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EXCHANGE

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THE^EGISTER

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Kentucky

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Historical

Society

FRANKFORT. KENTUCKY

MAY. 1911

Vol. 9

No. 26

Ye&rly Subaciiption

ONE DOLLAR.

THE REGISTER

Kentucky State Historical
Society

FRANKFORT. KENTUCKY

SUBSCRIPTION, YEARLY, $1 .00.

PER COPY, 25c.

BACK NUMBERS. 50c PER COPY.

VOL. 9. NO. 26.

Ths Frankfort Primtinc Co.
1911

KXOHAHOI

OFFICERS

OF THE

KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY President Ex-Offtcio

H. V. MeCHE8NEY First Vice-President

W. W. LONGMOOR Second Vice-President and Curator

MI88 SALLY JACKSON Third Vice-President and Librarian

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON Secretary-Treasurer

TIIF: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OP THE KENTUCKY STATE

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

HON. H. V. McCHESNEY, Chairman.

MRS. ANNIE H. MILES.
MISS ELIZA OVERTON.
MRS. J. P. HOBSON.

MISS SALLY JACKSON, V.-President
W. W. LONGMOOR, 2 Alt. Chm.
PROF. G. C. DOWNING.

ivije75^981

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Must be sent by check or money order. All communications for The
Register should be addressed to Mbs. Jennie C. Morton, Editor and
Secretary-Treasurer, Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfort, Ky.

Mbs. Jennie C. Morton, Editor-in-Chief.

Hon. H. V. McChesney, Associate Editor.

Prof. G. C. Downing, Regular Contributor,

TO SUBSCRIBERS.
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 7th, the date of
Daniel Boone's first view of the "beautiful level of Kentucky."

CONTENTS

MAY. 1911

1. History by Illustration: General Zachary Taylor, by Anderson Chenault Qulsen-

berry.

2. Henry Watterson, World-famous Editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal, by

Ella Hutchinson Ellwanger.

3. John Boyd Huston: The Lawyer and Oiator, by (Jeorge Baber.

4. Those Who Have Been and Are Not: A Brief History of the Physicians Who

Once Lived in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, or Vicinity, and Have Since Passed
Away, by A. D. Prioe, M. D., Harrodsburg, Ky.

5. Department of History and Genealogy — The Raileys, Randolphs, Mayos, &c., by

Will Railey, Frankfort. The WoodBons and Watkins, by 'Mrs. Morton.

6. Department of Clippings and Paragraphs.

7. Department of Questions and Answers.

8. Report of the Secretary-Treasurer.

THR KKNTUCKY STATE HISTORICAI^ SOCIRTY
ERAKFORT, KKNTUCKY.

CONTRIBUTORS.

Col. J. Stoddabd Johnston, Louisville, Ky.

Hon. Z. F. Smith, Louisville, Ky.

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

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Sturges, Washington, D. C,

Miss ^Martha Stephenson, Harrodsburg, Ky.

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

W. W. LoNGMooR, Frankfort, Ky.

Prof. 6. C. Downing, Frankfort, Ky.

Mrs. Ella H. Ellw anger, Frankfort, Ky.

George Barer, Washington, D. C.

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

A. C. QuisENBERRY, Hyattsvillc, Md.

A. C. QUISENBERRY.

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HISTORY BY BXUSTRATION:

GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR

AND

THE MEXICAN WAR.

ANDERSON CHENAULT QUISENBERRY.

AUTHOR OF

Life and Times of Humphrey Marflhall the Elder;
Revolutionary Soldiers in Kentucky;
Lopez's Bxpeditions to Cuba, 1850 and 1851;
The first John Washington of Virginia;
Virginia Troops in the French and Indian War;
Genealogical Memoranda of the Quisenberry Family and Other Fam-
ilies.
Memorials of the Quisenberry Family in Ge'rmany, E#ngland and

America;
' Etc., Bftc., Mc.
The Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky

To the Memory of

ROGER W. HANSON

My father's schoolmate and
good friend.

HyatUville, Maryland,
October 26. 1910.

■XOHANOI

FVv6

OFFICERS

OF THE

KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY President Ex-Offlcio

H. V. McCHESNEY First Vice-President

W. W. LONQMOOR Second Vice-President and Curator

MI88 SALLY JACKSON Third Vice-President and Librarian

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON Secretary-Treasurer

Til K EXECUTIVf] COMMITTEE OF THE KENTUCKY STATE

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

HON. H. V. McCHESNEY, Chairman.
MRS. ANNIE H. MILES. MISS SALLY JACKSON, V.-PresldenL

MISS ELIZA OVERTON. W. W. LONQMOOR, 2 Alt. Chm.

MRS. J. P. HOBSON. PROF. Q. C. DOWNING.

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INTRODUCTION

TO THE

HERO OF THE MEXICAN WAR.

INTRODUCTION.

It is a pleasure indeed to the
editor of the Register to furnish its
readers the following complete and
deeply interesting history of the
Mexican War, with a roster of the
Officers of the Army under Gen-
eral Zachary Taylor and General
Winfield Scott.

Mr. Quisenberry, the author, needs
no introduction to the readers of
Kentucky. For some years he has
been known as one of the most
charming writers the State has pro-
duced. His style is that of Macau-
ley — enlisting the attention of the
reader at once, and holding it with
the spell of his elegant diction, and
authentic presentation of the facts
of history. In this account of the
Mexican war he supplies a great
want in Kentucky history. He has
obtained data and facts for it, be-
yond the reach of the ordinary
historian, having access to the Gov-
ernment records in the War Depart-
ment at Washington, and upon
these he has drawn for much infor-
mation that win be new to our
readers, to whom the Mexican War
is almost a forgotten chapter in
American history.

There are a few survivors of the
Mexican War now, and more than
one of thej<e lias written to us f)eg-
iring for a history and roster of

tlie Kentucky officers in that war.
Here we have what they have
called for, and more, pictures of
the American hero of Buena Vista,
General Zachary Taylor,

"Rough and ready.
Strong and mighty.
Rough and ready
On Old Whitney,"

his famous war horse — pictures of
him as President of the United
States, taken from his portraits in
the Hall of Fame of the Historical
Society in the Capitol- picture of
Theodore 'Hara ; and his immor-
tal verses in the ** Bivouac of the
Dead," verses sometimes omitted
from the poem because written on
the battlefield, when a soldier there
— it is said — the picture of tlie
military monument in the Cemetery
at Frankfort — erected in honor of
the soldiers who fell in the Mexi-
can War. and whose graves now
form around the monument the
''Bivouac of the Dead," and last,
the flag under which General Tay-
lor fought when he sent his answer
to Santa Anna,

"Zachary Taylor never surrenders."

There have been manv histories
written of the different battles of
tliie Mexican War ana Kentucky has
a roster as nearly complete as then
obtainable of the soldiers of that
war, by the late General Hill, com-

Regitter of the Ktntueky State Historical Society.

piled under the direction of the
General Assembly of Kentucky.
This history in our series will add
its riclmessy completeness and
superiority to them all — in that it
is written by Mr. Quisenberry, the
author of whom his native State is
justly proud. The Register is
honored by his name as a contribu-
tor on its list of distinguished
writers.

This history will be published in
book form, following its appear-
ance in the Register, and no library
will be complete without a copy. It
will be handsomely bound in cloth,
green and gold, the colors of the
Kentucky State Historical Societj',
and sold at a pi'ice within the reach
of book lovers. This edition will
he limited.

GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR.

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HISTORY BY ILLUSTRATION: ZACHARY TAYLOR,

HERO OF THE MEXICAN WAR.

* Trough and beady/'
Among the most highly valued of
the Kentucky State Historical So-
ciety's historical paintings is an
equestrian portrait of one of our
State's greatest sons, General
Zachary Taylor, who is there de-
picted with field-glass in hand,
mounted upon his famous charger,
'*01d Whitey," viewing the advance
of the enemy at the battle of Buena
Vista, and directing the movements
of his own troops.

Because of the great love they
bore him, as well as because of his
blunt readiness always for meeting
cny emergency, his troops in the
Mexican War dubbed General Tay-
lor "Bough and Ready," and his
** clay bank" war-horse they called
' * Old Whitey ; ' ' and so this portrait
of him is known as ** Rough and

Ready on Old Whitey."

• • •

To one whom this portrait of
General Taylor may inspire with
the desire to inquire into the de-
tails of his career, much of the his-
tory of the United States stands
ready to be unfolded; for his career
includes the war of 1812, manv
Indian battles, sieges and forays,
and the Mexican War --the latter
being a very important but appar-
ently but little considered (in these
days) chapter of American history,
winch it is the purpose to briefly
synopsize in this paper.

But before going into that, let us
first recite in a few words an
epitome of the preceding events in

the history of * * Rough and Ready. * '

• • *

Zachary Taylor was bom in
Orange County, Virginia, on No-
vember 24, 1784. His father, Rich-
ard Taylor, received a commis-
sion in the first regiment of troops
raised in Virginia for service in
the Revolutionary War, ' and he
remained in the service until the
army was disbanded at the close of
hostilities, being then a Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Continental Line.
Colonel Taylor was distinguished
for intrepid courage and impertur-
bable coolness in battle; and he
possessed that invaluable faculty
in a military leader, the ability to
inspire his followers with the same
dauntless courage that animated his
own bosom. These qualities he
undoubtedly transmitted to his son,
Zachary Taylor, whose brilliant
campaigns in Mexico, far from any
hase of supplies, and always in
opposition to vastly superior num-
bers, show him to have been one
of the greatest military geniuses
that America has yet produced.

In 1785 Colonel Richard Taylor
;vnd his family (Zachary being then
about nine months old; moved to
Kentucky and settled on a pioneer
plantation about five miles from

the Falls of the Ohio, in Jefferson
County. Here the future great
General and President was brought
up, witli only such education as the
rude pioneer schools of the neigh-
borhood afforded, this, however,
l>eing supplemented by a much bet-
ter course of instruction at home bv
his father and mother. He may be
.said to have been literally cradled
in war, for from infancy to young
manhood the yell of the savage
Indian and the crack of hostile rifles
were almost constantly ringing in
his ears. It is, therefore, not at
all strange that at an early age he
manifested a strong inclination for
a military life, and while still young
received a commission in the regu-
lar army of the United States.

# « •

GENERAL TAYLOR'S ETAT DE BBRVICE.

The military etat de service of
Zachary Taylor, as briefly con-
densed from the records of the War
Department, is as follows:

Appointed First Lieutenant in
the Seventh Infantry, May 3, 1808.

Promoted Captain, in the Seventh
Infantry, November 30, 1810.

Brevetted as Major on Septem-
lier 5, 1812, for gallant conduct in
<lefense of Fort Harrison, Indiana.

Promoted full Major in the
Twenty-sixth Infantry, May 15,
1814.

On the reorganization of the
Army, May 17, 1815, retained as
Captain in the Seventh Infantry,
which he declined, and he was
honorably discharged on June 15,
1815.

Reinstated in the army May 17,
1816, as Major of the Third Infan-
try.

Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel of
the Fourth Infantry, April 20, 1819.

Transferred as Lieutenant Col-
onel of the Eighth Infantrv, August
13, 1819.

Transferred as Lieutenant-Col-
onel of the First Infantrv, June 1,
1821.

Transferred as Lieutenant-Col-
onel of the Seventh Infantry,
August 16, 1821.

Transferred as Lieutenant-Col-
onel of the First Infantrv, Januarv
21, 1822.

Promoted as Colonel of the First
Infantry, April 4, 1832.

Brevetted Brigadier General,
December 25, 1837, for distin-
guished services in the battle of
Kissimmee (Okeechobee), Florida,
with Seminole Indians.

Transferred as Colonel of the
Sixth Infantry, July 7, 1843.

Brevetted Major General on May
28, 1846, for his gallant conduct and
distinguished services in the suc-
cessive victories over superior
Mexican forces at Palo Alto and
Besaca de la Palma, Texas, on the
8th and 9th of May, 1846.

Promoted full Major General on
June 29, 1846. (This promotion
was from Colonel to Major General,
the grade of Brigadier General be-
ing skipped).

Tendered the thanks of Congress
on July 16, 1846, *'for the fortitude,
skill, enterprise and courage which
distinguished the recent operations
on the Rio Grande, with the presen-
tation of a gold medal with appro-
priate devices and inscriptions
thereon, in the name of the Repub-
lic, as a tribute to his good conduct,
valor, and generosity to the van-
quished.'*

Tendered the thanks of Congress
by resolution of March 2, 1847, **for
the fortitude, skill, enterprise and
courage wliich distinguished the
late military operations at Monte-
rey, ' ' and with the presentation of
a gold medal ** emblematical of this
splendid achievement, as a testi-
mony of the high sense entertained
by Congress of his judicious and
distinguished conduct on that
memorable occasion."

Tendered the thanks of (Jougress
by resolution of May 9, 1848,
*'for himself and the troops under
his command, for their valor, skill,
and gallant conduct, conspicuously
displayed on the 22nd and 23rd of
February last, in the battle of
Buena Vista, in defeating a Mexi-
can army of more than four times
their number, consisting of chosen
troops under their favorite com-
mander, General Santa Anna, with
the presentation of a gold medal
emblematical of this splendid
achievement, as a testimony of the
liigh sense entertained by Congress
of his judicious and distinguished
conduct on that memorable occa-

sion.
General Taylor resigned from the

armv on January 31, 1849.

• * #

THE MEXICAN WAR.

The war of the United States
with Mexico, in which General
Zachary Taylor showed his great
miUtary ability, loomed large in
tlie public eye from the time of its
inception until the larger operations
of the Civil War overshadowed it
in the public estimation, and it then
l>assed out of public consideration,
«nd is now apparently almost for-

gotten. A brief resume of its occur-
rences mav serve to revive some
interest in it, especially among
Kentuckians, whose kindred took so
distinguished a part in it.

It was a unique war, in that it
lasted more than two years, during
which time a dozen pitched battles
and many minor ones were fought,
in every one of which the Ameri-
cans were victorious. The Mexi-
cans, with much larger forces than
their opponents in each battle,
never won a victory. It was one
triumphant march for the armies of
the United States from beginning
to end, notwithstanding the fact
that the Mexicans were hardy,
brave and patient, and well trained
in the simpler arts of war, their
frequent internal struggles having
given them recent and extensive

experience in military aflFairs.

« • •

CAUSES OF THE MEXICAN WAB.

As to the causes that led to the
Mexican War, some writers have
attempted to make it appear that
during the year 1830 General Sam
Houston with a band of adventurers
went from the United States into
Texas with the object of fomenting
discontent, fostering revolution,
seizing the reins of government,
emancipating Texas from Mexico,
and annexing it to the United
States. This, it has been claimed,
was done in the interests of a
Southern policy, the object of
wliich was to increase the slave ter-
ritory of the United States so as
to maintain a balance of power
against the free States, which were
then constantly being increased in
number bv the formation of new

Regittfr of th« Kentucky StfU HUtorleal Society.

States from the original Terri-
tories.

So far from this being the case,
it is a well-attested historical fact
that the real causes of the move-
ment for the independence of Texas
were as here briefly set forth;
namely :

After the purchase of liouisiana
from France in 1803, Anglo-Ameri-
can adventurers bej;;»n to cross into
1 exas from the United States. In-
deed, there was always a claim,
founded upon somewhat vague and
indefinite grounds, but persistently
adhered to, tl::^it the Louisiana Pur-
c]iase included Texas, which there-
fore became |)art of the territory
of the United States; but Mexico
just as persistently claimed it as
one of her I'mvinces. The matter
was, in « manner, settled when the
ilnited Statos made a treaty with
Si>ain in 1819. She is supposed to
lijive then surrendered her claim to
Texas in i»art compensation for the
t'fssion of Florida; and when Mex-
ico revoitc'l i)om Spam, Cexas be-
came a [)art of the Republic of
Mexico established at that time.
This was in 1821, and immediately
after this date American colonists
were permitted, and even solicited,
to enter Texas and settle, under the
patronage of the Mexican Govern-
ment. Bv the year ISJ^Jl more than
twenty thousanrl people from all
parts of the United States, though
largely from the Southern States,
had settled between the Sabine and
the Colorado rivers. In 1830 the
Mexican Government, in breach of
fnith and promises, placed these
people under a so-called military
rule, which was in fact nothing less
than a rnilitary despotism; and this.

as a free-bom people from a land of
liberty, they resented, not latently
but openly and actively. In short,
they immediately rose in rebellion
(as their fathers had done in 1776)
and from this originated the war
for Texan independence.

The Anglo - American Texans
were assisted in their struggle for
independence by volunteers from
the United States, who flocked in
numbers to their aid; and the war
was terminated by the utter defeat
of the Mexicans under Santa Anna
at the battle of San Jacinto, on
April 21, 1836. From that date until
1845 Texas was an independent
republic, and was so recognized anil
acknowledged by most of the ,<rc;it
powers of the world.

On December 29, 1 845, Texas was
admitted as a State of the Unite<l
States, in spite of the vehement
protest of Mexico, and a war with

that country ensued at once.

# # •

As soon as Texas was annexed tn
the United States, Colonel Zacharv
Taylor with a little army of fifteen
hundred men was ordered to taki*
station on the eastein bank of tlie
Nueces River, in Texas. Mexici^
claimed this river as the true
boundary between her territory
and that of Texas; but Texas and
the United States claimed the Rio
Grande as the real boundary as
established by the treaty of Saii
Jacinto.

Colonel Taylor, who had lx>en
ordered to Texas to guard the soil
of the new State, would proceed no
further than the Nueces River with-
out definite and explicit instruo-
tions. In March, 1846, he received
from President Polk positive

orders to march across the dispu-
ted territory to the Eio Grande,
which he at once did. General
Ampudia, who was at that time at
I he town of Matamoras, on the
opposite bank of the Rio Grande
from Taylor, with a strong Mexican
force, demanded that Taylor should
instantly return to the Nueces, and
if he did not, then Mexico would
interpret the movement as equiva-
lent to a declaration of war on the
part of the United States.

I'ALO ALTO AND RESACA DE LA PALMA.

Shortly afterwards Ampudia
was relieved of command of the
Mexican fojces by General Arista,
who, with an army of six thousand
men, boldly crossed the Eio Grande
into Texas. This act has always
l)een construed by the United
States as the first act of invasion
and hostility, and that it was the
act that brought un and precipitat-
ed the war.

By this time Taylor ^s army
amounted to twenty-three hundred
men, all beins; troops of the regular
army. On May 8, 1846, Arista with
his six thousand men boldly at-
tacked Taylor's force at the village
of Palo Alto. Gen. Tavlor defeat-
ed him badly, wiunini? an import
ant battle and forcin? the Mexicans
to retire in more or le.^s confusion
and disorder to Besaca de la Palma,
not many niiles distant from Palo
Alto.

''Old Bough and Ready'' pur-
sued the Mexicans to this point,
and attacked them the very next
day with ^eat ferocity, defeating
them utterly, and driving their

whole force across the Eio Grande
into Mexico.

Thus did the gallant Taylor with
an enemy outnumbering him tAvo
to one, win two brillianc victories
in as many days. The enemy fonnd
him here, as elsewhere, ever ready
to give them a rough time.

In these engagements the Amer-
ican loss was but slight, while the
Mexican loss was about one thou-
sand in killed and woundeil, eight
guns, and large quantities of matf.-
rials of war; but the most impon-
ant result was that the entire dis-
puted territory was secured to the

United States by force of arms.

• • •

FORMAL DECLARATION OF WAR.

President Polk claiming the dis-
puted ground as belonging of right
to the United States declared in a
special message to Congress that
the United States territory had
been invaded by a hostile force
from Mexico and that the blood of
citizens of the United States had
been shed upon their own soil. On
May 13, 184i6, Congress passed an
act calling for fifty thousand volun-
teers, and appropriating ten mU-
lions of dollars from the Treasury
for the thorough prosecution of
the war.

The fifty thousand volunteers
were secured without trouble, and
were enlisted in the Southern and
Western States. The Eastern
States, as in the War of 1812, were
in an attitude of almost open rebel-
lion, and refused to furnish any
troops for what they considered an
unholy war. At a later date addi-
tional volunteers were called for.

KENTUCKY TROOPS IN

THE MEXICAN WAB.

On May 22, 1846, Governor Ows-
ley, of Kentucky, issued a formal
proclamation calling for two regi-
ments of infantry or riflemen, and
one of cavalry, for the service of
the United States against Mexico,
that being Kentucky's quota. On
May 26, four days later, he an-
nounced in another proclamation
that the requisition upon Kentucky
for troops had been filled. Nearly
fourteen thousand men had enlist-
ed and formed themselves into com-
panies, but of course only the three
regiments called for by the Govern-
ment could be accepted.

The Louisville Legion was or-
ganized as the First Kentucky In-
fantry under Col. Stephen Orms
by, and embarked for Mexico by
steamboat from Louisville on the
same day that Governor Owsiey is-
sued his proclamation, May 26,
1846.

This regiment was raised in Lou-
isville, and was officered as fol-
lows: Stephen Ormsby, Colonel;
Jason Rogers, Lieutenant-Colonel ;
John B. Shepperd, Major. Cap-
tains of the companies : William L.
Ball, Charles W. Bullen, John Ful-
ler, Charles IL Harper, Ebenezer
B. Howe, Florian Kern, William
Minor, Frank Saunders, Conrad
Schroeder, Benjamin F. Stewart,
Francis F. C. Triplett.

The second Kentucky Infantry
was organized with William R. Mc-
Kee, of Lexington, as Colonel;
Henry Clay, Jr., of Louisville, as
Lieutenant Colonel; Carey H. Fry,
of Danville, as Major; and was

composed of the following compan-
ies, and their Captains ; to- wit :

1st Company, from Green county.
Captain William H. Maxcy.

2nd Company, Franklin county.
Captain Franklin Chambers.

3rd Company, Mercer county.
Captain Phil. B. Thompson.

4th Company, Boyle county, Cap
tain Speed Smith Fry.

5th Company, Kenton county.
Captain George W. Cutter.

6th Companv, Jessamine county,
Captain William T. Willis.

7th Company, Lincoln county
Captain William Dougherty.

8th Company, Kenton county.
Captain William M. Joyner.

9th Company, Montgomery coun
ty, Captain Wilkerson Turpin.

10th Company, Anderson county.
Captain George W. Kavanaugh.

The First Kentucky Cavalry was
organized with Humphrey Mar-
shall, of Louisville, as Colonel:
Fzekiel H, Field, of Woodford,
county, as Lieutenant-Colonel;
John P. Gaines of Boone countv, as
Major; and was composed of the
following companies and their cap
tains, to-wit:

1st Company, Jefferson county^
Captain W. J. Heady.

2nd Company, Jefferson county
Oa])tain A. Pennington.

3rd Company, Fayette count
Captain Cassius M. Clay.

4th Company, Woodford count
Captain Thomas F. Marshall.

5th Company, Madison count
Captain J. C. Stone.

6th Company, Garrard count
Captain J. Price.

7th Company, Fayette count
Captain G. L. Postlethwaite.

Sth Company, Gallatin county,
[Captain J. S. Lillard.

yrii Company, Harrison county,
Japtain John Shawhan.

10th Company, Franklin county,
'aptain B. C. Milam.
In addition to these three regi-
iients, an Independent Company
3f Cavalry was raised in Winches-
ter, Clark county, with John S.
Williams as Captain and Roger
W. Hanson as Lieutenant, which
having been excluded from the
quota by mistake, was accepted for
the war by special order of the
War Department.

The Second Lieutenants of this
company were William A. McCon-
nell and George S. Sutherland.

The General officers of the army
appointed from Kentucky for the
war were Zachary Taylor, Major
General in the regular army; Wil-
liam 0. Butler, of Carroll county.
Major General of volunteers; and
Thomas Marshall, of Lewis county,
Brigadier General of volunteers.

On August 31, 1847, requisition
was made upon Kentucky for two
more regiments of infantry for ser-
vice in the Mexican War. Before
September 20 they were organized
and officered as follows :

] Third Kentucky Infantry : Man-
I Tms V. Thompson, of Scott county,
I'Olonel; Thomas L. Crittenden, of
Franklin county, Lieutenant-Col-
<>nel; John C. Breckinridge, of
I'ayette county. Major ; and the fol-
lowing companies and their Cap-
tains, to-wit :

1st Company, Laurel county,
Captain A. F. Caldwell.

2nd Company, Estill county,
<^aptain W. P. Chiles.

3rd Company, Shelby county,
Captain Thomas Todd.

4th Company, Bourbon county.
Captain William E. Simms.

5th Company, Scott county, Cap-
tain John R. Smith.

6th Company, Bath county. Cap-
tain James Ewing.

7th Company, Fleming county.
Captain Leander M. Cox.

8th Company, Nicholas coimty,
Captain Leonidas Metcalfe.

9th Company, Boone county.
Captain J. A. Pritchard.

10th Company, Fayette county.
Captain L. B. Robinson.

Fourth Kentucky Infantry : Soon
after the battle of Cerro Gordo the
enlistment of the Clark County In-
dependent Company of Cavalry ex-
pired, and Captain John S. Wil-
liams returned to Kentucky and re-
cruited the Fourth Kentucky In-
fantry of which he became Colonel ;
William Preston, of Louisville,
Lieutenant-Colonel ; William T.
Ward, of Green county, Major. The
following were the companies of
this regiment, and their Captains,
to-wit :

1st Company, Caldwell county,
Captain J. S. Coram.

2nd Company, Livingston county,
(•aptain G. B. Cook.

3rd Company, Daviess county,
(Captain Decius McCreery.

4th Company, Hart county, Cap-
tain P. H. Gardner.

Sth Company, Jefferson county.
Captain T. Keating.

6th Company, Adair county, Cap-
tain John C. Squires.

7th Company, Pulaski county.
Captain John G. Lair.

8th Company, Washington coun-
ty, Captain M, R. Hardin.

9th Company, Nelson county,
Captain B. Rowan Hardin.

10th Company, Henry county,
Captain A. W. Bartlett.

Twelve other organized compan-
ies reported — one each from the
counties of Mason, Montgomery,
Fayette, Madison, Bullitt, Hardin,
Campbell, Harrison and Franklin,
and three from the city of Louis-
ville ; a nimiber of others that were
partially organized ceased their ef-
forts upon learning that the requi-
sition was full.

* • •

Kearny's BXPBDrrioN.

In order to carry along this brief
story of the Mexican War with due
regard to the recital of contempora-
neous events in contemporaneous-
order, it now becomes nec-
essary to leave General Taylor for
a while on the banks of the Rio
Grande after his victories at Palo
Alto and Resaca de la Palma, while
brief reference is made to Kear-
ny's and Doniphan's Expeditions.

Shortly after the declaration of
war, Colonel Stephen W. Kearny,
of the regular army, was dispatch-
ed from Fort Leavenworth, Kan-
sas, with about three thousand
men, with orders to conquer New
Mexico, California, and ChihuaKua
— an immense tract of country but
sparsely populated. His force con-
sisted of three squadrons of regu-
lar cavalry, two regiments of Mis-
souri volunteer cavalry under Col-
onel Alexander W. Doniphan and
Colonel Sterling Price, one battal-
ion of Mormons, and a few pieces
of artillery. He made a bold dash

for Santa Fe, the capital of New
Mexico, and took it without a bat-
tle, the large force of Mexican
troops stationed there being so ter-
rified by his approach that they
fled without firing a gun.

Colonel Kearny left at Santa Pe
the main body of his troops to hold
New Mexico and conquer' Chihua-
hua; and taking with him only a
hundred dragoons and two moun-
tain howitzers, he marched boldly
forward to conquer California, fif-
teen hundred miles away. Before
he reached his destination, how-
ever, Colonel John C. Fremont,
''the Pathfinder," with a little
band of ''irregulars,'* had preced-
ed him and had displaced the Mex-
ican rulers and declared California
independent. However, the Mexi-
cans still had a hostile force in the
field in California. These Keamv
defeated at San Pascual (near San
Diego) 9 and again at Los Angeles.
The California territory was at
once annexed to the United States,
and Kearny became its first Terri-
torial Governor.

• * *

Doniphan's expedition.

Kearny's main force at Sante Pe
was left in command of Colonel Al-
exander W. Doniphan, of Missouri,
a native of Mason county, Ken-
tucky, whose father, Joseph Doni-
phan, in 1779 taught the first school
ever held in the fort at Boones-
boro, Kentucky.

After making a treaty of peace
with the Navajos, the most power-
ful tribe of Indians in New Mexico,
and leaving Colonel Sterling Price
in charge of the garrison at Santa
Fe, Colonel Doniphan with a regi-

ment eight hundred strong and a
battery of four guns manned by
one hundred artillerymen, set out
on the long march through a deso-
late country to the capital of Chi-
huahua. They passed through im-
mense desert stretches, often mak-
ing long marches without water,
and were frequently threatened
with destruction by prairie fires
which had been started by roving
l)ands of Mexican guerrillas who
hung about them. Not the least of
their harassments were the depre-
dations of these same guerrillas,
who were constantly attacking
stragglers and small scouting par-
ties. A sample of what Doniphan's
men had to endure from this guer-
rilla warfare is given in the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch of April 2,
1900, which says:

**The Missouri branch of the
Quisenberry family furnished the
United States with a number of sol-
diers during the Mexican War. One
of these was John Quisenberry, of
St. Louis county, who figured in
one of the most tragic events that
made Texas a part of the Union.
While out scouting, a party of St.
Louis county boys, including John
Quisenberry and a member of the
Lackland family, fell into the hands
of Mexican guerrillas. After being
tortured, Quisenberry and Lack-
land were burned at the stake
before the eyes of their horrified
companions. A relieving party
beat off the guerrillas before they
had time to add more victims to
their sacrifice. The ashes of these
murdered Americans were brought
back to their St. Louis county
homes, and the older generation of

residents in the county still remem-
ber their impressive funeral."

On February 28, 1847, Colonel
Doniphan reached the Rio Sacra-
mento, where he found a large
force of Mexicans, at Bracito,
whom he attacked and after a hard
fight defeated badly. The Mexican
loss was about three hundred killed
and wounded, and ten pieces of
artillery. On the next day, Febru-
ary 29, 1847, Doniphan's victorious
little army entered Chihuahua, the
capital of the Province of the same
name, a city of about twenty-six
thousand inhabitants. This success-
fully completed what is said to be
the most wonderful march ever
made by American troops. Chihua-
hua was held until the close of the

war.

MONTEBEY.

After the battle of Resaca de la
T*alma on May 9, 1846, General
Taylor crossed the Rio Grande and
occupied the city of Matamoras, re-
maining there until his army was
reinforced in August. Then he
moved forward to C!amargo, and
thence to Monterey, arriving in the
vicinity of that town on September
19th.

Monterey, with its neighboring
defenses, was held by General Am-
pudia with a force of ten thousand
Mexicans and a good supply of ar-
tillery. Taylor's force by this time
amounted to sixty-three hundred
men, many of whom were raw vol-
unteers, just arrived, and he organ-
ized it into three divisions, under
Generals Butler, Twiggs and
Worth. These divisions were so
disposed that by their combined as-

sault on September 2l8t Monterey
and all its defenses were taken, ex-
cepting the plaza in the center of
the town, the ** Black Fort*' on its
north, and some works on the east.
On the 24th Ampudia surrendered.
From the nature of his instructions
received from Washington, Gen-
eral Taylor then put his troops in-
to camp, and remained in that vici-
nity for two months. The battle
of Monterev was a brilliant vie-
torv.

The first campaign of the war
had advanced thus far before anv

•

of the volunteer troops from Ken-
tucky were ordered to the front,
and tlie l)attle of Monterev was the
first action in which any of them
took i)art. Here Colonel Orrasby's
First Kentuckv Infanlrv had a
subordinate place. Tliey had charge
of a mortar batter v, where thev
underwent the severest test that
any tr()0]>s ran be called upon to
undergo — beinn: exposed for nearly
twenty-four hours to an artillery
fire to which thev could make no
reply.

In the battle of Monterey, Major
Oenoral William O. Butler was se-
vcrelv wounded, and Major Philip
N. Baiboii]'. of the reirular armv, a
Kentiirkinii, was killed.

On TVlmiarv 24, 1847, the Ken-
tucky Legislature, by resolution,
directo^l that a sword 1)e presented
to General Tavlor as an evideiice of
Kentuokv's appreciation of his gal-
lant conduct at the battle of Mon-
terey.

# « •

BUENA VISTA.

Eesumi ng operations, General
Tavlor entered Saltillo on Novem-
ber 16, 1846. On December 13,

General Twiggs with one division
was detached to Victoria; Quitman
with another division followed on
the next day, and Patterson with

a third division a few davs later.
On December 29, Quitman entered
AMctoria without opposition, and
on Januarv 24, 1847, General Tay-
lor with the other two divisions
joined him there. General William
O. Butler, who liad recovered from
the wound received at Monterey,
was put in command at Saltillo,
and General John E. Wool moved
forward to occupy the pass called
j\ngostura, at Buena Vista.

It was at this time that General
Taylor received orders which took
from him the best part of his com-
mand, in order to strengthen the
force of General Winfield Scott,
who had now arrived in Mexico
with another armv — Tavlor having
l)reviously conducted the war
alone. Realizing that his army was
now too weak to control so much
territorv after the detachment of
the greater ])art of his forces to
General Scott, General Tavlor fell
ba(»k to Monterev, and for the time
beirig abstained from anv ags^res-
sive movement.

■ff

While Tavlor was still at Vic-
toria. General Santa Anna, then
occupying San Luis Potosi, had in-
i'-i\'epicvl some dis)>atches sent by
S 'oU to Tavlor. Informed bv these
( r the weakness of Taylor's army,
he made his plans to destroy it. His
])lan was to first make a forced
march, crush Taylor's army, and
then turn to meet and defeat Scott,
whom he expected to march upon
the City of Mexico by another
route.

The advance of Santa Anna's
army becoming known, General
Taylor massed his forces at the
hacienda of Buena Vista, and in
the adjacent mountain pass called
Angostura, or *'the straight pass,*'
which has been called *Hhe Ther-
mopylae of Mexico.'' Santa Anna
soon approached with his army of
more than twenty thousand men.
Taylor's force, all told, amounted
to four thousand seven hundred
and fifty-nine, so that he was out-
numbered more than four to one.
Santa Anna, vauntiuii: his vast su-
periority of numbers, demanded a
v^^urrender, which Taylor ' 'respect-
full v declined."*

The issue was joined on Febru-
ary 22, 1847, and was hotly con-
tested for two days. The following
is a letter from surgeon Dr. John U.
LoFon to his brother-in-law Rich-
ard Jackson, of Kentucky, descrip-
tive of the battle.

''Bnona Visla Batllc Field,
''12 odocV A. M., Feb. 23, 184/.
'^Dear Sir:

**The battle of battles has been
fought and the enemy has retired
from the field. I write this bivouac-

•The fol'owlng amusing incident was told
ue by a great granddaughter of Col. Daniel
Boone, Jr., of Tennessee.

It was while Santa Anna was considering
whether or not he would surrender to Gen-
eral Taylor that a scout rushed in with the
startling news to the Mexicans, "Daniel
Boone with a thousand men had Just ar-
rived to re-enfopc<» the American Army.''
"That settles It," said Santa Anna. "We
surrender." He had not heard of the death?
of the great Daniel Boone, which occurred
neiM" twenty years before, and thought if
this man of invincible courage was added^
■o TcylGi's men defeat stared the Mexicans
in the face. Col. Boone was a grandson of
Daniel Boone, and an officer In the Mexi-
can war.

ed on the bloodiest field of modern
times. It is useless to try to give
you any connected, or very accu-
rate account of it in our present
wornout condition. On the 21st
inst., when encamped at Qua Ne-
vara, we received certain informa-
tion that Santa Anna was advanc-
ing with a very large force to at-
tack us. General Taylor, not think
ing his position a very strong one,
fell back to Buena Vista pass, and
took up his position there that
night. On the 22, about ten o^clock
the advance guard reported the
enemy advancing, and our men
were drawn up in line of battle
about two hours before sun down.
A party of the enemy were dis-
covered attempting tc lake posses-
sion of the heights on our left
flank; two rifle and two carbine
companies of the Kentucky Cav-
aliy wore ordered to repel them
Tl'Cj- .-js'^ended the mountain and i
brisk (iriiiir m';.s kept up until it was
too <iark for oi^r men to shoot with
pMM ision, and ihey retired to camp.
We slept upon our arms in posi-
tion. On the 23rd, about seven
o 'clock, the battle was opened upon
the heights by the skirmishers, as
on the previous evening. Santa
Anna advancing to the attack with
his whole force, at the sani(» tiir/»
his camp being four or five miles
off, it was 9 o'clock before the bat-
tle became general. It was opened
first by the 2nd Illinois Regiment,
the 2nd and 3rd Iowa followin.u:
about a half hour after the 2n4
Kentucky Infantry was ordered up
to engage. With great alacrity
they obeyed, and are said by the
regular officers to have entered up-
on the fight, and sustained it

through the day in as gallant style
as ever did the best trained troops
of Wellington or Napoleon. And
contrary to all expectation, Cols.
Marshall and Field behaved most
gallantly, and made a charge upon
the Mexican Lancers against an
odds of 4 to 1 in real Murat style,
which charge, in all probability,
turned the fortunes of the day, as
the Lancers were coming up in our
rear; they were entirely routed,
however, and driven from the field,
leaving 37 dead upon the ground.

Now comes the mournful part of
the tale. Col. W. R. McKee, Lieut.
Col. Henry Clay, and Capt. Willis
of the 2nd Kentucky Infantry, hav-
ing fallen, fighting gallantly at
their posts. Col. John Hardin of
the 1st Illinois Regiment, has also
fallen, fighting gallantly as the
others. Col. Yell of the Arkansas
Cavalry, was killed in the charge
which he and Marshall made upon
the Lancers, as was Col. Marshall's
Adjutant Vaughn, from Lexington.
He fell fighting valiantly against
large odds. Many other Captains
and subalterns have also fallen in
the other regiments whose names I
have not learned. Now for the rela-
tive strength of the armies. Gen.
Taylor did not have 5,000 men in
the field at any one time; many of
the men out of ranks retired before
the heat of the battle, dropping off
and falling back to Saltillo, six
miles in our rear, the majority of
these, seriously endanofering the
fortunes of the day, which retriev-
pd by the bloodj^ 2nd Kentucky
Infantry, as they are familiarly
known in the army.

Gen. Taylor says they fought
like devils. As to the force of the

enemy, it is variously estimatel
from* 12,000 to 30,000 I think the
best information comes from an of
ficer, taken prisoner on the 23rd.
He savs the enemv was 21,000 in
force upon the field, exclusive of
sick and camp guard. If that is
true, we were fighting against odds
of at least 5 to 1, and bloody has
been the contest.

We cannot estimate our loss cor-
rectly, but it cannot be less than 3O0
killed and 500 wounded. To judge
from the looks of the field occupied
by the enemy, our men must have
averaged one to the man. Such
slaughter is perfectly inconceivable
to one who has not seen it. Gen.
Taylor says it is his best and
bloodieat field. All concur in its
being the best fought battle since
the record of time began, and all
equally concur that Old Kentucky
has nobly sustained herself here,
on horse and on foot.

Many gallant and daring acts
have been done, and not the least
of them by Kentuckians. The stand
ard of the 2nd Regiment (to which
by the way, I have been attached
for two or three weeks, as Sur-
geon) was twice snatched from the
bearer, and recovered by him, he
killing the taker both times with
his sword. The bearer is a youth
named William Gaines, who for-
merly lived in Geo. Stealy's apothe-
cary store. lie will be mentioned in
the dispatches. He is in Capt. J. P.
Chamber's company from Frank
fort.

It is now 2 o'clock in the morn-
incr of the 24th. All is uncertaintv
as to whether the enemy will re-
turn to the attack again or not. We
scarcely believe they will, but are

livepared to meet them. This is the
third night I have not slept a mo-
ment. I have just finished dressing
the wounds of my regiment. I have
been in blood to my shoulders since
if o'clock this morning.

Give my love to my mother, my
sisters and their children, and re-
spects to friends. Most respectfully,

JNO. U. Le FON.'^
(See Sept. Register 1907.)

Many times it seemed that the
Americans would surely be defeat-
ed, but in the end they gained a
glorious and decisive victory, the
Mexicans suffering a complete re-
pulse, and being driven back with
the heavy loss of more than two
thousand killed and wounded.
Taylor's loss was two hundred and
sixty-eight killed, and four hun-
dred and fifty-six wounded, a total
of seven hundred and twenty-four

This was the greatest victory of
the war; and, indeed, until the
Civil War of 1861-1865, it was rat-
ed as the greatest battle that had
ever been fought on the American
continent; and it marked General
Zachary Taylor as a military gen-
ius of the highest order.

• * «

The Kentucky troops that took
part in the battle of Buena Vista
were Colonel William R. McKee's
Second Kentucky Infantry, and a
portion of Colonel Humphrey Mar-
shairs First Kentucky Cavalry. In
a gallant and desperate charge
against the enemy, Col. McKee and
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Clay,
Jr., were both killed. Colonel Mc-
Kee was the father of Lieutenant
Hugh Bodman McKee, of the Unit-
ed States Navy, who so gallantly

gave his life in his Country's cause
in Korea, in 1871.

Henry Clay, Jr., was the son of
the great *' Harry of the West."
Colonel John J. Hardin, of the first
Illinois Infantry, a Kentuckian by
birth, was killed at the head of his
regiment, in the same charge with
McKee and Clay.

The Kentucky Cavalry under
Colonel Marshall rendei-ed good
service, dismounted and acting as
light troops, in meeting and dis-
persing the enemy's cavalry-
Among Marshall's cavalrymen on
this occasion was Lieutenant John
H. Morgan, who a few years later
became a Major General in the
Confederate service, and attained
the distinction of being the great-
est partisan leader of the Civil
War.

The Kentucky troops covered
themselves with glory in the battle
of Buena Vista, the only battle of
the war in which Kentuckians were
to any considerable extent engag-
ed; and General Taylor in his offi-
cial report bestowed the highest
praise upon them. Of the 901
Kentuckians engaged in the bat-
tle (about one-fifth of the
whole American force) seventy- one
were killed and ninety-one were
wounded, a total loss of one-hun-
dred and sixty-two, or about one-
fourth of the entire American loss.

On July 20, 1847, about six
months after the battle, the re-
mains of McKee, Clay, Barbour
and many other Kentuckians, offi-
cers and enlisted men, who had fal-
len at Buena Vista, were brought
from that bloody field and reinter-

red in the State Cemetery at
Frankfort in the presence of
twenty thousand people. Theodore
O'Hara, a Kentuckian who served
in the Mexican war as a Captain
of regulars, wrote for that solenm
occasion his deathless poem, *'The
Bivouac of the Dead." The whole
poem was inspired by the battle of
Buena Vista, it may be said; and
ihe following stanzas from it refer
directly to that battle, and to the
Kentuckians who died there :

L.ik6 the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau,

Flushed with the triumph yet to gain.
Came down the serried foe

Who heard the thunder of the f raj-
Break o'er the field beneath,

Knew well the watchword or that day-
Was "Victory or Death."

Long has the doubtful conflict raged

O'er all that stricken plain.
For never fiercer fight had waged

The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battle blew.

Still swelled the gory tide;
Not long, our stout old chieftain knew.

Such odds his strength could bide.

'Twas in that hour his stern command

''');.''^cl to f» iT>artyr's gnwe
The flower of his native land.

The nation's fla^ to save.
By rivers of their fathers' gore

His first-born laurels grew.
And well he deemed the sons would pour

Their lives for glory toa

Full many a norther's breath has swept

O'er Angostura's plain —
And long the pitying sky has wept

Above the moldering slain.
The raven's scream, or eaglets flight.

Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o'er that dread fray.

Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,

Ye must not slumber there.
Where stranper steps and tongues resound

Along the heedless air.

Your own proud State's heroic soil

Shall be your fitter grave;
She clainui from war his richest spoil —

The ashes of her brave.

Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest.

Far from the gory field.
Borne to a Spartan mother's breast

On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky

Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by

The heroes' sepulcher

RESIGNATION OF GENERAL TAYIiOB.

After the battle of Buena Vista
General Taylor, if properly rein-
forced and supported, was in a
position to inarch triumphantly up-
on the City of Mexico, and bring
the war to a speedy and successful
close; but, notwithstanding hi?
great and uninterrupted successes,
it appears that it was not intended
that he should achieve that great
honor. General Winfield Scott.
with a large and fresh army, that
had been still further strengthened
by taking away the greater part of
Taylor's troops, now appeared to
have been chosen to close the war.
General Taylor, greatly dissatisfied
and chagrined by the treatment he
had received from the administra-
tion at Washington, immediately
after his brilliant victory at Buena
Vista asked to be relieved of hia
command, and his request was
granted. He then returned to his
home in the United States, and
shortly afterwards resigned entire-
Iv from the arm v.

# * *

One writer, a gentleman of New
England where the people were in
practically open rebellion during
the whole of the Mexican War (as
they had also been during the War

COL. THEODORE O'HARA.

MILITARY MONUMENT.
Erected by Kentucky A- D. 1850. in the Frankfort Cemetery,
Around it is the Bivouac of the Dead.

of 1812), has written: '^The Mex-
ican War was mainly of a political
nature, undertaken by a Democra-
tic administration, so that Taylor's
marked success created consider-
able alarm lest he, a popular Whig,
should lead the party in opposi-
tion to a victory. With a view to
hindering such a political event,
General Scott, the only available
General, was ordered to go to Mex-
ico and carry out the plans of a
campaign which, previously sub-
mitted by him, had been once re-
jected. A military success by Scott,
also a Whig, it was believed by pol-
itical leaders would serve to lessen
Taylor's popularity, and defeat
any political aspirations which he
might have/'

• * •

\T:RA CRUZ AND CERRO GORDO.

General Scott had arrived at
Santiago, Texas (near where Fort
Brown now stands), in December,
1846. After detaching the greater
]^art of Taylor's troops, he as-
sembled his forces in front of Vera
Cruz. With his army of twelve
thousand men he beseiged this
place until March 29, 1847, when
the Mexican General Morales sur-
rendered the town and the fortifica-
tion of San Juan de Ulloa, togeth-
er with five thousand prisoners,
four hundred cannon, and large
quantities of ammimition and small
arms. Scott's loss was sixty-four
killed and wounded.

General Scott then waited until
April 8 for reinforcements that had
been promised him. Not receiving
them, he set out upon a march to
the City of Mexico with the troops
lie already had.

At Cerro Gordo, on April 14, he
encountered Santa Anna with the
remainder of his army that had
been defeated by Taylor at Buena
Vista on February 22 and 23— just
seven weeks previously. Here Gen-
eral Scott quickly defeated the
Mexicans and drove them out of
his path, capturing three thousand
prisoners and much ordnance and
stores.

The only Kentucky troops engag-
ed at Cerro Gordo were the Inde-
pendent Company of Cavalry from
Winchester, commanded by Cap-
tain John S. Williams and Lieuten-
ant Roger W. Hanson. This com-
pany had joined Scott's army of in-
vasion at Vera Cruz, where it unit-
ed with Colonel Haskell's 2nd Ten-
nessee Infantry, When Pillow's
brigade made a desperate assault
upon the Mexican position the ad-
vance post of honor was given to
Haskell. Twice driven back by a
murderous fire, Haskell's men ral-
lied and gallantly stormed the Mex-
ican works, upon which they plant-
ed the American flag. Conspicuous
iunong the bravest, Captain Wil-
liams led his company in the fore-
front, and contributed greatly to
the success of what was the most
brilliant charge of the war. For his
bravery and daring in that charge
he won the sobriquet of *' Cerro
Gordo" Williams, which he contin-
ued to bear until the day of his
death. It was not unusual for illit-
erate people to refer to him as
** Sarah Gordon Williams."

The time of his men expiring
soon after this battle. Captain Wil-
liams returned to Kentucky and re-
cruited the Fourth Kentucky In-
fantrv. In the Civil War he was

Ragistar of the Kantucky State Historical Society.

a Brigadier General in the Con-
federate service; and later he was
a United States Senator from Ken-
tucky. Roger Hanson also become
a Confederate Brigadier General,
and fell at Chickamauga while gal-
lantly leading ''The Orphan Bri-
gade'* of Kentnckians into the
tliickest of the frav.

* * •

No Kentucky volunteers were

•

engaged in any of the battles of
the Mexican War except those at
Monterey, Buena Vista and Cerro
Gordo. The Third and Fourth
Regiments of Kentucky Infantry
were recruited and mustered when
the war was far advanced, and its
sudden termination deprived them
of an opportunity to show their
qualities. They were, however, in
Mexico in time to see the finish, and
were among the first of the troops
to enter the City of Mexico when
General Scott took possession of

that city.

* * *

CONTRERAS, CHURUBUSCO,

CHAPULTEPEC.

After the battle of Cerro Gordo
the march on the City of Mexico
was resumed. Scott's force at this
time hardlv exceeded five thousand
men, as he had to send large num-
bers of his troops back to Vera
Cruz, their term of enlistment for
one year having expired.

Encamping at Pueblo, he remain-
ed there until August, when rein-
forcements arrived ; and on August
7 the march of invasion was again
resumed. By August 18 the army
was eleven miles due south of the
City of Mexico, with the fortified
villages of Contreras and Churu-

busco between. On the 20th Con
treras was taken, with many pris-
oners and supplies. Next Churn
busco after hard fighting was turn
ed and captured. So also were,
successively, all the defenses seiz
ed up to the very edge of the City
of Mexico itself, including thf
heights of Chapultepec, the site of
the Mexican Military Academy. I:
was defended by several hundred!
cadets, and those gallant boys made
the bravest and most determined
fight that was made by Mexicans

during the entire course of the war.

# # •

THE ADVENT OF PEACE,

On September 14, 1847, Scott '<
army made a triumphal entry into
the City of Mexico, and took com 1
plete possession of it, Santa Anna
having privately decamped on the
night of the 13th. Although peace
was not declared until some time
later, there was no actual fighting
after that date. So the period of
active hostilities extended from
the firing of the first gun at Palo
Alto on May 8, 1846, until General
Scott entered the City of Mexico
on September 14, 1847 — or one year
four months and six days.

The whole number of United
States troops engaged in the war
was 101,282, of whom 27,506 were
regulars and the remainder were
\'olunteers. The American loss-
es in the entire war were 1,049
killed and 3,420 wounded.

A commission having been or-
ganized to act for Mexico, on Feb
ruary 21, 1848, the treaty of Guad-
alupe-Hidalgo was signed. This
treaty fixed the Uio Grande as the
international boundary, and ceded

California and New Mexico (which
included Arizona) to the tJnited
States, which was to pay Mexico
eighteen millions of dollars. Mexico
was also permitted to retain Chi-
huahna, which had been won by the
fortitude and valor of Doniphan
and his men.

On July 4, 1848, President Polk
proclaimed peace between the
United States and Mexico.

The Mexican War proved to be a
training school of efficiency for of-
ficers on both sides of the titanic
civil struggle that rent the Union
from 1861 to 1865; and this was
particularly the case with the of-
ficers of the Southern Confederacy.
It is related that while those gigan-
tic but unsuccessful efforts were
being made to take Eichmond Pres-
ident Lincoln was one day discuss-
ing the matter with General Scott,
then retired, and he said :

** Scott, fifteen years ago it did
not seem to be much trouble for our
army to go into the City of Mex-
ico — how is it that we are now hav-
ing so much trouble about going in-
to Eichmond t" and General Scott
replied :

''Well, Mr. President, it is this
way — ^the men who took our army
into the City of Mexico are the very
same men who are now keeping
our army out of the city of Eich-
mond."

* • *

THB AFTEBMATH.

General Zachary Taylor was eas-
ily the foremost hero of the Mexi-
can War. The name of ^'Eough and
Beady*' was upon everybody's
lips. The people at large believed

from the evidence before them that
11 le administration had made a
studied effort to deprive him of his
well-earned laurels, and the reward
of his invaluable services; and the
strong sense of justice always en-
tertained by the great mass of the
American people when they are
aroused, impelled them to vindicate
their hero. The year that the war
closed (1848) was the year for the
election of a President, and it was
plain to see that if General Taylor
would become a candidate he would
easily be elected. Overtures were
made by the politicians to ascertain
his political views, which had al-
ways seemed vague. He settled this
question in an open letter to a
friend in which he described him-
self as **a Whig, but not an ultra
Whig.*' This wafc not very strong,
litit there wa*i gon<?ralshii) in it, for
it appealed somewhat to Demo-
crats, and it needs must be satisfac-
tory to the Whigs.

In the Whig National Conven-
tion held at Philadelphia on June
7, 1848, the representatives of the
party ignored the claims of their
old and trusted leaders, Henry
Clay and Daniel Webster; and on
the fourth ballot nominated Gen-
eral Taylor for President by a vote
of 171, Clay receiving 32, Webster
14, and Winfleld Scott 63. MiUard
Fillmore was nominated for Vice
President

On the first three ballots five of
the Kentucky delegation in this
convention voted for Henry Clay,
namely: James Campbell, James
Harlan, John B. Huston, George
T. Wood and William E. Griffith;
and seven voted for General Tay-
lor, namely: Jno. A. McCIung, Jas.

B. Husbands, Littleton Beard,
James W. Hays, Josiah A. Jackson,
Robert Mallory and Benjamin F.
Bedinger. On the last ballot James
Harlan alone voted for Mr. Clay,
This destroyed forever Mr. Clay's
hopes for the Presidency — the
dream of his life.

In the general election in Novem-
ber, Taylor and Fillmore received
163 electoral votes, to 127 for Lewis
Cass and General William 0. But-
ler, Democratic candidates. Tay-
lor's popular vote was 1,362,024, to
1,222,419 for Cass. In Kentucky, of
which State General Taylor had
been a citizen for more than forty
years (though he was a citizen of
Louisiana at the time of the elec-
tion) he received 67,486 votes, to
49,865 for Lewis Cass.

« * •

March 4, 1849, came on Sunday,
and as General Taylor refused to
be inaugurated on Sunday, that
ceremony was put off until the next
day, Monday, March 5, when he
took the oath of office and assumed
the duties of the Presidency. In the
one-day interim, David Rice Atchi-
son, of Missouri (a native of Ken-
tucky), who was then the President
of the Senate, and therefore Acting
Vice President of the United
States, is claimed to have been
President of the United States.

General Taylor, it is said, be-
came a candidate for the Presi-
dency greatly against his own in-
clinations and judgment ; for, as he
said himself, he was a plain, simple
soldier, bred to the profession of
arms, knowing nothing of the intri-
cacies of statecraft, and he dis-
trusted his fitness for high civic

position. Notwithstanding his mod-
est depreciation of himself, his ad-
ministration began well, and with
the promise of successful continua-
tion, if only he could have lived to
carry it through.

In 1810, when about twenty-six
years old, Zachary Taylor, then a
Lieutenant in the regular army,
was united in marriage to Miss
Margaret Smith, of Maryland, a
. lady in all respects worthy of his af-
fections, and their union was bless-
ed with several children. One of
these, Eichard Taylor, was a dis-
tinguished Lieutenant General in
the Confederate army. One of Gen-
eral Taylor's daughters eloped
with and married Jefferson Davis
(another native of Kentucky),
when he (Davis) was a Lieu-
tenant in the army, stationed
at the same military post
with Taylor, and under his com-
mand. After this marriage. Gen-
eral Taylor refused for many years
to countenance or recognize Davis
in any way. Jefferson Davis resign-
ed from the regular army, and set-
tled in civil life in Mississippi,
where he remained until the begin-
ning of the Mexican War, when he
early appeared upon the scene of
action as Colonel of the regiment of
Mississippi Volunteer Riflemen.
His heroic conduct while in com-
mand of these riflemen at the bat-
tle of Buena Vista won for him the
forgiveness of his stern father-in-
law who then gladly became recon-
ciled with him. In his official report
of the battle of Buena Vista, Gen-
eral Taylor, says:

* * The Mississippi Riflemen,
under Colonel Davis, were highly

conspicuous for their gallantry and
steadiness, and sustained through-
out the engagement the reputation
of veteran troops. Brought into
action against an immensely super-
ior force, they maintained them-
selves for a long time unsupported
and with a heavy loss, and held an
important part of the field until
reinforced. Colonel Davis, though
severely wounded, remained in the
saddle until the close of the ac-
tion. His distinguished coolness
and gallantry at the head of his
regiment on this day entitle him to
the particular notice of the Gov-
ernment. ' '

After serving as President of the
United States for sixteen months,
Zachary Taylor, from a sudden
severe indisposition, died in the
White House on July 9, 1850. His
remains were interred at his
father's old home place in Jeffer-
son county, Kentucky, about five
miles from Louisville, where they
still repose in the last long sleep.

APPENDIX.

This Appendix contains a roster
of the Kentuckians who served as
officers in the War with Mexico,
^oth in the Regular Army and the
Volunteer Armv. It is not claimed
that the roster is complete, but it
is believed to be the most complete
one that has ever been published.
It contains, so far as it has been
possible to get the information,
the names of oflScers who were
born in Kentucky and appointed
from Kentucky; of officers who
were bom in Kentucky and ap-
pointed from other States; and of

officers who were appointed from
Kentucky, but were born else-
where. General Don Carlos Buell
was born in Ohio and was appoint-
ed to the army from Indiana; and,
although he was a citizen of Ken-
lucky for many years, and died
there, he did not settle in the State
until long after the close of the
Mexican War. His is the only case
of the kind on this roster.

It is probably now impossible to
get anything like a complete roster
of native-born Kentuckians who
were officers of volunteers in the
Mexican War from other States.
Perhaps half of those from Mis-
souri were born in Kentucky, a»
were a great many of those from
Illinois and Texas, and, in a lesser
de.G^ree, those from Arkansas,
IVnnessee, Indiana and Mississ-
ippi.

Where brevets were conferred on
officers of the Regular Army, the
fact is indicated in the roster in
parentheses after the officer's
name. For instance, ** Captain Johm
B. Grayson, Commissary of Sub-
sistence (Major and Lieutenant-
Colonel, Contreras, Churubusco,
and Chapultepec),'' indicates that
Captain Grayson was brevetted
Major for gallant and distinguish-
ed conduct in one of those battles,
and Lieutenant-Colonel for similar
conduct in the others.

Many of the officers on this ros-
ter subsequently served in the
Union or the Confederate armies in
the Civil War. Where this was the
case the fact is indicated, together
with the rank the officer held in the
later service. Where the fact is
known, the date of the death of offi-
cers is also given.

THE REGULAR ARMT.

Field and Staff —

Major General Zachary Taylor,
Commander of the **Army of Oc-
cupation. ' '

Brigadier General Thomas S.
Jesup. Died June 10, 1860.

Colonel George Croghan, Inspec-
tor General. *^The hero of Fort
Stephenson'* in War of 1812 where
Fremont, Ohio, now stands, and
where there is a magnificent monu-
ment to his memory. Died Janu-
ary 8, 1849.

Captain Abner R. Hetzel, Quar-
termaster. Died in Louisville, July
20, 1847.

Captain John B. Grayson, Com-
missary of Subsistence (Major
and Ldeutenant-Colonel, Contreras,
Churubusco, Chapul tepee). Confed-
erate Brigadier General. Died Oc-
tober 21, 1861.

Captain John S. GriflSn, Assist-
ant Surgeon.

Captain Alfred W. Kennedy, As-
sistant Surgeon. Died June 3,
1851.

Captain John Sanders, Engineer
Corps (Major, Monterey). Died
July 29, 1859, at Fort Delaware,
Del.

2nd Jjieutenant Gustavus W.
Smith. (Ist lieutenant and Cap-
tain, Cerro Gordo and <3ontreras.)
Confederate Major General.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas J. Wood,
Topographical Engineer. (Ist
Lieutenant, Buena Vista). Union
Major Oeneral.

First Draoooks.

Captain Benjamin D. Moore,
killed December 6, 1846, in action
at San Pasqual, California.

Captain Enoch Steen. (Major,
Buena Vista). Wounded at Buena
V^ista. Union Lieutenant-Colone!
Died January 22, 1880.

1st Lieutenant Abraham Bnford.
(Captain, Buena Vista), Confeder
ate Brigadier General. Died at
Danville, Illinois, June 9, 1884.

Second Dragoons.

2nd Lieutenant Newton C.
Givens (1st Lieutenant, Buena
Vista). Died March 9, 1859, at San
Antonio, Texas.

2nd Lieutenant James M. Hawes,
(1st Lieutenant, San Juan de los
Llanos, Mexico ) . Confederate
Brigadier General. Died November
22, 1889 at Covington, Ky.

Third Dragoons.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas P.
Moore. Died July 21, 1851.

Captain Corydon S. Abell, Assis
tant Surgeon.

Captain Edgar B. Gaither. Died
September 18, 1855, at Columbia,
Ky.

2nd Lieutenant James J. Moore.
Died February 19, 1850.

2nd Lieutenant William C. Wag-
ley.

Mounted Biflbs.

Captain (George Bibb Crittenden,
(Major, Contreras and Churubus
co). Confederate Major General.
Died November 27, 1880, at Dan-
Wile, Ky.

Captain Henry C. Pope. Killed
in a duel. May, 1848.

2nd Lieutenant William B. Lane
(Union Major).

First AsmiLEBY.

2nd Lieutenant Theodore Tal-
bott Union Captain.

Regittar of the Kentucky State Historical fk>ci0ty.

Third Abtillbby.

Captain Robert Anderson, of
Fort Sumter fame (Major, Molino
del Rey). Severely wounded at
Molino del Rey. Union Brigadier
General. Died October 26, 1871, at
Nice, France.

Captain John F. Reynolds (Cap-
tain and Major, Monterey and Bu-
ena Vista). Union Major General.
Killed July 1, 1863, at the battle
of Gettysburg, Pa.

Fourth Artillery.

1st Lieutenant Thomas J. Curd,
Died February 12, 1850, at Fred-
erick, Md.

1st liieutenant Samuel Gill. Died
January 18, 1876, at Cincinnati.

First Infantry.

Major John B. Clark. Died Aug-
ust 23, 1847.

Captain John M. Scott (Major,
Monterey). Died October 26, 1850.
nt Frankfort, Ky.

2nd Lieutenant William Logan
Crittenden. Shot August 16, 1851,
in Havana, Cuba, by Spanish au-
thorities, while with the Lopez Ex-
pedition.

Second Infantry.

2nd Lieutenant John R. Butler.
Confederate Colonel.

2nd Lieutenant James M. L.
Henry. Died July 4, 1881, at Wash-
ington, D. C.

Third Infantry.

Captain Edmund B. Alexander
(Major and Lieut.-Colonel, Cer-
ro Gordo, Contreras and Churu-
Jmsco). Union Colonel. Died Jan-
uary 3, 1888, at Washington, D. C.

Captain Philip N. Barbour
(Major, Palo Alto and Resaca de

hi Palma). Killed at the battle of
Monterey, Mexico.

1st Lieutenant Don Carlos Buell.
(Captain and Major, Monterey,
Contreras and Churubusco). Se-
verely wounded at Churubusco.
Union Major General.

2nd Lieutenant John J. Critten-
den Bibb. Died September 29, 1854,
at Washington, D. C.

2nd Lieutenant John C. McFer-
ran. Union Colonel. Died April 25,
1872, at Louisville, Ky.

Lnd Lieutenant James X. Ward
(1st Lieutenant, Cerro Gordo).
Died December 6, 1858, at St. An-
thony, Minn.

Sixth Infantry.

1st Lieutenant Richard H. Gra-
ham. Died October 12, 1846, of
wounds received at the battle of
Monterev.

Sixth lNFv.NTr.Y

Captain Thomas L. Alexander
(Major, Contreras and Churubus-
co). Died March 11, 1881, at Louis-
ville, Ky.

Captain Jolm B. S. Todd. Union
Brigadier General. Died January
r«. 1872, at Vinktc: Dakoln.

1st Tiieuicp ml Edward Johnson
(Captain and Major, Molina del
Rey and Chapultepec) . Confeder-
ate Major General. Died February
22, 1873, at Richmond, Va.

2nd Lieutenant Simon B. Buck-
ner (1st Lieutenant and Captain
Contreras, Churubusco and Molina
del Rey). Confederate Lieutenant-
General.

2nd Lieutenant Anderson D. Nel-
son. Union Major. Died December
'A\ 1885, «t Thomasvillo, Ga.

Seventh Infantbt.

1st Lieutenant Nevil Hopson.
Died in 1847, in Texas,

2nd Lieutenant Samuel B.
Maxey (1st Lieutenant, Contreras
and Churubusco). Confederate
Major General.

Eighth Infantey.

2nd Lieutenant Edmunds B. Hol-
lo way (1st Lieutenant, Contreras
and Churubusco). Severely wound-
ed at Churubusco. Confederate
Colonel. Died May 16, 1861, at In-
dependence, Mo., of wounds receiv-
ed mistakenly from his own men.

Ninth Infantbt.

2nd Lieutenant Robert Hopkins.
Eleventh Infantby.

2nd Lieutenant George David-
son.

Thietbbnth Infantby.

Captain Hiram H. Higgins. Con-
federate Major.

2nd Lieutenant John L. Wither-
spoon. Died October 22, 1847.

FOUBTEENTH InFANTBT.

2nd Lieutenant James G. Fitz-
gerald.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Hart.

2nd Lieutenant Samuel H. Mar-
tin.

Fifteenth Infantby.

1st Lieutenant Edward C. Mar-
shall (Captain Chapultepec).

2nd Lieutenant Henry F. Green.

Sixteenth Infantby.

Colonel John W. Tibbatts. Died
July 5, 1852.

Major James M. Talbott. Died
June 15, 1848.

Captain Alexander C. Hensley,
Assistant Surgeon.

Captain James D. Stuart, Assist
ant Surgeon.

Captain James W. Brannon.

Captain Edward Curd.

Captain Theophilus T. Garrard
Union Brigadier General.

Captain Edward A. Graves.

Captain Patrick H. Harris.

Captain Charles Wickliffe. Con-
federate Colonel. Died April 27.
1862 of wounds received at the bat
tie of Shiloh, Tenn.

1st Lieutenant Charles J. Helm.

1st Lieutenant John T. Hughes.

1st Lieutenant George W. Sin
gleton.

2nd Lieutenant Edward C.
Berry.

2nd Lieutenant Alexander Evans.
Confederate Major.

2nd Lieutenant Bernard H. Ghir-
rett.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas T. Haw
kins. Confederate Major.

2nd Lieutenant Burwell B. Ir-
van.

2nd Lieutenant Francis McMor
die.

2nd Lieutenant John A. Marklev.

2nd Lieutenant James M. Smith.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas M. Win
ston. Union Major.

VOLTIQEUB BeGIMENT.

Captain James D. Blair.
Captain Alexander P. Churchill
2nd Lieutenant Charles F. Ver-
non.

THE VOLUNTEER ABMT.

The Field and Stapf.

Major General William 0. But-
ler. Candidate for Vice President
with Lewis Cass in 1848. Died in
Kentucky August 6, 1880.

Brigadier General Thomas Mar-
shall. Died in Kentucky, March 28,
1853.

Captain Theodore O'Hara, Quar-
termaster of the Regular Army,
and special aide to General Zach-
ary Taylor (Major, Contreras and
Churubusco). Confederate Colonel.
Died June 6, 1867.

First Kentucky Cavalby.

Colonel Humphrey Marshall.
Confederate Brigadier General.
Died in Louisville, Ky., March 28,
1872.

Lieutenant Colonel Ezekiel
Field.

Major John P. Gaines. Died in
1853 in Oregon.

Ist Lieutenant Edward M.
Vaughan, Adjutant. Killed at the
battle of Buena Vista.

Ist Lieutenant Thomas H.
Barnes, Adjutant. Union Major.

Alexander C. Hensley, Surgeon.

Alexander M. Blanton, Assistant
Surgeon.

Captain Oliver P. Beard.

Captain Cassius M. Clay. TTnion
Major General.

Captain William J. Heady.

Captain J. S. Lillard.

Captain Thomas F. Marshall.

Captain Benjamin C. AUlam.

Captain ^aron Pennington.

Capt. G. L. Postlewaite

Captain Johnson Price. Died in

1861.

Captain John W. Shawhan.
Wounded at Buena Vista.

Captain James C. Stone.

Ist Lieutenant Thomas J.
Churchill. Confederate Brigadier
General

Ist Lieutenant Lafayette Dun-
lap.

1st Lieutenant John Field.

1st Lieutenant Joseph H. D. Mc-
Kee.

1st Lieutenant John H. Morgan.
Confederate Major General.

1st Lieutenant Samuel F. Pat-
terson.

1st Lieutenant William T. Tor-
rence.

1st Lieutenant Jesse Woodruff.

2nd Lieutenant John Allen.

2nd Lieutenant Lowry J. Beard.

2nd Lieutenant Randolph Bras-
field.

2nd Lieutenant George Mason
Brown.

2nd Lieutenant John Mason
Brown. Wounded at Buena Vista.
Union Colonel.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas K. Conn.
Wounded at Buena Vista.

2nd Lieutenant Geo. B. David-
son.

2nd Lieutenant George W.
Keene.

2nd Lieutenant John W. Kim-
brough.

2nd Lieutenant John A. Merri-
field. Wounded at Buena Vista.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas J. Peak.

2nd Lieutenant George F. Sar-
tain.

2nd Lieutenant Narbonne B.
Scott.

2nd Lieutenant Green Clay
Smith. Union Brigadier General.

2nd Lieutenant George P. Swin-
ford.

FiBST Kentucky Infantby.

Colonel Stephen Ormsby. Died
April 16, 1869.

Lieutenant Colonel Jason
Rogers. Died May, 1846, in Louis-
ville, Ky.

Major John B. Shepherd.

1st Lieutenant William Fisher,
Adjutant.

1st Lieutenant William Riddle,
Adjutant.

Thomas L. Caldwell, Surgeon.

John J. Mathews, Assistant Sur-
geon.

Captain William L. Ball. Died
July, 1846, in Matamoras, Mexico.

Captain Charles W. BuUen.

Captain John Puller.

Captain Charles H. Harper.

Captain Ebenezer B. Howe.

Captain Florian Kern.

Captain William Minor.

Captain Frank Saunders.

Captain Conrad Schroeder.

Captain Benjamin F. Stewart.

Captain Francis F. C. Triplett,

1st Lieutenant John L. Albrecht.

1st Lieutenant Joseph C. Baird.

1st Lieutenant William T. Bar-
bour.

1st Lieutenant John J. Huff.

1st Lieutenant William Littrell.

1st Lieutenant Patrick McPike.

1st Lieutenant Georofe W. Sigler.

1st Lieutenant Fjphraim M.
Stone.

1st Lieutenant William White.

2nd Lieutenant Lewis Becker.

2nd Lieutenant David Black.

2nd Lieutenant John R. Butler.

2nd Lieutenant William Duerson.

2nd Lieutenant John Harrigan.

2nd Lieutenant Charles W. Hil-
ton.

2nd Lieutenant George D. Hoop-
er.

2nd Lieutenant Benedict Huebel.

2nd Lieutenant Wm. E. Jones.

2nd Lieutenant Reuben F.
Maury.

2nd Lieutenant Jacob Pfalzer.

2nd Lieutenant David G. Swin-
ner.

2nd Lieutenant Richard W. N.
Taylor.

2nd Lieutenant Levi White.

2nd Lieutenant Lowry B. White.

2nd Lieutenant Samuel Withing
ton.

Second Kentucky Infantby.

Colonel William R. McKee. Ki]
ed at the battle of Buena Vista.

Leiutenant-Colonel Henry Clay.
Jr. Killed at Buena Vista.

Major Cary H. Fry. Union Liet
tenant-Colonel. Died March 5, 187:.
at San Francisco, Cal.

Ist Lieutenant Gleorge N. Caro
well, Adjutant.

1st Lieutenant Thomas S. Todc.
Adjutant.

1st Lieutenant James E. Kelsi,
Regimental Quartermaster.

Robert P. Hunt, Surgeon.

John U. Lafon, Aissistant Su:
geon.

James B. Snail, Assistant Sur
geon.

Captain Franklin Chambers.

Captain George W. Cutter.

Captain William Dougherty.

Captain Speed S. Fry. Unioi
Brigadier General.

Captain James 0. Hervey.

Captain George W. Kavanaugt

Captain William N. Joyner,

Captain Jolm H. McBrayer.

Captain William H. Maxcy.

C/aptain James W. Moss.

Captain Philip B. Thompson.

(>aptain Wilkinson Turpin.

Captain William T. Willis. Kill
ed at Buena Vista.

1st Lieutenant John W. Cowan.

1st Lieutenant Andrew J. Gait.

1st Lieutenant Edward H. Hob-
son. Union Brigadier General.

1st Lieutenant Wm, R. Keene.

1st Lieutenant William G. Ean-
caid.

1st Lieutenant Littleton T.
Lacey.

1st Lieutenant James Monroe.

Ist Lieutenant Joseph W. Pow-
ell. Died at Monterey, January 2,
1847.

1st Lieutenant David P. Wade.

2nd Lieutenant William E. Akin.

2nd Lieutenant George W. Ball.

2nd Lieutenant Elias L. Barbee.
Wounded at Buena Vista.

2nd Lieutenant Richard H.
Clarke.

2nd Lieutenant George M. Cole-
man.

2nd Lieutenant Jos. C. Ewing.

2nd Lieutenant Peter G. Flood.

2nd Lieutenant John H. Lillard.

2nd Lieutenant B. H. Lawler.

2nd Lieutenant Henry C. Long.

2nd Lieutenant 'Wm. C. Lowrv.

2nd Lieutenant William H. Moss.

2iid Lieutenant Thomas W. Nap-
ier.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas J. Proc-
tor.

2nd Lieutenant Lewis M. Reese.

2nd Lieutenant William D. Rob-
ertson.

2nd Lieutenant Alva C. Threl-
keld.

2nd Lieutenant James Wilson.

2nd Lieutenant Wm. T. Withers.
Confederate Major General.

TnntD Kentucky Infantby.

Colonel Manlius V. Thompson.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas L.
Crittenden. Union Major General.

Major John C. Breckinridge,
Vice President of the United
States; Confederate Major Gen-
eral; Confederate Secretary of

War. Died in Lexington, Ky,, in
1875.

1st Lieutenant Benjamin F.
Bradley, Adjutant. Member of
Confederate Congress from Ken-
tucky.

William Cromwell, Assistant
Surgeon.

Captain Andrew F. Caldwell.

Captain William P. Chiles.

Captain Leander M. Cox.

Captain George S. Dodge.

Captain James Ewing.

Captain Leonidas Metcalfe.
Union Colonel.

Captain James A. Pritchard.

Captain William E. Simms.
Member of Confederate Senate
from Kentucky.

Captain John R. Smith.

Captain Thomas Todd.

1st Lieutenant William C. Allen.

1st Lieutenant Enos H. Barry.

1st Lieutenant William P. Bram-
lette.

1st Lieutenant Jesse B. Davis.
Died in Mexico City, March 19,
1848.

1st Lieutenant Thomas C; Flour-
iiov.

1st Lieutenant Walter I. Lacey.

1st Lieutenant John A. Logan.

1st Lieutenant Henry H. Mize.

1st Lieutenant William P. Mor-
ris.

1st Lieutenant Thomas H. Tay-
lor.

1st Lieutenant William T. Wal-
ker.

2nd Lieutenant Rigdon S. Barn-
hill.

2nd Lieutenant John Brock.
Died in Mexico City, March 9, 1848.

2nd Lieutenant Churchill G.
Campbell.

2iid Lieutenant James B. Casey.

2nd Lieutenant James C. Dear.

2nd Lieutenant William Edmon-
son.

2nd Lieutenant William E. Fish-
er.

2nd Lieutenant John M. Heddle-
son.

2nd Lieutenant James H. Holla-
day.

2nd Lieutenant William B. Hol-
laday.

2nd Lieutenant Eli Holtzclaw.

2nd Lieutenant Marshall L.
Howe.

2nd Lieutenant James Kendall.

2nd Lieutenant Benjamin D.
Lacey.

2nd Lieutenant William C. Mer-
rick.

2nd Lieutenant James H. Miller.

2nd Lieutenant Ansel D. Powell.

2nd Lieutenant Daniel Runyon.

2nd Lieutenant John P. Thatch-
er.

2nd Lieutenant Elisha B. Tread-
way. Union Major.

2nd Lieutenant Walter 0. Whit-
taker. Union Brigadier General.
Died July 9, 1887.

2nd Lieutenant James T. Young.

FouBTH Kentucky Infantby.

Colonel John S. Williams. Con-
federate Brigadier General.

Lieut.-Colonel William Pres-
ton. Confederate Major General.
Died at Lexington, Kv., in Septem-
ber, 1887.

Major William T. Ward. Union
Brigadier General. Died October
12, 1878.

2nd Lieutenant Charles H. Creel,
Adjutant.

2nd Lieutenant Robert P. Tra-
bue, Adjutant. Confederate Col-
onel.

Joseph G. Roberts, Surgeon.

John R. Steele, Assistant Sur-
geon.

Captain Anthony W. Bartlett

Captain Joseph C. Conn.

Captain Joseph S. Corum.

Captain George B. Cook.

Captain Patrick H. Gardner.

Captain Mark B. Hardin.

Captain B. Rowan Hardin.

Captain Timothy Keating.

Captain John G. Lair.

Captain Decius McCreery.

Captain Thomas Mayfield.

Captain Hamilton N. Ow^ens,
Union Major.

Captain John C. Squires. Died in
Mexico City, March 20, 1848.

1st Lieutenant Edgar D. Bar-
bour.

Ist Lieutenant William Bristow.

1st Lieutenant Jesse Davis.

1st Lieutenant John Donan.

1st Lieutenant Jeremiah F. Dor-
ris.

1st Lieutenant Milford Elliott.

1st Lieutenant John W. Hup^hes.

1st Lieutenant William E. Wood-
ruflf. Union Colonel.

2nd Lieutenant Titus P. A. Bibb.

2nd Lieutenant William P. D.
Bush.

2nd Lieutenant Noah Z. Chap-
line.

2nd Lieutenant John D. Cosbv.

2nd Lieutenant Samuel D.
Cowan.

2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F.
Egan.

2nd Lieutenant Cyrenius W. Gil-
mer.

2nd Lieutenant William G. JoHii-
son.

2nd Lieutenant John M. Massey.

2nd Lieutenant Charles D. Pen-
oebaker. Union Colonel.

2nd Lieutenant William E. Rus-
tteU.

2nd Lieutenant Cvrus D. Scott.
Died in Mexico City^ Feb. 1848.

2nd Lieutenant John M. Snyder.

2nd Lieutenant James M. Shack-
leford. Union Brigadier General.

2nd Lieutenant Presley Talbott.

2nd Lieutenant Isaac P. Wash-
hum.

2nd Lieutenant Noah N. Wat-
kins.

2nd Lieutenant Levi White.

2nd Lieutenant Charles A. Wick-
liffe.

2nd Lieutenant Harry J. Wood-
ward.

Kentucky Independent Company.

Captain John S. Williams. Con-
federate Brigadier General.

1st Lieutenant Roger W. Han-
son. Confederate Brigadier Gen-
eral. Killed in the battle of Mur-
freesboro, Tenn., January 21, 1863.

2nd Lieutenant William A. Mc-
C'onnell.

2nd Lieutenant Geo. S. Suther-
land. Severely wounded at the bat-
tle of Cerro Gordo.

Boger Tandy Quisenberry, a ser-
geant in this company, was in 1856
one of William Walker's little
army of sixty men who invaded,
conquered and held Nicaragua and
took possession of the country.

From Arkansas.

Captain Franklin W. Desha, 1st
Arkansas Cavalry.

2nd Lieutenant John C. Peay,
1st Arkansas Cavalry. Confeder-
ate Major.

From Illinois.

Colonel John J. Hardin, 1st Ill-
inois. Killed at Buena Vista.

1st Lieutenant William II. L.
Wallace, Adjutant, 1st Illinois. Un-
ion Brigadier General. Died April
10, 1862, of wounds received at the
battle of Shiloh, Tenn.

1st Lieutenant Richard J. Ogles-
by, 4th Illinois. Union Major Gen-
eral.

2nd Lieutenant Benjamin How-
ard. Wounded at Cerro Gordo.

Captain Calmes L. Wright, 2nd
Additional Illinois.

From Indiana.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henrv S.
Lane, 1st Indiana.

Captain Lovell IT. Rousseau, 2nd
Indiana. Union Major General.

P^ROM Maryland.

Captain Lloyd Tilghman, 1st
Maryland. Confederate Brigadier.
Killed at the battle of Baker's
Creek, Miss., May 16, 1863.

From Mississippi.

Colonel Jefferson Davis, Mi^^sis-
sippi Rifles, Secretary of War;
President of the Confederate
States. Died December 6, 1889, at
New Orleans, La.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander K.
McClung, Mississippi R-fles.

Regiiter of the Kentucky 8UU Historical So«iMy.

Wounded at Monterey. Died in
1855 by suicide.
Captain John S. ClendenBin.

Fbom Missdubi.

Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan,
] st Mounted Missonri. Died in
1889.

Major Meriwether L. Clark, com-
manding Missouri Light Artillery.
Confederate Colonel. Died in

Frankfort, Ky., October 28 16^1
Fboh Texas.

Colonel John C. Hays, Ist Hem
Mounted Biflea.

Colonel George T. Wood, 2^4
Texas Mounted Rifles.

Colonel Albert Sidney JolmstoE
Texas Rifles. Confederate General.
Killed April 6, 1862, at the battlf
of Shiloh, Tenn.

HENRY WATTERSON.

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P H •

HENRY WATTERSON

WORLD-FAMOUS EDITOR

THE LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL

MRS. ELLA H. ELLWANGER.

HENRY WATTERSON

B7 MRS. ELLA HUTCHINSON ELLWANGER.

Let this sketch of Henry Watter-
fton. Soldier, Presidential timber^
Author, Gentleman and Journalist,
be merely considered as an earnest
tribute and not in any sense a lit-
erary ambition, from a newspaper
woman, who feels that the subject
of the sketch will forgive her the
plain English with which it is
dressed, if the citizens of Kentucky
do not, for the admiration and the
love she has borne him since she
first read and understood an edi-
torial.

It has but one meritorious fea-
ture — ^unvarnished truth and un-
mixed data.

Henry Watterson, known from
Dan to Beersheba as ''Marse
Henry '^ was born at Wash-
ington, February 16th, 1840;
son of Hon. Harvey Magee
and Talitha (Black) Watterson. He
was also born a Journalist. **Bless-
cmI is the man'^ says George Eliot,
**who has found his work." Then
<loubly blessed is this man for he
was bom to it — he did not have to
find it. He was bom to it and not
once — save when duty called him to
war, did he deviate from his chosen
profession. He was born next door
to a print shop and grew up in a
lewspaper office. He filled every
position from galley boy to leader
writer. As he himself said, at an
address before the New York Press
Club, given in his honor. May 28,

1910, *'I am proud of my calling
and jealous of its good name. Not
one of you have walked these
streets in search of work more
wistfully, and sometimes more des-
pairingly than I have. I remember
once seeing James Gordon Bennett
through a window of the old Her-
ald office down about the corner of
Broadway and Fulton streets, and
of murmuring with John Leech's
ragged urchin, looking upon a lit-
tle boy in a London home, eating
plum-pudding, 'wouldn't it be bully
to be himf

''Just fifty-three years ago, Mr.
Dana, then on the Tribune paid me
five dollars for what would now be
called space writing, and ten years
later, when we came to be, as it
were, professional colleagues, he
was pleased to be reminded of the
circumstance and from that hour to
the day of his death, was my most
excellent friend and comrade."

Sitting in his office in the new
Courier-Journal building on a
bright November morning in 1910,.
watching his ruddy face and lion-
like head, which Time had crowned
with soft white locks and as gal-
lantly chivalrous and as spotless in
his linen as when a young man, it
made me wish that old times, old
fashions and old-young men could
just live on forever — for on that
same morning in another news-
paper office, the writer had stood

RegltUr of the Kentucky 8Ute Historical Society.

several moments before we were
recognized and then finding the
person we came to see out and ask-
ing if we could wait were told in
an off-hand manner * * that we could
if we wished. ' '

So, the Marse Henry, that has
come to stand for the synonym of
Southern brilliantry and Southern
manhood, is all that and more.

Mr. Watterson, owing to some
defect of vision was mainly educat-
ed by private tutors. Later he took
the degree of D. C. L. University of
the South, 1891 ; LL. D. in 1906, at
Brown University.

He was Staff officer C. S. A., dur-
ing the Civil War, 1861-5, and chief
of Scouts in General Johnston's
Army, 1864. He was married to
Miss Eehecca Ewing, of Nashville,
Tenn., December 20th, 1865, the
daughter of Hon. Andrew Ewing.

His Journalistic record to the
year that the Journal, which, with
Walter N. Haldeman, he consoli-
dated with the Courier, of which he
has ever since been editor, is as
follows :

Reporter and editorial writer
Washington States from 1858 to
1861; editor Democratic Review
from 1860 to 1861; Chat-
tanooga Rebel from 1862 to
1863, Republican Banner, Nash-
ville, Tenn., from 1865 to 1868;
when he assumed control of the big-
gest paper in the South, the Louis-
ville Courier Journal.

His political record in brief con-
sists of the following: Member of
44th Congress from August 12,
1876 to March 3rd, 1877, to fill out
an unexpired term, i^ater he em-
phatically declined a re-election.

Was elected Delegate-at-Large of
the Democratic National Conven-
tion, in 1876. Was Temporary
Chairman in 1880 and Chairman
Platform Committee in 1892. Be-
sides his distinguished career as a
Journalist he is an orator and
writer of the highest ability. He is
the author of the History of the
Spanish-American War, published
in 1899. The Compromises of Life,
Lectures and addresses, 1902. Sdi-
tor: Oddities of Southern Life and
Character, 1882.

This is the brief summing up of
a very busy, and wonderfully in-
spiring, and interesting career.

This Grand Old Man of Ken-
tucky lives at '* Mansfield,** Jeffer-
sontown, with his family. This
beautiful country place is about
three miles from Louisville, but it
does not keep him from being as
prompt to his office in the Oourier-
Journal building, when in town, as
he was forty years ago.

When he is not in town, he * * and
big Sis and little Sis,** as he most
affectionately dubs his wife and
daughter, are strolling off to the
South or to Foreign lands and the
letters home are read with delight
by most of the population of the
United States.

There is no trace of years in this
versatile writer or what he writes.
There is something about him that
defies the flight of years.

There is an alchemy in nature
that she freely gives to those who
live close to her warm heart and
the eternal youth that Ponce de
Leon claims to have found is found
situated in the breast of those who
come in daily contact with youth

and 'Moveth well both man and
beast.*'

Snch a man is Marse Henry Wat-
terson, not one day in seven, but
every day in the week he is the
same, high-minded gentleman,
courteous alike to the lowest em-
ployee to the highest in the build-
ing.

Some claim that into his editor-
ials in the later years of his life
a bit of pathos has crept. This is
but natural. ** Sorrows humanize
our race and tears are the showers
that fertilize this world.'' What
man, pray, who has lived his three
score and ten years has not had
enough in life to soften us towards
all things. The mind of this man
who has swayed thousands and ten
thousands with his pen, must hark
back to days that are no more. His
mind must often hark back to the
friends of other days who have
long since crossed to the Paradise
side of the river of Death — ^his
mind must often play battledore
and shuttlecock between, *'the one
bank green and the other sear."
Like the hero of Holmes '^Last
Leaf":

'*Tlie moasy marbles rest upon the lips
that he preesied, in their bloom;

ADcb the names he loved to hear, have
been carved for many a yeaa*

On the tomlb."

And yet, only a few days ago he
was the brightest, the wittiest, ''the
5«weetest singer of them all," at the
Mark Twain Memorial Services,
where he swung his hearers from
smiles to tears and from te.irs to
fs^niles. Truly he is like good wine
—the older the better.

In Mr. Watterson's own words
there is the key to the pathos of
which some speak. He asks in a re-
cent address:

''Where is your Crittenden, the
i^ayard among party leaders, who
during the fifty years made the
name of Kentucky ring throughout
the Union — ^where is yoi:r Oritten-
citn? Where are your So wans and
your Trimbles at the bar; your
Marshalls, your Hardins and
your Letchers on the stump; your
Menifees and your Moreheads in
Congress? Where are your Wick-
liffs and your Wards — the beau
ideal of the private gentleman — to
say nothing of your warriors, from
Dick Johnson and the Shelbys to
Albert Sidney Johnson, all giants
and heroes in the most literal sense
— ^where are they! The line is al-
most measureless, bristling with
such names as John C. Breckin-
ridge, William Preston, James
Guthrie, Lynn Boyd and Archibald
Dixon. ' '

Is it small wonder, do you think,
that sometimes his pen touches
softly the minor chord and his foot
reaches, unconsciously, for the soft
pedal t

To quote verbatim from a beauti-
ful tribute paid Mr. Watterson by
that bright journalist, Hon. Urey
Woodson, on the occasion of Mr.
Wa tter son 's seventieth birthday,
spent far from his home on the
Gulf of Mexico, we extract this
from the Owensboro Messenger:

"It has been difficult for some
Kentuckians of this generation to
understand and appreciate Mr.
Watterson. He was educated and
trained in a school of political phil-

Regitter of the Kentucky 8Ute Historical Society.

osophy, which had clearly defined
conceptions and principles. Among
other distinctions it drew a dis-
tinct line between Church and
State. To day there are no schools
of political thought. Expediency is
the touchstone by which all things
are adjusted.

''Hence, some good men, who
can in nowise understand Mr. Wat-
terson's position, have allowed
themselves to think and say evil
things of him. Yet, Mr. Watter-
son has had this advantage. What-
ever his errors of thought (and no
one would claim immunity for him
or any other mortal) it cannot be
charged against him that he was
ever guilty of confused or even
reckless thinking.

*'Had he lived in the time of
Pericles, had he guided and advis-
od ''The citv of the Violet Crown,"
Hs he has guided Kentucky for
more than forty years, to-day
would be a gala day, a festal day,
in which all citizens would have
gathered to honor his passing of
the seventieth milestone. But the
modem world, with all its profes-
sion of Christianity, is forgetful
and unforgiving. And yet no poet
ever sang such a siren song as
Marse Henry has been voicing to
Kentucky minds during forty-five
years of such brilliant editorial
writings as has not been surpassed
in modern times, which is to say,
that he is the peer of any journal-
ist, living or dead.'*

Strong words those, and we know
them for the truth.

He might have added that he is
also the most widely quoted news-
paper writer of the country. Until

the Free Silver Movement of 1896,
he stood to the Democratic party ii
the same relation which Horace
Greely had borne to the Republi-
can party till 1872, when Greely
l)ecame Democratic nominee for
President, but, unlike Greely, Wat-
terson did not sever his party rela-
tions in 1896. He is still a Demo-
crat, and although he has con
stantly declined to accept office, his
friends believe that, if he wert
nominated for President, he would
bring to the campaign and election
an independent following such as
no other candidate could com-
mand.

Mr. James Gordon Bennett and
the late Mr. John W. Mackey, never
wearied of recounting his avail-
ability and his virtues. Since 1888,
the New York Herald has each
four years put him forward as the
one Southern leader who could
unite the two sections of the Union.

To quote from a recent writer in
the North American Review: '*He
came out of the Civil War
thoroughly reconstructed, having
gone into it reluctantly, opposed to
slavery and secession, but going
with his State, which was at that
time Tennessee. He might be call-
ed, 'the great pacificator,' for h«
antedated all others, except Gen-
eral Grant, in his appeals for sec-
tional reconciliation, accepting and
describing the three last amend-
ments to the Constitution as, *'The
Treaty of Peace between the North
and the South, ' passing to and fro
between the two hostile political
camps preaching justice to the
negroes by the people of the South
by the people of the North, and

preparing the field for such sowers
as Lamar and Grady, who came
long after, the one his close asso-
ciate and friend, the other his pro-
fessed pnpil and disciple.

**He fought GreenbacMsm and
all forms of fiat money, and twenty
years later gave up an undisputed
leadership to fight free silver.
His cable message from Geneva in
the latter year, **No compromise
with dishonor,* ?ang like a bugle
note and gave the signal for Sound
Money Democracy.'*

It is history that he was the au-
thor of the Democratic Tariff Pol-
icy for '*A Tariff for Revenue
Only.'* He is also the author of
the new Democratic slogan, **Back
to the Constitution.**

In 1872 to 1892 he either wrote
or dominated the National TMat-
iorm of his party.

Mr. Watterson was the confiden-
tinl frieni nnd lieutenant of Mr.
Tilden, Dresidins? over the Xationjil
Convention that nominated him for
President and accepting a seat in
Congress solely on Mr. Tilden *s in-
sistence, that great man desiring,
as he said, '^a personal representa-
tive on the floor of the House dur-
ing the counting of the Electoral
vote.**

During these high party times no
word that could be called sectional
— that was not broadly National-
fell from his tongue or pen.

Of such, his party declare, Pres-
idential timber is made. "A Doc-
trinaire among Statesmen and a
Statesman among Doctrinaires,**
ns John Bussell Young once aptly
described him.

Mr. Watterson *8 fund of infor-
mation, his intimate knowledge of

* * men and measures, * ' his undoubt-
ed leadership, his Jeffersonian
Democracy would make him, not
only eminently fitted for the best
gift at the hands of the people of
the United States, but one that
would get the votes.

Mr. Watterson is years ahead of
his party. While they are drawing
plans he has found the way, and
while they are fussing with detail
he has leaped over Bounds and ' * ar-
rived.**

It has been laughingly said that
the Courier- Journal was the '* Bible
of Democracy.*' The people recog-
nized that they had a wonderful
political thinker and were willing
to let him do it for them — they
were also flattered by having
such a brainy man do the work in
such a commendable manner.

But, it is as a journalist that we
wish to begin and end this chapter.
He always drew the line at lying.
He said: **The City Editor should
never consider himself a brevet
Chief of Police, or the reporter a
semi-professional detective. * * If
all editors and reporters would
only learn and act on this lesson.

In his delightful address before
the New York Press Club he has
this spicy bit on gathering and
writing news:

**I think I know what news is
and how to prepare it equally for
the tea table and the breakfast
table. Like victuals, it may be serv-
ed hot and savory, be brought on
plain or be dressed and decorated,
to suit the ever varying taste of the
public. There is in this, as in cook-
ing, an art. A fine ruddy murder,
Uke a fair round beef steaJ^, may be
ruined in the roasting, and a scan-

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dal, fat and juicy, blonde and
frowsy, spoiled by a figurative ex-
cess of oils and garlic. A skillful
chef can take a few scraps and fab-
ricate a dish to delight a gourmet
So a deft reporter can put this and
that together and piece a story to
set the town a-talking. In both
csLses, however, there must be the
basis of truth. It is given to no
man to make a silk purse of an old
sow's ear; to no cook to render a
saute out of saw-dust and boot-
heels; to no reporter to turn a
scoop out of a lie. Its workers
should be gentlemen, not eaves-
droppers and scavengers, develop-
ing a spy system peculiarly their
own, nor caring for the popular
respect and esteem. Let him
carry these precepts in his heart;
to print nothing of a man in malice ;
to look well and think twice before
consigning a suspect to the ruin of
printer's ink, to respect the old and
defend the weak ; and lastly at work
and at play, daytime and night-
time, to be good to the girls and
square with the boys, for hath it
not been written, *of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven.' "

**Take him all in all my friends,
you'll never look upon his like
again." He says he wishes to live
and die a Journalist. But there are
journalists and journalists I Do
you know of very many journalists
who follow those rules f

With the average small news-
paper the editors, owners and re-
porters use it to * * get even. ' ' They
print the small mistakes and call
attention to the defects. They are
not always **good to the girls and
«quare with the boys," either.

Out of the thousands of editor-
ials it is impossible to pick out two
or three that have caused the great-
est sensation or admiration. If
there was one more than another
that caused the people of these
United States to sit up and take
notice it was his scathing editorial
on **The New York 400." It was
during the leadership of Ward Mc-
Allister and at a time when each
society leader vied with the other
in giving bizarre entertainments,
and much marrying and divorce-
ment among that satiated set.

In plain, unvarnished English lie
called them ''A Flock of Unclean
Birds. ' ' If there was a newspaper
from the ''New York Sun" to the
''Hog-Wallow Kentuckian," that
did not side pro or con, we don't
remember the publication.

In closing this sketch nothing
could improve upon his own words
as an estimate of his character an<I
absolute disinterestedness of self—
the key-note of his long and useful
life— a life spent in the service of
his State, Ms country and his
friends. Have we not Biblical au-
thority "that there is no love great-
er than a man laying down his life
for his friend!" — and is it not
equally as great to live for them!

So, this short editorial that shall
close this sketch, a most imperfect
one, withal, will serve to show that
"no ambition marked his useful
toil" and that he wanted to die, as
he had lived, a journalist. We quote
verbatim :

"To those over-partial yet unre-
flecting friends who are coupling
the name of the editor of the Cour-
ier-Journal with the United States

ReBl***r <rf thg Kentucky Stat* HlatoDcal Soclaty.

rSenatorship, he tenders bis hearty
ifaanks. Kind words are exceeding-
y pleasant to bear, even though
:hey be irrelevant. In the hey-day
>f his manhood, before he lost his
^arty standing, Mr. Watterson had
*et his face resolutely against of-
fice. He was not willing to ex-
L'1ia.nge freedom and affluence at
fiome to take poverty and slavery
fit Washington. He had then, as
now, a post better suited to his
nccdn and capabilities than any
ivhicfa the government or t'te people
could give him. Then, as nr.w, he re-

joiced in his calling and his work,in
their independence, their disinter-
estedness and their opportunities
for useful public service. Through
a long life they have sufficed him.
So, please God, he will die as he has
lived, a journalist, and only a jour-
nalist, but a journalist who owes
nothing of fear, or favor, to any
])arty or faction, or mortal man,
seeking none other honor than
that which springs from the con-
fidence and respect of bis fellow-
citizens."

JOHN BOYD HUSTON:

THE LAWYER AND ORATOR

GEORGE BABER.

J[QHN BQYD HUSTON.

The character of Kentucky as a
State has been always vividly il-
In&trated by the individual charac-
ter of her distinguished sons,
Whether in the ar^ia of war, in the
forum, in legislative halls, or on
the Bench. They have seemed to
^et certain distinguishing traits
frpm the marked features of the
valleys, the forests, the plains, and
the rugged mountains themselves,
which have been moulded into the
material wealth of the state. There-
fore, when recalling the progress
and the historic glories of Iven-
tudky, we think of Clay, of Critten-
den, of the Shelbys, of the More-
heads, of the Marshal Is, of the
Breckinridges, of Owsley and of
Boyle. Following the career of
thiese men from the dawn of our
annals to the date of their death,
we witness the development of a
great people and find our most
cherished memorials. Going back
only thirty years, we see in John
Boyd Huston, late of Lexington, a
brilliant example of the Kentuck-
ian, full worthy to engage our ad-
miring contemplation, though no
imposing monument tells his final
resting place. The passing crowd
of today may not pause to consult
the story of his fame nor the record
of his deeds, but, in behalf of those
who knew and loved him well, I

would offer this simple tribute.

• • •

John Boyd Huston came of Cel-
tic blood, his mother, whose maiden

name was Mary McKee, having
been bom in the north of Ireland;
and, migrating in girlhood, with
her parents, to the little American
state of Delaware, she there mar-
ried James Huston. Thence remov-
ing to Kentucky in 1800, the young
couple located in the County of
Nelson, wfhere on the 1st of Oc-
tober, 1813, this son was bom. As
he grew to manhood, the boy took
to letters and books. After learn-
ing the fundamentals in a country
school house, he was sent, in 1833,
to Centre College, Danville, to be
educated for the higher activities
that should give strength to those
intellectual powers that were des-
tined to make him a man of mark.
Two years of industrious applica-
tion brought him to the date of
graduation, when he bore off the
honors of his class. So complete
were his scholastic accomplish-
ments that he was promptly made a
junior professor in the College. He
chose, however, the profession of
the law for his pathway to useful-
ness and fortune, entered the Law
Department of Transylvania Uni-
versity, and, in 1837, received his
diploma. Having married a daugh-
ter of the memorable Chilton Allen,
he became a law partner of his
father-in-law at Winchester, where
he resided and practiced until 1 864,
when, removing to Lexinj?ton, he
continued the practice of law until
his sudden death at Winchester,
November 16th, 1881. It is a note-

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worthy fact that Mr. Huston, in
the providence of the Master, after
a career more or less renowned in
law and in politics, returned at the
age of sixty-eight to die in the very
place from which he had started in
his profession ; and it now looks as
if he re-visited Winchester seeking
his last repose in the very bosom of
the community which had first
given him hope and confidence in
his struggle with the busy world.
It was the county of Clark that sent
him by large popular majorities,
four times, to the Kentucky House
of Eepresentatives, of which he
was Speaker in 1855-6 — a position
which he held with consummate
grace and tact. It was as a dele-
gate from Clark that he repeatedly
appeared in Whig State Conven-
tions and inspired with rapture the
crowds that hung upon his elo-
quence—for he was truly an elo-
quent orator, following with enthu-
siasm the leadership of Henry
Clay.

At Lexington, in conjunction
with a lucrative practice, he served
twelve years as a professor in the
Law Department of Kentucky Uni-
versity. He was not only a pro-
found student of Blackstone, but
an admirable instructor in the
science of Law. Thoui^h loving;
political debate, and at times
prompted by political ambition, he
made but one effort for promotion
in national politics, becoming a
candidate and being defeated for a
seat in Congress. But politics at
the best offered to Mr. Huston ohIv
a playground in which he overflow-
ed with humor and delighted eager
audiences by those rare gifts of

speech which, if opportunity had
offered, would have enabled him to
enchain either the House of Repre-
sentatives or the National Senate.
His real battleBeld was the court
room, where he was seldom rivr.led
as an advocate. His addresses to
popular audiences were always
aglow with fervour, but his argu
ments before Courts and juries
were remarkable for higher quali-
ties. He was a discriminating lo-
gician. He surpassed in metaphor.
He was unexcelled in pathos. He
could bring laughter to the most
stolid countenance, and start a
well-spring of tears in the very
heart of coldness and indifference.
The older lawy^ers of Lexington
well remember his brilliant display
of erudition, his severe log^c. Ids
caustic phraseology, and his ap-
peals to the tender part of oue**^
nature. They recall the cases of
Ball, of Gilbert-Holmes, of Tod-
hunter, and of Gay, in which he
equalled the best efforts of Richard
Menifee and- of Tom Marshall;
and, when he died, he was classed
with Judge Geo. Robertson, Madi-
son C. Johnson, Frank Hhmt, Ben-
jamin F. Buckner, Jerry Morton,
Wm. B. Kincaid, and Joseph D.
Hunt, the last still living, whose
noble soul is filled with love of god.
liness and truth.

Mr. Huston was thus adapted by
nature to serve the state as civilian
and statesman, rather than as war-
rior. During the Civil War he was
a conservative Unionist, the great
struggle enlisting his convictions
and sympathies more as a peace-
loving patriot than as a vengeful
partisan. And, hence, when the

strife was over, his warm heart im-
pelled him to gladly welcome back
to Kentucky the heroic spirits who
had followed, southward, the lead
of John C. Breckinridge, John H.
Morgan, Albert Sidney Johnston
and Simon Bolivar Buckner, who
gave him freely both their respect
and confidence.

Mr. Huston was twice married,
his second wife being Miss Eliza-
beth Jackson, a daughter of Samuel
G. Jackson, of Fayette county, to
whom he was united in 1854, and
who survied him. The sweetness
of his domestic circle was never
excelled, the fine characteristics of
his home life being ever redolent
with joy, which none of the severe
contests of either the forum or tlie
stump could for a moment mar.

Just here this tribute may well
close with a reproduction of the ten-
der expression of lament from his
old friends in Clark, who, repre-

senting the Bar of Winchester, in
the presence of his silent form de-
clared :

''When we recall the generous
impulses of his heart, always beat-
ing responsive to every sentiment
of friendship; his urbane deport-
ment towards his brethren of the
profession, the kindly encourage-
ment and sympathy which he ever
extended to the younger members
of the Bar, and the genial smile
and warm grasp of the hand with
which he always greeted us, we al-
most forget our admiration for the
lofty and commanding genius of
the lawyer in our love and admira-
tion for the man."'

Kentuckv mav well cherish the
name and fame of such a son and
the future young men of the state
may well honor the high example
which was set before them in the
life and character of John Bovd
Huston.

Those Who Have Been and Are Not.

A Brief History of the Physicians Who Once Lived in

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, or Vicinity, and

Have Since Passed Away.

BY
A. D. PRICE, M. D., Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

First installment read to The Harrodsburg Historical Society,

March 4tk 1910.

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN AND ARE NOT.

The first settlement of Harrods-
burg, Kentucky, was made in 1774
by a band of brave, hardy and
determined pioneers. They erected
on what is now known as East
street and near the south end of the
present bridge which spans the
creek at this point five or six
cabins which furnished them a
home till abandoned July 20th, of
the same year.

In May 1775, they returned and
reoccupied the cabins and during
the fall of the same year began the
erection of the fort on what is now
commonly known as Bunker Hill,
but styled by some who have had
opportunities of studying the char-
acter of the poor degraded and de-
,2:enerate set inhabiting that local-
ity, as ''HelPs half-acre."

In 1776 Kentucky county was
formed and the fort, known as Har-
rod's Fort, became an organized
lx)dy with laws enacted for its gov-
ernment. It became, so to speak,
the first capitol of this vast and in-
teresting territory. In and about
it subsequently gathered men of
ability, energy and determination
whose lives were useful to their as-
sociates and a blessing to those who
came after them. They not only
served their own locality well, but
did heroic service in behalf of their
common country.

The first courts were held here
and Harrod's Fort soon became of
great importance. The fort was

known as Harrod^s Fort for a time,
then as Harrodstown, subsequently
as Oldtown and finally aj=» Harrods-
bnrg. These changes were made at
an early date, but when lias not
been determined.

The brave pioneers who travers-
ed the wilderness and laid here the
foundation of this great Oommon-
vrealth in the history of which so
iiiany tiirou.4:h>i!t the )on^:lh and
breadth of this wonderful (*ountry
are more or less interested, were*
too much occupied about self-pre-
servation, (protection against the
Indian, the procuring of food, the
building of cabins to afford them
shelter) to consider the importance
of noting facts or making and keep-
ing records of all that transpired
in their midst, of laying, in other
words, the foundation of true and
correct history. When we seek to
know more about this interesting
period of our history we are im-
pressed with the meager source of
information or are pained to find
no information at all .

•To the inspiration of the Hon. W.
W. Stephenson and his talented sis-
ters we are indebted for'lhe effort
to gather up the fragments and to
preserve all obtainable facts for
the use of those who come after us.

To this end and for this purpose
I take pleasure in calling your at-
tention in a brief way to some of
the facts and incidents of the lives
of physicians who have labored in

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our midst and who have passed to
their reward.

The list is not complete, but I
hope to add to it from time to time.
Before entering npon the details of
my subject permit me to state from
the physician *s stand-point, having
in mind the trials and tribulations
of those who have gone before us,
of those who now are, and doubt-
less of those who come after us,
that all one gets in this life is what
he eats and wears and that his re-
ward is the good he does others.
Thus the physician often grows
from a state of misinterpretation
and harsh criticism into a calm and
serene condition when his best and
most efficient work is done. The
laity does not always recognize the
trials of the physician, and some-
times not his worth.

In searching the records at our
command it is noted that the
names of physicians are frequently
mentioned. They served the town

as trustees, as overseers of the
streets and roads, and in many
other ways. They were a generous
Fet of fellows, as doctors generally
are, and tendered their offices as
meeting places for the Board of
Trustees which were frequently ac-
cepted. It is a singular fact that
the doctor's Sanctum Sanctorum
was styled a shop while the law-
yer's rendezvous had the more eu-
phonious name of office. Why this
distinction it is difficult to determine
unless it be that the doctor's office
was, at that period, stored with
crude drugs, various herbs, mor-
tars and pestles, while that of the
lawyer was ornamented with pon-
derous volumes of legal lore. "Wliat-

ever the cause then it is of small
import to-day. The lawyer evident-
ly had the best of the doctor, and
has held on to his inheritance with
commendable pertinacity. The
doctor eases the pains and soothes
the distress of the dying, and the
lawyer still winds up the estate.

In searching the records I find
the names of physicians of whom
but little is known at the present
time. I hope in the near future to
be able to tell you something about
a few of them. In this list are the
names of Drs. Gaither, Wm. Bob-
ertson, J.N. Bybee, I>. Crockett.
Samuel Hart, N. M. Schrock.
Stockwell, Worthington, Sweeney
and Johnson.

They were evidently public-spirit-
ed men, and some of them possess-
ed a goodly share of this world's
goods showing how sadly things
have changed as time has come
and gone. Dr. Robertson was a
man of wealth and of architectural
skill. He built the house now occu-
pied by the Hon. Thos. H. Hardin,
many others in the town, and often
planned buildings for his friends;
one of which is the substantial
home now occupied by B. F. Moore.

Dr. Bybee was also an active
man. He built the house now oc-
cupied by Harvey Vandivier, and
evidently possessed considerable
means for one of that period. He
was tenacious of his rights or sup-
posed rights and consequently was
often in trouble with his neighbors
or associates. On one occasion he
and Dr. Trapnall had a fight, in the
old fashion way, in the Court-house
yard. Dr. Trapnall losing an eye
in the encounter. Doctors disagreed
then as well as now.

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In Bnd about the Old Bull comer
several doctors had their offices.
Dr. Miller owned and occupied one
in that vicinity.

The most important item of in-
terest contained in the older re-
cords is the establishment of the
first Board of Health of Harrods-
burg. On June 6th, 1833, the year
that cholera first prevailed in this
locality, the Board of Trustees
created a Board of Health, and ap-
pointed as members the following
physicians: Drs. Henry Miller,
Wm. Robertson, J. a. Tomlinson,
Christopher Graham, C. L. Jones,
J. N. Bybee, J. A. Thompson, D.
Crockett, N. M. Schrock and Stock-
well who were requested to meet
from time to time and report con-
cerning the health of the locality
as occasion might require.

The Board of Health made a re-
port to the Board of Trustees June
8th, 1833. What this report was
beyond condemning the condition
of the town as unsanitary and re-
commending that the streets be
cleaned is not known. The report, I
judge, was voluminous and dealt
largely with the cause, nature,
'treatment and prevention of the
epidemic, because it was received
and five hundred copies ordered
printed in pamphlet form for dis-
tribution among the citizens of the
town and county. The trustees
ordered the streets cleaned and im-
posed a penalty on those who fail-
ed to comply with the ordinance.
The profession at that period knew
but little about the causes and pre-
vention of the ills to which the flesh
is heir and did not realize that its
great mission was to prevent

rather than cure disease. They
groped in the dark blindly follow-
ing the teachings of some noted
lecturer or author and pursued the
usual routine of administering cal-
omel, ipecac and hot water and us-
ing the lancet. If the patient sur-
vived and the convalescence was
slow its repertoire was in order.

By and by the physician began
to think for himself and to break
away from the hooks of steel and
chains of iron that had so long
held him in bondage. Bational
treatment now began to assume its
sway, but slowly. Demonstration
of the new order of things was
frequently made by the laity, but
its recognition by the profession
was slow and cautious. There are
many instances attesting this fact,
one of which is of particular inter-
est.

Mr. Taylor, the father of Mrs.
Ann Grimes who is Btill living in
our midst, was a wealthy farmer
living in the eastern section of this
county. He contracted typhoid
fever and was ill for a long time.
He pleaded in vain with his doctor
for a cold bath, this being denied
him he begged for a drink of cold
water to cool his parched tongue.
His wails fell upon deaf ears;
small quantities of hot water were
still tendered him. His condition
continued to grow worse, he be-
came desperate and, being a man of
authority, summoned into his pres-
ence several negro men, ordered
them to carry him to the spring, to
lay him on a wooden bench and to
pour cold water over him until he
told them to stop. At the same
time he had all the cold water he

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wanted to drink. Soon the raging
fever began to abate, the burning
thirst was quenched, and the wan-
dering mind returned. He was car-
ried to his room and was soon con-
valescent. This impressive and im-
portant lesson was doubtless lost
upon his physician.

The up-to-date physician of the
present day has been trained by
his Alma Mater to keep a correct
and concise record of the clinical
history of his patients. These re-
cords are supposed to be arranged
and tabulated for ready reference,
thus laying the foundation for cor-
rect judgment and progress in
medicine. Had this method been
prevalent in times past there would
be a rich fund from which to gain
facts and form conclusions.

Dr. Hart came from Maryland to
Kentucky in the spring of 1775 in
company with a number of white
people who were among the first
settlers of this section. He was a
Catholic and was one of the first
physicians, if not the very first,
who settled in Kentucky. He lived
for many years in Harrodstown
where he was engaged in the prac-
tice of medicine. He subsequently
removed to the vicinity of Bards-
town where he could more fully en-
joy the blesBings of his religion. He
contributed largely to the various
causes of his church, was the first
Catholic to die in Kentucky and the
first to be buried in the cemetery
given by himself to the Catholic
Church.

Dr. Philip Trapnall was bom
Jan. 4th, 1773, in Baltimore county,
Maryland. The Trapnalls came
from England where many of them

were ministers of the Established
Church, his mother was a Vincent-
ian and many of her family were
also officials of the same denomina-
tion. So he was trained up in the
faith and had a right to be a sectar-
ian and a persistent champion of
Episcopacy. He received a thorough
literary education and was grad-
uated in medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania in 1796. He set-
tled in Hagertown, Maryland
where he remained for two years.
In 1800, he came to Kentucky and
located at Harrodsburg where he
did an extensive practice, frequent-
ly visiting in a professional capac-
ity the surrounding towns. He
was a surgeon of skill for his time
and did quite a number of opera-
tions. There is no record of him
having written anything on medical
subjects. Those were days when
medical journals were rare, and
when but few medical men had the
courage to express their individual
opinions upon any given subject
^pertaining to their profession.
They as a body, had not. begun . to
think for themselves, but were gov-
erned by the teachings of their pre-
ceptors and instructors; thus the
progress of medicine was retarded
to that extent. He represented
Mercer county in the Legislature
from 1806 to 1810. He was a can-
didate for Congress in 1812, but
was defeated by Samuel McKee of
Lancaster. He accumulated a
large medical library which he
divided among his young profes-
sional friends after retiring from
active practice in 1818. He mar-
ried Miss Nancy Carey, of Mercer
coimty, Kentucky, and raised a

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number of children; several of
whom are weU remembered by
many among us to-day. He died
January 31st, 1853.

Br. Christopher C. Graham was
bom Oct. 10th, 1785, near Dan-
ville, Kentucky. His father was a
A'^irginian and of Scotch origin; his
mother was Irish. His early youth
was passed in Nelson county, Ken-
tucky where he became an expert
with the rifle, in the meanwhile
stealing sufficient time from his re-
cTeation to obtain a meager educa-
tion. At the beginning of the war
of 1812, he was engaged in the
silversmith business, which he dis-
posed of, raised and equipped at
his own expense a comi)any of sol-
diers at Springfield, Kentucky, and
joined the army. He was twice
wounded and several times became
a prisoner in the hands of the
Indians. He subsequently went to
Texas and offered liimself as a sol-
dier in behalf of freedom. Return-
ing to Kentucky he studied medi-
cine and took his degree at the Uni-
versity of Transylvania. He never
engaged in the active practice of
medicine; his only professional
services rendered were when he
acted as surgeon to the expedition
under Col. Gray which made the
first survey of the Southern Atlan-
tic and Pacific railway. In 1819 he
began his career in connection
with the history of Harrodsburg.
He established and conducted suc-
cessfully for thirty-two years the
Harrodsburg Springs, a resort of
great reputation. Iq 1852, he sold
this celebrated property to the
Government which was converted
into a home for the soldiers, over

which Col. Anderson of Sumter
fame subsequently was in com-
mand for a time, becoming the
warm personal friend of many of
the citizens.

He contributed freely to the
establishment of schools and espe-
cially of Bacon College and was
interested in everything that tend-
ed to the benefit of the town or
county. He was a fluent writer and
frequently contributed articles to
various journals. He published
several books. His ^*Man from
the Cradle to the Grave,'' ''The
True Science of Medicine,'' and his
''Philosophy of the Mind" made
an impression at the time upon the
reading public. For many years
he devoted much time to the col-
lection of a cabinet of Natural
History for the state. He was a
celebrated shot with the rifle, and
challenged at one time the world
at target shooting, although the
stakes were large it was never ac-
cepted. He celebrated with splendor
his one hundredth birthday, after
which he visited his daughter at
Versailles, Kentucky. He soon re-
turned to Louisville, took to his
bed and died in Feb. 1885.

Dr. John Slavins was born Aug.
15th, 1791, in the Shanandoah
Valley of Virginia in what is now
Bockuigham county, but then
known as Augusta county. His
grandfather, John Slavins came
from the North of Ireland and set-
tled in the above named valley and
county. Here his children were
bom. When the youngest was five
years old he removed to near the
headwaters of Jackson river where
he lived the rest of his days. From

HidoHottl

that old Virginia farm the grand-
father and three of his sons, Wil-
Ham, John and Isaiah went into the
Bevolntionary war. Isaiah, the
father of Dr. John Slavins, was
only eighteen years old when he
listed, serving two years.

When his sons, Stewart, Thomas
asd John (the subject of this
flket<^) enlisted at Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky in the war of 1812, he
also joined saying, that he had to
go along to take care of the boys.
Dr. Slavins was married April
18th, 1821, to Miss Sophia A. Gra-
ham, of Bath county, Kentu^cy.

For the benefit of those young
ladies who believe in dreams or the
encouragement of those who are
interested in the study of psychol-
ogy it will be interesting to relate
the curious fact that Miss Graham
dreamed of Dr. Slavins, as yet un-
known to her, as her future hus-
band and in so vivid a manner that
she was enabled to recognize him
>ftt first sight.

Seeing the man of her dream ac-
cidently one day on a crowded
street of Mt. Sterling, she told her
mother on her return home that she
had seen the man whom she would
marry.

He never forgot his army life
and was always drawn toward the
soldier. He and Col. Anderson,
afterwards of Fort Sumter fame,
were congenial friends during the
hitfa^'s resklence here as Com-
mandant of the Gk>vemment
Home for Soldiers. He was
n Mascm of high attainments
«id warm sseal, and always
istood a faithful gmrd over
the seeireis of the order. During

his last illness his mind, frcm anf-
f ering and weakness, of toi wander-
ed and at times he did not reoogidze
his surroundings. During one of
these periods his daughter-in-law
who was looking after his wants
said, ^'Doctor, what are the
secrets of Masonry f Instantly hi:^
wandering mind returned, and be
replied that the secrets of Masonry
are ^ * to fear God and keep his com-
mandments for this is the lAole
duty of man." Dr. Slavins receiv-
ed his medical degree from the
University of Transylvania is
March, 1821. He located in Mt.
Sterling where he practiced his
profession for fifteen years; he
then removed to Greencastle, Ind-
iana, where he remained for a little
more than one year. His #ife
often guyed him by saying that his
short stay in Indiana was due to
the fact that he could not live with-
out having a negro boy to ^hine
his shoes. Returning to Kentookv
he located at Harrodsburg where
he practiced his profession till the
end came. He is said to have
done considerable surgical work
and availed himself of the oppor-
tunities, few and far between dur-
ing those days, to report the results
in medical journals. He at one tune
was associated with Dr. J. A. Tom-
liuBon and at another with Dr.
Hunt, but these partnerships were
not congenial and continued only
a short time.

While making a charity call one
stormy night in August he was
thrown f roin his horse and su^ffeired
a dislocation of the right hip. ^e
nature of the injury was not rewg-
nized till four we^s afterwmds

when he went to Lexington, Ken-
tucky, and had the dislocation re-
duced by Dr. Benj. Dudley. Being
told that he had one chance in a
thousand to survive the operation
he replied that he would take that
chance. He was crippled the re-
mainder of his days, but was
enabled to continue his profession-
al labors for ten years. He dfe'd
Feb. 5th, 1863, in HarrodsTrarg,
and was buried in its beautiful
cemetery.

Dr. Christopher L. Jones was
born in Mercer county, Kentucky
in 1800. His father, David Jones,
was one of the early settlers of
Mercer county. Dr. Jones received
a common English education and
graduated in medicine at the med-
ical department of the University
of Transylvania. He was not a stu-
dent, but a man of good common
sense which enabled him to become
a successful and respected physi-
cian. He married Miss B. May of
Virginia who died at the age of
ninety years. Their only child,
Augustus Jones, graduated in
medicine at the University of New
York, but never engaged in the
practice of his profession. Dr.
Jones died July 10th, 1867.

Dr. Henry M. Miller was born
Nov. 1st, 1800, in Barren county,
Kentucky. He received a good edu-
cation being proficient in Latin and
Greek. When seventeen years old
he began the study of medicine at
Glasgow under Drs. Brainbridge
and Gist. In 1819, after two years
of preparation, he attended the
full course of lectures delivered at
the University of Transylvania. He
then began the practice of his pro-

fession at Glasgow being associat-
ed with Dr. Brainbridge. In 1821
he returned to the University of
Transylvania from which institu-
tion he received his medical de-
gree. He returned to Glasgow and
resumed the practice of medicine.
In 1822 he was appointed Demon-
strator of Anatomy in his Alma
Mater which position he held for a
short time only, owing to some dis-
sensions arising in the faculty. He
returned again to Glasgow and re-
sumed his professional duties. In
1827 he moved to Harrodsburg
where he lived till 1835 doing a
successful practice. Being a pro-
gressive man and having ideas of
his own he now sought a larger
field and went to Louisville, Ken-
tucky. Here he entered upon a
brilliant career and became a lead-
ing man in his profession. At that
early period he recognized the fact
that no one could master the entire
field of medicine and that, to ad-
vance medical science and thus
throw around the public the great-
est protection, the physician should
limit his work to cer^^in diseases.
After locating in Louisville his
work was confined to Obstetrics
and to the diseases of women and
children; a moderate speciality
then, but a field that would be ap-
palling to the specialist of the pres-
ent day. He was a brilliant lec-
turer and a lucid writer. His book
on the Principles and Practice of
Obstetrics was long a standard
work. He held a professorship in
several of the Medical Colleges of
Louisville, and was highly esteem-
ed as a great and successful teacher
of his Art. His merits were recog-

nized by the profession at large
and he became President of the
American Medical Association, the
greatest honor a medical man can
receive. He married Miss Clarinn
Robertson June 24th, 1824. His
descendants live in Louisville. He
died February 8th, 1874, honored
and respected not only by the pro-
fession, but by all who knew him.

Db. a. D. Price.

Since writing the foregoing arti-
cle it will be seen by the following
that this beloved physician has
joined ''the majority on the other
side" of the physicians, *'who are
not,'* of whom he has written so
ably and well.

(Ed. The Register.)

''death broke the vital chain and
freed his soul.."

Dr. A. D. Price died in his home
at Harrodsburg, Ky., Nov. 11,
1910. He was bom Sept. 1, 1839,
in Clark county, Ky. His father
was Dr. Andrew B. Price, a physi-
cian of note in Clark and adjoining
counties, and his grandfather was
Moses Price, who at an early date
came from Virginia and settled in
Lexington, Ky., and for a number
of years was Marshal of Ken-
tucky.

Dr. A. D. Price attended the
Harrodsburg High School and af-
terwards Kentucky University,
which was then located at Harrods-
burg. He studied medicine under

his father in 1861-2, and later was
graduated from New York Me<t
cal College. Afterwards he took a
post-graduate course in the medi
cal department of the University of
Louisville. He commenced the
practice of medicine in 1865, at
Harrodsburg, and continued in
active practice, a beloved and lead
ing physician, until his death. He
was a vital member of several
medical societies, live timber in the
masonic order, and an intereste«i
nnd important member of the Har-
rodsburg Historical Society. He
was at different times president of
the Mercer County Medical So-
ciety, and of the State Medical So-
ciety. He served as Master of
Warren Lodge F. & A. M. several
terms, and was Mayor of Harrods-
burg.

He was an active member of the
first Presbyterian Church of Har-
rodsburg, Ky., of which he was an
elder. He was married March 9.
1871, to Miss Lina Henry, who to-
gether with two children. Dr. Car-
roll Price and Miss Evelyn Price
survive him. He took an active in-
terest in everything concerning the
public welfare, was genial, sympa-
thetic, charitable and won for him-
self a host of friends.

His splendid qualities as an able,
upright, Christian man made him a
most valuable member of the com-
munity, a leading citizen. The
sympathetic heart, the helping
hand, the benign influence of his
])ersonality will be missed in our
community. W. W. S.

[

Historical and Genealogical Department.

THE RAILEYS, RANDOLPHS. MAYOS, &c.

BY
WILL RAILEY, Frankfort.

WOODSONS AND WATKINS.

MISS MORTON.

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

THE WOODSONS.

1. Jno. Woodson, Dorsetshire,
England (wife Sara, from Dorset-
shire) came to Va. in the good ship
^* George/' in 1619, settled at Flenr
de Hundred. Physician.

XL Bobt. Woodson, b. Va.; m.
Eliza Faris, dr. Richard Faris, of
*'Cnrls,'' Henrico Co., Va. II John
Woodson, m. Mary Tucker.

HI. Jno. Woodson, m. Judith
Tarleton, dr. Stephen Tarleton.
Their children:

IV. 1. Tarleton, m. Ursula
Fleming.

2. Jno., m. Susan Fleming Bates.

3. Jacob.

4. Josiah, m. Mary Royall.

5. Robt., m. Sarah Womack.
fl. Stephen.

in. Richard Woodson, m. Anne
Smith. Seven children.

Children of Richard Woodson
and Anne Smith :

1. Richard Woodson, of ** Poplar
BSD,*' m. j£niie Micfianx.

2. Obadiah Woodson, m. Con-
stance Watkins.

3. John Woodson, m. M. Ander-
son., dan. Col. Thos. Anderson, of
Henrico Co.

4. Elizabeth Woodson, m. (1)
Thomas Morton, (2) Edward
Goode.

5. Judith Woodson, m. Jacob
Miehaux.

6. Mary Woodson, m. Rich'd
Truman.

7. Agnes Woodson, b. 1711, d.
1802, m. Joseph Morton, b. 1709, d.
1782.

in. Robt. Woodson^ m. first
Sarah Lewis; second, Rachel Wat-
kins.

Children of first wife :

1. Stephen.

2. Joseph, m. Eliza Mattox.

3. Robt.

4. Eliza, m. Jno. Povall..

5. Sara, m. Jos. Parsons.

6. Mary.

Children of second wife :

1. Jonathan.

2. Eliza, m. Jno. Knight.

3. Judith, m. Jno. Cooke.

m. Joseph Woodson, m. Mary
Woodson, dr. Jno. and Mary Tuck-
er Woodson.

Their children :

X. Tucker, m. first, Sara Hughes ;
second, Mary Netherbud.

2. Mary, m. Stephen Woodson.

3. Judith, m. Chas. Chrisman.

4. Martha, m. Jno. Cannon.

III. Benjamin Woodson, m. Sara
Porter. Their children :

1. Wm., m. Sara Allen.

2. Benj., m. EUza Watkins.

3. Jos., m. Susan Watkins.

4. Jno., m. Mary Miller.

5. Robt., m. Rebecca Pryor.

6. Eliza, m. Jno. Daniel.

7. Sara, m. Jno. Allen.

III. Elizabeth Woodson, m. Wm.
Lewis. No children.

ni. Mary Woodson, m. Geo.
Payne, sheriff of Goochland.

Rtgitttr of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

III. Judith Woodson, m. Wm.
Cannon.

IV. Richard Woodson, oldest son
of Rich'd Woodson and Anne
Smith, ^'Poplar Hill,'* Pr. Edward
Co., Va., m. Anne Michaux, dr.
Abram Michaux and Susannah
Bochette, dr. Moses Eochette, Se-
dan, France. Huguenots.

IV. Obadiah Woodson, 2d son of
same, m. Constance Watkins, dr.
Jno. Watkins.

rV. Jno. Woodson 3d, m. Mary
Anderson, dr. Thos. Anderson,
Henrico Co., Va.

IV. Eliza Woodson, dr. same,
m. first, Thos. Morton ; second, Ed.
Gfoode.

IV. Judith Woodson, dr. same,
m. Jacob Michaux, s. Abram
Michaux and Susannah Rochette.

IV. Mary Woodson, dr. same,
m. Richard Truman.

IV. Agnes Woodson, dr. same,
b, Feb. 27, 1711 ; d. Mch. 10, 1802 ;
m. Jos. Morton.

V. Eliza Woodson, dr. Richard
Woodson and Ann Michaux, b. 1730 ;
d. 1811; m. Nathaniel Venable, b.
1732; d. 1804; s. Abram Venable
and Martha Davis Venable.

V. Agnes Woodson, m. Francis
Watkins, s. Thoa. and Fanny An-
derson, Clerk Pr. Edward Co.,
Mem. Com. of Safety, Trustee,
Manager, Visitor, Hampden-Sidney
Coll., died. 1826; buried at ** Poplar
Hill.^'

Children of Eliza Woodson and
N. Venable :

VI. 1. Samuel W., m. Mary Cov-
ington.

2. Abraham, burned at the Rich-
mond Theatre.

3. Rich^d M., m. Mary Morton.

4. Nathaniel.

5. Wm., m. Nantz.

6. Thos.

7. Betty, m. Thos. Watkins.

8. Martha, m. Nathaniel Venable.

9. Eliza, m. Col. (?).

THE WATKINS FAMILY.

I. Thomas Watkins married
Fanny Anderson.

II. Francis Watkins (Clerk Pr.
Ed. Co. — Mem. Com. Safety Pr,
Ed. Co. Trustee, Manager, Visitor
Hampden Sidney College.) d. 1826.

III. Richard Watkins m. Mrs.
Catherine Chappel Jones. Tenn.

IV. Their child, Agnes Watkins.
m. Dr. Wm. Sayle.

III. Elizabeth Watkins, b. Pr. Ed-
ward Co., Va., Dec. 6, 1769 ; d. She!
by Co., Ky., Apr. 23, 1832, m. Jos.
Venable, b. 6-8-1761, Charlotte Co.,
Va. Grad. Hampden-Sidney; in
law, Nassau Hall (Princeton), N.
J., Commonwealth's Atty., Pr. Ed-
ward and Charlotte Cos. Under
age, but acted as aid to Gen. Lav-
son and carried dispatches to La-
Fayette in Rev. War. Moved to
Shelby Co., Ky., 1810; Judge of
Shelby Co., Trustee Hampden-Sid-
ney Coll., 179fi, Elder Mulberry
Pres. Ch., Shelby Co., Ky. Buried
at ^^ Poplar Hill,'^ Pr. Ed. Co., Va.
Died (f).

in. Agnes Watkins, m. Dr.
David Flournoy.

ni. Francis Watkins, m. Ann
Haskins, dr. Thos. Haskins and
Parmelia Penn.

ni. Benj. Watkins, m (!).

III. Henry Watkins, m. Agnes
Venable, dr. Col. Sam'l and Mary
Carrington.

Regitter of the Kentucky State Hiatorical society.

IV. Their children:

1. Francis K, m. Mary Scott.

2. Henry E.

3. Mary C.

4. Eev. S. W., m. 1852, Alice
Horsley.

5. Agnes.

6. Lizzie Ann.

7. Eichard V.

8. Margaret C.

9. Henrietta.

10. Catherine.

11. Frances S.

III. Jos. Watkins, m. Enth Hunt.

IV. Children:

1. Josephine, m. Dr. Joel Wat-
kins.

2. Susan, m. Wm. Eobards.

3. Dr. F. B., m. Mary Elfreth.

4. Betty Jane, m. Col. Horace
Robards.

HI. Selina A. Watkins, m. Ool.
S. L. Lockett, s. Stephen and Mary
Clav Lockett. Their children:

1. Frances Lockett, m. Albert
Jones, s- Col. Thos. and Mary Cren-
shaw Jones.

2. Mary Lockett, m. Napoleon
Lockett.

3. Selina Lockett, m. Horace Eo-
bards.

4. Lucius- Lockett, m. Emma
Fowlkes.

5. Henry Lockett.

6. Virginia Lockett, m. Jos. H.
Speed.

HI. Frances Watkins, m, Jas. D.
Vood.
rV. Their children:

1. Agnes, m. E. G. Branch.

2. Dr. Henry A. Wood.

3. Eliza W.

4. Francis P.

5. Susan M., m. Eev. Moses
Hoge.

6. S. Chesley.

7. Frances.

8. Selina.

9. Cora. V.

10. Josephine.

THE EAILEYS.

John Eailey, b. Dec. 1721, m.
(Nov. 1750) Elizabeth Eandolph,
b. 1727.

A RECORD or THEIR DESCENDANTS:

Eailey Coat-of-Arms :
or, a band vair between nine cross-
es, crosslet qu crest a lion vamp
ppr.

John Eailey-Elizabeth Eandolph

A review of the tables submitted
shows that the Eaileys intermar-
ried with the Eandolphs, Wood-
sons, Mayos, Pleasants, Keiths and
Strothers of Va. John Eailey, the
progenitor of the Virginia and
Kentucky families of that name
was an JEnglishman who delighted
in fine horses and rural life, and
his estate ' * Stonehenge, ' ' in Ches-
terfield county, Va., thirteen miles
from Eichmond, was noted for its ,
fine stock, and very many of his
descendants to this period have fol-
lowed his example. He was bit-
terly opposed to English sovereign-
ty over the colonies, while the Ean-
dolphs were just as intense Eoyal-
ists, filling very many of the com-
manding positions of trust in the
colonies by grace of the ruling an-
thorities in England, and when
John Eailey won the heart of Eliza-
beth Eandolph and asked for her
hand in marriage the family ob-
jected on account of his views

tonching the obligations of the col-
onies to the mother country. In
order to break off the engagement
Elizabeth Randolph was sent to
**Shadwell,'' the home of her sis-
ter Mrs. Peter Jefferson, with in-
structions to prevent an elopement
and to close all avenues of com-
munication, which as usual was
not successfully carried out.* Soon
thereafter by pre-arrangement a
meeting took place at the home of
Major Hughes, a mutual friend
who lived on the opposite side of
the river from * * Shadwell, ' ' Eliza-
beth persuading the negro ferry-
man ^ ' Scipio ' ' to row her across the
river. From the home of Major
Hughes they eloped to North Caro-
lina where they married in 1750.
Soon thereafter a reconciliation
was brought about, Captain Isham
Randolph, the elder brother of
Elizabeth, then an officer in the
Navy, being the medium, but John
Railey never surrendered his con-
victions on the question of the freie-
dom of the colonies and lived until
the American Revolution had ac-
complished what he had so long
hoped for, but the death of his son
John at the battle of Norfolk and
the loss of his wife in 1782 hasten-
ed his death in 1783. The descend-
ants of his ten children who mar-
ried and raised families are now
scattered from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the Gulf to the
Great Lakes. I find that some
members of all of these branches
have kept a record that passed
down to them, and for that reason
my work has mainly been handi-
capped in an effort to locate these
people and get them sufficiently in-

terested to reply to my inqniri^.
John Railey and his wife Elizabeth
Randolph, and Col. John WoodsoiL
and his wife Dorothy RandolpL
thoroughly acquainted their chil-
dren with the historical facts touch-
ing their family connectioiis and
they have been handed down from
generation to generation. In fact
a family tree started by John
Railey and his wife is now in po^
session of the Rev. Fleming G.
Railey, a Presbyterian minister of
Selma, Alabama. Though I hav^
never seen it, or had any assist
ance from it in my work, I am told
that it brings the descendants down
to about 1850 with much historical
information, and traditions of col-
onial days touching all of the fam
ilies connected with the Raileys by
marriage. The Rev. Fleming G.
Railey has lead me to believe for
many years that he intended t?
publish a history of these families
and for that reason the family tree
has given me no aid in my wort
While I am sure that his intention?
have been good all these years, 1
am doubtful if he ever takes time
from his ministerial duties, exact-
ing as I know they are, to cam
out his purpose to publish a his-
tory.

Having made notes of conver-
sations between my mother and
some of the older relatives when I
was a mere boy, I decided more
than twenty years ago to make as
complete a record of these people
as possible. In doing so I have
spent much money, devoted much
time that ordinarily would be
given to pleasure and recreation,
encountered much necessary delajr

in prosecuting the work on account
of either tardiness or indifference
upon the part of so many of the rel-
atives who conldn't appreciate my
anxiety to complete the work, and
the worry that mnst ensue from
trying to keep all of the corres-
pondence and the disconnected and
incomplete replies they would send
me in mind, but I feel more than re-
paid when I recall so many nice
letters received from many rela-
tives that I have never had the
pleasure of knowing personaUy. As
I said earlier in this brief sketch
many of John Bailey's descendants
followed his example in choosing
rural life where they take much
pride in fine stock, but the majority
of them have pursued mercantile
channels, while a number have been
lawyers, doctors, bankers and
preachers, but none of them have
ever been conspicuous in the poli-
tical arena, I am glad to say, yet
they are almost universally
Thomas Jefferson democrats poli-
tically, and Presbyterians and
Methodists in religion, but largely
the former. My correspondence
with all of these people leads me to
say that all of them take great
pride in good citizenship and con-
duct themselves in such a manner
as to command the highest esteem
in their respective localities. Those
who have borne arms in war have
been without exception very young
men and for that reason few have
reached higher rank than Colonel,
but all of them have been to the
forefront in civic righteousness.
It is unusual, but it is true, that
none of these people have ever been
drunkards or gamblers. In fact I

have never heard of one that was
not a member of some church. The
leading traits that have character-
ized these people are self-reliance^
self-respect and a sense of right as
a guide to their opinions and act-
ions, then a total disregard of the
blame or approval of the world
around them. I attribute these vir-
tues, so universally characteristic
of the various branches of John
Bailey's family, to the fact that his
children were thoroughly conver-
sant with the history of their an-
cestors and have sacredly, but mod-
estly, passed it down to succeed-
ing generations as a guide to good
citizenship. Hence I am a believer
in the study of genealogy, believing^
it altogether worthy and com-
mendable, and the man who says
nay will stake his money every
time On a pedigreed horse and
assume much dignity in discuss-
ing the pedigree of animals. He
thus ranks the animal above the
man. The ultimate course of such
people is toward the haunts of
vice, while men and women who
take pride in the noble attributes
•of their forefathers will, as a rule,
be found leading movements for
the betterment of the moral condi-
tions around them. Family geneal-
ogies and traditions ought to have
a higher place in the social and
religious world. While it may build
up vanity or a false pride among^
a few, it will give stamina and man-
hood to the greater number, and in
doing the proper and sensible
thing ourselves we produce higher
ideals in those around us, and by
handing those traits down to future
generations we are making the
world better.

RegMtr of th« K«ntiielcy aut« Hittoricai Society.

John Railet-Elizabbth Randolph

John Railey, Jr. ^ Born 1752. En-
listed in the Revolution and was
killed at the battle of Norfolk. He
was the first born of John Railey
4ind Elizabeth Randolph.

Their descendants:

Thomas Railey, ^ born Sept. 22,
1754, died 1822.

Married Martha Woodson, Dec.
21, 1786.

Thomas Railey, Jr., ^ born 1787,
died 1821.

Married Sarah Railey, 1820.

William Randolph Railey, * bom
1821, died 1840.

George Woodson Railey, ^ born
1789, died 1846.

First married Maria Bullock,
1822.

Second Annie Marshall.

Elizabeth Woodson Railey, * bom
1823, died 1839.

Georgie Ellen Railey, * born-
died young.

P. I. Railey, » bom Mar. 16, 1793,
died July 1, 1832.

Married Judith Woodson Railev
Aug. 21, 1817.

Martha Woodson Railey, * bom
Eeb. 10, 1820, died Mar. 19, 1837.

Richard Henry Railey, * born
April 26, 1823, died Oct. 3, 1888.

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

William Edward Railey, ^ bom
Dec. 25, 1852.

Married Annie H. Owsley, May
26, 1886.

Jennie Farris Railev, * bom June
28, 1887.

Bertha Hontas Railey, ^ bom
April 26, 1854.

Married 1st Charles Randolph
Darnell 1882, no issue.

Married 2nd, P. D. McBride,
1892, no issue.

P. Woodson Railey, ^ bom July
24, 1864.

P. I. Railey, Jr., * born Aug. 25,
1829.

Married 1st Sarah E. Frazier,
Oct. 22, 1851.

Married 2nd Rebecca Gough,
1861, no issue.

Married 3rd Seville Church, 1898
no issue.

Josephine Railev, ^ bom Sept
22, 1852.

Married Robert Ward Macev,
Nov. 21, 1872.

Pattie Railey Macey, * bom Mar.
24, 1876.

Sadie Macey, ^ born June 7, 1877.

Robert Ward Macey, Jr., * bora
Oct. 8, 1879.

Railey Woodson Macey, • bora
Aug. 30, 1881.

Thomas Jefferson Railey,* bora
Jany. 10, 1831, died Aug. 18, 1851.

Laura Railev, * bom Aug. 20,
1832, died Aug. 24,1849.

Marv Railey, ^ born 1795, died
May 1817.

Married Phillip Woodson.

Mary Woodson. *

Married Augustine Withers

Augustine Withers, Jr. ^

Marv Woodson Withers, ^ died
July 13, 1883.

Married H. P. Huff, 1873.

Susan Withers Huff. •

Married E. H". Foster, April 3,
1901.

Susan Railey Withers. ^

Married James B. White.

Lawson White. •

Ellen White. «

Married W. W. Newman.

Susan Withers Newman. ^

Margaret White Newman. ^

Augustine White. •

Maria Withers. '

Married Sandy White.

Jane Bailey, ' bom 1794, died
Kov. 28, 1865.

Married John Berryman, Aug. 9,
1819.

Mary Elizabeth Berrvman, * born
June 5, 1820, died June 4, 1905.

Married George Hamet Gary,
Sept. 1, 1840.

Alice Gary, ^ bom May 20, 1843,
died Mar. 29, 1899.

Married Daniel B. Price, Oct. 17,
1867. .

Jennie Gary Price, * bom Aug. 16,
1868.

Married W. L. Smith, Mav 20,
1890.

Mary Louise Price, 'born April
2, 1870.

Married Preston H. Williams,
Dec. 27, 1888.

Daniel B. Price, ' bom Feb. 7,
1872.

Married Ada Alice Ingles, June
3,1909.

Alice Gary Price 'bom Sept 14,
1875.

Married John Faulkner, June 27,
1907.

Arthur Gary, « bom Oct. 1, 1841.

Married 1st Fanny Oraddy, Dec.
6, 1876.

Married 2nd, Sidney Sayre Bell,
Feb. 12, 1895.

Graddy Gary, " bom April 6,
1878.

Married Marie Burnett, Jan. 17,
1907.

John B. Gary, ^ bom Sept. 18,
1846.

Jane Bailey Gary, * bom Nov. 1,

1849.

Married Gharles S. Tabb, Dec.
20, 1876.

George Gary Tabb, * bom Feb. 3,
1880.

Arthur Tabb, « born Oct. 20, 1881.

Mary Glifton Tabb, *• bom Sept.
19, 1891.

George Hamet Garv, Jr., ^ bom
Nov. 12, 1850, died April 16, 1895.

Married Mary White, May 19,
1887.

James Gary, * bom April 18,
1888

Marv Gary, « bom Aug. 8, 1890.

Mattie Gary, « born Sept. 6, 1891.

Elizabeth Gary, « bom May 20,
1893.

Edward Humphrey Gary, ^ bom
Nov. 7, 1853.

Married Bebecca Hunter Wick-
liffe, Dec. 18, 1879.

Hallie Gary, « bom May 12, 1882.

Logan Wickliffe Gary, * bom
June 24, 1884.

Bhoda Gary, • bom July 1, 1887.

Married Edwin G. Stevens, Oct.
14, 1909.

Martha Woodson Gary, ^ born
Oct. 1855.

Married Newton G. Grawford,
1884.

Mary Glifton Gary, " bom Dec.
18, 1862.

Married Brown Graig Grawford,
Sept. 30, 1886.

George Gary Grawford, * bom
July 4, 1888.

Bobert Irvin Grawford, • bom
Aug. 21, 1889.

James T. Berryman, * bom April
22, 1822, died June 4, 1879.

Married 1st Theresa Willis, Jan.
1845.

2nd Sallie Steele Ghurch, Oct. 8,
1858.

76 Register of th« Kentucky State HIeterical Seelety-

John W, Berryman, * bom Nov. Annie Berryman, ^ bom Dec. 26,

19, 1845. 1852.
Married Louise Price, June 5, Married W. Horace Posey, Jnne

1867. 21, 1883.

Price Berryman, • bom June 3, Genevieve Posey, •.

1868. Edith Posey, •.

Married Minnie Hemphill, Nov. Gary M. Berryman, * bom July

24, 1894. 22, 1859.

Theresa Willis Berryman, • bom Married Emma Portwood, Nov.

Aug. 2, 1872. 21, 1888.

Married Oliver H. Farra, Oct. Church Berryman, ^ bom April 2.

18, 1906. 1862.

Eobert S. Berryman, • bom April Claude Berryman, ^ bom May 5.

4, 1880. 1865.

Married Ruth Gay, May 11, 1904. Married Evangeline Leeds.

James Sthreshley Berryman, ^ Clifford Berryman, ^ bom April

born Jan. 9, 1848, died Jan. 1, 1910. 2, 1869.

Married Mary Wright, Nov. 7, Married Kate Durfee.
1871. Hervey Berryman, ^ bom May 12.

Kate Theresa Berryman, • bom 1870.
Aug. 8, 1872. Robt. H. Berryman, * bom April

Married Howard Sanders, May 17, 1824, died April 4, 1878.
4, 1899. Married Maria L. Whittington

Henry Berryman Sanders, ^ bom June, 1846.
June 10, 1903. Emma Woodson Berryman, ^

Mary A. Berryman, « born Dec. born April 27, 1847.
^> 1874. Married Marvin D. Averill,

Married H. J.Mead, Sept. 24,1895. June 23, 1869.

Mary Belle Mead, ^ bom Oct. 28, Robert Averill, * bom March 23,

1897. 1871.

Dorothy Randolph Mead, ^ bom Married Anna Rupp, Aug. 1907.
Jan. 20, 1899. William Averill, « bom Feb. 2.

Lalla Mead, ^ bom Mar. 8, 1908. 1873.

Stuart Robinson Berryman,* born Married Cammilla Baskett, Jan.

July 18, 1876. 6, 1897.

Married Eunice Wright, Oct. 18, Christine Averill, ^ born Dec. 25.

1908. 1897.

Stuart Robinson Berryman, ^ Marv Virginia Averill, ^ bont

bom July 11, 1909. July 10, 1902.

James T. Berryman, « bom July Alice B. Averill, ^ bom April 12,

17,1878. 1906.

Sue M. Berryman, « bom Jan. 17, Louise Averill, • born Nov. 5,

1881. 1877.

MoUie Berryman, ^ bom May, 21, Married Eugene D. Woods, Apr.

1850. 11, 1900.

Marvin AveriU Woods, ^ bom
Jan. 18, 1901,

Francis D. Woods, ^ born Jan. 10,
1903.

Eobt. Harvie Woods, ^ bom Jan.
11, 1905.

Emily Eugenia Woods, ^ born
July 30, 1909.

Cornelia Berryman, ^ bom Jan.
8, 1851, died Feb. 9, 1890.

Married Clifton Kennedy, 1869.

Willie Marcia Kennedy, ^ born
Dec. 12, 1871.

Married Dr. Albert Posey, Dec.
29, 1896.

Robert Handy Berryman, ^ born
Nov. 29, 1854.

Married Nellie Jones, Nov. 29,
1877.

Bessie Berryman, ^ bom Oct. 19,
1878,

Married Walter D. Franklin,
June 12, 1901.

Ellen Buford Friinklin, ^ bom
Aug. 27, 1902.

Catharine Franklip, '" born June
14, 1905.

Robert B. Franklin, "^ born Nov.
24, 1909.

Lela Berryman, ^ born Feb. 10,
1888.

Buford Berryman,* bom Mar. 12,
1896.

Mary Virginia Berryman,^ bom
Feb. 24, 1856.

Married John W. Orosthwaite,
1887.

Aileen Orosthwaite, • bom July
16, 1888.

Mary Virginia Orosthwaite, •
bom June 2, 1890.

Married John 0. Kreiger, June,
1907.

Jane Bailey Berryman, ^ bom
April 1, 1861.

Married 1st Ed. Beese, 1883.

Married Second Edward T.
Staunton, 1896.

Cornelia Beece, * born Oct. 21,
1887.

Henry T. Stanton, « 1897.

Mattie Berryman, ^ born Nov. 4,
1867.

Married Dwight McAfee, July
20, 1887.

Irene McAfee, * bom June 3,
1888.

Married Adams Carithers Mc-
Makin, Nov. 10, 1909.

Henry McAfee, ® bom July 29,
1890.

Clinton McAfee, * born Aug. 20,
1898.

Walter Berrvman, ^ born Apr. 3,
1880.

Edw. H. Berryman, * born Mar.
14, 1826, died Dec. 26, 1896.

Married Sallie Willis, May 27,
1852.

Willis N. Berryman, ^ born Apr.
11, 1853, died Aug. 22, 1881.

Married Elizabeth Scearce, Oct.
5, 1876.

Julia Berryman, * born April 17,
1880.

Theresa Woodson Berryman, ^,
bom June 15, 1854.

Married William S. Barbour.
June 15, 1882.

Bobert Berryman, ^ bom Oct. 6,
1862, died May 12, 1903.

Married Belle Portwood, 1890.

Barbour Berryman, * bom May
20, 1893.

Mattie Woodson Berryman, *
bom April 24, 1836, died—

Married Bobert Fry Montgom-
ery, June 10, 1856.

George Berryman Montgomery, ^
born June 10, 1866.

Married Lucy Mahin O'Neal,
Nov. 28, 1895.

ReQltter of th« Kentucky State Hiatorlcal Society.

Jane Bailey Montgomery^ ^ bom
Oct. 2, 1868, died April 26, 1897-

Married Robert G. Lowry, Jan.
1, 1890.

Mary Montgomery, ^bom May
11, 1871.

Married G. Y. Reynolds, Feb. 15,
1902.

Mattie Woodson Montgomery, ^
born May 11, 1871.

Married Jordan Scott Lowry,
Dec. 19, 1890.

Jno. B. Montgomery, ^ bom June
20, 1874.

Married Irene HoUoway, Aug.
25, 1898.

Robt. Montgomery, ^ born June
1, 1878.

George Railev Berryman, * bom
1838, died 1882.

Frank P. Berryman, * bom 1842.

Married Susan Hassinger, 1866.

John Berryman, ^ bom 1867.

Married Annie Harris.

Kate BerrjTuan, ^ bom 1869,
died 1887.

Newton Berryman ^ bom 1871,
died 1897.

Wilhelmina Berryman, ^ bom
1873.

Married Rev. Alexander Henry,
Oct. 8, 1890.

Catharine Clifton Henrv, * born
Oct. 7, 1891.

Married Alfred Mosby, Oct. 8,
1909.

Frank Berryman Henry, * born
Nov. 24, 1892.

Emma Yeaman Henry, • born
Nov. 29, 1893.

Alexander Henry, Jr., • born Jan.
8, 1901.

Sidney Robertson Berryman, ^
bom 1875.

Frank P. Berryman, Jr., ^ bom
1877, died 1907.

Lucy Railey, * bom Aug. 5, 1796,
died Sept. 1852.

Married 1st John D. Kinkead, no
issue.

Married 2nd Rev. WiUiam M.
King, 1832.

Rev. Samuel A. King, * born Oct.
14, 1834.

Married Anna King. Jan. 19,
1860.

Lucy Woodson King, ^ bom Oct.
16, 1860, died Sept. 22, 1869.

Jennie Catherine King, ^ born
April 25, 1862.

Married A. M. Gribble, Nov. 29,
1882.

Chas. King Gribble, ^ bom Sept.
11, 1883.

Andrew W. Gribble, • bom Jan.
18, 1885.

Anna Gribble, « bom Nov. 2, 1886.

Jennie Gribble, * born Oct. 16,
1888.

A. M. Gribble, Jr., • bom Mar. 2,
1891.

Samuel Gribble, ^ bom July 12,
1893.

Elizabeth Randolph Gribble, ^
born May 23, 1897.

Dr. Walter Blackbum King, ^
born May 14, 1864, died Dec. 11,
1889.

Married Minnie Carroll, Oct. 19,
1887.

Walter Blackburn King, Jr., *
bom Nov. 6, 1889.

Hattie King, ^ bom May 20, 1867,
died March 1896.

Married Dr. Ralph Conger, }tax.
12, 1891, no issue.

Samuel Arthur King,*' bom Sept.
20, 1869.

Married Lucy Newman, 1896.

Walter King, • bora Kar. 16,
1897.

Elizabeth Woodson King, • bom born Dec. 2, 1828, died Mar. 12,

May 31, 1899. * 1894.

EHlen King, * bom June 16, 1905. Married Mary Searles, Nov. 30^

Samnel Arthur King, Jr., • bom 1858, no issue.

July 31, 1907. Martha Woodson Markham, *

Hugh King, « bom June 17, 1909. bora July 14, 1832, died Feb. 1910.

Maggie D. King, ^ born Dec. 2, Married Fabius M. Sleeper, 1850*

1872. Susan Margaret Sleieper, ^ born

Married Rev. P. H. Burney, Oct. July 10, 1851.

6, 1892. Lucy Fleming Sleeper, 5 born

Margaret Burnev, * born Dec. 8, April 13, 1853.

1893. ' Married Robert Fonda Gribble,

Harriet Bumey, ^ bom June 11, Feb. 21, 1884.

1896. Elizabeth Gribble, « bom June 2,
Philo Burney, ® bom June 21, 1885.

1904. • Robt. Fonda Gribble, Jr., « bom

Anna Railey Burney, ^ born April June 2, 1890.

24, 1907. Theodore Gribble, « bom April

Pattie Markham King, ^ bom 10, 1894.

May 30, 1875. Wm. Markham Sleeper, ^ bom

Married Rev. F. A. Bames, May Oct. 9, 1859.

28, 1908. Married Laura Risher, April 26,

Ella C. King, « born Sept. 14, 1892.

1877. Benjamine P. Sleeper, * bom

Married Harry A. Wilson, Sept. Dec. 11, 1895.

26, 1895. Martha Margaret Sleeper, • born

Harry Allen Wilson, « bom Feb. June 17, 1896.

26, 1897. Alethea Halbert Sleeper, « born

William M. King, Jr., * bom June Nov. 24, 1898.

22, 1833, died 1864. William Markham Sleeper, Jr., «

Married Hattie King, Jan, 1864. born Oct. 31, 1900.

Willie King, ^ bom 1864. Francis D. Sleeper, « bom Apr. 5,

Married J. E. Daniel, June 8, 1902.

1893. Thos. Markham Sleeper, ^ bora

Willie Sue Daniel, « bora June 14, April 29, 1866.

1895. Married Carrie Lockert, Oct. 23,

Joseph Daniel, ^ bom Aug. 5, 1890.

1897. Lockert Sleeper, ^ born July 29,
Susanna Railey, ^ born Jan. 15, 1893.

1801, died May 1, 1872. Markham Sleeper, « bom Dec. 5,

Married William Fleming Mark- 1895.

ham, July 19, 1825. Mary Woodson Sleeper, « born

Dr. Georjte W. Markham, * born June 28, 1898.

July 1826, died Dec. 24, 1853. William 1. Sleeper, ^ born July

Rev. Thos. BaiTev Markham, * 17, 1900.

liucy Fleming Markham, * bom
1836, died 1894.

Married Edward A. Jones, Jan-
uary 1864.

Bessie Gary Jones, ^ bom Nov.
1862.

Married Bobt. Grier Patton,
Feb. 1888.

Kobt. Grier Patton, Jr., * born
April, 1889.

Edward Jones Patton, * bom Nov.
1890.

Elizabeth Kandolph Patton, *
born Oct. 1893.

Desha Patton, « born 1901.

Susan Markham Jones, ^ born
Feb. 14, 1866.

George Woodson Jones, ^ born
Dec. 23, 1869.

Mattie Estelle Jones, ^ bom Oct.
3, 1871.

William Fleming Markham, *
born 1842, killed at the battle of
Atlanta as a gallant young Confed-
erate officer.

Thomas Bailey was the 2nd bom
of John Bailey and Elizabeth Ban-
dolph. He was born on the estate
of his father, * ' Stonehenge, ' ' in
Chesterfield county, Va., twelve
miles from Bichmond, A. D., 1754.
He came to Woodford county, Ky.,
about 1780 and settled upon a farm
that he called ''Clifton,*' a beauti-
ful site overlooking the Kentucky
Biver and the village that sprang
up in the valley below took its
name from the farm that over-
looked the village. He returned to
Virginia in 1786 and married
Martha Woodson, 9th bom of Col.
John Woodson arid Dorothy Ean-
dolph. Besides raising a large and
interesting family he exercised a
fatherly interest in his four broth-
ers who settled in the same

county and always advised witfi
Lim on matters of business. He
died on his estate about 1822. His
wife's death occurred in 1834. The
home passed into the hands of his
daughter Jane Berryman and re-
mained in possession of her son
(ieorge Bailey Berryman until his
death in 1882. His eldest son, Thos.
Bailey, Jr., married Sarah Bailey
in 1820 and died within a year after
his marriage. His son Greorge
Woodson Bailey married Ms
cousin Maria Bullock and moved to
?\[onli« (;^lo, Mo., about 1825, where
he wjis pjstinastor Ui.'til his death
11) 1846. tl's son P. ]. Kaiioy. Sr.,
iri.'.rriecl Judith V/^t^d^^on Bailey
and lived on a farm near Versailles,
Kv., where he died in 1832. Mary
Bailey, the 4th bom, married her
cousin, Phillip Woodson, and they
settled at Tuscaloosa, Ala. I have
not been able io learn anything of
their descendants except what I
learned through my kinswoman,
Mrs. Pattie Markham Sleeper.
Jane Bailey, the 5th born, married
John Berryman. Their descend-
ants have generally domiciled
themselves within the borders of
Kentucky, and they are quite
ri'merous as T'.a recorrl 'xll* show.
Lucy Bailey the 6th born married
first John D. Kinkead, of Versail-
les, Ky. He died within a year
and his widow afterwards married
the Bev. WUliam M. King, a Pres-
byterian minister, and they moved
to Texas where their descendants
live today. Their son the Bev.
William A. King was pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Waco,
Texas, for forty years and only re-
signed a few years ago to take
charge of the Theological Semi-

R«glct«r of th« Kentucky StaU Histerlcal Society.

aary at Austin, Tex. There have
been quite a number ot preachers
in this line. Susanna Bailey, 7th
born, married William Fleming
Markham, of Versailles, Ky., in
1825. They moved to New Orleans
5oon after their marriage. Their
first bonl, Dr. Geo. W. Markham,
practiced medicine in New Orleans
for a few years and would have be-
eome eminent in his profession
hud not the seal of death closed his
L^areer in young manhood. Their
second bom was Rev. Thomas
Railey Markham, a Presbyterian
minister. He preached for forty
v^ears for one congregation in New
Orleans, having a supply for him
wrhile he was a Chaplain in the
Confederate Army for four years.
Martha Woodson Markham, affec-
tionately known amons: lier kins-

people as Pattie Markham, was the
3rd born. She married Fabius M.
Sleeper, a lawyer of Mississippi.
After the Civil War they moved to
Waco, Texas, where Mr. Sleeper
and his brother-in-law Edward A.
Jones constituted a law firm that
had a large clientage. Lucy Flem-
ing Markham, the 4th born married
Edward A. Jones, a lawyer of
Maryland and they moved to Waco,
Texas. William Fleming Mark-
ham was the 5th bom, entered the
Confederate army before he had
reached Ms majority and was kill-
ed at the battle of Atlanta, a gal-
lant young officer.

The compiler of these notes is
descended from the line of P. I.
Eailey, Sr., the 3rd bom, and his
wife Judith Woodson Eailey.

DEPARTMENT

CUPPINGS AND PARAGRAPHS

rtegistir of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

HISTORY OF CANAL ZONE

REVIEIWED.

By Governor Thatcher in Interest-
ing Manner in Letters to Edi-
tor of Historical Regis-
ter.

(BYom Ky. State Tournal.)

Gov. M. H. Thatcher, of the De-
partment of Civil Administration
at Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama,
has written the following interest-
ing letter to the editor of the His-
torical Register.

**I thank you for * Kentucky,
Mother of Governors.' The little
book is unique. There occurs in it
D mistake as to my birthplace.
Same is given as Butler county,
Ky., when in fact it should be given
as Chicago, HI., where my parents
were residing at the time. I was
reared in Butler county, the home
of my maternal relatives.

**I often think of the devotion you
have shown to Kentucky intiBrests
and history. The record of things
well done yesterday is the inspira-
tion for the doing of fine things to-
day. What man has done, man
may do. This is the soul of his-
tory ; its body is formed of the con-
crete facts portrayed. Your ^ork is
a Idgh, and most important one.

'*I have had perfect health here;
never a moment's sickiless; never
a gtoiii of ihedicine. We are now
entering upon the so-called *dry'
season. The ^ rainy' season
which began about the first of May

is about closed, the frequent show-
ers have departed, and dry, sunny
days, with trade winds constantly
blowing, are upon us. We liked the
rainy season very much, as, here
at Ancon, there was not an excess
of rainfall, though on the Atlantic
side there is an excess. For in-
stance, at Porto Belle (Spanish for
Beautiful Harbor — ^a Columbus-
touched port) last year, 1909, there
was a total rainfall of 237 inches;
while here at Ancon, on the Pacific
side, there was a total rainfall of
83 inches. Porto Belle is on the
Atlantic side of the Isthmus. It
was one of the fortified places
sacked by Henry Morgan, the no-
torious Welch buccaneer back in
the 1670 ^s.

' ' Speaking of Morgan : He was a
most atrocious villaiii; the terror
bf the Spanish Main; the curse of
the Spanish settlements in the
New World. He came across the
Isthmus in those early days, and
captured the ancient city of Pan-
ama — seven miles from the pres-
ent city — and put it to the flame,
ahd its men. women, and children
to the swora, and secured a large
store of the treasure which the
Spaniards had themselves accumu-
lated from Central and South
America. Morgan was afterwards
knightfed. by the English King,
Charles H. and later was made de-
puty-Governor of the Island of
Jaitiaica. Still later, upon the ac-
cession of Jalnes II. Morgan was
deposed from the deputy-Gh>ver-
norship, ahd confiied in pnson. ]d^e
was a inonster of monsters.

**ThiB term * buccaneer,' as yon
may khoW, was thus derived: Mor-
gan had English, French, and

R«Ol«ltr of th« Kentucky State Historical •ooiaty.

Dutch soldiers of fortune in his
piratical train. He had at one
time over thirty vessels and over
2,000 men — ^a very large piratical
fleet. Those who cured the bacon
and similar meats for his men,
were called * buccaniers, ' from the
word 'boucan/ French, for
'smoke.' Thus, his whole crew
came to be dubbed 'buccaniers,'
because, I suppose it seemed to be
the very name to be given to blood-
thirsty, treasure-hunting, dare-
devil plunderers of the high seas
and far settlements.

' * You would find this country ever
so interesting. It is very, very
rich and Panama, which was de-
stroyed by Morgan and his men,
was a treasure place. It was a
gateway to the land of the Incas of
the Southward. Thence ships were
outfitted and dispatched up and
down the Pacific seas; gold, silver
and pearls were garnered through
the harvests of affliction and death
which the early Spaniards wrought
upon the aborigines of the Western
coasts. Mines were worked in this
section by the Spaniards — ^gold and
silver mines — ^where great treasure
was taken from the earth.

INTEBESTING BUINS.

**Some of the old ruins on the
Isthmus — moiKasteries, convents,
cathedrals, churches, and forts —
tell their mute and eloquent story.
In the old city of Panama, not long
ago, together with some Panama
friends, I rode through the narrow
jungle trails which had been cut out
of the dense mass of tropical trees
and vines into and through some of
these old cathedral and church

buildings. The masonry remain-
ing is excellent, for the old Span-
iards were good builders ; and high
above our heads, forty feet, per-
haps, large trees were growing on
the walls, and their giant roots ex-
tended downward outside the walls
to the earth, appearing themselves
to be elongated and inverted
trunks.

' * Truly, here is a fertile field for
the .historian. In latter days, tbe
De Lesseps canal enterprise; its
tragic failure ; the frightful mortal-
ity in the yellow fever regime-
make interesting chapters. And
now, American entei-prise and
force are making the centuries-old
dream come true, and the two great
seas are to be linked together.

''I know that all this appeals to
you. I regret that I have not the
time to study these things.

' ' We expect to be in Kentucky in
May, on vacation. Practically
every American official and em-
ployee in the Canal work takes an-
nual leave. A change of climate is

deemed essential. *'

• • •

The most celebrated chimes in
England now are *Hhe Bow Bells,''
of Bow Church. The Westminster
chimes are no longer talked of as
''the sweetest in the world.'' Bells
of Shandon celebrated in poetry
and song are often referred to by
Englishmen when inquired of
about the Chimes of London. The
chimes of Cork are said to be now
''the sweetest in the world." Great
improvements have been made in
chimes in the last years.

Rftflitter «f th« Ktntuoky 9Mm HIsterfcal Society.

Polk Milleb's Entebtaikmbnt. New Pobtbait Fob TTatji of Fame.

• • • (From Ky. State Journal.)

TMs was a rare treat for the
people of Frankfort on the 13th of
January at the Opera House. Mr.
Miller has been in the city before
and was warmly welcomed by
every one. The Opera House was
full of an appreciative audience to
hear Mr. MOler and his friend Col.
Thomas Booker, each in his role
of delightful entertainer. The
music was sweet and rare and the
wit and anecdote indescribably
amusing, and it is not too much to
say the two old Confederates kept
the house in a roar of laughter
when they talked or sang mirth-
provoking songs of the olden times.
There was a call from some one in
the audience for *'The Old Ken-
tucky Home.'* Mr. Miller respond-
ed to the request and told the fol-
lowing incident afterward. He
said he gave an entertainment on
the occasion of one of his visits to
Stanton, to the Mary Baldwin In-
stitute for young ladies. Then as
now he was requested to sing ' ' The
Old Kentucky Home.'' He said to
the audience: ''I will give five dol-
lars to any young lady here who
will repeat two verses of that
song." There was profound si-
lence for a while. Then there was
handed him a little note, with two
verses written on it by the only
Kentucky girl present, Mary Bell
Hobson, of Frankfort, Ky. She
was too modest to rise and repeat
the verses — ^but she wrote them all
right.

Mr. W. T. Hundleigh, of Lexing-
ton and Georgetown, was in the
city yesterday, bringing with him
bis recently linished portrait of
Mrs. Rosa Vertner Johnson Jef-
frey, which is to be placed in the
Poet's Corner of the Hall of Fame
in the Kentucky Histoiical rooms.

This portrait was executed on an
order from the Society, and the
friends and admirers of Mrs. Jef-
frey are much gratified that this
tribute and honor is being paid her
memory and her talent, and that
recognition of her groat poetical
talent is being given.

Besides being admired for her
genius and her beauty, she was one
of the most poi)ular women in
Lexington in her day, and was
much beloved for sweetness of
character and loving kindness.
She belonged to a very aristocratic
family of the South, and the fame
of her beauty spread over the Unit-
ed States. It was claimed that she
and Sally Ward were the two most
beautiful woman in the United
States.

Previous to her death Mrs. Jef-
frey had Mr. Hundleigh paint a
number of pictures of herself, on
ivory, porcelain, and canvas, and
of all the pictures he painted of
her, she selected the one, from
which this copy is made, as beinj^:
the best. It is a profile, showing
her lovely hair, and perfect fea-
tures, and in its beauty of execu-
tion is considered one of Mr. Hund-
leiffli's masterpieces.

The picture has been exhibited
in Lexington, and has been much

R«fl«Ur of tN Kentucky StaU HittoriQBl Society.

admired, and e&pecially so by her
children, who pronounce it to be a
perfect likeness. It will be hung in
the Hall of Fame with her friends,
Theodore O^Hara and Henry T.
Stanton, and the public is invited
to visit the rooms to see this por-
trait, which will be such a beautiful
iuldition to the Hall of Fame.

in this way was the reflection of the
** flash" and not independent of it,
was that the spectrum of the
''flash" and the spectrum of the
nebulous haze were identical.—
London Saturday Review.

^'BuBiED Treasure.

' How Stars Are Born.

• • •

A new star for the new year is
discovered this week by Mr. Espin,
an Oxford man, as Prof. Turner
notes with a touch of pride. All the
old speculation is again raised. As-
tronomers are generally agreed
that these '*new*' stars are due to
the collision of astral bodies; the
dispute is as to their character and
the way of their meeting.

Certainly the most interesting
letter drawn by the blazing up of
the new star is that of Prof. Tur-
ner. In 1901, it seems, light was
caught in the act of traveling. In
1901 a new star shot suddenly up
in Perseus to first magnitude and
then died away. But after the
** flash ^^ a nebulous appearance
was detected around the star,
which was observed to be spread-
ing outward. This was the ** flash*'
traveling outward to **more and
more distant parts of a vast dif-
fuse body.'* In fact, here was a
light reverberating through the
clouds like a peal of thunder. The
speed of the journey alone proved
that the traveller was light and
none other; for no other velocity
was comparable.

The crowning proof that the
haze of light observed to be moving

Under this title Prof. C. J. Nor-
wood before the Kentucky Press
Association delivered an address
which has excited grateful com-
ment in every part of the State-
He gives an encouraging report of
the treasure still buried in the soil
of Kentucky. lie speaks lovingly
of the State, and presents a pleas-
ing picture of the great possibili-
ties of the State. As a geologist
and Curator of Kentucky Geologi-
cal Survey, he is our best authority
on its riches and be gives a won-
derful account of the State as it is
today and repeats the statement of
Editor Rothwell, **that Kentucky
is by nature beyond all question
one of the most favored States in
this country.'*

We regret that we have not
space to give this splendid address.
It should be read by every Ken-

tuckian.— Ed. the Register.

• • •

GovBRNOB Owsley's Portrait Fob

HAUi of Fame.

• • •

(From Ky. State Journal.)

The portrait of Governor Ows-
ley, which has just been painted
by Miss Sophia Gray of Louisville
for the Kentucky Historical So-
ciety was received yesterday by

Mrs. Jennie C. Morton and Miss
Sallie Jackson, and will be hung
in the Hall of Fame with the
twenty-eight other portraits of
governors whose pictures form
a valuable and beautiful collec-
tion of paintings in the Historical
rooms.

This last addition to the collec-
tion is a beautiful work, and is the
second portrait to be painted by
Miss Gray for the Society.

Miss Gray is one of the bright
])articular stars among Kentucky
l)ainters, and that she is considered
so by the best art critics of the state
was proven lately when she was
.G:iven the premium over other Lou-
isville artists, at an exhibition g:e-
oently given in that city. Her pic-
ture, which was awarded the pre-
mium, was entitled **A Mountain
Girl,*' and was a most exquisite
l)iece of work, and possessed the
rarest charm in every detail.

With Governor Owsley's por-
trait, the Hall of Fame now con-
tains the portraits of twenty-eight
Governors of the Grand Old Com-
monwealth, and of the remaining
few, Mrs. Morton hopes to be able
to soon add their portraits to the
collection.

The next governor whom she
hopes to have painted will be Gov.
John Breathitt, and the families
<^f the other governors not yet
pamted have signified their inten-
tion of presenting to her their por-
traits.

^ Mrs. Morton's success in gather-
ing together such a valuable col-
lection of paintings has been re-
markabte, and adds much to the
interest and beauty of the Histori-
<*« rooms.

KENTUCKIAN

Has GrvBN Away Mob£ Than On^

Million.

li. A. Long, Native of Shelby
County, Makes A Fine Chari-
table Record.

Resident of Kansas City.
Donation of $30,000 To College At

Lexington One of His Benefac-
tions.

(From Shelby Record.)

R. A. Long, a multi-millionaire
of Kansas City, who is a native of
this county, has just rounded out
his gifts to various charities to a
sum exceeding one million dollars,
by his most recent donation of
$400,000 for the Christian Church
Hospital of Kansas City.

* 'I believe a man should enjoy his
money while he is on earth, *^ said
Mr. Long recently. **I get the most
happiness by giving money to
church and charity work, and I
propose to continue achieving hap-
piness in that way so long as I
live.^^

Other notable gifts of the ex-
Kentuckian to hospitals, churches
and colleges are as follows :

$179,000 paid for the Christian
Evangelist, which publication is
now operated for the church.

$160,000 for the addition to the
Independence Boulevard Chris-
tian Church.

$70,000 for the original building
of the Independence Boulevard
Christian Church.

$50,000 to Christian Bible Col-
lege, Columbia, Ho.

$50,000 to Bethany College,
"West Virginia.

^30,000 to Christian College,
Lexington, Ky.

$15,000 to the Divinity House,
University of Chicago.

$7,500 to Christian missions.

$5,000 to a Bible school in the
Philippines.

$5,000 to a Bible school in Japan.

$5,000 to Christian missions in
Missouri.

$7,000 to a Christian hospital in
the Philippines.

BEMEMBEBS NATIVE STATE.

It will be seen, from the $30,000
donation to the college at Lexing-
ton, that Mr. Long has not wholly
neglected his native State, though
he has been a resident of Kansas
City for thirty years. At the age
of twenty-two he left his father's
farm in Kentucky to seek his for-
tunes in the Western city, under
the patronage of his uncle, C. J.
White, cashier of the Kansas City
Savings Bank.

Mr. White had a son, Robert
White, who was about Mr. Long's
age, and Dr. J. B. Bell, president
of the bank, had a son, Victor B.
Bell, who was in his twenties.

The three young men were prac-
tically without money, but all de-
sired to get into some kind of busi-
ness of their own, and they realiz-
ed that lumber would be in great
demand in the growing Kansas
towns. So, with the credit obtain-
able at the bank, they got together
a carload of lumber and started a
lumber yard in Columbus, Kan.
Their yard prospered, and they
opened other yards in small Kan-
sas towns. Ever since then Mr.
Long has been in the same busi-
ness, and out of -that little yard in
Columbus, back in the early 70s,
grew the Long-Bell Lumber Com-
pany with its thousands of acres of

timber land and its hundreds of
lumber yards throughout the na-
tion.

A TRIUMPH
Of Amebican Abt And Bbaxjtt.
e^entucky honobed.

(From the Frankfort News.)

On the evening of January 8tk
1911, there was given in Berlin,
Germany, the Annual Royal Music-
al Concert. This concert is the
Great Musical Event of the Ger-
man Empire. It is attended by the
Kaiser Wilhelm, the Kaiserin Au-
gusta, and the suites of the several
princes of the Empire. Only the
finest musical instruments in the
world are used and only the most
perfect performers are permitted
to use them. It should make every
American heart throb with pride
to know that, at this concert, an
American young lady was chosen
to play the piano. Miss Myrtle
Elvyn, the talented and brilliant
Kentucky girl, received the un-
usual honor to be invited by the
Emperor and Empress to be the
pianist on this festive musical oc-
casion. It should also make us
proud to know that she performed
her part well. Tall and young and
beautiful, she captured her great
audience at her first appearance
and performance. She played
some of the most difficult and high-
est grade music ever written. She
handled pieces from Beethoven^
Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Leschetisky.
and others as if they were mere
school lessons. Her work for the
entire evening was so finished, ex-
quisite and brilliant, that she won

RegicUr of tht Ksntueky Stau Hittorkal Society.

for herself a place among the great
cnaster performers of the world.
Her perfect refinement, grace and
lieiiuty also showed her a most de-
sirable subject to appear before
sjiy company on earth. All hail
to the ** American Girl!^* What

Myrtle Elvyn is, others can be.

• • •

EarTjTrst Amebigan

Pobtrait-Paintebs.

• • •

**The real genesis of American
portrait-painting may be said to
start with the advent of that distin-
guished group of pre-Eevolution-
ary painters of which Benjamin
West was the bright, particular
star,'' says J. Nilsen TJaurvik in
Woman Home Companion for Feb-
ruary, **and that comprised such
men as John Singleton Copley,
Charles Wilson Peale and Gilbert
Stuart. If one adds to these the
names of John Trumbull and
Thomas Sully, we have the most
representative painters of colonial
times, whose achievements for a
long time constituted the standard
in American portraiture. Especial-
ly is this true of West, whose great
success in England where he be-
came the president of the Royal
Academy, fired the ambition of the
younger painters of the day. This
brilliant prodigy, who, at the age
of twenty, was painting portraits
of the notables of New York and
Philadelphia, introduced into the
art of this country, something of
the suave elegance and refinement
of European culture which was be-
ginning to make itself felt in the
social life of the colonists. The
domination of the divines was

gradually being nullified by the
rapidly increasing culture of the
laymen who were fast becoming the
accepted leaders of the community.
**As the struggle for mere exis-
tence became less pressing the
sense of class distinction became
more defined and pride of birth as-
serted itself, all of which was high-
ly conducive to the development of
the art of portraiture. And along
with the stately portraits of states-
men and men of affairs there ap-
peared the sprightly and vivacious
likenesses of the noted belies and
beaux of the day. The most distin-
guished men in public life as well
as the most exclusive ladies of
fashion began to sit for their por-
traits, and the series of canvases
executed by Stuart, West, Copley
and Sully constitute in themselves
a gallery of all that was best in

the early life of this country.'*

• • •

NOTED

KENTUCKY WOMAN DIBS SUDDENLY.

• • •

Miss Mary Desha, Pioneer In Pat-
riotic Federation Work, For-
merly of Lexington, is no
More.

(Associated Press Telegram to Kentuckr

State-Journal.)

Washington, Jan. 29.— Miss
Mary Desha, aged sixty-five, one of
the three founders of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution,
and President of the Albert Sidney
Johnston Chapter of the Daughters
of the Confederacy, died suddenly
of* apoplexy while walking near her
home here today. She was educated
in Sayre Institute and the Ken-^

fl2

RegitUr of tb% Kentucky Statt Historical ftoclety.

tacky state College and taught
ftchool in Lexington.

EESOLUTIONS

i:ULOGISTIC OF LIFE OF MISS MART

DESHA ADOPTED AT WASHINGTON.

(Associated Press Telegram to Kentucky

State-Journal.)

Washington, Jan. 30.— Besolu-
iions eulogistic of the life of the
late Miss Mary Desha, one of the
founders of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, who died
here yesterday, were adopted by
that society today. The body will be
taken to Lexington, Ky., for burial.

Miss Mary Desha was buried in
the Lexington Cemetery on Thurs-
day morning Feb. 2nd. Though for
many years Miss Desha had lived
in Washington, she had many
friends and relatives in Lexington,
who admired and loved her and
sincerely mdumed her sudden
taking off. Yet it was her wish to
die suddenly. To respond quickly
to the call of death as she had ever
responded to the calls of Christian
duty, friendship or patriotism. She
was distinguished for intelligence,
courage and unbroken fidelity in
every cause she espoused. She had
the reward of her wish.

"Sunset and eTenin^ atar.
And one clear call for

No moaning of the i>ar.
When I put cut to fcea.**

# b «

J. C.

NEW LAW

WENT INTO teFFBCJT JANUABY 1, AND
ALL BIBTHS, DEATHS, ETC., MUST
BE BEPOBTED TO LOCAL BEQIS-
TBAB8.

The new Vital Statistics law
went into effect on January 1st
and hereafter all births and deaths
must be registered with the local
registrars of the various precincts.
The Birth Certificates must be
made out by the physician, or mid-
wife, in attendance, and must con-
tain the following statistics:

Full name and sex of the child.

Date and place of birth.

Full name, address, color, age,
birthplace and occupation of both
father and mother.

Number of children of the
mother, and number of her living
children. In case there was no
physician or mid-wife in attend-
ance then the father, mother or
landlord must make this return.

The Certificate of Death must
contain the physician's statement
as to time, place and cause of
death, and the duration of the fatal
illness. Also the personal statis-
tics, which may be furnished by
any person who is acquainted with
the facts, as JFollows :

Name of deceased and place of
death.

Sex, race, color and conjugal
relation of the deceased.

pate of birth and age at death.

Occupation and birthplace of de-
ceased.

Name and birthplace of father
and mother of deceased. Suitable
blanks have been furnished all
pnysicians and undertakers, or

9'i

^ ' -1 be secured from the local regis-
TT'.irs, without cost.

It is suggested that physicians

^ ive the certificates of death with

- " 9 family of the deceased person,

^- that it may be handed to the

, idertaker upon his arrival. This

Jl in many instances save much

convenience. The undertaker

.n then secure the personal statis-

' 2s from some qualified informant,

id upon the presentation of this

irtificate, the local registrar will

sue a Burial Permit. Otherwise

will be unlawful to bury any

ody in either a private or public

urying-ground.

When no undertaker is called
be party purchasing the coffin
hould be prepared to furnish the
•equired information, and have is-
5ued to him the burial permit.

The enforcement of this law may
^eem useless and at times to work
X hardship, but the benefits to be
derived in the future will far out-
weigh any present inconvenience.

• • «

(From the Franktort News.)

il like the fqlloyrmg articjp. We
have had dipjaings in thiei Register
for y^ar^. \V^ like to prmt the
eo^mfw^Ties of others upo^ the
events p| t^i^ period an4 kindly
mputipi^ of people; evfin though
thftp: a^e not Ke^ituckiaus.— (Ed.
The E^is^^T.)

• • «

THE E3^CHAI^GIE ED^TQIJ.

(Fiiroja^ the Fri^ktort N€Wf.\

Evidence that Harrison Robert-
SOB, the newly appointed (general
Manager of tlie Courier- Journal,
i& on tbe job is not lacking. One

improvement is the establishment
of a new department, or the revival
of one that has not been conspicu-
ous in the Courier-Journal for
some time. There's an exchange
editor at work and he has con-
siderably lightened and brightened
the editorial page of the paper.

The Exchange Editor is a valu-
iible man on a large newspaper*
There exists in some quarters an
idea that he has been put out of
business by modern news gather-
ing. This is an error. There is
nothing more interesting in a daily
newspaper than a column or so of
well selected bits of comment from
its contemporaries in its state and
out of it, and there are in every
paper good stories that never reach
the telegraph wire but are rattling
good reading when discriminating-
ly clipped.

The exchange editor is a jour-
nalist who does not write, but picks
about among the cirticles Turritt^n
by others for tid bits. When he is
a ^ood exchange editor he is a
good critic of newspaper work, and
when he is an upright man and
tries to deliver the goods he is
brother of the galley slav«.

• • «

SAVE THE SABGOSSA SEA.

(Froni the FraiiUort News.)

If any one has seen i^nythin^ of
the Sargossa ^a he will confer s^
ajreat favor upon the geographers
by reporting his discovery, says a
writei* in ** Success fta^zine.''
VoT some time ihere has Jbee^ a
suspicion th:\i ihi.s pr')miiiei;it fea-
ture of ^ho Atlanfic ()c^an maps
and of the stories ol 9^d sailors is
largely mythical. A 'recent i^orwe-

gian expedition sent out to search
for the Sargossa Sea reports a
great deal of sea but little Sargos-
sa. It is true that they discovered
a place in the North Atlantic where
seaweed is rather common^ but as
for a mass of marine plants so
dense that sailing vessels are held
fast in it while the mariners die a
lingering death of starvation,
there is nothing in it. In fact, these
meddlesome Scandinavians hint
broadly that there has never been
any such place.

If any one will kindly return the
Sargossa Sea to its proper place in
the Atlantic Ocean all will be for-
given and no questions asked.
Otherwise, nothing can save this
well-known phenomenon from go-
ing the way of the sea serpent, the
mermaid and Dr. Cook's great dis-
covery.

• • «

Wokld's English

Speaking Population.

It is estimated that the English
language is spoken by 130,300,000
of the earth's inhabitants, or about
8 per cent of the entire population.

« • •

The Next Duty.

This is an epoch of elevators. We
do not climb to our room in the
hotel, we ride. We do not reach
the upper stories of Stewart's by
slow and patient steps; we are lift-
ed there. The Simplon is crossed
by a railroad and steam has usurp-
ed the place of the Alpen-stock on
the Rhigi. The climb which used
to give us health on Mount Holyoke
and a beautiful prospect, with the
reward of rest, is now purchased

for twenty-five cents of a station-
ary engine.

If our efforts to get our bodi«
into the air by machinery were not
complemented by our efforts to get
our lives up in the same way we
might not find much fault witii
them; but, in truth, the tendency
everywhere is to get up in the
world without climbing. Yearnings
after the infinite are in the fashion.
Aspirations for eminence — even
ambitions for usefulness — ^are alto-
gether in advance of the willing-
ness for the necessary preliminary
discipline and work. The amount
of vaporing among young men and
young women who desire to do
something which somebody else is
doing — something far in advance
of their present powers — ^is fearfnl
and most lamentable. They are not
willing to climb the stairway, they
must go up in an elevator. They are
not willing to scale the rocks in a
walk of weary hours, under a broil-
ing sun ; they would go up in a car
with an umbrella over their heads.
They are unable or imwilling to
recognize the fact that, in order
to do that very beautiful thing
which some other man is doing,
they must go slowly through the
discipline, through the maturing
processes of time, through the pa-
tient work which has made him
what he is and fitted him for his
sphere of life and labor. In short,
they are not willing to do their next
duty and take what comes of it.

No man now standing on an emi-
nence of influence and power, and
doing great work, has arrived at
his position by going up in an ele-
vator. He took the stairway, step
by step. He climbed the rocks, often

rith bleeding hands. He prepared
limself by the work of climbing for
:he work he is doing. He never ac-
iomplished an inch of his elevation
by standing at the foot of the stairs
w^ith his mouth open and longing.
There is no ** royal road^^ to any-
thing good — ^not even to wealth.
Money that has not been paid for
in life is not wealth. It goes as it
comes. There is no element of per-
manence in it. The man who reach-
es Ms money in an elevator does
not know how to enjoy it; so it is
not wealth for him. To get a high
position without climbing to it, to
win wealth without earning it, to
do fine work without the discipline
necessary to its performance, to be
famous, or useful, or ornamental
without preliminary cost, seems to
be the universal desire of the
young. The children would begin
where the father leaves off.

What exactly is the secret of
true success in life! It is to do,
without flinching, and with utter
faithfulness, the duty that stands
next to one. When a man has mas-
tered the duties around him he is
ready for those of a higher
grade, and he takes natural-
ly one step upward. When he has
mastered the duties of the new
l?rade he goes on climbing. There
are no surprises to the man who
arrives at eminence legitimately. It
is entirely natural thac he should
be there, and he is as much at home
there, and as little elated, as when
he was working patiently at the
foot of the stairs. There are
heights above him, and he remains
humble and simple.

Preachments are of little avail,
perhaps ; but when he comes in con-

tact with so many men and women
who put aspiration in the place of
perspiration, and yearning for
earning, and longing for labor, he
is tempted to say to them: '^Stop
looking up, and look around you!
Do the work that first comes to
your hands, and do it well. Take
no upward step until you come to
it naturally and have won the
power to hold it. The top, in this
little world, is not so very high,
and patient climbing will bring you
to it ere you are aware. '^ — Dr. J.
G. Holland.

• • •

The Dawn of the World's Peace.

(By Hamilton Holt.)

In that splendid number of The
World ^s Work for Feb., 1911, is the
following :

*^That America has the leader-
ship in the World's peace move-
ment I have shown by reference to
the achievements of such distin-
guished Americans as James
B. McCreary, Elihu Root,
Andrew D. White, Joseph Choate,
Andrew Carnegie, Theodore
Roosevelt and William H. Taft,
&c.''

We are '* properly proud,'* to
use the Quaker phrase, to see the
name of our distinguished friend
and citizen of Kentucky, James B.
McCreary, lead the roll here of the
famous men of the world in this
mighty work for universal peace. —

(Ed. The Register.)

« « •

The Historical Society is in re-
ceipt of an interesting communica-
tion from P. H. Eijkman and Paul
Horrix, Directors of the Prelimi-

nary OflSce of the Foundation for
the Promotion of Internationalism
at Gravenhage, Holland. The let-
ter is in the nature of a request for
information as to whether our so-
ciety offers prizes for treatises on
any subjects, scientific or otherwise,
that are of international interest.
We regret that our limited funds
do not permit our participation in
so worthy a cause. This mention
of the matter is made, however, not
for the purpose of calling attention
to the financial status of the Ken-
tucky State Historical Society, but
that the readers of the Begister
may know that the work of the So-
ciety is known, and appreciated,
even on the other side of the Atlan-
tic, by organizations whose work
is international in its character

and scope.

« * •

We are in receipt of a communi-
cation from The American Jewish
Coi^muttee, of New York, relative
to the flagrant violations by Rus-
sia of the treaty relations existing
between that country and the Unit-
ed States, so far a$ th^y affect the
hpupring o| American pi^ss-
ports. The communication is
ai^pomp^ni^d by a pampWet^, con-
taining^ a very able address recent-
ly delivere(l hy Louis Marshall, of
th^ New York bar, before the
Twjpnty Second Council of the
IFflion of American Hebrew Co^-
gregatipn?. The a<^(^res8 i^ a re-
\dew of Russia's Toni^ continued
and persistent violation of the pro-
visions of the Treaty of 1832 in re-
fusing tq repo^iz* ouy passports
whe^ iswe^ tp. Q:pe of pur Je^h
eitizenp. Mr. i|^rsh^P calls att^-
tip^R te ^^9 fact that Ihi^ at^tq4^

of Russia toward our Jewish dti-
zens is, first of all, an insult to the
United States, and, after pointing
out the futility of our many pro-
tests addressed to the Russian gov-
ernment, makes a strong appeal to
our Government to put an end to
the matter by at once abrogating
all treaty relations with Russia.

The communication asks the
Register to join with other publica-
tions in the request that our Gov-
ernment take steps to put an end to
these conditions which have so long
dishonored our country. As it oc-
curs to us that this is a matter
that should concern every Ameri-
can citizen, no matter what his race
or creed may be, we gladly add our
mite of protest and appeal to the
many that are being made, and
couple with it the hope that this
great Christian nation will lose no
time in securing to all its citizens
who go abroad that protection to
which they are entitled under a
passport bearing the Great Seal of
the United States.

« • •

Name op the Amebican

Wab o;p 1861-1865.

The name of the **late war'* if as
finally settled by a bill before CJon-
gress March 28, 1910. The bill was
passed when the title was amended
80 as to read *'A bill granting pen-
sions to certain enlisted men^ sol-
diers and officers, who served in the
Civil War and in the War with

Me^^ico. ' '

• • •

Peary's Discoveby

OP T^B Jf oijTH Pom.

Bme ftft a^ove nav^f^ (ift^ii^et
^85 pnblieh^d^ l>ear^ ia s^d to

lave declared: **He believed he
iiscovered the North Pole,
but had no instruments by which
he could determine the exact loca-
tion. He believed he discovered the
North Pole.'' Well, Dr. Cook be-
lieved the same thing. Both men
have this advantage in their state-
ments. No one can dispute them
for only God knows more than they
do at this writing. He did not think
it ^worth while for men to know

where it is.

• • •

A SUNSET PAVILION.

(Mrs. Jennie C. Morton).

(Bead at Blue Ridge Springs,
before an impromptu Virginia Lit-
erary Club. Written while they
pithorod in the hall.)

Ob! had I the wings of a dove I would fly
To yon beautiful cloud that I «ee,

Like paTlHon in gold 'tis slow moTing by
As if it would tarry for me.

It came from the South with the beam of
its sun
Bedazzling each opaline wheel;
It is lined with pale amethyst and topazes
spun
Into cloud reins, its movements conceal.

It waves like a willow, It shimmers, it
shinies.
There's a pause and it starts up the sky,
Its silrer lined curtains, with fringes like
Tines
Float out as it softly rolls by.

I see now white fragments gleam at its door
Like handkerchiefs waved in adieu;

Can it be our loved ones, from the heavenly
shore,
Wavin5j here to us as they pass thro'?

I do not see faces, but I feel they are there
As I stand here and lovingly gase

At this wondrous pavilion in the west over
there
Till its lost in a mystical haze.

Oh! the beautiful heaven, o'er this billowy
8ky,
With its pathways of white, gold and blue,

Thro' its gateway at sunset, I will pass by
and by
And then bask in the glory I view.

• « •

The Register takes pleasure in
iinnouncing that the September
number will contain an article from
the pen of Judge Samuel M. Wil-
son, of Lexington, Ky., on ** Ken-
tucky's Part in the War of 1812."
This will bo an interesting article,
not only l)ecause it will be well
written, but for a number of other
reasons. One of these is that any-
thing pertaining to the War of
1812 is of more than usual interest
just now, on account of the prep-
aration for the ** Perry's Victory
Centennial," to be held at Put-in -
Bay, Ohio in 1913; another is that
Judge Wilson is one of Kentucky's
Commissioners for the Exposition,
and is taking a deep interest in
everything connected with the Ex-
position, and consequently with
everything connected with the War
of 1812.

In this connection a brief refer-
ence to the coming Exposition may
not be out of place. It is to cele-
brate the centennial anniversaiy
of Harrison's Northwestern Cam-
paign, and more especially the cen-
tennial anniversaries of the Battle
of Lake Erie and the Battle of the
Thames. The title, '* Perry's Vic-
tory Centennial" was chosen as a
short and appropriate one. The
State of Ohio took the lead in the
movement, but the following states
will participate in the celebration:
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan^
Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York,
Pennsylvania, Bhode Island and
Kentucky. Congress has been ask-
ed for an appropriation, the State
of Ohio has already appropriated

$80,000 for the exposition, and will
be asked for more. The other
states, including Kentucky, will be
asked for small appropriations to
assist in the work.

The Kentucky General Assem-
bly, at the session of 1910, by joint
resolution authorized the Governor
to appoint a Commission of five
members to co-operate with com-
missions from other states in mak-
ing preparations for the celebra-
tion. Governor Willson appointed
the following gentlemen on the
Commission : Henry Watterson,
Chairman, -Col. R. W. Nelson, New-
port, Judge Samuel M. Wilson,
I.jexington, Mr. Andrew Cowan,
Louisville and Mr. McKenzie B.
Todd, Frankfort. Upon organiza-
tion of the Commission Col. Nelson
was elected Vice Chairman and
Judge Wilson Secretary.

This plan to celebrate these his-
toric events is a most worthy one,
and Kentucky, and Kentuckians,
should enter into it with earnest-
ness, on account of the conspicuous
part played in the War of 1812 by
the Kentucky troops. The Regis-
ter is anxious to contribute to the
success of the enterprise, and for
this reason, as stated above, will
take much pleasure in giving space
in its September number to Judge
Wilson's article, which should
serve to arouse still greater inter-
est in the coming Centennial.

• • •

Our readers have said many
good things about the January
Register, both as to the character
of the matter contained and the
general appearance of the number.
We are very grateful for* these
words of praise ; they encourage us

for the work of the future. The
earnest efforts, and whatever of
discriminating judgment the entire
staff possesses, are brought to bear
in selecting material for each
issue, and it is gratifying to know
that all this has been appreciated
by the class of cultured readers
who compose the Register's sub-
scription list. And their favorable
comment on the ** mechanical get-
up" of the magazine is scarcely
less pleasing. It has been said that
no perfect book, typographically
speaking, has ever been published;
we are hoping, one of these times,
to prove that statement untrue.

In this connection we wish to
again ask the co-operation of our
subscribers in extending our sub-
scription list. As most of them
know, the annual appropriation
from the State, while it is grate-
fully received, is very meager, as
compared with what other states
are doing in the same hue. And of
course the more funds the Society ,
has at its disposal the better it can
make the Register.

« • «

The Register desires to expre.ss
its gratitude to Mr. William Railev
for his excellent article in this num-
ber on the genealogy of the Raileys,
Randolphs, Mayos, etc. Mr. Railey
was not only kind enough to con-
tribute this article, but also to write
letters to the members of the fami-
lies, scattered all over the country,
suggesting that they could secure
this information in which they are
interested by subscribing for- the
Register. As a result we have
added quite a number of names to
our subscription list.

HORACE 1ST BOOK, 9TH ODE.

Dedicated by the translator to his oW
teaoMr, W. W. Rtfcobefloo.)
L
Mark how the enows In giant maases
drifted.

Press the dark bosom of yonder wooded
hill!

See the rippling streamlets, at the touch
of winter,
Shrinlc to their stony ledges— cold and

Then turn, I pray, unto this bright Interior
^Wliose blazing hearth lights up the even-
ing task.

And (Just to break the ice) mine host will
kindly

Break the rude seal upon some ancient
oask*

in.

Good cheer within!— Unto the gods all else!
The powers that breathe a stillness on

the sea
And stay the storm-swept cypress and the

ash

Have kindly ministries for you and me.

IV.

Count that for gain that each day's chance
may bring ;
But what tomorrow's chance forbear, if
wise to ask;
Take the light pleasures on the early wing.
Dance with thy love and in the sunr
shine bask.

Beyond the charmed circle where thy
pleasures smile.
Scowls the grim visage of thy coming
years.
And o'er thy radiant pathway casts a shade
Dark with forebodings to thy secret
fears-

Happy the youth, who, with the Loves and
Graces,
Through circling hours the cup of
Pleasure sips,
^Vtooing his love, at eve, in tender whi'u
pers.
Pressing sweet pledges from reluctant
lips!

THOMAS B. PICaECBTT.

Maysville, Ky.
Rosehill, January 11, 1875.

Mr. W. W. Eicheson was the
teacher of Henry T. Stanton, the

poet, and it is to Mr. Bicheson he
alludes in his beantiful poem ''His
Last Day. ' ' Mr. Bicheson was also
the teacher of Gen. Grant, and re-
ceived an invitation from Grant to
attend the banquet given him at
Louisville, Ky., while President of
the United States.

TRIBUTE TO MBS. MORTON

PAID BY FfilEND OP HISTORICAL SO-
CIETY — GIFTS FBOM LIEUT. BEN-
NETT.

(fYom Frankfort News-Journal.)

Through the untiring efforts of
Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, secretary-
treasurer of the Kentucky Histori-
cal Society, the walls of the Histor-
ical Rooms in the State Capitol at
Frankfort will soon be covered
with the former Governors of the
grand old Commonwealth and
other famous Kentuckians.

The latest order for the portrait
of Gov. John Breathitt, who serv-
ed his State as Chief Executive
from 1832 to 1834, was given this
week to Ferdinand Graham Walk-
er. Mr. Walker has painted several
other Governors for the walls. of
the Historical Booms, and will,
after the completion of Gov.
Breathitt ^s portrait, retouch the
famous Stuart painting of Wash-
ington. Mr. Walker studied and
painted abroad, but the call of his
home was too strong and he came
back to make a name in his old
home.

Only a few Governors now re-
main to be painted. Many have
been promised by their families.

100

Rafll«l«r of the K«ntucky tuu HIstBhcal Soeivty.

"This is as it should be," eaid a
friend of the society. "People who
have self-respect and money should
feel enough pride in their ancestorB
to see that their faces are among
those on the wall in the prettiest
spot in the new Capitol."

Lieut. Bennett, of the United
States Army, stationed at Lawton,
Wash., will send soon his magnifi-
cent collection of arms, relics, flags
ond three or four caouon, cele-
brated in all our wars from the
Revolution to the present time, to
the Historical Society.

Gen. P. P. Johnsfon has tendered
one of hia large rooms for the arms
and relics, hut another room has
been given for the camion, which
is in the basement of the Capitol.

Mrs. Morton hopes to secure for
the society the rooms adjoining the
Historical Rooms, when that de-
partment, now occupying them,
shall have outgrown tlie present
quarters.

"It will not come jmiijis to offer
Mrs. Morton a tribute right here,"

said the friend of the society. "Sk
is the Historical Society. For, sbe
never in all those long years, vher
she worked, worried and beggeJ
for the meager help that was given
her, failed to see the day ivben
the Kentucky Historical Soeietj
would occupy that high place it dot
occupies.

"Mrs. Morton gave her time, her
money and her strength to the
cause. Had she been a man sbe
would be wearing a medal for her
bravery in standing by her gons.
when even the Legislature five
successive legislative years vovli
not see that Kentucky's ^ory

should be handed down to poster-
ity.

"But, she has fought the fight to
a wonderful end. She will banil
down to Kentucldans a priceles; '
blessing, for in a few years it
would have been too Inte *to hav
shown the next ages what lil)erly
cost.' "

DEPARTMENT

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

CATHEDRAL CHIMES.

Ed. the Begister, please tell us
something about cathedral chunes.

A118. it is said very little is
known of the state of music
between the 11th and 12th centu-
ries.

Chimes used in Cathedrals were
introduced first in Italy — and
Guido, a Benedictine monk, bom at
Abrezzo, in Tuscany, was the
author of the musical chant — out of
which originated the Chime of
Bells. The Aml^rosian chant is
sitill used in Italy. Btttt the measured
music of Chimes of which Guido
was the author is used now all over
the world. Among the finest sets of
chimes in the world are those of
Copenhagen, Westminster, Ghent
and Amsterdam in Europe, and
Chicago in America. A set of bells
harmoniously tuned to each other,
placed in a church tower, and rung
hy hammers, which are moved by
clock work or by hand.

"And all the way to guide their chime.
With falling oars they kept the time."

Taken from the International
Cyclopedia, Vol. 3, page 780.
Chimes — Music performed on Bells
in a church tower, either by the
hands of a person, or by mechan-
ism. The most perfect chimes are
to be found in Holland and Bel-
gium.

This ancient and interestins:
class. of music is believed to have
originated in some of the German
Tnonasteries, and the first instru-
ment for the production of Chimes
to have been made in 1487, at Alost,
in the Netherlands. Among the
celebrated chimes of Europe are
those of Copenhagen, Ghent and
Amsterdam.

A number of bells is required for
the proper execution of this music.
The carillons a clavier are played
like a piano forte; the keys are
handles connected with the bells
by rods or cords, and the carillon-
neur employs his hands and feet to
play an air. The pedals communi-
cate with the larger bells for the
bass. The keys on which the treble
notes depend are struck with the
hand, which is protected with a
leather covering. It is stated that
PothofF,a blind organist of Amster-
dam, was able to perform fugues
on this instrument. The invention
of carillon machinery is of modern
origin; one person now is able by
simply turning a barrel similar to
that of a music box to chime eight
bells with little difficulty. Chimes
have been largely introduced into
our American churches. In New
York there are four churches that
have large chimes, St. Thomas,
Grace, Trinity and St. Ann's. The
chimes of Christ church in Philadel-
phia, Christ church in Boston, and
Trinity church in New York are
probably the oldest in this country.
Little is known of Trinity church
bells except that five of them were
cast in London before the year 1845.
The ten bells have an aggregate
v'fight of about 15,000 lbs.; the lar-
gest weighs 3,081 lbs., the smallest
700 lbs., they are hung in a frame
work of wood, and the machinery
is primitive.

St. Thomas has ten bells which
were cast at Meneeley's in W. Troy
and put up in 1874; they are very
fine in tone and tune.

Grace church has ten bells with
an aggregate weight of 10,300 lbs.
the largest called the Rector's bell,

104

weighs 2,835 lbs.; they are played
on by means of a carillon a clavier.
like those of Holland.

The Chimes of old Christ church
in Philadelphia are of historic in-
terest. These bells were sent from
England as a present from Queen
Anne; they were taken down dur-
ing the Revolution and sunk in the
Delaware river, as it was feared
that the British might capture
them. At the close of the war they
were hung in the old belfry; and
may now be heard on every holi-
day through the year.

Christ church in Boston also
has an ancient and notable chime.
I'ull and partial Chimes, the latter
called peals, can now be heard in all
parts of the country. There are
three sets of chimes in Troy, N.

Y. The church of the Good Shep-
herd, in Hartford; St. James
church in Birmingham, Connecti-
cut; old St. John's in Savannah,
Ga., churches of different denomi-
nations in Indianapolis, Peters-
burg, Va., Cleveland, Ohio; Con-
cord, N. H. ; those of St. Ann's m
Brooklyn; St. John's in Newark;
Grace church and St. Patrick's in
Buffalo; the Cathedral of the Im-
maculate Conception in Albany;
St. Paul's in Reading, Pa.; Pilgrim
church in St. Louis, Mo., in the bel!
tower of Cornell at Ithaca, N. Y.:
and in the college chapel at Am-
herst, Mass. The half chimes and
peals in the United States are
verv numerous.

RegltUr of th« Kentucky State Historical Society.

105

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY TREASURER KEN-
TUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

NEWSPAPERS.

The Kentucky State Journal.
The Eepublican, Harrodsburg.
The Shelby Eecord, Shelbyville.
Bath County World, Sharps-
burg.
The Frankfort News, City.
The Maysville Bulletin.

The Farmer's Home Journal.

• • •

MAGAZINES AND BOOKS.

The Century.
The Scribner.
The Review of Reviews.
The Iowa Journal of Politics and
History, Iowa City, lo.

The Iowa Historical Quarterly,
Des Moines, Iowa.

The Missouri Historical Quar-
terly, St. Louis.

German Magazines and Cata-
1 opines, Leipzig.

Crosset & Dunlaps Catalogues
ior 1911.

Bulletin of New York Public
Library, New York.

Wessels & Bissell Co.'s Cata-
logues, 5th Avenue, New York.

The Quarterly Journal of the
r Diversity of North Dakota.

Catalogues of Jewels, Matt Irion
k Sons, Louis\dlle Ky.

The Ohio Historical and Archeo-
loirical Quarterly, Columbus, 0.
The National Monthly, Buffalo.
Two Books Am. lOthnological
Bureau, Washington, D. C.

The History of Scotland, 8. vols.
l>ound in the plaid colors of the
Clansmen of Scotland. Sorosis
Club, Louisville, Ky., 1910.

Publications of Sonnewschein &
f 0., 25 High Street, Bloomsberry,
London, England.

Annals of Historical Quarterly,

Des Moines, Iowa.

• • •

Hampton's magazine jan. 11.

This number contains Dr. Cook's
Confession, one of the finest pieces
of writing in English literature.
Whether he went to the North Pole
or not — he went somewhere in
(lod's strange countries of ice and
snow, that no other American ever
did go — and so far as we have read
no other man was ever foolish
enough to explore and live to tell
the story of his travels. This recital
is thrilling and enthralling. It is
unlike the history of any other
country under the heavens — and
spell binds the reader with its
strangeness, its pathos, its sublime
isolation and absolute unearthli-
ness. We believe if there is a
North Pole, as scientists declare.
Dr. Cook reached it, as nearly as
a human being could do it. God
says nothing about the North Pole
or the South Pole in His history
of Creation— but if this *4gnis fat-
uous'' does exist somewhere in
God's refrigerators— then Dr.
Cook saw it. He believes he did
and we believe him, because no
man could have done what he did
and live, save one as wonderfully
endowed by God with courage and
rare intelligence, and perseverence
of more than mortal power. The
history he has written carries con-
viction with it. He saw what he
says he saw and he did what he
says he did, because the experience
is out of the realm of imagination
and beyond the flight of fancy. But
here we will quote his modest, pa-
thetic defense which is of itself

106

Regitter of th« Kontuoky SUtc Hiitorfeal Society.

enough to melt an iceberg of envy
and unbelief:

**When I recall the many hair-
breadth escapes from death^ the
hazards we took and feel again that
physical and mental suffering, I
wonder whether any living man
would do this were he premedita-
ting a lie.

** Whether I went directly north
or was diverted at times does not,
cannot change the facts of my ex-
perience,

' ' We were compelled on our jour-
ney to go in various directions to
find a way. We made wide detours,
at other times we had to retreat
and find new passages. Perhaps in
doing so I did become confused
and overestimated my progress. If
that is so it is a fact neither I nor
any one can settle now. Wherever I
went however I maintain it was
northward and I did reach a spot
which I believed to be the pole.**

And when one reads the history,
they will believe the author did
reach the spot which he believed to

be the pole.

• • •

POLE IS LOST AGAIN IN THE
ARCTIC WILDS.

SUBPRISING ADMISSIONS MADE BY

PEABT.

Admiral Schley Writes Dr. Cook

That Both He And Peary

Reached The Earth's Top.

(Associated Press Telegram to Kentucky

State Journal.)

Washington, Jan. 10. — Admit-
ting that the North Pole is just as
much lost as ever, and telling how
he wanted all the glory of Polar
achievement for himself. Commo-
dore Peary answered a cross-fire

of questions before the Naval Com-
mittee today.

He admitted he had made no re-
port to the Navy Department on
his expedition and said that the
other meml>ers of his party are not
at lil>erty lo write or lecture about
the North Pv)le, except with his
wiilten pjrmisHon.

Replyiu;? to questions, Peary
said he had not propa'^ed a chart
ti at might enahlo one to follow his
footsteps to the Pole, Uit said h€^
'' imagined'' he had data from
i^hich he could 'prepare such a
chart.

ADMTBAL SCHLEY S OPHSION".

(Associated Press Telegram to Kentackr

State Journal.)

New York, Jan, 10, — Dr. Cook
today received a letter from Rear
Admiral Schley, President of the
Arctic Cluh, under whose auspices
Cook made the trip to the Norths
expressing Schley's opinion that
both Cook and Peary reached the
Pole, ^he letter says: ''While I
never believed either of you got
within a pin point of the Pole, both
got as near the pole as pos-
sible to ascertain, considering the
imperfections of the instruments^
and under circumstances so ad-
verse to absolute accuracy.''

NO ROYAL ROAD

TO NORTH POLE DECLARES PEARY TO
THE NAVAL COMMITTEE.

Washington, Jan. 10. — There is
no royal road to the North Pole
and no sign posts mark the way, a<^

107

cording to Capt. Robert E. Peary,
the Arctic explorer, who appeared
today before the House Committee
on Naval Affairs in connection
with the bill pending for his re-
tirement as a Bear Admiral. He
declared that the data collected on
the dash of the Peary expedition
to the top of the world would be of
practically no value to other aspir-
ing Polar argonauts.

*'Then the North Pole is as
much lost as everf inquired Rep-
resentative Gregg, of Texas.

**The discovery of the North
Pole is a misnomer,'* retorted
Capt. Peary. **It is an attain-
ment. * '

The explorer explained at length
the privations of his trip to the
Pole, and declared his success was
directly attributed to his twenty
years of experience in Arctic work.
In response to questions he
acknowledged that he had made no
official report to the Navy Depart-
ment.

• • •

Autumn Announcement of Ke-
gan Paul. French Trubener & Co!
L. T. D. London, W. Gerard St.

Argentina Past and Present, by
W. H. Koebel, London, Eng.

Bulletin of the New York Pub-
lic Library, New York City.

Library of Congress Report,
Washington, D. C.

The Geographic Magazine,
Washington, D. C.

The National Daily, Buffalo, N.
Y.

The American Historical Review
Washington, D. C.

The New York Bulletin of Public
Library, New York.

Book: Library of Congress,
Washington, D. C.

Catalogue of Old and Rare
Books, Edgware Road, London, W.
Eng.

Catalogue of Best German His-
tories, Leipsic, Germany.

Geographic Magazine for Jan.
1911.

This number, one of the finest
yet published, has for its leading
article ** Race-prejudice. ' ' It is
one of the most thoughtful, sugges-
tive and deeply interesting papers
we have read in a long while. The
writer says **he is not bothering
about the Heathen in his blindness
but about the Christian in his
blindness.'* He has visited the cit-
ies of India, Arabia, Asia, China
and Japan. He has talked with
Rulers and Diplomats in heathen
courts, and he is amazed at their
broad-mindedness and superior
generosity to the English and the
American when in their countries.
We have long time heard the high
class men of China, Japan and
India, were the most polished, cul-
tured, polite and kind men in the
world ; and such men fret under the
race discrimination prescribed by
the English and American who will
not eat with them or recognize
them socially. The article is too
long to quote but it will repay
thoughtful perusal. Read it.

We have a large collection of his-
tories of Kentucky, since her dis-
covery by Daniel TJoone in 1769 —
but the only authentic history we
have of the State previous to the
pioneer's occupation is Col. Ben-
nett H. Youngs wonderful book:
'*Pre-historic Men of Kentucky.""
The Historian Z. F. Smith wrote
some years ago for the Register,.

108

^ ' Pre-historic Hace of Kentucky.''
He dealt more particularly upon
the origin of this race, but Col.
Young amplifies and elaborates the
^subject, with interesting relics
that illustrate he thinks the me-
chanical and artistic genius of that
forgotten and obliterated race.
The subject was treated by him in
his very unique and entertaining
address before the Third Annual
Meeting of the Ohio Valley Histor-
ical Association in Frankfort on
Oct. 15, 1909. His eloquent descrip-
tions and witty deductions from
certain fine exhibits and illustra-
tions that he had arranged on the
table before him, entertained and
amused the large audience, as no
other speaker ha3 done, and as
few orators in America could have
succeeded in doing. In a word,
under the magic of his polished,
scholarly EngUsh we saw arise in
^*the valley of dry bones*' this
strange race, clothed in the rude
garments of their unknown age.

AVe regretted that we could not
obtain the manuscript of this ad-
dress for the Eegister, but now our
]il)rary is enriched by this large
book published by the Filson Club
of Louisville, Ky. We welcome it
along with a number of other pub-
lications of great reputation ; yet
it has a place of honor greater be-
cause it was donated to the Ken-
tucky State Historical Society by
its distinguished author, Col. Ben-
nett H. Young, who is also a mem-
ber of our Societv.

The Historv of Scotland is an-
otlier notable work we have receiv-

ed, a purchase that we can never
1 egret. It contains the histories
and pictures of the Chiefs of Clans,
tlieir Castles and their plaids and
;: together it is delightful in this
respect — the illustrations. So far
as the lives and the wars of the
^M^otch ere written, it is literature
Uiat we deplore is necessary co
their history. The wheat and the
lares certainly grow together in
that bleak countrv of Scotland.

COL. J. STODDAHD JOHXSTOK.

We had hoped to have a compan-
ion sketch of Col. J. Stoddard
Johnston, with that of Henry Wat-
lerson (the two great and famous
Editors of Kentucky since the
close of the Civil War in 1865) for
this issue of the Register. But
there is so much to write of the
useful and brilliant career of Col.
Johnston that it could not be pre-
pared in time for this Register. As
scholar, writer, historian, Secre-
tary of State of Kentucky, he
stands pre-eminent in Kentucky.
Admired and beloved in the City of
Frankfort, for twenty years it?
citizen, distinguished for all the
graces that had marked the gentle-
man and soldier, before and during
the Civil War, the people of the
(;apital would feel that any his-
tory of the prominent men of Ken-
tucky would be wanting in one of
its brightest ornaments if he
should be omitted from its pages.
And we trust later to supply our
readers with a biography and pic-
ture of Col. Johnston.

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OF THE

KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY President Ex-Offlcio

H. V. McCHESNEY First Vice-President

W. W. LONGMOOR Second Vice-President and Curator

MISS SALLY JACKSON Third Vice-President and Librarian

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON Rjegent and Secretary-Treasurer

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE KENTUCKY STATE

HISTOBICAL SOCIETY.

H. V. McCHESNEY, Chairman.
MRS. ANNIE H. MILES. MISS SALLY JACKSON, V.-President.

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

CONTENTS. ,

SEPTEMBER. 1911

1. Hon. Z. F. Smith, deceased, Picture a ad. •Sketch by the Editor.

2. Kentucky's Part in the War of 1812. By Judge Samuel M. Wilson, Lexington, Ky.

3. Letter of Samuel Overton to His Father During the War of 1812.

4. Kentuckians In the Battle of Lake Erie. By A. C. Quiaenberry.

5. W. 'Wu (Richeson, the Kentuckian That Taught Grant. By Dr. Thos. Fickc'tt.

MaysYiUe, Ky.

C. For Her. A Poem Written for Kentucky's Birthday, 7th of June.

7. Thie (Randolph-Railey O^nealogyl, (Continued. The Morton Genealogy. By «Miss
MorBon, Birmingham, Al l,

S. Department of Clippings and Paragraphs. Translations from Fenelon. By Mus.
W. Leslie Collins.

9. Editorial.

10. The Report.

CONTRIBUTORS.

Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Louisville, Ky.

Hon. L. F. Johnson, FrankfQit, Ky.

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Sturges, Washington, D. C.

Miss Martha Stephenson, Harrodsbnrg, Kv.

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

W. W. LoNGMooR, Frankfort, Ky.

Prof. G. C. Downing, Frankfiort, Ky.

Mrs. Ella IT. Eli.wanger, Frankfort, Ky.

George Barer. Washington, D. C.

Dr. Tmos. E. Pickett, Maysville, Ky.

A. C. Quisenherry, Hyattsville, Md.

IN MEMORIAM

HON. Z. F. SMITH

1 BY

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON

HON. Z, F, SMITH.

* • Died in the city of Louis vUle, July
ord, 1931.'' The simple announce-
ment of this distinguished citi-
zen's passing away brought sor-
row and sadness to a large circle
of devoted friends throughout the
country, and grief and tears to his
loving family. His death was a
translation to the unknown world,
the beautiful Beyond, of which he
had written so much, and taught
so eloquentlj" and intelligently.
He fell asleep here, and wakened
we believe in Heaven; his soul a
life-polished jewel for setting m
the Master's Crown.

Historian of Kentucky, Super-
intendent of Public Instruction^
scholar, critic, and famous writer
— he was widely known, and
warmly beloved and admired lor
his many rare qualities of mind,
heart and spirit.

He was a member of the Chris-
tian church, biographer of Bar-
ton Stone, and the pioneers of his
faith. A member of the State
Historical Society and contribu-
tor to the Register; Vice-Presi-
dent of the Filson Club of Louis-
ville, Kentucky, and a member of
other clubs and associations. Yet
his ** History of Kentucky" will
be the monument of enduring
fame for him. He was a citizen
of incorruptible integrity, firm-

ness in principles, just, gentle and
merciful in his judgment, faith-
ful and devoted in his friendships
— and charitable toward all men.

Mr. Smith was bom in Henrv
(»ounty, KontnckA'-. His maternal
ancestry is from »the Huguenot
refugee Bartholomew Dupuy, of
whom so much has been written.
Mr. Smith completed his academic
course at Bacon College. He
then became President of Henrv
College at New Castle. Later was
elected and served four years as
Superintendent of Public "lnstm(v
tion, was interested in everything
pertaining to the upbuilding of
Kentucky.

In 1852 he married Miss Sue
Helm— daughter of W. S. Helm oi
Shelby county, Kentuckv. Thev
had eight children of whom four
are living. His wife died some-
time previous to 1890, when he
married again Miss Anna Pittman
of Louisville, Kentucky, who sur-
vives him. He was buried at
Eminence, Kentucky. A large
concourse of people* attended his
burial, to do honor to him in
death as in life, who had so sig-
nally honored the countv and
State that gave him birth; ''Om
which his mantle of distinction
falls. '^ J. c. M.

WILLIAM WEST RICHESON

THE KENTUCKIAN THAT TAUGHT GRANT

DR. THOMAS E. PICKETT

unjvl;>gitv

THE KENTUCKIAN THAT TAUGHT GRANT.

The -following paper by Dr-
Thos. E. Pickett, of Maysville,
K v., is a tribute to a famous teacJieii
of Maysville, as well as to the
famous pupil, Ulysses Grant, and
will be read we know with pleas-
ure by the many readers of the
Register.

In **The Moneyless Man and
Other Poems." by Henry T. Stan-
'ton, there is also a tribute to this
beloved teaolier of oldon times, of ,
which the author wrote in his
notes thus: The lines entitled
*'His Last Day,'' were written
upon a few hours notice and read
at the closing exercises of Eose-
mont Academy. Mr. W. W. Eiche^
son had been in charge of a scnool

at Maysville, Ky., for 37 years,
and this occasion was the ^'last
upon which he would officiatet
there as tutor.

He had taught the parents and
grandparents of some of hisi
scholars, and was greatly beloved
in the community.

It does not often fall to the lot
of a teacher to have Ithree such
men of genius as General Grant,
llenry T. Stanton, and Thomas E.
Pickett to adorn his list of schol-
ars, and afterward pay tribute to
his excellent instruction and in-
fluence. He had the rare pleasure
of seeing his reward in the fame
of his jnipils.

Ed. ''The Eegister."

W. W. RICHESON
The Kentuckian that ^Taught" Grant.

(By Dr. ThoB. E. Pickett. A Pupil of Richeson^s School.)

Mr. Warfield C. Richardson, an
eminent Alabamian scholar, now
88 years of age, recently said of
W. W. Riclieson, who was the
teacher of Ulysses Grant in the
** thirties," that he was a most ac-
complished scholar — equally dis-
tinguished in English, Latin and
Greek. He was passionately de-
voted to the pursuit of mathe-
matical studies, and he had few
equals as a mathematical scholar.
Th« learned Alahamian acknowl-
edged his own indebtedness +o the
old Maysville instructor, who was
at the same time the teacher of
Ulvsses Grant.

This admirable instructor, W.
W. Richeson, was a native of King
William county, Virginia, a de-
scendant of the finest Englislii
stock, settled in the Pamunkee
Region just after the execution of
Charles 1., a region long famous
for its attractions to sportsmen,
and familiar from the earliest
Colonial times with the names of
Washington and Lee.

The Richesons left the old home
in Virginia when William Ricbe-
son was twelve years old. He was
to be educated at the University
of Virginia, and his last sporting
experience on the old place pro-
vided a farewell supper of birds

for the family at the old home. On
the following day the entire fam-
ilj'' removed to Charlottsville to
educate the skilled young hunteri
who had supplied the game for the
I»nrting meal. A youiig Virginian
of that period had certain advan-
tages in his family trninin^ which
were not procurable elsewhere.

The traditions of the fireside,
the occupations of the field, the
exploration of the forest, the daily
pastime on moor and lea — these
were the adventures and advan-
tages which gave life a charm in
the old Pamunkee region when
William Richeson was a boy.
And then too, the scholarly father,
with fine disciplinary habits of
life, which in later vears he car-
ried to other fields.

There are many still living that
can testify to the personal at-
tractions of the children that
gathered at this Virginia home,
the slight active figures, the feat-
ures regular, refined, and not at
all weak. There was one feature
especially which was characteris-
tic of the family — ^the straight,
sensitive, well formed '^ North Eu-
ropean nose.'- In the eldest boy
this feature had been deformed by
an accident while riding his horse.
The result of this accident w^as to

bi ing him direeth^ into the hands
of the famous Dr. Dnnghson — ^then
hy universal admission the most
learned teacher at Mr. Jefferson *b
^reat Virginian school. The
learned doctor conceived a warm
affection not only for the hrilliant
hov whom he eucoiira^ed in his
J^tudies, biVt for the scholarly
father of the boy, and for the lit-
tle sister who was named after the
doctor's sister, Mildred Dungli-
son, the Dunglison after her
brother's teacher.

The effect of this daily associa-
tion was to broaden in an nnusual
degree for that day, the culture of
the boy.

Readers of English history will
remember that William the Con-
(]neror, had devastated the North-
umbrian coast with a ruthless
hand, a Norman officer, one who
had assisted in the harrying, volun-
teered to repair the damage which
had been done, and he certainly
wrought faithfully 'to this end. Not
to go into detail it is enough
to sav — the profound changes
wrought by this Norman's strong
hand are felt to this dav. He laid
the foundation of a srreat educa-
tional centre at a spot which was
near London, easilv accessible
from the three Kingdoms, and in
a strategic point of %new, entirely
f-afe.

Thus from the very niins left by
internecine war there sprang the
great school everywhere known
as Oxford. There are twenty-eight
Oxfords in the United States to
day, and thanks to the great South
African leader — Cecil Rhoades,
hundreds of studious American

youths have the entree to that
famous English institution in this
day.

T)r. Dunglison was trained at a
time when every Englishman en-
joyed »the classical methods estab-
lished in this great English school.
He completed his education '*upou
the Continent. ^^ Boys who sat at
the feet of the Virginian did not
pet their learning exclusively from
hooks. He himself had sat at the
feet of Nature, and much that he
learned was from that source. He
was a passionate lover of the
chase, a fair horseman, and a capi-
tal shot, and much of his illustra-
tive reminiscence in the school
room was drawn from his vast ex-
perience in the Virginia forests,
from the waters of the Pamunkee,
and the moiiutains of Kentucky*

His big corttemporaries in Ken
tuckv, famous teachers too —
Maltby, Arnold and Scarborough
— do not seem to have had these
tastes. In this instance they were
certainlv the tastes of a finished
scholar, and must have made more
or less im])ression upon, young
Grant. The Virginian horseman
and hunter delighted in the very
flowers of the field. He often told
of a young venturesome Kentuck-
ian (ii girl) '*I will dare you to
take that fence with me Mr. Riche-
son."

If the reader should ever see the
new equestrian statue of Grant he
will at once say (if a pupil of Mr. *
T?iche-on), *MTow well he sits his
horse.*' He was Drobablv a better
horseman ilian Napoleon, but one
cannot helj) noting in this great
historic group, the Napoleonic

tournure of that ''central quiet
ligure-' on the horse. Nor was this
suggestion all in the artist. As
'William Nelson, a schoolmate of
Grant at the old Seminary, left
Grant 's tent after one of that Gen-
eraPs hard fought battles, he
turned to his aide, and touching
significantly his own broad brow
he said simply *' Napoleon. ' * This
was his answer to the query:
'*What do you think of Grant T'
The Alabamjan scholar to whom
we have referred, now 88 years
of age, was a pupil of William
Eicheson in tlie thirties. In the
riy leaf of a book sent to one of his
old friends, he gives a list of the
fellow pupils that he recalls,
among them these two ''Bill Nel-
son and Toad Grant." The teacher
Arnold just mentioned as a con-
temporary of Richeson, was a
large, powerfully built man, his
shoulders were immense. John D.
Taylor was wont to tell that the
only "barring out" they ever had
under the Arnold resnnie would
have been a failure but for Al-
bert Sidney John stones acceptance
of the Captaincy— probably that
great soldier ^s first command. The
young Virginian from the Pamun-
kee region was not at all of the
robustious type, but from his earl-
iest youth a hunter in Virginia, ho
grew into manhood with singular
powers of endurance. His vaca-
tions in Kentucky were spent gun
in hand, in long walks in the
mountains of Kentucky, almost in-
rariably with a scholastic en-
tourrage — a number of manly
young fellows from his "Semin-
ary "/to whom he was giving a sup-

plementary course in a mountain
summer. Naturally this was the
sort of instructor that young
Ulysses sought — a man that not
only knew things but could do
things; who was never happier in
his moods than when surrounded
by young and sprightly children—
a man as we know equally at home
in a woodman's cabin and the
library of an English scholar. And
think how much a brooding, am-
bitious youni^ster of keen observa-
tion and rc'tentive memorv would
gather daily in such a schoolroom
in which the younsr Virginian
taught. A boy in tlip most remoic
corner was under the master's eve,

•

and heard every word thlat was
spoken in the recitations of a
class. Even Greek would have a
vivid interest for a bov who har
borne for manv vears the name of
**Ulvsses," and as for Latin—
how much this moody school l)oy
would learn simply by listening* to
the varied comments of the bril-
liant younxr scholiast upon th(»
Georgics of Vircril, or thf* odes of
Horace. The latter was his "dies
terfield."

Years afterward when the mas-
ter and the old pupil met some
distinficuished literarv crentleman
at the table of a brilliant Kentiiok-
ian, the accomplished old teacher,
never more in his elenient tb^n
now, likens the occasion to an
IToratian feast, naming the fine
old Romans who gathered \sTth
Horace- at the hospitable board of
Maecenas in Rome. This was
humorouslv said but none knew
better than Ithe old pupil, that witli

these too he would have been a
welcome guest.

**Did you note any new games
at cards. General, during your tour
abroad?" The query came from
an experienced diner out not un-
skilled in the tactics of table talk:
Grant answered, *'My old teacher
Mr. Richeson never taucht me to
play cards.'*

But even this useful brand of
knowledge was sometimes taught
in Kentucky, even when neglected
by the schools. It is a bit of
familiar gossip that the sons of
an eminent tlieologian, presided
as instructor in a poker room,
which they had fitted up in their
father *s bam.

If Grant had been one of their
guests he would have mastered
the game in one easy lesson. A
swift comprehension of '* stra-
tegics*' is not confinpd to the field
of war. William Richeson was
never more at home than at a

•

** banquet.'* He had no more vivid
recollection of his home in the
Pamunkee region, Ithan of the jollj'
old nights, when horsemen with
horns and hounds from every
quarter gathered at his father's
house to renew old friendships
and keep alive their love of royal
English sport, in wild reckless pur-
suit of the wily Virginia fox. •
In later years the boj's under
his instruction at the Seminary in
Kentucky swept the woods and
fields of ''Tuckahoe" in frequent
pursuit of the 'possum, the fox and
the 'coon. Night excursions in the'
study of the stars gave delight to
scores of astronomic observers. In:
the snowy days, "coasting" till

midnight along the prime ma-
cadam road of the river hills, the
fine manly sport often closing with
battles in the snow. The following
day the young sportsmen were(
eager to display., for the benefit o£
the whole school, their latest ac-
quirements in geography, political!
grammar, mathematics, and the
ancient tongues. Would it be be-
lieved nowadays that this sport-
loving Virginian never lost his
love for the Latin Classics, giving
them an interest by his com-
mentaries, that could have been
made by his old friend Dunglison
himself. Beginning wit(h *'His-
toria Sacra," he taught in suc-
cession year after year Caesar,
Sallust, Virgil, Horace (his favor-
ite of all the old writers) Juvenal
(which always s,tirred his blood)
and Perseus.

His favorite Ode in Horace was
the IX. Book, I, in that he would
say you have wonderful variety,
apt description of natural scenery,,
warm inspiring glimpses of home
life in old Rome, the social philoso-
phy of those splendid times, and
strangest of all, a devout recogni-
tion of the Jehovah worshipped in
the remotest times by teachers of
the highest type. The writer ap-
pends herewith an inadequate
English version of the famous
poem.* If you would have a bet-
ter, road John Dryden's, ''The'
English Poet."

One of Mr. Richeson 's earliest
pupils after reaching Kentucky;
was that scholarly thinker, Or-
mond Beattv, afterward , a very
distingu ished and popular Presi-

^S&e Register May, 1911.

dent of Centre College (now Cen-
tral University). He always bore
testimony to his young teacher's!
proficiency in French. Teacher
and pupil were then just eighteen
years of age. Dr. Beatty was a
loember of the first class formed
by the young Virginian after his
arrival in Kentuc%.

Can one fail to think that
Ulysses Grant felt the influence
later on in life of this early train-
ing? It was not altogether a
*' curriculum '* of books. One may
note even as he reads the soldier's
despatches written in the wilder-
ness, surrounded by lalll thie cir-
cumstances that could disturb or
disquiet a human brain, the perfect
poise, the ease, the comprehension,
the clearness of this writer in the
Virginia wilds, who had learned
the art of swift dignified expres-;
si on as a boy, in that old Richeson
school, when he launched bodily
into school debates, and was never
at a loss in the extemporaneous
composition which was one of the
daily exercises which the teacher
imposed. A recent writer says
that Lee was more familiar with
the ground in the ** Battle of the
Wlildeim^iss, ' * but afterward,
speaking of the clearly ascertained
fact, that of the fifty-one flagsl'
captured by the Federal army in
that battle that all but one was
captured by western troops who
were accustomed to the forests of
the West, and '* woodsmen** from
early youth. Riding in the woods
was systematically practiced by
the horsemen of Kentucky in
training for the battles of the
Northweaf, 1812-15. Some of

these veterans of 'Hhe late war,"
were still stout soldiers when
Grant, a schoolboy sat at their
feet to learn the art of war. If
this be true (and why not?) Grant,
who was singularly at homte in
that fight, certainly owed some-
thing to his early training in Ken-
tucky.

This boy afterward selected as
his base of operations the ** White
House,'* in that Pamunkee region
where one of his teachers wa^
born, and will always be asso-
ciated with the name of the other.
It is the testimony of 'that splendid
soldier, A. P. Hill — ^the spoiled!
darling of the great Con-
federate chiefs, that Grant re-
peatedly evaded the vigilance of
Lee in the dense woods or forests
where they fought. The old ** Sem-
inary** stands today, just where it
stood in Hhe busy thirties, recently
reconstructed into a comfortable
residence by a prominent and en-
terprising citizen of the town, on
the south looking down upon the
rolling travel and traffic of a blue-
grass thoroughfare (the Lexing-
ton tunrpike road), and upon the
booming waterss of the beautiful
Ohio river. From the topmost
windows of the northern aspect,
what a view of green hillside and
broad lake like river. From the
summit of the most conspicuous
hill there looks down as if afloat,
in the airy scene, a charming coun-
try residence created by a man
who had been dreaming for years
of just such a home, mingling the
attractions of Monticello so well
known to his early years, and the
classical memories evoked of a

Boman mountain and its associate
stream, actually visible from tne
city of Bome today. It was on the
top of a river hill that Mr. Riche-
son built his home. Thus inspired
the veteran teacher looking from
his Seminary windows upon
''Eosemont^' (the name of his
country home) has Socratean vis-
ions reproducible at will.

His boyish dreams of a home
like Jefferson's — **on a hilP' — ^was
realized to the letter and with the
happiest effect. Hither came on
summer days, or in the later days
of spring,* classes in French of
boys and girls to recite lessons
with charming young Frenchmen.
"We all remember Monsieur Avet
and others, who had come from
Louisiana to Rosemont to estab-
lish a class on a basis of linguistic
reciprocity — good Virginia Eng-
lish for good Parisian French.

The following is a graphic de-
scription of General Grant's per*
sonal appearance from the pen of
a Federal officer who stood by his
side in many a closely con-
tested battle, **A medium sized,
mild, unobtrusive, inconspicuously
dressed, modest and naturally
silent man.'* This description
would answer equally well for a
description of his old teacher,
William Bicheson. The writer
adds: **He had a low gently
vibrant voice and steady thought-
ful blue eyes.*' Certainly not a
iiaan of the chieftain type, and yet
this is the man that by his bear-
ing, his manners, his conversation,
aod his inexplicable manipula^
tions of military genius captivated
or impressed men whom he super-

seded as commander (as Meade),
or the accomplished warriors
whom he fougJit to a finish (as
Lee).

On the first night of the Wilder-
ness battle, there came from
Grant's tent sobs floating on the
midnight; on the following day it
was said in the presence of Lee|
•' * General Grant will follow his pre-
decessor across the Rapidan.*'^
'*No,'' said that wise and gener-
ous Lee, '*he will not retreat,'' ana
the cheers of Ihe Army of the
Potomac speedily confirmed Lee's
anticipation as they saw their m-
domitable commanders moving
South. Men are still speculating
in a philosophic fashion upon the
character and origin of that daunt-
less courage — that calm invincibly
resolution thalt could wade sobbing
through field after field of blood
to win the ultimate victory he had
in view.

We have here another point of
resemblance between the teacher
and the taught. A boy who could
deliberately break up his homel
life in Virginia at the age ot
twelve to educate himself to the
prodigious task of a successful
career in the wilds of the West — •
at first naming Missouri as hi9
point of destination — taking upon
his slender shoulders the care of
an entire family which he exx>ected
to support by teaching — ^had a
quality of invincibility beyond thi*
comprehension of common man.
His great antagonist — ^Lee — wagJ
deeply touched with like instinct^
and convictions. Reared in thfl
very purple of Virginian Angli-
canism, upon the close of his mag-

nificent military career, he ac-
cepted congenial occupation in the
presidency of a Calvinistic school.
Grant's young teacher was a
thinker of the same Calvinistic
type, wrought into a pleasing
shape by the inherited or transmit-
ted methods of Virginian schools.
The Latin classics — notably Virgil
and Horace — have dominated the
schools of Europe — pagan, monas-
tic and academic, since the days of
Augustus. The class of teacheri?
to which the old dominie belonged'
(a familiar figure in our father's
day) is now practically extinct, but
his methods still bear the stamp
of imperial days. What classical
scholar does not recall with satis-
faction and delight the strong
Virgilian lines :

**\ri

'Viam'^ue insiste domandi
Bum facilis animi Juvenum, dummobiUs
aetas.*'

One of the most brilliant con-
temporaries of Virgil predicted
that Virgil's works would last '*as
long as the Eternal City shouldj
endure." In point of fact, th^
vitality of the Virgilian line was
never greater ^than in Drake's
incomparable ** school of the
woods," in which, as that vigorous,
thinker insisted, every boy should
be trained till he was sixteen,
years of age. This was the school
in which Grrant was trained. It
was of that time that Shaler, the"
Harvard scholar, was writing
(Hij4tory of Kentucky), when he
said that Mason county was ''the
best educated county in the
State;" and certainly it was not a
bad training ground for the future
antagonist of Lee.

About midway the disitance
from the foot of the ''Old Semi-
nary Hill," and middle Second
street, there lies an old Presbyter-
ian church grave-yard in which
lies interred, beside some of th^
old Boones — the bodv of Peter
Grant, an uncle of Ulysses Grant,
and a man of mai*ked success in
the ranks of monopolists of early
times. He was a man of wealth,
and lived in a handsome brick
house looking out upon 'the Ohio
river, whose waters he had
Tiloughed with prodigious indus-
try, and where literally lie had
earned his salt. To this uncle it
is said General Grant owed the!
gratification of his ambition to be
well educated. Though bom in
Ohio, across the river, his youth
was spent in Maysville, at the
Richeson school.

Just in front of this old grave-
yard rose at one time an imposing
structure, painted a deep blue,
fashioned like an old English
structure with darkly stained iral-
lories in front and on both sides.
There were two entrances from the
street, and the tall cupola and
helfrj" were visible to the passincr
boats upon the river. In a word
the old edifice was a miniature
'*St. Clements Danes" — a famous
old ecclesiastical buildins: which
s'tands in the Strand and looks out
on the Thames, erected mnny,
manv vears asro, for a comraimitv
of Scandinavians. Englishmen
sailinof to eveiy part of the world
have looked upon "St. Clements
Danes." It is distinctlv visible
from the river, and s^ill stands
with its interior cralleries intact.

Within the old blue church stood
erect aad defiant—a Presbtyeriar.
pulpit occupied for years by a
succession of the ablest thinkers
in the State — ^N. L. Rice, Robert
Grundy, W. L. Breckinridge and
others of distinction as leaders in
the church. In the front gallery
stood a pipe organ of exquisite
1:ones, and upon it played, with
singular sweetness and expression,
a charming New England girl.,
This noble old instrument still re-
sponding to a practical touch has
oheered for many years the ardent
Calvinistic admirers of the girl.

Looking down from the galleries
on the soft religious light, one
noted below the **big pews'' and
the '*old families'' — the Lees, thq
Shultzep, the Januarys, the
Hodges and Hustons, every group
bearing the marks of a superior
pioneer race — elevation, intelli-
gence, dignity and distinction.
These were the surroundings, the
ethical or religious influences of
the youthful Grant, and here
doubtless he gathered some im-
pressions which he never lost. Hia
teacher, W. W. Richeson, was an
officer of the church. Indisputably,
General Grant was what is known
as a ''believer." He believed in a
power and intelligence at the heart
of things, and that these great cen-
tral forces were tlie controlling in-
fluences of his own singularly suc-
cessful career.*

•It was from the pulpit of this "old Blue
Cburoh" that John Quincy Adams, then
visiting in Kentucky, .proclaimed the In-
nocence of Henry Clay from the charge of
**fcar^ain and intrigue." Mr. Richeson
heard the famous vindication and fre-

We close this -discussion with
the following extracts from Major
Roberit Stiles' superb military
biography of General Lee. They
give briefly the estimate placed
upon Grant by one of the ablest
and most accomplished soldiers in
the Southern army:

'*In common with the majority
of the more intelligent soldiers ot
the army of northern Virginia, I
thought, and I think, well of him
as a soldier, bc^lh as to character
and capacity. We all thousrht that
he behaved handsomelv both to
General Lee and his men, at Appo-
mattox, and that later, in standing
between Lee and his leading offi-
cers, and' the threatened prosecu-
tion for treason, he exhibited
strong manhood and sense of
right. As to Grant's grit and de-
termination, all his predecessors
together did not possess as much
of these manly qualities; and we
used to hear fine Itales of his im-
perturbability. As to his capacity
and our estimate of it, we did not
think much of him as a strategist,
but we did credit him with the
vigor and trenchancy of mind that
cut right through to the only plan
upon which, as I believe, we ever
could have been overcome, and the
nervo to adhere to that plan re-
lentlessly, remorselessly, to the
very end. That plan was the
simple, but terrible one of attri-
tion."

ouently referred to it in his **talks" to his
sohool. He 'was profoundly impressed by
the solemnity of Mr. Adams* appeal. It
was, he said, as one speaking in the very
presence of God.

ftegitter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

As rto his gifts in strategics, it ia
not for any one but a Molkte to
decide; as for his scholastic advan-
tages, enough has already been
said. Any deficiencies may be cov-
ered by the Carlylean dictum that
the best of universities is a collec-
tion of books. And that sort of
collection might then have been
found in every old home of the
county, and every fireside had its
professor's chair.

We hear of the ^'rt^ugh chiv-
alry'' of Grant — ^meaning prob-
ably that it was not the chivalry
described bv Sir Walter Scott.

Such as it was, however, it was
never paralleled in the annals of
the race.- It showed at least (that
his early training was not lost
He proved fully equal to the oppor-
tunity that fortune brought or
chance threw in his way. Lee's
soldiers, according to a Federal
General, were the best disciplined
fighters ithat ever took the field.
They were overwhelmed by the
numbers of their conqueror, and,
wholly captivated by his *' chiv-
alry," surrendered their hearts
when thej' laid down their aims.

FOR HER

KENTUCKrS BIRTHDAY— BOONE DAY,

7th OF JUNE

KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY— 191 1

BY JENNIE C MORTON

FOR HER.

Kentucky's Birthday. Boone Day, 7th of June, 1911.

Kentucky State Historical Society.

(By Jenniet C. Morton.)

To-ay enthroned right royally, in her ma-
jestic chair
Of State, she sits as tho* she was enwrapt

in vesper prayer;
Hands clasped like mother-hands, green

curtains closely drawn.
As tho' the sunlight did not fleck her

f arden, Held and lawn.
This is her blilhday, in honor called now by

us here, Boone Day
For him who found her forest-bound, like

wandering nymph astray.
He made for her this day in June a floral

sylvan throne.
And sceptered her a ruler there, to outer

world unknown.

Her ermined robe of State today, she has

thrown lightly by,
And with uncrowned head she sits, and

'breathes a tender sigh
Of srweet content for one small hour of

tranquilizing rest
From cares distracting to her realm, that

throng her royal breast,
Kentucky famed for beauty, and for

achievements high,
Throughout the world today her name ar-
rests the strangers eye;
Grand and radiant as the queen of battles

everywhere
Victorious over all; she spurns the gQld-

-bribes that ensnare.

In peace the gracious lovely queen, with

winning in her smile
At home in court or cam>p is she, and

gentle without guile,
'Shall we not iprize from her today, this

glorious heritage
And from her hand it down to all, unsoiled

from age to age.

Kentucky our mother-queen, shall she not

ever see
For all her love and all her gifts so

ibounteous and ,so free,
Some recognition in return, reward that's

rare and good
Upon her birthday of all days, not of gold.

stone, or wood.

We cannot bring her splendid gifts, our

queen is now too rich
Her wide domain abounds in gold, and

gems in many a niche,
But we can bring her hearts all 'brave, and

love that's strong and true
And We can spare her tears a-more as

bitter as the I'ue,
And we can spare her blame the more for

scarlet sins and shame.
That crimson cheeks and brow as with, a

sheet of fiery flame,
We cannot now undo her past, deep pur-

. ipled oft with pain,
But we can spare her noble brow, hence-
forth another stain.

And thank her for this lovely land, in

which to worship God
And thank her for His church that buds

and blooms like Aaron's rod.
And that she keeps in her fair realm, the

art of Hand divine
That formed her hills and fairy scenes, in

woodland, rose and vine,
W^e thank her for the history her gallant

sons have made
In Tabernacle, Senate, Court, where talent

is disi^layed.
To be and do — their motto was — and thujS

they won for her
A name for charm, like song that o'er

Kentuckians bosoms stir.

'^On fame'0 eternal camping ground/' If Ood

re&erves such ground
And keeps a band of glory there to "guard

with solemn round,"
^Wihere banners furled and voiceless drums

o*er herbage tents are spread,
We know full well with heroeff there, are

found Kentucky's dead;
Tls there her rjwet — soldier — bard most

famous of the name,
0*Hara to himself and her gives lustre

unto fame,
His gifted harp rang out one song that

round the wide world sped . ,
And now 'tis graven in all tongues,— "The

Bivouac of the Dead."

Siie does not need a poet'0 verse, to praise

her any more.
Her name in song as Queen of States, is

•known from shore to shore,
■But we can pledge her loyalty, we can up-
hold her cause.
And keep the charge our father's kept,

respecting her good laws,
Wie can maintain, for her sweet sake, her

honor and renown
Add day <by day, and year by year, new

jewels to her crown
And in that vow of patriot's love— that

truest love imparts
Crown Her at Her Capitol,— KiENTUOKY,

QUEEN OP HE;ARTS.

KENTUCKY'S PART IN THE WAR OF 1812.

(By Sa)i^uel M. Wilson.)

Within the brief compass of thia
paper, it is, of course, possible to
give little more *than the barest
outline of Kentucky's part in thd
War of 1812. Even the most casual
student of that period of our his-
lorv must have been made aware
of the material and important part
played by Kentuckians in H;hei
arduous struggle. The Ohio Com-
mission for the Perry's Victory
Centennial to bo held at Put-m
Bay in 1913, in its report to the
Governor of Ohio on December 16,
1909, a little more than a year and
a half ago, distinctly recognized
the claims of Kentucky to partici-
pate in this celebration when it
said:

*' Kentucky will be invited to;
join the Lake States in this cele-
bration in view of the numericaJI
strength of the Kentuckians and
their unequaled sacrifices in the
army of Ueneral William Henry
Harrison, whose northwestern
campaign in the War of 1812, was
contemporaneous with the opera-
tions of the .American fleet on tho
Great Lakes, each being indis-
pensable to the other in the final
triumph of the Republic."

Again in the same report, it is
said:

''The military aspect of Ithe cele-
bration, from an historical stand-

point, will take due cognizance
of General Harrison's march
through Ohio from Portsmouth tq
the lakes, his encampment on thq
present site of Fremont, his em-
barkation on board Perry's vie-,
torious fleet, his sojol^rn at Put-in
Bay, his entrance into Michigan,
his liberation of Detroit and hii^
invasion of Canada, culmmating in
the crowning success of his cam-
paign at the Battle of ihe
Thames, October 5th, 1813. The
present physical boundaries of all
the states bordering on the Grertfi
Lakes are due to these military
operations, which were rendered,
possible by Perry's Victory."

War against Great Britain was
declared by the United States on
June 18th, 1812. The campaign in(
the northwest began by the in-
vasion of Canada by General Hull
on the 12th of July of the same|
year. We need not follow him ii^
his blundering policy, which finally,
resulted not only in the surrender!
of his army and of the important
post at Detroit, but of the whole
northwest frontier. In the train
of woe wrought by Hull's incom-i
potency, vacillation and cowardice,
came the massacre at the River.
Baisin of a small party, chiefly;
Kentuckians, sent by Hull to se-
cure his supplies. Fort Mackinao

had been taken by the British on
lhel7thof July, 1812. On the 15th
of August, 1812, occurred the
frightful massacre at Fort Dear-
born, a fortified post located on the
site of the city of Cliicago, and
this massacre, precipitated by
HuU's order to Captain Heald to
evacuate the fort after distribut-
ing the stores to the Indians, was
separated by only a single day
from HulPs own ignominious sur-
render. Events during the second
half year of 1812, in which hos-
tilities were in progress, were any-
thing but creditable or encourag-
ing to the American arms. On the
22nd and 23rd of January, 1813,
occurred the disastrous engage-
ment at Frenchtown between Ken-
tucky soldiers from the command
of General Winchester, and the
combined force of ^British and In-
dians. Nothing could have been
more barbarous than the atrocities
committed, on this mournful oc-
casion, by the Indians, on helpless
prisoners and wounded captives.
A little later, in the month of May,
at Fort Meigs, there occurred an-
other heart-rending disaster when
eight hundred men, under Colonel
William Dudley, were ambushed
and slaughtered by the merciless
savage allies of the British. At
l*ort Meigs or Dudley's Defeat, as
at Frenchtown or Winchester's
Defeat, on the River Raisin, many
Kentuckians took an honorable
part in the conflict, and many
hundreds of them sacrificed their
lives in a desperate struggle with
unrestrained savagery on the
enemy's side and bad generalship
on their own side.

But the tide began to turn in ih^
second siege of Fort Meigs; and ii
gained strength and impetus in the
heroic (iefense of Fort Stephen^;oll,
under the gallant leadership of
that intrepid Kentuckian, Major
(reorge Croghan. The successful
defense of Fort Stephenson on the
2nd of Augus't, 1813, was a fittim;
prelude to the Battle of Lake
Erie on September the lOth^ ami
these two brilliant events pointe^J
logically and irresistibly to the
crowning glory of Harrison's vir-
torv at the River Thnmes on Oc-
tober 5th, 1813.

Under the first call of the Gov
ornraerit for one hundred thousftnd
troops from the militia of the sev
eral states, more than five thou>
and five hundred Kentuckians ha<i
promptly volunteered. This waj?
more, bv a considerable margin,
than Kentucky's appropriate
share. These troops came into
service about the time tliat G-over-
nor Isaac Shelbv, a Revolutionarv
veieran and the hero of Kinsr's
Mountain, was for the second time
elevated to the Chief Maoist raov
of the '* Pioneer Commonwealth."
Shelby's distinguished service?
for his country and his reputation
as a soldier caused everv eve To
turn to him for guidance and lead-
ership in the crisis threatened by
a second war with Great Britain.
The feeling of Kentuckv had b^eit
most eloquently and forcefully
voiced in Congress bv her (li>-
tinguished son, Henry Clay. Xo
tongue had pleaded more earnestly
and insistently in behalf of the
rights of American sailors and of
American shipping than his, and

to his efforts, in lar^e measure, it
mnst be admitted, was finally due
the decisive step taken by our
country in declaring that war.

AV^hen Shelby came to the helm
of State, Kentuckians were chafing
under the disgrace of HulPs sur-
vender and writhing under the bit-
ter agony of the bloody ma&sacrei^
at Fort Meigs, and at the River
Eaisin, In this emergency Gen-
eral Harrison appealed to Gover-
nor Shelby to come to his aid. The
old war-spirit of Shelby himself
A^as raised to the hicrhest pitch»
and on the 13th of July, 1813, he
issued his proclamation calling
for fresh volunteers and promis-
ing to lead them in person against
the enemv.

** Believing as T do,'' said he,
''that the ardor and patriotism of
my countrymen have not abated,
and that they have waited with im-
patience a fair opportunity of
avenging the blood of their butch-
ered friends, I have appointed the
oivst of Aug^ist next, at Newport^
for a general rendezvous of Ken-
tucky volunteers. T will meet vou
there in person. I will lead you
to the field of battle, and share!
^'ith vou the dangers and the hon-
ors of the field.'*

In a letter of August 12, 1813,
addressed to Governor Shelby
from Montpelier, President Madi-
son said: ''If any doubt had ever
existed of the patrioti&m, or
hravery, of the citizens of Ken-
tucky, it would have been turned
into an admiration of both by the
tests to which the war has put
them. Nor could anv who are ac-
quainted with your history and

character wish the military
services of vour fellow-citizens to

be under better direction than
yours. ' '

On August 22, 1813, just at the
moment when, in the language of
Secretary Monroe, ' ' disclaiming
all metaphysical distinctions tend-
ing to enfeeble the Government,"
Governor Shelby was about to lead
his troops far beyond the limits
of the State of which be was the
official head, a handsome sword
was presented to him by the State
of North Carolina. This honor
was conferred by the Old North
State, as ?Ienrj- Clay expressed it,
''in testimony of the sense it en-
tertained of Shelby's conduct at
King's Mountain," in tlie war for
Independence. The presentation
at this particular juncttire ''af-
forded a presage of the new glory
lie was to acquire for himself pud
country in that eventful north-
western campaign."

In answer Sto Shelby's call, twice
as many volunteered as were ex-
pected, but the far-sighted Gover-
nor, measuring the crisis accord-
ing to its true proportions, en-
listed all who offered for servicej
though many more than were al
lowed by the President's call. Con-
trary also to General Harrison's
suircrestion, he moved the militia
on horseback to the scene of war.
To Newport. Ky., the place of
rendezvous, came the best and
bravest men of the Common-
wealth, and from this point, tho
little army of four thousand men.
with Shelby as Senior Maior-Gen-
eral and Commander-in-Chief,
moved northward on September

1st to reinforce Harrison for his
contemplated invasion of Canada.
We canno4 give here the details of
the long and toilsome march.
Every American knows, or should
know, the particulars of Perry *^
splendid fight on Lake Erie, and
of the vigorous campaign which
culminated fo gloriously on the
headwaters of the River Thameb
on Canadian soil. Kentucky bad
a large and honorable share 'in all
these movements. It is a well-
authenticated fact that previous to
his encounter with Barclay, Perry
posted a number of Kentucky rifle^
naen as sharpshooters in the
rigging of his ships. These men,
of course, came from the regi-
ments of Col. Boswell and Col. R
M. Johnson, which had been on
duty at Fort Meigs, or in that
neighborhood, and not from the
later recruits who reached the!
scene of action, under the flag of
Shelby, too late to witness tha
naval engasrement. General Harri-
son, himself, nearly a year before
fihelby joined iiim on Lake Erie,*
had been appointed by Governor
Charles Scott, the ' immediate*
predecessor of Governor Shelby.
a brevet Major-General of Ken-
fncky militia, and in this official
capacity he led the Kentuckirns
into their fight at 'the Thames. The
patriotism of th^ Kentucky;
troops had a memorable example
in the conduct of their venerable
commander, Governor Shelby,
who, in spite of his large militar>'
experience, and the fact that he-
was Harrison's senior bv m.ore
than a score of years, did Tiot hesi*
•tate to serve in the campaign a?

second in command. This mag-
naniinity was keenly appreciated
by General Harrison. In his of-
ficial report he said:

**In communicating to the Presi-
dent through you, sir, my opinion
of the conduct of the officers who
served under my command, I am
at a loss how to mention that of
Governor Shelby, being convinced
that no eulogium of mine can
reach his merit. The Governor of
an independent State, greatly my
superior in vears, in experience
and in militarv character, he
placed himself under my com-
mand, and was not more remark-
able for his zeal and activity, than
for the promptitude and cheerful-
ness with which he obeved mv
orders.'^

It was in keeping with th«
generous spirit of self-abnegation
which characterized Governor
Shelby *s behavior in the campaign
under Harrison, that when, a few
years Idter, it was proposed ^q
award him a congressional medaf
of honor for his distinguished
services, he instructed his friend,
Henry Clay, to permit no expres-
sion of thanks to himself, ^.mless
associated with the name of Gen-
eral Harrison. Shortly after-
guards, in an appropriate resolu-
tion, fitting tributes were paid to
both of them for their patriotic
nnd pre-eminent services and a
handsome gold medal, commem-
orative of the Victorv at the
Thames, was awarded to each.
T^ortunate, indeed, was it for Ken-
tucky and for the nation that Isna^'
Shelby directed the militarv af-
fairs of the Commonwealth of

Kentucky during the second war
with England. The grateful com-
monwealth, whose destinies were
entrusted to his guidance during
this trying period, promptly re-
corded its appreciation and its
gratitude in resolutions which de-
clare *'the high estimation in
which they hold the conduct of
their venerable chief magistrate,
Isaac Shelby, in leading the Ken-:
tucky militia into Upper Canada,
to victory and to glory. The
plans and execution of them, were
not the ^ depictions of patriotism,
with which others amuse the ad-,
miring multitude, they weref
splendid realities, which exact our
gratitude and that of his country,
and justly entitle him to the ap-
plause of posterity/'

The battle of the Thames, it has
been said, **was no big thing com-
pared to armies as now organized
smd brought against one another,
but it was immense in its influence
on the War of 1S12. It was likei
the battle of King's Mountain in
the Revolutionary War. It came
at a time when the Americans were
full of gloom. It dispelled that
gloom and displayed a clear sky
io the American armies. Com-
wallia felt as much despair in the'
death of Ferguson as Harrison
felt hope in the flight of Proctor. '*

To a Kentuckian, also, Colonel
Richard M. Jobnson, afterwards
Vice-President of the United
States, is commonly attributed the
feat of havinir slain at the Thames,
in a hand-to-hand encounter,
Tecumseh, the chief of the Shaw-
nees, and the dreaded Indian
scourge and marvelous military*
genius of the Western border.

In the battle of New Orleans,
which occurred on the 8th of
January, 1815, Kentucky was well
and ably represented, and her
sons took an active and useful
part in 'the military operations in
the Southwest, which preceded
this bloody conflict, rendered!
wholly unnecessary (as it after-
ward turned out) by the Treaty;
of Peace, which was signed on De-
cember 24th, 1813.

Just as Henry Clay of Ken-
tucky had been **the impelling
spirit of the war with Great
Britain,'* so it was his ardent zeal
and patriotic eloquence and skill
in diplomacy which carried
through the negotiations for peace
to a successful conclusion. After
completing his mission at Ghent^
he lingered for a time on the con-
tinent, hesitating to cross the
channel, but on hearing of Jack-
son's decisive vidtorv at Now
Orleans, he exclaimed: *'Now I
can go to England without mortifi-
cation.*'

In 1814, when a last requisition
on the State was made by the
Secretary of War, thousands
again answered Shelby's call for
troops to reinforce General Jack-
son in the Southwest. Three regi-
mfents, of twenty-two hundred
men, were accepted and sent to
New Orleans.

Finally, it may make a long
stor^' short and clinch the claims
we Kentuckians make to a lion's
share of the credit for the happy
outcome of this momentous strug-
gle, to sim])ly mention the well-
attested fact that with a total
population of only four hundred
thousand, she furnished for the?

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nation's defense, during the tfired
years of war with England, forty*
regimenlts of volunteer militia, be-
sides a number of battalions and
companies — i. e., over twenty-foui^
thousand men in all, from 1812 ta
1815.

As we have attempted to show,
Kentucky troops made up by far
the largest part of the northwest-
ern army under Harrison. **By
these, mainly, .the shameful sur-
render of Hull, at Detroit, was
retrieved, the victory of the
Thames won, and the British nnd
their Indian allies driven from
the borders, from Detroit to.
Buffalo, for the remainder of the
war." The men who at Fort
Meigs and at the River Raisin
braved the tomahawk and fell be-
fore the war-clubs and scalping
knives of the bloodthirsty Indians
were principally Kentuckians.
Kentucky riflemen perched aloft in
the rigging and on the masts of
Perry's ships picked off the gun-
ners and «ieamen who manned the
British fleet. A gallant Ken-
tuckian, Major George Croghan,

successfnllv defended Fort Steph-
I'

enson. Henry Clay was the orator
and civil gladiator of that war in
the parliamentary struggles and
diplomatic contests which at-
tended it. A Kentuckian, Isaac
Shelby, twice Governor of the
''Pioneer Commonwealth," the
hero of three wars, soldier, states-
man, patriot and model citizen,
was the moving spirit and main-
stay of that war in the West. And
it is worth while to remark that in
nothing was Shelby's military
sagacity more clearly shown than

in his clear appreciation, early in
the contest, of the importance of
securing full control of Lake Erie.
One of his biographers tells us
that ''the necessitv of securinsr the
naval ascendency of Lake Erie
had been forcibly pointed out to
the Government by General Harri-
son, as early as the year 1809, and
that on December 12th, 1812. this;
suggestion was renewed." How
ever that may be, we know that in
an able and impressive commnni-
cation to Mr. Monroe, then Secre-
tary of War, Governor Shelby, on
J'ebruary 21st, 1813, and more than
six mionths before Perry's famous
victory, gave to the Government
the same advice, in the course of
which he used this language:

''The deep extensive swamps,
which lie beftween the frontiers of
the State of Ohio and Detroit, and
which cannot be avoided, present
an almost insurmountable barrier
to advfincing on the west end of
Lake Erie. The efforts which
have been made the last fall an*l
this winter prove that roilte both
difficult and tedious, not only as
it relates to the marching of an
army, but particularly to the
transportation of provisions, ar-
tillerv, and all niilitarv stores, anc?
if relied on the ensuing cam-
})aign, will, I am confident, defeat

the object of the President.^'

# # #

"To avoid future misfortimes
and reanimate the public mind will
it not be advisable to change the
route of advancing into upper
Canada! If the question was
stated to me, I should answer in
the affirmative. Instead of making

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another attempt by land, I would,
sidvise a decisive step to be taken
to secure the superior command of
Lake Erie; which being effected
would prevent the enemy from re-
inforcing his troops in that
ciuarter and the forwarding of
supplies for their use. Succesp
woiild follow every measure
adopted by the Government; ah
the lake can be approached to the
east of Sandusky at several points
without encountering much diffi-
culty, viz: At Cleveland, at the
mouth of Cayahoga; Erie or
Presqualle arid Buffalo. To all or
some of these points the troops
of the United States, provisions
and munitions of war can be con-
ducted and transported without
difficulty or hazard to meet the

necessary transport vessels. ••
• # •

'^I dread the consequence on the
public mind of another abortive
attempt to invade upper Canada
by land on the west of Lako
Erie.'* • •

** Change the route. It will have
H good effect on the public mind,
it will rouse their hope and
excite them to act from the ap-
parent prospect of success crown-
ing their labours, and add to this
the saving an immense expense to
Government. The destruction ofl

waggons, teams, pack-horses, ar-
tillery horses and the consequent
loss of their loads, the wages of
waggon masters, waggoners, pack-
horse masters, their drivers and
the necessary forage, are enorm-
ous under existing circumstances.
By pursuing the route by water
these losses would all be saved and

the expense of transportation only
incurred. '* • • •

**I entreat the President to
think seriously of the proposition.
Weigh it well before he decides.
It is no chimerical project, but an
opinion founded on mature reflec-
tion, and one every reflecting man,
conversant with the coimtry, on the
heads of the Auglaize, of the Great
Miami, of the Ohio, of the Scioto,
of the Sandusky, and that between:
the rapids of the Miami, of the lake
and Detroit will concur in.'*

Had Kentucky faltered or failed
in this crisis, there is no telling
what might have been the un-
speakable result.

Apart from its significance as
one of the series oif substantial
victories which at last enabled us
to triumph over Great Britain, the
battle of the Thames, to which we
Kentuckians are accustomed to
think Perry's victory was merely
a preliminary incident, **practic-
allv ended the Indian wars in the
Northwest and at once secured full
control of Michigan, Indiana and
Illinois for settlement,'' to say
nothing of Wisconsin, Minnesota
and the region beyond.

It is to commemorate the virtues
and patriotism and achievements
of all these deathless heroes, those
who served on the land as well as
those who served on these wide-
spreading inland seas, that this
movement for a centennial celebra-
tion and the erection of a suitable
and durable memorial at Put-in
Bay, Ohio, in 1913, has been inau-
gurated. Monuments there are in!
obscure corners of tlie world to
some few of the more conspicuous

Ragliter of the KMUtcfcy tUU HIsUriMi ••olaljr.

leaders, but neither to the privates
in the ranks nor to the connnand-
ers in that mighty drnma have
adeqnate memorials anywhere, as
yet, been reared, unless we except
the powerful and popnlons stat«s
which have since been carved ont

of the vast domain, which their
arms and valor saved to the Unii»i.
And after all, it may be the poet's
words acclaim their praises best:

"Their fain« ahrlnkA not to namM ud datw
On Totlvs Bton*. tb« prey of tlmn—
Behold wti«re ntoiKimcmUl fiUtet
ImmorUillie tlwlr Uvea >ubllm«!"

Letter of Samuel R. Overton

Waller Overton, E^.

[WRITTEN DURING THE WAR OF 1812

LETTER OF SAMUEL R. OVERTON
To Hit Father, Waller Orerton, Esq.

Written during the War of 1812.

Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 4l;h, 1812.
Dear Father:

This is the first favorable op-
portunity which I have had oB
writing you, by private hand,
since I 'left home. As I have noth-
ing of interest to detail to you, in-
dependent of what you have al-
ready heard through other chan-
nels, my letter is written more for
your private satisfaction than fon
the purpose of subscribing any
other end. On Thursday morning,
the 29th ult., myself and John Mc-
Intire set out from Lexington to
Georgetown with the expectation
of proceeding immediatelj*' on the
expedition but were compelled to
remain in the neighborhood of that
place until Saturday in order to
augment our force as much as pos-
sible. I did not wish to return dur-
ing this interval, and was invited to
remain at James Johnson's, who
has since been elected as the cap-
tain of our company— Richard M.
Johnson having been appointed as
one of General Harrison's aides.

We travelled on Saturday about
ten miles, a small distance beyond
Little Eagle Creek. On the suc-
ceeding day we travelled upwards
of thirty miles to a Mr. Brum-
back's; and on the third day

(which was Monday) reached the|
Ohio about three o'clock in the
evening. We encamped about half
a mile from the river on the Ken-
tucky side, until Thursday when
we crossed over and marched ta
the ground a small distance below;
where Wayne's army lay a num-
ber of years ago, and from whence
we shall set out on tomorrow.

When we left Georgetown we
had about thirty men — some
joined us on the road, and aften
reaching the Ohio, and before wei
crossed it, we were augmented by
about twenty men from HarrisonI
county — the whole amounting at
this time to about sixty-five or
seventy men. Since crossing thd
river, two other companies— one
from Mason county and the othen
from Franklin — the first com-
manded by Captain Ward, and the
second by Captain Arnold, have
pitched their tents on the same
ground with us, so that we now
compose a rifle regiment of about
350 men, all of promising appear-
ance, and some of the oldest and
best Indian warriors in the
country.

We were detained here, for the
purpose of waiting their arrival^
and in order that we might dra\f

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arms and ammtinition for tb^
expedition. Some of our compan}^
came on without guns, and have
drawn muskets, 7,000 of which
have been lately received at the
arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Those
men will now be enabled to draw
rifles as two keel boats arrived
last evening laden with swords,
pistols and rifles.

Pogue's regiment is now en-
camped at Newport, and the regi-
ments commanded by Cols. Jen-
nings and Barbee are expected on
tomorrow. Col. SimmeralPs regi-
ment of horse are also encamped
on the KentuoJcy side, and will
probably go on with ns as theii^
arms have arrived. When thd
horse first arrived they expected
to draw muskets, which created
great dissatisfaction and murmur-
ing. They were addressed upon the*
subject by B. M. Johnson in a pub-
lic speech, after which the Colonel
requested every man who was dis^
posed to* go to follow him, which
they did except four, who refused
and who were compelled to return
with the indignation of the regi-
ment heaped upon them. ^ Ari
swords and pistols have arrived
this obstacle will now be removed.

I have never been so healthy in
my life. By sleeping with my feet
to the fire, I have had no colds, al-
though I have laid on the ground
and been quite wet. Your obser-
vations on this subject have often!
occurred to me. When I reached
Newport, I thought proper to get
me a checked shirt, as our linen
became dirty in a very fthort time.
Myself and Mr. Mclntire went to
the store of a Mr. Southgate (whoi

married a daughter of old Doctor
Hyne's) and purchased the check}
and was reconomended by thia
merchant to get them made by a
widow Taylor. Upon calling on,
lier we found old Mrs. Hyne and
the doctor there, who knew my
relations — professed to be glad to
see me, and treated us kindly. Mrs.
Taylor is the widow of Edmund
Taylor (a brother of Hubbard
Taylor), and the daughter of Dr.
Hyne. Her husband died about a
year ago, and her father and
naother have been with her ever
since. By her invitation we dined
and supped with her, and she
would have nothing for making
our shirts — preferred to render
us any other service and to
furnish us with provisions. This
liberality I never shall forget. A
number of the militia taken imder
Hull have arrived at their re-
spective homes. I have conversed
with one who lives in this place,
who corroborates the mass of in-
formation which has reached you.
A great number of volunteers hav€J
gone from Ohio to protect the
frontiers and relieve Fort Wayne.
Harrison's army are about sev-
enty miles ahead of us and will
probably halt at Piqua until the
whole reinforcement from Ken-
tucky joins him. Harrison ig
popular, and will probably acquire
as^ much fame as ever did General
Wayne. Tt is for him to redeem
what Hull has lost. Expectation
is high on this subject. Harrison
will obtain an overwhelming force,
and profit by the disaster of Hull.
His troops are of the choicest
kind — full of fire and indignation,

Reglttef* of the Kentucky State Hletorieal ftoclety.

and anxious to wipe off the dis-
grace of Huirs unparalleled sur-
render. Harrison *s appoin tment
will make an immense impression
upon the Indians together with his
commanding Kentuckians, whos^
warriors understand their mode of
fighting, and whose hunting*-,
shirts excite serious apprehension
amongst them. Harrison, I under-
stand, has sent on to Philadelphia
for heavy cannon, in addition to
some which is now said to be on
the river.

When this ordnance arrives^
and the whole army should be
embodied, there will scarcely bo

anything we cannot effect. Wtf
shall be entitled to square accounts
with the Indians and British,
should the war be carried on witM
equal vigor by General Dearbome.

If the Government will now act
with energy, and call their re-
sources into active operation, i
think we can, this fall* take upper
Canada — chastise the Indians, and
next spring, sweep the whole of
the British possessions in North'
America,

My love and respects to all my
friends and relatives.

Saml. R. Overton. :

Wa^ller Overton, Esq. i

Kentuckians in the Battle of Lake Elrie

A. C. Quisenberry

KENTUCKIANS IN THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE.

(By A. C. Quisenberry.)

In its operations on the Cana-
dian border, the War of 1812, from
the beginning until the Battle of
Lake Erie, was one continuous
cloud of black disaster for the
American arms. The only ray of
kindly light amidst the encircling
gloom upoB that far-flung battle
line was the heroic defense of Fort
Stephenson by Major George
Croghan ( pronounced * ' Cr awn ' ' )
a gallant Kentuckian, barely twen-
ty-one years old; who, with one
hundred and sixty men, repulsel
and defeated with great slaughter
a force of sixteen hundred British
and Indians. A splendid monu-
ment has since been erected to his
memory in the city of Fremont.
Ohio, which is built upon the sitd
of Fort Stephenson.

The occupancy of Lake Erie by
a string British fleet placed the
Americans at a marked disadvan-
tage in all the military operations
on the northwestern border. To
overcome this, Congress author-
ized the construction of a fleet,
which was built near Erie, Pa.,
and which consisted of nine small
vessels, of which the Lawrence
and the Niagara alone were aaj
formidable as the vessels of the
British fleet em ihe lake. When
the American fleet was completed
it was placed under the command

of Lieutenant Oliver Hazzard
Perry, of the United States Navy,
who had supervised the construc-
tion of the vessels. Perry found
himself hampered by the great dis
advantage of being unable to prop
erly man his ships so as to enable
him to meet the British fleet with
any reasonable prospect of suc«
cess. Seamen and marines that
had been promised him by the
Secretary of the Navy and by
Commodore Chauncey, were not
furnished, and his little fleet
seemed in a fair way to fall a prey
to the enemy for lack of men to
man it. This being the state of
affairs, on Augiut 31, 1813, just
ten days before the Battle of Lake
Erie (September 10, 1813), Gen-
eral William Henry Harrison, who
commanded our land forces in
that vicinity, called for volunteers
among his troops to help man
Perry's ships as marines. About
one hundred and twenty men re-
sponded, about one hundred of
whom were Kentucky militiamen.
Mackenzie 'si **Life of Oliver
Hazzard Perry," in referring to
this event, says:

*'0n the 31 St of August, 1813,
while lying in Put-in Bay, Perry
received from General Harrison a^
reinforcement of near one hundred
men, which, after deducting a few:

deaths and others left on shore as
useless at Erie, Pennsylvania^
carried the total of his muster roll
to four hundred and ninety souls.
Some of the men who had beeix
selected from General MacAr-
thur's brigade were lake or nver
boatmen, and were received as sea*
men. I^he majority, however, were
intended to perform duty as ma-
rines in the squadron, in conse-
quence of the disappointment in
receiving the expected guard f ron\
Ontario. The men detailed for
this service were chiefly taken
from the Kentucky militia and
from the 28th Regiment of In-
fantry (regulars), which had re-
cently joined the army from Ken-
tucky, where it had been entirely
raised. The whole party, officers
and men included, were volunteers,
led by a spirit of adventure to em-
bark in an enterprise so different
from the previous habits of their
life. Few of them had ever seen
a vessel before they were marched
to the mouth of the Sandusky, and
their astonishment and curiosity
when they got on board was irre-
pressible. They climbed to the
masthead; dove to the bottom of
the hold; passed without stopping
or understanding any distinction,
from the sick-bay to the captain's
cabin, expressing their admiration
as they went in awkward but
rapturous terms. These Ken-
tuckians were dressed in their
favorite linsey-woolsey hunting
shirts and drawers, and were
themselves equally an object of
curiositv to the officers and sea-
men, few of whom had ever seen
any of these hardy borderers.

Perry, for a time, was amused
with the rest; but began erelong
to fear that his extraordinary
marines would lend but little as-
sistance in their appropriate office
of sustaining the discipline and
etiquette of the squadron. Soon
after their arrival he briefly stateil
to the non-commissioned officer in
conmiand of that portion of tho
detachment which had been de-
tailed for his own vessel the nature
of the dttties that would be re-
quired of them, and the line of
conduct they would be required to
l)reserve. The officer then mus-
tered his men on deck and in-
formed them that they had been
kindly indulged by Commodore
Perry with an opportunity of
ghitifying their curiosity by see-
ing the ship, in doing which tliey
bad been permitted to violate thei
rules and discipline of the sea
service without rebuke. They
must now come to order, and sub-
mit themselves to the usual dis-
cipline of marines, confine them-
selves to their proper places, and
attend to their appropriate duties,
which were forthwith explained tof
them. The stout Kentuckians took
the admonition in good part; theyi
carefully conformed to all that was
required of them, were of essential
use in manning the squadron and
replacing the marines and seamen
which ComuKwiore Chauncey had
withheld; and their associatioa
with Perry was, to such of them!
as survived to tell the tale of their
adventures, a special and endur-
ing source of gratification.'*

The same book, in speaking of
the inferiority of Perry's forces as

compared with the long-trained
soldiers and sailors in the British
fleet opposing him, says:

**The Kentucky volunteers were
stout fellows, it is true, with gal-
lant spirits, but utter strangers to
ships and unaccustomed to discip-
line. Those who have been accus-.
tomed to look upon the picked
soldiers of a British regiment will
readily believe that the soldiera
embarked in the British squadron
were not less stout than the Ken-

tuekians/'

-» • •

On September 10, 1813, Perry
sailed out of Put-in Bav with his
little squadron, and gave battle to
the English squadron, which was
under the command of Commodore
Robert Heriot Barclay, a dis-
tinguished English naval officer,
who bad served under the redoubt-
able Nelson, and had lost an arm
at Trafalgar. The British ships,
though fewer in number by two,
were better armed and better
manned, and carried more guns
than Perry's vessels. After a holj
contest at close range lasting for
several hours, the English ran up
the white flag, and surrendered at
discretion. This disastrous de-
feat shocked the pride of Great
Britain almost as much as did the
subsequent defeat on land at Now
Orleans. Perr>''s victory at the
Battle of liake Erie ranks with thej
later feats of Dewey at Manilai
and Schley at Santiago. The Ken-i
tucky riflemen on board his vessels
were all skilled marksmen, and it
is said that they contributied
greatly to the victory by picking
off the officers and men on the

British ships almost at will. Thd
British vessels were manned by
five hundred and two officers and
men, of whom more than four hun-
dred were killed or wounded. The^
American loss, killed and wounded,i
was one hundred and twenty-three,
out of four hundred and ninety-
two officers and men. Probably
it will never be known how
many of the Kentucky rifle-
men were killed or wounded. The
Superintendent of Naval Eecords^
Navy Department, Washington, D.
C, in a letter to the writer of this
sketch, said: '* After the battle
Commodore Perry spoke most
highly of all these men as conform-
ing strictly to all required of them,
and rendering essential service in
manning the vessels.''

Lake Erie being cleared of th€|
British fleet, within a few weeksi
afterwards. General Harrison
marched an army of Kentuckians
into Canada in pursuit of the Brit-^
ish General Proctor, whose army
lie completely destroved at the Bat-
tle of the Thames. This put an end
to military operations on the
northwestern border for the re-
mainder of the war. The long
train of American disasters in
that section was over for good and
all.

The few brief accounts that have
come down to us establish the un-
doubted value of the services of
Kentucky volunteer riflemen in
the Battle of Lake Erie. The fol-
lowing are the references of thq
Kentucky historians to the matter:

8haler—'^\n Perry's ship fight
on Lake Erie a force of Ken

fUgisUr of th« Mntuefcy StaU H^ttorlcal aoel«ty.

tttckions served as musketeers,
n^ere they did good service."

Smith — ^"^ General Harrison had
detailed the company of Captain
Stockton and about twenty men
from the company of Captain
Payne, all Kentucky volfmteers,
as marines and sharpshooters on
Board the fleet of Commodore
Terry — ^in all iU>out one hundred
men/'

Collins — ''A detachment of one
hundred and fifty of the Kentucky
volunteers served on Perry's fle^'
as marines, and upon this new ele^
ment acquitted themselves with the
greatest bravery."

Until quite reeentlv no list of the
names of those gaflant Kentuck-
ians was known to be in existence^
In 1859, while the matter of erect-
ing a monument to -CiHnmodore
Perry in Cleveland, Ohio, was be-
ing agitated throughout the coun-
try, there was a great revival of
interest in the glorious naval vic-i
tory of Lake Erie, and it was then
<or soon afterwards) discovered
that six of the Kentuekians, who
had fought as sharpshooters in the
rigging of Perry's ships, were
still alive. Their names were:

James Artus, of Mason county;
Dr. William Thornton Taliaferro,
of Cincinnati, but late of Ken-
tvLcky; John Tucker, of Masom
county; John Norris, of Boone!
county; Samuel Hatfield, of Floyd
county, and Ezra Younglove,
county not stated. i

On February 11, 1860, the Ken-
tucky Legislature passed the fol-
lowing resolution:

^'Resolved by the General As-
semhlg of the Commofiwealth of
Kentucky:

•*That the Governor of thl^i
Commonwealth be, and Le ia;
hereby, authorized and directed toj'
procure suitable gold medals, witli
appropriate inscriptions and de^
vices, and in the name of the State
of Kentucky to present to each of
the surviving officers and soldiers^
of the Kentucky volunteers who
were present and participated in]
tlie memorable engagement be-
tween the American and British
naval forces on I^ake Erie on the)
TOth of September, 1813, as ^
token of the grateful recollection
in which the people of the Statq
hold^ their brave and patriotic
services on that day, and the im-
perishable renown which that bril^
liant victory achieved for theii^
common country/'

In the course of time every ond
of the above named survivors re-
ceived his gold medal — ^the medalj

costing $110.00 each.

• • •

The writer of this article, be-
lieving that the Navy Deparbnent
at Washington would have among
its archives a roll of the Ken-
tuekians who fought on Perry 'ai
ft.hips, on July 31, 1911, addressed
a letter to that Department on thfs
subject, and after an interval of
two weeks received from the Su-
perintendent of Library and Navat
Records, of the Navy Department,
the subjoined list of about on€i
hundred names. Soon after the
Battle of Tiake Erie each of the
men on the list received $214.89 as
iiis part of the prize money;
awarded bv the Government for
the capture of the British fleet.

Colonel Bennett H. Young, in
his monograph on **The Battle of

ft tg it fr of tli« KtrtMoky tteto Hi«l*rl««l to$l#ty.

the Thames" (Fiteon Club Public
cation No. 18)^ aays speaking of
the Battle of Lake Erie :

^'Tbe loss on. the British side
largely exceeded that on thei
American. The Kwitudty rifle-
men in the masts of Perry 'sj
vessels shot down every man that
was visiUe. • • •

•'The Kentucky riflemen played
a most important part in Perry's
triumph. History has never giveui
them the credit they deserve. It!
it certain that a large pait^ of
them were volunteera whose time
had expired before the great
naval conflict Six of them werei
living as late as 1868, and thei
names of these surviTors alone arel
preserved. • • •

''The service of these militia-
men was perilous and difficult iut
the extreme. The British com^
modore had secured a number of
Indians for a like duty on the
£Bglish ships, but the moving of
the masts and the strange and un-^
nsual character of the work caused
them to refuse to perform their
appointed tasks, and they aban-
doned their allies. Not so with
these Kentuckians. They ascended
the masts with alacrity; they)
sought the service. Unaccustomed-
to the sea, placed high above the|
decks, subjected to an imusual mo-
tion for landsmen, with the in-
creased danger of death by falling!
or drowning, and with largely!
augmented chances of destruction
by cannonade and shivered tim-
bers, these gallant soldiers perched
themselves in the netgfais of thei
sails and plied their work of death

amid greatest perils and with calm
and undismayed hearts.

"Under the conditions thert
surrounding them, few men who^
fought in the War of 181 2 engaged
in a more dangerous ser\'ice, ex-
hibited a higher degree of true
courage, or manifested a nobleil
patriotism than these Kentucky]
riflemen who fought from Com-
modore Perry's masts, and who by,
their accurate aim inflicted a tre-
mendous loss upon their ^aemies.
And it is especiaUy to be iv>tec|
that at the time of their perform-
ing this patriotic duty more thani
one-half of them had been dis^
charged by the expiration of their
time of enlistment.

"The names of these men arei
justly entitled to a place ameng^
Kentucky's noblest heroes, and!
they ought to be oarved on the|
moniunent which the Common-
wealth has erected in its capital to
perpetuate the memory of her most
illustrious sons.'*

And here follow their names, to-
wit:

Captain George Stockton, 2SiH
Infantry.

Lieutenant James Cobum, Vol-
unteers.

Sergeant Sanford A. Mason.

Sergeant Ijevi Ellis.

Sergeant Jai&es Artus. (Living
in 1868.)

Corporal John Brown.

Corporal Andrew B. Scott.

Corporal Joseph Betrry.

Corporal William Webster.

Corporal David Little.

Corporal William Thornton
Taliaferro. (living in 1868.)

PRIVATES.

Thomas Anderson.

James Bailev.

John Bates.

Joseph Beckley.

Josiah Biggs.

Mica j ah Bland.

David L. Blaney.

William Bonner. i

Gilbert Bowman.

John Bromwell. ;

David Bryant.

Griflfin Burnett.

Francis Burns.

Thomas Cnvill.

John B. Chotwood.

John CliflFord.

London Cochran.

Samuel Cochran.

Charles Colrick.

Henry Cook.

Eben Cunningham.

Joseph Davidson.

John Decker.

Joseph Delaney.

John Denton.

Isaac Devault.

George W. Drake.

John B. Duncanson.

William Ellis.

David Flagg.

Sim Flaherty.

Rush Garrett.

John H. George.

Tjewis Gordon.

Isaac Green. (Badlv wounded
on the '^Ariol.-')

Samuel Hatfield. (Liviner in
3868.)

John Hall.

Jesse Harlan. (Killed on the
** Lawrence.-')

Charles Harrington.

Har. C. Harrington.

Charles Harten.

William Henry.
David Hickman.
William Hocker.
William Hockersmith.

Holiday.

Parker Jarvis.
-Abraham Johnson.
Philip Johnson.
John C. Kelley. (Killed on the
** Lawrence. ' ^)

Ezra Killey.

Conrad King.

John Ludd.

Thomas Luft (or Tufft).

Thomas Lvman.

John McCartv.

•

Alexander McCord.
John McCoy.
Moses McGamey.
John McHowell.
Samuel McKenney.
George McManomy.
Daniel MaJtzbocker.
John Marless.
John Martin.

John Nailes. (Slightly wounded
on the *^Aricl.'')

William Nelson.

John Norris. (Living in 18C8.)

John Osbnrn.

Isaac Perkins.

William B. Perkins.

Joseph Pomeroy.

William Reed.

.Tohn Reems.

Henrv Roberts.

John Rodgers.

Samuel Roof.

William Smith.

Charles Smothers.

Marlen Swift.

Henry Tate.

John ThomT)son.

Samuel Thramin.

Aaron Trapnall.

John Tncker. (Living in 1868.), Freeman "West.

Thomas Tiifft. Abner Williams. {Killed on the

PredericE Vantince. "Lawrence.")

Lewis Vauway. Alexander Wright.

Henrr Webster. Ezra Younglove. (Living in

Edward Welsh. , 1868.)

Historical and Genealogical Department

RANDOLPHS AND RAILEY CONNECTIONS

Continued From May Register

WM. E. RAILEY

In ord€r to meet the continued d>e«
mand for the May Register, 1911, contain-
ing: Randol'ph-Railey Genealogy and history,
vhich exhaueted that issue though largely
increased for it, we now republish the
article to sufpply the demand for that

chapter and hope in this way we may
meet the calls for this Randol^ph-Railey
history, which is one of the most com-
plete and valuable ever published in the
south of any of its distinguished people.
— ^Editor the Register.

WJl. E, RAILEY,

Author of

The Randolph-Halley

Genealogy.

THE RANDOLPHS AND THEIR RAILEY CONNECTIONS.

John Kailey, b. Dec, 1721; jxu
{Nov. 1750) EJizitbeth Eandolph,
b. 1727.

A RECORD OF THEIR DESCENDANTS;

Railey Coat-of-Arms :

or, a band vair between nine
crosses, crosslet qu crest a lion
vamp ppr.

John Bailey-Elizaebth Ban- '

DOLPH.

A review of the tables submitted
bhows that the Baileys intermar-
ried with the Randolphs, Wood-
^ons, Mayos, Pleasants, Keiths andj
Strothers of Virginia. John,
Railey, the progenitor of the V^ir-
ginia and Kentucky families of
that name was an Englishman who
delighted in fine horses and rural
life, and his estate " Stonehenge, ' '
in Chesterfield county, Va., thir-
teen miles from Bichmond, was
noted for its fine stock, and very
many of his descendants to this
period have .followed his example.
He was bitterly opposed to Eng-
lish sovereignty over the colonies,
^hilo the Randolphs were just as
intense Boyalists, filling very
many of the commanding positions
of trust in the colonies by grace
of the ruling authorities in Eng-
land, and when John Railey won
the heart of Elizabeth Bandolpb
and asked for her hand in mar-
riage the family objected on ac-

count of his views touching the ob-
ligations of the colonies to the
mother country. In order to
break of£ the engagement Eliza-
beth Bandolph was sent to ** Shad-
well,'* the home of her sister, Mrs.
Peter Jefferson, with instructions
to prevent an elopement and to
close all avenues .of communica-
lion, which as usual was not suc-
cessfully carried out. Soon there-
after by pre arrangement a meet-
ing took place at the home of
Major Hughes, a mutual friend
who lived on tlie opposite side of
the river from **ShadwelV' Eliza-
beth persuading the negro ferry-
man **Scipio** to row her across^
the river. From the home of Major
Hughes they eloped to North
Carolina where they married In
]750. Soon thereafter a reconcilia-
tion was brought about. Captain
Isham Randolph, the ?lder brother
of Elizabeth, then an officer in the
Navy, being the medium, but John
Railey never surrendered his con-
victions on the question of the
freedom of the colonies and lived!
until the American Revolution had
accom])lished what he had so long
hoped for, but the death of his son
John at the battle of Norfolk and
the loss of his wife in 1782
hastened his death in 1783. The
descendants of his ten children
who married .and raised families
are now scattered from the Atlan-

tic to Ibe Pacilic and from the Gulf
to the Great Lakes. I find that
some members of all of these
branches have kept a record that
passed down to them, and for thall
reason my work has mainly been
handicapped in an effort to locate
these people and get them suffi-
ciently interested to reply to my
inquiries. John Bailey and his
wife, Elizabeth Randolph, and Col.
John Woodson and his wife,
Dorothy E.-mdolph, thoroughly ac-
quainted their children with the
historical facts touching their
family connections and they have
been handed down from genera-
tion to generation. In fact a family
tree started by John Railey and
his wife is now in possession of
the Rev. Fleming G. Railey, a
Presbyterian minister of Selma,
Alabama. Though I have never
seen it, or had any assistance
from it in my work, I am told that
it brings the descendants down to
about 1850 with much historical in-
formation, and traditions of col-
onial days touching all of the fam-
ilies connected with the Raileys by
marriage. The Rev. Fleming G.
Railey has lead me to believe for
many years that he intended to
publish a history of these families
and for that reason the family tree
has given me no aid in my work.
While I am sure that his intentions
have been good all these years, I
am doubtful if he ever takes tim0
from his ministerial duties, exaxjt-
ing as I know they are, to carry
out his purpose to publish a his-
tory.

Having made notes of conver-
sations between my mother anci
some of the older relatives when I

was a mere boy, I decided more
than twenty years ago to make as
complete a record of these people
as possible. In doing so I have
spent much money, devoted much
time that ordinarily would be
given to pleasure and recreation,
encountered much necessary delay
in prosecuting the work on account
of either tardiness or indiflferenc€|
upon the part of so many of the
r datives who couldn't appreciate
my anxiety to complete the work,
and the worry that must ensue
from trying to keep all of the cor-
respondence and the disconnected
and incomplete replies they would
send me in mind, but I feel more
than repaid when I recall so many
nice letters received from many
relatives that I have never had the
pleasure of knowing personally.
As I said earlier in this brief
sketch many of John Railey 's de
scendants followed his example in
choosing rural life where they take
much pride in fine stock, but the
majority of them have pursued
mercantile channels, while a num-
ber have been lawyers, doctors,
bankers and preachers, but none
of them have ever been conspicu-
ous in the political arena, I ani
glad to say, yet they are almost
universally Thomas Jefferson
I)emocrats politically, and Presby-
terians and Methodists in religioii,
but largely the former. My cor-
respondence with all of these peo-
ple leads me to say that all of them
take great pride in good citizen-
ship and conduct themselves in
such a manner as to command the
highest esteem in their respective
localities. Those wlio have borne
arms in war have been without ex^

eeption very young men and for
that reason few have reached
liisrher rank than Colonel, hut all
of them have been to the forefront
in civic righteousness. It is un-
usual, hut it is true, that none of
these people have ever been drunk-
ords or gamblers. In fact 'I have
never heard of one that was not
a member of some church. Thd
leading traits that have character-
ized these people are self-reliance,
self-respect and a sense of right as
a guide to their opinions ana
actions, then a total disregard of
the blame or approval of the world
around them. I attribute these!
virtues, so universally characteris-
tic of the various branches of
John Bailey's family, to the fact
that his children were thoroughly
conversant with the history of
their ancestors and have sacredly,
but modestly, passed it down to
sncceeding generations as a guide
to good citizenship. Hence I am a
heliever in the study of genealogy,
helieving it altogether worthy and
commendable, and the man who
says nay will stake his money
every time on a pedigreed horse
and assume much dignity in dis-
onssing the pedigree of animals.
He thus ranks the animal above
the man. The ultimate course of
Mich people is toward the haunt a
of vice, while men and women who
take pride in the noble attributes
of their forefathers will, as a rule,
^^ found leading movements for
the betterment of the moral condi-
tions around them. Family geneal-
ogies and traditions ought to have
a higher place in the social and
religious world. While it may

build up vanity or a false pride
among a few. it will give stamina
and manhood 1o the greater num-
ber, and in doing the proper and
sensible thing ourselves we pro-
duce higher ideals in those around
us, and by handing those traits
down to future ffenerations we are
making the world better.

John R^iley-Elizabeth Ran-
dolph.

Their descendants:

John Railey, Jr., ^ bom 1752.
Enlisted in the Revolution and wag
killed at the battle of Norfolk. He
was the first born of John Railey
and Elizabeth Randolph. "

Thomas Railev, ^ bom Sept. 22,
1754, died 1822. '

Married Martha Woodson, Dee.
21, 1786.

Thomas Railey, Jr., * bom 1787,
died 1821.

Married Sarah Railey, 1820.

William Randolph Railev, * bom
1821, died 1840.

George Woodson Railey, ' bom
1789, died 1846.

First married Maria Bullock,
1822.

Second Annie Marshall.

Elizabeth Woodson Railey, *
born 1823, died 1839.

Georgie Ellen Railey, * born — ^
died young.

P. I. Railey, ^ born March 16,
1793, died July 1, 1832.

Married Judith Woodson Raileji
Aug. 21, 1817.

Martha Woodson Railey, * bora
Feb. 10, 1820, died March 19, 1837.

Richard Henry Railey, * bom.
April 26, 1823, died Oct. 3, 1888. )

R«gi«t«r of the Kentucky Bute Hlttorlcal Society^

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

William Edward Bailey, ^ bord
Dec. 25, 1852.

Married Annie H. Owslev, May
26, 1886.

Jennie Farris Bailey, • bom
Jnne 28, 1887.

Bertha Hontas Bailey, ^ born
April 26, 1854.

Married 1st Charles Bandolph
Darnell, 18S2, no issue.

Married 2nd, P. D. McBride,
1892, no issue.

P. Woodson Bailey, ^ bom July
24, 1864.

P. I. Bailey, Jr., * bom Aug. 25,
1829.

Married 1st Sarah E. Frazier,
Oct. 22, 1851.

Married 2nd Bebecca Gough,
1861, no issue.

Married 3rd Seville Church,
1898, no issue.

Josephine Bailey, ^ born Sept.
22, 1852.

Married Bobert Ward Macey^
Nov. 21, 1872.

Pattie Bailey Macev, ® bom
Mar. 24, 1876.

Sadie Macey, • bom June 7,
1877.

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

Bailey Woodson Macey, ® bom.
Aug. 30, 1881.

Thomas Jefferson Bailey, * bom
Jan. 10, 1S31, died Aug. 18, 1851.

Laura Bailey, * born Aug. 20,
1832, died Aug! 24, 1849.

Mary Bailev, * bom 1795, died
May, i817.

Married Phillip Woodson.

Mary Woodson. *
Married Augustine Withers.

Augustine Withers, Jr. '

Marv Woodson Withers, ^ died
July 13, 1883.

Married H. P. Huff, 1873.

Susan Withers^ Huff. ®

Married E. H. Foster, April 3,
1901.

Susan Bailey Withers. ^

Married James B. White.

Lawson White. •

Ellen White. «

Married W. W. Newman.

Susan Withers Newman. "^

Margaret White Newman. ^
Augustine White. ®
Maria Withers. "
Married Sandy White.
Jane Bailey, "^ bom 1794, died
Nov. 28, 1865.

Married John Berryman, Aug.
9, 1819.

Mary Elizabeth Berryman, *
bom June 5, IS20, died June 4,
1905.

Married George Hamet Gary,
Sept. 1, 1840.

Alice Gary, ^ bom May 20, 1S43,
died Mar. 29, 1899.

Married Daniel B. Price, Oct.
17, 1867.

Jennie Gary Price, ® bom Aug.
16. 1868.

Married W. L. Smith, May 20,
1890.

Mary liOuise Price, ® bom Apnt

2, 1870.

Married Preston H. Williams,
Dec. 27, 1888.

Daniel B. Price, ® bom Feb. 7j
1872.

Married Ada Alice Inerles, Jnntf

3, 1909. ^ i
Alice Gary Price, ^ born Sept.

14, 1875.

Married John Faulkner, June
27 1907.
~ Arthur Gary, » bom Oct. 1, 1841.

Married 1st Fanny Graddy, Dec.
C, 1876.

Married 2nd, Sidney Say re Bell,
P'eb. 12, 1895.

Graddy Car^''. • bom April 6,
1878.

Married Marie Burnett, Jan. 17,
1907.

John B. Gary, " born Sept. 18,
1846.

Jane Eailey Cary, ' born Nov. 1,
1849.

Married Charles S. Tabb, Dec.
?0. 1876.

George Carv Tabb, • bom Feb.
o, 1880.

Arthur Tabb, « bom Oct. 20,
1881.

Marv Clifton Tabb, • bom Sept.
19, 1891.

George Hamet Cary, Jr., ' bom
NoV. 12, 1850 ; died April 16, 1895.

Married Mary White, May 19,
1887.

James Cary, ^ born Apiil 18.
1888

Mary Cary, " bora Aug. 8, 1890.

Mattie Cary, • bom Sept. 6.
1891.

Elizabeth Carv, • bom Mav 20,
1893.

Edward Humphrev Carj', ' bom
Nov. 7, 1853.

Married Eebecca Hunter Wick-
liffe, Dec. IS, 1879.

Hallie Gary, • bom May 12,
1882.

Logan Wiokliffe Carv, " born
June 24, 1884.

Rhoda Gary, « bom July 1, 1887.

Married Edwin G. Stevens, Oct.
14, 1909.

Martha "Woodson Carv, ' bora
Oct., 1855.

Married Newton G. Crawford,
1884.

Marv Clifton Carv, ' bom Dec.

18, 1862.

Married Brown Craig Craw-
ford, Sept. 30, 1886.

George Cary Crawford, • born
July 4, 1888.

Robert Irvin Crawford, ' bom
Aug. 21, 1889.

James T. Berrvman, * born
April 22, 1822; died June 4, 1879.

Married 1st Theresa Willis.
•Fan.. 1845. .<

2nd Sallie Steele Church, Oct.
8, 18.58.

John W. Berryman, " bom Nov.

19, 1845.

Married Louise Price, June 5,
1867.

Price Berrvman. * bom June 3,
18f)8.

Married Minnie Hemphill, Nov.
24, 1894.

Theresa Willis Berryman, •
bom Aug. 2, 1872.

Married Oliver H. Farra, Oct.
18, 1906.

.Bobert S. Berryman, ® born
April 4, laSO.

Married Euth Gay, May 11,
1904.

James Sthreshley Berryman, ^
born Jan. 9, 1848; died Jan. 1,
1910.

Married Marv Wright, Nov. 7,
3871.

Kate Theresa Berr^Tnan, ** born
Ang. 8, 1872.

Married Howard Sanders, Mar
4, 1899.

Henry Berry^man Sanders, '^
bom June 10, 1903.

Marv A. Berrvraan, • bom Dec.
4, 1874.

Married H. J. Mead, Sept. 24,
3895.

Mary Belle Mead, '' bom Oct.'
28, 1897.

Dorothv Randolph Mead, " bom
Jan 20, 1899.

Lalla Mead, ^ bora Mar. 8, 1908.

Stuart Robinson Berrynian, •
bora July 18, 1876.

Married Kuuice Wright, Oct. 18,
1908. . .

Stuart Robinson Borryman, '
born July 11, 1909.

James T. Berrvman, • bom
July 17, 1878.

Sue M. Berrvman, ' born Jan.
17, 1881.

MoUie Berrvman. * born May)
21, 1850.

Annie Berrvman, ' bom Dec. 26,
1852. ' i

Married W. Horace Posey, Jnnei
21, 1883.

Genevieve Posey. •

Edith Posey. «

Gary M. Berryman, ^ born July

Married Emma Portwood, Nov.
21, 1888.

Church Berryman, ^ born April
2, 1862.

Claude Berrvman^ ' bom May 5,
1865.

Married Evansreline Leeds.

Clifford Berryman, ^ bom April
2, 1869. * i

Married Kate Durfee.

Hervey Berryman, ^ bom May

12, 1870. ^ .^

Bobt. H. Berryman, * bom ApriJ

17. 1824; died April 4, 1878. j

Married Maria L. Whittington;

June, 1846.

Emma Woodson Berryman, '
bora April 27, 1847.

Married Marvin D. Averill,
June 23, 1869.

Robert A verill, • bom March 23,
1871.

Married Anna Hupp, Aug., 1907.

William Averill, ^ bom Feb. 2,
1873.

Married Cammilla Baskett. Jan.
C, 1897.

Christine Averill, ^ bom Dec. 25,
1897.

Marv Vir2:inia Averill, ^ bora
July lb, 1902.

Alice B. i\verill, "^ born April
12, 1906.

Louise Averill, ® bom Nov. 5,
1877.

Married Eugene D. Woods,
April 11, 1900.

Marvin Averill Woods, ^ bora
Jan. 18, 1901.

Francis D. Woods, ^ bom Jan.

10, 1903.

Bobt. Harvie Woods, '^ bom Jan.

11, 1905.

Emilv Euc:enia Woods, "^ boni
July 30, 1909.

Cornelia Berrvman, ^ bom Jan.
S, 1851 ; died Feb. 9, 1890.

MaiTied Clifton Kennedy, 1869.

Willie Marcia Kennedy, ® born
Dec. 12, 1871.

Married Dr. Albert Posey, Dec.
29, 1896.

Eobert Handy Berrvman, ' bom
Nov. 29, 1854.

Married Nellie Jones, Nov. 29,
1877.

Bessie Berryman, • bom Oct. 19,
1878.

Married Walter D. Franklin,
June 12, 1901.

Ellen Biiford Franklin, "^ bom
Aug. 27, 1902.

Catharine Franklin, ^ bom June
14, 1905.

Robert B. Frjinklin, "^ bom Nov.
24, 1909,

Lela Berrvman. ® bom Feb. 10,

18S8.

Buford Berrvman, ^ bom Mar.
32, 1896.

Marv Viririnia Berrvman, ' born
Feb. 24, 1«56.

Married John W. Crosthwaite,
18S7.

Aileen Crostlnvaite, ® born July
16, 1888.

Mary Virginia Crosthwaite, •
bora June 2, 1890.

Married John C. Krei^er, June,
1907.

Jane Eailey Berrvman, ' born
April 1, 1861.

Married 1 sfc Ed. Reese, 1883.

Married 2nd Edward T. Stan-
ton, 1896. ;

Cornelia Reece, ^ bom Oct. 21,
1887.

Henry T. Stanton, « 1897.

Mattie Berrvman, ^ bom Nov. 4,
1867.

Married D wight McAfee, July
20, 1887,

Irene McAfee, ® born June 3,
1888.

Married Adams Carithers Mc-
Makin, Nov. 10, 1909.

Henry McAfee, • born Jnlv 29,
1890.

Clinton McAfee, • born Avg. 20,

1898.

Walter Berryman, ^ bom April
3, 1880.

Edw. H. Berrvman, * bom Mar.
14, 1826 : died Dec. 26, 1896.

Married Sal lie Willis. May 27,
1852.

Willis N. Berrvman. ^ bom
April n, 1853: died Aug. 22, 1881.

Married Elizabeth Scearce, Oct.
5, 1876.

Julia Berr^Tnan, ® born April 17,
1880.

Theresa Woodson Berrvman, ^
born June 15, 1854.

Married William S. Barbour,
June 15, 1882.

Robert Berryman, ^ born Oct. 6,
1862; died May 12, 1903.

Married Beile Portwood, 1890.

Barbour Berryman, ® born May
20, 1893.

Mattie Woodson Berryman, *
born April 24, 1836 ; died ~

Married Robert Fry Montgom-
ery, June 10, 1856.

George Beriyman Montsromery,
^ born June 10, 1866. ^ i

Married Lucy Mahin O'Neal,
Nov. 28, 1895.

Jane Railey Montgomery, ^ born
Oct. 2, 1868; died April 26, 1897.

Married Robert G. Lowrv, Jan.

I, 1890.

Marv Montfiroraerv, ^ born May

II, 1871.

Married G. Y. Revnolds, Feb.
15, 1902.

Mattie Woodson Montgomerv, ^
born May 11, 1871.

Married Jordan Scott liowry,
Dec. 19, 1890. i

Jno. B. Montgomerv, ' born
June 20, 1874.

Married Irene HoUoway, Aug.
25, 1898.

Robt. Montgomery, ' bom June
1, 1878.

George Railey Berryman, * bom
1838; died 1882.

Frank P. Berrjonan, * bom 1842.

Married Susan Haasinger, 1866.

John Berryman, ' bom 1867.

Married Annie If arris.

Kate Berrvman, ^ born 1869;
died 1887.

Newton Berryman, * bom 1871;
died 1897,

Wilhelmina Berrvman, ^ bom
1873.

Married Rev. Alexander Henry,
Oct. 8, 1890.

Catharine Clifton Henrv, • bom
Oct. 7, 1891.

Married Alfred Mosby, Oct. 8,
1909.

Frank Berrvman Henry, ® born
Nov. 24, 1892.^

Emma Yeaman Henrv, • born
Nov. 29, 1893.

Alexander Henrv, Jr.. ® born
Jan. 8, 1901.

Sidnev Robertson Berryman, ^
born 1875.

Frank P. BorrjTnan, Jr., ^ born
1877; died 1907,

Lucy Railev, •• born Aug. 5,
1796; died Sept., 1852.

Married Ist John D., Kinkead,
no issue.

Married 2nd Rev. William M.
King, 1832.

Rev. Samuel A. King, * born
Oct. 14, 18.34.

Married Anna King, Jan. 19,
I860.

Lncv Woodson King, *^ bom Oct.
2(5, 1860; died Sept. 22, 1869.

Jennie Catherine King, ^ born
April 25, 1S62.

Married A. M. Gribblo, Nov. 29,
1882.

Chas. King Gribble, ® born Sept.
11, 1883.

Andrew W. Gribble, • bom Jan.
18, 1885.

Anna Gribble. ^ bom Nov. 2.
1886.

Jennie Gribble, ® born Oct. 16,
1888.

A. M. Gribble, Jr., ® bom Mar.
2, 1891.

Samuel Gribble, ® bom Julv 12,
1893

Elizabeth Randolph Gribble, '•
born May 2?., 1S97.

Dr. Walter Blackburn King, '
lK)m May 14, 1S64; died Deo. 11,
1889.

Married Minnie Carroll. Oct. 19.
1887.

Walter Blackburn King, Jr.. '
bom Nov. 6, 1889.

Hattie King, '■ bom May 20,
1867; died March, 1896.

Married Dr. Ralph Conger, Mar.
12, 1891, no issue.

Samuel Arthur King, ' born
Sept. 20, 1869.

Married Lucy Newman, 1896.

Walter King' « born Mar. 16,
1897.

Elizabeth Woodson King, ' bom
Mav 31, 1899.

Ellen King, • bom June 16, 1P05.

Samuel Arthur King. Jr., " i)orn
July 31, 1907.

Hugh King, « born June 17, 1909.

Maggie D. King, ' born Dec. 2,
1872. '

Married Rev. P. H. Bumev, Oct.
C, 1892.

Margaret Bumev, • bom Dec. 8,
1893.

Harriet Bumev, • bom June Ih
1896.

Philo Burnev, ' bom June 21,
1904.

Regr«ter of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

O/?

Anna Kailey Buniev, * born
April 24, 1907.

Pattie Markham Kinsf, ' j[)om;
May 30, 1875.

Married Rev. F. A. Barnes, May
28. 1908.

Ella C. King, " bcrn Sept. 14,
3877.

Married Harrv A. Wilson, Sept.
G, 1895.

Harry Allen Wilson, • bom Feb.
26. 1897.

William M. King, Jr., * born
June 22, 18.S3; died, 1864.

Married Hattie King, Jan., 1864.

Willie King, » bom 1864.

Married J. E. Daniel, June 8,
1893.

Willie Sue Daniel, * bom June
14. 1895.

Joseph Daniel, • bom Aug. 5,
1897.

Susanna Bailev, ' born Jan. 15,
1801; died May 1, 1872.

Married William Fleming Mark-
liam, July 19, 1825.

Dr. Georire W. Markham, "• bom
July, 1826; died Dec. 24, 1853.

Rev. Tho!?. Railey Markham, *
bora Dec. 2, 1828; died Mar. 12,
1894.

Married Mary Searles. Nov. 30,
1858, no issue,

Martha Woodson Markham, *
bora Julv 14, 18.32; died Feb.,
1910.

Married Fabius M. Sleeper,
18.50.

Susan Margaret Sleeper, • bom
July 10, 1851.

Lucy Fleminsr Sleeper, ' bom
April 13, 1853. ~

Married Robert Fonda Gribble,
Feb. 21, 1884.

Elizabeth Gribble, * bom June 2,
1835.

Robt. Fonda Gribble, Jr., * bora
June 2, 1890.

Theodore Gribble, " bora April
10, 1894.

Wm. Markham Sleeper, ' bora
Oct. 9, 1859.

Married Laxira Risher, April 26,
1892.

Benjamine P. Sleeper, ' bom
Dec. 11, 1895.

Martha Margaret Sleeper, *
bora June ^7, 1896.

Alethea Halbert Sleeper, ' bom
Nov. 24, 1898.

William Markham Sleeper, Jr.,
° bom Oct. 31, 1900.

Francis D. Sleeper, ' bom April
5, 1902.

Thos. Markham Sleeper. ' born
April 29, 1866.

Married Carrie Lockert, Oct. 23,
1890.

Lockert Sleeper, ' born Julv 29,
1893.

Markham Sleeper, ' bom Dec. 5,
1895.

Marv AVoodson Sleeper, •■• bom
June 28, 1898.

William R. Sleeper, ' bom July
17, 1900.

Lucy Fleming Markham, "• bom
18.36; died 1894"^.

Married Ed^rard A. Jones, Jan.
1864.

Bessie Carv Jones, " born Nov.,
1862.

Married Robt. Grier Patton,
Feb., 1888.

Robt. Grier Patton, Jr., • bom
April, 1889.

Edward Jones Patton, ' bora
Nov., 1890.

Elizabeth Randolph Patton, «
bom Oct., 1893.

Desha Patton, « bora 1901.

Susan ^Markliam Jones, ^ bom
Feb. 14, 1866.

George Woodson Jones, * born
Dec. 23, iy«9.

Mattie Estelle Jones, ' bom Oct.
3, 1871.

William inemlnxr Markham, *
bom 1842, killed at the battle of
Atlanta as a gallant young Confed-
erate officer.

Thomas Bailey was the 2nd born
of John Railev and Elizabeth Ran-
dolph. lie was born on the estatfl
of his father, ' ' Stonehenge/ ' in
Chesterfield county, Va., twelve
miles from Richmond, A. D., 1754,
about 1780 and settled upon a f ^rcrt
He came to Woodford county, Ky.,
that he called ^^ Clifton,'' a beauti-
ful site overlooking the Kentucky
River and the village that sprang
up in the valley below took its
name from the farm that over-
looked the village. He returned to
Virginia in 1786 and married
Martha Woodson, 9th bom of Col.
John Woodson and Dorothy Ran-^
dolph. Besides raising a large
and interesting family he exer-
cised a fatherly interest in his four
brothers who settled m the same
countv and alwavs advised with
him on matters of business. He
died on his estate about 1822. His
wife's death occurred in 1834. The
home passed into the hands of hia
daughter, Jane Berryman, and re-
mained in possession of her son,
George Railey Berryman, until his
death in 1882. His eldest son,
Thos. Railey, Jr., married Sarah
Railey in 1820, and died within a
year after his marriage. His son,
George Woodson Railey, m«arried
his cousin, Maria Bullock, and

moved to Monticello, Mo., abouk
1825, where he was postmaster un-
til his death in 1846. His son, P. L
Railev. Sr., married Judith Wood-
son Railey and lived on a farm near
Versailles, Ky., where he died in
1832. Mary Railey, the 4th bom,
married her cousin, Phillip Wood-
son, and thev settled at Tusea-
loosa, Ala. I have not been able
to learn anvthina: of their descend-
ants except what I learned throughl
my kinswoman, Mrs. Pattie Mark-
ham Sleeper. Jane Railey, thei
5th born, married John Berryman.
Their descendants have generally
domiciled themselves within Ihej
borders of Kentucky, and they ar^
quite numerous as the record will
show. liucv Railev the 6th boru
married first John D. Kinkead, of
Versailles, Ky. He died within a
year and his widow afterwards
married the Rev. William M. Kin?,
u Presbyterian minister, and they
moved to Texas where their de-
scendants live today. Their son,
the Rev. Snmuel A. King, was
pastor of the Presbyterian Churolc
at Waco, Texas, for forty years
and only resigned a few years agm
to take charge of the Theological
Seminary at Austin, Tex. There
have been quite a number ot
preachers in this line. Susanna
Railey, 7th born, married William!
Fleming Markham, of Versaillesy
Ky., in 1S25. They moved to Ne^
Orleans soon after their marriage.
Their first born, Dr. Geo. W.
Markham, practiced medicine ifl
New Orleans for a few years and
would have beeom(» eminent in his
profession had not the seal of
death closed his career in young

manhood. Their second born was
Rev. Thomas Railey Mark-
ham, a Presbyterian minister. He
preached ior forty years for one
congregation in New Orleans^
having a supply for him while he
was a Chaplain in the Confederate:
army for four years; Martha;
Woodson Markham, affectionately;
known amona: her kinspeople as|
Pattie Markham. was the 3rd bom^
She married Fal>ins M. Sleeper, a
lawyer of Mississippi. After the
Civil War they moved to Waco,
Texas, where Mr. Sleeper and his
brother-in-law, Edward A. Jones,
constituted a law firln that had a
large client age. Lucy Fleming
Markham, the 4th born married
Edward A. Jones, a lawyer of
Maryland and they moved td
Waco, Texas. William Fleming
Markham was the 5th born, en-
tered the Confederate army before^
he had reached his ma.ioritv and
was killed at the battle of Atlanta,
a gallant young officer.

The compiler of these notes is
descended from the line of P. I.
Railey, Sr., the 3rd born, and hii^
wife Judith Woodson Bailey.

William Eandolph, ' born 1651;
died April 11, 1711. I

Married Mary Isham. 1

William Randolph, Jr. *

Married Miss Elizabeth Beverly.'

Thomas Eandolph. ^

Married Judith Fleming.

William Eandolph. ^

Married Maria Judith Page.

Thomas Mann Randolph. * '

Married Anne Cary.

Judith Randolph. *

Married Richard Randolph.

Judith Randolph. ® ;

Married Rev. William Stith.

Mary Isham Randolph, » borni
1718.

Married Rev. James Keith, Mar.
2, 1733.

James Keith, * born 1733.

Thomas Randolph Keith, * bom
1734.

Married Mary Blackwell.

John Keith, ^ bom 1735.

Married Doniphan.

Alexander Keith, * born 1736. •

Captain Tsham Keith, * bom
1737; died July, 1787.

Married Charlotte Ashmore,
1778.

John Keith, '^ bom 1779.

Mary Elizabeth Keith, ** bom
1781; died 1803.

Married Randolph Railey, 1800.

Isham Keith Railev, ® born 1801 ;
died 1803.

Charlotte Ashmore Keith, ^ bom
1782.

Married James McDonald
Briggs.

Catharine Keith, ' born Sept.
18, 1784; died Feb. 24, 1854.

Married William Strother Haw-
kins, Oct. 14, 1802.

Cath\rine Keith FJawkins, ^
bora Oct. 18, 1825; died June 22,
1902.

Married Richard Henry Railey,
Feb. 25, 1852.

Mary Randolph Keith, * bom
1738.

Married Col. Thomas Marshall,
1754.

Chief Justice John Marshall,
'* born 1755 ; died 1835.

Married Marv Willis Ambler,
Jan. 3, 1783.

Dr. Louis Marshall, '^ bom Oct.
7, 1773 ; died 1866.

Married Agatha Smith, 1800.

Thos. F. Marshal], ^ bom Juna
7, 1801; died Sept. 22, 1864.

Married Elizabeth Yost.

Udward C. Marshall, " boru
1821; died June 1893.

Married Josephine Chalfant,
1852.

Louis Marshall, ^ bom July 12,
3856.

Married Susan Thome, Sept.
25, 1883.

Josephine Marshall, ^ bom Mar.
4, 1886.^ i

Married Lawrence Amsden;
Eailey, June 2, 1909.

Col. Isham Eandolph, ^ bom
1690 ; died 1742.

Married Jane Eo.^ers, 1717.

Capt. Isham Randolph, Jr. '

Married Miss Harrison.

Thomas Randolph, Jr. *

Married Jane Carey.

William Randolph, Jr. ^

Married Miss Little.

Jane Randolph, * born 1719.

Married Peter Jefferson, 1738. '

Mary Randolph. ^

Married Charles Lewis.

Elizabeth Randolph, ' bom*
1727; died Sept. 11, 1782.

Married John Railev, Nov.,}
1750. ' 1

Thomas Railey, * bom Sept. 22,,
1754 ; died 1822.

Married Martha Woodson, Dec.
21, 1786.

Isham Randolph Railey, * born
July 15, 1758; died Mar. 14, 1818.

Married Susanna Woodson,
April i7 1784.

Anna Railev, * bom Sept. 16.
1759; died 18f>6. j

Married Mathew Pleasants,
Feb., 1784.

William Railey, * bom Feb. 26,
1760;diedFeb. 8, 1818.

Married Judith Woodson, Mar.,
1793.

Randolph Railev, * born May
14, 1770; died May 28, 1837.

Married 1st Mary Elizabeth
Keith, 1801.

Married 2nd Marthri Randolph
Pleasants, 1S19.

Dorothy Randolph. ^

Married Col. .fohn Woodson,
Oct. 28. 1751.

Susanna Woodson. * born June
26. 1760; died Dec. 6, 181S.

Married Isham RandolpW
Railey, Sept. 17, 1784.

Martha Woodson, * bom July 6,
1764; died 1834.

Married Thomas Railey, Dec. 21,
1786.

Judith Woodson, * born Feb. 16.
1767 ; died Dec. 26, 1818.

Married William Railey, Mar.,
1793.

Anna Randolph. '

Married 1st Daniel Scott.

Married 2nd John Pleasants.

Married 3rd James Pleasants.

Martha Randolph Pleasants, *
born Dec. 2, 1779; died July 10,
1849.

Married Randolph Railey, 1819.

Ann Pleasants. *

Married Isaac Webster.

Sarah Webster, ' born April 4,
1809 ; died Feb. 2, 1899.

Married 1st Dr. Isham Railey,
1835.

Married 2nd Col. John H.
Slaughter, July 19, 18-49.

Martha Randolph Slaughter, *
bom Sept. 29, 1850; died Dec. IP,
1878.

Married Mark Hardin Railey,
Jan. 15, 1868.

Gov. James Pleasants. *

Married Susan Rose.

Susanna Randolph, ^

Married Carter Harrison.

Thomas Randolph, of Enfi[iand,
married Dorothy Lane and had
seven children, of whom Richard
and Henry Randolph were two.
Henry came to America about 1650
and was clerk of Henrico county,
and for many years clerk of thei
House of Burgesses. His nephew,
William Randolph, son of Richard,
of ** Morton Hall," came to
America about 1670, and succeded
' his uncle Henry as clerk of li"en-
rico county. He wns /'if tor wards
Justice, Burgess, Attorney Gen-
eral, Speaker of the House of Bur-
gesses and King's Councillor. Ho
j-ettled on an estate in Virginia
that he called ^'Turkev Island."
This estate incurled a vast do-
main and was situated on the
James River. His entire life was
spent upon this estate and he died
there during the 3'^ear 1711. He
married Mary Isham, daughter of
Henry Isham, and his wife, Cath-
arine, of *4^erraunda Hundred,"
on the opposite side of the James
River. Thev raised nine children,
seven sons and two d.:iughters. All
of his sons took an active and
])rominent part in the affairs of!
their day, holdins: various posi-
tions of trust in the government
of the colonies under English
regime, but I will only take np thq
line of two of them, Thomas Ran-
dolph, of ''Tuckahoe," and Isham
Randolph, of ^^Dungeness," as
the Raileys are descended from

both of these lines. Thomas Ran-
dolph was the second born. He
married Judith Fleming, daughter
of Col. John Fleming, and Mary
Balling, the latter being a descend-
ant of Pocahontas. His descend-
ants, as far as I am informed,
haven't any record of his holding
any other office than that of Jus-
tice. Thomas Randolph and his
wife, Judith, lived and died on
their magnificent estate. ^^Tuck-*
ahoe," which has never passed out
of possession of descendants and
is in as good a state of preserva-
tion as it was one hundred and
fifty years ago, and owned by the
Oooliges of Boston at this time.
The Cooliges are grandsons of
Gov. Thomas Mann Randolph aopl
Martha JefTerson (daufi:hter of
Thos. JefTerson), and Gov. Thos.
Mann Randolph was a grandson
of Thomas Randolph, of *^Tuck-
ahoe." Thomas Randolph anr^
Judith Fleming had but three
children, William Randolph, w^ho
married Maria Judith P;ige, was?
the 1st born. He was a member
of Burgess. His son, Thos. Mann
Randolph, 1st, was a TTurges?' and
member of the Convention of
1775-6. He married Anne Cary.
Their son, Thos. Mann Randolph,
the 2ncl, married his cousin,
Martha Jefferson. He was a mem-
ber of Consrress, 1803; Governor
of Virginia, 1819-22. His son,
Col. Thos. Jefferson Randolnli.
was a presidential elector, 1845;
member of Congress, IbSl, and
President of the Democratic Con-
vention at B:iltimore, 1873.

Mary Isham Randolph; 3rd bom
of Thomas Randolph and Judith

Fleming, married Rev. James
Keith. Their daughter, Mary
IJandolph Keith, marriod OoJ.
Thomas Marshall whose son, John
Marshall, hecame Chief Justice of
the United States. Col. Thos.
Marshall and his wife, Mary Ean-
dolpli Koith, were the progenitors
of all of the prominent Marshalls
of Kentucky and Virginia. A
brother of Col. Thoma*? Marshall's
wife, Captain Isham Keith, mar-
ried Charlotte Ashmoro and thev
were the great grandparents of
the compiler of these notes. In
this connoetion T will submit ex
tracts from, a letter written by Col.
Thomas Mar.shall Green, who pub
lisliod **The Prominent Families
of Kentucky." Col. Green had the
honor t-', he a great grandson of
Col. Thomas Marshall:

Maysville, Ky., Nov. 10, 1S91.

My Dear William:

Col. Thos. Marshall married
Mary Randolph Keith. She was a
sister of your great grandfather,
Ishani Keith. A granddaughter ot
Thomas Randolph, of ^^Tuckahoe'
and tlie daughter of Eev. Jas.
Keith and his wife, ^farv Isham
l^andolph (here ho gives a list oi
the children of Col. Thos. Mar-
shall, &c., and concludes as fol-
lows). You will see by the above
that my great grandmother, Mary
Kandolph Keith, w^as a sister of
your great grandfather, Isham
Keith. Thus mv firrandfather,
Capt. Thos. Marshall, was a first
cousin of your grandmother,
''Kittie" Keith, who married Wil-
liam Strother Hawkins. This
made mv mother, Marv Keith

Marshall, and your mother, Cath-
arine Keith Hawkins, second
cousins, and it follows that you
and I are third cousins. This is
the precise degree of relation-
ship. Through the Randolph
women, who married Railey and
AVoodson, mv mother and vour
father, were fourth cousins and
vou and I are fifth cousins. If

vou wish anv branch of the Mar-

• »

shalls nm out in greater detail, I
will do it hereafter.

Verv trulv vours,

T1103. M. Green.

To Wm. E. Railey,

Midwav, Kv.

I remember with much pleasure
my kinsman, Thos. F. Marshall,
who visited our home prior to ISli'i
quite frequently. He often ran
over the relationships WMth my
mother and T resolved then, as a
boy, to make a record of the facts
in at least a modest wav some day.
It was during those visits that I
learned that my grandmother,
Catharine Keith, was married at
' ' Buckpond, ' • the homo of Col.
Thos. Marshall, and that her sis-
ter, Mary Elizabeth Keith, was
married to Randolph Railey at the
home of General Humphrey Mar-
shall, near Frankfort. They were
each on a visit to their Kentuokv'
relatives at the time. A few vears
later their uncle, John Keith, sot
tied near Maysville, Ky., to which
point Col. Thos. Marshall had
moved his residence.

Col. Isham Randolph was the
ord born of William Randolph and
Mary Isham. His estate was
known as **Dungeness." He was
Colonial Agent at London in 1717

where he met and married Jane
Eogers. Was a member of Bur-
gesses, 1740, and Adjutant General
of the Colony and Colonel of Mili-
tia. His first daughter was Janq
Randolph, who mrrried Pefen
Jefferson. She was the mother o^
Thomas JeflFerson, author of llic
Declaration of Independence, and
President. The third daughter
was Elizabeth Randolph, who mar-
ried John Bailey (see letter Col.
Thos. M. Green). The fourth
daughter married Col. John Wood-
son, her name being Dorothy Ran-
dolph (jsee letter Col. Thos. M.
Green). The fifth daughter was.
Anna Randolph, who was threGi
times married, the last marriage
being to James Pleasants of '*Con-.
tention," and they were the par-
ents of James Pleasants, who was
a United States Senator and Gov-
ernor of Virorinia. Thev were also
the parents of Martha Randolph
Pleasants, who married Randolph
Railey, the 13th of Jolm Railey
and Elizabeth Randolph, whose
only two surviving grandchildren
are Samuel Wheeler Railev, a

» 7

lawyer of Washington City, and
Mrs. John Calhoun Burnett, of
Louisville, Ky. The 6th daughter
of Col. Jsham Randolph was^
Susanna, who married Carter
Henry Harrison, of Clifton. They
had four sons, viz: Robt. Carter*
Harrison, Peyton Harrison, Ran-
dolph Harrison and Carter Henry
Harrison who married Sophy
Preston, of Kentucky. Robert
Carter Harrison, the first son,
married Anne Cabell, daughter of

Col. Joseph Cabell, and they were
the parents of Robert Harrison, of
Cooper county. Mo., and the Rev.
Cabell Harrison, who frequently
visited the home of my grand-
parents, P. I. Railey, Sr., and hia
wife, Judith Woodson Railey, both
of whom were his second cousins.
During one of his visits after the
death of P. T. Railey, Sr., the
widow, Judith Woodson Railey,
presented hira with the elk-head
cane of her husband made in Vir-
ginia before the Revolution and he
prized it very highly. It was
through the influence of Rev.
Cabell Harrison that so many of
the Virginia and Kentuckv Railev.^^
adopted the Pre«bvterian faith,
John Railey, Sr., being for many
years vostrAman in the Episcopal
church, and his wife, as wore all
of the Randolphs, being strict
members of that faith. The Rev.
(Jabell Harrison frequently visited
the homos of his Railey relatives
in Virginia and Kentucky, :)nd
they all felt a deep love for him.

Elizabeth Randolph, the 9th
born of Wm. Randolph and Mary
Isham, married Theoderick Bland
and thev were the ancestors of
General Robert E. Lee in the fol-
lowing line:

Ricliard Bland, Annie Poythress,

Marv Bland and Henrv Lee,

Henry Lee and Lucy Grimes, i

Harry Lee and

Robert E. Lee.

Judge James Keith, President!
of the Supreme Court of Virginia,
is the grandson of Thomas R.
Keith and Mary Blackwell. ,

Reglater of the Kentucky State HIttorical Society.

THE WOODSONS AND THEIR
RAILEY CONNECTIONS,

Dr. John Woodson. ^

Married Sarah Woodson.

Robert Woodson. ^

Married Elizabeth Ferris.

John Woodson. ^

Married Judith Tarleton.

Josiah Woodson. *

Married Mary Royal! .

Col. John Woodson, ^ born 1730;
died December 2, 1789.

Married Dorothea Randolph,
Oct. 28, 1751.

Jane Woodson, ^ born 1752.

Married Archibald Pleasants,
Julv 17, 1775.

Nannie Woodson, ^ born 1754.

Married John Stephen Wood-
son, Oct. 12, 1777.

Elizabeth Woodson, ® born Nov.,^
3756.

Married John Cheadle.

Major Josiah Woodson, * born
1758; died Mason county, Ky.,
1817.

Married Elizabeth Woodson,
Dec. 3, 1778.

Isham Woodson, ^ born 1759;
died unmarried.

Susanna Woodson, ^ born June
2(j, 1760; died in Woodford county,
Ky., Dec. 6, 1818.

Married Tsham Randolph Railey,
Sept. 17, 1784.

Marv Woodson, ® born 1761.

Married Col. Nathan G. Morris
of the British army, Aug. 30, 1778.

John Woodson, ® born Feb. 28,
1763.

Maxried Marv Anderson,* Mar.
30, 1786.

Martha Woodson, ® born July 6,

1764; died in Woodford county,
Ky., 1834.

Married Thomas Railey, Dec.
21, 1786.

Judith Woodson, ^ born Fob. 16,
1767; died in Woodford county,
Ky., Dec. 26, 1831\

Married William Railev, Mar.,
1793.

Sarah Woodson, ^ born Nov. 14,
1770,

Married Phillip Woodson, 1790.

Phillip Woodson. ''

Married Mary Railey.

Lucv Woodson. ®

Tarleton Woodson. *

Married Ursula Fleming.

Susanna AVoodson. ^

Married John Pleasants.

Ursula Pleasants. *

Susanna Pleasants. ®

Mathew Pleasants, ^ born Feb.
16, 1759; died Jan., 1816.

Married Anna Railev, Feb.,
1784.

Archibald Pleasants. ^

Married Jane Woodson, Julv 17,
1775.

Joseph Pleasants. ®

Married Elizabeth Jordan.

Jarnes Pleasants. ^

Married Mrs. Anna Pleasants
(nee Anna Randolph).

John L. Pleasants. "^

Martha Randolph Pleasants, ^
born Dec. 2, 1779; died Julv 10,
1849.

Married Randolph Railey, 1819.

Tarleton AVoodson Pleasants. '

Ann S. Pleasants. ^

Married Isaac AVebster.

Isaac Webster. Jr. ^

Sarah Webster. * bom April 4,
3809; died Feb. 2, 1899.

Married 1st Dr. Isham Eailey,
1835; no issue.

Married 2nd Col. John H.
Slaughter, Jnly 19, 1849.

Martha Randolph Slaughter, ®
horn Sept. 29, IS50; died Dec. 10,
1878.

Married Mark Hardin Railev,
Jan. 15, 1868.

Gabriel Webster Slaughter, ®
born Aug. 3, 1852; died Mar. 19,
187t.

Susan Hord Slaughter, ® born
Sept. 13, 1856.

Pauline Pleasants. ^

Susanna Randolph Pleasants. '^

Gov. James Pleasants. "^

Married Susan Rose.

Dr. John Woodson, the first of
the name in this country, came to
America about 1620 a« sursreon to
a troop of soldiers under command
of Sir John Harvey of the English
army. These soldiers were sta-
tioned at ** Middle Settlement,*'
near Richmond, Va. Dr. John
Woodson came from Dorsetshire
and he married his wife at Devon-
shire, England.^ Tarleton Wood-
son, the great grandson of Dr.
John Woodson, marrii-^d Ursula
Fleming. She was related to the
Earles of Wigton in. Scotland*
They were the ancestors of the
Bates, Venable? and other promin-
ent Virginia families. Tarleton
Woodson's brother, Josiah, mar-
ried Marv Royall. She was a
daughter of Joseph Royall and
Elizabeth Kennon. Their son. Col.
John AVoodson, was sheriff of
Goochland county, member House
Burgesses, member of the Conven-
tion of 1775-76 and member of
Committee on Safety. He mar-

ried Dorothy Randolph, 7th of Col.
Isham Randolph and Jane Rogers.
Many of their descendants settled
in Kentucky and are residents of
Woodford county today.

Edward Bates, Attorney Gen-
eral under, President Lincoln, was
of the Tarleton Woodson-Ursula
Fleming line. Inasmuch as all of
his relatives were in sympathy
with the cause of the South during
the Civil War, his action gave
great offense to them when he ac-
cepted the appointment. The
Woodsons, like the Randolphs,
have given many distinguished
soldiers, lawyers and diplomats to
this country. The history being
])repared for publication by Mr.
H. M. Woodson, of the *' Woodson
Family,'* will give an extended ac-
count of these people. I will con
tent myself by giving just a few
names of the more prominent. 01
Virginians are:

Major Frederick Tarletoi
Woodson.

General Tarleton Woodson.

Col. Charles Woodson.

Judge Creed Taylor.

Hon. Abraham B. Venable.

Hon. Fleming Bates.

Gov. James Pleasants.

John Hampden Pleasants.

Joseph Selden, of Chepultepe
fame.

Gov. Frederick Bates, of Mi?
souri.

General Charles Woodson, o
Missouri.

Gov. Silas Woodson, of Ker
tuckv and Missouri.

Judge A. M. Woodson, Suprcm
Court of Missouri.

fiegltter of the Keritucky SUte Historical Socjoty.

Gov. Daniel Woodson, of
vansas.

Hon. Ahraham N. Venable, of
S'orth Carolina.

Hon. James Woodson Bates, of
Arkansas. \

Gov. Thos. Ligon, of Maryland.

Gov. Henry Allen of Louisiana.

FHE PLEASANTS AND THEIR
RAILEY CONNECTIONS.

John Pleasants. ^

Married Jane Tucker.

Joseph Pleasants. *

Married Martha Cocke.

John Pleasants. *

Married Susanna Woodson.

Ursula Pleasants. *

Married 1st George Ellis.

Married 2nd John Brooke.

Susanna Pleasants. *

Married Joshua Storres.

Mathew Pleasants. ^

Married Anna Eailev, Feb.,
1784.

Archibald Pleasants. *

Married Jane Woodson, July
17, 1775.

Joseph Pleasants. *

Married Elizabeth Jordan.

James Pleasants. *

Married Mrs. Anna Pleasants
(nee Anna Randolph).

Miartha Pleasants, ' bom Dec^
2, 1779;died July 10, 1849.

Married Randolph Railey, 1819.

Tarleton AVoodson Pleasant. ^

Married Sarah Pleasants.

Ann S. Pleasants. ^ I

Married Isaac Webster. ^

Sarah AVebster, ^ born April 4,
1809: died Feb. 2, 1899.

Married 1st JJr. Isham Railey,
3835; no issue.

Married 2nd Col. John H.
Slaughter, July 19, 1849.

Martha Randolph Slaughter, ^
lx)m Sept. 29, 1850; died Dec. 16,
1878.

Married Mark Hardin Railey,
Jan. 15, 18fi8.

Gabriel Webster Slaughter, '
born Aug. 3, 1852; died Mar. 19,
3874.

Susanna Hord Slaughter, ' born
Sei)t. 3, 1856.

Pauline Pleasants. '

Susanna Randolph Pleasants. '

Married 1st Graves Storres.

Married 2nd William Trueheart.

Gov. James Pleasants. ^

Married Susan Rose.

In the home of the Pleasants
family at Norwiek, England^ there
was born, in 1643, a son whoso
name was John Pleasants. After
receiving the benefits of a college
education in tlie country of his
nati\nty he sailed for America and
landed in Virginia during the
year 1668. Impressed with the
opportunities that the new country
and his surroundings offered he
settled at ** Curies,'' in Henrico,
county, with the determination to
give his best efforts in the cause of
home and coimtry. Soon there^
after he wooed and won a life
partner whose name was Janet
Tucker and these two reared an in-
teresting familv of children whof
gave to Virginia many sturdy men
and women who did well theiit
duty in the cause of that freedom
for which so many patriotic Vir-
ginians sacrificed their lives. His
grandson, John Pleasants, of

^'Piqne-Niqiie,** marri^^d Susanna
"Woodson, and their son, James
Pleasants, of ** Contention.'' mar-
ried Anna Eandolph. 4th daughter
of Col. Isham Randolph, and their
son, James Pleasants, was United
States Senator and Governor ofl
Virginia. The descendants of
tlohn Pleasants and Jane Tnoker
intermarried with the Jordans,
Venables, Randolphs, Woodsons,
"Mosbys Meads, Adairs. Minors,
Flemings and many other Virginia
families, and so much in love with
the old State with its traditions
cinid history that but few of the
names have been adopted by other
states. In fact they usually drift
back to the old Stale after a few
years domicile elsewhere.

THE MAYOS AND THEIR
RAILEY CONNECTIONS.

AVilliam Mnyo. ^

Married Joan Mayo.

Joseph Mavo, ^ born Aug. 17,
1656; died Nov. 10, 1691.

Married Elizabeth IFooper.

Maior William Mayo. ' born
Nov. 4, 16.^4: died Oct. 28, 1744. .

Married 1st PVancis Gould.

Married 2nd Anne Perrott, 1732.

Daniel Mayo, * born 1733

Married Thirza HoAvard, 1753.

Col. William Mayo, ^ born 1754.

Married Catharine Swann, 1772.

Jouette Mfivo, ^ born may 24,
]773.

Married Seth liigon.

Daniel Mavo, ^ bom Mar. 12,
1775.

Married 1st Nancy Hamblin.

Married 2nd Elizabeth Judith
Crump.

Elizabeth Mavo, ^ bom Aoril
10. 1777.

Married Martin Eailey, Feb. 27,
1794.

Mary Mayo, « born July 12,
1779.

Married Charles Railey, April
4, 1796.

Catharine Swann Mavo, ** born
Aug. 16, 17^1.

Married Willijim M«yo.

Nancy Mayo, ® bom 1783.

Married * Joseph Randolph
Railey, July 33, 1809.

William Mayo, « born 1785.

Married Caroline Fleming
Pleasants.

Francis Sweeny Mavo, * born

3787.

Married William Rodman.
Thirza Howard Mavo, ® bom
1789.

Married John Rowan Steele.

John Mayo. *

Married Mary Tabb.

Col. John Mayo. ^

Married Abigail de Hart.

William Mayo, the first of thq
name known to the American line,i
and his wife, Joan^ were residents
of Bu«:ley, AVitshire county, Eng-
land in the year 1620. Their grand-
son. Major William Mayo, sailed'
from his native land for BarbadceB,
East India, during the year 1727,
where he was engaged in promot-
ing several enterprises in that
region for some years with vary-f
ing success, but finally decided to
cast his lot with the American
colony that was then struggling
with the savage rfed men in thq|
forests of North America and h^

and his first wife, Francis Gonld,
set sail for America about 1733,
with a determination to brave the
dangers that beset all settkrs of
(he new country. Between tha
period of his arrival in America,
and his death in 1744, he was
Major of Virginia militia and sur-
veyed many of the State and
county lines of the State. His
grtindson, Col. William Mayo, who
married Catharine Swann, was ai^
officer of the "Revolution and a man
of considerable wealth and much
social and political influence. His,
home was at Richmond, Va., where
three of his daughters were mar-
ried to three of the Railevs. His
uncle, John Mayo, married Mary
Tabb. He was n member of Bar
gesses from 17H9 to 1775. member
of the State Convention, 1775-6,
and his eldest son, Col. John
Mayo, was the projector of the
celebrated Mayo bridge just below
the falls of the Jam.es River at
Richmond. This bridge was Imilt
at his individual expense as the
State failed to co-operate with
him. He married Abigail de Hart,
daughter of one of New Jersey '^j
foremost lawvers and member of
the first Continental Congre:^s. The
eldest daughter of Col. John Mayo
and Abigail de Hart was Marie
Mayo, who married General Win-
field Scott. Sl:e is said to have
been a woman cf rare beauty and
many accompli,sh!aents as was her
sister, Julia, who married Dr-
Robert Henry Cabell, an eminent
physician of Virginia. The
Powhatan estate in the suburbs,
of Richmond, one of the most de-
sirable in the State, was in posses-

sion of the Mayo's from 1740 until
the period of the Civil War. Dr.
Robert Mayo, who died in Wash-
ington, P. C., during the year 1864,
left uncompleted a genealogical
history of the Mayo family. Tradi-
tion says that Major William
Mayo, John Railey and one of the
Pleasants family, whose first name
1 do not recall, were the founders
of and planned the laying ofE of
the city of Richmond. The Mayos
were intermarried with the
Howards, Swanns, Randolphs,
Fitzhughs, Scotts, Pleasants,
Meads, Woodson?, Flemings and
Steeles of Virginia.

ELIZABETH C. RAILEY 3RD

BORN OP JOHN RAILEY AND ELIZA-
BETH RANDOLPH ; MARRIED
CAPT. JOTtN BULLOCK, JR.

THEIR DESCENDANTS.

John Railey-^Elizabeth Ran-
dolph.

Elizabeth C. Railey, = bom
April 26, 1757.

Married Captain John Bullock,
Jr., Sept. 9, 17S6.

Jane Railev Bullock, ® born Aug.
23, 1787 ; died Juno 9, 1833.

Married David Anderson, Dec.
5, 1805.

Sarah Elizabeth Anderson, *
born Oct. 3, 1806; died Dec, 1807

Thomas Lilbourne Anderson, *
bom Dec, 8, 1808; died Mar. o,
1885.

Married 1st Bnssella Easton,
April 19. 1832.

Married 2nd Fannie "Winchell,
June 27, 1843.

Rnfus Easton Anderson, ' bom
Jan. 22, 1833; died 1910. i

Married Cornelia Thompson,
Jan. 11, 1854.

Edwin liilbonme Anderson, •
bom Jan. 30, 1855; died 1910.

Married lat Nannie Harrifon,
May 15, 1877.

Married 2nd .

Edna Francis Anderson, ^ bom
Aug. 12> 1878.

Tnthill Anderson, ^ born ISSl;
died 1884.

Russell Easton Anderson. * born
Oct. 5, 1856 ; died May 24, 1.857.

Margaret Thompson Anderson, '
born July 28, 3858.

Married Harry Hamilton
Markell, Oct. 29, 1879.

Cornelia Thompson Markell, ''
bom Jan. 6, 1881.

Married Wm. Logan Owsley,
June 7, 1905.

William T.ogan Owslev, Jr., '
bora Dec. 20, 1908.

Harvev Hamilton Markell, Jr. '
bom Feb. 1, 1883.

Juliet Mitchell Markell, ^ bom
Nov. 16, 1887.

Married TShad Kdchardson
Smith, Feb. 23. 1909.

Russell Yeatman Markell, ^
bom Nov. 11. 1891.

Greorge William Markell, '' bom
Feb. 27, 1895.

Juliet Mitchell Anderson, ® bom
Feb. 21, 1861.

Married J. Baxter Eightmire,
x\ov. 13, 1878.

Rufus Anderson Bightniirc, '
bom Nov. 11, 1879.

Married Mande Jameison, April
23, 1901.

Marguerite Thompson Right-
raire, '' bora Dec. 18, 1887.

Married Alonzo W. Mackey,
Nov. 16, 1910.

Cornelia Francis Anderson, *
born Oct. 1 4, 1869 ; died 1909.

Married Albert Raymond Betts,
Sept. 21, 1887.

Albert Ravmond Betts, Jr., ''
bom Deo. 21,' 1888.

Kufus Easton Anderson, Jr., •
bom Nov. 28, 1868; died Oct. 10,
1910.

Fannie Corrall Andersor, ^ born
April 13, 1871; died Nov. 22, 1880.

Annie Yeatman .Anderson, '
born April 13, 1871 ; died Dec. 14,
1894.

William Russell Anderson, '
bom Mar. 15, 1835. ;

Married Annie McPheeterSj
May 31, 1860.

James McPheeters ' Anderson, •
bom June 4, 1861.

Married Minnie York, Oct, 1897.

Lucile Anderson, "^ bom Aug.

1898. ;

Thomas Lilboume Anderson,
Jr., « bom Aug. 23, 1865.

Married Lnla F. Albertson, Dec.
3, 1890.

Cvrus Anderson, '' bom Mar. 14,
1895.

Rev. William Russell Anderson,
Jr., * bom Mar. 15, 1868.

Married Susie Effie Gufton. May
2, 1894.

Caroline McPheeters Anderson,
« born 1870; died Aug., 1882.

Russella . Easton Anderson, *
bom Oct. 20, 1872.

Married Rev. Clarence H. New-
ton, ' Oct. 20, 1896.

Harriett Ann Newton, ' born
1898.

Francis May Newton, ^ born
1900.

William Ru.«!sell Newton. '' bom
1902.

Clare Montgomery Newton, ^
bom 1902.

Ann McPheeters Anderson, '
born Sept. 6, 1875.

Married Dr. Rirb.'ird Stanley
Battersley, June 24, 1909.

Marv Albv Anderson, • bom
April 18, 1878.

Married Otho Floyd Matthews,
Dec. 25, 1900.

Samuel Shepherd Anderson, '
born Feb. 26, 1838; died in the
service of the Confederacy, 1865.

Thomas Lilbourne Anderson,
Jr., 8 bom Ang. 26, 1846 : died Feb.
2, 1881.

Married Fannie Senteny, Juno

15, 1873.

Thomas Lilbourne Anderson,
Jr.. « born Nov. 7, 1874.

Married Gertmde Ballard, April

25, 1905.

Francis Elizabeth Anderson, ^
born April 24, 1909.

Elizabeth Anderson, « bom Dec.
12, 1876,

Fannie Elizabeth Anderson, *

bora May 25. 1844.
Married Richard Tatlow, April

18, 1866.
E. Harrv Tatlow, « bom Feb. 3,

1867. ' <

Married Letta Crow, Mar. 22,

1899.

Richard H. Tatlow, Jr., ' bom
May 27, 1906.

Tj'awrence Tatlow, ^ bom Dec. 9,

1908. i

Mary Tjouise Tatlow, " bom
Mciy 7, 1871.

Fannie Anderson Tatlow, • born.
June 10, 1879.

Married Wylie Morrison Brown-
ing?, April 18, 1905.

Lee Tatlow Browning, ^ born.
Mar. 7, 1906.

Robert Vincent Browning, '' bom
Aug. 23, 1907.

Genevieve PJlizabeth Browning,
T born Sept. 9, 1908.

Alberta Fjce Tatlow, ' bom July
14, 1886.

Jane Randolph Anderson, ®
bom Jan. 10, 1849.

Married William H. Claget,
Nov. 12, 1872.

L Anderson Claget, • born Aug.
21, 1873.

Married Catharine Watklns,
May 10. 1909.

Dudley Malcolm Claaret, • boru
Dec. 31, 1875.

Married Nora Robertson, Dec
29, 1904.

Dudlev Malcolm Claget, ^ born
July 20,' 1906.

John Robertson Claget, '' bom
July 18, 1908.

Eleanor Claget, " lw>ra 1910.

Edith Claget, « born Sept. 16,
1882.

Married Wainwright Evans,
July 9, 1908.

John Wainwright Evans. '' borq
May 14, 1909.

Russella Easton Anderson, '
bora Nov. 3. 1852.

Mary Catharine Anderson. '
bora June 21, 1859.

Married Moses D. Thompson,
June 19, 1886.

Alberta Anderson, ^ born July
29, 1862.

Married J. Howard Kelly, Jan.,

fieraldine Kelly, '^ born Mar. 4,

J. Howard Kelly, Jr., ^ born
h)t. 3, 1897. i

Joseph Easton Anderson, ^ born
hr. 11, 1861.

Dr. Albert Gallatin Anderson, ^
bra April 23, 1811; died 1850.

Married Elizabeth Mnldrow.

Walter Anderson, ' bom July 2,
it45.

Married Mrs. Martine S. Green.

Lilboume Morris Anderson. ^
korn Mar. 12, 1879. ' •

Married Willie Strode, Nov. 12,

mi.

ilartine Anderson, ^ born 1905.

Albert G. Anderson, ^ bom Aug.
17, 1847. I

Married Sarah Elizab(5th Brown,
hh, 18, 1867.

Lillian Belle Anderson, ^ born,
Har. 14, 1869.

Married Walter B. Moore, Jan.
I 1886.

Gfeor^ia Tjee Moore, '' bom
Sept. 30, 1887.

Clifton Albert Moore. ^

Roscoe Edward Moore. ^

Anderson W. Moore. '

Fannie Belle Moore. "^ I

Sarah FJlizabeth Moore. "^

Lutie Garnett Anderson, ^ born
iiav 12, 1874. I

Married Preston V. Matthews,
Bept. 30, 1893.

Sarah Lee Matthews, ^ born
July 19, 1895. I

Elizabeth Maria Anderson, '*
bom Mar. 19, 1877.

Married Alfred Bowles, Feb.
28, 1905. i

Katharine Bowles, ^ bom April

23, 1908.

Mary G. Anderson. ® born Dec.
25, 1880.

Married James G. Sharp, Sept.
30, 1903.

Walter A. Anderson, ® born May
8, 1882 ; died April 19, 1908.

Fannie Anderson, ® born Dec. 26,
1886. )

Married James S. Eaton, Nov.

24, 1909.

Martha Anderson Eaton, " born
Sept. 20, 1910.

Lillian Anderson, ^ bom Dec. 2,
1842.

Married John J. Dimmitt, June
12, 1864.

Rosa Dimmitt, ® bom Fob, 15,
1870.

Married John D. Hughes, June
1, 1893. I

John Dimmitt, ® born July 19,
1876.

Married Pearl Devere, Dec. 20,
1897.

David Thompson Anderson, *
bom Dec. 10. 1813.

Elizabeth Randolph Bullock, ^
bom Mav 20. 1789;' died Mar. 27,
1821.

Married Joseph Crockett, Jr.,
Mar. 25, 1813 ; no issue.

Maria Patterson Bullock, ^ bom
Mar, 12, 1791,

Married George Woodson
Railey, Dec. 8, 1818.

Elizabeth AVoodson Railey, *
born 1819; died 1835.

Geor<rie Ellen Railev, * bom
1821: died young.

Elizabeth 0. Railey was born in
Chesterfield county, Va., on the^
* ' Stonehenge ' * farm during the
year 1757. She was the 3rd bori^

of John Railey and Elizabeth
Randolph. She married Captain
John Bullock, Jr., an officer
throughout the Revolutionary War,
Sei)t. 9, 1786. Three daughters
were born to them while they were
residents of Virginia. They came
to Kentucky and settled at or neat;
Bowling Green in 1800, or perhaps
a few years later. I am sorry not
to be able to trace the line of Cap-
tain John Bullock, Jr., through the
various families of that name in
Virginia. Their eldest daughter,
Jane Railev Bullock, was married
to David Anderson, Dec. 5, 1805,
whose death occurred about 1827.
Within a short period after his
death his widow, with her three
children and Elizabeth Bullock,
her mother, accompanied by.
George Woodson Railey and his
wife removed to Palmyra, Mo.
David Anderson and his two
brothers, Thomas and Samuel,
were Scotch-Irish. They came
with their parents from county
Down, Banbridge, Ireland, about
1773, and settled in Albemarle
county, Yr. They were, as nearly
all Scotch-Irish are, Presbyterians.
Thos. L. Anderson, born 1808, in
Warren county, Ky., eldest son of
]')avid Anderson and Jane Railey
Bullock, entered the practice of
law soon after their arrival at
Palmyra, Mo. He was married to
Russella Easton, daughter of
Missouri's first Attomev General
in 1832. During the years 1839
and 1840, he was a member of the»
State Legislature. In 1845 he
was a member of the Constitu-
tional Convention that revised the
Constitution of that State. Was a

presidential elector for llarri
Taylor, Scott and Clay. Afte^
disintegration of the Whig n
he espoused the c;uise of the An
can party and was elected to '
gross in 1856. When Congresi
sembled in 1857 it was found
the American party had
twelve Representatives in '
gress, including John J. Cri
den and Humphrey Marshal
Kentucky, and Thomas It. M
son, of Missouri. After a col
ence thev decided that it
useless to maintain an orgai
tion, so disbanded. A few a
themselves with the RepuK
party while the remainder, in|
ins: Thos. L. Anderson, decide
affiliate with the Democrats. 1
L. Anderson was returned to
National Congress. At the
piration of his four years* se^
the Civil War had been launl
and Thos. L. Anderson decide
retire from political life. He
regarded as one of Mis?oi
ablest lawj'-ers. An Elder in
Presbyterian Church and an
yielding advocate of temper?
He died in 1885 at Palmyra,
ripe in years and full of lio
worthily bestowed. His elde?^1
Rufus Easton Anderson, I
,ran., 1833, was also a lawye
abilitv and Prosecuting Atto
of Marion coimty. Mo., for n
years. He was prominent
Masonic circles, being Oi
Master of the Grand Lodge oi
State for years. William Kn
Anderson, the second son of T
L. Anderson, bom 1835, is ali
prominent lawyer of Palia
He arraduated at the Universit;

'Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society.

[inia and served in the Mis-
i Legislature fron> 1873 to
\ Sarauel Shephierd Ander-
third son, born 1838, was a
m and practiced at Memphis,
n., until he cast liis lot with the
federaey in 1861, in which
ioe he gave np his life in 1865.
s. L. Anderson, Jr., fourth son,
1 1^46, W8P a lawyer and prac-
a at Lomsiana, Mo. Quite a
ibpr of the grandsons of Thoa.
Anderson, Sr., were also
yer^ and one granddaughter^
r}' Alby Anderson, who was ad-
led to the bar at Palmyra, Mo.,
IWS, when onlv twenty vears of
. She was City Attorney of!
niyra during 1899, 1900 and
1. She married Otfio F. Mat-
ws, a lawyer of Macon, Mo.,.
?M 1902, when she retired from,
law and has written several
»ks that have given her an
iable place in the literary
rkl. one of her productions be-
:''Love vs. Law.'* The strand-
IS ^ho are practicing law, are
OS. L. Anderson, born at
aisiana, Mo., 1874. He is prac-
Da: law at St. Louis, and is at\
i^ent City Attorney of that city.
liter Anderson, son of Dr. Al-
•t (rallatin Anderson, practiced
^ at Hannibal, Mo., where his
I Lilbourne Morris Anderson,
Qow practicing and is City Attor--
^•^ Thos. L. Anderson, born
55, son of AVm. Russell Ander-
1' is practicine: law at Hanni-
I, Mo.

Albert Gallatin Anderson, born
1811, was an eminent physician in
his day, and practiced medicine at
Philadelphia, Mo. His health be-
coming impaired from exposure
he sought a milder climate and in
1849, in company with his father-
in-law. Col. "VVm. MuJdrough,
formerly of Kentucky he went to
California where he died shortly
thereafter. Dr. Richard Stanley
Battersby practices medicine 'at
Shelbina, Mo. Wm. H. Clagget is
a Presbyterian minister and lives
in Pennsylvania. His two sons,
AYiderson and Dudley Clagget. are
Presbyterian ministers, the former
living in Arkansas and the latter
at St. Joseph, Mo. William Russell
Anderson. Jr., born Mar., 1868, is
a Presbvterian minister and at
j)resent pastor of the church at
Shelbyville, Ky. C'laronce Hitch-
cock Newton is a Presbyterian
minister and doing work at the
station at Kiunchow Hainan,
China. The most of the detscead-
ants of Capt. John Bullock and
Elizabeth Railev live in Missouri.
Their second daughter, Elizabeth
Randolph Bullock, married Jbs<^ph
Crockett, Jr., of Kentucky, but left
no issue. The third daughter,
Maria Patterson Bullock, mamed
her cousin, George Woodson
Railey. They had two daughters
neither of whom reached woman-
hood. George Woodson Railey
was many vears Post Master at)
Monticello, Mo., where he and his
family are buried.

ISIIAAI RANDOLPH RAILET 4Tir

BORN OF JOHN RAILEY AND ELIZA-
BETH RANDOLPH; MARRIED
SUSANNA WOODSON.

THEIR DESCENDANTS,

Jolm Railey ^-Elizabeth Ran-
dolph.

Tshara Randolph Railev, " born
July 15, 1758: died Mar. 14, 18U.

Married Susanna Woodson,
Sept. 17, 1784.

Jolm Railey. ^ born July 18,
1785; died Aus'. 7, 1844.

Married p]lizabeth Railej^ June
4, 1807.

John Woodson Railev, * born
Oct. 4, 1812; died Sept. 30, 1874.

Married Nancv Farris Nunn,
Oct. 4, 1832.

Caroline Railev, ^ j^q^jj ^U\t. 6,
1835.

Married William Carv, May 18,
1854. " (

Evaline Cfsrv, " born Mar. 13,
1S55.

Julia Ann Car\% ® born Sept. 27,
1856.

Married 1st Allen K. Walker,
July 26. 1874.

Married 2nd James S. Copeland,
Mar., 1885.

Edna M. Walker, '^ born Dec. 10,
1875,

Married John ChaDpell. • Sept.
20, 1893.

Elmer Louis Chappoll, ® born
April 20, 1805.

Dean Jennings Chappell, ^ born
Jan. 3, 1897.

Walker Chappell, ® born 8^
22, 1899.

James Chappell, ^ born Jan.
3901.

Minnie N. Walker, ^ born ()c1
3877.

Allen J. Walker. "^ born Juiv
1880.

Married • Mai-v Cunnindi;
April 19, 1906.

Julia E. AA^alker, ^ bom Fel^
1907. I

Frank Kendriok Walker, ^ bi
Julv 17, 1908.

Hallie N. Walker, » hoin J\
15, 1910.

^ I

Bessie N. Copeland, ^ born I
6, 1886.

Susie S. Copeland, ^ born A
20, 1888.

l?obert W. Copeland, ' U
Sept. 26. 1890.

Ella W. Copeland, ^ born Al
2, 1892.

Jesse J. Copeland, ^ born II
30, 1893.

John Herbert Copeland, ' M
Dee. 30, 1893.

Joseph F. Copeland, " W
Ai^ril 23, 1895.

Marv E. Carv, ® born Nov.
1858.

Married E. E. McAfee, .Julv i
1884.

Charles Elmore McAfee, ' bo
Jan. 9, 1886.

Married Bertha Railev, Art
28, 1910.

William Leroy McAfee, " Iw
Feb. 13, 18v89.

Viola A. McAfee, "^ born F^
17, 1891.

Ladv Raehael McAfee, ' l>ol
Feb. 3, 1893.

"William Woodson Caiy, * born
N'ov. 16, 1862.

Susan Ann Bailey, " born June
'J, 1837-

Isham Tarleton Railev, "^ born
Dec. 18, 1S40.

Married Loretta M. Bailey, Dec.
2, 1869.

Annie Farris Railey, " born
f^ept. 18, 1870.

Married W. h. Herndon, Nov.
% 1891.

Clara Herndon, ^ born Oct.,
1892.

Marv Elizabeth Railey, ® born
Sept. 29, 1872.

Married F. R. Martin, Sept.,
1889.

Laura Martin, '' born July 2,
1890.

Annie Woodson Martin, ^ born
Mar. 1, 1894.

Ernest Martin, '^ bom Nov. 4.

1898.

X. P. Railey, « born Nov. 23,

1875.

Jolin A. Railev, • bom Mar. 30,

1879.

Married Nannie Griflith, Feb.,
1905.

John A. Railey, .7r., '' bom Jan.
7, 1906.

Robert Woodson Railev, ^ bom
Sept., 1907.

Aubrev Lee Railev, ^ born Sept.,

1909. '

Louis Railev, • .born Oct. 17,

1881.

Married Martha Ecton, June 22,

1909.

W. T. Railev. • bom May 4,

18S4.

Joseph W. Railev, ° bom April

2, 1887.

Edward T. Railev, ' born Jan.
16, 1890.

Robert L. Railev, • born Mar. 2,
1894.

Isabella Railey, " bom Jan. 4,
1845.

John Randolph Railev, " bom
Mar. 4, 1850.

Married Marsraret French, Feb.
23, 1881.

Havdon W. Railey, ' bom Dec.
13, 1881.

Married Iiee W. Svnxms, Oct.,
1906.

Bertha Railev, ' bom Feb. 25,
1883.

Married Charles McAfee, April
29, 1910.

Estelle Railey, » born July 25,
1886.

Hattie Railev, * bom July 10,
1889.

Married Rector Herndon, Mar..
1910.

Boone Railev, " bom Aug. 20,
1852 ; died Aug. 8, 1871.

Caroline Railey, * born Aug.,
1815; died 1850.

Married 1st ]")r. Joseph Wilson,
1833.

Married 2nd Rev. W. E. Milam,
1837.

Elizabeth McCormick Wilson. '
bora 18.34; died 1845.

Tarleton Railey, ' bom Feb.,
1787; died June, 1810.

Elizabeth Randolph Railey. "
born 1792: died 1866.

Married J. B. McCormick, 1812;
no issue.

Randolph Railev, ' bom Dee. 19,
1794; died May, 1873.

Married 1st Caroline Crittenden,
1822.

Married 2nd Mary Hunter, 1837.

John Crittenden Eailev, * bon\
1823; died on Gulf of Mexico re-
turning from Mexican War.

Marararet Ann Railey, * bom
1.825; died 1839.

Caroline Crittenden Railey, *
bom 1827 ; died 1839.

Randolph Railev, Jr., * bom Oct.
11, 1838; died May, 1882.

Married Sallie Thornton, Feb.
13. 1S67.

Drake Carter Eailev, ' bom
1868; died 1898.

Emma Railoy, * bom Aug. 14,
1841.

Married Rev. Alexander Henry
Mar. 26, 1859.

Mary Henry, ' bom Sept. 26,
1862.

Married M. AV. Bmn. April 25,
1896.

Mary Woodson Brun, " born
Oct. 13, 1900.

Randolph Henrv, " born Feb.
3, 1864; died Mar.'S, 1889.

Rev. Alexander Henrv, ' born
April 8, 1865.

Married Wilhelmina Berrvman,
Oct. 8, 1890.

Catharine Clifton Henr)', ' born
Oct. 7, 1891.

Married Alfred Mosbv, Oct. 8,
1909.

Frank Borrvman Henrv, ® born
Nov. 24, 1892.'

Emma Yeaman Henry, ® born
Nov. 27, 1893.

Alexander Henrv, Jr., ' bom
Jan. 8, 1901.

James Henrv, " born Sept. 2,
1866.

Married Nellie T>. Ware, June
30, 1901.

Alexander Henry, " born July
25, 1905.

Emma Railey Henrv, * bora
Aug. 24, 1907.

Margaret Henrv, ' bom Nov. 21,
1867.

Married Dr. John Leonard Har-
ris, Feb. 5, 1890.

Alexander Henry Harris, ' born
July 8, 1891.

Emma Railey Harris, * born
Sept. 21, 1894.

Margaret Leonard Harris. * born
Dec. 19, 1896.

William Henrv, " born Julv,
1869.

Isham Railev, * bom April 2.
1846; died 1907.

Married Ezza Sanders, Mav 26,
1869.

Margaret Sanders Railev, ' born
June 2, 1870.

Married Buford Twvman. Aug.
1,1888.

Ezza Railev Twymau. ' born
Apnl 24, 1889.

Morton Sanders Railey. ' born
Aug. 14, 1871.

Married Ida B. O'Bannon. July
25, 1900.

Isham Railev, ' bom May 7,
1905.

Ida Dixon Railev, « bora Aoril
17, 1907.

Orville Browning Railev, *^- horn
Sept. 9, 1909.

Mary Stuart Railey, " born June
9, 1873.

Married Ben W. Williams, Nov
12. 1894.

John Stuart Williams, « I'orn
July 8, 1895.

Mariorie Williams. " born J""^
1,3, 1902. J

Railey Woodson Williams,
bom Nov. 29, 1905.

Louise Sharon Eailey, * born
June 21, 1874.

Married John M. McConnell,
Nov. 21, 1900.

Sue Tevis Eailey, ' born Aug. 7,
1875. i

Edith Hunter Raiky, ^ born
Dec. 25, 1879.

Lawrence iXmsden Bailey, '
bom Mar. 1, 1884.

Married Josephine Marshall,
June 2, 1909. i

Catharine C. Eailey, * born
Jan. 23, 1848.

Married George M. Fishback,
June 1, 18^9.

Emma Woodson Fishback, ^
born Mar. 3, 1870.

Married Eev. M. V. P. Yeaman,
June 19, 1899.

George F. Yeaman, ® born July
5, 1902.

Jane Lvle Fishback, ' bom
April 12, 1872.

Married LeGrand Atwood, Jan.
1, 1903.

George F, Atwood, ^ bom Oct.
5, 1903.

Thomas C, Atwood, ® bom Aug.
14, 1905.

Ezza Bailey Fishback, ^ bora
Dec. 11, 1875.

George Taylor Fishback, ^ bom
June 6, 1877.

Married Elizabeth Bowman,
June 12, 1905.

George Taylor Fishback, Jr., ^
bom Mar. 18,' 1906.

Catharine C. Fishback, ® born
April 12, 1907. i

Catharine Mary Fishback, '
bom Mar. 1, 1880.

Married J. T. Stone, Jan. 18,
1905.

Randolph. F. Stone, • bom Jan.
22, 1906.

Randolph Railey Fishback, «
born Oct. 4, 1887.

Married Cyrene Hunter, Oct. 25,
1909.

William Hunter Fishback, ® born
June 27, 1910.

William Hunter Railev, * bom
April 2, 1850: died Feb. 7, 189L

Married Martha McConnell,
Feb., 1872.

Randolph Woodson Railey, ^
born Dec. 3, 1872.

Robert McConnell Railey, '
bom Feb. 5, 1874,

William Hunter Bailey. Jr., '
born June 1, 1875.

Married Mary Lane, April 2,
1901.

James Railey, ^ bom May 22,
1879.

Married Gladys Blair, Sept. 10,
L909. '

Mary Railey, ^ bom Feb. 13,
1882.

Married R. F. G^iven, Aug. 30,
1906.

Emma Railey, ^ bom May 11,
1884.

Martha Railey, ^ bora Sept, 10,
1885.

Caroline Railey, ^ bom Feb. 12,
1796 ; died Mar. 3, 1859.

Married Joseph Frazier, July
29, 1825.

Sarah E. Frazier, * bom Oct; 5,
1830; died Oct. 25, 1854.

Married P. L iRailey, Jr., Oct.
22, 1851.

Josephine Railey, * born Sept.
22, 1852.

Married Robert Ward Macey,
Nov. 21, 1872.

Pattie Railev Macey, • bom Mar.
24, 1876.

Sadie Macey, • bom June 9, 1877.

Robert Ward Macey, Jr., • bom
Oct. 8, 1879.

"Railey Woodson Macey, • bom
Aug. 30, 1881.

Jordan Railev, * bom Aug. 14,
1797; died Dec. 7, 1816.

Josiah Woodson Railey, * born
Nov. 18, 1798; died April 5, 1818.

Martha Woodson Railev, * born
Aug. 15, 1802 ; died July 17, 1886.

Nancy Railey, * bom 1803; died
Oct. 29, 1821.

Married David Thomton, 1820.

Dr. Isham Railey, ' born 1805;
died Sept. 4, 1845.

Married Sarah Webster, 1835;
no issue.

Isham Randolph Railey, the 4th
of John Railey and Elizabeth
Randolph was bom in Virginia on
the * * Stonehenge * ' farm near
Richmond in 1758. He came to;
Kentucky with his brother^
Thomas Railey about 1780, and
settled in Woodford county neaif
Versailles. His estate was known,
as **Vine Grove" and remained in
possession of the Railey descend-
ants until ten years ago it became
the property of Samuel Woolridge,
Jr. Feeling the need of a com-
panion and housekeeper he re-
turned to Virginia during the year
1784, and married Susanna Wood-
son the 6th of Col. John Woodson
and Dorothy Randolph. They re
turned ia Kentucky accompanied
by William Railey, after a perilous
journey through the wildemessi
inhabited principally by savages,
and threatened constantly by,
vicious wild beasts that roamed

the forests. Finally reaching
their newly made home in the
boundless bluegrass country they
entered upon the duties that lay
before them with brave hearts and
lofty purposes and right well did
they succeed. They raised a family
of children, each of whom proved
a blessing to the honje. TheiiJ
first born, John Railey, married
his cousin, Elizabeth Railey, of
Virginia, and settled in Cumber^
land county, Ky., about 1807,
where they lived and died. John
Woodson Railey. their son, moved
from Cumberland county, Ky., to
Marshall, Mo., where his descend-
ants live today and they are very
numerous.

Randolph Railey, the 4th of
Isham R. Railey and Susfaijn«||
Woodson, married first, Carolinej
Crittenden, of Frankfort, Ky.
They had several children, only
one of whom lived to years of
maturity, and he enlisted with the
Kentucky volunteers to the Mexi-
can War and died upon the Gulf
on his return trip. His name was
John Crittenden Railey and the
older Raileys, who remember
him well, speak of him as the
handsomest mlan in all Kentucky.
Randolph Railey 's second mar-
riacre was to Mary Tfimter, of Ver-
sailles, Ky. There were five chil-
dren by this marriage. Randolph
Railey, who married Sallie Thom-
ton; Isham Railey, who married
Ezza Sanders; Emtna Railey, who
married Rev. Alexander Henry, a
Presbvterian minister ; Catharine
Railey, who married George M
Fishback, and Wm. H. Railey, who
married Martha McConnell. The

fl«g>st<r of th« Kentucky State HIstorlcci Society. g3

most of their descendants live in dolph Bailey and William Bailey,

Kentacky. Mrs. Bobt. Ward brothers ; and of Martha Woodson,

Mflcey, of Versailles, Ky., who i^ Susanna Woodson and Judith

of this line, is a great scranddaagh* Woodson, sisters,
ler of Thos. Railey, isham Ban-

MORTON GENEALOGY

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL

DEPARTMENT

The Mortons, Venables, Michanx of Saoriiiy Mismjes, France.
Roehette of Holland, Carey, Woodson, Logan,

Clark, Mathews.

From Family Records and Court and Church Registers.
By Miss Morton,, of Birmingham, Ala.

The Mortons of Kentucky, who came
from Virginia to this State, are said to be,
so far aff traced by Virginia genfoaloglsts,
deecended front IUol>ert )d<e Morlaine^ a
nobleman of -England.

ThoB. Jforton, a son of Robert de 3for-
taine, had three sons who are known to

have con^ to America in 1619, about the
time the Venables and Wclodaons came to
Fleur de Hundred, Va. Tbe families mar-
ried and intenmArried among themselves,
as seen from the following carefully pre-
j;>ared genealogy:

MORTON GENEALOGY

CHAPTER I. (

Thos. Morton, descended from

Robert de Mortaine, of England.

Married Elizabeth Woodson, Shei

married second Editor Goode.

Thos. Morton ^s sons: Jol^l,
Richard and Joseph. John Mor-
ton, of Morton Hall, Prince Ed-
ward county, Va., married Mary
Anderson, of Farmville, Va.

Richard Morton, merchant, of
Prince Edward Court House, Va.,
married Judith Quin, daughter of
Susan Michaux and granddaugh-
ter of Abram Michaux.

Joseph Morton, bom 1709; died
June 28, 1782. Married Agnes
Woodson, born Feb. 27, 1711 ; died
Mar. 10, 1802. He was surveyor,
settled at Little Roanoke Bridge,
Ya. Justice of the Peace Char-
lotte county, 1769. Trustee, visi-
tor, manager, and one of the found-
ers of Hampden-Sidney College,
Va. Member of Committee of
Safety of Charlotte county; ruling
elder and one of the founders of
Briery Presbyterian church.

Children of Richard Morton:
Quin Morton, bom 1749 ; died June
1, 1805. He served two years in
the Revolutionary War. Married
Mary Anderson, bom Dec. 27,
1757 ; died July 7, 1818. She was
the daughter of Chas Anderson
and Elizabeth Chambers. Chas.
Anderson gave the land upon
which Cumberland church was

built in Cumberland county, and
was elder in same.

Children of John Morton, of
Morton Hall: (1) Capt HezekiaB
Morton, mttrried Miss Mosby<
Her ancestor. Judge Hughes, of
Norfolk, Va. (2) John A. Morton,
married Cora Lee Henrv, daughter
of Gov. H. Hayti. (3)* Nathaniel,
married Miss Copeland, of Balti-
more, Md. (4) Maj. James Mor-
ton, married Miss Lacy. (5)
Benj., married Miss Morton,
of Halifax. (6) Joseph Morton,
ancestor of Gov. Oliver P. Morton,
of Indiana. (7) Richard Mortoiu

(8) Oba Morton, married Thos.
L. , of Farmville, Va.

(9) Betsy Morton, married Jacob
Woodson, ancestor of Gov. Silas
Woodson, of Missouri.

Children of Joseph Morton:
Josiah Morton, bom Nov. 14, 1737 ;
died Nov. 27, 1785 ; married Eliza-
beth Venable, daughter of Abram
and Martha Venable. (2) Judith
Morton, bom Dec. 27, 1737 ; married
Jas. Venable, son of Abram and
Martha Venable. (3) Col. Wm.
Morton, bora Nov. 27, 1743; died
Nov. 29, 1820. He married, 1764,
Susan Watkins, daughter of Thos..
Watkins. (4) Jane Morton, boru
Feb. 14, 1745. (5) Agnes Morton^,
bom Feb. 26, 1747; married Col.
Joel Watkins. son of Thos. Wat-
kins. ^6) Little John Morton,
liorn Nov. 15, 1749; married Miss
Watkins. (7) Jacob Morton, bom

flegitter of tHe Kentucky 8ut« Historical Society.

Jan. 29, 1751 ; died Mar. 22, 1829
married, 1774, Jane Bookie. (8)
Eliza Morton, bom Mar. 14, 1754
died 1828. Married tJohn Daniel

Dr. William Joseph Morton, of
Bacine, Wis., bom Aug., Ibl7
died 1896. Married firgtt Miss
Eleanor Walters, second Mrs
Ellen Gatewood, Versailles, Ky
Agnes Marv Morton, bom Feb.
.1819; died 1874. Married Wm. C
Hanna, Shelby connty, Ky. Col
Quin Morton, born Nov., 1823;
died Mar., 1878 at Shelbyville, Ky.
Married Eliza Logan, daughter of
Alexander Logan. A. L, Morton,
married Maiy Baker, of New York,
Wm. Quin Morton, married Katie
Carey. Elizabeth A. Morton, mar-
ried John Thompson. Carey
Seldon Morton, married Quin A.
Logan. Eliza Anderson Morton.
Chas. Morton, married Agnes
Sale. Selina A. Morton, married
Kev. Isaac Canfield. Rev. Henry
J. Morton, married Arilla Proctor.
Rev. Francis R. Morton, married
Anna Morton. John S. Morton,
married Lucia Crawford. Joseph'
Venable Morton, married Sarah
Taliaferro, of Winchester, Ky. An-
drew Mir'haiix Morton, born 1839;
died 1884.

Thos. A. Morton, born May 24,
1777; married Martha Lockett,
daughter of Thos. and Mary Clay^
Lockett. Chas. A. Morton, bom
Dec. 24, 1779; married Marj'
Lockett. Elizabeth Morton, bom
July 18, 1882 ; married Wm. Lewis
Morton, son of Josiah and Eliza-
beth Morton. John Morton, born
Aug. 24, 17«4: married Elizabeth
A. Le Grande, daughter of Rev.
Washington and Margaret Holmes.
Richard Morton, bom Mar. 6,

1787; married Martha Spencer,
(laughter of Thos. S. and Lucy
Watkins. Fanny Morton, bom
July 19, 1789; married Dr. Archi-
bald Alexander. Mary Morton,
born Feb. 11, 1792 ; married Henr>'
Madison. Wm. Quin Morton, bom
May 4, 1794; married, 1816, Eliza-
beth McRoberts Venable. Ander-
son C. Morton, born June 27, 1797 ;
married Sarah Watkins.

Children of Wm. Quin Morton,
«on of Quin Morton and Mary .An-
derson, who married Elizabeth
MeRoberts Venable: (1) Alexan-
der Logan Morton, bom Louis-
ville, Ky.; graduated West Poini
and in law; married Mary E. Bar-
ber, of London, Eng.

John Thompson Morton; Eliza-
beth A. Morton.

Wm. Quin Morton, married
Katie Carey, daughter Christopher
Carey and Harriet Mason, daugh-
ter of Dr. Jno. Mason, of Massa-
chusetts, granddaughter of Rev.
Peter Minor Carey, Chesterfield
county, Va., and Bhoda Cox,
great granddaughter of Thos.
Carey and Sarah Kemp. Their
children :

(1) Carey Morton, (2) Quia
Morton, (3) Seldon Carey Morton,
f4) Alexander Logan Morton, (5)
Wm. Quin Morton.

Marv Logan Morton married
Jesse Buckner Kinohloe of Spencer
countv, Kv. Chas. T. Morton mar-
ried Sarah Stewart, of Indiana.
Verhirda Morton. Jennie Morton
married John C. Cunningham, of
Philadelphia, Pa.

Children of Josiah Morton, who
married Eliza Venable:

(1) Joseph Morton, married

Mary Morton. (2) William Lewis
Morton, married Eliza Morton,
daughter of Quin Morton, mar-
ried Mary Morton. (3) Martha
Morton, married Mr. Moon. (4)
Agnes Morton, married Arthur
MeBoberts. I

Wm. Booker Morton, of Vir-
^nia. great grandson of Josoph
Morton and his wife, Agnes Wood-
son. Joseph Morton was a gentle-
man justice of Prince Edward
county when the county was or-
ganized, Jan. 8, 1754, and for many
years thereafter. There is some
history of the Mortons in print, en-
titled **The Ancestry of Levi P.
Morton, the Governor of New
York.'^

Biehard Morton, great grand-
son of Joseph Morton and Agnes
Morton, his wife, of Virginia, mar-
ried Mabel Ijuce and lived in Nel-
son county, Ky., until after his
fourth son, David Morton, was
bom, Jan. 9, 1789. Their chiJdren:

(1) Isaac Morton, bom Dec. 8,
1785; moved to Ohio county, Ky.

(2) Samuel Morton, born 1787;
moved to Palmyra, Mo. (3) Wil-
liam Morton, unmarried, mer-|
chant, died Hardinsburg, Ky. (4),
David Morton, bom Jan. 9, 1789;
died Jan. 23, 1858. Moved to
Breckinridge county, Ky., and
married Margaret Daniel; April
25, 1825, she was born Feb. 9, 18«35 ;
died Mar. 1, 1846. Later moved to
Owensboro, Ky., and was merchant
until death. Their children: (1),
Wm. Morton, born Julv 22, 1826;
died Nov. 8, 1852. (2) Mary, born
Dec. 14, 1S28; ^ied Dec. 12, 1851.

(3) James D., bora Mar. 27, 1831;
died Mar. 1, 1863. Married Mar-

garet Peyton, by whom he had one
son, Frank. (4) Sally, born May
10, 1853; married Dr. Jno. W.
Compton, Nov. 29, 1853. Their
children: (1) Margaret 0., born
Nov. 9, 1857; married Ira D. Mc^
Coy. Have one son, Ira D., Jr.
(2) Dr. Morton J., born Mar. 18,
1859; married * Laura Mobley.
Have two children, Morton and
Lucile. (3) Dr. Frederick S., born,
Sept. 8, 1864; married Lou Fink.
Have one son, J. Norvin, (4) John
W., Jr., bora Sept. 8, 1869; mar
ried Margaret Smith. Have one
son, Wayne S. They all live in
Evansville. Ind. (5) Margaret,
born Dec. 26, 1835; married Wm.
T. Owen. (6) Emiline, born Sept. 7,
1838; died Nov. 14, 18S4; married
Wm. G. Priest. Have two chil-
dren, Nettie and Emma. They live
in Mauston, Wis. (7) Samuel^
born Oct. 17, 1840; married Lydia
Barron. One dausrhter, Hallie.
(8) David, boni Dec. 20, 1842;
married Mely Barron; have two
children, David and Bell.

Richard Morton's fifth child,
Mary, born 1799; married Judge
.lohn Calhoun; moved to Calhoun,
Ky. Their children:

1. Isaac, maiTied Margaret
Stout.

2. Corilla, married Walker
Hawes; moved to Texas.

3. William.

4. Mary, married John Johnson.

5. Attiiln, m^irried Huston.

6. Irene, married Lloyd Grates.

7. Margaret, married fir^t Will-
iam Griffith; second Frank
Shrader.

Isaac Morton married Mary
Shanks; their children:

1. Corrina, married Dr, W. Duff
Green of Danville, Ky. Moved to
Mt. Vemon, 111. Their children:
(1) Morton, (2) Williams, (3)
Earl, (4) Inez, (5) Cora, (6).
Laura, (7) Minnie, (8) Maddie.

2. Dr. James, never married.

3. Alonza, deceased; married
Sallie . '

4. Florence, married Cicero
Maxwell.

5. John C, deceased: married S.
Jennie Chinn, of ''Bellsgrove,''
lYanklin county, Ky., daughter of
•ludge Franklin Chinn; is now.
Regent of the Kentucky State UisH
torical Society (editor of **The
Register," also Secretary Treas-
urer).

6. William. Killed in Hartford,
Ky., during the Civil War.

7. Preston. Killed in the Fed-
eral army at Fort Donaldson.

8. Laura, married Byron Chap '
man.

9. Isaac. Killed in the last
skirmish of the Confederates, 1865,
near Henderson, Ky. He wore the
gray; unmarried.

10. Samuel Morton, married

. One daughter, married

Devereux, and lived in Se-

dalia, Mo.

David Morton ^s maternal grand-
mother war? Lizzie Halleck, mar-
ried David Luce, for whom David
Morton was named. Her brother
settled on Long Island Sound, andi
her grandmother was the first
white child bom on the sound.
She was related to Fitz-Green Hal-
leck, the poet, and Gen. Halleck of
the army.

Morton Gbnbaloqy.

478 — Morton— William Morton
was an Englishman and lived in
Lexington, Ky. His wife was
Sarah Smith, of Baltimore.

537 — ^Morton — ^If this inquirer^
will write Col. J. P. Fitzgerald,
Farmville, Va., he can and will be
fully answered. This Joseph Mor-
ton was of the Prince Edward
county family. Old Briery church
(Presbyterian) was in the south-
em part of Prince Edward
county, near the Charlotte county
line. Spencers, Bookers, Mortons,
t^loumoys, were early members of
it. In fact, the Prince Edward coun-
ty Floumoys early reverted to the
more stalwart Calvinism of the
Huguenot Laurent, while the fam-
ily further east continued Episco-
palian for years longer. In publish-
ing the Floumoy family history in
the Virginia Magazine of Histiory,
I treat of '^old Briery church '* on
pages 201 and 202, October Num-
ber, 1894, and mention the Mor-
tons. There is no detail of them
there published, as I was searching
the records for Flournoys. and only
mention Maj. Jaicob Morton, No.
67 on the list, as incident to his
grandson, Thomas Floumoy, No,
410. Jacob Morton Floumoy, son,
of this Thomas, lives in Brunswick
county, Va. There was no Char-,
lotte county, Va., in 1735, how-
ever. Charlotte formed 1765
from Lunenberg, and Lunenberg
county formed 1741 from Bruns-
wick countv.

Amd again: The Presbyterian
church of Virginia published iA
1886 as '*An Aid to Ruling
Elders'^ a memoir of William B.

Aegftter of th« Kentucky 8uto Historical Society,

Morton, of Charlotte county, whicli
gives a good idea of Morton bi&-
tory. The late editor of the Cen-
Iral Presbyterian, published at
Richmond, was of this descent.
This Joseph Morton was Scotch-
Irish on his father's side. This lit-
tle ** Memoir '* can doubtless be
had from the Presbyterian church
officials in Virginia. Col. Fitz-
gerald could procure a copy and
can tell about the Briery Becord
Book and the Mortons in it, and
perhaps John Floumoy Henry, of
Louisville Trust Company, Louis^
ville, Ky., has a copy, as his an-
cestor was the first minister. It
was printed in 1828. I hope this;
Morton inquiry will succeed, as I
have tried hard to interest thei
Morton branch of the Flour-j
noys, but without success. Thej
*' Memoir'* cited is of Williami
I>ooker Morton, and he was a greatj
p:randson of Joseph Morton and
Agnes Woodson, his wife. I think

Col. Fitzgerald has a full tabula-
tion of the Prince Edward Flour-,
noys, from Col. Thomas F., Highi
Sheriff, Militia Colonel and Bur-
gess of the Bevolution, the young-
est son of the immigrant, Jean^
Jacques Floumoy, having been
bom November 20, 1738; died
1801,

And again: This Joseph Mor^
ton was a gentleman, justice of
Prince Edward county, when the
county was orgauized Jan. 8, 1754,
and for years afterward. See or-
der book at Farmville, and pages
195 to 200, ** Floumoy Family,''
in October Number Virginia Maga-
zine, 1894. Mortons, Floumoys,
Bookers, Spencers, of Prince Ed-
ward and Charlotte, much inter-
married; also Womacks and Ven-
ables. There is in print **The An-
cestry of Levi P. Morton,'' the
Governor of New York, tliat might
help the inquirer.

DEPARTMENT

CUPPINGS AND PARAGRAPHS

MRS. JENNIE C. MORTON,

Regent of

Kentucky State Historical Society.

MRS. JENNIE C MORTON HONORED WITH TITLE

Chosen Regent of Kentucky State Hbtorical Society by the

Members.

(Trom Fraakfort N&ws-Joumal.)

For several years resident mem-
bers of the Kentucky State His-i
torical Society, as well as mem-
bers living in distant states, have
desired that the real head of the
society, its re-organizer, and the
promoter of its success, and posi-
tion of value in the historical
world of literature and achieve-
ment today, should have a descrip-
tive title. It was not enough that
Mrs. Jennie C. Morton bore the
title of **Lady Laureate of Ken-
tucky, '^ Editor of the Historical
Register, that she founded and
lias made famous and important aa
the magazine of this society — pud
that she is the Secretary-Treas-
urer of the society.

All these positions she has filled
with unexampled ability and fidel-
ity — Whence these interested mem-
bers have felt she had won and
must bear in future, an honoring
title, commensurate with the dig-
nity of her position in the State —
and the responsibility of her office,
a title which embodied in its scope
all of the educational and literary
features of a regency. It should
be Regent.

The suggestion for such tit lei
came from the late Hon. Z. V.

Smithy a member of the society, in
a letter to the chairman of the
Executive Committee of the State
Historical Society — ^urging tihalj
this richly deserved honor — ^the
title of Regent be cbnf erred!
upon the Editor of the Register!
and Secrctarj'-Treasurer of the
State Historical Society at once.
On the evening of June 29th the
Executive Committee and mem-
bers, held a meeting, and after
many complimentary remarks and
tributes to the beloved lady, Mrs.
Morton, unanimously elected her
Regent of the State Historical So-
ciety. The title is purely an honor,
without price, and will be worn as
an emblem in testimony of the ap^
preciation of the society, for their
Regent, and its desire to honor hei;
work by a suitable title.

A FRIEND AND MEMBER OF THE HIS-
TORICAL SOCIETY.

When Mrs. Morton was notified
of her election to the title of Re-
gent and the honor intended by the
creation, of it, to confer upon her
in recognition of her right to sucK
historic distinction, she wrote the
following card of thanks to the
Executive Committee of the His-
torical Society.

MRS. MORTON 8 RESPONSE.

To the Honorable Executive Cora^
mittee and Memhers of the State
Historical Society:

"I beg that you will accept my
heartfelt gratitude for the honor
you have created to confer upon
rae. That it is new, and that it is
moneyless, makes it all the more
pleasant to me. It will not take
another moment of my time to
watch over it. It brings no re-
sponsibility and adds no care, the
while it confers dignity in name,
upon the official positions I have
held, and endeavored faithfully to
fulfill for the State and the society.
Also it deepens the respect and re-
gard I have ever felt for the mem-
bers and the Executive Committee
of the State Historical Society^
who have so generously and nobly
sustained me in the performance
of the various duties of my official!
position in the society. It is to you
even more than to myself. Ken-
tucky is indebted for her splendid
Historical Society. As its Recent
1 shall always remember gratefully
your assistance, your beautiful
recognition of my limited service,
and your honoring confidence

in me.

Yours sincerely,

Mits. Jexnie C. Morton.

THE LEAF.

(Translated from the French of Fenelon.)
By Aft-B. W. LesUe ColUns.

So rudely torn from thy support,
\Vh€re goeth thou, poor withered leaf?

I do not know. The tempest's eport
Is the dire cause of all my grief.

It felled the oak, upon whose bougn
My slight form clung since early spring;

And from that dreadful day till now
The fickle wind upon his wing.

Hacr borne me o'er the spreading plam,
And through the forest's shady nooKS,

And o'er the rugged mountain chain,
And by the valley's babbling hrooKB.

Without complaint, and without grief,
I go .wihere everything else goes,

Where goes the slender laurel leaf,
Wlhere goes the soft leaf of the rose.

HER NEW HONOR.

A DESERVED RE^^OGNTTION.
(Prom Frankfort News- Journal.)

At a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Kentucky Stat^
Historical Society on vesterday fi
richly deserved honor was con-
ferred upon Mrs. Jennie C. Mor-
ton, Secretary- Treasurer of the
society. Mrs. Morton has been the
real head of the society for many
years, and the Executive Commit-
tee felt that the title ** Secretary-
Treasurer*' did not carry with ifc
the full meaning comprehended in
the work she does for the society,
and that some title more in keeping
with the dignity of her real posi-
tion in the society was necessary.
With this in view the committee
conferred on Mrs. Morton at yes
terday's meeting the title of
* * Regent ' ' of the society. The sug-
gestion for this title came origin-
ally from Prof. Z. F. Smith, fonn-
erly State Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction, and one of the early
and valued members of the society.
The new position, beinaf purely an!
honorary one, will in no way con-
flict with Mrs. Morton's duties aa
Secretary-Treasurer and editor oi
the Register.

CORONATIONS ARE FORM-

ATJTIES

AND NOT ESSENTIALS.

Preparations for the coronation
of George V., of England, are pro-
ceeding with increasing absorption
in London. There are many
things to do and millions of dollars
to spend in order to comply with
precedents and observe the form-
alities that have become as essen^
tial and sacred as the unwritten
constitution of the British people.

There is no haste. The king is
king. The king never dies. Aj»
the gasping breath of one expires,
the reign of the next begins the
moment he takes the oath. That is
all that is reijuired of him.

You will remember how the
Prime Minister and the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury woke up
that interesting young woman^
Victoria of Kent, in the middle of
the night at Kensington Palace, to
tell her that she was Queen of
England, and to administer the
oath to an astonished girl with her
beautiful hair hanging loosely
down her back and a wrapper
hastily thrown over her night
gown.

A coronation is not essential to
authority; it is simply an appro
priate ceremony like the parade
and the delivery of an address at
the inaugural of the Per si dent of
the United States. Several of the
most important kings of Europe
have never been crowned. The
Kaiser of Germany and the King

of Spain, the King of Sweden and
others have never had such a cere-
mony. [

RE.4R0NS FOR HASTE.

In ancient times aspirants to the
throne u^od to hasten the corona-
tion lest one of their rivals should
go through that ceremony and use
the fact as an argument to sustain
their claims. James II. was
crowned forty-five days and Queen
Anne forty-three days after the
death of their predecessor34
George I. went over from Hanover
two months after the death of
Queen Anne to fill the vacant
throne; George II. was crowned
four months after his father died,
but somebody suggested to George
III. that it was not respectful to
make such haste or to have a
pageant during the recognized
period of mourning. So he waited
a year; George IV. waited eighteen
months and twenty days; William
IV., fifteen months and twelve
days; Queen Victoria, one yeac
and eight days ; King Edward, one
year and five days, and King
George V. will wait about the same
length of time, a year being con-
sidered the proper interval of
mourning, and ns soon as it has
expired the first favorable day, the
anniversary of a patron saint or
some other date of special signifi-
cance or of religious or historical
association, is selected.

The official records of the
British Government ero back to
the coronation of Ethelred II. at
Winchester. Edward the Con*
fessor was crowned Easter day,
1043, at Winchester, but before

R0gt«ter of th« K«iitueky tUte rllttOflcHI Society.

hid death he issaed a decree that
ftiture coronations should tako
place in the great abbey of West-
minster, and prepared the ritual
which is still nsed.

William the Conquerot Was
r^rowned at Westminster by 1M
Archbishop of York with tnncti
pomp and magniflcence on Chridt-
mas, 1066, and on th^t day began
tiie Norman mle. William died in
Normandy in September, 1087, and
seventeen days after his death his
son, William the Ued, hastened
back to England bearing his
father's signet Tint;, and had him*
f»elf anointed at Westminster.
Snnday, after communion, Septem-
ber 26.

SIXTEEN OCCURRED ON SUNDAY.

Sixteen out of twenty-one early
Knglish coronations occurred on
Sunday, and for each of the ex-
ceptions there was some special
reason. Richard Til. and his wife
Anne walked barefooted up the
main aisle of Westminster Ab-
bey, Sunday, July 6, and were
crowned by the Archbishop of
Canterbury. Jlenry VIL was
crowned en a battlefield, August
22, 1485, immediately after the de-
feat of Richard Til. at Bosworth,
Richard had worn his crown into
battle. Lord Stanley found it on
a hawthorn bush, and placed it on
Henry's head in the presence of
the army, but as soon as the king-
dom was quiet, Henry was re-
crownod in Wostminster Abbey
October 30, of the same year, and
Elizabeth of York, his Queen, was
crowned Sunday, November 25.

8ince that time there have been

no Snnday coronations. James I.
broke the rule and selected Mon-
day, July 25, the anniversary of
his name saint, for the day;
Charles I. selected Thursday.
February 2, the day of purifica-
tion, for some motive of religious
mysticism which was wie of his
striking peculiarities, and wore
garments of snowy white in place
of the royal pnn)le for similar
reasons, and they called hha **the
White King.''

Henry V. was crowned on Pas-
sion Sunday. Several kings have
chosen Easter day.

Edward VI., who was a man of
method and habits of order, to set
things straight issued a proclama-
tion **that the king who is heir or
successor may write and begin his
reign the said day that his pro-
genitor or predecessor dies," and
from that date the records of a
new reign have begim with the
hour of the demise, which has
usually been, simultaneous with
that of the accession by oath.
Queen Elizabeth was the first sov-
ereign of England to make a
formal claim and record of acces-
sion, and all succeeding ones have
been based upon the form she
used. The second act of a new
sovereign is usually to direct the
bishops of the established Church
by royal warrant to order public
pravers by their clergv in their be-
half.

OLD JEWISH CUSTOM OBSBBVED.

England is the only monarchy
in which the ancient Jewish rite of
anointing with oil and chrism is
still preserved, and it is said to

ntfiiifr «r iHf KeoiiK^y 9t»i# M;fiori^i jS9Pijrty«

hmv« beep c<^ed by Edwud the
Gonf eftsof after the eoromation of
Joashy as described in II Kiflgfit
chapter eleyeiu

The Ki»f of England is wedded
to his people hy a ring. The storj
goes that whea Edward tlie Coor
feasor was walking near his palacil
fit Westminster one day he waa
iieooBted for alms by a pilgrim
bound for Jerasalem, and, having
no money on his person, gave the
beggar a ring. Wh^i the pilgrim
reached Jerasalem he reported tho
incident to the .patriarch at the
Holy 8ep«i1cher, who blessed the
ring and told the pilgrim to take it
back to Lond<m and restore it to,
the King. This was done and the
saiaie ring was used at the corona
tion imtil the reformation, when a
new one was made, engraved with
the cross of St, George.

The anointing of the King is
from an ampulla, or vial, of holy
oil which, according to tradition,
was given to Thomas a Becdtet by
the Holy Virgin in person, while
he was praying at the Cathedral
at Canterbnrv one nisrht in lhe(
year 1399. The ampulla is in the
shape of an eagle, seven inches
high. It is made of pure gold and
the holy oil pours through tlie beak
of the bird. At a certain pointy ini
tlie ceremony before bestowing
the ^rown the Archbishop of Can-
terbury will anoint the King by
making a cross upon the crown of
his head and the palms of his
hands, saying:

*'Be thou anointed with holy oil
as kings, priests and prophets
were anointed. And as Solomon
was anointed, and Nathan the

J^ropbet^ so be you anointed,
blessed and consecrated King over
all those people whom the Lord
your <iK>d has chosen you to rule. ' '
The large square stone^ which is
fastened to the seat of the ancient
and rudely jconstructed coronation
chair, which may be seen at West-
minster Abbey, is believed to be
that upon which Jacob slept the
night that he saw the vision of the
angels ascending and descending
the ladder. The stone, according
to the legend, was taken to Egypt,
thence to Spain and finally to Ire^
land, wherx^ it was used as the
throne of the Tiish kings for cen-
turies. It is known as ^^the stone
of destiny, •'

OATH FBESOBiBED FOB SOVEBEIGN.

Before receiving the crown the
King must take an oath which
must also be written out and
signed upon a sheet of silk which
is prepared in advance. Some-
times a gold bordered parchment is
used instead. The archbishop,
turning to the King, asks :

Sire, is your Majesty willing to
take the oath!

The King — I am willing.

Archbishop — ^Will you solemnly
l>romise and swear to govern the
people of this United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and ihe
Dominions thereto belonging ac
cording to the statutes in Parlia-
ment agreed on and the respoctive
laws and customs of the same?

The King — ^I solemnly promise!
to do so.

Archbishop — ^Will you to your
I)Ower cause law and justice in

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mercy to be executed in all your
judgments?

The King— I will.

Archbishop — Will yon to the ut-
most of. your power maintain the
laws of God, the true profession
of the Gospel and the Protestant
Befbrmjed religion established by
the 'law? And will you maintain
and presei-ve inviolably the settle-
ment of the United Church of
England and Ireland, and the doc-
trine, worship and discipline anrl
government thereof, as by law es-
tablished within England and Ire^
land and the territories thereunto
])elonging? And will you presei*ve
unto the bishops and clergy of
England and Ireland and to the
churches there committed to their
charge all such rights and privi-
leges as by law do or shall apper-
tain to them or any of them?

The King — ^All this I promise to
do. The things which. I have here
before promised T will perform and
keep. So help me God.

COST OF CROWNS T^ PUriSIA.

Each Czar of Russia has a now
crown, a custom which costs the
taxpayers of that country hun-
dreds of millions of dollars. And
until recent voars each has iiad
a new throne, quite expensive
baubles, and you can see them
standing in rows in the Kremlin
at Moscow, loaded with jewels oi^
great value. Th6 King of Eng^
land uses the same throne that his
ancestors sat upon, and wears the
same crown, although it must be
altered at every coronation to fit
the head of the new wearer, and
the jewels are usually rearranged

to fit his fancy. The lai:e Edward
VII. had a very large head. He
wore a seven and one-half hat:
King George wears a six and sev-
en-eighths hat. Therefore, the
bandeau which encircles the fore-
head must bo shortened to prevent
the crown from sinking down over
his majesty's eyes.

King Edward wore the same
crown that had encircled the girl-
ish brow of his mother, whose head
was six and five-eights in size
when she ascended the throne.
When it was made over for him he
had the crown tiiken entirely to
pieces, the framework much en-
larged and every single jewel re-
set. The bandeau, which is the
main part of the crown, is two
inches and a half wide and a solid
mass of jewels set in gold, with'
the famous ruby of the Black
Prince in the center of the fore^
head.

The design is after the fleurs de
lis; all of the figures having a
gorgeous jewel, a sapphire, ruby
or emerald, in the center. Withim
the bandeau is a purple crimson!
velvet cap, which is surmounted!
by a hemispherical frame of arches
covered with pearls. These arches
support a St. Andrew's cross^
which rises nine and one-fourth
inches above the head. In th^
center of the cross is the famous
**8tar of India "* diamond, and on
either side are two pendant pear-
shaped pearls, which were brought
out from among the disused er3wn
jewels by order of King Edward
And placed exactly as they were
worn by Queen Elizabeth at her
coronation in 1558, and fastened

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on each side of the arches directly;
under the orb.

NEW DIAMONDS TO HE USED.

The groat new diamonds from
South Africa will be worn in the;
fccepter, but not in the crown, and
the Kohinoor will be in the crown
of the Queen instead of that of the,
king. It was taken from the latter
in i902 and placed as the central
splendor of Queen Alexandra's
crown, which was made to order
according to her own design with
many of her private jewels, whichj
were temporarily' removed from,
their settings for that purpose.
There were no colored stones in,
her crown. Every jewel was a
pearl or a diamond. Immediately
after the coronation it was taken,
to pieces, the private jewels were,
restored to their old settings and,
the Kohinoor was re^et as aj
pendant for her use on occasions
of splendor.

King Edward also brought out
from the unused jewels of thej
royal family the Georgian or Han-
overian pearls, which for som0
reasons Queen Victoria never wore,
and did not seem to care for. Dur-
ing her reign of sixty years these
four great ropes of eighty-four
pearls each, which had been col-
lected bj'' her Hanoverian ances-
tors, were locked up in the Tower
of London, but they appeared in all
their glory at the coronation of
1902 twisted loosely around the
neck and shoulders of Queen Alex-
andra and falling to her knees over,
the golden embroideries of her In-
dian robe,

A new crown made of some of

these same jewels is being wrought
for Queen Mary, although her
mother-in law, the dowager, stiU
retains many of the most valuable
crown diamonds including a four-
rowed bracelet of huge square
single stones which was frequently
worn by Queen Victoria and was
made over to fit the slender wrist
of Alexandra for the coronation
of lfK)2.

JMPEBIAL MANTJ;E FOE GEOnOE.

King George V. will wear an im-
perial mantle made for George IV.,
whicli has been worn by each of his
successors except Queen Victoria^
for whose slendor form it was too
large and heaw. It was woven of
purple crimson at Spitlield and
embroidered with the escutcheons
of the three kingdoms surrounded
by a deep fringe of pure gol4
thread.

A new carpet must be made for
every coronation. *»to be placed
under the king^s feet as far as he
goeth,** and usuiilly 725 square
yards have been required. The or->
der has been given to a factory at
Glasgow, and it will be almost an
exact copy of that woven for King
Edward's crowning. The color
will be a soft rich blue and
the pattern fei^toons of bay leaves
of a lighter shade encircling the in-
signia and mottoes of the Order
of the Garter, the Tudor rose, the
iliistle, the shamrock and the lotus.

The old coronation coach which
had been used for 200 years to
carry the sovereigns to and from
Westminister Abbey was totallv
destroyed by fire several weeks
ago at a shop on Netting Hill

102

ftegVtter of th« Keittueky atate 'Hltlerlcal toctoty.

where it had been talcen to be re-»
ne\red and rttrimmed for the cor-i

•

onation. Tt wa's a grand old
vehicle, covered with masses of gilt
cnrving, bnt very nncomfortablei
to ride in. The swaying motion
caused by the elasticity of the
leather springs has made several
kings and qneens frightfully sean
eick. — ^New York Herald. j

EDITORIAL.

In consequence of the space
given in the Register, to the
Genealogy of the ** Randolphs-
Baileys and Allied. Families/' we
have omitted a number of articles,
which will appear hereafter. This
Genealogy is unexcelled in interest
and value not only to the descend-
ants, who are scattered through-
out America, but to the historian,
antiquarian writers and searchers
for genealogical data of these
famous names, of Virginia, Ken-
tucky and London, Kngland.

The careful compilation of ma-
terial, the exactness in statement,
and the brief but well authenticated
documents, and biographic?, ren-
der this genealogy a mine of in-
formation and a historical treasure.

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to Mr. Wm'. E.- Railey for
this splendid contribution to the
Register, and feel sure the de-«
scendants of these notable f ore^
bears will appreciate this priceless
family history.

All communications for the
Editor of the Register or Seere-'

tarj'^-Treasurer of the State Ifis-
toricnl Society in future may be
addressed

Mbs. Jenkib C. Mobtok
Regent of

Kentucky State Historical Society.:

This title embodies the work of
this Departmeiit of Learning, now
a State Regency, that Mrs. Morion
has directed and superintended
for years. Her position is per-
manent. THs descriptive title is
without money, and is conferred in
recognition of her valuable and
honoring service to the State of
Kentucky.

POSTPONED.

The 15th annual 7t!h of Jun^
meeting of the State Historical
Society, this year was po3t|K)ned
on account of the illness of the
Regent. T'hough a delightful pro-
gramme had been prepared for the
occasion and the meeting was to
be a notable one, the members de-
clined to open the meeting while
the Regent lay ill.

Her convalescence was slow. The
society decide<) to reserve the pro-
gramme for the 3rd of October.;
This date being one also for an an-
nual meeting, all things being in
order, there will be on that day a
splendid programme and an ele-
gant function, which will make it
quite as attractive as that antici-
pated on the 7th of June.

We call attention to the article
'* Kentucky's Part in the War oi
1812,'' by Judge Samuel M. Wil-

R^iAtcr of th« KentiicKy Stitt^ Hlftoric^l ^ockty.

103

BOH, of LexingtoSy Ky. It contains^
valuable information concei-ning)
the iroportani part played by Ken-
tnckians in that bloody strugglQ
against the British and the In-(
clians for settlement of the dif-
ficulties, that it deems the Bevolu-
tion, of 1776, did not complete. We
commend its histx)rical accuracy
elegant diction, and interesting
gtyle to all our readers.

In the January Begister, 1912,
we shall republish from the|
** Library of Southern Literature'*
the splendid tribute to Henry Clay
by Hon. Z, F. Smith, the Kentucky
Historian. To this biographical:
sketch of the great Commoner,
will be added the letters of Porter
(\^lay, the brother of Henry Clay—*
and his granddaughter, Miss
Lucretia Chiy, of Lexington, Ky.

THE PRETTY STOBYTELLER
OP KENTUCKY.

While recently visiting in Cov-
ington, Ky., the guest of the gracii
OUR, elegant and generous host and
hostess, Mr. and Mrs. W. S,
Giltner, we had the enviable pleas-
ure of meeting this ** pretty story-
teller,*' Miss Pearl Carpenter, oE
that city. She is the granddaugh-
ter of the late famous lawyer of
that name in that part of the State,
who was widely known as one of
the most finished orators and
scholarly men of culture in Ken-
tucky.

Miss Carpenter has inherited hisi
genius — and improved it by
scholarship, and attrition with the
best educators, authors and artists

of the conutry. She writes beauti-^
fully, but like her grandfather shei
has won her ribbons in the race for
distinction, by the charm of hen
presence, and her fascinating art
of interpreting the spirit of the:
b^st authors in prose and poetry —
and the exquisite fairy stories shQ
veaves from a thread of thought^
as a spider weaves its intricate
silvery lace catching it here audi
there securely with dew-gems. '<

She is sought now by schools,
imiversities, clubs and the most ex-
clusive circles of men and women
in the social world to entertaioi
them, meanwhile instruct them In;
this now popular art of story-tell-
ing. She entertains thousands
with as much ease as she does a
group of little children, that listeni
spell-bound to her recitations. Shei
excites and surprises them — an(t
fills them with ambition to develop
the best in them, morally and
mentally. She speaks in sjna^
gogues, churches and lyceums, and
everywhere delights her listeners,'
be they grave or gay. She ia
wonderfully interesting and attrac-i
tive. 5

We trust our public schools will
invite her to give an entertain:*
nient in their hall, at some time — •
and we hone to have her at thel
Historical Rooms to give an inter-
pretation of literature that up-
lifts the soul. Along this line she'
is said to be superb and inmitable.

"sacajawea'^

IN THE HlSTORICAIi
SOCIETY.

The picture of this notable In-
dian woman's statue at Portland^

104

fiegitter of the Kentucky State Hlntoricai Society.

Oregon, has just been hung in the
''Hall of J'ame/^ It was donated,
to the Historical Society by Mrsj
W. b. Giltner, of Ck)vington. It ig
a picture of thuiliing interest^
**Sacajawea'' is the captive Indian
woman who led the Lewis-Clai'k;
expedition through the western,
wilderness to the Pacific Ocean,
upon the promise of these ex-
plorers that they would restore her
to freedom and her native tribe,

from which she had been captured
and treated brutally by her captors
thereafter. The history of the
woman does not tell us that she
was remarkable, except for her
courage and unbroken fideUty to
her promise. The statue repre-
sents her standinir, stem, with up-
lifted arm pointing the way to the
sunset through the wilderness.
The picture is thrilling.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER KENTUCKY
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE ADDITIONS
TO THE LIBRARY OF THE HISTORI-
CAL ROOMS,

NEAVSPAPERS.

The Frankfort News-Journal.
Kentucky Republican.
Bath County World.
Maysville Bulletin.
Farmers Home Journal.
Shelbyville Becord.
Woodford Sun.

MAOAZINES.

Scribner. i

Centurv.

World's Work.

Texas Quarterly.

Teacher's Magazine.

Review of Reviews.

The Old Red Brick School
House and The Patterson Log
Cabin — ^By Charlotte Eeeve Con-
over, Dajrton, Ohio.

Historie de le Art, Paris, France.

Catalogue of Rare Books.
Leipsie, Germany.

The American Journal of His-
tory.

Journal of Illinois State Histori-
cal Society, Springfield, 111.

Bulletin of New York Library.

Archaeological Bulletin, College
Corner, Ohio. ,.y^

Nitteilungen — ^B. C. Leubner,
Leipsic, Germany.

The Quarterly Jonmal. Jan.,

1911. University of North Da-
kota.

Ohio Archaelogical and Histori-
cal Quarterly, Columbus, Ohio.

Hand Book of American In-
dians.

Bureau of Am'erican Ethnology,
Washington, D. C,

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

The Iowa Journal of History and
Politics, Iowa City, Iowa.

The Century, January.

Missouri Historical Review.

Christ Church, Louisville — By
Dr. Craik.

Ben Cassidy's History of Louis-
ville, Ky.

The Louisville Public Adver-
tiser, Oct. 4, 1834. Edited by
Shadrach Penn. An interesting
relic contributed by his neice, Mrs.
Harriet Penn McAJlvain.

Historical Documents, &c., 149
Edgware Road, London, W. Eng.

Ohio State Archeological cmd
Historical Society.

Quarterly, E. 0. Randall, Colum-
bus, 0.

Proceedings 1910 of Wisconsin
Historical Society, Madison, Wis.

Webster ^s Large Unabridged
Diet ion arv.

History of Famous Indian
Chiefs.

106

•Reglater of the Kentucky State HIctoricai Society.

History of Deer in Kentucky an^
the Northwest.

History of America's New
possessions.

History of Familiar Trees and
Their Leaves.

History of Longfellow and His.
Complete Works. ,

History of Shakespeare's He-
roines.

American and English Genwil-
ogies, Library of Congress, Wash-
ington, D. C.

A Memorial Tablet.

At Ticonderoga — His«toiy of the
Landing of the Grand Portage.
From Ticonderoga Historical So-
ciety.

The ceremonies of this occasion
of presenting this tablet are very
impressive and beautiful. The tab-
let was the gift to the Ticonderoga
Historical Society from the Ticon-
deroga Pulp and Paper Cf>mpany^
of Ticonderoga. The tablet, the.
gift, and the acceptance on the oc-
casion, are honors alike, to the
head and heart of such a patriotScj
society and the generous citizens
of the Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper
Company.

The New Standard History of

the World. Bv editor of the

^'Encyclopedia of Century.*'

Illinois Historical Collections,
Vol. ni, Springfield, 111.

American Year Book Corpora-
tion, New York City. ,

Fine Art Books, 33 King Street
Co vent Garden, London, Eng.

Foreign Book and Magazines,
H. Grevel & Co., London, England.

The Cambridge Modem History,
Circular, New York City.

Bulletin of New York Public
Library, March, '11.

The History Teacher's Maga-
zine, March.

Governor's Letter Book, Illinois
Historical Collections, Springfieldji
111.

Executive Council Minutes.

Francis Lovelace. 1668-1673. Vol.
n, pages 387-806, New York.

Universitv of Cincinnati Record,
1911-1912.

The New England Historical
and Genealogical Register. April.
1911, Boston, Mass. ^

The Quarterly Journal of the
University of North Dakota. Ad-
dress.

Famous American Statesmeir
and Orators, etc., 5 vols.. New,
York.

The Quarterly (April) of the
Texas State Historical Associa-
tion. Devoted almost exdugively
to the history of Texas and the
l^exans.

Journal of the Chicago Histori-
cal Society, 1910.

**The Escape and Suicide of
John Wilkes Booth. The first true
account of the Lincoln Assassina-
tion.*' ,

This is a sorrowful and humiliat-
ing history for all Americans to
read. It bears the marks of cold
legal facts, and indisputable evi-,
dence of the truth, of the history,
the mournful tragic culmination
in the midst of the magniflicent cele-
bration of Grant's victory, and
TiOe's surrender at the close of the
Civil War, 1865.

Journal of the Presbyterian His-
torical Society, Philadelphia, 518-
522 Witherspoon Bldg.

lUgltltr vf ths Kentvolcy ftaU HltUriaal «ocitty.

107

Bulletin of the New York Public
liibrary, LaFavette 425, New
Yerfc

The Quarterly Journal of the
University of North Dakota.

Bulletin of Bibliography, Bos-
ton. '

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

National Monthly, Buffalo, New
York.

The R. I. Quarterly Magaeinee,
1908-9-10, Providence, »• I.

A Catalogue of Bare and Choice
Books. The Arthur H. Clark Co.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

The Minerva (year book of the
learned Institutions of the World),
Karl J. Tmbner, publisher. Strass-
burg (Alsace).

The Iowa Journal of History
and Politics, Iowa City, Iowa.

History of the Panama Canal,
illustrated with many pictures of
the cities and towns, contributed
by Gov. M. H. Thatcher.

Eeport of Librarian of Congress,
Washington, D. C.

Publication of tfie Miss. Histori-
cal Society, Vol. XT.

DONATIONS ro THE KEKTTJOKT STATE
HISTOBIOAI^ BOCIETT.

CoNFBOBRATK MoNBY — ^Beceive<i
from Miss Eleanor Taft, General
Secretary of the Young Women's
Christian Association, Dallas,
Texas. This intelligent lady
visdted the Kentucky Historical
Booms in the Capitol last springs
and in appreciation of *'tihe grand
^ork of the State Historical So-
ciety, as she saw it in its various
departments," the Hall of Fame,

the Library, the Beading Boom,
etc., she sends the Confederate
money in various denominations;
historic symbols of the **Lost
Cause'* to the Secretary for a
place in its treasuries of valued
relics.

SouvBNiBs — Programme of the
presentation of the portrait bust of
Governor Isaac Shelby as Ken-
tucky's gift to Memorial Conti*
nental Hall at the twentieth Conti-
nental Congress of the National
Society of the Daughters of the
American Bevolution, April 17-22»
1911, Washington, D. C. Con-
tributed by Judge Samuel M. Wil-
son.

A fine lithographed portrait of
Henry Wattorson, world famous
editor, presented by Mrs. Ella H,
Ellwan^en of l^uisville, Ky.

Missouri Historical Society.
Collections — This issue of the,
magazine is one of deep interest
and supreme value. Indeed it
comes up to the ideal of an im-
portant publication of ** First
Things." The history of St. Louisi
is always interesting as it is one
of the oldest and now one of tfaei
most splendid cities in the Union.
Settled by the French, the popula-
tion combined of various nation*
alities afterward, its rise and prog-
ress to the great American city it
is today is written by a careful
and scholarly pen. Each article in
this collection is a magazine pi*ize
drawing, for this notable Historin
cal Society. Published by the So-
ciety, 1600 Locust street, St.
Louis.

Hand Book 1911 of America^
Historical Association.

108

Regicttr of th^ Kentucky State Historical Sockty.

Report Historical Department
of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa.

The National Geographic Maga-
55ine, Washington. D. C.

The Koran Christ. By Thos. B.
Osborne, Louisville, Ky. This ia
a beautiful book with dainty cover,
on which is shown the green Egyp-
tian flag with crescent and star. It
is full of engravings, the most in-
teresting and beautiful being the
frontispiece, a portrait of the^
author's lovely daughter, Miss
Isabel Osborne. The book was
written as a memorial of her. She(
died in Cairo, Egypt, while touring
the East with her father and a
party of friends in 1910. This
Koran Christ is of great value, giv-
ing as it does a truthful account of
the singular religion of the Ma-
homedans, and extracts from their
Koran, the Bible of this lost race
of Jews. There ^s something
pathetic in their blindness and
their ignorance. A people created,^
as we believe from our Bible, asi
the peculiar people of God. Col.-
Osborne has given from the Koran
many of the subjects treated of,
and many quotations concerning
Jesus of Nazareth. The value of
the book is in the answers to many
questions of Scientists, so called,
who believe that Jesus was a
I)rophet and great teacher only.
The condition God has reduced
these effete races of the East, too,
for their disobedience and unbelief
is well depicted by the author. The

book should be in the hands of the
Missionaries. It is of incalculablei
value in their missions and should
sell thousands of the Holy Bible)
where it has never been read be-
fore. Evidently Col. Osborne was
unconsciously doing the work of an
Evangelist Missionary in the
Orient, and we predict for the
Koran Christ a success unknown,
to any other history given by au
American.

The Third Biennial Beport of
the State Department of Archives
and History, Charleston, W. Va. i

Year Book of the Penn. Society
in New York, Barr Peree, Secre-
tary, New York, 1911.

** Daniel and the Bevelation,'* by.
Uriah Smith, Roberts Pub. House,
Louisville, Ky.

**Itoiinesque,'' from the Iowa
Department of History. By T. J.
Fitzpatrick, a valuable book, Des
Moines, Iowa.

Annals of Iowa — ^Des Moines.

**The Good Old Days,'* by
Charles Wheeler Bell An illus-
trated booklet of unusual interest
in typography and beauty. It,
abounds with witty comparisons —
many of them so sadly true wo al-
most feel that its wrong to laugh
at the paragraph, yet the wit is so
mirth-provoking we cannot help it^
It abounds in pathetic allusions to
**the good old daj'^s'' in stinging
satire, and tender tributes. Everyi
one should have a copv of **ThQ
Good Old Days.*'

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