captain Peter V. Dan-
iel, whose memory is cherished by
Kentuckians everywhere. The name
''Chickaaaauga,'* is cited in the
earliest history of Tennessee, and
according to tradition was a favor-
ite battleground of the Indian tribes

H. R.— 5

who inhabited that portion of the
State. It signifies '^ Death, ^' and
is, tlierefore, peculiarly appro-
priate to the scene of carnage which
in 1863, added imperishable fame
to the historic spot.

This desperate and bloody con-
flict has been commemorated in be-
fitting verse by a Kentuckian—
Joseph M. Tydings — ^who was a
worthy participant. In September,
1864, he was held as a Confederate
prisoner in the military prison at
Chattanooga, where, during his
confinement, he wrote the follow-
ing poem, which, being in the pres-
ent writer *4S possession, is herfe of-
fered as a valuable contribution
to the poetic literature of the war.
The lines were especially intended
to celebrate the memorable charge
made at Chickamauga by the First
Kentucky Brigade, the author be-
ing at the time a member of the
Ninth Kentucky Infantry— that
heroic command which contained
many Kentuckians who, in the very
shadow of death, w6n brilliant
laurels on the field.

Here is given the poem complete,
viz.:

THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA

Madly is flowing the red tide of battle,

Dark Chickamauga, thy shadows among,
And true to thy legends, with fierce roar
and rattle,
The shadows of Death o'er thy bosom are
flung.

See, up yon hiUslde a dark line is sweeping.

Breasting the thick storm of grapeshot

and shell;

Shouting like demons o'er abattis leaping,

Sons of Kentucky, ye charge them right

well!

tJp to the cannnon's mouth, on to the ram-
part.
Shoulder to shoulder in companionllKe

dress;
Steel into steel flashing flerce in the sun-
. light,

"Pulsing out life-drops like wine from the
press!

Think they of far homes, once sunny and
bright.
Now blackened and dreary, swept by the
flame —
Fair sisters and sweethearts — Qod pity the
sight-
Wandering outcasts, with heads bowed
in shame!

Hark to the answer! That shout of de-
flance
Rings out like a knell above the fierce
strife;
'Tis death without shrift to the dasUrdly
foe,
And Heaven have i^ty on swc^etheart sad
wife.

On, on, like a wave that engulphs, do they

press
O'er rider and horse o'er dying and dead:
Nor stop they till night— blessed night for

the foo
Her mantle of peace o'er the fallen hath

spread.

The batttle is over; but wherfe is thy chief.
The Bayard of battle, dauntless and
brave?
There, cold and uncofllned, lies chivalrous
Helm,
Where Glory's mailed hand hath found
him a grave.

Where Hewitt and Daniel? Where trumpet
voiced Graves?
And where the brave men they gallantlj

led? ^ ,

There, voiceless forever and areamiehs,

they lie ^ .

On the field they h^ve won, immortal
though dead.

Flow on. Chickamauga, in silence flow on

Among the dun shadows that fall on tnj

breast ; .

These comrades In battle, aweary «

strife.

Have halted them here by thy waters to

rest.

The author of this poem became
a physician after the war, and waN
likewise, licensed to preach in tb^^
Methodist Church, of which de^
nomination his father, Eev. Kici
ard Tydings, without seeking the
, honor, came within one vote of be-
' ing elected a Bishop, and was long
an eminent minister, preaching the
Gospel with eloquence and power
at various points where he wa>
stationed in Kentucky. Dr. Tnl
ings is a sundving veteran of th^
great struggle, and now resides m
Louisville. He devotes his time
mainly to charitable labors amont:
the poor and needy of that city, do
ing for humanity a work that rivals
his gallant services to the Lost
Oause

The battle which this fine poens
commemorates was rated amon?
the greatest military events o'
modern times by General H. *
Boynton, of Ohio, who was a no-
table participant, and who, w '
valuable and interesting voluf
written by him and entitled a "tti^
torical Guide to the National Mil^
tary Park at Chattanooga aii'i
Chickamauga," says:

"The battle of Chickamauga*"
one of the best illustrations of ti?

Regittor of the Kentucky State HIetorlcal Society.

pluck, endurance, and prowess of
the American Soldier which the
War afforded. * * * Its strat-
egy win always be notable in the
history of wars. So far as the oc-
cupation of the field is concerned
it was a Confederate victory. Con-
sidering the objects of the Cam-
paign, it was a Union triumph.*^

The reader will readily concede
that Dr. Tydings' soul-stirring
stanzas richly deserve to be perpet-
uated in conjunction with a his-
tory of the great battle itself. It
furnishes a brilliant chapter in the
annals of Kentucky's part in the
Civil War.

Elxtracts From the Messages of Governor
Desha — Resolutions of the General
Assembly, Reports of Committees, etc.,
Relative to the Visit of General LaFayette
to Frzuikort, and to the Painting of
LaFayette*s Portrait by Jouett

A SECTION OF THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.

Nov. 1, 1824.

The scene which now is exhibit-
ing in the eastern states, on the ar-
rival upon our shores, of General
Lafayette, the uniform friend of
liberal institutions, the early cham-
pion of our liberties, and the com-
panion of Washington, is without
a parallel in the history of nations,
and gives to the friends of liberty
in Europe, the pleasing consola-
tion, that, although free institu-
tions have been there for a time
suppressed by the power of the
Holy Alliance, the fire still burns
in America with a pure flame, which
cannot fail, in the progress of
years, to have a salutary influence
on all mankind. I need not tfll
you with what pleasure I shall ac-
cord with any measure adopted by
you to honor this distinguished
stranger, and swell the volume of
a nation's gratitude. Surely he will
not fail to visit the new world,
which has sprung into existence on
this side the Alleghanies since he
fought on the Atlantic border, and
witness with his own eyes how
widely and how rapidly the tree of
liberty is extending its branches.

Resolutions Requesting the Gov-
EBNOB TO Invite General La-

Fayette to Visit the State of
Kentucky.

The select committee to whom
was referred so much of the Gover-
nor's message as relates to the in-
vitation of General LaFayelle to
this State, as the ' ''Nation's
Guest,'' have had the same under
consideration, and now beg leave
to make the following report:

Under a profound conviction that
the right of the people, in a state
of civil society, to govern them-
selves has the sanction of principles
of eternal fitness ; that the freedom
of the people consists alone in the
exercise of this right ^ and that in
order to maintain it irom the en-
croachments to which it is liable,
and the degeneracy to which, like
every other human good, it is in-
cident, the people who enjoy it
should cherish those trains of
thought and cultivate those affec-
tions of heart, which most kindly
associate with their best exercise.
Upon this principle the people of
the United States commemorate the
fourth of July; the day on which
their fathers made a solemn

declaration of their right to govern
themselves, and appealed to
Heaven for its justice; the day
which gave date to that perilous
and memorable struggle, which
terminated in the achievement of
this great and inherent right, and
in its recognition by its enemies.
Hence that reverence for the char-
acter and memory of Washington,
throughout America, and ajmong
the votaries of freedom in every
climo, and which is bounded only
by the line which separates devo-
tion from idolatry.

Their love for Washington was
a compound of the strongest and
clearest perceptions of which the
rights of man are susceptible, and
the purest affection of which the
human heart is capable. He had
been the successful champion of
liberty; he had conquered its eme-
mies, and displayed in the pwcejss
that excellence of moral character,
which well consorted with the
purity and sublimity of the prin-
ciples for which he contended. His
name, now that he is gone, awakens
in the minds of his countrvmen, and
will, it is hoped, ever continue to
do so, those trains of thought, and
those recollections which asso-
ciate the past with the present,
and exhibit the great principles for
which he and his compatriots suf-
fered and bled, in the most animat-
ing and consolatory aspect.

The love that is felt for Wash-
ington, is the devotion of the peo-
ple of the United States to civil
liberty. His life and services had
identified him with its most sacred
principles; they had been conse-
crated by the toils, the sufferings

and the blood of the most distin-
guished patriots. The veneration in
which his memory is held, is but
the homage of intellect to prin-
ciple. It is the streams of reason
and affection, flowing confluently
in the channel of principle, through-
out the regions in which the tree
of liberty grows, moistening* the
roots, strengthening the growth,
and deejjening the verdure of that
consecrated tree. The name of Gen-
eral LaFayette is associated with
that of Washington, and 'of the
patriots of the American revolu-
tion. His name is incorporated
with theirs, among them, and in a
state of juxtaposition to Wash-
ington. He enjoys the affection and
admiration of the citizens of the
United States. His posture in the
galaxy of those worthies who
achieved immortality, by their de-
votion to the cause of civil liberty
and the rights of man, is conspicu-
ous and impressive, rendered more
so by his alien contour and costume
and by his long protracted and ac-
cumulated sufferings, in the cause
of humanity and liberty. His fame
is in the care of history and poster-
ity; he still lives, and is now,
through the indulgence of Heaven,
encircled by the affections of ten
millions of freemen, with whoso
sires and for whose freedom he
fought and bled. The United State?
are, at this moment, in the glow of
gratitude which they feel and dis-
play towards that illustrious in-
dividual, exhibiting to the world a
spectacle, which, while it appals
tyranny, is calculated to cheer and
invigorate freedom.

The people of Kentucky are no
less enthusiastic in their love of
liberty, than their brethren of the
Atlantic States. Kentucky was an
almost unpervaded and entirely an
unsubdued wilderness, when the
Marquis LaFayette nobly volun-
teered and generously bled in the
cause of freedom. His name and
deeds are incorporated in and
identified with the history of its
achievement; it is associated in-
separably and indelibly with the
knowledge and feeling which the
people of Kentucky have of their
rights. They love and delight to
honor the man in the degree in
which they perceive, feel and appre-
ciate those rights, and that is to
the extent of their consciousness
of them. They want to see and dis-
play towards this most excellent
man, the grateful sensations which
they feel; and they wish him to
see, in the cultivated plains of Ken-
tucky, and in her free institutions,
some of the fruits of his co-opera-
tion in the hallowed cause of lib-
erty, with Washington and the
other patriots of tEe American
revolution : Wherefore,

Resolved by the General Assem-
bly of the Commonwealth of Ken-
tucky, That the Governor be, and
he is hereby requested to forward
to General LaFayette, in the name
of the good people, an appropriate
invitation to visit the State of Ken-
tucky; and upon the invitation be-
ing accepted, as it is hoped it will,
to direct and superintend the man-
ned- of his reception as the guest of
this State.

Eesolved further, That in the
event the General accepts of said

invitation, the Governor, to defray
the expenses of his reception, shall
be permitted to draw upon the
Treasurer for any sum^which shall
be necessary for that purpose.

(Approved, November 17, 1824.)

Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 22, 1824.
General LaFayette,

Sir:— The Legislature of Ken-
tucky acting in accordance with the
feelings and wishes of the people
of the State, authorize me in their
name to invite you to come and
partake of their hospitality. I have
the honor to enclose certain resolu-
tions on this subject, concurred in
unanimously, expressing the deep
sense entertained of your worth,
of your valuable service to our in-
fant Republic, and of your con-
stant devotion to Liberty. The part
you took in the American Revolu-
tion, in the glorious struggle for in-
dependence, your gallant and gen-
erous conduct throughout its try-
ing scenes, are recollected with
gratitude, and indelibly impressed
on the hearts of all. In this retro-
spect we admire your brilliant
achievements, and delight in con-
templating the pure and sublime
motive which enlisted you in the
cause of freedom; we see the ef-
forts of a noble mind, rising above
prejudice and looking forward with
enlightened forecast to the suc-
cess, in a distant and obscure col-
ony, of that moral power which
was destined to give a new direc-
tion and character to political in-
stitutions, and to improve and en-
large the sphere of human happi-

ness. Penetrated with these views
and filled with gratitude at the
recollections they awaken, we re-
joice in common with our fellow
citizens at your arrival in the
United States, and are anxious to
see and welcome to our homes the
companion of Washington. It is
fondly hoped, and confidently an-
ticipated, that .you will -visit this
country, and look upon the new
world that has risen like enchant-
ment from the wilderness since you
fought on the Atlantic border. You
will see in the rapid growth and
improvement of our State, new
evidence of the success of those
principles you so nobly contended
for, and the countless blessings we
enjoy under that Eepublican form
of government you so eminently
contributed to establish. Permit
me to assure you on behalf of my
fellow citizens that no event of the
kind could give them greater pleas-
ure than your arrival in this State.
They are anxious to greet you in
person, and testify their affection
by offering the tribute due from
grateful hearts to the nation's
benefactor.

With sentiments of profound re-
spect, and affectionate regard,

I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Joseph Desha.

Gen. LaFayette,
City of Washington.

Preamble and Resolution For
Procuring A Portrait or Gen-
eral LaFayette.

Whilst the people of the United
States are testifying their gratitude

for the distinguished and gener-
ous services of General LaFayette,
in the American revolution, the
people of Kentucky i^ould gladly
co-operate in handing down to pos-
terity, the fame, and in preserving
a likeness of the man whose gener-
ous devotion to the cause of free-
dom and liberal principles in two
hemispheres, have been so con-
spicuously displayed.

A portrait of the man is calcu-
lated to call up the associate ideas
of the talents and virtues by which
he acquired his great reputation,
and to increase and strengthen the
moral effects and advantages re-
sulting from the great principles
A\ith which his fame is connected.

Every citizen of Kentucky is
eager to look at LaFayette. In
viewing him, the glory of our coun-
try, the principles of the revolu-
tion, the greatness of the object,
tlie toils, anxieties, constancy and
patriotism, employed in the pur-
suit of it, and the precious value of
liberty, are kindred ideas.

A man born and nurtured in
Kentucky, grown in its forests and
canebrakes, by force of his native
genius, exerted under the benign
influence of free government and
equal rights, has distinguished
himself in the art of painting. Sucli
an artist is an appropriate instru-
ment to be employed by Kentucky
in preserving a likeness of LaFay-
ette, and in testifying her grati-
tude for his services, which have so
eminently contributed to bring
forth that political freedom, inde-
})endence and sovereignty as a
State, which she enjoys in common

with the rest of the United States :
Therefore,

Resolved by the General Assem-
hlv of the Commonwealth of Kep
tucky, That the Governor be re-
quested, and he is hereby author-
ized for and on behalf of this
State, to employ Matthew H.
Jouett, to take a full length portrait
of General LaFayette.

Resolved, That the Governor be
requested to cause these resolu-
tions to be made known to General
LaFayette, accompanied by an
earnest solicitation Ion behaif of
this General Assembly, that he will
permit Mr. Jouett to take the por-
trait.

Resolved, That the portrait,
when taken, shall be placed in the
Representative hall of this State,
there to be preserved as a memento
of the high regard in which the
State holds the services of that
illustrious man, and of the devo-
tion of the good people of this
State, to the principles which his
distinguished services contributed
to establish.

(Approved January 12, 1825.)

Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 3, 1825.

Mr. M. H. Jouett.

Sir : — Enclosed are certain
Resolutions of the Legislature of
this State relative to a portrait of
General LaFayette. Pursuant to a
request contained in these Resolu-
tions, I now, on behalf of the State,
employ you to execute that por-
trait, and desire that the same may
be done as early as practicable
consistently with your convenience.

From recent information it is pre-
sumed that General LaFayette will
remain in Washington City until
some early time in the month of
March, if so, you will perhaps
have sufficient time to execute the
portrait in that city. Should you de-
termine to proceed there, you will
bear the enclosed letter to General
LaFayette. It encloses a copy of
the Resolutions, and contains a re-
quest that he will permit the por-
trait to be taken, with a notice that
you are the person employed to
execute it.

The compensation for the pic-
ture when finished will be left with
the Legislature, whose judgment
in graduating it according to the
excellence of the performance, it is
presumed your talent in your pro-
fession, and confidence in its liber-
ality will not object.

With great respect, I am
Your obedient servant,
Joseph Desha.

Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 3, 1825.

General LaFayette,

Sir: — The Legislature of the
State, anxious to testify the high
regard in which its constituents
hold your exertions in the cause of
liberty, and desirous to perpetuate
as far as possible the genial in-
fluence w-hich your presence among
us is calculated to have upon our
sentiments, by renewing our recol-
lections of the thraldom which, bv
your aid, our ancestors struggled
into freedom, have desired me
earnestly to solicit that you will
permit your portrait 'to be taken

fleglstor of the Kentucky 8t»ti HIeliorleal •ooMy.

for its use. Its Resolutions upon
this subject I have the honor to en-
close. They breathe the feeling not
only of the Legislature, but of the
people, whose organ it is, who will
feel happy in the opportunity which
your consent will afford, of trans-
mitting to posterity the image of
the person w^hose services in the
war of the Revolution next to those
of the immortal father of his coun-
try, most demand their gratitude.

The bearer of this letter, Mr. M.
H. Jouett, is the artist mentioned
in the Resolutions, whom pursuant
to the request contained therein, I
have employed to execute the work.
His talent for painting, which is
equaled only by the purity of his
mind and the urbanity of his man-
ners, leaves no room to doubt, that
should you yield to the wishes of
the State, he will do ample justice
to his subject.

With sentiments of the most pro-
found esteem and respect, I am, t^ir
Your obedient servant,

Joseph Desha,

General LaFayette,
City of Washington.

State of Kentucky.

Executive Department.

April 8th, 1825.

Sir :— Presuming that General
LaFavette will visit this State
though no answer has been re-
ceived to the invitation given him,
I have selected the following gen-
tlemen to act as a committee of ar-
rangements to fix and superintei:d
the manner of his reception, viz. :

Gen. John Adair,

Lieut. Governor Robt. B. Mc-
Afee.

Gen. Robt. Breckenridge.
Hon. W. T. Barry,
Col. James Johnson,
Hon. Jesse Bledsoe,
Gen. Thos. Bodley,
Hon. J. J. Crittenden,
Hon. Geo. M. Bibb,
Hon. Solomon P. Sharp,
Col. Chas. S. Todd,
Maj. Jas. W. Denney,
Capt. John Mason, Jr.
I have the honor to be, &c.

Joseph Deshjl.
Each one mentioned.

To General Samuel South,
Treasurer of Kentucky:

The Committee appointed for the
reception and accommodation of
General LaFayette, have certified
to me that to meet the expenses in-
curred under the resolution of the
Legislature, the sum of $5,000.00
will now be necessary to be plaoal
to their credit. You are hereby
directed, in obedience to said
Eesolution, so far as I am author-
ized by the same, to pay to the gen-
tlemen of the Committee, appointed
by me under the foregoing resolu-
tion, the said sum of $5,000.(HJ,
which is to be applied to the pur-
pose contemplated by the Legisla-
ture in their said Resolution.

Given under my hand, at Frank-
fort, this the 7th of May, 1825.

Joseph Desha.

Frankfort Ky., June 5th, 18^3.

Samuel South, Esq.,

Treasurer of the State of Ken-
tucky.

Sir: — It appears from a letter
received from the Conamittee of
Arrangements, appointed by me.

to make preparation for the recep-
tion and entertainment of General
LaFayette, that a further sum of
Three Thousand and Eighty-six
Dollars is necessary to be placed at
the disposal of the Committee to
defray the expenses in the recep-
tion and entertainment of the
Staters guest. You are therefore,
by virtue of the power vested in
me by the Eesolution of the last

General Assembly, requesting the
Governor to invite Gen. LaFayette
to visit the State of Kentucky,
authorized to pay over to the
Committee of Arrangements three
thousand and eighty-six dollas to
be applied to the purpose above
mentioned.

Joseph Desha.

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DEPARTMENT OF

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CLIPPINGS AND PAI^GRAPHS

CURRENT LITERATURE

A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

We enter upon the new year
with bright hopes for the future of
our Society; and those charged
with the responsibility of its man-
agement rejoice that this is true.
There is an especial reason why
the prospect is gratifying and that
is that the Society has become
more generally known and appre-
ciated at home; and by '^home"
we mean Kentucky. This recogni-
tion may have been a little tardy,
but this is the usual experience of
those who labor for the public
good, and we have not let it dis-
courage us.

It is very encouraging to have
those who are benefited by the work
of the Society show their apprecia-
tion of the labors of its founders.
And. we hope during this good year
of 1913 to still further merit the
approval of a generous public. As
our wealth of books, works of art
and rare historic relics increases
the wider will be the scope of the
Society's usefulness and its capac-
ity for instruction.

Each new year helps us to
greater success; we therefore wel-
come this new year and through the
Register wish that it may be both
a prosperous and happy one to all
our readers, to all the friends of
the Society and to all the people of
the Commonwealth.

SUAVA, MARI MAGNO.
(Lucretius 11, 1, 13.)

When tempests sweep the ihoundless sea,

'Tls sweet to seek some sheltered nook

And cast a sympathetic look.

On ills from which ourselves are free;

Or when, upon some distant field,

Embattl'd hosts in combat close —

'Tis sweet, when one, in safety, knows

He hath no need of helm or shield; —

But sweeter far when one may gaze

From heights uprear'd by human skill

— From Learning's seats, high, strong, and

still—
And note man's drear and devious ways; —
The quest for paths denied by fate,
The clash of minds, the claims of race
The ceaseless rush for power and place
And ruling honours of the State!

— T. B. P.

We are indebted, for the transla-
tion above, to that gifted scholar
and physician of Maysville, Dr.
Thos. E. Pickett, who lives in a
sheltered nook, above **the clash
of minds, the claims of race.'^ —
(Ed. Register.)

We acknowledge receipt of a
very cordial invitation from the
California Historical and Genea-
logical Society to attend the Pan-
ama Exposition at San Francisco
in 1915. This honor is duly appre-
ciated and we trust it may be pos-
sible to have our Society repre-
sented at the Exposition.

H. R.— e

A NEW PICTURE.

The Kentucky State Historical
Society has ordered a large photo-
graph of the members of the
House of Representatives, 1912,
as a body, to be handsomely framed
and hung in its rooms in grateful
acknowledgement of the witty
and eloquent defense by certain
members of the right of the Society
under its charter to its rooms in the
new Capitol, also the beautiful
compliments paid the Society, as
an ** honor to the State and the
adornment of the present Capitol/'
This particular speech brought
down the house with applause, and
the offending bill was tabled at
once. The Society remains ''in

statu quo/'

Let Boston take care of her old
Capitol, and Philadelphia do the
same. Their histories are in their
relics, we know ^11 about them. But
we prefer a new Capitol for our
beautiful things. They are un-
stained by greed, graft or theft.
They are not as old as the world,
but old enough to be historic and
interesting to Kentuckians for
whom they are gathered.

A UNIQUE RELIC.

Among the most notable relics
contributed to our souvenir cases
is the one given by Mrs. Henry
Boteler, Albert Sidney Johnston
Chapter, U. D. C. It is a piece of
the Federal flag which waved from
the Capitol dome at Frankfort, in
1862, when the city surrendered to
Col. Scott of Louisiana, of the C.
S. A. The captured flag was cut in
pieces for souvenirs.

PERRY'S VICTORY AT PUT-

IN BAY.

We learn from a reliable source
that after the victory at Put-in
Bay, a silver medal was given to
the Pennsylvanians who fought on
Perry's ships. It seems that the
Kentuckians were not so honored,
and that six Pennsylvanians were
among the Kentuckians whose
names were in the list published in
the Register 1911, as given by the
Historian, A. C. Quisenberry.

The Pennsylvanians were: Lou-
don Cochran, William Henry,
Thomas Luft, Samuel Kenney,
Freeman West. Taking these
names from the list, leaves 99 Ken-
tuckians who served on Perry's
ships in Perry's victory, without
silver medals, or^any recognition,
save that patriotism and courage,
like virtue, is its own reward.

Carroll County's Tree in the
State Arboretum.

Anent the pretty souvenir from
the Historical Society arranged
by Mrs. Morton and styled '* Arbor
Day at the Capitol," which em-
braces the very instructive and
beautiful addresses made on Arbor
Day at the Capitol, with a splendid
picture of the Capitol as a frontis-
piece. Certainly the following
notice of Carroll County's tree, a
hickory tree, for the arboretum,
planted by J. Tandy Ellis, would
have graced its pages had it
reached the souvenir in time. It is
a prose-poem, set *4n the primrose
bloom of morning stars" and will

hallow the hickory tree; and the
name of the county that gave it.

In a communication to County
Judge F. P. Sebree, of Carroll, con-
cerning the county *s tree in the
State arboretum in the State, Col.
J. Tandy Ellis, who planted it said :

'*I planted the shell-bark hickory
yesterday in the most picturesque
spot on the Capitol grounds, upon
a high knoll overlooking the Ken-
tucky river, where it will stand
through the changing years like a
sentinel, fronting the rtream which
flows by the county from whence it
came ; and in the far, far away days
to come, when soft breezes are
touching the grass above our for-
gotten tombs, perchance the chil-
dren will gather here when spring
is come and it is as sweet as an
April day in Andalusia, and gather-
ing under this tree, it will extend
a welcome with its spreading
branches — a welcome of Ca;rroU;
and could there ever be one on this
earth that is heartier or more sin-
cere. Standing here above the
stream, overlooking this valley as
beautiful as a vale of Tempo, it
will catch the first diamond drops
and sunbeams which make glad the
perfumed air of dawn. The sun will
linger here with a long, reluctant,
amorous delay, and the branches
of this tree will mingle in the af ter-
f^low of sunset and the primrose
bloom of the first stars, until the
pallor of the moonrise shoots the
eastern horizon and plays tenderly
upon the outlines of the rugged
hills. Here in the autumn the squir-
rels will come and gather their win-
ter food, and bring down the golden
brown nuts. The lovers, seeking

the blissful quietude of paradise,
will join their heart songs here.
The aged head of frosted silver
will recline here and dream of the
happier days when life was one
grand, sweet song. Statesmen will
stand here and review the great
achievements of a splendid life,
and meditate upon the theme that
**the paths of glory lead but to the
grave," and whosoever they may
be that come, they will stand be-
neath a tree transplanted from the
soil of one of the best counties that
God ever smiled upon — a county
loved by everyone who has wan-
dered away and by those who have
remained — Old Carroll."

THANKSGIVING PROCLAMA-
TION BY GOV. McCREARY.

(State Journal.)

Governor McCreary yesterday
issued a Thanksgiving Proclama-
tion, in which he designates Thurs-
day, the twenty-eighth day of No-
vember, as Thanksgiving Day, and
calls upon the people of this State
to give thanks for the rich harvests,
productive industries and other
blessings which they have enjoyed
during the past year.

The proclamation follows:

**With love and veneration, we
should /offer praise and thanks to
God for the manifold blessings
conferred upon us, and unite in
earnest supplication for their con-
tinuance.

**The year now drawing to a
close has been conspicuous and
notable. Our Republic has been at

peace with the whole world; our
State has had rich harvests, pro-
ductive industries, happy and con-
tented people, abundance at home
and overflowing markets; law and
order have been preserved; the
glorious heritage of self-govern-
ment has not been impaired, but
strengthened; and wherever we
may look or whatever we may think,
we have abundant cause for satis-
faction and for gratitude to God.

** Wherefore, I, James B. Mc-
Creary, Governor of the Common-
Avealth of Kentucky, designate
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of
November, 1912, as Thanksgiving
Day, and call upon all the people
of Kentucky to give thanks and
praise to God for the blessings He
has (Conferred upon us, and to hum-
bly beseech a continuance of His
great mercies.

'*In testimony whereof, I have
caused these letters to be made pat-
ent, and the seal of the Common-
wealth of Kentucky, to be hereunto
aflixed. Done at Frankfort, the
twelfth day of November, in the
Year of Our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and twelve, and in
the one hundred and twenty-first
year of the Commonwealth.

''James B. McCreary,

' ' Governor.
*'C. F. Crecelius,

''Secretary of State.
"W. L. Geiger, Asst. Sec. State."

We are often amused at the sharp
replies that women teachers give
men, when they undertake a piece
of sage advise to women or a cut

at them for aspiring to do the high
and mighty things men can do, and
for that matter should do. In let-
ters to the Outlook we find the fol-
lowing reply. It is bright and
forcible. We deplore the nesessity
for women to teach school other
than in the first school, which is the
home. We know the first teacher is
the mother; that is the right kind
of wife and mother. But in this age
of the world all women cannot find
suitable husbands and therefore
they must fiiJd refined and suitable
employment. Why not! Personal
independence in women is a foe to
matrimony. One may train a stu-
dent in books, but love must train
the wife and mother. But read this
teacher's letter.— (Ed. The Regis-
ter.)

the high school teacher.

As a teacher in one of our city
high schools, I should like to take
exception to several statements
made by Professor Chase in The
Outlook of July 27.

The best of our high schools now
require their teachers to have col-
lege training and previous exper-
ience in teaching. As ability (not
sex) is the chief requisite, and as
w^omen as well as men have ** ex-
perience of life,'' it is plain to be
seen that the former can fill the
requirements of being a high school
teacher quite as well as the latter.
The degree of "sympathy with
young people'' felt by teachers de-
pends upon the individual; never-
theless, it might be assumed that,
upon the whole, women teachers
possess at least as much of this de-
sirable quality as men teachers.

Professor Chase says: ''Boards
of education not uncommonly are
pleased to fill such positions with
seven-hundred-dollar inexperienced
girls. * * * The only person who
should be thus employed is the man
or, in rarer cases, the woman
who makes teaching a life profes-
sion.*' Boards do, indeed, make a
mistake in offering only seven hun-
dred dollars for such work, but
why such positions should be rare-
ly offered to women I fail to see.
On account of the narrow, old-
fashioned policy which still pre-
vails in most of our Eastern cities
of making women ineligible for the
higher positions, the schools are
losing some of their best teachers.
The fact that women are taking
advantage of the larger opportuni-
ties in other professions and in
business life shows Ihe policy to be
a shortsighted one which fails to
offer the same opportunities for ad-
vancement to both men and women
teachers.

It seems as though Professor
Chase does not sufficiently appre;
ciate the faithful work done by
women teachers when he says:
^'The admitted prime motive for
such a person being in the profes-
sion is to acquire temporary self-
support and the means of attract-
ing a suitable life companion."
Even acquiring ''temporary self-
support" is not an unworthy ambi-
tion. When it is found, upon in-
vestigation, as was lately the case
in one of our largest cities, that
one-third of the women teachers,
besides supporting themselves, had
others dependent upon them, it
looks as though many women did

not have much of a chance at being
only ' ' temporarily self-support-
ing."

Another condition which makes
a great number of women teachers
permanently self-supporting is
that they enter the profession be-
lieving that they have the qualities
of a good teacher and thinking of
marriage only as a possibility in
case th^y should be fortunate
enough to meet a suitable compan-
ion. They expect, as high-minded
women today do, the same moral
standard in men they would marry
that they require of themselves,
which makes their chances of "at-
tracting a suitable companion ' ' less
likely. It seems as though men, who
use teaching merely as a stepping-
stone to other professions, were the
temporary teachers and women the
permanent ones.

Gradually, as women's work
comes to be better understood and
more highly appreciated, boards of
education will offer equal pay for
equal work, and equal opportuni-
ties for all teachers ; and our great
universities will be glad to secure
the services of many valuable
teachers who are now overlooked.

A. C. B.

A NEW HISTORY.

Otto A. Rothert, of Louisville,
who has been for the past five years
patiently accumulating and investi-
gating the material for a History
of Muhlenberg County, will soon
have his manuscript ready for the
printer. Mr. Rothert is compiling

this book solely for the pleasure of
of the work. Judging from the
table of contents and that part of
his manuscript which we have seen,
we feel justified in saying that his
will be the most elaborate and best
illustrated history of any Ken-
tucky county ever published.

There are about 500 pages,
divided into thirty chapters and
ten' appendices, illustrated with
about 175 pictures and three maps.
He gives a description of the old
militia muster and goes into the de-
tails of other phases of life in the
olden days. One chapter is entitled
*'Some of the Firstcomers." There
is one on Muhlenberg men in the
War of 1812 and another on the
Mexican War; two on the county's
part in the Civil War. R. T. Mar-
tin, of Greenville, has contributed
two sketches giving his recollec-
tions of Muhlenberg County during
the Civil War and the years im-
mediately preceding and following.
One chapter is devoted to the career
of James Weir, who was a pioneer
merchant in the Green River Coun-
try; one to Charles Fox Wing,
who was the county's first county
and circuit court clerk and who, for
over fifty years, served in that
double capacity; one to Edward
Eumsey, who did much toward up-
holding the claim of his uncle,
James Rumsey, as the first in-
ventor of the steamboat. Among the
many other men regarding whom
Mr. Rothert will publish much new
matter that will be of more than
local interest are : Judge Alney Mc-
Lean, after whom McLean County
is named and who, up to the time of
his death in 1841, was one of the

best known men in western Ken-
tucky; General Simon Bolivar
Buckner, who spent part of iiis
youth in Muhlenberg County and
went to West Point Military Acad-
emy from there in 1840; General
Don Carlos Buell, who lived in the
county from 1866 to 1898 when he
died at his home on Green River.
Among some of the other chapters
are those on the abandoned Buck-
ner Furnace, the Deserted Village
of Airdrie, the coal mines, tobacco,
the schools and local literature.

This is the first and only history
of Muhlenberg County that has
ever been written, as the short
sketch of the county contained in
Collins' History of Kentucky can
hardly be considered as such.

Any one having any old letters,
newspapers, pictures or other data
bearing directly or indirectly on
the people or history of this county
will confer a favor on Mr. Rothert
(132 East Gray St., Louisville,
Ky.) by conmaunicating with him
at once, for his manuscript will
,soon be turned over to the printer.

We give below table of contents
of the forthcoming history:

bothbbt's history of mtjhlenbebg

oouistty.

coktbnts

Chapter.

Preface.
Introduction.

1. Some of the Firstcomers.

2. Henry Bhoads.

3. The Beginning and the
Bounds of the County.

4. Courts and Courthouses.

5. The Weirs.

6. Muhlenberg Men in the War
of 1812.

7. Edward Bumsey.

8. Life in the Olden Days.

9. The Pond Biver Country.

10. Review of **Lonz Powers.'^

11. Greenville as Recalled by the
Author of **Lonz Powers.'*

12. The Old Militia Muster.

13. The Story of the Stack.

14. Muhlenberg Men in the Mex-
ican War.

15. The Reverend Isaac Bard.

16. Post-Primary Education.

17. Annals of Airdrie.

18. Charles Eaves.

19. The Civil War.

20. R. T. Martin's Recollections
of the Civil War.

21. In 1870.

22. The Railroad Bonds.

23. Tobacco.

24. Iron Ore and Coal Mines.

25. Collins on the History of
Muhlenberg County.

26. General Muhlenberg.

bothebt's histoby op mtjhlenbbbg

COUNTY*
APPENDICES.

A. Hall's Story of the Harpes.

B. Trip to New Orleans in 1803
by pioneer James Weir.

C. ^'A Visit to the Faith Doc-
tor," published in 1836, by Edward
R. Weir, Sr.

D. **A Deer Hunt,'' published
in 1839, by Edward R. Weir, Sr.

E. Duvall's Discovery, in 1851,
of *' Silver Ore," by R. T. Martin.

F. Old Liberty Church, by R.
T. Martin.

G. Riding the Circuit, by Judge
L. P. Little.

H. Colonel S. P. Love.

I. General Don Carlos Buell,
by Colonel J. Stoddard Johnston.

J. The Muse in Muhlenberg.

NEW MEMBEB OF HISTOB^
ICAL SOCIETY.

(State Journal.)

That the work of the regent of
the Kentucky Historical Society,
Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, is meeting
with flattering recognition was evi-
denced lately, when a request came
from far away Peru, South Amer-
ica, for a membership certificate
and subscription for the B^gister.
This request was from Mr. Otto
Holstein, formerly of Lexington,
Ky., who, through the enthusiasm
of the United States Minister to
Peru, Judge H. Clay Howard, for-
merly of Paris, and an ardent mem-
ber of the Historical Society, be-
came so interested that he has writ-
ten Mrs. Morton that he not only
desires to join, but to ^become a life
member of the society.

Mr * Holstein is connected with
the government' of Peru, and has
been a resident of that country for
many years, but it is evident that
his love for his old Kentucky home
has not been forgotten in his loyalty
to the country of his adoption. He
writes that he has been much inter-
ested in reading the Begister, which
is on exchange with a number of
publications of Lima, in which city
he resides. He also wrote Mrs.

Morton that Judge Howard is col-
lecting relics and Tnca curios for a
cabinet, which he intends to pre-
sent to the society iPor exhibition in
the Historical rooms in the new
Capitol.

Numerous other requests both
for membership certificates and for
the Register, are daily received by
Mrs. Morton, who now has the Reg-
ister on exchange not only ''in every
State in the Union, in Canada, Par-
aguay, Uruguay, Peru, S. A., but
in pjugland, Ireland, Germany,
Italy and Alsace Lorraine and this
magazine, which has done more to
preserve the fragments of Ken-
tucky's history than any other
publication, is gaining a wide repu-
tation, under Mrs. Morton's able
editorship.

PICTURES HANG IN HALL OF

FAME.

Interesting Acquisitions Are Re-
ceived BY Historical Society.

(State Journal.)

The picture of Bland Ballard,
the pioneer mentioned in the State
Journal a few days ago, has been
received and is now hanging in the
Hall of Fame. It is a crayon pic-
ture, quite well preserved and
framed in oak. The interesting his-
tory of this fine soldier and pioneer
is known well in Kentuckv where so
many of his descendants live and
today are among the foremost citi-
zens. Another portrait which has
•attracted admiration is the splendid

painting of George Washington, a
copy of Peale's portrait of him,
taken at Valley Forge in 1778. It
hangs in the Hall of Fame, with
the portraits of liovemor ISnelby
on the left. Governor Charles Scott
on the right and Governor Gar-
rard below. These Governors were
Washington's friends and asso-
ciates during the Revolutionary
War. The portrait was painted by
Walker, the Louisville artist.

The Kentucky State Historical
Society at its annual meeting re-
elected all the old officers. Thev
are: Gov. J. B. McCreary, presi-
dent; H. V. McChesney, vice
president; W. W. Lonorraoor, sec-
ond vice president; Miss Sallie
Jackson, third vice president ; Mrs.
Jennie C. Morton, regent and secre-
tary and treasurer. Otto A. Roth-
ert, of Louis\"ille, was elected an
assistant to obtain records and his-
torical records in Southwestern
Kentucky.

OFFENSIVE ADVERTISE-
MENTS.

We know of no way of protect-
ing our cities from these offensive
advertisements except by taxing
them out of existence. With a num-
ber of other persons, opposed to
the scare-crows and sensational
bill-board papers of second class
shows of all kinds, we have en-
treated the city officials to take
some action upon the subject hot

RegMer of the Kentucky State Hietorical Society.

with no avail. **The children are
amused by them." Is that a sen-
sible reason for allowing themt It
is to protect the children that we
want them prohibited. Then they
mar the appearance of any town
or city. Our picturesque city is
blurred with these great advertis-
ing pictures of brutal men, prize-
fighters, wrestlers, etc. Let their
strength of arm and muscle be con-
fined to the lot or field on which it
is displayed. All kinds of pictures
that are demoralizing should be
prohibited. Any and everything
that defaces the street corners
should be abolished. We cannot go
as far as the people of England go
in their civic circles, and demand
that the county fences shall not be
smeared with these advertisements
that offend good taste, but we
should preserve the beauty of our
city landscapes from them, our
streets and parks. Tax such adver-
tisements out of existence.

ANNUAL MEETING OCT. 3, 1912

Of the Executive Committee of
THE Kentucky State Histori-
cal Society.

This meeting was unusually well
attended, and a pleasant one, for
the 3rd of October, which is intend-
ed simply for a business meeting
annually on this date. The Vice
President, • H. V. McChesney,
Chairman, called the meeting to
order. The customary formula was

observed. The officers were re-elect-
ed, and the following papers were
read by the Regent. Mr. Otto A.
Bothert was voted thanks for his
gift and for his generous offer as
assistant to the Society in South-
western Kentucky. His services
will be gratefully accepted. The
business of the Society being
finished, refreshments were served
to the members and a bright social
hour enjoyed. — Sec.-Treas.

The Honorable Committee of the
Kentucky State Historical

Society :

Our Society has grown since last
w^e met in this room a year ago, a
little company, to attend to the
business interests of the Kentucky
State Historical Societv.

It is true our collection of books
has not yet reached, as a wit has
remarked **the Cemetery of books
with tombstone inscriptions on the
backs, ^' that the State Librarian,
and the Court of Appeals has in-
corporated in the basement of the
Capitol — books no mortal ever
reads, or cares for, yet there are
hillocks of them beneath the dust,
because, well, because * ' of the mak-
ing of many books there is no end''
and a decent necropolis is essen-
tial to all libraries.

We have the books that - histor-
ians and scholars want to read ; we
are living in an electric age, so dif-
ferent from the past, with all the
improvements for social and busi-
ness life. History is the entertain-
ment of the cultured, who can af-
ford an idle hour in elegant ease.

By purchase and gift we have
secured the choice histories, and
books of the world that can be con-
sulted on every subject. History,
science, literature, art, music, po-
etry and religion. We have for the
benefit of students of biography,
walls hung with elegant portraits
of the leaders of the State and na-
tion. We have curios of all kinds—
and relics most rare and precious.
With these accessions for a histor-
ical society we hope to realize our
ambition for the State of Kentucky,
in having a historical society sec-
ond to none in America in value
and interest as the >ears glide by.

Already our historical rooms are
regarded by visitors to them from
all parts of the world as among
the most beautiful and interesting
in America. So we are encouraged
by what has been accomplished;
with all discouragements to sur-
mount, to hope that the future will
bless our work as it has other so-
cieties, with rich fruition of our

hopes.

See what has been done for the
New Hampshire Historical So-
ciety. Is it Kentucky vanity to say
we believe we have as noble and
patriotic men in our State, who
would build such a historical tem-
ple adjoining our New Capitol as
an annex, as the Hon. Edward Tuck
has built for the New Hampshire
Historical Society if their attention
was called to the fact that it would
be an enduring monument to
themselves as well as an honor to
their fathers?

A TRIBUTE
To J. Sutton Wai-l,
Who Died September 29, 1912.
By Mbs. Jennie C. Mobton.

We have learned with deep re-
gret of the death of this distin-
guished historian and estimable
gentleman on the 29th of Septem-
ber. Mr. Wall was one of the most
valued of Pennsylvania's state oflB-
cials — having retained his position
in the Department ot Internal Af-
fairs through many administra-
tions in Harrisburg.

It was as a historian and corre-
spondent that we learned to know
him. Having the archives of the
State at his command, he was ever
ready to advise us of such records
in our work for the historical so-
ciety as we needed, and generously
declined ever to receive any com-
pensation for search or certificate.
He was among the first subscribers
to the Register, and wrote us last
year he had all the numbers boimd
in books similar to ours on the li-
brary shelves.

He had hoped to visit our new
Capitol, and the Historical Depart-
ment this summer, but failing
health prevented the pleasure of
coming to Kentucky that he had so
great a desire to see. We shall
miss him from the list of our sub-
scribers, and with the State he has
honored and benefited by his tal-
ents, we mourn his death. We ex-

RdQitter of the Kentucky State Hietorlcal Society.

tend to his family our heartfelt
sympathy in their grievous loss.

He was buried in Monongahela,
Allegheny County — the history of
which is one of his most valuable
contributions to the history of
Pennsylvania, and the county was,
we believe, his birthplace. Hon-
ored and beloved by all who knew
him, his example should be an in-
spiration to noble living among the
young men about hirfi, who, though
they may not have been so richly
endowed intellectually, could imi-
tate his fidelity and unbroken in-
tegrity in every trust committed to
his care, public and private, and
thus contribute an enBuring monu-
ment to his memory.

We append the following tribute
to him, from the Harrisburg Tele-
graph, Pennsylvania:

MANY MOUBN DEATH OP J. SUTTON

WALL.

The death of J. Sutton Wall, for
many years chief draftsman of the
Department of Internal Affairs and
compiler of the State's first rail-
road map, was mourned yesterday
by his associates in the depart-
ment, who met in the ofiice of Sec-
retary Henry Houck and drew up
resolutions. Mr. Houck presided
and George F. Ross, search clerk,
was secretary of the meeting. Re-
marks were made by Mr. Houck
and others of the departmental
staff and then resolutions were
adopted expressing the sorrow of
the staff in the following words:

** Whereas, By a dispensation of
Divine will, Mr. J. Sutton Wall,
who for many years filled the re-

sponsible position of chief drafts-
man in the Department of Internal
Affairs, passed away on Sunday,
the 29th of September, 1912 ; there-
fore be it

*' Resolved, That the Secretary
of Internal Affairs and his official
family, in meeting assembled, here-
by bear testimony to Mr. WalPs
comprehensive knowledge of the
land records of the State and of the
procedure pertaining to land
grants; his untiring and efficient
performance of all the many duties
devolving upon him; his uniform
courtesy to those who have had
business with the department and
to his colleagues, and to hii^ many
excellent qualities of head and
heart; that the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in his death, has lost
an invaluable public servant, whose
place it will be difficult to ade-
quately fill*; that we deeply moLrn
the loss of one from our circle,
whose companionship and friend-
ship were so highly prized by us,
and our sincere sympathy goes out
to those who were near and dear
to him, in the hour of their be-
reavement, a bereavement which
we share with them.'*

For the first time in the history
of Kentucky we can write^ ** Wom-
en can vote in the election of school
boards and in all school elections.'*
This right was conferred by the
act of the Legislature of 1912.

Many years ago an act was
passed by the Kentucky Legisla-
ture allowing widows with children
and spinsters with wards within

Realtor of the Kentucky State HIetorlcal Society.

the school age to vote in school
elections, but the law was poorly-
observed. With enlarged privi-
leges the act of 1912 is conferred
on women. Let us see what they
will do with them.

We liave received since June 7,
1912, the following named persons
as members of the society:

Mr. Lucas Brodhead, Versailles,
Kentucky.

Mr. Wm. S. Farmer, Frankfort,
Kentucky.

Mrs. S. C. Xuckols, Lexington,
Kentucky.

R. C. Ballard Thruston, Louis-
ville, Ky.

Gilmer S. Adams, Louisville, Ky.

Mr. Boutwell Dunlap, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.

Mr. Otto Ilolstein, Lima, Peru,
South America. (Life member )

Edgar E. Hume, Frankfort, Ky.

The National Year Book of 1911-
1912 of the Sons of the American
Revolution — gift from R. C. Bal-
lard Thruston, Louisville, Ky.

• • •

Dedication of the building of the
New Hampshire Historical Society.
This very handsome book^ ele-
gantly illustrated with pictures of
the magnificent historical building,
and the noted members, and gen-
erous patrons of the society under
the direction of the Hon. Edward
Tuck — the munificent donor of the
building, which is one of the most
magnificent in America.

Mr. Tuck is a New Hampshire
son, who, in honor of his birthplace
and respect for the historical so-
ciety of which his distinguish«^J
father was a member, gave this
splendid testimonial in Concord.
The building is erected near the
Capitol, so that it may have the
advantage of the State records.

DONATIONS.

We have received from ^Ir. Otto
A. Rothert, Louisville, Ky„ a pair
of andirons, mad^ at the Buckner
Furnace in Muhlenberg County,
Kentucky, in 1840, and used in the
old-fashioned fireplace until 1910,
when purchased by him as a quaint
relic.

Through Capt. Jno. A. Steele, of
Midway, we ^lave received the gift
from a citizen of Midway, Ky., a
crayon picture of Bland Ballard, a
famous pioneer soldier in Ken-
tucky.

IN ANSWER TO CERTAIN IN-
QUIRIES.

By tJie Editor,

We have been asked, **Who is
the head of the Historical Societv,
who composes its Executive Com-
mittee, its Advisory Committee, its
Consultative Committee f

We answer, the Executive Com-
mittee is one and all of these. The
President ex-officio is the Governor
of the State, but the First Vice
President is always present, and
as the Chairman of the Executive
Committee opens the meetings and
conducts the program for business.

It is the established belief in all
societies of this two-fold character,
that the founders and promoters of
them know how to conduct the busi-
ness in relation to the Common-
wealth. So far there has been no
variance between tl\is society and
the State, save in a few minor mat-
ters, where the vigilance of the Re-
gent, and members of the society
in endeavoring to protect the valu-
able property of the society may
have been sliofhtly misunderstood.
Having behind them the law for
the existence and the protection of
the society, this safeguard has so
far been ample for the protection
of all rights belonging to the so-
ciety.

That a society held above the
conflicting elements of social and
political commotion should not feel
the sting of reversal of many of its
cherished objects of activity, would
be strange indeed. But with our
intelligent committees, and the
sympathy of the public in our en-
deavor to uphold for the State such
a Historical Society as we now
have, we hope there will be no issue
we may not meet in the future, with
remediable defense — and so pre-
serve for the State and its archives,
something, if not all, that is worth
preserving in the history of Ken-
tucky.

JAMES S. SHERMAN.

Vice PBEsroENT op the United

States.

By J. C. M.

We were very much shocked by
the death of the Vice President.

Having. known him in the bloom
of a fine healthy manhood, the very
embodiment of health, happiness,
prosperity and fame, it was diffi-
cult to associate ill health, wdth his
robust figure, and his bright bouy-
ant spirit, or to think of death clos-
ing his triumphant life under the
white seal of eternal silence. That
consternation and confusion should
follow his absence from the high
places he occupied is not strange.

Once meeting him at a luncheon
given us in Washington he noted
a beautiful seal pin the writer
wore, and instantly improvised a
charming verse to it, witty and sig-
nificant. The most morose pessi-
mist could not then have predicted
today —

Like the proud eagle stretched upon the
plain —

He, too, should lie, soaring triumphant,
ne'er again.

But cold in death's unsought, un wooed em-
brace—

Only a sculpture from life's gallery for urn
or vase.

We had the great pleasure of a
call from Mr. Strother, of Fort
Smith, Ark., in October. Mr. Stro-
ther is one of the most accom-
plished gentlemen and scholars of
our acquaintance, also one of the
most reliable and indefatigable
genealogists in the South. He is an
authority on many of the records in
Culpepper, Albemarle and Augusta
Counties, Virginia. His visit to
Kentucky was in the line of his
profession, and he seemed most
pleased to find in Kentucky, and
especially at the Capitol, records

and historical data he had sought
in WashingtoijL and Richmond and
could not find. He says the clerks
of the courts in Kentucky should
be paid an additional salary to
gather and publish the marriage
licenses in their respective offices
before these time-honored and most
precious records, now so in request,
are destroyed by dust, neglect and
possibly fire.

We sincerely hope this advice
will be acted upon by the counties
of Kentucky, holding in their pos-
session the ancient records of mar-
riages and wills. Such sacred writ-
ings should be published and placed
in the safe-keeping of the State
Historical Society at Frankfort,
says Mr. Strother.

A REQUEST.

To Heads of Schools and Colleges
IN Kentucky Made by Perey
Centennial Commission
/Though Mbs. Jennie C. Mor-
ton, Regent op Kentucky
State Historical Society.

Hon. Barksdale Hamlett,

Supt. Public Instruction,
The Capitol :

We respectfully submit the re-
quest herein for your considera-
tion. We believe a * * Perry Victory
Day'* in the colleges and schools
of Kentucky would be a great bene-
fit in connection with a review of
the War of 1812. This should ap.
peal very strongly to all Kentuck-

ians, as through the columns of the
Register they have learned that a
very great part of the credit for
Perry's victory is due the Kentucky
riflemen who participated in the
battle.

Editor The Register.

The Regent of the State Histor-
ical Society has been requested by
the commission of the Perrv Cen-
tennial, at Cleveland, Ohio, to re-
quest through the press of the State
of Kentucky that the teachers in
the schools and colleges, every-
where throughout the Common-
wealth, set apart a day during 1912-
1913 to instruct the children in the
names of the battles of the War of
1812, and especially to inform them
concerning the Perry victory on
Lake Erie.

The one hundredth anniversary
of this event to be held in Put-in
Bay, September 10, 1913, is now
attracting the attention of the
world. It is well to review the his-
tory of the battle, and instruct the
youth of this State, in the great
sacrifice Kentuckians made to
win that victory, that they may un-
derstand why they should pay trib-
ute to the memory of those heroes
who fought in that campaign, and
were conspicuous in winning the
Perry victory, one of the most won-
derful battles of the world.

We suggest that the teachers
throughout the State will comply
with the request, and set apart a
** Perry Victory Day** for the stu-
dents of all the schools, during the
school year of 1912-1913. (Kentuck-y
newspapers please copy.)

^'WEHAVEMETTHEENEMy came about because a former gen-
eration of Kentuckians '*met the

(Editorial in State Journal.) enemy.

To few men it is given to win an
immortal triumph ; to fewer still to
win the victory and commemorate
it in a sentence as immortal as the
victory itself.

The laconic message of Oliver
Hazard Perry, **We have met the
enemy and they are ours,'^ sent
after the battle of Put-in Bay on
Lake Erie, rings down through. the
century that has elapsed with im-
port as great as the result of his
triumph in forever establishing the
neutrality of the inland seas that
separate this country from the Do-
minion to the north.

There were many sons of Ken-
tucky who met the enemy with
Perry in that significant conflict on
the Great Lakes, which is to be cel-
ebrated on September 10, 1913, and
the suggestion made by Mrs. Jen-
nie C. Morton, Regent of the Ken-
tucky Historical Society, that the
public schools of this State some
time during the present school year
hold exercises commemorative of
the event, is one that should be fol-
lowed, endorsed, as it is, by the
State Department of Education.

No Blenheim this. No poet's
satire can wipe out the glory of the
achievement. 'Twas more than ''a
famous victory '* and when tliey
are asked '*what came of it at
lasf every school child in Ken-
tucky should be able to tell what
the battle of Lake Erie meant in
its consequences to the future of
North America, and know that it

PERRY VICTORY DAY FOR

SCHOOLS.

The State Journal:

I ask permission to publish in
your columns the request received
through Mr. Todd, secretary of the
Perry Victory Centennial Commis-
sion, that the schools and colleges
of Kentucky will set apart some
day during the school term, Octo-
ber, 1912, to June, 1913, for a ''Per-
ry Victory Day" — on which day
the lesson will be, **The names of
the battles of the War of 1812-15,
and the* battle at Put-in Bay on
Lake Erie; Perry's Victory there
one hundred years ago. Let them
learn the magical report of Oliver
Hazard Perry, the Victor: 'We
have met the enemy and they are
ours.

J j>

Every Kentuckian should know
the story of that wonderful battle,
in which Kentucky was represented
by heroes born for the hour.

Let the youth of Kentucky be
taught to pay tribute to them on
this patriotic occasion. (See Sep-
tember Register, 1911; A. C. Quis-
enberry's history of the battle.)

The selection of the day, and the
program for it, must be arranged
by the teachers. The Hon. Barks-
dale Hamlett, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, has written to
me that he approves the plan, agad
will contribute what he can to its
success. Prof. McKee, of the Frank-

fort public schools^ will set apart a
day, and arrange a program for it.
In this way the historic lesson of
Perry's Victory will be impressed,
and the magnificent Centennial on
the 10th of September, 1913, will
become immortal to the children of
Kentucky, though they may not see
the sky-reaching monument by the
sea to remind them that Kentucky
had heroes there that fired the cour-
age, and strengthened the arm of
Perry to win the splendid victory
the day commemorates.
Respectfully,
Mrs. Jennie C Morton,
Regent Kentucky State Histori-
cal Society.

ARBOR DAY 13TH OF NOVEM-
BER.

A cool, dreary day was Arbor
Day at the Capitol. The day pre-
vious, the trees for the Capitol
grounds were nearly all planted,
but an aftermath followed on the
13th, when the people from many
of the counties gathered there to
celebrate the event. The Governor
made a speech, explaining the ne-
cessity for tree-planting, and giv-
ing a history of the custom, and its
advantages in preserving the beau-
ty of forest for the adornment of
the land. His speech was greatly
appreciated, and warmly applaud-
ed by the great audience of school
children. He was followed by Attor-
ney General Garnett, whose address
was a gem in literature, scintillating
with poetic eloquence and illustra-
tion and the speech was enthusiasti-

cally applauded. Other speakers fol-
lowed, and the addresses were ex-
cellent. The band supplemented
with splendid music. When the
meeting closed on the esplanade the
crowd scattered into the grounds
to look at the newly planted trees
and add a shovel full of rich fer-
tilizer around • them, while others
surged through the Capitol and into
the historical rooms. From nine
o'clock in the morning until five
o'clock in the evening this depart-
ment in the Capitol was thronged
with visitors. Whole schools and
their teachers and ^'lookers on,"
who came to enjoy Arbor Day in
Frankfort lingered in this elegant
department to enjoy the entertain-
ment there, out of the cliilly wind
and misty rain. This is the first
Arbor Day celebration Frankfort
has had, and it w^as enjoyed as a
rare occasion, in this, *'the City of
the Maples," as it was named by
Henry L. Stanton, the poet.

FAMOUS TREES.

The Charter Oak.

Liberty Elm.

Victory — or Hamilton Trees —
Planted by Hamilton in honor of
the surrender at Yorktown, Octo-
ber 19, 1781, in New York City.

The Treaty Ehn— Under which
William Penn made the treaty
with the Indians in Pennsylvania.
A monument now marks the site of
the Treaty Elm near PhUadelphia.

The Helena Tree — From Napo-
leons grave.

The Burgoyne Elm — Marking
the surrender of Burgoyne, with
all his army and the Burgoyne Can-

non— now in Historical Society, in
the Hall of Fame, at the Capitol of
Kentucky.

THE NEW PEESIDENT.

The Begister is not a political
magazine. Its editors have sought
to make it a periodical of great
value to all the people of Kentucky,
and especially to all who are inter-
ested in the history of the State,
and in the collection and preserva-
tion of everything in any way con-
nected with its history. This task
has been so great that we have had
no time to discuss questions of
State in these columns, even if we
had considered it within our prov-
ince so to do.

There are certain phases of the
recent Presidential election, how-
ever, that are entirely outside the
realm of partfsan politics, and we
cannot forbear a word of comment
on them.

And first of all let us suggest that
the election of Woodrow Wilson
forever puts at rest the idea that
a man must be a practical politician
to be either nominated for the Pres- .
idency or elected to that distin-
guished position. And by this we
do not mean to speak in derogation
of the practical politician; it is
quite possible for him to also be a
patriot and even a statesman, al-
though the combination is rarely
found.

Governor Wilson is in no sense
a practical politician, in the ordi-
nary meaning oTthe term, and yet
his record as Governor of New Jer-

H R.— 7

sey has demonstrated that his ideas
of government are intensely prac-
tical. His record marks him as a
broad-minded, constructive states-
man, whose ideas of the function
of government are so clear and judt
that they are easily translated into
wholesome laws. And this fact,
recognized by thinking men every-
where, whether they supported him
for the Presidency or not, leads the
American people to anticipate just
as successful a career for him in
the White House as he has had in
the Executive office in New Jersey.

Another lesson tp be learned
from the election is that when a
candidate 's protestations of loyalty
to the cause of the whole people
can be laid alongside a thoroughly
consistent record on the question
he may confidently expect the sup-
port of a vast majority of the
voters who really believe in a gov-
ernment of the people. Woodrow
Wilson's election was a staggering
blow to the reign of the *'boss'' in
politics, and equally as severe a re-
buke of those who expect the public
to accept their noisy professions of
devotion to the people in the face
of s^ record to the contrary. It also
served notice on the great trusts
of the country that they must here-
after regard the government of
the^e United States as something
more than a chattel of the money
power. Incidentally, it brought
the joy of victory to those who for
twenty years have fought, at times
apparently in vain, for the re-es-
tablishment of the supremacy of
man above the dollar.

Lastly, let us suggest, that the
result of the election proves that

the title of schoolmaster is not nec-
essarily a handicap to one seeking
political honors. I^ is a far cry m
the history of our country, from
the time when a military record
was the one great essential to a
candidate's success to this good
day when a college professor and
a writer of books is triumphantly
elected, successively Governor of a
sovereign state and President of
the American Republic. That such
a revolution has worked itself out
in the minds of the people is at
once a compliment to their good
sense and a tribute to the greatness
of our democratic institutions.

Entirely aside from his political
opinions Woodrow Wilson is a

great man and a great American,
big of head and big of heart; with
convictions as clear-cut as his well-
chiseled face, and the courage to
carry them into execution. He goes
into oflSce owing nothing to any
man or any influence that would
handicap him in his service of his
country. Of his purpose to make
this service of great value to the
country, no one Eas a doubt ; of his
ability to carry the purpose into
execution everyone is convinced.
We shall be disappointed in our
expectations if he does not make
the greatest President the country
has seen since the days of Wash-
ington— and here are our best
wishes for a measure of success
that win meet our expectations.

Historical and Genealogical

Department

The Poages, Lindsays and McGintys

MBS. S. V. NUCKOLS.

HISTORY OF WILLIAM POAGE AND HIS WIFE,
ANN KENNEDY WILSON POAGE LINDSAY McGINTY.

By Mrs. S. V. Nnckols, Lexington, Kentucky.

Ann Kennedy Wilson Poage, the
widow of Wilson, was married to
William Poage in Augusta County,
Virginia, 1760. They lived a num-
ber of years near the Natural
Bridge in what is now Eockbridge
County, Virginia, and then moved
to Fincastle, now Washington
County, in 1774, not very far from
Abingdon, Virginia.

William Poage, as sergeant, had
command of Fort Eussell in that
vicinity with twenty men, while
Daniel Boone (Lieutenant) had
charge of anolKer fort a few miles
away. In 1775 William Poage and
family moved to Harrodsburg, Ken-
tucky.

I found the evidence of William
Poage 's (Poague, Pougue) first
services as a soldier in the war with
the Indians in the history of Albe-
marle County, Virginia, which
quotes from Henning's Statutes,
vol. 7, page 303, names of the oflS-
cers and soldiers of Albemarle
County militia in actual service for
the defense and protection of the
frontier against the Indians, Sep-
tember, 1758. The Captain of the
company was James Neville, and
among the soldiers were William
Poage and Bo5ert Poage.

History Summaries of Southwest
Virginia shows on pages 156 and
157 that Sergeant Poage was in
command of Fort Eussell in the
vicinity of the present city of Ab-
ingd'on, Virginia, in the fall of 1774,
with twenty men, while Lieutenant
Daniel Boone was in command of
Fort Moore, foux miles west, with
twenty men.

The manuscript statement of
Elizabeth Poage Thomas in posses-
sion of the Historical Society, De-
troit, Mich., proves this Sergeant
Poage was William Poage; there
was no other William Poage in that
part of the country at that time.

Collins * History, vol. 2, page 616,
states that William Poage, or
Pougue, cleared ground and raised
com in 1776, at Cove Spring, about
two miles northeast of Harrods-
burg, Kentucky.

On September 1, 1778, a company
of sixteen men going to Logan's
Station, near Stanford, ten miles
from where DanvUle is now situ-
ated, were fired on by a party of
Indians in ambush in a canebrake.
William Poage was wounded by
them, three balls entering his body.
The others made their escape un-
hurt ; the next day two parties were

102

sent out in search of Poage, who
had clung to his hdlrse until out of
reach of the ladians, thep fell and
crawled into a oanebrake, and hid
until he heard his friends passing
near. They carried him to Field's
cabin, one ai^d one-eighth miles
west of Danville. It was an aban-
doned cabin ; they camped there for
the night ; the Indians tracked them,
surrounded the cabin, and waited
to attack them in the morning. But
the whites discovered them in time,
a^d suddenly sallied out at day-
break, surprised them in ambush
and killed four of them, one of
whom had William Poage's gun.
This they brought to Harrodsburg
and gave to* his brave little son,
Robert, then twelve years old. He
was afterward General Robert
Poage, of Mayslick, Mason County,
Kentucky. William Poage was set
upon a horse with William Maddox
to hold him on, and thus rode to
Fort Harrodsburg, but he did not
die until the next day, September
3, .1778. (Collins' History, volume

2.) _

It is interesting to know how
the first settlers produced the sim-

{)le implements of husbandry, and
he indispensable articles of kitch-
en and dairy furniture, unused to
labor of that sort, they exercised
their ingenuity, and did what they
could toward providing such con-
veniences. William Poage was re-
markably ingenious, and while he
lived in Harrodsburg, from Feb-
ruary 1, 1776, to September, 1778,
he made the buckets, milk pails,
ehurna, tubs and noggins used by
the people in the fort. He maBe

the woodwork of the first plough.
made and used the first loom on
which weaving was done in Ken-
tucky, by sinking a post in tlie
ground and pieceing beams and
slats to them, after which Ann Ken-
nedy Wilson Poage wove into cloth
the first linen made in KentuckT
from nettle lint; the linsey vas
made from this same nettle lint and
buflfalo wool. She brought the first
spinning wheel to Kentucky; she
also brought with her from Vir-
ginia fowls of all kinds.

There is a manuscript of Williom
Lindsay Poage that speaks of many
things. He was her grandson.

After the death of WilUara
Poage, Mrs. Poage in the spring of
1781 was married to Col. Joseph
Lindsay, one of the illustrious vic-
tims of the terrible slaughter at the
battle of Blue Licks in August,
1782. We are indebted to his note-
book for many interesting things
about his wife. Several years later
she was married to James Mc-
Ginf y, and is well remembered by
persons now living.

Mrs. Ann Kennedy Wilson Poage
Lindsay McGinty was a woman of
great energy and self-reliance.
Her little son shouldered his
father's gun to help drive the In-
dians out, while his mother molded
bullets.

The spring at Harrodsburg called
Gore's Spring, after Andrew Gore,
was purchased by him from A^il-
liam Poage 's heirs. There are pat-
ents in the family where 640 acres
of land on Gilman's Creek or Lick
(Collins' History, vol. 2, page 516) »
belonged to them.

103

She who had braved the red man's hate —

With Harrod, Clark and Boone,
First of her sex within the State,

Before a way was hewn.
Who heard the savage whoop and yell

With dead around her strewn —
And helped the savage hordes repel

To save the place from ruin.

I scraped away the moss and mold

For, on it at a glance
Saw characters, perhaps which told

Of some one whose advance
Into the western forests gave

The savage less expanse
And lo! saw Ann McGintjr's grave

Which! had found by chance.

(AutEor of these verses un-
known.)

(This history by a lady of Lex-
ington, a descendant of Ann Mc-
Ginty, Mrs. S. V. Nuckols. De-
scendants of Mrs. Ann McGinty are
requested to unite with the author
of this article [Mrs. S. V. Nuckols,
Lexington, Ky.] in an effort to have
a marker placed at this brave pio-
neer woman's grave, in the old
graveyard a,t Harrodsburg, within

the boundaries of the famous old
fort.)

EAILEY-EANDOLPH
CHAPTER.

Omissions from page 144, vol. 10,
No. 28, January 1912, Register.
Subject, History and Genealogy.
Railey-Randolph.

Cornelius Wm. Beale,« bom Sep-
tember 17, 1886. Married Mary
Elizabeth Graham September 11,
1907.

Ruth Burnley Beale.''

William Stuart Beale."^

Carrie Marie Beale,® born May
31, 1889. Married Thomas Willis
Lewis November 28, 1911.

Byron Sunderland Beale,® born
January 26, 1892. Married Rosa
Ann Londes, October 18, 1911.

Earle Gordan Beale,^ born Octo-
ber 28, 1894.

Edna Elizabeth Beale,^ born
June 15, 1899.

DEPARTMENT

INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS

INQUIRIES AND ANSWER3.

Question — Dear Begister — Will
you please give me the earliest date
of the Chynn family in London,
England? M. C,

Denver, Colo.

Answer — ^I find in a published
Register this marriage entry : John
De Cheynn, of London, gent., and
Elizabeth Bolainger, of St. Anne,
Blackfriars, widow of Giles Bo-
lainger, late of same, October 25,
1596. But previous to this date we
find Chynne Eow, London, named
probably for Sir Thomas Cheynne,
member of Parliament. His castle
**Windemere'' is about fifty miles
from London, and is still occupied
by his descendants. The owners
improved the stone building that
looks like a fortress, each owner
making it more and more desirable
as a residence. The last owner, we
learn, is John Cheynn, gent. The
date of its erection is 1512.

Dear Register — ^Will you please
write me the date of the founding
of the capital of Kentucky, and
when the first Legislature met in
the old Love House? W. J. E.,

Paducah, Ky.

Answer— "Frankfort was founded
in 1786, as may be seen on its cor-
ner stone. The (first Legislature
met in the old Love House Decem-
ber, 1793. The Love House was
torn down in 1870. We preserve

only pictures of it, one of which
appears in the September Register,
1912.

Register — Can you tell us if
Aaron Burr was buried in the
Frankfort Cemetery, or if General
Wilkinson is buried in Kentucky?

Answer — Burr was not buried in
the Frankfort Cemetery. General
Wilkinson died in the South and is
probably buried in New Orleans,
where he lived and died. He was
the founder of the capital of Ken-
tucky, Frankfort.

Dear Editor of the Register-
Do you have portraits painted of
the Lieutenant Governors of Ken-
tucky?

Ans. — No, not unless they have
achieved distinction in other lines
of politics or business. We paint
the Governors of the State, where
the descendants cannot supply
them. And we paint other famous
Kentuckians, but their fame must
rest upon their merit and the worth
of their services to the State as
men of integrity and right-think-
ing, and right-acting as honorable
examples of the citizens of Ken-
tucky ; not alone for their titles, or
their splendid ancestry, which in
some cases the descendants have
conspicuously disgraced. The por-
traits in the Hall of Fame recall
the men whose history is the pride

108

of Kentucky, and their faces glow
with intelligence, courage and no-
bility. Many compliments are paid
them by visitors to the hall. From
Washington's portrait in the midst
of his Major Generals in the Revo-
lution— Governors Shelby, Garrard
and Scott — to Gov. J. C. W. Beck-
ham, beside his historic grand-
father, Governor Wickliffe, and
Governor McCreary and G^v. Goe-
bel, it is often an ovation to them.
Some deed, or some speech, or some
noble act- of heroism, some poem,
or some sparkling witticism is re-
peated, as the visitor looks upon
them with admiration.

Thus our history of great people
is illustrated and has been especial-
ly beneficial to schools and colleges,
since we founded the State Histori-
cal Society.

While it is not our province to
build monuments — our small ap-
propriation does not admit of such

large outlay — ^we have assisted in
this work, also in marking historic
spots. But Kentucky would be a
memorial cemetery if according to
tradition and history all historical
points were noted with tablets,
markers and monuments in Ken-
tucky. The State itself is a monu-
ment to the brave, splendid men
and women who discovered,
founded, settled and promoted the
strange progress and success of its
government amid dissensions, wars,
murders, jealousies, rivalries and
fiery political campaigns. No State
in the Union has had such diflScul-
ties to encounter and conquer, and
still she proudly holds herself as
a tower of light and strength and
beauty among the States of the
Union. We want the pictures and
portraits of famous Kentuckians
and their histories. Send what vou
may have and if we have the du-
plicates we will return your prop-
erty by mail or express.

REPORT OF UBRARY COLLECTIONS SINCE JULY 1, 1912.

By Secretary-Treasurer.
Newspapers, Magazines, Books, Joumak, Pamphlets, Etc

The State Journal.

The Harrodsburg Leader.

The Shelby Record.

The Maysville Bulletin.

The World.

The. Fanners^ Home Journal.

The Woodford Sun.

The Commoner.

July 1, 1912.

Journal of New England His-
toric Genealogical Society — 18
Somerset St., Boston, Mass.

Pamphlet from Orchard House —
Westminster, London, England.
Gray's Bulletin of Family History
— ^Acton, London, England.

The University of Chicago Press
— Chicago, 111.

Bulletin of same — Chicago, HI.

The Washington Historical
Quarterly— Seattle, Wash.

(This number of the Quarterly of
the Washington University State
Historical Society is one of unusual
interest. The founding of the Terri-
tory—now State of Washington— is
a strong article, worthy of the au-
thor by that name who wrote it.)

United Empire — The Eoyal Co-
lonial Institute Journal — ^London,
Eng.

The Southwestern Historical
Quarterly — Austin, Texas.

Ohio Archaeological and Histor-
ical Quarterly— Columbus, 0. (This
is one of the most interesting Quar-
terlies we have received. In illus-
tration and description it is very
attractive, and presents every sub-
ject admirably.)

The Iowa Journal of History and
Politics— Iowa City, Iowa.

August, 1912.

The Century.

The World's Work.

Scribners.

Bulletin of the New York Public
Library.

The Zenoian of Panama — ^illus-
trated with fine picture of Gov. M.
H. Thatcher.

The Veteran.

Descriptive lists of maps of
Spanish possessions in the United
States 1502-1820— Lowery. From
Library of Congress.

History of the Franklin Baptist
Association, from 1815"Eb 1912. By
Eev. F. W. Eberhardt and Dr. U.
V. Williams.

(This is a valuable history, illus-
trated with pictures of notable
churches that compose this great

110

association. It contains the most
correct data ' of the organizations,
and the names of the illustrious
Baptist preachers of pioneer days
as well the names of the famous
preachers who have carried on
the work they began in the wil-
derness, until it has reached the
most enlarged and gratifying suc-
cess of any one church in Ken-
tuxjky, under their zeal in its holy
cause.

We thank the authors of the his-
tory for this donation to the library
of the Kentucky State Historical
Society.)

The Perry Centennial and Me-
morial— Cleveland, 0.

The United Empire Journal of
the Royal Colonial Institute — Lon-
don, England.

Journal of Illinois State Histor-
ical Society — Springfield, 111.

Bulletin of the New York Public
Library — New York,

The Outlook.

American Monthly Magazine, D.
A. E.— Washington, D. C.

General James Winchester, 1752-
1826.

(Read before the Tennessee His-
torical Society April, 1912, by the
Hon. John H. DeWitt, Nashville,
Tenn.)

Gray's Family History Catalog.
— London, Eng.

Alabama Official and Statistical
Register, 1911. Compiled by Thos.
M. Owen, L. L. D., Director.

History of Kanawha County
and Charleston, W. Va. By W.
S. Laidlfey.

(Surely West Virginia should
be under lasting obligatiotis to the
ai^tbor for this elegant book. It is

an ornament to any library, and as
a history is invaluable to the county
and city of which it is especially
the representative. Now when the
people of the United States are
aroused to the importance of the
history of its people, we welcome
this new compendium of the prin-
cipal city and county of West Vir-
ginia, and hope it may be followed
as an example by other counties of
Virginia, old and new. All honor
to Mr. Laidley for such a history of
his people.)

Septembeb, 1912.

The National Geographic Maga-
zine.

Bureau of American Ethnolof^y
— '* Early Man in S. America.*'—
Smithsonian Institution, Washing-
ton, D. C.

The National Year Books 1911-
1912 of the **Sons of the American
Revolution.*' Gifts from B. C. Bal-
lard Thruston, Louisville, Ky. (A
splendid book.)

^'Historia.'' — Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.

Annals of Iowa, Third Series.^
Des Moines, lown.

A Catalogue of Books, Aiicient
and Modei'n, by C. RichardddH—
1^0. 207 Oxford Boad, Manchester,
England.

*'Itentilcky And the Independ-
encfe of Texiw,** by J^nes E. Wui-
ston— ^PrittcfetWi, New Jferbey.

Mfttlinns Nlf Hott, Choij:-De
Livr^s. Snr Le6 tndi^tiefl I>e
L'Ametiqtte. — The Sa^«^*^flol-
land.

I'h^ F^tty M^moi^kil and Otttmi-
nial 0^tebfati(mM:!l6yt$liiiKl, Ohio.

Retflvtor df th« Ktntudiy 8tftt# Hlcl6rie«l Soeltty.

Ill

16tb Biennial Beport of the Minn-
esota Historical Society— St. Paxil,
Minnesota.

The Quarterly Jonrnal of the
University of North Dakota, Uni-
versity— ^North Dakota.

Old and Bare Books — ^Leipsic,
Germany.

Dedication of the Building of the
New Hampshire Historical Society
— '(This book in every respect, his-
tory, pictures, addresses, binding,
&c. is worthy of the grand building,
and the dedication it describes.
This Society is grateful for the
beautiful compliment paid it by the
munificent donor Mr. Tuck, inj
sending us this book. We may hope
Kentucky will yet produce a son,
such as New Hampshire has done,
that may follow his example and
give to his native State — Kentucky
such a splendid building for its
Historical Society, honoring alike
to his patriotism and wealth, and
to the land of his birth. We honor
Mr. Edward Tuck, as an American
of the right stamp. He shares his
wealth and distinction with his
own people — ^AU honor to him.)

Qray^s Manuscript Catalogue —
London, England.

OCTOBBB, 1912.

The Outlook.
The Century.

From the Conunonwealth of
Pennsylvania, seven books or bul-
letins of the Department of Agri-
culture. List of County and local
A^cultural Societies. '(These
books or pamphlets are full of val-
uable suggestions to KentucMans
in the Department of Agriculture.)

Scribner^s Magasine.
. The New England^ Genealogical
and^ Historical Magazine — Boston,
Massachusetts.

The Geographic Magazine —
Washington, D. C.

The Southwestern Historical
Quarterly of the Texas State His-
torical Association — ^Austin, Texas.
An unusually fine number of this
magazine.

The Washington Historical
Quarterly — Seattle, Washington,
U. S. A.

The Century, November.— Union
Square, New York.

Leslie's Magazine.

The McCues of the 'Old Domin-
ion. By Jno. N. McCue — ^Auxvasse,
Mo. Very valuable histoay and
genealogy of the McCues, Steeles,
Arbucles and Cunningham famil-
ies.

The American Monthly Maga-
zine.

Journal of the Society of the
D. A. E.— Washington, D. C.

The Mammoth Cave Magazine —
Manunoth Cave, Kentucky. A beau-
tiful and artistic expression of tal-
ent and enterprise in Miss Helen
Bandolf, of Kentucky.

The Iowa Journal of Histors''
and Politics, Oct., 1912.

**The Perry Centennial and
Memorial Celebration^ — Cleve-
land, Ohio. j

NOVEMBEB, 1912.

• The World's Work.
Scribner.
Century, &c

The Sovereignty of the States
By Walter Neale — New York.

112 Rafliatar of tha Kantu^y 8UU HlaWrical Soelaty.

"Woodrow Wilson's History of Catalogue of Old Edinburgh

the American People — Neale Pub- Arts and Crafts. Detailing inteT-

lishing Honse, New York. eating items, houses, palaces, ab-

Report of American Historical beys, etc. — Edinhargh, Scotland.
Association for 1910".

INDEX

Page
General Muhlenberg 9

^'The Biver Baisin" 17

Kentuckians Killed and Wounded in Mexican War 28

Regrets— A Poem 37

Kentucky, a Land of Heroism, Eloquence, States-
manship and Letters 41

Epitaphs 55

The Battle of Chickamauga 65

Extracts from Governor Desha ^s Message and Other
Incidents Connected With Visit of LaFayette
to Frankfort 71

Department of Clippings and Paragraphs 81

Historical and Genealogical Department 101

Department of Inquiries and Answers 107

Report of Library Collections l09

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GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY President Ex-Oflicio

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HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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MRS. J. P. HOBSON.

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Secretary-Treasurer, Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfort,
Kentucky.

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General meeting of the Kentucky SUte Historical Society, June 7th, the date of
Daniel Boone's first view of the '^beautiful level of Kentucky."

CONTENTS

MAY, 1913.

Daniel Boone in West Virginia, By W. S. Laidley.

Dean Nathaniel S. Shaler — Geologist.

Kentucky Volunteers in the Texas Revolution. By
James E. Winston.

The Siege of Fort Meigs and Dudley's Defeat 100 Tears
Ago. By. A. C. Quisenberry.

Poem — A Souvenir From the Grave of Helen Hunt
Jackson. By J. C. M.

Inscription for 0 'Harass Tomb.

Beview of Otto A. Bothert*s History of Muhlenberg
County, With Portrait of the Author of the Book.
By Young E. Allison.

** First Families of Virginia. *' By. A. C. Quisenberry.

Department of Paragraphs and Clippings.

CONTRIBUTORS

Col. J. Stoddabd Johnston, Louisville, Ky.

Hon. L. F. Johnson, Frankfort, Ky.

Miss Mabtha Stephenson, Harrodsburg, Ky.

Hon. W. W. Stephenson, Harrodsburg, Ky.

W. W. LoNGMooB, Frankfort, Ky.

Pbof. G. C. Downing, Frankfort, Ky.

Mbs. Ella H. Ellwangbb, Frankfort, Ky.

Geobge Babeb, Washington, D. C.

Db. Thos. E. Pickett, Maysville, Ky.

A. C. Quisenbebby, Hyatteville. Md.

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DANIEL BOONE
IN THE KANAWHA VALLEY

W. S. LAIDLEY.

DANIEL BOONE IN THE KANAWHA VALLEY.

What we shall have to say will
relate to Daniel Boone while he was
a resident of the Kanawha Valley.

He went from Pennsylvania to
North Carolina, then with Brad-
dock in the Monongahela Valley,
then back, on the Hoi stein River in
North Carolina, where he married
Miss Rebecca Bryan, August 14,
1755, and he next was in Kentucky
in 1769.

In 1774, he was appointed to take
command of the forts in Greenbrier
and South West Virginia, in order
to protect the rear of General An-
drew Lewis* army while it was on
the expedition to the Ohio River.
In 1775, he erected a fort in Ken-
tucky and was engaged with fight-
ing the Indians, when, by his de-
fense, in 1778, he established the
white man's right to live in Ken-
tucky. He was in the Virginia Leg-
islature from Fayette County in
1781, was deputy Surveyor of Ken-
tucky in 1782, and was its County
Lieutenant in 1783.

It was in 1786 that he was living
at the mouth of the Kanawha Riv-
er, and on April 28, 1786, he ac-
knowledged a deed while at Point
Pleasant, and on July 20, 1786, he
wrote a letter to Mr. Overton, and
was on a visit to Limestone, Ky.,
which, we understand, was the same
as Maysville, Ky., now. Evident-
ly he had made his home in the
Kanawha Vallev in the year 1786
and he remained at such home until

he left for Missouri in 1799, as he
was in Kanawha County in 1798 en-
gaged in making a survey.

( See Dr. Hales Account of Boone,
and R. G. Thwaites Life of Boone.)

His work both in Kentucky and
Virginia was searching out choice
lands and making surveys for in-
vestors.

On. June 18, 1788, he wrote from
Hanover, Virginia, and stated that
all were well, and that he had been
on a visit to Pennsylvania in 1781,
and on February 12, 1788, he with
his wife, Rebecca, and his son Na-
than had spent a month in Berks
County, Pennsylvania.

The supposition is that he re-
moved from the mouth of the Ka-
nawha River and came up said riv-
er and located a few miles above
the mouth of Elk River in 1787. He
lived at his home opposite the
mouth of Campbell 's Creek, when
the first salt spring was discovered,
and his house would now be in
* * Kanawha City. * ' This salt spring
brought to it many animals, such as
deer, elk, buffalo and everything
else that wanted salt. His house
was a double, two-storied, loghouse,
with passway between the two
rooms, and with a porch in front,
which was a very comfortable res-
idence for his family.

Boone did not talk much, and
wrote less, hence, he was not much
of a record-maker, and there were
not crowds to which he could talk

R«gitt«r of the Kentucky state Historical Society,

every day. He had no post office,
and no mail carriers, and his let-
ters, sent or received, were few and
far between, and those were short,
and on business purely.

He was engaged in making loca-
tions of choice lands, killing ani-
mals, and taking their skins and
furs. He has always been spoken
of &s an unusually quiet man, one
who seldom spoke of himself, ex-
cept in reply to questions. He seems
to have had no conception of fear,
and it is said that hunters are not
given to speech-making, nor of
making any noise or disturbance of
any kind, that would drive away
game, or gave notice to Indians
where scalps might be found, and
then he was not a good scribe, was
a bad speller, and his records were
generally made on beech trees.

The first we heard of Boone was
when he presented himself at the
home of Daniel Huddleston, which
was then where the town of Boone
now is, not far below the Kanawha
Falls. He called one evening at
the Huddlestons' and asked permis-
sion to remain all night. He had
his rifle and a pack ; he seemed quiet
and tired, and retired early after
supper. When Mr. Huddleston
arose in the morning, he found that
the stranger had arisen and gone
out, but had left his pack, and soon
returned, and said he had been look-
ing for game, and indications of
beavers at the river, and after
breakfast told the son of Mr. Hud-
dleston to go with him and he would
show him how to trap the beavers.

Boone went up the Kanawha to
Gauley Eiver, and then up that
stream; also went up the New Eiv-
er, and he also went up the Ohio

Eiver and out into Ohio, hunting
for beavers.

The county of Kanawha was
made by the Act of 1788, and was
organized in October, 1789. He was
made Lieutenant-Colonel of the
militia, and was also elected to the
House of Delegates of Virginia in
1791.* He made a survey of Point
Pleasant, on Crooked Creek, where
the battle of Point Pleasant was
fought in 1774.

(See Hales Trans-Allegheny Pio-
neers for this survey.)

He was said to have walked
through from Kanawha to Staun-
ton and on to Eichmond, with his
gun, and after tiring with legisla-
tion, he picked up his gun and re-
turned to his home.

On December 12, 1791, Daniel
Boone, while Lieutenant-Colonel,
made a report to Governor Lee, in
relation to the protection of the in-
habitants. It will be remembered
that Kanawha County began on the
Ohio Eiver at Belleville, near the
mouth of the Little Kanawha, now
Parkersburg, and from thence
down the Ohio to mouth of Big
Sandy, over one hundred miles ;

^'For Kanawha County, 68 pri-
vits, Leonard Cooper, Captain at
Pint Plesant, 17 men— John Morris,
Juner Insine, at Bote yards, 17
men. Two spyes or scouts will be
necessary at the Pint to search the
banks of the river at the crossing
places; more would be wanting if

*He was also Senator from Fayette
County, Kentucky, in the General Assembly
of Virginia. This fact as to Ills legislative
service may T)e found recorded in the Jour-
nal called "The Washingtonian," officially
published by the General Assembly of Vir-
ginia at the time.

they could be aloud — ^these spyes
must be composed of the inhabi-
tants who will know the woods and
waters from the Pint to Belleville,
60 miles, no inhabitants — Also from
Pint to Elke, 60 miles, no inhabi-
tants—From Elk to Bote Yards, 20
miles, all inhabited.*'

In 1792, Boone was assessed with
personal property, and also in 1793 ;
he owned horses and negroes, and
his son Jesse was also assessed in
1793. It was in 1793 the Governor
ordered a company to proceed to
the mouth of Elk Eiver, on the Ka-
nawha River, and to keep out scouts
from thence to the Ohio River, on
the lookout for Indians. Captain
Caperton was in command, and
Boone was quartermaster and com-
missary. It was said that Captain
Caperton and Quartermaster Boone
did not harmonize in their military
notions, and Boone picked up his
hat and left the camp, which was at
the mouth of Elk, now Charleston
River. He was gone for several
days without consulting anyone;
some of the scouts ran across him
down on the Ohio River and told
him they were out of rations, and
asked for explanations. He told
them that *' Captain Caperton did
not do to his liking.**

Boone had (500) five hundred
acres of land surveyed for himself
from the Kanawha to the Ohio
River, in September, 1798. He ob-
tained his patent for this land in
1800, and the same is in the Audit-
or's oflSce in Charleston, West Vir-
ginia. This land was assessed with
tax in the name of Daniel Boone for
years 1802 and 1803.

In 1795, Boone made a survey
from Coal River to Big Sandy of

200,000 acres, covering Coal River,
Guyandotte, Twelve Pole Creek,
and somewhere on this line there
was found in after years these
names cut on a beech tree, viz:
Daniel Boone, Geo. Arnold, Ed-
mund Price, Tomas Upton, and An-
drew Hatfield.

He made another survey in Sep-
tember, 1798, which was supposed to
have been his last, and it is certain
that he did not leave until the
spring of 1799. He made his boat,
got his property all therein with his
family at the mouth of Elk, and
from there he started, after setting
the day, and all the people in the
county met to bid him farewell.

** Daniel Boone resided in Kana-
wha until 1799, when he decided to
go to Missouri (in response to the
invitation of the Spanish Governor
of that Territory, who wished to
honor and reward him). When he
decided to go West, the day and
date was set of his departure from
the mouth of Elk, and given out to
the public, and the entire country
came to see him start in his canoes.

'* Daniel Boone was one of the re-
markable men of his time. He was
a pioneer, explorer, frontiersman,
hunter, Indian fighter, and pilot of
civilization. ' *

(History of Kanawha County,
West Virginia, Vol. I., page 88.)

It was in 1847 there was a new
county to be formed in the Virginia
Legislature, and Mr. Ballard, from
Morrocco, told the story of Flinn
and his family being killed on the
Kanawha by the Indians and the
daughter, Chloe, being captured and
carried away a prisoner, when Dan-

fl«aitter of thm Kentucky aiate Hi«li»rloal •oeloty.

iel Boone and some men followed
and rescued her; but the house be-
ing burned, he took her to his own
home, cared for and educated her,
and she became the mother of Mr.
Ballard. The county was called
' ' Boone. '' (See Richmond Enquir-
er, 1847, where the speech was
printed.)

Habbiet Boone.

In November, 1812, Thomas Ew-
ing went down the Kanawha River
on a keel boat, on his way home, he
having been at work at the salt
works on the Kanawha, and on the
boat going down the river, among
the passengers was the family of a
son of Daniel Boone, the celebrated
pioneer. He had with him a daugh-

ter, Harriet, a handsome, educated
young lady, who made the tedions
journey pleasant. Mr. Ewing says
she pleased him; they talked of
books and poetry. He left the boat
at Point Pleasant, while the Boones
continued their journey down the
Ohio.

The only son of Daniel Boone that
was in the Kanawha Vallev was
Jesse Boone, who remained here
when his father went to Missouri,
and Jesse was Salt Inspector of the
Kanawha Salt Works, while he re-
mained in Kanawha, and evidently
Miss Harriet was his daughter.
Mr. Ewing did not say that he ever
did or did not meet her afterward.
— (From the Ohio Arch, and Hist.
Quarterly, January, 1913.)

AN ELEGANT GIFT

A Bronze Bust of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

Presented to the State Historical Society

E. A. F. PENROSE,

of PHILADELPHIA.

Tribute to Prof. Shaler by Mrs. Jennie C. Morton,
Regent of Kentucky State Historical Society.

v/r^-Re^

PHOTOfir.Al'lI l-KOM HIS AUTORlOfiBAPHV.

AN ELEGANT GIFT.

Mr. R. A. F. Penrose, of Phila-
delphia, has presented the State
Historical Society with a bronze
bust of Prof. Nathaniel Southgate
Shaler, one of the most distinguish-
ed Kentuckians who has adorned
the Commonwealth since the Civil
War. He was born February 20,
1841— died April 10, 1906.

In 1875, Governor James B. Mc-
creary appointed him State Geolo-
gist of Kentucky, and he served as
such during his term, and until
1880. Governor McCreary, who is
again Governor of Kentucky (1913)
says of him: *'He was the best
equipped geologist Kentucky ever
had, and indeed, was the most com-
petent one in the United States,*'
and Governor McCreary's opinion
of Mr. Shaler is accepted by the
public.

His four annual reports while di-
recting the Kentucky Geological
Survey attracted the attention of
the world, not only that they in-
formed the public of the riches of
the soil of Kentucky, but his schol-
arly and direct style of intellectual
and scientific descriptions of the
aspects and conditions of the earth
was so unusual that the learned so-
cieties of the world hailed him, as
astronomers hail a new and won-
derful star. His ** First Book on
Geology" was so appreciated
abroad that it was translated into
German, Russian and the Polish
languages.

As Professor of Geology in Har-
vard University, he easily became
eminent as a teacher and succes-
sively as an author. His two books,
*' Kentucky, * * and his ** Autobiogra-
phy,** have stamped an imperisha-
ble luster upon his native State,
Kentucky. His world-wide honors
were won in the East, where his
commanding talent was appreciated
and developed in science and lit-
erature to a marvelous extent. As
Geologist, Poet, Scientist, Histo-
rian, his books and reports by
pamphlets would fill volumes if
listed. He wrote upon every sub-
ject worthy of the attention of a
historian, poet and scientist, and in
all he was read with profound at-
tention and study.

Kentuckians recognized him as a
great man, and as a Son of the Soil
they were proud to claim him every-
where, but his life being spent in
the East, and his usefulness as a
great teacher, scholar and author
there, they did not know him in his
later life, nor comprehend the mag-
nitude of his work in literature and
science. In these high departments
of knowledge he had eclipsed his
companions in Kentucky so far they
did not keep in touch with him after
he removed to Harvard University.
The prayer of his youth was fulfilled
in his life. It was this we learn
from his '* Autobiography, * * Vol. I,
page 411.

He said, ''AH things do proph-

esy the life to come;** more than
thus, the prayer he uttered when a
mere youth had been amply ful-
filled: '*0h Power, who has given
me being, grant to me the strength
to live as becomes thy creature.
May I stand amid the changes that
whirl around me untouched and
unbroken, and when it shall please
Thee to end my days, may I not
have lived in vain.'*

Could his spirit look down today,
it would be touched with grateful
appreciation to see that a pupil of
Harvard University, his friend,
Mt. Penrose, had honored his na-
tive State with this bronze bust of
himself, in delicate tribute to him
as a great Kentuckian, who deserv-
ed an honored place in the beautiful
Capitol of his native State.

Bead here, how in death, as well
as in life. Dean Nathaniel Shaler
was honored at Cambridge — ^where
his death took place, April 10, 1906.
**The announcement of Dean Sha-
ler's death awakened profound sor-
row in the whole community. By
common impulse, the flags on the
students' clubs and on the city
buildings were hung at half-mast,
and on the afternoon of the funeral
the shops in Old Cambridge were

closed. At a meeting of the four
undergraduate classes it was decid-
ed that the entire undergraduate
body, both of the College and of tbo
Scientific School, should assemble
and thus express their appreciation
of the great and noble work per-
formed bv Dean Shaler while eon-
nected with the Universit}\ And in
this manner, between two continu-
ous lines of undergraduates, his re-
mains, borne on the shoulders of
eight students, were carried from
his house to Appleton Chapel.
There Bishop Lawrence read the
Episcopal burial service, and imme-
diately after interment took place
at Mounf Auburn Cemetery."

Nothing would have touched Mr.
Shaler 's great heart — the heart that
burned with love and sympathy for
them — more than the sorrow of the
young men who waited in line to
give this last token of affection to
their true and valiant teacher, or
the grief shown by his associates
and fellow-townsmen among whom
he had lived ** unsullied with his
journey of the day."

Into his grave was poured the
mingled love of youth and of friend-
ship, old and tried.

KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS

IN THE
TEXAS REVOLUTION

JAMES E. WINSTON.

XT, W 9

We are pleased to give our readers this list of Ken-
tucky Volunteers in the Texas Eevolution, by Prof.
James E. Winston, of Princeton University. He has
published a very valuable and interesting history of the
Texas Eevolution, which should be much prized by Ken-
tuckians, whose ancestors, many of them, were soldiers
in this war.

In the Register of January, 1908, there is a picture of
the Old Stephen *s Inn, where '* Santa Anna'' was a
prisoner as he passed through Kentucky on his way
to Washington City, having been captured at San Jacinto,
April, 1836, by the Texas General, Sam Houston, at the
close of the Texas Eevolution. (The article and picture
by Prof. G. C. Downing of the Kentucky State Historical
Society, and writer for the Eegister). — (Ed. The Eeg-
ister). ^

KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS IN THE TEXAS

DUVALL^S COMPANY.*

B. H. Duvall, captain; Samuel
Wilson, first lieutenant; J. Q. Mer-
rifield, second lieutenant; G. W.
Daniel, first sergeant ; J. S. Bagley,
second sergeant (written **Bagby'^
in one place) ; E. P. G. Chism (Chis-
holm), third sergeant; W. Dicker-
son, fourth sergeant (or ''W. N.
Dickenson'*) ; M. B. Hawkins, cor-
poral A. B. Williams, corporal; A.
K. Lynd, corporal; E. C. Brashear,
corporal.

Pbivates.

T. G. Allen {''mi killed'' written
in margin) ; J. F. Bellows, Thos. S.

^Master RoHs, General Land Office, pages
12, 18.

Churchill, Jno. C. Duvall, Jno. Don-

ohoo, Jno. HoUiday, Johnson,

A. G. Lemond (^'Simond" also oc-
curs) ; J. McDonald, Harvey Mar-
tin; L. S. Simpson, C. B. Shaine, J.
M. Adams, Wm. S. Carlson, Wm. H.
Cole, H. W. Downman (probably a
, Virginian); C. R. Heaskill (or "C.
M. Heaskill"); George Dyer, Q. P.
Kemps, Wm. Mayer (^'Magee"
written in margin) ;Wm. Mason,
Robt. Owens, Sharpe, S. San-
ders, L. Tilson, B. W. Tolliver (Tal-
iaferro), Jno Van Bibber, J. C.
Batts (said to be from Virginia),
Wm. Waggoner, J. K. Volker (** J.
Q. Volkins" occurs in one place), S.

Van Bibber, Woolrich (or

*'Woolwick"), R. R. Rainey.

LOUISVILLE VOLUNTEERS.-

P. S. Wyatt, captain; B. T. Brad-
ford, first lieutenant; Oliver Smith,
second lieutenant; William Wallace,
first sergeant; Geo. Thayer, second
sergeant ; Henry Wilkins, third ser-
geant ; J. D. Rains, fourth sergeant ;
Oliver Brown, quartermaster ; Peter
AUen, musician.

Privates.
Bennett Butler, Gabriel Bush,

*Of these Capt Wyatt was absent upon
leave at the time of Fannin's Massacre.
Bradford, Rains, Butler, Davis, and Hudson
escaped, while Lumpkin was spared.

Ewing Caruthers, M. Dembrinki,
Perry Davis, Henry Dixon, T. B.
Frizel, I. H. Fisher, Edward Fuller,
Frederick Gebinrath (a German by
birth, who went from Louisville in
the fall of 1835. Was massacred at
La Baca. See the Quarterly of
the Texas State Historical Associa-
tion, XIV., 166), Jas. Hamilton, E.
D. Harrison, H. G. Hudson, J. Kor-

tickey, Jno. Lumpkin, C. Nixon,

Clennon, J. F. Morgan, F. Peter-
swich, W. S. Parker, Chas. Patton,
J. E. Parker, Wm. R. Simpson,
Fred. Sevenian (t), Allen Wren.

Capt. B. S. Read's Company, Kentucky Voluntbebs, Commanded bi

Col. Chas. L. Habrison to Sept. 1, 1836.

Enrolled

1 June

•^20 July
1 June

;•-■ I

20 July
1 June
1 June

• 20 Jtfly

1 Sept

Name

Period

Remarks

BenJ. S. Read, Capt

Thos. Recce (Rice?) I0t Lieut

John Miller, Second Lteut...
Jas. C. Roberteon, First Sergt

Randall D. Heck, Second Serg.

J. Bozarth, Third Serg.

J. W. Mosley, Fourth Serg.

John \Rlddle, First Corp

J. C. Post, Second Corp....
Volney Carr, Third Corp...

James Rachelder, Fourth Corp
BenJ. Woodson, Private

Samuel O. Fowler, Private...

W. B. McCufdy..,
Wm. F. Chapman.
W. G. Klrkham...

Chas. H. Riddle

Jesse Davis
Samuel Fltts

Jas. C. Stuterville.

V. B. Cunningham,
David Whittlnghlll
Thomas Armstrong

Thomas Norrls *

Joseph Burch

R. Gainer

J. F. Ros8eau..4

W. F. H. Davis

W. D. Hylller (Hll^ef?)

Geo. Riddle

James Bur ch . . i

J. D. McBeath

Wm. Dease

Edw. Ferguson

Alexander McKbtrn . .
N. R. Mallon (MalOA?)
W. H. Andersoii...^«.

Jno. W. Hoyd

Henry Howell

6 mos.

3 mos.

6 mos.
6 mod.

6 UoS.
6 mos.

6 mos.

6 mos.
6 mos]
6 mos.

6 mos.

6 mos.
6 mos.

6 mos.

3
6

3
3

mos.

moS.

mbS.

mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.

mos.

mos.
€ mos.
€ mos.

6 MOS.

6 mos.
6 mos.
r> mos.
3 mos.
3 mofl.

Rec'd of Gov't: 1 pr. pants,!
canteen.

5 yds. 'blue domestic and tiia-
mings, 1 canteen.

1 shirt, 1 pr. pants.

5 yds. blue domestic and trio-
mings, 1 canteen.

41-2 yds. blue domestic and
trimmings, blanket, 1 can-
teen.

1 coat, blanket and pants.

1 Shirt and 1 pr. pants.

1 pr. pants.

1 coat and 1 canteen.

2 coats, 1 pr. pants, 1 dilrt
1 hat, 1 canteen.

1 coat, 1 pr. pants.

I coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 shirt

1 canteen.

1 coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 blanket, 1
canteen.

1 coat, 1 pr. pantd.

1 coat, 1 pr. pants.

5 yds. blue domestic and tris-
mlngs, 1 blanket, 1 sldft

1 coat, t pr. pants, 1 shirt, 1
pr. shoes and canteen.

1 coat, 1 pr. pants, blanket

1 pr. pants, 1 blanket, 1 can-
teen.

5 yds. blue domestic and triio-
mings.

1 blanket, 2 pr. shoes, 1 shJrt.
1 canteen.

2 coats, 1 pr. pants, 1 Blanket
1 canteen.

2 coats, 1 pr. pants, 1 blanket,

1 canteen.
1 coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 shirt
1 coat, 1 pr. pants, blanket

1 coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 blanket

1 pr. pants, 1 canteen.
1 coat, 1 shirt.
1 pr. shoes.

1 coat, 2 shirts.

1 coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 shirt ^

hat.
1 shirt.
1 pr. pants, 1 pr. shoes.

1 pr. flirts, 1 pr. pAfitl.

Capt. B. S. Bbad's Company — Concluded.

20 July
1 June

Samuel Fowler

E. Smith

Hardin Waltrop

J. Armstrong ...
D. Dunlap .....
W. S. Norwell..
Samuel McLean
Jno. L. Cross...
George Francis

3 mos.
3 mos.
3

N. C. Taylor

Jno. 'Maxwell . . . .
Duncan Cannon .
Alberto Vaughau
Samuel Frederick
James Stephens .

M. Forrest

Richard Connell .

W. B. Stiff y.
Daniel Davis
W. C. Harris.

C. Cruise
N. Drake

20 July

Charles P. Wialsh

J. Peeples <

Levi Jackson . . . ,
Jesse Rowland .,

6 mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.

6
6
6

mos.

mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.
6 mos.

6 mos.

6 mos,

6 mos.

3 mos.
3 mos.
3 mos.
3 mos.

1 hat.

1 coat, blanket, 1 pr. pants.

1 canteen.

1 coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 canteen^

1 blanket

1 coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 blanket
1 canteen.

1 coat, 1 pr. pants, 1 canteen.
I coat 1 pr. pants, 1 blanket,

1 canteen.
1 coat 1 pr. pants, blanket,

1 canteen.
1 coat 1 pr. pants, "blanket,

1 canteen.
1 coat, 1 pr. pants, blanket,

1 canteen.
1 coat, 1 pr. pants, blanket

1 canteen*
1 coat, 1 pr. pants, blanket,

1 canteen.

1 coat 1 pr. pants, 1 'blanket 1
pr. shoes, 1 canteen.

Capt. Price's Company, Kentucky Volunteers, Commanded by Col.

Chas. L. Harrison, to Sept. 1, 1836.

Enrolled

Name

Period

■Remarks

1 June

James Pope Price, Capt

€ mos.

Hec'd from Gov't: 1 pair shoes

1 June

Jas. B. Combs, First Lieut. . . .

During War

1 pr. shoes.

4 June

Wm. P. Brashear, Sec. Lieut.

6 mos.

1 pr. shoes.

4 June

Jas. M. Morton, Comet

6 mos.

1 pr. shoes.

6 June

Wm. H. Shadburn, First Sorgt

6 mos.

1 pr. shoes, 1 shirt, 1 pr. pants,
1 jacket.

9 June

Jas. J. White, Sec. Serg

6 mos.

1 pr. shoes.

10 June

James Fennel. Third Serg

6 mos.

1 pr. shoes.

10 June

Catlet Burnet Fourth Serg...

6 mos.

1 pr. shoes, 1 shirt.

10 June

Henry Rfchardson, First Corp.

fi mos.

1 pr. shoes, 1 shirt.

7 June

M. L. Raider. Sec. Com

6 mos.

1 pr. shoes, 2 shirts

10 June

Wm. Webber, Third Corp---.

6 mos.

1 pr. shoes, 1 shirt, 1 pr. pants.

Capt. Price's Company — Concluded .

10 Jane
20 July
10 June
10 June
20 May
20 May

1 June

20 Mar

10 Jane

7 Jane

10 June

8 June
10 June

20 July
20 July

20 July
20 July
20 July
20 July
20 July
20 July
20 July
20 July
20 July
20 July

Dan'l Duncan, Fourth Corp...

Henry Alderson, Private

Douglas Brown

Hansford Copendolphier

Jas. H. Cox

Jas. B. Cox

Jas. B. Hardy

Henry Smock

Andrew Bodln

John Hews

A. T. MoQee

Geo. W. Spencer

Thos. J. Church

Elijah iL. Garrett

W. T. Bvins

Christopher Benelle

EHsy Russell

Jos. D. Rice

Wm. Bratton

John McLaughlin

James Caple ...«

'Charles Duncan

C. G. Fenner

Bluford Garrett

Philip Riven

James Flenner

John H. Bigerly

Jas. Rees

J. C. Cash ...,

Peter R. Kendle

Edw. R. Grune

Wim. W. Nichols

Christopher Ludwlck

Lorenzo P. Kean

Lewig Stewart

Norman Shedon

D. W. -Sanders

Richard Parker

Stephen Sanders

Daniel Tumey

Wm. Gllmore

Conley Dease

James Murray

Charles Haywood •. .

Wm. Haywood

McGready Montgomery

E. S. Camphell

J. C. Bradford

Philip Dickson

Thos. Hall 1

A. Gragnon

W. C. Thayer

Clark L. Owen

James Hesselgessen

Wm. Munroe •. -

Isaac Tindell

J. S. Poindexter

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Capt. Hakt's Company, Buckeye Bangers of First Bbgiment, Ken-
tucky Volunteers, op the Texas Army, Commanded
BY Col. C. L. Harbison, Oct. 29, 1836.*

Enrolied

Name

Period

'Remarlcs

1 June
1836

Wm. C. Hart, Capt

John J. Morehead, First Sers.

Chas. Drennan, Sec. Serg

Geo. W. Stamlee, Th?rd Serg..
Morgan L. Egglesioo, Music.

John P. H. Brent, Private

Philip Nichols

John J. Odanath

John G. Camp ^ .

Hammond Warfleld

John T. Dllto^

Richmond Road

Edwin R. Johnson

Geo. W. Linkenhogen

Roht. Gliflord

Thos. B. Heam

Thos. A. Cresa

Jas. C. Armstrong

Robt. H. Tobln

Thomas HUl

Joshua Jones

EMw. W. Holmes

Jas. C. Colsnan

James Dunn

F. L. Laa^lais

Foster Lewis

During War

Durins War

During War

This company was a pan of
that previously commanded
by Capt. James Allen, which
was since divided by order
of the commandant of the
Regt. with instructions from
Brig.-Gen. Rusk, Comm.-in-
Chief to that efCect.

The date when joined is re-
ported for the term they
enlisted in the United
•States. The company re-
ported for duty June 26th at
Galveston.

Isaac J. Wallace, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, lately a member of
this company, died at
Camp Johnson, (La Baca,
Oct. 20th. On furlough.

♦Muster Rolls, p. 106. All but six of this company were formerly a part of that com-
manded by Capt. Allen, once editor of the Cincinnati Republican. They probably left
Cincinnati about June 6th, and no doubt comprised among their number some Ken-
tuckians. Their uniform was a blue bunting shirt and a white wool hat.

List of Volunteers Who Approved the Conduct of Col. Wilson in

Betubning Home.*

John Claiborne (Va.), John 0.
Knox (Va.), J. C. Osburn, M. D.
(Va.), M. H. Short, W. G. Brecken-
ridge, John G. Burch, D. L. Tyler,
Patrick L. Hughlett, F. Downing, C.
Edwards, E. H. Graves, W. H.
Mitchell, G. L. Smith, W. D. Burint,
Jno. M. Lemmon, John Steele, Thos.
Handlin, D. H. Weigart, John Bow-

ers, John Dorer, E. W. Lowrey, IJ.
F. Eoberts, Stephen P. Terry^
Franklin George, H, Foree, B. J.
Ganse, S. P. Williams, J. McQuiddy,
Jno. Goodwin, C. A. Johnson, Jno.
H. Burner, John Gray, W. M. C.
Wilkerson, Theo. Kohlhass, Samuel
McMinge, Wm. E. Massie, Wm. B.
Grant, K. B. B. L. Winn, Edw. W.

•Copied from the Lexington Intelligencer, Sept. 13, 1836.

Reglttef of the Kentucky State Hietorical Society.

List of Volxwtbers — Concluded.

Harris, Moses Hinde, D. C. Patrick,
T. M. Tribble, Wm. Orr, Jno. Beard,
Wm. S. Martin, Emannuel Misen-
better, Fielding Neal, Jno. White,
Jas. Lahee, Arthur Beese, A. Pier-
att, Jno. 0. Hurt, Jno. Bell, Wra.
Mordson, David Hardin, Jno. S.
Vaughan, J. M. Shannon, Lenzie
Tyowell, Wm. Byrnes, M. Hard-
castle, Ralph Gilpin, H. W. Davis,
Horatio Grooms, W. Eckles, Jno H.
Whitehurst, Offa L. Shivers (Ala.),
J. W. Henderson, W. A. Hall, John
Jett, Stephen Jett, Wm. Jett, Wm.
Mobly, Henrv T. Theobald, Wm.
Haddan, B. M. Cunningham, Elliott
Armstrong, Jno. M. Johnson, P. H.
Harriss, Arch Bullock, Pallas Love,
A. W. Gallion, Geo. B. Jones, A. G.

Pointer, Jas. Downing, Richard
Yeatman, Jas. McLane, Geo. A.
Ross, A. W. Chambers, Samuel
Shackelford, J. T. Wilson, Eli H.
Graves, Jas. Linsey, Jno. Riley,
Peter Gucher, W. B. Almand, Ark
Dunlap, Gabriel Long, Jno. I)a\'is,
Berryman Stout, Samuel Mitchell,
Richard Naurnan, Geo. B. White,
Wm. J. King, Chas. Howell, W. A.
Verbryke, Henry Hacher, Wm. De-
la ney, S. T. Yowell, E. C. Jones, J.
Rose, J. M. Crane, Francis Fry,
Jno. Tomson, E. Taylor, G. Lynn, S.
WooUey, Wm. Burch, Jno. U. Laf an,
Andrew Armstrong, C. M. Jones, P.
M. Hawkins. — Copied from the
Lexington Intelligencer, Sept. 13,
1836.

Texas Emigrants Under Command of Colonel Wilson, Who Left

New Orleans for Texas.*

E. J. Wilson, H. Grooms, G. L
Postlethwaite, S. Wooley, B. Gause
J. U. Laf on, W. Rogers, J. M. Shan-
non, E. Branham, J. Branham, L
M. Kline, W. S. Burch, W. Eccles
P. H. Harris, W. Findleman, S
Steele, W. H. Davis, J. S. Shivers

Forney, J. W. Henderson, M

H. Short, C. J. Winn, W. Maney, A
Eraser, W. A. Tremper, T. McRure
A. Perat, P. Gucker, W. Akin, E
Graves, M. Wright, W. Church, J
Tade, J. P. Wood, J. H. Burner, R
Patterson, G. Cups, H. Goodlow, W
Kelly, A. Armstrong, R. F. Roberts
L. Coleman, J. Anderson, C. Jones
M. Lee, J. Wilkinson, J. Wethers
P. Love, J. McQuiddie, S. Daven
port, S. Shackelford, H. Forse,

*Lexington InteUlgencer, June 22, 1836.

Wing, T. M. Tribble, W. Orr, W. C.
Patrick, J. Goodwin, R. H. Tabit,
R. M. Cunningham, B. Stout, 6. B.
Jones, H. Veech, R. Ritchie, J. Lind-
sey, W. Martin, N. Gallion, W.
West, A. Dunlap, C. Johnson, J.
Downing, B. Hawkins, R. Yeatman,
W. Ragan, G. H. Wallace, W. H.
Breckenridge, W. Hughey, J. Bow-
ers, R. Stivers, W. E. Prohert, S.
Gregg, J. S. Vaughan, S. McMich-
ins, W. A. Verbryke, S. P. Terry,
J. Searfield, A. Reese, H. B. Theo-
bald, W. Haddan, H. S. Day, J.
Renson, W. Kenny, C. S. Brown, S.
Jett, J. Jett, W. Hunter, S. P. Stare,
S. Snodfirrass, S. Noble, A. J. West,
W. C. Wilkinson, E. Armstrong, Dr.
Gray, P. Williams, T. Kohlass, W.
Jett, K. Winn, W. Grant, J. Beard,
G. DeCourey, C. Brown, M. Han a,

Regitter of the Kentucky State Hiitorlcal Society.

TsitAs Emigrants— Concluded

J. Jennings, W. Hardcastle, A. C.
Ogden, T. D. Allen, H. Hockett, H.
Owens, D. Delany, W. Baxter, T.
Hann, J. T. Davis, D. Steel, M. Ho-
gan, L. C. Linsey, J, C. Havens, J.
Hausley, W. A. Hall, G. Lynn, J.
H. Ashby, J. Rose, E. Chism, F.
Neal, L. D. Bacens, J. Davis, J. T.
Wilkinson, N. H. Fisher, P. J.
Smith, W. Brook, A. Young, F.
George, F. Fry, J. Thomsson, J.
White, J. Vanderpool, A. Samuels,
A. Rutherford, J. White, J. Clark,
J. Florence, E. C. AUender, J. H.
Smith, D. Weighart, E. Wells, E.
Danniels, E. W. Lowry, E. Meisen-
heter, J. W. Bush,, E. Harris, R.
Bell, A. G. Painter, P. Tourainne, A.
Vashleskie, A. Robert, J. Downing,

C. J. Alexander, B. M. Heusley, A.
Hogden, G. McCinnihan, S. Mitch-
ell, J. W. Dennegan, T. W. Murray,
A. Owen, R. Bowman, J. Bridges,
W. Delane, A. Page, J. Ryley, M.
Ryan, J. Lager, E. Campbell, C. Ed*'
wards, J. Cahee, J. Hurt, C. G.
White, R. W. Gilpin, J. H. Single-
ton, T. Fulton, J. M. Cram, W. Mor-
ris, J. McLean, P. Hanly, P. F.
Downing, G. Long, J. C. Burch, J.
M. Lemmon, Jas. Campbell, David'
Harding, Patrick Hartlett, D. L.
Tyee, M. Gallagher, A. McDugal, D.
S. Tyre, H. M. Wright, D. Pottan, J.
Holland, J. Shields, T. Dodman, M.
McLane. — ^Lexington Intelligencer,
June 22, 1836.

Kentucky Emigrants Whose Names do not Occur in the

Foregoing Lists.

Patrick Doyle. (This man and the
three following were from Lexing-
ton, Ky.)

Butler.

Stubblefield.

Welsh.

Adam Mosher. (Both Mosher
and Mclver were members of the
*'New Orleans Greys.'*)

Marshall B. Mclver.

W. P. Bradbum. (Left Louis-
ville in the '^ Flash. *0

Darwin M. Stapp. (Said to have
joined the army in 1835. Appointed
cornettist by general council, March
10, 1836.)

Alfonso Steele. (The last survi-
vor of the battle of San Jacinto was
a native of Hardin County, Ky.,
where he passed seventeen years of

his life before joining the volun-
teers to Texas, after a sojourn of
little over a year in Louisiana. See
his biography published by N. P.
Houx.)

Robert J. Calder. (Appointed
third lieutenant in the Artillery by
the general council. Commander of
Company K, Burleson's regiment,
Cf. Thrall, History of Texas, pp.
519-521, and The Quarterly IV.,
334.)

J. M. Allen. (Acting Major of
Company A, of the regular army at
San Jacinto, Cf. Thrall, p. 478.)

Albert Sidney Johnston.

Wesley Askins.

J. S. Collard.

Robt. Carlisle.

R. C. Dorm.

Kentucky Emigbants — Concluded

N. W. Eastland. (This name and
those following are those of Ken-
tuckians who are said to have emi-
grated in 1835 or 1836 and served
in one military capacity or another.
Baker, Texas Scrap Book, p. 585.)

Archibald Gibson.

R. D. McAnnelly.

Jesse L. McCracklin.

W. H. McGill.
Jno. D. Morgan.
Lipscomb Norvell.
Wm. B. Price.
J. H. Singleton.
Jno. Steele.
B. O. Stout.
Sanders Walker.

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

SIEGE OF PORT MEIGS AND
"DUDLEY'S DEFEAT"

A. C. QUISENBERRY.

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

SIEGE OF FORT MEIGS AND ''DUDLEY'S DEFEAT/'

The surrender at Detroit by Gen-
eral Hull (August 16, 1812) of the
whole Army of the Northwest then
in the field, followed on January 22,
1813, by the disastrous defeat and
massacre of the Kentuekians at the
River Raisin, were both deadening
and paralyzing blows, and seemed
more than suflSeient to entirely dis-
pirit the American commander in
that quarter, General William Hen-
ry Harrison. But so far was that
from being the case. General Har-
rison immediately began prepara-
tions for an active winter campaign.
About the 1st of February, 1813, he
established a fortified camp just be-
low the rapids of the Maumee River
in Ohio, about twelve miles above
where that river flows into Lake
Erie. This camp he named ^*Fort
Meigs,** in honor of Return Jona-
than Meigs, who was at that time
Governor of Ohio.

The site of the fort was well
chosen, for it occupied a point which
afforded great facilities for keeping
open communication with Kentucky
and Ohio; and it also enabled him
to protect the American settlers on
the borders of Lake Erie, and to op-
erate against the British headquar-
ters at Maiden, on the Canadian
shore of Lake Erie, as well as
against Detroit, Michigan, which
was then held by a British force.

General Harrison endeavored to
concentrate a strong force at Fort
Meigs, so he might push the winter
campaign with vigor, and if possi-
ble, take Maiden and retake De-
troit, while the Detroit River was
solidly frozen. The ice would af-
ford him a bridge upon which to
cross his troops, while the enemy's
ships were frozen up in Lake Erie,
and could not interfere with his
movements. His position at Fort
Meigs was about the best in the
Northwest as a base for offensive
military movements, and its pos-
session by the Americans gave the
British much uneasiness and alarm.
General Harrison went into camp
at Fort Meigs with about eighteen
hundred men, and ordered all the
troops at the posts in the rear to
join him immediately, as he desired
to march against Maiden about the
middle of February and capture
that post, and thus in some measure
retrieve the disasters to the Ameri-
can arms in the Northwest. He was
however, greatly interfered with in
his plans and hampered in his move-
ments by the Secretary of War,
General Armstrong. No other
troops were sent him, the terms of
enlistment of those already in the
fort began to expire, and his force,
already small, was greatly reduced
by this means, and at one time

amounted to no more than two hun-
dred men. In this extremity he ap-
pealed to Governor Shelby, of Ken-
tucky, requesting that a corps of
fifteen hundred men be raised in
Kentucky immediately, and march-
ed to his camp without delay. The
Kentucky Legislature was in ses-
sion at the time (February 15,
1813), and passed an act calling
three thousand of the militia of the
State into the field. These men
were organized at once into four
regiments, under Colonels Dudley,
Boswell, Cox and Caldwell, the
whole forming a brigade under the
command of Brigadier General
Green Clay.*

The regiments of Dudley and
Boswell, fifteen hundred men, were
ordered to rendezvous at Newport,

(*) As it may be interesting to the
reader to know what constituted the pri-
vate outfit of a Brigadier (General of Ken-
tucky militia in the War of 1812, the follow-
ing "List of articles for camp," carried to
the North-western frontier by General Green
Clay is subjoined, viz.:

"Trunk, portmanteau and fixtures, flat-
iron, coffee-mill, razor strop, box, etc., ink-
stand and bundle of quills, ream of paper,
three halters, shoe-brushes, blacking, saddle
and bridle, tortoise-shell comb and case,
box of mercurial ointment, silver spoon,
mattress and pillow, three blankets, three
sheets, two towels, linen for a cot, two vol-
umes of McKenzie's Travels, two maps,
spy-glass, gold watch, brace of silver mount-
ed pistols, umbrella, sword, two pairs of
spurs, one of silver. Clothes: Hat, one pair
of shoes, one pair of boots, regimental coat,
great-coat, bottle-green coat, scarlet waist-
coat, striped jeans waistcoat, blue cassi-
mere and buft cassimere waistcoat, two
pair cotton colored pantaloons, one pair
bottle-green pantaloons, one pair queen-
cord pantaloons, one pair buff short
breeches, one pair red flannel drawers, one
red flannel waistcoat, red flannel shirt, five
white linen shirts, two check shirts, nine
cravats, six chamois, two pair thread stock-
ings, three pair of thread socks, hunting
shirt, one pair of leather gloves, one pair
of woolen gloves."

Kentucky, on April 1, and to march
thence to Fort Meigs; but three
companies of Dudley's regiment
had been sent forward in March to
the fort, making forced marches by
way of Urbana, Ohio, and ** Hull's
Trace,'' and they reached P^ort
Meigs on April 12. On April 7 the
march of the remainder of the
troops began, from Cincinnati, after
a spirited address by their com-
mander, General Clay, who said
(inter alia): * * Kentuckians stand
high in the estimation of our com-
mon country. Our brothers in arms
who have gone before us to the
scene of action have acquired a
fame which should never be forgot-
ten by you — a fame worthy of your
emulation. • * * Should we en-
counter the enemy, remember the
fate of your butchered brothers at
the River Raisin — ^that British
treachery produced their slaugh-
ter!''

The tw^o regiments of Kentucky
militia comprising the force that
jnarched (April 7, 1813) from Cin-
cinnati for Fort Meigs, were Colo-
nel William Dudley's, consisting of
eleven companies (including the
three companies that had gone in
advance) under Captains John D.
Thomas, Armstrong Kier, James
Dyametto, Joseph Clark, John Yan-
tis, Archibald Morrison, Dudley ^
Farris, Ambrose Arthur, Joel Hen-
ry, Thomas Lewis and John L. Mor- •
rison ; and Colonel William E. Bos-
well's regiment of eight companies,
commanded by Captains William
Sebree, John Thomas, Thomas Met-
calfe, Manson Seamonds, Isaac
Gray, Peter Dudley, John Baker
and John Walker. These troop?
followed General Winchester's old

ftegitter of the Kentucky State Hietorieal Society.

route to ttie Maumee, that is, by way
of Dayton, Fraiilinton (now Co-
lumbus), through Upper Sandusky,
to Lower Sandusky. At Dajrton
they were overtaken by Leslie
Combs, of Lexington, Kentucky, a
brave and ardent youth of nineteen
years, whose brilliant services as a
scout in the River Baisin campaign
were well known to General Clay,
who at once commissioned Combs
as captain of a company of scouts,
the members of which were to be
selected by him from Dudley's reg-
iment. The command reached St.
Mary's Blockhouse, on the St. Ma-
ry's Eiver, about April 28th, where
for the present we shall leave them.

• * *

As early as April 7, 1813, General
Henry Proctor, commander of the
British forces in the Northwest, be-
gan assembling the Canadian mili-
tia and his Indian allies at Amherst-
burg, near Maiden, in Canada.
With these and the 41st Regiment
of British Regulars, he had by April
23 an army of more than thirty-two
hundred men, who that day em-
barked for Fort Meigs. On April
28, the British columns appeared on
the opposite bank of the river from
the fort, and established a camp
and some heavy batteries of artil-
lery there, where the guns could
command the fort. On the same day
a number of British troops and In-
dians crossed the river and took
position, with a mortar battery, in
the rear of Fort Meigs, which was
thus completely surrounded and in-
vested. Harrison then had in the
fort only about twelve hundred men,
and, although he had some artillery,
he was very insufficiently supplied
with ammunition for it. During the

1st, 2nd and 3rd of May the bat-
teries of the enemy poured inces-
sant showers of shell and solid shot
into the fortification, and the In-
dians climbed trees in the vicinity
and kept up a galling and incessant
fire of musketry upon the garrison,
which was making a heroic defense.
It was in this situation that General
Harrison received a demand (May
3) from Proctor for the surrender
of the garrison, which was promptly
refused, General Proctor being in-
formed that if he obtained posses-
sion of the fort it would not be by
capitulation. Harrison was in a
very precarious position, and his
troops all knew it ; but it seems that
they were in nowise dismayed.

• « «

At St. Mary's Blockhouse Gen-
eral Clay divided his corps, sending
Dudley's regiment to the Auglaize
River, which he was to descend in
boats ; while Clay himself descended
the St. Mary's River with Boswell's
regiment; and the two regiments
were to unite again at Fort Defiance.
While on the way down the Au-
glaize, Dudley received news of
Harrison's perilous situation at
Fort Meigs, and he called for volun-
teers to undertake the dangerous
and almost certainly fatal task of
going to apprize General Harrison
that help was near. Captain Leslie
Combs at once volunteered to lead
such a party, and chose for his com-
panions two brothers named Walk-
er, two other white men named Pax-
ton and Johnson, and a young In-
dian named Blackfish, who was a
grandson of Blackfish, the noted
warrior who led the attack upon
Boonesborough, Kentucky, in 1778.
On May 1st this party left Fort De-

R«aM*r •# tiie Kentucky Stale MttoriMi Boeiety,

fiance in a canoe, amidst the enthu-
siastic cheers and plaudits of the
whole army. It was the universal
belief that these six scouts would all
lose their lives in this heroic and
highly perilous enterprise. They
shot the rapids of the Maumee in
safety early next morning, about
the time the British began their
daily cannonading of the fort.
When within a mile (and within
right) of the fort, where by the
dawn's early light they could see
that the star-spangled banner in
triumph still waved, they were at-
tacked at a narrow point in the river
by a large party of Indians, who
fired a volley which killed Johnson
and wounded Paxton. Blackfish,
who was at the helm, ran the canoe
to the opposite shore; and after a
march of two days and two nights
through the wilderness he and
Combs reached Fort Defiance,
where General Clay, with BoswelPs
regiment, had also just arrived.

The whole force then immediately
re-embarked and pressed forward
toward Fort Meigs as rapidly as
possible. The men were in eighteen
large scows. They reached the
hewi of the rapids (eighteen miles
from Fort Meigs) late in the even-
ing of May 4th. The night was in-
tensely dark and the pilot refused to
proceed further until daylight next
morning. Major David Trimble, of
BoswelPs regiment, with a party
of fifteen volunteers, marched
through the Indian-infested forest
to Fort Meigs, which they reached
at midnight, bearing the glad tid-
ings that General Green Clay with
twelve hundred Kentuckians was
only eighteen miles away, and
would probably reach the post be-
fore morning.

O-efieral Harrison at oiioe dis-
patched Captain Hamilton and a
subaltern in a canoe to Glav's
bivouac at the head of the rapids,
and he delegated to Hamilton the
authority to deliver verbally to Clay
the following orders :

^'You must detach about eight
hundred men from your brigade
and land them at a point I will
show you, about a mile or a mile
and a half above Camp Meigs. I
will then conduct the detachment
to the British batteries on the left
bank of the river. The batteries
must be taken, the cannons spiked,
the carriages cut down, and the
troops must then return to the
boats and cross over to the fort.
The balance of your men must land
on the fort side of the river, oppo-
site the first landing, and fight their
way into the fort through the In-
diana. The route they must take
will be pointed out by a subaltern
officer now with me, who will land
the canoe on the right bank of the
river, to point out the landing for
the boats.''

These explicit orders reveal much
of Harrison's plan. His object evi-
dently was to strike simultaneous
and effective blows on both banks of
the river. While Dudley was de-
molishing the British batteries on
the left bank, and Clay was fighting
the Indians on the right, he intend-
ed to make a general sally from the
fort, destroy the batteries in the
rear, and disperse or capture the
whole British force on that side of

the river.

• • •

And then came "Dudley's De-
feat," as it has ever since been
known in Kentucky, the brutalities
and atrocities following having

sent a thrill of indignation and hor-
ror throughout the State hardly less
violent tiStn that which followed the
massacre at the Biver Baisin three
months before.

At sunrise on May 5, 1813 (just
one hundred years ago), Gteneral
Green Clay and his little army left
the head of the rapids of the Mau-
mee and descended the river in the
eighteen scows, which were ar-
ranged in solid column, as in line of
march, each officer taking position
according to his rank. Dudley, be-
ing the senior colonel, led the van ;
and was ordered to take the men in
the twelve front boats and execute
General Harrison ^s orders on the
left bank of the river. He effected
a landing at tiie designated place
without difficulty, and his eight
hundred militiamen ascended the
bank of the river to the plain on
which Maumee City now stands
without being observed by the en-
emy. There he formed his men into
three columns, the right led by him-
self, the left by Major James Shel-
by, and the center (as a reserve) by
—Captain John C. Morrison, acting
as Major. Captain Leslie Combs,
with thirty riflemen, including seven
Indians, flanked in front, a full hun-
dred yards distant. In this order
they moved through the woods a
full mile and a half to the British
batteries, which were at the mo-
ment firing briskly upon Fort
Meigs. Dudley's troops advanced
upon the batteries in the form of a
crescent and rushed timaultuously
upon the foe with the kind of yell
which fifty years later became
known in this country as **the Bebel
yell.'' They captured the heavy
guns and spiked eleven of them

without the loss of a man, the Brit-
ish retreating in panic and disorder.
They pulled down the British flag,
and as those haughty colors trailed
to earth the victorious Dudley was
hailed with loud cheers by his coun-
trymen in Fort Meigs, across the
river.

Up to this point the orders of
General Harrison had been strictly
obeyed to the letter, and titie object
of l^e expedition had been fully ac-
complished ; and it was now the du-
ty of Colonel Dudley to withdraw
his men to their boats and cross the
river to Fort Meigs, which the four
hundred Kentuckians, under Colo-
nel Boswell, had already entered,
after some hard and brilliant fight-
ing. But at the moment the British
flag was lowered Comb's little band
of riflemen were attacked by a party
of Indians in ambush, and instea4
of falling back to their boats, these
riflemen stood their Abound and
fought like heroes. Colonel Dudley
ordered them to be reinforced, and
a great part of his troops on the
right and center columns instantly
rushed into the woods in disorderly
array, followed by Colonel Dudley,
in pursuit of the retreating Indians.
In their enthusiasm and excitement
over this second victory, the Ken-
tuckians lost all semblance of dis-
cipline and order, and pursued the
flying savages for more than two
miles through the woods. The In-
dians were heavily reinforced from
the British camp, to which their
flight had led them, and they then
turned fiercely upon Dudley, whose
men by this time were in utter con-
fusion, believing that they had been
led into an ambush. Major Shelby,
who had remained with the cap-

tnred guns, was attacked by a
strong force of British Eegulars,
who took some of the command
prisoners and drove the others
away. Shelby rallied the remnant
of his command and marched to the
aid of Dudley, where they also be-
came mixed up in the intricate con-
fusion. The Kentuckians were dis-
persed and scattered in every direc-
tion in the woods back of where
Maumee City now stands, and their
flight became a disorderly rout.
After a contest of about three hours
duration the greater part of them
were either killed or made prison-
ers. Of the eight hundred men who
followed Colonel Dudley from the
boats, only one hundred and seven-
ty escaped to Fort Meigs. Colonel
Dudley was wounded in the thigh
during the fighting in the woods.
He was a large, fleshy man, and
when last seen he was sitting on a
stump in a swamp, defending him-
self as best he could against a
swarm of savages. He was finally
tomahawked and scalped, and his
body was terribly mutilated. It is
said upon credible authority that
an Indian cut a large piece of flesh
from one of his thighs and cooked
and ate it. Colonel Dudley ^s home
was in Lexington, Kentucky, and he
was the grandfather of Colonel
Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley, who com-
manded a regiment of Kentucky
Union infantry in the Civil War.

On the surrender of Colonel Dud-
ley's command, the prisoners were
marched down to old Fort Miami, in
Ohio, under an escort; and, under
the very eyes of Proctor and his of-
ficers, the Indians who had already
plundered them, and murdered
many of them on the way, were al-

lowed to shoot, tomahawk and scalp
more than twenty of these defence-
less prisoners. This butchery was
stopped by the brave Indian chief-
tain Tecumseh, who, upon his ar-
rival at the scene of the tragedy,
sternly demanded of Proctor why
he had not put a stop to the mas-
sacre. *'Your Indians cannot l)e
commanded,'' replied Proctor, who
trembled with fear in the presence
of the enraged chief. ** Begone!"
retorted Tecumseh, **you are unfit
to command; go and put on petti-
coats."

Captain (afterwards Greneral)
Leslie Combs in writing of Dudley's
Defeat stated that at old Fort Mi-
ami the prisoners were compelled
to ''run the gauntlet" between two
lines of Indians, and that in this
race many were killed or maimed
by pistols, war-clubs, scaJping-
knives and tomahawks. ' ' The num-
ber of prisoners thus slaughtered
without any attempt at interfer-
ence by General Proctor, who wit-
nessed it all, was estimated at a
number at least equal to those killed
in the battle."

One of the British officers who
took part in the battle in after years
(1826) published an account of it
in ' * The London New Magazine, ' '
from which the following is ex-
tracted :

*'0n the evening of the second
day after the battle I accompanied
Major Muir, of the 41st, in a ramble
throughout the encampment of the
Indians, distant some few hundred
yards from our own. The spectacle
there oflfered to our view was at
once of the most ludicrous and re-
volting nature. In various direc-
tions were lying the trunks an 1

boxes taken in the boats of the
American division, and the plunder-
ers were busily occupied in display-
ing their riches, carefully examin-
ing each article, and attempting to
define its use. Several were decked
out in the uniforms of the officers;
and although embarrassed in the
last degree in their movements, and
dragging with difficulty the heavy
military boots with which their legs
were for the first time covered,
strutted forth much to the admira-
tion of their less fortunate compan-
ions; some were habited with plain
clothes; others had their bodies
clad in clean white shirts, contrast-
ing in no ordinary manner with the
swarthiness of their skins ; all wore
some articles of decoration, and
their tents were ornamented with
saddles, bridles, rifles, daggers,
swords and pistols, many of which
were handsomely mounted and of
curious workmanship. Such was
the ridiculous part of the picture;
but mingled with these, and in va-
rious directions, were to be seen the
scalps of the slain drying in the sun,
stained on the fleshy side with Ver-
million dyes, and dangling in the
air, as they hung suspended from
the poles to which they were at-
tached, together with hoops of va-
rious sizes, on which were stretched
portions of the human skin, taken
from various parts of the human
body, principally the hand and foot,
and still covered with the nails of
those parts; while scattered along
the ground were visible the mem-
bers from which they had been sep-
arated, and serving as nutriment to
the wolf-dogs by which the savages
were accompanied.

*'As we continued to advance into
the heart of the encampment a

scene of a more disgusting nature
arrested our attention. Stopping at
the entrance of a tent occupied by
the Minoumini tribe, we observed
them seated around a large fire,
over which was suspended a kettle
containing their meal. Each war-
rior had a piece of string hanging
over the edge of the vessel, and to
this was suspended a food which, it
will be presumed we heard not with-
out loathing, consisting of a part of
an American. Any expression of
our feelings, as we declined the in-
vitation they gave us to join in their
repast, would have been resented by
the Indians without much cere-
mony. We had, therefore, the pru-
dence to excuse ourselves under the
plea that we had already taken our
food, and we hastened to remove
from a sight so revolting to hu-
manity. * ^

On the night of May 5, the half-
naked prisoners were taken, in a
cold rainstorm and in open boats,
to the mouth of Swan Creek, and
thence to Maiden, Canada. After
a brief confinement at that place,
they were sent across the river, and
at the mouth of the Huron they
were paroled and turned loose to
make their way as best they could
to the nearest settlements in Ohio,

fifty miles distant.

• • •

Notwithtanding Dudley's disas-
trous defeat on the left bank of the
Maumee, the net result of that day 's
fighting was in effect an American
victory. During the day General
Harrison sent several sorties out of
Fort Meigs to attack the British
forces on that side of the river, and
all of those sorties were successful.
After May 5 the seige of Fort Meigs
was only desujtory; and four days

lt«tltl«r of th« Kerttiitliy tlM» HlolopiMl •oeMy>.

later (May 9) Proctor raised the
seige and abandoned it aKogether.
^'In the same vessels that brought
him to the Mamnee, Proctor re-
turned to Amherstbarg with the re-
mains of his little army, leaving be-
hind him a record of infamy on the
shores of that stream in the wilder-
ness equal in blackness to that he
left npon the shores of the Biver
Baisin/'

General Harrison, in general or-
ders dated May 9, 1813, censured
Colonel Dudley's men. He said:
"It rarely occurs that a general has

to complain of the excessive ardor
of his men, yet such appears to be
always the case whenever the Eec-
tucky militia are engaged. Indeed,
it is the source of all their misfor-
tunes." Then, after speaking of
their rash act in pursuing the en-
emy, he added: **Such temerity, al-
though not so disgraceftd, is scarce-
ly less fatal than cowardice."

And so it appears that it was an
excess of bravery, and not the lack
of it, that brought about ** Dudley's
Defeat'*

A Souvenir
From the Grave of Helen Hunt Jackson

MBS. JENNIE C. MOBTON.

SOUVENIR

From the Grave of Helen Hunt Jackson.*

On one of Cheyenne lonely steeps,
Where Nature some grand secret

keeps,
Here the majestic Singer sleeps
Beneath a mound unique and

drear.
It was her last, strange sad request,
Her monument upon this crest,
Should be of stones dropped on her

breast,
By Tourists wandering there.

Self-sown this flower there grew

and gave.
In love its bloom, beside her grave,
Its lute-shaped leaves seem fit to
wave
O^er her who breathed such mel-
ody.
Like her, it sought this spot with-
al-
Enshrined in clouds. — No word let

fall-
But some pure thought of hers re-
call—
Some thrilling strain of min-
strelsy.

*A flower brougbt me by a friend on bis
return from Colorado.

'Tis said life has its mountain

heights,
She saw be-times the gleaming

lights, •

And for the sununits poised her
flights —

Her song-words thro* the clouds
Fell down to us half understood.
Alone

She sleeps where mountain pines
make moan.

Bound her mausoleum of stone.
That snow most-while enshrouds.

She sang the world strange rhap-
sodies.

And wound them into harmonies,
And turned them to philosophies,

For minds above the throng.
She lived apart, and how she chose
She died ^midst this sublime repose.
Now Cheyenne *s snow-wrought cur-
tains close

Upon the Singer, not her song.*

*Since tbese lines were written tbe body
of Mrs. Jackson bas been removed from
tbe mountain crest to tbe Cemetery at
Colorado Springs.

INSCRIPTIONS FOR
THEODORE O'HARA'S TOMB

INSCRIPTIONS FOR THEODORE O'HARA'S TOMB.

Pursuant to the proceedings and
resolution of July, 1912, the Exec-
utive Committee of the State His-
torical Society, at the request of
Governor McDermott, met at the
Capitol on March 8th, 1913, and de-
cided upon the inscriptions for the
tomb of the now world-known poet,
O^Hara. Being the author of the
most famous martial poem in the
English language, it was the sense
of the Governor and the Committee
that inscriptions conveying this
idea should be made, not only on his
tomb, but upon a tablet, or scroll,
at or near it, as the illustrious poet
and Kentuckian slept in the war-
rior's circle he had made famous
as *'The Bivouac of the Dead.''

It was, therefore, resolved that
the following should be inscribed on

the space, if sufficient, below his
name on his sarcophagus:

** Author of the immortal poem.
'The Bivouac of the Dead.' "

It was found these lines could be
inscribed in handsome style. As
soon as a bid for this work is ac-
cepted, the inscription will be
carved, as directed, on the tomb.

Also bids for the tablet or scroll
to be placed beside or near it will
be received, on which the lines se-
lected from **The Bivouac of the
Dead" will be inscribed.

Samples in picture of tablets and
scrolls are requested before any de-
cision will be made or contract let
for this special work, directed by
the State Historical Society.
Mbs. Jennie C. Morton,

Regent.

ROTHERTS FORTHCOMING "HISTORY
OF MUHLENBERG COUNTY"

YOUNG E. ALLISON.

ROTHEaiTS FORTHCOMING '"HISTORY OF JMUHU^

COUNTY.*'

The sincere history of any county
is always a work to be welcomed,
because it is always important. By
sincere history is meant that which
is written by the author for the love
of his subject; his purely intellec-
tual interest in the long dead men
and women and events he brings to
life again, that they may be fixed
forever in the memories of the com-
munities of which they were at once
the foundations and the builders.
There have been all too few of such
histories written of Kentucky coun-
ties. Too many have been hastily
compiled; mere pretentious com-
mercial publications, containing
only matter previously, and often
very incorrectly and carelessly,
published — surface repetitions of
eld stories in a new dress, pieced
out by collections of current biogra-
phies that served to make the publi-
cation remunerative. Even these
are not to be treated wholly with
contempt, for at least they lay the
foundation for preserving materials
out of which valuable history may
some day be made and have their
effect in encouraging interest in the
story of the counties.

Kentucky is particularly rich in
materials for the historian and the
time is ripe for those with the gen-
uine love of literature to turn to
that field. The population was
originally strong in picturesque
character. There has not yet been

a suflScient influx of '^outlanders^*
to completely soften or materially
change the stamp of the vigorous
men and women who cleared the
wilderness, founded the homes,
built the institutions and created
the ideals of the State which are
everywhere recognized and feK
when it is described in a plhrase as
**The Old Kentucky Home.'' How-
ever far away it seems under mod-
ern surroundings to the days of the
early settlers, it must be remember-
ed that it was the grandfathers and
grandmothers of the generation
now passing off the scene who set-
tled Kentucky and made every story
of heroism and sacrifice and useful-
ness that waits to be translated into
the pages of lasting history. The
records are yet within reach, the
traditions are still vivid, and by the
earnest student the voices of the
Firstcomers themselves can almost
be heard in the whispers of their
grand and great-grandchildren. It
is less than thirty years since Dr.
C. C. Graham died, who hunted with
Daniel Boone.

It is in the spirit of such opportu-
nity that Otto A. Eothert, of Louis-
ville, has written his ** History of
Muhlenberg County,'^ now in the
press of John P. Morton & Co.,
Louisville, and to be out before the
next number of this Register shall
be pubUshed, Mr. Bothert, who is
a young man of high ideals, is not

Regiater of the Kentucky aute Hittorieal Society.

even a resident of Muhlenberg ; but
his family owns extensive timber
lands in the county. During his
temporary stayings there he became
interested in the history and tradi-
tions, still alive, of the early years
and the growth of a resolute people
out of beginnings that were hard
enough to call out real character
and develop into the present flour-
ishing communities that are adding
so much to the industrial wealth of
the State.

It is this story Mr. Rothert has
told, after devoting all his leisure
and personal interest for seven
years to collecting his materials
from dead and living witnesses,
from dusty records and authentic
documents — verifying, correcting
and constructing with infinite care
every detail of importance that
seemed doubtful. It is in the full-
est sense a history of the people of
Muhlenberg, not of its principal
towns, but of all the sturdy spirits
in town and countrv that ffet their
seal, however humble, upon the be-
ginnings, and of their after influ-
ence upon the county through their
descendants. Fortunately, he has
been able to disregard the question
of remuneration and the book is not
thrown out of ** perspective " by
the biographies of living persons or
the intrusion of any line that has
not appealed to him for its merits
of interest, truth and justice alone.
The result will be a beautiful vol-
ume of between five hundred and six
hundred pages, profusely illustrat-
ed with portraits, scenes and sou-
venirs which will be of priceless
value in the future. Mr. Rothert
has spent years in hunting out of
their dusty and forgotten comers

old portraits, documents, letters,
diaries and relics that he has used
freely in photographic facsimile to
make his pages alive with the at-
mosphere of the past. He has trav-
eled extensively and corresponded
widely to procure old engravings
and pictures of landmarks, some
long gone, some still in existence,
though changed. He has hunted
with his own camera over every
historic spot of the county, bring-
ing the features of the dead
past to light again. And the
stories of early struggles, failures
and victories that these illuminate
with the sense of actual visualiza-
tion he has told in nervous and ad-
mirable style, direct, lucid and
clear ; at times racy of the vernacu-
lar, but at all times full of frank
dignity and hearty sympathy with
the period and conditions he de-
scribes.

The plan of Rothert 's "History
of Muhlenberg '^ is essentially that
of the modem historian, by scienti-
fic collection of facts and their care-
ful analysis into episodic and relat-
ed groups that give the story of the
people of the county in connected
and graphic order. As the story is
related in easy narrative style, the
leaders among them are brought
into the foreground and take their
places properly on the scene. Thus,
while the eminent men that Muh-
lenberg gave to the State and Na-
tion get their due attention, those
who remained active in their own
community alone are not neglected.
Muhlenberg's contributions to dis-
tinction in the early days make most
interesting history. General Peter
Muhlenberg, after whom the county
was named, a Revolutionary hero,

•»».

whose service was the subject of
song and story everywhere, was
never there ; but some of his old sol-
diers and comrades settled it, fixed
his name upon the map and builded
its first homes. But there was Al-
ney McLean, pioneer surveyor, sol-
dier of 1812, for many years the
most distinguished judge of the
western jurisdiction, and member
of Congress; Edward Eumsey, the
eloquent Congressman, whose uncle
was one of the first to apply steam
to navigation — Edward Eumsey,
whose brilliant career was cut short
by a pergonal sorrow that converted
his promise into tragedy; Robert
Maxwell Martin, the dashing parti-
san ranger, whose daring feats dur-
ing the Civil War have been so cel-
ebrated since in war histories.
These men Muhlenberg gave to the
whole country.

Charles Fox Wing, the eminent
soldier and civilian officer, who was
clerk of the county for more than
fifty years, has his story that might
alone make a book of fascinating
interest. In his frontier office he
trained to a high conception of duty
a whole flock of young men, who
were to go forth, as other counties
were formed, become their officials
and lay the foundations of correct
knowledge and official practice all
over Western Kentucky. He was a
patriot widely celebrated while he
lived for his patriotism, respected
for it in his death during the most
exciting hours of the Civil War,
when the Confederate General S. B.
Buckner gave orders that his last
wish to be buried in the folds of the
star-spangled banner should be
strictly carried out, the while Con-
federate soldiers occupied every

street of Greenville. Another book
might be made of the Weir family,
pioneer merchants and bankers,
who were not only to lay the foun-
dation of large fortunes, but were
through love of learning to make
notable contributions to literature.
James Weir, son of the pioneer, was
the writer of a **best seller'' of his-
torical fiction back in 1850 when his
**Lonz Powers" surprised and de-
lighted readers all over the coun-
try. It seems old-fashioned now,
but it challenged the best criticism
then, with its vivid descriptions of
life on the frontier among pioneer
communities in Western Kentucky,
reveling in the wit, humor and
tragedy of the times. Even the pio-
neer James Weir, Sr., left the jour-
nal of a journey from Greenville to
New Orleans and around bv sea to
Philadelphia in 1803, which is full
of interest and spirit. Isaac Bard,
the frontier preacher, seller of Bi-
bles, organizer of schools, general
promoter of religious activities all
over Western Kentucky, began his
work in Greenville and kept a diary
full of the light of the times and the
people among whom he lived and
labored. Mr. Bard was a man of
opinions and courage, with his eyes
and conscience open to the tenden-
cies of politics, governmental and
social institutions. This diary Mr.
Bothert has rescued to make use of
much of its intimate revelations of
the period covered.

From these high points of per-
sonal elevation that made Muhlen-
berg conspicuous, he goes with less
detail, but with equal keen inter-
est into the stories of the men of ^h-3
county and the magisterial districts.
The names of his chapters suggest

•fltilMttr of tl«» Ktrttveky INMN Miidf Ml ^tooWly.

the wealth of their tmn stories of
this character: ** Some of the First-
comers," "Courts and Conrt-
hotrses," "The Pond River Conn-
ttv," "Life in the Olden Days,"
"Slavery Days," "OH Liberty
Chnrch," "The Story of 'Lonz
Powers,' " "The Old Militia Mus-
ter," "Greenville as Described in
*Lonz Powers' " in 1850 — ^these are
titles and topics .over which Mr.
Rothert has lingered with the pa-
tient interest and care of a sympa-
thetic poet seeking to re-create
faithfully and as vividly as possi-
ble the popular life and the local
characters and events of the golden
past.

Who were, and what became of,
the men of the War of 1812, the
War with Mexico, and the Civil
AVart These are questions that
ought to be asked and answered in
every county where patriotism has
a dwelling. Those that went out to
battle from Muhlenberg have been
followed whenever there was a rec-
ord and the stories of individual
achievements fixed from tradition
that yet lingers but would eventual-
ly die out but for this rescuing nar-
rative. General Simon Bolivar
Buckner quitted home life in Muh-
lenberg in 1838 to go to West Point
and there began his long and illus-
trious career. It was to Muhlen-
berg that General Don Carlos Buell
went after the Civil War to write
upon its hills and valleys the record
of his great struggle with coal and
iron development at Airdrie. The
stories of the Buckners at "The
Stack" and of Alexander and Buell
at Airdrie are not alone intensely
interesting accounts of industrial
movement, but they are filled with

the romance of settlements, colo-
nies, personal hopes and failures,
tragedies and comedies. "The
Story of the Stack" and "The Par-
adise Country and Old Airdrie" are
enticing titles that will disappoint
no reader in the facts to be found
behind thefm.

While Mr. Rothert has indulged
a keen and appreciative lookout for
the picturesque and * * story ' ' side of
Muhlenberg's history, he has been
painstaking in his record of its ma-
terial development. If pioneer
James Weir was personally inter-
esting, and the accounts in his old
ledgers of a hundred years ago
equally interesting in another way,
so was his practical work of busi-
ness development and the work that
other men did. Our historian has
contemplated and written the ston^
of all that business. If the grave
of Edward Alonzo Pennington (the
famous outlaw "Lonz Powers" of
fiction) is an interesting spot, so is
the grave of the once high-promis-
ing iron industry of the county.
The story is told of the tobacco in-
dustry, the wonderful coal develop-
ment and the discouraging episode
of the railroad bond tax controver-
sy, that raged so many years, but
has now passed away and left Muh-
lenberg unfettered to work out her
new and fast enlarging destinies.

I have endeavored very briefly to
indicate the scope of Rothert 's
"History of Muhlenberg County."
It is very much more, however, than
can be indicated. He has quoted
and extended the early facts collect-
ed by Collins, devoting a lengthy,
curious and interesting section to it.
He has collected in an appendix the
originals in full or in ample sum-

mary of invaluable historical docu-
ments now practically lost to print.
The value and beauty of his illus-
trations is beyond praise. All these
things together make a model for
those to examine who contemplate
history for its own sake — especial-
ly county history. He has made it
intensely interesting, not only to
elderly readers who love to take
stock of their memories and the
memories of others, but to younger
readers who can thus gain an idea
of their ancestors, their lives and
their deeds.

There comes a time to every man,
with a soul above the problem of
daily digestion, when he becomes
desirous of knowing who and what
his grandfather and grandmother
were, beyond mere family nouns.
He awakens to discover that they
had once been young, ardent and
stressed with the struggles of life
as himself has been. It is then he
wonders what sort of people they
were, what sort they lived among,
the conditions of hardship or of for-
tune that moulded them, the begin-
nings of his father and mother.
Then he begins to understand him-
self, the events and the characters
that have moulded him and will
continue to aflfect his children and
grandchildren *Ho the third and
fourth generation.^' When thait
period of contemplative inquisitive-
ness comes the sincere volume of

history is the light that clears it up.
And from the grandfather the cu-
rious eye is anxious to peer still
further back to discover definitely
the facts of the unerring indica-
tions. The sturdy and often turbu-
lent, keen and shrewd Scotch-Irish,
who were the first settlers, in bulk
of Muhlenberg, may not have been
able to trace back in records the
personal line of their ancestors, but
the history of the smelting of the
colonizing Scots in the turbulent pot
of Protestant Ireland gives every
one of them the lineaments of his
ancestry in unmistakable portrait-
ure.

This is the sort of history Mr.
Rothert has written of Muhlenberg
County. The sons and daughters of
the county, wherever they may be,
may look back upon it through the
pages of his volume as through a
field glass of time, bringing close to
them the stories arid the conditions
of the days of their ancestors — ^not
a dry-as-dust compilation of mere
dates and records; but the real re-
creation of the times and of the
people who made the times. Muh-
lenberg is to be congratulated
upon the completion of Mr. Roth-
ert's work and upon possessing
what seems to me, from a full and
careful reading of every line of his
book, to be incomparably the best
record of a county's history yet pre-
pared in Kentucky.

THE HRST PIONEER FAMILIES

OF VIRGINIA

A. C. QUISENBERRY

THE FIRST PIONEER FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA.

By A. C. Quisenberry.

Virginia was settled at James-
town in May, 1607, under the au-
spices of the London Company,
which continued to control the in-
fant colony until 1624-5, when the
charter of the company was revoked
and the government of the colony
was vested in a governor and coun-
cil appointed by the King, together
with a General Assembly composed
of the governor and council, and a
House of Burgesses elected by the
people. The House of Burgesses
soon became the real governing
power.

During the greater part of the
time that the London Company held
sway the right of holding private
property in the soil of Virginia did
not exist, except in rare instances.
The general record of patents to
land begins in the year 1623. Dur-
ing the time that the affairs of the
colonv were in the hands of the
Company — that is, for the seven-
teen years between 1606 and 1624 —
the conditions for receiving a grant
of land were either meritorious ser-
vice of some kind (to be determined
by the colonial authorities), or the
emigration of the patentee to Vir-
ginia in person, or the transporta-
tion to the colony of some person or
persons at the patentee's expense,
or the purchase of a share of stock
in the Company. Whoever paid the
charges for transporting an emi-

grant to the colony, the emigrant
being either the patentee himself,
a member of his own family, or his
own servant, or any one else, was
entitled to patent fifty acres of land
as a **headrighf pertaining to the
emigrant thus brought to settle in
Virginia. Population was the great
desideratum at that time, and this
certain means of securing it was
adopted. The importation of head-
rights was the usual means of ob-
taining patents ; for during the first
century of Virginia's existence the
right to purchase the public lands
with money did not exist. Multi-
tudes of young men in England
came over to Virginia as head-
rights, many of whom were of su-
perior social status and men of
more or less means, and their de-
scendants are today among the best
and most prominent people in the
United States. Young men of ad-
venturous spirit eagerly assigned
their headrights to land in order
that they might go to seek their for-
tunes in the strange and wonderful
country ** beyond the sunset's rim"
in the new world beyond the seas.
Their friends and relatives, or oth-
ers, who desired to patent large
tracts of land in Virginia induced
many other headrights to come ; and
some ship captains made a regular
traffic and speculation of importing
emigrants, and first and last each

of these brought many hundreds of
them, the emigrants assigning their
headrights in payment for their
passage to the new country.

After the dissolution of the Lon-
don Company the acquisition of ti-
tle to land by meritorious services
played but a small part in the his-
tory of Virginia patents ; but the
headright became the principal ba-
sis of title, and continued to be such
until the right to purchase the pub-
lic lands with money was estab-
lished early in the eighteenth cen-
tury ; and the headright system even
then remained in force during the
whole colonial period, or until the
beginning of the Revolutionary
War.

The records of land patents in
Virginia begin with the year 1623 —
that is, seventeen years after the
founding of the first permanent
English settlement in America at
Jamestown, and only a few years
after the right of holding private
property in the soil of Virginia was
conferred upon societies and indi-
viduals— and they continue with un-
broken continuity down to the pres-
ent day. They are the most valua-
ble records now in existence in the
United States, for they contain the
names of the founders of the repub-
lic, and much information about
them.

Those old records of incalculable
value have never been published,
even in a condensed or an abbrevi-
ated form, though their importance
as a basis or starting point of Amer-
ican genealogy would justify many
times over the expense of their pub-
lication. Not long ago there was
published a book which purported
to be a list, alphabetically ar-

ranged, of the names of all the head-
rights brought over to Virginia by
patentees of land between the years
1623 and 1666 ; but the period actu-
ally included in the book was only
the years between 1635 and 1657,
inclusive — twenty-two years. In
this work the headrights (some
16,000 in number) are listed in al-
phabetical arrangement, and in each
instance the name of the patentee
who imported the headright is giv-
en; and there are about seventeen
hundred of these patentees. As
these are subordinated in the book
entirely to the alphabetical arrange-
ment of the names of the headrights
it is like hunting for the proverbial
needle in a haystack to try to find
the name of any particular patentee
in the book. In the subjoined list I
have remedied that matter by ar-
ranging lexicographically the names
of those seventeen hundred pat-
entees; and this is the first time
their names have ever been pub-
lished in such a list, although there
is a complete index of them in man-
uscript in the Virginia Land OflSce.
It is a well-known fact that more
than three-fourths of the first set-
tlers of Kentucky were from Vir-
ginia; and reading this list of sev-
enteen hundred of the first land pat-
entees in the Old Dominion is much
like calling the roll of the names of
the first settlers of Kentucky — and
for that reason alone the publica-
tion of the list in The Register of
the Kentucky State Historical So-
ciety seems not only justifiable, but
imperative.

Owing to climatic and other con-
ditions to which they were unused,
a great majority of the very earli-
est emigrants to Virginia died soon

.Regitter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

after their arrival — ^that is, those
who came from 1607 to 1627. Up to
June 10, 1610, the number of emi-
grants who had come was about
800. Between that date and De-
cember, 1618, 1,000 others arrived,
making a total of 1,800 persons ; and
of this number 1,200 had died, leav-
ing 600 survivors as the population
of Virginia in December, 1618. In
the interval between that date and
November, 1619 (about a year ) , some
840 emigrants arrived, who made
(with the 640 survivors) 1,440 per-
sons; and of these 540 had died,
leaving 900 survivors as the popula-
tion of Virginia in November, 1619.
Between November, 1619, and Feb-
ruary, 1625, there came to the colo-
ny 4,749 emigrants, maldng (with
the 900 survivors) a total of 5,649;
and of these 4,624 had died or had
been assassinated by Indians in the
massacre of 1622, thus leaving a
population of only 1,095 persons
living in Virginia on February 20,
1625, when a census was taken. Out
of a total of 7,389 persons who had
settled in Virginia up to February
20, 1625, the great number of 6,294
had died or had been killed by the
Indians before that date. After
that date, the forests having been
opened and the general health con-
ditions greatly improved in many
ways, the violent fluctuations of
population which had marked the
early years came to an end ; and
there was a slow but steady in-
crease. In 1629 the population of
Virginia was about 3,000; in 1634,
about 5,000; in 1649, about 15,000;
and in 1656, it was about 25,000, of
whom about 1,000 were negroes.

The subjoined list covers about
1,700 patentees of lands, who

brought over rather more, than
16,0(X) headrights, so that the total
number of emigrants to Virginia
between 1635 and 1656 (the years
covered by the list) was about
18,000, and these may be consid-
ered as really the '* first families of
Virginia ' ' — the original founders
of the republic — and nearly every
one of those people has numerous
descendants in Kentucky today.
Those descendants may rest assured
that their ancestors named in the
list of patentees had settled in Vir-
ginia at least as early as the date
of their patents; and in numerous
instances they had settled there at
still earlier dates.

During the years covered by the
list the population of Virginia was
congregated along the coast and in
the tidewater section of the colony.
A few words about the counties
then existing in the Old Dominion
may be interesting to those Ken-
tucKians who may find ancestors in
this list of patentees. In the very
beginning the political units were
settlements along the James River,
which were called cities, boroughs,
towns, plantations, and hundreds.
In 1619 these scattered settlements
were assembled into four lar^e cor-
porations, with a capital city in
each, to-wit: (1) The corporation
of Elizabeth City; (2) the corpora-
tion of James City; (3) the corpora-
tion of Charles City; and (4) the
corporation of Henrico. In 1634,
these corporations were abolished,
and the whole of Virginia was di-
vided into eight counties, namely:
(1) Elizabeth City County; (2)
Warrasquinoke (more properly
Warrascoyack) County; (3) War-
wick County; (4) James City Coun-

R««laftM^«f tli% K«atM«fcy 9U*» HiiKirt«il taol^.

ty; (5) CharW City County; (6)
Henrico County; (7) Charles Biver
County, the name of which wa& soon
changed to York County; and (8)
Accomac County. In 1637, a por-
tion of Elizabeth City County was
organized into New Norfolk Coun-
ty, which immediately thereafter
was divided into Upper Norfolk
County and Lower Norfolk County.
In 1645, the name of Upper Nor-
folk was changed to Nansemond;
and in 1637, the name of Warras-
coyack (Warrasquinoke) was
changed to Isle of Wight County.
The other counties named in the ac-
companying list of patentees were
organized as follows: Gloucester
from York in 1642; Northampton
from Accomac in 1643; Northum-
berland in 1648 from hitherto unor-
ganized territory, then first set-
tled; Lancaster from Northumber-
land in 1652; Surry from James
Citv in 1652; Westmoreland from
Northumberland in 1653; and New

Kent from York in 1654.

• * • • *

The list of patentees of lands in
Virginia now follows. The name of
each patentee is given, followed by
the countv in which he lived or in
which he located the land, and the
year in which the patent was
granted. In many instances the

county in which the land was taken
up is not stated^

It will be observed that, on ac-
count of variations in the spelling
of the same name, there are many
duplications of names on the Ust.
For instance, the ancestor of the dis-
tinguished Richard H. Menefee, of
Kentucky, appears on this list un-
der the various forms of George
Menefy, George Menifye, Gteorge
Minifie, George Minifye, and George
Mynifie, but never as Menefee.
There is no other name on the list so
variously spelled, except that of
Colonel John Mottrom, who appears
as Maltrum, Matron, Mattrum, Mot-
trom, and Mottrow. Usually, how-
ever, there are only two variations
of the spelling of a name, where
there are any at all.

Since the above was written, I
have m£lde, from another source, a
list of the patents granted during
the years 1623-1634, inclusive; and
the two lists combined give the
names of the patentees from 1623
to 1656, inclusive — ^the first thirty-
four years during which land was
patented to citizens of the colony of
Virginia. This last-named list
(which is printed first) includes 131
patentees, who, it appears, brought
over only about 350 headrights.

Patentees of Lands in Virginia During the Years 1623-1634 Inclusivb.

AlUngton, Lieutenant GUes; EHizabeth
City, 1624.

Anderson, WUliam, planter; Accomac,
1628.

Arundel, Peter, planter; Elizabeth City,
1624.

Arundell, John, Gent.; Elizabeth City,
1632.

Atkins, Richard, planter; 1632.

Averie, John, planter; Warwick ■River,
1630.

Ball, Richard, planter; Elizabeth Cltr.
1627.

Barnes, Launcelot, Gent; Eiiza!beth City,
1633.

Harrington, Robert, planter; Jamea Citjr,
1632.

Bentley, William, planter; Elizabeth Cit7>
1624.

Blow, John, planter; Accomac Plantation*

1624.

VltfiMtttrlorthto 'KaMlMClky Mite 14i«»riwil ^ei«t>.

Bonall, James, vlgneror; Bliza3>«th City,
1627.

Bouldin, Thomas, yeoman and ancient
planter, Elizabeth City, 1624.

Branch, Christopher, planter; Henrico,
1634.

Browne Robert, Accomac I'lantation,
1628.

Bullock, Captain Hugh, mariner; York,
1634.

Bumham, John, Gent.; Klizabeth City,
1624.

Bush, John, Cent; ^icabeth City, 1624.

Cheeseman, John, Cent.; Elizabeth City,
1624.

Chew, John, merchant; James City, 1624.

Christmas, Doctoris; Elizabeth City, 1627.

Clause, Pettiplace planter; Warwicks-
Queake, 1626.

Claybourne, William, Gent.; Elizabeth
City, 1624.

Clements, Jeremiah, planter, 1633. (An-
oester of Mark Twain.)

Coleman, Henry, planter; Blizah^th City,

1634.

Coney, Henry, Gentleman; 1632.

Conner, William, planter; Elizabeth City,
1634.

Cookesey, William, planter; Elizabeth

City, 1628.

Cox, Hugh, planter; Charles City, 16M.

Cox, WUliam, planter; Eaizabeth City,
1628.

Crashaw, Captain Rawleigh, Gent; BUza-

heth City, 1623.
Cripps, Zachariah, planter; Warwick

River, 1628.
Davis, Thomas, planter; WarwicksQueake,

1633.
Dawes, William, planter; 1632.
Delmajor, Thomas, joiner; James City,

Dilke. Captain Clement; Aooomac Planta-
tion. 1627.

Dixon, Adam, yeoman; James City, 1627.

BSaton, Thomas, planter; Elizafbeth City,
1634.

Bpes, Captain William; Accomac Plan-
tation, 1626.

Felgate, Captain Robert, Gent; 1632.

Felgate, Captain Toby, mariner; 1632.

Flint, Lieutenant Thomas; Warwick
River, 1628.

Flinton, Pharaoh, Gent, and ancient plant,
er, Elizabeth City, 1624.

Floyd. Walter, carpenter; Martin's Hun-
dred, 1632.

Godby, Thomas, yeoman; Elizabeth City,
1624.

Graves, Captain Thomas; Accomac Plan-
tation, 1628.

Hamor, Captain Ralph, Esq.; James City,
1624.

Hampton, William, mariner; Mizabeth
City, 1627.

Harris, William, planter: Warwick River,
1628.

Harvey, Captain John; James City, 1624.

HaPvey, Thomas, tailor; James City, 1633.

Harwood, Nicholas, cooper; Elizabeth
City, 1634.

Harwood, Thomas, Gent; Warwick
River, 1632.

Hatfield, Joseph, planter; Elizabeth City,
1633.

Heyley, Walter, planter; Elizabeth City,
1628.

Holland, Gabriel, yeoman; James City,
1624.

Hoskins, Bartholomew, ancient planter;
Elizabeth City, 1624.

Hoskins, ^^cholis, yeoman; Accomac
Plantation, 1626.

HothersoU, Thomas, Gent.; James City.
1623.

Houfgh, Francis; Upper New Norfolk,
1634.

Howe, John, Gent., Accomac Plantation,
1628.

Johnson, John, yeoman and ancient
planter; 1624.

Jones, Elizabeth; Point Comfort 16?«

Jones, Rice, planter; Elizabeth City, 1628.

Key, \fartha; Warwick River, 1626.

Knott, James; Elizabeth City, 1632.

LuGuard, Elias, vignerone; Elizabeth
City, 1627.

Laydon (or Layton), John, ancient plant-
er; James City, 1628.

lowther, Bridget, widow; James City,
1632.

Lupo, Lieutenant Albino; Elizabeth City.
1624.

Lupo, 'Elizabeth, wife of Albino Lupo;
Elizabeth CUy, 1624.

Lytefoot, John, old planter; James City,
1624.

Marshall, Robert, planter; James City,
1628.

Menefy, George, merchant; James City,
1624.

Milnehowse, John; 1632.

Moone, John; Warwlcksqueake, 1633.

Moore, Leonard; 1633.

Neale, John, merchant; Elizabeth City,
1632.

Pace, George^James City. 1628.

Passmore, Iroihas, carpenter; James
Citv, 1624.

Peppet. Lieutenant William; Warwick
River. 1627.

Perry, Elizabeth; Jfltnes City. 1628.

Phillips, Ellmer; Elizabeth City. 16^2.

Pole, David, vigneror. "of the country of
Prance," Elizabeth City, 1627.

Poole, Robert Gent; 1627.

Powell, Jolm, yeoman; Elizabeth City,
1624.

Purifoy, Thomas, Esq.; 1631.

Purfury, Lieutenant Thomas; Elisabeth
City, 1628.

Race, Roger, carpenter; Martin's Hun-
dred, 1632.

Robins, John, Jr.; EHlzabeth City, 1632.

Roe, Nicholas, planter; EUlzabeth City,
1628.

Roote, Abraham; James City, 1634.

Russell, John; 1634.

Salford, John, planter; Elizabeth City,
1624.

Salford, Robert, yeoman; Elizabeth City,
1624.

Sandvs (sands), George, Blsq.; James
City, 1624.

Savadge, Thomas, carpenter; Accomac
Plantation, 1632.

Saunders, Roger, mariner; Accomac
Plantation, 1628.

Savage, Hannah; Accomac Plantation,
1627.

Shurley, Daniel; Charles City, 1633.

Small wood, Matthew, merchant; Charles
City. 1634.

Smith, John; Warwlcksaneake, 1633.

Smith, Captain Roger; James City, 1624.

Smith, Thomas, carpenter; Martin's
Hundred, 1632.

Smith, William; Accomac Plantation.
1629.

Southeme, John, planter; James City,
1627.

Spencer, William, yeoman and ancient
planter; James City, 1624.

Spillman, Thomas, Qent; Elizabeth City,
1624.

StalTord, William; Warwick River, 1634.

Stephens, Richard; James City, 1623.

Stockden (or Stockton), Jonas, minister;
Elizabeth City, 1627.

Sully, Thomas, ancient planter, Jamee
City, 1624.

Sweete, Robert, Gent; Ellza'beth City,

1628.

Symonds Gilbert; Elizabeth City, 1634.

Talman, Sylvester, carpenter; Martin's
Hundred, 1632.

Taylor, John, yeoman; EUzabeth City,
1624.

Thompson, Maurice, Gent; EUzabeth
City, 1624.

Thorowgood, Mr. Adam, Gent.; James
City, 1634.

Tree, Richard, carpenter; James City.
1624.

Tucker, Captain William, Elizabeth City,
1624.

Tyas, John; 1634.

Utie, Ensign John; 1624.

Ward, John; 1633.

Ward, Seth; 1634.

Waters, Edward, Gent; Elizabeth City.
1624.

Watts, Thomas, Eliza<beth City, 1634.

Webb. John, mariner; Accomac nanta-
tion, 1627.

WiUoughby, Ensign Thomas, Gent;
Elizabeth City, 1628.

Windmill, Christopher, planter; ESIza-
beth City, 1628.

Wright, Robert, planter; James City, 1627.

Yeardley, Sir George, Kni^t; James
City, 1624.

Patentees of Lands in Virginia During the Years 1635-1656, Ikclxtsive

Abbott, George; Nansemand, 1656.
Abbott, Samuel: 1642; Nansemond, 1646.
Abrahall, Capt Robt; Gloucester, 1653.
Abrall, Mr. Robert, York. 1651.
Absall, Robert; York, 1651.
Addison, Alexander; 1653.
Addison, Thomas; New Norfolk, 1637.
Addins, George; 1642.
Adkins, George; 1642.
Adleoton, John; 1654.
Addleston, John; 1654.
Allen, Arthur; James City, 1649.
Allen, Hugh; Charles River, 1638.
Allen, James; Northumberland, 1651.
Allen, Richard; Northampton, 1654.
Allen, Richard; Elizabeth City, 1652.
Allen, Tho.; Lower Norfolk, 1652.
Allumby, George; 1653.
Almond, Samuel; Henrico, 1639.
Anderson, David; Westmoreland, 1655.
Andrews, Wm.; Accomac, 1635.

Andrews, Major Wm.,; Northampton,
1654.
Anorke, James; 1650.
Ap Thomas, William; 1652.
Armesbee, John; Northumberland, 1$|50.
Armestead, Wm.; Elizabeth City, 1636.
Armestead, Mr. William; 1651.
Armie, John; Warrasquinoke, 1635.
Am wood, Rc^er; James City, 1638.
Arrorke, James; 1650.
Ashamb, John; Upper New Norfolk, 1646.
Ashby, John; 1653.
Ashcomb, John; Upper Norfolk, 1646.
Ashley, Christopher; Nansemond, 1656.
Ashley, John; 1653.

Ashton, Mr. Walter; Charles City, 1638.
Ash well, Henry; 1650.
Askton, Mr. Walter; Charles City, 1638.
Aston, Walter, Gent; Charles City, 1643,
Atkinson, Matthew; New Norfolk, 1637.
Augley, David; Accomac, 1635.

Austin, Ferdinando; Charles City, 1653.

Axby, Thomas; Northumberland, 1651.

Axom» Richard; 1650.

Ayres, John; 1655.

Bacon, Nathaniel; Isle of Wight, 1652.

Bacon, Wm.; Northumberland, 1654.

Bagnall, James; Lower Norfolk, 1643.

Bagnall, John; Westmoreland, 1654.

Bagwell, Thomas; Charles City, 1642.

Bahe, Thomas; Upper Norfolk, 1646,

Baher, Lawrence; James City, 1644.

Bailie, Thomas; Charles City, 1635.

Bake, Lawrence; James City, 1644.

Baker, John; Charles City. 1637.

Baker, John; Henrico, 1636.

Baker, Lawrence; James City, 1644.

Baker, Mr. Martin; New Kent, 1656.

Baker, William; Charles City. 1638.

Baldridge, James; Northumherland, 1651.

Baldridge, Capt. Tho.; Northumberland,
1651.

Baldwin, John; Northampton, 1638.

Baldwin, Mr. Wm.; York, 16i53.

Ballard, Henry; 1642.

Ballard, Mr. Tho.; Gloucester, 1655.

Bannister, William; 1638.

Barbar, Benedick. Gent; 1650.

Barber, John; 1668.

Barber, Wm.; Charles City, 1635.

Barcroft, Charles; Isle of Wight. 1637.

Barcroft, Elizabeth; Isle of Wight, 1647,

Barker, Wm.; Charles City, 1638.

Barlow, John; 1653.

Barlow, Henry; 1652, 1655.

Barlowe, Mr. Ralph; Northampton. 1649.

Bamaby, James; Northampton, 1653.

Barnard, Thomas; Warwick River, 1637.

Barnard, Wm., Esq.; Isle of Wight, 1642.

Barnes, Agnes; Northampton, 1653.

Barnes, Wm., Esq.; Isle of Wight 1642.

Bamett, Mrs. Anna; Gloucester, 1642.

Bamhouse, Mr. Richard. Jr.; Gloucester,
1653.

Barret, William; 1648.

Barrow. John; Surry, 1653.

Basoneth, James; York, 1643.

Bathashy (or Bathalsy), Miles; North-
ampton, 1649.

Batlln. Ash well; York, 1651.

Battin. Ash well; York. 1651, 1657.

Fatts. John; James City. 1643.

Baugh, John; Gent.; Henrico, 1645

Bauldry, "Robert; York, 1652.

Bayles, John; 1642.

Bayley, Robt; Northampton. 1653.

Bayly, Arthur; Henrico. 1637.

Bayly, Richard; 1641, 16.51.

Bayly, Richard; Northampton, 1637.

Baytes. John; Northumberland, 1650.

Baywell. Thomas; 1635.

Rayworth, John; 1652.

Bea, Christopher; Elizabeth City, 1639.

Beach. Wm.; Westmoreland, 1654.

Beale, John; 1642.

Beard, Wm.; James City, 1635.

Beast. Thomas; Elizabeth City, 1635.

Beausteed, Tho.; James City, 1636.

Bebey, John; 1662.

Bebey, John; Lancaster, 1653.

Bebram, William; 1653.

Beerboge, Tho.; Upper New Norfolk,
1638.

Beerbye. Tho.; Upper New Norfolk, 1638.

Bell, John; Charles River, 1639.

Bell. Richard; James City, 1638.
Bell, Thomas; Northampton, 1654.

Bellam, Richard; James City, 1637.

Bellane, Richard; James City, 1637.

Belliott, John; Northampton, 1656.

Belt, Humphrey; Lower Norfolk, 1654.

Bennett, Ambrose; Isle of Wight. 1641.

Bennett, Audrey; Nansemond, 1651.

Bennett, Grace; 1635.

Bennett, Joane; Charles River, 1636.

Bennett. John, of Normany; Northum-
berland, 1653.

Bennett, John; Gloucester, 1652.

Bennett, Mr. Philip; Nansemond, 1648.

Bennett, Philip; Upper Norfolk, 1643.

Bennett, Richard; New Norfolk, 1635,
1637.

Bennett, Mr. Robert; Upper Norfolk,
1638.

Bennett, Robert; New Norfolk, 1637.

Benton, John; 1642.

Bernard, Mrs. Anna; Northumherland,
1651.

Bernard, Thomas; Warwick River, 1641.

Berkeley, Sir William; 1645.

Berriman, James; Accomac; 1635.

Berry, James; Accomac, 1637.

Berryman, Wm.; Accomac, 1638.

Best, Thomas; Nansemond, 1656. —

Betts, William; Northumberland, 1651.

Bibby, William; Accomac, 1636.

Biggs, John; !Lower Norfolk, 1655.

Billington, Lule; Accomac, 1654.

Billiott, John; Northampton, 1656.

Binns, Thomas; Surry (no date).

Binus, Thomas; Surry, 1654.

Bird, Robert; 1660.

Bird, William; 1666.

Bishop, John; Surry, 1653.

Bishopp, Col. Henry; James City, 1646.

Bishopp. Mr. John; James City, 1643.

Black, John; 1654.

Blackhome, John; Surry, 1650.

Blackboume, John; Surry, 1653.

Blackey, William; York, 1647.

Blake Robert; Isle of Wight, 1650.

Bland, Richard; 1647.

Blaskey, William; York, 1647.

Bleake, Robert; Isle of Wight, 1650.

Blogg, John; Northumberland, 1650.

Blunt Gilbert; 1652.

Boame, Joseph; Charles City, 1638.

Bognall, John; Westmoreland, 1664.

Bogwell, Henry; Accomac, 1639.

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Carrill, Benjamin; James City, 1638.

Carter, Erasmus; James City, 1635.

Carter, John; 1643; Suiry (no date).

Carter, William; James City, 1636, 1638.

Carter, William; Henrico, 1636.

Cartwright, Thomas; Lower Norfolk*
165?.

Cassen, Thomas; 1643.

Castle, Robert; James City, 1655.

Catelyn, Henry; Upper Norfolk, 1638.

Cattlett, John; 1650.

<.atyler, Henry; New Norfolk, 1637.

Caughden, John; Charles River, 1638.

Causey, Thomas; Charles City, 1637»
1640.

Seeley, Francis; 1648.

Chamberlaine, Leonard; Gloucester, 1653.

Chambers, John; Northumberland, 1652.
— ChamWett, Randall; 1654.
-- Chamly, Randall; I^ncaster, 1654.

Champion Perceval; New Norfolk. 1637.

Chandler, John; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Chanler, Job; Lower Norfolk, 1648.

Chanter, Job; Lower Norfolk, 1648.
' Charles, Philip; 1655. ^\

Charles, Philip; James City, 1651.

Charlton, Stephen; Accomac, 1638.

Cheeseman, Lieutenant-Colonel John;
16154.

cneeseman, John; Charles River, 1635.

Cheeseman, Captain John; Charles River
1630, 1636.

Chesley, Philip; Westmoreland, 1654.

Chew, John, Gent.; Charles 'River, 1642
1643.

Chewning, Robert; Lancaster, 1653.

Chlchley. Sir Henry; 1656.

Chickley, Sir Henry. Kt.; Lancaster, 1654

Chiles, Walter; Charles City, 1638.

Chowning, George; Upper Norfolk 1642.

Christmas, Victorias; Elizabeth City,
1635.

Chynn, John. Gent.; Lancaster, 1664.

Chewning, Robert; Lancaster, 1653.

Chlchley, Sir Henry; 1656.

Chickley, Sir Henry, Kt; (Lancaster,
1654.

Chynn, John. Gent; Lancaster, 1662-64.

Chiles, Walter; Charles City. 1638.

Chowning, George; Upper Norfolk, 1642.

Christmas, Doctoris; ETllzabeth City, 1635.

Clapham, Mr. George; 1652.

•Clapham, William; 1650.

Clard, William; Warrasquinoake, 1635.

Clark, William; Warrasquinoke, 1635.

Clark, William; Elizabeth City, 1635.

Clark, William; Henrico. 1638.

Clarke, Dorothy; Henrico, 1639.

Clarke, Humphrey, 1652.

Clarke, John; Lower Norfolk, 1648.

•Clarke, John Rosier; Westmoreland, 16iS6.

Clarke, Philip; James City, 1638.

Clarke, Thomas Hampton; New Norfolk,
1637.

Clarke, William; Henrico, 1636-1638.

Clarkson, John; Charles River, 1637-1638.

Clay, Francis, Gent.; Northumberland,
1655.

Claybome, Colonel William (Secretary >^
of State) 1653.

Clays, William; Charles River, 1638.

Cleades, Philip; James City, 1651.

Clement, Jeremiah; 1636.

Clifton, Thomas; Northampton, 1651.

Clipwell, Thomas; James <Clty, 1638.

Cloyden, Sarah; Isle of Wight, 1638.

Cloys, Ti^^lliam; Charles River, 1638.

Coaie, John; James City, 1653.

Coale, Martin; Northumberland, 1654.

Cobb, Joseph; Isle of Wight; 1637.

Cobbs, Andrew; Henrico, 1639.

Cobbs, Ambrose; Henrico, 1639.

Cock, Wmiam; Elizabeth City, 1645.

Cocke, Richard; 1635-1636.

Cocke, Mr. Richard; 1636; Henrico, 1653.

Codd, Thomas; New Norfolk. 1637.

Codsford, Richard; Westmoreland, 1655.

Colborne, William; Northampton, 1652.

Colclough. George, Gent; Northumber-
land, 1651-1655.

Cole, Edward; Northampton, 1654.

Cole, Martin; Northumberland, 1653.

Coleman, Richard; 1651-1652.

Coleman, William; Charles City, 1636.

Coleman, William; Elizabeth City. 1636.

Coles, Edward; Northumberland, 1652-
1656.

Collins, George; 1653.

Coltclough, George; Westmoreland, 1655.

Comins^s, Nicholas; Charles 'River, 1639.

Conaway, EMward; Lancaster, 1654.

Confill, Captain William; Surry, 1653.

Coniers. Dennis; Lancaster, 1653.

Connhoe, William; 1642.

Connier, Dennis; Lancaster, 1653.

Cook, E^dward; 1654.

Cooke, Adam; Charles City, 1642.

Cooke, John; 1652, Northumberland, 1650.

Cooke, Mordecay; 1650.

Cooke. Richard, Gent; Henrico, 1639.

Cookeney, John; Henrico, 163S.

Coole, John; James City, 1655.

Coole, Richard; Westmoreland, 1655.

Cooper, Justinian, Gent.; Isle of Wight,
1C39.

rooper, Walter; James City. 1639.

CorbeU, Henry; Gloucester. 1658.

Corke. Richard, Gent; Henrico, 1639.

CorriU, Benjamin; James City, 1638.

Cortlough, George; iLancaster, 1635.

Cotton. William; 1637.

Cowlinge, Thomas; 1653.

Cox, Hugh; Charles City, 1635.

Cox, John; 1650. Lancaster, 1654.

Cox, William; Henrico, 1636.

Crannage (or Cranage), William; Isle of
Wight 1637, 1640.

Crew, Randall; Uipper Norfolk, 1640. «

Crlpps, Zachary; Warwick, 1646.
Crompe, Thomas; James City, 1635.
Crosby, Thomas; Henrico, 1637.
Croshawe, Joseph; York, 1649, 1651.
Crouch, William; New Norfolk, 1637.
Croutch, Thomas; James City, 1638.
^--^ Crump, William; James City, 1656.
Cugley, Daniel; Accomac, 1635.
Cult, Baber; 1653.
Curby. Samuel; James City, 1636.
Curley, Samuel; James City, 1636.
Curtis, Mr. Thomas; 1649, 1662.
Custis, John; Northampton, 1653.
Cutt, Baker, 1653.

Dale, Thomas, 1649.

Dameron, Lawrence; Northumherland,
1652.

Daniell, Henry; James City, 1635.

Daniell, Walter; James City, 1638.

Dansey, John; James City, 1636.

Darrow, Thomas; Northumberland, 1652.

Davies, Mr. Thomas; Isle of Wight, 1648.

Davis, Evan; Lancaster, 1653.

Davis, Boger; Charles City, 1638.

Davis, Thomas; Warwick, 1645, 165.5.

Davis. Captain Thomas; Northumber-
land, 1651.

Davis, William; James City, 1639.

Dawsey, Christopher; Elizabeth City,
1639.

Dawson, William; 1635.

Day, Eleanor; Warwick River, 1637.

Day, John; Gloucester, 1653.

Dayne, William; 'Lower Norfolk, 1645.

Deacon, Gilbert; Henrico, 1655.
*^Deadman, Henry; Lancaster, 1653.

Debar, John; 1653.
^Debram, William; 1653.
-^Debrane. William; 1663.

Deckinson, Grith; James City, 1656.

Degges, Edward; York, 1651.

Delram, William; 1653.
ntfDenham, William; Isle of Wight, 1639.

Dennes, John; 1654.

Dennett, John; James City, 1635,

Dennis, Humphrey; Gloucester, 1654.

Dennis, John; 1649.

Den wood, I-fCwis (or Lewin) ; Accomac,
1636.

Dew (or Dewe), Thomas; Upper New
Norfolk, 1638.

Dey, Ellinor; Warwick River, 1636.

Deynes, Thomas; 1654.

Dickenson, Griffith; 16.56.

Dickenson, Jeremiah; James City, 1638.

Dickenson, Walter; Lancaster, 1650.

Dier, John; Lower Norfolk, 1652.

Dicgs. Edward, Esq.; York, 1651.

Dipdall, John; Charles (Mty, 1653.

Dittye, William; Charles City, 1653.

Dixon, Ambrose; Northampton, 1652.

Dixson. Nicholas; Nansemond, 1648.
^Dobb, George; James City, 1638.

-i^Dobson, Edward, 1653.

Dodford, Thomas; 1652.
-Dodson, Jervals; Northumberland, 1653.
«Dodson, John, Gent; Lancaster. 1655.

Doney, Anthony; Lancaster, 1652.

Dooi, William; James City, 1639.

Dorey, Anthony; Lancaster, 1652.

Dorman, John; Northampton, 1655.

Dovey, Anthony; Lancaster, 1652.

Drayton, John; Westmoreland, 1654.

Drew, Edward; Accomac, 1639.

Dudley, Richard; 1652.

Dunning, Richard; 1650.

Dunston, John: James City, 1639.

Durrant (or Durant), Richard; James
City, 16315.

Durrant (or Durant), William, 1642.

Earle, John; Northumherland, 1653.

Eaton, George; 1651.

Eddridge, Samuel; 1655.

Edey. Humphrey; 1653.

Edghill, Thomas; Isle of Wight, 1637.

Edloe, Alice; Henrico, 1637.

Edloe, Matthew; 1642.

E^dmons, Elias; 1650, Lancaster, 1651.

EMmonds, Samuels; James City, 1638.

Edwards, Henry; Northampton, 1651.

Edwards, John; Lancaster, 1653.

EMwards, John; Northumberland* 1653.

Edwards, Rice; James City, 1648.

Edwards, Samuel; James City, 1636.

Edwards, Somme; James City, 1636.

Edwards, William; James City, 1648.

Egberows, William; James City, 1647.

Elam, Robert; Henrico, 1652.

Eley, Robert; Isle of Wight, 1639.

Elliott, Lieut. Col. Anthony; 1651.

EHlis, John; Northampton, 1648.

Ellis, Thomas; Henrico, 1638.

Ellyot. Mr. Anthony; 1650.

Elridge, Samuel; Isle of Wight, 1650,
1655.

Emerson, Thomas; 1642.

Emmerson, Thomas; Warwick River,
1637.

Emperor, Francis; Lower Norfolk. 1653.

England, Francis; Isle of Wight, 1642,

England, Humphrey; James City, 1637.

English, Abraham; 1642.

English, William; 1642.

Eppes, Captain Francis; Charles River,
1637.

Eppes, Colonel Francis; Charles City,
1653.

E^ssex, John; Northumberland, 1650.

Evans, John; Northumberland, 1653.

Evans, John: Northampton, 1656.

Evans, Thomas; 1643.

Everidge Thomas; 1655.

E^ven, Richard; Upper Norfolk, 1638.

Ewen, William; James City, 1648.

Ewens, John, Sr.; Charles City, 1642.

Ewens, John, Jr.; Charles City, 1642.

Bwers. John, Jr.; Charles City, 1642.
Ewes, John Jr.; 1642.
Ewins, William; James City, 1643.
Eyres, Kobert; Lx>wer New Norfolk, 1642.
Eyres, William; W^arrasquinoke, 1635.

Farge. Joseph; Charles City, 1638.

Farrow, William; Henrico, 1637.

Fauch, Hugh; Northumberland, 1653.

Faulkner, Thomas; 1635.

Faulner, Thomas; 1634.

Fauntleroy, Captain Moore; 1650.

Faylor, Thomas; Warwick, 1643.

Felgate, Captain Robert; Charles River,
1639.

Felton, Thomas; Charles City, 1654.

Fenn, Timothy; Isle of Wight, 1642.

Finch, Francis; 1642.

Firment, Samuel; Upper New Norfolk,
3641.

Firmer, Samuel; Upper New Norfolk,
1641.

Fleet (or Fleete), Captain Henry; (Lan-
caster, 1652.

Fleet, John; Lancaster, 1652.

Fleetwood, Francis; Lower Norfolk, 1652.

Fletcher, Hannibal; James City, 1638.

Flint, Captain Thomas; Warwick River,
1637.

Flint, 'Richard; Lancaster, 1652.

Flood, Captain John, Qent. "an ancient
planter;" James City, 1638.

Flood, John; James City, 1650.

Floyd, Captain George; New Kent, 1655.

Floyd. Nathaniel; Isle of Wight, 1637.

Floyne, Teague; Lancaster, 1652.

Fludd, Francis; York, 1648.

Fludd, John; James City, 1638.

Flyne, John; York, 1646.

Fontaine, Mr. Robert; -Lower NorfoiK
(no date).

Fookes, John; 1636.

Fookes, William; 1636.

Forbreese, John; Accomac, 1636.

Forbuse, John; Accomac, 1636.

Ford, Peter; Gloucester, 165J5.
— ' Forster, James; 1C52.
•*^ Foster, James; Nansemond, 1651.
— Foster, Mr. George; Northumberland,
1652.

""Foster, John; Northampton, 1643.
'^Foster, Mark; 1654.
"^Foster, Richard; 1655.
-Foster, William; 1642.

Foutch, Hugh: Northumberland, 1650.

Fowke, Mr. Thomas; Westmoreland, 1654.

Fowler, Francis; James City, 1637.

Fox, Mr. David; Lancaster, 1652.

Fox, Thomas; Northampton. 1649.

Freeke, William: Northumberland. 1653.

Freeman, Bennett; James City, 1638.
Freeman. Bridget; James City. 1636, 1637.
Freeman, Eliza; James City, 1638.
Freeman, Robert; James City, 1638.

Freeme, John; Charles City, 1643.
Frlzell, George; Northampton, 1655.
Fry, Mr. William; James City, 1653.
Frye, Thomas; James City, 1643.
Frye, William; James City, 1637.
Fulgam, Anthony; 1660.
Fulgain, Anthony; 1650.
Fuljam, Anthony; 1650.

Gale, Hugh; Lower Norfolk, 1653.

Gapinge, William; James City, 1643.

Gardner. July; Northampton, 1652.

Garret, .John; Upper New Norfolk, 1642.

Garey, iStephen; Westmoreland, 1654.

Garry, William; Accomac, 1635.

Garwood, John; Nansemond, 1650.

Gary, William; Accomac, 1635.

Gasklns, Savlll; I^wer Norfolk, 1652.

Gaskins, Thomas; Accomac, 1636.

Gater, John; Lower New Norfolk, 1638.

Gates, John; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Gautlett William; 1652.

Geary, John; Upper Norfolk, 1640.

George, John; Charles City, 1638.

George, Leonard; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Geor'e. John; Charles City, 1638.

'^^rrard. Thomas, Gent; Northumberland,
1650.

Glbbs, Humphrey; Warwick, 1654.

Gi'ble, Richard; Northumberland, 1656.

Gil!)son, Andrew; 1654.

Gibson, Thomas; York, 1647.

Giles, George; Upper Norfolk, 1639.

Gill, George; York, 1650.

Gill, Stephen; York, 1642.

Gllla. Edward: James City, 1654.

Gillett. Augustine: Upper Norfolk, 1653.

Gillett, John; 1653, 1654.

Gills. Jonathan; Northampton, 1647.

Gilson, Andrew; 1650. 1654.

Ginsey, William; York, 1651.

Glascocke, Thomas; 1643.

Gloscock, Thomas; Lancaster. 1652.

Olossock, Thomas; Lancaster, 1652.

Godfred, John; Lower Norfolk, 1645, 1652.

Godwin. Thomas; 1650.

Goldsmith. Oeorge; 1650.

Gooch, William, Gent; 1650.

Gookin (or Gookins), Daniel; New Nor-
folk. 1637, 1642.

Gookins, Mr. John; Upper New Norfolk,
1638.

Goslin, John: 1653.

Oough, Matthew; i639.

Gower, Francis: Lancaster, 1653.

Graves, John; Elizabeth City, 1637, 1639.

Graves, William; York, 1655.

Gray, Francis; 1654.

Gray, Thomas; James City. 1635, 1638.
Grayne (or Grayner), Elizabeth; Charles
City. 1638.

Green. John; 1655.

Green, Oliver; Gloucester, 1653.
Green, Ralph; New Kent, 1655.

Green, Ralph; aioucester, 16^3.
Green, Thomas; 1652.
Greenbough, John; Henrico, 1652.

Greenwood. Edward; James City. 1651.

Greenwood. Thomas; Isle of Wight, 1652.

Greet (or Greete). Richard; 1637.

Gregory, Joseph, 1652.

Gregson, Richard; Elizabeth City, 1642.

Greigaon, Richard; 1651.

Gresham. John; Northumberland, 1652.

Grey, Francis; Charles City, 1653.

Grey. Jeremiah; James City, 1642.

Grey, John; Northampton, 1654.

Griffin. Thomas; Lancaster, 1653, 1651,

GrifPth, Evan; Lancaster, 16.52.

Grigson, Richard; 1651.

Grimes, Charles; Lancaster, 1653

Grimes, Edward; 1650.

Grlnett, John; 1635.

Grin wood, Thomas; Isle of Wight, 1641.

Grylsditch, John; Isle of Wight, 1638.

Grymes, Charles (clerk). Lancaster, 1653.

Grymodltch, George, 1638.

Grymoditch, John; 1638.

Grymodltch, Nicholas; 1638.

Grynlsdltch. John; Isle of Wight, 1638.

Gundry, John; 1050,

Guyer, Thomas; 1642.

Gutheridge, Mr. Thomas; Lower Norfolk,
1652.

Gwyn, Hugh; 1642.

Gwyn, Thomas; 1642.

Hack, Dr. George; Northampton, 1653.

Hackery, Henry; 16.51.

Hackery, Walter; James River, 1636.

Hackett, Captain Thomas; Lancaster,
1651.

Hackney, Henry; 1651.

Haggett Humphrey; Lancaster, 1654.

Hales, Robert; Lower Norfolk, 1643.

Halle, Robert; Lower Norfolk, 1643.

Haines, Richard; 1653.

Hale, Francis; 1653.

Hales, Thomas; Northumberland, 1651.

Hall, Edward; Lower Norfolk, 1646, 1652.

Hall, Peter; Isle of Wight, 1648.

Hall, Dr. Richard; 1652.

Hall, Thomas; Lower Norfolk. 1656.

Hall. William; New Kent, 1655.

Hallawes (or Hallowes), John, Gent;
Northumberland, 1650.

Halllnard, Thomas; 1652.

Halton, John; 1652.

Halton, Richard; Lancaster. 1652.

Hamblyn, Stephen; York, 1652.

Hamelin, Mr. Stephen; 1650.

Hamlet. Richard; James City. 1655.

Hamlin. Stephen; Charles City, 1650.

Hamond, Martin; 1655.

Hamper, John; 1655.

Hampton, Thomas; 1653.

Hampton, Thomas; New Norfolk; 1637.

Hampton. William; 1651
. Hampton, William; Isle of Wight, 1640.

Hampton, William; Elizabeth City, 1640.
Hancks, Thomas; Gloucester, 1653.
Hancock, Sarah; Lower Norfolk, 1654.
Hansford, John; Gloucester, 1653.
Hany, John; Northumberland, 1650.
Hardey, George; Isle of Wight, 1648.
Hardlge, William; Northumberland, 1653.
Harding, George; 1642.
Harke, John; 1636.
Harker, John; 1636.

Harle, Captain Randall; Northampton,
1649.

Harlow, John; Accomac, 1636.
Harlowe, John; Northampton, 1642.
Harmanson. Thomas; Northampton, 1654.
Harmer, Elizabeth; Northampton, 1644.
Harmer, Mrs. Jane; Northumberiand,
1652.
Harmon, Joseph; James City. 1638.
Harmonson, Thomas; Northampton, 1654.
Hamer, Charles; 1639.
Harnett, Mrs. Jane; Northumberland,
1652.

Harrington, Edward; Northampton, 1653.

Harris, Thomas; Isle of Wight, 1652.

Harrison, Benjamin, Gent.; James CTltf,
1643.

Harrison, Mrs. Frances (widow); West-
moreland, 1654.

Harrison, James; James City. 1637.

Harsey, Stephen; Northampton. 1647.

Harsley, Ralph; Northumberland, 1649.

Hart (or Harte), Henry; James City.
1635, 1637.

Hart, Thomas; James City. 1648.

Harton, Toby; Lancaster, 1653.

Hartru, Ellas; Northampton, 16.53.

Harvey, Thomas; James City, 1640.

Harwer. Charles; 1635.

Harwood. Thomas; 1635.

Arthur Hashington; Warwick, 1635-1 65i5.

Hasklns, Bartholomew; Lower Norfolk,
1648.

Hatcher, William; Henrico, 1636.

Hatcher, William; Lancaster, 1653.

Hatfield, William; Upper Norfolk. 1638.

Hatton, John; 1652.

Hatton, Richard; I^ncaster, 1652.

Hauch, Hue:h; Norihumberland, 1653.

Havett. William; 1653.

Haward, William; Gloucester, 1654.

Hawker. Enoch; Lancaster, 1652.

Hawkes. Enoch; Lancaster. 1652.

Hawkins, Elizabeth; Charles River, 1636.

Hawkins, Richard; Westmoreland, 1654.

Hawkins. Thomas; Northumberland, 1653.

Hawley. Henry; Isle of Wight,* 1641.

Haws, Thomas; York River, 1648.

Hayes. Joseph, Gent; York, 1651.

Haynes, Morgan; Lancaster, 1653.

Haynes, William; 1653.

Ha^ny John; Northumberland, 1650.

Haywood, John; James City, 1639.

Heakley, Henry; Northampton, 1648.

Heely, Samuel; Surry (no date).

Heires William; Warrasquinoke, 1635.

Hemp, George; Lower Norfolk, 1652.

Heyly, William; 163.5.

Hickman, Nathaniel; 1653.

Higglns, George; Charles River, 1638.

Higgenson, Humphrey, Gent.; 1637.

Hill, Edward; Charles City. 1638.

Hill, John, Gent; Upper Norfolk, 1644.

Hill, John; Norfolk, 1646.

Hill, Nicholas; Elizabeth City, 1637.

Hill, Richard; James City, 1638.

Hillier, John; Northumberland, 1653.

Hinman, John; Northampton, 1655.

Hinton, Blias; 1650.

Hinton, Palmer; 1651.

Hoake, Nathaniel; 1635.

Hoane, Thomas; 1662.

Hobart (or Hobert), Bertram, 1642.

Hobbs, Francis; 1650.

Hobkins, Thomas; 1654.

Hoccaday. Mr. William; 1649.

Hockaday, William; York, 1646.
^ Hoddin, John; 1643.

Hodgkinson, Joseph; Lower Norfolk,
1653.

Hodgson, William; York, 1650.

Holder, William; 1650.

Holding, John; York, 1653.

Holliwell, Thomas; 1652.

Hollom, Robert; 1635.

Hollow, Robert; Henrico, 1635.

Holloway, John; Accomac, 1640.

Holmes, Thomas; York, 1653.
— Holt, Randall; 1643.

Holt, Robert; James City, 1638. 1640, 16.54.

Holt, Thomas; New Norfolk, 1637.

Hompton, William; Elizabeth City 1640.

Hooe (or Hoe), Richard, Gent; 1643.

Hooke, Nathaniel; 1635.

Horseley, Stephen; Northampton; 1652.

Horseley, Stephen; Northumberland.
1652.

Horton, Toby (or Tobias); Lancaster,
1653.

Hoskins, Anthony; Northampton, 1652.
Hoskins, Bartholomew; 1645.
Howard. William; Gloucester, 1654.
Howe, Captain John; Accomac, 1637.
Howell, Cobb; Lower New Norfolk, 1638.
Howell, Hopkins; Nansemond, 1653.
Howett, John; Northumberland, 1652.
Hubard, Matthew, Gent; York, 1655.
Hubard, Robert; Westmoreland, 1654.
Huberd, Henry; 1655.
Hucks, John; James City, 1637.
Hucrhes, Thomas; Charles River, 1643.
Hull, Cornelius de; 1642.
Hull. Elizabeth; 1653.
Hull, George; Charles River, 1637.
Hull, John; Northumberland, 1650.

Hull, Richard; 1650.

Himley, Philip; 1651.

Hum, William; 1653.

Hurd. James; 16.50.

Hurd, Nathaniel; Warwick, 1653.

Hutchins, Francis; Nansemond, 1656.

Hutton, Elizabeth; Surry, 1654.

Hynes, Richard; New Norfolk, 1650.

lies, Thomas; Charles River, 1639.
Ingram, Richard; James City, 1656.
Ireland, Matthew; Charles River, 1638.
Ireland. William; York, 1642.
Isles, Thomas; Charles River, 1638.

'Jackson, James; Northampton, 1645.
Jackson, John; James City, 1638.
Jackson, John; Charles River, 1639.
Jackson, Jonas; Northampton. 1651.
Jackson, Richard; Isle of Wight, 1639.
Jackson, Samuel; Isle of Wight, 1639.
Jacob, Richard; Northampton, 1645.
Jacob, William; Lower Norfolk, 1643.
Jacob, William; Upper Norfolk, 1645.
Jacob, WilUam; Isle of Wight, 1637.
Jalnes, Daniel; 1656.
Jalifte, John; Isle of Wight, 1653.
James, Daniel; 1656.
James, Edward; 1640.
Jamew, Nicholas; Charles River, 1638.
Jenings, John; 1656.
Jenkins, John; Northampton, 1655,
Jenkins. Osbourne; Charles City, 1635.
Jennings, Jonathan; 1656.
Jennings, Richard; 1653.
Jerkin, Osboume; Charles City, 1^25.
Jernen, Nicholas, Gent; 1650.
Jines, Daniel; 1656.
Joblnson, John; Lancaster, 1635.
Johns, Roger; Northampton, 1645.
Johnson, Anthony; Northampton, 1051.
Johnson, Cornelius; Westmoreland, "4654.
Johnson, Israel; 1652.
Johnson, John; Northampton, 1652.
Johnson, Joseph; 1635.
Johnson, Mark; Elizabeth City, 1645.
Johnson, Peter; Warrasqulnoke. 1636.
Johnson, Peter; New Norfolk, 1642.
Johnson, Richard; Henrico, 1639.
Johnson, Richard (negro); Northampton,
1654.

Johnson, Thomas, Gent.; Northampton,
1647.
Johnson, Thomas, Jr.; Northampton, 1652.
Johnson, William; Lancaster, 1653.
Johnson, William; Lancaster, 1654.
Jolly, Joseph; Charles River, 1636, 1637.
Jones, Anthony; 1635.
Jones, David; Charles City, 1635, 1636.
Jones, James; Northampton, 1654.
Jones. Jervals; Nbrthum'berland, 1653.
Jones, Nathaniel; Northumberland, 1650.

Jones, Rice; 1650.
Jones, Richard; James City, 1654.
Jones, Samuel; Charles River, 1637.
Jones, Thomas; James City, 1635.
Jones, William; Acoomac, 1640.
Jones, William; Northampton, 1645.
Joones, James; Northampton, 1639.
Jordan, Francis; Surry, 1653.
Joyner, Michael; James City, 1639.
Joyner, Raphael; James City, 1640.
Judson, John; Charles River, 1639.
Julian, William; Elizabeth City, 1636.
Justice, William; Charles City, 1656.

Keeling, Thomas; Lower Norfolk, 1651.

Keene, Thomas; Northumberland, 1653.

Kellam, Richard; Northampton, 1651.

Kemp, Edward; Lancaster, 1653.

Kemp, George; Lower Norfolk; 1652.

Kemp, John; James City, 1G39.

Kemp, Richard, Esq.; James City, 1643.

Kemp, Richard, Secretary of Statfe; 1649.

Kennedy e, Patrick; New Norfolk. 1637.

Keth, George; Charles River, 1635.

Kibble. George; Lancaster, 1655.

Kidd, Thomas; Lancaster, 1653.

Kiggen, Charles; York, 1653.

Killing, Thomas; Lower Norfolk, 1651.

King. John; Isle of Wight, 1648.

King, John; York, 1649.

King, John; Charles River, 1642.

King, John; Surry, 16,53.

King. Richard; Lower Norfolk, 1652.

Kinsey, Hugh; Lancaster, 1655.

Kirk (or Kirke), Accoraac, 1640.

Knight, Peter; Northumberland, 1653.

Knipe. Bartholomew; 1642.

Knolt, John; 1653.

Knott, James; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Knott, James; New Norfolk, 1637.

Knott, William; Surry, 1653.

Lacker, Johi>; 1650.

Lake, Richard; Lancaster, 1653.

Lambert, Thomas; Lower Norfolk, 1648.

Lambettson, Lambett, 1652.

Lancaster, Gawen (or Lawen); Charles
River, 1652.

Lancaster, Owen; Lower Norfolk, 1638.

Landman, John; 1650.

Langly, William; Lower Norfolk, 1653.

Langston, Mr. Anthony; New Kent, 1655.

Langworth, Jonathan; New Norfolk, 1637.

Lanson. Christopher, 1638.

Larke, Richard; Lancaster, 1653.

Lathropp, John; James City, 1636.

Lafon, John; King & Queen Co., 1635.

Lawrance, Robert; Isle of Wight, 1642.

Lawrance, William; James City, 1642.

LawTence, Giles; Nansemond, 1651.

Lawson, Christopher; James City, 1637,
1638.

Lawson, Epaphrodltus; Upper Norfolk,
1638.

Lawson, John; Lancaster, 165.5.

Lawson, Richard; 1651.

Lawson, Roland; 1651.

Lawson, William; Isle of Wight. 1642.

laydon, John; Warwick River, 1636.

Layton, William; 1636.

Lea, William; Charles City, 1654.

Leach, John; James City, 1656.

Lear, John; W^estmoreland, 1656.

Leatherberry, Thomas; Northampton,
1655.

Lee, Hancock; Gloucester, 1C55.

Lee, Henry; York. 1653.

Lee, Hugh; Northumberland, 1654.

Lee, Colonel Richard, Esq.; 1648; Glou-
cester, 1651.

Lee, Richard; Lancaster, 1653.

Lee, William; Gloucester, 1656.

Leech, Captain Charles; York, 1650.

Leech, William; Lancaster, 1653.

Leechman, Thomas; Gloucester, 1651.

Leithermore, Thomas; 1652.

Leithermore, W^illiam; 16^2.

l>emon, Pierce; Charles City, 1635.
.^Lendall, Robert; 1652.

Lenton, Anthony; Northumberland, 1652.

Leo, Hugh; Northampton, 1655.

Leonard, John; Warrasquinoke, 1635.

Levilt, Lancaster; 1646.

Levlstone, John; Gloucester, 1653.

Ivevitt. George; 1643.
— Lewellyn, David; 1642.

Lewin, John; Isle of Wight, 1639.

I*ewis, Christopher; James City, 1649.

Lewis, Mary; Northampton, 1656.

Lewis, Major William; 1653.

Libsey, John; Lower Norfolk; 1649.

Linch, Captain Ishlell; 1650.

Little, John; Northampton, 1647.

Little. William; Northumberland. 1655.

Littleberry, Southey; Northampton, 1655.

Lobb, George; James City, 1638.

Lonq: (or Longe), Richard; 1652.

Longworth, Jonathan; New Norfolk, 1643.

Loraine, John; Isle of Wight, 1639.

Lovett, Lancaster; Lower Norfolk, 1651.

Loving, Thomas; James City, 1642.

Lowne, Henry; Henrico, 1652.

Loyd, Cornelius; Charles River, 1637.

Lucas, Thomas, Gent.; Lancaster, 1652.

Ludlow, George, E^q.; 1651.

Ludwell, Thomas, Gent; James City,
1648.
^ Luellln, Daniel; Charles City, 1650.

Lunsford, Sir Thonias, Knight and Baros-
ette; 1650.

Lylley, John; 1642.

Lynge, John; James City, 1655.

Lynton, Moses; Lower Norfolk, 1655.

Lyster, Humphrey; 1650.

Madison, John; Gloucester, 1653.

Madocks, Alexander; Northampton, 1654.

yagregory, James; Northumberland, 1653.

Maion, Richard; Charles River, 1638.

Maior, Richard; Charles River, 1642.

Matron, Richard; Charles River, 1638.

Malry, Thomas; 1652.

Major, John; Northampton, 1650.

Major, Richard; Gloucester, 1653.

Mallard, Thomas; Northumberland, 1653.

Mallen, George; James City, 1639.

Maltrum, John; Northumberland, 1650.

Mandlin, Francis; Upper New Norfolk,
1642.

Mangor, John; 1650.

Manning, John; Lower Norfolk, 1648.

Mansell. David; James City, 1638.

Mansell, Captain David; Westmoreland,
1654.

Mantin, John; Lower Norfolk, 1651.

Margraffe, Patrick; 1653.

Markham, Thomas; Henrico, 1636:

Marsh, Thomas; Upper Norfolk, 1639.

Marshall, John; Lower Norfolk (no
date) .

Marshfleld, Richard; 1654.

Marteau, Captain Nicholas; Westmore-
land, 1654.

Marteaw, Caa)tain Nicholas; Westmore-
land, 16.54.

Martian. Captain Nicholas; Charles
River, 1689.

Martin, Francis; Accomac, 1639.
Martin, John; Lower Norfolk. 1651.
Martin, Nathan; Henrico. 1636.
Martin, Robert; Lower Norfolk. 1638.
Mason, Lieutenant Francis; 1642, 1643.
Mason, James; James City, 1648.
Mason, James; Surry, 1653.
Masters, Michael; Henrico, 1645.
Matron, Colonel John; Westmoreland.
1654.

Mathews, Captain Samuel. Esq.; 1642.
Matthews, Benjamin; Northampton, 1654.
Matthews, Captain Samuel; 1643.
Matthews, Thomas; 1641.
Matthews, Thomas; Henrico, 1639.
Mattrum, John; Northumberland, 1650.
Mauldin. Francis; 1636.
May field, Mrs. Richard; 1652.
Meakes, .John; 1642.

Meares, Thomas; Lower Norfolk (no
date).

Medstard. John; Northumberland, 1653.

Mellln, William; Northampton, 1653.

Mells, William; Lancaster, 1654.

Melton, Thomas; Lower Norfolk, 1538.

Memux, William; 1€53.

Menifye, Mr. George; Jftmes City, 1636.

Menux, William; 1653.

Meredith, John; Lancaster, 1652, 1653.

Meredith, Thomas; New Kent, 1656.

Merriman, James; Charles City, lt>35.

Merrlman, John; 1649.

Merriwether, Nicholas; James City, 1656.

M'erryman, John; (Lancaster, 1653.

Merywether, Nicholas; Westmoreland,
1654.

Metgxigar, James; Northumberland, 1660.

Miles, Margaret; Westmoreland, 165:i.

Miles, Thomas; Elizabeth City, 1646.

Milford, Thomas; Nansemond, 1650.

Miller, James; 1649.

Miller, Patrick; Lancaster, 1655.

Millinge, William; Northampton, 1656.

Mills, William; James City, 1637.

Mills, William; Isle of Wight, 1648.

Milton, Richard; Charles City, 1638.

Mlnifie, George; James City, 1635.

MInifye, George, Esq., (merchant); Char-
les River, 1635, 1639.

Minter, Edward; James City, 1635.

Mode, Dr. Giles; New Kent, 1655.

Moles worth. Colonel Guy; 1651.

Montague, Peter; Upper Norfolk, 1638.

^loon, Abraham; Lancaster, 1651, 1653.

Moon, John; Isle of Wight, 1637.

Moone, Abraham; Lancaster, 1653.

Moone, John; Warrasqulnoke, 1635.

Moone, John; Isle of Wight, 1637, 1642.

Moor, Augustine; 1652.

Moore, Edward; 1655.

Moore, Joseph; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Moore, Richard; Upper Norfolk, 1616.

Moore, Thomas; Northampton, 1655.

Moore, William; 1649. 1652.

Mooreland, Thomas; York, 1642.

Morecock. Thomas; James City, 1654.

Morgan, Edward; Lower Norfolk, 1653.

Morgan, Francis; Charles River, 1637.

Morgan, Captain Francis; Charles River,
1638.

Morgan, Captain Francis; Gloucester,
1653.

Morgan, Richard; Charles City, 1642.

Morgan, Thomas; 1653.

Morgan, William; 1638.

Morgan, William; 1€50, 1652, 1653.

Morrey, Thomas; Isle of Wight, 1611.

Morris, Nicholas; Northumberland, 1654.

Morrison, Major Richard; EUizabeth City,
1648.

Morrison. Mrs. Winnlfred, 1650.

Morsey, Thomas; Isle of Wlghtj 1641.

Morton, William; Lower Norfolk, 1652.

Morth, Edward; James City, 1637.

Moseley, William; Lower Norfolk, 1653.

Mosely, Robert, Gent.; 1649.

Moth, E}dward; James River, 1637.

Motley, John; Northumberland, 1655.

Mottrum, Colonel John; Northumberland,
1653.

Moyser, Theodore; James City, 1637.

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Mottrow, Mr. John; Northumberland,
1655.
Moye» John; Loer Norfolk, 1638.
Mulford, Thomas; Nansemond, 1650.
Munrow, Andrew; Northumberland, 1660.
Murfey, Edward; 1643.
Murray, David; Lower Norfolk, 1651,
Murreen, Demetre; 1653.
Mynifie, George (merchant); 1638.

Nanc^, Richard; Henrico, 1639.
Nash, Arthur; New Kent, 1654.
Neale, Henry; James City, 1643.
Neale, John; Accomac, 1636, 1637.
Neale Henry; James City, 1643.
Needles, John; 16r>2.
Neesam, William; James City, 1636.
Nelmes, Richard; Northumberland, 1652.
Nestor, Thomas; Charles River, 1637.
Nesum, William; Northampton, 1649.
Newman, John; Lancaster, 1654.
Newman, Robert; Warwick River, 1639.
Newman, Robert; Northumberland, 1651.
Nicholls, Henry; Lancaster, 1652, 1653.
Nicholls, Henry; Lower Norfolk, 1651.
Nicholls, Roger; James City, 1649.
Nicholson, Robert; Charles City, 1655.
Ninman, John; Northampton, 1655.
Noone, John; 1638.
Norton, John; James City, 1643.
Norton, Toby; Northampton, 1651.
Nos worthy, Tristam; Upper Norfolk,
1639.
Nuthall, John; Northampton, 164.5.
Nutt, Mr. William; Northumberland. 1655.

Oberry, John; 1636. "*^

Obert, Bertram; 1650.
Oberye, Rose; 1639.

Obkham (Oldham?), Hester; James City,
1656.
Olian, John; James City, 1650.
Oliver, Edward; James City, 1638, 1639.
Oliver, John; Isle of Wight, 1652.
Orchard, John; James City, 1636, 1637.
Osborne, Edward; Henrico, 1635.
Osborne, Francis; 1637.
Osborne, John; James City, 1639.
Osborne, Thomas; Henrico, 1637.
Osborne, Captain Thomas; Henrico, 1637.
Overman, Mr. Edward; York, 1652.
Owen, William; 1652.
Pace, George; Charles City, 1652.
Packer, Elizabeth; Henrico, 1636.
Page, Mr. John (no date).
Pagett, Sinkler; Nansemond, 1654.
Paine, Mr. John; 1656.
Paine, Ralph; 1652.
Pakes, Walter; James City, 1639.
Palin, Henry; 1652.
Palmer, John; Northumberland, 1655.
Panderson, Edward; 1639.

Panker, Thomas; 1650.

Panlett, Captain Thomas; Charles City,
1637.

Parfitt, Robert; Lancaster, 1653.

Parke, Mr. Daniel; York, 16.55.

Parker, Edward; Westmoreland, 1654.

Parker, Elizabeth; Henrloo, 1637.

Parker, George; Northampton, 1655.

Parker, Mr. Robert; Northampton, 1649.

Parker, Thomas; Isle of Wight, 1650.

Parker, William; Warrasquiaoke, 1638.

Parrett, Richard; 1649.

Parrott, John; 1635.

Parry, Samuel; Lancaster, 1653.

Parry, William; Elizabeth City, 1639.

Parsons, Richard; Lower New Norfolk,
1639.

Pate, George; Charles City, 1650.

Pate, Richard; 1660.

Patt, Francis, Captain; Northampton*
1653.

Paule, Thomas; James City, 1637.

Paulett, Captain Thomas; Charles City,
1637.

Pawley, John; James City, 1639.

Pead, John; 1652.

Peaseley, Henry; 1650.

Peck, Mr. Thomas; Gloucester, 1655.

Peebles (or Peibles), David; Charles
City, 1650.

Peerce, William; Northumberland, 1649.

Peeters, Lawrence; Nansemond, 1(547.

Peeters, Symon; Lower Norfolk, 1653.

Peirce, Richard; James City, 1635, 1636.

Peirce, Captain William; Esq.; 1643.

Peirey. Henry; Charles City, 1639.

Pencherman (or Pensherman), Thomas;
York, 1654.

Penot, Gregory; Isle of Wight. 1653.

Peppitt, Mrs. Temperance; 1652.

Perce, Thomas; James City, 1638.

Pereene, James; Northampton, 1642.

Perlnes, John; York, 1651.

Perkins, Nicholas; Henrico, 1650.

Perron, James; Accomac, 1639.

Perrott, John; Nansemond, 1650.

Perry, Henry; Charles City, 1639.

Perry, Lewis; 1656.

Perry, Nicholas; Charles City, 1653.

Peters, Lawrence; Nansemond, 1650.

Pettaway, Edward; Surry, 1655.

Pettibon. Richard; 1648.

Pettock, Leonard; Accomac, 1647.

Pettus, Captain Thomas; 1643.

Phillips, David; Northumberland, 1653.

Phillips, John; 1654; Lancaster, 1652.

Phillips, Thomas; James City, 1635.

Philpot, Thomas; Northumberland, 1653.

Phipips, John; James City, 1656.

Piddel (or Piddle, or Plddee), Corbet;
Northumberland, 1653.

Pierce, Richard; James City, 1636.

Pierse, Captain William; 1635, 1638.

Pilklngton, William; 1636.

Pinner, Richard; 1653.

Pitt, Henry; 1652.

Pitt. Robert; Isle of Wight, 1648.

Pitt, Thomas; Charles City, 1641.

Pitts. Robert; Isle of Wight, 1638.

Pittsway, Robert; Charles City, 1638.

Place. James; Henrico, 1636.

Place, John; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Plomer. Thomas; James City, 1638.

Plower, Thomas; James City, 1638.

Plummer, Thomas; 1642.

Poole, Henry; New Norfolk, 1637.

Pope, Nathaniel; Westmoreland, 1654.

Pope. William; Nansemond. 1656.

Popeley, Lieutenant Richard; New Nor-
folk. 1637.

Porter, Edmond; Isle of Wight, 1639.

Porter, Henry; James City. 1640.

Portus. Alexander; Isle of Wight. 1654.

Portus, Alexander; Lancaster, 1654.

Poteet, John; Charles River, 1638.

Pott, Captain Francis; Northampton,
1635.

Powell, Thomas; New Norfolk, 1637.

Poye, John; 1653.

Poy there, Francis; Charles City, 1637.

Pratt, John; Henrico, 1642.

Presly, Mr. William; Northumberland
(no date).

Preston, Henry; 1654.

Preston, Richard; Upper New Norfolk,
1639.

Preston. Thomas; 1652. 1653. 1654.
Price, Mr. Arthur; York, 1651.
Price, James; Northampton, 1656.
Price, Jenkin; Northampton, 1653.
Price, Richard; New Kent, 1655.
Priddy, Robert; New Kent, 1655.
Prince, Edward; Charles City, 1639.
Prior. William; Charles River, 1637.
Pritchard, Walter; 1654.
Prlvett, Thomas; Charles River, 1636.
Pudivatt, William; Isle of Wight, 1642.
Puggett, Caesar; Lower Norfolk, 1653.
Pulliam. William; New Kent, 1656.
Purifoy, Mr. Thomas; 16.56. •
PurlTy, Mr. Thomas; 1652.
Putters. Captain Thomas; 1643.
Pyne, John; Northampton, 1649.

Rabnett, William; Warwick River, 1638.
Radford. John; Lower Norfolk, 1640.
Rainshaw. William; Elizabeth City, 1636.
Ransha, Thomas; Warwick, 1642.
RaDshaw. William; Elizabeth City, 1635.
Ratton. William; Lancaster, 1652.
Ravenett, William; Warwick River, 1653.
Rawlins, Gregory; -Surry. 1653.
Ray. Thomas; Warwick, 1642.
Read, Captain George; Lancaster, 1651.

Redmon, John; Accomac. 1637.

Regault (or Regoult), Christopher; Glou-
cester, 1654.

Renalls. Thomas; 1653.

Rennoles, William; Northumberland, 1651.

Reoper, William; Accomac, 1636.

Reppitt^ Mrs. Temperance, 1652.

Resrbury (or Resburg), John; 1642.

Revell, Edward; Northampton, 1654.

Reynolds, William; Charles River, 1637.

Ribgy, Peter; 1642.

Rice, Francis; 1643.

Richards, Richard; Charles River. 1643.

Richardson (or Richerdson), Ellis; York,
1642.

Richeson, Isaac; Lancaster, 1652.

Richson. Isaac; Lancaster, 1652.

Ridley, Peter; James City, 1639.

Rlgby, Peter; 1642.

Righby, Peter; 1642.

Ripley, Richard; 1651.

Rivers, Charles; Charles River, 1638.

Rivers. Christopher; 1653.

Roberts, John; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Robblns, John; Northampton, 1652. —

Robbins, James; James City, 1638. —

Robins, Elizabeth; Northampton, 1646. —

Rlobins, John; James City, 1638, 1642. ^

Robins, Obedience, Gent; Northampton, .
1643.

Robins, Rachel; Northampton, 1646. —

Robins, Sampson; Northampton, 1653.

Robinson, Christopher; Henrico, 1652.

Robinson^ Edward; Lower Norfolk, 1656.

Robinson. John; Lancaster, 16.52.

Robinson, John, Jr.; Northampton, 1652.

Robinson, William; Westmoreland, 1654.

Rockwell, Robert; Upper New Norfolk,
1639.

Rode, John; Warwick, 1645.

Rogers, £3dward; Warrasquinoke, 1636.
Rogers, Margaret; James City, 1637.

Rolfe, Thomas, Gent.; James City, 1656.

Rollins, John; 1638.

Rookins, William; James City, 1638.

Rookwood, John, Gent.; Northumberland,
1648.

Roper, William; Accomac, 1636.
Rosier, John; Northumberland, 1650.
Rousey, Ralph; 1653.
Rowsey. Ralph; 1650.
Rouzee, Ralph; 1652.
Roy. Peter; Isle of Wight; 1637.
Royall, Joseph; 1642.
Russell, John; 1636.

Ruthland, Samuel; Lower Norfolk (no
date).

Sabrell, Nicholas; James City, 1638.
Saines. John; 1639.

Salisbury, Thomas; Northumberland,
1653.

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Salslmry. Thomas; Lancaster, 1654.
Salsbury, Thomas; Northumberland, 1656
Sanderson, Edward; 16^9.

Sanderson, Henry; Northumberland,
1650.

Sanghler, George; Elizabeth City, 1637.

Saphier, George; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Saugler. George; Elizabeth City, 1637.

Savedge. Thomas; Northampton, 1646.

Saven (or Savin), Robert, 1653.

Sawyer, Thomas; New Norfolk, 1638.

Sawyer, Thomas; 1653.

Sax. Thomas; Northamj)ton, 1649.

Say, Thomas, 1642.

Saynes, John; James City, 1648.

Scarborough, Edmund; Accomac. 1635.
1638.

Scarbourgh, Matilda; Northampton, 1655.
Scarburg, Edmond; Northampton, 1649.
Scarburg, Littleton; 1652.
Scarburgh. Charles; Northampton, 1653.
Scarburgh, Edmund; Accomac, 1640
Scarburgh, Edmund, Jr.; Northampton,
1649.

Scarburgh, Matilda; Northampton, 1656.
Scarburgh, Tabitha; Northampton, 1656.
Scoggin, Thomas; Northumberland, 1653.
Scroggln, Thomas; Northumberland, 1653.
Scowne, Humphrey; Warrasquinoke, 1636.
Seaborne (or Searborne), Nicholas;
Lower Norfolk, 1652.
Seaward, John; Isle of Wight, 1637.
Sebrell, Nicholas; Northumiberland, 1652.
.Sedenden. Henry; Northampton, 1652.
Segar, Oliver; Lancaster, 1653.
Senior, John; 1651.
Sever, John; 1650.
Sevier, John; 1650
Seward, John; Isle of Wight, 1648.
Sexton, Peter; Norfolk, 1653.
Sharpe, John; Lancaster, 1652. .
Sheerlock, John; Lancaster, 1653.
Shepal-d, John; York, 1645.
Sheppard, John; Northumberland, 1653.
Sheppard, Captain Robert; 1650.

Sheppard, Lieutenant Robert; James City,
1638.

Sheppard, Thomas; Northumberland.
165L

Sheppey, Thomas; Henrico, 1639.

Sherrett, John; 1654.

Shippen, Thomas; 1635.

Shipper, Thomas; 163.5.

Shippey, Thomas; Henrico, 1637.

Sibsey. John; Lower Norfolk, 1649.

Sldner, William; Lancaster, H53.

Sidney, John; Lower Norfolk, 1647.

Simpson, Edward; Gloucester, 1654.

Singleton, Henry; 1651.

Singleton, John; 1652.

Skerrett, John; 1654.

Slamp, Thomas; James City, 1639.

Slaughter, John; 1635.
Slaughter, Richard; Nansemond, 1653.
Smllley, Jonathan; 1655.
Smith. Arthur; Isle of Wight. 1637.
Smith. Bryant; Henrico, 1641.
Smith, Byron; Henrico, 1638.
Smith. Francis; Westmoreland, 1654.
Smith, George; Accomac, 1642
Smith, Henry, Jr.; 1652.
Smith, Herbert, Gent.; Westmoreland,
1656.

Smith, John; Elizabeth City, 1639.
Smith, John; James City, 1642.
Smith, John; 1650, 1652.
Smith John; Westmoreland, 1654.
Smith, Nicholas; Isle of Wight, 1656.
Smith, Richard; Northampton, 1650, 1651,
1653.

Smith, Richard; Lancaster, 16.53.

Smith, Samuel; Northumberland, 1650.

Smith, Samuel; James City, 1655.

Smith, Thomas; James City. 1635.

Smith, Thomas; Accomac, 1639.

Smith, Toby; Warwick River, 1641.

Smith, Toby, Gent.; Lancaster, 1652.

Smithey, John; 1655.

Snalle, Henry; Lower Norfolk. 1652.

Snead, Samuel; James City, 1635.

Soane, Henry; 1652.

Sodell. Timothy; York, 1649.

Sollace, Samuel; Northampton, 1655.

Sorrel. Robert; 1653.

Southall (or Southell), Henry; 1636.

Sox, Thomas; Northampton. 1649.

S packman, John; Warrasquinoke. 1635.

Sparks (or Sparkes), John; 1635.

Sparrow, Charles; Charles City. 1650.

Sparshott, Edward; Charles City, 1638.

Speake, Thomas; 1653 (also spelt Speke).

Speltimber (or Splltimber), John; James
City, 1649, 1652.

Spencer, William; 1635, 1637.

Speoke, Thomas; 1653.

Spright. Francis; Nansemond, 1654

Springs. Robert: 165^a.

Sprye, Oliver; Upper New Norfolk, 163S.

Stafford, William; 1635.

Stamn (or Stampe); Thomas; James
City, 1638.

Stanford. Vincent; 1656.
Starchey, Peter; 1655.
SUmell. Richard; 1653.
Steamall, Richard; Lower Norfolk, 1647.
Steevens, Mr. Anthony; Northampton,
1651.

Steevens, Arillio; Northampton, 1651.
Steevens, Thomas; Warwick, 1652.
Steevens, William; Northampton. 1655.
Stegg (or Stegge), Thomas; Charles Cits,
1640.

Stephens, Garrett; Warwick River, 16^1-
Stephens, Thomas; Elizabeth City, l^

Sterling, James; Lower Norfolk, 1652,

Stocker, John; Isle of Wight. 1642,

Stokes (or Stoakes), (J^hristopher; Char-
les River, 1637.

Stompe, Thomas; James City, 1638.

Stone, Mr. William; 1635,

S toner, Alexander; 1635.

Storey, William; Upper Norfolk, 1641,
1645.

Storey, William; Accomac, 1643.

Stornell, Richard; 1653.

Stout. Thomas; 1638.

Stoute, Thomas; James City, 1639.

Stratton, John; Lower Norfolk, 1651.

Stratton, Thomas; Northampton, 1654.

Sturdevant, John; Henrico, 1652.

Styles, John; Isle of Wight, 1642.

Suellin, Daniel; Charles City, 16.50.

Swan (or Swann), Thomas; James City,
1638.

Swan (or Swann), William; James City,
1035.

Sweete, John; 1642; Isle of Wight, 1643.

Sybsey, John; Lower Norfolk, 1649.

Sydney, John, Gent.; Lower Norfolk.
1644.

Symmons, Roger; 1642.

Symmons, Thomas; 1642.

Symons, Francis; Northumberland, 1649,
1653.

Symons, John; Nansemond, 1656.

Symons, Symon; Nansemond, 1647.

Symons. Upper Norfolk; 1638, 1639, 1643.

Sympson. Edward; Gloucester, 1651.

Synton, Moses; Lower Norfolk, 1655.

Sytles, John; Isle of Wight; 1642.

Tabb, Humphrey; Northumberland, 1651.

Taberer, Thomas; 1652.

Tapinge. William; James City, 1643.

Tatum, Nathaniel; Charles City, 1638.

Taylor, Ellas; Accomac, 1640.

Taylor, George; 1650.

Taylor, James; James City, 1644.

Taylor, John; Northampton, 1648.

Taylor, John; Lancaster, 1652.

Taylor, Philip; Accomac. 1637.

Taylor, Philip; Northampton, 1643.

Taylor, Robert; New Norfolk, 1637.

Taylor, Stephen; 1644.

Taylor, Colonel William, Esq.; Gloucester,
1653.

Teagle, Mr. Thomas; Northampton. 1652.

TeaKle, Thomas; Northampton, 1652.

Terry, Andrew; 1643.

Thatcher, Silvester; 1650.

Thelaball. (Theobald), James; Lov/er
Norfolk, 1651.

Thomas, Christopher; Accomac, 1638.

Thomas. John; Gloucester, 1651.

Thomas; John; York, 1649.

Thomas, William; Northumberland, 16.53,
.1655.

Thomas, William M.; Elizabeth City, 1648.

Thompson, George; Glolicester. 1653.

Thompson, Henry; James River, 1637.

Thompson, Richard ; Northumberland,
1648.

Thornbrough, Thomas; Northampton,
1651.

Thornbrough, Thomas; Northumberland,
1651.

Thome, William; Northampton, 1654.

Thoroughgood, Captain Adam; 1635.

Thoroughgood, Symon; Elizabeth City,
1653.

Thresher, Izabell: 1636.

Throckmorton, Robert; Charles River,
1637.

Thrush, Clement; 1652.

Thurush, Clement; Lancaster, 1654.

Tilsley, Thomas; James City, 1650.

Tiney, John; James City, 1648.

Tlsdale, Richard; 16^5.

Todd. Thomas; New Norfolk, 1637.

Todd, Thomas; 1652.

Tomlin, Matthew; Northumberland, 1653.

Tomlin, Robert; 1654.

Toraplin, -Robert; 1654.

Tonstall, Edward; 1643.

Tooke, Mr. James; Isle of Wight, 1653.

Totnam, Silvester; 1635.

Towlson, John; Accomac, 1642.

Townsend, Captain Richard; Charles
River, 1639.

Townshend, Mrs. Frances (widow);
Northumberland, 1650.

Townsland, Mrs, Fraftces (widow) ; North-
um'berland, 1650.

Trabett, George; Northampton, 1651.

Trahett, George; Northampton, 1651.

Trakett, George; Northampton, 16.51.

Traveller (or Travellor), George; Acco-
mac, 1636.

Travers, Raleigh; 1643.

Travis, Edward; James City, 1637, 1639.

Trigg, Samuel; James City, 1639.

TrifiTSon, Richard. 1651.

Trolliver (Talioferro?), Robert; Glou-
cester, 1655.

Troy, John; James City, 1648.

Truett, George; Northampton, 1655.

Truhett, George; Northampton, 1651,

Trussells, John; 1649.

Tunstall, Edward; Henrico, 1637.

Turner; Abraham; 1642.

Turner, James; 1653.

Turner, Richard; Northumberland, 1651.

Turner, John; Nansemond, 1651.

Tumey, Richard; Northumberland, 1651.

Twy, John; James City, 1648.

Tye, Richard; Charles City, 1650.

Regltter of th« Kentuck| aute Historical 8oci«ty.

Tyler, Henry; Charleg River, 1652.
Tymon, Williiam; Charles River, 1642.

Underwood, William, Gent.; 1650.
Upshaw, Arthur; Northampton, 1652.
Upshaw, Arthur; Northampton, 1655.
Upton, John; Isle of Wight, 1637, 1643.
Upton, John; Warrasquinoke, 1625.
Upton, Margaret; 'Lancaster, 1653.

Valentine. John; Isle of Wight, 1642.

Vanerit, James; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Vans, Robert, "Gent.; York, 1651.

Vardy Richard; James City, 1653.

Vaster, John; Warrasquinoke, 1635.
. Vaughan, John; 1643.

Vaughan, Richard; Northampton, 1651.

Vaulx, Mr. Humphrey; James City, 1656.

Vans (or Vaws), Thomas, Gent; North-
Numberland, 1650.

Vincent, William; Northumberland, 1651.

Vinon, (Vlvlon?), Joel; James City, 1638.

Vowman, Mr. Edward; 1653.

Vuvin, (Vivion?), George; New Norfolk,
1637.

Waddilow, Nicholas; Northamipton, 1649.
Wadding, George; Lancaster, 1653.
Wagne, John; Charles River, 1638,
Walker. Edward; Northumberland, 1650.
Walker, Henry; James City, 1654.
Walker, John; 1651.
Walker, Lieutenant-Colonel John; 1655.
Walker, Richard; 1654.
Walker, Roger; Northumberland, 1653.
Wall, George; Westmoreland, 1656.
Wall, John; 1653.
Wallis, Robert; York, 1642.
Wallis, Thomas; James City, 1638.
Walters. Roger; Northumberland, 1653,
Waltham, John, Jr.; Accomac 1642.
Walthams, John; Northampton, 1649.
Walton, John; Accomac, 1638.
Walton, William; Upper New Norfolk,
1646.
Walcler. William; 1643.
Ward, John; Charles City, 1651.
Ward, Laurence; Isle of Wight, 1648.
Ward, Seth; Henrico, 1643
Warder, William; 1643.
Ware, John; 1053.

Wareham. John; Northumberland. 1652.
Warne, Thomas; James City, 1638.
Warradine, Mr. James; 1652.
Warren, Augustine; 1642.
Warren, Robert; Northampton, 1653.
Warren. William; 1642.
Warters, Mr. William; Northampton, 1652,
Waters, Mr. William; Northampton, 1652.
Watkeyes, Samuel; Charles River, 1638.
Watkins, John; James City, 1638, 1648.
Watson, John; Lancaster, 1655.

Watson, John; Westmoreland, 1654.

Watts, George; Northumberland, 1658.

Watts, John, Gent; 1650.

Watts, Thomas; Lower New Norfolk,
1638.

Wayne, John; Charles River, 1638.

Weaver, Samuel; 1635.

Webb, ^ephen; James City, 1639.

Webb, Wingfleld; 165Q.

Webster, Jane; James City, 1646.

Webster, Judith; James City, 1646.

Webster, Luce; York, 1642.

Webster, Lucy; James City, 1646.

Weeker, Henry; 1652.

Weekes, Thomas; James City, 1637.

Welch, Daniel; Lancaster, 1652.

Welch, Edward; 1654.

Welsh; Daniel; Lancaster, 1652.

Well, John; Charles City, 1639.

Well, Richard; Northumberland, 1653.

Wells, Gregory; James City, 1654.

Wells, Thomas; Lower Norfolk, 1647.

Welsford, Thomas, Gent; Westmoreland,
165.5.

Welton, William; Upper Norfolk, 1646.

West, Captain John, Esq.; York, 1651.

West, Robert; Charles City, 1642.

W-estgate, Henry; Lower Norfolk (no
date).

Westerhouse, Mr. William; Northampton,
1654.

Westhorpe, Major John; Charles City.
1653.

Westlock, John; Northampton, 1655.

Weston, Thomas; Charles River, 1637.

Wheeler, Richard; Lower Norfolk, 1656.

Wheeler, Thomas; Charles City, 1637.

Wheeles, Thomas; Charles City, 1643.

White, George (clerk); Upper New Nor-
folk, 1638.

White, George; Lower Norfolk, 1648.
White, Henry; James City, 1649.
White, John; James City, 1639.
White. Thomas; 1653.
Whitehurst, Richard; Lower Norfolk,
1651.
Whithers, John; Westmoreland, 1654.
Whiting, James; 1643.
Whittington, William; Northampton, 1647.
Whittocke, Thomas; 1650.
Wigg, William; James City, 1640.
Wilchin, Richard; Gloucester. 1654.
Wilcox, Richard; James City, 1638.
Wilde, Daniel; Westmoreland, 1650.
Wilkins, John; Accomac, 1636, 1637.
Wilkins, John; New Norfolk, 1637.
Wilkinson, Thomas; 1650.
Wilkinson, William (minister); 1653.
Wilkinson, William; New Norfolk. 1637.
Willess, Thomas; Lancaster, 1655.
Williams, Henry; Accomac, 1638.
Williams, James; 1650.

Williams, John; Northampton, 1656.

Williams. Matthew; James City, 1653.

Williams, Obed; York. 1654.

Williams, Richard; Charles City, 1640.

Williams, Richard; James City, 1654.

Williams, Thomas; 1643.

Williams, Thomas; Lancaster, 1654.

Williams, James; 1650.

Willinge, William; Northampton, 1656.

Willis, Thomas; York, 1653.

Wills, Gregory; James City, 1654.

Willouhby, Thomas; 1636.

Willoughby, Thomas; Lower Norfolk,
1654.

Willowbye, Captain Thomas; 1635.

Wilsford, Thomas, Gent; 1651.

W^ilson, Henry; Accomac, 1637.

Wingsmill, Eliza; James City, 1638.

Winley, Daniel; Accomac, 1637.

Wise, John; Northampton, 1655.
^Withers, John; Westmoreland, 1655.

Wittington, Francis; 1650.

Worlmsley, Roger; James City, 1656.

Wombwell, Thomas; James City, 1642.

Wombwell, Thomas; Isle of Wight, 1648.

Wood, Abraham; Charles City, 1638, 1653.

Wood, Major Abraham; Henrico, 1654.

Wood, John; 1656.

Woodard, Christotpher; 163.5.

Woodhouse, Henry; New Norfolk, 1637.

Woodhouse, Mr. Henry; Lower Norfolk,
1649, 1652.

Woodhouse, Thomas; James City, 1648.

Woodllffe. John; Charles City, 1638.

Woodward, John; Gloucester, 1655.

Woodward, Christopher; Charles City,
1637.

Woody, Robert; Lower Norfolk, 1653.

Wooton, Richard; Northumberland, 1651.

Worleiche, Lieutenant William; 1643.

Worleidge, Lieutenant William; 1643.

Wormeley, Captain Ralph; 1649.

Wbrsman (or Worseman), George; Hen-
rico, 1654.

Worsman (or Worseman), William; Hen-
rico, 1654.

Wray. Thomas; Charles City; 1636.

Wright, John; Upper New Norfolk, 1639.

Wright, Thomas; Lower Norfolk, 1647.

Wright, William, Gent.; Nansemond, 1655.

Wyat, William; Gloucester, 1653. —

Wyatt, Sir Francis; 1643. —

Wyatt, Richard; 1648. —

Wynn, Hugh; Isle of Wight, 1637.

Wyre, John; 1654.

Wyere, John; Lancaster, 1655.

Yarrett, William; 1650.

Yardly, Captain ArgoU; Northampton,
1654.

Yates, James; 1651, 1654.

Yates, Joane; Lower Norfolk, 1652.

Yates, John; Elizabeth City, 1636.

Yates, John; Lower New Norfolk, 1638.

Yeardly, Argoll; New Norfolk, 1637.

Yeo, Hugh; Northampton, 16J55.

Yeo, Leonard; Elizabeth City, 1638.

Yoe, Robert; Westmoreland, 1654.

Youel (or Youl), Thomas; 1653.

Young, Robert; Lancaster, 1654.

DEPARTMENT

PARAGRAPHS AND CLIPPINGS

TO WOODROW WILSON,

The President of the United States of America,

The Register sends greetings more
heartfelt than to any other Presi-
dent since the days of Cleveland.

As the blessed servant of God he
has been raised up in 1913 to rule
over a people who had grown weary
of misrule, and they turn gratefully
to him for relief and deliverance-^
from the serpent coil that had been
gradually tightening around them,
poisoning their liberties, crushing
their hearts and blighting their
faith in the God of their forefathers.

**He comes to the kingdom for
such a time as this.'^ May he be to
the land an upright Nehemiah,
cleansing the land of evil, restoring
the sacredness of the Sabbath day —
upholding the law of God in Amer-
ica and commanding the people to
be obedient to the laws enacted to
protect them in their just rights,
their liberties and their property.

And may the blessing of God be
with him to the end of his reign as

President of the United States of
America.

FINE ISSUE OF THE REG-
ISTER.

The Kentucky Historical Regis-
ter for January, 191 3, just out, con-
tains a number of interesting arti-
cles, beginning with a ** History ^of

Muhlenberg County,'' by Otto A-
Rothert, of Louisville.

^*The battle of the River Raisin,"
by A. C. Quisenberry, a former Ken-
tuckian, who now lives in Maryland,
gives much valuable information
about that famous battle in which
so many brave Kentuckians partic-
ipated.

Another entertaining article, en-
titled ** Kentucky — ^A Land of Hero-
ism, ' ' is by George Baber, of Wash-
ington.

* * Regrets, ' ' a captivating poem, is
contributed by Mrs. Jennie C. Mor-
ton, and ** Epitaphs,'' by Mrs. Ella
Hutchison Ellwanger, of Louisville,
formerly of Frankfort, adds to the
charm of the number, which is con-
sidered an unusually good one. —
(The State Journal.)

KENTUCKY MINES 14,000,000

TONS.

Estimate of Geological Survey oir

Output for Year 1912.

(Exchange.)

Washington, Jan. 3.— Kentucky's
coal output for 1912 was 14,000,000
tons, according to a report of the
United Geological Survey. It says:

^'The developments in what is
known as the Elkhorn coal field, in
Southeastern Kentucky, whi^^ ^^

tOXTlft

■"

Resistor of the Kentucky state Historical Society.

been actively pushed during the last
two years, are expected to be in full
running order in the spring of 1913,
and will swing the major production
of the State from the western to the
eastern district. Up to the present
time the larger part of the produc-
tion has been derived from the west-
ern counties, and in 1912, out of an
estimated output of 14,000,000 tons,
the western counties have contrib-
uted over half, or say 7,500,000 tons,
as compared with 6,500,000 tons,
from the eastern counties.

''The whole State has suffered
from car shortage in 1912, but it
was especially felt in Western Ken-
tucky, where, in December the car
supply on the Louisville & Nashville
Eailroad was only 65 per cent of the
needs, and on the Illinois Central
Railway barely 40 per cent. From
April 1 to May 15 an agreed suspen-
sion of minin'g occurred in the or-
ganized districts of Western Ken-
tucky, which affected about 5,000

men.

The Register is in receipt of a re-
quest from Division of Exploita-
tion of the Panama-Pacific Interna-
tional Exposition that we publish
from time to time notes of the prog-
ress of work of preparation for the
Exposition. This we will take
pleasure in doing, as the Exposi-
tion will not only be of great his-
torical value to the country, but will
also add impetus to matters educa-
tional, and commercial as well, and
the Register management desires to
contribute whatever it can to the
iurtherance of these great ends.

KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN
By Prof. P. NIchollB Crouch.

Kathleen Mavoumeen, the gray dawn is
breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the

hilL
The lark from her light wing the hright dew
is shaking,
Kathleen Vavoumeen, what — slumbering
still!
Oh! hast thou forgotten how soon we must
sever?
Oh! hast thou forgotten how soon we must
part?
It may be for years, and it may be forever;
Oh, why art thou silent, thou voice of my
heart?
it may be for years, and it may be forever.
Then why art thou silent, Kathleen Ma-
voumeen?

Kathleen Mavoumeen, awake from thy
slumbers.
The blue mountains glow in the sun's
golden light;
Ah, Where's the spell that once hung from
my numbers?
Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my
night!
Mavoumeen, Mavoumeen, my sad tears
are falling.
To think that from Brin and thee I must
part,
It may be for years and it may be forever;
Then why art thou silent— thou voice of
my heart?
It may be for years and it may be farever.
Then why art thou silent, Kathleen Ma-
voumeen^

Kathleen Mavoumeen, when over the ocean

I suffer In exile with nought to assuage.
The sound of thy voice far above life's com-
motion,
Will sweeten, yet sadden, my lone pil-
grimage.
Oh. Kathleen Mavoumeen, ere long Fate
will sever.
Our lives, so arise; for this day we must

part;
And it may be for years, and it may be

forever,
Arise from thy slumbers — O Heart of my
Heart!
It may be for years, and it may be forever,
O Flower of Erin, Kathleen of Klldare:

KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN

By James Wliitcomb Riley

Kathleen Mavourneen! The song is still
ringing
As fresh and as clear as the trill of the
birds;
In world-weary hearts it is sobbing and sing-
ing
In pathos too sweet for the tenderest
words.
Oh» have we forgotten the one who first
breathed it,
Oh, have we forgotten his raptuous art,
Our meed to the master whose genius be-
queathed it?
Oh, why art thy silent, thou voice of my
heart!

Kathleen Mavourneen! Thy lover still lin-
gers;
The long night is waning, the stars pale
and few;
Thy sad serenader, with tremulous fingers.
Is bowed with his tears as the lily with
dew;
The old harp strings quiver, the old voice
is shaking.
In sighs and in sobs moans the yearning
refrain:
The old vision dims, and the old heart is
breaking —
Kathleen Mavourneen, inspire us again!

TRIBUTE TO WOMANHOOD.

James Oliver Curwood, author of
''The Flower of the North,'' tells
the following story about the men
to be found in the country about
Hudson Bay, where the scene of
this story is laid:

''I was at Prince Albert,'' he
says, ''sitting on the veranda of the
little old Windsor Hotel, facing the
Saskatchewan, During the few days
previous a number of factors, trap-
pers and half-breed canoemen had
come down from the north. One of
these men had not been down to the
edge of civilization for seven years.
Three of the otJiers had not been
down in two, and this was the an-
nual trip of the other eight — for

there were just eighteen of us sit-
ting there together.

"We were smoking and talking,
when a young woman turned up the
narrow walk leading to the veranda.
Immediately every voice was
hushed, and as the woman came up
the steps those twelve roughly clad
men of the wilderness rose to their
feet to a man, each holding his cap
in his hand. Thus they stood, silent
and with bowed heads, until the
young woman passed into the hotel.
It was the most beautiful tribute to
womanhood I had ever seen. And
I, the man from civilization, was the
only one who remained sitting, with
my hat on my head." — (Denver
News.)

FOLDING THEIR TENTS.

'The day is done and the darkness

Falls from the wings of night,
As a feather is -wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.

"I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,

And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me
That my soul cannot resist —

"A feeling of sadness and longing,

That is not akin to pain.
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.

'Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,

That shall soothe this restless feeling
And banish the thoughts ~ot day.

"Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,

Whose distant footsteps echo.
Through the corridors of time;

"For like strains of martial music.
Their mighty thoughts suggest

Life's endless toil and endeavor;
And to-night I long for rest.

'Head from some hxunbler iK)et,
Whose songs gushed from his heart

As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start;

''Who, through long days of labor

And nights devoid of ease.
Still heard in his soul the music,

Of wonderful melodies.

"Such songs have power to quiet

The restless pulse of care,
And come .like the benediction

That follows after prayer.

"Then read the treasured volume,

The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet

The beauty of thy voice.

"And the nights shall be filled veith music,
And the cares that infest the day

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently- steal away."

Longfellow.

OLIVE TEEES SAID TO DATE

FEOM THE TIME OF

CHRIST.

One of the most interesting spots
in the environs of Jerusalem is the
Garden of Gethsemane, on the
southern slopes of the Mount of
Olives. It is an enclosed space of
about one-third of an acre, sur-
rounded by a high wall, and belongs
to the Franciscan Monks. One can
not say with the exact precision de-
manded by the scientific explorer
whether this is the actual spot
\vhere our Lord was betrayed, but
at all events, it is hallowed with a
continuous tradition of some six-
teen centuries. As you enter you
pass the traditional spot of the be-
trayal and the place where the dis-
ciples slept while Christ wag at
prayer. There are well-arranged
flower-beds, and around the inside
of the walls are representations
done in relief in colors of the four-
teen Stations of the Cross. An ob-

ject of interest in the garden is an
old olive tree. This, with some oth-
er trees, is said to date from the
time of Christ, and is known from
historical records to be of great age
— at least nine hundred years. Ko-
saries are made from the olive
stones, and the oil yielded by the
berries is considered sacred oil and
is sold at a high price. — (Wide
World Magazine.)

DONATIONS TO THE KEN-
TUCKY STATE HISTORICAL

SOCIETY.

We are pleased to announce the
following gifts to the Society :

1. The bust of Dean Nathaniel
Shaler, by Mr. R. A. Penrose, of
Philadelphia.

2. A magnifii?ent painting, from
Philadelphia, when we have room to
receive it, with a cabinet of valuable
mementoes and souvenirs, gathered
by the gentleman in his travels
round the world.

3. The bust of Governor Bradley,
a good and loyal friend to the Soci-
ety when its members were few and
its, treasury a thing of the future.

4. The offer from a wealthy and
generous citizen of Franklin Coun-
ty, Ky., to defray the entire expense
of the scroll and inscription for
Theodore O'Hara. The poet was
an intimate and beloved friend of
our proposed benefactor, and he
was proud to honor him. The So-
ciety declined to allow him the priv-
ilege of contributing the whole
amount, but will accept his aid in
this laudable and honoring endeav-
or, and his name will be. given in the
list of those of the Committee of the

Historical Society who have
achieved this recognition in marble
for Kentucky's world-famous poet,
and author of ^*The Bivouac of the
Dead.''

Dear Eegister: —

Why do you never write anything
about the old Capitol now! We
thought your Society would take it
after the new Capitol was built.
It's so near the railroad and so con-
venient for strfingers to visit the
historic old shack. M. A.

Louisville, Ky.

Dear Sir: —

We refrain from any sentimental
eulogy on our old Capitol — ^we have
its history carefully locked away
from the idly curious. For twenty-
five years it was the butt of ridicule
for the newspapers of the State.
They had it pictured in every ab-
surd position of decay and decrep-
itude. Language was beggared to
portray its inconvenience, its dark-
ness, its dirt, and its unsafe condi-
tion. Whatever of this was true is
still true. If it was unsafe and un-
suitable for the Legislature, it
would certainly be for the Histor-
ical Society, with its invaluable and
costly histories, and its wealth of
portraits, paintings, and priceless
treasures of every kind. It is un-
suitable in every way for the His-
torical Society as it is now enriched
for the State. From time to time
valuable collections will be added —
and its charm and interest will in-
crease for the benefit and adorn-
ment of the State and especially the
new Capitol.

The death of J. Pierpont Mor-
gan removes from our list of the
richest men in the world, not only
the wisest financier of this age of
the world, but one of the most lib-
eral Christian gentlemen. He gave
away millions in charity and en-
riched our galleries of art with
many of the most magnificent
paintings and sculpture of the
world. The Kentucky State Histori-
cal Society's Library has been
adorned, as some others have been,
by his gifts of elegant volumes.
**The Historic Episcopal Church
of New York City." The history of
this church is not only interesting,
but inspiring. The work of obtain-
ing and publishing these elegant
volumes, was the benevolent
thought of the great financier and
we remember him gratefully for
the courtesy of sending them to the
library of our Society. He leaves
this history, among many other
notable gifts to the Episcopal
Church, as memorials of himself,
that speak better things for him
than coffers of gold or monuments
of marble.

'^ JOAQUIN" MILLER, 'TOET
OF THE SIERRAS," DIES.

(Exchange)

San Francisco, Feb. 17.— ''Joa-
quin" Miller, known as ''the poet
of the Sierras," died at 3 o'clock
this afternoon at his home in the
Piedmont foothills. His daughter,
Juanita, and his wife were with him.
He had been in failing health for
two years and unconscious since last
Thursday.

Cincinnatus Heine ("Joaquin")
Miller, "Poet of the Sierras," died

as he had lived, in the romance of
old California. A product of the
Pacific border, only ten years of his
boyhood having been spent east of
the Rockies, Miller was one of its
most picturesque figures. Miller's
passion was the mountains. He
lived with them, sang of them, wove
strange tales about them, and it was
in a refuge which he had built for
himself in the hills that he died,
leaving as his monument his ^^ Songs
of the Sierras. *'

** Joaquin '^ Miller was born in
Indiana in 1841. He came with his
father to Oregon in 1850. He at-
tended school for a while and at 16
was mining in Shasta County, Cal.
He was in a battle with the In-
dians at Castlecrag and wounded
twice. Afterwards he lived three
years with the Indians. Later he
went back to Eugene, Ore., where he
entered school. He studied law and
was elected judge in Grant County.
He was, married to Minnie Myrtle.
While he w^as a judge he published
a book entitled ^* Joaquin et al.''

In 1870 he left Oregon, went to
San Francisco and finally went to
London, where he published his
^* Songs of the Sierras." From 1870
to 1880 he wrote and published the
** Songs of Italy," '*The Songs of
the Sundown Seas," wrote the play
of ''Danites, Forty-nine," the prose
book of ** Unwritten History, or Life
Among the Modoc Indians," and a
novel, '*The Destruction of Goth-
am." From 1880 to 1890 he wrote
the *' Songs of the Mexican Seas,"
'^Building the City Beautiful."
In 1883 he returned to San Fran-
cisco and became associated with
Herr Wagner, who was then editor
of the Golden Era Magazine. He

purchased ten acres of land on tlie
hills above Oakland, where he built
a small cabin, planted thousands of
trees and made his permanent liome.

From 1894 to 1905 Miller was on
the lecture platform, with the ex
ception of one year, 1897, when he
went to the Klondike, and made Lis
remarkably trip of 400 miles by foot
along the line of the Arctic circle.

In 1909 he published his complete
poems.

BEAUTIFUL D. A. K.
LUNCHEON.

(Lexington Herald.)

The members of the Bryan Sta-
tion Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, gave a beau-
tiful luncheon Saturdav at the
Phoenix Hotel in celebration or
(xeorge Washington's birthday. It
was one of the loveliest and most
delightful celebrations of the 22iid,
and every detail perfectly ar-
ranged. The tables were set in one
end of the cafe, against a setting of
patriotic draperies which adorned
the wall. Each was beautifully
decorated with vases of red and
white carnations, miniature cherry
trees, trays of confections, em-
bossed with flags, and menu o^rd?
also embossed with the American
flag. Mrs. F. C. Young was toast-
mistress, presiding charmingly a^d
introduced each speaker with a fe^
graceful words.

The responses, were all heauti-
f ully made and most appropriate to
the occasion, as follows:

' * George Washington ' ' — ^^ ^^^■
William H. Thompson.

**The Heroism of Pioneer Ken-
tucky Women" — ^Mrs. Jennie C.
Morton.

**The Child and the Nation''—
Dean Irene T. Myers.

* * Our Chapter ' ' — Mrs. Victor
Dodge. (Only charter member of
Bryan Station Chapter.)

Mrs. Morton's toast was given in
verse relating the story of the Ken-
tucky women at Bryan Station. She
is a direct descendant and the story,
most beautifully and sympathetic-
ally written by her, was a feature of
the occasion most appreciated. The
menu was elaborate and deliciously
served as follows:

Grape Fruit with Cherries
Sweet Bread Patties,

Potatoe Orouquets and Peas
Hot Rolls
Chicken Salad, Celery, Olives

^Individual Ices, Cakes,

Coffee

The luncheon was a happy assem-
bly of the members of the chapter
to pay honor to the Father of the
Country, and all enjoyed the occa-
sion thoroughly.

LUNCHEON

Given by Bryan Station Chapter,

D. A. R., AT Phoenix Hotel,

Lexington, Ky., February

22, 1913.

The Lexington Leader publishes
an account of the splendid luncheon
of the Bryan Station Chapter, D. A.
E., on the 22nd of February, and
among other items republished
**The Heroines of Bryan's Sta-
tion,'' with the following notice:

Above is the original poem
given by Mrs. Jennie C. Morton at
the luncheon with which the Bryan

Station Chapter, D. A. E., cele-
brated Washington's birthday at
the Phoenix Hotel Saturday. It
was in response to a toast on that
subject, and was received with most
flattering enthusiasm.

Mrs. Morton is President of the
Kentucky Historical 'Society, and
one of the foremost literary women
of Kentucky. She was the guest of
Mrs. W. H. Thompson for the
luncheon. The poem was printed
in brochure form, very attractive,
tied wnth white silk cord, and given
by the author, Mrs. Morton to each
guest at the luncheon for a souvenir,
all prizing them very highly.

Mrs. F. 0. Young, the beautiful
Eegent of the Bryan Station Chap-
ter, in introducing Mrs. Morton,
gave a brief history of the work
that had been accomplished by this
lady, for the State Historical So-
ciety, and in conclusion gracefully
said:

'*! have the honor of introducing
to you this lady, the Eegent of the
Kentucky State Historical Society,
also admiringly known as the
'Lady Laureate of Kentucky.'
She will read for us her beautiful
poem, *'The Heroines of Bryan's
Station. ' '

THE ENGLISH VIEW OF US.

The '* United Empire" Magazine,
London, England, has the following
in its notice of Frazer's new work,
*' America Old and New. Impres-
sions of Six Months in the States."
Nelson is most successful where he
views the American people as a
whole, and cautiously sums up the
effect of the curious blending of

many alien elements upon their
outlook and character. Mr. Frazer
finds that the ceaseless hnmigration
of Germans, Italians, Irish and
other European races has long since
spoiled the pleasing fiction so zeal-
ously fostered by the English press
that America is English in origin,
institution and sympathies.

*'The fiction lingers," he states,
**in the columns of our papers and
we still hear of * American Cousins,'
in England, but we do not hear of
* English Cousins' in America."

Mr. Frazer thinks that American
institutions are largely the result
of the early Dutch influence, whilst
the abuse of them is in no small
measure due to the. Irish for '*it is
one of the ironies of history that
free institutions of America have
fallen so largely into the hands of
a race the least fitted to understand
or control them." In fact the
American people, as viewed by Mr.
Frazer, whatever else they may be,
are not English.

The '* Colonial Dames" of Amer-
ica would challenge that last sen-
tence of Mr. Frazer. They boast of
their ancestry, as coming down
from Kings, Earls, Dukes, Lords,
Knights of English blood, pure and
unadulterated by or with Irish,
Dutch, Italian or Scandinavian. The
people of Virginia and Kentucky
especially claim their ^'English
Cousins." J. C. M.

THE NEW ORDERS OF THE

DAY.

We find much discussion in the
leading magazines of the day-
anent *' Fraternities in Women's
Colleges," ^'Women's Clubs" and

'* Women's Social and Religious At-
titude in the great National Ques-
tions of the Day."

And as a matter of course there
is a diversity of opinion in regard
to all these innovations upon the old
order for the guidance and direction
of women; and the women answer,
**They want a new Religion'-—
they are tired of college and college
clubs — under the old regime. They
want higher education in Greek,
Hellenic methods, if indeed they
know just what they are, though
they have Greek letter societies
that pretend to enlighten them.
They want something inexpressible,
that they do not find, intellectually
or socially in the region of rehgious
scholarship. They investigate aiiJ
wear their minds out and injure
their souls — as the Greeks did—
searching for some new thing.

They demand a new religion
formed on their own scientific and
enlightened views and ethics. They
want new politics. Aristocracy is
too severe and exclusive; Democ-
racy is too broad and liberal, and
condescending to men and women
of low estate. They cannot agree;
'*that blood is thicker than water
—that blood will tell in or out of
colleges and clubs. Marriage is not
discussed; home is never m^^"
tioned ; too old fashioned to be en-
dured. Such things as food and
clothing are not to be considered
So we have an intimation of the col-
lege-taught, intellectual, fantasina-
goria woman of the coming p^^*^^'
in fig-leaf raiment, and sustained la
the sylabub of her fancies.

The President of one of the most
fashionable of the colleges, discus-
sing the subject of these Fraterm-

ties, in them, says out loud, in pro-
test, *'Do away with them/'

And the men in America stand
still, and are silent. They care
nothing about college fraternities,
but it is the outcome of all those
strides of manly, not womanly, in-
dependence, harnessed for action in
the suffragette movement that
brings them to. a halt. What are
they to do with a rebellion of such
proportions, in homes, country
roads, cities, banking houses and
Parliament, and National Assem-
blies. It looks serious, but men
have the power to quell this rebel-
lion in and out of the province they
rule. Have they the courage to
meet the demand of the period, and
assert their supremacy as masters
and rulers under God, of the world;
have they?

When palaces must be closed
against the mad destruction of
English Suffragettes, as we learn
from London despatches they are,
is it not time to silence this strange
pandemonium? J. C. M.

BOOKS OF KENTUCKY
AUTHORS.

* ' Social Life in Old New
Orleans. ' '

By Eliza Ripley.

This is regarded by the press of
New Orleans as one of the precious
legacies in literature left them by
this gifted woman. It is a charm-
ing story of that quaint city in the
days of its splendor, prosperity and
fame before the Civil War.

The style is conversational, pol-
ished and free from all mannerism.
The people who made the city so

delightful in the days before the
war, are many of them mentioned
by name — names familiar in Ken-
tucky history, for it seems in that
period the wealthy Kentuckians
spent their winters in that gay city,
and all who have since the war \ds-
ited New Orleans, will recall the
pictures she has drawn of the city.
The picturesqueness remains, but
the men and women are no more in
the homes that once knew them;
they, like the author, have * 'joined
the great majority on the other
side. ' '

Mrs. Ripley was a daughter of
the Hon. Richard H. Chinn, of Lex-
ington, Kentucky, who was the only
partner of Henry Clay, and who
was always his devoted friend. The
book contains, says the author, the
best picture of Henry Clay ever
taken, and a letter from him intro-
ducing Richard H. Chinn to Lord
Ashburton, London, England, in an-
ticipation of Mr. Chinn 's visit
abroad. He, on account of ill health,
we learn, left Lexington and went
to New Orleans to live, and Mrs.
Ripley's girlhood was spent there,
amid sceaes she describes in such a
fascinating book as '* Social Life in
Old New Orleans.''

The Times-Democrat of New Or-
leans devotes a column to its praise
as a historical heirloom. The New
York Tribune, The New York Sun
and The Brooklyn Citizen give ex-
tensive notices of the book, as a val-
uable addition to historic volumes,
from which in years to come, the
historian and novelist will be draw-
ing details for what may be a cher-
ished American literature.

Mrs. Ripley did not live to see the
warm w^elcome given her book. She

died the day after signing the con-
tract for its publication, at the resi-
dence of her daughter, Mrs. Noyes,
in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged eighty-one.

'*WHEN DADDY WAS A BOY'^

By Thomas Wood Parry, Kansas

City.

This pleasant, sunshiny book of
reminiscences of a boyhood spent
bv the author in his home in Mason
County, Kentucky, is not only a
captivating book for little boys, but
a delightful one for grown people,
especially Kentuckians. It is a pic-
ture of life that will not be repro-
duced again in Kentucky, therefore
it is in story as pathetic as it is
ainique, witty and laugh-provoking.
It has been introduced in the public
schools of Kansas City.

We cannot imagine anything
more entertaining for boys. But
would not the curriculum suffer by
comparison afterwards?

J. C. M.

GENEALOGIES.

We regret to omit genealogies,
but when they are inacfcurate in
dates, names and generations, we
must do so, until these errors are
corrected. AVhile we are not re-
sponsible for these genealogies,
written by members of the families
they are endeavoring to give, we
prefer these should be correct and
satisfactory.

Nearly all the leading families of
Kentucky have their published his-
tories and genealogies, and many
of these have appeared in the Reg-
ister from year to year; there are
still others we should be pleased to
have.

The pioneer ancestors in Kei
tucky have not been as well repr-
sented in courage, intelJigence vs-^
achievements as they should h; w
been by their descendants, but ^'■
observe they show their apprecia
^tion of the deeds of their ancet^tor^
by boasting of them — often exaj:
gerating their importance — and liv-
ing upon the fame they do not emn
late. Perhaps it is the old ston\
*^The olive has blown awav— ani
grown wild in new soil.'' But ^e
know there are many descendants
of sterling worth, splendid courn^^
and unbending integrity, who risv
to do their ancestors honor, and ire
wish to hear from them.

THE LAND WHEEE STRIKES f
AEE UNKNOWN.

In the Commoner of January -^.
there is an article entitled *'The
Land Where Strikes Are L>
known. ' ' This land is New Zealand.
The government is administered iy
a Governor (appointed by Eng-
land) who has very little power. ^
Legislative Council and a House ot
Representatives.

The country is somewhat smaller
than Great Britain. The soil ij
very fertile, and the climate one oi
the finest in the world. It some-
what resembles England, but is
milder and pleasanter. ,

The Constitution can be change^
at any time by a vote of Parliament
subject to the possible dissent ot
England, which is very unlikely. ^'^
New Zealand is practically a ^'
public. t

Among the other fine laws an^
regulations it has a^ State fe"^-
This is for the benefit of the uneni-

ployed; they can find here remu-
nerative work, and the inefficient la-
borers may be turned into effec-
tive workers. And here in Ken-
tucky we have hundreds of farms
where the unemployed could find
work, if they would work, and the
remuneration is far more for the
work than is paid European labor-
ers. But the unemployed and inef-
ficient laborer is housed, fed and
clothed by public charity in Ken-
tucky. Why not try for them the
self-respecting method of New Zea-
land? Send the laborers to the
farms.

CALLED MEETING

Of Executivb Board of Kentucky

State Historical Society.

New Members.

At a meeting of the Executive
Committee in March, two new mem-
bers were received. First Vice-
President McChesney presided.

The Eegent read the reports of
the expenditure and receipts of the
Society for the month of February,
and letters of importance.

Then the name of Judge Lucius
Little, of Owensboro, Ky., was pre-
sented for membership. Judge Lit-
tle was received and a certificate of
membership ordered sent to him.

Mr. R. C. Ballard Thruston, Mr.
Otto A. Rothert, and Hon. H. V.
McChesney, who had previously
been named as representatives for
the State Historical Society at the
Perry Victory Centennial in Louis-
ville, Kentucky, were appointed,
upon their consent to act as repre-
sentatives of the Society at that
time, September and October.

The schools of Kentucky have
been requested to set apart a day
as Perry Victory Day. Prof. Mc-
Kee, of the Public Schools of Frank-
fort, will lead in announcing some
day in April, or May, for the me-
morial occasion, when a suitable
program will be prepared for it.

LIBRARY LIST SINCE JANUARY, 1913,

Newspapers.
The State Journal.
The Bath County World.
The Harrodsburg Leader.
The Maysville Bulletin.
The Shelbv Record.
The Farmers' Home Journal.

Monthly Magazines.
The Century.
The Scribner.
The Outlook.
The American Magazine.
The Annals of Iowa, Des Moines.
The Iowa Journal of History and
Politics.

The Oklahoma Journal of His-
tory.

The North Carolina Historical

Society.

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Journal American Historical As-
sociation.

Ohio Archaeological and Histor-
ical Quarterly. October, 1912.
(Table of contents indicates a very
interesting number.)

The World's Work.

Donephan 's Expedition. Con-
quest of New Mexico and Califor-
nia. By William E. Connelly.

Morehead Family Eecords.

(These two elegantly bound
books are presents to the Society,
from that courtly and generous-
hearted gentleman, Mr. Charles K.
Morehead, author of the Morehead
Eecords. He is a nephew of Gov-
ernor Charles S. Morehead, of Ken-
tucky fame, and is himself a banker
of distinction, and leading citizen of
El Paso, Texas.)

The National Geographic ifjiga
zine. December, 1912.

The Coin Shilling of Massaciu
setts Bay.

Transactions of the Connecticut
Academy of Arts and Review.

The Missouri Historical Miip-
zine.

The American Monthly. (D. A.

E.)

Old Masonic Lodges of Penn>p-

vania. ''Moderns" and ''An-
cients.'^ 1730-1800.

(This is a very interesting liij^-
torical volume, covering perioJ
1730-1777. We hope to have the
pleasure of reading more of thi?
history of the Masons in America.)

Ohio Archaeological and Histor
ical Quarterly.

(This number, January, 1913, is
of unusual interest and import-
ance.)

January 1, 1913.

The M. A. B. Magazine, London,
England.

Magazine of Philippine Islands.

The Veteran, Nashville, Tenn,

The Mammoth Cave Magazine.

The Neale Magazine, New York.

Gypsey and Folk-lore Gazette,
London, England.

( This very unique periodical con-
tains many very interesting articies
— ^poems and criticisms. It cojnes
to us as a New Year's greetinf
price, 1 pound per year. Witt it
are two very fine mezzotints oi
wonderful expression and clear-
ness.)

Library of Congress Check List
of American Eighteenth Century
Newspapers. Ingram. 1912.

Book. Report of Library of Con-
gress, 1912.

January, 1913, Publications of the
Library of Congress, Washington,
D. C.

From Montevideo, Uruguay, S.
A.

Anos. 1907-1908. Anuario, Esla-
disti Co., Del La.

Republica Oriental del Uruguay.

Director General. South Amer-
ica Constitution de la. Republica
Oriental Constitution No. 2. Mon-
tevideo. Reglamento.

Commission Des Estudes, Port
De Montevideo, No. 2.

Washington Historical Quarter-
ly, Seattle, U. S. A.

North Dakota Quarterly, Univer-
sity N. Dakota.

The Outlook.

The Tourist's Guide, Althouse,
New York.

The Southwestern Quarterly,
Austin, Texas.

Annual Report, 1911, of the
Smithsonian Institution, Washing-
ton, D. C, January, 1913.

Proceedings of the Vermont His-
torical Society for the years 1909-
1910, Montpelier, Vt.

Iowa Journal of History and
Politics, Iowa City, February 1st.

United Empire, Colonial Insti-
tute, London, England.

The New York Public Library,
New York.

The Bulletin of the Philippine
Library, Manila, Philippine Is-
lands.

When ''Daddy Was a Boy," by
Thos. Wood Parry, Kansas City,
Mo. A charming story of Kentucky
life long ago, for children of today.

Treatise on the South American
Railways and the Great Inter-
national Lines.

Oriental Republic of Uruguay,
Montevideo, S. A.

Medical Journal, National Build-
ing, New York.

Journal of the Illinois State His-
torical Society, Springfield, 111.

McAllister Family Records.

A sketch of Abraham Addams
McAllister, with biographical rec-
ords of the ancestors and descend-
ants of Abraham Addams and his
wife, Julia Ellen (Stratton) McAl-
lister. By J. ^Gray McAllister,
Easton, Pa.

J. G. McAllister, of Bath Coun-
ty, Virginia, has compiled a book of
the militia of Virginia, which is
highly recommended to all the pa-
triotic societies, historians and
genealogists as a very valuable aid
in establishing Virginia ancestors
during the Revolutionary War
whose names may not be found
elsewhere. His position as a law-
yer at Hot Springs, Va., is a guar-
antee of the records as published

THE REaSTER

OF THE

Kentucky State Historical

Society

FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY

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Frankfort, Ky.
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1913

OF THE

KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY President Ex-Officlo

H. V. McCHESNEY Flrit Vice-President

W. W. LONGMOOR Second Vice-President and Curator

IVIiSS SALLY JACKSON Third Vice-President and Librarian

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON Regent and Secretary-Treasurer

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE KENTUCKY STATE

HISTORICAL SOCIETY

H. V. McCHESNEY, Chairman.
MRS. ANNIE H. MILES.
MISS ELIZA OVERTON.
MRS. J. P. HOBSON.

MISS SALLY JACKSON, V. President
W. W. LONGMOOR, 2 Ait. Chm.
PROF. G. C. DOWNING.
HON. W. W. STEPHENSON.

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Must be sent by check or money order. All communications for The
Register should be addressed to Mrs. Jennie C, Morton, Editor and
Secretary-Treasurer, Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfort,
Kentucky.

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H. V. McChesney, Associate Editor.

TO SUBSCRIBERS

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us. It is issued in January, May and September.

NOTICE

If there is a blue X upon the first page of your Register, it denotes

that your subscription has expired, and that your

renewal is requested.

General meeting of the Kentucky State Historicai Society, June 7th, the date of
Daniel Boone's first view of the "beautiful level of Kentucky."

CONTENTS
SEPTEMBER, 1913.

1. One Hundred Years Ago. The Battle of the
Thames. By A. C. Quisenberry.

2. An Antique. A letter of Governor Shelby to Judge

Thomas Todd June 25, 1814.

3. Copy of Andrew Jackson's letter, declining a Sar-

cophagus for his body, from the National Insti
tute of Washington. ^

4. Second Street, South Frankfort — Chapter belong-

ing to the Series of Streets of the Capital.

5. Sketch of Theodore O'Hara. By J. Stoddard

Johnston.

6. The Struggle for Civil and Religious Liberty; Ken-

tuckians did their part. By George Baber.

7. Mrs. Julia Wickliffe Beckham. By Mrs. Jennie C.

Morton.

8. Department of Paragraphs and Clippings,

9. Hume Genealogy and History of Hume Families, in

Scotland, Virginia and Kentucky. By Edgar E.
Hume, Jr., A. M., M. D., of Frankfort, Ky.

10. Boone Day, 7th of June, at the Capitol. Annual
Celebration of the Discovery of Kentucky.

CONTBIBUTOBS

Col. J, Stoddabd Johnston, Louisville, Ky.

Hon. L. F. Johnson, Frankfort, Ky.

Miss Mabtha Stephenson, Harrodsburg, Ky,

Hon. W. W. Stephenson, Harrodsburg, Ky.

W. W. Longmoob, Frankfort, Ky.

Pbof. Qt. C. Downing, Frankfort, Ky.

Mbs. Ella H. Ellwangeb, Frankfort, Ky.

Geobge Babeb, Washington, D. C.

Db. Thos. E. Pickett, Maysville, Ky.

A. C. Quisenbebby, Hyatteville. Md.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

THE BATTLE OF THE THAMES

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By A. C. QUISENBERRY.

When the British General Proc-
tor raised the siege of Fort Meigs,
on May 9, 1813, he retired with his
forces to his headquarters at Mai-
den, in Canada, and occupied him-
self in sending thence emmissaries
to stir up the Indian tribes of the
Northwest to renewed aggressions
upon the pioneers — American set-
tlers. In order to offset these move-
ments, Richard M. Johnson, of
Scott County, then a member of
Congress from Kentucky, Avas au-
thorized to raise, and did raise, a
regiment of mounted Kentuckians
to traverse the Indian country from
Fort Wayne, along the upper end
of Lake Michigan, around by the Il-
linois River, and thence back to the
Ohio River, near Louisville. This
regiment, marching from Ken-
tuckv, rendezvoused at Fort Win-
Chester on June 18, 1813.

About this time the great Indian
Chief, Tecumseh, who commanded
General Proctor's Indian allies, be-
came very insistent that Proctor
should make another attempt to
take Fort Meigs. The British com-
mander did not fancy the undertak-
ing, and appears to have been re-
luctant about consenting to it; but
in the latter part of June he did
consent, and began organizing an
expedition for the purpose. His
invading force was composed of

some British regulars from the Ni-
agara frontier and more than four
thousand Indians. General Green
Clay was at that time in command
at Fort Meigs, and he was informed
of the proposed hostile movement
by an escaped American who had
been kept a prisoner of war at Mai-
den since Dudley's defeat. General
Clay lost no time in conmaunicating
with General Harrison, who was
then at Franklinton (now Colum-
bus), Ohio, who at once mounted his
horse and set out for Fort Meigs,
which he reached on June 28th. He
sent Major George Croghan, of the
Seventeenth United States In-
fantry, with two companies of that
regiment, to garrison Fort Stephen-
son, at Lower Sandusky. The
Seventeenth United States Infan-
try (regulars) had been recruited
entirely in Kentucky. Johnson's
regiment was sent to make a recon-
naissance on the River Raisin, and
while on this tour of scouting duty
they passed over the battle- ground
and buried the bodies of all the
Americans they could find, which
had lain unsepultured where they
fell in the massacre on January 22,
1813.

Early in July bands of maraud-
ing Indians began to prowl around
the forests in the vicinity of Fort
Meigs — advance scouts of Proctor

Regitter of the Kentucky State Hlttoric«i Society.

and Tecumseh, who on July 20th
appeared in their ships at the
mouth of the Maumee, accompanied
by a combined force of more than
five thousand British regulars and
Indians. Harrison, who had now
established his headquarters at
Seneca Town, whence he might co-
operate with either Fort Meigs or
Fort Stephenson, as occasion might
require, sent word to Clay, at Fort
Meigs, that he would be furnished
with reinforcements to any extent
that might be necessary. Harrison
then had with him at Seneca Town
six hundred United States regulars,
and Colonel Thomas Dye Owings
was marching from Fort Massac,
Ohio, to join him with the Twenty-
Eighth Regiment of United States
Infantry, which had been recruited
in Kentucky.

Tecumseh had conceived a plan
to take Fort Meigs by strategy, but
it proved an utter failure. At sun-
set on July 25th the Indians began
a sham fight in the woods, within
hearing of the garrison at Fort
Meigs; their idea being that Gen-
eral Clay would think that a body
of troops coming to his re-enforce-
ment had been attacked, and that he
would send out his garrison to their
relief; and that these, falling into
the Indian ambuscade, would be an-
nihilated, thus rendering the taking
of the fort a very easy matter.
Clay's scouts, however, had been
very diligent, and they assured him
that no Americans marching to his
relief were anywhere near; and
that all the din and uproar in the
forest was merely a trick to betray
him. General Clay sent out no
troops, but merely fired a few can-
non balls in the direction of the

sham fight, which soon put an end
to it.

Proctor and Tecumseh were
greatly mortified over the failure of
their carefully hatched strategy;
and being ignorant of the strength
of the fort and its garrison, they
carefully refrained from making a
regular assault upon it. Three days
later (July 28th) they reimbarked
upon their vessels at the mouth of
the Maumee Biver, and set sail for
Maumee Bay, with the purpose of
attacking Fort Stephenson, then
garrisoned by Major George Cro-
ghan and one hundred and sixty
men. An account of Major
Croghan's gallant defense of Fort
Stephenson was published in The
Registeb for May, 1912.

After the signal defeat of the
British at Fort Stephenson on Aug-
ust 2, 1813, very little of importance
occurred in the Northwest until
Perry's great naval victory on Lake
Erie, fought and won on September
10th, 1813 ; an account of which, to-
gether with the names of about one
hundred Kentucky regulars and
militiamen who took part in it as
sharp shooters on Perry's ships,
was published in The Begisteb for
September, 1911.

• • •

Since the beginning of the war
there had been two American
armies in the field — one on the Ni-
agara frontier called the Army of
the North, and one on the North-
western frontier called the Army
of the Northwest. Up to August
15th, 1813, when the war had been
going on for more than a year, the
Army of the North successively,
under Generals Hampton, Arm-
strong, Dearborn and Wilkinson,

had achieved no victories, and
in all its undertakings had
been unsuccessful. During the
greater part of that time the
Army of the Northwest suc-
cessively, under Generals Hull,
Winchester and Harrison, had done
no better. Detroit, Fort Dearborn
and Fort Mackinac had been sur-
rendered, and the army had suf-
fered blighting disaster at French-
town, on the River Raisin, and at
Dudley ^s Defeat. (See The Regis-
ter for January and May, 1913).
On the other hand, however, the
Armv of the Northwest had to its
credit brilliant and victorious de-
fenses at Fort Harrison and Fort
Stephenson, and two of them at
Fort Meigs. Perry's naval victory
on Lake Erie had now opened the
way for the Army of the Northwest
to invade Canada and win one of
the most brilliant and decisive vic-
tories ever won — the battle of the
Thames.

« • •

General Harrison, in anticipation
of Perry's victory, had some time
before begun preparations for an
invasion of Canada. He called
upon Governor Shelby, of Ken-
tucky, for fifteen hundred men for
this "^expedition, and invited him to
lead his Kentuckians in person.
Governor Shelby immediately
issued a glowing and patriotic
proclamation, calling for mounted
volunteers to assemble at Newport,
opposite Cincinnati, on July 31,
1813. He said : **I will meet you in
person. I will lead you to the field
of battle, and share with you the
dangers and honors of the cam-
paign," The proclamation sounded
a trumpet call to battle, and was

electrical in its effect. The cry
went abroad that ** *01d King's
Mountain,' a hgro of the Revolu-
tion, is going to lead us against the
enemy;" and about four thousand
brave and ardent young Ken-
tuckians had assembled at Newport '

by the appointed time. This was
nearly three times as many as had
been called for, but Governor Shel-
by kept them all ; none were turned
away. They were panting with
ardor to engage the enemy, and to
avenge the massacre of their
brothers at the River Raisin and
Dudley's Defeat.

These men, as yet in company
organizations only, marched from
Cincinnati by way of Hamilton,
Dayton and Springfield, to Urbana,
Ohio, where a depot of arms, equip-
ments and stores for the supplying
of troops had been established
early in the war. Here such of
them as had not brought their own
arms were armed and equipped;
and they were organized into eleven
regiments, five brigades, and two
diATsions.

The first division was com-
manded by Major General William
Henry, of Lincoln County, and was
composed of the First, Third and
Fourth Brigades.

The First Brigade, commanded
by Brigadier General Marquis
Calmes, of Woodford County, was
composed of the First and Second
Regiments. The First Regiment
was commanded by Colonel George
Trotter, of Lexington, and was
composed of the companies of Cap-
tains Davis Todd, Matthew Flour-
noy and Stewart W. Megowan, of
Fayette County; Giistavus W. Bow-
ers and Mason Singleton, of Jessa-

nnne County; and John Christo-
l)lier, of Woodford County. The
Second Regiment was commanded
by Colonel John Donaldson, of
Clark County, and was composed of
the companies of Captains Isaac
Cunningham and James Sympson,
of Clark County ; Richard Menef ee,
of Bath County; George Matthews
and George W. Botts, of Fleming
County, and James Mason, of
Montgomery County.

The Third Brigade, commanded
by Brigadier General George Ed-
ward King, of Cumberland County,
was composed of the Fifth and
Seventh Regiments. The Fifth
Regiment was commanded by Col-
onel Henry Renick, of Barren
County, and was composed of the
companies of Captains Martin H.
Wickliffe, of Nelson County; John
Hornbeck, of Bullitt County;
Thomas S. T. Moss, of Green
County; Thomas H. Atkinson, of
Adair County; Samuel Robertson,
of Washington County; and Wil-
liam R. McGary, of Mercer County.
The Seventh Regiment was (Com-
manded by Colonel Micah Taul, of
Wayne County, and was composed
of the companies of Captains Sam-
uel Wilson and William Wood, of
Cumberland County; Thomas
Laughlin, of Knox County ; William
Stephens, of Wayne County; and
Samuel Tate, of Pulaski County.

The Fourth Brigade, com-
manded by Brigadier General
James Allen, of Green County, was
composed of the Sixth and Eighth
Regiments. The Sixth Regiment
was commanded by Colonel Richard
Davenport, of Boyle County, and
was composed of the companies of
Captains Archibald Bilbo, of Boyle

County; Abraham Miller, of Lin-
coln County; John Faulkner, of
Garrard County; Jesse Coflfee, of
Casey County; and Michael David-
son, of Lincoln County. The Eighth
Regiment was commanded by Col-
onel John Calloway, of Henry
County, and was composed of the
companies of Captains Edward
George and Eleazur Hedden, of
Henry County; James Hite, Philip
Shiveley and Samuel Kelley, of Jef-
ferson County, and Robinson Gra-
ham, of Franklin County.

The Second Division was com-
manded by Major General Joseph
Desha, of Mason County, and was
composed of the Second and Fifth
Brigades, and the Eleventh Regi-
ment, unbrigaded.

The Second Brigade, commanded
by Brigadier General David Chiles,
oif Mason County, was composed of
the Third and Fourth Regiments.
The Third Regiment was com-
manded by Colonel John Poague,
of Mason County, and was com-
l>osed of the companies of Captains
Aris Throckmorton, of Nicholas
County ; William Reed, Moses Dem-
mitt, and Jeremiah Martin, of Ma-
son County; Francis A. Gaines, of
Greenup County; and Aaron A.
Stratton, of Lewis Countv. The
Fourth Regiment was commanded
by Colonel William Mountjoy, of
Pendleton Countv, and was com-
posed of the companies of Captains
Conrad Overturf, of Bracken
County; John H. Morris, of Galla-
tin County; Thomas Childers, of
Pendleton County ; Squire Grant, of
Campbell County; Thomas Ravens-
croft, of Harrison County ; and Wil-
liam Hutchinson, of Bourbon
County.

The Fifth Brigade, commanded
by Brigadier General Samuel Cald-
well, of Logan County, was com-
posed of the Ninth and Tenth Regi-
ments. The Ninth Regiment was
commanded by Colonel James Sim-
rail, of Shelby County, and was
composed of the companies of Cap-
tains John H. Hall, James S. Whit-
taker, and Samuel Harbison, of
Shelby County ; Warner Elmore, of
Green County ; Richard Bennett, of
Franklin County; and Presley C.
Smith, of Washington County. The
Tenth Regiment was commanded by
Colonel Philip Barbour, of Hender-
son County, and was composed of
the companies of Captains William
Whitsett, of Logan County ; Robert
E. Yates, of Grayson County; Wil-
liam Ewing, of Butler County;
Joseph McCloskey, of Nelson
County ; William R. Payne, of War-
ren County, and David Wilson, of
Henderson County.

The Eleventh Regiment was at-
tached to the Second Division, un-
brigaded. It w^as commanded by
( 'Olonel William Williams, of Madi-
son County, and was composed of
the companies of Captains Syl-
vanns Massie, Richard C. Holder
and John C. Mc Williams, of Madi-
son County ; John Haydon, of Har-
rison County; Thomas McGilton, of
day County; Jonathan Dysart, of
Rockcastle County, and two belated
companies under Captains William
Berryman and Henry R. Lewis, that
overtook the expedition after it had
loft Urbana.

Governor Shelby's staff was
composed of Colonel George Wal-
ker, of Jessamine County, Inspec-
tor General; Colonel John Payne,
of Scott County, Quartermaster

General; Major Joseph McDowell,
of Boyle County, Adjutant Gen-
eral; Major Thomas Barr, of Lex-
ington, Judge Advocate General;
Major John Adair, of Mercer
County, and Major John J. Critten-
den, of Logan County, aides-de-
campe ; Major William T. Barry, of
Lexington, military secretary.

* • *

On September 9, lSi3, this lit-
tle army of Kentuckians marched
northward from Urbana, Ohio,
reaching on the 10th Manary's
Blockhouse, near where the town
of Belief ontaine now stands ; on the
11th they camped at Fort MacAr-
thur, close to where the town of
Kenton now stands; on the 12th
they reached Upper Sandusky, the
present Sandusky, county seat of
Wyandot County, Ohio ; and on the
13th they came to Fort Ball where
the town of Tiffin now stands.

x\t Fort Ball they received the
glorious news of Perry's victory,
won three days before, which was
received wdtli loud rejoicing. On
the 14th they reached Lower San-
dusky, now known as Fremont;
and on the 15tli the army reache^l
the Portage, on the shores of Lake
Eric, where the town of Port Clin-
ton now stands; The inlets of Lake
Erie here formed a peninsular
of seventy thousand acres of fine
;iTazing land, and in about three
hours the men ran a high and
strong fence across the upper end
of the peninsula thus inclosing a
fine corral for their horses.

Soon after Shelby arrived at the
Portage, some of Perry's ships got
there also, having on board about
three hundred prisoners whom
Perrv had taken in his victorv on

Lake Erie. A few days later these
prisoners were sent to Columbus
and Chillicothe, Ohio, for confine-
ment, guarded by a detachment of
Kentucky militiamen under Quar-
termaster General Payne.

Perry's victory had rendered it
much easier for the army to invade
Canada by water than by land. Col-
onel Richard M. Johnson was di-
rected to remain at Fort Meigs
with his regiment of mounted Ken-
tuckians until the expedition should
sail from the Portage, and then to
march to Detroit. The embark-
ation of the troops began on Sep-
tember 20th. They left all their
horses in the improvised corral in
the care of a detail of troops under
the command of Colonel Christo-
pher Riffe, of Casey County, Ken-
tucky.

On the night of the embarkation
the* troops rendezvoused on Put-in-
Bay Island, in Lake Erie; and on
the 25th on the Middle Sister
Island. On the 27th they landed
at Hartley's Point, near Mal-
flen, 01) the Canadian shore
of Lake Erie. The army landed in
perfect battle order, as it was be-
lieved that they would meet with
opposition at this point, as Fort
Maiden was the British headquar-
ters. But they found no enemy
tliero. General Proctor, after burn-
inir Fort Maiden and the public
buildin.fi:s there, had fled northward
with his army^ against the protest
of Tecumseh who wanted to bring
matters to the issue of battle at
Maiden. Proctor's rear guard had
not been gone more. than an hour
when Harrison's vanguard reached
Amherstburg ; so it was determined
to pursue him without unnedessarj'-

delay. Governor Shelby was sixty-
six years old, and not physically
able to make the march on foot, and
had to be mounted ; but Proctor had
carried away all the horses, both
public and private, in that vicinity.
One small Canadian pony was all
that could be found, upon which
Governor Shelbv was mounted;
and that little pony was the only
horse in his armv at that time.

On the morning of September
28th, leaving a regiment of riflemen
at Armherstburg to hold that post,
Harrison b^gan the pursuit of
Proctor. He reached Sandwich,
Canada, just across the St, Clair
River from Detroit, on the 29th;
and on October 1st Johnson's
strong regiment of mounted Ken-
tuckians crossed over from Detroit
and joined him. Setting out on the
chase, Harrison (October 2nd) left
a number of troops to garrison and
hold Detroit and Sandwich; and
carried with him in the pursuit such
of the Kentucky volunteers as were
able to march, and one hundred and
twenty regulars — about three
thousand men in all. They pressed
on toward Chatham, on the River
Thames, where Proctor was then
encamped. General Lewis Cass,
Governor of Michigan Territory,
and Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry, accompanied General Har-
rison as volunteer aides.

Proctor, with more than seven
hundred British regulars and Ca-
nadian militia, and twelve hundred
Indians under Tecumseh — nearly

two thousand men in all — ^had made
a stand on the Thames a few miles
from Chatham, where an impassible
stream, called McGregor's Creek,
flows into the Thames between steep

banks. Tecumseh had be^n begging
him all along to stop running, and
fight, and had cursed him for a
coward. When he finally chose a
spot to make a stand he said to Te-
cumseh : * ' Here we will defeat Har-
rison or lay our bones.'*

On October 5th, knowing that he
was drawing very close to Proctor's
position, General Harrison moved
forward at daybreak, and at 9
0 'clock in the morning crossed over
to the north bank of the Thames —
the side of the stream on which
Proctor's camp was pitched. In
fording the river the infantrymen
were carried across behind the
mounted men. When they had
come to within three miles of Mbra-
vian Town a captured British
wagoner informed Harrison that
Proctor's army was drawn up in
battle order onlv three hundred
yards in front of him. A reconnais-
sance by Major James Suggett (of
Scott County), of Johnson's regi-
ment, showed this to be true, and
also furnished sufficient informa-
tion concerning the position of the
enemy to enable a council of officers
to determine the plan of attack.
General Harrison, displaying upon
his uniform the insignia of his rank
as a Major General of Kentucky
militia, presided over the council,
which was held on horseback. His
force, now about three thousand
strong, with the exception of about
one hundred and twenty regulars of
the Nineteenth United States In-
fantry, consisted entirely of Ken-
tucky militiamen. The handful of
regulars, commanded by Colonel
George Paull, of the Nineteenth
Infantry, may possibly have also
been Kentuckians, for that regi-

ment was recruited about half in
Kentucky and half in Ohio.

As to the •disfposition of the two
armies for battle, Lossing says:
**The ground chosen by the enemy
to make a stand was well selected.
On his left was the River Thames,
with a high and precipitous bank,
and on his right a marsh running
alraose parallel with the river for
about two miles. Between these,
and two or three hundred yards
from the river, was a small swamp,
quite narrow, with a strip of solid
ground between it and the large
marsh. The ground over which the
road lay, and indeed the whole
space between the river and the
great swamp, was covered with
beech, sugar maple, and oak trees,
with very little undergrowth. The
British regulars (a part of the
Forty-First Regiment) were
formed in two lines between the
small swamp and the river, their
artillery being planted in the road
near the bank of the stream. The
Indians were posted between the
two swamps, where the under-
growth was thicker; their right,
commanded by the brave Oshawah-
nah, a Chippewa Chief, extending
some distance along and just within
the borders of the larger marsh,
and so disposed as to easily flank
Harrison's left wing. Their left,
commanded in person by Tecumseh,
occupied the isthmus, or narrowest
point between the two swamps.

'*In the disposition of his army
for the battle. General Harrison
made arrangements for the horse-
men to fall back, allow the infantry
to make the attack, and then charge
upon the British lines. For this
purpose General Calmes' brigade.

five hundred strong, under Colonel
George Trotter ((Jeneral Calmes
having been sick for some weeks
and not yet recovered) was placed
in the front line, which extended
from the road on the right toward
the greater marsh. Parallel with
these, one hundred and fifty yards
in the rear, was General John E.
King's brigade; and in the re&r of
this was General David Chiles' bri-
gade, posted as a reserve. These
three brigades were under the com-
mand of Major General Henry. Two
others (James Allen's and Cald-
well's) and Simrall's regiment,
forming General Desha's division,
were formed upon the left of the
front line, so as to hold the Indians
in clieck, and prevent a serious flank
movement by them. At the cro-
chet formed by Desha's corps and
the front line of Henry's division,
the venerable ^ Governor Shelby,
then sixty-six years of age, took his
position. In front of all these was
Johnson's mounted regiment in two
columns (one under the Colonel
and the otlier commanded by his
brother, Lieutenant-Colonel James
Johnson), its right extending to
within fifty yards of the road, and
its left resting on the smaller
swamp. The small corps of regu-
lars under Colonel Paull, about one
hundred and twenty in number,
were posted between the road and
the river for the purpose of ad-
vancing in concert with some In-
dians to attempt the capture of the
enemy's cannon. These Indians,
forty in number, were to stealthily
gain the British rear, fire upon
them, and give the fearful impres-
sion that their own savage allies
had turned upon them."

Having learned that the British
troops were drawn up in open
order, General Harrison changed
his plan of battle somewhat. Col-
onel Johnson, at his own request,
was directed to have one battalion
of his regiment charge the enemy.
With the ringing shout * ' Remember
the River Raisin;" the battalion
under Lieutenant-Colonel James
Johnson charged impetuously upon
the Forty-First Regiment of Brit-
ish regulars drawn up in front of
them, broke the first line and scat-
tered it in all directions, and, rid-
ing furiously upon the second line,
some thirty yards in the rear,
served it in the same manner. The
Kentucky horsemen now wheeled
right and left and poured a wither-
ing fire upon the rear of the broken
columns. The demoralized and
panic-stricken British surrendered
as fast as they could throw down
their arms; and within less than
five minutes after the first shot was
fired nearly the whole British force,
some eight hundred men, was totally
van(iuished, and the most of them
were made prisoners. The victory
was complete upon this part of the
field. Proctor, who had* viewed the
assault and the fotal collapse of his
lines, from a distance, at once fled
ignominiously in his carriage, and
was pursued by Major DeVall
Payne, of Johnson's regiment, with
some sixty men.

The battle was more stubbornly
(*ontested upon the left of the line,
where Colonel Johnson with the
second battalion of his regiment
moved against the Indians almost
simultaneously with the attack by
the first battalion upon the British
lines.

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It was believed that if the fire of
the Indians could be drawn by a
ruse, they could then be charged
and overcome with but slight loss.
Accordingly, twenty volunteers
were called for to compose a *' for-
lorn hope," who were to charge
upon the Indians in advance, and
draw their fire, when the rest of the
battalion would inunediately charge
upon the then practically unarmed
Indians and disperse or utterly de-
stroy them before they could reload.
It was well known that the men of
the forlorn hope would be going to
almost certain death, yet the twenty
men for this extremely hazardous
service instantly stepped to the
front, and marched to their doom.
The names of only twelve of those
dauntless heroes have descended to
our times ; and these should be pre-
served in every account of the bat-
tle of the Thames, however brief,
that shall ever be written. They
were :

William Whitley,* of Lincoln
County (who led the assault, with
Colonel Johnson riding by his side),

♦William Whitley might have had any
command he desired in this expedition, even
that of Major General, hut he volunteered
as a private soldier, and retained that posi-
tion by preference. On his powder-horn,
which is still preserved, the following lines
are inscribed:

William Whitley, I am your horn,
The truth I love, a lie I scorn;
Fill me with the best of powder,
I'll make your rifle crack the louder.

See how the dread, terriffick ball
Makes Indians bleed and Toreys fall;
You with powder Til supply
For to defend my liberty.

Whitley County, Kentucky, was named in
his honor.

a man then sixty-three years old,
who had been a famous Indian
fighter in Kentucky since its
earliest settlement. From Scott
County there were Benjamin S.
Chambers, lawyer, Garrett Wall,
Eli Short, Joseph Taylor, Robert
Payne, William S. Webb and John
L. Mansfield, printer. Prom
Pranklin County, Samuel A. Theo-
bold, lawyer ; from Harrison Coun-
ty, Samuel Logan; from Fayette
County, Richard Spurr and John
ilicGrunnigle. The names of the
other eight are apparently hope-
lessly lost.

This ** forlorn hope,'' as it was
called, led by William Whitley, with
Colonel Richard M. Johnson riding
by his side, quickly and calmly rode
into the very jaws of death, and no
one had ** blundered. " They re-
ceived the concentrated fire of per-
haps five hundred Indians in one
devastating volley. Fifteen of
them were stricken down forever,
four were w^ounded, and one mi-
raculously escaped unhurt. The
grand old pioneer, William Whit-
ley, was among the slain, and Col-
onel Johnson was bleeding from
several wounds. Colonel Bennett
H. Young, in his most admirable
monograph on ^'The Battle of the
Thames," says: **The * forlorn
hope' had been annihilated. On
this fateful field it had won imper-
ishable renown and carved out fade-
less glory. It had been destroyed,
but its members had magnified
Kentucky manhood and written in
the life-blood of three-fourths of its
number a story of courage and pa-
triotic sacrifice which would live
forever. Whenever and wherever
their deed should be told it would
command the world's applause, and

H. R.— 2

down through the ages excite in the
hearts of Kentuckians noblest pride
in the glorious immortality they
had purchased by their unselfish,
superb and patriotic sacrifice for
their country's cause/*

Owing to the thickness of the
underbrush on this part of the field
the mounted riflemen were dis-
mounted, except Colonel Johnson
himself, and on foot the main body
of the battalion charged upon the
[ndians in the woods and brush,
shouting the Kentucky battle cry of
''Remember the River Raisin!'*
For about eight minutes after the
fall of the forlorn hope the battle
raged fiercely, and there were many
hand-to-hand fights between the
Kentuckians and the Indians. For
an instant the victory seemed
poised in the balance; but in that
instant Shelby ordered Colonel
John Donaldson 's regiment to move
immediately to the support of John-
son, and directed General King to
press to the front with his brigade.
Under the momentum of this fresh
assault the Indians soon gave up
the contest. They fled in confusion,
leaving some of their dead upon the
field — a thing that Indians had
never been known to do before.
The great Chief Tecumseh was
among their vslain, and his body
they bore away. Where they buried
him no man knows to this day. He
was killed early in the action; and
it has come down to us both by his-
tory and tradition that he was slain
in single combat by Colonel Rich-
ard M. Johnson. Whether this is a
fact has been questioned, and even
positively denied, and Colonel
Johnson himself never either af-
firmed or denied it. It is certain

that an Indian Chief, believed by
many to have been Tecumseh, shot
and wounded Colonel Johnson, who
was already riddled with wonnds,
and was rushing forward to finish
him with a tomahawk, when Colonel
Johnson shot the Indian through
the head with a pistol, killing him
instantly. For many years that
pistol was on exhibition in a ^lass
case in the office of the Capital
Hotel, in Frankfort, as the pistol
with which Colonel Johnson had
killed Tecumseh, and it possiijly is
still there. It is said to be a fact
that several of the Kentuckians
cut pieces of skin to make razor
strops, from the thighs of the In-
dian supposed to be Tecumseh.

Tecumseh was innately a very
great man ; a great orator ; a great
militarv^ genius, having also much
of the kind of ability that is neces-
sary for constructive statesman-
ship. Beyond any doubt he was the
greatest American Indian who ever
lived — the Napoleon of his race.
He had nobility of character and
manv fine traits ; and, what is verv
unusual in an Indian, a sense of
pity and of mercy. He was as su-
perior to his British ally, General
Henry Proctor, as the blazing noon-
day sun is to a farthing rushlight

* * *

Major DeVall Payne and his
horsemen pursued Proctor beyond
Moravian Town, en route till-
ing some Indians, capturing some
prisoners, and taking great quan-
tities of valuable spoils. Among
the spoils were three brass cannons
that had been taken by the Ameri-
cans at Burgoyne's surrender at
Saratoga, in 1777, and were retaken
bv the British at HulPs surrender.

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* 4 *

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bor^cnion ]>n]\siuM] i':'.;
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<^ans at r>nrwyTu»'s <nr;*
^arato.u'a, in 1777, a'.d we^'e •
bv the J>rilisli at \\u]\\- -■. ,

TEfUMSEH

One of these was **the Burgoyne
cannon" now in the possession of
the Kentucky State Historical So-
ciety, at Frankfort.

Proctor was so closely pursued
that lie abandoned his carriage in
the road, mounted bareback on one
of his carriage horses, **took
through the woods," and twenty-
four hours later he was sixty-five
miles from the battle ground. His
carriage, sword and many valuable
papers were captured. His govern-
ment passed censures upon him
that disgraced him. His cowardly
flight before the battle was over
was caused by his wholesome fear
of the Kentuckians, who he had
good reason to know were burning
with eagerness to wreak upon him
merited vengeance for the murder
of their friends and kindred at the
River Raisin and Dudley's Defeat
— murders for which he was ac-
countable, for he could have pre-
vented them, but did not, and did
not try to.

Proctor had nearly two thousand
men, all of whom were actively en-
gaged in the battle, and he had
more and better artillery than Har-
rison had. Although the latter had
about three thousand men with him,
not more than twelve hundred of
them were put into the battle. He
did not need any more than that to
win that brilliant victory. The
losses in the action were not large ;
tliat of the Americans being about
fifteen killed and thirty wounded.
The British regulars lost eighteen
killed, twenty-six wounded and (in-
cluding twenty-five officers) six
hundred prisoners. Besides the
thirty-three dead they left on the
field, the Indian loss has never been

known. The prisoners were carried
to Kentucky by a detachment of the
victorious Kentuckians, and they
were confined as prisoners of war
in the penitentiary at Frankfort
until they were regularly ex-
changed, some months later. The
British officers were very indignant
about being confined in the peniten-
tiary, ^hich they denounced as *4g-
nominious treatment. ' ' Colonel
Young says: *'But little sympathy
was aroused on their account. The
murders and barbarities at Raisin
and Meigs had not put these men of
the Forty-First Regiment in a po-
sition to ask or expect much from
Kentuckians. * ' Some of these very
officers had looked on with compla-
cency while the murders mentioned
were being perpetrated. A
wounded Kentuckian prisoner at
the River Raisin who asked a
British officer to get him a surgeon,
received the reply: *'The Indians
are most excellent surgeons.'* ,

General Harrison estimated the
number of small arms taken at the
Thames at five thousand stand,
most of which had previously been
captured from the Americans at
Detroit, the River Raisin, and Dud-
ley's Defeat.

Only two hundred and fifty-six
of Proctor's British regulars and
Canadian militia, including seven-
teen officers, succeeded in escaping
from that fateful field. Except in
the circumstance of numbers alone
it ranks with the great victories of
history. It was soon oyer, but it
was a complete and decisive victory,
and one that was very prolific of
important results. It broke up the
ffreat Indian confederacy of the
Northwest, and caused the disheart-

ened warriors to humbly sue for
peace. All that Hull had lost had
now been regained, and much more
besides; and there were no hostile
demonstrations of importance on
the northwestern border, by either
the British or the Indians, during
the remaining fifteen months of the
war. This decisive victory was
loudly acclaimed throughout the
United States, and visibly in-
creased the hope and courage of our
countrymen. Congress voted gold
medals with appropriate designs
and inscriptions to both Gteneral
Harrison and Governor Shelby, in
testimony of its high sense and ap-
preciation of their services in the
Thames campaign.

* * *

On October 7th, 1813, two days
after the battle, the Kentuckians
began the return march to the old
Kentucky home ; going first on foot
to Sandwich, which they reached on
the 10th, and from there they
crossed over to Detroit. On the
13th they started by boat from De-
troit, via the River Raisin, to
Freiichtown, wliicli they reached on
the 15th. There they lingered long
enough to gather up and bury the
whitened skeletons of sixty-five of
their fellow Kentuckians which had
lain unsepnltured in the woods,
where they fell, since the preceding
January. On October 19th they
reached the Portage, where they
had left their horses, and where
they now found them fat and frisky
and in fine fettle for the happy
jouniey homeward. On the 20th
they set out by way of Columbus
and Chillicothe, Ohio, to Maysville,
Kentucky; where, on November 4th,
1813, just sixty-five days after they

had been mustered in at Newport,
they were honorably discharged
from the service, and scattered to
their homes in every section of the
State.

The following itinerary of the
marches of the Kentucky troops in
the Thames compaign is from the
diary of Captain James Sympson,
who commanded a company from
Clark County in Colonel Jolm Don-
aldson's regiment, to-wit:

''From Winchester, Kentucky,
to Newport, Kentucky, 95 miles ; to
Fort Hamilton, Ohio, 26 miles; to
Franklin, Ohio, 18 miles; to Day-
ton, Ohio, 25 miles; to Sprin^eld,
Ohio, 38 miles ; to IJrbana, Ohio, 14
miles; to Manary's Blockhouse,
Ohio, 28 miles ; to Upper Sanduskv,
Ohio, 28 miles; to Ball's Block-
house, Ohio, 21 miles; to Seneca,
Ohio, 11 miles; to Lower Sandusky,
Ohio, 11 miles; to the Portagre, 20
miles; to Bois Island (in Lak*^
Erie), 18 miles; to Snail Island, IS
miles; to the Canada shore, 1-1
miles ; to Maiden, Canada, 14 miles ;
to Sandwich, Canada, 18 miles; to
opposite Detroit, ]\Echigan, 2 mile< :
to Moravian Town, Canada (where
the battle of the Thames wa>
foucrht) 80 miles. Returning^: to
Detroit, 80 miles; to the Portaere, or.
the shore of Lake Erie, by the River
Raisin, in boats, 100 miles: to Up-
per Sandusky, 60 miles ; to Norton's
Blockhouse, Ohio, 35 miles; to Del-
aware Town, Ohio, 10 miles: to
PVanklinton (now Columbus), Ohio,
25 miles; to Chillicothe, Ohio, 45
miles; to Limestone (now Mays-
ville), Kentucky, 75 miles; to Win-
chester, Kentucky, 65 miles; total,
D25 miles. This route was per-
formed by an army of four thou-

sand men in

days ; 605 miles

on horseback, 50 miles by water,
and 260 miles by land, on foot/'

The items on this itinerary really
total 995 instead of 925 miles, and
some of the companies marched two
hundred miles further, both going
and coming, than the companies
from Winchester. Never, perhaps,
in the history of the world has a
l)ody of raw militia marched so
many miles and performed so bril-
liant a feat as destroying an
enemy's army (largely regular
troops) in his own country, and all
^vithin sixty-five days. Colonel
Bennett H. Young well and elo-
quently says:

'* Diverging at Maysville for all
T^arts of the State, these heroes,
(Iriuvn together by many sacrifices,
much suffering and severe hard-
ships, and great dangers endured
not only in this but in many of the
campaigns in which Kentucky sol-
diers had borne a conspicuous part,
separated from each other with
deepest emotion. At all the county
seats great crowds gathered to
honor the returning conquerors.
Public meetings in many places
Y. ere called to express the grateful
recognition by Kentucky of their
patriotic devotion in their country's
need ; and for the next half century
to have been at the Thames was the
*open sesame' to public and politi-
cal honor and preferment. Adair,
Desha and Crittenden were to be-
come Governors; Barry, McAfee,
Charles A. Wickliffe, Lieutenant-
Governors ; Walker, Barry, Critten-
den, Johnson, United States Sena-
tors ; and a score of them were sent
as members of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and to the State Sen-

ate and House every year for a
third of a century a large number
of tha men who fought at the
Thames were elected as the people's
chosen representatives.

' ' These men who followed Gover-
nor Shelby dared all that patriots
could dare. They faced all that
courage could face. They offered
all that freemen could offer, and
they won all that a brave and chiv-
alrous people could bestow. On
that roll of her sons whose fidelity
and loyalty the Commonwealth de-
lights to honor, the names of the
men who fought at the Thames on
October 5th, 1813, stand out with a
brilliancy and glory which time can
not dim, and ages will not efface."

* * •

Another incident unparalled in
history, though of no historical in-
terest whatever except for its sin-
gularity, should not be omitted in
any account of the battle of the
Thames — the story of the military

pig.

So fierce was the militarj^ spirit

in Kentucky that even some of her
four-footed inhabitants seemed
possessed with a strong desire to
march against the British, and one
of them did so. It is a well at-
tested fact that when the Harrods-
burg company set out for the
Thames campaign, the men saw two
pigs fighting in the street, and de-
layed their march to watch the com-
bat. When the march was resumed
the victorious pig followed the com-
pany; and it continued to follow
them until they reached the Ohio
River, at Newport. There the men
crossed over to Cincinnati in a boat,
and supposed that the pig's march
was at an end; but they were mis-

taken in their pig, for he plunged
into the river and swam across and
joined them on the other side.
When the march to Lake Erie be-
gan the pig went along with the
men. The troops could outmarch
him, and when they encamped each
night Mr. Pig was the last to arrive ;
and he would run through the camp
squealing at the top of his voice,
and take position at the head of the
line, so as to have a good start the
next morning, as was supposed.
He was a great favorite with the
whole army, and as he ran squeal-
ing through the camp every night
the men would arise, throw up their
hats, and cheer him vociferously.
They fed him on the leavings of
their choicest rations.

At the Portage the pig remained
with the horse guard. The men

would not take him across to Can-
ada in any of the ships ; and, stout-
hearted pig though he undoubtedly
^v'as, he could not swim across Lake
Erie. He seemed intuitively to
recognize this fact, and did not try.
When the troops returned to the
Portage after defeating Proctor,
and started homeward, the pig
turned out on the right of the
column, ready for the return march
to Harrodsburg. After reaching
home the men gave this military pig
to Governor Shelby, at whose home
it passed the remainder of its days
in ease and plenty. This curious
story has been vouched for by men
whom we can not doubt; and it is
published in General Robert B. Mc-
Afee's ''History of the Late War^'
as an incident that came under his
personal observation.

Captain James Sympson's Diary and Memoranda op the

Thames Campaign.

Captain James Sympson, of Win-
chester, Ky., raised a company in
Clark County for the Thames cam-
paign, which was assigned to Col.
John Donaldson's regiment. Capt.
Sympson carried a little blank book
in his pocket, which it seems he at
first intended merely for the pur-
pose of keeping a record of the ra-
tions and forage issued to his com-
pany; but presently he began to
jot down in it memoranda of inter-
est, and after the battle of the
Thames it developed into a regular
diary. This book, now jnst a cen-
tury old, is in a good state of
preservation, though in a few places
some words are illegible through
the fading of the ink. It contains

also a few memoranda relative to
the raid made just a year later into
Canada (in the fall of 1814), led by
General MacArthur and Major
Peter Dudley, under whom Captain
James Sympson commanded a com-
pariy of Clark County men. The
diary is now owned by Captain
Sympson 's grandson, Mr. William
C. Sympson, of Huntington, W.
Va., who kindly loaned it to the
writer of this article, who wished to
make a copy of it. The data rela-
tive to the Thames campaign is
given below, and is very interesting.
The most important part of the
diary in a historical sense, is the
itinerary it gives of the march of
the little army of Kentuckians from
Newport, Ky., through Ohio, to

Moravian Town, Canada, and the
return to Limestone (Maysville),
Ky. This important and valuable
data very probably could not now
be obtained from any other source.
Donaldson's and Trotter's regi-
ments were the only ones, be-
sides ''Johnson's Horse," that
were actually engaged in the
battle of the Thames. Captain
Sympson's company was in the
fight, and he gives the exact
position of each man of the com-
pany C'F" and ''E")— the front
and rear rank of each file — a kind
of information which probably
never was recorded before, since
the history of the wars began, and
it will be intensely interesting to
the descendants of those men.

"August 31st ldl3. This book contains an
account of tbe fon^e and rations drawn
by the Company of Kentucky Volunteers
commanded by James Sympson.

(Here follows a full copy of the General
Orders issued by the Commander-in-Chief
of the Kentucky Volunteers, issued at Ur-
bana, Ohio, on September 6, 1813, organiz-
ing the companies of Kentucky Volunteers
into regiments, brigades and divisions, and
appointing the officers thereof. As the
substance of the order is given in the body
of the article on "The Battle of the
Thames," it will not be repeated here).

Captain James Sympson's Company of Ken-
tucky Mounted Volunteers, August 26,
1813. (As mustered in at Winchester,
Kentucky) :
James Sympson, Captain.
Edmund Callaway, Lieutenant.
Pleasant Bush, Ensign.
Sergeants — Elizah Davis, Joseph Martin,
resigned Sept 5, 1813, and C. Cox, appointed
in his place; (Cox left at Sandusky Bay,
Sept 20, as horse guard) ; Robert Donaldson,
John By bee.

Corporals — Daniel Donahoe, Absalom
Lowe, Alfred Stevens, Robert Elkin.

Privates— John Martin, John Lander, Rob-
ert E. Martin, Ransom 'Fluty, Robert 6.
Martin, Joseph Sidebottom, left sick at
Upper Sandusky, Sept. 15th; John Jones,
fiartlett Brundage, left sick at Upper San-
dusky, Sept. 15th; Joel Lane, Sept 20 de-
tached to remain horse guard at Sandusky
Bay; William Poer, Thompson Hardin, Sept.
14, left with Joe. Sidebottom as nurse;
William Burgess, Thomas Cummins, Hiram
Bush, John MoMurray, Charles Hazelrigg,
William Welch, John Chisholm, Jacob Mil-
ler, John 'Locknane, William Bybee, John
Adams, William Brooks, William Rupard,
Mayberry Evans, James Walker, 'Peter M.
Tribble, Richard Johnson, William W. Good-
rich, John Booth, James Daniel, Robert
Allcorn Sept. 27th, taken sick and left at
(illegible); Alexander Downey, Henry Lan-
der, Paul Hulse, Sept. 2, left sick at Day-
ton; Jesse Wilcoxen, Sept. 27th, left sick at
Spider Island; Aaron Wilcoxon, James Ham-
ilton, William Moore, WUliam White, iBen-
jamin W. EUsberry, Ezekiel Hampton, ap-
pointed 2d Sergeant Sept. 22, in place of
Elijah Davis; who was left at Sandusky Bay
as horse guard; Samuol Tribble, lost gun
Oct 9, by boat sinking in Lake St Clair;
Samuel iMartin, lost 2 blankets, Oct. 9, by
boat sinking in lake water — 24 shillings;
Ceorge Eaton, Ezekiel McCarty, Jacob Wil-.
liamson, Stephen Bruner, Claiburn Cox, ap-
pointed 1st Sergeant, Sept. 5. (60 officers
and enlisted men).

September 24, 1813, we sailed from Put-
in-Bay to Spider Island.

Sept 27th, 1813, at 8 o'clock forenoon, we
left Spider Island and at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon landed on the Canadian shore, 4
miles below Maiden. The same evening
arrived at Maiden.

(Captian Sympson hero gives a crude
drawing of Port Maiden).

The area of the fort exclusive of the bas-
tions is 180 yards from the Detroit River,
out, and 150 yards with the river; the em-
brasures are 50 yards on angle to angle 4,
and angle 5, 30; and the bastions at the
end ought to be agreeable to the figure 4.

Fort Maiden, as above is 400 yards distant
from the town, up the river, near the bank.
The town is binding on the river, and has
150 dwelling bouses, principally of frame —
no brick or stone.

The town at Maiden is named Amherst-
burg. From Maiden to Sandwich is 16
miles. On the way two small rivers put into
the lake, one 3 miles from Maiden, and the
other 4 miles from Sandwich. The road
runs on the margin of the lake. Beautifully
level country and fine farms and orchards;
the buildings good frame houses and bams;
the land produces good wheat, and a great
deal is made; very little com is made, it
being too cold.

Sandwich is situated two miles below De-
troit, on the N. E. side. The town is a
string of frame houses on the edge of the
lake, with very large farms lying back.

On the march of the army we left Mai-
den on the 28th at 10 P. M., and arrived
at Sandwich on the 29th at 12 o'clock. Same
day the spies killed one Indian. There is
a large Roman chapel in Sandwich. Sand-
wich contains some valuable houses; the
inhabitants generally French.

Sept. 29th, 19i;j, at 9 o'clock at night, I
started from Sandwich with a detailed com-
pany from let Brigade, to go to the aid of
Colonel Johnson's regiment, encamped on
the River Rouse. I descended the River De-
troit, which is 1 1-2 (miles?) wide, two
miles below this place, then ascended the
River Rouse five miles, and came to the
encampment of Johnson at 12. The country
up the same is low and soggy; old frame
houses and lar^e farms; generally evac-
uated, and few crops owing to the pressure
of the war. On the point or jut of land
between Detroit and River Rouse is a kind
of rough barrens; hundreds of small In-
dian huts where they stayed during the
time the British supported them. (Here
he gives a crud map of Detroit and the
surrounding country).

On the 1st October, I visited Detroit.
It is a beautiful situation, and must become
a great place under the fostering hand of
our government, it having so many local
advantages, particularly the benefits of

navigation. The inhabitants of the place
are generally Americans. The town is reg.
ularly laid off into streets and alleys. The
number of dwelling houses is 150. l^e
river at that place is one mile wide.

On the 2nd of October we left Sandwich
and marched 25 miles up Detroit River
and Lake St. Clair. From Sandwich to St
Clair is 7 miles. Fine farms on the way.
From there to the River Tranch. is 15
miles, 7 miles of the same unsettled owing
to inaccessible marshes. At the mouth of
River Tranch is an extensive opening of
prairies and fine land and good farms on
the river to where the River Thames puts
in, which is 20 miles. From there up the
river to the Moravian Towns is 30 miles,
being a fine country the whole of the way,
and many good farms. The eddy water
of the lake continues to the mouth of River
Thames. Those rivers do not exceed 100
yards wide, and below the Junction they
are about 150; but to that place gunbo^its
drawing from 8 to 10 feet of water sail, and
up the Thames to the Moravian Towns
large keel boats pass. The Moravian Town
was settled by a tribe of Indians. There
were about sixty small log houses covered
with bark built on a neat site stretching
along a street, also a Roman chapel, built
in 1794, of log, with a hipped roof; and I do
presume a missionary has been there to
civilize them, as the British pretend to
say.

On the winning of the battle on the 5th
of October, 1813, at 3 o'clock In the after-
noon, the battle took place one and a hal!
miles below the above town. The battle
lasted one hour. The number of Indians
killed is uncertain, but from what I could
gather by examining the ground, and other
inquiries, I should suppose fifty was near
the number, and not exceeding twelve
British.

The British and Indian force when they
destroyed the fortifications and all public
buildings and stores at 'Maiden and Detroit,
they proceeded up the Detroit River witl»
several sail of masted vessels and a great
number of keel boats, all loaded with mii'
itary stores, but our march was so rapid

that after. forty miles pursuit they put fire
to one of the largest vessels, the masts
of which were falling when we came in
sight; and going on to the Junction of the
rivers Tranch and Thames several others
were set on fire, but we effected the ex-
tinguishing of the fire in one of them. In
all the vessels they bad fixed bombs that
were exploding from time to time as the
fire progressed. I suppose it was done with
the view to prevent our shipping from pass,
ing, or to damage our men in case they
endeavored boarding them. At this place
they had deposited between one and two
thousand stand of arms and other muni-
tions of war, in a house, and set fire to
the same when we came in sight; but we
passed the bridge in spite of the Indians
they left to repulse us, and saved the arms,
&c.

At this place our whole army was drawn
up in battle array*, our field artillery was
at the bridge raking across the river to
cover the men who were repairing the same,
as the enemy had pulled it up. A firing of
small arms was kept up across the river
above, between Colonel Johnson's regiment
and the Indians, In which we lost two
men; during which time the enemy's vessels
that were on fire the bombs were exploding
every 8 and 10 minutes. (Here is given a
crude map of that part of the field).

At this place we took some British re^u*
lars, and took at various places both of

♦Captain James Sympson's company as
disposed for order of battle commencing on
the right:

James Sympson, Captain.

Henry Lander, F; William Poer, R; Ist
file.
.John Chisholm, F; John Booth, R; 2nd file.

James Walker, F; James Daniel, R; 3rd
file.

William White, F; Thos. Cummins, R; 4th
file.

Robert Elkins, F; Mayberry Evans, R;
.5th file.

Joseph Martin, F; Robert B. Martin, R;
6th file.

John McMurray, F; Alexander Downey, R;
7th file.

William Moore, F; John Jones, R; 8th file.
**- William Brooks, F; John Adams, R; 9th
file.

men and boats, to the place where the
enemy attacked us, and the lines of battle
were as follows:

1 1

E-

I I
I 'I-

I •

1 shows the line of Indians and British
concealed in a swamp; 2 shows Johnson's
horse; 3 shows the 1st and 2nd Regiments
of Kentucky Volunteers; 4, 5 and 6 show
the residue of the Kentucky Volunteers.

The charge was made by the horse, and
then retreated through the left of the front
line, and the same was attacked by the
enemy, and they (Johnson's horse) sup-
ported all of the action that was of any
consequence. The number of British pris-
oners taken, including all, was 472. Those
taken on our pursuit will likely make the
number 550. The boats, cannon, arms, mili-
tary stores, wagons and artillery carriages
will likely amount to $2,500,000.00.

On the 7th day of this month (October)
we left the battle ground, marched 3 miles;
on the 8th marched 22 miles; on the 9th

William Burgess, F; Hiram Bush, R; 10th
file.

Richard Johnson, F; B. W. EUsberry, R;
11th file.

Charles Hazelrigg, F; Stephen Bruher, R;
12th file.

George Eaton, F; W. W. Goodrich, R; 13th
file.

James Hamilton, F; Ransom Fluty, R;
14th file.

Samuel Martin, F; Aaron Wilcoxon, R;
15th file.

Jesse Wilcoxon, F; William Welch, R;
16th file.

William Bybee, F; Robert E. Martin, R;
17th file.

Samuel Tribble, F; William Rupard, R;
18th file.

25 miles; on the 10th 25 miles, and arrived
at Sandwich at 3 o'clock, being nine hours
on the march without a halt. What could
have induced such a rapid career I am at
a loss to know; and there was the least
order observed that ever was seen In a
Christian army, for on the last day every
two or three hundred yards you would find
men given out by the side of the road, oth-
ers sick, without horses, baggage-wagons,
officers or rations, except a little fresh
beef; and they were coming into camp till
the next day in the evening, and when they
came, some traveled 12 hours hunting their
respective divisions, brigades, regiments
and companies, owing altogether to this:
that the quartermaster did not lay off a
regular encampment; and I am certain that
the army was strung on the margin of the
River Detroit five miles, some in houses,
some in bams, and others in the fields; and
for 20 hours you were steadily accosted by
men inquiring for their regiments and com-
panies. I am well assured that in the dis-
order of our march down the River Tranch,
100 Indians hanging on our rear might with
safety have cut off double that number.

The day we arrived^at this place the hard-
est wind blew that I ever experienced, very
cold, with snow and sleet, which continued
all night.

The country, as far as I have seen it,
adapted to grass, wheat, oats potatoes, cab-
bage and turnips. The inhabitants gener-
ally French.

During our march up the rivers Tranch
and Thames we were finely quartered on
the enemy, for no sooner than the army
was carried on the ground of encampment
but all the rails were taken for firewood,
the hay for tents; hogs, cattle and sheep
taken at will. I am assured that in one
night various men have suffered to the
amount of $500. Whether they will be
indemnified by the government, or not, I can*
not say, but I suppose not, for all that were
so treated were represented to be un-
friendly to our cause.

October 12, 1813. Left Sandwich and
went down Detroit River four miles and
encamped that night. The night cold.

There were 100 bee stands taken from the
owner of the farm.

October 13th, we passed over the De-
troit River to the Michigan territory, and
the whole army landed at 2 o'clock that
afternoon, and the same night marched six
miles and encamped on the margin of the
river. The country is handsome, inter-
spersed with barrens and groves of woods;
the timbered land of a second quality, the
barrens inclining to be marshy.

October 14th, marched nine miles to
Brown's Town. This is a place where there
are about ten cabins of a moderate descrip-
tion, situated on or in the edge of a barren;
thence continued five miles to Huron River,
navigable for large boats, about 60 yards
wide, the surface of the water within three
feet of being level with the land. The coun-
try this day was handsome, the timbered
land being of an excellent quality, timbered
with burr oak, hickory, lynn, etc.

October 15th. After a wet night without
tents, we took up the line of march and
went 19 miles, passing Swan Creek at 6
miles, wading the same mid-thigh deep;
thence 4 miles to Stony Creek and 5 miles
to the River Raisin. This river is 100 yards
wide, it and the two former creeks are run-
ning currents into the lake, being the only
water courses I have seen putting into the
lake that were not eddy from 15 to 20 miles.
We passed the River Raisin where the
memorable defeat of Winchester took place.
Great numbers of human skulls and bones
were laid in different directions. This place
is beautiful to the eye, with houses on each
side of the river for a mile and a half, with
a large quantity of cleared land, excellent
orchards here and apples and peaches in
lull perfection.

October 16th. We this day marched 23
miles, 19 of it the road from River Raisin to
Fort Meigs, and through the woods to the
Maumee of the Lakes, striking the same
15 miles below Fort Meigs, where the river
is one mile wide. The country. we passed
through is beautiful and lacks for nothing
but water. I have not seen a spring in
traveling 60 miles on this side. This day's
march made many long faces, as we have

been on half allowance for four days, and
some bave been witbout for 24 bours past,
and all tbe chance for to take us three days
more to relief is nine small steers for 4,000
men, "without bread or salt

October 17th. We are now on the Miami
of the Lakes, and will cross today. Last
night- was a steady rain and it is at it yet;
men without tents, and a number have no
blankets, hard marching and short allow-
ances; a great many colds, etc. I fear the
effects of this route will be the cause of
the death of double the number of men we
lost in action, but I have supported it with-
out a murmur, and let what will happen, I
will bear it with philosophy.

A singular circumstance happened this
morning in my presence. One small beef
was killed for each regiment, and that be-
ing the whole prospect for four days, there
was close cutting for heads and plucks.
The commissary of our regiment attended
for the beef allotted us. A Colonel present
seized the plucks in a very voracious man-
ner; Our commissary reclaimed the same,
and took hold, and a scuffle ensued. The
Colonel held the liver and tlie commissary
got the lights. Neither party being sat-
isfied, it was adjourned to the Commander-
in-Chief, and he in a solemn manner al-
lowed each man to have what he got by the
game of snatch — and do so no more. This
is but a small specimen of the dignified
conduct of (some of) our military officers.

About 11 o'clock we began to embark to
cross the river. All the boats that were
brought to the shore yesterday evening
were left on dry land this morning, owing to
this: the wind had blown oft the bay up the
river the day before yesterday and swelled
the water two or three feet, and when the
wind subsided the water receded, and there
was a hard job to get the boats in, and
when in the water for 100 yards on each
side of the river was so shallow that a
boat would not swim with a burthen. Of
course we had that much wading to do, and
the wind, high, cold and blustery, ren-
dered the passage disagreeable, particularly
for the women that were with the prisoners.
They all had to wade crotch-deep; and our

men that were sick had they been at home
would have been in bed, but so great is
the power of necessity that they had to
share the fate of the rest, there being no
alternative.

Octover 18th. This day we traveled 25
miles in 9 hours without ever hiEUting
to rest or eat — indeed we had nothing to
eat; and waded one creek. On the next
day (Oct. 19), we traveled 12 miles and
reached Portage, where we had left our
horses, and on the morning of that day
there was a hard frost; and at one hour of
up sun, the whole army had to wade through
the lake a quarter of a mile, crotch-deep,
around the mouth of a creek which put in.
By the commander having sent ahead a
fatigue party of 50 men, there might have
been a bridge made in thirty minutes aboUt
the mouth, for it was only 30 yards across.
What the General's reason was for Jeopard-
izing the health and lives of men in that
way I cannot tell, but the whole movements
of the army since the actions does exceed
anything in the annals of history. For
4,000 men with 500 prisoners, with women
and children, to be marched 20 and 25 miles
per day and on half rations of beef without
salt is not on record. It appeared to me
more like a beaten army retreating before
the enemy than a victorious army return-
ing at ease with the trophies of success.

Here follows a list of the stages since
we left our horses at Portage. (This is
given in the body of the article on The Bat*
tie of the Thames, and need not be repeated
here).

October 19th and 20th, we remained at
Portage, and on the 20th it snowed and was
blustery, and at night a hard frost

October 21st, we took up the line of
march for Kentucky, and I then discovered
the effects of our hard marching, want of
regular support, tents, etc. A number of
men were carried sick on horses and others
in wagons, and directly I saw fresh graves
and more a-digglng; and on our progress- ^
ing some distance toward Lower Sandusky,
there lay a man dead, wrapped ia his blan-
ket, without any one with him, his friend
having gone in quest of means to bury him.

A little further on lay another corps. We
then passed the sick whose care (illegible).
On this morning we received General Or-
ders as follows:

Headquarters, Camp at the Mouth of Port
age, upon Lake Erie, 20th October, 1813.

The army having now arrived at this
place, it is the intention of the Command-
ing Oeneral that the troops move home-
wards as soon as possible; to this end the
whole will be in readiness to march early to-
morrow morning. The first division, under
command of General Henry, will march at
G o'clock, and proceed on together or in
brigades or regiments, as he shall Judge
most proper to facilitate their movements.
The route will be by lower and Upper San-
dusky, to Franklinton, by Chillicothe, to
Ohio (River) opposite Limestone, at which
place the whole army will be inspected and
mustered by a regular officer designated
for that purpose.

And here the Commander-in-Chief most
positively enjoins upon both officers and
men to regard the consequences of absent-
ing themselves from the camp before they
are mustered, as every man who is not
present to answer to his name personally
must be considered as » deserter, and will
forfeit his claim to any pay for his services.

The arms and accouterments are to be
deposited in the arsenal at Franklinton.
The character of the Kentuckians being
deeply involved In the conduct of the
troops on their march, the Commander-in-
Chief most ardently wishes to Impress upon
the minds of his fellow citizens, both offi-
cers and soldiers, the absolute necessity
for strict obedience to order and discipline,
that the troops move on in good order,
that they are not suffered to scatter over
the country or commit depredations of any
kind upon the inhabitants of Ohio State.
All infractions of the laws, whether civil
or military, will be punished with the ut-
most severity. The Com (There appears to
be a leaf missing from the diary here. —
A. C. Q.). unpleasant sensation which may
have arisen from that source, and that we
shall return home united as a band of

brothers, with the sweetest solace of hav-
ing served our country from the purest mo-
tives, and to the best of our abilities.

It is ordered that this order be published
to the army generally — ^that it be read to
the different brigades, regiments and com-
panies. ISAAC SHBLBt".

In pursuance of the discretion vested in
me by the above order, the first division
will march by regiments, the first regiment
will take the front, the other regiments will
follow in due succession, according to their
numbers. It is necessary to again urge the
strict execution of the above order.

WM. HENRY, M. G.

One circumstance respecting 'Lake Erie:
The concussion of the wind is so great
on the water that during our stay at Bass
Island there was a man who had been
killed in the late naval action (Perry's
Victory) and cast overboard with a 32-
pound cannon ball tied to him, was by the
excessive agitation of the water by the
wind cast on shore.

The following shows the total distance
we marched. (This was from Winches-
ter, Ky., to Moravian Town, Canada, and
back to Winchester, Ky. This itineran'
is given in full in the body of my article
on The Battle of the Thames, supra, and
need not be repeated here. — A. C. Q.).

(The little book contains numerous state-
ments of rations and forage drawn by Capt.
Sympson, for his company, and several mis-
cellaneous memoranda, such as: "1813, Aug.
22, lent Aaron Wilcoxon 6 shillings. Lent
Wm. Brooks 25 cents. Oct. 29, lent Alfred
Stevens 3 shillings. Oct. 31, lent Pleasant
Bush $3." Other loans were 6 shillings to
Jacob Williamson; the same amount to
Wm. :Moore, C. Cox and Ab. Lowe; and
"Lent Alfred Stevens $2 to buy bridle with
watch.")

Second Street. South Frankfort

CHAPTEE FIEST

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON.
May, 1899

Note — This paper belonging to the collection of
Chapters of the Streets of the Capital, was written and
read before the Society. Then the task of writing up
South Frankfort was one of little moment and not a
great deal of interest to any but the residents of the
homes. Now, however, since the new Capitol has been
located on this side of the river, South Frankfort has
become the cynosure of all eyes, as the site of the mag-
nificent Capitol built on one of its sloping picturesque
hillsides. The demand for a continuation of the history
of the streets has been made, and hence this the first
chapter, of the Streets of South Frankfort, is published
and will be followed by Main street, now Capitol avenue,
Shelby street, Steele street, etc., as they are prepared.

SECOND STREET, SOUTH FRANKFORT.

By Mrs. Jennie C. Morton.

There is before me^ a plat of
this, we think the better half of the
Capital. It was drawn by one Wil-
liam Steele, February 10, 1796.
This yellow-stained document, ob-
tained through the politeness of Mr.
N. B. Smith, clerk of the county
court, is written in beautiful
penmanship, and runs thus: '*The
plan of that part of the town of
Frankfort lying on the south side of
the Kentucky River; the lots and
streets running to the cardinal
]>oints agreeable to the magnetic
meridian. Main and Cross streets
^re 99 feet wide, and all of the
other streets are 66 feet wide. The
vMeys are 16 feet wide. The streets
are 99 feet in front, and running
back to the alley 190 feet. Laid

(lowa bv ' — of 20 Jos.

Punch. T

* * William Steele. ' '

Feb. 10, 1796.

Water Street, the first thorough-
fare Of the plat, runs along ihc
river side about four blocks, then
comes Second Street. That begins
at the foot of a cliff below and west
of Ewing Street, the only named
avenue below Conway Street, which
runs south from the river below the
St. Clair Street bridge, a short
passway from its entrance on the
south side. This bridge, built in
1894, is the successor to four

bridges, one after another, built
over the Kentucky River from the
north to the south side. The first
one, built in 1811-12, fell in (See
Collin's History, Vol. 1). We mil
not write of the quick sand along
the south end. It is still a menace
there.

The first residence known to have
been built on the western end of
. Second Street was that of Mrs.
Elizabeth Humphries, erected in
1802-03. When the house was torn
away some years ago, on the under
side of the broad marble door step
was carved ''1803." Notices of this
residence have been made, and full
description of the place may be
found in the story of the ''Old
Homes of Frankfort," under the
title of the *'Haggin House," writ-
ten in 1895, and also a letter read
by Mrs. Barrett before the meeting
of the ''Colonial Daughters" in
May, 1896, in the "Daily Capital"
of May 9 of that year. The resi-
dence was owned by Judge Drane,
and was sometimes called "The
ITaggin House," because of its be-
ing once the residence of this tal-
ented, historic people, several mem-
bers of which moved to California,
and one became a millionaire, now
known as the multi-millionaire,
James B. Haggin. It was built by
Mrs. Humphries (sister of John

and James Brown), then of this
city, when she eame from Virginia
to Kentucky — a widow in 1802.
Mrs. Humphries was the fi^rand-
mother of Mrs. Ben Hardin Helm,
well known here as one of the most
beautiful women in Kentucky in
ante helium days. She was Miss
Emily Todd, sister of Mrs. Abra-
ham Lincoln.

Since these notices were pub-
lished Judge Drane has died and
the family of this distinguished
citizen has moved away. The house
is closed and silent and there is
nothing now to indicate the elegant
grounds that surrounded it in early
times, and invested it with a charm
of romance of realistic splendor.

Tlie city school building occupies
the handsome grounds on the east
of it and was once a part of the fa-
mous old place. The city school
building first erected here in 1868
was burned, and in 1887 the present
one was erected. As the school was
increased so largely in numbers the
old house (Haggin house) was ap-
propriated for an annex, and finally
torn awav to make room for minor
departments of the overcrowded
public school. **Sic transit gloria"
is written over nearly all sucli
dwelling houses now (1913) in the
citj'. Opposite the above lots,
across the street is the residence of
Mr. Meagher, built in 1889-90. It
was the propertv in the earlier
years of this century of Lough-
borough, a prominent lawyer at the
time, and son-in-law of Judge James
Haggin. At one time it was owned
by ]\[rs. Jouott. Mrs. Sarah Jouett
lived here for many years. She
was a niece of President Zachary
Taylor, granddaughter of Col.

Richard Taylor of pioneer times,
and the widow of Col. Jouett, U. S-
A., brother of the celebrated artist,
Matthew Jouett. She came to
Frankfort in 1860 and bought this
house from the Loughborough heirs
in 1863. She died in 1889, 72 years
of age ; a woman of fine intelligence
and a greatly beloved christian
lady. The upper part of this lot
west was divided into building lots
and M]r. Arch Overton, cashier of
the Fanners Bank, bought the lot
adjoining Mr. Meagher and built a
residence there in 1886. Mrs. Gar-
rett bought the adjoining lot west
of him and built there in 1888. Mr.
John T. Buckley owning the small
house and lot west of Mrs. Garrett
built in 1890. This brings Second
Street west to a terminus — the cliffs
and turnpikes at their feet — leading
south to Louisville and north to
Bellepoint addition, forming its
western close. It is now known as
Taylor Avenue, named in honor of
E. H. Taylor, Jr., whose elegant
suburban residence is a mile above
on the Louisville turnpike. Be-
yond Ewing Street, a narrow pass-
way cut across a gorge at the foot
of Meagher's lot, now the property
of Z. F. Montgomery, w^e find the
residence of Judge Joseph Lewis
(now residence of W. S. Farmer)
beautifully situated on a grassy
knoll, commanding a lovely view of
the river, the wharf, and the hand-
some Government building above it
on the north side. This residence
was built by George Watson, grand-
son of the famous John J. Critten-
den. JMr. Watson only resided
there a few years, when he removed
to Chicago, and sold the place to E.
H. Taylor, Jr., from whom Judge

Lewis purchased it, and from whom
later Mr. Farmer purchased* it.

Conway Street divides this lot
from the Hanna House and
grounds, once the pride and beauty
of the South Side. Our pen loving-
ly lingers at its gateway of iron,
for here memory holds so many
pretty pictures of beauty in the
spring time, when a school girl we
would pass by and look with child-
ish delight at the lovely and rare
trees in bloom, the beautiful flower-
beds, environed by the blue grass,
velvety and clean of leaf and twig,
and the whispering fountain near
the gate, where birds of every wing
came to drink and sing. The dear
old home I

''Birth has gladdened it, death has easctt

fled It."
"No dower of storied song is thine

Oh! Oh desolate abode.
Forth from thy gates no glittering line

Of lance and spear hath flowed —
Tet — 1 need but pluck yon garden flower

Tram where the wild weeds rise
To wake with strange and sudden power

A thousand sympathies."

This handsome white brick house
of colonial architecture was built in
1817-18 by John W. Hunt, of Lex-
ington, Kentucky, for his daughter,
Mrs. John H. Hanna. Col. J. Stod-
dard Johnston, the living encyclo-
pedia of Kentucky history, writes
me in a letter of April 1, 1899, **It
was modeled after Mr. Hunt's
home, afterward the home of Gen-
eral John H. Mjorgan's mother.
Second and Broadway, Lexington,
Ky., built in 1803. Mrs. Morgan
and Mrs. Hanna were sisters,
daughters of John W. Hunt. Situ-
ated as it is, opposite the old Capi-
tol, or the North Side, and com-

manding a delightful view of the
city up and down the river in front,
and of the hills north, east and
west, it has been the cherished hope
of many of the citizens that the
State would yet buy this historic old
home, and remodel it for the Gov-
ernor's mansion or other public
building. It might then suggest in
similar situation a miqptture of the
White House at Washington. Our
citizens should preserve this old
home as one of its landmarks —

The country would en8l\;1ne.
That hn,y^ and fearless band.
At risk of Indian's torch of flame.
To beautify our land.
They made Kentucky what she was,
Her homes of **Auld Lang Syne/'
Should now be kept as flags of Cause
The country would enshrine.

Mr. John H. Hanna was one of
the first citizens of Frankfort to
buy property on the South Side and
build a handsome home. He was
clerk of the United States Court in
this city from the time of its es-
tablishment here, and through his
enterprise many improvements
were projected for the city that re-
main as his memorials today.
(1913.)

We have been told a little joke
concerning Mr. Hanna and Larkin
Samuel that we will insert Eere.
He was a very courtly and polite
man, and when he and his friend,
Mr. Samuel, became candidates for
the same office there was a tie in
the vote. Mr. Hanjja voted for his
opponent, Mr. Samuel following his
example in voting, remarked: **He
had always the profoundest regard
for Mr. Hanna 's opinion of men,
and as he voted he would also, ' ' and
voted for himself, so Mr. Hanna

H. R.— 3

was defeated by his politeness, and
Mr. Samuel was elected.

Mr. Hanna and his estimable wife
have been dead many years. This
property is still in possession of
their heirs, nieces and nephews
whom they adopted, children of
Mr. J. Hunt Reynolds, deceased.
The old house is now lused and
abused as an apartment house*

The adjoining lot and residence,
across an alley from the above, is
the property of the Chile *s heirs.
It was built in 188—, is a modem
structure of brick, pleasantly situ-
ated, commodious and handsome.
The opposite building on the corner
occupies the site of the Ooleman
Tavern of 1850-52, a well known inn
on the South Side to travelers in
the first half of this century (1899).
It was then bought by Mr. H. R.
Williams and converted into a large
wholesale and retail grocery. It
belongs now to the Farmers Bank,
and is occupied as a grocery by Mr.
Scottow.

The adjoining house and lot,
fronting both on Second street and
the river, is the property of Gen-
eral D. W. Lindsay. It was built
ty Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, who
resided there until his death in
1823. He was Secretary of State
under Governor Adair. Afterward
it became the property of John
Herndon, a well known lawyer,
father of Mrs. Archibald Dixon, of
Henderson, Ky., John Herndon, of
Louisville, Kv., Mrs. Felicia Julian
and Miss Annie Herndon, of Frank-
fort. After the Civil War General
Lindsey bought the property and
has remodeled the house, making it
one of the handsomest houses of
South Frankfort— a villa by the

river side, embowered in fine trees
and lovely shrubs.

The opposite square belongs to
Miss Hallie Herndon, wEo has her-
self written its history (which we
append to this chapter). The
house on the opposite comer south
is the property of Col. Thomas
Rodman, President of the Farmers
Bank (now deceased). It is one of
three homes remaining as moun-
ments to the generosity and, affec-
tion of Mr. John Hanna, He owned
the square in 1813, one hundred
years ago. After he built^ or rather
moved into the Hanna house, built
for his wife by her father, Mr.
Hunt, of Lexington, before men-
tioned, Mr. Hanna then began to
clear away this square fronting on

Steele Street, and in built

three houses upon it after the same
plan, a quaint style of house seen
often in northern cities. These
homes were given to his three
nieces. The residence of Col. Bod-
man was then the property of Mrs.
Triplett, Col. Bodman had been

living here since . During

the lifetime of his accomplished and
gifted wife, Mrs. Julia W. Bodman,
it was the seat of hospitality and
cheer. She was one of the choice
spirits of the famous Frankfort
Lyceum, and this brilliant assem-
blage of the talent and wit of this
cultured little Capital was often
gathered in her drawing room, al-
ways proudly welcomed by both
host and hostess. It is a lovely
"^ home, with great trees shading the
spacious grounds and garden. The
next house to this, on a lot taken
from it, is Mr. Crutcher's modem
home surrounded by a flower garden.

The adjoining home is the prop-
erty of Mrs. Edmonia Hawkins
Martin Burton. In the spring of
1880 this place was a well known
dimple in the square unpopularly,
but truthfully known, as a sink-hole.
It was bought by an enterprising
grocer of the city, Thomas Rodman,

Jr., nephew of Col. Thomas Rod-
man, the banker. He had it filled
and erected there the handsome
frame resideuce, at present occu-
pied as a boarding house. After
the death of his first wife, Mrs.
Emma Berry Rodman, Thomas
Rodman sold the place to Dick
Tate, then Treasurer of the State,
who fled Kentucky in 1887, on ac-
count of trouble in his office. His
wife held it by some technicality of
law, not yet understood, and re-
sided there until her death in 1894.
Then by the same mysterious legal
language or construction of title, it
passed to her daughter. No be-
quests were made to Mr. Tate's
bondsmen that we can learn of
whose property went for his debts.
Opposite this is the property
made famous by two most distin-
guished Kentuckians, Governor
Morehead and Col. J. Stoddard
Johnston, who owned it, and as part
of the school property of ** Arca-
dia" at one time also. In 1833, as
Ave see on the deed books of the
county court here, this whole square
was conveyed to Charles S. More-
head, afterward Governor of Ken-
tucky, for $6,000. He had the pres-
ent house built upon it in 1833, by
Harrison Blanton, a brick contrac-
tor at that time. He resided there
many years, then upon being sent
to Congress in 1847-1851, he rented
the place to Dr. Stuart Robinson

as a boarding house for the over-
flow from his own over-crowded
residence, * * Arcadia. ' * Governor
Morehead became Chief Magistrate
of the State in 1855. In 1859, when
his term expired, he removed to
Louisville, and the place was sold
to Mr. John Norton, rector of the
Episcopal Church here. He also
removed to Louisville, and Col. J.
Stoddard Johnston, whom all Ken-
tucky knows, and all Frankfort
loves and honors, bought the prop-
erty, paying for the square in 1869
the sum of $16,000. He removed to
Louisville, and the property is now
in the hands of the Farmers Bank
(1899). Major Henry T. Stanton,
the poet laureate of Kentucky, un-
til he died in 1898, once resided
there, and for several years it was
occupied by Mrs. Loula B. Long-
moor, Regent of the Court of Ap-
peals from September, 1890, to
September, 1898. It is still known
as the Stoddard Johnston home, as
he lived there for twenty years, and
entertained in its parlors the most
distinguished men and women in
the nation, and the old place re-
flected for so many years his cul-
tured tastes, his genial hospitality
and loving kindness to all. (It is
now the home of Judge J. P. Hob-
son, of the Court of Appeals.)
(1913.)

On the opposite square was once
the property of Dr. Stuart Robin-
son. It is known that South Frank-
fort was once the property of pio-
neers. Collin *s History of Ken-
tucky, Vol. 2, page 249, has the fol-
lowing concerning this part of the
city: ''The most of South Frank-
fort was included in the east part
of a 500-acre survey of George

negittisr of th« Kentucky State Historical tfociety.

Campbell in 1789, the extreme
southern portion of it having been
embraced in the northeast corner of
the 1,000-acre survey of George
Mason in 1784. The surveys sur-
rounding or adjoining the city were
—in 178a— two of William Haydon
of 425 and 1,000 acres each, on the
east, and in 1784 on the north, Han-
cock Lee's of 500 and Edmund
Lyne's of 400 acres/* Here it will
be seen that this particular square
lAy in the tracts of Hancock Lee
and Edmund hyne. It is numbered
on the plat made in 1796. Among
the earliest owners and settlers on
this square was Mr. Hensley. From
records in the County Court Clerk's
office we find Ben Hensley the first
owner of this square. He sold to
Chapman Coleman. Coleman sold
to 0. G. Cates, who it is said built
the house in 1831-32. He sold the
square to Rev. Jos. J. Bullock, Bul-
lock sold to Stuart Robinson,
Robinson, to Philip Fall, Fall
to Mr. McMurdey, McMurdey to W.
A. Gaines & Co. The heirs sold it
to James Hughes.

The present house was improved
previous to 1848-49 when Dr.
Stuart Robinson, a distinguished
Presbyterian preacher bought the
square. He enlarged the dwelling
and built a schoolhouse of three or
four rooms on the southwest corner,
on the spot where now stands the
handsome three-story residence of
Mr. Turner, for years the principal
of the Turner Institute here. (Now
the property of Mrs. Loula B. Long-
moor. (1913.) Dr. Robinson called
the place *' Arcadia,'* and it was
well named. A beautiful garden of
rare plants and lovely flowers sur-
rounded the residence, and trees no

where else found on this continent
grew in luxuriance here. He
founded a school for young ladies,
and it was one of the largest and
most successful institutions of that
kind ever established here. Dr.
Robinson himself taught a number
of classes in Latin and mathematics
and history, and thus assisted his
competent corps of teachers. At
the same time that he conducted
this school he was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of this
city. His fame as an orator at-
tracted such crowds to his church
that its seating capacity was
overtaxed ; admiring strangers
filled galleries and aisles, and often
windows too, to hear the great
preacher of that day. He outgrew
this little city, that had founded and
fostered his talent, and, as the Capi-
tal of the State, made conspicuous
his genius and his oratory. He
received many calls from other
places, complimentarv and advan-
tageous alike, but finally decided to
go to Baltimore, and there took
charge of an independent church,
usually called the Duncan Church.
He had lived in Frankfort a little
more than six years. In 1859 the
General Assembly removed Dr.
Robinson to the Danville Theologi-
cal Seminary from Baltimore. In
1860 he removed to Louisville to
live and became the pastor of the
Second Church. ** Arcadian Insti-
tute was no more.*'

In a memorial (received' since
writing the above), written of Dr.
Robinson in 1881, after his death in
Louisville, we read the following
paragraph of his preaching here:
'*He was a grand preacher, a most
attractive pulpit orator. Crowds

>f people attended his ordinary
^iabbath services, and during the
sittings of the Legislature his
flinrch was always filled to its ut-
most capacity. He was then, as
c^ver afterward, a preacher of the
l>lain and simple doctrines of the
i;'ospel. In Frankfort, as he had
done at Maiden, and as he after-
ward did at Baltimore and Louis-
ville, he built a large and expensive
cliurch. There too, as before stated,
lie superintended a large female
boarding school, teaching the ad-
vanced classes himself, Mrs. Robin-
son taking charge of the boarding
department. In Frankfort, even
before he had reached the age of
^'5, he did some of the most power-
ful and popular preaching of his
whole ministerial life." (Page 17.)
Rev. Mr. McMurdy and Rev.
Philip Fall succeeded Dr. Robinson
in this famous old home. Later on
Major Walker resided there.
Major Henry T. Stanton, poet
laureate of Kentucky, lived there
for years, and wrote some of his
most famous poems sitting under
its rare old trees listening to the
Peter-bird, singing in the branches
of the Jinko tree which he has im-
mortalized in a song called the
*' Peter-bird. " He revived its dis-
tinction— the most illustrous peo-
ple of the day visiting him there —
so its history is embellished with
famous memories. Here he wrote:

"There's silence out in these mystical bills
There's silence over the voiceful riUs

And earth to all of its sorrowful thrills
In the feyer of day is dead."

In recent years it was bought
by Mr. James Hughes, a lumber
merchant. The old house has been
remodeled and much improved.

The square on the north of
the house had previously been
sold and divided into building
lots. Miss Blakemore bought the
first lot sold, adjoining the original
home lot, where the beautiful gar-
den of other days blossomed with
lovely flowers. She had erected
there a handsome modern house.
It was first occupied by Maj. Hale,
Treasurer of the State, during his
term of office. He was succeeded
by George W. Long, Treasurer, who
also leased the house during his
term, which expired December 1st,
1899. The house and lot adjoining-
is the property of Mrs. Emma Saf-
fell. The third lot is the property
of John T. Buckley, and his resi-
dence there is one of the handsom-
est in South Frankfort. This lot
finishes the square.

On the southwest corner of the
square, on the corner of Second and
Main, is the residence of Judge
Williams. Adjoining his lot is the
home and large grocery building of
Mr. Sallender, Councilman. Be-
yond this square and the foot-
bridge is a lumber yard, and beyond
this a number of homes belonging to
and occupied by negroes.

On the south side of Second
Street opposite there are only two
squares of importance, one being
opposite ** Arcadia," of which we
have before written. One half of
this square is a park of beautiful
trees. Adjoining this pretty wood-
land is the property of George W.
Lewis. He has erected a pretty
home and resides there with his
family. The lot adjoining his is
owned and occupied by Mrs. Loula
B. Longmoor, who in 1894 erected
a beautiful modern residence there»

Adjoining her lot is the handsome
home of Mr. Stagg, formerly owned
and built by Mr. Presley Gray in
1896. The adjoining lot is the
property of Mr. Charles Exmn.
This house was built by Harrison
Johnston, brother of Col. J. Stod-
dard Johnston, and was the first
one built on this square besides the
main residence, owned and erected
by Charles S. Morehead in 1833.
This beautiful lot was sold by Col.
Johnston to his brother as an es-
pecial favor, that he might have
him near. He resided there until
his death, when Matt Johnson, of
Lexington, bought the property and
presented it to the wife of Col. J.
Stoddard Johnston.

The street railway popularized
Second Street and made this prop-
erty the beginning of a series of
homes upon this famous square.
The lots sold from it have more
than surpassed the original price
of the whole square in 1869, which
was $16,000. Every lot on this
square is sold and occupied by
handsome homes today. (1913.)
The Exum property is on the cor-
ner of Second and Main, and above
northeast of it is the Berry prop-
erty. This elegant square has
never been invaded by any home
save the handsome one in the
centre.

This finishes Second Street, save
the Herndon square, on which is
located the well known South Side
Grocery store of J. Heeney, and of
which Miss Herndon will write in
her supplement to this chapter.

**Thb Herndon Square on SECoyB

Street.

Written and read by Miss Hallie Hendcn
before the Society of "Colonial Dan^teR
1897. It was a supplement In tlie chapter
of Second Street, written by Mrs. Jennie C
Morton, and afterwards rea^ before th^
Historical Society (1901).— Hallie Herndon

Chapter 1.

Mrs. Morton has written np Sec-
ond Street so admirably and given
such a charming account of the old
homes, there is little for me to sufu
plement, yet as she has requested
a history of this particular square
on Second Street, I will try and
supply it from the record and pic-
tures from memory of it.

It may be of interest to us to
know, as I have obtained the knowl-
edge from the court records, that
my great-grandfather, Matthew
Clark, owned the whole of Second
Street, the Frankfort valley south
included. He owned the land on the
south side fronting on the river, ex-
tending four miles in each direction,
making a tract of land four mile>
square, including Fleetwood Farm
on the Louisville turnpike. Thi-
tract of land includes the farm tkit
Matthew Clark gave to his son.
Joseph Clark, at the time of his
marriage, and is now in possession
of his son, Charles J. Clark (the
architect). It also included
Matthew Clark's homestead. The
old house was burned, but it for-
merly occupied the site where now
Mr. E. H. Hughes built his resi-
dence. His claim antedates, it i>
said, all other claims.

Matthew Clark reared a large
family and was devoted to the in-
terest of his children. This valua-

l>le tract here was sacrificed to pav
seciaritv dpbts, and it is now the
oity of South Frankfort. When
South Frankfort was first settled it
^^iras for a number of years a sepa-
rate corporation from North Frank-
fort and had its own trustees,

amonf^ the first of these were Mr.
Jack Hanna, Mr. Larkin Samuel,
and my father, William T. Hern-
don, of Second Street. There were
very few houses in it at that time.
These trustees were influential,
after many years, in getting North
Frankfort to receive South Frank-
fort into its corporate limits, mak-
ing one city. This was accom-
plished in 1847, or about 1850 when
the two became one city. In this
year William T. Herndon bought
the residence on the corner of Sec-
ond and Steele Streets from Mr.
George Robinson. It was unfin-
ished at the time but upon its com-
pletion he moved his family into
the house. It is well built, and was
the pride of Mr. Peter Jett, who
was the contractor and carpenter
who erected it. He regarded* it as
one of the best built frame houses
in the city. (He died many years
ago.)

William T. Herndon married La-
vinia Clark, daughter of Joseph
Gark, and granddaughter of
Matthew Clark, the original owner
of Second Street and the valley of
South Frankfort. William T.
Herndon 's brief span of life closed
at the age of thirty-six. His con-
temporaries continue to laud his
virtues, his unceasing activities,
and his devotion to the public wel-
fare. He was a lawyer and a sher-
iff under the old Constitution, and
was repeatedly elected to this of-

fice. All his business ventures were
successful. He was one of the direc-
tors of the Farmers Bank and was
a deacon for years in the First
Presbyterian Church of this city,
and transacted the business in con-
nection with building the church at
the west end of Main Street.

The lot facing the river on the
Herndon Square was identified in
early days by a log house, located
about the center and occupied by
the ferryman, Mr. Trimble, who
had charge of the ferry boat then
running from the north to the south
side of the river. This was done
away with when the bridge was
built across the river, at the foot of
St. Clair Street, 1811. He was the
same person, who was afterward
police judge of South Frankfort,
for it then had its own corporation.

Just where Mr. James Heeney's
grocery now is, there stood a white
cottage, where lived Mr. Leonard,
whose son afterward became a fa-
mous Presbyterian minister. He
Lwed in California. The three-
story brick house below the cottage
toward the river was built for a
schoolhouse, and residence, and was
the first house of this kind in this
part of South Frankfort. Mr. Sam
Harris was the first teacher there,
he was, though a singular man, then
considered a fine teacher. He had,
we have been told, the novel method
of singing out the alphabet, the
spelling and geography lesson as
well. He after a few years moved
to Henderson, Kentucky. This was
the first school, and was succeeded
by others we will mention hereafter^

Herndon Square was called for
my father, and the beginning of its;
history should have been taken up(

R^gitUr of th« Kentucky ^UU Historical Socitty.

on First or Water Street, in the
days when the ferry boat plied
from Ann Street on the north side
to Herndon's wharf. It was on the
South Side, near Herndon^s wharf,
where the skirmish with the Indians
took place with Captain William
Bryan and a small company of men
who were in camp there. The man,
Stephen Frank, was killed in the
encounter, and it has been said that
from that skirmish, and the death
of Frank, that our city took its
name. It is hoped that some day, a
tablet will be erected there to mark
the historic spot.

Second Street has been noted for
its schools, some of them famous.
On the corner of Second and Shelby
Streets was Dr. Stuart Robinson's
school for younff ladies, mentioned
in Mrs. Morton's paper, then after
Dr. Robinson, came Dr. McMurdy,
and Rev. Philip Fall, also Dr. Dodd,
then Mr. Plumley. It was kno\vn
as the Eclectic Institute. Mr.
Stephens succeeded Mr. Plumley,
and Prof. Turner both of them,
lie bought the property and con-
verted it into a boarding school.
But the central point of interest for
us on Second street is the dear old
home of my childhood, flanked by
its beautiful old-fashioned garden
of flowers.

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land."

This famous garden was ar-
ranged by Carmichael. I think of
it now with its rows of roses of
every variety, and its long ribbon
beds of white lilies, standing like
sheeted sentinels around the four
sides of the large square, with
seven large beds filled with

sweet violets, spring and fall^
wafting their fragrance far
and near. Mrs. General Clark
often said, it was diffienlt to
walk by the Hemdon Square, where
there was so much to tempt one to
linger in such a delightful atmos-
phere of roses, honeysuckles, pinks
and geraniums. Such are my
memories of my old home, and my
noble mother, the genius of the
place. The Hemdon home, as the
people of Frankfort know, was
made by her a hospitable home for
friends and relations. She reared
her family, and educated her chil-
dren, after the death of her hus-
band. And it was said of her, she
was wise in all her transactions,
and successful in her undertakings.
Herndon Square is in the memory
of her family and friends, forever
associated with her. She was the
person who made it one of the show
places of the city, by her judgment,
her culture and her taste.

Editor The Eegisteb:

Please write us about the historic
places or spots in Frankfort. An-
swer: Frankfort is the shrine of
history in Kentucky, consequently
it is difficult to separate places,
identified as historic in the city.
The most historic and oldest spot in
the city is a lot on Wapping and
Wilkinson Street, known as the
Love place. It, was in the old hon^^e
that the first Legislature fnet in
Frankfort. It was there Aaron
Burr met his conspirators. There
General Lafayette visited the dis-
tinguished and beautiful widow,
Mrs. Love, and wore upon the lapel
of his coat a spray of wild roses she
gave him when he bade her adieu.

There the first sermon was
preached in Frankfort, and the first
Sunday School was organized south
of the Allegheny Mountains, etc.
This fact was emphasized at the
meeting of the World's Sunday
Schools in Washington, when Mrs.

Morton told of it there, and pre-
sented the pictures and history to
its superintendent of illustrations.
The cemetery is a necropolis of
world-wide fame, being the burial
place of famous soldiers, poets and
statesmen.

STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL AND
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

KENTUCKIANS DID THEIR PART

GEORGE BABER.

THE STRUGGLE FOR QVIL AND REUGIOUS UBERTY

KENTUCKIANS DID THEIR PART.

By GBOttGE BaB£B.

The Jamestown Exposition of
1907 is recalled as an important
event in the history of Virginia.
On the 16th of July during its
progress^ a ** unique*' demonstra-
tion was made by nearly three thou-
sand persons, including a large
delegation of enthusiastic Ken-
tuekianSy who assembled in the
grounds about the extemporized
* ' Fort Boonesborough, ' ' in celebra-
tion of Kentucky Day. The orator
of the occasion, representing his
native State, was Mr. William
Rogers Clay, of Lexington, whose
appropriate address, while bestow-
ing a befitting tribute uopn James-
town as the earliest seat of free
government in the Old Dominion,
portrayed the development of civil
liberty not only in Kentucky, but
throughout the civilized world. In
the course of the address appears
the following eloquent passage:

** Liberty did not mature in a
day. Oppression was its nurse
and watched its growth with jeal-
ous eyes. But liberty grew, and
like every other child, finally be-
came the master of the nurse that
once held it helpless in her arms.
In Greece it was that liberty's voice
was first heard in gentle murmur,
Imt it was hushed. It was then
heard in Rome, but was soon stilled.

It was again heard when the Italian
republics rose and fell, but once
more it was stilled. Next we hear
it at Bunnymede when the Magna
Charta was exacted from King
John. Louder and louder it grew
with each passing year. But it was
not until Jamestown was settled
that liberty's voice was heard in
tones that were never to be silenced.
I shall not attempt to portray the
struggles of the early settlers of
Virginia. Their heroism is a part
of the glorious history of this splen-
did Commonwealth. But the same
scenes that were enacted here were
re-enacted by their descendants
across the mountains that lie on
your west. Boone and Kenton,
Harrod and Estill, and a host of
others, braved the savage. We
Kentuckians of this day read with
terror, and yet with pride, of Blue
Lick and Bryan Station, and we all
know that the fall of Old Vincennes
contributed almost as much to the
success of the American Revolution
as the fall of Yorktown itself.' You
did your part, we did our part.
Americans everywhere did theirs,
and the liberty we now enjoy is the
precious fruit of the sacrifices of
those inspiring days.'*

This graphic account of the his-
toric growth of civil and religious

liberty, from a Kentuckian's point
of view, affords a suggestive text
for a more elaborate consideration
of the theme.

Every page in the history of civil
and religious liberty bears the im-
press of Heaven's own righteous
favor; and that struggle in its be-
half which, through well nigh
twenty centuries, has been deepen-
ing and widening among the chil-
dren of men, is radient with a
promise which unites the Saxon
race to the sleepless Providence of
God. The noblest lesson of the cen-
turies past is that, truth, enthroned
in the hearts of men, pales not at
the frowns of disaster, however
great, but dares to do, with fearless
power, its essential work for good;
that truth, like the sword of the
dauntless rider in battle, displays
its brilliant form to best advantage
when planting its unyielding metal
against the battlements of error, or
measuring its trustful blade with
the oppressor's rod. This lesson is
part of the precious legacy be-
queathed to mankind by the Genius
of Civil and Religious freedom,
whose first decisive triumph lit the
fields of the Reformation, when the
German Commonwealths had
awakened to the alarm sounded by
Luther and Melancthon, who im-
personated the period in which they
lived.

Revolutions in Government as
shown by the eloquent words of Mr.
Clay, which supply our text, enable
us to reckon the successive develop-
ments of the race. They are the
new births in the moral and politi-
cal world, and are invariably ac-
companied by marks of battle and
of blood,

For all the past of Time reTeala
A bridal dawn ot thunder peals,
Wberever tbougbt halh wedded fact.

History seldom records a period
of stagnation in the evolution of
events. The great impulses of
thought and action among men
move ever onward to the fulfillment
of an expanding destiny. It is lit-
tle less than three thousand years
since the parent stock of the Saxon
race set out from Asia — the mother-
land of nations — in search of sub-
sistence and dominion. Both lan-
guage and tradition point to North
era India as its original abode. To
this race Providence had assigned
an imperial destiny. Strong and
free before Greece and Rome were
born, it was destined to be strong
and free when phalanx and legion
had passed away. Century after
century biding its time, it was, at
last, on the ruins of all former civil-
ization to rear a moral empire that
should embrace and christianize
the world. And our ancestors lin-
gered not by the fertile margin of
the Indus, nor in the perfumed
plains of Persia, but sought a
sterner nature in the icy regions of
the North. They passed the waters
of the Caspian — passed the rock
where Prometheus "was chained —
right onward into the depths of the
Northern forest, and to the very
shores of a frozen sea. At length
the vanguard of the Teutonic host
approached the coast of Britain.
They first conquered the Picts for
the Britons, and then the Britons
for themselves. "Well might the
nerveless barbarians, who had so
long borne the Roman chain, look
upon these Sea Kings as invincible.
They were pants in strength, and

fpants in will. The emblem on their
banners was a war-horse, and their
very name signified a sword. At
length, near the close of the thir-
teenth century, after various revo-
lutions and conquests, by a union
of three branches of the Teutonic
with the ancient Britons was
formed the Anglo-Saxon race.

Thus, each succeeding age dis-
plays its own marks of progress,
crowning with additional glory the
work of centuries past. But the
course of civilization has not been,
all along, a pathway of sunshine
and of peace. It has often seemed
strangely uncertain to mortal eye —
now, through clouds and tempest —
now, over rugged heights of
tyranny — then, along the borders of
. human degradation — and, then,
through some new development of
thought, opening out into the
broader light of human progress.
Thus the history of the Crusades,
in their bearing on the progress of
the world, illustrates the fact that a
grand purpose is often accom-
plished by means that seem produc-
tive of evil only. These manifesta-
tions of religious bigotry involved
incalculable suffering and the de^
struction of hundreds of thousands
of lives, all immolated, as it were,
upon the altar of fanaticism. But
from this epoch in the course of
great events the philosopher of his-
tory has drawn a lesson of ines-
timable value. By reason of the
Crusades, a vast surplus population
was removed from western Europe.
Knowledge was acquired concern-
ing modes of life different from
those which had prevailed in Euro-
pean States; commercial relations
were established between the East

and the West; the energies of the
public mind were invigorated, its
aspirations heightened, and the
necessary preparations made for a
yet greater stride toward condi-
tions of enlightenment. The spirit
of enterprise began to stir the
hitherto darkened minds of millions.
Great throbbings were heard in the
heart of the nations. Inspired by
the love of freedom, Martin Luther
fearlessly sprang to his feet, bear-
ing in one hand the written message
of Truth, and grasping with the
other the flaming torch of Freedom.
Then followed the drama of the
Reformation, and then, too, were
planted those germs which subse-
quently brought forth the rarest
flowers of christian civilization.

Thus, the closing years of the fif-
teenth century, when the human
race awoke to its exalted mission,
gave birth to that great revolution
which, under control of the Saxon,
was destined to destroy dynasties,
open new channels of communica-
tion among nations, and lay the
foundations of free and enlightened
institutions. The mighty current
of popular intelligence which then
poured forth on the world had been
deepening and lengthening its
course *till it promised to belt the
Gilobe. The Anglo-Saxon, carrying
the English Bible, has visited every
quarter of the earth; and, now,
wherever the English tongue is
spoken may be bound the footprints
of civilization. The invention of
printing; the discovery of our
Western Continent, predestined as
the favorite seat of Civil Liberty;
the Protestant Reformation; the
establishment of Magna Charta;
and the English Revolution of 1688

all pointed with unerring cer-

tainty, to the founding of the Gov-
ernment whose corner stone is the
declaration of 1776, and whose pro-
portions were cemented by the
blood of the revolution. Thus,
American Freedom and the institu-
tions bequeathed to the present
generation are the best results of all
the past. They are everywhere en-
riched by man's grandest achieve-
ments.

^ How sacred, then, is our obliga-
tion to maintain this legacy. All
the heroic sacrifices of the wise and
great of preceding centuries, alike,
admonish us to preserve this
precious gift which is not to our-
selves alone but to millions yet un-
born. The hallowed dead can never
be forgotten whilst the spirit of
patriotism endures — ^that spirit
which, having awakened the infant
sleep of freedom in the East, was
borne onward with ever-increasing
power until the dawn of American
Independence broke upon these
Western shores in response to the
unconquerable sway of the English
speaking race. And, so, the annals
of Runnymede, of Cressy and of
Bannockburn are linked forever
with the imperishable names of
Lexington, Yorktown, Monmouth,
Guilford, and King's Mountain —
the last-named battlefield owing
its glory mainly to Isaac Shelby,
the hero who there turned the tide
for Washington in the final days of
the Revolution, and who was Ken-
tucky's first chief magistrate. The
victories won on these battlefields
gave renewed impulse to the move-
ment for civil and religious free-
dom. They united the fortunes of
two hemispheres. They inspired

the cause of Human Liberty in
America and, through blood and
carnage, lit the way to the estab-
lishment of those American States,
of which Kentucky was among the
earliest born. Hence the names of

Luther and Melancthon, of Hamp-
den, Cromwell and Sidney shall
ever be spoken with the imperish-
able name of Washington; and to
this list of immortals, Kentucky
can justly add the names of snch
great spirits as Stuart Bobinson,
Robert J. Breckinridge, Henry B.
Bascom, John C. Young, and other
expounders of God's Eternal
Truth, whose abilities were equal
to those of the famous leaders of
the Great Reformation, and whose
courage placed Kentucky, during
the Ninteenth Century, in the fore-
ground of the struggle for civil and
reli^ous liberty.

Well may we rejoice that Ken-
tucky thus did a noble service in
perpetuating the history of James-
town in the common cause of lib-
erty, which was rooted in the Bock
of Truth, and made to withstand
the angry breakers of time. As in
centuries before, clouds and tem-
pests have more than once swept
over its pathway, yet, neither
clouds nor tempests, battles nor
blood can destroy its deep founda-
tion. Thus the spirit of American
civilization, enshrined in a litera-
ture containing the rarest gems of
Saxon thought — a history, resplen-
dent with the deeds of saints and
heroes — embodied in. art and
science, and in the products of en-
lightened wealth and commerce, but
above all, nurtured by the bravest
people on the globe — ^must survive
until its achievements shall be

piraised in every tongne^ and altars
dedicated to liberty shall rise to
greet the snn of every clime.

And kowy looking back to the
fiirst settlement of Jamestown, Vir-
^nia, and to the bloody fields of
Slue Lick and Bryan Station in
ISLentuckyy and recalling with eqnal
pride the **fall of Old Vincennes,'*

Kentuckians may well declare that
they have done their part in the
struggles for civil and religions
freedom, and that, along with the
founders of the Old Dominion, the
liberty they now enjoy is, in the
words of William Bogers Clay,
*Hhe precious fruit of the sacrifices
of those inspiring days/'

Mrs. JuKa Wickliffe Beckham

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON,

MUS. .ICLIA WK'KI.IKrE IlECKHAM

MRS. JUUA WICiOJFFE BECKHAM

Died at her residence, ''Wick-
land/' near Bardstown, Ky., Aug-
ust 1, 1913.

Mrs. Beckham had been in deli-
cate health for a year, but no ap-
prehension was felt that she was
seriously affected until within the
last few months, when her bouyant
spirit was depressed by weakness.

She had been for sometime the
guest of her son, Governor J. C. W.
Beckham, in Frankfort, where she
was generally known and beloved.
When a child four or five years of
age, she first came to Frankfort,
during the administration of her
father, Chas. A. Wickliffe, as Gov-
ernor of Kentucky (1839), and she
held in affectionate memory her
stay in the old mansion of the Gov-
ernors, to which she came again to
live, in the early part of the admin-
istration of her son. Governor J.
C. W. Beckham. During her last
visit at his handsome home in South
Frankfort she was an invalid. The
ovation she received every day from
her friends, and the public, as his
mother, and also as one of the most
distinguished women in Kentucky
socially, touched her appreciative
heart to its depths. That attention
more than usual was paid her from
all classes, flowers were sent to
brighten and cheer her room, dain-
ties of every description to tempt
her failing appetite had a meaning
to her, that brought tears to her

eyes while she gratefully acknowl-
edged the kindness.

Though accustomed to unusual
tributes and attentions, there was
something so touching in the solici-
tude about her health so delicately
and tenderly expressed, she under-
stood, without any other sign from
these friends they believed her
critically ill. As she grew weaker
day by day, her heart turned fondly
to her old home * ' Wickland, ' ' where
she was born and reared; where she
h^d lived many years, and where
she had entertained the notable
people of the world during her
splendid life.

Few women ever had suoli a ca-
reer of social distinction as hers
had been. As daughter of a Gover-
nor, and sisfer of a Governor, and
last the mother of the Governor of
Kentucky, this Vrowned her ambi-
tion for her darling son. Governor
Beckham.

When her wish to go to ^ ^Wick-
land" was known, a special car was
placed at her command, and every
comfort provided for her, that she
might be quickly, safely and gently
borne to her childhood's historic
home.

She said upon leaving ** Every
one has been so good to me here, I
am sorry to leave Frankfort, even
to go home.''

Upon arriving at ** Wickland'*
she seemed better for a while, yet

gradually the whiteness overspread
her face, that no one mistakes; the
shadow no mortal hand can van-
quish, or dissipate — death. Her
children, Governor Beckham, Cap-
tain Yulee Beckham, U. S. A., Mrs.
Wise, Mrs. Kniskern and Mrs.
Triplett were summoned to her bed-
side, and received her last loving
blessing and farewell. Mrs. Beck-
ham was the youngest daughter of
Governor Charles A. Wickliffe, and
his wife, Margaret Creppes ; she
was the sister of Governor Robert
A. Wickliffe, of Louisiana. She
married Hon. William N. Beckham,
of Shelbyville, Ky., who has been
dead many years. She was a wo-
man of noble presence and queenly
bearing, intelligent, genial and gra-
cious in manner — a true type of a
Southern matron, born to command,
direct and control her own, and the
destinies of others committed to her
care.

She had the deepest appreciation
of all objects and activities for the
benefit of her country and her
church. She had inherited a love
of public affairs. She was a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian Church at
Bardstown, Kentucky, and devoted
to its interests. A woman of two
worlds; the social world she
adorned by her presence, and en-
riched by her intelligence and mag-
netic charm, the religious world
that she strengthened by her fidelity
to its cause, and aided by her gifts
to its calls far and near.

To her bereaved family we ex-
tend our sympathy in their sorrow
that we share as one with hundreds
more who admired and loved her at
the Capital and throughout the
State.

Mrs. Begkh)im Laid to Rest — ^Last
Sad Rites Oveb Mother of Fob-
meb govebnob op kentucky—
Hundreds Attend Fun^eral—
Gbandsons,Nephews and Cousins
Tenderly Carry Body to Grave.

(State Journal.)

Bardstown, Ky., Aug. 4. — With
simple services such as her own re-
quest made imperative and such as
fit the simplicity and sincerity of
her character, the body of Mrs.
Julia Wickliffe Beckham was laid
at rest in Bardstown Cemetery Sun-
day afternoon.

The services followed brief rites
at the family home, Wickland, near
Bardstown, in the presence of hun-
dreds of persons from the town, the
county and the State, who had
gathered there to do honor to the
memory of a woman who had been
loved and admired.

Mrs, Beckham's most distinguish-
ing phase of character was her love
and sympathy for the young. Ten-
derly rendering their last ser\^ices
to their beloved kinswoman and an-
cestor, Mrs. Beckham's grandsons,
nephews and cousins, Beckham,
George and Eobert Triplett, Wil-
liam Beckham, Judge Charles Mar-
shall and Joshua B. Bowles, bore
her body to the grave.

The Rev. C. H. Talbott, pastor of
the Bardstown Presbjrterian
Church, conducted the services, and
the friends and kinsfoU gathered
about enriched the last tribute to
Mrs. Beckham with their grief and
tears. Throughout the State
friends and admirers of Mrs. Beck-
ham who could not do honor to
her by their presence at the obse-
quies sent floral offerings to be laid
upon her resting place. These were

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(State Journni ^

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lovPt} anri adiaired.

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ij!t? frit ads and kinsfoll 'v
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t^^nrs. 'riirou.uiiout ih^-
friends and admirers of M-.
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la^r by their presi-nee at tL»
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vpon lier rcstinir phn*o, T[\v> •

many and elaborate. Sister Mar-
Merita and Sister M^rie, repre-
senting' the Sisters of Nazareth,
called at Wickland, paying the re-
spects of their order to the Beck-

ham family. Hundreds who took
no part in the services at Wickland,
went to the cemetery, and there with
bared heads paid their last earthly
tribute to Mrs. Beckham.

Letter of Governor Shelby

Honorable Thomas Todd

And Reply Thereto

LETTER OF GOVERNOR SHELBY TO THE HONORABLE

THOMAS T

%]^]^

AND REPLY THERETO.

(This letter, in the possession of Charles Todd of Owensboro, Ky., was kindly copied by

him, for The Register. It is good reading a hundred

years later. — ^Ed. The Register).

Frankfort, June 25, 1814.
Dear Sir: — The President of the
United States has been pleased to
appoint me one of the commission-
ers to treat with the Northwestern
Indians.

From the view which I am able
to take of the Constitution, 1 be-
lieve that the acceptance of the
mission by me, would not be com-
patable with the duties of the sta-
tion which I now hold. Col. Har-
din is absent at one of his courts
and there is no sound legal charac-
ter in town with whom I can con-
sult on this occasion. Will you, my
good sir, be so obliging as to cast
your eye over the 6th Section of
the 3rd Article, and the 7th Section
of the 6tli Article of the Constitu-
tion, as turned down, and give me
your opinion thereon in relation to
my situation. The Lieutenant
Governor will certainly have to act
in my absence, and it is doubtful
(if he questioned my right to do
so) whether I could resume the
function of the Governor upon my
return. There are not wanting
men enough amongst us ready to
lay hold of any pretect to distract
and confuse the public mind, and
although I care little about the of-

fice, and would be pleased to be rid
of it on favorable terms, I would
not do an act that would create any
disturbance in the country.

My son will hand you the
Constitution and dispatches that
have been received from the War
Department and will wait for your
answer, upon you, at any hour you
may direct him. I must, by the
mail of tomorrow, apprise the Sec-
retary of War of my determination.
Very respectfully.

Your Ob. Servant,
Isaac Shelby.
The Honorable Judge Todd.

So. Frankfort, June 25, 1814.
Dear Sir: —

Your^ Excellency 's favor of this
morning is now before me, and I
have considered the question which
you politely submitted to me. The
result is a decided opinion that the
acceptance of the appointment will
under the Constitution of the State,
vacate the office of Governor of
this Commonwealth. The sixth
section of the 3rd Art declares * ' No
member of Congress or person
holding any office under the IT. S.
shall be eligible to the office of
Governor.'^ This section is de-
claratory as to the eligibility only.

and does not in its letter embrace
the case, in its spirit and intention
it lijis a strong bearing on it; but
the 17th Section of the 6th Article,
removes every doubt. The conunis-
sion issued by the President ex-
presses on its face, that the office
of commissioner is an office of
trust and negatives an idea that it
is a mere appointment. It is an
office requiring a commission and
while you are exercising the func-
tions of commissioner, you cannot
liold the office of Governor of Ken-
tucky. Where .offices are incom-
patible, a person holding one, ac-
cepts of the other, the first office
is vacated, and being once vacated
cannot be resumed without a re-

appointment. Having given an
opinion on the point requested, I
hope you will pardon me in sug*-
ge sting, that I really believe that
your acceptance of the office in
contemplation with the conse-
quences attendant thereon, would
be greatly and generally deplored
— ^that you will render your coun-
try more essential services in that
office which you now fill, than you
can in the one offered. Your
enemies will rejoice while your
personal and political friends will
regret your absence, and no one
more so than •

Dr. Sir,
Yr. Friend,
Thomas Todd.

An Andrew Jackson Letter

AN ANDREW JACKSON LETTER.

(The following is a copy of Andrew Jackson's letter, declining a sarcophagus for his
body, tendered him by the National Institute, and breathes the old-time Democratic idea
of simplicity and plainness that characterized the Jackson administration. What would
'X>ld Hickory*' say, could he see Washington City today— more than a match for many
of the imperial cities of the world— and the White House, our Presidents* home, a shrine
of beauty and splendor.— Ed. The Register).

Hermitage, March 27, 1845.
Commodore J. D. Elliott,

United States Navy.
My dear Sir : — ^Your letter of the

18th instant, together with the copy
of the proceedings of the National
Institute, furnished me by their
corresponding secretary, on the
presentation by you, of the sarco-
phagus for their acceptance, on
condition it shall be preserved, and
in honor of my memory, have been
received, and are now before me.

Although laboring under great
debility and affliction, from a se-
vere attack, from which I may not
recover, I raise my pen, and en-
deavor to reply. The steadiness
of my nerves may perhaps lead you
to conclude my prostration of
strength is not as great as here ex-
pressed ; strange as it may appear,
my nerves are as steady as they
were forty years gone iby, whilst
from debility and affliction, I am
gasping for breath.

I have read the whole proceed-
ings of the presentation by you of
the sarcophagus, and the resolu-
tions passed by the board of direc-
tors so honorable to my fame, with

sensations and feelings more easily
to be conjectured than by me ex-
pressed. The whole proceedings
call for my most grateful thanks,
which are hereby tendered to you,
and through you, to the President
and Directors of the National In-
stitute. But, with the warmest
sensations that can inspire a grate-
ful heart, I must decline accepting
the honor intended to be bestowed.
I cannot consent that my mortal
body shall be laid in a repository
prepared for an emperor or a king.
My republican feelings and princi-
ples forbid it; ,the simplicity of
our system of Government forbids
it. Every monument erected to
perpetuate the mamory of our
heroes and statesmen ought to
bear evidence of the economy and
simplicity of our republican insti-
tutions, and the plainness of our
republican citizens, who are the
sovereigns of our glorious Union,
and whose virtue is to perpetuate
it. True virtue cannot exist where
pomp and parade are the go^m-
ing passions ; it can only dwell with
the people, the great laboring and
producing classes, that form the

bone and sinew of our Confeder-
acy.

For these reasons I cannot ac-
cept the honor you, and the Presi-
dent and Directors of the National
Institute, intended to bestow. I
cannot permit my remains to be
the first in these United States to
be deposited in a sarcophagus
made for an emperor or king. I
again repeat, please accept for
yourself, and convey to the Presi-
dent and Directors of the National
Institute, my most profound re-
spects for the honor you and they
intended to bestow. I have pre-
pared a humble depository for my
mortal body beside that wherein
lies my beloved wife, where, with-

out any pomp or parade, I have
requested, when my God calls me
to sleep with- my fathers, to be
laid, for both of us there to remain
until the last trumpet sounds to
call the dead to judgment^ when
we, I hope, shall rise together,
clothed with that heavenly body
promised to all who believe in our
glorious Redeemer, who died for
us that we might live, and by
whose atonement I hope for a
blessed immortality.

I am, with great respect, your
friend and fellow-citizen,

Andrew Jackson.

(**The original of this is in the
Congressional Library, at Wash-
ington, D. C/')

Sketch of Theodore O'Hara

J. STODDARD JOHNSTON

n. R.^^o.

CH OF THEODORE aHARA.

By J. Stoddard Johnston.

Theodore O'Hara was bom to
Danville, Kentucky, February 11th,
1820. His father, Kean O^Hara,
was an Irish gentlemail and
scholar who, when the revolution
of 1798 occurred, fled to America,
and, upon the invitation of Gover-
nor Isaac Shelby came to Danville,
Ky., to take charge of the academy
there. He afterwards removed
and for some years taught scfiool
at Middletown, Jefferson County,
Ky., where among his scholars
were Zachary Taylor, later Presi-
dent of the United States, Col.
George Croghan, the hero of San-
dusky, and others who became dis-
tinguished. From Middletown he
removed to Frankfort where he
was long a noted classical teacher,
and died there December 22nd,
1851, aged 83. In February, 1849,
when President Taylor was on his
way to Washington to be inaugu-
rated, he visited Frankfort and the
meeting between the venerable in-
structor and the distinguished
pupil was an interesting incident.

Under the tuition of his father,
Theodore was prepared for college
and was graduated at St. Joseph *s
College, Bardstown, with the first
honors of his class. His scholar-
ship was so excellent and his vale-
dictory so brilliant that he was
soon after appointed Professor of
Greek in his Alma Mater. This
position he did not hold a long

while, but resigned to study law at
Frankfort with Judge William
Owsley, afterwards Govemdr,
where one of his fellow students
was Vice President John C. Breck-
inridge, one year his junior, and
their intimate friendship was un-
broken through life. He did not,
however, after having obtained his
license, enter upon the practice of
law, but, receiving an appointment
in the Treasury Department at
Washington, made his home in
that city. But his temperament
and tastes unfitted him for the
plodding drudgeiy of a clerkship,
and his predilection for literature
led him into journalism, which with
military service may be said to
have occupied the chief years of
his subsequent life. His first ven-
ture in the former line was as as-
sistant editor of the Frankfort,
Ky., Yeoman, then the leading
Democratic paper of the State,
and as editor of the Tocsin or
Democratic Rally, a campaign
paper during the Presidential can-
vass of 1844. He was afterwards
connected with the Louisville
Times, the Louisville Sun, and the
MJobile Register, of which latteir
he was sub-editor during the ab-
sence of Hon. John Forsythe as
Minister to Mexico in 1857-58, and
was still associated with the paper
when the civil war began. His con-

Regltter of the Kentucky State Hittorlcal Society.

nection with the Louisville Times
was in 1852-55. The staff of the
paper was a notable one, all col-
onels ; John C. Noble, John T. Pick-
ett, T. T. Hawkins, W. W. Stapp,
and John O. Bullock, who were
dubbed by Prentice the six fighting
colonels. It was a strong Demo-
cratic and Anti-Know-Nothing
paper and very brilliant but short-
lived, having ceased to eiist after
the sweeping Know-Nothing victory
of 1855.

In regard to the military service
of Colonel O^Hara the information
is more specific than as to his civil
career. The following is his rec-
ord as given in the Official Regis-
ter of the IT. S. Army: ''Theodore
O'Hara, bom in Kentucky; ap-
pointed from Kentucky Captain
and Assistant Quartermaster Vol-
unteers 26th June, 1846; Brevet
Major, 20th August, 1847, for gal-
lant and meritorious conduct in
the battle of Contreras and Chur-
ubusco, Mexico ; was honorably dis-
charged 15th October, 1848; Cap-
tain 2nd Calvary 3rd March, 1855;
resigned 1st of December, 1856;
('olonel 12th Alabama Volunteers
C. S. A. War of 1861-65. Died
June 6th, 1867.''

Although wounded before the
City of Mexico, as stated in this
record, he was sufficiently re-
covered to take part in the battle
of Chepultepec, September 13th
following, serving on the staff of
General Franklin Pierce, after-
wards President, and adding to
his reputation for gallantry in ac-
iion. Near the close of that year
he returned to Kentucky on leave
and recuperated his strength,
spending the greater part of his

time at Frankfort. It is often
claimed that **The Bivouac of the
Dead'' was written on the occasion
of the interment of Colonels Mc-
Kee, Clay and other KentucMans
killed at Buena Vista, This cere-
niony occurred at Frankfort on the
20th of July, 1847, however, when
O'Hara was in Mexico. It was
more probably written in 1849 or
1850.

After the expiration of his term
of service and his honorable dis-
charge from the Volunteer Army,
O'Hara spent some time in Wash-
ington and contemplated again es-
saying the law, but returned to
Frankfort and resumed his connec-
tion with the Yeoman. He was
thus engaged when his sympathies
were enlisted in the movement for
the liberation of Cuba, and in 1850
he took part with Lopez in his first
expedition, having the rank of Col-
onel. At Cardenas a successful
battle was fought and O'Hara,
leading his troops, captured the
Governor's palace. In the charge
he was seriously wounded, how-
ever, and was compelled to return
to the United States. Fortunately
he was not sufficiently recovered to
take part in the ill-fated expedition
of the following year whei\ Critten-
den and his comrades, including
Lopez, fell victims to the cause
which the United States have
lately vindicated.

In 1855 when two new calvary
regiments were authorized by
Congress, O'Hara was appointed
by President Pierce, his former
chief in Mexico, a captain in the
2nd, now 5th regiment. It became
historic from the number of of-
ficers who were afterwards promi-

ment in the Civil War. Albert
Sidney Johnston was its Colonel,
Robert E. Lee, Lieutenant Colonel,
W. J. Hardee and Gteorge H.
Thomas, majors. Among the cap-
tains were Earl Van Dorn, E. Kir-
by Smith and N. 6. Evans, gen-
erals in the Confederate Army,
and I. N. Palmer, George Stone-
man and Richard W. Johnson of
the Federal Army, while among
the lieutenants were John B. Hood,
Fitzhugh Lee, Charles W. Field,
and others of distinction in the
Conferedate Army. General John-
ston, after organizing his regiment
at Fort Leavenworth was ordered
to the Texan frontier and marched
with it to its destination in the late
fall of that year. Shortly after
reaching there, he was ordered to
take charge of the Utah expedition
and Gen. Lee remained in com-
mand in Texas, O'Hara serving
with him, but resigning from the
service in December, 1856, when
he took up his residence in Mobila
When the civil war came he took
early part in the Confederate mili-
tary operations and upon the or-
ganization of the 12th Alabama
Infantry he became Lieutenant
Colonel and later its Colonel. Be-
fore the battle of Shiloh he was in-
vited by General Albert Sidney
Johnston, who was strongly at-
tached to him, to become a mem-
ber of his staff and he served as
such in the battle of Shiloh in
which General Johnston was killed,
accompanying his remains to
New Orleans. He then became a
member of the staff of General
John C. Breckinridge as Inspector
General. At the battle of Mur-
freesboro, or Stone's River, De-

cember 31st, 1862, and for some
time afterwards he served as Chiel
of Staff. In his report of the bat-
tle General Breckinridge refers es-
pecially to his bravery and ef-
ficiency on the field and speaks of
him as *'my acting Adjutant Gen-
eral, Colonel O'Hara.'' He filled
the place in the absence of
Col. John A. Buckner, A. A.
G. He remained with General
Breckinridge during the winter
of 1862-63 at Tullahoma, Ten-
nessee, where I, being then A. D.
C. to Gen. Bragg, commanding the
Army of Tennessee, associated
with him almost daily. In my
diary of that period, I find an ac-
count of a great review of General
Hardee's corps to which General
BTeckiUiridge 's Division was at-
tached, near Tullahoma, M!arch
17th, 1863. General P. R. Cle-
burne commanded the other divi-
sion. After describing the drill
and review, Generals Joseph E.
Johnston and Bragg being the re-
viewing officers, I say: ^^Subse-
quently a flag was presented by
Col. O'Hara, orator of the day, to
the 20th Tennessee of Preston's
Brigade, Breckinridge 's division,
the gift of Mrs. Breckinridge, who
was present. A large number of
persons came from a distance to
witness the proceedings. About
10,000 troops took part in the re-
view.'^ Col. O'Hara was an orator
of very attractive powers. His
oration delivered at the interment
in Frankfort, Nov. 8th, 1854, of
Hon. W. T. Barry, Chief Justice
of Kentucky, U. S. Senator and
Postmaster General, was long re-
membered for its eloquence. Gen-
eral Breckinridge left Tennessee

Regitttf of the Kentucky 9Mte Hittoricel Society.

with his command May 14th, 1863,
to take part in General J. E.
Johnston ^s campaign in Missis-
sippi, returning to Bragg 's army
just before the battle of Chicka-
mauga. But when he came back
Col. O'Hara was not with him, and
I did not see him again during the
war. Nor do I think he after-
wards bore an active part in the
contest, although always firm in his
devotion to the cause. In Novem-
ber following I became Gen Breck-
inridge *s chief of staff and remained
as such until the close of the wa^.
He made his home in Columbus,
Georgia, where he _ was, after the
close of the war, in the cotton com-
mission business, but met with re-
verses as the result of a fire. In
the spring of 1867 he was living on
the plantation of his friend, Cap-
tain Grant, near Guerrytown,
Barbour County, Alabama, when
he was taken ill with malarial fever
and died June 6th, 1867, in the
forty-seventh year of his age.

In the winter of 1872-73 the
question of removing his remains
to Frankfort was discussed and re-
sulted in the favorable action of
the Legislature. His friend. Gen.
Cary H. Fry, of the Federal Army
who had been major of the 2nd
Kentucky Infantry in Mexico, had
died a short time before in Cali-
fornia and it seemed in accord with
the spirit of reconciliation then
prevailing that they should both
be buried in the State Cemetery.
I accordingly, being then a resi-
dent of Frankfort, and editor of
the Yeoman, drafted a resolution
which was introduced in the House
by Captain Harry I. Todd, mem-
ber from Franklin County, a prom-

inent Union man during the war,
and friend of O'Hara, including
also the name of Adjutant G. N.
Cardwell, another Mexican war
veteran, and it passed with unanim-
ity. The resolution as I find it in
the proceedings of the Legisla-
ture, is as follows :

** Whereas, Gen. Cary H. Fry,
who was Major of the 2nd Ken-
tucky Infantry in the Mexican
War, Colonel Theodore O'Hara
and Adjutant George N. Cardwell,
are dead, and their remains lie in
distant States; and as their
Mother Kentucky * claims the
ashes of her brave,* it is due to
these sons who have added such
lustre to her name that their ashes
should be brought to that mother's
bosom and laid beside tiieir com-
patriots, McKee, Marshall, Clay,
Willis, Vaughan and the host of
heroes whose monument alreadv
marks the spot where they should
rest;

* * Therefore, be it resolved by the
General Assembly of the Common-
wealth of Kentucky,

''That the Governor be directed
to have the remains of General
Cary H. Fry, Colonel Theodore
O'Hara and Adjutant George N.
Cardwell brought to and deposited
in the State Military lot at Frank-
fort and their graves marked with
appropriate stones.

''Approved April 23, 1873. '*

The interment occurred Septem-
her 15th, 1874. I was charged by
Governor Leslie with the arrange-
ments for the ceremonies and we se-
lected the spots for the several
graves. Those of General Fry and
Adjutant Cardwell are on the west

side of the monument near those of
McKee and Clay, who fell at Puena
Vista. That of O'Hara is on the
east side about half way between
the State Battle Monument and
that of Eichard M. Johnson, Vice
President. They are uniforn> in
style with those of Clay and Mc-
Kee, rectangular marble slabs and
tops with a wreath and crossed
swords.

Upon the occasion of the inter-
ment there was a large assemblage
from far and near. An oration
was delivered upon the life and
character of O'Hara by General
William Preston, with whom he
had served at Shiloh on General
Johnston's staff and **The Bivouac
of the Dead'' was read by Major
Henry T. Stanton, himself a poet
of wide reputation. Altogether it
was a touching occasion, marking
80 fitly the renewal of good will
which had succeeded to the es-
trangement and bitterness of the
war. Especially was it a melan-
choly gratification to the people of
Frankfort to have the dead poet
restored to them, as he had lived
long there and was greatly ad-
mired and beloved. Those who
knew him most intimately admired
him most and his circle of such
friends was large from his having
lived in places wide apart. By the
magnetism of his nature he had at-
tracted to his friendship those es-
pecially capable of appreciating
his intellectual brightness and
other qualities of good fellowship.

Although some years younger
than himself it was my good for-
tune to have known him well, my
acquaintance dating from his con-
nection with the Louisville Times

to the columns of which I was a
voluntary contributor. From
thenceforward until parting with
him during the war I was thrown
with him frequently. In all my
memory there is no more attractive
or striking figure, kept also fresh
by an ambrotype in my possession
taken of him at the age of forty,
two years before the war. He was
slightly below the medium height
for a Kentuckian, being about five
eight, with black hair and a deep
hazel eye, and with a healthy
peach-blow complexion. His head
was well-shaped and well set upon
his shoulders, his features regular,
and his profile with its finely
turned chin, classical and refined
yet full of manly force. His
figure was shapely and he bore
himself so erectly yet gracefully
that he seemed really taller than
he was. In his dress he was ex>
tremely neat and in all the details
of personal appearance he would
have attracted attention in any
company as a cultivated, intel-
lectual gentleman of the best
breeding, but with all those traits
there was a certain aspect of re-
serve born of his military service,
beyond which only his intimates
could safely venture. He was a
fine conversationalist, widely read,
classical in his tastes and allusions,
with ready wit and repartee, who
could compose a song and sing it,
write a sonnet or make a pun with
the best. I can well believe that he
bore himself worthily at the City
of Mexico. On the field of Mur-
freesboro I saw him more than
once in critical juncture and I re-
call no more knightly figure nor
one more fearless in the line of his

duty. Being upon the staff of the
General commanding I was se-
lected to bear orders to General
Breckinridge and O'Hara bore
those from the latter to his super-
ior officer, bringing us often to-,
gether.

In a recent letter from one who
knew him longer and more inti-
mately than any not of his blood,
referring to the portrait in a stand-
ing position taken from the ambro-
type to which I have alluded, is the
following which I venture to re-
produce without the writer's
knowledge :

^*I have a distant recollection of
O'Hara's appearance. The figure
in the picture tells its own story.
His carriage was always the same
sitting or standing, always erect,
spirited and graceful in every
movement. The whole make up
was striking and full of spirit and
character, a most noticeable per-
sonality anywhere. I am not able
to tell you when or where *The
Bivouac of the Dead' first ap-
peared as my acquaintance with it
commenced with the manuscript
copy given me by him in 1860, and
which was published in the Louis-
ville Courier at that time."

Summing up all his elements
of mind, personal appearance and
social characteristics, he was al-
ways to me the ideal of a poet
capable of writing such a lyric as
^*The Bivouac of the Dead.'* He
had all the mental requisites, patri-
otic fervor, inspiration born of
tender love for his slain friends
and for his State, and when the
theme came into his mind the poem
was evolved by the natural force of
genius. Unstudied in phrase yet

appropriate in every Iword, it is
as near perfect as any of its kind
in the English tongue, bearing evi-
dence that it was not a labored pro-
duction fashioned in its shape by
frequent erasures or corrections.
It has all the martial spirit of
Aytoun's ** Burial of Dundee" and
the pathos of the *' Burial of Sir
John Moore." Its local allusions
constitute one of its strongest fea-
tures, the commemoration of thril-
ling events. The effort to elimi-
nate them would be as appropriate
as to strike from Aytoun's tribute
to the dead Graeme his several
references to Killiecrankie, the
Scotch village where Dundee re-
ceived his mortal wound.

But there is no danger that, with
all its mutilations and changes
which it is the object of this
memoir to correct, it will survive
substantially as O'Hara gave it to
the world, even though such liber-
ties have been taken with it, as in
its publications without explana-
tion, in Charles Dudley Warner's
Library of the World's best litera-
ture as consisting of only six of its
twelve verses. The elimination
may go on according to the taste of
critics, but it can never be wholly
destroyed or forgotten as long as
the cemeteries of the Federal dead
remain undesecrated. Four of
its lines have assured immortalitv,
since many of them bear in con-
spicuous display the tribute which
the dead Confederate soldier paid
to the dead of Kentucky who fell
at Buena Vista:

"On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.

And Glory guards with solemn round
The BiYorac of the Bead."

]

DEPARTMENT OF

CUPPINGS AND PARAGRAPHS

DEPARTMENT OF CUPPINGS AND PARAGRAPHS.

THE FOURTH OF JULY.

The Fourth of July is a com-
memoration of the revolt of the
Colonists against the tyranny of
King George of Great Britain,
1776, but the Colonists did not set
apart a day in 1781, when peace
was declared between the Colonists
and Great Britain as a national
holiday, a day of rejoicing for vic-
tory of the ri^ht against might, a
day to pay tribute to the greatest
warrior, statesman and christian
gentleman that America ever pro-
duced— George Washington.

By his wisdom, genius for large
and complicated national and mili-
tarv affairs, he won a countrv for
his people in 1781, and by his intel-
ligence, integrity, patience and
wonderful knowledge of men, con-
structed a government, the nearest
in principles to the government of
God, for the happiness, liberty and
prosperity of the people whose
President he became to rule over
them. He declined the crown of a
King, and refused all tributes paid
him, save the loving honors of the
people who shared his victory.

This is the majestic man, that
true Americans everywhere regard
the greatest man the country has
|:troduced ; the one man who as Sol-
dier-General . commanding the
armies of the Colonists, or as their
President, in grandeur of character

stands today without a flaw or
without a rival.

We published recently a pam-
phlet, giving an account of the
Boone Day exercises held at the
rooms of the Historical Society on
June 7th. As some of our readers
may not have seen a copy of the
pamphlet, we republish it in this
issue of The Eegister.

PANAMA CURIOS FOR HIS-
TORICAL SOCIETY.

Governor and Mrs. Thatcher Pre-
sent Them to Collection —
Relics of Ancient Civilization
on Isthmus Among Them.

The collection of curios in the
rooms of the State Historical So-
ciety was augmented yesterday by
several rare specimens of inestima-
ble value brought back from Pana-
ma by Governor and Mrs. M. H.
Thatcher and presented to the So-
ciety. Some of the articles would
be treasured by archaeologists.
Among these are rude spikes, iron
rings and broken bits of pottery,
relics of ancient Panamanian civi-
lization, discovered in a quarry
worked by the Spanish founders of
Panama. One curious instrument
is a **Tamborito,'' or drum, of
mixed African and Indian design.

Two pieces of hand-carved wood-
work from Columbia will attract
wonder by the skill and patience

with which it is apparent they were
wrought. One consists of two
figures in native costume, about
two inches higli, showing in correct
detail the intricacies of the native
dress. The other is a scene, includ-
ing a rude native hut, two people,
pigs in a pen and a dog.

A piece of stone taken from the
workings in the Panama canal high-
ly polished on one side and rough
on the other, and a piece of modem
Panamanian pottery, a **porron,"
or water jug, complete the collec-
tion. This latter is of fine clay, dull
red in color, and the bowl repre-
sents a hen. The ornamentations
are little chicks and the top is a
sitting hen. — The State Journal.

The following eloquent tribute to
the press and to Theodore O'Hara,
from Barry Bullock, formerly of
Lexington, Kentucky, a member of
this Society and of the press, now
of the West, was delivered at the
banquet of the press convention at
Enid, Oklahoma, some months ago.
We have read nothing finer as a
banquet address — and especially
does The Eegister of this month
en.ioy the tribute to O'lTara, the
editor, poet, soldier of Kentucky,
whose memorial, erected by the
State Historical Society, will at-
tract so much attention when fin-
ished and placed at his grave in
''The Bivouac of the Dead" in the
cemetery here: ''As the repre-
sentative of the press at this ban-
quet tonight, I feel a hesitancy in
paying my small tribute to that
great system' which radiates
throughout the civilized world.
But it is so broad, so many-sided,
so little understood by the laity,

such a vast machine with its human
antennae reaching out to receive
and reproduce the pulse of the
world, that a word of praise is
never out of pla<?e. We speak
glibly of the powder of the press and
by its repetition the phrase has al-
most become trite and meaningless.
But the press is never trite, it is
never meaningless. In the chang-
ing cycle of each hour there is al-
ways something new to record and
so inter-dependent is man on man
that the annals of a day are often
of greatest moment. Through its
w;ide interests the press mingles
with every trade and every profes-
sion. Everybody's business is its
business. Birth, life and death are
the warp and woof of the web it
daily spins and nobody is too high
or too low but comes within its in-
fluence or feels its power for good.
Its voice is heard unto the utter-
most parts of the world, now
sounding the trumpet of war, now
preaching the gospel of peace, but
at all times keeping a ceaseless
vigil over the affairs of men and
throwing the light of publicity full
on the pitfalls that beset the path
of society and government. It
brings men in closer communion
with each other by telling them
w hat the w^orld is doing and no part
of the system, no mattet how small
the scope of its influence, but adds
its mite to the welfare of the race.
It has been charged that a news-
paper brought about the clash of
arms in the war between the United
States and Spain. But even if this
be true it needs no vindication.
When the Maine was blown up in
Havana Harbor, there was no time
to think of arbitration, no time to

be cool and calculating. The
American flag was insulted, Ameri-
can life was disregarded, American
ideals and American liberty were
brought face to face with the
treachery of Spain and the blood
of the sailors of an American bat-
tleship mingled with the waters of
the sea in fateful sacrifice. The
press told the story and the rest is
known particularly to you. And
yet if William Eandolph Hearst
were responsible for the subse-
quent outbreak by his flaring head-
lines and his tale of death, did you
ever believe deep down in your
hearts that the war was useless!
You would never have fought if
you thought it was. You would not
celebrate such an occasion as this
tonight if you felt that that war
was unholy and unjust. Look at
Cuba today, striving forward in-
stead of backward, a century of
unrest transformed into an era of
peace and progress. Look at the
Philippines, something of a burden
on the American people, and yet in
that distant land we are carrying
out the will of the Master by giving
the light to those who sit in dark-
ness. Look at the progress of
Porto Rico. Thanks to the ideals
of James Monroe for that doctrine
which will not allow the American
government to ask the question of
Cain **Am I my brother ^s keeper f
Yes, the press did much to fire
men^s minds, it did much to picture
conditions as they existed. At the
beginning and at the end, it put its
soul into the task. It walked with
you. It knew your sufferings and
your triumphs. It saw brave men
die in the trenches. It heard the
shout of the charge and it knew

the monotonous life of those who
failed to find service. Shoulder to
shoulder with you marched the
press correspondents and these
agents of this mighty system suf-
fered and bled and died in the ser-
vice of publicity that a sheltered
people might read the daily annals
of that war. They ate at your
mess. They heard your reveille
and when the muffled drums beat
the doleful march of death, they
were there to lay a wreath on some
forgotten grave. Your every vic-
tory was heralded abroad by these
^therers of the news and the lives
that you lived and the battles that
you fought were recorded by them
on the ephemeral pages of millions
of daily newspapers.

In another Spanish-American war
before the days of modem journal-
ism there was a soldier who fought
that Texas might be freed from the
thralldom of Mexico. He was a
brilliant young Irishman who was
thrilled with the poetry of that
land of natural and tropical beauty
and gifted with a pen which was
destined to write the elegy of a
nation's glorious dead. iBut in
times of peace, Theodore O'Hara
ranked among the editors of his
day and his editorials were touched
with the fire of patriotism and
adorned with the flowers of genial
and poetic language. He was a
part of that great system which
was to be revolutionized within the
space between his death and now,
but his name should be remembered
here when we think of the vacant
chair and recall those brave men
who fell on the field of battle. He
is our one national poet whose song
has served as an epitaph for the
soldiers of the North and the sol-

diets of the South and over the
graves of many of your comrades
who sleep tonight in some national
cemetery, there is emblazoned on
tablets of bronze his tribute to the
valor and the patriotism of the
American soldier of all time:

Yon marble mlnstrers yoicelesB etone.

In deathless song shall tell.
When many a vanished age hath flown,

The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight.

Nor times remorseless doom
Shall dim one ray of glory's light

That gilds your deathless tomb.

This may be fittingly called the
tribute of journalism to the
nation's dead. And at this banquet
tonight, I can voice in a small way
the good will which the press has
always extended to the soldiers
and veterans of the land. It is
]iroud of you and it has given the
world just reason to be proud of
you. It has come intimately in
contact with your lives and has
shared in your hardships and your
victories. At times you may de-
nounce its policies here and there,
but the tendency of the press is
onward and upward. It is human
in its make up, but its sympathies
are as broad as life, its great heart
throbs with the joys and the sor-
rows of the world and its aspira-
tions strive to make men better and
to make life more free from the
contamination of greed and lust.
God's footstool is a more habitable
place of abode than it was in days
^"one by, and every effort to uplift
and elevate mankind is being cham-
pioned by the press today. Look
well to this moulder of public sen-
timent and do not lose sight of the
fact that the world is progressing

towards heights unknown and to-
words realities undreamed of."

Anglo- Amebican Exposition,
LoNDOK, May to Oct., 1914.
To Celebrate the Centenary of
Peace and Progress in the Arts,
Science and Industries of the
United States of America and
the British Empire.

Waldorf Astoria,
New York, June 7, 1913.
Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, Regent.

Dear Madam: —

Under the Patronage of His
Royal Highness, the Duke of Con-
naught, and the Honorary Presi-
dency of His Highness, The Duke
of Teck, will be held an Anglo-
American Exposition (May to Oc-
tober, 1914) in London, in the per-
manent Exposition Grounds and
buildings covering 150 acres, in cel-
ebration of the centenary of peace
between the two nations and to
demonstrate the progress which
has been made during that century
in the arts, sciences and industries
by the people of both countries
(outlines of which I enclose).

The Anglo-American Exposition
was inaugurated at a meeting of
the American Society in London
at which His Excellency the late
American Ambassador Mr. White-
law Reid presided and confirmed
at a meeting held at the Mansion
House last March under the Presi-
dency of the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don, when, amongst other resolu-
tions in support of the Exposition,
the following was also unanimous-
ly passed, ''That all profits derived
from the Anglo-American Expo-
sition, 1914, by the committee shall

be dfevoted to some public objects
of national utility to the United
Kingdom and the United States/^
As a result of the meeting at the
Mansion House, a Deputation pro-
ceeded to Washington where they
were cordially received by Presi-
dent Wilson and the Members of
his Cabinet.

A number of Senators and Mem-
bers of Congress, Governors of 34
States, Mayors of 31 important
cities, Presidents of many Railways
and numetous commercial bodies,
as well as such representative gen-
tlemen as Judge Gary, Geo. West-
inghouse, A. B. Farquar, J. B.
Duke, Alba B. Johnson, J. B. For-
gan, Seth Low and many others,
nave already become members of
the American Committee of the Ex-
position, the full list of which I
shall hope to forward you shortly.

We shall be glad if you will use
your good offices with a view to the
Exposition receiving the widest
publicity in your publications, as
well as in the daily newspapers, and
technical and trade journals
throughout your district.

Yours very truly,
Charles I. Kiralfy.

Kentxtcky Association of Perry

Centennial Celebration.
Headquarters 202 Courier-Journal

Building.

August 1, 1913.
Mrs. Jennie C. Morton.
Editor The Register:
The Kentucky Association of
Perry Centennial in arranging fea-
tures for the celebration in Louis-
ville for Sept. 29— Oct. 5, 1913, will
Exhibit a collection of relics, etc.,
covering the period of the War of

1812. ^^The 1812 Museum Commit-
tee'' organized to collecf this ma-
terial is anxious to secure as loans,
historic relics, curios, etc., covering
this period of United States His-
tory.

The exhibit will be made in the
main building of the Louisville
Free Public Library, a fire proof
structure, at Fourth and Library
Place. The collection will be in-
sured against fire loss and will be
closely guarded and every precarf-
tion taken to protect it from dam-
aige and theft. The committee is
authorized to pay transportation
charges both ways on all material
that may be lent.

Your name has been ^ given as
having material appropriate to go
into this exhibit or as being in
a position to give the names of
others who may have such material.
We shall be pleased to receive any
articles that you may forward or
that you may have your friends
forward and also to receive the
names of persons who have ma-
terial they are likely to lend for
the exhibit. The loan will be re-
turned in good condition at the end
of the celebration.

Thanking you in advance for
vour kindness and interest in the

Perry Centennial Celebration and
the success of the 1812 Museum, I
am,

Yours very truly,
George T. Settle,
Chairman 1812 Museum Committee.

IN FRANKFORT.

The Chautauqua held in the city
of Frankfort this past summer was
a successful and very pleasant
event. The program was well ar-

ranged and executed without any
disappointments. The music was
superb and was the most attractive
feature to thousands who attended
the meetings during the week.

The strangers expressed them-
selves as delighted with the pic-
turesque Capital of Kentucky.
They were charmed with the
miniature mountains surrounding
it, through which they were taken
for drives, and with our new mag-
nificent Capitol; declared the His-
torical department, its hall of fame
and music room the most charming
they had ever seen anywhere, and
expressed the general view of the
Historical department in the new
Capitol that it was the most inter-
esting and beautiful in art and sen-
timent in the magnificent building.

THE STATUE OF GOVERNOR
WILLIAM GOEBEL.

This elegant statue of Ken-
tucky's martyred Governor is now
erected in front of the new Capitol.
It is located at the foot of the first
flight of steps leading up to the
Capitol.

It was placed iu position on the
30th day of June, and shrouded
for the public ceremonies of im-
veiling later on. It is thought to
be a very fine piece of sculpture in
bronze, though perhaps not so im-
posing or majestic as the monu-
ment to him in the Goebel lot in
the cemetery, erected by the peo-
ple of Kentucky and other states
in the union, who so greatly ad-
mired and lamented the wonderful
young Governor.

THE SAVAGE.

We read in our European Jour-
nals that the railroad has been the
civilizer of the world. Book learn-
ing is slow in the process of en-
lightening the ignorant, but when
the African and the Guanos and
other savages begin to ride on the
railroad, talk to civilized people, or
rather hear them talk, see what the
world beyond and above them is,
the change in them is marvelous.
They wish to look like their su-
periors, to dress like them, and as
nearly as their barbarous, unre-
generated natures will permit them,
thev wish to imitate their manners.

Their natures cannot be changed
in a day, but under civilizing influ-
ence can be disciplined and
finally controlled. The leopard
when fed and petted by its keeper
does not change its spots or its
vicious disposition; so with these
wild forest-bred people. To make
them a people as an integral part
of a nation, they must first be
taught the elements of good breed-
ing, how to be clean, how to be
clothed, how and what to eat, how
to speak, what to say, and what not
to say.

All these rudiments the mission-
aries have tried upon these savages,
and they report some success. But
the railroad comes along, and they
are drafted into service. They are
taught to work, taught the intelli-
gent use of their hands, and com-
pelled to labor. It is a difficult,
often a dangerous, task to discipline
them as laborers in their countries.
They become passionately angry,
and want to murder all about them,
and the only way to quell their hor-
rible anger is to kill them, as they

do their forest companions, the
serpent, the lion and the tiger.

It does not seem to be a fairy
field for the sanctified martyr, the
fanatic and the sentimental human-
itarian. The soldier of the Cross
has often to lay aside his peaceable
weapons, and to defend his life, ac-
cept the carnal steel and powder at
hand. The savages understand its
meaning and its power, and sullen-
ly surrender to their masters.
Here all men learn the divine
power of mastery of mind over
matter. The directing leading
spirit of man that is descended
from God to glorify Him is here to
discover, to explore, to utilize what
is inferior, and develop from it
what is useful as an agency in
transforming man, the savage, to
man the gentleman, obedient to
law, and the finer pulsations of
christian civilization.

In this age this master-man is
needed, one who has the courage
and the strength of a god, who com-
naands the respect and the fear of
his countrymen by his superior
wisdom, to conquer and to save all
who follow where he leads. And
even the savage may be redeemed
and humanized by man with such
a master.

The greatest living woman scien-
tist is Mme. Curie, of France, win-
ner of the Noble prize in chemistry
and discoverer of radium. She is a
womanly woman, devoted wife and
mother, has a sweet, sad face, eyes
that look into the unknown, with
an expression of sorrowful wonder.

The library of the State Histori-
cal Society has received two new

county histories, written by mem-
bers of the Society. Otto A. Roth-
ert's History of Muhlenberg
County, Kentucky, an elegantly
bound and handsomely illustrated
volume, was referred to in the May
number of The Begisteb. And
now we have L. F. Johnson's His-
tory of Franklin County, Kentucky.
The first ten chapters of this his-
tory appeared in The Register,
and frequent notices of it appeared.
It is neatly bound and will be found
a valuable reference book for many
records of the past in the city as
well as this famous county in Ken-
tucky.

DEATH

Claims Mrs. Judith Marshall,
Native of Maysville — Aged Resi-
dent OF Louisville Honored as
Charity Worker and Benefac-
tress.

Mrs. Judith L. Marshall died at
her residence, 514 West St. Cather-
ine street, shortly after 9 o'clock
last night. She was 87 years old
and had resided in Louisville most
of her life. Her death was due to
infirmities of age. She had been ill
for several weeks, but up to that
time her physical condition as well
as her mental capacity was admired
by all who knew her.

Mrs. Marshall was the widow of
Charles E. Marshall, a wealthy
farmer of Henry county, who died
in 1868. Before the war Mr. Mar-
shall was prominent in politics,
having been a member of the Legis-
lature for several terms. During
the war he was on the staff of Gen.
H. Marshall, his brother.

Mrs. Marshall is survived by one
son, Charles E. Marshall, a farmer,

h. r.— 6

of Henry county, and one brother,
John D. Langhome, aged 90, of
Washington, D. C The funeral
will be held in Frankfort, but the
time has not been set. Mrs. Mar-
shall was a member of the Second
Presbyterian Church and was very
active in the charitable work of that
congregation. She was known for
her charity and hospitality. Only
recently she donated several thou-
sand dollars to a hospital in Mays-
ville, Ky., where she was born.

It is said that Mrs. Marshall is
the only woman for whom a Ma-
sonic lodge has been named. This
lodge is the Marshall Lodge, of Port
Royal, Henry county. In recog-
nition of this remarkable distinc-
tion the portrait of Mrs. Marshall
has been placed in Kentucky's hall
of fame, a chamber in the quarters

of the Kentucky Historical Society
in Frankfort, set aside for men and
women of the South.

Mrs. Marshall manifested a most
tender and earnest solicitude for
the lodge from the time it was
founded. She promoted its inter-
est not only in a financial 'way, but
in every other way possible. She
contributed a large sum to the first
building fund of the lodge and pre-
sented the necessary jewels for the
officers. A bible costing $44 was
also presented by her and she as-
sisted her mother in making all the
aprons for the first members. On
several other occasions she showed
her interest in the lodge by making
financial contribution and her ac-
tivity in behalf of the lodge was
most remarkable. — Courier-Jour-
nal.

HISTORICAL
AND GENEALOGICAL

DEPARTMENT

PREFACE.

The Hume (Jenealogy is one of the most interesting
we have published. It is written in scholarly English,
its facts have been gathered with scrupulous care, and
the history of the Humes will be found authentic, enter-
taining and instructive, as a piece of ~Eistorical litera-
ture few families in America can possess, with Scot-
tish Coat-of-Arms. Edgar E. Hume, Jr., son of one of
the most noted and beloved physicians of this city, the
late Dr. E. E. Hume, has had the finest advantage in
the preparation of the Hume genealogy. His father
visited in England and Scotland the castles of his kin-
dred, of whom his son writes, and was entertained at
Wedderburn. Allied to the nobility of Scotland and
England, he found without difficulty the records of his
people, that will now appear in the September Eegister
and succeeding numbers, until the Hume genealogy is
completed. — Ed. Register.

THE ARMS OF THE Hl'MES OF WEDDERBURN.

HUME GENEALOGY.

Being an Account of the Francb Hume ftranch of the Wedderbum

Humes, of Scotland, Virginia and Kentucky.

Compiled by Edoab E. Hume, Je., A. M., M. D.

INTEODUCTION.

Of the family of Dunbar, from
which the Humes spring, Douglas
in his ** Peerage of Scotland '* re-
marks: *'No surname in Scotland
can boast of a more noble origin
than that of Dunbar, being de-
scended from the Saxon Kings of
England, t)ie Princes and Earls of
Northumberland. The family had
furnished Earls of Northumber-
land, Dunbar, March, Marchmont,
Hume and Zetland; Viscounts of
Blasonberrie and Melville; Barons
Melrose, Hume, Polwarth, Eed-
hraies, Greenlaw, Dunglas and
Dundas; Baronets, Knights of the
Garter and Thistle, Privy Councel-
lors, Ambassadors, Envoys, Lord
High Chancellor of Scotland, Judge,
Archbishops and Bishops, Joint
Regents of Scotland; Duchess of
Lauderdale, Countess of Dunbar,
Dougles, two of Crawford, Moray,
Sutherland, Huntley, Fitzwilliam,
Suffolk, Ely, Findlater, Arran,
Marshall, Hume, Stair and Bute;
Viscountess Duncan ; Baronesses
Dalkeith, Seton, Chrichton, Tor-
phichen, Erskine, Polwarth, Bag-
any and Lovat.'*

**The Humes are the oldest ca-
dets of the family of Dunbar, the

main line of which is now extinct.
Hume Castle is one of the most con-
spicuous fortalices in the Merse.
This ancient stronghold, erected on
an eminence which overlooks all the
surrounding country, kept its eye,
as it were, not only over the neigh-
boring lands, but also on the sea-
coast and across the Tweed into
England for a long distance, and
seemed to indicate that it was sen-
tinel for interests far wider than
its own. Here for long was the
residence of the .main line of the
Hume (or Home) family, which
early rose to eminence in the politi-
cal life of Scotland, being enobled
as Lords and afterwards as Earls,
of Hume. It is still represented in
the main line by the present Earl
of Hume.

The Humes of Wedderbum are
the oldest cadets of the family of
Humes. They may also be said to
be more prolific, more so even than
the parent stem, both in offshoots
and honors. Among their descend-
ants are to be enumerated the
Humes of Polwarth, enobled first
as Lords Polwarth in 1690 and as
Earls of Marchmont in 1697; the
Humes of Manderston, of whom a
younger son, George Hume of Spot,

sometime treasurer of Scotland,
was enobled as Lord of Berwick
and afterwards as Earl of Dunbar
(the ancient line of these Earls be-
ing extinct) ; while two of his
daughters and heiresses, the elder,
Anne, was the mother of the Third
Earl of Hume, and the younger,
Elizabeth, was the wife of Theopi-
lus Howard, Lord Walden, after-
wards Second Earl of Suffolk.
Prom Wedderburn also descended'
the Humes of Blackadder, baronets
of Nova Scotia, from whom Sir
David Hume, Lord Crossrig, is de-
rived ; also Sir John Home of Ren-
ton, Lord Justice Clerk in the reign
of King Charles 11. ; the Humes of
Castle Hume in Ireland and other
families and persons of distinction
and note. In America the family
has furnished officers in every war
fought by the Colonies or by the
United States.

For centuries the Humes of Wed-
derburn were one of the most pre-
dominant families of the Merse.
Scions of a warlike house and
posted on the borders as if for the
very purpose of guarding the *4n
country" against the incursions of
the *'auld inimeis of England,"
they were ever ready to adventure
tlieir lives in the fray, and indeed
they had their full share of the
fights and forays of the border
strife of old. Few of the older
Lairds are known to have had any
other death bed than the battle-
field, and their first funeral shroud
was generally the banner under
which they led their retainers to
the fight, and which has come down
to their descendants stained with
their blood. From '^The Report
to Parliament on the Manuscripts

of Col. David Milne Hume, of Wed-
derbum Castle N. B.**

This sketch has been prepared
from the following sources:

1. **The History of the House of
Wedderburn," written in Latin in
1611 by David Hume of Godscroft.
The translation of this work exists
only in manuscript form.

2. ** Histories of Noble British
Families, ' ' Vol. 2, by Drummond.

3. **The Peerage of Scotland,"
by Douglas.

4. ''The Scots Peerage,'* by Sir
James Balfour Paul.

5. The Historical Manuscripts
Commission 's Report on the Manu-
scripts of Colonel David Milne
Home of Wedderburn Castle N. B.

6. The Virginia Magazine of His-
tory and Biography.

7. The William and Mary Col-
lege Quarterly.

8. Collins' History of Kentucky.

9. Original Court, Church and
Family Bible Records in Scotland,
Virginia and Kentucky.

The Armorial Bearings of the
Humes of Wedderburn are :

Arms : Quarterly first and fourth,
vert a lion rampant argent, armed
and langued gules, for Hume. Sec-
ond, argent three papingoes vert
armed and membered gules, for
Papdie. Third, argent a cross en-
grained azure, for Sinclair.

Crest: A unicorn's head argent
gorged with an imperial crown
proper, horned and maned or

Supporters: Two falcons proper
armed and membered gules.

Mottoes : * * True to the End ' ' and
** Remember."

First Generation.

Crinian. a nobleman before the
Norman Conquest. He was of the

royal line of AthoU for Crinian was
the father of King Duncan of Scot-
land who was killed by Macbeth in
1040. According to the Irish an-
nalists, Crinian, lay abbot of Dun-
keld was slain and many with him,
**even nine times twenty heroes/*
Nine years afterward, Malcolm,
Duncan's eldest son, who had taken
refuse in England, obtained from
the English King the assistance of
a Saxon Army, under command of
Siward, the Earl of Northumber-
land, who succeeded in wresting
Lothian from Macbeth, and in plac-
ing Malcolm King over it.

Crinian, lay abbot of Dunkeld,
married Beatrice, daughter of King
Malcolm II. See Skene's High-
landers I, 117; II, 129.

Issue — Duncan, King of Scot-
land ; Maldred, v. i.

Second Generation.

Maldbed. Of him but little is
known.

Married Algitha, the daughter of
Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland
by his third wife Eldgiva, the
daughter of King Ethelred-the-
XJnready of England and the great*
granddaughter of Alfred-the-Great.

Third Generation.

CosPATRicK. He retired into
Scotland with his cousin, Edgar
Atheling, in 1068, but returned to
England and, after the death of
Copsi, purchased the Earldom of
Northumberland from William the
Conquerer, but was deprived of it
by that monarch in 1072. He then
returned to Scotland and received
from King Malcolm Caenmor the
Earldom of Dunbar and the lands
adjacent in the Lothians, which had

recently been annexed to the Crown
of Scotland. He had charge of the
district with the Castle of Dimbar
as his residence and stronghold, but
the fee remained to the King. He
was probably the only Earl north
of the Tees or Tyne, as Copsi had
been. His cousin, Waltheof, was
Earl in Yorkshire, for both of them
were in York in 1069 with the
Danes under the description of
Earles. The Monks of Durham
celebrated December 15th, the death
of Cospatricus, Earl and Monk. In
1821 a stone coflSn inscribed on its
lid *'X Cospatricus Comes*' was
found in the Monks' burial ground
at Durham. Cospatrick died at TJb-
bamford (Surtees IV, 157). The
question has been much mooted
whether the name of this individual
was really Cospatrick, or whether
simply Patricus to which the title
Comes or Consul was prefixed.

The name of the wife of Cospat-
rick is not known.

Issue — Dolfyn, Earl of Cumber-
land; Cospatrick, Second Earl of
Dunbar; Waldeve, a monk — died
1116.

Fourth Generation.

Cospatrick. Second Earl of
Dunbar. He is, in some evidences,
styled frater Delphini, Baine App
ex., witnessed by his son Cospat-
rick while his brother, Waldeve, is
styled Frater ejus. He died
August 16, 1139, as appears from a
Coldinghame charter bearing these
words, *'ea die qua vivus fuit et
mortuus,** a mode of expression
which occurs in Exon Doomsday
quoted in the History of the Perci-
val Family and also in Baine App
XIX, XX, XXI. He witnessed the

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foundation charter of the Abbey of
Scone, 1115 and the foundation of
Holyrood in 1128. In 1167 a con-
firmation of a grant made previous-
ly by Cospatrick, the brother of
Delphinus in which mention of Gos-
Patrick, the son of the grantor, is
made, is found. (Rained Durham
App). In a subsequent charter he
is called Cospatricus de Dunbar.

The name of the wife of Cospat-
rick, the second Earl, is not known.

Issue — Cospatrick, Third Earl of
Dunbar v. i.; Patrick; Margaret,
married Philip de Montgomero.

Fifth Generation.

CosPATBicK. Third Earl of Dun-
bar. He is styled in some char-
ters ** Cospatricus comes filius
Cospatrici." In a. charter printed
by the Surtees Society, entitled
^^Conventio inter Gaufridum et
Cospatricum sive Waldeyum,'' he
calls himself in the body of it ** Cos-
patricum filium Consulis Cospat-
ricii" and refers to **Gospatrico et
filio suo Ade qui primus Waltheof
vocatus est." He signs himself
*Vice comes'* in the charters in
1126 (Raine's Durham App. XV,
XVI). He died in 1174.

The name of the wife of Cospat-
rick, the third Earl, is not known.

Issue — Gospatrick, Fourth Earl
of Dunbar v. i.; Edward; Edgar
Unnithing, married Alice, daughter
of Ivoan Agney; Juliana, married
Ranulph, son of William de Mer-
lay. Baron Monpeth; Uchtred, the
ancestor of the Earls of Dundas.

Sixth Generation.

Gospatrick. Fourth Earl of
Dunbar. He made several grants
to the Abbey of Mailros. Founded

the Cistercian nunnery of Cold-
stream, witnessed by ^^Derder
Comtissa.'* He also founded an-
other nunnery belonging to the
same order at Eccles in Berwick.
He died in 1166.

Married — Derder, her last name
is unknown.

/55?/^— Waldeve, Fifth Earl of
Dunbar, the ancestor of the later
Earls of Dunbar, died 1182, mar-
ried Aline, died 1179; Patrick, the
second son, became the ancestor of
the Earls of Hume and Marchmont

V. 1.

Seventh Generation.

Patrictjs, second son of Gospat-
rick. He received from his father
the lands of Greenlaw and others.
He made a donation of the Church
of Greenlaw to the Monastery of
Kelso. He witnessed a charter in
1166 and another (Raine CXIV) as
'* filius comitis Gospatricci as f ra-
ter comitis Waldive** in 1228 and
signs "f rater comitis '^ Chart. Mel.,
76. It is not known whom Patrick
married and we have the name of
only one of his children, William
V. i.

Eighth Generation.

William. He gave to the mon-
astery of Coldstream several lands
**pro salute animae suae at M. com-
tissae uxoris meae" and also to the
Monastery of Kelso. He died about
1265.

Married — The name of the first
wife of William is not known, but
her first name began with M. His
second wife was Ada, daughter of
Patrick, Sixth Earl of Dunbar and

widow of Courtenay. Having

no children by her first husband,

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she carried her estate to her second
husband and kinsman, who thence-
forth is called **of Hume." An-
other way in which tradition says
the name and lands of Home or
Hume were gained is given by
Hume of Godscroft, the historian
of the family. **It is reported/*
he says, *Hhat a son of the Earl of
March, who had overcome a cer-
tain French champion, was re-
warded by his father with the grant
of the lands of Home (Hume),
where the Castle now stands.*'
Another tradition, which Gods-
croft prefers, is that a certain man
named Philip, holding both the
King and the Law at defiance,
headed a numerous troop of rob-
bers. These lurking in the woods
and solitudes could not be taken
but by a regular army. He posses-
sed two strongholds from which he
harassed the Earl of March. One
of these was on top of a hill now
belonging to the Earl of Hume and
the other was a few miles distant.
The latter was fortified with a
triple wall and ditch and still goes
by the name of Philipstane. Wil-
liam, a son of the Earl, having one
day met this robber, slew him and
carried his head to the Earl. The
King for this action gave him the
lands of Home.

Ada made over, before 1240, a
part of them to the Monks of Kelso
^*pro salute animae meae, patris et
matris meae, et maritorum.*' In
another deed the words are **Ada
de Curtnay, filia Patricii, Comitis
de Dunbar salutem. Votim facio
me pro animabus maritorum
meorum dedisse, etc.," which
shows that she survived both her
husbands.

Issue — ^We have the name of only
one of William's children, i. e.,
William, a son of the second mar-
riage.

Ninth Generation.

William, Dominus de Hom
(Hume). ''lom" in Celtic signifies
a hill, of which **Ihom" is the gen-
itive, in the pronunciation of which
Hie **i" is mute. The addition of
the final ^*e" is modem, for in a
charter of 1179, the church is called
Ecclesiam de Hom. Ir the present
day the name is spelled in Scotland
indifferently **Home" or *^Hume."
In America the name i s almost
universally spelled *'Hume."

Married— First Ada. ; second
Margota, she secondly married
Patrick de Edgar about 1284.

Issue — ^We have only the name
of Galf ridus, a son of the first mar-
riage V. i.

Tenth Generation.

Galfridus. He is one. of the
many Barons of Scotland who
swore fealty to King Edward I of
England when he overran the King-
dom in 1296. He made a donation
to the Monks of Kelso in 1300.

The name of his wife is not
known and the name of only one
child is known, Roger, v. i.

Eleventh Generation.

Roger. Of him we have only the
name.

Twelfth Generation.

Sir John Home, dominus de
eodem. He made several incur-
sions into England, always fighting
in a white jacket or doublet. He
was a great terror to the English
who applied to him some epithet

indicative of his dress, though it
does not seem quite clear what that
nickname was. Neither does it ap-
pear what sort of thing it was
which was called a ** white jacket
or doublet. ' ' The Highlanders used
a garment called **Leinn-croich*' or
saffron colored shirt, the robe
distinguished a gentleman. (Lo-
gan's Clans, Introduction).

Thibteenth Generation.

Sib Thomas Hume, of whom little
is known.

Married Nichola Papedi, who
brought him to the Barony of Dun-
glas, whence he quartered her arms
with his own. The first on record
of this family (Papedi) was Sher-
iff of Northam Island in 1110. A
seal is mentioned in Raine's Dur-
ham with a single Popinjay. The
arms of Papedi still occupy the sec-
ond quarter of the Hume shield.
They are ** Argent, three papingoes
vert armed and membered gules, ^'

Issue — Sir Alexander, married
Jean, daughter of Sir William Hay
of Locharret or Tester. He is the
ancestor of the present Earles of
Hume. He was killed at the Battle
of Vemuil in 1421.

Sir David v. i. j Patrick of Rath-
burn; Elizabeth, married Thomas

Ker of Kershaw; married

Sir John Oliphant of Aberdalgie.

Foubteenth Genebation.

Sib David Hume of Weddebbubn.
He was the first of the Humes of
Wedderburn which is the oldest and
best known cadet house of the fam-
ily of Hume, He got from his
father the lands of Thurston and
from Archibald, Fourth Earl of
Douglas, the Barony of Wedder-

burn in the county of Berwick, 1413.
These lands had formed a part of
the estates of the Earl of March,
which on that Earl's tfortfeiture
had been conferred on Douglas to
whom David de Hum had proven
himself a faithful and devoted ally.
The lands of Wedderburn were
given to him in recognition of this,
and so were also the lands of Bay-
ardslands or Bardslands. These
charters from Douglas to Hume are
still preserved in Wedderburn Cas-
tle. When George Dunbar, Earl of
March was restored, he seems very
willingly to have acquiesced in and
confirmed these grants. The mu-
tual attachment between the Earl
of Douglas and David Hume of
Wedderburn and his older brother,
Alexander Hume, of that Ilk, has
become famous. In 1424 when
Douglas, who had been created
Duke of Touraine in France, was
about to sail for France with his
retainers, Hume and Wedderburn
came to see him away. Douglas
could not restrain his sorrow at
parting and, embracing Hume, said
he had not thought that anything
would have parted them. **Well,
then,*' said Hume, reciprocating
the like emotion, *^ nothing ever
shall.'* He then sent back his
brother David of Wedderburn, lest
in the event of a reverse both should
fall, and no competent person be
left to look after the affairs of their
families; and himself accompanied
Douglas to France, where both were
slain at the battle of Verneuil. Sir
David Hume, of Wedderburn, is
said to have tended carefully the
interests of his brother who took
his place in the French expedition,
but retained, with evident apprecia-

tion of his services, the bailiaxy of
Coldingham. He was knighted by
King James II in 1448, who ap-
pointed him one of the commission-
ers to treat with the English in
1449. He was a Knight of the
Golden Order. He died in 1469.

Married — ^Alice .

Issue — ^David, who predeceased
his father before 1450 v. i.; Alex-
ander, who by a crown charter
dated May 16, 1460, is called to the
succession of Wedderbum in the
event of the failure of his brother's
two sons.

Fifteenth Generation.

David Hume. Died before his
father in 1450 of wounds which he
received in a fray with the robbers
on the Lammermuir Hills. He
forced Robert Graham, the mur-
derer of King James I, from his
concealment and brought him to
punishment (MSS. Hist).

Married Elizabeth Carmichael,
said by Godscroft to have been the
widow of Graham. She remarried
George Carr.

Issue — Gieorge v, i.; Sir Patrick
of Polwarth ; Sibilla, married Henry
Haitly in 1470.

Sixteenth Generation.

George Hxjme. Succeeded his
grandfather in the lands of Wed-
derburn in 1469. **The two
brothers, '' says Godscroft, '* lived
together with their families for 18
years, a rare example of brotherly
and sisterly love.*' His chief, Alex-
ander, being a minor, he had for
some years very great power in the
Merse. There is one action of his
particularly memorable, in which
he defeated the English who had

made an invasion into Scotland.
This action is handed down to us
by our forefathers by common re-
port and by certain verses in which
it was celebrated at that time
(1596). Percy, Earl of Northum-
berland, having collected a great
band of 5,000 men, boasted that he
would, in spite of, and as a dis-
grace to the Humes, carry off their
whole cattle and ravish their coun-
try. Having made his way into
Berwick, plundering everything be-
fore him, he proceeded as far as
Auldcambus. The people in the
neighborhood were alarmed by the
noise and acquaintanced those at a
distance of the arrival of the En-
glish by lighting the fires on the
beacons. The Humes gathered to-
ja:ether in a hurried manner, but not
being in sufficient number to face
the enemy, they waited their return
on the banks of the river Ay at
Milleston Hill. At this place the
ford is narrow and there is a steep
bill on the opposite side, from
whence they could occupy the whole
1 weights as far as the sea. The Eng-
lish had to pass here on their way
to Berwick. The Scots, who were
not above 800 strong, chose George
Hume for their leader. He ordered
them to dismount, and remove their
horses out of sight and await the
coming of the enemy on foot. On
Percy perceiving them, he consulted
with some of his chiefs as to what
should be done. Shelby was first
asked his opinion and, whether
from any secret grudge against
Percy, through friendship for Wed-
derburn, who was his cousin, or
through wisdom, he advised Percy
to retreat to Berwick with his
plunder without fighting. Percy

was displeased with this advice and
consulted another, Bradford, who
advised fighting. Percy thought
this most honorable and the battle
ended in favor of the Scots, who,
amongst others, took Shelby pris-
oner and retook all the plunder.
George did not, however, long sur-
vive the victory, for on the follow-
ing year while riding near his home,
he saw the English advancing to
attack it; he snatched up a spear
and without waiting for any of his
attendants, he attacked the English
and drove them back, as they sup-
posed his usual retinue was behind
him. When, however, they found
that he w^as alone, they forced
about and overcame him. During
the dispute amonef the English who
should have so great a prisoner,
one of them struck him with his fist,
on which he drew his dagger and
slew the aggressor. The rest then
rushed on him and killed him and
shamefully mangled his body. A
cross was erected on the spot on
which he fell which still remains.

He built the house at Wedder-
burn, or rather added to it, and for-
tified it with seven towers and
ditches. Over the outer gate he
placed his name and arms. He re-
ceived 1,000 merks from King
Henry VIII of England in the
terms of a treaty between that
King and King James IV of Scot-
land in 1493. He was killed in 1497.

Married Mariota, daughter of
John Sinclair, of Herdmanston, by
Catherine Home, sister of Alexan-
der, Lord Home, who was also
heiress of her grandfather, John
Sinclair, of Herdmanston, in the
lands of Polwarth and Kimmer-
ghame. Patrick Hume, the brother

of George, married her sister, Mar-
garet. It is. related that the uncle
of the maidens, as heir male of the
family and guardian to them, wish-
ing to prevent these lands from be-
ing carried out of the family by
their marriage, carried off the
maidens from Polwarth to his cas-
tle of Herdmanston on the other
side of the Lammermuir Hills. The
young ladies, however, succeeded in
convejing tidings of their where-
abouts to their lovers, who lost no
time in summoning their retainers
and riding across the hills to their
rescue. Investing the castle of
Herdmanston thev demanded their
lady loves, who after some parley
on the part of their uncle, were sur-
rendered, and with no unwilling-
ness on their part were carried
back to Polswarth, where the
brothers married them, and divided
their lands between them.

Issue — Sir David v. i. ; Mr. John
Home.

Seventeenth Genebation.

Sir DAvro Hume of Wedderbtjrn.
He was knighted by King James
IV. About a month after his
father's murder^ the English made
another inroad under a leader,
whose name is unknown. His ban-
ner had on it a dun cow (probably
therefore a Veville), referring to
which he said he would make it low
over the town of Dunse. The army
consisted of 3,000 men. They
marched insultingly past the castle
of Wedderburn which greatly en-
raged the stewards of the deceased,
Sir George. They were further
stimulated by the promise of ten
pounds by the widow for every
Englishman they should kill. They

accordingly sallied out and killed
41. The English, however, arrived
at their destined hill and then in-
sultingly fixed their banner, burn-
ing the town of Dunse and wasting
the country. It happened that Pat-
rick, having heard of his brother *s
murder, arrived that very day from
Edinburgh, where he generally re-
sided as he was attached to the
court. He joined himself, there-
fore, to his nephew David, who was
already in arms. About 500 friends
and vassals had flocked to his
standard and they repaired to the
confluence of the waters of Black-
adder and Wedderburn through
which the enemy must return. Here
they were joined by Cockburn of
Langton. They contrived by ly-
ing in ambush and drawing forth
the English by a feint, to gain a
complete victory. This was not
used with clemency for they killed
every one in revenge of George's
death. The remnant escaped into
the castle of Blackadder where the
Laird received them. This was the
cause of repeated quarrels between
the Humes and Blackadders until
the latter became completely ex-
terminated. David of Wedderburn
became so formidable that not a
man of the same name as he who
caused his father's death dared ap-
pear within 50 miles of the border.
Two anecdotes are related of this
battle which gave rise to popular
sayings in the neighborhood. Cock-
burn, of Langton, had hastened to
the assistance of the Humes in such
a hurry that he would not wait to
arm himself. The vassals en-
treated him not to expose himself,
to which he replied **he would turn
his coat inside out, for it was white

inside and the enemy would think
it a coat of mail," and he fought
most desperately, A man named
Bowmaker having fallen into the
hands of the English some days
afterwards, was going to be killed.
He, however, entreated them to
spare him as he was confined to his
house with physic and dined upon
chickens. Thus *' Langton 's coat
of mail" became an expression for
presumptuous and vain security
and ** Bowmaker 's purgation" for
a cowardly innocence. (Godscroft
AfSS. Hist.).

He is said to have used all his
endeavors to persuade his chief
Lord Hume and Lord Huntley, to
go to the assistance of the Royal
Army at the Battle of Flodden in
1513, when it was being worsted.
On their refusing to do so, he went
with his own company and he and
his eldest son were both killed.
Part of the old banner which waved
over the Wedderburn contingent of
the Scottish army on that occasion
was discovered in a tattered and
fragmentary and blood-stained
condition in an old strong chest at
Wedderburn Castle in 1822. It
was wrapped round the bodies of
the Lairds of Wedderburn, elder
and younger, when their surviving
retainers bore them home from the
field of battle for burial. The ban-
ner was similarly employed when
the like catastrophe again overtook
the house of Wedderburn at the
Drove of Dunbar on September
3rd, 1650, when again father and
son, in this case an only son, and
curiously bearing the same names
of Sir David and George, fell on
the battlefield.

Married — Isabella Pringle of
Galeshields (MSS. H.), but the
printed history says Isabel, daugh-
ter of David Hoppringle of Smal-
holme, before 1560. She was alive
in 1545.

Issue — Isabel, married Patrick
Cockburn; Mariot, married John
Towers; Margaret, married first,
John Swinton and second, William
Cockburn of Langton; George, un-
married. Killed with his father at
Flodden; David of Wedderburn v.
i. ; Alexander of Manderston ; John,
married Beatrix, daughter and co-
heiress of Blackadder; (Robert,
married Margaret, sister of the
above Beatrix; Andrew, clerk of
Lauder; Patrick of Broomhouse;
Bartholomer of Simprin.

Of the above eight sons of Sir
David's, seven were old enough to
accompany him to the ill fated field
of Flodden. Sir Walter Scott, in
his **Lay of the Last Minstrel,'*
calls them the ** Seven Spears of
Wedderburn." The lines in ques-
tion are:

"Vails not to ten each hardy clan.
From the fair Middle Marches came.
The -bloody heart blazed in the van.
Announcing Douglass, dreaded name!

Vails not to teU what steeds did spurn.
Where the Seven Spears of Wedderburn
Their men in battle order set.
And Swinton laid the lance to rest.
That tamed of yore the sparkling crest
Of Clarence's Plantagenet.
Nor lists, I say, with hundreds more
From the rich Merse and Lammermuir,
And Tweed's fair borders, the war
Beneath the crest of old Dunbar,
And Hepburn's mingled banners come
Down the steep mountain, glittering far,
And shouting stiU, 'A Hume, a Hume!'"

•

Eighteenth Gbntebation.

David Hume of Wbdderbxibk.
The second son who succeeded
He had a short but somewhat stir-
ring career. He was the principal
actor in the slaughter of D'Arcie de
la Bastic in 1517. When the Regent
Albany went to France, says Gods-
croft, he gave to de la Bastic the
government of Lothian and the
castle of Dunbar for his residence.
He also made him Warden of the
Borders where the Humes chiefly
resided. He likewise conferred on
him the whole estate of Hume, for-
feited by Alexander, the third Lord,
and put a French garrison in the
castle. From the castle, as it was
raised high above the surronnding
country, he looked down upon them
as from a watch tower and, as it
were, showed his triumph for the
slaughter of their chief.

BOONE DAY AT THE CAPITOL

CELEBRATION OF THE KENTUCKY STATE

HISTORICAL SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING JUNE 7. 1913

BRIEF REVIEW BY

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON

RECENT AND SECRETARY-TREASURER

THE PROGRAMME

As Completed for Kentucky Historical Society
IN THE Hall of Fame of The Capitol.

BOONE DAY
Saturday, June 7, 1913.

Meeting Called to Order by the President
Gov. James B. McCreary.

Invocation The Rev. Dr. Jesse R. Zeigler

Music — '^ America" Orchestra, Violin, Harp and Cello

Fonnal Acceptance of the Bust of Dean Nathaniel Shaler,
with remarks by Hon. H. V. McChesney, 1st Vice-Presi-
dent.

Music — * * My Old Kentucky Home ' ' Violin, Harp, Cello

Review of the Work of the Kentucky Historical Society and of

the O'Hara Memorial, Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, Regent.
Music — '*Then You'll Remember Me",

Piano, Violin and Harp

Annual Address Prof. McHenry Rhoads, Lexington

Music — **Take Me to the Southern Shore" Violin and Harp

Poen— ^ ' Cinthy Ann ' ' J. Tandy Ellis

Music — *' Annie Laurie" Violin, Harp and Cello

** County History" Otto A. Rothert, Author, Louisville

Music The Band

Original Story, Founded on Incidents in the History of Hart-
ford, Ky., by Mrs. Holmes Cummins.
Music — Popular March The Ban^

A. B. Marshall, Musical Director.

REVIEW

Of the Work of the Kentucky State Historical Society and

the O'Hara Memorial

Altho ' the rain poured down, and
many feared Boone Day in the Hall
of Fame at the Capitol, at its an-
nual meeting would be a failure, yet
at^ the appointed hour, eleven
o 'clock, the room was filled with an
expectant crowd, while the orches-
tra played an inspiring welcome to
the audience. The ushers were kept
busy finding seats as far as possible

for those who were crowding the
door and hall to see and hear the
interesting things the handsome
programme promised.

Governor McCreary presided,
and called the meeting to order.
Eev. Dr. Zeigler followed with an
earnest invocation, asking the bles-
sings of God upon the Society, and
success for its future, and upon the
audience gathered there. The or-
chestra played *' America,'* after
which the Governor introduced
the Hon. H. V. McChesney, the
first Vice-President of the Society.
He formally accepted the splendid
bronze bust of Dean Nathaniel
Shaler, for the State Historical So-
ciety, standing beside the pedestal
upon which the bust rests. It is
the gift from the Hon, R. A. F. Pen-
rose, of Philadelphia, who was a
student under Dean Shaler, and
himself a Geologist and Scientist

of note, his own picture handsomely
framed hangs just above the bust,
which the Regent requested, to em-
phasize this magnificent gift from
Mr. Penrose. Mr. McChesney was
most happy in his speech of accep-
tance. It was brief and elegant.
He sketched the noteworthy facts
in Prof. Shaler 's life. He was born
in 1841,- and died in 1906. He was
first brought into prominence by
his work as Director of the Ken-
tucky Geological Survey, and was
re-appointed to this position by
Governor McCreary, in 1875.
He served until 1880, when he went
to Harvard to accept the chair of
Geology. He was recognized in
America and Europe as the world's
foremost Geologist, and his ''First
Book on Geology" was translated
into three languages. He wrote '*A
History of the United States of
America," his own ''Autobiog-
raphy," and " Shaler 's Kentucky,"
a most useful and interesting his-
tory of this State, and was a poet
of no mean power. (See May Reg-
ister, 1913.)

The Governor then introduced
Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, Regent of
the Society, who gave "A Review
of the Work of the Society," and a
brief account of the O'Hara Me-
morial which is to be erected in the

H. R.— 7.

Frankfort Cemetery. Her paper
follows in this article.

Prof. MeHenry Bhoads followed
the Regent in an inimitable, concise
address on the ** Interpretation of
History. ' ' We regret not having a
copy of this charming address, Ijut
we copy from a scribe *s pencilings
of it. Among other things he de-
clared that *Sve are heirs of all thie
ages'* just in so far as we are able
to interpret and understand their
history, and assimilate the truths
to be gotten from history. The mo-
tives of war can be understood, he
said only by those who have knowl-
edge of the pleasures and pursuits
of the same people in their daily
lives in time of peace, and he ex-
tolled the work being done by the
State Historical Society in perpetu-
ating for future generations infor-
mation concerning the social life of
today.

Col. J. Tandy Ellis followed
Prof. Rhoads and recited his pa^
thetic poem. He was overwhelmed
with applause. The poem is one he
wrote for the first Confederate re-
union in Louisville, **Cynthy Ann.*'
It is universally admired. There
were many Joes and Cynthy Anns
during the Civil war, that might
have inspired the author's facile
pen.

Mr. Otto A. Rothert, of Louis-
ville, was next introduced. He
charmed the audience with his read-
ing and modest, elegant bearing.
One would not have known from
him that he had written *'The His-
tory of Muhlenberg County, ' ' which
Mr. Allison, a famous book critic,
regards as one of the most com-
plete, in every respect, that has
been written of any county in the

State. Mr. Rothert read several
pages from his book, interesting in-
cidents and brief biographies per-
taining to pioneer days to illustrate
what wdll be lost forever, unless
some one takes the trouble to collect
and preserve the intimate history
of the various communities i;^liich
make up the Commonwealth.

An original story, founded on an
incident in the history of Hartford,
Ohio County, Kentucky, written by
Mrs. Holmes Cummins, a Kentucky
writer, best known for her chil-
dren's stories, published in a cur-
rent magazine, w^as read by Mrs.
Jennie C. Morton. The story was
a sketch of slavery days. Mrs.
Morton read it by special request.

The music of the orchestra was
beautiful thruout.

After the conclusion of the pro-
gramme, an elegant dinner was
served at the Capital Hotel to the
guests on the programme, and the
Boards of the Society.

The table was beautifully decor-
ated with flowers, the place-cards
being small bunches of rose'buds
tied with the colors of the Societv,
gold and green, which colors were
also on the menu-cards.

At the table were Gov. James B.
McCreary, Mrs. Jennie C. Morton,
Regent, First Vice President H. V.
McChesney, Miss Sally Jackson,
W. W. Longmoor and his mother,
Mrs. Lula Longmoor, Chief Justice
J. P. Hobson and Mrs. Hobson, the
Rev. Dr. Jesse R. Zeigler and Mrs.
Zeigler, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Cum-
mins, Col. J. Tandy Ellis and Mrs.
Ellis, Prof. McHenry Rhoads, Otto
A. Rothert, Mrs. Malcolm Thomp-
son, of Lexington ; Miss Eliza Over-
ton, Mrs. John E. Miles, Capt. John

A. Steele, of Midway, banker, one
of the First Vice Presidents of the
Society and Miss Frances Breckin-
ridge Steele, of Midway; Prof.
George C. Downing and Mr. and
Mrs. L. V. Armentrout, of Frank-
fort.

The meeting on this Boone Day,
7th of June, was regarded by all
who attend these annual celebra-
tions of the Society, as one of the
most elegant that has been given by
the Kentucky State Historical So-
ciety.

Secretary-Treasuber.

Review of the Work or the His-
torical Society and the
O'Hara Memorial.

In this progressive period of
time, when inspection and examina-
tion of all property and work of
whatever kind, personal, private or
public, tho' it may seem a little out
of the spirit of liberty that we
Loast of, we as good citizens sub-
mit to the mandate of the legal of-
ficials: We know that '* vigilance is
tlie price of liberty," and watch-
fulness the protector of its bless-
ings. Hence it becomes our duty
and pleasure to tell you of the ac-
tivities and properties of this So-
ciety, as it has been inspected and
approved by law.

Our reports of the expenditures
and receipts are all published in
pamphlets every year, and are laid
before the Legislature at each re-
curring session, after having been
read and approved by the Gover-
nor, according to the law.

Our membership has increased
gradually until now we have mem-

bers, ex-Kentuckians, in the Phil-
ippines and exchange with their
magazines. Also in New Mexico,
in South America and in London,
and in Rome, Italy. We send The
Register to them regularly as to
subscribers in the United States.
The editor of one of the largest
dailies of New York writes to us,
'* he thinks by this time we should
eliminate from our charter, 'only
born Kentuckians can be mem-
bers.' '' He thinks the exclusion
unwise from a commercial point of
view. We do not. It is well for
one people in the nation to have
something to themselves, above
price, a nationality.

However there is a clause in our
Constitution that admits one to be
an honary member, tho' not a born
Kentuckian, who signally distin-
guishes himself or herself by an of-
fering of value Or aid, alike honor-
ing to themselves and to the State
Historical Society. The subscrip-
tions to The Register vary in num-
bers, but the demand for it con-
tinues until we can no longer com-
plete a file of The Register beyond
1908, if after that date.

It is needless that we note the
hundreds of letters we receive,
complimentary to the Society and
The Register, and its writers, and
the offers we receive of honors and
offijces in different States. We sup-
pose we may keep such things in
our desk as these, since we decline
the tempting offers from the East
and the West. We give the infor-
mation the far away writers ask
for. But they write — ''Can you
not come to us, tell us how to found
a Historical Society, how to write
a Constitution — in a word give us

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your secret of success.'' The So-
ciety's success looks to strangers
like a full blown rose that the dews
of the morning have brought to per-
fection, but we decline to give the
experiences and the training re-
quired for such an undertaking as
this. Success does not come like
tlie bloom of the rose by the breath
of the morning, or the kiss of its
dews, nor like salvation, the gift of
God, but thru special natural
gifts in the persons, thru intelli-
gence, courage, industry, energy,
faithfulness, hopefulness, and a
certain degree of amiable forebear-
ance toward those who differ with
you. A dignified deference to the
oi)inions of those who think ** might
is right," while they believe ** right
is might," and w^ork out the prob-
lems of success that way. It is best,
and brings at last the blessings of
success.

Here we surround you with the
evidences of our care, and the illus-
trations of the expenditure of
money, time and thought beyond
computation. Here in the midst of
Historj^, Books, Literature, Sculp-
ture, Paintings, Portraits, Cabinets
of China, Souvenirs and Relics of
priceless value, that it would take
days, yea even months, to examine
and enjoy, we must confine our-
selves to a review in a general way,
of the work of the Society yet un-
published.

We have bought for our Library
all the works of Kentucky authors
of notable worth. We have had
painted the portrait of Washington,
from Peale's portrait of him,
painted at Valley Forge in 1778.
We were most fortunate in obtain-
ing the copy for the accomplished

artist, Ferdinand Walker, of Louis-
ville, Ky., to paint the portrait
from. It has given universal pleas-
ure to our visitors, whether critics
or connoisseurs of art. We have
also purchased two paintings of
great beauty from Miss Dudley. Be-
ing a great niece of Matthew Jouett,
she is said to have inherited his
talent with the brush and colors,
and her work is universally
admired. We have received also a
gift from Mr. John Brislan, a vase
of great artistic beauty, painted by
his gifted niece, a young artist.
Also two large pictures of John 6.
Carlisle and Mr. White ; these were
sent from Congress as gifts to the
Capitol, and were given to us. In
sending gifts to Kentucky of this
kind — there being no spaces in the
Capitol suitable for pictures — with-
out other notice it is understood
they belong thereafter to the His-
torical Department, so designated
by the Governor, provided we will
accept them, or take care of them.
We have the right to decide this, as
the law under which we exist has
decided in more than one case. To
us were given the portraits of Gov-
ernor Shelby, General Harrison,
Henry Clay, General LaFayette by
Jouett, and the marred and neg-
lected portrait of Washington, and
the five paintings sent from Phila-
delphia as a gift to the State in
1892, commemorative of Ken-
tucky's entrance into the Union, in
1792, which contract was signed by
George Washington, then Presi-
dent of the United States. We
hope 3^et to persuade the Legisla-
ture to assist us to restore the old
portrait, or to paint from it a new
one. It is said to be one of the five

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rare portraits painted from
Stuart's which adorns the White
House in Washington — ^Kentucky
should certainly have a full length
portrait of Washington, ahove all
men.

All the portraits and paintings
besides these mentioned belong to
the State Historical Society.

The marble bust of Governor Ma-
goflSn was presented to the Society
by his sons, and that of Governor
Conway by his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Ellen Chinn Conway, as a rare
work of art.

The bronze busts of Governors
Shelby and G<)ebel were presented
to us — the one by Miss Enid Yan-
dell, the Sculptress, the other by
the D. A. B., of the Lexington
Chapter. And tEe splendid bronze
bust of Dean Nathaniel Shaler
was presented by Mr. B. A.
F. Penrose, of Philaledphia, of
which Mr. McChesney has told
you. We have received a num-
ber of small relics, with archeao-
logical specimens, shells and a pic-
ture of Bland Ballard.

There are now in this Hall of
Fame, pictures and portraits of the
six men whose names are the most
famous in America, each in his
respective work for humanity and
the world — George Washington,
Daniel Boone, Theodore O^Hara,
Nathaniel Shaler, Dr. Ephriam Mc-
Dowell and Dr. Ethelbert Dudley,
and four of these last named are
Kentuckians. This quartet of fa-
mous men needs only the mention
of their names to place them in the
forefront as physicians; Shaler,
Scientist and Poet; Theodore
O'Hara, author of the finest martial
epic in our language.

And it is of 0 'Hara now we must
write. Bom in Danville, Ky., and
reared in and near this city — a
public man from his youth — ^the
gallant soldier of three wars, the
Mexican, the Cuban and Civil war,
beloved as a hero and a poet, one
of the handsomest and most fasci-
nating men of his day — an orator
and elegant writer on any subject —
his name a household word in this
city — it is a mystery that he would
not be conspicuously honored by
tablets everywhere in city and
county, and State. It seems strange
to well read patriotic people out of
Kentucky who know the ^'Bovouac
of the Dead'* by heart, that so few
of the teachers and scholars in the
schools of Kentucky know anything
of their world famous poet, 0 'Hara.
They know of the Northern poets —
Byrant, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe,
etc. — Tennyson, of England — ^but of
O'Hara, who has written a poem
greater of its kind, an elegy, than
any one of them, they know very
little.

A people who do not appreciate
greatness never themselves become
great, or worthy of note, and it is
to preserve for our people respect
for our great men who have left us
such a heritage in history that we
have founded anew this Historical
Society. It is not only ennobling but
inspiring to see reverence and hom-
age paid the gifted, the heroic, the
talented and good, as one sees it
here in book, picture and souvenir,
statesmen, warriors, pioneers and
poets.

It has been a desire with us for
years to see Theodore O'Hara
properly acknowledged by Ken-
tucky as her great poet, not merely

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Reg!eter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

as she has done by. a sarcophagus
in our cemetery, but by a memorial
marble, on which should be in-
scribed, if not all, a few of the
verses of his matchless poem ''The
Bivouac of the Dead.''

There are those who remember
my poem, written at request of the
Commission directing the cere-
monies when O'Hara was buried
in the cemetery with others. I de-
clined to read it myself on the occa-
sion, but it was published at the
time, and referred to the inscrip-
tion on the Boston monument from
his poem.

When we were last at Arlington,
and saw over the gateway to this
National Cemetery, on the great
arch above, lines engraved from
this poem, we resolved on our re-
turn to make another effort to have
the State recognize a poem the
United States and Europe had
many times signally honored by se-
lecting inscriptions from it for
monuments. In various ways we
tried to accomplish the object, but
in vain. At last came Lieutenant-
Governor McDermott to our aid.
He had the same idea about home
recognition. He called the Com-
mittee of the State Historical So-
ciety to a conference in the Execu-
tive office, Governor McCreary be-
ing absent on business for the State
at the time, and then and there gave
us the legal authority to erect a
Memorial tablet at the head of the
Sarcophagus the State had placed
above the dead soldier, in the silent
circle of the famous dead around
the State monument, that his poem
had given its name, *'The Bivouac
of the Dead." We were also given
the right to inscribe upon the

Sarcophagus — ^beneath his name,
*^ Author of the immortal poem,
*The Bivouac of the Dead/ Upon
receiving the authority of the State
through Gov. McDermott, we pro-
ceeded immediately to get design?
for this Memorial. All that we re-
ceived were beautiful, but the pre-
ferred design was that of the New
Muldoon Company, Louisville, Ky.
It is a beautiful tablet of Italian
marble six feet in height, upon a
granite base, which will be erected
at the head of 0 'Hara 's tomb. On
the front of the stone in bas-relief
is an exquisite harp; beneath it is
inscribed, ** Theodore O'Hara,'*
and beneath his name this verse,
which refers to the military monu-
ment directly in front of the tablet:

"Yon marble minstrel's voiceful stone,

In deathless song shall tell,
When many a vanished year hath flown,

The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's bliglit,

Nor time's remorseless doom.
Can dim one ray of holy light

That gilds your glorious tomb."

Beneath this verse are the words,
'* Erected by the Kentucky State
Historical Society;" on the reverse
side — facing the Sarcophagus— at
the top is a pen with a palm branch
resting lightly on it, and beneath,
the other two eight line stanzas:

"The muffled drum's sad roll has beat

The soldier's last tattoo;
'No more on life's parade shall meet

That brave and fallen few;
On Fame's eternal camping ground

Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round,

The Bivouac of the Dead.

Refllster of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

103

"Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead,

Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread

The herbage of your grave
Nor shall your glory be forgot

While Fame her record keeps
Or honor points the hallowed spot

Where Valor proudly sleeps."

These lines are so well known
they have become international.
We have seen in the newspapers
that the money for this O'Hara Me-
morial was to be raised by contri-
bution— this is a mistake. We pre-
sume it arose from Col. E. H. Tay-
lor's noble and generous offer to
defray the whole expense of the
Memorial to his beloved friend, Col.
O'llara. We declined this offer
but have promised him the honor of
sharing the expense. It is the work
of the State Historical Society, that
has had the labor of its arrange-
ment, and must have the honor of
the deed.

If the Society had not known they
they had the money for this Me-
morial, they would not have pro-
posed to build it. That they have
been fortunate in getting it at the
price named, is because the com-
pany would not charge more, say-
ing, **the honor of erecting the Me-
morial to the great poet, was worth
more to them than the money

value.'' They appreciated the
spirit of the gift from the
Society to the memory of O'Hara.
We hope to have the monument
completed this summer.

Upon the Sarcophagus we have
had carved beneath O'Hara's
name:

''Author of the immortal poem
"'The Bivouac of the Dead/"

No one in future can cast re-
proach upon the State — ^that she is
ungrateful to O'Hara, whose fame
now enwraps her like the starry
flag of our country in imperishable
renown.

Present to examine and decide
upon design for the Memorial May
26th, 1913 :

Executive Committee of State
Historical Society.

Acting-Governor Eklward J. McDermott,

President Ex-Officio
Mrs. Jennie C. Morton,

Regent and Sec-Treas.

Miss Sally Jackson Librarian

Hon. H. V. McChesney.-.First Vice-President

Prof. G. C. Downing Assistant

W. W. Longmoor Curator

Col. E. H. Taylor, Jr Honorary Member

Design of the New Muldoon
Monument Company, Louisville,
Ky., accepted.

INDEX.

PAGE

Battle of the Thames 7

Captain Sympson 's Diary 22

Second Street— South Frankfort 29

Struggle for ^ivil and Religious Liberty. 43

Mrs. Julia Wicklijffe Beckham 51

Letter of Governor Shelby .. 57

An Andrew Jackson Letter 61

Sketch of Theodore O'Hara 65

Clippings and Paragraphs 73

Historical and Genealogical 83

Boone Day at the Capitol 95

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