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THE 


Woods-McAfee  Memorial 


CONTAINING   AN   ACCOUNT  OF 


JOHN  WOODS  AND  JAMES  McAFEE 


OF    IRELAND 


AND  THEIR   DESCENDANTS  IN  AMERICA 


COPIOUSLY   ILLUSTRATED   WITH   MAPS   DRAWN  EXPRESSLY   FOR   THLS  WORK.  AND   EMBELLISHED  WITH 
ONE   HUNDRED  AND   FIFTY   HANDSOMELY   ENGRAVED   PORTRAITS.  SCENES.  ETC. 


iY    REV.    NEANDER    M.    WOODS,   D.    D.,  LL.    D. 

WITH  AN   INTRODUCTION   BY 

Hon.  REUBEN  T.  DURRETT,  A.  M.,   LL.  D.,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 

PRESIDENT  OF   THE   FILSON  CLUB 


IN    WHICH.  BESIDES  CONSIDERABLE   NEW   MATTER  BEARING   ON  VIRGINIA  AND   KENTUCKY   HISTORY, 
WILL   BE   FOUND  MENTION   OF  THE   FAMILIES   OF 

.AMS.  ALEXANDER,  ARMSTRONG,  BEHRE,  BENNETT,  BIRKHEAD.  BOONE,  BORDEN,  BOWYER,  BRUCE.  BUCHANAN,  BUTLER   CAPERTON   CAMPBELL 

CLARK,  COATES,  CRAWFORD.  CURRY,  DAINGERFIELD,  DAVIESS,  DEDMAN,  DUNCAN,  DUNN,    DURRETT,  FORSYTH    FOSTER    CACHET 

GODCH.GOODLOE,  GOODWIN.  GUTHRIE.  HALE,  HARRIS.  HENDERSON.  JOHNSTON.  LAPSLEY,  MACFARLANE    MACGOWAN 

MAGOFFIN,  MCAFEE.  McCOUN.  McDOWELL,  McKAMEY.  PHILLIPS.  REID,  RICKENBAUGH.  ROGERS    ROYSTER 

SHELBY,    SAMPSON.    SPEED.    SUDDARTH.   TAYLOR.   TODD.   THOMPSON.   VARNER.    WADE, 

WALKER,  WALLACE.  WHITE.  WILLIAMSON,  WOOD.  WOODS.  WYLIE.  YOUNG 

AND   FIVE   HUNDRED  OTHERS,  AS  WILL  BE  SEEN  BY 

CONSULTING  THE  INDEX. 

.SO   SOME   HITHERTO   UNPUBLISHED  DOCUMENTS  WHICH   CONSTITUTE   A  VALUABLE  CONTRIBUTION   TO 

THE   PIONEER   HISTORY   OF   VIRGINIA   AND   KENTUCKY. 


LOUISVILLE,  KV.: 

COURIER-JOURNAL  JOI!  PRINTING  CO. 

1905 


Gift 
Author 


PREFACE 


It  should  ]>(■  iKiited  at  the  outset  that  this  work 
\\as  iiii(]('rtaken  ^yith  almost  exclusive  reference  to 
certain  brandies  (^f  the  Wooclses  and  the  ^McAfees, 
ft  is  therefore  niainlv  a  family  affair,  an<l  it  un- 
avoidahly  contains  a  s'ood  deal  of  matter  which 
must  possess  small  interest  for  the  general  reader. 

At  the  same  time  it  is  claimed  that  this  liook 
lias  in  it  a  great  deal  relating  to^  the  history  of 
Virginia  and  Kenlucky  whidi  is  ]iart  and  parcel 
of  the  story  of  these  gTeat  Commonwealths,  and 
suited  to  interest  all  wlut  love  to  study  their 
])ioneer  records.  Home  of  the  matters  referred  to 
liave  never  before  appeared  in  print.  A  careful 
perusal  of  the  Table  of  Contents  will  enable  the 
reader  to  detei'mine  what  chaptei's  are  likely  to 
deal  with  events  A\hicli  he  would  can;  to  study. 

The  author  has  devoted  a  large  part  of  his  spare 
time  for  the  last  fifteen  years  to  gathering  up  the 
facts  and  traditions  to  be  found  recorded  herein, 
and  the  labor  involved  in  his  researches  will  never 
be  fully  understood,  even  by  those  who  shall  tind 
the  greatest  satisfaction  in  the  reading  of  this 
book.  Court  records,  family  Bibles,  church  reg- 
isters, military  rosters,  private  papers  anil  moss- 
covered  grave-stones  have  been  nmde  to  yield  their 
varied  testimonies  for  entrance  on  these  pages. 
The  constant  aim  of  the  author  has  been  to  learn 
what  was  true,  and  to  set  it  down  faithfully.  Posi- 
tive assertions,  in  all  cases  where  there  seemed  to 
be  any  need  of  it,  have  been  supported  by  the  cita- 
tion of  authorities.  AA^here  mere  inferences  or 
private  lipiuious  are  given,  <iualifying  language  has 
been  employed  to  indicate  fairly  the  degree  of  certi- 
tude pertaining  to  each  case.  Part  Thrw»,  which 
consists  of    Sketches  of   Patrons,  is    composed  of 


nuitter  for  wliicji  tlic  aiilh<ii-  is  ()\\\y  in  jiarl  re- 
sponsible. These  sketches  ]ia\c  Ix'cn  ])rei)ared,  as 
a  rule,  by  friends  of  the  sul)jects  of  the  same.  The 
aufjmr  wrote  only  those  of  himself  and  his  immedi- 
ate family,  and  added  a  few  sentences  to  a  few- 
others. 

Nearly  all  of  (he  one  linudred  and  tifty-nine  il- 
lustrations f((und  lierein  have  been  engraved  ex- 
pressly for  this  work,  and  liave  nevei'  liefore  been 
published.  They  are,  vei-y  many  (if  them,  more 
than  simple  embellishments  of  the  book.  Some  of 
them  present  scenes  of  great  historic  interest,  and 
cost  the  author  much  personal  effort. 

For  the  homiely  appearance  of  the  maps  in  this 
vdlume  scHiie  apology  is  due.  As  to  their  mechan- 
ical executicm  they  are  unworthy  of  the  hook. 
When  the  author  foTind  that  ma])s  wnuld  be  es- 
sential to  a  proper  elucidation  of  the  subject- 
nuxtter,  and  he  saw  that  the  funds  at  his  command 
would  not  admit  of  his  employing  a  regular  m'ap 
draughtsman,  he  Avas  forced  to  choose  beftween 
having  no  nmps,  and  making  them  liimself.  He 
yielded  to  the  latter  alternative.  But  let  it  be 
borne  in  mind  that  the  cardinal  virtue  of  a  map  is 
not  its  beautiful  mechanical  execution,  but  its 
toiiographical  accuracy.  This  virtue  is  claimed 
for  these  homely  maps.  They  are  based  upon  the 
splendid  large-scale  maps  of  the  I^.  S.  Geological 
Survey,  and  are  the  result  of  prolonged  and  pains- 
taking investigations  by  the  author.  In  all  es- 
sentials they  are  reliable. 

The  author,  in  gathering  his  materials  for  this 
W(n"k,  has  been  compelled  to  dejH'ud  much  upon  the 
kind  assistance  ol'  nnni'erous  persons,  and  lie  is 
most  grateful  for  the  courtesv  he  has  met  with  in 


PREFACE. 


mxi'j  (niarter.  His  oliligatioiis  to  some  iiidiviJu- 
als,  however,  are  too  larne  to  admit  of  his  debt 
l>einj2:  discharged  by  a  mere  general  acknowledg- 
mont.  A  feAv  of  tlie  gracious  fi-ieiids  must  be  men- 
tioned by  name.  To  the  Hon.  Keuhen  T.  Dnrrett, 
of  Louisville,  Presidejit  of  the  Filson  <'lu]>,  and  the 
writer  of  the  Introduction  to  this  volume,  the 
author  is  most  largely  indebted.  Possessing,  as  he 
|n-oliably  does,  the  most  nmgniticcnt  ju'ivaite  library 
in  th('  SoTith,  (•(lutaiuiiig  a  l)il)liogra]ihy  of  Ken- 
tucky liardly  suiijassed  aiiywiicre  in  tlic  world,  he 
has  never  been  too  busy  to  helj)  the.  author  \\'ith 
the  loan  of  boolcs  or  a  A\'or(l  of  inf(H"mation  and 
counsel,  as  needed.  Without  his  aid  this  volume 
would  hick  some  of  its  uiost,  valualilc  clia|>tei'S.  To 
the  late  Dr.  John  !'.  Hale,  Iniig-tiiii'e  President  of 
the  West  Virginia  Histoi'ical  Society,  wlio  knew 
more,  pei'haps,  than  any  man  of  his  day  in  regard 
U)  (he  streams,  mountains  and  trails  of  his  native 
State  (West  Yirginia),  llii-  author  owes  mucli. 
Tlic  vdlinninous  corresyxiudence  wliicli  tlu*  author 
had  with  Dr.  Hale  only  a  few  years  before  his 
death  has  greatly  enriclicd  (liis  volume.  The  IJev. 
Edgar  Woods,  Ph.  D.,  of  Cliarlottesville,  ^^a. ;  Ool. 
Charles  A.  P.  Woods,  of  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  Uv. 
Julian  Watson  Woods,  of  filississippi ;  Mi's.  Gen- 
evieve Bennett  Clark,  of  BoA\'ling  Green,  Mo.,  wife 
of  the  Hon.  Cham])  Clark,  ]\r.  C,  and  a  host  of 
otlier  friends  have,  in  one  way  oi'  another,  aided 
the  autlKir  so  nmterially  in  liringing  this  publica- 
tion to  a  successful  conclusion  that  he  desires  in 
this  public  niannei"  to  thank  them. 

It  would  refjuire  considerable  space  to  give  even 
the  names  of  all  (he  books,  pamphlets  and  un- 
printed  manuscripts  Avhich  the  author  has  con- 
sulted in  the  preparaition  of  (his  work;  but  a  few 
of  those  from  which  he  has  derived  the  largest  as- 
sistance should  be  nTeuti(med.  First  of  all  stands 
the  unprinted  manuscript  of  the  late  General 
Pobert  B.  McAfee,  entitled  his  Autoliiography  and 
Fam'ily  History,  wliich  lie  tinislied  about  the  year 
1846,  not  long  before  his  death.  To  him  we  owe 
nearly  all  we  know  of  a  large  part  of  the  history 
of    the  McAfees.     That    manuscript  volume    has 


of(en  licen  coiiied,  and  can  be  found  in  many  of 
the  gi-eat  libraries  on  both  sides  of  the  sea.  The 
journals  severally  kept  by  James  and  Pobert  Mc- 
Afee, during  the  tour  of  the  ilcAfee  Company  to 
Kentucky  in  1773,  are  simply  invaluable.  They 
are  given  in  full,  with  notes,  in  Appendix  A  of  this 
volume.  The  two  publications  by  the  Rev.  Edgar 
^^'ol!ds,  of  Charlottesville,  Va.,  to  wit:  History  of 
Albemarle  County,  Virginia;  and  History  of  One 
Brancli  oC  (lie  \\'oo<lses  furnish  a  great  mass  of 
rcdiable  information  in  regard  'to  the  ea-rlier 
AA'oodses  and  AVallaces.  That  fascinating  little 
monogra]>h  on  The  A'\^ilderneiss  Road,  by  the  late 
lamented  Ca]>t.  Thomas  Speed,  has  been  a  great 
Iic]]>  and  a.  delight  to  the  present  writer.  Historic 
Families  of  Kentucky,  Ity  tlie  late  Col.  Thomas  M. 
Green,  has  afforded  most  valnal)le  item's  in  regard 
to  JMagdalen  Woods,  the  McDowells  and  the 
Bordens  and  the  BoAvyers.  The  History  of  Ken- 
tucky by  the  two  Collinses — fathci'  and  son^ — re- 
mains the  grand(«t  thesaurus  of  Kentucky  records 
anywhere  to  be  fdund,  without  which  no  nmn  can 
wri(o  of  Ken(ucky  to  goo^l  purpose.  A  recent 
His(,ory  of  South- Western.  Virginia,  by  the  Hon. 
Ijewis  P.  Summers,  of  the  Abingdon  Bar,  has  done 
for  the  region  with  -which  it  deals  what  the  Col- 
linses have  done  for  Kentucky,  and  nio  man  who 
would  know  the  genesis  of  that  interesting  section 
of  onr  country  can  afford  to  be  witlnuit  it.  We 
have  derived  much  assistance  also  from  Old  Vir- 
ginia and  Her  Neighbors,  by  the  late  Professor 
John  l'"'iske;  from  the  histories  of  Kentucky  by 
^larshall,  I!utler,  Shaler  and  Smith,  respectively; 
from  th!o  histories  of  T'cnnessee,  by  Hayw^ood  and 
Ramsi^y,  respectively;  i'vom  Wheeler's  North  Oaro- 
liiva  ;  fi'om  Foote's  Slietcbesof  Virginia, both  series; 
from  the  local  histories  of  Augusta  County,  Vir- 
ginia, by  Waddell  and  Peyton,  respectively;  and, 
last,  but  not  least,  from  Dr.  Hale's  Trans-Alle- 
gheny Pioneers,  a  book  which  possesses  the  cliann 
of  being  in  large  part  the  nari'ative  of  the  actual 
experiences  of  its  author. 

The  Index  ap]^>ended  hereto  is  full   enough   to 
enal)le  the  readei"  to  find,  without  m'uch  diflftculty, 


1'1{EFACE. 


nearly  every  persou,  place  and  event  of  real  im- 
portance that  is  anywhere  mentioned  in  this 
volnme. 

The  preparation  of  this  work  has  been  to  the 
author,  from  first  to  last,  a  labor  of  love.  That  it 
is  nincli  marred  by  blemisihes  and  defectsi  he  doubts 
not,  and  hence  he  has  no  hope  that  it  is  going  to 
please  even  all  of  those  for  whose  benefit  it  has 
been  -mntten;  but  the  author  ventures  to  cherish 
the  hope  that  many  Woodses  and  McAfees  yet  un- 


born Avill  think  kindly  of  him  who  made  it  possible 
for  them  to  know  much  about  their  worthy  pro- 
genitors, and  that  perhayts  a  hundred  years  hence 
there  may  b(^  found,  here  and  there  in  this  broad 
land,  those  who  will  fondly  cherish  as  (me  of  their 
most  sacred  faniily  licirlooms  a,  well-worn  copy  of 
The  Woods-McAfee  iM('iiii)rial.  Tliis  shall  be  our 
sufficient  reward. 

Nkandeu  M.  Woods. 
Louisville,  Ky.,  May,  liJO.j. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


F'rontispiece — Portrait  of  the  Author 

Preface— BY  the  Author iii 

IjsT  OF  Maps,  with  Explanations vii 

Introduction— BY  R.  T.  Durrett,  A.  M.,  L.L-  D ix 

PART  I— THE  WOODS  FAMILY 

(Pages   1   to   150) 

CHAPTlvR  FIRST— The  Woodses  in  Great  Britain 1 

CHAPTER  SECOND— Elizabeth  Woods   and  the  Wallaces 3 

CHAPTER  THIRD   -Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park 9 

CHAPTER  FOURTH— William  Woods  of  North  Carolina 132 

PART  II     THE  McAFEE  FAMILY 

(Pages   151   to  218) 

CHAPTER  FIRST— The  McAfees  in  Great  Britain     153 

CHAPTER  SECOND— James  McAfee,  Sr.,  in  America      157 

CHAPTER  THIRD— Tour   of  McAfee  Company  to  Kentucky  in   1773 163 

CHAPTER  FOURTH— The  Migration  to  Kentucky  in   1779 175 

CHAPTER  FIFTH— The  Salt  River  Settlement  to  iSii 185 

CHAPTER  SIXTH— The  Pioneer  McAfees  and  Their  Children 195 

PART  III— THE  PATRONS  OF  THIS  WORK 

(Pages  219  to  421) 

THERK  WERK  NINETY-THRKE  ORIGINAL  PATRONS.     THESE  ARK  DIVIDED  INTO  FOUR  GROUPS, 

AND  A  SKP;TCH  OF  EACH  PATRON  IS  GIVEN. 

GROUP  ONE— Patrons   not   Related  to   either   Woodses  or    McAfees.     Six  Sketches,  i  to  6, 

inclusive 221 

GROUP  TWO— Patrons  Descended  from  the  McAfees  only.     Twenty-seven  Sketches,  7  to  33, 

inclusive    .    .  234 

GROUP  THREE— Patrons    Descended   from    Woodses   only.     Forty-seven   Sketches,  34  to  So, 

inclusive .    .        278 

GROUP  FOUR— Patrons    Descended  from    both    the    Woodses  and   the    McAfees.     Thirteen 

Sketches,  81  to  93,  inclusive 367 

PART  IV     THE  APPENDICES 

(Pages  423  to  486) 

APPENDIX  A— The  McAfee  Journals— 1773,  with  Notes 424 

APPENDIX  B— Three  Great  Pioneer  Roads 454 

(u)  The  Wilderness  Road 456 

(d)  Long  Hunters'  Road 4.59 

(f)  Boone's  Trace 473 

APPENDIX  C— Some  Ancient  Documents  of  Interest  to  the  Woodses,  more  Especially  ...  479 

INDEX 489 


MAPS  IN  THIS  VOLUME 

(TO     liE    FOUND    Al'    THE    END    OF    THE    BOOK.) 


MAP  No,-^ I— ALBEMARLE  COUNTY,  VIRGINIA— Showing  the  Locations  ok  the  Woodses  and 
Wallaces,   i 734-1  Sod. 

MAP  N0/2— SOUTH-WEST,  VA.,  and  SOUTH-EAST,  KY. -Showinc;,  Mainly,  the  Route  of  the 
McAfee   Company  in  1773. 

MAP  N0/3— MERCER    COUNTY,    KY.,    and    ADJACENT    REGION— Mainly   Illustrating  the 
Tour  of  the  McAfees  in  1773. 

MAP  No.  4— VICINITY  OF  IRVINE  ON  KENTUCKY  RIVER— Mainly   Illustrating  the  McAfee 
Tour  of   1773.    -  r^a<P    -tc>u,vxcJ,     l»o"i*^^     .seclA\civ^S     r"-,v::i^' 

MAP  No.'-^ 5— PARTING  OF  THE  WAYS— Showing  the  Numerous  Trails  Centering  at  Drapers 
Meadows  on  New  River,  Va. 

MAP  No.'*  6— CENTRAL  KENTUCKY. 

MAP  No.'V— THREE  GREAT  POINEER  ROADS. 


IV-N 


G-'^T^    Vvvn'--;. 


INTRODUCTION. 

BY    REUBEN    T.    DURRETT,    A.    M..    LL.    D.,   OF    LOUISVILLE.    KY., 
PRESIDENT   OF  THE   FILSON   CLUB. 

The  ft-enealogy  of  tlui  ^Voods  and  iMcArci'  fami-  Tli(is(>  jialriaiclis  oC  Hie  iiiCaiil  \v(ii-l<l  were  snffici- 
lics,  wiiicli  follows  this  lutroduetioii,  has  ample  oiitly  iiulnicd  with  Ihc  dnciiinc  of  pi-inmiicniture 
precedents  both  in  ancient  and  modern  times.  It  not  to  aittem]>t  an.\ihiiii;'  in  llicii-  licnealogy  except 
is  the  Avork  of  the  Rev.  Neander  IM.  Woods,  D.  I).,  the  pedigree  of  a  single  anceslov.  Had  ihey 
ai  distinguished  member  of  both  of  the  families  undertaken  to  reimembcr  or  to  record  the  names  of 
A\hoso  pedigrees  are  traced  in  the  book,  and  is  an  all  niendiers  of  their  families  in  the  twenty  genera- 
example  of  that  love  of  ancestry  wliidi  has  given  tions  from  Adam  to  Abraham,  (hey  Avould  liave 
to  the  living  of  to-day  the  most  acceptable  knowl-  iiad  uinch  lo  rcmemlier  and  a  bulky  record.  In 
edge  of  their  progenitors  who  lived  hundreds  of  the  ascending  line  ancestors  dniihle  in  eacli  genera- 
years  before  their  time.  tion  so  that  at  the  end  of  the  twentieth  generation 

Genealogy,  which  ha-s  become  so  popular  of  late,  they  would  have  had  something  like  a.  million 
is  a,  term  derived  from  the  Greek  words  gciica  and  of  nanu's;  and  if  the  descending  line  were  followe<l 
hif/os,  and  nutans  the  arranging  of  a>  pedigree,  or  there  is  no  telling  how  many  they  would  niimber 
the  tracing  of  a  family  history.  It  was  one  of  the  at  tlu^  end  of  twenty  generations.  The  final  cnu- 
tirst  exercises  that  engaged  th(^  human  mind,  and  meration  \\duld  d('])end  n]iou  llie  nninbcr  of  cliil- 
is  ther'efore  as  old  as  the  human  race.  Primeval  dron  each  successor  had,  and  would  ])rol)ably  rise 
nmn,  before  civilization  gave  him'  the  use  of  let-  too  high  up  in  the  millions  to  be  remendiered  or 
ters,  could  hardly  haive  scratched  upon  the  liark  of  recorded  as  the  art  of  A\'ritiug  then  existeid. 
trees  or  stamped  upon  clay  the  births  and  marri-  We  are  greatly  indebted  to  the  Je^vs  for  the 
ages  an<l  deaths  of  his  progenitors  and  descend-  knowledge  they  hav(>  given  us  of  th(>  elder  world, 
ants,  but  he  could  have  stored  them  in  numioiy  The  i>edigrees  they  lce]it  in  their  temple  give  in- 
and  held  them  in  tradition  until  the  sci'ibes  of  the  foi'nuaitiioin  of  peoplci  and  events  farther  bark  in  the 
future  transferred  them  to  their  record.  PedigTces  jiaist  than  W(>  can  get  as  full  ami  reliable  from  any 
may  be  oral  or  Avritten,  and  those  we  have  in  our  oither  S(nirce.  The  inipression  has  long  prevailed 
Bibles  of  the  patriarchs  of  the  infant  world  orig-  that  inspiration  had  something  to  do  with  these 
inated  in  tradition  and  ended  in  writing.  To  sup-  iJible  jvi'digrccs  and  tliat  tliey  were,  tlierefore,  re- 
pose that  the  patriarchs  of  the  elder  Avorld  re-  lialde  on  that  account.  AMu'ther  tliis  be  true  or 
corded  the  i>edigrees  of  those  who  lived  in  the  ten  not  we  would  not  on  any  account  be  without  what 
generations  from  Adam  to  Noah  and  the  ten  from  they  teach  us  of  the  first  of  our  race  and  the  first 
Noah  to  ^ibraham  at  the  time,  and  in  the  order,  in  of  all  things  that  happened  in  the  infamt  world. 
A\'hich  they  occurred  is  to  attribute  to  them  a  The  Jews,  howe\'er,  were,  not  the  only  ancient 
knowledge  of  the  art  of  writing  which  they  could  pcoiile  who  jiaid  attention  to  genealogy.  Late  dis- 
not  have  iwssessed  at  that  time.  Their  lineage  coveries  among  the  ruins  of  buried  cities,  in  the 
I'ecords  were  preserved  in  tradition  until  stamjK'd  l<]ast,  indicates  tliat  there  were  genealogists  in  other 
upon  clay  or  inscribed  upon  ])ai)yrus  or  some  other  countries  contemporaneous  with  tlu^  Jews,  if  not 
early  writing  material.  of    earlier    date.     They  had  not    the    advantages 


X  INTRODUCTION. 

which  snpj)(>sp(l  inspiration  i^ixxe  to  the  pedip:rees  patricians  vied  with  o7ip  another    in  the  effort  to 

of  the  Dili  Tcsianicnt  and  the  New,  cxtcndinc:  fi'nin  ti-ace  their  lineage  back  to  one  or  the  other  of  the 

Adam  to  .Testis  throiish  a  period  of  forty  genera-  three  tribes  of  IJamnes,  Titienses  or  Lnceres  whose 

tions,   hnt  standing  npon  their  own   merits  they  consolidation  formed  the  nation.     Virgil  in  trac- 

show  tliait    gent'alogT  Avas    an  ai-l     in   nse  among  ing  Ca-sar  liack  to  ^T^neas  wrote  one  of  the  finest 

Egy]}ti,ans,  T'aliylonians,  Assyrians  and   other  an-  ]!(ienis  in  tho  Latin  language,  and  jironiinent  fam- 

cient  iM'oplcs  hcrovc  the  .Tcwisli  records  were  m'ade.  ilies  like  the  Cornelii,  Gracchi,  jMarcelli,  etc.,  had 

So  far  as  discoveries  have  been  made,  E'iypt  pedigrees  dating  l)ack  as  near  to  the  origin  of 
stands  oldest  in  nninsjiired  gewalogy.  IJecently  Rome  as  possible,  which  were  known  and  honored 
there  has  been  exhumed  ficm  the  ruins  of  Ijy  plebeians  as  well  as  pati-icians. 
the  ancient  city  of  Aby(l(!S  the  goblen  bracelets  Leaving  the  field  (t{  ancient  genealogy  and  also 
of  Ihe  Queen  or  King  Zer  which  li.id  been  worn  ]>assing  by  its  early  <le\-el()iiiiieiit  in  England, 
someiliing  like  five  thousand  years  before  the  which  ])robably  concerns  us  more  than  any  other 
Christian  era.  This  discovery  takes  us  back  l>e-  country,  but  can  not  be  noticed  here  f(U'  want  of 
yond  the  beginning  of  the  world  as  once  under-  sjiace,  ^^■e  find  that  when  the  Dark  Ages  wore  lift- 
stood  to  be  indicated  by  the  pedigrees  given  in  the  ing  their  shadows  from  Europe,  during  the  reign 
Rible.  The  Egyiitians  werc^  known  to  keep  in  of  Richai-d  III,  a  college  of  lu  rahlry  was  esitah- 
their  lemples  the  pedigrees  of  their  kings  and  lished  in  L(;ndon  for  the  puii>o.se  of  taking  charge 
pi'iests  and  Ihe  records  of  im]iortant  events.  When  of  the  whole  subject  of  genealogy.  Heralds  were 
Solon,  one  of  the  wise  men  of  Greece,  was  in  Egyjit  aii]iointed  to  go  over  the  coniilry  and  collect  such 
five  humlred  years  before  the  Cluistiaii  era  in  facts  and  records  as  could  be  bad  for  preservation 
search  of  knowledge  he  was  told  by  a  priest  that  in  the  gc^neialogical  books  of  the  college.  By  this 
there  was  a  record  in  his  temple  of  the  destruction  means  it  was  hoped  that  such  faiiulous  pedigrees 
of  the  island  of  Atlantis  nine  thousand  years  be-  as  had  been  traced  from  goils  and  demi-gods, 
fore  thai  time.  AVith  this  statement  t.f  the  temi>le  would  be  .liseicdited  and  real  i>edigrees  substi- 
records  it  can  not  be  surjirising  that  pedigrees  of  tuted  f(U'  them'.  Of  late  years  it  has  been  said  of 
Egyptian  kings  and  queens  have  been  found  in  the  this  college,  however,  that  money  sometimes  had 
ruins  (.f  long-buried  cities  which  date  back  to  a  as  mucli  influence  in  securing  the  right  to  coats-of- 
period  anterior  to  those  of  the  Bible  chronology.  arms  as  heroic  deeds,  but  whether  this  be  true  or 

Other  ancient  nations,  and  espeieially  the  Greeks  not,  siolid  old  England  has  the  noblest  nobility  and 
and  Keiiians,  jiaid  early  attention  to  genealogy,  the  genteelest  genti'y  of  any  country  in  the  world. 
Acnsilaus,  a  Greek  historian,  wrote  a  book  on  After  this  college  of  herabliy  was  established  in 
genealogy  about  eight  hundred  years  before  the  Limdon  in  the  sixteenth  century,  many  learned 
Christian  era.  Only  fragments  of  this  work  have  works  on  genealogy  were  published  in  England  and 
c(!me  down  to  (;nr  times,  but  these  are  sufticient  to  other  countries.  Before  these  publications  gene- 
show  how  early  the  Greek  mind  was  devoted  to  alogical  daita,  when  recorded  at  all,  were  generally 
this  subject.  In  such  old  histories  as  that  of  in  manuscripts  and  practically  inaccessible  to  the 
ITerodclus,  and  such  aucieul  ]ii;!  nis  as  those  of  general  reader.  An  author  by  the  name  of  Mills 
Homer,  genealogical  sketches  are  of  fi-e(iuent  oc-  nniy  be  said  to  have  led  in  publishing  this  kind  of 
curreuce  although  geneahigy  was  not  the  subject  literature  in  a  folio  volume  entitled  "The  British 
under  c(nisideratiou.  Peerage"  which  was  issued  in  IGIO.     Among  the 

The  pride  of  ancestry  made  the   Rom'an  gene-  many    publications    that    followed    may  be    men- 

alogists    date    their    origin    from  the    time    Avhen  tioned  Collins'  Peerage  of  England,  Burkes'  Peer- 

^Eneas  wandered    from  Troy  t(»    Latinni.     Roman  age    And     Baronetage,     Debrett's    Peerage    And 


INTKODUCTTON. 


XI 


Baronetage,  Lodge's  Peerage  And  Baronetage, 
Dodd's  Peerage,  Baronetage  And  Knightage, 
Dngdale's  Baronetage,  and  Nicholas'  History  of 
Knighthood.  With  a  college  of  heraldry  in  their 
midst  and  snch  books  as  these  and  others  at  hand, 
the  English  had  the  means  of  knowing  with  ac- 
cnracy  all  abont  the  lineage  of  families,  either 
noble  or  comnion,  they  might  wish  to  know. 

In  the  United  States  we  have  not  followed  the 
English  to  the  extent  of  establishing  a  college  of 
heraldry  to  dignify  the  researches  of  genealogists 
and  to  clothe  them  '\^-ith  something  of  authority. 
Private  enteiT^rise,  however,  has  done  much  for 
genealogy  and  the  New  England  llistcrical  and 
( renealogical  Society  alone  has  published  more 
than  a  score  of  volumes  on  this  subject.  Holgate's 
American  Genealogy,  Webster's  Genealogy  and 
Thomas'  Genealogical  Notes  may  also  be  men- 
tioned as  individual  enterprises  in  this  line. 

Of  recent  j-ears,  however,  there  has  been  a  wide- 
spread activity  in  genealogical  research  in  the 
United  States,  and  Kentucky  has  shared  largely  in 
the  movement.  Many  individuals  have  written 
and  puldished  the  lineage  of  their  families  as  they 
^^■ere  able  to  gather  their  records  from  foreign 
countries,  from  the  different  States  and  from  Ken- 
tucky. To  attempt  to  enumerate  all  these  works 
would  be  tedious  and  vain,  but  the  following  may 
be  mentioned :  The  Prestons  b^'  John  Mason 
Brown,  The  Russels  by  Airs,  des  Cognets,  The  Gar- 
I'ards  by  the  same  author,  The  Iiwines  by  Mrs. 
Boyd,  The  Clays  by  Z.  F.  Smith  and  Mrs.  Clay, 
The  Johnsons  by  Thomas  L.  Johnson,  The  Nourses 
by  Mrs.  Lyle,  The  Nortons  by  Rev.  David  Morton, 
The  McKees  by  George  Wilson  McKee,  The  Quis- 
enberrys  by  A.  C.  Quisenberry,  The  Speeds  by 
Thomas  Speed,  The  Henrys  by  John  F.  Henry,  The 
Marshalls  by  W.  M.  Paxton,  The  Joneses  by  L.  H. 
Jones,  The  Lewises  by  ^\m.  Terrill  Lewis,  The 
Johnstons  by  Wm.  Presiton  Johnston,  Historic 
Families  by  Thomas  M.  Green,  Notable  Families 
by  Mrs.  Watson  and  King  William  Families  by 
Peyton  M.  Clarke.     All  these  set  forth  the  lineage 


of  families  now  living  in  Kcntm-ky,  and  tln/re  axe 
many  (illici'  works  of  llic  snnu'  l<ind. 

The  movrnn-nl.bdw  rvcr.w iiicli  Ikis  (bine  must  U>v 
genealogy  is  that  ^\ili(•]l  oi-ganizcd  such  societies 
and  associations  iis  Daughters  of  America,  Co- 
lonial Danu's,  Daughters  of  tJie  American  Kevolu- 
tion,  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy,  and  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution.  All  these  societies  hold 
meetings  and  gatlici-  inforniation  and  make  pub- 
lications of  one  kind  or  another.  The  National 
society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion have  up  to  this  time  collected  and  published 
t\\-enty  volumes  of  matter  relating  to  the  ancestry 
of  its  members.  In  thus  collecting  genealogical 
matter  in  local  societies  scattered  all  over  the 
country  and  groui)ing  it  in  the  work  of  the  na- 
tional society,  an  enormous  amount  of  inform'ation 
must  be  gathered  and  preserved  in  a  few  years. 

There  is  notliing  strange,  therefore,  in  the  ap- 
pearance at  this  time  of  tliis  book,  embracing  the 
^'\'oods  and  McAfee  genealogy.  It  is  in  line  with 
precedents  reaching  liack  to  tln^  remotest  times. 
Such  records  began  before  letters  were  invented, 
when  barbarous  man  scratched  hierogly]ihics  on 
the  bark  and  leaves  of  trees  or  stamped  them  npcni 
plastic  clay.  A  practice  thus  reaching  back  to  the 
twilight  of  the  world's  licginuing  and  continuing 
through  all  changes  and  conditions  to  the  present 
time  is  the  best  evidence  of  the  high  regard  in 
which  genealogy-  has  always  been  held  and  should 
continue  to  be  held. 

When  Dr.  Woods,  in  beluilf  of  himself  and  his 
family,  undertook  to  record  the  pedigrees  of  the 
Woods  and  McAfee  families,  he  simply  followed 
in  the  footsteps  of  others  who  desired  to  preserve 
the  histories  of  their  families.  He  thought  the 
Woods  and  McAfee  families  had  a  histoi-y  worthy 
of  preservation  and  uudei'took  to  record  it.  He 
has  done  his  work  llioroughly  and  well.  He  has 
inserted  in  his  book  nolhing  that  should  have  been 
omitted,  and  the  many  ran:ilie«  mentioned  owe  liini 
a  debt  of  gratitude  whi(  b  it  will  not  be  easy  to 
pay.     The  storj',  nujreover,  as  lie  lias  told  it  not 


xii  INTRODUCTION. 

oiilv    ciuliraccs    riiniily    liislmv,  1ml    includes   his-  cveu  a  tradition  of  them'  remained.     The  panther 

torical    facts  in  tlic  ihuucci'  pci-iod   whicli  will   lie  and  the  hear  rdanied  in  the  dark  forests  and  the 

found  nowhere  els(>.  Imffalo    and    the  di'er    fattened    upon    the    cane. 

In    Chapters   Til  and    l\'(if   Part   Second   will  Herds  having- a  thonsand  animals  were  sometimes 

he     f(Mind     a     better    account    of    the    first    set-  seen  at  one  of  the  Salt  Springs.     The  McAfees, 

tlenient.     of     Kentucky     than     can     be     obtained  therefore,  saAv  Kentncky  when  it  was  one  of  the 

from    most    of     (uir    hist(uaes.     ^[embers    of    the  iii'andest  natural  jiarks  that  ever  existed.     It  was 

family     are     there     shown      alxuit     riarrodshnrn'  called  by  T.oone  and  others  the  hunter's  ]iaradise, 

clearing     land    and    bnildiuii-    honses    for    ]ierma-  '>vit  the  McAfees  came    not  here    to  hnnt.     They 

nent    occn])ancy   wliile    they    heard    the  howl    of  came  in  search  of  homes  for  their  families.     And 

fej'ocious  animals  and  saw  the  gleam  of  tlie  tonm-  here,  where  tha  richest  of  latul  could  be  had  for  tlie 

hawk  and  scalping-knife  in  the  wild  forest  around,  asking,  they  selected  their  farms  and  built  their 

I>ut  dangers  did   not  <leter  them   and   they  kept  houses  and  became  citizems  of  the  country  they  had 

right  (Ui   witli  their  work  until  a  settlenumt   was  thus  i>ractically  discovei"ed. 

established  in  the  country.  There  has  always  been  Dr.  Woods,  howm^er,  does  not  rest  the  claim  of 
a  doubt  about  the  rcmte  by  which  the  ^McAfees  left  tlio  TN'oodses  and  McAfees  t(i  genealogical  notice 
Kentncky  and  returned  to  their  lumies  in  Virginia  npon  their  early  migration  fr(un  the  old  country  to 
in  1773.  Dr.  Woods  studied  this  route  until  he  the  new.  They  perfonncd  good  deeds  in  the 
had  a  clear  idea  of  it  and  then  made  a  map  of  it  Colonial  period,  and  when  the  Iievolutionary  War 
which  shows  it  ])Iainly  ficun'  lieginning  to  end.  came  on  they  sliouldered  their  muskets  and 
The  mai>  of  this  nmte  is  not  lii(>  only  one  that  buckled  on  their  broadswords  and  fought  like 
adorns  the  work.  There  are  oithers  which  throw  heroes  for  the  independence  of  their  counti'y.  And 
much  light  u]idn  early  times  and  there  are  splendid  when  the  victory  of  the  Revolution  left  the  counti-y 
landscapes  w  Inch  beautify  the  work  and  make  us  free  of  the  original  enemy  but  beset  on  its  borders 
familiar  with  tlu-  country  when  it  was  new.  These  by  bloodthirsty  and  niercileiss  savages  tliey  fought 
hnidscai>es  are  fine  s]iecimens  (vf  the  engravei's  art  these  savages  for  the  freedom  of  their  adopted  new 
and  illustrate  the  Jiistoric  text  as  finely  as  the  State,  until  none  of  them  \Yei'e.  left  to  fight.  Our 
superb  half-tone  likenesses,  of  A\diicli  there  ai"e  connti'y  lias  had  no  war  in  \\'liich  the  progenitors 
many,  do  the  biographic  sketches  of  the  nuMubers  and  the  descendants  of  the  Woodses  and  McAfees 
of  the  families  represented.  did  not  talco  pai't.  As  soldiers,  as  staitesmen,  as 
The  JNIcAfees  were  in  Kentuclvy  in  177:'.  before  physicians,  as  lawyers,  as  scholars,  as  clergymen, 
the  white  man  had  cleai'ed  an  acre  of  gi-onud  cu'  as  mechanics,  as  niianufacturers,  as  farmers,  as 
built  a  cabin  upon  it.  The  original  forest  with  its  nierehants  and  as  citizens  of  almost  every  class 
infinite  variety  of  noble  trees  covered  the  whole  they  performed  well  their  part  in  the  great  drama 
land  excei>t  where  the  rivers  and  smaller  streams  of  progress  in  the  new  State  while  it  was  a  wilder- 
severed  it  and  cane-brakes  and  barrens  usurped  ness,  and  continued  their  good  work  after  it  be- 
portions  of  it.  There  was  nothing  like  a  human  came  the  home  of  civilization  and  the  ai'ts  and 
habitati(m  on  all  the  laud.  Even  the  Indian,  if  sciences.  I>y  marriage  they  extended  tlieir  rela- 
ever  he  built  his  wigwam  in  the  daa'k  shadows  of  tions  to  a  host  of  families,  most  of  whom  appear  in 
the  dense  forest,  had  long  since  abandoned  it  and  this  book,  and  some  of  whom  present  the  m'ost  dis- 
sought  another  home.  There  were  everywhere  to  tinguished  names  in  the  land.  Gen.  Lew  Wallace, 
be  seen  upon  the  river  terraces  and  other  places  a  soldier,  a  statesman  and  an  author,  who  gave  to 
mounds  which  had  been  erected  by  human  hands,  the  world  Ben  Hur,  one  of  the  most  famous  books 
but  the  buildei's  had  been  gone  so  long  that  not  e\er  written,  was  a  AVoods  on  the  maternal  side. 


INTRODUCTION.  xiii 


II' 


Geu.  Robt.  r>.  ^foAfee,  anothei'  soldier,  statesman  l>r.   Wnnils's  wuik,   licsiilis  liiiiii:-  knuwii  ;is  II 

ami  autluii*,  was  in  the  Battle  of  llu'  Tlinmos  ami  m'osi,  cialioralr  anil  musl,  lliui'imiiii  mi   raniily  liis- 

liolpcd     tlie    Kentuckians    to    win    their    glorions  toi-y  yd,   ]ii-i)ilurr<l    in    Krnliuky,    will   also   ln'   i-e- 

virtorv  there.    When  the  Avar  was  over  he  wrote  a  yarded  as  the  most  valnahh".  eonlrilHil  ion  to  j;ene- 

liistnrv  of  it  which  was  pnblished  in  Lexington  in  aloi2'v.     And  tlie  printer,   who  someliiiies  nzeis  Jiis 

181(),  and  has  always  been  accepted  as  authority.  share  nf   faint  ])raise   wluii   lie  hriniis  mil    a    new 

Other  distintiuished  names  miiiht  be  mentioned  work,   will    meet  with   nuliiinji-  of    this  kind   liere. 

hnlh   anii.'Uij,'   the  AVoodsvs   and    ^IcAfees,  lint   any  The    beautifid     jiajier,   the    clear    tyjiii^raphy,   tlie 

necessity  fm-  desiiinatini;'  tlienr  is  su])e;rs«le<l  by  an  tasteful  arrangement,  and  tlie  suiierli  illustrations 

ami>le  index  at  the  end  of  the  work  in  which  nearly  entitle  the  Courier-.Tmirnal    .Tub   I'rinl  iiii;-  t"o.   to 

every  important  name  is  mentioned,  with  a  refer-  the  hijj-hest  praise, 
enco  to  tile  page  where  it  is  to  be  fonud.  R.  T.  Duuuktt. 


WOODS  COAT  OF  ARMS. 


THE  WOODS-McAFEE  MEMORIAL. 


PART  FIRST— THE  WOODS  FAMILY, 


CHAPTER  I. 


THE  WOODSES  IN  GREAT  BRITAIN. 


A^'llilst  tli(>  iKiiiic  Woods  is  iindnulitedly  Eiiii- 
lisli,  derived  fidiii  Aiinln-Saxou  (Wudii),  not  all 
of  the  people  who  bear  it  have  come  of  pure  Euglish 
stock.  Besides  those  families  which  have  for 
centuries  made  their  liomes  in  England,  and  are 
descended  from  the  true  English,  there  are  at  least 
four  (ither  races  of  men,  some  of  whose  representa- 
tives are  now  called  by  this  name.  First,  there  are 
the  Woodses  whom  we  tiud  to-day  in  tScotlaud, 
whose  ancestors  iieneralions  liack  were  English, 
but  will)  crossed  the  border  to  dwell  among  the 
Scotch,  and  became  so  liioroughly  identilied  with 
tliem  by  marriage  aH<l  long  residence  as  to  become 
indistinguishal)le  from  I  lie  dwellers  to  the  north  of 
the  Tweed.  Some  of  these  Anglo-Scotch  A\'oodses 
in  after  times  migrated,  along  with  tiie  unmixed 
Scotch,  to  the  North  of  Ireland  ;  and  then,  later  on, 
to  .\inerica;  and  Ihey  would  naturally  come  to  be 
regardeil  as  Scotcli-Irisli,  their  lOuglish  blood  lieing 
almost  entirely  lost  sight  of,  even  by  themselves. 
Secondly,  among  the  unhaitpy  Huguenots  who  tied 
from  Fi'ance  during  the  period  of  Catholic  persecu- 
tion, there  were  not  a  few  families  by  the  name  of 
Du  liois  (^Dubose),  some  of  whom,  after  their  set- 
tlement in  lOngland,  signalized  their  complete  ex- 
patriation from  ilic  laud  of  tlieir  birth  by  adopting 
the  English  eiiuivalent  (  ^Voods)  for  the  name  they 
had  formerly  borne  as  Ficnclnnen.  Thirdly,  there 
are  sonu-  ^^'oodses  now  in  America  wJiose  ancestors 
not  far  back  were  (lerman,  and  who  were  foi'uierly 
calh'd  by  tlie  name  of  ^^■oltz,  liul  wlio  lia\'e  seen  fit 
to  make  their  ]palronyinic  coiif(n-m  to  their  new 
place  of  residence  amongst  I'higlish-six'a king  people. 


Finally,  there  are  the  numerous  Irish  Woodses, 
whose  ancestors  formerly  were  known  by  the  Gaelic 
luime  of  O'Coillte,  but  who  exchanged  it  for  the 
English  e(|uivalent,  AVoods.  These  Woodses  are, 
as  a  rule,  pure  liisii,  and,  almost  without  exception, 
l{(nuan  Catholics.  Thousands  of  Ihem  are  to 
be  found  in  the  United  States  at  tlic  pi-esenl  time. 

The  particular  branch  of  the  \\  oods  family  with 
which  this  volunu'  is  more  es]»ecially  concerned  is 
of  pure  English,  or  else  of  Anglo-Scotch,  blood. 
AA'hetJier  the  indi\iduai  w  ho  was  the  founder  of  tiiis 
brancii  migrated  directly  to  Ireland  from  England, 
or  belonged  to  those  who  resided  some  time  in  Scot- 
laud  before  migrating  to  the  Emerald  Isle,  can  not 
be  positively  affirmed,  but  the  preponderance  of 
evidence  seems  to  be  in  favor  of  the  tirst-named 
supposition.^  That  the  Woodses  were  Protestants, 
and  mainly  Presbyterians,  seems  reasonably 
certain.  And  it  seems  to  be  e(|ually  certain  that 
tlu'  ^^allac(■s  and  Campbells,  with  whom  the 
\\'oodses  intermarried,  were  uol  only  Presbyteri- 
ans, but  people  of  pure  Scotch  blood,  i'rior  to  1650 
the  A\'oodses  seem  to  have  been  connected  with  the 
English   l']stalilislicd  Church. 

The  iK'isccnt  ions  visited  upon  ihe  Dissenters  of 
Iridaud  diiriiig  the  eighteeutli  century,  largely  as 
the  result  of  the  bigotry  of  English  i)relates,  had 
two  marked  elfccis:  they  rendei'ed  life  in  Ireland 
unbearable  to  the  lilierly-loving  Scotch-Irish,  there- 
by dri\  ing  tens  of  thousands  of  them  to  the  Ameri- 
can colonies;  and  the_\  licl|icd  in  till  (he  ])atriot 
army  iu  after  days  with  splendid  soldiers,  when  the 
.Vmci'icau  IJexolution   bciian.     The  stream  of  emi- 


2  THE   WOODS-]\[cAFEE   IMEMORIAL. 

iirnlidii  i'ldiii  ilic  Xoi-tli  oT  Iri'laiid  hcinaii  to  How  as  ilic  followiui;-  L'xliiliii  of  ihc  main  fads  is  (U'ciiicd 
early  as  Kills,  Inil  it  \\as  clicckcd  for  a  srason.  siifiticioiit.  to-wit :  1,  there  eaiiie  lo  Ireland  a  oer- 
Tiieii  in  ITl'.l  it  reconnnenced,  and  continued  for  tain  lOiiiilisli  troojier,  wiio  was  in  the  Croinweiliau 
tiftj  rears.  In  llial  nolalile  luovenienf  we  tind  liie  army  of  imasion  in  1(141),  by  the  name  of  \\'oods; 
W'oodses  and  Wallaces  w  illi  whom  we  have  to  do  1',  this  troo|ier  had  a  son.  .lohn  Woods,  who,  ahoiit 
in  this  \olnnu'.  In  (he  year  17l.'4  (here  ctime  to  KiSl,  married  a  .Miss  l^lizahelh  Worsop" ;  i>,  this 
Pennsylvania  from  the  North  of  Ireland  one  Miss  AVorsoj)  was  horn  Xovemher  17>,  1G5G,  and  it 
^licliael  AN'oods,  his  brctlher  William,  and  their  is  assumed  as  prohahle  that  the -John  Woods  whom 
w  idowed  sister  Elizabeth  AVallace,  and  a  tiiimlier  of  she  married  was  horn  ahont  1(1.14,  not  lonii  after  his 
their  chililreii. '  Jt  has  been  a  current  lielief  in  the  father  had  witlnliawii  from  Ciomw  ell's  army  and 
Woods  family  that  .Michael,  ^^'illiam  and  Elizabeth  settled  down  (<>  private  life  in  lr<'land  ;  4.  i(  is  ]irob- 
had  two  brothers,  James  and  Andrew,  who  mi-  able  that  Jolin  Woods's  father  came  from  York- 
grated  with  them  (o  America.  At  the  date  of  the  shire,  England,  and  llial  he  settled  in  one  of  the 
migration  .Michael  ^\dods  was  forty  years  old,  and  three  counties  of  Fermanagh,  Down  or  .Meath  ;  ."),  it 
AA'illiani  was  alxnit  twiiity-nine.  J'^lizalieth  was  is  most  likely  tliat  the  families  of  botli  John  Woods 
proliably  the  eldest  <d'  the  party,  and  about  forty-  and  lOlizabeth  \\'orsop  were  I'.piscopalians,  and  of 
two  years  old,  and  had  with  her  at  least  pure  Pjnglish  stock ;(!,  there  ari' good  reasons  for  be- 
six  children  by  her  husband,  Peter  AVal-  lievlng  that  the  familyof  which  John^^'oods  was  the 
lace,  who  was  not  long  since  deceased.  Concern-  head  was  the  onl^'  one  in  Ireland  of  the  Protestant 
ing  Tames  and  Andrew  Woods  we  have  only  faith  ;  7,  Elizabeth  Worsoji  was  uinloubtedly  a  lady 
the  scantiest  information.  It  is  ])robable  they  of  gi-ntle  birth,  ami  directly  descended  from  some 
accompanied  their  sister  and  brothers  to  Peuu-  families  of  the  highest  standing  in  I'^ngland ;  and 
sylvania,  hitt  there  is  no  positive  evidence  that  8,  her  line  is  as  follows:  She  was  the  (Uxughter 
they  remo\('d  with  them  when,  some  ten  years  later,  of  Thomas  Worsop  and  Elizabeth  Parsons  ;  and  said 
they  migrated  to  \'irginia.  It  is  possible  they  were  Elizabeth  Parsons  was  the  daughter  of  Kichard 
the  ancestors  (d'  sotne  (d'  the  ntitnerous  Protestant  Parsons  and  his  wife,  Letitia  Loftus;  and  the  said 
Woodses  in  Pennsylvania  and  .Maryland.  There  Letitia  was  the  daughter  of  !^ir  Adam  Loftiis,l)y  his 
was,  however,  in  Virginia,  about  tlie  outbreak  of  wife  Jane  Vaughn  ;  and  said  Sir  Adam  was  the  son 
the  Kexdinlion,  a  James  ^^dods  living  oidy  a  mile  of  Sir  Dttdley  LoI'dts,  of  couid\-  1  )nblin,  by  his  wife 
or  two  from  .Michael  Woods's  honu',  who  may  have  .Vnne  Hagnall ;  ami  the  said  Sir  Dudley  was  the  sou 
been  one  of  these  brothers.  He  patented  land  on  of  .\dam  Loftus  ( .Vrchbishoj)  of  Diddin,  and  Lord  I 
Stockton's  Creek,  in  what  is  now  Albemarle  county,  Chanccdlor  id'  Ireland)  by  his  wife  Jane  Purdon. 
Virginia,  in  1749,  and  in  177.")  we  find  him  opening  The  said  Archbisho])  L(d'tns  was  born  in  Yorkshire, 
his  h(mie  to  the  patriots  of  the  I?eV(dution  for  a  England,  in  l.'vU,  ami  was  the  son  of  the 
meeting  of  the  District  Committee.  This  individual  Iiight  Keverend  Edward  Loftus,  of  Levins- 
may  have  been  a  younger  brother  of  Michael  and  head.  lie  was  ordained  in  l.").!!) ;  and  hav- 
William.^  ing  attracted  the  favoral)le  notice  of  (^ueen 
AVhen  we  come  to  inquire  about  the  parents  of  Elizab(>tli  during  his  e.xamiuations  at  Cam- 
these  individuals — Elizabeth,  ]\Iichael.  William,  bridge,  he  was  rajiidly  promoted  in  the  Church,  be- 
James  and  Andrew— we  raise  questions,  not  all  oi  ing  made  Archbisho]i  of  .Vrmagh  when  he  was  only 
whi(  h  can  be  answered  as  fully  and  jiositively  as  twenty-seven  years  ohL  and  later  on  .Vrchbishop  of 
we  c(nild  desire.  Some  facts,  however,  are  fairly  Ditblin,  and  Lord  Chancelloi-  of  Ireland.  The 
well  establishe(L'  Without  attempting  to  quote  all  said  John  Woods  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  had  at 
that  is  given  by  the  authorities  mentioiu'd  in  note  .5,  least   one  datighter  and  four  sons,  to-wit:     Eliza- 


HISTOKY    OF   THE    WOODSES.  3 

bctii,  Miuliael,  A\illiaiii,  James  aud  Andrew,  all  of  l.ind  was  aldiiniaiil  and  clicap.  and  llic  promise  of 

whom  emigrated  to  North  America  iu  1724,  and  li-ccdoni   and    proicclion   lo  all    was   inviting.     So, 

liad    attained    to    their    majority    by   that    time,  in   (lie  year    ITl'l.   Ilic   WOoilscs  and    Wallaces  set 

and    several     of    them     had     considerable    famil-  sail  for  America,  and  in  a  few   weeks  iheii- deslina- 

ies.     AVhen  and  where  John   Woods  and  his  wife  tion  was  I'eaeheil,  and  the  colony  of  I'ennsyhania 

died  we  have  no  means  of  knowing,  but  the  proba-  became  their  home.     They  were  done  wiih  Great 

bility  is  that  both  had  passed  away  before  1724.  Britain  forever. 

When  we  seek  for  the  reasons  compelling  al-  The  John  Woods  Coal  of  Arms  is  thus  described 
most  an  entire  family  of  people  to  forsake  their  byMr.  O'Hart:  "Aims  Sa.  three  garbs  or.  Crest — • 
native  laml  and  seek  a  home  iu  a  distant  and  out  of  clouds  a  hand  creel,  holding  a  crown  be- 
sparsely  settled  colony,  Me  are  left  to  mere  con-  tweeu  two  swords  in  l)end  aud  bend  sinister,  points 
jecture.  The  eldest  one  of  the  party  (Elizabeth  ujtward,  all  ]>pi-.  The  shield  is  black,  wilh  three 
AVallace)  was,  as  above  stated,  not  far  from  forty-  gold  sheaves  of  wheat  on  it;  out  of  gray  clouds  a 
two  years  (dd  when  the  migration  was  undertaken,  riesh-colored  hand,  perpendicular,  holding  a  gold 
The  Woodses  aud  W'allaces  were  probably  people  cro\\n,  and  all  between  two  steel  colored  swords, 
of  culture  aud  some  littli'  worldly  goods,  but  they  The  sheaves  of  wheal  indicate  that  the  bearer  came 
were  Dissenters  and  Presbyterians,  who  had  had  to  from  a  wheal  producing  connlry  ;  (he  crest  implies 
endure  nuiny  disabilities  and  suffer  many  petty  a  combat,  a  victory,  and  an  unexpected  rewartL" 


tyrannies  at  the  hands  of  bigoted  English  ecclesi- 


The  Mrs.  Barrett  referred  to  iu  Note  5  is  per- 


astics.  The  tide  of  population  from  Ireland  to  the  sonally  acquainted  with  (|uite  a  number  of  W'oodses 
American  colonies  was  just  then  of  tremendous  vol-  now  living  iu  Ireland,  who  are  descendants  of  John 
ume,  and  thousands  of  the  very  ))est  people  of  Ire-  ^Voods  and  Elizabeth  Worsop  and  who  occupy 
land  were  seeking  homes  l)eyoiHl  the  sea.  It  was  positions  of  prominence  ■a\\i\  honor  iu  the  various 
a  vast,  popular  movement,  for  which  there  existed  walks  of  life.  From  this  circumstance  it  is  infer- 
tile twof(dd  motive  of  escape  from  persecution,  and  red  that  John  and  Elizabeth  had  one  or  more  sous 
the  making  of  a  start  in  the  new  Land  of  who  did  not  migrate  to  America  with  the  ^Voods- 
Promise    across    the  Atlantic.     In  America    good  Wallace  colony  of  1721. 


CHAPTER  II. 
ELIZABETH  WOODS  AND  THE  WALLACES. 


Elizabeth,  as  was  stated  iu  the  previous  chapter, 
was  probably  the  first  child  of  John  Woods  and  his 
wife  Elizabeth  Worsop.  We  know  that  her 
brother  Michael  (who  came  to  be  known  iu  after 
times  as. Michael  W^oods  of  Blair  Park)  was  born 
in  Ireland  in  KiSl,  and  there  is  good  reason  for  be- 
lieving that  she  was  the  elder  of  the  two.  ^Ve  may 
assume,  therefore,  that  she  was  born  not  later  than 
about  the  year  1082.  She  was  married  to  Peter 
W^allace  probably  about  the  year  1705.  In  1724 
she  migrated  to  America  with  her  brother  .AFichael 
and  his  family,  at  which  dale  she  had  been  a  widow 
for  some  time,  and  had  at  least  six  children  living, 


who  came  with  her  to  America.  She  resided  in  the 
colony  of  Pennsylvania  for  about  ten  or  fifteen 
years.  No  less  than  four  of  her  children — three 
sons  aud  a  daughter — married  chihlreu  of  her 
brother  .Michael,  their  first  cousins.  \\'lieu,  in 
1731,  her  brother  .Midiael  nio\"ed  down  in(o  Vw- 
ginia,  at  least  two  of  her  sons  had  married,  each,  a 
daughter  of  their  umde,  and  moved  with  him  to 
what  is  now  .\lhemarle  county,  Virginia.  Eliza- 
bedi  probably  did  not  leaxc  I'ennsyhania  for  sev- 
eral years  aftei-  her  itrolher,  possibly  noi  till  1739, 
aud  when  she  did  go  she  cliose  a  home  in  tlu>  ^'al- 
ley  of  Virginia,  Bockbridge  county,  just  across  the 


4  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   AIEMORIAL. 

Blue  Ki(lg(>  fvdin  wlicrc  licr  lirotlicr  iiml  (wo  of  her  \~i\7.     He  liad  a  son,  ^Milium  I'lowii  AVallace,  boru 

sous  resided.      \\>r  those  davs  llie  ride  across  the  in  Kiii<i- Georsic  county,  \'a.,  in  ITTd.  wlio  moved  to 

mouutaius  was  hut  a  small   mailer,  and  ihe  iuler-  Kculiicky,  and  there  died   in  lS3o.      Eliza   Itrowu 

course  hetweeu  tlie  I'amilies  was  no  doidil   fre(|neut  Wallace     (horn    in     ITtKi.  and    died   1843)     ^vas    a 

and   intimate,      ^^■|lelller  she   left    any   relatives   in  daui;hler  of  the  lieroi-e-menl  ioned    William    I'.rown 

Peuusylvauia — ^^■(i(!dses.  or  Wallaces — we  cau  uot  Wallace  and    married    Dr.    Kixon    C.    Dedmau,   of 

sav,  but  there  is  good  reason  for  lu'lievins;  that  not  Lawreucehur;;,   Kenlncky,   in     ISIS.      It     seems    to 

all  the  ties  which  hound  these  two  families  to  tlieir  have   been    the  h(dief   of   ihc  ch-sceudants   of   both    ' 

old  I'eunsyh a ina  home  were  severed  wlien  the  mi-  I'cter    Wallace   (wlio    married    Elizabeth   Woods) 

aration  to  \'iriiinia  occurred,      ll  is  next  to  certain  and  of  William   Wallace   (whose  son   .Michael  set- 

that  at  least  one  of  l-;iizalietirs  m-andsons  left   \'ir-  (led    in   Kiuii    (ieor!j,c    counlv,   N'ir^inia)    that  the 

giuia  before  or  about  (he  Kevolut  ionary  ])eriod.  and  great  Scotlish  jjatriot.  Sir  William  Wallace  (  1270- 

made  his  honu'  in    I'eunsylvauia.     <  >f  the  date  <d'  i;!0.">|    was  their  ancestor;  and  (he  name  Elderslie 

Elizabeth's  death  nothing  jiositive  is  know  u,  liut  we  (  or  ICUcrslie,  as  it  is  often  spelled  )    which  belonged 

feel  reasonably  sure  that  her  dust  re])oses  in  some  to    the  (dd   Wallace    homestead    in   IJeufrewshire, 

one  of  the  old  I'resbyterian  cliurch-\ards  of  IJoek-  Scotland,  seven  centuries  ago.  is  still  i-evei'ed  aud 

bridge  conidy.  \'irginia.  (laimed  by  them.     All  of  this,  however,  is  oidy  con- 

The  I'eter  \\'allace  whom  Elizabeth  Woods  mar-  jecture,  based  uiioii  fandly  tradidons,  and  is  given 

ried  about  1705  was,  according  to  the  traditious  of  only  for  what  it  nmy  be  worth.     The  si.v  cjiildreu 

his  descendants,  a   Sc(dcli    Highlander,  who  six^ut  kmiwii  to  have  been  born  to  I'eter  \\allace  aud  his 

the  latter  part  of  his  life   in  Irtdaud.'     Very  lit-  wife   l{]lizabetli   ^\dods   will   now    be  mentioned  iu 

tie  is  jiositively  known  concerning  him.     It  is  sup-  what  is  bcdieved  to  be  their  ]u-oper  chrouological 

posed  that  he  was  born  about  ItiSO,  ami   it  is  con-  order,  so  far  as  cau  now  lie  kimwii. 
fidently  believed   he  di<Ml   s(mie  years  jirior  to  the  A— WlLlvIA.M   ^VALLA('E,  son  of  Teter  Wal- 

migratiou     of     the     "Woodses     and     ^\'allaces     to  lace,  Sr.,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  \\'oods,  was  prob- 

America.     Coucerning    his    descendaiHs,    however,  ably  born  iu  Ireland  about  the  year  170G.     In  1724 

a    great    deal    is    known.     They  are    scattered    by  he  came,  with  his  widowed  mother  aud  liis  uncle 

thousands  all  over  this  T'uiou,  aud  a  nnu'e  reput-  Michaid   ^Voods,   to   America,  and   settled   iu   Lau- 

able  family  can  not  be  found  iu  Ameri<'a.     In  Vir-  caster  county,  rennsylxania.     About  the  year  17o0 

giuia,  Iveiitiuky,  Indiana,  .Missouri,  <"alifornia  ami  he  married  his  cousin  Hannah  Woods,  who  was  his 

other    states    the   \\'allaces    are    numeiMuis.      The  nmde   .Micliaefs   daughter.     The   intermarriage  of 

most    distinguisheil   persons   who  have   borne   this  cousins     was     a     common     occurrence     with     the 

uame  are  Judge  Caleb   ^^'allace,  one  of  the  first  ^Voodses    and    Wallaces.      When    Michael    Woods 

three  judges  of  the  Kentucky  Court  of  Appeals,  ap-  migi  ated  lo  N'irgiida  in  1734,  William  Wallace  aud 

pointed  in  17!>2,  and  Major-Cteiieral   Lew  Wallace,  his  wife  accompained  him  ami  settled  very  close  to 

the  noted  soldier,  di|)lomat  and  author,  who  is  now  him  at    the  eastern   fool   of  the   Itlne  IJidge.     The 

easily  Ihe  tirst  citizen  of  Indiami.     There  was  an-  stati(ms    called     (Ireenwood     and    Crozet,   on    the 

other  lucmineut   family  ^<(  this  name  in  Virginia  Chesapeake  iK;  (thio  Kailroad,  are  iu  the  midst  of 

aud  Kentucky,-   the  American   head  of  which  was  the  charming  region  of  Albemarle  county    which 

Michael    Wallace,  .M.  1>.,  who    was    the    son  of    a  the  Woodses  and  Wallaces  settled.     It  was  in  early 

William   ^\'allace,  aud  was    born    in  Scotland    in  days  known  as  Henderson's  <^)uarter,  and  Mcmidain 

171!>.     This  Dr.  ^Michael  \Vallace  migrated  to  Vir-  Plains.     Dr.  Loote  informs  us  of  the  formation  of 

giuia,  and  spent  the  last  years  (d'  his  life  at  Elder-  this    settlement    iu  1734'  by  .Michael    \\'o()ds,  aud 

slie,  in  King  (ieoige  county,  Va.,  where  he  died  in  adds  this  slatemeut:     "Three  sous  aud  three  sous- 


HISTORY    OF    THE    WOODSES. 


in-law  taiiH'  w  illi  liiiii  and  settled  uear.  One  of  the 
sons-in-law,  ^^'iilianl  \\'ailac(',  toolv  his  residence  on 
Meclinni's  ri\cr,  in  Allicniarlc."  Tlicre  lie  spent 
tjie  veniaintler  of  his  life.  He  seems  to  have  been  a 
ui-eat  favorite  willi  liis  father-iu-law.  His  name 
is  signed  as  a  witness  lo  a  deed  executed  by  his 
wife's  father  in  174:!,  a  facsimile  of  which  appears 
in  one  of  tlie  illustrations  coutaiued  in  this  vol- 
ume. In  ITtil.  w  lien  Michael  AN'oods  came  lo  make 
his  last  will,  he  named  William  Wallace  as  one  of 
his  executors,  liis  descendants  have  lived  in  Albe- 
marle for  more  than  a  hundred  and  fifty  years,  and 
are  amonii'  the  most  ]irominent  and  honored  citi- 
zens of  the  county.  He  and  his  father-in-law, 
.Michael  \\'o(m|s,  were  Scotch  Presljvterians,  and 
were  the  jirincijial  founders  of  the  Mountain  I'lains 
I'resbyteriau  ("liurch,  orjianized  near  their  home 
about  the  middle  of  the  ei;.ihteeuth  century,  but 
long  since  dissolved.  William  Wallace  and  his 
wife  Hannah  Woods  luul  born  to  them  at  least 
seven  children,  as  follows:  1,  ^Michael,  who  com- 
manded a  military  compauy  in  tlu'  1 J  evolutionary 
army,  who  mari'ied  Ann  Allen,  wIkmu  the  year  1786 
sold  out  his  lands  in  \'irginia  ami  moved  to  Ken- 
tucky, and  who  left  uini'  children,  as  ap])ears  from 
llu  Wallace  chart  found  in  ihis  volume;  2,  John, 
w  hose  home  was  near  the  ])resent  village  of  Green- 
wood.  Willi  married    .Mary  ,  who  in   17S0 

sold  his  lands  and  moved  to  Washington  county, 
Virginia,  and  ]K>ssibly  a  little  later,  to  Kentucky; 
:!,  .Tank  or  .Ti:.\n,  who  married  Kobert  I'oage;  4, 
Wii. 1,1AM  (the  I'd),  who  married  ^Fary  Pillson,  re- 
sided near  Oreenwood,  and  there  died  in  1809;  5, 
Sakaii.  (if  whom  till  editor  could  learn  uothing;  (5, 
Haxxah.  who  maiiied  ;i  Miclnnd  Woods;  and  7. 
.TosiAii,  will!  mairied  .a  .Miss  Wallace,  not  related 
to  his  family,  whose  Christian  name  Dr.  Edgar 
AVoods  states  was  Hannah,  but  which  is  thought  by 
a  .Miss  Wallace  now  living  in  California,  and  who 
is  a  descendant  (if  hers,  to  have  been  Susan.'" 

R— SUSANN.M!  W.\LI.A('E  is  believed  to 
have  been  the  sec(ind  cliild,  and  first  daughter,  of 
I'eter  \Vallace.  Sr..  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Woods. 
Tlial  she  was  one  of  their  children  is  ])ositively  as- 


serted by  I'eli.-lhle  persons  who  are  descended  from 
her,  and  who  are  in  ;i  |i(isilioii  to  know  the  facts. 
She  was  ])r(ih;ibl\  linrii  in  I rel;i ml  ali(.iil  the  year 
1708.  and  in  171.M  came  lo  .\nierica  with  liei-  mollier 
and  her  uncle  .Michael  Woods.  After  a  nssidence 
of  about  ten  years  in  reiinsylvania,  she  removed 
(in  1734)  to  \'irgiiiia,  lieing  ihen  the  wife  of 
William  Wonils.  hei-  first  cousin,  whom  she  had 
probably  married  in  1 7:i2.  Fuiaher  |i;ii-l  iciilars 
concerning  her  life  will  be  given  in  llie  succeeding 
chapters,  wliei-e  her  husband's  career  will  be  con- 
sidered. 

C— SA.MTIOL  WALLACE  was  the  son  of  I'eter 
A\'allace.  Sr..  by  his  w  ife  lOlizaheth  "Woods,  and  was 
probably  born  in  li-ehiml  in  the  year  170'.).  He  mi- 
grated with  the  ^^■all;^ces  and  ^\'oodses  to  I'ennsyl- 
vania  in  1724,  where  he  seems  to  have  lived  about 
fifteen  years.  AVhen  the  family  migrated  to  Rock- 
bridge county,  Virginia,  about  1739.  he  went  with 
them,  but  he  could  not  have  resided  but  a  short 
time  in  Roi  l<briilge.  foi-  he  married  a  Miss  f'sther 
Raker,  of  Cub  Ci-eek  Settlement,  in  what  is  now 
Charlotte  County,  ^'irginia,  in  1741.  There  he 
seems  to  have  made  his  home  till  the  year  1782. 
when  he  removed  to  Kentucky,  where  he  died  about 
the  year  18011,  in  his  ninety-first  year.  Samuel 
A\'allace  h.ad  four  chililren  born  to  him  by  his  w  ife 
Esther  Rakei-.  as  follows:  1.  Cvlep..  who  was 
born  in  1742.  who  moved  to  Kentucky  in  1782.  who 
was  a  ruling  elder  of  the  I'lvsbyterian  Chui'ch  and 
a  distinguished  lawyer,  who  was  chosen  to  he  one 
of  the  first  three  judges  of  the  Kentucky  Court  of 
Appeals  at  its  ci-eation  in  17!I2.  and  was  one  of 
the  ablest  and  most  honoi-ed  jurists  Kentuck\-  e\-er 
had.  and  who  died  in  1814.  For  full  particulars  as 
to  Judge  Wallace  and  his  parents  the  reader  is  re- 
ferred to  the  vohnue  devoted  to  the  Wallace  family 
of  which  the  ib'V.  I>r.  William  II.  Whiisill  is  the 
author."  2.  IOi.i/..\ia:i'ii .  who  was  born  in  1745, 
who  married  ('olonel  Henry  I'awling.  and  who 
died  in  1S14;  3.  .\mii;i:\\.  who  was  hoiai  in  1748. 
maiiieil  Cai  li.iriiie  I'ai'ks.  ino\ed  to  Kentucky  with 
his  father,  and  I  here  died  in  1829;  and  4,  S.vmuel, 
who,  when  a  young  man,  started  to  Scotland,  and 
was  never  again  heard  of. 


6 


THE   ^A■OODS  MeAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


L) — ANDREW  ^^A1.1.A^'E,  sou  of  IVter  Wal-  Wallai^  eiuigiiited  from  Virginia  before  the  move- 
lace.  Sr..  In  his  wife  I]lizal>erU  WotxliJ.  was  prob-  meiu  to  Kentxioky  ( 1TS2  and  onwaitl)  fairly  set  in, 
ably  born  in  Iii'laud  about  ihe  year  1712,  aud  mi-  it  would  almost  certainly  have  been  bis  eldest  son, 
gratetl  with  his  mother  aud  uncle.  Miihael  AYoods,  ami  he  would  have  gone  to  one  of  the  colonies  to 
to  America  in  1724.  He  uiarritnl  Margiiret  AYoods.  the  north  of  Virginia.  The  Wallaces  had  come  to 
his  uucle  Miihaers  daughter,  about  the  year  1733.  Virginia  from  Penusylvauia,  and.  as  remarked  be- 
and  pivbably  went  with  him  and  his  own  brother  fore,  they  bad  probably  not  entirely  severed  the  ties 
William  to  Virginia  in  17:U.  he  (Andrew)  being,  which  Iwund  them  to  that  colony,  aud  if  one  of 
as  is  eonlideutly  l»elieveil.  oue  of  the  thive  sous-in-  them  abandoned  Virginia  anywhere  from  1765  to 
law  of  Michael  Wotnls.  who  accompauiinl  him  to  177-3.  IVunsylvania  was.  of  all  places  in  America, 
A'irginia.  acctmliug  to  I>r.  Foote's  accotint  before  the  oiu^  which  we  would  exj>ei't  hiiu  to  choose.  It 
referrtnl  to.  Audrew  Wallace's  plantation,  as  is  is  certainly  known  that  there  was  a  family  of  Wal- 
shown  on  the  map  of  AllnMuarle  county,  Virginia,  laces  living  in  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  in  the  year 
in  this  volume,  was  locattnl  at  what  is  now  Iv^-  1778.  and  that  town  is  only  about  fifty  miles  from 
Depot,  and  iheiv  he  seems  to  have  spent  his  days,  the  A'irginia  border,  and  less  than  thirty  miles  from 
his  death  vXHnirring  in  17S5.  Marg;tret.  his  wife,  the  etlge  of  the  Pennsylvania  county  ^ Lancaster) 
ditnl  at  least  twenty-six  years,  and  possibly  thirty,  iu  which  the  Wallaces  had  liveil  for  fiftei»n  years 
before  Andrew;  for  her  father  ilivhael.  in  his  will,  prior  to  their  miginttion  to  Virginia.  Moreover, 
written  in  17G1.  refers  to  her  as  l»eiug  then  dead,  when  this  Andrew  Wallace,  of  Carlisle,  b<^in  to 
There  is  reason  to  l>elieve  she  died  alnrnt  1756.  at  think  of  marrying  he  left  Pennsylvania,  and  went 
whi»'h  date  Andrew  wjts  almut  forty-four  years  old.  down  into  old  Virginia  and  sought  the  hand  of  a 
Whether  he  inarrieil  again,  or  cominueil  a  widower  niece  of  the  famous  John  Paul  (Jones),  who  in  her 
for  the  remaining  twenty-nine  years  of  his  life  is  voting  girlhoixl  days  was  a  sj>ecial  favorite  of  Gen- 
noi  known,  but  it  is  pn>bable  he  ivmarrieil.  If  he  eral  Washington.  This  c-ouple  were  the  grand- 
did  seek  another  wife  it  was  when  his  older  ohil-  parents  of  Major-Geueral  Lew  Wallace,  of  national 
dn»n  were  of  the  age  at  which  the  children  of  a  fame.  That  Michael  Wallac-e,  who  was  the  eldest 
family  are  uu>st  apt  to  reiseut  a  second  marriage  by  son  of  Andn»w.  of  Allnnuarle,  and  his  wife  Mar- 
either  parent-  His  eldest  son.  ilichael.  was  about  garet  Wooils,  was  the  father  of  Andrew,  of  Carlisle, 
twenty-two  years  old  in  1756.  and  his  stn-ond  son,  and  nametl  his  son  for  Antlrew,of  All>emarle,fits  so 
Sjimnel.  about  twenty,  as  niay  Ih>  rt»asonably  sup-  exactly  into  all  the  known  facts  of  the  c-ase,  and 
posed.     If    Aiu1rt»w  did    rrntnirrv.  mid    the    step-  agrees  so  fully  with  all  the  persistent  traditions  of 


mother 

Slate  of  doni«<i : 
to  ;  " 

wh  . 

of  A 
his      _ 


^  w  as  tu-. 
i-.Hher 
\\\hh1s  n 
V,  Vim 


:  accept-  the  W"allaces  and  Wootlses,  that  until  some  positive 

:  such  a  adverse  testimony  c-:tn  l>e  produced  to  overtorn  it, 

-    I'lps  we  are  warrauteti  in  accepting  it  as  substantially  J 

^siance  c-orrect,  and  yet  without  asserting  positively  that  J 

-  H'<Tory  all  the  detluctions  and  inferences  above  presented  ^ 

1  of  are,  in  every  particular,  based  on  facts. 


oue,  emisrrateiil  fr\> 


A 


Andrew  Wallace  and  Marsaret  Woods  left  the 


Muirle  connty.  scattering  to  various  distant  regions      following  children,  to  wit :     1.  Michael,  who  was 


The  im^si  »>: 
the  re*rions  uuv. 
let  it  be  '-  -    \" 
French  ; 
ofl762;ar.. 


to  Kentucky.  ;        -      :•  to 
-d  in  West  Vii^jjuia,  wl 


one  of 


prolwbly  lK»ru  not  far  from  the  year  1734,  who  may 
ave    emigraied    from  Vii^inia    to  Pennsylvania 
■  -  alH>nt  1765.  and  who  probably  was  the  father  of  the 

;..  .....     Andrew  Wallac-e  that  was  born  in  Carlisle.  Penn- 

■  iren  of  Andrew     svlvania,  in  177S:  2,  Samuel,  who  was  the  second 


HISTORY   OF   TIIK    WOODSES.  7 

fhild  (if  his  piiiviits.  iiml  probalily  linni  iilmul   17;'>t).  llu'  noliccor  Adam  Wallai-c     Sanind  Wallace  was 

and   will)  may  ]i(issildy  liavt-  iiii_i;'i'a(cd   In   I'cmisyl-  an    ol'liri'i-    in    ihr    Ki'\  uliil  ionary    Aiaiiy,    and    cimi- 

vania    willi    liis   older   livotlu'i-   .Michael;  ;>,   Eliza-  nianded   al    l'"ni-l    ^■ulnl.l;   mi    ilie    N'iruinia    frontier 

iiirrii.  who  married  Williani  Urisooe;  4,  Mauy,  who  diirin;^    the    I'rencli    and    Indian    War.      :j,   .Iamks, 

married     Alexander    Henderson;    .">,    IIaxxaii,    of  who  was  an  ensign  in  ilie  Tliird  \iiuinia  Ke.uiiiK'iit, 

wlioni   noiliin!.;   is  known;  (i.   SrsAX,   who   married  and   died   ol'  smalljiox   in    riiiladelphia    in    ITT*!;  4, 

Thomas  Collins;   7.    .Makcauet,   who   married    Wil-  AnA.M .  the  cajilain  of  a  Kockhridge  Conii>any  in  the 

liam  Kaiiisey,  and  was  the  only  one  of  the  children  Tenth  \'irj;inia  Keiiinieiit.  who  was  killed  hy  Tarle- 

w  ho    did    not    emigrate    from    Alhemarle;    and    8,  ton's  troopers  while  hravely  tighling  against   fear- 

Jkan,  who  married  a  ^Ir.  Wilson.     For  additional  fnl  odds  at  the  \\axliaw.  South  Carolina,  May  29, 

]iarticnlars    the    reader    may    consult    Dr.    Edgar  1780.  and   whose  sword,  used  on  that  hloody  day, 

^Voo(ls's  witrk,  referred  to  in  Note  10.  was  in  the  |)ossession  of  the  Mr.  -lohn  A.  K.  \arnor, 

E — ADAM   WALLACE  was  prolialdy  horn   in  of  Lexington,  ^'a.,  already  alluded  to.  a  few  years 

Ireland   ahoiit    the  year  1715,  hut  almost   nothing  ago; ."),  Anhkiav.  w  ho  w  as  the  ca]Main  of  a  co!ii|)any 

is  known  id'  him.     lie  may  liavt'  died  early  in  life,  in  the  I'>ighili   N'irginia    Regiment,  and   was  killed 

or  he  may  have  migrated  to  the  Caroliuas,  or  hack  at    Guildford    Court     House    in    1781.'"     He,  like 

to  rennsylvania.     By  some  writers  of  the  history  his  brothers,  James  and  Adam,  seems  never  to  have 

of  the  ^Vallace.s  he  has  been  confounded  with  Adam  been  married,  and  all  three  were  yimng  men  at  the 

Wallace,  his  gallant  nephew,  son  of  Peter  "Wallace,  time  they  died  ;  0,  Joiix,-  7,  ELiZAr.ETii,  who  mar- 

Jr.,  who  perished  \\hile  bravely  tight  ing  the  IJrilisli  tied  Col.  .lohn  (iilmore.  of  IJockbridge  county;  8, 

troopers  at   Waxhaw,  S.  C.,  in  1780.  Jaxet,- and  !»,  StSAXXAii.    Tlu' home  of  Feter  Wal- 

F— FETEK  WALLACE,  JUNIOF,  was  the  lace  was  only  two  miles  southwest  of  Lexington, 
last  child  of  Feter  Wallace,  Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Eliza-  Va.  He  died  in  1784,  and  his  wife  Martha  in 
betli  Woods,  anil  was  almost  certainly  born  in  Ire-  171)0.  Two  of  his  brothers-in-law  were  adjoining 
land.  The  late  .T.  A.  Iv.  Varner,  of  Lexington,  Ya.,  neighliors,  namely:  Ceiu'ral  John  Bowyer,  the 
sine  of  his  lineal  descendants  and  a  gentleman  well  third  ]iusban<l  of  Magdalen  Woods;  and  Joseph 
informed  aboiil  the  Wallaces  ami  \\'oi)dses,  and  the  Lajisley,  the  husband  of  Sarah  Woods, 
simrce  of  mucli  of  tlie  information  contained  in  this  The  sword  which  the  above-mentioned  Adam 
volume,  wrote  the  editor  of  this  work  in  189.")  that  Wallace  wielded  with  telling  effect  upim  the 
Feter  Wallace,  Jr.,  was  born  in  1719.  and  that  his  British  dragoons  at  Waxhaw.  S.  C..  in  1780,  de- 
wife.  :Martha  AVoods.  was  born  in  1720.  Feter.  Jr..  serves  a  moment's  notice  here.  Adam  was  the  cap- 
camo  from  Ireland  to  Fenusylvania  with  his  tain  of  one  of  th(>  comiianies  of  the  Tenth  Yirginia 
mother  in  1724,  and  it  is  confidently  believed  he  Ivegiment  of  the  ("out  ineiital  i.ine  (  regulars  i,  com- 
came  with  her  to  Kockbridge  county,  Ya.,  about  manded  by  Lieut. -Col.  .\braham  Biiford.  Wallace's 
the  year  17:*.".t.  Like  I  wo  of  his  brotliers  and  one  of  company  was  composed  of  lifty  Kockbridge  men. 
his  sisters,  before  him,  he  married  his  first  cousin.  Col.  Buford's  regiment  (the  Tenth  Yirginia)  had 
<uie  of  his  uncle  Michael  Woods's  children.  This  been  detached  from  the  Northern  Army. and  order- 
proliably  took  iilace  about  1744.  I!y  her  he  had  ed  to  go  to  the  relief  of  our  beleag-uered  gaiTison  at 
nine  children,  as  follows:"*  1,  3lAr,('()>r,  wlm  was  Charleston,  S.  C  On  their  way  they  learneil  that 
in  the  army  under  .Morgan,  at  Boston,  and  died  (ieu.  Lincoln  liad  cajiil  iilaied.  and  Cid.  F.uford  was 
there,  in  service,  in  !77r.;  L',  Samii;!,.  who  was  ordered  to  fall  liack  again  low  ard  the  north.  Corn- 
born  ill  17ir..  who  married  Rebekah  Anderson,  wallis.  learning  of  Bnford's  retreat,  sent  his  dash- 
who  died  in  178(;,  and  who  was  tlu^  great  ing,  unscrupulous  cavalry  oflicer,  Col.  Tarlton, 
grandfather  of  the  Mr.  Varner  alluded  to  above  in  with  300  picked  men.  in  pursuit  ;  and  after  a  forced 


THE   WOODS-McAFEB    MEMORIAL. 


inarch  of  100  miles,  he  ovci-ldok  Unfold  at  Wax-  ITSO 
luuv,  [^.  C.  licfoi-c  Ituford  and  his  Virgiiiiaus  ilic  i 
could  ]>ivpare  for  (lie  attack,  tlie  IJritish  cavalry 
were  upon  thcia  fnnn  froiil  and  rear,  and  both 
flanks.  The  Virsiinians  dcIi\(Tcd  their  fire,  hut 
before  they  conld  reload  Tarleloirs  cavalrymen 
were  on  them  with  their  jiislols  and  swords.  Out 
of  400  men  of  I'.nford's  command  :>00  were  killed 
or  wounded.  The  wcmnded  were  hacked  to  pieces 
in  the  most  inhuman  manner.  It  was  in  this  ter- 
rible encounter  that  Captain  Adam  Wallace  fell. 
He  was  a  youiiii  man  of  Iwenly-tive  years,  and 
stood  six  feet,  two  inches,  in  his  stockings — the  very 
picture  of  vi^drous  manhood.  Col.  I!iiford,  seeing 
his  men  in  confusion,  fled  early  in  Ihe  fight,  but 
young  Wallace  disdained  lo  lly ;  and,  standing  his 
ground,  met  steel  with  steel — his  trusty  sword  was 
wielded  with  treiiieiidons  vigor,  and  he  managed 
to  kill  a  number  of  Tarllon's  dragoons  before  he 
received  till'  fatal  blow  which  ended  his  noble 
young  life.  That  very  sword  was,  a  few  years  ago, 
in  Ihe  jiossession  of  .M.i  jor  .1.  .\.  \l.  \'ariier,  of  Lex- 
ington, Vix.,  himself  a  descendant  of  the  Aouns; 
hero's  brother,  Samuel  Wallace.  It  was  an  in- 
fantry captain's  sword,  with  a  buck-horn  handle, 
heaxily  moiinteil  in  sil\-er.  ( )n  the  clas])  nearest 
the  handle  is  engra\cd,  in  clear  letters,  his  name — 
".Vdam  Wallace."  I'onr  broihers,  .Malcolm,  Adam, 
Andrew  and  .Tames,  sons  of  I'eter  Wallace. 
Jr.,  and  .Martha  \\'oods,  wore  sacrificed  upon 
the  altar  of  their  country.  This  interest- 
ing story,  which  was  jaiblished  in  the  Lex- 
ington (A'a.)  itaper.  The  Nocl-hridnc  Ncirs,^'  ioimd 
its  way  to  Scotland,  and  a  .Mr.  William  Cum- 
miiig.  of  Shetlestown,  Clasgow,  Scotland, 
was  moved  to  jieii  some  stanzas  in  which  the 
sword  of  Sir  ^Villiam  AX'allace,  the  great  Scottish 
jiatriot.  is  joined  with  thai  of  his  supposed  descend- 
aiil,  .\dam  \\'allace,  of  \'irgiuia.  Some  of  these 
stanzas  are  given  in  the  belief  that  they  will  prove 
f)f  deep  interest  to  many  of  the  A\'allaces  and 
\\oodses  of  America,  in  whose  veins  flows  some  of 
the  same  Idood  as  that  which  this  young  hero  pour- 
ed out  on  the  fatal  field  of  Waxhaw  in  the  year 


.Vdani    Wallace    was    only 
ime  of  his  death. 


( Weill  \-ei"'ht    at 


'AN'lieii   Scotland's  jiatriot    hero  led 

The  Scottish  hosts  at  Stirling's  fight. 
Fierce  gleamed  among  the  English  foe 

His  ponderous  falchion  bright. 
AVhere'er   the  dreaded    weajion    flashed, 

There  was  the  deadliest  of  the  fray: 
And  England's  stoutest  sons  had  fall'n, 

AVlieii  victory  crown'd  the  day. 
The  centuries  have  passed  since  then; 

Hut  near  our  fortress  of  the  North 
The   Wallace   monument  to-day 

Looks  out   upon  the  l*\)rtli — 
T>ooks  o\er  Scotland's  proudest  fields — 

Slirling  and   TSannockburn,  adored; 
.\iid  treasures  in  its  noble  walls. 

The  time-worn  ^^'allace  sword. 

(»f  Scotland's  kin  full  many  a  one 

In  fair  N'irginia's  old  domain. 
Had  found  the  freedom,  which,  alas. 

They  souglil  at  home  in  vain, 
h'or  on  tlieii-  land  had  fell,  awhile. 

The  hated  tyrant's  evil  jiower; 
And  thus  they  jiassed,  on  fiu'eign  shore, 

Tbrongli    freedom's  darkest  hour. 
Itiil  wbeii  the  call  to  arms  arose. 

And  ISritain  would  her  sons  enslave, 
She  met,  in  those  N'irginian  Scots, 

A  phalanx  of  the  brave. 
And   one   there   was  at   AA'axbaw's   fight 

A^'ho  to  the  tyrant  would  not  yield; 
\\'lio  boic  the  naiiH'  of  "Wallace  wight": 

He  died  upon  the  field. 
He  nobly  faced  the  British  foe. 

Like  tile  ancestor  of  his  race; 
And  ga\o  liis  life  for  h^reedom's  cause. 

Nor  sought,  in  flight,  disgrace. 
The  sword  he  bore  now  lies  with  men. 

^^'llo  well  can  prize  the  lituiored  blades 
For  they  have  marched  to  many  a  fleld 

In  "Stonewall's"  old  Brigade! 
Old  veterans  of  the  Southern  cause, 

Descendants  of  our  Wallace  rare. 
That  same  old  blade  links  Stirling  here 

^^■itll  A\'axlia\v  over  there. 
.\nd  in  thy  honored  roll  of  fame, 

\\'e"d  twine  our  ^^'alla(•e  name  with  thee; 
ISIeiid  Scottish  with  A'lrginian  wreath — 

Rockbridge  and  Elderslie." 


I 


MICHAEL    WOODS  OF    BLAIR    PARK.                                                     9 

111  a  six'cch  said   to  h;\vc  hccii  dcliviTcd   in   llic  Of  all   llic  iiirmlirrs  dl'  llic  Waliacc-WOdds  i-laii 

Viriiiuia  llmiso  of  Delegates,  by  tlic  late  (iovcnioi'  iioiic  liad  a  imlilci-  icconi  in  llic  liveat  struggle  for 

James  .McDowell,  occurs  this  seutence  couceruiug  American    independence   liian   did    I'elei-  Walliice, 

lln-  hra\'e  youug  soldier  who  owned  that  sword:  Jr.,  and  his  wile,  .Mai-ilia   Woods.     To  that  sacreil 

"That  dark  and  dismal  page  in  the  history  of  the  cause  they  gaxc  live  hraxc  sons:     Samuel,  .Malcolm, 

Revolution — that  carnival   of  cruel   and    nnjnstifi-  Andrew,  Jann's  and    .\dam.  all    hut  one  of  whom 

ahle   slaughtei' — stami)ed   wilh    Ihe   name  of   Wax-  (dfered  u]i  his  life  njion  Ihe  aliar  of  freedcnn.    These 

haw,   is   illnminaled   only  hy  the  splendid   heroism  Scotch-Irish    I'resliylei-ians    wei-e    of    Ihe    class    of 

of  a   soldier  from   the  valley  of  \'irginia,   whom    I  men  on  whom  Washingtini  said  h<'  coiild  rely  in  the 

am     prond     lo    claim    as    my   kinsman.'^   ("a]itain  dark  hour  of  disasler. 
Adam  \\'allace,  of  Rockbridge."' 

CHAPTER  III. 

MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  l^ARK. 

In    the    old     family    burial-ground    of    .Michael  true  beyond  all  dis|inle,  hul  that  they  seem  to  rest 

W Is,  on  Ihe  ]ilaniation  which  he  owned  and  oc-  upon  good  evidem-e.  and  thai  nothing  inconsistent 

cnpied   for  alxnit  twenty-eight  years  in  Albemarle  with  any  one  of  ilicm  is  known  to  the  writer. 

counly,   N'irginia,  there  is  to  be  seen  Ihe  grave  in  It    is    certainly    known     ihal     ihe    laily    whom 

which  .Micliaeks  body  was  laid  to  rest  in  the  year  .Michael    Woods   married,   ])ossibly   nineteen  years 

ITlii'.     I'p  to  about  the  year  18G1  this  grave  was  prior  to  his  migrai  ion  to  .Vnu'rica,  was  named  Mary 

marked   hy  a  rather  rudely  formed  headstone,  on  rampbell.      ll    has   been    asserted  by   trustworthy 

which  was  an  inscription  sln>wing  that  he  was  horn  writers,  and   has  long  been   curi'ently  believed    by 

in  the  vear  11)84,  and  died  in  ITCd'.     Only  a  part  the  descendants  of  .Michael  and  .Mary,  that  she  was 

of  Ihe  headstone  now  remains,  Ihe  n](per  ])ortion  of  the  liouse  of  ihe  1  »id<e  of  .\rgyle,  and  belonged  to 

having    been    broken    off.      Intelligent    :ind    Irust-  the  famous   Scotch    clan  — ( 'am]>bell."^     This   fact, 

woriliN    persons  in  the  neighborhood  have  asserted  if  we  consider  it  as  c(uiclusively  settled,  would  seem 

that  they  had  seen  the  stone  and  read  the  inscri])-  to  indicate  that  :\[ichiiel   Woods  may  have  gotten 

lion  before  and  after  it  was  broken,  and  hence  the  his  wife  in  Scot  land;  and,  if  this  be  true,  ihcn   it 

d.-ite  of  Michael  Woods's  birth  and  death,  and  the  would  seem   (|nite  |)ossiblc  that    the   Woodses  may 

l>recise   ](lace  of   his   burial    may   be  cimsidered   as  have  resided    in    Scotland    pricu-   to   their   being   in 

settled    for    all    time.      That    he    was    born    in    the  Ireland,  which  smne  persons  well  ipialiticd  to  jndge 

Emei-ald    Isle;  that  he  was  the  second   child  of  a  have  not   hesitate(l    lo   assert    was   Ihe  case.      The 

certain  .lolin  W Is,  who  was  the  s(Ui  of  an  English  AVoodses    may,    indeed,    have    been    pure    English 

trooper  in  the  Croniwellian  army  of  invasi(Ui,  by  stock,  but  they  may  ha\-e  migrated  to  Scotland  be- 

his  wife,  Elizabeth  Worsoji;  that  he  was  a  man  of  fore  c(nning  to  Ireland.     .Vnd  Ihe  wfiler  cmifesses 

familv    prior   to   his   migration    from    Irelaml,   and  that   there  are   several    considerations    which    have 

took  with  him,  when  he  moved,  his  wife  ami  several  tended  lo  imline  his  own  niimi  to  this  supi)osii  ion. 

childi-en;  that  he  migrated  to  America  in  the  year  The  fact  that  the  lal  her  of  .lohn  Woods  ( and  grand- 

lTl'4,  and  that  his  tirst  place  of  settlement   in  the  f.-iTher  of  .Michael  i   was  in  ("romwcll's  army,  which 

New  World  was  in  the  colony  of  Pennsylvania — all  iinaded  Ireland  ahont   llil'.i,  does  not  re(piii-e  vis  |o 

of  these  details  have  already  been  stated  to  be  snb-      conclmle  that    the  \\' Ises  had   not    left    England 

sianlially    correct    on    the   strength    of    authorities  before  that    time,  .-iml  had   not   resided  in  Scotland, 

cited  in  the  lirst  chajiter  of  Part  1,  of  this  volume."  It    would  have  licen  no  dil'liciih   or  niinatnral  thing 

It     is     not     clainu'd     that    each     and     all     of     the  for  .lohn  Woods's  (at  her  to  have  connected  himself 

statements  im-lnded   in   the  foregoing  sentence  are  with  Cromwcirs  army  after  it    reached    Ireland,   if 


10  THE  woods-:mcafee  :\ii:AroinAT.. 

Ills  s\  iiipjil  liics  were  with  tlic  imadcrs,  and  lie  was  occiipicil  liy  tliat  indiisl  rious.  liravc  and  (iod-frar- 
llicn  a  cil  i/.i'n  of  tliat  (•(iniitry.  in^-  i-acc.  He  was  f^lad,  also,  tn  lia\c  the  liardv  Cxer- 
( 'unccrninii-  llic  stay  wliicli  .Micliacl  and  liis  mans  nialcc  the  liaclcwonds  of  \'ir;4inia  llicir  lioinc' ' 
faaiil.N  made  in  I'cnnsyhania,  we  lia\c  Init  Utile  The  expansion  of  the  colony  hy  this  means 
certain  knowledge.  Il  seems  to  liave  been  aiiveed  meant  not  only  the  u'cneral  indnsirial  prosperity  of 
liy  all  who  haxc  wrilleu  on  this  snlijeet  that  the  the  country,  hut  il  ]ir()\ided  a  liody  of  settlers  on 
Woo<lses  and  Wallaces  settled  in  Lam-aster  county  the  colonial  frontier,  wiiiih  wonld  serve  as  a  most 
of  that  colony.  The  wi-iter.  howexcr,  has  been  un-  valuable  ])rotection  aiiainsl  the  1  ndians  to  the  older 
able,  after  some  correspondence  with  the  clerks  of  settlements  in  the  central  and  tide-water  portions 
several  of  Ihe  Pennsylvania  comities,  to  find  a  of  the  colon\.  (iov.  (loocli  was  a  somewhat  zealous 
single  record  to  indicate  tliat  ^lichael  ^\■oo(ls  ever  ])artisan  of  Ihe  Established  ('hnrcii,  and  had  no 
purchased  or  sold  any  land  in  what  was,  in  1724  to  special  admiration  for  the  religious  \iews  and  prac- 
1734,  Lancaster  county.  lie  may  liaxc  resided  tices  of  I'resbyterians  and  other  Dissenters  in 
thei'e,  howe\er,  without  carinn  to  make  any  invesi-  the  colony;  but  he  was  now  more  than  williiiL;'  to 
nieuts  in  real  estate,  for  we  know  he  did  not  remain  make  concessions  and  hold  out  inducements  to  the 
there  bnt  ten  years,  and  then  migraled  to  ^'irg,■inia.  Scotch-Irish  and  (iermans  of  rennsylvania.  Tie 
Tbedateof  this  mii;ralion  is  fixed  in  the  year  17;->4  olTered  tine  lands  to  them  upon  liberal  terms,  and 
by  I'o(tte,  A\'addell,  I'eyton  and  Dr.  Edgar  ^^'oods.  assured  all  new  settler-s  of  ample  protection  and 
And  we  hapiieu  to  lia\c  a  twofold  e.\p]anation  of  welcome.  ]»ro\  ided  Ihey  \\-ere  law-aliiding.  and  will- 
this  southward  move  of  the  W'oodses  and  Wallaces.  iiig  to  n]iliol(|  the  Act  of  Toleration.  Whilst  the 
l-^ir  (Uie  thing,  by  17;>1.',  the  original  settlers  of  Scotidi-lrish  ue\'er  had  much  use  for  that  .Vet, 
Pennsylvania,  having  grown  jeahms  of  the  Scotch-  despising,  in  their  souls,  the  \rvy  idea  that  any 
Irish  who  had  come  into  the  colony  by  thousands,  decent,  upright  citizen  should  need  lo  be  "tol- 
and  by  their  frugality,  imlnstry  and  skill  had  crated'"  instead  of  being  left  free  to  worshi])  <!(m1 
grown  prosperous,  began  to  tirge  Ihe  Proprietary  as  he  saw  best,  and  not  ((unpelled  to  ])ay  taxes  to 
Government  to  enact  restricti\'e  measures  aimed  at  su])i>ort  a  form  of  religicui  which  he  disai)])roved, 
these  new-comers,  and  intended  to  harass  them  and  Ihey  were  willing  to  acce]>t  the  <!o\-ernor's  offer, 
discourage  furthei-  adilitions  of  their  kind  to  the  So  it  lame  to  pass  that  a  vast  tide  of  these  brave 
poi»ulation  of  the  colony.  Thus  did  the  men  who  peo|de  jioiired  into  the  (Jreat  A'alley,  and  through 
succeeded  the  liberty-loving  and  benevolent  ^\'il■  the  gaps  of  the  lUue  Itidge  over  to  the  fertile  and 
liani  reiin  repudiate  the  \-ery  ]iriiicip!es  which  at  charming  i-egion  which  la_\-  at  its  eastern  base. 
lirst  had  dominaled  the  jiolicy  of  that  colony  and  (biv.  (iooch  was  truly  a  shrewd  statesman,  but  he 
rendered  it  al  tract  i  ve  t  o  t  he  ]  leople  (d'  I'lster.  The  builded  much  wiser  than  he  knew;  for  that  new- 
result  of  this  ungenerous  legislation,  no  doubt,  was  element,  which  he  thus  helped  to  introduce  into 
that  man\'  of  the  Scotch-Irish  settlers  were  reii-  X'irginia's  life,  nil  iniately  effected  a  complete  revo- 
dered  uncomforlable  and  made  ready  to  impro\-e,  lution  in  llie  wlude  spirit  and  character  of  her 
with  alacrity,  any  favorable  o|ieuings  foi- bettering  people  and  her  laws.  There  Avere,  indeed,  s(une 
their  condil  ion.  The  shrewd  goxcrnor  of  the  colony  ]iainful  struggles,  and  no  lit  tie  friction  as  the  vears 
of  A'irgini.-i,  Sir  William  (!ooch,  was  not  slow  to  passed;  but  before  t  he  eighteenth  i-entury  had  run 
give  s]iecial  encouragement  to  settlers  from  IN-nn-  its  course,  the  democratic  ideas,  which  had  theii- 
sylvania.  Himself  a  Scotchman,  he  well  knew  the  chief  nurser\-  in  the  \'alley  and  I'iedmont sections 
sturdy  character  of  theScotch-Irish,  and  was  only  of  \'irgiiiia,  had  come  to  dominate  the  whole  of  the 
tov)  glad  to  see  the  (ireat  Valley  and  all  the  as-yet-  State.'''  The  comuKai  cause  which  all  \'irginiaus 
unsettled  regions  on  both  sides  of  the  I>lue  Kidge  had  to  make  against   ihe  tyrannies  of  the  Jlother 


MICHAEL   WOODS  OF    P.LAIR    PAKK.                                                   11 

Cdiiiitry  ill  the  KcMiliitiduarv  pci-ind  l)i-((iioht  them  down    iiilo    tlic   splciidiil  \':illcy    ;iiid    creel    lioiiies. 

iit  last  to  see  eye  to  eye,  and   In  stand  sliunlder  ti»  Tlie   I'iedinonI    IJeiiioii.    i1iiiiil;1i   <li)Sei-   In   (lie  nldei- 

sliniilder;  and    when   iliey  emerged   I'min   lliat  tre-  settlements  of  llie  enlniiy,  and  lying nn  the  eastern 

ineiidnus  struggle,  I  he  nld  antagonisms  had  praeti-  side  nf  I  he  niminlains,  NAas  (juite  as  slow  in  being 

(■ally  disappeared,  and   \'irginians  were  one  great  settled  as  ihe  \'allev.     Fiske  tells  ns  that  in  Spots- 

jieople,  living  togetliei'  ill  the  mnsi   cnrdial  friend-  wood's  time    (1710  to   IT^L'i    ihe  vi-vv  (>nt])osts  of 

slii]i  and  mntiial  esteem.     The  hearing  which  these  ICnglish    ci\iliy,;il  inn    had    iml    crept    inland    iwcst- 

rctlections    have    n]Miii    niir    narrali\'e    will    he    ap-  wardi    heyniid   the  ]iniiils  ai    which   the  ocean  tides 

]iarent   as  we  ])rnceed.  ei)lied  and  tlowcd.     ",V  slri]i  of  forest  tifly  mih's  or 

That  famous  i-ange  of  the  .Vjiiialachiaii  system,  more  in  breadth  still  iuter\cned   between   the   N'ir- 

called  the  lilne  llidge,  enters  \'irginia  from  ^fary-  giiiia  frontier  and  those  bine  peaks  visible  against 

land  at  Harper's   Ferr_\    on   the   I'nlomac,  and   ex-  the  western    sky."-'      This    same    stale  of    things 

lends  clear    across    the    State    in    a  snnlh westerly  seems  to  Innc  coniiniied  almosi    up  to  the  time  at 

direction,  a   distance  of  J.")(l   miles,   and    passes  on  which  ^lichael  Woods  sett  led  at  theeastei'ii  base  of 

into  North  Carolina.     <  »ii  the  western  side  of  this  the  Uliie  IJidgc  in  what  is  now    Albemarle  county, 

range  lies  the  (ireat  \'alley,  which  averages  abniit  N'irginia,  jnst  at  the  gaj)  which  thereafter  took  his 

thirty  miles  in  width,  and  extends  to  the  parallel  name.--     The  western   half  of   what   is  now   .\lbe- 

range  of  the  Alleghanies  on  the  west.     On  the  east  niarle  county  seems  to  have  had  no  settlers  ]irior  to 

side  of  the  Blue  Kidge  lies  a  tier  of  counties  com-  the  date  at   which  .Michael  Woods  lixed  his  haiiila- 

])osing  what  is  known  as  the  riedmont  IJegion  of  lion  at  the  east ern  base  of  the  I'.liie  Kidge.     On  the 

Virginia — the  foot-of-the-mountain  country,  as  its  western  side  of  Ihe  mountain,  in  the  ^'alley,  prnb- 

name  implies.     It  Avas  this  Piedmont  Kegion  which  ably  the  only  settlement  then  in  existence,  as  far 

iMichael  Woods  chose  as  his  home  in  lT;U;and,  so  south  as   that    of   ^Voods,   was  the  one  made  two 

far  as  known,  he  was  the  first  white  man  to  settle  yi'ars  before    (  17:51' i    by   John    Lewis,   neai-   where 

in  that  part  of  the  colony.     Ii   is  usual  to  say  that  Staunton    now     is.'-'     The    territory  now    included 

the  romantic,  not  to  say  hilai-ious.  expedition  of  in  the  county  of  Augusta  was  then  a  part  of  Orange 

(iovernor  Spotsw 1,  in  171(i,  marks  the  beginning  county,  and  what  is  now  Albemarle  was  then  a  part 

of  the  ex])loration  of  the  ^'alley,  though  several  of  Ooocliland.  The  frontier  of  the  colony  then  ex- 
earlier  tours  to  jKU-tions  of  its  area  are  contended  tended  along  the  eastern  base  of  the  Pdue  Itidge  at 
for  by  various  writers.'''  The  actual  occupation  least  twenty  miles  back  from  it,  and  the  whole  of 
of  the  Valley  by  permanent  settlers,  however,  did  the  Valley  was  a  virgin  wilderness,  with  a  single 
not  take  place  till  1732,  about  fourteen  years  after  settler  in  the  wlnde  of  the  leri-itory  now  iiiclude<l 
Oov.  Spotswood's  famous  Knights  of  the  (ioldeii  i"  H'"'  i-ounlies  of  Kockingham,  Page,  Augusta, 
Horseshoe  had  unc(U'ked  and  merrily  emptied  their  IJockbridge,  and  beyond,  and  the  little  colony  of 
numerous  brandy  and  champagne  bottles  on  the  -Toist  Hite  near  the  site  of  Winchester,  about  eighty 
!>anks  of  the  lovely  Shenandoah.'"  A  man  from  miles  to  the  north.  It  was  into  this  jiractically  un- 
I'ennsylvania  named  Joist  Hite  made,  in  17:'.l',  inhabited  wilderness  that  .Michael  Woods  pene- 
what  is  generally  considered  the  first  permanent  trated  in  ihe  ycai-  17;!4,''  there  to  live  out  the  re- 
white  settlement  in  the  Valley  about  five  miles  maiiiing  days  of  his  life.  He  was  then  fifty  years  of 
south  (d'  where  Winchester  now  stands.  Hite  had  age,  and  had  a  large  family  of  children — not  less 
a  warrant  for -lO,!)!)!)  acres  of  land  which  John  and  than  ehveii.  as  will  be  shown  farther  on — all  of 
Isaac  Vanmeter  had  gotten  from  (!ov.  (Jooch  only  whom  Inn  one  seem  to  have  acconi]ianied  him  in  tJiis 
two  years  before,  and  he  ]U-oceedi'd  to  offer  induce-  migration.  <  »f  course.  Ave  are  obliged  to  assunu^ — 
ments  to  enterprising  men  at   the  North  to  come  though  we  lunc  im  ])ositi\c  e\  ideiice  of  the  course 


12  THE    WOODS  :MiAFEE    ^IEMOKIAL. 

]nii-snc(l  ill  this  ]i;irt  iciilnr  case — that  no  sciisihlc  kimwn  llial  llic  Indians  al  I  lie  iKirtli-wcst  were  con- 
man  would  scl  nnl  in  tliat  I'avly  ilay,  npon  a  stantly  at  war  with  uihcr  irilics  at  tlii'  Soutli,  and 
joui'Mcy  >if  move  tlian  I  wo  Inindrcd  miles,  from  liands  of  warriors  wci-c  rr(M|iiciitly  jiassini;-  to  and. 
I.ancaslcr  counlv.  I'cnnsx  hania.  lo  tlic  wilds  of  fro  alonii  tlic  N'allcy.  and  lliroujili  ^^■oods■s  (iap, 
Virifinia,  witli  a  lot  of  women  and  cliildi-cn  and  ln-nt  on  mischief  to  each  other.  These  warlike 
]n)nsehold  elTecls.  unless  lie  had  iirevionsly  nunle  a  jiarties  of  savages  co\ild  not  lie  de|iended  on  to  re- 
tonr  of  inx'estiyation  to  tlie  rei;ion  in  w  hicli  he  |iro-  main  |ieacealile  and  harmless.  Thev  would  steal 
|iosed  to  settle,  aud  made  some  arrangements  for  anv  valnaldes  they  could  lay  hands  on.  and  tlu'y 
the  comfort  aud  safety  of  his  family.  A\'e  may.  were  not  at  all  averse  t<i  Idoodshed,  esjiecially  when 
therefore,  feel  preliy  sure  that  sexcral  of  the  men  iiieetiuL;  with  ]»ai'ties  of  whites  whom  they  greatly 
of  his  family  had  \isited  N'irginia  s(uue  months  in  out  nuuiliered.  ()f  the  Indian  trihes  whom  the 
aihance  of  the  act  ual  migi-at  ion.  tixe(l  n]ion  the  ex-  early  settlers  in  the  N'alley  had  t<i  deal  with  ^Ir. 
act  hication  to  he  occu]iied,  and  ]ierha]is  erected  a  \\'addell  writes  entertainingly,  making  free  quota- 
few  rude  caliins  in  the  forest.  The  jirecise  neighhor-  tions  from  Withers's  I'.order  \\'arfare.'''  From  his 
hood  selected  wo  know  with  all  reasoualile  cer-  account  we  learn  that  the  r)elawares  of  the  North, 
tainty.  It  was  in  what  is  now  AHiemarle  county  and  the  Catawlias  of  ihe  South,  were  at  war  with 
(then  ( iodcliland  I .  aliout  fourteen  miles  west  of  each  other  alioul  I  he  t  iiiie  -lohn  hewis  and  .Mii-hael 
the  low  n  of  ( 'harlot  les\ille,  and  immediately  at  the  \\dods  nio\od  down  into  \'ii-ginia.  and  that  this 
foot  of  the  Ulue  lliilge.  at  the  gap  which  for  several  circumstance  retardeil  the  seiilement  of  the 
generations  was  called  \\dods"s  (iap.  and  is  now  country  liy  the  whiles.  W'addell  gives  it  as  his 
known  as  Jarmairs.  The  ("liesa]M'ake  vV;  Ohio  o]iinion  that  all  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  VM- 
Kailway  now  traverses  what  was  the  plantation  of  l<'y  came  from  I'ennsylvania.  and  came  up  the 
.MichaeMVoods,  het ween  the  stations  of  Oreenwood  Shenandoah  N'alley.  Whilst  there  were  uo  roads 
and  Orozet.  It  is  near  the  head  hranclies  of  the  tlien  in  existence  in  the  \alley,  ther-e  were  Indian 
stream  called  Lickinghole  ( 'reek,  and  in  om'  of  the  and.  I'.ntfalo  trails  fairly  well  suited  to  pack- 
most  licant  ifiil  and  desiralile  locations  in  \'irginia.  horses.''  According  to  I'eyron,  the  war-|iatli  tra\- 
Tlie  reasons  iiii|ielling  Michael  Woods  to  choose  the  elled  hy  the  Indians  on  their  hostile  ex])eilitious 
eastern  liase  of  the  Kidge  for  a  home,  instead  of  the  against  each  other  crossed  the  I'.lue  Kidge  at 
Great  \alley  on  its  western  side,  we  can  only  con-  Woods's  (Ja]!  ( Jarman's  i  and  Kocktisli  ( iaji,  jiassed 
jecture;  lint  we  can  well  lieliiwe  that  he  felt  he  liy  the  site  of  Staunton,  and  on  down  the  N'alley  to 
would  he  somewhat  hetter  sliielded  from  Indian  the  northward.-"  It  was  directly  on  this  war-path 
attacks  on  that  side,  .lohn  Lewis,  the  tirst  settler  that  Michael  Woods  maile  his  settlement.  There 
in  that  poi-t  ion  of  the  ^'alle\■  contiguous  to  the  is  now  a  road  leading  Ihrougli  Woods's  (lap  from 
Woods  settlement,  had  only  heeii  there  two  years;  .VHiemarle  o\er  to  the  ^'alley,  which  reaches  the 
and  whilst,  as  Waddell  informs  ns,''  the  N'alley  he-  South  l-'ork  of  the  Shenandoah  rivei-  at  Doom's,  a 
gan  to  till  up  ra]iidly  soon  after  Lewis  came,  it  is  small  station  on  the  Norfolk  ^<;  NN'estern  K.  IJ.,  and 
not  likely  that  many  families  had  settled  in  that  there  can  scarcely  lie  a  donlit  that  this  was  the  pre- 
\icinity  by  Ihe  time  Michael  Woods  had  nuide  tip  cise  route  which  .Michael  Woods  came  in  1T;>4.  Tln^ 
his  mind  to  migrate.  old  \\'ilderiiess  Koad.  which  ran  from  l'hiladel]ihia 
No  iuo\'e  could  lie  made,  liy  any  jirudeiit  man.  to  the  Potomac  I'iver.  and  thence  iqi  the  \'allev  to 
into  the  N'irginia  wilderness  without  taking  ac-  New  Iliver.  aud  on  down  through  Southwestern 
count  of  the  Indians.  \\'hilst  it  seems  reasonably  ^'irginia  to  ('umheilaud  (iaji  and  Kentucky,  had. 
certain  that  ahotit  this  time  I  17;>L'-.">)  the  whites  of  course,  not  yet  come  into  being  for  more  than  a 
and  sa\ages  \\ere  not  at  A\ar  with  each  other,  it  is  small  part  <if  the  distance;  but  no  doubt  the  same 


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Iii(li;m  iind  liiirfiiln  trails,  wliicli  it  iiiniiilv  t'nlli)\\c(l,  hardly  have  Imcii  tJii-cc,  as  l)i-.  I'unif  assciis,  Imt 
had  in-ohahlv  hccii  already  marked  nut  for  eeiilur-  only  two.  One  of  these  was  William  Wallace 
ies.  That  road  ]»assed  throujih  Laneaster,  Peuu-  (mentioned  In  Dr.  I'ooici,  who  had  marriid  llan- 
sylvania,  and  Staunton.  \'iri;inia.  The  distanee  nah  Woods;  and  another,  most  prohaldy,  was  An- 
hy  that  i-oute  from  Lancaster  to  Woods's  (iaj)  was  drew  A^'allace,  hi-ollier  of  William,  who  mari-ied 
aliont  225  miles;  and  in  travorsinu  it  with  a  miscel-  ilar>iaret  \\()ods.  The  oidy  other  daiiuhier  of 
laneons  company  of  wonuMi,  children,  cattle,  and  .Michael  who  was  old  enoiii;h  lo  h.i\c  lieen  marrieil 
the  usual  arra\  of  household  Li'oods  and  supplies,  by  17."^4  was  .Magdalen,  his  eldesi  child,  whose  lirst 
the  time  occui)ied  could  hardly  he  less  than  two  hushaml  was  .lohu  .Mel  >owcll,  and  many  who  have 
weeks,  or  lonticr.  written  about  her  have  posiii\('ly  asserted,  or  as- 
()f  the  persons,  chattels,  etc.,  composinn'  the  lit-  snnied,  that  she  came  to  .\merica  with  her  latliei-, 
tlecara\au  of  .Michael  Woods,  we  know  somethin<i-,  and  married  -lohn  .\i(l>owcll  in  reuusyhania,  and 
but  not  a  lireat  deal.  Still,  the  little  we  do  know  was  livinii'  in  \'ir<iinia  as  early  as  1T3G.  P>nt  each 
furnishes  a  basis  for  some  most  reasonable  con-  and  all  of  these  assumpiious  as  to  .Mai;dalen  are 
jectures  which  it  can  do  ns  no  harm  to  consider  for  jiroved  by  the  court  records  of  ((ran^e  couniy,  \'ir- 
a  moment.  From  Foote  and  others  we  learn  that  giuia,  to  have  been  entirely  mistaken.  She  mar- 
.Micliael  had  with  him  on  this  memorable  journey  ried  John  McDowell  in  Great  P>ritain,  and  did  not 
.several  sons  and  sons-in-law.  Dr.  Foote  does  not  come  to  America  till  1737.  Of  this  we  shall  have 
give  the  names  of  any  of  the  i)arty,  exeept  that  of  more  to  say  when  considering  the  number  of 
.Michael  himself,  and  Willi;im  AVallaee,  one  of  his  Michael's  children,  fuillu'r  on.  Dr.  Foote  had 
sons-in-law.  And  he  does  not  cite  any  authority  probably  adopted  the  current  belief  that  Magdalen 
for  his  assei'tion;  but  it  is  likely  he  knew,  and  had  came  to  .\merica  in  1724  with  her  parents,  and  he 
conversed  with,  some  of  old  Michael's  descendants  may  have  conclnded,  also,  that  she  and  hei-  hus- 
in  Albemarle,  Augusta,  or  Rockbridge,  between  band  accomiianied  her  fathei-  to  A'iruinia  in  1734, 
1S40  and  INoO,  who  preserved  the  traditions  of  the  as  they  were  know  n  to  ha\c  been  in  that  colony 
family.  As  we  know  what  children  .Michael  had,  shortly  afterwards,  in  addition  to  the  three  mar- 
aud lia\c  the  means  of  knowing  about  when  mctst  of  ried  children  in  America,  and  .Magdalen  still  in 
his  children  were  born,  and  know  whom  they  mar-  Ireland,  .Michael  and  .Mary  had  three  sons  and  two 
ried,  and  have  good  reasons  for  believing  that  every  daughters,  ranging  in  agi'  from  about  eighteen 
one  of  his  eleven  children,  except  his  eldest  (Mag-  down  to  ten  years,  all  of  wluuu  wi'  may  safely  as- 
daleni,  migrated  with  him  to  Virginia,  we  can  sume  came  with  their  i)a rents,  nanu-ly:  L'ichard. 
make  a  very  fair  giu'ss  as  to  the  size  and  composi-  ^lartha,  Andre^^",  Archibald  and  Sarah.  Then,  as 
tion  of  the  coiu]>any  which  journeyeil  in  17.">4  froni  in  this  ciuu|»any  there  were  five  young  married 
Lancaster  county,  I'ennsylvania.  to  (ioochland  cou])les,  we  may  further  assuiue  there  wei'e  not  less 
county,  N'irgiuia,  and  canu'  to  a  hall  at  the  foot  of  than  seven  or  eight  little  folks,  most  of  whom  were 
the  Itlue  Kidge  under  the  shadow  of  the  gap  which  le.ss  than  two  yeai-s  old.  Then  th<'i-e  were,  in  all 
came  to  bear  the  name  of  Woods.  First  of  all,  probability,  several  indentured  servants,  belonging 
there  were  .Michael  and  ilary.  his  wife.  Then  the  to  members  of  the  com|>any.  Thus  there  must 
three  sons  (d'  .Michael,  whom  Dr.  Foote  refers  to,  have  been  fi'cuu  t  wcnty-lixc  to  thirty  pei-sons,  \(Miug 
were  probably — almost  certainly — AN'illiam.  who  and  old,  in  this  migration.  Then  these  families, 
had  mari-ied  Susannah  Wallace;  Michael,  dr.,  besides  a  great  variety  of  sujiplies  and  hiuisehold 
whose  wife  was  Anne;  and  -Tohii,  who  mari-ied  goods,  must  have  brought  along  a  nund)er  of  cat- 
Susannah  Anderson.  The  nundier  (d'  sons-in-law  tie,  pigs,  sln-ep  and  domestic  fowls,  not  to  mention 
who  accompanied  Michael  in  this  migration  could  the  inevitable  assenddage  of  dogs,  which  could  not 


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be  left  licliind.  \\iv  llic  \\unicii  and  cliildi'eu  and  < 'liarlottcsN  illc.  It  having  htn/n  dccnuMl  jn'udt'iit 
niiscclhiucnns  cliallcls  ol'  sci  considcralilc  a  com-  liy  llic  Americans  tn  rcninvc  the  Hritish  prisuncrs 
|iany  as  tiial  a  liood  many  horses  furnished  witli  (iver  iiiln  the  ^'allc'y  and  up  to  \\in(hester,  this 
l)aclv-saddles  would  he  i'e(iuired — not  less  tbau  fif-  Major  Anhury,  \\ho  was  evid<'ntly  a  geutlemau  of 
teen  or  twenty — the  grand  aggregate  constituting  cullure,  wrote  to  his  friends  in  lOngland  an  account 
a  soniewliat  pretentions  caravan.  The  able-bodieil  of  the  trip  from  Charlottesville,  through  Woods's 
men  and  older  lioys  would  wallc.  and  eacli  had,  we  <ia]i  to  Wincliesier.  In  this  letter,  dated  at  Win- 
can  be  sure,  his  llinl-lock  rille,  lomahawk.  and  hunt-  eheslei-  Nov.  L'(»,  17S(»,  he  says:  "^^'e  crossed  the 
ing  knife.  The  distance,  as  i-emarked  above,  from  J'ignut  JJidge,  or  more  properly  Ihe  lUue  Alouut- 
Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  lo  \\dods's  (ia]i  was  225  ains,  at  ^^'oods"s  (iap,  and  though  considerably 
miles,  and,  as  such  a  body  could  not  average  more  loftier  llian  llios<'  we  ci'ossetl  in  ('onn<'cticnt,  we  did 
than  fifteen  miles  a  day,  the  Joui-ney  probably  con-  not  meet  witli  so  many  ditticulties;  in  short,  you 
sumed  about  two  weeks  or  longer.  From  Lau-  scarcely  iierceive,  till  yon  are  up(Ui  the  summit, 
caster  down  to  the  I'olomac — fully  one  half  of  the  that  yoti  are  gaining  an  eminence,  much  less  one 
distance — \\c  would  e.\]iecl  a  jiretty  fair  road  for  that  is  of  such  prodigious  height,  owing  to  the  ju- 
Iku'scs.  When  the  coni|iany  had  once  gotten  into  diciotis  manner  that  the  iidialdtants  ha\'e  made  the 
the  (Ireat  \'alley,  the  oul|iosts  of  ci\ilization  were  road,  which  by  its  windings  renders  the  ascent  ex- 
reached,  and  from  thence  on  to  their  destination  a  treimdy  easy.  After  traveling  near  a  mile  through 
sharj)  look(Uit  for  Indians  was  needful  to  be  nmin-  a  thick  woikI  before  you  gain  the  summit  of  these 
tained.  I'.efore  reaching  the  western  base  of  the  mountains,  when  you  reach  the  loj),  you  are  sud- 
Illue  IJidge,  o]i]>osite  the  ga](,  soon  to  become  deuly  surprised  with  an  unbounded  pros]iect  that 
known  as  ^^'oods's,  the  decided  depression  in  the  strikes  yon  with  amazement.  .Vt  the  foot  of  the 
mountain  just  in  front  be<-anie  \isible.  At  a  dis-  mountain  runs  a  beautiful  river;  lieyond  it  is  a 
tance  of  threi'  to  five  miles  to  the  «est,  and  \cry  exteiisixc  plain,  interspersed  \\itli  a  \ariety  of 
north-west,  one  easily  recognizes  the  ga]j  to-day.  objects  to  render  the  scene  still  more  delightful; 
The  gap-crest  is  2,4(10  feet  aliove  sea-level,  whilst  and  about  tifty  miles  distant  are  the  lofty  Alleghany 
the  ridge-crest  is,  on  the  one  side,  .">,  1(1(1  feet,  and  on  .Mountains,  whose  tops  are  buried  in  the  skies." 
the  other,  3,000.  The  ascent  fnua  tlu-  South  I'ork  These,  lei  it  lie  noted,  are  the  impressions  of  a 
of  the  Shenandoah  at  l>oonrs  Station  covers  only  ca|iti\e  Itritish  s(ddier  in  the  fall  of  17S0 — forty- 
about  three  miles,  but  the  rise  is  1,200  feet  to  the  six  years  after  the  >\dodses  and  ^\■allaces  reached 
crest  of  the  ga^)  \\  here  the  road  ])asses  througli.  the  place — he  being  on  his  way  to  AViuchester,  some 
I^p  this  ascent  the  caravan  slow  ly  crept,  following  eighty  miles  to  the  north.  Of  conrse  this  gentle- 
tlie  old  Indian  war-i)ath,  and  when  the  top  was  man  was  not  describing  tln^  view  towards  whi<h 
reached  the  scene  to  the  south  and  south-east  which  Michael  \\dods  was  now  advancing,  Iml  the  scenery 
met  their  gaze  must  ha\e  been  enchanting,  if  these  is  very  charming  in  both  directions, 
practical  people  were  blessed  at  all  with  the  It  is  no  wonder  ^Michael  AA'oods  \v-as  pleased 
esthetic  sense.  A  lovelier,  more  impressive  view  with  the  <-harming  country  which  lay  spread  out 
it  would  be  difficult  to  lind  anywhere  in  the  world.  bef(U-e  him  w  hen  he  stood  in  t!ie  ga])  and  looked 
Dr.  Edgar  Woods,  of  Charlottesville,  Virginia,  in  toward  the  south  and  sonth-east.  It  is,  of  course, 
his  valuable  History  of  Albemarle  County,  has  lovelier  to-day  than  it  was  in  1734,  as  the  whole 
given  s(tme  interesting  letters  written  by  a  .Majin-  region  is  under  cidtivation,  and  farm  lumses  and 
Aidiury,  a  Britisli  officer  who  was  captured  at  Bur-  villages  dot  the  plains,  and  the  marks  of  modern 
goyne's  surrender  in  the  fall  of  1777,  and  who  was  civilization  greet  the  eye  in  every  direction.  Just 
confined  for  a  cou]de  of  years  in  a  jtrison  camp  at  here  :Michael  Woods  spent  the  remaining  twenty- 


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eight  years  of  Iiis  life,  ;nnl  licrc,  in  liis  own  private  the  exjiosed  regions  near,  and  west  of,  the  Blue 
hnrialgrouud,  liis  diisl  lias  i^eposed  since  t7<)-,  he-  Ridge  was  such  as  we  can  scarccdv  nnderstand  in 
side  that  of  Iiis  wile  and  some  of  liis  cjiildren  and  tliese  days  of  peace.  .Many  selllers  left  their 
childreu's  chihlren.  lionn-s  and  Ih-d,  some  e\en  going  down  into  NoT'tli 
The  extremely  exposed  position  occujiied  ])y  (he  Carolina.  The  reason  was  that  everyhody  fnlly 
Woodses  and  Wallaces  at  the  base  of  tlie  Bine  expected  tJiat  the  Indians,  endioldened  hy  their 
Ridge  from  the  lime  of  (lieir  setllemeni  lliere  in  nolahle  \ictory,  wonld  in  a  few  days,  or  weeks,  at 
1734,  nnlil  llie  (lose  of  tlie  Frencli  and  Indian  mnsi,  overrun  the  more  exposed  seKlemeuts,  and 
Wars  in  ITtii! — a  period  of  neai'ly  thirty  years —  murder  the  inhabitants  and  destroy  everything 
must  be  borne  in  mind  in  order  to  understand  they  might  be  unable  to  carry  away.  Now,  Michael 
arighl  I  lie  conditions  in  the  midst  of  which  they  Woods  and  his  children  were  at  this  critical  mo- 
lived.  Ill  all  those  years  they  were  in  a  frontier  ment  living  in  one  of  the  most  insecure  localities  in 
region,  and  constantly  in  dangei-  of  Indian  out-  the  colony,  immediately  on  that  very  war-path  from 
rages.  Whilst,  as  was  stated  above,  tlie  Indians  the  north-west,  ^\hich  the  savages  would  be  ex- 
were  not  formally  and  avowedly  at  war  with  the  pected  to  travel  on  tlieii-  mission  of  blood  and  de 
whites  for  most  of  this  i)eriod.  but  only  with  each  struction.  AVhat  sorrow,  ccmsternatiou  and  dread 
other,  yet  they  were  constantly  passing  to  and  fro  tilled  the  hearts  of  the  men  and  women  of  whom  we 
through  the  country,  and  now  and  then  committed  now  write,  we  can  only  imagine,  for  they  have  left 
the  most  terrible  deeds  of  blood.  For  instance,  in  us  only  the  briefest  records  to  inform  us  of  their 
December,  1741',  only  about  eight  years  after  fearful  experiences;  but  we  know  that  the  Woodses, 
.Michael  Woods  settled  at  \\()ods"s  Ga]),  a  baud  of  Wallaces,  McDowells,  Lai)sle3's,  etc.,  were  there 
Shawiiees  from  north  of  the  Ohio  invaded  the  Val-  with  their  wives,  their  helpless  little  children  and 
ley,  and  -lohii  .Mel  >owcll,  the  son-in-law  of  Michael  all  their  worldly  possessions,  and  were  in  sore  i)eril 
^\■oods,  with  eight  of  his  companions,  was  killed  by  and  distress,  such  as  but  few  of  their  descendants 
them  on  Janu's  river,  near  Balcony  Falls,  in  what  have  ever  known.  Michael  Woods,  therefore,  spent 
is  now  Kockbridge  county,  where  N(U'th  river  enters  the  whole  of  the  twenty-eight  years  which  he  lived 
the  .Tames.-'  In  17.").-) — Sunday,  July  S — the  very  in  Virginia  in  the  midst  of  the  hardships  and  stren- 
day  before  Uraddock's  defeat  in  I'ennsylvania,  oc-  nous  conditions  of  a  frontier  life,  and  in  all  our 
curred  the  noted  massacre  at  Drapers  Meadows,  on  estimates  of  them  ^\•e  must  keep  these  facts  in  mind 
New  river,  in  w  hat  is  now  .Montgomery  cimnty,  Vir-  if  we  would  understand  what  manner  of  folk  our 
ginia.     The  next  day — July  i),  17r)."i — the  defeat  of  ancestors  were. 

the  British  and  N'irginians  by  the  hrench  and  Indi-  Whether  Micliael  >\'oods  purchased  any  laud  in 

aiis  at    fori    iMupiesne,  and   the  death  of  (ieneral  Virginia  at  the  time  he  migrated  thither,  we  now 

Itraddock,  their  commander,  soon  seiil   a  Ihi-ill  of  have   no    nieaiis  of    determining;  but    Dr.   Edgar 

horror  all  Ihrough  N'irgiuia.  and  especially  through  Woods,  who  lias  given  this  question  much  careful 

the  sparsely  settled  region  in  which  the  Woodso'S  study,  seems  to  have  concluded  that  Michael's  first 

and  Wallaces  then  lived.     Thackeray,  in  "The  Vir-  investment  in  Goochland  county  (now  Albemarle) 

ginians,"  quoted    by    AVaddell,""  gives    a    graphic  was  made  in  1737,  three  years  after  he  settled  in 

description  of  the  s])eed  with  whi(  h  the  news  of  this  that  region. '^    Certain  it  is,  as  ofticial  recoi'ds  show, 

fearful  disaster  reached  all  itai'ts  of  the  colonv,  ami  .Michael  i-ecei\-ed  three  Crown  Gi-auts  aggrecating 

of   the   teri'or    which    seemed    then    to   seize  every  1337  acres  that   year  from   King  George  II.     The 

heart.    Of  the  300  \irginia  militia  in  the  battle  90  original  patent  for  one  of  them,  which  is  dated  June 

percent,    were    killed,    (uily  I  hirty  escaping  alive.  4,    1737 — fourth    year   of   George    II — and    signed 

The  consternation  of  the  inhabitants  throughout  by    Sir    William    Gooch,    the    then     Lieutenant- 


20  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    .MEMUllIAL. 

Governor  of  tlic  "rdloiiy  iuid  Doiniiiioii  of  In  llic  ciist  of  tlic  ](l;icc  on  wliicli  ^ricliacl  resided. 
Virf>'iiii;i,"  is  now  in  ilie  possession  of  Hon.  Ii  sci'nis  neuriy  certiiin  ilinl  lie  liad  conxcycMJ  Ins 
^liciijiili  W'odds,  of  ( 'ii;irlottes\ille,  \'ir,L;inia,  lionic  |ilacc.  nr  at  Icasi  liiat  jnntion  of  it  on  wliieli 
and  a  cojiy  of  tlie  same  is  in  tlic  hands  of  the  stood  his  dwcllinn  honsc,  to  his  son  William,  years 
■writer.'"  This  llHI-a<i-i'  trad  lay  on  Lickiniihole  liefcn'e  lie  (lii  d.  .MIiIukI  was  scventy-eiiiht  years  old 
crei'k  and  .Mechnnis  river.  That  same  year  he  at  tlic  time  (d' his  deal  li.  and  he  hail  ](nilialily  been 
boniihl  a  tract  of  L',(»0(l  acres  on  Ivy  creek,  not  far  a,  widower  for  at  least  nineteen  years;  for  in  nniiier- 
away,  ri-um  one  Charles  llndson.  which  said  iind-  oiis  conv(-yanees  he  executed  in  174;>,  his  wilVs 
son  lia<l  |ialt'nted  in  IT:!.").  .Midiacrs  son  Arehi-  name  does  not  apiiear.  l!nt  we  know  tliat  William 
hald  and  his  son-indaw,  William  Wallace,  pro-  Woods  sold  part  of  the  old  place  to  one  Thomas 
cured  ].ateiits  for  Crown  (ir;ints  the  sauu'  year  that  Adams  about  ITTo;  and  that  Adams,  in  making  his 
^lichael  did.  for  about  iln  same  number  of  acres,  will  in  17SS,  left  it  to  a  -Iiulfie  Blair,  and  spoke  of 
each,  and  in  the  same  neighborhood.  Archibald  it  as  '-.Mouidain  Tlains."  Tliat  was  evidently  the 
had  probably  just  reached  his  majority,  having  name  the  plantation  had  long  been  known  liy.  After 
been  boi-n,  as  is  supposed,  in  17l(>.  It  is  also  as-  Judge  lUair  came  into  jiossession  (d"  it,  however,  it 
sorted — uixHi  w  hat  authority  we  know  not — that,  came  to  be  called  "Itlair  Tark,"  a  name  it  holds  to 
on  that  day.  dune  4,  17;'>7,  .Michael  received  other  tins  day.  And  because  there  were  so  many 
grants  of  land  aggregating  (i,ti74  acres,  and  that  Woodses  named  .Michael,  in  honor  of  the  head  of 
three  of  his  sons  received  grants  for  about  5,400  the  family,  one  of  whom  was  his  own  son,  in  order 
acres.  Land  was  i-idiculonsly  chea]i  in  that  part  to  distinguish  the  old  ]>alriarcli  from  all  the  other 
of  the  coniilry  at  that  early  ]noneer  period,  the  Michaels  he  came  to  be  known  by  all  as  "Michael 
colonial  authorities  being  only  loo  glad  to  have  Woods  of  lUair  I'ark."  The  comparatively  level 
sturdy  settlers  occupy  the  fi'ontier  and  bear  the  stretch  of  country  included  within  his  plantation, 
brunt  of  developing  the  country  in  the  face  of  the  ami  lying  just  at  the  foot  of  the  lilue  Eidge,  and  in 
treniemlons  difli<iilties  necessar.x' to  be  encountered,  close  pi-o.\imity  to  several  i-onsiderable  outlying 
Brawn,  brain  and  nerve  counted  for  more  than  cash  jieaks,  made  the  name  of  .Mountain  I'lains  very  ap- 
atthat  particular  time,  and  in  that  jiarl  icular  part  jodpriate,  and  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  this  historic 
of  the  colony;  and  it  is  very  probable  that  tmr  and  suggestive  appellation  was  ever  dropped, 
ancestors  of  that  period  had  more  of  the  former  The  first  church  of  any  faith,  except  that  of  the 
than  of  the  last-mimed  commodity.  On  no  other  English  Established  Church,  in  ( ioochland  count}', 
theory  can  we  explain  their  willingness  to  settle  belonged  to  Presbyterians,  and  was  erected  on  or 
and  live  in  that  part  of  the  world.  By  frugality  close  to  .Michael  Woods's  place,  and  owed  its  exist- 
and  induslry,  however,  they  bettered  their  condi-  ence  mainly  to  the  Woodses  and  Wallaces.  Tliis 
tion,  and  some  of  the  children  of  .Michaid  seem  to  church  was  called  the  .Mountain  Plains  Church,  in 
have  accumulated  a  considerable  amount  of  prop-  honor  of  Michael  Woods;  and  though  the  Presby- 
ertv  before  passing  a«ay.  terians  tinallv  became  so  scarce  in  that  vicinity  in 
We  do  not  know  whether  or  not  .Michael  ^Voods  after  years  as  to  induce  them  to  sell  their  house  of 
ever  ga\"e  his  main  farm  or  idaiitation  any  distinct-  worship  to  a  sister  dennmiiial  ion  of  Christians  ( the 
ive  name,  but  it  has  had  at  least  two  names  since  Baptists),  the  name  of  .Mountain  Plains  still  ad- 
liis  death.  In  his  will,  daded  in  17bl,  he  makes  no  heres  to  it,  thereby  affording  another  reason  why 
reference  to  his  old  home  place  whatever.  The  .Micluud's  old  home  place  should  never  have  been 
only  land  rid'ei-red  to  in  that  document  was  a  cer-  called  by  any  other  name  than  that  which  con- 
tain tract  of  (iSO  acres,  lying  on  Ivy  creek,  which  nected  it  so  appropriately  with  the  first  man  that 
stream  A\as,  at  its  nearest  point,  six  or  seven  miles  e^er  came  into  that  neighborhood  to  make  a  home. 


MICHAEL    W00T1R    OF    BLAIR    PARK. 


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Anotlicr  cliangc  of  iiaiiics.  fully  as  regrettable  as 
tliis,  is  here  suggested  lo  the  writer's  mind,  and 
that  is,  the  one  which  was  made  in  the  name  of  the 
gaj)  in  the  Rlne  Kidge  wliicli  looks  down  njton  the 
spot  where  Miehael  AVoods  lived,  and  which  was 
foi'  so  many  years  known  as  Woods's  Gap.  In  all 
tlie  earlici'  ]>nlilishcd  \(ilnnics  this  was  the  recog- 
nized name  f(ir  that  mountain  ]tass.  In  IT.")"  the 
^'irginia  ('idonial  .\ssenddy  designated  it  in  tliat 
way.''  If  ever  there  Avas  a  spot  whicli  liad  an  aj)- 
])r(i])riate  name  it  was  that  ga]).  when  called  for 
.Micliaei  A\'(I(k1s.  lie  was  not  only  tlie  lirst  white 
man  that  settled  anywlu-re  within  twenty  miles  of 
if.  but  he  made  his  Iiome  right  by  it  for  twenty- 
eiglit  years:  and,  aboAc  all.  he  was  as  worthy  a 
citizen  as  ever  resided  in  that  part  of  the  land,  and 
reared  tliere  one  of  the  most  re])utable  families  the 
county  has  ever  produced.  J'.ut  tliis  small  honor 
the  State  of  Virginia  has  allowed  him  to  lie  de- 
prived of.  .Vbout  eighty  or  ninety  years  ago,  om' 
Thomas  Jarman  ])urchased  land  (ui  the  crest  of  the 
ISiue  Ridge  at  that  ])ass,  and  from  that  time  on  the 
name  of  AA'oods  has  been  displac<'d  by  that  of  lar- 
man,  and  now  all  the  maps  ha\e  it  "Jarman's  (rap." 
To  be  sure,  it  is  not  a  vital  matter,  or  worth  any 
co7iteutiou;  and  yet  it  does  seem  hardly  the  hand- 
some thing  for  A'irginia  to  lend  her  countenance  to 
a  thange  so  needless,  anil  one  which  takes  from  om' 
of  her  worthiest  pioneers  the  only  jiublic  recog- 
nition he  ever  had  in  the  records  o\'  a  col- 
ony and  State  to  which  he  gave  so  many  gallant 
defenders  during  the  I'rench  and  Indians  A\'ars, 
and  the  Kevoint  ion.  It  is  modestly  suggeste(l  that 
it  wduld  not  be  amiss  in  the  Virginia  Legislature, 
at  some  time  in  the  not  distant  future,  to  indulge 
in  a  little  "poetic  justice"  by  ordaining  that  sai<l 
pass  be  hereafter  recognized,  in  all  the  official  acts 
of  the  State  thereto  relating,  by  its  ancient  and 
]iroper  designation — "Woods's  (ia])."  The  worthy 
gentleman  whose  name  liecanie  attached  to  this 
beautiful  nio\intain  ]>ass — All-.  .Tarnian — could 
hardly  o|ipose  the  change  to  the  original  designa- 
tion,  I'oi'    his  own   lielo\'e(l    daughter,   Aliss  Alarv. 


siiowed  a  s]iecial   liking  for  the  name  of  A\'oods  by 
luari-ying  one  of  old  .Michael's  grandsons. 

The  religious  beliefs  and  denominational  pref- 
erences of  the  A\'oodses  were,  as  we  ha\c  good 
reasons  for  belie\ing,  l'r(  sbyt(  i-ian,  in  the  main. 
That  Alichael  Woods  and  his  w  ife,  Mary  Camjiliell, 
and  the  \\'allaces,  ami  the  .Mi  1  )ow ells,  and  the 
Lapslevs  wei'e  Scotch  I'lcsbylerians  there  seems  to 
lie  no  cause  to  doubt.  Some  members  of  the  next 
generation,  howexer,  became  ardent  I'aptists.  As 
the  generations  have  come  and  gone  since  IToO.  and 
intermari'iages  with  niembei's  of  various  other 
faiths  have  occurred,  the  solidity  <if  the  ri'esby- 
terian  "line"  has  been  very  considerably  broken, 
and  yet  it  is  probalily  ti-ue  that  more  of  the  descend- 
ants of  the  families  named  above  can  still  be  found 
in  the  Presbyterian  told  than  in  any  other  one 
denomination  of  Christians. 

The  religious  i)rivileges  of  the  settlers  at 
Woods's  (ia]i  were  pi'obably  nevei-  very  abundant 
at  any  perio<l  in  the  iMghleenlh  centui-y;  they  were 
painfully  meagre  for  the  tirst  ten  or  fifteen  years 
of  the  Alountain  Plains  settlement.  It  is  not  likely 
there  was  anywhere  within  a  reasonalile  distance 
of  "Woods's  Cap  a  regular  church  of  any  kind  prior 
to  the  year  1740.  It  was  about  that  year,  or  a  lit- 
tle later,  that  I'resbyterian  churches  began  to  be 
organized  throngliont  the  N'alley,  and  in  the  year 
1745  the  tirst  ste]is  were  taken  by  the  iuhabitauts 
at  Woods's  Gap  to  secure  the  regular  ministrations 
of  (xospel  prcaclnrs.  A  travelling  evang(dist  had 
occasionally  jiassed  that  way,  but  no  church  had 
been  organized,  and  no  stateil  |iublic  religious  meet- 
ings had  been  held.  Those  good  people  had,  indeed, 
brought  with  them  their  Pibles,  and  Psalm  books, 
and  caleihisms,  and  a  few  devotional  vohnnes,  and 
family  religion  was  regularly  maintained,  we  may 
feel  sure;  but  there  was,  for  nmny  of  these  years  in 
the  wilderness,  a  sad  dearth  of  the  iiublic  ordi- 
nances of  religion.  Tt  was  truly  a  life  of  ]iri\'ation 
tlKise  "backwdods  inhabitants"  were  obliged  to 
live;  and  the  struggle  thi-y  had  to  maintain  with 
the  fiu-ces  of  nature  in  the  as  yet  unsubdued  wild- 
erness, coupled  with  constant  exposure  to  Indian 


22  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    ME:M0RIAL. 

depredations,  of  ncccssily  dulled  very  greatly  their  thai  ilic  lime  was  near  wlicii  lie  slionld  Ix'  gathered 
sense  of  spiritual  tliiugs,  aud  tended  to  make  them  Id  liis  fathers,  proceeded  to  make  his  last  will. 
oar(dess  about  jMirely  religious  coiu'erns.  But  IJoin  one  year  liefore  the  riose  of  the  reign  of 
their  previous  training  in  godly  honu^s  in  Ireland  ('buries  II  i  KiNti,  he  lived  through  the  brief  reign 
and  Seotland  could  not  be  wholly  obliterated,  and  of  .lanies  II,  through  the  stcuiny  days  of  AVilliam 
those  Imrd  conditions  wilh  wliicli  lliey  had  to  deal  and  .Mai-y,  and  was  just  thirty  wlien  the  tirst  of  the 
must  have  often  ma<le  iheni  feel  tlieii-  neeil  of  hel])  <!eorges  ascended  llu'  ihrone  in  1714.  lie  outlived 
other  tlian  human,  so  I iiat  the  tires  on  their  family  <ie(U'ge  1  and  ( leorge  II,  and  saw  the  first  two 
altars,  and  in  their  hearts,  never  (|uile  died  (»nt.  So  years  of  (ieovge  ill.  Coming  to  Virginia  in  1734, 
we  find  that,  in  174.",  .Tohn  Woods,  one  of  old  Ihcn  a  man  of  tifly,  when  (leorge  A\'asiiington  was 
Michael's  favorite  sons,  \\as  seid  to  Donegal  I'res-  bnl  an  inl'anl  of  two  years,  he  found  Rir  William 
bytery,  aA\a\'  uj)  in  Pennsylvania,  to  prosecute  a  (looclial  lliehelni  in  the  colony.  Outliving  ( iooch, 
call  for  the  niinislerial  ser\ices  of  a  IJev.  John  he  saw -Tohn  Kobinson,  Lord  .\lbemarle,  Louis  liiir- 
lliudman  in  iM-half  of  (he  churches  of  .Mountain  well,  Kolieil  I  »inw  iddie,  and  .Tohn  I'lair  come  and 
Plains  and  IJocktish.  This  eflorl  was  not  sue-  go,  each  in  liis  turn,  as  cojiuiial  goxcruor.  and  wit- 
eessful,  howev<'r,  but  il  was  renewed  two  years  nessed  also  the  tii-st  four  years  of  the  administra- 
later.  In  1747  a  call,  signed  by  tifty-seven  persons,  tion  of  (!ov.  i'aiu|uier,  and  (  losed  his  life  just  as 
was  sent  on  to  a  Kev.  Samuel  I'lack  to  become  the  the  I'^reucli  and  Indian  War  was  about  at  an  end. 
pastor  of  the  scattered  siieep  of  Christ's  fold  at  lie  seems  to  liaxc  been  a  farmer  all  his  life,  and,  so 
^Mountain  Plains  au<l  I  \y  ( 'reek.  '"*  This  gentleman  fai'  as  I  lie  w  riler  is  informed,  he  does  not  seem  ever 
accejited  the  call,  and  was  llie  tirst  Presbyterian  lo  lia\e  held  any  very  inLpoi'taul  otUcial  ])osition, 
minister  that  e\-ei' residecl  in  .\lbeniarle  county.  He  or  lo  lia\c  seen  service  as  a  soldier.  The  records 
A\-as  there  by  1  7.M  .  and  remained  about  twenty  of  A  Ibemarle  show  that  at  one  t  inie  and  another  he 
years,  though  he  piobably  did  not  ser\e  the  peo])le  ac(piired  a  good  deal  of  lauded  pro]ierty;  liut  so  far 
at  Woods's  Ga]»  ver_\  long,  as  the  records  of  Han-  as  can  be  discoxcred  from  his  last  w  ill,  it  woidd  be 
over  Presbytery  for  17.".")  show  thai  a  ]ietition  was  inferred  by  many  lliat  he  had  disjiosed  of  all  but  a 
then  before  it  from  the  |ieo|iic  of  ihat  seciiou  ask-  single  trad  bef(U'e  writing  that  inslrunient.  He 
ing  for  a  jjreacher.  lu  .\iarch,  17.'">(>,  in  response  to  makes  reference  to  lint  a  snmll  amount  of  personal 
tliat  reiinest,  the  famous  Samuel  I  >a\ies  sjK-ut  a  few  property  in  his  will,  and  yet  this  fact  (hies  not 
days  preaching  for  them.  He  had  a  regular  chai'ge  necessarily  inijily  that  he  did  not  jiossess  a  great 
in  Hanover  county,  and  could  oidy  pay  them  a  brief  deal  besides,  which  he  meant  should  descend  ac- 
visit.  Put  as  the  years  passed  the  oi>]uu'tunities  cording  to  the  common  law  to  his  heirs.  Even  the 
for  the  stated  sei-\'ices  of  I'egnlar  ministers  in-  names  of  the  heirs,  to  whom  he  desired  such  nunien- 
ci-eased.  During  I  be  last  Ihinl  of  I  he  eighteenth  tioned  |)i-operty  to  go,  were  not  obliged  to  be  re- 
century  the  Presbytery  of  Hanover  met  in  that  feri-ed  to.  He  did  not  need,  in  fact,  to  nudce  any 
regicm  of  Albenuirle  at  least  a  dozen  times,  and  by  will  at  all,  except  as  he  wished  to  uuike  betpiests  to 
the  year  18(10  the  rni-al  districts  of  that  part  of  certain  individuals  in  a  manner  different  from 
Virginia  were  fairly  well  supplied  with  (Jospel  that  indicated  liy  the  law.  The  probability  is,  how- 
privileges.      Put    the    first    (piarter  of    a   century  ever,  that  he  had  long  since  distributed  most  of  his 

which    the   \\' Ises   an<l    \\'allaces   s](eid    in    ^'ir-  ]u'o|)erty.  and  was  living  with  his  son  William  at 

ginia  were  years  of  s](i ritual  destitution,  as  well  as  the  old  home  place.     His  will,  on  record  at   Char- 
physical  hardship.  lottesville,  reads  as  follows: 

In  the  fall  of  17(n   Michael  Woods,  being  then  "In    the  name  of    (bxl.   amen  1     This    twenty- 
seventy-seven  years  old,  and  very  ill,  and  realizing  fourth  day  of  November,  one  thousand  seven  him- 


MICHAEL    WOODS    OF    P.LAIR    TARK. 


23 


dred  and  sixty-one,  I,  Michael  Woods,  of  tlie  Colony 
of  Virginia,  and  comity  of  All)eniai'l(',  being  very 
sick  and  weak  in  hoily,  hut  of  perfect  mind  and 
memory,  thanks  to  God,  therefore,  calling  to  mind 
the  mortality  of  my  hody  and  knowing  that  it  is 
ap])()inte(l  t(ir  all  men  once  to  die,  du  make  and 
ordain  this  my  last  will  and  testament,  that  is  to 


''Signed,  scaird,  |Mil.lislird  mid  iii-oiKMiiucd  aiid 
declared  |,y  llicsaid  .Michael  Woods  as  his  hisl  will 
and  tcsiaiiiciil.       hi  pi-csciicc  of  the  sul.scrihcrs, 
'•.Mi(ii.\i:i,   Woous.  .Minor, 
".MiciiAKi.  Walnace. 


"I  do  hy  these  ])resents  co7is)itnte  and 


:i  |ipoMit 

say,  princi])ally  and  tirst  of  all  I  give  and  recom-      ^*'"  Archibald   '\\'oods,  John   A\'oods  and    Williiini 
mend  my  soul  into  the  hands  of  Almighty  God  that      ^^ '""•"'■  *">  '"'  my  sole  cxcculors.  as   wilncss   my 
gave  it,  and  my  body  I  recommend  to  the  earth  to      '''""'  ""'  ■^''"''  '""^  ''"■^'  'i''<>^'*'  written, 
be  bui'ied  in  decent  Christian  burial,  and  as  touch- 
ing such  worldly  estate  wherewitli  it  bath  ])leased 
God  to  jiless  me  in  this  life,  I  give,  devise  and  dis- 
])ose  of  in  the  following  manner  and  form    (and 
tirst)   let  all  my  debts  be  paid,   (secondly)   I  give 
and  lieqneath  to  son  Archibald  A^'oods  ten  pounds. 
(Thirdly)  1  give  and  bequeath  to  son  John  AVoods 
ten   pounds.      I^nirthly,   I    give  and    bequeath  to 
daughtei'  Sarah  ten  ])ounds.   Fifthly,  I  give  and  be- 
(|ueath  to  daughter  Hannah  ten  ])ounds.   Sixthly,  T 
give  and  be(]ueath  my  deceased  daughter  ^Margar- 
et's  children  ten  pounds.     Seventhly,  I  give  and  be- 
queath to  son  Archil)ald  and  son  John  my  680  acres 
of  land  lying  on  Ivy  Creek,  and  that  the  said  land 
shall   be  sold  and  the  nnuiey  divided  among  son 
Archibald,  John,  and  AA'illiam  Wallace's  families, 
and  that  each  grandchild  now  in  being  shall  have 
an  e(]ual  share.     Eighthly,  I  give  and  be(|ueath  to 
son  AVilliam  AA'oods  twenty  shillings,  which  shall 
be  paid  out  of  said  land.     Ninthly,  I  give  to  AA'il- 
liam's  son  Michael  twenty  shillings,  which  shall  be 
paid    out  of   said    land.     Tenthly,  I    give   and    be- 
queath to  daughter  Sarah  one  jiistole  Avhich  shall 
be  of  the  ready  money  now  by  me.     Eleventhly,  I 
give  and  bequeath  to  sou  Archibald's  son  Michael 
my  great  coat.     And  I  do  hereby  utterly  revoke  and 
disallow   all    and    every   other   former  testanu-nts, 
wills,  legacies,  be(|ueatlis  and  executions  by  me  in 
any  ways  before  named,  willed  and  lie(|ueatlied, rati- 
fying and  confirming  this  and   no  other  to  be  mv 


"MrcHAKL  „,.    \\-UODS,   (L.  S.) 
'"Michael  ^^^)(n^s.  .Alinor, 
"MiciiAEi.  Wallace." 

The  lolh.wiiij.  cei-tilicate  from  the  clerk  of  the 
County  Court  of  All)emarle  is  appended  to  the  will, 
as  follows : 

"At  a  cou7-t  held  lor  Albemarle  county  the  11th 
day  of  Jun<',  ITdl',  this  last   will  and  testament  of 
^licbael    Woods,  deceased,  was  produc<'d   in  court, 
^lichael  Woods,  minor,  and  .Michael  A\'allace,  two 
of  the  devisees  and    legatees   in    the  said    will,   re- 
lin(|uisli   all    lieiieHt   they  might  claim   by  the  said 
will,  whereujion  the  same  was  jo-oved  by  the  oaths 
of  the  said    .Michael    \^■(^ods,   niinoi-,   and    .Michael 
AVallace,   the  witnesses  thereto  and  ordered    to  be 
reccu'ded.     .Vnd  on  the  motion  of  John  Woods  and 
AVilliam   ^Vallace,   two    of    the  executors    therein 
named,  made  oath  according  lo  law,  certificate  is 
granted  I  hem  for  obtaining  a  ]ii-obate  in  due  form 
giving  security,  whereupon  iliey,  with  .\rlhiir  Hop- 
kins   and   William  Cabell    Gent,  their    securities, 
entered  info  and  acknowledged  iheii'  bond  accord- 
ingly. 

"Test.  Joii.x  Nh'ii()L.\s,  Clk." 

( )f  the  funeral  exei'cises  held  over  the  remains  of 

Michael  AA'oods  we  have  no  i-ecord.     A\'e  onlv  know 

that    his   family   burial-ground    was  situated   about 

three  to  five  hundi-ed  yai'ds  soufli  of  his  dwelling, 

and   Ihei-e  he  w:is  laid   to  rest.      His  beloved   wife, 

last  will  and  testament.    In  w  itness  whereof  1  have      Mary    Campbell,  had    probably    been    dead    .iboiit 

hereunto  set   my  hand  and  seal  the  day  and  year      twenty  years,  as    her    name    does  not    ap])ear    in 

above  written.  deeds  he  execuled  in  174;J.     In  conveying  to  his  S(m 

"Michael  „j    ^V(MH.s,  (L.  S.)  AVilliam  a  trad  of  i'!)4  acres  manv  vears  before  his 


24  THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMUKIAL. 

death,  which  included  the  ohl  liomestead  aud  the  satisfactory  account  of  tlie  luimeroiis  hranches  of 
family  Imrial-iiTc mild,  ^Micluu'l  expressly  I'eserved  to  Woodses  claimiuii  kinship  with  ilichael,  of  Blair 
himself  and  heirs  forever  the  riiiht  to  enter  and  care  Park.  After  making  a  pretty  thorongh  investiga- 
tor said  hnrial-gronnd,  and  jirohihited  any  and  all  (ion  of  (he  suhject,  and  consulting  every  available 
persons  from  cult  i\ating  oi- disinriiiiig  tlie  sanu^.  In  source  of  iiifonnal  ion,  he  lias  readied  ilie  ])(isiti\(' 
1895,  the  date  at  whicli  llie  pliolo  was  taken  of  this  conrlnsion  dial  ^licliael  of  Blair  I'aik  liad  a  iiinii- 
little  "God's  Acre,"  wliicli  was  used  in  producing  Iter  of  children  in  addition  to  the  six  mentioned  in 
the  engraving  herewith  given,  there  was  a  rail  fence  the  will.  That  he  had  at  least  eleven  children, 
around  the  spot,  and  the  entire  enclosure  was  wliicli  is  tive  more  than  are  named  in  liis  will,  it 
thickly  set  in  cherry  ti-ees.      .Michaid's  grave  is  still  sliall  now  lie  ours  lo  ]iro\e. 

visible,  and  is  located  in  the  extreme  north-western  Tn   Ihe  lirst  jilace,  a  family  of  ten  or  a   dozen 

corner  of  the  itlot,  hut  tlie    rude    head    and    foot  children    in   (hose  brave  old  days  was  not  c(uisid- 

stones  which  were  originally  set  there  have  fallen  ei'ed   a   specially  large  one.     It  is  not  unheard   of 

down,  and    the    jiortion  of    the    stone  which    con-  even  in  our  own  times.     The  writer  is  himself  the 

tained  the  inscrii)tion  was  broken  off  about  1860,  youngest  of  an  even  dozen  children,  all  having  the 

and    its   whereabouts  are   no  longer  known.     The  same  father  and  mother.     Certain  it  is  that  a  fam- 

neglected    and    ragged    condition   of    this  burial-  i!y  of  oiil\   six  children  was.  a  hundred  years  ago, 

ground,  in  which  many  of  Ihe  ^^'oodses  were  inter-  considered  a  small  one. 

red,  is  a  rcju-oach  to  (heir  descendants.     Their  liv-  Tlu'  only  reason  the  wi-iter  has  ever  heard  any- 

ing  representati\('s  owe  it  to  (lieir  ancestors  and  to  luie  assign  for  denying  that  ^Michael  and  ^lary  had 

themselves  to  atone  for  Ibis  neglect  by  enclosing  more  than  the  six  childr-en  nieutioued  in  the  will  is 

that  idot  with  a  neat  and  substantial   iron  fence,  (Ic  mere  fact  that  only  thos(^  six  are  refei'red  to  in 

and  erecting  a  marble  shaft  in  honor  of  those  yet  that    instrunnMit.      In  other  words,  (he  only  argu- 

sleeping    there.     If    each   one  of    (he  now    living  meiit  we  Iuinc  (o  meet   is  the  old  one  ol'  nd  if/iior- 

desceudanls  of   .Michael    ^\'oo(ls   would    contribute  (iiititini.     The    will    names    three    sons    and    three 

one  dollar,  this  good   work  could  easily  be  accom-  daughters,  (o-wit  :     AYilliam,  John  and  Archiliald, 

plished.     Attention    is  called  here    (o  (he  jieculiar  niid    Hannah,     ^[argaret     and     Sarah,     lint     was 

manner  in  which  Michael  signed  bis  name — he  al-  INfichael  obliged  to  mention  cliildren  who  had  long 

ways  wrote  a  small  leiiei-  m  between  .Michael  and  since  gotten  their  ])ortion  of  his  estate?     If  a  will 

Woods,  and   a  little  below    the  line,  as  though   it  ]mrported  to  he  a  family  history,  then  it  would  have 

were  the  initial  of  a  middle  name.     We  do  not  un-  been  strange  indeed  to  omit  any  one  of  them  ;  but  a 

derstand  it.""  will  is  iuteiided  solely  to  indicate  the  direction  the 

Before  ]iroceeding  to  gixc  some  account  of  the  testator   w  ishes  certain    jiarts  of    his  pro]ierty  to 

children   of   .Michael    Woods  aud    .Mary  Campbell,  take,  and  what  iiersons  shall  see  to  its  distribnlion ; 

his  wife,  it  is  incumbent  on  us  to  settle  how  many  and   if  he  has  several   children  f(n'  whom   be  has 

children    there  were,  aud   what    names    they  bore.  ]irevionsly  niadc^  all  the  ]U'ovision  he  cares  to  make. 

This  is  needful  because  most  of  those  persons  who  why  need  he  refer  to  them  at  all?     The  law  does 

have   undertaken    (o    write  about   ilichael   Woods  not  retpiire  him  (o  do  so,  and  his  failure  so  to  do 

have  gone  upon   (he  snp](osition  that  the  six  chil-  need  not  work  any  harm  to  any  of  his  heirs.    Hence 

dren  mentioned  by  him   in  his  will  were  the  only  he  nia_\-  or  may  not  refer  to  them,  as  he  thinks  most 

ones  he  had.     As  so(m  as  (he  jiresent  writer  began  convenient.     It  is  a  notorious  fact  that  thousands 

gathering  material  for  this  volume  this  question  of  men  of  jiroperty.  before  reaching  the  advanced 

confronted  liim,  and  he  saw  it  had  to  be  settled  in  age  of  seventy-seven,  make  distribution  of  the  bulk 

one  way  or  another  in  order  to  be  aide  to  give  a  of  their  estates  among  their  several  heirs,  or  at 


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least  give  some  of  the  children  tiicii' ]»oi'ti(>iis  before  plements,  aiid  lioiisclmld  goods,  and  silvei-  plate 
making  their  wills,  and  hence  ill  writing  their  wills  and  jewelry,  worth  altogether  ten  tlnnisand 
have  only  some  oi  the  younger  children  to  ]irovide  pounds;  and  it  may  he  that  he  had  some  sjx'eial 
for.  Now  and  then  some  of  the  children  in  a  reasons  for  wanting  to  give  the  si.\  children  a  little 
family  marry  fortnnes,  or  hy  some  other  means  ac-  moi'e  than  the  others,  and  so  charged  his  general 
quire  innch  larger  estates  than  either  their  parcMits  estate  with  these  particular  heipiests,  intending 
or  their  brothers  and  sisters  ever  possessed,  in  that  the  residue  of  his  ]>ro])erty,  reiiiaining  after 
which  cases  the  father  wonid  nat nrally  want  to  pro-  satisfying  these  specific  demands,  should  be  e(|nally 
vide  for  the  less  fortunate  ones,  and  might  give  no  divided,  as  the  common  law  directeil,  lictween  all 
part  of  his  small  estate  to  the  wealthier  children,  the  children.  In  this  way  the  iinnanied  children 
And  once  in  a  great  while  wc  find  a  father  who  has  would  get  all  that  ^lichael  purposed  then'  should 
children,  who  in  some  way  have  excited  his  sore  dis-  have  as  certainly  as  if  he  had  expressly  mentioned 
pleasure  and  from  whom  he  has  become  alienated,  them  by  name.  And  in  favor  of  this  sni)position  in 
In  all  such  cases  it  were  nothing  very  surj^rising  to  this  case  is  the  almost  demonstrated  fact  that 
find  no  mention  of  one  or  more  of  his  children  in  ilichael  Woods  was  possessed  of  a  good  many  items 
his  will.  of  property  to  which  no  allusion  is  made  in  his  will. 
But  there  is  another  class  of  cases,  which  are  to  He  speaks,  in  the  will,  of  "the  ready  money  now  by 
be  met  with  everywhere  now  and  then,  in  which  the  me,"  in  making  his  devise  of  "one  pistole"  to  his 
testator  not  only  omits  all  reference  to  one  or  more  daughter  Sarah,  to  whom  he  had  already  given  ten 
of  his  children,  but  likewise  says  not  a  word  in  his  pounds  without  hinting  what  shape  these  pounds 
will  concerning  the  larger  part  of  his  estate.  lie  were  then  in,  and  who  knows  how  many  hundreds, 
may  own  a  dozen  farms  or  city  lots,  and  have  liun-  or  thousands  of  i)ouii(ls,  he  may  have  had  loaned 
dreds  of  bonds  and  other  investments,  worth,  in  the  out  over  the  county  to  which  he  makes  no  allusion, 
aggregate,  a  million  dollars;  and,  besides  a  wife,  and  which  he  fully  intended  shcmld  be  divided,  ac- 
he may  have  several  children  for  whom  he  cherishes  cording  to  law,  among  his  various  heirs?  His 
the  w  armest  natural  affectiou.  Such  a  man  might,  own  son-in-law,  Joseph  Lapsley,  the  husband  of  his 
without  the  slightest  irregularity,  make  a  will  con-  daughter  Sarah,  above  mentioned,  did  precisely 
sisting  of  a  single  provision  only,  to  this  effect :  "I  this  thing  in  writing  his  will.  He  mentioned  only 
hereby  bequeath  to  my  Avife,  Mary,  one  hundred  two  of  his  children,  Joseph,  Jr.,  and  pjohn,  w  hen  it 
thousand  dollars."  What  objection  could  anybody  is  known  he  had  another  son  and  several  daughters, 
fairly  make  to  his  not  mentioning  his  children  and  Samuel  Dedman,  of  Albemarle,  who  died  a  century 
his  various  items  of  property?  None  at  all.  Such  ago,  and  who  was  the  writer's  great-grandfather, 
a  will  would  simply  mean  that  he  wanted  his  wife,  made  no  mention,  in  his  will,  of  the  son  who  bore 
first  of  all,  to  be  given  the  one  hundred  thousand  his  own  name — Samuel  Dedman,  Jr., — and  yet  the 
dollars,  and  the  residue  of  his  estate  to  be  distrib-  ccmrt  records  show  that  that  son  was  alive  when 
uted  to  his  heirs,  whoever  they  be,  according  to  the  his  father  died.  In  view  of  these  considerations, 
law  of  the  State  in  which  he  resided.  This  sort  of  which  we  feel  sure  no  good  lawyer  will  set  aside  as 
a  will  can  he  met  with  in  almost  every  State  in  the  mere  baseless  reascming,  we  ought  to  dismiss  from 
Union.  It  would  not  in  the  slightest  degree  imply  our  minds  the  idea  that  a  man  can  not  have  any 
that  he  had  no  children,  nor  that  he  had  only  the  children  whom  he  omits  to  mention  in  his  will.  Of 
amount  of  money  given  to  his  wife.  For  all  we  course  we  have  not  \r\  proved  that  .Michael  actu- 
kiiow,  Michael  Woods  may  have  had,  when  he  made  ally  had  children  who  were  not  referred  to  in  the 
his  will,  several  plantations,  and  a  large  number  of  will,  but  we  have  at  least,  as  we  hope,  removed 
slaves,  and  many  horses,  cattle,  sheep,  farming  iin-  some  purely  imaginary  obstacles  out  of  the  way, 


28  THE    >\OODS^r(AFl']E    :\rEA[ORIAL. 

aud  \v(*  arc  ikiw    iircpjii'cd   for  siieli  jiositive  proof  IJotetonrt   Michael   lived   in  the  same  county,  and 

of  the  justice  of  tlie  writer's  contentions  as  may  be  parish  and  neighborhood  as  tlie  otlier  Michael  for 

adduced.  at  k»ast  tlilrty  years.     Their  farms  were  not  over 

Tlie  A\  riter  is  of  (lie  o})inion  that  ^licliael  Woods  tive  miles  apart.  From  a  deed  now  on  record  in 
of  Blair  I'ark  had,  in  addition  to  the  six  children  the  conrt-honse  at  riunluitesv  ilh  .  execiit(  d  in  1743, 
mentioned  in  his  will,  certainly  four,  and  very  we  learn  that  Ihe  Itlair  ]*ark  .Michael  conveyed  a 
proliahly  live  more.  They  are  the  following,  to-  tract  of  200  acres  of  land  to  the  other  Michael, 
wit:  1,  ^lichael,  whose  wife  was  Anne,  who  re-  which  tract  Iiotetonrt  Michael  sold  in  1773,  abont 
sided  for  many  years  in  Albemarle,  and  who  late  eleven  years  after  the  IMair  I'ark  ^lichael  bad  died, 
in  life  moved  to  l^otetxmrt,  and  there  died  in  1777 ;  and  a  year  or  two  after  he  himself  had  moved  to  the 
2,  jNIagdalen,  who  married  John  McDowell,  and  county  of  Botetourt  to  reside.  This  Botetourt 
later,  Benjamin  Koi-den,  Jr.,  and  still  later.  Col.  Michacd  may  have  come  to  that  neighborhood  when 
John  I'owyei',  and  who  attained  to  an  extraordin-  Blair  I'ark  ^lichael  did — as  this  writer  is  conti- 
ary  age;  3,  Manila,  who  was  the  wife  of  I'eter  Wal-  dent  was  the  case — but  he  was  certainly  a  near 
lace,  Jr.,  and  died  in  17!)0;  4,  Andrew,  who  mar-  neighbor  of  Blair  I'ark  ^Michael  from  1743  until  the 
ried  a  Miss  J'oage,  aud  died  in  1781  ;  and  5,  Kich-  latter  died.  Bight  there  in  the  nest  of  Woodses 
ard.  Besides  these  tive  tliere  \\<'re  one  or  two  other  and  Wallaces  this  Botetourt  Michael  spent  thirty 
AVoodses  in  Albemarle  who  were,  in  all  i)robability,  years,  and  possibly  nearly  forty  years,  of  his  life, 
either  the  sons  or  near  kinsmen  of  .Michael,  namely.  What  more  natural  than  that  in  a  frontier,  back- 
James  and  Samuel.  As  the  evidence  to  be  addm-ed  woods  region  of  the  colony  a  father  and  his  sons 
for  the  correctness  of  our  opinions  is  not  exactly  should  live  in  the  closest  toudi  with  each  other? 
the  same  for  any  two  of  ihe  five  alleged  diildren,  And  we  tind  that  the  Botetourt  ^Michael  did  not 
it  will  be  best  to  take  up  each  one  separately.  Aud  leave  Alliemarle  till  tlie  other  IMichaid  had  been 
let  it  be  observed  that  if  we  shall  be  able  to  make  dead  eight  or  ten  years.  We  know  he  did  not  sell 
out  (mr  case  for  any  one  of  the  tive  we  shall  have  his  farm  in  Albemarle  for  several  years  after  he 
succeeded  in  deniousi rat iiig  the  ujisoundness  of  the  liad  settled  in  Iiotetonrt.  Thirdly,  when  we  come 
position  that  mei-e  non-mention  of  a  jierson  in  a  to  examine  the  deed  al)ove  referred  to,  and  note 
will  necessarily  iniiilies  that  he  oi-  she  could  not  1)0  who  were  the  witnesses  to  it,  we  get  another  sig- 
a  child  of  the  testator.  Let  it  be  also  noted  that  not  niticant  intinuition  of  the  fact  that  the  grantor  and 
one  iiarticle  of  objection  can  be  offered  to  the  grantee  were  i)robably  father  and  son.  There  are 
theory  of  more  than  six  children  except  the  mere  four  witnesses  to  this  deed  of  1743,  and  we  find 
supposed  absence  of  proof  of  there  having  been  three  of  them  are  the  sons  of  ^lichael  of  Blair  Park 
more.  ( the  very  ones  mentioned  in  his  will ) ,  and  the  other 

"NA'e  will    begin   with    .Michael   Woods,  who,  for  one  was  his  son-in-law   ^^'illiam   ^^'allace.     If  the 

convenience,  is  often  sixiken  of  as  ".Michael  of  Bote-  two  Michaels  were  father  and  son  we  can  see  why 

tourt,"  to  distinguish  him   from   ^Michael  of  Blair  the  whoh^  transaction  would  be  exclusively  a  fam- 

Park.     For  one  thing,  all  will  surely  agree  that  it  ily  affair,  and  all   four  witncss(s  as    close    to    the 

would   have  been  a  natural  aud  proper  thing  for  grantee  as  to  the  grantor.     J'.ut   if  the  Botetourt 

Michael  of  Blair  I'ark  to  have  named  one  of  his  Michael  had  been  only  a  distant  relative  of  the  other 

sons  for  himself;  and  if  this  man  now    under  con-  ^Midiael,  or  was  merely  a  man  of  the  same  name 

sideration   was    not    the    son  of    the    Itlair    I'ark  who  hapi)ene(l  to  be  living  in  the  neighborhood,  it 

Michael,  then,  so  far  as  we  ha\e  information,  the  would  have  been  more  natural  for  the  grantee  to 

latter  had  no  namesake  at  all  among  his  own  chil-  have  had  at  least  one  of  the  four  witnesses  more 

dren.     Secondlv,  it  is  absolutelv  certain  that  this  closelv    connected    with    himself    than    with    the 


MICHAEL    WOODS  OF    RLAI1{    PARK.                                                    29 

orantor.     11   is  not  al  all  usual  I'oi'  iiicii  in  _c;('(tin_2;  aiid  comilv  (if  ( iiiociilaiKJ,  raniici-,  ttf  ilic  (inc.  and 

witiiessts  to  iHi|)((i-tan1  Iransactiims  (o  have  all  of  Micliaci    Woods,   .lun'r,  of    ihc  same    pai'ish    and 

tlicm  the  sons  of  (he  on(>  ](ai'i.v  and  none  of  tlicm  county,  of  the  other  |iai-l.  witnesscth,"  etc. 

very  ch)se  to  themselves,  and   that,  too,   when  so  The  point  we  want  uoted  here  is  that  in  tliis  cou- 

niau,y  as  four  witnesses  are  secured.     That  would  veyance  ah)iie,  of  all  the    four  executed    in   1743, 

look  like  a  decidedly  one-sided  atfair.     K.xaininiug  Rlair  Park  Michael  desijjnates  himself  as  Michael 

the  court  records  at  Charlottesville  a  little  uiore  Woods  "Senior."     In  speaking  of  I  lie  j^rantee  he 

closely  for  174:5,  we  are  struck  with  the  fact  that  it  desig'uates  him  as  .Michael  ".Innioi'."     Tiiis  grantee 

.seems  to  have  been  a  year  in  wliich  .Michael  of  Blair  could  not  possildy  have  been  on«»  of  the  numei-ous 

Tark  was  bent  on  distributing  his  landed  estate  grandsons  of  old  Michael  bearing  his  name,  for  not 

among  his  children  who  were  living  close  by  him.  one  of  them  was  then  of  sufficient  age  to  take  the 

In  that  one  year  we  find  he  made  conveyances  of  title  to  real   estate.     And    in   none  of  the  instru- 

land  to  his  son  William,  his  son  John,  his  sou-in-  mcnts    executed    prior     to     old     .MichaeTs   death 

law  William,  and  to  another  individual.     And  who  in    wiiicb    the    grandsons    named    .Micliaci   \Voods 

was     this     fourth      individual      who     constitutes  are  referred    to,    or    sign    their    names,    does    the 

one   of    this    quartet    of    grantees?     It    was    none  suffix  "Junior"  occur  so  far  as  we  have  lieen  able 

other  than  this  Botetourt  Michael,  wh(un  we  feel  to  discover.     Why  did  Blair  Park  Alichael  describe 

certain  was  just  as  much  the  son  of  Blair  Park  the  other  Alichael,  the  grantee,  as  "Junior?"     Is 

Michael  as  William  and    John   \N'oods    were,  and  that  the  likely  way  in   which   he  would  have  dis- 

nearer    to    him    than  William  W'allace.     In    4743  criminated  a  distant  kinsman,  or  a  man  outside  his 

Blair  Park  Michael  was  tifty-nine  years  old,  and  a  family  who  happened  to  have  that  name  and  reside 

widower;  \\'illiam   was  ju-obably  about  thirty-six,  in  (loochland?     That   e\]danatory  ajipendix  to  a 

Michael  of  Botetourt  about  thirty-live,  and  John  name  is  almost  always  the  mark  of  sonship,  and  not 

thirty-one.     William    Wallace    was    probably    the  of  mere  sameness  of  name.     If  any  one  should  ob- 

sanie   age  as  ^\'illiam  Woods.     How  natural    and  ject  that  had  the  grantee  been  the  elder  Michael's 

proper  that  at  this  time  Michael  of  Blair  Park  son  the  relationshiji  would  have  been  recognized  in 

should  give  his  sons  ea(li  a  good  farm?     It  is  true  that  deed,  it  may  be  re]died  that  in  the  deeds  of 

that  in  each  conveyance  a  money  considei"atiou  is  that  same  year  to  two  sons  and  a  son-in-law  there  is 

mentioned,  but  that  does  not  signify  that  a  single  no  allusion   whatever    to  the    relationship  of    the 

pound  actually  changed  hands.     The  sums  stated  parties  to  each  other.    A  facsimile  reproduction  of 

may  have  been  put  there  merely  to  indicate  the  a  ])art  of  the  deed  to  John  Woods  of  1743  is  given 

value  of  the  portion  given  to  each  as  a  guide  in  de-  in  Ajipc  ndix  V.  and  it  will  .sjieak  for  itself.     The 

terinining,  in  after  years,  what  would  be  an  equit-  reference  to  the  grantee  in  this  jiart  of  the  deed  is 

able  arrangement  for  the  respective  heirs.  the  same  as  that  in  the  body    of    ihe    insirument. 

But  we  are  not  yet  dime  with  this  deed  of  4743,  That  word   •••luni(u""   is  ceilainly   very  suggestive, 

made  to  .Mi(4iael  of  P.otetourt.     A  certified  copy  of  \Vhilst  admitting  that    il     could,    williout     iiii]iio- 

it  lies  before  the  writer,  and  its  preamble  will  now  pri(  ty,  be  applied  to  ihe  youngei-  <>(  i\\<i  persons  in 

be  cited,  just  as  it  is:     "This  indenture  made  the  the  same  community  lieaiiiig  the  same  name,  it  is 

third  day  of  August,  in  the  seventeenth  year  of  the  but  fair  to  contend  that  in  neaily  all  cast  s  il  is  used 

reign    of   our    Sovei-eign    Loi-d    (Jeorge   II    by    the  to  discriminnle  a  son  fiom  bis  fallier.     Somemlicr 

Grace  of  God,  of  (Jreat  Britain,  France  and  Ire-  exidanatory  a]ipciidiN  isusiinllyemploycd  «  lici-c  ilie 

land.  King  Defender  of  the  Faith,  etc..  and  in  the  persons  having  the  same  name  are  not  father  and 

year  of  Our  Lord   Christ  ^MDCOXLIII.,   between  son.     In  the  ^^■oods  family  in  .\lbemarle  there  were 

Michael  Woods,  Sr.,  of  the  parish  of  Saint  James  several  individuals  named   William,  but  those  not 


30  THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

ri'liitcd   ;is  fallici'  ;iii(l  son   were  (lIsorimiDated  as  II  was  ilic  writci-'s  ^ood  fortune,  sovoral  years 

"]}eav('i-  Creek    Itillv  ^\■(((Hls,■■  and  "I'aptist  Billy  aj^o,  to  get  into  conniuniieation  w  illi  .Major  J.  A.  R. 

Woods."      Ill    llie    case    in   liand,   if    tlie    younger  ^'nrner,  of  Lexinjiton,  ^'iI'o■inia,  wlio  has  been  dead 

Michael  had  nol    been   the  elder  ^liehael's  son  he  since  the  fall  of  ISU.").     Tliis  gentleniuu  was  hiniseif 

would  most  jtrohaldy  liave  been  called  "Ivy  Creek  a   descendant  of  ^lichael    Woods  of    Blair    Park, 

Michael,"  after  llie  stream  on  wliose  headwaters  his  ilii-oiigli  liis  dniiglilei-  Martlia,  who  was  the  wife  of 

farm  lay.  or  by  some  other  distinctive  title.  I'eter  AN'allace,  dr.,  and   lie  made  a  great   deal  of 

There  is  something  suggestive  also  in  the  preva-  research  in  tlie  records  of  courts  and  families  in 
lence  of  certain  Cliristian  immes  to  be  f(mnd  in  the  Rockbridge  county,  N'irgiiua,  ami  learned  a  great 
families  of  these  two  Michaels,  respectively.  In  deal  aliout  the  Woodses  and  AVallaces,  many  of 
those  old  days  the  descendants  (d'  the  Scottish  whom  were  citizens  of  that  county  from  1734  on- 
Highlauders  were  exceedingly  dannisli.  and  a  ward.  .Major  N'arner  was  a  man  of  high  character, 
man  was  far  more  likely  then  than  now  to  adhere  well  educated,  ami  very  intelligent.  The  present 
to  the  family  names  in  miming  iiis  children.  Blood  wfiter  has  now  in  his  possession  three  letters  writ- 
relatiouship  ccmnted  tor  mttch,  and  the  old  clan  ten  by  Major  Varner  not  long  before  his  death, 
feeling  was  strong.  The  man  who  attempts  to  and  from  these  letters  liberal  quotations  will  be 
ctmut  and  proi)erly  locate  all  the  .Michaels  and  made.  Several  of  his  statements  concerning  both 
Johns  ami  Saminds  and  Williams  in  the  Woods  Wallaces  and  W'ockIscs  will  here  be  given  which 
families  from  1700  to  ISdO  will  soon  tind  himself  may  seem  at  tirst  glance  to  be  not  entirely  relevant 
hopelessly  confused.  On  examining  the  names  of  to  the  ])articular  point  now  under  consideration, 
the  children  of  these  two  .Michaels  we  hud  we  have  hut  which  will  later  on  be  seen  to  bear  directly  on 
in  each  family  a  William,  a  .Magdalen,  a  Sarah,  it.  Cnder  date  of  .Inly  iM,  1893,  :\lajor  Varner 
a  Martha,  and  a  .Margaret.  If  we  could  but  know  writes  as  follows:  ".Martha  Woods,  wife  of  Peter 
the  names  of  all  the  little  children  that  probably  Wallace,  was  the  daughter  of  Michael  Woods,  of 
came  into  thos<'  two  homes  to  abide  only  a  few  .VIbemarle,  and  the  mother  of  the  said  Peter  Wal- 
years  and  pass  away,  we  should  doubtless  be  able  |;i,-,.  was  Elizabeth  Woods,  a  sister  of  the  afiuvsaid 
to  illustrate  the  persistemy  of  family  names  yet  .Michael  ^\'oods.  I'eter  Wallace  ami  his  wife, 
more  strikingly.  Christian  mimes  were  not  so  e.x-  Martha  Woods,  were  lirst  cousins.  *  *  *  Peter 
ceedingly  scarce  in  those  days  that  each  of  these  Wallace,  Sr.,  father  of  the  I'eter  Wallace,  Jr.,  men- 
two  men  must  needs  employ  the  same  ones  for  at  fioned,  is  said  to  have  been  a  Highland  Scotchman, 
least  five  of  their  children,  respectividy.  It  cer-  but  he  emigrated  to  the  Province  of  Ulster  and  died 
taiiily  does  look  as  if  these  two  .Michaels  were  not  ihere.  It  is  said  by  some  that  he  came  over  with 
merely  near  of  kin,  but  father  and  son.  his  family  to  I'ennsyhania  and  died  in  that  ])rov- 

But  we  now   come  to  deal  with  something  more  ince.      ]|is  wife  was  named  Elizabeth  ^^'oods,  and 

reliable  and  convincing  than  even   the  strong  cir-  she  was  a  sister  of  .Michael  ^Voods  of  Blair  I'ark. 

cumstantial    evidence  we    have  been    considering.  it    is     not     known      how      many     children     were 

There  is  unimpeacliable  testimony  of  persons  who  born     to    I'eter    Wallace   and     his   wife    lOIizabeth 

Avere  not  only  in  the  highest   degree   trustworthy.  Woods,     but     it     is     known     beyond     a     leasou- 

and  thoroughly  cajiable  of  judging  as  to  the  value  able    ibmbt    that    five  of   their   sons — five     broth- 

and  meaning  (d'  well-established   family  ti'adilions,  ers — came      from      Pennsylvania      between      1734 

but  who  through  a  long  course  of  years  were  in  a  and     1740     to      their      uncle      Michael     Woods's 

position  to  learn  the  trtith,  and  who  had  no  motive  home  at  Blair  I'ark  in  one  of  the  gaps  in  the  Blue 

imaginable  f(U'  making  false  statements  concerning  IJidge,  in  what  is  now  known  as  Albemarle  county, 

this  question.  Virginia.     The  names  of  these  five  Wallace  broth- 


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ers  \\('r<':  I'rlcr,  \\illi;nii,  Ad.nii.  Saiiiiicl  and  honest  lnll<.  'I'licii-  Inilin-  was  a  man  of  iiilclli- 
Aiidvt'W'.  'I'In-cc  of  tlu'sc  lirollicrs  iiiai-i-icd  tlicir  jiciicc;  I  know  he  wi-oica  i^ood  liand  and  an  excel- 
first    cousins,   daiiiiliters   of    tlit'ir  uucle,    Michael  lent  letter;  he  was  sixteen  years  (dd  when  his  ;L;rand- 

W Is.      Peter   \\allace   married    iMartha   AVoods;  mother   .Mariha    lAVoods)    Wallace   di(Ml.   and    teu 

William  manied  1  lannah  \\'oods ;  Andrew  married  when  his  jiruudfalher  Peler  Wallace  died.  Mrs. 
Afargai-et  ^^'oods.*  *  *  Sanuud  Wallace,  one  of  Onld  and  Mrs.  Cuniminns  were  yoinifi'  ladies 
the  five  brothers, married  Esther  I>akei',of  Charlotte  twciity-fonr  and  eighteen  years  old,  i-espectividy, 
county,  ^'iriiinia,  ami  was  the  father  of  Judge  Caleb  when  .Mt-s.  ^lagdaleu  Camjdiell  died.  Mrs.  Camii- 
^^'allace,  of  the  Sni»reme  Court  of  Keutucky.  1  bell  was  iidimalely  known  to  botii  <>{'  iheni — one 
have  so  fai-  been  iiuable  to  get  any  iuforuiatiou  of  of  them  was  named  for  her.  .Mrs.  Campbell  was 
Adam  "Wallaci'  tu-  his  jiossible  descendauts.  It  is  born  in  17r).j  and  died  in  LS30;  she  was  a  uiarried 
thought  by  some  who  have  written  on  the  subject  wtmian  when  Peter  and  Martha  Wallace  died,  and 
that  the  author  of  that  ]»o]inlar  n(i\(  1,  "lien  llur,"  she  never  visited  a  house  that  she  did  not  recount 
is  descended  from  Andrew  Wallace  and  his  wife  the  deeds  and  the  death  of  the  Wallace  [{evolution- 
Margaret  "NA'oods.  In  fact  General  Wallace,  in  a  ar.\  scddier  brothers.  She  was  a  young  lady  when 
letter  about  the  old  sword,  wrote  ine  that  such  was  they  went  to  the  wars.  It  would  seem  strange, 
his  belief,  he  being  descended  from  an  Andrew  after  all  that  has  been  stated,  w  ith  such  favorable 
Wallace.  *  *  *  |  ^ni  fully  satisfied  that  opportunities  for  acquiring  family  history,  that 
.Michael  Woods,  of  IJotetourt,  was  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Onld  and  Mrs.  Cummings  did  not  know  all 
^lartha  \\'oods,  wife  of  Peter  Wallace,  and  that  he  about  their  fathi-r's  peoi)le. 

was  a  son  of  .Michael  AV(H)ds,  who  died  in  1T<>2,  and  "Two  or  three  years  ago  I  wrote  to  Mrs.  Cum- 

I  am  also  fully  satisfied  that  Magdalen  Woods,  who  mings,  of  Indiaua,for  information  in  regard  to  fam- 

marriid     .McDowell — Tlorden — Bowyer,    was    Ixitli  ily  history,  for  reply  to  a  letter  fi-om  a  'listant  rela- 

the  daughter  of  .Michael  A\'oo(ls,  of  .Vlbemarle,  and  tive  in  Kentucky.    Umler  date  of  August  20,  1S90, 

sister  of  Michael  AA'oods  of  Botetourt.  she  wrote  me;  and  from  her  letter  I  take  the  fol- 

".Vnd  now  for  my  reas(uis  for  the  abo\'e  state-  lowing  extracts: 
ments:     My     mother's     uncle,     .Tames     'Wallace —  "'Our   gr<'at-grandmother   was   named    .Martha 

brother  of  .Vndrew  ^^'allace,  her  father — was  born  A\'oods.     She  had  six  sous  and   three  daughters — 

in  1774  and  died  in  1846.     He  left  a  widow  and  a  IMalccuid),  Samuel,    James,  Adam,    Andrew,  John, 

large    family  of    children,  among  the    latter,  two  Elizabeth,     Janet       and     Susannah.*     *     *     Our 

daughters,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  ^^'allace  Onld,  of  Camp-  great-grandmother  had  two  sisters,  they  all  lived 

bell  county,  Virginia    (born    in   1S0()|,  and    ^Irs.  on  adjoining  farms  near  Lexington — ^Magdalen  and 

.Magdalen  Cam])bell   \\'allace  Cummings   t  born  in  Sarah.     Magdalen    nmrried    (iener.il    I'.owyer   and 

1811* ),  wife  of  Kev.  Parry  Cummings,  a  .Methodist  Sarah     married     Josejih     Lapsley.     Your     mother 

minister  of  the  State  of   Indiana.      P.otli   of  these  (Sarah  Lapsley  Wallace)    and    sister    Sally  were 

ladies  are  now  dead,  having  reached  the  ages  of  nanu'd     for    her.     *     *     *     Old     aunt     ^fagdalen 

eighty-seven    and    eighty-one,    respectively.      They  Campbell,  as  all  us  children  who  were  kin  to  her 

were  both  very  intelligent  wouu*n,  had  wonderfid  called  her,  was  a  niece  of  great-grandmother.' 
iiiem(n-ies,  and   were  in  ])ossession  of  their  mental  "The  above  extracts,  I  think,  are  conclusive,  and 

faciill  ies  to  (he  last.      .Vt  the  death  of  their  parents  prove  e^•erytlling :      1.    .Michael  AN'oods,  in  his  will, 

bolli  had  reached  middle  life,  and  that  time  of  life  mentions  his  daughter  Sarah    (Lapsley);  2.   .Mrs. 

when  ]K'ople  of  respectable  parentage;  and  intelli-  Cunuuings  says  that  Sarah  Lapsley  was  a  sister 

gence  take  great  interest  in  matters  genealogical,  of    ^lagdalen     ^IcDowell — Borden — Bowyer,    and 

especially  when  they  know  they  come  from  good,  Martha    A\'allace;    and    3,   that    Mrs.     Magdalen 


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( ';iiii|ilicll,  w  l:o  w  ;is  llic  (Iniiiilitcv  (if  .M  icli;icM\  Odds  niiciciil    W  (mmIscs  anil    Wallaces,   with    tlic   view   of      | 

of  r>(iicioiirl.  was  a  nicrc  of  .Mi-s.  .Martha  W'alhicc,  i^al  hci-iiiL;  iiifonnat  ion  for  this  woric.  | 

(.  r..ihal  she  was  licr  lir(!l  hcr's  chilli  ami  (laughter."  It   ina\    not    he  amiss  to  iiicntion  lici-c.  also,  tlic     I 

it  would  scciii  idle  lo  seek  for  fm-tlicr  ])roof  ojiinioiis  and  con\ict  ions  of  the  late  11.  1'.  ( 'ocliran, 
than  the  h'lters  just  i|noted  from  contain.  Tliev  of  ( 'harlot  lesville,  \'irt;inia.  ( "onceniiuL;'  this  fi'en- 
iiol  only  make  it  plain  (hat  .Michael  \\'oods  of  tleman.  the  late  .Major  N'anier,  mentioned  and 
Botetourt  was  one  of  the  children  of  [Michael  ((noted  from  on  the  fore<ioin!i' passes  of  this  volume, 
of  Blair  Park,  Imt  that  .Majj;(lalen,  who  married  wrote  lo  the  |(resent  writer  May  iT),  ISito.  It  ap- 
^I(l>owcll.  and  .Martha,  who  married  I'eter  ^\'al-  pearsthal  .Mr.  Coih  ran  and  t  he  late  Judge  ^Villiam 
lace,  Jr.,  were  likewise.  Thus  it  seems  to  have  .McLaunhlin.  of  Lexington,  N'ii'iiinia.  had  both  l)eeu 
beeu  settled  that  old  .Michael  of  Blair  I'ark  had  at  niakiug  iuvestigatious  relative  to  the  (pu'stiou  uow 
least  three  children  who  are  Hot  uamed  in  liis  will —  under  consideration,  and  after  considerable  re- 
ilichael,  di'.,  .Magdalen,  and  ]^Iartha ;  and  having  search  they  had  both  reached  the  conidusion  that 
established  this  fai-t,  an  effectual  breach  has  been  .Michael  Woods  of  Blair  I'ark  had  a  nundier  of  ehil- 
made  in  that  line  (d'  reasoning  which  ludd  dren  ^\  ho  were  not  refen-ed  to  in  his  w  ill.  lu  a  let- 
that  he  had  no  children  but  the  si.K  expressly  ter  dated  .March  1,  IS'.li',  .Mr.  Cochran  wrote  Judge 
referred  to  in  that  instrument.  When  the  writer  McLaughlin  as  follows:  "1  thank  _\du  for  your 
became  thoroughly  satisfied  of  the  soundness  of  the  favor  oi'  :21st  ulto.,  with  enclosure.  I  think  you  are 
evidence  adduced  by  ^hijor  Varner  he  wrote  him  to  correct  in  what  you  say  in  regard  to  .Magdalene 
express  his  satisfaction.  In  reply  to  his  letter  AVoods  and  her  sisters.  I  believe  ^lichael  Woods, 
Major  \'arner  wi-ole  back,  under  date  of  ^lay  2-"),  Senior,  had    iliice  daughtei-s    to  mai-ry    Wallaces. 

1895,  as  follows :     "i  assure  you  1  am  glad  to  know  .Michael    W Is,    Senior's,    wife   was   named   3Iary 

that    \()U  are    now    fully  conx'inced   that    the  two  ('amplxdl,  and   it    is  remarkable  how    often   in  all 

Michael   ^^"oodses  were    father  and  son.     I    never  the   wills  of  his  sons,  sons-in  law   and  grandsons 

entei-tained  a  doubt  of  that  relationship  from  the  which  I  have  been  able  to  come  across,  we  find  the 

time  the  matter  was  first  brought  lo  my  attention,  family  names,   \\'illiam,  .Michael,  Hannah,  Sarah, 

and  I  had  investigated  the  question."  ete. 

'I'his  was  the  con\iction,  also,  of  the  late  .Mich-  "1  ha\"<'  gotten  .Mr.  Woods  to  confess  that 
ael  Woods  Wallace,  who  died  at  a  ripe  old  age  some  Michael  Woods  i>\'  r.otetouri  and  .Magdalene  Woods 
A'ears  ago  in  Albenuirle  county,  N'irginia.  This  were  brother  and  sister.  There  is  no  doubt  in  my 
gentleman  was  a  descendant  (d'  .Miclnud  \\'oods  <>(  nnnd  as  to  Micluud  id'  I'lotetonrt  being  son  of 
Blair  I'ark,  through  his  daughter  Hannah,  who  .Michael  of  Albenmrle.  I  still  think  Bicliard 
married  AVilliam  Wallace.  He  was  an  elder  in  the  Woods,  of  Augusta,  sheriff  i-ircn  \~'u.  was  Mag- 
Presbyterian    church,    and    spent    his    life,    as    the  dalene's     brother.      Tl nly     evidence,    however, 

writer  understands,  within  three  nnles  of  the  old  which  I  ha\"e  is  the  name,  that  he  was  guardian 
Blair  Park  hmnestead.  He  was  a  man  of  great  in-  for  Samuel  .McI  )owell,  and  Samuel  .Mi  I  )ow  ell  was 
telligence  and  high  character,  and  could  have  no  securit_\-  on  his  sherilf's  bond.  I  ho])e  yet  to  hap- 
niot  ive  for  attributing  to  his  ancestor  any  children  jien  on  further  evidence.  The  above  mentioned 
he  did  not  really  have.  He  informed  (ieneral  I'ichard  had  a  son-in-law  of  the  sanu'  name,  as  1 
ilicajah  Woods,  of  Charlottesville,  that  he  was  found  out  from  a  deed  in  Augusta  county  clerk's 
satislied  .Michael  of  liotetourt  was  a  son  of  Pdair  office.  I  can  not  lind  the  name  Martha  and  Mag- 
Park  .Michael.  It  was  the  privilege  of  the  writer  dalene  among  any  of  the  grandchildren  of  Michael 
to  call  on  .Mr,  Wallace  at  his  home  near  P.Iair  Park  ^^'oods,  Senior,  except  in  one  case  each,  namely: 
in  18113,  and  to  converse  with  him  concerning  the  ilartha  Borden,  and  ^lagdalene    ("Woods)    Camp- 


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hell,   (lausi'litcr    of    .Micliacl     W'dods  of    r.Dlctoiirt.  same    iiainrs  as   live  n\'    ilic    cliildi-cn   ol"    .Mii-liai'l 

.May  not  -Micliacl,  ;\[arllia  anil  .Magdalene  liavc  been  >\'()(>(ls,  of  Alhcinaili'. 

Ilic  oldest  cliilili-cn  anil  (lie  tii'sl  to  iiiaia-v  and  move  "1    \>'ill     add    lirrr   in    addiiion     to  a  stalcnicnt 

away?     1  enclose  you  sonic  n  in  us.  in  ]irnril.  wliidi  heretofore  made,  lowil  :     Thai    .Magdalene  Woods" 

may  jjrohahly  interest  yoii.  three  dan^hlers,  Sarah  .Mel  >o\\cll,  Martha  IJorden, 

"Yonrs  very  truly,  and  Hannah  Borden  hail  the  same  Christian  names 

"H.   P.   Cochran."  as   those   of   the  daughters   of    .Michael    Woods,   of 

".Miehael   ^^■ ls"s    will,  dated    Nov.   24,  1701,  All.emarle. 

]n-o\ed   -Tune,    IKiL'.      He   mentions   in   his   will    his  "I    am   satislied    that    .Miehael    Woods,   of   .\lhe- 

sons  Archibald,  ^^'illiam,  and  Jolni ;  his  daughters  niai-le,  who  died  in  ITtiJ,  had  ai  least  ilie  following 

Sarah,  TTannah ;  his  son-in  law    ^^■illiam  "Wallace;  children: 

his  deceased    daughter   ^fargarefs    children;    his  ".Vrchibald     \\'oods,     \\ho     married       Isabella 

grandson  ^Michael,  son  of  \\'illiam;  and  his  grand- ;  Michael  Woods,  who  married  .Vnne ; 

son  ^fichael,  son  of  .\rihibald.    lO.xecutors:    Arclii-  John   Woods,   who    married    Susannah   .Vnderson ; 

bald   A\oods,  John   A\oods.  and   M'illiam   Wallace.      William  Woods,  who  married ;  Magdalene 

A\'itnesses:      .Michael    Woods,    minor,   and    .Michael  ^^■oods,     who    married     .McHowell  —  Ilorden — Uow- 

\\'allace.  yer;  Sarah   Woods,  who  m.n-ried  Jose])h  Lapsley; 

"Did  ^lichael  Woods  have  other  children  than  Hannah   ^\()ods.   who    married   William   Wallace; 

those  mentioned   iu  his  will?  Mai-garel    Woods,   who  married  Andrew  A\'allace; 

"I  think  he  had  several  nioi-e,  viz.  :  .Michael,  and      Martha  W Is,  who  married  Peter  Wallace.  |  Jr.]. 

probably    Audi-ew    ami    Richard,   .Magdalene    and  As  to  ;Margaret,  whom  I  put  down  as  having  mar- 

.Alartha.  ried  Andrew  Wallace,  I  have  iliis  to  say:     In  1748 

'"It  appears  from  the  records  of  (ioochland  ^Michael  AN'oods  conveyed  to  .\mlrew  Wallace  400 
county  that  Michael  Woods,  Senior,  had  large  acres  of  land,  l'(((l  acres  of  which  was  in  way  of 
landed  possessions  on  Ivy  Creek  and  Mechum's  dowry  with  his  daughter.  In  17(>2  ^largaret  was 
river — one  tract  will  Ix' [larticularly  noticed — 2,000  dead.  1  have  come  across  a  will  of  one  Andrew 
acres  from  Charles  Hudson  by  deed  dated  June  10,  Wallace,  who  died  iu  17S."),  mentioning  in  his  will 
17:>7.  In  174:>  .Michael  ^Voods  deeded  a  tract  of  his  children  .Michael,  Samuel,  IClizaiieth.  Rusco, 
laud  to  John  A\'ooils:  one  to  .\rcliibalil  \Vooils;om>  ^lary  Henderson,  Hannah  Wallace,  Susannah  Col- 
to  William  Woods.  In  1 74:>  .Michael  "Woods,  Sr.,  lius,  .Margaret  "NA'allace,  Jean  Wilson  (in  two  other 
conveyed  to  Michael  ^Voolls,  Jr.,  both  of  Albeumrle,  places  Wallace).  This  .\nilrew  uniy  have  been  the 
200  acres  of  land,  being  i)art  of  2,000  acres  con-  son  of  the  .\udrew  who  married  ^largaret  \\'oods. 
xr\vt\  ])\  Charles  Hudson  to  Michael  AYoods,  Sr.,  he  may  ha\c  been  nmrried  a  second  tiuu'.  or  he 
[by  deed  of  June  10,  1737],  and  in  177o  .Michael  may  lunc  been  mariied  long  before  174S." 
"Woods,  [Jr.],  of  .\lliemarle,  and  .\une,  his  wife,  Concei-niug  the  .Mr.  Cochran,  the  author  of  the 
con\eyed  to  Thomas  P.ird.  of  Caroline,  2(t()  acres,  a  abo\-e  (|uoted  letter,  .M.-ijor  N'arner  has  this  to  say 
part  of  2.000  acres  granted  to  Charles  Hudson  by  in  his  communication  lo  the  writer  in  .May,  1895, 
liatent  dated  July  24,  17.'>r).  This,  T  think,  shows  above  referred  to:  ■'The  writer  of  the  letter  to 
that  Michael  Woods,  of  Albenuirle,  had  a  sou  Judge  .McLanghlin.  i  he  lale  I  low  e  Peyton  ( 'oihrau 
^Michael.  The  wife  of  :Michael  Woods  of  Botetourt  (I  think  that  was  his  full  name),  who  was  a  mem- 
was  named  .\nue.  P.esides  this  we  tind  from  the  her  of  the  'ancient  and  honorable  clan  of  Woods- 
will   of  ^lichael    W Is  of  I'otetourt    that    he   had  men,"     was    a    lawyer,    a    man    of    ability,    of    high 

tive  ehildren,  to-wit:      William,   .Magdalene  Camp-  character   and    unspotted    reputation."'      The   o]iiu- 

hell,   .Martha,   Sarah   and    .Margaret,   who  had   the  ions  of  smli  a  man  as  Mr.  Cocliran,  who  was  him- 


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self  a  (IcsciMidaiil  of  .Midiacl  Woods  of  IJlair  Park,  lirst  of  all,  llial  nol  one  iiarticic  of  evidence  adverse 
and  \\lio  j;ave  the  (pieslion  now  under  eousidera-  to  his  claiin  lias  exci- hrcu  \>[\t  forward,  so  far  as  we 
tion  a  ver\-  careful  in\csti!iatiou,  wcmld,  of  tliem-  lia\'e  e\cr  been  aide  lo  learn.  There  is  ahsolntely 
selves,  almost  settle  the  matter  in  a  case  like  this  nothing  ai;ainst  his  claim  but  the  hare  fact  that  the 
in  which  there  is  not  one  particle  of  adverse  testi-  w\\\  does  not  mention  his  name.  If  his  claim  shall 
mouy;  but  when  taken  in  connection  with  nnuh  be  snbsiani  iaied,  as  we  feel  reasonably  confident  it 
strong  circumstantial  evidence,  the  positive  asser-  will,  that  would  only  make  .Michael  \\'oods  of  IJlair 
tions  of  'Sirs.  Ould  and  Mrs.  Cummiuiis,  and  the  I'ark  to  have  had  ten  children;  and  all  will  con- 
concurrent  o|)inions  of  various  jiersons  of  lii^li  in-  cede  that  e\cu  a  dozen  children  was  nothinii  at  all 
tellio'ence  and  reliability,  they  seem  to  render  nncomniou  in  that  ]ieriod — it  is  nothins;'  very  re- 
further  argument  useless.  That  Michael  Woods  niarkable  even  in  our  own  time, 
of  Blair  Park  had  a  num))er  of  sons  and  daughters  In  the  next  i)lace,  we  find  two  gentlenu'u  of  high 
whom  he  did  not  mention  in  his  last  will  would  character  and  intelligence  who,  after  very  careful 
seem  to  have  been  ])roven  beyond  all  reasonable  investigation  of  the  whole  subject,  have  reached  the 
doubt ;  and  unless  some  one  shall  hereafter  be  able  conclusion  that  Andrew  ^Voods  was  a  son  of 
to  produce  s(Mne  very  convincing  proof  to  the  con-  .Michael  (tf  I'.lair  Park.  These  gentlemen  are  the 
trarv,  it  would  seem  to  be  but  just  that  the  couten-  late  II.  1'.  Cochran,  whose  letter  to  Judge  jMc- 
tion  of  Major  Varner,  .Mr.  .Micluud  W.  Wallace,  Laughlin  is  given  on  a  preceding  ])age;  and  the 
Mr.  II.  P.  Cochran,  the  in-esent  writer,  and  various  Pev.  Ivlgar  Wooils,  of  Charlottesville,  Virginia, 
other  persons  Avho  could  be  mentioned,  has  been  .Mr.  Cochran,  as  (pioted  above,  says :  "lUd  .Michael 
fully  established,  certainly  so  far,  at  least,  as  con-  Woods  have  other  children  than  those  mentioned 
cerns  ;\lichael  Woods,  di-.,  .Magdalen  Woods,  and  in  his  will?  I  think  he  had  several  more,  viz.: 
Martha  Woods.  Michael,  an<l  probably,  Andrew,"  etc.  Let  it  be 
The  three  pei-sons  just  mentioned,  however,  are  borne  in  mind  that  this  is  the  ojiiniiui  of  a  desceud- 
uot  the  only  ones  not  icferred  to  in  the  last  will  of  ant  of  .Michael  \\'oo(ls  of  P>lair  Park,  a  very  intel- 
Michael  of  lllair  Park  who  aic,  with  good  ligeut  and  trustworthy  gentleman,  who  was  an.\i- 
reason,  believed  to  ha\c  l>een  his  children.  The  ions  lo  know  the  truth,  and  who,  so  far  as  ajijiears, 
like  claim  is  made  for  at  least  two  more  sons,  could  nol  haNc  had  the  remotest  interest  in  misstat- 
namely  :  .Vudrcw  Woods  and  Kichard  Woods.  The  ing  llie  relati(Uishi]i  of  Andrew  to  .Michael  \\'oods. 
cases  of  the  three  children  we  have  just  consid-  The  Hew  ICdgar  Woods,  alio\'e  mentioned,  is  a 
ered  were  so  intinuitely  related  to  each  other  that  lineal  descendant  of  Andrew  U'oods.  and  he  prob- 
the  arguments  adduced  for  any  one  of  them  l)eing  a  ably  knows  more  of  the  history  ami  i-onneclions  of 
child  of  old  Michael  of  Blair  I'ark  luu'e  with  more  the  Virginia  ^^'oodses  than  any  man  living.  He 
or  less  force  upon  the  cases  of  the  other  two.  It  is  has  spent,  jjrobably,  more  time  searching  the  court 
somewhat  otherw  ise  as  res])ects  .Vndi-ew  and  Rich-  I'ccords  for  items  about  the  family,  and  cori'espcuid- 
ard  Woods.  Now  that  it  has  been  |(ro\'en  that  the  iug  with  the  scattered  descendants  of  ihe  \irginia 
mere  failure  of  .Michael's  will  to  mention  Individ-  ^^'oodses,  than  any  other  person  of  this  geiieraiion. 
iials  does  not  in  the  slightest  degree  militate  He  is  known  to  be  a  conscientious  and  imj)artia! 
against  their  claim  to  be  his  children,  we  may  feel  man,  of  judicial  temperament,  and  one  who  meas- 
the  more  confident  that  any  reasonable  evideuce  ures  his  words  with  care,  lie  is  the  author  of  a 
which  can  be  presented  in  behalf  of  .Vndrew  and  booklet  giving  the  names  and  genealogical  connec- 
Eichard  will  at  once  command  full  and  uupreju-  tions  of  hundreds  of  the  ^^'oodses,  and  of  a  history 
diced  consideration.  of  the  county  *>(  .\lbemarle,  containing  much  re- 
Concerning  Andrew  Woods  it  nuiy  be  affirmed,  liable  information  in  regard  to  all  the  \\'oodses  in 


MICHAEL    WOODS  OF    BLAIK    I'AKK.  35 

Vii'iiiiiia  and  iiiniiy  otlu'V  States.      It  is  iiol  liclicvcd  wlicii   llir   fallicr,  as   in    iliis  case,   is  a   niaii  of  ini- 

tliat   I »!'.  W'odds  coulil  rca])  tiic  siinhlcsl  ad\aiitagt',  ])nrlaiirc  and    ruiisidci-aldc  cslalc.      So   far  as  llio 

jK'ciiniarv   or  otlici-wis!',   from    liaviiij;   pnncd    llial  i-ccords  no  it  appears  I  lial   noi  one  of  old  .Miejiael's 

Andrew  N\'oods  was  a  son  of  ^Mieliael  of  I'dair  Park,  sons  removed  fi-oni  .Mliemarle  durinu  their  father's 

And    vel    this   geiitleniaii,   after  nuu-h    \veii;liing  of  lifetime.      .Tolm  ii\cd  all  his  life  tliere;  Andrew  did 

all  the  facts  at  his  eumniand,  lias  reached  the  con-  not  move,  as  we  have  seen,  llll  JKi."),  or  IKiii;  .Micii- 

cliision  tliat,  beyond  reasonable  doidii,  Andrew  was  ael,  -Ir.,  went  about    1770;  .\rcjiibald  aud  William 

a  son  <d  .Michael  of  I'dair  Park.  left  about  1771.      If  .\ndre\\    was  not  a  son  of  old 

In    the  case   of   Andrew    >\'oo(ls.   as   in    that   of  Michael  lie  cei-laiiily  had  a   way  of  ad  inn' woiider- 

^lichael    ^^■oods,   Jr.,   there  is  the  sii^uiticant    fact  fully  like  a  son. 

that  for  inany  years  of  his  life  he  made  his  home  Then,  when  we  come  to  consider  the  ])articular 
■within  a  \<'ry  few  miles  of  Michael,  his  alleii'ed  re<>ion  in  which  the  four  se\-eral  sons  of  old  .Mich- 
father.  It  is  certainly  known  from  the  Albemarle  ael  chose  homes  on  leavint^  Albemarle,  we  find  them 
county  records  that  from  the  year  1750  to  17(i() — a  doiu,i>-  about  what  one  would  expect  full  brothers 
]ierio(l  of  sixteen  years — .Vndrew  ^\■oo(ls  resided  to  do.  A\'e  not  only  lind  all  four  gettinji' away  from 
within  three  miles  of  the  I'dair  Park  homestead,  Albemarle  after  Iheir  ]iarents  had  dieil,  but  we  see 
nearer  to  .Michael  than  any  other  of  his  children,  them  settling  near  to  each  oilier.  First,  Andrew, 
with  ]M'rhaps  a  single  exeeptiou.  His  farm  was  in  Mi'ut  (then  a  man  of  about  forty-five  yeai's  of 
within  sight  of  wliat  is  now  (ireenwood  Station,  on  agei,  goes  down  across  the  James  river  into  what 
the  ('liesa])eake  ^;  Ohio  1{.  K.,  just  south  of  the  old  was,  a  few  years  later,  llotetourt  county,  aud 
brick  mansioii  long  owned  by  Michael  Wallace,  pitches  his  tent,  so  to  sjieak,  nine  miles  south  of  the 
who  was  a  grandson  of  Michael  ^^'oods  of  Blair  site  of  the  jiresent  town  of  r.uchanan.  Then,  only 
I'ark.  This  fact,  it  is  conceded,  would  not,  of  it-  a  few  years  thereafter,  Michael,  Jr.,  i)ulls  nji  his 
self,  settle  this  (pu'stion,  but  it  is  highly  signiticaut;  stakes  and  locates  right  on  the  south  bank  of  the 
and,  takeu  in  connection  with  other  kuowu  circum-  James,  iu  Botetourt  county,  about  live  miles  uorth- 
stances  of  the  case,  goes  a  long  way  towards  a  cou-  east  of  Buchanan,  or  alxmt  twelve  miles,  on  au  air- 
clusi\('  demonstration,  ileu  do  not  choose  a  home  line,  from  Andi-ew.  About  the  same  time  Archi- 
uext  dooi-  to  other  jieojile  merely  because  they  hap-  bald  (  1771  i  buys  a  farm  from  the  McAfees  dow'll 
])en  to  bear  (he  same  name.  .Michael  Woods  had  a  on  ("atawba  ("reek,  about  twenty  miles  south-west 
number  of  known  sons  and  sons-in-law  living  of  Andrew's  ]ilace.  ^^'illiam.  we  know,  was  iu 
aroniid  him  in  that  community,  and  there  was  this  1773  living  somewhere  in  that  regiou.  Thus  we  see 
man  AndrewWoods  li\ing  closer  to  his  plantal  ion  two  sous  Avhoin  ^Michael  mentioned  in  his  will 
than  almost  any  of  them.  We  insist  that  this  is  a  (  ^\'illiam  and  .\rcliibald  I,  and  two  whom  he  omit- 
very  significant  fact,  though  not  necessarily  cou-  ted  to  mention  ( .Michael,  Jr.,  and  .Vndrew),  whilst 
cliisi\('.  yielding  (o  the  adventurous  spirit    which   ]iromj)ts 

'i'heii,  again,   it    is   worth   noting  that   .Vndrew  sturily  men  to  seek  new  homes  in  a  frontier  jiort ion 

Woods  did     not    remove    from   .Vlbemarle   county  of   the  country,   managing  to   keep   within   a   few 

until  some  time  after  old  Michael  had  passed  away,  hours'  ride  of  each  other  by  choosing  locations  near 

Jlichael    (lied    in     17liJ    and  .Vndri'w    remo\'ed    to  together.     If   .Vndri-w    ami    .Michael,   Jr.,   had   not 

Botetourt   county  in  17G.")  or  17(i(!.     Of  course  the  been  brothers  to  .\rchibald  and  William,  as  well  as 

sons  in  a  family  often  move  to  a  distance  before  the  brothers  to  each  other,  we  would  have  expected  to 

ilealh  of  ihe  father,  but  this  is  not  the  rule.     The  lind  al    least    one  |iair  of    brothers  going    farther 

sons  generally   remain   within  reasonable  distance  down  into  Southwestern    \'irginia,  which   was  be- 

of  the  head  of  the  family  till  he  is  dead,  especially  ginning  to  settle  up  rapidly   by    1770.  and   which 


36  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

presented  iiiaii_\   indiiceniciils  to  men  i>f  enterprise,  tliins^'s  wliicli  n  son  of  Unit   worlhv  nid  gentleman 

Fnrtlierniore,    wlicn    we   in(iiiii-e  as   to   the  names  \\'()nl(l  lie  expected  lo  do. 

Andrew  ^\■(l(lds  lijivc  to  liis  cliildvcn  lliere  is  a  very  But  ^\'e  Innc  yd  one  or  two  additional  reasons 

strong  snggestion  of  his  close  kinship  to  old  ilieli-  to  jiresent  in  snp])orl  <>{'  our  eontenlion.  and  they 

ael.    It  is  regarded  as  cei-tain  tliat  Andrew  had  sev-  arc  not  mi'r(>  coincidences  oi'  of  tlie  iialni'e  of  oir- 

eral   cliildren   wliose  names  are  not  known  to  us.  cumslantial  e\  i(hMicc.  Init  rcliahle  family  tradition 

and  did  anc  hnt  know  all  of  llicir  names,  we  might  — testimony  oi'  a  kind  wliich  nsnally  convinces  the 

he  able  lo  maice  ont  a  stronger  case  than   is  now  avei-age  fairiiiin<lcd  |ierson.     Professor  A.  A\'.  \\'il- 

jiossihle.     SI  ill.  Ilie  names  actnall,\'  known  to  ns  are  liamson,  of   IJock    Island,    Illinois,   is  a  descendant 

very  signilicanl.      I'or  instance,  Andrew  named  one  of  Andrew   ^^'oods,  and  a  gentleman  of  inlelligence 

of  his  sons  Archibald,  which  was  (he  name  of  tliar  and  high  characler,  whose  statenn-nts  are  entitled 

son   of    old    Alichael    who   was    mentioned     in    his  to  great  weight.     Tins  gentleman  has  ( or  recently 

father's   will,  ami   who  mo\cd  down    to    Catawha  had  I  an  annt  ninety-odd  years  of  age,  who  was  per- 

Creek  aboni  1771,  a  day's  journey  to  the  sonth-w<'st  fectly  familiar  w  itii  the  history  of  her  family.     She 

of  Andrew's  last  home.     One  of  his  danghters  bore  was  born  \-cry  early  in  the  last  century,  ])robably 

the  name  <i\'  .Mariha,  as  did  one  (d'  the  daughters  in  lSO."i.     This  lady  dislinctly  recalled  the  fact  that 

of  each  of  the  .Michaels.      \\r  know  that  ^licliae]  of  it  was  well  understood  in  the  family  lliat  Andrew 

Blair  I'ark  had  a  sister  named  Elizabeth,  who  mar  AV(tods,  whose    home  was  for    years  in  Botetourt 

ried  Peter  Wallace,  Sr.     Thr >f  her  sons  married  county,  Virginia,  nine  miles  south  of  the  town  of 

daughters  of  her  brother  .Michael,  and  one  of  her  I'.nchanau,  had  an  own  brother  living  near  him.    It 

daughters  married  .Michael's  eldest  son.     She  lived  '^  -^  f'X'*^  that  .Michael   \\'oods,  .Jr.,  whom  we  have 

over  in  the  (ireat    Valley,  near  where  the  town  of  l"-"ve<l  (o  be  a  son  of  the  Blair  Bark  .Michael,  lived 

Lexington  now  stands— less  than  two  days'  ride  on  *'"''  ^"""'  X*'ars  only  fifteen  miles  from  Andrew,  and 

horseback    from    lUair    Park— and    iIh-   interconrs.^  Ar.hibal.l   Woods    lived    twenty  miles    from   him. 

between  ih.^  families  of  .Micha.d  and  Eli/.abeth  was  -^■"'  '''■  '^"""-  "f  ""  """■'■  l'"'''^""  '"  ='1'  "'='"  '■'■"'"" 

very  intimate.     Now  Andrew  Woods  named  one  of  =""'''*     l"'i-i'"l    '  IT'ir.    to    1 7Sl  , .  besi.les    .Michael 

,  .       .  ,     ,,,.     1,11               ,•  1  ■            ii             J.  ^^'oods,  Ji'.,  and  .\rcliibald  ^^'oods,  who  can  lairlv 
his  girls  I'dizabclh — in  honor  (d   his  woi'tliy  aunt, 

,,      ,           ,.           ,    ,.      .            „„          ,  be    rei^arded    as    meetini'    the   re(niirements   of   the 
as  we  can   liardl\-  keep  trom  bclie\iiig.      1  hen  An- 

case.  In  line  with  this  fact  is  the  festimonv  of  an- 
drew  named  a  dauiihter  .Marw  ami  was  not  that  the 

other  lad\-,  ^Irs.  Siiidow,  who  is  also  a  descendant 
verv  imnie  of  his  dear  old  Scotch  mother,  the  wife 

of  .\ndrew  A\'oods.     ^Irs.  Snidow  resides  at    Pem- 

(d' old  .Michael?    Some  iiia\' sa\' all  t  hese  lit  tie  mat-  ,      ,           .,                      ^^,        ^^.     .    .            -,     , 

broke,  dues  county,   \\  est  \  ir-ginia,  and  she  com- 

ters  are  onh    coincidences;  bnt  there  must  not  be  •     ^    t  ^     x,      ,-.        ,.  ,         ,,-      i        ,.  , „       >    ^, 

mnincated  to  the  Kev.  I.dgar  W  oods,  ot  (  harlottes- 

too  man\'  strikiiiii'   <-oinci(leiices,    lest   tliev  come  to  .,,      ,....,,.,.           ,.          ,       ,   .     , 

\ille.   \  irginia,  the  iiiformalion  about    to  be  gncn. 

c.mstitnte  that  circumstantial  evidence  which  now  ^[,.^    ^,,i,^„^^.    ,  ^^.,„,^,.  ,,,^,i,|,.„  j^^,,,,,.  ^^.^,^  Walk.T), 

and    then  avails  with  courts  and  juries    to  secure  .li^fj.ictly  r..called  a  journey  slu-  mad.'  in  IS.-.C.  with 

verdicts  (d'  tlm   most   momentous  kind.     In   oth.n-  ,„.j.  f.,^,„.j._  ^[,.    ,,,,,„.^.  \Valker,  thr<.ugh  the  region 

words,  coincidences,  when  they  become  too  numer-  ,.o„tiguous  to  Talawba  Cwi'k  in  what  are  now  the 

ous  and  striking  in  a  particular  rase,  only  prove  ,.nunties  of  Botetourt    and    Koanoke.     They  spent 

themselves  to  be  uo  accidents  at  all  but  the  natural  n,,.  „j„i,t  with  .Tose]ih   Woods  on  Catawba  Creek, 

and  intwitable  accompaniments  (d'  actual  fact.     If  This  .Fosejih  AVoods,  long  since  deceased,  was  a  son 

Andrew  A\'oods  was  not,  in  deed  and  truth,  a  son  <if  of  Archibald  A\'oods,  one  of  the  children  of  .Mich- 

Miohael  of  I'd.iir  Park,  he  certainly  has  displayed  aid    of   Blair    Park    referred    to   in    his   will.      .Mr. 

a  most   abnormal   ajitilnde   for  d.dng  exactly  the  AValker's    mother     was    a     daughter    of     Andrew 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK.                                                     37 

^\'((l)(ls,  iuid  -Tdscjth  «;is  a  s(ni  of  Arcliihakl.     And,  oliildi'cn  wliom  lie  cxiircsslv  naiiicil  in  liis  last  \\ill. 

of  coiusc,  if  Aiidicw  and   Aicliiliald    were    lirotU-  Tlic  onl_\-  rciiiainiiiii-  jicrson  lo  lie  considered  as 

ers   tlieii"  childi-en    wonid    lie   first  cousins   to  eacli  heinji' one  of  I  lie  iliilih  en  of  Michael  of  lUair  Park, 

other.      Mrs.   Snidow  says  she  remembers  that  in  tliouiih  not  referred  to  in  liis  will,  is  one  Kiehard 

all    their    conversations    t(ti>ether    they    addressed  ANOods,  wlio  was  once  tlie  sheriff  of  Augusta  county, 

each   other  always  as   "cousin."      Tlie   impression  ^'iri^■inia.      W'liilst    we  liave  not  the  same  annmnt 

made   n])on    .Mrs.    Snidow,    then    a    yonn^i'   woman  or  kind  of  evidence  in  sujijiort  of  his  claim  that  we 

past  thirty  years  of  aiic,  was  that  her  ureat-iiraml-  ha\'e  adduced  in  the  case  of  several  otlier  individ- 

father,  Andicw    Woods,  ^\•as  the  hrothei-  of  Archi-  uals,  then'  is  enoui^h    to   warrant   us  in   helievini;' 

liald    Woods.     Tliere  does  not  seem   ever  to  have  that  he  was  prol)ahly  a  son  of  Blair  Park  ^lichael. 

been    any  doubt  of    tliis  in   Mrs.   Snidow's    mind.  For  him,  as  for  the  others,  it  can  be  affirmed  that 

That  an   intelligent    lady  above  thirty    years  old  no  adverse  testimony  has  lieen  offered,  so  far  as  we 

could  sit  and  listen  to  the  conversations  between  have  heard.     The  only    tliinji   unfavorable  to   his 

her  father  and  Josepli  Woods,  and  then  be  all  her  claim   is  the  silence  of  the    will    respectini;-    him; 

life  in  utter  iiiuoi-ance  of  the  rclationslii](  e.xistins  and    this,  as  we  ha\c  seen,   is  a   kind   of  evidence 

between  these  two  men  seems  incredible.     The  fact  which   yields  to   almost   any   positive  proof  what- 

tliat  she  was  at  a  distance  from  her  own  home,  and  ever. 

on  a  visit  to  hei'  father's  "cousin  .Tose]>h,"  renders  The  Major  .1.  A.  K.  N'arner,  late  of  Lexington, 
it  far  more  likely  that  she  would  clearly  under-  Virginia,  from  whose  letters  cof)ious  quotations 
stand  exactly  what  kin  she  was  to  Joseph  Woods's  have  alrea<ly  been  made,  has  this  to  say  about  Rich- 
family  than  if  she  had  simjdy  oNcrheard  a  discus-  ard  ^^■oods,  writing  under  date  of  August  10,  1893, 
sion  in  hei-  own  home  about  kinfolks  at  a  distance,  to-wit:  "That  Richard  Woods  was  a  son  of  old 
Tlie  very  purpose  to  visit  the  distant  home  of  a  Michael  Woods  of  Albenmi-le  I  verily  believe — 
blood  relation  would  sha)'i»en  all  her  thoughts  everything  that  I  can  hear  or  tind  of  him  goes  to 
about  that  family;  and  as  they  drew  near  to  the  prove  this  as  certain.  The  farm  of  Richard  Woods 
home  of  Joseph  Woods,  and  finally  wciv  ushered  adjoim-d  the  plantations  of  (leneral  Bowyer  [the 
into  his  house  ami  welcomed  to  its  hospitality,  and  third  husband  of  Magdalen  Woods], and  I'eter  Wal- 
the  usual  salutations  were  exchanged,  and  the  con-  lace  [the  husband  of  Martha  Woods]  ;  the  farm  of 
versa! ion  turned  upon  the  (luestion  of  kinship,  she  Joseph  Lapsley  [the  husband  of  Sarah  Woods], 
would  have  had  to  be  one  of  the  most  stupid  of  adjoined  that  of  General  Bowyer.  Here  we  have 
listeners  not  to  have  understood  the  situation  fully,  a  little  colony  consisting  of  a  brother  and  three 
The  impressions  she  received  at  that  home  in  1836,  sisters  almost  in  sight  of  each  otlu'r.  The  will  of 
which  have  lingered  in  her  memory  through  life,  Richard  A\'oods  is  dated  June  -.  1777;  he  died  sev- 
and  which  she  communicated  to  Dr.  Edgar  Woods  eral  years  later  and  was  well-to-do,  having  a  good 
about  ten  years  ago,  constitute  the  most  valuable  farm,  negroes  and  a  couple  of  thousand  i)ounds  in 
of  all  items  of  family  history  next  to  written  doc-  Virginia  money  (|3.33  1-3  x  2,00(1),  to  give,  de- 
uments,  and  to  deny  their  accuracy  is  to  be  un-  vise  and  bequeath  to  his  wife  Jenny  (Janet  or 
reasoiuible,  and  to  cast  doubts  upon  the  larger  part  Jean  ),  and  his  sons  Benjamin  and  Samuel.  Samuel 
of  all  the  family  records  now  in  existence  in  the  is  named  as  executor  in  the  will.  When  he  quali- 
wiu'ld.  The  conclusion,  therefoi-e,  seems  irre-  tied,  Oeneral  r.owyer,  his  uncle  by  marriage,  and 
sistible  that  the  Andrew  \\'o(m1s  who  lived  in  Albe-  Colonel  Samuel  Wallace,  his  tii'sl  cousin,  were  his 
marie  many  years,  and  later  on  moved  to  Botetourt,  bondsmen.  The  courl  aiqiointed  his  two  brothers- 
and  there  died  in  1781,  was  just  as  really  a  child  of  in-law,  Joseph  Lapsley  and  I'eter  \\allace,  ap- 
^llchael  Woods  of  Blair   Park  as  any  of  the  six  praisers  of  the  estate  of  RMchard   Woods.     These 


38  THE    WOOD8  :\rfAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

facts  ])r()\'c  l<iiislii]i  licvniid  a  ilmilit.     lilood-kiiisliii)  liinisclf  in  the  Icllcr  lie  wi'olc  .Tud.iic  McLaii^lilin 

'ti»l<l'  ill  ilicsc  tiiiu's.     It   was  iiioic  tliaii  a  gossa-  ilai'ch  1,  1892. 

iiu'i-  s(arl(  I   lliicad;  it  was  a  cliain  lliat  Ixdind  the  There  is  some  conl'iisidn  ci'cated  conoerniiiji' this 

chui  toi^cllicr  and  stodd  any  Icnsinn  jait  npon  it.  IJichard  ^^^)()ds,  Iiowcnci-,  Ii\   tlie  accennt  of  a  <-<'r- 

In    moinii    ii\('i'    tlie    (dd     iccords    |()f    Rockbridge  tain  Ricliard   \\'oods.  of  Ailicmarlc,  gi\"cn  liy    Dr. 

conidy,  N'irginia],  I  was  sti-nck  witli  tlic  closeness  Edgar  \\'((ods  in  Ids  History  of  Allx-niarle  (pages 

wiih  wliicii  ijicse  families  were  in  toncli  with  each  '.'>'>'>  and  .■>.">()).     I  »r.   I'dgar  Woods  says  a  liichard 

otlu'i'.      If  any  of  tlieni    r<'(|nii'e(l    to  gi\'e  liond   as  Woods  ii\-ed  in  Allieuiarh',  north  of  Tayhir's  <iai), 

administrators,     executors,     gnardian,    or     as     an  and  speaks  as  if  I  iicre  lie  died  in  ISOl.      If  the  two 

official,  yon   will   find  the  names  of    Howyer,   ilc-  are  one  and   the  same,   ilieii    he  must    have    heen 

Dowell,  Woods,  J>aiisle,\-  or  ^^'alla(•e  as  liondsnien  eighty     to     eiglity-five     at     death.      The     Richard 

to  the  insirnment.     Yon  will   llnd  llie  same  names  \\'oods    of    Rockhridge    ("oiinty    of    whom    .Major 

attached  lo  deeds  and  wills  as  witnesses.     .\ll  this  \'arner  speaks  made  his  will  in  1777,  and  died  there 

shows  a  survival  of  the  old  clan  touch  and  feeling,  ahoiit    two    years    thereafter.     These  two    sets  of 

My  nearest  neighbor.  ,Miss   Itetly  Alexander,  is  a  statements  could  scarcely  I'el'er  to  cue  aud  the  same 

desceudant  of  John  ^McDowell,  tlie  first  husband  of  man.      Roth  Dr.  Edgar  \V(io(ls,  in  his  History  of   • 

^lagdaleii    Woods    (the   foiiiMh    remove   from  her),  Albemarle    (page  85G),  and    Mr.   ^Vaddldl,   in   his 

and  a  niece  of  that  great  jireaclier  and  theologian,  Annals  of  Augusta  County    (page  117),  speak  of 

Archibald  Alexander,  of   I'rim-eton  ( 'ollcge.    Her  this  Albemai-le  Richard  \\'oods  as  having  married  a 

niollier  died  since  the  (lose  of  our  Civil  War,  and  Miss  Stuart,  a  sister  of  Col.  John  Stuart,  of  (ireen- 

slie  says  that   Inr  mother  iciin  mlicicd    licr    ( /'.   c.  brier.      Mr.  ^Vaddell  gives  her  Christian  name  as 

Mrs.   Alexander's)    graiidmol  her,   Magdalene  Row-  "Retsy,"  whilst  Dr.  Edgar  Woods  gives  it  as  "Eliza 

yer,   well.      .Miss  Alexander   has   this  to  say,   that  Ann."     The  "Eliza,"  however,  may  have  been  only 

she  heard  her  mot  Ik  r  say  that  lu  r  ( /.  i .,  Mrs.  Alex-  an  abbreviation  of  Elizabeth  for  w  hich  "Retsy"  was 

ander's)    grandmother    (Magdalene  Rowyer),  was  a  common  alternative  or  ]iet-name.     The  childreu 

M'ith  her  brother,  who  lived  but  a  slioit  distance —  of  Richard   Woods,  of  Albemarle,  as  given  bv  Dr. 

a    short    walk — from     her     house,    when    he    died.  lOdgar    \\dods,    were     ^\"illiam,     Ricliard,  (ieorge, 

*     *     *     Now,  the  brother  could   have  been  none  Matthew     and     Elizabeth,   whereas    Major  Varner 

other  than   Ricliar<l  ^\' Is,  as  his  house  was  less  speaks  of  but  two  children  of  the  Rockbridge  Rich- 

thau  half  a  mile  from  the  home  of  .Magdaleue  Row-  ard,  the  one  being  Reiijamin,  and  the  other  Saiinnd. 
yer.  No  other  Woods  lived  within  less  than  twenty  The  Albemarle  Richard  is  designated  by  Waddell 
miles  of  her.  This,  I  think,  settles  the  ipn'stion  as  as  C.donel  Richard  Woods,  whilst  Major  Varner 
to  the  degree  of  relationship  of  Kichard  \\'oods  to  omits  all  title  in  referring  to  the  Kockbridge  Rich- 
Michael  Woods,  Sr."  iird.  Then  still  further  complications  arise  from 
The  :Mr.  Cochran  who  has,  like  .Major  Varner,  the  fact  tliat  the  Rockbridge  Richard  was  sheritf  of 
been  so  freely  (pioted  on  foregoing  pages,  was  of  Augusta  about  17.'7  (  Ikockbridge  county  was  not 
the  same  ojiinion  as  :\[ajor  Varner  in  regard  to  carved  out  of  Augusta  and  Rotetourt  iiiilil 
Richard  Woods  being  a  son  (d'  old  .Michael  of  Rlair  177S|,  and  from  the  fni-lher  fact  that,  according  to 
Park,  lie  had  no  knowledge,  doubtless,  of  the  con-  ^\ad(lell  (page  132),  a  Richard  Woods  was  made 
vincing  evidence  of  that  fact  which  has  just  been  the  tirst  sheriff  of  Rotetourt  at  its  erection  in  1770. 
quoted  from  .Major  \'arner"s  letter.  Even  without  The  writer  confesses  that  he  is  unable  to  diseii- 
it,  however,  he  considered  it  extremely  probable  tangle  these  various  Ricliards,  aud  contents  him- 
that  Richard  was,  along  with  Andrew  and  Michael,  self  with  saying  that  it  is  reasonable  to  believe  that 
Jr., a  sou  of  Rlair  Park  Michael, and  he  so  expressed  the  one  referred  to  by  Major  Varuer  was  a  sou  of 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK. 


39 


^[icluit'l  W'nods  of  IJhiii'  I'ark.  As,  accdi'diiio-  to 
IH'.  Edijiir  \\'oo(ls,  the  Albemarle  Richard  had  a 
soil  named  iJi(  hard,  aud  court  records  often  fail  to 
distinguish  two  men  of  the  same  name  from  each 
other,  it  may  he  that  the  Richard,  Jr.,  of  Alhenuirle, 
has  somelimes  been  confounded  with  either  his 
father  or  w  ilh  still  another  man  of  the  same  name. 
Anotlier  faet  to  he  borne  iu  mind  is  that  the  wife  of 
the  Rockhridge  Richard  Woods,  according  to  ^fajor 
\'arner.  was  not  Betsy  or  Elizabeth,  but  Jenny 
(Janet  or  Jean).  But  Betsy  may  have  died  and 
he  may  lia\-e  married  later  a  lady  by  the  mune  of 
Jenny.  These  confusing  details,  however,  do  not 
in  anywise  affect  the  argument  intended  to  prove 
tliat  old  .Michael  of  Blair  Bark  had  a  son  Richard 
who  lived  f()r  many  years  iu  Augusta  (later  on, 
Rockbridge ).  We  feel  pretty  sure  as  to  Avhere  this 
one  canu'  from,  though  we  are  unable  to  locate  him 
thi'oughout  his  entire  career  or  to  distinguish  him 
from  one  or  two  other  men  of  the  same  name. 
Ileuce,  it  is  but  fair  to  set  down  a  Richard  among 
the  children  of  .Michael  Woods  of  Bdair  Park. 

There  are  not  wanting  intelligent  and  well-in- 
formed persons  who  incline  to  the  opinion  tlmt  old 
.Michael  had  several  other  sons  besides  all  those  al- 
ready mentioned — Samuel,  Nathan,  Janu'S — but 
the  writer  knows  of  no  satisfactory  evidence  of  the 
truth  of  such  surmises.  There  were,  indeed,  sev- 
eral men  of  tlie  ^^  oods  name  who  lived  very  close 
to  old  ;Miciiaei  in  Albemarle,  and  who  were,  no 
(hmbt,  in  some  way  related  to  him  by  blood,  but  so 
far  as  the  writer  has  been  able  to  learn  nothing 
])ositive  is  known  u]ton  which  we  ccmld  fairly  base 


an  opinion.  We  must  therefore  limit  the  nundier 
of  old  .Micliael's  children  to  eicNcn,  si.\  of  whom  Iu; 
mentioned  in  his  last  will,  and  live  as  to  whom  he 
was  silent  when  he  |i(iined  that  instrument,  f(U- rea- 
sons which  to  liim  seemed  satisfactoi'v  and  ](rop(>r. 
The  follow  ing  exhiliit  of  the  childi'en  of  .M  ichael 
\\'oods  and  his  wife  .Mary  {  inc  ( 'anijibdl  i ,  is  pre- 
sented as  the  result  of  the  writer's  researches  ex- 
tending through  the  last  ten  years.  The  one  aim 
has  been  to  get  at  the  truth,  and  then  to  state  it 
fairly,  regardless  of  the  predilections  and  prefer- 
ences of  himself  or  others.  The  exact  date  of  the 
Idrth  and  death  of  the  several  children  is  not 
known  with  any  certaint.\'  in  nmny  instances. 
^\'llere  there  exist  doubts,  aud  mere  conjecture  aud 
inference  have  luid  to  be  resorted  to,  that  fact  is 
indicated  by  inferi'ogation  marks  enclosed  in  pa- 
rentheses. Only  those  dates  which  the  writer  con- 
siders to  have  l)een  satisfactorily  proved  are  left 
without  such  signs  of  doubt.  That  some  errors 
should  be  found  in  any  exhibit  thus  made  up  is  in- 
evitable. The  wril(M'  has  sim])ly  done  his  Ijcst  to 
ascertain  the  facts,  and  is  well  awai"e  that  in  many 
cases  an  inference  or  conjecture  was  all  he  had  to 
build  ui^on.  He  had  to  sift  the  few  grains  of  truth 
oftentimes  from  a  great  mass  of  wild  guesses  and 
utterly  self-contradictory  speculations.  If  there  is 
any  person  alive  who  jfossesses  reliable  data  for  a 
more  accurate  exhibit  than  that  which  is  here  pre- 
sented, it  is  a  tliousand  pities  that  the  writer  could 
not  have  had  the  privilege  of  availing  himself  of 
such  information  ;  but  he  does  not  now  know  of 
such  a  person. 


EXHIBIT. 

Children  of  ;M  ichael  and  Mary  Campbell  Woods. 


A.- 

B. 

C- 

I). 

E. 

F.- 

0.- 

II. 

J. 

K. 

L. 


-MAODALEN     B.  170G  (  ?) 

AVILLI.VM B.  1707  (  ?  I 

.MICHAEL,  JK P..  170S  (  ? ) 

-HANNAH    P..  171(1  (  V) 

JOHN   B.  1712 

-:\IAR(JARET     B.  1714  (  ?) 

-RICHARD     P..  171.")  (  ■.') 

-ARCHIIiALD     15.  171G  (  ?) 

.MARTHA     B.  1720 

-ANDREW    B.  1722  (?) 

-SARAH     B.  1721  (?) 


:\[.  McDOAVELL-BORDEN-BOAYYER  D.  1810  (?) 

:M.  SUSANNAH  WALLACE    I). 

M.  ANNE  — I).  1777 

.M.  WILLIA.M    W.\1,1..VCE    D. 

SrSANNAlI  ANDIORSON   I).  17!)1 


.M 
.M 
.M 
M 


ANDREW  WALLACE   D. 

JENNY   D.  1 770 

ISABELLA D.  1 7S.S 

M.PETER   WALLACE,  JR D.  1700 

M.  MARTHA   POAiHC    D.  17S1 

M.  JOSEPH  LAPSLEY D.  1792  ( ?) 


40  THE  wooDS-:\rcAFEE  :memokial.  j 

I 

Conccniiim  cadi  and  all  (iT  the  eleven  children  years.     Slie  ninst    have  been  a  woman  of  remark-     j 

of  .Michael  and  .Marv  Ihere  is  a  ureal   innllitnde  of  aide  jihysieal  vij;(>i-.  and  of  oreal   sti'eniitli  of  char-     | 

details    we    would    i^ladlv    know    if    \\c   could,   bnt  acler.  I 

whicli  il  is  now   impossible  to  recover,  and  yet  from  She  was  tlii-ec  limes  married,  ami  al   I  he  death     i 

various  pi-inled  hooks,  and  courl   rec(U-ds,  and  ec-  of     her   second     hushaud     (I!(U-deni,    became     the 

cU  siasi  ical  rciiisters,  and  Slale  iiajicrs,  and  ancicnl  wcallliiesi    lady    wesi    of    the    lUue   llid.ue,    Horden 

tombstones,  and   family  tradili(nis  w c  are  able  to  having   fallen    heir   lo   a    pari    of   his    father's   vast 

o-ather  (luile  a   number  of   inlei'cstinu   items  of  a  latuled  eslale  of  -Mill, (10(1  aci'cs  in  IheCreat  Valley 

trusi  worthy  character.     Such  of  these  as  the  an-  before     his    marriajic    with    .Majidalen.      She    was 

thor  has  had  llie  opjioi-tnuity  to  discovei'  will  now  widely  known  Ihronjihoul  a  wide  circle  of  connec- 

be  presented,   uumy  of    which   have  never    before  tions.  and    was  fre(inenlly   honoreil   by  having  the 

been  in  print:  children  of  relatives  name(l  tor  hei'. 

The  correct  spellinu  of  her  name  is  a  matter  of 

A— .MA(il)ALEX  WOODS,  AND  THE  .AlcDOW-  ^  ,       .  -,    •  n         .     . 

no  ureat  monieid,  and   \et  it  is  one  worlliv  ot  at 
ELLS,  ANI>  I'.OKDENS.  AND  r.OWYEKS.  ...       '„„  ,         ,  i      .i 

least    a    passiiiii,   notice.      I  he   aullior   has  adopted 

Of  her  early  life  next  to  nothing  is  positively  ^j,^,  orthography  employed  herein  (. Magdalen  |  he- 
known.  That  she  was  a  child  of  :Michael  Woods  ,..„j^,,  jj.  j^^.,,jj,j^  ^j^.^^  ^^..^^^  jl^^,  ]U'efereiice  of  the  go(.d 
by  his  wife  .Mary,  ii<<  ("ampbell,  has  been,  as  we  lady  herself,  and  is  the  one  fcdlowed  by  some  of  her 
believe,  satisfa.-torily  .lemoiistrated.  That  she  was  |^^.^^  i„Cunued  kinsfolk.  It  is  one  of  those  names 
bom  in  Ireland  aboul  the  year  ITdC,  is  111.'  convic-  ^^^^.^,^^  -^  certain  to  be  variously  spelled  even  by  the 

tion  of  the  aulhor.  based  up.m  vari.ms  well-ascer-  ,|i||v,.,.,|,     „„.„ ^s  of    the   family  connections    to 

tained   facts.     It   seems  cMiially  lU'obable  that    sh.-  ^^.,,j^.,^  ,|,^.  ^^.,.,,,.,,,.  ,,,.  j,   |„.|,,„„^      ^Ve  liiid  Magda- 

was  the  first  child  ..f  her  parents.     Her  father,  as  j^,,^.^_    Magdalene,    .Ahigdaline,    besides    .Magdalen, 

is  known,  was  born   in   1(;S4,  and  it  is  extremely  ,,^,.,,   ,,^.  different   writers;   but    in    the  year  1753, 

likely   he   did    not    marry    till    he    was   twenly-oim  ,|,„.i„„.  ,„.,.  ^,.,.,„„,    ^idowhoo.!,   we  tiiid  her  name 

years  (dd  (say  in  IKIol,  an.l  was  not  a  father  until  ^j^,^^.,,  ^,,  .,  ,..,||    ^^.|,j,,,,   ,,,,,  rpj, ,,,,,,,.  j.^^^g^,  Chnrch 

IKIC.     It  is  also  reas.uiably  .vrtaiu    Ihal    h.T  pa-  ....f,.,,,,,,,,   ,,,  .,    |.,.,.    .,,,,,„    ,.,.,,,,11,  and  she  sp.-lled 

rents  migrated  to  Ameri<-a  in  1Tl'4,  at  which  time  |„,,.  ,.|,,isiian  name  .Magdahui,  if  we  are  lo  ac<-ept 

she  was  ab.mt  eighteen  years  of  age;  and  it  is  cer-  ^^,,,,,   ^^.,,  ^j,„,   j„   ,  „.    y,,,,^^-^  .in,.g,,d  ,.„p,.  ^f  that 

tainly  known  that  she  did  not  leave  (ireat  P.ritain  ,i.M-nment.^''  This  .night  to  settle  the  matter,  tliongh 

when  her  parents  removed  to  the  New  World.      It  ,,^.,.,,  .,  |.„,^,  ,„.,^.  ,,„,  ,„.  i„variably  consistent  with 

is   positively   certain— from    the   best   of   evidence,  ,„.,.^,.||'_  .,,,,1  tins  one  may  in  s..me  instances,  or  at 

soon  to  be  given— Ihal  she  came  to  Virginia  from  ,|iic,„,.„,   ,„.,-!, hIs  of  her  lung  life,  have  varied  the 

(ireat  I'.ritain  in   1737,  at  which  time  she  was  the  ..nhngraphy  of  Imr  name, 
wife  of  John  McDowell,  and  the  mother  of  at  least 

one  child,   Samnel.     When   she  came  t(.   Virginia  Skctki.x  Omo— Tiik.  .McDowki.i.s. 

she  was  about  thirty-one  years  old,  and   there  she  The    earliesi    anlheiilic    account  of    John   Mc- 

spent  ( in  ISockbridge  county  I ,  the  w  lude  (d'  the  re-  Dowell,    .Magdalen's    first    husband,    consists   of   a 

niainder  of  her  extracu'dinarily  long  life,  dying,  as  brief  record   in  the  coiirl   house  of  Orange  county, 

is  belie\-ed,  ill  ISIO.  al  the  great  age  of  104  years.  N'irginia.      It    beai-s  dale   I'ebruary   I'S,   173)9.  and 

She  was  a  I'resbyterian,  and  was  probably  a  mem-  reads  as    follows:     "Jolm  ^IcDowell    made    oath 

her  of  Timber  Ividge  ("hurcji   from   its  tirst  organ-  that    he    imported    himself.   ^Magdalen    his    wife, 

ization,  not  huig  after  her  arrival  in  the  neighbor-  Samnel   jMcDowell   his  son,  and   John   Rntter  his 

hood,  until  her  death — a  period  of  at  least  seventy  servant,  at  his  charge  from  Great  Bx'itain,  in  the 


MICHAEL   \VO()r)S  OF  BLAIR  PAIIK.  41 

jear  1737  f(p  dwell  in  tliis  colony."  Let  it  he  liorne  make  liim  jiisl  iilimil  Iwcnly-one  wlien  lie  iiiari'ie(l 
in  mind  liial  wJiilsl  llie  act  of  the  Colonial  Lcgis-  ^hiiidalen  Woods,  I  liirly  tour  when  lie  came  lo  \'ii'- 
lature  for  the  creation  of  the  t'uunty  of  Au!j,ustii  Ity  ginia,  and  linily-nine  when  hi'  was  romnnssioued 
dividiiiij;  Orange  connty  was  i)assod  in  17oS — oue  captain  of  (he  miiilia  company  of  which  he  was  in 
year  heforc  John  McDowell  took  the  oath  jnst  re-  command  wjien  killed  l)\-  (he  Indians, 
ferred  to — the  connty  was  not  fnlly  organi/.ed  until  Whether  lOphraim  .McDowell,  John's  faiher, 
174.").  TJiis  exjilains  why  the  record  above  (pioted  came  to  America  prior  (o  17:!7  is  a  ma((ei-  which 
was  made  at  ( »range  conrt  lionse.  I'\ir(liermore,  the  the  records  widiin  reach  of  (he  presen(  wriiei'  do 
records  (ff  the  land  uitice  at  Iiichnioiid  show  (lia(  on  not  satisfactorily  (le(erniine.  If  wlia(  we  (ind  in 
tlie  lOtli  of  November,  1742,  McDowell  secnred  a  most  of  (he  books  coiireriiing  (he  dale  of  (he  mi- 
grant of  400  acres  of  land  on  account  of  the  impor-  gration  of  the  faiher  be  as  nnreliable  as  some  of 
tation  of  himself  and  family  into  the  colony  at  his  the  statements  which  are  here  seen  touching  that 
own  charges  fi\'e  years  before.'"'  This  one  sworn  of  the  son,  not  mncli  deiiendence  can  be  placed 
statement,  recorded  in  ( »raiige  county,  fui'iiishes  us  ujton  it.  1\\\\  (hei-e  ai-e  some  reasons  for  belie\-ing 
a  \'ery  delinile  and  incontrovertible  basis  for  a  re-  that  I*>])liraim  and  mosi  of  his  family  itrecedeil 
liable  accouni  of  both  John  McDowell  and  Mag-  John  and  family  by  at  least  a  few  years.  Col. 
dalen  ^^■oo(ls.  It  clears  up  several  disputed  ques-  Cireen  surmises  that  the  McDowells  and  a  goodly 
tions,  and  it  reveals  the  worthlessness  of  a  good  company  of  their  kinsmen  and  co-religionists  mi- 
many  speculations  which  have  been  written  in  re-  grated  from  Ireland  a(  (me  and  the  same  time,  and 
gard  to  (his  con])le.  It  shows  (ha(  John  .McDowell  he  inclines  to  the  \iew  dial  i(  ma.\  ha\'e  been  (he 
and  Magdalen  did  not  reach  Virginia  nn(il  lliirleen  year  172!>.^"  This  is  cerlainly  inexact  so  far  as  re- 
years  af(er  .Magdalen's  jtareuts  had  lefl  Ireland,  bites  to  John  and  family,  but  is  probalily  Irue  as 
and  tliree  years  after  the  settlement  of  (he  Woodses  to  his  father  and  (he  oilier  members  of  the  Mc- 
in  \'irginia.  It  shows  also  that  John  .McDowell  Dowell  colony.  l'>]>hraiiii  and  his  ]iarty  seem  to 
and  wife  never  were  citizens  of  the  colony  of  IVnn-  have  settled  first  in  Pennsylvania,  and  then  later 
sylvania,  and  that  their  son  Samuel  was  not  liorn  on  to  have  moved  on  down  in(o  (he  Valley  of  Vir- 
tliere,  but  in  (Jreat  Britain.  Of  course,  John  and  ginia.  If  this  southward  move  occui-red  in  17;'>7 
family  may  have  landed  tii-st  on  the  Delaware,  and  John  and  family  may  lia\c  been  in  (he  company, 
mayhave  passed  through  rennsylvania  on  (heirway  'H'e  wife  of  Ephraim,  who  was  his  full  lirst  cousin, 
down  lo  Virginia,  but  that  colony  was  never  their  was  Margaret  Irvine.  Col,  (Jreen  infers  Ihat 
home.     According  to  AVaddell  that  was  the  route  she   was   dead    when   the   family  left   Ireland,    be- 

of  all  11 arlier  settlers  going  to  tlie  Great  Val-  cause  her  daughter,  ;\Irs.  (Jreenlee,  in  her  fanunis 

ley.'-  I'or  some  reason  none  of  tliem  laii<led  at  a  dei»osition,  taken  in  ISIKI,  when  she  was  ninety- 
Virginia  ])or(  and  then  came  across  westwardly  to  five  years  (dd,  sjieaks  as  if  her  niolher  was  not  with 
the  ^'alley.  the  family  at  (he  time  of  (Ii(>  migraiion  (o 
The  date  of  Tohn  McDowell's  liirlh  has  been  America.''  (The  i-eader  will  jdease  turn  to  note 
given  as  1714  by  some,  but  this  must  be  too  late  a  41,  and  i-ead  i(  before  going  further.)  Ephraim 
date  by  at  least  ten  or  eleven  years,  lie  was  al-  and  wife  were  genuine  Sco(ch-Trisli  Presbyterians, 
most  certainly  older  than  his  wife,  who  was  born  like  the  jiarenls  of  (he  lady  (heir  son  Tohn  nmr- 
abont  1701).  lie  died  at  the  close  of  1741',  and,  even  ried,  and  we  may  resi  assured  dial  John  could  re- 
if  born  in  171):'.,  he  was  only  thirty-nine  at  the  time  cite  the  Shorlei'  Calechism,  proofs  and  all,  before 
of  his  deadi.  lie  was  recognized  as  a  surveyor  in  he  was  sixteen  years  old,  and  was  familiar  with  his 
1737,  and  all  indications  point  to  his  having  been  Bible  and  Psalm  Book.  One  reason  for  surmising 
born  not  later  than  about  the  year  1703.   Thiswould  that  Ephraim  came  (o  .\merica  some  years  prior 


42  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

to  1737  is  his  knnw  n  inliiiiacy  in  Ireland  with  Jolin  Valley  from  Pennsylvania  (John  and  family  hav- 
Lewis,  tlic  man  wiin.  in  17:VJ,  settled  what  after-  ing  jnst  ari-ived  from  Ireland  i  with  tlie  intention 
wards  liecaiiie  Aii^iisia  roiiiily.  Lewis  had  mi-  of  settlin!^'  close  to  dolni  licwis.  When  nearly  at 
<;;rated  lo  IN-nnsylvauia.  and  then  in  1782  settled  in  llicir  destination  the  party  accidentally  fell  in  with 
the  (ireat  N'alley  near  where  Stannton  was  after-  one  Hen  liorden,  Sr.,  of  New  Jersey,  who  had 
wards  Imilt.  <'ol.  (Jreen  lielieves  that  Ephraini  recently  secured  fiom  <io\'.  (iooch  a  large  grant  of 
^Icl>owcll  ami  .lolm  Lewis  came  to  America  to-  500,(100  acres  on  the  Shenandoah  and  James  rivers 
gether  in  the  year  172!t,  and  this  seems  (|nite  likely,  in  parts  of  the  territoiy  now  iiuluded  in  the 
though  it  seems  (|nite  strange  that  Ephraim,  who  counties  of  Augusta  and  Kockhridge.  I'roducing 
was  then  a  man  of  lifty-scNcn,  should  make  so  scri-  his  ])atents,  he  soon  satislied  the  .Mcl>owells  that 
ous  a  move  as  was  imohed  in  his  migratir>n  to  an-  his  claim  was  lawful  and  sound.  He  t(dd  the  Mc- 
other  continent  lieyond  the  sea,  leaving  liehiud  him  Dowclls  that  he  had  located  10.000  acres  in  the 
his  eldest  son,  John,  then  a  young  man  of  about  j'oi'k  of  Tames  river,  hut  was  not  ahle  to  nudve  his 
twenty-six  years,  who  did  not  follow  till  eight  years  way  to  the  ](laee,  and  he  (dl'ered  to  give  1,000  acres 
later.  This  certainly  calls  for  some  nnusual  ex-  to  anyoni' who  would  diicit  him  to  the  spot.  John 
])lanation.  The  childri'U  of  JO])hraim  .McDowell  McDowell,  who  was  an  educated  man  and  a  prac- 
and  his  wife -Margaret,  y/cc  Irvine,  were  the  follow-  tical  siirveyor,  accepted  the  offer,  and  a  written 
ing:  1,  IdiiN,  who  married  .Magdalen  Woods;  2,  agreeuKMit  was  entered  into  between  the  parties. 
J.VMKS,  who  is  thought  to  have  lieeu  the  lirst  mem-  '{'he  next  day  the  whole  jiai-iy  reached  tlie  home  of 
her  of  the  family  to  go  to  \'irginia,  having  raised  a  John  Lewis.  .McDowell  ]Mloted  Uorden  to  the  de- 
croji  of  coin  in  r>e\erly  .Manor  in  the  siuing  of  sired  locality  and  the  whole  c(dony  concluded  to 
1737,  who  was  a  gallant  soldier  of  the  N'irginia  settle  in  I'.orden's  (Irani.  When  and  how  John 
militia  during  the  Lrench  and  Indian  ^V!ars,  who  ac(|uir<'d  his  knowledge  of  that  region  we  can  not 
married  a  lady  near  Williamsbiii-g,  and  who  died  e\(ngm'ss.  ( 'abins  were  soon  ei'ccted  for  I]]»hraini 
without  male  issue;  3,  .M.\i;y  E.,  who  was  born  in  .Mel  >owell,  (he  ( !r(MMdees,  and  John  .M(  Dowell,  near 
1711,  who  maiTied  .lames  (Jreenlee,  who  came  into  where  Lexington,  N'irginia,  now  stands,  and  the 
r.oi-den's  (Irant  in  the  fall  of  1737.,  and  who  gave  men  of  the  colony — one  of  the  first  in  all  that  sec- 
her  famous  (lei)osition  in  the  case  of  IJorden  vs.  tion  of  counlry  after  that  of  Tohn  Lewis — at  once 
Cueton  et  al.,  in  ISOti  when  niuety-tive  years  old;  liegan  writing  to  friends  in  Ireland  and  perhajis  in 
and  1,  ^[ai{(!.\uett.\.  who  married  James  Mitchell,  I'ennsylvania,  to  come  and  make  homes  in  the  heau- 
wiio  mo\ed  to  North  Carolina  and  later  to  South  tiful  N'alhy.  The  result  was  that  in  a,  few  years  the 
Carolina,  with  hei-  busliand,  and  from  whom  was  ^^'oodses,  \\'allaces.  Walkers,  .McCluugs,  Saw- 
descended  the  late  .Mr.  Thomas  .Mitchell,  an  hon-  yerses,  McCues,  -McCowns,  Hayses,  .McElroys, 
ored  banker  of  Danville,  Kentucky,  whose  only  .McKees,  McCuuslands,  McCamphells,  McPheet- 
dangli(er,  Louisa,  is  the  wife  of  the  Kev.  Thomas  (  rses,  Campbells,  Stuarts,  I'axtons,  Lyles,  h-viues, 
Cleland.  of  Springfield,  ^lo.  Caldwells,  Cloyds,  etc.,  were  induced  to  settle  in 
\\  hat  was  known  as  Borden's  (Jraut  in-  that  charming  wilderness  and  become  the  jiioneers 
eluded  a  large  jiart  of  the  present  counties  of  in  establishing  one  of  t  he  most  prospei'ons  and  en- 
Augusta  and  Kockhridge.  John  Lewis,  the  (dd  lightened  agricultural  communities  ever  founded 
friend  and  kinsman  of  Ephraim  Mt'Dow(dl.  had  in  the  New  ^^'ol■ld.  rresb_\teiian  churches  soon  he- 
settled  in  Augusta  (or  what  afterwards  came  to  be  gan  to  be  established  in  all  that  region,  and  for  a 
Augusta  I  in  1732,  and  about  live  years  thereafter  long  period  they  were  the  only  churches  of  any 
(1737)  we  find  Ephraim  3IcDowell  and  the  Green-  kind  in  the  Valley;  and  now,  after  the  lapse  of  a 
lees  and  John  McDowell  and  family  conung  up  the  centiiry  and  a  half,  they  are  among  the  nnist  pow- 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK.                                                    43 

prful  iuid  hciK'liccnt  niiciicii'S  for  llii-  iiitclli-ctuiil  mii-ci-s  duw  n  in  ilic  Iwcnl  icili  cciiliirs' (■(uisidiTjnilc 
and  s](irilual  Iviiiuiiiii  <>1'  (lie  iuliabitauts  of  tlie  iK'i'plcxil_\-  if  he  sliould  in  sonic  \\a v  niana.Lir  lo  Iiavc; 
Circat  N'allfV.  I-^plivaini  Mel  towcll  lived  to  b<'  tliat  petition  rccasl.  I  f  an v  oin'  feels  enoiii;li  inter- 
more  tlian  a  hundred  years  of  aj^c,  ontli\  in^'  liis  est  in  the  matter  lo  wanl  lo  read  il  for  himself,  he 
son  .lolin  more  than  a  whole  Ji'enoration,  ami  dyinu,-  can  find  it  in  fnii  in  W'addell's  Annals  ( ])aii('  tS2). 
at  the  ontbreak  of  Hie  American  Kevolulion,  in  II  would  lia\'c  made  -losli  Uillin^s,  Ai-lcmns  Ward 
wliieli  so  many  of  his  descendants  were  destined  to  and  Rill  Nye  feel  very  small.  We  can  rest  assured, 
plav  a  prominent  and  honorable  part.  howcvei',  that  -lolm  .Mcltowidl  was  in  no  way  rc;- 
John  McDowell's  career  in  Virginia  was  a  bri<'f  sponsible  for  the  wordinj;  and  spelling  of  the  peti- 
one,  and  had  a  teiTible  ending.  He  lived  but  a  tion,  for  he  was  an  educated  man,  and  must  have 
little  more  than  five  years  after  settling  in  the  felt  a  little  endiarrassed  by  its  make-up  if  he  ever 
A'alley.  In  July,  1742,  a  ]iet  it  ion  was  gotten  up  by  did  read  it,  wliich  is  (bmblfnl.  It  accomplished 
his  many  friends  and  admirers,  and  addressed  to  its  pui'pose,  however;  it  secured  liim  his  conunis- 
(Jov.  (b)ocli,  asking  that  he  be  a]i]H)inted  captain  sion  from  the  (io\-ernoi-,  and  lu'  was  made  captain 
of  the  colonial   militia  for  Augusta  county,  as  a  of  the  Augusta  militia. 

defence  against  the  Indians  who  frequently  visited  lint,  alas,  how  brief  was  the  i)eriod  for  which 

the  Valley,  their  main  A\ar-path  from  the  north  to  he  was  to  wear  his  honors  and  coutinue  to  serve  his 

the  south  ])assing  right  by  the  site  of  Staunton,  and  community  I    Late  in  December,  174:2,  tidings  came 

crossing  the  lUue  Kidge  at  Woods's  Oap.     Tluit  pe-  to  the  settlement  (on  Christmas  eve)   that  a  band 

tition,  by  the  way,  which  is  given  in  full  by  ^Vad-  of  blood-thirsty  Shawnee  Indians  from  beyond  Iho 

dell,'"   is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  examples  of  Ohio  were  already   prowling   in   the  neighborhood, 

•'stunning"  orthography  t()  be  found   in  all   litera-      intent  upon  d Is  of  plunder  and  Id 1.     At  his 

ture.     The  wonder  is  that  the  educated  men  of  the  call  the  men  of  his  com])any  (piickly  assembleil  at 

community,  of  whom  there  were  not  a  few,  should  his  honu'  on  Tind»er  Ridge,  and  a  council  of  war 

have  allowed  sucli   a   ridiculously   illiterate  docu-  was  lield.     Captain  McDowell  was  a  ccmiparatively 

nienl  to  be  sent  to  (lovernor  (loocli.     The  only  way  young    man.    and    alnmst     without    e.\])erience    in 

in  which  we  can  account   for  the  jireseutation  of  Indian   warfare.      He  was  not    vei-y   familiar  with 

such  a  }(a]ier  to  the  colonial  government  is  that  it  the  cunning  tactics  of  his  foe.      lint  he  was  fearless 

was  written  and  nuviuly  gotten  up  by  some  warm  and  enteri>rising,  and  soon  the  comi)any  of  militia 

admirer  of  John  McDowell,  who,  though  destitute  under  his  lead  started  in  pursuit  of  the  savages.    It 

of  education,  may   have   lu-en  a   man  of  excellent  was  on  riiristmas  day.    When  they  had  reached  the 

character    and    inllucnce    in    the    community,    as  i)oint   w  heic  the  Noi'th  river  comes  into  the  James 

we  sometimes  tind    il  Insi  ial(  (I    in    our    own    da\';  at  Balcony  I'alls,  not  much  nutre  than  twenty  miles 

and    foi-    fear    t>\'    giving    liini    offence,     the     ])eti-  from  tb.eir  homes,  they  marched  all  unconsciously 

tion    was    allowed    to    go    for.rard    to    Williams-  into     a     deadly     ambuscade,     skilfully     laid     for 

burg    as     it     was     originally    prepared.     Perhaps  them  by  the  wily  and  murderous  Shawiu'es;  and 

t.nly   a    few    of   the   signers   ever    read     it.       But  tlie  first  intimat  ion  the  whites  had  of  the  preseuce 

if  wc  could  have  been  near  enough  to  the  gallant  of  the  foe  Avas  a  sudden  volley  from  the  rifles  of  the 

captain-to-l)e  wc  wdiild   have  been  tempted   to  sug-  Indians   which     instant  ly     laid   ("aplain    .Mi  l>owell 

gest   to  him  that   as  that   ])a]ier  would  be  read  and  and  eiglil  of  his  men  low  in  the  dnsl.      The  savages 

discussed  geueratious  after,  when  he  would  not  be  at  once  broke  and  i-an,  as  if  themselves  astonished 

at  hand  to  make  the  necessary  explanations,   he  at    the  fearful    execution    tbey  had  wrought,  and 

would  dcmbtless  save  some  of  his  kinsmen  and  ad-  ,i,.,.adinn  tlu;  wrath  of  the  whites.     The  men  of  tlie 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


HEER  LYES 

THE   r.()I>Y  OF 

JOHN      .MA  OK 

IXMVE  L  L 

DEOEl)   OEOEMIJE 

1743 


iiiilili:i  \\('i-c  so  (•((in]il('tcly  taken  by  surprise,  and 
so  shocked  to  see  their  hrave  h'ader  and  eight  of 
their  coiniianv  jirosirate  ii])on  the  earth  in  the 
atioiiies  of  death.  Iliat  I  he.v  di(i  not  attempt  to  pur- 
sue the  rapidly  retreating  foe,  hut  tenderly  gath- 
ered up  tile  (h'ad  Ixidies  of  their  comrades,  placed 
lliein  ujioii  horses,  and  in  sorrow  and  gloom  began 
tlieir  niai-cii   hack  to  'rind)er  Ridge,  twenty  miles  Magdalen  Woods  is  known  to  have  had  at  least 

distant,  there  to  he  compelled  to  witni'ss  the  grief      dn-,.,.  children  by  her  tirst  husband.  J(thn  McDow- 
and  distress   lutw   to   fall   upon  so  nuiny  stricken      ell,  namely ;  two  sons,  and  a  daughter, 
families.     Magdalen  .McDowell  had  dimbtless  that  ,1,      The  tiist-born  of  their  children,  so  far  as 

Christmas  morning  kissed  her  beloved  husband  a  (-xisting  records  show,  was  named  S.\.MUEL,  and 
tend(M- farew<'il.  and  in  prayer  commended  him  and  jt  is  certainly  known  thai  lie  came  over  with  his 
his  companions  to  the  care  of  Ood's  gracious  Provi-  parents  from  Oreat  Rritain  to  N'irginia  in  the  year 
deiu-e  only  a  few  hours  before.  Rut  what  a  fear-  1737.  nis  age  at  the  time  of  the  migration  is  not 
ful  s[iectacle  for  .Magdalen  it  must  have  been — that  referred  to  in  the  sworn  statenumt  of  his  father, 
doleful     company,     slowly     returning    with     nine     previously  menti(Uied  as  lieing  on  record  at  Orange 


bloody  corjises  dangling  across  the  saddles  of  their 
horses,  and  one  of  them  her  own  dear  husband, 
whom  she  had  seen  go  forth  with  such  a  lu'ave 
heart  only  om-  day,  or  perhaps  a  few  h»mrs,  before! 
Magdalen  was  now  a  widow,  and  her  Inmse  the 
house  of   mourning,  and  her  thrt'e  little  children 


("ourt  House,  Virginia;  but  Ool.  (ireen  gives  1735 
as  the  year  of  Samuers  biilh.  If  lie  was  the  first 
child  of  his  parents,  then  .Magdalen  and  John  had 
been  married  more  than  ten  years  before  they  had 
issue.  Tliey  may,  however,  have  had  several  chil- 
dren prior  to  Samuel's  birth  who  died  in  infancy. 


fatherless.     To  her  broken  heart  it  must  have  been  hjs  ^(^ath  occurred  in  Kentucky,  in  1817;  and  if  he 

no  small  comfort  to  have  near  her  many  of  the  near  \v;,s  horn  in  ]7or»,  he  was  eighty-two  years  old  when 

kin  of  lioth  herself  and  her  de])arted  hnsliand.     Her  i,,.  died. 

father's   home    was   just   across   the   Rlue   Ridge,  Sammd^McDowell  (  whom  we  shall  preseutlybegiu 

about  thirty-five  miles  to  the  northeastward.  to  refer  to  as  Judge  Samuel  McDowell,  in  order  to 

Nine  gra\('s,  side  by  side,  were  dug  near  .Mag-  distinguish  him  from  other  persons  of  his  name  I 

dalen's   now  (les()lated   home,  and  the  bodies   were  was  educated   in  what  is  now  Rockbi-idge  County, 

jirepared    for    burial.      It    was    indeed    a    strange  and  in  jiart  by  .\rchihald  .VIexander,  the  head  of  one 

Oiii-istmas  season.     The  dead  were  laid  away  with  nf  the  most    distinguished   and   scholarly   families 

the  solemnity  of  Ohi-istian  rites,  and  their  murder-  iiijs  conntry  has  ever  produced.      I'or  com]>anions 

ers  escaped   lieyond   the  mountains  towards  their     he  had  the  .McClungs,  J'axttms,  \V Ises,  Wallaces, 

far  northern  homes  beyond  the  Ohio.  The  burial-  Lajisleys,  Stuarts,  Lyles,  Reids,  .Moores,  Campbells, 
place  of  tlu'se  nine  men,  whom  Dr.  Foote  supposed 
to  have  been  the  first  of  the  Saxon  race  ever  com- 
mitted to  the  dust  in  Kockbridge  county,  can  be 
seen  to-day  near  the  Ked  House,  oi'  .Maryland  Tav- 
ern, on  the  west    side  of    the  road    leading  from  stant  I  v  to  be  guarded  auainsl.  and  where  the  condi- 


etc.  Left  fatherless  when  perhaps  only  seven  or 
eight  years  of  age  (December  2."),  1742),  his  boy- 
hood and  much  of  his  maidiood  were  s]ient  on  the 
N'iryinia    frontiei-,    where    Indian    raids   had    con- 


Staunton  to  Lexington.  As  one  enters  the  iron 
gate  and  turns  a  little  to  the  left  he  will  observe  a 
low,  unhewn  limesttuie  slab  about  two  feet  high, 
on  which  is  a  rude  inscription  reading  thus:" 


tions  of  life  were  such  as  to  train  him  to  endure 
many  hardshijis  and  ]>\i\y  the  part  of  a  sturdy  and 
adventurous  man.  Reared  by  a  Scotch-Irish 
mother,  and  in  the  midst  of  a  community  almost 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIK  PAKK.  45 

Avliollv  of  llic  I'lcslnlci'inn  f;iilli,  he  onrly  learned  Jiidiic   .McDdwcll    liad     iiian-icd,   wlicii    scarcely 

to  fcai-  (!od,  and  Ix'caiiic  imbncd  willi  those  sound  innetcen  _\cai's  of  a,i;c,  .Miss  .Mary  McCluii^-,  of  \'ir- 

relijiious  principles  wliicli  characterized  his  subse-  ginia — Janiunn-  17,  IT.")!,     '{'he  I'l-uii   of  this  union 

(juent  cai-eer.      I'roiii   llenninii's  Statntes  we  learn  was  a  family  of  eleven  children,  as  follows: 
tJKit  in  ]~~>S,  when  only  about  -'.i  years  of  aj^c,  he  (ai      doii.x,  who  was  boin  in  \ir,i;inia,  in  IT.")?, 

was  a  soldier  of  (he  colony  against  the  French  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  Kevolutionary  struggle; 

Indians;  and    in    1  TTr>  a   large  tract    of   laud    was  niai'ried     Sarah     .McDowell,     his    first     cousin,    a 

granted  to  him   in   Fayette  County,  Keiducky,  for  daughter  of  his  uncle    dames  ^I(d)owell;  aftei-  the 

his  military  services,      lie  couimanded  a  coni])any  death  (d' his  wife,  Sarah  .Mc!  >owell,  he  married  Lucy 

of  the  -Vngnsta  militia  at  the  great  battle  with  the  Le  (Jrand;  removed  to  Fayette  County,  Kentucky, 

Indians  at  I'oiut    Pleasant,  Virginia,   in   October,  in  1784  ;  and  was  a  nmjor  in  the  war  of  1  SI  2.     The 

1774,  and  rendered  valiant  service.     In  the  Revolu-  children  of  ^Major  John  McDowell  l)y  his  tii'st  wife 

tiou  lie  commauded  an  .\ugusta  reginu'id,  and  took  Sai'ah,  were  the  following:      1,  dames,  who  man-ied 

jiai't  in  various  i'am]>aigus.  Susan  Shelliy;  L*,  John    (."Jdi,  who  niai'i'ied   Sarah 

Samuel    .McDowell    was  also   i>rominent    in   civil  .Mc.Vlpiue;  3,    Samuel    ( I'd  i    who     married     I'etsy 

life,  having  served  several  terms  as  the  represeuta-  Chrisman ;  4,   lietsy,   who    married    William    ^Mc- 

tive  of  .Vugusta  County  in  the  Virginia  House  of  Pheeters;    ami,     n,     .ALiry,     who    nmrried     Major 

Burgesses  i»rior  to  the  Kevolution.     There  he  took  Thonuis  Hart  Sludby.     The  children  of  :Ma.ior  John 

a  bold  stand  against  the  aggressions  of  the  Mother  McDowell  by  his  second  wife,  Lucy  Le  (^Irand,  were 

Country  wlii<-li    Patrick    Henry   so   elo(|uenlly   op-  the  fcdlowing:     L   Iose])h    Xaslie,   who  mariied   a 

posed,  and  which  le<l  on  to  the  gigantic  sti'Uggle  nf  .Miss  Drake;  2,  Charles,  who  married  a  .Miss  lt<'dd  ; 

177r)-Sl.      In    17S:t,   after   .Vmerican    Imlependence  3,  Betsy,  who  married    llendei'son   Bell;  4,  Sallie, 

had  been  \viui,  we  tind  him  surveyor  of  public  lands  who  married  James  .Vlleii ;  and,  .">,  Lucy,  who  nuii'- 

for  Fayette  County,  Kentucky,  and  also  a  judge  of  ried  David  ;\r.  Woodson. 

the  first  District  Court  of  Kentucky,   which   was  (b)      J.v.mks,  second  son  of  Judge  Samind   .Mc- 

held  at  Ilarrodsburg.     In  4784,  when  he  was  a  man  Dowell  and  ^lary  ^[cClung,  was  born  in  what  is 

nearly  .",(1  ye.n-s  old,  he  removed  his  family  to  what  now  Bockbridge  Couidy,  ^■irginia,  in  17(>().     James 

w as  afterwards  .Miicer  County,  Kentu(ky.  lnl7S(i,  eidisted   as  a    private   soldier   in    the   Coutineutal 

he  was  chosen  to  be  one  of  the  presiding  justices  Army  when  but  sixteen  years  old,  and  continued  in 

of  the  first   County  Court  held  in  the  District  of  the  service  till  victory  crowned  the  American  arms 

KeidiH-ky,  and  from  that  time  on  he  \\as  known  as  at  Vorktown.     ^^'IMle  at  home  on  furlough  during 

Judge  .McDowell.      In  the  discussions  and  gather-  the  war,  and  when  onlv  nineteen  years  of  age,  he 

ings  which   liualiy  ]>aved   the  way  for  the  se])ara-  married  ^lary   Paxton   Lyle,  daughter  of  Captain 

tiou  of   Kentucky  friun    N'irgiuia  and   its  erection  John     Lyle.        His     sweetheart's     ]>arents      were 

into  a  s(  parate  State  in  17!ll',  dudge  31(d)owell  to(ik  aliont     to    remove    to     North     Candina,     and     he 

a  leading  part.      He  ]iresided  over  all  of  the  nine  wished     to    make    sure    of    his    |iri/ce    and     ha\e 

Conventions  wbi(h   met    to  discuss  the  sejjaration  her     remain     at     the     home     of     Ids     own     ])ar- 

of  Kentucky  from  the  ]iarent  State,  and  also  over  (tils.     Tlu'    Lyies    were   of    ihc    Scotchlrish,    who 

that  of  1792,  which   framed  Kentucky's  first   con-  had  settled  in  ISorden's  Crant  .-ilong  with  the  ear- 

stitution.      He  was  distinguished  for  his  incorru]d-  liest  families.     Col.  (ireen  gives  it  as  his  o]dinon 

iblc   iidegrity,   strong   common   sense,   and    coura-  that  the  several  names  Lyle,  Lisle,  and  Lyell  are,  in 

geous  adherence  to   what  he  deemed    to  be  right.  I'eality,  ideidical.     The  name  is  <me  of  high  rcpule 

He  died  near  Danville,  Kentucky,  in  1817,  at   the  in   both    Virginia    and    Kentucky.     Captain   John 

advanced  age  of  eightv-two.  Lvle's  wife  was  Isaliella  I'axton,  danuhter  of  Johti 


46  THE   AVOODS-McAFEE    iMEMOKIAL. 

P;i.\l(Pii  ;iii(l  .MiiiMlia  JJlair — must  c'.\.c:clU'ut  Siolcli-  llic  late  ("i\  il  >\  ar  oul-  of  the  eompauics  coniposiug 

Irisli  iiarcntajic  Col.   Koiicr  W.    Hanson's  Second  Kentucky  Kegi- 

Im  ITSl. -laiiii's  Mel  >(i\\  ill  rt'iii()\('(l  willi  liis  lam-  mciii  nf  ihc  ( 'oiifcdd'atc  .Vi'uiy;  and,  T,  ICpliraini, 

ily   to   I*"aycilc  ('miiily.    Knii  iiik\ .  alonu    willi    Ihc  of    .Mason    ("oniily,    KcnUifky,    who   married,   first, 

niifihly    lidc   of    Niruinians    who    al     llial     period  Ann   J'oaiic,  and,  secoiHlly.  Lucretia  C.  Feemster. 

])onrrd  iiiin  ilic  lair  wilderness  lo  the  wcsi  of  Ihe  This  I'^phraim    McDowfll    was  a   pliysiciau  and  a 

nn)nntains.      He    clinsr    a     local  ion     in     ihc    \cry  nejihcw  of  tlie   world-famed   snr^con  of  the  same 

dioicest  |iorlinii  uf  iln-  I'diic  (irass,  llirce  mih's  on(  name. 

from   l-c.\iii;^lon  nn   ilie  ( lcori;clow  ti  roa(L      lie  (h'-  ( c  I      The  third  son  of  .Tnd_sie  Samnel  ^leDowell 

Voted    his  cnci'iiics   to    farming;   and    slock    raisin^'.  and    his    wife,    .Mary    .Mc('lnnL;\    \\as    named    AVlL- 

lie  was  acli\-c,  ncNcrilieli'ss,  in  the  military  move-  i.i.\.M.   who   cann-    to   he   known   as  Jnd.ue   William 

nients  of  ihc  pcrind  ai;ainsi   the  Indians,  and   was  .Mcl»owell.      He   was  horn    in   IJockhridge  County, 

commissicincil     majcir    hy     (io\.     Shelhy     in    IT'.l-.  N'ir.ninia,    .March    '.).    ITCiL'.      lie    was   (piite    young 

When  the  war  of   ISP_'  Innkcoul,  he  was  |)asl    the  w  hen  t  he  IJevolnt  ion  ojiened,  hut  he  was  in  the  Vir- 

auc  for  ciidnrinu  the  nsnal   hardships  of  military  uinia  militia  foi' a  time  during  the  war.     He  is  said 

life,  lint  his  pal  rini  ic  spirit  was  not  to  lie  ]iam])ered  to  have   liccn   the  most   highly  educated   of  all   his 

liy  thai  circnmslancc.      1  le  w  as  at  the  t  inic  in  com-  father's    children,    and    was    an    ahlc    lawyer.      lie 

niaiid  of  a  com|>any  (il'ca\alry  raisiil  al  l.cxinglon,  came  to  Kentucky  with  his  father  in  17S4,  and  set- 

aiid  this  liody  sunn  dcxfloped  into  a  hallalion.      lie  tied   near  r)aii\ille.      There  he  soon  rose  to  promi- 

was  nia<le  a  luajni-.  and  his  command  consolidated  iience  at  the  har,  and  was  Ihe  intimate  associate  of 

wiili   ihai   <'f  ('<d.   Simrall.      lie  saw  service  under  the  ahlest    and   most    distinguished    men    of    Ken- 

<!cncial  1  lariisoH,  and  distinguished  himself  in  the  tnclc^'.      And   let    it   he  iKnaie  in  mind   that  despite 

linily  conlcsicd  hallle  of  the  .M ississiiiew a.     \\'hcn  the  distance  of  l>an\ille  fi-oni  the  cultured  centers 

the  w;ir  closed  he  held  I  he  ra  nk  of  colonel.      Here-  of   inllucnce   in    tjie  (dder  sections   of  the   country 

moved  In  .Mason  Conniy.  Kentucky,  where  he  s])ent  at  the  East,  there  were,  even  at  that  early  day,  a 

the  cMMiing  of  his  lilc,  dyiTig  at  a  i-i]ie  old  age.      lie  eonsi<lerahle  nundier  of  learned  ainl  brilliant  men 

w  as  a  man  of  s|dendi(l  ])hysi(|ue,  and  great  force  of  there  who  would  have  adorm'd  the  highest  circles  of 

chai-acter,  and   left  a  tine  estate  and  an  lunnirahh'  \'iiginia.      In    1 TST    Jud.uc  McDowell  represented 

name  lo  his  chihln-n.  :\lercer  Conniy  in  Ihc  A'irginia  Legislature,    lie  was 

("ol.  lames  .\l(d»owcll  ;ind  his  wife,  .Mary  ra.xton  ai)]iointed  to  various  oflicial  ](ositions,  and  flnallv 

l.yle,  had  seven  diildren.  as  follows:      1,   Isaliella,  was   made,   hy    President   Madisiui,    Cnited    States 

who  married    l»r.  -lohn   I'oage  Cani|(hell;  2,  Sallie,  District  Judge  for   Kentucky,  a   position  he  filled 

who  married  (diver  Keene,  of  hayette  ("oiiidy.  Ken-  with     distinction     for    eiglit     years.      At    I'owling 

Incky;  :!,  Samuel,  who  was  a  sergeant    in  C;iplain  (ireen,  whitliei'  he  had  removed  (Ui  account  of  his 

Trollcr's  conipan.\   in  Ihe  war  of  ISli',  and  married  <luties  as  .judge,  he  died,  full  of  honors. 

l'oll>   < 'hi-isnian,  of  .lessamine  ("(MiTdy,  Kentucky;  Judge   \Villiam    McDowell    m.-ii-j-icd   jMargai'etta 

'.  -Inlici.   who  marrieil   ,-i    Dr.    Dorsey,  of   Cleming  .Madison,  whose  father,  John  .Madison,  was  an  uncle 

Conniy.    Kenlncky;   :,.    lleliie,   who   marrie.l   John  of  I'i-(  sident   .Madison.       The    fruit    of    lliis    union 

Andrews;  C.  Caplaiii  -lohn  hyle.  who  was  a  soldii-r  was  a  family  of  si.\  children,  as  follows:  1,  Samuel 

in  Ihc  war  <>{  Isli'  along  with  his  failicr.  m.irried  j    AfeDowell.  who  married  :\riss  Nancy  Rochester, 

Xancy   N'ance  Scott,  died   in   I'ra nkforl .   Kentucky.  aiid    left    issue;   L'.    Taicinda,    who   nmrried    Dennis 

in  ISTS,  at  I  he  age  of  eighly-foiir,  ami  one  (d'  whose  I'.rashear;  3,  ^Mary,  who  was  the  first  wife  of  the 

syns  was  Ihe  late  .Major  llervey  .McDowell,  of  (\vn-  lale  .Major  Ceorge  C.  Thomjison.  of  .Afercer  County, 

thiaiia.   Kenlncky.  who  i-aise(|  and  commanded   in  Kentucky;  4.  William  :\rcDowelI,   who  married  a 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PAHK.                                                  47 

IMiss  C'iirllirac;  5,  Ayatlia,  who  married  .lames  G.  where  lie  lived  till   ls:',s,  Uien  ;ifiiT\v;ir<ls  prui-tiKCHl 

Jiiniey;  ('.,   K\\'//.\.  wim  married  Nathaniel  Roches-  in  Luiiisville,  Keniii.kv.  and    llvaiisville,  Iiidiaiiii. 

ter,  of  Itowiin.n  (Ireen,  Keutueky.  The  eiiildicn  i,\   |»i-.  .\l.|  ic.well  :ind  hiK  wiff   Maria 

(d)      The  fonrtli  sou  of  Judge  Samuel  McDow-  Ilawidus  llai'\cv  were:     Sai'ali  Slielhy,  whit  iiiur- 

ell  and  liis  wife,  .Mary  A[(('luuji,  was  named  Saji-  ried    Hhuid    UaHai'd.   a    m.led    LuiiisviHe   lawyer; 

VVA..   who,   in   order   to  distinguisli    liini   from  his  Henry  Clay,  who  married  AiuK-lle  ("lav,  ila\i{;litcr 

falher  and  uephews,  was  called  Samuel  McDowell,  of  Li.  Coj.  Henry  Clay,  who  fell  at   Itiieiia  VJKta; 

of  .Mrrcir  County,      lie   was    liorn    in     llockliridiic       Willijini   I'reston,  wl larried  .Miss  i\al«'  \Vri};lit  ; 

County,  \'irginia,  ;Mar(h  S,  17(i4.  lie  was,  like  all  Kdward  Irvine,  who  fell  in  lialile  diiriii;:  our  lale 
the  .McDowells,  naturally  inclined  to  a  military  Civil  War,  lie  hein-  ni  liie  time  a  capiain  of  a  coin- 
life  when  the  country  ueeded  soldiers;  and  though  i)any  in  ilie  I "iliecuili  Kciiliicky  (  l-'ederal  i  |{«'ni- 
liut  twelve  years  old  when  the  Declaration  was  ])ul)-  meiil ;  I.  ol'  whom  no  |iarticnlars  are  availalilc.  so 
lished,  he  stole  away  from  home  in  17S1,  when  only  far  as  the  w  I'iler  is  a  wan-,  ."i,  .losi'pli,  wlm  iiiarri<*<| 
seventeen,  and  joined  Lafayette  in  time  lo  take  part  Anne  r.nsh,  and  sciiled  in  .\laliama.  one  of  (heir 
in  the  closing  eompaign  at  Yorktown.  In  17S1  he  danghters  (.Maiwi  marryini;  a  .hidge  Clarke,  of 
mox'ed  to  Kentucky  with  the  McDowells,  settling  in  .Mississippi,  and  ilic  oi  Imt  i  r.cii  ie  i  marrying  a  Dr. 
.Mercer  County,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  ^^'elch,  who  iiiommI  io  (iahcsion.  Te\as;  (i.  Ale.vaii- 
life,  lie  served  in  various  expeditions  against  (he  der  Keith  .Marshall,  who  mai-ried.  lirsi.  I'riscilla 
Indians  after  settling  iu  Mercer,  and  (ien'l  Wash  .McAfee,  a  daughter  of  Ceneral  lloiierl  I".  .Mc.\fc<.. 
ington  a]>i>ointed  him  tlie  first  United  States  Mai'-  of  fiercer  County,  Kentucky,  ami,  later  on.  .\mia 
shal  for  Kentuck.v,  in  IT'.tlJ.  That  ol'lice  he  held  llaupl;  7,  .Mary,  who  w:is  liorn  in  .\|irccr  <'oiiii(y 
under  ^^■ashington,  .Toliu  .Vdams  and  .lelfcison.  in   17N7,  and   married    \\illi:im   Siai'ling;  S.  Sallie. 

Samuel  .McDowell,  of  fiercer,  married  .\nna   Ir-  Inu-n  in   ISOl.  wlui  manicd  .Irri'iiiiah   .Minter. 

vine,  a  kinswimian,  the  daughter  of  Abram  Irvine,  |  <■  I      The  lilili  son  of  .Imlge  Samn-1    .McDowell 

a  Scclch-lrish  IM(  sliyterian,  and  to  them  were  horn       and   iiis  wife,   .Mary   .MrClmiL;.  was  nai I  .losKiMl. 

eleven  children,  to  wit :      1,  John  Adair  .McDowell,  w  lio  w  as  horn  Scpicndicr  i:;,  1  7(!S.  and  was  Imf  six- 

who  was  horn  in  Mercer  County,  May  20),  17S!>,  and  teen  years  (dd  when  his  pariMils  migrale.l  lo  K,u 


married  Lucy  Todd  Starling;  U,  .Miram  Irvine  Mc  tncky.  lie  was  known  in  his  mat  are  \cars  as  Col- 
Dowell,  who  was  horn  Aj.ril  24,  17!)3,  and  married  omd  .lose])li  .M(  Dowell.  In  Kenlucky,  after  reach- 
Eliza  Seidell  Lord;  3,  William  Adair  :\rcDowell,  ing  a  suitable  agv,  he  look  an  active  j.arl  in  the 
who  was  horn  in  Mercer  County,  March  21.  1711.-),  camiiaigns  against  the  In.lians.  11.-  was  in 
who  married  Maria  Hawkins  Harvey,  his  kins-  Urown's  com,.any  wiili  S.otfs  .-xpedilion  in  17!il. 
woman,  ..f  Fincastle,  Virginia,  and  a  grand-  and  in  holh  ,.f  iln^  expcdii  ions  under  Cen-l  Hop- 
daughter  of  Martha  Borden,  the  said  .Martha  kins  iu  ISPJ.  1  le  all  ra.icd  ih,.  favorable  notice  of 
beiitg  a  daughter  of  Magdalen  Woods  by  her  C.oveianu-  Shelby,  who  made  him  a  mcnd»a-  of  his 
second  husband,  Ben  Borden,  .Tr.,  and  having  run  staff  as  ad.jutant-gvmTal.  and  he  was  with  hin.  at 
away  and  marri.Ml  lien  Hawkins.  The  said  Wil-  Hh-  battle  of  the  Thann-s,  it.  the  fall  of  ^sy^.  and  fur 
Ham  Adair  McDowell  was  educated  in  part  at  Le.K-  his  services  received  si)ecial  .•oini)lin..-nlary  ineii- 
ingt.m.  Virginia,  was  for  a  time  in  the  war  of  1S12.  tion  from  (ieuM  Harris.m.  Col.  McDowell  devut<Nl 
studied  medicine  for  a  time  with  his  distinguished  his  energies  to  farming.  He  was  a  d.wout  Chris- 
uncle,  Dr.  Ephrain.  McDowell,  graduated  from  the  tia.t  at.d  an  eld.T  of  th..  IMvshyl.-rian  Church  in 
M.Mi.al  CoHege  of  Philadelphia,  pra.tised  for  a  Danvilh',  Kentucky,  wimre  he  died.  .Tttne  27,  isr.r.. 
time  w  ith  his  renowned  uncle,  Dr.  Ephraim,  at  at  the  rip(.  a.ge  of  eighty-eight  years. 
Danville,   moved   to   Fincastle,  Virginia,   in   1819,  Col.  McDowell's  wife  was  Sarah  Twin- 


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48  TIN':    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

of  till'  wife  of  liis  l.iM.llicr,  Saiiuu'l.      Their  diildrcn  Kc.will,   i.f    KciiliicUy,    iiis]Miv<l    l>v   llic  lectures  of 

were  as   follows:      1.   Siiiiiuel.   wlio   married,    lirst,  .lehii    I'.ell,    liis    l(aclier    in    ICdiiilmriili,    ])erfoniied 

Amanda    Kali,  and.   later  nn.   .Mai-llia    Hawkins;  2,  ovarioKany.   and    (-(ail  inniiii;    lo   ojterale   willi    sue- 

.\nna,   \\\\i>  married   .\lirain    I.   Caldwell;."!.  Sarah,  cess  (slablished    llu     |(ossiliilily    of   sariiieal    iiiter- 

\\hi>    married     .Michael    Sulli\anl,    of    <'olund)ns,  firence.  and  w.as  fidlowcd  in  llie  I'nited  States  by 

Oliio;  4.  .>[ariiarel   lr\  inc.  who  married  . Joseph  Snl-  many   olhers."      Dr.    .McKowidl     op(  rated     tliii'leen 

livanl.  iif  Col  and  ins.  ( >iiio,  a  yunni;cr  lirothev  of  her  i  imes,  and  was  successfnl  einlil  limes,  as  .Tolinston's 

sisler    Sarah's    Imshand  ;   and,   .">,    .Mat>(hilen,    who  Cyclopa'dia      stales.      When,     afler     sonu'     years"     . 

married  Caleli  Wallace,  of  Danville,  Ky.  silence,  he  linally  made  a  ]iuldic  re]iort  of  his  sue-     I 

ifi       Mi'iiitAiM    -ihe    famous    surgeon,    and     ihe  cesses.    Ilie   i;rea(    sni-i;cons   of    both    America    and     | 

niiisi  w  iilely  kmiwn  memlier  of  his  family — was  tlie  Europe    discredited     his    statemi'iits.    considevinii-     j 

sixth  sun  (if  .Indue  Samuel   .McDowell  and  his  wife  such    results    imiiossihle.      He    was   assailed    vii;ov- 

Mar\   .Met 'Iiihl;.  and  was  liuiai  in  what  is  now  Uock-  ously  hy  Dr.  .fames  .Tohnson,  tlie  h'arned  editor  of 

hrid^i'  ('nnnly,   N'iruinia,   Xo\cm1ier   11.    1771.      In  ihe   Ijimdon   .Medico-Chirnriiical     IJeview,    but    Dr. 

!7St.  when  ciuly  thirteen  years  old,  he  came  with  .lolinsou  "li\-ed   to  ask  ]»ar<lon  of  (Jod  and  Dr.  ^le- 

liis  parents  ihrcuiLih   ihe  i;feat    wilderness  to   Dan-  Dowell  ba- his  nncharilableness."  and  in  1S27   eon- 

\ille.  Ki  III  ucky.  w  here  his  early  life  was  spent.      He  fessed  I  hat  he  was  wront;'.  ()f  course,  tlie  siibseipieul 

was  ediicaied    there,  and   at    Hardslown.    Ky.,  and  discoxcries  in  medicine  and  sur.iicr\'.  and  Ihe  miilti- 

l.,e.\injit(ai.  \a.      Ilestiidied  medicine  at  Slaiintou,  plication  of  all  mann(f(d'    facilities    in    handlinji 

Viriiinia.   under  a    Dr.    1 1  innplireys.  a   uradiiate  of  such  cases  have  ji'r'^'ifl.v  develo]ied  and  imin'oved  the 

Edinbnri;    rnixcrsity.      Later,   lie  sjtent    two  years  whole  science  of  oyiuvcoloiiy,  but  the  human  race 

stndyiiii:  iiHilicine  i  I7'.i:'.-1  7!)4  i  at  lOdinburii,  where  at  lai'S'e,  and   woman  in  pavticnlar,  owes  Dr.  ^Fe- 

he  had  as  preceplur  ami   friend   the  ^reat  siiriieon,  Dowell  a  debt  which  can  never  be  fully  ]iaid.      The 

.lolin    r>ell.      <Mi    his    return    to    America    Dr.    ^Fc-  celebrated     American     siiriicon.     Dr    Gross,    said: 

Duwell    lic^aii    practice  at    Danville,  Ky.      lie  rose  "ITad   :\rcT)owell    li\-ed    in   France,   he   would   have 

Id  pr ineiice  and    fame  rajiidly.  patients  seekin;;-  liccn   el(>i-fe(l   a   member  of  the  Iloyal   Academy  of 

his  ser\ices  frnm  all   parts  of  the  South  and  West.  Snriicry.  received   from   the  Kinjj,'  the  Cross  of  the 

It    was  in   the  year   ISO'.l,  when   Dr.  ^McDowell  had  Leoion   of   Honor,  and   obtained   from    the   noveru- 

heen  itraclisin-    oidy    twelve  years,    that    he   i)er-  meiil  a  niaji'nifieeut  reward — as  an  ackiiowled!.iiiient 

formed   an   (>]ierali(m   iipnn    the   person    <d'    a    .Mrs.  of  the  sei'\ices  he  rendered  his  country,  his  jtrofes- 

Crawbird    which   m:irks  a   new    epoch  in  siiri;vry —  si(ui.    and    fellow-creal  tires."      .V    handsome    nionu- 

tlie  successful    remo\;il   of  an   ovarian   liiimn'.      In  meiit    in    his  honor   was  creeled   over  his  lirave  in 

this  operaliiMi  he  Mazed  the  way  for  the  profession  Danville  by   the  medical   profession   of  Kentucky, 

of  all  after  years,   fur  he  was  \irtually   withonl   a  1  lis  death  occurred  in  1S?>0.      TTe  was  a  man  of  com- 

uuide  <a-  a    prci-ed(iii    in   I  his  difrnatlt    and  delicate  mandino- ])resence,  six  feet  hioh,  florid  complexion, 

undeitakiiiL:.   He  employed  no  aiKesI  hel  ics,  and  had  black  eyes,  and  of  i^reat  muscular  jiower. 

no  assistance,  and  yel  his  p:ilieiil   made  a  com|dele  Dr.  ^fcDowcll  chose  for  his  wife  Sarah,  a  datijih- 

recovery,  and  lived  nearly  a  third  of  a  cent  nry  there-  ter  of  Coverma'  Isaac  Shelby,  wlumi  he  married  in 

after.   The   r.rilish   Cy«lopa-dia    I  Ninth    i:diidiuriih  ISQ-J,  and  by  A\honi  he  had  the  following  children  : 

Edition,  \"olume  X.XIl,  paiic  C.itO),  which  never  (lis-  1.  Caleb  Walla<-e.   who  was  nauu'd   for  the  distin- 

plays  any   excess  of  zeal    in    pi-aisinu   the  achiev<>-  ynished  jud.iic  of  that   nani(>.  descended  fr(an  Mich- 

ments  of  wdikers  in  (he  Xew    Wiuld.  in  iliscnssing  ael  Woods's  sister.  IClizabeth,  who  was  an  aunt  of 

alidimiinal  siir-ciw  ami   the  results  -ained  by  ova-       :>ra^(lalen      \\' Is.      Said      Caleb      AVallac(^      ;\[e- 

riolomy,  has  this  to  say:     -In   ISOli.  I'.phraim  :Mc-  Dowell    married    a    :\[iss   TIall,    of  Shelby  Ccmntv, 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIK   I'AKK.                                                  4., 

Kentucky,     and     renH.vc.l     to     Alissouri,     where      her,    1837.     He    was    ,na .|..,.k    of    |{„.-kl.ri<lKo 

la-    died;    2.    Mary,    who    manied    a    Mr.    Vouno-       (N,„„,y  al  ih..  dal '  i.s  ..r.aniza.iu,.  i„  1778  and 

of     yiielhyville,     Ky. ;     S,     a     m-ond     dauj-lder,      held  ih,.  pnsi(i,.„  mnti uslv  f.„.  (in  w.-arn      IIIh 

whose  name  is  not  known  to  tlie  writer,  married  a      I „-  was  known  as  .MnllM-n-v  Hill,  mm  uttraetive 

Mr.  Deaderiek,  of  Tennessee;  4,  a  tlurd  daughter  place  wsl   of  L.-xin.ii(o,..     Hh-vr,.    ..l.il.irn,    were 

married    Major    David     C.     Irvine,     of     Madis.m  hurn  lo  Andn-w  an.l  .Ma-daim.     Two  ofihe  souk 

County;  5.  a  iourlli   married   Major  Anderson,  of  ,|i,.,i  j,,  i„|;, ,Hy.     Tli,.  rld.'si  dan-hlrr.  S:,n.|,.  niar- 

P.oyle  Connly,  an.l  moved  to  Afiss.mri.  ,i..,l    Andrew    .Moon..     An-Mhrr  diMi;jhl-r  marri..! 

(o)      C.VLIT.  AVall.^ce  McDowKi.i,  was  tlie  sev-      „  .M,-.  .\l,C;,n,,.lM.||.     Tw Imt  dau;:I,lers  n.arri..l 

entli  son   nf    .Tndi;e    Samuel    McDowell    and     Ins      Venalde.s.      V,.|    .nioihrr  marr .lud;.-.-  Al.raliam 

wif(    .Mary  .Mc(dun-,  and  was  horn  Ajnij   IT.  1774.  Smith.     A  lilil,  dan-hler  of  Amhvw  ami  Ma-dai.-i, 

II..  married  a  rehitive,  Miss  Elizahetli,  llic  dan-h-      married  .Major  .lohn  .Mcxandcr.  of  I.exJn-r Vir- 

ter  of  C(donel  Joe  :\rcDoweIl,  of  North  Carolina,  hy  ojida,  and  their  dan-htrr.  A-ms.  marrie<|  ih.-  hitc 

his  wife,  Margaret  Moffett.     1.  The  only  daughter  if,. v.   Dr.   lieverly  Turkrr  l.neey.     The  oid\   sun  <.f 

of  Caleh  ^^aIIa(•e  McDowell  and  his  wife,  Eliza-  .Vndrc  w  nnd   .Magdalen  who  grrw  lo  maidiood  was 

heth  (  her  name  unknown  to  the  wi'iter),  nmrried  a  Saiimel   .\I(l>o\\(ll   K'lid.      I  Ir  \\;is  iln'  hi^i   lo  l...;ir 

kinsman,    Joseph    Chrisman,    Jr.,    of    Jessamine  tlie  n;inic  of  Ins  l;iinily  owing  lo  liic  ciirU  dcjiili  of 

County,    Kentucky.      The    McDowells    and    Chris-  all  llncc  of  his  sons  .is  well  as  hoih  of  Ins  Im-oiImts. 

mans  seemed  to  have  intermarried  for  several  gen-  .Mr.  Urid  \\;is  adjulaiM  of  die  I'jfth  \'ii-giiiia  .Mill- 

(■rations  aftei'  the  first  alliance  was  effected  ahoul  tia  in  llic  \\ni-  of  ISIl'.  connnaudiil  li\   Col.  James 

the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  ceidury,  and  the  vv-  .M(d  >o\\  dl.      He  siu-ceedcd    his   fjiliier  as   chrk    of 

suit  is  an  unusual  ciMnhination  of  connections  and  IJockhridgc  ('oniily  and    Iidd   llic   position   for  2." 

rcdationshiiis  ^\hicIl   might  well   confound   anv   hut  yeai-s.      lie  was  also  llic  cici-k  of  the  < 'ircuii  ronrl. 

the  ]irofessionaI  genealogist.  coloncd  of  Ihe  \'irginia   inililia.  and  a    iiirniiii'r  of 

(111   and  (j)      S.VR.Mi  and  .M.vod.m.ex.  twin  cliil-  the  Virginia    Legislature.      I'ehriiary  'JL'.   ISi'l.  lie 

(lien  of  Judge    Samuel    ^McDowi'lI    hy    his    wife,  married  Sarali   Klizahelh  Hare,  hiiilt   him  a  home 

.Mary  McClung,  were  horn  Oct oher  i),  17.")").     Sarah  in   Lexington,  which   is  still   ilic  ircnsin-cd   posses- 

hecame  the  ( first )  wife  of  the  Cah4)  Walhnc,  who,  sion  of  his  gi-.imlcliildicn.  and  dieil  Sejdeinhcr  1.". 

in  after  years  hecame  one  of  the  first  three  justices  l.Stl!),  honored  nml  respected  l>y  all  who  kin-w  liiiii." 

of  the  Kentmdvy  Court  of  Appeals.     Dr.  Whitsitt  Samuel     .M(  Howell    IJeid    was    of    Seotch-H-isli 

hclieves   that   Caleh   and    Sarah   were   married    in  lilood,  hut    .Miss   Hare,  whom   he  married,   was  of 

March,  1774.     He  was  13  years  her  senior.     Caleh  Cavalii'r  stock.     Thus  was  hronghl  ahoiil.  in  their 

AVallace  was  then  a  candidate  for  the  I'reshyterian  offspring,  thai  commingling  of  <pialiiies  which,  ac- 

ministry.  and  in  <  )ctoher  of  that  year  was  ordained,  cording  to  .Mr.  •Inlin  iMske.  Ilie  hisioriaii.  lu'oduces 

and  installed  ]>astor  of  two  churches  in  South  Side,  smli      well-halanced     characters.     She     was     the 

Virginia,  one  of  which   (  Cuh  Creek)  was  in  Char-  daughter  of   Dr.   William   Hordley  Hare,  of  King 

lotte  County,  and  the  other  (  Falling  Kiver)  only  a  and   (,)iu(n  County,  who  served  his  Slate  in  l.oili 

few  miles  distant.     Sarah  died  in  the  early  hlooin  hranehes  of  the  Virginia  Legislainre.  in  turn.  an<l 

of  wouianl d,  and  left  no  child.     Her  twin  sister,  also  in  the  Coiim-il  of  State.      Dr.  llan-'s  wife  was 

Magdalen,  married  Andrew  Keid,  :\Iarch  4,   177(),  .Miss  Elizahelh  Cahdl,  .laughter  ..f  Tol.   Ni.-holas 

and  remained  in  Virginia  wIumi  h.-r  parents  and  the  (\il)ell  and  Hannah  Carringt.m.  of  Nelson  County. 

rest  of  th.-  .hihlren  luove.l  to  K.mtu.ky  s..uie  years  -Sallie  irair."  as  Mrs.  Keid  was  •■ailed,  was  a  wo- 

lat(>r.     Audr.'w  K.-id  was  ..f  S.^otch-Irish  d.^scent,  man  of  d.-ep  piety,  an.l  rare  heauty  and  retinenienf ; 

and  was  horn  ]-ehruary  13,  ITr.l.     He  died  Octo-  and  she  inlu'rited   all   the  musical   lalcnt  of  the 


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0  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


CalH'Ils.      It  was  wlicnslic  ram. ■,  a  lit  1 1(>  motherless  -Mary   (Polly)    McDowell  were  the  following :     1, 

girl,  tn  ihc  Amu  Siiiilh  Aca.lc.ny  al  Lexington,  that  Charles  Thomas  Marshall,  who  was  bora  July  14, 

sh..  w..n  th.hrait  of  yonng  ••.McDowell  Kei.l."  She  ISOO,  ami   who  lived  ami  died   on  his  handsome 

was  horn  Angust  T),  1800,  ami  died  ou  her  thirty-  i)atrimonial  estate    iu    Mason    County,  Kentucky, 

ninth   hirthilay.  August    r>,    IS:?!).     Of    the    seven  whose  wife  was  Jaue  Luke,  l)y  whom  he  had  four 

children   l.orn  to   Air.    and    Mrs.    Keid    only    two  syns;  2,  James  K.  Marshall,  who  nmrried  Catherine 

reached  mature  years,  viz. :      1,  Mary  Louisa,  who  Calloway  Hickman,  daughter  of  .Tohn  L.  Hickman, 

married  -lames  .Lines  AN'liile;  and    •_'.  Agnes.  of  IJourhon  Couidy;  3,  JLaria  ^Marshall,  who  was 

(k|  .Maimiia  was  the  liiird  daughter  of  horn  in  Masou  County,  Kentucky,  July  20,  179.">. 
Judge  Samuel  .McDowell  and  Mary  .MeCiiing.  She  and  when  only  sixteen  married  hei-  kinsman.  James 
was- horn  June  20,  IKU),  seventeen  or  eighteen  Alexander  Taxton  ;  4,  Lucy  ^Marshall,  who  was  horn 
A-ears  before  her  parents  minrated  to  Kentucky.  in  17flr>,  and  in  ISIS,  married  her  cousin  John  ^Mar- 
In  Oetohei-,  1  "SS,  several  years  after  the  migration,  shall,  son  of  Captain  Thomas  ^Marshall;  and  5, 
slie  was  married  to  <'oioiiel  .\hraliam  Ituford,  who  Jane  Marshall,  who  was  horn  in  ISOS,  and  in  1S24 
was  at  the  Battle  of  I'oini  I'ieasanl.  in  (»<lolier,  married  "William  Starling  Sullivant.  of  Columbus, 
1774,  as  a  iieulenani  in  the  ci)m|iaiiy  of  milit  ia  from  Ohio. 

l*.edf(U-(l  Connty.  During  the  Kevolution  he  was  (IT)  JAMES  McDOWELL  was  the  second 
the  Lieut. -Colonel  of  the  Tenth  Reginu'ut  of  Vir-  child  of  Captain  John  ^McDowell  and  Magdalen 
ginia  Militia,  and  look  jiait  in  the  affair  at  Wax-  Woods,  and  was  born  at  the  Red  House,  near  Fair- 
haw,  Sonili  Caioliiia,  in  .May,  1 7S0,  where  he  lost  field,  Rockbridge  County,  Virginia,  in  1739.  He 
tlin-i'  Inniihed  of  I  lie  four  Inindred  men  of  liis  com-  was  the  slicT-itT  of  his  couidy ;  and  in  1771,  the  year 
mami  al  ilie  hands  of  the  IJrilisli  I  )ragoons  under  he  died,  lie  was  on  his  way  to  Richmond  on  business 
the  blood  ihiisiy  Taileloii.  Col.  lUifcu'd  and  his  connected  with  his  office.  Hence  he  lived  to  be 
wife  .Mariha  .M.Dowell  had  issue,  as  follows :  1,  only  about  thirty-two  rears  old.  He  married  IMiss 
Charles  S.  T?uford,  who  married,  first,  a  daughter  Elizabeth  Cloyd,  by  whom  he  had  six  children, 
of  (iov.  John  .\daii'.  and,  secondly,  Lu<y  Duke,  His  wife  lived  until  ISIf).  Their  children  Avere  the 
dangliler  of  Dr.  I'.asil  Dnke  and  Charlotte  .Mar-  following:  (a)  S.\i!.\it,  wlio  married  her  ccnisin, 
shall;  2,  William  S.,  who  married  a  daughter  of  yiajor  -Toliu  ^l(d)owell,  a  son  of  her  uncle.  Judge 
Hon.  (ieorge  KoherisoTi;  and,  I!  .Mary,  who  married  Samuel  :M(l)owell.  This  couple  had  five  children, 
James  K.  Duke,  a  hrolhei-  lo  the  second  wife  of  her  who  are  mentioned  where  Major  John  McDowell's 
brother.  Charles  S.  liuford.  history  is  given,  in  brief,  in  its  proper  idace.    (See 

(li      .MAitv  oi-   I'oi.i.v   was  the  youngest   ilaugli-  under  the  children  of  Judge  Samuel  McDowell  and 

ter   of    .hnlue    Samuel    M.DowcIl    and    .Mary    IMc-  yfaiy   .McClung.)      (b)    ELlz.vr.ETiT,    who    married 

Clung,   and    was   hoin    in    L'ockhridge  Connty   Vir-  Dnvid    .McCavock,  and    with   him   moved    to   Nash- 

ginia,  .lannary  11.  1772.    In  17S4.  she  caine  through  ville,  Tennessee.    She  became  the  materTial  ancestor 

(he  wilderness  to  Kenlncky  with  her  ].arents.     She  of  a  most  extensive  and  influential  family,  whose 

was  a  \\oni:in  of  deep  piety,  marked  amiability,  and  representatives  are  to  be  found   iu   Tennessee  to 

nnc.immon  loveliiH'ss  of  j.erson.      In  ( )etober,  1704,  this    day    occupying    high    social    positions,      (c) 

she  married   Alexander   Keith   ^Lirshall,   who  was  .T.vMES   (2dj    was  the  youngest  son  of  James  Mc- 

the  sixth  son  of  Colonel  Thomas  .Mai'shall,  of  Revo-  Dow(dl    and   Elizabeth    Cloyd.     He   inherited   the 

lutionary    fame,   and    a    ne|)liew   of   Chi.'f   Justice  fine  estate   left    by   his   father    (1771)    and    there 

:\rarshall.     Col.  Thomas  .Marshall's  wife,  by  whom  spent  his  whole  life.     He  was  a   colonel    in    the 

he  had  fifteen  children,  was  Mary  Kan(loli>h  Keith.  American  Army  in  1812,  and  won  honor  and  fame 

The  children  of  .Vlexander  Keith  Marshall  and  as  might  be  expected  of  a  McDowell.     He  married 


michap:l  woods  of  blaiu  taiik. 


51 


Sarah  Preston,  tlu'  (laughter  of  Colonel  William 
Preston,  wlio  was  the  snrveyor  of  l'"'incastle  ('ountv, 
and  Avho  Isad  as  his  assistants  and  deputies  John 
Fh)yd,  John  Todd,  Douglas,  Hancock  Taylor,  Uau- 
cock  Lee,  and  otiu  rs  \\  ho  sniM-ycd  \ast  tracts  of 
laud  in  Kentucky  for  nuniei'ous  settlers  from  1773 
to  1785.  Cohinel  James  M(d>o\\'ell  and  Sarali 
Preston  had  three  <-liildreu  :  1,  Susan,  wiio  mar- 
ried Col.  William  Taylor,  a  lawyer  of  Alexandria, 
Virginia;  2,  Elizahetli,  who  hecame  the  wife  of  the 
Hon.  Thomas  11.  Penton,  so  long  kno\\ii  as  the 
U.  S.  Senator  from  Missouri.  Thomas  H.  Benton 
and  Elizaheth  ^IcDowell  Imd  one  daughter  who 
married  (ien'I  Jolin  ('.  Fremont,  and  anotlier,  who 
married  Col.  IJiclmrd  T.  Jacoh,  of  Kentucky.  3, 
James  1 3rd),  the  only  son  of  James  McDowell 
(2d)  and  Sarah  Preston,  was  a  mend)er  of  the  U. 
S.  House  of  Kepresentatives,  then  of  the  I^.  S.  Sen- 
ate, and  lastly  the  beloved  and  distinguished  chief 
executive  of  ^Ml■ginia.  Covernor  McDowell 
(James  3)'d )  was  an  ehxpu-nt  oi-ator,  and  also  a 
cogent  reasoner.  The  lady  he  married  ^^•as  a  ]Miss 
Preston,  his  tirst  cousin,  and  a  daughter  of  (Jeueral 
Francis  Preston.  Gen'l  Preston's  Avife — the 
mother  of  Governor  McDowell's  wife — was  a 
daughter  of  the  Col.  Wm.  Cami)l)ell  who  com- 
manded at  the  battle  of  King's  ^Mountain.  Sarah 
Preston,  the  wife  of  Gov.  ilcDowell,  was  a  sister 
of  the  wife  of  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  J.  Breckinridge,  and 
of  William  C.  Preston  and  Geu'l  John  S.  Preston, 
of  South  Carolina. 

(Ill)  SARAH,  the  only  daughter  of  :\[agdalen 
Woods  by  Captain  John  .McDowell,  her  husband, 
nmrried  Colonel  <!eorge  ^Nloffett,  a  soldier  of  great 
prominence  in  Virginia.  Col.  Green  regards  it  as 
probable  that  this  gentleman  was  a  son  of  the  Cap- 
tain John  ]iIotfett  who  was  among  the  Scotch-Irish 
settlers  who  at  a  very  early  day  came  into  the 
Great  Valley.  Col.  George  :\roffett's  mother  hav- 
ing become  a  widow  married  John  Trimble,  the 
grandfather  of  Allen  Trindile,  Governor  of  Ohio, 
(xeorge  Jloffett  took  an  active  iiart  in  the  French 
and  Indian  wars  and  in  many  border  encounters 
with  the  savages.     In  one  of  these  conflicts  his  step- 


father was  slain,  and  several  members  of  his  family 
were  carried  off  by  the  Indians.  George  Jloffett 
promptly  organized  ;i  company  of  men  and  pursued 
the  savages;  and  having  overtaken  them  at  Kei'r's 
Creek,  he  attacked  and  defeated  them,  and  rescued 
tlie  caiitivcs.  Among  the  men  thus  released  was 
Janu^s  Trimble,  tlie  Jialf  bi-uthi  r  of  .\loffett,  and  the 
father  of  Gov.  Trind)le  of  Ohio.  The  mother  of 
Col.  ^Fotfett  was  Mary  Christian,  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Christian  and  Mary  Richardson,  of  Ireland. 
Col.  Moffett  was  an  active  participant  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary struggle,  and  saw  service  as  a  colonel  at 
Ming's  .Mountain,  the  Cowpens.  and  Guildford 
Court  House.  He  was  a  friend  and  |)romoler  of 
education,  and  was  one  of  the  fcmnders  of  the  acad- 
emy at  Lexington,  which  has  grown  to  be  Wash- 
ington and  Lee  University. 

Col.  Ge(u-ge  Moffett  and  Sarah  :McDowell  had 
eleven  children,  as  follows:  (a)  ;\Lvi!(;ai!etta, 
who  married  hei"  cousin,  Col.  Joseph  ^McDowell,  of 
North  Carolina,  who  was  a  younger  broth(>r  of  the 
Gen'l  Charles  McDowell  who  was  the  second  hus- 
band of  Grizelle  (or  Grace)  Greenlee.  The  father 
of  Col.  Joseph  and  G(Mi'1  Charles  IMcDowell  was 
Jose](h  ^IcDowell  (senior),  who  A\'as  born  in  Ire- 
land in  171."),  and  whose  wife  was  Margaret  O'Neil. 
The  McDowells  were  Presbyterians,  and  the 
O'Neils  were  Catholics.  Joseph  [McDowell,  Sr., 
and  his  wife,  ;Margar(>t  O'Neil,  migrated  to  Amer- 
ica and  settled  iu  the  Valley  of  Virginia,  near  Win- 
chester, where  Joist  Hite  had  just  made  the  first 
settlement  west  of  the  Blue  Ridge.  Here  Col.  Joe 
.and  (ien'I  Charles  McDowell  were  born,  the  fornn^r 
in  1713,  and  the  latter  iu  17.")r).  Josejih  ^IcDowell, 
Sr.,  had  a  brother  known  as  "Hunting  John"  ^Ic- 
Dowell,  who  came  with  him  io  Virginia,  but  who 
later  moved  on  down  into  North  Carolina  (after 
1758)  and  settled  on  th(>  Catawba,  in  a  lovely  spot 
which  he  named  "Pleasant  Garden."  Not  long 
after,  Joseph  McDowell  Sr.,  followed  him,  and 
settled  at  a  ]»lace  called  "Quaker  ^feadows."  There 
his  sons  grew  to  manhood.  The  exact  relationship 
existing  between  these  two  brothers  and  the  Eph- 
raim  iFcDowell  whose  son  John  was  slain  at  Bal- 


52  TUE    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMOEIAL. 

(.•(iiiv  Kails  by  Indians,  in  ITIli,  is  not  ccilainly  as-  men.  look  an  active  jiart  in  the  coutlicts  of  liis  day 

cortaiiialdc.      It  si-t-nis  very  likely  they  were  close  willi  the  Indians  and  the  IJritish.     lie  also  became 

kin.     These  North  Carolina  .McDowells  were  nieu  iirominent   in  civil  affairs.     He  died  in  1795,  leav- 

of  courage  and  |.ali-iolisni,  and  bore  an  houorabh"  lutx   the   followinu   cliildren:     1,  Col.    James    Mc- 

jiart  in  the  IJevolntionary  W-.w.    .lose])h,  Ji-.,  (who  I>o\\cii.  of  Yancey  County;  1'.  John  3IcDowell,  of 

later  married  Sarah  .McDowell  I  when  only  twenty  l.'iitherford    County;  :'>,   a   dauiihter,   who  married 

vears  of  aue.  was  nuijor  of  his  br<ilher  Charles's  her  c(uisin,   Capt.    Charles   .AfcDowell,    of    Burke 

rii-'iiaent    on    tin'   e.\iiediiion    a.iiainst    the    Scotch  County;  4,  anoihev    dau.nhter,   who    married    her 

Tories.      I'.esides   liiis  camiiaiun.   lie   was   in    many  cousin  Caleb  3IcDowell,  son  of  Samuel   ^IcDowcll 

oihers.      .\l    Kin-'s    .Mountain   he   coninian(h'd    the  and  .Mai'y  McCluui;'.     After  the  death  of  Major  Jo- 

re'-imeiii    fi-oui    Itiirke  and     Kutin'rford     counties,  s<'i)h  McDowell  his  widow  (  ^lary  iMoffett)  married 

North  Carolina.      I.aier  on,   he   was  luouiineiit    in  Captain  John  Cursou,  the  noted  Indian  lighter,  by 

civil  affairs  in  his  Si;iie,  and  also  was  ;i  nieinber  of  wIkuu  she  had  a  munber  of  children :     1,  Hon.  Sam- 

the  T^  S.  Congress,     lie  died  at  his  honu' at  Quaker  nel   1*.  Carson,  of  I'.urke  County,  North  Carolina, 

Meadows  in  ISOl.                                                   -  wlio,  in  a  duel  at  Saluda  Cap,  in  1S27,  with  a  Dr. 

.\monu    the   children    of   Col.    Jose]ih    and    ^lar-  IJobert  I',  ^'ance,  intlicted  ujion  the  latter  a  wound 

garetta   the  following  may  be  mentioned,  viz.:     1,  from    (he   effects   of    which    Dr.    A'ance   soon    after 

Ilnnh   IIai-\ey,  who  mo\'eil   to   .Missouii.  and  there  died. 

died    in    IS.'i'.l;  •_'.  Joseph   Jeltei'son,   who  moved   to  (ei      .M.\(;iiai.i:x.  the   third   daughter    of    Sarali 

( »liio.  and  there  becauH' a  memlier  of  the  r.  S.  Con-  .M(J)owell    by   her   husband    Col.    <!eorge   Moffett, 

gress,  and    whose  wife  was   Sarah    .Mien    ^IcCne,  who  luarried  Janu-s  Cochran,     (ieorge  M.  Cochran, 

dauuhler  of  the  K'ev.  John  .McCue,  an  eminent  Pres-  of   Staunton,   and    James   Coehrau,   of   Charlottes- 

byteriaii  minister  om'c  paslcu-  of  Tiidding  Spring  ville,  were  their  sous. 

Church.  A'irgiiiia;  :'.,   Sarah,    who    uuirried    John  (di      Mai!TII.\.    who    married     Captain     T^ohert 

.Matthews  and  moved  with  him  to  Kayette  County,  Kirk,  of  the  C  S.  .Vrmy. 

Kentucky:  1,  .Margaret,  w  ho  iKcaiue  l  he  wife  of  her  te)      I'>i;iZ.\i'.io'l'ii,   who     married     Jam(  s     .Miller, 

distant   kinsman.  (low   .\llen  Trimble,  of  Ohio;  .1  the  owner  of  a  large  iron  works  in  Virginia. 

and  (i,  ('elia.  and  <"larissa,  both  of  whom   married  (f)      (ii:(ii;(ii:.   Ji;..    who    maified    a    .Miss  (Jilker- 

distanl    relatives,    Clirismans,   some   of    whose   (h^-  son,  and  mo\'ed  to  Kentnckv. 

scendants  are  to   be   found    today    in    Jessamine  (gi      J.\mi:s,    who    married    TTannah    Miller,    a 

Couidy,  Kentucky,     .\fter  the  tleath  of  Col.  Jose])h  sister  of  the  gcTitlemau   whom    Elizabeth   Moffett 

.McDowell  at   his  home    (''Quaker   Meadows")    his  manied.     Co].  Henry  ^McDowell  Moffett  was  a  son 

wife,   Margaretta,  removed   to  Virginia,  and  then,  of  I  Ins  collide. 

later,   to   W Ifiud    County,    Kentucky,  where  she  — . 

died  in  1815. 

I  III      Maky.  second  daughter  of  Sarah  :\IcDow-  Skcttox  Two— Tin.:  noin.icxs. 

ell,  bv  her  husbatid    (Nd.  Ceorge  .Moffett,  who— like  Tt  is  not  certainly  known  how  long  :Magdalen 

so  many  of  her  relatives— married  her  distant  kins-  Woods  :\IcD(nvell    remain<-d     a    widow    after    the 

man,  a  .Major  Joseph  :\l(Dowell,  s(m  of  "Hunting  liagie  death  of  her  first  husband     (Captain    John 

Inhu  McD,,wcIl."  of  Pleasant  C.ardeii,  North  Caro-  McDowell  i,  in  December,  1742,  but  it  was  probably 

lina.     This  ".loe"  was  a   first   c.msin  of  the  other  about  si.K  (u-  seven  years.     It   is  known   that  her 

Joe   wlio   married     .Margaretta     .Moffett.     The  Joe  second    husband,    15(mjamin    Porden,    Jr.,    died    in 

who  married   .Mary  Midfett  was  born  at  Pleasant  175a,  leaving  two  dan.ghters  whom  Magdalen  had 

Garden,  February  25,  175S,  and,  lik.-  all  his  kins-  borne  to  him.     Concerning  this  second  husband  of 


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]\[ag(liilcu  we  liuve  cousiik'i'ahle  inforiiiatiou/'  the 
more  ]KTtiiK'ijt  items  of  which  will  lici-c  lie  pre- 
scuti'd,  witliout  attciiiptiiig  to  indicate  separately 
the  precise  autliority  for  each.  Tlie  reader  will 
find  aiiii)le  warrant  for  what  is  given  by  consulting 
tlie  autliorities  referred  to  in  Note  il. 

Tliere  is  some  difference  of  opinion  as  to  the 
proper  spelling  of  ^lagdalen's  second  Inishand's 
surname.  AVaddell  thinlcs  the  correct  spelling  is 
Borden.  The  town  in  New  Jersey  which  was 
nametl  for  a  mendjer  of  the  family  is  spelled  Bor- 
deiitown.  Tlie  ('entral  Presbyterian  for  May  16, 
lllOO,  conlained  an  interesting  historical  sketch  of 
Timber  Ridge  Church  ( 174(M!»00)  l)y  tlie  llev.  Dr. 
Henry  Alexander  White;  and  we  Iviiow  emmgh 
of  that  scliolarly  divine  to  fi'el  sure  tliat  he  used 
great  care,  in  tlie  preparatiim  of  his  slcetch,  to  give 
proper  names  exactly  as  tlie  official  records  had 
them,  in  1753,  Timber  Ridge  made  out  a  call  for 
a  pastor,  and  to  that  call,  as  it  would  seem,  all  the 
mem  hers  of  tlie  church  signed  their  names.  Among 
the  signatures  A\e  tiud  this  one:  "Magdalen  Bor- 
den (  widow)."  The  orthography  of  tliat  signature 
would  seem  to  settle  what  that  lady  considered  the 
proper  s])elliiig  of  her  own  Christian  name,  as  well 
as  that  of  lier  second  husl)and"s  surname.  She 
was,  beyond  all  reasonable  doulit,  a  communicant 
of  Tinil)er  Ridge  Cliurch  from  its  organization  in 
174(),  to  lier  deatli  in  1810 — a  xieriotl  of  al»out  sixty- 
six  years — and  even  if  some  officer  of  the  cliurch 
made  (lie  copy  of  the  call  and  list  of  signers  (which 
is  still  on  record)  we  may  assume  that  the  name  of 
a  woman  of  her  prominence  and  long  residence  in 
the  immediate  vicinity  would  be  generally  and  ac- 
curately understood. 

1'k  iijamin  r>oi-dcii.  Si-.,  the  father  of  I  he  second 
husband  of  ^lagdalen,  was  the  agent  of  Lord  Fair- 
fax; and  in  173(!  he  came  across  the  colony  from 
Williamsburg  to  pay  a  visit  to  John  Lewis  in  the 
Great  Valley.  Borden  was,  so  Waddell  thinks,  a 
native  of  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  ratlier  extensive 
speculator  in  wild  lands.  He  bad  |)focmiMl,  in 
October,  1734,  a  grant  of  a  tract  of  land  in  Fred- 
erick Countv  from   (iov.   (io(;ch,  and   this  body  of 


lands  is  known  in  hisloiy  as  Borden's  Manor.  He 
also  got  a  ])i(>iiiise  of  100,000  acres  of  lan<l  on  James 
River,  to  the  west  of  the  Blue  Ridge,  as  soon  as  he 
slumld  locate  one  hundred  settlers  on  the  tract. 
I'eyton  says  Bordeu  was  an  Englishman  who  set- 
tled in  New  Jersey  and  became  a  trader  there, 
having  come  to  .Viiieiica  as  an  agent  of  Lord  Fair- 
fax. While  on  a,  visit  to  Williamsburg  Borden 
met  John  Lewis,  and  made  such  a  favorable 
impression  on  him  thai  Lewis  invited  him  to  come 
over  to  the  Valley  and  pay  him  a  visit.  Borden 
accepted  the  invitation,  and  spent  several  mouths  at 
Lewis's  home,  occupying  much  of  the  time  in  hunt- 
ing and  fishing.  While  out  on  one  of  his  excur- 
sions with  the  sons  of  Lewis,  tlie  party  captured  a 
butfalo  calf,  and  when  Borden  returned  to  Wil- 
liamsburg he  took  this  calf  and  presented  it  to  Gov. 
Gooch  as  something  quite  novel  to  his  excellency. 
Borden  was  evidently  enterprising  and  shrewd, 
and  he  made  that  biilfalo  calf  do  him  much  service. 
The  Governor  was  so  much  pleased  with  Borden 
and  his  present  that  he  ordered  a  patent  to  be  made 
out  authorizing  Borden  to  locate  500,000  acres  of 
land  on  the  Sherando  (Shenandoah)  and  James 
River  west  of  the  Blue  Ridge.  This  large  grant — 
known  ever  afterwards  in  history  as  "Borden's 
Grant" — covered  a  considerable  part  of  what  are 
now  the  counties  of  Rockbridge  and  Augusta. 
Beverly  Manor,  another  famous  grant,  lay  to  tiie 
north  of  Borden's.  The  sole  condition  required  of 
Borden  in  order  to  make  his  title  good  for  this  vast 
body  of  beautiful  and  fertile  lands  was,  that  he 
should,  within  the  next  ten  years,  settle  not  less 
than  one  hundred  families  on  it.  The  date  of  this 
grant  was  about  173(5.  Borden  immediately  set  to 
work  to  induce  settlers  from  Great  Britain,  and 
probably  from  Pennsylvania  and  other  northern 
colonies,  to  locate  on  his  grant  in  the  Valley.  The 
zealous  efforts  of  men  like  Ilite  and  Lewis  and 
Beverly  and  Borden  to  fill  u])  the  country  with  set- 
tlers on  I  heir  resjiective  tracts  did  more  than  any- 
thing else  to  hasten  the  o]K'ning  ii])  of  the  Great 
^'alley  of  Virginia  to  civilization.  Soon  a  vast 
tide    of  immigrants   came   ixiuring   in,   especially 


54  THE    WOODS-:McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

from  tho  Nortli  of  Ii-claiul,  aii.l  IVMiusylvaiiia,  and  in  his  absence,     lie  got  liis  patent  for  liis  land  No- 

an  overwhelniini-  proportion  of  these  early  settlers  venilier  S,  ITol). 

were  Sfolch-lrish  I'reshyterians.  I^ah  r  r.u.  Ilciijainin  J5orden,  Jr.,  ram.  iiHn  Ihe 
Thi'  lirsl  ;;c(|iiainlan(c  of  .Magdalen  Woods  -Me-  Mfaiil,  and  hoai'ded  for  a  time  at  Tohn  McDoweU's 
Kowell  wilh  aiiv  lit  ilie  i'.ordens  was  in  ihe  tali  ot  liouse.  lie  came  as  his  fallier's  representative  to 
17:57.  when  liii'  .McKowells  and  (ireenlees  were  on  complete  titles  and  make  deeds.  "While  there,  of 
their  wav  lo  some  locality  on  the  Sontli  Fork  of  course,  y.mniil'.orden  came  to  know  the  McDowells 
the  Shenandoah  Uiver,  intendiiiii  lo  settle  there.  well.  He  ret nrned  to  his  father  in  New  Jersey  be- 
James  .McDowell,  brother  to  Captain  John,  and  tore  John  M(d)o\\cll  was  killed.  John  McDowell, 
son  of  I'-idiraini,  had,  in  the  spring  of  that  year,  as  already  shown,  was  slain  at  Christ  mas, 1742,  and 
raiseil  a  ci-o|i  of  corn  on  the  South  I'ork  of  liie  at  the  (lose  of  1 74:!,  the  eldi'r  I'orden  died,  leaving 
Shenandoah  near  Woods"s  (iaji.  When  the  Mc-  rxnjaudn  I'.m  d(  n,  Ji-.,  his  Ik  ir-at  la  w,  bi  sides  two 
Dowell  jiartv  hail  reached  Lewis's  Creek,  and  were  oilier  sons,  John  and  Joseiih,  and  several  dangh- 
jnsl  alioul  making  camp  for  the  idght,  l!enjauiin  ici-s.  Some  time  after  the  death  of  both  John  Mc- 
IJordeii,  Sr.,came  up  an<l  asked  have  to  spend  the  Dowell  and  the  elder  Borden  the  latter's  son,  Ben- 
night  there.  I'.oi-den  t(dd  the  .M(d  •<)\\clls  that  he  jainin  IJoi-ib  n,  Jr.,  r.'tnimd  Ic  the  grant,  he  being 
had  a  grant  f(U' a  large  body  of  land  on  Ihe  waters  t  hen.  uun-e  t  lian  cxcr  before,  deeply  interested  in  the 
of  James  i;i\cr.  and  exiiibiled  iloi-nuients  which  lands  his  father  had  owned.  From  old  ?ifrs.  Green- 
satislied  the  .McDowells  lie  was  lelling  the  truth.  Ice's  account  (found  in  her  famous  deposition) 
lie  said  he  was  at  some  loss  to  locate  his  lands  e.\-  it  would  a])]icar  that  the  younger  IJorden  had  not 
actly,  aTid  olfcrcd  to  give  one  thousand  acres  to  uuide  a  ta\'orable  impression  on  the  McDowells, 
any  one  who  should  conduct  him  to  the  right  s])ot.  especially  on  ]\lagdalen.  ^Irs.  (ireenlee  said  he 
TI'cicn|Min  .lohn  McDowell — his  wife  .Magdalen  be-  -^vas  not  at  all  ]irepossessing,  and  that  she  consid- 
ing  present  with  the  couiiiany-  -accepted  his  |iro]io-  ered  him  (|uile  illiterate.  Bnt  this  estimate  of  the 
sition,  and  a  written  agreement  was  drawn  np.  man  was  com])let(dy  changed.  He  not  only  became 
John  .M(  Dowell  was  a  suiveyor,  and  of  this  fact  he  ])oimlar,  but  snch  was  his  re))utation  for  integrity 

s isatislied  r.ordeu.  having  his  surveying  iustru-  that  the  saying  "as  good   as   r>en   Borden's  bill'' 

nicnis  with  him  ;  and  be  and  i'.ordeu  went  in  search  passed  into  a  proverb.     It  was  not  many  years  till 

of    the    locality    the    latter    was   seeking,   and    they  he  won  the  contidence  and  alfections  of  Magdalen 

f'lnnd   it.      It   was  soon  agreed  that   the  .M(d)owells  ^IcDowcdl  and  made  her  bis  wife.      Their  marriage 

should  all  settb^  in  Koi-deii's  (Irani,  and  the  region  must  have  occurred  about   the  year  1748.     .^lagda- 

thiy   scbciid    was   near   to    where    Lexington    now  bn   was   then   about   forty-two  years  old,  and   had 

stands,  and  in  between  the  North  and  South  Kivers,  wilh  her  J(din  McDowell's  three  children    nanielv; 

which  unite  a  few  miles  below  Lexington  and  enter  Samm  I.  Jann^s,  and  Sarah,  whose  ages  varied  from 

111-' James  ai  I'.alcony  Falls,     .lohn  McDowell  built  fourteen   to  eight  years,     ifagdalen  continned   to 

lii^  '-^ddii   at    whal    is  called   the   Ked    House   near  reside  at    the   Ked    Honse.     In   17o:3,   her  husband 

i-"airlield.     The  .M.Dowells  and  (ireenlees  were  the  died    of    smallpox,    leaving    an    estate    whi(h,  in 

''"■^'    I I'l''  ""  >^f"'<'  ill  lliid   Incalily.      Uonlen  re-  that  day,  was  considend  very  large.    His  younger 

mainci   in   ilie-rani    tor  about    I  wo  y.  ais  oi-  more  buMlnr,    Jose].li,    came    into    the    grant    after    the 

■""'  ^'■'■iii'i''!  111!'  I' lisiteouc  Inmdr.'d  settlers,  and  d<ath  (J'  Benjamin,  Jr.     Later  on,  he  instituted  the 

'"■"''■  - ''^  '■'■■'' ""■  I'liii'  gnmlcl   to  him  noted  chaiHery  suit   I  Borden  vs.   Bowyer)    out  of 

by  (lov.  (o.o.h.      W  ben   Korden  l.-fl   ll„.  s,.tllenH.ut  whi<li  grew  other  suits  which  have  been  pending  In 

about  til,-  fall  of  17::ii,  Im  committed  his  iulere.sis  Augusta  (Smnty  nmrts  for  ab.mt  a  century.     After 

largely  to  lohu   .\l.d)owell.  wh,.  attended   to  th.Mn  the  .hath  of  Ibu'd,..,,  Jr.,  .Magdalen,  bis  wbh.w,  was 


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considerefl  the  wciilthicst  woinaii  west  of  the  Blue 
Ridge. 

By  lier  secoud  husband  Magdalen  liad  t\v<i  eliil- 
dreu. 

(I)  MARTILV  BORDEX,  livst  chihl  of  Benja- 
min Borden,  Jr.,  and  his  wife  Mag(hilen,  was  prob- 
ably liorn  at  tlie  Red  House,  Rockbridge  County, 
Virginia,  about  the  year  1750.  Martha  Borden 
became  the  wilV  of  Benjamin  Hawkins,  by  whom 
she  liad  a  nundier  of  cliildreu.  (a)  A  daughter 
was  Ixu'u  to  ^lartha  and  Benjamin  who  married  the 
John  Todd  wlio  fell  at  the  Battle  of  the  Blue  Licks 
in  Kentucky,  (b)  A  daughter,  ^Iagp-VLENa,  was 
born  to  them  who  married  Matthew  Harvey,  and 
had  .Maria  Hawkins  Harvey,  wlio  married  William 
A.  McDowell.  After  the  death  of  her  first  hus- 
band (Ben  Hawkins)  ^Martha  Borden  married  Rob- 
ert Harvey,  an  older  brother  of  tiie  Matthew  Har- 
\  ey  who  married  her  daughter  ^lagdalena. 

(II)  Magdalen  had  a  second  daughter  by  her 
second  liiisband,  Benjamin  Borden,  Jr.,  whose 
name  was  HANNAH.  This  daughter  seems  to 
have  died  in  childhood,  and  slie  was  probably  the 
last  child  her  mother  ever  had.  She  was  probably 
born  about  17.52.  It  is  known  her  father  died  of 
the  smallpox  in  1753. 


Skctiox  Three — The  Bow  vers. 
Concerning  the  ibird  marriage  of  Magdalen  {nee 
Woods)  not  much  is  known.  How  long  she  re- 
nuained  a  widow  after  the  death  of  Benjamin  Bor- 
den, her  second  husband,  is  not  known.  It  is 
known  that  Col.  John  Bowyer,  who  was  her  third 
husband,  Avas  a  man  of  prominence  in  the  Valley 
of  Virginia.  He  was,  as  Col.  (Jreen  asserts,  twenty 
years  younger  than  Magdalen.  This  last  matri- 
monial venture  of  ilagdalen's  was  probably  not  in- 
\ested  with  a  great  deal  of  sentiment  on  either  side, 
and  may  not  have  had  much  to  recommend  it.  She 
was,  for  that  day  and  community,  a  rich  woman, 
and  blessed  with  the  most  remarkable  vitality,  and 
with  decided  force  of  character.  Col.  Green  men- 
tions a  "tradition,"  which  nuiy  have  only  a  slender 


foundation,  to  the  effect  that  .Magdalen  had  pru- 
dently made  a  marital  settlement  with  Col.  Bowyer 
before  tlicii'  man'iage,  but  thai  he,  by  some  means, 
managed  to  destroy  it.  .Mrs.  (ireenlee,  in  her  fa- 
mous deposition,  says  that  Bowyer  settled  Borden's 
business  after  the  latter  died  in  1753.  Bowyer, 
she  states,  laid  claim  to  all  the  lands  Borden  had 
owned,  and  sold  ami  gave  away  a  great  deal  of  it. 
]>ut  we  uuist  bear  in  mind  that  .Mrs.  Greenlee  was 
the  sister  of  Magdalen's  deceased  husband.  Among 
the  subscriptions  to  the  salary  of  Rev.  John  Brown, 
pastor  of  Timber  Ridge,  in  1751,  was  that  of  a  "Mr. 
Bo3'er"  who  gave  twice  as  much  as  any  other  per- 
son named.  It  is  e.xtreujely  likely  this  subscriber 
was  C(d.  .John  Ilowyer.  In  17(13,  we  tind  him  a  cap- 
tain of  one  of  the  companies  of  Col.  Wm.  Preston's 
regiment,  raised  to  resist  the  Indians,  some  of 
whom  had  just  devastated  the  Kerr's  Creek  neigh- 
borhood, and  tilled  the  whole  Valley  with  alarm. 
In  January,  1781,  we  find  him  leading  a  regiment 
of  IJockbridge  men  to  Richmond  to  resist  the  in- 
vasion which  was  led  by  Benedict  Arnold.  When 
Augusta  County  was  divided,  by  cutting  off  from  it 
the  greater  part  of  its  territory  to  create  the  county 
of  Botetourt  (in  17()9),  we  tind  him  constituted  one 
of  its  justices,  ^^'addell,  Annals  of  Augusta,  I'age 
ti(j,  recites  an  entry  fi'om  the  Diary  of  Rev.  Hugh 
McAden,  dated  July  13,  1755,  w  liieli  sets  Col.  Bow- 
yer before  us  in  most  enviable  and  agTeeable 
light.  That  he  was  not  only  an  active  and 
prominent  citizen,  and  a  Christian,  but  also  a 
nuin  who  conuuanded  the  respect  and  good-will  of 
the  brothers  and  other  relatives  of  Magdalen,  his 
wife,  seems  practically  certain,  because  he  and  the 
Woodses  and  Lapsleys  were  constantly  associated 
together  in  going  on  each  others'  bonds,  and  in 
those  acts  of  intimacy  and  good  neighborhood 
which  do  not  obtain  where  there  is  alienation  and 
dislike.  Magdalen's  brother  Richard  was  with  Col. 
Bowyer  on  the  first  bench  of  gentlemen  justices  ap- 
])ointe(l  for  Itoletoui't  County,  and  when  his  wife's 
brother,  .Michael  Woods,  Jr.,  came  to  write  his  last 
will  in  177(!,  he  names  this  brothei"-in-law  one  of 
his  executors  in  terms  which  imply  not  only  affec- 


56  THE    WOUDS-McAFEE   :\[EMORIAL. 

tiouate  rcfrard,  hut  perfect  eoiifidence.     In  view  of  \V«(m1s"s  (Icscciidimts,  wlio  has  prol.ahlv  expeuded 

all  these  facts  il    would  seem  hut  reasoiiahle  and  nioi-e  lahoi- in  elforts  to  ohtain  full  iufonuatiou  oou- 

charitahlc  ro  withhold  daniaiiiiijn  crilieism  of  Vo).  ceniinii  his  Woods  aiu-estois  llian  any  otlier  per- 

Uowvct's  .hai-acter  and  (•(.mlucl  and  he  williuii-  to  sou.     In  liis  skc  Idi   Mo  l)e  fr-uud  in  I'ail    ill  of  this 

iielieve  thai  auv  diriVi-cuces  which  may  have  arisen  Nohime)    llie  reader  will  lind  a  uumliei-  of  iuterest- 

l)etween  Inm  and  his  wife  were  only  such  as  often  iuii'  details  wliicji  (\>\.  Wnods  informs  the  writer  he 

exist  helwcen  hiuh  spirited  Inil  iionorahle  partners,  lias  lial  hered  from  various  sources.aiid  for  theaceu- 

and  which  do  not  ari-iie  either  heartlessiu'ss  or  d is-  racy   (d'    which    he    vdiiches. 

honestv.      In    truth,    there    is    nothinj;-    certaiuiy  ^\'illiam  Woods  was  a  youth  of  about  seventeen 

known  concerniiiii  their  relations  to  reipiire  us  to  «heii   his  parents  migrated  to  America,  ])rovided 

helieve  thai    there  I'ver  was  any   dinVrcnce  or  uu-  the  author's  calculations  and   conclusions  relative 

pleasantness  lictween  .Maiidalcn  and  her  third  hits-  to  the  dat<'s  of  tlu'  more  imjKirtant    events  in  the 

hand.''     Thev    evidently    had    no    children    as    (he  liist(U'y  of  the  remoter   \Voudses  are  snhstant ially 

fruit  i>(  IhiMi-  itnion.  correct.      It  is  assumed  that  he  spent  ten  years  of 

Mandalen   Woods,  the  tirst   child  of  Michael  of  his   life   in    the  colony   of   I'ennsylvauia — 1724   to 

IJlair  I'ark  and  .\lar.\   Campliell.  Ii\cd  till  1810.  it  1734 — and  then  came  to  \'irjj,iuia.     I?efore  misirat- 

is  said,  atlainiu!!  the  reni;iikalde  ai^c  of  101  years.  inji'  to  the  latter  colony,  however,  it    is  conjectured 

She  was  (UK'  of  (he  pioueei-s  of  the  N'alley  of  ^'ir-  that    he  had    nmri-ied    Susannah    Wallace,   his  first 

MJiij;!,   ;|ii,|    iiiie  ol'    the    foiinilcis   o  f   Timhei-    Kid.ue  consin    (his  f;ith(i-"s  ni(  (•(  )    sa\',  ahotil    17;!l',  when 

('hurdi.      'riiere   are    prolmlily    now    livinii'   several  he  was  aliout   t  wenty-fixc,  and  she  was  about  one 

thousand  pers(uis  in  whose  \cins  her  blood  is  cout's-  year  youni;cr  than  himself.      It  would  be  most  rea- 

in^'.      Iler  ashes    I'eposc.   almost    cerlainly.    in    (he  sonable  to  su]»])ose  Ihat  William  ami  his  wife  ac- 

Timber   K'iduc  < 'luirch  ^'ard    waitiuL;-   for   that   last  ccm];ani(  d  his  part  nts  when,  in  17.'!4,  they  came  t(! 

tall   which  will  snmnion  the  ilead  to  rise  to  die  no  N'iriiinia,  but  some  of  his  descendanis  belie\-e  jhat 

niiu'c.      The  sources  of  infortnat  ion  com-ernin^  her  he  did    not    leaxc   l*euus\  I vania    till    .Mar(4i,    1744. 

ch;irnclcf  ;ind    life    are    so    meaiici'    Ihat    oidy  the  ^\'lIen  he  d  id  migrate  he  set  t  led  at  the  eastern  base 

dimmest   luitline  of  her  picture  can   be  discerned,  of  the  I'liie  IJidlic  near  Woods's  (lap,  in   what    is 

luit  she  has  left  her  impress  <ui  some  of  the  worlhi-  now   Albem.irle  County, 

est  characters  that  lia\(' adorned  the  history  of  our  ^^'illiam    Woods    (L'di.   the  lirst    son  (sf  .Michael 

common  country,  and  we  have  i;iiod  reasons  for  be-  .•iiid  .M;iry.  sm-ceeded  his  father  as  the  owner  of  the 

lic\iiiL;   that    she  was  a   child  of  (!od,  ;ind   that,  as      old    \V Is   honiesteail,   '•.Mountain    Plains, "   after- 

sii(4i,  she  has  inherited  the  life  e\ crlasi  in-;-.  wards  called  I'.lair  I'ark.'"     The  date  of  this  change 

of  owiuu-shi]!  is  unknown   to  the    jiresent    writer. 
\Nilliam   (I'd  \   was  nol  very  .successful  in  the  man- 

^^''"  l':i^'"  li 1  reasons  U>v  believing;  thai   the  sec-  aiicment   ni'  his  estate,   it  would  seem,  as  -we  lind 

ond  child   (and  lirst  son  i  of  .Michatd  W Is  by  his  him    mortgaiiinii    his    pro](erty,    first,    to    Thomas 

wife,  .Mary  Campbell,  was  their  son  W  illiam,  who  Walker,  and  a-ain,  to  some  men  over  in  the  Valley, 

was   probably   born   in    Ireland    in   the    year    1707.  .amonii-   them    beim;    his    bi'other-in-law    Col.    Tohn 

Conceruin-    him    the  author  has   no(    been   able  to  I'.owyer,     and      his     neiihew     Sammd      .McDowell, 

ohtain    many    items  nf  ])ositive   inftUMuation.      The  The     oflicial      records     of     the     cobmy      for     the 

few  details  whidi   he  has  -atliered   lot;c(lier  frtnn  year     1758     show     Ihat      ho     had     been     a     lieu- 

S(Mirces  deemed  reliable  will  here  be  presenled,  Imt  t(-nanl      of     the     Albemarle     .Militia."'     At     least 

the  reatler  is  respectfully  rererred  to  (he  sketch  of  (here  was  in  Albenmrle  a  William  Woods  who,  in 

Colonel    Charles   A.    \l.    W.mmIs,   <nie    of     William  : hat  year,  received  pay  as  a  commissioned  officer, 


H— WILLI. \.\l    WOODS   c'd  ). 


aiul  we  know  of  no  otlicr  person  of  tliat  ikuiic  wlio 
at  that  (late  was  old  cnouuli  to  lie  a  soldicv.  Wil- 
liam ^^'oo(ls  (oil),  often  called  "Beaver  ("reek 
Billy,"  ^vas  his  son,  lint  in  17r)S  he  was  only  fonr- 
teeii  years  ohl.  In  1773  (  or  1774  )  we  And  William 
Woods  (I'd)  nuikinji'  sale  of  the  old  homestead 
(Mountain  Plains),  he  beint;  at  that  time  a  citizen 
of  fincastle  (\mnty.  In  ohl  .Michael's  last  will, 
written  in  17(;i,  >Villiam  is  expressly  mentioned, 
hnt  we  know  of  no  certain  means  of  (letcriiiiniug 
wJK  llier  or  nol  he  remained  in  AUk marie  until 
aft(  r  the  death  (;f  (;ld  .Michael,  which  occurr( d  in 
17G2.  The  fac-simile  of  his  receipt,  ^iven  July  1"), 
1707,  to  he  found  in  this  v(dnme,  seems  to  prove  lie 
was  then  livini;'  in  .Vlhi  niai-le.  >\'h(  n  ^^'illiam  <lis- 
])(is(  il  of  the  old  homestead  in  177o  (or 
1774)  to  Tliomas  Adams,  of  An^'usta  <'ounly.  he 
took  care  to  reserve  the  right  of  ingress  and  egress 
as  to  the  old  family  hnrial-gronnd,  and  to  i)rohihit 
any  one  from  ever  cultivating  the  grounil  witliin 
tluit  enclosure.  This  secures  the  preservation  of 
this  sacred  jilot  of  ground,  to  some  extent ;  hut  un- 
less it  shall,  in  the  near  future,  he  enclosed  with  a 
substantial  iron  fence  and  otherwise  cared  for,  the 
)U'obabilities  ai-e  that  the  graves  of  the  older 
Woodses  will  soon  be  utterly  obliterated.  For 
about  a  thousand  dollars  a  suitable  monumeiit  and 
iron  railing  could  be  ](r(n'ided,  which  would  last  for 
generations;  and  when  we  consider  what  a  uiulli- 
tudc  of  the  descendants  of  Jlichael  \\'oo(ls  of  Blair 
I'ark  arc  now  living,  and  ho\\-  many  of  them  are 
lih'ssed  with  a  considerable  share  of  worldly  goods, 
it  will  be  no  small  reproach  to  the  "Woods  Clan" 
if  that  sacred  l)urial-plot  is  much  longer  allowed 
to  remain  in  its  present  shabby  and  neglected  con- 
dition.'^^ 

^^'illiam  Woods  (I'd)  seems  never  to  lia\'c  ha<l 
any  other  wife  than  Susannah  \\allace,  and  by  hei' 
he  had  tcu  children,  as  fedlows:''" 

(I)  ADA.M,  who  luarried  .Viiua  Kavcuaugh; 

(II)  MICHAEL  (3d),  of  whom  lillle  is 
known ; 

(III)  PETEB.  who  married  Jael  Kavenaugh ; 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF   BLAIR  PARK.  57 

(IV)      JOHN    (3(1),    who    uiarried    Abigail  Es- 


till; 

(V)  ANDREW  (:?d),  who  married  Hannah 
Beid; 

(VI)  ABClllBAM)  (I'd), who  married  :\Iemrn- 
ing  Shelton ; 

{VII )  WILLIAM  (3el),  kue.wn  as  "Be-ave'r 
<'l-ee'k    Itilly    Weioels"; 

(VIII)  SARAH,  wlie.  married  a   .Mr.  Shirkey; 

(IX)  SUSAN,  eif  whemi  neithing  is  know  n  ;  anel 

(X)  ;\IABV,  who  nuirried  George  Davidson. 
Dr.  Edgar  \\e)e)els  state-s  that  all  e)f  the  before- 

memtione'el  children  eif  AVilliam  (I'd)  and  Susan- 
nah, with  the  exception  e)f  William  (  3il  ),  emigrated 
to  Kentueky;  anel  that  from  thence  some  of  them 
went  te»  Te-nnesse'c,  and  eithers  te)  .Misse)uri.  Dr. 
"Weioels  is  also  of  the'  eiiiiniou  that  three  of  the  sons 
we-re-  Baptist  pre'aehers,  namely;  Adam,  Peter  and 
Anelrew  (3d),  thcnigh  there  may  be  some  question 
as  te)  whe'ther  this  is  correet  as  respects  Adam." 

( I )  ADA.M  W(  )nns,  t  he'  first  named  of  the  ten 
chileli-e'ii  of  ^^■illiam  (  2il  )  auel  his  wife  Susannah, 
was  jirobably  born  in  Albe-nuirle  Cemnty,  anel  peissi- 
bly  about  the  year  1742.  If  he  were  the  first  born 
(hi lei  of  his  parents,  anel  his  pare'uts  married  abeiut 
(we)  years  before  the  migration  of  the  \\'oodses  and 
AN'allaces  to  Virginia,  as  has  been  conjecture'd,  then 
William  and  Susannah  had  no  children  until  about 
ten  years  after  the-ir  marriag(\  It  nmy  be,  how- 
eve  r,  that  \N'illiam  did  nol  mai'ry  till  about  1740, 
when  he  was  thirty-three  years  old  ;  but  we  are  left 
xt'vy  largely  to  mere  conjecture  anel  guessing  in 
i"esp(x-t  to  most  of  the  de'tails  relating  to  his  life>. 
The  ine'vitable  re^sult  is  that  we  find  his  lineal  eh'- 
scendants  of  I  he  ])resent  generation  entertaining 
widely  divergent  theories  in  re'gard  to  some  of  the 
ste])s  in  his  career.  These',  he)we've'r,  re'late  to  mat- 
ters about  which  eliffe'rene-e's  of  opinion  do  Tutt  im- 
pugn the  general  accuracy  of  the  narrative'.''^ 

Whatever  may  have  been  the  date  of  the  marriage 
of  his  parents,  eir  eif  their  migi-atioii  lo  \'irginia, 
it  is  certain  tliey  had  .n  son  namcel  .\dam,  who  was 
probably  boiii  about  1742.  Dr.  Edgar  \Ve)i)ds  says 
he  became  a  Baptist  pi-eachcr,  but  Col.  Chas.  A.  R. 


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TUE    \VOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


'\\'(>(i(ls  ( in  liis  sketch  to  1)(»  found  in  Part  III  of  Jael  Kayeuaugh,  sister  to  the  ^vife  of  his  brother 
this  wiiric)  speaks  of  him  as  solilier  and  a  man  of  Adam.  lie  had  probably  .seltb'd  in  Keutoeky  be- 
huge  lan(h'd  eslales,  neither  of  wiiicli  conditions  fore  Ins  jnarriage  occurred.  Born  aud  reared  a 
are  t'linnd  to  be  true  of  liie  average  |)reaclier  tiien  strict  Presbyterian,  he  became  a  I!a])tist  and  en- 
ornuw.  Adam  migrated  to  .Madison  County,  Ken-  tered  tlie  ministry  of  that  Chiircli.  In  ISOS  lie 
tiicky,  |irnli;d)ly  attei-  the  close  uf  ilie  Kevolution,  m(»\-ed  to  Tennessee  and  in  ISllI  to  ('<ioper  County, 
for  it  seems  he  ac(|nire(l  a  farm  there  in  December,  .Missduii.  lie  was  active  in  evangelistic  work,  and 
17S1.  lie  married  .Miss  .Vnna  Kavenaugh  liy  was  |irominent  in  the  large  denomination  to  which 
whom  lie  had  a  family  of  leii  children,  as  follows:  he  went  from  the  Church  of  liis  fathers,  lie  was 
(a),  Wn.i.iAM  (4lhi.  who  marrie.l  Susan  I!.  a  useful  and  earnest  servant  of  Christ,  and  is  re- 
Clark;  (III,  rATiiicK.  who  maiTied,  first,  Pachel  mendiercd,  es]>ecially  in  .Missouri,  with  admiration 
Cooper,  and,  second,  I'rances  Dulaney;  (c),  by  all  who  know  of  his  life  and  laliors  there.  lie 
AU('iiii!.vi.i)  (odi,  who  married  his  cousin,  left  a  large  family,  but  uidortunately  the  author 
.Mary  Wallace;  id  i,  .Mkiiai:!,  (4th  ),  who  served  in  has  not  lieen  able  to  jirocure  their  names. 

Col.    Slaiightei-"s   regi nl    of   Kentucky   mounted  (I\'i      .TollX  WOODS   (odi   was  a  sen  of  >Vil- 

men  in  the  war  of  ISIJ,  and   was  never  nmrried  ;      liam  W Is  ( I'd  t  and  Susaunah  Wallace,  and  was 

(e),   Pi:Ti:it.  who   mo\(d    from    .'ventucky    to   Clay  probably   liorn    in     .\lbemarle    Couiitv,    Virginia, 

f'onnly.  .Missouri,  in  ISI.".,  and  here  reared  a  large  about  IT.'.l.     There  he  resided  till  the  migration  of 

family;   ifL-loiiN   Cidi,    who    migrated    to    Cali-  the    family    to    .Madison    Ccmnty,    Kentucky.      He 

foiMiia  after  the  .Mexican  W-.w.  being  a  ].hysician;  nmrried  Abigail   Estill,  the  daughter  of  Captain 

(gi.    Hawaii,   who    maiiied     Colonel     I'.arbe    d.  James  Estill  who  built  the  foi-t  in  :Madis<ni  County, 

Collins,  she  being  his  second  wife;  and  a  cousin  to  Kentucky,  \\hi(h  bore  his  name,  and  who  was  slaiu 

his  first   wife;    I  hi,  Anna,   who    married    a     ^ir.  by  the  Indians.     John  Woods  had  taken  an  active 


IJrowiie  in  Kciilmky  pi'ior  to  the  removal  n(  the 
family  lo  .Missouri  in  iSl.');  i  j),  Srs.vx.  who  mai'- 
ried  Colonel  Mullins  ami  moved  to  California  ;  and. 


pai-t  in  the  IJexolutionai-y  W'ai-  jirior  to  leaving  Vir- 
ginia,  and    had    reiidei-ed    gjillant    service   against 
the  Indians.    In   iSdS,  he.  in  com]ianv  with  three  of 
k),  SAi.i.iK.  who  married  Jmlge  Austin   Walden.      ,,i,     |,,„t,„.,s     (Anhibald,     Peter  '  an.l     Andrew 

\\'(!(!ils|  moved  to  Tennessee.    In  that  State  he  died 


of  .Missoui'i. 

.\dam  Woods  died  in  liowai'd  ('ounty,  .Missouri, 
in  ISL'C.  at  the  age  ot  eighty-foui',  while  on  a  visit 
to  his  relatives,  and  was  there  buried.  His  wife 
had  died  many  yea.rs  hefore  he  passed  away. 

I  II  )  .MICHAEL  WO(H)S  I4th|  was  a  son  id" 
William  Woods  i  I'd  i  and  Susannah  Wallace.  He 
is  supposed  lo  have  been  born  in  .Vlbemarle  County, 
\'irgini;i,  in  ITIC.  It  is  thought  he  was  a  Kevolti- 
tionai-y  soldier,  and  thai  he  migrated  to  Kentucky 
lowards  the  (dose  of  the  cighleentli  century,  and 
died  ihei-e.      Kittle  seems  lo  1h>  known  (>(  him. 

(  111  )  PETEK  WOODS  was  a  son  of  William 
(I'd  I  and  Susannah  Wallace,  and  it  is  said  he  was 


in   iSl.').     He  left  a   family  of  children,  but  their 
names  are  not  known  to  the  writer. 

(V)  ANDREW  \V()ODS  (3d)  was  a  sou  of 
William  \\(.ods  (I'd)  and  Susaunah  Wallace,  and 
was  probably  born  about  the  year  1747,  and  in  Al- 
bemarle County,  Virginia,  lie  married  .Miss  Han- 
nah Peid  (d'  the  Valley  of  ^'irginia,  a  distant  kins- 
woman, but  his  wife  ne\-er  Iku'c  him  any  children. 
He  was  reared,  as  all  his  father's  family  had  beeu, 
a.  Presbyterian,  but  like  his  lirother  Peter  he 
changed  his  views  of  the  (udinaiiee  id'  ba]itism,  and 
united  with  the  Baptist  Church,  and  became  an  ac- 


born  in  N'irgiuia  in  17(;-',  and  died  in  Cooper  five  ju'eacher  of  that  denomination.  He  lived  for 
County.  Missoiiii,  in  ISlT).  In  1 7SL',  when  «ome  years  in  :Madis(>n  County,  Kentucky,  and  in 
only  a  liiile  paNt  iweiily  years  (d'  age.  lie  married      ISOS.  along  with  his  brothers  I'eter  and  Johu  and 


MICHAEL   WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK.                                                     59 

Ai'cliiliald.  moved   to  Teuuessee  whfiv  he  died   iu  wliich  robbed   liiiii  of  the  fruits  of  his  lalxir,  dis- 

]^S15.  iiusted   liiiii    willi    Keidiicky  for  tht'  time,  and   he 

(VI)      AU('liir>ALl)   ^VOODS    (I'd  I     was    Ihe  thereiiiioii     mi.nraled,     in     ISdU,     to     Williamson 

I    sou  of  William    Woods   (2d)    and   Susannah    Wal-  ("ounty,  Tennessee.     There  his  wife  died  iu  1817. 

'     lace,  aud  is  said  to  have  been  boru  iu  Albeuuirle  Not  long  after  her  death  he  uuirried  a  Miss  Dorcas 

Couuty,  Virginia,  January  21),  171!>.     This  mem-  Henderson,  aud  lived  for  a  time  in  Franlclin  Coun- 

ber  of  the  family  was  one  of  its  ablest  represeuta-  ty,  Tennessee.  This  second  marriage  proving  a  most 

!     fives,  and  was  for  many  years  prouiininl    in   Ihe  unhappy  one,  a  separation  occurred,  aud  in  1S2(» 

i  earlv  period  of  the  history  of  .Madis(ui  ("ounty,  he  returned  to  .Madison  ("ounty,  Kentucky.  In 
Kentucky.  He  was,  it  would  seem,  of  a  somewhat  1833,  when  eighty-four  years  old,  feeble  aud  about 
restless  temperament,  judging  by  the  several  moves  stripped  of  all  his  property,  he  sought  a  pension 
he  made.  In  1774,  he  moved  to  :^^onroe  r<uinty,  from  the  T'uited  States  (Jovernment  on  account 
Virginia.  In  the  fall  of  177(1,  we  find  him  a  cap-  of  his  valuable  services  in  Ihe  Revolution,  and  he 
tain  of  Virginia  militia  in  an  expedition  against  was  promptly  pensioned  ;it  the  rate  of  -flSO.OO  a 
the  Indians  for  ihe  relief  of  Fori  Watauga,  in  Ten-  year,  begiuuiug  with  .Mai'ch,  1831.  The  al'liduvils 
nessee.  Col.  Iiussell  commanded  this  expedition.  he  made  in  securing  this  pension  furnish  many  of 
("aptain  ^\'oods  was  constantly  in  service  against  the  facts  now  presented  herein.  He  died  Decem- 
the  Indians  and  I'.ritish  till  the  surrender  of  Corn-  her  13,  183(i,  iu  his  eighty-eighth  year,  at  the  home 
wallis  in  October,  1781.  In  December  of  that  year  of  his  son  Archibald,  and  was  buried  in  Madis(m 
he  visited  Kentucky,  aud  in  1782  he  brought  his  (bounty.  Colonel  Charles  A.  R.  Woods,  of  Nor- 
family  to  JIadison  County.  In  1784,  he  purchased  borne,  jMissouri,  who  is  a  descendant  of  Archibald's 
a  farm  on  Dreaming  Ci'eek,  aud  there  he  built  brother  Adam,  jiaid  a  visit  to  Madison  County  last 
Woods's  l''ort  or  Station,  and  made  his  liome  there  year  (1903),  and  made  diligent  search  foi-  Arclii- 
for  about  t  weuty-five  years.  His  tirst  farm  was  on  bald's  grave.  Several  old  burial-grounds  were  ex- 
I'nmpkin  Run,  a  tract  of  one  thousand  acres  of  ex-  amined  without  success,  but  tinally  his  grave  was 
cellent  land,  for  which  he  paid  Captain  Estill  "one  found  at  the  old  (Joodloe  place,  about  three  and  a 
ritie  gnu,"  as  he  testified,  in  after  years,  under  oalli.  (|uarter  miles  from  Richmond.  The  tombstone  was 
It  is  needless  to  remark  that  there  are  no  bargains  lying  under  six  or  eight  inches  of  grass  and  soil, 
exactlv  like  that  one  now  to  be  had  near  Richmond,  but  the  inscription  was  clear  and  complete.  The 
Keutuckv.  When  .Madis(ui  County  was  organized  Couuty  of  Madison,  wilh  whose  early  history  Arch- 
in  178.1  ("ajitain  Woods  and  nine  other  men  were  ibald  Woods  was  so  intimately  connected,  and  his 
commissioned  "(ieutlemen  Justices  of  the  I'eace"  numerous  descendants,  should  see  to  it  that  his  last 
by  Ciov.  Patrick  Henry.  He  was  a  magistrate  in  resting  place  is  properly  marked  and  duly  cared 
179S,  when  I  lie  icnKival  nf  the  county  seat  of  Madi-  for,  for  he  was  one  of  Kentucky's  worthiest 
son  from  .Milford  to  Richmond  was  decided.  He  pioneers.  From  him  aud  Mourning  Shelton  has 
jiresided  ovei'  Ihe  court  when  Richmond  was  named  descended  a  long  line  of  judges,  statesmen,  soldiers, 
aud  made  the  county  seat,  was  made  one  of  its  tirst  lawyers,  and  fiuanciei-s. 

trustees,  and  in  1801  was  chosen  to  be  the  sheritT  By  his  wife  Mourning  Shelton  Captain  Archibald 

of  his  county.     His  life  was  greatly  end)ittered  by  Woods  had   a   family  of  ten   children.     His   wife 

a  long  aud   vexati<ms  law-suit  which  resulted   in  died  Septendier  7,  1817.     I>y  his  second  marriage 

depriving  him   of  his  farm    on    Dreaming    Creek  he  seems  to  have  had  no  issue.''-' 

where  he  had  lived  about  a  quarter  of  a  century.  (a)      Li'CY,    their    eldest    daughter,    was    burn 

This  decision,  which  seems  to  have  turned  upon  a  October  25,   1774,   ;ind    married    Colonel    \\'illiam 

mere  technicality  of  the  Kentucky  Land  Law,  and  Caperton  I)ecend>er  \'A.  1790.     She  had  by  him   the 


60  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

followin-childivn,  towit:     1.  Aivl.ihal.l ;  2,  Ilnsli ;  Arclubald    Woods    ( ->d  )     and    ^[onruiiig  8heltoii, 

3,  Thomas  Slicllon;    I.   William    II..  wlio  iiiaiTicd  was  boni  FHirnai-y  lit,  ITS.J,  aii(l  marritMl  Elizabotli 

Eliza  Estill;  r,,  (Im-n;  (I,  Jolm.  Ihc  laihci-  of  l>r.  Shacklcford   OctoluT   10.   ISIO.     He  resided  ou  a 

A.  C.  Capertoii.  a  Haptisl   minister  »f   Lonisville.  line  lilmyrass  farm   l\v(;  mihs  east    uf   itirliniond, 

Kentnekv;  7.  Andrew;  S,  llulda,  who  married  An-  Kenlueky,  and  was  one  of  the  earliest  practitioners 

drew  \\'iiuds,  her  ciinsin;  It.  Susan,   wlm  man-ied  of  law  at  the  Kichmond  har.     The  only  issue  of  this 

\\allace  Wilson,  and  Id.  .M ilton  T.,  a  I'.aptist  min-  marrhige  was  a   dau.nhter,    Martha,   who   married 

ister  of  Austin,  Texas,  tiow  li\in<i  at  I  he  advanced  .Tames  M.  E.still,  of  Madison  County.  Kentucky,  a 

a"-e  of  ninet  v-three.     ("ol.   William  ('a|ierion  with  itrandson  of  the  noted  pioneer.  Captain  James  Es- 

Lucv  his  wife  mi.urated  lo  Tennessee  in    IS12,  and  lill.      In  IS.")!),  Arrhiliald    (Ml)    and    his  son-in-law 

Iheir  di'scendauls  are  mainly  scattered  llirounh  the  Tames  M.  I'^still  went  to  California  overland  across 

Sonih  and  South  west.  the  plains.     Estill's  wife,  Martha,  and  their  chil- 

|hi  Wii.iiAM  (.'.ihi.  Iheir  second  child,  was  dren,  followed  him  in  1S."1,  going  by  way  of  the 
born  .March  I'L',  ITTii.  and  manied  .Mary  Harris  Isthmus  of  I'anama.  In  this  arduous  journey  they 
.Tanuar\  K'.,  I.sOl'.  He  died  Inly  S,  1S4(),  and  she  were  safely  couilncted  by  their  faithful  slave.  Jor- 
died  -l.inimry  IT.  I.^;!."<.  They  left  Ihe  following  dan,  and  the  party  crnssed  the  Isthmus  on  mules, 
children,  lo  w  ii  :  1 .  Nancy,  who  was  born -lanuary  Instill  rose  to  ]U'ominence  in  California,  and  was 
L'l.  lS(i:'.;  L'.  .\rchilinld  i  lllii.  who  was  born  Feb-  elected  to  the  State  Senate.  A  few  years  later  botli 
I'uarv  I'd.  jM)  I.  and  married  Sallie  C.  Ca])erton ;  o,  Archibald  \\(!im1s  (Md)  and  his  son-in-law.  Instill, 
Semiramis  Shelioii.  who  was  born  Sept(Mnber  1.  died  in  California.  Mi-.  Estill  was  a  gentleman  of 
ISO."),  and  mairicd  -lohu  .M .  Kavenaugh  Heceudier  Inillianl  gifts,  and  took  a  jxisition  in  the  best  ranks 
10,  IS-Jl';  1.  laicy.  w  li(.  was  licin  1"(  brnaiy  L'l.',  ISOT;  nf  society.  .Tames  .\!.  Instill  and  .Martha  Woods 
."),  .Moiiiiiiiig.  who  was  boiai  (Ictolier  (i.  ISOS;  (5,  left  five  daughters  and  a  son,  as  follows :  I.Eliza- 
Thomas  llari-is.  who  was  born  August  31,  ISIO,  beth,  who  niaia-ied,  in  ('alifornia,  \Mlliani  !».  (iar- 
and  niairicil  .Vppelinc  .Miller;  7,  Kobei't  Harris,  rison  (son  of  ('onnnodiu'e  (iarrison,  a  millionaire 
who  was  born  .May  ■_".!.  IMl';  S,  William  Crawford,  of  New  York  City)  and  had  three  children.  The 
who  was  born  .\pril  I.  islt,  ;nid  married  Sarah  tirst  of  these  three  children  of  A\'illiani  K.  Uarrison 
Ann  r.oyce;  ii,  .lohu  Christopher,  who  was  born  and  TOlizabeth  Est  ill  was  .Minnie,  who  married  Gas- 
I'^'bruaiy  s,  IS]  7;  1(1,  .Mary  .\nn,  who  was  born  t(Ui  I  )e  Chandon.  of  I'rance,  and  now  resides  at 
t'ebi-nary  I'd,  ISlil,  and  married  .lohn  .M.  .Miller;  Nice;  the  second  was  lOstill,  who  married  Charles 
and  11.  .lames  (loodloe,  who  was  boi-n  I'ebruary  K'amsey  (uncle  to  the  ju-esent  Ivirl  of  Halhousie) 
2,  1S28.  and  niaiaied  Susan   lane  lloyce.  and    now    i-esides    in    F(unl(Ui;   and    the    third    was 

((•)      Sts.\.N.\.\ii.   the   (bird    cliild    of  Archibald  ^^■illiam  ( iarrison,  . I r..  who  married  Catharine  Cim- 

Woods  (2d  I,  was  boin  .Iniie  1.'!.  I77S.  and  mari'ied  dert  (  Fro  Coudare  I  daught<'r  of  Frederick  li.  Cou- 

William  (ioodloe  February  2:'.,  17'.m;,  and  died  Oc-  dert,the  eminent  lawyer  of  New  York  City,  recently 

tober  2,  lsr>l,  leaving  thirteen  children.  deceased.     :\[rs.  :\[artha  Woods  Instill,  only  daugh- 

(di      .M.\i;v.    (he     fonrdi     child      of      .\ichil.ald  t(  r    of     Archibald      Woods      ( :'.d  )     and     Elizabeth 

\Yoods  (  2(1  I  and  .Mourning  Shelion,  was  born  .Tuly  Shackelford,  and  widow  of  .Tames  ;M.  Instill,  is  now 

:H,  ITSd,  married  llarbce  Collins  .Tune  2r>,  17!l."),  and  living,  at  a  very  advanced  age.  in  New  Y'ork  City 

died  .Tuly  2:!.  ls22.  with  her  daughters.     The  second  child  of  James  M. 

<'•!      S.\i:.\ii.     (lie     titdi     child     of     .\ichibald  Estill  and  .Alartha  Woods  was  Josephine;  the  third 

>\'oi>ds  (  2(1  I  and  iloniadug  Sliel((ui,  was  born  Jan-  was  ilartha,  who  married  W.  W.  Craig;  the  fourth 

nary  .31.  17S:{.  and  died  .\|uil  l'l.  I7S5.  was  Kodes;  the  fifth  was  Florence;  and  the  sixth 

(f|      .Viaiiic.Ai.n      (;;di,      (he     sixdi      child      of  was  Maud,  who  nmrried  1  )ana  Jones,  of  California. 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  TARK.                                                     61 

(g)      Anna,    the    sevciilli    cliild    of    Aicliihald  i^i-cat-^i-aiKlsdiis  of  .Midiacl   of   I'.lair  I'ark — came 

Woods   (2d)     and    .Mourniuii    SIk  lion,    was    born  n|)<)ii  the  slagc,  hcsidcs  William  I  Ik  sinv(y<ir, called 

January  I'T,  UN",  and  married  Thomas  11.  Miller  "Surveyor  ^Villianl  AVoods."     The  result  was  that 

July  -!!),  18U(J.  the  individual  now  under  consideralioti,  (wlio  was 

(h)      Thomas,    the    eiiilitii    child    of    Archihald  I  Ik   son  of  \\'illiam  I'd  and  Susannah  W'allactM,  be- 

Wooils   1 2d)   and  his  wife  jMourninij,  SheUon,  was  cause  his  hona'  was  mi  Beaver  Creek,  canu'  to  he 

born  May  5,  1TS!»,  and  died  October  2;»,  1806.  known  as  "I'.eaver  Ci-eck  Billy."'     The  relief,  how- 

(j)      Ann,  tlie  ninth   child  of  Archiliah)   ^^'oods  ever,  was  bill    temporary  and  ]iarlial,  lor  ''Iteaver 

(2d)    and   ^lournim;   Shclton,   was  horn   and   died  Orcck   \Villiaiii   \\'oo(ls'"   was  so  unforlunale  as  to 

^lay  15,  ITitl.  have  named  one  of  his  own  sons  William;  and  as 

(k)      MoruNixc;,    the    tentJi    and    last    child    of  this  son  lived  on  Beaver  Creek  witli  his  father,  he, 

Archiliald  "Woods     (2d)     and    jMourninji'    Shclton,  in  the  course  of  time,  had  to  be  dublied  "Beaver 

was  born   April   2,  17!I2,  married   (iarland    .Miller  Creek      William     The     Second."      Then     another 

Jaiinary  IS,  ISIO,  and  died  Se])tenilier  7,  1S17.  grandson  (d'  (dd  .Michael,  named  \\illiam,  came  into 

(VII)  WILLIAM  WOODS  iltd),  son  (d'  \Vil-  iirominence,  (hereby  increasing  the  com])lications 
liam  Woods  (2d)  and  Susannah  \\'allace — known  which  already  were  enough  to  try  the  jiatienoe  of 
for  many  of  the  later  years  of  his  life  as  "Beaver  (he  community.  This  last  mentioned  gentleman 
Creek  William  Woods  The  First" — was  horn  (ac-  became  a  prominent,  minister  of  the  Baptist 
cording  to  Col.  Charles  A.  R.  Woods)  in  Albemarle  Church,  and  a  man  of  influence  in  Albemarle;  and 
County,  Virginia,  Deceudier  25,  1744;  but  accord-  in  sheer  desjieration  his  friends  began  calling  him 
iiig  to  ;\rrs.  McChesney  (ioodall  he  was  born  De-  "Baptist  AN'illiam  ^^'oo(ls.""  There  still  remained 
oember  31,  1744,  near  the  iiresent  town  of  West  several  other  uk  n  of  the  saiiK'  name  in  Albemarle, 
Chester,  I'ennsylvauia.  and  lirought  to  Albemarle  and  c(!ntignous  counties,  fi.r  w  Ik. m  im  such  familiar 
County,  Virginia,  the  ilarcli  follow ing.'"'  The  ai)pellatives  were  invented,  and  to  several  of  them 
Jicw  Dr.  Edgar  Woods,  who  resides  in  Charlottes-  we  shall  lie  compelled  t((  refer  in  this  narrali\e. 
ville,  Virginia,  and  has  given  very  careful  attention  William  \\'(!ods  ("Beaver  Creik  r>illy'" )  (3d) 
to  these  <|uestituis,  iiositively  states  that  \\'illiani  was  a  /jealous  Presbyterian,  and  a  leading 
\\'()i(ds  ( od  ),  long  known  as  "Beaver  Creek  Billy,""  member  of  the  ^louidain  I'laiiis  Church,  lie 
died  in  lS3(i,  at  the  age  of  ninety-two,  making  the  was  a  man  of  tine  sense,  natural  leader- 
year  of  his  birth  1744 ;  but  he  gives  no  opinion  as  ship,  and  excellent  character.  lie  displayed 
to  tlie  ]ilace  of  his  birth,  or  the  date  of  his  coming  some  little  eccentricities  of  mind  and  manner  which 
to  Virginia.  The  present  writer  has  no  docu-  caused  him  to  lie  well  known  in  all  the  region 
iiH'utary  evidi-nce  at  liand  to  warrant  positive  an-  inmiikI  about.  He  took  a  special  interest  in  his 
sertions  on  this  ]ioint,  but  he  decidedly  iiu  lines  to  Church,  and  exercised  over  it  a  sort  of  ](aternal 
the  view  that  Beaver  Creek  William  \\()iids  was  guardianship.  He  would  not  hesitate  to  utter  his 
born  in  Albemarle,  and  that  his  jiarents  came  tln-re  disapproval  of  what  he  conceived  to  be  a  pernicious 
in  1734,  with  lilair  Park  Michael.  sentiment  from  the  lips  of  the  preacher  in  the  pnl- 

The  William  Woodses  came  to  be  so  nuiiK'rous  in  pit  by  giving  audible  dissent  from  his  place  in  his 
Albemarle  that  something  had  to  be  done  to  con-  iiew.  ^lany  a  time,  when  he  thought  the  preacher 
^■elliently  distinguish  them  from  one  another.  The  was  missing  the  mark  in  some  of  his  statements  he- 
William  "Woods,  who  was  the  son  of  A\'illiam  2d  fore  the  assembled  congregation,  he  ^^•olI]d  shake 
and  Susannah  A\'allace,  gradiially  dev(do]ied  into  a  his  head,  and  say,  aloud, — ''Not  so,  sir;  not  so." 
conspicuous  personage  in  his  county;  and  then  "Tis  said  he  was  very  tall  and  handsome,  and  of 
several    other    William    Woodses — grandsons    and  graceful  manner;  and  in  his  latter  years,  he  wore 


02  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMOKIAL. 

liis-niv  hair  Imm.  an.l  .(iiiihcd  straiiilit  hack  Iroiii  ilic  ni(  .c  of  llic  Jaiinau    wIkisc    iiaiiu-   sui)i.laiitc.l 

liis  line  rnivhcad.      All   in  all.  he  iiiiisl  liavc  hccii  a  ilial  i-A  Wdnds  U<v  llic^aji  in  (|ncsli<»ii  bcraiiica  'Slvs. 

iMusI    iiiliM-cstiM<:  ant!   iiini|iic  iliaraclcr  in  liis  day,  ^^■^()ds.''■    We  knew  not  hi  iiij,  of  I  lie  date  of  the  birth 

and  il  scciiis  a  .ureal   pilyllial   we  have  no  poi't  rait  of    Ihis    William       Woods     (4lh),     hut     wc     know 

of  hiiii.     To  he  alilc  lo  ix-.v/A'    upon    a    .udod     like-  lie     died     in     ISi".),     leaving-     the     folhiwing    oliil- 

ness  of  his  face  would   cari-y   us  hack  to  lii'  N'ir-  drcn:       1.   Janies,     who    inari'ied     Mildred   Jones, 

ginia  of  a  century  ago.  willi  iis  charniiug  social  life  lived     on     Beaver     Creek,     and     died     in     1808; 

lonu'  I'rior  lo  1  he  days  of  raili-oads  and  other  mod-  •_',     \\'illiaiii.     who    niari'ied     Nancy     .T(nns,     lived 

ci-ii   iineiilions.      He  was,  acccu-ding  lo   I  >r.    I'Mgar  near  <  "rozel .  and  died  in  1850  ;  3,  Peter  A.,  who  was 

W Is.  the  only  one  of  , -ill  the  children  of  William  a    merchant   in   Charlottesville,  and    in    Kiclnnond, 

Woods     ( I'd  I     anil    Susannah     Wallace     that      re-  married   Twynionia  A\'ayt,    and    afterwards    Mrs. 

mained    in    .Mhemarle,   all    Ihe   others   having   mi-  .Mary  I 'oage  I'xmrland,  and  died  in  1870 ;. I,  Thomas 

.grated  to  the  West  at   the  (lose  of  the  Kevolution.  Dahiiey,  who  married  ^Miss  Ilagan,  lived  near  I'ed- 

Ilis  hiMiie  was  on  lleavi  r  ("reek,  ahoiil  a  mile  north  lar  Mills  in  Amherst  Connty,  and  died  in  1894 ;  and 

of  the   piM'sent    railway  station   called   Ci'ozet,  and  C,  Sarah  1.,  who  married  Jesse  1'.  Key.      The  said 

some  of  his  <lescendants  are   livin.ii   in  that    iinme-  .lames  Woods,  tirsi  child  of  William  AN'oods  (4th), 

diate  \  icinil.\    to  Ihis  (la.\ ,  and  are  among  the  best  \\\\n  married  .Mildred  -lones,  a  daughter  of  Captain 

jieople  of  .Mliemarle.  ^^'illiam  IJ.  -lones,  had  several  children,  the  eldest 

William  Woods  ( ;!d  i  was  three  times  married.  ,,(■  which  was  ^^'illiam  I'rice  Woods,  who  married 
His  tiisi  wife  was  his  cousin,  Saiah  Walla<-e;  his  Sarah  lOUen  Jones,  his  consiu.  ^Ir.  William  T'rice 
sec(nid  was  his  cousin.  .\nn  Keid;an(l  his  third  was  Woods  li\-ed  at  Crozet,  ^'a.,  and  there  died  August 
^Ii's.  \anc.\  .Tones,  inc  Kichardson.  He  look  part  S,  li)()0.  ;\[rs.  (ioodall,  who  has  a  sketch  <<{'  her 
in  the  l.'i'volut  ioiiaiy  struggle. and  in  1  T7t(  was  com-  famil.\'  in  Tart  III  of  this  Nolume.  is  his  grand- 
missioned  an  (  nsign.  and  almost  immedialidy  thcri-  daughter.      (  Se<'  her  sketch.)^'* 

after  a  liiiihnanl.  in  the  \'irginia   Line.     It  stems  (VTIl)      SAKAIT   WOODS   Avas  a   danghter  of 

to  he  geiierall.v  agreed  that  he  had  hut  one  son,  and  William  ^^'oods   (2d)   and  his  wife  Susannah  Wal- 

to  him  he  gave  that   exiremel.x    ]io]iulaf  name  Wil,-  lace.     Saiah     (or    Sallie,    as    sonn     ]irefer    to    call 

t.iAM,    who   was  known    in   .Mhennarle  as  ••Ueaver  her,  i    married    a    Col.    Nicholas    Shirky.    of    Bote- 

Ci-eek    r.illy   the   Second."     The   writer  is   not   in-  lourt  Cotintv,  as  Col.  Clias.  A.  1>.  A\'oods  states  in 

formed  as  to  which  of  Ihe  three  wives  of  \Villiam  lijs  skehdi   in   T.-trt   ITT  of  this  work.      T'ol.  Woods 

Woods   (."Ml    was  Ihe  morli(  r  (d'    William     \Voods  says  she  was  hoi-n  in  1T('>1,  and  (Tied  in  T^^.ll.     If 

I  lih  I.      N(U'  does  the  w fiter  know  whether  the  hit-  she  had  anv  chihTren  the  author  lias  heen  nnalde  to 

let-  had  any  sisters  nv  half  sisters.      It  seems  likely  ascertain  the  fact. 

that  his  fathei's  first  wife,  Sarah  ^\■allace,  was  his  ( TX I      SFSAN     is     mentioned    hy    Dr.    Edgar 

mother,  and   that   he  was  the  only  child  his  father  Woods  in  his  history  of  Alhemarle  as  one  of  the 

ever  had  horn  to  him.  daughters  <d'  AVilliani  Woods    (2d)    amT   Sitsaniiah 

(a)    Wii.i.iAM    Wdons   I  "Beaver  Creek  Second"  I  ^^■allac(',  hut  no  (Tetails  of  lier  life  are  furnished. 

theoul,\  son  of  William  Woods  ( ."!d  )  married  Mai-y  (X  )      M.MJV  is  referr<'(T  to  hy  Dr.  Edgar  Woods 

darmaii,  a  daughter  of  Willi;iiii  d;innaii.    Said  \\'il-  as  if  she  were  the  last  of  the  children  of  William 

liam  dannaii  was  a  hrolher  of  the  Thoniiis  Jarman  A\'(!0(ls  (2(1)    and    Susannah  Wallace,  hut  Ihe  (Uily 

who  piircliase;!   land  on   the  cresi   (d'  Woods's  (!a]i,  idece  of  informal  iiui  he  .liives  coiicerniu.g  her  is  that 

and    for   w  lioni    the  iiaiiii    of   (hat    |)ass   was    trans-  she  marriecT  one  (Jeorge  Davi(Tson. 

IViK'd.   from   the   man    who   lirsl    scllled  at    its  h;ise  Col.  Charles  A.  11.  Woods  t  see  his  slcetcli)  makes 

(  .Michael  Woo, Is)  and  c.illed  -lann.in's  (!a|i.     Thus  no  reference  to  either  Susan  oi'  ^Fary  in  his  list  of 


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llic  cliildi-cii  of  Williitiii  Woods  (2(li,  and  Susan-  1724,  tarryiug  ton  yoars  in  tlic  colony  of  Pennsyl- 
nali  Wallace;  lint  lie  docs  mention  a  llannali  \aiiin,  and  tluMi  fjoinii  w  illi  llie  ^^'oodses  and  sonio 
\Voo(ls,  wlio  is  said  liy  some  pei'sous  to  have  been  of  llie  \\'allaces  (o  Vii^iiiia  in  I7:!l,  As  he  was  a 
one  of  tlieii-  children,  and  to  have  married  one  Wil-  man  of  i  wcniy-six  when  he  seilhMJ  in  Vir}rini;i,  and 
liam  Ivavcnaniih  and  moN'cd  lo  .Madison  Comity,  oidy  a  yoiiih  of  sixleen  when  he  N'fl  ii-ehind,  we 
Kentucky.  That  there  should  he  consideralile  uu-  mi^hl  sn|>]iose  Ihat  he  mai-ricd  his  wife,  .\nne,  in 
certainty  in  regard  to  some  of  (he  children  of  Wil-  I'ennsyhania.  We  have  no  means  of  knowing 
liam  AA'oods  |  2d  )  is  not  at  all  surprising,  for  he  what  his  wife's  surname  was,  as  the  only  meniion 
himself  seems  to  have  disappeared  fnmi  view  en-  we  have  of  her  is  in  the  deeils  of  her  hnsliand  and  in 
lirely  about  the  year  1773,  when  he  was  living  in  his  last  will,  in  all  which  he  calls  her  .\nne.  Hence 
Fincastle('ounty,\'irginia.  Wlicnwc  retlect  that  the  the  strain  of  which  she  was  a  rejiresentative  must 
short-li\('d  county  of  Fincastle,  which  e.visted  from  prohahly  remain  forever  hidden  from  hei-  descend- 
1772  to  177(>,  comprised  a  small  emi)ire  within  its  ants.  Knowing  what  we  do  of  the  man  slu-  mar- 
liounds,  viz.:  all  of  Southwest  Virginia;  nearly  all  ried,  however,  we  may  safely  indulge  the  conlident 
of  what  is  now  the  State  of  West  Virginia;  and  ho])e  that  she  was  a  good  Christian  woman,  and 
the  whole  of  Kentucky — when  we  think  what  a  most  probably  a  Scotch-Irish  I'resbylcrian  as  was 
vast  area  it  included — we  can  understand  how  ex-  ^Michael,  Junior,  himself.  Ceneral  .Micajah  Woods 
tremely  vague  is  the  statement  that  in  177:>  this  Ihinks  she  was  a  cousin  to  .Michael.  A\'e  shall  de- 
^\'illiam  \\'oods  (2d)  was  "living  in  Fincastle  signate  this  mendier  of  the  family  as  ".Micliael, 
County."  In  what  part  of  it  he  resided  we  have  .Tnnior,"  because  his  father  bore  the  nanu'  .Mich- 
no  idea,  except  that  it  was  probably  near  New  ael.  and  described  him  as  ".Michael  Junior"  in  a 
Kiver.  Xor  have  we  any  nu>ans  of  knowing  when,  deed  he  executed  in  174:>.  lie  is  often  referred  to 
or  where,  or  how  either  he  or  his  wife  died.  We  as  ^fichael  Woods  of  ]'>otetoui-t,  but  his  home  was 
know  that  bef(U'e  the  Kevolution  began  he  had  left  in  .Vlbemarle,  at  least  thirty-five  years,  whilst  in 
.VIbemarle,  and  that  at  the  close  of  that  great  strug-  Botetoni-t  he  lived  scarcely  se\en  years.  Hesides. 
gle  all  of  his  children  excejit  \\'illiam  had  the  name  ".Michael  .Tnnior"  desci-ibes  him  with 
migi-atcd     to    Kentn.ck\-.       ]'.e_\dnd     this    his    his-  sufficient  accuracy. 

(ory  is  veiled  from  our  view,  and  it  is  likely  we  can  The  first  allusion  to  this  son  of  .Michael  of  I'.lair 

never  know   what  the  closing  years  of  life  were  for  ]*ai-k  seems  to  be  that  which  we  find  in  the  deed 

him.      liorn  in  ]7l*7.  he  is  about  sixty-six  when  he  which  his  father  executed  to  him  August  3.  1743. 

\anishes  from  our  si^ht.      l*^)rt  nnately  he  has  left  <'onveving  to  him  2(1(1  acres  of  the  lln<lson  tract.    In 

many    worthy   descendants   who   ha\e   per|)!'tuated  this  deed  the  grantor  signs  himself  .Michael  \\'oods, 

his  name  among  men,  and  not  a  few  of  them  have  Sr..  and   i-efers  to  the  grantee  as   .Michael    Woods, 

m.ide  snch  names  f»u'  themselveKS  as  refiect  credit  -Tr.     At  this  tim(>  the  father  was  59  years  old,  and 

upon  the  whole  Woods  Clan,  and  reveal  the  excel-  the  son  was  abimt  3(1     Twelve  years  later    (Sep- 

lence  of  the  stock  whence  they  sjirang.  tendier  10.  17."'>r))   we  find  ^lichael,  Jr.,  obtaining  a 

Crown  (ii-ant  for  himself  of  300  acres  on  Ivv  Creek 

C-MICII.VFI.  WOODS,  JUNIOi;.  adjoining  the  2(.(.  acres  his  faduT  d.eded  t.i  hin,  in 

The  third  child  of  .Michael  Woods  of  I'.lair  Park  1743.      Assnming  (hat   .Michael,  Jr.,  made  his  home 

and    his   wife   .Mary   Caiiijtbell    was   named    Utv  his  en   this  land   for  about   2.")  \ears  of  his  life   i  which 

lather,  ^lichael;  and.  as  was  shown  on  a  previous  is  ]>ractically  certain  i.  he  resided  near  l\y  De]p(;t. 

jiage.  he  was  ])robably  horn  in  Ireland  about  the  and  only  about  six  miles  distant  from  his  father's 

year  1708.     We  feel   next  to  certain    (hat  he  mi-  homestead  at  Blair  Park.     The  date  of  (he  reiimval 

grated  (o  America  wi(li  his  ]iarents  and  kinsfolk  in  of  .Michael,  Jr.,  to  Botetourt  County  can  mil  be  cer- 


64  THE    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

tniiilv  iiindc  nil  I.  lull  il  was  |n-nlial)ly  alKHit  (he  year  lo  the  water's  edge,  whilst  the  fanii,  wliich  is  on  the 
ITli'.i.  or  sliiifily  I  licicaricr.     Tliis  is  inferred  from  cpiiosite  side,  cousists  iiiaiiiiy  of  very  gently  un- 
tlie  iviiowii  fad   liiai   ill  ilial  year  .Micliael,  -Ir.,  and  dulatiiig  h)\\lands  or  meadow.     .Tiist  here  a  little 
Anne     liis     wife     dei  d     to      liieir     sou     William  iiiomilain  stream,  known  as  .lennings  Creek,  puts 
iIk'     lieforeiiientioned     .'iOd     acres    of    land,    ami  into  tlie  river  from  the  soiilli,  its  head  springs  be- 
in  IT"."!  Iliey  coin-eyed  another  tract  to  one  Tliomas  ing  right  at  the  northern  liase  of  the  fanions  Peaks 
Kerch.      In    ITti'.i   .Michael,  Jr.,   was  only  ahont  Gl  of  <  )tter,  a  few  miles  sontli  of  the  farm.     Now  and 
years  of  ;ige.  ;ind  his  niidertaking  lo  make  a  new  then,  after  heavy  rains,  when  holh  i-iver  and  creek 
stari    in    life    in    anoiher   |iai-l    of   (he   c(dony  scnne  are  high,  lliesw(dlen  waters  hack  np  and  o\-ert1ow 
dislaiice  away,   and    in   a    frontier   region,   showe(l  the  low  grounds,  so  as  to  make  the  jilace  look  like 
ilia  I  his  i-eason  fi>v  disposing  of  his  lands  in  Albe-  an  island  ;  and  as  a  gentleman  by  fhe  name  of  Shep- 
iiiarle  was  noi    ih.ii    he  was  feeble  and  considered  herd  long  owned  tlie  jdace  after  the  death  of  Micli- 
liis  I'Md  near,      lie  is  said  to  lia\'e  been  a  large  man  ael.  Ji-.,   it  came  to  be  called  "Shepherd's  Island 
above  si.\  feet    in  height,  and  of  innisnal  vigor  of  !''arni."     It  also  had  the  name  of  "Hollow  Ford 
both    bod  \    and    iniiid.      Ills  reiiio\al   to   Uotetourt,  I'arm,""   snggested,   no  donbl,   by   some  jiecniiaritv 
ihercfore,  may  be  set  down  as  lia\ing  occurred  some-  of  th(>  ford  of  the  James  on  the  north  line  nf  the 
where  bel  w<M'ii  libit  and  1  TIM,  but  the  earlier  of  the  jilace.      The    Peaks    of    Otter,    eight  miles  to  the 
two  dates  seems  lo  be  the  more  i)robalile  one.     His  south  ;  the  marvellous  Natural   I'l-idge,  only  seven 
father's  death,  in  ITtil.*,  hail  doubtless  made  him  the  miles  to  the  northeast,  and  the  grand  water-gap  of 
iiKuc  willing  to  leave  the  old  home  neighborhood,  the  .Tames  at   IJalcony  Falls,  tw(l\-e  miles  below 
and  his  broiliers  Arch iliald.  Andi'ew   and  ^^'illiam  censtitule  a  combination  of  attractions  not  often 
are  known    to  have   moved    from    .Mbemarle  about  ciiualled  in  any  ])ai't  of  the  laud.      In  .M  ichael's  dav 
the  same  period.      Land  to  the  southward  was  (|nite  lume  of  the  noises  and  comniolioiis  of  our  modern 
as  fertile  as  in  .Vlbemarle,  and  cheaper,  and  there  life  disturbed  the  ](eacefnl   \;ille_\-   in   which  he  re- 
was  a  s])iri(  of  enterprise  and  ad\-enlni-e  abi'oad  in  sided;  bul    now  either  bank  of    the    noble    Tames 
the  older   pai-ts  of  the  colony  at    the   time  which  boasts  a  great   trunk-line — the  ("besaiieake  ^V;  Ohio 
eansed  many  to  (ni-n  their  eyes  towards  the  South-  on    one  side,   and    the   Norfolk    iV;    Western    on    the 
west  wiih  llie  view  of  making  new  investments  in  other — and  the  whistle  (^f  the  locomotive  and    the 
promising  fields — of  '"going  AVest  lo  gi'ow  nji  with  roar  of  trains  are  constantly  wakiu^  the  echoes  in 
the  connirw,"  as  we  would  say  in  oui- day.  the  grand   mountaius  and  charming  hills  of    that 
Thelocalion  which  .Michael.  I  r., chose  for  himself  biautiful  n  gion.    The  farm  consisted  of  about  400 
on  .lames  Kiver  in  Itotetourt  County,  was  one  well  acres  when  .Michael  owned  it,  and   it  now  belongs 
adai)ted  to  jigi-iciillural  iiurposes,  and  was,  besides,  to  a    .Mi'.    Starkey  Iiol)ins(ui,    in    whose  ho.spitable 
(piile  iiicturesiiiie  and  interesting.     The  engraving  luune  the  i>resent  writi-r  was  kiiidlv  entertained  in 
gixiiig  a    \iew  of  the  ri\-er  in    front    of  his  farm,  the  summer  of  ISb"),   whilst    in    the  neighborhood 
(which  will  be  found  in  this  \-(diime)  shows  how  it  making  obser\ations  and  researches  prejiaratorv  to 
a])]>ears  to  one  standing  lui  the  north  bank  of  the  the  publication  of  this  work.      The  jiresent  dwell- 
river  at    Indian   IJock.  a  station  of  the  CliesajK-ake  ing — a    comfortable    brick    house — stands,    as    Mr. 
^i  Ohio  Railway.      .Vt  that  jioint  the. Tames  sweeps  Ibibinson  stated,  on  the  e.xaci  site  of  the  old  Woods 
around   the  farm   in  a  graceful   curve,  forming  an  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  (hirt  v  vears  ago.      A 
aliiiosi  perfect  leKer  C  one  or  two  miles  in  extent,  few  liundnd  yards  to  the  east  of  the  house  is  the 
(he   opening   of    (be   seini-circle    b<>iiig   toward    tlie  private  burial-ground  of  the  farm  covering  a  little 
South.      The    north    bank     of     (he     rixcr    here     is  Kiiidl.   The  only  graves  there  in  IS'.I"),  marked  with 
crowned    with   beautiful   liills,  coming  (dose  down  headslones  having  insiriiil  ions  were  of  recent  date, 


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jL/^^dM.  M^X.  *  /?2,./Vi<-^'3--~"?  ^JU;^^y^^-^^U^/,  i^tAl'j,t;fi^l^ 

^21;;;^/^  ^^J^»,  ZJp-'y  Srf../i7^  p  a^^^  ^-o  v«  ^/<«&  .^^^  -/^i'  ^;.-*  ^ 


FAC-SIMILE  OF  LAST  WILL  OF  MICHAEL  WOODS.  JR..  WHO  DIED  IN  1777. 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIE  PARK. 


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but  there  were  mauy  uuiiiarked,  sunken  graves,  in 
one  of  which  we  can  scarcely  doubt  tlie  body  of 
Michael  Woods,  Jr.,  has  been  sleeping  since  1777. 
In  the  morning  of  "the  day  without  clouds,"  when 
the  last  trumpet  echoes  through  those  hills,  the 
angels  will  know  where  to  find  the  dust  of  those 
they  seek. 

After  MiclKi«'l"s  dcatli  tliis  farm,  as  his  will  pro- 
vided, l)ecame  the  property  of  his  son  David,  and  in 
1779  he  sold  it  to  his  brother-in-law,  William  Camp- 
bell, for  three  thousand  five  hundred  pounds.  A 
man  liy  the  name  of  Shepherd  afterwards  owned 
it,  and  he  may  have  been  the  Dalertus  Shepherd 
who  married  one  of  Michael's  daughters.  About 
thirty-three  years  ago  Mr.  Starkey  Robinson,  the 
l>resent  owner,  came  into  possession  of  it.  The 
exact  location  of  this  farm  is  indicated  on  the 
"Map  of  the  Parting  of  the  'Ways"  to  be  found  in 
this  volume.  In  1769,  the  year  Michael  seems  to 
have  purchased  this  ])lace,  that  region  was  yet  a 
frontier  settlement,  and  exposed  to  the  depreda- 
tions of  Indians  from  the  northwest.  The  savages 
continued  to  annoy  the  settlers  in  that  part  of  the 
country  A\ell  on  down  to  the  close  of  the  eighteenth 
century.  Indeed,  Southwestern  Virginia,  and  what 
is  now  the  state  of  West  Virginia,  were  exposed  to 
troubles  of  this  character  longer  than  even  Ken- 
tucky was.  It  must  have  been,  therefore,  no  small 
comfort  to  Michael  that  his  brotlier  Andrew  lived 
only  about  twelve  or  fourteen  miles  southwest  of 
his  home,  and  his  brother  Archibald  still  farther 
down  in  that  direction  on  Catawba  Creek.  His 
brother  William  was  also  down  l)elow  him  some- 
wliere  in  Fiucastle  (bounty;  and  the  ^IcAfees,  one 
of  whose  daughters  became  the  (second)  wife  of 
his  son  David  in  after  years,  were  also  residing  on 
Catawba  Creek.  All  of  these  families  were  near 
enough  to  him  for  purposes  of  social  intercourse, 
and  also  of  mutual  assistance  in  times  of  danger, 
ilichael  was,  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt,  a  devout 
Scotch-Irish  Presbyterian;  and  as  l)oth  Falling 
Spring  and  High  Bridge  (Presbyterian)  Churches 
were  in  existence  all  the  years  he  lived  on  James 
River — the  one  being  sixteen  miles  distant,  and  the 


other  only  eight  miles — it  is  extremely  likely  that 
he  and  his  family  lield  their  membership  in  one  of 
them,  and  probably  attended  both  quite  often.  The 
four  Ril)les  and  four  Catechisms  and  one  copy  of 
the  Confession  of  Faith,  listed  by  his  executors 
after  his  death  as  among  his  personal  effects,  as 
well  as  the  devout  preface  to  liis  will,  indicate 
pretty  clearly  that  his  was  a  lioiiic  in  which  religion 
had  a  large  place.  It  was  not  thirty  miles  from 
his  home  on  the  James  to  that  "nest"  of  Woodses, 
McDowells,  Lapsleys,  Campbells,  Bo\\yers,  etc.,  up 
in  Rockbridge  County,  and  there  are  indications 
that  he  kept  in  close  touch  with  these  relatives  and 
connections  to  the  close  of  his  life;  and  when  he 
comes,  a  few  months  before  his  end,  to  write  his 
last  will,  he  names,  as  one  of  the  executors  of  his  es- 
tate "my  loving  friend,  John  Bowyer,  Esq." — the 
nuin  who  was  the  third  husband  of  his  own  sister 
Magdalen. 

Michael  Woods,  Jr.,  wrote  his  will  May  29,  177G, 
— just  as  the  Revolutionary  storm  was  beginning  to 
rage — and  it  was  pro\ed  in  court  March  11,  1777. 
He  probal»ly  died  very  early  iy  the  year  1777.  The 
original  document  is  on  file  now  in  the  clerk's  office 
at  Fiucastle,  Botetourt  County,  Virginia,  and 
through  the  courtesy  of  the  obliging  clerk,  Mr. 
Matheuy,  the  writer  was  allowed  to  have  it  photo- 
graphed expressly  for  this  worlc.  A  faithful  fac- 
simile of  the  will,  made  from  the  photograph  thus 
obtained,  will  be  found  in  this  volume.  He  made 
his  sou  David  his  "heir,"  and  one  of  the  two  execu- 
tors of  the  will;  and  Col.  Bowyer,  his  brother-in- 
law,  was  made  the  other  executor.  His  wife  Anne 
■was  living  at  the  tinu»,  and  is  mentioned  by  name. 
It  is  known  that  she  joined  her  sons  David  and 
Samuel,  a  few  j'ears  later,  in  their  migration  to  Ken- 
tucky, where  she  died  not  long  after  the  removal. 
Three  men  signed  as  witnesses  to  the  will,  to  wit: 
John  Logan ;  George  Dougherty ;  Charles  Lambert. 
Of  the  first  two  the  writer  knows  nothing  whatever. 
Concerning  the  Cluirles  Landtert,  General  Micajah 
Woods  expresses  the  opinion,  based  on  facts  known 
to  him,  that  the  family  to  which  this  gentleman  be- 
longed  was  in   some  wav   closelv   I'elated    to   the 


68  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

Woodses;  and  lii'  thinks  a  man  of  this  name  mar-  Iiis  faith,  howcNcr  fcclih'  he  may  have  lieen  in  hody. 

ried  either  a  sister  or  a  (laui;liter  of  .Mieliael,  Jr.  Tin'  prcamhh'  of  that  document  reads  as  follows: 

It  is  hardly  possihle  that  .Michael  had  a  sister  who  "In  the  name  of  (iod,  Amen.     1,  Micliael  Woods, 

married  a   L;unl)ert.      IJul   he  left  two  young  lady  of  tJie  ( 'ounty  of  liotetourt,  in  Virginia,  being  weak 

daughters,   Anue   and    Sarah,    one   of  whom  may  of  body,  but  of  perfect  mind  and  memory,  blessed 

have  married  tiiis  .Mr.  Laniherl.    Oeneral  Landiert,  be  God,  and  calling  to  mind  ye  mortality  of  my 

once  Mayor  of  Kichmoml,  was,  as  General  Woods  body,  and  that  it  is  appointed  for  all  men  once  to 

believes,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  near  kinswomen  die,  do,  this  twenty-ninth  day  of  May,  one  thousand 

of -Micliael,  I r. — a  sister,  or  daughter.  The  Charles  seven  hundred  and  seventy-six,  nmke  this  my  last 

Landiert,  above  mentioned,   was  evidently  closely  will  and  testanu'nt,  viz.:     I  give  my  soul  into  the 

connected  willi  him  in  some  way ;  for,  prior  to  ITTO,  hands  of  Almighty  <!od,  who  gave  it  me,  beseech- 

he  was  a   w  itness  to  various  legal  documents  for  ing  his  gracious  acceptance  thereof,  nothing  doubt- 

\\'oodses  in  Albemarle  County.     It  would   there-  ing  but  I  sltall  receive  it  again  at  ye  General  liesnr- 

fore  seem  that  he  came  to  Botetourt  County  about  rection  by  the  mighty  power  of  God.     My  body  I 

the  time  Michael  himself  did,  and  it  nniy  be  that  recorameud  to  the  earth  from  whence  it  was  taken, 

he  married    either  Anne,  or    Saraii,    (Uie    (d'    the  to  be  buried   in  a  Cliristian-like  and  decent  nuin- 

younger  daughters  of  . Michael.  lU'r,  iVic,  cV:c."     As  for  his  w(uid]y  property,  whilst 

Michael  AVoods,  Jr.,  must  have  failed  in  health  not  a  man  of  large  wealth  at  tiie  time  of  iiis  dc- 

very  rapidly,  and  from  some  other  cause  than  old  cease,  he  was  comfortably  ti.xed,  and  left  a  good  es- 

age,  after  settling  in  Botetourt.     If  he  had  not  tate  for  a  nuin  who  had  no  doubt  previously  nmde 

been  in  very  robust  health  in  ITO'J — the  date  of  his  provision  for  eight  or  nine  children, 
selling  out  in  .Vllieinarh'  prejiaiatory  to  i-enioving  IMen  often  use  some  pious  phrases  in  drawing  up 

to  Botetourt — he   wouhl    luirdly   have  gone   down  their  last  wills  tnerely  as  a  matter  of  f(U'ni,  luit  the 

into  tlie  then   frontier  portion  of  the  colony,  om-  man  who  dictated  tiiat  preamble  was,  beyond  all 

hundred  miles  distant    from  his  old  home,  to  begin  doubt,  one  who  lived  a  truly  devout  life,  and  died 

life  aiH'w.     It  is  only  six  or  seven  years  subse(iueiit  in  the    faith    of    Jesus    Christ.      His    descendants 

1(1  thai  migration  that  we  find  him  writing  his  will,  ought  to  know  these  things  concerning  him.     The 

in  which  he  speaks  of  himself  as  "weak  in  l)o(ly"';  meagre  (mtline  of  his  life  which  remains  for  us 

anil   he  was  then  only  sixty-eight  years  old,  and  leav<'s  him   almost   wludly   hidden   from   our  gaze 

(lied    only    about    nine    montiis    thereafter.     His  amidst   the  shadows  of  a  sonu'what  remote  past; 

father  had  lived  to  be  seventy-eight,  and  his  sister  but  it  slKMild  be  a  ((unfoi-t,  and  also  an  ins])iraHon, 

^Magdalen,  who  was  born  a  couple  of  years  before  f(n-  us  that  the  clearest  light  which  falls  upon  his 

himself,  outlived  him  a!)out  a  third  of  a  century,  career  illumines  the  most  important  phase  of  his 

Our  impression  of  those  ancient  Woodses  is  that  character,  and  gives  to  us  the  reasonable  assurance 

tliey  were,  as  a  rule,  an  unusmilly  hardy  and  vig(3r-  that  he  has  a  place  in  the  Kingdom  of  Glory  above 

ousraceof  people  who  attained  lo  great  age.  Hence  where  we  also  may  ho])e,  after  a  season,  to  meet 

we  infer  that  Michael,  Jr.,  must  have  experienced  him  and  share  that  joy  and  ])eace  which  have  been 

some  sudden  and  unlooked  for  shock  to  his  bodily  his  for  one  hundred  and  twenty-seven  years, 
health  which  took  him  off  at  least  ten  years  before  In  his  A\ill  .Michael,  Jr.,  makes  express  mention 

the  time  he  and  his  friends  ^^■ould  have  anticipated  of  eleven  children,  and  there  is  every  reason  for 

when  he  took  leave  of  Albemarle.     But  if  we  may  believing  that  he  had  no  others  living  at  that  time, 

fairly  draw  inferences  from  the  language  men  em-  There  is  some  reason,  however,  for  supposing  that 

ploy   in    making   llicir   last    wills,   it  is  reasonably  he  may  have  had  two  or  three  others  who  died  in 

ceiiain  that  Michael,  .Jr.,  was  not  at  all  weak  in  early  life.     An  interesting  question  is :     Are  we  to 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK. 


69 


accept  the  oi'dcr  in  which  Miclincl  mentions  his 
cliildrcn  in  liis  will  as  indicating  the  ordin'  in  which 
they  were  actually  l)oi'n?  Of  CDurse  we  are  oliliged 
to  answer  this  question  nut  without  some  hesita- 
tion. Perhaps  in  most  cases  men,  in  having-  their 
wills  drawn  up,  do  mention  their  children  with 
due  regard  to  the  matter  of  seni(U'it.v,  beginning 
with  I  lie  eldest  and  ending  with  the  youngest.  But 
it  is  a  fact  that  there  is  no  very  important  reason 
for  so  doing.  The  will  would  be  just  as  complete 
and  valid,  and  the  intentions  of  the  testator  just  as 
clear,  no  matter  what  order  he  followed  in  naming 
the  heirs:  the  only  really  important  point  is  tliat 
all  (he  III  ii's  to  whom  lie  wislics  In  make  sjiecitic 
bequests  shall  \n-  mentioned  somewlicre  in  the  will, 
and  the  portion  of  each  clearly  indicated.  This 
question  would  not  have  been  raised  by  tlie  present 
writer  but  for  the  fact  that,  if  we  adopt  the  order 
of  the  names  given  in  Michael's  Avill  as  being  the 
exact  order  of  seniority  for  all  tlie  children,  we 
raise  some  very  serioTis  difficulties  which  can  not  be 
explained  away.  There  are  many  important  de- 
tails in  regard  to  all  of  his  children  about  which 
we  possess  no  information  whatever;  in  fact,  we 
know  scarcely  anything  at  all  about  most  of  them 
beyond  the  bare  fact  that  they  once  lived.  But 
fortunately  there  are  a  few  dates  and  facts  which 
are  kno^\■n  with  certainty,  and  these  enable  ns  to 
know  some  other  things;  and  when  these  are  duly 
considered  we  believe  it  will  be  apparent  that  Mich- 
ael mentioned  several  of  his  children  without  re- 
gard to  their  seniority.  First,  we  know,  with  cer- 
tainty, that  Samuel  was  born  in  173S;  and  if  his 
sisters  Jane  and  Susannah  were  born  before  he 
was,  and  were  the  first-born  of  all  the  (Meven  chil- 
dren, as  one  would  infer  from  Michael's  will — to 
which  sup]iosition  we  know  of  no  objection — then 
we  may  fix  the  ])r(ibable  date  of  the  marriage  of 
INFichael  and  .\nne  as  1734 — the  very  year  the 
Woodses  and  Wallaces  moved  to  Virginia.  As 
Michael  Mas  leaving  Pennsylvania  that  year,  it 
would  have  been  tlie  most  natural  thing  in  the 
world,  if  he  had  a  sweetheart  there,  to  Avant  to  have 
her  go  ai(iii!4   and   share  his  fortunes   in   the  new 


hduie  in  the  colony  of  X'ii'ginia.  Tliat  Michael  and 
Anne  did  marry  about  1734,  we  feel  confident. 
That  he  was  then  aliout  twenty-six,  and  she  about 
seventeen,  or  a  little  past,  we  have  good  reasons 
for  believing.  Secondly,  we  know  that  Magdalen, 
who  married  AMlliam  Campbell,  was  born  in  1755; 
and  in  that  ycai-  her  mollicr  was  about  thirty-eight 
years  old,  if  our  estimates  above  given  are  sound. 
But  ^Michael  makes  JMagdalen  sixth  in  his  list  and 
mentions  five  other  children  after  her.  It  is  ex- 
tremely pi'obable,  wlien  all  the  circumstances  of 
the  case  are  weighed,  that  if  five  children  were  born 
of  Anne  after  the  year  1755,  the  last  of  the  five  was 
born  not  less  tlian  ten  or  twelve  years  after  iMag- 
dalen  Avas.  This  would  mean  that  Anne  was  a 
Avoman  forty-eight  to  fifty  years  old  Avhen  her  last 
child  Avas  born.  We  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that 
Ave  think  it  extremely  unlikely  that  there  were  five 
children  born  to  ;Mi(<hael  and  his  wife  after  1755, 
she  being  about  fifty  years  old  at  tlie  birth  of  the 
last  of  her  children.  Thirdly,  we  find  that  among 
the  children  mentioned  in  the  will  after  ^lagdalen 
is  David.  As  Magdalen,  Ave  know,  was  born  In 
1755,  then  if  David  came  after  her  we  must  fix  the 
year  1757  as  about  the  year  of  his  birth ;  and  as  his 
father  died  early  in  1777,  David  was  not  ten  years 
old  Avhen  that  bereavement  fell  upon  the  home. 
Now  this  same  son  Daxid  is  expressly  named  by 
^lichael  as  one  of  Jiis  executors  and  Iiis  heir — a  boy 
who  was  scarcely  nine  years  old  the  day  the  will 
Avas  penned.  The  absurdity  of  such  a  thing  is  only 
too  apparent.  David  Avas  surely  born  at  h^ast  fif- 
teen years  before  ^fagdalen  Avas,  though  in  the  Avill 
he  is  named  after  her.  lie  must  haA'e  been  a  man 
at  least  t\venty-fi\'e  years  <if  age,  and  of  good  ]irom- 
ise  as  a  capable  business  man,  foi'  his  father  to 
have  put  upon  his  shoulders  such  grave  responsibil- 
ities. That  this  chihl,  at  least,  could  not  haAC  been 
named  by  ^lichael  according  to  his  priority  seems 
certain.  Looking  at  the  list  in  the  A\ill  Ave  find 
four  unmarried  daughters:  ^lartlia,  Sarah,  Anne, 
and  Margaret,  and  all  of  them  are  nu'uticmed  to- 
gether at  the  end  of  the  list.  This  does  not  mean 
that  all  four  of  them  wove  born  subsequent  to  Mag- 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMOEIAL. 


(lalcn's  hirtli.  Anno  and  Margaret  were,  for  ]\[icli- 
acl  cxprcssl.v  says  tlic.v  were  his  yonugest  cliildren. 
\\v  arc  (•()iiti<l('iii  ilial  Alaillin  ami  Sarah  were  ohhT 
iliaii  .Maiiilal.  11.  .lust  wliy  Ihey  arc  mentioned 
ari<'r  liei-  we  can  not  positively  atlirm,  but  we  sns- 
]iect  Dial  tlieii-  lallier  just  ioealed  the  four  single 
daughters  in  one  plaee  at  tlie  foot  of  the  list  with- 
out any  s])ecial  reason  exeei)t  that  single  daughters 
would  not  he  so  a])t  to  lie  as  ]n*omiuently  in  mind 
wlun  writing  a  will  as  the  iiiai  ried  ones  willi  whom 
he  had  already  had  liusiness  ti'aiisact  ions  connected 
wiili  settling  upon  them  jiort ions  of  his  estate.  The 


II_SUSANNA1I  was  the  second  child  of  Mich- 
ael Woods,  Jr..  and  Anne  his  wife.  She  was  proh- 
aldy  l)(UMi  in  what  is  now  Allieiiiarle  County,  ^'ir- 
giuia,  alxuit  the  year  1736.  She  married  a  Mr. 
Cowan.  There  was  a  John  Cowan  to  whom  lauds 
were  patented  in  what  is  now  Albemarle  County, 
])rior  to  1740.  This  gentleman's  son  may  have  been 
the  person  she  married,  or  a  near  kinsman  of  his. 
Of  Susannah's  subsequent  history  we  know  abso- 
lutely nothing. 

Ill— .SA:\irKL  WOODS  was  the  third  child,  and 
tirst  son,  of  Michael,  Jr.,  and  Anne  his  wife.  From 


scjieiiie   which    we    have    lormnlated,  and    which,      sworn  documents  which  he  filed  in  the  V.  S.  Ten- 
whilst    not    claimed    to   be  correct   in  all   respects,      sion  Office  in  1823,  it  is  apparent  he  was  born  in  the 


rests    njion    reasonable    deductions    from    known 
facts.is  as  I'oilow  s  : 

CHILUUK.N    OF    MK'lI.VKIi    WOOnS^   JR.,   AND    ANNE. 


I— JANE  lioux  173.-)  (  ?) 

II— SUSANNAH  IJoKX   173(1  (?) 

Ill— SAMUEL  BouN   17.3S 

IV— DAVID  Boux    1740  C.'i 

V— ELIZABETH  B(  utx   1 742  ( V  I 

VT— WILLIA:\I  I!(ii;x    1748 

VII— SABAH  Boux  17.-)0  (?) 

\lll— MABTHA 

IX— :\rACrDALEX 

X— ANNE 

XI— MARCrABET 


year  1738.  Those  docnments  bear  date  A])i'il,  1823, 
and  in  them  he  says  he  is  "about  eighty-tive  years 
of  age."  His  parents  had  been  residing  in  (iooch- 
land  County,  Virginia,  oidy  about  four  years  when 
he  was  born.  The  entire  region  in  the  midst  of 
which  the  AA'oodses  then  lived  was  a  liack-woods 
DiKn  182(!      wilderness,  and  the  Indians  often  passcnl  along  the 


Died 
Died 


Boux  17.-.3  (?) 
Boitx   17.").") 
Boux  17.'")7  (  ?) 


Died  178(; 

Died  

Died  1819 

Died  

Died  

Died  1830 
Died  


Boux  17(10  (?)     Died 


old  war-])alh  wliicli  ran  throngh  Woods's  (iaii,  in 
sight  of  the  A\'oo(ls  and  ^Vallace  settlement  near 
the  Bine  liidge.  As  his  ])arents  did  mtt  migrate  to 
liotctourt  till  17()!),  or  later,  Samuel  may  ha\"e  re- 
mained in  Albemarle  at  least  to  that  date,  though 
this  is  by  no  means  certain.  Hence,  we  may  say, 
that  he  was  a  citizen  of  Albemarle  for  a  large  part 
id'  his  life.  From  Hening's  Statutes  (Volume  7, 
]>age  203  I  we  b'ani  that  by  an  act  of  the  ("oliMiial 
Legislature  in  the  year  17.'i8,  it  was  ordered  that 
]\lichael  AVoods,  .Jr.,  and  Samnel  Woods  be  ]iaid 
for  services  thev  had  rendered  as  memliers  of  the 


I — .TANE  was,  beyond  reasonable  doubt,  the 
firstdtorn  of  the  eleven  children  of  ^Michael  Woods, 
.Tr.,  and  his  wife  Anne.   She  was,  in  all  ju'idiability, 

bnrii  ill  Ooochland  County   i  now   Albemarle),  Vir-  Albemarle  militia.     In  that  year  Michael,  Jr.,  was 

ginia.  aliout  173.'">,  Ihe  year  after  the  Woodses  set-  about  fifty  years  ohl,  and    Samnel    his    son    was 

lied    in    that   colony.     She   married    a    :\rr.  Bnster.  twenty.     That  was  the  period  of  the  French  and 

His  Cjii-istian  name,  some  have  said,  was  .Tohn.    Of  Indian  Wars,  and   it  Avas  only  three  years  snbse- 

her  and  liei-  hiisbaml  and  family  we  know  nothing  <iuent  to  Braddock's  defeat  which  filled  the  fron- 

beyond   Ihe  fact,  slated   In  the  writer  i,y  General  tier  regions  of  Virginia  with  the  greatest  alarm. 
•Micajah  Woods,  that  .Mr.  Cliarles  I'.uster,  recently  We  have  no  nutans  of  knowing  the  date  or  place 

(derk  of  Greenbi'ier,  Virginia,  County  Court,  is  a  of  Saninel's  marriage.     All  we  know  of  his  wife  is 

descendant  of  theii-s.     Di-.  IMgar  Woods,  in  his  his-  that  her  Christian  name  was  :Margaret,    that  she 

fory  of  .\jbemarle  i  ]);ige  l.-iS),  tells  ;i  gond  deal  of  Joined  in  various  deeds  and   other  instruments  of 

the  Bnster  family.  writing  which  he  executed,  that  she  went  with  her 


MICHAEL    WOODS    OF    BLAIE    PARK. 


71 


liusliaiid  and  son  when  tliey  niijiTated  to  Kontucky, 
and  lliat  slic  was  living  there,  iu  Ilarrodshnrg,  as 
late  as  1S23.  The  hite  Tliomas  C.  Woods,  of  Leb- 
juion,  Ky.,  (died  18GS)  who  was  tlie  writer's  older 
brother,  and  who  was  born  abont  the  time  Samuel 
died  at  Harrodsburg,  wrote  him  in  ISdG  that  he 
was  positive  Samuel  and  Margaret  had  bnt  one 
son,  and  was  almost  as  certain  that  they  never  had 
a  daughter.  Their  sou  was  Samuel,  Jr.  We  have 
no  certain  nu'ans  of  determining  the  (hilc  of  Sam- 
uel .Tunior's  birth.  We  have  reason  to  lielicve,  hciw- 
e\('i-,  that  it  was  not  far  from  the  year  ITii:!.  His 
father  was  then  twenty-live  years  old,  and  the  war 
of  (ireat  Britain  and  her  (•(donies  with  I'rance  and 
her  Indian  allies  had  just  come  to  end,  and  the 
e(|ually  sericms  differences  between  the  American 
Colonies  and  the  Mother  Country  were  soou  to 
emerge  and  bring  on  the  Eevolution.  In  May, 
ITfiG,  as  the  Botetourt  County  records  show,  we  find 
Samuel,  Sr.,  purchasing  a  little  farm  of  04  acres  of 
land  on  the  South  Fork  of  the  Roanoke  River,  in 
what  is  uow  :Montgomery  County,  Virginia  ;  and  as 
he  owned  this  farm  for  thirteen  years,  (he  sold  it  in 
1770)  the  presumption  is  not  unreasonable  that  he 
li\-e(l  on  it  several  of  those  years.  And  as  we  fiud 
him  buying  another  farm  of  181  acres  upon  the 
James  the  very  year  he  sold  the  one  just  mentioned 
(1770),  this  supposition  is  somewhat  strengthened. 
The  location  on  Roanoke  River  was,  in  that  early 
day,  one  in  which  he  would  be  occasionally  exposed 
to  Indian  attacks.  The  savages  had  invaded  that 
neighborhood  only  two  years  prior  to  1766,  killing 
f)n(»  man,  and  carrying  away  several  others  and  a 
woman,  into  captivity.^"  It  was  no  doubt  \vhile 
residing  there  that  the  Revolution  began  ;  and  as  he 
entered  the  patriot  army  in  the  spring  of  1776,  and 
served  for  three  years  as  a  commissi<uied  officerwith 
the  Virginia  Regulars, resigning  in  177!), it  is  hardly 
likely  he  left  his  wife  and  son  alone  on  the  Roanoke 
River  farm.  Where  Margaret  and  hei-  little  son 
Samuel,  Jr.,  stayed,  and  how  they  were  cared  f(U' 
dui'ing  all  the  years  her  husband  was  in  the  army, 
we  have  no  means  of  knowing.  lie  enlisted  at  the 
very  beginning,  in  the  spring  of  1776,  and  was  with 


the  regulars  three  years,  and  then  later  on  served 
in  the  milil  ia,  from  I  inie  to  time,  to  the  close  of  the 
Revolnlion.  This  meant  an  absence  of  about  five 
or  six  years  from  his  home  and  family.  In  1810, 
Congress  having  passed  an  act  to  provide  pensions 
f(n'  the  Revolutionary  soldiers,  and  Samuel  being 
then  past  foui'-scoi-e  years,  and  very  feeble,  and 
without  any  means  of  sui)port  except  that  which 
his  grandson,  J.  Harvey  Woods,  supplied,  he  made 
ajjplication  for  a  jiension.  It  was  over  four  years 
before  he  actually  began  to  enjoy  the.f20.00a  month 
which  the  U.  S.  Government  allowed  him  as  a  lieu- 
tenant. The  wi-iler  has  in  his  possession  certified 
copies  of  all  the  pajiers  in  this  case,  which  he  ob- 
tained from  the  Pension  Office  at  Washington. 
These  docunu'uts  show  that  Samuel  Woods  enlisted 
in  the  spring  of  1776,  in  the  Twelfth  Virginia  Regi- 
ment, Continental  Establishment,  commanded  by 
Colonel  James  Wood,  and  ^^•as  a  Lieutenant  of  one 
of  its  companies;  served  in  that  capacity  for  three 
years,  when  he  resigned  ;  was  at  first  stationed  at 
Fort  Pitt,  and  later  at  the  mouth  of  the  Kanawha, 
and  still  later,  marched  to  the  South ;  after  his 
resignation  fi'om  the  Regular  Army  he  served  as  an 
officer  in  the  Virginia  ^lilitia  from  time  to  time  till 
the  close  of  the  Revolution  ;  and  ]>articipated  in  the 
Battle  of  Guilford  Court  House,  March  1.5,  1781. 
At  the  date  of  making  his  affldavit  (April,  182.3) 
he  was  a  man  of  eighty-five,  and  so  feeble  that  he 
was  unable  to  come  before  the  Court,  or  even  to 
write  his  name.  He  stated,  in  said  afiidavit.  that 
his  wife  (Margaret)  was  then  alive,  and  old  and 
feeble  like  himself.  He  only  lived  a  little  over  two 
years  after  his  ])ension  (.f 240. 00  a  year)  was 
granted  him,  as  his  death  occurred  February  3, 
1826.  (See  Note  No.  60,  for  fuller  details  which 
are  of  more  special  interest  to  the  descendants  of 
Samuel  Woods  than  to  the  general  reader.) 

Samuel  Woods  was  one  of  that  vast  company  of 
Virginians  whose  attention  was  turned  to  the  Ken- 
tucky wilderness  as  so(ui  as  the  Revolution  was 
brought  to  a  close.  The  surrender  of  Cornwallis  in 
the  fall  of  17.81  was  the  beginning  of  the  end  of  the 
war,  though  the  Treaty  of  Peace,  at  Paris,  was  not 


72  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    .MEMORIAL. 

si-ncl  till  lu.irl.v  two  y.-ars  thcivaii.T.  Slill.  it  ,M..:si.Mi  r.-lnnis  sIm.wcHIkiI  tli.-iv  wcvo  about  uine 
was  j-fncnilly  uii.l.Tst.M,,!  :.l  Icasi  a  y.-ar  l.cr..re  the  limi.ln.l  ..f  tli.'se  v.t(  i-aus  still  livii.ii-  in  tli..  Slate, 
formal  wit li<li-a wal  uf  (Ircal  lliitain  fn.ni  Auierioa  llicir  a-cs.  arr(,v(1iii-  to  tli."  m-ords,  varying  from 
I  hat  ni.Mv  was  tu  he  nn  more  light  iiig  of  coiisc-  s.'vciity  to  one  huinlrcd  and  nine  years.  This,  of 
,|iHMi(c.  and  the  lens  nf  thousands  of  ]{evolutionary  ec.nrse,  was  but  a  small  part  (.f  the  host  Avho  had 
veiei-aiis  began  1..  lay  liu-ir  jdans  fnr  the  coiKiiU'st  found  a  dwelling  place  within  the  State.  Probably 
of  Kenin.ky.  whose  peniiaiH  lit  occiiiialioii  by  white  at  least  ten  times  this  number  had  gone  to  their 
incii  iiad  not  yet  been  acceided  by  the  Indians.  graves.  Such  men  were,  by  I  heir  native  strength 
Shabr.  in  his  adniiialile  lit  lie  voliinie  .m  Kentucky  and  their  de<'ds,  the  natural  leaders  in  the  new  set- 
in  the  .\nierican  ('omnionweallh  series,  says:"'  tlements.  both  in  iieaee  and  war.  Thus  the  Ken- 
".\t  the  close  of  the  Uevolutioiiaiy  War.  Virginia  tucUy  spirit  was  the  offspring  of  the  Revolution, 
found  herself  with  a  large  i.oimlalion  that  had  been  The  comliative  spirit  left    by    the    Revolutionary 

lorn;  separah'd  \'v the  ordinary  i)iirsiiits  of  life.  AVar  was  elsewhere   overwhelmed   by   the  tide  of 

Their  places  liad  closed  behind  them  ;  life  in  Ihe  Old  commercial  life;  here  it  lived  on,  fed  by  tradition 

Dominion  was  stagnant.     The  only  chance  ojien  to  and   by  a   nearly  continuous  combat  (hiwn  to  the 

lier  was  in  Ihe  broad  fields  of  her  great  western  do-  time  of  the  Rebellion." 

main.     The  condil ions  of  a  community  at  the  close  vSamuel   Woods   was  among  the  earliest  of  the 

of  a  long  and  successful  war  are  peculiarly  favor-  sturdy  Virginians  who  abandoned  thidr  homes  in 

able  for  the  making  of   new   colonies;   and    it   is  the  Ohl   Dominion  and  journeyed   far    across    the 

natural  liial  at  this  lime  Virginia,  no  longer  herself  western    mountains   to   the   Fdm'   (irass  Region   of 

a  colony  Imt  a  Stale,    where   the    best    lands    were  Kentucky.     The  j>recise  date  of  his  migration  can 

much  worn  liy  a  .shiftless  agriciillure.  should  have  not  be  fixed  with  entire  certainly ;  imt  from  all  that 

been    strongly    affected    by  Ihe    colonizing    spirit.  we  <bi  know-,  it  must  have  been  either  the  fall  of 

These  circumstances  led  to  a  very  lai'ge  exodus  of  1 7SL'.  or  early   in   tlie  year  1783.     Kentucky   was 

her    po|inlaiion    to    the    westward.     The    recently  not,  in  one  sense,  a  particularly  inviting  place  to 

founded  seltlemeiils  ill  Keiiliicky.  begun  ten  years  settle    in    at    this    pei-iod.     The    year     1782     had 

or  so  before,  had   gone  far  enough   to  ]U'ove  that  lieeii    marked    by    the    most    extraordinary    activ- 

land  in  abundance  and  of  ex<-elleiit  (piality  could  ity  on  the  part  of  the  Indians.     The  Rattle  of  the 

he  had  for  the  trouble  of  possessing  it.     Every  am-  Rlue  Licks,  so  disastrous  to  the  Kentuckians,  was 

hitious  s]iiii(,  every  man  who  had  within  him  the  fought  that  year,  not  to  mention  lesser  encounters, 

sense  of  jiower  necessary  for  the  ardm)us  work  of  and  the  careful  estimate  of  a  competent  person  was 

facing  the  dangers  of  a  wilderness  where  he  would  that  during  the  seven  years  ending  with  1783,  no 

li;ive  to  battle  for  e\('rylhiiig,  with  nature  and  the  less  than  tifteeii  hundred   whiles  had  been  massa- 

savage.  s(!iiglil  these  new  tields.     It  is  to  these  con-  cred  by  the  savages,  and  a  vast  deal  of  pro]>erty  de- 

dilions  that   Ihe  new  settlements  beyond  the  Alle-  stroyeil  and  stolen.'-     But  this  fact  did  not  deter 

ghanies  owed  the  most  of  the  pojiulation  that  came  the    settlers    from  Virginia,   Oarolina,   Maryland, 

t"  <li<'iii   ill    ilie    year    immediately    following    the  and  Pennsylvania  ;they  came  jKniring  into  the  coun- 

Kevolnlion.     *     *     *     I!y  far  the  most  important  try  by  thousands.     The  population  of  Kentucky  in 

I'iemenl   of  the  KciiliicUy  cobiiiisls  came  ff(mi  the  1 77.")  consisted  of  about  one  humlred  and  fifty  men. 

s.ibliers   who   were  disbanded   al    the  close  of  the  P.y  the  fall  of  17S3,  as  :\r(mette  estimates,  it  had 

war  with  ('.real    P.rilain.     The  iiiiniber  of  Revolu-  grown   to  be  as  mmdi    as    12,000.     In    1784,    the 

tionary  soldiers  who  emigrated  to  Kentucky  may  stream  increased  so  rapidly  that  ere  the  year  was 

be  judged  from  Ihe  fact  that  in  1840,  nearly  sixty  gone  there  were  30,000  people  in  Kentucky.     The 

years  after  the  termination  of  that  struggle,  the  hunger  for  land  was  so  all-absorhing  as  to  render 


MICHAEL    WOODS    OF    BLAIll    rARK. 


73 


the  settlers  reckless  in  the  fcace  of  dangers  ami  hard-  in  Novendier,  1 7!tl .  lM)nvt1i,  llic  iccords  slu.w  ( I'.ook 
ships  which  ^yollld  have  utterly  appalled  men  not  2,  i>aiie  !)1  )  tliat  (ui  A])iil  1(1,  list,  lie  made  (wo 
made  of  the  sternest  stuff  and  already  inured  by  entries,  as  assiuncc  of  one  Jacob  Fronuxn;  one  of 
long  experience  to  the  trying  conditions  of  actual 
warfare."^ 

The  records  of  the  Land  Office  at  Frankfort,  Ken- 
tucky, contain  a  number  of  items  which  throw  light 


on  Hie  date  of  the  arrival  of  Samuel  Woods.  First, 
in  Book  1.  page  357,  (Treasury  NVarraut  ll',()li(;i 
we  find  that  under  date  of  February  8,  1783,  Sam- 
uel Woods,  as  assignee  of  David  Woods  (his 
brother),  entered  1108  acres  lying  on  tlie  soutli  side 
of  Salt  River,  next  to  the  land  of  James  McCoun. 
As  no  one  would  have  thought  of  migrating  with  a 
family  to  that  wilderness  region  in  winter,  we  are 
almost  bound  to  conclude  that  he  must  have  come 
to  Kcntm-ky  not  later  than  the  fall  of  1782.  Second, 
the  book  of  entries  in  the  library  of  Col.  R.  T.  Dur- 
rett,  of    Louisville,    copied    froui    tlie    records    at 


700  acres,  and  one  of  .")75  acres,  on  the  South  Fork 
of  Rig  I'.cnsou;  ami  these  tracts  cornered  on  an- 
otliei'  tract  of  :'.0()0  acres  wbicli  lie  liad  itresiously 
entered  (here.  From  tliese  oflicial  records  il  seems 
clear  that  Samm-l  Woods  was  living  in  Kentucky 
jirobably  as  early  as  (he  fall  of  17S2,  and  certainly 
not  later  than  the  fall  of  1783.  This  places  him 
among  the  earliest  settlers  and  ])ioneers  of  Ken- 
tucky. 

The  exact  locality  in  which  be  made  bis  home  is 
pretty  well  established  as  having  been  on  (he 
Shaker  Fork  of  Shawnee  Run,  within  sight  of 
where  the  Shaker  Village  of  Mercer  County  now 
stands,  and  close  to  Kentucky  River  below  liie 
mouth  of  Cedar  Run.  Here,  as  ofhcial  records  of 
Mercer  Count V    (Iiereinafter   to  tie  fullv   (luoted) 


Frankfort   (page  254  of  bis  private    book)    shows  deiiiousti-ate,  lie  settled  and  pi-e-emiited  1400  acres 

that  on  the  15th  of  January,  1783,  Samuel  Woods  ,,f  land,  and   bad   bis  liome  on   it.     He  iirobably 

entered  800  acres  lying  on  Benson  Creek,  "at  the  imilt  a  cabin  there  in  the  fall  of  1782,  and  raised 

county  line  above  the  Trace,  going  to  the  Falls,  be-  there  a  crop  of  corn  in  1783.     He  may  even  have 

ginning  at  the  first  large  branch  above  the  Trace."  reached  that  spot  early  enough  in  the  spring  of 

This  "Trace"  was  the  Buffalo  ](ath  wliich  led  from  1782  to  raise  a  crop  that  same  season.     In  the  rec- 


Frankfort  across  the  Kentucky  RiA'er  just  below 
where  that  city  now  stands,  and  on  north  to  Dren- 
non's  Lick,  and  then  eastwardly  towards  where 
Covington  now  stands.  This  was  under  Treasury 
Warrant  7873.     As  was  remarked  on  the  first  en- 


ords  to  be  ([noted  fartlier  on  lie  refers  to  this  tract 
as  "1400  aci-es,  my  settlement  and  pre-emption  on 
Shawauy  Run."  Such  language  as  this  could  not 
l)e  ]iroperly  used  except  with  reference  to  land 
which  he  himself  had  acquired  by  actual  settlement 


try,  above  cited,  he  must  have  reached  Kentucky  the      thereon.     This  is  partly  confirmed  by  an  entry  of 


previous  fall  in  order  to  make  this  entry  in  mid- 
winter. Third,  we  find  in  Book  14,  page  20,  of  tlie 
Land  Office,  where  Samuel  Woods  entered  3765 
acres  of  land  on  the  head  branches  of  Benson,  Ham- 
mond and  Indian  Creeks  (about  on  the  present  line 
between  the  counties  of  Franklin  and  Anderson). 
This  tract  was  surveyed  ^Tarch  27,  1784;  and  it  5s 
extreuH'ly  unlikely  that  be  coidd  have  made  the 
long  journey  from  ^'irginia  early  enough  in  1784 
to  be  entering  land  at  that  date.  This  tract  was 
originally  entered  December  2,  1782;  the  survey 
was  made  in  March,   1784.     This  identical  tract 


one  Gabriel  ]\Ladison,  made  September  30,  1790,  in 
which  he  desci'ilies  bis  tract  as  including  "all  the 
vacant  land  lying  between  the  line  of  Samiu'l 
AVoods,  John  Jouett,  Francis  Meriwether,  and 
Robert  I'oage."  This  indicates  that  AVoods's  tract 
was  well  known  jirior  to  17'.t0,  and  (bat  it  was  prob- 
ably occupied  by  liini  then  as  his  home  jdace.  It  is 
known  tliat  lie  gave  (bis  1400  ti'act  to  his  son  Sam- 
nel.  Tr.,  in  1701,  and  (bat  James  llarvey  ^^'oods. 
(be  son  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  was  born  there  in  1792.  This 
1400  acre  trac(  included  a(  leas(  a  portion  of  what 
has  now  long  lieen  known  as  Shakertown,  and  the 


Samuel  Woods  conveyed  to  his  son  by  deed  of  gift      land  alone,  not  counting  any  improvements,  would 


74  THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

I.rinu  i.rrli;ii'><  <'iit'  liiiiidml  thonsand  .lollars.  seven  men  under  Tlie  coiiniiand  of  Caidain  T.aiii;li- 
Wlicii  III-  na\c  ii  lo  liis  son  I  in  ITiH  )  i(  was  in-oli-  ery  Avere  descending  the  (Hiio  in  boats  on  their  wav 
alilv  noi  wi.rlh  four  thousand  dollars.  to  settle  in  Kentucky,  and  just  below  the  month  of 
Tiiere  were  hut  two  ]iossilile  routes  from  Central  (lie  Big  .Miami  Kivcr  (not  far  fr(Uii  Rising  t^uu, 
N'iruinia  to  Central  Kentucky  in  17S.">.  One  was  Indiana)  they  were  altacked  In  Indians,  and  the 
down  llie  Kanawha  to  the  Ohio,  by  pack-iiorses  lo  whole  party  were  killed  (U-  captured.''*  Thousands 
a  point  lielow  tile  most  dangerous  rajiids  and  fails;  of  (he  ]iioneers  from  I'ennsylvania  and  ^[aryland 
ami  tile  rest  of  the  wa\-  bv  canoes  and  batteaux;  did  come  (hat  way.  because  i1  was.  for  (hem.  ]irac- 
aml  then  (low  II  (he  Ohio  by  (be  laKer  means  alone.  tically  the  only  route.  But  jieople  from  Botetourt 
Tile  other  was  one  of  the  (rails  tlirough  South-  ("oiinty.  \'irginia,  and  other  ]ioiuts  in  the  Great 
wesKiii  \'iri;inia,  down  the  ilolston  or  the  Clinch  \'alley,  could  take  the  overland  trail  down  to  Cuiu- 
Itiver  to  Powell's  \'alley.  and  (hence  through  Cum-  berland  (Jap  with  far  less  (rouble  and  risk,  and 
berland  (laji  li\  I'.oone's  Trace  into  the  magnificent  (his  was,  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt,  the  choice  of 
w  ildeniess  be\ond.  II  is  next  to  certain  that  Ham-  (he  A^'oodses.  An  interesting  account  of  one  of  the 
ml  Wiiods  ami  his  companions  went  by  this  last-  most  notable  com]ianies  of  emigrants  from  the  \'al- 
naiiied  route;  for  it  was  impossible  to  transport  ley  of  Virginia  to  Kentucky  in  1783  is  given  by 
])rovisioiis  ami  household  goods  to  a  ]ioiut  on  the  Waddell.''"'  This  account  will  well  repay  a  careful 
Kanawha,  fiom  which  it  would  be  safe  to  embark  in  reading,  for  it  i)resents  a  vivid  picture  of  the  perils 
boats,  witlioiii  a  journey  of  jierhaps  ten  days  •with  .iml  liardshijis  our  forefathers  had  to  face  in  com- 
pack-hoi-ses;  and  it  was  impracticable  to  construct  ing  to  Kentucky  in  that  early  day.  This  com|iauy, 
liuats  of  suHicieiit  size  to  ai-commodale  the  requisite  which  consisted  of  a  few  dozen  jieojile  when  they 
iihiiiIkt  of  horses.  I'jiiigrants  from  (he  \'alley  of  lef(  Staunton,  A'a.,  in  Seiitember,  1783,  (or  1784), 
N'iruiiiia  coiibl  not  make  use  of  (he  water-route  was  gradually  augmented  by  additions  in  the  iip- 
ti)  Keiiiiicky  as  diil  those  from  I'ittsburg  an<l  iier  (  Southern)  end  of  the  Valley,  in  Southwestern 
oiIki-  pcints  on  ill!  iipiier  Ohio — there  was  too  A'irginia.  and  at  Beans  Station  near  Clinch  River 
much  travelling  with  Inu'ses  necessary  to  he  done.  in  (he  edge  of  Tennessee.and  uumbei'cd  five  huudred 
Then  there  was  another  serious  objection  to  the  souls  before  reaching  ('nmberlaud  Ca]).  (Jeneral 
water-route,  which  was  enough  to  deter  jirudeiit  Knox,  of  Rev(dutiouary  fame,  took  command  of  (his 
men  who  could  i)ossibly  go  down  the  trail  (o  (he  consideralde  caravan,  which  was  c(unposed  of  about 
southwest:  tlie  danger  fi'om  Indian  attacks  along  one  hundred  and  twenly-fi\'e  men  and  tlii-ee  times 
the  (>liio  w.is  f;ir  greater  than  by  the  other  way.  that  number  of  wdiiieii  and  children.  Sickness, 
No  mure  defenceless  mode  of  travel  could  be  im-  Indian  attacks,  and  the  natural  hardships  of  a 
agiiied  than  that  which  families  in  ordinary  boats  journey  thi-ough  a  wilderness  were  encountered;  a 
pursued.  The  savages  had  only  to  secrete  them-  number  of  \aluabl(  I i\cs  w ere  sacriticeil  ;  but  by  the 
sehcs  in  llie  brush  along  the  river's  bank  and  await  first  of  No\-euibei-.  Crab  ("irchard.  Ky.,  was  reached, 
the  coming  of  the  buats.  ;iiid  then  ojien  lire  when  the  One  lady  in  that  coni])any  was  a  .Mrs.  Trimble,  and 
most  (:ii|)(iftmie  iminiMil  arrived.  The  occui>aiits  in  her  afiiis  she  carried  her  liaby  boy,  Allen,  then 
of  the  boats  could  licit  her  ant  ici]iale  an  attack,  nor,  but,  four  years  (dd.  That  boy  in  after  years  served 
in  many  cases.  g(  t  a  glimpse  of  the  foe  after  the  fir-  the  State  of  Ohio  as  its  governor.  Before  the  com- 
ing began.  ( 'on lined  to  the  river's  course,  the  set-  ]iany  reached  Cumberland  Cap  eight  men  on  horse- 
tiers  in  their  canoes  had  no  choice  of  iiosition,  liack  were  sent  forward  as  an  advanced  guard  to 
whilst  the  sava.ncs  could  deli\cr  their  <leadly  fire,  lo<dc  out  foi-  Indian  signs:  but  when  the  ]irocession 
and  (hen  easily  get  away.  It  was  in  (he  eai'ly  arrived  at  a  point  near  the  Cap,  they  found  the 
spring  of  1782,  that  a  party  of  one  huudred  and  mutilated  bodies  of  those  eight  men.     Indians  had 


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Wiulaid   and   Idllcd  tliciii,  and   then  scalped   llicui.  sands  of  llic  dcsn-ndanls  dl' ullici- piiinccrs,  tliat  did 

Tlic  savaiics  linni;- on  tlicii- Hanks  for  days.     Tassinj;'  "Wilderness   iload"  on   "noone's  Ti-ace"  mnsl.  I'or 

through     Ciinibcrhmd     Gap — at    which    poinl    llu'  all  time,  possess  ])ecnliar  inK'resI  ;  and  lieeanse  the 

most  favorahk^  opportnuitv  inia.iiinahle  wonid   he  antlior  of  this  volnnu'  believed  this  to  he  I  rue,  lie 

afforded  the  ludiaus  for  tiriug  into  the  party  with  has  been  at  no  small  i)ains  to  secure  several  ])hoto- 

perfect  impunity  from  the  overluiufiiuii- cliffs — tlun'  yrajilis  of  bolii  the  noted  liaps  i-eferred  lo,  and  to 

were  in  constant  terror;  but  the  whites  took  evei'y  have  them  reproduced  in  line  eninraviu<>s  expressly 

precaiilion,   and   tor  some  reason    tbe  savages  al-  for  this  work.    Those  scenes  const  it  ute  no  inconsid- 

lowed  them  to  jiass  through  without  malcing  the  ex-  erable  part  of  the  liistoiy  of  i  he  settlement  of  Ken- 

pected     attack.       Tlie    three     different     beautiful  tucky,  for  along  through  the  two  inountaiu  ])asses 

pictures  of  this  Gap  to  be  found  in  tliis  volume  will  which  they  illustrate  not  less  than  fifty  thousand 

give  the  reader  a  very  correct  idea  of  the  character  settlers  came  friuu  Virginia  and  the  Carolinas  from 

of  the  place.     Along  the  vei"y  road  shown  in  these  1775  to  1800. 
pictures  those  pioneers  travelled.     The  two  views  As  to  the  exact  c«mi]iosit  ion  of  the  little  ((nniiany 

of  AVasioto  (iap  (also  given  herein)    which  is  near  of  which  Samuel   W Is  was  ])robably  the  leadei". 

the  present  town  of  Pineville,  Ky.,  and  only  fifteen  or  at  least  a  principal  member,  we  can  not  state 
miles  from  Cumlterlaml  Gap,  present  the  same  sort  with  certainty.  Put  it  is  practically  certain  it 
of  conditions  so  favorable  to  murderous  attacks  contained  the  following  persons,  to-wit :  Samuel 
from  and)ush.  Those  same  rocky  and  precipitous  Woods,  his  wife  Margaret,  his  son  Samuel,  Jr.,  and 
moiintain  walls  which  afforded  a  safe  ri'treat  to  the  his  aged,  widowe<l  mother  Ann  Woods;  his  brother 
savage  Indians  a  century  and  a  (|uarter  ago,  were  David  AVoods,  David's  (second)  wife  Mary  (nee  Mc- 
the  hiding  places  of  the  eipuilly  cruel  and  murder-  Afee),  David's  sou  John  by  his  first  Avife,  and  prob- 
ous  "bushwhackers"  of  the  Civil  War  period.  The  ably  two  young  children  by  his  second  wifi'.  That 
present  writer,  who  was  camped  at  this  spot  while  these  few  persons  would  not  think  of  undertaking 
in  the  Confederate  cavalry  service  in  IStil,  vividly  the  hazardous  journey  without  other  company  goes 
I'ecalls,  after  more  than  forty  years  interval,  how  without  saying.  From  the  year  1770  onward  the 
deeply  impressed  he  was,  from  time  to  time,  as  he  tide  of  emigration  from  Virginia  to  Kentucky 
would  glance  up  at  those  steep,  bold  prominences  in  steadily  increased.  It  was  numbered  by  thousands 
that  numntain  pass,  how  easy  a  thing  it  would  be  in  17S2,  and  was  nearly  doubled  in  1783.  Xo  doubt 
for  a  foe  to  take  position  just  above  our  camp  and  parties  were  made  up  every  spring  and  fall,  notice 
deliver  a  deadly  tire  with  Sharp's  rities  to  which  we  of  which  \\ as  spread  abroad  over  all  "N'irginia.  The 
would  be  entirely  powerless  to  respond.  The  very  general  stoi-e  at  Drapers  Meadows  (now  Blacks- 
track  our  forefathers  walked  along  in  theyears  1775  burg)  near  New  Kiver  was  a  famous  point  of  de- 
to  1800  by  the  banks  of  the  Cundierland  under  the  parture,  and  snpjily  depot.  Here  many  a  small 
shadow  of  those  same  grand  mountains  is  there  to-  company  assembU'd  to  comjdete  arrangements  and 
day.       One  nuiy  plant  his  foot  upon  many  a  given  help  make  up  large  i)arties  bound   for  the  lovely 

s]iot  in  that  road  now,  and  say,  with  almost  certain  wilderness    beyond    the  untains.     The  AVoodses 

truth — "^^'i^hin  a  few  inches  at  most  of  where  my  had  a  goodly  nundier  of  conipani(nis,  we  may  rest 

foot  now  rests  my  ancestors  walked  with  cautious  assured.     There  was  probably  not   a  single  wagon 

tread,  ritle  in  hand,  watching  with  utmost  vigilance  in  the  wlnde  comiiany.  because  foi-  lu'arly  the  whole 

for  Indian  signs."     Samuel  Woods  and  family  and  way  from  New  Kiver  westward  the  road  was  simply 

his  companions  in  1782,  or  1783,  passed  this  way  as  a  bridle-trail   which,  for  the  most  jtart.   was  just 

they  slowly  toiled  along  the  road  to  Central  Ken-  wide  enough  for  a  single  pack-horse  to  pass  with 

tucky.     For  his  descendants,  as  for  the  ten  thou-  ease.    The  incidents  of  the  journey  of  the  Woodses 


78  THE  WOODS-McAPEE   MEMORIAL. 

In   Kciiluck.v  wv  ciiii  iKil   iindcrtiiko  lo  recite,  for  where  the  town   of   Beattyville  now   stands;   one 

iiolliiiiii-  is  known  hcynnd   the  liarc  fact  that  they  negro  woman  naiiu'd  Jane;  five  heifers ;  fifteen  cat- 

niigrated  in  ITsi'.  <>i-  ITn:!.    -Iusi  wlicic  it  was  they  tie;  six  sheep;  tliirty  hogs;  two  sets  of  plow  irons; 

first  Jnilicd  in  winii  is  now   .Mercer  (lonnty  and  be-  three  feather  beds;  and  a  lot  of  furniture.     At  the 

gan  the  erection  <if  tiieir  rnde  cabins,  we  can  not  same  date  the  two  Samuels,  father  and  sou,  entered 

say.     ^^'e  only  know    dial   Samuel  AVoods  made  a  into  a  written  agreement  touching  the  deed  of  gift 

settlemeni  of  -JOO  acres  in  Mercer  County,  in  sight  just  mentioned,  the  original  of  which  is  now  in  the 

of  wlieic  Siiakerldw  n  now  stands;  and  that  he  pre-  writer's  possession,  and  which  will  liere  be  given  in 

enipied    1(10(1  aci-es  additional  next  to  tliat  tract."  full:     ''Articles  of  agreement  made  and  concluded 

This  ti-aet,  as  we  infer  li-oni  an  original  written  by  and  between  Samuel  Woods  Senior  and  his  son 

document  now  in  the  author's  hands,  and  presently  Samtiel  Woods  Junior,  both  of  the  county  of  Mercer 

to  be  (piofed  in  full,  was  his  boine-place  up  to  1791,  and  District  of  Kentucky,  viz:  in  consequence  of  a 

tlioitgli  he  had  nunn  i-oiis  oi  her  tracts  of  land,  as  lias  deed  of  gift  made  and  acknowledged  to  me  in  Court 

already  been  shown  fi-oni  the  records  of  the  Land  of  sundry  tracts  of  land,  horses,  cattle  aiul  other 

Office  ill  Frankfoil.     Tiie  lair  inlerence  is  that  he  things — the  said  Samuel  Woods  Junior  do  bind  my- 

lived  on  his  "sel  llenienr"  liil  after  his  son's  death  .self,  my  heirs,  executors  &c.  in  the  sum  of  five  hun- 

in  1S(»L'.  dred   pounds  lawful  money  of  Virginia  to  make 

The  records  of  Mercer  County  show  that  Samuel  good  the  articles  hereafter  mentioned  to  my  father 

Woods,  on  the  .■?()( li  day  of  September,  17SG,  was  a  Samuel  Woods    Senior  and    my  mother  Margaret 

witness  to  the  w  ili  of  his  brother  David,  made  that  >Voo(ls  in  consequence  of  their  maiutainauce  during 

day,  wliicli  will  was  probated  at   llarrodsburg  De-  life. 

(•ember  .">.  list;.   He  \\;is  also  made  the  guardian  of  "Article  the  First;     One  hundred  acres  of  land, 

David's  children.     That  the  >\'oodses  were  living  in  at  the  north  end  of  the  land  the  said  Samuel  Woods 

^Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  in  September,  178(],  is  Senior  now  lives  on,  tax  free,  with  the  benefit  of  the 

thus    settled    beyond  all    (inestion.     It    is    almost  spring  pasture  and  meadow  ground,  and  the  half  of 

eiiually   certain  thiy  arrived   there  tliree  or  four  the  cleared  land  that  is  under  fence;  Secondly,  cue 

years  jirior  to  that  date.      In   the   fall  of  1701,  as  negro  wencji  iiained  Jean,  one  breeding  mare,  three 

we    learn     l'r<iin     the    records    (d'    .Mercer    County,  cows,  two  sows,  three  slieej),  horses  and   plows  to 

Sai I  did  what  extremely  few    fathers  do  in  our  tend  the  land  and  to  ride  when  wanted,  them  and 

d.iy:  he  ga\e  ihe  bulk  ni'  his  iirojierty,  or  at  least  a  their  increase  during  life;  Thirdly,  the  house  and 

Very  large  part  of  it,  to  his  only  child  Samuel,  Jr.,  ils    furniture  is    to  be  under    my  father    Samuel 

who  by  I  his  time  was  evidently  a  married  man  ;  and  ^Voods    Senior  and    my  mother    Margaret  AVoods 

irnsied  his  son  to  care  fen-  his  jiarents  out  of  the  their  direction,  their  shoes  to  be  made  yearly,  and 

considerable  esiaie  thus  tinned  over  to  him.    Sam-  Ihree  bushels  of  salt  per  yeav  found;  Fourthly,  the 

nel,  Sr..  makes  a  deed  of  gift  to  Samuel,  Jr.,  of  the  ^:>i<l    Samuel    Woods   Juuior  agrees   to   assist   my 

lidlowiiig  items  of  real  and  personal  property,  to-  father  to  discharge  a  debt  due  to  Mr.  Jacob  Fro- 

wil  :    1400  acres  of  land  on  Shawany  Kun,  Mercer  mjni.     Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  this  9th  day 

Coiinly,  described  as  his  "pre-eiuptiim  and  .settle-  "f    Novemlier  one    thousand    seven    hundred    and 

im  111";  :>7((t  acres  of  land  on  Ihe  waters  of  Benson  ninety-one — 1791." 

Creek  .-ibout  where  the  counties  of  Franklin  and  "Sam'l.  Woods, 

Ander.son  adjoin,   some   miles  north  of   Lawrence-  "Samuel  Woods  JuNR." 

burg;  3000  acres  of  Ian ate.l  in  the  three  forks  "Signe.l,  sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of 

of  Kentucky  Jliver,  which  is  described  as  being  part  us,                                              "Saml.  McKee 

of  10,000  acres  he  owned   there,  which  was  near  "James  McDowell." 


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The  above  recited  agreement  was  written  in  good  ways  important,  and  suggest  ofttimes  the  most 
clear  character.  The  inlc  used  in  the  body  of  it  has  valuable  historical  facts.  The  deed  of  gift  on 
hardly  faded  at  all,  but  that  employed  by  the  Avit-  which  this  agreement  was  based  was  signed  by  the 
nesses  has  grown  dim,  and  the  paper  is  yellow  with  same  witnesses  wliose  signatures  are  attached  to  the 
age.  It  was  evidently  not  in  the  handwriting  of  agreement  itself  witli  tlic  addition  of  the  name  of 
any  one  of  the  four  persons  whose  names  are  at-  one  William  (iordon.  The  present  writer  has  never 
tached  thereto.  The  chirograpliy  (if  Samuel  Woods,  seen  the  original  of  the  deed,  but  the  copy  made 
Senior,  if  one  may  .iudge  by  a  single  signature,  was  from  it  on  the  Mercer  roiuily  records  gives  James 
poor,  whilst  that  of  his  son  is  decidedly  fair,  and  McDowell  (not  McDanielll  as  one  of  them.  This 
like  that  of  a  man  accustomed  to  writing  a  good  would  seem  to  indicate  that  the  clerk  at  least  under- 
deal.  The  two  witnesses  used  an  ink  different  from  stood  the  name  to  be  McDowell.  It  was  recorded 
that  employed  in  the  body  of  tlie  agreement,  and  January  24,  1792,  a  few  months  before  Kentucky 
there  is  some  uncertainty  as  to  the  signatures  of  was  admit  led  into  the  I'niuu  as  a  State, 
each  of  them.  The  name  of  the  first  one  seems  to  be  Samuel  ^Vdods  was  bereaved  of  his  son  Samuel, 
McKee  and  that  of  the  other  to  be  JIcDowell,  but  in  Jr.,  in  1802,  and  nothing  is  known  of  him  till  1819, 
each  case  the  last  part  of  the  sui'nauie  is  obscure,  when  the  records  of  Mercer  County  (Book  11,  pages 
the  original  formation  of  the  letters  having  been  337-8)  show  that  he  and  one  Gabriel  Alexander 
indefinite,  and  the  ink  having  faded  considerably,  were  engaged  in  carrying  on  a  tan-yard  in  Harrods- 
It  is  just  possible  the  last  one  was  McDaniells,  but  liui-g.  It  seems  the  tirm  dwncd  fauv  unc-linlf  acre 
it  was  more  jjrobably  McDowell.  We  know  that  "inn  lots"  in  Ilari'odsburg  (  Xos.  (iS,  09,  72,  and  82), 
the  McDowells  were  blood-kin  of  the  Woodses,  and  having  their  homes  on  one  part  of  the  land  and 
Samuel  McDowell  (afterwards  Judge)  was  then  their  tannery  on  another  part.  In  1823  Samuel 
living  in  Mercer  County,  having  settled  there  in  Woods  was  pensioned  by  the  U.  S.  Government  for 
1784.  James  McDowell,  an  older  brother  to  Sam-  his  services  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  as  has  al- 
uel,  was  also  living  in  Kentucky  then,  liaving  ready  been  shown.  lie  an<l  :\[argaret  his  wife  were 
moved  from  Virginia  in  1783,  aljout  the  time  Sam-  then  very  old  and  feeble,  and  they  were  living  with 
uel  Woods  did.  James  McDowell  and  Samuel  their  grandson,  James  Harvey  Woods,  in  Harrods- 
Woods  may  have  been  warm  personal  friends;  for,  burg.  There  Samuel  died  Feb.  3,  1826,  at  the  age 
besides  being  kinsmen,  and  having  migrated  to  Ceu-  of  eighty-eight.  Nothing  is  known  by  the  writer 
tral  Kentucky  about  the  same  time,  both  had  been  as  to  the  time  of  Margaret's  death.  Of  their  re- 
Revolutionary  soldiers  from  the  Valley  of  Virginia,  ligious  beliefs,  ju'ofessions  and  hopes  the  writer  has 
James  might  liave  been  in  fiercer  at  the  time,  visit-  no  means  of  knowing  anything  beyond  the  fact  that 
ing  liis  brother  Samuel  McDowell,  and  may  also  Samuel  was  reared  in  the  family  of  a  godly  Presby- 
have  renewed  at  this  time  his  acipiaintance  with  his  terian,  Michael  Woods,  Jr, 

cousin  and  fellow  soldier  Samuel  Woods.  What  Before  proceeding  to  treat  of  Samuel's  son 
has  somewhat  the  appearance  of  a  final  s  in  his  (Samuel,  Jr.)  it  will  be  proper  to  interpose  some 
signature  here  may  only  have  been  a  meaningless  remarks  concerning  several  other  men  by  the  name 
curl,  such  as  many  persons  give  to  their  signatures,  of  Samuel  Woods,  who,  either  in  Virginia  or  Ken- 
But  there  is  a  dot  or  short  stroke  above  tlie  middle  tacky,  or  in  both  States,  were  cbise  to  each  other,  so 
of  the  surnanu^  which  looks  as  if  meant  to  indicate  close,  in  fact,  that  now  and  then  it  has  seemed  very 
the  letter  i.  This  witness  was  certainly  a  Me-  difficult  to  discriminate  them  from  each  other. 
Dowell  or  a.  McDaniell.  This  apparently  unim-  Some  of  these  Samuels  we  shall  mention,  giving 
portant  matter  isdwelt  upon  because  the  signatures  what  information  we  have  been  able  to  gather  in 
to  all  authentic  ancient  documents  are,  really,  al-  regard  to  them.     They  may  be  named  as  follows : 


82  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

(a)  Saimu'l  Woods  of  Augusta ;  (b)  Samuel  Woods  him  to  America   in   1724,  namely:  James,  William 

of  Albciiuu-le;  (c)  Samuel  Woods  of  Amherst;  (d)  or  AndreAv? 

Samuel  Woods  of  Botetourt ;  (e)  Samuel  Woods  of  (b)  There  was  a  Samuel  Woods  iu  Albemarle 
Koekbridiie;  and  (f)  Samuel  Woods  of  Paint  Lick,  County,  Virginia,'"'  who  was  one  of  the  origmal 
Kentuck.v.  These  six  individuals  do  not  by  any  purchasers  of  lots  in  ( Miarlotlesville  about  1763. 
m(>aiis  exliaust  ilic  supply  of  Samuel  Woodses,  but  He  died  in  1784.  His  daughter  Barbara  married 
tlicy  iifc  ihe  only  ones  we  need  to  consider  in  this  George  Martin;  Margaret  married  Richard  Nether- 
connection,  land;  Mary  married  Benjamin  Harris;  Jane  mar- 
(a)  I'irst.  there  was  a  Samuel  'Woods  in  Au-  ried  Joseph  [Montgomery;  and  Elizabeth  married 
gusta  County,  Virginia,  who,  as  (he  records  of  his  'V^'illiam  B.  Harris.  His  only  son  was  John  B. 
county  show,  ligured  in  some  real  estate  transac-  Woods,  of  whom  the  writer  knows  nothing.  Dr. 
tions  thei-c  :it  an  early  day.  For  instance,  he  and  Edgar  Woods  thinks  this  Samuel  Woods  was  a 
a  William  A\'oods  conveyed  to  Peter  Wallace  a  brother  of  a  James  and  a  Ki(liiir(MVoods  who  lived 
tract  of  lL'(»  acres  of  hind,  l-'ebruary  24,  17r)l.  This  in  Alliciiunb',  and  surmises  tliat  tlicse  men  were 
land  was  in  the  forks  of  .lames  Kiver.  and  adjoined  close  kin  to  ^lichad  Woods  of  Blair  Park. 
tliaiof  iiicliard  Woods  and  Joseph  Lapsley,  and  is  (c)  There  was  a  Saiinic]  \\(iods  of  Amherst 
described  as  "a  part  of  ^\■iliiam  Woods's  land.''  County,  Virginia,  the  only  thing  about  whom  we 
Then  .March  .">,  17.");!,  Samuel  and  William  convey  a  know  is  tliat  tlu^  records  at  Staunton,  Virginia, 
tract  of  203  acres  to  Benjamin  Borden,  (lent.  This  show  that  on  the  19th  of  May,  1777,  one  Henry 
land  was  on  Woods's  Creek,  a  tributary  of  the  A'N'atterson,  of  Botetourt  County,  Virginia,  deeded 
Jaunts,  and  adjoined  Peter  Wallace  and  Joseph  to  him  100  acres  of  land,  lying  in  Augusta  County, 
Lapsley.  In  neither  of  tlie  before  mentioned  con-  for  twenty  pounds.  There  was  a  family  of 
veyances  is  there  any  Hicnt  ion  of  either  grantor  hav-  Woodses  there,  but  to  what  l)ranch  this  particular 
ing  a  wife,  whence  we  infer  they  were  unmarried  individual  belonged  we  have  no  knowledge.  It  may 
men  at  tlic  dates  named.     Xow  we  are  nearly  cer-  lie  that  tlu' records  of  Andierst  County  (erected  out 

tain    that  Richard   W Is,   whose    land    the  first  of  Albemarle  County  in  17G1)   would  reward  the 

named  tract  adjoined,  was  a  brother-in-law  to  both  search  of  any  who  cares  to  investigate  the  matter. 
Peter  \\'allace  and  Josejih  La])sley,  and  a  son  of  There  was  a  James  Woods  living  there  in  1761,  a 
.Michael  Woods  of  IJlair  I'ark,  and  it  is  Ncry  likely  farmer,  who  that  year  deeded  .SoO  acres  of  land  to 
Dial  llie  Samuel  and  ^\'illiam  ^^'oods  under  coTisid-  one  Samuel  Woods,  a  storekeeper.  Whether  this 
eratiou  were  near  kinsmen  of  Richard  ^^■oods.  As  Samuel  was  the  one  wlio  is  refcn-ed  to  in  the  pre- 
they  were  ])assing  the  title  to  real  estate  in  the  year  ceding  paragraph  ( li )  as  a  citizen  of  Albemarle  can 
IT.'.l.  ihey  could  not  have  been  liorn  later  than  the  hardly  be  nmde  out.  The  record  of  this  conveyance 
year  1730;  and  they  could  not  both  have  been  either  is  in  Albemarle,  but  as  Andierst  was  carved  out  of 
sons  or  grandsons  of  .Michael  of  P.lair  Park.  We  Albemarle  that  year  (1761)  the  citizenship  of  the 
have  no  idea  who  they  wci-e,  except  that  they  lived  parties  may  have  been  in  either  of  tliose  counties,  so 
in  tlie  midst  of  a  "nest"  of  Woodses,  no  less  than  far  as  we  can  tell  from  the  data  now  at  hand, 
four  of  whose  occu]iants  were  the  children  of  (d)  There  was  anothir  Samuel  Woods,  who  lived 
.Michael  Woods  of  Blair  i'ark,  namely;  Richar<l  in  Botetourt  County,  Virginia,  whose  wife  was 
Woods.  Mrs.  Peter  Wallace,  .Mrs.  Jos<'ph  Lapsley,  named  Jean.  .\11  we  know  of  him  is  that  the  rec- 
and  .Airs.  Magdalen  McDowell-Borden-Bowyer.  ords  of  that  county  show  that  he  and  his  wife  con- 
Could  they  have  been  sons  of  one  of  the  three  broth-  veyed  340  acres  of  land  lying  on  Purgatory  Creek,  a 
ers  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park  who  migrated  with  branch  of  James  River,  to  one  Thomas  Crow,  No- 


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vember  18,  1780.  Were  it  not  that  we  know  that 
the  wife  of  the  Samuel  Woods  who  migrated  to 
Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  in  1782,  and  died  at  his 
grandson's  home  in  Harrodshurg  in  182G,  Avas 
named  Margaret,  we  miglit  have  supposed  that  this 
man  was  he. 

(e)  A  fifth  Samuel  Woods  is  known  to  have  lived 
in  Virginia,  Rockltridge  County.  This  one  was  a 
son  of  Richard  Woods  whose  wife  was  named  Jenny 
(Janet  or  Jane).  Richard's  will  was  made  June  2, 
1777,  and  he  died  in  177".l.  One  of  liis  hvo  sons — 
the  Samuel  Woods  now  under  consideration — was 
made  his  executor.  To  Samuel  and  the  other  son 
(Benjamin)  Richard  devised  his  home  place  in 
Rockbridge  County.  This  place  was  near  Lexing- 
ton, and  right  in  the  neighborhood  where  five  of  the 
children  of  Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park  lived, 
namely ;  Mrs.  Ool.  John  Bowyer,  ]Mrs.  Joseph  Laps- 
ley,  Mrs.  Peter  Wallace,  Mrs.  Andrew  Wallace,  and 
the  testator  himself,  Richard  Woods.  In  1783  Sam- 
uel and  Benjamin  sold  the  home  place  which  they 
had  inherited  from  their  father  to  Col.  John  Bow- 
yer, their  uncle-in-law ;  and  the  late  Major  Varner 
of  Lexington,  Va.,  stated,  in  a  letter  written  to  the 
author  of  this  volume  in  August,  1893,  that  both 
Samuel  ami  Benjamin  ]ii'obably  migrated  to  Ken- 
tucky along  with  the  vast  company  of  Virginians  of 
the  Great  Valley  who  about  that  period  sought 
luimes  in  that  charming  wilderness.  He  also  be- 
lieved that  Richard  Woods  had  other  children  be- 
sides the  two  sons  just  referred  to.  Of  this  Samuel 
AVoods  Ave  can  not  affirm  anything  more  with  cer- 
tainty, unless,  indeed,  he  is  to  be  identified  as  the 
man  of  that  name  next  to  be  considered,  which 
seems  not  at  all  unlikely.  If  Richard  Woods,  who 
died  in  1779,  Avas,  as  we  believe,  about  sixty-five 
when  he  died,  Ave  could  safely  assume  that  his  son 
Samuel  was  not  less  tlian  tliirty,  aud  not  more  than 
fifty  years  old  when,  in  1783,  he  is  supposed  to  have 
migrated  to  Kentucky.  There  were  some  entries  of 
land  made  in  Central  Kentucky  about  1783,  and 
later  on,  by  a  Samuel  Woods  Avho  could  not  possibly 
liave  been  the  one  who  lived  in  fiercer  County,  Ken- 
tucky, and  died  in  Harrodshurg  in  1826.     The  Land 


Office  in  Frankfort  contains  full  accounts  of  those 
entries." 

(f)  Finally  there  was  a  Samuel  Woods  who  re- 
sided on  Paint  Lick  Creek  in  Avhat  is  now  Madison 
County,  Kentucky,  who  may  possibly  haA^e  been  the 
same  man  as  the  Samuel  Woods  just  considered. 
This  man  figured  in  several  real  estate  transactions ; 
one  in  May,  1783,  as  set  forth  in  Note  70,  which  see; 
and  others  in  July,  1796,  as  shoAvn  by  the  Madison 
County  records.  Garrard  County  Avas  that  same 
year  carved  out  of  portions  of  Lincoln,  jVIadison  and 
Mercer  Counties.  The  stream  called  Paint  Lick 
Creek  is  almost  wholly  Avithin  the  county  of  Madi- 
son, but  the  village  and  the  Presbyterian  church  of 
Paint  Lick  are  located  iuimediately  on  the  Garrard 
and  Madison  line.  This  Samuel  ^Voods  Avas  an 
elder  in  that  church  for  at  least  fifteen  years, 
or  longer.  He  on  several  occasions  repre- 
sented the  Paint  Lick  and  Silvci-  Creek  Pres- 
byterian churches,  the  first  named  of  Avhich 
AA-as  organized  in  1784.  March  30.  1785,  a 
Conference  of  Presbyterian  ministers  and  elders 
was  held  at  the  Cane  Run  Presbyterian  Church,  in 
Mercer  County,  a  feAv  miles  east  of  Harrodshurg; 
and  at  this  gathering  Samuel  Woods  represented 
Paint  Lick  Church."  As  a  result  of  this  Confer- 
ence the  Presbytery  of  Transylvania  was  organized 
in  the  fall  of  1786.  In  October,  1789,  Avhen  the 
Presbytery  met  at  Cane  Ihin  Church,  this  same 
Samuel  Woods  was  present  as  the  elder  from  Paint 
Lick  and  Silver  Creek.  In  October,  1794,  he  rep- 
resented Paint  Lick  at  the  Presbytery  which  con- 
vened in  his  own  church  ;  aud  then  in  1797,  Avhen  it 
met  at  Stanford.  In  al)out  the  year  1800  he  moved 
with  his  family  to  AMlliamson  County,  Tennessee. 
Mr.  Le  Grand  M.  -lonc-s,  of  Trenton,  Tennessee, pub- 
lished a  little  volume  concerning  the  descendants 
of  this  Samuel  AVoods,  Mrs.  Jones,  his  wife,  having 
been  descended  from  him;  and  u]ioii  IJiis  hook  the 
author  has  draA\n  for  a  list  of  Samuel  Woods's  chil- 
dren, and  for  several  other  items  of  information."* 
The  author  does  not  pretend  to  affirm  positively 
that  this  Samuel  Woods  was  identical  with  the  one 
just  considered,  who  Avas  a  son  of  Richard  Woods, 


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of  Ko.kbri.loc  ( '„mity,  Virginiii.  and  a  graudsou  of  Tliat  would  have  been  entirely  feasible.     Secondly, 
iMichael  Woods  ..r  I'.lair  I'ark.     lie  does  not  liesi-  this    vSamuel    Woods    of    Taint    Lick    could     not 
tatejiowcver,  to  say  that  he  considers  it  very  prob-  possibly   have   acted    more   exactly   as    we   should 
able  tlial   ilic  I  wo  Saiuueis  are  one  and  the  same,  liave    expected    a    son    of    Kichard    to    act,    in 
The  onlv  lliiiig  o])]iosed  to  this  supi)osition,  so  far  deciding    on    a    location     for    a-    home,     than    he 
as  the  i)resent  wriicr  is  aware,  is  the  assertion  of  actually  <liil.     ^Mih    all  of   Central    Kentucky   to 
Judge  (iideon    15.    Hlack  of  Trenton.  Tennessee,  a  choose  from  he  selected  a  spot  which  was  about  as 
oraudson  of  tlie  person  now  under  consideration  complete  a  nest  of  the  grandchildren  of  old  Michael 
(quoted  by  ]Mr.  J(mes),  to  the  effect  that  Samuel  of  Blair  Park  as  lie  could  have  found  in  tlie  world. 
Woods  migrated  to  Kentucky  from  North  Carolina,  The  sons  of  not  less  than  three  of  old  Michael's  sons 
he  having  come  to  that  colony  from  Ireland.     The  ^yere  within  five  to  twenty-five  miles  of  where  he 
writer  is  unable  to  gather  from  :Mr.  Jones's  book  settled,  namely:    two    of    those    of    Michael,  Jr., 
whether  this  statement  of  Judge  lUack  was  merely  across  Dick's   River;   several   of  AVilliam's  about 
his  oi)inion,  liascd   u]>on  nnccftain  tradition,  or  a  ^vhere     Liclimond     now     stands;     and     some     of 
piece  of  definite  information,  founded  upon  written  jolui's    in    what    is    now    Garrard    County;  and 
family   records    or    other    unquestionable     docu-  ^^p     j^p^r     Crab     Orchard,     the     ^Michael     Woods 
mentary  evidence.     If  .Mr.  Jones  had  asserted  that  ^hose    wife,    Hannah    Wallace,    about    ITSO,    so 
the  latter  was  the  case,  the  matter  might  well  Ite  in-^yely  attacked  an  Indian  who  sought  entrance  to 
considered  as  settled.     But  the  writer  has  learned  ]jpj.  j^ome.     It  is  probalde   tliat  Avhen   Samuel   of 
only  too  thorouglily,  during  the  years  in  which  he  pj^jnt  T>ick  bnilt  his  cabin  in  what  is  now  Madison 
has  been  iirosecnling  his  researches  for  tliis  work,  Tounty  there  were  within  one  to  five  hours'  ride  of 
that  thousands  of  the  most  intelligent  and  respect-  ],j,j^  „,,|.  jpgj,  fiij,,,  j^  ^core  of  Woodses,  the  grand- 
able  people  in  this  country  are  utterly  unable  to  children  and  great-grandchildren    of    IMichael    of 
give  much  ])ositive,  reliable  information  concerning  Blair    Park.     When    men    migrate    to    a    distant 
their  grandparents.     They  <lo  not  know,  with  cer-  frontier  region  full  of  danger  it  is  natural  to  locate 
tainty,  just  where  or  when  they  were  born,  from  dose  to  kinsmen,  if  there  l)e  any  tlu're;  and  when 
whence  they  came,  or  in  what  ])art  of  America  they  fi,i<^  f^amuel  halted  at  Paint  Lick  in  178:1-4  he  was 
first  settled,  etc.,  etc.     And  this,  because  thousands  surrounded  by  a  goodly  comjiany  of  Woodses  who 
of  our  best  families  have  either  not  taken  care  to      (like  himself,  as  we  surmise  i  were  grandsons  of  old 
preserve,  in  writing,  the  items  of  their  history;  or  ^fichael  of  Blair  Park.     Thirdly,  we  have  a  right  to 
else  what  was  written  down  has  been  unfortunately  nttach  no  little  significance  to  the  Christian  names 
lost  or  destroyed.     It  can  therefore  do  no  harm  to  which  a  pai'ent  gives  to  his  children;  and  a  careful 
here  set  down  the  sevoM'al  considerations  which  in-  scrutiny  of  the  names  of  the  children  of  Samuel  of 
(■line  the  authoi-  of  this  Avork  to  n  gard  it  as  very  Paint  Lick  reveals  some  fads  not  very  easily  ex- 
probable  that  Samuel  Woods,  of  I'aint  Lick  and  plained  except  upon  the  theory  that  he  was  a  grand- 
Tennessee,  was  the  same  as  Samuel,  of  Rockbridge  son  of  IMichael  of  Blair  Park,  and  a  son  of  Richard 
County.  Virginia.     First,  there  is  the  statement  of  of  Rockbridge.     The  mother  of  Samuel   of  Rock- 
the  late  ilajor   N'arner,  above  cited,  that  Samuel  bridge  was  named  Jane,  and  it  were  natural  for  him 
Woods,  the  son  of  Richard,  sold  out  his  farm  about  to  name  one  of  his  girls  for  her;  we  find  Samuel  of 
the  year  17S3  and  jnobably  migrated  to  Kentucky      Paint  Lick  named  one  of  his  daughters  Jane,  who 
as  thousands  of  other  Virginians  did  at  that  period,      married  John  Herron.     It  would  also  have  been  a 
Of  course,  Samuel,  son  of  Richard  Woods,  might     very  likely  thing  for  Samuel  of  Rockbridge  to  name 
have  moved  to  North  Carolina  in  1783,  and  then  in      one  of  his  girls  ■\Iartha,  in  honor  of  his  aunt  who 
a  few  months,  or  a  year,  ha\-e  gone  to  Kentucky,      was  Peter  Wallace's  wife,  and  who  lived  close  to 


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his  old  home  iu  Rockbi'idge;  Samuel  of  I'aiut  I^ick 
named  one  of  his  girls  Martha,  who  married  John 
Dyzart.  Then  Samuel  of  Kockhi'idge  had  a 
distinguislied  uncle  John — (Ntlouel  John  Woods, 
of  Albemarle — and  it  Wduld  lia\c  been  a 
very  proper  thinii  to  call  one  of  tlie  sons  for  tiiat 
prominent  kinsman.  Samuel  of  I'aint  Lick  named 
one  of  his  sons  John,  who  was  born  in  1774,  and 
died  in  lS4(i.  Samuel  of  Rockbridiic  knew  that  his 
father's  Scotch  mother  was  named  Mary,  and  be- 
longed to  the  famous  Clan  Cam]ibell  of  which  the 
Duke  of  Argyle  was  the  cliiet,  and  how  natural 
for  liim  to  name  for  her  one  of  Ids  (huigli(ci-s.  Sam- 
uel of  Paint  Lick  named  one  of  his  daughters  Mary 
(often  called  Polly  as  a  pet-name).  Finally,  Sam- 
uel of  Rockbridge  had  a  near  kinsman,  the  sou  of 
his  uncle  ^lichael  Woods,  Jr.  (of  Botetourt 
County),  who  lived  near  by  and  wJiom  lie  must 
have  known  intimately  and  f<u-  whom  he  may  have 
cherished  a  special  affection.  This  first  cousin  was 
named  David  Woods,  and  it  would  not  have  been 
at  all  remarkable  if  Samuel  had  honored  this  kins- 
man by  calling  one  of  his  boys  David  in  his  honor. 
Samuel  of  Paint  Lick  not  only  named  one  of  his 
boys  Davi<l  ^^'oods,  but  when  he  came  to  Kentucky 
settled  in  \\-liat  ^as  then  the  same  county,  and  only 
about  twenty  miles  distant  from  this  David  Woods 
who  came  to  Kentucky  about  the  same  time  Sam- 
uel of  I'aint  Lick  did,  and  who,  for  aught  we  know, 
may  have  actually  accompanied  him  to  Kentucky 
when  he  migrated.  Let  it  also  be  borne  in  mind 
that  Samuel  Woods,  the  Kevolulionary  xctcran  w  ho 
settled  near  Kentucky  River  in  Mercer  County, 
and  died  in  Ilarrodsburg  in  1826,  was,  as  already 
stated,  living  within  twenty-five  miles  of  tlie  place 
this  Samuel  of  Paint  Lick  located,  and  came  to 
Kentucky  most  probably  the  very  year  the  Mercer 
County  Samuel  and  his  brother  David  came. 

Of  course,  we  grant  that  we  have  not  in  these 
facts  a  complete  demonstration  of  the  truth  of  the 
supposition  that  Samuel  of  Paint  Lick  was  the  son 
of  Richard  Woods  of  Rockbridge;  but  it  must  be 
admitted  that  such  an  array  of  coincidences  is  not 
to  be  lightly  ignored;  and  if  Judge  Black,  in  assert- 


ing tliat  his  graiidfadici-  Siuiincl  of  I'ainI  l.ick 
came  in  Kentucky  from  Xorlh  (Jarolinu,  and  had 
come  to  (Jarolina  from  Ireland,  had  no  reliable 
written  evidence  of  llic  accuracy  of  these  asser- 
tions, 1hi(,  relied  iiiei-el_\-  npoii  Ihe  somewhat  uncer- 
tain traditions  \vc  so  ofleii  hear  repeated  in  fam- 
ilies, then  it  would  seem  liiil  reasonable  to  accei)t  as 
most  probable  I  lie  ilieoi-y  which  the  writer  has  i)i'o- 
pounded.  Here  it  may  be  observed  that  the  in- 
formation Mr.  Jones  got  from  Judge  Black  and 
others  as  to  Samuel  Woods  and  his  children 
bears  (he  marks  (d'  \('rlial  (radii  ions  and  no(  of 
l)eing  derived  from  \vrit(,en  documents.''" 

The  writer  would  add  concerning  Samuel  of 
Paint  Lick  that  for  a.  time  he  was  no  little  confused 
by  the  records  of  State  and  county  ufiices  concern- 
ing this  worthy  gentleman.  He  found  that  his 
imme  was  not  only  Samuel,  but  that  he  had  a  son 
Samuel,  that  his  wife  was  named  Margaret,  and 
that  he  had  come  to  Kentucky  about  1782-3.  AH 
these  three  things  were  true  of  the  writer's  great- 
grandfather, who  lived  in  fiercer,  and  died  there 
in  1826.  When  it  was  discovered,  however,  that 
Paint  Lick  Sannud  had  migrated  to  Tennessee 
about  the  year  1800,  it  was  nmde  clear  that  he  was 
a  different  man  from  tlie  Samuel  of  Mercer  County. 
Then  a  closer  examination  of  court  recoi-ds  and 
other  reliable  sources  of  iuformatiim  made  this 
conclusion  to  appear  absolutely  correct. 

The  lady  who  was  the  wife  of  Samuel  Woods  of 
Paint  Lick  while  he  was  in  Kentucky  was,  beyond 
([uestion,  his  first  wife.  Ilei-  Christian  jianie,  as 
the  Madison  County  records  prove,  was  Margaret; 
and  Judge  Black  positively  states  (quoted  by  Mr. 
Jones  in  his  Reminiscences)  that  her  .surname  was 
Holmes.  Samuel  had  born  to  him  ten  children, 
all  by  his  first  wife,  .Margaret  Holmes,  as  follows: 
(a)  Oliver,  who  was  born  about  1764,  and  was 
killed  by  Indisins;  (b)  .Mardui,  who  married  John 
Dyzart,  by  whom  she  had  (wo  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, one  of  the  sons  being  named  John;  (c)  Jane, 
who  married  John  Herron,  and  by  whom  she  had 
one  daughter  and  three  sons,  the  daughter  marry- 
ing John  Dyzart  her  cousin,  and  the  sons  being 


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named  Johu,  William,  and  Frank,  respectively; 
(d)  Margaret,  who  married  Thomas  Black  August 
20,  1793,  and  b^-  whom  she  had  twelve  children,  tlie 
youngest  of  win  mi  ^\■as  Judge  (Jideon  B.  Black, 
born  February  4,  181G;  (e)  Johu,  who  was  born 
April  21,  1774,  and  died  August  2(),  1846;  (f)  Sam- 
uel, who  married  Ann  Prevince;  (g)  David,  who 
married  a  Miss  McLaryo,  by  whom  he  had  several 
sons  who  moved  to  Arkansas;  (j)  Daniel  T.,  who 
married  a  Miss  Beese,  by  whom  he  had  several 
childreji,  among  whom  was  a  son  named  Leroy, 
who  was  a  distinguished  Cumberland  Presbyte- 
rian minister;  (k)  Oliver,  named  for  the  tii'st  son 
n(  iliis  Maine  w  h(i  was  killed  \>y  Indians,  as  stated 
above;  and  (1)  Polly,  (Mary)  who  married  John 
Holmes,  by  whom  she  had  several  children,  among 
whom  were  sons  named  John,  \yilliam  and  Sam- 
uel, respectively. 

As  stated  on  a  previous  page,  Samuel  Woods, 
the  Kevolutionary  soldier,  who  migrated  fmni 
Botetourt  County,  Virginia,  to  Mercer  County, 
Kentucky,  about  the  year  17S2-3,  and  died  at  Har- 
rodsburg  in  182G,  had  an  only  son,  named  for  him- 
self, whom  we  shall  designate  as  Samuel  Woods, 
Jr.  The  date  of  his  birth  could  not  have  been  far 
from  1761-3,  and  the  place,  beyond  all  reasonable 
doubt,  was  Albemarle  County,  Virginia,  where  his 
parents  were  living  up  to  17(16,  if  not  later.  Born 
about  the  close  of  the  French  and  Indian  Wars,  his 
boyhood  covered  a  troublous  period  of  American 
historv;  for  no  sooner  had  the  contest  of  Eng- 
land  and  her  colonies  with  the  French  and  their 
Indian  allies  been  settled,  than  there  arose  serious 
disagreements  between  the  Mother  Country  and 
the  American  colonies  which  in  the  course  of  time 
culminated  in  the  Revolution.  From  1766  to  1776 
his  father  had  a  farm  on  Boauoke  Biver,  and  prob- 
ably lived  there.  Thus  the  first  twenty  years  of  his 
life  were  lived  in  the  midst  of  constant  civil  com- 
motion. The  attempt  of  England  to  compel  the 
colonies  to  aid  her  in  paying  the  del)ts  she  had 
created,  the  unjust  Navigation  Laws,  and  the 
famous  Stamp  Act  of  1765  were  the  main  causes 
of  discontent  and  resentment  on  the  part  of  the 


Colonies.  Sannud  Woods,  Jr.,  was  a  little  boy  only 
about  two  to  four  years  old  when  Patrick  Henry 
delivered  the  eloquent  and  patriotic  speech  in  the 
Virginia  House  of  Delegates  (May,  1765)  which 
foretokened  the  coming  storm.  He  was  about  ten 
or  twelve  years  old  when  the  citizens  of  Boston 
threw  the  tea  from  the  English  ships  into  the  har- 
bor, and  ab(jut  twelve  or  fourteen  when  Washing- 
ton went  to  Cambridge  to  take  fornml  command  of 
''The  American  Army."  In  the  spring  of  1776  his 
father  entered  the  Twelfth  Virginia  Regiment  of 
the  Continental  Line,  and  was  in  the  regular  serv- 
ice for  three  years,  and  then  served  in  the  militia 
from  time  to  time  till  the  close  of  the  Revolution; 
and  as  bis  mother  had  no  other  children  besides 
Iiimself,  and  he  was  only  thirteen  to  fifteen  when 
the  war  began,  he  doubtless  renuxined  at  home  and 
rendered  little  if  any  military  service.  He  was 
about  twenty  to  twenty-two  years  old  when  his 
jiarents  and  tlie  other  Woodses  migrated  to  Ken- 
tucky. His  home  in  fiercer  County  seems  to  have 
lieen  near  Shawnee  Run,  and  within  sight  of  the 
spot  where  Shakertown  (Pleasant  Hill)  was  after- 
wards built.  In  fact,  that  village  occupied  part 
of  the  1,400  acre  tract  which  his  father  conveyed 
to  him  by  deed  of  gift  in  1791,  and  the  old  Woods 
homestead  was  close  to  the  turnpike  which  extends 
from  Shakertown  to  Lexington,  its  exact  location 
being  indicated  on  the  map  of  Mercer  County  to  be 
found  in  this  volume. 

The  marriage  of  Sannnd  Wofyds,  Jr.,  (between 
1786  and  1791)  occasioned  considerable  discussion 
in  the  family,  and  by  some  of  his  friends  was  re- 
garded as  unwise.  The  grounds  of  tlieir  opposi- 
tion have  never  been  fully  understood  by  the  pres- 
ent writer,  but  there  is  no  reason  to  suppose  their 
objections  were  at  all  serious.  The  facts  seem  to 
have  been  as  follows:  Samuel  \\'oods,  Jr.,  had  an 
uncle  David  Woods,  who,  about  1779,  had  mar- 
ried Mary  McAfee,  the  daughter  of  James  McAfee, 
Jr.,  afterwards  know-n  as  James  McAfee,  the 
Pioneer  of  Kentucky.  When  David  Woods  mar- 
ried Mary  he  was  a  widower,  and  owned  and  lived 
at  his  father's  old  homestead  on  James  River— the 


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Shepherd's  Island  Farm,  whilst  Mary's  parents 
were  living  down  on  Catawba  Creek  in  what  is  now 
Roanoke  Count}',  Virginia.  The  Woodses  and 
McAfees  were  probably  good  friends,  and  it  is 
just  possible  that  Samuel  Woods,  Jr.,  liad  known 
and  admired  Mary  before  she  became  the  wife  of 
his  uncle  David  in  1779,  for  a  youth  of  sixteen  does 
sometimes  entertain  tender  sentiments  towards  a 
bright-eyed  young  lady,  even  though  he  may  be  a 
few  years  her  junior,  which  was  probably  true  in 
this  instance.  The  Woodses  migrated  to  Ken- 
tucky, as  has  been  shown,  about  1782  or  1783,  the 
McAfees  having  preceded  them  by  three  or  four 
years.  Samuel,  Jr.,  lived  witli  liis  parents  on 
Shawnee  Run,  and  his  uncle  David  and  family 
were  only  a  few  miles  away  on  Cane  Run.  That 
the  two  families  should  be  on  excellent  terms,  and 
see  much  of  each  other,  were  but  natural.  It  came 
to  pass,  in  the  fall  of  1786,  that  David  Woods  died, 
leaving  Mary  a  widow  with  one  stepson,  and  three 
little  folks  of  her  own  which  she  had  borne  to 
David.  Samuel  Woods,  Senior  (father  of  Samuel, 
Jr.)  became  the  guardian  of  David's  children. 
What  passed  in  the  years  following  we  know  not, 
except  that  smiiewiiere  after  1786,andprior  to  17!ll , 
Samuel  Woods,  J  i-.,iHaiiie(llns  uncle  David's  widow. 
She  was  his  aunt-in-law,  and  her  three  children 
were,  by  blood  and  marriage,  his  first  cousins. 
jMost  probably  she  was  a  few  years  older  than 
Samuel.  It  is  known  that  this  marriage  created 
a  stir  in  the  family  at  the  time,  as  might  reason- 
ably be  expected ;  but  there  was,  of  course,  nothing 
inherently  improper  in  such  a  match.  She  was 
not  of  his  blood-kin,  and  there  was  no  more  im- 
propriety in  a  man's  marrying  an  aunt-in-law  than 
there  is  now  in  marrying  a  sister-in-law.  The  fact 
that  she  was  a  widow  with  several  children,  and 
possibly  a  few  years  his  senior,  was  a  matter  of 
mere  taste.  No  doubt  Samuel  considered  Mary 
such  a  valuable  prize  that  he  was  perfectly  willing 
to  have  her  in  spite  of  sentiment  and  the  impedi- 
menta she  brought  along  with  her.  Certain  it  is, 
that  they  were  married,  and  so  far  as  we  can  learn, 
it  was  a  happy  match  which  nobody  seems  to  have 


regretted.  Four  children — two  sons,  and  two 
daughters — were  the  fViiil  of  tliis  marriage.  Tlie 
children  will  be  referred  to  presently. 

It  may  appear  strange  that  the  present  writer, 
(who  is  a  grandson  of  this  Samuel  Woods,  Ji".,) 
should  have  to  confess  that  he  knows  exceedingly 
little  about  him ;  but  it  will  not  seem  so  very 
strange,  after  all,  when  it  is  noted  that  the  writer's 
father  died  early  in  1860,  when  the  writer  was  only 
tifteen,  and  tlial  Saimiel  Woods,  Ji-.,  died  in  ]S(IL', 
when  his  son  (James  Harvey  Woods,  the  writer's 
father)  was  not  ten  years  old.  Under  such  cir- 
cumstances, unless  pretty  complete  written  records 
had  been  kept  in  the  family — which  seems  not  to 
have  been  done — the  writer  could  not  be  expected 
to  know  a  great  deal  about  his  ancestors. 

The  fiercer  County  records  contain  a  niiiiiber 
of  items  which  throw  some  little  light  on  the  career 
of  Samuel  \\'<iods,  Ji-.,  and  .Mary  his  wife,  whicli 
will  here  be  presented  for  the  benefit  of  their  de- 
scendants, quite  a  number  of  whom  have  been 
among  the  most  liberal  and  enthusiastic  promoters 
of  the  eftorts  which  have  resulted  in  the  publica- 
tion of  this  volume.  It  has  already  been  shown 
that  Samuel  NN'oods,  Jr.,  received  frcnn  his  father, 
by  deed  of  gift,  in  November,  1791,  a  considerable 
estate,  consisting  of  a  good  deal  of  personal  prop- 
erty besides  three  tracts  of  land  aggregating  above 
8000  acres  in  extent.  Much  of  this  land  was  of 
the  finest  quality  to  be  found  in  Kentucky,  and 
the  whole  wcnild  sell  to-day  for  nearly  a.  quarter 
of  a  million  dollars  without  a  fence  or  house  upon 
it.  One  of  those  tracts  included  two  and  a  third 
square  miles  of  the  land  at  Shakertown,  and  an- 
other included  about  six  square  miles  of  the  land 
just  north  of  where  Lawrenceburg,  Ky.,  now 
stands.  It  is  next  to  certain  he  and  David  Woods's 
widow  had  been  married  only  a  few  months  when 
he  received  this  handsome  setting  up.  The  widow 
he  married  was  the  mother  of  several  children,  and 
he  certainly  had  need  of  some  property,  even 
though  ^lary  and  her  children  had  inherited  a  com- 
fortable estate  from  David  Woods,  deceased.  The 
fatlier  of  the  young  man  saw  that  his  son  had 


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now  ii  },M-eat  deal  larger  family  at  the  beginuiug 
of  liis  iiKirried  life  than  uuiuy  a  man  has  ten  years 
aflcr  iiuuTyiug,  and  Haiuuel,  the  elder,  had  only  his 
wife  and  himself  to  support.  Hence  this  unusually 
liberal  provision  for  tlie  son  was  timely  as  it  was 
generous.  From  various  allusions  in  the  records 
of  .Mercer  ("ounty  it  is  clear  that  Samuel,  -Jr.,  was 
a  farmer,  and  probably  occupied  part  of  his  time 
in  taking  stock,  hides  and  produce  in  tlat-boats 
down  the  Kentucky  and  Ohio  and  Mississippi 
rivers  to  ZS'ew  Orleans,  to  exchange  for  Spanish 
doubloons.  There  is  a  reference  to  his  having  been 
at  Natchez,  Mississippi,  and  to  tlie  fact  that  some 
man  there  owed  him  money  in  1802.  In  one  trans- 
action of  July  5,  1801,  he  is  called  "Captain  Sam- 
uel Woods,  Jr.,"  and  among  his  effects  after  his 
death  in  1802,  we  And  a  sword  and  a  regimental 
uniform,  whence  Ave  infer  he  was  the  captain  of  a 
company  of  militia.  His  father  had  been  a  soldier 
in  the  Revolution,  and  his  son  James  Harvey 
Woods  was  in  the  Win-  of  1812,  ;nid  we  should  ex- 
pect him  to  be  not  wholly  devoid  of  military  ardor, 
especially  as  during  the  first  ten  years  of  his  life  in 
Kentuckv'  Indian  raids  were  common,  and  every 
man  able  to  bear  arms  was  needed  for  military  serv- 
ice. We  find  he  conveyed  away  a  good  deal  of  his 
real  estate  from  time  to  time,  but  so  far  as  the  rec- 
ords indicate  he  must  have  been  the  owner  of  most 
of  the  8000  acres  when  he  died.  April  26,  1802,  he 
sold  to  one  Charles  IJrown,  for  200  pounds  (about 
$6fi().00)  a  tract  of  100  acres  on  Shawnee  and 
Cedar  Run,  being  a  part  of  the  1400  acres  his  father 
gave  him  in  17!»1.  He  had  a  great  many  business 
and  financial  transactions  with  one  Jacob  Froh- 
man,  and  this  "Jacob"  evidently  had  heavy  claims 
on  the  estate  when  Woods  died.  Frohman  was 
made  the  administrator  of  the  estate  of  Woods 
after  he  died.     Frohman  was  most  probably  a  Jew,      t>f  said  land  in  an  action  at  law  was  a  single  miss- 


show  that  bis  wife  and  her  first  husband's  children 
had  inherited  a  considerable  quantity  of  land  from 
David  Woods.  April  20,  1802,  a  singular  transac- 
tion in  land  was  nuule,  and  the  fiercer  County 
records  mention  it.  John  Sheely,  Jr.,  gets  a  deed 
for  230  acres  of  the  laud  of  Samuel  Woods,  Jr., 
and  yet  Samuel  never  signed  the  deed.  The  wit- 
nesses, Galey  and  Munday,  sw(^)re  that  Samuel 
meant  to  sign  it,  but  did  not.  The  consideration 
was  200  pounds  or  about  •|(>()G.OO,  A\hicli  was  about 
three  dollars  an  acre  for  the  land.  There  are  in- 
dications that  Samuel  took  an  extensive  trip  "down 
the  river" — as  one  document  states — probably  to 
New  Orleans,  in  the  spring  of  1802;  and  there  are 
some  reasons  for  thinking  that  he  either  died  while 
on  that  trip,  or  contracted  then  his  last  illness. 
Aln-aham  Frohman,  in  a  document  dated  February 
22,  1805,  swears  that  he  applied  to  one  Jeremiah 
Ruth  at  Natchez,  Miss.,  for  some  money  which  was 
due  to  Sainuii  Woods,  .Tr.,  deceased.  The  exact 
month  of  his  death  is  not  known.  Certain  it  is 
that  at  the  Court  held  in  Harrodsburg  in  August, 
1802,  Jacob  Frohman  was  appointed  his  adminis- 
trator, and  at  the  Court  held  in  November,  1802,  an 
inventory  of  his  effects  was  filed  by  George  Han- 
kins,  Renjamin  Galey,  and  Charles  Brown,  and  the 
aforesaid  Jacob  Frolimau  was  then  referred  to  as 
administratcu-,  and  a  creditor  of  Woods's  estate. 
The  manner  in  whU-h  the  land  of  Samuel  Woods, 
Jr. — especially  the  magnificent  tract  on  Shawnee 
Run — was  disposed  of  excited  much  comment 
among  his  descendants  in  after  days,  and  it  was 
the  opinion  of  his  grandson,  the  late  Thomas  C. 
A\'oods,  Attorney-at-Law,  of  Lebanon,  Ky.,  that 
there  had  been  somewhere  and  somehow  some  bad 
management,  if  not  something  worse;  and  that  tlie 
only  thing  which  prevented  the  recovery  of  much 


who  was  a  iiioiiey-lender  and  bnid-si)eeulator,  and 
there  was  also  an  Abraham  Frohman  concerned  in 
some  of  the  same  transactions.  Frohman  did  not 
make  his  final  settlement  in  court,  as  administra- 
tor, till  May,  1816.     A  number  of  transactions  in 


ing  link  in  the  evidence.  Suit  was  actually  begun 
in  the  Mercer  Cireuit  (  Nmrt  fifty  years  ago,  and  the 
records  to-day  contain  the  pleadings.  Where  or 
how  Samuel  ^Voods,  Jr.,  died  the  writer  knows  not. 
Mary  McAfee,  who  was  David  Woods's  widow 


which  Samuel  signs  deeds  as  the  husband  of  Mary      when  she  married  Samuel,  Jr.,  was  the  first  child 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK. 


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of  James  McAfee,  Jr.,  bj  his   wife   Ai^ues    Clark. 
She  was  most  probably*  boru  about  1760  on  Ca- 
tawba Creek,  in  what  is  now  Roanoke  Co.,  Va. 
The  Woodses  and  McAfees  mnst  liavc  been  intimate 
friends.     JMichael  Woods,  Jr.,  Andrew  >\(iods,  and 
Archibald  Woods — three  sons  of  Michael  of  Klair 
Park — lived  near  the  McAfee  settlement.     Archi- 
bald Woods  purchased  the  old  McAfee  homestead 
(Indian  Camp  Farm)  on  the  Catawba  in  1771,  and 
James  McAfee,  Sr.,and  his  sons  and  dauLihters  lived 
close  to  Indian  Camp.     Fi'om  1771  onward  until 
the  JIcAfees  migrated    to    Kentucky    (1779)   the 
home  of  James  .McAfee,  Sr.,  was  very  close  to  what 
is    now    known    as    the    Roanoke    Red    Sulphur 
Springs.     Andrew  Woods  lived    only    about  two 
hours'  ride  to  the  northward  from  James  McAfee, 
and  Michael  Woods,  Jr., lived  on  James  River  about 
three  hours'   ride   to   the  northeast   of   Andrew's 
place.     In  a  sparsely  settled  country  in  a  frontier 
region  people  living  that  near  each  other  were  con- 
sidered close  neighbors.     When  the  McAfees  mi- 
grated to  Kentucky  in  1779,  Mary  did  not  accom- 
pany them.     She  had  probably  just  recently  mar- 
ried   David    Woods,    the    well-to-do    widower    on 
James  River.     But  it  was  only  a  very  few  years 
after  tliat  tlie  AVoodses  moved  to  Kentucky  and 
settled  within  but  a  few  miles  of  the  McAfee  Set- 
tlement.    David    Woods    chose    the    "Cane    Run 
Neighborhood"  for  his  home,  and  there  Mary  seems 
to  have  resided  till  after  David's  death.     The  ex- 
act year  in  which  slie  married  Samuel  Woods,  Jr., 
is  not  certainly  known.     Her  first  husband  died  iu 
the  fall  of  1780,  and  we  know  she  was  the  wife  of 
SaiiMK  1  Woods,  .Ii-.,  Iiy  17!J],  and  possibly  a  little 
earlier.     We  know  her  first  child  by  Samuel  Woods 
was  born  in  1792.     By  her  first  husband  she  had 
three  children,   to   wit:     William,   Elizabeth   and 
Nancy,  of  whom  we  shall  have  more  to  say  when 
we  come  to  consider  David  AVoods,  son  of  Michael 
Woods,  Jr.,  who  was  Mary  McAfee's  first  Iiusband. 
In  all  the  deeds  and  wills  examined  by  the  writer 
in  which  Mary  is  referred  to  she  is  called  "Polly," 
the  common  ijet-name  for    Mary.     Of    the    time, 
place  and  manner  of  her  death  nothing  is  known 


beyond  the  fact  llial  in  a  deed  made  October  i, 
1813,  and  recorded  in  .Mercer  County,  conveying 
to  one  Richard  Ilohnau  19(1  acres  of  land  on  Salt 
River,  which  is  signed  l)y  all  the  living  heirs  of 
both  David  Woods  and  Satnnel  Woods,  .Jr.,  (  except, 
possibly,  ^Martha,  the  dangliter  of  the  latter,  who 
niai'iieil  \"an  Slieieyi,  siie  is  ret'erred  to  as  being 
already  dead,  itut  no  intimation  is  given  as  to  when 
her  death  occnii-ed.  If  born  in  17G0,  and  dead  by 
1813,  she  only  lived  tifty-three  yeai's.  It  is  just 
possible  she  was  born  as  early  as  1758,  but  this  is 
not  likely.  I  lei-  faiiiei-  was  only  twenty-two  years 
old  in  1758.  She  was  probably  l)nried  alongside 
of  her  parents  in  their  linrial-plot  a  few  hundred 
yards  to  the  south  of  the  present  New  Providence 
Cemetery.  Her  father,  James  McAfee,  became  the 
guardian  of  her  minor  children  after  her  deal  h. 

The  children  of  Sanmel  Woods,  Jr.,  by  ids  wile 
Mary  {ncc  McAfee)  were  certainly  four  in  num- 
ber, and  it  is  barely  possible  there  was  one  more, 
to  wit:  (a)  James  Harvey  W^oods,  who  was  born 
September  12,  1792,  who  married  ^Miss  Sarah 
Everett  Dedman  of  A'ersailles,  Kentucky,  iu  1818, 
and  had  by  her  twelve  children,  and  died  in  Har- 
rodsburg,  Kentucky,  February  3,  1800.  A  fuller 
account  of  liim  will  be  given  in  the  sketch  of  Rev. 
Neander  M.  AVoods,  his  son,  in  Part  III  of  this 
work,  (b)  Anne,  or  ^Vnna,  who  was  probably  born 
about  the  year  1794,  and  married  George  Bohon. 
She  had  nine  children,  as  fcdiows:  James,  Abram, 
Mary,  Callierine,  Clarke,  Nancy,  Joseph,  Isaac  0., 
and  (leorge  Ann.  (c)  l'ossilil\  one  named  Saliv, 
w  ho  may  liaxc  been  boni  abonl  the  year  179().  ( )f  Iht 
tlie  writer  knows  nothing  lieyond  the  fact  thai  a 
person  of  this  name  is  mentirnKd  in  a  deed  of  (>cto- 
ber  4,  1813,  which  appears  to  be  signed  liy  all  of 
Ihe  heirs  of  Mary  (Polly)  AVoods,  deceased,  con- 
veying 190  acres  of  land  on  Salt  River  to  one  Rich- 
ard llolman.  This  deed  is  signed  l>y  tlic  two  sons 
of  David  AA'oods;  the  two  daughters  of  l>avid 
AA'oods,  and  their  husbands;  and  four  of  Ihe  chil- 
dren of  Sanuu'l  A\'oods,  Jr..  namel\  ;  Anne,  Sally, 
Harvej',  and  AVoodford,  all  of  wIkmii  are  described 
as  heirs  of  Mary  \Voods.     It  is  evident  that  Anne, 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


Sally  and  AVoodrord  were  iiiiiKii's  in  October,  1813, 
and  uniiiai'i-icd.  But  see  further  on  the  writer's 
conclusion  as  to  Sally,  namely;  that  by  Sally  is 
meant  Patsy,  (d)  AVoodford,  who  was  probably 
born  about  17118.  This  son,  the  writer  has  been  in- 
formed, died  early  in  life,  (e)  Martha  Woods, 
who  A\as  born  in  180(1,  at  the  old  Woods  home  near 
Shakertown,  and  married  ;\Ir.  Van  Slieley  March 
1,  1825,  is  not  mentioned  in  the  deed  above  referred 
to.  That  deed  purports  to  have  the  signatures  of 
all  of  Mary  Woods's  heirs.  Jlartha  (usually  called 
Patsy)  was  about  thirteen  years  old  when  that 
iU'vd  was  executed.  The  omission  of  her  name 
raises  some  ddubt  as  to  there  having  been  a  child 
of  Samuel  and  Mary  bearing  this  name.  This 
doiibt  is  considerably  strengthened  hj  the  facf  that 
in  the  list  of  the  children  of  this  couple,  given  by 
(Jeneral  !{.  B.  iMcAfee,  in  his  autol)iography,  men- 
tion is  made  of  but  four  cliildren,  the  same  four 
whose  names  arc  signed  Id  tlic  deed  just  rcfen-cd  to, 
and  nmkes  no  allusion  to  any  cliild  by  the  name 
of  Martha.  This  state  of  facts  seems,  on  its  face, 
to  settle  it  that  Samuel  and  ^Mary  had  no 
daughter  named  .Martha,  and  that  tlie  lady 
whom  Mr.  Van  Sheley  married  in  182."),  then 
a  wdiiian  twcnty-tiNc  y(  ars  old,  may  liaxc  liccii 
llic  daii.i;lilri-  of  some  oilier  Woods.  Rut, 
on  the  oilier  hand,  ;Mrs.  Nathaniel  D.  Woods  (now 
deceased),  who  knew  a  great  deal  about  the 
Woodses  of  a  century  ago,  wrote  to  tlie  author  of 
this  volume  November  0,  18!to,  in  regard  to  the 
children  of  the  couple  now  under  consideration, 
and  she  ])ositively  declared  that  Samuel  and  Mary 
did  have  a  daughter  Patsy  (the  pet-uanie  for  Mar- 
tha) wlio  man-led  a  Slieley  who  went  to 
.Missouri  lo  live.  Her  artirmation  is  so  positive 
that  the  writer  can  not  ignore  it.  She  says  this 
Patsy  Slieley  was  the  own  sister  of  James  Harvey 
Woods  (the  writer's  father).  Now,  how  may  this 
ajijiarent  coiilradiction  be  reconciled"?  The  writer 
has  a  solution  to  olfer,  which  is  at  least  worth 
considering.  Among  the  four  children  named  in 
both  the  deed  mentioned  and  Gen'l  McAfee's  list 
is  one  called  Sally;  but  nobody  seems  ever  to  have 


heard  of  that  couph^  having  a  daughter  of  that 
name.  Nobody  knows  anything  about  her  beyond 
the  presence  of  her  name  in  the  two  lists  quoted. 
Could  that  name  "Sally''  have  been  a  clerical  error 
of  the  clerk  in  the  County  Court  Office  at  Harrods- 
liuig  in  mistaking  Patsy  for  Sally"?  Mrs.  Sheley 
was  known  all  her  younger  days  as  "Patsy,"  and 
the  writer  is  convinced  she  was  a  sister  of  his 
father,  and  therefore  a  daughter  of  Samuel,  Jr., and 
^lary.  jNIight  not  the  clerk,  in  transcribing  that 
deed  in  1813,  have  mistaken  the  carelessly  written 
name  "Patsy"  for  Sally"?  If  he  did,  and  if  Gen'l 
^IcAfee  got  his  list  by  copying  that  one  in  the  office 
of  the  County  (I'lerk,  as  is  most  likely,  the  solution 
is  easy.  The  writer  believes  that  Sally  is  a  myth, 
and  that  l*atsy  (or  ^lartha)  who  married  Sheley 
is  the  real  person  intended.  Mrs.  Nathaniel  ^Voods 
was  too  reliable  a  lady,  and  too  well  infoi'med  in 
regard  to  the  wi'iter's  family,  to  assert  positively, 
as  she  does,  that  his  father  had  a  sister  Patsy  who 
iiiariied  a  Sheley  and  lived  in  Missouri,  if  such 
were  not  the  case,  and  Mrs.  Nathaniel  Woods  knew 
nothing  of  a  Sally  Woods  whatsoever.  The  date 
given  for  the  birth  of  ^lartha  (I'atsy)  Woods  She- 
ley  by  ;Mrs.  John  Jay  Sheley,  of  New  Rloomfleld, 
^lissouri,  whose  luisliand  is  a  son  of  the  ]Mr.  Van 
Sheley  w  ho  married  Martha  in  1825,  is  just  about 
the  date  one  would  reasonably  expect  for  Samuel's 
last  child.  Mrs.  John  Jaj'  Sheley  gives  the  year 
1800  as  the  date  of  ^lartha  Woods's  birth,  but  she 
does  not  write  as  if  quoting  from  an  exact  written 
record,  and  does  not  give  day  or  month.  The 
strong  probability  is  that,  as  IMrs.  John  Jay  Sheley 
says,  Martha  was  born  about  1800 — possibly  a  year 
earlier  or  later.  Martha's  father  was  dead  before 
August,  1802. 

3Ir.  Van  Sheley  who  nuirried  Patsy  (Martha) 
Woods  was  of  German  extraction,  and  was  born 
in  Virginia,  November  6,  1797.  The  following 
children  were  born  to  ^Ir.  and  Mrs.  Sheley;  (a) 
Woodford  AVoods  Sheley,  who  was  born  April  19, 
182G.  The  very  name  of  this  son  is  in  part  a  vin- 
dication of  the  writer's  conclusion  that  Martha 
was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Woods,  .Jr..  and  .Alarv 


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(nee  McAfee).  The  first  child  she  had  was  named 
for  her  own  brother — Woodford  Woods,  (b)  The 
second  chikl  of  Van  Sheley  and  his  wife  JIartha 
Woods  was  named  Ann  Mary  Slieh^y,  who  was 
born  Angnst  IG,  1827.  (c)  The  third  chikl  of 
Van  and  Martha  was  a  son,  named  Joim  Jay 
Sheley,  who  was  born  May  3,  1S31,  and  married 
Miss  C.  America  Morgan.  The  following  children 
have  been  born  to  ^Ir.  and  Mrs.  John  Jay  Sheley, 
namely;  1,  Woodford  Woods  Sheley;  2,  James 
Van  Sheley;  3,  Edmnnd  Lee  Sheley,  and  4,  Ann 
Martha  Sheley.  Two  of  their  children  have  died, 
to  wit ;  Charles,  and  Emma  Virginia.  Mr.  Van 
Sheley  who  married  Martha  Woods  died  March  28, 
1863.  Martha  was  a  member  of  the  Disciples' 
Church,  and  died  Angnst  28,  1852.  The  religious 
faith  of  her  husband  is  not  known  to  the  writer. 

IV— DAVID  WOODS.  The  fourth  child  of 
Michael  Woods,  Jr.,  and  his  wife  Anne  was 
a  son  named  David  who,  as  we  have  good 
reasons  for  believing,  was  born  in  Albemarle 
County,  Virginia,  about  the  year  1710.  Of  his 
early  life  we  have  no  knowledge.  The  first  men- 
tion we  have  of  him  is  in  1776  when  his  father,  then 
living  in  Botetourt  County,  made  his  last  will.  In 
that  document  he  is  not  only  mentioned  but  is 
made  the  heir  to  his  father's  farm  and  homestead 
on  James  River,  five  miles  below  the  town  of  Buch- 
anan, and  constituted  one  of  the  executors  of  the 
will.  He  was  evidently  not  only  a  favorite  with 
his  father,  but  was  living  at  or  very  close  to  his 
father's  home  place.  He  was  twice  married.  Of 
his  first  wife  we  kiio\\'  nothing,  except  that  she  left 
two  children;  a  daughter  named  Anne,  and  a  sou 
named  John.  How  long  David  remained  a  wid- 
ower we  know  not.  We  only  know  that  his  second 
wife  was  Mary  McAfee,  daughter  of  James  Mc- 
Afee, Jr.,  and  that  his  marriage  to  her  took  place 
not  later  than  the  late  summer  of  1779.  His  father 
died  in  1777,  leaving  him  the  heir  to  his  homestead. 
August  11,  1779,  he  conveyed  the  home  place  to 
his  brother-in-law  William  Campbell  for  3500 
l)0unds.  We  have  noAV  no  means  of  knowing 
whether  or  not  he  was  in  the  Revolutionary  army. 


In  1782-3  he  and  his  brother  Samuel  migrated  to 
Central  Kentucky.  AVith  him  went  his  wife  Mary, 
his  son  John  by  his  tii-st  wife,  perhaps  two  little 
children  .Mary  had  already  borne  to  liiiii,  and  Ills 
aged  widowed  mother  Anne.  He  had  a  daughter 
named  Anne,  child  of  his  first  wife,  who  did  not 
accompany  him.  It  is  not  very  likely  that  she  ever 
lived  in  Kentucky,  but  David  remembered  her  in 
his  last  will.  Much  of  what  is  common  to  him  and 
his  brother  Samuel  has  already  been  said  in  the 
preceding  pages  when  dealing  with  that  brother's 
record,  and  it  need  not  be  repeated  here.  David 
on  going  to  Kentucky  nmde  choice  of  one  of  the 
most  desirable  spots  in  what  is  now  Mercer  County. 
He  selected  land  for  his  homestead  in  what  has  for 
more  than  a  century  been  known  as  the  Cane  Run 
Neighborhood,  a  few  miles  east  of  the  town  of  Ilar- 
rodsburg.  His  career  in  Kentucky  was  very  brief. 
His  last  will  was  written  September  30,  1786,  and 
was  entered  for  probate  December  5,  1786,  indi- 
cating that  his  will  was  made  in  the  prospect  of  an 
early  death,  and  only  a  few  weeks  or  months  before 
it  occurred.  He  was  only  about  forty-six  years  old 
when  he  died.  The  witnesses  to  his  will  were  Ber- 
nard Noel,  John  Smith,  and  his  brother  Samuel 
AVoods.  The  executors  whom  he  named  in  his  will 
were  Captain  Samuel  McAfee  (his  wife's  uncle) 
and  Capt.  John  Gilmore.  In  the  will  he  mentions 
the  following  persons,  to  ivit:  1,  Anne,  his  aged 
mother;  2,  ilary,  his  "beloved  wife";  3,  Ann  Jen- 
nings, wife  of  Jonathan  Jennings;  4,  John,  his  son 
liy  his  first  marriage;  and  .■),  Xaiicy;  (I,  Willijim, 
and  7,  Elizabeth,  the  three  children  whom  his  sec- 
ond wife  had  borne  to  him.  He  was  a  well-to-do 
man  for  that  day,  we  should  suppose.  Of  his  chai-- 
acter,  his  religious  hopes,  and  the  circumstances 
attending  his  death  we  have  no  knowledge. 

(a)  Anne  was  i)r(>lial.ly  the  fir.st  child  of  David 
Woods  by  his  first  wife.  AVe  know  but  lit- 
tle of  her  beyond  the  fact  that  she  became  the  wife 
of  a  Jonathan  Jennings,  and  was  remembered 
by  her  father  when  he  made  his  will  in  1786.  If 
her  father  married  when  he  was  about  twenty-tlireo 
she  may  have  been  born  about  the  year  1764,  and 


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in  Albemarle  County,  Virgiuia.  As  lias  already 
beeu  stated,  slie  does  not  seem  to  liave  migrated 
widi  tlie  Woodses  to  Kentucky.  Wlien  her  father 
married  his  seeond  wife  in  177!)  he  brought  into 
the  home  a  step-motlier  \\  iio  was  only  fcmr  or  five 
years  oldei'  than  liciself.  Her  marriage  to  Mr. 
Jennings  douldless  took  jdace  not  long  before  the 
W'oodscs  moved  West.  The  wi-iter  knows  nothing 
further  concerning  her,  or  of  any  ciiihlren  slie  may 
liave  had. 

(bl  John  was  probably  the  second  and  last 
child  of  David  Woods  by  his  tirst  wife,  and  his 
birtli  prol)ably  occurred  in  Albemarle  County, 
about  the  year  17<i(i.  He  was  a  great  pet  of  his 
aunt  Magdalen  Campbell  (the  sister  of  David 
AVoods,  his  father),  and  when  she  died,  in  1830, 


writer.  The  only  child  of  Margaret  Woods  and 
JauK  s  M.  Jones  was  a  son,  John  Sanford  Jones, 
born  about  1844,  who  died  of  some  disease  during 
the  Civil  War  in  a  Federal  Military  Prison  at  Al- 
ton, Illinois;  5,  Eliza,  who  married  a  Mr.  I?radley; 
0,  Patsy,  who  married  a  ^Nlr.  Porter,  and  liad  a  son 
nanieij  James;  7,  liurch,  who  nmi-ried  a  Mr.  Mar- 
shal; 8,  Nannie,  who  married  a  .Mr.  Willis  Vivian; 
and  !t,  a  daughter  who  married  a  .Mr.  (larnet,  and 
had  a  son  named  (Teorge. 

(<•  )  >,".vxcY  was  the  third  child  of  i)avi<l  Woods, 
but  the  first  by  his  second  wife  Mary  JMcAfee.  She 
was  probably  born  about  the  year  1780  at  the  old 
AVoods  homcslead  (  Sliepherd  Island  Farm)  on  the 
James  in  Hotetourt  County,  Virgiuia.  kShe  was 
but  a  l)abe  in  arms  when,  in  1782-3,  the  Woodses 


(when  John  was  a  man  far  advanced  in  life),  she  uuule  the  long  and  perilous  journey  through  the 

devised  one-half  of  her  estate  to  him.     Mrs.  Camp-  wilderness    to    Kentucky.     AA'hen    about    twenty 

bell  was,  at  the  time  of  her  death,  a  widow  with  no  .^ears  old  she  married  Harry  Muuday,  of  Mercer 

children,  and  living  in  Lexington,  Virginia.     John  County,   Kentucky.     His   Christian   name  in   sev- 

Woods  was  about  seventeen  when  he  moved  with  '''"l  papers  is  written  as  if  it  were  Heniy,  but  llar- 

his  father  to  Kentucky,  and  the  rest  of  his  life,  or  ^'y  seems  to  have  been  his  real  name.    She  and  her 

at  least  a  great  part  of  it  was  spent  at  his  father's  husband  joined  in  a  deed  in  1813,  which  was  signed 

honuvplace  on   Cane  Run,   [Mercer   Country,   Ken-  l>.y  'iH  of  the  heirs  of  Mary,  her  mother.     This  deed 


tucky.  It  would  seem  that  when  his  mother  re- 
married after  his  father's  death  she  moved  over  to 
the  Samuel  AA'oods  place  near  \\here  the  i)resent 
village  of  Shakertown  stands,  and  John  retained 
his  father's  home  on  Cane  Run.  He  married  a 
Miss  Nancy  Moseby,  as  the  late  ]\Irs.  Nathaniel  D. 
AVoods  supposed.  This  Miss  Moseby  had  a  sister 
named  Magdalen  who  married  a  Mr.  Bright,  and 
in  her  old  age  while  a  widow  was  an  occasional 
visitor  at  the  home  of  the  writer's  parents  in  Har- 
rodsburg. 

John  AVoods  and  his  wife  Nancy  had  a  consider- 
able  family   of   children,   to   wit:     1,    Sidney,   of 


is  on  record  at  Harrodsburg.  (See  Deed  Rook  !), 
pages  17-];i.  I  All  of  her  children  seem  to  have 
migrated  1o  Indiana,  and  in  that  Stale,  at  the 
home  (d"  one  of  her  children,  she  died  in  1X05,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-five,  or  thereabout.  In  1857  she 
was  a  widow  and  lining  with  her  son  James  Mun- 
day  near  Shakertown,  Kentucky,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Shawnee  Run  Baptist  Church.  Her 
cliildren  \\ere  the  following:  1,  AVoodson,  who 
married  a  Mrs.  Samuels,  a  widow;  2,  George,  who 
married  Miss  Lucy  Gordon,  and  was  the  father  of 
Mrs.  Davi<l  A\'alter  of  Harrodsburg,  through  whose 
courtesy  much  of  the  iufornuition  here  given  in  re- 


whom  the  writer  knows  nothing;  2,  Rhodes,  who  S'ii"<^l  to  Nancy  AA'oods  has  beeu  obtained;  3,  Har- 
for  a  time  practised  dentistry  in  Harrodsburg;  3,  '*<?.^%  "^^'i'*  nmrried  Caroline  Coghill;  I,  James,  who 
David,  who  was  a  somewhat  eccentric  character,  mari-ied  Almeda  Thacker,  of  Anderson  County, 
who  visited  Europe,  and  who  removed  to  St.  Lcmis,  Kentucky;  5,  Katheriue,  who  mari'ied  Jolm  Hays; 
Missoui'i;  4,  [Margaret,  who  nuu-ried  Mr.  James  M.  0,  Elizabeth,  who  nmrried  Solomon  Hays;  7,  Mary, 
Jones,  a  well-to-do  farmer,  whose  second  wife  was  who  nmrried  Liviug  Graves;  and  Patty,  who  mar- 
Elizabeth  Hannah  AVoods,  a  sister  of  the  present  ried  James  Smart. 


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(d)  William  was  prol)ably  the  foiirtli  child  of 
David  Woods,  and  the  second  by  Mary  McAfee, 
his  second  wife.  II  is  likely  he  was  born  either 
shortly  before  or  shortly  after  the  migration  of  his 
parents  to  Kentucky,  say,  about  1781-3.  His  family 
seem  always  to  have  called  him  "ISilly,"'  and  so  lie 
was  generally  designated  by  his  acquaintances. 
Very  little  of  his  career  is  known  to  the 
writer.  He  was  a  child  of  about  three  to 
Ave  years  of  age  when  his  father  died. 
When  his  mother  married  Samuel  ^V()(P(ls,  .Tr.,  he 
doubtless  went  to  live  with  her  and  him  at  the 
old  Samuel  Woods  homestead  on  Shawnee  Run; 
and  probably  he  and  his  two  sisters  (Nancy  and 
Elizabeth)  knew  a  great  deal  more  of  their  step- 
father than  of  their  own  father,  for  Samuel,  Jr.,  did 
not  die  until  1802.  The  lady  whom  William  Woods 
married  was  named  Catherine.  Her  surname  is 
not  known.  He  may  have  married  her  in  Wood- 
ford County,  for  his  home  was  certainly  there  in 
1813,  at  which  time  he  was  just  about  twenty-one 
years  old.  Woodford  adjoins  Mercer  County,  be- 
ing separated  from  it  by  the  Kentucky  River.  His 
half  brother,  James  Harve.y  Woods,  went  to  the 
same  county  to  get  a  wife  in  1818.  The  very  name 
Woodford  seemed,  in  this  family,  to  he  much  ad- 
mired; for  Samuel  Woods,  Jr.,  named  his  second 
son  Woodford,  and  his  daughter  Patsy  Sheley  did 
the  same,  and  Patsy's  son  John  Jay  Sheley  fol- 
lowed suit.  His  name  and  that  of  Catherine,  his 
wife,  are  signed  to  a  deed  made  May  22,  1821,  and 
recorded  at  Harrodsburg  (P>ook  12,  page  241). 
His  half  brother,  John  Woods,  and  wife  Nancy; 
his  sister,  Elizabeth,  and  husband  Ren  Galey;  and 
his  sister  Nancy,  and  husband  Harry  IMunday,  all 
joined  in  said  deed.  The  records  of  Franklin 
County,  Kentucky,  show  (Rook  F,  page  409)  that 
on  the  17th  day  of  June,  1816,  he  conveyed  .^0 
acres  of  land  to  the  ubiquitous  and  enterprising 
Jacob  Frohman  (who  seems  to  have  kept  in  close 
touch  with  the  AVoodses)  for  one  hundred  pounds. 
The  records  of  the  same  county  (Franklin)  show 
a  conveyance,  made  NoA^ember  3,  1818,  by  a  Wil- 
liam Woods  whose  wife  was  named  Rachel,  and 


whose  ]ilace  of  residence  was  Scott  County,  Ken- 
tucky. A\'hilst  we  do  m)t  believe  this  man  to  have 
been  the  same  as  William,  the  son  of  David  Woods, 
of  Mercer,  it  is  not-  safe  to  assninc  I  hat  a  man 
never  remarries,  or  that  lie  never  changes  his  place 
of  residence.  The  names  of  the  children  of  Betty 
Woods,  as  furnished  to  the  writer  by  ilrs.  Nathan- 
iel 1).  Woods,  deceased,  are  as  follows:  Coleman; 
James  Henry;  Sarah  Ann  Rumsey;  and  Eudcn-a. 

(e)  ELiz.vr.KTii  NNOods  was  I  he  last  child  of 
Mary  McAfee  Woods  by  her  lirst  husband  David. 
Of  her  the  writer  has  been  able  to  learn  Imf  little. 
She  was  most  probaldy  born  at  her  father's  place 
on  Cane  Run  about  1785.  She  married  Benjamin 
Galey.  In  the  deed  already  repeatedlj^  referred  to 
as  recorded  in  the  clerk's  office  at  Harrodsburg, 
Kentucky,  in  1813,  she  an<l  her  husliand  (Benja- 
min Galey)  appear  as  two  of  the  grantors.  They 
were  then  living  in  Shelby  County,  Kentucky.  The 
writer  knows  nothing  of  any  childi'en  they  may 
have  had,  or  of  their  history  subse(iuent  to  1813. 

V— ELIZABETH  Avas  the  fifth  child  of  Michael 
Woods,  Jr.,  and  his  wife  Anne.  The  date  of  her 
birth  was  not  far  from  the  year  1742,  and  the  place 
was  no  (hmbt  her  father's  old  home  in  Albemarle 
County,  Virginia.  We  have  surmised  that  she  was 
the  fifth  child  of  her  parents.  About  all  Ave  know 
concerning  her  is  that  she  became  the  wife  of  one 
Dalertns  Shepherd.  This  couple  had  a  daughter — 
Magdalen  Shepherd — Avho,  in  17!il,  married  John 
Gilmore,  and  became  the  progenitor  of  a  prominent 
family  in  Rockbridge  County,  Virginia,  of  that 
name.  The  Gilmores,  Varners,  etc.,  noAV  there  are 
of  her  line.  The  writer  much  regrets  that  he  knows 
so  little  of  this  nuMuber  of  the  Woods  elan  and 
of  her  dcscciHJaiils,  some  (if  whom  it  \\as  once  his 
]deasure  to  meet.  Tiie  old  homeslead  of  Michael 
>\'oo(ls,  -Ir.,  on  -Tames  Rivei'  m;i\  liaxc  coinc  inio  the 
possession  of  ^Ir.  She])her(l  as  il  lool<  (he  nam(»  of 
"Shepherd's  Island  Farm."  II  is  known  that  he 
lived  at  that  point.  The  farm,  which  descended  liy 
devise  to  David  A\'oods.  Avas  by  liim  sold  to  ^\"\] 
Ham  ('am]tbcll.  ;imi  Slic|ih('i-(1  may  liaxc  inircliase<l 
it  from  Campbell,  who  was  his  In-other-iii-law.   The 


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writer  presumes  there  are  representatives  of  the 
Shepherd  family  yot  living  who  bear  the  name  of 
Elizabeth's  husband,  Init  does  not  know  such  to  be 
the  case.  Any  one  concerned  to  obtain  further 
information  on  (his  subject  could  doubtless  readily 
secure  it  by  consulting  the  court  records  of  Rock- 
bridge County,  and  some  of  the  older  citizens  of 
that  part  of  Virginia. 

YI— WILLIA:M  woods,  THc  Seventh,  whom 
we  conclude  to  have  lieen  llie  sixth  child  of 
^richael  "Woods,  Jr.,  and  his  \\  ife  Anne,  was  born 
about  the  year  1748,  at  the  old  home  of  his  parents 
in  Albemarle  Tounty,  Virginia.  Though  reared 
in  a  Scotch-Irish  I'resbyterian  family,  he  became, 
in  early  manhood,  an  enthusiastic  Baptist,  with 
which  denomination  he  was  prominently  identified 
for  much  the  larger  part  of  his  life.  He  was  a 
man  of  very  considerable  property  in  lands  and 
slaves.  He  married  a  ]Miss  Joanna  Shepherd,  who 
may  have  been  a  sister  of  his  sister  Elizabeth's  hus- 
band, Dalertus  Shepherd.  As  there  were  many 
other  William  Woodses  in  Albemarle,  all  or  the 
most  of  whom  Avere  no  doubt  Presbyterians,  he 
came  to  be  known  in  his  county  as  Baptist  Billy 
Woods.  He  was  about  twenty-seven  years  old 
when  the  Revolutionary  war  began.  He  became  a 
minister  of  the  Baptist  Cliurch  and  in  ITSO  was 
called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  first  church  of  that 
faith  ever  founded  in  Piedmont,  Virginia.  He  was 
a  man  of  handsome  figure  and  face,  and  took  pride 
in  keeping  a  fine  saddle  horse.  He  had  a  body 
servant  named  Ben  aaIio  usually  accompanied  him 
in  his  trips  about  the  country.  He  was  evidently 
a  man  of  decided  ability  and  of  a  jovial  disposition. 
He  was  much  in  demand  when  couples  wished  to  be 
united  in  marriage.  He  was  possessed  of  rare  con- 
versational powers  and  made  an  agreeable  com- 
panion. He  was  an  intimate  friend  of  Thomas 
Jefferson,  who  much  admired  the  democratic  polity 
of  the  Baptist  churches.  He  once  remarked  that 
the  Baptist  Church  was  a  model  for  a  republic. 
In  1798,  at  the  solicitation  of  Mr.  Jetferson,  he  re- 
signed his  pastoral  charge  and  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Virginia  Legislature  for  Albemarle.    Mr. 


Woods  took  part  in  the  great  debates  of  that  body 
on  the  famous  Resolutions  of  1798-9.  He  stood  for 
re-election  in  1809,  but  was  defeated.  The  next 
year  (ISlOj  he  migrated  to  Livingston  County, 
Kentucky,  where  the  remaining  years  of  his  life 
were  spent.  There  he  died  in  1819,  and  be  and  his 
wife  were  buried  in  the  family  burial  ground  near 
Salem  in  what  is  now  Crittenden  County,  Ken- 
tucky. His  will  is  of  record  there  now.  Why  he 
did  not  accompany  his  parents  and  the  rest  of  the 
family  when,  about  1709,  they  removed  to  Bote- 
tourt County,  Ave  do  not  know.  Perhaps  he  had  re- 
cently married  (he  Avas  then  just  twenty-one)  and 
AAas  disposed  to  live  near  his  Avife's  people.  All 
except  the  last  nine  years  of  his  life  he  spent  in 
Albemarle.  Some  of  his  brethren  in  the  Baptist 
Church  thought  he  AA'as  too  liberal  as  to  some  of  his 
theological  vieAvs,  and  not  careful  enough  in  his 
use  of  li(pior,  and  the  authorities  of  his  church 
made  some  official  incpiiries  into  these  matters.  It 
is  evident  that  his  divergences  in  faith  and  prac- 
tice Avere  not  regarded  as  fatally  serious,  but  his 
intimacy  with  Mr.  Jefferson  was  considered  as  hav- 
ing exerted  an  unwholesome  infiuence  upon  his 
Avork  as  a  minister  of  the  Gospel.  He  left  five  chil- 
dren, three  sons  and  tAvo  daughters. 

(a)  MiCAjAH  Woods,  A\ho  Avas  the  first  child  of 
William  Woods,  the  Seventh,  and  his  Avife  Joanna, 
Avas  born  in  Albemarle  County,  Va.,  in  1776.  On 
the  13th  of  August,  1795,  he  married  Lucy  Walker. 
After  her  death  he  married  Mrs.  Sarah  Harris  Dav- 
enport, the  widoAV  of  William  Davenport,  Avhose 
maiden  name  was  Rodes,  September  22,  1808.  He 
attained  great  prominence  in  Albemarle  County, 
and  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  influential 
men  in  that  section  of  Virginia.  In  1815  he  Avas 
selected  to  be  one  of  tlie  Gentlemen  Justices  of  the 
County  Court,  in  Avhich  ca]>acity  he  served  for 
twenty-one  years  (till  1836),  Avhen  under  tlie  law, 
being  the  oldest  Justice  in  service  he  became  High 
Sheriff  of  the  county.  He  died  after  holding  that 
otfice  only  about  one  year — March  23,  1837.  His 
homestead  was  the  Avell-known  place  near  Ivy  De- 
pot called  Holkham,  at  Avhich  he  died.     He  owned 


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nearly  2000  acres  of  laud  on  Ivy  Creek,  and  during 
his  lifetime  bis  home  was  a  Mecca  for  his  numerous 
kindred  of  Virginia,  Kentucky  and  Tennessee. 
Among  his  guests  at  times  was  a  first  cousin  of 
his  wife,  the  Hon.  William  H.  Crawford,  of  Geor- 
gia, who  was  a  member  of  the  U.  S.  Senate  and  had 
been  Secretary  of  State  and  Governor  of  Georgia, 
and  a  prominent  candidate  for  the  Presidency.  By 
his  will,  now  on  record  in  Albemarle,  he  devised 
the  greater  part  of  his  Albemarle  estate  to  his  son 
John  R.  Woods. 

r>y  liis  lirsl  wii'c,  Lucy  Walkci-,  lie  1i;i(l  lliree 
daughters  and  one  son,  to  wit:  1,  Martha,  who 
married  General  John  Wilson,  and  moved  to  Cali- 
fornia; 2,  Mary,  who  married  James  Garth  and 
whose  descendants  reside  in  Kentucky  and  Ohio; 
3,  Elizabeth,  who  married  Capt.  John  Humphreys, 
and  settled  with  him  in  Indiana;  and  4,  Henry, 
v\ho  died  young. 

By  his  second  wife,  Mrs.  Sarah  Harris  Daven- 
port, {jicc  Bodes)  he  had  three  children,  all  sons, 
to  wit:  1,  William  S.,  who  died  in  his  twenty-fifth 
year  of  his  age  at  Helena,  Arkansas.  William  S. 
Woods  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  the  most  accom- 
plished young  men  ever  reared  in  Virginia,  gifted 
with  rare  talents  and  every  grace  of  manner  and 
person.  He  was  a  great  friend  of  Henry  Clay,  and 
io  him  Mr.  Clay  wrote  a  letter,  still  preserved  in 
the  family,  giving  the  secret  history  of  the  Missouri 
Compromise  of  1819.  2,  the  last  child  of  Micajah 
Woods  and  his  wife  Sarah  Harris  Davenport  {nee 
Rodes)  was  John  Rodes  Woods,  of  whom  more  ex- 
tended mention  will  be  made  in  Part  III  of  this 
volume  in  the  sketch  of  his  son  General  Micajah 
Woods,  of  Charlottesville,  Va.  3,  The  last  child 
of  Micajah  Woods  by  his  second  wife  was  Robert 
Harris  Woods,  who  died  in  his  twenty-first  year. 

(b)  The  second  child  of  William  Woods,  the 
Seventh,  and  his  wife  Joanna  Shepherd,  was  a  son, 
D.4.VID  Woods,  the  Second,  who  was  prol)ably  born 
in  Albemarle  County,  Virginia,  about  the  year 
1778,  and  died  in  Livingston  Co.,  Ky.,  in  1825.  He 
marri(Ml  Miss  Sallie  Neal,  who  is  said  to  have  re- 
sided, prior  to  her  marriage,  in  Bourbon  County, 


Kentucky.  He  removed  to  Livingston  County, 
Kentucky',  either  with  his  parents  (in  1810)  or 
about  three  years  later.  By  his  wife  Sallie  (or 
Sarali  I  Xcnl  lie  Ii;hI  four  sons  and  twn  ihin^lilcrs, 
as  follows:  1,  Tavncr;  2,  Henry  Williams;  3,  Da- 
vid, the  Third ;  4,  John  N. ;  ."),  Kitty ;  and  fi,  Mariah. 
Of  the  first, Tavner; and  (lie  tliird,  David  th('Thir<l; 
we  know  nothing.  Kitty  married  one  Richard 
Miles;  and  ^lai'iah  married  one  Peyton  Gra.y.  Of 
Henry  Williams  Woods,  the  father  of  David  Woods 
the  Fonrlli,  w  Im  mow  rcsiilis  ;il  Maiinn,  Ky..  we 
shall  speak  again  when  the  sketch  of  David  the 
Fourth  is  presented  in  Part  III  of  this  volume. 
The  fourth  child,  John  N.  Woods,  was  born  at 
Salem,  Livingston  County,  Kentucky,  June  15, 
1815.  His  father  dying  when  John  N.  was  ten 
years  old,  he  lived  with  his  widowed  mother  til!  he 
was  eighteen,  when  he  was  apprenticed  to  learn  the 
trade  of  a  tanner.  After  serving  his  apprentice- 
ship, he  opened  a  tannery.  Not  long  after,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  a  Mr.  Watts  to  carry  on 
mercantile  business.  In  1846,  he  moved  to  Marion, 
Ky.,  and  entered  into  mercantile  business  there 
with  ]Mr.  S.  Marl)le.  In  1850  he  returned  to 
Salem  to  live.  Two  years  later  he  moved  to  Prince- 
ton, Indiana,  and  sold  goods  for  a  while;  and 
again  moved  back  to  ^Marion,  Ky.,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  sell  goods  till,  owing  to  the  infirmities  of 
age,  he  retired  from  active  business.  He  was 
elected  a  uKMuber  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature  in 
1871.  He  was  married  to  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Marble, 
of  Madison,  Indiana,  in  1848,  with  whom  he  lived 
happily  till  his  death,  December  27,  1896,  at  his 
home  in  Clarion.  Pci'hajts  no  man  ever  lived  in 
Marion  who,  after  a  long  career,  left  such  a  good 
name  as  he  did  for  sterling  honesty  of  character. 
His  reputation  for  fair  and  upright  dealing,  charity 
and  generosity,  was  one  to  which  but  few  men  in 
any  community  attain.  He  seems  not  to  liavc  had 
any  children. 

(c)  The  third  child  of  William  Woods,  The 
Seventh,  and  his  wife  Joanna,  was  John  Woods^ 
who  died  unmarried. 

(d)  The  fourdi  child  of  William  and  Joanna 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


Avas  Mary,  who  married  a  JMr.  (Campbell,  and  whose 
descendants  reside  near  Nasliville,  Tennessee. 

(e|  Tlie  fifth  and  lasl  cliild  of  ^Villiam  and 
Joanna,  was  Susannvh,  wIid  married  a  Mr.  Henry 
A\'illiariis,  and  settled  neai'  iier  parents  in  Living- 
ston ('onnt,\-,  Ky.  licr  desccMdants  reside  in  tluit 
vicinity  to  this  day.  Jt  was,  as  we  feel  confident, 
in  lionor  of  her  hnshand  that  her  hrother  David 
named  his  son — Heni-y  AVilliams  AA'oods. 

YII— SAKAH  W()()1>S  was,  as  we  are  disposed 
t(»  helie\'e,  tlie  sixcnih  child  cf  Micjiael  Woods,  Jr., 
and  liis  wife  Anne,  and  she  was  jirobably  born  in 
,\lliiiiiai  le  < 'onnty,  N'ii'i^iiiia,  ahont  tlie  year  1T.~)0. 
lieyond  the  fact  that  she  was  expressly  named  by 
her  fatlier  in  his  last  will  in  177(5  we  know  nothing 
of  her.  It  is  barely  possil)le  slie  married  a  Mr. 
Charles  Lambert,  and  that  from  her  was  descended 
()i  nei'al  Landiert,  foi-iiierly  .Mayor  of  IJicliHKind. 
We  know  that  a  ("iiarjes  Lambert  was  one  of  the 
witnesses  to  tlie  will  uf  .Mirliael  Woods,  Jr., in  177(i, 
at  which  time  Sarah  was  abont  2(5  vears  of  ase. 

VIII— ilAKTHA  W()(»1>S,  who,  we  incline  to 
believe,  was  the  eighth  diild  nf  .Alichael,  Jr.,  and  his 
wife  Anne,  was  nn)st  i^ohalily  bdin  aliont  the  year 
1753.  She,  like  all  of  the  ele\-en  chihh-en  of  this 
couple,  was  expressly  icrcri-ed  In  in  her  father's 
will.  In  the  cniii't  records  of  Botetourt  County, 
Virginia,  it  is  shown  that  a  Martha  Woods  mar- 
ried one  Thomas  3Ioore  June  10,  17!)5.  If  our  cal- 
culaliuns  be  correct  our  JIartha  was  then  about 
forty-two  years  old,  and  we  believe  she  is  the  wo- 
man wlKim  Thomas  .Modre  married.  Such  is  the 
opinion  of  those  best  qualified  to  judge — so  thinks 
(ieneral  Micajah  Woods,  of  Charlottesville,  A'a. 
Of  her  history  we  know  nothing  further. 

IX— MAGDALEN  WOODS,  The  Second,  was, 
as  we  believe,  the  iiinlli  cliild  of  .Michael,  Jr.,  and 

Anne.     She  was  nai 1  for  her  father's  sister  who 

mai-ri((l  .McDowell.  (  tc  llei-  lombstoue  in  the  old 
Methodist  cemetery  at  Lexington,  A'a.,  shows  that 
she  was  born  in  1755.  She  ilied  in  Lexington.  Va., 
in  1830,  aged  seventy-hve  years,  \\hen  her  father 
made  his  will  in  177(;  he  refei-red  to  her  in  that 
document  as  :MagTlalen  Campbell.     We  know  that 


her  husband  was  one  William  Campbell,  so  that  she 
probably  nmrried  before  she  Avas  twenty-one  years 
of  age.     ^Ir.  Campbell  was  ijrobably  a  citizen  of 
Rockbridge  County.     The  Woodses  of   Botetourt 
had  numerous  kinsfolk  in   Rockbridge;  Woodses, 
Wallaces,  ^IcDowells,  Lapsleys,  etc.,  and  Ave  can 
Avell  believe  that  the  children  of   .Michael   Woods 
on  the  James  Avould  often  visit  their  uncles,  aunts 
and  cousins  nii  in  the  vicinity  of  Lexington,  Va. 
William  Campbell  must  have  resided  some  years, 
hoAvever,  in  Botetourt,  for  in  177!)  he  jmrchased  the 
old    ^Voods  homestead    on   James    Kiver   from   his 
Avife's  brother,  David,  for  3500  ])oiin(ls.     AVe  have 
good  reason  for  believing  that  the  latter  part  of  his 
life,  at  least,  Avas  spent  in  or  near  to  Lexington,  Va. 
Mrs.  Campbell  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  the  most 
remarkable    wcunen    west    of     the     Blue     Ridge. 
GoA'crnor  :McDowell,  of  A'ii-ginia,  used  to  say  that 
she  Avas  a  Avalking  encyclojiaedia  as  to  all  the  tra- 
ditions, settlements  and  families  in  the  \'alley  of 
Virginia.     She  could  repeat,  from  mennu-y,  a  large 
part  of  the  Bible,  and  Avhen  a   text  of  Scripture 
would  be  read  to  her  she  could  generally  give  the 
book,  chai)ter  and  verse  in   which   it   was  located. 
She  spent  a  good  deal  of  her  time  at  the  home  of 
her  brother  ^^■illian^s  son,  Mii-ajah  Woods,  of  Al- 
bemarle ( "ounty.     She  seems  never  to  haA'e  had  any 
chihhx'u,  and  her  husband  probably    died    many 
years  before  she  did.     Her  A^•ill  Avas  dated  June  1, 
1824.     Her  estate  at  her  death  in  1830  consisted 
almost  wholly  of  money  and  lumds,  and  was  ap- 
praised at  14410.10.  One-half  of  her  estate  she  gave 
to  her  nephcAv  John  Woods,  of  Mercer  County,  Ken- 
tucky,    (her    Itrother    David's    son).     One-fourth 
A\ent  to  the  children  of  her  sister  Mrs.  IMargaret 
(Woods)  Gray,  then  in  Kentucky;  and  the  remain- 
ing fourth  to  her  niece  [Margaret  (Shepherd)  Gil- 
more,  A\ho  Avas  the  daughter  of  Elizabeth  Woods 
and  Dalertus  Shepherd.     Mrs.  Campbell  Avas  a  de- 
vout Christian,  and  Avas  connected  Avith  the  :Metlio- 
dist  Church.     She  Avas  a  lovely  old  lady,  Avho  al- 
Avays  received  a  cordial  welcome  in  the  homes  she 
visited.     She  seems  to   have   outlived    all    of   her 
father's  children. 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK. 


X — ANNE  WOODS  was  as  we  tliiuk  reasonably 
certain,  the  tenth  child  of  Michael  Woods,  Jr.,  and 
liis  wife  Anne.  She  is  mentioned  liv  licr  father  in 
liis  w  ill  as  hcinii'  "'JT^  of  the  two  yonnji'cr  children. 
Slie  was  nnuiarried  when  lu'r  fatJier  wrote  his  will, 
and  proliahly  ahont  nineteen  years  old.  She  was 
born  abont  the  year  1757.  Concerning  her  history 
nothing  is  known.  Either  she  or  her  sister  Sarah 
proljably  married  a  Mr.  Lambert — either  the  one 
(Charles)  whose  name  was  appended  as  a  witness 
to  her  father's  will,  or  possibly  a  kinsman  of  his; 
for,  as  was  noted  when  treating  of  her  sister  Sarah, 
we  have  reason  for  believing,  according  tn  Ccneral 
[Mica jail  ^^'oods,  of  Charlottesville,  that  a  Lambert 
did  nmrry  one  of  Michael's  danghters,  and  she  and 
Sarah  and  [Margaret  were  the  only  ones  not  mar- 
ried when  their  father  wrote  his  will,  and  the  last 
named  danghter,  of  whom  we  shall  now  speak,  mar- 
ried a  [Mr.  (iray. 

XI— MARGARET  WOODS,  the  yonugest  of  the 
children  of  Michael,  Jr.,  ami  Anne,  was  jirobably 
born  in  the  year  1760,  and  in  Albemarle  Connty, 
A^irginia.  When  her  father  died,  in  1777,  she  was 
abont  seventeen.  She  became  the  wife  of  a  David 
Gray,  of  Rockbridge  Connty,  who  removed  to  Ken- 
tncky  among  the  earliest  pioneers".  [Mr.  (Jray 
was  a  Presbyterian,  and  seems  to  have  been  one 
of  rhe  elders  of  the  Presbytery  of  Transylvania 
which  met  at  Danville,  Kentucky,  in  the  fall  of 
1780.  The  children  of  David  Gray  and  his  wife 
[Margaret  TS'oods,  as  given  in  the  Wylie  Geiu^alogy 
(see  Note  7:i  I  were  the  following:  (a  I  D.vvin; 
(b)  Wii,Li.\Ar,  who  married  Kittle  Bird  Winn,  of 
Clark  Connty,  Kentncky,  in  1812,  settled  in  (ilas- 
gow,  Kentncky,  and  later  removed  to  Grecnsbnrg, 
Kentncky.  Dr.  William  (iray,  by  his  wife,  Kittie 
B.  \\inn.  had  the  following  children,  to  wit:  1, 
Versailles;  2,  John  Conrts;  3,  Theresa  D.,  who 
married  a  [Mr.  ^'anghn  in  Greensbnrg,  Ky.,  and  by 
him  had  three  children,  and,  he  dying,  she  married 
Frank  Hatcher;  4.  Samuel  Marshall;  ~>,  Elizabeth 
Catherine  Ophelia. born  I'ebmary  23, 1823,  married 
liev.  George  K.  Perkins,  a  Presbyterian  minister, 


and  had  by  liim  seven  cliildi-eii.  The  children  of 
Elizabeth  C.  ( ».  Gray  by  ifev.  .\li-.  Perkins  were  the 
following  :  Havana  ;  ( "liiiia  ;  .lohn  ;  Bertha;  Camp- 
hell;  .Mollie;  and  i'aiiny.  Havana  I'erkins,  the 
first  lioi-n  of  iliis  family  of  se\-cn  ciiildrtMi,  is  the 
wife  of  .Mr.  David  Woods  of  .ALirion,  Crittenden 
Connty,  Kentncky.  one  of  (lie  original  subscribers 
of  this  volume.  A  skedli  of  .Mr.  Woods  will  be 
f(mnd  in  Part  HT  of  diis  work.  It  thus  appeal's 
tliat  the  chibli'en  of  tliis  i>a\id  NN'oods  and  his  wife 
IIa\ana  Perkins  are  descended  from  ^lichael 
^^'oo(ls,  .Jr.,  boll:  tlirongh  liis  son  William,  and  his 
daughter  .Margai'ct. 

D — HANNAH  AVOODS  was,  as  we  have  reason 
for  supposing,  the  fourth  child  of  [Michael  A\'oods 
by  his  wife  .Mary  Campbell.  She  Avas  prcdiably 
liorn  about  the  year  171(t,  in  Ireland,  and  came 
to  North  America  with  rlie  ^^'oodses  and  Wallaces 
in  1724,  when  she  was  a  girl  of  fourteen.  Some 
time  prior  to  1734,  while  the  two  families  were  liv- 
ing in  Pennsylvania,  she  was  married  to  William 
Wallace  who  was  her  full  first  cousin,  he  being  the 
son  of  her  aunt  Elizabeth.  The  frequency  of  inter- 
marriages of  tliis  character  among  the  mend)ers  of 
these  two  families  was  somewhat  unusual.  Four 
of  the  children  of  Peter  Wallace  and  Elizabeth 
Woods  married  children  of  Michael  Woods  and 
Mary  Campbell ;  and  in  the  next  generation  this 
custom  was  continued  to  a  considerable  extent. 
William  Wallace  was  a  favorite  with  his  father-in- 
law,  and  seems  to  have  lived  almost  within  sight 
of  his  home  till  [^[ichael  Woods  died.  Chapter  Sec- 
ond of  the  First  Part  of  this  vcdume  being  devoted 
to  the  Wallaces,  the  little  we  know  of  this  couple  is 
given  there,  to  which  the  reader  is  referred.  We 
do  not  know  the  dale  of  IFannah's  d(\ath.  Not  a 
few  of  her  kinsfolk  named  children  in  her  honor, 
from  whence  we  infer  that  she  must  have  been  a  lov- 
able and  popular  \\(inian. 

E — JOHN  A^'()(^DS  was,  as  we  have  good  reason 
for  conjecturing,  the  tifth-born  of  the  children  of 
[Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park,  and  his  wife,  [XLiry 
Campbell.  His  body  lies  in  the  old  family  burial 
plot  at  Blair  Park;  and  tlie  writer,  on  the  occasion 


98  THE   \YOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

(iT  his  last  visit   to  the  s])ot   (1895),  took  pains  to  couferred  upon  liim  are  in  the  writer's  possession, 

copy  tile  inscriptions  on  the  grave-stones  of   John  liavinp,-  been  Icindly  placed  at  liis  disposal,  while 

W Is  mid   otlier  iiienihers    of    the    family    there  tiiis  volume  was  in  preparation  liy  the  owner,  Mr. 

buried,     lie  is  the  only  (nie  of  all  the  eleven  chil-  J.  Watson  ■\\'oo(ls,  of  Mississippi,  who  is  a  lineal 

dren  of  .M  i<liaei  and  .Marv  the  exact  dates  of  whose  descendant  of  Coloiud    A\dods.     These    documents 

liii-th  and  death  are  l<iio\\ii  witli  i)erfect  certainty.  will  be  given  in  A])]»endix  F. 

lie  was  a  man  of  methodical  tui'ii  hims(4f,  and  his  That  Colonel  A\doils  migrated  from  Ireland  to 
children  seem  to  liave  inherited  enough  of  this  trait  Pennsylvania  with  iiis  parents  in  1724,  and  then  to 
to  have  a  comph'te  and  distinct  inscription  placed  Virginia,  ten  years  later,  scarcely  admits  of  a  doubt, 
upon  the  rank"  stone  mai-king  his  grave  which,  for  The  date  of  the  migration  of  the  Woodses  from  Ire- 
considei'ably  more  than  a  centni-y,  has  remained  to  land  to  Pennsylvania  has  been  fixed  in  the  year 
tell  his  |)ostcrity  when  became  into  tliis  world.  1724,  largely  because  it  has  been  a  definite  and  nn- 
aiid  wIm  Ti  lie  U'ft  it.  It  gives  February  1!>,  1712,  varying  tradition  in  the  family  of  Tofonel  Woods 
I  old  st\ie)  as  tliedate  of  his  birth,  and  Octolier  14,  and  ins  descendants,  for  a.  century,  that  he  was  a 
17IH  (  new  style)  as  the  date  of  his  death.  Tt  also  boy  twelve  years  old  when  the  voyage  to  the  New 
records  the  i^ames  of  both  his  parents,  for  which  World  was  made;  and  as  the  year  of  his  birth  was 
tile  iirescnt  writ(r  wcnld  gladly  extend  his  1712,  it  seemed  entirely  reasonable  to  accept  the 
thanUs  to  the  thoughtful  pers(Uis  wlio  supervised  date  1724  for  the  coming  of  this  family  to  America, 
the  jireparation  of  that  headstone.  If  those  wlio  especially  as  we  know  of  nothing  to  militafp 
shall  ])ernse  the  numerous  dales  given  in  this  vol-  again.st  such  a  su]iposition.  Of  his  life  of  ten  years 
ume  conid  know  what  endless  reseaich  it  has  cost  in  Pennsylvania  we  know  absolutely  nothing, 
the  writer  to  obtain  them,  and  how  many  a  Aveary  When  he  reached  ^'irginia  lie  was  just  about  twen- 
search  for  definite  data  has  never  been  rewarded  ty-two  years  of  age.  The  first  mention  we  have  of 
with  success,  they  would  hesitate  long  before  un-  him  is  in  the  fall  of  the  year  1743,  when  his  father 
dertaking  such  a  task.  Many  a  tombstone  deeded  to  jiim  a  tract  of  land  containing  350  acres, 
he  has  inspected  had  on  it  no  inscription  on  ^Fechum's  IJiver,  in  Albemarle  Tounty.  (A  fac- 
whatever,  and  this  one  over  the  grave  of  Colo-  simile  of  pait  of  this  deed  will  be  f(Uind  in  tJiis  aoI- 
nel  .lolin  Woods  at  Itlair  Park,  has,  for  this  rea-  ume.  Appendix  F. )  In  that  year  his  father,  Mich- 
son,  been  peculiarly  gratifying,  especially  as  it  ael,  gave  land  to  four  or  five  of  his  children,  evi- 
carries  us  back  nearly  t  W(v  hundred  years  with  en-  dently  by  way  of  setting  them  up  in  life.  John  was 
tire  certainty.  We  shall,  from  this  point  onward,  then  about  thirty-one  years  old,  and  had  been  niar- 
sjieak  of  him  as  "(^^oloind  John  A\'oods,"'  Iiecause  ried  about  a  yeai",  ,is  we  suppose.  The  next  notice 
he  received  that  title  by  regidar  commission  fi-om  of  him  we  find  in  the  year  1745,  wlien  he  was  sent 
two  ditferent  Colonial  gdvernois  of  Virginia  in  the  as  a  commissioner  from  tin'  two  Preslivterian 
year  1770.  Tie  was  calbd,  in  various  cu'iginal  doc-  churches  of  ^Mountain  Plains  and  T{ockfish  all  the 
iiments  now  in  the  hands  of  the  present  writer,  way  to  Pennsylvania  to  prosecute  a  call  before  the 
"Captain"  John  AVoods,  from  175!)  to  17ti(i.  In  the  Presbytery  of  Donegal  for  the  pastoral  services  of 
latter  year  Governor  Fan(|nier  made  him  a  Major,  the  Rev.  John  Hindman.  As  he  had  married  in 
an<l  for  four  years  or  more  he  was  known  as  '':\[a-  Pennsylvania  only  three  years  before,  such  a  trip 
joi"  .lohn  Woods.  When,  in  1770,  he  was  commis-  doubtless  was  pleasant  on  that  account.  Colonel 
sioncd  Lieutenant  Colonel  by  (iovernor  Nelson,  Woods  was  no  doubt  aii  active  and  ]iromiuent 
and  later  by  Lord  Px.tetourt,  be  began  to  be  ad-  nuunber  of  the  :\Ionntain  Plains  Church,  which  was 
dressed  as  "Cobund  John  Woods,"  a  title  he  held  situated  on  a  i)art  of  his  father's  plantation,  or  at 
ever  after.     The  three   original    commissions    thus  least  in  sight  of  it,  and  which  the  Woodses  and  Wal- 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK.                                                    Q^ 

Inccs  liiul  fouiidcd  only  a  short  tinii'  hcfdi'c  this  t;inia  (in  1 7:54  i  slic  was  a  wiiisdinc  little  cliiM  of 
visit  to  Donegal  rresbytei'y  in  searcli  of  a  jjaslor.  nine  snniniers  wlimii  .Inlm  Wunds  had  come  to  ad- 
Tlie  farm  Colonel  Woods  owned  and  lived  on  was  mire  as  a  child  i<l'  iiiiiisnal  ln\-cliness.  And  it  may 
on  Mecluim's  River  near  the  present  station  of  the  also  he  that  the  tics  which  hound  the  Woodses  to 
Chesapeake  ^S;  Ohio  liaih\ay  hcariiii;  the  name  rennsylvania  heinii  still  strong-,  John  Woods  liad 
^lechnm's  Depot.  am])le  oppoitiinity  to  renew  his  ac(inainlaiice  with 
The  exact  date  of  the  niarriaiio  of  Ccdoncl  Wood<  the  Andereous.  N'isits  may  perhaps  liave  Ween  ex- 
cannot  he  fixed  with  entire  certainty;  but  as  we  changed:  John  may  lia\c  taken  journeys  to  I'enn- 
kno\\'  exactly  when  he  was  horn,  and  when  he  died  ;  sylvania,  or  parson  Anderson's  danglitcr  may  have 
and  know  the  j'ears  in  which  several  of  his  children  visited  the  Woodses;  and  the  little  girl  of  ITol,  now 
were  horn  ;  and  are  also  in  possession  of  numerous  an  attractive  maiden  of  seventeen,  may  have 
]ieitinent  collateral  facts,  we  feel  warranted  in  touched  a  yet  deejier  choi-d  in  his  lieait  than  had 
concluding  that  he  must  ha\'e  mai'i'ied  about  the  been  reached  by  the  little  girl  of  nine.  Some  such 
year  1742,  when  he  was  about  thirty  years  old.  No  explanation  of  -lohn  \\dods"s  marriage  falls  in  pret- 
one  pretends  to  be  able  to  decide  this  question  with  ty  well  with  the  persistent  tradition  so  long  cur- 
entire  certainty,  but  we  are  not  Avithout  some  very  rent  in  the  family,  and  we  believe  that  it  is  in  its 
i'("as(uiable  grounds  for  fixing  on  the  time  named,  nuiin  outlines  coi-rect.  James,  the  son  of 
There  is  a  pretty  little  romance,  however,  which  Colonel  John  Woods  and  his  wife,  Susannah,  is 
has  been  currently  accepted  among  Colonel  thought  to  have  been  bom  in  174S,  according  to  Dr. 
Woods's  descendants  in  regard  to  his  marriage,  Edgar  Woods."  In  any  case  we  have  excelleul 
one  feature  of  which  we  shall  lie  c(uupelled  to  rele-  reasons  for  believing  that  tliis  son,  Avheuever  boi-n. 
gate  to  the  region  of  myths;  and  that  is,  the  one  was  their  first  child.  We  feel  safe  in  saying,  how- 
which  nuikes  John  Woods  meet  and  love  a  sweet  ever,  that  it  A\as  as  early  as  1742  that  John  Woods 
little  girl  of  eight  summers  on  the  ship  in  which  he  went  up  to  Pennsylvania  and  stole  a  wife  from  the 
crossed  the  Atlantic  in  1724,  and  then,  in  after  ]u>me  of  the  Rev.  James  Anderson;  and  that  they 
years,  nmrry  her.  That  the  lady  wluuu  he  actually  went  to  housekeeping  the  next  year  (ui  the  farm  on 
did  marry  was  named  Susannah  Anderson,  as  tha't  Mechum's  River  Avhidi  his  father  gave  him  at  that 
legend  has  it.  admits  of  no  doulit  whatever ;  but  the  time — 1743.  As  to  this  matter  imu-e  will  be  said 
tr(uible  comes  of  saying  she  was  a  child  eight  years  a  little  farther  on. 

old  in  1724 — the  year  the  Woodses  migrated  to  Whether  Colonel  Woods  saw  military  service 
America.  The  truth  is,  Susannah  was  ]»robably  during  the  French  and  liidiau  wai-s.  which  closed 
not  even  b(Uii  till  1725.  John  Woods  and  Susan-  ahout  17r)3.  we  cannot  say;  luit  fr(uu  what  we  know 
nab  had  eight  or  more  children,  the  last  of  whom  of  the  man,  we  feel  reasonably  certain  that  lu'  di<l. 
I  named  Susannah  for  her  mother)  was  not  born  It  was  probably  because  of  such  services  that  (Jov- 
till  17(iS;  luit  if  Susannah  Anderson  was  eight  enuir  Francis  Fau(|uier  ai)])ointed  him  ^lajor  if 
years  old  in  1724,  she  was  fifty-two  when  her  last  the  Albemarle  ]\Iilitia  November  27,  17()().  The 
child  \\as  boin.  We  shall  therefore  be  constrained  original  commission  which  he  then  received  is  now 
to  modify  this  pleasing  romance  so  far  as  relates  to  in  the  writer's  possession.  In  h  ss  than  foui-  years 
the  childish  love  affair  on  the  ship,  as  being  hardly  from  the  date  of  (his  aiipoint  inent  Lord  P.otetourl 
suited  to  the  ]U(ibabilities  of  the  case.  It  amy  have  His  ^lajcsty's  laeutenaut,  and  ( iovernor-(  Jeiu'ral, 
been  true,  however,  that  Susannah's  fatlier,  the  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Colony  and  Do- 
Rev.  James  Anderson,  was  a  neighbor,  and  per-  minion  of  Virginia,  issued  to  him  a  commission  as 
hajis  the  pastor,  of  the  Woodses  in  Pennsylvania;  Lieutenant-Cohnu'l  of  the  Militia  of  Albemarle, 
and  that  'ere  Jolin  Woods  left  that  colony  for  Vir-  Thomas  Jefferson  lieiug  the  Ccdonel  thereof.     Tliis 


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1823 


III.— illCHAEL     AV00I)8— Born     1716 

I)ii:i>  lS2ti  I  ?). 

IV.— ►SUITA   WOOD^?— B()i;\    IT.")!'    i?). 


(Idcuiiicnl  licai-s  dati'  .June  11,  1770.  Then  Gov-  birth  iu  each  case,  tlie  Inlldw  in^-  exhibit  presents 
ernor  Nelson  issued  to  Iiini  a  like  commission  De-  wliat  seems  to  the  writer  to  he  Ihe  most  rational 
eember  Id,  1770.  These  three  documents,  which  and  ])robable  scheme  our  present  means  of  infor- 
are  all  about  a  leutury  and  a  third  old,  are  per-  mation  will  admit  of.  Let  it  be  noted  that  where 
fectly  distinct,  and  tln^  siynature  of  Lord  Botetourt,  certainty  does  not  seem  warranted  as  to  anv  "•iven 
ap])cnd('(l  Id  I  lie  comiiiissidii  lie  issued,  is  to-day  as  dale,  I  hat  fact  is  indiciled  liy  a  blank  space  or  bv 
clear  as  any  wi'iiing  of  llie  present  year.  (See  Ap-  interroiiation  marks  in  jtai'entheses. 
pendix  F.)  ('(donel  ANOdds  lived  iu  Albemarle 
about  fiffy-seveu  years — 1731  to  1701 — and  died  at 
his  home  hi  the  eiiihtieth  year  of  bis  ati'e.  His  wife 
survived  hiui  several  years,  liut  df  the  time  of  her 
deatli  «('  kiidw  nothiuii'.  lie  made  his  will  Septem- 
lier  ll.',  1701,  and  died  (Ictober  11,  1701.  The  wit- 
nesses Id  (he  will  are  ^Menan  Alills,  William  II. 
Sheltou,  and  James  Kinsolvinii'.  Tie  mentions  his 
wife  Susannah,  and  his  six  livint^-  children,  two 
(liildreii  liavin.ii'  died  in  infancy.  He  names  his 
sons  James  and  JMichael  executors  of  his  will.  He 
was  evidently  a  well-to-do  man,  and'  left  a  o-ood 
estate  to  bis  family.  His  body,  as  above  stated,  lies 
ill  ilii'  dill  family  burial  lirduiid  ;it  Blair  Park,  a 
<;ddd  view  df  \\hich  ])la(e  is  liiven  l)y  the  eni^raviim 
td  be  found  in  this  volume.  The  writer  had  a 
])bdio  df  flic  spot  taken  in  1805,  from  which  the  en- 
<;Taviii;;-  was  made.  Colonel  Woods  was  a  man  of 
hiiih  <-liai-a(tcr,  and  it  is  a  reproaich  to  his  descend- 
ants that  bis  urave  and  that  of  his  father  lie  .^o 
sadly  uesilected.  The  little  cemetery  is  forever  re- 
served from  sale  or  cultivation,  and  the  I'inht  of  in- 
gress and  egress  cnraranteed  ;  and  it  would  be  a 
simple  matter  to  enclose  the  ground  in  a  neat  iron 
railing,  set  the  place  in  gras.>  and  erect  there  a 
sightly    uiouiiiuciil     which    •would    ])('r]ietuate    the 


I.— JAMES  WUUDS— BouN  1713   (?).     Died 

» 

II.— MARY  WOODS— BuuN    1711    (■>).     Died 

CO- 

I.     Died 
Died 
VI.— AXXA   WOODS— BoKx    1700    (?).     Died 


^'.— S.\R.MT      WOODS— Boux      1757 
1770. 


VFL- JOHN    WOODS,   JR.— Boux    1703. 
1 701. 


Died 


VIII.— SUSANNAH  ^\(  »01  )S— BoiUN  1708.     Died 
1832. 


AVe  cannot  affinu  that  John  and  Susannah  had 
iio  dihcr  children  than  the  eight  abdve  mentioned. 
It  is  Udi  at  all  unlikely  that  there  may  have  been 
one  ()V  two  others  who  died  in  early  infancy,  but 
whose  graves  canudt  now  be  identilied.  Two  of  the 
I'ighl  gi\('u  in  the  alid\-e  list  wduld  never  have  been 
known  of  by  the  writer  had  be  not  found  their 
graves  in  the  Blair  Park  burial-i)ldt,  with  stomas 
meiu(U-y  df  a  Wdi-lby  family  wild  liel]ied  to  make  distinctly  marked.  Six  df  the  eight  were  living  iu 
Piediiidut,  'N'ii'ginia  what  it  is.  One  thousand  dol-  17!)1,  and  are  e.xpressly  named  in  Ciilouel  Woods's 
lars  w(Mild  be  am]dy  sutticient.  In  any  feasible  at-  «ill.  and  there  is  every  reason  for  believing  tiiat  he 
tempt  whieh  may  hereafter  be  made  l)y  the  Woodses  iiieiili<iiie(l  every  one  of  his  living  (bildren,  un- 
to acl  up<ui  the  suggestion  just  offered,  the  writer  like  his  father  Michael  (if  I'.lair  Park.  There 
of  these  lines  will  be  glad  to  co-operate  to  the  ex-  can  scarcidy  be  a  doubt  tiiat  a  diligent  search 
tent  of  his  ability;  and  aftci-  he  himself  shall  have  thrdugli  I  lie  MIU  Books  and  Deed  P.ooks  of  thesev- 
passed  away  he  hopes  that  his  descendants  will  eral  cdiinties  iu  which  the  married  childi'en  of 
stand  prepared  to  redeem  his  pledge.  (\ilduel  AVddds  lived  and  die.l   wduld  be  rewarded 

■^Vitbdiit  pretending  to  absolute  accuracy  either      with  much  infdrmati(Ui,  not  obtained  by  the  author 
as  to  all  ihe  dates  given,  or  the  precise   order   of      of  this  vdlume.     He  accomplished  a  good  deal  in 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK.  1'>1 

this  lino,  but  he  was  unable  to  i^ivL'  nunc  time,  to  of  her  grandfather,  ilicluiel  Woods,  under  bis  will. 
it  than  lie  has  done.  I  See  Ai)itendix  !•'.  I     WC  believe  tJuit  a  farel'MJ    in- 
1 — JAJiIES  WOODS  was  probably  the  tii'st-born  speetiou  ot  tiie    siiiiialures    ot    -lames    and    -Mary 
of  the  children  of  Colonel  John  Woods  and  Susan-  Woods,  executed  in  IT<>T,  wonbi  conviDce  the  ma- 
nali  his  wife.     The  exact  date  of  his  biiih  can  not  jority   of  ])ers(ins   lluil    Ihe  wrilei's  of  tliose  sifjna- 
be  i!,iven  with  entire  certainty,  l)ut  tiie  writer  be-  tures  wei'e  very  probably  over  I wenty  years  of  age. 
Hives  il   was  about  the  year  1743.     The    Kev.    Dr.  A  second  consideration  in  favor  of  the  earlier  date 
Edgar  Woods  gives   1748   as   the  year   of   James  (1743)    for  llie  birlh  of  James  Woods  is  tiiat    it 
Woods's  liirth,  but  we  feel  there  are  some  good  rea-  places  liis  father's  marriage  at  about  his  thirtieth 
sons  for  believing  that  the  flgiire  8  in    that    date  year,  wliereas  the  biier  date    (1748)    would  make 
should  give  place  to  a  figure  3,  which  it  so  closelv  John  Woods  fo  iiave  been  full  thirty-five  years  old 
resembles,  and    Inr   which   it  is  oflcu   mistaken   by  when  lie  marri(Ml  a  young  wdiiian   fur  Avliose  heart 
copyists   in    clerk's  ottices    and    elsewhere.'"     Tlie  and  band  be  bad,  accnrdim;  l<>  the  family  tradition, 
principal  reason  for   so   believing    is    that    James  been  waiting  for  perliaps  live  to  ten  weary  years.  If 
\\'oods  and  his  sister  Maiy  attaclu'd    their    signa-  he  married  the  charming  Susannah  in  1742,  when 
tares  to  certain  documents  iu  1707 — the  originals  she  was  about  seventeen — as  early  a  date,  perhaps, 
of  which  are  now  in  the  writer's  possession — ^the  as  her  parents  were    willing    to   accede.  ti> — that 
style  of  which  signatures  indicates  tliat  the  writers  would  be  about  wiiat  we  would  have  expected.    P>ut 
of  tlicm  were  i^ersons  of  somewhat  inaiureage,  and  it  looks  far  less  reasonable  to  suppose  tliat  he  de- 
accustomed  to  writing.      |  See    Appendix    F.)      If  layed  till  lie  liimself  was  tliirty-five,  and  she  was 
Colonel  John  Woods  did  not  marry  till  1747,  and  twenty-two.     Then,  tliirdly,  there  is  at  least  some 
bis  son  James  was   not   boru   till    1748,    and    his  significance  in  the  fact  that  Michael  Woods,  John's 
daughter  :Mary  not  before  174!),   then   James   and  father,  chose  the  year  1743  for  giving  his  son  a  good 
jNlary  were  only  niueteeu  and  eighteen  years  old,  farm — 350  acres  on  Medium's  River.     If  John  did 
respectively,  when  the  signatures  referred  to  were  marry  Susannah  in  174-,  as  we  incline  (o  think  he 
written.     James  and   Hilary  signed  tlieir  names  a  did,  and  if  llieir  tirst   child,  James,    was    born    iu 
half  a  dozen  times  each  in  17(;7,  as  the  originals  in  1743,  as  we  feel  reasonably  sure  of,  we  can  see  the 
the  autiior's  possession  show.      (See  facsimiles  iu  eminent  propriety  of  giving  the  young  folks  a  farm 
Appendix  F),  and  he  believes  that  the  majority  of  jvist  then,  and  letting  them  go  off   to   themselves, 
intelligent  people  would  say  that  those  were  not  Then,  lastly,  the  date  1743,  if  its  final  figure,  3, 
the  signatures  of  persons  who  were  less  than  twen-  were  carelessly  written,    might   easily    have    been 
ty-five  years  of  age  and  unaccustomed  to  w  riting  a  mistaken  for  1748.     Clerks  and  others  in  copying 
y-ood  (leal.     There  is  not  one  man  or  wduian  iu  ten,  ipoal  (biciiments  often  make  just  such  mistakes  as 
under  thirty  years  of  age,  who  writes   his   or   her  this  would  have  been,  and  such  an  inaccuracy  may 
name  with  more  marked  uniformity  than  did  these  imve  been  perpetrated  in  this  particular  case.    On 
two  persons  on  the  occasions   referred   to.     Tiiere  tliis  theory  Susannah  was  about  seventeen  wheu  she 
are  variations,  we  admit,  but  ouly  such  as  are  com-  married,  and  about  forty-three  when  her  last  cluld 
mon  with  (he  people  of  any  age.     That   the  Mary  (Susannah)  was  bnrn.     If  tiie  writer  uuiy  )>(>  par- 
Woods  Avbo  did  tlu'  signing  in  1767   was   James's  doned  tlie  iiersoual  allusicm — liis  owu  motluu-  was 
sister  and   not  Mary,  his  wife,  is  demonstrated  by  married  five  months  liebire  she  liccame  seventeen, 
the  fact  that  James  did  not  marry  Mary  Garland  j^ud  he  himself,  her  last  cluld,  was  born  four  months 
till  1770,  and  by  the  further  fact  that  iu  one  of  the  before  she  became  forty-three.  Hence,  the  theory  ad- 
cases  she  states  that  the  receipt  she   signs   is    for  vanced  and  the  conclusions  reached    in   this    case 
money  she  had  received  as  her  share  of  the  estate  have  nothing  novel  or  slraiiu'd    about    them,    and 


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Ilicv  fall  ill  willi  \aii()iis  Icnown  coiiditious  of  tln' 
](iulilcia  in  liaiid.  I.cl  it  be  added  here  that  the 
vcai-  1T()S.  wiiicli  is  assigiu'tl  for  the  birth  of  Susau- 
uali,  liie  hist  (.Jiiid  nl'  -Inhu  and  Susaimah,  was  got- 
ten by  the  writer  from  a  i>aiiiplik't  written  by  Mr. 
W.  11.  Miilci',  (if  KichuHiiid,  Ky.,  who  si>eaks  as  if 
lie  were  in  jjossession  of  very  ((Hiiph'te  written  fam- 
ily records."'  ilc  is  a  descendant  of  Susannah 
Woods  by  her  iiusliand  Daniii  .MiUer.  (Fac-similes 
of  the  original  signal ur(s  of  lioth  Susannah  and 
Daniel  can  be  found  in  Aiipcndix  F,  which  see.) 

When  Colonel  -lolin  Woods  wrote  liis  will  a  few 
weeks  befoi'c  his  dealii  (1T!U)  lie  named  his  sons 
James  and  Micliael  as  bis  executors,  lie  mentions 
James  first;  and  tliis  fact  would,  as  a  rule,  indicate 
that  he  was  the  obler  of  (lie  two  brothers.  It  is  cer- 
tain, however,  that  .lames  migrated  from  Albe- 
nuirble  to  Kentucky  a  few  years  after  his  father 
died,  and  before  liie  estate  was  fully  settled  up. 
The  receipts  from  legatees  of  Colonel  \\dods  for 
payments  of  their  respective  shares  of  his  estate 
taken  in  IT'.tl.'  and  17!t3  began  thus:  "Keceived  of 
James  Woods  and  iMichael  Woods,  executors,"  or 
in  words  to  that  eliecl ;  but  in  ITlMi  and  1797  we 
tind  several  of  these  recei])ts  of  the  legatees  men- 
tion .Micluud  and  omil  ail  allusion  to  .lames  as 
executor.  Of  couise,  as  .lames  was,  in  law,  one  of 
the  executors  even  after  lu'  bad  migrated  to  Ken- 
tucky, there  would  have  been  no  impropriety,  in  re- 
ceipting f(U'  a  legacy,  to  mention  him  as  one  of  the 
executors  from  wIkuii  the  money  came;  but  tiie  ab- 
sence of  James  would  no  doubt  cause  many  persons 
to  make  their  receipts  read  "ii-om  .Micbael  ^Voods," 
as  he  was  the  only  one  of  the  two  executors  then  in 
Virginia.  Besides,  James,  after  settling  in  Ken- 
tucky, doubtless  paid  one  or  more  visits  to  his  old 
Virginia  home  while  his  father's  estate  was  being 
settled  lip,  and  while  in  Virginia  on  these  visits 
may  have  receipted  in  person  for  legacies  paid  out 
by  liimself  and  ^lichael. 

According  to  various  authorities  James  married 
Mary  Garland,  a  daughter  of  James  Garland,  of 
North  Garden,  Albemarle  County,  Virginia.  She 
is  said  to  have  been  born  October  13,  1700,  and  to 


have  married  James  ^Voods  Febnuiry  2.'),  177;t.  At 
tlial  dale  .lames  was  alxait  tbiity-six  years  (d'  age, 
and  .Mai'y  was  not  nineteen.  In  the  year  171).j,  or 
179G,  Jauu's  Woods  moved  to  what  is  now  (Jarrard 
County,  Kentucky.  Of  the  thirteen  children  born 
to  this  couple  it  is  next  to  certain  tliat  all  but  the 
last  three  or  four  weri'  born  in  Albenuule  County, 
Virginia.  .Mary,  wife  of  James  Woods,  died  in 
Garrard  County,  Kentucky,  in  1835,  and  was 
l)uried  near  what  is  called  the  "Hanging  Rock"  in 
that  county,  .hnnes  \\'oods  was,  according  to  Dr. 
Edgar  Woods  and  other  reliable  authorities,  au 
officer  in  the  Revolutionary  Army;  but  the  rank  he 
held  and  the  command  he  served  Avitli  are  unknoAvn 
t(f  the  writer.  Some  of  his  descendants  have  posi- 
tively stated  that  he  was  Colonel  (d'  llie  Twelfth 
Virginia  Reginu'nt,  but  this  is  unciuestionahly  a 
mistake.  The  commander  of  that  regiment  was  a 
Colonel  .James  Woods  (his  surname  having  no  s  in 
it),  who  was  afterwards  Governor  of  Virginia.  The 
write)'  s|K'aks  positi\'ely  (ui  this  ])oini  because  bis 
great  giaudfalber  (  who  was  an  olHcer  in  that  regi- 
ment I,  wlien,  in  1S18,  be  applied  for  a  pension,  had 
his  claim  delayed  several  years  because  he 
tbouglitlessly  atlded  ilie  letter  s  to  tlie  name  of  his 

CobuK  I,  uuiking  it  "Woods,"  instead  of  W I.   'i'bis 

was  all  stated  under  oath,  and  the  oflicial  records 
of  the  case  ( case  of  Samuel  Woods  of  Mercer  Coun- 
ty, Kentucky,  wlio  was  pensioned  in  1823,  and  ^lied 
in  ISiMii  ai'c  on  tile  in  ibe  Rension  Office  at  \\'ash- 
ington,  and  can  be  obtained  for  a  small  payment  by 
any  one  who  cares  to  have  them.  'When  -James 
moved  to  Kentucky  he  was  a  man  of  about  flfty- 
three  and  the  father  of  nine  or  ten  children,  the 
eldest  of  whom  was  about  fifteen  years  of  age. 
This  was  a  Rresbyterian  family,  and  all  of  the 
thirteen  cbildi-en  weic  baptized  in  infancy,  .lames 
A\'oods's  death  oce\nred  in  1823,  twelve  years  prior 
to  that  (d'  bis  wife.  Herewith  a  list  of  their  chil- 
dren is  gi\'en,  as  kindly  furnished  to  the  autluu'  of 
this  work  by  iNlrs.  .Jane  Harris  Rogers,  of  Lexing- 
ton, Kentucky,  who  is  their  great  granddaughter: 
(a)   The  first  child  of  -James  and  Mary  Wdods 


MICHAEL    WOODS    OF    BLAIR    PARK.  103 

wu.s  JOHN^  who  was  born  Fclimiary  125,  ITSO.     Of  ricd  Kli/.aliclli   Harris  May    I,   1S0;»,  tlio  ceremouy 

his  history  the  writer  kuows  uothiug.  hciui;-  pci'loniu'd  in  iMadison  ('(niiily,  Kentucky,  by 

(b)  The  second  child  of  James  and  Mary  was  the  Jiev.  I'eter  \\'(mi(1s,  his  cunsin.  She  died  Octol)er 
Mary,  wlio  was  born  January  G,  1782.  13,  1808,  aijed  seven ly  seven  years.     Anderson  and 

(c)  The  tliird  chikl  of  James  and  Ahiry  was  Elizabelh  had  a  son  named  .lames  llaiiis  Woods, 
J.VMKS  (iAULAXn,  wlio  was  born  April  '2'.'>,  \lS'.i.  Itorn  in  .Madison  Counly,  Keiilmky.  .Iiinnaiy  '21, 
Allusion  to  this  son  is  nuule  in  an  (dd  lelter  dated  1810;  baptized  An^iisl,  ls:;7;aiid  died  in  Coliimbia, 
at  Colundiia,  South  Carolina,  January  25,  1825,  Missouri,  January  11,  1845.  His  wife  was  Miss 
signed  by  his  younger  brother,  Nathanicd  Woods,  Martha  Jane  Stone,  wlio  was  born  in  .Madison 
and  addressed  to  Michael  Woods  (then  living-  in  County,  Kentucky,  .\ugusl  7,  isl.").  Tiieir  niar- 
Xeison  County,  \'irginia),  tin-    brother    of    James  riage  occurred   .May  28,    18:55,   in     I'xione    (\)unty, 

and  son  of  Colonel  John  "W ils.     In  tliis  lelter  the  Missouri.     She  die.l   in    Nebraska  City,  Nebraska, 

said  Nathaniel   \\'oods  speaks  of  "Ijrotlier    James  JIarcli  17,  1868.     Slie  was  bajili/.ed  in  .\ugust,  18;{7. 

Woods,"  for  wliom  a  sum  uf  money  liad  been  left  in  William  Stone  Woods,  who  is  now    i  I'.K)  1  i  a  banker 

the  hands  of  Michael  ^^'oods,  and  the  letter  in  ques-  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  is  the  son  of  James  Har- 

tion  is  an  order  to  [Michael  to  send  it  to  Nathaniel  rjs  Woods  and  [Martha  Jane  Stone.  (   See  sketcii  of 

either  by  "Cousin    John    Miller"    or    one    Samuel  William  Stone  Woods  in  I'art  111   of  this  volume. ; 

Rlain.     Febriiai-y  25,  1825,  Samuel  Blain  writes  a  (g)   The  seventh  child  of   James  and  Mary  was 

receipt  to  3Iichael    Woods    for  $530.50    which  one  named  Susannah.     Her  I'allier's  mother's  maiden 

John  Murrel  of  Kentucky  had  deposited  with  said  lumie  was  Susannah  Anderson,  and    her    fathei-'s 

Michai  I  ftir  either  James  Garland  Woods,  or  Na-  youngest  sister,  who  mari-ied    Daniel    Miller,   was 

thauiel  Woods.    Of  Nathaniel,  who  was  the  young-  uamed  Susannali.      Slie    was    b(u-n    Septendier    1, 

est  child  of  James  and   ]Mary,  we  shall  sjieak  pres-  jy.sf) 

ently.  (h)    The  eighth  child  of  James  and    Mary    was 

James  (iarland   Woods  was  made  an    Elder    of  named  Rice,  and  was  born  November  6,_  1790.     It 

Taint  Lick  Church  in  1820,  and  his  son,  Kice  Gar-  j^  ^.-^j^l  j]^.,|.  ].i^.^,  ^\-,,ods  (son  of  James  and  Mary) 

land  Woods,  in  1855.  Mr.  Rice  G.  Woods  died  a  few  (^je(|  p^-iy  in  \\{^^._ 

yeai's  ago.     The  writer  understands  that  it  was   a  ^^   The    ninth    child    of   James   and  -Mary  was 

daughter  of  his  who  married  Mr.  Ed  Walker,  of  Michael,   who   was   born   January   5,   17i)2.     The 

Taint  Lick.  number  of  Woodses  who  Imuv  this  imme  is  so  great 

(d)    The  fourth  child  of  James  and  Mary  was  ^]^.^-^  j^  would  be  bewildering  to  attempt  to  enume- 

Whj.iam,  w  ho  was  born  May  9,  1781,  of  whom   we  j..,^p  jjjj,|  distinguish  them,  a)id  show  how  they  were 

know  nothing  more.  related.     Like  his  brother  .\mlerson,  he  is  saitl  to 

(ej   The  fifth    child    of   James   and   Mary   was  imve  moved  to  .Missouri, 

named  Sarah,  and  all  we  know  of  her  is  the  date  ^  |^ ,    r|n,,^.  ,^,,i(li  ,.||j|,|    ,,(•   .T;,,:ies   and    Mavy  was 

of  her  birth,  January  1,  178(;.  named   .Mary  Kh'i:.  who  was  boin  SeptcMuber    24, 

(f)   The  sixth  child  of  James    and    Mary    was  1795^  in  Albemarle  C(mnty.     She  was  probably  the 

named  Anderson,  born  January  18,  1788.     He  was  ^.^^^  ^^  ^j^^,  ,.i,ii,ii.eu  born  prioi'  to  the  migration  of 

baptized  in  Albemarle  County,  Virginia,    by    the  the  family  to  Kentucky,  as  that  move  took  ]dnee  not 

Rev.   William    Irvine,  pastor  (d'  the    Presbyterian  later  than  the  summer  of  I 7'.m;.     She  was  married 

Clnireh,  to  which  the  Woodses  belonged.     He  re-  to  Overton  Harris  in  Garrard  County,  Kentucky, 

moved  to  Kentucky  with  his  parents  in  179G.     In  December  1.  1814.     In  the  fall  of  1817  she  moved 

1823    be  moved  to  Boone  County,  Missouri.       He  with  her  husband  to  Miss.mri,  where  she  spent  the 

di,.d  "at  Taris,  Missouri,  October  22,  1841.    He  mar-  remainder  of  her  bn.g  and  uscdnl   life.      Ib-r  bus- 


104  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

lijiiid  ilicd  ill  iSii,  iiiiil  slu'  sui\i\c(l  liiiii  thiitv-two     jiuislicd  (li'iKial  .loliii  Milk'r  of  the  Federal  Ariiiv 

years,  dyiiii;-  Aiijiust  'M.  lsT(i,  wlicii  she  liad  iiuarly  who  IVII,  iially  wduiided,  at  the  Battle  of  Rich- 
completed  her  eii;htytiisl  year.  She  left  seven  iiioiid.  Kentucky,  in  August,  lst;2.  Nothing  else  is 
children,  as  follows:  1,  .lojiii  Wodds  Harris,  who  known  of  him  liy  the  writer.  Nathaniel  was  prob- 
mariicd  .\nn  ^lary  McClurc;  2,  .lames  Harris,  who  alily  in  Soiitli  ('arolina  selling  mules  and  pnrchas- 
married  Salna  .iaciisoii ;  :!,  .Martha  Ryland  Harris,  iiig  negroes,  one  or  both,  as  was  commoni\-  doiu'  in 
w  lio  married  .Tojin  .Mills  .Maii]iiii;  4,  \\'illiam  An-  those  days.  The  old  pioneers'  road  from  Central 
deison  llanis,  who  married  l^lizabeth  Kobnett ;  5,  Kentucky  to  Tennessee  and  the  ("ar(dinas  liv  wav 
Saiali  lOlizabeth  Harris,  who  married  George  of  Cumberland  ( Jaji  had  been  ]Mit  in  fair  eonditiou 
limit  :  ('.,  .Mary  Frances  Harris,  who  married  Thom-  ''.v  the  State  of  Kentucky,  and  was  the  great  liigh- 
as  iSerry  Harris;  and,  7,  Overton  Michael  Harris,  ^vay  between  the  regions  referred  to.  Natliauiel 
who  married  Aniaii.bi  AVood.  (  For  fuller  account  ^^  -'li^  "'"'.v  twenty-two  years  of  age  when  he  made  tlie 
()(  .Mary  Kice  ^^'oods  and  Overton  Harris,  and  oth-      ^'''1'  '•'  < 'arolina.     There  were  several   families    of 

er  connections  and  descendants,  the  reader  is  re-  NN'oodses  then  living  in  both  the  Carolinas,  blood- 

ferred  to  the  sketches  of  .Mrs.  .lane  11.  Rogers,  and  Ivin  td'  the  Kentucky  Woodses,  and  he  may  have 
]\rrs.  .Mary  F.  ilarris  in  I'art  111  of  this  volume.)       '"'en  visiting  them. 

(I  I    The  eleventh  child  (d' .lames  and  Mary    was  .lames   Woods,  sou  of  Colonel   -lohn    Woods,  as 

named  Eliz.vbetii.  who  was  lioin  in  Garrard  Coun-  stated  before,  died  in  Garrard  County,  Kentucky, 

ty,   Kentuclcy,  lieyond   reasonable  (b)ubt,   .June    7,  iu  1823,  at  the  ripe  age  of  eighty,  if  the  author's 

171)8.  contention  as  to  the  date  of  liis    iiiiih    (1713)    be 

( m  I    The  twelfth  child  (d'  .lames  and  ^lary  was  granted  ;  or  seventy-live,  if  the  year  1748  be  correct. 

named  l''i!.\^xc'KS,  ^^•ho  was  boni  in  (larrard  County,  He  and  his  children    and    their   descendants    have 

Kentucky,  April  2(1,    ISOO.     She  was    married    to  f'U'  three -(|iiarteis  ^>t'  a  century  been    a    tower    of 

A\illiam  vSlavin  October  14,  1S17,  ami  moved  with  strength  in  (iarrard  County,  and  es|iecially  as  re- 

him  to  Missouri,  .settling  in  1823  in  what  is  known  s])ects  the  I'aint   Lick  Fresbyterian  Church.     Thev 

as  the  Bonne  Femme  neighborhood  in  Boone  Coun-  are  among  its  main  supporters  to  this  day,  and  the 

ty.     She  bore  to  her  husband  si.Y  daughters  and   a  community  which  they  have  had  so  much  to  do  with 

son.  and  died  iM'bruary  11,  183G.     (  l^)r  additional  develo]Hiig  and  adorning  is  one  (d'  the  most  attract- 

particiilars  in  regard  to  this  branch  nf  ilic  AVoods's  ive  and  intelligent  in  all  the  Blue  Grass  region, 
the  reader  is  referred  to  the  sketch  of  .Mrs.  George  II. — According  to  the  autlKu's  calculations  and 

B.  -Alacfarlane  in  Fait  III  of  this  volume. )  surmises,  based  upon  what  he  considers  reasonable 

(n)    The  thirteenth    and    last    child     of    James  grounds,  the  second  iliild  of  Colonel  .lolin  AVoods 

Woods  and  his  wife,  Mary    Garland,    was    named  and  Susannah  .Vnderson  was  MAKV  WOODS.   The 

Natiia.mel^  who  was  born  August  27,  1803.     The  e.xact  year  of  her  birth  is  not  certainly  known,  but 

only  incident  in  his  life  known  to  the  writer  is  the  it    is   bidieve.l    to  have  been  about   the  year  1744. 

one  referred  to  on  a  incvioiis  page  in  dealing  with  The  writer  h.is  fully  presented,  in  the  sections  de- 

Ihe  life  of  his  older  brother,  .James  Garland  Woods,  voted  to  her  brother  .James,  and  her  father  Colonel 

to  wit:  his  being  in  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  early  John  \Voods,  the  reasons  which  constrain  him    to 

in  the  year  182."').     An  m-der  which  he  penned    at  assign  a  date  for  the  marriage  of  her  ])arents  live 

that   time   was   addressed    to   his    uncle,   Michael  years  earlier  than  that  which  some  of  the  chroni- 

Woods,  of  Nelson  (_^ounty,  A'irginia,  f(U'  a  sum  of  clers  of  Inu-  family  have  fixed  upon— 1712,  instead 

money  to  be  paid  either  to  himself  or  his  brother  of  1747— and  the  di.scussion  of  that  (piestion  need 

James,  and  which  was  to  be  conveyed  to  him  by  his  not  be  here  repeated.     Of  Mary's  life  we  know  but 

cousin  .Tohn  :Miller.     Tliis  caisin   was  the  distiu-  little.   Her  father,  Colonel  John  W(dds.  as  the  prin- 


MICHAEL    WOODS  OF    BLAIR    PARK.                                                 105 

cipal  executor  of  his  father,  often  caUed  iiiioii  her  id  .Mjissic  lo  lie  Ihf  -ii;ii(li;iii  ,<(  his  sdii  .Midiacl. 
and  her  brother  James  to  witness  to  receipts  he  lie  made  llic  saiJ  .M.issic.  uihI  his  smis  James  ami 
toolv  from  the  legatees  of  his  father's  estate,  and  .lohn  Woods  <  xcniKus,  iiihi  jiis  w  ile  execulrix.  The 
otlier  persons.  Fac-similes  of  her  signature  are  wiiucsscs  In  his  will  wnc  Sji.  (iarhiml.  .lames 
given  in  Appendix  F  as  slie  wrote  it  one  hundred  iioyd,  and  dames  lieid.  .Michael  seems  lo  ha\e  died 
and  thirty-seven  years  ago,  for  the  entertainment  the  yea:-  afler  his  will  was  made.  He  was  e\  ideid- 
of  all  who  care  to  see  just  what  sort  (d'  a  serilie  ly  a  successful  hiisiness  man,  and  Idi  a  good  estate 
Miss  xMary  was.  We  Ivuow  that  she  was  not  con-  to  his  family,  lie  was  a  I'reshyleiiaii :  and  he  he- 
tent  to  l)e  Miss  Woods  always,  and  that  she  linally  lieved  in  giving  his  children  good  educations,  lie 
married  a  John  Reid.  Under  date  of  "November  left  live  scuis  and  three  daughters.  They  will  he 
ye  2G,  1793,"  Joim  Reid  gives  a  receipt  to  the  cxecu-  nient  i(UU'd  here  in  the  order  in  which  iliey  are 
tors  of  Colonel  John  NNoods  for  t  he  amount  left  his  given  by  .Mr.  dniian  Watson  Woods,  of  .Mississippi, 
wife  Mary  by  her  father,  dust  how  buig  she  had  who  is  well  iid'ormed  in  regaid  lo  this  branch  of 
been  the  wife  of  John  Keid  at  that  date  the  writer  the  \\'oodses.  We  copy  from  his  list  of  the  children 
has  no  means  of  knowing,  but  she  was  then  a  wo-  of  xMichael  Woods  and  his  wife  Fsiliei-  Caruihers. 
man  of  about  forty-nine  years.     The  writer  regrets  as  follows: 

that  he  has  no  further  inforuuit ion  in  regard  to  her  (a)   James  Micuakl,  who    married    his    cousin 

or  any  children  she  may  have  had.  Margaret  Caruthers,  of  Rockbridge  County,  Yir- 

III.— MI(  JIAEL     WOODS,     The     Third,     son  ginia,  and  died  in  1S7A)  or  IS.Jl  near  Liberty,  Bed- 

of     Colonel     John     Woods     and     Susannah     An-  f(U-d  Couidy,  Va.,  leaving  the  following  children: 

derson,     was     born,     as     avc     have    g 1     reasons  1,  Susan  Elizabeth,  who  married  dames  \\'.  Clark, 

for    believing,    about     the    year    ITiti,    in    Albe-  of  Mrginia,  and  died  young,  leaving  one  daughter 

marie      County,      Virginia.      His      wife      was      a  who  is  now  living  in    Fluvanna    County,    Va. ;    2, 

Miss  Esther    <  "arutliers,    of    Itockbridge     Ccninty,  Michael  James,  born  in  ISIJ'J,  who,  after  serving  in 

Virginia.     She  is  by  some  called  "Hettie,"    which  the  Confederate  Army,    settled    in    North    ilissis- 

was,  no  doubt,  a  sort  of  pet-name  for  Esther.     He  sip[)i,  whei-e  he  married  a  .Mrs.  Hibler,  and,  later, 

lived  on  ivy  Creek,  Albemarle  County,  till  about  a  Miss  ^lary  Butts,  who  Ikji-c  him  a  sou  aud  daugb- 

the  year  1800,  when  lie  moved  southward  into  that  ter.      He    died    years    ago    in    East    ]>as    \'egas, 

portion  of  Albemarle  which,  in  the  year  1807,  was  Mexico,  where  his  widow  and  children  still  reside; 

nuide  the  County  of  Nelson.    Here  he  spent  the  last  3,  John  AMUiam,  born  about  1841,  who  never  mar- 

twenty-tive  years  of  his  life.     In  1791  his  father  ried,  and  settled  in  Hernando,  Miss.,  where  he  was 

died,  aud  he  and  his  brother  James  were  made  his  killed  in  a  negro  riot  in  1876. 

executors.  The  greater  part  of  the  transactions  |bi  doiix  Cauitiikus,  who  married  a  .Miss  Da- 
connected  with  the  settlement  of  his  father's  estate  vis,  of  \'ii-ginia,  moved  to  Missouri  in  \s:',U.  leaving 
seems  to  have  fallen  to  him,  as  his  brother  James  the  following  children:  1,  A\illiam.  who  lives  in 
migrated  to  Kentucky  in  the  fall  of  1795,  or  the  Kansas  City,  ^Mo. ;  and  2,  a  daughter.  Mis.  N.  U. 
sirring  of  1790.  He  made  his  will  the  22nd  of  Feb-  Langsford,  of  Waxahatchie,  Texas, 
ruarj-,  1825.  In  it  he  mentioned  the  following  per-  (c)  Samuel  CARUTiiEiiS.  who  luanied  Sarali 
sons,  to  wit:  1,  his  son  John  Woods;  2,  his  sou  Rhodes  n{  Nelson  ('ounly,  \'a.,  nioxcd  lo  .Missouri 
James  AA'oods ;  3,  his  son  Samuel  AAoods;  4,  his  S(ui  in  1S;>!(,  and  there  died  iii  ISi'A't  or  lS(i7.  He  Idl  a 
William  Woods;  5,  his  son  Michael  Woods;  G,  his  son,  .M.  Woods,  who  i-esides  ai  I'ddorado  S|iriugs, 
daughter  Susan  Massie;  7,  his  daughter  Mary  Bar-  Cedar  County,  Mo. 

clay;  8,  his  daughter  Jane  '\'\'oods;  9,  his  wife  Es-  (d)   WiLLiAJt  Moffett.  who  was  born  March  27. 

ther  Woods;  10,  his  friend  aud  son-in-law  Nathan-  1808,  and  died  May  25,  1802.    His  wife  was  Louisa 


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Elizabeth  J)al)iH'v,  wIk.mi 


iiiarricd    October    4,      Esther,   married   William    Hardy,    and    settled    in 


1837.  She  died  .lime  :.'!l,  ISi;!.  Tiiey  liad  the  fol- 
luwiiiii  ehildreu:  J,  Seiioria  Dabiiey  Woods,  born 
August  2,  1838.  and  died  A])ril  7>.  18()tj;  1',  Julian 
Watson  ^Voods,  who  was  born  Mdy  15,  ISiU.  ^^'il- 
liam  MollVlt  Woods  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife 
(in  1843)  married  .Martlia  -I.  .Seott,  wlio  was  born 
A|nil  I'O,  IMl,  and  died  Mareli  7,  1872,  leaving  si x 
ehildreii  as  Inllows:  3,  .Mary  l^ouisa,  born  Febru- 
arv  It;.  1S4!I,  and  died  February  liO.  18G0;  4,  Daniel 


ilissouri.     She  died  y(aing.  leaving  two  daughters, 
bdlh  of  whom  died  unmarried. 

IN'.— SUITA  WOODS  Avas,  as  we  suppose,  the 
fourth  child  of  Colonel  John  Woods  and  Susannah 
Anderson,  and  we  believe  she  was  born  about  the 
year  17.")!'.  She  is  mentioned  in  her  father's  will, 
where  her  name  is  "Suta,"  but  in  one  place  in  an 
original  document  she  sjiells  her  name  Suit  Woods 
( in  17!ll.'  I,  and  we  conclude  that  her  full  name  was 


Scott,  born  April  25,  1850,  and  died  April  5,  1800;  Suita.     She  was  unmarried  on  the  19th  of  Septem- 

5,  Fannie  Langhoru,  born  September  18,  1851,  and  her,  17112.  Iiut  ^May  13,  17U7,  we  find  Samuel  Keid 

died  June  30,  1888;  (i,  Nannie  Scott,  born  January  (whom  she  had  married)   giving  a  receipt  to  her 

23,  1853,  married    C.    F.    Wagnon    November    24,  brother  .Michael  for  the  amount  id'  her  legacy  from 

188(1;  7,  W  illinm   .Motfett,  Jr.,  born  June  8,  1850,  ]ier  father  Colonel  J(din   NN'oods,  deceased,  and  in 

and  die(l  January  10,  1888;  8,  Susan  .Massie,  born  tiiis  receipt  Samued   IJeid   rcd'ers  to  her  as  "Sute, 

.March  10,  185'J,  and  died  August   10,  1802.     Wil-  my  wife."     So  it  seems  her    relatives    varied    her 


Ham  Motfett  Woods,  the  father  (J'  the  children  just 
enumerated,  resided  at  his  father's  old  home  in 
Nelson  County  until  1854,  when  lie  moved  to  lUick- 
ingham  County,  Va.,  where  lie  died  in  May,  1802, 
agrd  fifty-four  years.  • 

(e)  Michael  Woods,  Jit.,  sou  of  Michael  and 
Esther,  died  when  about  twenty-one  years  old. 

(f)  Susan  Woous^  daughter  of  Michael  and 
Esther,  married  Nathan  Massie  of  Nelson  County, 
A'a.      She   died  young,   leaving   four    cliildren:      1, 


name  .-is  they  deemed  nu>st  ■siiitdhle.  Samuel  and 
Suiia  moved  to  Kentucky  and  were  the  progenitors 
of  a  large  connection  in  Garrard  and  Lincoln 
Counties. 

V. — SAl.'All  AVOODS,  wl I  we  have  concluded 

to  have  been  the  fifth  child  of  Colonel  John  Woods 
and  Susannali  Anderson,  was  born  1757  and  died 
in  1770.  Of  this  daughter  the  writer  knows  noth- 
ing lieyond  the  dates  of  her  birth  and  death,  which 
he  copied  from  her  tombstone  in  the  Blair  Park 


Niithaniel    llai.lin.  who  is  a   prominent   lawyer  of  burial  ground  some  years  ago. 

Charlottesville,  \'a..  born  about  182(i,  who  has  been  VI.— ANNAAVOODS  was,  as  we  believe, the  sixth 

twice  married,  and  has  three  sons  and  a  daughter  ,.,,i|,|  ,,n'ol,,nel  John  Woods  and  Susannah  Ander- 

by  his  last     wife,    .Miss    Eliza    Nelson;  2,    James  ^..^^  .,^1  ^j^,,  ^,..,^  probably    born    about    the   year 

Woods,  who  was  a  lawyer  in  Lexington,  Va.,  and  jy,;,,.     Uvv  ( 4iristian  name  is  spelled  by  some  per- 

left  one  son;  3,  .Mary,  who  married  J.  Ilailey  Moon,  ^,,nj,  ^-Ami,"  and  bv  some  others  "Anne,"  but  her 


and  left  a  son,  the  Hon.  John  B.  iloon,  of  Char- 
lottesville, \'a. ;  4,  Esther,  who  married  (Ndonel 
AN'illiam  Patrick,  of  Augusta  County,  \'a. 

(gj  .Makv  Woods,  -who  married  Hugh  Barclay, 
of  Lexington,  Va.,  and  died  in  1855,  leaving  four 
sons,  to  Avit :  1,  John  W.  Barclay,  Lexington,  Va. ; 
2.  Dr.  Mirhael   W.   Barclav.  who  mo\ed    to    Ken- 


father,  in  his  will,  gives  it  ".\nna."  She  married 
John  N.  Iteid  some  time  ])iior  to  August,  1700,  as 
we  find  him  receipting  to  her  father's  executors  at 
that  date  for  money  he  had  received  for  her.  She 
survived  her  husband,  and  some  time  after  his 
death  she  married  one  of  the  numberless  William 


AVoodses,  who  was  her  cousin.     Of  her  further  his- 

lucky,  and   married    his    cousin    Susan    .Miller,    a     tory  the  writer  knows  nothing  whatever.     It  seems 

daughter  of  (leneral  John  .Miller,  and  died  in  185S,      the  Beids  were  in  high  favor  with  tlir  Woods  girls, 

leaving  several  children.  for  three  of  Colonel  John  AVoods's  daughters  mar- 

(h)   Jaxe   Woods,    daughter    of    .Michael    and      ried  a  Beid — Man- marrying  John,  Suita  marrying 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK.                                                  107 

Sauiuel,  and  Anna  marrying  John  N.     Tlu'sc  men  after  his  marriage  lo  Snsannah  NNunds  i:c  mnved  In 

were  probably  not  residents  of  Albemarle  County,  Kentucky,  uJid  setli<il  on  drowning  Creek  in  .Madi- 

\'a.,  as  Dr.  Edgar  Woods,  in  his  History  (d'  Albe-  son  County.    The  hisi  iiccipi  (d'  his  given  in  ilic  old 

jaarle  County,  fails  to  refer  to  them  as  sucli.  account  book  now    in  llic  writer's  possession  licars 

yil. — JOHN  WOODS,  Ji\.,    was    i»robably    tlie  date  October  ."),  ITllT,  ami  lie  was  then,  most  iimb- 

sevenlli  cliibl  (d'('olonel  -Tolin  Wooilsaud  Susnnnah  ably,  in  .Mbcmarle  ("onnl\',  N'irginia,  wiiclher  as  a 

.Vnderson.     All   \\i'  know  of  him   has  been  gotten  visitor  or  a  resi(b'iii    we  cannoi   afhrm.     Snsannah 

fi(im  his  tombstone  at  Blair  I'ark,  which  shows  he  died    at    the     .Milhi'    home    on     Drowning    Crcn^k 

was  born  in  1TG3,  and  died  the  year  following.  .Vngust  13,  1831',  in  her  sixty  ronrlh  yeai-.   Her  hus- 

VIII. — SCSANXAH  WOODS  was  probably  the  band  survived  her  nearly  nine  years,  dying  April 

eighth  and  certainly  the  last  child  of  Colonel  John  23,  1811.    The  bodies  of  both  Daniel  and  Susannah 

^^d^ds  and  Susannah  Andt'rson.     The  date  of  her  were  at  tirst  buried  on   the  old   .Miller  ])lace,  but 

birth  is  given  as  Sei>tember  21,  ITtiS,  by  Mr.  >\'.  II.  now  repose  in  the  beanliful  Kichmond   (  Kentucky) 

Miller,  of  Kichnumd,  Kentucky,  one  of  her  grantl-  Cemetery,  their    graves    being    marke(l    by    tmub- 

sons.     From  the  manner  in  which  (Ndonel  Woods  stones. 

provided  for  Susannah  in  his  will  we  infer  that  she  Daniel  Miller  and  Susannah  ^Voods  left  ten 
was  a  great  favorite  with  him.  Her  name  is  found  children,  a  list  of  whom,  with  many  particulars, 
appended  to  a  nnniber  of  receipts  in  171J2  and  1793,  the  author  has  here  copied  from  ilu'  |iam])hlet  of 
she  being  single,  but  other  receijits  of  17U7  show  ^Ir.  A\'.  11.  Miller,  of  Kichmond,  Kcnincky. 
that  she  had  by  that  time  become  the  wife  of  Dan-  (aj  Tolly  .Millkk.  tirst  child  of  Daniel  and  Su- 
lci .Miller  (see  fac-simile  in  Appc  luli.x  V,  showing  sannah,  was  born  in  Albemarle  Cotmty,  Virginia, 
her  signature).  Mr.  W.  H.  Miller,  her  grandson,  October  11),  1794.  She  was  taken  ill  wJiile  Jicr  jiar- 
gives  Nelson  County,  Va.,  as  the  place  of  her  birth,  ents  were  traveling  to  Kentucky  and  died  on  the 
but  that  county  had  no  existence  until  1S07,  and  way.  The  date  of  her  death  is  given  by  Mr.  ^Y.  11. 
Nelson  was  carviMl  out  of  Audierst  County,  which  Miller  as  May  21,  1795.  Of  course  Daniel  .Miller 
was  carved  out  of  x\-lbeinarle  in  lldl.  A\'e  know  of  may  have  been  in  .Mliemarle  merely  on  a  visii  when 
no  reason  iov  supposing  her  widowtd  mother  ever  he  gave  the  receipt  previously  luentioued  as  bear- 
moved  from  Albemarle.  Susannah's  brother  Mich-  ing  date  October  ">,  1797,  but  it  would  hardly  seem 
ael  moved  to  Avhat  is  now  Nelson  County,  but  not  likely  that  he  would  make  that  long  and  tedious 
until  years  after  his  sister  Susannah  had  married  journey  in  1797  if  he  had  just  c<Mue  out  West  in 
Daniel  Miller  and  moved  to  Madison  County,  Ken-  1795.  But  Mr.  W.  H.  iMiller  gives  his  dates  as  if 
tucky.  Susannah  was  married  to  Daniel  Miller —  he  were  copying  from  family  rec(U'ds,  and  we  ac- 
aecording  to  the  statement  of  .Mr.  \\ .  11.  .Miller,  of  cept  them,  not,  however,  without  some  fear  lest 
Kichmond,  Ky.,  November  28,  1792;  but  the  writer  copyists  may  have  made  some  unintentional  mis- 
has  in  his  possession  an  original  receipt  which  she  takes  in  the  figures. 

signed  November  2(i,  1793,  and  in  which  she  wrote  (b)   Robeiit  .Milliou,  second  child  id'  Daniel  and 

her  name  "Susannah  Woods."     Her  nuirriage  oc-  Susannah,  was  born  June  22,  179(!.   In  1822  he  nmr- 

curred  only  a  day  or  two,  perhaps,  after  that  re-  ried  Sarah  :\Iurrel,  l)y  whom  be  had  five  children: 

ceipt  was  given,  however.     Daniel  .Miller,  accord-  1,  Susan,  who  marrieil    i'lank    Lee;  2.  Lizzie,  who 

ing  to  his  grandson  above  mentioned,  was  ojie  of  umrried  Fraidc  Lee ;  3.  .Maggie,  who  marrieil  Ceorge 

nine  children.     His  brothers  were  John  and  Thorn-  Griffin;  4,  George;  and  5,  Robert.     His  second  wife 

as,  and  his  sisters  were  Annie,  Betsy,  Jennie,  Su-  was  :Mary  Craig;  and  his  third  wife  was:Mr.s.  R(>tsy 

sannah,  Polly  and  Sallie.     He  was  born  in  Albe-  Griflin.  a  widow.     He  died  of  cholera  in  1873. 

marie  County,  Va.,  May  28,  17G4.     A   few  years  (c)   John  Mili>eu,  tlie  tliird  child  of  Daniel  and 


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THE   WOODS-]\[cAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


Susannah,  was  liorn  in  .Mailisdii  Coiinrv,  Ky.,  June 
30,1798.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth  (lOodUie,  l)y 
\vlu)ni  he  had  icn  ciiihlrcn:  1.  Susan  (J.,  ■\vho  uuir- 
rietl  Mike  Jiarchiy;  l^.  Sarah  W.,  wiio  married  Da- 
vid (Jdodloe;  ;>,  .Mari;aret  S..  wlm  married  Edmund 
H.  Buruham  ;  4  and  7>,  \\iliiani  (i.  and  Daniel,  who 
were  twins,  llie  former  dyiui;  of  eliolera  in  IS-tD. 
and  the  laller  in  early  infancy;  (i,  llellie,  who  mar- 
ried William  Heuton;  7,  Mary,  who  married 
Charles  Slejjhens;  8,  John;  !»,  Luey,  and  10,  Oi- 
tavia.  John  Miller  rose  lo  promini'nce  in  Kentucky 
and  early  in  the  Civil  War  was  made  a  Drigadier 
General  In  the  Federal  (Jovernnu'nt.  At  the  Bat- 
tle of  Richmond,  Kentucky,  while  endeavoring  to 
rally  his  disordered  columns  (August  31,  1862)  he 
received  a  fatal  wound  near  Mount  /ion  Church, 
from  the  effect  of  which  he  died  Septeniher  (>,  18ti2. 
His  remains  repose  in  the  cemetery  at  Kichmond, 
Kentucky,  and  a  monument  marks  his  gra\'e. 

(d)  Jamics  Mii.m:k.  who  was  the  fourth  cjiild 
of  Daniel  an<l  Susannah,  was  horn  in  .Madison 
County,  Ky.,  August  3,  1800.  lie  married  Frances 
Harris,  and  died  May  2,  18<i!».  Nine  children  were 
horn  to  James  and  Frances,  to  wit:  1,  Christo- 
pher; 2,  Daniel;  3,  Margaret  Susan,  who  married 
Dr.  ^^'m.  I'ettus;  4,  ^lalinda.  who  married  a  Mr. 
IJuller,  and  then,  after  his  death,  a  .Mr.  Ia'o  Ha- 
den ;  5,  John  H.,  who  married  a.  Mrs.  Angeline 
Brown  Harris;  (>,  Fannie;  7,  James,  who  married 
Gertrude  l\'ttus,  and  then,  after  her  death,  .Miss 
Susan  Chenault ;  8,  Bettie,  who  married  Dudley 
Portwood ;  and  0,  William  Harris,  who  married 
Kate  I'artman. 

(e)  Elizabeth  Miller,  the  fifth  child  (d'  Daniid 
and  Susannah,  was  lumi  in  Madison  County,  Ky., 
March  28,  1S02,  and  lived  only  about  seventeen 
months. 

(f)  Susannah  Mii.lki;,  who  was  the  si.xth  chill 
of  ]>aniel  and  Susannah.  \\as  born  in  ^Madison 
County,  Ky.,  iManh  2(),  1804.  She  nmrried  Stan- 
ton Hume  the  ."'Olh  day  nf  October,  1821,  by  whom 
she  had  five  children,  to  wit:  1,  Julia  Anderson, 
mIio  married  Thomas  Stanhope  Ellis;  2,  .Margaret 
Miller  Hume,  who  died  in   December,   1820;  3,  Su- 


san Jane,  who  married  John  H.  lOmbry;  4,  William 
Stanton,  who  inarried  Eugenia  Itnrnham;  and  5, 
.Mary  l.cjuise,  who  married  Thomas  McBoberts.  Mr. 
Hume  died  February  13,  18.13,  and  Susannah  mar- 
ried Kev.  Allen  Embry,  a  Baptist  minister.  She 
died  November  11,  1871. 

(g)  :MAia;Ai!ET  .MiLLi:i!.  who  was  the  seventh 
child  of  Kaniel  and  Susannah,  was  born  December 
2!),  ISO.-..  Un  the  Oili  of  February,  1820,  she  was 
married  to  Edmund  L.  Shackelf(U'd,  by  whom  she 
had  eight  children,  lo  wit:  1,  .Martha  llockaday; 
2,  .Mary  Juliette;  3,  Susan  Frances,  who  married 
Sidney  \'.  Bowland  ;  4.  William  Henry;  .j,  a  son, 
whose  name  is  uid<no\\n;  (i,  iMlmnnd  Lyne;  7,  Mar- 
garet, A\  ho  married  Kobert  llann;  and  8,  Juliette 
.Maliuda. 

(hj  .Mali.xua  .Mili>];k.  the  eighth  child  «d'  Daniel 
and  Susannah,  was  born  January  15,  1808.  She 
was  married  to  John  H.  Shackelford  December  IG, 
IS.'K),  by  whom  she  had  two  sons,  to  wit:  1,  George 
Daniel,  who  married  IJuth  Wartield,  and,  after  her 
death,  Lizzie  Sweeney.  In  August,  1870,  he  was 
elected  clerk  of  the  ^ladison  County  Court,  which 
ottice  he  held  until  his  death  in  1874 ;  2,  James 
Shackelford,  second  child  of  John  H.  and  Maliuda, 
married  .Mary  Bates,  and  later  on,  she  dying,  he 
married  .Miss  .Mary  Keene.  He  is  now  a  leading 
and  prosperous  hardware  merchant  in  Kiclnuond, 
Kentucky. 

(j)  Thomas  Woons  .Mn.Licit,  the  ninth  son  of 
Daniel  and  Susannah,  was  Imuu  in  Madison  Coun- 
ty, Ky.,  December  3,  1811.  He  nmrried  ^Mary  Jane 
Hocker  June  1,  1841.  But  one  child  was  born  of 
this  couple,  namely,  Malinda,  who  nmrried  John 
Samuel  (hvsh'y.  In  1882  :Mr.  Thomas  W'.  .Miller 
was  residing  in  Stanford,  Ky.,  and  was  the  only 
surviving  child  of  Daniel  ami  Susannah  ^liller, 
and  in  his  seventy-first  year. 

(k)  Christopher  Irvine  [Millei!.  the  tenth  and 
last  child  of  Daniel  and  Susannah,  was  born  De- 
cember 20,  1813,  at  the  home  of  his  parents  in  Mad- 
ison County,  Ky.  He  married  Miss  Talitha  Harris 
Se])tember  1,  1836,  and  died  October  14,  1878.  His 
wife  survived  him  about  three  years.  Eleven  chil- 


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109 


dren  -n-ere  the  fruit  of  this  uiiiou,  namely :  1,  Sarah 
^A'allace,  who  was  boru  June  7,  1837,  aud  married 
Stanton  Hume  Thorpe,  by  wliom  slie  had  ten  chil- 
dren;  2.  Kobert  David,  wlio  was  born  ^March  4, 
1839,  served  in  the  Confederate  Army,  aud  mar- 
ried Susan  J.  llai'uett,  by  wIkmii  be  lias  had  seven 
childi'en;  3,  James  Christopher,  who  was  lioru 
Se]>tember  3,  1841,  joined  the  Confederate  Army  in 
1862,  and  married  Mrs.  Elizalieth  S.  Kayburn,  iiy 
whoiu  he  bad  four  eliildren;  4.  John  Thonms,  who 
was  boi'u  Aiiiiust  10,  1844,  aud  married  Anice  I']l- 
kiu,  by  \\lioni  be  lias  had  four  children  ;  5,  a  sou  who 
was  born  October  20,  1844,  aud  lived  (inly  a  few 
weeks;  0,  Christojther  Irvine,  who  was  born  April 
18,  1848,  and  was  for  several  years  a  merchant  at 
Richmond,  Ky. ;  7,  Susan  Woods,  who  was  born 
August  2,  1850,  and  married  Thomas  Richard 
Hunu',  by  wIkhii  slic  has  had  four  children;  8,  Wil- 
liam Harris  (the  author  of  the  Taliiablc  littb' 
pamphlet  published  in  1882,  frdui  whidi  most  of 
the  information  in  this  work  concerninji'  the  Jlillers 
was  obtained),  who  was  born  October  22,  1852,  who 
has  held  various  important  offices  in  iladison 
County,  Ky.,  for  a  loni;'  series  of  years,  and  who, 
wliilst  takinti'  much  commendable  interest  in  the 
history  of  the  uuiih  rous  liranehes  of  the  .Miller  fam- 
ily, does  not  seem  to  have  had  a  wife  ami  family  of 
his  own  up  to  the  time  he  became  the  chronicler 
of  the  Millers;  9,  Mary  Eliza,  who  was  born  Jan- 
uary 29,  1855 ;  10,  Mike  Woods,  who  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1857;  and  11,  Elizabeth  Frances,  who 
was  born  duly  15,  1804,  and  who  married  Junius 
Burnham  Park  May  8,  1882. 

From  the  foregoing  sketches  it  will  be  seen  that 
Colonel  John  Woods  of  Albenmrle  County.  Ya., 
contributed  no  little  to  the  development  of  Ken- 
tucky, three  of  his  children  having  migrated  thith- 
ei  more  Ib.ni  a  century  ago:  his  son  James,  wlio  set- 
tled in  (iarrard  County;  his  daughter  Suita  (wife 
of  Sammd  Reid )  wlinsc  cbildicn  lived  in  Garrard 
and  Linc(dn;  and  his  daughter  Susannah,  wife  of 
Daniel  Miller,  who  settled  in  Madison  Ccmnty, 
Tlie  same  is  true  as  respects  several  of  his  brothers 
and  si.sters.     of  (be  notable  part  played  by  Mich- 


ael A^'dods  of  Blair  Park,  tliniugb  bis  gi'aiidcbil- 
di-en  and  great  grandchiidi'eii.  in  the  early  settle- 
nu'ut  and  (b'velopmeut  of  the  Kentucky  (Nimmon- 
wealtli  we  siiall  have  occasion  to  speak  .ii  ilie  close 
of  Ibis  cbaiilci-.  Il  i.s,  in  I'ncl.  a  wniKbTfnl  story, 
and  one  (d'  which  the  descciidanis  id'  .MiciiacI 
^^'^(lds  may  Justly  feci  pmiid. 

F— MARGARET  W  ( )( )1  )S. 

The  sixlji  cbibl  «(  Miciiaei  nf  Itiaii-  Park  and 
his  wife  .Mary  CanipbcJ!  is  b(dieved  to  iiavc  been 
Margaret,  and  she  was  jirdbably  born  in  Ireland 
abont  the  year  1714.  If  so,  she  was  a  little  girl  of 
ten  summers  wIkmi  the  W'nod.scs  and  Wallaces  mi- 
grated to  North  America.  Her  Aunt  Elizabeth,  as 
we  have  already  seen,  was  the  widow  of  Peter  A\'al- 
lacc,  ami  bmnglit  abmg  with  her  to  America  the 
si.\  cbildren  she  bad  borne  to  bef  husband  ere  he 
jiasspil  away.  Among  the  si.K  ^^■allace  children 
was  a  son  named  Andrew,  who  was  ])robably  twelve 
years  (dd  at  the  time  of  this  migration.  It  seems 
nnist  probable  that  Andrew  AN'allace  married  Mar- 
garet Woods  (his  first  cousin),  shortly  before  the 
Woodses  mo\-cd  down  into  \'iiginia — say,  in  1733 — 
and  accompained  his  father-in  law  to  the  eastern 
fool  of  the  Blue  liidge  and  settled  near  him  Iq 
what  was  then  the  Couidy  of  Goochland  (now  Al- 
benmrle). ^^'e  know  that  Andrew  Wallace  lived 
near  what  is  now  Ivy  I>e])ot,  on  paii  of  ilie  2,000 
acre  tract  which  .Micliael  Woods  ]Mn-cliase(l  of 
Charles  llndson  in  17;!7,  the  oiigiii;ii  deed  for 
wliicb  is  now  in  tlie  ]i(issession  of  (be  present 
writer,  ^^'e  also  know  I  bat  she  bore  to  ber  bnsband 
eight  children.  Her  death  may  lia\-e  occurred  aboui 
1754,  when  she  was  forty  years  old.  If  she  died 
about  that  tinu'  her  children's  ages  probably  ranged 
from  two  years  up  to  twenty  years,  .\ndrew  Wal- 
lace was  |troli;ibly  a  man  of  forty  two  w  lieu  left  a 
widower  willi  a  Innise  full  of  children,  uol  more 
than  one  ov  t  wo.  if  any,  of  them  being  t  ben  married. 
W'e  know  not  whelber  Andrew  remarried  after 
^largarel's  death,  but  wc  do  know  iliai  but  a  single 
(Uie  of  his  eight  children  renuiined  in  Albemarle. 
Dr.    Edgar   Woods  says  the  cbildren   went     ^Vest. 


110  THE   WOODS-MeAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

\\v   iiirliiic  Id  llic  niiiiiioii  tliat  oue    of    the    sous  Tliis   Kiduird   Woods  died   in  1801,  and  could  uot 

(Mirliacli   uiovcd  to  I'cuusylvauia,  where  his  par-  liavc  hccu   tlic  sou   of  .Micliael   AVoods.     His  son, 

euts  liad   lived  for  Ion  years  (from  1724  to  ITJU),  IJicliard,  Jr.,  liavinj;-  tlu'  name  of  his  father,  and 

and   llial   iio  si'llhd  about   ('arlish',  and  that  from  alscp  of  31ichael  "\^'oods"s  sou  Kicliard,  lias  doubtless 

iiiiii  llic  disiiniiiiished  soldier  and  man  of  letters,  often  ))e(  n  confounded   in  tlie  minds  of  many  per- 

.Ma  jor-(  i(  ueral   Lew  A\allaee.  has  desceuded.     For  s(uis  with  one  or  llie  oilier  Kieliai'd  \\'oodses  meu- 

furilier  iiailieulars  see  ("lia]iler  Second  of  I'art  I.  tioued.     Kieliard  Woods  (di(d  1771) )   had  a  daui;h- 

of  Ibis  \(diime  wbieb   is  devoted  to  the    Wallaces.  ^^,l■  -^ybo   married   a    Kieliard    Woods,    possibly    this 

(See  Note  75  for  an  item  in  regard  to  Andrew  AA  al-  Itichard,  -Ir.     The  \\'illiam  Woods  just  nR'ntioned, 

lace.)   Andrew  Wallace  died  in  Albemarle  iu  17S5.  ^yjio  was  tlu'  son  of  the  elder  Albenmrle  Richard, 


(j_i>icnAT;r>  woods. 


was  a  snr\'ey(n-  by  profession,  and  he  was  known  as 
"Survinor  Billy  Woods"    in    order    lo    distinguish 

r.elieviiiii',  as  we  do,  thai  Ifichard  was  one  of  the  iij,,,   iy,,,,,   (i,,,  imiltilndincus  ^^■illiam  Woodses  iu 

sons  of  .Mieliael  ^^■oods  of  I'.lair  Park,  we  have  reck-  Albemarle.     In  the  leiinthy  discussion  on  i)reeeding 

oned  that   be  was  iioru  in  Ireland  about    the    year  ,,;,oes  of  this  Chapter  Third,  devoted    to    settling 

1715,  .Hid  beiiee  was  a  boy  nine  years  oKl  wheu  the  j^,,^^.  ,||;i„y  children  :MichaeI  Woods  of  Blair  Park 

family  tame  lo   I'eiinsylvauia,  and  nineteen  wheu  really  had,  a  good  deal  has  been  said  about  his  son 

tlie   Woodses  moved    to  Virginia.     Wheu   Ricliard  I'ldiard  wliidi  need  uot  now  he  repeated.     The  dis- 

caiiie  to  full   maturity — say  about    174(t  to  17. )0  cnysioii  on  a  jirevious  |)age  ridaling  lo  tlie  identity 

he  hail  a  goodly  number  (d'  near  kinsf(dk  li\iug  iu  ,:f  the  Sammd   A\dods  who    lived    at     I'aiut    Lick 

the  (Ifeal    N'alley,  uot  far  away,  in  what    is    now  cinivih.  Canard   Couuly,  Ki  utiieky,  np  to  about 

Rockbridge  Couufy   lllieii  Augusta  County).     The  isoo,  and  then  moved  to  Tennessee,  with  the  son  nf 

^McDowells.  ANallaeis  and   i.apsleys  weic  his  blood  ]«ieliard  Woods  of  Rockbridge  County,  of  the  same 

ndatious.    Three  of  his  own  dear  sisters  were  there.  i]auu\  may  also  lie  consulted  by  any  one  who  wishes 

This,  and   llie  fael    lliat    llie  region   iu   wbieb   they  ^o  consider    that  ((uestion.     Richard  Woods,  who 

lived  was  itself  an  inviting  one,  was  a  rational  iu-  ^vas  the  sou  of    :\lieliael    of    Blair    Tark,    ami    the 

diieement.      Possibly    he   found    a   sweetheart  over  iivotlnr  of  .Magdalen  :\rc])ow(ll.  Sarah  Lapsley  and 

thife  while  visiting    his    kinsfolk.     Of    Richard's  ^Martha  "Wallace,  died  at  his  home  near  Lexington, 

wife  Jean  lor  .Jenny,  or  .Janet)  we  tiud  mention  iu  Virginia,  in  1771»,  and  left  a  considerable  estate  to 

his  will,  made  in  1777.    A\'e  have  no  means  of  know-  ]iis  wife,  .lean  and  his    Iwo    sous,    Benjamin    and 

iiig  her  surname.     She  probably  survived  him,  lor  t^amuel.     In  his  will  he  did  not  nieution  the  daugh- 

she  was  alive  when  be  wrote  his  will.     P.otetourt  fer  who  had  married  a  man  of  his  own  name,  which 

County,  when  created  in  17(i'.l,  embiacid  the  region  m.,,,  ,1,.,^  ]|.,vo  been  a  sou    of    the    elder    Richard 

in  whidi  he  lived,  and  he  was  that    county's  first  ^^',„„is  of  Albemaile.     Those  sous,    we   know,    sold 

High    Sheriir.       lie    di<'d     iu     1771),    having     two  their  lauds  in  17S:! ;  and,  according  to  the  opinion 

cliildi-eii;     a     son     named     Samuel,     and     another  ,,f  the  late  Major  Varuer  of  Lexington,  A^i.,  they 

named   Renjamin.     I'ln  ic  was  a  Richard  Woods,  a  moved  to  Kentucky.     If  the    Samuel    Woods    who 

man  of  iiii]iortance,  who  resided  for  many  years  in  ijyed  at  Paint  Lick,  Ky.,  from  about  1783  to  1800, 

Augusta  County,  and   Hkii  moved    to     .Vlbemarle.  was   not    identical    with    Kichaid    \\'(iods"s   son   of 

His  second  wife  was  Elizabeth  .\nn  Stuart  (or  Bet-  that  name,  then  we  have  no  idea  what  became  (d' 

SY  Stuart),  a  si.ster  to  Col.  .lohn   Stuart   of  (Jreen-  this  last  mentioned  Sannnd  Woods,  of  Rockbridge, 

brier  County.     He     had     four    children,    William,  H— ARCHIBALD  WOODS. 

George  Matthews,  liichard    (.Tr.  i,  and  a  daughter  According  to  our  best  jndgnu'ut  Archibahl  was 

named  Elizabeth,  who  married  one  .fames  ISrooks.  the  eighth  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park  and  Mary 


MICHAEL   WOODS  OF    BLAIK    TAKK.                                                 Ill 

Campbell,  and  was  probably  boru  in  Ireland  about  nnicli  uiicei'taiiily  in  tlie  minds  of  nil  cuiiceincd  as 

tlie  year  ITKJ.     One  of  bis  descendants,  .Indjj;!' Jolm  to  wbetber  tlic  sliaiT  nf  lln'cslalc  In  wliirh  ilml  de- 

A\'.  \Vo'nds,  of  Roanoke,  Virginia,  in  a  letter  to  tlie  ceased  tirandsdii   n\'  did    .Midiael   wmild    have   Imch 

wrilcr  dalcd    Marcli,   1!)00,  gave  it  as  bis   o])inion  eiililb'd,  liad  he  lived,  slifnild  he  Ircalcd  as  iiul  lia\'- 

tliat    Arcliiliald    Woods    (son   of    Micbael    of   lUair  iiig  descended   lo  liiin,  or  as  I  lie  Inw  Inl  |iropei'ly  of 

I'ark  )  '•was  born  about  1710,  or  1714."    Tliesligbt-  lliat  deceased  grandson  and  snlijeei   lo  disi  ribul  ion 

ly  later  date  (1716)   seems  to  tit  somewbat  better  among    liis    jawrni    heirs.      (See    rae-sinnles,    and 

into  tbe  known  conditions  of  tbe  case.     Arcbibald  cojdes  of  (lie  Colonel   .lolin    Woods   jiajiers  in  Ap- 

was  one  of  tbe  cbildreu  of  Micbael  of  Blair  Park,  pendix  1-'.  i     'i'lie  iirohabiliiy  is  ilia(   (his  grandson 

about  wbose  precise  relation  to  tbe  latter  tbere  bas  -n-as  alive  wlien  .Michael  made  his  will.  hn(  died  be- 

n(  V(r  l)eeu  any  ((uestion,  for  .Michael  exi>ressly  re-  fore  bis  grandl'adier  did.     This   will    lie  iielter  nn- 

fei'S  to  hini  as  his  son  in  bis  will  made  in  17(11.  derst(!0(l    liy  examining   (he   copy  of  old    .Michael's 

Tbe  tirsf   mention  we  bave  of  .Vrcbiliald  is  found  will,  (o  he  seen  ow  a    foiigoing  ]iage,  and   noihing 

in  a  deed  dated  July  30,  1743,  by  ■\vbicli  bis  fatlier  what    he  says  alioiU    "each   grandchild    now   in   be- 

eouv<'yed  to  bim  400  acres  of  land  on  tbe  beads  of  ing." 

l\y    Creek    and    otber    brandies    of    Nortli    Iiiver,  In  17(>7,  Arcliiliald   Woods,  as  ajipears  from  the 

which  land  had  lieen  patented  liy  Michael  June  10.  Allieniarle  records,  sold  (he  I'aiiii   whicli   his  fadier 

1737.     Archibald   was  tben,  according  to  our  cal-  ba<l  con\cyed  (o  him  Iwenty-four  years  liel'ore,  but 

cnlation,  twenty-seven  years  old,  and  bad  prol)ably  be  does  not  seem  to  have  at  once  renounced  bis  citi- 

just  been  nuirried.    Tbis  year  1743,  be  it  noted,  was  zeusbip  in  Albenuu'le,  for  we  find  bim  mentioned  in 

tbe  one  in  wbicb  ^ficbael  conveyed  a  farm  to  each  a  deed  made  in  Botetourt  Count.v  and  dated    Xo- 

one  of  five  of  bis  cbildirn,  namely:  \Villiani,  Mich-  vendier  ll*,  1771,  as  "of  Albemarle  County."     Tbis 

ael,  Jr.,  John,  Arcbibald,  and    "William    "NA'allace  deed   (on  record  at  Fincastle)    was   from    James, 

(tbe  husband  of  bis    daughter    Ilannab).     Of   his  George  and    Kolieit    .McAfee,  of  Botetourt  County, 

Avife  we  only  know  that  her  Christian   name  was  and   conveyed   to   Aichiiiald    a    ]ilantation   of   four 

Tsaliidla.  and  that  she  bore  her  Imsbaud  a  cousid-  hundred  acres  of  land  lying  on  Catawba  Creek  (in 

erable  family  of  children.     There  is  good  reason  what  is  now  Boanoke  County,  N'irginia).  Tbe  place 

f(U'  lielieving  (bat  she  was  born    about    tbe   .vear  was  known,  and  still  is,  as  "Indian  Camp."    There 

1723,  and  that  she    married    Archibald    in    1743,  the  McAfees   (who  constitute  tbe  subject  of  Bart 

when  she  was  twenty  years  old  and  be  was  twenty-  Second  of  this  v(dumei   had  lived  since  1748;  and 

seven.    When  Michael  of  Blair  Bark  made  bis  will  when  they  sold  this  plantation  to  .Vrchihald  \Voods 

in  Xoveudier,  17r)l,  he  referred  to  "son  Archibald's  they  remaine<l  in  (he  neighborhood,  James  McAfee, 

son  jMicbael"  and  honors    this    namesake    by    be-  Sr.,  (tbe  father  of  tbe  live  sons  who  helped  to  set- 

queathing  to  him  bis  "great-coat."    He  also  further  tie  Kentucky,  1773-177!)),  moving  down   Catawba 

alludes  to  Arcbibald  in  such  manner  as  to  make  the  Creek  a  few  miles  to  a  ])lan(a(ion  widiin  a  mile  of 

impression  that  be  was  the  father  of  a  consid(>rabIe  what  is  known  as  Boanoke  Ked   Sulphur  Siu-ings. 

family.     The  truth  is.  as  we  believe,  .Vrciiibald  and  Tins  Indian  Camp   place   was  the  home  of  .\rclii- 

Isabella  ]irobal)ly  had  eight  or  nine  children  when  bald  Woods  until  his  deaih  in  17S:',.     Ii   was  right 

^licbael  made  his  will.     From  certain  allusions  to  on  the  famous  ••Wildei  luss  Woad"  which  came  up 

be  found  in  receipts,  wbicb  several  of  the  legatees  the  Valley  from  the  Botoniac  by  Winchester,  Stan- 

(d' old  .M  icbael  gave  to  his   executors    (James   and  ton  and  Botetourt  C(Uir(   House,  on  to  New  Biver 

John  Woods)  during  the  years  in  wbicb  bis  estate  at  Ingle's  Ferry,  and  dow  n  through  Southwest  Vir- 

was  being  settled  up,  it  is  clear    that    Archibald  ginia  to  Cumberland  (iai>  and  into  Kenincky.   John 

Woods  had  had  a  son  to  die,  and   that    there  was  Filson  (17S4),  Ihe  tirsi  hislorian  of  Kenimky.  lin 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


tilt'  (ircUi-  of  time)   in  liis  lisl  of  tlio  stations  of  the  When  wo  ronio  to  give   a   ooniplote   list    of  the 

Wihlcrncss      If.iad,''      cniiuncniinii     at     Philadel-      childrtn  of  Anliibakl  Woods  and  his  wife  Isabella 
]ihia  and  cndini;  al  I  he  I'alis  of  liic  Ohio,  gives  as      wo  ai-e  obliged  to  speak  with  some  hesitation  so  far 


pari   of  Ilic  list,  liicsr  ilrnis.  to  wit: 

"To  Staniitou,  1")  [iiiil('s|. 

''To  North  Fork  James  J\iver,  37  miles. 

"To  Hotetonrt  C.  II.,  12  miles. 

"To  Woods  on  Cataw  iia.  I'l  miles. 

"To  I'att'ison's  on  KoaiKilic,  !l  miles. 

"To  Alleglit'iiy   .Mdiintain,  S  miles. 

"To  New  Kivcf,  ll!  miles."' 

This  shows  that  the  old  .Mr.M'ce — Woods  place 
on  the  Catawba— :McAfee"s  Irnm  174S  to  ITTl, 
and  A^'oods■s  frnm  1771  to  17.So — was  direct- 
ly on  (hat  well-known  highway,  and  that 
it  was  a  favorite  stop]>ing  jvlaee  for  travellers  pass- 
ing to  and  fro  between  the  settlements  in  Pennsyl- 
vania. [Maryland  .ind  Cciitial  N'iiginia  on  the  one 
haml,  and  Soiithwestcrn  \'irginia,  the  ( 'arolinas, 
Tennessee  and  Kentucky  nn  the  other.  No  dunbt 
I)aniel  r>niine  and  other  famons  hnnters,  explorers 
and  pioneers  often  fonnd  shelter  and  hospitable  en- 
tertainment at  "Indian  ("amii"  during  the  last  half 
of  the  eighteeiiih  ceiiiury.  Thai  historic  old  pla.-e 
seems  lU'ver  to  ha\'e  jtassed  fnim  the  ]i()sscssion  of 
Areliibald  \\'oods"s  family,  I'nr  it  is  today  (iwiied 
and  ocen])i(  d  by  his  descendants,  and  two  of  them 
who  are  (d'  the  (uigiiial  ]ir(im(>ters  of  this  jmblica- 
tion  ( -Indge  John  W  .  \\i>ni\s  and  Hon  James  F. 
A\'oods,  of  Ko.inoke  ('ily,  \'a.  i  were  burn  there. 
There  are  but  few  old  In iiiiesi eads  in  .America 
which  have  been  in  the  possession  of  a  single  fam- 
ily without  a  break  for  a  ceninry  and  ;i  third.  The 
present  wiil(  i-  hojies  he  w  ill  be  jiardoned  for  cher- 
ishing a  tender  feeling  towards  "Indian  Camp," 
not  only  because  of  its  close  connection  with  his 
Woods  kin;  but  also  because,  for  nearly  a  (|narter 
of  a  centnr\-  before  thev  owned  it,  his  .Mc.Vfee  an- 


as concerns  several  of  them;  but  so  far  as  the  I'c- 
searclies  of  the  anihor  of  this  work  have  extended 
the  conclnsion  which  seems  to  be  warranted  is  that 
they  certainly  had  seven  children,  and  most  ])rob- 
ably  three  more,  making  ten  in  all.  It  is  not  pre- 
tended that  the  dates  given  in  the  following  list  and 
the  order  of  the  children's  births  are  anything  nntre 
than  reasonable  guesses,  in  the  main. 

I.— AVILLIA.M     AVOODir?— Boitx      1744      (■.'). 

l)ii;i) . 

II.— MFS.  HK.\/EAL— Born  174.5  (•?).     Dii:!) 


III.— ISABELLA     AVOODS— BoKN     1747     (?). 
Diioi) . 

IV. — lollX    \\(»()D8— Boitx    174S    (?).      Died 
1S4(I  (?). 

V.MLS.     COAAAN— Born     17.")0     f.').  Diicn 


VI.— .Mi:S.   TIH.MBLE— BoRx  H.')!'   f.').     I)ii:i) 


VII. — TAMES  AVOODS— Born  1755   [•!).     Died 
17!)7  t  ■.'). 
All!.- ARCHIBAid)    AVOODS,   JB.— BoRX    1757 

(  ".'1.     Diia) . 

IX.— ANDBEAV  AAOOHS— BoRX  17(;(>  (?). 
lHi:i)  ^^. 

X.— JOSEPH  ANOOOS.- BuRX  17(;;J  (?).  l>ii:n 
1832. 

I.— The  first  child  of  Archibald  Woods  and  his 
wife  Isabella  We  shall  niention,  and  wlio  iiiax'  have 
been  their  first-born,  was  WILLIAAI  AA'OODS.  The 
date  of  his  birth  Ave  imdine  to  believe  was  about  the 
vear  1744.     The  first   and  onl\    mention  of  him  is 


fonnd  in  a  certain  bond  dated  -Inly  2,  17(!S,  which 

cestors  made  their  honu'  there,  they  ha\ing  bonght  his  brother  Joliii  Woods,  rhen  of  (iranville  ("onnty, 

it  when  New  Liver — only  twenty  odd  miles  distant  Sonth   ("arolina,  execnted    to    his    iiiude,    ('(donel 

— \\as  the  extreme  Sontliwestern  bonndary  (d"  civil-  John    Woods,    exeentor   of   the   estate   of    Alichael 

ization.     At  this  old  home  on  the  Catawba  Arehi-  AA'oods  of  Blair  Park,  on  receiving  from  him  the 

bald  AA'oods  dieil  in  17s:!,  the  records  at  Fincastle  legacies  of  AA'iiliam  and   Isabella  AA'oods,  son  and 

showing   that  his  personal   elfects  were  appraised  danghter,    r('S])ecti\'ely,   of  Archibald  AA'oods.      In 

December  2G,  1783.    He  died  intestate.  said  bond  AA'iiliam  AA'oods  and  Isabella  Woods  are 


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said  to  be  "of  South  Carolina."  A  copy  of  the  whole  we  can  iiiia,tiine  no  i-easou  for  such  a  move.  But  if 
of  tliis  lininl  will  be  found  in  Ajipendix  F,  and  also  it  was  the  Criiiivillc  coiiiity  (if  (lie  nortlH-rn  colony, 
a  facsimile  of  a  portion  of  it.     AVe  liavc  no  means  we  could  iindcisliind  it;  for  (licic  llicy  would  not 
of  kuowinij-  when  he  and  liis  sister  went  to  South  only  have  found  a  rollin,^-  country,  a  salulnioiis  (di- 
Carolina,  or  what  the  inducement  was,  or  whether  mate  like  that  of  Albemarle,  and  almost  the  identi- 
either  of  them  was  ever  married,  or  when  or  where  cal  agricultural  conditions  and  jiroducts  they  had 
they  died.    The  bond,  whilst  expressly  statinp:  that  been  familiar  with.    Imt    would    have  .settled  in  a 
John  Woods,  one  of  the  makers  thereof,    lived    in  community  in  which  many  of  their  near  Iilooil  kin 
Greenville  County,  South  Carolina,  i^ives  no  bint  were  living-.     Could  it  be  ]iiissible  that  it  was  not 
as  to  what  part  of  that  colony  William    and    Tsa-  the    South    Carolina    we    know    to-day,    but    the 
bella  lived  in,  but  simply  states  they  are  "of  South  South   Carolina  of  loose,   popular    speech    which 
Carolina."  The  presumption,  however,  would  natur-  once  was  known  in  the  early  days  of  the  Carolinas? 
ally  be  that  they  resided  in  the  same  county  he  did.  The  rpu'stion  is:    AA'as  there  ever  a  time  when  the 
The  county  of  Granville  louij  since  ceased  to  exist  region  now  end)7'aced  in  the  counties  of  Orange  and 
in  South  Carolina.  Tn  177.5,  it  constituted  one  of  the  Granville,  in  North  Tarolina.  could  have  been  prop- 
tw(dve  military  districts    which    had    been  organ-  erly     spoken     of     as     a     ]iart     of    what     is     now 
ized  in  that  colony  for  purposes  of  defense  in  the  South    Carolina.?"^      Was    there    ever    a    period 
quarrel  with  England ;  and  it  covered  the  territory  in     the     early     days     of     Carolina     when      the 
now  included  in  the  two  counties  of  Beaufort  and  Northern     Pro^•ince     or     Colony     was     not     gen- 
Hampton."     The  adjoining  colony  on    the    north  erally   understood    to   include   the  liackwoods   re- 
— North  Carolina — also  had  a  county  called  Gran-  gions  two  hundred  miles  inland?     We  know  that 
ville,  which  had  been  formed  in  1740  out  of  Edge-  as  late  as  1700,  and  proliably  much  latei-,  nothing 
combe  County,  and  named  in  honor  of  Sir  George  was  understood  to  be  meant  by  the  "Noi-thern  Prov- 
Carterct  (Lord  Granville).     North  Carolina,  how-  ince"  except  the  strip  of  coast  settleiuent  which 
ever,  still  has  its  Granville  County,  though  its  area  lay  to  the  iiortJirofit  of  Cape  Fear.     The  very  term 
has  again  and  again  lieen  diminisluHl  bv  taking  of  "North  Carolina,"  was   unheard     of,     apparently, 
its  territoi'y  in  order  to  form    new    counties.     In  prior  to  IfiOl.'"     The  neighborhood  in  which  Wil- 
1751  Orange  County,  North  Carolina,  was  carved,  li.nu    A\'oods    of    Indand    settled    was     fully     one 
in  part,  out  of  Granvill(>,  and  here  William  Woods,  hundred  miles  to  the  west  of  the  territory  which 
of  Indand,  the  brother  of  ^Michael  of  Blair  Park,  the  Lords  Proprietors    of    Carolina    described    as 
and  Elizabeth  Wallace  had    settled.     Whether   he  "our  colony    northeast    of    Cape    Fear."    It   was 
was  ever  a  citizen  of  Virginia  is  uncertain.     This  probably  Granville  county  when  William    Woods 
A\'illiaiu  Woods,  son  of  Arthibald,  was   the   great  of  Ireland  went  there  first,  but  since  1751  it  has 
nephew  of  William  of  Ireland;  and  his  migrating  been  Orange  county.     If  there  was  a  time  when  the 
from  .\lbemarle  County,  Virginia,  to  a  region  far  Northern   Province  did   not   include  any  territory 
to  the  south  of  his  childhood  home  cfnild  be  mucli  which   was  not  northeast  of  Cape  Fear — and  this 
more  satisfactorily  explained   if  if   was  Granville  no  umn  can  question — to  what  province  or  colony 
County,  Noi-th  Carolina,  and  not  the  county  of  that  did  the  region  where  William  of  Ireland  lived  be- 
name  in  the  southern  colony,  to  which  he  and  these  long?     Certainly    not    to    Ynrth    Carolina.       Of 
otlier  children  of  Archibald  Woods  went.    There  is  course  there  came  a   time   when   North   Carolina 
something  surprising  and  eutircdy  inexplicable  in  became  a  well-defined  colony  as  to  its  pi-ecise  boun- 
their  having  gone  away  down  on  the  South  Caro-  daries,   and    when   what   is   now   (!i-;iuvirie  county 
li-aa  coast  close    to    the    Georgia    line.     They    had  was  recognized  by  evei'ybody  as  ])ai-t  of  its  terri- 
never  lived  in  a  low.  swauijiy  country  like  that,  and  tory.     But    the    question    is:      .Might  n(d  a  jdain 


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farmer,  in  writing  a  documeut  iu  the  year  17G8, 
have  spoken  of  the  region  which  is  now  a  part  of 
North  Carolina,  nnder  the  name  of  Soutli  Carolina, 
withont  layini;-  himself  open  to  the  charge  of  un- 
heard-of ignorance?     These  thoughts  are  present- 
ed merely  to  suggest  a  possible  solution  of  a  very 
puzzling   questiou.     The  ouly   other  possible   ex- 
planation is  tliat  John  Woods,   or  the  man  who 
wrote  the  bond  for  him  to  sign,  wholly  through  in- 
advertence,   wrote    the    word    "South"    when    he 
would  hnre  written  "North"  had  he  been  thinking 
of  what  he  was  doing.     The  present  writer  can 
think    of    several    gnod    reasons    why    Archibald 
Woods's  children  might  have  settled  in  what  is  now 
Granville    County,  North   Carolina,  but  of    none 
whatever  for  their  going  down  into  the    malarial 
lowlands  of  tlie  extreme  southeast  corner  of  South 
Carolina.    Rut  that  William  Woods  and  his  sister 
Isabella  and  his  father  John  did  live  for  a  time  in 
one  of  the  Carolinas  is  as  certain  as  unhnpeach- 
able  written   documents   can   make   it.     It  is  ex- 
tremely probable,  also,   that   these  three  children 
of  Archibald  Woods  had  three  married  sisters  who 
did  the  same  thing,  but  of  them  we  shall  have  occa- 
sion to  speak  a  little  farther  on. 

IT— :MRS.  WILLIS  RRAZEAL  was,  as  we  are 
inclined  to  believe,  a  daughter  of  Archibald  Woods 
and  his  wife   Isabella.     Our   only  reason   for   this 
belief  is  that  in  a  receipt  which  John  Woods,  the 
son  of  Archibald,  gave  to  Col.  John  Woods    (son 
and  executor  of    Michael    Woods  of  Rlair  Park) 
July  IS,  17GS,  she  is  spoken  of  as  one  of  the  gi'and- 
daughters  of  Michael  Woods  of  Rlair  Park  and  as 
entitled  to  a  legacy  under  his  will.     She  and  a 
Mrs.  James  Cowan  and  a  Mrs.  John  Trimble  are 
all  joined  in  the  same  receipt.    John   Woods,   who 
received  a  receipt  for  their  legacies,  states  in  the 
receipt  that  he  acted  by  virtue  of  the  letters  of  at- 
torney which  the  husbands  of  those  three  women 
had  given  him.     The  question  is :     What  child  of 
Michael  Woods  of  Rlair  Park  was  the  father  or 
mother   of  these  three  w^omen?     We  have  never 
read  or  heard  of  any  granddaughter  of  old  Michael 
who  married  a  man  having  either  of  these  names. 


That  they  were  at  the  time  (1768)  living  in  Caro- 
lina seems  almost  certain,  for  John  Woods,  who  got 
their  legacies  for  tliciii,  was  then  a  citizen  of  Gran- 
ville county,    Sdutli    Carolina,   and   had   letters  of 
attorney   for   receiving   their   legacies   from   their 
grandfather's  estate.     It  is  reasonably  certain  that 
these  three  women,  whose  Christian  names  are  un- 
known to  us,  were  daughters  of  Archibald  Woods 
and  Isabella,  and  sisters  to  William    Woods   and 
Isabella  Woods  of  South  Carolina.   Thus  it  would 
appear  that  no  less  than   six   of  the  children   of 
Archibald  Woods  had  gone  down  into  one  of  the 
Carolinas  to  live  prior  to  the  year  1768,  namely: 
William,  John,  Isabella,  Mrs.  Rrazeal,  Mrs.  Cowan 
and  5Irs.  Trimble.     Further  than  this  we  have  no 
information   in  regard  to  tliem.     We  feel  reason- 
ably confident,  however,  that  when   tlieir  brother 
John   returned  to  Virginia  to  reside  and  settled 
at  his  father's  place  on  Catawba  Creek   (in  what 
is  now  Roanoke  county)   some,  if  not  all,  of  this 
little  colony  of  Woodses  came  with  them. 

Ill — One  of  the  children  of  Archibald  Woods 
and  Isabella  was  a  daughter,  ISARELLA  WOODS, 
named  for  her  mother.  What  has  just  been 
said  concerning  her  brother  William  applies 
largely  to  her  also.  Rut  for  the  information  gath- 
ered from  the  old  Col.  John  Woods  papers  we 
might  never  have  known  such  a  woman  had  lived. 
We  incline  to  the  lielief  that  the  year  of  her  birth 
was  about  1747.  In  1768,  when  lier  brother  John 
came  up  to  Albemarle  to  get  her  legacy  from  her 
grandfather's  estate,  she  was  about  twenty-one 
years  old  and  unmarried.  What  became  of  her 
we  have  no  means  of  knowing. 

IV — A  fourth  child  of  Archibald  Woods  and  his 
wife  Isabella  was  JOHN  WOODS,  named,  we 
doubt  not,  for  his  father's  brother,  Col.  John 
Woods.  One  of  his  descendants,  Judge  John  W. 
Woods,  of  Roanoke,  Virginia,  says  he  died  in  1840 
at  the  age  of  seventy-two.  This  would  fix  his  birth 
in  1768,  which  of  course  is  a  mistake,  for  we  give 
a  fac-simile  of  a  document  he  signed  in  1768  when 
he  ^^•as  at  least  twenty  years  old.  We  t\.\  the  date 
of  his  birth  at  not  later  than  1748,  and  if  he  died 


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in  ISiO  lie  attained  tlie  ripe  age  of  92,  and  if  a 
copyist  wrote  92  carelessly,  or  read  tlie  figures 
Imrriedly,  it  would  have  been  an  easy  thing  to 
have  72  taken  for  92. 

The  residence  of  this  son  of  Archibald  in  Caro- 
lina has  already  been  discussed  when  speaking 
of  his  older  brother  William.  That  he  was  Archi- 
bald's son  we  argiie  because  no  other  John  Woods 
could  have  possibly  met  the  requirements  of  the 
case.  The  only  sons  of  old  IMicbael  of  Blair 
Tark  (leaving  Archibald  out  of  the  account)  who 
had  sons  named  John  were  William  and  John. 
This  man  who  was  a  citizen  of  South  Carolina  in 
linS  could  scarcely  have  been  the  son  of  William 
Woods  (the  eldest  son  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park), 
because  William's  son  John  was  not  born  till  1751, 
and  hence  was  only  17  years  old  in  1708,  and  hence 
liardly  mature  enough  to  send  (in  a  journey  of  sev- 
eral hundred  miles  through  a  frontier  region  to 
collect  and  convey  money.  Then  William's  son 
John  migrated  to  Kentucky  about  17S0,  and  there 
married  a  :\riss  Estell,  and  moved  to  Tennessee  in 
ISOS,  and  died  there  in  1S15.  In  no  particular 
does  this  John  Woods  meet  the  requirements  of 
the  case  except  that  he  was  a  grandson  of  old 
Michael,  and  named  John.  As  for  Col.  John 
Woods's  son  John,  we  know  he  died  in  early  in- 
fancy. We  are  therefore  shut  up  to  the  conclusion 
that  John  Woods,  of  Granville  county.  South  Caro- 
lina, was  the  son  of  Archibald  Woods,  and  grand- 
son of  old  Michael.  There  is  not  an  arg-uraent  to 
be  urged  against  this  view,  so  far  as  we  know. 

The  receipts  he  gave,  and  the  bond  he  and  An- 
drew Wallace  conjointly  executed  in  July,  1768, 
(fac-similes  or  copies  of  which  are  given  in  Ap- 
pendix F  of  this  volume)  will  prove  of  interest  to 
his  descendants,  more  especially. 

John  Woons,  son  of  Archibald  and  Isabel l.i, 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  Smith  by  whom  he  had 
eight  children.  The  date  and  place  of  birth  of 
these  children  is  unknown  to  the  writer.  That 
John  Woods  (lid  not  long  continue  to  reside  in 
Carolina  after  1768  seems  certain,  for  it  is  Icnown 
he  spent  a  large  part  of  his  life  at  his  father's  plan- 


tation (Indian  Camp)  on  Catawba  Creek,  where  he 
died  in  1840.  If  the  Granville  County  in  which  he 
resided  in  1768  was  in  South  Carolina,  on  the  coast 
near  the  Georgia  line,  we  can  readily  understand 
how  a  man  liorn  and  reared  in  Piedmont,  Virginia, 
would  soon  want  to  get  away  from  the  ricefieldsand 
malarial  regions  of  the  low  country  and  once  more 
enjoy  the  mountain  air  and  scenery  which  are  no- 
where more  attractive  than  in  the  section  in  which 
his  father  settled  in  1771.     If,  on  the  other  hand, 
the  Granville  County  in  which  he  made  his  home 
in  1708  was  in  what  is  now  called  North  Carolina, 
we  find  a  very  potent  reason  for  getting  out  of  that 
country  in  the  confusion  and  bloodshed  which  pre- 
vailed in  what  is  now  Granville  and  Orange  coun- 
ties, North   Carolina.     The  scenes  of  disorder  in 
that  region  in  1705-1771,  growing  out  of  the  oppres- 
sions of  the  colonial  aulliorities  and  the  insurrec- 
tion of  the  Regulators,  were  quite  enough  to  cause 
peaceably-disposed   men   to  desire   another    ])lacc 
than  that  in  which  to  live  and  rear  a  family.     The 
original  protest  of  the  Regulators  was  published  in 
Granville  county,  and  at  Alamance  in  1771,  near 
by,  was    fought  that  bloody    battle    Itetween  the 
Regulators  and  Governor  Tryou's  fiU'ces  in  which 
two  hundred  of  the  citizens  of  that  region   were 
slain.     The  year  1771,  when  these  disorders  cul- 
minated, was  the  same  in  which  Archibald  Woods 
(John's  father)  purchased  the  Indian  Camp  farm 
on  Catawba  Creek.     It  is  more  than  likely  that 
John  moved  back  to  Virginia  about  that  time.     It 
may  be  that  part  of  his  business  in  coming  to  Vir- 
ginia in  1708  was  to  look  around  f(ir  a  home  in  the 
Old  Dominion.     The  road  from  Albemarle  to  Caro- 
lina  led   right  past   the  Indian  Camp  place,  and 
probably  both  John  and  his  father  made  some  ex- 
amination of  the  country  with  the  view  to  a  settle- 
ment before  John  went  back   to   Cai-olina.     But 
whatever  his  motives,  and  whatever  the  date  of  his 
return,  John  ANoods  got  back  into  Virginia,  and 
spent  the  latter  years  of  his  life  on  the  Catawba 
in  what  is  now  the  county  of  Koan(d<e,  one  of  the 
most  picturesque  regions  in   .Vmcrica. 


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The  following-  is  beliered  to  ))e  a  correct  list  of  in  1771,  and  which  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by 

the  children  of  John  Woods  and  Elizabeth  Smith:  one  of  William's  sons.     He  was  married  twice,  his 

(a)  Their  first  child  was  J.vmes  Woods.  The  tirst  wife  being  Miss  Harriet  Painter;  and  his  sec- 
date  and  place  of  his  birth,  and  the  name  of  ond,  Miss  Sarah  Jane  Edington.  By  each  wife  he 
the  lady   lie   iiuin  icd   iirc  mdouiwn   to   the  writer.  Inid  six  children. 

His  (lentil   occurred  Noveinlier  15,  1856.     He  left  1.  Tlie  first  child  of  \\'illiam  Woods  by  his  wife 

the  following  children:    1,  John,  wlio  removed  to  Harriet   Painter   was   named   ^lary,   who   married 

Illinois,    and    died    there    about    six    years    ago,  John  W.  Thomas,  and  moved  to  Oregon,  where  she 

leaving    thr(>e    children,   Mdn/     U'oor/.s'    Hatfield,  died.     2.  The  second  child  of  William  and  Harriet 

Addic    W'oitd.s    Bnxfoii.   and    Williaiii:    2,    George  -\vas  named  Sarah,  avIio  married  George  W.  Lewis, 


Washington,  who  moved  to  Illinois  and  then  to 
Nevada,  ilid  missidn.-uy  work  for  n  time  in  San 
Francisco,  nnd  left  one  daughter,  Tiri/'uila  Lre 
M'dtids.  whose  Ikuiic  is  at  Los  Angeles,  Galifornia ; 
3.  Gabriel,  who  moved  to  ^Missouri ;  4,  Joseph. 

(h)  The  second  child  of  John  Woods  nnd  Eliz:i- 
beth  Smith  was  Ap.SALo:\r  Woods,  who  was 
born  in  1801,  and  died  in  1871.  He  wns  thwarted 
in  a  love  affair,  and  never  married.  He  accumu- 
lated considerable  property,  was  a  nmn  of  iron  will 
and  acknowledged  courage. 

(c)  The  third  child  of  John  Woods  and  Eliza- 
beth Smith  was  named  .\urnTr..\LD.  He  died 
in  Craig  county,  Virginia,  in  1875.  He  left  four 
children,  as  follows:  1,  John  T. ;  2,  Absalom;  ?., 
Oliver  D. ;  and  4.  Alice,  who  mairied  a  ^fr.  Peard. 

((\)  The  fonrib  cliild  of  John  Woods  and  Eliza- 
beth Smith  was    named    S.\r.\it    L.     She    married 


of  Catawba,  Virginia,  and  is  now  dead.  8.  The 
fliird  child  of  A'\'illiam  and  Harriet  was  named  Ar- 
cliibald.  \\lio  lives  at  Vine  Grove,  Kenincky.  4. 
Tile  fonrtli  child  of  William  and  Harriet  was 
named  Caroline,  who  married  ^Fajoi'  ^1.  P.  Spes- 
sard,  of  Craig  County,  Virginia.  Her  husliand  died 
S(une  years  ago  ,ind  she  resides  still  in  Craig  Conn- 
tv.  5.  The  fifth  child  of  William  and  Harriet  was 
named  Susan  C,  wlio  married  G.  "NA'.  Wallace. 
Her  husbamrs  lionie  was  in  Catawba  Valley.  She 
and  lie  both  died  some  voars  ago.  G.  The  last  child 
of  William  bv  his  first  wife,  Harriet,  was  named 
John,  and  died  in  infancy. 

William  Woods's  second  wife,  as  above  stated, 
was  ^liss  Sarah  Jane  Edington,  and  she  bore  him 
six  children  also.  7.  William  Woods's  seventh 
eliild  (his  first  bv  his  second  wife")  was  named 
John  W.,  who  now  lives  in  Poanoke,  Viryinia,  and 


William  Doosing.  His  death  occurred  before  hers,  a  sketch  of  whose  life  will  be  found  in  Part  ITT  of 
She  died  in  1870,  leaving  Ihe  following  children: 
1,  Eliza,  who  married  a  Huffman;  2,  John  W. ;  3, 
a  daughter,  who  married  Charles  Thomas;  4,  Mar- 
tha; 5,  Ann;  and  0,  Adliue.  All  of  these,  except 
^Mrs.  Thomas,  lived  in  Catawba  Valley.  Mrs. 
Thomas  lived  at  Portland.  Oregon. 

(el  The  fifth  child  of  John  Woods  and  Eliza- 
beth Smith  Avas  named  JosErn  Woods,  concerning 
whom  we  have  no  information. 

(f)  The  sixth  child  of  John  Woods  and  Eliza- 
beth Smith  was  named  WiLLi.\i\r  Woods,  who 
was  born  in  1817,  and  died  in  1882.  His  home 
throughout  his  life  was  at  tlie  old  Indian  Cani]i 
plantation   on   the   Catawba,     which     his     grand- 


tliis  volume.  8.  William  Woods's  ei!.dith  child 
((he  second  bv  his  second  wife)  was  named  Amine 
E.,  who  died  in  1884.  0.  William  Word.s's  ninth 
cliild  (the  third  by  his  second  wife)  was  named 
Josenh  P..  who  owns,  and  lives  on,  the  old  Indian 
Camp  homestead.  10.  The  tenth  child  of  Wil- 
liam Woods  (the  foui'tli  by  his  second  \\ife)  was 
named  Anna  L.,  who  lives  at  Cata\Alia,  Virginia. 
11.  Tlie  eleventh  child  of  William  Woods  (the 
fifth  liv  second  wife)  was  James  Pleasants  Woods, 
who  n<iw  resides  in  Poanoke,  Virginia,  and  a 
sketcji  of  whom  will  be  fonnd  in  Part  HI  of  this 
volume,  12.  The  twelfth  and  last  child  of  Wil- 
liam Woods  (the  sixth  and  last  bv  his  second  wife. 


father,  .Vrchibald  Woods,  bought  from  the  McAfees      Sarah  Jane  Edington)   was  named  Oscar  W.,  who 


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is  a  surgeon  in  the  United  States  Army,  and  is  now 
stationed  in  tlie  Pliilippine  Islands. 

It  is  said  tliat  Joliu  AA'ouds  and  Elizabeth  Smith 
had,  besides  those  enumerated,  two  sons,  both  of 
whom  were  named  John  for  their  father,  and  both 
of  whom  died  in  early  infancy. 

V — MRS.  JAMES  COA>'AN  was,  as  we  incline 
to  believe,  one  of  the  children  of  Archibald  Wdods 
and  his  wife  Isabella.  Our  reasons  for  this  belief 
have  already  been  stated  in  a  foregoing  paragraph 
treating  of  her  brothers  William  and  John,  to 
which  the  reader  is  referred.  Of  tlie  date  of  her 
birili,  or  marriage,  her  migration  to  Carolina,  etc., 
we  Icuow  nothing  whatever.  That  she  \\as  a  grand- 
daughter of  Michael  ^^'oods  of  Ulair  I'ark,  and  re- 
ceived a  legacy  from  his  estate  in  170S,  there  is  not 
a  shadow  of  doubt.  Tnat  she  was  the  daughter  of 
Ai'chibald  \Voods  seems  almost  certain.  That  her 
home  in  tTGS  ^^•as  in  Carolina  is  extremely  prob- 
able. 

VJ— MRS.  JOHN  TRIxMELE  was,  as  we  incline 
to  believe,  one  of  Archibald  Woods's  children. 
Hev  case  is  precisely  like  that  of  the  Mrs.  Rrazeal 
and  the  Mrs.  Cowan  above  considered.  She  was, 
beyond  all  question,  a  grandchild  of  Michael 
A\'oods  of  Blair  Park,  and  in  1708  received  her 
legacy,  as  such,  from  his  estate.  See  above  what 
is  said  of  her  brothers  ^\  illiam  and  John. 

VII— JAMES  WOODS,  one  of  the  sons  of  Ar- 
chibald and  Isabella,  was  born  about  the  year  1755, 
in  Albemarle  county,  ^'irginia,  and  died  in  Ken- 
tucky (probably  in  Mercer  county,  or,  possibly,  in 
Fayette  county)  about  the  year  17117.  He  was  the 
progenitor  of  a  large  number  of  Woodses,  many  of 
whom  lived  in  Mercer  county,  Kentucky,  and  some 
of  whom  are  there  at  this  time.  His  wife's  Chris- 
tian name  was  Jane.  That  he  migrate^:!  to  Ken- 
tucky some  time  prior  to  1787  is  certain,  but  just 
how  long  before  that  date  we  cannot  say.  The  rec- 
ords of  Fayette  and  Mercer  counties  might  throw 
light  on  tliis  point,  and  the  land  office  records  at 
Frankfort  would  also  be  likely  to  furnish  some  in- 
formation concerning  him,  especially  if  he  entered 
lands  anywhere  in  Kentucky.     If  be  moved  west 


in  1785  he  was  tlieu  a  man  of  about  thirty  years, 
and  most  likely  several   '•{'  liis  children  had  been 
born    in    Botetourt    couuty,    Virginia,    and    were 
carried  on  pack-horses  through  the  Great  Wilder- 
ness to  Kentucky.  The  records  of  Botetourt  county, 
N'irginia,  and  Mercer    county,    Kentucky,    furnish 
some  int(UHiali<m  cuncerning  James  and  his   wife 
Jane,  and   iheir  se\en  cliildren.     From   these  rec- 
ords, and  from  Judge  John  N\ .  W  oods,  of  Roanuke, 
\  irginia   (who  is  a  grandson  of  a  brother  of  this 
James  W'oodsj   all  the  information  of  the  ijresent 
writer  has  been  obtained.     James  seems  to  have 
been  a  citizen  of  Fayette  county,  Kentucky,  June 
G,  1787,  for  at  that  time  he  gave  a  certain  power 
of  attorney  to  his  brothers  m   \  irginia;  but  it  is 
next  to  certain  that  he  very  soon  after  moved  over 
into  the  adjoining  county  of  Mercer,  for  the  records 
in  both  Kentucky  and  X'irginia  show  that  by  Sep- 
tember I'l,  17"J'J,  he  was  dead,  and  his  widow,  Jane, 
with   his   seven    children,    were   living    in    Mercer 
county.     A  suit  of  some  kind  (friendly,    perhaps) 
had    been    brought   by    four    of   James's    brothers, 
(John,  Andrew,  Archibald  and  Joseph)   to  compel 
the  infant  heirs  of  James  and  Jane  to  convey  to 
them  the  old  Indian  Camp  plantation  on  Catawba 
Creek,  Virginia.     In  this  suit  Jane  appears  as   the 
guardian  of  her  children.     James  probably  died 
in  the  spring  or  summer  of  the  year  1791),  and  in 
Mercer  county.     He  left  seven  children. 

(a)  One  of  the  children  of  James  ^^'oods  and 
Jane  was  named  Pkggy_,  who  was  probably  born 
in  Botetourt  county,  Virginia.  She  was  a  minor 
in  September,  1799,  and  may  have  been  born  about 
1780.  She  is  the  first  one  of  the  children  men- 
tioned in  the  suit  brought  by  iier  fathers  brothers 
in  1799,  though  she  may  not  have  been  her  parent's 
first  child.  We  have  no  knowledge  of  her  subse- 
quent history.  Margaret  was  no  doubt  her  real 
name,  of  wliicli  Peggy  was  a  sort  of  pet-name. 

(b)  Joseph  Woods  was  another  child  of 
James  and  Jane,  and  was  probably  born  not  far 
fi'om  1784.  He  was  in  Mercer  county  with  his 
widowed  mother  in  September,  1799,  and  under 
twenty-one  years  of  age.     We  do  not  know  whom 


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liL'  mai-ried.  iL  is  reasuuiibly  cenaiu  tliat  this 
luau  was  tlie  father  of  the  late  Harvey  Woods,  a 
farmer,  who  died  a  few  years  ago,  and  whose  home 
was  on  the  west  side  of  the  tiiruyike  between  Uar- 
rodsburg  and  McAfee,  Keutuclcy.  The  writer 
called  to  see  him  in  the  summer  of  18U5,  and  he 
was  then  perhaps  seventy-rtve  years  old.  That  he 
was  descended  from  Archibald  Woods  and  Isabella 
through  their  son  James  "Woods  seems  extremely 
probable.  Joseph  ^^■oods,  the  sou  of  James,  was 
about  thirty-live  or  forty  years  old  wheu  this  Mr. 
Harvey  AVoods  was  boru. 

(c)  AitCHiBALD  Woods  was  the  name  of  an- 
other of  the  sous  of  James  and  Jaue  and  went  to 
Kentucky  with  his  parents  some  time  jnior  to 
1787,  when  he  was  a  small  child.  He  must  have 
made  the  long  and  dangerous  journey  through  the 
Wilderness  ou  a  pack-saddle,  as  did  thousands  of 
little  folks  in  the  pioneer  i>eriod.  Archibald 
Woods  (son  of  James),  as  we  believe,  reached 
his  maturity  about  the  yeai'  18U0,  and  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Anna  Adams.  This  lady,  we 
strongly  incline  to  believe,  was  either  the  daughter 
or  niece  of  that  gallant  young  t^amuel  Adams  (sou 
of  William  Adams)  who  was  one  of  the  five  sturdy 
meu  who  composed  the  famous  "McAfee  Com- 
Ijany"  which  explored  Kentucky  in  1773.  He  was 
then  a  youug  man  of  about  uiueteeu  years,  the 
youngest  in  the  party.  He  was  probably  a  mar- 
ried man  by  1778  (the  year  Ijcfore  the  McAfees, 
Adamses,  McCouns,  etc.,  moved  their  families  to 
the  Salt  liiver  Settlement  in  Kentucky.)  If  the 
Miss  Anna  Adams  who  became  the  wife  of  James 
Woods's  sou  Archibald  was  Samuel  Adams's  first 
child,  she  probably  was  born  about  the  summer  of 
1779,  came  to  Kentucky  with  the  associated  McAfee, 
xVdams,  Woods  and  McCoun  families  in  the  fall  of 
1799,  and  married  Archibald  Woods  about  the 
year  1800.  A  sou  of  Arcliibald  ^Voods  married  a 
Miss  Cleveland  and  she  has  a  sou,  Mr.  Henry 
Cleveland  Wood  (he  spells  the  name  without  the 
final  s),  who  is  prominent  in  literary  circles,  and 
resides  at  Harrodsburg,  Ky.  Many  of  the  details 
liere  suggested  are,  of  course,  presented  merely  as 


reasonable  conjectures,  and  not  as  authentic  his- 
tovy.  It  is  barely  possible  that  Archibald,  the  son 
of  James  Woods,  is  not  the  man  w  ho  went  to  Mer- 
cer county,  Kentucky,  and  became  the  husband  of 
Anna  Adams — it  may  have  been  his  uncle  Archi- 
bald, the  brother  of  James,  instead  of  his  son.  Of 
him  we  shall  now  have  occasion  to  speak. 

VIII— AKCHIBALU  AVOODS,  JR.,  was,  as  we 
incline  to  believe,  the  eighth  child  of  Archibald  and 
Isaliella — one  of  the  numberless  Archibald  Woodses 
that  give  the  genealogist  of  this  family  no  small 
trouble.  The  year  we  have  fixed  upon  as  the  prob- 
able one  for  his  birth  is  17.57.  A^'e  know  next  to 
nothing  of  his  life.  If  he  is  the  man  who  settled 
in  Mercer  county,  Kentucky,  and  was  the  progeni- 
tor of  the  Mr.  Henry  Cleveland  AA'ood  of  Harrods- 
burg, theu,  of  course,  we  should  be  obliged  to  re- 
vise some  of  our  calculations  given  in  the  preceding 
.section  devoted  to  James  AVoods.  But  whilst  this 
Archibald  AA'oods,  Jr.,  may  have  gone  to  Kentucky 
late  iu  the  eighteenth  century,  we  do  not  think  he 
was  the  one  who  married  Miss  Adams,  unless  he 
was  at  least  twenty-five  years  her  senior. 

IX.—ANDREAA'^  AVOODS  was  another  sou  of 
Archibald  and  Isabella,  and  was  probably  boru 
about  the  year  17G0.  In  a  previous  part  of  this  chap- 
ter, wheu  discussing  the  number  of  children  Michael 
A^'oods  of  Blair  Parle  had,  we  mentioned  various 
coincidences  going  to  show  that  the  Andrew  AA'oods 
(1722-1781)  who  lived  close  to  Michael's  Blair  Park 
home,  and  afterwai'ds  settled  about  eight  miles 
southwest  of  Buchanan,  Virginia,  was  a  son  of 
old  Michael  and  a  brother  to  Archibald  of  ludiau 
Camp.  AA^e  are  reminded  of  one  other  coincidence 
in  the  fact  that  Andrew  AA'oods  (1722-1781)  named 
one  of  his  sons  Archibald,  and  that  Archibald  of 
Indian  Camp  named  one  of  his  sons  Andrew\ 
This  is  just  w'hat  we  find  nearly  all  the  brothers  in 
this  family  doing — they  peri>etuated  family  names 
by  naming  their  children  for  their  parents,  uncles, 
aunts,  brothers  and  sisters.  Of  this  Andrew,  son 
of  Archibald  and  Isabella,  we  know  but  little. 
Judge  AA^oods,  of  Roanoke,  Va.,  says  Andrew  weut 
to  Kentucky,  but  knows  nothing  further. 


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X.— JOSEPH  WOODS  we  regard  as  the  last  of 
the  children  of  Archibald  aud  Isabella,  aud  he  was 
l)robaI>Iy  born  abont  the  year  1703.  He  spent  his 
whole  life  on  the  Indian  Camp  homestead  in  the 
Catawba  ^'alley,  dying  there  in  1832.  lie  was 
twice  married,  hut  no  children  were  born  to  him. 
In  his  will  he  devised  the  sum  of  |3,000.00  to 
Montgomery  Presbytery.  That  devise  has  been 
kno\\n  ever  since  as  the  "Woods  Legacy" ;  aud 
despite  all  the  commotions  and  ruin  of  our  Civil 
^^'ar,  it  remains  intact  to  this  day,  the  interest  on 
it  constituting  an  annual  contribution  to  the  cause 
uf  Christ  when  the  pious  donor  has  now  been  in  his 
grave  for  more  than  seventy  years. 

J.— M.UfTHA  WOODS  was,  as  we  incline  to  be- 
lieve, the  ninth  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  i'ark  aud 
Mary  Campbell,  and  was  probably  born  in  Ireland 
in  17:!0,  only  four  yeai'S  before  the  migration  of  her 
parents  to  the  American  colonies.  Martha  was 
a  girl  of  fourteen  when  her  father  settled 
at  the  eastern  foot  of  the  Blue  Ridge  in  what  was 
then  Goochland  County  (now  Albemarle).  Her 
eiUest  brother,  A\illiam,  had  married  feusannah 
AN'aliace;  her  sister  Hannah  had  married  \Vil- 
liam  ^^'allace;  and  her  sister  Margaret  had  mar- 
ried Andrew  \\allace;  so  that  intermarriages  with 
hrst  cousins  had  become  fashionable  in  the  two 
families  when  the  time  came  for  her  to  give  her 
cousin,  I'eter  Wallace,  -Ir.,  an  answer  lu  his  pro- 
posal. She  simply  fell  into  line^  so  to  s^jeak,  and 
married  him.  From  that  time  (ITllj  forward  her 
home  was  near  where  Lexington,  Virginia,  now 
stands.  There  she  i-eared  a  large  family  of  chil- 
dren, and  there,  in  IT'JO,  she  died,  her  husband 
having  preceded  her  six  years.  In  the  previous 
chapter,  which  is  devoted  to  the  \>'allaces,  addi- 
tional items  can  be  seen  bearing  on  her  history 
where  her  husband's  career  is  treated  of. 

K.— ANDREW  WOODS  was,  as  we  believe,  the 
tenth  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  I'ark,  and  Mary 
Campbell,  aud  was  probably  l)orn  about  1722,  two 
years  before  his  parents  migrated  to  America.  It  can 


scarcel3'  l)e  (pu'slioncd  llial  .\nilre\v  \\'o(>ds  accom- 
liaiiied  his  parciils  in  17;'>l,  wiien  they  went  up  the 
Creat  N'alley,  and  asci'udcd  tlic  I'.lue  Ridge  at  the 
gap  afterwards  called  Wdods's  Gap,  and  came  to  a 
halt  at  its  eastern  base  in  what  was  then  Gooch- 
land County.  Andrew  was  then  a  boy  of  about 
twelve  years.  In  about  the  year  1750,  when  he  was 
al)out  twenty-eight  years  old,  he  nmrried  Martha 
Poage,  daughter  of  Robert  Poage,  of  Augusta 
County.  His  plantation  in  Albemarle  was  very 
close  to  the  old  Blair  Park  homestead.  He  owned 
five  hundred  acres  of  land  in  one  place,  and  nine 
hundred  acres  in  another,  in  Albemarle.  In  17(55, 
about  three  years  after  the  death  of  his  father 
(Michael  of  Blair  Park)  he  moved  away  from  Albe- 
marle, and  settled  in  Botetourt  County  near  Mill 
Creek  Church,  about  nine  miles  southwest  of 
Buchanan,  Virginia.  He  was  one  of  the  first  mag- 
istrates appointed  for  Botetourt  County,  and  was 
made  its  sheriff  in  1777.  His  death  occurred  in 
1781.  That  he  was  a  son  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park 
has  been  amply  proven,  as  we  believe,  in  the  earlier 
part  of  the  present  chapter  of  this  volume,  and  that 
question  may  be  considered  as  settled  until  some 
one  can  produce  positive  and  relialde  evidence  to 
the  contrary.  He  and  his  wife  Martha  Poage  left 
eight  children,  who  will  be  mentioned  in  the  order 
in  which  they  are  presented  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Edgar 
^^'oods  of  Charlottesville,  Virginia,  in  a  pamphlet 
he  iDublished  in  July,  1891.  That  pamphlet  con- 
tains a  vast  array  of  definite  information  concern- 
ing Andrew  and  ^larlha,  nud  their  descendants,  of 
incalculable  interest  to  all  who  desire  to  be  in- 
formed about  this  important  branch  of  the  Woods 
family.  That  publication  is  a  model  of  its  kind, 
revealing  in  its  author  the  utmost  thoroughness  of 
research,  and  conscientious  care.  To  Dr.  Woods 
we  are  indebted  for  nearly  everything  we  know  of 
the  Andrew  Woods  branch.  A  part  of  the  results 
he  secured  will  now  be  given. 

Children   of   Andrew   Woods    (1722-1781)    and 
Martha  Poage  (1728-1818.) 


I.— JAMES  WOODS.     Born 


Died  1817. 


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II.— ELIZABETH  WOODS.     Bokn 
1797. 
III.— REBECCA  WOODS.      BouN    - 


Died 


IV.— ROBERT  ^^■OOI>S.  r.oitx  .  Died 

v.— ANDREA^      WOODS,     JJ{.      BuuN     17.3'J. 
Died  1831. 

A'L- ARCHIBALD      AVOODS.        Born      176L 
Died  ISIG. 
VII.— MARY  WOODS.     BoitN  176G.     Died  1830. 

VIII.— MARTHA     WOODS.     Buux    .     Died 

1834. 


.  Died  kcr,  who  maii-ied  Dr.  John  D.  Kelly;  5,  Joseph  A\'. 
Wallver;  <>,  Ruberl  \\'.  \\'alkL'i-,  who  married  Leila 
Taylor,  and  whose  sou,  Mr.  Creed  AValker,  of  Lit- 
tle Roek,  Aik.,  is  the  father  of  Mrs.  Alfred  D.  Ma- 
sou,  of  Meuijjhis,  Tuuu.,  of  whoui  a  sketch  is  giveu 
iu  Bart  III  of  this  work;  7,  .lohii  M.  Walker;  aud 
8,  Elsie  Walker,  who  uiarried  Reiilteu  Kaj'. 

(dl  RoiiKKT  Woods  was  the  fourth  ehild  of 
Jauies  aud  ^'auey,  boru  Dec.  1*5,  178(j,  aud  lived  iu 
Nashville,  Tenu.  lie  uiarried  Sarah  "West  aud  left 
seveu  childreu  :  1,  Jauies  Woods,  the  secoud,  who 


I. — JAM  lOS  WOODS,  first  child  of  Audrew  aud  uiarried  Elizabeth  Campbell ;  li,  JosephiuCjWhouiar- 
Martha,  uiarried  Naucy  Rayburu  December  20,  ried  Joliu  Brauch;  3,  Robert  F.,  who  married  Ma- 
1776,  resided  iu  Montgomery  Couuty,  Virgiuia,  and  I'iua  Cheatham;  4,  Joseph,  who  married  Frauces 
died  January  27,  1S17.  Several  of  his  sous  aud  Foster,  aud  left  three  childreu;  5,  Tlieora  Woods, 
daughters  migrated  to  Nashville  at  au  early  day,  "i")  married  a  Mr.  Haudy;  (i,  Robiua  Woods,  who 
and  that  city  has  never  beeu  blessed  with  a  higher  lived  iu  Nashville,  married  William  Armistead, 
type  of  Christian  citizenship  than  his  descendants  iiud  left  six  childreu;  an<l  7.  Jnlia  Woods,  who 
have  exhibited  to  the  world.  To  this  couple  were  lived  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  married  R.  C.  Foster, 
boru  the  folloAviug  nine  childreu:  and    left    seveu    childreu.     .Mr.  Edward  Foster,  a 

(a)  AxDKKW  "Woods,  who  was  born  September  prominent  and  honored  merchant  of  Nashville, 
1!>,  1777.  The  name  of  the  lady  he  uiarried  is  uu-  Tenu.,  was  their  fourth  child,  a  sketch  of  whoui  is 
kuowu.     His  home  was  iu  St.  Charles,  Missouri,  given  iu  I'art  III. 

He  left    fonr  children,  to  wit:  1,  Andrew  Woods,  (el    The   tilth   child   of  James   and    Nancy   was 

who  lived  iu  J>ouisiana,  married  Elizabeth  named  .Maiitha  \\oods,    who    was    born     October 

aud  left  three  childreu;  2,  Adiue  Woods,  who  mar-  4,  17;k>,  and  resided  in  Montgomery  County,  Vir- 

ried  a   .Mr.   ("ourtuey,  aud  left   three  children;  3,  giuia.     She  uiarried  Alexander  H.  Robertson,  by 

Robert  A\'oods;  4,   Emily   A\'oo(ls,   who   married  a  whom  she  had  the  following  four  childreu,  to  wit: 

Mr.  A\liiliiiau,  aud  left  four  children.  1,  James  A\'.  Robertson,  who  mairied  a  Miss  Ora- 

(b)  JosEl'ii  Woods  was  the  second  child  of  ham,  and  lived  at  Dover,  Tenu.;  2,  Robert  Robert- 
James  aud  Nancy.  He  Avas  born  .Time  22,  1779,  son;  3,  Joseph  Robertson;  aud  4,  Alexander  H. 
and  died  April  20,  1S59.     He  made  his  home    at  Robertson,  Jr. 

Nashville,  Tenu.  (  f )    The   sixth    child    of    .lames  and  Nancy  was 

(c)  Mai!(;ai!i;t  ^V()oDS  Avas  the  third  (liild  of  named  Ja.aies  Woods.  Ji;.,  who  was  born  De- 
James  and  Nancy,  and  was  boru  September  12,  cember  10,  1793,  aud  lived  iu  Nashville,  Tennessee. 
1781.  She  married  John  :\Ioore  Walker,  of  Lyon  lie  marridl  Elizabeth  A.  Kay,  by  whom  he  had 
County,  Ky.  She  left  eight  children  :  1,  James  Wal-  eigiit  children,  to  wit :  1,  Kobert  K.  Woods,  who 
ker;  2,  Cathariue  Rutherford  AValker,  who  mar-  married  Snsau  Berry,  resided  in  St.  Louis,  and 
ried  Rev.  Robert  A.  Lapsley,  aud  by  him  had  seven  left  four  children,  namely:  Susan,  married  Giveus 
children,  one  of  whom  was  the  late  Judge  James  Campbell;  Margaret,  who  married  a  Mr.  Green- 
Woods  La]isley,  of  Anniston,  Ala.,  whose  wife  was  leaf;  Anne  Lee,  who  married  a  Mr.  Bliss;  and 
Sarah  i:.  I'ratt,  and  of  whom  a  sketch  will  be  Kobert  K.,  Jr.;  2,  Margaret  AVoods,  who  married 
fotind  in  ]*ait  III  of  this  work;  3,  Agues  Walker,  a  :Mr.  Haudy;  3,  Anna  Woods,  who  married  R.  B. 
who  married  Jose]ih  Norvell ;  4,  Mary  Jane  Wal-  Castleuiau,  lived  iu  Nashville,  and  left  a  daugh- 


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tci-  (l-]H:uhvth),  aud  a  sou  [Jaiiics  W.)  ;  4,  Joseph 
Woods;  5,  James,  who  married  Adeliue  Mihuii.  ami 
left  oue  sou,  Mark  M.  IV'oods;  6,  Audrew,  who  lived 
iu  Nashville,  married  Miss  Love  Washiugtou,  and 
left  a  sou  aud  a  daughter,  James  and  Mart/;  7, 
Elizabeth,  who  married  Sauuiel  Kirkmau,  lived  iu 
Nashville,  aud  left  two  daugliters,  Ellr.ahcHi  and 
Stosan;  8,  Susau,  who  married  :Mr.  G.  G.  O'Bryau, 
of  Nasliviile,  Tennessee,  by  wlmm  slie  had  two 
daughters,  Susan  and  Barslni. 

(g)  The  seventh  child  of  James  aud  Nauey  was 
named  Elsie  Woods^  who  was  born  May  10,  1795, 
aud  lived  iu  Nashville,  Teuu. 

(h)  The  eighth  child  of  James  aud  Naucy  was 
named  ARCiiir.ALD  ^^'o(»llS,  wlio  was  born  May  29, 
1787.     He  resided  iu  Nashville,  Tennessee. 

(j)  The  ninth  child  of  James  and  Naucy  was 
uamed  Agnes  Green  Woods_,  who  married  Charles 
C.  Trabue,  and  resided  iu  Kails  County,  Missouri. 
By  him  Agnes  had  eight  children,  as  follows:  1, 
Joseph  Trabue;  2,  Kobert  Trabue,  wlio  married 
Mary  Bibb;  3,  Anthony  Trabue,  who  resided  at 
Hannibal,  Missouri,  and  married  Christina  Man- 
ley;  4,  Charles  C.  Trabue,  Jr.;  5,  Sarah  Trabue, 
who  married,  first,  John  B.  Stevens,  and,  later, 
William  Shivers;  C,  George  Trabue,  who  married 
Ellen  Dunn ;  7,  Jane  Trabue,  who  married  J.  H. 
Eeyu(d(ls;  aud  8,  Martha  Trabue,  wlio  mariied 
George  Thompson,  and  lived  in  Nashville,  Tennes- 
see. This  lovely  Christian  lady  it  was  the  writer's 
privilege  to  meet  a  year  or  two  before  her  death, 
and  she  impressed  him  as  oue  of  the  worthiest  rep- 
resentatives of  Andrew  Woods's  branch  of  the  fam- 
ily. George  Tliompsou  aud  ^Martha  Trabue  had 
eight  children,  as  follows:  Agnes,  who  uuirried  G. 
G.  O'Bryau,  of  Nashville,  and  had  a  daughter,  Ag- 
nes O'Brgan:  Elizabeth,  who  married  John  P.  W. 
Brown;  Charles,  who  married  Elizabeth  Weeks; 
Martha;  Frances;  John  Hill,  who  married  Agnes 
Ricketts;  Jane,  who  married  Alfred  Howell,  aud 
bad  by  liim  three  children;  and  Catharine,  who 
uuirried  Joseph  L.  Weakley. 

IT._ELIZABETH  WOODS,  the  second  child  of 
Andrew  Woods  aud  Martha  I'oage  lived  iu  Rock- 


bridge County,  \'irginia,  aud  died  iu  January, 
1797.  Her  husband  was  David  Cloyd,  by  whom  she 
had  nine  children.  He  was  possibly  a  brother  or 
near  relative  of  the  James  Cloyd  who  married  Jean 
Lapsley,  daughter  of  Joseph,  Sr. 

(aj  The  tirst  child  ot  David  Cbj^-d  aud  Eliza- 
beth was  named  Martha,  who  married  Matthew 
Houston,  and  lived  at  Natural  Bridge,  N'irgiuia. 
Their  childreu  were  the  following:  1,  Sopiiia;  2, 
Emily ;  3,  Andrew ;  i,  David ;  5,  Matthew  Hale,  who 
had  a  son,  the  liev.  Dr.  Matlln'ir  Uale  Houston, 
now  of  Waynesboro,  Virginia,  w  iio  is  a  consecrated 
and  learned  minister  of  the  (idsjiel,  aud  (i,  Cynthia. 

(b)  The  second  child  of  David  Cloyd  and  Eliza- 
beth was  uamed  David,  Jr. 

(c)  The  third  child  of  David  Cloyd  aud  Eliza- 
beth was  uamed  Margaret,  who  uuirried  Rev.  Mat- 
thew Houston,  and  lived  at  Lebanon,  Ohio.  They 
had  two  sons,  to  wit :  1,  Andrew  C. ;  and  2,  Romaine 
F.,  who  married  aud  left  three  children. 

(d)  The  fourth  child  of  David  Cloyd  and  Eliza- 
beth was  uamed  Mary^  who  married  a  McClung. 

(e)  The  fifth  child  of  David  Cloyd  and  Elizabeth 
was  named  Andrew. 

(f)  The  sixth  child  of  David  Cloyd  and  Eliza- 
beth was  named  James. 

(f)  The  seventh  child  of  David  Cloyd  aud  Eliza- 
beth was  named  Elizabeth. 

(g)  The  eighth  child  of  David  Cloyd  and  Eliza- 
beth was  uamed  Joseph. 

(h)  The  ninth  aud  last  child  of  David  Cloyd  and 
Elizabeth  (according  to  the  order  in  which  she  is 
numtioued  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Edgar  Woods)  was 
uamed  Cynthia. 

III.— REBECCA  WOODS  was  the  third  child  of 
Andrew  Woods  (1 722-1781)  and  Martha  Poage. 
She  lived  iu  Ohio  County,  West  Virginia.  Her  hus- 
band was  Isaac  Kelly,  by  whom  she  had  nine  chil- 
dren. 

(a)  The  first  child  of  Isaac  Kelly  aud  his  wife 
Rebecca  Woods  was  uamed  Isaac  Kelly,  Jr.,  who 
married  a  Miss  Gad,  aud  left  four  children,  to  wit: 
1,  Hamilton;  2,  Simeon;  3,  Wesley;  and  i,  Benja- 
min. 


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THE   WOODS-McAPEE   MEMOEIAL. 


(1)  I    The  scfoiul  chihl  uf  J«aac  and  Eebecca  (not,  (aj   The  first  child  of  Kobert  Woods  (by  which 

liowi'ver,  tlu'  pair  lueutioued  in  ( ienesis)  was  uaiiied      wife,  tlie  writei'  is  not  iufurmedj   w  as  uauied  liOB- 
JOHN  Kelly,  wlio  was  boru  iu  1784,  aud  died    in      ™T  C,  who  married    Margaret   A.    Quarrier,   and 


1820.  He  married  Elizabeth  Wilson,  and  lived  in 
Ohio  County,  West  Virginia,  leaving  seven  chil- 
dren, to  wit:  1,  Jane,  who  married  \\'illiam  Miller; 
2,  Isaac ;  3,  A.  Wilson ;  4,  Aaron ;  5,  Sarah ;  G,  Ee- 
becca; 7,  Eev.  John  Kelly. 

(c)   The  third  child  of  Isaac   and   Kebecca   was 
named  James  Kelly,  who  was  twice  married.    His 


lived  iu  AN'heeling,  West  Virginia,  leaving  six  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  1,  Emily,  who  married  Thomas 
G.  Black,  and  had  six  children;  2,  Mary,  who  mar- 
ried Alexander  Q.  Whittaker,  and  left  eight  chil- 
dren ;  3,  Harriet,  who  married  Beverly  M.  Eoff,  and 
left  eight  children;  I,  Helen,  who  married  William 
Tallant,  and  left  six  children;  5,    Margaret,    who 


first  wife  was  Jane  Kobiuson,  and  his  second  was  married  Ilobert  A.  McCabe,  aud  left  three  children; 

Eliza  Gooding.    Dr.  Edgar  Woods  gives  the  names  and  6,  Alexander,  who  married  Josaphine  McCabe, 

of  seven  of  James's  children,  but   does   not   state  aud  left  three  childreu. 

which  wife  was  the  mother  of  any  of  them,  as  fol-  (b)   The  second   child    of    Bobert   Woods   was 

lows:    1,  Isaac;  2,  Samuel;  3,  Joseph;  i,  David;  5,  named  Andkew  P. 

Alexander;  G,  Otis;  aud  7,  Eliza.  ,(cj   The  third  child  of  Bobert  Woods  was  named 

(d)  The  fourth  child  of  Isaac  Kelly  aud  Bebecca  Eliza  Jane.  . 
was  named  Benjamin^  who  married  Charlotte  V. — ANDBEW  WOODS,  JB.,  was  the  fifth  child 
Cross,  by  -whom  he  had  two  childreu,  to  wit:  1,  of  .\.udrew  aud  ilartha,  aud  was  boru  in  1759,  and 
Isaac;  aud  2,  Eliza  J.  died  Eebruary  19,  1831.     He  married  Miss  Mary 

(e)  The  fifth  child  of  Isaac  Kelly  aud  Bebecca  Mitchell  McCulloch.  His  home  was  in  Wheeling, 
was  Nancy_,  who  married  Bobert  Poage,  and  by  him  \\est  Virginia.  To  this  pair  seven  childreu  were 
had  four  childreu,  to  wit :    1,  Bebecca ;  2,  Isaac  K. ;  boru. 

3,  Gabriel;  aud  1,  Elijah.  (a)   The  first  child  of  Andrew,   Jr.,   aud   Mary 

(f )  The  sixth  child  of  Isaac  and  Bebecca  was  Mitchell  McCulloch  was  named  Jane^  who  became 
.Mautua,  who  married  Alexander  Mitchell,  by  the  wife  of  Ifev.  James  Hoge  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  to 
whom  she  had  six  children,  in  the  naming  of  which 
the  reputation  of  this  family  for  adhering  to  scrip- 
tural appellatives  \\as  very  well  maintained,  as  fol- 
lows: 1,  Xancy;  2,  Samuel;  3,  Isaac;  4,  Jane;  5, 
Elizabeth;  aud  G,  ZachariaJi. 

(g)  The  seveuth  child  of  Isaac  and  Eebecca  was 


whom  she  bore  seven  childreu,  to  wit: 


1,  Eliza- 


beth, who  married  the  Bev.  Bobert  Nail,  of    Tus- 

kegee,   Alabama,   aud  left  seven  childreu,  among 

whom  were  the  well-known  Presbyterian  ministers, 

Bev.  Dr.  James  Xall,  and  the  Bev.  Dr.  Bobert  Nail; 

2,  Mary  M.,  who  married  Bobert  Neil,  of  Colum- 

Bebecca^  who  married  John  Mays    and    lived    at      bus,  Ohio,  aud  left  seven  childreu;  3,  Susauua  P., 

\V'est  Alexander,  Pa.  who  married  the  Bev.  M.  A.  Sackett,  of  Cleveland, 

(h)   The  eighth  child  uf  Isaac  aud  Eebecca  was      Ohio,  aud  left  three  childreu;  4,   Bev.   Moses  A. 

Simeon.  Hoge,  who  married,  first,  Mary  B.  Miller,  and  later 

(j)   The  ninth  and  last  child  of  Isaac  and  Be-      Elizabeth  Wills,  and   left  two   childreu;  5,  John 

becca  was  Nargissa,  who  married    Jonathan    Mc-      J.  Hoge,  who  married,  first,  Ann  L.  Wilson,  and, 

CuUoch.  later,  Mary  Calhoun,  leaving  four  childreu;  G,  Mar- 

IV.— EOBEBT  '\\'()()])S  was  the  fourth  child  of     garet  J.  Hoge,  who  married  J.  William  Baldwin; 

Andrew  and  Martha,    whose    home   was    iu    Ohio      aud    7,    3Iartha    A.    Hoge,    who    nuirried    Alfred 

County,  West  Virginia.     He  married,  first,  a  Miss      Thomas,  and  left  four  cluldreu. 

Lovely  Caldwell;  and,  next,  a  Miss  Elizabeth  Eoff.  (b)   The  second  cliild  of  Andrew  Woods,  Jr.,  and 

He  had  three  cliildren.  Mary  M.  McCulloch  was  named  Andrew^  who  mar- 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OF  BLAIR  PARK. 


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ried  Miss  Rebecca  Brison  and  by  her  had  eight 
children;  1,  James  Brison  Woods,  who  is  a  promi- 
nent business  man  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  a  sketch  of 
whose  family  will  be  found  in  I'art  ill  of  this 
work;  2,  Oliver  B.  Woods,  who  married  Ann  M. 
Anderson ;  3,  Luther  T.  Woods,  who  married,  first, 
Mary  E.  Niel,  and  later,  Mary  Hopkins;  4,  Jolin 
Woods,  who  married  Marilla  Hale;  5,  Archibald 
\^'oods,  who  married  Mary  Matthews;  0,  Alfred 
Woods,  who  married  Jane  Railey ;  7,  Rev.  Henry 
\Voods,  who  married  Mary  Ewing;  and  8,  Rev. 
Francis  M.  Woods,  D.  D.,  now  a  prominent  min- 
ister of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  in  charge  of 
a  church  at  Martinsburg,  West  \'irginia.  Rev.  Dr. 
F.  M.  Woods  married  Julia  Junkin,  by  whom  he 
has  the  following  children,  to  wit:  Rev.  David  J. 
Woods,  now  of  Blacksburg,  Virginia;  Mitchell 
Woods;  Andrew  H.  Moods;  Janet  Woods;  Mary 
Woods;  and  Rebecca  Woods. 

(c)  The  third  child  of  Andrew  ^^■oods,  Jr.,  and 
his  wife  Mary  M.  McCulloch,  was  named  Samuel, 
who  resides  at  Woodbridge,  California.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Leliler,  by  whom  he  had  eight  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  1,  Andrew,  who  married  Jane 
E.  Lellier,  and  had  seven  children;  2,  Mary  Jane, 
who  married  William  L.  Manly;  3,  Margaret 
T.,  who  married  J.  Henderson,  of  Stockton, 
California,  and  had  three  children;  i,  Jacob,  who 
married  Elizabeth  V.  Ward,  and  has  one  son,  Ed- 
win; 5,  Hugh  M. ;  G,  Rebecca;  7,  Samuel,  who  mar- 
ried Arlona  Ellis,  and  had  four  children;  and  7, 
Susan  E.,  who  married  Lafayette  Creech,  and  left 
seven  children. 

(d)  The  fourth  child  of  Andrew  Woods,  Jr.,  and 
Mary  M.  McCulloch  was  Robert  M.,  who  married 
Rebecca  Vause,  and  lived  at  Urbana,  Oliio.  By  her 
he  had  six  children,  to  wit :  1,  Rachel ;  2,  Alfred 
A. ;  3,  Mary  M.,  who  married  J.  W.  Ogdeu,  and  left 
one  daughter,  Anne  W.;  i,  William  N.,  who  mar- 
ried Ann  McPherson,  and  left  two  daughters;  5, 
Jane  H.  who  married  Griffith  Ellis,  and  left  six 
children ;  and  6,  Robert  T. 

(e)  The  fifth  child  of  Andrew  J.  and  Mary 
Mitchell   (McCulloch)   Woods  was  named  Maega- 


KET_,   who   married    Miiiliii    L.   TochI,  and   lived  at 
Bellaire,  Oliio.     Siic  h'fl  a  daughter,  Jaue. 

(f  j  The  sixth  child  of  Andrew,  Jr.,  and  Mary 
Mitchell  (McCulloch)  Woods  was  named  Mauy 
Ann^  who  married  Archibald  Todd. 

(g)  The  seventh  and  last  child  of  Andrew 
\^'oods,  Jr.,  and  iiis  wife  Mary  Mitchell  (McCul- 
loch) was  named  Alfueu^  who  married  Elizabeth 
Sims  and  lived  at  Bellaire,  Ohio.  He  left  twelve 
children,  as  follows:  1,  Margaret  T.,  who  married 
Joseph  S.  Mellor,  and  left  six  ciiildren;  2,  Louisa, 
who  married  S.  Colin  Baker,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
and  had  hy  him  ten  children;  3,  Isabel;  4,  T.  Sims, 
who  married  Mary  Pancoast,  and  left  three  chil- 
dren; 5,  Robert;  G,  William  A.,  who  married  Em 
ma  Zinn,  and  left  two  children;  7,  Launcelot,  who 
married  Charlotte  Teagarteu;  S,  Elizabeth,  who 
married  John  W.  Carrall;  9,  Mary  Ann,  who  mar- 
ried Henry  Basel,  of  St.  Louis,  and  by  him  had  ten 
children;  10,  Martha  N.,  who  married  Richai'd 
Ritey,  and  had  four  children;  11,  Alfred,  who  nmr- 
ried  Esther  Vogel,  and  left  two  children;  and  12, 
Edgai',  who  married  Louisa  James,  and  resided  in 
St.  Louis. 

VI.— ARCHIBALD  WOODS  was  the  fifth  child 
of  Andrew  Woods  and  Martha  Poage.  He  was  born 
November  14,  17G4,  and  died  October  26,  1846.  His 
home  was  in  Ohio  County,  West  Virginia.  His 
wife  was  Ann  Poage,  by  whom  he  had  a  dozen  chil- 
dren. 

(a)  Elizabeth  Woods  was  the  first  child  of 
Archibald  and  xiun.  She  married  George  Paull  of 
St.  Clairsville,  Ohio,  by  whom  she  had  three  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  1,  Rev.  Alfred  Paull,  who  mar- 
ried Mary  Weed,  by  whom  he  had  six  children. 

(b)  The  second  child  of  Archibald  and  Ann  was 
Thomas^  who  married  Mary  Prison,  and  lived  in 
Wheeling,  West  Virginia.  Thomas  and  Mary  had 
six  children,  to  wit :  1,  Ann  Eliza,  who  married 
James  S.  Polhemus;  2,  Sarah  M. ;  3,  Theodore;  4, 
Archibald;  5,  Rev.  Edgar  AVoods,  of  Charlottes- 
ville, Va.,  the  aulJKPi-  of  the  pamphlet  from  which 
the  present  writer  lias  derived  nearly  all  of  the  in- 
formation  he    possesses   comcrning    the   Andrew 


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THE   WOODS-McAPEE   jMEMOKIAL. 


>V()0(l!s  Ilia  mil  uf  the  \\'oods  clau.    A  Ksketcli  of  Dr.  VII. — MAllY  WOODiS  was  the  seveuth  child  of 

Ediiai-  Woods  will  he  fduiid  iu  Tart  Hi  of  this  vol-  Audrcnv  ^Voods  aud  his  wife  Martha  Poage.     Hhe 

uiiie.     Thomas  aud  Mary  also  had,  (i,  a  daughter  was  boru  February  It),  17GG,  aud  died  May  25  1830. 

uamed  I^ydia.     Iu  the  list  as  giveu  by  i)r.  Woods,  .She  married  James  Poage,    aud    lived    at    Eipley, 


himself,  7,  a  Johu  ileury  McKee  is  also  set  down 
as  cue  of  the  children  of  Thomas  Woods,  and  it 
appears  that  he  married  a  Miss  Tabk'r,  by  whom 
he  had  two  children.  Possibly  he  was  an  adopted 
sou.  Dr.  Edgar  Woods  (the  fifth  child)  married 
Miss  ftlaria  C.  Baker,  and  has  by  lier  seven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  further  notice  Avill  be  made  in  Dr. 
Woods's  sketch  iu  Part  III. 

(c)  Mautiia  Woods  was  the  third  child  of  Ar- 
chibald and  Ann,  who  mai-ried  Charles  D.  Knox, 
of  Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  and  by  whom  she  had  the  fol- 
lowing children,  to  wit:     1,  Franklin    W.    Knox, 


Ohio.     Who  had  by  him  thirteeu  children. 

(a)  Martha  Poage  was  the  first  child  of  James 
Poage  and  Mary  Woods,  and  married  a  geutlemau 
of  her  own  name — Mr.  George  Poage. 

(b)  Juax  C.  Poage  was  the  second  child  of 
James  and  Mary. 

(c)  Pev.  AiNDKEw  ^V.  I'oage  was  the  third  child 
(d'  James  aud  Mary,  aud  lived  at  Yellow  Hpriugs, 
Uhio.  He  married  Jane  Gay,  by  whom  he  had  six 
ciiildren,  as  follows  :  1,  Nancy  M.  Poage,  who  mar- 
ried Thomas  11.  Peynolds;  1',  James  Poage;  3,  John 
G.  I'oage,  who  married  iSarali  J.  Jones;  i,  Andrew 


who  married  Ruth  Stewart;  2,  Stewart  Knox;  and      I'oage,  who  lived  at  Pomona,  California,  and  mar- 

3,  Robert  Knox.  I'ed  Mary  B.  Kline,  by  whom  he  had  three  chil- 

(d)   Franklin  Woods  was  the  fourth    child    of     dreu ;  5,  Mary  Jane  Poage;  and  G,   Margaretta  E. 


Archibald  and  Ann. 

(e)  Nancy  Woods  was  the  fifth  child  of  Archi- 
liald  and  Ann. 

(f)  Mary  AVoods  was  the  sixth  child  of  Archi- 
bald and  Ann. 

(g)  George  W".  Woods  was  the  seventh  child  of 
Archibald  and  Ann,  and  married  Mary  Cresap 
Smith. 

(h)  William  Woods  was  the  eighth  child  of 
Archibald  and  Ann.  lie  proliably  died  when  a 
babe,  as  another  child  in  this  family  receiveil  this 
name. 

(j)  John  Woods  was  the  ninth  child  of  Archi- 
bald and  Auu,  aud  married  Iluth  Jacob,  by  whom 
he  had  six  children,  as  follows:  1,  Archibald;  2, 
Joseph  J. ;  3,  George  W. ;  4,  Hamilton;  5,  Anne  M. ; 
aud  G,  Martha  V. 

Ik)  E.MiLY  ^VoODS  was  the  tenth  child  of  Arch- 
ibald and  Ann. 

(1)  Wn.LLVM  Woods — the  second  «[  this  name 
in  this  family — was  the  eleventh  child  of  Archibald 
and  Ann. 

(m)  Hamilton  Woods  was  the  twelfth  and  last 
child  of  Archibald  W'oods  and  his  wife  Ann  Poage. 


Poage. 

(d)  Mary  Poage  was  the  fourth  child  of  James 
and  Mary. 

(e)  James  Poage  (Jr.)  was  the  fifth  child   of 
James  and  Alary. 

(f)  PouERT  Poage  was  the  sixth  child  of  James 
aud  Mary,  and  lived  at  Kipley,  Ohio.  He  married 
Sarah  Kirker,  by  whom  he  had  nine  children,  as 
follows:  1,  Pev.  James  S.  Poage,  who  married 
Ann  Voris,  aud  after  her  death,  Susan  L.  Evans, 
leaving  eight  children;  2,  Thomas  K.  Poage,  who 
married  Sarah  J.  Henry,  and,  after  her  death,  Jane 
Brickell,  and  left  ten  children;  3,  John  N.  Poage, 
who  married  Eliza  Ann  JlcJIillan,  by  whom  he  had 
one  child,  Alice  E.;  4,  Sarah  E. ;  5,  Alfred  B.,  who 
married  Esther  A.  Work,  I>y  whom  he  had  four 
children;  G,  William  C;  7,  Joseph  C. ;  8,  Mary 
Jane;  and  9,  Ann  E.,  who  married,  first,  William 
W".  Wafer,  by  whom  she  had  three  children,  and, 
later,  Andrew  Hunter,  by  whom  she  had  nine  chil- 
dren. 

(g)  Elizabeth  Poage  was  the  seventh  child  of 
James  aud  Mary,  who  lived  at  Ripley,  Ohio.  She 
married  the  Rev.  Isaac  Shephend,  and  left  a  son,  1, 
James  Hoge  Shephend. 


MICHAEL  WOODS  OP  BLAIK  PARK. 


(li)  Ann  I'OAGE  was  the  eiglith  child  ol'  James 
aud  Mary.  She  lived  at  llipley,  Olilo.  She  mar- 
ried Alexander  Mooney,  aud  had  by  him  six  chil- 
dren, as  follows:     1,  John;  '2,  .James;  ',i,  Eli/,aheth; 

4,  Sophia;  5,  Thomas;  and  6,  Sarah  Ann. 

(j)  Rebecca  Poage  was  the  ninth  child  of 
James  and  ilary.  She  married  .Tohn  T>.  Knaw,  and 
lived  at  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio. 

(k)  Margaret  Poage  was  the  tenth  child  of 
James  and  Mary.     She  married  the  Rev.  Thomas 

5.  Williamson,  and  lived  at  St.  Peter,  :Minnesota. 
She  had  ten  children,  as  follows:  1,  William  B. 
Williamson ;  2,  Mary  P. ;  3,  James  G. ;  4,  Elizabeth 
P.,  wlio  married  Andrew  ITnnter  and  had  by  him  a 
daughter,  Elkabcth,  and  a  son  John  K.  Elizabeth 
Hunter  married  the  Rev.  E.  J.  Lindsay;  5,  Rev. 
John  P.  Williamson,  who  married  Sarah  A.  Yau- 
nice,  and  had  by  her  eight  children;  fi.  Professor 
Andrew  W.  Williamson,  of  Rock  Island,  Illinois, 
who  is  oue  of  the  original  promoters  of  this  publi- 
cation, a  sketch  of  whom  will  be  found  in  Part  III 
of  this  work;  7,  Nancy  J.;  8,  Smith  B. ;  0,  Martha, 
who  married  William  Stout,  of  Great  Falls,  Mon- 
tana, and  had  by  him  two  sons,  Thnmnft  and  Alfred 
J.;  and  10,  Henry  M.,  who  married  Helen  M.  Ely, 
by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Sumner  and  William. 

(1)  Sarah  Poage  was  the  eleventh  child  of 
James  and  ilaiy.  She  married  the  Rev.  Gideon 
Pond,  and  by  him  she  had  seven  children,  as  fol- 
lows :  1,  Ruth ;  2,  Edward ;  3,  Sarah ;  4,  George;  5, 
Mary;  6,  Elizabeth,  and  7,  Ellen. 

(m)  Thomas  H.  Poage  was  the  twelfth  child  of 
James  and  INIary. 

(n)  Rev.  George  C.  Poage  was  the  thirteenth 
and  last  child  of  James  and  Mary.  He  married 
Jane  Riggs,  by  whom  he  had  five  children,  to  wit: 
1,  James;  2,  Stephen  Woods;  3,  Mavy  Ann;  4, 
George;  and  5,  Arabella. 

VIII.— MARTHA  WOODS  was  the  eighth  and 
last  child  of  Andrew  Woods  and  Martha  Poage.  She 
died  December  14,  1834.  Her  home  was  in  Bote- 
tourt Gounty,  Virginia.  She  married  Henry  Wal- 
ker, and  by  him  had  nine  children. 

(a)   Andrew  W.  Walker  was  the  first  child  of 


Henry  Walker  and  Martha  Woods.  Andrew's 
home  was  at  Pott's  Greeiv,  N'irginia.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Handly,  and  liy  licr  had  a  family  of  four- 
teen cliiidrcn,  to  w  il  ;  1,  Henry,  who  married  .Miiria 
Shawvei',  and  liad  by  licr  ten  cliildren;  2,  John, 
who  married  Miss  Nulten;  3,  Archibald;  4,  Mar- 
gaiet,  who  married  Tliomas  Harvey  aud  had  liy 
Jiim  three  cliildren;  .I,  .Martha,  wlio  married  Joseph 
Harvey,  and  by  him  had  five  children;  6,  Emily, 
wlio  married  Israel  .Morris,  and  tiy  liim  liad  six 
cliihlren;  7,  ]Mai'y,  wlio  mari-ied  (ieorgc  l>oiider- 
milk,  and  had  by  liiiii  eiglit  children;  8,  Elizabeth, 
who  married  .Vndrcw  Elmore,  and  by  him  had  sev- 
en children;  fl,  Jane,  who  married  John  Feri'ier; 
10,  Malviua,  who  married  James  Richardson;  11, 
Andrew;  12,  Floyd  ;  13,  Newton,  who  married  Julia 
Rapp,  and  l>y  her  liad  four  children — Euphemia, 
Beirne,  Man-is,  uml  Sdiinicl :  and  14,  Cynthia. 

(b)  Willia:\i  Walker  was  the  second  child  of 
Henry  and  Martha.  His  home  was  in  Warren 
County,  Kentucky.  He  was  twice  married.  His 
first  wife  was  Eleanor  IMoore,  and  his  second  was 
Sarah  Lapsley.  He  left  six  children,  as  follows: 
1,  Robert;  2,  Henry;  3,  ^lartlia ;  4,  John  L. ;  5, 
Catharine;  and  6,  Adeline,  who  mari-ied  W.  J.  Lan- 
drum. 

(c  )  Robert  Walki'r  was  the  third  child  of  Henry 
and  ^[artha.  His  home  was  at  Gap  ^lills.  West 
Virginia.  He  married  Jane  Allen,  by  whom  he  had 
five  children,  as  follows:  1,  Ann  Eliza;  2,  Henry, 
who  married  Agnes  .Tohnson;  3,  Robert,  who  mar- 
ried a  jMiss  Robertson ;  4,  Martha,  who  married 
Jackson  Clark;  and  5,  Lydia. 

(d)  J.\mes  Walker  was  the  fourth  child  of 
Henry  and  ^Martha,  lie  livid  iu  .McDoiioiigh 
County,  Illinois.  He  iiianied  ISfargaret  Bailey,  by 
wliom  h(>  had  four  cliildren,  to  wit  :  1,  William  S. 
B.;  who  married  Elizabeth  Head;  2,  Martha 
Woods,  who  mariied  James  M.  Wilson;  3,  Henry 
^r.,  who  married  Isabel  Head:  and  4,  .Tames  W., 
who  married  Julia  Head. 

I  el  TI1':nrv  "Wai,ki;i!  was  ilie  liCili  rliiM  of  Henry 
and  ^Fartlia.  His  lionic  was  in  .Mcner  romity. 
West  Viriiinia.     He    married    Mary    Snidow,    bv 


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whom  he  had  nine  chihlren,  as  follows:     1,  Mar-  Woodsos  tros.sed  the  Atlantic  that  year.     Concern- 

tha,  who  married  George  Snidow,  and  by  him  had  ing  her  early  life  we  know  scarcely  anything  what- 

five  children;  2,  William  H.;  3,  Christian;  4,  Mary;  ever.     We  met  her  name  first  in  1761,    when    her 

5,  James;  6,  Eliza;  7,  Lewis,    wlio   married    Jane  father  mentions  her  by  name  in  his  will  as    "my 

Carr,  and  by  her  had  three  children;  8,  Sarah;  and  danghter  Sarah,"  and  loaves  her  a   small   sum   of 

9,  Elvira.  money.     She  must  have  been  married  long  prior  to 

(f)  Aechibald  Walker  was  the  sixth  child  of  1761,  and  yet  her  father  does  not  refer  in  any  way 
Henry  and  ilartha.  to  that  fact.     And  in  the    papers    of    Col.    John 

(g)  Joseph  Walker  was  the  seveutli  chilil  nf  Woods,  executor  of  the  estate  of  his  and  Sarah's 
Henry  and  Martha.  His  home  was  in  Braxton  father,  we  find  no  receipts  to  show  that  Sarah  or 
County,  West  Virginia.  He  married  Maria  Gray,  any  of  her  children  ever  got  the  money  devised  to 
and  by  her  he  had  four  children,  as  follows:  1,  them  by  Michael's  will.  In  fact,  the  same  is  ])artly 
Lucretia;  2,  Martha  ;  3,  Robert;  and  4,  Henry.  true  as  to  her  brother  Archibald — some  of  his  chil- 

(h)   George  Walker  was  the   eighth   child   of  dren  drew  their  legacies,  but  lie  himself  did  not,  so 

Henry  and  ^Martha,    llis  home  was  in  Giles  Conn-  far  as  the  receipts  now  in  the  writer's  possession 

ty,  Virginia.    He  married  Susan  Eakin,  and  by  her  show.     It  is  likely,  however,  that  the  executors  of 

had  seven  children,  as  follows:    1,  Edwin;  2,  Lean-  Michael's  estate  kept  another  receipt  book,  beside 

der;  3,  John  A.;  and  4,  Avaninta,  who  married  Cy-  the  one  now  extant,  wliicli  has  long  since  been  lost, 

rus  Reynolds,  and  had  three  children.  That  Sarah  Woods  did  marry  a  jMr.  Joseph  Laps- 

(j)   'SlxiXY  Walker  was  the  ninth  and  last  child  ley  is  absolutely  certain,  but  the  date  of  their  mar- 

of   Henry    and    Martha.     She   married    Tilghman  riage  is  unknown.    We  find  her  husband  buying  a 

Snodgrass,  by  whom  she  had  ten  children,  as  fol-  farm  from   Benjamin  Borden  July  6,   1742,  near 

lows:     1,  Robert  L. ;  2,  Henry  W. ;  3,  Newton;  4,  ^^']lere  Lexing-ton,  Virginia,  now  stands,  and  we  are 

James  Woods;  5,  Cyrus;  6,  Cliarlcs  E. ;  7,  T.  Thorn-  compelled  to  assume  that  he  was  then  at  least  twen- 

as;  8,  Lewis  A.;  9,  Jane;  and  10,  ]Mary  M.  ty-one  years  of  age.     Sarah  was  then  al»out  eight- 

This  brings  us  to  the  end  of  the  lists  of  so  many  een.     Tlie  probability    is    tlinl    Joseph   and    Sarah 

of  the  families  of  children  descended  from  Andrew  were  then  but  recently  married,  and  were  about 

Woods  and  Martha  l*oage  as  it  Avas  deemed  advis-  setting  up  housekeeping  for  the  first  time.     That 

able  to  give  in  this  volume.     The  more  recent  de-  was  only  about  six  months  prior  to  the  Indian  raid 

scendants  are   given   pretty    fully   by   Dr.    Edgar  into  the  Valley  which  resulted  in  the   cruel  death 

Woods  in  tlie  paiiqiinct  several    times    mentioned,  of  .John  McDowell,  who  was  tlie  husband  of  Mag- 

and  to  that  publication  tlmsc    who    desire  further  dalen  (Woods)  McDovvell,  Sai'ah's  own  sister.    We 

details  are  referred.     In  studying  fliese  tables  the  do  not  know  the  date  of  Sarah's    death,    but    we 

writer  has  been  impressed  with  the  unusually  large  know  that  she  was  alive    in    1791    when    her   son 

nundier  of  ministers  of  the  Gospel   to  be  found  Joseph  made  his  will,  for  he  gives  to  her  a  life  in- 

among  the  descendants  of  Andrew  Woods  of  Bote-  terest  in  his  whole  estate  in  remainder  to  his  broth- 

tourt.    None  of  his  brothers  or  sisters    can    make  ers  and  sisters.     Her  husband  had  been  dead  sev- 

such  a  creditalili'  showing.    Andrew's  branch  niiglit  eral  years,  as  seems    certain.     According    to    our 

well  be  called  the  "Preacher's  Branch."  guess  as  to  the  date  of  her  liii'tji    (1724)   she  was 

L. — SARAH  WOODS  was,  as  we  incline  to  be-  about  sixty-seven  in  1791.  H(>r  son  .Tohn,  who  was 
lieve,  the  eleventh  and  last  ciiild  of  ^lichael  of  Blair  born,  as  we  know,  in  1753,  and  wlio  was  probably 
Park  and  'Mavx  Campbell,  and  may  have  been  born  ten  or  more  years  younger  than  his  brother  Joseph, 
in  Ireland  aboni  the  year  1724.  In  that  case  she  sold  his  farm  and  moved  from  Virginia  to  Ken- 
was  probaldy  a  babe  in  her  niotlier's  arms  when  the  tucky,  about  1793-1795,  and  it  is  more  than  likely 


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that  Sarah  (his  mother)  had  died  before  he  moved 
West.  A  woman  of  about  seventy  years  would 
hardly  venture  on  such  a  journey  as  was  neces- 
sarily involved  in  that  undertaliing  in  that  early 
day,  and  her  son  would  hardly  have  left  her  behind. 
A  ride  of  four  luindred  miles  through  a  wilderness 
with  its  attendant  liardships  and  dangers  was 
something  to  test  the  strength  of  even  the  hardiest 
frame.  We  therefore  conclude  that  Sarali,  the  wife 
of  Joseph  Lapsley,  never  saw  Kentucky,  but  died 
somewhere  about  tlie  years  1792-1794  in  Rock- 
bridge County,  Virginia,  and  her  dust  no  doubt  re- 
poses in  one  of  the  old  churchyards  near  Lexing- 
ton, or  perliaps  in  the  private  burial-plot  of  the  old 
homestead  which  her  husband  purchased  of  Ben 
Borden  in  1742,  wlien  tliat  region  wns  a  virgin 
wilderness.  There  is  good  reason  for  thinl^ing  that 
her  son  Joseph  also  died  about  tlie  same  time  she 
did. 

The  late  Judge  James  Woods  Lapsley,  of  Annis- 
ton,  Alabama,  who  was  a  distinguished  great-grand- 
son of  Joseph,  stated  tliat  Joseph  came  from  tlie 
North  of  Ireland  to  Virginia  by  way  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, reaching  Virginia  about  17.34.  That  is  tlie 
year  in  which  the  Woodses  and  Wallaces  came  to 
Virginia  from  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Lapsleys  may 
have  been  of  the  same  party.  At  that  date  (1734) 
Joseph  was  probably  not  much  over  fourteen  years 
of  age.  Of  his  parents  we  know  nothing,  except 
that  it  is  said  he  was  of  Huguenot  extraction. 
When,  in  1742,  he  bought  a  farm  of  three  liundred 
and  thirty-eight  acres  (as  the  Rockbridge  County 
records  show)  from  Ren  Borden,  the  Valley  was 
but  a  splendid  wilderness,  and  tlie  Indians  were 
constantly  passing  to  and  fro  along  their  regular 
war-path,  and  now  and  then  committing  bloody 
depredations  on  the  scattered  inhabitants  of  the 
Valley.  Their  war-path,  as  has  been  several  times 
before  mentioned  in  tliis  volume,  led  up  the  Valley 
from  the  Potomac  to  about  wliere  Staunton  now  is, 
then  turned  easterly  to  the  Blue  Ridge,  crossed  the 
Ridge  at  Woods's  Gap.  and  led  on  down  to  Carolina, 
etc.  Even  wlien  tlie  savages  were  nominally  at 
peace  with  the  whites  they  were  frequently  coining 


and  going,  and  their  presence  must  have  been  a 
cause  of  uneasiness,  no  matter  what  their  mission 
professedly  was.  In  1752,  ten  years  after  his  first 
purchase,  Joseph  Lapsley  bought  another  tract  of 
four  hundred  acres,  this  time  from  Sarah's  nephew, 
James  McDowell,  her  sister  jMagdalen's  son.  The 
Lap.sleys  were  no  doubt  prominent  people  in  Rock- 
bridge from  the  earliest  days— good,  reliable, 
Scotch-Irish  folk,  wlio  in  any  time  or  place  make 
sturdy  citizens  and  good  neiglibors.  There  is  a  lit- 
tle creek  near  Lexington  now  wliich,  for  genera- 
tions, has  been  called  "Sarah  Lapsley's  Run."  The 
late  Major  J.  A.  R.  Varner,  of  Lexington,  a  de- 
scendant of  Sarah's  sister  Martha  who  married 
Peter  Wallace,  Jr.,  writing  to  Judge  J.  W.  Lapsley 
a  few  years  ago,  says:  "When  I  was  five  or  six 
summers  old,  there  was  an  apple  tree  standing  on 
the  edge  of  the  lane  leading  to  the  spring  on  the 
farm  bought  ])y  my  grandfather  (Andrew  Wallace) 
from  his  uncle  (hy  marriage)  Joseph  Lap.sley.  It 
was  called  'Aunt  Sarah  Lapsley's  tree.'  Its  fruit 
was  large,  red  and  sweet;  and  it  is  now  represent- 
ed by  a  lusty  descendant  near  tlie  same  spot  where 
stood  the  kuarled  old  tree  of  my  childliood.  And 
in  the  yard,  near  tlie  lombardy  ])oplar,  was  a  large 
white  rose,  known  as  the  'Lapsley  rose.'  " 

Jo.seph  Lapsley's  home  was  visited  in  June,  1755, 
by  the  Rev.  Hugh  McAden,  one  of  the  pioneer  Pres- 
byterian missionaries  of  Virginia  and  North  Caro- 
lina, ilr.  :\lcAden  kept  a  diary,  which  is  quoted 
from  Foote's  sketches  of  North  Carolina  by  Wad- 
dell  in  his  Annals  of  Augusta  County  (page  66). 
Mr.  McAden  started  up  the  Valley  from  the  Poto- 
mac June  19,  passing  the  sites  of  Winchester  and 
Staunton.  On  Sunday,  the  29th,  he  preached  at 
the  North  Mountain,  and  at  the  same  place  on  the 
next  Sabbatli.  On  Friday,  July  11,  Mr.  ilcAden 
preached  at  Timber  Ridge  Church  for  the  pastor. 
Rev.  John  Brown.  The  next  day,  Saturday,  July 
12,  he  reached  the  home  of  a  ]\Ir.  Bowyer  (who,  the 
writer  suspects,  was  the  gentleman  who  became, 
and  possibly  then  was,  the  third  husband  of  Sarah 
Lapsley's  sister,  Magdalen  Woods).  Here  Mr.  Mc- 
Aden spent  a  day  or  two;  and  lie  speaks,  in  his 


128  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMUKIAL. 

diary,  of  Mr.  Bowyer  as  "a  very  kind  and  discreet  Aoadi'iiiy  was  its  first  name,  and  it  was  begun  in 
gentleman  wlio  used  me  exceedingly  kindly,  and  174!),  near  Lexington.  In  1782  it  was  chartered  as 
accompanied  me  to  the  Forks,  twelve  miles,  Avhere  Liberty  Hall  Academy;  and  in  1790,  AVashingtou 
I  preached  the  second  Saltbntli  of  July,  to  a  con-  gave  it  its  tirst  endowment.  From  that  time  on  it 
siderabh'  large  congrcgalitni.  i;(i(l('  lidme  with  was  Washington  Academy,  till  1813,  v\iien  it  be- 
Joseph  Lapsley,  two  miles  from  meeting,  where  I  came  Washington  College;  and  in  recent  years 
tarried  till  Wednesday  morning  (Ifith).  Here  it  (since  1870)  it  has  been  called  Washington  and 
was  I  received  the  most  melancholy  news  of  the  en-  Lee  University.  Those  earliest  Presbyterian 
tire  defeat  of  onr  army  by  the  French  at  Ohio,  the  preachers  lielieved  in  classical  and  Thristian  edn- 
geueral  killed,  numbers  of  inferior  (ifflcers,  and  the  cation,  and  tlic  schoolhousc  was  a  niTcssaiy  ad- 
whole  artillery  taken.  This,  together  with  the  fre-  juuct  nf  ihc  churcli.  Hence,  we  doubt  not  that 
quent  accounts  of  fresh  murders  being  daily  com-  .T(ise])h  Lapsley  and  his  neighbors  sent  their  boys 
mitted  u]>(ni  the  frdiiliers,  sd'uck  terror  to  every  and  girls  to  good  schools  where  they  studied  the 
heart.  A  cold  shuddering  i>ossessed  every  breast,  linmauities  along  Avitli  the  Westminster  HlKirlei- 
and  paleness  covered  almost  every  face.  In  short.  Catechism  and  the  Bible — a  plan  which  not  a  few 
the  whole  inhabitants  were  put  into  an  universal  sensible  Christian  peo^jle  in  this  day  and  genera- 
coufusion.  Scarcely  any  man  durst  sleep  in  his  tion  consider  most  wise  and  desirable, 
own  house,  but  all  met  in  companies  with  their  Joseph  Lapsley's  will  was  made  November  29, 
wives  and  children,  and  set  about  building  little  1787,  but  the  writer  does  not  own  a  copy  of  it,  and 
fortifications  to  defend  themselves  from  such  bar-  does  not  know  just  when  it  was  entered  in  court  for 
barians  and  inhuman  enemies,  whom  they  conclud-  probate.  Whilst  we  are  unable  to  state  the  exact 
ed  would  be  let  loose  upon  them  at  pleasure.  I  year  of  his  death,  it  must  certainly  have  occurred 
was  so  shocked  upon  my  first  reading  Colonel  prior  to  1791,  when  his  son,  Joseph  Lapsley,  Jr., 
Innes's  letter  that  I  knew  not  well  what  to  do."  made  his  will,  wherein  he  provides  for  his  mother 
This,  of  course,  was  Braddock's  defeat,  which  oc-  exactly  as  if  she  were  then  a  widow.  When  weat- 
cun-ed  .Tulv  9tli,  and  ilie  news  (if  whieli  spread  all  tempt  to  give  the  nundier  and  names  of  all  the  cliil- 
over  the  colony  in  less  than  two  weeks.  This  brief  dren  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  we  encounter  difficulty, 
narrative  by  a  reliable  eye-witness  gives  us  a  very  In  his  will  (1787)  Joseph  mentions  only  two  chil- 
vivid  picture  of  the  hardships  and  perils  to  which  dren,  to  wit:  Joseph,  Jr.,  and  John;  but  it  is  cer- 
the  Woodses,  Lapsleys,  Wallaces,  ^McDowells,  etc..  tain  he  had  at  least  a  third  son  and  several  dangh- 
were  ex^iosed  in  those  far-off  days,  in  what  Avas  ters.  Tiiis  we  learn  from  various  sources.  In  the 
then  called  the  "Backwoods  of  Virginia."  Yet  we  fii'st  ]ilace,  Jose]>h  Lapsley,  Jr.,  when  1ie  made  liis 
should  do  injustice  to  our  killi  and  kin  of  that  will,  in  1791 — f<nir  vears  after  his  father  made  his 
pevi<id  by  inferring  tiiat  they  Imd  no  schools  or  — expressly  referred  to  his  "brothers  and  sisters." 
churches  of  culture.  Those  Presbyterians  had  Secondly,  the  late  BLajor  Varner,  (already  often 
gone  to  school  in  the  old  country,  and  they  brought  quoted)  in  a  letter  addressed  to  the  present  writer 
educated  ministers  with  them  to  the  new  settle-  in  August,  1893,  stated  that  when  Joseph  Lapsley, 
ments,  and  began  founding  churches  and  schools  Sr..  made  his  will  in  1787,  he  had  at  least  one  son 
without  delay.  We  must  remiunber  that  what  Ave  and  seA'eral  danabters  whom  he  did  not  refer  to 
noAv  know  as  Wasliintitou  and  Lee  FniA'crsity  had  in  that  document.  His  father-in-laAV,  Michael 
its  beginning  almost  in  sight  of  the  homes  of  the  Woods  of  Blair  Park,  had  done  the  same  S(U't  of 
Lapsleys,  Wallaces,  Woodses  and  ^McDowells  (and.  thing  Avhen  he  made  his  Avill  in  1701.  as  has  al- 
almost  certainly,  Avith  theii-  .'ictive  assistance)  six  ready  been  fully  considered  in  the  earlier  portion 
years  before  this  visit  of  :\rr.  ]\[cAden.     Augusta  of  this  Chapter.     Then,  thirdly,  the  court  records 


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of  Rockbridge  Coiinty,  Va.,  as  quoted  by  the  late 
Judge  Lapsley,  of  Anniston,  Ala.,  show  that  John 
Lapsley,  son  of  Jo.seph,  Sr.,  and  Sarah,  who  was 
the  executor  of  both  his  deceased  father  and  his 
deceased  brother  Joseph,  was,  in  October,  1795,  a 
citizen  of  Lincoln  County,  Ky.,  and  that,  as  such, 
he  sold  the  old  Lapsley  homestead  in  Rockbridge. 
In  this  conveyance  he  states  that  he  acts  not  only 
for  himself  and  his  wife  Mary,  but  for  four  other 
couples,  to  wit :  James  Lapsley  and  Mary,  his 
wife;  James  Cloyd,  and  Jean  Cloyd,  his  wife;  John 
Hall,  and  Mary  Hall,  his  wife ;  and  John  Templin, 
and  Martha  Templin,  Ms  wife.  That  James  Laps- 
ley  and  the  wives  of  Cloyd,  Hall  and  Templin — 
Jean,  Mary  and  IMartha — were  children  of  Joseph 
Lapsley,  Sr.,  and  Sarah,  scarcely  admits  of  a  doubt. 
As  for  that  third  son,  whom  Joseph  Lapsley,  Jr., 
had  in  mind  when  he  made  his  will  in  1791  we  can 
hardly  doubt  he  was  this  James  Lapsley  whose 
wife  was  named  :\Iary.  and  who  was  in  Lincoln 
County,  Ky.,  in  1795.  These  facts  and  considera- 
tions, therefore,  seem  clearly  to  warrant  us  in  say- 
ing that  Joseph  and  Sarah  had  at  least  three  sons 
and  three  daughters  living  in  1787,  though  our  in- 
formation in  regard  to  the  majority  of  them  is  ex- 
tremely scanty. 

Children  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Lapsley. 

(Purely  Tentative  Exhibit  as  to  Dates  and  Seniority.) 

I._jOSEPH  LAPSLEY,  JR.     Born  1713  (?). 
Died  1792  (?). 
II.— JEAN   LAPSLEY.     Born    1748  (?).     Died 


III._MARY   LAPSLEY.     Born  1750  (?).     Died 


IY._.TOHN    LAPSLEY.     Boux    17.5.",. 


Died 


y._i\rARTHA  LAPSLEY.   Born  17.50  (?).  Died 


VI.— JA:\[ES  LAPSLEY.     BoRxl7nO(?).    Died 


I._.TOSEPn  LAPSLEY,  JUNIOR,  was  one  of 
the  children  of  Joseph  and  Sarah,  and  was  probably 
born  at  the  Lapsley  homestead  near  Lexington,  Va. 
We  have  guessed  that  he  was  born  about  the  year 
1743,  the  year  after  his  parents  are  supposed  to 
have  married;  but  we  have  only  slender  support 


for  this  precise  date,  and  it  is  only  our  opinion 
that  he  was  the  first  child  of  tliis  family.  Onr  sur- 
mises, however,  are  believed  to  be  not  entirely 
groundless. 

The  first  certain  information  we  Jiave  in  regard 
to  Joseph,  Jr.,  is  found  in  the  mention  of  him  wliich 
his  father  makes  in  his  w  ill  November  29,  17<S7. 
Therein  he  is  named  as  one  of  Jiis  father's  three 
executors,  his  mother  and  his  l)i-other  John  being 
the  other  two.  In  less  than  Umv  years  after  his 
father's  will  was  made  we  find  Joseph,  Jr.,  making 
his  own — December  23,  1791.  He  was  probably  a 
bachelor.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary 
Army,  when  and  where  we  know  not.  He  left  his 
whole  estate  to  his  mother,  in  remainder  to  his 
brothers  and  sisters,  l-^irther  than  this  we  know 
nothing  of  his  career,  but  we  believe  he  died  prior 
to  1795,  and  possibly  soon  after  making  Jiis  will. 

II.— JEAN  LAPSLEY  was,  as  we  believe,  a 
jlaughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah,  who  married  a 
James  Cloyd,  moved  to  Lincoln  County,  Kentucky, 
prior  to  October,  1795,  and  for  whom  her  brother 
John,  as  executor  of  her  father  and  of  her  brother 
Joseph,  conveyed  liy  deed  her  interest  in  her  fath- 
er's lands  in  Virginia,  October  17,  1795.  We  know 
nothing  further  of  her  career,  but  the  records  of 
Lincoln  County,  Kentucky,  may  contain  some  in- 
formation concerning  her  husband  and  her  chil- 
dren, if  she  had  any. 

III.— MARY  LAPSLEY  was,  as  we  believe,  an- 
other one  of  the  children  of  Josejdi  and  Sarah.  She 
married  a  John  Hall,  moved  to  Liiicoln  County, 
Kentucky,  i)rior  to  October  17,  1795,  at  which  date 
her  brother  John,  who  was  then  living  in  Lincoln 
County,  Kentucky,  conveyed  for  her  and  hei"  sis- 
ters, as  the  executor  of  their  father,  and  their 
brother  Joseph,  the  lands  of  .Tose])li  Lapsley.  Sr., 
to  one  Zachariah  .Tohiison,  in  Virginia.  Beyond 
this  one  fact  we  know  nothing  of  her. 

IV.— JOHN  LAPSLEY  was  a  son  of  Joseph  and 
Sarah,  and  was  born  December  29,  1753.  He  was 
about  twenty-two  when  the  Revolution  began,  and 
enlisted  in  the  command  known  as  "^[organ's 
Mounted  Men."    He  was  in  tlie  Battle  of  Brandy- 


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wine  September  11,  1777,  wliero  lie  was  wounded  Col.  Yantis  commanded  a  regiment  in  the  War  of 
while  carrying  order.s  across  the  battle-field.  These  1812,  and  for  many  years  he  represented  Garrard 
facts  are  on  record  in  the  Government  Archives  at  County  in  the  Kentucky  Legislature.  His  father 
Washington  City.  December  22,  1778,  he  married  was  Jacob  Yantis  (or  Yandes).  He  lived  on  his 
a  ]Miss  Mai'y  Armstrong.  In  1795,  or  possibly  one  plantation  near  Lancaster,  Kentucky,  until  1832, 
or  two  years  earlier,  he  migrated  to  Kentucky  when  he  moved  to  Lafayette  County,  Missouri. 
(Lincoln  County).  He  was  the  executor  of  both  Tliere  he  ran  for  Congress,  in  1834,  on  the  Whig 
his  father  and  his  brother  .Tose])h ;  and,  as  such,  on  ticket,  but  failed  of  election,  and  died  in  that  coun- 
the  seventeenth  of  October,  1795,  he  conveyed,  for  ty  in  1837.  The  only  one  of  the  children  of  Col. 
himself  and  others,  four  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  John  Yantis  and  Priscilla  Catherine  Lapsley  of 
land  to  one  Zachariah  Johnson,  three  hundred  acres  whom  the  writer  has  any  information  was  their  eld- 
having  been  previously  conveyed  to  Andrew  Wal-  est  son,  the  Rev.  John  Lapsley  Yantis,  D.  D.,  who 
lace.  lie  had  a  large  family,  as  folbiws:  married  Eliza  Ann  Montgomery,  by  whom  he  had  a 
(a)   Joseph  B.  Lafsley  was  the  first  child  of  large  family  of  children.     Of  him  and  his  children 


John  and  Mary,  and  was  born  October  5,  1770.  He 
attended  Washington  College  (Lexington,  Vir- 
ginia) and  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1800, 
and  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  preached  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee. 
He  was  twice  married.    His  first  wife  was  Rebecca 


a  somewhat  extended  account  will  be  found  in  the 
sketch  of  J.  Yantis  Lapsley  in  Part  III  of  this  vol- 
ume. 

(c)  John  A.  L.vrsLEY.  who  was  born  September 
5,  1783,  in  Rockbridge  County,  Virginia,  was  the 
third  child  of  John  and  Mary,  and  no  doubt  accom- 


Aylett,  whom  he  married  September  27,  1801.  His  panied  the  family  in  their  migration  to  Kentucky 
second  wife  was  his  cousin,  Sallie  Lapsley.  He  had  in  1795  (some  say  it  was  two  years  earlier).  He 
five  children  in  all.  married  Mary  (Polly)  Wear  McKee  (born  Novem- 
By  his  first  wife  (Rebecca)  Joseph  P..  Lapsley  ber  20,  1783)  the  tenth  day  of  August,  1805.  Mary 
had  the  following  children :  1.  John  W.,  who  was  (or  "Polly,"  as  she  was  often  called)  was  the 
a  lawyer  in  Selma,  Alabama,  and  died  in  1889;  2,  daughter  of  a  William  IMcKee,  who  was  a  commis- 
William  Fairfax,  who  lived  in  Alabama,  and  died  sioned  officer  (some  say  a  Captain,  others  say  a 
there,  without  issue;  3,  Joseph  M.,  who  died  in  Sel-  Colonel)  in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  The  said 
ma,  Alabama,  and  left  two  children:  George  H.,  McKee  came  to  America  from  Ireland  in  1725, 
and  Emma  Baler,  who  live  in  Kansas  City,  Mis-  when  a  babe  of  one  year,  moved  to  Virginia  in 
souri.  1745,  and  to  Kentucky  in  1793.  He  died  in  Ken- 
By  his  second  wife  (Sallie)  he  had  the  following  tucky  October  8,  ISIG,  at  the  advanced  age  of  nine- 
children  :    4,  Margaret,  who  married  a  Taylor ;  and  ty-two.     His  wife  was  a  Miss  Miriam  Wear.     Ac- 


5,  Samuel,  who  married  INIary  Bronough,  who  sur- 
vived him,  and  who  now  lives  in  Pleasant  Hill, 
Missouri. 


cording  to  the  late  Judge  Lapsley  of  Anniston, 
Alabama,  John  A.  and  Jlary  Wear  Lapsley  had 
eleven  children,  to  wit:     1,  Mary  Jane;  2,  Miriam, 


(b)   Priscill.\    Catharine   Lapsley,    who   wa.s     who  married  Warner  Wallace;  3,  Amanda,  who 
born  June  23,  1781,  was  the  second  child  of  John     married  Robert  A.  McKee,  and  whose  granddaugh- 


and  jMary.  She  was  no  doubt  born  in  Rockbridge 
County,  Virginia,  and  went  with  her  parents 
through  the  wilderness  to  Central  Kentucky  about 
1793-1795.  She  married  Col.  John  Yantis.  of  Gar- 
rard County,  Kentucky,  a  Revolutionary  soldier  of 
German  birth.     The  name  originally  was  Yandes. 


ter  (Mrs.  John  M.  Wood,  of  St.  Louis)  has  a 
sketch  in  Part  III  of  this  work;  4,  Priscilla,  who 
married  Robert  Robertson ;  5,  Joseph ;  6,  Wil- 
liam ]\I.,  who  married  a  ]\Iiss  Baron,  of  Perry 
County,  Alabama,  and  left  one  child,  Marj/;  7, 
John ;  8,  Samuel ;  9,  Robert,  who  migrated  to  Aus- 


MICHAEL    WOODS    OF    BLAIR    PARK. 


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tralia;  10,  James;  and  11,  David  Nelson,  who  was 
born  April  16,  1830,  and  married  IMargaret  Jane 
Jenkins,  and  who  was  the  father  of  Dr.  Robert  Mc- 
Kee  Lapsley  of  Keokuk,  loAva,  a  sketch  of  whom 
will  be  found  in  Part  III  of  this  volume. 

(d)  James  F.  Lapsley^  the  fourth  child  of  John 
and  Mary,  was  born  in  Virginia  January  7,  1786. 
He  married  Charlotte  Cleland,  by  whom  he  had 
four  children,  to  wit :  1,  Eliza,  who  married  Lanta 
Armstrong;  2,  Sarah  G.,  who  married  a  Mr.  Rob- 
ertson ;  3,  John  P.,  who  married,  first,  Eliza  Johns- 
ton, and,  later,  a  Mrs.  Jennie ;  and  4,  James 

T.,  who  married,  first,  Fannie  Ewiug,  and,  later, 
Elizabeth  Bosemond. 

(e)  Samuel  Lapslby^  the  fifth  child  of  John 
and  Mary,  was  born  September  22,  1789,  and  mar- 
ried Sallie  Stevens. 

(f)  Sarah  W.  Lapsley.  the  sixth  cliiia  of  .John 
and  Mary,  was  born  February  1,  1791,  and  mar- 
ried William  Walker,  by  whom  she  had  the  follow- 
ing children,  to  wit :  1,  Catharine,  who  is  unmar- 
ried; 2,  Adeline,  who  married  General  W.  J.  Lan- 
drum,  a  Brigadier  in  the  Federal  Army,  lived  at 
Lancaster,  Kentucky,  and  by  him  has  a  large  family 
of  children. 

(g)  William  Lapsley^  the  seventh  child  of  John 
and  Mary,  was  born  September  28,  1793.  It  is  said 
that  he  married,  had  a  family,  and  lived  somewhere 
in  Tennessee. 

(h)  Mary  C.  Lapsley,  the  eighth  cliikl  of  John 
and  Mary,  was  born  February  20,  1796.  She  mar- 
ried James  McKee,  by  whom  she  had  the  following 
children,  to  wit :  1,  Miriam,  who  married  a  Mr. 
Kelsey,  and  moved  to  Denver,  Colorado;  2,  Mary 
Charldtte.  who  married  William  Dodd,  of  Kosci- 
usko, Mississippi,  and  had,  among  other  children, 
John  L.  and  Joseph  V.  Dodd,  who  are  now  (1904) 
pi'ominent  la^\'yers  of  Louisville.  Kentucky;  3, 
Margaret,  who  married  a  Mr.  Uenning,  by  whom 
she  had  a  daughter  Avho  nmrried  a  Mr.  Johnston 
of  Yazoo  City,  Mississippi ;  4,  John  Lapsley,  who 
married  Sarah  Speake,  and  by  him  had  six  chil- 
dren; and  5,  Samuel,  who  married  Sallie  Camp- 
bell, and  was  in  the  Federal  Army  as  Colonel  of 


tlie  First  Kentucky  Ifegiment,  jnid  was  killed  at 
-Murfreesboro,  Tennessee;  and  6,  .lames  I'inley,  who 
niai-ried  ^Margaret  Sjieake. 

(j)  KoBEUT  Armstronc;  Lapsley,  (he  ninlii  cliild 
of  .Tohn  and  Mary,  was  born  .Taimary  1 1,  1798.  lie 
married  Catharine  Kuliierfdid  Walker.  Tliis 
lady's  father  was  John  [Moore  Walker,  wlio  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Margaret  Woods,  and  jMargaret  was 
the  daughter  of  James  Woods  and  Xancy  Ray- 
burn,  and  said  James  was  the  son  of  Andrew 
Woods  and  Martha  Poage,  and  said  Andrew  was 
a  son  of  Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park  and  Mary 
Campbell.  Thus  it  appears  that  Robert  A.  Laps- 
ley  and  his  wife,  Catharine  Rutherford  Walker, 
were  cousins,  and  their  eleven  children  were  lineal 
descendants  of  Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park, 
through  both  his  son  Andrew  and  his  daughter 
Sarah.  The  children  of  Robert  A.  Lapsley  and 
Catharine  were  the  following:  1,  Joseph  W.,  who 
died  unmarried;  2,  .John  D.,  who  died  unmarried; 
3,  Norvell  A.,  who  died  unmarried;  4,  Robert,  who 
was  born  February  10,  1833,  married,  first,  Albert! 
Pratt,  and,  second,  Mary  Willie  Pettus,  by  whom 
he  had  Roltcrt  Eaij,  John  Pettus,  Edmund  ^Y^ns- 
ton,  and  William  Wceden;  5,  James  Woods,  who 
was  one  of  the  original  subscribers  to  this  work,  a 
sketch  of  whom  will  be  found  in  Part  III  of  this 
volume;  6,  Margaret,  who  was  born  June  4,  1838, 
and  married,  first,  Dr.  James  AV.  Moore,  and,  latei', 
James  H.  Franklin;  7,  Samuel  Rutherford,  who 
was  born  June  25,  1842,  was  in  the  Confederate 
Army,  and  received  a  fatal  wound  at  the  Battle  of 
Shiloh,  in  1862,  while  bearing  the  colors  of  his  regi- 
ment; and  8,  Samuel  McKee,  who  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Federal  xVrmy,  and  died  in  1862.  Robert  A. 
Lapsley,  after  the  death  of  his  (first)  wife,  Cath- 
arine Rutherford  \Valker,  married  Mrs.  Alethea 
Allen;  and,  she  dying,  he  took  a  third  wife,  Mrs. 
Mai'y  Richardson,  who  survived  him.  He  died  in 
1872.  She  died  some  yeai"s  later  in  New  Albany, 
Indiana. 

(k)  Harvey  Lapsley^  the  tenth  child  of  John 
and  JIary,  was  born  April  1,  1800,  and  died  unmar- 
ried. 


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(1)  Margaret  Lai'SLEy^  the  eleventh  and  last  in  1791,  where  he  speaks  of  his  "brothers,"  clearly 
child  of  John  Lapsley  and  Mary  Armstrong,  was  showini;  there  was  in  the  family  at  least  one  otlier 
horn  Febrnary  17,  1802.  t<iie  married  Moses  Jar-  son  besides  himself  and  John;  and,  secondly,  in  the 
vis,  by  whom  she  had  two  children,  to  wit:  1,  Mary  convej'auce  of  John  Lapsley,  executor,  in  1795,  in 
Jane,  who  married  a  Jlr.  Sharp,  and  left  no  issue;  which,  along  with  himself  and  wife,  and  three  mar- 
aud 2,  John  L.,  who  married  a  3Iiss  Sharp,  rjed  women  and  their  husbands,  he  joins  a  "James 
and  left  five  children.  Lapsley  and  his  wife  INlary."     No  persons  except 

v.— MARTHA  LAPSLEY  was,  as  we  feel  confi-  .liildivn  of  Josciih  Lapsley,  Senior,  cniild  need  to 

dent,  one  of  the  six  children  of  Joseph  Lapsley  and  join  in  that  conveyance  which  transferred  the  old 

Sarah  Woods.     She  may  have  been  born  about  the  Lapsley  homestead   in    Rockbridge    County,  Vir- 

year  175(5.     Her  husband — if  we  are  correct  in  our  giiiia,  to  the    Zachariah    Johnson    mentioned.     Of 

calculations — was  one  John  Temi)lin,  who  was  in  course,  it  would  not  have  been  utterly  impossible 

Lincoln  County,  Kentucky,  in  the  fall  of  1795,  and  for  persons  in  no  way  related  to  Joseph  Lapsley, 

was  one  of  the  heirs  of  Joseph  Lapsley,  Senior,  Senior,  to  liave  a((iini(d,  by  some  means,  such  an 


inte-'est  in  his  old  home  in  Rockbridge  as  to  render 
the  signature  of  all  them  essential  to  the  making  of 


mentioned  by  John  Lapsley,  executor  of  the  estates 

of  Joseph   Lapsley,   Senior,  aiid   Joseph  Lapsley, 

T      .       •  .  r?     1      •  1    T  1  „„^ a  perfect  title  to  tlie  grantee;  but  this  possibilitv  is 

Junior,  m  a  conveyance  to  one  Zachariah  Johnson  '  '-  '  i  . 

so  extremely  remote  in  itself,  and  the  circumstan- 


executed  at  that  time.     Further  than  this  we  know 
nothing  concerning  her. 

VI.— JAMES  LAPSLEY  was,  as  we  confidently 
believe,  one  of  the  sons  of  Jose])li  and  Sarah.  He 
mav  have  been  Iiorn  about    \~i\().     Like  his  three 


tial  evidence  in  favor  of  our  supposition  is  so 
strong,  that,  in  the  total  absence  of  all  contrary 
evidence,  we  do  not  hesitate  to  affirm  that  the 
James  La]isley  and  thi'  tlirce  married  women  who 
joined  (along  witli  tlieir  partners)  in  the  convey- 
mairicd  sisters  (Mrs.  Cloyd,  Mrs.  Hall,  and  Mrs.  auce  of  Octobci',  1795,  were  the  children  of  Joseph 
Templin)  the  only  glimpses  we  get  of  him  are,  first,  La]»sley  and  his  wife  Sarah  Woods,  who  had  nii- 
the  vague  allusion  in  the  will  of  liis  brother  Joseph,      grated  to  Keutucky  a  few  years  before. 


CHAPTER   IV. 


WILLIAM  WOODS  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA. 


Such  information  as  we  have  been  able  to  obtain 
in  regard  to  the  Woodses  in  Great  Britain  will  be 
found  mainly  in  Chapter  First  of  Part  I  of  this 
volume.  That  the  William  Woods  who  settled  in 
wliat  is  now  Orange  County,  North  Carolina,  some- 
where between  1730  and  1740,  and  six  of  whose 
descendants  are  among  tlie  original  promoters  of 
this  publication,  was  a  son  of  John  Woods  and 
Elizabeth  Worsop,  and  migrated  from  Ireland 
about  1724  along  witli  his  sister  Elizabeth  Wallace 
and  his  brother  Michael  Woods,  has  been  shcywn  in 
said  chapter.     According  to  the  best  information 


at  our  conniiand  this  William  Woods  was  born  in 
Ireland  in  1695,  and  was  probably  a  married  man 
twenty-nine  years  old,  and  the  father  of  several 
children,  when  he  migrated  to  the  American  Col- 
onies with  the  Woodses  and  Wallaces.  According 
to  the  belief  of  those  best  qualified  to  judge,  Wil- 
liam Wo(k1s,  unlike  liis  sister  and  brotlier  (Eliza- 
beth and  ]\Iichael),  never  made  Virginia  his  home. 
It  is  not  at  all  certain  that  he  made  a  lengthy  stay 
in  Pennsylvania,  though  he,  as  well  as  his  sister 
and  brother,  proliably  lingered  there  for  a  time  af- 
ter their  coming  to  the  American  Colonies.     Ac- 


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cording  to  the  Hon.  John  D.  Woods,  of  Hickory 
Valley,  Tennessee  (one  of  his  descendants),  he  did 
not  settle  in  Lancaster  County,  reuusylvania,  as  his 
sister  and  his  brother  Michael  seem  to  have  done; 
but  made  liis  Ikmiic  lor  some  years  near  the  reuu- 
sylvania and  Maryland  Ijorder,  not  far  uortli  of  the 
site  of  the  preseut  city  of  Frederick,  Maryland. 
Some  time  after  settling-  there — we  know  not 
wheu — he  moved  down  into  the  colony  of  jSTorth 
Carolina,  and  settled  on  the  Hycotee  Iviver  in  what 
is  now  Orange  County,  North  Carolina,  not  fai-  from 
the  towu  of  llillsljoro.  The  precise  date  of  this 
last  move  can  not  be  certaiuly  ascertained,  but  we 
kuow  enough  of  the  development  of  that  region  to 
feel  warrautetl  in  venturing  the  conjecture  that 
it  could  hardly  have  been  earlier  than  the  year 
1730,  and  may  have  been  live  to  ten  years  later. 
In  Ms  sketches  of  North  Carolina  Dr.  Foote  states 
that  Presbyterians  from  tlie  North  of  Ireland  did 
not  begin  to  settle  in  \  irginia  and  North  Carolina 
until  after  the  year  1730,  except  in  scattered  fam- 
ilies, or  some  small  neighborhoods  on  the  Chesa- 
peake Bay.**"  Dr.  Foote  also  mentions  a  colony 
of  Ulster  Presbyterians  who,  in  the  year  1730, 
settled  in  what  is  now  Dui>lin  County,  ^orth  Caro- 
lina, about  one  hundred  miles  southeast  of  the 
locality  in  which  William  AVoods  made  his  home; 
and  by  1740  there  wei-e  scattered  families  of  Pres- 
byterians on  the  Hycotee,  the  Eno,  and  the  Haw 
Kiver.  That  >Villiam  Woods  was  the  head  of  one 
of  these  "scattered  families''  is  extremely  probable, 
for  all  that  we  know  of  his  career  is  in  exact  line 
with  this  supposition.  Dr.  Foote  tells  us,  posi- 
tively, that  Scotcli-Irish  Presbyterians  began  to 
settle  on  the  Eno  and  the  Haw  rivers  about  1738-9, 
and  that  in  that  early  day  they  were  visited  by  a 
Eev.  Mr.  Kobinson,  a  Presbyterian  minister  from 
Pennsylvania.  (Page  221.)  In  1761,  a  Presbyte- 
rian church  was  organized  by  Kev.  John  ^^■hite 
in  Orange  County,  called  Little  Kiver  for  the  stream 
of  that  name  near  it,"  and  William  Woods  was 
one  of  the  first  elders  that  church  had.  Joseph 
Allison  was  made  an  elder  at  the  same  time.  This 
historic  old  church  stands  between  the  North  and 


South  Forks  of  Little  Kiver,  in  Orange  County, 
al)out  eight  miles  nortlieast  of  Uillsboro.  Mr. 
D(iak  \\'oods,  a  worthy  descendant  of  William 
\\'()i)(ls  of  Ireland,  recently  lived  at  the  old 
Woods  Homestead,  only  three  miles  west  of 
this  (lunch.  The  liiiilding  stands  on  a  divide  near 
the  head  streams  of  Little  Kiver  and  Eno  liiver, 
wliich  run  southeasterly  to  form  the  Neuse  Kiver; 
and  also  of  the  Hycotee,  which  runs  in  the  opposite 
direction  to  join  the  Dan  Kiver.  For  a  hundred 
ami  fifty  years,  and  longer,  that  has  been  a  neigh- 
borhood of  sturdy  Presbyterians,  and  the  Woodses 
have  ever  been  among  its  best  citizens.  The  noted 
pioneer  missionary  of  Carolina,  the  Kev.  Hugh  Mc- 
Adeu,  who  travelled  from  Pennsylvania  to  Orange 
County,  North  Carolina,  in  the  summer  of  1755, 
on  a  preaching  tour,  and  who  kept  a  daily  journal 
of  his  work,  spent  several  days  at  tlie  home  of  Jo.s- 
eph  Lapsley,  in  Kockbridge  County,  Virginia, 
(whose  wife,  Sarah,  was  William  Woods's  niece) 
in  July  of  that  year.  We  can  well  believe  that 
Sarah  did  not  fail  to  advertise  Mr.  McAden  that 
her  uncle  William  AA'oods  was  living  down  in  the 
region  he  was  soon  to  visit.  He  left  the  Lapsley 
place  on  Wednesday,  July  10,  1755,  going  on  doA\u 
towards  Cai-olina;  and  on  Tuesday,  July  29th,  he 
lodged  with  one  Solomon  Debow,  on  Ih'cotee 
Kiver,  not  tar  from  the  Woods  settlement.  This 
man  Debow  was  an  emigrant  from  Pennsylvania. 
At  Debow's  he  preached  Sunday,  August  3.  Up 
to  this  date  there  were  no  doubt  some  plain  church 
buildings  in  use  by  Presbyterians,  but  very  few  if 
any  regularly  organized  congregations.  Mr.  Mc- 
Aden tells  how  gladly  these  "scattered  sheep"  wel- 
comed him  and  thanked  him  for  his  visit.  At  Eno 
(neiu-  Little  Ifiver)  he  preached  August  lOtli,  "to  a 
set  of  pretty  regular  Presbyterians,"  and  there  was 
evidently  a  chapel  in  which  the  services  were  held. 
We  feel  reasonably  sure  that  William  AVoods  and 
his  children  wex'e  of  those  "pretty  regular  Presby- 
terians" who  on  that  occasion  heard  Mr.  McAden 
and  were  made  glad  liy  the  Gospel  he  preached. *- 

The  spot    which    William    Woods    chose    for   a 
home  belonged   to   Craven   County   from   1729   to 


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1733;  to  Edgecombe  County  from  1733  up  to  1740; 
to  Granville  County  from  174G  up  to  the  year 
1751;  and  to  Orange  County  from  1751  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  The  region  as  pictured  by  one  of  its 
prominent  citizens,  the  Hon.  Francis  Nash,  of 
Hillsboru,  in  a  valuable  historical  pamphlet  he  has 
recently  issued,''  must  be  one  of  the  most  at- 
tractive in  tlie  Old  North  State.  Of  course,  when 
William  Woods  settled  there  (,1730  to  1740)  the 
magnificent  forests  were  untouched  by  man,  the 
streiuns  were  clear  and  undehled,  and  the  soil  pos- 
sessed its  virgin  richness.  In  1729,  when  the  Lords 
Proprietors  ceased  to  govern  the  colony  (or  pro- 
vince) there  were  but  three  counties  in  North  Cai-o- 
lina,  and  the  total  population  of  the  whole  was  not 
over  ten  thousand.  The  growth  of  the  colony,  how- 
ever, was  remarkably  rapid,  for  by  175-' — 
the  year  after  Orange  County  was  organized 
— the  poiJulation  was  nearly  a  half  a  mil- 
lion. The  town  of  Hillsboro  had  only  about 
twenty  families  in  1107,  but  the  country  around 
\\as  already  thickly  settled.  As  the  Indians 
were  in  full  jjossession  of  the  country  far  to 
the  east  of  Hillsboro  in  1712,  and  later,  it  is  easy  to 
imagine  the  vigor  with  which  the  whites  must  have 
cleai'ed  the  laud.  In  the  year  just  mentioned  the 
savages  made  their  stand  for  a  battle  with  the 
whites  at  a  spot  only  eighteen  miles  west  of  New- 
born, showing  that  the  white  settlements  at  that 
time  were  confined  to  the  sea  coast.  The  disturu- 
ances  incident  to  the  French  and  Indian  Wars, 
(1754-1703)  whilst  not  so  serious  in  the  southern 
colonies  as  in  those  further  north,  were  the  occa- 
sion of  constant  alarm  to  the  people  of  North  Caro- 
lina, owing  to  the  presence  of  hostile  and  war-like 
tribes  in  the  western  end  of  their  territory-.  Then, 
as  soon  as  that  long  series  of  contests  came  to  an 
end,  the  War  of  the  Regulators,  with  iis  internal 
disorders  and  bloodshed,  was  developed;  and  for 
some  years  (about  1708-71)  there  was  a  condition 
of  things  bordering  on  civil  war  in  the  vei*y  region 
in  which  William  Woods  lived.  The  battle  of  Al- 
amance was  fought  May  16,  1771,  only  a  few  hours' 
ride  from  the  home  of  William  Woods,  and  the 


casualties,  according  to  recent  conservative  ac- 
counts, numbered  twenty-nine  killed,  and  two  hun- 
dred and  sixty-one  wounded.  What  side  the 
Woodses  were  on  we  do  not  know;  but  in  any  case 
the  state  of  affairs  in  that  whole  region  in  those 
days  of  civil  commotion  must  have  been  extremely 
alarming  and  distressful.  There  were  good  and 
bad  men  on  both  sides;  tyrannj-  and  oppression 
and  misgovernment  mainly  marked  the  conduct  of 
one  party;  and  lawlessness,  rashness  and  practical 
anarchy  were  frecpieutly  illustrated  by  the  other. 
But  whichever  side  the  Woodses  took,  and  whatever 
the  part  they  i^layed,  it  must  have  been  a  trying- 
time  and  place  in  which  they  had  to  live,  with  their 
families  constantly  liable  to  rude  annoyances  if  not 
grave  perils.  Some  of  the  most  exciting  trials  inci- 
dent to  the  Regulation  period  were  held  in  Hills- 
boro, and  many  of  the  citizens  of  Orange  County 
were  arrayed  on  opposite  sides. 

As  soon  as  the  Regulators  subsided  the  distant 
mutterings  of  a  yet  more  general  and  disastrous 
storm  began  to  be  heard — the  Revolution  began. 
The  ijeople  of  Orange  County  were  not  by  any 
means  all  of  out'  mind  in  regard  to  the  struggle  of 
the  colonies  against  the  British  Crown,  in  1775, 
as  Mr.  Nash  informs  us  (see  pamphlet  above  re- 
ferred to)  there  were  many  Tories  in  Orange  Coun- 
ty at  the  beginning  of  1775,  and  Regulators  in  the 
outlying  districts,  and  Scotch  and  English  mer- 
chants in  Hillsboro.  Then  there  were  many  neu- 
trals— men  w  hose  nunds  were  not  yet  clear,  or  who 
were  naturally  averse  to  war.  The  first  Provincial 
Congress  (the  Third  Convention)  was  held  in 
Hillsboro  in  August,  1775.  For  six  or  eight  years 
longer  the  whole  poj)ulatiou  lived  in  the  midst  of 
warlike  scenes.  William  Woods  was  an  old  man 
of  eighty  when  the  Revolution  began,  and  even  his 
sons  were  rather  too  old  to  enlist  as  soldiers,  the 
eldest  having  been  born  in  1720.  He  served  Little 
River  Presbyterian  Church  as  elder  from  17G1 
(the  date  of  its  organization)  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1785,  when  he  had  reached  his 
ninetieth  year.     He  was  buried  in  the  Little  River 


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Church  bui'ial-.c;i'ound,  and  by  his  side  sleep  many 
of  his  descendants  awaiting  the  last  ti-uinpet-call 
which  shall  awake  the  dead.  The  name  i.l'  liis  wife 
is  not  known. 

CHILDHEN  of  ^^'ILLIAM  WOODS  OF  NOUTII  CaUOLINA 

A— JOHN  WOODS,  Born  ITlM) ;  Died  1813 

B— WILLIAM   WOODS,       Born ;  Died 

C— SAMUEL  WOODS,  Born ;  Died  — 

D— ELIZABETH  WOODS,  Born ;  Died  — 

E— MARY  WOODS,  Born ;  Died  — 

A— JOHN  WOODS,  the  tirst  child  cf  William 
Woods  of  North  Carolina,  was  born  in  ITl'O,  and, 
most  probably',  in  Ireland.  lie  was,  therefore,  a 
boy  of  four  years  when  his  father  nii<;rated  to 
America.  He  was  at  least  ten,  and  possibly  twen- 
ty, years  old  when  his  father  settled  on  the  Hyco- 
tee  River  in  what  was  afterwards  Orange  County, 
North  Carolina.  In  1750,  when  a  man  of  thirty 
years,  he  married  Miss  Ann  Louey  Mebane.  His 
wife,  who  was  of  Scotch  ancestry,  was  born  in  1730, 
and  died  in  February,  1821.  John  and  his  wife 
were  both  members  of  the  Little  River  Presby- 
terian Church,  he  being  a  ruling  elder  of  that 
church  from  a  short  time  after  its  organization  (in 
1761)  until  his  death  in  1813.  During  the  Regula- 
tor troubles  (1768-1772)  he  resided  at  the  very 
focus  of  the  disturbances,  but  we  do  not  know  on 
which  side  of  the  controversy  his  sympathies  lay, 
or  how  he  and  his  family  fared  during  that  period 
of  disorder  and  violence.  Wheeler,  in  his  History 
of  North  Carolina,  mentions  one  "John  \\'ood," 
who,  being  the  sheriff  of  Orange  County  in  1768, 
was  bitterly  assailed  by  the  Regulators  in  the 
Courts;  but  the  name  is  spelled  Avithout  the  final 
s,  and  it  is  likely  he  was  an  entirely  different  man 
from  the  sturdy  Scotch-Irish  Presbyterian  elder 
who  was  the  son  of  William  Woods.  The  Regula- 
tors cordially  hated  nearly  every  ofUcial  who  repre- 
sented the  Colonial  Government  and  was  disposed 
to  be  loyal  to  Gov.  Ti-yon ;  and  as  there  were  many 
men  of  tlie  most  lawless  character  in  that  faction 
(as  well  as  many  men  of  the  opposite  stamp),  it 
would  not  have  been  at  all  strange  if  some  of  the 


godliest  people  in  llie  coniilry  should  have  fallen 
under  the  displeasui'c  of  llie  Kegnlaloi-s,  in  case 
tliey  sided  with  Gov.  Trvon. 

The  plantation  w  liidi  lie  iMii'ciiased  coiisideral)ly 
more  than  a  centiirv  and  a  half  ago,  and  on  which 
he  spent  nearly  all  of  his  long  life,  has  remained 
in  the  hands  of  his  descendanis  throngli  all  these 
years,  and  one  of  his  great-grandsons  (Mr.  Wil- 
liam Doak  Woods)  now  o\\  ns  it,  or  did,  a  few  years 
ago. 

John  Woods  and  his  wife  Ann  L.  Mebane  had 
six  sons.  We  do  not  know  whether  they  had  any 
other  children. 

I.— WIIiLIAM  WOODS  was  the  first  child  of 
John  and  Ann.  The  date  of  his  birth  is  unknown 
to  the  anthor.  His  wife  was  Nellie  Lindsey,  by 
whom  he  had  one  son,  named  Lindsey.  William 
served  in  the  American  Army  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  He  was  a  ruling  elder  of  the  Little 
River  Presbyterian  Church,  as  were  his  father  and 
grandfather  before  him.  Of  his  only  son,  Lindsey, 
we  only  kno\\-  that  he  married  Margaret  A.  Woods, 
daughter  of  his  uncle  Samuel  Woods,  and  reared  a 
family  in  Orange  County,  and  that,  like  his  father, 
grandfather,  and  great-grandfather,  he  was  an 
elder  of  the  Little  River  Church.  Lindsey  and 
Margaret  had  a  son,  William  Doak  Woods,  who, 
like  his  ancestors  for  several  generations  before 
him,  was  an  elder  in  the  Little  River  Church  and 
the  owner  of  the  old  John  Woods  plantation  on 
Little  IMver.  According  to  the  unsolicited  testi- 
mony of  the  Hon.  Francis  Nash,  of  Hillsboro,  N. 
C,  who  was  tlie  co-temporary  of  Mr.  William  Doak 
Woods  for  many  years,  he  was  "one  of  the  best  of 
men."  The  author  much  regrets  liis  inability  to 
furnish  additional  particulars  in  regard  to  this 
and  other  worthy  members  of  the  North  Carolina 
Clan  of  Woodses. 

II.— JOHN  AVOODS,  JUNIOR,  was  the  second 
sou  of  John  and  Ann  L.  All  we  know  of  him  is 
that  he  married  and  settled  near  Kuoxville,  Ten- 
nessee, leaving  one  son,  (a)  Joseph. 

III.— DAVI 1)  WOODS  was  the  third  son  of  John 
and  Ann  L.     He  settled  at  Fulton,  Kentucky.     He 


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maiTicd.  and  left  three  sons,  to  wit:  (a)    John;  (b)  for  one  or  more  terms.     He  was  a  popular  man, 

D.wid;  (c)  and  William.  '^d^  ^y  tlio  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  (  18U1|   had 

IV. THOMAS   \\'()(H)S,   the    fourth    child  of  grown  to  be  comparatively   wealthy.     The  disas- 

Jolni  and  Ann  L.,  was  born  in  Orange  County,  ters  incident  to  a  f(nir  yeai-s'  war,  and  losses  in- 
North  Carolina,  Novemlter  IT),  ITTT).  About  tlie  y(ar  curred,  to  the  e.xtent  of  many  thousands  of  dol- 
180")  lie  married  Susannah  Baldridiic  daughter  lars,  in  going  security  for  his  friends,  effected  the 
of  James  and  Jane  (Wiiite)  Bahlridge,  of  Orange  ruin  of  his  estate.  However,  he  tinally  managed 
County,  North  Carolina,  by  whom  lie  liad  eleven  to  so  far  recover  himself  as  to  diseliarge  all  of  his 
children.  About  the  year  ISO"  Thouuis  and  his  obligations  and  be  in  comfortable  circumstances 
little  family    moved    tn   M\irfreesboro,    Tennessee,  when  he  died. 

where  he  worked  at  his  trade  (blacksmithing)  un-  (c)   Jank  W.  Woods,  the  third  cliild  of  Thomas 

til  1S27,  when  he  moved  with  all  his  household  ex-  and  Susannah,  married  Handy  Snell,  and  lived  to 

cept  his  three  eldest  children    (James,  John  and  be  eighty  years  old.     Her  life  was  spent  in  Kuther- 

Jane)      to     I'ulton     Counly,     Kentucky.       There  ford  County,  Tennessee.     Her  descendants  live  in 

Thomas  and  his  wife  remained  during  the  lest  of  that  i^art  of  the  country  now,  though  some  of  them 

their  lives,  he  dying  there  Miu-ch  31,  1837,  and  she  moved  to  Texas. 

dying    December    IS,    1849.       Their    bodies    were  (d)   An.n  A.  C.    Woods,    the     fourtli     cliild     of 

buried    at   I'alestine   Church,    near    Fulton,    Ken-  Thomas  and  Susannah,  married  Harvey  lirown  in 

tucky,  and  their  son    William  >M.   had  neat  tomb-  Fulton  County,  Kentucky,  and  after  living  there 

stones  erected  to  mark  their  graves.  many  yeai's  she  moved  with  her  husband  to  Izard 

(a)  James  13.  Woods^  the  tirst  child  of  Thomas  County,  Arkansas,  where  both  she  and  her  husband 
ami  Susannah,  married  Margaret  Finger  in  Ituth-  lived  to  a  ripe  age.  Among  her  children  was, 
erford  County,  Tennessee,  where  he  lived  for  many  1,  a  son,  Thomas  A.,  wlio  became  a  minister  of 
years.  Later  on  they  moved  to  Izard  ('(uuity,  Ar-  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church.  This  sou 
kausas.  They  had  a  son  and  two  daughters,  as  is  a  bachelor  and  resides  in  Izard  County.  Ann 
follows:  1,  Williaui  II.  Woods,  who  still  resides  (Woods)  Brown  has  numerous  other  descendants 
in  Izard  County;  1',  Susi.nnali  M.,  who  married  a  in  Izard  and  Fulton  Counties  bearing  the  names 
Mr.  Russell,  and  is  now  a  widow;  3,  A.  Texas,  who  .Mano,  Lawyers,  Oliver,  Chadwick,  and  Moore, 
married  Wni.  1'.  Carner,  and  still  resides  in  Izard  (e)  Thomas  C.  Woods^  the  fifth  child  of  Thomas 
County;  and  a  number  of  other  sons  and  daughters,  and  Susannah,  was  never  married.  He  died  July 
now  dead,  many  of  whose  descendants  are  to  be  17,  1811,  near  Alexandria,  La. 

found  in  Izard  County,  and  Fulton  County,  bear-  (fj   Malcom  Woods,  the  sixth  child  of  Thomas 

ing  the  names  of  Rector,  Sanders,  Freeman,  Sub-  and  Susannah,  died  in  infancy, 
lett,  Stroud,  <'ampbell,  Fowler,  Clem,  I'arker,  and  (g)    Susannah  M.  Woou.s,  the  seventh  child  of 

Copeland,  in  additiim  to  those  having  the  name  of  Thomas  and  Susannah,  married  a  Mr.   Simmons, 

Woods.  Ijy  whom  she  had  one  daughter,  namely;  1,  Susan- 

(b)  John  "Woods,  the  second  child  of  Thomas  nah  E.,  who  married  John  W.  Jacobs,  by  whom  she 
and  Susannah,  lived  to  be  eighty-seven  years  old.  jiad  children  who  are  themselves  married  and  have 
He  was  twice  married,  but  never  had  any  children,  children  bearing  the  names  of  Jacobs,  Luckett  and 
He  resided  in  Murfreesboro,  Tennessee,  in  which  Call.  Susannah  died  early  in  her  nmrried  life, 
coiimiunity  he  was  a  i)romiiient  figure.  He  was  in  (h)  Willlvm  Mitchkll  Wood.:,  was  the  eighth 
public  life  for  a  long  jteriod,  being  for  a  great  while  child  of  Thomas  and  Susannah,  and  December  16, 
County  Clerk,  part  of  the  time  Chairman  of  the  1847,  he  married  Elizabeth  E.  Brown,  daughter  of 
County  Court,  and  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  AT'chibald  and  Sai-ah   (Culton)   Brown  in  Fulton 


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County,  Kentucky.  Tlicv  made  their  lii  si  liouic  in 
(Jbion  County,  Tennessee,  on  the  Kentucky  and 
Tennessee  line,  in  what  is  called  "The  Black 
Swamp."  In  the  fall  of  1855  they  sold  this  farm 
for  fl.OO  i)cr  acre,  but  soon  afterwards  it  was  held 
at  $50.00  per  acre.  During  the  following  winter 
William  visited  liis  brother  James  B.  in  Izard 
County,  Arkansas,  and  bought  a  farm  on  Sandy 
Baj'ou  which  is  now  in  Izard  County.  He  made  a 
crop  the  next  season,  and  in  the  fall  of  1S5G  brought 
his  family  to  his  new  home.  In  1868  he  sold  the 
part  of  the  farm  he  had  at  first  occupied,  and 
erected  a  house  a  mile  further  down  the  creek. 
Ilere  William  died  September  19,  IS'JO,  and  his 
wife  followed  him  :\Iarch  15,  1809.  William  M. 
Woods  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  Christ,  and 
his  wife  was  a  member  of  the  Cumberland  Pres- 
byterian Church.  They  were  both  intelligent,  in- 
dustrious and  good  peoi)le  who  commanded  the 
confidence  and  respect  of  their  neighbors.  They 
were  buried  in  Spring  Hill  Cemetery  within  a 
quarter  of  a  mile  of  their  last  place  of  residence. 
They  had  the  following  children,  to  wit:  1,  John 
Harvey  Woods,  born  March  27,  1849;  2,  Thomas 
James,  born  August  15,  1850;  3,  William  Archi- 
bald, born  April  12,  1852;  4,  Johnson  Pierce,  born 
October  12,  1853;  5,  Sarah  Annabel,  born  October 
10,  1855;  0,  Stephen  Washington,  born  December 
9,  1857;  7,  Benjamin  Franklin,  born  February  21, 
1867;  and  8,  Owen  Shelley,  born  February  27, 
1870.  All  of  these  children  except  two  that  died 
in  infancy,  were  fairly  well  educated  at  La  Crosse 
Academy,  La  Crosse,  Arkansas.  More  extended 
accounts  of  John  Harvey,  Thomas  James,  and  Ste- 
phen Washington  will  be  found  in  Part  III  of  this 
volume,  to  which  the  reader  is  referred. 

(j)  Mary  E.  Woods  was  the  ninth  c'lild  of 
Thomas  and  Susannah.  She  married  Briglit  Snell, 
and  lived  in  Kutherford  County,  Tennessee.  They 
have  many  descendants  now  living  in  that  county. 

(k)  Stephen  H.  Woods,  the  tenth  child  of 
Thomas  and  Susannah,  has  been  married  three 
times,  and  has  numerous  descendants  by  eacli  mar- 
riage, the  most  of  whom  live  in  Rutherford  County, 


Tcuucsscc,  lliougli  some  reside  in  Texas.  Stephen 
H.  is  a  phvsirijiii  (jf  cniinciKc  in  Kill  lici  ford 
County,  where  lie  li:is  liciii  long  in  |)raclice. 

(1)  Abig.vil  K.  Woons,  the  eleventii  and  last 
child  of  Thomas  ajid  SusannaJi,  \\;is  iwicc  maiiicd. 
Her  first  husband  was  a  .Mr.  Sininioiis,  and  liei'  last 
was  William  Brown.  By  both  iiusbands  she  has 
descendants  in  Western  Kentuci^y  and  Texas. 

v.— ALEXANDEI{  WOODS  was  the  lifih  son  of 
John  and  Ann  L.  and  died  without  ever  having 
married. 

VI.— SAMUEL  WOODS  was  tlic  sixtii  and  last 
son  of  John  and  Ann  L.  He  was  liorn  March  14, 
1709.  He  was  married  twice;  first  to  Jennie  Alli- 
son, January  6,  1789;  and  next,  to  a  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Woods,  a  disttint  kinswoman.  'I'be  Hon. 
John  D.  ^Voods,  of  Hickory  ^'alley,  Tennessee, 
states  that  Elizabeth's  father  was  <me  Hugh 
Woods,  and  that  said  Hugh  was  a  son  of  (.'ol.  John 
Woods,  of  Virginia.  But  the  writer  gravely 
doubts  this  last  statement,  as  he  has  never  seen 
or  heard  any  accounts  of  the  family  of  (Jol.  John 
W'oods  (after  some  pretty  thorough  investigation 
of  all  available  sources  of  infornuition)  which 
made  mention  of  a  son  by  the  name  Hugh  amonir 
his  children.  No  such  pers(m  is  in  any  way  re- 
ferred to  in  Col.  Woods's  will  (written  in  1791), 
and  there  are  the  strongest  possible  reasons  for 
affirming  that  in  that  instrument  he  mentions  all 
of  his  children  except  two  who  died  in  early  in- 
fancy or  childhood. 

Samuel  Woods,  the  last  child  of  John  and  Ann 
L.,  was  twice  married.  By  his  first  wife,  Jennie 
Allison,  he  had  tiiree  children  that  we  know  of; 
and  by  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Woods,  he  had 
six.  These  will  be  mentioned  in  the  order  given 
by  Hon.  John  D.  A\'oods,  of  Tennessee,  who  belongs 
to  this  branch,  and  is  perhaps  better  informed  in 
regard  to  it  than  any  other  person  living. 

(a)  JosEi'U  A.  Woods  was  the  first  child  of 
Samuel  by  his  first  wife,  Jennie. 

(b)  John  Woods  was  the  second  child  of  Sam- 
uel by  his  first  wife,  Jennie. 

(c)  David  Woods  was    the    third     (and    last) 


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child  of  Samuel  by  his  fir(>t  wife,  Jenuie,  and  was 
born  iu  Orange  County,  Xorth  Carolina,  October 
28,  1795.  He  married  Marj-  Kobinson  April  5, 
1821,  and  moved  to  Hardeman  County,  Tennessee, 
in  the  winter  of  1824-5.  There  lie  continued  to  re- 
side until  his  death,  June  28,  1878.  His  wife, 
Mary  Robinson,  \\as  born  in  Orange  County,  North 
Carolina,  December  1,  1701),  and  died  June  26, 
1851.  Dayid  Woods  was  one  of  the  Magistrates 
of  Hardeman  County  for  twenty-four  yeai's.  Hi& 
wife  was  the  daughter  of  James  Robinson,  wlio  was 
a  son  of  Michael  Robinson.  Michael  Robinson 
came  from  Ulster  Province,  Ireland,  to  America 
iu  1742,  and  settled  in  Orange  County,  North  Caro- 
lina, iu  17(j0.  Michael  Robinson's  wife  was  Mary 
Roy,  and  was  a  member  of  the  well-known  family 
of  this  name.  James  Robinson,  who  was  the  son 
of  Michael  and  the  father  of  Mary,  married  his 
cousin,  ilargaret  Iioy.  In  their  old  age  James 
and  Margaret  settled  in  Tennessee,  near  to  the 
home  of  their  son-in-law,  David  ^^■()uds. 

David  Woods  and  liis  wife  Mary  Robinson  had 
four  children,  as  follows:  1,  Samuel  Mebane,  who 
was  born  February  10,  1822,  married  Narcissa 
Robinson.  Samuel  M.  Woods  was  the  father  of 
the  Hon.  John  D.  Woods,  of  Hickory  Valley,  Ten- 
nessee, one  of  the  most  efficient  promoters  of  this 
IMiblicatiou.  and  iu  the  sketch  of  rhar  gentleman 
to  be  found  in  Part  III  of  this  work  will  be  seen  ad- 
ditional particulars  of  his  family.  2,  John  R. 
Woods;  3,  Mary  Woods;  and  4,  Margaret  Woods, 
the  last  of  the  four  children  of  David  and  Mary. 

(d)  Hugh  Woods  was  the  fourth  child  of  Sam- 
uel— the  first  one  by  Elizabeth,  his  second  wife — 
and  was  born  August  5,  1800,  in  Orange  County, 
North  Carolina.  On  the  2(;tli  of  January,  1826, 
he  was  married  to  Elvira  Jane  Ray,  who  was  born 
October  1,  1802,  in  Orange  County.  Six  children 
were  the  fruit  of  this  union,  to  wit:  1,  Samuel 
Robert  Faucett,  who  was  born  February  16,  1828; 
2,  Margarett  Jane,  born  July  29,  1830;  3,  Joseph 
Hammel,  who  was  born  November  7,  1833,  and 
was  the  father  of  Mrs.  James  Dennis  Goodwin,  of 
Richmond,  Virginia,  one  of  the  original  promoters 


of  this  publication,  a  sketch  of  whom  will  be  found 
in  Part  III  of  this  work;  4,  Elizabeth  Ann,  who 
was  born  August  19,  1837;  5,  Hugh  Phillips  (gen- 
erally called  Tyler  j,  born  January  15,  1840;  and 
6,  Mary  Ellen,  who  was  born  July  22,  1842. 

(e)  Jennie  M.  Woods  was  the  second  child  of 
Samuel  Woods  by  his  second  wife  (Elizabeth). 

(f)  3IAKY  A.  Woods  was  the  third  child  of  Sam- 
uel Woods  by  his  second  wife  (Elizabeth). 

(g)  Susan  F.  was  the  fourth  child  of  Samuel 
Woods  by  his  second  wife  (Elizabeth). 

(h)  Samuel  Ray  Woods  was  the  fifth  child  of 
Samuel  Woods  by  his  second  wife  (Elizabeth).  He 
was  born  near  Ilillsboro,  North  Carolina,  January 
23,  1808.  He  married  Miss  Zilpha  Elizabeth  Mc- 
Kuine,  of  Wayne  County,  North  Carolina,  Feb- 
ruary, 1831,  by  whom  he  had  six  children,  as  fol- 
low :  1,  \\'illiam  Samuel,  born  December  1,  1831 ; 
2,  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  December  16,  1833,  and 
died  August  29,  1835;  3,  Susan  McKuine,  born 
March  29,  1836;  4,  John  Raiford,  born  October  13, 
1838;  5,  Barbara  Ann,  liorn  September  18,  1841; 
and  6,  David  Sidney,  born  December  28,  1844,  of 
whom  a  sketch  will  be  found  in  Part  III  of  this 
volume.  Samuel  Ivay  Woods  moved  from  North 
Carolina  to  Marion,  Pei'i^  County,  Alabama,  in 
1848.  All  three  of  his  sons  (William  Samuel, 
John  Raifnrd,  and  David  Sidney)  went  as  volun- 
teers into  the  Confederate  Army  in  the  summer 
and  fall  of  18(!].  William  S.  was  in  Company  P. 
of  the  20th  Alabama  Regiment,  and  saw  service  iu 
the  Ai-my  of  Tennessee.  John  R.  and  David  S. 
joined  Company  K  of  the  11th  Alabama,  and  saw 
service  iu  Mrginia  under  General  Robert  E.  Lee. 
\ViIIiam  S.  fell  in  battle  in  a  charge  near  Marietta, 
Georgia,  June  22,  1864.  His  comrades  said  of  him 
that  he  was  the  most  exemplary  man  in  the  Regi- 
ment, and  all  testified  to  his  high  Christian  charac- 
ter and  noble  soldierly  bearing.  The  last  words  he 
was  heard  to  utter  were:  "Forward,  boys;  for- 
ward." His  old  commander.  General  E.  W.  Pet- 
tus,  of  Selma,  Alabama,  yet  remembers  him,  and 
speaks  of  him  in  the  highest  terms  as  a  brave,  true, 
and    fearless   soldier.     Zilpha   Elizabeth,    wife   of 


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Samuel  Eaj  Woods,  dietl  April  13,  1877,  and  Sam- 
uel himself  died  July  30,  1890.  John  Kaiford 
Woods  resides  in  New  Berne,  Alabama.  He  married 
Miss  Annie  Jane  Paul,  by  whom  he  has  three  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  Gcortjc  Sidiici/,  born  March  1, 
1877;  Mary  Alive^  born  July  13,  1879;  Elizabeth 
MvKninc,  born  Ajjril  20,  1881*.  Susan  McK.  and 
IJarbara  Ann  Woods,  the  third  and  fifth  children  of 
Samuel  Ray  Woods  by  his  wife  Zilpha,  are  unmar- 
ried, and  reside  in  Marion,  Alabama, 

(j)  Margaret  A.  Woods  was  the  sixth  and  last 
child  of  Samuel  ^yoods  by  his  second  wife,  Eliza- 
beth, and  married  her  cousin,  Lindsey  Woods,  the 
son  of  her  uncle,  William  Woods. 

Samuel  Woods,  the  sixth  and  last  son  of  John 
and  Ann  L.,  was  from  early  manhood  till  his  death 
in  1852,  an  elder  of  the  Little  Riyer  Presbyterian 
Church,  he  being  the  fifth  indiyidual  of  the 
Woodses,  in  a  direct  line,  who  held  that  oflice  in 
that  particular  church,  and  coyering  a  period  of 
ninety-one  years — from  1701  to  1852.  This  is:  a  re- 
markable record,  and  it  seems  to  indicate  that  there 
must  haye  been  in  this  branch  of  the  family  uncom- 
mon tidelity  on  the  pai't  of  parents  in  teaching 
their  children  to  understand  and  hold  fast  to  the 
faith  of  their  fathers. 

B.— WILLIAM  WOODS  was  the  second  child  of 
^\'illiam  Woods  of  Xorth  Carolina,  the  Irish  emi- 
grant. Of  him  we  know  extremely  little,  except 
that  in  a  yery  early  day  he  migrated  to  the  region 
of  East  Tennessee  in  which  the  town  of  Jonesboro 
now  .stands.  No  doubt  some  of  the  Woodses  in 
Washington  and  Greene  Counties,  Tennessee,  are 
Ills  descendants. 

^  C— SAMUEL  WOODS  was  the  third  child  of 
William,  the  Irish  emigrant.  He  was  probably 
born  about  the  yeav  his  parents  migrated  to  Amer- 
ica (1724).  He  married  Mary  Mitchell,  and  in- 
herited from  his  father  the  old  home  place  on  Hy- 
cotee  Riyer.  Fiye  sons  are  known  to  haye  been 
biiiu  to  Samuel  and  Mary,  as  follows: 

I.— JOHN  WOODS  was  the  first  child,  so  far  as 
known,  of  Samuel  and  Mary.  We  know  that  John 
married,  and  that  he  had  two  sons,  as  follows:  (a) 


Andrew,  wIio  w  as  living  a  few  years  ago  on  the  old 
home  place  on  the  Hycotee  at  tlie  great  age  of  nine- 
ty years;  and  (b)  Green. 

II.— ANI)RE^^■  ^^'OODS  was  the  second  child 
of  Samuel  and  .Mary. 

III.— WILLIAM  WOODS  was  the  tliird  child  of 
Samtiel  and  Marj-. 

IV.— THOMAS  WOODS  was  the  fourth  child  of 
Samuel  and  Mary. 

v.— JAMES  \\OOlJS  was  the  fifth  child— and 
the  last,  so  far  as  we  are  informed — of  Samuel  and 
Mary. 

D.— ELIZABETH  WOODS  was  the  fourth  child 
of  William,  the  Irish  emigrant.  She  married  Da- 
yid  Mitchell,  who  was  a  brother  of  the  Mary  Mitch- 
ell who  married  Samuel  Woods,  Elizabeth's  broth- 
er. They  liyed  on  Hycotee  Riyer.  Their  descend- 
ants are  yery  numerous,  and  are  found  in  North 
Carolina,  Tennessee  and  Alabama  more  especially. 

E.— MARY  WOODS  was  the  fifth,  and  perhaps 
the  last,  child  of  William,  the  Irish  emigrant.  She 
married  a  Mr.  Strain.  For  a  few  years  after  their 
marriage  this  cotiple  liyed  on  a  large  plantation 
which  they  owned  on  Little  Riyer,  but  in  the  early 
period  of  the  settlements  in  East  Tennessee  they 
went  with  Mary's  brother  AVilliam  to  make  their 
home  near  the  town  of  Jonesboro,  in  what  is  called 
the  "Dark  Neighborhood." 


We  now  bring  to  a  close  the  account  of  the 
Woodses,  which  constitutes  Part  I  of  this  yolume; 
and  in  doing  so  it  will  not  be  thought  inappropri- 
ate to  offer  some  reflections  concerning  the  Woods 
family  as  a  whole.  The  author  has  endeavored  to 
avoid,  as  far  as  possible,  everything  like  a  vain- 
glorious spirit  in  speaking  of  the  family  of  which 
it  is  his  privilege  to  be  a  humble  member..,  He  has 
had  no  desire  to  exaggerate,  in  any  degree,  the  mer- 
its of  any  person  of  whom  he  has  made  mention; 
but,  so  far  as  he  has  had  the  framing  of  the  various 
accounts  of  individuals  of  the  connection,  he  has 
endeavored  to  speak  with  modesty  of  tlieir  gifts 
and  achievements,  and  to  tell  only  what  seemed  to 
be  true.     The  AVoodscs,  as  a  rule,  do  not  seem  to 


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THE   WOODS-:\rcAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


liave  been  in  any  inark(Hl  degree  people  of  wealth, 
or  exalted  official  station,  or  unnsual  bril- 
liancy. A  great  many  of  them,  indeed,  have  en- 
joyed all  of  these  advantages;  biit  it  is  not  pre- 
tended that  the  Woodses  in  general  have  made  any 
specially  remarkable  record  as  respects  this  class 
of  distinctions,  when  compared  with  the  average 
of  worthy  families  in  America.  There  have  been, 
and  still  are,  among  the  scattered  thousands  com- 
posing the  Woods  Clan,  members  of  Congress,  Gov- 
ernors of  States,  diplomats,  high  officers  in  the 
Army  and  Navy,  distinguished  authors  and  liter- 
ary men  and  women,  hundreds  of  bankers  and  cap- 
italists, and  a  few  milliunaires;  but  the  great 
mass  (if  them  haA'e  been  men  of  moderate 
means,  average  education,  humble  station,  and  no 
remarkable  brilliancy.  But  the  AVoodses  and  their 
descendants  of  myriad  names  have  nuide  a  record 
in  certain  important  spheres  of  life  and  human  ac- 
tivity which  we  sincerely  believe  is  not  surpassed 
by  that  of  any  other  one  family  in  the  Union.  Let 
the  reader,  if  he  cares  to  determine  the  accuracy  of 
this  jiulgment  for  himself,  liegin  with  Elizabeth 
(Wallace),  Michael,  and  William  Woods  (the 
three  children  of  John  \Voods,  of  Ireland)  at  the 
time  they  landed  in  Anu'rica  in  17-4,  and  follow 
them  for  the  succeeding  one  hundred  and  eighty 
years,  and  he  will  see  that  we  indulge  no  idle 
boast.  The  Woodses,  Wallaces,  Mchowclls,  Vxn- 
dens,  Bowyers,  Lapsleys,  Millers,  McAfees  and 
their  numberless  descendants  not  only  settled,  in 
large  measure,  the  Piedmont  IJegion  and  the  Great 
Valley  of  Old  Virginia,  and  an  important  part  of 
North  Carolina,  and  were  anujug  the  sturdy  early 
settlers  of  West  Virginia  and  Tennessee,  but  they 
had  probabljf  a  larger  share  in  the  founding  and 
development  of  Kentucky  from  1773  onward  than 
any  other  one  family  in  America.  The  records 
show  that  in  every  war  from  1734  to  this  day  they 
have  borne  a  prominent  and  honorable  part  on  the 


Held  in  defence  (»f  libei'ty  and  tlie  riglits  of 
inau.  .\nd,  above  all  else,  to  their  everlasting 
honor  it  can  truthfully  be  said  that,  as  a  family, 
they  have  ever  stood  for  industry,  sobriety,  high- 
toned  morality,  and  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ. 
A  careful  inspection  of  the  records  reveals  among 
the  descendants  of  the  three  Woodses  mentioned  a 
remarkably  large  numl)er  of  ministers  of  the  Gos- 
pel and  Christian  missionaries.  Some  of  these 
have  b(cn  among  the  most  distinguished  and  use- 
ful in  I  he  various  Evangelical  Churches  of  the 
United  States.  There  are  probably  not  less  than 
tifty  Gospel  ministers  now  alive  in  America  or  in 
foreign  lands  in  whose  veins  the  blood  of  John 
Woods  of  Ireland  flows.  If  we  should  attempt  to 
count  the  private  members  and  officers  of  the  vari- 
ous Christian  denominations  in  the  land  to-day 
who  trace  their  lineage  back  to  John  Woods  and 
Elizabeth  ^Worsop,  it  is  believed  they  would  be 
numlicicd  by  lliousauds.  The  descendants  of 
this  couple  through  the  daughter  and  the  two  sons 
mentioned  have  been  in  an  important  and  real 
sense  founders  of  this  nation,  and  some  have  gone 
to  distant  heathen  lauds  to  carry  the  glad  tidings 
of  salvation  to  men  sunk  in  idolatry  and  Ijarbarism. 
Doubtless  there  have  been  in  this  widely  scattered 
family,  in  the  course  of  nearly  two  centuries,  nmny 
who  have  done  nothing  to  add  lustre  to  the  name; 
but,  taking  the  record  as  we  have  it  in  this  volume, 
it  can  be  said,  without  exaggeration  or  boasting, 
that  if  Elizabeth  A\'allace  and  her  brothers  Mich- 
ael and  William  Woods  could  revisit  the  earth  to- 
day and  see  what  their  posterity  hav(-  accom- 
plished, and  what  place  they  now  till  in  the  relig- 
ious, intellectual,  tinaucial  and  economic  world, 
they  would  have  a  right  to  feel  glad  they  had  been 
permitted  to  live  in  America  and  to  give  to  it  so 
many  worthy  sons  and  daughters,  whose  lives  and 
deeds  have  done  so  much  to  make  this  laud  glorious 
and  blest. 


NOTES  ON  TART  ONE. 


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NOTES  ON  PART  ONE. 


THE  WOODS  FAMILY. 


1 — The  confession  shonkl  be  made  at  the  outset 
that  the  amount  of  definite  and  absolutely  certain 
information  we  possess  in  rej^ard  to  tlie  Woodses 
prior  to  their  settlement  in  the  colony  of  Virginia 
in  1734,  is  not  great.  Hence,  positive  assertions 
relating  to  the  period  now  under  consideration 
must  be  infrequent,  and  qualifying  phrases  will 
often  be  required.  We  must,  therefore,  content 
ourselves  with  reasonable  probabilities  and  infer- 
ences, in  many  cases,  greatly  as  we  might  like  to 
feel  entirely  certain  in  regard  to  a  multitude  of 
matters  touched  upon.  The  manufacture  of  his- 
tory is  oftentimes  a  tempting  form  of  industry,  but 
it  is  the  desire  of  the  author  to  avoid  engaging  in 
it,  if  possible. 

2 — For  helpful  accounts  of  the  persecutions 
which  the  Scotch-Irish  Presbyterians  suffered  at 
the  hands  of  English  bigotry,  see  Fiske's  Old  Vir- 
ginia and  Her  Neighbors,  Vol.  2,  pages  390-400; 
Foote's  Sketches  of  Virginia,  First  Series,  Chapter 
IV;  the  Introduction  to  Waddell's  Annals  of 
Augusta  County,  Virginia;  and  to  any  good,  com- 
prehensive history  of  England  or  Ireland. 

3 — That  Michael  Woods  and  his  familj^  migrated 
to  the  colony  of  Pennsylvania  somewhere  about 
the  close  of  the  first  quarter  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury, seems  to  have  been  an  accepted  belief  in  the 
families  of  his  descendants;  but  the  exact  year  of 
his  migration  is  fixed  with  reasonable  certainty  by 
an  unbroken  tradition  which  has  come  down  to  our 
day  through  the  descendants  of  Col.  John  Woods, 
the  favorite  son  of  Michael.  That  tradition  is  that 
John  was  a  boy  twelve  years  old  when  he  came  over 
in  the  ship  to  America  with  his  parents.  That  John 
Woods  was  born  in  1712,  is  known  beyond 
all  (juestion.  The  author  is  personally  acquainted 
with  Mr.  J.  Watson  Woods,  of  Mississippi,  a  lineal 


descendant  of  Col.  John  Woods,  wlio  lins  inanv 
ancient  original  documents  of  this  ancestor,  and 
he  affirms  that  tlie  date  of  the  coiiiiiiu  of  the 
Woodses,  Andersons  and  A\'allaces  to  America  was 
the  year  1724,  if  the  unvarying  tradition  of  the 
family  is  to  be  regarded.  The  date  1724  may  there- 
fore safely  be  accepted  as  correct. 

4 — See  Dr.  Woods's  History  of  Albemarle  Coun- 
ty, page  355. 

5 — Our  best  authoritv  as  to  the  ancient  Woodses 
in  Great  Britain  is  Mr.  John  O'Hart.  of  Dublin, 
Ireland,  the  author  of  a  well-known  woi-k  entitled 
Irish  Pedigrees,  wliich  has  run  through  several 
editions,  the  third  of  which  was  published  in  18S1. 
The  sixth  edition,  in  jMS.,  was  ready  for  the  press 
several  years  ago.  Mr.  O'Hart  enjoyed  exceptional 
advantages  in  making  his  researches,  and  had  ac- 
cess to  the  ijublic  offices  and  larger  libraries  of  Ire- 
land. Then  there  is  a  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Barrett,  of 
Ballyshannon,  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  a  lady  of 
high  character,  and  an  author  of  repute,  who  cer- 
tifies to  the  reliability  of  Mr.  O'Hart,  and  adds 
some  notes  of  her  own  to  what  he  has  published. 
This  lady  is  herself  a  descendant  of  the  same  fam- 
ily of  Woodses  as  that  one  with  which  this  volume 
is  concerned,  and  is  personally  acquainted  with  a 
number  of  prominent  Woodses  now  living  in  Ire- 
land, who  trace  tlii'ir  line  back  to  the  same  Woods 
ancestors  as  herself.  The  statements  made  in  the 
body  of  this  vohinic  in  i-cgard  in  the  Woodses  in 
Great  Britain  are  derived  almost  entirely  from 
these  two  authoi's.  Those  who  care  to  look  further 
into  these  questions  will  be  interested  in  Prender- 
gast's  Cromwellian  Settlement  of  Ireland,  Burke's 
Genei-al  Armory,  and  the  Office  of  tlie  King  at 
Arms,  Dublin  Castle,  Ireland. 

6 — There  are  some  records  in  Ireland  whicli  seem 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


to  cive  the  maiden  name  of  John  Woods's  wife  quite 
differently,  namely.  WoUnj).  Whether  this  is  an 
instance  of  illegible  Avritiiit;-,  or  not,  can  not  be 
stated.  The  correct  name  is  believed  to  have  been 
as  herein  given  Worsop. 

7 — Our  information  in  regard  to  the  remoter 
Wallaces  has  been  gotten  from  the  following 
sources,  to  wit:  (a)  Hayden's  Virginia  Genealo- 
gies, Wilkesbarre,  Penn.,  1801,  pages  085-735;  (h) 
Private  family  records  of  the  late  Major  J.  A.  R. 
Varner,  of  Lexington,  Va.,  who  was  a  descendant  of 
Peter  Wallace  and  Elizabeth  Woods,  and  several  of 
whose  letters  are  in  the  possession  of  the  author  of 
this  work;  (c)  History  of  Albemarle  County,  Va., 
by  Rev.  Edgar  Woods,  Ph.  D.,  pages  336-7,  and 
351-6;  and  the  Life  and  Times  of  Judge  Caleb  Wal- 
lace, by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Whitsitt,  Number 
Four  of  the  Filson  Club  Publications,  pages  1  to 
5,  and  21  to  23.  In  consulting  Dr.  Whitsitt's  book, 
however,  the  reader  slmnld  bear  in  mind  that  he 
fell  into  some  inaccuracies  ((lUffniing  tiotii  the 
Woodses  and  Wa Hares  by  reason  r.f  his  not  having 
noted  that  there  wei'e  two  Peter  Wallaces — father 
and  son — and  that  Peter,  the  elder,  married  a  sister 
of  Michael  Woods,  and  his  son,  Peter,  Jr.,  married 
a  daughter  of  Michael.  Dr.  Whitsitt,  furthermore, 
was  probably  not  aware  that  ^lichael  Woods  had 
at  least  five  children  besides  the  six  who  were  men- 
tioned in  his  will.  The  identity  of  these  five  chil- 
dren is  fully  considered  in  the  chapter  on 
^lichael  Woods.  So  far  as  the  writer  can  learn 
there  is  not  a  single  court  record  in  America  to  in- 
dicate that  Peter  Wallace,  the  elder,  was  ever  in 
any  of  the  colonies. 

8 — For  a  full  account  of  that  branch  of  Wallaces 
who  located  in  King  George  County,  Virginia,  and 
named  their  homestead  Elderslie,  see  Virginia 
Genealogies  by  Hayden,  pages  685-735.  The  head 
of  this  branch  was  one  Michael  Wallace,  M.  D., 
who  was  boi-n  at  Galrys,  Scotland,  in  1719,  and 
whose  father  was  named  William.  These  Wallaces 
were  probably  near  of  kin  to  those  now  iiuder  con- 
sideration— William  and  P<'ter  may  have  been 
brothers.     Both  branches  were  most  probably  de- 


scended from  the  same  person  as  was  Sir  William 
Wallace,  the  famous  Scotch  patriot. 

9 — Sketches  of  Virginia  by  Rev.  William  Henry 
Foote,  D.  D.,  Philadelphia,  1850,  First  Series,  page 
101. 

10 — History  of  Albemarle  County,  Virginia,  by 
Dr.  Edgar  Woods,  page  336. 

11 — Life  and  Times  of  Judge  Caleb  Wallace, 
Number  4  of  Filson  Clnb  Publications,  by  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Wm.  IT.  Whitsitt. 

31^  !■ — For  additional  items  as  to  Wallaces  see 
sketch  of  JIajor  J.  A.  R.  Varner. 

12 — For  a  brief  account  of  his  death  at  Guil- 
ford C.  H.,  .see  Foote's  Sketches  of  ^'irginia.  Sec- 
ond Series,  page  147.  Tlie  death  of  his  two  broth- 
ers is  also  referred  to  in  that  place. 

13 — This  story  was  told  in  an  article  which  ap- 
peared in  The  Ivockbridge  County  News  (Lexing- 
ton, Virginia)  April  24,  1890. 

14 — Governor  McDowell  was  a  descendant  of  the 
^fagdalene  Woods  who  married  John  McDowell, 
and  sJie  was  a  sister  of  Adam  Wallace's  mother, 
3Iartha  Woods.  Both  these  women  were  the  daugh- 
ters of  Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park. 

15 — See  Notes  3  and  5  on  Part  I,  Chapter  First. 

16 — Peyton's  History  of  Augusta  County,  Vir- 
ginia, page  302. 

17 — See  Waddell's  Annals  of  Augusta  County, 
page  4;  Peyton's  History  of  Augusta  County, 
pages  23,  31  and  79 ;  and  Fiske's  Old  Virginia  and 
Her  Neighbors,  Vol.  2,  pages  390-395. 

18 — See  Fiske's  Old  Virginia  and  Her  Neighbors, 
Volume  II,  the  whole  of  Chapter  XVII,  especially 
pages  395  and  396.  Foote's  Sketches  of  Virginia, 
First  Series,  Chapter  IV,  and  pages  102-106. 

19 — See  Waddell's  Annals  of  Augusta  County, 
pages  7  to  9,  and  notes ;  and  Dr.  Hale's  Trans-Alle- 
gheny Pioneers,  page  21. 

20 — See  Fiske's  Old  Virginia  and  Her  Neigh- 
bors, Vol.  2,  pages  384-5 ;  and  Waddell,  pages  9  and 
10. 

21— Fiske,  page  384. 

22 — See  Waddell,  page  16;  Foote,  First  Series, 
page  101;  Dr.  Edgar  Woods,  page  351. 


NOTES  ON  TAUT  ONE. 


143 


23 — See  Peyton's  Augusta,  pages  25  to  31. 

24 — Foote's  Sketches  of  Virgiuia,  First  Series, 
r    page  101. 

25 — AVafMell's  Annals,  page  13. 

26— See  all  of  Chapters  I  and  III  of  Waddell's 
Annals;  and  Peyton's  Angnsta,  pages  9  and  81. 

27 — Waddell's  Annals,  jiage  13,  where  is  given  a 
picture  of  travel  in  those  days. 

28 — See  Peyton's  Angnsta,  page  9. 

29— See  Waddell's  Annals,  pages  30  and  31 ; 
Peyton's  Angnsta  County,  page  0.5 ;  and  Foote's 
Sketches  of  Virginia,  Second  Series,  pages  92  and 
93.  It  will  appear  from  a  comparison  of  these  cita- 
tions that  Dr.  Foote  places  the  death  of  John  Mc- 
Dowell in  1743,  a  year  later  than  Waddell  and  Pey- 
ton do,  and  he  gives  what  purports  to  be  an  exact 
reproduction  of  the  inscription  on  McDowell's 
tombstone  in  the  ancient  burial-itlot  of  Timber 
Ridge  Church.  The  writer  has  great  faith  in  the 
care  and  accuracy  of  both  Waddell  and  Peyton, 
and  he  assumes  that  they  must  have  found  that  Dr. 
Foote's  date  was  an  error.  We  may  therefore  ac- 
cept the  year  1742  as  the  correct  date  of  the  awful 
tragetly  at  Balcony  Falls.  The  rude  figures  on 
such  a  primitive,  unhewn  head-stone  as  that  which 
Dr.  Foote  states  marked  John  McDowell's  grave  in 
his  day  were  probably  indistinct,  and  he  might 
have  mistaken  a  2  for  a  3. 

30— Waddell's  Annals,  pages  67-71. 

31 — See  Dr.  Woods's  History  of  Albemarle  Coun- 
ty, pages  6  and  351. 

32 — The  original  Patent,  in  the  possession  of 
Hon.  Micajah  Woods,  of  Charlottesville,  Virginia, 
is  executed  on  parchment  in  beautiful  handwriting, 
and  is  in  a  good  state  of  preservation  after  166 
years.  It  is  worded  after  the  extremely  verbose, 
technical  style  of  ancient  legal  documents,  with 
endless  repetitions  and  useless  phrases.  It  is  too 
lengthy  and  tedious  to  justify  insertion  in  full. 

33— See  The  Cabells  and  Their  Kin,  by  Alexan- 
der Brown,  published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
Boston  and  New  York,  in  189.",  pages  59  and  599. 

34— See  Dr.  Woods's  History  of  Albemarle, 
page  130. 


35 — This  mode  of  signing  one's  name  the  writer 
does  not  remember  ever  to  have  known  an  example 
of  before.  If  the  "m"  interposed  between  the 
Christian  name  Jlichael,  and  tlic  surname  Woods 
liad  been  meant  fnr  I  lie  initial  of  a  middle  name 
one  would  tliiiik  il  would  Iia\'e  liccn  id"  Die  same  size 
as  tlie  (Pile  \\i-ill('n  in  tlic  name  Michael,  and  on  a 
line  with  it.  On  the  contrary,  this  "m"  is  not  only 
much  smaller,  but  is  in  all  cases  slightly  below  the 
line.  If  anyone  can  suggest  the  true  explanation 
of  this  anomalous  form  of  signature  employed  by 
(uir  ancestor  in  bis  deeds  of  1743,  and  in  his  will 
of  1761,  the  author  would  be  n\u(Ii  ohliged  to  hear 
from  him.  Address  Bev.  Neandcr  :\r.  Woods,  817 
Second  Street,  Louisville,  Ky. 

36 — Col.  Green's  Historic  Families  of  Kentucky, 
page  15.  This  volume,  let  it  liere  be  noted,  is  of 
peculiar  value  to  all  llic  Woodscs,  and  especially  all 
the  McDowells  who  are  descended  fVuni  [Mielinel 
Woods  of  Blair  Park.  It  contains  an  amount  of 
important  information  as  to  these  families  which 
is  nowhere  else  to  be  had,  so  far  as  the  present 
writer  is  aware.  It  is  greatly  to  be  regretted  that 
the  book  is  already  out  of  print,  and  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  the  demand  for  co])ics  may  be  such  as  to 
induce  some  one  to  issue  a  new  edition. 

37 — For  this  valuable  jdece  of  unimpeachable  in- 
foi'mation  the  author  is  indebted  to  the  kindness  of 
Professor  W.  C.  Brown,  of  the  University  of  Mis- 
souri, who  has  devf)ted  much  attention  to  genealogi- 
cal matters  relating  to  the  Woodscs  and  their  vari- 
ous connections. 

38— Waddell's  Annals,  page  13. 

39 — ^See  Foote's  Sketches  of  Virginia,  Second 
Series,  page  96. 

40 — See  Green's  Historic  Families  of  Kentucky, 
pages  2  and  3. 

41 — The  depositions  of  ilrs.  i\Iary  Greenlee, 
taken  in  1806,  in  the  celebrated  Borden  case,  is 
given  in  part  in  Peyton's  Augusta  County,  pages 
66-74.  This  is  a  document  of  intense  interest  to  the 
Woodses  and  McDowells.  As  only  brief  extracts 
from  it  can  be  quoted  in  this  work,  all  who  want 
to  get  an  insight  into  the  mode  of  life  and  social 


144 


THE   WCJODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


conditions  of  the  ancient  ^IcDowells  and  Woodses 
sboxild  give  tiie  extracts  from  this  (hiciiment  quoted 
by  Peyton  a  careful  ])ernsal.  It  tlii'ows  much  light 
on  the  history  of  tlie  \Voo(lses,  ]\[cl)owelLs,  Bor- 
dens,  Bowyers,  Alexanders,  A^'allaces  and  others. 
The  records  of  the  whole  case  fill  (\vn  fdlio  volumes, 
and  are  to  be  seen  in  the  clerk's  oflice  at  Staunton, 
Virginia.  See  Dr.  Foote's  Sketches,  Second  Series, 
page  92. 

42— See  Waddell's  Annals,  page  482. 

43 — This  account  is  foun<l,  in  substance,  in  vari- 
ous books,  lint  the  (me  given  by  Dr.  Foote  in  liis 
Sketches  of  Virginia,  Second  Series,  pages  92  and 
93,  is  the  one  iiiaiiily  folbiwed.  For  some  cause  the 
year  of  Cajitain  .Md  »o\\('irs  death  as  given  by 
Foote  is  not  the  same  as  that  given  hj 
Waddell,  Peyton  and  (ireen.  Dr.  l'"'o()te  purports 
to  give  an  exact  copy  of  the  inscription  on  the 
tombstone,  but  the  other  writers  mentioned  have 
had  as  good  oi>porfuiiities  as  he  for  ascertaining 
the  facts^and  we  must  assinue  that  they  are  correct 
in  fixing  1742  (  December  251  as  the  true  date,  and 
that  pro))ably  Dr.  Foote,  in  reading  the  very  rude 
inscriptions  covered  by  the  moss  of  generations, 
mistook  a  2  for  a  3.  See  Note  4()  in  wiiich  yet  an- 
other date  for  John  McDowell's  death  is  discussed. 

44 — ^The  author  wishes  to  state  that  to  the  val- 
uable work  of  Col.  Thomas  ^[.  (Ireen  on  some  of  the 
Historic  Families  of  Kentucky  he  is  indebted  for 
most  of  the  iufornmtion  herein  given  concerning 
the  McDowells.  One  reason  for  making  such  ex- 
tensive use  of  that  work  is  tiie  fact  that  it  is  out  of 
print,  and  hundreds  of  the  descendants  of  the 
Woodses,  McDowells  and  others  who  would  be  glad 
to  purchase  it  could  not  possildy  obtain  a  copy  at 
any  price.  There  are  various  other  volumes  which 
give  more  or  less  complete  lists  of  the  McDowells 
and  their  c(nmections  and  descendants  to  which 
the  reader  is  referred,  viz:  Paxton's  Marshall 
Family,  pages  00-08;  Peyton's  History  of  Augusta 


ent  work  could  not  un<lertake  to  sift  the  contradic- 
tory details  to  be  found  in  the  several  publications 
mentioned.  He  is  inclined  to  accept  Col.  Green's 
exliiliit  as,  on  the  whole  the  most  satisfactory  one 
within  reach. 

45 — Col.  Green  states  that  Samuel  IMcDowell 
I\eid,  son  of  Andrew  Keid  and  Magdalen  McDow- 
ell, was  a  physician.  See  his  Historic  Families, 
page  100.  Tiiis  is  a  mistake.  He  was  educated  for 
the  law,  but  spent  nearly  the  whole  of  his  mature 
life  discharging  the  duties  of  clerk  of  court  in 
Pockliridge  County.  He  was  never,  at  any  period 
of  In's  life,  a  jdiysician.  Mrs.  Helm  Bruce,  of 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  is  a  grand-daughter  of  his, 
and  slic  lias  learned  the  facts  from  her  motliei',  who 
bad  liad  acicss  to  the  records  of  the  Keid  family. 

40 — There  is  a  record  in  regard  to  John  ilcDow- 
ell  at  Orange  Court  House,  Virginia,  which  may 
easily  mislead  any  one  who  fails  to  bear  in  mind 
the  "old  style"  of  rei-kouing,  which  England  did  not 
abandon  till  the  year  1752.  The  record  in  question 
shows  that  letters  of  administration  were  granted 
to  ^fagdalen  ^McDowell  upon  the  estate  of  her  de- 
ceased liiisliaiid  .Mai'ch  24,  1742.  The  natural  in- 
ference would  lie  that,  inasmuch  as  it  is  known 
that  John  McDowell  was  killed  on  Christmas  Day, 
lie  died  in  the  year  1741.  This  would  be  true  under 
the  present  style  of  reckoning,  but  not  so  under  tlie 
"old  style."  Up  to  the  year  1752,  in  England  and 
all  her  colonies,  the  new  year  began  March  25,  in- 
stead of  January  1,  as  now.  Hence,  Cliristmas  Day 
next  preceding  .March  24,  1742,  was  in  Die  year 
1742.  March  24  was  then  the  last  day  of  tlie  year, 
and  of  course  the  preceding  twelve  months  all  be- 
longed to  the  same  year  as  that  date  did.  The 
administration  letters  granted  to  Magdalen  .^larch 
24,  1742,  Avere  just  three  months  subsequent  to  De- 
cember 25,  1 742.  So  John  died  December  25,  1742, 
and  then  .March  24,  1742,  his  widow  took  out  letters 


County,  page  302;  and    Dr.    W'hitsitt's    Life    and  of  adniinistratioTi. 

Times  of  Caleb  AVallace,  pages  21-23.     Mr.  Wad-  47 — For  items  concerning  the  Bordens  the  reader 

dell,  in  his  Annals  of  Augusta  County,  also  has  is  referred  to  the  following  authorities:     Peyton's 

much  to  say  of  this  family.    The  author  (»f  the  pres-  History  of  Augusta  County,  pages  07-74,  and  302; 


NOTES  ON  i'Airr  ONE. 


ur; 


\V;i(l<lcirs  Aiiiials  (if  Auiiiistii  County,  pages  16, 
aiul  3U84U0;  aud  Col.  Thomas  Marsliall  Green's 
Historic  Families  of  Kentucky,  pages  111.'),  aud  78. 

48 — P\>i'  particulars  in  icgard  to  Col.  I'owyei- 
see  the  folhnving:  AN'addcll's  Annals,  jtagcs  (iC), 
lie,  131,  aud  487;  I^eytou's  Augusta  Cciinty,  pages 
fiO-74;  Foote's  Sketches,  Second  Series,  jiage  !)8; 
the  facsimile  of  the  will  of  Michael  Woods,  Jr., 
herein  given  and  noted  in  Index;  and  Col.  Creen's 
Historic  Families,  jiage  78. 

49 — The  greater  part  of  tlic  inlnrnial  inn  here 
given  in  regard  to  William  ^^'<)(P(ls  (I'd)  has  been 
gotten  from  Dr.  Edgar  ^Voods's  History  of  Allie- 
marle  County.     Sec  pages  o~t?>  and  Sru. 

.jO — Henning's  Statutes  at  Large,  Volume  7, 
page  203,  An  Act  providing  for  paying  the  men  of 
the  Albemarle  militia. 

51 — The  author  perhaps  needs  to  apologize  to  the 
most  of  his  readers  for  this  littl(>  digression  from 
the  narrative.  He  is  anxious  to  draw  the  attention 
of  the  Woodses  to  a  state  of  things  which  is  some- 
thing of  a  reproach,  and  to  say  that  he  stands 
ready  to  co-operate  in  every  A\ay  in  his  ]Ki\\'er  with 
any  of  the  "Clan"  wlm  may  lie  disjiosed  to  heed  the 
hint  given. 

52 — The  most  that  the  author  has  been  able  to 
learn  concerning  ^^'illiam.  the  second  child  of 
Michai  1  Woods  and  ]\[arv  Campli(  II,  has  l)een  de- 
riveil  fr(un  Dr.  Edgar  Woods's  History  of  Albe- 
marle County,  see  pages  353  and  354. 

53— See  sketch  of  C(d.  Charles  A.  R.  Woods,  in 
PaT't  III  of  this  W(!i'k,  who  is  a  descendani  of  ^Vi^ 
liam  Woods  (2d  )  through  his  son,  Adam  Woods. 

54 — The  r(  ader  is  referred  to  the  sketch  of  Mrs. 
:McChesney  Coodall  in  Tart  III  of  (his  W(U-k.  She 
Avas  born  and  reared  within  sight  of  tlie  old  ^Fich- 
ael  Woods  Blair  Park  homestead,  and  her  immedi- 
ate ancestors  have  enjoyed  special  o])])ortunities 
for  knowing  the  family  traditions  bearing  on  the 
career  of  William  Woods  (2(Fl,  sou  of  old  ^lichael. 
Her  information  is  that  he  lived  iu  Pennsylvania 
till  March,  1744,  whilst  his  parents  are  known  to 
have  migrated  to  A'irginia  ten  years  prior  to  that 
date.     WHiy  it  was  that  William,  who  was  one  of 


his  father's  favorite  sons,  sliould  liave  rc^maiued  be- 
hind in  Pennsylvania  so  mncli  as  ten  years  whilst 
his  parents  and  younger  lirolhcrs  aud  sisters  were 
<lown  in  the  Virgiina  w  ildcrnrss  sti-uggling  with 
all  tlie  trying  conditicuis  of  a  fi-onii<T  settlement, 
we  are  unable  to  conjecture.  We  know  not  what 
documejitai-y  evidence  in  snppoil  of  this  .su])posi- 
tiou  may  be  in  existence  ;  but  if  theie  be  none,  it 
would  seem  but  reasoTiable  to  conclude  that  the 
sons  of  old  .Alicliacl  .-icconiiiaiiied  liini  on  his  mo\'e 
to  A'irgiuia  in  1734.  This,  howevei-,  we  c(nifess,  is 
only  a  conjecture  on  oui-  jtart. 

55 — The  infeu'iuatiiui  herein  given  in  regard  to 
Captain  Archibald  ^'\'oo(ls  and  his  wife,  ^[(uirning 
Shelton,  has  been  derived  mainly  from  the  follow- 
ing sketches,  to  be  found  in  Part  III  of  this  vol- 
ume, viz:  that  of  Col.  Charles  A.  K.  Woixls;  that 
of  Col.  J.  W.  Caperton ;  that  of  Mr.  Samuel  ]>.  Koy- 
ster  and  that  of  Hon.  J.  D.  (ioodloe.  Tlu'  i-eader 
is  referred  to  these  sketches  for  fuller  details  than 
could  well  be  presented  in  this  place. 

56 — The  reader  will  please  consult  the  sketches 
of  Col.  Woods  and  IVIrs.  Gowlall  in  Part  III  of  this 
volume.  Also  Dr.  Edgar  Woods's  History  of  Al- 
bemarle, page  353. 

57 — See  Dr.  Edgar  Woods's  History  of  Albe- 
marle, page  235. 

58 — The  accounts  given  by  Dr.  Edgar  Woods, 
Col.  Cha*^.  A.  R.  Woods,  and  ^Ivs.  Goodull  of  the 
descendants  of  William  Woods  (2d)  are  in  some 
I'espects  widely  dilTerent,  and  now  ami  then  contra- 
<lictory  of  each  othei-.  P.et\\( en  these  several  nar- 
ratives the  author  of  this  volume  feels  incompetent 
to  decide  with  any  ])ositiveness,  and  he  refers  his 
readers  to  the  sevei'al  accounts  so  that  they  may 
judge  for  themselves. 

5fl — See  Peyton's  Augusta  County,  page  119. 

60 — To  some  of  the  numerous  descendants  of 
Samuel  Woods  it  may  be  a  matter  of  interest  to 
know  something  more  about  his  Kevolutionai'y  ser- 
vice, and  the  ]iension  h(>  received,  than  is  given  in 
the  body  of  the  text;  aud  for  the  gratification  of 
such  |>ersoT)s  the  follow  ing  additional  facts  .are  fni'- 
nished  :     Nearlv  foi'tv  veai's  after  (he  close  of  the 


146 


THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


Revolution  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  un- 
dertook to  make  proper  recognition  of  the  services 
of  tlie  old  Revolutionary  soldiers,  hundreds  of 
whom  were  still  alive,  but  far  advanced  in  life,  and 
many  of  them  being  in  greatly  reduced  circum- 
stances. Tlie  acts  relating  hereto  are  known  as 
"The  Revolutionary  Claim  Acts  of  March  IS,  1818, 
and  May  1,  1820."  It  was  under  these  acts  that 
Samuel  Woods  got  his  pension.  lie  was  then  re- 
siding in  Uarrodsburg,  Kentucky,  with  his  gi'and- 
son,  J.  Harvey  Woods,  the  father  of  the  present 
writer.  Born  in  1738,  he  was  a  man  of  eighty  when 
the  first  of  the  above-nu^itioned  acts  was  passed. 
He  had  given  the  bulk  of  his  property  to  his  son, 
Samuel  Woods,  Jr.,  in  1791,  and  for  some  reason 
by  the  year  1819  was  without  means,  and  dependent 
for  support  on  his  grandson,  with  whom  he  was  liv- 
ing. The  records  of  the  case  consist  of  a  number 
of  affidavits  and  certificates  which  are  now  on  file 
in  the  U.  S.  Pension  Office  at  AA'^ashington  City,  and 
the  same  can  be  seen,  free  of  charge,  at  any  time 
by  calling  on  the  proper  official.  Parties  who 
would  like  to  procure  certified  copies  of  all  the 
papers  can  readily  obtain  them  for  a  nominal  fee 
by  writing  to  the  Pension  Department.  The  fol- 
l()^\■ing  papoi's  of  the  set  aiiie  reg'arded  as  of  special 
intterest :  1,  the  affidavit  of  one  John  <ialloway,  of 
Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  made  Septembea*  13, 
1819;  2,  the  affidavit  of  Samuel  Woods,  himself, 
m'ade  April  11,  1823;  3,  the  affidavit  of  one  Major 
John  Arnold,  of  Madison  County,  Tennessee,  made 
Octobei-  22,  1823;  and  4,  the  affidavit  of  Col.  An- 
thony Crocket,  of  Franklin  Coivnty,  Kentucky, 
madte  December  15,  1823,  and  certified  to  by  tlie 
three  Kentucky  OongTCssmeli,  IMoiore,  Buckner,  and 
Let.clrei\ 

In  paper  1  Mr.  Galloway  swears  that  he  is  well 
acquainted  with  Samuel  Woods;  that  he  saw  him 
swiirn  into  service  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Twelfth 
Virginia  Regiment,  on  the  Continental  Establish- 
ment at  Fort  Pitt,  in  the  spring  of  177G ;  that  Colo- 
nel James  Wood  was  in  command  of  said  regiment, 
and  Galloway  himself  a  member  thereof;  that  he 
knew  said  Woods  served  as  a  regular  officer  in  said 


regiment  for  nearly  three  years;  that  said  Woods 
served  his  country  faithfully;  and  that  he  was  at 
the  battle  of  Guilford,  N.  C,  as  he  believed. 

In  paper  2,  Samuel  Woods  swears  that  he  was 
not  physically  able  then  (April,  1823)  to  appear  in 
Court  owing  to  the  feebleness  of  age;  that  in  the 
spring  of  177G  he  was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant 
and  attached  to  the  Twelfth  Virginia  Regiment,  on 
Contin(  ntal  Establishment,  commanded  by  Col. 
James  Wood;  that  he  continued  in  the  Continental 
service  (Regular  Army,  as  distinguished  from 
Militia)  for  three  years,  when  he  resigned;  that  af- 
terwards he  served  as  a  militia  officer,  from  time  to 
time,  till  the  war  closed,  and  was  in  the  Battle  of 
Guilford,  North  Carolina ;  that  he  was  then  about 
eighty-fi\'e  yenvfi  old,  and  too  feeble  tO'  do  amy  \\'ork ; 
that  his  M'ife  (Margairet)  -was  then  old,  and  as  in- 
firm ais  himself,  they  having  no  children  alive,  and 
both  in  a  dependent  condition  ;  and  th'at  he  hfid  sent 
on  his  np])licati(ni  t(!  the  Pensiiiu  I  >c](iirlment  in 
1819,  liut  that  action  on  it  had  been  delayed  be- 
cause, in  spelling  the  surname  of  the  Colonel  of  the 
regiment  in  ^^dlich  he  had  served,  he  had  appended 
an  s  to  it,  making  his  Colonel's  nianie  ^^'Oods,  in- 
stead (if  siinidy  A\'ood  as  it  properly  was. 

In  paper  3  Major  John  Arnold,  of  :Madison 
County,  Tennessee,  swore  that  lie  was  well  ac- 
quainted with  Samuel  Woods;  that  said  Woods 
was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Continental  Army;  that  he 
knew  said  AVoods  to  be  in  service  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Kanawha  River  for  about  fifteen  months,  he 
and  Woods  being  together  there;  and  that  he  be- 
lieved Woods  to  have  been  a  faithful  scddier;  and 
that  Woods  was  an  officer  whom  he  knew  and  re- 
spected as  such.  Arnold's  memory  as  to  the  years 
covered  by  this  period  of  fifteen  months  was  some- 
^^■hat  at  fault,  for  he  metntious  the  year  1775,  when 
it  is  certain  Woods  did  noit  enlist  till  the  spring  of 

i77r). 

In  the  4th  paper.  Col.  Anthony  Orockeit  states, 
under  oath,  tWat  he  knew  Samuel  Woods  well ;  that 
during  the  Revolutionary  War  Woods  was  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  regiment  of  which  Col.  James  Wood 
■nas  the  commander;  that  Woods  ^^'as  in  service  at 


N(  )TES  ON  PAET  ONE. 


147 


P'oi't  Pitt,  and  later  at  the  mouth  of  the  Kanawha, 
and  later  still  marched  to  the  South.  Then  follows 
the  sworn  statement  of  all  three  of  the  Kentucky 
Congressmen,  Hon.  T.  P.  ^Moore,  Hon.  Richard  A. 
Buckner,  and  Hon.  Robert  P.  Letcher,  certifying- 
(o  tlic  absolute  trustworthiness  of  Col.  Crocket. 
The  recoi-ds  show  further  that  Samuel  Woods  was, 
in  1823,  residing  with  J.  Harvey  Woods,  his  grand- 
son, in  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky;  that  from  Decem- 
ber 15,  1823,  he  gc^t  |20.00  a  month  until  liis  death, 
wiiich  occunx^d  February  3,  182(;,  when  he  was 
eighty-eight  yeai-s  old. 

It  may  be  remarked  here  that  whilst  the  particu- 
lar regiment  several  times  referred  to  in  said  docu- 
ments as  the  one  in  Avhich  Samuel  Woods  was  a 
Lieutenant,  and  of  which  Col.  James  Wood  was  the 
commander,  is  called  the  '"Twelfth,"  there  is  some 
uncertainty  as  to  this  being  correct.  The  author 
lias  seen  in  a  published  volume  of  Revolutionary 
Recoi'd'S  ( the  exact  title  of  -n-hich  he  can  not  noM-  re- 
call) that  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  -Tames 
Wood  was  the  Third,  and  not  the  Twelfth.  He  also 
olis'erves  that  in  these  documents,  above  dis'cussetl, 
some  of  the  affiants  seem  to  have  doubts  as  to  this 
point  themselves.  Then  the  endorsement  on  the 
jacket  or  wrapper  emicloising  the  papers  of  this  case 
made  by  some  oflScial  of  the  Pension  Office,  omits 
to  give  the  number  of  the  regiment,  and  simply 
says:  "The  i*egiment  commanded  by  Col.  James 
Wood."  The  solution  of  this  queslion  may  pos- 
sibly be  that  during  the  course  of  the  five  or  six 
years  of  the  Revolution  Col.  Wood  may  have  com- 
manded two  entirely  different  regiments,  in  order, 
or  his  command  may  have  undergone  a  reorganiza- 
tion, resulting  in  a  new  name  for  it,  as  often  occurs 
in  the  course  of  a  protracted  war. 

61 — See  Prof.  Shaler's  Kentucky,  pages  20  and 
21. 

fi2 — Col.  Durrett's  Centenary  of  Kentucky,  pages 
IG  and  51. 

63— See  Shaler's  Kentucky,  pages  68,  80  and  93. 

64— Butler's  Kentucky,  Edition  of  1834,  page 
120;  and  Waddell's  Annals  of  .\iimis1a  County, 
l):ige  208,  footnote. 

65 — See  Waddell's  Annals,  pages  451-3. 


66 — Di'.  Edgar  Woods's  History  (if  Albemarle, 
page  355. 

67 — Davidson's  History  of  Presbyterian! sm  in 
Kentucky,  pages  73-82. 

68 — Family  Reminiscences  by  Le  Grand  M. 
Jones,  of  Trenton,  Tennessee,  St.  Louis,  C.  R. 
Barns  Publishing  Co.,  1804.     See  pages  43-46. 

69 — This  is  not  intended  in  tlie  least  as  a  dispar- 
agement of  Mr.  Jones's  narrative,  but  only  to  call 
attention  to  the  fact  that  his  principal  informant 
probably  did  not  possess  much  certain  information 
concerninig  some  of  the  details  of  family  liistory  to 
which  he  referred.  Tliis  is  noted  Iicre  merely  to 
show  that  the  writer  has  good  grounds  for  doubt- 
ing the  exactness  and  accuracy  of  some  of  the  state- 
ments made  as  to  Samuel  Woods,  of  Paint  Lick, 
and  his  children.  First,  Judge  Black  was  evidently 
unaware  of  the  more  important  incidents  in  the  life 
of  Samuel  Woods  during  his  stay  of  about  fifteen 
years  in  Kentucky.  He  was  evidently  an  import- 
ant man  at  Paint  Lick,  and  took  part  in  the  organi- 
zation of  the  beginnings  of  Presbyterianism  in  Ken- 
tucky ;  and  yet  Judge  Black  had  probably  not  heard 
of  anything  beyond  the  fact  that  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Paint  Lick  Church,  whei'e  the  noted  David 
Rice  sometimes  preached.  Secondly,  on  reading 
over  the  items  fuTuished  to  Mr.  Jones  by  Judge 
Black  about  Samuel  and  his  two  wives,  and  his  ten 
children,  we  find  no  indication  of  a  \^'ritte!n  I'ecord 
quote<l  from,  except  ais  to  one  of  the  sons,  John 
Woods.  Tlie  exception  in  liis  ca.se  is  expressly 
noted  by  Mr.  Jones,  (page  44)  and  the  fair  infer- 
ence would  be  that  the  other  items  had  not  been 
copied  from  a  written  record.  Thirdly,  Mr.  Jones 
himself  calls  in  question  the  statement  of  Judge 
Black  as  to  the  date  of  Samuel's  migration  to  Ken- 
tucky, and  most  justly.  Judge  Black  has  him  com- 
ing to  Kentucky  in  1773,  when,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
there  was  not  a  single  resident  white  man  in  the 
State  that  year.  The  prol>ability  is  that  Samuel 
Woods  did  not  com(>  to  Kentucky  for  many  years 
after  1773.  So  fai'  as  we  can  judge  from  land  en- 
tries on  record  he  -iNas  scarcely  there  before  1783. 
Lastly,  Judge  Black  was  the  last-born  of  a  family 


148  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

of  Iwclvc  cliildirn;  and  it  is  easy  to  imdeir-  made  to  a  SamiRd  Woods  oilier  than  the  oue  who 
stiuid  how  a  son  liorn  wlicii  liis  jKireuts  have  migrated  from  Botetourt  County,  Virgiuia,  to  Mer- 
I'C'ached  middh>  life,  and  who  comes  to  full  cer  Count}-,  Kentucky,  in  17S2-3,  and  there  died  in 
maturity  when  his  pnivnls  are  eilhei*  gone  1826.  The  grant  was  for  350  acres  of  land  in  Lin- 
frciui  this  world,  or  have  lorgolicii  many  de-  coin  Couuty,  on  a  braucli  of  I'aint  Lick  Creek,  ad- 
lails  which  thev  had  heard  (heir  parents  narrate  joining  the  lands  of  Brooks,  Kennedy,  Bett,  Mc- 
in  earlv  life,  labors  under  ])eciiliar  disadvantages  Cormack,  Miller,  and  McNecly.  The  warrant  was 
in  respect  to  secnrinii  reliable  family  history.  Most  numbered  340G,  and  bore  date  March  G,  1780.  It 
men  do  not  begin  to  take  a  lively  interest  iu  family  was  originally  issued  to  Jesse  Cartright,  who  as- 
(raditious  till  they  are  nearing  middle  life;  and  if  signed  it  to  William  Miller,  who  assigned  \t  to 
thev  hai)])en  to  have  been  the  latesl-bm-u  of  a  large  Samuel  Woods.  The  date  of  the  survey  of  this 
family,  by  the  lime  llieir  auti(iuariaii  instincts  have  tract  was  ilay  3,  1783,  which  is  the  year,  most 
beeonu' aroused  and  their  fondness  foi' genealogical  probably,  in  which  this  Samuel  A\'(iods  canu^  to 
delails  somewhat  cultivated,  the  oidy  ])ersons  who  Kentucky.  The  Patent  for  the  laud  bears  date  De- 
ever  knew  the  facts  desired  have  had  the  seal  of  cember  2,  1785,  and  is  signed  by  Governor  Patrick 
lasting  silence  placed  upon  their  lips.  In  such  a  Henry,  of  Virginia.  This  Samuel  Woods  was,  he- 
case,  if  parents  have  themselves  failed  to  set  down  yond  all  reaso'uahle  rioubt,  the  one  who  was  au 
in  black  and  white  what  they  had  learned  from  elder  in  the  Paint  Lick  Church  for  about  fifteen 
their  own  parents,  the  loss  is  simply  irreparable,  years,  and  then  moved  to  ^Allliamsou  County, Ten- 
I'l'ccisely  this  has  been  the  present  writer's  experi-  nessee,  aliout  the  year  1800 ;  and  there  are  good  rea- 
ence.  Being  the  last  of  a  dozen  children,  his  par-  sons  for  lielieving  he  was  the  Samuel  Woods 
ents  were  dead  long  before  he  had  come  to  care  who  was  the  son  of  Richard  Woods,  of  Rockbridge 
anything  Avhatever  about  family  tradition;  and  up  County,  Virginia,  and  sold  out  his  interests  there 
to  about  twelve  years  ago  hescarcelyknew  anything  in  1783,  and  migrated  to  Kentucky, 
at  all  of  his  graud-j^areiits,  and  h  ss  still  of  his  re-  71 — It  may  be  interesting  to  some  to  understand 
mot(>r  ancestors.  Only  by  dint  of  patient  and  long  the  umin  features  of  the  Virginia  and  Kentucky 
continued  effort  has  he  learned,  from  all  sorts  of  Land  Laws.  Nearly  all  of  the  histories  of  Virginia 
.sources,  what  he  now  knows.  It  is  evident  .Tudg(>  and  Kentucky  recite  their  provisions,  as  enacted 
Black  labored  under  almost  the  sanu'  disadvan-  and  altered  fi'om  tinu^  to  time.  Tlie  reader  will  be 
tages;  and  for  this  reason,  and  in  view  of  the  facts  referred  to  a  few  of  the  authorities  whence  he  may 
adduced  above,  the  writer  feels  disposed  to  con-  grt  a  fair  notion  of  the  peculiar  regulations  adopt- 
clnde  that  Samuel  Woods,  who  lived  at  Paint  Lick,  ed  by  Virginia  for  encouraging  the  rapid  and  easy 
was  ])robably  the  Samuel  who  was  the  son  of  Rich-  settlement  of  her  vast  domain.  It  was  a  system 
ard  Woods  and  a  grand.son  of  :\Iichael  Woods,  of  which  had  its  serious  drawbacks,  and  in  tinn^  it 
Blair  Park,  and  came  from  A'irginia  to  Kentucky  caused  endless  contentions  and  litigation;  and  yet 
about  1783.  The  descendants  of  this  man  consti-  i*^^  '^vas  beneficent  in  aim,  and  it  had  some  capital 
tule  a  numerous  comi^any  of  excellent  people  scat-  advantages  not  easily  improved  upon  as  a  scheme 
tei'ed  over  the  South  and  Southwest,  West  and  f"<>i'  meeting  the  exigencies  of  the  exceptional  pre- 
Xorthwest,  and  the  writer  has  lieen  at  some  pains  vailing  conditions.  The  intending  settler  did  not 
to  s(>t  forth  for  (heir  luMiefit,  as  best  he  could,  all  he  need  to  wait  till  a  government  surveyor  went  to  the 
c(mld  gather  coaicerning  this  good  old  Preisbyterian  desired  spot  and  made  an  official  survey  and  maj) 
elder  of  Paint  Lick.  of  the  land.  The  settler  became  his  own  surveyor ; 
70— In  the  land  oflice  at  Frankf(U-t  tjie  writer  and  with  chain  and  compass  he  could  lay  off  a  thou- 
1-Mind  the  r.N-oid  of  jui  entry  which  was  certaiidy  sand  acres  in  a  few  hours.     Then  he  had  his  survey 


XOTKH  ON  I'Airr  ONK. 


Ui) 


retuided  in  the  Laud  OMce,  wkea'ever  it  was  at  the 
time,  aud  ou  the  basis  of  this  entry  Land  Wai'rants 
were  issued  to  him  which  made  his  title  good  for 
his  laud  against  all  comers  except  such  as  may 
have  entered  the  same  land  before  he  did.  Under 
tliis  system  the  earlier  settlers  picked  out  only  the 
i-huice  lands,  leaving  untouched,  as  a  rule,  those 
deemed  of  small  value.  Like  our  AVestern  cow- 
boys ou  the  Great  Plains  thirty  years  ago,  who,  ou 
killing  a  buffalo,  might  carry  away  with  them  only 
the  tongue  or  other  choice  bits  of  the  carcass,  leav- 
ing the  rest  for  those  who  wanted  it,  the  settlers 
in  the  vast  and  splendid  wilderness  of  Central  Ken- 
tucky disdained  to  waste  their  time  ou  ordinary 


and  Indian  Wars,  or  in  the  Kevolutiou.  The  num- 
ber of  acres  allowed  to  each  officer  depended  on  his 
rank.  The  second  class  of  rights  arose  from  actual 
(Kciipation  of  the  soil.  If  a  man  remained  in  the 
cdiintrj^  one  j^ear  and  raised  a  crop  of  corn,  he  got 
too  acres  free,  and  accpiired  a  right  to  select  1,000 
additional  acres  adjaceni  thereto  for  wiiith  he  was 
expected  to  pay  the  government  price — about  forty 
cents  an  acre.  If  lie  merely  erected  a  cabin  or 
other  improvement  on  the  land  he  got  no  land  free, 
but  paid  the  government  price  for  the  same.  One 
year's  residence  aud  the  actual  cultivation  of  the 
soil  was  the  price  each  settler  had  to  pay  for  bis 
"tOO-acre  settlement,"    and    then    for    the    "1,000- 


laud — they  sought  the  "tenderloins"'  only  in  those     acre  pre-emption"  he  had  to  pay  about  |400.00  in 


early  days  (1773  to  17SDJ.  In  this  way  it  came 
about  that  in  between  these  tenderloin  slices,  so  to 
speak,  there  were  innumerable  tracts  of  the  most 
ii regular  size  and  sliai)c,  wliich  f(tr  many  years  no- 
body claimed.  Then  came  the  so-called  "blanket 
patents,"  by  means  of  wbicli  laud  speculators  and 
regular  settlers  sought  to  lay  claim  to  any  and 
all  parcels  of  land  not  before  taken  up.  As  the  law 
guaranteed  title  only  to  so  much  of  the  area  in- 
cluded  in   the  "blanket  patent"   as  had   not  pre- 


cash.  This  was  the  way  in  which  Samuel  Woods 
(Itorn  1738,  and  died  1826)  established  his  claim 
to  tlie  splendid  1,400-acre  tract  on  Shawnee  Kun, 
in  Mercer  County,  Kentucky.  He  mentions  it  in 
his  deed  (if  gift  of  Xovendier  9,  17!ll,  to  his  son 
Samuel,  Jr.,  as  his  "settlement  and  pre-emption." 
He  probably  raised  his  first  crop  on  it  in  1783,  to 
make  good  his  "settlement,"  and  then  afterwards 
paid  cash  for  the  extra  1,000  acres  which  he  pre- 
empted.    In  the  same  manner    the   McAfees   had 


viously  been  conveyed  to  some  one  else,  the  blanket     taken  up  claims  on  Salt  IMver  in  1773,  and  had  per- 


sometimes  covered  only  little  remnants  of  land 
which  did  not  belong  to  a  previous  claimant.  But 
whatever  areas  had  not  already  been  taken  up  be- 
came the  property  of  the  owner  of  the  "blanket  pat- 
ent." It  is  said  there  are  even  at  this  late  day  con- 
siderable bodies  of  land  in  Kentucky  the  title  to 
which  has  never  passed  from  the  State,  though 
s(iuatters  nmy  have  been  occupying  them  for  sev- 
eral generations.  But  the  earliest  settlers  (1773  to 
1785)  had  the  very  pick  of  the  laud,  aud  secured 
lands  for  a  mere  pittance  which  now  are  wort  It 
fllOO.OO  per  acre,  not  counting  improvements. 

There  were  three  different  kinds  of  rights  in 
land  acquired  by  prospectors:  first,  those  arising 
from  military  service;  secondly,  those  from  settle- 
ment and  pre-emption;  and  thirdly,  warrants 
from  the  Treasury.  :Military  rights  were  grants  of 
land  given  to  officers  who  had  served  in  the  French 


fected  their  title  later  on.  They  surveyed  and  plot- 
ted their  lands,  and  marked  them  by  piling  up 
brush  aud  deadening  trees  thereon  in  July,  1773. 
In  1774  they  came  back,  built  a  cabin,  and 
planted  c(u-n.  In  1775  they  came  again,  raised 
corn,  and  planted  peach  seeds.  And  as  soon  as  the 
first  Court  met  in  Ilarrodsburg  to  perfect  laud 
titles  they  completed  theirs.  See  Shaler's  Ken- 
tucky, pages  4!t-52;  Filson's  History,  pages  37  aud 
38;  Butler's  Kentucky,  pages  100-101;  Collins's 
Kentucky,  Vol.  I,  page  253,  and  Vol.  II,  pages  27G 
and  368. 

72 — In  a  pamphlet  published  by  Mr.  E.  G.  W3'- 
lie,  of  St.  Loui.s,  Mo.,  in  lilOO,  eutitle.l  The  Wylie 
Genealogy,  many  interesting  details  concerning  the 
Grays  may  be  found,  pages  20-21.  See  Davidson's 
History  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Kentucky, 
page  82. 


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73 — Dr.  \V(H)(ls's  Ilisldiy  ol'  Alhciiiiirlc  (/oiiiily, 
page  352. 

74 — This  painplilcl  \\;is  pdhlislicd  in  1882  by 
Mr.  W.  H.  3[illcr,  nf  Kitliiiioiid,  Ki-ntucky,  and  is 
entitled:  Wketoli  of  Daniel  Miller  and  Christopher 
Harris,  and  Their  Progenitors  and  Posterity.  This 
publication  contains  much  valnablc  inl'orniatiou 
concerninii  the  liraiicli  of  \\dodses  to  which  it  re- 
lates, and  the  author  of  ilic  Woods-McAfee  Memo- 
rial desires  hereby  to  ackncjw  ledge  his  indebtedness 
to  Mr.  Miller  for  many  items  not  elsewhere  to  be 
gotten.  A  fe\A-  of  his  statements,  however,  have 
had  to  be  corrected. 

75 — Waddell,  in  his  Annals  of  Augusta  County 
(page  ITit),  quotes  from  the  papers  of  a  Col.  Ivob- 
ert  Gamble  an  item  evidently  written  late  in  1780 
or  early  in  1781,  in  which  reference  is  made  to  a 
Cai)tain  Andrew  AVallace  as  having  been  killed 
October  7,  1780,  in  the  Battle  of  King's  Mountain. 
We  know  not,  v.ith  certainty,  just  wlio  this  man 
could  have  been.  The  Andrew  A>'alla(e  avIio  nmr- 
ried  Margaret  Woods  about  1738  was  too  old  a  man 
to  have  been  in  the  army  in  1780 — he  was  then 
about  sixty-eight  and  Dr.  Edgar  Woods  says  he 
died  in  1785.  The  Andrew  Wallace  who  was  the 
son  of  Samuel  'Wallace  and  Esther  Raker,  -n-as  born 
in  1748,  as  Dr.  Whitsett  informs  us,  and  moved,  in 
1782,  with  his  father  to  Kentucky,  where  he  lived 
until  his  death  in  1829.  The  writer  knows  of  no 
other  Andrew  Wallace  who  could  have  been  a  sol- 
dier in  1780  except  Andrew,  the  son  of  Peter  Wal- 
lace, Jr.,  and  Martha  ^Voods,  and  who,  according 


III  (he  hilc  .Majdi-  N'.nncr,  was  a  Caiilaiii  in  Ihc 
Eighth  Virginia  Uegiiucnl,  and  was  killed  at  (iuil- 
ford  Court  Hoxise  in  1781.  The  Col.  Gamble  quot- 
ed from  was  no  doubt  corrcrt  in  saying  an  Andrew 
\\'allace  was  killed  prior  to  1781,  at  King's  ^louu- 
tain,  and  this  may  have  been  the  one  who  was  the 
sou  of  I'eter  Wallace,  Jr.,  and  whom  .Major  Varner 
supposed  to  liave  been  killed  at  Guilford  C.  H. 

76 — See  Capt.  Thomas  Speed's  Wilderness  Road, 
page  17. 

77 — See  History  of  South  Carolina  In  the  Revo- 
lution, by  Edward  McCrady,  1901,  page  10. 

78 — See  Wheeler's  Historical  Sketches  of  North 
Carolina,  Chapter  4,  as  quoted  by  Larned  in  his 
History  for  Ready  Reference,  page  2372,  bottom 
of  left  hand  column. 

79 — See  The  English  in  America,  Chapter  12,  as 
quoted  by  Larned,  page  2374. 

SO — Sketches  of  North  Carolina,  by  Rev.  William 
Henry  Foote,  New  York,  1846,  pages  78-80,  and 
224-6. 

81 — See  Manual  of  Orange  Presbytery,  edited  by 
the  Rev.  D.  I.  Craig  in  1895. 

82 — See  Foote's  North  Carolina,  pages  166-167. 

83 — Hillsboro,  Colonial  and  Revolutionary,  by 
Francis  Nash,  of  the  Hillsboro  Bar  and  Member  of 
the  American  Historical  Association,  Raleigh, 
1903.  An  8vo  pamphlet  of  100  pages.  This  pub- 
lication is  one  of  great  value  to  all  who  may  be 
interested  in  the  history  of  Orange  T'ounty,  North 
Carolina. 


PART  SECOND. 

THE  McAFEE  FAMILY. 


MCAFEE  COAT  OF  AKA1S. 


THE  WOODS-McAFEE  MEMORIAL 


PART  SECOND    THE  McAFEE  FAMILY, 


CHAPTER 


THE  MCAFEES  IN  GREAT  BRITAIN. 


Tlic  iiiinic  .McAlcc  lias  shared  llic  roniinnn  I'alc 
111'  iiiiisl  |ialri:iiyiiiirs  in  tlial  it  lias,  in  tlii'  (/ourse 
(if  (•(  nl \ii-i(  s,  nn(l('r.ii(in('  sndi  radiral  Iransfovnia- 
ti(ins  I  hat  no  one  uot  fumiliar  wilii  its  history 
wduid  suspect  lliat  it  ever  had  au^'  connection  with 
its  oriiiinal.  The  Gaelic  for  this  name  was  Dubh- 
sith,  lint  it  became  merged,  in  time,  into  the  Euy- 
lisli  e(|ni\aleut,  Dultie.  Later  on,  the  Celtic  prefix 
.Mac,  so  common  in  the  case  of  many  Scotch  and 
Irish  names,  and  which  simply  means  sou,  Avas  con- 
jdined  with  it,  making  it  MacDuflie.  In  the  course 
of  time  this  form  of  the  name  also  underwent  a 
ciiange,  due,  no  doubt,  to  sharply  accenting  the  first 
and  last  syllaliles  (Mac,  and  fie  j ,  wJiilst  obscuring 
the  sound  of  the  syllable  Ihif.  Thus  the  name 
came  at  length  to  be  Macfie,  a  form  still  retained 
by  many  of  the  families  having  the  same  origin  as 
the  ^McAfees.  AVe  accordingly  find  the  name  is 
spelled  and  pronounced  quite  variously  in  Scot- 
land, Ireland  and  America.  We  may  tiiid  the 
forms  Macafee,  Macfee,  Mactie,  Macphee,  Mac- 
Ilaffie,  and  McAfee.  In  an  old  deed,  dated  1718, 
and  on  record  now  in  the  court  house  at  Slannton, 
Va.,  we  tind  tiie  name  of  James  McAfee,  whose 
career  from  1739  to  1785  forms  the  subject  of  the 
next  succeeding  chapter  of  this  work,  sjielled  so  ob- 
scurely as  scarcely  to  be  decipherable,  and  yet  so  as 
to  indicate  that  he  may  have  preferred  a  spelling 
of  it  in  that  early  day  which  it  is  known  he  did  not 
follow  in  17G3  and  17riG,  when  he  had  deeds  re- 
corded in  whicli  lie  spelled  the  name  as  is  done  in 
tliis  work. 


A\'e  shall  not  attempt  to  i|uote  in  full  all  the  al- 
lusions to  llie  anci(  lit  iiieiillieis  of  this  old  Scotch 
family  to  be  found  in  the  several  works  which  treat 
of  them,  but  will  give  the  sul)stance  of  all  the  more 
imijortant  items  of  information,  leaving  those  who 
care  to  do  so  to  consult  tlie  authorities  cited  for  a 
more  thoroujih  in\-estigation  of  The  subject.^ 
That  the  family  now  under  consideration,  whose 
members  are  scattered  all  over  the  I'nion,  are  de- 
scended from  the  Highland  Clan  above  mentioned, 
does  not  seem  to  admit  of  a  serious  doubt.  Such 
facts  as  have  been  ascertained  all  point  clearly  to 
this  conclusion,  and  we  know  of  nothing  to  militate 
against  it.  .Vmong  the  numerous  islands  A\hich  lie 
just  off  the  western  coast  of  Scotland,  and  which 
in  olden  days  were  dominated  by  the  Lords  of  the 
Isles  (from  the  iL'th  to  the  IGth  century),  is  one 
known  as  Colonsay,  pertaining  to  Argyleshire.  It 
is  only  about  fifty  miles  northwest  of  the  city  of 
(llasgow.  This  island  was  the  possession  and 
home  of  the  McAfee  Clan  for  some  centuries,  but 
they  ceased  to  own  it  after  the  year  Kit."),  when 
their  chieftain,  Malcolm  ^IcAfee.  was  cruelly  slaiu 
and  their  clan  dissolved.  A\'lieu  this  calaniit,v  over- 
took them  they  were  noi  only  dispossessed  of  their 
original  inheritance,  but  the  Clan,  as  such,  ceased 
to  have  a  sejiarate  existence.  The  majority  of  its 
iiieiiilieis  joined  the  .MacDonald  Clan  of  Islay; 
others  settled  amonii  the  Camerons,  under  Lochiel, 
where  they  became  distinguished  for  their  bravery; 
others  chose  homes  for  themselves  around  both 
entrances  to  the  Firth  of  Clvde:  whilst  still  others 


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crossed  the  chaiinil  and  sell  led  in  tlu^  north  of  Ire- 
land.'   In  1745,  at  the  Battle  of  Culloden,  the  Cam- 
erons    (with    whom    ]iian\'  of  the   McAfees   were 
joined),  were  one  of  tlie  few  clans  who  made  that 
furious   onset  whicli    nearly    annihilated   the   left 
wing  of  the  Duke  of  Cumberland's  army,  and  al- 
most led  to  a  brilliant  victor3^    In  this  contest  the 
Camerons  suffered  severely  in  slain  and  wounded, 
and  \\'ith  them  a  ijroportionate  number  of  the  Mc- 
Afees.    In  that  battle  there  was  a  wall  which  pro- 
tected   the   Hank   of   the  Highlanders'    army,  and 
through  this  wall  the  dragoons  of  the  enemy  at- 
tempted to  force  their  way.     One  Duncan  McAfee, 
a  foot-soldier,  was  one  of  the  heroic  little  band  of 
Highlanders  who  took  part  in  the  vain  attempt  to 
prevent  this;  and  in  the  course  of  the  conflict  he 
struck  down,  with  his  broad-sword,  not  only  a  dra- 
goon, but  also  the  horse  on  which  he  rode;  but  be- 
fore  Duncan   could   disengage   himself   from    the 
fallen  slccd,  he  received  a  terrible  kick  friHu  tlie 
wounded  animal  \\hleh  broke  his  back.     Next  day 
he  was  carried  from  the  field,  and  he  recovered ;  but 
all  the  rest  of  his  days  he  had  to  walk  with  the  aid 
of  a  stick,  his  body  bent  almost  to  the  ground.    The 
old  soldier  usetl  to  say,  in  recounting  the  adventure, 
"She  was  a  sore  morning  fur  me,  but  I    made   a 
Southern  tak  a  sleep   it    wcnild    be    lang    "ere    he 
wakened  frae."     This    famous    battle    (Culloden) 
was  fought  ^\  hen  the  JleAfees  Ave  now  have  to  deal 
with  were  living  in  America;  but  we  may  rest  as- 
sured they  would  know  of  the  part  their  kith  and 
kin  took  in  it.   And  when,  in  ITT.j,  James  McAfee, 
Jr.,  and  his  brothers  journeyed  through  the  beauti- 
ful gap  near  what  is  now  the  town  of  Middlesboro, 
Ky.,  if  he  knew  that  Dr.  Thomas  Walker  had  named 
that  gap,  and  the  mountain  range  of  which  it  is  a 
depression,  for  that  same  "Bloody  Duke"  whom  his 
McAfee  kinsmen  liad  faced  at  Culloden  only  thirty 
years  before,  we  may  readily  believe  he  would  have 
said  it  was  a  shame  to  drop  the  beautiful  Indian 
name  AA'asioto  so  as  to  do  honor  to  that  of  the  Duke 
of  Cumberland,  whom  he  no  donbt  regarded  as  a 
monster. 

At  one  end  of  the  island  of  Colonsay  there  was 


a  sort   of  valley,    or    little    depression,    extending 
across  its  width;  and  when  the  tide  rose,  the  sea 
ran  througli  this  depression,  thereby  separating  the 
two  parts  and  making  two  islands  of  the  <me.   This 
lower  and  smaller  end  was  called  Oronsay,  and  it 
became  a  historic  burial-place  of  much  celebrity. 
Many  tomlis  of  McAfees  were  to  be  found  there,  and 
on  them  they  figured  as  warriors  and  ecclesiastics. 
But  there  was  another  yet  more  famous  isle  only 
about  eighteen  miles  to  the  northwest  of  Colonsay 
in  which  all  McAfees  should  feel  a  tender  interest, 
namely;  lona.     Here  was  located  one  of  the  most 
famous  seats  of  piety  and  leai-ning  to  be  found  in 
tlie  world  in  ancient  times,  and  here  was  a  Jioted 
burial-place   to   which    the    bodies    of   kings    and 
princes  were  brought  from  afar  for  honored  sepul- 
ture.   In  this  world-renowned  cemetery-  reposes  the 
body  of  Malcolm  McAfee,^    the   last   chieftain    of 
tlie  McAfee  Clan,  slain  in  1045.    The  spot  was  vis- 
ited by  Pennant  in  1772   (as  quoted  l»y  Ian  in  his 
Costumes  of  the  Clans  ),  and  he  describes  in  detail 
the  caning  and  inscrii>tions  on  the  tomb  over  the 
old  chieftain's  gi-ave.     It  presentc^d  the  eftigy  of  a 
warrior  in  high  I'elief,  armed  with  the  great   two- 
handed  sword,  and  among  the  ornaments  was  the 
long  fada.  or  galley,  which  is  the  invariable  ensign 
of  an  insular  or  west  Highland  chief.   The  inscrip- 
tion ujion  his  tomb  was  as  follows :    "Hie  jacet  3Ial- 
roltimhiis  MaeDuffic  (Ic  Colonsaij."  After  his  death 
the  clan  disintegrated,  some  of  them  uniting  with 
tlie  McDonalds  of  Islay,  some  joining  the  Camerons 
under  Lochiel.  others  settling  along  the  banks  of 
tlie  Clyde,  and  yet  others  emigrating  to  tlie  north 
of  Ireland.    That  the  McAfees  of  the  United  States 
are  lineal  descendants   of   the   men    of    this   clan 
hardh'  admits  of  a  reasonable  doubt.  The  John  Me- 
nifee from  M'hom  most  of  the  American  3IcAfees  are 
known  to  have  been  derived  was    probably    born 
about  the  very  time  the  clan  was  deprived  of  its 
independence  (1G45),  and  his  home  at  the  time  of 
his  migration  to  Ireland  in  1672  was  in  the  very 
part  of  Scotland  in  which   some   members   of  the 
scattered  clan  had  settled  some  years  before.    It  is 
extremely  probable  that  his  father  was  a  member 


THE  McAfees  in  gkhat  kkitaix. 


Iflf) 


of  the  chill  wlieu  Malcolm,  its  chieflaiu,  was  slain, 
and  tiiat  lie  left  Colonsay  soon  after  tliat  i-aliiinity 
occurred  to  find  a  new  home  liet.wccn  (Jlasgow  and 
Edinburgh,  whence  his  son  John  migrated  to  Ire- 
laud  in  1672. 

The  armorial  bearings  of  the  branch  of  McAfees 
with  which  this  volume  has  to  do  may  be  described 
as  follows :  Or ;  a  lion  rampant,  gailes,  surmounted 
by  a  fesse;  Azure.  The  Crest :  a  denii  lion,  rampant, 
gules;  Motto,  Pro  Rcge.  These  insignia  have  been 
rej)roduced  for  this  work.  (Sec  jtagc  ir)2. )  The 
tartan  of  the  clan,  printed  in  colors,  can  lie  seen  in 
the  Scottish  Clans  above  quoted  irom. 

The  remotest  member  of  the  family  to  whom  the 
Virginia,  Kentucky  and  Missouri  McAfees  can 
trace  back  with  absolute  certainty  is  John  McAfee, 
Sr.  It  is  certainly  known  that  he  lived  in  Scotland 
from  about  the  year  1645  to  the  year  1672,  and  that 
his  home  was  probably  located  between  the  cities 
of  Glasgow  and  Edinburgh.  We  know  that  he  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Montgomery  near  Glasgow,  and  the 
time  of  his  marriage  was  probably  about  the  year 
1670.  He  lived  in  stormy  and  epoch-making  times. 
When  he  was  bom  the  great  Westminster  Assembly 
of  Divines  was  sitting  in  London,  the  great  Civil 
War  was  in  progress,  and  Charles  the  First  was 
nearing  his  bloody  doom  on  the  scaffold.  He  lived 
through  the  period  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  the 
Protectorate  of  Cromwell ;  saw  the  Restoration  of 
Charles  the  Second ;  and  witnessed  the  fearful  reac- 
tion which  took  place  under  his  reign,  for  about 
seven  years.  In  1672,  tempted  by  the  offer  of  lib- 
eral grants  of  land  in  Ulster  Province,  in  the  north 
of  Ireland,  John  McAfee  departed  from  his  native 
heather  and  made  his  way  to  Coimty  Armagh,  Ire- 
land. He  was  then  about  twenty-seven  years  old, 
and  with  him  went,  no  doubt,  his  young  wife,  and 
perhaps  a.  wee  bairn  that  had  come  to  brighten  their 
home.  Some  of  the  McAfees,  we  know,  had  pre- 
ceded him  to  Ulster  some  twenty-five  years,  about 
the  time  the  McAfee  clan  had  been  dismembered,  so 
that  he  no  doubt  liad  kinsmen  in  the  new  land  to 
which  he  migrated.  He  was  now  no  longer  merely 
Scotch,  but  Scotch-Irish.  Of  the  genesis  and  char- 
acteristics of  this  sturdy  race  Mr.  Fiske  speaks  so 


ciitcrtainingJy  in  liis"(>id  N'irgiiiia  aiul  Her  Ni'igli 
hors"  that  we  .shall  let  iiini  tell  the  story  for  th(> 
reader  (see  \'ol.  2,  ]iages  ;{!tl,  el  s('(|.  i  :  "\Vhu  were 
the  people  called  by  this  rather  awkward  compound 
name.  Scotch-Irish?  The  answer  carries  us  back  to 
the  year  1611,  w  iicn  James  I.  began  peopling  Ulster 
with  colonists  from  Scotland  and  the  north  of  Eng- 
land. The  ])lan  was  to  put  into  Ireland  a-  Protest- 
ant population  that  might  ultimately  outnumber 
the  Catholics  and  become  the  controlling  element  in 
the  country.  The  settlers  were  picked  men  and 
women  of  the  most  excellent  sort.  By  the  middle 
of  the  seventeenth  centiiry  there  were  300,000  of 
them  in  Ulster.  That  province  had  been  the  most 
neglected  part  of  the  island,  a  wilderness  of  bogs 
and  fens;  they  transformed  it  into  a  garden.  They 
also  establislied  manufactures  of  woollens  and 
linens  which  have  ever  since  been  famous  through- 
out the  world.  By  the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth 
century  their  numbers  had  risen  to  nearly  a  mil- 
lion. Their  social  condition  was  not  that  of  peas- 
ants; they  were  intelligent  yeomanrj-  and  artisans. 
In  a  document  signed  in  1718  by  a  miscellaneous 
group  of  319  men,  only  thirteen  made  their  mark, 
while  306  wrote  their  names  in  full.  Nothing  like 
that  could  have  haiiiiened  at  that  time  in  any  other 
part  of  the  British  ]"]nipire,  hardly  even  in  New 
England.  *  *  *  Confusion  of  mind  seems  to 
lurk  in  any  nomenclature  which  couples  them  with 
the  true  Irish.  The  antipathy  between  the  Scotcii- 
Irish  as  a  group  and  the  true  Irish  as  a  group  is 
perhaps  Tinsui-passed  for  liitterness  and  intensity. 
*  *  *  The  term  'Scotch-Irish'  may  be  defen- 
sible, provided  we  do  not  let  it  conceal  the  fact  that 
the  people  to  whom  it  applied  are  for  the  most  part 
Lowland  Scotch  Presbyterians  very  slightly  hiber- 
nicised  in  blood." 

When,  in  1785,  James  II.  ascended  the  throne  of 
p]ngland  and  Iiegan  to  lay  the  hand  of  persecution 
upon  the  Covenanters  and  other  Protestants  of 
Scotland,  a  great  many  of  the  connections  and  for- 
mer neighbors  of  John  McAfee  followed  him  to  Ire- 
land, among  '\\1iohi  were  the  Campbells,  the  Mont- 
gomerjs,  the  McMichaels,  and  the  McCouns.  John 
McAfee  had  a  son  bearing  his  own  name,  whom  we 
must  distinguish  as  John,  Jr.,  and  it   is   probable 


16C  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

this  .>()n  wax  Imrii  alKint  (In'  iinu'  liis  jiarunts  lui  wliicli  a(  ilial  time  pi-cvaiU'd  in  I'lsler,  it  is  reasou- 
grated  to  Ulster,  say  1(573.     \\C  know  that  both  iie  ably  certain  that  tliey  had  iniuh    to   do    with    the 
aud  his  father  enlisted  iu  the  army  of  Kiug- William  migratiou  of  James  McAfee,    Wr.,    aud    family    to 
(hiring  the  IJevolutiou  of  1088,  ami  that  both  fought  Ameriea.    The  treatment  bestowed  upon  the  people 
under  \\'illiam  in  IWX)  at  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne,  of    Ulster    by   the  English   from   about    1C)1I8   on 
the  son  being  at  thai   time  a  vdnlli  not  over  seven-  llirough  nearly  a  hundred  years  is  one  of  tlie  dark- 
teen  years  of  ag(>.     In  after  limes  James  .AIcAfee,  est  blots  upon  tJie  eseuteheon  of  tiiat  great  nation, 
the  son  of  John,  Jr.,  was  wont  to  boast  of  the  valor  The  ►Scotch  liad  migrated  to  Ulster  at   the  urgent 
of  his  Protestant  sire,  and  to  glory  in  the  fact  that  solicitation  of  the  English  themselves,     and     had 
lie  was  at  tlie   Boyne   lighting   on   the   right   side,  made  the  wilderness  to  blossom  as  the  rose;  but 
Concerning  the  life  of  John  .McAfee,  Sr.,  in  Ireland,  tliat  very  prosperity  which  was  the  just  reward  of 
and  the  date  of  his  death,  we  know  next  to  nothing.  the  industry  and  .skill  of  the  Scotch-Irish  aroused 
As  to  JoJin  McAfee,  Jr.,  it  seems  reasonably  cer-  the  jealousy  and  spite   of   Englisli    manufacturers 
lain,  as  liefore  intimated,  that  lie  was  l)orn  about  and  of  the  bigoted  prelates  of  the  Englisli  ("liurch. 
Kilo,  tile  year  his  parents  migrated  to  Ireland.  AVe  Let  the  scholarly  Mr.  Fiske  be  again  asked  to  en- 
know,  as  just  stated,  that  when  a  boy  of  about  sev-  lighten  us  concerning  matters  in  which  the  descend- 
enteeu  years  hi'  was  in  tlie    I'.altU'    of    tlie  Boyne  ants  (sf  Janu'S  ^McA fee  are  so  much  interested.    (See 
under  King  William.     We  also  know  tlmt  he  after-  Vol.  2,  page  393. )     "The  flourishing  manufacturers 
wards  married  a  Miss  .Mary  Ito.lgers.     Tlie  date  of  of    Ul.ster  aroused   the    jealousy    of    rival   manu- 
liis  marriage  to  .Miss  Kodgers  cannot  be  jiositively  factunis  in   England,    who   in   1(>!»8   succeciled  in 
stated,  but  as  their  second  child,  James,  was  born  obtaining  legislation  which  seriously  damaged  the 
in  1707,  it  may    be    inferred  that  the   marriage  oc-  Irish  linen  and  woollen  industries  and  threw  many 
curred  after  the  .\('ar  17UU,  when  John,    Jr.,    was  workmen  out  of  employment.    About  the  same  time 
about  thirty  years  old.    We  know  that  he  erected  on  it  became  apparent  that  an  epidemic  fever  of  perse- 
his  farm  in  County  Armagh  a,  stone  dwelling-house,  cution  had  seized  upon  tlie  English  Chui'cJi.     Tlie 
which  was  yet  standing  in  the  year  184(;.    ilis  death  same  persecuting  spirit  which  we  have  above  wit- 
occurred  in  1738,  at  which  lime  lie  was  a  man    of  nessed     *     *     *     found  also  a  vent  in  the  severe 
about  sixty-five,  and  his  wife  Mary  survived  him.  disabilities  inflicted   in   1704  and   follow  ing  years 
They  had  four  sons  and  six  daughters.    The  names  ujton  Presbyterians  in  Irelaml.     Tiiey  were  forbid- 
of  the  sons  were  as  follows  :    John  3d  ;  James ;  Mai-  den  to  keep  schools ;  nuirriages  performed  by  their 
colm;  and  ^Villiam.     The  names  of  the  daugliters  clergy  were  declared  invalid  ;  they  were  not  allowed 
ai-e  nol   known.     So  far  as  known,  all  (d'  tlie  sons  to  iiold  any  office  higher  tlnin   that  of  petty  con- 
excepl  .fames  remained  in  Ireland,  and  I  here  were  stable,  and  so  on  throngh  a   long  list  of  sillv  and 
descendants  of  John    McAfee    living     in    County  outrageous  enactments.     For    a    few    rears    this 
Armagh  as  late  as  184().  tyranny  was  endured  in  the  hope  that  it  was  but 
•John  :\[cAfee,  Jr.,  who  died  in  1738,  left  an  estate  temporary.    By  1719  this  hope  had  worn  away,  and 
too  small  to  provide  a  competency  for  all  of  his  ten  from  that  year,  until  the  passage  of  the  Toleration 
children,  and  his  sou  James  concluded  to  seek  his  Act  for  Ireland  in  1782,  the  people  of  Ulster  kept 
fortune  in  the  New  World    beyond    the   Atlantic.  flocking  to  America." 

James  McAfee  was  born  in  County  Armagh  October         It  is  known  that  James  ^JcAfee,  Sr.,  took  ship  at 

17,  1707.     In  1735  he  married  Miss  Jane  McMich-  Belfast,  in  the  spring  of  1739,  for  North  America, 

ael,  and  in  1736  their  flrst  child,  James  McAfee,  and  with  him  went  his  wife,  his  aged  and  widowed 

Jr.,  was  born.    Whilst  General  E.  B.  McAfee  makes  mother,  and  his  three  little    baby    boys,    namely: 

no  mention  of  the  social  and    political    conditions  James,  Jr.,  bom  in  1736;  John,  Avho  lived  to  mature 


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years,  and  who,  as  we  shall  see  later  on,  met  his  little  body  in  its  wiudinj;-  siieet  down  to  old  ocean's 
death  at  the  hands  of  savages  in  Virginia  ;  and  little  bosom,  where,  in  an  instant,  it  disappeared  from 
Malcolm,  a  babe  of  but  a  few  montiis,  who  was  their  sight  to  be  seen  no  more  till  eartli  and  sea 
destined  to  die  and  be  bulled  at  sea  dining  the  voy-  shall  give  up  Ihcir  dead  al  Ihcend  of  liie  world, 
age  to  America.  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  liicc  his  fatlier  It  was,  indeed,  ji  sad  iiilidiliiei  ion  lo  Amei-iea;  Iml 
before  him,  had  named  a  son  Malcdlm.  ^^  liilst  it  is  these  parents  had  been  reared  in  gnud  I'resliyteriaii 
only  a  conjecture,  it  is  certainly  not  an  unreason-  homes  and  had  learned  ilial  (!(iil  makes  no  mis- 
able  one,  that  this  was  done  expressly  to  perpetuate  takes,  and  that  goodness  and  meiey  shall  fulbiw 
the  name  of  that  Highland  chief,  whose  death  in  his  people  all  ilie  days  of  their  lives,  and  thai  iiiey 
1(545  had  marked  the  dismemberment  of  tlie  ^IcAfee  shall  dwell  in  bis  hnuse  lureve:'.  The  gnod  ship 
Clan.  r>iit  the  little  namesake  of  the  chieftain  was  sailed  on  to  the  westward,  .ind  in  a  ilay  nv  two  more 
not  jiermitted  to  live  to  manhood.  On  the  way  the  Delaware  cdast  began  In  mark  a  dim  dutline 
over  he  was  taken  ill,  and  when  within  only  a  few  along  the  liori/,(in  ;  the  enhance  to  Delaware  liay, 
days  of  the  American  coast  lie  died.  And  tlie  par-  with  its  two  capes  standing  guard,  came  into  view, 
ents,  the  aged  grandmotlier,  and  the  (wo  wonder-  and  soon  they  cann'  lo  anchor  at  Xewcastle,  June 
ing  little  infant  sons  no  doubt  stood  uneo\ci-ed  on  1(1,  IT:!!).  They  were  in  .Vnn-riea,  and  done  with 
the  deck  wliile  tlie  stnrdv  sailors  lowered  the  tinv  Great  Britain  for  life. 


CHAPTER  II. 
CAREER  OF  JAIVIES  McAFEE,  Sr.,  IN  AMERICA,   i7:;q  to  178^. 


We  need  not  assume  that  when  James  McAfee 
and  family  stepped  ashore  at  Newcastle  that  sum- 
mer's day,  in  June,  1739,  they  had  no  ac(]uaint- 
ances  in  America.  Besides,  110  doubt,  a  goodly 
company  of  fellow-passengers  whom  they  had  come 
to  know  on  the  voyage,  there  were  probably  many 
Scotch-Irish  friends  on  this  side  the  sea  who  had 
preceded  them.  We  must  bear  in  mind  that  it  was 
linn  alKMil  forty  years  since  the  tide  of  emigra- 
tion from  I'lster  to  the  .Vmerican  colonies  hail  set 
in.  That  movement  was  one  of  the  umst  remark- 
able phenomena  in  the  history  of  this  continent. 
Frinn  the  year  1698,  when  the  selfish  rivalry  of 
English  manufacturers,  coupled  with  the  persecut- 
ing bigotry  of  English  prelates,  began  to  make 
residence  in  Ireland  int(derable  to  Presliyterians, 
on  to  the  passage  of  the  Toleratiiui  Act  for  Tri'land 
in  1782,  that  tide  ceased  not  to  flow.  It  began  to 
assume  large  proportions  in  1719.  In  the  year 
1727,  in  a  single  week,  six  ship  loads  of  immi- 
grants were  lauded  at  Philadelphia.  Fiske  gives  it 
as  his  opinion  (Vol.  2,  page  394)  that  between  1730 


and  1770  at  least  a  h.'ill'  million  souls  were  trans- 
ferred from  Ulster  to  America,  at  which  last- 
named  date  one-third  of  I  he  population  of  reiiii- 
sylvania,  and  one-sixth  of  that  of  the  colonies  as  a 
whole,  was  Scotch-Irish.  S(i,  we  may  well  believe 
the  McAfee  familv  wire  not  total  stiangeis  in  the 
new  world.  Still,  the  conditions  which  now  con- 
fronted them  were  strange,  and  some  of  them  far 
fr(;in  pleasing.  From  Mhat  General  McAfee  says 
we  necessarily  infer  that  boih  James  and  wife  iiad 
learned  the  trade  of  weaving  in  tlie  old  country; 
and  as  they  had  but  a  small  amount  of  money,  they 
wisely  laid  that  aside  for  the  purchase  of  a  farm  a 
little  later  on,  and  in  the  meanwhile  employed 
their  time  at  weaving.  Euglaud,  in  iier  harsh  treat- 
ment of  these  Scotch-Trish  people,  just  as  France 
had  done  in  her  crmdiy  lo  the  Huguenots,  followed 
a  policy  which  was  not  only  unchristian  but  exceed- 
ing costly.  She  thereby  drove  out  from  her  do- 
minion hundreds  of  thousands  of  her  sturdiest, 
most  industrious  and  most  conscientious  citizens, 
and  Iherebv  bellied  to  make  of  llieiii,  and  tlieir  sons, 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


the  most  iuviucible  foes  she  had  to  reckon  with  in  peace-lovinc:  i'enii  would  afford  a  sure  asylum  for 
the  American  EeA^olutiou.  This  same  James  Mo-  all  who  feared  God  and  sought  to  live  in  peace  and 
Afee,  Sr.,  sent  into  the  Continental  army  several  of  cliarity  with  their  neitihbors;  but  even  in  that  col- 
his  ffallant  sons  a  generation  later.  ony  ilicy  were  suun  made  to  realize  that  "Old 
The  family  only  lingered  a  few  months  on  the  A(hiiu"  liad  not  been  altogether  left  behind  in  Great 
Delaware;  the  cdlony  of  rciiiisylvania  was  their  lirilain.  It  seems  tliat  the  original  setthTs  of  llie, 
deslinatioii.  and  in  llie  fall  of  that  year,  173!),  they  colony,  w  ho  at  lirst  were  eager  to  induce  llie  Scotch- 
purcliased  a  farm  in  wliat  is  now  Lancaster  Irish  to  settle  among  them,  especially  on  their 
County,  I'enusylvania,  on  ( )ct()raro  Creek.  When  western  frontiei'.  liegan  to  grow  somewliat  jealous 
William  IVnu  secured  the  royal  grant  of  the  ter-  of  their  presence  when  they  saw  tliem  coming  to  the 
ritory  wliich  afterwards  came  to  be  called  by  his  front  as  successful  fanners  and  artisans.  The  re- 
name, he  anm)nnced  to  the  world  tliat  it  was  his  suit  was  that  in  time  tlu'se  original  settlers,  still  in 
]nir]iose  here  to  "try  the  holy  exjieriment  of  a  free  the  ascendant  in  public  affairs,  induced  the  pro- 
colonv  for  all  mankind;''  and  no  donlit  the  hope  i)rietary  government  to  enact  various  reslrictive 
of  sharing  the  benefits  of  that  experiment  fired  the  measures  intended  to  curb  the  power  and  influence 
zeal  of  .Tames  ^McAfee,  and  made  him  glad  to  risk  of  the  more  recent  comers.  Thus  the  Hcotcli-Ti-ish 
the  hardships  incident  to  starting  life  in  a  new  people  found  themselves  again  hampered  and 
country.  So  with  determination  he  set  about  clear-  annoyed  in  some  measure  as  they  had  been  in 
ing  liis  land,  building  a  house  and  ])reparing  for  T'Ister.  Then  the  depredations  of  Indians,  insti- 
the  raising  of  a  crop.  Here  he  lived  a  number  of  gated  by  the  French,  began,  about  tlie  year  1744,  to 
years,  and  here  several  of  his  children  were  born,  nmke  life  in  tlie  colony  uncomfortable.  In  that 
General  McAfee  tells  us  that  the  family,  after  liv-  year  England  and  France  were  at  war,  and  the 
ing  on  the  Octoraro  for  some  years,  moved  out  into  Indians  \\cre  allies  of  the  French.  The  northwest 
the  western  part  of  the  colony  where  they  remained  corner  of  tlu'  colony  liordered  Lake  Erie,  which  the 
lint  one  year,  and  tlial  llien  ihey  moved,  Frencli  conii'olled,  and  the  Frencli  military  posts 
in  17.">3,  down  into  ilie  colony  of  North  Caro-  in  A\'esleiii  i'ennsylvania  tlireatened  to  confine  tlie 
lina,  near  the  line  of  South  Carolina.  Here,  colonists  to  the  eastern  slope  of  the  Allegheuies,  if 
General  McAfee  thinks,  they  remained  scarce  two  not  to  drive  them  entirely  off  the  continent.  Tiie 
years,  when,  turning  their  faces  again  northward,  ]iredominance  of  (Quakers  in  the  colonial  assendily, 
they  journeyed  into  Virginia,  ami  settled  on  with  their  theory  of  non-resistance  to  enemies,  had 
Catawba  Creek,  in  Avhat  is  now  Roanoke  Coiinty,  left  the  ]ieo])le  without  means  of  public  defence; 
Virginia.  This  makes  the  settlement  of  the  IMc-  and  it  was  ]irob;ibly  not  until  after  the  ^[cAfee 
Afees  in  Virginia  to  have  been  eftVcted  not  earlier  family  liad  ai  ranged  to  migiate  to  the  southward, 
than  the  year  1755.  That  tliis  is  an  error  of  seven  that  any  steps  were  taken  to  raise  a  military  force, 
or  eight  years  seems  to  be  clearly  proven  by  the  The  culmination  of  these  troubles  occurred  about 
court  records  of  Augusta  County,  Virginia.  The  174(">,  which  was  the  very  year  in  which  we  liave 
fact  is,  James  McAfee  was  a  citizen  of  that  county  solid  reasons  for  believing  -James  [McAfee  took  his 
as  early  as  Fel)rnary,  1748.  This  point  will  re-  departure  froui  ihat  c(dony  to  find  a  new  home  in 
ceive  attention  presently;  meanwliile,  let  ns  con-  tiie  country  to  the  southward.  Tlien,  fnrtliermore, 
sider  the  probable  reasons  wliich  constrained  James  the  shrewd  and  p(ditic  Governor  Gooch,  of  Vir- 
McAfee  to  abandon  Pennsylvania  and  settle  in  Vir-  ginia,  thoroiighly  appreciating  the  great  import- 
ginia.  Driven  from  Ireland  largely  by  the  narrow-  auce  of  peopling  the  great  Valley  with  a  sturdy,  in- 
ness  and  selfishness  of  the  dominant  elements  there,  dustrious  and  law-abiding  race  of  nuui  like  tlu' 
the  McAfees  had  supposed  that  the  colony  of  the  Scotch-Irish,  offered  special  inducements  to  all  of 


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them  who  should  take  up  lauds  iu  that  then  very 
sparsely-settled  but  splendid  region.  Governor 
Gooch  was  no  admirer  of  the  faith  of  the  Presby- 
terians, but  he  was  anxious  to  interpose  them  as  a 
sort  of  buffer  between  the  older  settlements  and  the 
Indians  6n  his  western  border.  It  is  easy  to  under- 
stand, therefore,  that  the  McAfees  and  hundreds  of 
other  families  wei'e  in  the  course  of  years  induced 
to  exchange  Pennsylvania  for  Virginia.  This 
movement  really  led,  in  time,  not  merely  to  filling 
the  great  Valley  with  Presbyterians,  who  (Idininate 
that  entire  region  to  this  day,  but  also  to  a.  pretty 
complete  transformation  of  Virginia  as  a  whole,  so 
that  what  was  once  an  overwhelmingly  anti-Puri- 
tan community,  ruled  by  people  warmly  devoted  to 
mouarcliical  ideals,  came  to  be  the  very  cradle  of 
republicanism  and  democratic  equality.  (See 
Fiske.  Volume  2,  pages  395-7. ) 

Of  course  it  is  not  a  vital  matter  whether  the 
McAfees  settled  on  the  Gatawba,  in  Virginia,  in 
1755,  or  seven  or  eight  years  earlier;  and  yet  it  is 
a  matter  of  considerable  interest.  The  earlier  date 
(1747-48)  reveals  to  us,  as  the  later  date  would  not, 
the  daring,  adventurous  character  of  James  Mc- 
Afee, Sr.,  and  ])lac('s  liim  among  the  earliest  pio- 
neers of  that  portion  of  Virginia  in  which  he  settled. 
The  records  of  Augusta  County,  Virginia,  show  that 
one  Robert  Poage  conveyed  to  James  McAfee  300 
aeres  of  land  on  Catapas  Creek  at  a  place  desig- 
nated as  "Indian  Camp,"  February  17,  1748,  and 
James  McAfee  is  therein  referred  to  as  a  farmer 
and  a  citizen  of  Augiista  County.  That  place  is 
located  in  what  is  now  Roanoke  County,  Virginia, 
thirteen  miles  northwest  of  the  city  of  Roanoke. 
This  farm  is  only  tweuty-flve  miles  northeast  of 
New  River  at  the  big  bend  near  Blacksburg,  and 
only  eighteen  miles  from  the  famous  Draper's 
Meadows  Settlement,  at  which  occurred,  in  1755, 
one  of  the  most  horrilile  Indian  massacres  ever  per- 
petrated in  Virginia.  That  settlement  at  Drapers 
Meadows  was  itself  effected  the  same  year  in  which 
James  McAfee  bought  the  Indian  Camp  farm.  The 
deed  to  McAfee  says  Augusta  Couniy,  Virginia, 
was  liis  ])lace  of  residence  at  the  dale  of  llie  execu- 


tion of  the  deed.  (See  Augusta.  County  Records, 
Deed  Book  2,  page  103. )  Nor  is  this  all.  The  same 
records  show  that  in  tlie  year  1703  James  ^IcAfee, 
Sr.,  conveys  to  his  son  George  190  acres  of  land  on 
Catawba  Creek  which  is  described  as  ])art  of  a 
tract  of  300  acres  which  .lames  iiad  ]>a1(Mited  De- 
cember 15,  1749.  The  remaining  110  acres  of  that 
tract  he  deeds,  the  same  day,  in  his  son  James,  Jr. 
These  deeds  seem  (o  .settle  it  iliat  James  ilcAfee 
was  a  citizen  (it  I  hat  region  as  early  as  1748. 
Augusta  County  in  ihai  early  (hiy  iiicliuhd  within 
its  bounds  a  little  eiii|)ire,  nameh':  A  large  pail  nf 
what  is  now  Virginia ;  most  of  which  is  now  ^\'est 
Virginia;  and  (lie  Avlioh"  of  what  is  now  Kentucky. 
In  17G9  the  county  of  Botetourt  was  carved  out  of 
Augusta,  and  was  made  to  include  all  but  the  por- 
tion of  the  territory  of  Augusta  lying  in  the  Valley 
north  of  the  James  River.  Thus  we  must  regard  the 
McAfees  as  among  the  very  first  wiiite  people  to 
settle  near  Ncav  River,  which  was  then  the  extreme 
south-western  and  north-western  boundary  of  civili- 
zation. How  General  R.  B.  ]McAfee  came  to  aftirm 
that  his  grandfather  did  not  leave  Pennsylvania  till 
1753,  and  did  not  settle  in  Virginia  till  1755  we  can 
never  know;  but  whatever  may  be  conjectured  in 
regard  to  the  matter,  we  are  not  warranted  in 
ignoring  the  official  written  records  of  Augusta 
County;  and  hence  are  shut  up  to  the  conclusion 
that  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  was  a  citizen  of  some  part 
of  Augusta  County  in  February,  1748. 

In  November.  1771,  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  joined 
his  son  George  and  wife,  and  his  son  Robert  and 
wife,  in  executing  a  deed  for  the  Indian  Camp 
farm  to  Archibald  '\\'oods,  after  which  date  he 
seems  to  have  made  his  home  at  a  farm  lie  owned 
four  miles  down  Catawba  Creek.  This  farm  had  on 
it  an  old  Indian  fort  in  ancient  times,  and  was  only 
about  one  hundi-ed  yards  north-east  of  the  long- 
famous  resort  called  the  Roanoke  Red  Sulphur 
Springs.  Both  these  farms  are  immediately  on  the 
public  road  leading  from  Fincastle  to  Blacksburg. 
The  highest  mountain  peak  within  twenty  miles  of 
these  farms  is  one  km (\M I  on  all  llu^  maps  as  McAfee 
Knob,  thehigbesl  pniiU  o(  wiiich  is  3,201  feel  above 


PINNACLE   OF   McAFEE:.KNOR.  ROANOk'E   COUNTY,  VA. 
1.20I  Feet  Above  Sea  Level. 

LOCATH15    FOUR   .WILES    EAST   OF    ROANOKE    RED    SULPHUR  SPRINGS.    AND  TEN    MILES   NORTH-WEST  OF    ROANOKE   CITY.      NA.MEU    FOR    lAMES 

m'AFEE,  SR..  WHOSE    HOME  WAS  THREE    MILES    WEST   OF    ITS    BASE 


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sea  level,  and  is  the  most  prominent  landmark  in 
that  vicinity.  A  few  miles  to  the  west  of  the  farm 
at  the  Red  Sulphur  Springs  is  a  gap  in  Brushy 
Mountain  known  as  McAfee's  Gap,  and  through  it 
runs  a  stream  called  McAfee'a  Branch.  This 
whole  neighborhood,  therefore,  is  very  completely 
identified  with  the  McAfees,  whose  homes  were  in 
close  proximity  to  these  several  localities  from  1748 
onward  to  the  migration  of  most  of  the  family  to 
Kentucky  in  1771),  and  the  death  of  James  McAfee, 
Sr.,  in  the  neighborhood  in  1785.  In  both  the  deeds 
made  by  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  to  liis  sous  in  1763  we 
find  the  witnesses  were  Robert  Breckinridge,  Wil- 
liam Preston,  and  John  Miller. 

In  the  two  deeds  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  made  to  his 
sons  in  17G3,  the  name  of  his  wife  does  not  appear. 
In  one  he  made  in  March,  1767,  to  one  Archibald 
Fisher,  conveying  150  acres  on  Catawba  Creek,  his 
wife  signs  as  "Jannet."  The  witnesses  were  Rob- 
ert and  Lettuce  Breckinridge,  James  Curry,  Wm. 
Fleming,  and  Andrew  Woods,  all  no  doubt  neigh- 
bors and  friends — a  "neighbor"  in  that  day  may 
have  meant  a  man  who  lived  twenty  miles  away. 

The  life  of  the  McAfees  on  Catawba  Creek  was, 
of  necessity,  a  frontier  life;  for  Indian  depredations 
did  not  linally  cease  along  the  New  River  and  its 
tributaries  till  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
lasting  as  long  as  they  did  in  Kentucky.  As  late  as 
1768  John  McAfee,  second  son  of  James,  Sr..  wai 
killed  by  Indians  somewhere  on  Reed  Creek  not 
far  from  where  it  empties  into  the  New  River  in 
Wythe  County.  A  careful  study  of  the  map  in  this 
volume  entitled  "The  Parting  of  the  Ways,"  will 
reveal  the  historic  interest  which  the  neighborhood 
of  the  McAfees  possesses.  At  no  other  spot  in  the 
whole  South  was  there  ever  such  a  remarkable  con- 
vergence of  important  highways  prior  to  the  days 
of  railroads.     The  focus  of  all  these  roads  was  the 


parties  pidcnrcd  sii])plies.  The  home  of  James  Mc- 
Afee, Sr.,  was  right  on  tlieWildernessRoad  leading 
north  1o  I'liihidcljihia  and  south-west  to  the  Hol- 
stou,  till'  (,'liucli.  East  Tennessee  and  Cumberland 
Txa]).  and  I  he  IMcAfce  boys  were  from  childhood  ac- 
customed lo  meet  willi  (he  early  ('.\])lorci's,  hunters, 
and  traders,  and  necessarily  becaiiic  thoroughly 
imbued  with  the  spirit  of  adventur(^  and  versed  in 
all  the  employments  of  men  on  the  frontier.  Be- 
sides this,  they  were  all  reared  in  the  midst  of  con- 
ditions so  primitive  and  strenuous  that  they  were 
early  inured  to  every  form  of  hardship  and  danger. 
They  learned  all  the  tricks  and  habits  of  both  wild 
beasts  and  savages,  and  lived  habitually  accus- 
tomed to  the  use  of  the  rifle  and  the  hunting  knife. 
The  eldest  son  in  the  family,  James,  .Jr.,  was  a 
youth  of  nineteen  when,  in  1755,  the  Indians  sud- 
denly fell  upon  Draper's  Meadows  and  either  killed, 
wounded  or  carried  away  into  captivity,  every  man. 
woman  and  child  that  was  there  the  day  tliey  made 
their  deadly  attack.  There  were  a  few  Presby- 
terian churches  scattered  through  the  Valley  of 
Virginia  in  those  early  days,  and  no  doubt  the  Mc- 
Afees, who  were  Pi'esbyterians,  attended  religious 
worship  occasionally,  but  such  privileges  were  by 
no  means  cnnimon.  and  it  is  almost  certain  that  the 
spiritual  interests  of  the  i)eople  suffered  in  conse- 
quence. 

James  McAfee,  Sr.,  was  a  large,  squarely  built 
man,  six  feet  high,  with  large  bones,  strong  pas- 
sions, and  great  decision  of  character.  He  had 
large  hazel  eyes.  "SMien  aroused  he  was  ready  for 
any  entei'prise,  and  shrank  not  from  danger.  Nev- 
ertheless, he  was  amenable  to  reason,  and  could  be 
ruled  by  gentleness  and  love.  His  wife,  Jane  ilc- 
Michael,  whom  he  called  "Jinny,"  was  a  woman 
above  the  average  size,  tall  and  dignified.  In  a  deed 
executed  in  1767  she  joins  ln-r  husband,  signing  her 


supply    store    at    Draper's    Meadows,    twenty-five      name  as  Jannet.     She  had  a  remarkably  fine  face, 


miles  south-west  of  James  McAfee's  home  on  the 
Catawba.  Here  most  of  the  early  explorers  and 
hunters  bound  for  the  Kentucky  wilderness  ren- 
dezvoused. Here  Dr.  Walker,  Col.  Gist,  Daniel 
Boone  and  many  of  the  early  exploring  and  hunting 


and  a  prominent  forehead.  Her  eyes  were  dark 
gray  in  color,  and  her  hair  black.  Iler  expression 
combined  decision  with  mildness  and  conciliation. 
When  her  husband  would  become  aroused  and 
angrv  she  knew  how  to  calm  and  silence  him  by 


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lier  geutle  and  persuasive  iiiaiiiici'.  On  one  occasion 
when  (leorjiv  Wliiiclitid  was  on  one  of  his  preach- 
inii'  tours  in  Anu'rica,  and  atrracdn.ii  vast  multi- 
tudes to  liis  lueetiugs,  xMrs.  McAfee  expressed  a  de- 
sire to  hear  liiin.  Her  husband,  wlu)  was  a  rather 
rigid  and  souu'what  narrow  Seeeilei-,  liad  no  lik- 
ing for  Whitefield's  new  iiieiiidds,  and  was  not  only 
unwilling  lo  go  to  llie  services  of  llie  el(M|Ucnt  ev'an- 
gelisl  himself,  hul  foi-hade  his  wife's  attending. 
On  observing,  however,  I  ha  I  she  was  disappointed 
and  hurt  at  liis  refusal,  he  reh'uted  aud  said  to  her: 
"Well,  Jinny,  you  eau  hear  him  if  y<iu  want  to,  but 
don't  let  iiim  cduie  about  me."  His  five  sous  and 
their  families  and  a  goodly  company  of  the  family's 
(•onne(ii(uis  got  i-eady  in  the  fall  of  177!)  to  migrate 
to  Kentucky  aud  there  make  a  new  start  in  life,  and 
the  only  prominent  members  of  the  family  who  did 
not  join  that  caravan  of  emigrants  were  James  Mc- 
Afee, Sr.,  himself,  and  Mary,  his  son  James's 
daughter,  wife  of  David  ^Voods.  His  wife  had  re- 
scdved  to  accompany  her  childi-eu  lo  tlie  lovely  wil- 
derness beyond  the  western  mountains,  but  for 
some  cause  he  was  lo  remain  in  Uotetouri.  He  was 
now  seventy-two  years  old,  and  she  was  perhaps 
nearly  seventy.  The  way  to  Kenlucky  lay  along  the 
Wilderness  Road.  It  was  not  a  wagon-road  they 
had  to  travel.  Imi  a  mere  i)ridle-]iatli.  most  of  the 
way.  It  was  a  t<'dious  journey  of  more  than  forty 
days  on  pack-luuses,  aud  not  an  undertaking  for 
people  who  had  passed  three  score  years  ami  ten, 
but  Jane  McAfee  nuule  it  with  her  children  and 
graiuli-hildreu,  leaxing  her  iiusliand  in  N'irginia 
w  ith  the  almost  certain  prospect  of  never  meeting 
him  again  on  eai'th.  Such  an  episode  in  the  life  of 
a  couple  who  had  walked  together  as  husband  and 
wife  for  forty-four  years  aud  reared  a  large  family 
of  children,  and  who  had  seen  their  children's 
children  around  them  seems  to  call  for  e.xplanation. 
We  may  well  believe  General  R.  B.  McAfee  knew 
other  reasons  than  those  he  mentions.  He  refers  to 
t  he  (dd  nmn's  age  aud  the  difticnlties  of  the  journey, 
but  does  not  explain  how  it  was  these  could  not 
deter  the  elder  Mrs.  jMcAfee  from  going.  The  fam- 
ily, however,  made  ample  provision  for  the  old  gen- 


tleman's comfort,  le;i\iug  him  uiidei-  the  care  of  a 
Mr.  M(mtgomery,  who  was  a  relative,  and  a  Mr. 
.McDonald.  The  father  of  the  .McAfees  remained  in 
N'irginia  and  ihere  he  died  in  178"),  aged  seventy- 
eight.  \'ie\\  it  as  we  may,  there  is  something 
strange  and  sad  about  so  unusual  a  separation  as 
this  must  have  been.  In  1783  the  (dd  man's  son, 
l>(diert,  showed  a  filial  iiiieresi  in  his  fallier  by 
making  the  long  and  dangei'ous  trip  lo  \irgiuia  to 
see  him  once  nujre,  and  totdc  with  him  presents  and 
loving  messages  from  the  other  children.  Soon 
after  Robert  got  back  to  Kentucky  his  mother  died 
(1783).  She  had  made  her  home  partly  v\ith  her 
son  Robert,  aud  partly  with  iier  daughter  ^Mary, 
who  was  now  lixing  with  iier  ( second  I  husband^ 
Mr.  Thomas  (Juant,  at  his  home  on  Salt  River  out 
in  the  Mud  Meeting  House  neighborhood,  about 
three  miles  from  Harrodsburg.  »She  was  buried,  as 
General  R.  B.  IMcAfee  particularly  points  out,  on 
Mr.  Guaut's  farm,  on  a  high  hill,  on  the  south-east 
side  of  Salt  River,  about  half  a  mile  south-west  of 
the  mouth  of  Dry  Fork.  (See  mai)  of  Mercer 
County  in  this  volume  on  which  her  grave  is  indi- 
cated. ) 

Ghildren  of  James  McAfee,  Si;.,  and  Ja.xe  Mc- 

MlCHAEL. 

A— JAMES  McAFEE,  JR.,  who  was  born  in  Ire- 
land in  173(j,  came  to  America  with  his' parents  in 
1739;  married  Agnes  Clark  about  the  year  1758; 
settled  with  his  family  on  »Salt  River,  Mercer 
County,  Kentucky,  in  1770,  am]  there  died  in  1811. 

B.— JOHN  :\IcAin':E,  who  was  born  in  Ireland 
in  1737,  migrated  to  America  with  his  parents  in 
1739 ;  and  was  slain  by  Indians  on  Reed  Creek,  near 
New  River,  in  what  is  now  NN'ythe  County,  A^ir- 
ginia,  in  17G8. 

C.— MALCOLM  McAFEE,  who  was  horn  in  Ire- 
land in  173S  or  1739,  was  probably  named  for  his 
ancestor,  .Mabcdm  McAfee,  the  last  chieftain  of 
the  McAfee  Clan,  anct*who  died  in  June,  1739,  on 
board  the  ship  in  which  his  parents  came  to  Amer- 
ica, and  was  buried  at  sea. 

D.— GEORGE  McAFEE,  who  was  l)orn  in  Peini- 


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sylvauia  in  1740,  inove<l  to  Catawba  Creek,  Vir- 
ginia, with  his  parents  in  1748;  married  Susan  Cnr 
ry  some  time  prior  to  1770;  moved  with  his  family 
to  Salt  River,  Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  in  177!), 
where  he  died  in  1803.  His  body  was  the  first  one 
to  be  buried  in  New  Providence  Cemetery. 

E.— MAKY  McAFEE  (The  First),  who  was 
probaljly  l)orn  in  I'eunsylvania  about  the  year  1742, 
came  to  Catawba  Creek  with  her  parents  in  1748; 
married,  first,  a  ^Iv.  John  Poulson,  and,  later,  a 
Mr.  Thomas  Gaunt  (or  Guant,  or  Grant)  ;  and  at 
whose  home  on  Salt  River,  three  miles  south-west 
of  Harrodsburg,  occurred  the  death  of  Mrs.  Jane 
McAfee,  the  iikhIh  r  of  llic  .McAfee  pioneers. 

F.— ROBERT  .McAFEE.  who  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania in  1745,  moved  with  his  parents  to  Cataw- 
ba Creek,  Virginia,  in  1748;  married  Anne  Mc- 
Coun  in  17(Ki;  moved  with  his  family  to  Salt 
River,  Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  in  177!t;  and  was 
murdered  in  New   Orleans  in  1795. 

G.— MARGARET  McAFEE,  who  was  probably 
born  in  Pennsylvania  about  the  year  174(5-7; 
moved  w\U\  her  ^larents  to  Catawba  Creek,    Vir- 


ginia, in  174S;  mariicil  George  Buchanan,  and 
moved  wilb  lici-  imsbanii  In  Salt  River,  Mercer 
< 'ounty,  Jvenlucky,  about  ITsl.  where  slie  s))ent  tVie 
remainder  of  her  life. 

H.— SA:\rUEL  McAFEE.  w  Im  was  born  in  the 
year  1748,  ami  prohalily  on  Catawlia  Creek,  Vir- 
ginia ;  iiiai-i-ieil  Hannah  Aic* 'nniiick  alumt  1774; 
inoM'd  lo  Salt  IJixii',  Kentucky,  in  177!t;  and  ilied 
Ihei'c  in  180J. 

J.— AN'ILLIAM  McAFEE,  \\  Inj  was  probably 
born  on  Catawba,  (/reek,  Virginia,  about  1750;  mar- 
ried Rebecca  Curry  probably  about  1774 ;  moved  to 
Salt  River,  Kentucky,  in  1779;  and  died  in  1780 
from  the  effect  of  wounds  lu'  received  wliile  fighting 
Indians  at  Piqua,  Ohio,  he  being  at  the  time  the 
captain  of  a  company  of  Kentucky  Cavah^y  under 
General  George  Rogers  Clark. 

K. — There  Avas  another  daughter  born  to  James 
McAfee,  Sr.,  and  his  wife  Jane,  but  the  a\  riter  could 
learn  nothing  of  lu-r  iiistory. 

Fuller  details  concerning  each  of  the  above-men- 
ti(med  children  of  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  will  be 
found  in  ('hapter  A',  of  Part  II  of  this  volume. 


CHAPTER  III. 

TOUR   OF  THE  McAFEE    COMPANY  TO   KENTUCKY  IN    THE  SUMMER   OF    177^,  AND 
WHAT  IT  MEANT  FOR  THE  ACTUAL  SETTLEMENT  OF  KENTUCKY.^"^ 


"The  roots  of  the  present  lie  deep  in  the  past,  and 
nothing  in  the  past  can  be  dead  to  the  man  who 
would  learn  how  liie  present  came  to  be  what  it  is." 

J'l-of.  Sliihh.^.  O.rford.  Kiif/hiiid. 

The  Kentucky  of  to-day  has  had  a  genesis  pecu- 
liaidy  its  own;  and  in  order  to  understand  what  it 
is  at  the  present  time,  we  must  go  back  at  least  a 
liundred  and  fifty  years.  J^ike  nearly  every  other 
kind  of  growth,  it  has  had  its  day  of  humble  be- 
ginnings; and  if  we  would  appreciate  the  results 
of  a  century  and  a  half  of  development,  we  must 
scrutinize  the  conduct  and  motives  of  the  sturdy 
pioneers  who  laid  the  foundations  of  its  life.  Very 
few,  if  any,  of  the  men  who  had  most  to  do  with 


inaugurating  the  mo\ement  which  issued  in  the 
creation  of  the  splendid  commonwealth  we  behold 
to-day,  possessed  much  of  either  learning  or  wealth. 
But  many  of  them  were  genuine  heroes,  neA'erthe- 
less,  and  rendered  a  noble  service  to  mankind. 
They  may  have  builded  far  wiser  tlian  they  knew, 
or  even  dreamed,  and  yet  their  debtors  we  are,  be- 
cause we,  without  them,  could  not  have  been  made 
perfect.  Those  sturdy,  adventurous  pioneers 
labored,  and  we  have  entered  into  their  labors.  The 
lieritage  in  which  Kenluckians  of  the  twentieth 
century  take  pride  is  so  largelj'  the  creation  of  the 
men  of  the  eighteenth  that  we  are  in  honor  bound 
lo  do  them  reverence. 


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The  lnnl\  111'  MICH  known  in  Kentucky  liistory  as  ndvcninrous  ydunu  men  who  saw  a  i;rau<l  oppor- 
tlic  McAfee  Conipauy'  consisted  of  five  iudivid-  tunily  for  betterinp;  flieir  condition  in  life.  From 
nals,  lo  w  ii  :   .lanu'S  McAfee,  .Ir..  liic  eldest  member      w  liai  (Jeneral  R.  B.  .Mc.V fee  says  it  is  ncarl.v  cc i-lain 

tlie  McAfees  had  conversed  witli  Daniel  Uooue  in 
1772,  or  at  least  Avitli  men  who  had  i;otten  informa- 
tion direct  from  him.  WC  know  ihc  .Mc.Vfees  had 
all  their  plans  laid  for  a  tonr  to  Kentncky  liy  the 
time  the  year  1773  had  opened.  The  road  wiiicli 
IJoone  wonld  naturally  tra\"el  fidin  Kentncky  hack 
to  his  home    on    tlie    Yadkin    in    \oitIi    ('ai(dina. 


of  tlie  coiiipaay,  and  its  recognized  leader;  George 
and  l.'oliei-l  .\lc.Vfee.  the  younger  bi'others  of  the 
leader;  .lames  .McCoun.  .Jr.,  the  brother  of  Robert 
.Mc.Vfee's  wife:  and  Samuel  Adams.  At  the  date 
oi'  tlie  tour  these  men  made  to  Kentncky  all  of 
them  excejit  .\dams  were  married  men.  -lames  .Mc- 
Afee was  iliirty-se\cn  years  old,  George  was  thirty- 


hree.  K(ih<'rt  was  twenty-eight,  McCouu  was  about      jiassed  Di-aper's  Meadows. 


The  men  of  this  company  were  admirably  adapt- 
ed by  character  and  training  to  just  sucii  a  haz- 
ardous enterprise.  IJeared  on  the  frontier,  they 
iiad  all  theii-  li\i  s  lieen  accustomed  to  dealing  with 
w  ild  beasts  and  Indians,  as  well  as  all  the  sterner 


t 

I  he  age  of  ilohei  I  .McAfee,  and  Adams  was  but  uine- 
ii  en.  The  achieveiuents  of  tliis  company  have  been 
jut'lty  fully  lecouuted  in  all  the  ukuc  comprehen- 
sive histories  of  Kentticky.  such  as  those  of  Mar- 
sliall,  Rutler.  ('olliiis  and  Smitii.  And  m(ue  or 
less  elaborate  mention  has  heen  made  of  them  in  a  forces  of  nature.  They  were  perfectly  familiar  with 
great  many  other  historical  works,  the  latest  of  all  the  arts  of  wood  craft,  and  were  hy  no  means 
which  is  the  "Winning  of  the  West,"  by  President  novices  in  any  department  of  adventure  they  were 
Roosevelt.  The  bonus  of  these  five  men  were  in  likely  to  have  to  deal  w  itii  on  a  t(mr  sucli  as  that 
what  was  then  Hotetourt  County.  N'irgiuia,  on  Ca-  "M  wliicji  they  w  i  le  about  io  eudiark.  Certain  it 
law  ba  and  Sinking  ("reeks.  Tiie  home  of  the  elder  "as  that  for  that  e.\|ie(lition  •'no  tetideifoot  need 
.lames  .Mc.Mee,  the  father  of  hve  sous  who  took  an      ajiply."      It   is  clear  from   all    the  records  we  have 


active  pari  in  the  early  settlemeni  of  Kentucky, 
was,  in  177;>,  (ui  (Jatawba  Creek,  aliont  twelve  miles 
north-west  of  Roanoke  City,  and  within  sight  of  the 
well-kuown  summer  resort,  the  Ifoanoke  iJed  S\il- 
|ihuf  Springs,  The  noted  Ingles  Ferry,  at  wliich 
must  ti-a\'ellers  crossed  Xew  IJi\er  on  their  wa\'  to 


of  the  doings  of  these  men  that,  from  the  first  in- 
ci'])tion  of  their  undertaking  at  the  close  of  the  j'ear 
ITTl'  on  to  the  day  of  tiudr  safe  arrival  at  home  at 

1 1 ud  of  summer,  the  year  following,  theirs  was  a 

perfectly  inde]pendeni  and  autonomous  bod\.  Tlie\" 
were  never  amalgamated  with,  or  in  an\    wav  sub- 


the  south-west,  was  only  thirty-tive  miles  distant,  J''''t  to,  any  other  company  of  ex])lorers,  ihongh  for 

(ui  an  air  line,    from    the    old    .Mc.U'ee    homestead.  "  «fftsou  they  were  associated   with    several    (jther 

Wliat  was  called  the  Draper's  Meadows  Settlement,  '-"inpanies  on  the  Ohio  K'iver  for  the  mutual  jirotec- 

uow  the  site  of  the  town  of  Blacksburg,  Virginia,  ''""  •'i"*l  convenience  of  all  eotieerned,  while  acci- 

aiLd  at  whieh  point   was  located,  from  171?>  onward,  <lenta]ly  throw  u    together.     I'rom    iIh'    outset    they 

a  fa us  supply  st(n'e,  was  not  more  than  twenty-  lunl  a  very  distiiu-t  idea  of  their  mode  of  jirocedure, 

<iue  miles  away.     The  region  was  very    hilly    and  ami  of  the  particiilai-  region  in  which  they  wished 

broken.     Lofty  parallel  ranges  of  numntains  were  to  make  their  permanent  home. 

l'il<''l   lip  ill  cbise  succession,  one  behind  another.  The  condition  of  the  region  now   composing    the 

and  theauKiUut  of  level  and  easily  cultivated  laud  Commonwealth  of  Kentncky  when  visited  by  this 

was  compaiativel,\  small.     It  is  easy  to  understand  company  in  tin-  summer  of  1773  shouhl  lie  regarded 

how  the  glowing  accounts  of  the  splendi<l   wilder-  for  a  moment  before  we  attempt  to  follow  them  on 

uess  beyond  tlie  moantains,    given    by    iloone    and  their  tonr.     To-day  tliis  region    lias    a    pernuiuent 

other  hunters  on  their  return  honu'  from  that  region  I'esident  population  <if  more  than  two  million  souls; 

about  1771-::,  should  have  tired  the  imaginations  of  at  that  date  it   did  not   have  a  single  one.     Indian 


Toui;  OF  THE  McAfees  to  Kentucky.  i65 

tribes,  wliosc  lidiiies  were  td  ihv  noi-tli  or  the  soiilli  nianli  ,,\'  iiniiiic  « est  wiiiil,  niul  iiieaut  to  he  in  the 

of  its  borders,  often  huuted  in  ils  majestic  forests,  vaui^uard  of  tliose  civiliziii-  ajieiicies  w  liicli  were  to 

or  marclied  across  its  territory,  ;  but  wlieii  tlie  Me  redeem   flic  w  ihb'niess  and   make  of  il    a    fniitful 

A  fees  entered  Kentucky  it  is  almost  cei-lain  tliere      field  and    ihc  I ■  of  a   Chrisiian   |i(ii|dc.      Wliat 

was  not  one  liuiiiau  helm;' actually  residing    lliere.  Kentucky     nccihMl     Mien     was    sohci-.      indnslrious. 

In  our  day  tens  of  thousands  of  ]inblic  roads    con-  moral   men    wiih    families   -men   wiin  slionld   iirini;' 

nect  every  viJlaui'  and  neijjhborliood  in  the    State,  with  liiem  nm  only  the  linni  in-knilV  and  ilie  rith', 

many  of  which  are  p.raded    and    macadamized;    in  but  tlu^  im])lemeMts  of  peaceful  and  bcneliccnt   in- 

that  day  there  was  not  one  mile  of  I'oail    in    tlie  dustry.  and,  aliove  all,  the  school  and   Ilic  cliurcli. 

entire  region  save  the  trails  and  i)aths  made  by  wild  To  this  class  the  .McAfees  ami  their  assni'iates  be- 

animals  or  savaiics  in  rovini;-  over  the  land.    There  lonjied.     That   this  was  tlieii-  iiim,  which  ilicy  lived 

are  now  fourleen  million  acres  of  ihe    soil    of    the  to  see  realized,  is  seen  in  i  he  <iiniiiiuiiii  \   which  ihev 

State  under  aclual    cultivation   as   farms  and   nar-  established   on   Salt    i:i\cr   in    what    is   now    Mercer 

dens,  yieldiuii  every  yeai-  a  vast   variety  of  ai;ricul-  County,  and   wliicli.  afici-  ciue  Imndred  and    tliiitv 

tural  ])roducts  Avorth  more  than  one  hundred   and  years,  is  tilled  with  llicir  descendants;  wliilsl   liun- 

tifty  millions  of  dollars ;  at  tlial  day  ihere  was  ]U'ob-  dreds  id' tJiem  lia\"e  ^one  t()  Ihe  wesi  and  north  west 

ably  not  an  acre  of  jiround  in  ((un.     More  than  four  and  taken  an  honorable  pari  in  the  de\"elopmeni  of 

hundred  thousand  dwellinti'  houses  dot  the  country  tlie  country. 

at  tlie  present  time;  in  1773  the  only  buildinris    in  It  must  have  been  ,iu  alTectiui;  scene  that  spi'in^ 

existence  were  some  lousj-deserted    houses  on    the  morning — Monday,  May  10,  177."> — when,  ]irobal)lv 

banks  of  the  Ohio  opposite  the  mouth  of  the  Scioto  at  the  home  of  the  ebler  James    McAfee,    the  five 

River,  nnless  we  except  one  little  eight  by    t\v(dve  men  of  this  company  assend»led,  on  the  Catawdia  in 

cabin  which  Dr.  Thomas  Walker  had  erected  on  the  Botetourt  County,  \'a.,  to  take  leave  of  their  loved 

Cuudterland  TJiver  in  ]~'ti).     In  sini]>le  truth,  Ken-  ones  on  starting  to  tlu'  west.     No  such  farewell  had 

tucky,  in  1778,  was  but  a  sphuidid,  uninhabited  wil-  ever  been  said  tiiere  before,  we  uuiy  well  lielieve. 

derness,  along  whose  northern  boiilers  il  few  adven-  Here  were  five  choice  young  men   about   to  make 

turous  travellers    had    ])assed    hurriedly    in    their  their  W"ay  into  an   uid<nowu  wilderness  where  for 

canoes,  and  into  a  portum  of  whose  iidcrior  some  several  months  they  would  be  exposed  to  uncommon 

explorers  and  hunters    had    gone   only    for  a  few  hardshii^s  and  dangers,  and  wdiere  in  any  hour  of 

weeks  to  get  a  glimitse  of  the  land,  or  to  kill  game,  sore  need  their  friends  would   be  unable  to  reach 

with  no  thought  of  becoming  actual  seitlers.     The  them,  or  even  to  know  of  their  |ieril.    With  the  tive 

real  work  «(  civilization  had  not  been  so  much  as  members  of  tlie  company  were  two    other   gallant 

be^afun.    This  was  the  Kentucky  which,  iu  the  spring  young  men  who  deserve  to  be  remembered,  namely  : 

of  1773,  the  McAfees  essayed  to  enter  with  the  fixed  Jolm  ^McCouu,  and  James  Pawling,  whose  humble 

purpose  of  effecting  there  a  permaueni  settlement  y^t  hazardims  mission  it  was  to   accompany    them 

for    themsehcs,    their    wives    and    their    children.  for  at  least  one  hundred  and  si.xty-tive  miles  of  the 

They  caiiu'  not  as  aimless  adventurers,  nor  as  hunt-  "ay  in  order  to  bring  liack  ilie  horses  which  would 

ers,  nor  as  mere  land  siieculatiu's  or  agents  of  such.  uo  longer  be  needed  by  ihe  com])any  after   they  had 

They  came  as  men  who  desii-ed  to  belter  their  con-  reached  the  point   on   the   Lower   Kanawha,  where 

dition  in  life,  and  to  make  honu's,  and  to  take  iiart  they  were  to  embark    in   c.iuoes.     The  bridle-trail 

iu  lajdng  the  foundations  of  a  gi'cat  Commonwealth  the  party  w  eic  lo  na\cl  down  New  Iliver  was  one 

west  of  the  mountains,     it    is  clear  from  General  along  Avhich  Indians  were  woid  to  come  from  north 

McAfee's  Anlobiogia]pliy  that   these  imii  had  simie-  of  the  Ohio  at   thai    season   of  ihe    year    on      their 

thing   of    the    prophetic    vision,    and    foi'esaw    the  mai'auding  expeditions  to  the  white  settlements  in 


166  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   JMEMOEIAL. 

Virginia;'  and  .yimug  McCouii  and  rawiing  would  Uumk'  of  the  elder  James  McAfee,  and  it  was  prob- 
need  on  tlu'ir  rdiini  home  to  travel  that  trail  for  a  ably  covered  by  the  middle  of  the  afternoon,  allow- 
week  or  more  by  themselves,  and  cumbered  with  iii.ii'  tlic  men  ample  time  before  night  for  the  laying 
perhaps  five  or  six  liorses.  Then  also  there  were  in  of  such  supplies  as  were  needed  for  tlie  long 
two  of  the  jMcAfee  broiliers,  Samuel  and  William,  journey.  :N'o  doubt  next  morning.  'I'nesday,  May 
wJK)  tliough  n<il  of  llic  cxiibn-ing  parly,  sliouhl  be  1  Uli,  they  were  ready  by  sunrise  In  lu-occed.  Let 
considered  as  in  a  sense  members,  because  their  us  picture  tliem  to  our  minds  as  they  are  about 
task  was  one  w  bicli  was  as  essential  to  the  under-  ready  to  take  tlie  trail  whieh  b'd  dnwu  New  River. 
lakJTiii  as  if  they  actually  had  gone  along  with  the  W'lnyt  would  we  nol  give  now  if  a  tirst-class  photog- 
(ithers.  Xdi  all  of  the  able-bodied  men  of  the  neigh-  lapher's  outtit  had  been  possible  then,  and  some 
borhood  could  safely  leave  home  at  any  one  time,  one  had  taken  a  good  view  of  the  whole  party  in  a 
for  we  must  remember  that  the  whole  of  the  New  group,  and  the  picture  had  been  transmitted  to  us 
Ifiver  region  was  still  a  frontier  settlement  and  exactly  as  it  ajipeared  130  years  ago!  The  linsey 
couslandy  exposed  to  Indian  depredations.  The  hunling-shirt,  tlie  coon-skin  cap,  tlie  buck-skin  leg- 
very  next  year  after  this  tour  was  nmde  the  sav-  gins  and  moccasins,  the  tomaliawk,  the  linnting 
ages  invaded  the  Sinking  Creek  neighborhood,  as  knife,  the  powder  luu'n  and  last,  but  not  least,  the 
Dr.  Llale  tellsiis  (see  pages  33  and  2(;.")  of  his  Alle-  long-barrelled  flint-lock  rifle — the  nnist  effective 
gheny  Pioneers)  and  murdered  Ave  children  of  a  Mr.  short  range  arm  yet  devised  by  uuui — were  all  in 
Lvbrook.  Capable  and  fearless  men  were  needed  at  evidence,  not  to  mention  nundierless  other  ilems  in 
lioiue  lor  purposes  of  protection,  as  well  as  to  make  the  way  of  provisions  and  outfit.  Their  horses  may 
the  crops;  and  it  is  recognized  in  Holy  Writ  that  not  have  looked  very  stylish,  and  the  miscellaneous 
"as  his  part  is  that  goeth  down  lo  the  battle,  so  array  of  "plunder"  indispensable  loi-  such  a  tour, 
shall  liis  part  be  that  tarrieth  by  the  stuff';  they  no  doubt  imparted  a  somewiiat  raggeii  ami  inartis- 
shall  part  alike."  It  probably  required  more  cour-  tie  look  to  the  ensemble;  and  yet  they  must  have 
age  and  self-restraint  for  these  two  young  men  to  presented  a  most  pictures(pK'  spectacle.  And  what 
quietly  stand  guard  at  honu'  llian  it  would  to  have  impresses  us  most,  and  causes  a  feeling  (d'  sadness, 
accompanied  the  expediti(ui  lo  Kentucky.  Samuel  is  the  consciousness  that  no  such  s])e(ta(le  can  ever 
was  then  twenty-five  years  old.  and  William  was  be  witnessed  anywhere  in  our  w(U-ld  again.  The 
]irobably  ab(mt  twenty  I bree.  an<l  Ihe  part  after-  pioneer  age  has  vanished,  never  more  to  I'cl urn.  All 
wards  played  by  both  in  Ihe  establishment  of  the  the  conditions  of  life  have  been  radically  altered. 
Salt  River  vSettlement,  and  the  death  of  the  latter  The  pioneers  are  gone,  and  tiiey  can  live  in  memory 
I'loiu  \\  ounds  iurtict(>d  by  Indians  m  bile  leading  his  alone.  Let  us  therefore  be  only  the  more  careful  to 
c(iui|)nny  of  soldiers  in  battle  under  General  George  preserve,  as  faithfully  as  we  may,  the  true  storv  of 
Rogers  Clark  in  1780,  prove  them  lo  have  been    of  their  lives. 

the  sauH>  heroic  mould  as  their  older  brothers.  At  We  can  not  with  absolute  certainty  indicate  the 
last  the  farewells  were  spoken, and  Ihe  tender  kisses  exact  route  they  travelled  on  their  way  down  to- 
ot affection  exchanged,  and  ilie  men  of  the  explor-  wards  the  Ohio  River,  but  it  is  reasonably  certain, 
ing  company,  together  willi  the  Iwo  friends  who  as  Dr.  Hale  ]ioints  oui  (see  his  book,  page  102), 
were  to  be  their  companions  foi-  a  week,  mounted  that  they  went  the  trail  the  Indians  were  wont  to 
their  horses  and  took  the  road  leading  up  the  creek  follow  in  coming  from  north  of  the  Ohio  to  the 
towards  the  (Jreat  Divide  on  whose  summit  stood  upper  New  River  country.  That  trail  went  down 
the  supply  store  at  Draper's  Meadows,  whence  their  NeM^  River  to  the  mouth  of  Imlian  Creek,  crossed 
real  start  for  the  wilderness  was  to  be  made."  The  over  New  River  and  the  Bluestom',  and  Flat  Top 
distance  was  only  about  twenty-five  miles  from  the  Mountain,  aud   weni    on    past  the  site  of  Raleigh 


TOUK  OF  TJIK  .McAfees  to   KI^N'I'IICKY. 


1H7 


Oourl  House  to  the  head  waters  of  I'aiiit  Creek, 
then  (lowji  tliat  stream  to  the  Kauawlia,  and  do^Ti 
tlie  Kaiiawlia  to  the  noted  Salt  Sprint;  at  the  mouth 
of  CamiibeU's  Creek,  which  is  about  five  miles  above 
the  present  city  of  Charleston,  West  Vivuinia,'  and 
about  sixty  mib's  alfove  the  moutli  of  tlic  Kanawlia. 
Tlie  distance  whicli  tlie  party  travelled  on  their 
liorses  was  not  far  from  one  hundred  and  sixty-five 
miles,  and  they  were  about  tine  week  in  coming. 
From  this  point  John  MeCoun  and  James  Pawling 
returned  with  all  the  horses  to  their  homes.  Ten 
days"  time  was  consumed  in  the  biiililiiig  of  the 
jioats ;  the  provisions  and  outfit  of  the  party  were 
loaded  into  them;  and  before  the  end  of  May  they 
had  reached  the  Ohio,  where  they  fell  in  with  Capt. 
Thomas  Bullitt  and  several  other  comiianies  of 
whites,  and  some  friendly  Delaware  Indians,  going 
down  to  the  Fall^;  of  Oliio.'^  The  jdiirney  down  to 
the  'iiouth  of  the  Kentucky  liiver  occupied  the 
wlnde  of  the  monlli  of  .Tune  and  the  first  week  in 
Jiily.  They  proceeded  leisurely,  making  many 
stoi>s  (Ml  llie  way,  and  exploring  the  country  back 
fi'om  the  river  for  ten  or  fifteen,  and  even  thirty 
miles.  On  the  afternoon  of  Wednesday,  July  7th, 
I  he  .McAfees  bade  farewell  to  Capt.  Bullitt  and  the 
other  men  w  ilh  whom  they  had  now  Iteen  pleas- 
antly assuciated  for  five  or  six  weeks,  as  they  were 
only  a  short  distance  then  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Kentucky  Kiver,  into  which  stream  the  .McAfees 
l)urposcd  lo  cnler,  whilst  all  the  other  companies 
were  destined  for  the  Falls  of  the  Oiiin.  The  .Mc- 
Afees pulled  ai  their  oars  that  evening  till  darkness 
gathered  o\'cr  ihe  earlli,  when  they  drew  near  to 
the  shore  at  a  point  almul  six  miles  al»(i\c  where  the 
town  of  Cancillliin  now  stands,  and  spent  Ihe  niglit 
in  ilieii-  canoes.  I'erhaps  they  feared  Indians,asthey 
were  then  toily  a  very  few  miles  from  a  well-known 
l)uffalo  pal  li  and  Indian  trail,  which  led  down  from 
fheBigl'one  i.ick.  at  which  liiey  had  jusi  sjient  sev- 
eral days,  III  what  is  now  called  l>rennon"s  Lick, 
which  iliey  were  destined  to  reach  very  soon.  The 
next  nitirning  I  hey  were  under  way  an  hour  before 
day.  eagerly  bending  to  their  oars,  for  I  hey  were 
now  anxious  to  see  with  their  own  eyes  that  stream 


near  whose  course  it  was  their  purjjose  to  settle  for 
life.  Thursday  morning,  the  Sfh  of  July,  1773,  just 
as  the  eastern  sky  was  brightening  witli  the  flush 
of  coming  day,  through  ihe  misi  nf  Ihe  early  dawn 
the  dim  outlines  of  the  Kentucky's  low  liank-'s  were 
descried;  and  nn  donbl  llicir  hearts  bcai  mure  rap- 
idly as  they  began  to  realize  that  the  goal  of  their 
hopes  was  almost  in  view.  Scion  the  prows  of  theii- 
boats  began  to  turn  southward  as,  with  searcliing 
glances  at  ihe  now  clearly  \  isilile  shores  of  th(>  new- 
found stream,  they  salislicd  ihimseU'es  llial  ihis 
was  indeed  ilic  ii\-er  fur  which  llie,\  wci'e  seeking. 
In  a  momeni  (ir  Iwn  mni-e  their  lii;lit  canoes  were 
noiselessly  gliding  in  lielwcen  the  banks  of  the 
Kentucky,  and  the  iimiid  Ohio  was  behind  tliem. 
The  wild  birds  had  jnsi  :iw  akcd  lo  their  mat  ins  and 
were  hlliiig  ilie  fdicsi  wiih  ilieir  songs.  Perhaps  a 
lluck  of  water-fdwl  were  d is[iii)M  ing  themsehes  i)lay- 
fuUy  in  the  stream,  and  ailracted  by  the  gentle 
plashing  of  the  oars,  hmked  wonderingly  al  the  in- 
truders, scarce'  know  Iol;  w  heiher  to  take  wing  or  no. 
As  they  moved  nn  ii]i  ihe  ri\-ei-  the  sun  came  up  in 
all  his  gloiy  ;  and  as  he  liegan  lo  illumine  the  splen- 
did Avilderncss  wilh  his  beams  not  only  had  there 
lieguu  another  diniiial  rcMilnlinn  (if  the  earth  upon 
its  axis,  but  also  Ihe  dawn  of  a  new  Common- 
wealth's life,  ^^■|lelhel•  those  jiiaiii.  ]>ractical  men 
\\'ere  conscious  (if  ihc  fad  or  not,  their  quiet  and 
unheralded  entrance  inin  ihat  historic  stream  on 
that  summer's  morning  was  "the  fair  beginning  of 
a.  time" — the  birthday  of  a  new  era  for  one  of  the 
most  fa\ored  regions  beneath  the  bine  (bane  of 
heaven.  In  that  auspicious  hour  the  banner  of  civ- 
ilization ^\as  for  Ihe  first  time  unfurled  over  Ken- 
tucky's soil,  and  the  ])ermanent  settlement  of  the 
State  Iwgun.  This  event  was  one  of  those  simple, 
nn]iretenti()us  b(»ginniiigs  nf  jhings  whicli  men 
should  ponder  unless  lliey  wdiild  bise  half  Ihe  les- 
son which  provid(>nce  and  naliire  have  lo  leach  us. 
.Vs  some  one  has  said  : 

"There  is  a  day  in  spring. 

When  umler  all  the  earth  Ihe  secret  germs 
Begin  to  stir  and  glow  before  they  bml : — 

The  wealth  and  festal  ]iomps  of  mid-summer 
Lie  in  the  heart  of  I  hat  inglorious  lumr. 

Which  no  man  names  with  blessing, 
Tlumgh  its  work  be  blessed  by  all  the  world." 


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TUUi:  OF  THE  McAFlOEH  TU  KENTUCKY. 


169 


The  years  which  extend  from  1750  to  1772  mark  March,  1775,  and  some  others  made  about  this 
a  distinct  and  most  important  er-i  in  the  history  of  ju'rioil.  must,  for  all  time  to  come,  \h'  regarded  as 
ihe  resj;ion  now  called  Kentucky — it  was  The  Era  distiuclly  r|inrli  inakin-;- events  in  ilii'  fouudiuii  and 
(»f  E.\])l(irali(>n  proper.  AVKli  iL  we  associate  the  developmeni  of  Kcniiicky,  sccuiid  in  time,  only,  to 
names  of  such  men  as  AValker,  (Jist,  Pinley,  Knox,  the  acliicvcincnis  nf  I  he  cxiilurci-s  pi-dpei-.  and  ('(lual 
Boone,  etc.  These  num,  and  many  others,  first  to  tlieiis  in  ini|i(iiian(c.  Tiic  t\-Ay  of  mere  adven- 
Ida/.cd  flic  way  to  the  settlement  of  the  country,  and  ture  had  nciw  hcunn  in  waiu',  and  Ihc  day  of  Iiome- 
d('S(  r\c  In  he  held  in  everlastinji'  remembrance,  seekiiij;  and  Siaic  linildiii-  was  dawniui;-.  Tlic 
cliiilly  1)1  ranse  their  work,  no  matter  how  meagre  it  tramj)  (d'  ilmnsands  nf  cniiLiiaiils  w  i(h  their  pack- 
may,  in  some  cases,  have  been,  and  no  matter  wha I  linrses  from  \'iiL;inia  and  llir  ("arnlinas  was  soon 
may  liave  Ix'cn  their  ninl  ivcs,  rendered  possilde  all  to  be  lieard  ainii;;  I  lie  Wilderness  iinad  llirmi^li 
that  \\as  accoin]ilisbed  i)y  Ihnse  who  fnllnwed  in  ( 'ninb(  iland  (lap,  and  llie  lieanlirnl  (»liin  was  snnn 
their  wake.     But  scarcely  any  id'  tlu^    men    of    this  In  lie  dniled  willi  tleets  of  cannes,  ]di-ngiies  and  llai 


(dass  and  era  were  seriously  intent  on  umkinu  jier- 
maneni  settlements  in  Kentiudvy  Avith  the  distinct 
aim  of  subduing  the  wilderness  into  farms  and  vil- 
lages; and  liad  tliey  nnt  been  succeeded  by 
men  nf  a  wholly  did'ei-cnl  tem]»er  and  imi-piise, 
it  may  be  doulited  wlielher  Kentucky  wnuld 
ever  have  been  anvthing  but  a    magnificent    "aiue 


boats,  biinging  homeseekers  fmni  I'eunsylvania 
and  .Maryland  with  their  families  and  Ihe  imple- 
ments of  peaceful  industry.     (»f    all     I  his    mighty 

movement    llial    i lest   entiaiicc    i\i'    Ihe    .McAfees 

into  the  iiKnith  nf  tiie  Kentucky  Kivcr  at  sunrise  of 
the  Slh  (if  .Inly,  ITT."*.,  was  Ihe  ]irelnde  and  pledge. 
The  savages   tn    llle    nnltll    nf  ihc   Ohin.    wlin   Innked 


preserve.    Boone,  grand  old  hero  that  he  was,  bears  upon  Kentucky  as    their    hnnting-gi-nunil,    insiinc- 

the  character  nf  a  hnntei-  and  rover,    ratlier    than  lively  recognized  the  significance  of  the  movements 

that  of  a  settled  citizen  ;  and  but  for  the  enterprise  of  tlie  .McAfees   and    Bullitt.     Scicniitic    travcdlers 

nf  a  man  like  To].  Henderson,  who  took  the  initia-  and  explorers,  w  Im  merely  skirted  ihe  unrihern  bnr 

live,  and  jiaid  him  to  assist  in  his  schemes,  he  might  der  of  Kentucky  in  their  cannes,  m-  marched  bur 

never  have  founded  anything  nu)re  than  a  hunting  riedly  across  portions  of  the  country,  gave  the  in 

stati(ni  in  the  wilderness.     But  rapidly  upon  the  dians  small  com-ern ;  the  traders  with  their  jiacks 

heels  of  this  first  era  in  KentuckY's  life  marched  full  of  trinkets  and  small  wares  fni-  excbaniie  wcri' 


the  second — the  Era  of  Permanent  Settlements.  For 
convenience  this  era  may  be  assigned  to  the  twenty 
years  which  began  with  the  (dose  of  1T72,  and  ende(l 
with  tlie  admission  of  Kentucky  into  the  Federal 
[Tnion  in  1792.    Of  this  unirpu'  period  the  Tangimrd 


gladly  welcomed;  even  liie  hiinieis  aroused  but  lit- 
tle antagonism  so  bmg  as  killing  game  was  their 
only  |)urpns(>.  Unl  when,  in  177."!,  and  the  next  year 
ni- twn  I'nilnwing,  they  discerned  stirdy  men  nf  an- 
other temjier  and  aim  searching  the  land,  accom- 


was  led  by  the  ilcAfee  and  Bullitt  companies  in  panied  by  the  surveyor  with  his  compass  and  chain 

1773,  by  the  men  under  Taptain  James  Harrod    in  — when  it  dawned  on  tlieir  savage  minds  that  thesis 

1774,  and  by  Col.  HendersoiTs  jiarty  in  177r).  It  were  serious  men,  the  vanguard  (d' civilizatiim,  who 
was  with  the  work  of  tliese  men,  principally,  that  meant  to  clear  ihe  land,  jiml  jilaut  crops,  and  build 
the  real  settlement  and  ci\iliy,at  i(ni  of  Kentucky  be-  towns,  they  realized,  as  nevei'  b(d'(U-c,  ihal  Ihe  in- 
gan.  Hence,  if  we  are  to  be  true  to  the  truth  of  his-  vasion  of  this  lair  region  meani  ihe  comidete  expul- 
tory,  tlu'  settlement  begun  by  the  McAfees  on  Salt  sion,  if  noi  ihe  exieiiiiinai  ion,  of  ihelJed  .Man ;  and 
Kiver,  and  that  of  CaptainBullitt  at  the  Falls  of  the  the  mysl  ic  si-na  I  w  as  given  for  "war  to  the  knife." 
Ohio,  in  July,  1773;  that  begun  by  Captain  Ilaii-od  The  answer  which  the  savages  -ave  to  the  surveys 
al  llarrodsbnrg,  in  .Inne,  ITTJ;  and  Ihal  made  at  made  in  ITT:',  was  I  lie  sei-ies  of  hosl  ilil  ies  wlii(^h  be- 
Boonesboiongh    by     Col.      Henderson's     party,     in  gan  early  in  I  he  fnllnwing  summer,  and  which  cul- 


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luinated  iu  October,  1774,  in  the  bloodiest  battle 
vet  foiiiilit  on  N'ivginia  soil,  wlieii  tbe  great  chief 
Cornstalk,  w  ith  perhaps  1,000  warriors,  attacked 
the  Virgiuia  militia  imder  General  Lewis  at  Point 
Pleasant,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Kanawha  River,  and 
fought  a  whole  daj-  with  splendid  courage  and  valor 
until  convinced  that  the  whites  were  their  superi- 
ors. That  the  surveys  of  1773  were  the  very  first 
movements  of  the  whites  which  gave  promise  of 
permanent  settlement,  and  that  this  was  the  light 
ill  w  liich  (lie  Jiidians  viewed  it,  is  aiiii>ly  attested  by 
a  number  of  distinguished  historical  writers." 

The  jouiiiey  of  the  party  up  the  river  to  1  >ren- 
iiiiu's  Lick,"'  and  on  up  to  w  here  Frankfort  now 
stands,  occupied  about  a  week,  tiie  details  of  which 
are  given  in  the  journals  of  James  and  Kobert  Mc- 
Afee to  be  found  in  the  Appendix.  \\'hen,on  the21st 
(d'.lnly,  ilicy  left  Cave  Spring  (Ui  (iilliert's  Creek,  in 
wlmt  is  now  Anderson  County,  five  miles  west  of  the 
Kentucky  liiver,  and  marched  to  the  west  two  miles, 
tliey  found  a  stream  which  they  aptly  designated 
"Crooked  Creek."  This  was  Salt  River;  and  the 
nuiment  they  readied  it,  they  seem  to  have  con- 
cluded thai  they  had  now  discovered  the  precise 
neiglilKtrhoiid  in  which  their  tiiuil  settlement  was  to 
lie  made.  They  began  at  once  to  sur\t'y  land,  one 
tract  after  another,  and  conliniied  without  cessa- 
tion lor  more  than  a  week.  The  party  had  already 
laid  ill  l\\(i  surveys  on  the  creek  where  Vanci'burg 
now  stands,  at  least  two  ov  three  on  the  upper 
Licking,  one  at  tlie  motilli  <d'  tiie  Licking,  two  or 
three  at  Drenmm's  Kick,  two  at  the  site  of  Frank- 
fort, and  I  wo  at  Cave  Spring,  nmking  perhajjs  5,000 
acres  lliiis  far  surveyed.  On  Salt  River  from  the 
monlli  (if  llaiiimdud's  ('reek  up  to  \\hal  is  now 
kiiuwii  as  I  lie  .Mud  Meeting  House  Neighbcu'liood, 
some  llirec  miles  aliove  Hai-i'dilsliurg,  twenty-one 
addilidiial  surveys  were  made  i>C  l(l(»  acres  each. 
The  Idlal  quantity  of  land  stirveyed  dii  and  very 
near  to  Salt  River  amounted  to  more  llian  S.OOO 
acres,  A\hich,  being  added  td  thai  p]'e\idusly  sur- 
veyed, brings  the  grand  total  uji  Id  sdmethingabove 
K3,000  acres.  If  we  include  the  ]ire-ein|)l  idii  claim  to 
LOOO  acres  additional  for  each  400  acre  IracI,  to  be 


paid  for  at  the  goverunieiu  piice,  the  actual  amount 
of  choice  land  to  which  the  men  of  this  company 
had  rights  footed  up  more  than  45,000  acres,  etpuil 
to  about  seventy  square  miles  of  the  best  class  of 
land  in  Kentucky.     It  is  not  at  .ill  likely,  however. 
that  the  claim  to  all  df  tlies(>  tracts  was  made  good. 
The  particular  tract  on  which  .lames  ^IcAfee  after- 
wards settled,  and  on  which  he  erected  his  fort  or 
station  iu  the  fall  of  177it,  and  his  stone  dwelling 
in  1790,  was  surveyed,  as  his  journal  seems  to  indi- 
cate, on  ei tiler  Friday,  duly  23d,  or  Saturday,  24th. 
The  fine  sjiring  which  issiu's  out  frdiii   ihc  base  df 
the  blutt"  a  few  feet  from  the  river  w.is  liie  sjiecial 
attraction  to  James  jSlcAfee  in  llial  ]iiccc  of  land. 
The  party  were  standing  on  the  bliilf  overlooking 
the  spring  and  river,  and  James    ^IcAfee,    taking 
Hancock  Taylor's  surveying    staff    in     his    hand, 
struck  it  into  the  soil,  remarking  lo  iiis  c(mi]ian- 
ions:    "]\Ien,  x-oii  may  liunt  for  as  much  more  land 
as  you  please;  but,  for  my  pari,    I    intend   to  live 
here,  my  days  out,  with  the  blessing  of  Providence." 
To  this  remark  his  brother  Robert,  who  had  not  yet 
secured  all  his  land,  made  lejily  :    "Well,  James,  we 
will  try  and  find  as  good  ]daces  near  you."     That 
simple  incident  was  one  well  worth  remembering. 
The  spring  is  there   still.     Though    its   discoverer 
has  been  sleeping  in  his  grave  on  the  top  of  the  lit- 
tle knoll  a  few  hundre<l  yards  distant  for  nearly  a, 
hundred  years,  the  sparkling  water    still    ripples 
down  over  the  gravel  to  Ihc  river  as   merrily   as  it 
did  iu  1773.    The  old  si  one  house,  erected  by  James 
McAfee  in  1790,  is  still  slanding  ihcre  on  the  hill 
where  once  the  ohl  fort  was.    ^^'e  are  impressed,  as 
we  picture  to  our  minds  that  little  company  gath- 
ercxi  on  that  bluff  thai  .Inly  d.-iy.  ihal  they  were  no 
adventurers,  or  mere  Indian  lightcis,  Imt    serious, 
God-fearing  men,  who  were    locating   a    home    for 
their  families,  and  who  believed  in  ;i  divine  Provi- 
dence in  human  alfairs.     'I'hey  lia\e  all   heen  dead 
for  nearly  a  century,  some  of    iliem    much    longer, 
but  the  orderly  Christian    c(nniniiniiy    which    was 
there  founded  by  lliem  si  ill    abides,    wiih    iis    old 
church  which  the.se  men  organized,  and  ii  is  their 
monument.     They  seem  to  have  desired  no  other. 
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day  of  July.  As  Geueral  McAfee  informs  us,  the 
lands  selected  were  not  only  regularly  surveyed  and 
plotted,  but  plainly  marked  by  deadening  (rees  hero 
and  there,  and  piling  uj)  heaps  of  brush  in  con- 
spicuous places,  on  their  several  siirveys.  These 
methods  of  identification  were  just  as  recognizalde 
as  were  the  little  log  pens  called  "improvers'  cab- 
ius."  which  were  not  cabins  at  all,  having  no  roofs, 
and  useless  as  habitations.  These  men  evidently 
expected  to  return  the  following  spring  to  clear 
laud  and  make  a  beginning  with  their  settlement. 
The  homeward  journey  is  pretty  fully  detailed  in 
the  journals  James  and  Ivobert  McAfee  kepi.  It 
was  perhaps  one  of  the  most  arduous  and  perilous 
journeys,  for  about  one-half  the  way,  thai  has  ever 
been  deliberately  undertaken  by  men.  II  took 
them  nearly  one  month  to  traTel  the  500  miles  they 
were  obliged  to  cover  in  returning  to  their  homes. 
There  was  sucli  a  combination  of  adverse  conditions 
to  be  nu't  and  endured  tor  several  consecutive 
weeks  as  has  rarely  had  to  be  faced  by  any  body  of 
travellers.  There  were  absolutely  no  roads  of  any 
kind  for  at  least  300  miles  of  the  way;  they  had  to 
make  their  way  for  a  distance  of  about  1G5  miles 
right  along  the  conrse  of  Kentucky  l{i\er,  a 
tortuous  stream  whose  banks  were  nearly  all 
the  A\'ay  very  steep  and  covered  with  green- 
brier,  laurel  and  other  varieties  of  brush 
which  constantly  obstructed  their  progress,  and 
lacerated  their  bodies  to  the  utmost  limit  of  en- 
durance; and,  to  add  to  these  horrors,  there  were 
days  at  a  lime  along  the  most  fearfully  trying  pnr- 
tions  of  the  journey  when  no  game  was  to  be  seen, 
so  that  after  nearly  two  weeks  of  the  most  distress- 
ing hardships  they  found  death  by  starvation  star- 
ing them  in  the  face  when  in  the  midst  of  the  high- 
est and  most  desolate  mountains  in  Kentucky. 
Leaving  Salt  Kiver  where  the  Town  Branch  of  Har- 
rodsburg  enters  it,  on  Saturday,  the  31st  day  of 
July,  they  marched  in  a  south-easterly  direction, 
intending  to  pass  out  of  Kentucky  somewhere  about 
the  head  streams  of  the  Kentucky  IJiver  into  Pow- 
ells Valley  and  Clinch  Valley  on  their  way  to  IS'ew 
River  through  South-west  Virginia.     They  crossed 


what  are  now  Garrard  and  JNladison  counties  to  the 
site  of  Irvine,  Ky..  where  they  reached  the  Ken- 
tucky River  and  l)cgaii  its  asccut.  They  followed 
the  windings  of  the  nuist  northerly  branch  of  that 
stream  past  1  lie  sites  (if  Itcat  lyvillc,  Jackson  and 
Hazard  on  m  ilic  iikhiiIi  df  i.catherwond  Creek  in 
what  is  now  I'erry  <'ininly,  wIicim"  they  finally 
abandoned  the  river,  .\sceiidiiig  the  easterly  branch 
of  that  creek  1<i  its  source,  they  then  struck  out 
across  the  stei  [i  and  I'ligged  ridges  of  IMne  IMoun- 
tain,  coming  cm  u>  ilie  I'dcir  I'oik  of  Cumberland 
Fliver,  through  liunicane  Oap,  at  the  point  where 
it  is  joined  by  Clover  Lick  Creek.  Going  up  that 
creek  to  where  there  were  some  salt  springs  from 
which  there  were  elk  paths  leading  up  over  the  Big 
Black  ^lountain  t(n\ard  ^'irginia,  they  undertook 
the  ascent  of  that  ](d'ly  range  on  a  dry,  hot  day, 
\\hen  they  had  been  almost  entirely  without  food 
for  two  days,  and  were  bleeding  and  worn  out  from 
liaving  had  to  drag  their  way  through  laurel  and 
greenbrier  bushes  for  days.  That  was  the  12th  day 
of  August,and  these  men  had  now  about  reached  the 
pointwhere  hunuui  endurance  utterly  fails.  Another 
fearful  aggravation  of  their  sufferings  they  found 
at  that  high  altitude  was  a  lack  of  water.  The  sun 
was  now  nearing  his  setting  in  the  west,  and  tiie 
lofty,  l)arren  rocks  to  the  east  of  them,  4,000  feet 
high,  were  now  illuniiiied  by  his  rays,  and  only  lent 
a  strange  luu-ror  to  the  scene.  Not  a  living  crea- 
ture ^\as  anywhere  visible,  (ieorge  .McAfee  and 
young  Adams,  at  lenglh  unable  longer  to  walk,  cast 
themselves  on  the  ground  prepared  to  die,  whilst 
James  McAfee  halted  at  their  sides  and  tried  to 
cheer  them  U]).  These  men  weie  not  conscious  of 
having  done  wrong  to  any  man  in  nuikiug  this  tour. 
They  considered  the  Indian  titles  to  the  country  as 
having  all  been  extinguished,  and  their  motive  in 
undertaking  this  jouiaiey  was  one  which  no  good 
man  could  condemn.  As  far  as  the  peculiar  exigen- 
cies of  their  case  wonld  allow  they  had  religiously 
abstained  from  xiolaling  the  sanriiiy  (d'  the  Sab- 
bath, and  had  reci;gniy.ed  I  heir  (le])endence  uiuni  the 
blessing  of  Heaven.  But  it  looked  now  as  if  (io<l 
had  deserted  them,  and  was  about  to  alloAV  them  to 
perish  miserably  on   that,  desolate    mountain    and 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   ]MEMOEIAL. 


leave  tlieiv  son'0\\  iiiii'  loved  ones  to  mouru  the  rest 
of  tlicir  (lavs  ill  liopelfsx  ignorance  of  the  place  and 
manner  of  llieir  aw  fnl  dcatli.  Bni  it  has  often  hap- 
pened in  IniMian  r\]icricncc  dial  man's  exti-eiiiity  is 
(iod's  0])p(ii-1nnil  V.  and  it  was  wonderfully  illns- 
tralfd  I  ha  I  meiiuiialdc  afternoon  on  the  T^ig  Black" 
.Miainlains.  U'uhcrt  ^IcAfce.  always  cheerful  and 
athletic,  resohcd  lo  make  one  final,  desperair 
effort  to  find  some  game  and  save  the  lives  of  the 
mendiers  of  the  jiarty.  ITe  and  ^FcConn  started 
across  one  of  the  ridges  looking  f(ir  some  animal 
whose  death  might  prove  their  life.  Strange  to  re- 
late, Eohert  ^IcAfee  had  not  proceeded  nu)re  than 
five  hundred  yai'ds  when,  to  his  iinutteralile  joy,  he 
espied  a  buck  deer  standing  beside  a  sjiring,  within 
good  range  of  his  rifle.  It  was  a  critical  moment 
for  all  concerned.  He  was  unavoidably  excited, 
and  a  miss  might  mean  (he  loss  of  the  last  oppor- 
tunity lo  save  ilie  lives  of  the  whole  party,  for  an- 
otiier  uiglii  wiilidut  food  would  have  meant  tlie 
annihilation  of  the  com])any.  Itui  li(>  took  careful 
aim  and  pulled  the  trigger  of  his  trusty  old  rifle, 
the  flint  on  its  lock  responded  with  a  spark  of  fire, 
that  spark  fell  upon  the  powder  in  the  pan  of  the 
lock  and  communicated  with  the  chariie  in  the  "un. 
the  old  rifle  answered  w  itii  a  report  heard  far  over 
the  niouuiaiu,  and  the  Jnick  dro])i)ed  to  the  earth 
with  the  bullet  in  his  vital  part.  Overjoyed,  Rob- 
ert ran  with  his  hunting-knife  in  hand,  and  in  a 
moment  he  was  on  the  wounded  animal,  dispatch- 
ing him  to  make  sure  of  his  work.  The  other  mem- 
bers of  the  company,  hearing  the  crack  of  Koberfs 
rifle,  instantly  divined  its  meaning,  aud  in  a  fe^v 
UL(uueuis  all  cauie  hobliling  along  to  learn  the  re- 
sults. Soon  the  buck  was  ready  for  cooking,  and 
atire^^as  kindled  \\\  which  to  roast  an  aiiundance 
of  juicy  iiK  at  for  all.  It  was  as  if  that  animal  had 
dropped  liiilil  oni  of  Ihe  sky,  and  that  stream  of 
water  had  l)een  made  to  flow  by  .Moses  slrikinii'  the 
rock.     Such  devout  thanksgivings    were   probabl\ 


never  poured  foi-rh  <ni  (hat  buiely  nmuutain.  before 
or  since,  as  that  evening  ascended  to  heaven  from 
the  grateful  hearts  of  those  five  men  wlio  had  thus 
been  rescued  from  the  hand  of  death.  And  in  after 
years,  when  ai  last  these  men  had  been  settled  in 
their  new  homes  on  Sail  River,  and  they  came  to 
erect  a  sanctuary  for  the  wcu'ship  of  (iod,  thev  re- 
memb(  i-cd  that  AugusI  day  on  Ihe  Rig  I'dacks,  aud 
named  their  church  New  I'rovidence.  And  that 
oi'ganization  still  abides,  and  il  bears  thai  same 
saci'cd  naiue  after  11!)  years  of  testimony  to  the 
overruling  mercy  of  Ciod  to  his  needy  children  that 
day  in  177;^. 

K'efreslied  greatly  by  food  and  drink  and  res(,  the 
party  ]mrsued  their  way  to  the  eastward,  crossing 
Powell's  Valley  and  Clinch  Valley  a  day  or  two 
later.  At  Oastlewood's,  a  fording  ]ilace  on  riinch 
River,  they  got  siglit  of  the  first  white  man's  cabin 
they  had  seen  since  the  11  th  of  jMay.  Rushing  on 
one  day  farllier  to  the  cabin  nf  a  ('a|>(aiu  iJussej], 
who  was  an  old  ac(pmintance  of  the  ^McAfees,  they 
felt  tiie  really  hazardous  part  of  their  journey  was 
past,  and  they  gave  several  days  to  recn])erating. 
Their  blistered  feet  and  lacerated  arms  and  legs 
needed  rest  and  healing,  which  could  here  be  safely 
enjoyed.  The  remaining  170  miles  of  their  home- 
ward journey  was  accomplished  in  another  week, 
and  before  the  last  day  of  August  they  had  all 
reached  their  homes  and  found  an  inexpressibly 
glad  welcome  from  the  loved  ones  whom  they  had 
not  seen  fur  about  110  days.  We  can  easily  picture 
the  crowds  of  eager  listeners  who  gathered  around 
the  returned  heroes  to  hear  the  story  of  their  ad- 
ventures, and  be  stirred  by  the  glowing  descriptions 
given  of  the  splendid  w  ilderness  beyond  the  moun- 
tains, aud  of  the  magnificent  lauds  they  had  sur- 
veyed for  future  homes.  Henceforth  the  Blue 
Grass  regicui  cd"  Kentucky  was  the  Eldorado  of 
their  hopes;  and  the  ouly  question  now  was  as  to 
how  soon  it  would  be  possible  for  them  to  enter 
into  it  aud  nuike  it  their  permanent  liome. 


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CHAPTER  IV. 
THE  REMOVAL  TO  KENTUCKY  AFTER  LONG  DELAY— 177^-1779. 


The  purpose  of  the  McAfees,  from  whicli  they 
uever  wavered,  was  to  opeu  up  their  hauds  ou  Salt 
Kiver  for  actual  occupatiou  just  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible, with  the  view  of  removiug  thither.  Their 
settlement  in  their  new  liome,  however,  was  re- 
tarded by  a  series  of  hinderauces  and  misfortunes 
running  through  live  or  six  years;  and,  through  no 
dallying  on  their  part,  the  date  of  their  final  migra- 
tion to  Kentucky  was  postponed  until  the  fall  of 
1779.  At  the  date  of  their  first  exploring  tour  the 
Indians  and  whites  were  xjraetically  at  peace  in  the 
West,  and  no  man  could  then  lune  foreseen  the  out- 
break of  Indian  hostilities  to  occur  tlic  following 
year,  or  the  mighty  revolt  of  the  colonies  against 
the  English  Crown  a  few  years  later.  Had  matters 
remained  as  they  were  in  1773,  \\e  nuiy  well  believe 
the  McAfees  would  have  taken  up  their  permanent 
abode  in  Kentucky  by  the  fall  of  the  following 
year.  But  a  marked  change  in  the  temper  of  the 
Indians  towards  intending  settlers  in  Kentucky 
began  to  be  manifest  early  in  the  summer  of  1774. 
The  surveys  made  in  Kentucky  by  the  McAfees, 
Bullitt  and  others  in  1773  had  helped  to  produce  an 
impression  on  the  savage  mind  which  was  not  at 
once  understood  by  the  whites.  \Mulst  llarrod 
was  luisy,  about  the  middle  of  June,  1771,  laying 
off  the  town  which  now  bears  his  name,  Daniel 
lioone  arriv(  d  w  iili  a  message  from  Governor  Dun- 
more,  warning  all  ibc  whites  in  Kentucky  that  the 
savages  were  about  to  go  on  the  warpath."  And 
Harrod  had  niily  just  completed  his  tirst  cabins  at 
Harrodsburg  when  (July  10th j  the  place  was  at- 
tacked by  the  Indians  with  fatal  results,  and  in 
consequence  the  settlement  was  quickly  aband(.ned, 
and  was  not  reoccupied  until  March,  1775.  The 
stiirni,  however,  broke  in  fury  when  that  bra\e  and 
capable  leader,  Chief  Cornstalk,  at  the  head  of  a 
formidable  aiiny  nt  Indian  warrioi-s,  attacked  the 
Virginia  miliiia  under  General  Andrew   Lewis   at 


the  mouth  (if  (lie  Kanawha  River.'-  This  was  the 
bloodiest  contest  ever  had  between  whites  and  In- 
dians on  Virginia  soil.  Three  of  the  McAfee  broth- 
ers, James,  George  and  Robert,  took  an  active  pari 
in  this  battle,  being  without  reasonable  don  lit,  in 
the  company  of  Evan  Shelby,  of  Col.  Christian's 
regiment.'^ 

A  question  of  some  importance  is :  Did  the  Mc- 
Afees revisit  their  lauds  on  Salt  Kiver  during  the 
year  1771?  (jeueral  McAfee  affirms  that  they  did 
not,  but  Marshall  as  positively  declares  that  they 
did."  Between  these  two  reliable  witnesses  we 
must  choose,  liolli  meant  to  ti'll  only  the  truth,  and 
neither  had,  so  far  as  we  can  judge,  any  reason  for 
misstating  the  facts.  The  only  (juestion,  as  between 
these  two  historians  is,  which  of  the  two  had  the 
better  means  of  knowing  the  facts?  General  Mc- 
Afee first  penned  his  statement  in  1840,  and  re- 
peated it  in  1845.  He  had  gotten  what  he  knew  of 
the  matter  from  his  uncle  James  in  1804.  The 
General  was  only  t\\enty  years  of  age  in  1804,  and 
only  twent3--seven  when  his  uncle  died;  and  it  ^\■as 
twenty-nine  years  after  his  uncle's  death  that  his 
first  assertion  was  written  in  his"Rise  and  Progress 
of  the  Salt  Iliver  Settlenu-nt."  On  the  other  hand, 
Humphrey  Marshall  came  to  Kentucky  from  Vir- 
ginia in  1780,  when  about  twenty  years  old,  and 
lived  till  1842.  The  first  edition  of  his  work  was 
printed  in  1812,  and  the  last  in  1824.  He  was  per- 
sonally familiar  with  the  pioneer  history  of  Ken- 
tucky. It  is  rea.'ionably  certain  that  he  would 
not  have  gathered  materials  for  a  history  of  Ken- 
tucky ami  iif  the  ^Ic.Vfee  company  without  having 
per.sonal  interviews  with  the  McAfee  brotiiers, 
with  wliom  he  was  cimicniporary  in  Kentucky  fnnn 
the  year  1780  onward.  If  he  began  to  gather  his 
Tuaterials  about  the  year  1804,  he  was  then  a  man 
forty-four  years  old.  Though  lie  was  not  a  kins- 
man (if  the  McAfees  he  A\as  in  a  better    position, 


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THE   WOODS-JIcAFP^E    MEMORIAL. 


consideriuy  his  ui^p.  bis  ijuiikisc.  and  liis  previous 
close  couhu't  with  the  men  of  the  i)i(Uieer  period,  to 
make  an  accurate  note  of  fads  llian  I  lie  tlien  yourli- 
fiil  ue|)iu'\\    of    .laiiH's     .\lcA('(i'.      As    I  he    <ieueral 
himself  stales,  lie  i;ot  his  daia  from  liis  nncle  James 
in  the  ,\('ar  ISOJ,  and  lie  was  then  only  twenty  years 
(dd,  and  his  nncle  sixty-eijiht.     Marshall  was  pre- 
paiiiiii'  to   publish  an    (daliorate    liistory    of    Ken- 
tncky,   whilst    the  <i(  iieial   was  only  iiinkini;  mem- 
oranda  I'elalimi   l<i  his  own    family,  and    witliont, 
iiiosi  lik(dy.  any  idea  at  the  time  (d'  pnhlishing  wlmt 
he   wrote.     'IMiere  would,   thciefore,  seem  to  be    a 
sliiiht    preiK/iiderance   of  ciedibility     in     fa\"or     of 
.MarshalTs  assertions,    even    if   valid    reasons    Jiad 
been  assijiiied  by  (ieneial  .McAfee  as  a.^ainst  a  visit 
early  in  1774.     l>nt  tlie  only  reason  given  for  tlie 
.McAfees  not  having  come  to  their  lands  in  1774  is 
the  fear  of  Indian  hostilities,  but    this    reason    had 
liille  or  no  fonndation  till  late  in  tlie  spring.     We 
know   that  tin-  iie.vi  year  thi'  McMVes  were  on    Salt 
liiver  by  the  14rli  of  March,  having  left  Botetonrt 
(,'onnty,  Mrginia,  the  20th  of  Febrnary.     Reports 
(d'  impending  Indian  raids  such    as    wnnld    deter 
tliose  men  wonld  have  had   to  reatdi   the  ('atawha 
Creek   neighborhood   before   .March,  and    we   kmjw 
no  reason   why  the  McAfees  conld  not   have  made 
their  visit  and  gotten  back  home  a  monrh    before 
(iovernor  Dnnmore  despatched    I)ani(l     lloone    to 
Kentucky  with  his  message  of  warning.     \\\  in  all, 
we  must  couclnde  that  Marshall  was  correct,  and 
that  tlie  ^leAfees  did,  as  lie  asserts,  revisit    their 
lands  on  Salt  River  in  the  early  spring  of  1774,  and 
made  additional     improvemeiits     thereon     with     a 
view  to  an  early  occupation  of  the  same.     (Japtain 
Harrod  certainly  was  there  in  .June  of  that  year, 
and  was  not  forced  to  retreat  till  July;  aud    we 
know  of  uo  reason  wliy  the  .McAfees  could  ikU  have 
done  the  same,  especially  if  tiiey  had  left  home  as 
early  as  I  lie  end  of  I'ebiuary. 

The  opening  of  the  year  177.')  was  no  doubt 
marked  by  special  activity  among  the  .McAfees. 
The  great  liatlle  of  ihe  i)revi(ius  October  at  Point 
Pleasant,  in  which  the  Indians  had  received  a 
uever-to-beforgotten     chastisement,      and      which 


(dosed  Lord  Dnnmore's   war,  gave    to     the    whites 
great  eucouragemeut;  and   in  the  absence  of  any 
new  complications,  the  way  now  seemed  reasonalily 
(dear  for  a  third  visit  of  Ihe  McAfees  to  the  Salt 
Kiver  c(mntry  of  Kentucky.     It  is    true    that    the 
(|nanel  of  tlie  Thirteen  Colonies  with  the    Mother 
<"onntr.\    was  constantly  increasing    in    bitterness 
and  extent.     The  opcMiing  conllici    of  the  Revolu- 
tion, tlie  Battle  of  Lexingtcm,   was  destined  to  be 
fought  this  spring  (April  lUj,   and    Bunker   Hill 
two  montiis  later;  aud  tlie  Second  Continental  Con- 
gress, which  voted  to  raise  an  army,  with  ^Vashiug- 
ton  as  Commander-in-Chief,  was  to  assemble    the 
10th  of  May.     But  news  travcdled  slowly  in   those 
days,  and  especially  to  so  remote  a  frontier  region 
as  the  New  River  settlements.     Certain  it  is  that 
on  the  I'Oth  of  February,  1775,  all  live  of  the  Mc- 
Afee brothers  (James,  George,  Robert,  Samuel  and 
\\illiam)   and  David  Adams,  and  also  an  appren- 
tic(id  servant  of  the  idder  James  .Mc.\fee  by  the 
name  of   John    Higgins    set    out    for    Kentucky.''' 
Their  route  this  tijue  was  down    the    Wilderness 
Road   through  Southwestern   Virginia  by   way    of 
Cumberland    (Jap    and      W'asioio      ( hip."'      They 
reached    James    .Mc.Vfec's   spring    on     Salt     River 
.Marcli  11th — a  journey  of  nearly     100     miles,     in 
eighteen  days.    Captain  Harrod  and  company,  who 
had  come  by  the  Ohio  and  Kentucky  Rivers,  passed 
the  .Mc.Vfees  four  days  later  ou  their  way  up  to 
Harrodsburg  to  re-occupy  the  cabins  deserted  the 
siimnier    before.     Daniel    Boone,    who    came    this 
spring  as  Colomd  Henderson's  agent  to  make  a  set- 
I  lenient  at  the  place  afterwards  named  Boonesboro, 
did  not   arrive  till  sonu-  we(dvs  after  the  McAfees 
had  begun  work  on  their  land  on  Salt  River."     On 
this  visit  they  cleared  two  acres  of    ground    near 
James   Mc.Vfee"s   spring,   and    planied    it    in   corn. 
They  also  made  a    beginning    on    an    orchard    by 
planting  jieach  and  apple  seeds,     (ieorge  and  Wil- 
liam McAfee  also  cleared  aud  planted  some  ground 
(piite  near  Harrodsburg,  at  a  spring  on  the   Town 
Branch  near  Salt  River.    The  piir])ose  of  the  party 
was  to  move  their  families  that   fall   or  the  next 
spring.     Having  spent  a  month  there  iliey  set  out 
for  home  by  the  way  they  had  c(mie.    .ipril    10th, 


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leaving  Higgins  and  a,  man  bv  tlie  name  of  Poiilson 
to  plant  more  corn  and  gnard  tlie  property  against 
intraders.  "Wiien  tlie  party,  on  their  way  down  the 
Wilderness  TJoad  (then  a  mere  trail)  towards 
Cnmberiand  <ia](,  reached  Skagg's  Creek,  which  is 
a  small  tribntary  of  Eockcastle  River,  and  in  the 
county  of  Rockcastle,  they  met  Colonel  Henderson 
and  r>oone,\\iMi  a,  considerable  iniiiilx'r  (if  iiicn  (•(lin- 
ing in  on  their  way  to  tlie  place  where  they  were 
soon  to  found  Boonesboro.  Here  a  council  was 
held  in  which  Henderson  laid  before  the  ^fcAfees 
his  plans.  He  had  only  a  few  weeks  before,  at  wiiat 
is  now  Kingsport,  Tennessee,  concluded  the  Treaty 
ofWaitauga  M  ith  Ihc  ( Microluc  Indians, tiy  wliich  the 
Henderson  (■(iiii])any  ]mrchased  oxer  oiie-lialf  of  tlie 
present  territory  of  Kentucky,  calling  il  Transyl- 
vania. Tt  was  a  stniiendous  enterprise,  and  Hen- 
derson sought  to  enlist  the  co-oiieration  of  the  Jfc- 
Afees.^^  James  ^fcAfee  was  evidently  something 
more  than  a  plain  fanner;  lie  was  a  reading  man, 
and  well  informed  as  to  jniblic  matters,  and  was 
not  easily  carried  away  li.\  tlie  ebwineiice  and.  rosy 
pictures  of  the  able  ('olonel  Henderson.  He  re- 
sisted the  proposition  to  allow  him  liberal  grants 
of  land  if  he  should  join  in  the  large  undertaking, 
holding  that  Henderson's  treaty  with  the  Chero- 
kees  was  without  gdvernment  sanction,  and  hence 
invalid.  He  therefore  refused  to  have  anything  to 
do  with  the  scheme,  and  so  counselled  his  brothers 
against  it.  George,  Robert  and  William  ^McAfee, 
however,  were  persuad(Hl  to  go  with  Henderson, 
and  they  sejiarattHl  from  tlieir  liroliier  James,  and 
went  on  to  Boonesboro,  and  were  participants  in 
the  founding  of  that  place.  There  they  remained 
about  two  montlis,  when  they  proceeded  back  to 
Virginia.  Tliey  were  not  long  in  learning  that 
their  older  brother,  James,  had  placed  the  proper 
estimate  on  Colonel  Henderson's  scheme,  and  that 
tiiey  had  made  a  mistake.  Here,  again,  was  a 
scene  in  the  life  of  the  McAfees — that  council  at 
8kagg's  Creeki — of  which  we  could  w  ish  Me  had  a 
faithful  portrayal  on  canvas.  It  must  have  been 
intensely  picturesque  and  interesting.  The  creek 
at  whose  crossing  this  discussion  took  place  is  all 


that  remains  to  us  of  the  picture — every  person 
present  there  that  day  has  been  in  his  grave  from 
90  to  125  years.  A  second  visit  to  Salt  Kiver 
was  made  by  the  McAfees  in  September  of  this 
year  (1775).  The  same  men  came  in  again,  this 
time  having  in  their  company  David  and  John 
McConn,  and  John  :Magee.  They  drove  along  with 
them  forty  head  of  cattle,  which  were  turned  loose 
in  the  cane  on  the  river  near  where  the  New  Provi- 
dence church  was  afterwards  erected.  Ground 
was  cleared  and  some  cabins  erected.  John  51c- 
Coun  and  some  otliers  of  the  company  remained  in 
Kentucky  through  the  winter  of  1775-6.  They 
cleared  fifteen  acres  of  land,  and  early  in  the 
spring  of  177(;  planted  it  in  corn.  A  little  later, 
discovering  Indians  in  the  neighliorbood,  they  left 
and  returned  to  Virginia. 

T^Tien  the  year  1776  opened,  the  ^McAfees,  and 
their  as.sociates  in  this  enterprise,  laid  all  their 
plans  to  remove  their  families  and  their  belongings 
to  Kentucky,  which  was  this  year  made  one  of  the 
counties  of  Virginia.  They  got  together  (heir  pro- 
visions and  chattels  to  make  their  final  move  to  the 
wilderness.  But  new  hindrances  were  to  be  en- 
countered. The  fact  that  the  Revolution  had  noM' 
begun,  and  that  the  colonies  were  all  aflame,  Avas 
not  deemed  by  them  any  sufficient  reascm  for  not 
migrating  to  the  West.  Perhaps  they  reasoned 
that  to  aid  in  holding  the  savages  at  bay  on  the 
frontier  would  be  as  valuable  a  service  as  any  they 
could  render  anywhere;  or  perhaps  their  remote- 
ness from  the  seaboard  and  the  slowness  of  news 
in  reaching  (hem  from  the  centres  of  political  and 
military  activity  rendered  them  less  responsive  to 
the  exigencies  of  the  hour  than  they  had  otherwise 
been.  Of  their  patriotism,  their  abhorrence  of 
tyranny  and  their  courage  no  one  could  for  one 
moment  have  a  doubt.  They  (three  of  the  McAfee 
brothers)  had  marched  with  Evan  Shelby  to  the 
aid  of  Lewis  against  (he  Indians  at  Point  Pleasant 
in  October,  1774,  and  (heir  loyalty  to  the  American 
cause  was  above  all  suspicion."  They  were  all 
^A'higs;  and  we  shall  see  that,  later  on,  they  still 
further  delayed  their  removal  to  Kentucky  because 


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THE   WOODS  McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


they  were  in  tlie  Yirsfinia  militia,,   James  McAfee 
beinc  a  lientenaut.   The  women  were  all  kept  busy, 
nig-ht  and  day,  jj-ettino;  ready    for   the   move   this 
sprinc:  (1776).     The  plan    was    to   transport    all 
bulky  sroods  on  pack-horses  across  the  mountains  to 
a  suitable  point  on  the  Greenbrier  River,  there  load 
them  into  boats,  and  convey  them  to  Central  Ken- 
tucl?V  by  water.    Some  of  the  men,  and  the  women 
and  children  were  to  <xo  by  the  Wilderness  Road 
and  Cumberland  Cap.     It  happened  that  a  wasion 
road  had  been  cut  o\it  only  the  year  before  by  a 
Rev.  John  Alderson^"  all   the  way  from   Catawba 
Creek  to  the  Greenbrier  River,   a    distance   of   at 
least  seventy  miles.     It  terminated  on  that  stream 
at    the   site  of    the  present    town    of    .\hl(^rson    in 
Greenbrier  Countv.   W.   Ya.     The   women   liavinc: 
made  up  all  kinds  of  clothing',  etc.,  to  last  for  sev- 
eral years,  and  the  men  havinii'  c;athered  too-pther 
such  gi'oceries.  provisions,  implements,  and  house- 
hold conveniences  as  thev  could  afford,    the    ^Ic- 
Afees,  the  McCouns,  the  Curi-ys,  tlie  Adamses,  the 
Masjees,  etc.,  witli  wives  and  sons  and  dausrhters 
and  sons-in-law  started  off  the  heavv  jioods  across 
the  mountains  to  the  Greenbrier  in  May,   1776,   in- 
tendina:,  no  doubt,  that  just  as  soon  as  the  horses 
got  back  the  women  and  children  and  a  suilicient 
force  of  men  would   take  up  their  march  to  the 
south-west,  and  enter  Kentucky  through  Cumber- 
land Gap.     The  story  of  the  trials  and  sore  disap- 
pointments of  these  people  is  fully  told  by  General 
^fc.Vfee  in  his  Autobiographv,-^  and  is  too  lengthy 
to  be  reproduced  in  full.     Suffice  it   to   say    that 
their  goods  and  chattels  were  carried  across    the 
mountains  to  tli(^  Greenbrier   River   to   the  place 
where  Alderson  now  stands ;  that  canoes  were  con- 
structed into  which,  on  the  11th  of  June,  all  the 
goods  were  loaded ;  that  the  horses  were  sent  back 
home  for  the  use  of  the  members  of  the  colony  who 
were  going  overland  to  Kentucky ;  that  the  men  in 
charge  of  the  canoes  started  down   the  Greenbrier 
for  Kentucky;  that,  to  their  great  disappointment, 
they  soon  saw  the  water  Avas  so  low  and  the  rapids 
so  dangerous  that  they  were  destined  to  have  end- 
less trouble  in  carrying  out  their  plans;  that  after 


many  trying  experiences,  in  some  of  which  their 
boats  were  completely  overturned,  they  were  com- 
pelled to  pull  to  shore  and  abandon  all  idea  of 
transporting  their  effects  by  water,  after  having 
gone  only  about  fifteen  miles — ^abont  to  where  the 
railway  station  of  Talcott  now  stands.  Bringintr 
their  goods  ashore,  they  erected  a  little  cabin  in  the 
forest  in  which  they  securely  stored  all  their  val- 
ualiles,  constituting  about  all  of  their  household 
possessions,  the  accumulations  of  years  of  labor. 
The  plan  was  to  return  home  the  way  they  had 
come,  procure  their  hoi'ses  and  come  back  and  take 
the  goods  home,  and  then  take  everything — ^persons 
and  goods — liy  the  Wilderness  Road.  But  on 
reaching  home  they  found  the  Cherokee  War  had 
broken  nut  in  the  south-west;  and  as  tlu^  prom])t 
chastisement  of  the  savages  in  East  Tennessee  was 
necessary  to  save  Virginia  from  their  depredations, 
the  McAfees  enlisted  for  the  campaign  and  served 
under  Col.  Wm.  Christian  in  his  expedition.^-  This 
delayed  them  until  September,  wlien  lliey  mounted 
tlicir  horses  to  go  over  to  their  cabin  on  the  Green- 
lirier  and  bring  their  stores  and  effects  liack  so  as 
to  move  on  to  Kentucky  by  the  overland  route  to 
the  south-west.  Imagine  their  dismay  on  arriving 
at  the  cabin  in  which  they  had  stored  their  valu- 
ables, to  find  it  broken  o])en,  their  \iiliiables  scat- 
ter(^(l  all  about  on  the  earth,  moulded  and  ruined 
by  the  rain,  and  iii.uiy  articles  missing.  Tlie  ac- 
cumulations of  years  had  been  almost  completely 
wasted  and  ruined.  They  instituted  a  search  for 
the  cause  of  this  disaster,  and  were  not  long  in  find- 
ing him — a  runaway  white  seiwant  by  the  name  of 
Edward  Sommers.  They  satisfied  themselves  of 
his  guilt,  and  resolved  to  hang  him.  Biit  no  one, 
when  the  time  came  to  act,  was  willing  to  take  the 
culprit's  life.  They,  instead,  returned  him  to  his 
master.  But  for  Samuel  McAfee's  timely  interpo- 
sition, when  his  brother  James  first  discovered 
Sommers,  the  tomahawk  of  James  would  have 
ended  the  man's  life.  Fortunately  for  all  con- 
cerned, this  deed  of  blood  was  preventcNl.  Gather- 
ing up  such  things  as  had  not  been  rendei'ed  utterly 
worthless,  the  party  took  up  their  sad  march  for 
home.     It  was  a  terrible  blow,  for  it  would  take 


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several  years  to  recover  from  their  loss,  and  get 
once  more  into  good  condition  for  removal.  The 
years  1777-8  had  to  be  allowed  to  pass  without  even 
an  attempt  to  move  their  families  to  Kentucky, 
partly  because  of  the  great  loss  of  supplies  in- 
curred in  the  summer  of  1770  and  partly 
because  the  Colonies  needed  the  services  of 
the  men  in  their  contest  against  the  British.  Most 
of  these  men  served  in  the  Virginia  militia,  James 
McAfee  being  a  lieutenant. 

At  last,  when  the  year  1779  dawned,  these  long- 
delayed  and  oft-disappointed,  but  never  utterly 
discouraged  men  once  more  began  their  prepara- 
tions to  move  to  the  West.  Some  of  them  had  revis- 
ited their  settlements  on  Salt  River  in  the  fall  of 
1777,  but  it  was  to  hud  that  all  their  cattle  had 
been  stolen,  or  had  wandered  off,  thus  giving  them 
still  another  backset;  but  they  were  not  the  meiQ 
to  be  easily  deflected  from  tlieir  purpose.  They 
had  never,  for  one  moment,  since  1773,  relinquished 
their  determination  to  make  a  home  for  themselves 
in  Central  Kentucky.  This  year  their  efforts  were 
hnally  to  be  crowned  with  success.  Accordingly, 
on  the  17th  of  August,  1779,  everything  being  in 
readiness,  a  considerable  colony  of  emigrants 
moved  off  towai'ds  the  south-west  bound  for  Ken- 
tucky. In  this  goodly  company  were  McAfees,  Mc- 
Couns,  Adamses,  Currys  and  others.  There  were 
at  least  two  persons  of  the  McAfee  connection  who 
remained  behind,  aud  who  must  have  experienced 
many  a  pang  as  they  realized  what  a  separation 
was  taking  place.  One  of  these  has  already  been 
adverted  to  in  Chapter  II  of  this  narrative,  name- 
ly; the  elder  James  Mc^Uee.  ^is  there  shown,  his 
aged  wife  accompanied  her  children  and  grand- 
children to  the  new  home  beyond  the  western 
mountains,  and  he  remained  in  old  Virginia  till  his 
death,  some  six  years  thereafter.  There  was  also 
the  eldest  child  of  James  McAfee,  Jr.,  his  daugh- 
ter, Mary,  who  was  not  with  these  emigrants. 
There  was  a  well-to-do  widower  up  on  the  James 
River,  some  thirty-five  miles  to  the  north-east  of 
the  McAfee  homes  on  the  Catawba,  by  the  name  of 
David  Woods,  who  owned  the  old  homestead  of  his 


father,  recently  deceased,  and  he  had  persuaded 
Mary  to  share  that  pleasant  home  with  him.  She 
and  David  Woods  had  probably  married  only  a  very 
short  time  before  the  migration  of  her  family  to  the 
West,  and  Mary  was  now  (1779)  probably  about 
eighteen  to  twenty  years  old.  David  Woods,  how- 
ever, did  not  linger  long  in  Virginia  after  the  de- 
parture of  his  young  wife's  kinsfolk,  but  removed 
with  his  family  to  Kentucky,  about  1782  or 
1783,  and  settled  only  about  ten  or  twelve 
miles  from  the  new  home  of  his  wife's  father  in 
what  is  now  Mercer  County.  The  journey  of  400 
miles  occupied  more  than  forty-one  days,  an  aver- 
age of  only  ten  miles  a  day.  The  party  were  all  on 
pack-horses ;  and  as  there  were  no  doubt  cattle  and 
hogs  and  sheep,  as  well  as  women  and  little  babes, 
in  the  company,  progress  was  necessarily  slow. 
They  may  have  gone  by  the  Hunter's  Path,  which 
led  down  the  Clinch  Valley  to  Castlewood  and 
across  to  Powell's  River,  about  the  mouth  of  Buck 
Creek,  between  Big  Stone  Cap  and  Drydeu,  and 
thence  on  down  to  Cumberland  Cap;  or  they  may 
have  taken  the  road  which  went  past  Fort  Chis- 
weli,  Marion,  \\  ytheville  and  Abingdon,  and  which 
comes  into  the  Hunter's  Path  about  the  present 
town  of  Jonesville,  in  Lee  County,  Vii'ginia  (,see 
Map  of  Hunter's  Path  in  this  volume).  Either 
way  there  were  perils  and  hardships  enough. 
Neai'ly  the  whole  way  the  so-called  road  was  only  a 
bridle-path,  and  led  up  and  down  steep  and  rugged 
mountains  and  across  numerous  rapid  streams.  At 
nearly  every  stage  of  the  journey  there  were  re- 
minders of  Indian  outrages,  and  for  not  a  single 
day  or  night  of  the  entire  journey  could  they  have 
the  slightest  assurance  that  they  would  not  be  at- 
tacked and  some  of  their  number  slain  and  scalped, 
and  others  carried  away  into  captivity  to  be  tor- 
tured to  death  far  to  the  north  of  the  Ohio.  When 
they  came  in  full  view  of  the  Cumberland  Moun- 
tain in  Powell's  Valley,  as  they  approached  Cum- 
berland Gap,  they  could  see  those  great  high  walls 
of  rock  which  for  nearly  a  hundred  miles  present 
an  almost  impassable  barrier  to  entrance  into  Ken- 
tucky, and  from  whose   inaccessible   fastnesses   a 


TIIK    IJE^roVAL    TO    KP]NTUCKY. 


183 


savage  foe  could  fire  the  fatal  rifle-volley  into  their 
defenceless  ranks,  ^^'hen  that  majestic  pass  in  the 
mountain,  known  as  Cumberland  Gap,  loomed  up 
on  the  horizon  ahead  of  them,  and  tiicy  slowly  be- 
gan its  ascent,  and  realized  that  now  Ibc.v  were  ac- 
tually entering  Keiiturky,  strange  ciiKitions  must 
have  filled  their  breasts.  And  wlien  a  few  liours 
later  they  began  to  creep  along  through  that 
equally  majestic  pass  by  Avhicli  the  Cumberland 
Kiver  cuts  through  Pine  ^Mountain — Wasioto  (Jap 
— and  the  dark  shadows  of  the  lofty  crests  on  either 
hand  lent  a  S(unbre  line  to  the  scene,  and  they  felt 
tlie  (himp  of  the  river  llowing  at  tlieir  feet,  they  iiad 
been  more  oi'  less  lliaii  liiiiiian  nol  lo  have  imagined 
some  frightful  expei'iences  as  possible  to  them 
now;  and  we  may  well  lielieve  those  fearless  Juen 
\\lio  led  the  way,  rifle  in  hand,  scanned  with  pains- 
taking care  every  object  about  them,  and  listened 
cautiously  foi'  every  noise  in  the  deep,  dark  forest 
which  enveloped  them,  as,  with  measured  step, 
they  marched  along.  As  the  slow-muving  caravan 
hove  in  sight  of  the  Crab  Orcliard,  they  began  to 
realize,  perhaps  for  the  first  time,  that  now  at  last 
all  the  mountains  were  behind  them,  and  that  the 
level  lands  were  in  full  view.  Prom  this  point  on 
the  hills  melted  more  and  more  away  till  the  earth 
became  like  the  billowy  sea,  with  jusl  enough  of 
undulation  to  lend  a  picturesque  tone  to  the  land- 
scape.    Passing  where  Stanford  and  Danville  now 


are,  and  coming  on  down  past.  Harrodsburg,  they 
found  the  earth  thickly  set  in  luxuriant  blue  grass 
and  cane,  telling  of  a  soil  of  exceeding  richness, 
and  giving  promise  of  glorious  harvests  in  years  to 
come.  Ou  tlu'  L'Ttli  of  Se])tend)er  the  party  reached 
W'ilsou's  Station,   iiearh     three    miles    from    Har- 


rodsburg, and  here  the  c( 


impaiiy  iialted.     Next  day 


the  most  of  tliem  went  on  to  .lames  McAfee's 
Station,  some  ten  miles  farther  t((  tiie  north,  where 
cabins  had  already  been  erected  for  tlieii-  use  l)y 
members  of  the  ]iaily  in  previous  years.  When  all 
had  dismonnled  ami  I'emoved  their  l)aggage  from 
Ihe  pack-saddles,  and  liei^an  lo  look  ai-onnd  them, 
no  doubt  gi'ave  misgivings  (iUed  the  minds  of  at 
least  some  of  them  as  I  hey  realized  under  what 
st(  rn  conditions  they  were  now  to  liegin  their  lives 
anew.  Old  Virginia  was  lai-  away  to  the  east  Ite- 
yond  the  mountains — Kentucky  nuist  henceforth 
lie  their  only  earthly  home,  lint  hearts  brave 
cnongh  to  conn'  llnis  far  could  not  seriously  falter 
now.  That  indomitable  conrage  and  simple  faith 
in  au  all-wise  Providence,  which  had  sustained 
them  amidst  all  the  trials  and  dangers  of  tiie 
pi-evlous  years,  did  not  forsake  them  now.  As  one 
man  they  went  t()  work  in  earnest  to  establish  a 
community  (d'  which  neither  they  nor  their  ]kis- 
terity  W(aild  need  to  feel  ashamed.  That  they  suc- 
ceeded in  this  aim  mi  man  can  doubt  who  knows 
anything  of  the  region  in  which  the  villages  of  Mc- 
Afee and  Salvisa  stand  to-dav. 


FORT  AT  BOONESBOUO-I775. 

TYPE  OF  PIONHER  "STATIONS." 

l.imes  McAFee's  Stalion  on  Salt  River,  smaller  than  this,  was  built  in  17713. 


THE  SALT  RIVER   SETTLEMENT. 


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CHAPTER  V. 

THE  SALT  RIVER  SETTLEMENT  FROM  1779  TO   181 1,  WITH  SPECIAL   REFERENCE  TO 
THE  CHILDREN  AND  GRANDCHILDREN  OF  JAMES  McAFEE,  Sr. 


"Ay,  this  is  freedom! — tliese  pure  skies 

Were  never  stained  bv  village  smoke: 
The  fragrant  wind,  tliat  through  them  tiies. 

Is  breathed  from  wastes  bv  plough  unbroke. 
Here,  with  my  rifle  and  my  steed, 

And  her  who  left  the  world  for  me, 
I  plant  me,  where  the  wild  deer  fet'd 

In  the  fair  wiklerne'^s — and  I  am  free." 

—  (Selected.) 

It  would  be  difficult    for   the   men  of  this    day 
to   i>icture   to   themselves    the    severe     conditions 
under  which  the  members  of  the  colony    on    Salt 
River  began  their  life  in  Kentuckty  one  hnndred 
and  twenty-five  years   ago.     Only    two     or   three 
small,  rude  cabins  were  ready  for  their  reception 
when  they  arrived,  and  only  a  small  area  of  the  soil 
had  as  yet  been  jxirtially  cleared  and    planted   in 
corn.     It    was    plain    to    all    that    dangers    and 
haTtlships     of     nn     ordinary    kind     they    would 
surely  have    to    face    for    many    years    to  come; 
and  only  brave  men  and  women  were  equal  to  such 
an  occasion.     It  was  only  a  few  days  after   their 
arrival  that  a   Colonel   Rogers   and    seventy   men 
under  his  command,  who  were  descending  the  Ohio 
in  boats,  were  attacked  by  two   hundred    Indians 
just  above  where  the  city  of  Newport  now  stands, 
and  all  but  twenty  of  them  were  slaughtered.   The 
twenty  who  escaped  Avith  their  lives  made  their  way 
to  Harrodsburg,  and  thus  these  new  settlers  on  Salt 
River  began    their    labors    in    the   wilderness    by 
listening  to  the  bloody  narrative  these  fugitives  had 
to  tell.     If  space  pennitted,  some  account  would 
here  be  given  of  the   appearance   of   Kentucky   in 
that  early  day — of  its  natural  scenery,  climate,  etc. 
— but  the  reader  will  have  to  look  elsewhere  for 
such  information.     Collins  in  his  History  of  Ken- 
tucky, Vol.  2,  pages    27-31,    quotes    from    several 
writers  (Imlay,  Doddridge,  Filsonj  some  interest- 
ing details;  and  Col.  K.  T.  Durrett,  in  "The  Cen- 


tenary of  Kentucky"  (Filson  Clnli  series)  pages 
26-28  and  12-50,  has  given  one  of  the  truest  pic- 
tures of  early  Kentucky  anywhere  to  be  found. 

Tlicir  first  care,  naturally,  was  to  ])uild  for  their 
shelter  and  protection  one  of  those  nide  but  effec- 
tive fortifications,  consisting  of  a  quadrangular  en- 
closure of  log  cabins  and  stockades,  called  a  fort 
or  station.  The  one  they  erected  in  the  fall  of  1779 
was  known  as  McAfee's  Station.  Filson's  map, 
published  in  1781,  gives  its  location  veiT  correctly. 
The  illustration  given  above  and  entitled  "A  Typi- 
cal Pioneer  Fort,"  may  serve  to  furnish  a  good  idea 
(if  tlie  average  fortification  of  tliat  peritxl  in  Ken- 
tucky, tliough  it  is,  in  fact,  a  picture  of  the  one  at 
Boonesboro,  erected  in  1775,  four  years  before  that 
of  the  McAfees.  In  a  country  where  artillery  was 
not  to  he  found  no  fort  could  possibly  lie  constinict- 
cd  that  would  more  pei-fectly  meet  all  the  needs  of 
the  situation.  It  was  a  dwelling  place  for  both  the 
people  and  their  horses,  and  also  a  safe  defence 
against  hostile  attack.  Every  outer  wall  was  abso- 
lutely bullet-proof.  An  enemy  could  not  approach 
it  except  at  the  imminent  peril  of  his  life,  even  if 
tenanted  by  only  a  few  men.  But,  of  course,  its  oc- 
cupants could  not  always  remain  \\itliin  those 
walls;  they  had  to  go  out  to  procure  water  from 
the  spring,  to  till  the  soil,  to  look  after  their  cat- 
tle, to  attend  church,  etc.  And  whenever  they  got 
outside  that  enclosure,  for  whatever  purpose,  they 
would  unavoidably  be  exposed  to  danger  as  long 
as  Indians  infested  the  laud. 

James  McAfees  Station,  which,  for  about  fifteen 
years  was  the  rallying  point  for  the  whole  com- 
munity in  times  of  danger,  stood  on  a  small  bluff 
overlooking  Salt  River,  only  a  few  hundred  yards 
f  10111  the  present  railway  station  of  Talmage.  (See 
map  of  Mercer  County,  etc.)     There  were  a  uum- 


186 


THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


U-r  of  cabius  inchulod  in  the  fort  which  were  per- 
manently occiijiied  as  residences  until  the  Indians 
ceased  to  annoy  the  inhabitants  of  that  part  of 
Kentucicy,  when  the  several  families  living  therein 
one  by  ono  went  ont  and  erected  homes  on  their  re- 
s])((livc  farias.  '!'(»  llie  people  of  that  community 
it  niusi  have  seemed.  Imuianly  speaking,  a  strange 
I'idvidence  thai  ilie  tirst  winter  they  were  to  spend 
in  the  wilderness  should  be  one  of  the  most  trying 
character.  The  winter  of  1779-80  in  Kentucky  was 
(Jiie  (if  unexampled  severity.  From  the  latter  part 
.if  Xovdiiber  till  the  middle  of  February  there  was 
(lue  cdiiiinual  freeze.  All  the  water  c(Hirses  were 
entirely  frozen  over.  The  buffaloes,  bears,  wolves, 
deer,  turkeys  and  beavers  were  found  in  large  num- 
bers, frozen  to  death.  The  people  at  the  various 
stations  were  rednced  to  the  utmost  extremity  for 
bread.  One  "Johnny  cake"  was  often  divided  into 
twelve  pieces,  each  piece  having  to  answer  one  per- 
son for  a  meal.  For  weeks  there  was  nothing  for 
the  people  to  eat  except  the  meat  of  wild  game. 
Early  in  the  spring  o(  17S0  James  and  Robert  Mc- 
Afee jimrneyed  to  the  Falls  (now  L(misville)  and 
paid  sixty  dollars  (^Continental  money)  a  bushel 
for  coi'ii.  But  a  kind  I'rovidence  favored  them 
willi  an  early  and  [ifomising  spring.  Vegetation 
put  forth  very  early,  and  the  peach  trees  that  had 
been  planted  five  years  before  were  loaded  with 
fruit,  and  plenty  and  happiness  seemed  to  smile 
npon  the  settlement,  except  that  Indian  depreda- 
tions were  fre(iuently  committed  on  various  sta- 
tions, whieli  kejit  Ihe  settlers  more  or  less  alarmed, 
it  was  these  depredations  that  iutluenced  General 
(ieorge  Rogers  Clark  to  undertake  a  military  expe- 
dition against  the  Northern  Indians.  It  has  been 
asserted  by  some,  on  what  authority  is  not  known 
by  llu'  writer,  that  (ieorge  Rogers  Clark  was  related 
to  Mrs.  James  Mc^Vfee,  and  having  been  left  an  or- 
piian  at  an  early  age,  lived  fen-  .some  years  in  Vir- 
ginia with  James  McAfee,  Jr.,  as  one  of  the  family. 
Certain  it  is  that  General  Clark,  on  his  first  visit 
to  Kentucky  in  1775,  came  to  the  very  neighbor- 
hood in  which  the  McAfees  had  takten  up  land,  and 
was  intimate  with  them.     Moreover,  several  of  the 


McAfee  brothers  accompanied  him  on  several  of 
his  expeditions  against  the  Indians,  and  William 
McAfee,  a  most  gallant  soldier,  was  the  captain  of 
one  of  the  companies  which  he  led  to  Ohio  in  this 
year  ( 1780 ) .  When  he  started  on  this  undertak- 
ing all  of  the  nu'U  of  the  McAfee  citations  who 
coiihl  lie  s])ared,  went  with  him,  and  took  part, 
iinder  him,  in  the  lights  with  the  savages  at  Piqua, 
Ohio.  It  was  near  this  place  that  Captain  William 
:McAfee  was  mortally  wounded  by  an  Indian  (July, 
1780),  dying  some  weeks  later,  after  having  been 
conveyed  by  his  men  back  to  Kentucky.  Thus  this 
year  was  made  forever  memorable  to  the  .McAfees 
by  the  death  of  one  of  the  live  brothers  at  the  hands 
of  the  savages.  The  chastisement  administered  to 
the  Indians  by  General  Clark  on  that  expedition 
secured  cpiiet  to  the  central  portion  of  Kentucky 
for  the  remainder  of  this  year.  It  was  in  May  of 
17S;(  that  Kentucky  (bounty  was  divided  into  three 
counties,  Lincoln,  Fayette  and  Jefferson.  The  win- 
ter of  1780-81  was  comparatively  mild,  and  the  set- 
tlers did  not  suffer  for  food.  Salt,  however,  was 
exceedingly  high  in  price,  and  had  to  be  trans- 
ported on  horseback  from  the  Falls  of  the  Ohio.  In 
Marcii  of  this  year  (^1781)  there  occurred  an  event 
which  cast  a  dark  slnnbiw  o\-er  the  whole  commu- 
nity. J(>se]ih  McCottn,  a-  son  of  James  McCoun, 
Sr.,  a  most  lovalde  youth  of  eighteen,  was  out  of  the 
Station  one  morning,  March  Gth,  engaged  in  look- 
ing after  his  father's  cows.  As  he  was  returning, 
some  Indians,  who  were  prow  ling  aljout  the  place, 
saw  liini  and  pursued  him.  He  ran  as  rapidly  as  he 
could,  but  the  savages  succeeded  in  capturing  him, 
and  made  off  towards  the  Ohio  River  with  their 
[irisoner.  Alarmed  by  his  absence  beyond  the  ex- 
pected time,  his  friends  umde  search  for  him  till 
the  trail  of  the  Indians  was  discovered.  Men  fi'oin 
the  Stati(ui  at  once  gave  jinrsuit,  ami  followed  the 
retreating  Indians  and  their  helpless  captive. 
They  found  the  place  where  the  Indians  had  strip- 
ped o-ff  the  bark  of  a,  young  hickoin'  to  bind  their 
prisoner.  The  pursuing  party  travelled  as  far  as 
the  Ohio  River,  some  distance  above  the  month  of 
the  Kentucky;  and,  giving  up  the  chase,  they  re- 


THE   SALT    KIVEH   SETTLEMENT. 


187 


turned  to  the  statiou  and  broke  to  the  dear  boy's  an- 
guished parents  the  news  of  the  failure  of  their  pur- 
suit.   A  few  Tears  later  it  was  ascertaiuefl  that  tlu' 
unfortunate  younij;-  man   had    liccn   carried    by   Ids 
cruel    caidni-s    far    up   iuto  ( (Ino  near  In  I  lie  site  of 
what  is  now  the  city  of  Springtiidd,  where  iie  was 
tied  to  a  tree  and  burnt  to  death.     This  crusiiiiiii- 
blow  was  too  much  for  his  luotlier,  tor  -losepli  was 
the  darling  of  her  heart.     She  was  rarely    seen    to 
smile  afterwards,  and  soon  s^auk  into  the  grave.  The 
tirst  sermon  ever  preached   by  a   minister  in   that 
neighborhood  was  by  the  Ivev.  David  Rice,  in  17S4, 
at  the  funeral    of  this  Mrs.    :Mc(N)un.    She  was  the 
mother  of  Robert  McAfee's  wife,    and    hence   her 
death,  as  well  as  the  awful  bereavement  which  led 
to  it,  was  a  sore  affliction  to  all  the  .McAfees.    Hers 
was  pidbably  the  first  death  to  oce\ir  in  the  settle- 
ment, Captain  William  :McAfee  having  died  near 
thi'  mouth  of  the  Kentucky  Kiver,  four  years  be- 
fore. 

The  Indians  gave  so  uiuch  anxiety  this  s])ring 
(1781)  that  all  the  families  in  the  neighborhood 
o-athered  into  James  McAfee's  Station,  except  AMI- 
liam  :Mc.\fee's  widow  and  her  family,  who  had  a 
Citation  of  their  own  on  Salt  River,  near  llarrods- 
burg.  .Tames  McAfee  and  family  occupied  the 
cabin  at  the  north-east  corner  of  the  station,  and 
Rolitrt  had  the  one  at  the  south-west  corner.  In 
April  of  this  year  some  Indians  tried  to  steal  the 
horses  belonging  to  the  station  that  were  in  a 
stable  close  by.  By  a  dexterous  movement  of  tho 
men  inside  the  scheme  of  the  Indians  was  thwarted, 
but  a  more  serious  adventure  with  the  savages  was 
soon  to  try  the  courage  and  rescnirces  of  all  the  men 
in  the  fort. 

May  9,  1781,  early  in  the  morning,  when  there 
were  only  thirteen  men  in  the  Statitni,  an  attack 
was  made  by  one  hundred  and  fifty  Indians.  They 
had  spent  the  night  only  about  a  mile  below  the 
stati(ni.  but  by  sunrise  had  posted  themselves  on 
all  sides  of  the  same,  but  mostly  on  the  east  and 
south.  The  cattle  and  the  dogs  had  exhibited  some 
uneasiness  during  the  night,  but  all  suspicions 
aroused  by  their  behavior  had  been  quieted.  It 
seems  that  Samuel  McAfee,  accompanied  by  a  man 


named  Clunendike,  had    taken  a  horse  out  of  the 
fort  to  go  to  his  farm,  alioiil  a  mile  up  the  river 
(towards  the  soulb  )  to  gel  a  bag  of  corn;  and  that 
James  and  Robei  i    .Mc.Mm'  had  gone  out    to  clear 
some  ground  for  a  iiiiiii|i  |)aich,  only  one  hundred 
and   fifty  yards  from    I  he   fori,   taking   their  guns 
with  them  and  setting  ihem  against  a  tree  close  by. 
Samuel  McAfee  and  Clunendike  had  not  iiroceedcNl 
but  a  few  hundred  yards  when,  passing  down  into 
a  hollow,  they  were  fired  on  liy  Imlians.  and  ("liin-^ 
endike  fell  dead  in  his  tracks.     Sammd  McAfee  at 
once  turned  and  attempted  to  escape  to  the  station, 
but  ere  he  had  gone  tifteon  steps  he    met    a   huge 
Indian  coming  directly  towards  him.  ami  at  once 
each  of  them  levelleil   his  gnn  at    the  other.      J'.otli 
fired  at  once,  ihe  Indian's  gun  nndcing  a  hash,  and 
Samuel  McAfee's  making  a  <lear  fire.     The  Indian 
dropped  dead,  and  Samucd  McAfee,  wlnt  was  raji- 
idly  advancing  towards  the  station,  had    to    jump 
over  the  prostrate  body  of  his  foe,  several  other 
Indians  firing  at  liim  as  he  ran.    He  made  good  his 
escape  into  the  station.     By  this  time  Janu's    and 
Robert,  hearing  the  firing,  had  seized   their  rifles 
and  started  towards  Ihe  spot.     Robert,  being    the 
best  runner,  got  ahead  of  his  brother,  but  James 
discovered  several  Indians  rise  from  behind  a  brush 
heap  who  fired  at  him.  s(nne  of  the  balls  cutting  his 
clothes.     James  took  shelter  behind  a  tree,  but    at 
once  discovered  six  or  seven  other  guns  pointed  at 
him   fr(Hu  another  direction,   the  discharges  from 
which  cut  up  the  dust  at  his  feet.    He  then  turned 
and  reached  the  station  unharmed.     Robert,   who 
was  ahead  of  James,  rapidly  running  towards   the 
spot  where  the  first  firing  occurred,  went  on  till   he 
met  Samuel  running  back  to  the  fort.     Samu(d  told 
him  Clunendike  ha<l   been  killed,  and   tolil  him  not 
to  go  any  further,  but  Robert  misunderstood  him, 
and  went  on  till  he  came  in  sight  of  Indians   en- 
"ai-ed  in  scali)ing  Clunendike,  and  close  to  where 
other  Indians  were  lying  in  wait.     Turning  to  re- 
trace his  steps  and   nudce  good  his  escape   to    the 
fort,    he   saw    the   path    was    intercepted    by     In- 
dians, and  he  therefore  took  to  the  woods,  closely 
followed  by  a  tall,  fine  looking  warrior,  who  had 
silver  rings  and  momis  in  iiis  nose  and  ears.   After 


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THE   WOODS-McAPEE  MEMORIAL. 


running  awhile  Eobert    turned    upon    his   savage 
pursuer,  when  the  Indian  at  once  halted  and  took 
shelter  behiud  a  tree.     Kobert  again  ran  on,  and 
again  the  Indian  pursued  him.     This  went  on   for 
some  time,  Robert  being  closely  pressed,  and  both 
he  and  the  savage  reserving  their  fire  till  the  last 
extremity.    At  last  Robert  reached  the  turnip  patch 
fence  in  the  flat  just    south-west   of   the   station, 
where  he  once  more  wheeled  and  the  Indian  again 
took  refuge  behiud    a   tree.     Robert    then    threA\^ 
himself  over  the  feuce  and  lay  quiet  on  the  earth, 
and  waited  for  a  few  moment    for   developments. 
Directly  the  Indian  cautiously  put  his    head    out 
from  behind  the  tree  to  see  what  had  become  of  his 
man.    For  this  very  move  Robert  had  waited,  aud, 
taking  sure  aim,  he  fired  and   killed   the   Indian, 
enabling  him  to  make  the  fort.    The  firing  now  be- 
came general,  and  the  Indians    approached    from 
every  direction.     The  women  in  the  fort   moulded 
bullets  aud  prepared  patches,  while  the  men  kept 
up  a  constant  fire  wherever  they  could  see  an  In- 
dian   within    good    range.       Finding    that     they 
were     making     no     impression     on     the     station, 
the     Indians     went     to     killing     all     the     liorses 
and     cattle    in      sight.       (Several      rushes      were 
made  by  the  savages  as  if  to  scale  the  walls  of  the 
station,  but  each  time  they  met  a  warm  reception, 
and  the  Indians  retreated  as  if  beaten  in  order   to 
withdraw  the  whites  from  the  fort,  but  James  Mc- 
Afee, Avho  was  in  command,  ordered  all  to  remain 
in  the  fort,  as  they  were  too  few  in  number  to  make 
such  a  eharge.     lie  told  his  men  to  \\atrh  closely 
and  fire  only  when  the  Indians  showed  themselves. 
In  this  way  several  of  the  foe  were   seen   to   fall 
after  shots  fired    from    the    station.     .Vbout    ten 
o'clock  a.  m.  th(>  firing  by  the    Indians    began    to 
slacken,  and  a  noise  like  distant  thuiuler  was  heard 
in  tlie  direction  of  Harrodsburg,  which  place  was 
only  six  miles  away.     In  a   little  time    a    tremeu- 
ilous  yelling  \\as  lieard,  and  to  the  unspeakable  joy 
of  all  the  occupants  of  the  station.  Colonel  Hugh 
McGary  was  seen  coming  in  a  gallop,  in  command 
of  forty-five  men  from  Harrodsburg  and  William 
McAfee's  station,  some  of  them    having   mounted 


their  horses  without  staying  to  get  their  hats.   The 
^•ells  of  the  frighteued  savages,  now  in  full  retreat 
to  the  west  of  the  river,  mingled  with  those  of  the 
advancing  whites.     A  halt  of  a  few   minutes   was 
made  till  the  men  in  the  station  could  get  mounted 
and  ready  to  go,  aud  tlu^n  began  I  lie  pursuit  of  the 
fleeing  Indians.    They  were  overtaken  about  a  mile 
below  the  station,  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  and 
here  the  firing  again  commenced,  the  Indians  re- 
treating and  shooting  from  behind  trees.    The  pur- 
stiit  was  continued  for  several  miles.     The  whites 
lost,  in  all,  but  two  iiicii  IcilbMJ,  and  one  wounded. 
Tile  Indian  loss  is  not  exactly  known,  Imt  it  was 
considerable.     The  prompt  action  of  the  men  from 
the  t\t'o  adjacent  stations  was   most   gallant   and 
timelj- — but  for  it  no  one  can  say  what  might  have 
happened  to  the  little  band  of  thirteen    men    and 
their  wives  and  children  in  the    fort.     After   this 
attack  this  station  sustained  very  little  injury  from 
the  Indians.     They  learned  by    costly   experience 
that  those  pioneer  forts    were    well-nigh    impreg- 
nable when  defended  by  men  of  such  courage  and 
resource.     Kentucky  was   not   entirely    delivered, 
however,  from  Indian  depredations  for  about  fif- 
teen years,  and  the  very  next  year  after   this   oc- 
ctured  the  most   disastrous  Mow    Kentucky  ever 
suffered  at  the  hands  of  the  savages — the  Battle  of 
the  Blue  Licks,   Atigust  19,   1782 — was   received, 
spreading  mourning  and  distress  throughout    all 
the  settlements  in  Kentucky.     Several  detailed  ac- 
counts of  that  bloody  and  memorable  conflict  can 
be  found  in  Collins'  Kentucky,  Vol.  2,  pages  657-63. 
A  more  recent,  and  perhaps  more  accurate,  account 
Mill  be  found  in  the  Volume  of  the  Filson  Cltib  pub- 
lications, devoted  exclusively    to    this    disastrous 
contest  and  the  attack  on  Bryan's  Station.     These 
accounts  will  well  repay  careful  perusal  by  any  one 
interested  in  the  pioneer  period  of  Kentucky's  his- 
tory; they  should  prove  specially  interesting  to  the 
descendants  of  the  founders  of  the  Salt  River  Set- 
tlement, inasmuch  as  the  Indian  invasion  which 
they  recount  furnishes  a  vivid  illustration  of  the 
tragic  circumstances  amid  which  the  McAfees  and 
their  associates  began  their  pioneer  enterprise   on 
Salt  River. 


THE   SALT   RIVEE   SETTLEMENT. 


189 


The  year  1781  was  a  most  memorable  one  on  sev- 
eral accounts,  and  especially  because  near  its  close 
(October  19)  the  anny  of  Lord  Cormvallis  sur- 
rendered at  Yorktowu,  thereby  virtually  endint;  the 
war  of  the  Colonies  with  England.  But  the  final 
signing  of  the  treaty  of  peace  did  not  occur  till 
September  3,  1783.  In  those  early  days  news  trav- 
elled slowly,  and  it  was  a  long  time  after  Cornwal- 
lis's  surrender  till  the  whites  in  the  K(>utii(lvy 
backwoods  and  their  savage  foes,  north  and  south 
of  them,  came  fully  to  realize  that  the  Clolonies 
were  soon  to  bo  in  position  to  luru  all  their  re- 
sources against  the  Indians.  The  disastrous  Battle 
of  the  Blue  Licks,  just  now  referred  to,  in  which 
the  whites  lost  seventy-four  brave  men — about  one- 
tenth  of  their  entire  fighting  force  in  Central  Ken- 
tucky— ^occurred  the  10th  of  August,  1782,  nearly 
a  year  after  the  English  forces  had  been  over- 
whelmingly defeated.  Nor  did  the  savages  give  up 
the  contest  when  they  learned  of  the  withdrawal  of 
the  British  armies  from  America,  but  for  at  least 
ten  years  longer  continued  to  harass  the  settlers  of 
Kentucky,  though  with  constantly  diminishing 
vigor.  It  was  about  the  year  1794  that  the  people 
of  Kentucky  in  all  parts  of  the  State  began  to  feel 
perfectly  safe  against  Indian  deiiredations,  and 
ceased  to  make  use  of  their  forts  or  stations.  Thus 
it  was  that  the  McAfees  and  their  associates  had 
fifteen  years  of  a  strictly  frontier  life  after  their 
settlement  on  Salt  River  in  the  fall  of  1779.  The 
effects  of  such  an  experience  upon  the  social,  moral 
and  religious  life  of  the  community  can  easily  be 
imagined — it  could  not  but  prove  in  many  ways 
detrimental.  In  the  seven  years  from  1783  to  1790 
the  damages  inflicted  on  the  Kentucky  settlers  by 
the  Indians  has  been  summed  up  thus :  One  thou- 
sand five  hundred  whites  killed,  twenty  thousand 
horses  stolen,  and  property  of  the  value  of  fifteen 
thousand  pounds  sterling  carried  off  or  destroyed. 
When  we  bear  in  mind  that  the  entire  population 
of  Kentucky  in  the  year  1784  numbered  only  about 
thirty  thousand  souls,  congregated  in  fifty-two  sta- 
tions and  eighteen  cabins,  it  is  easy  to  appreciate  the 
tremendous  drain  of  blood  and  treasure  to  which 


our  pioneer  fathers  were  subjected.    (See  Col.  Dur- 
rett,  Centenary  of  Kentucky,  pages  46  and  51.) 

The  mo.st  serious  aspect  of  this  terrible  experi- 
ence, however,  was  its  bearing  upon  the  religious 
life  of  thewhole  body  of  the  people.  When  we  reflect 
iiix")!!  the  nbsciicc  of  religious  and  educatiomil  ad- 
vantages, and  lliiiik  i\\'  llic  chief  occupations  and 
aims  of  the  pro])lc,  and  ]iicture  to  our  minds  the 
probable  themes  of  conversation  usually  prevailing, 
we  can  readily  agree  with  Dr.  Da\idson  in  what  he 
says  of  the  spiritual  destitutions  which  obtained 
in  the  Salt  River  Settlement  and  elsewhere.  (See 
his  History  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Ken- 
tucky, page  C)3. )  I  in  I  there  was  one  tremendous 
advantage  this  particular  colony  enjoyed  :  Its  heads 
of  families  were,  ahnost  to  a  man,  good  Christians, 
who  had  been  Avell  instructed  from  their  childhoo<l 
in  the  doctrines  and  duties  of  the  Christian  religion 
as  it  was  understood  l>y  Scotch-Irish  Presbyterians. 
The  McAfees  were  people  of  faith  and  ]u*ayer,  who 
brought  with  them  to  the  wildei'uess  their  Bibles 
and  Catechisms,  and  Psalm  Books,  and  their  rev- 
erence for  the  Sabbath  day,  and  their  respect  for 
law  and  order.  Such  people  a  backwoods  life 
might  indeed  greatly  injure,  but  could  not  utterly 
demoralize. 

The  year  1783  was  marked  by  a  considerable  in- 
flux of  newcomers,  especially  from  Virginia.  It 
was  in  this  year  that  the  wife  of  James  McAfee, 
Sr.,  died  at  the  home  of  her  son-in-law,  Mr.  Guant, 
three  miles  south-west  of  Harrodsburg.  On  his 
farm  she  was  buried.-'  The  ])0]uilation  of  Kentucky 
now  numbered  about  tliirty  thousand  semis,  but 
these  were  so  widely  scattered  that  there 
was  practically  no  commerce.  Some  notion 
of  the  real  condition  of  affairs  may  be 
gathered  from  the  fact  that  it  was  in  this 
year  that  the  second  store  in  Kentucky  was  opene<l. 
About  this  date,  also,  the  tirst  distilleries  were 
started.  The  old  soldiers  of  the  Revolutionary 
army,  now  disbanded,  were  ready  for  a  change  of 
residence;  ami  as  special  privileges  were  accorded 
them  by  Virginia  in  the  matter  of  acquiring  lands 
in  the  western    wilderness,     thousands    of  them 


190  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

luriied  ihcii- jittfiiiioiis  to  Keutucky.  Aloug  with  tlu' other.  A  revival  at  oue  was  sure  to  prove  a 
this  liih'  of  new  settlers  there  raiiie  a  devout  Pres-  blessiug  to  both.  Some  of  the  most  useful  mem- 
byteriaii  iiiiuister  from  Virginia,  Kev.  David  Eiee,  hers  of  the  Harrodsburg  Chureh  were  couverted 
who  later  woii  llic  I  itle  of  "leather,"  because  he  was  under  Dr.  Cleland's  ministry  at  New  Providence, 
in  large  degree  the  founder  of  the  I'resbyteriau  and  many  of  the  Uari'odsburg  Presbyterians  lie 
Church  iu  Kentucky.  Efe  made  his  home  near  Dan-  sleeping  in  the  New  Providence  burying-ground. 
viHc,  and  jireached  ationl  over  Central  Kentucky  The  chunli  building,  now  used  liy  tJu' congregation 
as  he  was  invited  and  liail  oiiportunitv.  The  first  of  tJie  first  I'resbvtei'iau  ("liurcli  at  llarrodsburir, 
year  of  his  residence  in  Kentucky  he  succeeded  in  a  good  picture  of  which  is  given  in  this  volume, 
laying  the  f(uindations  of  three  closely  related  whilst  the  result  of  several  enlargements  and  re- 
Presbyterian  churches,  which  were  formally  organ-  modellings,  is,  substantially,  the  same  building  as 
ized  in  17S."»  by  tlu^  election  of  elders  and  deacons,  that  which  Mas  reared  in  1820.  To  a  great  many 
These  cjinirjies  were  ilie  following:  Comord,  lo-  of  the  desceiulants  of  the  McAfees  that  sacred  edi- 
calcd  at  Oanville;  Cane  IJun,  situated  three  miles  tice  jiossesses  the  most  jirecious  associations,  and 
east  of  llai  roilsburg;  and  New  Pi-ovidence,  wliich  sonu'  of  the  subscriiiers  to  this  work  largely  owe 
was  in  flie  Salt  IJivei-  Settlement.  In  the  uuintn  of  their  salvation,  under  God,  to  the  instructions  they 
.March,  ITS:',,  Kentucky,  wliicli,  since  1780,  had  and  their  parents  enjoyed  in  tliat  veneralile  house 
consisied  nf  ilic  ijiree  counties  of  Jefferson,  Fay-  "f  wdrshiji. 

elle,  and  Lincoln,  was  (H-ganized  by  the  Virginia  The  McAfees  were  noi  wiihout  family  religion 
legislature  into  the  "District  of  Kentucky,"  and  a  during  the  si.K  years  that  followed  the  date  of 
District  Couit  wasopened  at  ITariodslairg.  Father  their  final  settlement  on  Salt  Kiver,  l)ut  they  cer- 
Rice's  first  sermon  was  preached  at  Harrodsburg  tainly  seem  not  to  have  had  a  regular  JKnise  of  wor- 
in  October  of  that  yi'ar.  The  prevalent  irreligion  ship  till  1785.  In  the  fall  of  1784  the  Salt  River 
of  the  nuisses  of  the  settlers  distressed  him,  and  he  Settlement  received  valuable  accessions  in  Cap- 
returned  to  Virginia;  but  he  was  soon  induced  to  tain  John  Annstrong  and  .Mi-,  (ieorge  Buchanan 
coine  liack  to  Keiilncky  on  re^-eiviug  a  peliiion  of  both  good  men  ami  fa\orably  disposed  to  religion 
three  htindred  of  the  settlers.  He  married  a  couple  and  also  \\illiani  .Vrnistrong,  who  had  been  an 
at  ^IcAfee's  Station  June  3,  1781:,  and  on  the  next  elder  in  Mr.  Rice's  church  in  Virginia.  Early  in 
day  preached  the  first  sermon  ever  heard  on  Salt  the  spring  of  1785  the  Salt  River  people  entered 
Kiver,  at  the  fuiu'ral  of  ^Nfrs.  James  ^McCoun,  Sr.  upon  the  work  of  erecting  a  building  to  be  used  f(U' 
As  nil  history  of  the  McAfees  could  be  at  all  com-  both  ciinrrh  and  school  puiposes.  A  meetin"'  of 
|iletc  wiihout  some  account  of  the  New  Providence  heads  of  families  was  held  near  the  spot  after- 
Clinrch.  and  (he  early  history  of  that  church  is  in-  wards  selected  for  their  church,  at  which  the  fol- 
.separably  connected  with  the  beginnings  of  the  lowing  men  were  present :  James  :McAfee,  George 
church  on  Cane  Run  (Uarroilsburg),  it  is  proper  .McAfee,  Robert  McAfee,  Samuel  McAfee,  James 
thai  jusl  here  a  brief  notice  of  both  these  churches  .McCoun,  Sr.,  James  McCouu.  Jr..  John  Armstrong, 
slumhl  have  a  place.  From  1784  to  1816  the  congre-  William  Arm.strong,  James  Huchanan,  George 
gationof  Cam-Run  worehipped  at  its  original  seat,  Buchanan,  Joseph  Lyon,  and  John  McGee.  Two 
but,  fr(Mii  that  dale  on  to  the  present  time  Harrods-  sites  were  offered;  one  by  James  McAfee,  and  au- 
burg  has  been  the  Innue  of  the  congregation.  For  other  by  James  :\rcCoun  ;  ami  after  considerable 
a  great  many  years  the  Harrodshurg  Church  was  warm  del>ate  the  two  acres  ottered  liy  James  Mc- 
associated  with  New  Providence  in  the  support  of  Afee  were  accepted.  The  vote  stood  seven  to  five, 
the  pastor.  Communion  occasions  at  one  of  these  As  soon  as  they  had  gotten  their  corn  planted  the 
churches  were  largely  attended  by  the  members  of  men  began   the   erection  of  a  plain     log    meeting- 


Hit; 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,   HARRODSBURG,   KY. 

ORGANIZED   17S3. 
Very  dear  to  many  of  the  Woodses  and  McAfees. 


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193 


liouse  twenty  by  eighteen  feet  in  size,  and  liere 
Father  Rioo  preached  once  a  montli  I'oi'  about 
eleven  years.  Tliis  Iiouse  stood  on  the  side  of  the 
hill  about  fifty  yards  to  the  south  of  the  west  end 
of  the  church  building  afterwards  erected,  and 
which  in  recent  years  was  abandoned  wlicn  the  con- 
gregation cliangcd  Ihe  location  of  llicii'  liouse  of 
\\((rslii]i  and  built  a  large  and  well-appointed  brick 
church  on  the  pike  about  a  mile  north  of  the  pres- 
ent village  of  McAfee.  The  name  "New  Provi- 
dence" was  given  this  church  organization,  not,  as 
some  might  su])))ose,  in  honor  of  the  old  clnii-cli  of 
that  nanu-  in  the  A'alley  of  Virginia,  with  which 
some  of  these  peo]ile  had  worship]ied  ]iiioi'  to  their 
emigration  to  Kentucky,  but  out  of  gratitude  to 
(tocI  for  the  many  remarkai)le  tokens  of  His 
gracious  care  they  had  received  in  the  past,  espe- 
cially that  great  deliverance  of  August  12,  1773, 
out  on  the  Big  Black  Mountains,  an  account  of 
which  w  as  given  in  a  previous  chapter.-'' 

During  those  early  years  the  people  were  com- 
l)elletl,  for  safety,  to  reside  in  the  stations,  and 
when  they  went  to  church  to  worship  God  on  the 
Sabbath  they  took  their  rities  along.  The  danger 
was  not  inmginary,  for  as  late  as  17!>0  some  people 
on  Urasiiear's  Creek  were  tired  on  by  Indians  as 
they  were  returning  from  church.  In  1700  the  first 
log-house  was  replaced  by  one  double  its  size,  and 
this  was  further  enlarged  in  1S03.  Finally,  some 
years  later,  the  log  church  was  superseded  by  a 
substantial  bi-ick  cditice  which  stood  for  perhaps 
sixty  years,  and  was  at  last  abandoned,  as  above 
stated,  when  the  congregation  built  their  present 
commodious  house  on  the  pike  a  mile  north  of  Mc- 
Afee. =" 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  Cleland  was  the  able  and 
devoted  pastor  of  that  church  for  forty-five  years — 
from  1813  to  1858.  During  twenty-six  of  these 
years— from  1813  to  1839— Dr.  Cleland  was  also 
the  pastor  of  the  Harrodsburg  Church.  His  was  a 
fraitful  ministry,  and  there  were  yeai's  at  a  time 
when  at  Ifotli  New  Providence  and  Harrodsburg 
the  most  precious  revival  scenes  Avere  witnessed. 

The  chui'cli-vard  in  the  midst  of  which thischurch 


stood,  and  whicli  is  at  this  day  (1904)  one  of  the 
most  tenderly  venerated  ''God's  Acres"  in 
Kentucky,  deserves  a  passing  notice.  Two  pic- 
tures of  it  are  given  in  this  volume.  The  one  taken 
from  the  former  site  of  the  old  brick  church,  look- 
ing north-west,  shows  the  tombstone  of  Dr.  Cle- 
land. It  stands  hardly  an  inch  (o  the  b'ft  of  tiie 
large  tree  in  the  center  of  llie  picinre.  It  is  the 
larger  of  two  headstones  rounded  at  the  top,  and 
leans  perceptibly  to  the  right.  There  Dr.  Cleland 
was  buried  in  IS.'S.  About  one  and  a  half  inches 
to  the  left  of  IM'.  (Meland's  tombstone  (in  the  pic- 
ture), stands  a  tail  inonnnient,  whicli  also  leans  to 
the  right,  (hat  marks  Ihe  grave  nf  General  Hubert 
B.  McAfee,  the  failhriil  chronicler  of  the  McAfee 
family,  who  dieil  in  istl).  The  other  picture  of  this 
church-yard  gives  a  view  (d'  it  looking  to  the  south- 
west. This  view,  as  the  other,  includes  the  graves 
of  many  of  the  older  .McAfees  and  their  descend- 
ants. Only  two  of  the  five  pioneer  McAfee  broth- 
ers are  buried  here — George  and  Samuel.  The 
eldest  of  the  five,  James,  is  buried,  with  his  wife,  in 
the  old  Pioneer  Burial  Place,  which  is  on  a  hill 
some  five  or  six  hundred  yards  south  by  west  from 
this  enclosure,  in  the  direct idu  of  his  stone  house. 
William  died  near  the  mouth  of  the  Kentucky 
River  in  1780,  and  was  probably  buried  there.  Rob- 
ert was  assassinated  by  a  Spaniard  in  New  Orleans, 
May  10,  1795,  while  on  his  own  flatboat,  and 
he  was  buried  near  the  hospital  in  that  city.  The 
New  Providence  Churchyai-d  was  first  opened  for 
burials  at  the  very  beginning  of  Ihe  nineteenth  cen- 
tury, for  (ieorge  .McAfee,  wIki  died  in  1803,  was 
buried  there.  After  the  lapse  of  a  century  it  is  still 
in  fair  condition, and  is  the  preferred  burying-place 
of  most  of  the  families  residing  in  that  vicinity  ;but 
it  is  nearly  filled  wiih  graves,  and  there  may  be 
danger  of  its  falling  soun  inin  disuse,  especially  as 
it  is  not  only  distant  from  any  considerable  town, 
but  (|uite  a  iiiib-  I'l'cini  Ihe  present  house  of  worship 
of  the  congregation  whose  name  it  bears.  No  ceme- 
tery in  all  Kentucky  is  more  closely  identified  with 
the  very  first  settlenieii I  nf  I  he  »State,  and  il  wmihl 
be  a  great  mistake  for  the  good  people  of  that  wor- 


194  THE  WOOt)S-McAPEE    MEMORIAL. 

thy  (•(iiuiiiuniiv  1(1  allow   it  lo  fall  iiilo  decay.     Ken-  years    (  i'nuii   ihc  -Inly  ilay   in    177:'.,   wlieii   llie   Mc- 

tueky  eoutains  no  iiKii-c  iKiialile  relic  (if  her  pioneer  At'ees  tirst  set  foot  on  the  hanks    of    Sail     Kivei-| 

,jjjyj^_  ihey  had    reni()V(^d    to  Keutncky ;   had     I'dnnded    a 

The  ]ioiml,!ti(in  of  Kenincky  raiiidly  increased,  pernianeni  seitlenient,  and  ]iid])e(l  lo  Un\\u\  a  tireat 

and  ihe  |ie.i|)le  he^au  lo  feel  ihe  disadvantages  dno  Conunonweallh ;  and  at  leiigtii    had    passed    from 

to  their  heiin:  so  far  removed  from  the  civil  antlior-  tliis  (>arth,  leavius""  behind  them  a  noble  oommnnity, 

ities  of  \'iri;inia.  to  whom  ihey  were  res]ionsilde.    A  and  a  uniiierous  jioslerity  wlio  rise  ti]i  and  call  ihem 

vasi    monniain-w  ildeiiiess    several    hundred    miles  lilessed.     The  old    cliurch    organization.    licLinn    in 

in  extent  s(  jiaraied   them   fi-oni  the  capital  of  their  ]7S~y.  still  abides  in  strength   and   nsefnlness.  and 

State.    The  jonrney  to  and  fi-oni  it  was  tedious  and  from   its  pnl]iit   the  Gos]iel  of  Cod's  grace  is  still 

perilons.     Hence,  in   17SI.  was  held   the  first  of    a  proclaimed  to  saint  and    sinner.     The    old    chnrch- 

long  scries  of  coii\  cni  ions,    looking   to  separation  \ai-(l,  now    hoar\    with  the  moss  of  a  century,  still 

from   the  mother  State.     There  was  no  had  feeling  holds  the  ]irecions  dnst  of    many    of    the    .McAfee 

in  this  moNcmcni  on  ihc  |iart  of  the  Ivenlncky  peo-  dead,     .\cross  the  \'alley  five  or  six  hnndred  yards 

pl(  .  and  X'iiginia  acted  with  a  prudent  generosity.  towards  the  sontli,  on  a  commanding  knoll,  sleeps 

The  (iiitcome  of  the  long  years  of  deliheratiou  was  ih,.  hody  of  ilie  eldest  of  the  five  ])ioneer  lirothers. 

that   N'ii-ginia  linally  allowed  her  fair  danghter  to  along  with   that   of  his  beloved   Agnes,  in  sight  of 

depart,  and  in   17!l"_'  K(ntn(k.\    iiecame    a    separate  the  old  stonehonse  erected  in  17".M).     And  the  little 

State  of  the  American  I'nion.  having  at  the    time  river  near  by  tlows  qnietly  on  as  it  did  whiMifirst  the 

ahont    one    hnndred    ihonsand     inhabitants.      (All  AhAfees  looked   npon   it   a   hundred  and   thirty-one 

who  would  lik\'  to  ha\('  a  jusi   and  interesting  de-  years  ago.     .\.ll  through  the  old  settlement  are  still 

script  ion  of  the   Kentucky  of   17'.il'  are  advised  to  to  he   found     numerous    families    deseemle«l     from 

read  the  cha^jtei- on  thissuhjcct  by  ('(d.  K.  T.  Dur-  those  i)ioneers,  wh(»  stand,  as  their  ancestors  did. 

rett,  in  "The  Centenary  (d'  Kentucky,""  pages 70-85. j  for  industry,  patriotism  and  religion — for  all  that 

When  Kentuckv  was  admitted  I, Mhe  bnion  the  Mc-  .sioes  to  constitnte    the    sturdy    manhood    and    tlie 


lo\-ely  womanhood  for  which  Kentucky  has  justly 
been  famed  throughout  all  her  history.  The  coun- 
try (d"  Kentucky,  emliracing  more  than  40,000 
s(piare  miles,  whidi  dii]  not  contain  a  single  wiiite 
family  when  tirst   the  .McAfees  visited   it   in   177:5, 

had  urow  n  to  lie  a  State  with  4LMI.0II0  inhabitants 

ihe  five  McAfee  brothers,  Samuel.     In  1S0:J  CJeorue      i      ,i      ,•        ,\      }     ^     e  ^i      4i         ■  i      »i         i     i 

•^        by  the  iiuh' the  last  (d  the  hve  pnineer  brothers  had 

departed  this  life,  l-'inally.  in  IS  11,  James,  the  passed  away.  We.  their  desc-endants,  are  permitted 
(ddest  .d"  the  rive,  at  liie  ri](e  age  of  seventy-five,  to  view  it  in  its  splendid  maturity,  a  grr^nd  Com- 
passed away.     Thus  in   liie  course    (d'    thirty-eight       luonweallh  (d'  nmre  than  two  million  ]ieoph'. 


Afei'C(dony  had  been  settled  on  Salt  K'iver  thirteen 
years,  and  was  steadily  proi^ressing ;  and  the  envir- 
onmeiii  and  general  condilions  of  the  jteople  are 
W(dl  portrayed  in  the  chapter  cited.  The  jeAV 
]S(»1    was  marked  li\    the  death  of  the  xduniiest    of 


BRIEF  NOTICES  OF  THE  PIONEER    .AfoAFEES. 


195 


CHAPTER  VI. 

BRIEF  NOTICES  OF  THE  PIONEER  IVlcAFEES  AND  LISTS  OF  THEIR  CHILDREN. 
THE  ORIGINAL  FOUNDERS  OF  THE  SALT  RIVER  SETTLEMENT. 


James  McAfee,  yr..  and  liis  wife  Jane,  as  has  al- 
ready been  noted,  had  nine  children,  as  follows: 
James,  Jr.,  Joiin,  ilalcolm,  George,  Mary,  Robert, 
Margaret,  Samuel,  and  William — seven  sons  and 
two  daughters.  Concerning  several  of  them  and 
many  of  their  children  we  laiow  almost  nothing, 
and  of  none  of  them  do  we  know  enough  to  enable 
us  to  honor  their  memories  with  a  complete  biog- 
raphy. The  very  ]>est  the  editor  can  do  is  to  tell 
all  he  has  been  able,  after  years  of  earnest  labor, 
to  learn  of  each  of  the  nine  children,  and  the  chil- 
dren's children,  in  regular  order.  As  long  as  the 
majority  of  people  take  more  pains  to  preserve  the 
pedigree  of  a  blooded  horse,  or  even  a  fine  dog,  than 
that  of  theii"  own  ancestors,  none  need  marvel  that 
the  editor  has  been  unable  to  induce  some  of  his 
kinsmen  even  to  make  a  reply  to  letters  of  inquiry 
touchiug  the  history  of  the  family.  Ad<litional 
items,  however,  may  be  found  in  some  of  the 
Sketches  of  Patrons  in  Part  III. 

The  Children  of  J.\jies  McAfee,  Sr. 

A— JA.AIES  :\lcAl'EE.  JR.— 1786-1811. 

James  McAfee,  Jr.,  the  tirst  child  of  James,  Sr., 
and  his  wife  Jane,  was  born  in  County  Armagh, 
Ireland,  in  1T3(),  and  when  only  three  years  old 
migrated  with  his  parents  to  America  in  the  spring 
of  1739.  With  them  lie  resided  some  years  in  Penn- 
sylvania, and  with  them  he  moved,  about  1716,  to 
North  Carolina,  and  later,  in  1717,  or  1748,  to 
Catawba  Creek,  which  was  then  in  Augusta  County, 
Virginia.  Therefore  be  was  scarcely  twelve  years 
old  when  he  began  living  in  Virginia.  His  father 
probably  lived  from  1718  to  1771  on  the  farm  he 
bought  of  Poage,  and  sold  to  Archibald  Woods, 
near  the  head  of  Catawba,  and  tlien  moved  four 
miles  farther  down  that  stream  to  a   farm   ([uite 


close  to  the  now  well-kn<i\\  n  Kuanuke  Red  Sulphur 
Springs.  On  this  farm  uikc  sIikkI  an  aiicirnt  In- 
dian fort.  Part  of  tht*  old  house  at  the  latter  i)lace, 
built  of  walnut  logs,  was  standing  a  few  yeai's 
ago. 

We  have  good  reason  to  believe  tliat  the  mar- 
riage of  James,  Jr.,  to  Agnes  Clark,  occurred  about 
17.">9-17<):.',  wlieii  he  was  about  twenty-three  to  twen- 
ty-six years  did.  Siie  was  the  daughter  of  one 
Thomas  Clark  (Or  Clarke)  who  came  to  America 
with  a  family  by  the  name  of  Walker,  landing  at 
Charleston,  S.  C,  al)out  1712.  He  returned  to  Ire- 
land, but  again  came  to  America  and  landed  at 
Charleston,  where  he  shortly  after  died,  or  was 
murdered.  It  has  been  surmised  tliat  he  was  a 
near  relative  of  the  father  of  General  George  Rog- 
ers Clark,  but  nothing  positive  as  to  this  matter  is 
known  by  the  writer.  It  is  also  said  that  George 
Rogers  Clark,  left  an  orphan  in  youth,  was  reared 
in  part  by  James  and  his  wife.  It  is  not  without 
significance  that  when  Clark  first  visited  Kentucky 
(1775)  he  went  to  the  very  region  in  wliicli  the  Mc- 
.Vfees  had  entered  lands. 

James  McAfee,  Jr.,  must  have  received  a  fair 
educatiou  in  the  ordinary'  English  branches;  the 
journal  which  he  kept  on  his  tour  to  Kentucky  in 
1773,  and  certain  facts  known  to  tJic  writer,  clearly 
indicate  as  much.  The  writer  has  in  his  possession 
a  paper  signed  by  him  in  1790,  and  it  shows  a  good, 
clear  handwriting.  He  was  j)robably  nothing  but 
a  farmer  all  his  life,  and  nearly  the  wliole  of  his 
life  he  resided  in  frontier  regions.  In  the  year  1763 
(February  Kith  i  his  father  deeded  to  him  a  tract  of 
110  acres  of  land  on  Catawba  Creek,  in  wliat  then 
was  Augusta  County,  but  what  was  Botetourt 
County  from  1770  onward.  That  tract  was  a  part 
of  a.  body  of  land  which  his  father  had  patented  in 


19(;  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   jMEjMORIAL. 

1TU>.  .laiiu's.  Jr..  \v;is  ii'Dout  twenty-seven  years  made  (l;iily  rcci.id  nt' ilic  jdurney,  ■;niiiL;  and  i-ciuiii- 
old,  and  l>nt  rccenlly  married,  perhaps,  when  he  ing.  we  look  in  vain  for  a  single  allusion  to  the 
U'ot  this  farm.  'I'hc  rcrords  of  ISolelourl  show  that  bcanties  of  natural  scenery.  The  picturesque 
he  and  his  wife,  A"-nes,  conveyed  this  farm  away  seems  not  to  have  attracted  his  attention;  he  was 
for  .seven  liundre<l  pounds  July  S,  J 77i»,  which  was  intensely,  severely  practical.  The  form  of  his 
onlv  a  few  weeks  prior  to  his  final  mi-ration  to  journal  of  ITTU  indicates  a  .syst.Muatic  man  and 
Kentuckv.  He  was  therefore  not  one  of  the  McAfee  close  observei-.  He  took  note  of  the  good  or  bad 
i)rothers  who  had  their  homes  on  Sinking  Creek.  soil,  the  timber,  the  water,  the  adaptaiion  ..f  the 
This  was  his  last  conveyance  to  be  found  on  the  rounlry  to  farming  purposes,  but  he  ignored  the 
Botetourt  County  records.  The  witnesses  to  the  esthetical  side  of  lif<-.  The  sense  of  humor  is  never 
deed  were  Wm.  McBrayers,  John  Moore  and  Archi-  re\ealed  in  his  journal— not  a  word  of  sarcasm, 
bald  Hill.  AVhen  Boone  and  others  came  back  in  wit  or  ridicule  does  it  contain.  There  is  no  phil- 
1771  with  Iheir  glowing  accounts  of  the  Kentucky  osophizing  whatever-.  Then  he  never  once  dwells 
wilderness  he  was  a  mature  man  and  the  head  of  a  i't  any  length  on  the  personal  perils  and  hardships 
small  family.  Being  the  eldest  son,  he  wag  natur-  <'f  tli«'  '^vay.  He  never  wrote  a  line  in  his  journal  to 
allv  made  llic  leader  of  the  exploring  company  that  'ii'l  attenlion  to  his  own  deeds.  Even  of  that  fear- 
made  the  tour  to  Kentucky  in  1773.  Besides  his  fnl  day  on  the  I'.ig  Jtlacks,  August  IJ,  1773,  he 
senioi'ity,  however,  he  possess(Ml  sound  judgment  makes  an  e.vceedingly  brief  record  from  which  nn 
and  strength  of  character,  so  that  throughout  his  one  would  ever  have  iuferretl  that  st  a  r\a  lion  almost 
whole  career  he  was  looked  up  to  by  the  other  mem  did  its  fatal  work  for  the  whole  company.  Had 
hers  of  his  father's  fainily.  H'"  liis  nephew.  General  R.  B.  McAfee,  late  iu  life 

He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Virginia  Colony  in  some  wormed  it  out  of  him,  it  is  doubtful  if  his  descend- 
of  the  French  and  Indian  \\ars  (  17.">4-17();>) ,  being  ants  would  ever  have  known  a  word  aiiout  those 
eighteen  when  they  began  an<l  twenty-seven  at  their  terrible  and  thrilling  experiences, 
close,  and  was  entitled  to  land  for  the  services  he  \\hen  the  (juestiou  of  erecting  a  log  meeting- 
rendered,  as  recognized  by  the  proclamation  of  the  house  on  Salt  Biver,  Ky.,  was  raise<l  in  1785,  he 
Colonial  Governor  of  Virginia.  In  1774  he  enlisted  came  forward  with  the  offer  of  two  acres  of  land 
in  the  company  of  Captain  Evan  Shelby,  and  was  in  :is  a  gift  for  church  and  .school  purposes,  but  when 
the  battle  at  Point  Pleasant,  Va.,  where  General  ihe  congregation  chose  elders  to  govern  the  infant 
Andrew  Lewis  defeated  the  brave  army  of  Indian  cluirch  he,  for  some  reason,  was  not  made  one  of 
warri(U's  under  Chief  Cornstalk.  In  1776  he  went  them.  Three  were  chosen,  and  not  a  McAfee 
down  into  Tennessee  with  Colonel  Christian  ann)ng  them.  (Jeorge  Buchanan,  James  McCoun, 
against  the  Cherokees,  whom  the  British  had  in-  Sr.,  and  William  Armstrong  were  the  men  selected, 
cited  to  revolt.  In  1777  and  "78  he  was  in  the  Janus  .McAfee  was  undoubtedly  a  modest  man,  and 
Colonial  Militia  as  First  Lieutenant,  and  served  it  may  be  that  he  declined  to  allow  his  name  to  be 
against  the  British.  He  was  probably  with  General  c(msi(lered.  The  reason  this  eldest  one  of  the  Mc- 
Ge(u-ge  Bogers  Clark  iu  his  exiiediti(Ui  against  the  Afees,  then  nearly  fifty  years  old,  and  esteemed 
Ohio  Indians  in  1780.  Thi-oughout  life  he  proved  for  his  good  jtulgnnmt  and  reliability,  was  not  put 
himself  a  brave  man  who  was  ready  to  face,  with  into  office,  we  shall  never  know;  but  it  is  a  rather 
calmness  and  resolution,  any  dangers  he  was  called  uuaecountaible  fact.  But  the  church  got  good  men. 
to  meet.  one   of  whom,    George    Buchanan,   suggested   the 

He  seems  to  have  been,  like  nearly  all  the  pion-  name  that  was  given  the  church  an<l  which  it  still 

eers,   a  man   of  scarcely    any    sentiment    or    ro-  bears— a  most  appropriate  name,  and    one   which 

mance.     In  all  his  journal  of  177:j,    in    which    he  only  a  devout  man  would  have  been  apt  to  think  of. 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


city,  wliicli  included  seven  slaves,  was  inventoried 
at  $3,788.11.'.  The  acinal  value  (if  the  1,700  acres 
(if  land  devised  liy  the  will  we  can  (udy  ^uess  at — 
it  uia\  iiave  lieen  .$2.5,000.  We  know  that  to-day  it 
wduld  Iniui;  ])rolial)ly  three  tinu's  thai  sum.  We 
iiia\'  sa\'  ilial   he  Icll  an  estate  worlh  not  far  from 


The  name  "New  I'l-ovidcncc"  was  uiven  to  signalize  \\do(ls,  dr.;  his  daughter  Betsy,  wife    of    William 

the  grateful  recollect  i(.n  whicii  lliose  people  cher-  Davenport;  his  daughter  Nancy,  the  wife  of  Alex. 

is||,.,i    ,,(■    II, c    innny    special  dciiwrauces   (iodhad  I'.uchauau ;  and   the  four  children  (d'  his  daughter 

vouchsafed  to  iheni  from  1773  (o  17S.x  IVggy  McKamey.     To  his  s,ui  (Mark  he  gives  what 

When  the  little  c(dony  arrived  at  l-'alt  River  in  he  calls  "my  farm  and  about  five  hundred  acres 

the  fall  of  1779,  the  Station  which  was  to  he    for  corneidng  on   John   .Armstrong's  land."     By    "my 

the  ne.xt  fifteen  years  the  centrni  rallying  jdace  for  farm"  was  pr(dialdy  meant  his  old  home  place,  on 

defence,  was  erected  on    his  land.     To  -Tames  .Me-  which  stood  the  stone  house  which  he    erected    in 

.\fee"s  Station   the  whole  community    repaired   in  1700.     .\s  this  farm  ]U'ohal)ly  C(mtained  400  acres 

the  hour  of  danger  through  many  years.  in-  juust  have  given  (Mark  900  acres  in  all.    To  John 

He  evidentlv  was  prospered  in  his  worldly  he  gave  300  acres  on  the  west  side  of  Salt  River, 
affairs  despite  the  considerahle  family  he  had ;  and  lie  juMivided  that  r)00  acres  more,  heiug  the  balance 
when,  by  the  year  1790,  it  was  apparent  he  could  of  the  "home  tract,"  was  to  be  divided  u])  between 
pianlently  cease  living  in  a  fori,  he  proceeded  to  Betsy  T>avenport,  Nancy  Buchanan,  and  the  four 
erect  what,  in  tiuit  day,  must  have  seemed  a  pa-  children  (d'  reggy  .McKamey.  His  personal  ju'op- 
latial  mansion — a  neat  two-story  dwelling  (d' 
dressed  stone.  And  so  well  did  his  w(U-knien  per- 
form their  task  that  after  die  lapse  (d'  one  hundred 
and  fourteen  years  it  is  a  comf(n'table  dwelling 
still,  and  used  as  such.  The  picture  of  it  in  this 
volume  faithfully  re]U'esents  ii  as  il,  was  only  a  few 
years  ago  (in  IS'.i.".).  There  is  jiroiiably  not  a  .|30,000. 0(1,  which,  in  iliat  dav,  would  ha\-e  been  con- 
house  in  all  Kentucky  at  this  time,  of  any  descrip-  sidered  rather  large.  Sally  |  I'atsy  i  and  Woodford 
tion,  that  antedates  the  birth  of  Kentucky  as  a  Woods,  the  children  (d'  his  daugliler  .Mary  by  her 
State  and  is  still  in  such  good  liabitable  condition.  last  husband,  Samind  Woods,  Jr.,  were  assured  a 
ft  is  one  of  the  relics  which  the  State,  as  such,  home  and  educati(Ui.  Their  brother,  James  Har- 
ought  to  keep  from  jierishing  from  I  lie  land.  Ken-  vcy  AN'oods,  is  not  mentioned  in  the  will,  and  ju'ob- 
iiicky  has  never  yet  done  anything  to  attest  her  ap-  ably  because  he  was  now  ( in  1809)  eighteen  years 
preciation  of  the  .AIcAfee  family,  who  were  of  her  of  age,  and  was  making  his  own  living.  Fnuu  the 
earliest  and  noblest  pioneers,  and  here  is  a  spot  on  way  in  whicli  he  speaks  of  the  two  '\\'oods  children 
which  she  might  widl  erect  some  beneficent  institu-  it  would  seem  that  their  mother,  .Alary,  may  not 
tion  such  as  an  industrial  school,  for  example,  as  have  been  then  alive. 

a  monument  to  men  who  contribiiied   in  no  small  James  McAfee  died  June  25,  ISll,  aycd  seventy- 

nieasiire  to  the  founding  (d'  the  (' mouAvealtli.  five  years,  as  we  learn  from  the  tombstone  at  his 

James  McAfee's  will  was  made  January  24,  1809,  grave.      Ills   wile,    .\gnes,   survived   him   not  <|uite 

and  admittcMl  to  record  at  the  .Mercer  County  July  three  years,  dying  May  2,  1814.    They  were  buried 

Court  of  1811.     His  two  S(Uis,  John  and  Clark,  he  side  by  side  in  the  old  Pioneer  Graveyard,  on  the 

named  his  executors.     The  witnesses  were  General  top  of  the  hill,  about  six  or  seven  hundred  yards  to 

R.  B.  McAfee,  Sammd   Bunt(m  and  Hannah    Mc-  the  north-east  of  the  old  stone  hcm.se,  and  about  five 

Afee.     He  mentions  the  following  j.ersons  in  the  or  six  hundred  yards  to  the  south-west,  by  south, 

will:  his  "loving  wife,  .\gues" ;  his  .sons  J(din,  and  ,,f  ijic   New   Providence   Churcdiyard.      The  editor 

Clark;  his  two  grandchildren,   Sally,   and    Wood-  of  this  V(diime  visited  the  spot  in  the  summer    of 

ford  Woods,  wlio  were  the  (uphan  children  of  his  1897,  and  found  all  the  stones  of  both  graves  lying 

daughter   :\rary     by     her     last    husband,     Samuel  flat  on  the  ground,  and  almost  hidden  from  view. 


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They  are  ueat  stones,  and  the  insoriptioiiis  on  Uieni  east  of  her  laihci's  I ic  i>ii  ilic  lianks  of   James 

are  very  clear.     Tliey  Iiave  Iteen  reset  in  position,  Ivivcr,  ihcic  lived  a  well  in-dn  y()uii_i;\\i(hi\ver.  whose 

but    they    hick    a     proper     foundation.     Tlie     (wo  iiainc  was  i)a\  id  Woods.     I!y  Hie  will  of  j:is  fatlier, 

graves  lie  side  hy  side  and  extend  due    east    and  \\iiu  died  in   1777,  l)a\id  had  conic  int<i  possession 

west.     That  of  .Tames,  \\liicli  is  ihc  inoi'c  northerly  of  the  old  iioiiicslcad  on  llic-laincs,  which  included 

of  the  two,   is  just    tweuty-sevt'U  and  a    half    feet  fcnir  hundred  acres  of  ^ 1     land,      ii     has     been 

south  of  the  fence  which  runs,  east  and  west    and  known   iioih  as  ilie  "Hollow    t'oi-d    I'ai-ni.""  aud  as 

divides  the  farm  of  ^^'atts  from  tlu-  fiidd  in  which  the  "Slie|(liei(l   Island   Farm."     ii   is  located  about 

the  graves  are.     No  care  whatever  is  taken  of  this  live  miles  below    liuclianan,  and  directly  opposite 

ancient  burial-place.     It   is  in  an  open  field  where  the  village  of  Indian  Kock.     I'rom  that  farm  down 

.s.tock  roved  at  will,  and  unless  the  descendants  of  to  ihe  home  (d' -T.nnes  McM'ee,  dr..  on  the  ("atawha, 

the   sainted   dead    provide  a    substantial   enclosure  it  was  hni  a  day"s  journey,  and  l>avid  came  to  like 

for  Ihe  i)]ace,  in  a  few  nH)re  years  Hie  grave  stones  fo  travel  that  way.     Certain  it  is,  he  mari'icd  Mary, 

w  ill  have  been  broken  to  pieces  and  scattered,  and  His  first  wife  had  left  him  one  <laugliter.  .\nn,  and 

the  last  resting-])lace  oi'  the  leader  (d"  the  McAfee  one  son  named   John.     I'or    various    reasons    the 


brothers  will  have  become  indistinguishable,  and 
trodden  nnilcr  the  feet  of  cattle  and  horses.  There 
are  other  graves  near  by,  the  mosl  <if  which  have  no 
grave  stones  in  position  aud  nothing  to  indicate 
whose  ashes  are  sleei)ing  there — an  apt  illustration 
(>{  tlie  truth  that  the  deadest  and  most  desolate 
thing  in  all  this  wurld  is  a  cemeiery  that  has 
ceased  to  lie  used  an<l  cared  for,  and  to  which  lov- 
ing hands  c(une  no  more  to  lay  the  tributes  (d' atfec- 
lion  on  the  graves  of  those  who  slumber  there. 

James  ]*lcAtVe,  Jr.,  and  Agnes  had  lioru  to  them 
eight  children,  to  wit:  Mary,  John,  Janu's  III, 
Elizabeth,  Nancy,  (ieorge,  Margaret,  and  Thomas 
Cl.-irk,  of  each  (uie  (d'  whom,  in  order,  such  notice 


date  of  his  marriage  to  .Mary  has  to  be  fixed  not 
later  than  the  simuner  of  177!l.  If  he  was  born,  as 
is  sujiposed,  in  1742;  and  married  his  first  wife  in 
17fi8;  ami  his  first  child,  .\nn,  was  born  in  1764; 
and  Ids  second  child,  .lolin,  was  liorn  in  1700;  then 
in  1770.  when  he  married  his  second  wife,  Mary, 
he  was  himscdf  thirty-seven,  his  daughter  Ann  was 
fifteen,  and  his  sou  John  was  thirteen,  whilst  ilary, 
the  new  wife,  was  possibly  only  about  sixteen. 
Whilst  none  of  these  dates  are  capable  of  exact 
verification,  it  is  believed  tliat  not  one  of  them  can 
be  far  from  the  truth  in  the  case.  This  second 
marriage  of  D.avid  must  have  occurred  in  1778  or 
1779,  a  short  time  before  the  migration  of  the  Mc- 


w  ill  be  given  as  the  information  at  the  editor's  com-  Afees  to  Kentucky.  When  that  large  colony  de- 
mand nuty  warrant.  It  is  with  deep  regret,  how-  parted  for  the  western  wildeiiiess  James  McAfee's 
ever,  tlmt  lie  is  obliged  to  pass  so  nmny  by  with  a      eldest  child,  Mary,  was  the  wife  of  David  Woods, 

and  perhaps  mistress  of  the  old  homestead  on  the 
James  Rivei-.  P.ut  it  was  natural  that  she  and  her 
husband    slionld    be   attracted    to   Kentucky.     We 


bare  mention. 

The  Ciiii.miioN  of  James  ^McAfee,  .Jr 
I_MA1{V  .Mc.\  FEE-  1761-1814.  (?) 


:\rary,  the  first  child  of  James  and  Agnes,  was, 
l)ey(uul  reasonable  doubt,  born  on  Catawba  Creek, 
some  eight  or  ten  miles  noiih-west  of  Salem,  Vir- 
ginia. The  date  (if  her  birth,  we  have  good  cause 
for  believing,  was  aliout  ]7(;tl-l  70:>.  The  most  that 
we  certainly  know  concerning  her  r(dates  t<i  hei-  two 
nuirriages,  and  ihere  was  something  of  romance 
about  both  of  them.     About  thirtv-five  miles  north- 


know  that  there  was,  a  few  years  later,  quite  a 
migration  of  Woodses  from  T.otetourt  to  the  very 
region  in  which  the  :McAfees  had  settled.  David 
was  the  main  executor  of  his  father's  estate,  which 
may  hav(>  required  some  years  for  its  winding  up; 
and  then  Ihe  IJevolution  was  in  progress,  aud  it 
may  be  llial  lie  was  slow  to  follow  his  wife's  peo- 
ple to  the  ^^■est.  It  is,  nevertheless,  possible  that 
he  may  have  accompanied  (he  ^McAfees,  who  moved 
(lie  ITth  of  August,  1779,  for  the  Botetourt  records 


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show  Hull  Aui;iisl  1],  1770.  ho  sold  the  old  home- 
stciid  to  his  lu-other-iii-law,  'Williain  Campbell,  for 
lliirl\  li\c  Iniiidrcd  pdiiiids.  Tliis,  however,  is  uot 
considered  mtv  ])i-ol)alile,  hecanse  liis  lii-other 
Saimiel  and  family  seem  lo  have  accompanied  him, 
iiiid  I  he  iirsi  IvHown  entries  of  land  made  in  Ken- 
lucky  hy  ciilicr  David  or  Samnel  conld  not  have 
aiiledaled  17S:;.  (.r  1 7S2,  at  most.  But  wliatever 
llie  exact  dale,  we  know  certainly  that  I>avid  and 
liis  wife,  and  all  his  children  (except  iiis  first  wife's 
danjiliter  .\un.  who  liad  married  a  Jonathan  Jen- 
innn-s)  and  liis  \\  idnwi^d  mother,  and  his  brother 
Samuel  and  family  were  all  livinff  in  Kentucky  by 
iho  year  17S.'?.  ;uid  ].ossihly  by  the  fall  of  1782. 
The  land  cnlries  nunle  by  Samnel  and  David  in 
ivcnl  ncky.  and  (itliei-  cdnsidcral  ions,  raise  a  very 
stroui^-  presumption  in  support  of  this  conclusion. 
David  A^'oods.  with  his  family,  settled  in  what 
is  knoM  n  as  the  Cane  Run  nein;hborliood,  a  few 
miles  east  of  Ilarrodsburji;,  Ky.  There  he  died  in 
1786.  His  ^\'ill,  on  record  in  Mercer  County,  shows 
that  it  was  written  in  September,  1780,  and  ]u-o- 
hated  in  January  following'-in  less  than  four 
mouths  thereafter.  In  his  will  lie  mentions  Mary, 
his  ••licloved  wife;"  Ann,  the  daughter  of  his  first 
wife,  who  was  now  the  wife  of  Jonathan  Jennings, 
and  her  lirodier  John,  and  the  three  children  of  his 
last    marriage,    ^'aucy,    AMlliam,    and     l^lizabeth. 

Samuel  W Is,  Sr.,  David's  brother,  was  one  of  the 

witnesses  to  the  will,  and  he  was  made  the  guar- 
dian of  the  minor  children.  Thus  Mary  was  left  a 
widow,  at  the  age  of  about  twenty-five,  with  three 
young  childi'cn  of  her  own,  and  one  stepson,  now 
nearly  grown. 

For  fear  of  imitaling  too  closely  the  modern  his- 
torical romance,  the  editor  has  refrained  from  any 
suggestive  references  thus  far  to  a  certain  younsr 
man,  the  son  of  Samuel  Woods,  Sr.,  and  nephew  of 
David  Wdods,  deceased.  That  would  have  pre- 
sented a  "sensational  situation."  Fidelity  to  the 
actual  lacls,  however,  now  compel  lis  to  introduce 
liiin.  Samnel  Wo.ids.  Jr.,  was  probably  a  young 
man  of  aiioui  Iwenly-two  or  four  when  Mai-y  was 
iett  a  widow ,  and  hence  something  like  one  to  three 


years  her  junioi-.  Exact  dates  can  uot  be  given, 
but  those  \\-e  do  give  liave  strong  circumstantial  evi- 
dence to  support  them.  Samnel,  Sr.,  was  the  guar- 
dian of  Mary's  children,  but  Samuel,  Jr.,  seems  to 
have  aspired  to  still  greater  tilings — he  became, 
aliout  five  years  laiter,  the  guardian  of  those  chil- 
dren, and  of  their  mother,  as  well.  About  the  year 
17'.il  he  and  .Mary  were  married,  and  Samuel,  Sr., 
gave  his  son  a  fine  start  in  life  in  the  way  of  lands 
and  personal  i)roperty.  Aud  as  the  years  passed, 
and  :\Iary  bore  to  him  four  children  of  his  own, 
he  soon  found  himself  the  head  of  a  very  consider- 
able family.  This  marriage  was  opposed  by  the 
meuibcrs  of  the  two  families,  owing,  no  doubt,  to 
;\rary's  being  one  to  three  years  her  husband's 
senior,  and  to  the  fact  that  he  was  her  nephew-in- 
law.  But  it  seems  to  have  ]»roved  a  happy  match, 
and  there  were  only  sentimental  reasons  to  be 
urged  against  its  consummation.  If  we  look  at  all 
the  facts  calmly,  aud  recall  how  scarce  eligible  ma- 
terial for  wives  was  at  that  day  in  Kentucky,  and 
note  that  there  was  a  quite  reasonable  delay  (five 
years!  no  blame  can  attach  to  any  one  for  the 
forming  of  that  union.  The  children  of  Samuel 
Woods,  Jr.,  and  IMary  were  the  following:  (a) 
James  Harvey  Woods,  who  w^as  born  in  1792,  aud 
died  in  1800;  (li)  An.\,  who  married  George  Bo- 
hon;  (c)  I'atsy,  who  married  a  Slicely,  and  (d) 
Wouwa)i!i),  who  died  liefore  reaching  nuinhood.  In 
1802  3Iary  was  again  bereaved  of  a  husband, 
Samuel  ^^■oods,  Jr.,  dying  before  he  hail  reached 
the  age  of  forty.  She  did  not  survive  him  a  great 
many  years.  ^\'hen  her  father,  James  INIcAfee, 
wrote  his  will  in  ISdil  he  rcd'erred  to  her  minor 
children  in  a  way  to  indicate^  she  might  not  be 
alive.  There  are  references  to  her  in  the  court 
proceedings  of  Mercer  County,  which  prove  she 
was  dead  by  1813.  About  a  dozen  of  the  descend- 
ants of  this  couple  are  subsci^ibers  to  this  volume. 

II— JOHN  McAFEE. 

John  McAfee  was  the  second  child  of  James, 
Jr.,  and  Agnes,  his  wife.  The  editcu'  has  no  knowl- 
edge of  him  except  that  he  married  :\Iargaret 
Ewing.  daughter  of  Samuel  Ewing,  Jr.,  who  was 


BKIEF  NOTICES  UF  TJJE  riONEEU   .MeAFEEvS. 

VI— GEORGE  McAFEE. 


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the  son  of  Samuel  Ewing,  Sr.,  who  luarried  oue 
Margaret  McMichael,  and  tliat  when  his  father 
wrote  his  will  in  ISO!)  he  mentions  this  son  hy 
niaane,  giving-  him  300  acres  of  land  lying  on  the 
west  side  of  Salt  River,  and  ((HisI Killing  liini  one 
of  the  executors  of  the  estate.  John  w  as  no  douht 
born  on  Catawba  Creek,  Virginia,  and  tlie  date  of 
his  birth  was  probably  not  far  from  the  year  1765. 
We  have  no  means  of  knowing  when  he  died,  or 
whether  he  left  any  children. 

Ill— JAMES  McAFEE,  THIRD. 

James  McAfee  III  was  liic  lliiid  child  of  James 
McAfee,  Jr.,  and  Agnes.  He  was  born  in  Virginia, 
possibly  about  1767,  but  he  died  very  suddenly  in 
his  bed  oue  nigiit  in  tlie  year  17So. 

IV— ELIZABETH  McAFEE. 

Elizabeth  (Betsy)  McAfee  was  the  fourth  child 
of  James,  Jr.,  and  Agnes.  The  date  of  her  birth 
may  have  been  about  1770.  She  married  William 
Davenport.  In  ISOiJ  lier  father,  in  his  will,  left 
500  acres  of  laud,  one-third  tlie  proceeds  of  which" 
was  to  be  given  to  her. 

V— NANCY  McAFEE. 

Namcy  McAfee  was  tlie  hfth  cliihl  of  dailies,  Jr., 
and  Agues.  It  is  not  positively  known,  but  she 
was  probably  born  iu  Botetourt  Couuty,  \'irginia, 
on  Catawba  Creek,  about  the  year  1773.  She  no 
doubt  came  to  Kentucky  with  her  parents  in  1779. 
Later  on  slie  married  Alexander  Buchanan,  her 
first  cousin,  by  whom  she  had  six  children,  to  wit: 
(a)  il.VKY;  (b)  Jamus  iM.;  (c)  Wili-ia.m  ;  (d) 
Alexaxdku;  (e)  Caleis;  and  (f)  (iiooiiUE.  In  the 
section  in  this  volume  devoted  to  the  Buchanans 
will  be  found  a  full  account  of  the  desceiidantis  of 
Nancy  McAfee,  to  which  the  reader  is  nd'erred. 
She  and  her  husband  lie  side  by  side  in  Nt'w  I'rov- 
idence  Chiirchyanl,  and  their  descendants  ai'e  peo 
pie  of  high  social  position  and  moral  wortli. 


The  sixth  child  of  James,  Jr.,  and  Agnes  was 
George,  wlio  \\iis  prolmbly  born  about  (lie  year 
1776.     He  was  never  married,  and  died  in  1804. 

VII— MARGARET  lI'FGGY)    McAFEE. 

The  sevenlli  diild  of  •Iniiies,  Jr.,  and  Agnes  was 
^largaret  (oflen  culled  I'eggy).  Slie  was  born 
in  Kentucky,  for  ilie  date  of  her  birili  was 
:May  15,  17S().  (he  year  after  tlie  :\IcAfees  set- 
tled in  Kentucky.  She  married  John  McKamey, 
who  was  eleven  years  her  senior,  by  whom  slie  had 
children.  The  reader  is  referred  for  further  iiifor- 
iiiatiou  coiicerniiig  this  liraucli  of  tlie  family  to  the 
sections  (le\dted  lo  .Mrs.  Margai'et  D.  Guthrie,  ilrs. 
Champ  Clark,  and   .Mrs.  Jomnie  ^I.  ^larshall. 

Her  father  ineiition.s  her  in  his  will  in  connec- 
tion with  her  four  children,  in  1809,  as  if  she  was 
then  a  widow. 

A'lII- THOMAS  CLARK  McAFEE. 

The  eighth  and  last  child  of  James,  Jr.,  and 
Agnes  was  Thomas  Clark  (Clark  is  often  spelled 
with  a.  final  e).  He  was  born  in  Kentucky  in 
1785.  In  the  year  1S08  he  married  Nancy 
Greathouse,  of  Shelby  County,  Kentucky,  by  whom 
he  had  nine  children,  as  follows:  (a)  George  G.  ; 
(b)  Is.vAC;  (c)  10i.i/..\r.KTii  K.;  idi  Thomas  Ci.i:- 
laxd;  (el  William  1j:\vis:  (fi  Sarah  Jaxe;  (g) 
Ameuica;  (hi  Nancy  Clauke;  and  (j)  JIauy  E. 
Tlie  sections  in  the  succeeding  chapter  of  this  vol- 
ume devoted  to  ^liss  Sallie  Daingerheld,  .Mrs.  Wil- 
liam L.  McAfee,  and  Mr.  Edwin  McAfee  will  con- 
tain addilionni  mailer  in  regard  tit  this  branch  of 
the  family,  lo  which  I  he  rea<ler  is  referred. 

"Clarke  McAfee,"  ;is  his  fallier  refers  to  him  in 
his  will,  was  a  favorite  son  of  his  jiartMits.  lie  in- 
herited tlie  (dd  sionc  mansion  which  his  father 
built,  and  in  which  he  resided  at  the  time  of  his 
death  in  ISII,  nud  a  hirL;c  body  nf  tine  land.  He 
was  one  of  the  execniors  of  his  father's  estate.  He 
died   in  18l.'7,   and    his  descendants  are  scattei-ed 


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ihrdiiLtliniii  iIh-  I'liidii.  It  ix  ;i  matttM'  of  sincere  County,  Pennsylvania.  April  13,  1740.  He  was 
rcurcl  that  so  little  is  to  be  found  in  this  volume  in  with  his  parents  in  their  various  nugrations,  and 
regard   to  (his  prcunincnt   nu'uiber  of  the  McAfee      \\as  a  lioy  u(  about  seven  or  (^-ight  years  when  they 


tinally  settled  on  ("atawlia  Creek,  Virginia.  When 
tlie  Frencii  and  Indian  wars  began  (1754)  he  was 
ton  young  lo  !)<■  a  soldirr;  liui  as  liinsc  wars  con- 
tinuiil  Cor  nine  years,  and  (ienci'al  I\.  B.  McAfee 
states  that  "nearly  all"  of  the  McAfee  men  partici- 
jiated  in  I  hem.  we  must  believe  that  George  served 
during  al  least  some  of  the  latter  years  of  that 
long  series  of  contests  between  the  British,  on  the 
luie  side,  and  llie  allied  I'^rencli  and  Indians,  on 
Ihe  ol  her. 

AMieii   I  lie  e.\|»loring  tour  to  Kentucky  was  un- 
dertaken in  177:>,  (ieorge,  who  was  then  a  stalwart 


clan. 

Childijen  of  James  McAfee^  Sr. 

B— JOHN  McAFEE  HI. 

1737-1768. 

John,  tlie  second  child  of  James  ]\IcAfee,  Sr., 
and  Jane,  his  wife,  was  born  in  County  Armagh, 
Ireland,  in  1737  or  1738,  and  came  with  his  parents 
to  America,  and  accom]ianie<l  them  in  their  several 
migrations  till  they  tinally  settled  in  ^'ii'ginia,  in 
1717  oi'  1748.  Here  he  sjient  about  twenty  years 
of  his  life.  The  region  near  the  head  of  Catawba 
Creek  was  exposed  to  Indian  attacks  down  nearly  young  man  <ir  ihirty-three,  entered  into  it  heartily. 
lo  I  lie  close  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  John  He  took  a  woiiliy  part  in  all  the  experiences  of  that 
.McAfee  ITT,  as  he  came  lo  malurity,  had  to  do  ser-  remarkable  i  rip,  and  also  in  Ihe  series  of  visits  sub- 
vice  against  the  sa\ages  from  lime  to  time.  In  the  s<'(pu'nlly  made  lo  Kiuitncky  in  prepare  ilie  way  for 
year  1708,  when  in  the  prinu'  of  his  manhood,  he  the  final  settlemeni  there.  He  was  in  (/apt.  Evan 
was  killed  by  the  Indians  al  llie  ford  of  Keed  Shelby's  company  at  the  Battle  of  I'oint  I'leasant, 
Creek,  not  far  from  the  poini  where  ihat  stream  October,  1774,  willi  Colonel  Christian  in  liis  expe- 
enters  Ihe  New  Ifiver.  Noiliing  farlher  is  known  diti(ui  againsi  ihe  ( 'hemkees,  in  1770,  probably  in 
of  his  life.  He  was  the  tii'st  of  I  wo  sons  James  Mc-  t^'ie  Virginia  miliiia  sei'ving  the  C(dony  against  the 
.\fee.  Sr.,  had  In  resign  in  llie  defence  of  his  conn-  I>rilisli  in  I777-I77S.  ;ind  willi  (ieneral  (ieni-ge 
fry  againsi  a  blood-thirsly  foe,  William  being  the  Kogers  Clark  in  his  expedition  against  Ihe  Indians 
other,  senile  twidve  years  later.  iu  Ohio  in  178(1.  It  was  probably  sonuMvhere  be- 
tween the  years  170.")  and  1770  that  he  was  married 
to  Susan  Curry,  who  was  his  first  cousin,  and  a 
daughter  of  AVilllam  Curry.  It  is  said  that  in 
Malcolm,  the  third  child  of  James,  Sr.,  and  his  1781  he  received  from  Benjamin  Harrison,  Gov- 
wife  Jane,  was  born  in  Couniy  Armagh,  Ireland,  ennu'  »{  Miginia,  a  grant  of  1.40(1  acres  of  land  in 
iu  the  year  17:!'.».  only  a  few  imuiths  befoi'c  his  par-  recognition  of  his  services  as  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
cuts  set  sail  fin-  Ameriia.  While  coining  over  on  dier.  ll  is  slaled  by  Collins  (Vol.  2,  page  249) 
file  ship  In.  was  taken  ill,  and  lie  died  only  a  few  that  he,  like  his  brothers,  James  ami  Robert,  kept  a 
days  before  llie  vessel  sighled  l.iml  on  (his  side  of  daily  journal  of  the  tonr  to  Iventucky  in  1773,  but 


C— MALCOL^I  McAFEE. 
1739. 


the  .Mlaiilic.  'Pile  l)ody  of  (he  liiilo  liabe  was 
lowei'ed  inlo  Hie  dee]>.  and  his  jia reals  had  to  enter 
this  New  World  under  ilie  shadow  of  a  peculiar 
bereavement. 

n— GEORGE  :\IcAFEE. 
1740-1803. 

George  McAfee.  Ihe  fimrlh  child  of  James,  Sr., 


the  editor,  afler  due  inquiry,  could  not  learn  any- 
thing of  it. 

The  survey  of  his  land  on  Salt  River,  on  which 
he  afterwards  resided,  was  made  on  either  the  22d, 
23d,  or  24th  of  July,  1773.  It  lay  on  the  east  liank 
of  Salt  River,  about  a  mile  and  a  half  due  south- 
west of  the  present  town  of  Salvisa.  His  house 
stood  only  a  few  hnndi'ed  vards  west  of  where  the 
and  Jane,  was  born  on  Ocinraio  Creek,  Lancaster      track  of  the  Southern  Railway  now  runs.     When 


BKIEF  NOTICES  UF  THE  i'lUAEEi;    .MiAEEES.  203 

TlIK   CuiLDKEiN   OF   GkOKCK    McAFEE,   Sll. 

I — TOIIN  McAl'IOK. 


tlie  compan}'  had  that  critical  experience  Aumist 
12,  1773,  on  the  Big  Black  Monntains,  he  seemed 
nearer  to  fatal  exhanstion  than  either  of  his  broth- 
ers, and  he  would  most  probably  have  died  liad  not 
relief  come  Ix'fore  the  follo\\inti'  HKiruinn.  lie  was 
back  in  Kentucky  witli  his  brothers  early  in  the 
spring  of  1775,  and  he  and  William  McAfee  cleared 
a  small  piece  of  ground  at  tliat  time  at  a  spring 
which  runs  into  the  Town  Branch  a  short  distance 
below  Harrodsburg.  Tlie  company  started  back  to 
Virginia  in  April  of  that  year,  after  making  im- 


Tlie  first  diilil  nf  ( icdrge,  Sr.,  and  Susan  Curry 
was  .lubn,  \\li<i  I'ncd  Id  iiiaiilindil  uiiiii;iri'i«;d,  and 
(lied  in  Sdiilli  ("ai'dlina  while  engaged  in  trading. 
Ndtliing  further  is  know  n  of  him. 

II— JA,AIi:s  .M(AFEK   (TlIF  FOUBTlIl. 

The  second  chihl  of  George  McAfee  by  his  wife 

Susan   (Susannah)   was   named    James    (lY),   no 

doul)t  in  honor  of  his  father's  elder  brother,  -James, 
provements  on  their  land,  and  when  on  the  21st  of      j,,    .p,„.  ,,^.„.,  ,,.,,,.  .„,,,  j,,.,,.,,  ,,,■  ,,j^  ,,,,.,,,  .„.,.  ^„,. 

that  month  they  met  Colonel  Henderson  at  Scagg's  ,.,,„^^,,  ^,i^  jmivuIs  were  i-rdhnhly  iniirri,.!  abdui 
Creek  on  his  way  to  Boonesboro,  George  agreed  ^-^..  ^,,  ^--^^  .,,,,j  |,^,^^..,^  prdbabiybdrn  in  I!di..tdnrl 
with  Robert  and  Samuel  iu  favoring  Uenderson-s  ^.,^,,,^^,.^  NMrginia.  abdut  177:!.  lie  was  six  feet 
scheme,  against  the  advice  of  tlieir  older  brother,  ,^j„.,j_  .,j,,,  ,,,.  j,^^^  j,^,,^^  p„w,n-ful  build,  and  came  to 
James,  and  parted  wit!,  Iiini  and  the  rest  of  the  ,,^.  ,.,jj,,^^.,,  .,^  ..j.i„.  j,,,^  McAfee",  a  man  whom  but 
company  to  go  witli  llendei'son  to  Boonesboro. 
But  in  about  two  uDiitlis  the  three  younger  broth- 
ers proceeded  to  Virginia,  and  later  on  they  learned 


that  the  Colonial  GovernmeDL  repudiated  Hender- 
son's claims.  But  George  and  his  brothers,  Bobert 
and  Samuel,  though  mistaken  in  their  judginent, 
had  some  share  in  tlie  sd-calle(l  Tiansylvania  Col- 
duy  undertaking,  Avliicli,  (lesjjite  its  failure,  forms 
one  of  the  most  interesting  and  important  episodes 
in  the  early  history  of  Kentucky. 

Susan  Curry  (often  called  "Susanna")   was  the 
daughter  of  William  ("urry.  and  a   first  cousin  to 


few  peoph'  wuubl  care  to  encounter  in  a  iiand  to 
hand  tight.  He  married  Nancj^  McKamey.  He 
seems  to  liave  been  engaged,  as  so  many  men  in 
Central  Kentucky  were,  in  taking  stock,  furs  and 
provisions  on  tiat-boats  down  (lie  Kentucky,  Ohio 
and  ilississippi  Bivers  to  New  Orleans.  It  is  re- 
lated of  him  that  uu  one  dccasion,  having  taken  a 
cargo  to  tliat  city  and  receixi'd  liis  pay  fur  it,  he 
was  making  his  \\a\  back  JKime  liy  land,  and  lie  and 
some  comiianidus  slojiped  f(n-  the  night  at  a  la\c'rn. 
A  conspiracy  was  formed  by  a  gang  i>f  thieves  to 


George  McAfee.     She  was   also   the   sister   of  the  rob  these  men,  who  were  sniyjxiscd    to    have   their 

Rebecca  Curry  who  became  the  wife  of    her    bus-  Ixdts  full  of  Spanish  coin,  and  the  keejx'r  of    the 

band's  younger  brother  William.     She    was    born  tavern  was  in  the  plot.     But  after  tlie  keeper  min- 

October  8,  1740.  prol)ably  in    Virginia,    aiid    died  „ied  with  the  travellers  an<l  discoveicd   who  they 


September  3,  ISIO. 

(jleorge  ;McAfee,  husband  of  Susan  Curry,  died 
more  tlian  seven  years  before  his  wife  did,  viz.: 
April  14,  1803.  His  remains  lie  in  tin'  New  Provi- 
dence Churchyard,  and  from  iiis  (ombslone  there 
tlie  dates  of  his  birth  and  death  are  taken.  His 
grave  was  the  first  one  opened  in  tliat  venerable 
cemetery.  Tlieir  descendants  are  to  be  found  in 
K<'ntucky.  Missouri  and  varions  uihcr  ])arts  oi  the 
Union.  Tiiis  cou])i('  liad  ilic  rollowing  six  chihli-eii, 
to  wit:   (a)   John;    (b)    James;    (c)    .Mai!(;ai!et  ; 


were,  lie  went  out  to  his  confederates  and  wliis- 
pered  a  warning  to  them — "Don't  tiy  it  :  Big  .lim 
McAfee  is  among'  'em.''  That  fact  seemed  to  imve 
a  treuKUidous  significance  witli  the  i"ascals,  and  he 
li\(d  to  reach  home  again,  lie  served  as  a  soldier 
in  liie  War  of  1812.  In  the  year  1826  he  removed 
to  Missouri. 

James  (  IV  I  and  his  wife  Nancy  had  (]ir(>e  sons, 
to  wit:  (a)  Geoi!(;e  (III  I,  who  was  killed  by 
lightning;    (b)    PiilLii'.    who    niarrieil      I'lizabeth 


(d)    Georue,   Jr.;    (e)    SrsAX,    (f)    and    another      Shcely ;  and  (c)  ROBERT  Livi.xgstoxe.  who  married 
daughter.  Jane  Murray.    Robert  L.  was  educated  at  Danville, 


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THE    WOODS-McAPEE    MEMOKIAL. 


Ky.,  iind  liccanic  u  I'rcshytcrian  iiiiuislcr.  Kobert 
L.  and  liis  wifi',  Jane  :M.  R.  :\rooie,  had  iliildren, 
as  folldws:  1.  l':iizabetli,  who  died  in  infancy;  2, 
Mary  Kdclicster,  who  married  ^Marvin  K.  Ranks, 
who  dii'd  in  ("olinnbia.  ^Fo..  ^lay  l'-^.  1884;  3, 
•lanics  l'liili|i,  wlm  iiian-icd  Anifa  Ab'xaiKb'r,  of 
ivciii  iicky.  and  has  ruin-  di  11  dn mi  w  ho  will  be  noicd 
in  the  section  of  the  sncceedins;-  cliapter  (b'voted  to 
.lames  I'liiliji  McAfee;  4,  Jane,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy; o,  Cornelia  Lawson,  who  is  a  sister  in  tlie 
Convent  of  Afercy  at  Lonisvilb^  Ky. ;  and  (>.  Laura, 
who  died  at  llie  ai;e  of  fifteen. 


V— 8USAN  McAFEE. 

The  fifth  child  (if  George  McAfee  and  his  wife 
Snsan  was  named  for  her  mother.  8nsan.  Tlie  date 
of  her  liirtii  and  dealli  are  not  Icnow  n  Id  Die  writer. 
She  married  Robert  McKamey.  who  was  a  brotlier 
of  the  Joliu  ^fcKamey  w  lio  married  Margaret,  tho 
daughter  of  James  McAfee,  Jr.,  and  his  wife  Agnes. 

^'I — Tliere  was  anotlier  daughter,  and  she  mar- 
ried an  Armslrong.     See  Sketch  '.\'2.  in  I'art  III. 

E— MARY  ■McAFEE. 


The  fiflli  cliild  (){  .Tames  >rcAfee,  Si'.,  and  Jane 
liis  wife,  was  named  .Mary,  and  sIh'  was  born,  be- 
yoml  .-ill  reasnnable  dnnbi.  in  I'ennsyhania,  aiiont 
the  year  174;'..  Posilixc  assert  ions  nn  these  jioints 
can  not  be  made,  but  there  are  gdod  reasons  for  giv- 
ing the  (bite  named,  and  if  that  date  be  correct 
witliin  even  a  few  years,  then  ilie  jilace  nf  her  birth 
was  iiiKbmbtedly  .-is  stated.  .Mary  was  twice  mar- 
ried. Her  tirsi  Inisiiaiid  was  Juliii  I'onlsdn.  by 
The  fourth  child  of  George  McAfee  and  his  wife  ^^^lO"!  «''^'  1'="'  '>i^''  'laiigiUcr.  I— MAK(  iAlJET,  who 
Susan  was  (ieorge,  Jr.,  wlio  in  mature  life  came  to  married  ^Villiam  ]':wing.  one  of  the  grandsons  of 
be  known  as  "Colonel  Geo.  :\[cAfee."  He  was  born  Samuel  Ewing,  Sr.  .Mr.  I'dulsdii  having  died,  :Mary 
.\|iiil  US,  1777.  diily  a  little  iiidre  liian  two  years  married  ]\[r.  Thomas  Gaunt  lor  Grant!  tiy  whom 
jiridr  lo  the  tinal  renidxal  df  his  jiareiits  to  Ken-  she  had  the  f(dl()\\iiig  children,  to  wit:  II — MAR- 
tncky.     lie  married  Anne  liamiltiin.  who  was  born      GARET.  whd  married  her  cdiisin  John  Hnchanan; 

January  11,  1777,  and  was  therefore  a  few  nmnths      III— JANE;  IV — JOHN,  wl larried  a  .Miss  Dar- 

his  senior.     Her  jmrtrait  will  be  found  in  this  v.d-      i.^^j .  j,,„|  V_MARV.  whd  married  Ihmrv  Eccles. 


HI— :margaret  :\icAFEE. 

The  third  child  (d'  George  .McAfee  and  Susan,  his 
\\  ife.  was  name(i  Margaret,  who  married  Abraham 
Irvine,  of  Boyle  County,  Kentucky. 

IV— GEORGE  McAFEE,  JR. 

1777-1819. 


lime,  ("(doiiel  George  aiul  his  wife  Anne  had  the 
f(dlowiiig  children,  to  wit:  la)  N.vitciss.v  W.,  born 
.\iigiist  lit,  1S04,  who  married  Andrew  Forsyth; 
I  b)  .loiix.  b(un  .lainiary  '.K  ISOb;  (c)  M.vkcaret, 
born  December  1),  1807;  idi  M.xitv  McClum;,  who 
married  Joi:i-  1>.  Ri:.\xi:tt.-  (ei  \\-M.  II.;  and  (f) 
Geouci-:  i  \' I .  who  was  a  jihysician.  Colomd  (ieorge 
McAfee  died  May  1.'8.  isl'.t.  and  his  wife  Anne  sur- 
\i\C(l  him  many  years,  dying  April  7.  18.^1. 

Tiie  sectidii  of  the  succeeding  chaiiter  devoted  to 


Jane  McAfee,  the  wife  of  James,  Sr.,  who  accom- 
panied her  cliildren  to  Kentucky  in  1770,  leaving 
her  husband  in  Virginia,  lived  a  jiart  of  her  time 
with  her  widowed  daughter,  Airs.  Grant  or  Guant, 
whose  husband  was  killed  by  Indians  on  Salt  River. 
When  -Jane — ".^lother  McAfee,"  she  ought  to  be 
called,  for  the  tive  ]iioneer  brothers  were  her  sons — 
died  in  1783,  she  was  buried  on  Air.  Grant's  farm 
lieside  his  remains.     This  farm  was  on  Salt  River 


.Mr.  William  Stockwell  Forsyth  of  Paris,  Afo.,  and  iibout  three  miles  south-west  of  Harrodsburg  near 

Mrs.   Cliam|i   Chirk,   of   Kowling  Green,   Afo.,   will  what  is  known  as  "The  .Mud  .Meeting  House."'    On 

alTord     additional     inrdrmation     concerning     this  the  map  of  Mercer  Cdinity.  given  in  this  volume,  the 

brancli  of  the  family.  site  of  the  graves  referred  to  is  coriectlv  indicated. 


BIUEF  NOTICES  OF  THE  PIOXEEII    .McAFKES. 
F— ROBERT  McAFEE. 
1745-1795. 


205 


the  last  one  or  I  wo  years  of  that  protracted  con- 
flict, especially  ;is   his  sun.   liic  chi'ouioler  of  the 
.McAfee    family,    stales    lliai    •'iieai'ly   all"    of   the 
Robert  McAfee,  the  sixth  child  (if  .lames  .NfcAfee,  AfcAfees  had  parliciiiaied,  and  it  is  ceitaii;  lie  was 
Sr.,  and    Jane,    his  wife,  was    hnrn    in    Lancaster  ;iii   nnconinidnly   ilarin^   and   alhleiic  younu    man. 
("onnty,  Pennsylvania,  July  10,  1745.      lie  was  but  tlie  best  possible  material    fur  a  valuable  s(ddier. 
an  infant  when  his  parents  made  the  several  moves  Duriuir  the  lunr  uf  17T:{  he  and  his  elder  brother 
which  eudeil,  in  the  fall  of  1747,  or  the  be^inuinti  (if  Janie.s,  regardless  of  the  great  risks  incurred,  made 
1748,  in  their  settling-  on  Catawba  Creelc,  Virginia,  frequent  side  trips  off  tlu'  main  line  of  ilieir  route, 
Genl.  R.  B.  McAfee,  sou  of  Robert,  as  has  been  fully  for  several  days  at  a  tinu',  to  explore  the  country; 
discussed  in  Chapter  III,  assigns  the  year  1755  as  and  when  the  party  got  near  to  where  NewT)ort, 
tlie  date  <>(  the  settlement  of  tlie  family  in  .\ngnsta  Ky.,  now  stands,  he  went  a  long  distance,  apparent- 
<  "ounty,\'irginia.   Tlu' reaso'nswliicli  com]i(d  theedi-  ly  alone,  iido  ibe  intei-iuf  far  up  the  Licking  River, 
tor  to  tix  (ipun  1748,  a  date  seven  years  earlier,  as  rejoining  the  company  sumedays  later  on  tlie  Ohio, 
tlie  proper  time  of  that  settlement,  have  been  stated  He  seemed    to  be    absolutely  fearless    of    danger, 
at  length  in  that  place,  and  need  not   be  repeated  though  in  an  utterly  strange  land  wjiere  bands  of 
here.     Oenl.  R.  B.  McAfee  was  only  (deven  years  roving  Indians  niiglil    meet    him   ai    any   nunnent. 
(dd  wlien  his  father  met  with  his  untimidy  end  in  AVhen  the  McAfee  company  reached  the  level  bot- 
Xew  Orleans,in  ]7!l5,aud  his  mother  had  (lie(l  some  tom  on  the  Keiittidcy  River  where  Frankfort  now 
years  before,  so  that  he  could  liardly  lave  obtained  stands,  Robert  bad  their  surveyor  measure  and  en- 
from  his  parents  any  first-hand  information  about  ter  for  him  one  tract  (d'  400  acres,  and  another  of 
their  early  life.     He  says  almost  notliing  of  their  200  acres,  of  land.    These  surveys  included  the  fine 
young  days  in  his  narrative.     Some  have  thought  spring  which  heads  a  little  branch.     In  this  spring 
Robert    had    a,    university    edticatioii,    but    this    is  tlie  i)arty  buried  a  tomahawk  and  a  fish  gig,  and  the 
clearly    a    mistake.     December    10,    17GG,    Ro'bert  spring  has  been  calle(l  ".McAfee  Spring"  ever  since. 
.McAfee,  when  twenty-one  years  old,  mairied  Anne  Tlie  last  corner  of  the  survey  made  was  at  a  point 
^ticCoun,  daughter  of  James  .McCoun,  Sr.,  who  had  alxnit  •J5(l  to  :'00  feet  northwest  of  the  present  site 
come  to  Virginia  from  Ireland  in  174::.     For  some  of  the  capitol  building,  and  the  party  camped  tliat 
reason  Robert  McAfee,  in  the  spring  of  17(;7,  only  night  (July  16,  1773),  on  the  very  spot  where  the 
a  few  months  after  his  marriage,  migrated  to  North  capitol  afterwards  stood.  Thiswas  undoubtedly  the 
Carolina,  but  he  only  remained  there  a  year.     Re-  very  first  survey  ever  made  at  any  point  on  Ken- 
turning    to    Virginia,    he    .settled     in     Botetourt  tucky  River;  and  this  event,  for  all  coming  time, 
County    on  Sinking  Creek,  some  little  distance  to  connects  the  .McAfees  with  that  stream  in  the  most 
the  south-west  of  his  father's  home.     In  1770  he  intimate    manner.     From    July  8    to    August    11 
moved  up  to  the  head  of  that  creek,  and  some  of  his  this  company  were  not  any  day  more  than  a  very 
brothers  also  bought  land  in  that  section  and  re-  few  miles  distant  from  it.     For  some  reason  Robert 
moved  thither.  faik-d   to  complete   bis   title   to  the   surveys  just 
Wiien  the  tour  of  1773  to  Kentucky  was  under-  mentioneil.      in      17S5,       ilnmphrey     .Marshall — 
taken,  Roliert  was  twenity-eig'ht  years  dd,  and  into  who    is    said     to    have    bad    a    remaikably    keen 
that  movement  he  seems  to  have  entered  witli  much  eye      for      land      openings —  having      discovered 
enthusiasm.     "Whether  he  served  the  colony  in  the  that  Robert  McxVfee  had  omitted  to  make  good  his 
French  and  Indian  wars  is  rather  doubtful,  as  lie  claim,  proceeded  to  enter  a  part  of  it  for  himself, 
was  only  eighteen  years  old  when  those  wars  came  which,  it  should  be  said,  lie  liad  a  perfect  riglit  to 
to  an  end.     He  may  have  taken  some  part  during  do. 


20(5  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

Kobi'i-r's  lam]  (ui  Sail  IJivcr  was  surveved  July  \(iiiii)ii,  of  wiiich  hudy  Kobort  Mc-Afep  was  made 
J(>  and  -7,  1773.  1(  Mas  situaicd  on  ilio  cast  side  seriicanl-at-aniis.  lu  tbe  fall  of  that  same  year, 
of  the  river  ahoiii  Iniii-  miles  iidilli-wesl,  \\\  north,  Robert  was  again  in  Kentucky  witli  liis  brothers 
from  ^arro(lslnl^^^  OtluM-  [)arties  came  alimg:  and  a  inimber  of  otliei'  men.  This  (ime  the 
there  in  tlie  following  year  (1774|  with  Col.  James  3IoAfees  bronghi  callle  with  them  to  (heir  lands, 
Ilarrod;  and  thongb  itubcit  had  deadened  trees  and  and  turned  them  loose  in  the  rich  cane.  Genl.  Rob- 
piled  up  brush  heaps  on  his  land,  and  had  even  cut  ert  1>.  .Mc.Vfeedoes  not  state  positively  wbi.li  of  the 
his  initials  on  a  beech  tree,  a  man  by  the  name  of  five  bi-dthers,  (ither  than  James,  served  as  soldiers 
Williams  made  some  additional  imjirovements  on  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  but  merely  says  that 
tiio  same  lands,  and  laid  claim  to  the  property  later  '"most  of  them"'  did  so,  mentioning  by  name  James 
on.  This  led  to  a  most  protracted  and  expensive  only.  Rut  as  Robert  was  thirty  years  old  when 
law  suit,  which  annoyed  Hobei't  ^IcAfee  to  the  end  'be  wai-  began,  and  was  a  fearless  and  active  man, 
of  his  days,  and  which  was  not  finally  settled  in  he  was  probably  ;in  active  participant  in  all  tha 
favoi-  of  his  heirs  until  the  year  1820,  when  he  had  various  wars  and  expeditions  in  which  his  brothers 
been  in  his  grave  a  quarter  of  a  century.  'I'i'l  ;i  share,      \\lien  the  JMcAfees  finally  got    their 

If  the  :McAfee  brothers  returned  to  their  lands  families  to  Kentucky,  in  the  fall  of  1779,  Robert 

on  Salt  River  in  the  spring  of  1774.    as    there    is  stopped  at  AX'ilson's  Station,  two  and  a  half  miles 

good  rea.s(ni  f(U"  suiiposing  theydid.wc  can  feel  sure  south-west  of  Ilarrodslturg,  and  erected  a  cabin,  as 

Robert  was  with  them.     For  the  discussion  of  this  I"'  claimed  land  adjoining  the  station.     Rut  Wil- 

inooted  ([uestion,  however,  the  readei-  is  referred  to  ^"H  contested  his  claim,  and  the  dispute  was  set- 

ChaiderlW  I'art  II.  'l'''l    ''v   <'i''   Commissioners   adversely  to  Robert. 

In   the   fall    of  1774.     K'obei't    was   with   liis  two  l»"beit  then  made  an  entry  of  400  acres  one  mile  be- 

older  brothers,  James  and  (Jeorge.  in  Capt.  Evan  1""  the  place  first  chosen. his  land  covering  on  what 

Shelby's  company  at  the  battle  (>f  IVtiut  Pleasant,  ''^  ""^^   the   rei-ryville  turn-pike.     Rut  not  liking 

where  Cornstalk  and  his  ai'my   were  defeated   by  ""'  '<""'  '"  '''<''   ueighborhorwl  very  w<dl,  he  moved 

(ienl.  Andrew  Lewis.  down  the  river  several  miles  and  built  on  land  he 

Karly  in   177."),  he  accompaTiied   the  .McAfee  com-  ''ought   fr -lohn   .Magee,  his  brother-in-law.     Rut 

pany  to  Salt  Kiver,  ai'i-iving  ai  .lames  .McAfee's  ^'''^^  move,  as  has  already  been  narrated,  proved  a 
s[iriiig,  .March  Uili.  On  the  l.'ith.  Col.  Ilarrod  "listake,  because  it  led  hini  in  1780  into  a  law 
passed  them  on  his  way  to  re-occupy  his  cabins  at  '^uit  which  lasted  forty  years.  He  was  finally  suc- 
Harrodsburg,  six  miles  to  the  south,  which  the  In-  cessful  i  that  is,  his  heirs  were,  long  after  his 
dians  had  caused  them  to  abandon  the  previous  <leath  ),  but  it  proved  a  dearly-bought  possession, 
summer,  .\pril  L'lst.  as  (he  McAfees  wci'e  on  their  f"  t'le  spring  of  1783,  Robert  3IcAfee  moved 
way  back  to  N'irginia,  by  way  of  the  Wilderness  <^"it  of  his  brother  James's  fort  to  his  own  land,  a 
U'oad,  (hey  met  Cul.  Kichard  llendeison,  auil  Kob-  few  miles  np  the  river,  feeling  that  the  danger  of 
ert  took  a  favorable  view  of  his  enterjirise;  and  at  Indian  attacks  would  not  be  great  in  future.  This 
lIen(l<*rson"s  riMpiest  (  but  against  the  advice  of  his  yt*ar  he  paid  a  last  visit  to  his  aged  father  who  was 
brother  JaiUiesi,  he  mined  b;i(4<  and  went  with  i^fiH  living  in  Rotetourt  County,  Virginia,  carry- 
Henderson   to   Roouesboro.      Mis   brothers  (iemge  ing  to  him  many  presents  and  aifectionate  remem- 

and  Samuel  accom]ianied  him.      la s;  McAfee  and  brances  from  the  various  children.     In  the  fall  of 

the  remainder  of  his  party  continued  on  their  way  1783,  after  his  return   from  Virginia,   he  built  a 

to  A'iiginia.     The  three  brothers  who  joined  Hen-  mill  on  Salt  River  for  grinding  wheat  and  corn, 

der.son   spent  .some  two    months    at    Roouesboro.  His  brothers,  James  and  Samuel,  assisted  him  in 

They  were  present  at  Henderson's  famous  :\ray  con-  erecting   the  dam   across    Salt     River.     The    mill 


P.lfTEF  XOTK'ES  OF  THE  PIONEEII    McAEEEt^. 


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proved  a  success  tinancially.  soiiie  of  the  patrons 
coming  from  Frankfort,  alimit  tliirt.v  miles  distant. 

Robert  McAfee  was  tive  feet,  eleven  and  a  quar- 
ter inches  hiph,  large  around  the  breast,  well  pro- 
]K>rtione(l,  and  possessed  of  great  strengtli  and 
activity.  He  was  the  most  atliletic  mendier  of  the 
family.  It  was  he  that  on  that  terrible  day  on  the 
Big  Black  Mountains,  August  12,  1773,  refused  to 
despair  of  life  when  tlie  prospects  of  the  company 
looked  exceeding  dark,  and  with  a  cheerful  heart 
went  in  search  of  game.and  succeeded  in  killing  the 
deer  that  saved  iIk*  whole  i>;irty  from  starvation. 
He  liiid  ;i  large.  \vcll-|)roportioiied  face,  a 
prominent  s(iuare  forehead,  a  clear,  strong  mind 
and  very  black  and  thick  hair,  incline  1  to  curl. 
His  eyes  were  black,  or  very  dark  hazel.  He  was  a 
man  of  great  decision  of  character,  wiiom  no  ob- 
stacles seemed  to  thwart.  His  wife  was  a  kind  and 
affectionate  woman,  with  gray  eyes,  a  round,  ex- 
pansive forehead,  and  very  long  and  dark  auburn 
hair. 

In  the  spring  of  1789,  Robert  erected  a  new  house 
of  hewed  logs,  having  heretofore  lived  in  rude  cab- 
ins. One  night,  this  spring,  Indians  came  within 
one  hundred  and  fifty  yards  of  his  cabins,  and  stole 
nearly  all  of  his  horses.  Robert  raised  a  company  of 
twelve  men  at  once  and  followed  the  trail  of  the 
Indians,  and  liiially  overlook  them,  in  llie  foreiiooii 
of  the  third  day,  near  the  Ohio  Kiver  He  ordered  a 
charge,  and  the  Indians  were  routed,  one  of  them 
being  killed,  and  all  their  plunder  and  the  stolen      him  in  this  volume.  His  well-known  "Biographical 


to  New  ( >rleaiis  and  sold  out  nmsl  of  his  stock,  but 
on  the  niulil  of  .May  HI.  IT'.l."..  while  aslcc).  in  his 
boat,  some  unknown  villain  crrpi  iiimn  him  and 
struck  him  a  fearful  Idow  willi  an  axe,  which 
proved  fatal.  His  body  was  Imi-icd  ,al  I  in-  lios)(ilal 
in  \e\\   ( )rleans. 

The   children    of    Kobert    Mc.Xfer    and     his   wife 
Anne,  were  thr  follow  ing  : 

I.___^IAR(iARET.  who  married    Nailian   Neelds; 

II. — SALI.V.  who  niaia-ieil   .lames  Cma-an; 

III. — MARY,  who  married  .lo.~epli  .\danis; 

IV._ROBERT,  JR.,  who  di<(l  in  1  7S4,  aged  six 
years; 

\'.— .WNE,  who  marrie<l  John  R.  rar<lwell ; 

VI.— ROBERT  BRECKIXRTDOE.    of  whom  a 
sketch   will  be  given  ])resently; 

VII. — JOHN,  who  died  single  at  twenty  years  of 
a.iic. 

VI— ROBERT  BRECKINRIDGE  McAFEE. 

1784-1 S49. 

The  sixth  child  of  Kolieri  McAfee  and  .\nne,  his 
w  ife,  was  named  Robert  Breckinridge,  and  he  was 
born  at  his  fathers  cabin  (m  Salt  River.  .Mercer 
County.  Ky..  h'ebruary  18,  1784.  In  mainre  life  he 
was  known  as  General  McAfee.  Inasmnch  as  ac- 
counts of  (ieiieral  .Mc.Vfee's  life  ha\i'  long  since 
been  [lublished  in  (."ollins'  "History  of  Kentucky," 
vol.  -.  pages  G21,  (j'2'2,  and  in  various  other  works, 
there  is  the  less  need  of  anv  extensive  account  of 


horses  were  captured.  In  the  captured  Indian 
packs  were  found  many  silver  brooches,  rings  and 
other  ornaments. 

In  1793,  Robert  rode  to  I'hiladelpliia  on  horse- 
back to  get  Congress  to  further  some  plans  he  had 
for  getting  land  grants  in  what  is  now  Indiana,  but 
his  mission  failed,  because  the  Indian  title  had  not 
been  extinguished.  j\Ir.  John  Breckinridge,  a  law- 
yer at  Lexington,  was  associated  with  him  in  this 
enterprise.  In  1794.  Robert's  wife  died,  and  soon 
after  this  bereavement  he  planned  a  Hading  trii> 
to  New  Orleans,  and  began  building  a  lioal.  which 
was  completed  in  March.  179.".      lie  made  the  trip 


and  Familyllistory,"  in  manuscript. written  by  him 
in  184.").  has  been  many  times  cojiied.  and  is  to  be 
found  in  many  ]Miblic  and  i)ri\ale  libraries  iiiAmer- 
ica.  It  consiitules  one  main  scuirce  it(  information 
touching  th(>  Mc.\fees  up  to  the  year  I  St.").  and  ihe 
editor  has  had  a  co]>y  of  ii  before  him  during  all 
the  years  he  has  been  engaged  in  editing  Hie  [)res- 
ent  work.  To  (ieueral  .Mc.\fee.  more  than  to  an.\ 
other  individual,  living  or  dead.  Hie  desicndiints 
of  the  Irish  immi^ranl,  .l:niies  .M<-.\ree,  Sr..  owe 
grateful  acknowledgments  for  the  efforts  he  made 
to  preserve,  in  writing,  the  scattered  traditions  and 
items    of    informati(m    relatiiuj    (o    the     .McAfees. 


GENERAL  ROBERT  B.  McAFEE 
1784-184Q 

SON   OF   ROBERT,  THE   PIONEER.      THE   FAITHFUL   CHRONICLER   OF  THE  AlCAFEE    FAMILY, 
BURIED   IN    NEW   PROVIDENCE   CHURCH-YARD. 


BRIEF  NOTICES  OF  THE  PIONEER   ISFcAFEES. 


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General  McAfee  was,  first  of  all,  a  Christian  {jentle- 
man,  and  an  elder  in  the  New  Providence  church. 
He  was  an  educated  man,  and  was  favored  with  the 
society  and  friendship  of  tlie  licst  people  to  be 
found  in  Kentncky  at  the  time  he  was  preparing 
for  the  active  duties  of  life.  As  a  soldier  in  the 
War  of  1S12,  he  served  with  distinction,  havinp,- 
commanded  the  laroest  company  in  Colonel  Rich- 
ard M.  Johnston's  refjiment  at  the  hattle  of  the 
Thames,  October,  1818.  As  a  member  of  the  Ken- 
tucky Lejjislature  for  many  years,  as  Lieutenant- 
Ciovci'nor  of  his  native  State  for  four  years,  and  as 
the  representative  of  tlie  TTuited  States  at  the  capi- 
tal of  Colombia,  South  America,  for  a  like  term, 
be  shed  lustre  upon  the  family  name.  In  1842,  he 
was  elected  one  of  tlie  visitors  to  West 
Point  Military  Academy,  and  was  made  presi- 
dent of  the  board.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Royal  Antiquarian  Society  of  Denmark, 
and  of  tlie  Kentucky  Historical  Society.  In  Octo- 
ber, 1S07,  he  was  married  to  Miss  ]Mary  Card  well, 
by  whom  he  had  a  considerable  family  of  children. 
Ceneral  McAfee  died  in  1849,  in  the  si.xty-fifth  year 
of  his  ai;c,  and  was  liuricd  in  the  New  Providence 


New  I'ro\i(lcii(('  (Jiinrli  was  orji'anized,  George 
Buchanan  sugsested  (lie  v<'ry  appropriate  name 
the  church  received,  ami  was  elected  one  of  its  rnl- 
inf:  elders,  a  place  lie  no  doubt  filled  till  his  death 
in  1813. 

George  Buchanan  and  his  wife,  .Margaret,  had 
the  following  children,  to-wit:  T. — JAMES;  11.^ 
JOHN;  III.— ALEXANDER;  IV.--GEORGE;  V. 
— INIARY ;  VI.— JANE  ;  VII.— :MARGARET  ; 
VIII.— NANCY;  IX.— ANNIE;  and  X.— DOR- 
CAS. For  appropriate  notices  of  all  the  Bnchan- 
aus  the  reader  is  referred  to  tlie  skelrh  of  the 
Buclianans  gi\-en  in  Pari   III  (d'  lliis  volnnie. 

H— SAMTTEL  McAFEE. 

1748  1801. 

Samuel,  the  eighth  child  of  James  McAfee,  Sr., 
and  his  wife,  Jane,  was  horn  in  October,  1748.  As 
his  parents  had  by  this  time  moved  to  Virginia, 
as  shown  in  Chapter  III  it  is  reasonably  certain 
Samuel  was  born  on  Catawba  Creek,A"irginia,  a  few 
miles  north-west  of  the  town  of  Salem.  Of  bis  early 
life  we  knoAv  nothing.  He  was  entirely  too  young 
to  have  taken  any  part  in  the  French  and  Indian 


Churchyard  in  the  midst  of  a  goodly  company  of     Wars,  being  but  fifteen  when  they  (dosed.    There  is 


his  kinsnuMi.  His  monument  can  easily  be  dis- 
tinguished in  the  engraving  to  be  found  in  this  vol- 
ume, showing  a  part  of  the  churchyard  looking  to- 
wards the  north-west. 

G— MARGARET  McAFEE. 

Margaret,  the  seventh  child  of  James  McAfee, 
Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Jane,  was  proliably  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania colony,  about  the  year  1746.  She  went 
with  lier  ])arents  to  Virginia  when  yet  an  infant, 
of  lier  early  life  scarecdy  anything  is  known. 

Margaret  married  George  Buchanan,  and  prob- 
ably in  Botetourt  County,  Virginia,  not  far  from 
I  he  year  1770.  George,  her  husband, was  born  in  Ire- 
land in  1745,  and  he  was  probably  acrpiaintcd  with 
the  ilcAfees  in  Pennsylvania,  if  nol  in  Ireland. 
:Margaret  and  her  husband  settled  in  the  Salt 
River  (Ky.)  neighltorhood  not  long  after  the 
•Mc.Vfees  did  (in  1784),  and  the  next   vear,  when 


no  evidence  that  he  enjoyed  any  better  educational 
advantages  than  his  older  brothers — all  had  ap- 
parently a  good,  plain  English  education,  as 
Scotch-Irish  parents  were  sure  to  secure  for  their 
children.  AN'lien  I  he  first  tonr  to  Kentucky  was 
made  in  1773,  he  was  twenty-five  years  old,  l)ut  it 
would  have  been  an  exceedingly  hazardous  thing 
for  all  the  men  of  the  family  to  have  left  their 
families  and  homes  unprotected.  It  must  be  borne 
in  mind  that  at  that  time,  and  for  a  good  many 
years  later,  the  region  they  lived  in  ^\as  on  tin- 
frontier,  and  exposed  to  Indian  attacks.  Besides, 
there  were  farms  and  crops  requiring  to  be  looked 
after.  For  these  reasons,  no  doubt,  Samuel  and 
his  younger  brother,  William,  remained  at  home. 
Every  one  of  the  five  lu-others  had  the  courage  and 
manhood  necessary,  but  it  was  out  of  the  ques- 
tion for  all  to  go  off  and  leave  a  large  nundier  of 
defenseless  M(unen  and  children  unja-ovided  for. 


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Samuel  may  have  had  another  reason  for  not     cause  of  his  agility  and  coolness,  an  account  of  which 
irolns;  to  Kentucky  in  1773,  in  addition  to  that  just     will  be  found  in  the  previous  chapter.     Ilis  death 


jiiven,  though  we  can  Tiot  nssert  it  as  a  fact.  It  is 
nearly  certain  that  his  marriage  to  Ilannah 
Mcroniiick  ncriirrcd  cillicr  in  1774  or  the  year 
previous,  and  this  lady  may  have  had  something  to 
say  in  regard  to  Samuel's  lakiiig  such  a  hazardous 
and  protracted  journey  jnst  as  they  were  about  to 
be  married.  Hannah's  home,  it  would  seem,  was 
in  tliat  ])art  of  the  Valley  of  Virginia,  which  is  now 
incliuled  in  Rockbridge  County.  Samuel  is  said 
lo  have  been  a  man  of  more  tlian  ordinary  self- 
jiosscssion  and  coolness;  l)rave  and  determined, 
and  yet  without  passion  or  rashness.  It  is  prob- 
ably true  that  no  one  of  ilic  clii'dren  of  James 
McAfee,  Sr.,  can  count  among  tlicir  descendants 
a  larger  number  of  people  of  culture  and  distinc- 
tion flian  Samuel.  For  more  Ihau  half  a  century 
past  there  have  been  anuuig  bis  descendants  a  lai'ge 
number  of  personswbo  in  point  of  character,  attain- 
ments and  position  have  been  above  the  average. 

Samuel  was  in  Kentucky  with  his  brothers  in 
1775,  and,  as  has  alreaily  been  shown,  he  was  one 
of  the  three  brothers  who  for  a  short  time  were 
associated  with  Colonel  IJicliaid  llendeison  in  his 
scbeme  for  establisl.ing  the  Traiisvlvaiiia  colony  iu 
Kentucky.  He  was  probably  a  soldier  in  the  Colon- 
ial forces  of  Virginia  during  a  part  of  (he  Revolu- 
tion, and  he  may  also  have  gone  with  (ieneral 
George  Rogers  Clark  to  Ohio,  in  his  expedition 
against  the  Indians  in  1780.  He  came  with  his 
brothers  when  they  made  their  final  move  to  Ken- 
tucky in  the  fall  of  1779.  His  lands  were  surveyed 
for  liim  under  the  supervision  of  his  older  brothers, 
July  2()  and  27,  1773,  and  were  situated  on  the  east 
bank  of  Salt  River  not  quite  two  miles  west  by 
south  of  the  present  village  of  McAfee.  Part  of  his 
fai-m  extends  to  the  east  of  the  turn-pike  leading 
fi'om  that  place  to  Harrodsburg  and  is  now  owned 
by  J.  J.  McAfee,  one  of  his  worthy  descendants.  He 
was  the  first  magistrate  of  Mercer  County.  In  the 
noted  attack  by  Indians  on  McAfee  Station  in 
the  year  1781,  he  narrowly  es<'aiied  being  killed,  be- 


occurred,  as  shown  by  the  inscription  on  his  tomb- 
stone, June  8,  1801.  His  body  was  first  buried  in 
his  own  private  Imrial  ground,  but,  as  Collins  in- 
forms us  (Vol.  2,  page  Gl!)),  af  Ibe  death  of  his 
wife,  which  occuri-ed  in  1817,  liis  liody,  with  hers, 
was  laid  a\\ay  in  the  New  Providence  Chnrcliyard. 

The  following  children  were  born  to  Samuel  ilc- 
Afee  and  his  wife,  Hannah,  to  wit:  I. — JOHN; 
II.— ANNIE;  III.— ROBERT;  IV.— JANE;  V.— 
HANNAH  ;  VI.— WILLIAM ;  VII.— SAMUEL, 
JR. ;  and  VIIL— MARY. 

For  a  full  account  of  the  above-named  eight  chil- 
di-en  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  the  reader  is  referred 
to  the  section  in  the  succeeding  chapter  devoted  to 
the  "McAfees  of  Parkville,  Mo.,"  and  to  that  de- 
voted to  ]\Iiss  Annie  T.  Daviess,  all  of  whomare 
descendants  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  McAfee. 

The  said  eight  children  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 
are  mentioued  iu  General  Jl.  B.  :\[cAfee's  narra- 
tive thus : 

I- — JOHN,  A\  ho  married  Margaret  ]\IcKarney. 

II. — ANNE,  who  married  Thomas  King  of  Shel- 
by County. 

III.— ROBERT,  who  married  Priscilla  Arm- 
strong. 

IV. — JANE,  who  married  Beriah  Magoffin  of 
Harrodsburg. 

V- — HANNAH,  who  married  Captain  Samuel 
Daviess,  attorney  and  Senator. 

VI. — ^A'lLLIAM,  who  married  Mrs.  Lowery,  a 
widow. 

VII.— SAMUEL  (Jr.),  who  died,  young  and 
single,  at  Harrodsbnrg. 

VIII. — MARY,  who  married  Thomas  P.  ^Moore, 
member  of  Congress  and  United  States  Minister  to 
Colombia,  from  1829  to  1833. 

J— WILLIAM  McAFEE. 

1750   (?)-17S0. 
William,  the  eighth  and  last  child  of  James  Mc- 
Afee, Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Jane,  was  probably  born 
about  the  year  1750,  and  on  Catawlia  Creek,  Viv- 


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fjiuia.  Nothing;  is  known  of  his  early  life.  He  of  the  Senate  of  Kentucky.  utkI  the  General  Court, 
was  only  about  twenty-three  when  his  older  broth-  After  Mr.  Lee's  death  slie  resided  in  I'rankfort 
ers  made  the  explorinj;  tour  to  Kentucky  in  1773,  till  1843,  and  then  moved  back  to  Mercer  County, 
and  he  and  Samuel  remained  at  home  to  look  after  In  briiiiiiuu'  to  a  close  Part  Second  of  this  work, 
the  families  and  farms  of  the  absent  brothers.  In  which  is  devoted  to  the  ^fcAfees,  it  will  not  be  con- 
several  of  the  subsequent  tours  which  his  brothers  sidered  out  of  place,  we  tnist,  if  we  attempt  to  show 
made  to  Kentucky,  he  accoiii]>aiiie(l  them,    lie  mar-  what   place  in   the  liistmy  of  Kentucky  these  men 

ried  Rebecca  Curry,  sister  to  Susan    Curry,    his      are  justly  entitled  i cMpy.     .\  more  modest  set 

brother  Georjje's  wife.     The  date  of  hi."  marriage  is  of  men — men  who  made  less  claims  for  themselves 

belicTed  to  have  been  about  1774.     He  moved  to  — it  would  be  difficnll   tn  find  among  those  whose 

Kentuckv  with  the  families  of  his  brothers  in  1779.  achievements   have,    in     any    marked    degree,   con- 

His  lands  were  located  on  the  west  bank  of  Salt      tributed  to  the  advance nt  of  civilization.     Those 

River  at  the  mouth  of  the  Town  Branch  near  Har-  five  stui'dy  lirotliei's  never  seem  to  have  imagined 

rodsburg,  and  he  built  there  a  station  of  his  own.  that  they  had   done  anything  uiinsual,  much  less 

In  1780,  when  General  George  Rogers  Clark  called  heroic,  in  founding  a  peimianent  settlement  in  the 

for  men  to  accompany  him  on  his  expedition  to  Kentucky  wilderness  when  there  was  not  one  hu- 

Chillicothe,  and  Piqua,  Ohio,  William  McAfee,  who  man  family  living  anywhere  within  its  bounds,  and 

was  probably  his  cousin,  raised  a  company  of  men,  nothing  had  really  been  done  to  subdue  its  virgin 

and  was  elected  captain,  and  went  to  Ohio  with  meadows  and  forests  to  the  service  of  civilized  man. 

Clark.     At  Piqua  he  was  mortally  wounded  in  the  They  seem  not  to  have  sought  to   peii^etuate  their 

bi'east  by  an  Indian  whilst  gallantly  doing  his  duty,  name  by  affixing  it  to  any  stream  or  mountain  peak, 

and  was  carried  on  a  litter  betw(  en  two  horses  to  or  civil  division  of  the  country.     They  knew  how  to 

the  mouth  of  the  Licking  River,  and  thence  down  bring  things  to  pass,  but  they  did  no  boasting,  and 

the  Ohio  to  the  Falls  and  to  Floyd's  station  near  by.  asked  no  reward.     Such   self-effacement  was,   in- 

But,  as  he  grew  worse,  he  was  carried  to  the  month  deed,  a  commendable  trait  in  them ;  but  the  truth 

of  the  Kentucky  River  for  the  pmiiose  of  conveying  of  history  is  something  we  should  maintain.     It 

him  to  his  home  by  canoe.     He  was  too  ill,  however,  can  not  be  wrong  in  their  descendants  to  want  to 

to  leave  the  mouth  of  Kentucky  River.     Here  his  see  the  McAfees  rated  as  they  really  deserve.     It  is 

wife  joined  him,  having  been  notified  of  his  injury,  very  natural  in  a  historical  writer  to  select  a  few  of 

She  got  to  him  just  before   he    breathed  his  last,  the  more  i^romineat  actors  in  a  given  undertaking 

CaiJtain  AMlliam  McAfee  was  a  brave  and  eflicient  for  special   mention   and   ignore   the   rest.     It  re- 

soldiei*,  and  like     lii.s  lirother  John,  who  died   in  ([uires  far  less  of  ii.iins-taking  study  and  discrim- 

17GS,  he  lost  his  life  at  the  hands  of  a  savage.  ination  to  do  this  than  to  carefully  look  into  the 

The  following  children  were  the  fruit  of  the  mar-  whole  subject,  investigate  the  details,  and  then  try 
riage  of  William  and  Rebecca,  the  last  one  named  to  do  exact  justice  to  all.  The  McAfees  have  been 
having  been  liorn  only  a  fe-w  months  after  her  duly  honored  by  some  of  the  most  prominent  writ- 
father   died,   namely :  ers  on  the  pioneer  period  of  Kentucky,  but  there 

I. — ANNE,  who  married  Elijah  ('i-aig,  who  lived  are  some  others  who  have  accorded  them  but  scant 

at  the  mouth  of    Kentucky    River,    and   who  was  justice.     The  writer's  aim   is  simjily  to  tix   their 

killed  at  the  battle  of  the  Thames,  October,  1813.  rightful  place  in  Kentucky's  history. 

II. — MARGARET,     who     married     Thompson  It  will  not  be  contended,  of  course,  that  the  Mc- 

Jones,  and    afterwai'ds   died    in    Indiana    opposite  Afees  may  rightfully  claim  the  first  place  as  pio- 

Yellow  Banks.  neers  in  the  order  of  time;  for  many  other  men  pre- 

III. — ]MARY,  who  married  Willis  A.  Lee,  Clerk  ceded  them  to  Kentuckv.     All  that  is  here  insisted 


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THE  WOODS-McAFEE  MEMORIAL. 


on  is  tliJit,  all  the  circunistaiiccs  of  the  early  settle- 
ment of  the  State  being  considered,  and  especially 
when  the  charactci-  and  niolivcs  of  their  work  are 
d\ily  taken  into  acconnt,  no  historian  can  jnstly 
deny  that  these  men  slmuld  he  regai'ded  as  at  least 
amon<;-  the  first  and  worthiest.  It  may  be  noted,  in 
passing,  that  the  "doctors,"  as  usual,  do  not  agree; 
the  ablest  historical  writers  on  this  snlije<-t  not  only 
differ  as  to  which  men  deserve  the  greatest  credit 
for  the  exploration  aiid  settlement  of  Kentucky,  but 
the  most  contradictory  positions  are  taken  in  re- 
gard to  the  matter.  For  instance,  Collins  (History 
of  Kentucky,  Vol.  T,  page  24S)  says:  "Neglecting 
the  obscure  visit  of  Dr.  Walker  to  the  north-east- 
ern portion  of  Kentucky  in  17.~S,  and  the  equally 
obscure  but  more  thoi'ough  examination  of  the 
country  by  Finley  in  ITfi",  we  may  regard  the  com- 
pany headed  by  Daniel  Eoone  in  ITfiO,  and  by 
Knox  in  1770,  as  the  earliest  visits  to  Kentucky 
worthy  of  particular  attention."  Thus  we  see  that 
Dr.  Collins  sets  Boone  befoi-e  Walker  in  nonor  and 
importance,  despite  the  fact  that  Walker  was  many 
years  in  advance  of  him.  On  the  other  hand  we 
find  Professor  Shaler  (see  his  excellent  little  vol- 
ume on  Kentucky,  pages  50  and  65)  exalting  Dr. 
Y\'alker,  and  belittling  the  work  of  Boone.  He  says  : 
"The  first  authentic  report  of  a  deliberate  journey 
beyond  the  line  of  the  Allegbenies  is  that  of  Dr. 
Thomas  Walker,  who  in  17.")0  I  ravelled  to  the  cen- 
tral parts  of  the  region  afterwards  called  Kentucky 
and  returned  with  a  good  report  of  the  country." 
Then,  farther  on,  he  says  :  "Thus  it  will  be  seen  that 
Boone's  first  visit  was  relatively  late  iu  the  history 
of  Kentucky  explorations.  Almost  every  part  of 
its  surface  had  been  traversed  by  other  explorers 


lion  Dial  no  exjiloralions  subsequent  to  those  of 
Walker,  Gist  and  Croghan  are  worthy  to  be  con- 
sidered as  being  early,  or  as  having  contributed 
much  to  the  founding  of  the  great  T'ommonwealth 
of  Kentucky. 

Now  just  here  the  question  emerges :  "When  did 
the  period  of  exploration  proper  come  to  a  close, 
and  when  did  actual  settlement  commence?"  To 
affirm  that  exploration  proper  had  cea-M-tl  with  the 
visit  of  Colonel  Croghan  in  1765,  or  with  the 
alleged,  but  iinnroven,  visit  of  Oeorge  Washington 
in  1772,  is  to  do  violence  to  the  facts  of  the  case. 
(Pee  Col.  Durrett's  very  able  and  interesting  Cen- 
tenary of  Kentucky,  page  30.)  It  is  conceded  that 
the  dividing  line  between  these  two  stages  of  the 
early  history  of  Kentucky  is  not  as  distinct  as  it 
might  be,  and  yet  it  is  maintained  that  nothing 
worthy  the  name  of  permanent  settlement  occurred 
till  the  jMcAfees  and  Captain  Bullitt  entered  the 
State  in  1773.  These  men  were  all  explorers,  and 
the  McAfees  were  certainly  settlers  as  well.  In 
fact,  the  years  1773  to  1775  mark  the  transition 
period  A\hen  the  last  real  explorations  were  made, 
and  the  first  really  pennanent  settlements  were 
effected.  It  is  simply  unimpeachable  history  that 
with  that  year  1773,  when  the  McAfees  entered 
Kentucky,  the  i>ermanent  occupation  of  the  State 
began.  Dr.  Collins,  who  was  one  of  the  best  in- 
formed and  most  reliable  of  all  writers  on  Ken- 
tucky, says  in  his  "History  of  Kentucky,"  Vol.  II, 
page  517:  "The  present  State  of  Kentucky  M-as 
visited  by  various  parties,  at  diffei-ent  periods  from 
1747  to  1772.  The  first  visits  that  gave  promise  of 
return  and  settlement  were  those  of  1773,  with  the 
large  number  of  surveys  in  that  year."     Of  course 


before  this  man,  who  passes  in  history  as  the  typi-      he  has  reference,  in  this  statement,  chiefly  to  the 
cal  pioneer,  set  foot  upon  its  ground."    These  last     McAfees  and  Captain  Bullitt.    To  the  same  pui-port 


quoted  sentences  are  the  most  unwarranted  and  in- 
judicious we  have  noted  in  Professor  Shaler's  oth- 
erwise admirable  and  scholarly  Mork.  It  reveals  a 
carelessness  and  rashness  of  judgment  not  to  be  ex- 
pected of  a  writer  who  ordinarily  is  so  fair  and  ac- 
curate. The  estimate  of  Boone  is  not  only  unjust 
to  that  old  hero,  but  it  rests  on  the  false  assump- 


speaksColonelDurrettin  the  passage  from  his"Ken- 
tucky  Centenary"  just  referred  to,  ^-hen  he  says: 
"In  1772  patents  were  issued  to  John  Fry  for  lands 
in  Lawrence  and  Greenup  counties,  said,  without 
conclusive  antliority,  to  have  been  surveyed  by  the 
great  Washington  himself;  but  the  surveyors  whose 
\\'ork  led  to  prompt  and  permanent  settlements  did 


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not  reach  Kentucky  till  the  following  year."  Here, 
again,  we  assume,  the  reference  is  to  the  McAfees 
and  Bullitt  mainly.  In  view  of  all  llicse  facts 
and  considerations  it  would  seem  clear  that  in 
speaking  of  the  first  explorers  and  settlers  of 
Kentucky  we  are  bound  to  include  in  the  ac- 
count the  men  who  went  there  in  ITTo,  if 
not  those  in  ITTi  and  ITTo.  This  would 
make  the  dawn  of  Kentucky's  history  as  a 
distinct  section  of  this  country  coincident  with  the 
momentous  change  in  the  political  relations  of 
America  to  Great  Britain.  The  year  ITT.j  marked 
the  close  of  the  Colonial  period.  W'licn  tiie  Mc- 
Afees were  surveying  their  lands  on  Salt  liiver  in 
July,  ITTo,  they  were  subjects  of  King  George  the 
Third,  and  their  lands  belonged  to  England ;  when 
they  got  ready  to  move  in  with  their  families  and 
occupy  the  land,  the  dominion  of  England  over  Ken- 
tucky had  been  forever  broken.  Kentucky  w  as  now 
just  entering  upon  a  new  career,  in  a  double  sense: 
She  was  no  longer  an  unexplored  and  utterly  unin- 
habited wilderness,  and  no  longer  an  outlying  por- 
tion of  an  English  colony.  A  new  era  had  dawned ; 
old  things  had  passed  away ;  behold  all  things  were 
become  new;  and  the  McAfees  took  an  honorable 
part  in  rendering  both  these  changes  possible. 

Some  writers  seem  to  adopt  very  strange  and 
illogical  criteria  for  deciding  the  relative  place  to 
be  assigned  the  early  settlers  of  a  new  region  of 
country.  Some  of  them  have,  apparently,  no  other 
test  of  priority  than  that  ot  the  date  oi  their  com- 
ing, iiiey  would  almost  deny  a  man  w  ho  got  there 
ycais  111  a(i\auco  ot  all  oLUers,  e\cn  umugu  lie  were 
conveyed  thither  against  his  will  by  a  runaway 
horse,  or  was  a  fugitive  from  jusuce,  seeking  to 
hide  from  the  olhcers  of  the  law,  withuut  a  thought 
of  making  a  careful  exploration  of  the  country  for 
a  worthy  purpose.  If  some  Spaniard  or  Frenchman 
happened  to  oail  down  the  Ohio  or  Mississijipi  on 
some  business  wholly  foreign  to  that  of  examining 
the  lauds  along  the  shore,  they  would  parade  his 
name  to  all  future  generations  as  a  distinguished 
explorer  of  that  region  whilst  not  mentioning  men 
who  came  hundreds  of  miles  at  great  personal  peril 


expressly  to  explore  I  he  ((uiali'v  and  lliei'e  make 
for  llicmselves  a  home. 

There  are  a  mniilicr  of  Tacts  touching  the  move- 
ment of  the  .McAfees  lo  I  he  wilderness  of  Kentucky 
which  deserve  thought fui  attention,  and  must  be 
fairly  considered  if  we  are  to  determine  their  true 
place  in  the  annals  of  the  grand  old  Commonwealth 
for  whose  settlenieiif  they  so  efficiently  jielped  to 
blaze  the  way. 

It  has  already  been  fully  (•(uiceded  llial  I  he  Mc- 
Afees were  udt  I  he  lirst  men  lo  explore  Kentucky. 
The  first  real  explorer  of  Eastern  Kentucky  was  Dr. 
Thomas  Walker  in  1T50,  and  he  was  followed  the 
next  year  by  Colonel  Gist.  Later — ITG.l-fiO — came 
a  class  of  hunleis  and  adveid  ni-ei's  like  Crdghan, 
Findley,  Knox  and  Bonne,  different  from  AN'alker 
and  Gist.  Next  came  men,  unlike  all  their  forerun- 
ners, who  had  surveyors  with  them,  and  who  looked 
to  permanent  settlement  in  tlie  country — the  Mc- 
Afees, JJniliii,  llairod,  etc.  Immigration  proper 
was  not  possible  till  these  three  ditfereut  classes  of 
explorers  had  done  their  preparatory  work.  In  the 
settlement  of  a  new  country  the  above-mentioned 
order  of  procedure  usually  olitains,  and  the  men 
who  are  first  in  the  order  of  time  deserve  especial 
credit,  because  their  achievements  render  the  sub- 
sequent efforts  of  other  men  possible.  All  three 
classes  of  the  first  explorers  of  Kentucky  merit 
honorable  mention;  and  yet  the  motives  and  aims 
of  all  were  not  equally  high.  (See  Shaler's  "Ken- 
tucky," pages  ()5  and  GG.  and  Durrett's  "Kentucky 
Centenary,"  page  -S.  j  Love  of  strange  adventures, 
fondness  for  ro^'ing  in  primeval  forests  where  game 
is  plenty,  and  a  purely  commercial,  money-making 
aim  are  all  admissible  and  proper  motives  in  their 
place  and  measure,  and  yet  they  are  not  the  very 
noblest  of  moli\cs.  Fearlessness  amid  the  perils  of 
untried  conditions  and  a  willingness  to  face  death 
in  the  pursuit  of  one's  aims  are  <iualities  all  of  us 
admire,  quite  apart  from  the  governing  purposes  of 
the  actors  and  the  ultimate  objects  they  had  in 
view;  but  when  the  men  under  review  are  known  to 
be  of  high  moral  charaeler,  with  something  better 
than  ]iurely  sordid  aims,  and  exhibit  inflexible 
purpo.se  and  persistency  in  realizing  their  ideals, 
their  courage  and  daring  take  on  a  ucav  attraction, 
and  they  rise  into  the  sphere  of    tlu'    hei-oic    and 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


uoble.  Tlie  iudispiilabk'  facts  cunceruiujj;-  the  Mc- 
Afee Conipanv  show  that,  they  fairly  earned  the 
right  to  be  tluis  regarded  by  posterity.  The  records 
show  that  they  were  not  mere  adventurers  and  spec- 
ulators, nor  Indian  fighters,  intent  on  exterminat- 
ing savag(^s;  nor  mere  hunters  passionately  devoted 
to  the  cliase;  nor  employed  at  a  stii)ulated  price  to 
survey  lauds  for  other  people;  nor  merely 
eager  to  make  money.  It  is  made  clear  that  they 
were  men  of  Christian  training  and  higli  moral 
character,  who  feared  Ciod,  wlu^  had  families  to 
whom  they  weredevotcil,  who  liad  already  accpiired 
some  property  but  were  liampered  by  the  peculiar 
economic  conditions  of  the  counti'y  in  which  they 
liad  li\('(l,  who  were  moNcil  ii\  a  dcsiic  to  iiialcc  a 
better  home  for  theiuselves  aud  thcii'  loved  ones 
tlian  it  was  possible  for  tliciii  to  ha\"e  in  \'irginia, 
and  who  had  enougli  of  prophetic  vision  to  discern 
the  fact  that  the  charming  wilderness  beyond  their 
blue  mountains  had  a  glorious  future,  of  whose  re- 
wards they  coveted  an  luuioraldc  share. 

But  there  are  some  acblilioual  considerations  to 
be  kept  in  mind  if  full  justice  is  to  be  done  the  mem- 
bers of  this  company.  For  one  thing,  as  to  the 
matter  of  mere  courage  tliey  (Exhibited  a  readiness 
to  face  deadly  perils  in  a  manner  some  of  their 
most  honored  predecessors  were  not  called  on  to 
do.  Dr.  Walker  does  not  seem  to  have  had  any 
special  reason  to  fear  Indian  attacks,  as  the  tribes 
he  was  likely  to  encounter  were  at  peace  with  the 
whites.  The  grave  troubles  which  issued  in  the 
French  and  Indian  Wdia  had  not  come  to  a  head 
when  Walker  and  Gist  set  jut  on  their  respective 
expeditions.    (See  Cobuiel  -lohnstou's  "Walker  aud 

(list,"  page  53,  and  Note  o  at  bott )    ii  was  quite 

othein\ise  when  the  McAfees  started  to  Kentucky. 
There  had  then  l>een  long  years  of  bloody  encount- 
ers between  the  two  races,  and  only  five  years  prior 
to  this  date  one  of  their  brothers  (John  McAfee) 
had  been  slain  by  the  Indians.  Besides,  the  story 
of  Boone's  recent  adventures  with  the  savages  in 
Kentucky  was  fresh  in  mind.  All  the  men  who 
went  to  Kentucky  in  1773  went  knowing  full  well 
the  dauger  of  meeting  at  any  lime  roving  bands  of 


Indians  w  iio  would  be  eager  to  take  their  scalps. 
Troubles  were  then  brewing  which  culminated  the 
very  next  year  in  the  bloodiest  battle  ever  fought  on 
^'irginin  soil  between  ^^'llites  ami  Indians — (hat  at 
Point  Pleasant,  in  October,  1774,  in  which  conflict 
all  three  of  the  McAfees  of  this  company  bore  a 
worthy  part. 

There  is  something  worth  noting  also  in  the  fact 
that  the  ^IcACees  did  not  skim  along  the  outer  edges 
of  the  region  known  as  Kentucky,  nor  seek  to  walk 
oTily  in  the  tracks  of  previous  explorers.  They 
went  to  Kentucky  with  the  full  purpose  of  pene- 
tiating  to  the  very  heart  of  that  region,  and  they 
entered  lands  where  no  surveys  had  ever  been 
made  before,  ^\'alker  and  Gist  confined  them- 
selves to  the  border  poitions,  and  the  easterly  and 
least  important  end  of  the  State,  but  the  McAfees 
made  their  main  surveys  in  the  geographical  cen- 
ti-e  of  Kentucky,  and  followed  the  Kentucky  Kiver 
step  by  step  from  its  mouth  almost  to  its  very  head 
springs  for  more  than  three  hundred  miles,  so  that 
the  marvel  is  the  Legislature  of  the  State  did  not 
call  that  picturesque  stream  by  their  name.  (See 
Johnston's  "\N  alker  and  Gist,"  page  G. )  Dr.  Walker 
did  not  even  see  one  square  mile  of  bluegrass  lands. 

But,  after  all,  the  most  notable  feature  of  their 
achievements  was  the  fact  that  they  not  only  went 
far  into  the  choicest  interior  section  to  locate,  but 
actuiillj  settled  a  community  which  they  never  re- 
linquished for  a  day,  and  which  for  one  hundred  and 
thirty-ouc  years,  without  a  break,  has  been  contin- 
uously held  by  them  or  their  lineal  descendants. 
The  little  village  which  bears  their  name  is  indeed 
but  a  small  place,  but  it  stands  there  as  a  land- 
mark to  show  that  the  McAfee  settlement  meant  a 
permanent  settlement  and  not  a  mere  land  specu- 
lation; and  there  on  the  brow  of  Salt  Kiver  still 
stands  the  stone  house  which  James  McAfee  erected 
in  1790,  marking  the  very  spot  on  which  once  stood 
the  station  or  pioneer  fort  which  for  many  years 
was  the  rallying  point  for  the  McAfee  settlement. 
And  right  over  on  the  hill,  not  a  thousand  yards 
away,  stand  some  neat  grave-stones  which  for  more 
than  ninety  years  agone  have  marked  the  last  rest- 


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iiic:  place  of  the  leadtn-  of  the  McAfee  Company. 
It  is  this  fixedness  of  purpose,  this  staying  quality, 
this  permanency,  which  gives  the  ^^ork  of  the  Mc- 
Afees a  eliaracter  whicli  does  not  belong  to  that  of 
some  who  suddenly  appeared  in  the  wilderness,  and 
as  suddenly  left  it,  no  more  to  be  seen  or  heard  of 
there.  And  if  from  tliat  stone  Ikpusc  we  hiok  across 
the  fields  which  the  McAfees  began  to  cultivate  be- 
fore (he  land  had  ceased  to  belong  to  England,  we 
shall  see  a  sul)stantial  brick  chnrch.  tlie  fourth  of 
a  series  of  sanctuaries  used  by  a  congregation 
whicli  was  founded  soon  after  the  McAfees  settled 
there,  showing  that  the  permanence  of  their  choice 
was  linked  with  godliness  and  a  careful  regard  to 
the  intellectual  and  religious  welfare  of  the  com- 
munity. 

Of  course,  it  is  not  meant  tiiat  these  men  were 
continuously  present  as  occupants  of  the  farms  sur- 
ve^-eil  from  July,  1773,  and  onward.  The  actual, 
permanent  occupation  by  the  McAfee  families  did 
not  begin  till  the  fall  of  177!l,  wlien  tliey  all  arrived 
on  their  pack-horses  after  a  long  and  perilous  jour- 


ney from  Virginia  by  way  of  CniulKMland  Gap.  But 
the  land  was  i-egiilarly  biokeil  after  from  time  to 
time  after  July,  177:!;  il  was  aniuially  visited  by 
some  mendici-  of  llic  faiiiily;  fruits  were  planted; 
cattle  were  (lri\'eii  in  from  N'irginia;  land  was 
cleared,  and  everything  was  done  that  was  possible 
to  be  done  niidci-  (lie  ti-ying  circumstances  of  the 
situation.  Xevei-,  for  one  hour,  was  their  hold  on 
those  lands  relaxed ;  not  for  one  day  did  they  relin- 
fiuisli  their  purpose  to  make  the  settlement  they 
founded  on  8alt  River  their  lasting  earthly  home; 
and  just  as  soon  as  the  exigencies  of  war  would  ad- 
mit of  it  tlicy  took  lea\'e  of  N'irgiuia,  and  j(jurneyed 
to  their  iirw  lionii-  west  of  the  mountains,  tliere  to 
toil  and  abide  till  God  should  call  them  to  a  place 
in  the  "house  not  made  with  hands." 

These  incontrovertible  facts,  it  would  seem,  war- 
rant us  in  holding  that  the  McAfees  were  among 
the  very  noblest  and  first  of  the  real  founders  of 
Kentucky,  and  as  such  merit  honorable  mention  in 
every  history  that  piofesses  to  tell,  with  an,\  full- 
nesis  and  tiiith,  the  story  of  Kentucky's  genesis. 


no 


THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


NOl'ES  ON  PART  SECOND. 


THE  MCAFEE   FAMILY. 


1 — The  iiil'ni-iiialioii  liivcii  in  I  his  nni-rative  lias 
liccu  derived  almost  entirely  from  the  following 
works,  to  Avit:  (a)  "The  Scottish  Clans  and  Their 
Tartans,"issued  byJoliuston  of  Edinburgh  andLou- 
don,  Sixth  Edition,  and  i-epulilished  in  New  York 
by  Scribner's  Sons.  Tills  valuable  little  volume 
gives  the  history  and  the  beautifully  colored  Tar- 
tans of  nearly  one  liun<lred  Highland  Clans,  the 
McAfee  Clan  being  numbered  50.  The  descendants 
of  the  McAfees  should  all  have  this  book,  though 
they  will  probalily  be  amazed  at  the  wretched  char- 
acter of  the  binding,  ll  cusls  lull  one  dollar,  (b) 
"Ilighland  Clans  and  Highland  liegimeuts,"  by 
John  S.  Keltic,  London,  1SS2,  Volume  3,  page  165; 
(ci  lau's  "Costumes  of  the  Clans,"  N'ol.  li ;  (d)  The 
Autobiography  of  General  IJ.  U.  ^IcAfee,  in  MS. 
(ej  Map  of  nighland  Clans  at  page  49S,  Vol.  21, 
British  Encyclopedia,  Ninth  Iildinburg  Edition. 

2 — (biieral  ll.  I!.  .McAIVe,  in  bis  Aulifliidgraphy, 
tells  us  that  John  McAfee,  the  earliest  known  head 
of  the  American  McAfei's  irealed  of  herein,  settled 
near  Glasgow,  and  then  later  ou  migrated  to  County 
Armagh,  Ireland;  and  tliai  in  i(iiH) — only  forty- 
five  years  after  the  detith  (if  .Malcolm,  the  chieftain 
of  the  -McAfee  Clan — he  and  iiis  son,  .John,  Jr., 
were  with  King  William  at  I  lie  J>altle  of  the  Boyne. 
The  two  narratives  tit  a\  ell  together. 

3 — It  is  not  altogether  an  insignificant  fact  that 
in  the  year  1739,  when  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  had  a 
son  born  to  him,  he  chose  for  him  this  name  Mal- 
colm. Whilst  we  have  no  right  to  assert  that  this 
choice  of  a  name  was  made  by  James  in  honor  of 
the  hero,  his  kinsman  (and  possibly  his  ancestor), 
who  sleeps  in  lona's  sacred  soil,  we  can  but  surmise 
that  such  was  probably  the  case. 

4 — The  authorities  ou  which  all  the  historians 
have  had  to  rely  for  their  facts  in  regard  to  this 


com]iany  are  the  following:  1,  the  daily  journal 
kept  by  James  McAfee,  Jr.,  on  the  tour  of  1773;  2, 
the  daily  journal  kept  by  IJobert  McAfee  on  the  said 
tour;  3,  a  manu.script  volume,  written  in  1840,  by 
General  R.  B.  I\IcAfee,  entitled  "The  Rise  and 
Progress  of  the  First  Settlement  on  Salt  River"; 
and  4,  a  second  manuscript  volume  by  the  same 
author  written  184.1-9  entitled  "The  Life  and  Times 
of  Robert  B.  McAfee  and  His  Family  Connections." 
Tlie  two  Journals  are  printed  in  full  in  the  Appen- 
dix, with  copious  notes  by  the  editor.  The  two  doc- 
uments by  General  R.  B.  McAfee,  who  was  a  son  of 
Robert,  IIm'  [ii(  luer,  and,  of  course,  a,  nephew  of 
James  .Mc.Vfee,  .Ir.,  contain,  in  addition  to  a  great 
deal  of  oilier  information  about  the  family,  a  sort 
of  running  commentary  on  the  matter  of  the  two 
journals,  enriched  with  many  valuable  items  de- 
rived by  him  froui  the  lips  of  his  uncle  James  Mc- 
Afee in  1S04.  Then  the  editor  of  this  work  has, 
during  the  last  ten  years,  been  engaged  in  some- 
what extensive  researches  which  have  borne  consid- 
erable fniit,  the  results  of  which  are  embodied  in 
the  narrative  now  presented.  Numerous  individu- 
als living  along  the  route  travelled  by  the  McAfee 
Compan}'  have  been  called  upon  for  information; 
the  editor  has  personally  visited  some  of  the  most 
important  localities  in  question,  and  has  been 
enabled  to  solve  some  puzzling  problems  of  the 
tour;  and,  finally,  a  series  of  maps  has  been  drawn 
and  engraved  expressly  for  this  work,  embody  iug  the 
most  of  the  results  bearing  upon  the  geography  and 
topography  of  the  regions  traversed  by  the  company 
in  1773.  The  maps  can  be  relied  upon  as  accurate. 
."> — Dr.  Hale — "Allegheny  Pioneers,''  pages  34,  3G 
and  102 — shows  that  the  Indians  who  invaded  the 
Draper's  Meadows  Settlement  in  1755  followed  an 
old  trail  which  was  probably  the  same  as  that  the 


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McAfees  travelled  ou  their  way  to  the  hjwer  Ka- 
nawha. 

6 — For  an  interesting  account  of  this  place  and 
of  some  of  the  more  important  expeditions  which 
set  out  from  tlieuce,  see  Dr.  Hale's  "Traus-Alle- 
g-heny  Pioneers,"  pages  lOl-o.  He  says  this  was  the 
point  of  departure  of  this  company. 

7 — General  K.  B.  McAfee  in  his  "Kise  aTid  Prog- 
ress of  the  First  Settlement  of  Salt  River"  states 
that  the  point  on  the  Kanawha  to  which  the  Mc- 
Afees came  on  horseback,  and  at  which  they  em- 
barked ou  the  river  in  canoes,  was  four  miles  above 
the  mouth  of  Elk  River.  This  river  enters  the 
Kanawha  at  Charleston.  The  famous  Salt  Spring 
at  tlie  moutli  of  Campbell's  Creek  is  beyond  ques- 
tion the  place  intended.  Here  salt  fnv  the  journey 
could  easily  be  made,  and  liere  canoes  could  be  built 
with  the  assurance  that  in  their  course  down  to  the 
Ohio  no  dangerous  falls  or  rapids  would  be  encoun- 
tered. In  his  Autobiography  the  General  states  that 
the  party  built  their  canoes  at  a  point  one  hundred 
and  twenty  miles  above  the  mouth  of  the  Kanawha. 
This  is  clearly  an  error,  for  that  would  locate  the 
embarkation  on  the  river  at  a  point  sisty  miles 
above  the  Salt  Springs,  and  Dr.  Dale,  who  w'as 
reared  on  that  river,  and  knew-  every  mile  of  it, 
wrote  the  author  of  this  volume  tliat  it  would  have 
simply  been  impossible  to  carry  loaded  canoes  over 
the  many  dangerous  rapids  in  that  part  of  the  Ka- 
nawha. Tlie  Salt  Spring,  sixty  miles  fnim  tlie  Oliio 
by  the  river,  was  the  place  at  which  the  party  sent 
back  their  horses  and  constructed  tlieir  boats. 

8 — From  this  point  onward  the  journals  of 
James  and  Robert  McAfee  afford  all  needful  infor- 
mation as  to  most  of  the  details  of  the  journey,  to 
\\  liicli  documents,  and  the  notes  of  tlie  ediloi-  tliere- 
on,  tlie  readei'  is  referred. 

t) — See  Collins'  "Kentucky,''  \o\.  '2,  page  117 ; 
Shaler's  "Kentucky,"  pages  G5  and  60 ;  Colonel  Dur. 
rett's  "Centenary  of  Kentucky,"  page  oO;  and 
Foote's  Sketches  of  Virginia,  Second  Sei'ies,  page 
IGO. 

10 — The  party  spent  some  days  at  this  lick  which 
has  been  famous  for  more  tlian  n  century.    It  bears 


iht'  Jiaiue  dl'  I  III'  mail  I'itiiikiu,  ()1i(»  rif  ilaucock 
Taylor's  assistants,  who  willi  Bracken  liad  pre- 
ceded the  party  to  this  phue  in  a  way  displeasing 
to  their  companions.  Wliiie  liere  thousands  of  wild 
aninuils  were  obseivcd  licking  (lie  salt  mud  around 
the  various  salt  springs — buffaloes,  elk,  deei",  bears, 
etc.  For  an  inlcres'ting  account  of  the  place,  and  of 
a  tlirilling  incident  in  wliich  James  McAfee  and 
Samuel  Adams  were  the  pai'iicipants,  see  (Jl-'ueral 
McAfee's  Autobiography. 

11 — Collins'  "Kentucky,"  Vol.  2,  pages  517-18. 

12 — Foote's  Sketches  of  Virginia,  Second  Series, 
pages  159-168. 

13 — General  McAfee's  Aiitobiography,  year 
1774;  and  Dr.  Hale's  "Tians-Alleghany  Pioneers," 
page  182. 

14 — Humphrey  Marshall's  History  of  Kentucky, 
Vol.  1,  page  27;  and  fieneral  McAfee's  Autobiog- 
raphy, year  1774;  and  also  his  "Rise  and  Progress 
of  the  First  Settlement  on  Salt  River,"  under  year 
1774. 

15 — Collins'  "Kentucky,"  Vol.  2,  page  519;  Gen* 
eral  McAfee,  for  the  year  1775;  and  .Marshall,  Vol. 
1,  page  37. 

16 — See  tlie  map  of  South- Western  Virginia,  and 
South-Eastern  Kentucky,  showing  this  route,  and 
the  two  gaps  only  fifteen  miles  apart. 

17 — See  General  McAfee,  under  year  1775;  and 
the  various  larger  Kentucky  histories,  which  men- 
tion this  trip  in  some  detail. 

18 — For  a  full  account  of  the  Henderson  Com- 
pany' and  their  proceedings  in  Kentucky,  see  Col- 
lins, Vol.  2,  pages  496-514. 

19 — See  General  McAfee's  Autobiograjihy,  years 
1770-77-78. 

20 — Dr.  Hale  (page  267)  says  this  was  the  first 
wagon  road  ever  constructed  across  to  the  Green- 
briar.  Mr.  George  Alderson,  who  is  a  grandson  of 
the  Rev.  John  Alderson  (not  Joseph,  as  Dr.  Hale 
has  it)  who  opened  this  road,  resides  now  at  the 
town  of  Alderson,  West  N'irginia,  named  for  his 
family,  and  he  informed  the  editor  that  the  road  be- 
gan on  Catawba  Creek,  ran  across  John's  Creek 
and  Potts  Creek,  to  Old  Sweet  Springs,  to  Picka- 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMOEIAL. 


way  IMains,  in  between  Flat  Top    Mountain    and  24 — The  grave  of  the  venerable  mother  of  the  Mc- 

Swoopes  Knob  on  to  Alderson,  A\'est  Virginia,  on  Afcc  ])i(inicrs  has,  witli  tilial  care,  been  exactly 
the  Greenbriar  Hivcr.  This  road  was  seventy  to  identified  and  pointed  out  by  her  grandson,  Gen- 
seventy-five  miles  long,  and  it  must  have  been  ex-  eral  R.  B.  McAfee,  and  it  will  be  found  duly  indi- 
ceedingly  rough,  and  at  some  points  in  getting  over  cated  on  the  map  of  fiercer  County,  contained  in 
the  mountains  as  steep  as  a  wagon  road  could  well  this  volume.  If  the  editor  may  be  pardoned  the  sug- 
be.  Not  less  than  four  or  five  days  would  be  re-  gestion,  he  would  express  the  opinion  that  the  de- 
quired  in  nuking  tlu-  journey  with  heavily  laden  g-cendants  of  this  lady  can  not  afford  to  allow  her 
pack-horses  or  wagons.  grave  to  go  uuumrked  and  neglected — it  deserves  a 

21— See  General  McAfee's  Autobiography  for  ^^^^  monument,  securely  enclosed  with  an  iron  rail- 
the  years  177(3,  etc.,  which  goes  more  fully  into  the  j„„,^  ^i,,,.,,  ^,,.^||  ^,,,i  ,„  ^jj^g^  y^  unborn  where  lies 
details  than  the  limits  of  this  volume  will  admit  of 
our  doing. 

22 — Eamsey's  "Annals  of  Tennessee,''  pages  152 
and  IGo. 

23 — It  may  occur  to  some  who  read  these  pages 
that  this  chai^ter  is  a  needless  repetition  of  the  nar- 
ratives contained  in  the  journals  of  James  and  Rob- 
ert McAfee  to  be  found  in  the  Appendix.  The 
authoi*'s  apology  is  found  in  two  facts,  to  wit : 
First,  that  the  chapter  contains  a  good  many  items 
which  needed  to  be  presented,  but  wliicli  could  not 
properly  appear  in  the  notes  on  those  journals,  as 


the  body  of  the  mother  of  five  of  the  bravest  and 
noldest  of  the  men  who  helped  to  found  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Kentucky.  (See  General  McAfee's 
Autobiography  under  year  1779. ) 

25 — There  is  a  mull  iiudc  of  details  relating  to  the 
life  of  this  colony  on  Sail.  River  given  by  General 
McAt(  e  in  his  Autol(i()gra[)li\'  which  it  would  be  in- 
teresting to  have  transferred  to  these  pages.  This, 
however,  would  consume  more  space  than  is  at  our 
conmiand  in  this  volume,  and  the  reiuler  is  there- 
fore asked  to  consult  that  manuscript  work,  which 

the  reader  will  discover  on  carefully  comparing  the  ^^"^  ^'^  ^"^^^^  i^  '^  S^"'^  ^'^^^  libraries, 

matter  in  this  chapter  with  the  journals  and  the  2(;— For  somewhat,    elaborate    accounts    of    the 

notes  thereon ;  secondly,  the    journals,     with     the  New  I'rovidence  Church,  see  Dr.   Clelaud's  Life; 

notes,  are  not  adapted  to  the  purposes  of  a  con-  General   .McAfee's  "Rise  and  Progress  or  the  Salt 

tinuous  and  readable  narrative,  being  suited  rather  IJiver  Settlement,"  etc.,  and  Davidson's  "History 

to  separate  study.  of  Piiesbyterian  Church,"  pages  71-73. 


PART  THIRD. 

THE  PATRONS  OF  THIS  WORK 


REUBEN   T.  DURRETT,  A.  M.,  LL.  D., 

PRESIDENT  Of  THE   FILSON   CLUB.  AUTHOR  OF  INTRODUCTION  TO  THIS  VOLUME. 


WOODS-McAFEE  MEMORIAL, 


PART  THIRD. 


GROUP  ONE— PATRONS   NOT   DESCENDED   FROM  EITHER  WOODSES  OR  McAFEES. 


Ninety-three  persons  are  listed  belo\\'  as  jiatrous 
of  tliis  work,  and  all  but  six  of  them  are  lineal 
descendants  of  either  John  Woods  of  Ireland  or 
of  John  iMcAfee  of  Scotland,  or  of  both.  For  con- 
venience these  patrons  are  distributed  into  four 
separate  groups.  First,  there  are  six  individuals, 
who,  tbdiiiili  7i()l  descended  from  cither  the  Woods- 
es  or  the  McAfees,  have  rendered  the  editor  valu- 
able assistance,  in  one  way  or  another,  in  further- 
ing this  publicafion.  It  was  at  his  request  that 
these  gentlemen  kindly  furnished  him  with  mate- 
rials for  the  sketches  of  themselves  which  -will  be 
found  herein.  Tlicy  deserve  the  thanks  of  nil  the 
other  patrons  for  their  kind  encouragement.  Five 
of  these  gentlemen  have  made  the  history  of  the 
Virginias  and  Kentucky  a  matter  of  careful  study, 
and  there  are  probalily  no  equal  number  of  persons 
living  who  kbow  as  much  about  the  genesis  of 
Kentucky  as  they.  T\\ey  are  all  gentlemen  of 
antiquarian  tastes,  and  Innc  all  publislied  valu- 
able historical  works  bearing  on  the  earlier  days 
of  Kentucky.  The  editor  is  happy  to  lie  able  to  pre- 
sent in  this  volume  a  sketch  and  portrait  of  each 
of  them,  especially  as  he  ventures  to  belie\-e  that 
at  least  a  portion  of  the  matter  contained  herein 
is  of  the  kind  in  wliich  they  take  special  interest. 

The  second  grovip,  containing  twenty-seven 
names,  is  composed  of  lineal  descendants  of  John 
McAfee  of  Scotland.  The  third  consists  of  lineal 
descendants  of  John  "SA'oods,  of  Ireland,  and  num- 
bers forty-seven  individuals.  The  fourth  group,  hav- 
ing thirteen  members,  is  made  up  of  persons  wlio 
claim  bolli  llic  AVoodsi's  and  McAfees  as  their  an- 
cestors. Tlie  nniiilici-  of  ]ieo]ile  now  living  in  Am- 
erica who  are  closely  related,  by  lilood  oi-  marriage, 


to  one  or  more  of  tlic  iiatrons  of  this  work  and 
their  forbears  probably  iiicliHJcs  IlKiiisands  of  in- 
dividuals. 

SKETCH  I. 

REUBEN  THOMAS  DURRETT,  A.  M.,  LL.  D., 
LOUISVILLE,  KY. 

Eeuben  Thomas  Durrett,  son  of  ^^■illiam  and 
Elizabeth  (itce  Rawlings)  l>iii'rclt,  was  born  in 
ITenry  County,  Kentucky,  January  22,  1824.  After 
enjoying  such  educational  advantages  as  the 
schools  of  his  native  county  afforded,  he  went  to 
Oeorgetown  College,  at  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  in 
1844,  and  remained  there  until  1840.  He  then  went 
to  Bro^^•n  TTniversity,  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  where 
he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  in  184!).  The 
same  year  he  entered  the  law  department  of  the 
University  of  Louisville  where,  by  superior  appli- 
cation, he  combined  the  courses  of  study  for  two 
years  into  one  and  was  gradnated  with  the  degree 
of  LL.  15. ,  in  1850.  In  1853  tiie  degree  of  A.  M.  was 
conferred  upon  him  by  Brown  University  for  con- 
tinued advancement  in  learning,  and  since  then  he 
has  received  from  each  of  the  three  colleges  he  at- 
tended— Brown  University,  tieorgetown  College 
and  the  University  of  Louisville,  the  degree  of 
LL.  D.,  which  was  the  higliest  lumor  they  could 
confer  upon  him. 

Immediately  after  leaving  the  law  school,  Mr. 
Durrett  began  tlie  practice  of  law  in  Louisville, 
and  was  one  of. the  most  finished  sciiolars  of  his 
age  who  ever  appeared  at  the  Louisville  bar.  His 
knowledge  of  different  languages,  Gi-eek,  Latin, 
Freucli,  Italian,  Spanish  and  Gernmn,  and  bis  rare 
gifts  as  both  a  speaker  and  a  writer  contributed 
largelv  to  his  success  at  the  bar.     .\fter  continuing 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


at  the  priicticc  I'di-  tliirty  vcnis  lie  was  alile  to  re- 
tire in   ISSO  ii|MiM  tlic  coniiiclciKy  lie  liad  earned. 
A  iiuiiil)cr  of  Ills  speeches  to  juries,  and  arfjniments 
to  courls.  \\('r('  deemed  worthy  of  ]>uhliration,  and 
app(\*ii-ed  in  llie  newspapers  at  the  time  tln^'  were 
made.     His  speech  in  defense  of  TTeitz  for  tlie  mnr- 
dei'  of  TiObslein,  ])nl)lislicd   in  llie  <'(iiiri>'r-.l(iii)-iial 
of  Jannai'y  20,  1S71,  and  liis  ari;niiient  in  lielialf  of 
that  paj)er  in  defense  of   tlie  lihel   snit  of  TTnll, 
Marrli  80,  1S72.  are  speeimens  of  learninio:,  style 
and  eloqnenee  which  liare  s(d(h>ni  been  sni^iassed 
in   the  Louisville  Ponrt   Honse.     TTis  fame  as  an 
orator.  ho\\c\cr.  will  more  pennanently  rest  npon 
his  oral  ions  ]trepared  f(u*  ]Mdilic  occasions.     When 
he  was  graduated  from  tlie  law  school  iu  IS-'O  he 
delivereid  the  valedictorT,  and  it  was  so  mnch  ad- 
mired that  it  was  published  and  hig'hly  praised  in 
the  newspapers.     His  Fonrth  of  Jul.y  oration  at  the 
invitation  of  the  City  Conncil  of  Loui.sville  in  1852, 
his    address    before  the    IMeohanics'    Institute  of 
LouisviHe  in   1S.~(1,    his    Centennial    orations  for 
Louisville  in  L'<SO  when  the  city  was  an  hnndred 
years  old,   and    for  Kentucky   in   1S02,   when   the 
Commonwealth   had    reached   tlie  same  venerable 
age,  and  his  ad<lress  to  the  Alumni  of  Georgetown 
College  in  1S04,  all  (d'  which  were  ])ublished  at  the 
dates  of  delivery,  were  so  replete  with  learning  and 
so  beautifully  written  that  they  can  not  fail  to  oc- 
cupy a  permanent  place  in  our  literature. 

In  his  earlier  years,  ^Mr.  Durrett  yielded  to  an 
imagination  which  demanded  the  exi)ression  of 
thoughts  in  verse,  and  had  he  not  acquired  distinc- 
tion in  other  lines  he  might  have  been  widely  known 
as  a  jxiet.  Li  poetry  he  was  exceedingly  versatile 
and  passed  fnun  the  humorous  to  the  grave  with 
marked  facility.  His  serious  iiumor,  however,  pre- 
dominated, and  his  best  productions  may  be  con- 
sidered in  liiis  vein.  His  "Xight  Scene  at  Dren- 
non's  S]irings"  in  1S50,  his  ''Thoughts  Over  the 
Grave  of  the  IJev.  Thoma-s  Smith,"  in  1852,  and  his 
"Old  Year  and  New  iu  the  Colliseum  at  Rome,"  in 
ISoC,  each  of  which  was  published  when  written, 
are  fine  specimens  of  classic  thought  expressed  in 


blank  verse  and  entitle  him   to  high   rank  among 
Western  poets. 

It  is  as  a  prose  Avriter,  however,  that  ]Mr.  Durrett 
will  be  most  favorably  and  most  enduringly  known. 
So  soon  as  lie  left  college  he  began  writing  for  the 
newspapers  and  periodicals,  ^fost  of  his  articles, 
however,  appeared  in  pi'int  as  editorials  or  over 
anonymous  signatures,  so  that  he  got  no  credit  for 
them  except  anumg  a  few  intimate  friends.  From 
1857  to  1S50  he  was  the  editor-in-chief  of  the  Louis- 
ville Ciiiirli  r.  and  his  leaders,  always  distinguished 
f(U'  ilieii'  lu'oad  range  of  knowledge  and  vigor  of 
style,  made  him  an  (uuiable  7-eputation  as  a  jour- 
nalist. .\flei-  retiring  from  the  bar  in  1880  he  de- 
voted much  of  his  leisure  to  historic  studies,  for 
Which  he  always  had  an  inclination.  His  articles 
in  the  l^oiitlii  iii  lilrouae  for  iMarch,  April  and  May, 
in  188t;,  on  the  Kentucky  Resolutions  of  1798-90, 
may  serve  as  specimens  of  his  writings  iu  this  line. 
He  corrected  the  errors  which  had  pre\-ailed  for 
three-quarters  of  a  century  com-erning  these  cele- 
brated I'csolutious,  and  i>laced  the  authors  and  the 
icsolutioiis  themselves  in  their  I  rue  jiosition  in  his- 
tory. His  numerous  histxu'ic  ai-ticles  published  in 
the  ('oiirirr-Jdiiniul  since  1880  have  been  widely 
read  and  much  admired  for  their  original  research 
and  the  new  color  with  which  they  invested  im- 
ixirtant  <'vents  and  subjects.  In  the  annual  re- 
ports of  the  American  Historical  Association  for 
1801  and  1892,  several  pages  are  occupied  with  a 
list  of  his  histoTica]  writings. 

In  1881  a  few  of  his  associates  of  similar  tastes 
joined  Mv.  Durrett  in  establishing  an  association 
in  l>(uiisville  for  co-operative  effort  in  collecting 
and  preserving  and  jnihlishiug  historic  matter  re- 
lating to  Kentucky.  This  association  was  named 
"The  Filson  Club,"  in  honor  of  John  Filson,  the 
first  historian  of  Kentucky,  and  .Mr.  Durrett,  who 
was  made  its  in-eshlent,  prepared  and  read  the  first 
paper  before  it.  This  paper  was  entitled  "The 
Life  and  Times  of  John  Filson,"  which  was  pub- 
lished as  No.  1  of  the  series  ni'  cluli  publica- 
tions. It  is  a  quarto  of  132  pages,  so  full  of  orig- 
inal  umtter  and  so  beautifullv  written  that  it  at 


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once  gaA^e  the  club  a  prominent  stand  among  kin- 
dred aiS'sociations.  Mr.  Dnrrett  is  also  the  author 
of  No.  5  of  the  club  publications,  entitled  "An 
Historical  Sketch  of  St.  Paul's  rhurch,  Louisville, 
Kentucky;''  of  No.  7  entitled  the  "Centenary 
of  Kentucky;"  of  No.  8  entitled  "The  Centenary 
of  Louisville,"  and  of  No.  13  entitled  "Bryant's 
Station."  The  characteristic  of  Mr.  Durrett's  his- 
torical wriiinjis  is  original  research,  and  he  invests 
his  new  matter  with  such  charms  of  style  that  it 
is  alM'ays  a  pleasure  to  read  what  lie  has  written. 

In  liis  literary  studies  ^Ir.  Diirrcitt  has  always 
bought  the  books  he  needed,  and  in  thus  purcliasing 
from  year  to  year  he  has  accumulated  a  large  and 
valuable  library.     The  yolumes  and  pamphlets  and 


porations  in  Louisville,  and  is  noted  for  givijig  as 
unremitting  alientiiin  lu  Ihnse  of  a  chai-itahle  ;is  to 
those  of  a  business  cliararici-.  lie  is  a  man  of  broad 
benevolence,  and  conl  libnlcs  libci-ally  to  all  tlie 
charities  which  he  deems  wni-ihy. 

In  1S.")2  .Mi-.  1  Mind  I  was  ninnied  to  ;Miss  Eliza- 
beth H.  Bates,  the  only  dangliler  of  Cnleb  and 
Elizabeth  ( iicc  Humpln-eys|  Bates,  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.  ]Mrs.  Durrelt  was  a  lady  of  rare  intellectual 
attainments,  and.  lil<e  liei-  husband,  had  literary 
taistes  of  a  contrnliing  nature.  Tliere  were  liut 
few  good  books  in  tlie  accessilile  range  uf  literature 
which  liad  not  cont riliuted  to  lier  knowledge,  and 
]\Ir.  Dnrrett  owes  much  of  his  varied  learning  and 
culture  to  the  companiiMislii)>  of  jiis  gifted   Avife. 


papers  and  manuscripts  upon  his  shelves  number  She  bore  him  four  ciiildren,  tlin^e  of  whom  pre- 

more  than  50,000.  and  he  is  adding  to  them  every  ceded  her  to  the  grave,  and  one  of  whom,  Lily  Bates 

year.     His   collection  embraces  M'orks    in  almost  Durrett,  wlio  died  at  tlie  dawn  of  young  woman- 

every  branch  of  human  knowledge,  but  is  particu-  hood,  liad  written  a  series  of  letters  from  Europe 

larly  rich  in  history,  and  especially  American  his-  and  from  Florida,  wliieji  weic  juiblished  in  theCo^r- 

tory.     He    has    the   principal    histories     of  every  irr-Jnunial  in  the  winter  and  spring  of  1880,  and 

State,  as  well  a.s  those  of  the  United  States  at  large  which  gave  abundant  proof  that  she  had  inherited 

and  of  the  North  American  Continent.     In  Ken-  her  father's  gifts  as  a  writer.     Tlie  only  survivor 

tucky  histories  and  Kentucky  books  his  collection  of  tlieir  children  is  Dr.  AA'illiam    T.    Durrett,    of 

surpasses  those  of  all  others  c(iiiil»iiied.     He  has  Louisville,  Kentucky. 

made  it  an  object  to  secure  eveiy  book  aliout  Ken-  The  Durretts  are  of  French  origin,  and  the  fam- 

tucky  or  Kentuckians  or  that  had  been  written  by  ily  traditions  date  back  to  Louis  Duret,  an  eminent 

a  Kentuckiau  or  CA^eu  printed  in  Kentucky.     He  French  physician  and  author,  who  flourished  about 

has  thus  covered  the  whole  field  of  Kentucky  bibli-  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century,     lie  was  the 

ograpliy,  and  the  other  libraries  of  the  world  con-  aTithor  of  several  learned  books  and  especially  of 

tain  nothing  to  compare  with  his  collection.     lie  a  commentary  in  Greek,  Latin  and  French,  upon 


is  so  familiar  with  his  books  that  he  can  pi'omptly 
lay  his  hands  lui  any  one  of  bis  fifty  thousand  vol- 
umes without  the  aid  of  a  catalogue;  but,  better 
than  this,  he  is  as  familiar  with  the  contents  of  his 
books  as  he  is  with  their  location  upon  the  shelves. 
In  recognition  of  his  ^"aried  attainments,  JNIr. 
Durrett  has  been  made  a  member  of  numerous  his- 
toric, scientific  and  learned  societies  in  this  coun- 
try and  in  Europe.  Unlike  most  men  distinguished 
for  learning  he  has  a  clear  business  head  and  sound 
judgment,  which  have  weight  among  men  of  affairs. 
As  president,  vice-president,  director,  trustee,  com- 
missioner, etc.,  he  is  connected  with  various  cor- 


the  works  of  Hippocrates,  whieU  was  first  published 
in  Paris  in  l.")88.  It  is  a  venerable  folio  bound  in 
thick  boards  covered  with  vellum,  and  now  in  pos- 
session of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  'Sir.  Durrett 
has  also  other  venerable  volumes  of  which  different 
members  of  the  family  were  the  authors,  and  which 
are  (|uaint  specimens  of  the  art  of  printing  and 
binding  in  early  limes.  .Vmong  these  may  lie  men- 
tioned "A  Commentary  on  the  Customs  of  the 
Dutch,"  by  Jean  Duret,  a  folio  published  at  Lyons 
in  1584;  "A  Treatise  on  the  Causes  and  Effects  of 
Tides,"  by  Claude  Duret,  an  octavo  published  at 
Paris  in  1600;  "A  History  of  the  Languages  of  the 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


East,"  hv  riaiulo  Duret,  a  (inarlo  piiblisliecl  at 
Ooloinne  in  101:5.  After  the  Massacre  of  St.  Bar- 
tliolouu'w  sonic  (if  tlie  Durets  crossed  the  British 
rhanncl  and  selMcd  in  Eno'laud.  In  1044,  Christo- 
piicr  Dnrct  was  prominently  connected  Avitb  the 
r.a|ilisis  in  London,  and  liis  name  ai>pears  snb- 
scrlbed  to  the  Articles  of  Faith  pnt  fortli  that  year. 
In  En<j-land  the  French  pronunciation  -was  dropped, 
and  the  name  prononnced  Dnret.  as  it  was  spelled, 
instead  of  Dnray,  as  the  French  liad  it.  In  the 
coarse  of  time  tliis  Enjilish  ]ironnnciafion  was  em- 
phasized liy  donblinii'  tlie  "r"  and  "I"  whicli  pro- 
dncefl  tlie  name  ''Dnrrctt,"  as  we  now  have  it. 
Early  in   the  einhteentb    ccninry    three  brothers. 


search  of  information  from  rare  books  and 
mannscripts.  In  tliis  way  most  literary  per- 
sons at  lionic  and  many  from  abroad  have  been 
placed  under  oblio-ations  to  him,  and  his  constant 
resTet  is  tliat  lie  has  not  been  able  to  do  more  ijood 
to  otlicrs  with  his  books.  The  introduction  to  this 
\dliiiiie  is  from  the  pen  of  tliis  distini;uislie<l  writer. 

SKETCH  2. 

COLONEI.  J.  STODDARD   JOHNSTON, 
LOUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY. 

Tobuicl  J.  Stoddard  .Icdmston  \\as  the  second  son 
(if  .Tiidjic  John  Harris  Johnston,  a  native  of  Mason 
rounty,  Kentucky,  and  elder  brother  of  fieneral 
Albert  Sidney  Johnston,  who  removed  at  an  early 
John,  Ixichard  and  Bartholomew  Durrett,  came  age  to  Louisiana,  and  died  there  in  isns.  He  was 
from  England  to  Spottsylvania  County,  Virginia,  a.  la^-yer  and  planter,  speaker  of  the  Louisiana 
where  they  purchased  lands  and  permanently  set-  House  of  Representatives  in  1S30  and  Judge  of  the 
tied.  From  these  Virginian  ancestors  tlie  Durretts  Parish  of  Rapides  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
in  tlie  T'liited  States  liave  descended.  I'lancis  Dur-  was  a  half-brother  of  Hon.  Josiali  S.  Johnston, 
rett,  the  grandfather  of  the  snliject  of  this  sketch,  three  times  elected  Senator  from  Louisiana,  for 
was  with  (teiieral  George  Rogers  Clark  in  the  Illi-  whom  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  named.  The 
nois  campaign  n(  17TS-!»,  but  returned  to  Virginia  mother  of  Colonel  Johnston  was  Eliza  Ellen  David- 
son, eblest  daughter  of  Dr.  Richard  Davidson,  a 
A'irginian,  of  New  Orleans,  La.  Her  mother  was 
Die  daiigliler  of  .biliii  IMiitard,  a  noted  citizen  of 
Ne\\'  ^'ork,  whose  ancestors  emigrated  from  France 
i(^  America,  in  ITSO  after  the  rev(i<-alioii  of  the  edict 
of  Nantes.  He  was  the  founder  of  Tammany,  orig- 
inally an  Historical  Society,  in  1790,  and  its  first 
Sagamore;  Editor  of  the  Piihlic  Advertiser  in 
1802;  founder  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society 
:Mr.  Durrett  is  a  well-preserved  man  of  health  in  1804;  a  promoter  of  the  first  Savings  Bank  and 
and  vigor,  who  bids  fair,  w  illi  his  regular  and  mild  its  president;  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Am- 
habits,  to  live  through  a  generous  number  of  the  erican  Bible  Society.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  the 
years  of  the  future.  He  belongs  to  the  school  of  French  Church  of  St.  Esprit,  New  York,  and 
old  Virginia  gentlemen,  uo\\'  so  rare  among  us,  and  trauslaited  into  French  the  Book  of  Common 
his  hospitable  home  is  ever  open  to  those  who  wish     Prayer  still  in  use.     He  died  August,  1845.  Among 

Colon(d  Johnston's  other  ancestors  was  Colonel 
Abraiii  Brasher,  a  member  of  the  first,  second  and 
third  Provincial  Congi*esses  of  New  York ;  a  Revo- 
lutionary officer,  and  a  member  of  the  Committee  of 
One  Hundred,  when  Wasbingion  occupied  New 
York. 

Col.  Johnston  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  at 


instead  of  settling  at  oiicc  as  olliers  did  in  the  ucav 
country.  Early  in  the  present  century,  however, 
he  moved  to  Kentucky,  and  settled  iiixm  land  which 
he  iMnclias<'d  in  llciiry  Couiily.  Here  William,  the 
oldest  sou  of  Francis  ajid  the  father  of  ]»lr.  Dun-eLt, 
became  a  wealthy  farmer  and  erected  upon  his 
plantation  the  first  brick  iioiise  that  was  built  in 
Henry  County.  That  house  stands  to-day  as  sound 
as  it  was  when  erected,  a  century  ago. 


to  see  him.  His  collection  of  liooks  and  anti(inities 
has  made  him  a  kind  of  show  in  Louisville  whither 
strangers  as  well  as  ac(|uaiiiiaiices  resort  with  an 
assurance  of  seeing  sometliing  worth  seeing 
and  learning  something  worth  knowing.  He 
is  never  more  delighted  than  wiieu  in  his 
great     library    with     one    or     more     persons    in 


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the  house  of  his  ^i-iiiidfaflicr  Davidson,  Fduniaiy 
10,  1833.  On  the  death  of  liis  motlicr  in  1S;!T  his 
fatlii'i*  intrusted  his  tiirt'c  little  scms  t<>  liic  care  of 
their  nidther's  sister,  Mrs.  Mar\  l>a\iilsiin  llancoik, 
wife  of  Colonrl  (icorg'e  Hancock,  of  JeffersoTi 
Connty,  Kentncky.  The  eldest  son,  -lolni  i'intard 
Johnston,  died  of  cholera  in  ISl'.l.  'I'lu'  youTiiii'st 
lirotlier,  Harris  Hancoelc  Johnston,  who  was  an  in- 
fant a  few  months  old  when  his  niotlicv  died,  hc- 
canic  tlie  adopted  son  of  Colonel  and  .Mrs.  Han- 
cock, was  ednrated  at  tlie  University,  and  served 
with  distinction  throniih  the  <"i\"il  W'nr  in  tiie  ('<in- 
federate  Army  on  the  staff  of  (ieneral  William 
Preston,  ami  as  Captain  of  Cavalry.  Foi- the  ureat- 
(  ]•  jiart  of  his  life  he  was  eni;aiied  in  faniiint;  nntil 
his  death  in  1877.  Colonel  Johnston  was  a  pnpil 
of  .Samuel  ^'.  ^^'oma(•k,  of  Shelhyville,  Ky.,  a  noted 
teacher  of  classics,  and  aflerwai'ds  a  cadet  in  the 
Western  ^Military  Institute  at  Georiictown,  Ky., 
when  Jann  s  (1.  Blaine  was  a  i)rofessor  there.  In 
18r)0  he  entered  the  sophomore  class  at  Yale  Col- 
lesje,  Avliere  he  was  siraduated  in  1S~t'.\.  He  studied 
lawat  the  law  school  of  the  Tniversity  of  Lonisville, 
and  took  his  diploma  in  1854,  with  no  immediate 
iuteution  of  entiaiiini;-  in  the  ]iiactice,  hut  to  com- 
plete his  education  and  as  a  future  reso\irce  in  case 
of  necessity.  In  the  same  year.  June  13,  1851,  he 
married  Eliza  \\dolfolk  Johnson,  dau^^^liter  of 
Cleorue  ^V.  Johnson,  of  Sc(>tt  County,  Kentucky.  In 
the  succeeding;-  year  he  became  a  cotton  planter  near 
Helena,  Arkansas,  where  he  lived  four  years.  In 
1859  he  S(dd  his  interests  in  Arkansas  and  houglit 
a  farm  in  Scott  County,  Keutuiky,  where  he  was 
livini;  when  the  Civil  War  broke  out.  At  that  time 
he  was  tendered  tlie  nomination  for  the  Legisla- 
ture, but  declined  it  in  view  of  his  purpose  to  enter 
the  Confederate  seiwice.  Circumstances,  however, 
prevented  his  carrying  out  his  pur])ose  until  the 
first  raid  of  (Ieneral  John  II.  .Morgan  into  Ken- 
tucky in  July,  1862,  when  after  his  retreat  lie  made 
his  way  through  the  Federal  lines  and  was  there- 
after in  active  service  in  the  field  in  the  Adjutant 
Generars  department  continuously  until  the  close 
of  I  he    war.     lie    served    on    llii'    staff    of    General 


iJragg  w  illi  the  rank  <if  jjeulenant  Colonel  throujih 
I  he  Kenlncky  canijiaign.  laking  pail  in  llie  battles 
of  P(»rryville, .Murfreeslioro  and  oilier  lesser  engage- 
men  Is.  Ill  .In lie,  1S(I:'>,  he  became  a  i iieiii I ler  of  ( Ien- 
eral S.  !'..  Itnckner's  staff,  sei-ving  with  liiiii  in  llie 
canipaigii  in  East  'reiinessee  and  in  ilie  bailie  of 
Chickaniauga.  ( ieiiera  1  lluckni'i-  having  been  li'ans- 
ferreil  to  the  Trans-.M ississi]ipi.  he  then  became 
( "hief-of-StalT  to  General  John  ( '.  i'.reckinridge, 
who  was  shortly  aflerwai'ds,  in  .laiiuai-_\.  18(!1. 
assigned  to  tiie  coiniiiaiid  of  ihe  I  »e](arliiieni  of 
South-westei'n  ^'irginia.  The  caiiipaigii  of  ihal 
year  was  an  arduous  ime,  embraciiig  ihe  bailies  of 
New  Market,  Sec(uid  C(dd  llarlior,  Monocacy, 
Maryland,  "^^'inchester  and  many  otliers  of  less 
note,  incdnding  the  invasion  of  .\lar,\l,ind  under 
General  Early  and  occupation  of  the  territory  ujt 
to  tile  f<n-tifications  <>{  ^^■ashingll^l  in  full  \iew  of 
Ihe  ('ajiitol.  lie  conlinued  wilh  <ieiieial  Ureckiii- 
ridg'e  umtil  that  ofticer  was  appointed  Secretary  of 
^^'ar,  si.x  weeks  befcu-e  ihe  surrender  at  .\])]iomat- 
tox  and  served  on  Ihe  slatf  of  his  successor,  (Jen- 
eral  John  Ediols,  nntil  the  surrend(u-  of  General 
Joseph  11  Johnston,  w  hen  he  was  paroled  at  his 
headquarters  May  1,  18(j5. 

After  the  war,  by  which  he  lost  his  entire  estate. 
Colonel  Johnston  went  to  Helena,  Arkansas,  and 
entered  upon  the  pi'actice  of  law.  meeting  wiih 
immediate  success,  but  in  the  fall  of  18()7,  owing  to 
an  impediment;  in  his  hearing  he  returned  to  Ken- 
tucky, and  became  tlie  editor  of  the  Fraiilcfurf  Yco- 
uinii,  the  official  organ  of  the  Dt'mocratic  party  of 
the  State.  In  180!»  he  assisted  in  organizing  the 
Kentuc  ky  Press  Association,  and  was  its  president 
from  1S70  lo  ISSC)  by  annual  election,  lie  was 
Adjutant  General  of  Kentucky  in  1871,  and  Secre- 
tary of  state  from  IS75  lo  ls7'.>.  In  18(;7  he  be- 
came secretary  of  ihe  Democratic  State  Central 
Coiiiiuittee,  and  was  secrelarx  or  (liainiian  for  the 
gi(  all  r  pari  of  eiglii ecu  sears.  elTeeiing  a  thorough 
(U'liunizal  ion  of  Ihe  party  and  maintaining  its 
as<-endancy.  In  ISSb  he  retired  from  Ihe  Yeoman, 
in    which    he  had   become  a    iiarliier.    and    in    1880 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


;,l,„„l.m.Ml  puliii.al  life  Miul  nn,(.vr,l  1..  Loi.isville,  Two  years  a-o  Col.mel  Johnston  lia.l  tlie  niisfor- 

whicli  has  since  h.-cn  Lis  plare  of  residoncc.  Unic  to  lu-  bereaved  of  his  wife,  with  wliuin  W  had 

]„  addiliou  K.  ins  edit, -rial  aiul  pnlilical  activity  Inl   a   liaj.pv  life  ex-.-..edin-  f..rty-s.-v,'ii   years,      lie 

Col.HKd  .lohnsl.,11  lias  r.Hiihl  lime  lo  render  sei-vice  eunlinues   U.    make    L.uiisville  liis   ii.nne,   altluai-h 

in  (,llier  lielHs.     He  lias  always  taken  -reat  interest  Ids  eliildren.  nf  wlaim   he  has  f.iur.  r.'side  without 

i„   il„.  I,,.,,,..,  ,,!■  ,,,i„,,,ii,H,  and    romm.m    schools,  Ihe   Stale.      His  eldest    sun.   (ieor-e    W.    .lehnston, 

linvin-  iMM.n   In.-  r,,nr  y.-ars  a   memlier  ^^^  llie  State  and  his  yomi.oest.  named  fur  his  father,  live  in  New 

|..,,.i,,l  ,,|-  |.:,|e,aii..n.  and  delivered  rre(|nenl   public  Vnrk  Cily ;  his  dau-hler.  .Mrs.  William  I'..  Wisdom, 

addresses,  besides  advocal  in-   theniosl   liberal  j.-.l-  in   New  Orleans,  and    his    second    sun.    Harris    H. 

icv  as  an  editor,      llehasals,,    rendered    valuable  .lohnsiiui.  in  SI.  Louis.     They  aie  all  married, 
service  in  Ihe  (levelo|)menl  of  llie  nalui'al  resources 


Keniuck\.  ha\int;   heen  lari^elv  inslrumental 


in 


SKETCH   3. 


rheesiablishmenl  of  the  ( ieolo^i.  nl  Survey  <.f  Ken-  COL.  BENNETT  H.  YOUNG.  LOUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY. 
tuck\.  and  liaviim  made  himself,  for  Ihe  ])urposi>  of  Bennel  I  rienders(ni  Vouni;'.  sou  (d'  Robert  Yonnc; 
keepin;;  u|i  with  ils  work  under  Trofessor  Sliahu",  and  Josephine  lleudeisou,  was  born  in  Jessanune 
;ind  his  iiiiimaie  fiii'iid,  the  late  ri-ofessiu- John  TJ.  ( 'onn'ty,  Keidiicky,  .May  iT),  1843.  lie  was  edu- 
I'rocior.  ils  direcbu-s.  <uie  of  the  best  ]prai-lical  caled  at  ]>ethel  Academy.  Xicholasville,  and  at 
licoloiiisls  in  tin'  State.  In  Ihe  llora  id'  Ken  lucky  he  <  'cuier  Colle.tic,  Danville,  l\y.  lie  also  look  honors 
is  eipiallv  jirotieieiil,  as  also  in  arboriculture,  in  at  the  Fniversity  of  Ircdand,  Tielfast. 
which  he  has  always  taken  a  lively  interest.  Tu  Ihe  suiiiiiier  (^f  ISbi'.  with  his  ediicalion  ii.alf 
Of  late  vears  Colonel  Johnston  has  devoted  him-  tiuished,  when  the  i^reat  WiW  of  the  Kebi  lli(Ui  was 
self  chietlv  to  lilei'ary  work  and  antlrorshi]>.  In  breakinii  on  the  couulry,  he  east  his  fortunes  with 
1,S!I(!  he  compiled  a  valuable  history  of  T.ouis\ille  the  Soiilli.  and  eiilisled  with  John  II.  ^forjian's 
in  I  wo  large  quarto  \olumes,  which  is  reconnized  ('a\alry.  In  (b'lieral  .Mori;an"s  i;real  raid  thriuijih 
as  autliority  upon  ev<'ry tiling-  jtertaining  to  thi"  Indiana  and  Ohio  in  isC.:;.  be  was  cajptured  on  the 
cil  \'s  pasi,  and  includes  much  \aluable  informal  i(Ui  LMilh  of  .Inly,  and  was  contineid  -willi  a  lariie  number 
incidenlall>  relal  iiii;  lo  ihe  Stale  of  Kentucky.  As  uf  his  comi-ades,  lii-st  in  the  Columbus  iienitenliary 
a  member  of  the  hilson  <  Midi,  id'  which  be  has  been  and  afterwards  in  Ihe^fililary  I'rison  at  Camii 
vice-president  leu  or  twelve  years,  he  has  made  val-  Chase,  Columbus,  ()iiiii.  He  was  afterwards  re- 
ualile  researches  into  the  early  history  of  Keutui'ky,  moNcd  to  Camp  I>oui;las,  at-  ('hicai;o.  He  escajied 
upon  wducli  he  lias  read  many  papers  bebn-e  that  iiom  ("amp  Douiilas,  December  1."),  lS(i:!,  and 
body.  He  is  also  ihe  atitlKn- of  a.  valuable  volume  of  made  his  way  lo  Ilalifa.x,  \o\a  Scotia.  He  oli 
the  hilsou  l'iiblications,entitled"First Explorations  tained  passage  thence  to  the  West  Indies,  and  slic- 
ed' Kentucky, ■■  in  which  he  lirsl  detiiied  the  routes  ceeded  in  i-unniiii;  the  blo(d<ade  into  Wilminiilou, 
of  l»r.  Thomas  Walker  in  his  tour  throuji'h  tlie  North  ('andinti.  Al  Kicdmiond,  NdiL^inia.  ou  the 
Slate  in  IT.")!!,  and  of  ( 'oloiiel  ( "hris(o]iher  Cist  in  Kiih  of  •liine,  iSlit.  he  was  nix'eii  a  commission  by 
ITol,  with  llieir  complete  diaries  accompanied  the  Conft'derati'  Co\-ernmenl,  and  sent  abroad  on 
w  ith  valiialde  e.\|planaioiy  notes.  Tt  was  ]niblished  secret  service.  In  Anjinst,  1864,  he  was  sent  on  a 
in  1898.  In  the  same  year  he  wrote  Ihe  Coufed(>r-  secret  mission  lo  ndease  the  prisouei's  at  Camp 
the  Kilson  Tub  Meat  inns,  cut  it  led"Kiist  10\]iloi-ations  ( 'base.  Kelurniuii-  to  Canada,  he  was  commissioned 
\'olnme  1\  of  the  CoiibMlerale  .Military  History,  to  lead  Ihe  St.  .\lbans  raid,  now  famous  in  history, 
jmbli.shed  in  Allanta.  Ca.,  under  the  aiis]iices  of  the  which  he  successfully  conduct(^d  on  Ihe  liltli  of 
Confederate  Veteran  ruiim,  in  twelve  hii'ye  octavo  October,  18(14.  This  raid  led  to  intermit  iimal  ciun- 
vliiiiies.  plications  with  (ireat  Dritain.     Tin-  I'liited  States 


SKI-:T(MIHS  OI'  I'ATKONS. 


Grovernmeut  son.<j;lit  lo  dlpiaiii  imsscssiiiii  of  iiis  ])ei-- 
sdii  l)y  extrfidition  in-occcdiuns,  w  liich  ended  in  the 
release  of  (.'oldiiel  Voiiini,  and  his  rdnirades,  on  tlie 
gmimd  that  Colonel  Vcinni;  had  ((puinianded  the.  St. 
Alhans  raid  iu  obedience  to  niililar.v  onleis  rnmi 
the  Ciinfederate  Governnient.  So  hiiier  was  the 
sentiment  anaiust  Colonel  Yonni:  ijiai  aniiiesiy  was 
refnsed  liin:  nnlil  late  in  lS(;s.  When  he  rcinrned 
from  his  funi-  years"  exile  in  10nr(i|ie,  dnrinii  which 
time  he  iia<l  eomjileted  his  edncation,  as  iiefnre 
stated,  he  came  to  Lonisville,  and  entered  n]ion  a 
successfnl  career  as  a  lawyei". 

In  ISSO.  he  and  his  law  jiartner.  Si.  Julin  I'.oyle. 
revived  ]inldic  inlei'esi  in  (he  constrncl  ion  of  Ihe 
Louisville  and  St.  l,onis  Air  Line  Hallway,  which 
they  completed. 

Colonel  \'(mnji,  imimdiately  after  this  enterprise 
had  been  placed  upon  a  thcn'ouiihly  sound  financial 
liasis,  and  the  work  of  constnietion  beinji'  well  ad- 
vanced, nndei'look  to  I'coriiani/j  and  e.\i(  nd  i  he  old 
Louisville,  New  Albany,  and  Chicai^o  Kail  way, 
which  was  then  practically  ahandcnnd.  With 
others  he  rehabilitated  the  road  and  comiileied  it  to 
Chicago.  During  the  year  of  1883,  Colonel  Young 
was  president  of  the  new  road,  which  took  the 
name  of  the  Monon  I{oute  to  Chicago,  and  now 
know  n  as  the  ALmon  Koad.  He  next  set  alxmt  the 
urbanization  of  a  company  to  bi-idge  tiie  Ohio 
Kiv(  r.  The  Kentucky  and  Indiana  bridge,  one  of 
Ihe  tinest  structures  of  the  kind  in  the  country,  is 
I  he  result  of  that  enterprise. 

In  1888  he  undertook  the  construction  i>t'  rhe 
Louisville  Southern  IJailroad  lietweeu  Louisville 
and  Lexington.  At  Tyrone,  some  confusi(ni  re- 
sult ed  from  a  misunderstanding  with  the  bidders 
for  the  contract  to  construct  a  bridge  across  the 
Kentucky  Kiver.  As  it  was  important  tiie  road 
should  be  tinished  by  a  siiecitied  time,  the  failure 
to  have  the  contract  jpn^perly  executed  I'or  the 
biiildin;;  (pf  this  lpridg(  seriously  threatened  the 
success  of  the  enterprise,  when  Coloncd  ^'onng. 
with  the  aid  of  his  chief  engineer,  Mr.  .John  .Mc- 
Le(P(|,  undertook  the  woi'l<.  and  successfully  com- 
pleted  the  biid^e  in  aniple  time  (o  c(pm|ply  with  the 


contracts  made  with  tlie  snbsci-ibers  to  the  capital 
sl(pck  of  the  road.  Muring  the  lii-st  year  of  the 
operation  (^f  the  Southern  Road,  Colonel  V(pung 
was  its  president,  and  succeeded  Iti  seiMiring  i-ecog- 
nition  for  it  as  the  great  c(pnnecling  link  between 
the  N(Pi-lliern  and  Sonthei-n  systems  (pf  railway,  and 
a  I  ford  iiig  ( 'h  icag(p  d  ireci  comninn  ic-ai  inn  with  Jack- 
son\ille.  li,\  way  of  ihc  lOasl  TiMiiiesse<'  ^:  N'ir^inia, 
the  Geoi'gia  Central  and  Ihe  I'lanI  Sysleni. 

In  ^>'■~~)  he  founded   lii'llew I  Seminary.  f<ir  the 

edncation  of  ynu7ig  ladies,  lie  was  one  of  the 
original  |pi(pniolers  and  inc(U'|porators  (pf  the  Ceii- 
tial  rnixcrsity  of  Kentucky,  lo  liie  endownu'iit 
fund  of  wliii-h  he  coiili-ibnied  lilierally.  and  served 
more  than  twenl\  li\c  years  as  (Piie  of  ils  trustees. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  original  incor- 
porators of  the  Louisville  Presbyterian  S(>minary, 
and  has  been  from  the  beginidng,  and  is  tiow,  one 
of  its  trustees.  Ills  devotion  to  the  cause  of  Pres- 
byterianisni  has  been  enthusiastic.  He  was  one  of 
the  originators  of  Ihe  I']\'angelisl  ic  work  of  the 
Soutiu'ru  I'resbyteriau  Church.  I'or  years,  he  and 
.Mr.  Ilicluird  S.Veech  gave  about  .f  5,000  ami ually  to 
set  in  motion  the  f(U-ces  which  enabled  the  South- 
ern I'resbyteiian  Church  to  (bpuble  its  membership 
in  Kentucky  in  eighteen  years,  beginning  in  1S81. 

In  1878,  when  the  Legislaturo  passed  an  enabling 
act,  for  the  purpose  of  allowing  the  I'olytechnic 
S(pciety  of  Kentucky  to  take  charge  of  aud  manage 
the  public  library  of  Kentucky,  located  iu  Louis- 
ville, Colonel  Young  was  one  of  the  leading  meni- 
l)ers  of  the  Society,  aud  took  an  active  interest  in 
the  new  and  resiionsilile  duties  it  assumed. 

The  Society  chose  the  late  Kev.  Stuart  Kobinsou 
as  its  jjresident,  reorganised  the  Society,  elected 
Colonel  Young  aud  hve  other  associatt'.s,  members 
of  the  Executive  Committee.  Soon  afterwards,  on 
the  death  of  l)r.  Kobinsou,  ( 'olonel  'i'oung  became 
in-esident,  and  has  held  that  (pllice  Irom  1881  to  the 
]ii'esent  time. 

In  1890,  Colonel  ^■oung  was  elected  a  delegate  to 
ihe  Const  ii  ul  ional  Convention,  fiom  the  I'ifth  Dis- 
n-icl  (pf  Lonisville.  About  that  time  he  [udjlished 
a  historv  of  i  he  Const  i tut  ions  of  Keiil  uck  \ ,  contiiin 


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iiij-' copies  of  tlu"  ronstitiilions  of  17!IS  nnd  1851.   In  Aiiii.l  tli<-  busy  and  iiiultifaricnis  activities  which 

the  Ooiiventioii  he  took  a   iiioi-c  active  part  tliau  liave  been  successfully  iuaii-iirated  and  prosecuted 

aTiy  otiici-  lueial.er.     lie  is  liie  aiitlior  of  those  pro-  by  Colonel  Vonn-  he  has  found  tiuu-  to  make  many 

visions  endira.rd  in  Sections  l^i:'..  JU,  L'l.')  and  21G,  valuable  contributions  to  the  history  nf  the  State, 

which  prevent  discrimination  of  tiie  raiilroml  com-  His  first  important  work  is  entitled  ".V  History  of 

panics  aiiainst  each  other,  in  the  transmission  and  Presbyterian  Evant^elistic  Work  in  Kentucky."     In 

delivery  of  freijihts.     One  of  the    lii-hest    judicial  1S!M>.  he  iiublished  "A  History  of  the  rdustitutions 

authorities  declares  these  provisions  of  tiu-  Ken-  of  Kentucky."     He  is  a  b-adin-  mendiei-  i,(  ilic  Fil- 

tuckv  Oonstitution  to  be  the  wisest  and  nu)st  care-  sou  Club,  (d'  Louisville.     In  l!tOO  be  |>ublislied  "A 


fully  constructed  i)rovisi(nis  of  thai  (bicument. 

In  r.)0()  he  was  (dectcd  ])residenl  of  the  Ken- 
tucky Institution  bu-  I  lie  i:ducati(ni  of  tlie  Blind, 
an  otifice  he  still  ludds.  He  was  the  principal  pro- 
uHitor  (<(  the  estaldishmeid.  in  liKfJ,  (d'  tlu^  Ken- 
lucky  institution  for  ludiucid  ('(uifederate  Sol- 
diers, known  as  Ihc  Kentucky  Confederate  H(une; 
which.  In  act  (if  llie  Kentucky  Leiiislature,  is  (me 
(d'  the  important  (deenH)syuary  institutinus  of  the 
Stale.  He  is  the  ]iresideut  of  its  Ibiard  of  Trus- 
tees, and  has  been  since  the  lime  of  its  oriiani- 
zation.  For  thirty-six  years  he  has  been  Super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  Scbonl  of  tlu'  Stuart 
IJobiusou  ^lennirial  ("burch.  In  1902  tlu' 
Kentucky  Hixision  i<\'  the  CTiiled  Confederate 
N'eterans  electe(i  him  ('(unmander,  with  the 
rank     (d'     .Major-(  b'ueral,     and     have     continued 


History  of  the  Battle  of  the  Blue  Licks."  He  is  the 
author  of  "A  History  of  Jessamine  C(uiuty,"  and 
"A  History  of  the  Battle  of  the  Tluunes."  In  re- 
viewiiiij,-  bis  coidributions  to  history,  the  editor  of 
the  Kentucky  Historical  Ileo-ister,  calls  him  Ken- 
tucky's Alacaulay.  His  style  as  an  author  is  bril- 
liant and  attracti\'e,  at  the  same  time  methoilical 
and  analyl  leal. 

SKETCH  4. 
THOMAS  SPEED,  LOUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY. 

{Deceased  ) 

Thomas  Sjieed  \\,is  Iku'u  near  Bardstowu.  Kcti- 
tucky,  XoN'embcr  iKi,  ISll.  He  was  the  s(ni  of 
Thomas  S.  Sjieed,  and  li'raudsnu  of  .Maj<u-  Tlnmias 
S])eed,  both  i>\'  wIkuu  -were  resideiils  i>\'  the  |)lace 
where  the  above  Thonuis  Speed  was  born.  His 
grandfather,  ('aptain  James  Speed  came  to  Ken- 


to  re-(dect  him  annually.     He  has  l>een  conspicuous      tucky  fi-om  N'iriiinia,  1782.     He  served  in  the  Bevo 


in  the  work  (d'  (U-iiani/.inj;'  the  .i;reat  .Association  of 
Ciuifedei-ate  ^'eterans.  Uw  ]iurposcs  (d'  benevolence 
as  w(dl  as  social  enjoymeut. 

iMirinj;'  the  time  he  was  en,i;aji'ed  in  the  building 


lutionar,\  War  as  ca]itaiu  in  a  ^'irginia  regiuK'nt. 

The  above  Thomas  Speed  was  educated  in  the 
schools  at  Bardstowu.  and  at  Center  and  Hanover 
Colleiies.     During  the  war  he  served  in  the  T'uion 


(d"  railroads,  and  bridges,  he  devoted  all  bis  time  Army  as  Adjutant  of  the  Twelfth  Kentucky  Volun- 

and  best  efforts  to  this    work;    but,    after   fifteen  teers. 

years,  he  returned  to  his  ])rofession,    and    in    less  After  the  war  he  studied  law  at  the  Cniversity 

than  a  j-ear's  tinu'  he  had  taken  a  connnanding  posi-  of  Michigan,  and  in  the  office  of  Hon.  James  Speed, 

tion  at  the  bar.     To-day  lu'  is  recogui/ed  as  one  of  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  whose  partner  he  became, 

the  luost  successful  lawyers  of  the  bar  of  Kentucky,  and  he  also  practised  law  as  the  paitnei'  of  John 

and  as  a  jury  lawyer  he  has  few,  if  any,  ecpials,  and  Speed. 

no  superiors  in  this  countiw.  In  1892  he  was  a]p])(dnred  clerk  of   the  Cnited 

Colonel  Young  is  often  s])oken  of  as  Kentucky's  States  Court  at   Louisville,  whiidi  office  he  held  till 


most  progressive  and  entei]n'ising  citizen.  Tu  all 
public  enterprises  for  the  advancement  of  the  peo- 
ple's interests  he:  is  estec"nied  by  his  f(dlow-citizeus 
as  a  leader. 


bis  dealb. 

He  has  written  and  published  several  works, 
"The  Wibleruess  Boad,"  "The  Political  Club," 
"History  of  the  Sjiecd    Family."   "History  of    the 


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Enioii    Kcoiinciits   of   Kciituck.v;"    niso   ]>iniip]il(>ts  pionetn- liisloiv  of  llic  \'ii-;,'iiii:is  iiml  Kentucky,  en- 

nml  addresses,  aiiKiiii^'  IIumii  an  acrdiinl  of  llic  Jiat-  tilled  "Tlic  Trans  All('-licii>     riHiiccis."     lOavly   in 

lie  of  I'^vainklin,  ^\iliell  is  used   in    Larn<'d"s    "His-  JN".»(I  ho  i<hiI<  n  loadiiii;  [i;ii-l  in  oi'-anizin;;- llic  West 

lory  for  Heady  lief erencc."  Virginia   llislorical  and  Am  iipiarian  Society,  and 

•^'i'-  f^l 'I  <li'''l   ill    I>onis\ille,  daniiary  ;'.(l,   1!I0."">.  wais  ils  lirsl    |(r(>si(lenl.     His  fondness  for  anliifna- 

riam  reseui-cli  was  ainiosi  a  jiassion  wilii  liiin;anil 

SKETCH  c  ^^  may  lie  doubled   wIkiiki-  ihei-e  has  evei'  lived  a, 

man   wlio   was  more  llioroni:lil\    informed   IJian   J)r. 

DR.  JOHN  P.  HALE,  DECEASED,  LATE  OF  ,,  ,                ,     ,  ',■  , 

itale  was  com-ernnm  ilie  earU   liistorv  ol   ihe  whole 

CHARLESTON,  W.  VA.  •            ,.                       ,                  '                 ' 

region   adjaeenl    |o   ihe   l\.anawlia,   ( !i-eeniirier  and 

Hi-.  John  I'.  Hah'  was  horn  .May  1,  1824,  at  Xew  Rivers,  ami  Iheir  several  I  I'ilmlaries.  Tiie 
IngJus  Eerry,  \irginia,  on  New  lliver.  His  ma-  place  of  his  liirlli  (  higles  I'erry  )  \\as(.nly  a  few 
ternal  grand-]iarent.s  were  William  Higles  and  miles  distanl  frcnn  I  Maper's  .Meadows  i  now  {'.lacks- 
Alary  Draper,  who  in  174S  fouudeil  the  fanions  luirg).  and  Ihere  was  ne\cr  a  locality  in  all  that 
Draper's  ]Meadows  Settlement,  now  marked  by  the  Jiai't  of  our  count  ry  al  which  so  manv  ancieni  li'ails 
town  of  Blaeksliurg,  Virginia.  The  massaci'e  of  ami  highways  centei'cd.  The  suiiply-store  which 
the  whites  at  that  place  in  1 7. "•.-),  ami  the  cari-ying  stood  there  from  1  T.'d  onward  was  a  famous  ren- 
away  into  captivity  of  his  graTidmother,  Mm.  dezvous  and  poini  of  departure  for  explorers,  huul- 
lug'leis,  by  the  Indians,  and  iier  ahnost  miraculous  ers  and  eniigraiiis  from  \irginia  and  llieCai-oliuas. 
escape  and  return  to  her  home,  are  nuitters  familiar  Dr.  Hale's  boyhood  was  sjient  in  tiiat  neiglihor- 
to  all  who  are  at  all  acquainted  with  Virginia  his-  hood;  and  his  ancestors  had  made  the  original 
tory.  Dr.  Hale,  when  yet  a  boy  of  si.xleeu,  moved  wliite  settlement  there,  am!  had  had  some  of  ihe 
down  into  the  Kanawha  Valley,  where  he  lived  for  most  bloody  encouidci's  with  Indians  that  e\-er 
si.Kly-t wo  years,  dying  July  11,  1!»0L'.  He  studied  hapjiened  in  Ibe  Sonlh  during  ihe  eighteenth  cen- 
mcdicim-,  and  in  1815  he  was  graduated  from  Ihc!  lury.  It  was  hut  natural,  Iberelore,  that  a  man  of 
Medical  Department  ol  the  Enivcrsily  of  I'ennsyl-  his  turn  of  miTid  should  pay  special  attention  to  the 
vania.  He  ])ractised  medicine  (>\\\\  a  short  time,  early  history  and  I  radii  ions  of  that  region.  It  was 
however,  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  salt  under  liis  gnidaiice.  lo  a  great  degree,  that  the 
near  Charleston,  AV.  Va.,  in  1817.  In  this  business  anthor  of  this  volume  drew  ibe  nia](  to  be  found 
he  was  engaged  for  about  forty  years.  The  discov-  herein,  enlilled  .Ma|(  of  the  I'ai-ting  of  the  Ways, 
ery  in  otiier  parts  of  the  Enited  States  of  rich  Dr.  Hale  remlered  ihe  author  of  ibis  vohinu-  most 
mines  of  almost  pure  rock-salt  in  ine.\haustible  valuable  ser\  ice  in  ihe  way  ><(  informal  ion  on  the 
(piantities  gradually  destroyed  this  in(lustr3'  in  the  pioneer  history  of  \irginia.  Di-.  Hale  was  never 
Kanawha  ^'alley,  and  Dr.  Hale  was  probably  a  married.  His  death  occurred,  as  above  staled, 
heavy  lovser  thereby.  He  later  became  intereisted  in  July  11,  IIKIU,  when  a  lillle  pasi  his  seventy-eighlh 
cowl  properties,  but  only  in  the  latter  years  of  his  year. 
life  did  be  ri'aliy.e  much  llierefi-om.  He  was  a  pub- 
lic-spirited man  throughout  his  whole  career,  and 
the  city  of  Charleston'   is   largely   indebted    to  him  CHARLES  M.  DEDMAN.  HARRODSBURG.  KENTUCKY. 

for  its  having  been  made  the  capital  of  \\cst  Vir-  Charles  Mortinu  v  Dedman  was  ihe  only  child  of 

ginia.     He  was  for  mauj- years  of  his  life  a  prolibc  Dr.  Dickson  Goodi    Dedman   by  his    second    wife, 

contributor  to  magazines  and  newspapers,  and  be-  Mrs.  Mary  Seui  i  iirc  .Mcl'.rayen,    and  was  born  in 

came  the  author  of  a  nuudier  of  \aluable  ])ublica-  l.;iwT'enceburg,     Keiducky,     .May     L'2,     184!).     His 

ti(uis,  chief  auHing  \\hich  was     liis     book     (Ui     the  father  was  Ji   nati\e  of   N'ersailles,    Kentucky   and 


SKETCH  6. 


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THE    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


the  sou  of  Natliiiii  I  •.■ilni.-in  In  liis  wife  Elizabeth 
(/)(•(■  Coocli  I.  A  full  nccoiinl  nf  the  Di'diiiaus  and 
Goofhes  will  lie  foiiiid  in  Skcld:  !i:'>.  aiul  need  not 
lie  i('|)(';il('<l  iieve. 

Mr.  Charles  ]\r.  Oe.linaii  scillfd  in  I  larroilsburi,' 
in  1S(1S.  and  for  nianv  vears  has  fonduclcd  in  that 
place  a  iIvu'j:  store  with  marked  siicecss.  In  ISTtl 
he  was  married  to  .Miss  .^[ollie  1!.  Currv,  dau.nliter 
of  the  late  W.  T.  Ciirr.v.  of  riaintdslinr-.  Three 
daughters  and  one  sou  have  been  bom  to  .Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dedmun,  to  wit:  Bessie  (J.;  Miu.y  Wallace; 
Nellie;  and  Thonuis  Currv.  They  have  one  of  the 
most  hcaiilirnl  homes  in  I  [ari-odsburii.  .V  biief 
account  of  the  Seas  an<l  .McBi'ayers  follows: 

.M.VKV  .Mc1'.I;.\VI':K  was  born  on  Salt  Kiver.    in 


such  an  e.xtent  that  he  was  co7istautly  called  upon 
to  settle  disputes  and  controversies,  and  his  decis- 
ion ended  the  matter. 

of  this  first  niarriajic,  tive  children  wi-re  horn, 
only  two  of  whom  p;rew  to  manhood. 

1 — Caiitaiu  .\ndrew  .M.  Sea,  boiii  lS4fl,  now  liv- 
ing in  Louisville,  Ky.  lie  was  Sec(Hid  Lieutenant 
iu  .\lar.«hairs  S.  C.  Battery  in  the  Civil 
War,  afterwai'ds  kno-wn  as  Moi-i(in"s  battery; 
was  ]ii-i'sent  at,  and  participated  in,  the  battles  of 
Shiloli,  Besaca.  Teach  Tive  Creek,  Cluckamauga. 
( "ohunbia,  I'ranklin  and  othei-s.  A\'as  for  some 
years  Secrelary  of  the  Kentucky  Slate  Sunday 
School  ruion,  and  Crand  Master  of  the  Kentucky 
.V.  ().  r.  W.     lias  been  an  elder  in  the  First  Pres- 


Frauklin,   now  Anderson    County,    Kentucky,    on      byterian  Church   of     i>(misville,    Kentucky,    since 


.March  30,  1811,  and  died  iu  Lawrenceburg,  Ken- 
tucky, 2Gth  of  July,  JS.">7.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Andrew  iMcBrayer  and  .Martha  Itlackwcll.  Her 
fathei'  was  the  S(Ui  of  William  .Mdti'ayer,  (Uie  of  the 
earliest  pinneeis  of  Keut\icky,  and  was  born  Octo- 
ber L'd,  1771),  and  diecl  about  1838.  He  was  tor 
many  years  a  lueuiber  ol  tiie  Kentucky  Legislature, 


188(;.  He  married  .Miss  Sophie  I.  Fox,  of  Danville, 
Kentucky,  daughter  of  the  late  Judge  Fontaine  T. 
Fo.K  and  Eliza  .lane  Huntou. 

1'— Kobert  W.  Sea,  born  1844;  mari-ied,  180.4, 
Miss  .Vmelia  .M.  <lriuu's,  daughter  of  Bobert 
Ci'imes,  of  llarrodsburg.  Mr.  Sea  at  present  lives 
in  Chicago.     His  only  son,  Bobert  C.  Sea,  private 


and    was  such,  as   is   believed,  at    the  time  of  his      in  ( \)miiany  1,  Twentieth  Infantry,  T'.  S.  Regulars, 


death.  His  wib',  .Martha  I'dackwcll.  was  the 
daugliiei-  of  Ibibert  lllackwelj,  ami  was  Imru  .March 
L'l.',  17S!l.  and  died  .\pril  lib,  ISC.l. 

.Mary  .McBrayei'  was  twice  marrieil  —  tirst,  to 
lioberL  ^^ .  Seii,  on  September  3,  183.");  and  second, 
to  Ur.  Dixou  G.  Hodman,  on  August,  lii',  1848. 

Mr.  Sea  was  the  sou  of  Lecuiaid  Sea,  and  was 
boru  ou  Salt  Biver,  in  what  is  now  .\ndersou  Coun- 
ty, Kentucky,  Aj.ril  1."),  181U.  and  di(d  in  Law- 
r(>nceburg,  Kentucky,  September  -'>.  1S4."),  ai  the 
early  age  (^f  thirty-five,  ha\ing  amassed  a  handsome 
fortune.  He  was  alsd  a  meudiei  of  the  Kentucky 
lA'gislalure,  and  a  speech  he  uuide  there  is  said  to 
have  been  the  indirect  cause  of  his  death.     Hurinjr 


'\as  in  the  lialtk-  of  Santiago,  and  came  home  only 
!ip  die  w  ith  typhoid  fever  at  Ft.  Leavenworth,  Kan- 
sas, October,  1898. 

•  "harles  ^lortimer  Hedman  -was  thi'  only  child  of 
Dr.  l>i.\ou  G.  aud  Mary  Sea  Dedman,  and  was  born 
in  184b.     His  father  died  on  the  l.'.th  of  May,  18.'i0. 

.Mrs.  Mary  Sea.  Hedmaii  had  the  following 
brothers  aud  sisters  who  grew  to  mauhood  aud 
\\  omanhood. 

1 — Sanford  .Mcltiayer,  born  180(!,  bust  his  life  at 
the  burning  of  The  steamer  "ANar  I'.agle"  in  the 
.\i  ississipj)i  Biver,  .May  l.~),  187(1.  lie  nuirried  his 
cciusin,  Elizabeth  McBrayer,  aud  their  only  daugh- 
ter, Mattie,  married  Bev.  J.  V.  l.,ogau,  H.  H.,  of 


the;  course  (d  his  speech,  he    became    e.xcited    aud  Central  University,  Uauville,  Kentucky.     Mr.  Mc- 

(pvcrheated,  and  retired  in  an  ante n ,  and  unfor-  Brayer  was  a  merchant  and  banker,  very  wealthy, 

innately  got    in  a  drafi,  whi.-h  brought  on  ••(piick"  aud  one  of  the  most  hospitable  of  meu. 

consumiiiiiui,  and  soon  ended  his  lib',     lie  was    in  2— Bobert  C,  born  1809;  died  young,  .sine  prole. 

uuiuy  respects  a  reuuirkable  man,    and    possessed  He  was  very  prominent  iu    uulitary    matters,    and 

the  re.spect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow-citizens  to  held  a  high  commaiul  iu  the  K.  S.  G. 


SKETCHES  Ol'  i'ATRONS. 


233 


:{ — .Tunc,  honi  1S1:>.  Slic  iiiiii-ricd  ;i  IWv.  ^Tr. 
Slicniinii,  lull  of  licr  and  her  Imsliand  uollnnn'  is 
known. 

4 — Sarah,  liorn  lSir>;  iiian-icd  'I'aillon  Kailcy; 
has  been  dead  |ii-ol)al)ly  liall'  a  ccnlui-x-. 

5 — Dr.  John  Allen,  born  INIT;  he  sludicd  medi- 
cino  witli  Dr.  Dixon  G.  T>i'(lnian  at  l^awrenceburfj; 
estahlisiud  liinisplf  at  ^It.  E<l('n,  Kontuckv,  and  in 
the  sprinsi'  of  1S42,  received  tlie  dej^ree  of  'SI.  D. 
from  the  Medical  Institute  of  Louisville,  and  lo- 
eated  at  Ilarrodsbnrii-;  spent  Xovendier  of  the  year 
1S4(>  in  Cuba  to  ici^ain  his  fast  faiiinii  liealth.  In 
November,  1847,  he  left  for  Mexico;  was  appointed 
Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  TTnited  States  Army 
tliere;  served  until  March,  1S4S.  Dr.  McHrayer 
kept  a  journal  while  in  Cuba  and  Mexico,  which  is 
considered  valuable  as  an  accurate  description  of 
the  country  and  people  lialf  a  cenlury  ago.  In  poli- 
tics, he  was  a  Jeffeirsonian  Drmocial.  and  in  relig- 
ion, a  rresbyteriau,  witli  which  cliurcii  lie  he- 
came  connected  in  1S40.  In  the  ilay  number  (1S4-) 
of  tlie  W'cxfcni  ■hiiirnaJ  of  Medicine  and  Snrf/cri/, 
is  a  description  of  a  surgical  operation  jjerformed 
by  him  upon  wdunded  intestines,  which  for  that 
date  \\'as  a  renuirkable  operation.  Dr.  AIcBrayei' 
died  Mai'cli  :.':>,  185(J,  of  consumption,  aged  lliir- 
ty-l\\(),  witii  the  unniistakaliic  jjvomisc  of  a  biigiit 
and  useful  future  before  him. 

(! — J.  Mortimer,  born  iSli);  died  young,  .vn/r 
prole. 


7 — William  II..  born  ISlM  ;  died  I.;i\\rcuceburg, 
Kenitucky,  December  (>,  ISSS.  He  manicd  ill  in 
JS4S,  Henrietta  Daviess,  wliodied  1851,  and  (  L' I  in 
IS.")(i,  .\laiy  Wallace  idanghlcr  of  i>r.  .I.ilin  Wal- 
lace), whoslill  snrvivcs.  His  only  child.  Hen- 
rietta, marii((l  ('cdoiicl  i»an  !..  .Moore,  ami  died  in 
1882,  leaving  llinc  children.  .Indge  .Mcl'.rayer  was 
for  some  years  Judge  of  ilie  .\mleison  County 
Court,  a  nn  inber  of  ibe  I\enln<ky  Seiiale.  and  held 
many  other  oflices  of  Iriisl  and  iionor.  Hi'  was  the 
maker  of  the  celebrated  "W.  II.  .Mcl'.rayer  Cedar 
Brook"  whisky. 

8 — Katherine,  boi-n  ISl'.";  mai'i'ied  Pendleton 
(iarvey,  of  Cincinnali. 

9 — Francis,  horn  lSi'7 ;  married  Dr.  A\'ill  Ded- 
man,  a  soai  of  Dr.  Dixon  <  i.  I  )eidmaii. 

10 — ^lartha  .V.,  born  ls:!i'.  She  never  mai-ried, 
and  died  very  young. 

11 — Elizabeth,  born  1S:*.4;  married  .Tolni  <'uri-y, 
and  died  about  eleven  years  ago. 

Mr.  Charles  M.  Dedmau,  though  not  desceud(M^I 
from  eiitlieir  the  Woodses  oi"  McAfees,  is  eomnected 
with  one  family  of  the  Woodses,  in  that  Sarah 
Everett  Dedman,  who  was  his  father's  sister,  be- 
came the  wife  of  .lames  I  Iarvey-  Woods.  He  is 
therefore  iiileresled,  more  especially,  in  the  ac- 
counts of  the  Dedmaus  and  Gooches,  given  in  this 
\()lume. 

Mr.  Dedmau  has  long  been  a  deacon  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Chui'ch  of  Harrodsbiirg,  ar.d  lie  ranks 
among  the  most  honored  citizens  of  his  community. 


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THE   WOODS  McA FEE    jMEMOKIAL. 


GROUP  TWO. 

PATRONS  DESCENDED  FROM  THE  McAFEES— THE  BUCHANANS. 

SKETCHES  7,  >^,  9,  lo.  n,  12  AND  13  ARE  COMBINED  IN  ONE. 


II  scciiis  10  l)c  nil  ciisy  lliinii-  fm-  mnny  persons  in 
tllis  (l;iy  ;iii(l  i^cnrrnl  ion.  ;iinI  Ii;is  iKcninc  (juite  the 
ni.slnoii.  III  cniisiiiKT  fill-  I1icii:s('1a-('s  a  Imii;'  line  of 
(Icsccnl  I'lnni  ail  anccsidi-  wlm  ■•came  ovi-v  with 
William  llic  ( 'miiiucriu-."'  Such  ]i(M-s()ns  invariably 
hc^in  "llicir  line"  iIkic;  Inn  im  allemjil  in  that 
(jii-ecliiin  will    be    made    l>y  llie  wriler.      II   is  ]ii'iil>- 

alily  I  rue  ilia  I,  af  llie  I  ii I'  I  lie  lial  1  le  ttf  Ilastiniis, 

llie  ancesldi-s  uf  all  iliC  Uiiclianaiis  in  iliis  countiy 
were  existing  snmew  liei-e  ill  llie  1  liglilaiids  of  Soot- 
laml. 

It  is  also,  (IduliTless,  inie  iliat  llie  Uiichanan 
name  originated  in  Scniland — llie  tiist  bearing  the 
name  being  one  Auselan  O'Kane,  who  went  tii  Scot- 
land from  Ireland,  and  took  the  estate  and  name 
'Bnchanan  ;  and  there  is  ^verv  reason  to  believe  that 
all  llie  IJiicliaiians  in  lliis  coimliy  are  uf  Scotch 
aiiccsti'V,  iiKire  or  less  leniule.  The  name  is  one  of 
llie  (ildesl  ill  Scniland.  and  lias  lieeii  lioiiie  by  many 
distingiiisheil  nu-n  there,  and  is  litiind  all  over  the 
L'nil(Ml  Kingdoui.  The  principal  street  in  Glasgow 
is  JJkcIkiikiii  Sli'rI.  (In  Scntland  the  name  is  jjro- 
iiounced  as  if  sjjelled  "Bieu-can(m,"  w  iih  accent  on 
SeCdlHJ   syllable.) 

ill  a  llislnri/  III  l!i<  Ainiiiil  Siiriidiiti  of  Hiicli- 
iniini.  irrilh  II  hi/  mii-  W  illidiii  Hiicliii iiii  11 .  0/  Aiivli- 
iiKir.  jiiliili  il  jur  II  J>iirliii  nil  II  liiiiil.si  llrr  iihurr  the 
('ri).ss  Ml >('('.  Ai'lll  (iliisijnir .  picked  U]i  by  tile 
writer  in  a  liook-stall  in  Edinburgh,  it  is  related: 
"The  name  originated  in  Scolland,  ami  was  first 
borjie  by  one  Anselan  O'Kyan,  or  O'Kane,  who  left 
Ii-eland  in  Kllb,  and  IwcHlli  year  of  King  Malcolm 
11,  his  reign.""  The  account  further  says  :  "He  was 
a  nobleman,  and  lived  upon  the  northern  coast  of 
Argyleshire,  near  the    Ixninox."     The    Buchanan 


Crest  and  ('((at-of-.Vrmsisalso  pictured  in  this  book. 
Tli'e  bdok  says:  "Tlie  Arms  assigned  by  the  King 
tt)>  Anselan,  (in  accuiiut  uf  jiis  heroick  atchieve- 
nienlsare:  Or,  a  Linn  I{am]iant  Sable  Armed  and 
Langu'd  Gules,  with  a  double  Treffune,  flowered 
and  connterfiowered  with  Flower-deduces  of  the 
L'd ;  ("rest:  A  hand  conjiee  lioldiug  np  a  Ducal  (!^ap 
|(ir  Duke's  ("oronct  yiroperi,  with  Iwn  Laurel 
'oranidics  wreatlKd  surrounding  llie  ("rest,  dis- 
posed Oileways  |irn]iei-.  Supported  liy  two  Falcons 
garnished  Oi-;  Ancient  .Mnttn  abuxc  the  Crest 
■ALDACES  .ir\'0."""  The  claim  is  alsu  made  by 
siiiiie  llial  (ieiirge  i '.uclia  uau,  llie  disi  ingnislied 
Scdtlish  Latin  jioet,  scholar,  soldier,  and  author,  of 
llie  fifteentli  century,  was  of  tiie  same  family.  He 
was  a  Scdtcli  I'Vewbylei  iaii  riniii  the  Iliglilands 
and  wi-dle  a  niimbci-  nl'  wurks  againsl  Hie  Ahuiks 
and  l"i'iars;  Iranslaleii  The  I'salnis  iiihi  Latin 
N'erse,  and  alsu  wrdie  a  W(irk  entitled  "De  jnre 
liegni  Apud  Scotds,""  incubating  the  doctrine  that 
governments  exist  tdi-  the  sake  of  the  governed, 
vi(dent]y  assailing  ilii-  Scdttisli  fdrm  of  govern- 
ment, which  wink  was  gathered  up  and  burned  by 
(irder  of  llie  Scdich  I'arliaiiieiil.  The  widter  has 
met  men  (if  the  name  in  many  States  df  tlie  Fnion, 
and  (dsewhere,  and  has  mark'.'d  that  thej'  all  have 
certain  chai-aclerisl  ics  in  cdmniou.  They  are 
either  Scdhli  or  df  Scditish  (irigin;  lliey  are  all, 
with  i-ai-e  exceplidiis,  I'resbyteriau.s,  at  least  by 
birlh  if  nol  in  cliurch  al'liliation ;  and  all  have  a 
Scdich  siubbdinness  df  character  and  tenacity  of 
(ijiinidn;  many  have  attained  distinction  in  the 
various  callings  and  professions  of  life.  Commo- 
dore Fnnil.-J'iii  /{iicJiiiiiini  was  in  command  of  the 
"Merrimac""  during  the  Confederate  war,  the  con- 


SKETCH  lOS  OF  J»ATlIONt?l.  23') 

slriidion   :iii(l   ciivccr  of  wiiicli    i-(>voliil ionized   the  ria^e  is  cxianl.     ]i   is  rpcordcd  llial   wiicii  tlie  Mc- 

iiavics  of  tile  \\oi-|<l.     One  of  llic  kinsiiirii,  rrcsidciil  Afi'cs  I)i'ou,iilil   ( licir  families  fi-oiii  \'iri;iiiia  to  Keii- 

Hiichaiiaii,  rcaclird  ilir  ].imiaclc  of  iiolilical  id-dVi-  hirky,  alioiil   I  77'.l,<  l<'oi-t;v  r.iichaiiaii  and  liis  family 

Ill   in  (liis  roiinlry.     Tlicrc  arc  si  reels,  low  ns  and  raine   willi    lliem,  and   sellled    iicai-   ilieiii    in    Merrer 

connl  ies,  nionnlain  |ieaks,  and  si  reams,  in  sevei-al  <  "oindy.  I  !.•  had  a  lirollier  who  came  w  il  h  I  he  Mc- 
States  of  the  Union^  liearin^;  llie  name  HihIkiikiii  :  Afees  and  Itiichanan  families  as  fai- as  ( "umlierJam! 
nil  of  Avliicli  is  (>vidence  Ihat  some  one  hearinji  tiie  Oil]),  and  Iheii  veered  off  scuilli-wesi  w  ardly  and  sei- 
iiame  lefl  liis  iin|>i-ess  upon  tlu'  coninnuuty  in  wliieli  tied  in  'reiinessee,  near  \ash\ille. 
he  lived.  The  wi'iler  wonid  nol  furee  kinship  willi  (ieovi;'e  Uuchanan.  the  |ii(Mieei',  ;ind  his  w  ife  .Mar- 
all  Ihe  r.nchaiLans  in  lids  connl  ry,  iml  expresses  his  .ii'aret  McAfee,  ;is  we  learn  from  an  ol<l  i-ccurd,  ha<l 
opini(tn,  after  many  y(ars"  study  of  llic  snltjerl,  llial  (de\'en  children,  as  follnws:  .V— .I.\  \i  i:s.  who  dieil 
all  ai-e  more  oi' less  related.  To  adhere  to  aulheni  ic  in  .Mercei-  ('oiiniy.  Kenliuky,  in  IS:!S;  1! — Wii,- 
histoiy,  the  writer  must  liegiu  the  account  of  the  i.i.\.\i,  who  died  in  .Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  in 
family  of  Geort^e  Buchanan  (the  pioneer)  with  one  LSoO;  C — loii.x,  who  moved  id  Taylor  Coiuily,  Keie 
•lames  Buchanan,  who,  duriuL;-  the  first  half  of  the  tucky;  I) — Alex.vxiuok,  wliodicd  in  .Mercer  Cotiii I y, 
eiiildeenth  cenlitry,  came  with  his  family  and  his  Kentucky,  in  isoii;  10 — (i!;oii(ii;,  Jr.;  1'' — .M.vkv, 
brothers  and  theii-  families,  from  Armai;h  ('(uinty,  *> — Taxi:;  11 — .Mute. \i;i;i'.  who  moved  lo  Indiana; 
Ireland,  and  settled  in  liancaster  < 'ounty,  Peunsyl-  -T — Nancy;  K — Axxii:;  and  L — Dokcas.  It  is  a 
vania.  One  old  record  says  "they  called  themselves  mattered'  i-euret  to  the  wfiiei-  thai  he  was  nnahle 
'.McKane,"  on  accouni  of  religions  j)ersecution,  lini  'o  obtain  much  infoi-malion  in  rei;ard  to  most  of 
after  landing  in  this  country,  they  resumed  the  hon-  ' '"'  childreti. 

orable  name  of  Buchanan."     This  use  of  the  sur-  George    Unehanan   settled    permanently   in   Mer- 

uame  "McKane"'  seems  to  be  a  connecting  link  be-  '■<-'!"  County,  Kentucky,  died,  and  was  bnried  there 

t  ween  those  ])eo|ile  and  Ans(dan  (>"Kayan,  jirevion-;-  iu  ISIO.     The  wfilei'  has  conversed  with  those  who 

ly  mentioned;  but  the  writer    assumes    nothing —  knew   him  jiersonally.     liis  i-epnlalion  was  that  of 

merely  throwing  out  the  conjecture.  an    nniu-etenl  ions   fanner,    who   "minded    his   own 

The  writer   endeavored   to   actxuire  information  affairs''  and  endeavored  to  live  uprightl,\.     Lie  was 

concerning  the  family  beyond  the  period  named,  an  elder  iu  New  Brovidence  Church,  a  brief  notice 

hut  without  success.  *d'  which  is  given  in  this  bdok. 

(ieorge  Buchanan,    the   pioneer,    s(hi    of    James  No  history  id' an  individual  family,  or  nal  i(m,  is 

Buchanan,  was  born  in  Armagh  County,  Ireland,  of  value  unless  accurate.     The     writer     kept    (hat 

in  1745;  was  one  of  eight  chiblieu  who  came   with  ^vni\\   iu    mind    when  i»reparing   the  following  ac- 

their  parents  to  this  country  (to  i>ancaster  County,  <-ount  of   the   ilnchanans,   who  are  descendants  of 

J'ennsylvanial.   It  is,  doubtless,  true  that  the  Buch-  <'eorge  Buchanan  and  .Margaret  McAfee,  his  wife, 

anans   came   to    Pennsylvania    with    the    McAfees,  the  pioneers  to  Kentucky,     lie  is  aware  that  there 

thence    both    families   removing   to    N'irginia  about  are  several  families  of  Itnchanaus  in  Kenlinkyand 

tile  same  lime,  and  that   they  had  previously  inter-  elsewhei-e,  who  proiiei-ly  belong  in  this  book,  but  he 

married  with  the  McAfees  before  leaving  Ireland.  ''^s  uot  had  the  leisure  to  devote  lo  the  gatheiing 

The  beginning  of  accurate  information  concerning  <'f  such  informaticm  as  woidd  enable  him  to  desio- 

George  Buchanan  is  that  he  married  Margaret  Mc-  'la^e  them  all.     In  a  large  measure  In-  has  had  to 

Afee,  daughter  of  James  McAfee,  kSr.,  and  sister  of  i'<'l.v  upon  correspondence  for  informal  ion,  a  weari- 

James  McAfee,  Jr.,  the  pioneer  (one  of  the  central  some    task,    and    (dtentimes    most     unsatisfactory, 

figures  in  this  book),  and  that  he  lived  in  Botetourt  Many  of  his  letters  were  never  answered,  and  many 

County,  Virginia.     No  written  record  of  his  mar-  answers  received  were  know  n  to  be  inaccurate.    The 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


luagnitiido  of  the  uudertaJciiig  to  j;iitlier  togetiu'T  in  ]) — ALEXANDER  ItmiANAN.    fourtli    child 

book  form,  all,  or  even  any  fonsid("ral>le  number  of  of  George  Uuelianan  and   Maviiurct   :\IcAfee,  was 

the  desceu'daaits  of  George  JJuclianian,  the  pioneer,  born  in  Botetourt    (Vmntv.    Mrginia,      in     1T()!I; 

will  he  appreciated  when    the    following    circnia-  caiiic  wiih  liis  fallici-  to  Kcniuckv,  and  married  his 

stances  are  considered:  cousin,  Nancv  .McAfci',  (hnigiiter  «t  James  McAfee, 

He  came  to  Kentucky  ab<mt  (he  year  17S0,  with  Jr.     He  never  removed   frdm  .Mercer  Cnunty,    and 

a  family  of  ten  cliildren  (four  sons  and  six  daugh-  died  tliei'e  in  ISOC).      Ills  grave  is  i)laiuly  marked, 

ters).     Kentucky  at  that  time  was    a    wilderness  l)y  head  and  foot-stonts,  in  the  family  bii   in  New 

still  suhject  to  the  depredations  of  Indians,  settle-  I'rovidence  liurying-gmiuid,  near  .McAfee  Station. 

ments  were  numy  miles  ajiarl,  no  jiublie  roads  laid  His  Avife  is  Imi  led  by     liis     side.     Alexander    and 

out,  willi  nil  mail   facilil  ies,  and  wilii  no  communi-  Xanry     had     six     ebildren:      (I)      MAEY ;      (II) 

cation    with    the    outsi«le    worbl,    Ihes.-    comlitions  JAME8     MILTON;      (III)      WIldJA:M  ;      (1\) 

existing  for  many  years  and  until  lliat  part  of  Ken-  ALEXANDER,       JK. ;       (V)       CAIVEB  ;       (VI) 

lueky  became  more  thickly  iteopled.    George  Buch-  GEOR(!E  (TTTIRO). 
anaifs  children  in  the  meantime  having  grown  up 

and  tnost  of  them  removed  from  the  original  settle-  I-MARY   (BLCHANAN)  DUNN, 

nient  in  Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  while  the  fam-  MARY  (familiarly  called  ••roily"  i,  tirsi  chil.l  of 

ily  of  George  I'.n.hanan  embraced  his  wife  and  ten  Alexander  Buchanan  and  Nancy  McAfee,  was  born 

cliildren.  whom  he  brougiit  to  Kentucky,  it  appears  ;„   _m,.,.,.,.,.  (',,„„tv   in   ITIKS.     Her   whol,.   life  was 


that  bni  I  \vn  i<\'  his  children  (.VIexander  and  Wil- 
liam liuchanau)  remained  ])ermanently  in  Mercer 
County,  and  there  raised  families — his  other  chil- 
dren as  they  grew  lo  age  lia\  ing  moved  to  other 
ciinnties  in   Kinlucky  and  a   pail   <if  Iheni  to  ollur 


s])ent  in  that  cuunly.  She  married  Peter  11.  Ihinn, 
a  nati\('  of  .Marylaml,  who  tonk  u]i  his  residence  in 
Mercer  ('(innly.  Kenlucky,  when  a  young  man. 
Peter  R.  Dunn  and  wife  are  buried  in  NeA\'  Provi- 
dence ISurying-ground.     Tliey  Imd    eight   children, 


States,  and  it  has  Iteen  imp(>ssihle  to  trace  them      {^,n|j,  nj-  ^^  | 


mm  (lied   in  inlaiicv. 


farther  tlia.n  the  details  here  follow  im. 


I  a  I  SrsAX.  I  heir  lirst  child,  niairieil  I  »r.  .Inhii  W 


C-JOJIX  BUCHANAN,  third  child  of  George      p,,^^.,,,,^  ^,  „^„i^. ^^arren  County,  Kimiii.ky,  who 


Buchanan  and  Margaret  .McAIVe  married  and  went 
to  Taylor  County,  Kenlucky,  where  some  of  his 
descendants  now  live. 

Ill  WILLIAM  BUCHANAN,  sou  of  John 
Buchanan,  marrieil  Susan  .Millei-,  of  Adair 
(-\)iiuty;  they  had  hve  children. 

(IIj  WOOD  H.  BUCHANAN,  who  married 
Alethia  Sublett,  of  Taylor  County;  they  had  no 
children. 

(III)  ISAAC  C.  BUCHANAN,  who  married 
Lila  Harris,  of  Marion  County,  Kentucky;  they 
lived  in  Baltimore. 

(IV)  NORA,  who  married  J.  \\ .  Davis,  and  re- 
moved to  Kansas. 


w;is  reared  in  Mercer  ( 'oiiiity.  Ilr.  I'owell  and  wife 
had  but  one  cliibl  who  sni\ived  infancy — William 
Dunn  I'owell,  who  was  born  in  1S.")9.  He  is  a 
[ihysician  in  good  practice  in  llarrodsburg.  Ken- 
lucky. He  is  unmarried.  Susan  I  >iiiin  I'owell  died 
in  1864.  Her  husband  nuirricd  a  second  time,  and 
now  li\'es  iKar  .McAfee  I'ost-oftice,  .Mercer  Gouut^', 
Kentucky. 

(b)  CiKoitOK  DuNX^  second  child  of  I'eter  R. 
Dunn,  was  born  in  1S3().  He  is  a  farmer  in  Mei'cer 
Gounty,  Kentucky.  He  married  .Alary  Robh, 
danghler  of  W.  X.  Kobb,  of  Uranklin  ('otinty,  Ken- 
tucky.    They    lia\('   live   children,    all    unmarried: 


(V)  LIZZIE,  who  is  unmarried  and  lives  with  -^^'^iT,  Margaret,  George,  John  and  Sue. 

her  father  in  Taylor  County,  Kentucky.  (c)   N.i^CY,  third  child  of  Peter  II.  Dunn,  mar- 

(VI)  LEE,  who  married  and  lives   in    Tampa,  lied  John  W.  Davis,  of  Mercer  (^'ounty.     They  had 
Florida.  two  children :     Mary  Alum,  who  married  Phil  T. 


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Alliii,  of  ITarrodsbui'g-,  and  William  A\'.,  who  mar-  County,  Kentucky,  clerk's  dt'ficc,  made  in  1834,  by 

I'ied  Nannie  McAfee,  of    Mercer    County.     Nancy  him,  wherein  lie  ficcd  his  slaves.     When  it    is    re- 

(Duun)  Davis  died  in  1846.    Her  husband  married  mendiered  Mliat  it  meant,  socially  and  olherwise,  to 

acaiu  and  now  lives  in  Texas.  be  an  abolitionist  in  a  slave  State  at  that  lime,  tlie 

(dl    .Tdiix  I>rxx  was  born  in  1S.">0.     In  1861    he  grandeui'  of  this  acl  of  manumission  ran  ln'  ajijire- 

mai'ri((l  .Mary,  dauiihter  of  Edi;ar  and  Eveline  Rob-  ciated.     The  ]ii-eand(le  in   the  deed  referred  to  re- 

inson,   of   fiercer   County.      Their    iidy    child    who  cites: 

lived  to  adult  aee  was  Powell  K.  Dunn,    who    was  ''Whereas,  T,  James  M.  Buchanan,  believing'  that 

Ikuii  in  lS(i4.     He  is  nnnmrried  and  lives  in    Har-  hunum  slavery  is  o])]>osed  to  the  law  of  love  to  (uir 

vodsbursi',  Kentucky.     John  Dunn  died  in  March,  neiiilibor,  enjoined  by  <'iod   u])on  every    man,    and 

ISSi).     His  widirw  married    C.   D.   Kyle,   and  now  opposed  to  the  sreat  fundamental  truths  that  all 

lives  at  Pottstown,  Pennsylvainia.  men  are  created  free  and  ei|ual  and  aic  entitleil  to 

life,  libertv,  and  the  pnrsuil  of  happiness,  and  being 

II— JAMES  :\[.  BUCHANAN.  .,     .            ■^.                         .,/!•,■,,,            , 

desirous  of  doing,  as  a  man,  that  winch  will  be  most 

JA:^rES  :\riLTON  PT^CIE\NAN,  second  chil  1  of  lienefici'a-1  to  my  f(>llow-creatures,  ami,  as  a  citizen, 

Alexander  Buchanan,  was  born  in  fiercer  County,  that  which  will  most  l(  iid  lo  perpetuate  the  bless- 

Kentiicky,  November  27,  1709.     His  father,  dying  ings  flowing  from  our  hajtjty  Covernment,  do  here- 

when  he  was  but  eight  years  old,  James  was  reared  by  emancipate,  set  free,  and  forever  discharge  from 

by  his  grandfathers,  George  Buchanan,  and  James  the  bonds  of  slavery  the  following  named  persons:" 

McAfee.     His  early  lift^  ^\as  sjienl  on  a  farm,  and  etc. 

he  received  such  an  education  as  the  schools  of  the  In  this  matter  he  ^vas  a  generation  ahead  of  his 

neighborhood  could  bestow,    and    afterwards    ac-  day.  as  he  was  in  most  things.    The  writer,  his  son, 

(piired  a  classical  education  through  his  own  exer-  has  heard  him  say:     "1  became  convinced  that  hn- 

t ions,  aided  by  private  tutorage.     He,  in  connection  man  slaveiw  was  wrong,  and  determined  to  wash 

with  (Uie  or  two  others,  opened    a   high    sciiool    in  my  hands  cd"  the  winde  liusiness."     While  he  did  not 

Danville,  Kentucky,  in     1820.     This    school    was  try  to  force  others  to  thiid;  as  he  thought,  nor  do  as 

inerged  into  Center  College,  Kemtucky,  in  which  he  he  did,  he  knew  that   his  views  and  action  on  the 

became  professor  of  mathematics  in  1828.    He  con-  question  of  slavery  would  I'embu' him    unpopular, 

tinued  at    Centei'     College  until  183.').     He  was  a  and  he,  therefore,  resolved  ti>   remove    to   a    "Free 

man  of  marked  individuality  of  character,  strong  in  State."     To  resolve,  with  him,  was  to  act.     He  re- 

his  likes  and  dislikes,  witii  a  ti.Ked  jmrpose  in  mind  sigm-d  his  chair  in  Centre  College,  and  reim>ved  to 

always  to  live  uprightly    and    s«piare    his    dealing  ('arlinville.  Illinois.     A  sojourn  of  about  two  years 

with  his  fellow-men  by  the  golden  rule.     When  any  in  that  community  proved   to  him  that  the  social 

matter  was  preseutetl  for  his  consideration  and  ac-  atmosphere  of  a  free  Slate  was  not  agreeable  to  a 

tion,  the  only  thought  with  him  was  what  was  his  miHi  who  had  b<'en  born  and  reared  in  a  slave  State, 

duly;  solving  this  to  his  satisfaction,  no  (piestion  of  "•>"'!   "':'<   ""■  '''''J'  ;""'  aggressive  methods  of  free- 

p(dicy  or  fear  of    conseipienccs    could    change   his  State  abolitionists  concei-ning  the  "man  and  br..lli- 

course  of  action.     He  paid  little  at  tention  to  what  ''i'"'  «('re  not    such   as  he  conid   adoj.t.  and   h.-  re- 

olhers  thought  on  a  (|uestion  of  right  or  wrong,  but,  turned  to  Kentucky  witi:  his  family,  and  located  in 

as  he  used  to  say,  he  "did  his  own  thinking  and  the  town  of  Hopkinsville,  where  he  opened  a  school. 

acted  in  accordance  with  his  own  views,  and  let  tlie  After  a  few  years  in  Hopkinsville,  he  removed    to 

conseipiences  take  care  of  themselves."     No  better  Sludbyville,  where  he  resided  until  within  a  short 

exanii>le  of  this  trait  in  his  character  can  be  cited  time  of  his  death.      In  jierson,  he  was  six  fei't  two 

than  a  rerereiice  to  a  ^\^^^■^\  (d'  record,  in  the  .Mercer  inches  in  height.     Standing    or    walking,    he    was 


238  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

ci-cct.      Ill'  \\;is;i  iikkIcsI   iiijiii.  and  while  more  ac-  (Mrs.    Saiiiiic!    TcNisi,    lOi.izAiiirni    (Mrs.    Thomas 

foiiiplislicd    (lian    most    (^^  his  associalcs,  he  never  A\'ils(iri),  ami    A>i i:i;I(A    (.Mrs.   .lames  .M.   Buchan- 

assiimeil    Id    kiKiw     more    lliaii    olliers,    and    never  am.     .\merira     ( ireal  house,     wife     of     .lames     .M. 

Ihriisl     liis    opinion    n|)on    anyone       lie    possv^seij  ISuchanan.    was  educated   at    Scienee   llill,  the    fa- 

nian.v   pemliaril  ies.  and    was  considered   an  eccen-  mous  school  of  .Mrs.    Koiierl    Tevis,  ai   Shelhj'ville, 

trie  by  many   who  did    noi    know    liim   thoronsi'hlT  Kentiudcy.     At  an  early  aii'e  she  liecame  a  member 

and  undersland  him;  lie  fnlly  underslood  fliis.  and  of  tlie  rinircli,  and  A\'as  a  conslant  allendani  npon 

hin.n'hed  at  it.     He  liad  a    tlioi'oni;]i    knowh^di^e    of  i'(diiiioiis  services  dnrini;  lier  lonn  and   nsefnl    life. 

himself,  ami  went  tlironiiii  life  reniaininij,-,  as  he  ex-  With  ij-enth'  and  affectionate  disposition,  sl\e  was 

pressed    il,  "on   lidod    terms    willi    liimself,"   lettinc:  (hwotec)  to  Iier  family;  patient  and  endnrinji' nnder 

the  world   consti'ue,  judji-e.    or    misjndiie    as    they  all   condiiions,  she  was   ihe  trusted   physician  and 

chose,      lie  nuiintained   his   jiliysical    \ii;or    np    to  ministci'in!^  an;u(  1  of  the  jiousejioid   in  time  of  sick- 

within  a  shoi-t   tim*^  of  his  deatli.  on    .Tannary    17,  ness  or  discomfort,     .\s  a  neii;iili(M-.  she  was  Ixdoxcd 

iST.'i,   in   his  se\cuty-si.\th   year.       Me  died    al    the  hv  all.  e\-er  seekini;'  lo  reliexc   want,  distress,  and 

residence  of  his  son-in  law ,  Prof.  1!.  l'\   l>nncan,  in  snfferini;'.     lilesscMJ  v.ith    a    xi^orous    constitution, 

Eminence,  Kentucky,  and  is  lmri(il  at  that  place  in  she  spent    the  latter  years  of  Ikm-  life  visiting-  the 

tlie  city  cemetery.    For  nearly  sixty  years  he  was  a  families  of  hei-  children  scatterel  over  the  Southern 

nuanber  (d'  the  Preshyteria n  ('liurdi,   was  scrnjin-  States,  a  faithful  ".Moiherin   Isiael."     She  died  on 

lously  e.\acl  in  his  dealing's  witli  his  lellow -mi  n.and  .Inly  IT,  IS'.CJ,  in  the  eighty-fmn  tli  year  of  her  age, 

heartily  des|iised  anything  like  dM]dicit_\   or  deceit.  at  the  honu'  of  her  son-in-law.  Dr.  Win.  C.  Warren 

In  lS2!t  he  married  America  (ireathouse,  a  dangli-  at  Walerford,  .Mississippi,  ami  is  Ian  icd  in  the  fani- 

ter  of  Isaac  (ireathouse,  of  Slndhy    Cmmty,    Ken-  ily  lot  of  her  s'on,  (Jeoirge  .M.  Itinhanan,  in  the  city 

tucky.    Isaiac  (ireathouse  was  (Uie  of  the  pioneers  of  ccinetery  at  Hoilly  Spaings,  Alisisissippi. 

Kenituclcy.   Tlui  recnrds  in  the  County  Clerk's  office  Charles     Howard     Cneait house,     son     of     John 

in  Shelliy  County,  Ken'tueky,  sili'O'w  that  he  bought  Stall     (Ireathouse     and     Catherine     K.     AA'aring, 

land  in  I  hat  county  in  ITlKi.    Isaac  ( ireathouse  lixcd  ami   grandson   nf  Isaac  ( Ireal  house,   \\as  born  Oc- 

niany  years   in   Shelby   Ccuinly,   and   died    (here   in  tid.ier  1."!,  IS.'i",  near  Morgantii  Id,  Kentuckv,  gradu- 

1K\S,  and,  with  his  wife,  who  was  Elizabeth  Kigby,      ate  of  High  Scl Is.  (ireeuvillc.  111..  1ST4,  and  Ann 

is  buri(  d  in  whal   is   known    as    the   "Old    Trcsby-  Arbor,  .Mich..  I  STCi ;  rnixcrsity  of  .Miciiigau,  B.  A., 

terian  Churchyaid,"  now  abandonid  as    a    burial-  1S7!I,  and    .M.  .\.  on  e.\;iiuinal  ion,   I.SSO;  1880-1882 

ground.  Principal  of  Schools,  l>an\ille,  .Michigan ;  Baibour- 

America    (ireaihouse    ISuchanan,     the     wife     of  xille,   Kentucky;  and     Kiclnnond,    .Missouri;    1882- 

•lanies    .M.    Itnchanau,    was   born    near   Shelby\ille,  1S!)7,  an  ediloi,  reporter  and  ciu-respondent  on  staif 

Kentucky,  .Inly  11,  ISd'.l,  her  ancestral  history  dat-  <d'   L<iiii.^riUt    Cnniui) ninl .  four    yeairs;  ■  Loui.sriJlc^ 

ing  back  only  to  the  settlement  of    the    family    in  ('(niricr-./diiriKil.  seven  yeairs ;    W'ushiiK/loii   T'line^, 

Maryland,  in  the  seventeenth  cetitiiry.     I  h  i-  father,  three  years;  also  during  this  jveriod  correspcmdent 

Isaac  (ireathimsc,  held  high  i-ank   in    the    military  Un- \iir  YdiI:  \\ Orhl .  Xrir  TurJ:  Trihuiic.  Si.  Louis 

and   civil   sei'vice  (d'  the  Slate  after  he   located   in  r<)-sl.nisi,ii/,li .  Cliir(i<i<,  Xiirs.  and   agent     for    the 

Kentuckv    in    IT'.lCi,  where  he  raised  a  large  family  .Associated    Press  at   Louisville.      .\lso  o-wner    and 

who    wctc    educalid    with    great    paitistaking,     and  pitblisher,    1SS!»-1S!I:;  ,if   lh,iii<    dud   Si-lionI   Hdiicd- 

iiearly  all  of  whom  becatiie  lu-omimait   in   the  local       HhikiI  Wichh/,  kimisville,  Ky. ;  1S'.»7 an  assist- 

affaiis  of  till  ir  sitrr idings.and  to  tiretii  wi-ielioni  ant  editor.  |)i\ision  of  Publications,  United  States 

eight  sous  .and  daughters:     \\tt,i,t.\.\t .  STtLi,.  Is.\.\c.       l>e|iat iii    of    .\gri(Milt  tiri-.    Washington,    D.    P.. 

Iiii>GELi:v.  X.\.\(V   I  .Mrs.  Clarke    .Mc.Vf.vj,    S.vlly,  I'nblicat  ions :  liisLorical  Skeldi  of  Department   of 


SKETCHES  OF  i'ATKONS. 


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Agriculture;  Develoiuiient  of  Agricultural  Li- 
braries; Free  Delivery  of  ISural  Mails;  Index  to 
Yearbooks,  1S'J4-1!)00. 

Married  1886  to  ^lary  Melissa  Curtis,  Aim  Ar- 
bor, Midi.,  will)  is  also  a  gradealc  dt  Fiiiv)  isil\-  uT 
Michigau.  II  A.,  1882,  M.  A.,  18S8.  Cliildivii: 
Kutli  Cui'tis  ( 1  reaitliouse,  sdxtieeu;  Lucicii  Helm 
Cii'eait'house,  t\\elve;  IJayiiKnid  Kidgley  ( ireatlmnse, 
niue. 

AA'liile  uiy  residetucc!  (douiicile)  is  ^>'asliiiiginn.  I). 
C,  iiiy  legal  resiideuvc  aiud  citiizeuisihii])  Iras  b'eeu  a't 
Uniontowu,  Keiilucky.  «iici-c  I  still  own  lli(i  farm 
on  wliicli  I  was  hnniglil  ii|)  and  spcrilir;ill  \-  rdain 
a  residence  in  lease  \n  tenant. 

The  children  of  James  Milton  Biiehanan  and 
Anwrica;  Greia(tlvouse  were  tire  fcdlowing:  la  )  >\'ii,- 
UAM,  boru  January  11,   ]s:n,  and  died   .luiie   i:'>. 


sonii.  Ilissoii  (Icorgc  was  boi-n  in  July,  ISCiL'.  He 
inai'i'ied  Nancy  Uoggcss  in  ISS.").  Tlicy  iia\i-  fniir 
cliildrcii:     Frank,  Susie,  Itiitler  ami   Xi-il. 

A\'illiam  Huchanan,  secduil  sdii,  was  liorn  in 
ISIiS.  I  Ic  is  ;i  fiiniiri-.  1 1  is  im )l  licr  iiial<rs  h is  licnisc 
licr  liiinii'.  In  IS'.IO  lir  marrii'd  laiia  .Ininisnn. 
daughter  i>(  James  10.  and  .Mice  (  Frazier  i  John- 
son, of  Jaeksdii  (\)niit\,  .Missouii.  lie  has  two 
children:    liutli  and  Harry. 

SKHTCH  7. 
(c)  JAMES  BUCHANAN. 

James  Itinlianan,  lliii-d  child  dl'  James  M.  Itiicli- 
anan,  was  born  in  l>aii\ilb',  KenliicJcy,  .\|)iil  :30, 
1S;>4.  His  edneiilidii  was  such  as  tillcil  liini  for 
business  pnisnils,  and  al  I  lie  age  nf  abeiit  eigjiteen 
Acai's  he  came  to    Lduisxille,    where    lie    a(    once 


arge  mercan- 
tile hduse.  Three  years  afler,  al  llie  age  df  Iweuty- 
<Mie,  he  was  admil1e(l  Id  a  |)arl  iiei-s]ii|i,  and  cdii- 
tinued  in  the  same  business  for  len  years.  His 
tirm,  along  with  many  others,  \>  as  lirdl<en  up  liy 
tlie  Civil  '^^'al•,  and  he  weiil      fi-diii     Ldciis\ille     in 


1815;  (b)  Alexaxdku  H.,  born  May  31,  f832,  and  secured  eiii|pldymeiil  as  a  ciiik  in  a  I 
died  July  28,  1876;  (c)  Jamks.  bdin  Ain-il  30, 
1831;  (d)  Queen,  Ixnai  January  21,  ^x:U'>,  and  died 
June  13,  1838;  |e)  (iiioiaiE  McAfee,  born  ;\rarch 
19, 1838;  tf)  Mauy  Yodeu,  born  February  27,  1846; 
(g)  Nancy  McAfee,  born  February  7,  1842;  (ii) 
Sakah  E.,  boru  Octolier  29,  1843;  I  j )  John  V\'.,  Chicago,  and  in  a  short  time  fiu'med  a  pai'tnershij; 
boru  Juue  4,  1845,  and  died  September  7,  1901;  there,  and  tiie  fiiiii  did  a  large  grain  and  [irdvision 
(k)  Anna  Mauia,  born  August  9,  1847;  and  (1)  business  ami  were  niemiiers  df  Hie  Cliicago  Board 
Thomas.  Ikhh  Ajiril  23,  1849;  and  <lied  January  nf  Trade  for  several  years.  Subsequeutly  he  re- 
22,  1853.  turned  to  liouisville,  and,  in  1871,  engaged  in  the 
(b)  Dr.  Alexander  H.  Buchanan.  real  estate  business,  which  he  has  pursued  until 
Dr.  Alexander  II.  Buchanan,  sec(uid  child  of  iju'  ]iresent  time.  1904. 
James  M.  Buchanan,  was  boru  May  31,  1832,  in  In  .laniiary,  1860,  he  married  IJebecca  Graham 
Danville,  Kentucky,  and  died  at  Hardin,  Missouri,  Smitli,  daugliter  of  Tiidnias  I',  ami  Cdinelia  (Sim- 
July  28,  1876.  He  received  a  good  education  at  the  rail )  Sniitli,  of  Lonis\  ilie.  i  Tliomas  1'.  Smirii  was 
hands  of  his  father,  studied  medicine  while  clerk-  Commissionei-  and    l>e]nily   Commissidner    of    ihe 


iug  iu  a  drug-store,  and  graduated  in  that  profes- 
sion from  McDowell  Medical  College,  St.  Louis, 
^Missouri,  lie  removed  to  Jvichnidud,  Missouri,  and 
entered  upon  practice  with  Dr.  Ceorge  AV.  Buchan- 
an, Ills  consiu.  In  May,  1861,  lie  niariied  Laura 
Hughes,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  ISerry  Hughes  and  Susan 
(Canipbe]])  Hughes,  of  Hay  County,  .Missouri.  Dr. 
Buchanan  continiieil  to  jiractice  with  marked  suc- 
cess until  his  deatJi  in  1S76.  His  widow  and  two 
sons    iidw    residi'    near    llardin,    \l;\y   ('ouiih',    Mis- 


Louisville   Chancery   ("onri    I'lom     1835    unlil     his 
death  in  1896 — a  |ieiioil  (d  siMy-one  years). 

Janii's  Itiicliaiian  and  wife  are  bdtji  acti\'e  mem- 
bers of  the  Second  Presbyterian  ( 'liiircJi.  They  have 
had  four  children  :  Cdrnelia  Smilh.  born  and  died 
in  XoNcmber,  IStil  ;  Fannie  Smilh,  born  I'ebruary, 
1870,  died  Xoxcmlier.  IS75;  Tliom;is  S.  I'liiciianan. 
the  eldest  son,  liorii  .May  2(1.  ISCi',  and  died  .May  !•, 
1903;  and  .lames  S.  I!iiclianaii.  boni  Sepiember  14, 
IStil,  wild  is  llie  diih   siir\i\  iiiL;  diic  dl'  llic  children. 


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SKETCH  II.  <''ii'l  \vii>  s('\'<'i'('ly  wdiindcd  in  a  sliarji  enp;agement 

TlioiiiasS.  I'.iicliauaii.  son  of  .lames  and  Ifchccca,  al  rollici'villc,  Tcmicsscc,  in  one  of  (Jcncral  For- 
was  cdncatcd  in  tlic  Louisville  public  schools,  and  rcsCs  famous  cavalr.v  laids.  Near  llie  close  of  the 
was  admitted  to  liie  I'.ai'  of  the  l.onisville  Courts,  wai-  he  married  N'icioiia  Nunually,  daniiliter  of 
anil  practised  his  profession  for  some  years.  He  -Tames  P..  Xunnally.  a  planter  of  .Marshall  ("ounty, 
afterwards  Joined  his  father  in  ihereal  estate  Mississippi.  Five  childicn  were  iiorn  of  the  \mion ; 
business,  and  remained   in  that  liusim-ss  until  his      tlieir  luimes  were    Afary    Colenmn.    Charles    Nun- 

nally,  Susan  Dean,  Nannie  AN'aiicn,  and  Fanny 
Dean  ;  all  of  T\iioni  died  in  infancy  or  («arly  child- 
li'f)od.  Tlis  wife  died  in  Htdly  S)irini;s,  .Mississippi, 
in  18s.").  In  Deceniber,  188(1.  he  married  his  scenuid 
wife,  Susie  F.  Detan,  danj^htei-  of  .rosejdi  Iv  and 
Fannie  (Nunn;illy)  T>eaTi,  of  Holly  S]irini;s.  They 
have  two  children:  Ceoroe  ^IcAfee,  liorn  Aufjnst 
1*S,  18S8;  and  "N'icloria  Xnnnally.  born  Febi-uary 
■2\,  IS!  10. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  Oeorfie  ]M.  liuchanan  set- 
tled in  .Marshall  County,  Mississip])!,  and  engaged 
in  coilon  raising.  He  has  lived  there  cont  inu<iusly 
since.  He  was  for  eight  years  sheriff  of  his  county, 
and  in  the  past  thii'ty  years  has  held  many  posi- 
tions of  trust,  both  private^  and  puldic.  He  served 
one  term  as  Fnited  States  Internal  Reve- 
nue Collector  foi-  the  Xorthern  District  of 
Mi.s!sis(sii)pi.  He  is  a,  member  of  ihc  Pres- 
byterian Church,  and  active  in  business  gen- 
erally, was  for  four  years  Fnited   State.-;  Marshal 


death. 

lie  married  Ida  Shallcross,  daughter  of  Stepiien 
II.  ami  .Marcia  (.Minims)  Shalli-ross,  of  Louisville, 
who  is  still  living.     They  had  no  chiklreii. 

SKETCH   12. 

.Tauu'S  S.  Puchanaii,  second  son  of  .Tames  and 
Rebecca  liuchauau,  was  born  in  Se](lendier,  ISbl. 
lie  likewise  was  educated  in  the  Louisville  i)ublic 

scl Is,  ami   has  Ih'cu   engaged    in  the  real   estate 

business  in  Louisville  for  eighteen  y<'ai-s,  both  on 
his  own  accotmt.  and  as  partner  of  his  father,  and 
his  uncle,  John  \\\  Huchanan.  lie  married  in 
Novendier,  11)(»:!.  lOlizabeth  Cautield,  daughter  of 
W.  (^  Canti(dd,  and  granddaughter  of  the  Rev. 
Isaac  \\'.   Cautield. 

James  S.  Buchanan  is  a  member  of  the  Second 
I'resljylerian  Church  in   Louisville,  Kenlncky. 

SKETCH  8. 
(e)  GEORGE  M.  BUCHANAN. 


George  McAfee  Buchanan,  fifth  child  of  James  (ov  the  Northern  District  of  ^Iississip])i,  under  ap- 

^r.  Buchanan,  was  born  .March  1!),    1S;>8.     He   re-  pointment  of  Presi(h'nt  ^IcKinley   (ISil!)),  and  is 

ceiv(<l  a  good  education  at  the  hands  of  his  father,  now     ijresident     of   "The    Peojjle's   Bank,"    Holly 

His  advent  into  the  business  world  was  as  a  clerk  S[ii-ings,  .Mississippi. 

in  a  st(U'e  in  Louisville,  Kentucky.     In  IST)!  he  re-  Susie  V.  Dean,  wife  of  (leorge  M.  Buchanan,  was 

moved  to  N'ersailles,  ^Hssouri,  and  subse(piently  to  Ixun  in  Marshall  County,  .\Hssissippi,  on  December 

Sedalia,  where  he  secured  ein]iloyment  as  a  clerk,  '-i,  ISoS,  and  completed  her  education    at    Higbee 

When  the  Civil  War  began  he  enlisted  as  a  private.  High  School,  Memphis,  Tenn.     Her  father,  Joseph 

aficiwards  liecomiiiL;  a    lienlenant,    in   the  Second  E.  Dean,  came  with  his  parents  to  .Marshall  Couu- 

.Missoiiri   Cavalry,  Confederate  States  .Vrmy.     Ho  ty,  [Mississippi,  in  ISo.").     Her  father  served  during 

[iartici|)ated   in   the  se\'eral   battles  fought  in    Mis-  the  ('i\il    'War  as  a   < 'onfederate  soldier,   and    was 

soiiri  and  in  the  battle    of    Pea    Ridge,    Arkansas,  sevendy  wounded.      1 1  is  business  has  always  been 

.After  the  Battle  of   I'ea   Kidge,  his  regiment    was  that  of  a  cotton  jilanler.  Susie  F.  Dean's  mother  was 

transferred   to  Bragg's  .\rmy,  at  Corinth,   .Missis-  Fanny  V.  Nunnally,  the  daughter  of  James  B.  Nun- 

si]ipi,  and   afterwards  assigned   to  Forrest's  com-  nally  and  Dorothy  Couch,  who  came  from  Virginia 

maud.     He  remained  with  that  organization  until  to  Tennessee,  and  from  there  removed  to  ^farshall 

(he  war  emled,  sui  lendi  ring  in  the  s])ring  of  1865,  County,  .Mississippi.     James  B.  Nunnally's  father 


JAMES  BUCHANAN. 

LOUISVILLE.    KY. 

[See  Sketch  No.  7.  J 


MRS.  JAMES  BUCHANAN. 

LOUISVILLE,   KY. 

[See  Sketch  No.  7.] 


JAMES  S.  BUCHANAN 

LOUISVILLE,   KY. 

[See  Sketch  No.  12. | 


JOHN  VV.  BUCHANAN. 

(Deceased.) 

I  See  Sketch  No.  10.] 


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I^^Z-:^  iiZ^^U 


t,/H4^  tJf  6^  c-t,^,'^^-*'-^*'*-^*-*^ 


[See  Sketch  No.  8.] 


[See  Sketch  No.  8.] 


FAMILY  OF  Gil)!.-!,!:  ,\\.   BLUIHANAN. 

HOLLY   SPR1^0S,   MISS. 

I  See  Sketch  No.  8.] 


SKETCHES  OF  TATRONS. 


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was  Arthur  Nuunally,  whose  \\-ife  wais  Radiel 
Couch,  a  sister  of  Dauiel  Coucli.  aud  tho  ]atter's 
wife  was  Jaue  Thomas,  Artliuv  Nunuall.v  aud 
Daniel  Coucli  beiuL;-  hrothers-iu-law,  .Tames  I>. 
Nuunally  haviutj'  marriod  his  first  consin,  Dorothy 
Couch,  a  (laiiiihfcr  of  Dauiel  Couch.  The  elder 
Nuunally  and  Couch  families -were  all  horn  and 
raised  uear  Lyuchhurii',  Virginia,  aud  came  of 
English  family  originally.  James  B. Nuunally,  with 
his  wife,  came  to  Marshall  County,  jMississippi,  in 
183."),  where  they  raised  a  large  family,  aud  are 
buried  at  the  old  family  homestead  six  miles  south- 
west of  Holly  Springs,  where  is  also  buried  Eachel 
Couch  Nuunally,  the  mother  of  James  B.  Nuunally. 
Joseph  E.  Dean's  father,  Josejih  Dean,  was  liorn  in 
IMaryland.  His  father,  Samiud  Dean,  emigrated 
from  Wales,  and  settled  in  ^Vfarylaud  in  the  early 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century;  and  finm  llience 
came  to  Pickens  District,  South  Carolina,  where 
Jose]ih  Dean  married  Elizabeth  iCduKUison,  they 
removing  to  Marshall  County,  Mississippi,  in  1835, 
where  they  raised  a  large  family  on  their  planta- 
tion near  Chulahoma.  Joseph  Dean  lived  to  the 
advanced  age  of  ninety-three  years,  and  died  in  Die 
j-ear  1871;  and  his  wife  died  in  the  year  1874.  in 
the  eighty-ninth  year  of  her  age.  Both  are  buried 
at  the  old  ]ilantation  liomestead  neai-  Chulaliouia, 
Mississippi. 

(f)   Maky  Yoder  Buchanan. 

^[ary  Yoder,  sixth  child  of  James  j\[.  Buchanan, 
was  born  February  27,  1840.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Baptist  Church.  Tu  18r.l  she  married  ^^'ul. 
Oscar  Coleman,  son  of  William  L.  Coleman,  of 
Ti'imlile  County,  Kentucky.  They  have  Iiad  seven 
children. 

Mary  Oscar,  tlicir  first  child,  was  liorn  in  1862. 
She  niarried  George  W.  Williams,  of  Henry 
County,  Kentucky.  Williams  and  Avife  liave  two 
cliildren:  Lily  May,  and  Howard. 

Oeorge  D.  Coleman,  second  son  of  W.  O.  and 
Mary  Y.  Coleman,  was  born  September,  1S(17.  He 
married  Alpha  K.  Peuu,  aud  resides  at  l-'raiiklorl, 
Ky. 


Charles  C.  Colcuiau,  liiird  cliihl,  was  Itorii  iu  No- 
vember, 1808.  He  nuii'ried  Sailie  Graham  Hamil- 
ton.    They  have  one  cliiid   (Hamilton). 

W'm.  L.  Coleman,  lourlii  child,  died  al  llie  age  of 
eleven. 

America   Grcaliunisc   Ccilruiau.   fifili   cliild,    was 

born  in  1872.     She  uiarricd  Mr.  Snyder,  and 

now  resides  at  ^lillou,  Kenlucky. 

James  Buclianan  Coleman,  sixth  child,  was  horn 
December,  1874.  He  is  now  married,  and  resides 
near  Sulphur,  Kentucky. 

Nora  Sibley  Ccdciuau.  seventh  child,  was  boi-n 
July,  1877.  In  18!)r>  she  married  E.  B.  Mcf'ain, 
and  died  in  1898. 

W.  Oscar  Coleman  espou.scd  the  Confederafe 
cause,  and  joined  the  Fourth  Kentucky  Cavalry  in 
1862.  He  served  honoi'alily  unfil  the  general  sui-- 
renifler  in  1865.  His  occnpation  is  that  of  a  farmer. 
He  has  served  one  term  as  sheriff  of  his  county,  and 
two  terms  as  representative  of  his  District  in  thv 
Kentucky  Legislature,  and  for  one  tenu  was  a 
member  of  the  Kentucky  State  Senate,  and  now 
holds  the  position  of  Superintendent  of  the  Confed- 
etraite  Soldiers'  Home  at  Pewee  Valley,  Keaitucky. 

(g)   Nancy  McAfee  Bttchanan. 

Nancy  McAfee  Buchanan,  seventh  child  of 
James  M.  Buchanan,  was  bom  in  Shelbyville,  Ken- 
tucky, February  7,  1842,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  In  December,  1868,  she  mar- 
ried Dr.  W.  C.  Warren,  of  Marshall  County,  Mis- 
sissippi, and  lives  there  now.  Dr.  Warren  is  a 
native  of  Green  County,  Alabama.  He  was  born 
in  1832,  and  is  a  cotton  planter  and  practising 
physician.  He  received  a  classical  education,  and 
graduated  in  medicine  at  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, at  Philadelphia.  By  steady  practice  and 
thorough  acquaintance  with  the  current  literature 
of  his  profession,  he  maintains  the  position  of  one 
of  the  leading  physicians  of  this  State.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Warren  have  three  children. 

James  Buchanan,  their  first  child,  was  horn  in 
1870,  lives  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  and  is  engaged  in 
business  there. 


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Mary,  their  second  child,  was  born  in  1S73.   She      tributing  to  tlie  pleasure  and  comfort  of  others.   In 


married  Robert  F.  .Malone,  of  Laws  Hill,  Marshall 
rouutj,  Mississippi,  in  lS!t:j.  Tliey  have  one  child, 
\Mlliam  Ross,  born  in  1894.    Malonc  is  a  farmer. 

riara,  their  third  child,  was  born  in  IST.').  is  uu 
married,  and  lives  with  her  parents. 

SKETCH  9. 
(h)  SARAH  E.  BUCHANAN. 

Sarah  E.  Buchanan,  eighth  cliild  "f  .Tames  M. 
Buchanan,  was  born  October  20.  1S4P..  and  is  a 
member  of  tlie  Tresbyterian  Churcii.  In  ISfil  sbe 
married  Professor  B.  F.  Duncan,  of  Shelby  County, 
Kentucky,  son  of  Daniel  B.  and  Eleanor  (Cook) 
Duncan.  B.  F.  Duncan  is  a  cultured  man.  He 
o-raduated  at  Georgetown  (Kentucky)  College,  and 
subsequent  to  orjuluatioii,  received  the  degree  of  A. 
.M.  at  tbat  institution.  His  pursuits  have  been 
entirely  in  literary  ways.  He  taught  school  for 
several  years  in  Kentucky,  and  is  now  Superintend- 
ent of  Public  Schools  at  Maryville,  JNIissouri.  B. 
F.  Duncan  and  wife  have  four  children: 

James  Buchanan,  born  in  1869.  He  is  a  lawyer 
in  good  standing  in  the  town  of  Carrollton.  Ken- 
tucky. 

Blanch  Duncan;  John  McAfee  Duncan  (born  in 
18TG),  and  Mary  Eva  Duncan,  children  of  B.  F. 
Duncan  and  wife,  are  all  unmarried  and  live  with 
their  parents  in  Maryville,  Missouri. 

SKETCH  10. 
Joii.x  \y.  Bucii.vx.VN,  ninth  child  of  James  M. 
Buchanan,  was  born  June  4,  184.""),  and  died  at 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  on  the  eighth  day  of  Septem- 
ber, 1901.  As  a  boy  lie  developed  great  fondness 
for  books,  and  being  the  youngest  son,  his  father 
gave  him  special  opportunities  for  the  cultivation 
of  his  tastes  in  literature,  and  his  leisure  moments 
were  spent  in  adding  to  his  knowledge  from  the 
choice  works  and  standard  autboritits  in  art  and 
litei'ature.  While  l)elow  the  average  in  stature,  he 
was  a  man  of  s]>lendid  physique  au<l  command- 
ing ])resence,  and  his  genial,  kindly  nature  and 
princely  bearing  served  to  make  him  always  a  wel- 
come visitor.    He  was  never  so  happy  as  when  con- 


1873  he  became  associated  with  his  brother  James 
Buchanan  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  in  which  business  he  continued  until  his 
death.     I'^'W  men  in  11ie  city  of  Louisville  bad  more 
friends.     Fond   of  mingling  with   his   fellow-men, 
he  was  a  leader  in  a  number  of  social,  charitable 
aiul  other  organizations.     As  a  member  and  secre- 
tary of  the  Kentucky  branch  of  the  "Sons  of   the 
Revolution"  he  took  great  pride  in  the  order,  and 
in  developing  the  history  of  his  own  ancestry  and 
that  of  other   pioneer    Kentucky    families.     As   a 
^Fason  he  was  a  zealous  and  active  member  of  that 
order.    It  was  only  a  few  days  before  his  death  that 
the  National  .\ssemblage  of  the  "Knights  Templar" 
met  at  Louisville,  and  from  his  residence  window, 
while  propped  on  his    couch,    he    witnessed    their 
grand  parade  and  with  an  improvised   sword    ex- 
ehang(Ml   salutations  with    the  Knights  of  his  ae- 
(|uaintance,   and    fully  conscious  of  his  condition, 
remarked :     "This  is  the  last  parade  that  I   will 
ever  witness."     In  1883  he  married  Nathalie  Clai- 
borne, a  daughter  of  the  late  Colonel  Nathaniel  C. 
Clailjorne  of  the  St.  Louis  bar,  and  one  of  its  most 
distinguished  members.     Colonel   Claiborne  came 
of  an  illustrious  Virginia  family,  his  father  having 
served  forty  years  in  Congress,  and  his  uncle  was 
one  of  the  early  Governors  of  Mississippi.     John 
W.  Buchanan's  widow  with  three  children  survive 
him.    Their  names  are  Clailiorne,  Warren  and  Mil- 
dred.    They  reside  in  Louisville,  Ky. 

The  untimely  death  of  John  W.  Buchanan  was 
the  occasion  for  great  grief  and  soi'row  on  the  part 
of  his  kinspeople  thi-oughout  the  land,  and  espe- 
cially so  to  the  four  sisters  and  two  brothers  who 
suiTive  him.  He  was  cut  off,  as  it  were,  without 
warning  in  the  prime  of  life  and  in  the  full  vigor 
of  physical  and  uuMital  maidiood. 

He  was  suddenly  stricken  with  total  paralysis 
and  passed  away  in  a  very  few  days.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

(k)  Anna  Buchanan. 
Anna  Buchanan,  tenth  child  of  James  M.  Buch- 
anan, was  born  August  9,  1847,  and  is  a  member 


SKETCHES  OF  PATKONS. 


of  the  Methodist  Church.  In  1875  she  married 
Charles  B.  Ilardy,  sou  of  Baruett  Hardy,  a  planter 
of  Marshall  County,  Mississippi.  Charles  B. 
Hardy  is  a  farmer  near  Victoria,  Mississippi. 
They  liave  three  children. 

Charles  B.,  born  iu  1876;  in  1897  he  married 
Miss  Alice  Houston,  and  they  have  three  children 
and  live  at  Victoria,  Mississippi. 

John  Buchanan,  born  iu  1878,  and  resides  with 
his  father. 

J.  Warren,  born  in  1880,  and  died  after  a  short 
illness  on  August  1,  1899. 

Oscar,  born  in  1891,  and  lives  with  his  father. 

These  three  boys  are  bright,  manly  fellows,  and 
live  with  their  parents,  who  have  made  a  life  study 
of  the  proper  training,  education,  and  Christian 
care  of  their  children ;  devoted  to  their  church,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hardy  spend  their  time  uud  means  freely 
for  the  cause  of  religiou. 

(V)— CALEB  BUCHANAN. 

Caleb  Buchanan,  fifth  child  of  Alexander  and 
Nancy  ( McAfee  j  Buchanan,  was  born  in  Mercer 
County,  Kentucky,  in  1801.  He  was  reared  in  that 
County,  and  when  he  attained  manhood,  removed 
to  Madison  County.  In  .January,  1836,  he  married 
Sallie  Wood,  daughter  of  Wiley  Wood,  of  that 
County.  Caleb  Buchanan  and  wife  both  died  iu 
Madison  County,  Kentucky,  and  are  buried  there. 
They  had  three  children  : 

John  B.  Buchanan^  their  first  child,  was  born 
in  Kichmond,  Kentucky,  September,  1837.  He 
joined  the  Federal  Army,  in  1861,  as  Captain  of 
Company  "D,"  Sixth  Kentucky  Cavalry,  and  served 
during  ihe  War.  In  1867  he  married  Sarah  E. 
Boulware,  daughter  of  AVilliam  and  Arthusia  (,Mc- 
W'illiamsj  Boulware,  of  Madison  County.  In  1869 
he  removed  to  Missouri,  and  is  now  living  at 
Carthage  in  that  State.  They  have  five  children. 
Their  first  child,  Sue,  was  born  in  1868.  In  1889 
she  married  Wm.  Duncan  Gregory,  a  farmer  of 
Fort  Estill,  Madison  County,  Keutuckj-,  where  they 
now  live.  AVm.  Gregory  and  wife  have  two  chil- 
dren, Elizabeth  (born in  1889), and  James  (born  in 


1895).  Sallie  Buchanan,  second  child  of  John  B. 
Buchanan,  was  born  in  Cartilage,  Missouri,  in  1869. 
She  is  unmarried,  and  lives  willi  her  parents. 
Arthur  Buchanan,  third  child  of  .John  B.  Buchan- 
an, was  born  in  October,  1871.  He  lived  awhile  in 
Ihe  Province  of  Nova  Scotia,  wlierc  he  married 
Laura  Pemberton,  in  1896.  He  now  lives  in  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.  Lucy  Buchanan,  fuurlli  child  of  John 
B.  Buchanan,  was  born  iu  September,  1873.  ^lary 
E.  Buchanan,  fifth  child,  was  born  in  December, 
1875.  Lucy  and  Mary  are  both  unmarried,  and 
live  with  their  parents. 

Anderson  Wood  Buchanan^  second  cliild  of 
Caleb  Buchanan,  was  born  in  ^larch,  1812.  He  was 
never  married,  aud  died  in  1871,  at  Winnsboro, 
South  Carolina,  and  is  buried  there. 

Mary  D.  Buchanan^  third  child  of  Caleb  Buch- 
auau,  was  born  in  June,  1841.  She  was  never 
married.  Died  in  Madison  County,  Kentucky,  in 
March,  1871. 

SKETCH  13. 

(IIIj  WILLIA.M  BUCHANAN,  third  child  of 
Alexander  Buchanan  and  Nancy  McAfee,  w^as  born 
iu  Mercer  Counly,  Kentucky,  in  -luly,  1805.  He 
was  reared  in  that  county-.  In  early  maniiood  was 
eugaged  iu  business  in  Uarrodsburg.  He  married 
Phoebe  Ann  McCouu,  daughter  of  James  T.  and 
Mary  (Caldwell)  McCoun,  also  of  xMercer  County. 
He  died  in  May,  1830.  His  wife  died  in  Septem- 
ber, 1829.  They  are  buried  in  New  Providence 
Graveyard,  Mercer  County.  Their  only  child, 
Gkukge  \\'illiam  Buchanan,  was  born  in  Har- 
rodsburg,  August,  1828.  At  the  age  of  six  years 
lie  was  taken,  by  his  maternal  grandfather,  to  Kay 
County,  Missouri,  and  reared  on  a  farm.  He  re- 
ceived a  finished  education,  grndnaliug  at  Centre 
College,  Kentucky,  iu  1852,  ami  in  medicine,  at  Jef- 
ferson Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  in  1855.  He 
at  ouce  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Rich- 
mond, Ray  County,  Missouri.  In  1856  he  married 
Emily  R.,  daugiiter  of  Joseph  B.  and  Mary  (Chew) 
Terry,  of  Lexington,  Missouri,  formerly  of  Fred- 
ericksburg, Virginia.    When  the  Civil  War  Iiegan, 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


T)r.  Buchanan  espoused  tlie  cause  ol'  llic  ronfed- 
eracy,  and  served  as  sui'ii-e<)n  in  (Seucial  Slerliii.u 
Trice's  Army,  two  years — 1SG1-G2.  He  removed  to 
Central  City,  Colorado,  in  1804.  ITis  wife  died 
(here  in  18(59.  They  had  tive  children,  four  of 
whom  died  in  infancy.  Their  surviving  child,  Wil- 
liam 'IVrry  Buchanan,  was  born  in  Lexington, 
.Missouri,  June,  18(;i.  He  now  lives  at  Colorado 
City,  Colorado.  In  18S7  lie  mariied  Cora  Ziuiiiicr- 
man,  of  Troy,  Kansas.  They  have  one  child,  Ten-.\ 
Buchanan,  born  Octoher,  1888.  In  1871  Dr. 
George  W.  Buchanan  returned  from  Colorado,  and 
resumed  his  residence  at  Richmond,  Missouri,  and 
there  died  :March  14,  ISDO.  He  was  a  ruling  elder 
ill  the  Presbyterian  Clinicli.  In  November,  1873, 
he  nmrried  his  second  wife,  Henrietta  Rives  Wat- 
kins.  Dr.  Bucliauan  had  four  children  by  his  sec- 
ond wife :  George  ^^'atkins,  born  in  1875,  who  is  a 
farmer,  and  lives  in  Ray  County,  Missouri;  Charles 
Allen,  born  187G;  James  :McAfee,  born  1880;  and 
Henry  Rives,  born  1883. 

(IV)  ALEXANDER  BUCHANAN,  JR.,  fourth 
child  of  Alexander  Buchanan,  was  born  in  Mercer 
(Jounly,  Kentucky,  in  1803.  Early  in  life  he  moved 
to  Garrard  ('ounty,  Kentucky,  and  about  the  year 
1852  moved  to  Indiana,  he  having  quite  a  large 
family. 

SKETCHES  14,  15  AND  16. 

14— REV.  DR.  JOHN  A.  MCAFEE,  DECEASED. 

15— REV.  DR.  SAMUEL  L.  MCAFEE. 

16— MR.  ROBERT  W.  MCAFEE. 

The  three  individuals  wliose  sketches  are  here 
combined  were  all  sons  of  Joseph  .McAfee,  who 
was  the  son  of  John  [McAfee,  ^^■]lO  was  the  sou  of 
Samuel  McAfee,  the  x»ioneer,  -who  was  a  son  of 
James  McAfee,  Sr.,  Ilie  Irish  iinniigrant,  who  died 
in  Botetourt  County,  "N'irginia,  in  1785. 


ser\(Ml,  he  seems  to  have  been  a  man  of  more  than 
usual  scl f-jiossession  and  cool  dclibcralioii,  lirave, 
bill  always  cautious,  determined,  but  without  pas- 
sion or  rashness.  He  was  the  tirsi  magistrate  in 
.Mej'cer  County,  and  was  tilling  the  oftice  of  sheriff 
of  the  county  when  the  State  became  a  part  of  the 
nalion. 

He  was  maiiird  to  Hannah  McCormick,  of  Rock- 
bridge County,  N'irginia,  some  jears  before  the 
family  immigrated  to  Kentucky.  The  fruit  of  this 
marriage  was  eight  children,  viz: 

1.  JOHN,  born  Octoher  20,  1775;  died  April  28, 
1S33. 


•;   died   January  31, 


II.  ANNIE,  born 

III.  ROBERT,   lioru  — 
1840. 

IV.  JANE. 

V.  HANNAH. 

VL  WILLIAM,  born  August  27,  1787;  died 
Octoher  29,  1852. 

VII.  SAMUEL,  born  1792;  died  October  18, 
1819. 

VIII.  MARY,  died  July  9,  1833. 

John  was  twice  married  and  had  a  family  of 
eleven  children. 

Annie  married  Thomas  King,  and  left  a  family  of 
five. 

Robert  niairied  I'riscilla  Armstrong,  antl  reared 
a  family  of  four  daughters. 

Jane  married  Beriah  Magoftiu,  and  had  a  family 
of  nine,  among  whom  Avas  the  Hon.  Beriah  Magof- 
fin, Governor  of  Kentucky  in  18(U. 

Hannah  maiiied  Captain  Samuel  Daviess,  and 
left  one  son. 

^\'illianl   married   late  in  life,  and  left  no  heir. 

ilary  nianii'd  Colonel  Thomas  1'.  ^[oore,  aii<l 
had  a  family  of  two  daughters. 

Most  of  the  children  lived  in  fiercer  Countv  un- 


A  brief  sketch  of  Samuel  McAfee,  the  pioneer,     til  after  the  father's  death,  which  occuri'ed  October 


is  given  in  I'art  Second  of  this  volume,  but  a  few 
additi(mal  particulars  will  here  be  presented. 

The  history  of  Samuel  ^McAfee,  the  pioneer,  as  it 
is  preserved  in  the  annals  of  the  family  is  very 
meagre.     From  the  incidents  that  have  beea  pre- 


10,  1825.  The  wife  and  mother  followed  him  June 
27,  1833.  Their  bodies  are  entombed  in  ihc  nld 
graveyard  of  Providence  Church,  of  which  church 
the}'  were  both  members  from  its  organization  until 
their  deaths. 


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I.  JOHN  McAFEE,  the  eldest  sou  of  Samuel  Mc- 
Afee aud  Hauuah  McCoruiick,  was  born  in  Bote- 
tourt County,  Virginia,  October  20,  1775.  He  was 
four  years  of  age  when  his  parents  came  as  pioneers 
to  Kentucky,  and  grew  up  amid  the  hardships  and 
perils  that  attended  life  in  those  early  days.  AVhen 
he  reached  his  majority  his  father  gave  him  a  por- 
tion of  the  homestead.  Upon  this  he  made  his  home 
and  passed  a  quiet,  uneventful  life,  leaving  behind 
him  an  unsullied  record  of  a  true  citizen,  and 
consistent  Christian,  aud  a  family  whose  careers 
testify  to  his  fidelity  to  the  divine  covenant.  A 
portion  of  the  original  building  w  liicli  lie  erected 
is  still  standing  on  the  farm,  now  owned  by  his 
son,  James  Jackson  McAfee,  one  mile  south  of  the 
village  of  jMcAfee,  on  the  pike  leading  to  Harrods- 
burg. 

His  first  marriage  was  to  Elizabeth  McKamey. 
Six  children  were  the  crown  of  this  union,  viz: 

(a)  Samiuel_,  born  July  12,  ISOO  ;  died  December 
20,  1869. 

(b)  KOBEKT^  born ;  died  in  infancy. 

(c)  Joseph^  born  June  3,  180.3;  died  November 
!),  1876. 

(d)  Cynthia^  born  March  :J,  1805;  died . 

(e)  John  Clakk^  born  October  1,  1807;  died 
January  4,  1874. 

(f)  William,  born  Octolier  3,  1810;  died , 

184—. 

His  second  wife  was  Mrs.  Dicy  (Caldwell) 
Curr^-,  of  which  marriage  there  were  five  children, 
as  follows : 

(g)  Caldwell^  born    January  16,    1817;    died 

(h)  Mary  Ann,  boru  August  31,  1819;  died 
February  2,  1888. 

(j)  PiioEP.E  Elizabeth,  born  September  8, 1821; 
died  November ,  1849. 

(k)   James  Jackson^  boru  February  23,  1824. 

(1)  Francis  Monroe^  born  March  31,  1827;  died 
June  15,  1889. 

All  the  children  of  the  first  nuirriiige  re- 
mained on  the  farm  until  their  majority,  except 
Samuel,   who   was  apprenticed  to  a  carpenter  of 


Georgetown,  Kentucky,  at  fourteen,  until  he  was 
twenty-one.  The  family  circle  was  not  broken  by 
any  distant  removals,  until  llic  fall  of  1830;  when 
Joseph  jiiafi'icd  ami  i-cmovcd  lo  North-eastern  Mis- 
souri, to  n|icii  his  farm  w  iiicli  lie  had  entered  from 
the  govei'iimciit  tlic  year  bcfoi'e.  His  laml  was 
located  ten  and  one  iialf  miles  north  of  west  from 
Palmyra,  the  county  seat  of  Mai'ion  County.  The 
country  was  very  new,  and  (jnly  a  few  settlements 
had  been  made  in  the  neighborhood,  and  these  of 
vei-y  recent  date.  There  was  no  such  thing  as  a 
grist,  or  saw  mill,  and  the  nearest  base  of  sup])lies 
of  any  sort  was  the  county  seat. 

In  1834  his  brothers,  John  C.  and  William,  fol- 
lowed him,  and  located  their  farms  about  four 
miles  west.  About  the  same  time  his  sister  Cyn- 
thia, who  had  married  Jack  Allen,  Esq.,  of  Har- 
rodsburg,  came  with  her  husband  to  the  State,  but 
settled  near  Huntsville,  Randolph  County,  where 
they  reared  their  family  of  six  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters. Samuel  followed  the  others  in  the  fall 
01  1835,  and  opened  his  farm  on  Flint  Creek,  ad- 
joining John  C.  on  the  west 

In  August  of  the  same  year  that  Samuel  came 
to  Missouri,  the  New  Providence  Presbyterian 
Church  Mas  organized.  The  organization  was  ef- 
fected in  the  house  of  John  C.  McAfee,  and  Joseph 
and  John  C.  McAfee,  and  Joseph  Blackwood,  were 
the  original  elders.  Subsequently  Samuel  McAfee 
was  made  a  deacon.  The  church  took  its  name 
from  the  I'rovidence  Church  in  Kentucky,  of  which 
Dr.  Thomas  Cleland  was  so  long  the  cherished  pas- 
tor, and  from  which  a  majoiity  of  its  origiiml  mem- 
Iters  had  come. 

In  184 —  this  circle  of  brothers  was  broken  by 
the  death  of  the  youngest,  William,  who  left  a 
widow  and  I  wo  ciiildreu,  a  son  and  a  daughter. 
These  soon  after  returned  lo  the  old  home  in  Ken- 
tucky. The  only  survivoi-  of  this  family  is  Mr. 
Allen  McAfee,  of  Alton,  Kentucky. 

There  was  no  iiku'c  break  in  the  circle  until  1849, 
when  Samuel  left  his  farm  and  removed  to  La- 
Grange,  jMissouri,  to  engage  in  the  lumber,  and  sub- 
sequently in  the    book    and    stationery    business. 


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Jolm  followed  liiin  in  IS.'.S,  and  planted  a  nursery 
near  LaGrauge.  Joseph  remained  on  his  Marion 
Couuty  farm  until  the  spring  of  1866,  when  he  also 
reim)\ed  fn  a  small  I'ai  in  near  TjaOrange. 

11  may  safely  be  said  liial  no  three  men  in  the 
edmmnnity  exerted  a  more  powerful  influence  for 
good  than  did  these  three  brothers.  They  were 
universally  recognized  as  men  of  hduor  and  in- 
tegrity, as  men  of  settled  convictions,  with  courage 
to  maintain  them.  They  did  not  seek  political 
preferment,  or  covet  official  positions.  Except 
Samuel,  who  served  as  INIayor  of  the  City  of  La- 
Orange,  and  was,  at  the  time  of  his  death.  United 
States  Revenue  Collector,  none  of  I  hem  ever  held 
a  public  or  civil  office.  Politically  they  all  ad- 
hered to  the  Democratic  party,  were  the  admirers 
of  Hon.  Thomas  H.  Benton,  Missouri's  illustrious 
Senator,  and  followed  liini  in  his  opposition  to  the 
extension  of  slavery,  nnlil  the  campaign  of  1860. 
In  this  campaign  they  all  witlidrew  from  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  Joseph  supported  the  Constitutional 
Union  candidate,  and  lioth  the  others  voted  for 
Abraham  Lincoln.  From  that  time  until  their 
deaths  their  aftiliations  were  with  the  National  Re- 
publican party. 

They  were  always  moie  prominent  in  the  affairs 
of  the  church  than  of  the  State.  They  were  recog- 
nized as  pillars  in  the  New  I'rovidence  Church  as 
long  as  they  were  connected  with  it,  and  when  one 
after  another  transferred  his  membership  to  the 
LaGrange  Church  he  was  almost  immediately 
called  into  the  session  there.  They  were  all  well 
known  in  their  Presbytery  and  Synod,  and  each  of 
them  represented  his  i'resbytery  in  one  or  more 
General  Assemblies.  Each  lived  to  a  good  old  age 
and  departed  as  a  shock  of  corn  fully  ripe. 

SamueLj  the  first  child  of  John  McAfee  and 
Elizabeth  McKamey,  was  twice  married.  First  on 
December  5,  1822,  to  Martha  Curry,  daughter  of  his 
step-mother. 

Their  children  were  ^^'illiam  Curry,  and  two 
daughters  \\  ho  died  in  infancy.  AA'illiam  lived  to 
about  thirty  years  of  age,  and  left  a  widow  and 
two  children,  a  son  and  daughter.  Martha  Curry 
died  July  6,  1830. 


His  second  wife  was  Hannah  Bohon,  to  whom  he 
was  married  January  12,  1832.  The  children  of 
this  union  were:  1.  Susan  Alary,  who  married 
Homer  Howard  A\'inchell  and  had  a  family  of 
eleven  children,  li\e  of  whom  are  now  living.  Her 
residence  is  at  Parkville,  Missouri,  where  lier  hus- 
band is  engaged  in  the  general  merchandise  busi- 
ness. 2.  John  \\aller.  who  died  in  Texarkana, 
Texas,  at  the  age  of  thirty-seven  and  unmarried. 

His  death  occurred  at  Palmyra.  Missouri,  De- 
cembei-  2!l,  186!).  His  wife  survived  him  abont 
seven  years,  dying  Octolier  24,  1876. 

JosEi'H  .McAfee  was  married  October  2(').  1830, 
to  Priscilla  Ann  Armstrong,  daughtei-  of  IMajor 
Thomas  Lanty  Armstrong  and  Tiny  Dorland,  and 
granddaughter  of  Captain  John  Armstrong  and 
Priscilla  AIcDonald.  Tiny  Dorland  was  a  daughter 
of  Garrat  Dorland,  who  was  commissioned  by  the 
Convention  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  August 
27,  1776,  as  "Second  Lieutenant  of  a  Company  of 
Foot  for  York  Couuty  in  the  Flying  Cami)  fcu'  the 
Middle  States  of  America."  [This  commission  is 
signed  by  "B.  Franklin,  President,"  and  is  now  the 
property,  or  is  in  the  possession,  of  Miss  Helen 
Armstrong,  Louisville,  Kentucky.]  She  was  a 
true  help-meet,  and  lived  to  share  his  trials  and 
trium^jhs,  joys  and  sorrows  for  about  thirty-five 
years.     Her  death  occurred  July  16,  1865. 

The  children  of  Joseph  McAfee  and  his  wife 
I'riscilla  Ann,  were: 

John  Armstrong,  born  December  12,  1S31 ;  died 
June  12,  18"J0. 

Rebecca  Jane,  born  February  ~>,  1834;  died  April 
15,  1880. 

Tiny  Elizabeth,  born  April  24,  1836. 

Charlotte  Cleland,  born  July  2,  1838;  died  No- 
vember 2,  1891. 

Samuel  Lanty,  born  May  13,  1841. 

Margaret  Ann  Gray,  born  November  27,  1843; 
died  March  27,  1849. 

Mary  Helen,  l)orn  July  2,  1846;  died  September 
27,  1865. 

Robert  William,  born  October  11,  1848. 

Hannah  Catharine,  born  June  7,  1851. 


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249 


John  C,  fifth  cliild  ol'  Jolin  and  Elizabeth,  was 
also  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Matilda 
Bohon,  whom  he  married  January  4,  1832. 

The  children  of  this  marriage  were: 

Mai-y  Hannah,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Cynthia,  who  married  Joseph  H.  Hargis,  of  La- 
Grange,  Missouri,  and  had  a  family  of  four  chil- 
dren, only  two  of  whom  are  now  living.  She  died 
August  22,  1874. 

Samuel  Bohon,  who  resides  at  Augusta,  Illinois, 
and  whose  family  consists  of  nine  children,  six  of 
whom  are  living. 

William,  also  living  at  Augusta,  Illinois.  Four 
of  his  children  are  living. 

George  Fletcher,  now  the  liev.  George  F.  McAfee 
of  New  York  City,  Superintendent  of  the  School 
Work  of  the  Board  of  Hume  Missions  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church.     He  has  no  children. 

John  C.'s  second  wife  was  Catharine  Bohon,  a 
cousin  of  his  first  wife.  (_)ne  daughter  only  was 
born  of  this  union.  She  grew  to  womanhood  and 
was  married,  but  died  soon  after,  and  left  no 
family. 

His  death  occurred  at  LaGrauge,  Missouri,  Jan- 
uary 1,  1874. 

SKETCH  14. 
John  Armstrong  McAfee,  the  eldest  son  and 
child  of  Joseph  McAfee  and  I'riscilla  Ann  Arm- 
strong, w  as  born  on  his  father's  farm,  near  the  vil- 
lage of  Houston  (now  known  as  Emersunj,  Marion 
County,  Missouri,  December  12,  I80I,  the  first  year 
after  the  removal  of  his  pai'ents  from  Kentucky  to 
Missouri.  Those  were  pioneer  days  in  Missouri 
ulieu  hardships  were  many  and  advantages  few. 
He  availed  himself  of  such  advantages  as  the  local 
schools  afforded,  until  he  was  twenty  years  of  age, 
when  he  began  to  teach  in  the  common  schools  of 
the  day.  He  prepared  for  college  under  the  pri- 
vate tuition  of  Eev.  Josiah  B.  Poage,  and  gradu- 
ated from  Westminster  College  at  Fulton,  Mis- 
souri, in  1859.  Twenty-five  years  later  the  college 
conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  doctor's  degree 
in  divinity.  In  August,  1859,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Anna  W.  Bailey,  daughter  of  Major  James  G. 


Bailey,  of  St.  Charles,  Missouri.  He  became  a 
teacher,  and  iliough  later  ordained  to  the  ministry 
in  the  i'resbyteriau  Church,  counted  himself  a 
teacher  and  educator  ratlici-  than  anytliing  else, 
throughout  his  life. 

In  1859  I'rofessor  .McAfee  taught  in  a  young 
laiiics"  sciinni  in  I'nlinii.  .Missniiri,  still  in  existence. 
1860-1867  were  spent  in  teaching  at  Ashley,  Mis- 
souri, where  his  lilV  wcirk  began  In  lake  shape  in 
his  mind.  During  this  i)eriod,  also,  in  response  to 
earnest  solicitation  of  tiie  church  and  friends,  he 
was  ordained  to  the  ministry,  'i'hree  years  were 
.spent  in  Louisiana,  ^lissouri,  in  college  teaching, 
when,  in  1870,  a  call  came  to  the  professorship 
of  Greek  in  Highland  I'niversit}',  Kansas.  There 
were  soon  gathered  about  him  here  students  who 
were  without  means,  but  who  were  ready  to  per- 
form whatever  manual  labor  was  assigned  them. 
They  were  counted  members  of  his  family,  living 
in  a  large  hall  wliicii  he  erected  by  the  help  of 
friends,  aud  called  "Hufford  Home,"  and  their  tui- 
tion in  the  University  was  remitted  in  lieu  of  his 
salary.  Having  won  his  own  colle^ge  course  by  his 
own  efforts,  aud  with  great  difliculty,  he  felt  his 
life-work  to  be  that  of  aiding  those  similarly  situ- 
ated and  etiually  desirous  for  education. 

It  became  evident,  after  live  yeai's  of  effort,  that 
the  peculiar  purposes  and  methods  which  were  in 
I'rofessor  ^IcAfee's  mind  could  be  better  de- 
Aeloped  apart  from  any  already  established  insti- 
tution, and  friction  appeared  in  the  L^niversity  on 
that  account.  He  at  once  resigned  his  position, 
not  knowing  to  what  place  he  might  go.  An  opening 
was  providentially  made  k<v  his  w  urk  in  Parkville, 
Missouri,  whose  founder,  the  Hon.  George  S.  Park, 
oft'ered  him  land  and  a  lai-ge  stone  building,  form- 
erly used  for  a  hotel.  Here  he  began  in  1875  what 
was  to  be  his  great  work.  As  an  educational  insti- 
tution, the  enterprise  was  called  Park  College. 
As  a  peculiar  training  school  for  the  Missouri  Val- 
ley and  the  entire  West,  it  was  called  Park  College 
Family  for  Training  Christian  Workers.  As  the 
name  suggests,  the  institution  was  aggressively 
Christian.     The  practical  study  of  the  Bible  was 


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iiKidc  first  of  all.  Fidin  I  he  li(\i;iimini;-  all  its  stn- 
(Iciils  liave  been  ex])('cl(M]  Id  lie  ])ves('iit  at  two  de- 
votional cliapcl  services  each  day,  and  each  imist 
take  part  in  the  siiiniiit!,-  and  readiii.n'  of  Scripture. 
-Vs  a  rcsnit,  few  stiidenls  i^o  llironiih  a  rear  of  at- 
tendance iinconverted,  and  all  of  its  liTadnates  have 
liccn    ])riif('ssinii'  ( "lirisi  ians. 

Professor  ilcAfee  offered  no  course  of  study  but 


the  conmiencenieut  day  of  that  year.  At  his  death, 
his  family  underlook  the  work,  under  the  title  of 
John  A.  ^McAfee's  Sous,  his  five  sons  and  (mic 
dauiihtcr  JiiiTiinn-  with  ^Irs.  ^IcAfee  in  the  niaiiai;c- 
meut. 

His  sons  are: 

1.  Low<dl  ^lasou  Mc.Vfee,  born  1800,  graduated 
frdui  I'ark  College  ISSO,  attended  McCorniick  Sem- 


the  severely  classical  (inc.  and  I  lie  college  has  had      iuary  1883-4,  superintendent  manual  labor  depart- 


no  other.  All  the  uienibcrs  (if  the  fauiily  were  re- 
(piired  to  pursue  that  single  cdnrse.  At  first  most 
of  the  teaching  was  done  liy  aihanced  students, 
other  teachers  casting  in  their  bit  wilh  the  money- 
less leader  and  students,  with  little  or  no  salary, 
all  supplied  from  the  common  Ireasury.  The  fac- 
ulty has  grown  until  it  now  (18!)8)  includes  twen- 
ty-three professors  ami  instructors,  all  classical 
graduates  from  mauy  institutions,  and  all  leceiv- 
ing  very  moderate  living  salaries. 

Each  studeut.  accoi'ding  to  Professor  McAfee's 
plan,  becomes  part  of  a  family  in  whose  belialf  lie 
speuds  part  of  each  day  in  assigned  manual  labor. 
It  is  not  supposed  Ihal  he  can  sniijiorl  himself  by 


meut  Park  College  1880-83  and  1881-5,  principal 
of  academy  and  chairman  of  college  faculty  from 
188."t  to  the  present  time.  Married  Carrie  Imogene 
Canfield,  1887.  Children:  Ralph  Canfleld,  Ken- 
neth Railey,  Esther  Lucille. 

2.  Howard  Bailey  ilcAfee,  born  1861 ;  graduated 
I'ark  Collegv  1880;  attended  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  New  York,  1882-84;  professor  of  ^lathe- 
matics  Park  College,  1880-82;  business  manager 
and  su]ierintendenl,  1884  to  present.  Married 
Lucy  IT.  llindman  188(1.  Children:  Paul  Hind- 
man;  John  Armstrong;  Anna  Helen,  died  1800; 
Lou  Marie,  died  1800;  Helma  Louise. 

3.  Lapsley  Armstrong  ^McAfee,  born  1S()1;  grad- 


his  work;  and  if  be  can  pay  (be  .fOO  re(|uired  each      uated    Park  College  1882;    graduated  .^fcCormick 

Seminary  188.'"i;  ordained  Presbyterian  Church 
1880;  pastor  I'arkville  Presbyterian  Church  1889- 
1898;  sujx'rintendeni  and  disciplinarian  Park  Col- 
lege Family  1885-1808;  pastor  Presbyterian 
Church,  I'ho'ui.x-,  Arizona,  1898.  :\Iarried  Ella 
Taylor,  1887.  Children:  Hugh  Bailey,  Anna 
Ruth,  Lapsley  Ray,  Wallace  Taylor. 

4.  Cleland  Boyd  .McAfee,  born  1800;  graduated 
Park  (Aillegc  1884;  I'nion  Seminary,  New  Y(U'k, 
1888;  ordain(xl  Presbyterian  Church  1888;  co- 
pastor  Paikville  Presbyterian  Cliurcli  1889-1898; 
pastor  same  1898;    Professor    Mental    and    ^Moral 


year  to  supplement  his  la.bor,  he  is  expected  to  do 
so.  If  not,  the  amount  is  secured  from  friends  for 
the  family  treasury.  The  manual  lalior  is  not, 
iberefoi-e,  meant  Cor  leaching  Irades,  but  to  lessen 
the  expense  of  the  e(lnial  ion  ]ii-o\i(led.  and  a  jiart 
of  I  he  I  raining  for  usefulness.  The  young  women 
do  all  I  he  "honie"  'iMirk;  the  young  men  do  uuiny 
kinds  of  onldoor  and  indoor  \\(irk.  l)r.  McAfee 
eslablished  a  printing  ojlice.  earpeuler  sliojis,  stoue- 
i|uari'ies,  blacksmitliing  and  several  olber  dejiart- 
iiienis,  besides  the  farming  and  gardening.  Several 
buibliugs  were  erected  bv  student  hibor  before  his 


death,  and   many  Innc   been  since    erected.     The  Pliilosophy  Park  College  1889  to  present.     Married 

lands  have  been  gradually  acquired  until  there  are  Uattie  L.  Brown  1892.     Children:     Ruth  Myrtle, 

about  1,200  acres  contiguous  to  or  near  the  campus,  Catherine  .\gnes. 

besides  2,000  acres?  in  other  places.     Some  of  the  5.  Joseph  Ernest  .McAfee,  born  1870;  graduated 

latter  tracts  are  not  of  great  value.     Considerable  Park  College  1889;  graduated  Auburn   Seminary 

money  endowment  has    been    secured,    now    more  1893;  Helper  Park  College  Family  1893-95;  I'liuce- 

than  .f 225,000.  ton  Seminary  1890;  professor  Greek  Park  College 

Dr.  Mcxifee  died  June  12,  1890,  on  the  evening  of  1890  to  present.     Married  Adah  E.  Brokaw,  1898. 


SAML  MCAFEE. 
iSoo-i86g. 


JOSEPH  McAFEE. 

1803-1876. 

[See  Sketches  14.  15  and  16.] 


JOHN  CLARKE  McAFEE. 

1807-1874. 


REV.  SAM'L  L.  McAFEE,  D.  D.        PRESIDENT  JOHN  A.  McAFEE.  D    D. 

PARKVILLE,  MO.  18)1-1890. 

[See  Sketches  14.  15  and  16.] 


ROBT  WM.  .MCAFEE. 

CRAWFORDSVILLE,  IND. 


MRS    SALLIE  MCAFEE  EDMUNDS. 

RELICT   OF 
EDWIN   SHORT   EDMUNDS, 

Only  Surviving  Graudctiiid  of  J.imes  McAfee,  the  Kentucky  Pioneer. 

Taken  on  Her  Eightieth  Birthday. 

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SKETCHES  OF  PATRONS.  253 

6.  The  daughter  is  Helen  Bailey  McAfee,  born  Park  College,  Inif  her  lienlth  soon  gave  way,  and 

1872;  graduated  Park  Coll(>ge  1802;  Western  Fe-  she  was  eompelled  lo  abandon  her  eherished  work, 

male   Seminary,    Oxford,    Ohio,    1894  ;    teacher  of  On  October  2, 1878.  she  was  married  to  Rev.  Joseph 

Latin,  Park  College  Academy,  1897  to  present.  Carle  Robinson,  who  was  a  elnssnuite  in  tlie  Uni- 

Rebecca  Jane    (jMcAfee)    McKamey,   the   eldest  versity,  and  a   gradnalc  of  Princeton   Theological 

daughter    of    Joseph    McAfee    and    Priscilla  Ann  Seminary  in  Ihe  class  of  1878.     Tier  cliildren  are  • 

Armstrong,  was  born  near  Salvisa,  Kentucky,  Feb-  Harold   ^Mc.M'ce,  ami   Eiliel.     Her    liome    for    a 

ruary  5,  1834.     She  was  married  to  Joseph  McAfee  number  of  years  has  been  a(  "White  P.ear,  'Minne- 

McKamey  of  Paris,  Missouri,  Septendier  10,  1854.  sota,  where  her  husband  is  the  esteemed  pastor  of 


Her  family  consisted  of  one  son,  Calvin  McAfee, 
who  was  killed  by  a  mule  when  fourteen  years  of 
age;  and  two  daughters,  Margaret  and  Josepliine. 
The  latter  died  in  early  womanhood  and  unmar- 
ried; the  latter  married,  but  died  cliildless  in  1894. 


the  Presbyterian  Church. 

Charlotte  Cleland  (McAfee")  Pollock,  daughter 
of  Joseph  McAfee  and  Priscilla  Ann  Armstrong, 
was  born  near  Emerson,  Missouri,  on  the  2d  day 
of  Julv,  1838.   After  her  mother's  death  she  became 


She  was  noA^er  possessed  of  a  robust  constitution,  her  father's  housekeeper,  and  made  a  home  for  him 

and,  after  a  lingering  illness  of  several  years,  died  and  the  family  as  long  as  he  lived.     On  January 

in  the  triumphs  of  a  Christian  faith,  April  15,  1880.  11,  1877,  she  was  married  to  James  F.  Pollock,  of 

Tiny   Elizabeth    (McAfee)    Kizer,   daughter   of  LaCrange,  Missouri.     She  was  a  wotnan  of  sterling 


Joseph  McAfee  and  Priscilla  .\nn  Armstnmg,  was 
born  near  Emerson,  Missouri,  April  24.  1886.  On 
the  19th  of  March,  1857,  she  was  married  to  Jacob 
R.  Kizer  of  Illinois.  Her  residence  has  been  for 
many  years  at  Louisiana,  Missouri,  where  her  hus- 
band has  been  engaged  in  mercantile  business.  Her 
cliildren  have  been  two  daughters,  Nettie  and  Eflfle, 
both  of  whom  died  in  infancy;  and  one  sou,  .Toseph 
Leslie,  who  was  born  in  Louisiana,  Missouri,  Feb- 


cliaracter,  the  life  of  the  circle  in  which  she  moved, 
and  foremost  in  every  good  work  in  the  church  of 
which  she  was  a  member.  She  died  Novendier  2, 
1891,  leaving  two  daughters,  Nellie  McAfee  and 
Elsie  May. 

SKETCH  15. 

Rev.  Samuel  Lanty  McAfee,  D.  D.,  second  son 
of  Joseph  McAfee  and  Priscilla  Armstrong,  was 
born  on  the  old  homestead,  near  Emei'son,  Missouri, 


ruary  20,  1870;  married  Bell  Wilson,  and  has  one  May  13,  1841.  He  remained  with  his  father  on 
son,  Thomas  Leslie.  He  is  at  present  in  Lincoln,  the  farm  until  he  was  twenty  years  of  age, enjoying 
Nebraska,  engaged  in  mercantile  business.  onlysuch  limited  facilities  for  education  as  the  pub- 
Hannah  Catharine  (McAfee)  Robinson,  was  the  He  schools  of  Missouri  of  that  day  afforded.  In  the 
youngest  child  of  Joseph  McAfee  and  Priscilla  fall  of  1801,  he  entered  Watson  Seminary,  at  Ash- 
Ann  Armstrong.  She  was  liorn  on  the  old  home-  ley.  Pike  County,  Missouri,  of  Avhich  institution  his 
stead  near  Emerson,  Missouri,  June  7,  1851.  She  brotlier  John  A.  was  then  principal.  After  one 
was  given  the  best  advantages  of  the  school  facili-  year  of  study  there,  in  October,  1862,  he  enlisted  as 
ties  at  hand,  as  had  been  given  to  all  her  brothers  a  private  in  Company  A,  Third  Missouri  Cavali-y, 
and  sisters  in  their  day, but  these  were  very  meagre.  Pnited  States  Volunteers,  and  served  until  (lie 
When  she  was  fourteen  years  of  age  her  father  re-  close  of  the  Civil  War,  rising  to  the  rank  of  First 
moved  to  LaGrauge,  and  she  had  the  advantages  of  Lieutenant,  and  Quartermaster  of  liis  regiment.  At 
such  school  facilities  as  were  provided  for  the  tlie  close  of  the  war,  lie  returned  to  scliool,  and  was 
youth  of  that  little  city.  In  1872  she  entered  High-  graduated  from  Pardee  College,  Louisiana,  Mis- 
land  University,  of  which  her  brother  John  A.  was  souri,  in  1869,  and  from  the  Nortli-western — now 
then  president,  and  graduated  in  June,  1875.  In  .McCormick — Theological  Seminary,  in  1871.  He 
the  fall  of  that  year  she  engaged  as  instructor  in  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  North- 


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eastern  Missouri.   .Mav  11.   1S(;:i,  and  ordainwl  by  Becoiiiiui,'  iiilciestca   in  the  work  of  suppressiug 

the  rreshytery   of   .Missuni-i    Kivcr.    I  )iMcnilK'V    17.  (ilisfciic  lilcralurc,  in  tlic  line  adopted  by  Anthony 

1S71.     At  the  same  lime  o\'  his  ..rdiiial ion  lie  was  Comstoek  of  New  York,  he  took  an  active  interest 

inslallcd  as  jiastor  of  (lie  I'lcsliylciian  (Minnh  of  in  it,  and  in  1877  sncceeded  in  co-niiiletinfi-  active 

Kcd  ():\k.  Iowa,  which  pasloialc  he  licld  unlil  :\lay,  organizations  in  Cincinnati,  St.  Lonis  and  Chicago, 

ISSi'.     Aflcra  lew  nionihs"  niinisliy  in  Winnebago  to  sustain  the  work   in   the  West,  in  co-oi)eration 

Cilv,  .Minnesota.  li<-  accepled  a  call  from  the  I'res-  wiUi  tlie  New  York  Society,  and  became  the  Gen- 

hvleiian  Clinrchal   .Mal\ciii,   Iowa,  which  position  eral  Agent  of  the  Western  Society  for  the  Suppres- 

he  lilled  nnlil  called   lo  oigani/,e  ilie  rreslivterial  sion  of    Vice,  composed    of    the    above-mentioned 

Academy    at    Corning,  Iowa,  October,   lS,sr>.      lie  branches.     He   lias  been    the  active  agent  of    the 

gave  up  the  principalship    of    that    institution  in  same  to  the  present  time.     His  vigorous  prosecn- 
ISSi),  and  went  to  Tark  College  to  organize  the  De- 


partment of  Biblical  History  and  Practical  Christ- 
ian Training,  which  iirofessorshiii  he  still  holds. 
Highland  I'niversity  conrencd  upon  him  the  de- 
gree of  iNIaster  of  Arts  in  1S7l',  and  I'ai'sons  Col- 
lege that  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in  1S!»7. 

<tn  the  tilth  day  of  April,  1871,  he  was  married 
to  Marv  Esther,  danghtcr  of  Bev.  Josiah  B.  Poage, 


tion  of  the  work  attracted  the  attention  of  the  Post- 
Office  Department,  and  in  June,  1884,  Judge  Wal- 
ter Q.  Gresham,  then  Postmaster-General,  a]!- 
])oinled  him  a  Post-Office  Inspector,  and  issued  to 
him  a  commission,  commanding  that  he  be  "obeyed 
and  respected  accordingly  by  mail  contractors, 
postmasters,  and  all  others  connected  with  the 
postal  service,"  and  requiring  "all  railroads,  steam- 


ot  Ashley,  :\rissouri.     Only  one  child  was  born  to     boats,  stages,  and  other  mail  contractors  to  extend 


them,  Samuel  Poage,  who  was  boin  at  ('orning, 
Iowa,  August.  22,  1888,  and  died  at  Parkville,  Mis- 
souri, April  16,  1892. 

SKETCH  i6. 
Robert  William  .McAfee,  youngest  son  of  Jo- 
seph McAfee  and  Priscilla  Ann  .\rmstrong,  was 
born  in  .Mari<ui  ( "onnty,  .Missonia,  ( »ctoliei'  11,  1818. 
He  remained  on  the  farm  with  his  father  until  the 
autumn  of  18<i7.  enjoying  very  limited  school  pi-i\- 
ileges  at  any  time,  and  during  the  War  of  the  Re- 
bellion, UKU-e  limited  still,  when  he  entered  Pardee 
<"(dlegiate  Institute  at  Louisiana,  .Missonri,  of 
wliiih  his  oldest  Ill-other,  Kew  -lohn  .\.  .Mc.Vfee,  was 
l>resideut.  He  went  with  him  lo  liighlaud  Uni- 
versity. Kansas,  in  1S7(I,  and  was  graduated  from 
that  institution  in  the  class  of  1S72,  and  i-eceived 
ri-oiii  it  the  degree  of  Master  of  .\rts  in  187,").  He 
took  up  a  special  c(Uirse  of  stinly  al  Triuceton  Seni- 
iriai-y,    hut,    tinding    weakness   ot   eyesight    foi-bade 


to  him  the  facilities  of  free  travel."  Each  succeed- 
ing Postmaster-General  has  treateil  him  likewise. 
He  has  secured  legislation  on  the  subject  in  ahuost 
every  Southern  and  Western  State,  and  many 
municipalities.  I'robably  the  most  valuable  work 
accomplished  liy  him  was  securing  the  passage  of 
an  Act  of  Congress  forbidding  the  depositing  with 
any  express  comiiany  or  other  comunui  carrier, 
for  delivery  in  another  State  or  territory  any  ob- 
scene, lewd  or  lascivious  book,  etc.,  which  went  in- 
to effect  on  the  8th  of  February,  1807. 

He  was  married  June  0.  187.5,  to  Grace  L.  Deane, 
wlio  \\as  born  in  Franklin,  Massachusetts,  May  10, 
1853,  of  Puritan  stock.  They  have  four  living 
children:  Emile  AN'adsworth  ^fc.Vfe(%  born  Sep- 
tember IG,  1876,  and  is  a  meudier  of  the  class  of 
litOO,  in  Wabash  College;  Robert  William  McAfee. 
Jr.,  born  Febmary  12,  1881,  and  is  a  member  of  the 

ass  of  11103,  Wabash  College;  Grace  Deane  Mc- 


.ontinuous  study,  turnci  his  attention  to  interest-  Afee,  born  November  25,  1884;  Ruth  Winchell  Mc- 

ing  p.M.ple  in  the  w.u-k  of  his  brother,  Joh„  A.  Mc-  Afee,  born  January  18,  1889.     His  residence  is  at 

Afee.  and  remained  with  I, in.  nearly  two  years.    He  Crawfordsville,     In.liaua,    where    he    manages    to 

then  look  np  editorial  w  o,k  at  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  spend  his  Sal>batl,s,  though  under  the  necessity  of 

but  had  to  abandon    Hiat  on  account  of  his  eyes,  traveling  about  50,000  miles  a  year. 


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The  followino-  from  the  mauy  pnhlislicil    icr,!-- 
ences  to  him  aad  his  work  are  selected. 
The  Interior  of  CliieaL;o  says  : 

"A  uotahle  vichir.v  was  scored  last  week  for  jml)- 
lic  decency  by  .Mr.  i;.  W.  .McAfee,  a-cut  of  the  So- 
ciety for  tlie  Suppression  of  Vice,  in  the  conviction 
of  Joseph  If.  Duulop,  editor  of  the  riijca.iio  Dis- 
patcli,  before  Judge  Grosscup,  and  liis  sentence  of 
two  years  in  llic  ixMiilentiary  and  ihc  ]iaynii'nt  of 
|2,000  tiue,  Willi  I  lie  large  costs  of  prosecution." 

The  Presbytery  of  Chicago  passed  the  following 
in  reference  to  the  same  case: 

"licsulrcd.  That  this  Presbytery  e.xpress  its  su- 
preme gratification  for  tlie  zeal  and  fidelity  exer- 
cised in  the  snccessfnl  ]ir(isecnti(in  and  exclusion 
of  the  Chicago  nisjHiich  from  the  I'liited  States 
mails.  Further,  be  it  resolved,  that  we  reconnnend 
the  Society  for  the  Suppression  of  Vice  to  the  sym- 
pathy of  all  onr  churches." 

The  officers  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temper- 
ance Union  sent  the  following  as  a  personal  letter 
to  Mr.  McAfee: 

"In  behalf  of  300,000  white-riblion  women  who 
love  i)nrity  and  rightcdusness  we  desire  to  thank 
you  for  the  great  victory  that  has  crowned  your  ef- 
forts in  convicting  the  editor  and  publisher  of  a 
Chicago  paper  of  sending  through  the  mails  nmt- 
ter  calculated  to  pollute  society.  You  certainly 
are  to  be  congratulated,  and  all  good  men  and 
women  rejoice  at  the  result  of  the  trial  in  the 
T'nited  States  Court. 

"Sincerely  yours, 
(Signed)        "Fr.vncis  Willard,  Presidcvf. 

"K.\TH.\RINE  LenTE  StEVENSOX. 

Corresponding  Score  I  a  ri/. 
"Helen  M.  P.vrker.  Trra.^turcr." 

From  the  report  of  the  Exeimtive  Committee  of 
the  Society  for  the  Suppression  of  Vice: 

"At  present  the  entire  work  of  the  country  in 
this  line,  with  the  exception  of  an  occasional  case 
of  glaring  notoriety  attacked  by  the  police,  is  con- 
ducted by  two  heroic  men  who  stand  between  the 
twenty-seven  millions  of  youth  and  tlie  greedy 
monsters  who  would  sn]>  their  life  blood.  The 
lives  of  these  men  have  been  consecraled  lo  (his 
work  of  discovery,  repression  and  icscue.  They 
have  won  battles  of  which  any  general  on  I  he  field 
would  be  proud.     Tiiey  have  endured  trials,  hard- 


ships, ix'rsecntions,  attacks;  have  sacrificed  finan- 
cial and  social  i)i-ivileges.  They  have  been  ready 
to  suffer  for  the  children  Ihey  have  saved.  They 
sland  snpiioried  by  llie  nniied  voici'  of  (he  fathers 
and  mothers  nf  ilic  hmd  in  Iheii-  demand  lor  vigor- 
ous non-])olil  ical,  noil  seciariiin  acliim." 

The  following  rroni  .Mr.  .\iiJli(iiiy  Conislock  (o 
the  Western  Society  for  Ihe  Sn|i|ii-essi f  Vice  : 

"I  desire  especially  lo  speak  of  Mw  .Mc.\fee,  my 
co-laliore]'  .'iiid  co-su  ffei'er. 

"I  have  known  Mr.  JfcVfee,  I  think,  before  any 
member  of  your  organization  knew  him.  T  have 
never kliOA\n  a  inoi-e  failhfnl.  self-denying  mid  elli- 
cient  officer.  TJiere  is  no  man  in  this  conntry  for 
whom  I  have  ii  more  i>rof((und  respect  and  admira- 
tion, because  of  his  noble  fidelity  to  an  uniiopnlai- 
cause.  I  Inive  symitatliized  wilh  him  in  his  main- 
discouragements,  ]irivations,  trials  and  hardships, 
but  have  never  known  him  to  coni])lain  or  speak 
disloyally  or  disi-espectfully  of  any  of  his  dii(  ctors. 

"I  do  not  believe  that  there  is  a  nn-mber  of  your 
society  who  realizes  what  it  is  to  be,  as  he  has  been 
throughout  many  weary  years,  often  se])arated 
from  home  and  home  ties;  to  be  far  i-emoved  most 
of  the  time  fidiii  Ihe  sympathy  and  love  of  wife  and 
children;  to  s]pen(l  a  ]iortion  of  his  nights,  week  in 
and  week  onl,  nionlh  in  and  month  out,  vear  in 
and  year  out,  on  a  sleeping  car  or  at  some  liotel 
away  from  home  influence  and  comforts,  in  order 
that  he  might,  as  a  minute  man,  respond  to  every 
demand  made  u])on  him.  Tie  is  deserving  of  a 
monument   while  he   liv(^s.     *»»»•»« 

"^fcAfee  is  a  whole  regimeni  in  himself,  and 
when  backed  by  your  organization  wilh  a  purpose 
as  faithful  as  has  been  his  effort,  you  will  be  a 
whole  army  corps  in  this  magnificeni  bailie  feu- 
the  moral  purity  of  the  youth  of  this  great  nation." 

SKETCH   17. 
MRS.  CHAMP  CLARK,  BOWLING  GREEN,  MISSOURI. 

Mrs.  Clark  was  Miss  Genevieve  Davis  llennett, 
the  daughler  of  .Mr.  .Joel  1  >.  Bennett,  by  his  wife 
]\[ary  :\rcClung  .McM'ee,  who  was  Ihe  daughter 
of    George     Mc.Vfee.     Jr..     and     .\nne     llamillon. 

George  IMcAfee,  Jr.,  was  Ihe  s(ni  of  G ge  .Mc.\fee. 

the  pioneer,  and  his  wife  Susan  Ciiriy.  Genevieve 
Davis  IJennell  was  Ihe  youngest  of  the  seven  chil- 
dren  of   her    ]iarenls,    and    was    born    near    New 


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I>looinfiel(l,  Cnllnway  Coiintv,  INfissonri.  Ou  her 
fntlior's  side  slie  is  desceuded  from  the  Bennetts 
of  [Maryland,  who  came  over  from  England  witli 
Lord  Baltimore.  Her  srandfather,  Joseph  Ben- 
nett, and  his  brothei-s,  Eli.iah,  ]^^oses  and  John,  set- 
(h'd  in  ^ladisoii  Connty,  Kentucky,  at  an  early  day. 
Tier  father  was  lioni  in  tliat  loniity,  and  lier  mother 
in  Mercer  County.  Joel  D.  BeuueK  and  ^fary  Mc- 
riunir  McAfee  were  married  in  Tallawar  Connty, 
Afissouri.  Miss  Bennett  (tlic  snhjcct  of  this 
sketch"!  was  married  'Decemlier  14,  ISSl,  to  Mr. 
Champ  Clarlc.  then  a  lawyer  in  Bowliui;'  Green, 
MissouT'i.  TTcT'  husband  is  now  hnow  n  all  over  the 
United  States  as  the  Hon.  Clianip  Clarlc,  :\r.  C, 
from  the  Ninth  ^lissonri  District,  he  havinq:  been 
for  manv  years  a  member  of  the  Lower  Honse  of 
CongTess,  and  one  of  the  wittiest  and  most  elo- 
onent  members  of  that  liody.  "^^r.  and  Mrs.  Clark 
have  had  four  children  born  to  them  :  Champ,  Jr., 
and  Anne  Hamilton,  who  died  in  infancy;  and  Ben- 
nett and  Genevieve,  who  are  still  livinii-,  and  whose 
handsonu'  faces  can  be  seen  portrayed  in  this  vol- 
ume on  the  same  sheet  as  that  Avhich  contains  por- 
traits of  their  parents. 

Mrs.  Clark's  father  was  born  March  1,  ISOo. 
Her  nn>ther  (^Fary  ^fcClnni;'  ^FcAfee)  was  born 
Novendier  22,  1S13,  and  died  ^farcli  20,  1903,  when 
in  her  ninetieth  year.  Her  s^randfather,  Georije 
McAfee,  Jr.,  was  born  April  2S,  1777,  and  died 
May  28,  1819.  Anne  Hamilton,  wife  of  George  Mc- 
Afee, Jr.,  was  born  January  11,  1777,  and  died 
April  7,  1851.  An  excellent  portrait  of  Mrs. 
George  McAfee,  Jr..  will  be  found  in  this  volume. 
George  McAfee,  11ie  |)iniieer,  was  Iiorn  April  l:!, 
1740,  and  died  Ajuil  14.  1S03;  and  his  wife,  Susan 
Curry,  was  born  Oetolier  8,  1740,  and  died  Septem- 
ber 10,  1810.  Mrs.  Clark's  paternal  grandfather, 
Joseph  Bennett,  and  two  of  his  brdlliers  (EJijali 
and  Moses j,  married  ladies  by  the  luimc  of  Davis, 
who  were  .sisters,  Joseph's  wife  being  named  Mar- 
garet (Peggy). 

Mrs.  Mary  McClung  (McAfee)  Bennett  was  a 
remarkable  woman. 


"Ma  Bennett,"  as  she  was  affectionately  called, 
came  of  Scotch-Irish  Calvinistic  families  on  both 
sides — ifcAfee  on  the  paternal  side;  Hamilton  and 
McClung  on  the  maternal.  They  are  strong, 
brainy,  prolific  stocks.  .Mercer  County,  Kentucky, 
is  full  of  them. 

With  such  ancestry  it  was  inevitable  that  Mrs. 
Bennett  should  be  a  Presbyterian  and  a  Democrat. 
T\'iien  a  child,  and  until  she  migrated  to  the  West, 
she  attended  New  Providence  Church,  a  famcnis 
seat  of  Presbyterianism,  where  many  of  her  kin- 
dred lie  liuried,  Jier  grandfather,  George  ilcAfee, 
Sr.,  a  soldier  of  tlu'  Kevolution  under  General 
George  Rogers  Clark,  being  the  first  who  was  laid 
to  rest  in  that  histoi'ic  spot. 

Her  grandfather  entered  1,400  acres  of  land  near 
by  u]i()n  a  warrant  granted  him  for  his  services  to 
his  country  under  ''TJie  Hannibal  of  the  West." 

Her  father  was  Colonel  Georg-e  McAfee  (son  of 
George,  Sr.,  the  pioneeiM,  who  fought  under  Col. 
Dick  Johnson,  at  the  River  Thames,  and  under 
Andrew  Jackson  at  New  Orleans. 

She  was  only  two  years  old  w  hen  her  father  re- 
turned from  the  expedition  in  Canada,  and  such 
were  her  powers  of  memory  that  slie  Pecollected 
his  home-coming  to  iier  last  days. 

.Mrs.  Bennett  was  a  woman  of  great  strength, 
mentally  and  physically — a  tine  type  of  the  Ken- 
tucky pioneers  who  settled  in  Missouri,  drove  out 
the  Indians,  conquered  this  rich  wilderness  and 
established  civilization  west  of  the  Mississippi, 
making  it  the  most  delectalile  place  for  human  hab- 
itation beneath  the  stars. 

She  reared  seven  children  of  her  own,  and  twice 
that  many  negroes.  She  never  became  reconciled 
to  Lincoln's  Emancipation  Proclamation. 

All  her  children  grew  to  manhood  or  woman- 
hood. 

Jolm  McAfee  and  Sedocia  Bacon  died  in  the 
Hower  of  their  years  without  being  married.  They 
were  successful  farmers  and  stockmen.  Sedocia 
was  a  Confederate  soldier. 

Anne  Hamilton  married  William  W.  Pitzer,  a 
lawyer,  now  deceased.     She  and    her    only  child, 


\ 


MRS.  GENEVIEVE  B.  CLARK, 

WIFE   OF    HON.    CHAMP   CLARK. 

[See  Sketch  No.  17. 1 


HON.  CHAMP  CLARK.  M.  C. 
BOWLING  GREEN,  «0. 

[See  Sketch  No.  17. 1 


MRS.  JOEL  DAVIS  BENNETT. 

NEE   MCAFEE. 

[See  Sketch  No.  17.' 


BENNETT  ANl'  CFNEVIEVi;  CLARK. 

HOWLING   GKEEN.   MO. 

(See  Sketch  No.  17.  i 


MR.  JOEL  DAVIS  BENNETT. 
(See  Sketch  No.  17.I 


.MRS.  JUEL  DAVIS  BENNETT. 
[See  Sketch  No.  17- J 


SADOCIA  BACON  BENNETT. 
[See  Sketch  No.  17.] 


JOHN  McAEEE  BENNtl  1. 
iSee  Sketch  No.  17.] 


SKETCHES  UF  TATKONS. 


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Anne  Bennett  Pitzer,  reside  at  Colornflo  Sprin^js, 
Colorado. 

Joel  A.,  of  Kansas  Citv,  :Missoiiri,  married  Annie 
Bradford  Herndon.  To  tlicni  have  liecii  l)(>rn  seven 
children:  Little  Joel,  Sallie  Belle.  Joel  A.,  Ed- 
ward Bncknci',  ricoriiv  Grant,  Anne  Craig  and  Sn- 
sie  Herndon. 

Ceorii'e  Lisle,  of  Kansas  City,  ^lissonri,  married 
Sue  Beattie.     They  have  no  children. 

Mollie  Coulter  married  John  O.  Herndon, 
farmer,  of  Fulton,  Missouri.  To  them  have  been 
born  four  children :  Sedocia  Bennett,  Belle  Har- 
ris, Mary  McAfee,  and  Champ  Clark. 

Genevieve  married  Champ  Clark,  lawyer  of 
Bowling  Green,  Pike  County,  l^^islso^ri. 

Mrs.  Bennett  was  firm  in  the  faith  that  Presby- 
terians are  the  salt  of  the  earth.  One  of  her  greatest 
crosses  was  that  four  of  her  rliildren,  Anne  Hamil- 
ton, Mary  Coulter,  Joel  \.  and  Genevieve  all  mar- 
ried outsiders. 

When  a  young  woman  she  was  tall  and  well 
bTiilt,  remarkably  strong  and  active.  She  was  next 
youngest  of  the  children  of  Colonel  George  McAfee 
and  his  wife,  Anne  Hamilton.  T  have  heard  her 
brother  William  McAfee,  late  of  Mercer  County, 
Kentucky,  say  that  in  a  scuflflle,  Mary  was  six  to 
anybody's  half  dozen.  Her  brother.  Dr.  George 
McAfee,  late  of  Hardin  County,  Kentucky,  was  two 
years  her  junior.  When  he  was  just  gi'adnated 
from  college  he  came  home  and  said  to  her,  banter- 
ingly,  "Now,  madam,  T  am  a,  ninn.  and  will  run 
things  to  suit  myself  and  you  must  mind  me."  Tn 
a  minute  she  was  wrestling  with  him,  and  laid  him 
on  his  back,  where  he  capitulated  and  begged  for 
mercy. 

My  mother  has  always  been  noted  for  her  benevo- 
lence; I  suppose  there  never  was  a  more  unselfish 
person  than  she.  She  is  a  natural-b(U'n  nurse,  and 
can  do  more  to  make  a  sick  person  comfortable  than 
anybody  I  ever  saw.  Like  all  ibc  old  stdck  nf 
^FcAfees  she  had  an  ine.Khaustible  fund  of  humor. 
Although  she  had  a  great  head  for  business  and  un- 
derstood all  kinds  of  work,  she  has  always  been 
a  great  reader.     To  this  da^',  if  ^he  gets  interested 


in  a  book,  she  is  liable  to  si(  up  till   12  o'clock  at 
night  reading  it. 

Her  father's  sisters,  "Aunt  Armstrong,"  "Aunt 
Irving,"  and  ".\iint  McKamey,''  I  have  heard  her 
sjiciik  (if  mill  (Icsrrilic  sn  nflcii  IJiat  I  IVcl  lliiitthey 
are  persomilly  known  to  me.  ".Vunt  Armstrong-" 
would  never  ;illnw  till-  ddor  to  be  stmt  winter  or 
summer.  Tliis  came  from  her  e^irly  environments 
when  the  Indians  were  liable  to  creep  up  unawares 
and  make  a  forcible  entrance  into  the  house. 
George  IMcAfee,  Sr.,  bad  iiis  liousc  burned  three 
times  l)y  the  savages.  .\nnt  .\i-mstrong  used  to  tell 
the  children  of  that  day  (my  mother  among  them), 
many  thiilling  stories  of  encounters  with  the  In- 
dians. She  said  that  one  evening  she  went  out  to 
inilk  the  cow,  her  father,  George  McAfee,  Sr., 
standing  guard  Avith  his  gun,  they  heard  what  she 
thought  was  the  ciw  of  a  pantlier.  when  her  father 
told  her  to  hni'ry  and  milk  the  cow — that  they  were 
to  be  attacked  by  the  Indians — that  it  was  an  In- 
dian cry  instead  of  a  panther's.  They  drove  the 
stock  to  a  hiding  place  in  the  woods;  then  they 
built  up  a  large  fire  in  the  house  to  make  the  In- 
dians think  they  were  still  there  and  tied  to  the 
fort  which  was  owmed  by  James  McAfee.  That 
night  about  !t  o'clock  George  McAfee,  Sr.,  and  a 
negro  nmn,  under  cover  of  darkness,  slipped  back 
and  witnessed  the  conflagration  of  the  house;  the 
Indians  were  all  in  high  glee,  dancing  aronnd  the 
house  thinking  tliat  it  was  inhabited,  and  were  pre- 
pared to  tomahawk  (hem  when  they  ran  out  to 
escape  the  flames.  Aunt  .\rmstrong  used  to  tell 
how,  when  they  fled  to  the  fort  she  carried  her  little 
sister  Susanna,  then  a  baby,  on  her  back,  and  that 
she  felt  as  light  as  a  feather  as  she  bounded  over 
logs  and  through  the  forests  on  her  Avay  to  the  fort. 
Susanna  was  the  youngest  of  George  ^McAfee's 
children.  She  married  TJobert  ^fcKamey.  Kobert 
McKamev's  family  and  the  family  of  James  ^IcVfee 
(he  was  the  oldest  son  of  (icfU'ge  ^IcAfee,  Sr..  his 
wife  was  Nancy  ^rcKamey,  sister  of  Bobert)  moved 
to  Missouri  in  ISi'd.  Thirteen  years  afterwards,  my 
mother,  tlien  twenty-six  years  of  age.  came  to  Mis- 
souri on  a  \'isi(  to  tier  Isinsrollv,  met  in\'  father,  Joel 


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Davis  Hciiiictt,  of  Madison  Connty,  Kcntiickv  (liis 
older  hrodior,  ]\[oses  Benuett,  had  married  my 
mother's  cousin,  Lucinda,  tlie  older  danjihter  of 
Robert  ^loKamey  and  Susanna  ^IcAfee).  they  were 
attracted  toward  eacli  other  from  llu^  first;  indeed, 
tliey  wei'c  "cut  out"  for  eacli  other  hy  mutual 
fi'ieiids  hetore  they  met,  and  llieir  ac(|uaintan(e 
ripened  rapidly  to  love.  Tliey  wei'c  married  a  I 
Robert  .McKauun's  house  February  11),  ISol).  .My 
mother  has  a  f^reat  fondness  aiul  pride  in  recount- 
ing the  darini;  tieeds  of  her  ancest(U-s,  the  ^IcAfees. 
I  think  her  stories  of  her  father's  brother,  James 
McAfee,  would  till  a  volume,  w  liile  all  of  her  aunts 
would  come  in  for  a  fair  share.  Her  own  father, 
Colonel  George  ^IcAfee,  died  when  she  was  six 
3'eai*s  old.  He  was  a  tall,  liaudsouie  man  wiio  al- 
ways wore  ruffled  shirts  and  rode  a,  good  horse. 
"Uncle  Jimmy,"  Cousin  Robert's  father,  was  a  man 
of  tremendous  size,  and  was  known  u]i  and  down 
the  river  as  "Big  Jim  .McAfee,"  and  wasn't  afraid 
of  the  devil  himself. 

(tenevievk  Bennett  Ceark. 

SKETCH   i8. 
MRS.  ROBBIE  SCHUERMAN,  NASHVILLE,   TENN. 

Mrs.  Schnerman  is  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Jennie  Mar- 
shall, of  TTnionville,  Missouri  (see  Sketch  19),  and 
the  following  exhibit  shows  one  of  the  genealogical 
lines  of  tliese  ladies  and  their  brothers  and  sisters. 
It  will  be  seen  that  their  name,  before  marriage, 
was  Baid<s.  Their  parents  were  .Marvin  Khoten 
Banks  and  .Mary  Rochester  iiirc  ]\le.Vfee).  Their 
mother  was  a  woman  of  great  beauty  of  turni  and 
face,  and  of  the  most  lov(dy  character.  The  chil- 
dren of  iMar\in  R.  Banks  and  Avife  were  the  fol- 
lowing: 

A— LAURA  ALICE  BANKS,  who  marrietl 
Thomas  C.  Lii)scomli,  of  Tennessee,  and  died  June 
13,  181)5,  without  issue. 

B— JENNIE  MOORE  BANKS,  who  married 
Neal  B.  Marshall,  of  Unionville,  Missouri.  She 
has  one  child,  named  Mary  ^Mc.Vfee. 


D— .MARY  ROBERT  BANKS,  who  married 
William  IF.  Schuei'man,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  She 
lias  no  children. 

E— ANITA  :\rOORE  BANKS,  who  married  T. 
I'arkei",  of  Laurel,  Delaware.    She  has  no  children. 

F— CLINTON  S.  BANKS,  who  is  single,  and  re- 
sides in  Denver,  Colorado. 

The  mother  of  the  above  listed  individuals  was 
.Mary  Rochester  jMc.Vfee,  and  her  line  is  as  fnlbiws: 
Her  father  Avas  Robert  Liviugsinn  .McAfee,  of  Co- 
lundiia,  Missouri,  and  her  molher  was  Jane  ^Mur- 
ray Rochester  ^Moore.  Knlierl  L.  died  iu  1S70,  and 
liis  wife  died  in  1S55.  The  said  Robert  L.  :\rc.Vfee 
was  the  son  of  James  McAfee  (a  soldier  in  the  War 
of  L'«!12),  and  Nancy  :\rcKamey.  The  said  James 
■Mc.Vfee  was  the  son  of  George  McAfee  (one  of  the 
live  pioneer  Mc.Vfee  brothers,  and  a  soldier  in  the 
Ifevoluticni  of  177C,).  Said  George  Mc.Vfee  was  the 
sou  of  James  McAfee.  Sr.,  and  one  of  the  founders 
of  Kentucky,  and  his  wife  was  Susan  Curry.  Said 
James  Mc.\fee.  Sr.,  was  the  son  of  John  ?ilc.\fee  of 
Ireland,  and  married  -lane  :McMichae].  Said  John 
McAfee  of  Ireland  was  the  son  of  .Tohn  ^Mc.Vfee  of 
Scotland  and  married  IMary  Rogers.  Said  John 
;\lc.Vfee  of  Scotland  mari'ied  Elizabeth  Montgom- 
ery, -lohn  of  Scotland  and  .Tohn  of  li-eland — father 
and  son — were  soldiers  under  A\'illiam  of  Orange 
and  took  part  in  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne.  -Tuly  1, 
IfiOO. 

Professor  Wui.  II.  Sclniennan,  linsliand  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  Dean  of  the  Engineer- 
ing Department  of  Vanderbilt  University. 

SKETCH   19. 
MRS.  JENNIE  M.  MARSHALL,  UNIONVILLE,  MO. 

Mrs.  Marshall  is  the  daughter  (d'  .Marvin  Rhoten 
Baidcs  and  his  wife,  Mary  Rochester  McAfee.  She 
is  the  wife  of  Mr.  Neal  B.  Marshall,  of  Unionville, 
Missouri,  by  whom  she  has  one  child,  a  daughter, 
named  Mary  McAfee  Marshall.     In  the  sketch  of 


C— WILLIAM     ROCHESTER     BANKS,     who 

married    Sarah   Northrup,  ndict   of   John  .Vdams.  '"'^'  '^''^♦^fiN  Mrs.  Schnerman,    which    precedes    this 

He  has  two  children,  to  wit:    Northrup,  and   Mary  one,  will  be  found  additional  particulars  in  regard 

Boothe.  to  her  familv. 


MRS.  MARGARET    D.  GUTHRIE. 

HATTON,  AlO. 

[See  Sketch  No-  20.] 


JAMES  I.  McKAMEV. 
[See  Sketches  Nos.  20  and  21. 


MRS.  MANDY  BROWN. 
[See  Sketch  No.  20. J 


EDWIN  MCAFEE. 

SAN    FRANCISCO,   CAL. 

[See  Sketch  No.  2).] 


SKETCHES  OF  PATRONS. 


2G3 


SKETCH  20. 
MRS.  MARGARET  D.  GUTHRIE,  HATTON,  MO. 

Mrs.  Guthrie,  whose  luaideu  name  was  Brown,  is 
descended  from  George  McAfee,  the  noted  pioneer 
—one  of  tlie  five  McAfee  brothers— through  his 
daughter  Susan,  and  was  horn  October  25,  1853. 
Her  father  was  C.  Hamilton  Brown,  wlio  was  born 
Augn^;t  14,  1812,  and  died  A])i'ii  2,  1897.  Her 
mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Amanda  Mc- 
Kamey,  was  born  July  23,  1811,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 12,  18112.  Miss  aiargaret  D.  15ro\\  n  married 
Mr.  D.  Baxter  Guthrie,  who  was  born  Ueceudier 
23,  1843.  The  children  of  D.  Baxter  Guthrie  and 
Margaret  I).  Brown  are  the  following:  (a)  Kob- 
EUT  J5.  (Juthuie;  (bj  Mauy  \'e  Guthkie,  who  is 
dead;  (c)  H.  Taylor  Guthuie;  id)  McKamey  P. 
GuTiiitiE;  and  (e)  A.  Grace  Guthrie. 

C.  Hamilton  Brown,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Guthrie, 
moved  from  Kentucky  to  near  New  Bloomfield,  Cal- 
loway County,  Mis.souri.  Her  maternal  grand- 
parents (Ivobert  McKamey  and  Susan  ilcAfee) 
came  from  Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  to  ^Missouri, 
and  settled  near  New  Bloomfield.  Mrs.  Guthrie 
had  the  following  brothers  and  sister:  (a)  Wil- 
liam Brown;  (b)  Bobert  McKamey  Brown;  (c) 
J.VMES  McAfee  Brown;  (dj  Josei'il  Brown;  (ej 
Charles  H.  J>R(iwn;  [i)  J.  Shannon  Brown;  and 
(g)   ,Mary  Ann  Brown\,  who  nunricd  a  Mr.  Fry. 

One  of  Mrs.  Guthrie's  maternal  genealogical 
lines  is  as  follows:  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Amanda  McKamey  by  her  husband,  C.  Hamilton 
Brown ;  and  the  said  Amanda  was  the  daughter  of 
Susanna  McAfee  by  her  husband,  Kobert  Mc- 
Kamey; and  the  said  Susanna  was  a  daughter  of 
George  McAtee,  one  of  the  five  pioneer  brothers 
wlu)  helped  to  found  Kentucky. 

Several  of  the  McKanieys  married  McAfees,  as 
follows:  1,  as  just  shown,  Bobert  McKamey  mar- 
ried Susanna  xMcAfee,  daughter  of  George  McAfee, 
the  pioneer,  and  his  wife,  Susan  Curry;  2,  Nancy 
McKamey  married  James  McAfee,  a  son  of  George, 
the  pioneer,  and  brother  to  the  Susanna  McAfee 
who  married  Robert  McKamey;  3,  John  McKamey 
(Robert's    brother)     married    Margaret    McAfee, 


d.-iiiglilcr  of  .lames  McAfee,  llie  jtioneer.  There 
were  other  inleiiiiarri;iL;es  lielween  these  two 
raiiiilies  \\lii<-li  iieecl  not  now  lie  mentioned. 
One  of  the  Rickeidianghs  also  married  a  Mc- 
Kamey, namely;  Jacoli  li'ickenhaugli,  who  married 
Xanoy  Clark  ^IcKaniey.  a  (laughter  of  the  afore- 
mentioned John  MrKaiiiey  and  Margaret  ^loAfee, 
of  whom  nienlioii  will  Ik-  made  in  Sketch  21,  which 
relates  to  Miss  Sara  Kickcuhaugh.  The  Robert 
McKamey  who  married  Susanna  McAfee  had  a  son, 
James  Irving  .McKamey,  born  in  1818,  who  was 
Mrs.  Guthrie's  uncle.  Of  this  gentleman  wo  shall 
presently  speak.  Robert  McKamey  was  ])orn  in 
I'ennsylvania  March  7,  1780,  and  died  in  .Missouri 
in  1850.  He  was  a  devoted  memlier  and  oflicer  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Missouri,  and  a  man  of 
noble  character.  IHs  wife,  Susanna  McAfee,  was 
born  in  Virginia  August  2G,  177'J,  just  as  the  .Mc- 
Afees were  starting  for  Kentucky,  and  died  in 
1852,  leaving  four  children. 

Mrs.  Amanda  lUown  (nee  McKamey j  was  born, 
as  above  stated,  July  23,  1814,  and  died  February 
12,  1892.  She  was  born  near  Harrodsburg,  Ken- 
tucky, and  when  a  girl  of  thirteen  her  parents 
moved  to  near  New  Bloomfield,  Missouri.  Here  she 
united  with  the  ri-eshyterian  (_'lnirch  in  1828  when 
fourteen  years  of  age,  and  down  to  her  closing 
days  she  was  a  devotedly  pious  woman.  March  9^^ 
1837,  she  was  marrie<l  to  .Mr.  C.  H.  Brown.  In  a 
modest,  unassuming  w  ay  she  let  her  light  shine  as 
a  Christian  wife  and  mother.  Among  her  last 
words  were  the  cheering  ones:  "All's  well  with 
me."  In  the  cemetery  of  NVestmiuster  Chuich  her 
dust  reposes,  waiting  for  that  morning  without 
clouds  when  Christ  shall  come  in  power  and  gbn-y 
to  call  his  people  to  their  full  inheritance  in  his 
completed  Kingdom. 

James  Irving  McKamey,  to  w  horn  reference  has 
already  been  made,  was  a  beloxcd  uncle  of  .Mrs. 
Guthrie,  and  it  would  not  be  proper  to  close  this 
sketch  without  a  word  concerning  this  godly  man. 
He  was  born  near  New  Bloomfield,  Missouri,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1818.  Early  in  life  he  confessed  Christ 
before  men  in  the  Presbyterian  Church.     In  1850 


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THE    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMOKIAL. 


In-  was  made  a  (Icacdii,  ami  about  1S78  was  made  a 
i'ulin<;- elder.  Wlwii  llie  SviKidical  I'eiaale  College 
at  l''ult(in  was  organized  lie  was  made  one  of  its 
tirst  Hoard  o*'  Trustees.  To  lliis  school  Mr.  Mc- 
Kaniey  gave  liberally,  pledging  his  word  for  its 
debts  to  the  point  of  parting  with  his  childhood 
home.  In  1S81,  when  hv  was  sixty-three  years  ohl, 
lie  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret  Curry  IMckeu- 
baugh.  lie  died  about  six  years  later,  leaving  no 
ehildreu,  but  having  a  considerable  estate  to  be- 
queath to  his  widow  and  other  loved  oues.  Modest, 
devout  and  conscientious,  he  was  one  of  the  quiet, 
reliable,  good-natured  atid  useful  men  on  whom  the 
life  of  a  eiiureh  and  the  wtdfare  of  a  community  are 
depeudeut.  He  was  one  of  four  brothers  and  sis- 
ters, to  wiL:  (II)  \\illiam  H.,  who  married  Ange- 
lina iScott;  [b)  Lucinda,  who  married  Moses  Ben- 
nett; (cj  *\.iuanda,  who  married  C.  Hamilton 
Brown;  (d)  James  Irving,  who  married  Margaret 
Kickenbaugh. 

SKETCH  21. 
MISS  SARA  RICKENBAU(JH,  FULTON,  MO. 

Miss  Bickeubaugh  is  a  lineal  descendant  of 
James  McAfee,  the  pioneer,  through  his  daughter 
Margaret,  who  marricnl  John  McKamey.  One  of 
her  maternal  ancestral  lines  is  as  follows:  1, 
.lames  ^McAfee,  the  eldest  of  the  five  McAfee  pio- 
neers, and  Ills  wife,  Agnes  Clark,  had  a  datighter 
Margaret;  2,  this  daughter,  Margaret,  who  was 
born  May  lo,  1780,  married  John  McKamey,  who 
was  born  April  12,  1TG1>,  and  to  them  was  born  a 
<laugiiler,  Nancy  Clark  McKamey;  3,  this  daugh- 
ter, Nancy  C.  AlcKamey.  who  was  born  in  Mercer 
County,  Kentucky,  December  7,  1801,  married 
Jacob  Rickenbaugh,  who  was  lioru  in  Hagerstown, 
Maryland,  December  10,  1708.  They  were  married 
December  1,  1822.  This  couple  (Jacob  and  Nancy) 
had  eleven  children,  as  follows:  (a)  Mary  Mc- 
Kamey, who  married  Arthur  Barnett;  (b)  Eliza- 
beth, wiio  married  Adam  McDouuald;  (c)  Mar- 
garet Curry,  who  married    James    I.    McKamey; 

(d)  Husan  Harriet,   who  married  John  Barnett; 

(e)  James  McAfee;    (f)    Martha   Anne,  who   mar- 
ried Edgar  Bogan;  (g)   John  Thomas;  (h)   Maria 


Jane,  wild  married  Boberl  ^'ollng•;  (j)  Sara 
Frances,  the  subject  of  tiiis  sketch;  and  (k)  Laura 
Anna. 

ll  is  said  by  I  lie  older  membiTS  of  Ihe  .McAfee 
connections  that  the  .McAfees,  as  ;i  laile,  were  dark- 
skinned  people,  with  large  muscular  frames.  The 
.Mcivame_\s,  on  the  other  hand,  were  of  slender 
build  and  lloiid  c(iui|ilexioii,  and  iiglil  or  reddish 
hair.  Nancy  Clark  McKamey  resembled  her  fath- 
er's side  of  Ihe  family,  and  was  a  beautiful  girl  with 
fair  skin  and  blue  eyes.  Agues  Clark,  the  wife  of 
James  McAfee,  the  pioneer,  was  unlike  her  hus- 
band's family  in  c(uiiplexion  and  features,  and  it  is 
said  llieir  cliiblren  hail  a  larger  sliare  of  good  looks 
than  tile  other  .McAfees  possessed.  It  may  be  that 
I  his  fact,  also,  helps  to  account  for  Nancy  Mc- 
Kamey's  pretty  face. 

Jacob  Bickenbaugh  came  to  .Mercer  County,  Ken- 
tucky, in  company  with  I'eter  Dunn  about  1820, 
from  .Maryland,  and  they  engaged  in  the  business 
of  mill-wrights.  Their  wives  were  first  cousins, 
both  being  grand-daughters  of  James  McAfee,  tlie 
pioneer.  .Vfter  being  as.sociated  for  some  years 
with  jMr.  Dunn  in  business  Mr.  Bickenbaugh  moved 
to  3Hssouri.  He  nuule  his  home  at  Fulton,  where 
several  of  his  children  still  reside.  The  Bicken- 
baughs  have  always  been  known  as  staunch  I'res- 
byterians,  and  I  hey  have  long  been  among  the  most 
devoted  and  useful  members  of  the  Fulton  Church. 
Their  hiuue  was  the  gathering  place  for  Presby- 
terian elders  and  ministers  w'henever  Synod  or  Pres- 
bytery mel  in  (he  Iowjl 

Miss  Gretchen  Yates,  whose  portrait  ai)pears  in 
this  work,  is  a  daughter  of  :Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Bandolph 
Yates,  and  .Mrs.  Vates  is  a  daughter  of  Maria  -T. 
Rickenbaugh,  who  is  a  Mrs.  Yiuing.  ]\[r.  Chalmers 
B.  Young,  jMr.  Carl  Price  Barnett,  and  Mr.  Bobert 
.McAfee  Barnett  are  all  grandsons  of  Jacob  Bick- 
(  nbaugh  and  Nancy  Clark  iMcKamey,  and  lineal 
descendants  of  James  McAfee,  the  pioneer. 

SKETCH  22. 
J.  P.  MCAFEE,  DILLY,  TEXAS. 
James  Pliilip  jMcAfee  is  the  son  of  Bev.  Bobert  L. 
McAfee  by  his  wife  Jane  Bochester  Moore,  and  was 


JAMES  McAFEE  RICKENBAUGH. 

FULTON,    !\\0. 

[See  Sketch  No.  2i.J 


JAMES  :.  McKAMEY, 
(DECEASED.) 

I  See  Sketch  No.  21. [ 


JACOB  RICKENBAUGH 

[See  Sketch  No.  21.  1 


MRS.  NANCY  CLARK  RICKENBAUGH. 

ISee  Sketch  No.  21. 1 


MISS  (iRETCHEN  YATES. 

FULr(:»N.  ,\\o. 

(See  Sketch  N.i.  21.] 


CARL  PRICE  BARNETT. 
LSee  Sketch  No.  21.] 


ROBERT  McAFEE  BARNETT. 
[See  Sketch  No-  21.] 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Hk'^ 

MRS.  ANNE  HAMILTON  McAFEE. 

WIFE   OF   COL.    GEORGE   MCAFEE. 

[See  Sketches  21.  24  and  25.] 


CHALMERS  B.  YOUNO. 

LEXINGTON.   A»0. 

[See  Sketches  21.  24  and  25.] 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


iHirii  at  New  Bloomfield,  Missouri,  July  24,  1837.      1S17,  married  Miss  Mtirtha  Amelia  Shrodes,    and 
He  formerly  resided  at    Columbia,    Missouri,    but     died  May  28,  1885.     His  mollier,  Martha  Amelia, 


now  lives  at  Dilly,  Texas.  His  father  (Robert  L.) 
was  a  son  of  James  McAfee  by  his  wife,  Nancy  :\lc- 
Kamey;  and  said  James  McAfee  was  a  son  of 
George  McAfee,  the  pioneci-.  liy  his  wife  Susan  Cur- 
ry. Said  Oeorjie  \\as  a  son  of  James  McAfee,  the 
Irisli  imiiiiiirant,  and  one  of  the  five  McAfee  broth- 
ers who  helped  to  found  Uie  Commonwealth  of  Ken- 
tucky. 

James  McAlVc  and  Nancy  (iicc  McKamey)  had 
three  children,  to  wit:  (a)  C.eorge;  (h)  Philip, 
and  (cj  Ikobert  L.,  tlie  only  one  wlio  left  cliildreii. 
Robert  L.  McAfee  became  a  minister  of  the  Ciospel. 
He  married  Miss  Jane  Rochester  xMoore,  the  daugh- 
ter of  Lawson  Moore  and  Jane  Itochester.  IJoliert 
L.  and  Jane  left  four  children,  as  follows:  (a) 
James  Philip,  the  subject  <d'  this  sketch;  (b)  Cor- 
nelia, who  is  in  a  convent  in  lAiuisville,  Kentucky; 
(cj  Laura,  who  died  uuniarried;  and  i^dj  .Mary, 
who  married  Marvin  15auks. 

Mr.  James  I'hilip  McAfee  was  married  to  Miss 
Anita  Mays  Alexander,  a  daughter  (d'  James  B. 
Alexander  and  Lucy  Fitzhugh  Dade,  October  22, 
1S()2.  Four  children  were  born  to  them,  as  f(dlows  : 
(aj  Jennie  Moore  McAfee,  who  married  William 
B.  Bates;  |_b)  Lucy  Dade  .McAfee,  wlio  married  ]>. 
D.  Brewer;  (c)  Ellen  Fitzliugh  McAfee,  who  mar- 
ried Robert  Courtney;  and  (dj  .Mary  ^L-Afee. 

SKETCH  23. 
EDWIN  MCAFEE,  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 
Edwin  McAfee  is  the  son  of  Thomas  Cleland  Mc- 
Afee by  his  wife,  Martha  Amelia  Shrodes.  Said 
Thomas  ("leland  was  a  son  of  Thomas  Clarke  ^Ic- 
Afee  by  his  wife  Naiu'v  Creathouse.  And  said 
Thomas  Clarke  was  a  son  of  James  .McAfee,  the 
eldest  of  the  five  McAfee  brothers,  who  helped  to 
found  Kentuck}-,  by  his  wife  Agnes  Clark.  Edwin 
McAfee,  the  subject  of  this  .sketch,  was  born  in 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  January  5,  1S.~)1.  He  now  re- 
sides in  San  Francisco,  California,  where  he  is  em- 
ployed in  the  Wells-Fargo  Bank.  His  father, 
Thomas  Cleland  McAfee,  was    born    Decemlier   7, 


died  April  27,  LS!)4.  Both  parents  died  in  San 
Francisco.  Thomas  Cleland  and  Martha  Amelia 
had  tiie  following  children,  to  wit:  (a)  Clarke 
\\'illiam  .McAfee,  w  ho  married  .Miss  Lizzie  Cook,  of 
Louisville,  Ky.,  and  had  two  children,  Lloyd  and 
Harrison;  i^b)  Lewis  Carroll  McAfee,  who  married 
.Miss  Lena  Haggin,  daiighter  of  J.  U.  llaggin,  of 
San  Francisco,  pioneer  and  millionaire,  and  had  a 
son,  .lames  Ben  .Vli  Haggin  .Mc.lfee,  and  a  daugh- 
lei',  .NLibel;  and  (c)  Ivlwin,  the  subject  of  this 
sk(  tch,  whose  modesty  caitsed  liim  to  withhold  from 
the  editor  any  details  concerning  his  o\\  n  life. 

SlvETCH  24. 
GEORGE  M.  FORSYTHE,  VANARSDELL,  KY. 

George  ^Ic.Vfee  Forsytlu'  was  born  in  fiercer 
County,  Kentucky,  October  20,  1S;j7,  and  his  pres- 
ent Inuiie  is  n(  ar  the  j)lace  of  his  biitli  and  only  a 
few  miles  fr(un  the  faini  on  wliicii  li\('d  the  wortliT 
old  i)ioncer  whose  honored  name  he  bears.  It  is 
probably  true  that  no  man  mentioned  in  this  vol- 
ume is  so  closely  and  so  variously  related  to  the 
.Mc.\fees  as  is  ^Ir.  l^)rsythe;  (or  not  oidy  both  (d' 
his  own  parents,  but  both  of  his  wife's  parents  were 
lineal  descendants  (d'  one  or  more  (d'  the  five  .Mc- 
.Vfee  pioneers.  If  Mr.  Forsythe  were  blessed  with 
children  they  would  be  lineal  descendants  of 
James,  George,  Robert,  and  Samuel  Mc.Vfee — four 
of  the  five  pioneers — and  their  exact  relationship  to 
tlieir  numerous  Mc.\fee  kin  could  be  reckoned  only 
with  the  aid  of  a  pi(d'essional  genealogist. 

First,  his  father,  .\ndiew  Forsythe,  was  the  son 
of  Jane  Mc.Vfee  (daughter  (d'  Robert  Mc.Vfee,  the 
pioneer  1  by  her  husband  ^lalthe-w  Forsythe;  sec- 
oudly.his  mother,  Xarcissa  AV'.  .Mc.Vfee, was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Colonel  (ieorge  .Mc.Vfee,  and  grand-daughter 
of  (!e(n'ge,  the  |Moneer;  thirdly,  his  wifV  was  the 
daughter  of  .lohn  B.  McAfee,  gTaud-daughter  of 
•lohn  .Mc.Vfee,  and  great-granddaughter  of  James, 
tiu'  pioneer;  and  lastly,  Mrs.  Forsythe's  mother  was 
]\[argaret  IMc.Vfee,  a  daughter  of  the  Robert  Mc.\fee 
whose  father  was  Samuel  Mc.Vfee,  the  pioneer. 


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^Ir.  Forsvthe  is  eugaiied  in  farininii'  nii  lands 
wliicli  the  McAfee  Company  probably  sm-vcycd  in 
1773.  He  has  been,  since  1887,  an  elder  in  tlic  New 
Providence  Clnirch,  which  his  ancestors  fonudcd  in 
1785.  A  more  (horou,a,'h-p:oin,2;  McAfee  llian  lie  it 
wiHild  lie  difficnlt  to  find.  He  is  one  of  ^rcrccv 
.  County's  worthy  citizens.  For  additional  items  in 
regard  to  his  family  see  the  sketch  next  following;, 
namely:  that  of  his  twin-brother,  Wm.  S.  I'orsylb. 

SKETCH  25. 
WILLIAM  S.  FORSYTH,  PARIS,  MO. 

William  Stockwell  Forsylli,  now  a  citizen  of 
Paris,  Monroe  County,  Missoiii'i,  was  born  in  fier- 
cer County,  Kcntuclcy,  on  the  Iwentieth  of  October, 
1837.  His  fallici-  was  .Vndrcw  Forsyth,  son  of 
Matthew  Forsyth.  His  mother  was  Narcissa  W. 
McAfee,  daughter  of  Colonel  (ieorge  McAfee,  and 
his  wife,  Anne  Hamilton,  and  said  Colonel  Geoi"ge 
McxVfee  ^\;^s  a  son  of  George  McAfee,  the  pioneer. 
The  mother  of  William    S.    Forsyth's    father   was 


January  1!,  1777,  and  died  .\pril  7,  1851.    A  good 
jiortrait  of  this  lady  will  Ur  luiind  in  this  volume. 

Andrew  l''orsylh,  fallui-  of  William  ?!tockwell 
Forsylli,  was  bdrn  Decend)er  2fi,  170().  He  married 
Narcissa  W.  McAfee,  wlio  was  binii  .\ui;iist  10, 
ISni,  ami  dird  .\]Mil  2-2.  1S7.5.  This  conplc  had 
eight  rhildrcn.  as  fullows:  (al  Mary  J.  Tee  For- 
syth, who  was  born  Octobci-  2,  TS31,  nmri'ied  Wni. 
II.  EvaTis,  ^r.  IT,  aiid  by  him  had  Ludwig,  Jennie. 
.Mollic,  and  .Viidicw  ;  (I))  Robert  IT  Fors^TIi,  who 
was  born  jMay  21,  18:',1,  iiiarrird  .Mmy  Iv  ir\ine, 
anil  hail  William  ami  I'.i'tlie;  (c)  William  Stock- 
well  Forsytli,  who  was  licu-n  Odobrr  2(1,  1s:'>7,  mar- 
ried Annie  iL  Fulton,  and  now  lives  in  J'aris,  Mis- 
souri; (d)  George  McAfee  I'lirsylhe,  who  was 
twin  brother  of  the  said  W  illiam  S.  Forsyth,  born 
October  20,  1837,  married  :\r.  K.  A[c.\fee,  and  now 
lives  in  JMercer  County,  Kentucky,  as  stateil  in  the 
preceding  sketch;  (e)  M.  L.  Forsyth,  who  was  born 
December  10,  1840,  married  Rettie  Gi-i(lfin,  and  has 
had  Vevie.  Dunbar,  Louise,  and  Willette;  (?)  Jos. 
Jane  McAfee,  daughter  of  Robert  McAfee,  the  IT.  Forsythe,  who  was  born  ^May  23,  1843,  married 
pioneer.  Thus  Mr.  Forsyth  is  a  lineal  descendant  Adeline  Shryock  January  10,  1873,  and  died  Feb- 
of  two  of  the  pioneer  .Mc,\fee  brothers,  nanu'ly:  niary  27,  1880,  leaving  Wylie  and  Jean;  (g)  Ann 
Robert  and  George.  ^Ir.  Forsyth  was  a  twin  E.  Forsvth,  who  was  born  October  17,  T'^IO,  married 
bi'other  of  George  M.  Forsythe,  whose  sketch  pre-  William  P.  ]\[oy(^s,  ami  has  Joe,  ^Maggie  am!  W'U- 
cedes  this  one.  The  Missouri  brother  leaves  off  the  lette;  (h)  W.  Etta  Forsyth,  who  was  born  April 
final  c  from  his  name,  but  the   Kentucky   brother     17,  1840,  and  married  Edwin  Fercmson,  and  has 


retains  it.  Wm.  S.  Forsyth  was  taken  to  live  with 
his  uncle,  John  Forsyth,  when  a  boy  of  eleven 
years,  and  by  this  uncle  he  was  reared. 

Colonel  George  McAfee,  sou  of  George,  the  piou- 


.\ndrew  and  William  F. 

Matthew  Forsylli,  the  grandfather  of  William 
Stockwell  Foi-syih,  was  bom  March  10,  1700.  and 
died  August  7,  1840.     His  wife  was  Jane  ^fcVfee, 


eer,  married  Anne  Hamilton,  and  by  her  he  had  the      daughter  of  Robert  ^TcAfee,  the  pioneer.     She  was 


followTng  children,  to  wit:  (a)  Narcissa  W.  Mc- 
Afee, who  was  born  Augmst  10.  1804,  and  married 
Andrew  Forsyth,  and  died  April  22,  1875;  (b) 
John  McAfee,  who  was  born  January  0,  1800,  and 
died  May  20,  1876;  (c)  Margai'et  McAfee,  who  was 
born  December  6,  1807,  and  died  January  21,  1820; 
(d)  Mary  Bennett  McAfee;  (e)  W.  H.  McAfee; 
and  (f)  George  McAfee,  ^1.  I).  Colonel  George 
McAfee,  the  father  of  the  foregoing  six  children, 
was  born  April  28,  1777,  and  died  May  28,  1810. 
Anne  Hamilton,  wife  of  the  foregoing,  was  born 


born  July  20,  1700,  and  died  February  17,  1830. 
This  couple  had  eight  children,  as  follows:  fal 
Robert;  (b1  Andrew;  (c)  John;  (d)  William  H. : 
fel  Samuel;  (f)  Sarah;  fgl  .Tames;  and  (h^  Julia 
Rurford. 

William  Stockwell  Forsyth  was  nnirricHl  to  Miss 
Annie  Mariah  Fulton,  by  the  Rev.  J.  .M.  Travis,  D. 
D.,  May  18,  1871.  :\riss  Fullmi  was  a  daughter  of 
John  Milton  ITillon  ami  his  w  il'e,  .Mary  Julina  Mc- 
Cutcheon,  of  \\'illiamslMirg  District,  Soutli  Caro- 
lina.    ^Ir.  and  Airs.  Forsvth  have  had  the  following 


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children,  to  wit:  (a)  a  son  wlio  was  born  ami  avIio 
also  died  Febmary  13,  1ST4;  (b)  James  Fulton 
ForsYtli,  who  was  born  October  24,  1875;  (c)  jNIary 
Jnlina  (called  "Lina"),  who  was  bin-ii  October  IT), 
1S81 ;  and  (d)  Ben  Travis  Forsvlh,  wlio  was  born 
.Tnne  4.  1885. 

The  follow  ill--  skctcli  of  :\Ir.  Forsyth  is  from  the 
pen  of  his  iiastur,  tlic  TJcv.  Dr.  -T.  ^1.  Travis: 

"T  became  acrpiaintcd  with  ^li-.  Wm.  Stockwell 
Forsvth  in  tlic  smmncr  of  18."')!t.  Tic  had  jnst  left 
Westminster  rollcjie.  ITis  f.illicr  had  offered  to 
i^ive  him  a  medical  ediicati(Mi,  but  after  consulta- 
tion Avitli  liis  nnclo  .Tohn  h'orsytli,  lie  bcfj-an  busi- 
ness for  himself  on  his  farm  in  ^[onroe  Oounty, 
Missouri.  He  was  born  in  ^[ereer  Oounty,  Ken- 
tucky, Octolier  20,  1837. 

"His  unch^  .John  Forsyth,  of  ^lissouri,  on  a  visit 
to  his  father  in  Stock^\•(■l^s  infancy  said  to  his 
mother:  'When  I  iict  married  T  want  that  lioy.' 
The  mother  said :  'Well,  you  may  have  him,' 
hardly  aware  of  what  she  was  jiromisiuii'.  After 
his  marriaji'e  he  sent  for  his  bov,  now  nliout  eleven 
years  of  aji'e.  The  mother,  with  almost  the  tears  of 
bereavement,  adhered  to  her  promise,  and  Stock- 
well's  home  henceforth  was  in  Missouri.  His  uncle 
and  his  wife  (Isaliella  Hcrryl  were  persons  of 
sterlinc:  qualities,  both  of  strouii'  minds!  and  refined 
tastes,  and  wei'e  strong  characters.  They  had  Imo 
daughters,  Mary  Lock,  wife  of  ;Mr.  T.  N.  Powers; 
and  Ella  Adair,  wife  of  .Tudse  .Tas.  ^L  Orutcher,  all 
of  Paris,  ^Missouri.  Mr.  John  Forsyth  was  an  elder 
in  New  Hope  Presbyterian  Ohurcli.  This  was 
Stockwell's  home,  and  while  he  holds  in  tenderest 
regard  his  parents  he  never  foriicts  tlie  wise  and 
faithful  traiuinii'  that  he  received  from  boyhood  to 
iiuiuhood.  A  pure  heart  and  an  unblemished  char- 
acter, was  his  aunt's  ideal ;  true  manliness,  that  of 
his  uncle. 

''He  started  in  life  in  war  limes.  \'arious  circum- 
stances kept  him  out  of  the  reiiTilar  army  of  the 
Confederacy  and  he  would  join  no  maraudinji- 
bands.  Besides,  his  uncle's  negroes  had  been  taken 
from  him  and  he  was  needed  at  home.  He  united 
N\ilh  the  church  when  young  and  was  soon  after 


elected  elder,  and  has  been  an  active  and  capable 
oflicer  from  I  he  start,  first  in  New  Hope  Church  and 
now  in  Paris.  He,  in  1880,  was  a  delenate  to  the 
General  Assembly  in  Charleston,  i^onth  Carolina. 
He  often  attends  the  chnrcli  courts,  and  is  a  work- 
ing trustee  of  ^A'estminster  College. 

"May  18,  1871,  he  was  married  liy  the  Pev.  J.  M. 
Travis,  D.  D.,  to  Miss  Annie  ^Mariah  Fulton,  who 
migrated  from  Williamsburg,  South  Carolina,  at 
the  close  of  the  war.  They  are  the  parents  of  three 
living  children,  two  having  gone  liefore. 

"He  and  his  Avife  are  staunch  adherents  of  Pres- 
byterian usages  and  pillars  in  the  church.  Theirs 
too  is  a  hospitality  open  and  unostentatious,  refined 
and  genial,  such  as  reminds  one  of  Missouri  before 
the  days  of  Reconstruction.  Possessed  of  ample 
nutans,  and  with  a  heart  for  the  work,  good  causes, 
such  as  he  approves,  find  in  him  a  generous  sup- 
porter. Outspoken  in  his  opposition  to  immorality 
and  liltleness  in  conduct,  he  has  enemies;  independ- 
ent in  his  opinions  and  self-reliant  in  his  undertak- 
ings, there  are  those  who  oppose  him;  sin-cessful  in 
business,  there  are  those  who  envy  him;  but  his 
warm  heart  and  unselfish  kindness  bind  friends  to 
him  ill  tenderest  affection  and  confidence.  The 
writer  is  one  of  I  hem.  Thirty  and  six  years  of  inti- 
mate association  enables  him  to  write  with  confi- 
dence. He,  his  wife,  and  dear  children  occupy  the 
place  of  a  brother  and  his  family  in  the  old  pastor's 
heart.  J.  :\r.  Tit.vvis." 

SKETCH  26. 
MISS  DAINGERFIELD.  FOWLER,  CALIFORNIA. 

Miss  Sally  Daingerfield  is  descended  from  James 
^McAfee,  tli(>  jiioneeT,  through  his  sum,  Thomas 
Clarke  jMcAfe(>.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Joseph 
Fauutleroy  Daingei-field,  31.  D.,  by  his  wife,  Mec 
Edmunds.  INIiss  ^Fec  Edmunds  was  the  daughter 
of  Edwin  Short  Edmunds,  by  his  wife,  Sally  Mc- 
Afee; and  the  said  Sally  IMcAfee  was  a  daughter 
of  Thomas  Claike  .McAfee,  by  his  wife,  Nancy 
Greathouse;  and  said  Thomas  Clarke  McAfee  was 
the  youngest  cliild  of  James  McAfee,  the  pioneer. 

Miss  Daingerfield's  father  was  the  son  of  Major 


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271 


Joseph  Fauutlero.y  Daiinjxerfleld  aiid  Sally  AN'illi- 
row;  aud  said  Jowpli  Faiintleroy  was  tlio  son  of 
LeKoy  Dahigerficld,  by  liis  wife.  Elizahctli  Parker; 
and  said  LeKoy  was  the  sou  of  Colonel  William 
Daiug-erfleld,  by  liis  wife,  Apphia  Faniitleroy;  and 
said  Oolouel  William  was  the  son  of  ("dlonel  Dain- 
jivrfield,  by  his  wife,  a  iliss  jMeriwether.  Her 
niotlior,  Miss  Mec  Edmunds,  after  tlie  death  of  her 
first  husbaud  (Dr.  1  )a iuger field  ) ,  married  the  Key. 
Henry  \'auDyke  Neyius,  D.  D.  Slie  was.  as  aboye 
stated,  the  daughter  of  Edwin  Slioii  l-Idnninds.  I)y 
liis  wife,  Sally  McAfee;  aud  saii'd  Edw  in  Sliort  was 
the  sou  of  John  Thomas  Edmunds.  l)y  his  wife, 
Eliza  K.  Kandolph  ;  aud  said  John  Thomas  was  the 
sou  of  Maijor  Thomas  Edmunds,  of  the  Order  of  the 
Cincinnati,  by  his  wife,  Martlm  Sliort.  Tlie  wife 
of  James  ^IcAfee,  the  pioneer,  ^Fiss  Agnes  Clark, 
was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Clark,  w  lio  is  belieyed 
to  liave  been  a  near  kinsman  of  General  George  Rog- 
ers Clark,  "the  Washington  of  tlie  West."  This  re- 
lationship of  Agnes  to  General  Clark  has  been 
claimed  by  yarions  members  of  the  IMcAfee  con- 
nc'ction,  but  the  present  writer  is  imable  to  assert 
it  as  an  ascePtained  fact.  Seyeral  consideT'aitions 
may  be  mentioned  as  giying  some  coloi*  to  this 
claim.  First,  there  is  the  name.  The  maiden  name 
of  James  McAfee's  wife  was  Clark.  Secondly, 
General  Clark  came  from  Albemarle  Connty,  Vir- 
ginia, and  Agnes  (Clark)  McAfee  came  froin  Bote- 
tourt County  in  tiie  s'ame  State.  Thirdly,  General 
TMarlc's  middle  name  was  Rogers  (after  spelt  Rorl- 
gers),  and  James  ^FcAfee's  grandmother  was  a 
Miss  ]\rary  Rogers.  Fonrthly,  when  General  Clark 
first  yisited  the  Kentucky  wilderness  in  1775,  he 
came  to  the  yery  ueighliorhood  in  which  the  ^Ic- 
Afees  had  made  a  settlement  tAvo  years  tiefore,  and 
in  wliicli  several  of  them  wei*e  busy  ]iutting  in  a 
crop  wiicn  General  Clark  reached  it.  We  think 
it  very  probable  that  the  Clarks  ;ind  JfcAfees  were 
blood  kin,  but  can  not  assert  it  to  lie  the  case. 

Mrs.  Sally  McAfee  Edmunds,  who  is  Miss  ])ain- 
gerfield's  maternal  grandniotliev,  is  the  only  living 
daughter  of  TJiomas  Clark  .McAfee  and  the  only 
living  grandchild  of  Janu's  ^Ic.Vfee,    Ihe    ]iioneer. 


.\n  exccllcnl  porli-ail  id'  her  will  be  Innnd  un  ]iage 
-.")-!,  which  was  made  rmm  a  ph(il<igra|ih  laken 
on  her  eight  icih  bin  Inlay.  She  wa.s  born  at  James 
^IcAfee's  ohl  Slnnc  House  iwhicli  was  erected  in 
1790,  and  is  siill  a  haliilalile  dwelling),  in  .Mercer 
Gonnly.  KrntucNy.  .\|iiil  I.  lS2i2.  Slu'  was  mar- 
ric^I  to  ^\v.  I'^ilwin  Slmri  Ijimnnds.  Septemliei'  12. 
1S43.  She  has  hail  live  children,  to  wit :  {-A)  .\iec 
lOdmnnils,  wlm  maiiicil.  first.  1M-.  I  )aingei'field,  and 
later,  the  l,'e\.  I>i-.  Xe\ins;  i^lij  Gem-gc  .Mc.\fee  Ed- 
mnnils,  who  maiiieil  Ida,  Craig,  and  left  nn  diil- 
dren;  tci  'rimm.-is  Ale. \  fee  l''.ilmnnils.  w  hu  m,-n-i-ieil 
Nettie  Van  N'lear,  and  lefl  thi-ee  chiidi-en.  l-;\,-iline 
Louise,   Marguerite  and  Thomas.  Jr. 

Miss  Mec  lOilnnniils,  who  became  tlie  mother  of 
]\Iiss  Daingerfiebl,  was  born  at  Clay  Hill.  ("Iii-istian 
County,  Kentucky.  She  married  Di-.  I  )aingeitielil. 
Felii'uary  3,  180!),  ami  by  him  liad  two  childi-en.  as 
fullnws:  (a)  Sally,  the  snliject  of  this  sketch  ;  and 
(b)  Marion  Louise,  who  died  in  iiifancy.  .Vfter 
the  death  of  her  first  husband.  :\rrs.  Daingerfiebl 
nmrried  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nevins. 

Thouias  Clark  McAfee,  son  oi'  .Tames,  ihe  jiioiu'er, 
aud  great-granill'alhei-  nf  Miss  I )aingerlield,  was  a 
faviu'ite  son  of  his  fatliei-;  ami  when  his  father 
wrote  his  will  shnrtly  befm-e  his  death  in  ISll,  he 
be(|ueathed  his  honu'stead  ami  a  large  body  of  land 
to  him,  and  made  him  one  of  bis  executors.  Thomas 
Clark  Mc.M'ce  was  burn  at  McAfee  Station  (or 
Forti  in  17S5,  niarridl  Xancy  Greathouse,  daugh- 
ter of  IMajiir  Isaac  Greatlmuse,  in  ISOS,  and  died  at 
the  old  Stone  House  in  1Sl'7.  His  wife  survived 
him  about  five  years.  To  tliis  cotiple  eight  children 
were  born:  (a)  George  Greathouse  JfcAfee,  who 
Ijecame  a  Rresbyterian  minister,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 20,  l.'^O!),  and  manied  .Marilia  .\nni'  Eli/.a  ^Fary 
Jane  Sally  Edmunds,  the  imly  daughtei'  of  -Tolin 
Ivlmnmls  ami  Eliza  Hannon  Randoli)h.  George 
ami  w  il'e  hail  (me  daughtei-,  George  Anne,  wlm  mai-- 
I'ieil  Charles  V.  It.-it  dirfe.  M.  D..  nf  Christ  i.-m  Cimn- 
ty.  Kentucky,  ('harlcs  1".  and  (ieni-Lie  .\nne  hail 
eleven  cliililicn,  lo  wit:  1.  Charles  TlKiidure;  2. 
Kate;  ;!.  Kiclmid;  I.  Ivlwin  Ivlmumls;  ."i.  .\nne. 
iMirii    in    istil,   and    ilieil    in    1S'.)2;   H.   (ieuru'e.    wlii> 


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THE    WOOT)S-:\r(AFEE    ]\rE]\rOKIAL. 


iii.irricd  ;iihI  has  cliildriMi;  7.  -Moc,  who  inavried 
:iii(l  has  cliililrcii ;  S.  Ilcmy;!*.  :\lavy,  who  niaiTied, 
Iras  OIK'  child  and  li\rs  in  Alrxandiia,  Lonisiaua ; 
10.  ■\Iatlic.  wlio  died  in  ciiihliiood  ;  and  11.  Jeuuy 
Carroll,  w  lio  wiili  licr  inotlier  Uvea  iu  San  Antonio, 
Texas. 

(hi  The  scc(Mnl  child  of  Thomas  Clark  AFcAfee 
and  Nancy  Creathonsc  was  Isaac,  who  was  born 
.March  3,  1812,  ami  died  March  l!l.  1S4S.  He  mar- 
ried :\IarY  Davis,  of  Taylors\  ille,  Kentucky. 

(c)  The  third  child  nf  Thomas  and  Nancy  was 
Elizabeth  Eidgley,  who  was  born  :\Iay  19,  1S15,  and 
died  July  28.  1831. 

(d)  The  fonrth  child  was  Thomas  Cleland  Mc- 
Afee, who  Avas  liorn  Deeemlier  7,  1817,  and  died 
May  28,  1885.  He  married  ^Nfartha  Shrodes,  of 
Pittsbnrs;,  PpTinsylvania,  who  died  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, California,  April  27,  1804,  leayiBc;  three  cliil- 
dren,  a's  follows:  1.  Clarke  \\'illiam,  who  married 
Miss  Lizzie  Cook,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  had 
issne,  Lloyd  and  HaTrison ;  2.  Lew  is  CaiToll,  who 
niaiTied  a  Miss  Lewa  Hasisi'iu;  and  .'^>.  Edwin,  who 
now  lives  in  San  Francisco. 

(e)  The  fifth  child  of  Thomas  and  Xaucy  (to  be 
nientiomed  WeTe")  wais  William  Lewis  ^McAfee,  who 
ntarried  Conielia  Zane,  of  ^Mieeliuii-,  West  Vir- 
Si'iuia.  The  children  of  "SA'illiam  L.  an<l  Cornelia 
are  the  followinji:  1.  rtlanchc,  wlio  married 
ThouKis  Atcherson,  and  had  several  cliildren,  all  of 
wliom  died  in  infancy  except  Blanche  and  Corne- 
lia ;  2.  ^fary,  who  married  Vess  Hamilton,  and  had 
two  d'ano'lvters ;  ?>.  Cora,  who  is  uuniaTried.  ^Irs. 
William  L.  :\rcAfee.  yfrs.  Hamilton,  Miss  Cora  Mc- 
Afee and  the  four  uran<l  dan  filters  live  in  Aslieville, 
North  Carolina. 

(f)  The  sixth  child  of  Thomas  Clarke  McAfee 
auid  Nancy  Crreathonse  -n'ais  Sar^ah,  who  was  bom 
April  4,  1822.  of  whom  an  account  has  already  been 
.niven  in  this  sketch. 

(ii)  The  seventh  child  of  Thomas  C.  and  Nancy 
was  America  ^IcAfee,  who  was  born  April  26,  1824, 
and  died  December  28,  1845.  She  married  Thomas 
Porter,  of  Versailles,  Kentucky,  and  had  one 
dang'hter,  Mec,  A^ho  nuirried  a  Mr.  Craig. 


(h)  The  eio'hth  and  last  child  of  Thomas  Clarkc! 
McAfee  and  his  \y\k\  Nancy,  was  muned  Nancy 
Clarke  ^McAfee,  who  was  born  July  11,  1827,  and 
died  Novemher  17,  1832. 

SKETCH  27. 
MRS.  VV.  L.  MCAFEE,  ASHEVILLE.  NORTH  CAROLINA. 

Mrs.  McAfee  is  the  widow  <>(  William  Lewis  Mc- 
A{(K\  the  yonngest  child  of  Thomas  Claike  McAfee 
and  Nancy  Greathouse.  He  was  lioru  in  Mercer 
County,  Kentucky  (and  ju-ohably  at  the  (dd  "Stone 
Honse"),  October  K!,  1819.  ^^■beu  ai  young  man 
he  mo\'e(l  to  Louisville,  and  hec.-ime  a  ]irominent 
business  man  of  tWat  city.  There  be  met  and  mar- 
ried jMiss  Cornelia  Zane,  youngest  daughter  of 
Noali  Zaive,  of  AYheeling,  West  Virginia,  on  the 
28th  day  of  April,  1846.  He  afterwards  moved  to 
A\'heeling,  A\'est  Virginia,  and  took  an  active  part 
in  the  development  of  that  place.  To  this  couple 
three  childi'en  were  lioru,  to  wit:  (a)  P>lanche, 
who  married ThomasAcheson, by  whom  she  had  two 
children,  Blanche  and  Coimelia.  (b)  INIary  Lizzie, 
who  married  Sylvester  Hamilton,  of  Woodsfield, 
Ohio.  .Mr.  Haniilton  is  dead.  Tw^o  daughters  of 
this  couple,  Blaimhe  and  ^Maud,  now  live  in  Ashe- 
ville.  No-rill  Carolinia.  (c)  C(mi,  the  third  child 
of  A\'illiani  I.,  and  Cornelia,  is  unmarried  and  lives 
with  her  widowed  mother  in  Aslieville,  North  Caro- 
lina. A\'illiam  L.  ^IcAfee  died  in  Asheville,  North 
Car(dina,  November  8,  1890,  aged  seventy-one  years. 

Noah  Zane,  the  father  of  Mrs.  ^IcAfee,  was  a 
man  of  large  l;inded  estates  in  Wheeling,  West  Vir- 
ginia, anil  gave  liberally  to  the  endowment  of  sev- 
eral churches  in  that  city,  and  to  Lindsley  Insti- 
tute, and  also  to  various  other  institutions.  Colnm 
bus,  Lancaster  and  Zanesville,  Ohio,  were  laid  out 
tiy  him,  the  last-mentioned  city  being  named  for 
him.  Jturing  the  investment  of  Fort  ]\[cHenry 
by  the  British,  in  September,  1814,  the  Elizabeth 
Zane  w  ho  carried  powder  to  the  besieged  Americans 
in  the  fort  was  a  great  aunt  of  Mrs.  McAfee. 

^fany  of  the  details  presented  in  the  sketch  next 
preceding  this  ivlate  to  the  family  of  William  L. 
^IcAfee,  to  which  tiie  reader  is  referred. 


SKETCHES  OF  PATKONS.  -2-'.] 

SKETCH  28.  ciiiiic  Id  \'ii-;;iiii;i  Irdni   INiiiisn  I  v;iiii;i.      This  couple 

MISS  ANNIE  T.  DAVEISS,  ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI.  '""^  i'i<j;]U   (■iiihlrni.   lo  wil  : 

(a.)    Tlic  lii-sl   (iiilii  nf  Saiiiuci  mid  TI;iiiii;ili   >rc- 

Mis.s  Annie  Trinihlc  Daveiss,  foiu-IJi  cjiild  of  (]„.  Afc<>  was  .idlm  .McMVc,  wIki  married  Ahii-aiet  .Mc- 

lale  ^^■iliianl  Itaveiss,  of  Harrodshnrg, Kentucky, by  Kaniey. 

Iii.s  wife,  Maria  'i'li(iiii|is(iii.  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  1 1'  1    '1'Ik'  secmid  was  .\iiiie.  w  ho  mari-ied  Thomas 

Saiimel   McAfee.  Ilie  ]iioneer,   wlio  moved   to  Ken-  Kim:-,  of  Shelliy  Coiiniy,   K'eiiiiieky. 
tucky  with  the  McAfee  colony  in  177!l.    Her  father  ( C  I    The   Ihinl    was    Koheii.    who    mairied    T'ris- 

— kn'own  as  Major  William  DaA'eiss — was  the  only  cilia   Armstronf;. 

child  of  Judg-e  Samuel  Daveis's  by  his  wife,  Han-  Ul  I    The  foiirlh   was  .lane,  who  married    I'.eriali 

n'ah  McAfee;  and  the  said  Hannali  was  the  fifth  Masj-ottin,    Senior,    ihe    tailier    n\'    ihe    hue  lieiiah 

child  of  Saiiinel   .MeAlee,  the  pioneer,  by  his  wife,  .Manollin,   who   was  ( id\(  iiku-  of   Keiiiiiekv  ;il    tiie 

Hannah    McCorniiek.      .Airs.    Alaria     Daveiss,    iicc  <aiil.reak  of  ihe  CiNJI  War,  and  resigned  Aiimisi   IS, 

Thompson,  the  iiiol  her  of  the  subjeel  of  this  sketch,  I'^'i--      <;d\cnior   .Ma-nllin   m.-inied  :i    .Miss  Shelliv, 

wa'S  the  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Joliii  Iturton  Tiiom])-  »  daugiitei-  (d'  ( ioxcriioi'   Isaac  Shelby,  ami   had    a 

sou,  former  T'nited  States  Senator  from  Kentucky,  large  family  of  rhildicn.      .ViiKJiig  1  hesf  wci-e  the 

from  I800  to  IS.")!!.     Airs,    ^■\'illiam    Daveiss  came  following:      1.   Sue.    who   married   a   Mr.   (Jaither; 

of    a    family  noted    for    their    intellectuality  and  -■   Bwiaih  I  ihird  i,  w  ho  has  long  re.sided  in  Duliilh, 

strength  of  charaeler,  and  having  enjoyed  tine  edii-  -M  iu'neiS'O'tia ;  3.   (iertrude,   who  married    .Mr.   l-'raiik 

cational  and  social  advantages  and  being  a  devout  Singleton;   4.   h^benezer,    who   resides   in    Ifai-rods- 

adherent  of  the  Presbyterian  ('liuich,  she  washoii-  biiig,   Kentncky. 

ored  and  admired  by  all  who  knew  her  as  one  of  i*")    J'li'^  li'f'  ^^-'^  Hannah,  who  married  .Tiidge 

the  liest  examples  of  the  culture  of  Central  Ken-  Samirel  Daveiss,  as  already  shown, 
lucky  during  the  period  cdYered  by  her  long  life.  (f)    The  si.xth  was  William,  who  was  a  mertliant 

•  liidge  Samnei  ]>aveisis  was  a  brother  of  the  dis-  in  Hai-rodsburg,  and  married  a  .Mrs.  Lowery. 
tinguished  Colonel  doseph  llamillon   Kaveiss,  who  <  .^  I    'fli''    sevciilli     was    Samuel.    -Ir.,    w  hci    died 

was  killed  Nov(iHbei-  7,  ISll.al  Ihe  llali  le  (d'  Tiji-  young -ftithout  ha  viiig  mari'ied. 

Iiecanoe,  and  was  iirdiiiiiieiil   in  ihe  hisun-y  of  Ken-  <h)    Theeighlh  and  !asl  ehild  of  Sjimnel  .Mc.MVe, 

lucky.      He  was  an  able  and  successfnl  lawyer,  a  Hh'  Jiiinieei',  by  his  wife,   naniiah   .Me< 'diiiiick.   w;is 

genllemau   ni   the  old   schiwd,   and    accumulalted   a  -Mary,   a    nidsl    beaulitiil    wdiiian,   whd   married    the 

cdmfoTtable  estate,  which  he  left  to  his  only  Sdu.  Ildii.  Thdm.is    !'.    .Mdore,    om-e    a    member    cd    ihe 

lie  was  connecled  by  ties  (tf  blood  dc  marriage  wilh  Cniied     Stales      Ibmse    df      i;e|ireseiilal  i\es.    and 

a  iMuuber  of  the  imisl   prdiiiineni    families  df  Ken-  T^nited  States  Alinister  Id  1  he  b'l'pnblie  df  ( 'dbimbia 

(iH-ky.  i'vrm  isi'it  to  is:?:{. 

Samuel    AlcAfec,   the  inoneer,   the  great  grand-  Judge    Samuel     Daveiss  and    his    wife,  naniiah 

father  of  Miss  Annie  T.   Daveiss,  was  one  of  the  McAfee,  seem  to  have  had  only  (»ne  child,  a  sou, 

li\c  distinguished  .sons  of  James  .McAfee,  Senior,  William,  who  mai-ried  .Mi.ss  .Maria  Thonip.son.   Wil- 

w  hd   look   an   active  and  promim'ut  part   in   thai  liam  and  ifaria   had   eight   ehildi-en,  whose  names 

early  movement   whieli  resulted  in  (he  founding  of  appeal'  below: 

the  ('ommonweallli  of  Kentucky.      He  was  born  in  lal    The  Mrs!    child   of  William   and    .Maria   was 

October,   174s,  as  a|p|iears  fi'diii   the  inscriplidn  on  Hannali    Da\'eiss,    who   married    William    II.    Pitt- 

his    grave-st<pn('    in    New     I'lovideiice    ( 'hurchyard.  man.  by  whom  she  had  si.\  children,  as  fdlbiws :      1. 

lie  died  June  S,  ISOl.     His  wife  was  Miss  Hannah  Nannie  Trabue  I'illnian.  wlm  married  Archer  Aji- 

.Mc(Jornuck,  a  lady  of  Scofch-Irish  dcKceu't,   who  dersou  and  by  him  had  one  child,  named  Jeaii  Ham- 


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ilton  Andei'sou;  2.  William  Daveiss  rittinau,  who      ihc  I'rotestants  uuicler  ^^■illialll  and  Mary  (1690). 


married  Sallie  D.  Patterson  by  wlioni  he  had  four 
childreu,  Velona  (deceased),  Marie,  Cora  and  Wil- 
liam Daveis.«  Pittmau,  Jr.;  3.  Asa  Pittiiian  ( now 
deceased),  who  married  ^Mazie  ^^'alker,  and  had 
one  child.  :Martiia  Pittman ;  4.  iMarie  D.  Pittman, 
who  (licil  in  infancy;  .">.  Tralinc  Pittman;  and  6. 
William  11.  Pittman  (deceased). 

(h)  The  second  child  of  \Villiam  and  Maria  Da- 
veiss  was  John  Burton  Thompson  DaA^eiss,  who 
married  Jliss  Leonora  Hamilton,  by  whom  he  had 
two  children,  to  wit :  1.  Maria  Thompson  Daveiss ; 
and  '2.  ilortimcr  Hamilton  Daveiss. 

(c)  The  third  child  of  William  and  Maria  was 
Nannie,  who  dl("d  in  infancy. 

(d)  The  fourth  was  Annie  Trimble,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

(e)  The  fifth  was  Samuel,  who  died  in  infancy. 

(f)  The  sixtli  child  was  Jean  Hamilton,  who 
married  William  ^Varren.  and  by  him  had  four 
childreu,  Uy  wit:  1.  Marie,  who  married  Lucien 
Beckner,  and  had  issue,  Jean  and  Elizabeth;  2. 
William  Warren  (deceased);  o.  Jean  Hamilton; 
and  4.  Letitia  Craig. 

(ii)    The  seveu'th  child  was  William  J.  Daveiss. 

(hj  The  eighth  and  hiist  child  of  MajoT  "William 
Daveisisand  Maria  Thompson,  A\as  Samuel  Daveiss, 
who  resides  in  Louisville,  Kentucky. 

The  father  of  Judge  Samuel  Daveiss,  and  Col- 
onel Joseph  Hamilton  Daveiss,  was  Joseph 
Daveiss,  and  his  mother  was  Jean  Hamil- 
ton. The  said  Jean  was  I  he  daughter  of 
Pobert  Hamilton  by  his  wifV,  Margaret  Mc- 
Kee.  Jean  had  a  brother,  ^^■illiam  Hamilton,  who  companied  his  faither  to  Jlexico  as  a  Lieutenant 
married  and  moved  to  Kentucky;  and  a  sister,  in  the  regiment  of  which  his  father  was  Lieuten- 
Miriam  Hamilton,  who  married  a  Mr.  Pohiu-sou,  ant  (^Jhrnel,  and  was  a  gallant  and  meritorious 
and  became  the  mother  of  General  Robinson,  who     young  officer. 


In  \~'.M  they  migrated  to  Pennsylvania,  and  from 
thence  moved  down  into  the  Valley  of  Virginia.  It 
thus  appears  that  the  Daveiss  family  in  Kentucky 
are  deseended  along  several  lines  from  excellent 
Scotch-Irish   Presbytei'ian   stock. 

SKETCH  29. 
SAMUEL  D.  JOHNSON,  FRANKFORT,  KENTUCKY. 

Samuel  Daveiss  Johnson,  younger  of  the  t^'o 
sons  of  Benjamin  F.  Johnson,  by  his  wife,  Hannah 
Ellen  Moore,  was  born  in  Frankfort,  Kentucky, 
August  31,  1850.  On  the  27th  of  January,  1802,  he 
was  married  to  Miss  ;Margaretta.  HaiTision  Marrtin, 
daughter  of  ^Villiam  Howard  Martin  nwd  his  wife, 
Mai'garetta  Ross  Harris(Ui.  ^Ir.  Johnson  is  one 
of  the  successful  merchants  of  Frankfort,  Ken- 
tucky. He  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Samuel  Mc- 
Afee, the  pionci'r,  and  his  A\ife,  Hanniali  ]\IcCor- 
mick,  and  is  nearly  related  to  the M( pores,  Magofifius, 
Daveisises  and  other  prominent  Kentucky  families. 
Much  of  the  matter  given  in  the  foiregoing  sketch 
oif  Miss  Annie  T.  Daveiss  relates  directly  to  ^Ir. 
Joliusicm's  family  and  need  not  be  repeated  here. 
His  nu>ther,  Hannah  Ellen  Moore,  A\a:s  a  daugiiter 
of  the  Ii(m.  Thom'as  P.  Moore  by  his  wife,  .Mary 
McAfer  ;  and  the  said  Mary  was  the  youngest  of  the 
eight  childreu  of  Samuel  McAfee,  the  pioneer,  by 
his  wife,  Hannah  ^IcCormick.  ^lary  aaus  a  lady 
of  great  beauty,  and  became  the  wife  of  Thonms  P 
Moiu'e,  as  above  stated.  The  children  of  Thomas 
1*.  ^loore  and  Marj-  ^IcAfee  were  the  folloA\iug: 

(a)   The  tirst  child  was  James  J.  jMoore,  A\'ho  ac- 


was  in  the  jMexican  A\'ar.  The  above-mentioned 
Robert  Hamilton  was  a  son  of  Ninian  Hamilton, 
and  came  from  Scotland  to  Ireland,  and  thence  to 
Pennsj'hauia,  where  he  met  and  married  Margaret 
McKee.  The  McKee  fannly  to  which  said  Mar- 
garet McKee  belongetl  were  Scotch-Irish.  They 
passed  from  Scotland  to  Ireland,  and  sided  \\ith 


(b)  The  second  child  of  Thomas  P.  and  Mai-y 
was  Mary  Lock  !Moore,  who  married  Dr.  C.  S. 
Abcll,  a  snrgeim  in  the  I'nitcd  Slates  Regular 
A  liny  during  the  Mexican  A\'ar.  Dr.  .VIk'11  and 
Mary  L.  Moore  left  two  children,  to  wit:  L  Rus- 
sell Abell,  M.  D.,  who  died  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
in  Jaunary,  180.") ;  and  2.  jMary,  who  is  unmarried. 


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Mrs.  Abell  died  before  i-eachiuj;-  middle  life,  nnd 
Dr.  Ahell  lived  to  old  ai;e.  d.yiim  in  lIKi:!. 

(  c  )  The  third  and  las^t  child  of  Tlioniaj^  1'.  .Moore 
and  :Mary  .McAfee,  was  Hannah  Ellen  :M(>ore.  wiio 
iiiai-ried  HtMijaniin  V.  .lohnson.  and  Avas  the  niolher 
of  the  sniijecl  iif  iliis  sketch. 

'riionias  1'.  .MiMire  was  liul  a  hoy,  altendinsi  scjiool 
at  Transylvauia  I 'ui versify,  when  llie  A^'ar  of  1812 
broke  out,  but  a  year  lalter,  fired  by  the  fervent 
patriotism  of  his  race,  lie  einlisted.  He  was  made 
Captain  of  one  of  the  Kentucky  companies,  and 
remdered  couispicuous  services  in  the  cainpaiiiu 
against  the  British  and  Indians  in  Noi'theni  (Ihio 
and  Canaidai.  In  1823  be  Avas  elected  to  represent 
his  district  in  Congress,  and  i^oon  after  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  Jackson  to  rejii-esent  the 
United  t^tates  as  ^linister  to  Colombia.  He  was  en- 
uan'cd  in  (he  ])eaccful  jmrsnits  of  life  at  Harrods- 
burii',  Kentucky,  when  the  ^^'ar  with  Mexico  beiiun 
( 184r(>  I ,  ami  he  tendered  his  services  to  the  Govern- 
ment, t^oon  after  he  was  commissioned  as  Lieuten- 
ant-Oolonel  in  the  Regular  Army,  and  served 
throughout  the  campaign  in  Mexico  with  distinc- 
tion. He  was  a  gallant  and  brilliant  man,  both  in 
war  and  in  political  life. 

Mr.  Benjamin  I'rauklin  Johnson,  husband  of 
Hannah  Ellen  Mo'ore,  AvaiS  a  proininent  ami  suc- 
ressful  merchant  of  Frankfort,  Kentucky.  Mr. 
and  .Mrs.  B.  F.  Jidruson  left  but  two  children,  both 
of  I  hem  soms,  as  follows:  (a)  Williaju  McAfee 
Johmsou;  and  (b)  Samuel  Uaveiss  John.sion,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  who  is  the  leading  dry  goods 
merchant  of  Frankfort. 

SKETCH  30. 
DWIGHT  A.  MCAFEE,  SHELBYVILLE,  KENTUCKY 

.Mr.  Dwight  A.  McAfee*  is  a  lineal  descendant 
of  (Jeorge  McAfee,  the  pioneer,  and  his  wife,  Susan 
Cm  fry,  as  is  sIkjw  n  herein.  We  regret  that  the 
iccords  of  .Mr.  .Me.VtWs  family  have,  for  some 
reias(m,  not  l)een  accessible  to  liim  or  to  the  aulhoi' 
<>(  this  Avork;  aud  this  fact,  together  A\ith  tlie  ex- 
treme modesty  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  ac- 
counts for  the  very  meagTe  dietails  ])resente<l  con- 


cerning him  and  his  family.  .Mr.  .McAfee  resided 
in  Lawi-eneebiirg,  Kenlneky,  up  to  alx)nl  1!)02, 
when  be  moNcd  to  Shelby  ('oiiiily,  iventucky.  and  is 
Mow    lliere  ciignged  in  larmiiig  anil  stock-raising. 

The  laiheiof  Dwiglil  .\.  .McAfee  Was  William  H. 
Mc.Xfee;  ;iii(i  said   William   II.  was  the  son  of  Col 
OH  el  ( Jeoige  .Mc.M'ee  and  .\  line  1 1  a  in  il  ( on  ;  a  ml  said 
('(doncl    (icol'ge   was   a    son    of   (leorge    .Mc.M'ee,    the 
pioiieei'.   :iiid    Susan    ('iin-y. 


SKETCH   31. 

R.  J.  ALEXANDER,  MCBRAYER,  KENTUCKY. 

Mr.  Richard  J(yhns(ni  Alexander  is  a  son  of 
Jaunts  Alexander  and  Mary  Cawlwell,  and  lives 
i]i  Anderson  County,  Kentucky,  near  the  village  of 
.M(T»]ayer,  where  he  was  born  and  has  spent  his 
life.  He  is  engagi'd  in  farming  and  stock-raising 
near  the  bank  of  Salt  Kivei-,  very  close  to  where 
the  McAfee  Company-  first  began  surveying  land 
on  that  stream  in  July,  1773.  He  is  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  Robert  ^IcAfee,  the  pioneer,  who  was  in 
that  innuedi'ate  A-icinity  with  his  four  companions 
131  years  ago.  .Mr.  Ricdiard  J.  Alexander  manned 
AHss  Julie  .\nn  Dickey,  by  whom  lie  has  had  Ave 
(hildren,  to  Avit :  (ai  ^[ildred  Alexander,  who 
married  Robert  Phillips;  ib|  Fannie  Alexander. 
wiio  married  ^^'illiam  Painter;  (c)  Emma  Alex- 
ander, wdio  man'ied  J.  AV.  Sale;  (e)  William  Alex- 
ander, who  married  Mary  Cunningham;  and  (f) 
dinger  Ale.xandeir,  who  nmrried  Fajiny  Hardwick. 

The  aforesaid  James  Alexander  avIio  married 
Mary  CardAvell  was  a  son  of  A>'illiam  Alexander, 
by  his  wif(>,  ^fargai-et  Bailey,  Avhom  he  married  in 
Virginia,  in  1783.  The  said  ^fary  CardAvell,  tlie 
mother  of  II.  J.  .\le\amler,  was  the  dangbler  of 
Jfdin  li.  ("ardwcll;  and  sahl  .lohn  Cardwell  mar- 
ried Anna  .McAfee,  daughter  of  liobert  ^IcAfee, 
the  ]>i(>m"er.  The  aforesaid  William  .Vlexander, 
w  ho  married  .Margaret  Bailey,  came  to  what  is  uoav 
Anderson  County,  in  1783,  and  erected  the  first 
dwelling  evei-  built  there  by  a  white  man,  and  on 
this  ])lace  .Mr.   I».  J.  Alexander  now  resides. 


oy,5  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

SKETCH  ^-'  '^''-'^^  *''**  ^''*^'  i'''"i'''i''"''''''l    '^'■I'iiiii'  11"'  "'''    l'i'iii'«n- 

(his  jn"amlfaitli«ri  licforc  liis  dcatli  in  lso;{. 

1    M    ARMSTRONG,  ALEXANDRIA,  LOUISIANA.  '^                                                -,     ^r            ^r    »f        i- 

J.  m.  AKivisiKLji^u.  n  3.  Rol>e'rt    Aniis'trou.n-    aind    Mary    McAfeo,  Ins 

.Tames  .Mii,-l:cll  Anusti'out;  was  bdrn  an<l  ivarod  ^-jfe^  -^^-ere  in  James  McAfee's  Fort  on  Salt  River, 
in    .Mcn-er   Cunnty,    Kentucky,    in    tlie   Salt  River  :May  9,  1781,  Avlien  about  one  Imndred  and  fifty  Tn- 
nci-ldioHuHid.      ITis  wife  was  Miss  i\Iary  Vincent  ^^.^^^  aittacki'd    il.     Tliis   is   Mr.   James   M.    Arm- 
Turner.      His  fallicr  was  Jowph  Armstron.-i-.  wlio  slron.n's  statemcnl,   but  it  conflicts   with    General 
married   Miss  Charlotte  .May.     Josei>li  Armstronc;  K.ibcrt   R.    :\lcAfiVs  narrative.     The  General   ex- 
liad  a  brollier  William,  who  was  a  nu'inlicr  of  Cap-  pressly  affirms  that  if    was  in   the  fall   of   ITSl — 
lain  llobert   1!.  .McAfee's  company  in  the  rejiimeut  months  after  this  attack  on  the  fort — that   Robei't 
of  Colonel  UiclianI  .M .  .[(ihnson  and  served  in  sev-  ^ikI  Alexamler    Armslioni^-.    the    eldest    sons,  re- 
ci-al  of  Hie  eampai.iius  of  the  War  of   ISCJ.     :Mr.  spectively,     of    John     an'd     ^^■illiaul     Arnistronji-, 
.lames   -M.   .\rmstroni;    is    a    lineal    descendant    of  joined    Hie   .McAfee  settlement.     The  anthoT  does 
Geort;c  .Mc.Vfee,  Sr.,  tliroui;li   his  eldest   dauiihter,  noj  uiidei'take  to  reconcile  these  two  accounifs.     ^Ir. 
■Marv.    His  iialernal  i;ran(lfaHier  was  Koberl  Arm-  James  JM.  Arnistrouii-  says  it  was  his  iirandfather 
siniim-,  the  husband  of  Hie  Mary  McAfee  just  men-  (Rohert),  who  was  sent  out  of  Hie  fort  Hiat  unn-n- 
tioned  as  the  eldest  dauiihter  of  Georji'e  IMcAfee,  jjjg  as  a  messcnti-(»r  to  run  the  iiannitlet,  as  it  were, 
the  piomeer,   and   his   wife,   Susan  Curry.     Atten-  aiwl  comvy  to  the  inen  at  the  HaiToiilsburii' Station 
tion  is  here  called  to  Hie  fact  that  in  the  list  of  infonnation  of  Hie  perilous  sitnatioai  of  the  thirteen 
the   c%ildren   of  Georg-e  McAfee,  the  pioneer,   as  beieao-nered  men  in  Hie  fort  and  who  met  them  as  he 
iriven  bv  General  RobeTt  B.  McAfee  in  his  Auto-  pan,  coniint!-  in  full  gallop,  alioul  foi-tv-five  strong, 
biography,  the  name  of  :Mary  does    not    appear.  |.^  ^^^^  j.pjijp,f  ^,f  ^^^f.  McAfees,  led  by  Colonel  :\rc- 
That  was  a  strange  omission  for  such  ii  clironicler  Qasi^. 

as  General  ^McAfee  to  make;  aud  Ave  incline  to  the  4  rjeorne  :\[cAfee,  Hie  pioneer,  had  tAvo  sons  who 
opinion  that  the  fanlt  lies  not  with  him,  but  with  ^^.^.j.,,  j,,,.,,  ,,f  tremendous  size  and  daring,  namely: 
some  careless  copyist  of  his  ntamuscript  history.  .Janies,  and  George,  Jr.  The  former  was  known 
:Mr.  Armsii-oug,  the  subject  of  this  sketcli,  is  thor-  as  "Rig  .lini  .McAfee,"  and  liis  courage  and  resolu- 
oug'hly  infoiiiied  in  regard  to  his  family  history,  t:ion  were  equal  to  his  jihysical  strength.  George, 
and  he  ]»ositive]y  asserts  thai  liis  graudnioHier.  tlie  ^^^^^^  ^^-.^^  afterwards  kmnvn  as  C(d(niel  George  Mc- 
wife  of  Robert  Armstrong,  was  named  ilaiy,  and  Afec,  and  married  Anne  Haiiiillon,  was  ail  so  a  man 
was  the  eldest  daughter  of  George  McAfee,  Sr.,  the  ^o  be  shunned  in  an  enconntei-.  These  two  broth- 
pioneer,  ers.  and  .Tosejih  Woods,  and  William  Armstrong, 
From  .Mr.  Janu's  M.  Armstrong,  th'e  anthor  hais  [^,,  _  .,,„]  j,.  ]{,yU^ri  ForsyHie,  and  William  Adams, 
obtained  iln-  following  items  of  interest:  ^^^  ndated  I0  each  other  by  blood  or  marriage,  one 

1.  He  states  that  George  McAfee,  Hie  pioneer,  ^^,  ,,,„f,,_  ^^.,.,.,,  ,|„,,,|i„.,.s  „f  that  .•onii.aiiy  of  (\,lonel 
w-as  the  tallest  (uie  of  Hie  five  McAfee  hi-oHvei-s,  he  Ri,.i,ard  M.  Johnson's  regiment  in  the  War  of  1S12, 
being  six  feet,  four  incln^  higli,  and  of  slender  of  wiiich  Robei-t  R.  ifcAfee  was  the  captain.  That 
build.  He  was  called '"phe  Gomstalk"' by  his  rela-  eompaiiT  numbered  one  hundred  and  sixty-three 
li^PS.  111,.,,  and  officers,  and  toiok    a    cons]iicuoUs   part  in 

2.  Joseph  Arinslr<ing.  I'aHier  of  Hie  subject  of  the  charge  aguinst  Tecumseh's  warriors  in  the 
this  skelch,  iiiai-ri("d  Charlotte  .May,  whose  mothei"  swamp  at  Hie  Raltle  of  the  Thames,  Octoher,  ISl.^. 
was  a  sister  of  old  Hr.  Thomas  Cleland,  of  ]irecious  5.  Mary  McAfee  (the  grand iiiotlier  of  ^Ir.  J.  ^I. 
memory.  Joseph  was  a  boy  four  yeais  old  when  Armstrong)  was  milking  the  cows  at  her  father's 
Geoi'ge  .McAfee  died,  and  lie  used  to  tell  his  chib  place  beiow  James  McAfee's  Station  late  one  even- 


SKETCHES  OF  rATKOXS. 


iiiii',  ;ni(l  slie  lieard  the  hootiiiu,-  of  wlvat  sonndcd 
likL-  ail  owl  ill  the  dark  foiesit  just  across  tlic  I'ivci'. 
At  that  moment  her  father  (Georiic,  I  he  pioiu'crj 
caiiic  ii|)  l(t  Ik  r.  lie  also  liml  heard  llial  mysteri- 
ons,  oiiiiiious  liool,  and  lie  iiii|iiirr(l  oT  his  daiiLili- 
Icr,  then  a.  mere  girl — whether  to  i;et  inrorinal  ion 
or  lo  warn  lier,  does  not  ai>]>(iar — "A\'a.s  that  an 
owl  that  hooted  theuV  Jier  iuuofent  leply  was 
"Yes;  and  anuther  one  hooted  a  little  farther  up 
I  lie  river  a  while  ayo."  Her  father,  who,  like  all 
I  he  .McAlte  men,  was  fully  versed  in  ihe  irirks  of 
the  savages,  »a,id  lo  her:  "Hui-ry  u])  yonr  niilkins^-; 
lliat's  Indians."  His  wife  was  sick  in  l)e(l  al  the 
lime,  lull  li(«  went  ait  o^noe  into  the  ealiin  and  told 
her  to  yet  up,  ais  he  had  just  heard  Indians  hooting 
aerOiS'S  t'he  I'iver.  She  said  he  must  lie  mistaken; 
and,  furthermore,  she  was  too  ill  to  go  out.  He  told 
her  lie  was  going  at  once,  and  would  take  the  chil- 
dren. She  sHiW  he  wais  sure  of  ihmger,  and  she 
quickly  ai'ose,  and  was  soon  on  the  oidy  available 
horse  \\itli  one  child  behind  hei-,  and  another  in 
her  lap.  Mary  went  afoot,  carrying  her  three-year- 
old  sister  on  her  back.  It  ^\iais  three  milc^  to  the 
fori,  but  they  all  got  there  in  safety.  The  next  day 
some  men  of  the  settlement  found  the  unmistaJcable 
signs  of  Indians  behind  a  fodder  stack  wliei'e  they 
had  hidden  in  order  to  kill  anyone  who  should 
veniure  out,  of  the  house  in  that  direction.  Had 
Ihe  family  attemi)ted  to  reimiin  that  niglil  in  I  hat 
defenceh  ss  cabin  all  of  tin  ni  would  probably  have 
been  scalped  .)r  carried  away  into  captivity.  This 
is  a  samjile  (d'  Ihe  conditions  under  which  the  pio- 
neers settled  Kentucky. 

Miss  ^lary  ^'illcellt  Turner,  whom  Mr.  J.  ^l. 
Armstrong  married,  passed  through  some  remark- 
abb  vicissitudes  in  her  early  life.  Her  parents 
came  from  Alabama  lo  Lonisiaiia,  in  IS.')!  and  set- 
tled on  Ihe  Calcasieu  liiver,  forty  miles  west  of  the 
lown  of  AlexaiLdria.  During  Ihe  Civil  War  she 
bisi  both  iKirents,  four  uncles  and  Ihi'ec  aunts.  The 
male  relatives  died  in  the  armv.    Thus  she  was  left 


without  a  white  relative  to  care  for  her,  ami  she 
was  seni  lo  Ihe  Camp  SIreet  ()r]ilian  .\syluin  in 
Xew  ( )rleans  lo  be  rca red. 

The  childi-en  of  .lames  .M.  .\rmslrong  and  !iis 
wife  .Mar_\-  are  Ihe  following:  (a  I  .losepli  Lajisley; 
(bi  Kichard  Turiu'r;  (ci  l.olia  llermenia;  (d) 
•lames  .M  ilchell,  .lr.  ;  lei  K'nlns  N'incenI,  and  if> 
.Martha   Ashley. 

SKETCH   33. 
MISS  HARRIET  I,.  MCAFEE,  LOUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY. 

^fr.  Janu's  .\le.\ander  McAfee,  of  Louisville.  Ken- 
lucky,  was  Ihe  grandson  of  (leneral  Koberl  It.  .Mc- 
Afee, who  was  Ihe  son  oC  Koberl,  the  pioneer.  He 
was  born  in  Ihe  old  Slone  Ilonse  in  Mei-cer  County, 
Kentucky.  His  father,  William  A.  McAfee,  nuir- 
ried  Anna  E.  Crockett,  wh(»  wa*5  a  daughter  of 
.\nna  E.  Instone  and  Samiud  Crockett.  Samuel 
Crockett  was  a  son  of  ( 'olo^nel  Authouy  Crockett,  of 
the  ReA'olution. 

Mr.  James  A.  McAfee  was  a  man  of  superior  at- 
tainments, and  had  a,  strong  personality.  In  every 
sphere  of  life  he  did  his  duty ;  no  responsibility  was 
sihirked,  liut.  ho  never  impressed  you  that  duty  was 
irksome.  His  manner,  sympathetic  and  (piiel,  ga\e 
a;  strong  assurance  of  the  man's  ability  and  sincer- 
ity. In  appearance,  the  high  cheek  Ixmes,  broad 
fordheiid,  blue  eyes  and  dark  hair,  l>esides  his 
height,  6  feet  2  1-2  inches,  hi',  had  the  characteris- 
tics of  the  McAfees.  He  maa-ried  Stella  Joyes,  a 
daughter  of  Judge  John  .loyes  and  granddaughter 
of  :Major  Thomas  Martin,  of  the  Revolution,  and 
one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Society  of  Ciu- 
cinnatus.  They  had  lliree  children  :  Harriet  Lanier; 
.Vnnie,  who  married  K'oberl  Dalaney  ;  and  Leal.  In 
liis  lunne  life,  Ihe  nmn  showed  at  his  liesL  The^' 
sjient  hair  (d'  Iheir  lime  in  l,ouis\ille  and  ilie  rest 
in  a  suburb,  I'ewee    Valley,    about    si.vteen  miles 

awav.     His  nephew,  .Ldin  W Is,    made  his  home 

wilh  them.  .Mr.  .lames  .\.  .Mc.Mee  was  drowned 
while  tishiim  in  I'"lorida. 


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THE   WOODS-McAF^EE   MEMORIAL. 


GROUP  THREE. 

PATRONS  DESCENDED  FROM  THE  WOODSES  ONLY 


SKETCH  34. 
JAMES  W.  I.APSLEY,  LATE  OF  ANNISTON,  ALABAMA. 
.Ju(l.i;t>  .Tallies  W'ddds  l^apslcv.  who  was  aiiionii 
tlic  carlic'i"  (irigiiial  .sul)s<  rilicrs  id  this  pulilical  inn. 
died  liefore  it  was  issiiecT  He  was  a  lineal  descend- 
ant df  .Michael  ^\■ddds  df  lihiir  I'ark.  ihi-dii^h  twn 
of  Michael's  cliildreu,  uamel}-;  his  daughter  t>aiah. 
and  his  sdn  .Vndrew.  Tlie  iliil((  concernini;  liis 
family  and  hiiuself  were  all  derived  from  liini.  and 
nearly  all  thai  appears  in  this  sketch  was  frdni 
his  own  i)en.  lie  was  the  son  df  Kdhert  .Vi'iiistrong 
Lajislev  and  his  wile  Catharine  Walker;  and  the 
said  IJdiiert  .\.  La]isley  was  the  sou  of  John  Laps- 
ley  an<l  his  wife  .Mary  .Vriiistrduii ;  and  the  said 
John  I.,apsley  was  the  sou  of  Joseph  Lapsley  and 
his  wife  Sarah  >Voods;  aud  the  said  Sarah  Woods 
was  th(^  daughter  of  Michael  \\oi)ds  of  Blair  Tark 
and  his  wife  Mary  ( "aniiihell.  This  exhibits  one  of 
the  lines  of  his  descent  from  the  old  pioneer  (d' 
Allieiiiarle  ("oniity,  \'iri:inia;  liie  otlier  will  now 
he  given. 

The  aforesaid  Catharine  Walker,  who  was  Judge 
Lapsley's  mother,  was,  like  the  man  she  married, 
a  lineal  descendant  of  Michael,  of  the  fourth  re- 
move, as  fidldws:  She  was  the  daughter  of  Mar- 
gar(«l  Woods  by  her  husband  Jcdin  .M.  Walker;  and 
said  .Margaret  NN'oods  was  the  daughter  nf  James 
Woods  hy  his  wife  Nancy  Kayburii;  and  said 
James  Woods  was  llie  son  of  .Vudrew  ^^■ddds  and 
his  wife  :Mary  I'oage,  and  said  Amlrew  Woods  was 
the  son  «f  .Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park  by  his  wife 
.Mary  ( 'am](liell. 

The  I.,apsleys  came  from  the  Xoi'th  df  Ireland  to 
IVnusylvauia,  where  some  of  their  descendants 
still  reside,  'i'lie  Joseph  Lajisley  who  married 
Sarah  Woods  came  to  X'irginia  about  1734.  Julv 
C>,  1741'.  he  bought  338  aci'es  of  land  from  Beujaniiu 


r.orden,  near  whore  Lexington,  Virginia,  now 
stands.  June  TS,  1751',  he  bought  4(»0  acres  more 
fr(Mn  James  .McDowell,  adjoining  the  tir.st  named 
tract.  His  w  ill  bears  date  November  29.  1787.  and 
in  it  his  wife  Sarah,  and  his  sons  John  and  Joseph 
are  named  as  executors.  John  and  Joseph  were 
I'dth  ill  the  IJevolutionary  Army.  J(diii  was  with 
••-Moi'gan's  .Mounted  Men,"  and  was  wounded  at 
the  Battle  of  Brandywiue  while  carrying  orders 
across  the  field.  He  married  Mary  Armstrcmsr 
December  1'2,  I77S,  and  imived  to  Lincoln  County, 
Kentucky,  about  17!tr.,  for  in  October  of  that  year 
he  s(dd  his  lands  near  Lexington,  Virginia,  and 
in  the  deed  he  is  said  to  be  then  a  citizen  of  Lincoln 
(jounty,  Kentucky. 

To  return  to  the  original  settler,  Joseph  Lapsley, 
Sr.,  in  "Foote's  Sketches  of  North  Carolina"  are 
(|Uotatidns  fidin  I  he  diary  of  the  Lev.  Mr.  McAden, 
a  young  Presbyterian  preacher,  who  in  1755  went 
from  Pennsylvania  to  N(Uth  Carolina  on  horse- 
back, starting  iijt  the  valley  of  the  Shenandoali,  on 
the  I'.lth  of  June.  lie  says:  "Alone  in  the  wilder- 
ness! Sometimes  a  house  in  ten  miles,  and  some- 
times not  that."  On  July  13tli,  h(>  preached  at 
"The  Forks"  ( /.  f.,  the  forks  of  the  James  Liver), 
afterwar<ls  called  IlalTs  .Meeting  House,  then  New 
.Monnioiith,  and  now  Lexiugttm.  "Preached  to  a 
cdusiderably  large  congregation,  rode  home  with 
Joseph  Lapsley  two  miles  from  meeting,  where  I 
tairied  till  Wednesday  morning  the  Kith."  Mr. 
.McAden  goes  on:  "Here  it  was  1  received  the 
most  melancholy  news  of  the  entire  defeat  of  our 
ainiy  by  the  French  at  (_)liio,  the  general  killed, 
numbers  of  inferior  officers  aud  the  whole  artillea-y 
taken."  (This  was  Bmddock's  defeat  by  the 
Fi-ench  and  Indians.)  On  Wednesday  the  16th, 
.Mr.  .McAden  left  ilr.  Lapsley's. 


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But  wc  of  tliis  liciici'aliiJii  lunc  cldsci-  connec- 
tion with  tlie  AYoodses,  my  nidllici's  mniliri'  he 
inj;  .Mai-.tiaict  Woods,  wife  of  .lolm  Mooic  Walko-, 
who  was  the  son  of  Joseph  ^Vallvel•  and  Jane 
Moore.  'IMicy  hail  in  their  family  an  orphan  niece, 
Mary  .Moore,  the  heroine  of  our  Sunday-school 
hook,  "Tlie  Cajitives  of  Ahh's  ^'all<'y."■  .[ose]ih 
Walker,  my  great-grandfather,  was  an  elder  in  ilie 
church,  a.  magistrate  of  Iiockliridge  County,  a 
worthy  and  intluential  citizen.  He  was  for  thirty 
j'ears,  up  to  his  death  in  181."),  couuecied  as  'I'rus- 
tee  and  Treasurer  with. liberty  ilall.  afterwards 
Washington  College,  now  Washington  ami  l>ee 
University,  at  Lexington.  My  great-grandparents 
were  James  Woods  and  Nancy  Kayhuru,  (d'  Mont- 
gomery County,  Virginia.  .My  greal-great-gran<l 
parents  were  Andrew  ^Voods  and  .\laillia  Toage  of 
Botetourt.  .My  grandfather,  John  .Moore  NN'alker, 
with  his  wife  Margaret  AA'oods,  moved  from  Buf- 
falo Mills,  seven  miles  South  of  Lexington,  \'ir- 
ginia,  to  Kentucky,  about  181.!,  and  lived  on  a 
farm  near  Eddyville,  Kentucky.  Aly  father,  IJob- 
ert  .Vrmstroug  Lapsley,  was  horn  -lanuary  11, 
1T'J8,  in  what  is  now  Garrai'd  <'ounly,  Kentucky. 
A  talented  and  i^romising  yotiiig  ]>reacher,  edu- 
cated at  Princt^ton,  he  ^^•as  offered  a  desirable 
paiitorate  in  the  (dder  part  ot  Keiilmky,  but  cho.se 
the  more  needy  and  harder  work  olTered  in  the 
South-west  central  part  of  the  State.  'I'here  he 
married  my  mother,  Catharine  Itutherford  Walker, 
May  14,  18l'o.  He  preached  and  taught  school,  as 
so  many  othei'  Presbyterian  ijreachers  did  in  those 
days,  some  ten  or  twelve  years,  and  then  moved  to 
Nashville,  where  1  was  born,  Decendjer  20,  183."). 
My  father  preached  regularly,  but  was  also  con- 
stantly engaged  in  teaching,  being  ])resident  (d'  the 
Nashville  Female  Academy,  and  afterwards  of  the 
Nashville  Female  College,  fouudetl  by  him.  He 
was  widely  known  and  beloved,  and  his  pupils 
were  from  the  best  families  all  over  Tennessee  and 
North  Alabanm.  Not  satislieil  with  these  responsi- 
bilities, he  was  induced  by  some  trusted  fi-ieuds  to 
engage  in  a  mercantile  business  in  Nashville,  and 
as  partner  became  responsible  for   them.     This, 


in  a  lillle  while,  ended  in  disaster,  and  everything 
w.-is  losi.  'I'lirre  was  a  sale;  ihi'  family  servants 
were  lioULihl  in  I'di-  us  by  my  molher's  nmdes,  I{ob- 
erl,  .losepli  and  -lames  Woods,  who  wei-e  niercliants 
and  bankers  in  Nashville  and  Newt  »rlean.s,  and  iron 
masieis  down  on  ihe  ( 'undpcrland.  .My  father  was 
I  he  liist  pasioi-  (d'  (he  second  cliurcli  in  Nashville, 
and  was  a  snccessfid  preacher  and  pastor.  Under 
his  pasioraie  of  ciubl  or  len  years,  the  Second 
('lunch  becanh'  a  \ri-\  tlonrishing  cbnrch.  His 
lieallb  (ailed,  howcxcr,  and  he  i-esigned  and  moved 
lo  ihe  conniry  al)(mi  Is.").*!  or  I8.j(i.  .Meantime  he 
hail  married  .Mrs.  .Mien,  widow  of  ( "olomd  lloberl 
.Ulen  of  Smith  ('ouuty,  and  he  moved  to  Lireeii- 
wix.il,  her  country  home  near  Carthage,  Tennessee. 
Iler  maiden  name  was  .VIethia  \'an  Horn,  and  she 
was  a  native  of  Washingl<in  ('ounly,  whei'e  ( "oloiiel 
-Vllen,  then  a  mendier  of  Congress,  met  and  mar- 
ried her.  She  was  aii  elegant,  high-spirited,  good 
woman.  She  died  in  18(>j.  Shortly  afterwards 
the  Federal  army  came  bj'  and  burned  them  out, 
and  my  falber  and  sister  Margaret  came  to  a  little 
farm  1  had  in  Shelliy  County,  .Alabama,  and  he 
lo(dv  care  (d'  my  wife  anil  two  children,  till  I  came 
home  at  the  close  of  the  war,  in  June,  1865. 

.\fter  ijcace  was  established,  he  returned  to  the 
old  associations  in  Tennessee  and  Kentucky;  and 
soon  married  .Mrs.  .\hiTy  Kichardsou  of  New  Al- 
bany, Indiaiui.  J>ouis\ille  was  then  a  kind  of 
storm  center  for  our  churthes,  North  and  South; 
but  my  father  retained  the  entire  confidence  and 
affection  of  both  parties,  and  was  a  member  of  our 
Southern  General  Assembly  in  Na.shville,  in  1807, 
in  \vhi(  h  1  was  also  a  commissioner.  He  died  in 
18Tl'.  His  widow  survived  him  a  few  years;  and, 
having  no  near  relatives  when  she  died,  left  her 
very  large  estate  to  the  boards  of  the  Church,  and 
other  charities.  Aly  father  is  buried  in  New  Al- 
bany. 

.My  oldest  brother,  -loseph,  was  educatei.1  at  the 
Fin  versify  of  Nashville,  and  from  there  went  to 
Pi-iucetoii  Theological  Seminary,  but  his  health 
failed,  and  he  never  com])|pted  his  coui*se.  He 
came  back  to  Nashville,  ami  for  a  while  was  em- 


280  TIIK  WOODS-:\r(AFEK  :\rE^roKTAL. 

pliivcd  lis  Inloi'  (ir  ;issisl;iiil    in-ol'cssdr  in   llu'  Uiii-  nf  liis  rciiiiiiciil   in  liis  liand.      He  was  nuivcd  Innne 

versify.      My  unck'S  jdincd   liini   in   Im.vini;  the  Ty-  to  .Mcniiijiis,  and  died  liici-c  from  liis  wounds.     Onr 

rcc  .^])i'in;us  on  llio  Lonisv  illc  ini-n-iiikc,  some  twcn-  only    sislci-,     .Mai-i;aicl,     married     1  >i-.     .(ames     \V. 

1  \'  miles  from    Xasli\ille.      1 1    was  a   waterint;  place  Moore,  of  Arkansas,  a  suri;con  in  the  ConfecU'ialo 

in  summer,  and  a  slai;e  sland  all  Iheyear.      I  was  Hospital    at    Shelby    Siiriu^s    in    ISri.").      ITpon    his 

a  delieate,  and   rather  pi-ecocious  lad,  and   on  ae-  d<ath    in    .\rkansas  she   reinrned    lo    us   in    Selnia, 

count  of   my    heallh,    had    hi'en    taken    away    from  wIk  i-e    she    snliscipu  nlly    nmrried    .Mi-.     James    IT. 

School,  and  sent  one  winler  lo  my  uiu  le"s  in  .Mem-  l'"'raid<lin,    with    wlnim    she    is    now    li\in;i-    in    New 

jdiis  and  Arkansas;  and  for  like  cause  was  sent  to  Orleans. 

study   under  brother  -loseph.     Jlis  faiiiuf;;  health  My  brother  Robert,  upon  his  i;raduation  at  the 

devulvwl    cousiderable     responsibility    upon     me.  University  of  Xasliville.abontlSol,  wiiii  inlobusi- 

I  kept  the  post-office,  and  acted  as  landlord,  c»d-  ness  in  .Memphis.     Subse(|uenlly  he  became  cashier 

lectiug'  the  fares,  and  juillini;  (uit  on  the  sideboard  e^f  a  bank  in  Xaslnille,  and  a  little  before  the  war 

the  decanter  nf  whisky,  as  was  I  he  cusliuii  of  the  became  cashier  of  a   bank  in  Selma.      In    ISIil,  he 

times,  for  the  free  use  of  tiu' stage  passengers,  who  went   oiii    willi   ilie  Eighth  Alabama    Infantry,  but 

passed  twice  a  day.     Brother  Joseph  died  in  Nash-  afterwards  was  i|uarterinaster  cd'  I  he  Thirty-third 

ville,  in  1852,  after  I  had  c(uue  to  Alabama.     .My  Alabama  nniil  the  close  of  the  war.      lie  was  then 

brother  Joseph   left  college  after   his   soi)lioniore  a  nu-rchant  in  Sehna  several  years,  nntil  he  became 

year,  went  into  a  business  house  in  St.   Louis,  of  treasurer  for  ihe  receivers  of  the  Selnia,   Kome  & 

which  my  great  uncle,  .lames  NNHods,  was  the  head,  I>alton  Kailroad  (_"om](any,  and  he  remained  a  most 

and  was  high  in  their  confidence.     He  was  a  very  trusted  and  valued  officer  of  that  railroad  till  his 

popular  "society"  man,  highly  gifted  as  a  singer,  death  in  ISII."!.      His  first  wife,  Mai"}*  xilberfa  I'ratt, 

and  so  drifted  into  many  dangerons  courses.     In  died    in    lS(i(i,    without    children.     By    his    second 

ISGl,  he  came  Sonth  and  joined  a  Tennessee  regi-  wife,   .Mary   Willie    i'ettus,   daughter  (d'  (Jovernor 

ment.     He  was  l)adly  wiMindcd  at  Sharpsbnrg,  and  IVttus,  of  Mississipi)i,  and  niece  of  United  States 

again  at  Second  .Manassas.     He  came,  wouudid,  to  Senator  I'ettu.s,  (d'  Alabama,   he  had  children:      1, 

my  house  in  Shelby  County,  and   was  there  when  Itobert  Kay;  1',  John  I'ettns;  o,  Edmund  Winston, 

the  war  closed.     He  died  in  Selma,  about   KSthS.  and  4,  William  ^Verdou.     When  I  was  a  little  past 

Brother  Xorvcdl   was  educated  and  practised  as  my  sixteenth  birthday,  in  18.j1',  1  came  from  Nash- 

a  physician;  and  was  acting  as  surgeon  in  the  Con-  ville  to  Selma,  Alabama,  to  enter  the  law  office  of 

federate  Army,  when  in  18(15,  he  was  captured  and  my  firet  cousin,  John  W.  Lapsley,  then  at  the  head 

conhned  at  Ship  Island,  in  the  (iiilf  of  .\ie.\ico.   The  of  the  bai'.    r]ion  his  i-etiring  fr(un  his  law  practice 

privations  and  sutt'eriugs  (d'  those   prisoners    were  in  185(i,  he  made  an  aihantageous  arrangemenl  for 

very  great.     He  was  a   man   of  delicate  constitu-  "K"  witli  his  suceesstn-s,  .Messrs.  Byrd  and  Parsons, 

tion,  and  seems  never  to  have  recovered  from  the  afterwards  IJyid  and  .Morgan,  A\ith  wIkuii  I  worked 

effects  of   his  imprison  men  I.      He    died    in    Selma  until  1  became  a  mend)er  of  their  tinii  in  January, 

shortly  after  the  war.  1858.     In  January,  ]8(;i,  upon  the  call  of  the  (!ov- 

The  youngest  of  the  family,  Samuel  Kutherford,  enior,  I  went  with  the  military  com]>any,  of  which 

was  taken,  on  our  mother's  death,  in  1844,  to  the  I    «as  a    member,   to    Ft.   ^Morgan,  and    was   there 

home  of   onr   aunt,   .Mrs.    Elsie  .M.    Kay,    wife   of  some  months.     .Yfterwards,  (ui  the  oiganizaliiui  of 

Lieuben  L.  Kay,  then  a  wealthy  merchant  of  Mem-  the  Fifty-first  .Vlabama    Kegiment,   1   went  into  it 

phis,  Tennessee,  and  they  raised  him  as  their  o^\u  as  a  private  in    Company  I.     Subsequently,    for 

son.     \Miile  yet  a  boy,  he  went  into  the  army,  and  "acts  of  gallantry  in  the  field,"  as  my  c(unmission 

was  shot  down  at  Shiloh,  in  1802,  with  the  colors  read,  1   was  pronu>ted  to  be  First  Lieutenant  of 


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roiii]i;niy  E,  and  I  was  in  I'm-i-csl's  and  \\'li(M'lcr's  liui    1!ii-cc    iron    (•iini|)ani<'s,    Slidliy,    ("lillon    and 

raids  around  Nashville,  was  in  llic  lialllc  of  .Mnr-  Woo(lsloci<,  wliirii  dnlics  liro\ii;lii   nn'  lo  Annislon. 

froosboi-o  and   <'liickaniaui;a  ;  and   was  caplurcd   in  'i'lic  ai-raimrmcnl   liclwccn   llic  liiico  conipanics  cx- 

XoNcndici-,  ISIi.'i,  in  a  tii;lil   al    Kini;slon,   lOasI  Ten-  pircd  liy  liiiiilalion  in    IMtl.  when   I   i-csinni'd   |u-ac- 

n('ss((>,  and    was  taken    to  .lolinson"s   Island,   Lake  tice,   I'loni    wiiicli    I    was   called    liy    llic    ( JoN'eiiioi-'s 

lOrie.    w  liei-e    I     was    kept     nntil    June,     ISt;.").      In  ap]K!inl  nicnl   K;  the  .liiiliicsliip  of  i  lie  ( "ily  ( 'oiii-l  of 

pvisdii  1  busied  myself  with  some  of  the  liandiciafts  Annislon   in   March.   IS!i:;.  .ind   w  as  i'eapi)ointed  in 

used  there.      L  also  tatight  some  yonni;  nicii  law  and  1S!)T.      1    was  cleciid    n     the  State  Legislature   in 

bookk(M  ]iinji.        I     studied     I'l-emli    \crv    carefully  188(i,  but  resiiiiied  iMJia-c  i  he  session  bejian.      I  was 

and     did      a      L^ood      deal      of     writinii.        1      ke]it  a  member  of  t  he  <  leiieial  .\sseiiihly  of  onr    <'huicli 

busy      all      the      time.        Having      numerous      kin  in  IStlT.  1883,  l,S!i;;  inid  1S!t7,aiid  am  now  app(iinicd 

ynd     ac(juaintances    iuside     the    Federal     lines    1  for  1S!I8.    1  was  .Moderator  of  i  he  Synod  of  Ahihaina 

got    all     the    books    aud    papers    1   ueede<l,    and  in    ISili',   and    of    (he    ^ieiieral    .\sseiidily    in    18!);j. 

such  food  suiiplies  as  were  allowed  to  be  sent  in.  1  joined  the  church  in  Seliii;i  in  the  spi-iim  of  \S')'2. 

lu  1805,  1  made  a  formal  offer  to  the  (ioverument  was  made  a  deacon  two  or  three  years  later,  aud 

at  Washiugtou  to  give  bond  and  security  to  gi)  out-  \\as  made  an  elder  about  Api-il,  LSdC).  We  orjj'anized 

side  the  United  States,  aud  stay  out,  if  tliey  would  ilie  \'iue  Hill  church  aboiil    isT'.t.      We  moved  our 

let.  me  ;;<>  without  taking  the  oath  of  allegiance,  but  membership  to  Auuiston   in    ISS!).      In   November. 

they  declined  the  proposition.     Colonel    llolTnuin,  1801,  I  chauged  my  membership  to  the  West  An- 

oomina.nder  of  prisoners,  wrote  1).aok  that  he  had  uo  uiston  chuicli.  a  missiiui  work  needing  my  assist- 

power  to  make  such  a  bargain  with  me.     My  plea  ance. 

was  to  go  to  the  Bahauurs  or  Brazil,  and  nmke         The  following  are  the  names  of  such  of  my  grand- 
there  a  home  for  my  family.  father's  descendants  as   I  am  able  to  gather. 

After  the  war,  we  resumed  our  law  business  in  Jdin  aud   .Mary   Lapsley,  my  graudi)arents,  had 

Sehiia,  under  the  old  name  of  Byrd,  .Morgan    and  childu  n  as  follows:      (a)     (rriscilla  and  John  A. 

Lapsley,  which  continued  till  Judge  Byrd  became  are  omitted  fr this  list   by  diidge  Lapsley — Edi- 

Sn]ir(iiie  Cniirt   -Indge;  and  then  (U'ueral  .M(!i'gan  tor).     -loseph   B.   Lapsley,    boin  October  5,   177!), 

and  I  conliuncd  together  (with  W.  i:.  Nelson),  till  graduated  at  Washington  College  in  1800,  preached 

he  went  to  the  United  States  Senate    in    187(i.     1  iu   Kentucky    ami    lOast    Tennessee.     He   mariied. 

iheu   (btirmined    to  retire   to   the  coiiiilry    lo   live,  fii'st,  Bebecca  Aylett,  Sei>teudier  117,  1801.      Ileaf- 

hut  did  not  get  rid  of  my  business  for  some  lime,  terwards  married  his  cousin,  Sallie  Lapsley. 
U'e  eventually  shut  up  hou.se  in  town  and  remained  By  his  first  wife  be  had  children:     1,  John  AV., 

jMrmanently  at  our  home  at  Vine  Hill,  where  for  l"iig'  lime  a  successful   lawyer  in  Selma,  Alabama; 

many  y(ars  (ieneral   .Morgan,   my  brothel-   Robert,  <lie<l  in  I'^^'O,  leaving  children,  .John  B.,  living  at 

Mr.  Kay  and  I  had  spent  our  summers.      \V<'  built  <':'ve    Spring,    (ieorgia;    .Mary    Deans,    living    at 

a  little  church  and  scho(d-hiaise,  aud    I   lio]icd  aud  Calei-a,  .Mabaiua;  .\mmie  Kellar.  living  in  Florida, 

expected  lo  live  and  die  there;  but   in  .March,  1883,  -,   William   ■■'airfax.  who  die<l   in  .Mabania  without 

(iovern(!r  O'Neal  telegraphed  for  me  to  conu^  to  issue,  and  ;>,  .Joseph  .M.,  who  ilie.l  in  Selnm.  leav- 
.Montgoniery,  and  asked  me  to  accei.l  the  office  of  ^^ii  I'.v  l»is  first  wife,  two  children:  ( ieorge  11. 
Examiner    of    I'ublic    Acconnls.      I    accepted    the      Lapsley  and  Emma    1  taker,  now  living  in  Kansas 

place  and  continued  its  duties  till  in  October,  1880,  <'it.v,  :\Iissouii.  I'.y  his  second  wife,  Sallie.  said  fo 
1  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Fifth  Circuit,  wdiich  I'iive  been  his  lirsl  c(uisiu,  he  had  two  children,  one 
I  resignt^l  in  1888  to  take  charge  of  the  sale  and  of  whom,  1,  .Margaret,  married  a  Taylor,  and  is 
distribution  of  the  proceeds  of  the  iron  product  of      now   in   South-Avestei-n   Texas;   and   the  other,   5, 


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Tin:    W()()J»S-McAFEI':    .MKiMOKlAL. 


Samuel,  who  inaiTied  Mary  Brouough,  who  is 
(h'ad.  Tlic  widow  is  said  to  he  liviun'  at  Pleasant 
liili,  -Missouri. 

{]))  .lames  F.,  horn  January  7,  178(),  married 
Charhitlc  ("leland. 

(c)  SamiK'l,  l)orn  Sei)t(^mher  L'l',  1780,  married 
Salli(>  Stejihens. 

(i]  I  Sai-ah  W'.,  horn  Fehrnary  1,  17!)1,  married 
William  Walker.  Their  children  were:  1,  Cath- 
arine, unmarried.  2,  Adeline,  married  General 
\\'.  .T.  Landrum.  They,  and  cousin  ( ".  with  them, 
Ii\('  at  Lancaster,  (iarrard  <'<ainty,  Kentucky. 
General  L.,  a  I'edci-al  soldier,  also  served  in  the 
Mexican  \\'ar.     They  have  a  lar<;e  family. 

((>)    William,  horn  Septendier  L'S,   17!>o. 

(f|  -Mary  ('.,  horn  Fehrnary  I'd,  17!)(>,  married 
danies  McKee  and  had  four  children. 

(<i)  Kohcrt  Armstron.n-,  iiorii  January  11,  179S. 
Married  Gathciine  Rutherfcu'd  Walker  (daughter 
of  .Tohii  Moore  ^^'alker  and  Margaret  ^Voods), 
May  14,  1823.  Tlieir  children  were  the  following, 
to  wit: 

(1)   Joseph  W.,  died  unmarried. 

('2)   Joiin  l».,  died  unmarried. 

(3)  Norveli  A.,  died  unmarried. 

(4)  Kohert,  lioi-ii  I'ehruary  10,  18:!:',,  married 
first,  Mary  Alherti  Pratt  (no  children).  Married 
second,  Mary  AVillie  Pettus.  Their  children: 
liohert  Kay,  John  Pettus,  Edmund  Winston  and 
William  Weeden. 

(5)  James  AN'oods,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
who  was  h(u-n  December  20,  1835,  married  Sarah 
E.  Pratt,  June  9,  1857.  Their  children:  h'ohrrf 
Albcrti,  now  pastor  Bethel  Church,  Greenville, 
Virginia,  married  Eugenia  Brown.  Their  children  : 
Eobert  A.,  Jr.,  Mary  V.,  James  AV.,  Horatio  Brown, 
Sarah  I'ratt  and  Eugenia,  .lames,  jireaching  in 
Dawson,  Alabama,  married  I'loi-rie  Morrow. 
Their  children,  Samuel  B.,  Elsie,  Bessie,  Kate  and 
James  Norville.  Smintcl  Xorrcit,  missionary 
to  Congo  Free  State,  died  not  quite  20  years  old, 
at  Underbill  Station  near  Matadi,  Lower  Congo, 
March  2(1,  1,S!»2.  Mar//  Alh.rli  (died  October  31, 
18971,   married  Julian  C.   Keeth;    their    children: 


Lucian,  Mary,  Isham.  Isabel  married  Rev.  R.  T. 
List(ui,  one  child,  Margaret.  Zaldcr.  married  W. 
C.  Smith,  one  child,  Cothran  G.  Rutherford. 
Kale.     Xorvdl. 

(0)  Margaret,  born  June  4,  1838,  married  first. 
Dr.  James  AV.  Moore;  second,  James  II.  Franklin, 
no  ciiildren. 

(7)  Samuel  Rutherford,  boi-n  June  25,  1842. 
Died  at  -Memphis  in  I8(i2,  having  been  shot  down 
at  Shi  loll  with  the  colors  of  his  regiment  iu  his 
hands.  Sam  McKee  and  Sam  R.  Lapslej-,  both 
died  in  1802,  one  on  one  side,  the  other  opposing 
him.  Samuel  N.  Lapsley  died  in  1892;  died  lead- 
ing a  forlorn  hope  in  Africa — that  is,  he  knew 
the  deadly  climate  which  he  was  invading. 

R.  A.  L.  married  second,  Mrs.  Alethea  Allen; 
lliini,  -Mrs.  Mary  Richardson.  The  latter  sur- 
vived him.  He  died  in  1872,  she  a  year  or  so  later. 
She  lived  and  died  in  New  -Vll)any,  Indiana. 

(8)  Harvey;  died  unmarried. 

(0)  Margaret;  married  Moses  Jarvis.  Their 
childr(m  :  Mary  Jane,  married  Sharp,  no  children. 
John  L.,  married  Miss  Sharp,  five  children. 

[XoTio. — The  manuscript  submitted  to  me  by 
.Tudge  Lajtsley  ]\;\,\  maiiy  erasures,  and  the  de.sig- 
nation  of  the  several  generations  was  not  always 
clear,  and  1  may  have  made  .«ome  mistakes  in  de- 
cii»heriug,  thdugli  1  have  tried  to  be  accurate — The 
Editor.] 

SKETCH  35. 

DR.  J.  Y.  LAPSLEY,  KANSAS  CITY,  MISSOURI. 

Dr.  J.  Y.  Lapsley  is  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Micluud  Woods  of  Blair  Park,  through  his  daugh- 
ter Sarah,  who  married  Joseph  Lapsley. 

John  Lai)sley,  son  of  Jo^seph  Lapsley,  Sr.,  and 
Saiali  Woods,  was  born  December  29,  1753.  On 
Deceud)er  22,  1778,  he  married  -Mary,  daughter  of 
Captain  .lohn  -Vi'uistrong,  a  A'irginian,  who  emi- 
grated to  Kentucky  among  the  early  pioneers. 
.Tohu  Lapsley  serA-ed  in  the  K'evoluf  ionary  Army 
under  General  Morgan. 

Priscilla  Catherine  Lapsley,  oldest  daughter  of 
John  Lapsley  and  Mary  Armstrong,  was  born  June 


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23,    17S1.     Slic  mai'i'icd    Colonel    .John    Viiiitis.  (tf  clmrcli,  niid  (hiriiiii  |iiii-l   of  (liis  liiiit-  \\;is  iT;^isI('r 

Garrard      Coimty,      Kentucky,      son      of      .Tacoh  of  tlic  rnilcd  Slalcs  hind  nlliic.     On  jiccouni  of  ill 

Yantis     (or    Yandes),    a    Revolutionai\y    pati-ioi  licalih  Im'  r(iii(i\(<l  in  ili<    Swcci  S|iiin^s.  in  Snliiif 

of     German    birth.     Colonel     Yantis     commanded  ('(iiiniy.    \\lii(li    lie    |iim  lused.   mihI    in    iln'    Call    nf 

a    regiment     in     the     War     of     1812,     and     rep-  1S4S,  opened  (here  a  hnjiidinu  stlionl  lui-  hoys.      In 

resented  Garrard  County  in  the  Kentucky  Leg-  ISol',    1M-.    ^■alllis.    in    eninpnny    wiili    his    ilii-ee 

islature  for  many  yeai's.      lie  lived  near  Lancaslei-  hrothers    and     his    hruiiiei-in-law ,     I  >f.     Nallianiel 

until   1S31',  when  he   nioxcd    In   Lnfayette  Coiinly,  Osti-ander,    nnderlook    an    overland    journey    with 

Missouri.      Here    he    was   n inaied    lor   ("undress  theii- families  In  Oj-egon.      l»i-.  N'autis  ])rea<-lied  all 

in  1831  liy  the  ^\'hi.^;s  of  iiis  distriel.  hnl  failed  of  o\eT'  llie  W'illainelle  \alley,  and  i-elunied  lo  .Mis- 
election.  He  died  three  years  later.  soni-i  in  IS.*).'),  lo  iissiime  liie  presidency  ni'  Kieh- 
II  is  (ddcst  son,  llev.  John  Lapsley  Vanlis,  I).  1  >.,  niond  ('ollcge.  lie  also  pre;uiie(l  totlie  itieliinund 
was  b(U'n  Seiitembcr  14,  1S(I4.  He  began  the  study  church.  Four  years  later  he  accepted  a  call  to 
of  medicine  with  Dr.  I'anlding  of  Harrodsburg.  the  Presbytj'riau  Church  at  nanville.  Kentucky. 
His  uuHlical  education  was  almost  completed  when,  Here  he  remained  until  the  breaking  oni  id'  tlie 
haviug  become  a.  member  of  the  Presbyterian  war  in  18(J1,  when  he  i-elnrned  lo  iiis  Ikmim'  at 
Church,  he  determined  to  conseci'ate  his  life  to  the  Swcel  Springs.  Dni'iiig  ihe  war  he  was  an  ai'deiit 
ministry  of  Christ.  He  studied  theology  under  his  Southei'u  synipal  liizer,  and  ihree  <d'  iiis  sons  served 
uncle,  Dr.  I^r^bert  Armstrong  Lapsley,  with  the  in  in  the  Confederate  army.  In  18(i5  he  took  charge 
teution  of  conipleting  tli(^  work  of  ])reparatiou  for  id'  the  Westport  church,  and,  soon  afterwards  nf 
the  pulpit  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  By  the  church  at  Kansas  City.  During  the  slniniy 
too  close  application  to  books,  his  iiealth  was  se-  years  that  followefl  the  clnse  of  the  war.  Dr.  Vantis 
riouslv  imxjaired,  and  he  was  comi)elled  to  finish  was  one  of  the  alilesi  eliainpiniis  nf  llie  Snuthei'u 
his  studies  in  private.  On  August  21,  1828,  he  J'resbyterian  Ciiiuch,  and,  in  ihe  untlinehing  cnui-- 
married  Eliza  Ann  iMa-rkham  Montgomery,  daugh-  age  with  which  he  fnnglil  his  battles,  showed  the 
ter  of  Colonel  James  Montgomery,  of  Lincoln  si)leiidid  fighting  (pialilies  nf  his  ancestors.  A 
County,  and  grand-daughter  of  Markbam  Marshall,  |)nwcrful  debater,  he  always  innk  a  leading  part  in 
who  was  an  uncle  of  the  illustrious  Chief  .lustice  llie  proceedings  of  the  Symids  and  General  As- 
Marshall.  Dr.  Yantis  was  licensed  to  pi'each  in  sendilies.  In  iMtlT  he  i-eiuined  to  his  (dd  hnme  at 
Ajiril,  182!t,  and  was  nrdained  a  niinistei-  nf  the  Sweet  S[)rings,  where  he  cniilinned  In  reside  until 
Gospel  in  the  fall  of  1830.  He  preached  at  Stan-  his  death  on  May  28,  1884.  During  this  jxTind  he 
ford  and  Lanca.ster  until  1833,  when  be  removed  to  preached  In  llie  cburclies  nf  Waverly,  .Maishall, 
Missouri,  whither  his  father  and  father-in-law  St.  .Tosei)h,  I'.rowiisville  and  I'rairie.  The  most 
had  preceded  him.  Here  he  entered  upon  that  cnnsiiicunus  liaits  (d'  Dr.  ^■anlis'  characliT  were 
career  which  has  indissolubly  linked  his  name  Willi  his  frankness,  mndesty  and  cnurage.  Never  fnr- 
tlie  histni-v  of  Presbvterianisni  in  .Missouri,  and  g(  iting  ihe  sacrediiess  nf  his  calling,  he  was  full  id' 
made  him  celebrated  throughout  the  State  as  a  a.  (piiet,  cnniical  liuinnr-  lliat  made  him  niie  nf  the 
brilliant,  earnest  and  fearless  preacher  of  God's  most  companionable  of  men.  hnbued  with  the 
word.  The  pioneer  of  his  church  in  Missouri  for  true  spirit  of  Southern  cniiilesy,  he  cnmniandt^l 
nuiuy  years,  his  history  is  that  of  Presbyterianism  the  i-espect  and  admiral  inn  nf  friends  and  foe.s 
in  his  adopted  State.  He  organized  the  churchra  alike;  while  his  idassic  giace  nf  did  inn,  his  wnnder- 
of  Kansas  City,  Westport,  Lexington,  I'ulinu,  Lib-  fnl  skill  in  dehale,  and  his  sclmhirly  address  made 
erty,  and  many  others  in  We.stern  Missouri.  From  him  one  of  the  nmsi  impnlar  prejichers  of  his  day. 
1841    to   1848,   he   was   ])astor   of   the    Lexington  The  two  oldest  sons  of  Dr.  -1.  L.  Yantis  and  Eliza 


RhV.  WILLIAM  J,   LAPSLEY. 
[See  Sketch  N...  35.  | 


COL.  JOHN  P.  LAPSLEY. 
ISee  Sketch  No.  55.I 


REV.  JOHN  L.  YANTIS,  D.  D. 
(TAKEN   IN  1861.) 

[See  Sketch  No.  35.] 


REV.   EDWARD  M.  YANTIS. 

(TAKEN    IN    18S4.) 

[See  Sketch  No.  35. 1 


SKETCHES  OK  I'ATIIONS.  285 

A.  M.  Moutgoiiiei'v,  died  in  infancy.     Thoii-  oldest  way  lie  slndicil   l;i\v.  wns  ndmil  led  In  ili,.  h.u-  :ui<l, 

danglitei-,  Priscilla  Catherine,  married  Jolm   T5cii-  al'lci-  a   few    vcai's"  in-nclicc  (if  lliai    pi-dressidii.  dc 

nett  Bean,  a  wealtliy  planter    and    slaveluiidei-    of  riilr.l    lu  sindy   fur  Ihc  ininisiiy.      Af'lei-  hcini;  cr- 

Cass  Connty,  Missonri,  avIhi  died  shortly  after  the  (hiined   he  ]irca<-lMMl   sncressrull v   Un-  several   years 

war.      Five  sons  were  the   fruif   of  this  niarriai^c.  in    Missdiiri.   and    Iheii    h-axinu    Ihe   |>iil|iii    Inii    t-e- 

oidy  one  of  M-hoiii  sunives — William  Yantis  Bean,  mainiii.u    Inval    Id    his  Clmi-rh,    he  a.<epi,Ml    an    ap- 

of   St.    Lonis.     The   others   were   Lapsle;v    Yaniis.  iiointmenl    as  cliier  clerk    in    ihe  cflice  df  ihc   l.'e 

John  Lajisley  Yantis,  Frank  Gay  and  John  Ben-  eordcr  of  Deeds  nf  .lacksdn  Cdunly,  which  he  held 

nett.  until  his  death  in  .March.  1SS7,      His  tii-si   wife  was 

William  Lapsley  Yantis,  tliird  son  of  l>r.  J.   L.  JOIiy.aheih   I'anntlcrdy  .\lariin.  daiiLihici-  df  Samuel 

Yantis  and  Eliza  A.  M.  Jlontgomery,  was  educated  .Mai'lin,   whose  uidihei-  was  a   .Miss   I'auni  Iciny,  df 

at  Centre  College,  Danville,  Kentucky,  and  served  the  XMrgiuia  family  dC  Ihai   name.      i!y  Ihi-  he  hail 

in  the  Confederate  army  on  the  escort  of  General  Coui-  cliildren:  Samuel   i:d\\ard,  llehn  Kate,  John 

John  S.  Ma.rmadnke.     He  mamed,  first,  jNlargaret  Paul  and  Elizalteth  .Monliiomery.      His  secdud  w  ilV 

Sloan,  l»y  whom  he  had  one  sou,  who  died  in  in-  ^vas  Mary  Smith. 

fancy.  Margaret  Sloan  was  a  daughter  of  Bev.  The  second  dauglit(r  df  I  )i-.  .].  !,.  Vauiis  and 
Robert  Sloan,  a  first  cousin  of  Senator  Cockrell's  Eliza  ^fontgcnuery.  l'>li/,a  .\nn,  mai  licd  lni'  kins- 
wife,  and  a  graud-daugldcr  of  Bev.  Finis  Ewiui;-.  nian,  Bcv.  AVilliani  .T<)hnsl<in  l,a|isley.  M-.wy  Itiown 
■founder  of  (he  Cumhcrlaiul  T^reshyterian  Church.  ^'autis,  (lie  third  au<l  youngest  daughter,  died  iu 
William  L.  Yantis"  second  wife  was  Elizaheth.  childhddd.  Their  son.  Dr.  Jdhu  Yantis  La]isley,  is 
daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  Taylor,  a  Confederate  <'"'  subject  of  this  sketch  and  was  liovn  Xovendier 
officer,  a  nephew  of  General  Zachary  Taylor  and  a  -1-  bS74.  The  sixth  son  (d'  Dr.  J.  L.  Yantis  and 
first  cousin  of  General  Bichard  Taylor.  They  haA'e  Fliza  3Iontgomery,  Bol)ert  Franklin,  an  elder  in 
one  son,  Taylor  Yantis.  ''is  fathei'V  chni-cli  and  a   man  of  singnhii-  ])ui-ii\ 

John  IMarshall   Yantis,   fourth   son   of  Dr.   J.   L.  "f  character,  died   unmarried  at    tlie  age  of  lliirty- 

Yantis  and  Eliza  ]\Iontgomery,  was  also  educated  ^^^f- 

at  Centre  College  and  served  on  Geuei'al  ^farma-  Judge  Yan  Court  Yantis,  seventh  sm:  of  Dr.  J. 

dnke's  escort  in  the  Southern  .\rmy.     Tie  studied  T..    Yantis  and   Eliza    Montgouu'iy,    was  educated 

law  and,  after  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  ])ractised  at   the  Fniversity  of  :\rissouii.  and   was  (deded  (<> 

that  profession  for  several  years,  after  which  he  be-  <''<'  chair  df  umth atics  in   ihe   i;<dla   Siluxd  of 

came  e<litor  (d'  the  :\rar,shall  l)cnincnii-'Xvin<.     Tie  Mines,  a  de])artment  of  the  luiversity.      lie  aller- 

died    in    Sei)tendtei',    ISSG.     His    wife    was   Annie,  wards   ]>ractised    law    for  several    years,   and    was 

daughter  of  Judge  Luther  :\Ia.s(ui,  of  Tvansas  City,  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  from  Saline  Cdun- 

and  a  first  cousin  of  Governor  Crittenden's  wife.  <,\-     Tn  1885  he  became  iirivate  secretary  and  con- 

Their  only  son,  John  Lapsley  Yantis.  lives  in  Tu-  lidential  advi.stT  to  Governor  ^Mai-iuaduke  and  was 

dependence,    ^lissouri.      Three  dangliters    died    iu  retained  in  that  office  hy  Gd\crndr  .Morehouse.     In 

childhood.      F(nir  olhei-  (liildren   are  yet   alive,   to  1S!»0  In-  was  elected  I'robate -Indge  of  Saline  Cdun 

wit:     Martha     Elizabeth,    Fbudda     Mason,    Yesia  ty,  and  re-(decled  in  1S!I  I.     .ludge  ^  aiil  is  inai-i'ied 

Price  and   Jdlni   T.ajislev.  Sadie    Tveunedy,    hy    w  Inim    he    has    cuie   sun,    \'an 

Ttev.    f'dward    .Montgomery   Yantis,  hfth   sou   of  ('(uirt   ^'antis,  Jr. 
T>i'.  J.   L.  Yaidis  and  Eliza   ^Idutgduiery,  was  edu-  ('(dnind    .lames    .\ull    Yantis,   eighlh    siui    df    \^y. 

cated  at    Centre  ("dllege  anil    .Missouri    Fniviu-sily.  d.    I.,    ^■antis    and    I*;ii/.a    .Miuilgiuuery,    gi'aduateil 

AYith  his  two  older  brothers,  he  was  a  Confederate  at    the  law  siduxd  df  ihe  .Missduri    Cnivcrsiiy.  and 

soldier  du  (!euei-al   .Mannaduke's  escdrt.      .\flci'  the  practised  law    in  St.   l.duisaml    I'drt   Smith,  .\rkau- 


■2S6 


THE    WOODS-McAFEK    ME^IOIUAL. 


sas.     While  :it  t lie  latter  jihicc  he  was  made  ii  Cii-  ('(iniity,    Keutiu-kv,    January    7,    1786.     In    early 

cult  .liuljje  and  Colouel  of  State  militia.     In  1S8G  iiianluiod    he  went    to    Mercer    County.     He    died 

he  returniMl  to  ^lissonri  and  was  eleeted  a  member  Ai>ril   1."),  181!>.     His  wife  was  Charlotte  Adeline 

(d"  tlie  faenlty  of  .Missouri  I'niversity's  law  depart-  Cleland,  lirand-daufihter  of  Thomas  Clelaud,  of  Vir- 

iiient.     Colonel  Yantis  married  Lucy,  daughter  of  ^inia,  and  sister  of  Dr.   Thomas   H.   Cleland,   the 

Major  .laiiH's  11.   Siiari<s,   of  .Vi'kansas,  a   ('onfed-  ( minenl     I'rcsliyieriaTi    ininisler.     Uy    her    lie    had 

erate  soldier  and  a  leading  lawyer  of  F(U't  Smith.  iwd  sons  aii<l   I  w  o  daiiiihters. 

Thev  have  four  children:     Sydney  .Markham,  Ed-  Eliza    Lapsley,   ilie  elder  dauuhter,   niarrie<l  liei' 

ward   Montgomery.    .Tames    S]iarks   ami    Marshall  eousin,  Laiid)ert  Dailaud  Armstrong,  and  was  the 

Lapsley.  mother  (d'  six  children:     James  Lapsley,  William 

Besides  l>r.  John  Ij.  Yantis,  Colonel  John  Yan-  Eaidy.  I'hilip,  Jennie,  George  Francis  and  Henry. 

tis  and   Friseilla  C.    Lajisley  were  the  i)arenrs  of  The  second  son,  >\"illianL  Laniy,  served  as  orderly 

three  sons  and  threi' daughters.     Benjamin  i'rauU-  of  (Jeneral  .M a rmaduke's  escort  dui'ing  the  war. 

lin,  the  second  son,  married    ,\nn    Hall    and    emi  The  younger  daughter  of  James  F.  Lapsley  and 

grated  with  his  two  younger  Itrothers  to  the  Paci-  Charhdtc  A.   <'leland,   Sarah   Jane,   married   Wil- 

fic  Coast,  where  all  three  have  a  large  nnmlier  of  IJani    Ilohiuson,  and    had    two  children,   Charlotte 

descendants.     The  third  son,  .Mexander  Scott  Yan  jiiid  George  Arm.strong.     Charlotte  married  James 

tis,    nuirried    Sarah,    danghrci-    of    Colonel    Lewis  II.  Ilolman  and  has  three  sons  and  two  daughters 

Green,    of    Lexington,     .Missouri.      Jam<'s     Yantis.  _Sallie,    Chailey,     nianche.    I'rice  and   Jesse,  all 


the  fourth  and  yoimgest  son,  married  Sarah  Ann 
Hamilton,  a  grand-daughter  of  (iovernor  Owsley, 
of  Kentucky.  The  oldest  daughter  of  Colonel  John 
Yantis  and  rriscilla  C.  l-a]isley,  Sarah  Chrisman. 
married  Judgi-  Joseph  W.  Hall,  (d'  i>afayette  Coun- 
ty, .Missouri,  a  native  Kentuckian  and  a  Inother  of 
.\nn  Hall,  who  married  llenjamin  1\  ^'antis. 
Sarali  Yantis  and  -Iiidge  J.  W.  Hall  were  the 
jiarents  of  eight  children,  two  of  whom — Folin  and 
William — fought  for  their  native  Southland  in 
the  Army  of  the  Confederacy.  Priscilla  Yantis, 
second  danghtcr  of  ("olonel  .lolin  ^'antis  and  Pris- 
cilla (\  Lajisley,  Mianied  |tr.  \\'oithington  harsh. 
The  youngest  daughter,  lOliza  -lane  Yantis,  mar 
ried  Dr.  Nathaniel  Ostrauder,  who  emigrated  To 
Washington  in  18oL*,  and  has  been  for  years  a  lead- 
ing physician  and  jiolilician  in  that  State.  Thev 
had  elcA'en  children:  Priscilla  Catherine,  .Mary 
.\nn,    Susan  Charlotte,    Sarah    Teresa,    iMargaret 


ef  whom  are  living  exce|it    Price.   (;eorge  .\.   K'ohin- 
son    marrie(l    lOlla    Jones,    hy    whom    lie   had    tlirei' 

children — Martha    l.inw 1.    William    Lajisley  ;ind 

Lottie  Estelle. 

Colonel  John  Philiji  Lajisley,  the  cider  son  of 
James  F.  Lajisley  and  Charlotte  A.  Clelaud,  was 
horn  January  16,  1815,  and  lived,  until  his  death  in 
IS'.H!,  on  the  farm  he  inherited  fidiii  his  father. 
<  "olonel  Lajisley  was  a  jilanter  all  his  life  and  a 
slaveholder  and  a  Colonel  of  Kentucky  militia 
before  the  war.  During  the  so-called  Eebellion  he 
was  an  ardent  Southern  symjiathizer,  but  took  no 
acti\-ejiart  in  the  conflict.  He  contriliuted  liberally 
towards  the  establishment  of  Central  Luiversity 
at  Kichmond.  Foi-  many  years  an  elder  in  the 
Pro\idence  Church  of  .Meicer  ( 'onnty.  he  was  often 
sent  as  a  delegate  to  I  lie  various  councils  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church.     In   politics  he  was  a  life- 


Jane,    .Maiia    lOvelyn,    Isabella    .May.   -lohn    Yantis,       '""^i'    Democrat.      .\     man    <if    well-lialam-ed    judg- 
Florence  iOliza,    l''annie    Lee  and    .Minnie   .Vienista.      uieiil  and  sjilendid  business  cajiacity,  his  charactei' 


Their  only  son,  John  YanI  is  ( >st  rander,  is  ,i  jiinmi- 
uent  lawyer  of   Washington. 

James  Fiuley  ].,apsley,  third  son  of  .Folm  Laps- 


was  in  e\'er\"  I'esjiect  ujiriglil  and  honorable.  In 
\s:u\.  ("olonel  Lajisley  was  married  to  lOliza  Ann 
Johnston,    daughter  of   Silas   Johnston,   a    Wood- 


ley    and    .Mary    .\iiiisiroiig.    was    born    in    Lincoln       ford    ("onnty    jilanter.      P.y    her    he    hail    four    sous 


8KETrilES  OF  i'ATia)XS. 


287 


and  two  daujiiitcrs.     She  died  in  18(t(l,  iind  lie  nl'- 
terwards  married  ^Irs.  Jennie  Kule. 

Hon.  James  Harvey  Lapsley,  oldest  son  of  Colo- 
nel John  P.  Lapsley  and  Eliza  Ann  Jolmston,  was 
educated  ill  ("entrc  ("iillciir  iind  tor  scNcrnI  ycjirs 
conducted  the  McAfee  Academy,  in  (lie  vicinity 
of  liis  father's  farm.  Tic  afterwiirds  served  his 
county  as  school  commissioner  and  re])resenl;i- 
tive  in  the  Legislature.  His  wife  was  Emma  Fer- 
guson, of  Columbia,  Jlissonri,  by  whoni  he  had 
one  son  and  one  daiighler.  The  sdii,  l>r.  t^rauk 
Lee  Lapsley,  is  a  prominent  physician  of  Paris, 
Kentucky.  The  only  daughter,  Martha  Wasliing- 
tini,  married  Edward  Patton,  of  Virginia. 

Dr.  John  Brown  Lapsl»\v,  second  son  <if  ("(donel 
John  P.  Lapsley  and  Eliza  Johnston,  also  received 
his  college  education  at  "Old  Centre,"  after  whi<li 
he  gradimted  in  medicine  an<l  began  I  lie  jiiactice  of 
his  profession  at  his  old  lidiiie  in  Mercer  (Nmnly, 
where  he  still  resides.  Di-.  Fapsley  married  his 
second  cousin,  Eugenia  Armstrong,  by  whom  he 
had  nine  children:  Mary  Eliza,  Dr.  John  Powell, 
William  Kobert,  Helen  Fuuise,  Inez,  lOlizabeili, 
Allen  Johnston,  James  Thomas  and  Addie  Cleland. 

Colonel  Lapsley's  thii-d  son,  IJev.  William  John- 
ston Lapsley,  graduated  at  Centre  College  and 
Fnion  Theological  Seminary,  Ham])(len-Si<lney. 
Virginia.  His  tirst  regular  preaching  was  in  the 
pulpit  of  the  Pine  Street  Presbyterian  Church  of 
St.  Louis,  which  1 -cuiiied  several  months  dur- 
ing the  absence  of  the  pastor.  Dr.  Beverly  Tucker 
Lacy.  His  first  pastorate  was  Des  Peres,  St.  Louis 
County,  and  Mizpah  (Miurch,  near  liridgeton,  in 
the  same  county.  Here  he  renuiined  seven  years, 
when  he  was  called  to  the  Troy  Church.  Woodford 
Countj',  Kentucky.  He  preached  to  the  Troy 
Church  for  several  yeai-s  and  afterwards  at  Shel- 
byville,  Kentucky,  and  Brownsville,  Missouri.  He 
died  in  August,  1890.  His  wife  was  his  second 
cousin,  Eliza  Ann,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Lajislcy 
Vautis,  the  pioneer  of  Presbyterianism  in  .Alissouri. 
By  her  he  ha<l  two  sons  and  four  daughters: 
Elizabeth  Blanche,  ^'irginia  Johnston,  Joliu  Yan- 
tis,  Robert  Joy  Van  Court,  Ida  Louise  and  Addie 


.Mai'kliaiii.      The    two    oldest    daughters    died — one 
in  childhood,  the  otliei-  in  earl.x   w  omaiiliood. 

Of  ih(    i\\(]  ilanghters  of  Colonel  .jcliu    I'.    Laps- 
ley  and  VA\/.A  .lolinston,  the  older,  Mary  lOliza,  <iied 
in    cli ildlii.oil.      Tlie    v(,iiiigi'r,    .Mary    Aiji'liiie,    iii;ir 
ried  Samuel  i'orsyth,  of  .Mci-cci- Connly.    The_\  ha\e 
no  children. 

Colonel  Lapsley's  yoUllgesl  son,  'I'luniut^  ('h  hi  nil 
Laiishi/.  married  Stella  Jones,  in  LSSd,  and  ilied 
two  years  later. 

lie\'.  James  Thomas  Lajisley,  1  >.  1  >.,  youngei- 
brother  of  Colonel  Lapsley  and  the  ycmngest  child 
of  James  Finley  Lajisley  ami  Charlotte  .\(leliiie 
Cleland,  was  born  in  ISl!),  graduated  at  ('entre 
College  and  Princeton  Theological  Scininar\.  and 
has  been  for  iiian\'  years  one  of  the  leading  Presby- 
t(  rian  iiiiiiisters  of  Kentucky.  Or.  Lapsle\  has 
been  married  lliice  times.  Ilis  lii'st  wife  was  I-'an- 
uie  Ewiug;  his  second,  Elizabeth  Brammel;  and 
his  third,  Sallie  Webster.  I'.>  his  second  wife  he 
had  three  <laughtei>i,  one  of  whom,  jiell  Lapsley, 
became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Biiice  and  died  soon 
after  liei-  marriage.  The  other  two  daiightei's, 
lOliztibeth  L.  and  Mai'y  H.,  died  unmarried. 

William  ('ampbell  Lapsley,  seventh  child  of 
•lohu  Lai)slcy  and  .Mar\  Armsti-ong,  was  born  Se])- 
tiMuber  L'S,  ITiJo.  He  married  Sarah  i{edman  Al- 
corn in  1S2(;,  and  in  IS.'il  moved  to  Clark  County, 
ilissouri,  where  he  died,  lie  had  four  children — 
(sue  son  and  three  daughters.  The  oldest  daughter, 
Mary  Ann  Lapsley,  was  the  only  one  who  had  is- 
sue. 1  do  not  know  the  names  of  the  other  three. 
Mary  Ann  Lapsley  married  a  Colonel  Bishop  and 
had  six  children.  She  is  still  living  at  Eustis, 
Fbirida;  her  husband  ditni  several  years  ago.  The 
cliildi-en   of   .Maiy   Ann    Lajisley    P.isho|)  are: 

1.  Albert  AVilloughbv,  who  married  ( "arrie  Day 
and  has  two  children  —( Jeit  rude  Uell  and  Bertha 
Cecilia. 

2.  Walter  IIund)oldt  (unmarried)  lives  at  Ka- 
lieka.  .Missoui'i. 

3.  .Maury  lOi'skine  married  Ida  Hell  lle\ist<m 
and  has  three  children — .Mary  Eliza,  Dora  Kath- 
crine  and   Maury  ^^"llipple. 


•288  THE    AYO()D8-McAFEE    ]\J  EM(  IKIAL. 

4.    Ilciu'v  ^\■illianl   iniii'rii'd    K\:\   I'owci'  and  lias  ('irciiil     ("Icfk    uT    <'l;n-l<    ('duiUy,    Alissoiiri,    and 

1\\(>  cluldrcii — Alary   I'riscilla  and  Claylnn   I'owcr.  .1  nd.^i' id'  I  he  County  (Nnu-t.      1  Ic  lias  t  wo  cliildi'cii, 

T).   >.'a]>olc(>ii   Clay,   iiiiniarricd.  lo  \\il:      (a  I    Dv.  llolicrt  .McKcc  Ivajislry,  the  siili- 

().  Alary    iUdlc,    also    mmiaii-icd.  Jcct.  id'  this  slcL'tch ;  and   ( li  i    Aliss  Alary  Elizabeth 

Lapsley. 
SKETCH   36. 

DR.  R.  M.  LAPSLEY.  KEOKUK,  IOWA.  SKETCH    37. 

T)r.  UulMMt  AI.Iv.-.-  Lapslry  is  a  lineal  descendant  ^^^S.  HELM  BRUCE,  LOUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY. 

of  .Michael  AVoods  of  i'dair  I'.irk.lhinuiih  liis  danjrli-  ^frs.    Sallie   Hare   T.rnee    (;/rr   AVliite).   wife   of 

fer  Sarah,  who  ni.iiried  .losejih  LapNU-y.     He  was  Helm  Uiniee,  Esq.,  is  the  (lan<iliter  of  Ihe  lale  I'ro- 

lidin   in  Alissonri,  January  2l>,  1870.     His  fatlu-r  f(  ssor  James  Jfmes  A\'liite    and    his    wife,     .Mary 

was  l>a\i(l  Nels(;n  Lapsley,  w  ho  was  horn  in  Wood-  Loiiis;i   Keid,  and  was  horn  in  Le.ximiton,  \'iri;inia. 

I'urd  Cuiinty,  Kenlneky,  .\piil  Ki,  ls;;(».    His  mother  She  is  a   linonl  (leseendant  of  Aliehad    Woods,    of 

was  .Miss  Alarijaret  Jane  Jenkins,  hum  .Vpril  2."!,  lUair  Park,  tliroui;li  his  dauiihter  .Maiidalen,  whose 

1840.     His  parents   were   married    .Mar<h  1',    18(;.~),  first  Inisliand  -u-as  John  .M(l  (owcll.     She  was  nmr- 

in  Clark  County,  .Missoui'i.     The  said    David   Xel-  ried  in  .Mr.  Ilrnee  Deeember  17,  1SS4. 

son  Lajisley  was  the  son  t;{  John  .\.  La]isley,  who  .Mary  Louisa  Ifeid,  the  motliei-    of    .^h•s.    I'mce, 

was   b(nn    in    Kockbridiic    County,    A'iriiinia,    Se])-  was    horn    July  l'(»,   is;',2,  at    Lexiniiton,  \'iri;iiiia, 

tember  T),  17S;!.     Said   .lolin   .V.    was  an  offieer  in  ;ind  died  May  f>.  lOOl ,  in  Louisville,  Kentucky.    She 

the  re-imcnt  of  Colonel    llichaid   M.  .lohnsou  and  married  July  14,  lSr)8,  Janies  Jones  Whitr.     In  the 

took  part  in  the  War  of  18]!'.      He  dicil  December  resolutions  dmwn   uji  by  the  Cobmial    Dames    of 

13,  1850.     Said  Jnlin  .\.  married  .Miss  Alary  Wear  Kentucky  at  Hie  time  id"  her  death,  are  (hese  words: 

iMcKee,  who  was  born  >,'oveniber  I'd,  178:'.,  and  who  'Mrs.  White,  in  liei'  ]iersouality,  stood  for  all  that 

married  John  .\.   Lapsley,  .\ui;ust    1(1,  ISO.").     Said  «as  tine  and  uolile.     of  a    distinuiiished    liueaji'e, 

Mswy  Wear  died  October  I'l,  LS.")'.!.     The  I>a])sleys  none  of  her  rax-e  did  more  to  ennoble  it — a  N'iriiinia 

and  AI(dve(  s  mi;^rated  to  Kentucky  in   I7'.).">.      Said  licnt  lewoman  of  the  old   veninie,  of  culture,  ticntle 

John  A.  Lapsley  was  the  son  of  John  Lapsley,  who  diiiuity  and  gracious  chaini,  her  iidluence  was  not 

was   born    in    A'irninia,    Sei)tember   1'!),    1703,   who  only  felt  in  the  historic  old  town,  where  her  home 

tiianied  .Mary  .Vrmstronii,    December  22,  1778,  and  was  the  center  of  a  tiraceful  and  ele<j;aut  hosiiital- 

was  a    Kevolntiiuiary  .soldier.     Said  John  Lapsley  ify,  but,  in  other  coninmnities,  she  won  and  held 

was   a    son    of   the   Joseph    La|>sley    who    married  the  res])ect  and  love  (d"  those  who  came  in  contact 

Sarah   Woods,  daniihter  id'  .Michael  Wooils  of  L.lair  with  hei-.     To  Hiose  of  us  who  were  so  fortunate  as 

I'ark  and  his  \\ife.  Alary  < '.■imi>bell.  le  know  her  in  her  decliiiinii  years,  if  seems  like  a 

Dr.  Lapsley  (son  of  D.ivid  X.  Lapsley  and  Alar-  benediction,  that  in  her  own  bidoved  city,  and  from 

.traret  J.  Jeid<ius)     iii'aduated   from   IJush   Aledical  her  daut;liter"s  home,  her  spirit  should  have  jiassed 

College,  Chica.t;(i,   in    IS'.ll,   when  aliout    twenty-oui'  into  t  he  new  and  be;iutiful  life  which  Cod  had  pre- 

yearsold.    He  was  elected  Professor  of  Ophthalmcd-  l>ared  for  His  (jw  n." 

o.ny  and  <  >tol((t;y  in  the  .McdicaM 'olle^e  (d'  Keokuk,  Janu's    Jones     While     was    born     in    Nottoway 

in  18!l4,   which   position    he   still   occu]des.     He  is  County,  Vir.iiinia,  November  7,  1828,  and  died    in 

also  a  practising    oculist    in    Keokuk.     His    fatlier,  Lexinjifon,  Viriiinia,  Ajiril  2!t,  1893.     He  was  the 

David    \.   La])sley,  graduated   from  -Teffersini  Ccd-  son  of  the  fjev.  \\'in.  Sjxdswood  AN'hite,  of  Hanover 

le^e,   I'eiinsylvauia,  about    iS-'ib^.      He  studied  laA\  ('ounly,    A'iriiinia,   ,it    whose   death,    Xovember   2!>, 

and   was  admitted   lo  ihe  b.ir,  but   he  soon  tfave  up  1873,  it   w'ass;iid   that   "the  Synod  id'  N'ii-i^iuia  lost 

his  profession  and  weni  to  I'armini;'.     Ho  has  been  (Uie  »d'    its  most  distini^uished   members,"   and    of 


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Jane  Isabella    Walt.     He    was    of    pure    Euglish  White  mid  .Mjitv  l.oiiisn  l.'ciil,  \v;is  Imh-ii  at   Lfxiiii,'- 
(lesceut  on  his  father's  side — was  a  man  of  iiiagnili-  Um,  Niigini.i.  .Inlv   17,   lsi;-_'.  niid   in.inicd    Ndvciii- 
reut  physi(|ue,   six   feet   foui-  inches  tall,  and    of  licr  It,  i.s!)."),  \\ m.  (Icoi-mi.  i;i,,\m,, 
gracious,  courtly  iiuunicrs.     He  was  a  graduate  of  Wni.  (xeorge  iJiown  \\;is  luiin  Xnvnnlni-  ."),  |sr>:',. 
Ilic  riii\crsit.v  of  \'irginia,  and  Trofcssor  of  (ircck  in    X('\v-(';isl  Ic-dii-'rvnc,    iMighmd;   cnnic    wiili     liis 
in  ^VasllIngf()n    College    (afterwards    Wasliinglon  pnrcnls  1o  Allicinai-lc  Coiniiy,    \'ii-giiii;i,    ii:     ISC'.t, 
and  Lee  Uuiversitvl,  from  1852  until   liis  dcatli.  \\  ;is  cdncalcd  :il   ilic  I'liivcisil  irs  of  \'iiL;iiii;i.  ihii-- 
^Vhen  the  Civil  War  broke  out  he  entered  the  ser-  Nard,  and   llcidi'lbcrg,  nml   is    :ii     pi-cscni     i  I'JOl) 
vice  as  Captain  of  the  college  boys,  the  "Liberty  IM-ofcssor  of  Clicmislry   in   ilic   rnivcrsity  of  Mis- 
I  [all  Volunteers,"  a  part  of  the  immortal  Stonewall  souii.     Tlic  cliildicn   n\'  \\  m.  (Icoigc   r.ruw  n    :iii<l 
Itrigadc.     After  the  \\;ir  lie  look  up  his  educational  isabelle  While  jiic  :     .M;ii-\    Louise,  lioiii   1  )eeeiiilier 
work,  dcNoliiig  his  culinred  intellect,  his  ripe    ex-  •">,   18!Jti ;   \\'m.   (ieorge,   lioi-ii   Se|iieinlier    II,    iS!)S; 
perieuce  of  men  and   things,  his  ju'actical   knowl-  and  Henry  Clillord,  born   Ahiy  2(i,   I'.iDll. 
edge  as  an  educator,  and  bis  great  executive  abil-  Agnes  L'eid    White,    tliini    danghter    of    J;nnes 
iiy  to  the  interests  of  Washington  and  Lee.     This  dones  White  and  ,\l;ny  ijniis;i  Keid,  was  honi  -luly 
])art  of  his  life  was  deqily  enriched  by  an  intimate  14,  1864,  and  married  in  Oeiohei-.  lss4.  doel  Wal- 
assoeiatioii    with   (ienenil    Robert  E.   Lee  and  his  ker  \\'inston  (ioldsby,  nf  Moliile,  .Mahaina. 
family,  and   by  the  loyal  deyotion  of    the    college  -biel  Walker  AVinston  (ioldshy  was  Ihhh  Ndveni- 
hoys.  ln'C  24,   18(>2,  and  is  the  son  (d'  Thomas  .leiferson 
Sallie  Hare  White   (the  subject  of  this  sketch),  (i(ddsby  and  Agues  ^^■inston,  a  danghter  of    .lidin 
eldest  daughter  of  James  .Tones  White  and  Mary  Anthony  Winston,  govei'noi-  of  Alabama    lot-   iwo 
Louisa  Keid,  was  born  at  Lexington,  Vii-ginia,  Feb-  terms  beginning  in  IS"):',,  and  afterwards  elected  to 
ruary  2!),  18(!(),  and   married  L>ceniber  17,    1884,  Hi"   Fnited  Stales  Senate.     Joel   W.    W.    ( ioldsby 
Helm  ISi'uee,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky.  served  two  terms  in  the  Alabama   Legislaliiie  and 
Helm  Uruce  was  born  Xovendier  1(1,  IStiO,  and  is  was  President  /no  h m.  of  ihe  Stale  Semite  in  1!I0;{. 
the  son  of  Hon.  H.  W.  I'.ruce,  who  was  tirst  a  mem-  He  is  now-  one  of  the  attorneys  for  the  Louis\ille 
ber  of  the  State  Legislature,  then  (d' the  Confeder-  i^   Nashville  Kailroad  Coni])any    at     .Mobile.    Ala- 
ate  Congress,  aft(n-war<ls  Judge  of  the   L(vuisville  bania.     The    children    of    Jo(d    Walker     \\instou 
Chancery  Court,  and,  at  the  time  (d  his  death,  <ien-  (bddsby  and   .\gnes   Keid    White  are  .Mary   l^asley, 
eral  Connsel  (d' the  Louisville  ^c  Xasliville  Kailroad  born  \\>v\\   11,   ISS7;   Lonise  Keid,  boi-n  Se|iieniber 
Company,  and  of  Elizabeth  liarbour  Helm,  daugh-  4.   1SS!I;  Isabelle  While,  born    Lebrnai-y    l!l.   isitj; 
ter  of  .loliTi   L.  Helm,  twice  governor  of  Kentucky,  \N'inston,   born    Se].tendiei-    II,    ISitC;    Keid    White, 
and  grand-daughter  of  the  famous  Ken  Hardin,  (d'  born   Febru.iry    IJ,   ISDS;  doel    Walker,  born  Jau- 
I>ardstown,  one  of  the  most  noted  lawyers  and  pub-  nary  21,  I'.lbl. 

lie  men  that  Kentucky  ever  lu-oduced.    li(dm  r.ruce  lf<  i<l  \Miile,  son  of  James -Icines  NNhiieand  .Mary 

gradnated   al    W"ashingtou  and   Lee   Cniversity    in  Lonisa   K'eid,  was  boiu  .Mai-ch  28,  18(i8,  and  gradu- 

ISSO,  and  is  now  a  nuMuber  of  the  law  liiin  of  Helm  :il'''l  i"  medicine  at  I  he  Cniwrsity  of  I'ennsylvania 

I'.ruce    ^;     Helm.       The    cliildnMi    of    Helm    Bruce  in  .May,  18!)2.     He  received  an  ap|>oinl  meni  at  once 

and    Sallie    Hare   White  are:     James  White,  born  lo    St.   Agnes"    Hospital,    l'hilad(diiliia,  and   al     t  he 

October  27,  bSSt;,  and  entered  Yale  University  Sep-  close  (d'  Ihe   vcar,  another  al    Johns-lioiikins   Hos- 

tendier,   1!»(»:{;  Louise   K'eid,    born    Septendter    27,  idlal,  P.aliimoi-e.     He  married  Lncy  Waddell  I'res- 

1888;  Elizabeth  Barbonr,  born  .March  15,  1880;  and  ton,  a  dangliier  (d'    Thomas    Lewis    i'resion,    and 

Helm,  born  Januarv  (i,  1S!t5.  Lucy  Cordon  Waddell.     K'eid  While  is  now   i  lit04) 

Isabelle  WTnte,  second  danghtei-  of  James  Jones  j.ractising  medicine  in  Le.xingion.  N'irginia. 


290  THE    WOODJ^-Mf'AFEE    .AIEMOKIAL. 

The  cIiildiTii  iif  IJcid  While  ami  Lurv  Waddell  Natidiial  liauk  of  ( "oiiiiiicicc,  of  Kansas  City,  Mis- 
Preston,  arc  Prcstcin,  hoin  Scidi'ndM'r  KI,  lS!t();  souri,  and  niic  uf  flic  most  ]n'iMiiincnt  financiers  of 
James  .Tones,  born  Dcccndici-  iM,  18!»7;  and   Kcid,  tin-  State. 

born  October  8,  IDOO.  Jtoru  in  Columbia,  ^Missouri,  Novendicr  1,  1840, 

our  subject  was  a  son  of  James  ITanis  Woods,  a 

SKETCH   ^8.  natix'c  of  .Madison  ('ounty,   Kentucky,  \\  lio  became 

WILL1.4M  STONE  WOODS,  M.  D.,  •'  '•'''I'l i'lii  nicrcliant  of  ('oiundiia  and  died  lliere  in 

KANSAS  CITY.  MISSOURI.  lS4r).    Tile  Doctor  was  educated  in  his  native  town. 

Dr.  William  Stone  W Is  is  a  lineal  descendant  ijradualcd  \\  illi  the  class  of  18(;i   in  Hie  State  T'ni- 

of  .Michael  Woods,  of  Blair  I'ark,  tlironiih  liis  fav-  versiiy,  atlciward  look  up  the  study  of  medicine 
oiiie  son,  Colonel  John  Woods,  lie  was  born  No-  and  alieiided  a  course  of  lectures  in  the  St.  Touis 
vember  1,  1840,  and  on  the  tciilli  of  -Tuly,  1860,  .Medical  College  and  the  .leffersou  .Medical  ('<>llei;-e, 
married  .Miss  Albina  McBride.  His  father  was  ai'  l'hiladel|>hia,  Pennsylvania,  beini;  ui-aduated  at 
James  Harris  Woods,  and  his  luolher  was  Martha  the  lattei-  insiilution  in  ^larcli,  1804.  For  fonr  or 
Jane  Stone.  His  father  was  born  in  ^Madison  tive  years  he  practised  medicine  a(  .Middle  Grove, 
County,  Kentucky, -Tannary  24,  1810,  and  died  Jan-  Monroe  County,  Missouri,  and  then  removed  to 
narv  11,  1845,  in  Cohnnbia,  ]\nssonri.  His  mother  Pari.s,  where  he  resided  for  a  year.  W  the  expira- 
was  boin  in  ^Madison  County,  Kentucky,  Au.ij;ust  tion  of  that  ]>eriod  he  joined  his  biolher  in  busi- 
7,  1815,  and  died  at  Nebraska  City,  Nebraska,  ncss  at  the  leniiinus  of  the  Pnion  Pacific  Railroad, 
March  IT.  180S.  She  was  the  damihter  of  William  which  was  then  lieini;-  constructed  from  Omaha 
Stone  and  Nancy  Han-is,  both  of  Madison  County,  westward.  They  enijajied  in  the  j^jrocery  trade, 
Kentucky.  The  aforesaid  .lames  Harris  Woods  moviiiii-  their  stoi-e  as  the  road  was  extended  until 
was  the  sou  of  Anderson  \\'oo(ls  and  his  wife  Eliza-  it.  re.iched  ()i;(hMi,  I'tah.  This  ]iroved  a  lu'ofitable 
beth  Harris.  Andei*son  \\dods  was  Ikuu  in  Albe-  venture.  Soon  thereafter  Dr.  Wodds  moved  to 
inarle  County,  \"iri;inia,  .laiiiiary  18,  1TS8,  and  Koclieport,  lioone  County,  .M  iss(jiiii,  where  he 
with  his  father  moved  to  (!ai-i-ard  County,  Ken-  established  the  l{oche]iort  Savintis  ISank,  which  he 
tiicky.  in  IT'.IO.  He  moved  to  P.oone  County,  ilis-  successfully  conducted  fnuii  January,  18(i!»,  until 
souri,  in  1823,  and  died  (Jctober  2l',  1841.  Eliza-  Jnunary,  1880.  His  residence  in  Kansas  City  dates 
beth  Harris  was  luu-n  September  :>0,  1701,  and  f'''"ii  -Tanuaiw,  1880,  when  he  entered  into  luisiness 
nmrried  Anders(m  AVoods  :May  4,  1800.  and  died  '"^  'i  niember  of  the  firm  of  Ci-imes,  ^Voo(ls,  La- 
(»ctober  i;'),  1808.  The  sai<l  .\ndeisoii  \\dods  was  Force  iS;  Com]iaiiy,  wholesale  dry  lidods  mei-chants, 
the  son  of  .lames  Woods,  who  was  b(n-ii  in  Albe-  doim;'  the  lariicst  Imsiness  of  the  kind  in  the  citv. 
marie  Counry,  \'ii-i;inia,  .January  L'l,  1748.  and  The  establishment  is  still  carried  on.  under  the 
died  in  Kentucky  in  18l*:t.  Said  .lames  Woods  name  of  the  Swidford  lirothers  Dry  (loods  ('(un- 
married .Mary  C.arland  February  25,  17711.  :Mary  ]>aiiy,  iind  Dr.  Woods  yet  retains  an  interest  in  the 
Garland  was  bmu  October   \'.\.   1700,  and  died    in  business. 

1835.     Said  James  Woods  was    the    s(Mi    of    .John  It   is  |u<ibably  in  the  line  of    baiikini;-,    however. 

Woods  and  Susannah  Anderson,  and  John  was  the  that  the  Doctor  has  become  most   widely  know  it  to 

son   n(  .Michael   A\'oods,   (d'   P.Iaii-   Park,  and  :Nrary  the  business  ]iublic.      A    few   imuilhs  after  his  ar- 

Cami)bell.     Said  James  Woods  was,  according  to  rival   in   Kansas  City  he  ])iirch,ised  ;in  interest  in 

the  statement  of  Dr.  William    Stone    'Woods,    his  the  Kansas  City  Savini;s  Association,  and  succeed- 

great-grandsou,  commissioued  Colonel   in  (he  Vir-  ed   .Mr.    I'owcU  as  lu-esident,  assuming  Hie  active 

ginia  Pevolutionary  forces  November  12,  177G.  management  in  18SL'.     This  bank  was  oi-ganized  in 

Dr.  William  Stone  Woods  is  (he  President  of  the  18(;5,  and    had  an  aiillKuazed  capilal   of  .flOO,000, 


wrLLIAM  STONE  WOODS. 

KANSAS  CITY,  MO. 

I  Sec  Sketch  No.  ^S.! 


MRS.  BINA  McBRlDE  WOODS. 

WIFE   OF  WILIIAM   STONE   WQODS. 
KANSAS  CITY,  MO. 

[See  Sketch  No.  38.] 


sKiyrciiios  (ti-  rATK'oxs.  293 

lint  .n.ly  |10,00()  \v;,s  ,K,i(l   in.     WImm,    1.,-.    \V,mhIs  lisl,,.,!  in  husin.ss  .   „n •,•  nf  vnnn.u  n,,.,,  «  in.  lo- 

bccann.  president,  (he  Inisiness  .,f  the  hnnk  was  ;,l  ,hiy  -AVr  |Hnn,in.ni    in  ,■„„„, imtI;,!   .■in-lrs.  an.l   has 

..nee    inereaml,  an.l     liu'  .-apital    sfeck,   raise.l     m  -iven  lihcially  ..t  his  „„  ans  i.,  .harii  v  ; t-n-lhr 

.fJOfUlOO,  was  all  paid  np.     The  nanw  was  ,lian-e.l  nhnaiin,,  ,,r  ilms,.  ahh-  h.  e,hnaie  iheinselves. 

to  Bank  of    Commeree,    under    wjii.h    ..].erati.nis  11, ■  is  a  ni.niher  -.1   liie  First  ("iirislian  Chnnh  uf 

were  couducted  for  five  years,  wluMi    in    issT    iliis  Kansas  ('it v. 

bank  was  licpiidated  and  nicr-cd  inK.  ilic  Xaiiunal  On  the  Klili  cif-lnly,  jsCG,  il,,.  |t,„iui-  was  united 

Baidv  of  Commerce,  the  old  stockholders  receivinii  '"  niai  liaise  a  i    i'aiis.  .Missonri,    wiili    Miss    i'.iua 

three  dollars  for  every  dollar  invested.     'Die    Na-  -M<J!ride,  dan-liin-  ,,r  .Iml-,    i;i,inr/.,.r  Mcliride,  a 

tioual  Bauk  of  Coninicrcc  was  ori;auize([  in   ISST,  successful  and  iiii;lily  resp.-.ted  citizen  «(  .Monroe 

with  a  capital  of  one  million  dollars,  aud  from  the  County,  .Missouri.     .Mrs.  W I.s  is  a  wonuiu  of  line 

begiuniug  J)r.   \\' is  has  served  as  its  president.  education,  diainiini;    social    .pialities,    and    broad 

His  close  and  careful  attention  and  able  inanaiie-  and  liberal  in  her  idi  as.     She  is  iinei-i'sied  in  nninv 

ment  have  given  it  an  enviable  standing  among  the  diarii  i(  s,  and  in  all  ihe  ini|>unani  cjin'siions  of  ihi- 

banking  institutions  of  the   West.     The   National  day,  and  has  done  mnch  to  assisi   liei-  Inisband  lo 

Bank  of  Commerce  ranks  first  among  monetary  in-  attain  so  hii^h  ;i    |iosiiiou    in   the  coniincr.ial   and 

stitutions  of  the  city,  and  its  ])resident  occupies  an  social  world.     They  lia\e  one  dan-hii  r.  Julia,  who 

equally  high  jtosilion  in  business  cii-cles.  was  educated  at  a  college  jui-  ladies  in   I'.altiiuore. 

Though   till-    Doctor  devotes  the  gr.ati'r  ]iart  of  ^laryland.  and  is  n<iw    I  hi'  wile  of  .\nlinr  (Irissoni. 

his  attention  to  banking  inten  sis,  he  has  interested  id"  New  ^'ork  ( 'iiy,  who  (h'\dies  his  life  to  liierarv 

himself  in  other  enterprists.     In  connection  with  \\ork  ami  is  a  ((uiiribnior  lo  manv    ji^ading  ma*''a- 

his  brother,  James  M.,  he  eud.arked  in  the    cattle  J'-ines. 
business  in  Dakota,  of  which  his  brother,  a  jiiacti- 
cal  stockman,  had    the    inanagement.     They    look 
government  contracts  to  supply  beef  to  the  forts 
and  Indian  agencies  for    about    eight   years   aud  iliss  Frances -lane    W'ociils    iwho    is   a    I'cirnlar 

prO'Si>ered  in  this  undertaking.  Dr.  Woods  contin-  i)hysician)  is  a  lineal  discend.ini  of  .M  iijiael  Woods 

uing  the  partnershiji  until  1894,  when  he  disposed  of  Blair  Park,  throngh  his  son,( 'olond  .iolm  Woods, 

of  hi.s  intei"est  to  his  brother.    He  is  now  an  exten-  As  hir   fatiier   is   fall    Inoiln-r   lo   l»r.    Wni.   St(uu' 

sive  stockholder  in  the  Kansas  City,  Pittsburg  iV  ^^'oods.  whose  sk(  ich   ne\i   ]iniedi  s  iliis  one.    ihe 

(iulf  Kailroad,  which  was  first  perfected  simply  as  rcadc  r  is  r(  IVi-red  lo  iliai  skeich  for  .Miss  WHods's 

an  outlet  for  a  tract  of  coal  lands  owned  by  W.  P.  anceslial  line.     Her  lailier  is  -lanii's  .Moses  Woods, 

Woods,  E.  L.  :\Iai-tin  and  others;  but  there  seemed  of     Kaidd     City.     Sonih     Dakoi.i.      Her    mother's 

to  be  a  demand  for  railroad  facilities  in  this  diicc-  maiden  name  was  .M.-itiida  Caroline  Sione. 
tion    and    the    road    was    extended    until    it     has         JA:\IES  IlAlilJIS  \\'<)(  »DS  was  born  January  24, 

assumed  extensive  proportions  and  now  termin.ites  1810,  in  iladisou  Conniy,  Kintucky;  was  married 

at  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.     The  Doctor  has  also  been  -May  28.  18:}.">,  in  lloone  Ciainiy.  .M  issouri.  lo  .Maitha 

exteusiv(dy  interested   in  real  estate,  and   is  to-day  Jane  Stone,  who  was  also  lioni  in  .Madison  ('(ninly, 

the  owner  of  cousideralile   valuable  |tro'p(»rty,   in-  Kentucky.     The  ]iarenis  r.f  each  wen-  jiioneers    in 

eluding  some  fine  business    buildings    in    Kansas  Hoone    and    .Monroe    Couiiiies.    .Missiniri.     .lanie.s 

("jtv.  Harris  ^^'oods  ilied  -l.innary  II.  IS  IT,  at  ( 'oluinbia. 

Through  his  own  etforts  1)1'.  Woods  has  achieved  .Missouri.      His   widow    reaicil  and  educated  their 

a  success  which  numbers  him  anuing  the  successful  children,  w  ho.sc  names  will  now  be  given  in  order, 

imsiness men  of  Missouri.  Dr.  ^Voods  has  also  esiab-  as  follows: 


SKETCH  39. 
DR.  FR.-SlNCES  J.  WOODS,  R.\P\[)  CITY.  DAKOTA. 


294  THE  WOODS-McAFEE  MEMOEIAL. 

(ii.)    James  Mosks.  IIh'  cldcsl  sdii,  was  liis  ludtli-  hi  ilic  lidspitiils  of  Ahmihi  she  liavc,  ,l;i-;i1  uilunsly,  a 

cr's  cliii'l'  li(  Ipcr.     Al  his  lionn'  slir  (li((l.     Willi  liiiii  y(  ai-  uf  criiciciil  sci-vicc  lur  iicr  ((iiinlry  ami  llic  snf- 

llic  \<miiiicsl   (laiiulili'i-,  .Marllia    I'l-aiiccs,  made  lii'i'  IVriiii:  li(iiiicsi(  k  snidici-s.     Slic  is  a  wninaii  nf  iiilcl- 

lioiiic  iiiilii  Ik'I-  nianiaiic  al  iiis  Ikiiisc,  .luiie  J,  JS.IS.  hclual  ixiwci',  Iciidi  riicss,  and  livdad  syiniialliii-s. 

.lames  Mosos  Wddds  was  mani('<l  In  .Xfatilda  Card-  4.   (Miavli  s   ICdward,  ami   ."),    Pan!   Scull,  arc  s\ic- 

liiic  Stoue.     ^^'illl   lii'i-  tlicic  came  iiiln  ilie  I'aiiiilv  c(ssrnl  liaid<ers  and  in-eprdaciialde  citizens  in  l>ili- 

an  influence  tlial   is  vained  liy  e\('ry  mcnd)ei-  of  tiie  (  r;il  and   Kiniinian,   Kansas,  i-cspecl  i\ely.     Tiie  six- 

yonnjicr  lieneiai  ion.     (twin;;  In  ilie  |iraciicai  nature  \-cai-(dd  sen  cd'  tiie  fnrnier  hears  The  tirst  name  of 

(d'  her  Christian  character,  aiul  the  superior  tine-  his  lirandfather  and   I  lie  lull   name  of    liis    i;reat- 

ness  of  ]\ov  uiiud,  she  lias  furnished  a  moral,  iutel-  i^randfather,  -Tames  II. 

lecfual,  anil  spiritual  stimulus  lo  all  w'lio  know  lier.  (i.  Matilda  was  liradnaled  fi-om  Widlesly  Col- 
James  jMoses,  dri\cn  by  the  reNcrses  of  Ilie  wai-  and  leiic  AIassa(4iusetts,  in  1!I()L'.  She  is  at  iiresent  the 
the  sjiirit  n(  his  fathers,  no  douhi,  lell  .Missouri  only  woman  memlier  of  llie  facult\  in  the  State 
eai'ly  in  I ife,  ami  ln'canie  a  ]ii<Hieer  in  Nebraska,  lu  School  of  Alines  of  Soulli  Oakota. 
1805  he  established  a  home  in  Nebraska  ("ity.  .Vt  7.  Alaitha,  the  sexcntli  and  last  child  of  .Tames 
that  tinu^  he  was  eu!,;aii('d  in  ilie  lucrative  business  -M.  and  .Matilda  C.  \\oods,  will  be  graduated  from 
of  freightiuji'  from  the  .Missouri  i;i\er  in  western  ilie  Iniversity  of  Nebraska  in  tlii^  class  of  100.5. 
])oiuts.  In  ISTC  this  t(jok  him  to  ilie  I'.lack  Hills,  |b|  Axx  Elizabeth,  the  second  child  of  .Tames 
South  l>ak(da.  Since  then  his  main  interests  ]ia\c  II.  and  .Martha  .Tane  Woods,  possesses  a  s|demlid, 
been  in  that  section,  where  he  has  been  foi-emost  strong  Christian  cliaracter  of  theidd  stern  ISaptist 
amoug  those  who  have  develoiied  llie  country.  He  schoul.  In  the  family  she  is  to  ne])liews  and  nieces 
established  the  tirst  bank,   locateil  and  helped  de-  "ihegiaml  old  woman." 

v(4ui>  mines,  controlled  large  cattle  interests,    en-  (ci    Wii.i.ia.m   Stoni-:.  ihe  Ihii-d  idiild,  is  an  emi- 

co'uraged   agriculture,   demoustrat(d     his    faith     in  mnlly  successful    business    man,    ha\ing    accumn- 

iri-igatiou    by     f<irming    companies     to      construct  lated   more  money,  as  far    as    the    jireseni     wi'iler 

ditidies,  and  thus  made  valuable  huge  ii'acts  in  his  knows,  lliiin  any  oilici-  member  id'  the  faniilv.     lie 

own  possession.     As  mayor  nf   Kapid  <'ily,  he    en-  is  |iresideni    of  Ihe   r>;ink   of  Commerce  in   Kansas 

cf)uraged  railroad  eiiterpi-ises  and  all  iniernal    iiii-  ('il\',  .Missouri. 

provements.     A   staunch    Democrai,  he  served   his  (di    .Mixekva  .Vxheksox  was  the  fourth  idiild. 

party  as  National  Committeeman  for  Siuith  Dakota  le)    1"i;.\X('es  .I.\xk,  fifth  and  last  child  id' .lames 

until  advancing  age  nmde  it    impossible,     lie   still  11.  and  .Martha  -T.  \\dods,  w  ho  is  loved  and  honored 

lives  In  TJapid  Ciiy,  Sonili  Dakida.  lives  \vitli  her  son,   William   I'allis,  who  is  a    verj 

.lames  .Moses  Woods  and   .Matilda   ('aroline  ]ia\'e  successful  banker  in  (larnel,  Kansas, 
sexcii  cliildi-eii   now    li\ing,  as  follows: 

1.   .\hulison   1  >.  Woods  was  mai-ried  in  Snulli  Da-  SKETCH  40. 

kola.     Tie  has  iwo  children,  Aniii.' and    I'auline.  '^^^V.  HEIWEY  MCUOWHI.I.,  BII^O.Xl,  MISSISSIPPI. 

-.   .\un  I'Jizabelh   (.Mrs.  S.  T.  (larllii    is  now   liv-  K'ev.   llervey  .M(4>owidl  is  a  lineal  descend;int  of 

ing  in  Larned,  Kansas.     She  has  two  (diildreii,  .Ma-  .Mii  had   Woods,  of  lilair  I'ark,  lliroimh  his  dau^h- 

lilda  and   Catharine.  hr,  .Magdalen,  and  by  her  tirst   hnsband,  .lolin  .Mc- 

:!.    I'rances  .lane  was  graduated   from    Christian  Dowell.     He  is  a  son  of  ihe  late  l>i-.   llervey    jMc- 

College,  Columbia,  .Missouri.  .Inne,  ISSJ,  ;ind  fi-oni  Dowcdl  and  his  wife,  Louise  Irvine  McDowell.   His 

tlie  AVonuxn's  .Medical  College  of  I'hilaihdpliia,    in  fallieidied  in  I'.llll.     His  mother  survives  her  hus- 

1894.     She  went    with    the  lirsl    coiii|iauy  of     Ued  band   and  still  resides    at     Cyuthiana,    Iventucky. 

Cross  nurses  sent  to  .Manila  liy  that  organization.  Kev.  llervey  McDowell  was  born  in  Cyuthiana,  Iven- 


SKvyrniKs  of  I'atiioxs.  295 

tncky,  June  15,  1871,  and  Mils  ('(hicalcd  III  IlicCvn-  daii-lihi-  uT  Alc.\aii(l<T   Kciili   .Marshall   Md  luwdl 

tliiaiin.  Iliiili  Soliocd,  and  \\asliiiii;t()ii  and  \ac  I'lii-  hy  his  sccdiid  wilV.  Anm-  llan|>i    i  his  lirsi   wile  Wiis 

vcrsity.     Ifii  dedicated  his  life  to  llie  work  (if    llie  Pi-iscilla,  a  ilan-hln- ..t  <  Hinaal   lldhcri   !'..  Mi-Afee, 

(J()'S]tel  ministry  in  tlie  Pi-esbyteriau  CliiU'cli,    and  n\'  Mcrrei-  ('(iiiiii\.   l\(iiiiirk\  i.      A  li-\aiidi'i-    Kc-iili 

was  lii-aduated  from  tiie  Tresbyteriaii    Tiieolonical  .Marshall    .Mchnwill   was  the  s(jii    id'    Samml     .Mc- 

Semiuary    of    Kentucky    in    1S!)!I.     On  ihr  il'.lih  »{'  Dnwrjj,  .|i-.,  and   his  wilr,  .\nna    li\inc;  and   Sain- 

April,  1903,  he  was  married  to  ^liss  -lane    Ivave-  ml,  .Ir.,  was  a  son  ot  .lnd;;c'  Sannnl  .Mi  Itowdl  :iiid 

naugli  Liisk,  and  in    tin-    fall    (d'    that   year    took  his  wife,  .Mary  .Me< 'lam; ;  and  -hnbc  Mi  1  )owcll  was 

chartte  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Riloxi,  ,^lis-  the  son  id'  Caplain  John  .Mrhowill  and   .Maiidahri 

sissippi.     llis  eonneetion  with  the  Woods  family  is  Woods. 

exceedingly  close,  for  boIJi  (d'  his  ])arenls,  and  also  Hervey  .McKowcll,  .M.   I>.,  son  of  dolin   l.yli-  .Mt.-- 
his  wife,  ai'e  descendants  of  .Michacd,  of  Blair  Park,  Dowcll  and  his  wite,  Namy  llawihorm-  \ance,  was 
as     will     be     sliown     preseidly.     His     wife    (Jane  horn  in  Fayel  le  ( 'ouniy.  Keiii  ncky.  .\|pril   1  .">,  l.s:!."); 
Kavenaugh  Lusk  I    was  the   daugliter    of    \Mlliam  i^radmile   id'    Kenlmky    .Miliiary    Insiiiuie,    1850; 
Lusk  by  his  wife,  Mary  Faulkner;  and  ilary  Faulk-  slmliid  nmler  his.   II.   .M.  Skillinan  and   l^lhelberl 
uer  was  the  daughter  of  John  Faulkner  by  his  wife  Dudliy,  and  gradiiaird  ai  Missouri  .Midiral  ( 'ollege 
Jane  Kavenaugh;  and  Jane  Kavenaugh    was    the  iu  1858 ;   jdiysieian;    elder    in    Cynihiaiia    Presl)y- 
daugliter  of  William  Kavenaugli  by  his  wife,  Eliza-  terian    ("liiiich;     Kciiliirky    Siaic    \'irc  I'nsiileni 
beth  Miller;  and  \\'i]]iam  Kavenaugh  was  the  son  Scotch-Irish  Association  id' America  ;  mi-mlirr  Iveii- 
of  Philemon  Kavenaugh    by    liis    wife,  Elizabeth  lucky  Society  id' Sons  id' Ihe  ( "olmiial  Wars;  Koyal 
Woods;  and  Elizabeth  \\'oods  was  the  daughter  id'  Arch  Mason;  for    twenty-five    years    President    of 
William  Woods  by  his    wife    Susannah    Wallace;  (\vnthiana  Board  of  Education.     l>uring  the  war 
and  William  Woods  was  the  eldest  sou  of  JMichael  l)etween  the  States  went  out  as  ("apiaiii  of  a  Com- 
AVoods,  of  P>lair  Park,  by  his  wife  ]\Iary  Campbell,  pa uy  he  raised  in    rynlhiana.     At    its    close    was 
Tile  said  Susannah  Wallace  was  the   daughter    of  Lieutenant-Colonel   commanding    Ihe    I'irsi     Keii- 
I'eter  Wallace,  Senior,  whose  wife    was    Elizabeth  tucky  InCanlry,    C.    S.    A.    (Ihe    famous    ••Oi'plian 
^\'oo(ls,  sister  of  ^Michael  Woods,  of  Blair  Park.  lirigaih'")  ;  married    Louise   Irvine  .Mchnwcll    i  his 
Uev.    liervey  Mcl>owell   is,    as    above    remarked,  cousin),   Odober  I'd,    18(i9;   was   ihe   failiii-  ot  six 
the  son  of  the  late  l>r.   liervey  McDowell    by    his  j;,,ns  and  one  daiigiiter.      I  Med    Novenilicr  (1,   191)1. 
wife,  Louise  Inine  McDowell;  and    Dr.  .McDowell  ludoved  and  honored  by  all  who  knew  him. 
Avas  the  son   of  John    I^yle  McDowidl   by   his  wife,  John  Lyle  McDowell,  son  of  Colonel  James  and 
Nancv  Hawthorne  ^'ance;  and  Jolin  L.  McDowell  :Mary  Paxton   (Lyle)    .McDowell,  was  born  iu  Fay- 
was  the  son  of  Colonel    James    .McDowell    by  his  ctte  Conuty,  Kentucky,  August  I'l.   1791:  marrieil 
wife,  Mary  Lvle;  iind  Colonel  James  ;\r(  Dowcll  was  Nancy   Hawthorne  X'ance.  Octidier   I.    1S17;    died 
the  son  of  Judge  Samuel  McDowell  by    his    wife,  December  2:',.   IS7!i.     Farmer.    Served   in   Trotter's 
Mary  ilcCliing;  and  Judge  McDowell  was  tlie  son  Keiiimeni   in  Ihe  War  of  isii'.      lOlder    in    Presby- 
of  Captain  John  .McDowell  by  his  wife,  Magdalen  terian  <'liinch   in  Lexinglon.  Kenlmky. 
Winds;  and  Magdalen  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  (Colonel  )  .lames  .McDowell,  son  ofdndge  Samuel 
.Michael   Woods,  of  P.lair  Park,  by  his  wife,  Mary  JlcDowell  and   .Mary  .McClung,  his  wile,  was  born 
('^,„.,l„.|l  A]U'i]  L'9,    l7(;o.      .Married    Mary    Paxloii    Lyle    in 
Miss  Louise  Irviue  McDowdl   (who  became  the  1779;  died   December  22,  18-i:?.     Farmer:  built  fhe 
wife  of  her  distaut  kinsman.  Dr.  Hervey  McDowell,  fir.sl  hrirl.-  Imnsr  in  i'^iyette  <  'ouiity,  on  a  la  ml  grant 
and  the  mother  of  the  i^ubject  of  this  sketch  I   was  given   him    lor  miliiary  service.     Ensign   in    Kevo- 
born  in  Sumter  County,    Alabama,    and    was    Ihe  Inlionary  Wai-.     Caimdo  Kentucky  in  1788.    Com- 


29(1 


THE  wooDS^rcAFEK  ;\rK]\rm;iAL. 


inaiiilcil  :i  h;it  hiliuii  nmlii-  (!ciii'r;il  Wilkinson  in 
ITill.  M-.ijoy  ill  liic  Will-  (pf  ISll'.  Al  Ihc  Imltic  of 
Miisslssiiicw;!  low  inn  to  1('iii])oi'in'y  illness  of  ('olo- 
uel  yimnill  I  lie  took  eoiiinuind  of  his  veij;iiiieiil. 
Was  a  Eovoliilioiiiiiy  iieiisioiier. 

.Tii(l;;e  Saiiinel  .Mel  )<i\\i'll.  sou  of  ('a]i(iiiii  Joliii 
and  ^fagdalene  (  Woods  i  .McDowell,  was  lioiii  in 
Ireland  Oelober  27  (().  S. — Nov.  7,  N.  S.  i,  Uo."). 
Married  Marv  .MeClung  -lanuarv  17,  17r)4.  l>ie(l 
September  I'.j,  1S17.  Came  wilh  liis  father.  Captain 
John  .AIcDowell,  to  Virginia,  in  1737,  to  Augusta 
(now  liockl. ridge)  County.  P^ducated  at  "Augusta 
.\cadeiiiy" — now  Wasliiiigioii  and  Lee  rniversity. 
Was  one  of  the  tirst  trustees  of  Washington  Col- 
lege, i'rivate  in  Captain  Samuel  Lewis's  Company 
at  Tira<hlock"s  (h'feat,  17.").").  Commanded  a  coni- 
]iany  at  I'oint  rieasanl,  1774,  in  Colonel  Charles 
L(  wis's  liegiment.  Colonel  of  .\iigiista  Kegiraent, 
which  he  coinmanded  al  (iuilfoid  C.  II.  Also 
raised  a  liattalion  at  his  own  expense  to  aid  in  the 
rex)ulse  of  Eeuedict  Arnold's  raid  on  Kiehmond, 
Mrginia.  Member  of  the  House  of  Uiu-gesses  17(i.">, 
177o,  177.");  member  of  the  Uichniond  Conventions 
of  March,  -July  and  Decemlier,  177."),  and  of  the  Wil- 
liamsburg ('(Uivention  <if  .May,  177li;  member  of  the 
tirst  House  of  Delegates  of  \'ii-ginia,  (»ciober,  177."), 
w  hich,  under  ( io\ernor  Patrick  Henry,  framed  ■•the 
first  written  Constitution  oi  a  free  Common- 
wealth"; memlier  of  the  State  ('oiincil  of  X'irginia. 
He  came  to  Iventucky  in  17s:!,  ])residing  wilh  -liidge 
Floyd  over  tiie  Lirsi,  District  Court  comened  in 
Kentucky.  W^as  cliairman  of  the  nine  Danville 
Conventions,  held  to  <onsider  the  erection  of  Ken- 
tucky into  a  sepaj'ate  Coninionweallli.  I'resideiil 
of  the  tirst  Constitutional  ("oincntion  of  Kentucky. 
He  was  an  elder  in  the  rresbyterian  Church  for 
many  years.  When  eighty  yeais  of  age,  being 
named  a  Commissioner  to  the  (jciieral  Assemlily 
convening  in  .Nashville,  Tenn.,  he  rode  thither  from 
.Mercer  ("(aiiily  on  his  famous  saddle  horse  "Fo.\," 
i-elurning  the  same  way  and  making  forty-one  mih  s 
II'  'l^i.v  on  the  Jiatrney.  Was  ajipoinled  one  of  the 
tirst  trustees  of  Transylvania    rniversilv    at     Lex- 


ington. KiMitucky.  (See  Henning's  Statutes,  Yn]. 
XL  page28;{.) 

.rolin  ilcDoAvell,  son  of  l'>|)hraim  M(T>o\vell  and 
his  w  ife  ]\[argaret  Ir\ine,  was  born  in  London- 
derry; was  a  land  surxcyor;  married  ^Ligdalen 
\\'oods.  ( ;My  grand-aiiiit,  .Mrs.  .Martha  IJuford, 
wife  of  (Teiieral  .\brani  Itiiford,  of  the  Ke\-olu(  i(Ui, 
in  her  record  of  the  .McDowell  family  of  N'irginia 
says:  "Her  mother's  maiden  name  was  Campliell, 
of  the  .Vrgyle  Clan.")  In  respcmse  to  a  petition 
from  the  settlers  Covernor  Gooch  issued  a  com- 
mission, dated  .Inly  S,  174L',  to  -Tohn  .McDowell  as 
<"a])lain  of  a  Com|)any.  in  a  tight  with  the 
Shawnees,  at  what  is  now  known  as  r.alcony  Falls, 
.Lilin  .McDowell,  with  eight  of  his  men,  was  killed 
on  December  '2o,  lli'2. 

Those  eight  soldiers  and  their  ('aptain  who  were 
killed  at  T^alcony  Falls,  Di'cember  2."),  1741',  were 
not  linried  "in  one  common  grave."  I  haxc  in  mv 
[tossession  thecotlin  handles  fi(Mii  ('a]ilain  .lolin 
.McDowell's  tirst  cottin.  Some  years  after  Colonel 
.lames  .AfcDowcll  (Dr.  Herxcy  .McDowell's  graml- 
fatheri  removed  lo  Kentucky,  he  returned  on  a 
\'isit  to  Virginia.  While  there  he  assisted  at  the 
disinterment  and  removal  of  .lohn  .McDowell's  re- 
mains from  Timber  Kidge  to  the  .AIcDowell  family 
Imrying-groiind,  near  Faiilield.  The  coffin  was 
crnnibling  to  dust,  but  the  small  brass  handles 
were  still  inta<l,  tml  were  thrown  aside  in  ]ilacing 
the  remains  in  a  new  coffin,  .fames  .McDowell 
asked  lo  be  allowed  to  have  them,  and  no  one  olt- 
jected.  He  brought  them  back  to  Kentucky.  He 
had  a  sort  of  "chest  of  drawers"  built  in  a  recess 
between  a  chimney  and  side  wall  of  a  bedroom  in 
the  fine  old  brick  house  he  Imili  i  about  t  wo  and  one- 
half  miles  from  Lexington,  on  the  (;e(^•geto^A•n 
pike):  on  these  drawers  the  coftin  handles  were 
put.  When  Dr.  llervey  McDowell  was  a  lad  it  was 
tiecided  that  this  chest  of  drawers  should  be  torn 
out,  that  a  window  niight  be  cut  in  this  recess.  He 
was  already  in  possession  of  his  graudfaither's  (old 
Colonel  .James  McDowell's)  sword,  cajitured  at  the 
battle  of  the  ('owpens  from  one  of  Tarleton's  troop- 
ers,    'j'he  drawers  were  i)iled  up  in  the  garret  (as 


SKETCHES  UF  i'ATKO.NS.  IJUT 

IliiiiiiS  often  avc,  (if  ik,  use,  Inil    iun  o(„,i|  i„  |li,.,uv  snid  M  icli.-id.  -Ii-.,  \\;is  ilir  s.iri  of  .Mi.li:icl   \\(m,(1s  nf 

.'iwajj  !     He  had  licani     I  lie    sim-y    nf    llic  liandlcs  I'.lair  I'ark.  U.\    his  w  ilV.  .Mnry  ( "aiii|ilMll. 

many  a  tiiiic,  asked  fm-  Mkih.  himI   ihry  were  i;iveii  The  said    Tin    ^alllh•ll   MiCny,  w  hu  iiiai-i-ie(|   N.-l- 

liiiii.      I   ha\-e  always  lieard  annaii;  my  kin  in   K'dcl;-  lie  W'unds,   was  ijn-  sun  <i\'  Dr.  (Icoi-^c  Kiie  McC'uy 

hridiiC"  thai    .lohii   .MeDdwclTs    hudy     was    caiiied  hy   his  wife,   .\laiy  Ann    I'iehl:  and   ihe  s;iid    Mai-y 

luiinc  and  Imried  at  Tinilier  Ridge.  Ann  was  ihe  daiiLilnei-  n\'  i>:iniel   I'i.-id  iiy  his  wile. 

Alexander  Keitli   ^[aisliall    ^McDowell    was  Ikhmi  l^ii/.ahilh    Daily:  and   Ihe  said    i;iizal»-ih    was    ihc 

in  .Meroer  ('(innty,  Kentneky,  Ajiril  I'J,  iSdCt.     Di((l  danL;lilei-  ut  l'hili|i   Daily  hy  his  wife  .\l;iry.     Sai<l 

in   Cynthiana,   Kentncky,    .Tnne     1."),     is'.ii'.     Cisil  l'hili|i    l>aily    was    ;i     ilrvnlni  innary    snldin-    and 

cngineei-.  jdaiilei-,  -Fndge  ct   Ihe    i'l-clmle  ('mni    of  sei  xcd  in  ihe  Third  Marylaii.l   Ki-imeiil. 

.Marengi)  ( 'iinnty,  Aiahama.     i-lhhrin  I'l-esln  lei-ian  Jc'ssie  .Mi-('(iy  is  ihr  d.-niuhiiT  uj'   j'iii    ^■.   MiC'ny 

("hiii'eh.      Was  educated  at  Di-.   I'l-icsl  h'\"s  School,  ^nai    Nellie    Wouds.      I!(ii-n    ai     S;ih-m,      Kcnincky, 

at  SI.   doseph's,   in  l_>avdstown,  Kenlii(d<\';  and   al.  Maidi  I'li.  ISIKI.     I  Ici-  nmi  hci-  dieil  ni   i  heii-  JMinic  in 

Xashville.      He  was  tlu'  son  of  Samnel    .McDnw(dl.  <'oliimlins,   Kenhickv.   .\la\    l.'l.    ls71.    ati<'i-    which 

Jr.,  (d'  .Mercer,  and   his  wife,  Anna    lr\iiic   idaniih-      •!(  ssie  .\lc<'(iy  nia.h'  hep  Ininn'  in  (lidc la.  Illinois, 

l(  I- of  Ahram  lr\ine,  of  .Mei-cer  ( "oiinl  \' i .  w  il  h  her  ( li-andme.i  her  .\|c( '(i\ .     in  i  »i-ccmlier.  IS7.">. 

Samncd  .McDowell,  Jr.,  (d'  .Mei-cer.  son  of  -Indue  'i' ''  I'allier  married    l^flie  ('an-,  in   llvansv  ilh-.   Indi- 

Sainnid   Mel)OAV(dl    i  who  was  ihe  son    (d'    ('a]ilain  ana,  when  dessic  made  her  iKmn- wii  h  i  hem.  i  ill  her 

Jolin    .McDo\\(dl   and    .M.-igdalen    (Wnndsi    .MiDnw-  marriage,  ( >cl(dier  ;:(!,  ISS'.I.  lo  ( ;nlc  Kidmi-d  Nut  ly, 

(dl  I  and  .Mai-y  .McClnng,  his  wife,     r.drn  in  Aniins-  id'  \ienna,  Illinois.     .Mr.  Xniiy  w  as  cmiiccicd  wiih 

ta  ( 'onnl.N,  N'irginia,  .Mai(  h  S,  I7(il.     .Married  Anna  ''"'   Xaiional    Lead   ('om]ian.\,    >>\'    New     'Siirk.    Inr 

Irvine,    ()ct(dier    4,    ITcS.").       Di((|    .hine    1M(,     ls;'.l.  Ihirleen  years,  Ihe  lasl     six    as    assisi;inl     general 

I'^armer  in  .Mercer  ("(tunty,   Keidmdcy.  numa.ger  in  (/incinnal  i.      In    \'.nr^    he    acccpiid    ;i 

I  The  (/((/(/ i(dating  to  this  Inancli  of  Ihe  .\!(  Dow-  position    in    I'illslmrg,     I'eiinsy  1\  ania,    as    general 

ells  were  kindly  furnislied  me  hy    .Mrs.    Liaiise    I.  manager   id'    Ihe    Ciilley    I'eindenm    Company    i  of 

:\lcD<(W(dl,  widow  of  tlielale  Dr.  Jlervey  .McDowcdl,      Te.vasi,  which  place  is  iIh  ir  ho ai   preseiil.    Jes- 

and    mollier  of    Kev.    llervey    .McDowell.— Edilor.J  «i"'   -Me<'o.\    was  edmaud     al      Dan-hiers    ('(dlegi', 

llarrodshnrg,  Kinl  nck\,  and  also  ;ii   llaniilion  ("(d- 

SKETCH  41.  lege,  Lexin.uion.     They   ha\e  iwo  (hihlien:     (iaie 

MRS.  JESSIE  NUTTY,  PITTSBURG,  PENNSYLVANl.A.  |;i,.h.,rd    Nnlly,  dr.,   horn    in    Kv.ansvil  le.   .Vpril    IS, 

]\[rs.  Jessie  Nntty  ( //cr  McCoy  1   w  ife  of  .Mr.  ( iaIe  IS'.ll,  ;ind    Tin    .Mc('oy    Nniiy.   horn    in    l',\aiis\  illc, 

I{i(diard  Xiitty,  is  tlie  daughter  of  I'iti    \'.   .McCoy  Kcdaii.iry  Hi.  Is'.*:;. 

and  his  wife,  Ncdiie  AA'oods,  and  was  ho  in  a  I  Salem,  N(dlie  Woods  was  1  he  danghier  id'  Nellie  I  lodge 

KenI  iicky,  Mai'ch  iT),  ISdCi.     She  is  ;i  line;il  ilescemh  and    llenry    Williams     Woods,      lie    was    liorn    al 

ant  nf  .Miidiael   W Is,  id'  I '.lair  I 'ark,  Ihrongh    his  Sah  m.  Kcnincky,  .Man  h  :'.i(.  1  M  1 .    Died  ihere  .l\ily, 

son,  .M  iidiael    Woods,  Jl-.  ISSO.       Nidlie    Hodge   died    I  here   also,    ahonl     IM."). 

The  said  Xidlie  Woods  was  Ihe  daiighlei- of  Henry  Hr.    I'ill    'S'.   .McCoy    i.lessie's  I'nihiri    was  horn    al 

\\'illiam    \V()(m1s    hy    his  wife,   Nidlie    Hodge;    ,ind  (lolconda,    Illinois,  Jnne,    Isii.      He  wasednealed 

Ihe  said    Henry   William    was    ihe    son     of   Da\  id  al    franklin  College,    Indiana,   whiili   was  fcninded 

Woods  h\   his  wife,  Sallie  Xeal  ;  and  Ihe  .sniil   Da\id  h.v     his    grandfaiher,     dolm     .McCoy     la     i'.apiisl 

was  Ihe  son  ol    William  Woods   isonielitnes  known  ]n-eacheri.  in   ls;',l.      He    was  a  gradnale.    also,    of 

as  "J{aj)tisl    itilly   Woods")    by     his    wife,    doaniia  Knsh    .Medical   t'(dlege  of  Cjiiengo.   in   Jnne.     IS(!;{. 

Slie]dierd  ;   and    ihe  said    \\'illiam    was  Ihe  son     of  He  nmrried   Ni  1  lie  Woods  al  S.ileni,  lMi.'>,  and  li\ed 

.Michail    Woods,  J]-.,  hv  his  wife,  .\iine;    and    llie  at  (.'ohunlius,  Keiiliicky.  lill  her  death.   isTl.     He 


298  THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

settled    in    I]v;iiisvil  le,   Septeinhev,    IST."..   w  lieic    li(»  all  sluing   rniiii   I  he  s,-niie  sidck   witli   tlic  Fields  of 

siiiiTi    liecaiiie   llie    leading    physiriaii    and    surg'eon.  New  .lersey  and  New  lOiijilaiid.    'riie\' wei-e  a  jirniid, 

lias   lieen  rliier  sniiienn   (d'   llie   Lon  is\  i  lie  vS;  Nasli-  avistoci-atic  )(eu|de,  i)laiite]-s,  sla  veluddiTs,  a  nd    fox 

\ille  IJaihuad   Im-  llie  |iasi    lifhen  yeai's.      lie  was  lninl(rs.      Tlieii-  descendaiil s    are    seallei-ed     oNcr 

llie  son  <d'  I  >i-.  (  i<m)1-l;('  Iv'iee  .\l(( 'oy,  id' ( 'liarlestowii,  N'ir.uinia,       Ivenliicky,       llie      S(nilli       and       West. 

Indiana,  and  .Marv  A.   I'ield,  uT  ( iolcniida,  llliTiois.  .Many  (d'  lliem  lia\'e  <iien|)ied  liii^li  [daces  in  s(ieiet\ 

1.   .lames  .Me('(iy,  (ir|dian   lad  (d'  ten  years,  came  and   the    Slate.     Anioni;    I  hem,    .Fiid^c    Ale.K    I'olk 

from  Scotlaud  ill  1700.     lie  landed    at    Baltiniore.  Field,  Judi^e  Kicliai-d  I'ield,  of  Culpeper,  Virsiuia, 

After  a.  feAV  years  he  emiiirated  to  Kentucky,    and  and  Judye  A.  K.  l>nrnam,  now    of    the    Kentucky 

snbseciuently  married  a  member  of  the  illustrions  <'ourt  of  Appeals,  also  Chief  Justice  Brewer.   First 

liruce  family,  of  Scotland,  locating    near    Fnion-  was: 

town,     Fayette    Couiily,     reiinsylvania.      lie     was  1.    Henry  l''i(dd,  w  lin  came  fnim    F.nuland,  in  the 

blessed    with  si.\   (diiblr<Mi,   ihe  ihii-d   ni'  whom  was  i!ihi]>  "E.\]ieclal  ion,"  and  landed  at  -Famestown,  Vir- 

1.',  William  .McCoy,  burn  in   Fayelte    ("imnly.      lie  uinia,  Xovendier,   Ki:!."),  at    the  age  of  twenty-four, 

married  Elizabeth   K'ii-e,  and   resided   in  his  nali\t'  Hi'  i»r(is])ere(l   and   (ditained  lai-ge  gi-ants  of  land 

county  several  yeais,  where  he  was  ordained  in  be  from  the  ('rown.     Anionii- othei'  cliildren  were: 
a  Baptist  miidster.      In   17!I0  he  moved    with    his  -•   -Vbi-ahani    l'i(dd,    born    in    Culpeper    County, 

family  lo  Kenliu  ky,  as  a  iddiieer  i>rea(  her.    At  Ihe  N'iriiinia.    -Married  .Mary .    Died  AVesI morcdaud 

beginninii-  of  the  ]>resent  centniy,  he  moved  In    ihe  County,  1(')74.     Second  son  was: 
seiithein  part  of  I  he  lerrilory  <d'  Indiana,  where  he  ■>•   Abi'aham   l'i(dd,  -Ii-.      Itorn  Culpeper  County. 

si)enl     his    last    days.       lie  was    blessed    with    si\'  .Married  Miss  Ityrd,  wlio.se  parents  owned  a  farm 

children,  of  whom,  )!,  .lohn   .McCoy  was  the  second,  on  .lames  li'iver.     lie  was  ideided  vestryman  of  the 

born  Februaiy  11.  I  7sl:.  in  I'ayet  le  County,  I'eiin-  Creal    I'oik   ('lunch.    1771,  and    served    until    liis 

syhania.     The  third  son,   Isaac,  was  born  in  I'eiin-  dealli,  in  Seplcndii  i',  177.').     lie  hd't  (de\'en  (  hildi'eii, 

sylvania  also,  .lune  i;!,  17SI.     lie  became  ihe  great  of  whom  the  second  was: 

missionary  lo  the  N(nlli  American  Indians,     -lohn  4.   ("(doml   .lidin   l'i(dd.      I'.orn  Culjieper  Coiinly, 

iMcCoy  mariied  dane  Collins  OcIoIki-  1."!,  ISO;',,  and  N'irginia.     .Married  Anna   Rogers  Clark,  sister    of 

locale(l    in    ('lark   gi-aiii,    Indiana    Tcrrilor\.   alxmi  <  i(  n(  ral  ( 'i(()i-ge  Kogers  < 'l;irk.     lie  was  educated  in 

l(  n  miles  north  of  Louisville,  on   ihe  casi    bank  oi'  lOngland.  and  seiwid  as  ensign  in  the  British  army. 

Silver  Creek.     They  had  Icn  children,  cd'  whom  Ihe  nnlil   promoled   lo  Colouid  (d'  a  reginnuit.     He  was 

ninth   was,  4,  ( leorge  IJicc  .Mc('o\-,  boiai  .March    Hi,  a  Liculenani   under  ( 'olomd  (ieoi-ge  Washington,  in 

J  SI  7,  in  ( "larke  ( 'omily,  I  iidiana,  and  married  .Mary  'he  Itiaddoi  k  campaign,      lie  also  commanded   I  he 

Ann   Fi(ld,  .\|)iil    l.">,   ls:>S,  jn    (Mdcnmla,     lllimus.  N'irginia    lroo]is,    in   the  bailie  al    \'i>\]\{    I'h'asanI, 

He  died    Iher'e  December,    1S4S,   leax'ing   fonr  ihil-  win  re  he  lost   his  life  in   I  his  gallaid    tight,  at    Ihe 

dren,  Ihe  second  (d'  whom  was,  .">,  I'itt   A'amhdl  .M(  lu  ad  id'  his  regimenl,  (>clober,  1774,  for  \\hi(di  scr- 

Coy,  born  in  ( iolconda,  dune  I'il,  1S41.     He  married  vices  his  heirs  were  granied  a    lai-ge  Iraci   (d'  land 

dune  I'd,  lS(i."),  N(dlie  Woods,  (d'  Salem,  l\eidu(ky,  in   now    IJonrbon   ('ounty,    Kenliicky,   by  (Joxcrnoi' 

who  died  in  .May,  lS7l,at  I  heir  Inmie  in  Colnmbiis,  Lord    I'aiifa.x.      He   lived   al    his   home,   the  "h'iidd 

]\enlmky,  leaving  one  (liild,  (i,  .Fessie  .MeCivy,  llui  Manoi',"    St.     .Mark's     I'arish,    Culpepei"    County, 

subject  (d'  I  his  skehli.  wlii(  h  place  is  si  ill  owned  by  his  descendants. 

( '(d(Ui(d  -lohn  Fi(dd  w  as  a  member  (d'  flu '  House  of 

THE    FIELD    LINE.  ,.  ,■  < .    ,  ,-,-       n-      i      .i 

J>urgesses   Irom   (  ul]ie]K'r,    in    Id),).      His    brother 

The  Field  family,  to  whi(  h  the  Kentucky  branch  ,i,.„,.^.  ^^.^,^  .,  Tj,.„t,.„ant  in  the  Continental  line  of 

bebmgs,  were  of  English  and  Virginia  descmt,  and  ,|„,    i;.,v,dntionarv  armv,  and    .Wvd    in    service,  in 


SKETCHES  or  I'ATIJOXS.  090 

1778.     Auother  In-other,  Reuben,  was  lientona  II I  ill  farmer  a  ml   Icaclicr.     Tlir  fnilin-  <,f  s;ii.l    \\illi;im 

1  he  Eighth  Virjiiiiia  Hejiiiiient,    was   proinnled    in  T.  O'Rear  was   Danirl   O'l.'rar.   win.   uas  \u,rn    in 

1781  to  rank  of  Captain  of  llie  i'\iurlii   Keoiiiirnl.  l'au(|iiier  Coiiniv.   \iii:iiii;i.     \,,\rinl..r    ]:,.     1777, 

lie  served  seven  years,  and  was  at  liie  siifi-endei-  .if  iimved   in  Keiiiiicky  :irier  ihe  ,l,ise  ,,[  ilie  i;,\(,li|. 

("ornwallis.  li,,,,.   manied    lOli/.aliei  li    ilnsli.    of    Clark    Cuiinly, 

Several  of  Cnlnnei  John  l-'icld's  cliildreTi  caiiic  lo  Keiil  iicky.  . January  HI.  17'.t'.i.  iiK.Md  in  I'.nnncCniin- 

Kentneky   (  Bourbon  (Vninty )  ahoul   17!M.     Ih'iiad  ly,  .\1  issmn  i,  in  is;!.-,,  and  ilien'dicd  A|.iil  \:,.  IsCj. 

eleven,  of  whom  the  eighth  was:  Tlic  fallicr  nf  said    Daniel   was    .{(imiiah    o'Kear. 

5.   Lewis  Field,  born  in  Cnlpe]).'!-  Counly,    \'ir-  w  lin  was  Imrii  in   l'aui|iiiei-  Cnniii\.   \  iruinia.  mar- 

ginia,  about  17(i4.    .Married .     He  emigrated  to  ii<'il  .Mary  Cal  lei  I.  and  speni  1  he  laiier  years  nf  his 

r>(Mirbon    County,   Kentucky,  and    later    to  Jeffer-      lib'    in    .Mnnli:(iniery   Cnuni\,    Keninrky.    where  he 

sou   County,   where  his  seven  cliildren  were  born.  and  his  w  ile  died. 

He  die<l  in  Tope  County,  Illinois,  at  the  home  of  'l"he  aforesaid    I'dvira     1".     Sla\in     was    born     in 

his  ol(l(  st  son,  who  was:  lloniie  ('(juiiI\,  .Missnnri,   \n\endier  ill'.,   1  Si's,  mar- 

(1.  Ihiniel  Field,  born  in  Jefferson  County,  Ken-  'i'''!  William  T.  ( ("Kear  .May  .'>.  IsU;,  h\  him  lia.l 
fucky,  November  30,  1790.  He  married  Elizabeth  bair  snnsaiid  six  d.nighieis,  and  died  .\ngusi  i'7, 
Haily,  at  Charlestown.  Huliaua.  He  settled  in  ( iol-  '■'^•'^--  'I'be  faiher  nf  said  lOlvira  1'.  was  William 
eonda,  Hlinois,  abniit  ISIO,  dying  tliei-e  in  1855;  Slavin,  wlm  was  bnni  \n\cndier  L'!i.  17!i:!,  marrii-d 
was  ainau  of  greitxt  euteriirise,  engaged  in  merehan-  h'l'anees  \\'oods  Oetnher  II,  1S17.  in  (laiiaid 
dising,  and  becanu' a  large  landdiolder,  farmer,  and  County,  Kenlu(d<y,  moved  m  r.nnni  Cnnniy.  .Mis- 
stock-grower,  and  extensive  shipper  of  stock  and  >«'<H'i,  in  181'3,  where  he  carried  nn  fainiing  till  his 
produce  to  the  lower  Mississippi  markets.  He  death,  .May  1,  1848.  The  w  ife  nf  said  \\'illiam 
reared  a  large  family,  of  whom  Slavin  (  I'rances  Wnudsi  was  Imrn  in  Cairard 
7.  .Mary  Ann  I'^icdd,  was  the  second.  Born  in  Cnnnty,  Kentucky,  April  I'll,  jsiKi,  Innl  six  dangh- 
(iolconda,  Illinois,  Novendter  11,  1818.  She  mar-  t<'i's  and  (uie  smi,  and  died  iMbriiaiy  I  I,  ls:!t;.  The 
ried  .\pril,  18:;s,  Dr.  George  llice  .McCoy,  of  father  nf  the  said  William  Slav  in  was  .b>hn  Slav  in, 
Charlestown,  Indiana.  He  died  in  (bdcouda.  He-  «li"'  ^^'"•'^  '""'i  i"  N'irginia  i>v  Xniih  Carolina  in 
cemlier,  1818,  leaving  four  children  and  his  widow,  ^"•"'^  served  as  a  private  in  Captain  Michael  I'.ow- 
vvhere  she  resided  till  her  death,  .March  0,  1!»(»2.  ycr's  Coni|>aiiy  nf  ihe  lOighih   N'irgini.i     i;e;:imeni, 

8.  Bitt  Vandidl  McCoy  was  theii-  second    child.  having  enlisted  Ochdier  10,  177(i.     .\fier  ihe  I.'evn- 

r.nrn  in  (iolconda,  June,  1S41.  Intinii  he  mnved     In    (lai-rard    Cnniiiv.    Kenincky, 

where  he  lived    lill  his  deaih,    Deceudier    HI,    lsr>l. 

His  wife  was  a  .M  iss  (Ji-aham,  wlm  wasbmn  in  \'ir- 

SKETCH  42.  ginia   and  died    in    Kentucky.      The   faiher    id     ihe 

MRS.  GEO.  B.  MACFARLANE,  COLUMBIA,  MISSOURI.  afni'csaid    iM'ances   Wnnds  was  .lames   \\n,,ds,   wlm 

]\Irs.  ^lacfarla  lie's  maiden  name  was  .Mice  Fran-  was  bnrn  -la  unary  L'l,  17  i:'..   In  I 'a  11  1  nf  1  his  v(dn  me, 

ces  O'Eear.     She  was  born  in  lloclieport,  Missouri.  (  page  Ktl  (I  si  1/.  1  a  sketch  nf  .lames  W.mds  is  given, 

June  14,  184i».     She  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  ^li(  h-  w  hidi  need  imi  be  repealed  here.  This  James  Wnnds 

ael  Woods,  of  Bdair  I'ark,  througli  his  son,  C(donel  was  llu' eldesi  snii  id'  C(dnnel    .Inlm    Wnnds    by    his 

J<din    Woods.      Her    father    was     William     Tandy  wib-,   Susannah    .\ndersnn,   and    Cnlmiel   .Inlm    was 

O'Kear,  who  was  bnrn  at   .Ml.  SIcrling,  Kentucky,  the  favorite  snii  nf  Michael,  of   I'dair   Tark.   by  his 

June  20,  1818,  mnved  with  his  parents  to  Columbia,  wib',  .Mary  Cam|iliell.     .Mrs.  Mai  larlane.  the  subject 

Missnnri,   in    18:'>r),  married  Elvira  Frances  Slavin      nf  this  sketch,  siaies  that  .lames  W Is,  ihe  smi  nf 

^lav  5,  ISfb,  and  died  .Mav  ."50,    188.">.     He     was   a       Cnlnmd    Jnhn    W Is,    was   cnmmissinned    Cnlniiel 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE    ]\[Ei\IOKIAL. 


of  .-I  \'iiuiiii.-i  IJc^iiiicMl  Ndvciiihcr  12,  17TC),  ;iii<l  follows:  1,  Xalluiiiicl  (!..  who  dictl  in  ISSl,  nii- 
lli.ii  liis  retiimcni  \\:is  known  siicccssivelT  ns  llic  nuin-icd ;  jind  1',  ('.  It.,  who  ninii'icd  Alvs.  Mai'.niiivt 
]'\)ni'Ui,  tlu"  Eiiihtli,  .111(1  llic  Twclfl  li.  There  was  a  Starr.  (el  'IMie  lil'l  li  chihl  w  as -Inn  \  1*,.  IIkiii.  wlio 
Colonel  James  Wood  (  his  name  lias  no  linal  s  I  who  married  Naney  J  locker  in  isr)l,  and  lel'L  seven 
(•nnimand(>d  a  TAvelftli  Yirininia  lieiiimeni  in  the  children,  as  follows:  1,  Clifton;  2,  Eli/.abefh;  3, 
IJevoluiionary  Aiiny,  and  he  h:is  been  mistaken  Sarah  ;  4,  . John  ;.">,  Lula  ;(>.  Arthur ;  and  7,  iaitlier. 
now  and  Ihcn  for  a  James  Woods.  The  readei-  is  (f)  The  sixth  child  was  SrsAN  J.  Ki:ii>.  who  mar- 
referred  to  ]ia,ii('s  102,  14(i  and  147  of  this  volume,  ried  Janu's  Kurubald  in  1852,  and  left  the  follow- 
where  this  (|uestion  is  discussed.  The  James  ^^'()od  liiii  children,  to  wit :  1,  (leoriie  (>. ;  2,  Ellen  J. ;  3, 
who  commandetl  one  of  the  Virginia,  regiments  Lizzie;  and  4,  .Mary,  (g)  The  seventh  child  was 
designated  as  the  Twelfth,  was  a  different  man  from  IM;.  J.vmi.s  A.  Kkid,  who  married  at  Kock  Island, 
James  Woods,  the  son  <d'  Colonel  John  Woods.  Illinois,  in  ]S(i2,  and  left  two  children:  1,  Clifton 
These  statements  are  made  merely  lo  guard  ihe  A. ;  and  2,  Annie  L.,  who  nuirriod  C.  Cameron,  (h) 
reader  against  a  very  natural  and  pard(uiahle  mis-  'rheeighlh  child  was  .Miriam  (>.  IIicid,  who  uiariied 
take.  That  James  Woods,  son  of  Colonel  John  lOasom  S.  Hickam  in  1S.-)1,  and  left  f(mr  children, 
Woods,  did  command  scnne  one  of  the  Virginia  reg-  as  follows:  1,  Lizzie;  2,  Warren  ;  3,  Homer;  and  4, 
iments  (177(i-17S2l  is  the  belief  of  ]nany  of  his  ]^,.,..  ( j)  'pj,,.  ninth  child  was  William  :\L  Keid, 
descendants,  and  is  not   (luestioned  by  the  author  ^yho  mai-ried  15.  Jane  Spiller  in  IStiS,  and  left  nine 


of  this  volume. 

Theele\-enlh  child  (d' James  Woods  and  his  wife, 
]\hiry  (iarland,  was  nameil  lOlizabeth  (iarland 
Woods,  and  she  mairied  (Jarlaml  Keid  in  (iarraid 
County,  Kentucky,    Xoxcmbei-    12,     ISKi.      In    ( )c- 


children,  among  whom  were  I  wo  jiaiis  of  I  wins,  as 
f(pllow  s  :  1 ,  /.ulah  ;  2  and  3.  f^dw  ard  and  ( 'arrie;  4, 
("harles;  .'),  fiank;  (>,  John;  7,  (ieorge;  and  S,  and 
!l,  Ellii'  and  Nellie.  (kl  The  tenlh  child  was 
l{Ariii:L  W.    Kkiii,  who  was    twice    married.      Her 


tober,  1836,  Mr.  and  -Mrs.  Keid  moved  lo  Kand(.liili      tiist  husband    was    Captain    Jefferson    Taylor,    of 


C(mnly,  .Miss(mii.  .Mrs.  Keid  died  in  December, 
1848,  and  .Mr.  Keid  died  July,  isr.tl.  They  had 
eleven  children,  as  follows: 

(a)  Mauy  a.  Kioin.  who  married  John  J. 
White  iu  Missouri  Januaiy,  ls;!S,  and  left  two 
children,  to  wit:  Elizabeth,  and  Sarah  J.  (bi 
Clifton  (i.  Ki:iii.  who  was  born  iu  1S2(I,  and  died 
in  1844,  in  Kails  County,  Missonri.  (c)  Cauoli.ve 
E.  Keid,  who  was  twice  married.  Her  tii-st  hus- 
band was  W.  L.  Erashear,  wluun  she  mariied  June, 
]S42,  and  who  died  in  IS.")!,  leaving  one  son.  \\;\\- 
tcr  (y  Her  second  husband  was  Edward  Halmau, 
wliiuii  she  married  at  |)aven]i(U-t,  Iowa,  in  lsr>3, 
and  by  whom  she  had  si.\  children,  as  follows:  1, 
Lizzie  D.,  who  mari-ied  (i.  W.  .\msbuiy;  2,  Can-je 
B.,  who  married   II.   II.  Skinner;  3,  lOdwin  l\,  who 


l>avenporl,  Iowa,  wluun  she  mariied  in  1855,  and 
who  died  in  the  army,  lea\'ing  lw(t  scuis:  1,  John; 
and  2,  frank.  Her  sec(Uid  husbaml  was  the  Kev. 
^^'.  |)a\enporl,  whom  she  married  in  ISliS,  and  by 
whom  she  had  four  children,  as  tollows:  1,  .Min- 
nie; 2,  r.ni-r;  3,  Sylvester;  and  4,  Ida.  (Ij  The 
eleveiilh  and  last  child  (d'  (iarland  Keid  and  Eliza- 
beth (i.  \\'oods  was  Nathaniel  C,  who,  in  1874, 
mairied  Nanc_\  (ioodall,  and  by  whom  he  had  three 
children,  as  follows:  1,  .Martha;  2,  Bessie;  and  3, 
Clifton. 

.Mrs.  .Maefarlaiie  furnishes  the  following  sketchof 
h(  r  late  husband,  who  was  an  honored  and  distin- 
guished jurist  of  IMissonri: 

Judge  (ieorge  Kennefl  .MacfarlaiK'  was  born  in 
Calloway  (Nuiiity,  Mis.souri,  near  Fulton,  January 


dic-il  in  childhood;  4,  (ileim  IL;  5,  Edward  11.,  and  21,  1837,  and  died  in  St.  L(uiis,  Missouri,  February 

6,  Carl  .\.      (d)   The  fourth  child  of  (iarland  and  12,  1898,  aged  sixty-one  years.     He  was  the  son  of 

Elizabeth  was  Sauau   W.   Keid,  who  marricxl  Dr.  George  Macfarlane,  who  was  born  in  Stewarton, 

Martin  Hickman  in  1843,  and  left  two  children,  as  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  and  of  Catherine  Bennett,  his 


SKETCHES  OF  PATIJUNS.  301 

wife.     His  mother  was  a  native  of  r.oonc  ("minly.  The    hcfdir  nimi  ioiinl     W  illi.iin    TiiimIv    (»"I;c:ii- 

Missouri.  iiian-ieil    i;i\ii:ili    I'lainrs   Slaviii,     as     |iri-\iuusly 

(xeor^e  Beimett  Maefarlaiic  was  a  leai-iied   law-  nolcd.  ami  i<i  iliis  nniiilr  wcir  hnni  ini  <liil.lrcii.  as 

ver,  liraduate  of  Westminster  Colleoc  Fulton.  .Mis-  tullows:      lai   The  liisi    was  Wii.i.ia.m   Aij:.\.\.\i>i;it 

sonri,  an  elder  in  tliePresbYterian  Clnii-ch.  and  had  O'Ukai;.  w  Ik.  died  in  infancy,      ihi    The  second  was 

servid  seven  years  as  Jndiic  nt  ihe  Suiirenie  Conrl  Ai.ick  Fkan(  i;s  o'Kiiai;.  iIh-  sniijeei  ><[  liiis  sl<etrli, 

of   .Missnnri   al    the   time  of  his   dealli,    leavinii-  an  wlio  nianied  Jndjic  (ieoricc  I*..  .Mad'arlane,  as  clse- 

nnexidred  term  of  tive  years.     Since  ISC..",  his  huine  wlieic  nohd.  and   liy  iiiin   liad   si\  cliildicn,  as  f'cd- 

was    .Mexico,   Missouri.      He    was  a   man  of    spol-  lows:      I,   {•'Jvirali.  w  Im  died   in   infancy;  L'.  (;eiir;:<" 

jess  character  and  integrity,  and  ureal  ahilily,  lair  Tandy,  who  also  died   in   infancy;  :'.,  Charles  Koy; 

ness  and   juslness.      He  was  a   "just  man,""  and  a  I,   (leor^c   hoci^e;  .".,    Williain    Lawrence,    who  died 

lii'eat  l(!ss  to  his  family  and  to  his  State.  al   the  aiic  (d' sixleen  ;  and  (i.  ( Iny.      (ci    Tlie    tlnrd 

Williain    Lawrence   ]M;icfarlane,     (Uir     son,     was  child   nf  William   T.   (("Kear  and    I'.hiiah    l"i-ances 

horn  in  ^lexico,  Missouri,  .Inne  30,  IST'.I,  and  died  was   ( 'iiai;i.i:v    Waiman    o'Kkak.    w  Im   ilii-d    when 

in  Jefferson   City,   ^lissonri,    Decemher    :'>(l,     1S!I."),  twenty-nine  years  (dd.      idi    TIm'   finirih    was   Lui- 

aged  sixteen  and  one-half  years.     Onr  (ddest    son,  ki.i.a  ()"Ki:ai;,  who  inairied  Carleion  d.  Tanneliill, 

Charles  Roy,  is  a  lawyer,  livinii  iu  St.  ],ouis,  ills-  and  had  six  children,  as  follows:      I,  i;i\ii'ah.  who 

soni'i.     (Inr  second   son,  (leoiiic   Locke,  is  a    news-  married    Koheit    I!.    KoL^i-rs;  '_'.   Sarah:  I'.,    K'litii ;   1, 

paper  man  in  New  York  City.     ( >ui- youniicst  son,  Ilattie;  .">,   .Maltie    L. ;  and    <>.     NCwion.      (e)     The 

tiuy  ().,  is  aftendinii'  the  Missouri  State  T'niversity  tiflh   child    was   Wdons  Si.avix  O'Ukak.  who  inar- 

at  (Ndnmhia,  ^Missoni'i,  where  Ave   (he  and  T)   ai'e  ri(<l   i'"loia   I'rewiil,  and  had  two  (hildren.  to  wit: 

liviiig  temiiorarily,  while  he  is  attendiuii  collei;('.  I,  Clyde;    and    1',    (ieor^e    .Macfarlane.      ifi     The 

The    children    of    Williain   Slavin    hy  his    wife,  sixth  was  SrsAX  Ai,i.ii:  ( )'i;i:Ai!,    who    died    when 

Frances  Woods,  were  eight,  as  follows:      la  I   The  twenty    years    old.      igi    The    seventh    child    was 

first     child    was  Elizabeth  Slavin.  who    married  .Mattiio  ()"Ki:ai!.  who  married  T.  I",.  Locke,  and  had 

William   .McClure,  and  had  tive  childicn  :      I,   Fan-  two  children,  as  follows:      1,  Allie  n"i;ear;  and  L', 

nie;  -,  .Alexander;  it,  Sammd  ;  4,  Almira;  and    ."i,  Emma    Lydia.      i  li  i    The    eighth    child    was  Maiiv 

Clark.      I  hi    The  second  was  Jaaiks   Kicio   Wooiis  Vaiuxa  ()"Ki:ai;.  w  ho  mairied  II.  .M.  ( 'lark  and  had 

Slavix.  who  died  in  early  life.      |c)  The  third  was  four  children,  as  Hdlows:      I,   .Miller;  L",  .Mice;  ;5, 

Mary  Jaxio  Slavix.  who  married   Kohert   Nichols,  Flva  ;  and   4,    Kuth.      (ji    The  ninth   was   IJoiikkt. 

and  ha<l  tliiee  cliildreii,  as  follows:     1,  Overton;  2,  who  died  in  infancy,     iki    Thetenlhand  last  child 

Isaac;  and  o,   ^lary.      (<ll    The  f(Hirth   was  -loiix  of  ^Villiam  T.  (>"Kear  and   Flvirah    I".  Slavin  was 

Addison  Slavix.  who  married  Emma   KMith   Koss.  Ai!ax.\  ()"lJi:.\i;,  who  died  in  inlanc.v. 
|e|    The  fifth  was  Elvieah  Fraxciis  Si,a\ix.  who 

married  \\illiam  Tandy  O'Rear,  and  had  leu  chil  SKETCH  43. 

dren,  who  will  be  listed  presently.      I  f )    The  sixth  MRS.  J.  H.  ROGERS,  LEXINGTON.  KENTUCKY. 

was     Sai;aii      .Mah(;ai!i;t     Slavix.     who      married  .Mrs.  Kogers's  lull  maiden  nann- was  .Line  Woods 

Thomas  Wright,  and  had  eight  children.       (g)  The  Harris,  being  Ihe  daughter  of  the  late  -lohn  Woods 

seventh  child   was  Martha  Kachel  Slavix.  an<l  Harris  and    his  wife,   .\nn     .Mary     .McClure.      She 

married  Sidney  Jackinau,  and  had  eight  children.  married  .Tidin  .[ohnson  Kogers,  who  has  been  dead 

(h)    The  eighth  and  last  child  of  William  Slavin  some  years.     She  is  a  lin(>al  desccndaiii  of  .Michael 

and  Frances  AVoods  was  Susan  Ovkrton  Slavin.  Woods,    of     I'.lair     I'ark.    ilinnigh    Colonel    d(din 

who  mairied  Allen  B.  O'Kear,  and  had  three  chil  Woods,  his  favorite  son.     'fhe  account  of  Colonel 

ji-L-u.  .|(;lin    Woods  and   his  descendants  lo  be   found     in 


802  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

r;irl    I    (  |>;mvs    '.iT-lO'.ti    :iiii|     niiicli   i>\'    IIk'    iiKitlcr  When    (|iiil('    Vduiiy    she    was   cniiNcrlcd,   iuid     iu 

lihcii  ill  llic  skclchcs  nf  sc\cr:il  oilier  palrous  con-  ISIS  made  a  |(iildie  pidression  id'  i-eliiiioii  and   was 

lain   iiiaiiv    ilenis  ^>l'  iiileicsl    lo  .Mrs.   lloiicrs's  fain-  received   iiilu  the  fellow  sliip  id'  llie  (dd   Uellnd  JUq)- 

ilv.     The  most  (d' I  hese  need  ii(d  lie  |iresente(l  ill  this  t  ist  ( 'hiiicli  in  I'xioiie  County.    Inashorl  lime,  liow- 

sk(  Ich,  as  the  very   full   iiide.x  at    llieidose  of  this  ever,   she  took   a   letter  from    this  church   -to  enter 

volume  renders  il   casv   lo  lind   the  name  of  nearly  with    others    into    the    formation    of     the    lionne 

cverv    person    nd'erred    to   herein.      The   said    dohii  I'enime  Chnrch.     This  or^anizal  ion  was  formed  in 

Woods  Harris  i  fat  her  of  M  rs.  Koj;crs  )   was  the  son  her  house.      In   it    she  lived  a   faithful  and  devoted 

of  .lndi;c  (hirton   Harris  liy  his  wife,  .Mary   Kief  ineuibei'  fur  mure,  than  half  a  ceuLuiy.     When  she 

Woods  ;  and  said  .Mary  IJice  Woods  w  as  I  he  daiiiiii-  died  I>(!iine  I'emnie  ( 'hnrdi  lost  t  he  last  ono  of  that 

t(r  of  dames  \\iiodsainl  .Mary  <iarland;  and    said  iiid)le  little  hand   who   had   coNcnanted   toncthci-  to 

.lames  was  ihe  son  id'  ('idomd    .l(din     Woods    and  kee|i  house  for  the  Lord. 

Snsannah  .Vndeisini ;  and  ( "olomd  .lohii  was  the  son  In  1S44  she  was  h  fi   a   widow    to  battle  through 

of  .Michael,  (d'  i'.lair  I'ai  k,  and  .Mary  Camidiell.  luiiii'  years  the  storms  of  life  without    the  c(Minsel 

A   hrii  f  accoiinl   id'  -liidiic  Overton   Harris,  .Mrs.  and  sympathy  of  the  com])anion  of  her  youth  aud 

i;oiiers"s  lii-andfather,   is  herewith    presented.  partner  (d'  her  eai'ly  striiiii;les. 

()\('rt(m    Harris   was   horn    in     .Madisi^i    ("oiiiity,  lier   life  was  marked    hy  e\idences  of  dee]">  por- 

Keiitiicky,  .\'o\emher  1'4.  1  TS'.t ;  emi^i'ated  lo  jtooui^  sonal   picly,  de\dlioii   lo  the  cansi'  (d'    ('hi-isi,    aud 

County,  MissiMiri,  in   ISIT,  and  died  there  .lanuary  faithfulness  in  all  the  relations  of  life. 

111.  1S44.     I'^irsl  Sheiiri' of  IJooiie  County,  .Missouri  She   manifesled   a   i;rowini;  soliciiude  to  eiicour- 

llSiMi,   which  office  he  held   till   appointed   hy  the  aye  in  Christ  iaiis  dc\  (it  ion  to  Christ  and  t<i  adiiion- 

(!o\'eriiiir   ('(dlecl(U'  and    .\ssessor,     in     ISL'J.      His  jsh  the  iiiiconNcrled  to  sec d^;  the  Loi'd. 

securities  were    .Michaid  and  .\ndersoii  Woods.     It  for  sexcral  \cars  ]•I■e^ions  lo  her  death  she  was 

is  (d'ticially  sialiil  that  his  accounts  were  kept  with  ;^rcatly  atllicted,  hut  amid  all  her  suffei'iui;s  Jesus 

scrii|inlons  e.xacliiess.  was  Ihe  joy  (d'  her  heart  and  Heaven  the  burden  of 

He  served  as  .Major  in   the    r.hi(d<     Hawk    War,  Inr  siuii;. 

Third    I  >i\isi(Ui,    .Missouri    .Mililia;  also   as  Coiinly  Hnrim;   her  last    illness  she    often    said     to    her 

Jiidiic  of  Itooiie  ( "oniiiy  f(ua  niimlier  of  yi'ars.     .Mr.  friends,  "I  am  just  restinji  (Ui  the  shore." 

Harris  was  a   iiiaii  of  stronii'  intidlecl   and  (lee]d_\'  She  was  fa\ored  with  wcuideifnl  manifestations 

riliuioiis  nature,  nnnsnally  (dieerfiil  and  \i\a(ions.  of  her  |)ersonal  acceptance  in  desns  and  for  hours 

und   I'lijoyed    Ihe    c(uitidence    and    utl'ectiunate    re-  pre\ions  to  her  deal  h  seemed  lo  lie,  as  she  iiositively 

liard  <if  all  who  knew  liiin.                       '  ■'           •  attirmed,  miiii;liiiii   with  a   host    of  sainted  friends 

.Mary    liice   Woods,   who   was   ihe   lenih   child   of  who  liacl   lione  licd'oi-c.      She  died   .\iniust   Ttl,  ISTG, 

•lames  Woods  and  .Mary  (larlancl,  and  who  liecame  al   I  he  a^c  of  eii;hly,  universally  honored  and  loved 

Ihe  wife  of  .Indiic  Overton   Harris,  was  the  liraiid-  hy  her  ac-c|iiaintanc-es. 

moihcT  of  .Mrs.  iJojici-s.     She  was  liorn  in  \'ii-,iiiiiia  The  children  of  dnd^c  (>\-eTtcin   Harris  and  his 

Septemlic>r  "Jf,  17!t.~),  and  migrated  with  Iicm-  |iareiits  wife,   .M.ary    Kice    Woods,    werc>   se\cui    in     iinnili(T: 

to  ( !;irraicl  County,  Kentucky,  where,  on  Dc-ccmlier  lai   .Icuin   Wcicins  H.\i;i!is.  who  mairied  ,\nii  .M.lry 

1.    IS14,  she  was  niiilcd     in    marriaiic    to   Overton  .Mcd.nre;    |li)    .T.\.\it:s    Hakuis,   who   married    Salira 

Harris,   willi    whom,   in    Ihe  antnnin    of    1S17,    she  -lackson  ;    (ci    .Maim'ii.v    Kvi.wn   Hakkis.  who  mar- 

emiiiratc'cl    to   .Missouri,   w  lic^re    she    sjieiil     Ihe    re-  I'ied  John    .Mills    .Man]iin;(dl    WilMa.m   .\.\iii;rS0N 

mainder  of  hci-  lonu  and   nscd'iil   life.     She    was  Ihe  Hakkis,     who     mari-ied      JOli/.alielh     Koliiiett;     (e) 

motlicM-  of  leu  idiildreii,  se.ven  of  whom  li\cMl  lo  lie,  Sauaii    lCi.iz.\i;i/rii    H.\i;i;is.    who    mai-ried    deorire 

.i^''''^^  "•                       :;■-;:'>.-■'  ;■:  Hunl  ;    (fj    .Makv    I"i;.\.\ci;s  Hakiiis,    who    married 


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L'lOODS 


HON.  JAMES  P.  WOODS. 

ROANOKE.    VA. 

(See  Sketch  No.  63.) 


JUDGE  JOHN  W.WOODS. 

ROANOKE,  VA. 
(See  Skelcli  No.  62.' 


HON.   OLIVER  T    WALLACE 

POINT  LEAVELL.    KY. 

(See  Sketch  No.  79.) 


HON    J.  D.  (.OODLOE. 

U'HITE.S   STATION,    KY. 

(See  Sketch  No.  49.; 


SKETCHES  ()!•  I'ATKONS.                                                                  3()o 

TlHHiiiis  l!('riy  IlaiTis;  and  (,<-)  ()vi.;im)N  MiciiAKL  iiusi,   (Ik;  duties    of    wliicli     li.-    .lis<-liar^'('.l     with 

ll.vmtis.  wlio  iiiavried  Amanda  Wood.  l-iumptncss  aiul  (iddiiv.     He  was  <lirccf.,r    in    (lie 

Children  of  John  Woods  Jlarris  and    Ins    wife,  oh!  Itank  uf  ihc  Stale  nC  .Missnnii,  and  I'l-esidmi  ..f 

Ann  :\[ary  JMeClure:  Roehe])oi-I,  Savin<;s   I'.ank.      in    isCd  and    ISCI    ]|,. 

(a  I    :ArARTnA   ar.VTriX   ITakuis,    wife  (if  Ceneral  was   a    nicmlici-   nf   ilie   Ccn.-i-al    Assi-ndiiy    ..f     iIm- 

>\illiani   .Tacksou    Hendviclc,    lawyer.     New    Yorl;  Siale  df  .Misscniii  fiuni  lie- CcMiniy  nf  lt(iiin<>.     'I'liis 

City.     Issue:     1,  Anne  Hendriek,  wife  of  KoluTt  was  a  ti-yin-  priind.  and  Mr.  I  Ian-is  dis(in<.'iiished 

r.urns  Wilson,  ]Miet,  artist,  Frankfort,  Kentneky.  Iiiniself  liy  adinu  iIm'  |mii   uf  a   lu\al   jiatriui   arul 

Tssne:    Anne  Elizabeth.     2,  Sopliie  Kemper    Hen-  eo-oiteralin.u  \\  ii  h  i  he  ((niMivai  i\i-  niciniiiTs  c.f  liic 

drick,   wife  of   Dr.    {•"rederie  Smith    IMcketl,   jdiysi-  Le.uisialni-e  in  JHildinL;  .Misscniri  ii-ncand  sicadx   lo 

i-ian,  Clevehind,  (  Miio;  3,  Jane  Cai'lyle  liendrick  ;  4,  In  i-   Xaliunal   ( 'misi  ii  ni  iioia  I   nliliL^ai  imis.      in    Isil." 

Joliii  Harris  Hendriek;  5,  Jae(|neliiic  ileiHJrick.  lie  was  apjtoinled  \>y  ilic  Srcn'iai-\   ul'  iln-  N'aw  as 

(1))    FUANCES  Bond  Hakris,  died  wJiei;  a  cliild.  om-dfllic  r,.iai-d  uf  iOxaniimis  hi  ilir  Iniird  Slates 

((•■)    J.WK  Woods  Harris,  now  11m'     widow      of  .Xaval  Academy  at   .\nna|inlis,  .Mai\land.     lie  was 

John  Johnson  IJo.cers   (farmeri.     They  liad  three  Coinmissionei-  to  I  he  ( 'cnicnnial  in  JsTC. 

children,  to  wit:  For  a  iininlicf  n\'  ycai-s  Ik-  scf\cd  as  a  ini-ndicr  nf 

1,   Martha.  Hendriek  Rooers;  2,    ^Mary    I'velyn  the  Stale  Hoard  of  .Vuricnii  nic  and  of  ihr  Itoard 

TiOfi-ers   (died  when  an  infant)  ;  8,  Viriiil  Jolmson  of  ("uralors  of  tlic  State  liiiversily. 

IiOfjers.  He  received  the  Dej>ree  nf  Master  of  .\i:ricnlliirc 

(d)    Virgil  McClvre  Harris,  lawyer;  married  from  the  University  and  tlic  .\;:iicnlhiia]  and  Me- 

Isahel  ^fcKinley,  St.  Louis,  iSH.ssonri.    >J^o  issue.  ehanieal  Collejie  of  ^lissonri. 

fel    John    Woods    Harris,    banker.       Married  John  Woods  Harris  was  in  many  fi^spcls  a  re- 

Sitsaii  (Hdliam,  of  Nortonville,  Kansas.     Issue:     1,      mai-kalile  man.     lie  poss<'ssed  -, mruy  ofrliaiMr- 

John  Woods  Harris,  Jr.;  2,  Mary  Harris.  ter  and  executive  alulily  that   wci-e  e\(  lam-dinary. 

John  Woods  Harris,  second  child  of  Judge  Over-  His  eminent  social  (|uali(ies  gave  liiin  a  waim  wei- 

Ion  Hai-ris,  and  his  mfe  ]Mary  Eice  Woods,    was  '-ome  at  every   fireside,   and   liis  domestic   virtues 

born  Angnst  31,  1816,  in  Madison    Connty,    Ken-  made  him  the  belove.l  and  honored  liead  (d' an   ap- 

tucky.    He  went  with  his  parents  to  Boone  County,  pveciative  family. 

Missouri,  and  the  latter  settled  on  Thrall's  Prairie.  His  striking  personal  appeaiance  was  larg.-ly 
This  was  the  first  settlement  of  any  iinp(U'tance  inheriled  from  the  Woods  oi-  maternal  side  of  the 
ever  made  in  the  county.  Prowling  Indians  killed  family.  His  form  was  ered,  his  manners  courtly, 
Iheoidycow  of  the  party,  and  log-rolling  and  and  Ins  whole  l.eaiiug  (hal  of  a  vigorous  aud  cap- 
feasts  of  wild  game  were  features  nf  that  tinx'.  "'•'''  1"''t1''''  "I'  ""■'^■ 

At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  entered  the  mercantile  «>"  TVIa-uaiy  27,   IS.-,I.  Mr.   Harris  was  umrried 

establishment  of  General  A.  J.  Williams  iitColum-      *"  ^"^^  ■^••"   ^''^y  ^''•*""""-  •'^"'^''"■'-  "''   •■"■ 

.      ,,.            .               .    .       ,.          .     .,      ,           ,       ,     1  'William    ^IcClnre,    from    whom    he   ]Miri-hased     Ihe 

bia,  Missouri.    Attaining  his  ma|onl  v,  lie  <'mharked  .                               ,.   ,    ,                ,         ,            ,•  i 

maiiUiliceid   lariii  to  winch  lie  iiionciI,  and  on  w  Inch 

reiiularlv  in   the  Inisiness  of  merchandising,  winch  ,',.,,;            ,                      i         m     i    r   i-          ■•  i 

^           •  he  died.     11   w  as  know  n  as  i  he  ".Moilel   I  arm.     Inn- 
he  pursued   with  ureal   success  for  I  liirl  v  years    a(       . ,         ,       ^      i  ,„ii< 

I                             -^                                             ■    •  in;.;    been   awardcil    ilie   ]ireiniiim    \'\    llie   ^^l.    l.ouis 

<'oliniibia,  Paris,  and  i;ochei>(H-t,  :\lis.souri.     Twice  y.,.,,.,,!,,,,.;,!  ,^^„\   M,.,.|ianical   .\ss,.ciai  ion  overall 

he  was  burned  out,  aud  had  to  begin  anew.  other  conii)el  ilcu's  as  Ihe  best   ••.Mo<lel  Stock   Farm 

During  (his  long  period  he  was  recogni/,e<l  as  otic  ,,(•  Missouri."      It   coni|M-ised    l.Sdd  aci-es. 

of  Ihe  leading  mercliauls  it(  ("eidial   .Missoin  i  and  'I'l,,.  adornmeiil    and    impr(>venieiH    of   Ibis   farm 

a  cili/.en  of  ureal  public  s])i fit.  was  the  crowning  elforl  ami  sermou  <if  .Mr.  Harris's 

.Mr.  Harris  was  frei|ueidly  called  lo  jiositions  of  life. 


306 


THE  WOODS-McAPEE  lAIEMORIAL. 


Where  tifly  veai-s  l)cf(ii'e  tlie  deer  had  been 
starthil  \>y  ilie  pioneer's  liiin,  now  was  a  park 
where  a  iinnilirr  id'  these  i;racef'ul  animals  were  at 
home. 

John  Woods  Ilairis  died  ^lay  3,  1870,  and  was 
bnried  al  ("olnndda,  IJoone  Connty,  Missouri. 

SKETCH   44. 
MRS.  MARY  F.  HARRIS,  FULTON,  MISSOURI. 

iSlvfi.  ^fary  Frances  Harris  did  not  have  to 
chauiie  lier  name  in  niarrvinu  .Mr.  Tiionias  JJerry 


Union,  ^^'as  eh'cled.  from  llie  Xinlli  Scnaiorial 
District  of  ilissonri,  a  nieniher  of  tiie  Constitution- 
al Convention,  held  at  St.  Louis,  in  1S(!.">.  The  last 
,2,1'eat  work  in  which  Mr.  Harris  took  a  prominent 
]iart  was  the  location  of  the  Louisiana  and  Mis- 
souri Ki\-er  Kailroad  af  Fnlton,  ^Afissonri.  The 
se(  iirinii  of  this  railroad  was  due  more  lari.i(dy  to 
liis  etf(»i'ls  and  inanat;cmcn1  than  to  any  other  citi- 
zen. IMr.  Harris  was  a  man  of  vigorous  mind; 
thorouii'hly  practical,  he  possessed  the  euerjiy  and 
annressiveness  that  make  leaders  of  men,  and  was, 
Harris,  for  Harris  was  her  maiden  name,  she  beinc:  in  all  he  undertook,  emphatically  a  leader.  By 
a.  danmhter  <d' the  late  .Tudiie  Ovei-ton  Harris  by  his  nature  he  was  licnei-ous  an<l  coniitauiouable.  He 
wife,  ;\iar\  Uice  \\'<i(ids.  :\Irs.  Harris  is  a  lineal  died  of  ])neumonia,  January  9.  1902. 
descendant    of    Michael    Woods,   of    Blair    Park,  :\rrs.  Harris  was  converted  when  thirteen  years 

throntili   his  son,   rolonel  John  Woods,   and  is  a     of  a.ce  and  was  baptized  by  Rev.  llobert  Thonms. 
near  kinswoman  of  :Mrs.     I{o!j,ers,    whose    sketch      She  was  educated  at  Bonne  Femme  School,  and  in 

Columbia.     She  was  tall  and  slcndei",  wilh  faircom- 
];l('\i(ni,  blue  ^ray  eyes,  and  'u'owii  curly  hair.    She 


next  ]>recedes  this.  In  Mrs.  T{osers's  sketch  -will 
be  found  a,  sireat  deal  of  matter  (d'  e<|ual  interest  to 
her  and  Mrs.  Harris,  and  which  need  not  be  re- 
])eated  here. 

IVfary  Frances  Harris,  sixth  child  of  Judjie  Over- 
ton Harris  and  his  wife,  ^Mary  Bice  Woods,  was 
born  No\'endier  10,  1S27,  eiiiht  miles  from  Colum- 
bia, Boone  County,  ^fissonri.  She  was  married  to 
Thomas  Iterry  llai-ris,  July  !'.">,  IS.")!*,  by  Bev.  Noah 
Flood,  I>ai>lisl    minister.     Mr.  Tiiomas    B.    Harris 


assumed  the  res|)onsibili(  ics  of  life  wilh  wduianly 
diiinity  and  couraiic,  and  met  its  battles  and  trials 
with  Christian  foitiiude.  Durinc;  lonji"  years  of 
ceaseless  activity  she  licstowed  a  bountiful  hospi- 
talilv,  and  lioxcrneil  hei-  household  with  wisdom 
;ind  liininess.  At  the  liedside  of  the  sick,  beside  the 
c(rm-li  of  the  dyin^;-,  wherever  duty  called  her,  she 
has  not  been  found  wanlinp,'.     She  is  a  li^iuix  exam- 


fnllv.     She  is  now,  at  the  au'c  of  seventy-tive,  beau- 
tiful as  in  youth. 

Surrounded  and   idolized  bv  her  family  of  sons 


was  the  son  of  Tyre  Harris  and  his  wife, Sarah  Gar-      pi,,  of  th(>  truth  that  old  a^e  can  approach  orace- 
land,  and  was  borii  in  Madison  Connty,  Kentucky, 
November  25,  ISla.     When  an  infant  he  went  with 
his  parents  to  Boone  County,  Missouri  (1816). 

Tyre  Harris  was  an  active  s])ii-itamonu  the  hardy      ;,,|,i  (Innshters.  loved  ,ind  revered  bv  a  1  a r2,e  circle 

of  kiTidre(1  and  friends,  she  is  the  pid  ure  of  happi- 

ni  s<  and    contentment.      Such    is   the  reward   of  a 

well  sjient  life. 

Thomas  B.  Harris  and  his  wife,  ^lary  Frances, 

had  eii;ht  children,      (a)    The  first    was    JLvrtii.v 


|iioneers.      He    al'lerwai'd    re|iresenled    iiis    counly 

in  the  (Tener.al  Assend)ly  se\('ral  sessions.     Thomas 

Berry  Hari-is   was  about  five  feet    tour  inches    in 

height,  had  daik  complexion  and  brow  n  hair  and 

eyes.     He  bcdonined  to  a  peox)le  of  stronij  character 

and   individuality.     He  was  a  ]u-omoter  of  public      Overton  H.vrris,  who  resides  at  Fiilton,  Missouri; 

and   charitable  enterprises,    an    extensive    farmer 

and  stock  dealer  and  at  one  time  was  enjiagetl    in 

merchandisin;;-.     He  owned  a   large  tract  of  laud 


and  many  slaves.     He  never  sidd  a  slave,  all  were 
freed  by  the  Emancipation. 

He  was  Democratic  in  politics,  and  loyal  to  the 


(b)  The  second  was  Saixte  Tyre  Harris,  who 
married  Judge  A.  M.  Walthall,  of  El  Baso.  Texas, 
by  whom  she  has  four  children,  to  wit:  1,  Henry 
\'anghn  Walthall,  who  jtractises  law  at  El  Baso, 
Texas;  2,  William  :Maupin  Walthall,  who  is  dead; 
3,  Marv  IMiller  Walthall :  and  4,  Sallie  Tom  Walth- 


SKETClllOS  OF  I'ATlJONa. 


307 


Jill,  (f)  The  third  ohild  was  Susan  ITauris,  wlio 
rcsich's  at  Fnlton,  Missouri,  (d)  The  foiirlli  was 
^VILLIA.\I  rnRiSTOPiiER  ITarris,  wIk)  is  I'i-csi(k'nt  of 
(lie  Calloway  Rank,  Fulton,  Missouri,  (p)  Tho 
tiftli  cliild  was  Mary  Ei^izAiiin'ii  ll.\i!i:is.  wlio  uiar- 
ricd  Dr.  J.  A.  Van  Sant,  of  Mt.  Sterling-,  Ken  lucky, 
hy  wJKnii  .she  has  three  children,  as  fdlj^ws:  1, 
Thomas  Harris  Vau  Saut;  2,  .Tames  .Mhcri  \'an 
Saul,  Jr.;  and  3,  Mary  Frances  \an  Sanl.  (f) 
Tlie  sixth  child  was  Overton  Thomas  Harris,  wlio 
is  eniiiiiied  in  the  whipjcsah'  dr\-  i^ddds  hnsiness  in 
SI.  Lduis,  Missouri,  ig)  Thesevenlh  rliild  was 
Tyre  ('i!A\vfori)  Harris,  who  is  eni;a,nc(l  in  I  he 
wholesale  hat  business  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  (h) 
The  eighth  child  of  Thomas  Berry  Harris  and  his 
wifi\  Mary  Frances,  is  Miss  Isarel  Harris,  who 
resides  wilh  her  mother  at  Fulton,  .Missouri. 

SKETCH    45. 

MRS.  SUSAN  E.  CAMPBELL,  ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI. 

■\rrs.  ranipbell,  whose  maiden  name  was  Susan 
Elizabeth  Woods  (called  Bettie  Woods),  and  who 
married  .Mr.  Given  Camiibell,  in  1865,  is  a  dauiih- 
tcr  of  llic  hile  liobert  Kay  Wonds,  by  liis  wife, 
Susan  liei-ry.  She  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Mich- 
ael W'odds,  of  Blair  Park,  through  his  son,  Andrew 
Woods.  The  said  Bobert  Kay  "Woods  was  the  son 
of  Jamew  Woods,  Jr.,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Kay; 
and  said  James  Woods,  Jr.,  was  the  s(Ui  of  James 

^\' Is,  Sr.,  aiKl  his  wife,  Nancy  Bayburii;  and  said 

.lames  Woods,  Sr.,  was  the  sou  of  Andrew  Woods 
and  his  wife,  ^lartlia  Poage;  and  said  Andrew  was 
Ihe  son  of  ^fichael  AVoods,  (if  P>l.iii-  Park,  and  his 
wife,  ISiary  Campliell. 

Tn  Part  T  f]iaiivs  llO-lit;)  will  b(>  found  ;i  jirelty 
full  exliibil  of  Ibe  Andrew  Woods  bi-anch  of  (be 
Woodses,  wliieli  fact  ju'ecludes  (be  necessity  of 
goinif  into  the  same  details  at  this  ]ioint.    Then  the 

lillle  I klet  gotten  out  some   years   ago    by    Dr. 

lOdgar  Woods,  of  Cliarlottes\ille,  ^'irgillia,  gi\es 
yet  fullei-  jiarticiilars  in  regard  lo  (be  same 
liraiicli  of  Woodses,  which  ]iiililica(  ion  has  been 
widely  dis(  rilnHed  among  (lie  living  i-epresenla- 
li\('s  of  .\iidre\\  Woods. 


Mr.  Koliert  Kay  Woods,  (lie  falliei'  of  .Mi-s.  Given 

('am|iliell,  of  St.    Louis   fllie  suhiecl    of  ihis  skelcll), 

was  born  in  l^lklon,  Keni  inky,  on  1  he  Coiirl  li  day  of 
•Tilly,  ISl'O.  lie  lii-ew  (11  early  yoiiili  in  Nash\ille, 
Tennessee.  lie  gradlialed  at  colleL;e  al  ililli'leeil 
years  of  age,  ami  was  married  a  1  I  he  age  of  I  w  I'lily- 
one  to  ^liss  Susan  I'.eiiy.  d.iiighiei-  of  I  >i-.  Daniel 
I'erry  and  Susan  l-'aniam,  his  wife,  wlm  lixcd  in 
llieir  home,  called  l']|iiiwiiod,  a  lew  niili's  oiil 
from  Nashville,  Tennessee,  ihey  havin-  nnioxed 
from  .\l;issaclinsetts,  where  (hey  were  honi.  (o 
Naslnille  many  yeai-s  beCore.  Dr.  r>err\  was  for 
many  years  Pi'esideid  of  ihe  Nashville  I'"einale 
Academy.  .Miss  Susan  Iten-y  was  Ikji-ii  in  lliissell- 
ville,  Kentucky,  in  IS2(I.  She  was  small  in 
stature,  and  of  a  decided  biiineKe  lype.  Immedi- 
ately after  ibe  marriage  of  L'obeil   Kay  Woo<1s  and 

Susan  Berry,  (his  young  coiiple  lefi    ibe  obi  hoi 

nest  in  Xashville.  ami  lo(ate<l  in  St.  Louis,  j\Iis- 
souri,  where  they  spent  the  remainder  of  tjieir 
1  i-\"es. 

^[r.  Bobert  K'ay  Woods  became  (lie  head  of  a 
large  wholesale  dry  goods  business,  Ihe  tirni  being 
Woods,  Christy  &  Co.  .Mr.  James  >\do(ls  was  also 
an  owner  in  (his  business,  and  gave  his  son,  llohert 
Kay  \\'oods,  an  intei-esl  in  the  imsiiK  ss  to  start  him 
in  life.  WJieu  the  war  occni-i-ed  between  the  Stales 
(]S(il-.~)|  the  money  panic  occasioned  by  it  brought 
alioul  ;i  failure  in  the  business  of  die  liriii  of  \\'()o<ls, 
<'hiisty  &  Co.  Koherl  K.  Woods"s  health  became 
\"eiy  much  impairi'd,  and  he  died  at  10iilerpris(>, 
Florida,  in  (he  year  IS74.  w  here  be  had  i:one  on  ac- 
count of  his  health,  lie  was  buried  in  ihe  family 
lo(  al    r>el  (ontaine  ('emetery  in  Si.   Louis.  .Missouri. 

.Mr.  Koberl  Kay  Woods  was  a  man  oC  rarely  lieaii- 
(ifiil  iia(iii-eand  (i  lie  |iri  nciples.  a  nd  liaiidsonie  |>er- 
S(Ui.  lie  was  six  fee(  and  Mine  inches  in  height 
and  weighed,  when  be  wasabonl  I'orly  years  of  age, 
21  ."i  pounds.  He  was  exlremely  popular  in  social 
ami  business  circles.  ,\  I  (he  lime  af  his  failure  in 
business  many  of  his  friends  came  forward  and  of- 
fered him  thousands  of  dollars  as  loans  without 
any  seciiiil\  wliate\cr,  so  great  was  their  c(Uili- 
dence  ill  liiiii,  and  also  I  heir  sxinpaihy  and  friend- 
shij). 


308  THE    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

Tie  was  always  a  rciiiilai-  allciKlanl  at  Mio  Pros-  Caiiipbell  graduated  witli  high  linnors  at  tlic  Uni- 

Intcriaii  riiiircli,  li\i1   iicvcv  made  a  i>uhlic  eonfes-  versity  of  Virginia  iu  the  year  1857. 

.sidii  of  Ids  faitli   in  <'liiisl    iiiilil    just    Jiefore    his  Tlic  cliihlreii   of  r.ivoii   rainpl)e]l   and    liis  wife, 

death,  when  lie  Idid  his  \\  ilV  thai  lie  lia<]  given  him-  Bettie  AVoods,  are  <_iiven  ranipl)ell,  -li-.,  wlio  is    a 

self  to  Christ,  and  iliat   il   was  well  w  illi  Ids  sonl.  physician  and  scientist,  living  in  8t.  Louis.     He 

^Fr.  Robert  Kay  AVumls  and  Ins  wife,  Susan  Berry,  was  lioin  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  Itcccndicr  IS, 

had  live  children — I'nnr  danghlcrs  and  one  s(in.    The  18(i(>.     The  seccnid  child  is  Susan  AX'uods,  lim-n    in 

dnMghl(is    were    named     Snsan     lOli/.aheth,    Mary  Paducah,  Kentucky,  March  1,   1872.    and    James 

I'earson,  who  died   in  infancy,  Annie   Louisa,  and  Camiihell,  horn  iu  St.  Louis,  ^[issouri,  November 

^Margaret;  and  the  son,  wlio  was  I  he  youngest,  was  13,  1882.     Of  these  three  children    only    OTie    has 

named  Robert  Kay.    Of  llie.se  cjiiidicii  Snsan  Eliza-  children,  that  is,  the  second  child,  Susan,  who  mar- 

b(^tli.  but  always  called  "Bettie,"  was  born  at  Elm-  ried  Anthony  Armnix,  of  New  York  Oily,  on    the 

wood,  the  home  of  lier  molher's  parents,  at  Nash-  22(1  of  June,  18!>2.  who  has  two  children,  a  dangli- 

ville.  Tennessee,  on  the  Klfli  (h\y  of  Jnly,  1812.    At  ter  called  Oecila  Laval.  IkU'u  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  July 

tile  age  of  twenty-two  she  niai'ried  a  young  lawyer  9,  1893,  and  a  son  named  Given  Cam|)bell,  born  in 

by  the  name  of  Given  <\im]ibell.  a    son    of    Judge  New  York  Oity,  January  13.  LS9.5. 

James  Oampbell  and   .Mary  Given.     Judge  Camp-  The  bdhiwing  additional  particulars    in    regard 

bell  was  a  sou  of  .lames  ( 'amjibell.  (d'  Virginia,  and  jo  Andrew  Woods  and  his  grandson,  James  Woods, 

.Mary  Given,  his  wife,  was  a  daughter  of  Dickson  Jr.,  ai-e  kindly  furnished  by  INlrs.  Given  Campbell, 

Given,  of  Kentucky.     Judge  ('ani|pbell,  llie  fatiier  and  will  be  of  interest  to  many  of  the  Woodses: 

of  (iiveu  Campliell,  lived  in    I'aducah,    Kentucky,  Andrew  Woods,  the  progenitor  of  the  subject  of 

and  was  a  distinguished  member  of  the  bar  in  that  this  sketch,  was  born  in    Ireland    about    the   year 

State.     The  marriage  of  i'.ettie  Woods  and  Given  1722.    He  received  a  fine  education,  and  designed  to 

Campbell    took  place  at  Tuscaloosa,   Alabama,  at  enter  the  I'resbyterian  Church  as  a  minister,  but 

the  residence  of  Mrs.  Sam    Kirkman,    an    aunt   of  was  prevented  from  so  doing  by  ill  health.    About 

Miss  Bettie  Woods.     It  was  during  the  war,  and  17."i()   he  married   Martha  Poage,  the  daughter    of 

under  very  romantic  circuuislauces.     The  date  of  Robert  Poage,  of  Augu.sta  County.  N'iruinia.     His 

till'   marriage  of  Bettie  Woods  and   (lixcn   Camp-  first  Iiciik"  was  in  .Mbemarle  County,  close  to  his 

bell   is  January  2().   iSC"),   .Mr.   ("aiii](bell   being  at  father's  place,  near  the  foot  of  the  Blue  Ridge,  hut 

tiiat  time    a    Cai)tain    in    the    Ciuifederate    Army.  iu  170(1  he  removed  to  that  part  of  Augusta  County 

About  four  months  after    tli<'    iiiarriauv    the    war  ^vhicll  afterwards  became  the  county  of  Botetourt, 

ended  and   this  young  loiiple  reliirmd    from   .Via-  His  farm  lay  on  both  sides  of  the  high  road  leading 

bama   to  St.   Lmus,   which   was  tli..  bom.-  of  Mrs.  *^  ^'^^  ^"'^^""  "^'^■'''"-  "'"(^' ""l^^^  «""ll'  -^  r.nclK.n- 

Campbell-s  parents.     In  the  autumn  of  LSfiS  they  '''"•     ^^  '''=''  "'^'"'  ^'-^  ^"'^  <'-^^"^'"<^'-^  ^o  the  family   of 

, ,,    ,   .      ,^         ^  ,              T       •  •               ,             ,  Judge  Simnmns,  of  Botetourt.     The  house  was  fur- 
settled  III    >,ew    Orleans,    Limisiana,    where    thev 

,.      ,   ^        .  ,                                                                  ■  nished  with  loop-holes  as  a  protection  against   tlu^ 
lived  for  eight  A'ears,  then  retnriiinu  to  St.  Louis, 

Indians,  and  stood  intact  until  ^^33.     He  took  a 

they  settled  in  that  citv  ])ermaiientlv.     ifr.  Camp-  ,.              :.  •          ,  t       a-  • 

^  very  active  part  in  public  affairs,  and  was  (uie  of 

btdl  stood  at  the  head  of  I  lie  bar  in  [Missouri,  and  n      <■     <           ■  ,-     ^         e  t^   ^  .        i.      tt 

tlie  hrst  magistrafes  of  Botetourt.     Tie  was  one  of 

many  of  the  most  honorable  olb.es  in  ihe  gift  of  the  f,,,  <  v,inmissioiiers  with  William  Preston  and  otli- 

people  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis  were  ollered  to  him  .-rs.     Robert  Bre.kinrhlge,  in  1774,  a,.pniii(,.,|  him 

and  declined.    He  was  a  man  of  I  lie  highest  sense  of  one  of  the  executors  of  his  will.     Judge  Simmons 

honor  and  d(^votion  to  duty,  aiul  of  incorruptible  mentions  having  seen  some  of  his  papers  (Andrew 

principles,  a  brave  gentleman  and  a  Christian.  Mr.  Woods's)   which  he  says  were   elegantlv    written. 


SKETCHED  OF  I'ATKUXS. 


309 


Andrew  seems  to  liave  been  tlie  legal  adviser  and 
sorilx'  for  tlie  Avhole  neiglibovliood.  He  died  in 
17S1,  iind  \\;is  pi'obaldy  bnried  a  few  yards  from  Iiis 
house.  His  wife,  ^lartiia  Poage,  survived  liiin  nuiiiv 
years,  and  lived  to  be  ninety  years  of  age.  Slie  was 
a  woman  of  most  devout  piety  and  nucoiuiuon 
strength  of  mind  and  Mas  ((uisidei-ed  ahudsl  a  jpcr- 
feet  eharaetei". 

Tlie  home  of  Mr.  Jauics  \\ Oods,  Jr.,  grandson  of 
Andrew  "Woods,  was  in  Nashville,  Tennessee.  It 
stood  on  liroad  Street,  near  tiie  corner  of  Yauxhall 
Street  and  was  a  handsome,  double,  red-l)ri(-k  build- 
ing, with  porches  in  fmid  (d'  it,  (U-namentetl  willi 
white  tinted  pillars. 

Mr.  James  Woods,  Jr.,  was  a  tall  man,  and  very 
erect.  II  is  hair  was  iron  gray,  and  his  face  smooth- 
sluMcn.  lie  dressed  with  extreme  neatness.  He 
usually  cairicd  a,  golddu'aded  cauc.  He  had  large 
iron  works  on  the  Cnnd)erland  Itiver,  where  he 
employed  about  1,500  slaves,  all  of  whom  he  owned, 
to  work  out  the  iron,  which  was  brought  to  Nash- 
ville. The  firm  in  Nashville  was  Woods,  Yeatnuui 
&  Co.  .Mr.  James  Woods  died  very  suddenly  at 
eighty-two  years  of  age. 

SKETCH   46. 

COL.  J.  W.  CAPERTON,  RICHVIOND,  KENTUCKY. 

Colonel  James  W.  Caperton,  son  of  Colonel  Wil- 
liam II.  Caperton  and  his  wife,  Eliza  Estill,  is  a 
lineal  descendant  of  Michael  Woods,  of  Blair  Park, 
through  his  eldest  son,  \\'illiaui  Woods.  Tlie  said 
AMlliam  IT.  Caperton  was  the  sou  of  William  Ca- 
perton, Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Lucy  Woods;  and  said 
Lucy  Woods  was  the  daughter  of  Captain  Archi- 
bald "Woods  by  his  wife,  iMourning  Shelton ;  and 
said  Archibald  Woods  was  the  son  of  William 
Woods  and  his  wife,  Susanna  Wallace;  aiul  said 
\\'illiaMi  Woods  was  the  eldest  sou  of  3Iichael 
^^dod.s,  of  lUair  Park,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Camp- 
bell. In  Part  I  of  this  volume  (pages  00-67)  the 
reader  will  tind  nmnj'  interesting  facts  concerning 
Williaui  Woods,  son  of  Michael,  of  P.lair  I'ark,  and 
his  numerous  descendants,  which   should   be  read 


in  connection  with  Colonel  .1.  W.  Caperton's 
sketch.  Tln-iiugh  lOliza  f-slill.  w  i  IV  of  Colonel  Wil- 
liam II.  ('apcrlou.  111!'  siilijcri  i.r  iliis  skclcli  is 
(lii'eclly  dcsccudcd  fi-om  ('aplain  James  lOstill,  (ui(> 
of  the  mosi  fanions  of  all  Keiil  inky  pioiieei-s,  the 
said  Eliza  being  Ihe  dauglilei-  ol'  James  Instill.  Jr., 
and  Jani(  s,  Ji-.,  beini;  a  son  of  <'apiaiu  Janu'S 
ICstill,  the  pioneer,  w  ho  losi  his  life  in  a  battle  willi 
the  Indians. 

.Mourning  Shell  on.  1  he  w  il'e  of  Ca  plain  .Krchiliald 

\\' Is,   was  Ihe  danghiei-  of   William   Shellon  and 

Lucy  IIarrist»H,  his  wib-.  William  SIk  lion  was  ihe 
grandson  of  K'iehard  Shelton,  who  came  from  Eng- 
land to  Anieiica  in  1(;S(I  Willi  his  lirolhei-,  Daniel 
Shelton,  and  was  ihe  iu(jgeiiiior  of  the  Shelton 
family  in  Virginia  and  the  South. 

The  ancestral  home  "Shellon  Hal!"  slHl  stands 
in  England.  Cue  of  the  descendants  of  Kiehard 
Shelton  was  Sai-ah  Shellon,  Ihe  tii-si  wife  of  Pat- 
rick Henry. 

Daniel  Shelton,  the  br(Ulier  of  Kiehard,  settled 
in  Connecticut,  and  from  him  is  descended  a  long 
line  of  cultured  men  and  women,  ]uomineut  in 
New  England  and  New  Y(U'k  lo-day. 

Lucy  Harris  Slielton,  the  mother  of  Mourning 
Shelton  Woo<ls,  was  the  daughter  of  Robert  Har- 
ris and  Mourning  Glenn,  of  Albemarle  County, 
Virginia. 

Iiobert  Harris  and  Mourning  (ileim  were  the 
parents  of  seven  daughters  and  I'oiir  sons  and  from 
these  have  descended  many  useful,  talented, 
and  promineni  [leople  rhrouglnMil  ihe  South, 
among  whom  may  be  nuuitioned  :  William  Har- 
ris Crawford,  the  distinguished  Ceorgian;  .Mat- 
tlunv  Jouett,  the  celebrated  portrait  painter  and 
artist  of  Kentucky;  the  Hon.  James  S.  Kollins  of 
Missouri;  Colonel  A>'illiani  11.  Caperion  of  Ken- 
tucky ;Hon.  William  ( ".  ( ioodloe  of  Madison  County, 
Kentucky,  Judge  of  his  Judicial  District  for  a 
great  many  years,  an  eminent,  just,  and  learned 
judge;  he  inarried  a  daughter  of  (Tovernor  William 
Owsley,  was  a  mar  reialive  of  Colonel  William  II. 
('ajierton,  and  has  a  huig  line  i>\'  mosi  jiromiuent 
and  excelhnl   descendants. 


COL,  JAMES  W.  CAPERTON. 

RICHMOND,    KV. 

(See    Sketch  No.  46.) 


COL.  WM.  H.  CAPERTON. 


(See  Sketch  No.  46.) 


WOODS  CAPERTON. 


REV.  J.  P.  WILLIAMSON. 

(See  Sketch  No.  58.) 


MISS  NANCY  H.  LINDSAY 
(See  Sketch  No.  58.) 


REV.  T.  S.  WILLIAMSON  AND  HIS  WIFE,  MARGARET. 
(See  Sketch  No.  58.) 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


Willijiiu  Caperton,  Sr.,  and  Lucy  Woods,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Ai'cliil>ald  Woods,  were  married  in 
17!»0,  in  .Madison  Coiinlv,  Kentucky.  AVilliani 
Caperton  was  tlie  son  of  .John  Caporton  of  JMon- 
roe  CouTity.  ^'ir^i■inia,  (lie  iiroiicnitor  of  the  Caper 
ton  family  in  America,  avIio  came  from  a  nolilc 
Freiuli  ancestry,  eniigrafiiig  lirst  from  France  to 
^Va.les,  and  Ihen  1o  America. 

From  tliis  Jolm  Caperton  has  descended  a  lino 
of  higiily  talented  citizens,  some  of  -whom  have 
been  distinguished  in  tiie  counsels  of  the  nation; 
among  them  may  he  mentioned:  Tlie  Hon.  .Vllen 
T.  Caperton,  a  fVn-mer  Fnited  States  Henator  fi'om 
\\'(  St  X'irginia,  and  llugli  Caperton,  several  times 
elected  tn  ilie  N'irglnia  Legislature,  and  lion.  Ed- 
ward Echols,  recently  J^ieutenaut-Governor  of  Vir- 
ginia, his  motlier  being  iliss  Caperton. 

Colonel  \\illiam  11.  Caperton,  sou  of  William 
Caperton  and  Lucy  Woods,  his  wife,  was  born  in 
Madison  County,  Kentucky,  in  March,  179S.  At  at  .\nnapolis  and  Newport;  after  several  ciniises  at 
llie  age  of  sixteen  j'ears  he  volunteered  under  Gen-  sea  as  a  midslii|iman  lie  resigned  and  returned  to 
eral  Jackson  in  the  Creek  campaign,  and  was  in  Kentucky,  an<l  was  afterwards  married  to  Miss 
the  battles  of  Horse  Shoe  and  Talladega.  Annie  French,   a,  most  estinuxble    and    attractive 

On  the  restoration  of  peace  he  returned  to  the  young  lady,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Ilobert  French,  nf 
county  of  his  birth,  and  studied  law  under  his  .Madi.sou  County,  Kentucky.  They  hail  one  daugh- 
uucle,  Archibald  ^^'oods,  and  was  admitted  to  the      ler,  Clyde,  a  cliarming  antl  beautiful  young  lady, 


Colonel  William  H.  Caperton  was  married  in 
1819,  to  Eliza  Estill,  daughter  of  James  Estill,  by 
.Alary  Rodes,  his  wife,  said  Mary  lieing  the  daugh- 
ter of  Judge  Rob(n't  Rodes. 

The  children  of  Colonel  William  II.  Capertnu 
and  Eliza  Estill,  his  wife,  arc-:  (a)  Wooits  C.\i'- 
EiiTox;  (b|  :M.\t!v  r.  C.vi'KUTox ;  and  (ci-Tami;s  W. 
C.\i'i;itT().\,  now  residing  in  Richmond,  Kentucky. 

|,a  j  Woods  Caperton  was  a  brilliant  young  man, 
studied  law  but  never  pi-actised,  and  died  at  an 
early  age,  unmarried. 

I  b)  Mary  P.  Caperton  married  l^eonidas  P..  Tal- 
bdtl,  a  brother  of  the  Hon.  .Vlliert  (iallatin  Tal- 
linn, former  member  of  ( "ongi-ess  from  Kentucky; 
she  was  a  highly  cult  nred  ladx, amiable  and  sweet  in 
disposition,  and  lovc^l  and  admired  by  her  family 
ami  friends;  she  had  one  child,  William  C.  Talltott, 
who  was  appointed  by  the  United  States  (iovern- 
ment  to  the  United  States  Navy,  and  was  educated 


bar  in  the  jear  ISIS,     lie  at  once  entered  into  a 
large  and   lucrati\e  practice;  associatwl   with  the 
tirst  la\\yers  of  the  State  in  the  diU'ereut  courts  of 
Central  Kentucky,  and  in  the  Court  of  Appeals. 
He  was  appointed   United   States  District  At- 


w  ho  married  Samuel  I'helps  Todd,  and  they  have 
a  son,  William  Talboti  Todd,  a  very  promising  and 
handsome  young  boy. 

Colonel   James   \A'.    Caperton   was  educated   at 
Centre    College,    Danville,  Kentucky,  and    gradu- 


torney  for  the  District  of  Kentucky,  by  President  ated    at    Transyhania    Law    School,    Lexington, 

Fillmore,  and  dischaa'ge(l  the  duties  tliereof  to  the  Kentucky,  studying  iindei-  Chief  Justice  IJobinson, 

emint'iil  satisfadidii  of  the  government.  Thomas  .\.  .Marshall,  Aaron  K.  Woolleyand  others. 

.Vmong  Kentucky's  eminent    lawyers  none  were  Soon  after  graduation  he  was  granted  license  to 

iiuyVL'  giftetl   than   Colonel    William    H.   Caperton,  practise  law,  and  entered  into  partnership  w  ilh  liis 

in  intellect  and  person.     He  was  a   born  orator,  father,  Ctdonel  \Villiam  11.  Caperton. 

and  possessed  brilliant  talent;  his  features  were  Later,  he  was  a  law  partner  of  the  Hon.  Curtis 


handsome,  and  his  form  graceful ;  he  was  a  great 
lawyer  and  a  true  and  earnest  advocate. 

He  was  a  contemporary  of  Henry  Cluj,  John  J. 
Crittenden,  Ben  Hardin,  the  .Marshalls  and  other 
gifted  Kentuckians,  with  whom  he  was  associated 
in  important  cases  at  the  bai*. 


F.  Burnam  of  Richmond,  Kentucky'.  Colonel 
Caperton  ranks  among  the  tirst  lawyers  and  tinan- 
ciei's  of  Kentucky.  He  is  a  man  of  handsome  ap- 
pearance, great  personal  magnetism,  and  splendid 
intellect. 

He  is  a  forcible  and  original  speaker,  and  before 


SKETC11E8  OF  rATlIOXS. 


iU 


juries  iu  important  cases  he  has  few,  if  any,  supe-      country;  and  is  licrsclf  ;i  vdiiiiii  woman  nf  culture 


riors.  His  speeclies,  full  of  wit,  anecdote  and  hu- 
mor, (■(nnliincd  with  lucid  aryiimeuL,  aic  (hdivcrcd 
in  a,  (|uiet  manner,  Avlth  few  gestures;  and  iosinii. 
entirely,  consciousness  of  his  own  iiidi\  idunlil y  in 
presenting  the  cause  of  his  clienf,  he  hcconics  a 
powerful  and  convincing  speaker. 

IIo  nmlces  a  model  chairman  of  conventions,  his 


and  education,  lieing  a  gradnale  of  the  Itai-tholo- 
Mu  w  lOnglish  and  ("hissicnl  Sclnxd  ol'  ('incinnali. 
()liio.  Two  lovely  dnni^hli  is,  .Mary  .lames  and 
K;tllierine  I'lielps,  lia\e  been  lioin  lo  <'idom-l  and 
M IS.  ( "apertou. 

Colonel   ('ai"'iion  resides  at    ^^'oo(lla^\■n,  one  (jf 
Wtr,   noted    places   in    .Madison    ('onniy,    ncai-    Kirh 


decisions  being  fair,  prompt  and  positive,  and  al-      mond,  a   (Ndonial    resid(  ncc,    wiih   a    lai-c   landed 

most  universally  sustained.     As  n  tinancier  he  is 

quick  to  g]-asp  a  correct  view  ol'  Inisiness  niiitleis, 

and  has  for  a  nundier  of  years  been  president  of  the 

Ikichmoivd  National  liaidc,  of  Kiclnnond,  Keidiicky. 

Tie  is  also  known  as  a  man  of  "intiexible  honesty, 

invincible  courage  and  incorruptible  patriotism." 


His  sincere  regard  for  his  fellow-man  gives  him 
a  peculiar  hold  upon  his  friends  and  acquaint- 
ances, and  a  dignity  of  bearing,  combined  with 
cordiality,  has  given  him  a  great  number  of  warm 
jn'rsonal   friends. 

Colonel  Caperton's  large  hnv  practice  and  busi- 
ness interests  have  kept  him  out  of  politics, 
though  he  has  been  repeatedly  offered  prominent 
]K)siti()ns  by  his  party,  lie  was  a  delegate  to  (he 
('onvention  al  I'hihuh'lphia,  when  (Jeneral  (!rant 
was  nominated  for  the  Presidency;  at  Cincinnati, 
when  President  Hayes  was  nominated;  at  Cliicago, 
when  President  Gartield  received  the  nomination; 
and  at  St.  Louis,  \\lien  the  Coinveutiou  nominated 
Pi'esident  McKiuley. 

Colonel  Caperton  is  very  fond  of  outdoor  sports, 
and  has  for  years  kept  a  kennel  of  tine  fox  hounds, 
iu  which  he  takes  great  interest  and  pride.  He  is 
a  tine  shot  on  the  wing  or  in  tln^  foresit.  Descended 
from  an  illustrious  ancestry,  he  is  a  typical  South- 
ern gentleman,  true  in  every  particular  to  his  day  daughter  of  IJoberl  \\dods.  \>\  his  wife.  Saiah 
and  generation,  with  reverence  for  ail  the  sacred  Bi'tvwne  West.  Said  Saiah  It.  West,  wli<>  was  born 
relations  of  life.  October   12,    IT'.li',    was   the   danghlei-   of    I'.dward 

In  October,  1890,  Colonel  Caperton  was  nmrried  West,  and  left  seven  children.  Said  llolieii  Woods, 
to  .Miss  Katherine  Cobb  Phelps,  the  daughter  of  who  was  the  son  of  .lames  Woods,  Sr.,  by  his  wife, 
.Ml-,  and  ilrs.  Thomas  Phelps  of  Madison  County,  Naucj-  Payburn,  was  Iku-u  Decendjer  lT),  17815,  mar- 
Kentucky.  Mrs.  Capertou  [ncc  Phelps)  is  ried  Sarah  P.rowne  West,  .May  1!>.  ISIS,  and  died 
descendc^l  from  a  line  of  cultured  ancestors,  promi-  January  25,  184:!.  Tlie  said  .ianns  Woods,  Sr., 
nent    in    the  Colonial    and  pioneer  history  of  the      husband   of    Nancy   i.'aylinin.  ami     father  of    said 


estate  attached.  In  llie  lilnaiy  of  this  stalely  old 
mansion  are  many  i-are  \olnmes  of  (jncp  a  century 
ago,  published  in  (llasgow,  Loudon  and  iMildin, 
formerly  owned  by  ,\rchibald  Woods,  and  Colonel 
\\'.  II.  ( 'a]>ciloii,  and  bi(Might  oxer  the  .\llegheny 
mountains  by  wagons.  On  the  walls  hang  por- 
traits of  live  generations  back. 

SKETCH    47. 
E.  W.  FOSTER,  NASHVILLE,  TENNESSEE. 

ilr.  Ivlward  \\'est  Foster,  son  of  Koberi  and 
Julia  Woods  Foster,  was  Imhu  .May  :!(l.  ISCO.  On 
the  ninth  day  of  January,  ISSt),  he  was  married  lo 
Miss  Susan  Cockrill,  daughter  of  Penjaniin  F.  and 
Sarah  Foster  (\K-krill.  .Mr.  and  iMrs.  E.  W.  Foster 
Jiave  two  childi-cn,  lo  wit  ;  (a)  Ellen  <■.  Fostior; 
and  (bj  P(»r.i:i;r  Colk.nlvn  Fostkk.  .Mr.  I'oster 
is  the  main  partner  in  the  well-known  printing, 
engraving  and  blank-book  mauufaciuiiiig  lirm,  of 
N'ashville,  known  as  i'oster  iK:  Welib. 

Mr.  E.  W.  Foster  is  a  lineal  desoemlani  of 
Michael  Woods,  of  Blair  I'aik,  through  his  son,  .\n- 
di'ew.  His  fathei-.  Or.  Kolieil  ('ohiuan  I'ostei-, 
mari'ied  Julia  Hannah  Woods  oii  the  -'.'>t\  (d'  I  )e- 
cember,  1851.  Said  .Iiilia  llanuah,  who  was  born 
December  2:5,  18:'.0,  died  .liiiic  2S,  IS'KI.  having 
nine     children.       dulia     llannali    Woods    was    ihe 


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tHE   WOObS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL 


Rdhci'i  Wdods,  was  bdi'ii  in  \'ii-.uiniii  in  1751,  mar- 
ried liis  wife,  KaJK-y,  in  AI(piil,ii<inu'ry  ( 'dunt y,  Wv- 
iiinia,  December  2(1,  177(i,  and  dif(l  .laiiuary  1'7, 
1817,  leaviuii'  ten  eliildren.  Said  -lames  NN'odds, 
Si'.,  was  tile  son  df  Andrew  Wddds  liy  his  wife, 
Martlia  Poaiie ;  and  Andrew  was  tlie  sdn  (d'  Michael 
^^'ddds,  of  Hlair  Park,  by  liis  w  ife,  Mary  Campbell. 
The  aforesaid  Udlx'il  Wddds  was  a  bi-dther  of 
-lames  Woods,  .!]•.,  and  tiu'S4'  Iwo  bi-dthers  were 
aindiii;'  the  most  successfnl  and  JKindred  business 
men  Nashville  has  ever  had  in  all  its  history.  ^lauy 
particulars  in  reiiard  to  lliese  brothers  and  their 
near  relatives  may  lie  seen  in  Part  1  of  this  vol- 
nme,  and  also  in  Skelcii  4."),  llial  of  Mrs.  Campbell. 

SKETCH  48. 
MRS.  J.  G.  GOODALL,  CROZET,  VIRGINIA- 
Mrs.  (ioodalTs  maiden  name  was  Jnlia  Grayson 
Ellison,  and  her  parents  were  James  Monroe  Elli- 
son and  AVilliam  Rentoii  Woods.  Tiie  said  Miss 
William  lienlon  Woods,  was  ihe  dan.iililer  of  WW- 
liam  I'rice  "\\'o<)ds  by  his  wife,  Sarah  lOllen  Woods; 
and  tin'  said  William  Price  was  the  son  of  James 
Woods,  by  bis  wife,  Mildred  Jones;  and  said  James 
\>'oods  was  the  son  of  that  A\'illiam  Woods  who  was 
ji'enerally  designated  as  "P>ea\('r  Creek  Billy  tbe 
Second,"  and  whose  wife  was  .Mary  -larman;  and 
said  William  Wdods  (otherwise  know  n  as  "Peaver 
Creek  Pilly  the  Second"')  was  the  son  (d'  that  other 
William  Woods,  who  was  called  (  for  the  sake  of 
distinj^nisbini;'  liim  from  se\-eral  other  Woodses 
whose    Christian    nanu's    wcic    William)    "Heaver 

Creek  Pilly  W Is  the  I'irsl,"  and  whose  wife  was 

Sallie  Wallace;  and  said  "Peavei-  Creek  P.illy  the 
l-'irst"  was  the  sdii  of  William  Wdods  by  his  wife, 
(and  lirst  cousin),  Snsannah  Wallace;  ;nid  said 
William  W Is  (whose  wife  was  Snsannah  Wal- 
lace) was  Ihe  eldesi  son  of  .Michael  Wddds,  df 
Plair  Park,  by  his  wife,  .Mary  Campbell.  It  is 
thus  shdwn  that  Mrs.  (ioodall  is  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  that  nott'd  pioneei'  (d'  Piedmont,  ^'irginia, 
Michael  Woods,  whose  old  jdantalidn  in  western 
Albemarle  Connty,  at  Ihe  base  (d'  Ihe  Bine  Rido-e 
bas  been  for  more  than  a  centnr\-  known  as  Blair 


Park,  .M  i-s.  (idddall  has  the  distinction,  abd\'i'  all 
the  other  patrons  (d'  this  \(dnine,  of  having  been 
born  and  reared  within  siliht  (d'  P>lair  Park,  which 
was  settled  by  her  distinguished  ancestor  in  1734, 
and  in  whose  soil  bis  dnst  bas  reposed  since  17(12. 

Tbe  above-mentioned  Miss  Mary  Jarman,  who 
became  I  be  wife  of  "Beaver  Creek  Billy  Woods  tbe 
Second,""  was  the  danghter  td'  the  Thdinas  -larman 
who,  (arly  in  the  eighteenth  century,  jmrchased 
the  land  on  the  snniinit  of  the  jiass  in  the  Plue 
Pidge  imme<liately  overlooking  the  (dd  .Michael 
Woods  ]daiitatidn.  That  pass  bad  been  called, 
for  at  least  three  (|narters  of  a  centnry,  "Woods's 
<!ap;"'  lint  as  the  years  jiassed,  the  name  of  -lar- 
man giadnall,\  sniierseded  that  of  \\'oods,  and  to- 
d.iyit  is  calb  d  -laiiiian's  <  ia]i.  It  is  nnder  tbe  very 
shadow  of  "Woods's  (iap"  (now  Jarman's)  that 
.Mrs.  ( Joodall  and  many  of  ber  ancestors  have  sjient 
their  lives — a  locality  as  pictiiresqne  as  can  be 
found  in  all  our  conntry. 

The   Snsannah    NN'allace   who   mari'ied    \\illiam, 

son  of  .Michael  W Is,  was  not  only  >>'illiam's  first 

cousin,  lint  three  of  ber  brotbers  inai'ried  three  of 
ber  husband's  sisters — all  first  cousins.  Snsannah 
was  tbe  danghter  of  the  Peter  AA'allace,  who  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  AN'dods,  .Michael's  sister,  which  ex- 
plains the  relat  ioiiship  of  the  children  of  I'eter  and 
Elizabeth  to  those  df  .Michael  ami  .Mary.  l>nt,  as 
iieitlnr  the  Word  (d(iod  nor  the  lOnglish  cdininou 
law  fdrbade  such  unions,  tbei-e  was  no  reason  for 
disa]i]iroving  intermarriages  of  consins.  When  it 
is  added  (hat  girls  were  not  as  abundant  as  men 
on  tbe  fi'diitiers  in  ("dhmial  days,  and  especially 
that  the  Woods  and  Wallace  girls  were,  we  doidit 
not,  nnconimoidy  attractive,  we  see  nothing  what- 
ever to  object    to   in    the   |iractice  menlioned. 

William  ^^'dllds,  sdii  df  .Michael,  ;ind  husband  of 
Snsannah  Wallace,  has  already  been  treated  df 
in  i'art  I  df  this  Vdlnme,  and  the  leader 
is  referred  Id  that  accdnid.  .Mrs.  (idddall  states 
that  he  did  mil  md\e  fi-diii  Peiiiisyhania  lo  \'ir- 
ginia  till  eaily  in  tbe  year  174.").  This  would 
inalce  him  a  citizen  of  Pennsylvania  for  eleven 
years  after  Ihe  migration  of  bis  father  to  "\'irginia. 


WKKT<"lli:s  Ol'  I'ATIJOXS. 


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'Flic  nnllinr  feels  decidedly  inclined  (d  llie  view 
considei'wl  in  Tart  I,  naniel.v:  Thai  William  and 
Musannali  came  to  ^'il-^inia  in  1T;U,  aionii  willi  liie 
A\()()d8- Wallace  colouj. 

AMlliani   Woods's  son    \\illiani,   called    "Iteaver 
Creek  I'.illy  llie  First,"  folIoAved  his  father^  exam 
|)le  in  the  mallei-  (d'  niarryinii'  cousins.    His  first  \\  il'e 
was  Sallie   Wallace,  his  cousin;  his  second    wife, 
also,  was  a  cousin,  Annie    l{eid,  dani^hter  of  his 
uncle  John  ^Voods,  and  Susannah  Anderson.     His 
third  w  ife  was  a  widow,  whose  maiden  nann_',  ac- 
cording to  .Mrs.  (ioodall,  was  Nancy  Itichardson, 
and.    her    deceased     hushand's     name,    Jones.      J>r. 
ICdgar  Woods  gives  her  husband's  name    as  Kicli- 
ardson   (see  his  History  of  Albemarle,  page  353). 
Beaver  Creek   Billy   \^'o()(ls  the  First    was  in  the 
Kevolutionary   Army.     In   1770   he   was   couuuis- 
sionetl  ensign,  and  then,  soon  after,  lieutenant  in 
the  Virginia  Hue.     lie  was  a.  man  of  marked  in- 
di\iduality  and  force  of  character,     lie  was  born 
in  17i4,  and  reache<l  the  ripe  age  of  ninety-two, 
dying  in  1830.     "Beaver  Creek   Billy  Woods  the 
Second,"     was    the    only     son    of     Beaver    Creek 
First,   and   married    Mary   Jarman.     He  died   in 
early  life,  but  left  several  young  children,  the  eld 
est  of  wlnnn  was -lames  Wonds,  who  inherited  that 
jKU'lion  of  the  original  Michael  Woods  grant  called 
"Lowland."     His    wife    was    :Mildre<l    J(mk's,    the 
daugliter    of    Captain    \ViIliam    B.    J(Uies,    a    dis- 
linguished    otiticer    in    llie    War    of    1812.     James 
Woods,  just  mentioned,  had  a  In-ollier  named  Wil- 
liam   the    Third,    who    also    inheiited    i)arl    of    tlie 
landed  estate  of  "Beaver  Creek  the  First,"  and  wlio 
married   .\niic  Kichai'dson  Jones,  daughter  of  Col. 
John  J.  Jones.    This  Colonel  Jones  was  a  brother  of 
the  Captain  W^illiam  1\.  Jones,  before  mentione(l, 
and   was,   like  him,  an  id'licer  in   the   Wai'  of   181:J. 
The  William  Woods,  just  referrwl  to,  who  nniriied 
Miss  Jones,  had  a  daugliter  named   Sarah   Ellen 
Woods,  and  she  became  the  wife  of  William  Price 
Woods,    who   was   her    uncle  James   Woods's  son. 
This  collide  were  hrst  cousins  on  one  side  and  sec 
ond  cousins  on  the  other.     By  such  marriages  the 
members  of  these  families  naturally  grew  to  be  vciy 
clannish. 


William  I'l-ice  Woods  iiili<Tiled  a  pari  of  the 
Lowland  estate  from  his  falher — that  jicuMioii  of  it 
kmnvn  as  "Highland."  lie  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Civil  War  (1801-oj,  being  a  memlier  of  Company 
K,  (i(  llie  Second  \'irgiiiia  Cavalry,  lie  received  a 
wound  in  llieliglii  at  High  iiridge.  Prince  Ivlward 
Coiinly.  N'irginia.  lie  died  .\ngusl  S,  P.lllll,  leav- 
ing bill  one  child,  a  daughter,  William  Iteiiion 
Woods,  who  became  ihe  wife  of  .laiiK^s  Monroe  101- 
lisoii,  the  son  of  .loliii  lOllison  and  .Martha  lirowne 
I'leasanls.  .Mrs,  (Ioodall  [mi'  lOllisoig  married 
McCliesney  (ioodall,  and  resides  near  Crozet,  Vir- 
ginia, almost  within  sight  of  lUair  Park. 

SKETCH   49. 

HON.  J.  D.  GOODLOE,  WHITE'S  STATION, 
MADISON  COUNTY,  KENTUCKY. 

The  Hon.  John  Duncan  (Joodloe  was  born  in 
T>oyle  County,  Kentucky,  January  15,  1842.  lie 
is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Michael  Woods  of  Bdair 
Park  through  ^lichael's  eldest  son.  William 
Woods,  ^h:  Goodloe  has  been  marrii^  twice.  His 
Jirst  wife  was  Miss  Jennie  l^aulkner  White,  to 
whom  he  was  married  l'\'bruai-y  18,  1873,  and  by 
wIhuu  he  had  six  children,  to  wit:  (a)  Hauuy, 
who  was  born  May  4,  1874,  and  died  December  5, 
181)4;  (bj  \\'ii>i.iAM.  who  was  born  I'ebruary  I'l. 
1S70,  and  dieil  February  L'l',  l8!ll;  (ci  .loiix  DuN- 
(.\N.  Ji;..  who  was  born  I'ebrnary  15,  1878;  |d) 
(ii:uu(iio  Wiirri:,  who  was  born  .March  7,  18811;  (e) 
I'.viL  MiLLEU^  who  was  born  .June  l.'(>.  1S81';  and 
(  f j  ^IAUG.ARET  F.,  who  was  lioin  Kecember  17, 
1885.  The  tirst  .Mrs.  (loodloe.  above  named,  died 
November  I'D.  1880.  On  the  ( w  cnty-third  of  Octo- 
ber, 188!t,  he  married  .Miss  Nellie  (iough.  of  Lex- 
ington, Kentucky,  and  by  her  he  has  no  children. 

The  father  of  .1.  I ).  (ioodloe  was  Harry  (iood- 
loe,  born  October  7,  181)7,  and  married  Laiiily  Dun- 
can. November  •_'7.  18:'.l,  and  die<l  October  1,  1848, 
lea\ing  se\-eii  children,  as  follows:  (a)  ErjZA- 
l'.];iil,  bom  Se]iicmber  i:'>,  18:!l',  and  <lieil  in  in- 
fancy; ibi  Lrcv.  born  February  27,  1834,  married 
.liidge  .M.  K.  Hardin  (afterwards  Chief  Justice  of 
(he  Kentucky  CiMirl  of  Ai)i)eals),  on  the  twenty- 
first  of  Ndvember,  1855,  and  died  January  14,  1857, 


316  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

Icjiviiiii-  (iiic  cliilil.  wlin  survivt'd   luT  only  a  short  lie  Avas  a  flue  spcoimcii  of  llic  old  Virginia  gentle- 

tiiiic;    III    Wii.i.iAM,  hdin   Apiil  -'2.   IS.'iT.   wlio  is  mnii.  ii    man   (if  splendid    iireseuee,  and  dauntless 

nmiiaiiicd    ;ind    ]>ra(iiscs   law    in    l>anville,    Ken-  courage,  and  one  whose  life,  liotli  public  and  pri- 

tnckv  :  id  I   IvMMA.  wild  was  lidin  .l;n:\i.iiy  11,1840,  viite.  wns  an  excuuplification  of  the  loftiest  ideals 

and  iuani((l  <  iec.rge  II.  Siimiidiis,  .lanuar\  iM),  1867,  dl'  maid 1  aud  patriotism. 

by    whom    siic    has   had    iwn    children,  to  wit:     1, 

Harry,  and  1',  Emily;  (el     .Toiix  IMnca.x,  the  sub-  SKETCH    50. 

ject  of  this  sketch;   (i)    Uem;v.  whd  was  bdru  No-  SAMUEL  B.  ROYSIER,  BEARD.  KENTUCKY. 

veiaber  U,  1844,  entered  the  Confeih'rate  Army,  and  .m,-.  Samuel    I'.ryan  Koyster  is  a  lineal  descend- 

was  killed  July  4,  18(>o;  and  (gl    Davih.  w  ho  was  jmi    of    .MirhaeMVodds.    df    Blair    Park,    through 

liorn  October  14,  1840,  and  died  November  5,  185.").  Michael's  son    NN'illia-m.     He  was  born  in   Shelby 

The  said  JCnuly  Duncan,  wife  of  Jlai-ry  (Joodloe,  (\miity,  Kentucky,  August  22,  1801.     He  married 

was   tile  daiiglilei-  df  .lidiii    Diincau,   iiy    liis   wife.  Miss  Lily  Forwood,  of  Oldham  County,  Kentucky, 

Jauy  White,  and  was  boin  October  30,  1811,  and  jn,,!  i,v  hci-  has  one  child,  t^amuel  Bnan  Royster, 

died  May  2."),  1866.     Said  .Idhu    Diiiicaii    was  the  .Ji-.,  ^vho  was  bdru  at  Beard,  Kentucky,   .\in-il  2, 

sou   of  Benjamin  Duncan,    w  Im   died    in    .Madisnu  iiiUfi. 

Cdunty,  Kentucky,  iu  Novendter,  IT'.H").  His  father  was  William  Goodloe  Royster,  and 

The  before-mentioned   Harry  (loodloe    was   the  \^\^  muiher  was  Mary  Bryan,  of  Fayette  County, 

son  of  William  Goodloe  and   his   wife,   Snsaninih  K(  nlucky.     His  parents,  after  residing  for  a  short 

^Vdods.  and   said    Susannah    was  the  daughter  id"  time  in  Fayette  and  ^ladison  Cdiinties,  settled  in 

Arciiibald  Woods,  the  pioneer,  by  his  wife.  Mourn-  Shelby  County,  Kentucky,  where  they  lived  until 

ing  Shelton;  and  said   Archibald   was  the  son  of  1S76.     His  parents  had  fdiir  children,  to  wit:      (a) 

Willuun  "Woods  liy  his  wife,   Susannah    Wallace;  I'.kttie.     who    married     Malcolm     Thompson,     of 

and  said  ^^'illiam  was  the  eldest  sou  of  ^Michael  I'ayette   County,    Kentucky;    fb)     Lavknia,    who 

Woods  of  Blair  Park  by  his  wife,  Mary  Campbell.  ,aily  lived  about  seven  years;  (c)    Ellen,  who  died 

The  said   William  (idndbii'  was  burn   in  (lianvilb-  in  infancy;  and    (di      Samt'EL  Buvax,  the  subject 

County,   North   Cardlina,   Ocidbci-  2:\.    ITOO,   came  i,f  this  sketch. 

to    .Madisdu    ('dimly,    Kmincky,    in    the    pidueer  The  said    \\illiajii    <!.    Ildyster   was  the  son    of 

peridil,    niaiiii'd    Susannah    Wdods,    Febniaiy    2'-'>,  .Mitchell    Royster  by   his   wife  Mourning   Shelton 

1706,  and  died  October  1'4,  18r)6.     Susannah  bore  Cdddbie.     Said   ^Mitchell   Royster  came  from  Vir- 

to  h(  I-  husband  thirteen  children,  and  died  October  ginia  to  .Madison   County,   Kentucky.     His   trade 

2,  IS.M,  in  JKU' seventy-fourth  year.  was  that  of  wagon-uuiker.     jMitchell  Royster  and 

lldu.  .Idhn  1  Mnican  (  diddbie  is  an  hundred  ciii/.en  his  wife  left  three  children,  as  follows:      (a)    ^VIL- 

df   Madisdii   ('dunty,   Keiilncky.   and    in    I80:>   was  i.ia.m    (inoiiLoi:.    who    maia-ied    INIary    ]'>ryan;    lb) 

sent   Id  the  Stale  Senate  by  his  cdust  iinenls.       He  .Iniix   Whodson,  who  mariicd  Anna   l-^lemiiig,  and 

comes  df  the  best  ]>iiincci-  stcck  en  iidth  sides.     As  settled  on  a  farm  near  Bryan's  Station,   Fayette 

show  II  ill  the  fdi-egding  exhibits,  his  paternal  grand-  County,    Kentucky,    and   reared   a    family   of   five 

mother  was  Susannah  \V(hk1s,  daughter  of  Captain  childr<'n,  to  wit:     1,  .Mary;  2,  Goodloe;  3,  Celeste; 

Archibald     Wodds,     the     fanidiis    pidueer,     whose  i_  .Tohn  Woodson,  Jr.,  and  ."),  Florence, 
career  was  sd  intimately  associatid  with  the  early  The  said  .Mdiiniing  Shelton  Goodloe  was  one  of 

history     of     Madison     Couuty.     Cajitain     Woods  the  thirteen  children  id'  ^Villiam  Goodloe  and  his 

reached  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-eight,  dying  De-  wife,  Susannah  Woods;  and  said  Susannah  was  the 

ceudier  13,  1836,  at  the  home  of  his  son — Archi-  third  child    of    .Vrchibald  AVoods    and    his    wife, 

bahl,  Jr., — Fort  Estill,  Madison  County,  Kentucky.  .Alonrning  Shelton;  and  said  Archibald   (who  was 


SAMUEL  BRYAN  ROYSTER. 

BEARD,    KY. 

iSee  Sketch  No.  50. ) 


MRS    LILY  FORWOOD  ROYSTER. 

BEARD,  KV. 

(See  Sketch  No.  50. 1 


SAMUEL  B.  ROYSTER.  .)l;. 

BEAHU.   KY. 

[See  Sketch  No.  :;o.  I 


MRS.  HETTIE  ROASTER  THOMPSON. 

PAYNE'S    OEI'OT.    KV. 

I  See  Sketch  No.  m.1 


318  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

one  (if  tlic  curliest   mid   iikisI   (lis(iii.miisli(Ml  of  tlip  inons  iiiciitioiicdliaviiii;  seen  a  uumlicr  nf  liispapors, 

Kciiliicky   iiionccis)    was   tlic  sixdi    cliilil  of  Wil-  whicli    weir-   clcuaTitly    written,   and    by   wliicli    lie 

Jiaiii  Woods  and  liis  wife.  Snsannali  \Valiaee,  and  seemed    to    liave    acted    as   the    le-al    adviser   and 

said  William  was  (he  eldest  son  of  .Michael  Woods,  scriveni'r  of  the  whcdc  nci-hlxn-hood.     He  died  in 

of  IJIair  Park,  and  his  wife,  .Mary  ('anipl)oll.  1 7."*  1.  and   was    donblless    l.nried    a    few  hnndred 

^nKFTCH    c  yards  from  his  house,  hut  no  memorial  remains  to 

REV.  EDGAR  WOODS,  PH.  D.,  CHARLOTTESVILLE,  ^''^^''^    ^^''  ^P*^^' 

VIRGINIA.  Ills  wife  s\ir\i\('(l    liim   ni^arly   forty  velars.     In 

Dr.  Edjiar  \\'oo(ls  is  descended  from  ^Michael  ITitl  she  joined  the  family  of  her  son-indaw,  James 
Woods,  of  Blair  Park,  tlirouiili  his  son,  .\ndrow.  Toaiic,  who  at  that  lime  reii:oved,  hy  way  of  Wheel- 
As  some  account  of  Andrew  Woods  has  been  iiiven  in^i  and  the  Ohio  IJiver,  to  Clark  Connty,  Ken- 
iii  Part  1  in  ti-eatinu  (d'  the  children  of  Michael  tucky.  She  resided  in  his  honsehold,  afterwards 
AVoods  we  shall  need  to  add  here  only  a  few  items  in  ^lason  Connty,  and  then  in  Ripley,  Ohio,  until 
not  heretofore  presented;  her  death,  which  occurred  April  15,  1S18,  in  the 
Andrew  Woods  was  born  ab(uit  1722,  and  almost  ninetieth  year  of  her  ai^e.  i^he  Avas  a  woman  of 
certaiidy  in  Ireland.  He  received  a  liberal  ednca-  uncommon  strength  of  mind,  and  of  earnest,  and 
tion,  and  designed  to  enter  the  ministry  of  the  devout  piety.  Her  letters  constantly  breathe  the 
Presb\  tei'ian    ("liurch;    this   ]Mn]Mise,    however,    he  sjiirit  of  the  unseen  ^^'or^d. 

was  oblijic<l  to  relin(|uish  on  account  of  ill  health.  The  family  of  Andrew  and  ^lai-tha  was  lar^e.     A 

About  17r)()  he  married  Martha  Poai;e,  of  Augusta  number  of  their  children  died  in  infancy  or  ehild- 

Connlv.      His  first  home  was  in  Albemarle,  near  hood,  but  the  folloAvinii- attained  maturity,  and  had 

the  foot  of  the  {'due  llidijc,  on  a  branch  of  Rtock-  families  of  theii- own  : 

ton's  Creek,  one  of  the  ti-ibutaries  of  .Mechum's  (a)  .lA^rES  was  Ixu'u  in  .Mbcmarle,  and  accfuu- 
Kiver,  close  to  IMair  Pai'k,  his  fatliei'"s  lumu'stead.  [lauied  (he  family  on  their  remoxal  to  TSotetourt. 
He  removed  in  WtiC)  to  thai  |>ai-t  (d'  .Vuliusta  which  He  located  on  a  farm  in  ^lont^omery  County,  on 
afterwards  became  the  County  of  Botetourt.  His  tln^  North  fork  of  the  Roanoke  River.  He  was  there 
farm  lay  on  both  sides  of  the  Creat  Road  leadinc:  united  in  maiTiase  to  Nancy  Raybnrn  in  177fi.  He 
to  the  Ilolstein,  nine  miles  south  of  Buchanan;  was  a  man  of  devout  sjdrit  and  unambitions  tem- 
and  since  it  was  sold  by  his  executors,  has  re-  per.  He  was  the  only  (me  of  his  father's  sons  who 
mained  in  the  family  to  which  Judtic  Simmons,  of  continue(l  lo  i-eside  in  that  jiart  of  the  country. 
Botetourt,  behmiis.  The  house  indicated  the  He  died  suddenly  at  his  farm,  January  27,  1S17. 
danii'ers  (d'  the  lime,  beinii  furnished  with  loo]i-  He  left  ti\("  sons  and  four  dautihters.  His  second 
holes  as  a  nutans  of  defence  a.^ainsl  the  Indians,  s(m,  Joseph,  an  (mteri>risinji-  yonui;-  man,  remov(^d 
and  stood  until  1Sl:l,  when  it  pive  ]dace  to  the  to  western  Kentucky  in  1802,  and  thence  to  Nasli- 
present  sinicture  of  bi-i(  k.  ville  Iti  1S12,  where  he  transacted  a  larsiv  and  pros- 
He  took  an  acliNc  part  in  ]>ublic  alTairs.  He  was  jierous  business,  and  became  a  wealthy  man.  In 
(uie  of  the  first  maiiisi I'ates  of  Botet(Hirt.  As  a  process  of  time  he  was  followed  thithcT'  by  all  his 
commissioner  A\ith  Andrew  Lewis,  William  Pres-  bi-others  and  sisters. 

ton,  and  others,  he  assisted  in  locating  a  road  from  lbl    Ror.Kirr  Woons,  the  second  son  of  Andrew 

Crow's  Ferry,  on  James  River,  to  the  County  of  and  Martha,  was  born  in  Albemarle,  and  sometime 

Bedford,  in    1772.     Robeit  Bicckini-idge,   in   1774,  previous  to  his  father's  death,  about  17S0,  recei\c(l 

appointed  him  and  William  Preston,  his  I  wo  brfith-  the    appointment     of    surveyor    of    Ohio    County, 

ers-in-law,    execuloi's    of    his    will.      lie    was    c(uii-  which   then  largely  coNcred   the  north-western   |>or- 

missioned  sherirf  of  Botetourt  in  1777.  .Induce  Sim-  tiim  of  the  Slate.     He  settled  in  Wheelinsi',  and  he 


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tlici-c  iii.'irricd  .Miss  Calilwcll,  mid,  aflci-  licr  dcalli,  many  years  iis  pi'csidciil.      lie  dii'd  ai   liis  inmilry 

Miss  Eoff.     Tiy  tlic  first  union  he  had  (iiic  son,  and  scat   ncai-  \\  In  ilini;-,  Ochilicr  L'<I.   ISUi.  Iiavinu'  iit- 

liy  the  second,  one  son  and  one  danjililer.      lie  tiled  laincd,  w  iiliin  a  I'i'w   days.  Id  I  lie  ai;c  nf  eiulit.\ -I «" 

alKMil   ls;!0.  years,      lie  was  ihc  fallicr  nf  ihirteen  ciiildi'cn. 

(o)   AxDiuow  Woods,  the  third  son  of  Andrew  (o)   EMZArsri  ii .  pniliaMy   liic    eldest    dan^liter, 

and  ^fartlia,  was  horn  in  Alhcniarlo.     Ho  wcnl  lo  nnd  one  of  the  eldest  cliildn-n  nt'  Andrew  and  Mar- 

( )lii(i  Connty  witli  his  hrotlicr  Kohcrt,  to  assist  him  tlia  \\'()ods,  liccanie  tlie  wife  of  l>a\id  Cloyil,  who 

in   tlie  snr\cy(n''s  office.     In  the  eai'ly  part    of  the  lived    In    Kockliridiic   County,    N'iriiinia.      Siie  lost 

])resenf   century    lie   was  ])ostniasfcr   in    W'licelinic.  lier  liiisliand  in   ITS'.l.      An  extant   letter,  writ  ten  in 

lie  was  also  cuLiaiit'd   in   iiiercliandisinti  and   farm-  ITHO,  indicates  tliat   slie  possessed  a  idous  and  sen- 

inii.     lie  married  Mary,  dauiiliter  of  John  Mitchell,  sible  mind.     She  died  in  llie  winter  of  ITDfi-T,  Ihe 

and  widow  of  .Major  Samuel  ^IcCulloch,  who  was  first  of  the  children   to  deparl   this  life.     She  left 

killed  by  the  Indians  at  the  mouth  of  Short  Creek  four  sons  and  five  dan.nhiers.     .Martha,  the  eldest 

in  1782,     He  died  in  1831,  leaving  four  sons  and  dausihter,  married  Matthew  Houston,  who  lived  for 

tlii-ee  daughters.  many  years  near  the  \ainral  I'.ridge;  and  Kev.  \V. 

(<1 1    .Vrciiib.\LD,  the  youngest  son  of  .Vndrew  and  W.   Houston   ami    IJe\.    .M.    M.    Houston    were   their 

.Martha  ^^■oods,  was  horn  in  .Mhemai'lc,  November  grandsons.     .Marg.iret,  tlii'  second  daughter,  nmr- 

14,  IKH.      In  his  seventeenth  year  he  entered  thi'  ricd  Kev.  Matthew   llonslon.  cousin  of  the  ^falthew 

IJev(dutionary  Army  as  sergeant  in  a  conqiany  of  just   mentioned,   removed    with   him    to  Kentucky. 

N'irgiuia    riflenu'ii,    commanded    by    Captain    .Tolni  and  with  him  also,  amidst  the  i-eligioiis  e\<itement 

Cai'tmill.     His  eonipany  was  first  attaohe<l  to  the  in  the  cai'ly  jiai-t  of  the  cent  my,  joined  the  Shakers, 

j-cgiment   of  Colonel  Otlio  H.  ^^'illiams  in  ( ii'eene's  aimmg    wliom    they    both    died    at     Lebanon,    Ohio, 

army     in     Niu'tli     (^'arolina,     was     Iransfened     to  abcnit  ISoO. 

Wayne's   Division   under   La I'^ayette,   and  partici-  if)    Ki:r.i:('c.v  Woons  was  married  to  Isaac  Kelly, 

pated  in  the  affair  near  Jamestown  on  July  0,  1781.  and  with  him  removed  to  <  >hio  County  about    178(i. 

Prostrated  by  the  malaria,  of  the  tide-water  region.  There  they  spent  their  days.     Their  ]dace  in  Pote- 

li>'  was  sent  home  with  an  honorable  discharge  from  tourt  joined  that  of  her  father.     Tlieii-  family  con- 

tlie  hiind  of  General  William  Campbell.  He  visited  sisted  of  five  sons  and   four  daughters. 

Kentucky   after   his  recovery,   ami    on    his   return  (g)   ir.\i!Y  Woons  was  Iku-ii   February  19,  17(>fi, 

joined  his  brother  in  Ohio  County.     His  strong  in-  after  the  removal   of  the   family  from  AllHMuarle. 

clination   was  to  settle   in   Kentucky,   but  it   was  She    was    married    to    her    cousin,    James  Poage, 

never  carried  out.     In  1787  he  was  a  member  of  ilarch   10.  1787.      In    I7!il    she  removed   with   her 

the  Legislature,  and  continued   to  be  al    intervals  husband    fiMun    his   residence   in    r.ath     County   lo 

through    the   decade   of   1790.      lie   was   a    member  Clark   County,    Iveiitucky,    then    to    .Mason   County, 

of  the  Constitutional  Convent  ion  of  1788.      He  was  and    finally   to    i;i|dey,    Ohio,    vvhei-e,    being   left    a 

early  appointed  a  magistrate  in  Ohio  County,  and  widow   in  ISi'O,  she  diecl   .May  L'.~,  is:!i».     She  was 

acted  as  such  until  his  death.     He  was  first  .Majm-,  Hie    luodier    (d'    thiiMeen    children.     One    of    her 

then   Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Fourth    Regiment  (laughters,  :Margaret.  was  marrie<l  to  Kev.  Thomas 

of  the  Tenth  Brigade  of  Virginia  Militia.     In  the  S.  Williamson,  and   they    and    another    daughter, 

Wiw  of   1811'   he  was  commandant   (d'   the   ti-oojis  Sarah,  who  was  afterwards  mari-ied  to  Kev.  Ciideon 

from    North-western    Virginia,    that     marched    for  Pond,   s|ient    tliiMr   lives   in    .Minnesota    as   mission- 

Niufidk  as  far  as  Cheat  K'iver,  and  were  there  met  aries  to  the  Dakota  Indians. 

with  orders  to  return.     He  was  one  of  the  founders  (h)    M.vktii.v  Woons.  the  youngest  of  (he  fam- 

of   Ihe   Xorlh-western  Bank  of   \'irginia.  and    for  ily,   wa.s  born   in    P.oietourt.   and    was  married  lo 


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Captain  nciivy  Walker,  a  ciliy-cii  of  tliat  founty.      Joii.x  lli:.\i;v  McKki:  ;  and  ( !.; )  1.yi>ia  P..     Tlic  said 
They  resided  on  Ci'iiiii's  ('reck,  ()|)]K>site  the  mouth      Tlionias  A\'oo(ls    (liusband  of  Mary  Bi'yson)    was 


of  ■Rarber's  Crock.  Shi'  lusl  lici-  liusband  in  1803. 
She  continued  to  live  on  Claim's  Ci-cek  till  her  fam- 
ily was  <;rown,  when  she  made  iier  lionic  witli  her 
yonn<jest  son,  Georiic.  \\lio  resided  on  .Tohn"s  Creek 
about  foni'  miles  wesi  of  Newcastle.  There  she 
(lied  I>eeeiiiber  14.  Is:!!,  and  was  bui'ii'd  in  the  fam- 


tin*  son  of  Colonel  Archibald  Wootls  by  his  wife, 
Anne  Poaji-e;  and  said  Colonel  Archibald  was  the 
son  of  .Vudi-ew  Woods  by  his  wife,  .Marl ha  I'oag'e; 
and  said  .\ndie\\  was  the  son  of  ^lichael  "Woods, 
of  IJJair  Park,  by  his  wife,  IMary  ("anipbell. 

I »)-.  Woods  nuirried  Miss  Maria  Cooi)er  Baker,  of 


ily  (•(  inelery  on   I  lie  farm  (d'  .lolin   Walker,  a  mile      .Marl  insiiur;;-.  A'iriiinia,  September  7,  IS.")."!,  and  by 

her  he  has  the  followiui;  children,  to  w  il  :  (a  I  Ann 
Eliza,  who  married  Professor  John  K.  Samjisou; 
(b)  SamtkI;  I>aki;i;,  wiio  married  Lncretia  1  »er- 
rick  Oilmore  Seplember  1,  18S1  ;  (c)  Ukxry  Mc- 
Ki:i;,  I  >.  !>.,  who  married  Miss  Joseiibine  Under- 
\\'oo(l,  (>ci(ilier,  1SS:*>,  ;ind  is  a  missionary  to  China; 
Id)  KiKiAK,  .Ii;..  .\l.  !>.,  who  married  ^Fiss  Frances 
A.  Smith,  daughter  (d'  Kev.  Dudley  T).  Smith,  at 
Slianyli.ii,  ('liina.  .VjMil   l!l,  iSDi'.  in  which  empire 

lie   I  lOd^ai-  W Is,  .M.   I>.  I,  has  lalxired  as  a   niedi- 

eal  mission.iry ;  ie|  .Tamks  P>aki:i:.  .M.  I).,  who  niar- 
ri<'(l  .Miss  lOlizabelh  l^>rown  Smith,  dauiihiei-  of  the 
Ke\ .  Dr.  -lames  P.  Smith,  ami.  like  iiis  bi'other 
lOd.Uar,  is  a  medical  missionary  to  ('liina;  and  (f) 
.Makv  C. 

Mrs.  .Maria  ('oo]ier  Woods,  ikc  Paker,  was  the 
dauiihter  of  .Mr.  Samuel  Paker,  an  elder  of  the 
I'resbyteri.-Mi  ("hurcli,  by  his  wife,  lOliza  Straw- 
bridjie  Keed.  Eliza  S.  l\eed  was  the  daniihter  of 
Samuel  Reed,  a  Revolutionary  soldier  and  a  dis- 
riuiiuislK'd  lawyer,  by  his  wife,  Anna  Kennedy. 
The  said  Samuel  P.aker  \vas  the  son  (d"  James 
]>;iker,  i>\'  "Federal  Hill,"  I'^redei'lck  CouiHy,  A'ir- 
i^iiiia,  by  his  wife,  .\iine  ('am|»bell.  who  was  a  lireat 
beauty  and  an  heiress.  Said  James  liaker  was  the 
son  of  Samuel  I'.aker,  who  came  from  Eniiland  in 
1  TriO  as  prival(  .secretary  to  Lord  I'airfax.  His 
wife  was  ]']lizabeth  Rrown. 

Dr.  I'^d^ar  Woods  has  ]daee(l  the  whole  Woods 
family  under  lastiui;  obligations  t(r  him  by  ha\inL,' 
]inlilislied  his  liisioi-y  of  One  Branch  of  the  \\'oo(b 
ses,  a  small  pamphlet;  and  his  History  of  .Miie- 
marle  ('oniily,  N'irininia,  a  neal  oela\(i.  NN'ithout 
these  two  piiidicalions  at  hand,  the  author  of  iliis 


or   two  from  her  idd   home  down    the  creek.      Her 
family  consisted  of  eii;ht  sons  and  one  daughter. 

Rev.  EDGAR  \VOODS.  I'ji.  D.,  was  born  De- 
ccMuber  12,  ISl'T,  in  Wlieelin^Li',  West  Viriiinia. 
Having:  resrdved  to  de\(ite  his  talents  to  the  work 
of  the  (!osi)el  ministry,  lie  s](ent  ai)out  twenty- 
seven  yeai'S  of  his  life  in  the  active  labors  of  his 
sacred  calling,  and  .abated  his  efforts  only  when 
admonished  by  a  seriims  atfcction  <if  the  heart  that 
his  only  hope  for  ])rolonging  his  days  lay  in  re- 
linquishing the  duties  of  the  pastoral  ottice.  His 
career  as  i)astm*  \\as  achie\c(l  in  tiie  bdlowing 
charges,  to  A\it :  ill  Presbyterian  ('liui-ch  <d'  his 
native  city.  Wheeling,  ATest  A'irginia,  from  lS.")li 
to  IS.")!;  1 1' I  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  ('(dum- 
bus,  Ohio,  from  1857  to  1802;  (3)  Presbyterian 
Church  of  ( 'harlottesville,  Virginia,  J8(J(i  to  1877. 
In  1877.  Dr.  Woods  founde(l  ;i  classical  school  of 
high  grade  for  boys  at  < 'harlot  lesville,  Virginia, 
known  as  Pantoi>s  .Vcademy.  an  institution  which 
Inis  ;l  re|mtation  for  excellence,  such  as  but  few 
scho(ds  nf  its  (dass  enjoy.  I'o  his  accomplished  son- 
in-law.  Professoi-  John  R.  Sampson,  is  due  the 
iiedit  <d'  Inning  taken  hold  i;f  this  instil  u  I  ion  when 
Dr.  Wood's  health  necessitated  his  withdrawal 
from  its  management,  and  made  il  a  school  of  na- 
tional   fame. 

\U-.  Wooils's  father  was  Thomas  "Woods,  f(n'  a 
long  lime  the  cashier  <d'  the  Xorlh-wcstern  Bank  of 
Wheeling,  West  ^'irginia,  a  lid  his  mot  her  was  Alarv 
Brysoii.  n\'  .\llei;heny  ('oiiiiiv.  Peiinsyhania.  His 
j)aiints    b.'id    se\(ii    cliildi-en.    as    follows: 

la  I    .V.N.N    l']i,i/,.\.  wl arried   .l;iiiies  S.    Polhe- 

iiiiis.    ibi    Sakaii  .M.;    (ci    TuKonoiti;;    id)    .Vitciii- 


r.Ai,i>;    le)    Eugau,  Ihe  subject  of  this  sketch;    (i )      volume  could  not  possibly  have  given  a  great  part 


SKI'7rCHES  OF  I'ATitUNfS.                                                                321 

of  tlio  most,  valuable  and  ivHalilc  data  Id  he  foiiml  Sampson  and  liis  wife,  ('aniline  -rcw    lo  malnrily 

hci-cii!.      No    descendant    of    ilicliael     Woods    can  and    inaiiied,    lo    wii:      lai    M  \n\    I'.ai.dw  i.\.   wlio 

afford  to  be  without  eitliov  of  tliese  ])ubli('atious.  nianied  dnlm  .lames  IHi|Miy.  .\l.  1 ).,  of  ilie  Confed- 

Tlie  jn-eseut  writer  lias  drawn  fr I  hem  freely  in  erale    Slaies    Army,     in     May.     ISd.".;     ibi     Amck 

ihe  ]!re|iai-aliou  of  tliis  work,  and  he  dcsii-i's.  in  Ihis  .Mi:i;i,i:,  who   married   ('liarU'S  BaskerviJie   in   July, 

|inblir  manner,  to  riH-ord  his  gralefnl  a|)]ireeial  ion  ISC..'.;    and    i  c  i    'l"ii()i:\in\    Konciius,   wlio   was  an 

of  liic  laborious  researohes  Dr.  Kdi^ar   Woods  has  In-aiored   missionary  <d'  ihc   S(niihern    i'resbyierian 

made,      'the   author   of    this   \'(ilnme    knows     fi'oni  Chnreli   In   Die   Kiniiihnn   of  (h-imm-c.  and    who  mar- 

lw(dve  years"  labor  what  such   researches  mean.  i  ied   .Miss  i;ila    lloyslcr,  of  .Mrm|ihis,  'j'l'niiessce,  in 

.May,  187S. 

oKETCH    ^2.  rill           •  I    i>         111'                o    o                            .1 

^  lue  said    Ke\ .   I»r.    I  ranees  S.  ^amiiscm   was  ilie 

MRS.  J.  R.  SAMPSON,  CHARLOTTESVILLE,  VIRGINLV.  son    .d'    IJb-hanI    Samps,, n,   dr..    by    his    wife.    .Mary 

The  fall  maiden  uame  of  jMrs.  Hampson  was  Ann  Koi^ers;  and  said  K'ichai'd,  di-.,  was  ihe  son  ni'  U'ich- 

VAi'/Ai  Woods.      t<he  was  the  flrst  child  (d'  (he  Kev.  ard,   Sain])son,   Sr..   by    his   wife,   .Vnni'   ('ni-d  ;  ami 

Ediiar  Woods,  Ph.  I).,  by  his  wife,   .Maria   Coojier,  said    Richard,   Sr..   was  the  son   of  Sicphcn   Samp 

ih'c   J>aker,   and   was  boru   iu  A\'heelin;i;',    \'ir,iiinia,  son,  Jr.,  of  (rooehland  ('lainiy,  \'iri:inia:  and  said 

Jnly   iM,    1854.      P.eiui;-   a    dauiihlei-   of    1  >r.    IM^ar  Slr]>hen,    Jr.,    was    ihe   son    id'   Sirpliiii    Samjtson, 

Woods,   she   is,   of   coui'se,   a    lineal    desceudant   of  I~^i'. ;  and  saiil  Sii  pin  n,  Sr..  was  ilir  son  of  fiamis 

.Mielund    Woods,  of  Blair  Park.  lliron!.;h    .Michael's  Sampson,  who  paleiited  land   in  <  lodddand  < 'onnly 

son,  Andi'cw.     Iu  the  sketch  of  her  father,  which  in  172.". 

immediately  precedes  her  own,  her  sjeuealonical  Pi(d'(  ssor  .lohn  i;.  Sampson  h.is  ow  ned  and  con- 
lines  are  set  out,  and  need  not  be  rei)eated  here.  ducted  I'anltjjs  .Xcademy,  neai'  ( 'harlottesville. 
She  was  edneated  at  the  .Mary  P.aldwin  School  at  Virginia,  lor  twcniy  yeai-s,  and  has  |iro\cd  himself 
Slauidon.  N'irj^inia.  and  was  ji'radnaled  Ihencewilh  (<•  be  on<'  of  ihe  fonanosl  educators  of  y(mih  in 
sjiecial  dislinctiou,  takinii'  the  hii^hest  decree  of  Ihe  Cniled  Slales. 
that  school,  an  honor  which  has  beeu  wou  by  only 

a  very  few  of  the  youuji'  ladies  who  have  liotten  SKLICH  53. 
their  training  there,  aud  which  is  .dfered  only  by  J.  A.  R.  VARNHR,  LEXINGTON,  VIRtdMA. 
a  few  (d"  the  female  colleges  of  the  Jiighest  grade  in  .\li-.  -lohn  .\.  K,  \arner  was  boin  in  t.exinglon, 
llie  I'niled  States.  She  married  i'rofessor  .l(jhn  \'ii'ginia,  .March  ;!,  is|(l.  lie  was  1  he  son  id' ( 'liarh-s 
K.  Sam|)S(ni,  pro|irietor  of  Panlops  .\cademy.  \'ir-  X'ainei-  and  his  wile.  Saiali  l.apsli-y  Wallaie.  lie 
ginia,  by  whom  she  has  had  Ihe  fidlow  ing  childi'en,  was  married  lo  .Miss  .Mallie  Smiley,  id'  .\iigustu 
lo  wil:  la)  I'^ncAit  ^^'()ll|lS.  who  was  born  .\ngiist  Cnnnly.  (telolier  1.").  IS7I.  lie  le.anied  prinling 
iM,  ISSI'.  ami  lived  bul  onemonlh;  ibl  .M.\i;ii:  l>rn-  when  yet  a  boy.  ami  linally  liecame  an  iMJiinrial 
i,i:v.  wliii  was  Ixuai  June  28,  1S8(!,  and  lived  only  writer  of  decided  abiliiy.  ili'  became  inleresied  in 
Ihiileen  monllis;  (c)  A.xxi-:  i;rssi:i>i,,  who  w  as  boiai  p'oliiics,  and  rendered  ilie  1  ti'inoci'ai  ic  parly  nmsi 
Decendiei-  28,  188!) ;  ami  (d)  MioULE  1>."  .\nai;.\i;.  \alnable  services,  lie  enn  red  ilie  ( 'onfederale 
who  w;is  born  A]iril  ."td,  18!);>.  Army  in  -lune,  lS(il,  and  was  in  ihe  immorlal 
I'l'ofessor  John  K.  Sampson  was  b(U-n  al  llam|»-  ••Sionewall  Itrigade"  1  l'oni-ili  \'ir-ginia  K'egimeni  1. 
den  Sidney,  \'irginia,  Juue  1."),  18.j().  His  father  Al  ihe  Itall  le  id'  ( lei  lyslmig  (.Inly.  ]S(i;',i  he  was 
was  (he  l.ile  Ke\".  Dr.  Francis  S.  Samjison,  some-  made  a  in-isoner.  iind  for  nearly  1  wo  years  was  con- 
lime  I'l-ofessor  of  (h-ienlal  i.iierainre  in  I'nion  lined  in  I'ori  Delaware,  w  liei-eb\  his  heallh  was 
Theological  Seminary,  N'irginia,  by  his  wife,  Caro-  hopelessly  impaired.  In  I  S.><."i  j'rcsidenl  Cleveland 
line    Dmllev.      Thr if    Ihe   chij.licii    of    jv'cv.    Dr.  made  him  F.  S.   I'osi  mash  r  of  l.exinglon,  X'irginia, 


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wliirli  office  he  tilled  till  displaced  iu  1890  by  Presi- 
dent Harrison's  appointee.  Hi  18S»4  he  was 
appointed  TTuited  States  Inspector  of  (Miinese,  with 
his  office  at  Portland,  Oregon.  In  the  fall  of  1804 
his  wife  died,  and  one  year  later  he  also  passed 
aAvay.  He  left  several  I>rothcrs  and  sisters.  He 
was  descended  from  I'eter  A\'allace,  Hr.,  through  his 
.son,  I'eter,  Jr.,  and  from  .Michael  ^^"oods,  of  Blair 
Park,  through  his  daughter  Martha. 

Charles  Yarner,  father  of    the    subject   of    this 


Mr.  ^'anler  was  thoro\ighly  versed  in  all  the 
family  lore  of  the  Woodses  and  ^^'alla(•es,  and  took 
great  pride  in  his  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  He  ren- 
dered the  author  of  this  volume  very  great  service 
in  the  way  of  iuformatiou,  and  did  so  with  the  ut- 
ni(i.>-r  courtesy  and  cheerfulness.  He  was,  al  the 
date  of  his  death,  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
riiurch,  and  liis  remains  were  interi'ed  in  the  Lex- 
ington f'euH  tery,  in  the  midst  of  the  region  his 
worthy  progenitors  had  settled  a  century    and    a 


sketch,  Avas  born  in  1797,  and  died  in  1860.     His  half  before. 

wife,  Sarah  Lapsley  Wallace,  was  born  in  1802,  and  The  children  of  Col.  Samuel    Wallace    and   his 

died  in  1852.     Said  Sarah  L.  was  the  daughter   of  wife,  Pebekah  Anderson,  were   the   following:     1, 

Andrew   Wallace    (1781-1810)    by   his   wife   Jane  Elizabeth,    who   was   born   in    1772,   and    married 

Blair    (1790-183G);    and    said    Andrew    Wallace  Charles  Grigsby,  of    Tennessee,    in    1790;    2,  An- 

(1781-1846)   was  the  son  of  Col.  Samuel  Wallace  drew  (tirst),  who  was  born  in  1776,  and  died  very 

(1745-1786)  by  his  wife,  Pebekah  Anderson  (1747-  young;  3,  James,  who  was  born    in  1778;  4,  Wil- 


1798).  Col.  Samuel  Wallace  was  an  officer  in  the 
Pevolutionarj^  Army,  and  be  had  four  brothers  who 
also  served  the  Patriot  cause  against  the  Biitisli,  as 
follows:  1,  Malcolm,  who  served  under  (Jeneral 
jMorgau  at  Boston,  and  died  in  service  in  1775;  2, 
James  Hugh,  who  was  an  ensign  in  the  Third  Vir- 
ginia Kegiment,  and  died  of  smallpox  in  Philadel- 
Ijhia  in  1770;  3,  Adam,  who  commanded  a  Pock- 
bridge  (Jompany  in  the  Tenth  Virginia  Regiment, 
and  fell  at  the  Waxhaws,  May  29,  1780,  bravely  re- 
sisting Tarleton's  Troopers.  The  sword  with  which 
he  cut  down  several  of  the  enemy  on  that  bloody 
field  was  in  Mr.  Varner's  possession  in  1895.  The 
name  "Adani  Wallace"  is  on  the  buck-horn  handle 
in  clear  letters.  5,  the  remaining  brother,  Andrew 
Wallace,  was  a  Captain  iu  the  Eighth  Virginia  and 
fell  at  Guildford  Court  House  in  1781.     The  said 


liam,  who  was  born  in  1780,  and  died  in  1808;  5, 
JLartlia,  who  was  ])orn  in  1782,  married  John 
Piitr,  and  died  December  30,  1828;  6,  Andrew 
(second  I,  who  was  born  iu  1784,  married  Jane 
Blair  in  1812,  and,  after  her  deatli,  Mrs.  .Mary  ('. 
(Blair I  I'oague,  and  died  in  1810;  and  7,  Ander- 
son, w  iio  was  born  in  1786,  and  married  Mary  Gal- 
liraitli. 

Mr.  J.  M.  Perry,  attorney  at  law,  Staunton,  ^'ir- 
ginia,  kindly  furnishes  some  valuable  iufonnation 
in  regard  to  the  Wallaces  which  became  available 
to  the  author  after  the  first  chapters  of  this  work 
were  in  ]>riut,  and  use  of  his  notes  is  made  herein. 
.Mr.  Terry's  maternal  grandmother  was  Susan 
Ruff  -Martin,  daughter  of  the  ilaillia  Wallace, 
mentioned  abo\'e,  who  was  hoiii  in  17S2,  and  be- 
came the  wife  of  John  Ruff.     Mr.  Perry  had  access 


Colonel  Sam  Wallace  (and  the  four  brothers  just  to  some  family  papers  of  an  aunt  of  his,  and  one 
mentioned)  M-as  the  son  of  Peter  A\'allace,  Jr.,  and 
his  wife,  JIartlia  Woods.  The  said  Peter,  Jr.,  was 
the  son  of  Peter  Wallace,  Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Eliza- 
beth A\'oods.  Said  Martha  Woods  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  :\lichael  ^^'oods,  of  Blair  Park,  by  his  wife, 
Mary  Campbell.  .Michael,  of  Blair  Park,  A\as  the 
brother  of  P^lizabetli  NVoods,  wife  of  I'eter  Wallace, 
Sr.  Hence  Peter,  Jr.,  and  his  wife,  Martha  Woods, 
were  first  cousins. 


item  li(>  fnrnishes,  which  the  author  has  not  met 
with  elsewhei-e,  is  llie  statement  tlial  I'eler  Wal- 
lace, Sr.,  on  first  coming  to  .Vinerica,  sell  led  on 
Tybee  Island,  colony  of  Georgia,  and  thai  about 
1734  he  settled  in  Albemarle  County,  Virginia. 
There  ai-e  no  recoi'ds  in  AlbiMnarle,  however,  to  in- 
ilieaie  lliai  I'eler  Wallace,  Sr.,  cvcv  was  in  thai 
i-ounly;  and  the  strong  probability  is  that  he  died 
in  Ireland    prior  to  the  date  of    the  migration  of 


ROBERT  WOODS  WALKER. 


(See  Sketches  54-55-50.) 


MRS    KUl.ALIl:  W  WALKER. 

I  ITU  h    RntIK,    ,\RK. 


ELMWOOn.   lEEFERSON  CO..  ARK. 

HO.ME.STKAll   01-   R.    \V.     WAI.KRP,   DECEASED. 


^E*-. 


MRS.  ALFRED  D.  MASON. 

ME.MPHIS,  TENN. 

(See  Sketcii    i7  ) 


ALFRED  D.  MASON,  JR. 

A\EMPHI>.  THNN. 

(See  Sketch    57.) 


SKiyrciIES  Ol^  I'ATKoXS.  :!2o 

tile  Wallaces  and  Wo.ulses  lo  I'.-iinsyivania  i  I  7:.- 1  i .  ci.Mis  rnnvtvsy  Nvhi,!,   is   n.|,M-n,l,cn-,l    l,v   nut   :,   IVw 

retor   Wallace,    Jr.,    llu-   son    nC   H,,.   ,.|,irr    I'H.t,  m  iliis,h,v.     ()nici   ■au.\  umiiI,.  in  nuiiii,-,-.  1;,,I»tI 

nui.y  have  l.cen  confnn ,1  wiili  liis  r,-,ilici'  in  s ■  W.  Walkc:-  \v;is  a  man  cf  ,lr,.|H.si   l,.,.|inu-  and  lirm- 

of    the   statements    (inolcd.      i',.i,.i-.    S:-..    was,    I,,.-      csi   piin.- ■.      Whm  i  In-  W;,,-  ,,r  i  !„■  Sixties  came 

Youd    reasonable    doiil)!.  a     1 1  i.^lilnnd    Sr(,i,linian.  nn    In-  .-.luld    imi    ...iisisirni  l.\    lr;n  ,•  l,is  .|..r,.n<-..l..ss 

\\li(.   was  horn  and   reared   in  Scotland.  ;>nd    llirn      liiinilv   i,,  I,,  rum,,  -y   s irr.   hm     !,,■   u;is    ;,     luval 

niioTated  to  Ulster,  Ireland.      In  llic  laller   isl.-nid       IVi, '  Hi,.  Sunlli.  and  his  ..Idrsi  sun   (  Cr.^d  Tav- 

he  probably  met  and  married  Elizabeth,  sister  .,r      l,„i.  wlnm  .vl   Inii  srvmirm.  mlisird  ii,  il,,-  Cnii- 

-Michael    Woods,    and    died    there   prnn-    tc    ITlM,  n  dnal,.  .\rmy.  .-.nd  s.rvrd  i  ill  i  hr  ,lusr  .d'  i  !,.■  war. 

leaving  his  wife  with  a  considerable  family  .d'  hoys  In  his  luvdy  li,,mc.   i:im\\.M»d— of  whhh  a  picLure 

"""^  •^^^'^*^-  will  he  luund    in   iliis  Milinne — were  reared  eleven 

SKETCHES  54,   55,  56  AND  57.  children.  1,,  wii  :      (a  I  i'n\:\:\>  Tavloi:  W.u.kku.  who 

MR.  R.  W.  WALKER,  MR.  J.  VV.  WALKER,  MRS.  E.  V.  ^^ '"^  '""'"  '*'"''"''  •'•   ^^^■'-  ^""1  maiiicd   .\li>s  Kli/.a- 

WALKEK,  MRS.  A.  D.  MASON.  '"''li     KiHwyn     CdX,    January     1,     ISCC;     1  b  1  Mar- 

The  family  of  Walkers  now  to  be  considei-ed  are  <''^i:i"i'     lOi  i.ai.ii:    Wam^iou,   who    was     horn     Jann- 

lineal    descendants    of    .Michael  Woods,    o,"    Itlair  '■^^T    -"•)     '''^^''-    •■""I     "''^    married     in     I'.enjandn 

Park,  throngh  ^Miehaers  son  Andrew.     Their  line  Enstace     IJenlon.     .\in-il    1."..     INC,;!,     ami     has    a 

may    be    stated    thns:      Andrew    ^^'oods    (son    of  'laughter,    ICnIalie    Walkei-    I'.enion;     (c)    Joseph 

.Michael,  of  Blair  J'ark,  and  his  wife  .Mary  < 'amp-  ^ywi>i<    Wm.kkk.     who     was      born      .Knunsi      18, 

hell)     who    married    jMartlia    Poage,    had,    anunig  1S52,   and    manied    Miss    ilenlah    r.nrion.    Orioher 

other  children,  a  son  named  James  >\'oods,  whose  ^'''  l''^''^'^;  ( <l )  M.vuy  .Vg.nes  W.m.kki;.  who  was  born 

wife  was  Nancy  Kayburn;  said  James  and  :sancy  -'"'.^   -•''•   l''^~>"''  ■■'"'1   nmi'i-ied  Orlando  Halliburton, 

had,    among    other    children,    a   daughter    named  A])ril  I'il,  isst);   (ei    |;i)|ii:i!t  Wdons  Walker,  who 

.Margaret  Woods,  who  married  John  Aloore  Wal-  '^^-''^  ''"i'"  -'"il.^    -"•   '■'^•i".  i"id   m.irried  Miss  Lynn 

ker;  and  said  John   .Moure    \\alk<r    and    his  wife  t'":iiwell,  October    1.    1S!»;{;    (f)    C.\therine   Eliz.V- 

iMargarc  I   had,  among  other  children,  a  son  named  '•'•J'"   "■;   iii)   f^Ait.Mi    IOits;   i  hi    Sam  11:1,  T.wi.du^ 

Koliert  Woods  Walker,  who  nnirried  Miss  Enlalie  '""'    'J'    -'^-^H-^^   .Mosiiy.  all    lour  of  whom   .lied   in 

X'aujine  Taylor.    This  Kobert  W.  Walker  was  horn  'liil'lln'od ;     (kiJwiKs     Xoi;vi;i.i..  who    was    horn 

near  the  Natural  lUidge.  K'ockhridge  Conniy.  \ir-  >biivh    Id,    ISlKi,  and  die<l  January    17,    ISS7;    Ih 

ginia,    September    11,    J.stU.     In    iSli-    the    family  •'"H.n  .Mooin:  Wai.kki;,  who  was  horn  J  nly  :i5,  184S, 

nnn-ed  to  Caldwell  County,  Kentucky,   w  h.-ir   h'oh-      iii>i'-i'i<'<l  -M  i^'s  N"ia  Carroll,  Dreeii i- :;().  Iss.-,,  an<l 

ert's  father  died  in  ISUI,  wiien  he  was  a  child  of  '''"'''  -August  23.  iSli:;,  leaving  liis  wife,  .and  a  son 
six  years.  Koherl  ccniinncd  lo  n  side  ihei-e  lill  Jnid  daughter  she  had  hoi-iie  him. 
about  lN2(i,  when  he  began  his  business  career  in  M  i'-  < 'reed  Tay  ha-  W  .1 1  kei.  aho\  ,•  ment  ioned  (who 
Nashville.  Tennessee.  In  ls;;s  he  v(  d  io  .b Hci--  '^^"^  '"  '''"'''  ""^•'^-  Arkan.sisi,  ;.nd  his  wife  Eliza- 
son  C(mnty.  Arkansas,  and  Himv  he  continued  to  '"''1'  Dillwyn,  iicc  Cox,  had  the  following  diil- 
reside  till  his  death,  which  occurred  Xoveniber  I'd.  '''■•'"•  '"  ^^i'-  i""  ';"1.i:';t  iMi.i.wvx  Walkki:.  who 
lsi;7.  On  ihe  27lh  of  January.  IS4l'.  he  was  mar-  ""'^  '""•"  '"  ''^'''■'-  '"•UTied  .Miss  .Mar.v  Sin.art  tireer 
ri(d  to  .Aliss  Enlalie  \'.  T.ayhn-.  Soon  aflei-  his  iii.^ugnsi.  IS!I7.  and  died  in  IIHIO.  lea\  ing  i  w  o  ehil- 
marriage  he  nio\ed  to  I';imwooil  naiilal.icii  and  'li'ii  (Mary  Lonisi^and  loiherl  I).  1  ;  ihi  i;El-lil::N 
llnre  laid  the  toundali(ai  of  lln'  delighlful  tdd  '^^v  Wvi.Kia;.  who  died  in  infancy,  (11  M.\i;v  f^u- 
Southern  honu'  which  was  for  so  many  years  ihe  i.Ai.i.v  \\.\lki:i;,  who  manied  .Mr.  .\lfreil  1).  .Ma.^ou, 
hap])y  residence  of  his  fannly.  Here  he  and  his  a  promineni  insurance  agent,  of  .Memphis.  Tenne.s- 
wife  dis])en.sed  a  bountiful    hospitality   with   gra-  see.  by  whom  slu'  has  a  son.  .Vlfred  I ».  .Mason,  .Ir.; 


320  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

( (]  I   ('i;i;i:ii  \\'.\i>Ki:ii;  uud  ( i' l   Elizaul;tu  11.  Wal-  ciatcd,  and  all   lia<l   I'ciiiarkaM  v  i;<i(i(l   inciiKirics,  it 

KVAi.  is  safe  1(1  assiiiiir  iliat   I  In'  ^\'illiauls()^s  had  a  very 

.Mr.    .Idsipli   ^V(l(^ds  ^A'aikcr,    atii>\c    nii'iitioned,  cleai"   iindcrstaudiii^-   af  the  lidicalo^u'v   of   Andrew 

w  111!  niai-ri(d  .Miss  i'.cnlali  r.iirlr.n  in  ISSS,  is  a  iiK.'r-  \\'0(>(ls,  son  of  (dd   .Mi(dia('l.      It  is  mil   (if  the  (jucs- 

(■liaut  ai  ('(irncr  SIcik  .  Arkansas,  and  lias  si.\;  (.-liil-  lion  tn  suii]i(isi'  tlic  Willianisiins  were  in  any  doubt 

thru,  as   ndldws:      lai    .Mary   ^'lla;l.\lA   \Valkek;  as  id  wlio  Andi'(-\\"s  parents  were  m' as  ki  wIki  were 

ll>)   l>;ri..\i.i.\  W.xhKi'.u;  ( (•  I   r>Kri-Aii  W'Ai.KriU;  (d)  liis  In-dtliers  and   sisters.     The  anihur   lielic\-es   he 

KuuioitT  r>ruT(i.\   Wai-ki:!;;  ie)  Coknklia  WalkeiI;  has     edn(dnsi\(  ly     shdwn     ihai      Andrew      W'odds 

and   (I'l   .liisKni   Wdnns  Walkku.  -In.  "as     (ine     (d'  liie     sdiis     dl'      .Michaid,     nf     Itlair 

>Mar\-  Aiiiies  Walker,  ali(;V(    nii  n1  i(inrd,  who  mar-  I'ark,  and    a    linither   lo   Miehatd    Wddds,  -Ir.,    wIki 

rie(l    Oidandd    lla  1 1  ilnirl  in,    has   liad    llie   fulhiwiug  li\ed    on   daiiiis    Kixcr,   (inly   aliiml    I'diirleen    inih's 

(diihlren,   to   wil  :      la  I    AcNES    ITalluu-RTON  .•    (h)  norlleeasi  id' Andr(  w  "s  hdine  ;  and  also  a  hrothor  to 

Walkeu    li.M.i.ir.iUTiiN ;    ( c  i     IOilai-ia    IIali.iiu'K-  Aindiiliahl     \\i)(ids,    -whose    farm    was  imly    about 

ton;  (dl  .liiii.N  .M.  Il.u,i.ii;i  RTd.v  ;  KM  Maky  ITallI-  Iwcniy  miles  smillewcsl  df  his  own;  Inn    I'rofessor 

Brifj'UN;     ill     (>i;i..\Miii     ll.vi.i.uuin'uN ;    and     ly)  W  illianisiars   skeirh    nf   his   ]iarcnis    ihiviws   some 

.MAK(;Ai;i"r    liALl.ir.rUToN.  addilicnal   li^lil   on   lliis  iincsl  ion.      His  nidllicr,  as 

.Mr.    Uiibert    \\'ii(ids    Walker,    above   mentioned,  .jasl   siaird,  wasai;irl   in  her  lirucnih  yeai-  when 

wJKi  married  .Miss  i.yiin  S.  Farwell  in  lS!i:;,  resides  AihIkw    Woods's   widow    died    al,   or   (lose   to,    hi.s 

in  lallle  loKk,  Arkansas,  wb(re  lie  is  tlie  principal  molher's     JKnne.      .M(a-edver.      rrofessor     Williani- 

iiK  inlii  r  (d'  the  tlriiMsf  K.  W.  Walker  c^  ( "o.,  dealers  son's  iirandniol  her  was  a    wdiiiaii    lifly-ihree  years 

in  ice,  eo;il  iind  w I.      His  wife  died  in  1894.  old  when  .Marllia  Woods  died,  niid  she  lived  iwelvc 

In  I'arl   1  of  I  his  \idiime  will  he  foiind  an  aeconnt  years   thereafler.      He   shdws   ihal    his   nidlher  and 

df  Ihe  .\n(lr(W    \\'doils  hraiudi  (if  W(idds(  s,  ihe  (ine  .grandmother    were    perfeeily     familiar     wiih     ihe 

to  wiiieh  Ihe  Walkiis  now    under  cdiisideral  ion  he-  family  Iraditions  as  (iu-y   h:id    hren   nndersiood  by 

hiim.  and  lo  lhai  aceoiint  ihe  reader  is  ndcrred  for  ilie  older  Woodses  in  Hotelonri   County,  N'irginia, 

iiianv    delails  id'  special    inleresl    lo  ihe  subj' els  of  while  Andrew  \\'o(ids  was  y(  I  ;ilive,  and  often  told 

Skel(dies  :>i-:>7.  "'^'^'"'  '■liililii'ii  ahoiil    ihe  <d(l    folks  and   iheir  inaii- 

iiei-  of  nianai;iny    llie  (hiHlren,  etc.      And   the  dis- 

SKETCH    58.  .         .              '•■",,     ..            „..,,. 

liiici   impr(ssion   rmlessor  \\  1    lam.son  and  all  the 

A.  W.  WILLIAMSON,  kOCK  ISLAND,  ILLINOIS.  '                                                                                        ''"- 

(For  iiiusir.,tions  see  page  3...>  '''"'"  " ''  ''"'  f-n'iil.v  ddivdl,  fr all  I  liey  heard  bis 

I'rofessdi-  Andrew  Woods  Willinmson,  who  is  a  mollier  and  iirandmol  her  and   oilier  relativis  say, 

memlii  r  of  llie  faculty  of  Aiii;iisiana  ('oile^e,  l>d(d:  was  I  hat  Andrew  \\'dods,  .Micbaid   Woods,  .|i-.,  Ar- 

Island.  1  lliiiois,  was  I  he  S(ai  (d'  Kev.  Thomas  Smith  (liihnld    Wddds,  (d'  Calawha   ("reek,  and    .Maji'daleii 

Williamsdii,   .M .    I>.,   hy   his   wife   .Mari^arei    I'oa.c^e.  Woi  ds  were  all   children  of  one  father — Michael, 

He  was  liorn  January  .".1,  1S;!S.      lie  is  a  lineal  de-  of  JJIair   I'ark.      Xo  one  in   llie   whole   family  evei' 

scendant  (if  .Miidiaid  Woods,  of  lilair  I 'avk,  through  seems  lo  have  Indd  any  oilier  \iew    of  ihis  nialtei'. 

.\Mcbaers  s(.n  .\ndri  w  ;  and  as  .Marllia,  Ihe  widdw  'I'o  asserl    Ihal    such  a   clear  and  iiersisleiil    fainil\ 

of  said    .\ndri  w    Woods,    MnciI    in    he   uinely   years  Iradilion   could    he  a    iiiylli,   and    ihal,    Ido,    in    the 

old,  dying  in  Kijdey,  ( diio,  in  .\jiril,  ISlS,  and  I'ro-  aliseiice    of    all    o|i|iosing    e\  ideiice,    would    be    ex- 

fessor  Williams(!irs  (.wn  iiiitther  was  cdnlcmpdra ry  treimdy  unreasonable,  not  to  say  absurtl. 

wilh   said    .Mariha    Woods  f(!r   bairhen  and  a    half  .\udrew    Woods   and    .Marllia,   his   wife,    had,   as 

years,  and  his  molher's  mother  was  eontempoi'ary  alicac  stated,  a  (laughter  named  Mary  Woods  ( .Vn- 

with  said  .Marllia  Wdi.ils  for  more  ihan  iwenty-si-K  drew's  mother  bore  the  same  name  I .  who  was  liorn 

years,  and   these  ladies  were  all  intimately  asso-  in  Botetourt  County,  "N'irginia,  February  19,  1705. 


She  married  James  Poage  March  19,  ITST 
iiKvtlier's  maich'ii  Tiaiue  was  Poage  as  was  tliat  of  llic 
man  she  married.  Mary  Poage  ( iicc  Woods  I  died  at, 
IJiph'y,  Ohio,  April  1,  183U.  Tliis  lady  was  Pro- 
fessor Williamson's  grandmother,  who  was  con- 
temporary to  Marl  ha  Woods  (Andrew's  wife)  for 
more  than  fifty  years.  Then  the  said  James  Poage 
and  his  wife,  Mary,  had,  among  otlier  children,  a 
daughter  named  ^largaret,  who  was  born  in  Mason 
County,   Kentucky,   September   10,   iSOo,   and   she 


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Her 


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home  at  (irccnwood,  South  Dakota;  tf)  Andukw 
Wooiis  Wii.i.iAMsoN  (the  subjcci  of  liiis  sketch), 
wild  was  iiorn  January  ;'>1,  isi'.s,  gijuhiMtcd  from 
.Marietta  College  in  1S.")T,  and  frcaii  Lane  Theo- 
logical Senunary  in  ISfifi,  and  is  unman-ied,  and  is 
now  :i  |irofessoi'  in  .\iig\islnua  ('oliege.  Kock  Ishnid, 
Illinois;  (g|  X.wcv  .I.\nk  A\'ii,i,i.\mso.\,  wlm  \\:is 
lioin  at  i.aei|ui  Park,  .Minnesota,  .luly  "JS,  ISIO, 
never  married,  and  gave  her  life  to  missionary  work 
among  the  Dakota  Indians,  dying  at  Greenwood. 


married  the  Rev.  Thomas  S.  Williamson   (son  of      South    Dakota,    November   27,    1877;    (h)   S.Mirii 


Rev.  AVilliam  AVilliamson,  of  Adams  County,  Ohio) 
on  the  lOth  of  April,  1827,  and  died  at  St.  Peter, 
iMinnesota,  July  21, 1872.  This  ^Margaret  William- 
s(m,  ncc  Poage,  was  the  mother  of  Professor  Wil- 
liamson, and  she  was  contemporary  to  the  said 
Martha  Woods  (widow  of  Andrew  Woods)  for  the 
tirst  fourteen  and  a  half  years  of  her  life  (from 
September  10,  1803,  till  April  lit,  1818). 


P>tit(ii;ss  \\ii.iaAMSON,  who  was  Iioiti  iiI  Laeipii 
I'ark,  .Minnesot;!,  Sei)lend>er  21,  IS12,  and  was  ac- 
cidenlally  killed  at  ^■ell(l\\  Medicine,  .Minnesnia, 
.March  M,  lsr»(;;  (  j|  .M,\i;iii.\  Wiij.i.v.mso.n,  who  was 
born  October  ;",  1844,  at  Laeqiii  Park,  .Minnesota, 
and  married  William  W.  Stout,  of  (Jresham,  Ore- 
gon, September  3,  1801;  and  (k)  TfiONRY  Martix 
\Viij.i.vMsu.\.  who  was  born  March  1,  isr)l,  at  Soiitli 


The  said  Rev.  Thomas  Smith  Williams(m,  M.  D.,      St.  Paul,  ilinuesota,  graduated  from  the  IJniversit  \ 


and  ilargaret,  his  wife,  had  ten  childi'cn.  He  was 
born  in  IJuion  District,  South  Car(dina,  ,March  6, 
1800,  married  Margaret  Poage,  April  10,  1827, 
and  died  at  St.  Peter,  Minnesota,  June  24,  1871). 
This  cou]>le  were  devoted  missionaries  to  the  Da- 
kota Indians  frotu  1835,  till  their  work  was  cut 
short  by  death. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  their  ten  children  :  (a) 
^VII,LIAJ[  Ri..viit  AViLUAMSox,  who  was  born  May 
10,  1828,  at  Ripley,  Ohio,  and  died  at  the  same 
place  March  27,  1830;  (b)  .AIary  Po.vge  William- 
son^ W'ho  was  born  April  3,  1830,  at  Ripley,  Ohio, 
and  died  there  June  12,  1833 ;  ( c)  James  Gilliland 
WiLUAilsox,  who  was  born  Jantmry  25,  1832,  at 
Ripley,  Ohio,  and  died  there  one  year  later;  (d) 
Elizabeth  Poage  Williamson,  who  was  born  at 
\\'alnut  Hills,  Ohio,  Octolu-r  30,  1833,  married  An- 
drew Hunter,  .Vpril  1!),  1858,  and  died  at  St.  Peter, 
Minnesota,  JMarch  11,  1863;  (e)  Rev.  John  I'oacje 
AViLLiAMSON,  who  was  boi-n  October  27,  1835,  grad- 
mited  from  .AI arietta  College  in  1857,  and  from 
Lane  Theological  Seminary  in  18Ct>,  married  Sarah 
A.  Vanuice,  April  12,  1866,  and  has  been  a  mission- 
ary to  the  Dakota  Indians  since  1860,  making  his 


of  .AHnnesota,  chose  the  profession  of  editor,  mar- 
ried Helen  .M.  Ely,  of  Portland,  Oregon,  and  has 
two  eluldren:     Sumner  and  William. 

The  above-mentioned  James  Poage,  who  married 
.Maiy  Woods  (datighter  of  Andrew  Woods  and 
Martha),  was  born  near  Staunton,  A'ii'ginia,  March 
17,  1760,  and  married  Mary,  March  19,  1787.  He 
was  a  prominent  land  surveyor,  and  died  at  Ri])- 
ley,  Ohio,  A])ril  19,  1820.  To  James  Poage  and  his 
wife  Mary,  ncr  Woods,  were  born  thirteen  children, 
as  follows:  (a)  .Mautha  Poage,  born  February  17, 
1788,  married  (ieorge  Poage,  and  died  about  lS5(i; 
(b)  John  Calvin  Poage^  born  A])ril  19,  1790,  mar- 
ried ^lary  Hopkins,  and  died  August  14,  1838;  (c) 
Ri:v.  AxDinow  Woods  Poage,  born  Dec(Mnber  25, 
17!)1,  married  .lane  Gay  in  1819,  and  died  .\piil  19, 
1S40,  leaving  six  children:  1,  Nancy  .McKee;  2, 
Jennie;  3,  John  Gay,  -M.  D. ;  4,  Andrew  ;  5,  Mary 
Jane;  and  6,  Margaret  Eliza;  (d)  AIary  Poage, 
who  was  born  March  25,  1793,  in  Kentucky,  and 
died  .lune  2,  1822,  having  never  marrieil;  (e) 
.Iami'.s  I'oAta:,  .lu.,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky, 
anil  died  December  20,  1820,  liaA'ing  never 
married;      (f)      Ror.EUT     Poagi:.     born      in     Ken- 


328  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

tiH-kv,   Fehruai-y   i,   17!)7.   iiiiirricd    S;ii;ili   Kirkcr,  m.iri'ied  Follv  McKci-  in  IS(ir>,  ami,  in  \s:u;,  mnvcd 

daug'hti'i'  of  (iovcnior  Kirkcr,  (if  Oiiio,  and  died  with   liis  son-in-law,     liuhcrf   A.   :McKt'o,  to  Clark 

l'"('lii-uarv    I,    lS7-t,    Icavini;-   issue;    ( .y  )    I']li/ai'.i;tii  Cunnlv,  .Miss(niri.     Said  .lolin  l.aiisiev  was  tlie  son 

I'OAGE.  born  in   Kenlnck.v,  April  -W.   ITUS.  married  nf  .liiseidi  Lapsley  liy  his  wife,  Sarah,  iicr  W'ikdIs; 

Isaac  Slieiihcrd,  and  (liiMJ  .IhI\  :!0,  is;;:.' ;(  h  )  Anne  and     said     Siirah     was    Ihe    daniihier    nl'    .Michael 

roACK.  hiirn   in   Kennnky,  May    ."),     ISdd.    married  Wduds,  (d'  Itlair  I'ark,  liy  his  wife  .Mary  ("aniidicll. 

.Mexander  .Mduncy,  and  died  ;il    K'nsscll villc,  oliiii,  .Miss  .Mar.uaref   McKee  was   married     In    .Indiie 

ahniil    ISTl*;    (ji    K'i:r.i:('('.v    I'o.vdK.   Imrn    in    .Masun  dohn   .Melvec  Wdud   in   ISSC,  by  whom  sJie  has  had 

("onnly,    Kenlncky,    Decendicr    17,    1801,    married  three    childi'cH,    as    I'ollows:      (a)    CitunELi.v;    (h) 

Jedin  Kiiox,  ami  died  .Vpril  o,  1S7(I;  (kl  iMAltGAUET  Louise;  and   (c)  Elean-uu. 

I'oACE,  born  in  .Mason  County,  Kentucky,  Septeui-  Judiic  Jcdin  .M(  Kce  ^^'oo<l  was  the  son  of  iiicliard 

her  1(1,  ISO:;,  married  llw.  TlKMnas  S.   NMlliaiusuu  -lulian  \\ood  by  his  w  ife  :Mar<iaret,  /m  c  .McKee.    Me 

and  became  ilic  mother  of  the  subject  (d' this  sketch,  was  born  in  I'l-anklin  County,  Kent  \n-ky,  and  came 

and   dic<l  at    St.    Teter,  .Minnesota,  -Inly   I'l,    lS7l';  with   iiis    ]iaren(s    to    Clark    County,  .Missoui-i,    in 

(1)   Sai;.ui   l'nA(;i;.  boin  at    llipley,  (>liio,  .March  4,  (hildhood.     One    of    his    iireat-iiraHd|iarents    was 

ISO.".,  married  i;e\,  (lideon  11.  I'ond  in  ls:;7.  wasa  Anthony   Ci'ockett,  a    Lieutenant  in    the    N'irjiinia 

missionary  to  the  Dakotas,  fi-om   Is:;.'.  lo  IS."):;,  and  troii|)S  in  the  Kcvidul  ioiiary  War.    <  )ne  of  his  ^reat- 

died  in  1S.")4;  (in)  Tiio.M.^s  I'o.vi.i;,  born  at    Kiidey,  .lireat-graiidfat hers  was  1  M-.  .I(diu  Julian,  who  was 

Ohio,  -lune  I,  ISOS,  and  died,  unmairied,  at   K'ii.ley  a  sur^L^con  with  the  Vir.uinia  troops  dnrino;  tlieRcvo- 

Auiiust,  ls:;i;and   ini   IJev.  ( iiooitci:  I'oac;!:,  born  at.  lution.      dndije  Wood  has  Indd  the  (dtices  (d"  Attor- 

Lipley,  Ohio,  .lune  IS,  LsOo,  uiarrie.l  -lane   Ui-.us.  ney-General  and   Circuit    .lud-c  and   other   im]>orl- 

and  died   at    Norfolk,    .Nebraska,  .l.-innary   <;.    IS'.m;,  anl  iicsitiniis,  and   is  now  engafrcd   in   t.he  jtractice 

having  live  children.  "I'  hiw  in  St.  Louis,  .Missouri. 

SKETCH  S9.  SKETCH  6o. 
MRS.  J.  M.  WOOL).  ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI.  COL.  C  A.  R.  WOODS,  KANSAS  CI  LY.  MISSOURI. 
The  maiilcn  name  of  .\h-s.  Wdod  was  .Mari^'aret  Col.  CharL's  .\.  IL  \\(iods  is  a  lineal  descend- 
McKee,  and  she  was  born  in  Clark  County,  .Mis-  ant  (d'  .Michaid  \\dods,  of  i;iaii-  I'ark,  ihrcjuuli  his 
souri,  in  lS(i4;  she  was  the  eldest  (4uld  (d'  l>r.  eldest  son,  William.  There  is  probably  no  member 
Kobert  Samuel  .McKee.  by  his  wife,  LjnLse,  iicc  "f  the  Woods  elan  who  has  taken  a  more  enlhnsi- 
<"h'avei-.  She  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Miehaid  asi  ic  interest  in  the  history  (d'  Ihe  family  oi-  wli;i 
Woods,  of  i;iair  I'ark,  lliroui;h  his  daughter  Sarah.  has  labored  nan-e  assiduiaislx'  to  make  a  c(im]dete 
Dr.  Kobert  Samuel  ,McKee  and  his  wife,  Louise,  rccoi'd  of  all  its  scatti'red  bramhes  ilian  has  he. 
had  si.\  childicn  as  folbjws:  (a  I  M.VKii.MtiOT,  the  I  n  I  he  prosi  cul  ion  of  li  is  researches  in  .V  na^rica  and 
subject  of  this  sketch;  |b)  .M.w,  who  marri(.'d  a,  (ireat  r.ritain,  ( '(donel  Woods  has  been  led  to  ad<i|)l 
.Mr.  Fore;  (c)  K(M'.i;kt;  id)  Tiio.\i.\s;  (e)  .Iosimmi;  \iews  in  rci^ard  to  William  \N'oi>ds,  eldest  son  (d' 
and  ifi  S.WMi:],.  The  said  Kcdiert  Samuil31(Kee  .\li(ha(l,  (d'  Itlair  I'ark,  and  his  chil.iren,  wliiidi 
was  the  son  of  Kobei-t  .\.  .M(Tvee  and  his  wife,  \aiy  in  some  important  details  from  t  hose  ae<-eptc(l 
.\manda.  //((  Lapsley;  and  said  .\mamla  was  llu-  by  other  in\'est  iyalors  in  the  same  tield.  lie  has 
dauLibter  of  .Ldiii  .\.  Lapsh  y  by  his  w  ife,  I'olly,  inc  also  i;atliei-ed  some  int  crest  iuij  items  no!  pi-csente(i 
.M(Tvee.  -Ldin  .\.  Lapsley  was  the  son  of  John  in  the  brief  acc<nint  of  William  Woods  licrcin- 
Lapslcy,  by  his  \\ife.  .Mary,  iicc  .\rmstroni;,  and  i)(4'ore  niN'cn.  It  has,  therefore,  been  de("m(  d  ad- 
was  born  ill  L'ockbridL^c  ('oiinty,  \'iri;inia,  in  17s:;,  \isable  to  let  ('olonei  Woods  speak  for  himsidf  in 
moved   to   Woodford    County,  Keiducky,   in    J7iK],  this  place   concerning    these   matters,   as   follows: 


sk1':t(;iii:s  oj'  I'atkons.  :•.!'!• 

WiLLiAlM.  ckk'st  sou  of  Micliiicl  Woods  and  .Mnry  dciil.  of   I'iiiciisl  Ic  Cininly.      (Mi    ilic  s;ini<'  <\:\\    tin- 

Campbell,     was    probably    bm-n    al     l)mislKini;liii  records  slinw  i  liai   lie  -:i\i'  n.  his  ddi'si   >uii.  Aihiin 

Castle.  County  .Mcatli,  Indaiid,  in   17(17.      Atlri-  ic  W Is.  I'Dl  acres  of  llie  iwi-iiul  ;:i;iiii,  aii<l  ai    ilie 

(■('Jviiij;   a    liheial    education,   he  eidered    ilie   ai-iiiy  same  I  iiiie  he  also  cun\  cyi'd  .-i  1  racinf  la  nd  lyinu  ad- 

as  an   ensign   iu   an   Irish   regiment.      When    the  jaccni   in  ii.  i..  Ins  s<iti,  Arcjiibald.     A   |iaiM  c!  iliis 

Woodses  of  County  Meath  determined    to  cliango  conveyance  of  William  W Is  ami  Siis;iiiii;ih  \\,il- 

their  residence  and  become  Coloinals,  he  came  willi  lace,  his  w  ite.  lo  iheii-  son  Adam  is  wdiihy  <.f  jn-es- 

his  father  and  brothers  to  the  Pennsylvania    cut  ei\aiii>ii  ami   we  cn|py  ii   as  ii    was  wiiiien:     "L".!! 

oiiy.  ami  settled  upou  grauts  of  land  obtained  uear  acres  called   '.Muiiniaiii    I'laiiis"   is  lieieli\    cdnvcycd 

Lancaster.     Here  be  resided    iiiiiil    the    Woodses,  to  Adam  Woods  by  his  fatliei-,  \\illi;iiii  W  ud.ls.  i  he 

with    llieir     kinsmen,    the    W'allai-cs.  emigrated    in  same  haxiiig   been   i-niixeycd    in    ihi'    saiil     \\iHi;iiii 

( ioochland,  now  Albemarle  County,  in   the   Knmiii-  by     his     lalhei-,     Michael."     And,    cnni  iiiiiil^,     i  he 

ion  of  N'irginia.      A\'hile  a  young  man   he   married  deed   i-eads  as  follows:      "liy    ihis  saiil   cnmcyaiice 

Susannah  Wallace  (d' the  old  Scotch  family,  famous  right    is  reserve(l   lo  eiiler  llie  premises  ami  g:a\e- 

in  the  histoi'y  ami  traditions  of  Scotland,  a  famil\  yard  in  which  are  luiried  some  (d'  ihe  relaii\es  nf 

destined  to  i)lay  a  \ery  inipnitaiii  pari  in  Ameiican  ^^'illiam    W'cmmIs  and  Adam    Wdnds.   his  sipii.      Ami 

liistnry,  one    whose     military     achiexcments     ha\c  ii   is  liiilher  pi(i\  ided  by  i  he  gi;i  iiinr  ili;:i    ilie  saiil 

scarcely' rivaled  its  civil  distinctions.   Of  this  union  graveyard    shall    noi    be  eiiiered    in  dig.   culiixaie, 

a  large  fanuly  was  born.     Fixe  of  ihe  scms,  .Vdam.  build  or  occupy;  and  it,  is  fuiiher  pinvideil  ihai  iIk^ 

William,  Archibald,  John  and  .Michael,  were  Kevo-  said  grantor  aud  his  heirs  shall  have  iIh-  righi   of 

liitionary   soldiers;  aud  two,   Andrew   and   Teter,  ingress  aud  egress  foi-ever."     This  tleed  of  convey- 

were  Baptist  preachers.     One  of  whom,  the  latter,  auce    is    witnessed     liy     Thomas     .lefferson,      of 

was  a  pioneer  jpreacher — in  fad,  the  earliest  of  his  ]\lonticello,      third       rresident       (d'      ihe      railed 

deiiominatiou — iu  three  States;  Kentucky,  Teunes-  States,    liaudolph     .hdferson.     his     lu-oihei-.     ami 

see  and  Alissouri.     llis  daughter,  Sallie,   married  Lieuteuaut-Colonel     .lohn      W  niids.     and      is     le 

one  of  the  wealthiest  aud  most  disLinguished  sol-  corded  iu  Deed   ]!ook.     Nnmber    li.    of  Albemarle 

dier-plauters  iu  Mrgiuia,  Colouel  Nicholas  Shirky,  County.     AVilliam   Wonds  was  a  man  of  consider- 

whose  home  ou  the  James  was  long  knowu  as  one  of  able  wealth,  ami    (iwned     a     great     deal     of     land 

ihe  handsomest  aud  most  hospitalile  iu  all  the  Tide  aimainiing   ic   many   ilmnsand     acres      which     had 

walei-  region.      Colonel  Thomas  Kabney  Wdods  in-  Ikcu  granuil  h;  him  iu  vaiimis  paiiscf  ihe  Homin- 

formed   the  writer  that  eighty  years  ago,  his  aunt  ien.     The  records  also  show    Mini   he  was  (u:e  of  the 

Sallie  aud  his  uncle  Nicholas  Shirky  were  known,  largest.  slave-h<iblers   in    liis    pariiciilar  seciion    of 

aud  (d'ten  s|)okeii  of,  as  representatives  of  the  iugh-  \iiginia.      r.iii    he  was  i e  (da   siddier  ihan    a 

est,  types  (d'  the  (.'olouial  period  of  Virginia's  gen-  jdanlir.      Ileh.id    lii  i  le   if  an>    ainbil  ion     tor    ci\il 

tility.      Siibse(|uent  to  the  French  and   Indian  wars  prefernieiil  ;  and.   rroiii   cerlaiiinld   pape.saml   lel- 

William  Woods  uio\-e(l  In  IMiicast  le  Couiily  ;  and  it  lers.  the  iulVi-ence  is  plain    ihai    ihoii-h   he  owned 

was  while  living  there   (ITTI!)    that    he  disposed  lA'  many  liinu.sands  of  acres  nt  feriile  land,    aud   had 

his  interest   in  the  original  luune    (d'    his    father —  many  slaves,  he  was  imi   a  piaciical  and  successful 

.Michaid  Wnnds.      The  original  liomesteati  had  been  agriculiuralisi.    as    wei<-    his     brothers,    .lohn     aud 

previously  cniiveyed  to  him  by  his  father.     We  find  Archibald,      lie  lived   lo  l.e  a  very  old  man  and  to 

Ihai    en    Ihe    l.'.ih   (d'  September,   177:'..   he  disposed  see  his  childi-en   occupy    places  id'   primiiueiice    iu 

of   Ihis   estate,   received   from    his    father,    together  llie  Stale.     Si  veral  of  i  h.  m  ,i  i  i  he  cinse  of  i  he  Kevo- 

wiih  some  1,300  acres  wliiidi  he  had   puich.-iscd  nil  liilioiiary   War  moved   lo    Keuiucky    and     lliey    in 

the  KMIi  (d' .luue,  it;;".     He  was  at  that  timearesi-  turn  liecauie  l  he  iHdgeiiiiois  of  many  of  i  he  disiiii- 


;^30  TniC    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

S'liislicd   faiiiilics  (if  iIk'  ••llliic  ( irass  Stiilc."    I.orii  (iiily  ;i  small  Ixiy.    ( tiic  iif  ilic  nesiroes  saw  liiin  coiii- 

1(1  ciijdy  all   llic  a(l\aiilai;('s  (if  wcallli    and    social  iiiij;   Idwai'd    lli(>  Ikmisc  and   cried    out,    'Yonder    is 

slalioM  he  was  a  inlaid,  iiidieiidiin:  man;  possessiiii^  .Marsc  Adam,'  and  ran  lo  meet   him.     Father  sent. 

Iml    lillle,  if  any.  of  llial   spiril   <<(  liodil-fellowsiii])  for  my  nmdes  .and  aunts,  and  the  old  man  was  joy- 

or  jesi  inu,  mii-rhfnl  nature,  «  liich  characterized  his  onsly  welcomed,     lie  was  a  stout,    comi)act,    tirni 

|i(isr(  rity    and    m.ide    them    latlur    remarkal)le    f(U-  |,|,j|,     mjin   ^f  milium     heiiilit,    (dcan-limbo<l     and 

tli(  ii-  c(uni>.ini(inalileness  and  amiaMe.  social  (luali-  w cll-apiiearini;-.     Ei-ect   in  his  llearini,^  and  renmrk- 

li(s.      His   wife   was  sister   to   his  sister    llannalTs  aldy  act  ive  lor  .a  man  of  his  ad\anced  a.^c.     Injier- 

hushand.  William  Wallace,  i)ro!.;(  nil(U-  of    a    i-ace,  sonal  ai(|(earance  lie  resembled  his  sons,  my  father 

which  for  a  century  and  a  (|uarter  has  adorned  the  ;,iid  uncles,  and  most  of  (Uir  race,  Iteini;-  of  a  Horid 

l)ri.i;lit(  St   ]i.i,i;(s  of  (Uir  nation's  history.     She,    like  com]ile.\ion  ami  havinii  luiir  that  was  once  brown. 

h(  r    liiishaml    I  William    Wallacel,    was   a  stannch  His  nuinner  was  ])leasin!i-  and  aiireeable    to    a    re- 

J'r(  shyterian,  and  reared   her  children  in  the  iirac-  markalile  dei;ree.      lie  was  full   of  wit   and   humor 

tice  of  that  faith.  and  his  anecdotes  made  him  the  delight  of  his  army 

ADA.M    WOODS,  eldest   son  of    William    Woods  of  lirandchildrcn.      I'.ecominii-  ill  w  hi|,.  with  us,    he 

and  Susannah    Wallace,    was    b(un    in    Albenmrle  .liiew  ra|)idly  w(use,  and  died  in  a  few  days."  Speak- 

County,  \-ir-inia,  and   was  educated  hy  a  i'resby-  i'l^-'  "f  ""■  niilitary  services  of  his  grandfather,  he 

lerian  minister.     On   the  4th  of    .lune,    17:57,    his  Ims  t  his  to  say  ;     -.My  .-grandfather,  Adam  Woods, 

father  obtained   from   Sir  Williaiu  (iooch  a  -rant  like  his  brothers     .Michael,     Archibald,     -lohn   and 

(d'  twelve  thousand,  seven   hundred  acres  of  land.  <""l<iiiel   William   W(.ods,  better  known  as  'Reaver 

and    wh,n   he  b( came  of  a-e.  Sei.tcnd.er,   17C.:],  his  <''''■« '^  William  Woods,'  was  a  soldier  and  officer  in 

father  <;ave  him  (.ne  half  of  this  estate.     He  served  "i''  Intercolonial  War,  and  in  the  War  of  Independ- 

under  (ieneral  Amherst,  durinii    the    campaign    in  '■"'■'■-     His  sw(U-d  was  pjiveu  to  his  oldest  scm  Wil- 

New  York,  which  (.ccurred  at  the  wvy  close  of  the  'i'""-   "1"'  .-•'^■''   ''   ^o  his  oldest  son    ])avid,    your 

JMcnch    and     Indian    war.      In  early    manhood    he  .^'andfat  her,   who   in   turn  -ave  it  to  his  yiHing'est 

maiiied  .\nna   Kavanau-h,  a  descendant   (d'  one  of  ^"H   .Maui>in,  y(.ur  uncle,  who   I  am  inforiued.  -ave 

the  oldest    families  (.f  hcland.  a  kinswoman  (d'  the  it-  '■^  iLi^'  -Masonic  Lod-v,  of  which  he  was  Mastei'." 

tamous      r.ishop     KavanauL^h.    (d'    Kentucky.       His  Anna  Kavanungh,  wife  (d' Adam  Woods,  is  buried, 

brotlur.  the   Kevereud    I'elei-  Woods,  married  .lael  i"-  is  said,  in  oiu' of  the  old  family  bui'yin.u-gi'ound.s 

Kavanauiih,  sister  to  his  wife.     I'i'ior  to  the  Kevo-  ""*ai-    IJichmond,    Kentucky,    the    original     honu'- 

hi1i(uiary  Wai-  he  and  se\cial  (d'  his  iuolhers  and  ><u-.\>\     in     this    State     (Kentncky)     having    l)eeu 

cousins,  the  Wallaces  .and  .Mel  >ow(dls.  took  part  in  .grauK-d   to  him  (ui    Decendier  IS,    17S1,    and    snr- 

what   is  kmiwn  as  "Lord    iMniUKnc's    U'ebellion    in  veyed  November  IJ,  17S7.     They  reared  a  family  of 

177")."     That   is,  they,  with  many  other  N'irginians.  ten  children,      first,  Wii.i.i.\.\i    I  the  wrilei-'s  great- 

|,i'(Might    the    royal    (loveruoi-    to    terms,    when    he  grandfat  her  i  who  married  Susan  I'..  Clark  ;  second, 

endeavored   to  encroach    upon    their    liberties    and  I'vrutcK,    who     mairied,     tirsi,     Ivachael     Cooix'i-, 

conliseated  powder  and  oiliei-  munitions  of  war  that,  daughter  ><(  Captain  Coo]ier;  and,  second,  Francis 

the  Virginians  were  colleciing.     of    Adam    NNdods  Hulaney;     third.     Ait(:nu!.VLi).     who     nuiiaied     liis 

his  grandson.  Sidney  Woods,  has  this  to  say.  in  a  cousin.  .Mary  Wallace,  (d'  the  (dd  N'irginia  family; 

letter  under  (late  (d'  February  L'r>,  IS<».-. :    "J|  was  in  fourth    .Mich.mol.    who    m-vcr    married,    but     who 

the  uKUith  (d'  l'el)ruary,  ISi'i;,  that  mv  grandfather,  sei-ved   with  distinction  in  C(d(ni(d  (iabriel  Slaugh- 

Adani  Woods,  came  to  .Missouri  to  visit  father  and  ter's  regiment  of  mounted  Kentucky  N'olnnteers  in 

my  uncles,  William,  I'etei-  and  Archibald.     I  can  the  W-.w  of  ISll*;  fifth,  I'lCTEit,  who  moved  to  Clay 

recall  Uh'  day  and  event  very  well,  though  I  was  Count  v,  soon  after  coming  to  Missouri,  in  1815,  and 


DAVID  WOODS.    IR 


l)A\ID  WOODS,  SR. 


COL.  CHAS.  A.  R.  WOODS. 
OF  MISSOURI. 


(See  Sketch  No.  60.) 


HARRY  E.  WOODS. 

OF  .MISSOURI. 


DAVID  WOODS. 

(See  Sketch  Nn.  69.) 


THOMAS  J.  WOODS,  M.  D. 

BATESVILLE.    ARK. 

(See  Sketch  No.  75.) 


DAVID   S.    WOODS  (DECEASED). 
LATE  OF  BARSTOW.  TEXA'S. 

(See  Sketch  No.  70  ) 


SKETCHES  OF  I'ATKONS.  -iSS 

lliere  rearod  a  large  family;  sixlli.  .Ii)ii.\.  will)  went  inn;  icccivcil  an  aiipoinl  iimmiI.  Ilii-diiuli    Hio    Prosi- 

lo  California,  a(  the  close   of    llic    .Mcxinin    War;  .lent,  (o  a,  ])osili(iii  in   i  Ik-  Tci'i-ihaial  .hidiciary  of 

seventh,  IlANXAii,  who  mari-ic. I   ('uIimicI    Kailie    .1.  .Missonri.     He  localcd   nr.ir  I'a  vi'l  le.  w  hcif  he  ron 

Collins;  eighth,  Anna,  who  niai  i-ied  a  gi  mleuian  hy  linncd  |o  rcsidi   nniil  his  dc  aih  .Mardi  in.  I  SIC.     To 

Ihe  name  of  l>i(p\\ne,  in  Clark  or  ]\ladis<in  Cunnly.  Indge  WUdds  and  Snsan  ('hiik  wcic  Imrn  six  sons; 

Keiitneky;  innlli,  Susan,  whoniarried  Culmii-l  .\lul-  David,  Xichohis,   I'.arnalias.   William.    Kichai-ij  and 

lin.s,  wdio  moved  to  California;  and   lenlii,  Sai-Lii:.  iJuhei-l,  ami  one  danghler,  j.eanilia. 

wlio  married  Jud.ge  Austin  Walden.     Hi  in  in  \'ir-  I,  ^y||,  woods   SI'XIoI; 

liinia,  Adam  Woods  resided  in   Ihe  ((Minlv    of    Ids 

Eldest  son  ol   -Indue   William   W Is  and   Susan 

hiilh  until  Ihe  lie\'olu1ionar\    War;    after    which, 

n.  Clark  was  horn  near  Uidimond,  Kentuckv,  Sep- 
jidning  the  great  tide  of  emigralion  Ihen  moving  to- 

"^  *  tember  U,  ISOd,  an  I    diid    mai-    i'^ivdte.    Missonri, 

ward  the  Kenlnekv  countrv,  he  followed    ihe    for-  m^ 

•Julvo,  1SS2.     I  le  w  as  ednrali  <l  |H-i\  alil  \  and  in  I  he 
tunes  of  his  brothers  and  their  kinsmen,  the  Wal-  ,  "    ,  • 

school  a(  un'hminid  mil  il  i  lie  snninna-  of  is  I.".,  w  hen 

laces,  McDowells,  (ioodloes,  .Millers  and  Manidns.  , 

lie  came  Willi  his  lallii  r  h;  .Missiniri.     .\s  a   hoy    he 

jrixiE  WILLIAM  WOODS.  had  accompanied  his  fallier  fo  New  Orleans  in 
T'^ldest  son  <d'  Adam  Wo(;ds  aTid  Anna  Kava-  L'^JL"),  and  in  (hal  gi-eal  hal  I  le  in  w  liirh  I  he  How cr  of 
nangh.  was  honi  in  N'iiginia  .Mareli  4,  177:.',  and  ihe  English  Army  had  fallen  bel'ore  ihe  unerring 
di((l  in  Howard  Coniily,  .Missonia,  .March  10.  ISlC,  aim  and  dannlless  c(mrage  (d'  Ihe  Kciilncky  and 
aged  seventv-fonr  years  and  six  days.  In  17'.IS  he  Tennessee  rillemcn.  had  i-e<-cived  his  iniiial  experi- 
nianied  ]\Iiss  Snsan  I>.  Clark,  cousin  io  .Majoi -( icie  (  nee  as  a  voliinieei-  soldier.  I-'i-csli  from  sm-h 
(ral  John  B.  Clark,  for  Iwenly-cighi  years  a  repre-  scenes,  the  boy  was  bronglil  hy  his  I'alhcr  lo  ihe 
sentative  in  boili  houses  of  Congress.  Miss  Clark  Missonri  Terriloi-y,  many  pails  of  which  had  md 
was  also  a  consin  io  the  fanH)US  (Jeneral  Ceoi'.ge  been  (iilcrcd  by  while  men,  sa\c  when  an  occ;i- 
liOgers  Clark,  the  brave  bni  eccentric  hero  of  sional  hiinb  r  or  i  iap|icr  had  lieeii  liii-cil  in  pnrsiiil 
Vinceunes.  A\'illiani  Woods  wascdiicaicd  for  ihc  cd"  game.  iO.-irly  in  ISi'd  he  was  comnnssioned  by 
bar  and  ))ra(dised  his  [)i-ofession  nniil  the  breaking  ( lovernoi-  Alexander  McXair  io  take  a  companx'  ol' 
(Hit  lit  the  War  of  1812.  Ibil  he  volnnleered  and  \  clunicei-s  and  expel  cerlain  I  nndilesome  Indians 
was  given  a  commission  in  one  >>{'  the  regimeids  of  the  wesiern  pari  <d'  ihe  Siaie.  At  ihe  age  of 
lliat  joined  ihe  army  id'  .MaJ.-deii.  William  Ilenr,\-  Iwenty-lwo  he  waselecied  Io  ihe  Siaie  f.egislature. 
Harrison.  He  w.-is  mustered  inio  ihe  volunieer  hi  IS2:!  he  maiiied  .Margarci  .Maiipin.  of  .Madison 
army  at  Newpia-l,  ivinlncky,  .\iigiisl  :il.  ISl:!,  as  Coiinly.  Kenlncky.  danghler  of  ('ornelins  .Man|iin, 
capl,-iin  in  Colonel  .Michael  Tanks  Kcgimenl.  ihe  \\\t,,  had.  wiih  William  and  .\ilam  and  .\i-cliie 
Tliiid  .Moiinled  N'oliinleers ;  Xo\  iiiiher  10,  isl-l.he  Womls,  and  I  licii'  kinsmen.  Ihe  Wallaces  and  .Mc- 
w  as  Ira  lis  fern  d  Io  ihe  regimen  I  of  Lieiilenaiit-(  'olo-  1  )ow  i  lis.  been  a  niemhei-  of  Ihe  .\  lliemarle  ( 'oinpany 
nel  Oabrii  I  Slaiighler,  and  coinmanded  (  leinim-  which  in  1771  177-".  ciimpellcd  Lonl  l>iiiiiiioi-e  lo 
larilyj  the  regimeni  diiiin.u  llie  caniiiaigii  and  bai-  accede  lo  ihe  wishes  ol'  ihe  \irgiiiiaiis.  She  was 
lie  of  New  Oidcans.  Ih  was  mnslcnd  tail  r.f  Ihe  I  he  grand  ilanuhlcr  i  I'  Daniel  .Maiipin  of  Williams- 
si  i\  ice  .Ma\  10.  |S1.">.'"  In  ihe  inlerini  belweeii  ihe  liiirg.  .Margai'il  .Maiipin  w.-is  a  sisier  of  ('ohmel 
Canadian  cani|iaiuii  and  ihe  campaign  :il  New  lloberl  .iiid  Wash  .Maiipin.  <.{'  .Madison  ('oniily, 
Orbans  he  servi-d  willi  ihe  Tennessee  iroops  in  Kciilncky,  who  as  soldiers  in  Ihe  War  ol'  |s|l'  and 
llieir  camitaiun  auainsi  Ihc  ('reek  Indians,  and  il  as  iiu  iiibers  ol'  the  Lcgislai  iiie  if  Keiiiiickv  had  a 
was  while  in  ihis  sei'\ice  ilial  he  lirsl  saw  (baieral  well  known  local  repiiiai  ion.  .M'lei-  ihe  lieginning 
Andrew  Jackson.  In  dune,  ISl."),  he,  with  oilier  of  ihe  I'.lack  Hawk  War  in  Is:;l'  he  was  an  otbcer 
hers  of  his  taiiiilN ,  em  ii;  I'a  I  ed  lo  .M  issonri.  lia\-  in  ihe  ."Sfale  milii  ia.      In    ls:!7  he  seiNed   in    klocida 


334  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

in  tlic  caiiiiiniiiii  wliicli   rcsnlri-d  in  the  defeat  and  aiii<:uiii  nf  family  i-i  cdi'ds  llial   cduld    lie    aceiiiim- 

expulsioii  (if  ilie  SeiiiiiKile  Indians,  wliicii  the  fiov-  iaied.     'I'licnuli  tiie  w  riler  was  then  only  a  Ixiy  lie 

ernnient  for  twenty  real's  liad  lieen  endeavoring  to  nri^cd    liini   in  gather  llie   frai^nients  of  laniiiy  liis- 

aceoniplisli,  hnt  wliicli  the  rei;\ilar  ai-Mi.\   iiad  faih'd  Ini'y  an<l  einliedy   I  hem   in  eenerete  fnrn,.      lie  told 

lo  do.     Later  lie  sei-\-e(l   with  (ieneral  ('lark  in    tlie  liim   win  re,  and   iiow,   many  of  th(S(»  reeoi-ds  conid 

jMissonri  .M  ilit  ia  at  the  lialt  ie  of  l-'ar  West  in  wjiieli  lie  oliiain(  d,  assnrinu  him  I  hat  some  da  \   tin    family 

('olonel   lliid<le,  the  .Mormon  leader  and  his  troops  wonid    lie    Ljratefnl     for    their     aeeumnlaiion     and 

\\'ere  t'aj)tiire.l,  and  liainslud  from  the  State.     With  iireser\at  ion.     <inidei|   hy  ihis  insinn-tion  and  sns- 

the  annexation  of  Ti'.xas,  excntnaily  came  the  .Me.xi-  lained  li,\"  the  thoimlil  ol'  his  a|ii>ro\al,  the  w  i-ilerhas 

can  AVar  of  lS4(I-47.     lie  entered   the  ser\  iee  and  scaiched  (hronj:;!!     the     libraries    of    10nro|ie    and 

was  with   (H'lieral    Taylor,   his  old    eoiiimander    in  .\m(i  iea,  has  hnnted  ont  t  he  sc^erets  of  t  he  lleralil's 

the  Texa,s  caiiniaii;!!,  uhicli   resulltd   in  the  battles  ('olleiicof  Ireland  and  Miii^land.  the  .\d  juta  mI-<  ien- 

of   I'alo  Alto,    Kasaea   de  la    I'aliiia.   .Monterey  and  era  I's  cftiee  of  ( ireat    lirilainand   Ireland,  has  uone 

Jimna   N'ista  ;  fir  his  si  r\'iees  in  this  eaiii|iaii;ii  he  thronii'h  ( ioverniiieiu  and  Slate  oftiees,  has  searched 

was  lirevetted  a  Lientenant-Colom  1.   .\fter  the  cdose  for  the  records  and  ;.;cnealoiiies  of  families,  and,  in 

of  till    ;Mi  xican  War  he    remaineil    in    the    reii'ular  short,  has  spared  neither  timenor  exitense,  not  in- 

afm,v  in  the  ijmirtermaster's  <le]iarl  meiit  until  1S50,  ciiiiipatible  with   his  liiiiilid   iiKans    and     his    more 

when  he  returned  to  his  farm,  where  liecoiitinneil  limitid   ()|i](ortnnities.      It    is  m.w    Iwci  ami    twenty 

to  reside  nnt  il  the  o|Mnitii;  (d'  the  ( 'i\il  W'ai'.     Like  years  since  he  spoke,   niL;im;   the   writer   to  liathev 

his  fathers  he  was  loyal   to  the  history  and    tradi-  and   |iiiblisli   the  records  of  the  eld   family.      It   has 

lion  of  the  old  South,  and  belii^ved  thai   it   was  one  In  en  twenty-one  y(  ars  siiici     the    spirit     of    l>a\i<l 

(d'  tile  inherent  rights  of  a  Stale  to  withdraw  from  Woods,  Sr.,  was  Ltalheiid    le   his   fathers    ami     the 

the  Feileral  compaci   wlieiie\er  it  bi'lie\ed  it  was  to  \\  liter  has  learned   Ui  appreciate    I  he    iiioli\e    that 

its  interest  to  do  so.      lie  was  loo  old   to  enter  the  impidied   his  i;raiidfal  her.     The  wi'iter  has  llie  rec- 

.service  of  the  ('onfcdiracy  and    take    ]iat't    in    the  lad  (d'  his  family   for  Iweiiiy  i;(  iiei-at  i<iiis  and     the 

nioveinents  of   the  armies  in   the   lield,   bm    all    his  nanus  of  nearl\'   lliiie  ihoiisand   men    and    wnmeii 

sympathy  and  whatever  intlnence  he  |iossessed  was  w  ho  are  descemh  d  from  .jcihn  Woods,  and  his  sons, 

given  to  the  South.     To  the  Sonth     he    dieerfnlly  And  all  this  labor  has  been  i;i\en,  this  informafion 

gave  all — ^sons,  land  and  fortune ;  and  when  the  tlag  gather(<l,  as  a  direct   result  (d'  his  rciptest.     David 

of   the    Confederacy     was     furled     he,     like   many       \\' Is  was  a  tall,  hamlsoine,  graceful  man,  slaiid- 

another  geiitb man  of  tin-  old   South,  bidieved  that  ino  u  Ijtth    im.re  than  six  fe(  t  in  his  stockings,  and 

the  light  of  chivalry  had  gone  (Hit.     The  last  tifteen  weighed  about  I'l'O  pcmiids.      Mis    com])le\ion    was 

years  of  his  life    were    sjh  iit    on    his    farm,    from  nnldy,   liisiyes  large,  dark   brown  a.nl  (  x[iressive. 

which  he  rarcdy  emerged  except   to  take  some  jiarl  His  hair  was  of  a   mil  brown  color,    his    Jiose    was 

in  fraternal,  edm-ational  (a- religions  wcrk  in  whi(di  large,  strong;  liis  chin   was  broad  ami   lirm  ;  slow 

he  was  dee])|y  interested.     In  .May,    ISSi',    unly    a  and  di  liberate  iji  all   his  actions,  he  was  a   man    of 

few  weiks  before  his  death  he  visiled  his  son  David,  stKing    convictions,    failhfiil    in    his     atlachmeiits, 

the  writer's  fallnf;  one  evening  he  called  I  he  wfiter  dani;croiis  in  his  anger,  and  possessing  an  iron  will, 

ont  on  the  veranda  and   told  him  the    story  of  his  danni  b  ss  coiiragi   and  iiiisweiving  horn  sly.   To  him 

ancestors;  the  rank  and   litle  of  their  am-esiors  in  were  born  ten  (hildreii.  only  liv(    of  wlnaii  married. 

Indand  and  lOng  la  ml,  and  the  part  they  had  ]i  la  yed  Tin  y  were  :     first,  S.wiika,  Ik.i  n  .Vjiril  ."),  ISi'C.  died 

in  the  history  of  the  Stall  s  in  which  I  hey  had  li\ed  ;  dniie,    I'.MH,    married    .lames    \'eal;    second,    .Vnim;- 

tidling  him  thai    they  had  always  been  an  honest,  i.t.\.\,  born  April  \:\,  ISi'S,  aird  married  Aanni  Dy- 

.simple,    country    peojde.      lie    .sp(d<e    id'    the    vas(  sail  ;  I  liird,  Ovi;i!To.\,  born  .lannai'T  7,    1830,    and 


SKETCHES  OF  PATKONS.  :i:ib 

(lied  May  18,  1887;  IVnu-tli,  David.  Iku-h  May  IM.  auniddil  scrcssionist  aii<l  cast  liis  foi-imic  wirli  the 
1832,  (lied  September  5,  IDOO,  married  Mattie  A.  (■(.nf.denicy,  ddiiiii'  wlial  he  cuiilil  r,,i-  ilir  succi'ss  of 
Kobiusou  of  Bourbou(\muty,  Kentucky,  NovciiiImt  tlir  Soiitlieni  .aiis.'.  In  isci  hr  u^s  cnpiuir,!  nii.l 
4,  1863;  fifth,  CoRNELirs  :MAri'ix  Wools,  honi  .May  sciiicnccd  !(•  he  cxiciiird,  \\  Immi  inc  lad  Ihal  lir  was 
4,  lh£{4.  .|  \|;|;.j||,|.  .\|;isiiii  hccnniili;;  kiKiWli  Id  (IcnriMl  Mol- 
DAVID  WOODS,  JUNIOR.  ua,,  ,,r  \n\\n.  (•(,iiiiii;iii(liii-  ihi'  lii-ina,|r.  (.xcciii  ion 
Serond  and  oldest  surviviiifi  soil  of  David  Woods,  was  stayed,  and  he  was  linall\  iiaidlnl.  Ai  ilial  lime 
Sr.,  and  ]\Iargaret  Maui)in,  was  born  in  P>oone  he  was  sntlerinij  IVom  wounds  ilia  I  wen-  never 
County,  Missouri,  May  21,  1832.  He  was  educated  entiirly  healed  and  nliimalcly  irsiild  d  in  liis  h.'in<; 
in  the  schools  of  his  county  and  continued  to  re-  conii)elIe(l  lo  use  huih  nuirli  iind  cane  llie  re- 
main at  home  and  manaiic  the  estate  until  he  had  maiiider  (if  liis  life.  Al  llie  clusr  i<(  ihc  war  and 
attained  his  majority.  In  the  absence  of  liis  I'atlier  <luriii.ii  llie  i;<'((iiislrii<l  inn  |.eii.id  in  Missunii  lie 
he  had  control  of  the  plantation  and  tlie  negroes,  resolutely  refused  hi  lake  ilie  '-lesi  natli";  am!  as  a 
He  thus  acquired  a  practical  skill  in  aiiriciiltural  Kequence  was  \  iii  nally  disfiaiichist  d  iinlil  the  ^en- 
affairs,  and  many  years  after,  and  in  another  ei-al  election  of  isTC.  November  1.  1S(;:{.  h.'  was 
county,  earned  for  himself  the  reputation  of  the  married  i<i  Maiilia.  ihe  daiii;liter  of  dnlm  U.  nui] 
"best  farmer  in  the  county."  But  lie  was  destined  Nannie  Kobinsoii,  of  Hunibdii  ('(niiitv,  Kentiickv. 
to  spend  the  best  and  ^Teatest  part  of  liis  life  in  l>y  this  inan-ia;;i'  lie  airaiii  iiiiih,!  his  laiiiih  with 
enteiijrises  more  active,  and  amid  scenes  more  e.\-  the  well-known  Kentucky  family.  The  diily  In-oiher 
citing  than  those  connected  with  the  pastoral  life,  cf  Martha  Woods  was  a  noted  ( "oiilVdeiaie  snincon 
In  early  manhood  he  united  with  the  Yellow  ('reek  while  three  of  her  first  cousins,  two  of  them  her 
Baptist  Church  and  continued  to  lu^  a  member  of  double  first  cousins,  reari'd  in  her  fatlni-'s  house, 
this  congregation  until  the  close  of  the  war.  In  entered  the  I'ninn  service.  Siilis((|iieiii  to  the  ('i\il 
1853-54  he  crossed  the  jilains  in  cominand  of  a  '\A'ai- I  »avid  Woods  engaged  in  maiiy  Imsiness  enter- 
large  partj'  of  gold-hunters.  There  were  nearly  a  i)rises.  Left  at  the  close  of  the  war  w  ilhoul  ;i  dol- 
hundred  young  men  in  the  party,  many  of  whom  lar,  deprived  of  his  citizenshiii,  wounded  and  crip- 
afterward  became  prominent  in  the  civil  and  inili-  pled  for  the  rest  of  his  life,  he  idnk  iij)  the  battle 
tary  history  of  the  Commonwealth.  In  1855  he  Axitli  adversity  with  the  same  conr.ige  ;ind  entlnisi- 
entered  the  government  service,  and  while  in  it  asm  that  had  marked  his  every  ad  ion.  Tlnnigh  the 
crossed  and  recrossed  the  plains  several  times  social  and  labor  condiiions  h.nl  changed  since 
going  to,  and  coming  from.  Forts  Laramie  and  Beu-  he  had  snpeiinlen.led  his  r.uher's  idantaiion,  he 
ton.  In  1858-59  he  was  ordered  to  Texas  across  the  soon  acquired  considerable  iiropeity.  .ind  in  a  few 
Indian  Territory  by  the  way  of  old  Forts  Smith  ar..I  years  became  hually  know  ii  as  "the  best  farmer  in 
Arbuckle.  He  remained  in  tin-  government  service  the  county."  In  dune,  ISSO,  he  m<i\cd  ii,  .N'orborue, 
until  the  spring  of  180(1,  when  he  resigned  and  .Missouri,  and  was  ever  al  the  fioni  of  e\-ery  endea- 
started  home.  On  the  12th  of  .March,  18(!I,  he  was  voi-  id  pi-dnidie  ;iny  enteiprise  ihai  was  intended  Id 
arrested  at  Laclede  by  a  lieiitenant  of  the  I'nited  advance  the  besi  interest,  of  the  commnnily.  As  a 
States  army,  on  the  charge  of  ti'easoii.  .M  tin'  time  |>ublic  olticial  in  many  |idsilions  he  was  cajiable, 
of  his  arrest  he  was  convalescing  fr<ini  an  al  lack  of  energetic,  resourceful  and  eiiiei|iiising.  (Jniek- 
typhoid  fever  and  cam(>  near  dying  while  being  con-  teiii]iered,  imi>nlsi\(',  a  dangerous  man  in  his  wrath, 
veyed  to  the  Federal  ])risoii  in  Illinois.  Through  no  man  was  ever  more  generous,  loigivini;  and 
the  intercession  of  (ioNcrnor  Woods,  of  Illinois,  he  kind  hearleil.  To  Uaxif.l  Wodds  and  .Martha  Ibih 
was  released  fi'om  prison  and  relnrned  to  .Missouri,  insmi  were  bdin  liiiei'  S(;ns,  ("oi..  ( 'ii.\i!i,i:s  .\.  K.; 
arriving  just  after  the  bat  lie  of  Lexington,     lie  was  ll.\ui;v  Iv,  and  Limin  I',.  Woons.all  of  w  Imm  survive 


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THE    WOODSMcAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


Iiiiu  as  does  also  liis  «i(lo\v.     ilr  died  September  5,      fom-  -ciKMatioiis.   is  a  liaplist,  and  an   inicoinpi-..- 


I'lOO 

CHARLES  A.  K.  WOODS. 

I'^ldesl  son  of  David  Woods  and  ifartha  Robin- 
son, wa.s  born  near  ISi-iinswick.  Chariton  Connty, 
^lissonri,  April  17.  isii.',.  h,  ISKMiis  fatlier  moved 
lo  anotlier  eslale  in  an  adjaccnl  roiinlv.  At  a 
\('ry  I'ai-ly  aL;c  lie  cvimcd  ;i  nalni-al  apliln(b-  for 
miiif;n-y  affairs,  and  liis  cicinenlary  cdm-alion  was 
condncted  nUnvj;  lines  that  wonhl  liest  lit    liini    for 


misiuj^-  Calvinist.  He  is  a  mcmbci-  of  all  ilic  older 
and  more  prominent  benevolent  orders,  anil  of  .sev- 
eral Iteneficiary  or-ianizalions,  in  each  of  ^vhi(•h  he 
has  "Passed  Ihc  diaii's,"  while  in  two  (d'  (hem  he 
has  served  as  a  representaitive  and  officer  in  the 
Snin'enic  and  So\crei-n  (hand  Lodoe.  Few  men 
are  heller  kmiwn  in  .M  iss(aii-i"s  fi-alci-n.il  woi-ld. 
As  an  editor  of  a  conntry  uewspaper,  and  a  mendier 
of  the  execntive  family  of  two  State  adniinistra- 
tious,  lie  1ms  e\-er  ad\(;eaied,  as    the   oulv    correct 


that  kind  of  a  life.     His  life    in    lli-h    S.IhkvI    and 

College  prepared  him  foi-    a    place    in    llie    Cadet      ^'"''^'■•^' "^  .-"^•■'■"""■i"-  fli<' ^>M"<'iiiacy  of  tho.s,^  jn^in- 

Coiijs  iu  the  Uni\-ersiiy,  w  here,  under  the  snpervis- 

i<in  of  a  I'nited  Slates  aiiiiy  officer,  lie  received  siie- 

cial  altention.     In  .Jnne,  18So.  he  \vas  a  com|)etitor 

for  (he  c;ide(shi|(  to  West  Point,  bn(  for  (he  first, 

and  only  lime,  in  .Missonri's  histoi-y  a  neiiro    \\as 

entered  for  ilie  aii|>oin(men(.     Vouiil;    \\' Is    and 

several    o(  lier    Nduni;    men   of  Sondiern    lineai;e   re- 
monstraled  with  ihe  Conm-essman  avIio  was  havini; 

the  e.\amiiiation  held.     The  Conj^n-essman  was  obdu- 
rate, s(v  (he  eii;h|   younji'    rcMHUisI  i-a  ( lU's    wilhdrew 

froiM  the  examinalion.  Throuiili  ihe  kindness  of  a 
kinsman  of  his  father  yonm;  Woods  received  an 
appointment  to  West  I'oint  from  another  district. 
From  that  lime  until  ihe  beginning  of  the  Spanish- 
American  >\'ar  he  was  intinuitely  associated  with 
military  affairs.  Particularly  is  this  true  of  his 
relation  to  the  Natioiuil  (Inards,  in  which  lie  held 
commissions  (d'  cwvy  ^rade  from  caiMain  lo  eeln- 
nel.  At  Ihe  beginninj.;  of  hostilities  will:  Spain  he 
received  a  commission  as  Cidonel  of  N'oliinteer 
Infantry.  And  upon  ihe  reor^anizal  ion  nf  ilie  n.o- 
iilai'  army.  he.  ihrou-h  ihe  iniei-cession  of  the  offi- 
cers of  Ihe  KepublicaTi  Slate  Central  ("(unmitlee, 
and  the  most  prominent    Federal    office  Indders    in 


cii)les  enunciated  by  the  fathers  of  Deniociacv.  On 
the  lllh  of  .May,  ISSC.  he  m.iirii'd  Miss  Dora  Lee 
Snoddy,  daughter  (d'  .John  T.  Snoddy  and  lii«  wife. 
Sallie  Hudson.  She  was  graduated  frcmi  the  ('ar- 
r(dlton  High  School  in  the  class  of  "84.  Her  imdlier 
(ueeHtidsonl  was  descended  from  t  wo  jn'ominent 
South  Carolina  families,  her  grandmother  being  a 
sister  to  (Jeneral  Wade  llam|iion.  Senior,  who  dis- 
tinguished hims(df  in  our  second  war  with  Fnu- 
laiid.  T((  Colonel  and  .Mrs.  W<iodswcre  born  two 
children,  Oladys  .\uiH(y,  .Inly  10,  ISST;  and  .\rchi 
bald  Douglas,  .June  7.  IS'.Kl.     .\f|e,-  Ihe  (h'ath  of  his 

first  wife  Olarch  1'7.  I'.Kli'i  (\>\, I  Woods  married 

-Miss  .Martha  W.  Clark,  of  Covinglon,  Keiituckv, 
only  daughter  of  .Tames  .M.  Clark  and  .Martha  ^V. 
JMigh.  She  was  born  ami  reared  at  Covington,  as 
was  also  her  father  ami  mother,  her  grandfathers 
Clark   and    I'ugh   each   having  come    (o    Covinu((ni 

when  (hey  Wi'W  iKsys.     She,  being  ■  (d'  (he  honor 

graduates  in  the  (dass  of  18!)7.  won  a  bdlowshifi  in 
the  rniversily.  For  neaily  iliree  i|uarlers  (d'  a 
cen(ury  (he  I'lighs  have  been  ideiilitied  with  (he 
jsolilical  and  commercial  hisl(U-y  of  Coviinilon. 
.Mrs.  Woods"s  iiutllier  having  died  .-iboiil  Ihe  time 
she  was  born,  she  was  reared  by    her    grandfather, 


.Missouri,  was  nominated  for  a  coiniuissiou    in    tlu 

regular  army,  Init  was  unable,  (»wing  lo  physical  ''"'"'  ''^"'..^  i'ugli.  al  (he  old  family  home 
disabilities,  to  pass  the  reipiired  idiysical  examina- 
tion.    During  these  years  he  had  also  served  on  (he  TLMtL'T  i:.  WOODS. 

uuli(ary  s(alf  of  the  Covernors  (d'    two    South. 'rn  Stcond  son  id'  David   W Is  and  .Martha   Kobin- 

States.      In  the  latter  eighties  he  was  admille<l   to  son.    was    burn     at      Itruiisw  ick.  .M  issouri,   .inly   L'O, 

the  Bar.     Colonel  ^Voods,  like  all  the  numibers  .d'  isdc.  He  received  his  education  iu  the  High  Schools 

his  immediate  family  and  his  auce.stors  for  the  past  at  Lexington  and  Norborne.  Before  he  had  attained 


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his  majority  lie  engaged  in  breeding  and  raising 
trotting  and  pacing  horses.  As  professimial  judge 
(if  liorses  he  lias  a  national  re])ntati(in.  In  many 
r(>s]K'c1s  lie  is  a  typical  dcsccndani  of  the  famous 
Iiisli  "S(inii('s";  for  no  one  admires  a  go<i;l  hoi-se 
n\-  hound  more  than  lie.  Novendicr  I'o,  !!)()?>.  he 
married  JMiss  Mary  Ellen  rrumpacker,  of  Nor- 
borne,  Missonri,  danghter  of  tlie  late  lliehard 
Crnnipacker  and  bis  wife,  Miss  .Mihlred  Lefiwirli, 
of  Bedford  County,  Vii-giuia.  He  and  his  wife 
reside  at  Norbome. 

LEON  E.  WOODS. 
Third  and  youngest  son  of  David  Woods  and 
Martha  Eobiusou,  was  born  near  Eichmond,  Kay 
County,  Missouri,  December  20,  1872.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  High  School  and  snl)se(piently  read 
];\\\'  for  uue  year,  after  which  he  entered  mercantile 
business.  He  is  a  Woods  of  tlie  old  style — jolly, 
rollicking,  fun-lovijig,  fiill  of  wit  and  humor. 

SKETCH  6i. 
J.  B.  WOODS,  NEW  ORLEANS,  LOUISIANA. 
Oaptiiiu  James  Brison  Woods  is  the  son  of  the 
laic  Andrew  Woods,  of  Wheeling,  AVest  N'irginia, 
and  his  wife,  Kebecca,  iicv  Brison^  and  was  born  in 
Belmont  County,  Ohio,  September  12,  1824.  Ue  is 
a  lineal  descendant  of  ^Michael  AVoods,  of  Tilair 
Bark,  through  his  son,  Andrew,  A\hose  wife  was 
^lartha  Poage.  Said  Andrew  and  .Mariha  had. 
among  other  children,  a  son,  Andrew,  dr..  who  nuir- 
lied  IMrs.  Mary  McCulloch  (widow  of  a  .Major  ;\fc- 
Culloch  I  iicr  Mitchell.  And  said  .\ndrew,  -Tr., 
and  his  wife  ^fary  had,  among  other  children,  a 
son,  Andrew  (No.  3),  whose  wife  was  Bebecca 
Iluydekofer  Brison.  This  pair  had  eiglil  cliildren. 
as  follows:  (a  I  Jamks  BrisON  Woons.  llie  subject 
of  Ihisskelch;  (b)  Oliveu  Bkisox  AX'oods.  who  nuir- 
ried  Anna  M.  Anderson.  Sahl  Oliver  and  .\nna 
had  two  children,  as  follows:  1,  dames  Brison 
Woods;  and  2,  Bosa  Anderson  Woods,  (c)  The 
lliird  child  of  said  Andrew,  No.  ;'>.  and  Keliecca.  was 
LrTiiHU  Toim  AVoons.  who  married,  (irst,  Alary 
I'Jlen  Xeel,  and,  second,  ilary  Hopkins.  He  left  a 
son,  1,  Samuel  Neel  AVoods,  who  nuirried   Kebecca 


Woods,  and  a  son,  2.  i;e\-.  .lolm  Awning  Woods,  (d  ) 
The  fdurlh  child  of  .\ndie\\.  No.:'.. and  Keliecc:!.  w  as 
John  M.  WOitns;.  lei  The  titili  cliiM  was  Akcui- 
I'.Ai.n  WdoKs;  (f)  (he  sixili  was  .\ nkukw  AlkukI) 
Woons;  ig)  I  he  seveiilli  w.is  I  lie  Kkv.  IIdnkv 
A\'(Hiiis.   I>.    I». ;  ami    I  lii    llic   eiglnli    was  llie   Ki;v. 

FUA.NX'IS  .M.    W S.    I).    I».       The   rnllllh   rliild    (-lolni 

^r.  '\\'o(!.ls  I,  mai-i-ied,  lirsl.  .Mariha  llah-:  and  sec- 
ond,     K'osa ,     and      letl      six     cliihlrcn.     as 

follows:     1,  .{(ilin  W Is;  2.  (  )liver  Woods;  :;.  .Marv 

Ellen  Woods,  who  married  !■;.  T.  Codk  ;  I,  llslelle 
"Woods;  ."),  Clara   Woods;  and  (i,  Alice  Woods. 

The  liflli  child  of  .\ndre\\  Wnnds.  No.  :!.  and 
li'ebecca  I  .\  fell  ilia  Id  Woods  i  married  .Mary  .Mal- 
(hews,  and  l>y  her  had  li\e  children,  as  follows:  I. 
Isabella  Wwxls,  who  m;iri-i<'d  I'.enjamin  1".  IJl- 
wards,  and  dieil  in  ISIlT;  2.  .Mallhews  Woods,  who 
married  Sue  .Miller ;  :!.  Lmy  Wonds;  1.  flora 
AA'oods;  and  .">,  Kehecca  N\oods. 

The  si.Mli  child  of  .\ndrew,  \o.  :],  ami  IJebecca 
(Andrew  Alfred  Woods  i  married  deannie  IJailey, 
and  had  four  chihli-i  n.  as  follows:  1,  .\lfi-eil 
Woods;  2,  Elizahelh  Helm  Woods;  3,  Henry 
AVoods,  and  4,  James  I'.iison  W Hoils. 

The  K'ew  lleniy  Woods,  I  >.  1)..  who  was  the  sev- 
enth child  of  Andrew.  No.  3,  and  Kebecca,  married 
Alary  Ewing,  and  had  four  chihlren,  to  wit :  1,  Mar- 
garet Woods,  who  marri((l  IJe\.  Wm.  P..  Hamilton; 
2.  Alary  X(cl  Woods;  ;!.  .lohn  lowing  \\'oods.  who 
married  .Mary  Keed  ;  and    I.  fiancis  Henry  A\'oods. 

Kev.  Francis -Maiian  Woods.  I ».  I>.,  who  was  the 
t'ighth  and  last  child  of  An<lrew  No.  3,  and  Kebecca, 
has  been  for  many  vears  the  successful  and  honored 
[)astor  of  the  l'i-esli\  leriaii  ('lini-ch  ai  .Marlins- 
burg,  West  X'ii-ginia.  He  married  .Julia  ll.dunkin, 
and  has  had  six  children,  as  follows:  1,  the  Kev. 
Da\id  d.  Woods,  miw  jiasioi'  of  ilie  I're.sbyterian 
Clnirch  al  Blackslinrg.  \'a.;  2.  dolni  AFitchell 
Woods,  who  mairied  l^leanor  W.  Tahb;  3.  Jauet 
-McCIeen-.  who  died  in  isiil  ;  I,  .Vndrew  Ueary 
Woods,  Af.  D..  a  mediial  missionary  of  tin-  Presby- 
terian (Miurcli  at  ("anion,  ("hina.  and  who  married 
l''anny  S.  Sinclair;  .">.  .Mary  I",.  Woods;  and  0,  Ke- 
becca 1".  \\'oods. 


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THE   WOODS-McAPEE    MEMORIAL. 


Oaptaiu  .Tallies  lirisdii  Wdnds,  llic  siilijcct  of  this      Williain  and  Sarah  Jane  (Edin2:tou)  Woods.     He 
ski'Icli,  and  (lie  hrs(  of  Ihc  (  iuhl  cliihli'i'U  of  Aiidi'i'W      allciidcd   the  usual  |inhlic  and  iirivalc    scliools    of 


W'ddds,  X().  .'5,  and  his  wife  K'chccca  lluydekofer,  ii<'<- 
r.i-isoii.  lias  liciii  a  ciiizcn  of  \c\\  Orleans  since 
lS(J(i.  i'rinr  111  Ihal  dale  he  ii\i  d  many  years  in  St. 
Lonis.  Xo  man  |M-iiiiiiiieiil  in  alTairs  has  been 
freer  fi-niii  any  siis]iiciiiii  (if  ((indiicl  iiol  in  accord 
witli  the  infaliihle  slaiiihird  of  triitli  tlian  he.    His 


the  ((iiinl  ry  until  .lannary,  ISTl,  wlieii  lie  entered 
lioaiKtke  ('(illeiic,  Salem,  A'irginia,  and  was  there 
several  sessions.  His  father's  deatli  omirring  in 
IHSl'.  he  icmaiiied  on  the  farm  ( tlie  old  orif^inal 
Woods  homestead,  Indian  ( 'amp  )  w  ii  li  his  w  idow cd 
mot  her,  three  liruthers,  and  two  sisters,  until  1880, 


lonn'  business  career  has  been  marked  by  sterling  w  Ik  n  he  left  home  to  take  bis  law  conrse  at  the 
has  been  married  three  times.  His  tirst  wife  was  University  of  Virginia  under  Prof.  John  B.  Jliuor. 
integrity,  sound  judgment  and  tireless  energy.    He      While  at  the  Universitv  he  was  chosen    editor-in- 


SaraU  Good,  daughter  of  .lolm  A.  Cood  and  Mary 
Chapline,  by  A\liom  he  had  Ihi-ee  ehilJren,  to-wit: 
1,  John  G.  Woods;  2,  Ivcbecca,  and  3,  Mary,  who 
are  dead.  His  second  wife  was  Lizzie  A.  Brevard, 
daughter  of  Albert  Brevard  and  Juliet  Gayle,  by 
whom  he  had  Ihice  children,  to-wit:  1,  ^lary 
Woods;  2,  Alice  Woods;  and  3,  James  Brison 
Woods,  Jr.,  who  is  dead.  His  third  wife  was 
Leonora  Matthews,  daughter  of  John  ^Littliews, 
Jr.,  and  Mary  Levering,  by  wlioni  he  has  had  five 
children,  to  wit:  1,  Fredei-ick  Woods,  deceased;  2, 
William  (Jayle  W'oods,  deceased;  3,  Leonora 
Woods;  4,  Rebecca  W^iods;  and  H,  Edgar  W^oods. 

SKETCHES  62  AND  63. 
J.  P.  WOODS  AND  J.W.WOODS,  ROANOKE,  VIRGINIA. 

(l-or  illustrations  see  page  304. 1 

Judge  Jobu  William  AXdods  and  (he  Hon.  James 
Pleasants  Woods,  who  are  full  In-otliers,  and  resi- 


cliief  of  the  "Univei'sity  Magazine,"  which  is  looked 
upon  as  (|uite  an  honor  at  the  institution. 

On  lea\ing  tlie  University,  in  June,  1887,  he 
located  at  Koanoke,  Virginia. 

Hi  August,  1887,  he  formed  a  co-partnership  with 
( ".  15.  ^[oomaw  t  now  city  solicitor).  Hi  Seiitemlier, 
18S!),  he  was  nominated  by  the  Democratic  ]iarty  as 
its  candidate  to  represent  Loanoke  ('il\-  and 
County,  and  Craig  Cimnty,  in  the  House  of  I)(de- 
gates,  and  was  elected  by  an  uii]irecedented  major- 
ity. .\t  the  end  of  his  term,  however,  he  declined  to 
again  bi ciiiiie  a  candidate,  saying  he  preferrt'd  to 
take  the  advice  of  an  old  friend — that  it  was  "a 
good  thing  for  a  \-oiing  man  to  go  to  the  J^'gislature 
<  tiler." 

In  •Iiiiie,  181I3,  Hon.  \\m.  Gordon  Kobertson 
resigned  as  Judge  of  the  Hustings  Court  for 
dents  of  Roanoke  City,  Virginia,  are  the  sous  of  Roamdce  City,  and  John  W.  Woods  was  appointed 
William  Woods  by  his    second    wife,    Sarah    Jane      by  the  (governor.    Twice  since  this  apijointment  the 


Ediugton.  They  are  lielieved  to  be  lineal  descend- 
ants of  iHchael  Woods,  of  Blair  Park,  through  his 
sou,  Archibald,  whose  wife's  ('hristiau  name  was 
Isabella;  but  certain  aneient  documents  of  un- 
doubted authenticity  and  genuineness,  now  in  the 
hands  of  the  author  of  this  volume,  present  some 
facts  which  are,  to  say  the  least,  difticult  to  recon- 
cile with    the    current    beliefs    of    the    Roanoke 


Legislature  has  elected  -Tudge  ^^'oods  to  succeed 
himself.  -Lidge  Woods  is  also  jiromiTieiitly  con- 
nected in  Imsiness  circles,  being  President  id'  the 
Ikoanoke  Banking  and  Investment  < 'o.,  and  id'  the 
h^armers'  Sujiply  Co. ;  and,  up  to  the  time  id'  his  ele- 
vation to  the  bench,  was  on  the  directory  of  the 
National  Exchange  Bank  of  Roanoke.  He  is  a  busy 
man,  but  is  alwa\'s  ready    to   'j^'ivc    both    lime    and 


W Ises  in  regard  to  stuiie  of  their  W'oods  ances-  means  to  the  advancement  of  ('liristiaiiity.     While 

tors.     The  perplexity  created  by   these   documents  a  member  of  the  Methodist  E.  Clinnli,  South,  it  may 

will  be  discussed  at  the  close  of  these  two  sketches,  i,,.  .said  ot  him  that  he  is  broad  enough  to  lend   a 

JOHN  WILLIAM  WOODS.  helping  hand  to  any  enterprise  which  makes  for  the 

John   William    Woods    was    born    in    Roanoke  furtherance  of  the   ^Master's   Kingdom.     He    is   at 

County,  Virginia,  July  27,  18.")8,  and  was  a  sou   of  present  a  menilier  of  the  ofticial  board  of  his  home 


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3.39 


cliiirch,  and  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  last  Gen- 
eral Confei-enr-e  lieid  in  Rjiltimui-c,  Mav.  18!IS. 

JAMES  PLEASANTS  WOODS. 
-Tames  Tleasants  Woods  was  I».ni  al  ■•riidiaii 
Caiui),'"  l{(ianok(>!  County,  \'iri;inia,  I'dniiai'v  I. 
18(18.  <Jradnated  with  first  distin.liuii  riurii 
Kcanokc  College,  1802,  and  was  Ihaf  year  ch'ctcd  to 
reiH-csent  his  college  in  the  Stale  oialoiical  (-(m- 
test.  Took  his  law  convse  the  foli(>\ving  year  at  the 
University  of  Virginia,  and  was  admit  led  to  the 
bar  in  1893.  Two  years  thereafter  he  was  chafed 
to  the  Common  Couneil  of  the  City  of  Koanoke,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1897.  The  same  year  tlie  Sbite 
Democratic  Convention  elected  Jiim  a  iiiemher  of 
the  State  Central  Committee. 

Was  elected  Mayor  of  Roanoke  in  1898.  wliicli 
position  he  still  holds,  with  what  satisfaction  lo  liis 
constitnents  may  he  judged  from  the  following  edi- 
torial (■li])ixxl  from  the  Roanoke  Morld  of  April 
11',  1900: 

"a  ilODKL  MAYOR. 

'■^Mayor Woods  will  retire  from  office  at  the  end  of 
his  term  with  one  of  the  best  records  made  by  any 
who  have  held  this  office.  Never  presnnnug  on  his 
prerogati\-es,  l)iit  always  ready  to  do  liis  duty  witli- 
oiit  tear,  favor  or  alTection,  it  was  natural  tliat  his 
acts  should  sometimes  be  coiintci-  to  the  wislies  of 
otiiers,  l)ut  the  results  for  wliicii  he  contended  and 
the  measures  which  he  advocatetl  always  in  the  end 
vindicated  his  judguuuit  and  demonstrated  his 
]>ali-iotism.  "Without  constantly  asserting  himself 
and  forcing  his  persoimlity  on  tlie  ]iul)lic,  he  has 
pursued  tlie  even  tenor  of  his  way  with  an  eye  sin- 
gle to  the  pronuition  of  the  public  good  and  to  the 
welfare  of  the  municiimlity. 

"Wlialcvci'  tlie  occasion,  lie  lias  shown  iiimself 
fully  able  to  re])resent  the  city  with  credit  and  fidel- 
ily.  In  other  words,  he  has  made  a  model  mayor, 
and  iJoauoke  uui,v  well  be  congra  tula  led  if  his  snc- 
ces.«ors  fill  the  office  with  the  sanu'zeal  and  ability. 
He  will  retire  from  the  position  with  the  jdandits  of 
his  fellow -citizens,  wlio  will  be  ready  to  say,  'Well 
done,  good  and  faillifnl  ser\anl,"  and  wliooiiglil  to 
be  ready  to  reward  and  honor  him  for  I  lie  zeal 
w  liich  he  has  manifested  in  looking  aflci-  i  In-  allairs 
of  the  city  and  the  ability  he  has  shown  in  I  lie  inan- 
agement  of  all  the  duties  ai>pcrlainiiig  lo  his  o nice."" 


Since  ihi  ani  lior  pi-epai-ed  i  In-  ni;iMer  to  be  found 
on  jiages  lOO-l  IM  ,,r  ihis  \oliiine  his  attention  has 
been  called  lo  some  pn/,y.ling  i| iiesi  ions  touching 
Archibald,  (he  son  ,d'  .Michael  Woods,  of  l?lair 
I'ark.  which  w  ill  now  he  considei'ed.  Was  the 
.VrchibaJd  Woo.js.  whom  old  .Michael  mentioned  as 
liis  son  and  exei-nlor  in  his  will,  in  ITdl.  (he  same 
.\rcliibald  Woods  who  lived  on  ('alawTta  Creek  in 
what  is  now  Koaiioke  ('onn(y.  N'irginia,  from  1771 
lo  l(S.'!'.'  This  is  ihe  poini  now  ;i(  issue.  .Iud"-(; 
dohn  W.  Woods,  of  Koanoke,  \irginia.  <loes  not  feel 
asc(riain  in  regard  (o  (  his  ipiestion  as  once  he  did, 
<>w  ing  (o  (he  rac(  dial  in  one  id'  (he  aiieieni  Woods 
papers  {,l:\\,'i\  .Tilly,  I7(;si,  n<iw  in  (he  aiilhor"s 
jMisscssion.  i(  a|)i>ears  dial  a  man  named  John 
^^^>ods,  dien  jterhaps  Iwenly  (o  (wcidvfive  vears 
old,  who  was  almost  ceri.iinly  a  son  oi'  (dd  -Michael 
\\'oods"s  son  .\rcliibald,  collected  I  he  legacy  coming 
lo  him  IVoiii  die  esiaie  id'  said  .Mich.-iel.  his  grand- 
falher.  This  .|(diu  Woods  could  hardly  li;i\-e  been 
born  laler  (ban  die  year  I7IS.     It  hi'  was  born  at 

any  (inie  |)rior  to  I7(;s.  Ik uld  no|   have  been  die 

-Tolin  who  was  a    son     of    .Krehibald     ,d'    Catawba 
Creek,   for   dial    .John    Woods  died    in     1841,    and 
according  lo  ihi-  insciipdon  on  his  (onih-s(one,  was 

li(!rn  in  I7()8.     This  .lidiii  W Is  of  Catawba  Creek 

was  Ihe  son  of  Archibald,  id'  ('aiawba,  and  the 
grandfather  of  Ihe  (wo  gentlemen  whose  sketches 
(()2  anil  0.".  I  have  just  been  given.  Me  must  have 
lieen  born  at  least  Iwenly  years  laler  dian  Ihe  other 
.lohn  Woods  Jiisl  meiidoned;  and  this,  if  true, 
would  iirecliide  (he  po.s.sibility  of  bolh  .Tohu 
^A'ood.ses  being  Ihe  son  of  the  same  father,  unless 
their  falher  had  two  sons  born  many  years  apai't, 
bolh  of  whom  were  named  .Tohu. 

That  .Vrchibald.  (he  son  of  .Mieli,-iel.  (<C  Tdair 
Park,  was  die  same  iii;iii  as  die  .\i(  hi  ha  Id  who  lived 
on  Catawba  Creek,  and  (here  died  in  1783,  the 
auliKU-  of  Ibis  v(dume  feels  constrained  to  believe. 
Tliei'c  are  s(j  ni.iny  esijililished  facts  which  go  to 
pi-ove  Ihis  (o  be  line  dial  he  sees  lu)  escape  from 
(he  coiiclusiiiii  he  has  re.iched.  These  facts  are  the 
follow  ing:  l"ii-s(.  beyond  dispnie  old  Michael 
Woods,  in  liis  will  of  I  7iil,  expressly  mentions  a  son 


340  THE  WOODS-McAFEE  ^lEMOIJIAL. 

of  Ills  iiaincd  Arcliiliahl;   Iravrs  liiin   leu  pounds;  liaiii,  sold  out  their  interests  in  AlbtMiiarlc  and  set- 

be<iueatlis  to  Avcliiliald's  son,  :\li(lia(l.  a  ,L;icat-c-oat :  iliddownin    what    was    tlien    RotctouK    ("onnty. 

oi'dcrs  Arcliih.'.ld  and  anollicr  son  to  sell  a  certain  Michael,  Jr.,  settled     on     the    James    River,    five 

tract  of  land  and  di\  idc  (lie  jn'oceeds  thereof  among  miles  below  Rnchanan ;  Andrew  settled  abont  fonr- 

thc  children   r.f  Arcliiliald   and  John  Woods,  and  teen  miles  sonth-west  of  ^Michael,  Jr.,  and  Archi- 

William    and    Hannah    Wallace;    and    constitutes  bald  settled  abonllwenlv  miles  south-west  of    An- 

Archibald  one  of  his  executors.      (See  co])_v  of  old  drew.    AVilliam's  exact  locatiiui  is  not  known,  but  it 

3Iichacrs    will.  I     Second,   this    Archibald,   son   of  was  in  the  lower  end    of    Rotetonrt,    which    after- 

:\Iichael,  was,  in  ITCil,  a  man  of  famil.v,  and  had  one  wards     became     hincasfle     County.     All    of   these 

son   named   Michael,   who  was  then  old   enoni;h  to  Woods  brothers,  sons  of  old  Michael,  moved  down 

wan-ant  his  grandfalher  (old   .Mii'Iiaell    in  leavins;  into  the  same  rei!,ion  of  country.     Their  father  was 

Id  liini  his  great-coal,     \\lien  we  reflect  that  at  that  now    dead,  and    his    estate    wound  ujt,  and    they 

dale    1 1761)    old   .Michael    had    several    grandsons  migrated     to    a.    region     where    settlements   were 

who  wci-e  grown  men,    we    may    assume   that    the  sjiarser  and  lands  chea])ei-  than  in  .Mbcmarh^     It 

grandson  to  whom  lie  left  his    great-coat    was    no  was  ]>reeisely  such  a  coucei-ted  move  as  one  Mould 

mere  child — he  nnisl  iiave  been  at  least  sixteen    to  expect  of  enterprising  men  who  were  the  sons  of 

twenty  years  of  age.     And  this  would  mean    that  luie  father.      Fifth.     Archibald  ^^'oods,  son  of  old 

Archibald  was  a  married  man  as  early  as  1742,  or  ]\licliael.  had  a  w  ife  whose  Christian  name  was  Isa- 

thereabonts.     (Ry  S(nne     unaccountable    oversight  bella.     Sixth.      In   the  summer  of  17(iS  we  find  a 

we  failed  to  include  this  son  31ichael  in  the  list  of  grandson  of  (dd  .Michael  by     the    name     of   J(din 

Archibald's  children,  hereinbefore  given.)       Tliir<l.  AN'onds,  who  was  then  a  citizen  of  Soiilh  Car(dina, 

Old      .Michael's     son     Archibald     was     yet     alive  visiting  .'\lbemarle  to  secure  the  legacies  dm*  liim- 

iu  1707,  for  he  joined  his  brother    John,    his     co-  self  and  five  (dher  grandchildren  from  rlie  estate  of 

executor,  in  conveying  to  one    James    ^laury    the  eld  .Michael.     Two  of  these    six    giandchildren    of 

tract  of  land  his  father  had  instructed  his  e.xecu-  "I'l  .Miclund  were  William     ^A'oods,     and    Isabella 

tors,  in  his  will,  to  sell  for  the  Ixnetit  (if  his  grand-  \\'o(;ds,  who  were  children  of  .Michael's  son,  Arehi- 

children.     Fourth.    In  the  year  1 771  a  man  l)y    the  bald.     This  is  gathend  from  original  documents  of 

name  of  Archibald  Woods,  then  acilizen  of  Albe-  'Ik'  nmst    nninqteacliable  character,  copies  or  fac- 

marle   County,    Virginia,    liurchased     the   Indian  similes  of  which  will  be  found  in  cnu.' of  the  Appeu- 

Cauip  farm  on  the  Catawba  from  the  McAfees,  on  dices  of  this  vohime.     AVilliam   and    Isabella    aud 

which  he  resided  till  his  death  in  17S3.     That    the  Johu  were    then    citizens    (d'    South   Carolina,  as 

Archibald  Woods  who  made  this  purchase  in  1771  expressly  stated  in  said  docunnuits.    John  had  due 

was  the  son  of  old  Michael,  of  Rlaii-  I'ark,  is  so  in-  anihority,  also,  to  collect  the  legacies  of  three  niar- 

hereiitly  probable  llial    nothing    but    positive    evi-  ricd  women — a  i\lrs.  Rrazeal,  a  .Mrs.  ( 'owau,  aud  a 

dence  to  the  contrary  will  avail  to  rentier  it  at  all  Mrs.  Trimble — and  did  collect   I  hem.     These  three 

unlikely.     No  other  man  named  Archibald  Woods  married  wonu'n  wei'e,  as  stated  in  said  documents, 

who  was  of  mature  age  as  early  as  1771,  and  who  granddaughters  of  old  Michael.     That  Johu  and 

could  jiossibly  have  fit  into  the  facts  of   the   ease,  tlu«se  three  nuirried  women  were  children  of  Archi- 

seems  to  have  lived  in    Albeuuirle.     It   was   about  bald,  of  Albemarle,  seems   almost   certain.     There 

J7(i7  that  .Vrchibald  (son  of  Michael)  s(,ld  out  his  was  no  other  sou  of  old  Michael  who    could    have 

farm  in  Albemarle,  though  he  did  not  effect  his  pur-      been  the  father  of  this  John  ^^' Is.     <  ►Id   Michael 

chase  in    Rotetonrt     (now    Roanoke    C(mnty)     till  seems  never  to  have  had  but  three  grandsons  nametl 

1<71.    It  was  just  about  this  time  that  three  of  his  John,  namely:  this  one  now  under  consideration; 

brothers,  namely:  Michael,  Jr.,  Andrew,  and   Wil-  John,  the  son  of  William  Woods;  aud  John  the  son 


SKETCH E>S  OF  PATRONS.  341 

of  Colonel  John  Woods.  William's  son  John  went  .nul.l  not  .VitIiIIimM's  first  sun.  .lohu.  w  lio  was  in 
to  Kentncky,  and  Colonel  John's  son  .Jolin  died  Alliciiinil,-  in  ITCS.  Imvc  died  iliaL  same  year,  and 
while  yet  a  boy.  We  are  shnt  np  to  the  coiiclnsinu  mi-lil  ik.i  liis  pjirnis  linvc  iiad  horn  to  them,  that 
tliat  tlie  Jdhn  Woods,  wlio  came  fi-oiii  Cai-dliiia  \n  saiiu-  tall,  a  iialiv  Imy  wlmni  llicy  named  .fdim?  Tliis 
Jnly,  1768,  to  collect  legacies,  wasAivliiliald'sriiiid.  very  thini;-  occuis  .dicii.  Ami  it  is  a  rcinarkaMr 
as  we  certainly  knoAv  William  and  Isabella  were.  (oiiicidcnl  lad  iliat  t  his  \ciy  same  .Inlm  Wduds, 
When  we  pnt  all  of  these  facts  together  we  are  who  ilied  im  Caiawlia  in  17s:!.  did  ijiis  tiiin-  Iniii- 
compelled,  in  tin' absence  of  all  opposing  evidence,  sell'.  As  .Indgc  .Idliii  W.  W,mhIs.  ,d'  ildannj^c.  \'ii-- 
to  conchuh'  tliat  old  Michael's  sou  Archibald  was  ginia,  infoinis  tin-  writer.  -Inhn  Woods  i  born  17(;S 
the  man  who  settled  on  Catawba  Creek  in  1771  and  and  died  1S41  i  had  two  sons,  born  year.s  apart, 
tlicre  died  in  1783.  Objections  to  lliis  condnsicjii  wlioni  lie  named  .Inhn.  the  lirst  of  ilie  two  dying 
have  been  raised,  and  these  will  now  be  considered,  eai'ly,  and  the  second  one  heini:  bm  n  nm  hm-  :ifiir 
One  is,  that  in  the  old  receiptdiook  of  old  :\neha(d's  the  death  of  ilie  other.  .Ma>  not  this  be  the  s(dntion 
executors,  now  in  the  author's  possession,  no  re-  of  the  problem?  is  it  not  perfectly  reasonable  to 
ceipt  from  Archibald  Woods  for  his  separate  legacy  believe  that  John  Woods,  of  Catawba,  was  a 
from  his  father  is  found;  and  that,  inasmuch  as  the  younger  brotlier  of  John  Woods,  of  South  ( 'arolina. 
estate  was  wound  up  by  the  year  1770,  wu  must  and  that  liis  father,  .Vrchibald  Woods,  set  for  him 
infer  that  Michael's  son  Arcliibald  had  died  before  an  exami»le  in  the  matter  of  giving  one  of  his  boys 
that  date.  But  the  answer  to  this  is  that  it  is  evi-  the  name  John;  and  then,  that  son  dying,  giving  if 
dent  the  extant  receipt  book  (d'  old  Michael's  to  another  one  of  his  children?  In  otiier  words, 
executors  contains  but  a  part  of  tlie  original  re  .John  Woods,  of  Catawba,  took  liis  cue  from  his  own 
ceipts.  Sarah  Lapsley,  one  of  old  Michael's  chil-  father,  Archibald,  in  not  only  giving  two  of  his 
dren  to  whom  lie  bequeathed  ten  pounds  in  his  will,  sons,  in  order,  one  and  the  same  name,  but  by  choos- 
and  several  other  children  of  old  :\IichaeI,  are  not  iug  for  this  pui-pose  the  identical  name  John.  Thus, 
referred  to  in  any  of  the  receipts  now  extant.  .Manv  the  true  story,  we  doubt  not,  is,  that  Archibald 
of  the  receipts  have  evidently  been  lost.  Another  Wood.s,  somewiiere  about  174;M748,  named  one  of 
objection  is  that  the  fact  that  legacies  were  paid  by  his  cliildren  Jidm  ;  and  this  son.  when  al)out  grown, 
the  executors  of  old  Michael  to  the  children  of  his  migrated,  with  his  brother  William,  liis  sister  Isa- 
son  Archibald  indicates  that  Archibald  himself  bella,  and  the  other  three  sisters  mentioned,  to 
was  then  dead.  This,  however,  is  not  valid  because  South  Carolina;  in  -Inly.  17(iS.  ihis  son  -bilin  comes 
tin'  will  of  old  .Michael  provided  that  the  proceeds  back  to  the  old  iKunt-  in  .Vlbenmrle  to  collect  what 
of  the  land  Archibald  and  John  M'ere  to  sell  were  is  coming  to  him  and  his  brother  and  four  sisters 
to  be  given  to  tne  grandchildren,  and  such  of  them  from  tlie  proceeds  of  the  G8U  acres  of  laud  which 
as  were  of  age  could  take  their  portions  direct  with-  his  grandfather  bad  ordered,  by  will,  to  l)e  sold  for 
out  their  father  Archibald  being  a  party  to  the  the  benefit  of  his  grandcliildreu,  and  which  had 
transaction.  Tlie  third  and  most  formidable  objec-  actually  In  en  sold  the  yiar  before,  as  we  certainly 
tion  is  that  the  -John  Woods  who  came  to  Albe-  know.  That  very  year,  most  [yrubably,  Jolin  dies, 
maile  in  July,  1708,  to  collect  the  legacies,  and  who  The  nanu'  he  had  borne  was  LhaL  of  his  disLin- 
w  as  then  not  less  than  twenty  years  old,  could  not  guished  ninle,  <  oIimh  I  .bihn  Wc  toils,  bis  father's 
po.ssibly  be  the  sou  of  the  same  Archibald  who  lived  bi'other — a,  name  .\icliiljald  di-sired  to  honor — and 
on  Catawba  Creek  (1771-1783)  because  the  inscrip-  when  the  uniinnly  taking  off  of  the  tirst  John  re- 
lion  on  the  tomb-stone  of  John  Woods,  son  of  moved  th.it  name  IVom  the  fandly  register,  Archi- 
Catawl)a  Archibald,  shows  that  he  was  born  in  1708,  bald,  havin.i;  a  little  son  born  to  him  about  the  close 
and  died  in  1811,  aged    seventy-three   years.     But  of  that  year  (,  1708  i,  beslowid  it  ou  this  child.   This 


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'IMIi:    WOODS  ;\rrAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


last  -liiliii  ^\■(luds,  son  ol'  Aicliilialil.  \\;is  ;)  cliild  of 
(lircc!  Ywii's  when,  in  1771,  liis  ]»ai'('ii(s  iiioxcd  dowu 
on  lo  llic  ('alaw'ba,  and  tlicrc  he  spcnl  liis  days, 
dyinjj;  tlirrc  ill  lStl,ar  (lie  a^c  of  scvcnty-llircc  Of 
cnurso,  we  adniii  lliat  (liis  ('xplanation  is  lariicly 
linill  n|)(.M  cii-cumslanl  ial  cNidcncc  wliich  can  not 
bo  cdnsidcrcd  alisolntcly  conN  incinji'.  l>nt  onv  cou- 
tcntion  is  tlial  ii  tits,  witli  \\<in(lorfnl  oxactncss,  the 
known  condLtions  of  tlic  problem;  it  does  not  con- 
tradict a  single  ascertained  fact  or  do  any  violence 
to  any  Icnown  circumstances  of  tlie  case;  and,  most 
convincing  of  all,  it  is  the  only  possible  explanatiim 
wiiicli  gi\cs  i»roi>('r  consistency  to  the  long  chain  of 
established  facts  in  the  life  and  career  of  Archibald, 
the  son  of  Michael  Woods,  of  Itlair  Park.  \\\: 
therefore  believe  we  can  say,  with  reas(n)able  cer- 
tainty, that  Judge  John  AV.  ^^'oods  and  his  In'other, 
James  P.,  now  residing  in  Roanoke,  Virginia,  are 
lineal  descendants  of  old  .Michael  ihiough  his  son 
Archibald.  N.  M.  W. 

SKETCH   64. 
HON.  R.  E.  WOODS,  1-OUISVILLE,  KENTUCKY. 

Kobert  Emmet  ^Voods,  son  of  Thomas  James  La- 
Grande  Woods  and  his  wife,  Charity  Elizabeth,  itcc 
Henuiuger,  is  a  lineal  desceudaut  of  Michael 
Woods,  of  Blair  I'ark,  through  his  son,  Archibald, 
Sr.,  and  his  grandson,  .Vrcliibald,  Jr. 

Archibald  Woods,  Jr.,  giandfather  of  Robert 
Emmet  Woods,  was  born  in  .Vlbemarle  Crmuty, 
Virginia,  Ai)ril,  1771,  but  was  reared  in  what  is 
now  Iioanoke  County,  Virginia.  His  father,  Archi- 
bald Woods,  Sr.,  died  in  178:>.  In  cDmjiany  with 
his  brother,  Andrew,  he  came  to  Ken  lucky  about 
1S05,  from  Sevier  County,  Tennessee,  whither  he 
had  emigrated  fi'cnn  ^'irginia  some  time  jire- 
viously.  It  was  there  he  nuirried  .Mary  .Mc- 
Beath.  The  two  brothers  tirst  canu'  to  what 
is  now  Mercer  County,  Kentucky,  and  An- 
drew reniaiued  there;  b\it  Arcliiliahl,  after  re- 
maining one  year,  moved  to  Wayne  County,  Ken- 
tucky. He  resided  there  until  IS."".;^,,  w  hen  he  moved 
to  Grayson  County,  Kentucky,  where  he  died  in 
1855.  He  was  a  man  much  esteemed  in  bis  com- 
muuity.    He  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  held 


c(Uirt  in  those  early  days  at  his  Inune.  He  and  his 
wife  wei'c  old-schnol  Scotch- 1  risli  I 'rcsbyteriaus, 
but.  he  opened  his  Inune  to  the  early  Methodist  Cir- 
cuit. Riders,  and  it  was  not  cnly  their  home,  but  a 
regular  "i)reaching-])lace.'"  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
War  of  ISIL',  and  was  at  the  Battle  of  the  River 
K'aisin. 

Ai'chiliald  Woods,  Ji-.,  and  his  wife  Mary,  uec 
.McBeath,  had  three  sons:  (a)  Axduew;  (b)  Ar- 
(■iiU!.VLn.  Tiiiim;  and  (ci  Thomas  J.  E. ;  and  four 
daughters:  [d)  Sak.vii.  (  who  married  Robert  Ken- 
nedy) ;  (e)  Atheli.v  (  who  married  William  R.  Caf- 
fee)  ;  (f)  .Ma1!Y  (who  married  William  Hennin- 
ger);  and  (gi  .M.vito.viiiOT  ( I  w  ice  iiiaiaied  ;  tirst,  to 
Lemml  Lockett;  and.  afterwards,  to  Michael  llnf- 
I'akerl. 

Andrew  nmrried  Eliza  'Whitten,  and  Archibald, 
Third,  nmrried  Elizabeth  Honk.  Both  moved  to 
.M  issouri. 

Tluuiias  JanuiS  LaGrande  Woods,  sou  of  Archi- 
liald,  Jr..  and  Mary,  was  born  in  Wayne  County, 
Kentucky,  December  1'7,  1811,  and  was  married  to 
(Tuirity  Elizabeth  Ilenninger,  January  1,  1845.  Of 
this  union  there  were  bo/n  six  children,  two  of 
whom  (a  )  and  (b)  died  in  early  infancy,  and  (me, 

(c)  Emz.vr.ETii  Ann  (  Ricluy ),  in  August,  1902,  at 
the  age  of  fifty-one  years.     Those  now  living    are: 

(d)  Mauy  C,  (now  Mrs.  D.  R.  Witt)  ;  (e)  Jennie 
M..  (now  :Mrs.  J.  H.  Sullivan);  and  (f)  Robert 
Em.mkt,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Thomas  J.  L.  ^^dods  removed  to  Breckinridge 
County  in  1853,  and  there  died  Ai)ril  !t.  188G.  He 
was  a  man  of  stei'ling  worth,  intense  convictions, 
and  unwaNcring  integrity. 

Henry  Henuiuger,  maternal  grandfather  of  Rob- 
Itert  Emmet  AVoods,  a  sou  of  Conrad  Ilenninger,  a 
Revolutionary  soldier,  who  served  under  Washing- 
ton, was  born  in  \\asliingt(ni  County,  Virginia,  in 
1778,  and  came  to  Kentucky  in  ISKI.  He  located  at 
iMill  Springs,  Wayne  County,  Kentucky,  where  he 
continued  to  reside  until  his  death  in  1870.  He 
had  two  brothers,  Jacob  and  John,  the  latter  of 
w  Ikuu  w  as  a  ])ioneer  ^MethodistCireuitRider,  spend- 
ing most  of   his   life   in    Tennessee.     He   married 


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Elizaliotli  Gi-caver,  and  to  tlicm  wci-c  Ikh-ii  six  sons: 
la  I  T'oxkad;  (1»)  John;  iCi  Wii.i.iam  ;  id)  IIexuy 
JiAititisoN ;  ((■)  Sajitel;  and  (f)  ( 'iiuistoimiiou 
G. ;  and  foni- (laniilitci's:  (ni  .Tank  (Ilincsi;  (li) 
Mai!v  (  Ddiinliertv )  ;  ( j  |  Ivatiii:ki\I':  (died  nninni-- 
ri((li;and  ( 1<  I  (  "iiauity  Elizai'.ktii  (\\()()ds).  Of 
tlicse  only  I  wo,  ( 'liristojilici-  (i.  and  diaiilv  ]•). 
^^^'<)Ods|,  are  now  (UtU-i)  living,  llcniy  lleii- 
ninger  was  a  plain,  unassnaiing  man,  indnsd-ions 
and  fi  iigal ;  and  lie  ac([iiirc(l  more  llian  a  conipctent 
lixelihood.  ^'o  man  sti^id  higlici-  idr  integrity  and 
ni»riglituess.  lie  was  a  (Usont  .Mctliddisl.  and 
nared  his  ramily  in  llial  f'ailli.  He  was  a  Idvcr  ol' 
tdneation,  and  inslilJcd  the  sanio  scniimcnt  into 
iiis  childi(-n,  tlnnigh  tlic  opportunitii  s  for  its  ac(pii- 
sition  were  most  meagre. 

Koliei-t  Emmet  Woods,  (lie  snbje(;t  of  this  sketch, 
\\as  horn  in  Breckinridge  Connty,  Kentucky,  Feb- 


lO.M.MKT.  .Ii;.;  and  (hi  EuzAHirni  Lisi.i:.  Ifoliert 
Ijnmel.  dr.,  dii.l  .Innc  l!l.  ItlOI. 

.Mr.  \\'(i(ii|s  enjoys  Ihe  emiliih'nce  of  ihe  enmmu- 
nily  in  \\hii  li  he  resides,  holh  as  a  man  and  as  a 
hiwyei'.  lie  is  ;i  mo(h-sl,  nnoid  rnsi\c.  inniie-loving 
man.  (|uiei  and  laihrr  nndemonsi  ral  i\'e  in  manner; 
imi  a  man  of  great  eaiaiestuess,  intense  eon\  id  ions, 
and  uneompr(nnising  integrily. 

1  le  is  a  memhi-r  of  I  lie  .Masonic  <  >i-i I i-r.  w  liicli  lias 
Inmored  liim,  a  nd  in  w  liii  li  he  takes  a  ijeep  inlerest. 
f!e  is  a  l.'i'|Mihli(;in  in  poliiiis.  Imi  is  always  oiit- 
s|ioken  againsi  e\il  and  ready  lo  lend  his  aid  lo  any 
wise  reform.  irrespecti\-e  of  parly  atliliaiion.  lake 
his  malernal  ancestors,  he  is.  in  i-eligio\is  helief,  a 
.Methodist;  and,  along  wiili  all  his  fannly,  is  an 
active  mendier  of  I  hai  ("hunli.  Itoih  in  |(oliiiis  and 
religion  he  is  lolerant. 

His  wife  is  a  daiighler  of    Ihe    late    ('hai'les    R. 


ruary  18,  18G1.     His  early  educational  advantages  Harrison  and  Eli/.a  ( Lisle  i    llariison,  of  Lebanon, 

were  far  from  the  best;  but,    such    as   he   bad,    he  ]Marion  County,  Ki'Utueky.     She  is  the  third  of  a 

made  fairly  good  use  of.     He  began  teaching  at  the  family'  of  si.\  children,  ihe  oihers    being:  (aj    Mrs. 

early  age  of  seventeen,  Imr  (lid  no(  ]mrsue  tliis  con-  Elizabeth  JMcriioKo;  (hi  .Miss  Annie  Hakuisox; 

tinuously,  except  from  1SS2  to  1800.  and  (c)  .Mr.  \\'ai.i,i:i;  1 1  akuison.  of  l.eiianon,  Keu- 

During  all  these  3'ears  he  was  anxious  to  lit  him-  lucky;   (d)    Ciiaulks  B.  Hakuison^  New  Orleans, 

self  for  the  bar,  but  the  illness  of  a  father  extending  Louisiiina;  and  (e)   Ke\ .  William  B.  I1akkison_,  a 

over  Years  before  his  death,  the  needs  of  an  invalid  Presbyterian  missionary  in  Korea. 


im)tber  and  sister,  and  other  hindering  circum- 
stances over  which  he  had  no  control,  prevented 
him  from  doing  so.  However,  he  had  previoush' 
studied  some  privately,  when  in  1S90  he  accepted  a 
pcvsition  in  tlie  War  Deiiartment  al  Washington,  1  >. 
C.  He  there  entered  the  Law  l)ei)artment  of  the 
C(ilumbian  rniversity,  ]inrsuiiig  his  h\ga]  studies  in 
addition  to  his  regular  duties,  and  graduating  with 
Ihe  highest  honors  in  18i»2.  He  took  a  post-gradu- 
ate course  in  1893,  again  winning  the  highest  hon- 
ors, and  receiving  the  Honorary  Degree  of  LL.  M. 

He  located  in  Louisville  in  1893,  and  was  .Assist- 
ant County  .Vtt(U-ney  by  a.i)poinlmeiil  foi'  three 
years  from  1805  to  1898.     In  189(1  he  was   happily 

married  to  Miss  Jennie  Clyde  llarris(in,  of  .Marion 

County,  Kentucky.     There  have  bwu  born   as    the      Poage.     Tiie  said  .\ndiew  W Is  and  Martini  had. 

result  of  this    union    two    children:     (a)     Uobeut      ann.ug  other  ehildr.Mi.  a  son  named  .laim^s  Woods, 


[Note — Our  information  in  regard  lo.\reliibald 
\\dods,  Sr.,  son  of  .Michael  Woods,  of  P.lair  I'ark, 
ami  his  ehihlren,  is  rather  meagre;  and  the  ac- 
counts deri\cd  from  \aiious  sources  are  in  some  re- 
speels,  contradictory,  and  e\cn  in-econcilable.  The 
reader  is  referred  to  pages  11(1  ll'."'>  of  this  volume, 
and  also  to  Sketches  (il!  and  (!:!,  which  immediately 
precede  this  one. — N.  ^I.  ^^'.] 

SKETCH  65. 
R.  J.  WOODS,  ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI. 
Kob(M-t  James  Woods,  son  of  .\ndrew  Chevalier 
NN'oods  (No.  li,  and  I'^lizabilh  Edith  ('(tiib,  ii<c 
Itevall,  was  horn  .March  1'9,  isTl'.  He  is  a  lineal 
disceiidani  of  .Michael  AVoo<ls,  td'  Blair  Park, 
Ihiough  his  son  .\nilrew.  whose  wife   was    Martha 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


wliosc  wife  \vas<  Nancy  Kayhuni;  and  said  Jamos  in  ^'il■^ii^ia.  and  his  niotlicr  was  Miss  Sabina  Lewis 

and  Xancv  liad.  ainon.i;  uljicr  rliildrcn,  a  sou  named  Stuart  Creigli.     Ou  both  sides  of  his  family  he   is 

Andrew  Woods  (No.  :;  I.  wiio  was  boru  in  1777,  and  (b'S(M'nded  fioni    Scotch-Irish    ancestry.     His    first 

died  in  1S32,  and  who  married  Lise  Cbauvin;  and  .Vnuiican  pro-cnitor,  :\Iiclia('l    AY(Hids,    received   a 

said  Audrew  AToods  (No.  3)  and  his  wife  Lise  had,  patent  to  a  bir-c  tract  of  land  I'roni  (ieorse  II  in 

among  other  children,  a  son  nanx'd  Andrew  Clieva-  1737,  in  tlic  western  i>arl    of    Albemarle    County, 

lier  Woods  (No.  1),  wlio  married  Elizabeth  Edith  which  \\as  linn  (Joochland  Connty,  N'irginia.    Wil- 

Cobb,  nee    Devall.     The    said    Audrew    Chevalier  liam  \\'()ods,    the    great-grandfather    of    Micajah 

Woods  (No.  1)   and  his  wife  Elizabeth  had  three  Woods,  was  a  nuMuber  of  the  Legislature  of    Vir- 

childreu,    as   follows:       (a)    Andrew    Citevalier  ginia  in  17!t8  and  1700,  and  his  son,  IMicajali,  was 

Woods,   (No.  .!),  who  was  liorn   December  <>,  ISt;;;,  a  member   of    the   Albemarle  County    Court    from 

and   lives    iu   ludiauapolis,  Indiana;    (bl   Lor.KUT  181.5  to  is:!7,  and  was  High  Slieritf  of  the  County, 

J.VMES  Woods,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and    (c)  ,•.,■  ,,//iriii.  at   llie  time  of  his  dealli.      'i'lii-ough   his 

Bessie  Dev.m.l  AN'oods.  who  was  horn  l''el)ruary  I'l',  mother  lie  is  descended  from  Colonel  David  Stuart, 

18(iL  and  icsides  in  liatou  Louge,  Louisiana.    The  County  Lieuteuant  of  Augu.sta  Couuty,  froui  1755 

said  Aiulrew  Chevalier  Woods,  No.  2,  married  Leila  on  fov  several  vears.    Mr.  \A'oo(ls  is  connected  with 


Abi  Leonard  February  7,  1801,  and  by  her  has  two 
children,  to  wit:  (a)  Andrew  Ciiev.vlier  AVouds, 
No.  3,  who  was  horn  August  2,  1804;  and  (b)  Mak- 
G.VRET  IvOBERTS  AN'oODS,  w  ho  was  liorn  November  3, 
1801.  The  said  Bessie  Devall  A\'oods  married  "Wil- 
liam 11.  Ltwuaud,  April  21,  1885,  and  by  him  has 
the  following  children:     (a)  Andrew  AVoods  Bey- 


tlie  l^ewises,  Stuarts,    I'restons,    Creighs,   Bodeses 
and  other  well-kuown  Virginia  families. 

His  early  education  was  obtained  at  the  Lewis- 
burg  Academy,  the  Military  School  of  Charlottes- 
ville, taught  by  Colonel  -lohn  I'.owie  Strange,  and 
at  the  Bloomtiebl  Academy.  1  n  18G1  he  entered  the 
University  of  N'irginia,  and  like  many  of  the  other 


NAUD^  who  was  born  February  2,  1886;  (b)  Claude  young  men  of  the  South,  was  soon  a  member  of  the 

Favrot  Beynaud.  who  was  born  March  31,  1888;  ('(Uifederate  Army.     He  first  served    when    barely 

and  (c)  AuGisTiNE  E.  Beynaud,   who    was   born  scnenteen  years  of  age  as    volunteer   aide   on    the 

February  10,  1800.  sralT  (.f  tieneral  John  It.  Floyd,  iu  the  West  \ir- 

iMr.   Bobert  James  Woods  has  for    many   years  ginia  campaign  of  18151;  then  in  18U2  as  a  private 

been  engaged  in  the  railway  service.     In  1802  he  in  the  Albemarle  Light  Hor.se    Company;    iu    the 

went  to  Cincinnati  and  was  there  five  years  with  Second  A'irginia  Cavalry;  afterwards  First  Lieu- 

the  C,  C,  C.  &  St.  L.   K.  B.    Co.,    when    he    was  tenant  iu  the  A'irgiuia  State  line;  and  in  May,  1863, 

transferred  to  St.  Louis.     In  1808  he  left  the  road  he  was  elected  and  tommissioned  First  Lieuteuant 

just  mentioned  to  enter  the  service  of  the  Wabash  in  Jackson"s  Battery  of  Hor.se  Artillery,  Army    of 

Bailroad   Co.,  with  which  company  lie  is    still    at  Northern  A'irginia,  in  which     capacity   he    served 

work.  until  the  close  of  the  war.    Among  the  battles   iu 

SKETCH   66.  which  he  participated  were  Carnifax  Ferry,  Port 

HON.  MICAJAH  WOODS,  CHARLOTTESVILLE,  iiepublic,  Secoud  Cold  Harbor,  New  Market,  Sec- 

VIRGINIA.  yml  Manassas,  Sharpsburg,    Winchester,    Fisher's 

Hon.  Micajah  Woods,  who  is  om-  of  the  best  Hill  and  Gettysburg.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  re- 
know  n  mendjers  of  the  legal  profession  in  Virginia,  returned  to  the  University,  where  he  studied  in  the 
is  a  native  of  Albemarle  County,  Virginia,  and  was  Academic  department  for  one  yeai",aud  then  studied 
born  at  "Holkliam,"  on  the  17th  of  May,  1844.  His  law,  being  graduated  therefrom  in  1808  with  the  de- 
father.  Dr.  John  Bodes  Woods,  was  for  many  years  gree  of  Bachelor  of  Law.  He  immediately  began  the 
considei-ed  the  leading  authority  upon  stock-raising  practice  of  his  profession  in  Charlottesville,    Vir- 


^^ 


MISS  MAUD  COLEMAN  WOODS. 

BORN  23d  AUGUST,  1S77-DIED  24tli  AUGUST,  lyoi. 

(SEE  SKETCH  No.  66.) 


Died,  at  Clazemont,  the  childhood  home  of  her  mother,  on 
August  24th.  after  a  short  iUness.  Miss  Maud  Coleman  Woods, 
the  beautiful  and  accomplished  daughter  of  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Micajah  Woods,  of  Charlottesville.  The  writer,  who  has 
counted  both  the  father  and  mother  among  his  life-long 
friends  and  knew  the  lovely  daughter  from  her  earliest  child- 
hood, is  only  one  of  many  who  will  sorrow  with  her  family 
in  their  great  bereavement.  In  the  long  list  of  her  beautiful 
dau.ghters  the  State  of  Virginia  never  had  one  who  by  every 
gentle  grace  filled  more  fully  the  measure  of  that  sweet 
womanhood,  which  we  who  are  of  the  soil  love  to  think  the 
distinctive  stamp  of  her  endowment.  Blessed  as  this  young 
daughter  was  with  the  refined  beauty  that  belonged  to  her 
by  inheritance,  she  was  to  those  wh(j  had  the  happiness  to 
know  her  yet  more  distinguished  l)y  tlie  sweetness  and  purity 
of  her  character,  the  loveliness  of  her  nature,  and  the  charm 
of  her  manner.  No  adulation  changed  her;  no  trace  of  self- 
consciousness  marred  her  exquisite  simplicity.  She  was  as 
beautiful  and  as  natural  as  a  flower.  When  she  was  budding 
from  girlhood  into  gracious  womanhood  she  was  selected  by 
the  officers  of  the  United  Confederate  Veterans  at  the  grand 
reunion  held  in  Atlanta  to  stand  as  sponsor  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia.  It  caused  much 
embarrassment  to  one  of  her  shy  and  retiring  nature.  Tlie 
very  modesty  with  which  she  shrank  from  publicity  was  the 
crowning  grace  that  captivated  all  who  met  her. 


Her  portrait  was  again,  without  her  knowledge,  selected 
by  the  committee  of  distinguished  men.  who  had  the  matter 
in  charge,  to  typify  North  American  beauty  at  the  Pan-Ameri- 
can Exposition;  but  with  innate  modesty  she  begged  to  be  left 
alone.  It  was  not  in  public,  liut  in  private,  that  she  aspired 
to  shine,  and  there  she  shone.  In  the  circle  of  her  home, 
surrounded  by  those  who  loved  her.  she  shone  with  the 
radiance  which  beams  only  from  a  pure  and  gentle  breast. 
One  could  not  see  her  there  and  not  think  of  a  lovely  rose 
making  all  of  the  house  sweet  with  its  fragrance.  One  can 
not  recall  her  and  not  grieve  in  thinking 

"How  small  a  part  of  time  they  share. 
That  are  so  wondrous  sweet  and  fair." 

To  her  graces  was  early  added  the  crowning  beauty  of 
simple  and  unaffected  Christian  piety,  which  had  descended 
to  her  with  her  blood  from  generations  of  saintly  women, 
and  many  of  her  young  friends  testified  to  the  influence  she 
had  upon  their  lives. 

At  Clazemont,  in  Hanover,  one  of  the  old  seats  of  bound- 
less Virginia  hospitality;  where  her  mother  before  had  played 
as  a  child,  surrounded  by  those  who  knew  and  loved  her  best, 
she,  on  the  day  following  her  twenty-fourth  birthday,  sighed 
her  gentle  life  away  and  passed  without  a  pang  into  the 
blessed,  white-robed  company  of  the  redeemed. 

T.  N.  P. 


RKETCITES  OI'  PATRONS.  •'^47 

ginia,  and  ill    ISTO    was   clwU-d    ("ouinioiiwealth's  and  has  hail  I'im' niililrcii  ;  i  ;m  llnw  aiiu  .Mukkis  :  (  h  i 

Attorney  for  that  county,  wliich  iiositioii    lie    has  Sai.i.ii;  Sim  aim  ;   (o    Mai n  (.'iii,i:ma\.  wlm  ilii'd  in 

filh'd    f(ir  lliiilydhrcc    years   witlioiil     haviii-   had  IDUI;   idi   .Mai;v    Watts;    and     (rt     I, kith;    I'a(;k 

op|»(isiti(!n  for  tlic  iioiiiination  since  1ST:V,  and    at  WOons. 

the  Novemlier,  1!)0:J,  eleelion  lie  was  tlidseii  for  said  M  A  I' I  >  COl.ll.M  A  N  \\<  k  i!  »S. 
office  for  another  term  of  four  years,    coinineneiiig  This  h(  ani  iliil  yiniii;  i:iil.  ;hiiii:hiii- >  t  lli-ii.  .Mie;i- 
first  of  January,  11)04.     In  1872  he    was    made    a  jah  Wrods  and  <ir  his  wilV.  m  (   MaiihUi  Miiinr  Mor- 
mcniher  of  the  Board  of  N'isitors  of  tlie  University  ,  j^_  „.|^  l„  |.,i  ,;,,  i|,,.  ^:>„|  ,;|-  .\iii:ii-i.  1^77.  an, I  dii  d  n\' 
of  N'irginia,  a  posKion  wJiicii  lie  Ik  id  fer  four  years,  i  vplmiil  lc\cr  <iii  I  hi'  I'llh  <ir  Aiiunsi.  I'.tdl.     On  ihe 
having  been   at   the   time   of   his   appoini  iiieiil    Ihe  pi-ccrdini;  jiaLte  is  appended  iIk    irilmh    paiil  in  her 
youngest  niemher  (d'  that  r>oard  ever  sehcled.      In  nu  hkhv   liv  l>r.  Thdiiias  Xelsnn  I'agc  .  iwiiot  whose 
politics  he  is  a  Democrat,     lie  has  been  ("hairman  Inelhiis  inairii  il  sislers  of  Mis.  .Miiajah  Woods. 
of  the  Democratic  party  of  Alhemarle  County    for  j)it    .lonx   jJdiiKs  WOous.  who  was  ilie  father  of 
several  years  and  rei)resentiiig  as  lOlector  the  Mev-  (\n^,  subject  of  iliis  skeleli,  was  lioin  in   Albemarle 
cnth  Congressional    District    of    Virginia,    was    a  C'ounty,  on  the  l">ili  day  id  .laniiai-y,  is!."),  and  died 
member  of  the    I'residential    Electoral     Itnard     in  at  ■•llidkhaiii"   in  said   ('oiinly  mi   the  '.Hh    day    nf 
1888.  Avhich  cast  the  vote  of  N'irginia  for  Clevtdand  July,  188.").     in  IS.'iCi  he  gradiiaied  in  ihe  Srlmul  of 
for  President.     He  was  permanent  chairmau  of  the  Medicine  al  the  liiivi  isiiy  nf  \iigiiiia.  and  seiiled 
Virginia  Democratic  State  Convention  which  met  at  Helena,  Arkansas,     owing  lo  ihe   dealh    nf   his 
in  Staunton  in  1811(5  to  elect  delegates  to  the   Na-  father,  Micajah  Woods,  in  18:'.7,  he  returned  in  \ir- 
tional  Convention.     In  two   Democratic    Congres-  ginia  and  took  charge  of  the  large  estate  devised 
sional  Conventions  of  the  Seventh  District  he  has  to  him.     From  that  lime  on  he  de\nled  himself   to 
rec<4ved  the  almost  unanimous  vote  for    Congress  scieutiHc  agriculture,  and  his  esiaie  nf  nearly  2,000 
of  all  of  the  Eastern  counties  iu  the  Seventh   Dis-  acres  became  famed  as  one  of  the  most  productive 
trict,  and  each  time  failed  of  nomination  by  only  a  and  valuable  in  Virginia.     lie  im[»orted  horses,  cat- 
few  votes.     In  1881  he  was  elected  Captain  of  the  tie  and  slui-p  from  England;  and  perhaps  no  man 
Monticello  (Juards  at    Charlottesville,    and    com-  in  Virginia  was  considered  a  higher  am hority  upon 
manded  that  famous  old  Company  at  the  Yorktown  the  snbjeet  of  stock  than   l>r.  Wnnds.     lie  was   an 
Celebration  in  October,  1881.     In  1893     he     was  euthnsiastic  Henry  Clay    Whig,    and    visited    Mr. 
made  Brigadier-Geueral  of  the  Second  Brigade   of  clay  more  than  once  iu  Kentucky,    lie  opposed  the 
A'irginia  Confeclerate  Veterans,  which  position  he  Secession  movement  in    N'irginia    most    earnestly, 
held  until  11)01,  when  he  declined  re-election.  but  when  the  State  did  secede,  in  1801,  he  followed 
While  at  the  University  he  was  a  member  of  the  her  foil  iiiies,  and  peiiiiil  ted  his  oldest  sou,  Micajah, 
Delta  Psi  Fraternity.     He  is  a  .Mason,  and  a  iiiem-  lo  leave  sclmnl  and  vidiiiileer  in    llie    Cniirederate 
ber  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  of  "The  History  Com-  Army  when  he  was    only  se\eiileeii    years  of  age. 
mil  tee  (d'  the  Grand  Camp  of  Confederate  Veterans  Ow  ing  to  his  public  spirit  and  wide  reputation  as 
nf  N'irginia."     Many  of  the  leading  newspapers  of  an  agriculturalisi  and  a  sinckbreeder.  he  was  jier- 
tlie  State  have  prouiineutly   mentioned   him    as   a  haps  better  known   in   N'iiginia   than    any    i)rivate 
suitable  candidate  for  Governor  of  the  State,  but  he  gentleman  who  was  not  a  politician.     Dr.  Woods 
has  never  allowed    his   name  to  be  urged    for   the  never   pradised    medicine   in    \irgiiiia,    iinr  did   he 
jdace.  ever  Imhl  any  inil)lic  nl'lice,  thniigli  in  18(l.j  he  was 
On  the  9th  of  .Tune,  1874,  he  married  Miss  !\Ia-  a  candidale  t'nr  Cmigress;  but  on  lindiug  that  he 
tilda  Minor  Morris,  daughter  of  the  late  Edward  would  have  m  lake  the  "Iron  Clad"  oath,  if  elected, 
AVatts  Morris,  Esq.,  of  Hanover  County,  Virginia,  iu  order  lo  (lualify,  he  relircd  from  the  contest.   He 


•J48  THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMOKIAL. 

sci-vcd   fidiii   IS.")!  to  18(;8  as  Diiodor  of  Tlio  Vir-  SKETCH   67. 

liiiiia    (Vntral     IJailn.a.l    (ih.nvIIu'    Cl.csaiH'akc  .^t  DAVID  WOODS,  MARION,  KENTUCKY. 

Ohio),  and  he  was  a  luembor  of  llif  lioavd  of  A'is-  David  Woods    (No.  :V)  is  dt'scendod  from  Micliael 

itins  (if  the  riiivorsitv  of  A'irmiiiia    from    ISGo    to  nf     lilair    I'ark     liirouiili     liis     sou     Miciiacl,    Jr., 

ISTi'.      hi    1S4:J   lie  marii(d   Sahiiia    Lewis  Stuart  whose  wifo  was  Anne;  and  from  Michael,  Jr.,  aud 

Crei.uli,  liy  wliom  he  liad  clcni  11  cliildren:  Aiiiic  llirou-li  llicir  sou  AVilliam,  whose  wife  was 

(1)  .MicA.iAii  AN'ooDs.  horn  ITIli  jNIay,  1844.  Joauua  Slie]»lierd;  aud  from  William  and  Joanna 

(2)  WiLrjA:\i  Sni:i'iii:i!i>  \\(»ous,  horu  3d  June,  throui;]i  tlu'ir  sou  Itavid  Woods  (No.  1),  whose 
\S^~_  wife   was   Sallie   Ncal ;   and   from   David    (No.    1) 

C!)    TiioviAS  Creigii  WooTts,  horn  12th  Septeui-  inid   Sallie   throu,!;h   tlieir  sou   Heury  W.    Woods, 

her,  IS.jO'  died  KUh  Auiiust,  18(m.  whose  wife    was   Nellie    Auu    Dodiie;   and     from 

(4 1    Sallie  Uouks  AVoods,  horn    :U\    of    April,  Heury  W.  and  Nellie  Ann,  wlio  were  his  iiai-euts. 

18r)o;died  1  Itli  of  An^nst.  iSdo.  David   A\'oods    (No.    J),   son    of   William    ^Voods 

(51    John   Konios  >\'(>(iiis,    horn    2:''.(1    Felirnary,  ('"IJaptist  ]'>illy,"'  as  his  friends  familiarly  called 

\S7)~)  (merchant  in  Aliiemarle  ("ouuly).  liini  to  distiuguish  him  from  a  uumher  of  his  near 

(Ct )    Jaxe  Cukkui  WiMins,  horn  '.Hh  .Mai-ch,  1857 ;  kinsmen  of  the  same  name  ) ,  and  his  wife  Sallie  had 

died  (ilh  of  June,  1858.  six  children,  as  follows :   (a)   Tavmok;   (h|   Hexiiy 

(7)  Jane  Lynn  Woons,  hoin  lih  of  February,  W'.;  (c)  David  (No.  2)  ;  (d)  John  N.  ;  (e)  Kitty, 
1850;  died  30th  of  July,  1859.  who  married  iJichard  .Miles,  and  (  f  1   .Maijiah.  who 

(8)  liOiiEUT  llAKKis  ^\'ooi)S,  horn  11th  Novemher,  married  I'eylou  ("i-aisj,'.  All  six  of  (he  children  just, 
L8(j0;  educated  at  Annapolis,  and  now  Paymaster  named  are  dead. 

iu  the  U.  S.  Navy.  Henry  A\'.   Woods,  son  of  David    (No.  1|,  was 

(0)   Mak(!AUEt  Lynx    Woods    horu    17th    July,  horn   .March  ."lO,   isn,  married  Nellie  Auu  Hodge 

18(i3,  who   married    ^^■al•ner    Wood,  of   "Larming-  (a     danghler  of    llohert    Hodge    aud    Nellie,  iicc 

lou,"  on  the  5(h  of  January,  1887,    aud    has    live  Armislead)   aud    died    July  11,  1880,  leaving    four 

children.  sous,  to-wit:  (a)   lIor.EUT  IL,  who  is  a  farmer,  aud 

(10)  Lynn  Crekui  Wouds^  horn  l'7th  of  June,  lives  al  the  old  Woods  llomeslead  in  Livingst(Ui 
18(>5;  real  estate  and  insurance  agent,  ( "harlottes-  County,  Ky. ;  (h)  l>AVin  (No.  3i,  the  sidiject  of 
ville,  ^'irgiuia.  this  sketch;   (c)   Josei'ii  E.,  who  was  a  physiciau, 

(11)  CiiAULEs  Lewis  Woods,  horu  2d  of  Decern-  lived  iu  .\rkausas,  and  died  iu  February,  1895, 
ber,  18(iO,  lawyer  aud  edit(/r,  Kolla,  .Missotiri.  Iea\  ing  a  widow  and  three  children;  (d)   Preston 

Hon.  .Micajali  Woods,  as  will  ajiixar  above,  is  a  H.,  who    is   a    merchaut,  aud    resides   at    Marion, 

lineal  desceu.lant  (if  .Michael  Woods,  of  P.lair  Park,  Kentucky,  and   (e)   Fkaxk,  who  is  a  druggist,  and 

as  follows:     Said  .Michael  had  a  son,  .Michael,  Jr.,  lives  at  Kutlawa,  Kentucky. 

whose  wife  was  .Vnne.    Said  Michael,  Jr.,  and  .Vune  David   Woods,  whom   we  have,  for  C(uivenieuce, 

had  :i  sou  ^^■illiam,  whose  wife  was  .Joanna  Siiep-  (j(  signaled  as  David  No.  3,  was  born  May  20,  1839, 

herd.     Said  ^Villiam  Wo(fds  and  Joanna  had  a  sou  and  married  Havana  E.  Perkins,  by  whom  he  has 

uauK^d  .Micajah,  whose  sec(nid  wife  was  Sarah  H.  had  six  children,  as  follows:    (aj    David  Everett 

Davenjiort,  inc  Lodes.     Said  .Micajah  \\Oods  aud  Wool  s,  who  was  horn  at  .Marion,  Kentuckj^,  July 

Sarah  11.  had  .1  son.  Dr.  John  Li^des  Woods.     Said  7,  isf.'.l,  and  married  .Miss  .Mattie  Kevil  on  the  2(ith 

Dr.    John    Ko(b'S    Woods    married    Sabiua    L.    S.  of  December,  18U5,  aud  who  is  a  rising  and  popular 

Creigh,  and   his  lirst  child  was  the  distinguished  (dUcial  of  the  Dliuois  Central  Railway;  (h)  U.  K. 

lawyer  who  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  one  of  Wooi>s;    (  c  )    J>exa   AVoods;    (d|    Ina   Woods;    (e) 

Virginia's  most  prominent  public  men.  Kitty  ^\■ooDs;  aud  (t)  Sallie  Woods.   Mr.  Woods 


SKETCHES  OF  PATRONS.  ^-li) 

Ikis  bwu  the  clerk  of  the  Ci'itleiuU'u  County  Court  Isiuic    Sliclhy.      Mr.    Slidliy    was   l.orii    in    Fayette 

siuce  August  12,  1878.     Ilis  wife  wns  a  daughter  Comily.  Kciiliirky.  .Inly  I'C.  is:;:;.     .Mis.  Sliclhy  is 

of  Rev.  George  K.  Perkins  by  liis  wile  Elizabeth  descMMJc!     frnm    .Mi(|i;i,-|    W.kmIs   n[     P.l.iii-    I'.nk 

O.,  1ICC  Gray.     [Mrs.  ^^'(M)ds  was  born  at  Decatur,  through  bis  son    W  illiam    Woods.   wIk.sc  wif.'  was 

Ahibama,  August  10,  1840.      Slie  is  desceuded,  like  Siisannali    \\alla<c,    and    rmm    said    William    and 

her  liusbaud,   from    [Micliacl    ^Voods,   .Tr..   and    his  Snsannali     Ibi-on-b     llicir  son    .\irliibald     Woods, 

wife  Anne,  but  tlirough  iiichaers  (huighter,  .Mar-  wlmsc    wilV   was    .M(Hnning   llanis  Shcltou;    and 

garet,  win)    married  David  Cray.     Said   [Margaret  fnnn  said   .Archibald  ami   .Monrning  llirough  their 

Woods  was  (lie  youngest  of  her  father's  children,      daughter   SusaTinali    W' Is,    whose   husliand    was 

She  becanu'    the  wif<'  of    Daviil   (Ji-ay   somewhere  \\illiain    Coodloe;    and    from    sai.l    Susannah    and 

about  Ihe  year  ITSd.  and  by  him  had  a  son  William,  'WJlliam    lliiongh    I  heir  daughter   lan-y  .\nn   C.ood- 

who,   iu   1811*,   married  a   [Miss   Kiltie   P.ird    W'inii,  loe,  whose  Inisband  was  l)a\id   I'.  Ilari    (son  of  i  he 

and  lived  in  Glasgow,  and  also  Greeuslmrg,  Ken-  noted    Cajdain    Nathaniel    llaii,   of    the   Tiansyl- 

tucky.      Tlie  fifth  child  of  tliis    (Doctor)    William  vania    ('otn|iany).      Said    l>a\id    1'.    and    his    wife 

Gray,  by  his  wife  Kittie  1?.,  was  Elizabeth  Cather-  Eucy  Ann  were  the  parents  (d'  the  stibjecL  of  this 

iue  Ophelia,  who  was  born  February  23,  1823,  and  sketcli. 

married   (he   Rev.    George   K.    Perkins,   a  Presby-  Edmitnd    I'endleton   Shelby  and   his  wife  Susan 

terian  minister,  wlm  was  the  father  of  Havana  E.  Goodloe,  nee  ilatt.  hail  ele\cn  cliihli-en.  as  tollows: 

Perkins,  now  Mrs.  David  Woods,  of  Marion,  Ken-  (a)   Tiin.Ar.\s  11.u;t  Siit:i.r.Y.  who  is  a   latinei-;   ibi 

(ucky.  \ViLLiAM    KiXKK.VD   SiiKi.i'.Y,    who    was   graduated 

[Mr.  Joliu  [X.  A>'oo(ls,  aliove  meutioiu'd  as  one  of  from   I'l-iuceton    Fuiversify   with   lionors    in   1S83, 

the    ehildren    of    David    Woods    I^Xo.    1)    and    his  studied  law  at  the  Fniversity  of  \irginia.  jtraetised 

wife   Sallie,   was  an   uncle  of  tlie  sidiject  of  this  law   lor  a  time,  thi'ii  beeaine  a  teacher,  was  pritici- 

sketch,  and   was  l)oru   at   Salem.   Kentin-ky,  June  ]>al   of  the  .lohnson   High   School,    Lexington,  and 

15,  1815.      His  father  (David  No.  1)   had  moved  to  <lieil   in   Lexington,  l\enliicky,  September  2(t.  IIIOO; 

Livingston  County  in  1813,  witli  his  parents,  and  (c)   LrcY  GoODi.oi:  Siii:i,iiy.  who  is  a  graduate  of 

died    at    Marion,   Kentucky,   in    1825.     John    N.  Sayre    Institute,   Lexington,  and   now     teacher  of 

Woods  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  sub-  Latin    in   Johnson   Higli   School,    Lexington;    fd) 

stantial  citizens  of  [Marion  where,  through  a  long  Vily  mo  r..\  Foxt.mxio  Siietjiy.  who  was  married  (o 

life,  he  was  known  and  honored  as  a  man  of  the  <!eorge  Sea  Shanklin,  October  I'.i,   is.si;.  by  whom 

noblest    character,      lie   made   several    moves   and  she  has  t  hree  sons;  I.  Shelby,  2.  G<'org<' Sea,  ami  :>, 

business  changes  during  his  life,  but   [Marion  was  Arthur;  (e)  IOdmund  Pendleton  Siit:r.r,v,  who  was 

I  he  (own  wi(h  whose  hislory  his  own  was  mainly  gradualed     from     Kentucky     University,     studied 

connected.     In  1871  he  was  sent  to  the  State  Leg-  medicine  at  the  Luiversity  of  Virginia,  was  gradu- 

islature  by  his  county.     In  1848  he  was  married  "(ed  fnun  the  I'niversity  of  New  York,  ami  is  now 

to  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Marble,  of  ^dadison,  Indiana.    His  ii   member  of  the  lacnlty  of  Cornell    .Medical  Cid- 

death  occurred  Decendjcr  27,  18!)(i.  It'ii'S   (H    D.wtti  llAtrr  Stit:t.f.v.  who  was  educated 

at  Keutiu'ky  rni\cisity,  atid  is  now  engaged  in  the 
lumber  bnsiuess  in  tlie  West;   ( i;- 1    rs.^.\C  Pu.VTllEK 

MRS,  S.  H.  SHELBY,  LEXINGTON,  KENTUCKY.  ^„,.,,  ,,^^._    ^^.|,„    ^^.^,^    .,„|„nted    front    the   K.Mttucky 

[Mrs.  Susan  Goodloe  Shelby,  »t't'  Hart,  was  born  State     ('(dlege,     on     the     5t!i     oj'     .Jannai-y,     P.MHI, 

in    [Madison   County,   Kentucky,    March    15,    L839,  married  Augusta  I'anliiie  Taggai  I,  and  is  now  ( "ity 

and  on  t  he  4th  (d'  December,  1858,  was  mari-ied  to  lOngineer    of     I'ine     IJlnlC,    .Vrkansas;     ihl     ICv.\N 

Edmund  IV'udleton  Shelbv, a  grandson  of  Governor  Siii:t,r.v,  who  was  i;faduated   from   Kentucky  I'ni- 


SKETCH  68. 


350  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

\crsil\.  mill  ilic  New    \'()rl<  l,.i\\  Sclionl,  ;\ih1  is  mow  iicsscc    Lciiishiliii-c,   and    is   iiiiimrcd   as  niK>  of  the 

a  inciiilicr  (if  liic  law    liriii  ol'  'l'a\  Idt  vV:  Sliciliy,  New  iikisI    iiii]i<irlaiil    ami    i-ciial)lc   cil  izciis  of  liis  com- 

\i>]k  ('il\  ;   (  ji    Si  SA.N   IIakt  Siiinj'.V.  wlio  died  in  niunilv.     He  is  a  nuanlicr  and  an  uriiccr  nf  the  Pi'es- 

April,    1S7(),   wlicn    only  cli-Ncn   months    old;    (kl  hylcrian  Chnrcli.    I  Ic  icsiih's  at  the  old  Woods  hoiiie- 

.Mai;v  r.ri.i.ocK  Siii:i.i;v.  who  was  ^ladnalcd  I'lom  stead,  tiist  owned  I ly  his  grandfather,  l)avi<l  Woods, 

Sayre  Inslilnle,  was  a  shideiit  al  ^\■elh'sley  ("olleiic,  and  which  was  settled  aliout  1S24.     There  ai'e  hut 

married     Samnel      .M.    Wilson,    and     (I)      AltTilUR  few  ]ilanlalions   in    Hardeman  Connly   whieli   were 

Shelby,    who    died    -Inly    l':!,  IS'.IS,    in    Lexington,      setth'd  as  early  as  w as  his.    .Mr.  W Iswastheouly 

a.ucd  seventeen  years.  ehild  ot  his  luirents  (Samnel  M.   Woods  and  Nar- 

SKETCH   69.  '•'"""•  ""■  I'"l'i"^"i'>. 

HON.  J.  D.  WOODS,  HICKORY  V.ALLEY,  TENNESSEE.  ^'"""^■1    ^^l^'l-'nie     W<.ods,  jnst    mentioned,    who 

(For  illustration  sec  page  332.)  \N'iis  tlic  oldest  of  tile  I'our  elilldren  of  David  AVoods 

.lohn   i>a\id  Wootis,  of  Hickory  Valley,  Teimes-  and  Alary,   iicr   Koldnson,   was  horn   hehrnai-y  IG, 

see,  was  liorn  An^nsl   lilt,   1S47,  and  was  the  only  1S22.     He  was  married  to  .Miss  Xarcissa  IJohinson, 

son  of  Samnel  .M.  ^^■oods  hy  his  wife  Xarcissa,  iice  -lannary   14,   1S44,   and   ilied    Alay  5,   1849.     Nar- 

llohinson.     lie  is  descendetl  from  William  ^\'oods,  cissa  llohiusou,  whom  he  mariieil,  was  a  daughter 

of  North   ("artilina,   Ihroiigh   his  son   .lolm   Wooils,  of  AVilliani   I?.    Koliinson,  and   Elizaheth,   iicc  l>oy- 

w  hose  wife  was  .Vnn  honey  .Meliane;and  from  said  ]dn.      William   15.   Ifohinson    was  a  sou  of  James 

.John   and  Ann   Louey   through    their  son   Sannnd  Koldnson  and  hrother  to  the  Alary  IJohinson  who 

^\'oods,  \\  hose  wif(>  was  -lennie  .\llison;  and   from  married  l»a\id  Woods.    Hence,  Samuel  AI.  Woods's 

said  Samnel  and  .Jennie  Ihi-ongh   their  son   David  wife  ( Narcissa  |    was  his  lirst   cousin.    The  hefore- 

\\'oods,  whose  wife  was  Alary  IJohinson;  and  from  mentioned    lOlizahetli    I'oykin    was   a    daughter   of 

said  David  and  Alary  through  their  son  Samuel  AI.  ])i-.  lOlisha  IJoykin,   who  was  the  son  of  a  native 

AVoods,   ahove   mentioned,    who    mairied    Narcissa  I'ri'nch    J'rotestant    who   sellle<|    near   i'etersburg, 

JJohiuson,  and  was  the  fatlier  of  the  snhject  of  this  \irginia.     Narcissa  IJohinson  was  horu  Alarch  28, 

skelih.     The  said  William  W Is,  id'  North  Caro-  1S24,  and  died   Xovemher  ;•.,  1S!K»,  and  was  liuried 

lina,  as  show  n  in  I'art   1  o|'  ihis  volume  (pages  lo2-  in  the  IJohinson  cemetery,  in  Tipton  < 'ounty,  Ten- 

lo!)|    was  a    hi-uther   of   Alidiael    Woods   of   lUair  nessee. 

I'ark,   and   of   I  lie   l-^li/.aheth    \\'oods   who   married  .Tohn  IJ.  AA'oods,  the  second  cliihl  of  David  and 

J'eter  ^^■allal■e,  Sr.,  and  became  one  of  the  ancestors  Alary,    died     in     early    manhood,    and     unmarried, 

of  all  the  Wallaces  mentioned  in  this  work.     AVhat  y\,^yy  ^Voolls,   the  third  child,  married   Walter  AI. 

has  already  heen  related  in  I'art  I  of  William  and  ,  .i^.n.,,,],,   |,,.   ,vhom   she    had   one    child,   namely, 

his   children    and    grandchildren    need    not    be   re-  .^j.^^.^.    ^     chru■.u^\t.   who   married    Mr.   T.   A.    Ale- 

ueated  here,  e.xceiit  so  far  as  mav  be  necessary  to  ,      ^         .    ,,         ,     ,        ,.         ,,,                      ,.            , 

I                                ^                             ■                         ■'  Lartv,    of    (irand    .Innctnin,    Tennessee.     Air.    and 


Airs.  AlcLarty  have  two  children,  low  it:  (a)  WiL- 
LTio  AIcLauty.'  (I>)  Lii.Lii':  AIcLaktv.  who  married 
Thurston  D.    I'rewitt. 


a  lucid  account  of  his  remoter  deseeudauts  now 
li\ing.  Six  of  his  lineal  descendants  are  among 
the  original  patrons  ol'  this  work,  as  will  appear 
from  Sketches  No.  t)!»-T4,  inclusive. 

.Mr.  Woods,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  mar-  -^I^'i'^'ii-et   Woods,   the   fourth  and   last  child  of 

ried  to  Ali.ss  .\nnie  K.  AlcLarty  August  :!,  ISItt,  by  "■'^''1  '"'"l  ^'•"■>-  "'■•iiii''d  Joseph  S.  AIcAuulty,  by 

whom  he  has  had  two  (diildreii,  to-wit:   (a)    David  whom  she  had  two  childi-en,  as  follows :  (a)  David 

W  iioiis.  w  ho    was    born    .Inly    14,     ISSO;    ami    (b)  ^^'.  Air. \.\ii.TV.  who  married  .Mart  ha  IJ.  Aloormau; 

l';i.i/-Aiu"rii    Woims,   who   was  born   Alarch  7,  18So.  and  (h)   lIor.KUT  A.  AlcA.xti.TV,  who  married,  first, 

Air.  Woods  has  represented  his  county  in  the  Ten-  Sallie  Cargile;  and,  secoml,  Alary  Spiuks. 


SKETCnES  OF  PAT  I  JONS.  351 

bkb  1  UH  70.  II,. Ill    III'   civil    ;|||i|    li  \  ,|i-i  iilii-   ni^^ii riiiu,   mid    ax- 

DAVIU  S.  WOODS,  DECEASED,  LATE  OF  ;i     i-      ,1               ,         ,■          ,■                  r  ,  1      1                -i 
tSAKSlUW,    1  hXAS. 

(For  illustration  see  page  ii2.)  \\';i  V    syslciiis    iiiiil    i  iri  i;a  1  ii  HI    I'aiials    ill    Ti'Nas   and 

Mr.  David  Sidney  Wo.mIs,  whose  .leaili  .„viinv,l  m,.v||.|,      m  ,.    \v,mm1s  was  never  man-led.     A   liillei- 

since  file  prepaiaiit.n  ..f  lliis  vv..i-k  was  l»-nn,  an.l  ;„-e..iinl   ..f  liis   r.-iinily   will   l,e   r.Mind   un    il,,.  ,,a-es 

t.f  wliieli   lie  was  ..ne  of  tlie  Hi-sl    ,Mli-..ns,   was  a      ,i,.v„|,.,i  |i,  Willi.Mn  W Is.  I'aii    I.  Cln t  IV. 

deseeudant  or  William  Woods.  ,. I-  Ireland,  11, n.u-h  i^.,i,|    s.iinmi    Ka.v    W s   ; ids    wife   /ilplia 

his  son  .Tolin   Wootls.  whose  wife  was  Ann   L.  :\[e-  ||.n      n,,,     r.,||,nviim     six      eliildr.Mi.      lo-wii  :      lai 

hane;  and   from    said   John   and    Ann    1.    Ihrou-h      Wu.m.vm  S  a  \ii  i:i.  Wdoi.s.  \x  1m,  « as  Uoin  l»c.fi r 

their  son  Samnel  Woods,,  whose  wife  was  a  lady  i.   is^i  •    ,  |, ,    m,,.,    |.:,.i/,.m;,:ti,    Wtions.   nnIio    «as 

of  his  own  name,  Elix.al.edi  W.MitJs;  and  from  said  |,|„.„    ] ,,.,., .,„l„.,.     ic,    ]s:V.\-    i  .•  i    Sis.sx    .MeKrixi:. 

Samnel    and    Eii/.aheth   thron-Ji   their  son    Saninel  ,vho  was  horn   .Mareli  I'lt.   ]s:U\;   i,|i   .),,ii.n    K.MFoKn 

Kay  Woods,  wln.se  wife  was  Zilplia    Iv   .\k-Kuiue.      Wooi.s.  who  was  hor loher  i::.  LS3,S;   (e)    l'..vu- 

The  said  Samnel  Kay  Woods   and    his    wife  Zilpha  1.^,,^     \^x    Wonns,    \n1io   was    h..rn    Seplemher    1.^. 

were  the  parents  of  David  S.  Woods.  1,S41  ;  and    ifi    1  ».\vii.  Siiim:v   W ,s    i  ihe  siiliJiM't 

Mr.   Woods  was    born   near    Uillsl.oro,   Oran-e  ^^  ^j,]^  skdehi,  who  «as  born,  as  above  slated,  De- 

("oiinly.   North  Carolina,   December  L'S,   1844,  and  comber  28   1844 

with    his    pai-enis    canu'    to    .Alari.m,    Alabama,    in  Saninel   K'ay  Woods  ve.l  Nxiili  liis  family  from 

l'^^'^-  (haniiv   County.    Xorlli   Carolina,    lo    .Marion.   .\la- 

lIeeulistedasaprivatein(\.mpanyK,  Eleventh  i,.,,,,.,^  j,,  is4.s.     lleri-his  wife  i/ilpha   i;iiy.ab.-tli  i 

Alabama  Infantry,  in  Jnue,   18(11,  and   served   in  ,|i,.,,  ^|„.j]   ,;._  ,^77.     jlc  snrvivetl  Inr  a  little  nmre 

that  reginn-nt  in  the  first  eanipaiyn  of  the  Army  ,1,.,,,  ,  hii-n,,.,,  veais.  dyin-  .inly  :;(i.  Is'.io.     The  be- 

of  Northern  Virginia.     Having  fallen   a   victim   to  f,„v-nient  hnietl  .b.lin    Uailord    W..ods.  who  resi<los 

pneumonia,   and   being  a   mere  yt.iilh,   he   was  (lis-  .,(-  a,-^.^^-  Heme,  Alabama,  married   .Mis^;  Annie  -lane 

charged.     Soon  after  reaching  home  he  re-enlisted  p.^^j^  ,,^.  ^^.],^-,„|  i,,,  i,,,^  ||.,,|   ,1, ,.,.,.  ,.||i|,||.|.||,  |,,-wil  : 

in  (^nnpany  E,  Eorty-tirst  Alabama   Inlanlry,  and  ,  .j ,   c;!.;,,!!,;].;  Sii..\i:v.  who  was  born   .March    1.   IS77; 

served    as  first    sergeant  of    his  company   in    the  (b)  Mauy  Alici;.  who  was  born  -luly  |:;.  187!);  and 

Army   of   the   Cumberland     nnder   General    Jlragg  j^,  Eliz.miktii  M<Kt  iNii.  who  was  b.n-u  Aj.ril  20, 

from    his   retreat   from  Kentucky   in   18()1'    t((    Ihe  ;i).i<j2.      Snsan     .Mi  Knine  and     Uarbara     Ann   have 

battle  of  Chickamanga.     lie  was  i)roniotetl   to  sec-  ,„..^.,.^.  j„;i,.i.i,.,k  ;iml  resi.lc  at    .Marion.  .Maiiama. 
ond  lienteiiant   in  the  armv  of  the  Cnlf.  and  served 

■      .,     ,     ,                   ,             '    V,      .■  n      .•  1-     <   <<    •  SKETCHES   71,72  AND  73. 

in   dial    dei)artmen(    ni)  to   the  fall   id    fort    Cams  ^    '^                ^^ 

,   ,.    ,  .,     ,              ,                ,,       ,,,       ,,            ,    ,,„.,  .J.  H.WOODS,  MELBOURNE,  AI^K.:  T.. J.  WOODS,  BATES- 

and  Mobile  Lay,  when,  on  the  Mb  of  August.  Ts(.4,  ^^^  ^^    ^^^     ^    ^^,    WOODS,  YELLVILLE,  ARK. 

he  snrrendered,  with  his  company,  which    he  had  ,f,„  iiius,r.nti„n  see  r-.Ke  „.) 

ctnnmanded  dnring  the  engagemenl  aUoiil   the  I'.ay  These  three  indi\idiials  are  sons  of  the  late  Wil- 

and    hanphin    Island,    and    for   alxnil    live   months  liaiii    .Mitchell    Woods  and    his    wife    lOl  i/.,-ibct  h    Iv. 

was   in   prison   at  New   Orleans   and    Ship    Island.  /icc  Brown ;  anil  said  William   .Mitchell  Woods  was 

lie   was  exchanged    in   time   to   parlicipale    in    the  a  son   of  Thomas   Woods  and    his   wib'   Susannah. 

closing  scenes  of  the  great  war  in  and  about  .Mobile,      iicc  llaldridge;  and  said  Thomas  W Is  was  a  son 

Alabama.     After  the  storm   of  battle  had   cleared  of  -Tohii  Woods  and  bis  wib'  .\iin   i.oney,  ii<-r  Me- 

away  he  secured  a  position  as  salesman   in  a  nier-  bane;   and    said     .lolm    Woods    w:is   a    son    of    the 

canlile  eslablishinent,   keitl    I ks,  and   b>r  several  William    Woods    who    was    a    brother   of     .Michael 

years  was  a   travelling  salesman   in   liie  whoh  sale  Woods  of    IMair    I'ark.    \irgiiii,i.   and    came    from 

line.     In  1S72  he  moved  to  Texas,  and  entered  the  Ireland  to  .\merica  in   ITl'l  and  seiilcd  in  what  is 


352  THE  WOODS-McAFEE  MEMORIAL. 

now  OniMui'  Coiiiilv,  Xnilli  Ciirolini).     I'or  fnllor  (■(liical  inn.     Deociiibci-  27,  lSTr>,  li(>  was  married  to 

(Iclails  ill  i-cyanl  in  llic  TliiMiias  Woods  just  men-  .Miss  .Marv  F.  Kiiinanl,  of  LaCrosse.     Dr.  Woods 

tioiH'd.    tlic   reader   is   releired    In   ('lia|p!er    n'   of  lias  ^i\cii  a  \"er_v  lariic  sliare  of  liis  fiiiie  and  atteii- 

Fail   T  of  liiis  \-o!niiie.  tiou  to  surnieal  ])rartice,  and  has  uchievod  large 

^\■iilialll  .Miiciieil   Woods,  above  mentioned,  was  snceess  therein,  and  he  is  considered  the  leadinij 

liorn  ,Ma\   ICi.  1S2(I,  and  Dereiiilier  Ki,  1847,  he  was  jdiysician   and   siirp'on   of   his   ]iart   of   Aikansas. 

married    io    .Miss    I^Ji/.ahelh    E.    l>ro\\n,   of   Fnlton  His  wife  was  tlie  dani;liler  of  \\'illiaiii  ( '.  Kinnard, 

Coiinlv,     Keiilucky,    daniiliter  of    Archibald     and  and  was  born  An;.:iist  4,  18r)3.     He  and  his  wife  are 

Sarah  (Cnltou)  Brown.     He  made   his  home   first  members  of  the  ( 'hrisl  ian  Clmrch.     They  ha\c  eii^lit 

in   Obion   Connty.  Tennessee,  hnt   in   IS.").")  he  sold  children,  as  follows:    1.  ^fary  Etliel,  lioin  ()clober 

out   and   nioveil    Io    1/ard   Connly,   .\rkansas.      He  7,  1S77,  who  is  a   highly  educated  yonng  lady;  2, 

died  September  lit,  l^Ofi,  and  his  wife  died  ^Farch  ^^■illialll  Kinnard,  born  August  S,  1S7'.*,  ami  died 

l."i,   ls;»!l.      lie    w;is    a    member    of    llii     Clirislian  November,   ISSO;  8,  T.  Oaillai-d,  born   October  25, 

('liui(li.   and    liis   wife  was  a   ( "umbeiland    I'resby-  ISSl,  and  died  in  1SS2 ;  4,  Lillian  Iv,  born  .\|U-il  l."), 

teriau.      William     .Mitchell     W Is  and    his    wife  1SS3;  '>,  Edwin  Onin,  Iku-u  -Tannaiw  22,  188.");  G, 

Elizabeth  bad  eight  children,  as  follows:  (a)  JoiiN  Shelby  "Watkins.  born  I'ebrnary  5,  1887;  7,  Fred- 

n.vitVKY    \\(ioiis,   who    was   born    .Mai-cli    27,    1849,  crick     l»ains,    born    June    5,    188!i,    and    8.    Jolm 

married    .Miss    .Mary   Ella    I'owcll,    a    daughter   of  .Michael,  Isorn  September  3,  I8!ll. 
Judge  li.  II.  I'owell,  of  .Melbourne,  .\ikausas,  on  (c)    AVii.i.i.vm   ARCiin!.\Li)  Woons  was  th(>  third 

the    l.">(li   of   ^iay,   1S7!),   and   by  her  has   had   the  child   of  A\'illiam     and    lOli/.abetli,   and    was    horu 

following  children,   to-wit  :   1,    Irene   Woods,   born  .\i>ril  12,  18.'')2,  and  died  Decenibei'  (!,  1852. 
May  ;'>1,  188(1;  2,  Heniy  .Mildiell,  born  August  11,  id)  .lou.xso.x  riEitcio  AN'oous.  \\  lio  was  the  fourth 

1881,  and  died   .V])ril   15,  1883;  3,  .Mary  l':iizal)eth  child  of  ^^■illianl  and  Elizabeth,  was  born  October 

(Bessiel  born  September  27,  1883,  and  died  August  12,18.53.     He  graduated  in  medicine  at    Louisville, 

28,  1887;  4,  Efhe.Tane,  born  .March  7,  1885;  5,  John  Kentucky,  in  1878,  aud    that  same    year  married 

Powell,  b(uu  Heceiiiber  25,  1885;  (i,  IJohert  Thounis,  Miss  Ilattie  Powell.     He  has  practised  his  profes- 

boi-n  .Tuly  !l,  1888,  and   died   .\ugust    11,    1888;  7,  sion  e\-er  since  his  gi'adnatiou  at  Salein,  .\rkansas, 

^^'illialll,  born  October  IS,  ISSl);  and  s,  Susannali,  and   is  considenMl  one  of  the  tinest  ]ihysicians  in 

born  XoN'embei- '.I,  lSil3.    Irene,  IJessie,  and  lOftie  all  his  seclion.     His  wife  died  after  ha\ing  borne  to 

confesi*ied   Chiisi   and    united     with    the  Christian  him  seven  childreu,  to-wit:  1,  Lobert;  2,  Arch;  3, 

Church  early  in  life.     .\lr. -lohn  liar\ey  Woods  was  (Jrover;    4,    .Vlleu;  5,    "Winnie;    (J,  Tressie;  ami  7, 

admitted   lo  the  bar  in  -luni',    1S77,  and  is  a  sue-  Otho.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church, 

cessfnl  lawyer.  as  was  his  wife. 

(b)   Tii(>.M.\s  J.uiKs  Wodiis,  .M.  ]).,  second  child  (e)    S.VK.ui  A.XiNAP.kl  AVoons,  the  tifth  child  of 

of  "William  .M.  and  lOlizabeth  E.  AVoods,  was  borji  ^^■illiam  and  Elizabeth,  was  born  October  Ki,  18.55. 

August  18,  l,s5(t.     He  studied  medicine,  and   was  She  married  .Mr.  llanip  ^^■iselllan,  of  Izai-d  County, 

graduated  with  hoiuu-  from  the  :\redical  College  of  .\rkansas.     She  was  an  invalid  most  of  her  life,  but 

Louisville,  Kentucky,   in    1S7(;.      1  >r.   NVoods  jirac-  bore  her  sntleriugs  with  Christian  patience.     She 

tised  his  profession  at   LaCross,    Arkansas,   until  was  a  Cnndierlaud  Presbyterian.     She  died  April 

1890,  when  he  moved  to  lialesville,    in    tln'    smiie  1(1,  1899,  leaving  no  children. 

State.     At  the  time  he   was  growing  u])  the  best  (f)    Stki'IIKx     "\V.\siiix(;tox    ^^'()()DS,    the    si.xth 

educational   advantages  did   not    abound    in    Izard  child,  was  born   December  !l,   1857.     He  attended 

County,  Arkansas,  his  boyhood  home,  but   he  w.ns  the  Law    School  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  graduat- 

ambitious  aud  worked  hard,  and  ac(ii!ired  a  liberal  ing  from  rlience  in  1882.     Up  to  1890  he  practised 


GROVER  CLEVELAND  GOODWIN, 

ST.   JOHNS.   NEWFOUNDLAND. 

[See  Sketch  No.  74. J 


MR.  JAMES  D.  GOODWIN. 

ST.   JOHNS,   NEWFOUNDLAND. 

[See  Sketch  No.  74. 1 


.MRS.  JAMES  D.  GOODWIN. 

ST.  JOHNS,   NEWFOUNDLAND. 

[See  Sketch  No.  74.] 


354 


THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


law  at  Melbourne,   since  Mliieh   date  lie  lias  fol-  and  :\[ai'tlia    Jane,  rice  Williams,  on  the    12tli  of 

Inwed   his  profession  at  Yellville,  Arkansas.     He  h'eliruaiy,  1884,  by  wlnnii  she  lias  had  Iwnrhildren, 

has  been  renarkaldy  successfu]  as    a    lawyer,  ami  to-wit:  (a)  Ckovkk  Clevelaxd  (I iwix,  l»irn  :\Iay 

has  also  made  wise  invesliiieiils  in  various  mining  19,  1885:  and    (li)   Rrower  G.  Goodwix,  born  No- 

and   uiaunfaetnrinii-  enterprises,      lie  operates   at  vember  !».  1SS7.  and  died  Noveniber  0,  1888. 
Yellville  th(>  largest  and  best  roller  mill  in  North  Jose])h  llamniel  Woods.  :Mrs.  Goodwin's  father, 


Arkansas.  January  1,  1885,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Lillie  JJrown.  daiii;lder  of  David  an<l  Sarah 
J.  ]>ro\vn.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church 
whilst  his  wife  is  a  ineiiiber  of  the  Soul  hern  Meth- 
odist Church.  ]\Ir.  and  ;\Irs.  AVoods  have  one 
child,  Gertrude,  born  Sejilemlier  :',0,  1886. 

(ji)  Benj.vmix  FraNKi.ix  NNOons,  the  seventh 
child,  was  born  Februaiy  lit,  1S(!7,  and  died  iu 
October,  1870. 


was  born  November  7,  1833.  He  was  a  Confeder- 
ate soldier,  and  was  severely  wounded  October  11, 
18G3.     His  home  is  in  Durham,  North  Carolina. 

IIui;h  Woods,  tlie  paternal  grandfather  of  Mrs. 
Goodwin,  and  the  fourth  sou  of  Samuel  Woods 
(the  p)-st  child  by  Samuel's  second  wife,  Elizabeth) 
A\ho  married  I'^lvira  Jane  Eay  on  the  26th  of  Janu- 
ary, ISi'l),  had  a  family  of  six  children,  as  follows: 
(a)    S.VMFEL   Kor.EKT  F.vrcETT  A\'o(ii»s,  born   Feb- 


(h)  Owen  SiiEi.r.Y  ^^'oollS.  the  eighth  child,  was  ruary  l(i,  1828,  was  a  successful  ]ihysiciau,  and 
born  Fi'bruary  27,  1870.  On  the  21th  of  December,  died  .May:'.!,  IS.").");  (b)  M.vrg.vuet  Jane  Woods, 
1891,  he  was  niarrie(l  to  :\Iiss  Cornelia  J.  Faust,  of      born  duly  29,  1830,  taught  scho(d,  uever  married, 


Izard  County,  Arkansas,  by  w  Jiom  he  has  had  three 
children,  to  Avit:  1,  Lillie  Auabel,  born  November 
30,  1892:  2,  ^^•illiam  Thomas,  lioni  Octol>er  16, 
1891;  and  3,  Beruice,  born  December  26,  1898. 

SKETCH  74. 

MRS.  J.  D.   GOODWIN,   ST.  JOHNS,   NEWFOUNDLAND. 


and  died  September  26,  1857;  Id  Joseph  ILvii- 
yiv.i,  already  considered;  (d)  Elizabeth  Ann 
\\'(Hii>s.  lioi'u  August  19,  1837,  mairied  Saimud  ,M. 
Wilkinson  November,  1882,  had  no  children,  and 
now  lives  at  Durham,  North  Carolina;  (ej  Hugh 
Phillu'S,  generally  known  as  Tyler,  born  January 
15,  1810,  purposed  entering  the  l'resl)yteriau  miu- 
^Irs.  Viola  Smith  Goodw  in,  iicc  Woods,  the  wife  istry,  but  the  Civil  War  interferred  with  his  plans; 
of  James  Dennis  Goodwin,  was  the  daughter  of  entered  the  infantry  service  of  the  Confederate 
Joseph  Hammel  \\'oods  liy  his  w  ife  IJebecca  Willi-  Army,  and  was  killed  in  battle  October  14,  1863, 
ams,  iicc  ^Monk,  and  was  boi-n  in  Orange  County,  near  .Manassas,  \irginia;  If)  M.vuy  Ellen  Woods, 
North   Carolina,   November   1,   1S67.      She   is   de-      born  July  22,  1812,  and  died  uunuirried,  September 

scended    from    the  William    W Is   who    was    a      22,   1SS2.     All  of  these  children  of  Hugh  AVoods, 

brother  to  Michael  AVoods  of  Blair  I'ark,  Virginia,  liut  one,  were  consistent  members  of  the  Fresby- 
and  settled  iu  what  is  now  Orange  County,  North  terian  Church,  and  that  one  (Samuel)  confessed 
Carolina,  aliout  1730-174(»,  through  his  sou  John,      Christ  on  his  death-bed. 

wJiiise  wife  was  Ann  honey  ^Meliane;  and  from  said  Hugh  Woods  was  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian 

John  and  Ann  Louey  through  I  heir  son  Samuel  Church,  and  died  i'eliruary  28,  1880.  His  wife, 
whose  wife  was  Elizabeth  AVoods;  and  from  said  Elvira  Jane,  A\as  also  a  devoted  meinlier  of  the 
Samuel  and  Elizabeth  thrcmgh  their  son  Hugh  same  church,  and  died  October  11,  1870.  Joseph 
Woods,  Avhose  Avife  was  Elvira  Jane  Eay.  The  said  Hammel  W Hods,  son  of  Hugh  and  Elvira  Jane,  was 
Hugh  and  Elvira  Jane  were  the  iiareiits  of  Joseph  married  to  Rebecca  Williams  Monk  March  31, 
Hammel  ^^'oo(ls,  who  was  tlie  father  of  Mrs.  Good-  1864.  She  was  born  .March  6,  1841.  They  lived  in 
\vin.  Orange  Couutj-,  North  Carolina,  till   1881,  when 

Miss  ^'iola  Smith  W^oods   was   married    to  Mr.      they  moved  to  Durham,  North  Carolina,  their  pres- 
Janies  Dennis  Goodwin,  son  of  W'esley  Goodwin      ^""1    home.     To  this    couple  eight    children  were 


SKETCHES  OF  PATRONS. 


SKETCH  75. 

GEN.    LEW   WALLACE,    CIUWFORDSVILLE,   INDIANA. 

Lewis  Wallace — .\Iajnr  (leiieial  Lew  Wallace — 
was  liorii  a(  I'rookville,  Indiana.  April  10,  lSi!7. 
His  I'ailier  was  l»a\iil  W'allare,  and  liis  inolher  was 
-Miss  l^sllier  I'l-ench  Test.  His  fafhei-  was  Cov- 
eiMuir  (if  fndian;i  in  1S.'i7-lS8!t,  aiul  soon  after  be- 
eann'   a    nienilier  of   the    I'niled    States   Couiri'oss, 


horn,  to  ^^'it :  (a)  Maggie  Lee  Woods,  born  Deoem- 

l>er  25,  18G4,  married  William  Thomas  Speed,  of 

Durham,  North    Carolina,  by  whom  she    has  five 

children  now  living:    1,  .Tnlian  .Afaurice;  1',  Annie 

Tanline;  ,3,  Irene  W'illianis;  4,  j\[amie  Lee;  and  5, 

Willie  Woods;    (b)   Addie  I'iiillii-s  AN'oods,  l)orn 

June  1,  18r>r>,  married   (When  sixteen)   to  T»iifiis  S. 

Garner,   of  Durham,   died  April   7,   1SS7,  leaving 

one  son.  Almond    Lee,  born    .Tnlv    14,  1883;   (0) 

Viola  Smith  Woods,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;      where,  in  ISKi,  he  cast  the  deciding  vote  by  which 

(d)   and    (e) — twins — Samuel  Laukin  and  WiL-      "'i''-  l'<"l.v  apinoprialed  .pO,000    to  aid  Professor 

IJAM  Hugh  Woods,  born  May  26,  18(i!),  the  latter      Morse  in  perfect  in-  tl leciric  telegraph.    David's 

jiarents  were  Amlrew  Wallace  and  Eleanor  Jones. 
This  Miss  Jones  is  believed  by  General  Lew  AVal- 
lace  to  have  been  a  naii\e  of  X'ir^iinia.  She  was  a 
niece  of  the  immortal  American  naval  officer,  Joliu 
Paul  (Jones),  and  as  a  young  girl  was  a  great 
favorite  with  General  ^^■ashington,  and  became  a 
l)rilliant  woman.  Andrew  and  his  wife  were  both 
born  in  1778,  and  (heir  mairiage  occurred  in  1798. 
Andrew  was  born  at  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  and 
there  he  made  his  honu'  for  a  part  of  his  life.   Here 


of  whom  oidy  lived  to  be  twenty  years  old,  dying 
a  (riumi»hant  Christian  death,  and  the  other  twin, 
Samuel  Larkin,  was  married  to  jMollie  Alice  AVar- 
ren,  of  Durham,  February  0,  1895,  in  which  town 
they  now  reside,  he  being  superintendent  of  the 
Morris  &  Son  Maniifactnring  Co.;  (f)  Elvir.v 
Jane  Walker  Woods  (called  ".Tennie")  was  born 
April  8,  1872,  lives  with  her  parents  in  Durham, 
and  is  a  lovely  Christian.  (g|  IIattie  Cain 
AVdods.  born  April  3,  1880,  and  who  lives  in  Dur- 
ham with  her  parents.  (h)  .JosErii  Darnell  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  busines.s.  His  father 
Woods,  the  eighth  and  last  child  of  .Joseph  Hammel  owned  large  landed  interests  in  that  region.  While 
A\'oods  and  his  wife  llebecca,  was  liorn  in  Durham  yet  a  comparatively  young  man  he  migrated  with 
May  2(j,  188(1,  and  died  .lune  0,  1888.  his  little  family  to  Ohio,  settling  tirst  at  Troy,  and 

Mrs.  Goodwin  {iicc  "Woods )  removed  to  Durham,  later  on  at  Cincinnati.  In  some  of  the  camjiaigns 
North  Carolina,  with  her  parents  in  1881.  At  against  the  Indians  during  (he  War  of  1812  Au- 
fourteen  years  of  age  she  joined  the  Presbyterian  drew  Wallace  was  in  service  as  iiuartermaster. 
Church,  umler  the  ministry  of  Kev.  II.  T.  Darnell.  At  Cincinnati  he  engaged  extensively  Iti  mercantile 
She  was  married  to  Mr.  J.  D.  (ioodwin  in  1884,  as  pursuits;  but  being  an  intellectual  man,  and  a 
before  stated,  he  being  then  superintendent  of  the  great  lover  of  books,  he  established  and  edited  a 
Smoking  Tobacco  Department  of  Plackwell's  newspapei',  called  Tlic  l.ihciii/  Hall  (Idti  Itc.  which 
Durham  Tobacco  Company.  Mr.  Goodwin  being  a  later  became  the  ('oinincn:iul-(Jazctlv.  From  Cin- 
cinnati Andrew  Wallace  moved  (o  ]>rookville, 
Indiana,  and  there  he  was  i*esidiug  ami  k(vping  a 
tavern  in  1812,  from  which  point  he  furnished  cat- 
tle for  the  .-ii'my  of  Geiii'ial  William  II.  Harrison. 
It  was  at  lirookville.  as  already  stated,  that  Gen- 
eral Lew  \\allace  was  born  in  1827.  He  married 
Miss  Susan  .Vruold   Elstim,  daughter  of  Isaac  C. 


Methodist,  she  joined  his  church.  :\Ir.  Goodwin  in- 
vented several  machines  used  in  tobacco  manu- 
facturing, and  in  order  to  have  them  built  he  con- 
nected himself  with  the  ("ardwcll  .Machine  Com- 
[lauy,  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  moved  to  (hat 
city  in  1891.  Mr.  CJoodwin  has  for  several  years 
lived  at  St.  Johns,  Newfoundland,  where  he  is  man- 
ager of  the  Imperial  Tobacco  Company.  He  and  Elston  and  JNIaria  Aken,  May  G,  18.52.  IJy  her  he 
his  wife  are  active  members  of  the  Methodist  had  a  son,  Henry  Lane  Wallace,  who  married  Miss 
(.j,„,.,.j,  ^Margaret    Noble,   and     Mr.   and     Mrs.    Henry    L. 


356  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

Wallace  liavc  a  little  son  who  is  named  tor  his  (lis-  :\raii;ai-el    (^^'o(>(ls)   AN'allace  died  as  early  as  ITaf!, 

liniiiiislied     paternal     iirandfadier — J>e\v    Wallace,  her  linshand  wasahoul   torty-tonr  yeai's  old  ai  the 

j,]iij,)j.  date  of    her    deeease,   and  her    s<iiis    .Michael    and 

^^'hen  \ve  come  to  deal  wil h  the  i)ateinal  ancestry  Samnel  were  ahout  twenty-two  and  twenty  years 
of  (Jeueral  W'allai-e.  reiuoier  than  the  .Andrew  Wnl-  old.  respectively,  iix)  It  is  very  prohahle  that 
hwo  ahove  considered,  we  enconider  difficnlty  in  Andrew  Wallace,  the  father  of  :\Iichael  and  Sani- 
reachint;-  con(  Insions  which  are  ]iot  ojwu  to  some  nel,  and  six  other  children,  hy  his  wife  ,Marj;ai'et, 
(piesiion.  From  all  the  iidormalion  which  the  an-  remarried  not  many  years  after  .Mariiuret's  death. 
Ihor  has  heen  ahle  to  jiather  from  the  General's  own  (h)  It  is  known  that,  of  the  ei^lit  children  .Mar- 
family,  and  from  the  N'tr^inia  records  of  the  Wal-  i;aret  hore  to  Andi-ew,  all  lint  one  (a  dan}j,liter) 
laces  who  settled  in  that  colony  about  ITS-t-lTiO,  moved  away  from  Albemarle  C(mnty,  thongh  their 
it  is  his  opini(ni  that  (ienei-al  Lew  ^Vallace  is  most  father  Andrew  remained  there  to  the  end  of  his 
probably  descended  from  Peter  Wallace,  .Sr.,  whose  life,  dying  there  in  ITSo.  This  circumstance  is, 
wife  was  Elizabeth  \\'oo(ls,  a  sister  of  Michael  to  say  the  least,  cjnite  nnnsual ;  and  it  would  have 
Woods  of  lUair  I'ark :  and  that  this  descent  was  had  a  very  rational  exitlanati(ni  in  the  fact  that 
thrcmgh  Andi-ew,  the  son  of  said  I'eter  Wallace,  Andrew  had  brought  into  his  home  a  step-mother 
Sr.,  and  through  Margaret  \Voods,  daughter  of  for  a  family  of  children  nearly  all  of  whom  had 
^Miduu'l  of  lilair  I'ark,  who  was  Andrew's  wife,  reached  snlticient  maturity  of  years  to  be  likely  to 
Tills  (inesti()n  has  already  been  discussed  in  Part  resent  their  father's  second  marriage,  except  he 
I  of  this  volume.  Chapter  11,  to  which  the  reader  had  been  remarkably  wise  in  his  choice,  (j)  The 
is  referred.  The  reasons  which  seem  to  warrant  ^\'allaces  had  lived  ten  or  tifteen  years  in  Pennsyl- 
tlie  com-liision  reached  will  now  be  briefly  re-  vaiiia  (  lTl.'4-17:>'.l  I  before  migrating  to  A'irginia, 
capitulated:  in  a  i-egion  not  a  day's  journey  to  the  eastward  of 

(a)    The  paternal   grandfather  of  General  Lew  Carlisle,      where     we     know     General     Wallace's 

AVallace  was,  beyond  all  (piestion,  nanu'd  Andrew  graTidfather   (  Andrew)     was    born    in    1T7S.     The 

Wallace,  a  man  of  ^^cotch  parentage,  who  was  born  I'reuch  and  Indian  A\'ars  closed  about  17(Jo;  and  if 

at  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  in  1778.      (b)  The  Peter  3Iicliael  and  Samuel  Wallace  emigrated  from  Vir- 

Wallace,  Sr.,  who  married  IMizabefh  Woods,  was  a  ginia  any  time  snbse(|nent  to  that  date,  and  prior 

Scotchman,  and  had  a  son  n:imed  Andrew  ^Vallace,  to  1780,  the  probabilities  are  immensely   in   favor 

who   was    born  somewhere    about  the    year  1712.  of  the  snjiposii  ion  that  they  went  to  I'ennsylvania. 

I  c  )  This  Andrew  A\allace  migrated  w  ith  his  mother  Kentucky  and  the  \Vest  were  not  yet  oiiened  uji  ;and 

and    uncle    to   Lancaster    ("uunty,    I'ennsj'lvania,  the  Wallaces  had  once  lived  in  Pennsylvania,      (k) 

about    the    year  1724,  married  his    first    cousin.  If  Michael  and  Samuel  AYallace  did  migrate  to  the 

^iargaret  Woods    la   daughter  of  Michael  Woods  neighborhood    of     Carlisle,    Pennsyl\ania,     about 

of  r.lair  Pai'k),  and  reared  a  considerable  family  17(>1-177(),  they  were  nmture  young  men,  and  jirob- 

of  sons  and  daughters  in  Albemarle  County,  Vir-  ably     heads    of    families;    and    if    they    had    suns 

ginia.      (d)    This    Andrew      Wallace  had     a     son  born     to     them     il     would     have     been     extremely 

Michael  and  a  son  Samuel,  who  were  horn  about  natural     for    ihem    to    have    named    one  of    them 

1734   and    17?>('.,   respectively,      (e)    Margaret,   the  Andrew,    in    honor   of   their   own    father.     |1)    As 

wife  of  Andrew   Wallace,  and   mother  of  Michael  we    know    that    the    Andrew    ^Vallace    who    mar- 

and  SamiU'l,  was  dead  by  the  year  1701,  as  appears  ried     Eleanor     Jones,    was     born     in     1778,    and 

fnnn  her  father's  \\ill,  made  that    year.     The  ex-  we    have     excellent    reasons   for    believing     that 

act  date  of  her  death  is  not  known — she  may  have  Michael  and  Samuel    (the    sons  of    Andrew  and 

been  dead  five  years  by  17(J1,  or  longer,      (fj      If  IMargaret,  of  Albemarle)   were  in  that  year  about 


MAJOR-GENERAL  LEW  WALLACE.  U.  S-  A. 

CRAWKORDSVILLE,   IND. 

rSee  Sketch  No.  75-1 


THE  FAMOUS  "  BEN  HUR  BEECH," 

WITH    GENERAL   WALLACE    SITTING    UNDER    )T 

COMPOSING    HIS   MASTERPIECE. 

CRAWFORDSVILLE.   IND. 

[See  Sketch  No.  75. 1 


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fortv-four  ;nul  forty-tAvo  joars  old,  respectively,  (imc  aliaiKldind  io  sitw  in  (lie  ni-my.  1,;i(<t  on 
iuid  know  tliat  Andrew  Walliuc,  of  Carlisle,  was  he  was  sent  lo  Tni-kcy  as  ili,-  Amliassadui-  (,r  di.. 
the  youngest  child  of  his  fadici-,  I  he  known  facts  Ignited  Slatrs,  and  iliciv  lie  snvcd  Ids  country 
of  the  case  fit  most  exactly  inio  llic  SMppositicjn  nuisl  alily  wliilsi  sccni-ini:  li-nni  the  SnUan  con- 
Ilia  I    said    Aiidi-cw  of  Carlisle  was  I  lie  son  of  either      cessions  w  liidi  n ir  rlsi-  had  hrrn  aldr  in  nliiain. 

IMichael  or  Sanmcl,  who  came  from  Alhemarle.  I'ii<  i'  is  iiol  as  a  lawyer,  nor  as  a  laiilifnl  civil 
(ml  I'Mnally,  as  General  Wallace  informs  ihe  adminisi  rauii-  in  \c\\  .Mexico,  noi-  as  a  s<ildicr 
wrilcr.  when  Andrew  of  Carlisle  came  to  seek  a  i"  **l'l  Mcxicd  or  onr  laic  war,  nor  yi-\  as  a  slates- 
wife,  ahont  the  year  1T!I8,  he  seems  to  have  gone  to  III''!"  and  di|ilonial.  llial  he  will  liechielly  known; 
\'irginia  to  find  her,  which  would  have  heen  not  at  '"'I  -'s  ilie  man  of  hiieis  ihe  anihor  of  "'riie  I'air 
all  surprising  if  Andrew  had  a  great  company  of  Cod,"  "lien  llnr,"  "'riic  I'rince  of  India."  These 
uncles  and  aunts  and  other  Idood-kin  in  Augusta  creations  of  his  geiuns  will  live  long  after  he  has 
and  Aliiemai-le,  whtnn  he  had  donhlless  Nisited  passed  I'l-oni  Iheearih.  The  ani  lior  of  i  his  \dlnme 
more  than  oin-e,  and  with  whom  he  and  his  fallicr  I'ealizes  ihai  he  has  neiiher  ihe  ^ilis  nor  Ihe  pei-- 
liad  kei)t  in  close  touch.  sonal     aci|nainlance     willi     tieneral      Wallace     to 

The  writer  is  aware  that  llie  foregoing  array  of  render   ii    proper   for  him    lo   aiiempi    a    jnsi    and 

facts  and  inferences  does  not,  l»y  any  nu-ans,  con-  adeipiale  i)nrlrayal   of  his  charailer;   ilial    will   lie 

stitute  a  demonstration;  but  it  certainly  does  fur-  amply   done    in   oiher    pnlilicai  ions   liy    nnire  com- 

uisli  a  reasonable  basis  for  a  very  strong  presump-  peteid    hands:   bnl    he   has  deemed    ii    not    out    of 

tion  in  favor  of  the  opiiuon  that  (rcneral  Wallace,  place  to  set   dow  n  Ihese  few    fads  conceiniiiL;  liim 

of  Indiana,   is  a  lineal  descendant  of  both  Peter  wh(t,   by   comnion    consent,   will     doubtless    be  ac- 

Wallace,  Sr.,    and  Michael  Woods   of  IMair  Park;  corded   the  ]d;ice  of  highesi    disiindion   in   lilera- 

and  until  scmie  one  can  offer  some  substantial  evi-  ture  of  any  member  of  ihe  dans  meniiom<l  herein, 

deuce  by  way  of  rebuttal  we  are  justified  in  accept-  (Note. — Since  the  above  was  i.enned  ( len.  Wal- 

in"  this  \'iew  as  correct.                                                  '  lac(dias  jiassed  to  his  eleriml  n-ward,  l-"eli.  I.~i,  lild."!. 

Ceiieral  Wallace,  like  many  another  man  of  real  Editor.) 

genius,     did     not     follow   the    eonvcni  ional     lines  SKETCHES  76,  77  AND  78. 

niark.d  ont  for  the  educathm  of  youth.     J le  seems  j^j^^g    ^^     CY^^JS    WALLACE    (Deceased),    THOMAS 

lo  ha\i'  had  but  little  fancy  for  the  usual  routine  BATES  WALLACE  (LJeceasedi,  THOMAS 

of   Ihe  sclKxds;  and.   after  attending  college   for  a  JOSIAH  WALLACE  (Deceased^ 

lime,  he  bi'oke  away  from  the  set    curricnlum  and  'I'ln'     ihree    jiersons    whose    skeidies    are   herein 

followed  his  own  jdans  tor  training  and  enriching      combiiMMJ    inl le    narralive    lall    of    whom    are 

his   mind.      lie   sln(li(d    law,    and    for    many   years  <lt'i'<ll    were  closely  relatid    lo  each   oihei-.  and   are 

1    ■,      ,,          .r,,ii,-.    1  ,,i    ii,.,i    >v -i^.   ,.v;,i.,T,nv  lin(>al  descemlauts  of  I'eler  Wallace.  Sr..  and   his 
](ra<'lised    il    successi  nl  l\  ;    hni    liial    was  e\nieniiy 

,     ,     .         ,.  1  •     I         ,11              I           (      ,  wife    Elizabetb.    me     Woods,    ihrough     their    son 

not,  the  real  choi<-e  ol  Ins  lieai-l.     lie  was  n\-  nalnre  ^ 

William  \\allace,  Sr..  and  ol'  .Michael  Woods  of 
an  artist   and  .a  soldier — a   \er\    rare  comliinat  ion. 

]>lair     I'ark    and     his    wile    .Marv.    inr     (  ainpbidl. 

These  Iwii  branches  he  seems  always  to  have  fol-  ,     ,,     •       ,         ,  ,        ,,           111                .1 

through   their  danuhh'r    llamiali.    who   liecame   Ihe 

low.d  Willi  ,.agern..ss  ami  suc,-,.ss.     lie  was  a  gal-  ^^..^.^  ;^^.  ^^^,^,  ^y,^y,.;,,,,  Wallace. 

hull    an,l   .riicieiil    soldier  in   Ihe  war  willi    .Mexico,  ,^^   ,-|iapler  Sec, ml   oC    I'arl    I    of  ihis   w..rk   will 

and   s;iw    Ihere  just    enough   service   lo   lii    him    lor  |„.    |-„|„,|    .,    |„.j,,,-   .„.,.,,„,,,    of   ih,.    Walburs   which 

Ihe    imporlaiil    pari    he   was   lo    play    in    (nir  great  jR-ed  not  be  repeated  here.     Said  William  Wallace, 

Ci\il  War  as  one  ol  ihe  most  capable  of  Ihe  federal  Sr.,   and    Hannah    hail,   as    is   there   shown,   seven 

commanders,      ^^'llen   the  Civil    WiW  (dosed  he  re-  children.    I  he  ,\ounges(    id'  wliom    was  .losiali   >Val- 

turued  to  the  practice  of  law,  which  lie  had  for  a  lace,  Sr.,  who  married  a  Susan  Wallace.    Whether 


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Susan  was  a  (•(nisiu  (if  Josiali,  Sr.,  the  writer  does  The  said  .Tndjic  William  Cyrus  Wallace  and  his 
not  kiKiw;  liiit  it  is  certain  the  Wallaces  and  wife  Elizabeth,  nee  Walker,  wdio  were  married 
Wnodses  ofli-n  married  first  cousins.  On  tliis  ac-  Decendier  12,  IS.").".,  liad  tliicc  cliildi-cn,  to  wit: 
count  tlie  author  has  thought  it  possible  that  (a)  William  Cykus  Wallace.  -Jit.,  (1))  Lee  Ew- 
Susan  may  have  been  a  daujihter  of  one  of  the  i.\(;  Wallace;  and  (c)  Mauy  Ukij.e  ^Vallace, 
uncles  of  -Tosiah,  Sr.  We  know  .Tosiah,  Sr.,  had  who  on  the  28th  day  of  November,  ISO."),  was  mar- 
two  uncles,  namely,  Andrew  and  Peter,  -Tr.,  who  ried  to  Mr.  Arthur  Edward  Coates,  son  of  the  Rev. 
Iiad  dauiililers  ininied  i>5nsan,  or  Susannah.  Arlliur  ( "oates,  of  Xewtown  House,  Counly  Meath, 

The  said  .losiah   Wallace,  Sr.    (liorn  IT-t!)),  and  Trebind,  and  of  Clifton,  England, 

his  wife    Susan   iia<l    seven    children,  to  Avit :    (a)  The  said   Thomas  T!at(^s  Wallace    (born   1S13), 

WlLLL\M     Wallace   (od),     who     never     niarriid  ;  whose  wife  Avas  Lucy  Brhscoe  Gaines  (born  1S2.5), 

(b)  Margaret  Wallace,  who  married  D.  Guthrie;  has  had   three  children,   as    follows;    (ai    Nettie 

(c)  John  Wallace,  Jr.,  who  married  Elizabeth  Rkiscoe  Wallack.  wlio  seems  fo  have  been  the 
Walker;  (d)  Hannah  Wallace,  win.  manied  Ab-  y(.,.y  capable  chronicler  of  the  family,  and  to  whom 
ner  O.  Kelley;  |e|  Sallie  Wallace,  who  married  fi,,.  anthoi-  of  this  volume  is  indebted  for  much 
a  Mr.  Eves;  (f)  Andrew  Wallace,  Avho  married  valuable  infoi-nuinon  in  reoai,]  to  the  Wallaces; 
Ann  Glasgow ;  and  (g)  Josiah  W^vllace,  Jr..  Avho  (],)  Thomas  Rates  Wallace  (II)  (born  1858), 
married  Elizabeth  GlasgOAv.  who    married    Elizabeth    Shelby    Darnall     (born 

The  said  John  Wallace,  Jr.    (born  ITS.-.),  whose  ISTtM,  by  Avhoni  he  has  one  child,  Hugh  Campbell 

wdfe  was  Elizabeth  Walker  (born  17S.3),  had  eight  Wallace     (ID;    (c)    Hugh    CAMrr.ELL    Wallace 

children,  as  follows:   (a)   Ren.7a:\iin  F.  Wallace,  (I),   -^ho    ^vas    boi-n    in    lSr..3,   married     :\rildred 

who   married   Delia    Smith;    (b)    Thomas   R.vtes  Fuller    (l»u-n    ISi;!!),    by   whom    he   Ims   diildren, 

Wallace,  the  subject  of  Sketch  77,  who  married  ^MUdi-ed  Fuller,  Thomas  Rates  (TIT)  and  :\relville 

Lucy  Rriscoe  Gaines,  and  a  portrait  of  Avhom  is  to  ^Vestou     Fuller.     Mr.    Hugh     Campbell     Wallace 

be  seen  on  the  foregoing  page;  (c)  John  Walker  (I)    ^vas  recently  elected  to  the  resi)onsible  posi- 

Wallace,   wlio     married    Elizabeth    Drake;    (d)  tion  of  president  of  the  Washington  and  Alaska 

Celia  Ann   Wallace,  wlio  manied  .lolin  James;  Steaiusliip  Company. 

(e)    M.\\ii\     II.    Wallace,   who    married    Tlnmias  The  said   Thcmias   Josiah   Wallace    (subject   of 

i;.  -fames;  (f I  Erasmus  D.  AVali>.vce,  who  married  j^ketch    78,    and    b(uu    TS.37),    who    married    :Miss 

Celia  Wear;    (g)    Willl\m  Cyrus  W^vllace,  the  Martha  Shannon   Cockrell    (born   ISTO),  has   had 

subject  of    Sketch  70,  Avho  married   :\lary  Ewing,  six  children,  as  follows:  (a)  .Tohn  Chilton  Wal- 

and  whose  portrait  will  be  seen  on  ue.\l  page;  and  lace;  (b|  Edgar  Thojias  \\'allace;   (c)   Arthur 

(h)  Andrew  C.  Wallace,  who  is  uumarriecl.  Andrew  Wallace,  Avho  married  Nannie  Lincoln; 


The  said  .fosiah  Wallace,  Jr.  i  born  17'.l2),  whose 
wife  was  ICIizabeth  Glasgow  (born  1707),  had 
eight  children,  as  follows:  (a)  Rose  Ann  Wal- 
lace^ wdio  married  J.  McNair;  (b)  John  G.  Wal- 
lace; (c)  Willia:\i  a.  Wallace,  who  married 
Jane  SAvitzler;  (d)  ^rARY  M.  Wall.vce;  (e)  An- 
drew F.  Wallace;  (fi  Newton  AVallace;  (g) 
Elizabeth  W.  Wallace,    and    (h)    Thomas    -To- 


(d)  ^Iartha  Virglxia  \\'allace;  (e)  Thomas 
Josiah  Wallace  (II),  and  (  f)  AVili'.ur  ]'..  Wal- 
lace, wdio  Avas  born  August  26,  1881. 

The  before-mentioned  William  A.  Wallace 
( boi-n  1S23  and  died  1S70),  Avho  AA'as  an  older 
brothel-  of  Tlnunas  .1.  Wallace,  and  nmrried  Jane 
SAvitzler,  had  five  children,  as  folloAvs:  (a)  Henry 
N.  Wali>A('e,  Avho  was  born  October  i:>,  IS.'iG,  and 


siAH  Wallace,  subject  of  Sketch  78,  Avho  married 

Martha  Shannon  Cockrell,  and  whose  portrait  and  married  Carrie  A.  Merrill;  (bj  Mary  S.  AiVallace, 

a  view  of  Avhose  late  home   (Ellerslie)   at  Runce-  wlio  was  born  March  18,  1856,  and  died  December 

ton,  Mo.,  appear  on  the  foregoing  sheet.  28,  1801;  (c)   Lewis  T.  Wallace^  who  Avas  born 


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ELLERSLIE  FARM. 

COUNTRY    HOAIE  OF  THE    LATE  THOMAS  J.    WALLACE, 
NEAR   BUNCETON,   ^\0. 

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JUDGE  VV.   C.  WALLACE. 
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AUBURN,  CALIFORNIA. 

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SKETCTTES  OF  PATKONS.  Sfi-". 

Aprils,  1862;  (d)  William  F.  Wallack,  wlio  was  Wliil,.  in   ilmi    Si:iic.   he  hvirc  iv,-..i\v,l   i!m-  n. .mi- 
born  June  25,  1864,  aud  (e)  Charles  L.  Wallaci;,  nalinn  ,,f  ih,.   1  ),.|ii(,ri:iii.-  i,;ii-i\    fnr  .Iinl-,-  "f  Hm' 
who  was  boru  October  2,  ISiiC,  and  married  Fdiia  Siiiii-emc  ('(mil      in  ihi'  mmis  IsCi  :itid   ISCC.      lie 
Johnson.  had  received  a  like  fjivdi- ;ii   i  he  h.inds  (if  thai  pailv 
Judiie  William  (Vrus  A\'alhice,  son  of  .Fnhii  Wal-  in     Calilnniia     in     Isiil.      ||r     ivinrned     i,.     \:i|.;i 
hice  and   Elizabedi  AValker,  was  born   ihe   i:',ih  <.f  Cunnlv    in    IsdT.      In    IsC'.i    Im-    was    nnminaieij    by 
Noveml)er,    1823,    near    Lexiniifoii,    Mo.      He    was  ihe   I  )em(iei-ai  ie   \>:\v\\.  ami  eleeie.l    u>   ilic  |M.siii<.n 
licensed  to  practice  in  all  the  courts  of  ihe  State  of  l>isii-ici  .hid-e  <>(  ih,.  Se\enili  -Imlirijl   hisiri.i, 
wlien    tweiit.v-tive    years    old.      lie   conlinned     tlie  ;ii     ilml     lime    emhiacin-    ihe    .(inniies    <,(    .Mm-in. 
]n-acl  i<-e  (if  liis  ](r(d'essi(m  until  tlie  sprini;-  of  1S4'J,  S(Ui(ima,   .Memliieinu.    bake.   Najia  nnd   Sulaud.      lb- 
when   he  Joined  Hie  army  of  pioneers  whose  liopes  wns  re-elecied    Id  (lie  same  |Misiii(m    in    Is7.".      TJic 
were   centered    n]i(in   tlie  .^old    tields  of  ('a  lifoniia.  ail<i|ili(in     (if    llie     new     ( 'niisi  i  I  ii  I  inn     in     JsT'.i.     Ii\ 
lie  ai-i-i\c(l  at  Sacramento  early   in   Aui;usl   (if  the  wliicli     ilie     jmlicial     syslem     of     ( 'ji  I  ifm-nia      was 
same  year.     In  seeking  a  new   home  he   was  not  changed,  ciii  sIku-i  his  leiin  as  Disirici  .Indue.  Inn 
seeking  simply  adventure,  nor  Avas  he  eai-ried  away  he    was    immediately    |ini    fiuwanl    li\    ull    parties 
by  the  marvelous  accounts  of  the  gold  discoveries,  (there  being  four  in    ihe   lieliji    niid   elecied    wiili 
but   relying   upim   the  practice   of  his  profession,  out  o])positioii  to  ihe  ]iiisiii(in  df  Superior  .Indue 
lie  took  \\itli  him  across  the  jdains  his  law  library.  At  the  e.\]iiral  idii  df  his   lerin   he  was  (tlTered   the 
and  in  a  sliort  time  was  engaged  in  an  active  prac-  nomiuation   a   second   lime,   liut    declined,  claiminu 
tice  at   Sacramento.     At  the   lirst    election  under  that   (in  accouni   of  ilbhealih   he  cduld   no!   dd  his 
the    Constitution — the    spring    of    18."')0 — he    was  iieople  justice.     In   iNSti   he   was  obliged    to   lea\e 
elected  District  Attorney  of  Sacramento  County.  Napa,  and  sought   i-elief  frdin  asihma  by  going  to 
At  a  subsequent  time,  he  was  nominated  by  the  .Vuburn,  California,  w  here  he  fdi-ined  a  iiartiiership 
Whig  Convention  of  that  county  for  the  ol'lice  of  with  .1.  IC.  I'rewcil,  Ihe  |ireseni   Su|iei'i(ir  Judge  of 
rnblic   Admiuislraldi-,   and   was  elected   by   a    ma-  I'lacer   County.      .Iiidge    W,-illace  died    ai    .\uliuiii, 
jorily  of  over  Hve  hundred,  though  the  rest  of  the  California,    Felu-iiary    I,    IS'.i.'i,    afier   a    long    and 
ticket    was  defeated.     The  ofdce  at  that  time  was  jiaiufnl  illness.      Ilis  remains  were  taken  to  Napa, 
a   very   important  one,  and  its  duties  very  labori-  his  old    lionie.  and    jilaced    hy    ihe  side  of  his   be- 
ons  on  account  of  the  many  disputes  arising  frtmi  loved  wife,  who  had  died  .May  .~i.  j.ssi'.     His  lamil\ 
the  Spanish  titles  and  land  grants.     The  follow-  consisted  of  ihree  children,  all  of  whom   survived 
ing  year  he  was  elected  City  Attorney  of  Sacra-  him:      William    ('yrus    Wallace,    ihe    eldest,    was 
meiito.      In   the    autumn  of    18."'):),   Judge   Wallace  liorn  at    Napa,  .lauii.iry   10,    isiid.      lie  ic,ii\  id   his 
returned  to  his  old  home  at  Lexington,  and  the  fob  early  educ-ilion   ai    ihe  ]ilace  of  his  liinli.  and  at 
lowing    December   married    Mary   Barnui    lowing,  the  age  of  seveiiieeii  eniered  ihe  Stale  I'uiversiiy 
of  Todd  County,  Kentucky.     Mary  Ewiug  was  the  of  California.      He  cdiiinienced  the  siiidy  df  law   in 
daughter    of    Thompson    McGready    Ewiug,    and  his  father's  olbce,  ai    ilie  age  df   iweuty-(ine,   and 
grand-daughter  of  the  Kev.  Finis  Ewing,  and  great-  at  the  end  of  two  years  jiassed  a  brilliant  e.\ami- 
gi'and-daughter  of  Ceneral   William    bee   Davidson,  nation    bebire    the    Su|ireine    ('dui-i    df    ('alifuruia. 
of  Kevolnt  iduarv    I'ame.  Out    of    thirty-lwd    a|iiilicanls    bir    admission    he 
•Indue    Wallace    continued    to    reside    in    Sacra-  jiassed   the  highest   e.xaminat  ion.      ile  is  now  jirac- 
iiiento  until  185*J,  when,  on  account  of  sickness  in  tising  his  prob'ssion  ai   .Madera,  Calibirnia. 
his  fanuly,  he  moved  to  Napa  County,  where  he  Lee  Ewing  \Vallace  was  horn  at    Napa  .Vpril  G, 
remained  nidil  the  winter  of  ISCm,  when  he  moved  1864.       lie      received      his      ediicalion      al       "Oak 
to  the  State  of  Nevada,  engaging   in   mining  en-  .Mound,"    ihe    leading    miliiary    academy    of    the 
terprises    and    practising  law    at  Virginia  City.  State.     After  graduating  he  also  decided  to  make 


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THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


tlie  law  liis  profession,  and  entered  his  father's 
office  as  a  sliidcnt.  .Vt  tlie  end  of  three  years  he 
passed  a  most  creditabh'  exaiiiinal  ion  before  the 
Supreme  ("oiirl  of  r'alifoniia,  and  was  innnedi- 
ately  taken  iiilo  his  fatliev's  ol'lice  as  a  partner. 
He  is   si  ill    praciisin.u   his    proCessioii   at    Aulmrn. 

Marv  r.elle  Walhioe  was  l)orn  at  Napa  and  No- 
venilicr  L'S,  lS'.ir>,  was  niarried  at  Sacramento  to 
Arthur  Edward  Coates,  Es(|.,  of  ('liltou,  Eniihuid, 
and  New  low  11  House,  Couiily  .Meatli,  Irehind. 

Tliere  are  few  men  wlio  ha\'e  been  more  thor- 
t)U!j;hly  tj'ied  than  .Tud<;e  ^^'alla(•e,  and  who  at  all 
times  coiiimanded  the  hi;;li  contidenee  and  esteem 
of  the  ])eo]ile.  In  ]iri\"ate  life  he  was  benev(dent, 
social,  jMire  and  inu-.  and  in  ofticial  life  efficient, 
honest,  faitlifiil  and  firm. 

The  first  of  tlie  A\'allaces  to  loavi^  Yir<iinia  was 
Josiah,  son  of  William  ^^'allace  and  Hannah 
Woods.  He  married  Susan  Wallaf(\  of  Charlottes- 
ville,  not  related  to  him,  but  of  Scotch  descent. 
Their  se\'eii  children  Mere  born  in  AllxMiiai'le 
('oiinly,  but  in  IT'.KI  the  spirit  of  ad\'en(nre  and 
the  fame  of  the  fertile  soil  and  resources  of  Kt'U- 
tucky  induced  liim  to  lea\e  iiis  delightful  sur- 
roundin;LiS  and  iiio\-e  with  liis  family  to  Madison 
('ouiity,  of  tlial  State.  He  was  a  man  of  sound 
judgment  and  <'\perience,  and  lliey  were  called 
into  service  in  his  new  home,  where  he  took  an 
active  jiart  in  (he  formation  of  ihe  ciiy  govern- 
ment of  IJiclimoiid.  r,ui  afti'i-  li\iim  nineteen 
years  in  Kentucky,  he  longed  for  a  breath  of  the 
still  newer  \\'est,  and  moved  in  1S0!I  to  ;\Iissouri 
t(n'ritory,  near  St.  Louis,  where  he  died  in  ISll.   He 


negroes  to  \\oik  ii,  lie  cultivated  into  a  very  profit- 
alile  farm.  I'.nt  as  his  sons  sirew  u]i  an<l  were 
educated,  they  inclined  t()  moi-e  intellectual  y)ur- 
suits,  most  of  them  selecting  the  jirofessions  as 
tiieir  lif(>  work. 

Tiio.MAS  Hati:s  Wall.vcio  was  born  .March  ol, 
18i;>.  He  was  onl\  six  years  old  when  he  came 
with  his  father  to  ^lissouri.  In  these  early  times 
the  schools  were  not  of  the  l)est,  Imt  wil'.i  the  aid 
of  a  tutor  and  dose  application  to  study  he  re- 
ceived an  excellent  education,  and  liecame  a  nuin 
of  more  than  usual  attainments.  He  studied 
law,  but  never  ]uactised,  prefei'rin.<;'  a  business 
carcei'  instead.  lOndowed  with  a  line  mind  and 
wonderful  memory,  he  was  considered  for  many 
years  Ihe  best  hisloriau  in  the  State.  He  was  a 
mail  of  high  ]iriiici|tl('s  and  sti'ong  convictions, 
and,  thouj;h  a  laiiic  shncholder  when  the  Tivil 
War  broke  out,  he  felt  like  Lincoln,  that  the 
I'nion  must  be  maintained  at  any  cost.  Durins; 
the  war  he  held  a  hii;li  otficial  i.osition  under  the 
liovei-nment.  Few  men  after  passing  the  three- 
score and  leu  years  retain  their  faculties,  both 
mental  and  physical,  to  such  an  extent.  An  earn- 
est (iirislian  gentleman,  he  was  a  most  devoted 
nu'nd)er  of  the  ( 'umlierland  Presbyterian  Church, 
lie  was  married  twice — the  first  time  to  IJose  Ann 
ICIIiolt.  of  Howard  County,  [Missouri,  who  lived 
but  a  few  years.  The  second  man-iage  was  to  Mrs. 
Lucy  ISriscoe  tiaines,  of  ( ieoi-getowu,  Kentucky. 
He  died  July  3,  18ST. 

Lucy  rSriscoe  Wallace  was  born  November  25, 
182."),  near  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  in  one  of  those 


took  with  him  all  of  bis  family  except  his  second  grand  old  country  homes  for  which  the  "bluegrass 

son,  John.     Tlie  latter  married  I'Jizabeth  Walker,  region"  is  noted.     She  was  the  youngest  child  of 

of  Kichmond,  a  descendant  of  the  famous  Ilugue-  James  M.  and  [Mary  Bruner  Briscoe  and  was  edu- 

uot   refugees    fnmi    France,    Bartholomew    Dupuy  cated  at  St.  Catherine's  Nunnery,  Lexington,  Ken- 

and  the  Countess  Susanna  La  Villan.     He  is  said  tucky,  but  was  a  lifed(Uig  member  of  the  Christian 

to  have  been  a   man  of  perfect  ]u-o]M(i"tions,  phys-  Church.     She  was  married   while  quite  young  to 

ically,    and    of    line    intellectual    iiowers.      He    re-  I'rank    I'endleton   (iaines,   who    lived  only  a   few 


mained  in  Kentucky  until  Isl'.l,  when  he  moved 
to  Lafayette  County,  near  Lexington,  [Missouri. 
The  richness  of  Ihe  soil  of  Lafayette  County  in- 
duced John  Wallace  to  buv  a  large  tract  of  laud 


M'ars,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  she  ^\•as  left 
a  widow  with  one  sou,  Briscoe  Gaines,  who  now 
lives  at  St.  Jos(^ph,  Missouri.  In  1854  she  was 
nuirried  to  Thomas  Bates  Wallace,  with  whom  she 


near  Lexington,  which,  with  his  great  number  of     enjoved  a  long  and  happy  life  in  Lexington,  Mis- 


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soni'i.  Tn  1888,  a  year  after  his  dealli,  she  de-  1).  C,  Jaimary  .",  1S!»1.  in  Mildnd  I'ullii-.  d;nii,di- 
rhh'd  to  give  np  her  cherished  home  (liere  iiiid  pt  to  ter  of  llic  Chief  .Tiisl  icr  nl'  ihr  liiUcd  Stales. 
Tacoina,  Wasliiiiiitoii,  to  gratify  her  cliildren  and  Thomas  .Iosiaii  Wai.i.aci;.  yoiiiigesf  son  of 
to  lie  willi  tlieiii.  In  the  deligiilful  clinialc  of  tiie  Josiah  \\;ilhiiis  Jr..  iind  iOiizalielli  Chisgow,  was 
Pacitic  coasl  sJu-  liccanie  strongn-,  and  in  mailing  Ixn-n  in  Tettis  Conntv.  Missouri,  in  is:'.",  lie  was 
a  lionic  for  her  sons,  from  wlioni  slic  liad  liecn  se[)a-  odmalcd  ai  ('lia|iil  1 1  ill  ('ollcgc.  and  his  life  has 
rated  I'or  several  years,  slie  fonnd  new  joys.  She  hecn  speni  in  lainging  lo  iicrlrdion  ins  great  stock 
had  what,  ahove  all,  her  mother's  heart  mosi  en-  farm,  cominising  alioni  two  liioiisainl  acres  nnch-r 
joyed,  tile  h)ve  and  admiration  of  licr  children,  one  IVmc,  nrar  I'.iiiici-ion,  .Missouri.  Tliis  iicanti- 
Aftcr  a  sliort  illness  of  only  one  week  she  gently  fiil  rouniiy  iioinc  liiiingly  hears  ilic  name  of 
fell  asleep  danuary  31,  181)7.  "Ellerslie,"  for  the  great  am-esifal  castle  in  Scot- 
Thomas  Jhites  Wallace,  the  second,  is  a  worthy  land.  The  owner  has  pfnspei-e(l  fnnii  liis  yimih 
representative  of  the  name  and  \\as  liorn  Novem-  iijt,  atid  with  Ids  prosperity  has  grown  tiie  esteem 
her  25,  1858.  He  was  edncated  in  Lexington  and  of  his  fellow-men.  Ilonoiahle,  kind,  generous, 
studied  civil  engineering.  He  followed  this  as  a  charifalde,  he  is  heloved  as  neigldior,  friend  and 
]uofession  from  1879  to  1882,  and  dnriug  that  citizen.  He  was  married  I'eiiruary  IS,  1S(;:j,  to 
time  had  (liarge  of  one  of  the  government  surveys  Martha  Shannon  Cockrell.  of  ( "ooper  County, 
of  the  .\nssouri  and  Mississipjii  rivers.  The  ueces-  Edgar  Thomas,  the  eldest  living  son,  was  horn 
sarily  wandering  life  of  a  civil  engineer  led  him  January  28,  18(i7,  and  wasedueated  at  the  Kemper 
to  ahandou  the  profession.  He  then  went  to  Ta-  Military  College  at  r.oonville,  .Missouri,  where  he 
coma,  Washington,  and  invested  in  real  estate,  and  graduated.  He  also  alteinh'd  the  Mis.souri  State 
later  engaged  in  the  hanking  husiness.  Subse-  University  for  a  lime.  Hi  1889  he  went  to  Ta- 
(piently,  in  1889,  the  Fidelity  Trust  Company  was  coma,  Washington,  where  he  has  hecome  engaged 
organized  with  a  capital  of  .|500,0UU  and  he  he-  in  real  estate  and  miinng  intefcsts  in  the  Norlh- 
catne  its    presi<lent,   which  position  he  still    tills.  west. 

He    was    niari-ied    April    28,    189(),    to    Elizaheth  Arthur  Andrew   was  horn  April  11,  1871,  and 

Shelby  Darnall,  of  Lexington,  Kentucky.  was  also  educated   at     Kemi>er     Military  College. 

Hugh  Campbell  Wallace  was  born  February  iU,  He  was  married  I'ebniary  7,   IS'.il.  to  Nannie  Lin- 

18G3.     He  was  educated  iu  Lexington,  and  being  coin,  of  Kansas  City,     lie  makes  his  Inmie   witli 

of  an  exceedingly  enterprising  nature  he  left  home  Ids   father,   where  he   is   the  manager  of  Ellerslie 

bef(nv  he  was  of  age  to    try    his  forttine    iti    the  Farm. 

West.      When   only  twenty-two  he  was  appointed  Thomas  Josiah,  dr.,  l>orn  Decendier  12,  1S7G,  is 

bv  President  Cleveland  Receiver  of  Public  Moneys  a  pronusing  young  man.  with   leiined.  itdelleetnal 

at   Salt    Lake   City — the   youngest   man   ever   ap-  tastes  and  studious  habits, 
pointed  lo  such  an  office  in  the  LTnited  States.     Hi 

1888  he  resigned  that  office  to  go  to  Tac( una.   There  SKETCH  79. 

he   engaged    in    business   pursuits    and    was   im)st  q   -j-   wall.XCE,  POINT  IKAVHLI-.  KENTUCKY. 

successful.     In  1892  he  was  elected  a   metnber  of  iPor  iiiustr.iiion  see  psrc  332.) 

the  National  Democratic  Committee  for  the  State  lion.  oliNcr  T<-rriI!  \\-allace,  son  of  Salem  Wal- 

of  Washington  and    took  a  conspicuous  part    in  lace  ami  his  wife,  Eliza  d..  ,/-.    Turpin.  was  l)orn 

the  presidential  campaign  of  that  year.     He  is  the  in    Madis.m    County,     K.mtn.ky.    on     I'aint     Li.k 

leader  of  the  Democratic  party  in  his  State,  and  in  Creek.  F..|>tt,ary  28,  1815.      !!.■  is  a  lin.'al  descc.d- 

is;>4  he  was  the  nomiiu-e  of  his  ].arty  for  United  ant  of  Peter  Wallar,.,  Sr.,  an.l  his  wife,  Flizabeth 

States  Senat(U'.     He  was  married  in  Washington,  Woods,  through  their  s(m,  W  illiam   Wallace;  and 


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he  is  a  (IcscciKlinii  (if  ^licliael  TN'oods  of  Blair 
I'ark,  and  liis  wile,  .Mary  ( "aiH|)l>('ll,  Ihrousih  their 
(la  iiiil  1 1  cr  llaiiiiali,  who  ln'camc  A\'illiai)i  A\'allaee"s 
wil'c.  The  said  Salon  ^Nallacc,  father  of  Oliver 
T.,  was  a  son  of  William  Wallace  (second)  by  his 
Avife,  Bally  Slianiioii.  Said  William  Wallace 
(secniidi  was  the  sun  of  Michael  A\'allace,  by  his 
wife,  Ann  Allen;  and  Michael  was  the  t-ou  of  AVil- 
liam  A\'allacc  (tirsli,  whose  wife  was  llannali 
W  Oods. 

Salem  >\'allace  was  born  in  Garrard  County, 
Kentucky,  (tctober  17,  1705.  His  farm  was  on 
Paint  Lick  Creek,  wlicre  his  life  was  spent.  He 
(iw  lied  and  (i]i(M-aled  a  ji'rist  and  saw  mill  on  his 
farm,  lie  married  Jliss  Eliza  Jane  Turpin.  lu 
lS4(i  he  represented  ^ladison  Conuty  in  the  Ken- 


in  land  surveying  and  civil  engineering,  and  for 
the  last  thirty  years  has  done  the  greater  part  of 
the  work  of  this  character  that  has  been  done  in 
(iarrard   County.      On  the  24tli  of  October,   1870, 
he  was  nianied  to  ^liss  Nancy  E.  Shearer,  daughter 
of    M'illiam    Shearer    and     Elveree    Chenanlt,   by 
wliom  he  has  had  six  cliildren.     He  has  a  product- 
ive farm  of  two  liundi-ed  and  nine  acres  at  Point    j 
Leavell,  Garrard  County,  on  whirh  he  has  now  re     j 
sided  for  many  years.     Since  -May,  1871,  Mr.  Wal-    , 
lace  has  been  a   ruling   elder   of  the  Associate  IJe-    ! 
formed   Presbyterian   Church.      Mr.   Wallace    has    | 
clear  and  strong  coil\  id  ions  in   i-egard  to  tlie  aj)- 
lialling  e\ils  (d'  Ihe  lii|uoi-  traftic,  and  for  the  last 
twenty  years  lie  has  been  a    Prohibitionist  in  the 
full   sense  of  that   term,  and    has   regularly  voted 


tucky   Legislature.      From  IS:!.")  to  the  time  of  his  with   the  Prohibition    party,   having  cast  his  first 

death,   .Match   1'4,  ISCS,  he  was  a    rulitig  elder  in  vole  for  St.   .tohii,   (lie  nominee  of  that  i)arty  for 

the     Associate     Keformed     Presbyterian     Church.  I  In-  Presidency  in  L'^Sl.      He  sincerely  Iwlieves  that 

His  wife's  father  was  William  Tttridn,  a  native  of  it  is  a  grievous  sin  against  (iod  and  humanity  for 


Cul]K'])er  County,  Mrginia.  His  wife's  mother 
was  a  Miss  Xamy  PolH-rtson,  also  a  native  of  ^'i^- 
ginia. 

AVilliam  Wallace  ( second  i,  wlio  married  Sally 
Shannon,  was  born  in  .Mbemarle  County,  \'ir- 
ginia,  iIk'  ll'tli  of  (>rtober,  17(i:'>,  and  migrated  to 
Kentucky  about  ]1S7>.  He  was  a,  soldier  of  the 
Pe\'oltit  ionary  Army  atid  was  with  ^^'ashington 
at  the  surrender  of  Lord  Cornwallis  at  Yorktown 
in  1781.     His  wife,   Sally   Shannon,   was  born   in 


the  government.  State  or  national,  to  legalize  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  intoxicating  li(|uors  as 
beverages,  and  he  has  given  some  of  the  best  years 
of  his  life  to  a  consistent  and  courageous  fight 
against  such  legalization.  In  the  fall  of  1899  he 
was  the  nominee  of  his  party  for  the  governorship 
of  Kenlncky,  and  he  has  not  given  up  the  tight  be- 
cause of  defeat.  The  children  of  .Mr.  and  Mrs. 
\Vallace  are  as  Hdlows:  (a)  ^^■lLLI.\,^I  Anderson 
'Wall.vce;    (b)   .\.\NiE  Chen.vult    AVallace;    (c) 


Virginia  January  K!,  177],  and  removed  with  her      Elveree  Siii:.\i:ei!  AV.m.lace;   (d)   Jennie  Turpin 


husband  to  Kentttcky,  and  there  resided  until  the 
year  \S'.U).  when  she  removed  with  several  of  her 
married  children  to  .Vdams  County,  Hlinois, 
where  she  died  about  the  year  18(10. 

The  Hon.  Oliver  T.  Wallace  was  born,  as  above 
noted,  in  [Madison  County,  Kentucky,  February 
28,  ISl."!,  au<l  was  reared  on  a  farm.  He  enjoyed 
tile  advantages  of  a  high  school  and  college  edu- 
eatiou,  graduating  in  the  scientific  course  from 
-Monmouth  ("ollege,  Illinois,  in  ISbd.  He  then 
(ui'ued  his  attention  for  a  time  to  teaching  in  the 
ptiblic  schools  of  his   neighborhood   whilst  carry- 


W.vt.LACE;  (el  oi>ivi;ii  TEititii.i.  \\'allace,  Jr.;  and 
(f)  Sii.v.wo.x  Piiii,i.ifs  \\ai,i..v('i;.  'Sir.  Wallace 
drew  the  chart  of  one  branch  of  the  \\'allace  fam- 
ily, to  be  found  in  Chapter  Second  <d'  I'art  T  of 
this  work,  for  which  he  deserves  the  thanks  of  all 
concerned. 

SKETCH  8o. 

M.  B.  WALLACE,  ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI. 

;Mr.    M.    J>.     Wallace    was    among    the    earlier 

patrons  of  this  |iiiblica(  ion,  but   the  author  much 

regrets    that  he  has  been  unable    to  procure    the 

necessary  data  for  a  sketch  of  Mv.  Wallace's  fam- 


ing on   a  small   farm.     This  occupied  him  about      ily,  or  even  to  ascertain  with  cortaiuty  his  genea- 
eight  years.     About  this  time  he  began  to  engage      logical  lines. 


SKETCHES  OF  TATIJOXS. 


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GROUP   FOUR. 

PATRONS  DESCENDED  FROM  BOTH  THE  WOODSES  AND  McAFEES. 

SKETCHES  81-93. 


As  was  noted  ou  n  ]n-cviniis  pa<>(\  tlioro  ar(> 
tliii'toen  of  the  original  pati'ous  of  (liis  publi- 
cation wild  ti-aoe  tlieir  liiieaiie  back  to  Michael 
Wonds  of  Itlair  Tark,  and  also  to  .Tames  ^fc- 
Afee,  Jr.,  the  Kentucky  ])ioneer.  All  of  these 
persons  are  either  tlie  children,  grandchildren 
or  great-gran'dchildren  of  .Tames  Harvey 
^^dods  and  Sarah  Everett,  iicc  Dedmau.  Inas- 
much as  a  gi'cat  part  of  the  matter  to  be  presented 
ill  Ireaiiug  of  Ibis  gmup  is  of  comiunu  concern  to 
all  of  its  members,  the  iiems  of  geueial  interest 
to  the  group  as  a  whole  w  ill  be  given  first,  and  the 
separate  sketches  last.  Tbe  Ihirteeu  persons  re- 
ferred to  consist  of  the  author  of  this  volume,  three 
of  his  own  children,  one  of  his  brothers,  three  of 
his  nieces,  four  of  his  nephews,  and  one  of  his 
great-nieces. 

James  Hauvky  Wooks,  son  of  Samuel  Woods, 
•fr.,  by  his  wife,  Mary,  iicc  McAfee,  was  born  at 
the  old  Woods  homestead  on  Shawnee  IJun, 
.Mercer  County,  Iveiitucky,  Se[itcmber  1'2,  1792. 
That  homestead  was  the  fourteen  hundred  acra 
settlement  and  preexemi)tioii  which  his  grand- 
father, Samuel  ^V Is,  Sr.,  entered  in  ITSli.     Ilis 

father  died  when  he  was  <uily  ten  years  old,  leav- 
ing his  estate  much  involved,  and  his  opportuni- 
ties for  obtaining  a  good  (>ducation  were  probably 
not  of  the  best.  His  mother's  father,  James  Mc- 
Afee, was  his  guardian,  and  yoniig  ^Voods  must 
have  lived  for  stmie  time  at  the  old  Mc.M'ee  stone 
house,  lie  also  made  his  home  for  a  time  with  his 
nncle-in-law',  Alexander  Buchanan.  He  was  prob- 
ably apprenticed  to  a  cabinet-maker  to  learn  his 
trade  before  he  was  eighteen.  \\'e  know  he  fol- 
lowed this  trade,  in  conjuncti(»ii  wilh  that  of  an 
undertaker,  down  to  within  a  few  weeks  of  (he 
dav  of  his  death  in  1800.     In  -Inly,  J8i:J,  (iovernor 


Shelby  lulled  for  I  Wo  lliousaild  l\eril  Uckiaiis  tO 
eiilisi  ami  inarch  lo  ('aiiada  lo  ii\riigc  1  he  hloody 
massacre  of  ihc  Kcniucky  woiinded  pi-isoners  at 
Ihe  i;i\'er  Kaisiii  a  few  iiionlhs  liefoi-e.  ind  llarvcy 
Woods,  Ihen  nearly  Iwenly-one,  was  one  of  the 
Iwice  two  Ihousand  sliirdy  men  who  gave  a 
lu-ompl  response,  lie  joined  ilie  coni|iaii,\  led  l>y 
Cajdain  .loliii  Hall,  of  Shelby  Connly,  which  coiu- 
]iany  was  one  of  the  six  c(nii|iosing  ilie  Ninlli  Ken- 
tucky KeginienI  commanded  by  Colonel  James 
Simrall.  The  Xinlli  KeginienI,  and  ihe  'i'enth, 
commanded  by  Colonel  I'hilip  Itailioiir.  made  ujt 
the  I'^iftli  r.rigade,  iimler  Itrigadiei-  Cein'ral 
Samuel  Caldwell.  This  brigade  was  allached  lo 
the  Second  Disision,  commandeil  by  .Major  General 
Joseph  Desha.  General  William  lleiiiy  Harrison 
was  in  supreme  coiiimnnil  of  all  Ihe  forces  com- 
posing the  army  wliicli  invaded  Canada,  and  at 
the  battle  cd'  Ihe  Thames,  October  ,">,  1S13,  routed 
the  allied  Indian  and  l>i-itish  army  under  General 
I'roctor  and  the  gi-eat  Indian  chief,  Tecumseh. 
Colonel  SimralTs  regiment,  to  which  young  Woods 
belonged,  bore  a  gallaiil  jiarl  in  Ihal  camjiaign, 
which  was  as  successful  and  deiisi\('  as  it  was 
brief.  Noveuiber  1,  at  Maysville,  Ivy.,  Harvey 
AN'oods  and  his  comrades  were  honorably  mustered 
out  of  Ihe  service  Ihey  had  entered  a  litlle  more 
than  two  moiillis  before  at  Xewporl. 

The  ''soblicr  boys"  who  reinriied  home  Crom 
Canada  in  llie  Call  o(  IS].",  were  iic-irly  idolized  by 
(he  TCenlllcky  people,  ;iiid  llicy  niusl  have  been  Ilie 
special  favorites  of  Ihe  fair  sex.  Harvey,  how- 
e\<'i-,  does  not  seem  lo  h;i\c  been  ill  a  great  hurry 
lo  marry,  tor  il  was  nearly  li\e  years  aft(>r  his  re- 
turn from  till'  war  ilial  he  look  lo  liims.'lf  a  wife. 
The  porlrail  of  him  lo  be  seen  mi  page  Idi 
was      laken     Irom    a     niinialiire    of    him     painted 


THE  WOODS-McAFEE  MEMORIAL. 


in  \\;i(ir  colciis  ;iliniii   ilic  year  ISKi,  wiuni  he  was  ycrs,  two  of  fluMii  entered  tlie  rresbyterian  minis- 

I  wcniy  roui-.      lie  enjoyed  the  \iolin   in  liis  young  try.  and  anollier  \\  as  educated  for  the  sacred  of- 

dajs,  and    ])hiyed  at    the    country    balls  for    the  tice,  but  \\as  providentially  prevented  from  seek- 

young  folks.     On  the  first  of  August,  1818,  he  was  ing  ordination.      In  .January,  1800,  he  contracted 

married  to  Miss  Sarah  Everett  Dedman,  of  Ver-  a  cold  which  resulted  in  an  attack  of  pneumonia, 

sailles,  Kentucky.     He  was  then  nearly  twenty-six  and  he  died  I'ebruary  3,  18f>0.     He  was  conscious 

and  she  was  not  yet  seveuteen.     Tlie  young  couple  l<i  file  end,  and  his  (h'alh  was  calin  and  hopeful — 


i-euioved  at  once  to  Harrodsburg,  fiercer  County, 
where  I  hey  siient  the  remainder  of  their  lives. 
TIk^  IU'\.  Dr.  I'lionias  Cleland,  long  since  gone  to 
his  reward,  was  I  hen  pastor  of  the  little  Pres- 
byterian Church  in  the  town.  Harvey  Woods  and 
liis  young  wife  liad  not  yet  united  with  ,,ny  church, 
but  it  was  not  a  great  many  years  till  both  were 
soundly  converted  and  received  into  Dr.  Olelaud's 
cliurch — she  in  ISi'i',  and  he  in  the  year  following. 
About  six  years  later — February  21,  1829 — Har- 
vey was  made  a  ruling  elder  of  the  church,  an  oftice 
lie  tilled  Mith  the  utmost  tidelity  till  his  death  in 
18()0.  The  IJev.  J)i-.  John  .Monlgoniery,  who  was 
his  pastor  for  eighteen  years,  testitied,  in  a  letter 


just  s\icli  as  niiglil  lunc  been  expected  of  a  humble, 
devoted  Christian  man.  His  body  and  that  of  his 
beloved  wife  sleep  in  the  old  historic  burial-ground 
of  New  I'rovidence  Church,  in  the  midst  of  the 
dust  of  many  of  his  McAfee  and  Woods  relations, 
and  within  a  stone's  throw  of  the  spot  where  once 
stood  the  little  ciinrch  building  in  which  he  and 
his  w  ife  heard  Dr.  Cleland  preach  some  of  those 
searching  Gospel  sermons  which  brought  them  to 
confess  Christ  as  their  Saviour  uujre  than  eighty 
years  ag().  llarxcy  Woods  was  about  five  feet, 
eleven  inches  liigh,  and  rather  slender.  His  hair 
was  liiown,  with  a  tendency  to  curl;  his  eyes  blue- 
ish   gray,   and    of  a    very   kindly  expression.      His 


to  the  present  writer,  to  the  consistent,  exemplary      mise  was  somewliat   sharp  and  of  Roman  type,  as 

is   seen    in    his    portrait   on   a    preceding   page — a 
feature    very    generally    preserved   among   his   de- 


piety  of  Harvey  A\'oods. 

His  distinguishing  characteristics  were  humil- 
ity, solemn  dignity  of  manner,  evenness 
of  temper,  self-poise,  tirnniess,  and  his 
courageous  but  (|uiet  devotion  lo  what  he 
thought  to  be  his  duty.  He  was  never  a  noisy 
man;  never  was  l<uowji  to  exhibit  ostentation  or 
conceit;  was  a  lover  of  peace  and  order,  but  not 
afraid  to  face  dangei'  when  duty  called  him  to  do 
.so.  A  poor  iiuni  all  his  life,  and  having  a  large 
family  to  su]ipnii  and  educale.  lie  loiled  hard  at 
his  calling,  never  even  stopjting  to  ask  what  friv- 
olous anil  haughty  people  might  think  or  say.  He 
reared  six  sons  and  three  daughters,  who  grew 
to  mature  age,  and  every  one  of  them  received 
good  educational  advantages,  and  several  of  them 
were  graduated  wiili  credit  from  ihc  hetier  class 
of  colleges  of  thai  period.  He  did  not  require  any 
of  his  six  sons  to  follow   the  trade  lu'  had  toiled  at 


scendants.  His  gait  in  walking  was  slow,  meas- 
ured and  dignitied.  I'ew  men  ever  had  a  kinder 
heart  than  lie,  i hough  he  was  not  jiarticularly 
(lenionstrati\('  in  his  disjtosit  ion.  If  he  ever  had 
a  personal  eiiconnler  with  any  one  in  his  life  the 
wriler  has  uoi  heanl  of  it,  and  when  he  died  he 
fu-obably  did  nol  lia\e  an  enemy  in  the  world.  And 
it  may  be  trulhfnlly  said  that  there  has  probably 
ne\'er  lived  a  man  in  the  town  in  which  he  spent 
nearly  the  Axhole  of  his  mature  life  about  whose 
integrity  and  Christian  consistency  so  few  people 
had  a  particle  of  doulit. 

S.vKAii  Everett  Dedman,  who  became,  iu 
1818,  the  wife  of  James  Harvey  Woods,  was  born 
iu  N'ersailles,  Kentucky,  January  ^O,  1802.  She 
was  a  datighter  of  Nathan  Dedman  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth,  iicc  (looch.     Her  father's  home  was  at 


all  his  days,  but  did  w  hai  he  could  to  help  them  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Morgan  and  Water  streets 
to  higher  positions  in  life  than  he  had  been  able  —the  place  which  Senator  J.  S.  C.  Blackburn 
to  reach  himself.     'I'hree  of  his  sons  became  law-     owned  and  occupied  for  many  yeai's.     The  writer 


NORTHERN  SIDE  OF  NEW  PROVIDHNCE  BURIAL  GROUND.  MERCER  COUNTY.  KY. 

FIRST  GRAVE  OPENED    IN    iSoj. 

[See  Sketch  No.  go — James  Harvey  Woods.] 


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YE   ANCIENT  MARRIAGE   BOND   OF    1786. 

[See  Sketch  No.  go— Sarah  E.  Dedman.] 


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(ibl;iined  i)  good  photooTapli  of  the  liuiisc  in  1895,  rcsixnisililc    fur    llir    ^noil    rilii<:ii  inmil    ndviinlages 

wliicli   lias   hccii   reproduced   for  lliis   woi'k   as  an  all  tlirir  rliildr-rn  cnjovi'd.  and  di>l  niosi   lo  slimn- 

cngravinii,'.     The  tine  spring,  wliich  conslifufes  IIk;  lalc  llicni  lo  high  mdcavcir.  dues  noi  admit  of  nincli 

head  of  one  fork  of  Glenns  Creek,  and  whose  ex-  donhl. 

istence   no   doiilit    determined   tlie   location    of   the  When  her  hnsliand  dii'd   in   I'.lnnar.x .   IMKI.  Airs. 

town   of    A'ersaillcs,    is    jnst     helow     the     l>cdniari  Woods    was   herself   in    lieil.    laid    np   wiili   a    badly 

])lare   to    the   north.  sjirained  ankle;  an<l  afier  his  deaih  she  never  was 

Of   Sarah's   childhood    we   know   Ind    lillle,    he-      well    ; iliei-  dav.      Life  seemed    in   have   lost  its 

yond    the   fact   that    she   was   lierefl    of    her    failier  charm    for   her    when    called    \i,    walk    withoiil    her 

ahonl  the  end  of  the  year  INK!,  when  she  was  not  hnsliand's   linn    arm    lo   lean    ii|mmi.      'I'he   deaih    of 

(jnite  eleven  years  old.      iler  mother  did    mil    snr-  .Mr.    Woods    eansi'd    eonsideralile    eliaiiges     in    ihe 

vi\'e    her    father    hut  a    few    years   al     hesl.      ller  home,     hesides     his     own     de|iariiire.     The     home 

l)i*ollier-iii  law,   Maun    IJutler    iwlio   in   afler  yeai's  in  wiiieh  she  liad  so  long    heen    a    ha|p|iy    wife    and, 

wrote  a  history  of  Kentueky )  liecame  her  giiardiar\  niolher    was    hemeforlli     Imiely    and     lull    of    sad 

prior  to  1814,  ami   with   him  she   li\cd   a    while   in  reminders    of    a    ]iasi     whieh    eniihl    ne\ei'    return. 

Fi-aukfort   or    Louisville.      Another   In-other-in  law,  Her  indis|>osii  ion   gradiiallv   inereased   as  the  year 

;Mr.   Johnson   ;Maloue.  was  oc<n]>ying  her  father's  wore  on.  and   li\    Ihe  latter  |.ari   of  .\iigiist  it  be- 

old   home   in    1818,  and    tlu're  she   was  married   (o  eame  apparent  to  her  friends  i  hai  she  w  as  deslined 

James    llar\'e\'    Woods    August    1,    181S.      She    at  very  soon  to  follow   her  hiisliami  to  the  other  world, 

om-e   went    with   her  liushand   to   live  in    llarrods  Her  disease  was  called  "congestive  fever"   liy  her 

htn-g,  and    there    the  remainder  of    her    life   was  daughter,    :\rary.  who    wrote  her    ohituary.  Inil    a 

^.j,,j^j-  loved  ueighlfor,    who   was   |n-esent    with  her  at    the 

Friun  what  some  (d  her  ohl  friends  have  t(dd  the  eud,  told  the  writer  that    it   was  -congesth.n  of  the 

writer  :^h's.   Woods  was  beautiful  as  a  young  wo-  hrain."     Her  death  oeenrivil  .Uigiist  IM.  IstJU.    She 

man,  and  she  was  eertainly  attractive  even  a(  tifty  was   wholly   itnconscioits  for  sinne  titne  hef.av   the 

years   of   age.      She   was   about   as   completely    the  end  came,  atid  gave  no  part  itig  tnessage  to  her  loved 

opposite  of  her  husband   as  a   woman   <ould   well  ones.      I'.ttt    for  those  who  ktiew  and  loved  her,  no 

be.     He  was  quiet,  reserved  and  solemn;  she  was  rapiitroits   deathbed    experiences    were    needed   to 

vivacious,  talkative,  outsp..keu,  and  full  of  wit  and  assnie    tli.'tnof    her   pr.'pninth.n    for    her  change. 

fitn.     He  Avas  hundde.  cared  not  a  straw  for  mere  That   she  di.d    in    the   faith    of  .lesns  Christ,   and 

api.earances.   and    had    scarcely   any    worldly   am-  passed    into  gb.ry    whith,.r   her   hiisbatid    InnI    pre- 

bitiou;    she.    on    the   other   hand,    was    ,n'oud.    am-  ce.led    her,    is  one   of   the    things   about    whi.h    InT 

bilious,    sensitive    to     piiiilic    ..i.ittion.    and     deter-  vhiblivn    and    near    fri.Mids    had    ttot    a    shadow    of 

mined  to  secure  for  all    her  children    ih<'   highest  doid.!. 

plac.-s  she  possibly  could,      lie   was  always  calm,  ^^,^^    DKD.M.WS    .\  N  I )    (  K  >(  .('11  FS. 
self-poised,    and     slow     to   anger;   she     was    easily 

.     ,,             ,              ,.           •     •,    I  1          i.„(  Mrs.    \Voods"s    lather    was   .-i    Dedman.    ami    her 
ruthed,    excitable,    and    sometttnes    irrttable.       l.ut 

in    sonte    respects    thev   were   alike-both    were   de-  -"!'-  --  -   >'*-  '-'"''•  -"'  ^'   '"•"■'■  ^"■'"'""    "' 

voted  Christians,  tender-hear. ed  t.. wards  the  poor  the  fantilies  of  her  parettts  wtll   now    be  g.ven. 

,   ,   ,       .       ,              -,1        .  'rii,.    lecords  of     l.ouisa    <'ouni\.   atnl    esi)ecially 

and  sulferin-,  and  <-<aupletelv    tn    love    wtth    eacn  '  ii<    icokis-.i                               .                   i 

other      I'oor.  thetnselves,  their  hearts  went  out  to      .hos '    Allicnarle    Count  v.    Virgi-.ia.    fnrntsh    a 

others  in  need,  and  to  minister  to  the  sick  and  sor-  good  .leal  of  infortna.ion  it,  regard   to  tin-  fa.udies 

rowin..-     was     Iheir     delight.      That     she    was     the  uow  t  o  be  ,  realed  of.  Intt  nnl.v   t  he  Inaefest  reference 

strongir   character   of   the   two.    and    was    n.ainly  io   tttost    of   those  records   can    here  be   tnade.     Tn 


372  THE    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

1740  Saiinicl  Dcdinaii,  ilic  I'alluT  nf  Xatlimi  Ded-  Saiinicl,  lnisl)aii(l  of  IMary,  we  tind  a  Saimud  Dod- 
iiiaii.  hdnolit  a  farm  in  Louisa  CountY,  but  we  man  exciMiting  a  deed  for  land  in  tlie  Ragged 
liavc  no  means  of  Icnowing  wliei'e  lie  Iiad  liitliei'to  ^[(innlain  ;  and  as  no  woman  signed  (lie  deed  as  wife 
7-csidc(l.  In  ]\Iai'eh,  17(i9.  Sanincl  and  his  wife  of  tlie  giantor, and  tlie  wife  of  Saninel  llir  elder  was 
Mary  sold  tliat  farm  and  moved  over  into  Albe-  living,  we  infer  this  grantor  was  Sannnd,  Jr.,  son 
nuirle  into  what  is  known  as  llagged  :M(»nntain,  of  the  testator  of  1800.  In  1808  there  was  a  Sam- 
fonr  miles  southeast  of  Charlottesville.  There  they  nel  Dedman  r(>siding  in  Fleming  OouTity,  Ken- 
lived  and  reared  a  large  family.  Tliere  Samuel  tucky;  and  as  we  know  Sannud,  the  testator  of 
died  in  the  year  ISOO,  hnl  his  wife  sur\ived  him  1800,  had  a  married  danglitei- — Ann,  who  marriiNd 
till  1810.  Tlie  wriler  has  \isiled  Hieir  old  home  a  Mr.  Clack,  and  \\as  living  in  that  eonnty  in  1810 
and  seen  where  they  were  hurled  near  the  family  — we  infer  that  Samuel,  Jr.,  son  of  the  testator  of 
residence.  Samuel  was  evidently  a  prosperous  that  name,  was  this  man,  ilrs.  Clack  being  his 
man,  if    we  may  Judge  from    the  numerous    pur-  sister. 

chases  and  sales  of  lands  lie  made,  and  which  the  (ci   Richmond  Dedman  was  living  in  .Moidgom- 

connty  records  show  to  this  day.     His  will,  dated  ery  County,  Virginia,  in  1810,  and  that  year  joined 

January   H,    ISOO,    when    he    was    |ii-ohably   nearly  his  brothers-in-law,  Sims,  ICverett,  and  ("hick,  and 

eighty  years  old,   meiilinus   lands,   negroes,   ready  his  brother  Rartelott  in  a  conveyance  of  some  land 

money,  tobacco,  etc.,  in  he  disposed  of,  and  the  in-  to  his   l)rotlier  Dixon,  of  Albemarle  ('ouiity,   \'lr- 

ference  is  that  he  died  jiossessed  of  a  considerable  ginia. 

estate.     A\'e  have  good    reason   to   believe  tliat  he  idi    Rartelott    Dedman,   Samuel's    fourth   child, 

was  a  Christian,  and   that   he  was  connected  with  was  alive  in  1810,  and  that  year  joined  in  the  deed 

the  Uaptist  Cliurcli.     lie  seems  to  have  carried  on  just   referred   to  in  the  notice  of  his  brother  Kich- 

a  small  distillery  (Ui   his   larm,  and    louud   use  for  moiid,   but    his  ]ilace  of  residence   is  not    gi\cn    in 

a  tine  ]iunch  bowl,  meiilioned  in  his  will.     In  that  the  deed.      II  is   wife  was  named  Retsy,  and  is  so 

day   there  were  cncii    ministers  of  the  (iospel,   not  given    in    a    mortgage  he  gave   to  one   \ickolas   in 

a  few,  who  deemed  ii  jiroper  to  biace  their  nerves  1707.      He    probabl\    iie\'er    migrated    from    .ilbe- 

occasioually   with   a    toddy,   and   acc(U-dingly  kept  marie.     His  name  is,  in   some  of  the  records,  spelt 

well-tilled    decanters    on    their    sideboards    bn-   all  Rartlett,  and  sometimi's  Rartelott. 

emergeiiiies,   great  and   small.  (e)    Nathan  Dedman,  who  was  the  father  of  Mrs. 

The  follow  ing  children  wci-e  mentioned  by  name  James  ilarvcy  Woods,  was  probal)ly  born  in  Louisa 

in  Samuel  Dedman's  will,  January  1',  1800,  to  wit :  County,    \'irginia,     about     17()0-17(>.").     In    .March, 

la)    Joux;    (b|    S.\.mi:i:l,    |Ji;.  |;    (O    Rh'ii.munu;  178(i,  he  was  mai-ried  to  Elizalieth  Gooch,  daughter 

(d)     I'.\i!Ti;r.<)TT;    (e)    N.\tiiax;     (  f)    Dixon;   (g)  of  William  and  Lucy  (iooch   (see  facsimile  of  his 

S.\i:aii;     iIii     .Mauv;     (i)      Sisaxxau,    and      (j)  Tuarriage-bond  ).      In     1704   he    migrated     to   Ver- 

Ax,\.     ()f'  some  of  these  cliiblreii   we  know  almost  sailles,    Ivenliicky,  where  (lie  remainder  of  his  life 

nothing.  was  sjx'ut.     His  full  name  was  no  doubt  Nathaniel, 

fai  Of  the  first  child,  John,  we  can  affirm  noth-  and    for  him   his  daiighter  Sarah,   wife  of  James 

ing   with   entire  certainly:   Init   we  know  that  in  Harvey  Woods,  named  one  of  her  sons — Nathaniel 

that  same  year  (ISOO)   a  man  of  this  name  was  a  Dedman  Woods.     The  proper  spelling  of  the  Ded- 

cil  izeii  of  the  adjoining  county  of  (Grange,  and  that  man  name,  as  we  Hud  it  in  many  original   docu- 

John    lAcrett,   a   son-in-law    of   Samuel,   sold  him  ments  and   most  court  records,   is  as  here  given, 

some  land,  which  land  ibis  .b)hii  conveyed  to  one  but    now    and     then   we  hud  copyists    spelling    it 

^\'illiam    Dedman,  of  Orange.  ••Deadmau,""  by  mistake.     Nathan,  whilst  never  a 

(bj    In   170(i,   four  years   pri<n-  to  the  death  of  man  of  wealth,   was  undoiditedly  a  man   of  s(une 


FORMER  HOME  OH  NATHAN    DEDMAN.  VERSAILLES.  KY.,  FROM  1706  TO  1815. 
The  frame  ell  was  probably  erected  by  Nathan  Dedman  about  1706. 


374  THE   WOODvS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

estate,   and   lived    well.      'I'liei-e   was,   inidduliledly,  linsliaiid.     Tliis  man-iaiic  was  an  iniliapin-  one,  and 

a   sli-eak   (it   rainil\    |(i-ide  and   ai-islurracv    in   botli  a  separalidn  \\;is  tlie  resnlt.      In  184S  Dixon  Ded- 

his   family  and    llial    of   iiis   wife.      \\'lien   Xatlian  man   died.      He  seems  always    to  liave   spolt    his 

hrou^lit  his  wife  and  several  small  cliildren  to  Ken-  name  ••Dixon,"  lint  liis  hi'other  Xathaii  named  one 

tneky  it  was  still,  fov  the  mosi  pari,  a  wihlerness,  of   his  sons   fur   him,    who   jyreferred    the  spelling 

and  all  of  it   in  ipiiie  a  primitive  condition.     Be-  ••I  >iekson."     The  writer  met  an  old  gentleman  in 

voml    all    reasonable  doiilil     iltey  came    on   pack-  ('harlot  lesville  in  ISI."!  who  had  known  Dixon  for 

horses   l)y   Cnndierland    (iap.      N'ersailles   had    hnt  nearly  forty  years,  and  he  described  him  as  a  gen- 

recently  been  laid  out,  and  proiiably  nnndiered  only  tlemaii  of  the  most  conrtly  manners  and  fastidious 

abont  twenty  families  a(   most.     There  were  only  taste. 

one  hnndred  and  seventy-two  ]ie(>]ile  residing  there  (g)  The  seventh  child  of  Samind  and  Mary  Ded- 
in  IStlO — six  years  after  his  arri\al.  In  Fi'brn-  man  was  Sarah.  Some  t  ime  prior  to  17S1  she  was 
ury,  ITU."!,  Xatlian  ])iir<-liased  a  lowii-lot  (No.  42)  married  to  a  .lolui  lON'erett.  It  may  be  that  for 
at  the  coi-ner  of  Moi-gan  and  Water  streets,  and  ln'i-  .\alhan  named  his  daughter  Saraii  iCveretf 
lots  113  and  ll.j  on  Morgan  street,  near  Locust.  Dedman,  the  jireseid  writer's  mother.  I!nt  it  is 
On  the  tirst  named  Io|  he  erected  a  frame  dwell-  j'erliaps  more  likely  that  Nathan's  daughter  was 
ing  house.  in  attiM-  years  a  lirick  addition  was  named  in  honor  of  a  certain  ••Sally  Everett"  who 
erected,  and  the  frame  ](orlioti  id'  earlier  <late  was  married  one  lOliJah  Dedman  in  Albenuirle  ("oiinty, 
set  behind  it  as  an  ell  to  the  new  pari.  It  was  the  N'irgitiia,  .laniiary  111,  1S(»2,  just  about  ele\en  days 
tirst  In-ick  house  evei-  biiili  in  N'ersailles,  as  tlie  before  Nathan's  daughter  was  liorn.  Who  these 
author  was  informed  in  iS'.t.".  by  .Imlge  (Iraves,  Jieople  were  we  do  not  know,  but  they  were  doubt- 
one  of  the  oldest  citizens  of  the  town.  Whether  less  near  and  dear  friends,  if  not  kinsiieople.  of  the 
Nathan  Dednuin  had  the  brick  addition  built  or  Dedmans.  -lohn  Everett  and  .Sarah  were  citizens 
not  can  not  be  aftinued  by  the  writer,  but  the  of  Albemarle  as  late  as  ISUO,  but  by  ISIO  they  were 
Jtidge  (ira\'es  just  nienti(Hied  seemed  to  think  stich  li\iiig  in  what  is  now  ("abell  ('ouiit_\',  \'irgiuia. 
was  the  case.  Au  excelh  ni  picture  of  the  house  as  Later  on  the  children  of  this  jtair  iiio\ed  on  down 
it  appeared  in  lS!».j  will  be  l'ouu<l  herein.  Here  into  Kent  iicky,  and  s(Hiu- of  their  di'scendaiils  now 
most  <d' the  children  cd'  Nathan  and  lOlizabeth  were  reside  at  ( 'at  let  tsbui  g,  .Mount  Sterling,  and  Sjtring 
born.  Here  Nathan  died  about  the  close  (d'  the  Staticii,  Kentucky.  .Mrs.  J.,aban  .Moore  of  the  tirst 
year  1813.  His  wife  survived  him  only  a  few  named  jdace,  and  .Mrs.  James  Blackburn  of  the 
years.  The  cdd  homestead  was  sold,  liually,  by  last,  ha\c  kindly  favored  the  author  with  some  in- 
his  administrator  and  the  nuiuerous  heirs  about  f,„uiatiou  in  regard  to  the  Everetts.  John  and 
LS20,  and  the  writer  has  the  original  d.ed,  signed  j^.^.,,!,  ,,.„,  ^,.,.,.„  ..hjpir.u,,  as  f.dlows:  1,  John 
by  all  the  parties  in  interest.  A  c.miplete  list  of  i,,.,.,.,,,_  .,,.;:..,  |;i,|,„„„„i  Everett;  3,  Nathan 
his  eleven  children  and  a  bri(d'  notice  of  eaeh  will 


be  given  on  subsecpu'nt  jiages. 

(f)  The  sixth  child  of  Saniucd  nu'utioned  in  his 
will  (d'  ISDO  was  Dixon,   who  was  one  of  his  fath- 


lOverett;  4,  Saiuiiel  Dedman  Everett;  5,  Peter 
JOverett,  and  ((1  and  7)  two  daughlers  wdiose 
names  we  could  not  learn.     Jidin  Everett,  Jr.,  mar- 


,,                                ,      ,                     ,  ried   Sallie    Woodsmi,   of  Albemarle   County,   Vir- 
er  s   e.xectitors.      He   seems    nexcr    to   have   moved 

from    Albemarle.      He   was     twice    married,    but  .^^inia.  a.,.1  .uie  of  his  .laughters  was  Sarah  Everett 

seems  never  to  have  had  any  children.     His  tirst  ^^'^^^  niarried  Hon.  Laban  .Aloore,  and  in  1S1)5  was 

wife  was  Sarah  Buster,  whom  he  married  in  1785.  ^^  ^vidow  of  advanced  age  and  residing  a,t  Catletts- 

lu  1823  he  nuirried  a   widow,   .Mrs.   Sarah  Drum-  burg,    Kentucky.     .^Irs.   James   Ulackburu,   who  in 

hellar,  who  had  a   family  of  children  by  her  first  180.")  was  living  at  Spring  Station,  Kentucky,  was 


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a  iltuightei"  of  Samuel  Dedman  Everett,  one  of  the  Willinni  <; li  iin.l   Ijicv.  liis  wife,  loft  at  least 

sons  of  John  and  Sarah  above  noted.  nine  chihlrcn,  :is  follows:   (n)   Jicssr;  (ioocii;   (b) 

( h )  The  eighth  child  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Ded-  Nicholas    L.   (Joocii:     (<m    Thomas    W.    Ooocii; 

man  was  Mary,  who  in  17SB  was  married  to  John  nl  i  riiiLUi'  (ioocii;  (<■)  .\l attiikw  .Mookio  Gooch; 

Sinims.     In  1S19  she  and  her  luislmnd  were  living  (fl   DAr.xKV  C.  Coocii;  fff)   AVii.i.iA>r  Goocil,  Jn.; 

in  :\ront,!A(>m('ry  ("oniity,  Yiroiniji.  (hi    lOr.i/AiiKTii   GOOCIT,  iind    (J)    :\rAUTiiA   Gooru. 

(j)  Susannah  was  the  ninth  child.     Tn  1784  she  When    the  cxccMtni-s   of   W'illiiiin    (iourli    c;ime   to 

was  married  to  William  Sandridiic.  (Hialily    hclore    the    courl,  they  were    re<iuire<l    ti» 

(kj  Ann  Dedman,  the  tenth  child,  was  nuirried  .uive  l)ond  in  the  snni  of  .*;];  1(1,0 00,  which  wonid  in- 
to Moses    Clack    (or  Clock)    in    179l!.     She    was  dicate  that    the    estate   was  one  of    c-.msiderable 
sometimes  ciillcd  Nancy.     In  1810  she  and  her  hus-  value. 
Iciiid  were  residinj;'  in  Flemiuii  Cdunty,  Kentucky.  (a)  Of  Jesse,  ilie  lirsi   ikiummI  n\'  ihe  cliililren  of 

The  motlier  of  ^Irs.   James  Harvey   ^V(lods,   as  Willinm    and    Lmy,    we   know    xci-y    ill  lie.      \Mien 

before  n(>ie<l,  was  Elizabeth  Gooch,   the  daughter  Nathan  Dedman  died  in  K'eiiMicky.  in  181:,',  one  of 

nf  William  and  Lucy  Gooch,  of  Albemarle  County,  his  assets  was  a  bond  .lesse  (idoeh  had  executed  to 

\'ii'ginia.     A\'e  have  to  (U'pend  almost  exclusively  bim  for  (be  sum  of  -S.'OO.     i'd-liajis  .b'sse  had  pur- 

on  (he  Albemarle  court  recoivls  for  iid'ormat  ion  in  chased  his  sislei-  llli/.abel  h's  inleresl  in  her  father's 

regard  to  this  family.     The  first    item  is  a  deed  of  estate,  and    Ibis  bond    was   jiai-l    of   ilie   |)ric(.'  still 

1704  by  which  ^Villiam  Gooch  a((|iiii-e(l  a  farm  on  unpaid. 

Hardware  River,  and  as  tlu'  word  ".Innior"  is  ap-  (b|    The  second   rbibl    lo   ]<r   ineiiiioneil    in    (his 

]iended  to  his  name  we  infer  (bal    bis  father  was  lisf  was  Ni(4iolas  1..,  iliongb  be  w.is  probably  one 

also  named  William,  and  was  Ibeii  aliv<'.    >Vhether  of    the  younger  of    Ibe  cbilili-en   of    William    and 

this  family  was  related  (o  Sii'  NMIIiani  Gooch  who  Lucy.     In  170(i,  when  his  faiher  niaile  liis  will,  be 

was  the  Colonial   Govenior  of  N'iiginia    while   Ibis      was  no(  yet  Ihrongh  scl 1.     lie  was  of  full  age  by 

\\'illiam  Goo(4i  was  a  young  man  we  do  mil  know.  180."),  as  be  joins  his  brolhers  and  sisters  in  ;i  deed 

William   Gooch    made  his   will    in    March,   1700,  to  one  .lohn  Nicholas, 

and  was  dead  before  the  end  of  August,  following.  ( <•  I    Thomas  W.   (!oo(4i.  another  of  the  S(Uis  of 

There  is  not   a   word  in  his  will   which  would  lead  N\'illiam   and    Ijiey,    is  railed   simjily   "Tommy"   in 

one  to  infer  he  was  a  devout   man,  and   no  refer-  his  father's  will,  but   various  records  give  his  full 

<'nce  to  the  life  beyond.      It  is  a  very  ccdd,  business-  n.-ime  as  above.      II  is  witV  was  named    Naii.y.     He 

like   docuinenf,    devoid    of   all    sentiment.      Whilst  made  bis  will  in   ls;;s.  ami   in  il   be  nieni  ions  seven 

we  know  he  bad  a  large  family  of  chiblren,  of  sons  ••bildreu    by   name,   and    he   refers   lo    ibe    late    Ur. 

and   daughters,    he   does   not    menlion    any   of   bis  ^^■lll.    1'.   Gooch.   of    Ivy    D.imu,   as   "my    nej.hew." 

(laughters,    and    only   some   of  his   sons.     A    deed      "i'-   Wm.   F.  G h   married   ilw  daughier  of  Dab- 

e\ecu(ed   by  his  widow  six  years  after  his  death  ney  C.  Gooch.  a  niece  of  Tlennas  W.,  and  his  (irst 

makes  mention  of  at  least  four  of  his  children  to  ••ousin.      The     l)..cior    ha. I    a     brmher.    ('laib.une 

w4iom   no  reference  occurs  in  his  will,  and  one  of  Gooch.  who  died   in    l.'ichmond.   N'irginia,  |)rior  to 

the    four   was    bis   own   namesake,    William,   Jr.  il>e  Civil    War.     William    I',   and   Claiborne  were 

Here  we  have  an  example  of  the  kind  of  will  which  probably  sons  of  one  of  (he  brodiers  of  Tbomas  W., 

was   made    by  :ilichael  ^Yoods  of    Rlair  Park   in  and  grandscm  of  William  and  Lucy. 

17til,  in  which  live  of  his  children  are  not  alluded  id)   Another  of  the  S(Uis  of  William  and  Lucy 

to,  one  of  them  being  his  namesake,  Michael,  Jr.  Gooch  was  I'biUip.     He  was  witness  to  deeds  in 

This  mo<le  of  making  a  will  is  fully  discussed  in  tT7.-)  and  1778,  and  in  180.-.  joined  wiib  other  heirs 

( 'hapter  III  of  Tart  One  of  this  work.  •>*'  li'^  'site  father  in  a  deed  (o  John  Nicholas. 


376  THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

(el    .Malllicw   .Aliiurc  (inocli  \\;is  iiiiidc  oiic  of  his  iiinilc,  :inil   she   was  a  citizen  of  \'f'Tsailles,   Ken- 

fadici-'s  cxcciiiors  ill  llic  will  of  IT'.IC,  al  wliich  date  tucky.    The  only  cii-ciiiiistance  know  ii  (o  llie  writer 

he  was  a  ]iiai-lisiiiii  lawver  in  Charlottesville.     He  which  conid  cast  any  donlil    u|iiin  the  su|>i)osition 

])roliahly   niiiirated   to    Lexinnion,   Kentnoky,  very  (hat  Elizalielh  was  AVilliaiirs  dan^hler  is  the  fact 

soon  after    his  father's  <lealli,    for    in   F>eptember,  that  slie  is  not   known  by  him  to  lia\c  signed  any 

IT'.IS.  he  attested  at  llial   ](lace  a  power-of-attorney  docnnienls   in   the  settlement  of   William's  estate, 

which    his    hrolluM-  >\illiam   ga\-e    (o  Nicholas   L.  which    conld     prove    that    slie     was     (me    of    his 

Cooch.     In  .Inly,  ISOT,  he  e.xecnled  a  ](ow<'r  of  at-  heirs,     lint  this   fact    might    be   exjilained    liy   her 

lorney,  himself,  to  his  brother  Dabney  ('.,  and  was  having  sold  her  interest  to  lier  brother,  and  some 

then  a  citizen  of  Lexington,  Kentncky.     No  doubt  record  of  this  may  now  be  fmuid  in  I  he  Albemarle 

if  he  ha<l  a  family  he  was  the  ancestor  of  some  of  Comity  books, 

the    Keiilucky  (bioches  of   Ibis   day.  ( j  i   ^lai-tha(! h,  another  (biugliler  of  \\illiani 

(fl    J»abney   C.   Cooch,   anollier  of   tlio  sons  of  iind     Lucy    was    married     to   ^Villiain     Thnninsnd 

\\illiam     and    kncy,   was    iiol     inentioned    in    his  "J>eciMnber  ye  4tli,  1787."     Tlu    written  re(|nest  foi- 

father's  will,  bnt  in  1Si)7,  he   juined  other  heirs  of  a   license   addressed    to   the   counly    <-lei'k    for   this 

William  in  a  deed  already  ofien  icferred  to.     The  marriag(>    was    signed     by    lier     father,     ^Villiaul 

lady  he  married  was  named   lOlizabeth.  C.ooch,  and  by  lier  brother-in-law  Nathan  Dedman. 

igi    William    Cooch,   Jr.,   was    another  of    the  The  ])i-eseiil  writer  lias  insjH'cted  the  original  docn- 

childi-eii  whom  his  father  failed  to  refer  to  in  his  ment,   and    the  signatures  are  boili    those  nf  men 

will,   lull    he  was  bis  son  and   namesake,  neverthe-  ^\ho  wrote  well.     She  and   her  biisband  signed  the 

less,    for   ^^'ill    r.ook    Xo.    l    l  page  (i),  of  the  Allio-  famous  deed  of  180.")  by  which  seven  of  William's 

marie  records, shows  thai  he  was  ]iaid  a  legacy  from  children  conveyed  to  inie  Nicholas  their  interest  in 

the  estate  of  \\'illiaiii  (biocli,  his  father.     In  17!J8  their  father's  estate. 

he,  like  his  brother  Matthew,  was  a  citizen  of  Lex-  IIa\ing  given  some  account  of  the  l)edii;an  and 

iiiginii,   Keiiliicky.     The  dct'il  of   1805,  already  re-  Gooeh  families  in  A'irginia,  we  will  now   retnrn  to 

jiealedly  reb'iied  to,  shows  him  not  only  as  a  sou  Nathan     l>ediiian,    of     N'ersailles,    Kentm-kv,    and 

of  William  and  Lucy,  bnt  as  a  married  man  whose  consider  the  large  family  of  cliildi-eii  which  he  and 

wife  was  named  Susan.  bis   wib'    lOlizabeth   rear<'d.      They  had   eleven   cliil- 

I  h  I    Elizabeth  (Jooch,  who,  in  1786,  became  the  dren  to  wit:  (a|   -loiix  Dku.vi.v.x,  who  was  born  in 

wife  of  Nathan  Dedman.  is  not    nientioued  in  the  \'irginia,    .March  I'l',    1787.   and   died     in   earlv   iu- 

will  of  ^^'illialu,  but  she  was  almost  certainly  his  fancy. 

daughter,  nevertheless.  She  had  been  living  in  (b)  Martii.v  1>i:i>m.vx,  the  second  child,  was  born 
Kentncky  a  c()ii]de  of  years  when  her  father  wrote  in  N'irginia  .lime  l.j,  1788.  She  was  generally 
his  will.  'When  Nathan  I  )ediiiaii  executed  his  mar-  calleil  "ratsy."  .\iignst  10,  180!'.,  she  was  mar- 
riage bond,  in  :\larch,  17S(;  (a  facsimile  of  which  ried  to  Mann  I'.iitler,  who  wrote  a  history  of  Ken- 
a|ii)ears     in     this   volume),    her     father,     William  tucky,  and    who  was  then  a  lawyer  and  living  at 

'! h.  signed  it  as  the  yonng  man's  surety.     One  Lexington.      The    father   of    .Mann    Butler    was    a 

of  the  assets  left  by  Nathan  Dedman  in  1S12  was  native  of  England  who.canu-  to  ISaltinnu'e  in  1783. 

a  bond  (  already  referred  to  ),  for  .pOO,  executed  by  ]  l  is  mother  was  also  English,  her  name  being  Mary 

•Jesse  Oooch,  s(m  of  William,  and  brother  of  Eliza-  Mann.  Their  son,  Mann  (Edward  Mann  was  his  full 

belli.     I'ossibly  -Jesse  had  bought  his  sister  Eliza-  Christian  naiiie,but  in  course  of  time  he  dropped 

beth's  interest  in  her  fath.-r's  estate,  and  had  given  the  "Edward,"  and  wrote  it  simply  Mann  Butler), 

the  said  Ixnid  in  part  payment  of  the  same.     When  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  July  22,  1784. 

their  father  died  he  was  probably  living  in  Albe-  His  father  died  there  in  1787,  and  his  mother  re- 


SKETCl  I  i:s  ( )  1'  PA TRONS.  ?'77 

tnx'ued  to  England  Avith  her  infant  son.     I'^or  years  Sai-ili    \\.   I  )(iliii:iii  wns  iii;iiii.-ii  in  Jann's  Harvey 

:Mann  attended  seliool  at  Chelsea,  Eni;laH(l;  hut  liis  Wonds.     Mrs.  .Mahiiu'  .lied  ]«■{'<<]■<■  \s-2i).  ami  lie  <licd 

mother  liavino-  married  a  Cajdain    l.ee,  of  Haiti-  in  IS.").-).     Tlicv   liad    Iniir  i  hildnn. 

more,  in  1798,  he  accompanied  his  s(e))father  and  (di    Ercv    (<>r    l.niMi.xi    1>i;|(M.\\.   iln-    fmirlh 

mother  hark    to  America.     He  tuok   llic    lilerai-y  <liihl.    was   Imh-h     in    N'iruinia    I'chniary   I'li,    1792. 

conrsc  al    ( hMiri^clown  Collcjic.  1).   ('.,  ami   Ih'  also  She    was    ])iiiliahl\      iiaimMl    Im-     Lii<-\    ('incpcli,    her 

gradnated  from  thence  in  holh  law  and   medicine.  mother's    nmilier.      In    isil    she    was    mai'iied    m 

lie  hegan  to  practise  law  in  Lexington,  Kentncky,  in  'rimmas    llardestv.   of    l>an\ilh'.    Keiitinky.     They 

ISOCi.  1int  that  iirofessi(!n  was  disfas((  fid  tn  him  he-  lived    in    l>aiiville   ami    Law  i-eiuehni-g.    lventn<'ky; 

cause  he  was  nothing  of  an  oialiii-.     I le  soon  t  nriied  I'enria,    Illinois;    and    Cape   Glrardean,    ^lissouri, 

liis  at  l(  111  inn  to  teaching,  and  aflefwai-ds  to  edit  ing  at    which  latter  |phice  .Mrs.   IFafdesty  dii-d   in    18.")."). 

a.   news])apcr.      lie    moved    rather    rfe(|n<'nt  ly,  and  This  con|)le  had    twel\e  cliildieii,   one  of   wlmni.  a 

made  several  changes  in  his  vncalinii.      hi  1S24  he  daughter  named  .\iiiamhi,  iiianieil  :i   .Mr.   r.raden. 

weld  hack  to  Lexington,  afler  a  residence  of  many  (ei    A.\iM:t;s(i\    l>i:ti,MA\,    was    Imrti    in    N'irginia 

years    in    Lonisville  and   Lraiikforl,   to  accept  tlie  .Fiineli:!,  17'.i:'>,  and  when  hiit  a  hoy  of  ten  years  was 

chair  of  :\Iathematics  and  Languages  in  Trausyl-  accidentally  killed  hy   (ailing  from  a   lre<'. 

vania   rniversity.     Uy  iSi'T  he  was  i)ack  in  Louis-  (  f )  Dickson  (iooitt   I  >i;iim.\.\"  was  the  sixth  child 

ville,   and    hegan   to  i)repare  his    History   of  Iven-  of  Nathan  and    I'di/.aheih.  and   was  Imrii    in    Ver- 

tiicky.     He  pnhlished  the  first  edition  in  1834,  and  sallies  ^lardi    17,  179.'').      lie  was  a  yonng  man  of 

llie  second  in  183(1.     In  1841  he  moved  to  St.  T>onis,  most   lovahle   ami    allracli\e    characler.    and    was 

.Missouri,    and   \\"as  afterwards  elected   to   an    im-  generally  lieloxcd.      lie    enjo\cd  good    school  ad- 

])ortant  city  olticc,  which  he  was  holding  when,  in  vantages  as  a   hoy,  and   sindied    medicine,   takinjl 

18,"),"),  he  and  a  large  niimher  of  |)roniinenl   men  of  the  regular  c(nirse   in    (he   .Medical    Itepartment    of 

St.  Louis    ]ierishe(l    in    the    awful    disaster   at    the  Transylvania     rniveisity.     Lexington,    gradnatitig 

(iasconade     Kix'er    as     the     train    hearing     an    ex-  fj-om  thence  ahont   ISKi.     On  the  i^t'.lh  of  .Inly,  ISI  ,^, 

cnrsion  was  on  its  way  to  Jefferson  City  to  cele-  he  was  mairied    lo  a    laily  n\'  a   line  old   N'irginia 

hrate  the  opening  of  the  first  division  of  the  Pa-  family — ^liss       l^li/.aln'ih        i'.rown       Wallace,     a 

citic  Kailway,  jnst  c<mipleted.      ^frs.    liiillei-    onlv  daughter  of  ('a|iiain   William   1!.   Wallace,  of  I'al- 

li\ed  ahmit  <nie  year  after  his  sudden  and  shocking  mouth,    Virginia.      Kefei-ence    to    this     hrancli     of 

death.     .Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Butler  had  thirteen  children  Wallaces  and    the   pmhahle  close  connection   of   it 

lioi-n  to  them,  all  hut  one  or  two  of  them  now   heing  with  the  one  treated  of  in   I'art    1.  <'ha|ilei-  Secoml, 

dead.      I'residcnt  Koosevelt,  in  his  Winning  of  the  of  this  volnnu'  will   he   found    in    that    |iart   of  this 

NN'i'st,  compares  the  several   ju'ominent  historians  work.     Di'.   Dedman   pi-oliahly  hegan  his  career  as 

of  Kentucky  and  pronounces  iUitlcr  tlie  most  im-  a    physician     in    Law  lenceliutg.     Kentucky,   ahout 

partial  of  them  all.  1817.  and   there  he  s]ient    the  remainder  of  his  life, 

(c)    .AL\i;y    DioiiM.vN   was  the  third   child   of  Xa-  lie  was  elected  a  rnling  ehler  of  the  Lawrencchiirg 

than  and  Elizaheth.  and  was  horn  ill  N'irginia  Feb-  Presbyterian   Church     .Nngust    i:'..    1828,  and    tills 

ruary   2(1,    1790.     Like   most    women    having   that  office  he  filled  with  credit  t  ill  his  death.     His  iionie 

Christian  name  in  that  early  day.  shi'  was  famil-  was  the  glad  abode  of  marly  all  tin-  visiiiiig  min- 

iarly  called  "Polly."     In  1808  she  was  married   to  isters  of  this  church.      In    1^27    he   hecame  one  of 

Johnson  .Malone.     She  and  her  husband  ;ind  family  the  charter  members  of  the  .Nmlersou    Lodge,   No. 

occupied   the  <jld  Dedman  homestead    in   N'ersailles  90,   Free  and   .Vccejiied    .Masons,  of  which   body   he 

for  some  years  after  both  of  ;\lrs.  .Malone's  ]>arents  was  (he  lirs(  Senior  W  ardeii.  and  several  times  the 

had  died,  and  they  were  living  there  in   ISl.'S  when  Master.     He  had  a  i)le;is;iiii  old  honiesiead  in   Law- 


FORMER  HOME  iiV  DR.  DICKSON  u(i' il.:-i    I'tbMAN,  LaW  RhM  J:  HURG.  KY..  WHlzRE  HE  DIED  IN  1S5. 


SKIOTCUES  OF  i'ATi:ONS.  379 

rciH'Hmi'ii-,  a  picture  of  wiiirli  will  In.  rouiul  herein,  phiiic  llirknian.     Ai  ilic  niii  Incai.  uj'  ihr  civil  W:ir 

])r.  J)('(liuaii  was  twice  iiian-inl.     I  lis  lii-st  wife,  in    lsi;i    (his   cnlislcl    in    i  Ih^  ( 'nnfnl.-i-ai.-   scr\icr, 

already  nieiil  idued,  died  Orluhci-   l(>,   iSi;',,   U-aviiif;  and  was  made  Capiain  uf  a  runipany  <>{'  Anderson 

several    cliildrcn,    four   <>f    wlium    lived     (<•   inalnre  ("laiidy  men.      His  i(im|).iny   was  aiiarlnMl    to  that 

years.      1.   One  of  tlie  fonr  was   William    DedmaTi.      splendid    Imdy    of    soldiers,    ilie    See 1    k'eniiieky 

who    was    burn    Septeudier    IS,   ISIM.  and    died    in  Infaniry.  ednimainled   liy  Cul.   KnL'er   llansoTi.      lie 

ISSl.     He  was,  like  his  father,  a   i)hysieian.     He,  served   wiih   Ins  regiment  faiilifiilly  nniil  ilie  I'.ai 

also,  was  married  twice.     His  first  wife  was  Fan-  tie  of   ( 'liickamanjia,  when    lie    was    killid    on    ilie 

nic     .Mcl'rayer,    and     his    second    a    ^liss     lOasly.  field.      His  r<Mnain.s,  :ifler  re|iosiiii:  lor  manv  vcars 

William    Dednian    left     fonr  sons  and   a   danj;hler.  where  iliey  were  inieri-ed  hy  his  conirmles  in  arms, 

'2.    A    second    of    Ihe    children    of    1  »r.     Dickson    I»ed-  Wel-e      tak(  11     ll{>     .'Mill       removed       lo     (lie      he.-inlifnl 

man    liy  liis   lirsl    wife    was   Henry    Dedman.   Iiorn  cemetery  of  his  nalive  lown.   w  Imm-c  iIkx    now  rest, 

.lannaiw     lil,    ISUS.      He    hecame    a     lawyer    and  He  lefi    lint    one  son.    William    Hedmaii.    who   lives 

pvaclised   law   in  ^t.   Lonis.      He  married   his  tirsi  in   Ihe   W'esl.      His   widow    mairicd   a    .Mr.    Walker. 

consin,    .Mary   .Malvina   Butler,  danuhicr  of   .Mann  and   is  still   liviiiL;-. 

Hntler  and   his  Aunt  Patsy   Dedman.      lie  died   in  Hr.    Dickson     <  i.    Dedman,    afier     ri-mainini;     a 

IStiS.    leaxin^   a    widow    and    iwo   dani;hlers.      ( »ne  widower    foi-   alioiii    six    years,    was    married    to   a 

of  his  dani^lilers  was  named    .Martha   .\lleine.   who  widow,    .Mis.    .Mary    Sea,    ii<<     .McUrayei-,    who   had 

was  called  "IJirdie."     She  still  lives  in  SI.   Louis,  two  sons  hy  her  former  Inisliand,  lo  wii  :    .\ndrew. 

."5.   The  third   child  of  Hr.   Dickson    Dedman  hy  his  and  IJohert.     The  only  child   liorn   lo   Di-.    Dedman 

first  wife  was  named  ,\nna   l)a\iess  Dedman,  who  ami   his  lasl    wife  was  a  son.  ('harles  .M.    Dedman, 

was  liorn  ,Iiily  1."),  1829.     Left  moilierless  when  not  who  has  heeii  one  of  ihe  oriiiinal  promoiers  of  this 

fourteen  years  of  age,  her  father  idoli/.ed  her,  ami  publicalion,  aiid  who  now    resides  ai    llarroilslmi  g, 

did  all   he  could   to  make  up   for  Ihe  loss  slu-  had  Kentucky.     Soim- accoiini  ol  liimsi  I  f  mid  his  moih 

sustaineii  in  the  death  of  her  mother.     She  was  an  er"s  family   will   he   found    in   Skeldi    No.   i;  of  ihis 

tincommonly  beautiful  and  attractive  young  lady.  volume.     ( »n  ilie  l.'tli  of  .\pril,  ]S7M.   \)v.   Dedman 

.Vpril   IT,   1S")1,  she  was  married  to  a    Doctor  \Vil-  departed  this  lile,  ;ind  was  bni-ied   in   ihe  old   W'al- 

liani    Twyinan,    who   died    in    1S.">;!.      She   remained  lace   burial-ground    in    ilie   edge  of    l,aw  reuieburg. 

a  widow  until  .lune4,  ISCd,  when  she  was  married  igi    The  seventh   child   of   Xailmii    Dedman  and 

to  ]\ev.  J.   H.  Harbison,  a  woitliy  minister  of  the  his  wife   l^li/.alH  ih   was  Si  s.vwaii    Dt:i;.\!.\N.  who 

i'resbyteriau    Chui'ch,    tlii'U    living    in    Shelbyville,  was    born    -Inly     1."),    IT'.iT.     She    mairiid    William 

Kentucky.      Soon   after    their   marriage    Mr.   and  Orimsle.v,  and   with  him    lived    nt   Lebanon.   Ken- 

.^h•s.   Harbison  moved  to   I'leasant    Hill,  Missouri,  tucky,  St.  l^iaiis,  .Missouri,  and  .\lioii,  Illinois.     She 

There  Mr.  Harbison  died  in  September,  187l!,  leav-  left  oiu'  daughter    named   I'Meanora.   who    married 

iiig  one  son  and  ()ue  daughter.     Their  son,  Albert      Caleb   Stone;  and   anoiln  r   iia d    I'li/.a    iieverley, 

Harbison,   was   born  in  ISbo,  and    is   now   in   busi-.  who  married  1  loral  io  .MiClinlock. 

ness  in  Kansas  City.     Their  daiighler,  .Miss.Vgnes,  t'li    'I'l'"'  eighlli   i-hild   of   Nathan   ami    F.lizabetli 

is  living  with  her  widowed  mother  in  I'leasant  Hill,  \vas  called   ij.ois.v.  and   Ij.i/.v.  and  Ei,i/..\1!KTU  by 

.^Hssouri.      4.   The  fourth  and   lasl   of  the  children  ililTerent  persons  and  at  differeul   times.     She  was 

left  by  Dr.  Dickson  ti.  Dedman  was  u  stm,  James  Ixun  March  18,  17!)ll,  and  died  at  Mann    HuHer"s 

Gustavus,  who  was  boru  January   L  ISIil.     He  was  home   in    Lrankfori    in    ISi'l. 

universally  known  as  "Gus   Dedman."     He  was  a  (ji    S.\i;.\ii    JCvKur.ir    Diium.w.   ihe   ninili   child, 

most  refined   ami   courteous  genlleman.      lie    mar-  was  born  January  ISO,    ]S{\-2,  an   account   of  wlumi 

ried  a  noted  beautv  of  Lawrenceburg,  a  .Miss  Jose-  will  be  found  (Ui  a  |. receding  page. 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


(ki      r.ARTELETT    i^AMUKL    l>i:i)MA.\     was    boi'ii  I>a\\r('U(('liinii.     Tliis    fnsl  Ikhii    child    of    Hai'vey 

-Imic  S,   1S03,   and   died   a    (Vw    weeks   later.      The  and  Sarah  died   in  .Tune.    ISL'C),   when  (ndy  a  little 

family   liilile  of  his  parents  i)reseuts  a  confused  i)ast  seven  years  of  age,  the  same  year  in  which 

record  of  I  his  child"s  name,  and  the  writer  is  not  passed  away  the  old  Kevolntionary  veteran  whose 


sure  he  lias  gi\'eu  the  same  correctly. 

(1)  Julia  Anderson  Dedmax.  the  eleventh  and 
lasl  <liihl  of  Nathan  and  I']lizaheih,  was  horn  Jan- 
uai-y  (I,  lSd.->  (i)ossil(ly  ISO(i).  On  (he  24th  of 
^.larch,  1824,  she  was  married  lo  a  Mr.  William 
Tanner,  fihe  and  her  sister  Sar.ih  were  deeply 
attached  io  each  otlier.  ^[rs.  Tanner  had  but  two 
cliildreii.  and  died  two  months  after  the  second  one 
was  horn,  .\pril  2(1,  1S2'.».  Her  tirst  child,  William 
Atticus,  was  horn  in  1S2."),  and  died  in  1S4S.  The  sec- 
ond, -Fnlia  Butler,  l)orn  February  23,  1S2!»,  married 
a  Mr.  .McOhesney,  of  Frankfort,  who  died  in  St. 
Louis  in  1852.  Mr.  Tanner,  after  the  death  of  his 
lirsl   wife,  married  a  second,   by   whom   he  had   a 


first  name  he  bore. 

(bi  Elizabeth  Hannah,  the  second  child,  who 
has  two  dauj^hters  and  a  ,a;randdaughter  among  the 
original  jiatrons  of  (his  work,  ^\•ill  be  considered  in 
►Sketches  81,  82  and  S3,  to  which  the  reader  is  re- 
ferred. 

(ci  William  IIakvey,  (he  third  child,  is  repre- 
sented among  the  original  patrons  of  this  work  in 
Sketch  84,  to  which  the  reader  is  referred. 

(d)  Tim.\L\s  Cleland,  tlu'  fourdi  child,  has  two 
sons,  who  are  among  (he  original  ])atrons  of  this 
work,  and  iii  their  sketches  (87  and  88)  an  ac- 
count (d'  him  will  be  found. 

(,ei    Nathaniel  Dedman.  the  fifth    child,   was 


daughter,   Isadore,  and  a  son,  John.     During  the  born  in  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  May  20,  1829.    In 

("ivil  \\'ar  .Mr.  'fanner  was  at  ihe  lieail  of  the  tele-  1844,  wlien    a    lioy  of    fifteen,  he   confessed  Christ 

gra])h    system   of    the  Confederacy,  and    lived   in  and    united    with    (he    I'resljyterian    Church.      He 

Mobile,  Alabama.  received  his  scholasdc  (raining  a(    liacou  C(dlege, 

THE  CHILDIIEN  OF  JA:MES  HAKVEY  WOODS  H.-irrodsburg,    and    ••omluded    his  course  there  in 

BY    HIS    WIFE    SAIIAH    EVEKETT,   nee  184:i.     I'or  a  while  he  was  a  clerk  in  the  drug  and 


DED.MAN. 

(a)    Samuel  Dickson  ANOods. 
{]>)   Elizabeth  Hannah  Woods. 

(C)     WiLLIA.M    HaUVEY    \\'ooDS. 

(d)  Tiio.ALVs  Cleland  Woods. 

(e)  Nathaniel  Dedman  Woods. 

(f)  Maky  ;\IcAeee  Woods. 

(g)  Butlei!  ^VoODS. 

t'hj   Alice   Butleu   N\'oods. 

(j   )     ClIAKLES    WaLKEU    AVOODS. 

(k)    Edwakd  Tayson  Woods. 
(1  1    Faxnik  Everett  Woods. 
(m)  Neander  ^Iontgomeky  Woods. 
(a)    Samuel  Dickson,  tlie  first  child,  was  born 
.May   I'.l,   IS1!»,  at  which  time  his  aged  great-grand- 


book  store  (d'  .Ml-.  James  A.  ('urry,  in  his  native 
town.  In  18.j1  or  18.j2  he  entered  the  Law  School 
of  Transyhania  Fniversity,  Lexington,  Kentucky, 
fi'om  which  institution  he  was  gi-aduated  with  dis- 
tinction in  18.j4.  In  Decendier,  1854,  he  was  mar- 
ried to  ^Hss  Susan  Doueghy,  of  Danville,  Ken- 
tucky, daughter  of  James  and  Lucy  T.  Doneghy. 
Miss  Doneghy  Avas  a  lady  of  culture,  and  her  family 
\\as  i)rominent  and  wealth\-.  .Mter  practising  law 
for  a  U'w  years  Xailianiel  mo\ed  to  Missouri  with 
his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  James  M.  Jones,  purchased 
a  farm,  and  abandoned  the  legal  profession.  This 
I'love  was  probably  prompted  by  the  fact  that  his 
wife  had  inherited  from  her  father  a  large  number 
of  slaves.      Then  there  was  just  at  that  time  in 


father,  Samuel  Woods,  Sr.,  was  living  w  i(h  Harvey  j>rogress  a   veiw  extensive  migration  of  Kentuck- 

and  Sarah  in  Han-odsburg,  and  for  him,  doubtless,  ians   to   the  splendid   \irgin   prairies  of   Missouri, 

the  baby  got     part  id'    his  Chiistian    name.     The  His  neA\    luune  was  in  Saline  County,  within  sight 

name  "hickson"  was  given,  we  led  sure,  in  honor  of  the  I'ettus  County  line,  and  near  the  Longwood 

of  his  nuUher's  brother,  Di".  Dickson  Deduuin,  of  neighborhood.       Here   Nathaniel   prospered   until, 


SKETCrrES  OF  TATRONS.  381 

(liiriiij;-  till'  ("ivil  War,  liis  slaves  wci-c  set  free  by  dcvnicd    jikI     1ij|i|h1\    maii'ij    i(.ii|ili'     ili:iii    li.'   and 

the  Federal  Goverumeut,  aud  tlic  whole  system  of  Ins  wife  ilie  writer  has  never  knuwii. 

domestic  and  farm  labor  was  radically  altered  and  d"  i     M.\i;v     .MfAi-i:i:,    the     sixih     ehild.    had     a 

demoralized.     After  several  years  of  unsiu-eessfnl      daii;;hter    ninw     dec<'ased  i.    wlm    was    m f    ih.' 

effort  to  cope  Avith  the  new  conditions  finis  created  original   jiatimis  of  tin's  work,  and    in   her  sketch 

he  sold  out  ]i is  farm,  and  in  the  fall  of  1868  settled  CNo.  89)   an  aecoinn   of  hnih   the  moihei'  and  iier 

at   Fort   t^mith,   Arkansas,    where  lie   hoped    to  re-  danjihter  will   he  fonnd. 

sunie  his  former  ])rofession — that   of  ihe  law — hut  (.2;)    r.i'i'l.Ki;.   the  seventh    ihihi.    was    horn    .May 

iinding-  this   undertaking  one    full    of     dilliciillies  22,  is:',|.;nid  lived  Inii   Iwo  monihs.     Mann   I'.niler, 

after  eleven    years   of  farming  e.\|)erience,    he  eia-  the  Kentucky  hisioriaii.   who  was  ihe  uncle  in  law 

braced   an   opportunity   of   engaging    in    the  drug  of  this  liiile  h;ihy   hoy,   was   jusi    issuing   ihe  lirsi 

business  at  the  town  of  Salem,  Seliastian   County,  edition   of   his   history,   ami    ilie    nnnie    I'.uiler   was 

.\rkansas,  where  foi- nuuiy  yeai's  he  resided,     l.alei-  uudouhiedly  besiowed    by   his   pai'enis   in   honor  of 

on,  he  followed  his  sons  into  tlie  imlian  Territory,  Mi"-  Hutler. 

aud  finally  settled  at  "Webber's  I'alls.  There  his  ih)  Ai.ki:  T*.r'ri.i:i!  was  the  eighth  child,  biu-ii 
wif(>  died  ^May  7,  1S!)7,  and  lie  followed  her  Xoveui-  SejUember  ."i,  ls:'..'(.  In  her  name,  also,  ii  was  no 
ber  17,  of  that  year,  being  sixty-eight  aud  a  half  donhr  hoped  by  hei-  paienis  lo  honor  .Mann  I'.uiler. 
years  old.  Nathaniel  aud  Susan  had  three  chil-  '"'t  hei- life  was  even  hi-iefei-  ihau  thai  .>f  lheb:d.y 
(lren,  as  follows :  1,  (hace  Southern,  born  Novem-  l>r(Uher  who  picceded  her-  she  lived  but  two 
her  2S,   1855,   and   died   August    IC,    IS'.H,    unmar-  weeks. 

ried;  2.  Nathaniel  Dednuui,  Jr.,  of  whom  we  shall  (.1)  ClI.MtLES  Walkeu,  the  ninth  child,  was  Ixu-u 

speak   presently;  aud  3,  Eugene  Templelon,  born  -Tune  2,  1837.     He  was  named  lor  a  .Mr.  Walkci'.  of 

January  2(1,  18(;9,  and  died  Angust  H),  1S!I4.     The  Uurrodsbui-g,   a    warm    friend    of   his    fathei-.      lie 

second   child,   Nathaniel  1).,  was  born  October  11,  received  a  good   classical  edmaiion   at    I'.a<on   Col- 

1857,  in  :Missouri.     In  July,  18!)3,  he  was  married  l«'i;i' — tlien    in    its    last    days     aud    at    a    classi<-al 

to    Miss     Irene  Ora    (iaar,    of     Newlon     County,  seminary  londucled   bv    a    j'rolessoi-   ll.iicb.     .\fier 

:\nssissippi,  by  whom  he  has  had   two  diildreu,   to  leaving  sclnxd   he  engaged   in   leaihiug  for  a   num- 

wit:     aS'^c,   born   July  2,   18!!7;   and   Ijo  linnirtt,  '"i'   "I'  years.      lie    laughi    a    sch.iol    in    his    native 

born  August  12,  IS'C.t,  and  died   I^'bruary   1,  litOl.  ciunily,  in  the  Sail    U'iver  Seitlemeui.  on.'  in  Oreeii 

Nathaniel,    Jr.,    studied    medicine   al    the    .Medical  <"<anity,   Keiituckv.  ami   cuie   in    .Missoni-i.   near  ihe 

r(dlege(d'  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  has  jn-actised      l"'""'  "I'  '''^  bi-oiher.   Xathanh'l    It.   W Is.      While 

1  •            (•       •           i-  \i'  I  1    .,     T^  .n       I.,  i;,,,  T   ,.,.:t,,i.,.  teaehim;   hi'  read    law.   having   ihe   legal    profession 

Ins  ]u-ofessi(Ui  at   \\  ebbers  falls,   Imiian    lerriti>r_\,  -^                                         r-              ^       i 

-      ,  ,1111  -ill   view.      When   his  faiher  died.  e;n-lv    in    IstiO.  he 

where  be  now  resides,  aud   where  he  holds  Ilie  ]nisi- 

^.     ,       -11  relurned   to   lla  rroilsbuiL:  to  be  with  his  now    w  id 
lion   of    ruiled    States   rostmaster.      Nailianiel    I  >. 

owed  niolher,  and  al  once  opened  a  law ntbce.    'I'lie 
Woods,  Senior,  was  one  of  the  mosl  po|iular  vouiig 

di-alh   of  his   molher   in    .Viigusi    of   ilmi    ,ve:ir.   and 

men  ever  reared  in  1  larrodsburg,  and  was  a  favor-  ,     ^  ,  .                        •  ,          ..         •             ,i 

ihe  removal  of  Ins  \ouuger  sister  (launiei   lo  (be 

ite   in   all    the  circles   ill    which    he   moved.       lie   was  |^^^^^^^_   ^^|.   1^^  ^.   i^^^^^i^;^.     |.;^.     ^^..||.^^^^^    II      ^^.^_^^^j^_    ^^^ 

a  I'resbyteriau  all  his  life,  and  died  in  the  failli  of      ,,, „^|,„,.^,_  Keiiiucky.  broke  up  ihe  home  entirely, 

Jesus  rinisl.      liis  was.   in  a   very  marked  degree,  j^j^  ,^^.,,  v„„„„.,.,.  i.n.ihers   i  Edwar.l  aud  Neanderi 

a   life  of  sorrow    and  peculiar   trials;    hul    he   bore  having  ])reviously  gone  from   Iheir  native  (own  (o 

up  bravely,    held    fast  to  his   religion,   and    set   a  reside. 

wortln    example   of    fortitude   and    Clirisliaii    con-  Charles  was  ualurally    of    poetic    lemperament 

sistencv  for  all  who  knew  of  his  career.     A  more  and  decided  literary  iasies:aud  wiihin  ceiiain  line 


382  THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

ils  lie  wns  a  viniiii;  man  ol'  cxIciisiNC  cuKurc.  Up  scenery,  and  close  (>l)Ser\al  ion  of  ils  \ai-ie(l  forais 
\\i(ile  a  u()(i(l  many  lillle  |Micms  \'nv  \ai-i(ins  news-  and  pliascs;  his  decided  admiralion  fm-  llu'  fair 
]ta|iei-s.  and  s|ienl  much  linn'  in  reading  standard  sex,  and  dcliuiil  in  llie  cnni|iany  of  ladies;  liis  keen 
aiillnns.  He  cnnressed  ('lii-isi  and  nnited  A\'ith  tln^  sense  of  linmor,  and  liis  readiness  lo  discerTi  the 
I'reshylcrian  ("Inirch  in  isr>t,  when  about  seven-  ainusin;^  and  ridiculous  situations  of  life;  and, 
teen;  but.  after  he  i^rcw  up  and  left  honie,  lie  be-  tinally,  I  he  euthnsiasni  and  daniM  h'ssness  \\itli 
came  careless  in  I'cLiard  lo  his  reliL^ions  vows,  aud  which  he  faced  the  i-eal  jierils  of  wai-.  Me  was  iu 
Ihe  last  tew  years  of  his  life  were  marked  by  much  ihe  hallle  of  I'ea  IJid^e,  Arkansas,  so  disaslrous 
iucousistency,  thonLih  Ihei-e  is  i;dod  reason  for  say-  lo  ihe  ( 'on  federates,  where  bolh  .Mc('nllocli  and 
inti'  thai  he  ne\-er  enlii-ely  i;a\-e  u]i  his  faith,  or  .Mclnlosh  were  killed;  and  these  losses  dee|)ly  dis- 
nllerly  losi  his  hold  on  Ihe  L;o(lly  leachiugs  of  his  I  ressed  ('liarlie,  as  his  diary  shows.  In  ihe  spriiiij; 
parcnls;  and  when  Ihe  end  of  life  drew"  uear  he  of  ISd:.'  his  command  was  I  ransl'erred  lo  Ihe  east 
L;a\('  L;<iod  assurance  lo  ilie  loNcd  ones  about  him  <if  the  .M  ississi])])i,  wilh  \'an  horn's  lominand. 
ihal  he  was  a  ])enileut  believer.  Ahoiil  ihal  lime  he  was  made  a<ljnlaiit  of  his 
When  the  ('i\il  \\':\v  opened  ill  lh<'  sprin;^;  of  reginieni,  a  position  he  held  wilh  credit  lill  shot 
ISIil,  it  found  him  with  all  his  sympathies  on  the  down  al  Slones  K'ivei-.  He  was  in  the  Kenlncky 
side  of  Ihe  Sonlh.  lie  was  Jusl  I  wcnly-foui',  aud  cani|)aiuu  of  .luly-<  )clol)er,  ISdi',  under  Ivirby 
a  _\<uiu,n  man  of  Ni^orous.  alhlelic  frame,  and  Smilli.  lie  was  iu  the  liatlle  (d'  Kichmoud,  Ken- 
]iussessed  of  the  xt'vy  (|nalilies  of  mind  and  liody  lucky,  Auiiusi  '.]0.  ISIlL',  and  marched  to  uear  Cov- 
i'('i|uisite  to  an  elticieid  soldier,  lie  (dosed  u])  his  iutttou,  but  his  coniniand  was  not  at  Perryville 
law-i:ftice  al  1  larrodshiiry-  in  -Inly,  iSlil,  and  jiro-  (Oclober  Si.  Towards  the  (dose  of  |)('cember, 
(•ceded  to  Xertliw csieru  Ai'kausas  lo  join  the  com-  ISC.l',  he  i;i\'es,  iiL  his  diary,  delailed  accounts  of 
mand  (d'  Steidiug  Price  and  I'.eii  .McCulIoch.  He  the  ]ireliminary  inoAcmenls  which  led  np  to  the 
enlisted  as  a  judvale  in  Ihe  Second  Arkansas  j^real  coullici  near  Al urfr(.'eshoro,  Tennessee 
.Mounled  llitlemeu,  ('(d.  -lames  .Mclnlosh  eoui-  (  Stones  Iiiver ) .  In  that  battle  Lieuteuaut-(_'olouel 
mandinii-.  He  took  an  acli\c  pari  in  the  Battle  of  -I.  A.  \\illianison  ((unmauded  the  Second  Arkansas 
\\'ilson's  Creek  M>ak  llilli  AniiUsI  lit,  1S(11,  in  Keiiiuicut  I  (d' which  Charlie  was  Adjnlanl  I ,  and  it 
which  ( ieneral  Lyon  I  {■'ederal  i  was  killed  and  ihe  was  ]iarl  (d'  the  briiiaile  c(unni;in(led  by  liri^adicr- 
army  he  aud  Sie^id  commanded  was  louted.  I'roui  Ceueral  lC\auder  .McXair.  The  Brigades  of  Mc- 
ihe  leiilli  of  (»ciobei-,  isiil.  n]i  lo  Ihe  Very  day  be-  Xair,  Ector  and  Kaiues  uunle  up  tlie  l)i\isiou  of 
fore  he  recei\ed  his  falal  wound  al  Stones  IJiver,  Major-Ceueral  •!.  1*.  McCow  ii.  This  IMvision  re- 
nt the  (lose  of  ISCd',  he  kepi  a  diary  in  \\hieh  the  ]iorled  I'oi-  duly  4,414  uh'U  Wednesday  morning, 
]ii-iuciiial  (Wenis  of  his  life  were  rec(U-d(Ml.  That  1  )ecendier  ;!1,  and  losi,  in  killed  aud  wounded,  902 
lillle  diary  is  now  in  Ihe  jiossession  of  the  author  men — aboiil  Iwculy  Iwo  ])er  ceul  (d'  ihe  wlnde. 
id' Ibis  \(dnnie,  and  il  conlainsa  jirel ly  full  history  (Jpposed  lo  Ihis  l»i\ision  was  that  of  .Major-Ci'U- 
of  his  regimeul  for  Ihe  jieriod  menlioneil.  Tlie  oral  .\lc('ook  li'^ederal),  whi(di  was  allacke(l  as 
s|Mdling  and  ininctual  ion  lo  be  found  in  Ihis  diarv  soon  as  il  was  lighl  enough  lo  see  well,  on  Weil- 
are  ;ilmost  faultless;  and  ihe  (dassical  allusions  uesday  morning,  1  >ecendier  ;!1.  Il  wasiii  Ihis  first 
and  (|notalions  reveal  a  degree  of  cnllure  rarely  alla(d<  of  Wednesday,  the  thirty-tirsi,  Ihal  Chai'lie 
seen  iu  one  of  his  age,  due  allowance  being  made  fell.  .McXair's  I'.rigade  was  iu  line  >>(  bailie  all 
for  Ihe  fact  that  he  wrote  in  cani]i,  far  remo\c(l  day  Tuesday,  and  also  all  (d'  Tuesday  night.  The 
from  books  and  ihe  \arious  liiei-ary  helps  so  es-  Iwo  armies  were  now  wilhin  a  few  Iniiidred  yards 
senlial  lo  accuracy  in  com]»osil  ion.  In  Ihis  diary  of  ea(h  oilier,  ,-ind  Ihe  fearful  carnage  was  about 
we   see   clearly    revealed  his    fondness   for   natural  to  beiiiii.       .McXair    aud    Ect(U-    were    destined    to 


PKETCnKS  OF  PATr{ONf>.  383 

open  (lie  battle  early  next  nioniini;- hv  cliin'ii'injr  111,.  ii„.|ii    wiili    shell    ;iii<l    -\:t\>r   ;iimI    ihc    iiiraiiii->    <,[ 

8ix-!4iiii    battery    wliioh    IMcCook     was     lo     lucale  McConk    .•ImuhmI    in.      Tin-    Waiin-y    was   capiiinMl. 

anioiin-  Ibe  cedars  on  the  Overall   l^iiiii.     The  last  and  :\l<-< 'nok's  Kivisioii  was  (,,y,r,\  ba.k  in  i-riivai 

lines  Charlie  ever  pencilled  in  bis  liltle  diary  were  foi-  fln-cr  i|iiaricrs  >,{  a   milr,     'I'his   K'^sici  ans  a.l 

written   early   Tnesday    niorninL;-.    when     Ibe    men  miiird   in  bis  \;-\,n\-\   n(  the  I, mil,-.      Ii    was  in   ilif 

were   fnlly   expecting  to   <i(.    inh.    l.alllc    Ibal    (biy,  (..-n-ly  pari   n{  ihis  cliar-c  ilnii    Cliai-lic  Idl.  a    niin 

tbniijili    the  battle  did    not  really   l^'jiin    lill     next  nie    ball    bavin--    passed    rl.-ai-    liiinnuli    his    body, 

morning.      These   were   his    lasl     wi-ilicn    words:  coniin.u  nnl    \>\    bis  s|iinc.      I'dccdinu  and   licl|.l.-ss, 

"December  30th,  On  the  lines  to  Ibe  I'ronI  and  Icfl  h,.   \\;is   imdn-lN    borne   IVmn    iIh'   lidd    by   bis  old 

of  Miirf. — Last  night  we  lay  in  I  ii Iballlc  lak-  fi-icnd,    Toin    Ivlwanls.    ainl    liis    ilays    of    wai-laiv 

ing   a    scattei'ing   rain.      This   morning    Ibe   clouds  were   CoieNcr  i  ndeil.      I.airr   In-   wns   i-cnio\,M|    lo   a 

are  breaking,  and   llie  sun  shines  al    iniervals.     No  I''ederal     liospiial    al     \asli\ille;  ami.  as    his    casi 

tiring  as  yet.     To-day  tlie  l*^'ds  will  eillier  gel   inio  seem<'d  desperale.  bis  lii-oiliei'  Tcim  l;oi    permission 

a  general  engagement  or  will   lunc  lo  reiire.      We      (o  i-emo\c  liim   lo  his  own   home  ,'ii    I.eb; Ki-n- 

feel  ready  for  them,  and  it  Ibey  lake  llieii-  su]ipei-  in  tncky,  w  l:ei-e,  afliM-  a  long  and  inosi  painliil  illness, 

.Murf.    many   a    Rebel   -will    lie   on    Ihese   eorn    and  during  which   his  wound    ne\cr  healed,   he  died   of 

cotton  lields  wrapt  in  his  last   sleeji."  slu'cr  exhaiislion.  .\ugusi    IJ.  IS!;;',,     in  \dhinie  I'd 

In  ISOf)  a  map  id' this  liloody  tield  was  |)nblished  of  "'Idie  W'ai-  of  ihe    Itebellion."   ]nil>lisbed    by   ihe 

by     Ihe   "Htones   IJiver     Ibittlefield    and     National  \'.  S.  (iovernnieiit.  Series  I.  ]iage  ".i.'.O.   wi-  lin<l   th;- 

I'ark  Association,"  which  indicates  ]>relly  clearly  following  ofticial    repori    from    IJenienaui  ( "oloiiel 

the  position  of  all  the  varions  commands  of  both  >Villiamson    of     ihe    Seccuid     .\rkansas     .Mounted 

the     o]iposing     armies     for   December   '.W     and    :*.l.  Kiflemen,   on   the  e\cnls  of   Wednesday.    l>ecember 

\\'itli  (his  map  in  hand  the  present  wriler  carefully  ;'>1  :     "1     i-egrel     to    repmi     iliai    Adjuiani     ('.    W. 

inspected  the  more  important  localities  of  the  area  \\'oo(ls  was  dangei-ousl\    wonmh-il    in    iIh'  lirst   eii- 

traversed  by  the  two  contending  armies.     The  place  gagemeiit   in  i  he  in(U-ning.  and   I   w  as  t  bus  depi'iwd 

where  Cbai'lie  fell  can  be  located   with   reasonable  oi'  his  valuable  services   for   the   remainder  of  the 

certainty     within     one     or    two     hundred     ^ards.  day." 

Tnesday  .McNair's  Urigade  lay  in  line  of  battle  at  That  last,  long  illness,  in  spite  of  a  devoted 
a  jioint  one  thousand  feet  to  the  west  of  Stones  brolber's  rycvy  elfoiM,  residled  in  Charlie's  deatli 
lliver,  ami  about  three  hnndred  feet  lo  the  south  soon  after  he  had  jiassed  his  twcniysixih  year. 
of  Ibe  .Mnrfreesboi-o  and  b^ranklin  itike.  Early  r>ul  thai  illness  hail  iis  blessed  com|iensai  ion — it 
^^'ednesllav  morning — as  soon  as  it  was  light  was  one  nuMiis.  nmlei-  <Iod.  of  causing  this  way- 
enough  to  see  dist  inctly  olijects  at  a  lit  t  le  distance  ward  young  Chiisl  ian  to  reali/.e  how  far  he  had 
— McNair's  lirigade,  under  orders,  moved  a  few  been  wandei-ing  from  his  liea\enly  f.aihi'r.  it 
hundred  feet  to  the  westward.  This  move  brought  enabled  him  to  look  seriously  al  ihe  e\erlasiing 
.McNair  close  up  to  Ector's  Itrigade,  and  also  not  issues  of  the  life  we  live  on  ibis  earth,  and  gave 
far  from  Kaines's  Brigade,  (ieneral  .McCook  had  a  him  amide  leisure  in  which  lo  confess  his  sins  and 
batterv  of  six  guns  |)Osteil  in  the  cedars  a  few  hiin  seek  forgiveness  anew,  lie  lohl  his  broliier.  as  he 
dred  vards  further  west  on  the  Overall  Farm.  fully  saw  death  was  near,  i  liat  be  could  imw  thank 
Now-  came  the  order  to  .McXaii-  and  Ector  to  ( ;od  for  having  sjiared  him  i  he  med  ot -(dug  liack 
chariie  that  batterv,  which  Ibey  did  nH)st  gallantly  to  nu'ci    ihe  lemjital  ions  ol'  army  life,  and  be  died 

on   the  donble-ipiick.      .McCook's   infantry    were   at      in    the    ho| f   ])ardon    and    life   eternal    through 

hand    to  support    the    six   guns.      .\s    .McXair  and  .lesus  Chiisi .  ihe   Lord. 

Ector    advanced    raiddly    the    battery    ojjened    on  (k)    F.nw  aimi  I' \v  so\.  i  he  lenih  child,  was  born 


384  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

Fcln-iiiiry  7,  1S4(».      V\ ■;n-lv  rliildlioiid  lie  gave  niiitfd    willi    tlic   Soullicrii    ^Methodist   Cluireli,    in 

evidence  of  religious  seriousness;  and  in  lSr)2,  Fi-aiddin,  Kentucky,  wliere  slic  was  at  the  time  re- 
wlien  liul  Twelve  years  old.  lie  was  received  into  siding.  The  fervor  of  the  .Afelliodists  seemed  bet- 
full  communion  in  the  I'l-esliylerian  ("Inircli.  lie  ter  suited  to  her  nature  than  anything  she  liad  yet 
^vas  always  a  siudious  hoy  and  fond  of  his  hooks,  known,  and  from  that  day  lo  (his  she  has  been  a 
and  ohediimt  lo  his  ])arenls  and   teachers.     There  ^Methodist. 

■wfVi-  also  some   liiile  peculiarities  of    disposition  After  the  death  of  her  mother  ( in  Aiigust,  1860), 

Axhich    made   him    lo  dill'er   in    some   respects   from  I'annie  maile  her  home  with  her  brother  ^Villiam, 

the  iioi-mal  boy.     lie  attended  Centre  College,  Dan-  who  was  llu^i  carrying  on  his  female  seminary  at 

ville,  and   was  graduated  from  that  institution   in  <  ireeiislmrg,    Kentucky.      Here   she   formed   a   lik- 

liSoS,  when  only  about  eighleeii  years  of  age.     He  iug  tor  the  profession  of  teaching — a  vocation  she 

engaged   in   teaching  school  and   in  colportage  for  lifts  followed  continu.onsly  since  the  year  1S()1.  ex- 

a  time  in  order  to  enable  him  to  take  a  regular  <<i»(   during  the  ten  years  she  was  a  married  wo- 

course  in  dixinity,  he  lia\'ing  dedicaled   himself  (o  man. 

the  w  oik  of  1  he  ( lospel  ministry.     After  a  year  or  As  a   teacher  she    has  not    been   content    with 

two  he  entered    l>an\ille  Theological   Semiiiarv  to  niei'el\-    instriicling   the   mind    with  secular  truth; 

prepare     f<tr    what    he    deemed    his    ( iod  appointed  lif'i'  great    aim   has   been    to   reach    the  hearts  and 

profession,     lint  his  well-meant  plans  were  doomecl  consciences  of  her   |iu]iils   with    the  saving  truths 

to  disappointment;  for  while  at  the  Seminary,   in  of  religion.      Having,    years    ago,   embracc^d    that 

18G1-2.    he     (le\('loped     melancholia     and     decide(l  |iliase  of  |ierfect  ionisni  r(]>resented  by  the  modei'u 

sym]items  of  mental  disturbance;  and  after  a  time  Holiness   .Movement,   she  has   felt  called  on   to  iu- 

it  became  manifest    to  his  lo\ed   ones  that   he  was  culcate  her   \iews   in    (he  schoolroom.      Her   work 

incapable    of     riirlliei-     study.      He     died     in     (be  as   a    (eacher     has     been    done     in    Keiidicky     and 

Asylum    tor   (he    Insane  a(    Lexington    in    IS77,   of  .\fkansas,  ami   more  recently   in   Texas,   where  she 

tyi)hoid  fe\"er,  in  his  thirty-eighth  year.  now    resides. 

(1)  F.wxiE  ]Cvt;i!i:TT.  the  eleventh  child,  was  When  her  jirother  William  settled  in  Franklin, 
born  . I  line  1,  1S4L'.  She  recei\ed  her  edmatiiui  Kenlucky,  in  iStiU,  and  there  opeiieil  a  school,  and 
mainly  at  (he  rresbyleriaii  female  ('ollege,  liar-  took  charge  of  the  I'resUyterian  ('liurcli,  Fannie 
rodsburg.  She  also  studied  under  her  brother,  the  acconipanicil  him,  and  soon  became  identified  with 
llv\.  William  II.  A\'oods,  while  he  was  conducting  that  ccmiiiiinity.  While  thcT-e  she  met  Na|>oleon 
a  female  seminary  at  (ii-eensbiirg,  Kentucky.  In  1!.  Suddaith,  .M.  !>.,  a  leading  physician  of  f'rank- 
1854,  when  a  girl  of  twelve  years,  she  confessed  lin,  who  was  a  widower,  with  t  wo  little  girls  by  his 
Christ  in  the  Fresbyterian  Church.  F.rought,  tirst  wife.  1  »r.  Suddaith  was  an  able  and  success- 
early  in  her  girlhood  d;iys,  under  the  intliieiice  of  ful  jihysician,  and  a  gentleman  of  winning  cliar- 
a  very  lovely  Christian  lady  who  A\'as  an  Episco-  acter.  She  was  married  to  him  Heceiuber  lis,  18(13. 
palian,  Fannie  became  iii((>restcd  in  her  friend's  Ly  him  she  had  seven  children,  to  wit  :  1,  Neander, 
church,  gave  up  the  church  of  her  jiai-eiits,  and  who  was  born  Hecember  2(1,  18(i4 ;  2,  Charley,  who 
was  ill  due  time  received  into  the  Ejdscopal  fold.  was  born  November  2(!,  ISti.") ;  )?,  Beulah  JIcAfee, 
It  would  be  difliciill,  however,  to  tind  a  nature  less  who  was  born  October  2(1,  18(>(!;  4,  Howard  LalkU(>, 
suited  than  was  hers  to  the  form  of  faith  and  « ho  was  born  December  28,  1S(')7;  .">,  Lena  ^Vick- 
Morship  which  ](revails  in  the  Fpisco[ial  Church;  ware,  who  was  born  December  2.''>,  1S(;!I;  (i,  Twy- 
and  in  a  few  years  af(er  she  had  moved  away  from  man  Hogue,  who  was  born  .Vpiil  17,  1872,  and  7, 
her  childhood  home,  and  had  gotten  beyond  those  lleber  X.  I!.,  who  was  Ixu-n  .\\>v\\  22,  1870.  Of 
influences  which  had  controlled  her  at  home,  she  these  seven  children  tour  died  w  itliin  less  than  ten 


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(lays  of  thoir  birtli,  iui.l  two  others  .lied  under  ten      l.yteria.i  Clinirli  un.ln-  il„.  n.inisliv  uf  I »,-.  Tlmnias 
years  of  ase.     The  only  one  who  grew  to  mature      Heland.     Ki-mn   I  he   lah-   Mrs.    Maiy    i:ii/.a    M.mre, 


years  was  Howard,  tlie  fourth  chihi.  Dr.  Sud- 
darlh  died  a  martyr  to  his  profession  on  Hie  first 
day  of  July,  1S73.  The  communily  was  at  llie 
time  leirilily  siilTeriiij;-  fr(tm  a  visitalion  of  the 
clidlera,  and  lie  stood  loyally  at  his  i)osl,  visiting, 
as  called  upon,  the  ricii  and  the  poor  of  both  the 
while  and  eolored  rare,  lie  contracted  the  dis- 
ease while  attending  a  negro  woman,  and  died 
alter  an  illness  of  only  twenty-four  lioiiis. 

Left  a  widow  with  tliree  little  cliildren,  and  not 
having  means  suflicient  to  enable  her  to  live  willi- 


)lir  Kol)ertsoii.  wiio  \\:is  a  school  iiia  Ic  of  I'",liza- 
bclli's,  and  a  lios(nn  rriciid.  we  learn  ihal  she  was 
a  most  allraclivc  and  lo\alilc  L;ii-1.  and  very  fond 
of  reading.  She  had  a  good  mind,  and  received  as 
good  an  edncation.  no  doiibl.  as  was  to  lie  enjoyed 
in  her  nalive  lown  in  iliai  eai-ly  day.  She  was 
note(|  for  her  ainialiilily  and  Jiiely,  (  »n  llie  first 
day  of  Seplember,  ISJI,  she  was  married  lo  llasil 
B.  Jlitchell,  and  she  lived  willi  him  lia|i|iily  lill 
his  death,  l'"elirnary  10,  iSIC.  nearly  livcand  a  half 
years.      Mr.   .Milchell    was,-i    niercli:ini    in    llarrods- 


out  engaging  in  some  kind  of  work,  she  resumed      inn-g  up  to  the  lime  of  his  .leaih.     .\fier  sh.'  was 

left  a  widow,  lllizalielli  ;iiid  her  iwo  liiile  girls 
boarded  at  Mr.  Sam  llnnioii's  f<ii- a  lime.  Inn  later 
on  she  moved  ont  a  few  miles  into  I  he  coiiniry  to 
a  farm  she  had  iiiheriled  from  her  lale  hnsband, 
and  this  farm  she  carried  on  ,-ii  least  nne  season, 
or  longer,  very  successfully.  Her  hue  Inisl.and's 
mother  made  hei-  hom<'  with  her  on  ihe  farm.  By 
the  year  1848  she  was  making  her  home  with  her 
uncle,  Dr.  Dickson  (!.  Dedman.  in  Lawrenceburg, 
Kentuclcy,  and  engageil  in  conducting  a  school 
there.  On  the  sixteenth  of  Ocdiher.  1S4'.»,  she  was 
married  to  :\rr.  -lames   .M.  Jones,  a  widower  with 


her  profession  as  a  school  teacher,  which  she  had 
not  followed  for  ten  years,  and  has  continued  in 
this  vocation  to  the  present  time.  She  now  has  a 
school  in  Texas. 

(m)  Ni:.\xni;i!  Moxtgomery,  the  twelfth  and 
last  child  of  James  Harvey  and  Sarah  Everett 
Woods,  will  be  considered  under  Sketch  No.  90, 
(which  see). 

SKETCH   8i. 
MRS.  ADNE  TAYLOR,  GREENSBURG,  KENTUCKY. 
Mrs.  Taylor's  full  maiden  name  was  Ariadne  I'.. 
Mitchell.     She  was    the    first    child  of    Basil  B. 


Mitchell  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Hannah,  jtcc  Woods,      one  scui  by  a  former   wifi lohn   Sanford  Jones. 

and  was  born  in  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  July  30,  Mr.  Jones's  first  wife  was  a  .Miss  Woods,  a  distant 
1812.  Before  speaking  further  of  her,  a  brief  relative  of  hers,  a  grand-daughler  of  David  Woods, 
notice  of  her  parents  will  be  given.  Her  fathci', 
Basil  Bard  Mitchell,  was  born  June  10,  1810,  and 
died  Felii-uai-y  10,  1840,  in  his  thirty-sixth  year. 
He  had  married  Elizabeth  llannali  Woods  Sep- 
tember 1,  1841,  and  by  her  had  Imd  two  (Tiildren, 
as  follows:  (a  I  Auiadxe  B.,  who  was  liorn,  as 
above  stated,  July  30,  1842;  and  (b)  Viuginia 
Wall.uk,  wlio  was  Inirn  January  14,  1844.  For 
an  account  of  the  latter,  see  Sketch  83. 

Elizabeth  Hannah   Woods,  the  second  child  of 


and  a  grand  niece  ol'  Samuel  \\  oods,  Sr.,  ihe  IJe\d- 
lutionary  veteran,  who  died  in  ls2ii,  ai  ihe  home 
of  Elizabeth's  paienls.  .Mr.  Jones  lived  on  his 
farm  four  miles  east  of  1  larrodslnirg,  w  In  re  ihe 
town  of  Burgin  now  is,  and  I  here  lOli/.aiiei  h  lived 
the  few  remaining  years  of  her  life.  I!v  .Mr.  Jones 
she  had  a  daiighli'i-  named  llli/.aliei  h  i'.vcreli,  horn 
l>eccmlier  7,  IS.-iO.  She  was  called  "lAie""  liy  llie 
family.  This  danghler,  afier  making  her  Ikhih'  fo,- 
about     eii;lil     \('ars    with     hi'r    grandmolher,    .Mrs. 


James  Harvey  and  Sarah  Everett  Woods,  was  born  James  lliirvey  WomU.  was  taken  by  .Mr.  Jones  to 
in  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  May  1,  1821.  On  the  his  :\riss(mri  home,  he  having  married  a  third  wife. 
twenty-fourth  of  August,  1834,  when  in  licr  f.mr-  Mrs.  Woods  had  di.'d  in  .\iigiisi,  ISCO.  Evie  grew 
teenth  year,  she  confessed  Christ  before  men  and 
was  received  into  the  full  communion  of  the  Pres- 


to maturity,  and  liecame  a  lirighi  and  lovely  young 
woman.     She   was  graduated    from   ihe  ('oliimbi.-i, 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEB   MEMORIAL. 


Missouri,  I'\'in;il('  Collcnc  in  June,  ISTl;  and  on 
rotiirninii-  to  lior  father's  home,  in  Pettns  County, 
was  unch'r  an  eu^asouieut  to  return  to  that  in- 
stitution in  tlie  fall  as  a  teacher,  but  she  very 
shortly  after  contracted  typhoid  fever,  and  her 
])rouiisiu^-  youn£>'  lif(>  was  rut  short  by  death 
Auiiust  23,   ISTl. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Jones  lived  only  about  a  year  and 
a  half  aCrei-  the  birth  of  her  dau-btcr,  Evie.  She 
(lied  Se]iteiuber  1,  IS.'i^,  abcuit  the  time  of  the  birth 
of  the  second  child  she  bore  to  her  second  husband. 
This  last  named  child  only  lived  a  short  time.  Her 
body  was  laid  to  rest  beside  that  of  her  tirst  hus- 
band, ilr.  Mitchell,  in  New  Providence  Church- 
yard, only  about  a  hundred  yards  west  of  the  spot 
in  which  the  renuiins  of  her  i)areuts  were  de- 
posited in  August,  ISGO. 

Adne  Mitchell  and  her  sister,  Tirgie,  after  their 
mother's  death  in  1852,  went  to  Green  County, 
Kentucky,  to  live  with  their  uncle,  the  Rev. 
William  H.  Woods,  who  was  teaching  a  school 
there.  In  1854  Mr.  A^'oods  moved  to  the  county- 
seat,  Greensburg,  and    began  a  female    boarding 


Aylett  and  Adne,  was  born  February  8,  IStiT,  andi 
will  be  considered  in  Sketch  82.  \ 

(c)  B.vsiL  Mitchell  T.vylou,  the  third   child,! 
was  born   November   5,   18G9.     He   studied   medi- i 
cine,  and  after  his  graduation  began  practice  in  I 
Greensl)urg,  Kentuckv,  where  he  now  lives,  being 
considered  the  leading  physician  of  his  county,      i 

(d)  ►Sau.vh  Francis  Taylor,  the  fourth  child, 
was  born  August  28,  1872,  and  several  years  ago  i 
married  a  Mr.  Buchanan.  i 

(e)  William  Woods  Taylor,  the  fifth  child,  was  ' 
born    July    11,  1877.     He  studied    dentistry,  and 
after  his  graduation  in   Louisville  he  Of»ened  an 
ofHce  in  Greensburg,   where  he  already  enjoys  a 
lucrative  practice. 

(f)  Virginia  Everett  Taylor,  the  sixth  and 
last  child  of  Aylett  and  Adne  Taylor  was  born 
March  11,  1883.  She  attended  school  at  Belle- 
wood  Seminary,  Kentucky,  and  was  graduated 
from  thence  with  distinction  in  June,  1902.  She 
is  at  present  (1904)  a  mend)er  of  the  faculty  of 
Caldwell   College,   Danville,   Kentucky. 

Mrs.  Adne  Taylor  has  for  some  years  made  her 


school,  which  he  maintained  for  many  years.  When      home  in  Greensburg,  Kentucky,  with  her  three  un- 


Mr.  Woods  moved  from  Greensburg  to  Franklin, 
Kentucky,  Adne  went  to  the  Stuart  and  Reed  Fe- 
male College,  at  Shelliyville,  and  from  that  institu- 
tion she  was  graduated  about  1861.  Her  sister  Virgie 
did  not  enjoy  good  health  about  this  time,  and  she 
did  not  complete  the  full  course  with  Adne.  When 
Rev.  Mr.  Woods,  their  uncle,  returned  to  Greens- 
burg in  the  fall  of  1861,  Adne  and  ^'irgie  went 
with  him.  On  the  eighteenth  of  June,  1863,  Adne 
was  married  to  C(d.  Aylett  Buckner  Taylor.  Col. 
Taylor  was  l)oru  August  26,  1831.  Six  children 
were  the  fruit  of  this  union,  to  wit : 

(a)  Tiio:\iAS  Wallace  Taylor,  the  tirst  child, 
was  born  April  29,  1864.  Thomas  married  Miss 
Flora  Alma  Buchanan  October  15,  1889,  and  this 
couple  have  had  the  following  children,  to  wit:  1, 
Nellie,  who  was  born  September  10,  1890;  2,  Mary 
Louise,  who  was  born  June  12,  1892. 

(b)  Elizabeth  Winn  Taylor,  second  child  of 


married   children.     She  has    from   her  childhood  ; 
been    a    consistent   member    of    the    Presl)yterian 
Church,   and   commands  the   universal   confidence  , 
and  esteem  of  those  who  know  her. 

Col.  Aylette  Buckner  Taylor  was  boni  in  Greens- 
burg, Kentucky,  August  26,  1832,  and  there  he 
was  reared.  He  carried  on  a  farm  about  six  miles 
from  Greensburg  and  the  same  distance  from 
Camiiliellsville,  until  the  close  of  1880,  when  he 
moved  to  a  farm  on  Green  River  a  few  miles  nearer 
the  town  of  Greensburg.  Here  he  lived  until  his 
death,  March  16,  1897.  He  was  twice  married,  his 
tirst  wife  being  a  Miss  Williams,  to  whom  he  was 
married  Septendier  15,  1853.  He  was  married  to 
Ariadne  B.  Mitchell  June  18,  1863.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  ruling  elder  of  Bethel  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  was  loved  and  honored  as  a  man  of 
sterling  Christian  character.  He  was  in  his 
sixty-seventh  year  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His 
father  was   a  practising  physician — Dr.    Richard 


SKETCH    82. 


SKETCHES  OF  TATRONS.  387 

Ayletto    Taylor,    of     Greensbiirg,    Kentucky.     Dr.  ihr   full     unrk   <.r    \\u-   miiiisliy     l,y   'I'rnnsylvania 

Taylor's  wife  was  tlic  widow  of  a  Dr.  Gray,  her  I'rcshyt.-ry    in    Ihat    .Ininli    m,    ihr    Kill,    ,,f  .Fuly, 

maiden  name  being  Catherine  Byrd  Winu.     She  1887.     lie  was  insiallcd   pasln,-  ,,r  |;,.|ImI  chm-.l, 

Avas  liorn  February  22,  1795,  and  died  September  and     of     (he     chinvii     ai     Ciiiiiibi'llsvilh-,     which 

14,1840.    The  fatlier  of  Dr.  Ricliard  A.  Taylor  was  (4iurclies  lie  served    nniil    I  irmnlMT,  1800.      From 

Jnlin    Young   Taylor,    who  was  born  January  11,  .May,   1891,   till   Ocfobcr.    Isii:;.    1,,.   was  pasior  of 

ITC.-),  i-amc  to  (ireensburg  li'om   {■'aii(|iiicr  Coinily.  W'oodhiw  11  ('hiirrli.  Ilirmiii-haiii.  .\lab:iiii;i.    'I'iiere 

Virginia,  about  tlie  year  1802,  and  died  Oclober  0,      liis   lieaKli    was  so   poor   thai    he    iv iniMJ    but    a 

184.1.      His    wife    was    Catlierine     Buckner,    born  few  mouths,  and   in  .\|iril.   Is'.il.  bir:inic  pasior  of 

April  19,  1773,  and  died  April  10,  1849.     She  was  i'aint    Li.k    Clmrrli.    Cnrraid    Couniy,    K.Mducky. 

a  sister  of  Judge  Buckner,  of  Greensburg,  and  an  in  llic  spring  of  I'.idi'  he  ,nr(|,i.d  n  ,:\\\  to  Hcre- 

aunt  of  Judge  Buckner,  of  Lexington,  Kentucky,  loi'd,  Texas,  his  iircsmi    liomr.     Thnc  .Mr.  Craw- 

Tlie   fatlicr  of  tlie  aforesaid  John  Young  Taylor  ford   lias  done  a  splendid   ronndalional   work  in  a 

\\as  Bichard  Taylor,   who  came  from  England  to  new  and  rapidly  growing  ronnlry. 

Virginia,  and  married  a  Miss  Aylette.  The  fallier  of  Kex.  .\.   \\ .  Ciawronl  w.is  IJoberf 

Irvine   Crawford,    who    was    born     in    Kockbridge 

County,  Virginia,  Ocloher  12,   ls2i.     lie  was  edu- 

MRS.  A.  W.  CRAWFORD,  HEREFORD,  TEXAS.  ,.^^^^  \^   Washington    College    ,  now    Washington 

Mrs.  Crawford's  full  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  and  Lee  University),  and  was  married  lo  ^largaret 

^\'inn    Taylor,   and,   as    shown   in   the    preceding  Ann  Craig,  June    11,   1853.     Margaret    .\nn    was 

sketch,  was  the    second  child  of    Col.  Aylette  B.  born  in  Rockingham  Coiinly,  Virginia.  December 

Taylor    and     his  second     wife,    Ariadne    B.,  nee  15,  1825.     She  died  at    the  home  of   Rev.  A.   W. 

Mitchell.     She  was  born  February  8,  1867.     She  Crawford,  Birmingham,  .\labama.  Maivb  19.  1892. 

was  educated  at  a  school  taught  near  her  native  Her  husband    (  Kobert    l.i.   wiio  had   been  a   mer- 

place  at  Bethel  Church,  and  at  Rome  Female  Col-  chant  in  Louis\ille.   Kentm  ky,  nearly  all  his  life, 

lege   (1885-7),    Rome,  Georgia.      On    the    15lli   of  died  in  Franklin,  Kent  inky,  October,   1901,  at   (he 

October,    1889,   she    was  married    to  Rev.   A.   W.  home  of  bis  son.  K'ev.  A.  W.  ( "raw  ford,  who  was  then 

Crawford  by  whom  she  has  had  the  following  chil-  li\  ing  al  thai  place.     The  said  .Margaret  Ann  Craig 

dreii :  (aj  Aune  Mitciiioll  Cuawfoiu);  (b)   Irvine  was  a  daughter  of  Oeori:!'  I'-vans  Craig  by  liis  wife 

CuAKi  Cuawfoud;  (c)  Roukut  Taylor  Cuawford;  Matilda,  nc    c. ntluie.     Said  Geoi-ge  Evans  Craig 

(d)    Lawrence    Crawford;    and    (e)    Margaret  was  a  son  of  ( ieorge  Craig  by  his  wife  Elizabeth, 

Crawford.  >"'('  Evans,  and  said  Maiilda  Ciiithrie  was  a  daugh- 

Rev.  Alexander  Warwick  Crawford  was  born  at  ler  of  .lolin  (iuthrie  by  his  wife  .Margaret,  nee 
Dunmore,  Pocaliontas  County,  West  Virginia,  Sep-  Gilkerson.  Said  George  Oraig.  who  married  Eliza- 
tember  15,1857.  He  was  reared  in  Louisville,  belli  l'>vans,  was  a  son  of -lames  ( "raig.  of  Ireland, 
Kentucky,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  by  bis  wife  :\[ary,  me  Laird.  The  aforesaid  Jolui 
of  that  cit3^  He  chose  the  ministry  of  the  (^lospel  Gullirii-,  who  married  ^Margaret  Gilkerson,  was  a 
as  his  life-work,  and  received  his  theological  (rain-  son  of  \\illiani  Giilbrie  by  bis  wife  I^sther,  nee 
ing  at  T^nicm  Theological  Seminary,  Virginia,  in  .McCh^llaiid.  .Vnd  ihe  aforesaid  Margaret  (Jil- 
1884-87.  On  the  loth  of  IMay,  1887,  he  was  duly  kersoii  was  a  daughter  of  Hugh  Gilkerson,  of  Scot- 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Bresbytery  of  Transyl-  bind,  who  married  Elizabeth,  ncr  Gulliri(>.  a  sister 
vania,  at  Stanford,  Kentucky.  He  was  called  of  ihe  aforesai<l  >Villiam  Guthrie.  The  before- 
to  the  pastorate  of  Bethel  Presbyterian  Church,  meiiiioned  Robert  Irvine  Crawford,  who  married 
Taylor  County,  Kentucky,  and  was  ordained  to  -Margarel   Ann,  nee  Craig,  was  a    son  of    Robert 


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Ci'a\vf((i-(l  liy  Ills  wife  Naiicv  (ianible,  iivc  Irvine,  engaged    in   an   liuiiorable  business  career.      Soon 

This  Eobert   0  raw  In  id    was  born    in    Ivockliridge  after  be  went  to  Louisville  he  was  elected  deacon 

County,  A'irginia,  in  ITltl,  on  Walker's  Creek,  and  in  the  I'Mrst  Presbyterian  Cbnrch  and  again,  after 

llicrc  be  (lied  T'eliruary  13,  JS.M'.     His  wife  Nancy  a   few  years,  was  made  elder,   lie  served  as  elder 

<lanilile    was    born    Novend)er  '2.   1S02,  and    died  in  the  IMrst  Cliurcb   all   Ibe  best  of  bis  manhood 

.Tainiary  L'!),  IS.'tT.     'flic  said   IJobert  Crawford  was  days.      In  I  lie  f.ill  nt  1S7S  be  went  as  an  elder  into 

a  son  of  Alexander  Craw  lord,  .lr.     His  niolber  was  the  or^anizal  ion  ni'  Ibe  Central  Cbiiicb,  Kev.  ^^'il- 

a  Mrs.  McC'lure  (a  widow  l    when  .Mexander  mar-  liam  E.  Young,  jiastor,  and  Ibeii  again  aflerwards 

ried  her.     Alexander,   Jr..   was    the    fifth   son   of  took  part   in   tlie   new   organizal  imi   al    Tarkland, 

Alexander    Crawf(U"d,    nf    Ireland,    and    his    wife  the  ^Voodland   (Miurcli,   in    wbirb   be  has  one  son 

Mary,  iivc  McPheeters,  and  was  born  in  Augusta  an  elder  and  one  a  deacon.     To  (bis  new  and  thriv- 

County,  Virginia.     He  participat(>(l     in    the  wars  ing   clinreb    in    (be    suburb  df    I'arkland,  be   gave 


againsl  (be  Indians  ])i'ior  to  the  Hevolntion,  and 
was  a  soldier  willi  (be  \'irginia  (roojis  at  Point 
IMeasant  Ociober  10,  1774.  He  was  for  many 
years  an  elder  in  the  New  Providence  church,  and 
died  January  19,  1830. 

Alexander    Crawford,    liefore    mentioned,    came 
from    Nordi   Ireland    and   settled   near  the  North 


(be  connsels,  tlie  ju'ayers,  (be  elTdi'ts  (sf  a  rijie  old 
age. 

In  1853,  my  father  married,  in  Augusta 
County,  Virginia,  ^liss  ^largaret  Craig,  sister  of 
Rev.  I.  N.  Craig,  D.  1).,  and  daughter  of  George 
E.    Craig — the   great-grandson    of    ^\■:llianl    Craig 


and     Jean     his     wife 


who     came 


from     North 


Mountain   in   Augusta   County,   Virginia,  between  Ireland    to  America    in    17l2li    widi    (bree    sons — 

1725  and  1750.     There  he  married  Mary,  the  third  Koliert,   James  and    John,      ^ly   modicr   was    the 

daughter  of  William  McPheeters  (the  grandfather  great-granddaughter    of    .Tames.       I>r.    Willis    (t. 

of  »S.  B.  McPheeters,  D.  I).).    (See  memoir  of  Kev.  Craig,  of  the  Chicago  Seminary,  late  moderator  of 

S.  It.  McPheeters,  1 ».  1>.,  by  Kev.  John  S.  Grastj,  the    Northern    (Jeneral    Assembly,    is    the    great- 

liage  12.)     To  this  Alexander  Crawford  ami  .Mary,  grands(Ui  of  John. 

bis  wife,  were  Ixnii  eleven  children,  three  of  whom  To  my  mother  and  father  were  born  six  cliildreii, 

were  preachers :     1.   Edward,  lived  near  Abingdon,  the  youngest  of  whom  died  in  infancy.     The  oldest 

Virginia.     2.  James,  pastor  for  many  years  of  the  "jf  the  children,   the  only  daughter,   married  Rev. 

^Valnut    Hill    Church    in    Fayette    County,    Ken-  A.    S.    ^loffett,   now    of    Midway,   Ky.     I    am    the 

dicky,  near  Lexington;  died  1803;  buried  Walnut  tliird    cliild,    the    second    son.     My    brothers — one 

Hill   ( "emetery.     3.  John;  do  not  know  A\here  he  older,    ( ieorge,    ami     two    younger,    Newton    and 

lived.      One  of   the  eleven   children   of   Alexander  Lrown — ai-e  in  business  in  Louisville, 

and  ^fary  was  himself  named  Alexander.     To  this  (Signed) 


.Mexandei-,  Jr.,  was  born  a  son,  Robert,  who  set- 
tled in  Rockbridge  County,  Virginia.  To  this 
Kobert  was  born  my  father,  Robert  Irvine,  October 
12,  1821.  The  family  were  members  of  the  New 
I'ro\i(lence  Cburdi  in  Rockbridge  County,  into  the 
full  communion  of  which  my  father  was  received 
in  bis  boyhood,  lie  was  educated  at  Washington  of  Rasil  I',.  .Mitchell  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Hannah, 
Cidlege,  Lexingt(m,  Virginia,  now  A^'ashington  ncv  Woods,  and  was  born  at  the  old  .Mitchell 
and  Lee  University,  and  settled  in  Louisville  about  homestead  near  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  January 
the  year  1852,  where  he  has  for  forty  years  been      14,  1S44.     Sketch  No.  81,  devoted  to  Mrs.  Taylor, 


Aliox.v.xdkk  \\  akwk'k  Ci;.vwi'oi;ii. 

SKETCH  83. 
MRS.  WILL  PHILLIPS,  LEBANON,  KENTUCKY. 
The  full  maiden  name  of  Mrs.  i'billips  was  \'ir- 
linia  Wallace  Mitchell.     Slie  was  (be  second  cliild 


SKETCHES  OF  PATRONS.  389 

•oiilains    iiiiich    ivlatiiig    to    .Mrs.    I'liillips    which  coiil  years,  aihl  she  has  hrcii   I..  iImiii  an   mispcak- 

aeed  not  be  repeated  here.     Her  lather  .lied   when  ahje  <uinl'(al  ami  help. 

■ilie  was  ouly  a  litth-  more  tliaii  Iwu  years  ..hi.  and  (e|   Kvickktt  Dk  H.vi!T  I'lni.i.irs,  ih.'  ihir.l  eliihl. 

whiMi   l.-ss  than   nine    years  ..f    a-iv  she    h.st    her  was  horn  April  2i>,  1873.     <  »n  ih.-  iMh  -lay  ..r  j  >e- 

iii.itlier.     As  she  an.l  her  sister  w.miI   I.,  liv.'  wilh  .•eniliei-,   1S!».".,  slie  was  niana.'.l    lo   Mi'.  .I(.si|ili   \V. 

tlieir    uii.l.',    Kev.    William    IT.    W.i.i.ls.    in    (ir.rn  li'vin.',   ..f   Kehamm.   K.Miln.ky.      .Mr.   an.l    .Mrs.    Ir- 

I'.mnty,  an.l  made  tlieir  home  wilh  him  nnlil  they  vine  ]\:i\r  t\\.)  .liihliiai,  as  r..ll..\\s:     1.  Caiiriel;  2, 

inarri.'.l,   Ihey  iiatnrally  came  ).»   Iliiidv   <>{  iiim   as  I'hillips.      .Mr,    Irvin.'    is  an    a.tiv.'   an.l    sn.-c.'ssfnl 

dmost   their  fatli.^r.      While  liviii<;-  in  (ireenshurg  hnsin.-ss  man.  ami    mi\\    r.'si.les  in    Kno.will.-.  Teii- 

ihe  wa8  tanght  by  her  nucle  "William,  her  .\unt  n.sse.'. 

Mary   Dedman,   Miss  Alice  Ward  an.l    :\riss   Hen-  i.li    .Mauv   I'liii.i.ii's.  lli.'  f.mrlli   and    last    .hihl. 

•ietta   Goalder.      After  finishing   the   eonrse    witli  was  horn   Sept.'ndier  l':;,    issd.      She   ivsid.-s   with 

lei-  un.d.'  slie  was  for  a  time  a  jMipil  at   the  Stuart  li.-i-  pai-.qits  in   I,i'lian..n.  an.l   is  .•mpl.iyed  as  h.ioU- 

in.l    Ki'e.l   Female  College,   Sh.dhy\ill.'.    Kentucky,  ke.']ier  an.l   .asliiiM-  hy   lli.'  ( 'undi.'i'laml   'r.'l.'jih.mc 

lut  h.-r  healtli  was  n.it  go.i.l  at  that  time,  and  she  Company, 
li.l   not  remain   to  graduate.     t)n  th.>  l'lM   of  De- 

•emher,  18(i4,  she  was  married  to  .Mr.  William  SKETCH  84. 
I'astleman  I'hillips,  who  is  connected  wilh  one  of  REV.  WILLIAM  H.  WOODS  (Deceased). 
;he  most  i>romiuent  families  of  Marion  County,  Willi.vm  ITvuvkv  AV.ions.  Ihe  ihir.l  .hil.l  .if 
(Kentucky,  and  is  a  son  of  Mr.  .James  G.  Phillips,  James  ITarvey,  an.l  Sarah  I'^verett,  Woods,  was 
?r.,  by  his  wife  Laura,  ncc  Castleman.  Mr.  an.l  horn  in  llarr.idsliurg,  K.'utu.-ky,  Novemher  20. 
\Irs.  rhillii)s  are  members  of  the  (Southern)  1823.  He  was  a  y.>nng  man  of  stmli.nis  hai)its, 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Lebanon,  Kentiiclcy,  near  scholarly  tastes  and  e.\em]ilary  character.  Feb- 
;o  or  in  which  town  the  whole  of  their  married  ruaiy  27,  1842,  he  made  a  imhli.'  professi.ui  of  re- 
ives has  been  spent.  Mr.  Phillips  was  born  April  ligiou  and  united  wiih  the  I'l-.shylerian  Chnr.h 
),  1842,  and  has  nearly  all  of  his  mature  life  been  in  his  native  town  under  tli.'  ministry  .>!'  tli.-  K.w 
mgaged  in  planting  and  stock-raising,  but  ill-  J)i..  j,,iiu  Montgomery.  II.'  alleml.'.l  tin-  s.lm.ds 
lealth  has  recently  compelled  him  to  dispose  of  in  HaiTodslnirg  f.u'  many  y.  ais  ami  th.Mi  was  sent 
lis  beautiful  farm,  located  three  miles  from  Leba-  1.,  Danvill.-,  Keulu.ky.  t.i  att.Mi.l  Centre  C.ill.'g.-. 
ion,  and  move  into  town.  fr.mi    whi.li    inslituli.ui    he    was   regularly    gi-a.lu- 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I'hillips  are  the  fol-  at.'.l   in  .Iiiue,  1843.      He  took  the  .lassi.al  .-.mrs.- 

owing:  ami     was    ^U'olici.'iil     in    mat  h.'mai  i.s.     l.alin    ami 

(a)    Alti.vDXio    loL.v   PuiLLirs,    the   first  child   of  (Ire.'lc.      His  a.-i|iiii-em.iits    in    tli.'si'   lnamlii's   and 

kVilliam   C   and    ^'irginia  W.,   was  born   August  others  fitte.l  him   lnr  ili.'  w.n-k  of  t.^aeliing.  a  .all 

!.")    18(i8.      Oh   the   lijth  of  December,   lS!t2,    .V.lne  iug  which  h.'  f.dlow.'.l   lni-  mnr.'  ilian   tw.'iily  y.-ars 

vas  marri.'d  t.>  .Mr.  Lee  Atwell  Scearce,  by  whom  of  his  life.     (Mi  Leaving  .-.dl.'g.-  in  ls|:;  h,.  s.'.iiis  t.. 

;he  has  a  son,   Ki.liard    W.,  born    Novemlier    2.5,  have  taught  scho.il  a  yeai-:  ami.  having  eli.is.Mi  the 

L893.     Mr.   Scearce  has  a  nice    home  in   Lebanon,  sa.r.'.l  .illi.-.'  as  his  lilew.u-k.  li.'  .•nl.'r.Ml   I'l-in.-.-t.in 

Je  is  engage.l    in   the   insuraii.'e  business,  ami    is  Th(K>logical   Semiiiai-y,   N'.'W  .I.'rsey,   in  the  fall  .if 

ine  of  the  m.ist  p.ipular  citizens  of  Marion  C.iuuty.  1814,  and  was  regularly  graduated  fr.mi  tli.-ne.-  in 

(111   L.\.uu.v  C.VSTLEM.VN  Phillip.s  was  the  second  1S17.     Only  a  few  weeks  after  he  b.^gaii  his  .-.lursc 

•hil.l   .if  William   C.  and  Virginia  W.     She  lives  there,   and   proliably   while  engage.l    in    th.'  study 

vith  her  parents  in  Lebanon,  and    is  unmarried,  of  one  of  the  works  of  the  cel(>brate<l  Ceiinan  .li- 

Sfeither  of  her  parents  has  had  good  health  in  re-  vine,  Ur.  Augustus  Neander,  his  y.unig.'st   broth. ^r 


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— the  present  writer — was  Imni,  and  William  sent 
home  the  name  ''Neandcr"  In  his  mother  and  asked 
that  it  be  i,nven  the  bal)y,  which  was  done.  The 
class  to  whieh  he  belonged  at  I'rinoeton  contained 
sixty  members,  anionic  whom  were  many  who  be- 
came distiugnisju'd  as  Presbyterian  ministers,  to 
wit:  Dr.  Thomas  W.  Cattell,  Dr.  Elijah  1!. 
Craven,  Dr.  John  T.  Dnffield,  Dr.  Edward  Eells, 
Dr.  Caspar  K.  Gregory,  Professor  Joseph  J.  Hal- 
sey,  Dr.  Moses  A.  Hoge,  Dr.  John  ^I.  K.  Hunter, 
Dr.  Addison  V.  Schenck,  Professor  Charles  W. 
Shields,  and  others. 

When  William  graduated  in  the  spring  of  1847 
he  set  out  for  Kentucky  with  an  assortment  of 
good  books,  and  paid  his  way  home  by  selling  them, 
for  his  father  was  a  man  of  small  means  and  had  a 
large  family  to  sui)port  and  educate.  June  2o, 
1847,  he  was  licensed  as  a  probationer  for  the  Gos- 
]>el  ministry  by  Transylvania  Presbytery;  and 
after  a  few  months'  trial  of  his  gifts,  he  was  duly 
ordained  to  the  full  work  of  the  ministry  as  an 
evangelist  by  the  same  body,  and  assigned  work 
in  Green  County,  Kentucky.  His  first  field  of 
labor  was  at  Greensburg,  where  he  preached  for 
about  three  years.  For  about  a  year  (1850-1)  he 
supplied  Six-Mile  Church;  and  for  u  year  (1852-3) 
he  preached  at  Ebenezer  t^hurch.  In  1853  he 
started  a  school  of  high  grade  for  young  ladies  at 
Greensburg,  which  was  carried  on  till  the  fall  of 
1860,  when  he  moved  to  Franklin,  Kentucky,  and 
began  to  teach  a  srlio(d  and  act  as  supply-  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  of  that  place.  The  Civil 
War  began  in  the  early  days  of  18(il,  and  he  was 
located  on  the  Itorder  of  the  territory  likely  to  be 
the  scene  of  bloody  contests  between  the  two  great 
armies — Northern  and  Southern — and  he  moved 
back  to  Greenslmrg  about  the  fall  of  18G1.  On  the 
Utli  of  June,  184i).  while  serving  a  church  near 
Greensburg,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  Cath- 
erine Lisle,  of  Green  County,  ^^•ho  was  his  devoted 
and  efficient  help-meet  until  her  death,  which  oc- 
curred June  0,  18t;2,  in  Greensburg.  By  Cath- 
erine— his  tirst  wife — he  had  six  or  seven  sons, 
only  three  of  whom  survived  him,  namely:  1,  Wil- 


liam Harvey,  Jr.;  2,  Joseph  Lisle;  and  3,  Cort- 
landt  Barret.  These  three  sons  are  amoTig  the 
original  patrons  of  this  volume,  aiid  sketches  of 
them  will  follow  this.  For  a  couple  of  years  after 
his  tirst  wife  died  ilr.  Woods  continued  to  teach 
and  preach  in  <lreeu  County;  liut  the  confusion 
and  disonb'r  incident  to  the  Civil  War  then  in 
l)rogress  produced  general  demoralization  in  all 
lines  of  professional  work.  The  death  of  his  wife 
also  had  increased  the  difficulty  of  carrying  on  his 
school  at  Greensburg;  and  in  the  fall  of  18G4  he 
moved     to   Shelbyville,   Kentucky,   aiid    opened    a 

classical  sd I  for  boys,  taking  with  him  his  three 

motherless  little  sons,  and  giving  his  i)ersonaI  at- 
tenti(ui  to  their  education.  On  the  20th  of  June, 
18r).5,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Jane  Lee 
Logan,  of  Shelby  County,  Kentucky.  Not  long 
after  his  second  marriage  Mr.  Woods  began  to  de- 
velo|i  syiii](toms  of  the  same  disease  (tubercu- 
losis) of  which  his  first  wife  had  died  in  1802;  and 
now  he  began  a  series  of  moves,  undertaken  in  the 
hope  of  bettering  his  health.  In  the  fall  of  1805 
he  moved  to  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  where  his 
youngest  brother  was  then  living,  and  purchased 
an  interest  in  a  drug  house  being  carried  on  by 
Dr.  J.  W.  Smelser.  It  did  not  require  more  than 
a  year  for  him  to  see  that  this  move  was  a  mistake, 
and  in  the  summer  of  ISGG  he  returned  to  Ken- 
tucky, and  opened  a  boys'  school  at  Horse  Cave, 
Hart  County.  This  undertaking  gave  every  prom- 
ise of  success  from  the  start;  he  had  a  good  at- 
tendance, some  of  the  pupils  being  from  a  distance. 
But  early  in  the  year  following  he  found  his 
strength  was  so  far  depleted,  and  his  disease  so 
far  advanced,  that  he  could  teach  no  longer.  He 
realized  that  God's  plans  for  his  life  were  not  such 
as  lie  himself  would  have  chosen — his  earthly 
course  was  nearly  run.  In  this  dark  hour  his  heart 
turned  to  the  neighborhood  in  which  he  had  passed 
so  large  a  part  of  his  mature  life — Green  County. 
He  and  his  wife  and  his  little  sons  went  to  the 
hospitable  home  of  Colonel  Aylette  Taylor,  whose 
wife  was  Jlr.  Woods's  niece,  and  to  whom  he  had 
been  a  father  for  many  years  of  her  orphanage. 


REV.  WILLIAM  H.  WOODS. 

(DECEASED.) 

[See  Sketch  No.  84.I 


MRS.  LIZZIE  (LOGAN)  WOODS. 

(DECEASED.) 

ISee  Sketch  No.  84.] 


REV.  WILLIAM  H.  WOODS.  D.  D. 

BALTIAtOHE.   AID. 

iSee  Sketch   No.  85.] 


JOSEPH  LISLE  WOODS, 

(DECEASED.) 

[See  Sketch  No.  84.] 


392  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

Ill  lli.il  limnc  1()\  nii,'  Ikiikis  ininislcrcd  to  liis  wants,  Miss  Elizabeth  Jane  Lpc  Logan,  who  became  the 

;iu(l   all   ihat  could   lie  done  was  (b)ii('  cagci-ly  for  second  wife  of  Kcv.  William  Tf.  Woods,  was  born 

his  comfort;  but  on  the  thirtieth  of  April,  IStil,  he  in  Scott  Conntv,  Kciiliukv,  while  her  father  (who 

exclianjicd  the  weariness  and  sorrows  of  earth  for  was  a  Presbyterian  minister)  was  ])astor  of  Bethel 

the  endless   joys  of  hea\cn.     ]lis  body  was  laid  to  t'lnirch.      Her  fallier   was  the   IJew  James   Harve}' 

rest  by  the  side  of  his  first  wife's  remains  in  the  J.,ogan,  and  her  iiioihcr  was,  before  her  marriage, 

old   Lisle  family  buiial  jilot   in  ( rreen  Connty.  Miss   .Mary    N'eiiable.      I'.otli    .Mr.   and    .Mrs.   Logan 

'riioiigli  .Mr.   Woods  had  early  in  life  dedicated  wci'c   natives   of   Shelby   Connty,   Kentucky.      Mr. 

himself  to  the  (iospel  ministry,  his  career  was  that  Logan  was  for  years  ])astor  of  Bethel  (Jhnrch  in 

of  a  school-teacher  rather  than  that  of  a  preacher.  Scott  Connty.  and  of  .Mulberry  Church   in  Shelby 

lie    was    successful    to    an    unusual    degree    as    a  Connty.     ;\Irs.  Logan  survived  her  husband  a  great 

teacher;  but  he  was  not  at  home  in  the  pulpit.     He  many  years,   attaining   her   eighty-first   year,    and 

lacked  oratorical  gifts.     He  had  no  natural  Htness  dying  in  LsOl.     To  them  were  born  seven  children, 

for  the  platform.     He  spoke  always  as  if  embar-  as  follows:     L  Rev.  James  N'enable  Logan,  D.  D., 

rassed  in  the  ])resence  of  an  audience.     He  had  a  an  able  and  learned  divine,  who  for  a  long  period 

logical  mind,  was  a  tine  classical  scholar,  and  had  has  been  a  member  of  ilic  faculty  of  Central  Uni- 

been  thoroughly   trained    in   theology,  and    would  versity  of  Kentucky,  and  resides  at  Danville;  2, 

have  made  a  distinct  success  as  a.  professor  in  a  Elizabeth    Jane    Lee   Logan,    the   subject   of    this 

college  or  theological  seminary.     He  was  a  man  of  sketch;  ;',.   .Mattie.   who   marrit'd   I{ev.   .\ndrew   H'- 

singularly  pure  life  and  fervent  piety,     tie  was  of  vine;  4.  :Mary  Frances,  who  resides  in  Shelbyville, 

smaller  stature  than  his  father,  but  was  strikingly  Kentucky;  .">,  Sallie  A.  Logan,  who  resides  with  her 

like  him  otherwise.     He  had  his  father's  sharp  fea-  sisters,  .Mary  Frances  and  Nettie,   in  Shelbyville; 

tares.    ]ii(iniinent  nose,   slender    build,   pale    blue  (J,   Joseph  A.   Logan,   who  resides  on  his  farm  in 

eyes,  and  slightly  brownish  hair,     lie  was  more  of  Shelby  Connty,  and  is  an  elder  of  Mulberry  Pres- 

a  A\' Is  than  a  Dedman.  byteriau  Church;  and  7,  Nettie,  wlui  lives  with  her 

Sarah    Cathei'ine    Lisle,   the   tirst  wife  of    Rev.  two  sisters,  .\Liry  Frances  and  Sallie  .V.,  in  Sliel- 

William  H.  Woods,  was  a  daughter  of  .Mr.  Thonms  byville. 

W.  Lisle,  of  Greensburg,  Kentucky  (a  lawyer  and  Elizabeth  Jane  Lee,  who  was  married  to  Rev. 
farmer),  by  his  first  wife,  Eliza,  iicc  Creel.  She  ^Villiam  H.  \\'oods  in  June,  1S6."),  was  his  faithful 
was  b(U-n  in  (ireensbnrg  July  ol,  1830.  Her  cnmpanion  and  helper  in  the  several  moves  he 
m<illiei'  bad  bui  one  child  besides  herself,  a  son  made  in  the  years  ISf..")-!;-!  after  his  health  began 
named  Joseph  J).  .Mr.  Lisle's  second  wife  had  to  fail,  and  nursed  him  with  tenderest  care  down 
seven  children,  as  follows:  2,  William  J.,  a  law-  to  the  end  of  his  life  in  April,  1807.  Left  a  widow, 
yer  of  Lebanon,  Kentucky;  2,  Eliza,  who  married  she  took  her  yimngest  step-son,  Cortlandt  B. 
^Ir.  Charles  Harrison;  3,  :\hiry,  who  married  a  ^\■oods,  and  went  back  to  Shelby  County  to  re- 
Mr.  Carlisle;  1,  Lou,  who  married  a  .Mr.  School-  side.  There  she  lived  till  her  death,  which  oc- 
ing;  ■"),  Dollie,  who  married  a  .Mr.  I'.aker;  G,  Sophie,  curred  Augnst  4,  IS!)!).  She  bore  to  Ik  r  husband 
who  married  a  Mr.  Byrd,  and  7,  J.  T.,  who  has  one  child,  who  lived  but  a  short  time.  She  was  a 
been  dead  nmny  years.  Catherine  Lisle — "Katie,''  woman  of  the  kindest  nature,  gentle,  considerate 
all  her  friends  called  her — was  a  woman  of  culti-  and  uncomplain.ing.  She  had  exceedingly  clear 
vated  mind,  rehned  and  winning  manners,  and  de-  views  of  the  Jiible  and  its  plan  of  salvation,  and 
voted  piety.  She  contracted  tuberculosis,  and  followed  Christ  with  unswerving  devotion  to  the 
died  June  9,  18G2.  end  of  her  days. 


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SKETCH  85.  aii,|  (q)  .Iosimmi   l.isi.i:  WOoiPS.     l»r.  WDmls,  lnsi.lcs 

REV.  DR.  W.  H.  WOODS,  BALTIMORE,  MARYI-AND.  I,,.!,,..     ;,     „i;ni     ..f     srlmhirlv     hislcs     mimI     altaiii- 

I)r.  Woods  was  (lie  eldest  ni'  ihe  cliildreii  nf  (he  meiils,  nnd   :i    lin.'   |ire;irlier.  lias   \\..ii   ecmsidcraMe 

Iicv.   ■\Villiani   11.    Woods   to  reach  lualure  years,  reputation  as  a   wiiler  uf  |i(.eiris  and  stories    for 


His  father's  sketch  iiexl  ]ireeedes  this.  He  was 
named  for  his  falliei-.  lini  lias  iisnaily  spelled  liis 
middle  name  "llerNcy"  instead  of  "Harvev,'' 
lh<)iiL;li  Ihe  latter  sjx'Uin^-  was  llial  w  hicli  Imih  his 
father  and  his  ]iaternal  i:;randfalliei-  fdlluwed.  Dr. 
\\'oods  was  l)orn  in  (Jreeu  Coimly,  Kentucky,  N'o- 
vember  17,  18.")2.  His  mother,  as  was  shown  in 
Sketch  84,  was  Sarah  Katlierine,  iicc  Jjish'.  \lo 
was  with  his  father  until  the  latt(>r's  death  in 
1807.  On  losing  his  father,  he  and  iiis  limlhei-, 
Joseph   Lisle  Woods,   made  their  home  with   Mr. 


sneh    jomnals    as    ihe     \'oiiiirs    ('onipanion.    New 

York    I  ndependeiii,    Sunday    Sri 1    'IMiiies.    Srrili- 

ner's  .Magazine.  Ihe  Soniliein  .Magazine  and  tin- 
("enlliry  .\hlL;:iyi  111'.  lie  is  cc  msideiid  iiiie  cf  llie 
li'ading  minislci-s  of  ihe  Synod  of  X'irginia. 

SKETCH  86. 
C.  B.  WOODS,  MEXICO  CITY.  MEXICO. 

('orllandi  IJaii'cii  W'noils,  son  of  Hew  William 
11.  Woods  liy  his  tiisi  wife,  Sai-ali  ('alherine,  nce 
i.isle,  was  horn  in  (Ireeusburg,  Keuluck.\.  -\ngust 
Charles  Harrison,  an  uncle  by  marriage,  Avho  lived  -'•  l'^-"^-  ^'i^  moiher  died  Itefore  he  reached  tliree 
near  Lebanon,  Kentucky,  on  a  farm.  In  the  fall  yi'ars  of  age  and  he  was  for  a  year  or  two  after 
of  1872,  when  about  twenty  years  of  age,  he  en-  li''"'  death  cand  for  \eiy  largely  by  his  <cnisins, 
tered  Ilampden-Sidney  College,  Virginia,  and  from  .\diii'  and  N'irgie  .Mih-hell.  and  a  .Mrs.  .Tames  An- 
Ihat  institution  he  was  graduated  in  1871.  Hav-  derson.  In  the  spring  of  IS(;7  he  lost  his  father, 
ing  dedicated  liimself  to  the  work  (d'  the  Gospel  i>"<l  'k'  "^^as  then  taken  to  livi'  with  his  step-mother 
ministry,  he  entered  Union  Theological  Seminary  i"  Shelby  Couidy.  Kentucky,  wiiilst  his  brothers, 
in  the  fall  of  1874,  and  was  regularly  graduated  William  and  Joi-.  went  to  live  with  their  uncle-in- 
in  1877.  In  the  fall  of  1877  he  was  licensed  by  law,  .Mr.  Charles  Harrison,  near  Lebanon,  Keu- 
Winchester  Presbytery  to  preach,  and  at  once  was  tucky.  I'loni  childhood  he  was  troubled  with  ca- 
cliosen  to  be  assistant  to  liev.  Dr.  H.  M.  White,  of 


Winchester  Church.  In  the  following  spring 
(1878)  he  was  nrilained  to  the  full  work  of  the 
ministry  and  installed  pastor  of  the  ("edar  ClifY 
and  Cedar  Creek  Churches,  located  in  Frederick 
County,  Virginia.  In  1882  the  Presbyterian 
Churcli  at  Strasburg  was  added  to  his  existing 
charge,  and  he  made  Ids  home  in  that  town,  and 
ser\ed  the  three  churches  till  ^I'ovember,  1887, 
when  he  was  called  to  the  ])astorate  of  the  Frank- 
lin S(iuare  Presbyterian  Church,  I'.altiniore,  which 
church  he  still  serves. 


larrh,  and  in  ls7(i,  when  seventeen,  he  was  sent  to 
St.  Louis  fi)r  treatment  by  a  noted  specialist.  He 
was  benefitted  by  the  treatment,  and  in  the  fall  of 
1877  entered  I  laiii|iden-Sidney  College,  ^■irg■inia. 
lie  com]deied  the  lull  course  in  tliat  institution 
with  the  exci'pl  ion  of  mat  heiiiat  ics,  remaining  there 
(ill  .lune,  ISSO— three  y.'ars.  I!y  the  fall  of  1880 
he  hail  a  ntmn  of  the  former  cai.irrluil  symp- 
toms, and  niniih'd  to  St.  Louis  for  further  med- 
ical treatnicni.  lie  undertook  school-leaching 
that  fall.  Inn  his  health  fmbade  his  ciuitinuing  the 
work,  and  he  took  a  ]iosiiion  with  \.  K.  Fairbanks 


On  the  eighth  of  October,  1S7'.t,   I  >r.   Woods  was  &  Co.,  St.  I.miis,  by  wlxnii  his  bn  tlnr  .loe  was  then 

married  to  .Miss  Alice  May  Liiidon,  daughter  and  employed.     Py    the   end    of    1880    his  di.sea.se   had 

only   child    id'  Thomas   Neill    Iai].tou   by   his   wife  '"Ji""''  alarming  progress:  ami,  after  being  treated 

.Mary  Jauny,  by  whom  he  has  had  live  children,  as  l-y  Or.  H.  X.   Spemer.  of  St.    Louis,  for  a  mouth 

fidlows:     (a)  Liosuk  Xeill  Wools;  (  bi   Wit.i.i.\.\i  "i"  two,  acting  on  his  physician's  advice  he  went  to 

Lisle  Woods,  who    is    dead;     (ci    .Makv     Uito.n  San  .\ntonio,  Te.xas,  and  engaged  in  open-air  em- 

WooDS;  (d)  J.VMISON  Hervey  Woods,  who  is  dead;  ployments  foi-  about  si.\  years 


His  health  having 


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THE    WOODS-McAPEE   MEMORIAL. 


improved  in  tlie  mild  aud  dry  atmosphere  of  Soutli- 
Mest  Texas,  lie  ouce  more  attempted  to  engage  in 
business  in  a  more  northerly  elime,  and  took  a  po- 
silinii  wifli  Fairbanks  &  Co.,  in  Onmha,  Nebraska. 
His  experience  in  that  region  ])i-oying  nnfav(n*able 
to  his  health,  he  again  mov<Ml  to  Texas  in  the  fall 
of  1887.  In  Decendier,  188'J,  he  moved  down  into 
Old  Mexico,  and  entered  the  milling  bnsiness  in 
the  city  of  Monterey,  l)cing  in  ])artnership  with  a 
:Mr.  (ieddes.  In  181>2  he  bonght  out  Geddes,  aud 
ills  step-mother,  Mrs.  ^^'oods,  became  associated 
with  him.  Later  on,  Mr.  A\'oods  met  with  some 
reverses  in  Monterey,  and  closed  out  his  business 
there  and  settled  in  the  City  of  Mexico,  where  he 
still  resides. 

On  the  thirteenth  of  June,  1890,  Mr.  Woods  was 
married  to  Miss  Anna  Sophia  Houser.  To  them  six 
beautiful  little  daughters  have  been  born,  to  wit: 
(a)  Cathkrine  Lisle  Woods;  (b)  Anna  Sophia 
Woods;  (c)  Elizadetii  Lee  Woods;  (d)  Mary 
McAfee  Woods;  (e)  Cortlandt  P>.  'Woods, 
born  1902;  and  (f)  Frances  S.  Woods,  born  1903. 
They  have  never  had  any  boys. 

Anna  Sophia  Woods,  ncc  Houser,  was  the 
second  child  of  Anthony  Houser  by  his  wife  Cath- 
erine, nee  Iviggs,  and  was  Ijorn  at  .Mapleton,  Wis- 
consin, Novemlier  15,  1803.  ^Ir.  Houser  was  a  na- 
tive of  Baden,  Germany,  and  bvirn  in  1839.  He 
migrated  to  the  I'nited  States  in  1854  and  settled 
in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin.  In  1855  he  moved  to 
.Mapleton,  where  he  engaged  in  merchandising 
nnlii  1S58,  when  lie  was  ai>p(jinted  postmaster  of 
Mapleton  by  I'rcsident  Iliichanau.  This  i^ositiou 
lie  held  for  Iwcnty-hve  years.  He  moved  to  Da- 
kota in  1883.  In  April,  18(J1,  Mr.  Houser  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  (Catherine  Uiggs,  of  Maidetou. 
David  Riggs,  the  father  of  Catherine,  was  born 
and  educattMl  in  Scolland,  liut  mo\cd  to  County 
Ant  rim,  Ireland,  w  iiere  he  married  .\nn,  a  lady  of 
the  ^IcLean  family.  Sonu'  time  after  1830  David 
Itiggs  and  wife  emigrated  to  (Amada,  where  their 
daughter,  Catherine,  was  born  in  1840.  The  fam- 
ily afterwards  settled  in  Wisconsin,  aud  Cather- 
ine was  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Maple- 
ton   when   she  became   engaged    to    Mr.    Houser. 


]\lrs.  Honscn"  died  in  1809,  and  her  body  rests  in  the 
Catholic  r.urial  (iround  at  ]\Iapleton. 

Anna  S.  Houser,  wife  of  C.  15.  Woods,  having 
lost  her  mother  \\hen  a  cliibl  of  six  years,  was  sent 
the  next  year  to  the  ^ladames  of  the  Sacred  Heart, 
Chicago,  wheiHi  she  i-emained  two  years.  In  1875 
she  entered  St.  Mary's  Institute,  Milwaukee,  the 
Mother  House  of  the  Sisters  of  Notre  Dame,  and 
there  she  continued  for  six  years,  graduating  in 
1881.  St.  Mary's  was  considered  one  of  the  fiuest 
private  schools  in  that  part  of  the  country.  From 
1881  up  to  the  time  of  her  marriage  in  1890  Miss 
Houser  \\as  almost  continuously  engaged  in  teach- 
ing school.  She  taught  two  years  at  the  High 
School  of  Oconomowoc,  Wisconsin,  and  three  years 
at  the  High  School  of  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota. 
In  1887  she  Avent  to  San  Antonio,  Texas,  to  be  a 
companion  for  her  sick  brother*,  Mr.  John  Houser, 
and  there  she  was  appointed  the  teacher  of  Eng- 
lish in  the  San  Antonio  High  School,  which  posi- 
tion she  tilled  up  to  tlie  date  of  her  niaiTiage  to  Mr. 
C.  B.  Woods. 

Joseph  Lisle  Woods,  hereinbefore  mentioned  as 
one  of  the  three  children  of  Bev.  William  H.  Woods 
and  Sarah  Catherine,  nee  Lisle,  ^y]lo  reached  ma- 
ture years,  was  liorn  in  Green  County,  Kentucky, 
March  13,  1855.  Losing  his  mother  when  he  was 
about  seven,  and  his  father  when  he  was  about 
twelve,  he  and  his  older  brother,  William,  went  to 
live  with  their  uucle-in-law,  Mr.  Charles  Harri- 
son, of  Clarion  Count}-,  Kentucky.  Some  time 
thereafter  lie  made  his  home  with  his  uncle,  Joseph 
Lisle,  at  Independence,  Missouri.  October  15, 
1885,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Leila  Smelser, 
daughter  of  Dr.  James  W.  Smelser  l)y  his  third 
wife,  Letitia,  iicc  Boone.  He  was  in  the  employ 
of  the  N.  P.  Fairl)anks  Company,  meat  packers 
and  hud  manufacturers,  for  many  years,  and  he 
was  an  uncommonly  lirilliant  and  capable  busi- 
ness man,  commanding  a,  high  salaiw.  It  was 
while  supervising  the  starting  of  a  new  factory  for 
that  concern  at  Hutchinson,  Kansas,  that  he  met 
with  tlie  terril)le  accident  whicli  terminated  his 
life.     An  immense  vat  of  boiling  lard  exploded, 


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CATHERINE  LISLE  WOODS. 

MFXICO    CITY. 


ANNA  SOPHIA  WOODS. 
MEXICO  CITY. 


ELIZABETH  LEE  WOODS, 

.ME.MCO  CITY. 


[See  Sketch  No. 


MARY  McAFEE  WOODS.  Born  jgoi. 
CORTLANDT   B.  WOODS.  Born  igo2. 
FRANCES   SERAPHICA  WOODS,  Born   1Q03. 
ME.XICO   CITY. 


i^KETCIIES  OF  PATIJONS.  "  397 

and  lie  was  fatally  scalded,  (Iviii.u-  .lime  7,  issil,  in  nian'iaa<-      In      iullucniial      t'ailmlir      faiiiilirs      in 

liis  (liiil.v-fdnrtli  year.     Joe  and  l.cila  liad  l>ut  inic  Marinn  CiMinly,  and  made- a  fm midalilr  rival.     .Mr. 

rliiid,    Jdsqili     T..   A\(i()ds,   .li-.,    wlio   was    Imrn     in      Woods   aur I    «illi    liiis   licnilcnian    In    willidraw 

April,    1887,    and    died    three   nH)iillis    laler.      .]oe  fi-oin    the   rare.    n]ion    eeiaain    eondilimis.   an<l    Mr. 

Woods   was   a   man   of  hi;ili    inleiii^-enee    and    re-  \'anelea\e    was    clerted.     in    .lannai'v.    ISSO.    Mr. 

markable  business  capacity;  and  iiad  lie  lived  ont  Woods   seiiied    in    l,a\vreinelnM%    Kcnhn-ky.    and 

the  ordinary  measure  of  life,  lie   wonid    no  donht  lie<;an  to  tiavi'l  for  a  wholesale  lirni  al  that   jilacc, 

jiave    distiniiuished     liiniself     in     tiie    ronnnercial  and   tliis  jiosition   lie  iieid    for  six  years  at    a   i^ood 

world.     His  widow  survives  him,  and   now    resides  salary.     (>n  llie  iliird  day  of  .laniiary.  ISs;;,  he  was 

with  her  mother  iu  St.  Louis,  Alo.  happily   married     to     Miss    Annie    I'.oyle    r.oiid,   a 

daughter  of  Mr.  William  i"raidilin  ilond.  one  of  the 
SKETCH  87.  ^^^^^  ])roniinenl  and  wealthy  citizens  of  Anders(.n 
W.  C.  WOODS,  LAWRENCEBURG,  KHNTUCKY.  Pouuty,  Keiituckv.  .Mr.  I'.oiid  was  an  old  frien.l 
]Mr.  AVilliani  Clelaud  AVoods  was  the  eldest  of  atid  a  comrade  of  .Mr.  Woods"s  father  dnrinLT  tlie 
tin'  thre(>  sous  of  Thomas  (\  and  .Mary  Ant:  I  Jack-  Mexican  Wai-.  The  marriaLie  took  place  al  Ver- 
son  I  ^Voods  who  survived  tlieir  parents,  and  was  sallies,  Kenincky,  the  i;e\.  I  >r.  (!.  \'.  Koiil  of  that 
horn  in  Lebanon,  Kentucky,  December  2,  1S53.  town  performinji'  the  cerenMiny.  Mrs.  Woods  had 
About  the  year  1850  he  went  to  a  school  in  his  been  reared  in  the  Plirislian  Church,  bu<  slie  en- 
native  town  taught  l)y  his  uncle,  Charles  W.  tered  Ihe  rresbylerian  Chnrcli  of  Lawreiiceburg 
Woods.  Later  he  attended  the  classical  school  of  when  :\lr.  AVoods  confessed  Thrist  in  .Tuni-.  18!>3. 
Professor  J.  C.  Fales,  to  whom  :\rr.  Woods  consi<l-  The  antlnn-  of  tliis  \olnme  lan  nnch  of  .Mr. 
ers  himself  maiidy  indebted  for  whatever  education  \A"oods  1  had  the  pleasiiic  of  wiliu'ssing  this  im- 
he  received  in  youth.  He  attendeil  Centre  College,  portant  step,  and  connts  ii  one  of  the  ui^'atest 
Danville,  one  year  (1870),  and  in  1873  entered  privileges  <d'  liis  life  that  he  liad  some  little  share 
Georgetown  College,  Kentucky,  and  took  a  scien-  in  bringing  it  to  j.ass.  By  the  appoinlmeiil  of 
tific  course.  For  a  nundier  of  years  Mr.  Woods  President  Cleveland  during  his  tirst  term,  and 
was  the  Deputy  Clerk  of  the  :\rarion  County  Cir-  later  on  during  his  second  term.  Mr.  Woods  was 
cuit  Court  under  his  uncle,  Thomas  Cleland  ((nnmissioned  United  Stales  (ianger  under  lion. 
Jackson.  Mr.  Jackson  was  a  remarkably  tine  Atilla  Co.x,  Collector  of  tln^  fifth  Kentucky  Col- 
business  nmn  and  possessed  a  wonderful  memory,  lection  Histriet.  l^.r  a  few  years  past  .Mr.  Woods 
He  needed  no  index  of  the  papers  in  his  ohice,  but  has  held  a  responsible  jiosition  in  the  service  of 
could  instantly  lay  his  hands  itjjon  the  documents  the  Southern  IJailway  at  i,aw  i-encelnirg.  .Mr.  and 
relating  to  a  case  Avhen  called  on.  Chief  Jnstice  .Mrs.  Woods  owns  a  lieantifnl  In  mc  in  that  city,  a 
Alvin     Duval     considered    him    (Hic   of     the   ablest  Jiicture   of   which    is   given,   along   with    a    [mrtrail 

clerical  ofticers  in  Kentucky.     AVhen   .Mr.  Jackson      of  .Mr.  \\' Is,  (ni  |iag(  s  :;;i".i  and   KMl.     .Mrs.  Woods's 

died  in  1S7(;  his  (h'puty,  .Mr.  Woods,  who  was  a  father,  \\illiam  l"raid<lin  Itoiid.  was  born  in  .in- 
capable nmn  ami  familiar  with  all  the  duties  of  derson  County.  Kentucky,  in  ISJd.  and  her  mother, 
his  position,   and    his   friemls   also,    nat.iraily   ex-  ^"^••■i    Mary,  /«<■    lIaTd<s.  was    born    in    the    same 

pectedthathewoubln.ceivethea, inlmeut.  but  •-""'.^    "'    '^-•'-      Three   children-all    sous-have 

the  Judge  appointed  a  geutle.nau  who  was  a  rela-  I"-"    '"""     '"   -^l'-   ^"">     •^'••^-    ^^'""l^  "«  follows: 

five  ..f  his.   without    clerical   <-xperien.-e,   to   serve  ' 'V'    ''•'^':i''i  J'"-^"  '^^■""•"^-  '""•"   '"    l-awreuceburt,', 

till  the  next  election.     There  were  six  candidates  Kcnlmky.  .May  L".  1SS4.  and  now  a  |,romising  young 

for  the  place,  Mr.  Woods  being  one  of  them.     Ona  civil    engineer:    tl.i    Wiuj.vm    Ci..\i:i:m;i;    Woods, 

of  the  candidates,  a  Mr.  A'ancleave,  was  allied  by  who    was    born   in    Law  renceburg    November   16, 


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1SS5,  juid  now  ill  school;  iiiid  (Cl  Ellis  Jackson 
Woods,  \\1io  was  bom  in  Law  reucoburg  May  7, 
1SS9,  aud  now  at  school. 

TiiojLVS  Cleland  Woods,  the  father  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  fourth  child  of 
dames  Harvey  and  Sai-ali  Everett  (Uedmau) 
Woods,  and  was  born  in  llarrodsburg,  Kentucky, 
A|irii  it,  18liG.  His  cdncaiiou  was  received  at  the 
schools  of  his  native  town,  including  Bacon  Col- 
b'gc.  February  13,  1842,  when  in  his  sixteenth 
year,  lie  confessed  Christ  as  his  Saviour,  and  was 
received  into  the  full  coniniunion  of  the  Harrods- 
bi!i-g  Presbyterian  ('linrch  under  the  pastorate  of 
the  late  Rev.  Dr.  .Tolin  Montgomery,  of  precious 
memory;  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  in 
18G8  he  was  a  consistent  Christian.  His  father, 
as  has  been  shown  on  a  previous  page,  was  a  cabi- 
net-maker by  trade,  and  a  man  so  circumstanced  as 
to  need  the  aid  of  at  least  some  of  his  sons  in  mak- 
ing a  siipjiorl  for  his  large  aud  growing  family; 
and  yet  Thomas  was  the  only  one  of  the  six  brothers 
of  the  family  who  lived  to  maturity  that  seems  to 
have  worked  for  any  considerable  time  in  his 
father's  shop.  Their  parents  both  jji-eferred  to  af- 
ford them  the  liest  oii])ort unities  possible  for  jiro- 
fessional  careers.  Thomas  had  a  good  mathemati- 
cal mind,  and  was  also  of  a  mechanical  turn;  and 
for  a  few  years  he  rendered  his  father  most  valu- 
abh'  assistance  at  the  workbench.  This  experi- 
ence rendered  him  exjiert  in  both  cabinet-making 
aud  carpentry,  and  he  was  equal  to  making  fur- 
niture and  building  houses  in  a  workmanlike  man- 
ner. This  vocation,  however,  was  destined  to  be 
his  for  only  a  time.  AVlien  the  Mexican  War  broke 
out  in  the  sjiring  of  184(),  and  Congress  authorized 
President  i'olk  to  call  for  fifty  thousand  volun- 
teers to  march  to  Mexico,  Thomas  C.  Woods  was 
one  of  the  six  times  fifty  thousand  men  who  of- 
fered (lieii-  services.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Harrod  Guards,  I'hil.  R.  Thompson,  Cajitain.  He 
was  with  General  Taylor  in  his  several  engage- 
ments in  Northeastern  Mexico,  ending  with  his 
notable  victory  at  Buena  Vista  February  23,  1847, 
when  Santa  Anna's  large  army  was  routed  and  his 


l)ower  in  that  part  of  the  country  completely 
broken.  The  Harrod  Guards  belonged  to  the  fa- 
mous Second  Kentucky  Infantry,  Avhose  Colonel 
(McKee)  and  whose  Lieutenant-Colonel  (Clay) 
fell  in  that  battle.  Mr.  William  C.  Woods  now 
has  ill  his  possession  a  map  of  the  Rattle  of  Buena 
X'ista,  drawn  by  his  father  on  the  field  after  the 
.Mexicans  had  retreated,  siiowing  the  topography 
of  the  country  and  the  ]>ositions  occui»ied  by  the 
several  commands.  On  his  return  home  from 
^Fexico  in  1847  he  studied  law,  and  August  7,  1848, 
he,  in  comjiany  with  his  bosom  friend,  Charley 
Smedle\-,  was  duly  admitted  lo  the  bar  at  Har- 
rodsburg.  It  is  likely  he  had  had  the  law  in  view 
for  some  time  before  he  went  to  .Mexico.  Had  he 
chosen  as  his  vocation  some  such  calling  as  arclii- 
tecture,  or  civil  or  mechanical  engineering,  he 
would  no  doubt  have  achieved  very  high  distinc- 
tion in  either  sphere.  When,  about  1860,  he  came 
to  build  for  himself  a  residence  in  Lebanon,  he  se- 
lected with  intelligent  care  all  the  materials  for 
the  house,  drew  his  own  plans,  and  supervised  the 
whole  undertaking.  Had  he  cared  to  do  so,  he 
could  easily  have  put  up  the  Iniildiug  himself,  with 
the  aid  of  a  few  ordinary  laborers.  That  dwell- 
ing, after  about  forty-four  years  of  constant  use 
and  occupation,  is  now  in  fine  condition,  and  is 
the  beautiful  home  of  Dr.  ]McChord.  The  weather- 
boarding  is  still  even  and  plumb,  and  all  its  tim- 
bers testify  to  the  skill  and  care  of  him  who  had 
it  erected.  Thomas  must  have  settled  in  Lebanon 
within  a  few  months  after  his  being  licensed — 
probably  in  the  fall  of  1848.  On  the  fourteenth 
of  August,  1849,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Maiy 
Ann  Jackson,  of  Lebanon,  and  in  that  town  he 
continued  to  practise  law  for  the  remaining  nine- 
teen years  of  his  life.  He  was  now  and  then  so- 
licited by  friends  to  enter  political  life,  but  he 
had  the  good  sense  to  stick  to  his  chosen  profes- 
sion, in  which  he  was  eminently  successful.  Hia 
wife  inherited  some  estate  from  her  father,  and 
Thomas  made  money  at  the  law;  and  in  spite  of 
some  very  heavy  losses  he  suffered  during  the  Civil 
War  (1861-5)  lie  left  a  very  fair  estate  to  his  fam- 


RESIDENCE  OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  WILLIAM  C.  WOODS. 
LAWRENCEBURG,  KY. 
(See  Sketch  No.  87.] 


THOMAS  C.  W'UUllS.  AM)  Wll  L. 

(DECEASED  ) 

LATE  Of    LEBANON,   KY. 

ISee  Sketch  No.  87.] 


CLARENCE  E.  WOODS, 

'RlCH.V^OND,   KY. 

(See  Sketch  No.  88.) 


MAMIE  MILLER  WOODS. 
richa\ond.;kv. 

[See  Sketch    No.  88, J 


WILL  C.  WOODS. 

LAWRENCEBURG.    KY. 

ISee  Sketch  No.  87.] 


JOHN  D.  WOODS. 

(UECEASED.) 

[See  Sketch  No.  87-] 


SKETCnER  OF  PATRONS. 


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ily.  When  the  Civil  War  caine  on  in  lS(n,  and 
every  man  in  Kentucky  was  taking  sides,  Thomas 
was  placed  in  a  painfnl  position.  He.  conscien- 
tiously believed  secession  to  be  a  fearful  lilunder, 
and  he  could  not  think  of  destroying  the  Union. 
On  the  othci-  hand,  lie  abhorred  abolitionism,  and 
lie  saw  two  of  liis  brothers  leave  Kentucky  to  outer 
tlie  Confederate  service  (Charlie  and  (he  i)rcscnt 
\\riter)  ;  and  he  knew  that  two  others  of  them  were 
strongly  Southern  in  their  sentiments  (William 
and  Nat).  He  remained  a  conservative  Union 
man  throughout  that  fearful  struggle;  and  though 
offered  tlic  command  of  a  Kentucky  Federal  regi- 
ment by  the  Union  autliorities,  he  refused  to  luive 
anything  to  do  with  tlie  war.  He  was  a  manly, 
gallant  man,  and  naturally  of  a  fearless,  martial 
spirit  where  his  convictions  were  clear,  but  he 
could  ue\er  bring  himself  to  take  up  arms  against 
the  Soutii  and  be  arrayed  against  his  own  brothers 
whnm  he  dearlj'  loved.  His  home  was  for  many 
nu)ntlis  tlie  military  headquarters  of  Major  (ien- 
eral  George  H.  Thomas  and  staff,  pricu*  to  the 
spring  of  1802,  but  he  remained  a  non-combatant. 
His  brotherly  feelings  toward  the  present  writer,  forehead,  and  was  a  liamlsdiiie  man.  His  niaiiii'f 
however,  triumphed  over  his  loyalty  for  once;  for  was  exceedingly  courteons,  l<indly  and  dignilied, 
only  a  few  days  before  the  Battle  of  Perryville  he  He  was  on(^  of  tiiose  gallant,  self  loigei  i  ing  and 
purchased  f<U'  that  young  "Itebel"  brother  a  hue  practical  men  wiin  was  always  ready  to  render 
horse  in  Lebanon,  which  that  brother  rode  over  timely  assistance  to  peu|ile  in  tronbie.  \\  lierever 
the  hills  in  and  around  Perryville  all  day  and  half  he  haiJi^ened  to  be  he  was  sure  lo  be  found  miuis- 
the  night  of  October  8,  18(52,  and  then  out  of  the     tering  to  the  comfoi-t    ami    sal'eiy  nC   tlmse   .-ilidnt 


\\  iliiaiii  liiniseli'  dieil  nf  ihc  s;inie  ailment  in  1807. 
As  neillier  (it  1  lie  p:  in  Ml  is  nnr  lii'di  hers  nor  sisters  of 

William  and  'I'l s  liail  e\ci-  had  i  hat  disease,  it 

is  possihli-  llial.  \\  illiaiii  may  imve  contracted  it 
while  nursing  jiis  w  ife;  and  as  AVilliam  was  rather 
intinmtely  assneinled  with  Thiniias  fmni  time  to 
lime  alinni  Ihis  |ieiiud,  it  is  also  ]iossible  that  the 
lal  lei-  derivcil  il  from  \\illiam.  'riiomns  tried  va- 
rions  health  I'esoi-is,  and  soiiglil  Ihe  aid  of  ditfer- 
eiit  ])liysicians  of  note.  bn(  lo  no  gond  iiiii'pose; 
and  aft(>r  an  illness  of  nlioiii  |  wd  years  he  |i,-issed 
away  on  the  IJOth  day  of  .Inly,  isiis.  whi-n  in  his 
forty-lliird  year-.  His  wife  follnwed  him  .Inly  2, 
1S()1).  They  had  se\en  iliihli-eii.  all  sons,  foni'  of 
whom  died  in  infani-,\-.  The  following  ufew  lo 
manhood:  (ai  W.  ('.  \\'()()i)s;  lb)  John  1».,  who 
is  now  dead;  and  (c)  Cr.AKKNCi:  E. 

Thomas  C.  AYoods  was  strikingly  Ukv.  iiis  father 
in  his  physique  and  in  liis  temperanu'nt.  He  waa 
rather  slendei-.  and  not  nineli  nnder  six  feet  in 
height.  His  eyes  were  bine,  ami  his  hair  was 
brown  with  a  deeided  tendency  to  eni'l.  He  had 
the  A^'oods  nose,     lie  had  a  hi-oad  and  iiitelleel  nal 


State  with  (Jeueral  Bragg  to  Tennessee.  Not  long 
after  settling  in  Lebanon  Thomas  entered  into  a 
copartnership  with  Mr.  John  Shuck,  an  able  law- 
yer, and  the  law  lirm  of  "Shuck  &  Woods"  was  one 
favorably  known  throughout  Kentucky  for  ability 
and  sterling  integrity.  This  copartnership  was 
dissolved  about    1804,   when   Mr.   Shuck    became 


iiim  wlio  were  in  |iei-il  or  who  had  mei  wiih  aeii- 
dents.  He  seemed  lo  know  jnsi  what  to  do  in 
emergencies,  and  did  it  i|nickly  and  well.  It  may 
be  doubtetl  if  there  has  e\'er  li\cd  a  man   in    Leba- 


non  who   was   more  geneialU    irnsied 


liked. 


No  one  ever  seems  to  lia\e  qneslioned  his  nprigjit- 
ness  or  his  goodness  id'  heart.     He  had  much  of 


completely  disabled  by  paralysis  and  retired  from  his  father's  deliberation  ami  self-poise,  and  rarely 

practice.     Not  many  years  thereafter  Mr.  Woods's  ever  becanu'  iinohed   in   personal  dillienllies  with 

health  also  began  to  show  signs  of  decline,     lie  had  other  men;  and  yei   he  was  high-spirited  and  not 

never  been  a  very  robust  man,  though  he  had  en-  afi-iid  to  mainlain  his  riglits.     He  was  one  of  the 

joyed  good  health  with  the  exception  of  some  dys-  truest   Clirislian    genilemen    this   wi'iter   bas   ever 

peptic  symptoms.     The  wife  of  his  lirother  Wil-  known. 

Ham  had  died  of  tubercular  disease  in   18(12  and  Miss  Mary  .\nn  .lacUson,   the  second   child  and 


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only  (]niit;ht(n'  of  TIhuiims  .T;|(1<s(iii  l)y  his  wife 
NancY  Kogcrs,  iicr  IJudiiinn.  was  Ihii'ii  -Taiuiarv  ">, 
1830.  Mr.  Jarksuii  was  lioni  in  Washington 
County,  Kcutufky,  DccciiiIh'T-  2."),  1798.  In  1812, 
when  the  sohlicvs  were  nnisterini!,'  at  Springfield, 
Kentucky,  jircpaving  to  enter  ilie  service  against 
England — lie  heing  llien  nol  fonrleen  years  old — 
Thomas  Jackson  acted  as  druniiner  for  the 
troops;  and  the  large  I'.ilde  wliicli  tlie  soldiers  then 
presented  him  in  recognition  of  his  patriotic 
services  is  now  in  the  jiossession  of  liis  grandson, 
Mr.  Will  C.  Woods.  He  began  tlie  trade  of  black- 
smithing  about  1817,  and  December  20,  1821,  was 
married  to  Miss  Nancy  IJogers  Rodman, 
daughter  of  David  Rodman,  of  Washington 
County,  Kentucky,  and  soon  after  he  moved  to 
Lelianou,  which  town,  after  tlie  formation  of 
Marion  Countj-  (in  1831),  became  tlie  county  seat. 
About  18G0  he  ceased  to  work  at  bis  trade,  though 
he  still  had  his  shop  caT'i'ied  on,  and  during  the 
Civil  ^^'ar  secured  reinniiei-atixc  contracts  from 
the  United  Htates  Covernmeiit.  \Mien  he  died,  on 
January  8,  187(5,  he  left  a  considerable  estate.  His 
wife  had  preceded  him  some  years,  she  having  died 
October,  1872.  This  couple  had  celebrated  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  their  marriage  Iteccmber 
20,  1871. 

Thomas  .Jackson  was  the  son  of  .Tolin  Jackson 
(born  November  21,  1770)  and  his  wife  Susannah, 
vcr  Thomas  (born  P'ebruary  24,  1775).  John  and 
Susannah  married  b^'bruai-y  24,  171)"),  and  made 
their  home  in  Washington  County,  Kentucky. 
John  Jackson  died  Febmary  2(i,  1833,  and  Susan- 
nah sTirvived  him  only  a  few  months,  dying  June 
27,  1833.  Thomas  Jackson  and  his  wife  Nancy 
had  but  two  children  that  reached  mature  years, 
namely:  1,  Tluuuas  Cleland,  who  was  born  De- 
cember 2,  1827;  married  :Miss  Eliza  (Ireene,  and 
by  her  had  a  daughter,  Molli(>,  who  married  a 
Ruckner;  a  son  Tlinmas  C.,  Jr.,  who  is  married; 
ami  a  son  Charles  (ireene,  wlio  lives  in  Chicago. 
The  second  child  of  Thomas  and  Nancy  Jackson 
was  a  daughter,  Miu-y  Ann,  of  whom  mention  has 
alreadv  been  made. 


The  wife  i>\'  Thomas  Jackson,  as  above  noted, 
was  ^liss  Nancy  Rodman,  a  daughter  of  David 
Rodman  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  ncc  Head.  Said 
David  Rodman  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  177G; 
came  to  Washington  County,  Kentucky,  in  the 
early  jiioneer  jieriod;  was  a  soldier  in  the  War 
of  1812;  was  sheriff  of  Washington  County  in 
182.");  and  died  in  18.");i.  David  Rodman  liad  a 
sister  Catharine  Jane,  who  married  Charles  Mur- 
ray and  had  by  him  a  large  family  of  children. 
The  Rodmans  and  Murrays  came  to  America  from 
County  Antrim,  Ireland.  They  intermarried  in 
Ireland  and  aft<'rwar(ls  in  xVmerica.  David  Rod- 
nnni  came  to  Kentiu'ky  down  the  Ohio  in  a  fiat- 
boat  in  the  year  1777  (177'J?),  and  on  that  trip 
Indians  attacked  the  party  and  David's  father 
was  slain  in  the  fight.  The  Miss  Head  whom 
David  married  was  a  half-sister  of  the  distin- 
guished ilethodist  preacher,  Rev.  Jesse  Head. 

SKETCH    88. 
C.  E.  WOODS.  RICHMOND,  KENTUCKY. 

Mit.  Cl.muom'k  Evkuktt  \\'uui)S^  seventh  and 
youngest  child  f)f  Thomas  Cleland  Woods  and 
Mary  Ann  Jackson  >Vo(»ds,  was  born  in  Lebancm, 
Kentucky,  July  31,  ISfio,  attended  the  Louisville 
city  schools,  i-eceiving  the  highest  honors  in  all  his 
studies  in  his  class  of  sixty  pupils.  Attended 
Central  University,  Richmond,  Ky.,  1884-G,  and 
married  ^fiss  ^Mamie  Patterson  ^liller,  eldest  child 
of  Judge  ^Vm.  C.  and  Susie  White  ]\niler,  of  Rich- 
mond, Ky.,  October  13,  188G;  she  died  August  7, 
1890,  and  is  buried  in  the  Col.  R.  X.  White  lot  in 
the  Uichimmd  Cemetery.  C.  E.  Woods  founded 
the  Lebanon  Enterprise  in  188G,  but  a  year  later 
accepted  the  associate  editorship  of  the  Richmond 
(Ky. )  liegiufcr.  later  became  its  editor  and  man- 
ager, and  from  189(j  to  1900  edited  the  Richmond 
diiiiux.  Concerning  his  talented  and  efficient 
work  upon  the  J'vijifitvf  the  following  from  the 
president  of  the  Nati(jual  Editorial  Association  is 
sufficient  testimonial: 

"I  assur(>  you  that  we  have  no  exchange  that  is 
mor(i   valiu'd    than    the  Rrgistn;  for   there   is   cer- 


SKETCHES  OF  PATRONS.  400 

(aiiily  uo  truer  journalistic  type  of  wluit  is  noblest      purse  wciv  ever  ;il  iIm^  <■.. ami  uf  umiliv  ..hj.-cts, 

in  the  State  in  which  it  is  published,  an. I   Ihal    is  su   murli   s.,   Ilial    ii    lias   \„-ru   said   ihai    KirlimmHi 

saying  a  great  deal."— E.  W.  Sicplicns,  I'uhlislicr  has  no  ni..rc  inil\  pnlilic- sjiiriicl  ciii/.-n  iliau  i  Mar- 

Colunibia     (Mo.),     Hcnild,     President     National      cnrr  W Is.      I',,i-  aliniii    Iniirlcin  years  he  edited 

p:dit.u-ial  Association.  ,1,,.   p.,,„,,.,^   I,,.,,.   ,,i,,,    .,    ^i^m    ,,,.,,    ^..,,,.   ,,,,„    .^^ 

August   5,   189G,   was  married   to   .Miss   Mattie      envialde  rei.iiial  imi   ai    hnme  an<l    ihinii-l i    tlie 

:\lc])ona]d  Clienault.  tliird  daughter  of  William  Slale.  lie  nn.-e  iceeived  a  hi  let-  fium  the  I'lvsi- 
Uvertou  and  Caledonia  Miller  Cheuault,  of  i:ich-  (h'lil  ..f  ihe  Xaihuial  lldii.n'ial  Association  say- 
mcmd,  Ky.  One  child,  Mamie  Miller  Woods,  horn  ing  his  paper  'represeiile.l  all  ihal  was  ( itiesl  and 
August  IG,  181)7,  named  for  his  first  wife  and  f(.r  nol)l(>st  in  Ihe  inland  jnurnalisin  ..f  Keniiirky."  Wi- 
lier maternal  aunt,  Mrs.  jManiie  (Jiienault  Smith,  a      have  (jfleii  heard  Mr.  W Is  say,  in  di.srussing  the 

woman   of  exalted  piety,   and  loveliness   of  char-  prevalenl    hahil    nf  people  asking   free  service  of 

acler,   whose  counterpart  lie  could   wish  his  child  editors,  ihal   he  h.id  given  gratis  more  n[  his  lime 

t*'  ''C-  and  talent    than  any   niemher  of  any  oiher  profes- 

In  1894  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  unaui-  sion  of  liis  aeipiainlanee,  -rnr."  said  In-,  -iieoyile  ;isk 
mously  elected  Grand  Recorder  and  Editor  (d'  the  an  editor  and  a  preaclier  to  do  free  tliat  wliich 
J)(U(i  of  the  Sigma  Nu  Fraternity  of  the  United  they  would  not  ihiidc  of  im])osiiig  u])on  a  lawyer,  a 
States;  re-elected  to  the  position  five  times.  In  doctor,  a  merchant  or  a  nn-elianic.'  And  yet  he 
^lay,  1!)03,  he  was  appointed  assistant  secretary  m-ver  re-fused  a  reipn-st — and  his  ediiorial  linihreu 
to  I'liiled  States  Senator  McCreary,  of  Kentucky,  all  know  thai  sine.-  he  tenijioiarily  h-ft  active 
Is  a  UK-mlK-r  of  the  following  orders :  Indejiendeut  journalism  he  has  heeu  <'\(-r  responsive  to  their 
Order  of  (lood  Teini^lars  (1878);  Sigma  Nu  Fra-  appeals  for  assistance-.  This  fad  wai'iants  our 
leruily  (188."));  Kentucky  Press  Association  personal  tribut(>  to  gratitude  now. 
(1887);  Masonic  Fraternity  (1805);  Ancient  "There  are  many  men  in  tin-  c(unninnity  c(|ually 
Order  of  United  Workingnien  (18!I9)  ;  Benevolent  htted  for  the  count  less  jiositions  .Mr.  Woods  was 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  (1!)00)  ;  Independ-  constantly  called  upon  to  lill,  hut  sellishness,  or  in- 
cut ()rd(-r  of  Odd  Fellows  (1903);  Daughters  of  difference,  or  laziness  on  iheir  part  and  willing- 
lJel)i-kah  (1903).  Joined  the  Presbyterian  Church  ness  n]»on  his,  made  him  sul)j(-ct  to  calls  for  ser- 
1888,  and  made  a  deacon  1890.  The  following  vices  Iieii-  or  there.  Not  only  for  tin-  living  Imt 
from  the  Richmond  (JUmux  (A.  D.  Miller,  Editor),  for  llie  dead  he  gavt-  his  time  and  talents. 
Oecember,   1903,  is  repuldished:  "He    has    tilled    four    ])ul]>ils    liere    during    the 

"Tlie  latest  accession  to  the  colony  of  Richmond  ((-mi»orary  absence  of  ihe  pastors:  at  the  graves 
citizens  at  \\'ashingtoii  is  Mr.  Clarence  E.  Woods,  (d'  fraternal  dead  he  has  frei|nently  perfoiined  the 
wlio  has  assumed  the  duties  of  Assistant  Secretary  ollice  of  chaplin  in  the  ab.sence  of  (he  regular 
to  United  States  Senator  James  R.  Md'reary,  of  oflici-rs.  .\t  <-el(-l)iat  ions  of  ihe  odd  Fellows  and 
this  city,  who,  with  Mrs.  McCreary,  left  here  on  Daughters  (d'  Kebekah  Lodges  he  has  delivered  ad- 
November  3  to  take  up  his  residence  at  the  splendid  dresses,  and  at  the  alnnuii  banipu-t  (d'  tiie  i)nblic 
new  Hotel  >Villard,  so  we  see  by  the  Wasliington  school.  The  charity  conunittee  of  tlH>  Elks  Tyodge 
dispatches  to  the  Times,  to  remain  there  until  the  can  testify  to  his  devoted  seiTicos  to  (he  ordi-r,  as 
clos(-  of  Congress,  some  time  ne.xt  Jnm-.  well  as  having  constantly  served  on  its  laborious 

"Mr.   ^\'oods  will  l>e  missed   in  many  ways,  for  commit ti-es    on    resolutions.     The     Prandial    Club 

he  was  identitied  with  nearly  all  the  best  activities  lately  .-b-cled  him  secrc-lary  for  the  fourth  time,  he 

of  the  city,   in   capacities  that  always  called   for  having  displayed  ihe  highesi  capaciiv    for  ])rcserv- 

service  or  sacrifice  upon  liis  part.     His  talents  and  ing  in  interesting  form  ihe  liisiory  of  tlie  meetings 


404  THE  WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

of  tluit  cxcelk'nt  organization  nf  professional  and  M.  Creel,  of  Lonisville,  Keutnclvj,  with  wliom  she 

husiiicss  men.     Church  celelnal  ions,  tlie  Y.  M.  C.  made  her  home  until  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Henry 

A.,   file  Inrtrmary,  public  entertainments,  regard-  S.   'I'vler,  .June  7,  1S82.     She  received  her  educa- 

less  of    denomination,  always  demanded    his  aid,  lion    |n-iuri])ally   at     the   private   school    of    Miss 

and  lie  entered  into  Ilieiii  wilh  sjtirit  and  vigor.  I'.elle  I'eers,  of  Louisville.     By  Mr.  Tyler  she  had 

"Recognizing  the  dominant  element  in  his  com-  lliree  children,  as  follows:  (a)  Henry  Gwathmey 

posilioa — lidelily   to   friends — and   his  fitness  and  Tvlkr,   who    died   IMarch     11,   1887;    (b)     Nancy 

devotion    to  the  ordei',   tile   n;iliomil    fraternity  of  Tiiomi-sox     Tylek,     who     resides     in     Brookline, 

8igma    Xu,  with  half  a  hnndi-ed  lodges  and  thou-  Massachusetts,  with  her  step-father,  ^[r.  J.  Tracy 

sanils  of  mendx-rs,  has  elected  Mr.  Woods  five  sue-  Eustis;  and  |c)  John  Til'  Tyler_,  who  also  resides 

cessive  times  Hrand   Recorder  and    Editor  of   its  in   T'.rookline  with  Mr.   Eustis.     Mary  was  left  a 

magazine,  the  -Jti  li<i.'  the  rivid  of  the  finest  Greek  widow  about  the  close  of  1895  by  the  death  of  Mr. 

fralei'nily  magazines  in  Ameiica.  Tyler,  w  ho  was  then  the  Mayor  of  Louisville.   June 

"As  secretary  of  nciirly  every  Democratic  county  S,  IS'.IS,  she  was  married  to  Mr.  Joseph  Tracy 
(•((uveution  here  for  fifteen  yeni's,  as  a  fearless  and  ICustis,  of  r.i-oid<liue,  .Massachusetts.  Ry  her  sec- 
effective  champion  of  Denuuiaey,  and  as  the  life-  ond  husband  .Mary  had  one  child,  namely: 
long  supporter  of  Hon.  James  1>.  ;McCreary,  from  ^^■lI.LIA.M  Tkacy  Ersris,  Second,  who  was  born 
his  second  race  for  Congress  to  the  i)resent  hour,  November  1(1,  1S!»'.),  and  lived  but  one  week. 
Mr.  Woods  commended  himself  to  the  graces  of  ^Mary's  own  deatb  occurred  at  Rroidcline  only  one 
the  Senator,  whose  action  in  making  him  his  as-  day  after  this  child  was  born — November  17, 1S99 — 
sistant  secretary  met  with  a]i]iroval  here  and  when  nearly  forty  years  of  age.  Her  mother  be- 
wherever  he  was  known.  fore    her     had     surrendered     her   own    life     under 

"As  Mr.  Woods's  friend,  and  in  the  endeavor  to  precisely  the  same  sad  circumstances  when  only  a 
repay  some  of  the  services  he  so  freely  performed  little  ])ast  thirty  years  (dd.  .Mary  was  a  woman 
for  the  CI'uDd.r  and  its  staff,  this  tribute  is  printed,  <if  handsome  face  and  form,  and  of  unusuallv  at- 
believing  it  to  be  better  to  whisper  in  a  listening  tractive  character.  She  was  a  jtrofessing  Chris- 
ear  than  to  soun<l  it  above  a  coflined  form."  tian  froju  early  womanhood,  and  a  nu'inber  of  the 

l^piscojial  ('hurcli.     Her  body,  together  with  those 

^'  of  her  mother,  her  first  husband  and  her  first-born 

MRS.  MARY  T.  EUSTIS  (Deceased).  ^-jiji^]^    r^,j,t^     j,,    h.-autiful     Cave    Hill     Cemetery, 

The  full  maiden  name  of  Mrs.  Eustis  was  Mary  Louisville. 
Miller  Creel,  the  first  child  of  IL'ury  E.  Creel  by  Mary    McAfee   ^\'oods,   who.se    second    husband 

his  second   wife,  :Mary  .McAfee,   ihc   Woods.     She  was  31r.  Henry  E.  Creel,  who  was  the  mother  of 

was   born    in    Louisville,   Kentucky,    February   2G,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  sixth  child  of 

lS(i(».      Her  mother  died  Januaiy  1*1*,   ISdl',   when  James    Harvey   and   Sarah    E.    Woods.      She   was 

Mary    was   not  (luite   two  years  old.      Her  father  born    in    Harrodsburg,    Kentucky,    September   22, 

died   a   few  years  later.     She,   therefore,  probably  18:J1.     In  1844,  when  about  thirteen  years  of  age, 

had  no  recollection  at  all  of  her  mother,  and  but  she  confessed  Christ  as  her  Saviour  and  was  re- 

lillle  of   her   father.      I'or  about    three  years  she  ceived   into  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Harrods- 

li\id    in    hebanon,   Kentucky,    with    the    family   of  burg  undi'r  the  ministry  of  the  sainted  Rev.   Dr. 

her    uncle,    Thomas   C.    Woods;   and    for   about   a  John   Montgomery.      The  testimony  of  thosi'   who 

year     and     a    half    with    her     uncle,    Neander   il.  knew  her  well  is  that  she  was  unc(unmonly   bril- 

Woods,  in  St.  Louis,  .Missouri.     In  June,  1871,  she  liant  and  beautiful  as  a  young  woman.     She  was 

went  to  live   with  her  half-brother,    :Mr.    lUickner  high-spirited,    and     rather    (|uick-tempered;    and, 


MRS.  MARY  TYLER  EUSTIS. 

tDECEASED.) 

(See  Sketch  No.  89.] 


NANCY  THOMPSON  TYLER. 
(See  Sketch  No.  8g.( 


JOHN  TIP  TYLER. 
(Sec  Sketch  No   89.] 


40G  THE    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

wlicn  coiisciniis  of    Ix'iiiL;'  wroiiiicd,  cduld    he  via-      liis  1 ic  a.  pleasant  one  for  his  secmid  wife.     P,y 

(liclive.      She  was  liraduated    rrciii   Greenville   In-  liiai  she  liad  two  children,  lo  wil  :     Maky  Milleu 

stitnfe,    llarcodshnrji',    wlien    onl.v    sixteen.      That  Crkkl.  tlie  siilijerl    of  this  sketch;  and  an   infant, 

school    was  i)n'sided   over  at   ihe   lime  by  a   Pro-  horn    hnt   a    few   days   hefore   its    moljier's   death, 


fossov    ^Mnllins;    and     in    aft<'r    years    it     became  and  which  sur\ived  her  only  ahont  len  days.     Mrs. 

Dan"hters  CoUeiic,  and  was  condncted  hy  the  late  Creel   passed  away  .laniiaiy  I'L',    ISC,:.',  when  hnt  a 

John  Anu'iist lis  >\'illianis  for  a  lonii' series  of  years.  little     ])ast     hei-    thirtieth     year.       Ueaiitifnl,     ac- 

:Marv    Woods    was    nndonhtedly    named     for    the  conii)lislie(l,   and     attractive;   and     lilessed,   ajqiar- 

mother  of  her  father — Mary  McAfee,  a  danghter  ently,  -witli   the  nutst  vipn-ons  health,  and  known 

of  James  McAfee,  the  old  pioneer  who  led  an  ex-  for   her   merry   and    vivacious   tem])erameut;   one 

]»lorin<i-  and  snrveyini;  party  into  Kentnclcy  in  the  wonhl  certainly  have  predicted  for  her  not  only  a 

Slimmer  of  177o.     Fen- a  few  years  after  her  i>radii-  loiiu',  Imt   a  lia]>py,  life.     And  yet  her  career  was 

ation  Marv  iauiiht  school.     On  the  nineteenth  day  not  only  lirief,  Init   mainly  one  of  trial.     Slie  was 

of  Oeceiiiher,  IS.IO,  she  was  married  to  a  Mr.  Rich-  called,  in  more  ways  tlian  one,  to  drink  the  cnp  of 

niond    Oedman,    of     Fayette     (lonnty,    Kentncky.  hnniiliation  and  bitterness.     Rnt   slie  died,  as  slie 

Several  of  the  sons  of  Samnel  Dednian,  of  Albe-  had  lived,  a   Ixdiever  in  Olirist,  and  a  niember  of 

niarle  Oonnty,  Virginia,  had  settled  in  Kentncky  the  rresliyterian    Church;  and  we    donbt  not  she 

abont  lTi).j-1810.     One  of  these  sons  was  Nathaniel  found,  as  siie  passed  into  liie  presence  of  her  Lord, 

Dedman,  of  Versailles,  who  was  Mary's  maternal  that  earth  hatli   no  soia-ows  that  heaven  can  not 

..■rand fa1  her.      The    Richmond     Dedman    who     be-  heal. 

came  :\rary's  first  husband  was,  almost  certainly,  Mr.  Henry  S.  Tyler,  the  first  husband  of  Mary 
either  a  son  or  a  grandson  of  one  of  Nathaniel  Ded-  Miller  Creel,  was  a  niember  of  one  of  the  most 
man's  lirothers,  and  hence  a  cousin  to  jNIary.  This  prominent  families  of  Lonisville.  lie  was  born 
marriage  was  a  most  happy  one  (so  far  as  con-  September  I'O,  1S.-,1.  His  father  was  Henry  S. 
cerned  the  relations  which  existed  between  her-  Tyler  (whose  name  he  bore)  and  his  mother  was 
self  and  her  husband  |,  hnt  .Mr.  Dedman's  life  was  :\riss  Rebecca  (iwatliniey.  Mr.  Tyler  was  well  edn- 
cnt  short  bv  death  in  less  tlian  one  year  after  their  oated,  and  a  man  of  high  intelligence  and  great 
marriage,  leaving  her  a  widow  Itefore  she  had  force  of  character.  He  entered  commercial  life  on 
reached  her  twentieth  year.  Slie  did  not  have  any  leaving  school,  and  gradually  rose  to  high  posi- 
child  bv  this  marriage.  tion.  As  execntor  of  the  large  estate  of  his  de- 
Mrs.  Dedman  remained  a  widow  for  more  than  ceased  father  he  showed  fine  bnsiness  capacity, 
nine  years  after  her  first  husliand's  death,  daring  For  years  he  was  prominently  engaged  in  the  in- 
which  jteiiod  slie  was,  for  about  six  years,  occn-  snrance  bnsiness.  He  finally  drifted  into  political 
pied  with  the  duties  of  a  teacher  in  the  female  life,  and  was  for  two  terms  a  member  of  the  Oeu- 
school  which  her  brothel-,  the  Rev.  William  U.  eral  Conncil  of  Lonisville.  In  IS.Sit  he  stood  for 
Woods,  was  carrying  on  at  Oreensburg,  Kentncky.  the  mayoralty  of  the  city,  and  was  elected.  In 
While  there  she  was  more  than  once  addressed  by  ISUl  he  was  elected  jNIayor  a  second  time,  and  for 
Mr.  Henry  E.  Creel,  of  Lonisville,  a  widower  Avith  the  third  time  in  1803.  It  was  abont  the  close  of 
several  children,  three  of  whom  were  grown.  On  his  third  term  that  death  claimed  him  for  its  own, 
the  twenty-second  of  June,  IS")!),  she  and  ^Ir.  Creel  he  dying  in  his  forty-tifth  year.  It  was  said  of 
were  married,  and  she  went  Avith  him  to  live  in  him  by  one  who  Avrote  of  him  at  the  time  of  his 
Louisville,  his  two  younger  children,  both  sons,  decease  that  Mayor  Tyler  "was  one  of  the  few 
coming  under  her  care  in  the  home.  Mr.  Creel  men  who  are  most  liked  by  those  who  know  them 
was  a  man  of  kind  heart,  and  endeavored  to  make  best"     His  two  surviving  children,  Na-ucy  Thomp- 


J.  HARVEY  WOODS, 

i7g2-iS6o. 

FROAl   MINIATURE   PAINTED    IN    lSl6. 

[See  Sketch  No.  go  J 


SARAH  I. 


I  h.MANi  WOODS. 


FROm   I'lljlO    lAKt.V   IN    1858. 

ISee  Sketch  No.  90.) 


SALLIE  H.  (BEHRE)  WOODS. 

LOUISVILLE,   KY. 
FROM   PHOTO  TAKEN   IN   1898. 

[See  Sketch  No.  90.J 


ALICE  (BIRKHEAD)  WOODS. 

1S45188J. 

FROM   PHOTO  TAKEN   IN   1869. 

[See  Sketch  No.  90.I 


REV    NEANDER  M.  WOODS.  D,  D. 

LOUISVILLE,   KY. 

[See  Sketch  No.  go.  I 


SKETCHES  OF  TATKONS. 


409 


son  aud  John  Ti]),  reside  with  their  slop-father, 
Mr.  J.  T.  Eustis,  in  Broolcliue,  Massaclnisetts,  to 
wliom  they  are  devotedly  attached. 

SKETCH  90. 
REV.  NEANDER  M.  WOODS,  LOUISVIM.E,  KENTUCKY. 
Eev.  Neander  M.  Woods,  tlie  anthor  of  tliis 
work,  Avas  the  hist  child  of  Jiniies  TTarvey  and 
Sarah  Everett  Woods,  and  was  horn  Sepleinlicr  4, 
1844,  at  narrodshurs',  Kentuclvv.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  tlie  schools  of  his  native  town,  including,' 
Kentucky  University,  wliicli  had  not  ye(  lieen  re- 
moved to  Lexington,  llis  fatlier  dyini;-  wIicti  he 
was  yonng-,  he  was  thrown  on  liis  own  resources 
while  yet  in  his  teens.  For  a  time  l)efore  the  Civil 
A\'ar,  and  for  several  years  after  its  close,  he  was 
engaged  in  the  drug  business.  During  (lie  war  he 
was  in  the  Confederate  Army  (Cavalry  Service). 
For  a  time  he  served  in  the  h'irst  Tennessee  Bat- 
talion, and  later  in  the  Sixth  Kenlucky  Regiment; 
and  for  ahout  six  months  was  contined  in  Federal 


Scniinai-y,  and  was  :i(  onrc  ciilli'il  (o  iln^  ]i;isloi'ate 
ot  ihc  Scrond  rrrslix  li-iinn  <'linnli.  Norfolk.  \'ir- 
ginia,  where  he  hilinrcd  nc;iily  ciLilil  years.  In 
March,  1SS1,  he  ai'diilcd  a  call  lo  iIm-  i'irst  I'res- 
livli'i'ian  <'lini(li.  (lalxcslon.  Texas.  Iml  liis  wife's 
IiimHIi  al  once  ga\'e  way  lliei-e:  and.  adin^.^  on  the 
ui'getil  ad\ice  of  liei-  ]ihysicians.  lie  resigned  his 
charge  a(  (lie  close  of  1SS1,  and  accepled  a  call  (o 
(he  Second  I'i'esliylerian  ('lim-cli.  <'liailnne.  N'oi'di 
Carolina.  Here  his  wife  dieil  in  .liine.  Isv;;.  |n 
-Fiine.  iSSi;.  he  was  called  In  (lie  I''ii-s(  I'resliylerian 
Chnrcli.  Cnlnmlda.  Sondi  ('ai-<ilina.  In  .liine. 
ISST,  (lie  honorary  degi'ee  of  Itocioc  ot  l)i\ini(v 
was  confei-red  iipoii  him  liy  Central  Tni\'ei'sity,  of 
Ivicliniond.  Keidiicky.  In  (lie  sin-ing  of  1SS!l  he 
T'ecei\('d  a  call  from  (he  Second  rreNliy(erian 
Cliui'ch,  of  .Meiiiphis,  Tennessee,  ami  liere,  per- 
hajis,  (he  ]arges(  and  lies(  wni-|<  of  his  life  was  ac- 
com](lished.  In  ^lay,  11H11,  (he  Cicneral  Assembly 
of  (he  I'resbylei-ian  Cliiii-cli  in  (he  Cniled  Slates 
met  a(    bidle  Kocl<,   Ai'kansas,  and   lie  was  chosen' 


military  prisons.     ,Vfter  the  war  he  took  a  special      Modei-alor  of  (lia(  body  wi(hon(  opposKion.  by  ac- 

course  at  Michigan  University   (Ann  Arbor)   and      clamadou.     Unring  his  ;\Iein|iliis  |ias(oraie.  which 

graduated  in  the  class  of  1S(>7,  he  having  i)revi- 

ously   married  Miss  Alice    Uii'khead,   January    3, 

18()<i.      During  the  last  year  of  his  experience  in 

(he  drug  business  he  read  law  in  privale,  having 

for  years  preferred     the   legal   profession     (o  any 


continued  for  more  (lian  lliiileeii  \eai's,  liis  cliui-ch 
mo\cd  from  i(s  fonner  local  ion  i  coniei'  of  .Main 
and  r>eale  streets )  and  erec(eil  a  new  church  at 
(he  corner  of  lleinaiiilo  and  I'on(o(oc  streets. 
The   lol    and    IniildiiiL;   and    fii niisliint;s  cost  8145,- 


other.     As  soon  as  it  was  practicable,  he  entered      "'(K).  an<l  ii   was  liis  pri\  ilege  (o  see  (Iw  whob'  paid 


the  Law  Department  of  Washington  Univei'sity, 
St.  Louis,  aud  attended  the  lectures.  In  due  time 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  St.  Louis.  .Vfler 
practising  law  in  that  city  for  a  time,  lie  became 
convinced  that  he  ought  to  enter  the  (iosjjel  min 
istry ;  and,  acting  on  the  advice  of  Kev.  Drs.  James 
II.  Brookes,  Kobert  G.  Brank  and  Bobert  1*.  Farris, 
he  abandoned  the  law,  and  repairi'd  (o  Union  Sem- 
inary, Virginia,  to  study  divinity.  He  had  con- 
fessed Christ  and  united  \\ith  tlu'  Presbyterian 
Church   before  attaining   his   (wen(ie(h   year,    but 


for,  and  (he  clini-cli  free  of  debl.  before  he  left 
Memjihis.  In  (lie  earl\  snmniei'  of  I'.tO'J  the  Sec- 
ond I'resbylei'ian  ('lini'ch,  of  I.oiiis\ille,  Kentucky, 
gave  him  a  hearty  and  praclically  unamimous  call 
to  become  its  pastor,  and  lie  began  his  jiastnrate  in 
that  field  July  L'O.  l'.)()2,  where  he  is  still  laboring. 
.\f(er  (he  deadi  of  his  first  wife  he  was  married 
May  20,  ISS.*.,  Ill  Miss  Sallie  llendeis.)n  l!elire.  of 
W'allerboro,  Soiilli  ('aiolina.  I'.y  his  lirsl  wife  he 
had  four  childfcii  and  ii,\  his  last  wife  he  lias  iiad 
live,     (hie  little  daiiuhier  li\  i-acli  marriage  died  in 


the  question  of  entering  the  ministry  had  not  re-  infamy.     The  other  seven  cliildicn  are  now  living, 

ceived  his  special  attention   until  a  year  or   two  the    Ihrt'o   older   (Uics   being    marrieil    and    having 

before  reaching  his  final  decision.     In  the  spring  families  of  their  own.     The  cliihlr<  n  Imrue  io  him 

of  1873  he  finished  his  course  in  the  Theological  by   his  first   wife  were  die    following:      1,   Emma 


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I?irklica(l,  wlio  iiiai'ricd  David  Bell  Maoi;«>Avan,  and       in   1S44,  and  li.v  her  had  two  cliildrcn,  namely:  1, 


resides  in  St.  I'eleisldir^',  lliissia  ;  2,  T'^lovenee  Boon!', 
wlio  married  lleni'v  II.  Wade,  and  resides  in 
Memphis,  Tennessee;  3,  Alice  I)e<liiiaii,  w  lio  died 
when  aliont  fonr  year.^  old;  and  4,  Neander  .Mont- 
gomery, dr.,  wlio  married  ^liss  Tallnlah  (laeliet, 
and  Ii\('s  in  .Memphis,  Tennessee.  The  tliree  mar- 
ried   cliildrcn,  alune    mentioned,  are    all    oriiiinal 


Alice,  of  wliom  this  sketch  treats;  and  2,  Emma, 
who  married  William  R.  Smyth  (now  dead),  had 
by  him  a  son,  Albert,  and  a  daniihier,  .Mice.  Mrs. 
Smyth  aTid  her  dani^hter  reside  in  St.  Louis.  ]\lr. 
Iiirklicad  was  for  many  yeai's  associated  in  luisi- 
ness  with  .Mr.  K.  C  Kyle,  above-mentioned,  in 
Lonisville,  where  the  tirm  carried  on  an  iron  and 


patrons  of    this  work,  and  have  sketches    herein.      stove   foundry.     .Mi-.    Birkhead   died    Deceudter   7, 

1848,  when  only  aliout  thirty  years  old.  lie  was 
buried  in  the  old  Eastern  Cemetery,  Louisville,  in 
the  Boone  lot,  and  a  neat  monument  marks  his 
yrave. 

Alice    Birkhead  was    edmated,  in    part,  in  the 
Louisville  imblic  schools,  partly  in  a  school  taught 


See  Sketches  91-92-93. 

By  iiis  second  marriage  he  has  had  the  following 
children:  1,  Alice  Behre,  Avho  is  now  (190r))  in 
the  ScTiior  Class  of  tiie  Girls"  High  School,  Louis- 
\ille;  2,  .Vunie  Howe,  who  lived  but  a  few  months; 
3,    Everett   Dedman,  who    is    now    (lOO."))   in    the 


Freshman  Class  of  the  :\rale  High  School,  Louis-      i,_^.  ^  Mr.  Gilchrist  in  Shelby  (/ouuty,  Indiana,  and 


ville;  4,  Cari-ie  A\'cbb,  who  is  now  (lOO.j)  in  Grade 
No.  7  of  the  Kentucky  Street  Scho(d,  Louisville; 
and  ."),  James  McAfee,  who  is  now  (19(1."))  in  Grade 
No.  .")  of  the  Kentucky  Street  School,  Louisville. 
.Ml  of  tlie  seven  living  children  are  communicauts 


partly  at  Science  Hill,  Shell>yville,  Kentucky, 
under  the  care  of  ;\Irs.  Julia  Tevis,  the  famous  edu- 
cator. Alice  boarded  with  ^Mrs.  Tevis  and  attended 
her    school   for    three  years,  and  graduated    from 

thence  in  June,  1S(!3.     She  lived  in  Louisville  till 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  the  partners  of      ^^-j^    ^^.,„.„    i,,.^.   ,,,,,,,,^.^.   ,,,^^,.,  .^.^^    ^,,.    _^,^^^^^^^   ^^. 

the  three  married  ones  are  also  Presbyterians.  g^^^jg^.^.  .^^j  ^^„,.^,,,    ^„  ^^,,^.i,,^.    (,,„„^j_^,^   ludiana. 
ALICE  BIRKHEAD  AND  FAMILY.  About  the  year  18G3  Dr.  Smelser  moved  to  Indian- 
Alice  Birkhc-a.l,  who  was  the  first  wife  of  Ilev.  ='1'""^  '""^  "I""'"'"'  "  ''''"-  ^^^•^■*'-     ■^^^^'^^'^'y  3,  ISm, 
Neander  M.  Woods,  was  born  in  Louisville,  Ken-  ^^'''  ^'"^  married  to  Neander  .M.  AVoo.ls  at  Indian- 

tucky.  May  11,   184.\     She  was  the  tirst  child  of      '^l'"^'^'  ^'"■"  ^"■''  '"'""■•     ^'""  '""^  '■f>n^s«i'fl  Christ 

early  in  life,  and  all  her  davs  was  a  conscientious 


^Ir.  John  Quint  en  Birkhead  and  Letitia,  nee 
Boone.  Her  father's  father  was  ^^'illiam  Birk- 
head, and  her  father's  mother  was  iliss  Hannah 
AValker.  William  and  Hannah  had  the  following 
children:  1,  Jose])h,  and  2,  Charles,  both  of  whom 
died  in  infancy;  3,  William,  Jr.,  who  vras  for  a 
time  a  locomotive  engineer,  and,  later,  a  farmer; 


and  consistent  Christian,  as  ^\(■ll  as  a  person  of 
the  gentlest,  kindest  and  most  h)vable  disposition. 
While  living  in  Norfolk  (1873-1881),  she  shoAved 
slight  symptoms  of  failing  health,  and  one  object 
her  husband  had  in  \iew  in  his  removal  to  Galves- 
ton— under  the  advice  of  her  jihysicians — was  to 


4,  Wallace;  .",,  J,,hn  (,)ninteu,  who  married  Letitia  ''^'^fl*  ^^^"  V^J^'^.^^^^  condition.     But  the  climate  of 

Boone,  and  became  the  father  of  Alice;  G,  Black-  *''*'  ^'^^^  ^'''^^^  proved  injurious,  and  she  soon  be- 

burn;    7,   Elizabeth,   who   married   .Mr.    Robert   G.  y-'ii  to  fail.     When  she  settled  in  Charlotte,  North 

Kyle,  lived    many  years    in  Louisville,  and    then  Car(.lina,  in  January,  1882.  it  was  her  hope,  and 

moved   to  California,   leaving  two  sons    (William  '"■'■  li"^'':ii"l"^-  <l'"f  '!"'  i"""''  l-nicing  air  of  Caro- 

aml    Kobert  I    and  one  daughter    (.-Vnnie)  ;  and  8,  ''"='    ^vonld    suilice   to  arrest    the   ].rogress  of  her 

Laura  Holman,  who  moved  with  .Mr.  Kyle's  fam-  disease.     This,  too,  was  but  a  vain  hope;  and  after 

ily  to  California,  there  married  a  Judge  Carr  who  ti  long  struggle  with  her  ailment,  and  in  spite  of 

has  died,   and  now  lives   in  East  Oakland,   Call-  the  best  available  medical  attention,  she  steadily 

fornia.     John  Q.  Birkhead  married  Letitia  Boone  grew  worse,  and  on  the  eighteenth  of  June,  1883, 


SKETCHES  OF  PATRONS.  1 1 1 

she  passed  away  after  luiviuo-  bi,|,l,.,.  1..T  .•Iiil.livii  Willi:,,::     w,.,v    .I.„,nH,:,,:     I!.-.,,,-  a,,.!     Mm,v     De- 
farewell    and    s.demnl.y  comndUed    lliem    1o    the      lh,v,.„.     .In„nli,a„  |.,-ul.,l,lv  ,niuia ln.„.  ( ■i„.s„.r 

e..venan(-keeim,-   Cm].      (),„.   of   li„.    Id-liesl    tesli-  (■„„„ly.    INmihsvU  a„  ia.    ;,l,„„,      1  Tsr.- 1 7<..(l.    a„d     he 

m.-nh-s  t..  l:..,-  h.veliness  n{  eharade,'  was  ,-en,l,.r,.d      s,.,.„,s  In  l,:,v..  liv,.!   In,-  .,    , •  .,,    .\|;,  v  sv  ill,..    !<,.„• 

by  Dr.  Smelser,  who  said,  aHer  havin-  lived  i„  the      turky.  ;,,„|   h,|,,-  a(    LcNia^m,,,      ||,.  w:,s  n   srI I 

hn„„.  witl,   1,.T   for  alH.iiL    ten  years  as    I„m-  step-  (,,„.l:,,-.  I,„t   was  i-,:(l:..,-  dissi|,;:i,d.  a„d   v.-ry  ..in- 

fatlier,  tiiat   in  all  those  years  she  had  nevei',  in  a  kss  ;,l.n,,l    his  |„-n|Ma'ly  ,m.-I,is.      II, •  ,„„•,■  ,,«,„., I   -.i 

sin-le  instanee,  -iven  him  an  n,d<i, ,•  disrespert-      ii,„.  I y  .,f  |:,„,|.  ;,   |,;,,-|   ,,r  u1h,.|:  is  ::nw  ,-,.vv,vd 

ful  w..rd  ..r  even  look.  He  loved  ]„.,■  as  if  she  were  by  II:..  ,ily  .,r  .Maysvill,.  ,■:  uili  fi.-i::  his  falh.T; 
his  own  child.  Her  rharaeteristie  Irails  were  un-  b,it  h,.  ,■ wrd  l,ii„scir  I-,  1 .,„-iv,.,l  ,.f  his  in- 
failing  !>ent]en.-ss,  ablmrren.v  of  si  rib".  te,,der  ,'..n-  h, Tiini,,-,.,  ,.ill„.,-  ll,,-,Hml,  his  fail,,,-,-  I,.  ,,av  ll.e 
sideratiou  for  the  feelings  of  others,  i::n,hsly.  self-  taxes  nn  il.  nr  as  Ih,'  ivs:,ll  ,,r  ,lish,,„.si  v  ,,„ 
depreeiation,  and  absolnte  sincerity  of  sold.  Her  ih,.  |,a,l  nf  sn,,,,-  shaipn'.  .l,M,alha::  a::,l  Marv 
face  and  form  were,  hy  all  wdio  saw  her,  e.nisid-  ha, I  Ih,.  Inllnwing  cliibhv::.  In  wil  :  1.  .Ia:::cs.  wh,, 
ered  beantiful.  Her  eyes  were  bin,',  hw  l:air  live!  in  IJnnrbon  runi:ly.  K-i:l  ::,ky.  :::arricd  and 
nearly  Idaek,  and  her  skin  exceedingly  lair.  Her  ha, I  iss:ic;  i'.  Willia,,,,  w  hn  was  b,n:i  i,i  1 7S!t,  mar- 
face  nearly  always  wore  a  pc,M,liar]y  pleasant  i-ir,l  .lulia  .\iin  Selllcs.  and  hcai,:,'  tl:,.  laihcr  nf 
smile  when  in  the  com] (any  of  others.  Shortly  be-  Letitia  ai,(l  nil,,','  ,l,il,li-,',,,  as  hi'fn,-,.  ,,,il(',l;  ;? 
fore  her  death,  and  fully  aware  that  her  case  was  Jonathan,  dr.,  wl,,)  was  li,ii-i,  ab,iiii  17!t."").  lived 
ahsolntely  hopeless,  she  wrote  her  beloved  sister,  n,nst  of  his  life  i,,  Ilniirlion  Coiinlv,  Kentucky 
Emma,  that  she  had  everything  to  live  for,  aud  n,a,i-ii(l  a  .Miss  Sarah  Xesbil,  moved  to  Indian- 
then  added — "But,  when  I  think  of  what  a  Saviour  ajmlis,  i,,  ISd.",  and  there  di,, I  in  ISC.C.;  1,  Xaucv 
I  have  in  heaven,  I  have  everything  to  die  for."  wlm  ,i,arri('d  a  Mi'.  Shi-adci-,  ai,,l  had  iss,,,';  ."i,  'Re- 
One  of  her  last  intelligible  sentences  was  uttered  bccca,  \\],n  i,,;ini('il  dnhi,  .Mcssiik,  of  Shelby 
while  her  dying  hand  rested  on  the  head  of  her  ("ounly,  Kentucky,  ami  l,a,l  iss,,,.;  (I,  ivaic,  who 
latest  l)orn,  saying:  "(iod  will  care  for  you,  my  n,aii-ie(l  a  Mi-.  Lai::b,  a::,l  l:a,l  iss,,,';  and  7,  .Mary, 
son" — at  once  a  i)ro])hecy  and  a  mother's  last  who  n,an-i,',!  dnhii  S,,,,lsc,',  ami  hail.  a,,,niig  niher 
prayer.  i-hildrc:,  dai::es  ^^'.  Smelsc-.  \\l,,i.  i,,  |s.")7,  ,,,ari-i,',! 
Letitia  I'.oone,  who  married,  first,  Mr.  Birk-  .Mrs.  Lei  ilia  l  Boone)  I!irkli('a,l.  and  ha,l  by  hc' o,,,' 
head,  and  later  on.  Dr.  Smelser,  was  bnrn  in  Louis-  ila,igl,t,'r,  L,'ila,  wli,,  i,,ari-ii'(l  d,is,'pl.  Lisle  \\'n,iils, 
ville,  Kentucky,  Novend)er  13,  1827.  She  was  a  and  nnw  lives,  a  wiihiw.  in  St.  Lnuis,  Missnui-i. 
daiighter  of  William  Boone  by  his  wife  Julia  Ann,  It  l!ms  ajipears  tliat  !>r.  S,,,els,','s  ii,nlher  was  an 
iicc  Settles,  and  her  father  was  most  i)robabIy  de-  aunt  of  Letitia  i>oone,and  hence  that  he  and  Letitia 
scended  from  one  of  the  brothers  of  Daniel  Boone,  were  first  cousins.  The  fatlier  of  the  before-men- 
the  famous  pioneer.  Letitia  had  several  brothers  tioned  Jonathan  Boone  was  Hugh  Boone,  of  whom 
and  sisters,  to  wit:  1,  .Jennie;  2,  Henry ;  o,  Carrie;  nnihing  yciy  cerlaii,  is  ki,o\\n,  b,,i  ,if  \\h,i,i,  if  is 
1,  I'dorence;  and  -5,  Blanche.  ^Ihe  native  State  *>(  bi'lieNcd  that  he  was  either  a  lir,ilhi'i'  ,>,■  i,,'pl,,'W  ,ir 
>\'illiam  I>oone  is  not  positively  known,  but  it  is  Daniel  r.,ion(',  I  he  fannnis  |ii,)neer.  Dr.  Sn,els(.'r 
reasonably  certain  it  was  Pennsylvania,  if  it  was  was  a  n,aii  of  excellent  character,  ai:il  successful 
not  Kentucky.  He  lived  in  P>ourbon  C,)ui,ty,  Ken-  ii,  business.  He  moved  from  Indianapolis  in 
tucky,  some  years  pricn-  to  his  coming  to  Louis-  .March,  ].S()0,  to  ;Mem](his,  Tennessee,  and  a  few 
ville.  He  and  Julia,  his  wife,  were  citizens  of  ii,ni,tl,s  later  to  l''ort  Si,iiil,,  .Vi-kansas,  when'  he 
Bourbon  County  when  their  nmrriage  took  place,  carried  ,>n  a  di-ug  sl,ii'e.  11,'  (li,',l  there  early  in 
wluch  was  about  the  year  1825.     The  parents  of  the  year  1873.     He  had  b,',,,  maiiied  three  times, 


412  THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 

and  by  each  inarriat;e  liad  <>ii(>  cliild.  P>y  the  first  faidifnl  service"  as  the  sironml  of  (his  honorahle 
wife  lie  liad  a  son  named  Mavslial.  \\"ho  died  in  distinction.  CJeneral  Behre  \\as  ]ii-o1)alily  liorn 
^Meiiipliis,  Tennessee.  Tiy  I  he  second  lie  liad  a  about  the  year  1785,  and  liis  wife  in  ISItl'.  They 
daujihter  named  .Moliie.  I'.y  the  lliiiii  and  last  were  married  in  ISoC),  while  he  was  living  in  bar- 
wife,  Leiitia,  Hcr  lioone,  lie  had,  as  slated,  a  racks  as  a  soldier,  .\bont  1844-."),  the  Ifevolnlion 
dani^hter  Leila,  who  ni-(  w  to  be  a  liiiilily  cnlnn-ed  having;  beiinn,  and  Kinji'  <!eornc  ha\in!.;  been  de- 
wonian,  married  ]Mr.  .Jose])h  I>.  Woods,  was  left  a  jtosed,  (ieneral  I'.ehre  resijiued  his  jdace  in  the 
widow  in  1883,  and  now  lives  willi  hei'  mother  in  army  ami  miiiraled  to  America,  seltlinii'  first  at 
St.  Louis,  jNIissouri.  Charleston,   South    Carolina,      lie  was    a   man  of 

culture,  a  linguist,  and  a  tine  classical  scholar,  and 

SALLIE  HENDERSON  BEHRE  AND  HER  he  naturally  chose  teachin.u-  school  as  his  vocation 

ANChSIORb.  j]i    ]i\^    ,1,.^^.   iinnie.       In     Charleston,    howcx'er,    he 

Sallie  Henderson  lielire,  sei'ond  wife  of  IIcv.  faileil  to  find  a  tjood  o|ieninj:i;  i'l'tl  after  some  ef- 
Neander  M.  Woods,  is  a  dauiihter  of  I'redevi<-k  (!us-  forts  in  that  city,  he  left  his  wife  and  son  there  and 
tavus  lU'hre  and  Caroline,  iicc  >\'ebb,  HeiKh'rson.  went  to  the  North  in  search  of  a  i)ositioii.  There 
She  was  born  and  reared  at  Walterlxu'o,  Ccdleton  he  suoceeded,  but  his  career  was  suddenly  cut  short 
County,  Soutli  Carolina.  She  was  educated  partly  by  death  about  1847,  at  the  alic  of  about  sixty- 
at  the  schools  of  her  nat  i\'e  low  n,  ](artly  in  Charles-  two.  He  was  of  I'rencli  extraction,  and  possibly 
ton.  South  Carolina,  and  ])artly  at  the  Charlotte  of  Hujiuenot  blood.  ]>oth  he  and  his  wife  were  de- 
Female  Institute,  at  (Miarlotte,  Noi-th  ("arolina.  voted  members  of  the  Lutheran  ( 'liurch.  His  wife 
May  20,  1885,  she  was  married  to  lle\'.  Xeander  M.  survived  him  nearly  forty  years,  dyinii'  at  the  home 
Woods,  Avho  was  at  the  time  ]iaslor  of  the  Second  of  her  son  in  Walterb(n-o,  about  18S(;.  (iottinjj,cu 
Presbyt(M-ian    Church    of    Charlotte,    North    Caro-  was  her  native  city. 

Una,   by    whom    she   has  had    three  dauiihlers   and  -Mr.  Frederick  (!.  I'.eliic  was  left   fatherless  when 

two  sons,  as  elsewhere  listed.     Since  her  marriaije  in  his  eiiihth  year.     His  mother  and  he  were  still  in 

she  has  lived  in  Charliil  te,  Nertli  Ciirolina  ;<  "oliim-  Charleston,   (Jeueral    Fx'lire   not    liavinn   comideled 

bia.    South    Carolina;    Memphis,    Tennessee;    and  his  arrangenu'uts  for  remo\in,n   his  wife  and  son 

Louisville,   Kentucky,   which    is  her  ]irrsenl    home.  to  the  North,  when  he  was  cut  otT  by  death.     IMrs. 

The  portrait  of  hei-  which  is  Ik  re  i^iven  reitresenis  Itehre  was  obliged  to  work  in  order  to  supi)ort  her- 

lier  as  she  appeared  some  years  ai^d.  self  and  son,  and  to  uive  her  son  a  good  education. 

l-'rederick  (iusta\us    Itehre,   tlie  father  of  Sallie  He  attended  \arioiis  schools  in  Charleston,  gradu- 

H.,  was  born  at  the  military  barracks  at   Stoeda,  ating  from  the  City  High  School.     She  then  sent 

on  the  lJi\('r  I']lbe,  llanoxci',  •lanuary  7,  is:>7.     He  him  to  the  South  Carolina   College,  at  Cohnubia, 

was  the  only  cliild  of  J>rigadier-(iener:il  Christian  und   from  that  institution  he  was  duly  graduated 

Behre  by  his  ^vife  .Johanna  S])rannman.     (ieneral  about   the  year  1857.     I'or  a  year  or  two  after  his 

Behre  was  a  soldier  iu  the  artillery  st-rvice  of  the  graduation  he  occupied  his  lime  in  studying  law 

Kingdom  of  Hanover  for  about  thirty  years,  and  and  teaching  in  Charleston  and  elsewhere.     At  the 

was  with  the  i'russians  under  lilucher,  who  saved  (uitbreak  of  the  Ci\il  ^^'ar  (18(11  |  he  had  begun  to 

the  day  at    Waterloo,  in   1815.     I'or  his  long  niili-  practise   law.     Eidisting    in    the    ( 'on federate   ser- 

tary    services  he   received    fi-om    the    king    (Blind  \ice  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  he  served  in  the 

King  Ceorge,  of  Hanover)    a  handsome  gold  medal,  Commissary  Department  with  the  rank  of  captain 

which  is  now    in  the  possession  of     his    son,  Mr.  till  the  war  ended.     While  the  war  was  in  progress 

Frederick  G.   ISelire,  of  Walterhoro,  South  Caro-  he  was  married  to  Miss  Caroline  AVebb  Henderson, 

Una.     The  inscription  mentiims  "Thirty  years  of  of  A\'alterboro,   whom  he  had  become  acquainted 


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with  while  teaching  school  in  that  place.     Captain  Icriaii    ()riili.iii;i.uv.   Incnicd    ;ii     Aiulini'ai^'e,    Ken- 

Uehre  was  a  man  of  liberal  cultnre  and  decided  tucky,  one  df  llic  siilmrlis  i.r   l.onisx  illc 

literary    attainments.      He  learned     (o   read    and  Idi   The  rmiiili  child  ol'  I'rcdcrick  (J.  and  Caro- 

speak  both  (ierman  and  French  wilh  case.     Most  line  W.   lldirc  was  Susan  Wkbis.     Her  education 

persons  wonld  take  him  for  a  Freiiclnnai:.     lie  was      was  i^nl  Im  |iai-ily  in  Ihcscl Is  of  hci-  nalivc  tnwn, 

very  snccessful    in   the  practise  of   law    iin(il    Ihc  parilv    al    t\\r   Wim  lMn|,   Trjiniui;-   Sciiuol   nf  ("nl- 

failure  of  his  health  some  years  ai;-o,  when  lie  was  mnhia,    Sonili    Cai-nliiia,    ami    |.,ii-ily    at    llic    I'ni- 

obliged  to  forego  all   professional    lahor.  \iTsily   (if    Ciiica^u.      She   cliuse    levelling  as   her 

Caroline  Webb  Henderson,  the  wife  of  Captain  lire-wui-k  eail\    in  lui-  careei-.  ^md  lias  (anght  in  a 

F.  G.  Behre,  and  tlie  mother  of  Sallie  H.  Behre,  niiinlier  nf  selK.nls   in    lier   nalive  Siaie,   and    two 

was   born    in   'W'alterboro,    South   Cainlina,   .Tanu-      years  al    I!elle\\ 1   Seininaiy,    Kenineky.      She  is 

ary  11,  1843.     She    was    the    daughter    of    Haniel  now   (I'.iOli   ;i   meinliei'  <>\'  ihe  raciiliy  nl'  The  llig- 

Sullivan  Henderson  by  his  first  wife,  Caroline  lie-  bee  Sclmul   Wiv  \i>\\wj:  Ladies,  the  ninsi    iiii|iiii-i;ni( 

beoca  Webb.     SluMvas  sent  to  school  to  Charleston,  educational    iustilurKin    in    Meniiihis.   Tennessee. 

South    Car(dina,    where   she    enjoyed   tine    educa-  (e|    The  liflh  child  of  I'redeiick  <!.  and   ("aro- 

tional   advantages   at    the   female    seminary   con-  line  ^^'.    i!elir(^  was  I)AMi;r,  IIiondkkson.     He  was 

ducted  by  the  late  Bev.  Dr.   ]<'ei-dinand  Jacobs,  nf  trained    in   the  sehnuls  of  his   naii\e  town,  and   al 

precious  memory.     As  already   noted,  she  became  the  rnixcrsity  of  (lem-gia.     I'or  a  time  he  taiiglit 

the  wife  of  Captain  F.  G.  Behre,  of  the  C.  S.  Army,  school,   and    for   two  years  edited   a    jiapei'    in    his 

and  by  him  she  had  five  children,  who  lived  to  ina-  native  town — '/'lie  VuJklon  J'n-ss.     The  law,  how- 

turity,  as  follows:  cNcr,  was  his  chosen  ]>rofession  ;  and  aftiT  prepai'- 

(a)  Florence  Gustavia  Bkii]:i;  was  born  in  ing  liimself  for  it,  and  being  duly  licensed,  he  con- 
Charleston,   S<uith    Carolina.     She    attended    the  clndcil  to  settle  in  a  new   county  of  Ids  Slate  just 

schools  of  her  nati\e  town,  and  also  the  Cliarlott(»,      established    (  I  >orcliester  i ,   and    made   his   I le    in 

North    Carolina,   Female     Institute,     from    which  its  county  seat,  St.  George.     A  young  man  of  liigli 

school  she  graduated.     She  married  :Mr.  Allen  C.  Christian  characlei-,  lovable  disposition  and  bright 

Izard,  of  Walterboro,  a  young  gentleman  l)eloug-  mind,  he  was  just  entering  upon  what  loi.ked  to  his 

ing    to  one   of    the  most    prominent    families  of  friends  to  be  a  most  prosperous  career.     He  was  a 

(-arolina.     ^Ir.    Izard  has    for  many  years    been  niendier  of   (he   Constitutional  Convention    whicli 

an  official  in  the  freight  department  of  the  South-  met    in   I'.KM     to   frame    a    new   Constitution     for 

eru  Bailway,  and  owns  a  beautiful  home  in  Bock  South  Car(dina,  and  he  was  spoken  of  as  a  candi- 

Hill,   South  Carolina,  whei-e  he  has  long  resided,  date  for  IJeutenanl-Governor  of  his  native  State. 

The  only  child  of  ;\Ir.  and  ^Irs.  Izard  is  a  daughter.  By  one   of    those  sliange,   shocking    providences, 

Alma  De  Lancy.  which   now  and   then  come  to  Idas!    ihe  highest  of 

(b)  The  second  child  of  Frederick  G.  and  Caro-  human  Inipes  and  try  the  faiih  of  the  strongest 
line  W.  Behre  was  Sarah  Henderson,  who  mar-  Christian,  this  beautiful  ami  lu-omising  young  life 
ried  Bev.  Neauder  :\I.  Woods,  in  :May,  188.5,  as  ap-  was  brought  to  a  sudden  close.  W  hile  alone  in 
pears  from  the  account  of  her  given  on  a  preced-  his  ofliiH-,  late  at  night,  about  the  middl.'  of  I'ebi'u- 
iu"  pao-e.  ''^■.^■'  l-^^>-j  getting  ready  for  the  session  of  coiirt  to 

(c)  The  third  child  of  Frederick  G.  and  Caro-  begin  next  nu.rning,  he  was  attacked  wilh  an 
line  W.  Behre  was  Joanna.  She  was  educated  in  ordiimry  spell  of  vertigo,  which,  lor  ijie  instant, 
the  schools  of  her  native  town,  and  at  the  Char-  rendered  him  unconscious.  In  this  c.)ndition  ho 
lotte  (N.  C.)  Female  Institute.  For  some  time  fell  forward  into  a  hot  tire,  and  ere  he  could  re- 
she  has  been  engaged  in  teaching  at  the  Presby-  gain   consciousm'ss  his   fac  and    hea.l    w.re   fear- 


414  THE  WOODS-McAFEE  MEMORIAL. 

fully  liiii'iicd  beyond  all  hope  of  recovery.     When  fonnd   some   of  the  most  distinguished  and  hon- 

resoued  from  his  dreadful  situation  it  was  too  late  <>red  names  -wliieh  adorn   the  early  Colonial   and 

to  prevent  fatal  injury.     lie  liad  tlic  best  of  care  IJevulutionary  histiiry  of  South  Carolina, 

and  jirofessional  attention,  but   in  a   few  days  it  Daniel  Sullivan  Henderson,  the  father  of  Mrs. 

was  apparent  his  end  A\as  near.     During-  tlie  night  F.  G.  Behre,  was  of  Scotch-Irish  extraction,  and 

just   before    lu'   juisscd    away,    as    his    sister    was  was  Ixirn  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  in  ISOl. 

sponging  liis  once  handsome,  but  now  mutilated,  lie  was  twice  married,  and  left  five  children  of  tlie 

face  and  eyes,  he  said  to  her,  in  ('hristian  faith  first  wife,  and  five  of  (he  last  wife.    His  father  was 

and    submission:     "To-morrow    yon  will    see    the  Daniel  Henderson,  who  was  probaldy  from  North 

light  of  the  sun,  but  I  shall  behold  ihe  glory  of  Ireland,  and  he  cauie  to  America  after  the  Eevolu- 

God."    And  it  Avas  even  so — the  morning  on  earth  tion.     lie  was  engaged  in  iron  manufacturing  in 

broke  briglit  and  fair.  Imt    ere  the  sun  had  fully  Charleston,   and   there  are  now    in   that  city  iron 

risen  his  noble  spirit  had  gone  to  be  with  Christ,  fences   whieh   were    construrted    in  his    establish- 

Marcli  1,  11>02.     Like  his  mother  and  all  his  sisters,  ment.     Tie  had  a  brother,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Wm. 

he  had  early  in  life  given  his  heart  to  God,  and  the  Henderson,  who  was  a    gallant  soldier    in  South 

only  sorrow  of  the  loved  ones  was  fin'  themselves  Carolina.     He  nmrried  Mrs.  Jessie  Kirkwood  {nee 

and  not  for  him.  Melville),  the  widow  of  AVilliam  Kirkwt)od,   wlui 

(f)  F.  G.  and  C.  W.  l.ehre  also  had  a  sixth  had  one  son,  by  her  first  marriage,  namely;  Wil- 
cliild,  a  son  named  Ei>\v.\Ki)  P.VLMEit,  who  lived  but  liaui,  .Ti-.,  and  two  by  her  second,  namely:  Daniel 
two  years.  Itesides,  there  were  two  otlier  children  S.,  and  Edward,  wlio  was  a  jdiysician.  ^^'lu.  Kirk- 
born  to  ]\lr.  and  .Airs.  liehre,  Imt  neitlier  lived  more  wood,  dr.,  was  foi'  many  years  Collector  of  Customs 
than  a  few  weeks.  for  the   Port    of  Charleston,   and  died  in  Walter- 

Mr.s.  P.elire's  father,  Daniel  S.  Henderson,  was  a  boi'o  at  an  advanced  age,  alxmt  ISSO.     He  left  one 

successful  lawyer,  and  an  elder  of  the  AValterboro  datigbter,    Jessie,    who   bc^'ame   the   wife    of   Hon. 

Presbyterian  Church.     Her  mother,  Miss  Caroline  Campbell  G.  Henderson,  of  \\'allerboro.    Eoth  Mr. 

Pebecca  Webli,  came  of  a  most  excellent  family,  and   31  is.    Canijibell   (i.    Henderson  still   reside   in 

and    was  reared    an   Episcopalian;   but    after  her  AValterlioro,   and   have   tlie   following   children,   to 

marriage  she  connected  heiself  with  her  hnsband"s  wit:  (a)  Gviani:,  who  married  (Jeorge  Eraser,  and 

church,  and  all  of  her  children   were  brought  up  is  now  a  widow,  and    living    in   Walterboro;    (b) 

in    the    Presbyterian    faith.      The   home    in    which  Lottie,  who  married  Lev.  T.  P.   P.urgess,  and  now 

.Mrs.  F.  <i.  IJehre  got  her  training  was  one  of  mod-  resid(>s  at  Edgefield,  South  Carolina;   (c)   Le  Roy 

erate    wealth,   godly   inrtu(^nces,   and    liberal   cul-  G.,  who  is  a  Presbj'terian  minister,  and  has  charge 

tare.     All  of  her  life  she  has  been  an  active  and  of  a  church  at  Griftin,  Georgia;  and    (d)    Lilly, 

useful  Chiistiau,  and  devoted  to  reading.     Xatur-  who   is  single,   and  lives   with   her   parents.      The 

ally  of  a  gentle  and  refined  nature,  of  strong  in-  first  wife  of  Daniel   Sullivan  Henderson,  and  the 

telligence,     dignified     bearing,     and     sympathetic  mother  of  Mrs.  F.  G.  Pehre,  was  Caroline  Rebecca 

heart,   she    has    throughout  life    occupied  a  high  Webb,  who  was  born  December  13,  1815.     She  died 

place  in  the  affections  and  esteem  of  her  ac(iuaiut-  May  G,  18Ht,  in  her  thirty-fourth  year.     She  was 

ances.     Few   ladies  are  so  v>vU   informed  on   the  descended  from  the  distinguished  Pinckney  familj', 

Bible,  general  history,  and  the  best  class  of  fiction,  of  which  we  shall  presently  give  some  particulars. 

The  type  of    educated,   low-country    vSouth   Caro-  The  following  children   were  born   to  Daniel  Sul- 

linians,  of  which  she  is  a  representative,  has  no  livan  Henderson  and  Caroline  Rebecca  Webb,  his 

superior  in  any  part  of  our  country.     Annmg  her  first  wife,  to  wit: 

ancestors    (presently  to  be  considered)    are  to  be  (aj   The  first  child  of  Daniel  S.  Henderson  and 


SKETCHES  OF  TATKONS.  415 

("nroliue  II.  ^Yc'l)b  was  Sarali  Wcbl),  horn  iu  18:^5.  a   (.v|m.:iI  pnlil  i.ian  wIkhh  ,nnii|.(   iiicii  rmild  use, 

She  has  never  married,  and  lives  in  Walterboro,  Imt,   a    -ciii  Imi.iii    ..f    linii,,i-   .iikI    .idiivati.m    wIki 

South  Carolina,  her  native  place.  stands  loi-  |H-iiiri|,lc.      11  is  IkiIT  l.r.ii  lid-.    II. -n.    Ed- 

(hi  The  second  child  was  named  Jessie  Melville,  wanl    rainier   1  hndc  isnn.   is  his  law    parlncr. 

■who  was    born  abont    1837,  mari'icd    hei'  consiii,  Tlic  second    wile  of     Kaniel    S.    Ijendei-son    was 

William  Henderson,  and  died  iu  1871),  leaving  one  Cliarioiie    Malihla    I'lasi^r.    who    Lore    lo  him  si.x 

daughter,  Eva,  who  married  Edmnnd  Ifivers.     :\Ir.  children,  as  follows; 

and  Mrs.   llivers  have  three  daughters,   and   now  lai   The  lirsl  child  of  haniel  S.   1  leii.lers.m  and 

live  in  Charleston.  his  second    wife   was  .\le\andei-   I'rascr,   who   was 

(c)  Campbell  Cilchi-ist  Henderson  was  the  third  born  alioni  |s.",:;,  nnirriecl  .Miss  .Mice  Ncyle,  and 
cliild,  and  Avas  born  about  1838.  He  married  .les-  died  in  ISS."..  leaving  the  lollowing  children:  1. 
sie  Kirkwood,  as  above  stated,  by  wlioni  he  has  ('ain]»liell  ( lihlirist,  who  i-esides  in  Tennessee;  li, 
four  children  now  living,  as  previously  shown.  -Mice,  who  resides  with  her  widowed  motln'r  in 
Mr.  C.  G.  Henderson  studied  law,  and  all  of  his  Waltei-boro;  :!,  Charles,  who  is  a  mechanical  en-i- 
mature  life  has  bi'eu  eugaged  in  the  practice  of  neei-  and  lives  in  Columbia,  Smith  ("amlina;  1, 
that  profession,  or  in  fnltilling  the  duties  of  offices  .liilia,  who  lives  with  her  mother:  and  .">,  Alex- 
of  his  native  county  and   State,      lie  is  a  ruling  andei-  I'.,  who  lives  with  his  nioilier. 

elder  of  the  AN'alterboro   I'resbylerian   Church.  (b)    The  second    child    liy    the   second    wife    was 

(d)  The  fourth  child  of  Daniel  S.  and  Caroline  Edward  rainier,  who  was  born  ahont  18r)r),  studied 
(Webb)  Henders<m  was  Caroline  Webb,  who  was  law,  married  a  Miss  .lohnson,  and  is  a  ]iartnei- 
born  .January  11,  1813,  and  of  whom  some  account  <>f  Hie  lion.  Daniel  S.  Henderson,  at  .Mken.  South 
has  already  been  given.  Carolina,    as   above    notecl.      He   has   sevei-al    chil- 

(e)  The  lifth  child  was  named  William,  who  did  dren.  He  is  an  elder  in  the  Tresbyterian  Chnnli. 
not    reach  maturity.  iiii'l    ii     gentleman    of    the     hiiiliest     standing,    and 

(fj    The  sixth  child   was  Daniel    Sullivan  Hen-  greatly  esteemed  by  all  win.  know    him. 

derson,  .Tr.,  who  was  born  in  Walterboro,   South  i<i    'I'lic    Hiird    child     by    the    s<-cond    wife  was 

Carolina  in  184!).     He  graduated  at  the  Ccdlege  oi'  Charles,  who  died  early  in  life. 

Charleston  with  first  honors,  taught  school  for  a  t'h  The  fourth  child  by  his  second  wife  was 
time,  studied  law  with  Hon.  Perineau  Finley,  of  Franklin  illnioie,  who  was  born  abont  lS.-.!t.  lie 
Aiken,  South  Carolina,  and  was,  later,  by  him  ad-  married  .Miss  Kate  Crawbir.l.  and  residi's  at  I'.ath, 
mitted  to  partnership  in  the  practice  nf  law.  He  Sonlli  Carolina,  where  for  many  years  he  has  been 
nnirried  .Miss  Lilly  llipley  about  1871,  by  whom  he  the  su])erinlendent  of  the  extensive  kaolin  w<irks 
has  three  sons  living,  to  wit:  I'erineau  Finley,  who  located  at  that  ]ilace.  He  is  an  active  mendter  of 
is  a  lawver,  and  who  nnirried  Miss  (irace  rowel! ;  the  I'resbyterian  <'linrcli.  He  has  several  children. 
Daniel  Sullivan  (third  l  ;  and  Kipley.  Hon.  D.  S.  (e)  The  lifth  child  by  his  secoml  wib'  was  Char- 
Henderson,  of  Aiken,  is  a  lawyer  (d' cminem-e,  and  lolte  .Matilda,  who  is  unmarried,  and  lives  in 
stands  among  the  lirst  mendiers  of  the  bar  in  his  mi-  Waltciboro. 

five  State.    He  has  been  for  many  years  one  of  the  (fj   The  sixth  and  last   child  of  Daniel  S.  Hen- 

attcu'ueys  of  the  Southern  Kailway.     He  has  been  derson  by  his  last  wib-  was  Sophie,  who  married  IJ. 

solicited  by  friends  to  become  a  candidate  for  sev  Ludlow  Fra.ser.     .Mr.  I'rasi'r  resides  in  Walterboi'o, 

eral  of  the  highest  offices  in  the  gift  of  his  State,  where  lie  is  cashier  of  a  bank,  and  an  elder  in  the 

and  some  of  these  offices  he  has  tilled.     He  is  an  I'resbyterian  Church.     .Mr.  and    .Mrs.   Frascr  have 

elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  .Mken,  and  a  two  children,  Hendersim  and  Ludlow.  .Ir. 

man  of  sterliu"  character  and  abilitv.     He  is  not  Caroline  Kcbe.ca  \\ebb   i  boin  in   1>1.".,  married 


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THE    WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


Daniel  i^.  ITcnderson,  and  died  in  1849)  was  the 
dauiihlcr  uf  Charles  Webli  by  his  Avife  Sarah  S. 
Webb.  The  said  Charles  AWblt  was  the  son  of 
Benjamin  Webb  by  iiis  wife  Anna  Pinckney;  and 
his  wile  Sarah  S.  Webb  was  the  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Webb  (No.  1|  and  Margaret  D'Oyley.  The 
said  Benjamin  A\'ebli,  who  was  the  father  of 
Charles  Webb  and  the  husband  of  Anna  Piuckney, 
was  the  sou  of  AVilliain  ^^'ebb  (No.  2)  and  his  wife 
Sarah  Miles.  Anna  Pinckney,  wife  of  Benjamin 
Webb,  was  the  daugliler  (if  William  I'iurkney  and 
Euth  CoteswoHh.  And  the  William  Webb  (No. 
1),  who  was  the  husliaud  of  ^Margai'et  D'Oyley  and 
the  lallier  of  the  Sarah  S.  ^^'ebb  who  married 
('harles  N\'ebb,  was  the  son  of  a  .Mr.  Welib  whose 
wife  was,  as  is  supposed,  a  .Miss  Brew  ton.  And  the 
Margaret  D'Oyley,  who  married  ^Villiam  AN'ebb 
(No.  1),  was  the  daughter  of  Daniel  D'Oyley  by 
his  wife  Kebecca  Pinckney.  The  wiiter  has  no 
means  of  know  ing  how  this  Keliecca  I'inckney  was 
related  to  the  other  I'inekneys  noted  herein.  The 
\\illiam  Pinckney,  who  married  Kuth  Cotes- 
worth,  and  was  the  father  of  Anna  Pinckney,  was 
the  sou  of  Thomas  Pinckney  (No.  1).  Said 
Thomas  Piuckiu'y  (No.  1)  mairied  a  ^liss  Cotes- 
woi-tli,  an  aunt  of  the  Kulh  Cotesw<U'th  just  men- 
tioned as  the  wife  of  William  Piuckney.  Hence, 
^Villiam  and  IJuth  were  tirst  cousins.  The  Webbs 
were  people  of  high  Christian  character,  members 
of  the  I"]piscoj)al  Church,  and  closely  related  to 
S(nne  of  the  most  promini'ut  families  of  South 
Carolina.  Charles  Wel)b,  who  married  a  ^liss 
Sarah  S.  ^^■ebb,  and  wiu)  was  the  father  of  Caro- 
line Bebecoa  Webb,  was  also  the  father  of  two 
s(ms  (Edward  and  Benjamin  i,  who  were  Episcopal 
ministers  of  the  anti-ritualistie  type,  godly,  con- 
secrated and  evangelistic,  ilr.  Charles  Webb, 
jiow  li\ing  in  Charleston,  a  dry  goods  merchant, 
and  a  gentleman  of  high  character,  is  a  sou  of  the 
Bev.   P.eujamin   Webb  just  referi'ed  to. 

The  head  of  the  celebrated  Piuckney  family  in 
America  was  Thonuis  Pinckney  (No.  1),  who  was 
born  and  reared  and  married  in  England,  and  mi- 
grated to  South  Carolina  in  1(387.     His  wife  was  a 


]\riss  Cotesworth.    Thomas  (No.  1)  had  three  sons 
of  whom  we  know,  as  follows : 

(a)  Charles  Cotesworth  (No.  1|,  who  returned 
to  England  without  taking  any  specially  promi- 
nent part  in  luiblic  life  in  America. 

(b)  The  next  son  of  Tiiouias  (No.  1)  was 
Thomas  Piuckney  (No.  2|,  who  was  Chief  Justice 
of  South  Carolina,  and  a  distinguished  lawyer. 
He  had  two  sons,  to  wit:  1,  Charles  Cotesworth 
(No.  2l,  who  was,  perhaps,  the  most  distinguished 
member  of  the  family.  He  was  sent  to  Paris  in 
17S3  by  President  Washington  to  adjust  the  deli- 
cate questions  connecte<l  with  the  treaty  with 
Great  Britain  which  ended  the  Bevolntion.  His 
menuirable  words — "Millions  for  defence;  not  one 
cent  for  tribute" — will  be  remembered  as  long  as 
the  Anu'rican  Republic  lives  in  history.  2,  The 
other  son  of  Tlumias  (No.  2)  was  Thomas  Pinck- 
ney (No.  3).  He  was  born  in  Charleston  in  1750, 
and  he  and  his  brother,  Charles  Cotesworth  (No. 
2),  were  educated  at  Westminster  and  Oxford, 
England.  He  got  his  legal  training  in  The 
Temple,  and  was  admitted  to  the  English  Bar  in 
1770.  Returning  to  Charleston,  he  began  to 
practise  law  there  in  1772.  In  177.')  he  entered  the 
Continental  Army  as  a  Lieutenant.  He  served  on 
the  staffs  of  (ieueral  Lincoln  and  Count  d'Estaing. 
lie  was  severely  wounded  at  Camden,  and  was 
thereby  ((unpelled  to  forego  further  service  in  the 
held,  and  resumed  the  practise  of  law.  President 
Washiiigldu  ap|>oiute(l  him  minister  to  the  Court 
of  St.  .lames  in  17!t2,  and  to  Spain  in  1794.  In 
1799  he  entered  the  United  States  Congress.  In 
the  Vs'ar  of  1812  he  was  made  a  Major  General  by 
President  Madison  and  served  with  distinction  in 
that  coutlict.  His  brother,  Charles  Cotesworth, 
\\as  the  third  president  of  the  Society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati, and  he  succeeded  him  as  the  fourth. 

(c)  The  youngest  son  of  Thomas  (No.  1)  was 
\\illiani  I'inckney,  who  was  born  in  1703,  and 
married  IJuth  Cotesworth.  He  was  educated  in 
England,  aud  on  returning  to  South  Carolina 
entered  on  merchandising  and  planting.  He  was 
for  years  Commissioner  in   Equity.     He  died   in 


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417 


1700.  William  had  one  claiiglitcr  and  three  sous, 
to  wit:  1,  Anna  Pinekuey,  who  maiTied  Benjamin 
Wehb,  and  became  the  mother  oC  (Miarh>s  Wehb, 
and  the  grandmother  of  Caroline  Hi'bccca  Webb, 
and  Hie  great-grandmother  of  Caroline  W.  Hender- 
son. 2,  Charles  Pinekney,  who  was  a  disliTigiiished 
jurist,  and  one  of  the  framers  of  tlw  original 
U.  S.  Constitution.  3,  Thomas  Pinekney  (No.  4) 
was  the  third  child  of  William  and  Knlli.  ITe  was 
a  gallant  soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian  A^■ars, 
and  in  the  Eevolution.  At  the  storming  of  (}iiebec 
he  was  present,  having  the  rank  of  Colonel,  and 
possiblj'  a  staff  officer.  ^^■lleH  the  gallant  English 
commander.  General  Wolfe,  received  his  fatal 
wound  in  that  famous  conflict.  Colonel  Pinekney 
caught  him,  and  he  expired  in  Colonel  Piuckney's 
arms.  4,  William  Pinekney,  Jr.,  was  the  fourth 
child  of  William  and  Euth.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Revolutionary  Army.  His  plantation  on  the 
Ashepoo  IJiver  was  called  "The  Dawn  of  Hope," 
and  beneath  the  grand  old  live  oaks  on  the  spacious 
lawn  President  Monroe,  as  he  passed  through 
Carolina,  partook  of  an  elegant  entertainment 
given  by  Mr.  Pinekney  in  his  honor. 

SKETCH  91. 
MRS.  D.  B.  MACGOWAN,  ST.  PETERSBURG,  RUSSIA. 

Emma  Birkhead  Woods  was  the  first  child  of 
Kev.  Neauder  M.  Woods  by  his  first  wife,  Alice,  iicc 
Birkhead,  and  was  born  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana, 
where  her  father  was  then  living  and  engaged  in 
the  drug  business.  She  went  with  her  parents  in 
their  sevei-al  moves — to  Memphis,  Tennessee;  Fort 
Smith,  Arkansas;  St.  Louis,  Missouri;  Norfolk, 
Virginia;  Galveston,  Texas;  Charlotte,  North 
Carolina;  Columbia,  South  Carolina;  and  again 
to  :\remphis,  Tennessee.  She  was  a  child  past  six 
years  of  age  when  her  father  moved  to  Norfolk  to 
take  charge  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  in 
that  city,  and  here  she  spent  nearly  eight  years  of 
her  girlhood.  "SA'hile  there,  when  twelve  and  a  half 
years  old,  she  made  a  profession  of  religion.  There 
she  studied  in  the  Leech-Wood  School,  and  in  the 
Norfolk  Female  College,     She  attended  Sayre  Lu- 

t 


sliliifc,    l,<'\inglnii.    i\'ciil  ihKy.   in    ISS'J.      She  wi-nt 

In  Cjiarliiiii'  :iliiiul    six    iiliis  alliT  her  parents 

iiad  rciiioMMl  liiiiJK  r,  niid  liicrc  slie  attended  the 
Charlotte  Female  instil  uie  for  two  years,  gradu- 
ating in  .Iiiiie,  1SS4.  After  graduating  she  tauglit 
scliodi  in  ( 'liailiil  le  fill'  ne;nly  twuyeai's;  and  aftei- 
her  ]iarenls  innvcd  In  ( "dluiiiliia  she  engaged  in 
the  same  vocation  ilieie  for  a  time.  She  also 
taught  foi-  n  wliile  in  .Menii»liis  in  the  girl's  school 
conducted  by  a  Mrs.  Tucker.  Gn  the  fifth  day  of 
April,  1894,  she  was  married  at  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Clinrcli.  .Menipliis,  Tennessee,  by  her 
father,  to  ;Mr.  David  I'.ell  .\iacgowan,  and  went 
\\ith  him  at  once  to  reside  in  St.  Louis,  where  he 
had  been  for  a  short  time  with  the  Post-Dispatch, 
employed  in  ne\\s])aper  work.  From  St.  Louis 
]Mr.  ^lacgowan  removed  to  Chicago  about  the  year 
1S9G,  to  accept  a  jiosition  with  the  Chicago 
TrihiDir.  In  October,  iSil!),  Mrs.  Macgowan  went, 
with  her  three  children,  to  Berlin,  Germany, 
whither  her  husband  had  preceded  her  a  few 
months,  to  be  the  sitecial  correspondent  of  the  Chi- 
cago Tribune.  After  a  residence  of  more  than  two 
years  in  Berlin,  she  renmved  with  her  liusl)and  to 
St.  Petersburg,  Bussia,  where  lie  had  been  engaged 
to  represent  the  American  .\ssociated  Press.  In 
Eussia  they  remained  about  two  years,  when,  in 
December,  lOtKl.  ^Nlr.  ^lacgowan  was  sent  back 
to  Berlin  by  the  .\ssociated  Press.  During  her 
five  and  a  half  years'  residence  in  Europe 
Mrs.  Macgowan,  along  wilh  lier  husband,  has 
enjoyed  exceptional  opportunities  for  seeing 
EuroiK3  and  learning  a  great  deal,  at  first 
hand,  about  Germany,  Eussia,  Finland  and  other 
countries,  and  for  becoming  versed  in  the  lan- 
guages and  customs  of  ilie  several  nationalities 
with  which  she  has  been  thi'owii.  (Jiiite  recently 
Mr.  Macgowan  lias  again  moved  to  St.  Petersburg 
to  represent  the  London  iStunilard.  The  following 
exhiltit  presents  the  names  of  the  five  children  of 
Mr.  and  ^Mrs.  Macgowan  in  the  order  of  birth,  as 
follows:  (a)  BiKKin:.\n,  who  was  born  September 
(i,  ISO"),  in  St.  Lcmis;  (b)  Evereit,  linrn  .Tanuary 
G,  1898,  aTid  (c)  M.vuY  Locke,  born  June  30,  1899, 


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in  Chicago;  (d)  Basil  Finis,  wlio  was  born  May  nals  of  tlic  hijilicst  class  in  America  and  England 
25,  1901,  in  St.  Petersburg,  Rnssia ;  and  (e)  to  write  special  articles  on  varions  living  topics 
Cariuck  Bkll,  who  was  born  D(  (■cHibcr,  !!)():!,  in  of  the  day.  Owing  to  the  character  of  his  eui- 
Berlin.  ploynients  he  \\as  necessarily  brought  into  close 
David  Bell  ^lacgowan  is  a  son  of  Evander  tonch  with  men  of  high  official  and  literary  char- 
Locke  Macgowan  by  his  wife  Mary  Jants  )iec  Bur-  actor,  which  gave  him  excellent  opportunities  for 
rows,  and  was  born  in  Shelby  Cininiy.  Tennessee,  advancement  and  im])T'ovement.  His  knowledge 
near  Memphis.  In  January,  ISSl,  his  ])a7'cnts  of  internal  conditions  in  Russia,  Finland,  Poland 
moved  to  Memphis,  and  in  the  schools  of  that  (Mty  and  Germany  is  the  result,  not  of  flying  trips  on 
he  received  his  earlier  training.  He  attended  fast  railways  trains,  or  mere  tourist  opportunities, 
Washington  and  Lee  Fniversity,  and  A\as  gradu-  but  of  the  most  careful  study,  for  years,  while 
ated  therefrom  in  ISOO.  Later  iie  went  to  Europe  actually  on  the  ground.  On  this  account  journals 
and  studied  in  the  L^niversity  of  Halle,  and  in  that  like  TJir  f'<iifiii\ii  ]\Iii(i<iz\)ic  often  employ  him  to 
of  Berlin.  Before  going  abroad  he  engaged  in  furnish  articles  n])on  the  social,  industrial  and  po- 
newspaper  work  in  Memphis.  Very  early  in  his  litical  situation  in  fhe  countries  where  he  has 
college  cour.se  he  seems  to  have  determined  upon  spent  the  last  six  years  of  his  life.  December  1, 
a  literary  career,  and  newspaper  work  fell  in  with  1004,  ;\Ir.  jMacgowau  resigned  his  connection  with 
his  general  aim.  It  has  been  remarked  by  men  in  the  American  Associated  Press,  and  soon  after- 
Memphis,  who  watched  his  career,  that  he  was  one  wards  accepted  the  position  of  special  corres])ond- 
of  the  few  young  men  connected  willi  reporting  ent  of  the  London  Stainhird  at  St.  Petersburg,  to 
wlio  devote  themselves  seriously  to  their  work  and  which  city  he  has  gone  lo  live  a  second  time.  Very 
keep  free  of  the  common  vices  of  that  class.  He  recently  he  has  been  granted  personal  interviews 
was  sober,  industrious  and  upright;  and  early  in  with  Tount  Tolstoi,  and  has  also  been  most  cor- 
life  made  a  profession  of  religion  and  united  with  dially  entertained  by  some  of  the  leading  Polish 
the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which  noblemen  at  Warsaw,  while  engaged  in  literary 
his  father  was  a  ruling  elder.     In  the  fall  of  1893  work  there. 

he  returned  from  Oermany,  and  so(m  afterwards  John  Macgowan,  the  great-great-grandfather  of 
made  an  engagement  with  the  St.  Louis  rost-Dis-  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Edinburg 
patch.  He  also  worked  for  the  St.  Louis  Republic  about  1726.  He  was  successively  a  ^lethodist,  an 
for  a  time.  In  1896  ^Ir.  Macgowan  went  to  Chi-  Independent  and  a  Baptist  preacher.  From  De- 
cago  and  took  a  position  with  the  Trihuiir,  of  that  cember  15,  1766,  till  his  death.  Xovember  25,  1780, 
city.  In  May,  1899,  the  Trihiinc,  needing  a  special  he  was  the  pastor  of  a  Baptist  chapel  in  Devon- 
correspondent  at  the  (ierman  capital,  sent  him  to  shire  Square,  London.  He  was  buried  in  the  fa- 
Berlin  in  that  cajjacity.  In  1901,  the  Tribune  com-  mous  old  Non-conformist  cemetery  of  Burnhill 
posed  its  differences  \\  itli  the  American  Associ-  Fields.  One  of  his  sons,  Ebenezer  Macgowan,  came 
ated  Press,  and  discontinued  its  special  agencies  to  Virginia  in  1783,  when  a  boy  of  sixteen.  About 
in  the  several  European  capitals,  and  the  latter  1817  he  moved  to  Rutherford  County,  Tennessee, 
organization  employed  him  to  represent  it  at  St.  and  died  there  at  an  advanced  age.  Thomas,  the 
Petersburg.  There  he  resided  until  December,  son  of  Ebenezer  ^Macgowan,  was  born  in  1801,  and 
1903,  when  he  was  transferred  back  to  Berlin,  moved  to  vShelby  County,  Tennessee,  in  1836,  and 
While  doing  his  work  for  his  regular  employer's,  died  there  in  1880.  Evander  Locke  Macgowan,  son 
Mr.  Macgowan  was  a  diligent  student  of  the  his-  of  Thomas  Macgowan,  and  fatlier  of  the  subject 
tory  and  literature  of  both  Germany  and  Russia,  of  this  .sketch,  was  born  August  22,  1835,  and  now 
and  now  and  then  he  has  been  called  on  by  jour-  resides  in  Memphis,  Tennessee.     Evander  and  his 


SKETCHES  Ol'  l*.\TI{()\S. 


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only    brotlior,    David,    served    in    tlie    ronfederate      was  bapi  i/.cd   wh.n  (inl\   a   IVw    munilK  '>ld   l.v  tin- 

Army  thronnjiont  the  Civil  War.     The  mother  of      late  Kcv.  Dr.  i;.  I..  Dal v  in  ihr  ,1i,i|mI  .if  liiiun 

Evander  L.  :\[aegowan  was  Miss  ^fartlia  Jones  Semiiiaiy.  i'limc  i:d\\ard  Cnnniy,  Xiririnia.  ll 
Locke.  TTer  family  were  amoni^  the  early  settlers  would  ihercr<M-e  seem  wcllnifih  inipnssilih-  for  her 
of  Shelhy  C(mnty,  Tennessee.  The  I.ockes  mi-  Id  he  anyiiiiiiu  Inn  a  I'resliylerian.  When  her 
grated  to  Ameriea  jjrior  to  the  Ifevolutidii  i>(  177(1, 
and  two  of  :Martlia  J.  Locke's  brothers  served  wiih 
(ieneral  Jackson  in  the  War  of  1812.  .Mary  Jane 
J'.nrrows,  wlio  became  the  wife  of  Evander  \j.  Mac- 
go  wan,  was  bom  February  19,  1838,  and  on  the 
nineteenth  of  December,  1856,  she  was  married. 
Iler  father,  llev.  Kenben  l!iu'i-o\\s,  D.  D.,  was  cme 
of  the  pioneers  of  the  Cumberland  Tresbyh  liau 
Church,  and  was  bom  in  North  Carnllna,  and 
moved  to  ^Vest  Tennessee  when  a  young  man.  Tlie 
mother  of  Mary  Jane  Burrows  was  Elizabeth  Hell, 
a  daughter  of  John  Bell.     Said  John  Bell  was  a 


soldier  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  was  with  (Jeneral     she   moved,  ahmg    will 


fallier  sellled  in  NnrI'dlk,  \irgiiiia.  as  jiastor  of 
the  Second  I 'resby I erlau  ('hunli.  slie  wcTii  ainng 
as  "llh'  baby"  nf  ihe  young  paslur's  litlle  family. 
Theic  she  resided  neailv  eiglil  years,  and  iliei'e  she 
began  lier  scIuki]  days.  In  .Mai'ch,  ISSl,  she  went 
with  liei-  pariMils  lo  <!al\eslou,  Texas;  and  in 
January,  iss:.'.  in  ( 'liarlni  le.  Xnrlli  ('aruliiia.  wliei'e 
she  attended  llie  Cliarlniie  female  Institute,  a7i 
excellent  school  emidueled  by  ihe  laie  Rev.  W.  11. 
Atkinson.  This  scho(d  she  attended  about  four 
years.  While  living  in  Cliarbjtte  she  lost  her 
mother — lune   IS,    Issi!.     The  last  of  June.   18S(;, 

IT    I'al  liei'.   I<i    <  'ill  nniliia. 


Jackson  at  the  Battle  of  the  Horse  Shoe.  All  of 
the  brothers  of  !Mrs.  Evander  L.  .Macgowan  were 
soldiers  in  the  Confederate  Army  during  the  Civil 
War. 

SKETCH  92. 

MRS.  H.  H.  WADE,  MEMPHIS,  TENNESSEE. 

The  full  maiden  name  of  Mrs.  Wade  was  Flor- 
ence Booue  Woods.     In  giving    her    the  nanu^  nf 


Sdiitli  ('aroliiia,  wliirli  was  lier  hume  till  .May, 
188!t.  While  living  in  Cnluniliia  she  ailended  ihe 
public  schonls  nf  lha(  i-ily.  In  llie  fall  nf  ISSl)  she 
entered  the  ("lara  ('nnway  lnslilnii\  .Memphis, 
from  Avliich  inslilutidu  she  was  graduated  in  June, 
1801.  On  the  elevenlh  <if  June,  1806,  she  was 
mariied  in  .Mr.  Ileiiiy  llarrisnn  Wade,  of  Mem- 
phis, Tenness<'e,  by  her  falher  in  llie  Secoiul  I'res- 
bvlerian  Church.     She  has  had  three  children,  all 


"Booue"  her  parents  desired  to  recognize  the  re-  sons,  as  follows :     lai  Ni:.\.\ni:K  Woons  W.\nE,  who 

lationshi])  which  her  mother's  mother  sustained  to  was  born  March    10,    ISOO;    |h)    Ukxry  IIaruison 

the  family  of  which  Daniel  Booue,  the  famous  pio-  Waw:,  Juniuu,  who  was  born  July  21,  1001;  and 

ueer,  was  a  uu-ndier.    Letitia  Boone,  who  mari'ied,  (c)   MuNSON  L.\N(;  Waue,  who  was  born  October 

tirst,  John  Q.  Birkliead,  and,  latei-,  Di'.  J.  W.  Smel-  11,  1003. 

ser,   was  a  descendant  of  one  of   Ihe  brolheis  of  JMr.  Henry  Hari-isou  Wadi' was  lifun  in  Memphis, 

Daniel  Booue,  as  is  reasonably  ])robable.     This  is  Tennessee,    .May    1,   1860,  and  was    the    youngest 

fully  shown  in  a  foregoing  section  devoted  to  the  child  of  the  lale   Henry  Wade  by  his  wife  Susan, 

P.ooues.      Florence   Boone  AN'oods  was  the  second  itn   Lang.     Ueiir\    W  aile  was  born  in  Bridgeport, 

child  of  Itev.  Neander  M.  Woods  by  his  wife  Alice,  Connecticut,  August  25,  1813,  and  was  a  son  of 


iicc  Birkhead,  and  was  born  at  Madison  Court 
House,  Virginia,  July  18,  1872.  Her  father  was 
then   pursuing  his  course  of  preparation    foi-  the 


Nathaniel  \\ade  by  his  wife  Kuth,  )icc  Somers. 
Henry  Wade  settled  in  .Memphis  wlun  it  was  a 
small  town  noted  for  its  unpaved,  muddy  streets, 


ministry,  and  was  spending  the  summei'  vacation  and  its  promise  of  rapid  growth  in  the  near  future, 

of     Uuion     Theological     Seminary     in      .Madison  The   Second    I'resbyi.-rian   Church,   Memphis,   had 

County,   \'irgiuia,   in  missionary   work,   under  the  been  oiganized  Saiurday,   December  28,  1844,  and 

directio'u  of  "west  Hanover  Presbytery.     Florence  Henry  \\a<l..  was  ..1 f  Ihe  tirst  persons  to  be  re- 


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ceived  into  the  new  chiivcli  after  its  organization.  Virginia,   jMay  11,   ISK)— liis  mother's  thirty-first 
When  tlie  congregation  began,  in  ISIG,  the  erec-  anniversary.     Tlie  first  five  years  of  liis  life  were 
tion  of  their  first  house  of  w(n-ship  at  the  corner  spent  in  Ncn-follv.     lie  accompanied  his  parents  to 
of  Main  and  Beale  streets,  Mr.  Wade  was  one  of  the  Galveston,  Texas,  in    March,  ISSl;    and   to  Thar- 
fonr  members  who  gave  a  thonsand  dollars  each  ton  lotte.  North  Carolina,  in  January,  1882.     In  June, 
wards  its  construction.    In  July,  1S49,  he  was  made  1SS3.  when  he  w  as  a  little  past  his  seventh  year  he 
a  ruling  elder  of  the  Second  Church. an  (ittice  wliitli  lost  his  mother.     He  was  with   his  father  in   his 
he  filled  with  credit  till  his  death,  nearly  lliirty-  move  to   Columbia,    ^^outli   Carolina,   at  the  close 
one  years  thereafter.     He  was  the  superintendent  of  June,  ISSG;  and  to  Memiihis  in  the  spring  (rf 
of  the  Sunday-School  from  1856  to  187-1.     For  a  188!),  when  he  was  about  thirteen  years  old.     His 
long  jteriod  he  carried  on  a  book  store  in  Jlemphis.  education  was  begun  in  Charlotte,  and  continued 
His  death  occurred  January  fi,  1880.    He  left  three  in  Columbia  and  INIemphis.     About  1890  he  went 
children,  as  follows:     1,  Susie  L.,  the  wife  of  jNIr.  to   St.   Louis  and   entered    the  Manual    Training 
E.  Witzmann;  2,  Belle,  who  now  lives  with   Mr.  School    of    Washington    University,    making    his 
and  IMrs.  Witznuinn,  in  Memphis;  and  ;>,  the  sub-  home  for  tlie    time  with    his    grandmother,   Mrs. 
ject  of  this  sketch.  Smelser,  who  lived    in  St.  Louis.     He  was    there 
Susan,  lire  Lang,  the  mother  of  Henry  Harrison  about  a  year  and  a  half,  but  the  climate  of  that 
Wade  and  wife  of  the  late  Heury  Wade,  was  born  city,  in  winter,  was  too  severe,  and  he  was  sent 
in  Bath,  New  Hampshire,  January  25,  1823,  and  to    Vanderl)ilt    University,    Nashville,    Tennessee, 
died   in  ^leniphis  July  4,  1895.     Her  father  was  Having  developed  considerable  liking  for  mechan- 
Sher1)urn  Lang,  b(irn  July  25,  1782,  and  died  Octo-  ical  lines  of  work,  he  took  the  course  in  civil  en- 
ber  5,  1857 ;  and  her  mother  was  Mehetabel  Bicker,  gineering.     He  spent  the  last  two  years  of  his  col- 
born  April  5,  1797,  and  died  in  1800.     Mehetabel  lege  training  at   tlie  Alaliama  Polytechnic   Insti- 
Ricker's  mother  Avas  Susan  Salter,  who  was  born  tute.  Auburn,  Alabama,  from  which  institution  he 
in    England,    and    came   to   America   when    (luite  was  duly  graduated  in  June,  1898,  having  chosen 
young,  both  of  her  parents  dying  on  the  ship  com-  architecture  as  his  life-work.     In  November,  1898, 
iug  over.     The  before-mentioned  Sherburn  Lang's  he  was  married  to  Miss  Tallulah   Cachet,  of  Au- 
fatlier,  named  Samuel  Lang,  who  served  as  a  sol-      burn,  Alabama.    For  a  time  he  Avorked  in  the  office 
dier  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  built  one  of  the      of  a  prominent  architect  in  Chicago,  and  later  on 
first  houses  ever  erectc^d  in  Bath,  New  Hampshire,      formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.   B.   C.  Alsup,  an 
and  died  November  8,  1828.  experienced  and  well-known  liuilder  and  architect 
Mr.  Henry  Harrison  Wade  was  educated  in  the      of  ^Memphis,  Tennessee,  with  whom  ^Ir.  Woods  is 
Mempliis  public  schools.     For  a  number  of  years      still  associated.     The  firm  of  Alsup  &  Woods  has 
he   has   Ijeen   engaged    in    the    well-known    music      planned  and  erected  a  great  many  of  the  most  im- 
house  of  E.  Witzmann,  his  brother-in-law,  at  Mem-     portant  buildings  in  and  around  Memphis,  and  no 
phis.     He  and    his  wife  are  connected    with    the     firm  in  that  grooving  city  stands  higher  than  theirs, 
church  of  which  liis  father  was  for  so  many  years     and  none    is    kept  more    steadily  employed.     Mr. 

Woods  is  a  student  of  all  the  various  branches  of 
work  relating  to  the  profession,  is  constantly  add- 
ing to  his  architectural  library,  and  aims  to  keep 
abreast  of  the  times. 

Miss  Tallulah  Gachet,  who  became  the  wife  of 


an  honored  member  and  ofticer. 

V 

SKETCH  93. 
N.  M.  WOODS,  JR.,  MEMPHIS,  TENNESSEE. 
Neander     Montgomery    Woods,     Jr.,     was     the 


fourth   child   of  Ivev.   Neander  M.   Woods   by  liis      'Sir.  Woods  in  1898,  is  the  only  daughter  of  Cap- 
wife  Alice,  nee  Birkhead,  and  was  born  in  Norfolk,      tain    Charles   Gachet   by    his    wife    Tallulah,    ntv 


SKETCHES  OF  I'ATKUNS.                                                               4-21 

Lampkiii,  and    was   born   and    rcarod    in  Aiiliiun.  limnhcd  years.  Sir  .]<A\u  Slnu-licy,  (Uic  of  i(s  nieiii- 

Alabania.     Un  her  mother's  side  slic  is  (h'secadcd  licrs,  iiavini:  liccii  cue  ot'  liic  iwrniy  iviii;;hls  made 

from  Colonel  Joslina  Hougliton,  .lolm  Crutehfield,  sndi    hy    ihe    investiture    of    Edward,    'Die    mack 

and  Eientenant  TJK.mas  Wagnan,  all  of  whom  were  Prince,  in    i:{:?7.     John  Cox  was  a  iiicmhcr  of  the 

1  {evolutionary    soldiers    from    Georgia.       ()u    Iht  t'luiii  a|>|iniiii<  <|  li\    Xii-ini:!  iu  s.-ii  Ir  nil  (lis|)iilcd 

fathers  side  she  is  descended  from  Harrison  Jones,  (incsiicns  hci  wmi  ihc  liHli:iiis  ami  W  lilies  in  l.an- 

of  Virginia,  who  Avas  the  first  soldier  (o  be  voted  caster  County,  and  he  became  (he  laislianil  of  tlie 

a  pension  by  the  United  States  Congress,  he  hav-  <>nly   danghter   and    lieiress   df   William    Strachey. 

ing  suffered  the  loss  of  one  of  his  legs  at  the  Battle  Ur.  Charles  ( lacliel,  .Mrs.  \\ Oods's  paternal  graud- 

of  Guilford  Court  House,  March  15,  1781.     Cap-  father,  came  to  America  after  tlu^  Hevolution,  and 

tain  James  Scott,  of  Prince  Edward  County,  \\v-  was  on  ilie  Island  of  Sania    l>omin^o  ai    ilie  lime 

ginia,    and    his    father,    Thomas   Scott,    wlio    were  ol'  the  Insurreci  imi  ol'  IT'.H.  ami  liis  life  was  saved 

patriots  in  the  Hevolution,  were  of  the  ancestors  by  his  body  servant. 

of  ^Irs.  Woods's  father.     She  also  claims  descent  Mr.  and   .Mrs.  Woods  have  two  children,  as  fol- 

from   the  Colonial   families  of  Baytop,   Strachey,  lows;    lai  ( 'iiaki.ks  (i.\ciii;T  WUiins.  who  was  born 

Collier,   Cox   and  ]Major    Lawrence    Smith.      The  July  ll.'.  I'.i()();aml  ib)  T.m.hi.au  G.\chet  Woods, 

Strachey  familv  can  be  traced  liack  for  nearlv  six  who  was  horn  .May  1(1,  I'.iol. 


Woods-McAfee  Memorial 


PART  FOUR 


THE  APPENDICES 


A — Journals   of   James  and  Robert  McAfee 
Kept  in  May-August,  1778 


B — Three  Ancient  Pioneer  Roads  of  Interest 

TO  BOTH   WOODSES  AND   McAfEES 


C — Some    Ancient    Documents    of    Special 
Interest  to  the  Woodses 


APPENDIX  A. 

JOURNALS  OF  JAMES  AND    ROBERT  McAFEE,  AND  NOTES  BY  THE  AUTHOR. 


The  tour  of  the  McAfee  Compnny  from  Uote- 
tourt  County,  Mrgiuia,  to  the  wilderness  of  Ken 
tucky  ill  the  summer  of  1773,  luul,  iu  some  deiiree, 
a  causal  connection  with  the  settlement  of  llic  hil  ici' 
region  ;  and  no  coniidete  history  of  Kentucky  (•(uihl 
be  writteni  witliout  taking  it  into  account.  Marsliall, 
r.utler,  Collins,  etc.,  in  their  histories  of  the  Stale-, 
['resident  Koosevelt,  in  his  valuable  and  ciilcrlnin 
ing  work.  The  Winning  of  the  West;  i>avidson,  in 
liis  History  of  the  Tresbyterian  rinircb  in  Ken 
tncky;  and  a  multitude  of  other  hisloriciil  wi-itei's, 
have  treated  of  it  more  or  less  at  length,  (icn. 
1{.  L5.  McAfee,  who  was  a  son  of  the  Robert  .McAfee 
«  ho  kept  one  of  these  Journals,  and  a  nephew  of 
the  James  McAfee  who  wrote  the  other,  left  behind 
him  an  autobiography,  in  manuscript,  in  which  lie 
not  (inly  gave  a  narrative  of  the  tour  of  177o  based 
upon  the  two  Journals,  but  also  embodied  a  num- 
ber of  additional  items  concerning  the  tour  which 
he  had  gotten  from  the  lips  of  his  uncle  James. 
These  two  Journals,  however,  constitute  our  prin- 
cipal basic  authorities  for  that  tour,  they  being 
the  written  records  of  two  of  the  main  actors  in 
the  events  to  which  they  refer,  made  at  the  time. 
For  this  reason  it  has  been  deemed  higbly  im- 
portant that  these  ancient  documents  should  be 
put  in  print  for  pernuinent  preservation,  they  nt-ver 
having  been  published  before. 

Inasmuch  as  the  exploring  and  surveying  tour 
recounted  iu  these  Journals  was  made  one  hundred 
and  thirty  jears  ago,  when  there  were  no  roads  or 
settlements  of  white  men  anywhere  in  Kentucky, 
and  when  only  a  dozen  or  more  of  its  numberless 
water-courses  had  as  yet  received  names,  it  is  easy 
to  understand  that  the  route  travelled  by  these  men 
could  not  be  intelligible  to  the  average  reader.  The 
author  of  this  volume  has  given  the  spare  moments 
of  about  a  year  to  locating,  as  exactly  as  possible, 
the  precise  route  travelled  by  the  McAfees  in  going 
to,  and  returning  from,  the  Kentucky  wilderness. 
By  careful  study  of  the  excellent  large-scale  maj»s 
of  the  United  States  Geological  Survey,  by  personal 
visits  to  some  of  the  localities  traversed  by  the 
JlcAfee  Company,  and  especially  by  a  voluminous 


corres])oii(lencc  with  persons  now  i-csiding  ahing 
llie  line  of  Ibc  ronic  brlicxcil  to  Imvc  bem  followed 
by  llicsc  cxplon-i-s.  llie  anilhu-  liiis  brcn  ;ibb'  lo 
lor;ilr,   wilji  ;iliiii>sl    clllilc  cell  ;l  i  Ii  I  \  .  jll   ut    llic  more 

iniiPorl;inl  places  ret'c  rrcij  lo  in  ih,.  .Iniiniiils.  'I'lie 
results  of  Iiis  Inlmr  he  li:is.  lo  ;i  o;-,..,!  e.\ienl.  em 
lioilied  in  a  series  oi'  iii:i|(s  lo  lie  roiiiid  in  this  work. 
The  I  w  (I  -lonrnnls  will  here  be  given  side  bv  side 
in  ]iariillel  (•(dninns;  and  b\  means  of  copious  notes, 
reeoi-ded  on  the  pages  of  this  volume  next  follow  ing 
ihe  .Joiirniils  I hemselvcs,  the  records  made  by  these 
two  men  will  be  fully  elucidated.  The  reader  is 
asked  to  study  the  notes  as  he  goes  along,  making 
frequent  reference,  also,  to  the  several  maps  which 
lire  valuable  comnienlaries  on  ihe  Journals,  and 
helpful,  likewise,  lo  a  clear  understanding  of  tin- 
notes  themselves. 

It,  will  1k'  seen  that  ihe  .loiii-nal  of  .lames  .Mc-.Vfee 
iiegiiis  abi-uplly,  appai-eiilly  on  ihe  '.lih  of  .lime, 
and  as  though  some  of  iis  pages  were  wanting,     ll 


is    likelv    James    an 


Robert     both    began     their 


Journals  on  the  I'Tlh  day  of  May,  when  ihey 
probal)ly  left  Ihe  Sail  Spring  on  the  (ireat  Ka- 
nawha i;i\er  a  few  miles  abo\e  where  Charleston, 
W.  \'a.,  now  stands,  and  embarked  on  that  stream 
iu  the  canoes  they  had  built  at  that  point.  The 
loss,  however,  is  incctnsiderable,  for  the  lirst  few 
(lays  of  their  journey  by  boat  were  not  especially 
important,  so  far  as  Unown.  llesides,  the  .loiirnal 
of  liobert  su[)[dies  us  w  iili  a  record  of  their  move- 
ments almost  from  the  \ery  day  of  their  emliarka- 
tiou  at  the  Salt  Spring,  which  is  si  ill  to  Im  seen  live 
miles  aboNC  the  city  of  Charleston,  West  \'irginia. 
Several  things  which  will  strike  the  attentive 
reader  of  these  Journals  are  worth  noting  here. 
For  one  thing,  there  are  no  such  allusions  to  the 
points  of  the  compass  as  would  indicate  that  any 
one  of  the  live  men  of  the  party  had  a  compass 
with  him.  There  are  many  remarks  on  the  direc- 
tions whii  h  llie\  went,  but  all  seem  to  be  only 
the  hasty  guesses  of  men  accustomed  to  judge  by 
the  sun  and  other  heavenly  bodies.  We  may  there- 
fore rightly  expect  to  find  their  estimates  of  di- 
rection  not   alwa,\s  (piite  accurate,  for  they  were 


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TIIK    \\(t()l)S  .M(  AI'IOI-:    AIIOAIOKIAL. 


continually  turnint;-  aliout  and  dian.nint!;  their 
course,  rtkI  often  times  tlie  sl<y  wduld  Ite  overcast 
with  cloTuls,  liiiis  h-avinii'  tlieiii  in  (hiubt  for  a 
season.  .Mndi  liiiiit  is  tlirown  hy  tlu'se  records 
n])on  iIk'  (cniiicranients  and  aptitndes  of  the 
writers,  i'.oll:  nf  Hhmii  were  evi(h'ntly  intensely 
practical  men,  willi  scarcely  any  poetic  sentiment 
or  sense  of  humor.  They  constantly  note  the 
character  and  ]»ossil)ilities  of  tlie  soil,  the  ^veather, 
the  stn-ams,  tin-  timher,  and  tlw  springs,  but  not 
a  word  do  we  find  about  eitlu'r  tlu'  esthetical  or 
humorous  side  of  life.  They  must  have  looked  upou 
some  uucomniouly  lovely  water  scenes  and  land- 
scapes in  both  the  mountains  and  the  more  level 
I'egious,  but  uot  a  single  sentence  do  they  devote 
to  such  tilings.  Tlicn  there  must  have  lieeu  numy 
an  luuusing  incident,  and  numy  a  ludicrous  situa- 
tion, during  the  eighty  days  covered  by  tlie  Jour- 
nals, but  not  one  word  is  to  be  fouud  in  the  entire 
records  to  suggest  that  any  one  of  the  party 
cracked  a  smile  in  all  their  wanderings.  More  to 
their  credit,  howcxer,  is  the  fact  that  we  may  look 
in  vain  through  the  whole  of  both  tiie  Journals 
for  a  single  symptom  of  conceit  or  boastfulness. 
There  is  uot  only  no  bragging,  aud  no  dramatic 
posing,  but  uot  even  a  pointed  mention  of  any- 
thing which  could  have  been  intended  to  awaken 
in  those  who  read  their  narratives  a  feeling  of 
special  admiration  lor  the  writers.  The  well  known 
propensity  of  the  average  sailor  or  fisherman  to 
spin  yarns  concerning  his  real  or  imaginary  adven- 
tures aud  achievements  tonml  no  place  in  their 
souls.  Jaujes  c(jukl  make  a  detour  of  thirty  miles 
away  from  the  Compiiuj',  abstilutely  alone,  for  t\\'o 
days  and  nights  in  a  howling  wilderness  which  his 
feet  had  never  trod  before,  and  where  he  knew  wild 
beasts  and  yet  more  cruel  savages  might  be 
encountered  any  moment,  and  Kobert  could  do  the 
same  thing;  and  yet  when  we  examine  their  Jour- 
nals we  find  only  the  briefest  and  most  prosaic  allu- 
sion to  these  really  perilous  and  remarkable  excur- 
sious,  the  full  significance  of  which  would  scarcely 
have  dawned  on  us  had  uot  Gen.  It.  B.  McAfee 
talked  with  his  uncle  James  a  generation  after  it 
all  occurred,  and  wormed  the  facts  out  of  the  old 
hero.  James  could  bring  down  a  splendid  buck- 
elk  with  his  rifle  tip  there  on  the  North  Fork  of 
the  Kentucky  IJiver  above  the  site  of  "Bloody  Jack- 
son," on  the  8tli  of  July,  ITTo,  furnishing  the  only 
food  the  party  had  for  tlie  next  four  days,  bttt  Ave 
have  to  go  to  the  narrative  of  his  nephew  to  find 


out  alioiit  it.  Then  lioth  Tames  and  Robert  could 
]>ass  tlirongh  the  unspeakable  horrors  of  August 
ll.',  wlien,  in  an  almost  starving  condition,  they 
climbed  liie  lofty  |)eaks  of  the  Big  Black  Motiutains, 
in  what  is  uow  Harlan  ('(mnty,  Kentucky,  under 
a  scorching  August  sun,  and  from  those  far  sum- 
mits beheld  the  sun  sinking  in  the  West  while 
they  themselves  wcw  sinking  from  sheer  starva- 
tion to  the  barren  and  blistered  earth,  aud  yet  be 
save<l  from  death  by  a  merciful  Prin'idence — they 
were  able  to  pass  through  all  of  these  thrilling 
e\])eriences;  and  yet,  when,  at  the  close  of  that 
never-to-be-forgotten  day,  they  jotted  down  in  their 
note-books  the  record  of  their  jotirney  over  those 
desolate  motiutains,  they  scarcely  made  an  allusion 
to  its  almost  tragic  details;  and  it  is  only  because 
Gen.  11.  B.  McAfee,  in  after  years,  drew  the  facts 
from  his  uncle  James's  reluctant  lips  that  we  can 
know  the  whole  story  to-day.  If  these  men  hatl  in 
their  st)tils  any  k)ve  for  the  beautiful  in  nature,  any 
appreciation  of  life's  humorcnis  incidents,  any  con- 
ceited estimate  of  their  nw  n  heroic  qualities,  or  any 
ambition  to  pose  before  posteritj',  we  look  in  vain 
for  any  tokens  of  these  characteristics  in  the  Jour- 
nals they  have  left  us.  They  were  simply  men  of 
practical  common-sense,  great  shrewdness,  and  al- 
most unlimited  resource,  who  could  face  w  itii  calm- 
ness the  worst  perils,  aud  meet  with  fortitude  the 
most  appalling  conditions  of  life  in  the  wilderness, 
and  yet  never  lose  their  wits  or  their  simple  faith 
in  God. 

Whilst  the  autograph  narratives  themselves 
seem  to  have  been  lost,  and  we  have  to  be  content 
with  copies,  we  have  every  reason  to  believe  that 
in  these  copies  we  possess  documents  which  are 
unquestionably  genuine,  and  which  ha\  e  undergone 
no  material  alterations  of  form  or  verbiage  in  the 
process  of  transmission.  Careless  or  officious  copy- 
ists may  ijossibly  have  effected  slight  changes  here 
and  there,  but  the  documents,  as  we  uow  have  them, 
bear  on  their  faces  the  strongest  evidence  of  being 
substantially  the  very  records  which  James  and 
IJobert  McAfee  made  in  1773.  In  these  Journals 
we  have  two  independent  accounts  of  the  same  oc- 
currences, marked  by  those  slight  variations  which 
only  tend  to  prove  their  genuineness.  Both  write 
like  sensible,  truthful  men.  Scrutinizing  their 
grammar,  orthograiiliy  and  forms  of  expression,  we 
find  rliat  tlicy  compare  favorably  with  that  of  the 
better  class  of  educated  farmers  now  to  be  met  with 
in  X'irginia  aud  Kentucky.     They  were,  beyond  all 


AI'PIONDrX  A— TlliC  .M(AI'i:i:  .lorUNAI.S  111'    177:'..  427 

(lii('slio7i,  no  ii<nov;ni(   liackwdddsincu.  l>iii   luid  en-  Is;iiH'  Slicll).\.  wcsliiill  liiid  tln-y  lose  iiniliiiif,'  llicrc- 

jovcd   fiiir  ('(Inciitioiial   iulvaiit:i,i;x'S  as  respects  the  liy.     Tlieir  Joni'iials  slaml  very  far  almve  ilie  nv\'^- 

lOiii-lisli   liraiiclies.     In  botli  Jonrnals  we  find  an  iiial  lell.Ts  and  diaiiis  dl'  nnn  like  I'.ddiic  and  the 

(K-casional  misspelt  Avord,  faulty  pnnclnatiun,  ami  i;reai   iiiajuriiy  of  ilie  innmiTs.     Tliai  <>r  .lames  re- 

some  of  the  fi'ude  colloquialisms  in  conmion  nse  at  veals,    in    several    insiances.    his    laniiiiaiily    willi 

tliis  day  anions  plain  farming  peo]de;  Init   if  we  I'.ihlical  hingnage.     r,n(   liie  .Innnials  will  miw  lie 

compare  these  documents  with  those  h'fl   ns  hy  (lie  given  jusi  as  lliey  are,  and  may  llierelnre  speaU  lor 

early  ex]dorers  and  ])ioneers  of  the  best  class,  snrli  llienisel ves.      'I'lie    imies    will    serve    to   I'Xplain    .ill 

as  J)r.  Thomas  A\'alker,  Col.  <'hristoi)lu'r  (list,  and  mattei's  needing  eincidai  inn. 


42S 


THE    WOODS-MeAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


JAMES'  JOURNAL. 

(Note. — It  seems  very  evident  that  the  earlier 
pages  of  James's  Journal  befaiiie  detached,  and 
were  lost.     N.  31.  ^V. ) 

The  channel  of  Ohio  and  all  the  creeks  are 
mostly  sandy,  entirely  free  stone  where  any  appear 
in  llie  creeks  or  rivers.  On  lioth  sides  of  the  Ohio 
the  hills  join  the  bottoms  in  every  five  or  six  miles, 
coming  close  to  the  river  in  points,  first  one  side, 
then  on  the  other,  at  these  points  the  bottom  is 
not  a  hnndred  yards  wide;  the  hills  and  ridges 
of  considerable  height  rnnning  np  the  creeks  on 
both  sides  of  the  Ohio  river  as  far  as  we  conld 
see;  a  great  many  of  them  A\'ell  timbered,  very  fine 
food  for  cattle;  others  of  them  in  places  barreny, 
fnll  of  pine  and  stony  and  Imshy;  snfficient  quan- 
tity of  free  stone  appear  in  many  ]ilaces  to  make 
llie  best  of  grind  stones  for  all  America.  Tliere 
appears  conveniency  for  mills  on  these  creeks  in 
places,  though  in  great  danger  of  fioods;  there  may 
be  exceeding  fine  meadows  made  on  the  river  and 
these  creeks. 


June  lOtli,  we  proceeded  thirteen  miles  farther 
to  the  mouth  of  Bandy  river,  camped  one  night, 
some  men  hunted  seven  or  eight  miles  up  Sandy 
river;  it  appears  about  100  yards  wide  in  general. 
The  land  appears  much  like  what  I  said  before  and 
tiie  hills  likewise. 


ROBERT'S  JOURNAL. 

1773. — :May  the  20th  in  the  morning  we  got  to 
the  Ohio'  (mouth  of  Kenhawa)  where  we  found 
Capt.  Bullit  &  his  company;"  &  in  the  evening  there 
came  five  Delaware  Indian  canoes  &  their  families 
going  down  to  the  Big  Falls  to  hunt.  After  day 
the  29th  of  May  we  came  to  the  mouth  of  New 
Eiver^  where  we  lay  till  Tuesday  the  first  of  June, 
&  the  surveyors  measured  the  Ohio  &  the  New 
River — the  Oliio  wns  400  yards  across,  &  the  New 
River  was  200  yards  across.  June  the  first  Ave  took 
tlie  Ohio  River  with  a  boat  &  four  canoes,  &  left 
Capt.  Bullitt  to  go  to  the  Shawnee  town  to  see  what 
was  to  be  done  there,  &  we  went  down  the  river 
al)out  20  miles  &  camped  to  kill  meat —  &  we  went 
out  to  see  A\hat  sort  of  land  there  was  there,  but 
there  was  not  much  land  that  was  good  on  this 
side  of  the  river,^  &  the  water  was  not  at  all  good. 
June  2d  we  lay  by,  &  June  3d  we  moved  Camp  about 
four  miles  down  the  river  to  an  old  Indian  camp 
where  tliere  was  tine  bottom  land  on  both  sides  of 
the  river,  &  we  lay  there  until  June  the  7th,  &  I 
hunted  a  part  of  tliree  days  on  this  side  of  the 
river;  up  a  large  creek  &  on  the  ridges  &  the  hills 
A\as  very  broken  &  brushy  for  about  ten  miles 
from  the  river  &  the  Creek  there  was  about  one 
or  two  plantations — &  on  both  sides  of  the  river 
there  were  two  large  ponds  of  water  about  one 
mile  long  each,  &  ab(Uit  four  hundred  yards  wide 
for  this  length.  The  river  keeps  its  breadth  & 
runs  in  general  S.  \\'.  course.  June  7th  we  came 
to  a  large  Creek,  cS:  that  day  we  hunted  up  that 
creek  about  12  miles  where  there  was  very  fine  laud 
on  both  sides;  .&  on  the  Sth  we  hunted  down  the 
river  about  three  miles  cV:  there  was  good  land  on 
the  river,  but  there  were  some  large  ponds  be- 
tween the  bottom  ^:  the  hills;  .S:  1  left  the  river 
&  took  out  from  it  about  five  miles  across  the 
woods  where  there  was  some  good  upland,  to  a  large 
creek,  about  S  miles  from  the  river,  where  there 
was  not  any  good  land  to  the  mouth.  The  'Jth 
day  we  went  over  the  Big  River'  about  six  or 
seven  miles  up  .S:  down.  There  was  good  land  ou 
the  River  ^S:  out  about  one  mile  very  big  high 
hills  &  middling  good  water.  The  most  of  the 
\\ater  this  length,  in  the  creeks  &  branches  seems 
to  go  dry  in  a  dry  spell.  The  10th  we  took  the 
river  which  was  high  &  rough  with  the  wiud;  we 
A\-eut  about  four  miles  from  Sandy  Creek  to  Sandy 
Ri\er  where  we  lay  all  night;  &  the  Ohio  seemed 
to  run  from  that  a  N.  \\'.  course 


ArPENDIX  A— TllK  .\l( 


James'  Journal. 

Juno  11  til,  we  left  Samly  river,  sailed  4.")  inilfs" 
and  iiot  to  the  month  of  Sciota,  and  1)  oanoes  ol' 
Delaware  Indians'  with  ns;  we  passed  a  ureal 
many  ereeks  that  ^lay,  most  of  lliciii  on  oar  side 
of  Ohio.  The  other  side  the  hills  ai)i)ear  ch)ser  to 
Ohio  than  before,  facing  the  river  niiddlini;-  hiiih, 
full  of  rocks,  cedar  and  pine  trees  till  within  (lirei! 
miles  of  Sciota.  In  the  fork  of  Sciota  a  large 
bottom  appears.  We  lay  at  raiii]>  I  ill  .Tune  the 
15th  at  the  month  of  Sciota  where  we  saw  17 
horses  swim  over  the  Ohio  by  four  Indians  jusi 
then  brought  with  saddles  and  pack-saddles;  but 
no  lumber  appeared  to  us,  they  having  opportunity 
to  hide  it  before  we  came;  we  believed  lli(>  whole  to 
be  whit(>  men's  and  lately  taken  from  them.'* 

Captain  ISnllitt  came  to  us  on  t^unday,  the  13th 
with  his  proceedings  amongst  the  Shawnees,  which 
I  have  taken  copies  of  in  another  place."  White 
men  were  with  Captain  Bullitt;  one  of  our  com- 
pany to  the  Nation  says  that  it  is  100  miles  from 
the  mouth  of  New  river  across  to  the  Nation;  the 
liills  continue  for  60  miles  along  that  path;  some 
good  land  in  places;  the  water  middling  scarce; 
after  that  the  land  level  to  the  Nation,  and  the  best 
ever  they  saw;  many  thousands  of  acres  about  the 
Nation  clear  without  a  stick  or  Imsh  on  it,  they 
say  some  hundreds  of  acres  of  meadow  without  a 
l)ush  on  it;  the  grass  then  to  their  chin,  a  kind  of 
rough  natural  grass,  the  water  much  better  than 
that  of  the  river.  Captain  Bullitt,  three  white 
men,  and  three  Delaware  Indians  with  him,  got  to 
the  Nation  undiscovered  which  the  Indians  thought 
very  strange.  They  were  obliged  to  stay  at  a 
wigwam  under  the  care  of  some  Indians  that  even- 
ing and  next  day  till  ten  o'clock,  in  that  time  the 
rest  giving  notice  to  all  the  Nation  concerning  his 
business  with  them.  About  ten  o'clock  Captain 
Bullitt  and  the  white  men  were  ordered  to  the  town, 
where  115  warriors,  spears  and  fixed  bows  and 
arrows,  painted  in  the  most  frightful  manuei-. 
Some  of  tliem  rolled  in  the  sand  and  mud  in  the 
way  just  before  the  town.  Captain  1'..  not  know- 
ing what  they  meant  his  approaching  tliem  nigh 
was  surrounded  with  them.  One  of  them  running 
with  a  tomahawk  drawn  apparently  to  strike  him; 
the  wlnde  115  warriors  Avith  shouts  and  hideous 
cries,  some  tiring  otf  guns  over  his  head,  some  along- 
side, simie  amongst  his  feet,  nigh  powder  JMnning 
of  him,  arrows  drawn  in  a  violent  manner,  tirsl 
against  his  back  some  of  them  cut  through  his  coat, 


AI'KK  .IOI-I!\ Al.S  ol'   1773. 

Robert's  Journal. 


429 


'I'lic  I  till  \\c  loolv  \\w  ii\i-r — &  it  wi-iii  aboiii 
L'5  mih's  a  N.  W.  i-onrse  &  seems  to  make  large 
low  grounds  on  lioili  sides  of  the  river,  M:  then  it 
weid  a  S.  W.  eonrse  alionl  '.'<  miles  \;  iIh-u  it  falls 
into  its  old  eonrse  till  ii  goes  to  the  nionlh  <if 
Sciota  bounded  on  both  sides  of  ijie  river  with 
shai'p  ridgi'S.  Scioi.-i  seems  to  eome  in  the  same 
course   of    (thio   \    iImtc   are   sliarip    liills    join    llie 

Ohio  below    llie   nmnlll    nf    Si-inl;i    \    on    Imlli    si(|es  of 

I)ig   i;i\cr      there   seems   Id   li:i\e   lii-en    old    Iniliau 
towns'  where  thei-e  is  a  small   lii-ninh  of  \ery  good 

water  iV:  seems  lo  iiave  been   mtv  g 1   hind   Imi    it 

lias    I II    all     o\('rfir)wed     wiih     ihi'    ri\er,   which 

seems  lo   lie  ihe  case  of  all    llie   lioiiom    land   that 
1  ha\('  seen  yet. 

■June  iL'th  I  went  out  at  the  mouth  of  the  Sciola 
to  see  the  land  <V:  1  went  to  the  top  of  a  high  hill, 
&  I  could  see  iiboni  (i  miles  up  the  Sciota,  &  at 
the  monlli  there  seemed  to  be  a  tlat  of  land  about 
'1  miles  wide  as  far  up  the  river  as  I  could  sei^  & 
high  ridges  on  each  side  of  the  river.  Both  up  & 
down  &  on  this  side  of  ihe  ()hio.  as  far  as  I  could 
see,  there  was  nolhing  Iml  high  linishy  hills  at 
tli(!  UKnilli  of  Scioiii  iliere  was  on  this  side  of  the 
river.  Ihei'e  a|)|ieiirs  lo  lia\'e  been  an  old  I'rencli 
town"'  with  alioiil  I'.t  or  I'd  houses  in  il.  conipactly 
built  together  in  the  compass  of  al)oul  12  acres  of 
ground  in  it  iV;  a  good  deal  of  cleared  land  &  fruit 
trees  which  has  been  about  the  lime  of  the  first 
wars. 


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THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


James'  Journal. 

lie  not,  kll(l^^•i^ii■  ^V('I1  what  tlioy  meant,  walked  iijt 
to  tlie  town  Tlirouuli  them,  tliey  then  left  off,  and 
some  of  tlie  head  wari'iors  shook  hands  with  him, 
tohl  liim  that  ^^■as  theii'  manner  of  treatment  of 
a  nation  at  their  tirst  eominjn  to  make  ]ieaee  with 
tliem,  and  afterwards  seemed  very  friendly  with 
liim,  and  afterwards  entered  on  their  hnsiness. 
Captain  Enllitt  staid  five  days  in  the  Nation  wait- 
ing before  he  jjot  liis  hnsiness  settled  with  tliem  ; 
in  two  and  one  half  <lays  he  r-ame  in  a  canoe  down 
to  ns.  The  t^ciota  is  a.  small  river  rnnning  ex- 
ceeding crooked  about  100  miles  from  the  Nation 
to  the  montli ;  ahont  20  miles  level  from  the  Nation 
and  good  land,  tlu^  other  eighty  miles  hilly  the 
nigher  the  Ohio  tlie  hills  on  lioth  sides  exceeding 
high,  rocky  and  fnll  of  ]iine  in  ])laces.  though  good 
bottom  on  the  river,  and  some  good  laud  in  ]>hices 
n]i  the  small  creeks. 

At  the  mouth  of  Sciota  on  our  si(h'  (>liio  has 
been  a  small  town,  and  some  ground  cleared  alxnit 
the  time  of  the  war,  by  the  buildings  we  take  to  be 
the  French"' — some  of  them  s(|uare  logs,  large  and 
well  Itnilt,  with  doors  and  chimneys,  clapboard 
covering,  and  sonu'  covered  with  bark. 

June  14tb,  JMonday.  "W'e  went  five  miles  to  get 
meat;  got  some. 

loth,  i\[oved  camp  two  miles  to  a  large  creek." 
staid  two  days,  hunted,  got  meat,  searched  the  laud, 
found  little  on  the  creek,  the  hills  exceeding  higli, 
Inishy,  rocky,  and  full  of  stones  as  any  I  ever  saw. 


-Tune  ITlli,  \\c  moved  camp  ten  miles  to  the 
mouth  of  a  creek,'"  the  liills  continued  on  both 
sides  of  the  river  to  that  creek;  up  it  half  a  mile 
from  the  ri\er  is  a  salt  pond,  about  six  feet  wide 
at  top,  eighteen  inches  deep,  the  water  brown 
colored,  free  from  turf  or  grass  or  weeds  or  any 
living  thing  in  the  waters,  such  as  is  common  in 
<jther  ponds  of  Avatei'.  Tlu^  water  is  very  salt 
tasted  in  that  jxjud,  none  running  out  of  it  above 
ground — the  creek  within  30  yards  of  it.  It  has 
been  greatly  nmde  use  of  by  Inift'alo  and  deer: 
The  Indians  are  there  often  and  nuule  salt  many 
times,  the  traders  tell  us. 

June  l21st,  Abraham  llampenstall  [Haptoustall] 
and  James  .Mi-Mahan  laid  officers  rights  of  2000 
acres  of  land  on  that  salt  pond  and  up  that  creek. 


Robert's  Journal. 


?ironday  14th  June — We  left  the  mouth  of 
Sciota  &  went  about  ."  miles  before  the  batteaux 
to  get  meat  &  lay  all  night  &  found  none;  &  the 
loth  we  moved  camp  about  2  miles  further  to  a 
lai-ge  Creek'-  &  hunted  that  day  &  found  meat  & 
lay  there  2  nights.  The  Creek  made  very  little 
good  land  to  what  one  would  expect  according  to 
its  size;  iV;  on  the  river  the  land  is  much  the  same 
as  I  reuKirked  before,  with  high  ridges  on  each  side. 

The  17th  went  down  the  river  about  10  nnles 
to  a  small  Creek'''  where  there  was  a  Salt  Lick 
about  one  mile  from  Ihe  river.  The  size  of  the 
spring  is  about  five  feet  square  &  affords  water 
about  the  full  of  a  hogshead  at  once,  &  is  sharp 
salt  as  brine,  &  there  is  no  I'urreut  runs  from  it 
nor  to  it,  but  it  appears  that  it  will  be  of  great 
use  if  it  continues  &  don't  go  dry.  On  the  Creek 
which  it  is  on,  there  is  a  great  deal  of  good  laud 
(&  fine  limestone  water.  Down  the  Ohio  to  where 
w('  lay  that  night  is  some  good  land  where  they 
began  to  survey — where  we  lay  from  Thursday 
the  17th  till  .Monday  the  21st  about  45  miles  below 
the  mouth  of  Sciota,' '  &  from  that  we  went  down 
the  river  l(j  miles  to  a  creek  &  encamped  that 
night'" — The  lands  still  appear  good  in  places  along 


APPENDIX  A— THE  M(AI'i:iC  .TOII.'XA  l.s  ol' 


431 


James'  Journal. 

I  walked  three  davs  in  that  part  of  (lie  country;" 
off  the  river  there  the  land  beijins  ij-ood  Ihoiii;]! 
liigli  ridges  on  both  sides  of  the  ereek.  I  walked 
np  that  creek  and  down  anoilur  :!()  miles,  (observ- 
ing the  land  as  I  went^ — the  lands,  water,  and 
lindier  exceedingly  good  for  farming;  the  best  of 
meadows  may  be  made  on  all  those  creeks,  not 
hard  to  clear,  Captain  Bullitt  left  his  loatteaux 
there,  and  ^Iv.  Kennedy,  surveyor,  and  twelve  men 
to  lay  off  a  town  on  the  river —  100  acres  for  the 
townsite,  the  sniTey  to  be  divided  info  halfacre 
lots — tlOO  acres  around  the  town,  eacii  lol  liaving 
ten  acres  of  that  land  to  raise  corn  on.  If  you 
choose  to  live  in  the  town  for  fear  of  th(>  Indians. 
I  have  two  entries  on  that  creek,''  400  acre's  each, 
eight  miles  u]>  it — all  that  cre(>k  enterc^d  and  sur- 
veyed by  Kennedy  &  Company. 

June  22d,  ('aptain  Eullitt  and  tweidy  men  went 
fartlier  down  the  Ohio"*  in  order  to  view  and  take 
nj)  more  land;  we  campt  in  15  miles  one  night." 
1  saw  the  land  off  the  river  grew  better  and  water 
as  good  as  in  our  part  of  the  country — mostly 
limestone.  Opposite  our  camp  on  the  other  sid(! 
of  the  Ohio  bank,  for  two  miles  is  the  tin(>st  cedar 
tind)er  at  Lariane's   [Lawrence's]    Creek."' 

June  23d,  We  moved  eight  miles  fartlier  to  tii(> 
mouth  of  Brecken's  Creek,"  surveyed  two  tracts 
of  land,  one  for  Brecken — one  for  Herrard  [Har- 
rod]  ;  The  laud  out  from  the  river  there  for  7  or 
8  miles  seemed  hilly  and  poorer. 

June  24tl!,  Thursday.  We  moved  down  six  miles 
to  Wilper's  Creek,""  laid  off  land  for  the  second 
town,  a  large  bottom  on  the  river.  Tiic  hills  out 
from  that  six  or  seven  miles,  high,  rough  and  jioor. 
not  woi'th  surveying,  called  Wilper's  folly. 

June  25,  Friday.  N\'e  sailed  3(>  miles  down 
Ohio  not  looking  [at]  land,  to  liic  nionlli  of  l.iillc 
Meyomea  creek  about  100  yards  wide  at  the  nioui li- 
lt comes  in  the  other  side  Ohio.  Two  miles  below 
that  a  small  clean  gravelly  island  in  the  Ohio  six 
miles  below  that  the  mouth  of  Licking  Creek  on  our 
side,  about  80  yards  wide  at  the  mouth. "■' 

June  20th,  Sunday  [Saturday]  .Monday  |  Sun- 
day], 2Tth  We  left  Mr.  Douglas,  surveyor  there  and 
part  of  the  company  to  survey  7000  acres  as  an 
officer's  claim.  John  Fox  owner.  The  bottom  on 
the  river  Very  good;  the  upland  iiroUcn  and 
scarce  of  water,  but  rich  and  vastly  full  of  Ixvdi 
timber;  for  20  miles  up  that  creek  the  land  br<.ken 
and  so  full   of  beech   timber  and   w-ater  bad,'"  we 


Kobert's  Journal. 

the  ri\('r,  willi  lii^^li  hills  mi  each  side  ^i  out  from 
tlie  ri\cr  ilicic  is  very  line  himl  as  can  be  for  corn, 
^Nlieat,  hemp,  tobacco,  or  anything  thai  man  can 
]Mil   in  the  ground. 


Tlie22d  \\'i>  went  down  i  lie  river  about  20  miles=" 
to  a  large  creek  the  liiils  lie^in  to  fall  Hat  on  both 
sides  of  the  river;  N:  1  htinted  out  from  the  river 
where  the  land  v^  water  still  appear  to  get  l)ettcr; 


.S:  the  21lli  of  June  we  came  down  the  river  about 
S  miles  to  a  large  Creek,  &  I  left  the  Company  ^V; 
went  to  the  woods  to  see  tlie  country,"  &  I  went 
alioiit  10  miles  ii|i  llie  cfeek  iV:  there  was  not  much 
i;dod  land — then  I  went  down  another  creek,  about 
S  miles;  there  was  some  good  wheat  laud  ^1;  ilie 
creek  went  into  11  small  river,  ..^  I  went  down  the 
ii\cf  about  25  miles;  there  was  a  great  deal  of 
tlat,  land,  iS:  I  left  the  river  .S;  crossed  the  ridges 
about  Kl  miles  where  there  was  still  good  wheat 
land  ;  \  came  to  ilie  river  to  look  for  my  Company, 
^:  they  were  gone  by.  &  I  was  forced  to  make  a 
bark  canoe  i:  went  down  the  river  till  the  uummi 
set,  ^^  lay  at  tin'  shore  \  in  the  morning  1  went 
(low  II  tlie  fixer  till  ab.uii  ten  o'clock  i^i  found  the 
Comiiany  at  the  mouth  of  Licking  Creek,  which 
was  the  2Tiii  of  tbe  iiiontli  (June)  On  that  creek  I 
made  one  eiii ry  of  land  ;"' 


432 


THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


James'  Journal. 

passed  liy  ilicni — oiilv  Ui;!!  ol'liccr's  claim.  Roltert 
(McAfee)  was  40  miles  up  that  creek,"  tlie  land 
is  middling  good  in  places  and  level — the  water 
scarce,  that  Licking  Creek  100  yards  wide  40  miles 
np  it.  apjiears  to  l)e  a  long  ways  from  the  Monn- 
tains,  and  may  afford  a.  vast  good  laud  on  it,  nn- 
kuowu  to  us;  some  entries  made  40  miles  np  it. 

Jnne  2Sth.  We  went  20  miles  farther  to  the 
month  of  a  small  branch,  0  miles  above  the  month 
of  Big  iMeyome,  laid  off  450  acres  for  the  3d  town.-* 
AVe  staid  tliree  days  there,  Inmted  out  H  or  H  miles, 
found  the  land  very  good,  lint  \'cry  much  ln'okeu, 
witli  l)ranches  niul  gullies,  and  scarce  of  water, 
etc.  "What  is  very  good,  very  little  low^  grounds 
on  that  part  of  the  river.  The  largest  bottom  we 
saw  for  80  miles  we  there  found  five  miles  long, 
by  three  fourths  of  a  mile  wide;  no  pond  of  any 
bigness  in  that  bound;  mostly  hilly  and  rich  ground 
for  5  or  0  miles  out.  There  ^Iv.  Hite  and  6  men, 
in  two  canoes,  came  to  us  from  Pittsburg.  Mr. 
Ilite  surveyor  in  that  company. 

June  30th.  We  set  sail  do^^-n ;  in  four  mih»s  we 
got  to  the  mouth  of  Big  Meyome  a  little  river  al)oiit 
100  yards  wide  at  the  mouth,  a]ipears  the  best  laud 
we  have  seen  on  all  Ohio.  In  going  ten  miles 
farther  down  there  came  in  four  creeks — Some  a 
mile,  some  two  miles  apart ;  some  of  them  ."')0  yards 
across;  up  these  creeks  and  along  the  river  were 
the  largest  low  hinds  I  ever  saw.  On  the  heads  of 
these  two  Meyomes  the  Peeks  live,  a  nation  of  In- 
dians. The  traders  tell  us  ui>  those  two  rivers  is  the 
best  laud  ever  they  saw  on  all  Ohio.  From  the 
mouth  of  Big  iley(jme  the  Ohio,  in  going  14  miles, 
turns  from  south  west  to  south  east  in  the  bend  of 
a  gravelly  island  about  one  mile  long;-''  at  and 
in  that  bend  old  Wilper'"  laid  an  officer's  claim  of 
some  thousands  of  acres.  The  river  turned  and  run 
a.  little  south  west  about  about  G  miles;  thence 
Wending,  running  S(mth  east  about  12  miles  in  a 
great  bend  to  the  north  of  a  large  creek.  In  that 
second  bend  was  t^wo  large  ponds  of  brush  and 
water;  the  land  vastly  full  of  beech  timber  ap- 
pears unhandy  to  make  use  of.  Clear  off  the  river 
the  hills  very  high  and  poor. 

(Note. — For  some  reason  James  McAfee's  Jour- 
nal has  no  record  of  the  first  seven  days  of  July. 
—Editor. ) 


RobeiTs  Journal. 


The  2Sth  we  went  down  the  river  about  25 
miles  to  a  large  bend  of  the  river  where  there  was 
good  l)()ttom  land  cV;  a  great  deal  of  broken  upland, 
where  we  intended  to  make  a  survey.  Tlie  2!Mh  we 
viewed  the  land  lo  see  how  it  lay,  &  thei'e  came 
anotlier  surNcyoi-  &  his  company  to  us; 


&  the  30th  of  the  mouth  we  went  to  survey  the 
land  ^V;  went  one  s(|uare  &  (piit  it  by  reason  we 
could  ntjt  get  it  sur\eved  as  we  would  have  it. 


The  first  day  of  July  ^\e  went  on  down  the 
river  about  S  miles  iV;  we  went  by  the  mouth  of 
the  Big  Miami,  \-  then  the  river  begins  to  run  to 
the  south  east  for  about  18  miles  where  we  lay 
all  night.  '     The  2d  we  went  down  the  river  still 


APPENDIX  A— THE  Mc. 

James'  Journal. 


VFEE  .lol  KXALS  OF    177.!. 

Robert's  Journal. 


433 


July  Stli,  Thursdaj',  we  set  sail  down  the  Ohio 
^\itli  cinlit  men,''  jNfr.  Tarlor  snn-cyor,  in  order  to 
go  to  Levisa  river  to  survey  our  land  as  we  had 
made  choice  of  that  part  of  the  country;  the  mouth 
of  it  is  30  miles  above  the  hiji  falls  on  the  Ohio. 
Sailed  44  miles  to  the  mouth  of  Kentucky  river — 
7  miles  above  the  falls. 

July  ilth,  I'riday,  We  sailed  to  the  mouth  of  a 
creek  aud  went  up  it  to  a  lick."'  ^Ir.  Breckcn  "iic 
of  our  company  that  was  throuj^h  the  iSliawnee 
Nation  with  Captain  Bullitt  got  notice  of  that  lick 
from  some  of  the  Indians,  promised  one  of  them  a 
ritie  gun  to  tell  him  where  it  lay.  Mat  Brecken  and 
Jack  Drennon  left  our  company  the  Saturday  be- 
fore, went  across  the  woods  and  found  tbc  Lick 
before  we  got  there;  claimed  it  as  i)r(>i)crty  and  laid 
in  400  acre  survey.  We  travelled  round  the  Lick, 
10  or   12   miles  uph\ud,   very  good,  mostly  oak 


turning  lo  (lie  soulli  cjist  about  li."  miles  &  lay 
all  night:"  ilic  bin<ls  on  iioth  sides  ajipear  to  he 
iiiiicli  iiKirc  Hal  \  lirli.  Iiiit  not  mueli  water — for 
it  ai)pears  that  llie  creeks  .V  br;iii(liis  -o  (\v\  in 
anything  of  dry  weatlnT.  The  river  i)egins  to 
turn  to  the  west  from  this.  Thi'  :',d  we  lay  there," 
&  the  4tli  we  caiiie  ii|i  llie  livcr  abmii  HI  miles  to 
the  Big  r.oiie  wlicic  (';i|.i.  r.iilljii  iniendeil  to 
make  a  station  i\;  survey  land.  On  the  Tt\\\  we 
went  to  see  the  Big  Bone,"  which  is  a  wonder  to 
see  the  large  bones  tlml  lie  llici-c,  whiili  |i;i\c  been 
of  several  large  big  crea Hires.  ■  The  lick  is  about 
200  yards  loiiii  iV;  as  wide,  ^:  the  waters  i^  mud  are 
of  a.  siil|phin'  siiiell.  Tlieie  ai'e  several  oiIht  licks 
on  the  same  creek,  vV:  tin'  same  taste  iVc  smell;  & 
there  is  very  tine  land  on  I  he  same  creek  which  was 
surveyed  that  day. 

The  (!th  we  lay  iiy.  ^;  Hie  7Hi  we  intended  to 
set  sail  down  Hie  ri\er,  \  ihei'e  cnnic  down  the 
river  a  ti'.adini:  canoe  wliich  inid  ns  iluit  above 
the  month  of  Hie  Canaway  llial  I  hey  came  by  a 
man  lying  in  tiie  educ  cif  ihc  water  Hiai  apjieared 
to  have  been  drowned  ;  but  did  not  draw  to  shore; 
to  see  A\hetlier  he  was  drowned  or  killed  by  the 
Indians,  lie  ii|(]ieareii  to  l»e  hloo<ly  on  the  back 
as  he  lay  in  the  water.  In  the  evening  [afternoon] 
we  left  Capt.  Bullitt  &  went  to  look  for  Levisa 
to  get  our  lands  surveyed  ;"'  &  about  iTi  miles  (»n  cnir 
side  of  the  river  the  liiils  be^an  lo  I'all  very  low.  & 
fall  into  a  large  bottom  about  Hi  miles  in  length. 
"We  went  till  S  o'clock  at  night  iV;  |iut  to  shoi-e  & 
lay  in  our  canoes  all  iiiulii.  .\bont  <ine  hour 
befoi'e  dav,  <in  th<'  Sih,  we  look  to  the  river  &  sjut 
to  the  month  of  Cantucky  or  Levisa  at  day  break, 
&  went  up  the  I'iver  about  IS  miles  to  the  mouth 
of  a  creek  that  came  from  towards  Hie  Big  Bone.^" 
The  lauds  seemed  to  be  full  of  bwch — only  one 
bottom  at  the  mouth  of  the  ci-eek  on  the  other 
side  of  the  river,  where  we  lay  all  night.  The 
i)th  we  went  up  Hie  river  ."■>  miles  lo  llic  mouth  of 
a  creek  where  the  river  was  shut  up  with  a  stone 
bar  that  came  across  the  river  all  to  about  1(1  feet 
of  water  which  is  a  little  remarkable  ihat  a  river 
of  100  yards  across  ^c  It)  IVei  in  dejith  of  water, 
should  be  stop]>ed.  I'p  the  creek,  that  comes  in 
tlu're,  one  mile  is  a  salt  lick  which  is  a  wonder  to 
see.  The  Lick  is  aboiil  one  mile  in  leiiuHi  \  one 
hundreds  yards  in  breadth,  iS;  the  ri.ads  that  came 
lo  that  lick  no  man  would  believe  till  he  saw  the 
place;  ..V:  the  woods  round  that  place  are  trod  f<ir 


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James'  journal 

tiiulicr;  a  tivcjil  iiuiiiy  sinnll  creeks  and  lirauchcs; 
scarce  as  iimcli  water  among  them  all  as  would 
save  a  man's  life  wlnle  he  travelled  across  them. 

We  lay  at  the  (Ireat  Salt  Lick  from  Friday  9th 
to  Wednesday  14th.  The  coiniiany  surveyed  several 
tracts  of  land  there;*"  we  travelled  about  six  miles 
up  the  river  above  the  Lick;  there  are  some  high 
ridges  on  the  ri\er  all  rich  and  -well  timbered,  in 
other  places  a  little  olT  the  tine  upland  well  tim- 
bered with  o:ik  &  hickory.  It  may  afford  a  vast  good 
land  towni'ds  the  head  nidcnowu  to  us.  In  what  we 
see  about  l!()  miles  from  the  mouth"  there  is  uo 
conveniency  for  mills  on  Cantucky  river.  I  had  for- 
got above  the  ]uonth  of  Cantucky  on  the  Ohio  river 
a  bottom  aliout  L")  miles  long  on  our  side;  against 
it  a  small  tindjer  island  8  miles  from  the  mouth  of 
Kentm'ky. 

The  15th  July  \\e  left  the  (ireat  Salt  Lick,  took 
a  path  to  the  right  of  the  river  up  a  creek*-  a  south, 
course  about  30  miles  and  camped  that  night. 

The  UJth.  In  live  miles  we  crossed  the  Cantucky 
river  to  the  east  side  along  the  path;  five  miles 
in  a  piece  of  black  oak  timber  land ;  we  ,stopped  and 
surveyed  one  track  of  land  for  Robert  ^IcAfee  con- 
taining (iOO  acres  about  100  of  that  meadow 
ground.*^ 

Friday  IGth,  left  an  axe,  tonndiawk  and  fish  gig 
in  the  spring." 

Saturday  ITtli,  We  kept  tlu'  path*"  on  the  east 
side  of  the  river  about  8  miles,  in  good  land ;  we 
left  that  path,  went  to  the  south  west,  in  six  miles 
we  crossed  the  river  at  high  hills  and  cedar  banks*" 
— uo  bottom  in  that  part  of  the  river.  We  left  the 
river  and  travelled  that  evening  across  the  woods 
12  miles*'  still  through  good  lands  but  scarce  of 
water.  The  land  well  timbered — we  camped  that 
night. 

Sunday  18th,  A\'e  camped  on  a  small  creek  about 
5  miles  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,***  that  creek 
about  15  miles  above  Kobert  McAfee's  survey  at 
the  great  meadow  on  the  river. 

Monday  19th  July,  I  surveyed  800  acres  on  the 
head  of  that  creek  abcjut  live  or  six  miles  from  the 
ri\er. 

Tuesday,  20th.  Kcbin  .AIcAfce  au<l  me  travelled 
up  the  river  six  miles  on  both  sides  the  land  still 
good  but  very  little  water  or  springs  in  that  part. 


Robert's  Journal 

many  miles  that  there  is  not  as  much  food  as 
would  feed  one  sheep;  ^;  there  seems  that  there 
may  be  a  great  deal  of  salt  made  theris  &  the  land,  f 
a  deal  of  it,  is  flat  cS:  good  for  farming;  but  there 
is  no  water — which  will  be  hurtful  to  that  place. 
The  10th,  11th,  12th,  l?,th  &  14th  we  lay  there 
till  there  was  some  land  surveyed.*" 


Thursday  the  l.'ith  look  a  small  buffalo  path" 
which  was  about  TiO  and  a  hundred  yards  wide  in 
common  about  ;}0  miles  across  low  Hat  ridges,  mid- 
dling good  land  t^  tindier,  but  no  water. 

The  IGth  we  went  about  3  miles,  &  came  to 
the  same  river — Cantnck —  &  crossed  it  to  the  sun- 
rise side,  &  then  2  miles  across  to  another  bend. 
The  land  on  the  river  seemed  to  l»e  very  full  of  ' 
beech;  &  from  that  bend  I  made  two  surveys*^ 
near  joining  to  the  river,  with  about  .")()  acres  of 
meadow  now  ready  made,  &  there  can  l»e  made  50 
acres  more  with  a  little  trouble;  with  bottom  &. 
upland  suflicient,  with,  very  good  water  in  different 
places  of  it.  The  ITth  we  set  off  for  Levisa  & 
crossed  the  river  about  7  miles  from  my  survey,*^ 
through  as  fine  land  as  could  be  &  timber,  but  not 
much  Avater.  There  we  left  the  river  to  the  left 
hand  across  the  woods  about  12  miles,*'  through 
as  good  land  as  can  be,  Init  still  the  water  is  scarce 
— where  we  lay  all  night,  w hich  was  on  Saturday. 

The  18th  we  went  towards  the  same  river  across 
about  8  miles  to  the  head  of  a  spring***  &  lay  all 
night — through  good  laud,  where  there  were  two 
surveys  made. 

The  19th  we  Avere  a  little  surprised  by  a  gun 
that  we  took  for  Indians  ;*" 

the  2()tli  we  looked  f(n-  more  land  across  the  river, 
but  saw  none  that  would  suit  us.  There  is  not 
any  gooil  land  for  five  or  six  miles  on  each  side 
of  the  river,  for  the  river  is  bounded  with  very 
high  cedar  hills,  that  it  is  hard   to  get  into  the 


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Wechic'sdiiy,  21st,  wo  Avont  from  lli(>  Covo  Si)riiii,r 
at  two  miles  iicross  to  the  CrookcHl  Creek''"— four 
miles  down  that  creek  made  two  surveys  for  James 
McCouu  Junior,  400  aci-es  each.'"* 


Robert's  Journal 


July  23rd,  Friday — IVIade  8  surveys  in  the  creek 
ahove  James  McCoun  Jr.  for  Saml.  Adams.  3 
more  for  George  McAfee  ahove  that;  3  more  for 
James  McCoun  Sr.  ahove  that  in  a  I)rushy  fork  on 
the  east  side  of  Crooked  Creek  full  of  swamps, 
hlack  oak  timher  and  hazel  hrush ;  made  also  two 
surveys  for  myself,  400  acres  each,''  .I'oining  James 
McCoun  hrushy,  a  large  spring  in  the  hank  of  I  he 
creek  in  each  survey  on  the  east  side.  ;Ma(l('  also 
a  survey  of  400  acres  for  John  :Mc(i('('  joining  that 
one;  for  James  McAfee  Sr.  400  aci-cs  joining  lliat 
one;  for  Sam  Adams  400  acres — all  on  sd.  ci-eek. 


July  30th,  ahove  that  made  3  surveys  for  \Vm. 
McAfee,  one  for  James  McCoun,  and  one  for 
Jeremiah  Telford  &c. 


July  31st,  Saturday,  AVe  left  Crooked  Creek 
where  Ave  got  our  lands  surveyed  and  set  oil  up 
Cantuckv   river  for  home.      Mr.   Taylor  our  sur- 


n\(i-    ni-    mil     rnnii   ii.      |;iii     ihcrc 
gl'cal    ilf.-il   (iT   lisli    ill    I  III-   i-i\  cr.      'I'ln 
across    fi-oni    .lames"    siir\c\    alioul 


<ci'iiis     111     he  a 

"Jlsl    we  went 

■'!    mih-s    to   a 


lai-ge  creek.  ^:  a  little  duwii  llcil  crc.4;.  \:  made  one 
survey  fur  .lunics   .MrC.niii   nf    1(1(1  ;ici-cs.    •■ 

'I'lic  I'lM   we   Ininili'l   line  survey  I'di-  his   lin.ilirr 
.McCnuiil   jdiiiiiig  Id  .lames.  ^V;   went    u|)  liie 


John 

creek  alioiil  live  miles  iV;  cainiicd  for 
^oiiic  ninrc  land.  vV  iiiadr  I  wo  I'l.r  Sam 
tlie  l';5d; 


.\i 


survey 
aiiis   (III 


the  L'llh  we  made  six  siii-\cys  more — the  2.")th  was 
Sunday.  The  2(!(h  we  moved  onr  camp  up  the 
creek  foni-  miles  to  sni-vcy  more  land.  I'Tili  we 
made  li\-e  siirveys  more  wliieli  made  L'OdO  acres  of 
land.  The  2Stli  we  moved  our  camji  ii]i  the  creek 
4  miles  fnrlhei'  to  siifvey  the  rest  of  our  land;  & 
lay  all  day  the  I'itth  to  j.lot  what  was  surveyed. 
Tlie  ;!()lh  we  moved  u|»  the  (creek)  two  miles,  & 
made  the  last  of  our  surveys'' — one  for  Wni. 
-Mc.Vfee.  iV:  one  for  .lames  ( "urry.  i^s;  one  for  Jeremiah 
Telford:  .V:  \\c  parted  with  the  surveyor  &  two 
more  men  that  intended  to  go  hack  to  the  Ohio  fo 
Capt.  Uullilt  at  the  I'alls.-'' 

The  .'list,  of  .lnl_\  we  set  out  [on]  our  journey 
for  home  wliieh  was  on  Saturday  aliotit  2  o'clock 
in  the  morning  [afternoon  |  which  was  cloudy  and 


veyor,  and  two  men  with  him  set  off  for  the  Falls  like  for  rain,  &  did  rain  \(  ly  hard.  \\ C  came  ahont 
of  the  Oh.io,  ahout  fifty  miles  from  that,  where  we 
expected  to  meet  Capt.  Bullitt  again  and  com- 
pany.'•'  That  evening  very  wet.  "We  came  ahout 
7  miles,  part  of  it  through  cane  breaks,  to  a  large 
creek;  campe<l  that  night  under  a  rock  at  the  foot 
of  a  high  cedar  hill." 

August  1st.     We    left    Rock    Camp,  travelled     &   we  travelled  over  high   ridges,   full  of  caiu,  & 
mostly  an  eastern  course  ahout  IG  miles  amongst     very  rich;  so  ih.il  we  had  hard  getting  along, 
broken    ridges    covered    with    cane    and    clover — 
amongst  these  ridges  we  crossed  two  creeks  and 
camped.  ^^ 


7  miles  across  \-  came  to  one  fork  of  the  river, 
through  hue  cane  land,  as  good  as  can  he  for  any 
use,  iS:  we  la,\  all  night  by  the  side  of  the  river 
under  the  veiy  high  rocks  to  shelter  the  rain,  & 
dry  our  thing.s — for  it  was  i-xceeding  wet.'' 

.Viid  the  1st  day  of  August  rained  some  sliowers, 


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THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


Jatnes'  Joiniial. 

August  IM,  We  travelled  an  east  eoiirse  about 
20  miles  tlirouiih  rieli  woods  and  mostly  caue — a, 
great  many  hraiielies  mostly  dry — we  camped  at 
a  Lick/" 


August  3d,  We  left  that  Lick  and  travelled  a 
south  east  course  mostly  through  Mack  oak  tindter 
woods  and  bold  hills,  abcmt  I'O  miles  and  crossed 
Cautucky  river  within  8  miles  of  [at]  pine  hills 
and  broken  mountains."  We  left  the  river  that  S 
miles  amongst  the  i)ine  Knobs — a  great  many  small 
licks — and  east  of  these  licks  near  a  little  pine 
mountain  16  miles  into  the  level  woods;  we 
camjjed  amongst  these  licks;  came  28  miles  that 

August  4tli,  we  travelled  three  miles  to  the 
south  and  struck  the  river  again;  took  up  it  about 
20  miles  that  day  and  camped. 


August  .")th,  ^Ve  si  ill  ke]it  wyi  the  river,  in  8 
miles  we  passed  a  Walt  lick  under  the  side  of  a 
great  rock^"  on  the  east  side  of  the  river;  five  miles 
farther  up  comes  in  a  large  creek  on  the  west  side ; 
15  miles  farther  up  comes  another  large  one  on 
same  sidc^ —  no  good  land  on  that  part  of  the  river. 
We  came  10  miles  that  day  and  camped."" 


August  6th,  we  travelled  up  the  river,  passed 
one  l(ig  creek  on  the  east  side ;'''  we  travelled  aliout 
20  miles  and  camped — the  day  being  wet.  no  good 
land  still. 

August  7th,  Sahirday,  We  travelled  up  the 
river  six  miles  and  it  forked,"-  we  took  the  left 
hand;  about  20  miles  it  forked  again  and  we 
camped.""  Some  good  bottoms  seen  in  the  river 
that  day. 

August  8th,  Sunday,  AVe  travelled  up  the  river 
about  20  miles,  the  hills  very  high  and  full  of  green 
briar  and  some  laurel."^ 

ilouday  9th  August.  Very  M-et,  we  travelled  up 
the  river  about  20  miles  further  through  high  hills 
worse  with  green  briar  and  laurel. 


Robert's  Journal. 

And  the  2(1  we  came  from  morning  I  ill  about  Ihe 
middle  of  Ihe  (lay  through  high  ricii  cane  woods, 
across  several  creeks,  &  in  the  after  i)art  of  the 
day  we  canu'  t(»  where  the  woods  grew  Hatter  & 
more  fit  for  farming — where  we  lay  all  night  ut 
a  Lick.'"  iV;  it  looked  like  f(U'  rain.  Tiu'sday  the 
:')d — was  very  fair  and  clear,  i^  we  [saw]  several 
creeks  of  good  land,  but  the  ridges  were  but  mid- 
dling; cV;  about  the  middle  of  the  day  \ve  crossed 
some  high  bold  hills,  &  we  came  in  sight  (^f  the 
mountains,  about  8  miles  distance  where  we  found  \ 
the  river,"  &  we  came  about  5  miles  further  to  ■ 
where  there  were  a  great  many  mud  licks,  where  ' 
we  lav  all  niglit.^'' 


The  4tli  was  clear,  &  Ave  came  up  the  river, 
which  ran  very  crookecL  &  there  was  some  good 
bottom  land  for  al)out  the  half  of  that  day's  travel, 
&  the  hills  came  close  on  botji  sides,  where  we  lay 
all  night. 

Thursday  ."ith,  was  clear,  iV:  we  came  u])  the 
river,  it  was  still  close  on  every  side  with  hills,  & 
we  came  to  a  high  l)ank  of  rock'''  that  was  hollow 
under,  &  there  was  standing  water  in  some  of  the 
holes  of  the  rocks  that  was  very  good  &  salt,  but 
these  wei'e  not  much  for  a  public  use;  tSt  about  five 
miles  from  that  the  river  forked,  &  we  took  the 
left  hand  &  came  about  lo  miles  farther  &  it  forked 
again  &  we  took  the  left  still,  &  came  about  12 
miles  (S:  camped  at  a  small  branch :""  the  woods 
came  close  to  the  river,  with  rough  gi'eeii  liriar 
hills:  The  (ith  rained  some  all  day,  &  we  came 
up  the  river  about  20  miles  through  very  bad 
ground  that  we  had  hard  getting  along,  ^V;  we  had 
the  river  to  raft  once  across.  Th.e  Tth  we  came 
25  miles,  the  river  forked  about  6  miles  from  where 
we  lay,  &  we  took  the  right  hand"-  &  came  about  20 
miles  further,  &  it  forked,  where  we  lay  all  night. 
The  river  Avas  something  opener  that  we  had  good 
coming  that  day,  .&  we  took  the  right  hand  fork."^ 

Sunday  the  8th  we  came  up  the  river  about  25 
miles —  The  river  was  very  cr(!oke(l  so  that  we  had 
to  cross  near  20  times  &  very  often  to  our  middle."^ 
^^•e  killed  a  buck  Elk  &  lay  all  night.""  The  9th 
was  wet  almost  all  day,  so  that  we  had 
very  bad  travelling;  there  was  some  open 
land  for  a  while  in  the  m(U'niug,  i^  then  the 
ri\er  was  ver}-  close  till  night,  .S:  it  run  very 
crooked,  k  Ave  had  it  to  cross  every  bend,  for  20 
miles,"''  which  we  travelled  for  that  day. 


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James'  Joiinial. 

Tuesday  lOtli  August.  Travollod  still  up  the 
river  about  20  uiiles,  the  hills  cxceediug  high  and 
close  to  the  river. 

August  11th,  we  kept  the  river  about  8  miles 
further  and  then  left  at  a  short  bend — it  run  north 
west;  we  took  up  a  creek  towards  the  so)itli  about 
6  miles  to  the  head  of  it  in  a  high  hill  f^  we  crossed 
some  high  hiurel  hills  that  evening  and  camped. 

August  12th,  Thursday,  AVe  travelled  through 
the  laurel  hills  six  miles  further  and  struck  a  large 
creek  at  a  big  fork  at  the  falls  of  it,""  we  took  the 
south  fork  in  about  two  miles  we  came  to  sonu;  big 
Elk  Tjicks  on  it  and  very  Idg  paths  up  it  runs 
straight  into  the  north  side  of  an  exceeding  high 
mountain  we  came  over  that  mountain  that  even- 
ing and  camped  on  a  small  creek  at  the  foot  of  it. 

August  13th,  Friday.  We  left  that  camp  and 
travelled  8  miles  across  the  head  of  Powell's  Val- 
ley to  the  hunter's  path.'^ 

August  nth  Saturday.  We  took  that  path, 
crossed  two  little  mountains  over  to  Clinch  water  ;'- 
travelled  25  miles  that  day. 

August  15th,  Sunday.  AVe  tra\elled  that  path 
about  15  miles  and  struck  the  ford  of  Clinch  at 
Castlewooil's,  12  miles  below  James  Smith's;"'  we 
canu;  eight  miles  that  night  to  the  ford  to  David 
Gees.''     [Guest] 

August  16th,  Monday.  AVe  came  but  five  miles 
to  Capt.  IJussell's.  Our  feet  were  much  scalded 
and  so  lame  that  we  could  not  travel.'^ 


Robert's  Joiirual. 

The  10th  we  came  still  up  iln-  rivi-r  till  about  10 
o'clock,  &  \\('  went  to  iciivc  il  Inil  i-oiild  not,  it  was 
so  bad,'''  <S;  \\v  look  llic  ri\cr  iV;  ki-i>t  it  tliat  day, 
which  was  about  20  miles. 

The  11th  we  k«'i»t  the  river  till  about  2  o'clock,  & 
we  left  il'""  &  caiiH'  across  I  lie  wurst  Lanrd  AIouu- 
taiiis  tlial   I  e\cr  saw.  almui  L'd  miles  lliat  dav. 


Tlie  1  211 1  we  were  all  day  in  I  he  w  (irst  inmi  nt  iiiiis 
that.  e\-ei'  1  saw,  w  liicli  seemed  In  iis  ilial  we  sIkmiM 
never  get  out  of-  .S;  lliel'e  was  bill  lillji'  In  kill.  \ 
our  ]trovisioii  was  almost  done — liegaii  to  look  a 
little  discniii-agiiig  In  us.  liiil  in  ilie  evi'iiiiig  we 
came  to  some  beller  grniiml  whieli  give  us  more 
hopes,  tV;  we  got  meal  Ilial  iiiglil  iileiiiy  at  the  side 
of  a  laurel  branch'"  where  we  lay  all  night. 

Tile  \'M\\  \\r  (ravelled  aliniil  s  miles  in  exceeding 
bad  laui'el  mountains,  \\hich  seemed  lo  lie  hard  to 
get  out  of — and  it  rained  very  hard. 

The  14th  we  got  in  I  he  head  of  I'owcirs  X'alley 
on  the  Long  lliiiilei"s  nrAA.  k  we  had  Iwo  moun- 
tains to  cross  on  a  small  iialli,'-  \  ihe  15th  we  got 
to  a  house  in  the  morning,  wliich  was  a  glad  siglit 
10  us." 


(Note :  The  mission  of  Captain  Thomas  Bullitt 
to  the  Shawnee  Nation  at  ( •hillicothe,  in  .June, 
1773,  mentioned  above  by  Kobert  .McAfee  in  his 
Journal  undcT  date  of  June  1,  and  by  James  iu  his 
Journal  under  date  of  June  15,  was  deemed  by  both 
James  and  Kobert  to  be  of  such  interest  and  im- 
portance as  to  warrant  their  taking  coiiics  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  same  in  the  back  of  their  respec- 
tive Journals.  Captain  Bullitt  had  with  him,  on 
that  mission,  one  Matthew  Bracken,  besides  two 
other  white  men,  and  three  friendly  Indians.  This 
man  Bracken  was,  in  a  sense,  a  mend)er  of  the  Mc- 
Afee Ct)mpany.  It  seems  that  the  .AIcAfees,  before 
leaving  the  mouth  of  the  Great  Kanawha  on  their 
way  down  the  Ohio,  entered  into  an  agreement  with 


Hancock  Taylor,  th(>  surveyor,  to  accompany  them 
and  lay  oil  land  for  them  while  in  Kentucky,  ami 
Taylor  had  for  his  assislanis  ihis  man  Bracken  and 
a  Jacob  Dre-nnon,  nl'  \\  hnm  meiilinn  is  made  hy 
James  ^McAfee  in  his  .bniinal  -Inly  '^. — The  three 
documents  are  well  worth  a  careful  reading.  They 
shed  light  niinii  ihe  Indian  characler,  and  on  llie 
conditions  prevailing  in  Ihe  WCsi  in  Ihai  earl\  day. 
('apt.  P.ullitt  is  here  seen  lo  have  been  a  man  of  no 
snuill  skill  as  a  diphuiialisi,  as  well  as  a  soldier  of 
the  most  dauntless  courage.  See  the  description 
of  Captain  I'.ulliffs  remarkable  reception  at  Chilli- 
cothe  by  one  liundi'ed  and  lifteen  warriors,  as  given 
iu  James  Ale. Afce's  .loiirnal  .lune  15.    -N.  Al.  W'.j 


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Ari»ENDIX  A— TIIK   .M(  AFKi:  .T(Hi;\.\  I.S  ol'    177:?.  43d 

CArTAIN  BULLITT'S  SPEECH.  •■nnil.i.i.:   I,;nl    in    ii.  m-   nn   ill    „„;,nin._'.  I.u(    what 

ToTiiK  CniKFS  OF  Tin:  SiiAWAxoE  Nation,  .\LvDE  IN  "st'cms   plcjisiim.    Nind.   uml    Iriciiclly.      Von    have 

THE  Council  HousK  "ni('n(ii>iii'(l    to  ns  m m-  diiici  ions    Im-    sriilinL;  of 

~,,   .,,.        ,,  ^  "iMdldr    o\r|-    ihc    li\(I-    oil     llli'    ililiosilc    siilo    to    US. 

Chilhcothe,  Jniie  9llu  1773.  .       ,■    •  ,  .•  ,••  ■,. 

:in(l  II   IS  iioi   NIC  iiiiiiiiiii^  o|  vuni'  l\in^  anil  dov- 

"Brotliers,  I  am  sent  with  my  jicoph"  to  settle  the  "eniof  to  ,h|iiiM'  ns  ol  the  Iniiitiiijr  of  ilic  (•oiiiitrv 

"couiilry  on  tlie  Oiiio  IJiver  as  low  as  thoFalls.  the  "as  nsnnl.   hut    th;it   .\ on r  directions    aiv    lo    take 

"King  lias  bonglit  of  the  Northern  ami   South. 'imi  '-iii-oiht  i;nv  ili:i(  \\r  shnll  not  hi-  distiirhiMl  i r 

"Indians;  and  I  am  desired  to  acquaint   you  and  ••hniitiim  lor  wiiidi  we  si  a  ml  ii -d  of.  to  huy  imr 

"all  the  people  of  this  o-reat  country,  that  the  En---  "i  lothiii^L;-,  nil  of  wldch   is  very  aiirccahlc  to  your 

"lish  are,  and  intend  to  live  in  friendshiii  with  you  ••yoiini;-  hrol  lin-s.      ^oiir  yoiiii^'^  men  we  desire  will 

"all,  and  expect  the  same  from  yon  and  them;  and  "hr  stronj.-  in  ilir  dis.lnir-c  of  your  diriH-tioiiK  !«•- 

"as  the  Shawanoes  and  Delawares  are  to  he  our  "ward  us,  ;is  wr  nic  ili'tiiiniiicd  to  hcslroiifr  in  :id- 

"uearest  neighbors,  and  did  not  get  any  of  the  pay  "vising  our  young  n    to  he  friendly,   kind   :iiid 

"given  for  it,  it  is  proposed  and  agrccdliy  the  prill-  "i>ciicc;il)lc    to    yon.      This    s].i-ing    wc    s;iw    sonic 

"cipals  of  thosewho  are  to  be  theowiiers  of  the  land  "wrong  by  our  young  nien  in  disturbing  your  pini- 

"to  contribute  to  make  your  two  tribes  a  present  "pb'  by  taking  their  horses,  but  we  have  advi.sed 

"to  be  given  yon  the  next  year  and  the  year  after,  "them   to  the  contiaiy    and    have    cleansed    their 

"I  am  appointed  to  live  in  the  country;  I  am  sent  "heaiMs  of   li;id    inteiiiions,  and   expect    it    will   be 

"to  settle  it  in  order  to  kei']>  propei-  regulation,  and  "barkened  lo  by  them  as  I  hey  are  pleased  with  what 

"as  I  exjiect  sonu>  more  primi^ial  men  out   of  my  "has  been  said." 

"country  in  a.  short  time,  there  will  be  something  

"more  to  say  to  you.     And  the  (iovernor  was  to  , 

"cmne  through  this  country  last  year,  had  he  not  LETTEU  Ol'   KICILVUD   lUTLEK. 

"been  taken  sick,  so  that  he  mav  be  out  this  or  next  ./,..,,.     ,,       ■         ,,.  i     , r, 

'   .  .  -  "<  iiillicotlie.  .fnne  Kith.  1  i  i3. 

"year,  as  he  is  desirous  of  seeing  yon  and  the  coun- 

"try.     I  will  have  a  belt  of  wampum  when  we  have  "Cknti.k.mion  :     1  have  been  luvseiit  as  a  witness 

"anything  more  to  say.     As  the  King  did  not  buy  "'""1   "I'l'-riu-etcr  between  ("ai.tain   I'.ullitt   and  the 

"the  country  for  any  other  imrpose  than  his  people  "Slinwanoes  and  a   pari    of  the   Delawares.      I   be- 

"to  live  on.'and  work  to  supplv  his  country,  there-  "^''''''''   '=""'   '""    ^^ill'<"'t   «<>"'«  surprise  thai    I   ac- 

"fore  we  shall  have  no  objection  to  ymirliunting,  or  "'I'laini    yon,    that    his  progress  in  treating  with 

"trapping  on  it.     We  shall   expect   vou   will   live  "these  peopl,- has  exceeded  the  expectation  of  most 

"with  us\as  brothers  and  friends.     I  shall  write  "P«>ple,  as  they  elaim  an  absolute  rite  i,,  all  that 

countr\-  Mill  are  about  to  settle.     That  it  does  not 


"what  you  say  to  my  Governor  and  expect  it  to  be 

"a  "-00(1  talk"           ~  ''''^'  '"  "'^"  l*"^^'"''  '•'  <'"'>se  who  sold  it  to  give  this 
"land; — and  as  I  am  a  well-wisher  to  your  nnder- 

"laking  1  can  do  no  less  in  justice  to  Ca])l.  llnllitt 

The  Answer  of  the  Chh^f  Cornstalk  Next  ""'•'"  '"'  :".inaint  you  iliai  it  is  my  opinion  that  it 

Tr^„x-T^.o  "lies  in  vour  iiower  to  fiillil  every  eiuia"eiiient  he 

Morning.  •         '                                j       f>  f^ 

"has  made  in   \oiir  lielialf.  li\   endeaA"oring  (o  make 

^'Old  Brother  the  Big  Knife:  ..„„„,,    ,„.,|,,,,   .„„,,„^,  _^.,,„^   .;,,^1   .^  friendly   couute- 

"\Ve  heard  you  Avould  be  glad  to  see  your  broth-  ••nance  to  your  iiresent  neighbors  the  Shawanoes,  I 

"ers  the  Shawanoes  and  Delawares  and  talk  with  •do  assure  you  it  lies  in  your  power  to  have  good 

"them.     \\e  are  a  liitle  surprised  that  you  sent  uo  "neighbors  or  bad,  as  ihey  are  a  people  very  capable 

"message  liefore  you,  but  came  quite  near  ns,  and  "of  discerning  bet  w  ecu  good  treat  luent  and  ill ;  the.v 

"then  through  the  woods  and  grass,  a  hard  way  "expect  you  will   be  friendly  with  them,  and  en- 

"without  our  knowledge,  till  you  appeared  among  "deavor  to  restrain    ilie  hunters  from   destroying 

"us  quite  unexpected.      But  you  are  now   standing  "the  game,  and    that    the  young  men  who  are  in- 

"among  your  brothers  who  think  well  of  you  and  "climil  to  huiil  w  ill  be  regulated  by  the  law  of  the 

"what  you  liave  said  to  us.     We  have  considered  ••colony  in  the  case,  and  as  1  dare  say  it  is  not  to 

"your  talk  carefully  and  we  are  pleased  to  find  ■•hiinl    the  laml   Imt    to  niltivate  it.  that  you  are 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


"about  to  settle  it,  it  will  be  an  easy  matter  to  re- 
"strain  those  that  would  hunt,  and  cause  your  in- 
"faut  settlement  to  be  disturbed,  although  I  am  at 
"present  a  stranger  to  you  all,  I  beg  leave  to  snb- 


'seribe  myself  your  well  wisher  and  humble  ser- 
'vant  "Richard  Butler. 

"To  the  Gentlemen  Settlers  Below  the  Mouth  of 

•Sciota." 


NOTES  ON  THE  McAFEE  JOURNALS. 


BY  REV.  NEANDER  M.  WOODS. 


1. — The  fnmous  Salt  Spring,  on  the  bank  of  the 
Great  Kanawha  River,  at  the  mouth  of  Campbell's 
Creek,  at  wliich  jmint  we  believe  the  ^fcAfee  Com- 
pany emliarked  in  eanoes  they  had  constructed 
there,  ^\as  about  00  miles,  by  water,  from  the 
mouth  of  the  river.  And  iis  the  party  reached  the 
Ohio,  ii  little  after  day-brenk,  on  tlic  morning  of 
S;itui'day,  the  2flth  of  May,  it  is  safe  to  assume  they 
took  leave  of  the  Salt  Spring  some  time  during 
Thurs<lay,  .Miiy  l!7. 

2. — Captain  Thomas  Bullitt  was  an  experienced 
and  gallant  soldier,  whom  Lord  Dunmore,  Gov- 
ernor of  Virginia,  had  commissioned  to  visit  the 
headtpiarters  or  capital  of  the  Shawnee  Nation,  at 
Chillicothe,  situated  about  100  miles  to  the  north- 
west of  the  mouth  of  the  Great  Kanawha.  His 
name,will,  for  all  time,  be  associated  with  the  Falls 
of  the  Ohio  and  I  lie  city  of  Louisville,  ^\llere  now 
lives  his  great-grand-nephew,  the  Hon.  Thomas 
^\'alker  Bullitt,  one  of  the  most  distinguished  law- 
yers of  Kentm-ky. 

3. — ^^'est  \'irginia's  principal  river,  like  all 
streams  which  are  atllicted  with  ditfei-ent  names 
for  their  several  parts,  has  long  been  the  innocent 
cause  of  much  confusion.  This  river,  from  the 
point  at  which  the  Gauh  y  Kiver  enters  it,  is  prop- 
erly called  the  (ireat  Kanawha:  above  that  point 
it  is  the  New  JMver  clear  to  its  source  in  the  North 
Carolina  .Mountains.  Kobei-t  McAfee,  in  his  entry 
of  this  date  (May  29)  affords  an  example  of  the 
confusion  referred  to,  in  that  he  first  calls  this 
stream  tlie  "Kenhawa,"  and  then,  a  few  lines  far- 
ther on,  he  calls  it  "New  River."  On  some  of  the 
oldi'r  maps  we  find  it  marked  "Wood's  River," 
wliich  Dr.  Hale  (Trans-Allegheny  I'ioueers,  pages 
20-22),  says  was  in  honor  of  that  early  explorer, 
Col.  Abraham  Wood,  its  tirst  (white)  discoverer. 
Col.  Wood  seems  to  have  crossed  the  Blue  Ridge, 
in  1G54,  at  the  gap  known  as  Wood's  Gap,  and  to 
have  struck  the  river,  which  took  his  own  name,  at 
the  mouth  of  Little  River,  about  12  miles  south- 
west of  Christiansbnrg,  Va.,  and  about  twice  that 


distance  to  the  northof  the  gap  referred  to.  That 
gap  was  also  named  for  him.  It  is  situated  on  the 
boundary  line  of  Patrick  and  Floyd  counties,  Va., 
and  close  to  the  North  Carolina  line. 

4. — We  tind  both  James  and  Robert,  in  these 
Journals,  when  referring  to  their  movements  along 
the  shores  of  the  Ohio,  often  using  the  i)hrases 
"this  side,"  and  "our  side,"  which  meant  the  south 
side.  Oidy  once  or  twice,  in  all  the  nearly  40  days 
they  were  on  the  Ohio,  do  ^\-e  tind  lliem  even  setting 
foot  on  the  northern  shore;  and  they  did  no  sur- 
veying whatever  on  that  side,  so  far  as  appears 
from  their  Journals.  This  may  have  a  two-fold 
explanation :  The  danger  of  attempting  to  settle 
on  the  north  bank  would  have  been  very  consider- 
ably greater  than  on  the  southern  shore,  because 
the  chief  town  of  the  Shawnees  was  only  about  100 
miles  from  the  Ohio,  and  they  were  a  vicious  and 
most  warlike  tribe;  and,  then,  the  JlcAfees,  no 
doul)t,  felt  that,  as  yet,  the  whites  had  no  lawfully 
established  claim  to  the  lands  to  the  north  of  the 
Ohio.  Captain  Bullitt,  in  his  speech  to  the  Shaw- 
nees, at  Chillicothe,  Juiu'  10,  1773  (see  his  speech 
on  i)age  43!tJ,  seems  to  concede  as  much.  The  Mc- 
Afees were  God-fearing,  honorable  men,  who  seem 
nevt-r  to  have  even  desired  to  wrong  the  ignorant 
savages.  The  Treaty  of  Fort  Stanwix,  November 
."i,  1708,  had,  as  nearly  everyone  then  supposed, 
completely  extinguished  the  Hidian  title  to  the 
whole  of  Kentucky  as  far  down  the  Ohio  as  to  the 
mouth  of  the  Tennessee  River;  and  the  McAfees,  no 
doul)t,  felt  sure  they  had  a  right  to  lay  in  entries 
and  make  settlement  on  the  south  side  of  the  Ohio, 
but  none  on  the  other  side. 

5. — No  doubt,  to  men  who  had  probably  no  clear 
recollection  of  ever  having  seen  so  considerable  a 
stream  as  the  Ohio,  the  name  "Big  River"  seemed 
appropriate.  Here  we  find  one  of  the  few  in- 
stances, if  not  the  only  one,  of  their  venturing  to 
explore  the  northern  shore  of  the  Ohio.  The}-  were 
then  skirting  the  edge  of  what  is  now  West  Vir- 
ginia, near  the  mouth  of  Guyaudotte  Eiver,  and 


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441 


just  above  the  Big  Sandy,  at  whose  iiionlli  flir  party 
caiiipcd  the  iiiglit  of  June  10. 

G. — James  estimated  their  "sail"'  at  4.")  iiiik>s, 
from  the  Big  Saudy  to  the  Scioto,  on  June  Jl, 
which  is  G  miles  too  much.  Yet,  even  3J)  miles  a 
day  in  canoes  is  fine  speed.  Robert's  desci-ipli.ui 
of  the  course  of  tlu*  Ohio  on  this  day,  iind  his  esti- 
mates of  distances,  are  very  inaccurate.  James 
was  the  more  experienced  man  of  the  two. 

7. — Robert's  Journal  for  May  29  staled  lliere 
were  five  canoes  of  Delaware  Indians  then  w  iih  tiie 
white  companies,  but  James  here  mentions  nine 
canoes.  Xo  doubt,  as  the  ])arty  had  moved  so  very 
leisurely  down  tlie  Ohio  for  the  tirst  ten  days,  addi- 
tional canoes  had  overtaken  them.  What  jtuzzles 
us  is  that  the  whites  knew  how  to  distinguish 
friendly  Indians  from  hostiles  far  enough  off  to 
prevent  any  clash  occurring  as  the  result  of  mis- 
apprehension. 

8. — This  was  an  ominous  incident,  and  well  cal- 
culated to  afford  matter  for  serious  thought.  AA'here 
were  the  former  occu]>ants  of  those  empty  saddles? 
Where  had  those  Sliawnee  bucks  been  to  hud  those 
horses?  The  number  of  the  riderless  animals  is 
given  In'  James  at  IT,  but  it  is  likely  that  the  figure 
]  did  not  belong  there — the  true  number  was  jirob- 
ably  7.  Four  Indians  would  hardly  have  been 
e(|ual  to  vanquishing  more  than  their  own  number 
of  the  kind  of  white  men  then  in  the  ciuintry.  No 
shots  seem  to  have  been  exchanged,  and  no  altemjit 
made  to  intercei)t  the  l{ed  Skins,  who  bad  evidently 
been  nj)  to  grave  mischief. 

9. — Robert  here  refers  to  the  well-known  Indian 
renmins  on  both  sides  of  th(>  Ohio  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Scioto.  They  are  known  as  "The  Portsmouth 
(iroup."  Collins  (A^ol.  2,  ])ages  3()t-3j  gives  an  ac- 
count of  them  with  illustrations.  Here  and  at  (me 
place  on  the  (.'umberland  River,  as  Collins  thinks, 
were  the  only  real  homes  Indians  ever  had  in  iven- 
tucky. 

10. — This  town,  built  l)y  the  Fi'euch  and  Indians 
at  least  20  years  before  the  JIcAfees  saw  them,  is 
also  referred  to  by  many  historians.  Collins  (Vol. 
2,  pages  300-1)  gives  a  brief  account,  drawn  partly 
from  these  journals.  The  last  vestiges  of  it  dis- 
appeared more  than  a  century  ago,  tlie  buildings 
being  of  wood. 

11. — James  seems  to  have  Iteen  deeply  interested 
in  Captain  Bullitt's  mission  to  Chillicothe,  and 
took  copies  of  the  most  im|)ortant  parts  of  the  pro- 
ceedings, which  will  be  found  in  full  at  pages  439 


to  410.  The  liiiih  was,  all  selllei-s  south  of  ilic 
Ohio  liad  need  in  lie  concerne<l  willi  ilie  plans  and 
leinper  of  I  he  Sliawni'cs,  as  was  ampl\  deiiion- 
stl'ati'd  hy  llie  feairul  experiences  of  llie  Ken- 
tuckians  in  aller  years. 

12.  —  Tiiis  was  Kinineotinick  ("reek  at  wliose 
nionili  is  now  joraied  liie  \ilhigi'  of  (jniniv,  Lewis 
Co.,  Ky. 

13. — This  was  Sail  Lick  ("reek.  Lewis  Co.,  at 
whose  inonili  slancis  \  ancebnrg.  Less  than  a  mile 
up  il  is  the  sail  s|iiiiig  wliiiji  gi\-es  tlii-  creek  its 
name. 

N. — This  lirief  iiiiiai-k,  and  ilie  furilier  state- 
menl  ill  the  iiexl  seiiieiice  as  lo  ijii-  distance  (30 
miles)  travelled  u])  ami  down  ihat  creek,  ronvey  no 
ade(|ua(e  notion  of  the  real  significance  of  that 
three  days' walking,  [t  meant  that  .Fames  sepa rat e<l 
fi-oiii  llie  i-esi  ot  llie  parly,  and  made  a  lengthy 
detoiii-  Ihi-oiigh  llie  I'oresi  alone  (while  Ihere.st  of 
the  iiii'ii  were  hiisy  siir\eying  clainisi,  and  was  out 
Ihei-e  by  himself  for  at  leasi  iwo  nights  and  three 
days,  ami  ai  one  i  inir  «  as  at  b-asi  \7>  miles  from  his 
companions.  This.  ion.  when  he  was  liable  at  any 
nionieni  lo  fall  in  wiih  a  liaiid  nf  Indians,  to  sav 
liolhillg  of  all  ihe  nlhel-  ]i(issililc  (lailgel'S  to  which 
he  would  be  exposed.  1 1  is  hardly  jiracticable  for 
us,  in  this  day,  fully  lo  lake  in  lln-  siiiiaiioii.  or  lo 
understaml  the  ineiile  of  sinli  a   iiiaii. 

15. — From  the  17ili  lill  alioiii  noon  of  ihe  21st 
of  I  line,  llie  whole  ]iarly  lay  at  the  month  of  Salt 
Lick  Creek  (  X'ancebiirg  i ,  which  is  just  21'-  miles 
below  the  month  of  Ihe  Sciolo,  and  went  l.">  or  10 
miles  farlhi'i-  on  the  2lsl.  The  .loiirnal  of  Koliert, 
as  we  have  il,  gives  ihe  distance  of  Salt  Lick  Creek 
below  Ihe  Sciolo  as  l'>  miles,  but  it  seems  almost 
cerlain  llial  whal  he  i-eally  meani  to  guess  was  2."), 
anil  Ihe  larger  ligiires  given  are  no  doubt  the  un- 
intentional mistake  of  soim?  copyist. 

10. — This  refeis  to  the  point  at  whiih  the  party 
caiii|ie<l  ihe  nighl  of  .Monday,  .liiiie  21 — the  mouth 
of  a  cri'ck  which  IJoherl  supposed  was  Ki  miles  be- 
low where  N'aiicelnirg  now  siands.  .lames  says  it 
was  l.~)  miles. 

17.  These  two  I'liiries,  of  400  acres  each,  on 
Sail  Li<k  Creek,  eight  miles  from  its  mouth,  nnide 
by  .lami's,  were  the  tirst  ever  made  by  any  of  the 
Mc.M'ee  Company  ])ro])er  in  Kentucky.  Indei-d,  it 
is  a  fad  iliai,  with  ihe  exception  of  some  surveys 
which  some  have  alleged  (without  any  dear  evi- 
dence) to  have  bien  made  in  177il  by  (Jeorge  Wash- 
ington a  little  farther  up  the  ri\er,  the  surveys  at 


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this  place  bj-  the  :\lcAfees  and  Bullitt  were  tlie  very 
first  l)y  auy  uieu,  in  Kentucky. 

18. These  figures,  taken  together    with    other 

(l;il;i  I'll)  nisli*  (I  liy  tlicsc  Jinirnals,  enable  us  to  form 
some  idea  of  the  size  of  tlie  little  army  or  fleet  now 
moving  down  tlie  Ohio.  Vn\>t.  I'.ullitt  had  left  a 
surveyor  and  12  men  at  the  mnutli  of  Salt  Lifk 
( 'reek  to  lay  off  a.  t(i\\n,  and  then  next  (hiy  he  takes 
with  himself  20  men  down  the  riv(  r  to  make  entries 
farther  below.  This  means  thai  the  r.idlitt  Com- 
pany alone  consisted  of  at  least  :U  men.  If  to  these 
we  add  the  companies  of  .McAfeeJIarmd,  Douglass 
and  Taylor  we  have  iirobably  an  aggregate  fd'  about 
50  or  ()0  ablediodied  men.  not  one  of  wlnnii  was  a 
"tender-foot."  For  this  assemblage  of  men,  and 
their  considerable  outfit  and  prc.visions,  not  fewer 
than  25  boats  would  be  reciuisite.  The  sight  of 
such  a  fleet  as  that  moving  down  the  river  was  one 
well  calculated  to  strike  terror  to  the  hearts  of  any 
savages  who  might  chance  to  get  a  view  of  it. 

19. June  22   James  makes  a   record,   the  tirst 

part  of  which  narrates  the  (bdngs  of  June  21  ;  and 
one  thing  he  states  is  that  "We  campt  in  15  miles 
one  night."  The  only  intelligible  interpretation 
of  this  statement  is  that  it  tells  us  of  the  journey 
made  in  th(>  afternoon  of  Monday,  June  21.  Itcdi- 
ert  tells  us,  June  21,  that  they  went  down  the  river 
K;  miles  to  a  creek,  and  camped  tliat  night.  The 
iiuesses  of  the  two  Itrothers  must  liolli  refer  to  the 
distance  tra\clled  tlie  aflenioon  of  .Monday,  the 
21st. 

20. — If  the  distance  travelled  lliis  da.\  (  Juue  22) 
was  really  20  miles,  as  our  copy  of  Kolierfs  record 
has  it,  then  the  .McAfee  ('oiiii)auy  went  to  the 
month  of  Lawrence  Creek,  about  5  miles  below 
Maysville,  before  .lioing  into  camii,  and  this  agrees 
with  tlie  latter  part  of  the  record  Janu's  made  on 
June  22,  which  will  be  considered  in  Note  21.  Col-'" 
lins  (Vol.  2,  page  54!))  asserts  that  the  McAfees 
reached  the  month  of  Limestone  Creek  June  22, 
and  reiuaineil  thei-e  two  days,  but  this  is  clearly'  in- 
correct. The  truth  is,  from  the  reading  of  the  two 
Journals,  it  seems  nearly  certain  they  did  not  stoji 
at  Limestone  at  all,  but  passed  it  June  22,  and  did 
not  make  camp  till  they  reached  the  mouth  of  Law- 
rence Creek,  some  five  miles  below.  (!en.  1!.  15. 
McAfee  goes  still  wider  of  the  mark,  and  says  they 
reached  the  mouth  of  Limestone  on  the  24th  of 
June.  Collins  has  them  leaving  Limestone  on  that 
day,  after  a  t\\  o  days'  stay  there.     From  Maysville 


to  Covington  is  01  miles,  by  the  river,  and  it  would 
have  occujded  about  two  whole  days  to  have  com- 
pas.sed  that  distance,  not  stopping  on  the  way  to 
look  at  land.  But  James's  record  shows  that  they 
did  stop,  making  only  S  miles  June  2.'?.  and  0  miles 
on  June  24.  On  the  25tli  they  travelled  about  40 
miles,  making  no  sto])s,  reaching  the  nuuith  of  Lick- 
ing River  that  night. 

21. — This  item  alumt  the  fine  cedar  trees  James 
saw  across  the  Ohio  from  their  camping  place  evi- 
dently relates  to  the  doings  of  June  22.  The  pre- 
vious part  of  the  record,  under  date  of  the  22d,  re- 
lated to  what  occurred  on  the  day  before.  James 
nowhere  states  how  far  they  travelled  on  the  22nd 
of  June,  but  he  states  that  the  party  cauii>eil  that 
night  at  tin-  luouth  of  Lawrence  Creek.  This 
stream  is  just  about  the  distance  from  Salt  Lick 
Creek  (35  miles)  ^^■hich  both  Journals  show  the 
party  to  have  come  on  the  two  days,  June  21  and 

22.  This  creek  is  Ave  luiles  Indow  Limestone  Creek 
at  whose  mouth  :\Iaysville  was  afterwards  built. 
There  is  no  reason  for  supposing  this  party  made 
any  stoji  at  the  mouth  of  Limestone.  It  had  prob- 
ably not  been  named  at  this  early  day  (1773),  and 
no  settlement  was  made  there  till  after  years. 

22. — James  says  they  travelled  S  miles  on  -Tune 

23,  and  camped  at  the  month  of  a  creek  which  he 
calls  " Bracken's."  lie  it  noted  that  :Matt  Bracken 
was  wilh  liiis  jiarty,  and  it  is  evident  the  aim  of 
the  party  was  to  homu-  liiui  by  uauiing  the  stream 
for  him.  It  j^robably  had  never  before  had  any 
name.  It  is  certain,  lio\\c\"er,  that  in  some  way 
Bracken's  name  was  afler\\ar<ls  given  to  the  creek, 
which  enters  the  Ohio  at  Augusta,  Kentucky,  about 
7  oi'  S  miles  farther  down.  The  (»ne  which  JameiS 
calls  "Bracken's""  is  n<iw  known  as  Lee's  Creek,  and 
it  was  tlier(>  the  jtarty  lay  the  night  of  June  23. 
Such  a  ti'aus]iosition  of  names  is  easily  accounted 
for  when  we  reflect  that  creeks  in  an  unsettled  re- 
gion must  often  luu'e  looked  much  alike;  and,  in 
the  absence  of  maps  or  dist  inct  nuirks  of  some  S(U't, 
subsequent  travellers  might  confound  one  with  an- 
other. The  Bracken  Creek  of  to-day,  which  comes 
into  the  Oliio  at  Augusta,  is  13  miles  below  Law- 
I'ence  CrcM'k.  w  hereas  the  creek  where  they  camped 
June  2:'>  is  scarcely  S  miles  below  it. 

23. — To  the  stream  six  or  eight  miles  below  Lee's 
Creek,  which  is  the  true  Bracken  Creek,  and  which 
is  at  the  town  of  ^Vugusta,  James  here  gives  the 
name  of  an  (dd  soldier  in  the  party  by  the  name  of 


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Wilper.     But  his  name  did   not  slick    wlici-.'   Ilic  1'."..— A.-.oidiim    lo   .lames    Ww   Cuinitaiiv— from 

party  put  it  any  more  than  Bracken's  did.      Wil  wliom    IJoImtI    liad  scparalcd  liimsclf  on  the  'Jlth 

per's  name  gave  phice  to  Bracken's,  and   lalcr  on  nf  .Innc.  Id  make  his  exiiloi-in-  lour  <>(  •_'  or  :'.  days 

fastened  itself  to  a  creek  in  Booiu'  Connty,   Ken-  iuio  ihe  interior— spent   the  wliole  (hiy   (.Inne  2."i  i 

tucky,  on  Avhicli  '"Ohl  Wilper"  laid  in  som(>  lands.  ]Millinu  at  tiieir  oars,      lie  makes  the  party  to  have 

as  noted  in  James's  Jonrnal  oti  . I  line  ;'.(».   TIk- iiiiiht  covered  a  disiami'  nf   II   miles  on  this  day.     TliaJ 

of  June  24  was  evidently  spent  at  the  month  of  tlie  the  starting  iMiini  ><\\  iMs  mi.rnin;:  was  tin-  mouth  of 

true  Bracken  Creek  where  Angusta  now  stands.  the  creek   wIh'i,.  nnw    ihc  inwn  nf  .\nirnsta  stands 

-4. — At  tlie  month  of  Bracken  Treek,  where  the  seems  heyond  all  seridus  donlit  :  and  this  jioint,  hy 

town  of  Augusta  now  stands,  Koherl  Idok  leave  of      actnal  siir\ey  nf  ihc  I'.  S.  enu-ii rs,  is  just   4"J'.. 

Iiis  comp.-inions  to  make  a  long  detour  throngli  the       miles   ahove    the    n ili    nf    Licking    K'iver,    which 

interior  to  the  southward,  Thursday,  June  24.    The  Ihey  reache<l   in  the  evening.     Their  gin-.ss  at   the 

party  had,  no  doubt,  gotten  there  hefore  noon  thai  distance  and  their  speed   in  covering  it   in  canoes 

day.     He  seems  to  have  gone  entirely  unattended.  were  Imtli  alike  excellent.      I'lom    .\iignsta    to   the 

lie  ascended  Bracken  Creek  to  its  source,  10  tniles  Little  .Miami  K'ixcr  is  :!:):'• ,  miles,  and  .lames  makes 

to  the  soiit  h  of  the  (  Miio ;  and  then,  within  one  mile  it  .!(I  miles. 

farther  on,  he  canu' ii])on  the  head  spring  of  a  small  2(5. — The  only   way   in   wliidi    lami's  conid   know 

stream   now  called  Willow    Creek,   which    he  de-  tlie  character  of  the  land  on  Licking  Kiver  I'd  mili's 

scended  to  its  mouth  at  the  North  Fork  of  Licking  aliove  its  month  was  hy  the  personal  insjiection  of 

Kiver,  a  distance  of  nearly  8  miles.     Following  the  it  hy  himself  or  others  in  the  Comjiany.    It  is  clear 

downward  course  of  the  Licking  for  ahoiit  2.")  miles  that    some  of  ilie  men — and   most    |ii-olialj|y  .lames 

he  reached  a  point  i)rol)ahly  not  more  than  a  mile  among   them — tnade  an    exploring     triji    np    that 

or  two  below  the  site  of  the  present  town  of  Fal-  stream  on  Saturday  the  2(ith  <d'  Jnne,  while  Koberi 

month.      Somewhere  up  there  he  laid  in  several  sur-  was  sejiarated  from  his  comiianions  and  exploring 

veys.      llcT-e  he  turned  away  from  Ihe  Licking  to-  •'(•  I"  •'•"  niiles  si  ill  taiiliei-  np  its  coni'se. 

wanls  the  Ohio,  and  a  trip  of  13  miles  across  tlie  -^- — lames   says    Kobert    was    IP    miles   up    the 

hills  brought  him  back  to  that  stream.      He  prob-  Licking,  and  also  that  some  entries  w<"re  made  HI 

ably   regained    Ihe  Ohio   about   where  the  railway  miles  iiji  it-  by   wlii>m   he  does  not   state.      Kobei't 

station    called    F.radford    now    stands,  or    jiossibly  -^ii.vs  he  himself  made  one  .■nlry  of  land   on   ■•that 

near  Foster,  not  more  than  1(»  or  1,")  miles  below  the  creek";  bm   whether  he  did   ihis  while  far  up  that 

point  at  which  he  had  left  his  companions.      Keach-  stream  on  his  lonely  l(!iir   (.Innc  21-2(;i,  or  near 

iug  the  river,  he  discoverc<l  that  th<'  Comiiany  lia<l  i'^  month  afler  he  had  rejoin. 'd  his  lompanions,  ho 

all  gone  on  down  lh(>  Olii(..     Nothing  dautited,  he  «loes  not  alllrm.      It  .seems  probable,  however,  that 

constructed,  with  his  tomaliawk  and  knife,  a  canoe  Bobert  made  at   least   two  oi'  three  entries  of  land 

out  of  the  hark  of  a  tree,  and  embarked.     Pulling  on  Ihi'  Licking  while  out  on  his  lonr.  ami  that   he 


at  his  oars  till  the  setting  of  Ihe  moon  that  night,      estimated  those  smveys  to  have  been  Id  miles  above 


'» 


he  lay  by  till  dayJyreak.  Then  resuming  his  jour-  its  month.  This  was  only  a  wild  gncss,  and  he 
uey,  he  paddled  his  little  boat  on  down  the  river,  i'>vobably  did  not  get  w  ithiii  .".0  miles  of  tlie  month, 
and  at  10  o'clock  that  morning,  Sunday,  Ihe  271  h  In  Note  No.  21  the  guess  was  nnnh'  b.\  the  jiresent 
day  of  Jnne,  he  reached  the  month  of  the  Licking,  wiiter  that  l.'obeii  descendeil  the  Licking,  when 
and  was  rejoiced  to  find  his  comi)anions  there  on'  "H  I'i^  l""i'.  '"  :i  P"iiil  ^cry  near  where  I''al- 
awaiting  his  coming.  They  had  gotten  there  tw<i  mouth  now  siands;  and  that  t,owu,  we  know,  is  31 
days  before  he  arrived.  Some  of  the  party — and  mib'^^  li"m  the  mouth  of  the  Licking.  The  follow- 
almost  certainly  his  brother  Jatni's  with  them —  iiig  conclusions  se«>m  to  be  well  established,  to  wit  : 
had  gone  up  the  Licking  about  20  miles  to  insi)ect  '■  Ivobert  cameilown  ihe  Licking  on  .Inne  24-2(1  to  a 
the  land,  but  found  it  undesirable.  If  L'obert  was  point  about  .'tO  miles  fnun  its  month:  2,  that  he  laid 
really  alone  on  his  long  tour  to  the  interior  he  must  in  at  leasi  two  or  three  survc^ys  of  land  nj)  there; 
have  been  something  of  a  surveyor,  for  .lames  states  '■''.  Hiiit  Uobert  was  either  something  of  a  surveyor 
in  his  .Journal  that  Robert  laid  in  several  entries  i  as  his  son,  (Jeneral  B.  B.  .McAfee,  .seems  to  have 
40  miles  up  the  Licking.  thought),  or  else  had  a  surveyor  along  with  him, 


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and  hence  was  not  Avitliout  at  least  one  eoiH])ani<in 
on  that  tour;  4,  that  some  of  the  rest  of  the  Coni- 
liany  (James  j\[eAfee  heing  almost  certainly  amonu 
llieiii  I  made  a  tri]>  of  at  least  20  mih's  ii|)  tlie  Lick- 
inji'  Jnne  l'(i,  startinii'  from  its  month  at  the  Ohio, 
and  found  tlie  land  poor  and  uninviting;  and.  ."», 
that  these  explorations  of  the  Licking  River  hy  the 
.McAfees  were  the  first  ev(>r  made  l)y  any  white 
man  as  much  as  even  a  mile  (tr  t\\(!  above  its  mouth- 
28. — This  was  the  third  so-called  town  which 
A\as  laid  off,  the  first  being  where  Vanceburg  is, 
and  the  second  al)out  the  site  of  the  town  of  Au- 
gusta; l)nt  nothing  seems  ever  to  have  come  of 
Ihese  efforts.  It  is  not  exactly  clear  -whether  the 
McAfees  had  any  jiei-soiial  interest  in  these  at- 
tempts at  town-building.  The  exact  site  of  this 
third  town  was  in  what  is  now  Boone  County,  Ken- 
tucky, abnul  four  miles  above  the  mouth  of  the  Big 
^iiaiiii  Kiver.  Close  liy  its  site  tliere  is  now  a  vil- 
lage called  Bullittsville,  in  Pioone  Co.,  Ky.,  and 
this  was  ]U'obably  named  in  honor  of  Capt.  Thomas 
Bullitt. 

21). — How  accuralely  (lie  bends  of  (he  Oliio  are 
described  in  these  Journals  may  be  seen  at  this 
point  by  studying  them  with  a  good  map  at  hand. 
After  passing  Lawrencebnrg,  Ind.,  it  turns  to  the 
son(heas(,  and  (lien  bcldw-  Rising  Sun,  Ind.,  it  runs 
almost  due  east  till  near  the  mouth  of  Big  l>one 
Creek,  in  i'.done  Comity,  Kentucky. 

30. — Once  again  "Old  \\'ilper""  bobs  up.  Ih^  was 
[ii'nliably  an  eci'entric  old  soidiei-  wlio  had  served 
the  colony  of  N'irginia  us  a  commissioned  ollicer 
in  tlie  war  agains(  the  I'rencli  and  Indians,  and 
was  now  laying  in  "ofticers'  rights."  Just  here,  in 
Boone  Co.,  is  a  creek,  which  srill  bears  liis  name, 
"Woolper,"  which  may  compensate'  him  f(n"  the 
failure  of  his  name  to  slick  long  to  that  creek  at 
Augusta,  Ky.,  Ashicli  his  companions  seem  to  have 
intended  slnmld  bear  it.  See  James's  Journal,  en- 
try of  June  24. 

31. — The  record  of  Rohert  is  the  only  one  we 
have  for  this  stage  of  the  journey,  James  having 
no  record  after  Jnne  30  till  tJie  Sth  of  July,  and  the 
one  ^\e  have  is  not  cleiU"  as  to  the  distances  trav- 
elled. It  seems  that  the  town  laid  off  on  the  28th 
June  was  four  iniles  above  (he  month  of  the  Biii 
Miami  Iviver,  and  on  July  1  the  party  only  went  8 
miles,  camping  4  miles  Itelow  tlie  month  of  that 
river  in  the  bend  of  the  Ohio,  about  2  miles  below 
the  site  of  the  present  town  of  Lawrencebnrg,  In- 
diana.    AVhen  Robert  savs  the  Ohio  there  begins 


to  run  for  18  miles  to  the  southeast,  "where  we  lay 
all  night,"  he  nu-ans  that  their  place  of  camping 
(he  night  of  July  1  was  wliere  (hat  18  mile  stretch 
of  the  river  begins,  and  not  where  it  ends. 

32. — This  .jotirney  of  2.")  miles,  on  (he  2d  of  July, 
carried  them  10  miles  past  the  mouth  of  the  Big 
Bone  Creek,  into  which  it  had  been  their  purpose 
to  turn,  as  Captain  Bullitt  desired  there  to  make 
a.  station,  and  survey  land.  All  of  the  party  had 
iid'ormation  beforehand  in  regard  to  the  wonderful 
►Salt  Lick,  which  was  located  a  few  miles  up  that 
creek,  I)ut  the  whole  party  unwittingly  passed  by 
its  month  on  Friday,  July  2,  and  went  into  camp 
10  miles  below,  right  at  the  well-known  bend  of  the 
Ohio  which  begins  at  (he  \illage  of  Sugar  Creek,  in 
Oallatin  County,  Ky.  ^A'arsaw,  the  county  seat,  is 
only  about  4  miles  below  the  point  where  the  party 
cam])ed  this  night. 

33. — The  ])art.v,  for  some  unexplained  reason, 
spent  all  of  Saturday,  July  3,  in  camj)  at  the  point 
(hey  reached  the  night  before.  AVhile  here  two  of 
their  jiarty,  ;Matthew  Bracken  and  Jacob  Drennon, 
sleaKliily  (ook  lca\c  of  (he  .Mc.Vfees  for  a  season, 
in  order  (o  carry  out  a  little  scheme  of  their  own. 
The  party  had  i-esolved  to  go  back  up  the  river  10 
miles  in  order  to  visit  the  famous  Lick,  called  the 
Big  Bone,  where  some  days  were  to  be  spent;  and 
I'racken  and  Drennon  knew  they  cottid  readily  ex- 
ecn(e  (heir  scheme  in  time  to  re.join  the  main  party 
a(  (he  r.ig  Hone  and  so  be  ready  to  start  with  them 
when  they  should  resume  (heir  jotirney  down  the 
Ohio.  James  ^IcAfee,  in  his  record  of  July  1),  lets 
this  Bracken-Orennon  cat  "otit  of  (he  bag."  It 
seems  (ha(  Itrackeii  was  one  of  (he  three  white  men 
w  ho  had  accompanied  ("aptain  Bullitt  to  the  Shaw- 
nee cai)ital,  on  the  Scioto,  early  in  June,  as  re- 
corded on  a  i)revions  jiage.  While  on  that  mission 
Bracken  learned  from  an  Indian  thai  (here  was  a 
lick  near  (he  Kentucky  River,  not  far  above  its 
numth,  which  was,  in  its  way,  almost  as  remark- 
able as  the  Big  I'one;  and,  for  the  promise  of  a 
ride  gun,  the  Indian  had  told  Bracken  exactly  how- 
to  find  it,  as  he  shotild  be  i)assing  not  far  from  it. 
He  made  known  his  secret  to  Drennon,  and  the  two 
agreed  to  take  an  unfair  advanlage  of  their  com- 
lianions,  in  violalion  of  the  well  established  rules 
w  liich  explorers  associated  together  are  wont  to  re- 
gard, by  going  a  few  days  in  advance  to  select  the 
liest  lands,  and  lay  in  their  surveys.  There  was  an 
old  trail,  made,  no  doubt,  centuries  ago,  by  the 
buffaloes,  one  stretch  of  which  ran  from  the  Big 


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Bqiio  down  to  the  lick  tlicso  men  liad  tlicir  oyes  on, 
and  the  caiiipiug  jjlace  of  the  .McAfees,  JiU y  .'?,  was 
only  a  very  short  distance  from  that  trail.  This 
was  the  trail  Gen.  (Jeorge  Rogers  Clark  rolldwcd  (o 
the  month  of  Licking  River  on  his  exiM'dilioii 
against  the  Indians  on  the  ^liaiiii  and  Sciolo 
Rivers,  in  Septendter,  1782;  and  it,  came  in  alter 
years  to  be  known  as  "Gen.  (Mark's  War  Koad," 
and  is  so  designated  by  Filson  on  his  maj),  |inl)- 
lished  in  1784.  It  was  along  this  road  the  gallant, 
bnt  ill-fated.  Captain  William  .McAfee  (yonnger 
brother  (d'  James  and  Koln  rl  i  went  wiili  Gen. 
Clark  on  that  expedition,  and  along  it  he  was  car- 
ried back,  not  long  after,  in  a  dying  condition,  he 
having  received  a  mortal  wonnd  in  the  battle  Clark 
had  with  the  Indians  in  Ghio.  Rracken  and  Dren- 
nou  only  needed  to  cut  across  through  the  woods 
from  the  camp  of  the  party  at  the  Ohio  a  few  miles 
to  the  south,  \\'hen  they  would  come  into  this  trail, 
and  less  than  a  day's  travel  would  bring  them  to 
the  coveted  lick.  They  carried  out  their  ]>urpose, 
and  got  to  the  Big  Bone  befcu-e  the  .Me. \ fees  left 
there,  July  7. 

34. — The  larger  part  of  Sunday,  the  4tli  of  July, 
1773,  was  s]>ent  by  this  party  of  perhai)s  ."»()  white 
men  at  the  Big  Bone  Lick.  Ther(>  wer(»  no  fir(>- 
crackers  exploded,  however,  and  "Old  Glory"  was 
not  floating  above  tliem,  and  no  patriotic  speeches 
were  made.  This  was  several  years  before  the 
"Immortal  Declaration''  was  published,  and  every 
mother's  son  of  the  party  was  a  loyal  subject  of 
King  George  III,  against  Avhom,  in  a  very  few 
years,  nearly  all  of  them,  it  is  probable,  took  up 
arras. 

35. — The  amazing  spectacle  which  those  men 
then  and  there  beheld  has  been  described  hundreds 
of  times  by  travellers,  and  by  learned  scientists; 
and  all  who  care  to  look  into  the  nuittei'  fully  will 
And  ample  accounts  in  the  various  works  to  be 
found  in  all  the  large  libraries  of  the  world.  This 
lick  was  freqiiented,  in  foi-iiier  ages,  by  innnense 
cr<'aturrs  like  the  mastcdon,  huig  since  extinct, 
which  became  indied<led  in  the  soft  mud,  and  there 
perished.  Skeletons  have  been  shipped  from  this 
place  to  scientific  museums  in  .Vnierica  and  I'lse- 
where.  In  Collins  (Vol.  2,  i)age  52),  a  brief  ac- 
count of  this  "graveyard  of  the  mammoth'' — as  he 
calls  it. — is  given,  which  will  int(  rest  the  iinjirofes- 
sional  reader. 

36. — It  was  the  iulention  of  the  .McAfees  to  have 


lel'i  the  I'.ig  Bone  early  in  the  ilay,  Wi'<lnesday, 
July  7.  Iiut  the  Mri-i\al  of  some  li'ailei's  from  np  the 
river  detained  ilieni  I'ui'  musi  nf  ihe  day.  The 
tradei-s  li;i(|  sciii  I  lie  riir|  ise  of  a  ni;i  II  tloal  ing  at  the 
edge  nf  ihe  river  above  Ihe  mouth  of  the  Kanawha, 
and  this  pivixoked  some  discussion.  I'.iit  that 
al'ternonii  llie  .Mc.\fees  bade  a  filial  farewell  to 
Ca|itaiii  Bullitt  and  liis  men,  and  {ii-neeeded  aloiu> 
down  the  ri\er.  The  niduili  of  ilie  Keiiincky  River 
was  only  about  :'iO  miles  by  water  fnmi  (he  Big 
Boue,  ami  iiilu  that  sifeaiii  they  meant  tn  tuiii. 
whilst  liullit  t's  object  ive  ]ioint  was  ihe  I'alls  of  the 
Ohio,  some  51  miles  farthei'  down. 

37. — The  "eight  men"  itiduded  the  ti\c  men  com- 
posing the  Mc.\fee  ("(im|iauy  ]if(i|ief:  and  the  three 
siifNcyors,  Taylor,  Bracken  and  Drennon.  The 
|)lace  at  which  the  par(,\-  rested  the  night  of  Jul\-  7 
could  not  have  been  more  than  eight  or  ten  miles 
above  Carrollton.  This  entry  in  James's  Journal 
is  ycvy  confusing  and  unsatisfactory.  The  editor 
is  decidedly  of  (he  oiunion  (hat  a  iiiimbei'  i>(  ilie 
]iages  of  the  original  dcicuinenl  of  .lames  got  so 
badly  defaced  as  to  be  almosl  wholly  illegible.  One 
\\hole  week's  record  is  entirely  wanting  (  Jidy  1-7  i. 
and  this  entry  of  July  8  can  hardly  be  what  James 
actually  wfoie.  The  record  of  K'obert  is  rleai"  and 
consistent,  A\Iiils(  (his  one  of  July  8,  ])urpor(ing  to 
be  the  writing  of  Janu's.  is  a  mass  of  en-oi-s  and 
contradictions.  The  distance  travelled  on  Thurs- 
day, July  8,  was.  according  to  Robert,  almut  28 
miles,  only  about  10  of  which  miles  were  on  the 
Ohio,  and  were  travelled  before  the  break  of  day. 
We  are  com])elIed  to  contdnde  either  that  James's 
mantiscrijit  became  almost  h<i)H'lessly  defaced,  or 
that  the  cov])ists  have  maile  sad  work  of  it.  We 
must  rely  on  the  record  of  Robert  mainly  for  this 
Sth  day  of  July. 

38. — This  creek,  at  whose  numth  they  s])ent  (heir 
first  night  as  a  party  in  Kentucky,  was  probably 
(hat  known  as  I'.ig  Twin  Creek,  or  the  one  entering 
(he  Kenlticky  Kivcf  I'linn  the  east,  a  mile  below  it, 
in  Owen  Coiiii(y.  (ien.  .\le.\lie  thinks  it  was 
Eagle  Creek  they  stopiied  at.  but  it  is  not  far 
enough  fi'(un  (he  Ohio,  and  not  near  enough  to 
Dreiinou's  ('feck,  to  tit  into  his  fathei's  Journal 
records. 

3!t. — This  creek  is  the  stream  whiih  Itears  the 
name  of  Jacob  hienmui.  one  of  the  surveyor's  as- 
sistants in  this  patty;  and  the  lick  one  mile  above 
its  mouth  is  named  in  Imnor  of  ihe  same  eiiterpris- 


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iiig  wdodsiniin,  who,  in  coiiipauy  \\itli  Bracken, 
had  visited  this  spot  nearly  a  week  before.  This 
•'tlank  movement"  on  tli(>  part  of  these  two  men  evi- 
(h'Hlly  made  a  painful  im])ressi()n  on  the  mind  of 
this  upright  Seotch-Irisli  I'reslntcriaii.  as  one  will 
discover  on  rcadinii;  the  wJiole  of  liis  record  f(n" 
this  day.  liis  nciilicw,  (icn.  II.  li.  McAfee,  in  his 
autohioii'raphy,  su]ip]cments  the  account  by  stating 
that  the  condiicl  of  these  men  so  displeased  tlie  Mc- 
Afees that  they  were  not  allowcnl  to  proceed  far- 
ther \\ith  the  f'oniiiany.  This,  however,  is  a  mis- 
take, for  these  men  were  evidently  with  the  Com- 
])any  till  July  31,  when  they  and  Taylor  took  final 
leave  of  the  :\rcAfees  to  rejoin  I'.ullitt  at  the  Falls. 
See  the  Journals  of  James  and  Kobert,  under  date 
of  July  30  and  31. 

40. — Both  Journals  mention  surveys  having  been 
made  by  the  party  at  Drennon's  Lick,  but  neither 
states  just  ho\\'  many.  James  says  "several 
tracts,"  and  w(>  may  safely  assume  this  would  mean 
at  least  3  tracts  of  400  acres  each.  This  was,  so 
far  as  can  be  gotten  from  these  Journals,  the  fourth 
locality  in  which  the  ^IcAfees  made  entries;  the 
fir.st,  on  Salt  Lick  Creek  ;  the  second,  on  upju-r  Lick- 
ing; the  third,  at  the  month  of  Licking;  and  this 
(the  fourth  I,  on  Drennon's  Creek.  We  do  not  know 
whether  any  of  these  claims  were  ever  perfected, 
but  it  is  very  doubtful.  They  got  all  the  laud  they 
couhl  handle  Avheii  they  got  to  "Cro(^ked  Creek" 
(Salt  Kiver). 

41. — James  here  speaks  of  the  farthest  ]>oint  up 
the  Kentucky  Eiver  which  he  explored  at  this  time 
as  being  about  six  miles  above  the  mouth  of  Dren- 
non's Creek,  and  about  '2(\  miles  frcjm  the  Ohio. 
TTis  estimate  is  almost  exact.  From  the  month  of 
Drcnuon  to  (he  Oliio  liy  Ihe  Kentucky  IJiver  is  just 
I'l  miles  by  the  engineers'  survey,  and  he  went 
"about  six  miles"  above  that  point  on  his  excursion 
in  a  vain  search  for  "conveniency  for  mills." 

42.— The  remains  of  this  old  "Buffalo  Trace" 
were  seen  by  the  present  writer  in  -June  of  the 
year  1!I(I3.  It  comes  up  Drennon's  Creek  from 
Ihe  Lick  towards  Newcastle  f(n-  some  distance,  and 
then  diverges  a  little  to  the  east  of  due  south  to- 
wards Six-Mile  Creek  and  Frankfort.  This  same 
Trace  is  constantly  alluded  to  in  the  old  surveys, 
and  was  a  historic  route  to  and  from  the  central 
l)art  of  Kentucky  and  the  Ohio  IJiver.  It  was  the 
most  direct  route  the  ^FcAfees  could  have  chosen 
to  reach  the  locality  on  "Crooked  Creek,"  which 
tliey  had  decided   upon   long  in  advance  of  their 


reaching  it.  There  is  a  neat  modern  hotel  now  at 
Drennon  Sjirings,  and  the  same  salt  and  sul- 
phurous waters  issue  forth  as  of  yore,  only  not  in 
such  abundance,  perhaps,  as  once  they  did,  owing, 
no  doubt,  to  the  thousands  of  wells  which  have 
been  dug  all  over  the  land,  and  also  1o  the  slo]ii)ing 
up  of  the  springs  by  cultivation. 

43. — These  two  surveys;  one  of  100  and  one  of 
200  acres,  included  a  large  part  of  th.e  area  now 
occujded  by  the  citv  of  Frankf(irt.  They  were  Ihe 
very  first  surveys  ever  nmde  by  nmn  on  the  banks 
of  the  Kentucky  Hiver.  See  a  full  account  of  them 
in  Collins,  Vol.  2,  page  249. 

44. —  The  spring  in  which  these  various  articles 
were  hidden  is  still  there,  and  known  as  the  ^Fc- 
Afee  Spring.  In  :\larch  of  the  year  1903  the 
])resent  A\riter  was  in  Frankfort,  and  had  a  talk 
with  Judge  Lysander  Hoard,  the  present  owner  of 
the  land  on  Avhich  the  s])ring  is.  It  is  about  one 
mile  and  a  lialf  norllieast  of  the  Court  House,  on 
the  I'raiddin  and  Owen  turn])ike.  It  is  a  bold 
spring,  and  is  about  50  yards  from  a  cliff.  One- 
half  a  mile  above  it  is  a  much  larger  sjiring  known 
as  Cove  Sjiring.  willi  which  some  might  confound 
it.  This  larger  spring  is  the  head  of  a  large 
branch,  and  once  turned  a  mill  wheel,  and  supjdied 
the  city  with  water.  It  is  the  smaller  spring, 
however,  ^\•hicll  the  .McAfees  had  to  do  with  in 
July,  1773. 

45. — This  "path,"  be  it  noted,  was  that  same  old 
historic  "Bulfalo  Trace,"  one  branch  of  which  went 
right  up  the  ridge  in  a  southeasterly  direction  to 
where  Lexington  now  stau<ls.  It  has  been  followed 
closely  by  the  track  of  the  railway  between  Frank- 
fort and  Lexington. 

4(;. — James  tells  us  that  the  party  went  up  "that 
path"  about  S  miles,  and  then  turned  to  the  south- 
west and  within  (!  miles  came  again  to  the  Ken- 
tucky Liver.  In  other  words,  they  traversed  the 
two  sides  of  an  irregular  triangle.  Lohert  takes 
no  account  of  the  S  miles  they  travelled  up  the 
ridge  along  the  Buffalo  Trace  towards  the  south- 
east, nor  of  the  (I  miles  to  the  southwest  t()war(ls 
the  "Levisa"  (Kentucky  Liver).  He  sinii)ly  states 
that  they  crossed  the  river  about  7  miles  from  his 
survey  (the  bottom  at  Frankfort).  Both  state 
what  is  true.  They  went  nj)  the  ridge  along  the 
"Trace"  to  about  where  Ducker's  Station  now 
stands;  but  whilst  the  soil  and  tind)er  were  excel- 
lent, water  was  too  scarce  for  their  wants,  and  they 
wheeled  to  the  "right  obliipie,"  and  the  point  at 


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which  they  rooaiiii'd  the  river  wiis  a  little  less  than      \i,[w.      Ii   is  sai.l  ili:ii   I'.dDii.'  s|iciii  sdiii.-  iiiiis  in 

7  miles  from  where  they  had  started  that  morning.      a  cave  dii  llic  liaii'.  of  K'cninrky  INm-i I.v  a  (V\v 

•i"- — lu  ^'liii^  tramp  across  the  woods  for  twelve  miles  easi  oT  ilic  paii  <<(  Mils  s(r<-ani  ai    \\hi<h  ihe 

miles  they  must  have  [lassed  very  (•h)se  lo  llie  sile  .MrACc.s  linally  sell  led. 

of  Lawrencehnrii-,  ij,-oini;-  soul h westerly  to  within  a  •"•'•' -• — AVhen   (liesc  men    h'tf    ("ovc  S|»rinjr,  July 
few  miles  of  Salt  Kiver,  and  then  turninii'  to  Ihe  iM.  Ilicy  travelled  "two  milis."  aicordinii  to  .lann-s; 
southeast,  as  water  was  still  scarce.  or  ••alioni  :;  milis."  ac  roidini:  lo  Ifohcrl  ;  ami  then 
48. — TJiis  was  the  Sabbath,  and  .lames  says  no  lb-  lln'y  came  In  ilir  si  rram  w  liiili  w  c  know  .  licymiil  a 
in,n' of  any  travellin.!.;-,  but  they  did  joni'uey  about  S  shadow   of  donbi.    id   Imvc    \,rru    Salt    iJivcr.      We 
miles.     This  broui;ht   them  to  a  spring,  which   is  may  rcasonalily  •■s|ilii   ihc  dirtVrenrc"  bciwci-n  tiie 
one  of  the  heads  of  (Tilhert's  Creek,  then  proceeded  cslimales  df  the  |  w  d  <liroiiich'i"s,  and  |in(    the  dis- 
up  towards  the  west.     On  reachinii  <he  sprinji  they  lance  as  2'/;.  miles.     As  we  know  exactly  (he  loca- 
seem  to  have  concluded  that  they  were  not  far  from  ""n  "f  <'ic  T'ove  Spi-ini;-.  and  also  Ihe  bends  of  Salt 
the  jdace  which  \\'as    to    prove    their    ij'oal.     This  IIiM'r  to  Ihe  w  esl  wai-d  of  it.  we  can  locate  almost 
spi'ins^'  is,  by  James   (in  his  I'ecord  of  AVednesday,  Ibe  very  spol   at    wbidi  ilie\   came  lirsi   lo  ilie  bank 
July  21),  designated  "Cove  Sprinf>-."'     The  spelling;  "'f  ^^iiH   l»ivei-.     That  stream  m;ikes  a   bend  to  the 
may  possibly  have  been  Cave  instead  of  Cove,  but  eastward  rii;bt  on  the  line  of  ihe  |iresent  counties 
after  careful  inspection  of  the  siu-in;r.-  itself  and  its  "I'  Andeison  and  Mercer,  and  Just  there  it  is  a  little 
snrroundiniis,  by  Ihe  pi'esenl  w  i  itc  r  within  the  year  <-loser  lo  liie  Spring  llian  al  any  oiher  point — about 
litOo,  the  c(!nclusi(m  was  tiiat,  unless  the    natural  2'-  miles.      I'rom  .Mid'rayei- Siai  ion,  on  ilie  South- 
features  of  the  spot  have  been  completely  trans-  crn  Kail  way,  Ihal   bend   is  2  miles,  i\ui'  soiiiliwcsl. 
formed,  there  was  nothing  there  like  a  cave.     On  Now,  .Tames  narrates  Ihai  Hie  |iari\   wim  down  ihe 
the  other  hand,  there  is  much  in  the  topography  of  river  fiom  that  ]ioint  "four  miles,"  and  made  sur- 
the  laud  thereabout  to  warrant  one  in  calling  the  vcys  lor  the  Mct'ouns.      ilobert  says  they  went  "a 
spot  a  cove.     It  is  between  Lawrenceburg  and  Sal-  lillle  down  ilmt  ci-eek,"  /.  c.  Salt   K*iv<'r.  and  nnnle 
visa  (31/2  uiiles  from  Salvisa),  only  about  7.")  yards  Hn-    .McCoiin    surveys.      I'our    miles    is    rather    idd 
to  the  east  of  the  turnpike.     For  a  long  time  it  was  greal  a  distance  Id  be  designated  as  "a  little  ddwii 
called  Lillard's   Spring,  but   in   recent  years  has  tiial  creek"  in  the  connecti(Mi  in  which  this  phrase  is 
beeu  known  as  ^McCall's.     It  is  a  bold   spring  of  used.      I  lence,  we  must  again  "sjilit  the  ditl'erence" 
clear,  cool  water;  and  in  the  fall  of  lSli2,  a  large  between   the  two  stalemenis,  and    we  will  say  the 
part  of  the  Confederate  forces  under  the  command  distance  was  about  :!  miles.     One  writer  may  liave 
of  Gen.  Kirby  Smith  camped  by  it  and  found  it  bad  in  mind  (he  direct  distance,  regardless  of  the 
equal  to  supplying  their  needs.  lorluous  course  of  the  stream;  and  the  other  may 
49. — These   nu'u    had    no    reason    for   su]i]>osing  liave  ke]il    the  actual    wimlings  of   the  stream    in 
there  were  any  white  explorers  in  all  central  Ken-  view.     So.   we  may   safely  conclude  that  the  sur- 
tucky  besides  themselves,  and  the  report  of  a  gun  \eys  of  .Inly  21  were  alxml  :'.  miles  below  the  jioint 
must  have  made  tliem  feel  that  Indians  wei-e  near  at  wbiili  ihi-  party  first  struck  Salt   Kiver.      I'.nt  in 
hv.     No  explanation  of  this  incideid.  seems  ever  to  sd  di'cidiiig  we  have  id  (|nesiidii  ihe  accuracy  of  the 
have  been  given.  narrat  i\  e  of  ( len.   K.   II.   .Mc.MVe,  wriitin  pi-dbably 
50. — Where  he  got  the  name  of  "Ci-ooked  Creek"  'ill  to  7ii  \eais  after  the  two  .loiirnals  were.     The 
for  this  stream  (Salt  River)  we  can  oidy  surmise.  <ieneral  positively  asserts  that  the  surveys  for  .Me- 
lts remarkably  tortuous  windings  may  have  sug-  <'oun,  made  July  21,  were  at    the  mouih  of  llam- 
gested  the  name  to  him.     Possibly  Daniel  Boone,  niond  Creek,  which  is  from  S  lo  12  miles  below  the 
while  in  Kentucky  a  year  (u-  two  before,  had  wan-  |ioiiil    at    which    we   have  decided    the   i)arty   first 
dered  along  its  banks  and  ]ioled  its  unusmd  ci'ook-  came  to  the  hank  of  Salt  l.'iver.      Hammond  ('reek 
edness,  and  when  he  got  back  to  the  New  Kiver  set-  I'ises  td  ihe  northeast  and  sdutheast   of  l.awrence- 
tlements  in  Virginia,  on  his  way  back  to  his  home  '"H'g,  and   Ihnvs  southwesterly  to  Salt    K'iver;  and 
on  the  Yadkin,  had  spoken   of  its  peculiarity   in  Mi'.    \\"\\\    < ".    >\'oods.   of    Lawrenceburg,    win.   has 
counection  with  the  very  iiivil  ing  character  of  the  hunted   up  and   down   bdih   Salt    Kivei'  and    Main- 
land thereabdut,  so  that  Hie   .Mc.Vfees  understood  mond   Creek   frei|uentlv,   is  conlident    that    the  sile 
something  of  the  region  before  they  started  on  this  of  the  surveys  of  -Inly  2L  was  sevei-al  miles  above 


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tli(>  luouth  of  Haiimioiul,  at  the  point  wliere  Hick- 
ory Xiit  Creek  piils  in  on  tlio  west  side  of  the  rivei". 
Where  Gen.  ^icAfcc  <^<)i  liis  dala  for  liis  oiiinion. 
\\e  know  not;  hnt  llaniinond  Creek  is  several  miles 
too  far  down  to  meet  the  riMjnii-ements  of  the  case. 
Hence,  we  consider  it  extremely  probable  that  the 
first  snrveys  on  Salt  IJiver  by  these  men  were  near 
the  month  of  Hickory  Nnt  Creek. 

."1. — This  reads  as  if  James  meant  to  say  that 
he  liad  liis  two  tracts  of  land  (on  which  he  resided 
from  ilu>  fall  of  ITT'.l,  till  liis  (h'uMi  in  1811)  snr- 
veyed  on  Friday,  .Tnly  '2'A.  but  his  lanjunajie  does 
not  necessarily  demand  this  nu'aninni'.  He  men- 
tions 14  separate  tracts  of  4(10  acres  each  in  his 
record,  dated  July  23,  bnt,  of  course,  no  such  quan- 
tity of  land  could  have  been  laid  off  by  that  party 
of  men  in  a  single  day.  When  we  reflect  as  to  the 
ver,\-  nnfa\orable  circumstances  under  which  these 
men  had  to  make  entries  in  their  Journals,  at 
times,  we  can  readily  understand  bow  the  date  at 
the  heading-  of  a  rec(n"d  miiilit  be  and)ij;uous  to  their 
posterity  jienerations  later.  If  we  examine  Rob- 
ert's rec(ir(l  from  July  lil  to  :>1,  and  (Jen.  R.  P>.  Mc- 
Afee's comments  in  his  autobiojiraphy,  we  shall  be 
able  to  discover  the  probable  order  of  the  various 
surveys. 

52. — It  seems  impossible  to  ascertain  from  the 
two  Journals,  even  m  ith  the  aid  of  the  explanatory 
comment.s  found  in  the  autobiooraphy  of  Gen.  R. 
B.  McAfee,  the  exact  amount  of  laud  the  surveyors 
laid  off  for  the  McAfee  Com])any,  or  the  precise 
individuals  foi'  whom  all  of  the  several  tracts  were 
surveyed.  Two  surveys  weri?  certainly  nunle  on 
Salt  Lick  Creek,  about  June  IS;  at  least  3  Avere 
probably  made  on  the  Licking-  River  about  50  or 
GO  miles  above  its  mouth;  one  was  made  June  27 
at  the  mouth  of  the  Licking;  at  least  3  were  made 
at  Hrennon's  Lick  July  9  to  14 ;  2  were  made  (July 
10)  t)n  the  meadow  now  covered  by  the  city  of 
Frankfort;  and  2  more  July  1!)  at  the  Cove  Spring, 
the  whole  aggregating  aliout  5,000  acres,  before 
the  party  reached  the  lpaid<s  of  Salt  River.  On 
Salt  River  ("Crooked  Creek")  surveys  were  made 
at  five  or  six  separate  localities  scattered  along  that 
stream  from  a  point  3  or  4  miles  below  where  they 
first  struck  it  to  the  point  one  mile  southwest  of 
Harrodsburg,  where  the  Inrnpike  to  I'erryville 
crosses  it  liy  a  bridge.  Tlie  distance  by  land  be- 
tween these  two  juiinls  is  alionl  20  miles.  The 
great  majority  of  the  snrveys,  however,  were 
located  at,  or  Avithin  a  few  miles  of,  the  survey  of 


James  McAfee,  Jr.,  on  which  he  built  bis  fort  in 
1779,  and  his  stone  house  in  1790.  As  far  as  can 
lie  made  out  from  all  the  records  at  comnnind,  lands 
were  entered  at  this  time  on  sonu'  jiart  of  "Crooked 
Creek,"  within  the  limits  named,  for  each  of  the 
five  men  composing  the  McAfee  Company  proper; 
for  the  tw-o  McAfee  brothers  (William  and  Sam- 
uel), who  were  not  then  with  the  Company;  for 
James  ^IcAfee,  Sr.,  the  father  of  the  five  brothers 
of  that  name;  and  for  Jeremiah  Telford,  and  James 
and  John  Curry.  There  nnist  have  been,  in  all, 
about  25  separate  tracts  of  land  taken  u])  at  this 
tinu'on  Salt  River,  aggregating  10,000  acres.  These 
surveys,  being  added  to  those  laid  in  before  reach- 
ing that  stream,  nmke  a  grand  total  of  15,000 
acres  of  choice  Kentucky  land,  which  this  Company 
laid  claim  to  in  June  and  July,  1773.  Inasmuch 
as  the  entry  of  each  400-acre  tract  gave  the  indi- 
vidual making  it  an  additional  claim  to  1,000  acres 
adjoining  it,  in  case  he  should  perfect  his  title  and 
pay  the  government  price  for  the  land,  we  have 
above  52,000  acres  of  land,  (more  than  80  squai'e 
miles)  to  which  these  men  laid  claim.  Much  of 
this  land,  however,  never  actually  became  their 
properly,  as  they  did  not  care  to  jjerfect  all  their 
claims  after  they  made  their  final  settlement.  The 
three  town-sites  wliich  they  took  ])art  in  laying  off, 
namely,  at  Vancebnrg,  Augusta  and  Boone  County, 
seem  never  to  have  been  further  developed.  It  is 
not  entirely  clear  from  these  Journals  whether  the 
^McAfees  were  personally  concerned  in  the  proprie- 
torshi]!  of  all  of  these  town-sites,  or  only  had  a 
kindly  interest  in  Captain  Bullitt's  plans  in  regard 
thereto.  In  any  event,  all  these  attempts  to  found 
cities  seemed  to  have  come  to  naught.  As  to  the 
surveys  on  Salt  Kiver,  however, — especially  those 
on  wliicli  liie  .McAfees  and  their  relatives  and 
neighliors  actually  took  up  iJermaueut  residence  in 
the  fall  of  1779 — we  know  that  these  were  carefully 
and  conspicuously  marked,  befoi'c  these  men 
started  back  home,  liy  cutting-  and  ])iiing  up  brush, 
and  by  deadening  trees  on  the  same.  Thus  the  fact 
is  established,  beyond  all  dispute,  that  nearly  one 
year  befor(:>  Ilarrod  struck  the  first  blow  with  his 
a.xe  to  found  Harrodsburg — the  first  town  founded 
in  Kentucky — the  ilcAfees  had  selected,  sur\-eyed 
and  marked  a  settlement  on  Salt  River  on  which 
all  of  them  afterwards  lived,  and  where  most  of 
them  died  and  were  Ituried,  and  which  abides  to 
this  day. 

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cloar,  to  wit:  1,  the  three  men,  Taylor,  Bracken 
and  Drennon,  ooutiuned  with  the  McAfees  until  all 
of  their  surveying  had  been  finished ;  2,  that  Han- 
cock Taylor  was  the  head  surveyor  of  that  trio,  and 
Uracken  and  Drennon  were  merely  his  assistants; 
and,  3,  that  tiie  ilcAfees  had  eviilently  intended  to 
rejoin  Captain  Bullitt  on  their  homeward  journey, 
but,  after  duly  weighing  all  the  circumstances  after 
concluding  their  surveys,  had  resolved  to  attempt 
to  ascend  Kentucky  l{iver  to  its  head  streams  far 
up  in  the  mountains.  From  thence  they  could 
make  their  way  over  into  Powell's  Valley,  and  to 
Clinch  IJiver,  where  they  would  be  on  somewhat 
familiar  ground,  and  where  a  frontier  cabin  c(mld 
liere  and  there  be  seen. 

r>4. — This  day's  journey  took  them  across  lands 
now  constituting  the  northern  end  of  the  town  of 
Harrodsburg.  The  distance  they  travelled  that 
rainy  afternoon,  through  the  cane-brakes  of  what 
is  now  "The  Cane  Kun  Neighborhood,"  was  (piite 
0  miles  instead  of  7.  They  must  have  passed  just 
to  the  south,  and  in  sight  of,  the  place  where  Har- 
rodsburg Junction  is  located,  and  struck  Dick's 
River  at  the  most  westerly  point  of  the  big  bend 
214  niiles  southeast  of  the  Junction,  where  the 
rocky  cliffs  and  the  cedars  are  still  to  be  found, 
and  which,  no  dnuld,  look  very  mnch  as  they  did 
130  years  ago. 

55. -They  camped  this  evening  (Sunday,  August 
1 ) .  on  the  east  bank  of  Sugar  Creek,  in  what  is  now 
(iarrard  County,  having  i)assed  just  to  the  south 
i)f  where    I^ryantsvillc  now  stands. 

5(5. — It  would  seem  that  the  lick  was  probably 
within  sight  of  the  high  hill  which  is  now  in  the 
southern  end  of  Kiclimond — perhaps  Irvine's  Lick. 

57. — AVhen  on  some  of  the  bold  hills  as  they  were 
a])proaching  Drowning  Creek,  in  what  is  now  the 
eastern  end  of  ;Madison  County,  they  saw  looming 
up  abont  S  miles  in  the  distance,  to  the  east  of 
them,  the  mountains  just  back  of,  and  around  the 
site  of,  what  is  now  the  town  of  Irvine.  Here  the 
mountains  and  also  their  sorest  hardships  began. 

58. — There  are  clauses  in  the  Journal  of  James 
this  day  Avhich,  in  the  form  we  have  them  in  the 
copy  at  hand,  defy  all  attempts  at  rational  explana- 
tion. "The  little  pine  mountain  Kt  miles  into  the 
le\-e]  woods"  is  an  insoluble  puzzle,  but  the  place  of 
their  camp  the  night  of  August  3  was,  beyond  all 
doubt,  only  a  verA'  few  niiles  east  of  where  Irvine 
now  stands.  The  records  of  the  succeeding  days 
make  tliis  certain.  It  is  evident  that  the  aim  of 
the  party  at  first  was  to  strike  across  the  country 


to  the  southeast,  regardless  of  the  windings  of  the 
Kentucky  Piver,  but  a  few  hours  spent  in  clindiing 
those  mountains  conxinced  them  that  this  would 
be  next  to  impossible.  Hence,  the  very  next  morn- 
ing they  came  back  to  the  river. 

51). — This  salt  spring  is  there  to  this  day,  as  the 
writer  has  learned  by  correspondence  with  persons 
in  that  part  of  the  country  who  are  familiar  with 
it.  Some  ]»ersons  li\ing  near  by  obtain  salt  from 
it  in  our  day  by  boiling  down  its  waters.  Its  exact 
location,  being  so  certainly  identified,  furnishes  a 
fixed  point  by  means  of  which  we  can  easily  solve 
several  otherwise  puzzling  questions  relating  to 
the  journey  of  these  men. 

t!0. — There  are  se\'eral  palpable  eii-(U"s  in  the  en- 
tries of  both  Journals  this  day.  James  and  Pobert 
both  make  the  distance  between  tlie  months  of  the 
South  and  ^liddle  Forks  (near  Beattyville)  to  be 
15  miles,  when,  in  fact,  it  is  less  than  5.  This  mis- 
take was  either  diu'  to  tln^  carelessness  (if  copyists, 
or  to  the  fact  that  the  record  of  this  day's  journey- 
ing was  not  nmde  for  a  day  or  two  after,  when  some 
of  the  details  had  faded  from  theii-  minds.  Pos- 
sibly the  party  hail  to  ascend  the  two  considerable 
creeks  (Crystal  and  Silver  Creeks  1  which  come 
into  the  river  just  there,  in  order  to  avoid  rafting, 
and  in  this  way  travelled  2  or  3  times  as  far  in  be- 
tween the  laouths  of  the  two  forks  of  the  river  as 
they  would  have  had  to  do  if  ascending  the  stream 
close  to  its  bank.  If  we  deduct  10  miles  from  this 
part  of  their  <lay's  journey  we  help  to  clear  up  a 
second  ])al|)able  ei-ror.  namely,  the  statement  of 
James  to  the  effect  that  the  jiarty  went  40  miles  this 
day.  That  would  be  hardly  practicable,  even  now, 
with  existing  roads;  in  tliat  day,  Avhen  there  were 
no  roads,  it  was  impossible.  Ik'ducting  10  miles 
we  ha\e  5  miles  left  for  the  distance  between  the  2 
forks,  and  30  miles  for  the  whole  day's  journey. 
Even  30  miles  is  remarkable  for  men  pulling  their 
way  through  the  bushes  and  along  the  steep,  rocky 
banks  of  the  river.  That  this  much  was  accom- 
plished seems  certain,  however,  for  their  camping 
place  at  evening  (August  5)  was  tm  the  North 
Fork,  12  miles  above  the  mouth  of  the  S(mth  I'ork, 
and  that  is  just  about  30  miles  from  where  they 
camped  the  previous  night. 

()1. — This  "big  creek"  was  Holly  Creek,  which 
enters  the  river  in  the  extreme  southern  end  of 
Wolfe  County,  close  to  the  edge  of  Breathitt. 

G2. — This  "fork,"  as  both  James  and  Kobert  re- 
garded it,  was  Frozen  Creek,  in  lireathitt  Cimnty. 
James  says  "we  took  the  left,"  which,  of  course, 


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is  ill!  error.  Robert  says,  coi'i'ectl.w  "we  took  the 
right  haiKl."  It  could  not  possihly  iiave  been  otlier 
than  as  Robert  gives  it. 

03. — This  day  the  party  wei-e  in  "IJloody  Breath- 
itt." and  wallvcd  riglit  along  over  the  ground  on 
\vhich  the  now  famous  .Tackson  is  l)uilt.  They 
went  on  past  that  point  about  3  miles  to  the  mouth 
of  Quicksand  ("reek,  where  tliey  camped  for  the 
night  of  August  7. 

(U.— This  was  the  Sabbath  day,  .\ugust  8,  and 
a  day  of  fearful  hardshi]>.  .\t  Ibis  day  greenbrier 
and  laurel  bushes  ai'e  abuudaul  Ibere.  The  hills 
were  stee]),  the  bushes  were  thick  and  thorny,  and 
the  river  \ery  cro()ke(l ;  and,  besides  all  these  trying 
conditions,  the  steep  mountains  came  down  so  cb)se 
to  the  river's  edge  as  to  allow  no  foothold  f(n*  a  man 
to  walk  on  dry  land,  and  the  water  was  deep. 
Nearly  20  times  this  day  they  had  to  cross  the  river, 
and  very  often  they  were  uj)  to  their  waists  in 
water.  For  some  reason  neither  of  these  chroniclers 
remark  on  a  large  fork  of  the  I'iver  they  passed  this 
morning  a  few  miles  from  the  cam])  of  the  previous 
night.  That  fork  bears  an  appropriat*'  name — 
Troublesome.  They  had  camped  on  <,)uicksand; 
they  had  to  ford  Tnudilesome,  and  when  even- 
ing drew  on  they  were  probably  exhausted. 

G5. — But  at  the  evening  of  this  Sabbath  of  trial 
there  was  one  important  and  cheering  incident — 
James  saw  and  brought  (b>wn,  with  his  ritie,  a  Imck 
elk,  whose  tiesh  was  the  life  of  the  party  for  the  en- 
suing four  days.  But  for  this  merciful  interi^osi- 
tion  of  Providence  the  ]ii'oliability  is  the  whole 
party  w<mld  have  died  of  starvation.  Not  another 
particle  of  food  did  they  get  till  late  in  the  aftcT- 
uoon  of  August  12.  I\>r  days  in  successii>u  no 
game  of  any  kind  was  even  seen.  The  killing  of 
this  animal  determined  them  to  go  into  camp  just 
there  where  he  fell.  James  himself  does  not  make 
the  remotest  allusion  to  this  incident  an_ywhere  In 
his  narrative,  and  Robert  simply  states:  "We 
killed  a  buck  elk,"  not  (h'cming  it  worth  noting 
who  did  the  killing.  This  Sabbath  evening  feast 
occurred  on  the  boundary  line  between  Breathitt 
and  Perry  Counties,  about  30  to  35  miles  l)elow 
where  the  town  of  Hazard  now  stands,  and  about 
2")  miles  above  Jackson. 

(it;. — The  travelling  this  day  ( .Monday,  August  9), 
was  extremely  trying  for  most  of  the  tinu^,  and  the 
river  had  to  be  crossed  fre(iuently  in  order  to  get 
round  the  bends.  A  more  painful  and  wearisome 
journey  than  this  can  hardly  be  conceived  of. 

67. — This  day,  afti'r  going  for  a   few  hours  by 


creeping  along  under  the  high,  stee](,  I'ocky  banks, 
amidst  briars  and  underbrush,  until  tliey  felt  they 
coidd  endure  it  no  longer,  they  essayed  to  aliandon 
the  river  and  strike  across  the  ridges  towards  \'ir- 
giuia.  This  was  ju-obably  at  the  liig  bend  aitout  7 
miles  below  Hazard.  They  knew  they  were  getting 
well  on  towai'ds  Powell's  Valley,  and  no  dimbt 
lioped  to  lie  able  to  find  a  more  endurable  way 
than  the  rivci'  lianks  allordcd.  P.ul  this  was  a  vain 
hope.  .\  brief  ex|)erience  with  the  greenbrier  and 
ollici-  bi'ush  and  the  steep  mountains  drove  them 
liack  to  the  river  banks  again,  and  for  20  miles  they 
pulled  themselves  along,  though  they  knew  they 
dar(>  not  follow  the  river  much  longer,  as  it  was 
leading  them  too  far  to  the  uorlli,  and  they  needed 
t(t  turn  southeast. 

(iS. — It  was  out  of  the  question  for  them  to  cling 
longer  to  the  river's  course,  for  that  meant  carry- 
ing them  far  out  of  their  desired  direction,  and  they 
were  still  over  2.~((l  miles  from  home.  So.  coming 
to  a  creek  putting  in  from  the  south — which  i-ould 
scarcely  be  anything  but  Leatherwoo<l  ("reek  (iii' 
.Macie's),  in  Perry  ("ounty — they  resolved  to  fol- 
low its  course,  and  they  here  liade  a  tinal  faic- 
well  to  the  river,  at  2:0(1  p.  m.,  Wednesday,  Au- 
gust 11,  and  marched  uji  the  banks  of  this  creek 
towards  the  south.  The  considerations  which 
constrain  the  ]iresent  writer  to  the  conyicti(Ui  that 
it  was  at  the  mouth  of  Leatherwood  Creek  (or 
Macie'sj,  and  nowhere  else,  that  the  party  left 
the  North  Fork  of  the  Kentucky  River,  in  an  at- 
tempt to  reach  Powell's  Valley,  will  here  lie  pre- 
scmted.  He  feels  that  the  reipiirements  of  the 
Journals  and  also  of  the  topographical  and  geo- 
gra]iliical  conditions  of  the  case  are  such  as  can 
not  be  met  nearly  so  well,  if  at  all,  by  any  other 
point  on  the  river.  In  the  first  place,  when  we  note 
the  distance  these  men  had  travelled  (according  to 
the  Joui'iialsi  since  they  began  the  ascent  of  the 
river  near  Ir\ine,  Ky.,  August  -1,  and  compare 
their  estimates  with  the  actual  measurements  of 
the  river  we  find  them  to  agree  most  strikingly. 
During  the  S  days,  or  parts  of  days,  they  were 
ascending  the  river  the  Journals  show  them  to  have 
travelled  (after  deducting  10  miles  for  the  iialpahle 
over-estimate  of  August  5)  a  distance  of  1(14  miles. 
No  doubt  they  were  here  and  there  able  to  save  a 
mile  oi'  so  by  cutting  across  a  bend  over  a  ridge; 
but  as  they  would  also  lose  distance  by  having  to 
go  around  the  mouths  of  creeks  some  distance  in 
order  to  find  accessible  fording  places  a  little 
above,  we  may  albiw  the  gains  on  the  one  side  to 


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('ouiifciiialancc  (lie  losses  (in  (lie  oilier.  When  we 
nieasiiro  the  aetual  tlistaiices  on  tlie  lai'ge-scak' 
maps  of  the  V.  ir^.  (leologicul  Survey  (2  miles  to 
one  ineh)  Ave  find  tliat  from  the  point  at  which  the 
I'arty  hei^an  (lie  ascent  of  the  river  near  Ir\ine  to 
llie  iiioiilli  of  Ivcatherwood  (Ireek  in  l'err\ 
("ounly  it  is  not  far  from  (lie  same  number  of  miU's 
as  the  Jonrnals  call  fisr — the  ditference  is  only 
atioul  eiiiht  miles.  The  Journal  of  James  makes 
tlie  distance  1(J4  miles;  the  actual  distance  is  about 
l.")(;  miles.  If  we  fix  upon  any  other  creek  wliich 
w(ml(l  answer  even  a  majority  of  the  re(|uirements 
of  the  Jourimls  in  other  res])ects  (except 
Macie's),we  raise  diificulties  whicli  are  practic- 
ally insuperable  by  widening-  lireatlv  tlie  differ- 
ence hetween  the  distance  as  niven  in  the 
Journals  and  tliat  actually  shown  Ity  the  maps. 
Secondly,  James  says  the  point  at  which  they 
left  the  river  was  marked  by  a  "short  bend" 
of  the  river  tuinini:  to  llie  n(U-thwest.  The 
ri\er  actually  does  nuike  a  decided  bend  to  the 
northwest  right  where  the  creek  in  question  comes 
in.  The  bend  is  not  at  this  day  a  strikingly  abrupt 
one,  but  it  is  an  unmistakable  bend  to  the  north- 
west, and  it  may  have  made  much  more  of  an  acute 
angle  there  130  years  ago  than  it  does  to-day,  as  the 
tendency  in  rivers  is  to  wash  out  the  bank  at  abrupt 
bends  as  the  freshets  act  upon  (hem  year  by  year, 
thereliy  producing  a  wider  and  more  regular  curve 
in  the  banks.  Thirdly,  James  says  the  creek  up 
which  they  went  came  in  from  the  south,  and 
headed  u])  in  a  high  hill  about  six  miles  from  its 
mouth.  This  re(|uirement  is  met  l>y  the  smaller 
fork  of  Leatherwo(jd  Creek  with  absolute  complete- 
ness. Its  head  is  just  six  miles  from  its  mouth, 
and  it  issues  from  the  base  of  a  "high  hill"  whose 
top  is  2,200  feet  above  sea  level.  Eourthly,  the 
Journal  demands  that  the  six  miles  going  up  this 
creek,  and  the  other  six  miles  travelled  after  reach- 
ing its  head  that  evening,  should  be  through  high 
laurel  hills  of  the  worst  character  for  men  (ui  foot. 
This  is  i)recisely  the  character  of  that  region  to- 
day. A  relialtle  citizen  of  that  very  neighborhood, 
Mr.  It.  N.  Cornett,  informed  the  writer  that  the  re- 
gion fixed  upon  as  the  one  answering  these  condi- 
tions is  exactly  such  as  the  Journals  describe,  and 
that  there  are  now  patches  of  laurel  to  be  seen  just 
there  which  would  almost  entirely  baffle  any  at- 
tempt of  a  nuin  to  push  his  way  through  them. 
Fifthly,  the  Jonrnals  denmnd  that  a  journey  of  six 
miles,  on  August  12,  from  the  camping  |)lace  which 
they  readied  Aiigiisl  11  after  going  up  the  creek 
six  miles,  and  tiien  as  much  farther  tlirough  laurel 


hills,  shall  Itriiig  us  to  a  certain  large  creek  just 
whei-e  there  is  a  fall  in  its  coursis  and  wlier(>  a  foi-k 
of  it  comes  in  from  the  south.  The  Poor  Fork  of 
Cumberland  Kiver,  just  where  Clover  Lick  Creek 
enters  it  in  Harlan  ("oiinty,  Ky.,  answers  every 
re(|uirem<'iit  most  minutely.  The  Poor  Fork  is 
marked  just  thei'e  by  a  fall  produced  by  a  ledge  of 
rocks  running  entirely  across  the  stream  tfi  the 
southern  bank,  and  right  thei'e  CloA'er  Lick  Creek 
enters  from  tlie  south.  Sixthly,  the  Journal  of 
James  calls  for  a  salt  s])ring  on  the  creek  two  miles 
above  the  falls  of  the  larger  stream  into  which  it 
there  em](ties.  There  were,  Avhen  tliose  men  passed 
11])  that  creek,  on  the  12th  day  of  August,  many 
well  beaten  paths  made  by  lOlk  and  oilier  wild  ani- 
mals which  freipiented  those  licks.  The  same  gentle- 
man to  whom  reference  was  made  a  moment  ago 
(  Mr.  Cornett)  informs  the  writer  (as  other  persons 
liesides  him  have  done)  that  those  salt  springs  or 
licks  are  still  just  there,  2  miles  up  the  Clover  Lick 
Creek  from  the  I'oor  Fork  falls  referred  to,  and 
(hat  it  has  always  been  the  tradition  in  the  vicinity 
that  the  wild  beasts  in  former  times  resorted  to 
the  spot  to  lick  the  salt.  Seventhly,  the  narrative 
of  James  states  that  the  licks  he  saw  were  situated 
right  at  the  northern  base  of  a  mountain,  which 
mountain  was  so  much  loftier  than  any  they  had 
3'et  seen  in  their  travels  (hat  he  characterizes  it  as 
"an  exceeding  high  mountain."  The  fact  is,  that 
right  at  the  sail  springs  now,  on  Clover  Lick  Creek, 
2  miles  above  its  mouth,  begins  the  steep  ascent  of 
the  highest  mountain  range  in  the  State  of  Ken- 
tucky, which  has  an  altitude  of  3,800  feet,  just  over- 
looking the  salt  springs,  and  reaches  an  altitude 
of  4,100  feet  a  little  to  the  east  of  that  point.  These 
peaks  are  not  only  from  1,000  to  1,800  feet  higher 
than  any  these  men  had  yet  seen  in  Kentucky,  but 
they  are  marked  by  that  overwhelming  barrenness 
and  craggy  grandeur  w  liidi,  as  (ien'l  K.  B.  McAfee 
learned  from  his  uncle  James  in  after  years,  so 
terrified  the  starving  men  of  his  party  as,  weak  and 
fainting,  they  sloA\ly  dragged  themselves  up  its 
steep  face  under  a  blazing  August  sun.  Eighthly, 
great  as  was  the  altitude  of  the  mountain  James 
describes  as  looking  down  upon  the  elk  licks  at  its 
iKuthern  base,  those  men  managed  to  climb  over  it 
and  reach  its  southern  or  southeastern  base  by  a 
journey  of  about  four  miles.  The  actual  distame 
from  the  s.ilt  s|»rings  now  (ui  Clover  Lick  Creek, 
before  described,  up  and  over  (he  liig  lUack  Moun- 
tain to  the  soutli  of  them'  is  only  about  5  or  G  miles 
liy  actual  measiiremeiil.  I'Mnally,  the  Journals  re- 
quire that  (he  distance  from  the  camping  place  of 


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Aiimisl  IL',  nl  the  sdutlicni  Imsc  of  \\n'  "exceeding- 
liigii  iiKiuutain'"  acntss  the  lu'ad  oT  I'dwell's  Valley 
to  I'dwell's  Ivivev  shall  be  aliuiit  8  miles.  As  a 
iiialtev  of  actual  ineasnreinent  on  ilu'  excellent  I'. 
S.  Snrvey  inai)S  the  distance  from  the  ])oint  al 
which  the  wriirr  believes  the  ])arty  cani]ied  the 
night  of  Angnst  12  to  the  place  w  here  they  camped 
on  TowelTs  IJiver  the  night  follow  ing  is  only  abont 
10  miles.  Yet  other  re(iniTements  of  the  Jonrnals 
are  Inily  met  by  the  ronte  which  the  writer  alleges 
was  the  one  ailually  followed  by  these  men,  bnt 
enough  has  been  said.  When  we  look  at  all  the  re- 
(inirenuMits  of  the  two  Jonrnals,  and  stndy  the  to- 
l)ogra|>h\-  of  the  region  lra\crsed  by  the  McAfees, 
the  con(dnsion  seems  irresistible:  that  the  rente  con- 
tended for  by  this  writer  was  substantially  the 
very  one  which  th<'se  men  followed  in  1773.  Every 
attempt  to  fix  n^ion  any  other  i-on(e  from  the  Ken- 
tncky  IJiver  to  I'owell  Kixcr  raises  \arions  difficnl- 
ties,  some  of  which  are  absolnt(d\-  insnperable. 

()!). — This  s]>ot  on  the  I'oor  I'ork  in  Harlan 
Connty,  Ky.,  having  been  identitied  by  the  writer 
after  long  and  patient  reseaich.  he  (niplo.\cd  a 
lady  at  Harlan  ("onrt  House,  who  does  excellent 
work  as  a  photograiilier  (.Mrs.  llailey),  to  go  to 
(he  i)l;ice.  some  :!(!  miles  dislani,  and  jirocnre  a 
good  pliolograj>h  of  it  for  this  ))ook.  And  the  reader 
will  lind  a  beantifnl  engraving  made  from  tlie  pho- 
(<igra]ili  al  page   4oS. 

7(1. — A  modest  hero  was  IJobert.  This  is  all  he 
has  to  say  of  an  act  of  his  \\hich  revealed  fortitude 
and  calmness  in  the  face  of  death.  That  unerring 
shot  which  he  tired  at  a  IhkK-  deer  sa\('d  himself 
and  four  other  men  from  dealh;  and  yet  he  does 
not  even  say  lu'  was  the  man  who  pulled  the  trigger. 
His  brother,  James,  under  somewhat  less  tragic 
circumstances,  had  done  a  like  i\<'vd  just  four  days 
[)reviously. 

71. — The  head  of  any  ri\cr"s  \ alley  is  ahvajs  a 
raliier  indefinite  sort  of  region,  bnt  it  is  certain 
(hat  i'oweH's  ]{iver  has  nothing  worlli  calling  a 
valley  above  the  l!ig  Stone  (lap;  and  from  that 
jioint  on  down  to  (he  village  of  Dryden,  twelve 
miles  below,  tlu  re  is  a  valhy  which  we  nuiy  con- 
tidently  call  "the  head  of  I'owelFs  Valley.''  The 
writer  has  visited  the  s])ot,  and  intelligent  ])ersons 
at  Big  Stone  Oa])  told  him  that  it  was  comnnui  in 
that  section  to  s])eak  of  (he  area  between  the  Gap 
and  Dryden  as  the  head  of  Powell's  Valley.  This 
settles  it  that  the  ^McAfees  canu'  to  Powell's  Kiver 
August  13  somewhere  within  these  limits.  In  this 
vicinity,  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt,  occurred  the 


sad  disaster  which  overtook  lioone  and  his  coni- 
]>aiiy  only  7  we<'ks  later  (October  1(1,  177;'>),  when 
his  eldest  son  and  sevei'al  other  men  were  slain  by 
;i  band  of  Indians  who  waylaid  (hem. 

72. — Tanu'S  and  Kobert  do  no(  seem  (o  have 
agreed  exactly  as  to  the  ]irecise  place  at  which 
either  the  head  of  Powell's  Valley  lU'  the  L(Uig 
Hunter's  l»oad  was  reached.  Intelligent  men  dif- 
fer e\erywhere  as  to  boundaries  and  a  thousand 
other  details.  It  is  of  no  moment  to  us.  Their 
cani]>  for  the  night  of  August  13  was  ])robably  on 
the  bank  of  Powell's  r{i\er  about  where  ;\Iud  Creek 
comes  in  ou  the  eastern  side,  al  the  upper  end  of 
Stocker's  Knob.  If  their  cam](  was  on  (he  west 
side  of  the  rivei'  they  were  pei'haps  within  a  stone's 
(brow  of  (he  Long  Hunter's  Ivoad,  which  passed 
down  (he  eastern  bank.  Janu's  might  consider  they 
were  a(  or  (ui  (ha(  road  before  they  crossed  over  the 
river  (he  evening  of  August  13;  Kobert  may  hav(> 
ihonght  (hat  as  that  road  was  iio(  lilerally  trodden 
by  (hem  (ill  (hey  started  next  morning  i(  was  not 
]>ropei'  (o  say  they  reached  i(  (ill  (he  IKli.  ^Vhy 
they  seem  (o  ditfer  one  day  as  to  w  hen  (hey  got  into 
and  crossed  the  valley  is  not  (pii((^  <lear.  Hut  the 
refei-en<-e  made  liy  both  James  and  Kobei-(  to  those 
(we  mouidains  which  wen'  ci-ossed  by  (he  |»arty 
Augiis(  11  proves  (hey  both  had  (he  same  locality 
in  nnnd.  Those  mountains  were,  beyond  ;ill  doubt, 
A\alliMi  Ki<lge  and  Powell  .Mouidain.  They  are 
(piite  lofty,  bu(  are  (piickly  crossed,  because  not 
wide.  Like  two  capital  AAs  set  side  by  side,  their 
feet  touch;  and  as  soon  as  the  ^NfcAfees  reached  (he 
eastern  foot  of  Wallen  Kidge,  they  had  ouly  (o  s(e]) 
across  a  narrow  creek  to  begin  the  ascent  of  Powell 
.Alountain.  So  James  calls  them  "two  little  nniuu- 
tains,"  for  they  are  little  in  width,  though  big  in 
height.  Kobert  simply  says  "two  mountains" 
which  were  crossed  "on  a  snuiU  path." 

73. — James,  who,  whilst  never  prolix  in  his  J(uir- 
nal,  is  fond  of  giving  exact  details  (thereby  fur- 
nishing to  those  who  come  after  him  (he  sure  nn-ans 
of  identifying  numy  of  the  localities  visited  I,  (ells 
us  that  ou  this  day  the  party  ke])t  that  trail  for  25 
miles,  and  then  for  lo  miles  additional  the  day  fol- 
lowing,  reaching  "the  ford  of  Clinch  at  Castle- 
wood's,  twelve  niihs  bebtw  James  Smith's,"  some 
time  during  the  day.  The  rccctrds  he  made  (ui  these 
two  days — August  14  and  1.") — furnish  us  with  the 
only  absolutely  clear  and  certain  identification  of 
the  L(Uig  Hunter's  Koad  to  be  found  in  any  histori- 
cal document  known  to  the  writer,  and  throw  light 
upon  a  nundier  of  allusions  in  the  earh-  traditions 


APrENDIX  A— THE  McAFEE  JOUIJXALS  OF  1773. 


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of  that  region  wliidi  liad  otlu'i-wise  reiiiaiiicd  ut- 
terly obscure.  It  is  liere  settled,  beyoud  all  per- 
adventure,  that  the  trail  which  the  Long  Hunters 
I  ravelled  on  their  way  to  Kentucky,  iu  17G9-70,  ran 
at  least  forty  miles  from  Clincli  Kiver  at  Castle- 
wood  to  Powell's  liiver  to  tise  west.  The  informa- 
tion which  the  author  has  been  able  to  gather  in  re- 
gard to  that  road  or  trail  will  be  f(mnd  emiiodied 
in  .\i>pendix  I',  of  tliis  \\ork,  and  tlie  uuip  accom- 
luinying  the  same.  TJie  ])oint  at  which  the  party 
crossed  over  to  tlu'  simtli  or  left  bank  of  Clinch 
liiver  is  not  stated  by  either  James  or  Robert,  but 
it  is  reasonably  certain  it  was  where  they  first 
sli'uck  tluit  stream  on  Saturday  evening,  August 
14,  tifteen  miles  below  ( 'asth'wood,  and  about  at  the 
present  vilhigc  of  iMniganuon,  in  Scott  County, 
Virginia. 

74. — Tile  i(h'iitifical  ion  of  tlie  ]ioint  on  Clinch 
Piver  rciicjicd  on  Sunday  morning,  August  15,  after 
a  journey  of  1.")  miles  up  stream  from  where  they 
camix'd  the  niglit  I)efore  is  very  complete.  First, 
it  was  the  ancient  ford  situated  at  a  place  which 
siiu-e  the  year  1771,  has  lieen  known  as  Castle's 
AA'oods,  now  abbreviated  to  Castlewood.  There 
was  a  fine  growth  of  tind)er  in  a.  fertile,  grassy  and 
lieautiful  valley  at  tliat  point,  and  that  section  is 
still  (uie  of  tlie  best  farming  regions  in  A'irginia. 
A  man  by  the  name  of  Castle  settled  tliere  in  1708 
to  1770,  and  it  was  long  known  as  Bush's  Fort,  near 
w  hat  is  now  called  the  Mud  Store.  The  first  set- 
tlers thereabout  were  Castle,  Dickenson,  Bickley, 
Ucslier,  William  Pussell,  David  Guest,  and  James 
Smitli.  The  ])resent  railway  station  of  Castle- 
wood is  at  this  ford.  The  old  In  me  of  James 
Smith  was  just  about  twelve  miles  above, 
on  the  north  side  of  Clinch  liiver.  The  location 
of  the  cabin  of  David  «_Uu'st  was  near  Iiy. 
The  records  ol  Washington  ("oiinty,  A'irginia, 
show  lluit  in  the  spring  of  the  next  year  (1774)  he 
localetl  a  farm  just  a  few  miles  below  the  ford  of 
('astlewood,  nearly  opposite  tlie  mouth  of  the 
stream  called  (lucsl  Kiver,  whicli  doubtless  was 
nymed  for  him.  At  this  date,  however,  (Aug.  L"), 
1773),  his  jilace  was  8  miles  from  Castlewood  ford, 
most  proliably  up  the  river.  To  his  house  the  Mc- 
Afee jiarty  went  this  day  bei'(U"e  putting  up  for  the 
night.  From  his  house  to  Captain  Piissell's,  which 
the  ])arty  reached  the  next  day,  was  only  about  5 
miles.  It  is,  indeed,  possible  that  David  Guest 
was  at  this  time  living  at  the  farm  which  we  know 
he  got  surveyed  the  next  spring,  which  was  8  miles 
below,  instead  of  above,  Castlewood ;  and  that  the 


.McAfees,  when  they  reached  Castlewood  found 
that,  for  some  rensoii,  it  was  best  not  to  spend  the 
night  there,  and  iliai  lliey  then  travelled  down  the 
rivi'r  to  where  (iiiesls's  cnbiii  stood,  thus  almost 
retracing  their  steps;  but  tliis  is  not  at  all  likely. 
It  is  extremely  probable  that  in  August,  1773, 
Guest  was  living  at  a  ford  8  miles  above  Castle- 
wood, and  llial  there  the  McAfees  spent  the  night, 
.Vugust  ir».  II  was  at.  this  identical  cabin  that 
i'.ooiie  and  I'\imily  found  shelter  in  the  fall  of  1773 
— onl\-  ;i  few  weeks  afler  tlie  McAfees  were  there — 
after  the  terrible  disaster  he  met  with  on  Powell's 
Piver,  40  miles  to  the  west,  October  10,  1773.  Here 
I'oone's  family  remained  from  October,  1773,  till 
March,  177.'».  Tbe  infoiiiiaf  ion  given  above  was 
obtained  in  part  from  a  little  volume  by  Charles 
P.  Coale,  published  in  1878,  by  Gary  &  Co.,  Rich- 
mond, Virginia,  entitled  Life  and  Adventures  of 
^^'ilburll  AVaters,  Embiacing  the  Early  History  of 
Southwest  Virginia,  pages  l(i(>-170;  and  partly 
from  Summers's  History  of  Southwest  Virginia, 
Hill  Printing  Co.,  Richnumd,  Va.,  1003,  pages  143 
and  SI  1.  I'^u'  a  full  considei'at  ion  of  i  liese  nmtters 
see  Appendix  P,  of  this  volume. 

75. — Th(>  exact  site  of  the  c;ibin  in  which  Capt. 
Pussell  was  living  at  this  time  can  not  be  now  given 
with  any  certainty.  All  we  know  is  that  it  was 
about  5  miles  from  David  Guest's  ford,  but  in  what 
direction  from  that  ford  is  uncertain.  We  know 
that  AVilliam  Pussell  then  resided  somewhere  in 
that  vicinity.  The  McAfees  evidently  knew  him  as 
an  old  ac(|uaintance,  for  so  (ien.  P.  B.  .Mc.\fee 
])ositivel,\  declares.  The  house  he  was  then  inhab- 
itjiig  limy  lia\-e  been  abandoned  a  few  years  later 
for  one  not  far  away  at  a  more  suitable  location. 
We  kiH)w  that  these  eai-ly  houses  were  nothing  but 
very  small  cabins  of  the  rudest  clmracter,  and  that 
for  years  afler  tlie  lirst  settlement  of  that  region 
the  owners  siieiit  only  the  summer  months  there  to 
make  a  croj),  and  as  soon  as  the  com  was  gathered 
retired  a  cmisiderable  distance  up  tiw  Clinch  or 
H(dston  to  siiciid  llie  winter,  wliei'e  there  were  more 
comforts  and  less  exposure  to  Indian  attacks. 

The  jiarty  lingered  at  Russell's  till  their  lacer- 
ated and  swollen  feet  and  limbs  had  healed — per- 
haps f(U'  four  or  fi\'e  days — and  then  ic  sumed  their 
journey.  They  still  had  nearly  a.  week's  travel  be- 
fore they  could  greet  the  anxious  loved  ones  at 
home,  and  savages  were  liable  to  attack  them  at 
any  stage  of  the  journey.  After  reaching  Russell's 
on  -Vugust  IG,  the  Journals  were  discontinued.  We 
know  thev  all  got  home  about  August  25. 


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APPENDIX  B. 

THREE  ANCIENT  PIONEER  ROADS  OF  INTEREST  TO  BOTH  WOODSES  AND  McAFEES. 


TIIKEE  FAMOUS  PIONEER  ROADS. 

Tlic  histdi-v  n{  the  Wdddscs  and  McAfeos  in  Vir- 
jl-iiiia  and  Kentucky,  diirin-  the  last  three-(iuarters 
of  the  ci^litccnlli  .cntuiy  can  not  bo  properly  ap- 
preciated nniess  soiiiethinii-  more  tlian  a  niei'e  pass- 
iuii-  allusion  he  made  to  several  of  the  famous  old 
liii;li\vavs  on,  or  near  to.  which  many  of  them  re- 
sided, and  over  which  hundreds  of  them  travelled. 
The  history  of  these  roads  is,  in  some  deiiree,  the 
history  of  the  families  nauu'd,  as  well  as  of  Ken- 
tucky and  N'iiii'inia,  as  we  believe  the  reader  will 
concede  after  yiviu^-  this  Appendix  a  careful  pe- 
rusal. 

There  are  three  of  these  historic  highways  which 
deserve  si»ecial  notice.  The  first  is  "The  ^Vilder- 
ness  Road,"  say,  from  whei-e  it  ci'ossed  the  I'otoniae 
Kiverat  "The  rack-Ilorse  I'ord"  (  otherwise  known 
as  Wadkins  l'\'rry )  ;  up  the  Oreat  Valley  to  (he 
James  River  at  Rnchanan  I  rattoiisburj^M  ;  to  New 
River  at  Ingles'  I'erry ;  down  the  Ilolston  Valley, 
and  across  Clinch  and  Toweirs  Rivers  to  Cundier- 
land  (iap;  and  (Ui  across  Kentucky  to  tlu'  I'alls  of 
the  Ohio  (  Louisville) — a  distance  of  about  six  hun- 
dred and  sixty-four  miles,  'the  second  is  "The 
Luu<;'  Hunters'  Road,"  which,  we  uuiy  say,  bej^au 
at  I'epper's  I'erry,  New  Kiver;  ran  down  that 
stream  a  short  distance,  and  then  turned  towards 
the  West  ;  ascended  the  valleys  of  a  luuuber  of 
creeks  till  it  reached  the  summit  of  the  divide  near 
the  sit<'  of  Tazewell  ('ourl  House;  descended 
Oliuch  N'alley  to  below  ('astle"s  Wctods;  left  the 
Clinch,  and  passed  nearly  due  west  across  Rowell's 
Mountain  and  Wallen's  Rid^nc  to  I'owell's  Valley; 
ran  down  that  Valley  to  a  jioint  two  miles  east  of 
the  site  of  .Iones\ille,  w  hei'e  it  Joined  the  Wilder- 
ness Road  and  lioone's  Trace;  then  on  throuu'li 
Cundierland  Cap  into  Kentucky;  and  was  finally 
lost  in  the  Wilderness  about  where  Skegys's  Creek 
enters  Rockcastle  River,  a  distance  of  more  than 
thre(^  hundred  miles.  The  third  of  these  historic 
old  highways  was  that  known  as  "Roone's  Trace," 
or  "l?o(m(^'s  Road."  This  road  began  in  East  Ten- 
nessee, on  the  Watauga  River;  ran  in  a  north-west- 
erly direction  by  the  famous  Long  Island  (iu  what 
is  now  Sullivan  county,  Tennessee)  and  across  the 


South  and  North  Forks  of  the  ILdston  River  to  j 
Moccasin  Caj),  near  the  site  of  (iate  City,  Virginia;  | 
across  the  Clinch  and  Powell's  Rivers  to  a  point  a 
few  miles  west  of  the  latter  stream,  where  it  came 
into  the  Long  Hunters'  Koad ;  jiassed  through 
Cundierland  (!ap,  and  lui  north-west  to  the  Hazel 
Patch,  near  Rockcastle  River,  where  the  Wilder- 
ness Koad  diverged  towards  the  mu-th-west  ;  and 
went  on  nearly  due  north  thr(uigh  Roone's  Cap  to 
P.ocuiesboro,  on  the  Kentucky  Itiver,  a  distance, 
altogether,  (d'  about  two  hundred  and  thirty-three 
miles.  These  three  I'oads  we  will  consider  in  the 
order  named. 

SKiNIFICANCE  OF  ROADS. 

That  highways  ]day  a  most  vital  jiart  in  the 
economy  (d'  human  life  is  one  of  those  jierfectly 
obvious  ti-uths  which  everybody  freely  concedes, 
but  which  hardly  anyone  fully  a])i>reciates.  I'^ir 
all  (-natures  whose  modes  (d'  locomotitui  recpiire 
them  to  tra\(d  along  the  earth's  surface,  roads,  as 
all  will  agree,  are  absolutidy  indis|iensable.  In 
fact,  even  the  fowls  of  the  air  and  the  tislies  of  the 
sea  have  their  "beaten  tracks,"  so  to  sneak.  So 
closely  ai'e  the  roads  of  a  country  related  to  all  the 
Social  and  commercial  activities  of  the  jieople  who 
make  and  use  thi-m  that  a  comjilete  history  of  the 
highways  of  a  state  would  be,  in  no  small  degree,  a 
history  (d'  its  iidiabitants.  Hence,  if  we  would 
understand  aright  the  de\cloiiment  (d'  national  life 
we  are  bound  to  know  much  of  the  oi'igin  and 
growth  of  its  principal  roads. 

It  would  simply  be  impossible  to  give  a  complete 
account  of  roads  like  those  now  to  be  considered, 
which  had  their  beginnings  in  the  frontier  settle- 
ments of  Virginia  and  Tennessee  from  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  to  one  hundred  ami  fifty  years  ago, 
and  were  gradually  extended  into  Kentucky  to 
localities  several  hundred  miles  from  their  respect- 
ive starting  i)oiuts. 

This  is  the  case  mainly  because  roads  of  this 
character  are  rarely  the  outcome  of  some  one 
definite  and  consistent  plan,  much  less  of  actual 
surveys.  They  are,  as  a  rule,  the  resultant  of  pre- 
existiuL'  natural  conditions  and  the  exigencies  of 


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individual  adventure;  and  the  earlier  poi'lious  of 
them  are  apt  to  heccnie  well  establislied,  and  ma- 
terial ehauiies  iu  their  eourses  are  apt  to  occur,  louf,' 
before  any  serious  attempt  is  made  to  record  their 
actual  history.  This  has  been  the  case  witli  not  a 
few  (if  the  ]»rincipal  streets  of  _i!,reat  cities,  so  that 
about  the  only  certain  thinn'  one  can  aflinii  in  re- 
gard lo  them  is  that  tin  y  are  narrow  enough  and 
crooked  enough  t(t  have  lieen  laid  out  by  cows  and 
pigs.  Another  explanation  of  tiie  haziness  and 
uncertainty  which  umrk  the  allusions  we  find  in 
the  books  to  tlu'  origin  of  nearly  all  the  older  high- 
ways is  the  fa<l  tliat  nearly  all  of  them  had  their 
Iteginnings  in  jire-historic  times.  On  this  subject 
a  great  deal  of  misccnux^ptiou  exists  in  the  minds 
of  the  masses  of  the  people.  Most  persons,  if  they 
think  at  all  on  this  point,  seem  to  inmgine  that  all 
of  the  old  jiioneer  roads  of  Virginia,  Tennessee  and 
Kentucky,  for  examjde,  were  the  wcn-k  of  a  few 
bold  and  sagacious  wiiitemen  who,  generations  ago, 
came  into  the  wilderness  and  blazed  paths  for 
themselves,  independently  of  any  antecedent 
agency  of  man  or  beast.  For  instance,  it  is  prob- 
ably the  notion  of  many  educated  Keiiluekians  to- 
day that  what  is  known  as  "lioone's  Trace,"  lead- 
ing from  East  Tennessee  and  South-western  Vir- 
ginia thi'ough  ('uiiilieiland  (iap  into  Central  Ken- 
tucky, was,  throughout  its  entire  course,  the  orig- 
inal work  of  Daniel  Hoone.  They  seem  to  think 
that  that  shrewd  and  fearless  old  hunter,  with  a 
sort  of  su|)erhnman  intuition,  came  inio  a  ](erfectly 
pathless  wilderness,  and,  withoul  a  suggestion  from 
either  sa\age  men  or  wild  animals,  (li\in(Ml  exactly 
where  a  road  could  and  should  be  conslructed;  and, 
inside  of  thirt_\'  days,  created  a  brand-new  road  two 
hundred  and  thirty  three  miles  long.  The  simple 
truth  is,  however,  that,  for  perhaps  two-thirds,  if 
not  three-fourths,  of  llie  way,  IJoone  almost  cer- 
tainly did  nothing  mort^  than  to  nndce  a  sagacious 
choice  of  already  existing  trails,  which  Indians 
and  w  ild  beastvS  had  been  using  continually  for  a 
tluuisand  years  before  he  was  boiii.  That  he  did  a 
g(vod  deal  of  original  work  all  will  admit.  I'ro- 
fess(U'  Shahr  (see  his  Kentucky,  ])ages  4(i-4S|,  who 
is  an  a<]<now  bdged  authority  on  such  subjects,  is 
of  tile  opinion  that  Indians  were  li\ing  in  what  is 
now  Kentucky  perhaps  as  far  back  as  two  thousand 
years  ago,  and  that  the  buffalo  roamed  over  its 
plains  and  moiinlains  from  five  to  ten  centuries  be- 
fore the  coming  of  the  Whites.  ^A'hen  I'oone 
marked  his  famous  "Trace"  for  Colonel  llenderscm 
in  1775,  the  Indians,  whilst  not  then  actual  resi- 


dents of  Kentucky  oi-  \irgiuia,  were  constantly 
])assiug  back  and  forth  as  they  had  been  doing  for 
ages;  and  the  bul'ialo,  the  elk  ami  other  aninmls 
were  roving  over  the  country,  as  was  their  wont, 
in  search  of  salt  s]>rings  and  ]>asturage.  The  idea 
that  these  wild  cliildreii  of  the  forest,  and  plain — 
linman  and  beastly — could  have  lived  in  this  region 
for  centuries,  and  yet  not  have  formed  any  well- 
deliiied  ti'aiJs  or  highways  suited  Id  ( heir  needs  and 
habits,  is  simply  absui'd.  We  uuiy  rest  assured 
that  every  mouiilaiii  pass,  every  grassy  valley,  aiid 
e\ci-y  considerabii'  salt  lick  in  the  country  was 
licrfectjy  well  known  tolliein,  and  that  jtaths  lead- 
ing to  and  from  them  intersected  each  other  all 
o\'er  the  land.  Hence  we  must,  see  that  the  mak- 
ing of  highways  was  not  exclusively  the  invention 
and  occu])ation  of  civilized  man.  This  is  not  said 
in  ordei"  to  detract  in  the  least  from  the  just  fame 
of  Daniel  lioone.  He  can  be  tinivei'sally  conceded 
to  have  been  a  grand  character  and  a  man  of  most 
uni(|ue  persomility,  without  ascribing  to  him  any- 
thing he  did  not  do.  That  he  ])ossessed  nmrvelous 
courage,  fortitude,  sagacity  and  resource  no  one 
can  deny.  I'or  the  ]iarticnlar  work  he  was  called 
to  do  he  |(erha])s  had  no  e((ual.  \\'hat  we  art'  say- 
ing is  that  he  was  not  so  much  a  road-builder  as 
a  ])ath-tin(ler. 

!?ut,  after  giving  full  weight  to  all  such  expla- 
nations of  the  origin  of  our  roads  as  those  just  pre- 
sented, we  are  still  far  from  having  told  the  whole 
ti'uth.  We  must  go  back  of  the  ](ionee)',  back  of  the 
buffalo,  and  liack  of  the  Red  .Man,  even  to  that 
.Mmighty  ('reat(U'  who  built  the  worlds.  We  must 
think  of  II  im  who  set  iu  motion  the  forces  of  nature, 
w  ho  decreed  all  those  changes  which  determined  the 
toi)ography  of  the  earth's  surfactsandwho  produced 
those  elevations  and  de]>ressions  of  the  land  which, 
far  in  advance  of  historic  times,  lixed  the  natural 
baii'ici's  to  the  movements  of  nmn  and  beast.  If 
tiod  himself  did  not  actually  construct  highways 
on  the  earth,  He  at  least,  in  large  measure,  nuule  it 
(■("]  tain  where  they  Wduld,  or  would  not,  lie  made 
by  the  creatures  of  His  hand.  In  order  to  see  the 
force  of  this  observation,  mie  has  but  to  examine 
with  care  the  existing  highways  of  our  country  to- 
day, and  he  will  soon  discover  that  tln^  trend  of  the 
mountain  ranges  and  the  courses  of  the  streams 
have,  in  the  nuijority  of  cases,  given  the  cue  to  the 
sur\eyor  and  road-builder.  Those  awful  contrac- 
t  i(ms  of  the  slowly  cooling  globe  which,  millenniums 
ago,  caused  the  earllfs  crust  lo  crumple  and  pile 
upon  itself,   therebv    ci'ealing  the  mountains;  and 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


the  erosive  aotioii  of  the  ^hiciers,  the  rain  and  the 
frosts,  which  concurred  to  create  the  channels  of 
tlie  rivers — these  stupendous  operations,  in  wliich 
no  creature  had  any  liand,  reveal  to  us  the  real 
genesis  of  most  of  the  highways  now  in  existence. 
The  full  force  of  these  reflections  can  not  be  ap- 
jircciated  without  a  careful  exauiinaticni  of  the  bet- 
ter class  of  nuips  showing  tlu'  wagcui  roads  and 
steam    railways  of    tlic  ^'irginias,  Tennessee    and 
Kentucky.     If  anyone  will  tirst  locate  exactly  the 
three  ])i(ineer  trails  of  17.")0-7.j,  he  will   find  that 
graded   wagon  I'oads  and  railway  lines  now  cover 
nearly  every  mile  of  them.     The  cars  of  the  Nor- 
folk .S;  Western,  tlie  Southern,  and  the  Louisville 
(&  Nashville  Railways  can  to-day  convey  one  at  the 
riitc!  of  thirty  miles  an  hour  over  almost  the  iden- 
tical routes  of  all  those  ancient  trails.     The  once 
narrow  foot-paths  along  which  the  Indians  stealth- 
ily marched,  single  tile;  where  the  stately  buffalo 
and  elk   once  travelled   through   virgin   forests   in 
solemn  silence;  and  over  which  once  creaked  and 
jolted  the  slow-moving  wagon  of  the  emigrant,  now 
run   nuicadamized  turnpikes  or   the  lightning  ex- 
press trains  of  mod<'ni  civilizafi(ui.     Slight  digrest- 
sions  from   the  original  routes  we  shall  find,  and 
here  and  there  a  change  of  several  miles,  but  the 
general  features  of  tlie  land  which  determined  the 
I  rails  of  the  Indians  and  wild  beasts  will  be  seen  to 
have  controlled  the  modern  engineers  in  their  work. 
The  old  pioneers  of  a  century  and  a  quarter  ago, 
if  recalled    to  our  earth,  would    no  doubt    stand 
aghast  at  some  of  the  momentous  changes  which 
the   twentieth    century     wmdd    present    to    their 
wondering  eyes;  hut  as  they  should  be  whirled  in 
the    ciu's  along   down    the  Clinch  Valley,  or    the 
Holston,  from  New  liiver  to  Cumberland  Cap,  and 
then   up   through   Central    Kentucky,    they    would 
doubtless    be    led    to    recognize   familiar    natural 
features  and  exclaim:     "You  moderns  have  simply 
followed  the  trails  we  walked  generations  ago." 

Thus  it  w  ill  be  seen  that  our  existing  highways 
are,  after  all,  not  so  very  recent  as  we  may  have 
supposed — they  have  an  cxctH'dingly  long  history, 
and  they  are  so  clearly  coum'cted  with  the  develop- 
nu'Ut,  of  our  beloved  country  that  we  may  well  af- 
ford to  pause  for  a  moment  and  study  their  origin 
and  growth. 

(a)   THE  WILDERNESS  ROAD. 

This  highway,like  m-arly  every  other  with  which 
we  are  ac()uainte(l,  did  not  spring  into  being  all  at 
once ;  it  \\  as  a  gradual  growth.    There  was  a  time — 


say  about  the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth  century — 
when  such  a  name  as  "Wilderness  Road"   (as  ap- 
]ilied    to  the  highway  we  have    in  mind)   was  not 
known.       .Michael     Woods     settled     in     Lancaster 
County,  rennsylvania,  in  1724;  and  had  he  then 
been  asked  to  say  where  the  Wilderness  Road  was, 
he  would  probably  have  thought  of  the  trail  then 
leading  from  I^ancaster,  Penn.,  south-west  towards 
the    Potoumc    River.     In    1784 — the  year    he  mi- 
grated to  Piedmont,  N'irginia,  with  his  family — he 
woidd,  no  doidit,  have  included  the  northern  end  of 
the  Valley  of  Vii-ginia  in  that  api)ellath)n,  liaving 
only  tlie  most  vague  notion  of  what  there  was  far- 
ther to  the  south  and  south-west.    By  1700  the  title 
had  no  doubt  already  begun  to  be  applied  to  the 
(dd  Induin  trail  down  past  New  River  into  South- 
western Virginia.     By  1775  it  had  come  to  be  used 
to  designate  the  trail  all  the  way  from  Philadelphia 
to  South-west  Virginia  as  far  as  to  the  ILdston 
River  and  Hig  .Moccasin  Cap.      It  is  extremely  un- 
likely that  by  this  time  (1775)  any  one  thought  of 
the  "AVilderness  Road"  as  extending  farther  than 
that  gap.     Of  course  the  ohl  Indian  trail  had,  for 
generations,  ct)ntinued  on  to  the  north-west,  and  the 
hunters,     explorers     and     traders     had     travelled 
that    way,  but    the    particular    title    "^^'ilderness 
Road"  was  not  then  apjtlied,  as  we  feel  sure,  to  the 
trail  west  or  north-west  of  Holston  River  at  Big 
Moccasin  Cap.     Later  on,  however,  the  Long  Hunt- 
ers"  Road   and   Boone's  Trace,   which,   for  such  a 
great  distance  coincided  with  the  AVilderness  Road, 
were  swallowed  up,  as  it  were,  in  that  more  general 
appellation,  and  at  length  it  came  to  pass  that  the 
\\'ilderness  Road  extended,  without  a  break,  from 
Philadelphia  to  the  Ohio  Palls — eight  hundred  and 
twenty-six  miles;    the    name  "Boone's    Trace"  or 
"Boone's  Road"  came  to  be  limited  to  that  part  of 
the  trail  which  extends  from  Rockcastle  River  on 
to    Boonesboro;    and   the    name  "Long    Hunters' 
Road"  dropped  out  of  use,  and  the  greater  pai't  of 
that  highway  came  gradually  to  be  known  as  "The 
Tazewell  Road,"  leading  along  the  Clinch  \'alley. 
One  result  of  this  gradual  obliteration  of  the  title 
"Long  Hunters'  Iwoad,"  was  that,  no  matter  what 
particidar  route  a  man  travelled  from  New  River 
to  Cundjerland  Cap,  he  was  said  to  have  come  by 
the  "Wilderness  Road,"  when,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
he  may  have  travelled  more  than  a  hundred  miles 
by  way  of  the  Long  Hunters'  Road,  as  did  William 
Calk  in  the  spring  of  1775,  whose  itinerary  is  given 
in  Speed's   Wilderness  Road,   pages  33-38.     That 


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(locumeut  shows  that.  Calk  tiivncd  out  of  the 
Wilderness  Road  aboul  llic  sKc  of  .Marion,  A'iv- 
liiiiia,  on  tlic24tli  of  Maicli,  and  did  not  see  i1  ai^aiii 
till  April  ;!,  wlien  he  eaiiie  iiilo  i|  in  Powell's  N'allcy 
— ahont  ten  days  hiter.  This  iiialtcr  will  aijaiii  he 
consi(h're(l  when  we  eouie  to  treat  of  (he  Lmii;  llnnt- 
ers'  lioad  in  the  followin>;-  seetion. 

The  deseeudauts  of  both  .Michael  Woods  of  I'.lair 
Park,  and  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  ninst  forever  feel  an 
interest  in  the  AVihh'rness  Road,  for,  from  1724  to 
tlie  close  of  the  pioneer  period  of  Kentucky,  those 
men,  or  their  children,  or  chihlren's  children,  either 
lived  directly  on  that  liighway,  or  were  frequently 
travellinj;-  aloni;-  its  course, durinii'  the  days  wlien  In- 
dians and  wild  lieasts  violentlv  disituted  the  i-i<ihts 
of  the  settlers.  As  alivady  noted,  iMichael  Woo<ls 
arrived  in  the  colony  of  Pennsylvania  from  Ireland 
in  1724,  and  made  his  home  in  Lancaster  County 
for  about  ten  years;  and  his  place  of  residence  was 
either  directly  on,  or  very  close  to,  that  famous 
hij^hway,  which  ran  out  of  Philadelphia  almost  due 
west  to  York,  passing;-  throuj;li  J^ancaster  County, 
only  that  the  ''Wilderness"  in  those  days  was,  for 
tlie  most  i)art,  conceived  of  as  btnug  in  the  western 
ends  of  I'ennsylvania  and  .Maryland.  About  1782 
a  settlement  was  made  where  ^^'inchester,  Virginia, 
now  stands,  and  thus  the  "Wilderness  Road"  was 
consideraldy  projected  up  the  (ireat  Valley.  The 
old  Indian  trail  had  been  there,  of  course,  time  out 
of  mind,  but  now  and  henceforth  it  was  the  "Wil- 
derness Road."    In  1734  Michael  W Is  and  family 

and  the  ^^'allaces,  \\-e  feel  entirely  certain,  passed 
along  that  trail,  or  road,  on  their  way  to  their  new 
home  at  the  eastern  foot  of  the  Blue  Ridge,  in  what 
is  now  Albenmrle  County.  That  road  came  iip  the 
A'alley  from  \\adkin"s  Ford  at  the  Potomac,  thir- 
teen miles  north  of  Martinsburg,  and  passed 
through  AVinchester  and  Staunton.  At  or  near 
Staunton  an  old  Indian  ^^'ar-l'atll  struck  across  to 
the  soulli-eastward,  ascended  the  Rlue  Ridge  to  the 
gap  which  caane  to  be  known  as  Woods's  (Jap,  and 
[(assed  down  close  by  the  spot  where  Michael  lived 
for  twenty-eight  years.  Several  of  his  daughters 
and  one  of  his  sous,  not  huig  after,  settled  in  what 
is  now  Rockbridge  County,  immediately  on  the 
A\'ilderness  Road,  and  there  lived  out  their  days. 
That  highway  crossed  the  James  River  at  the  place 
where  Puchanan  now  stands,  and  only  tive  miles 
east  of  that  i)lace  was  the  home  of  Michael  ^Voods, 
Jr.,  and  only  nine  miles  south,  lived  Andrew 
Woods,    another    son  of    Michael  of    I51air    Park, 


directly  on  tile  ( It-cat  Koad.  A  1  il  I  !<•  fiiilher  south, 
on("ala\\lia  ('icik.  in  wlial  is  now  Konnoke  (Jounty, 
li\<'d  .lames  .Mc.M'ce,  Sr.,  and  sons,  and,  a  litlh' 
lalci',  Ai-cliibald  Woods,  another  son  of  .Miciiacl 
^\'oods  and  liroilici-  to  .\ndic\\  and  .MirliacI,  .Ir-. 
Tile  place  was  liii'  iiro]MM'ly  of  .lames  .\I<-.\fee  from 
171S  to  1771,  when  he  sold  it  to  .Knhihald  Woods, 
and  mo\cd  just  two  miles  down  ihe  i-oad,  and  lliere 
li\ed  till  1 7S."').  Tile  Wilderness  Knad  ran  by  the 
freni  doors  of  Woods  and  .Me.M'ee;  and  -lolin  I'il- 
son,  in  his  ilinerai'v  of  I7s|,  menlions  the  Woods 
home  on  ('alawlia  ('reek  as  one  of  (lie  stations  of 
that  road,  twenty-one  miles  soulh-wcst  of  I'iu- 
caslle,  and  twenty-nine  miles  norlli-east  (if  ingles' 
Ferry  at  New  River.  No  doubt  both  the  Woods 
and  JIcAfee  families  on  Catawba  had  seen  and 
entertained  scores  and  hundreds  of  the  most  noted 
explorers,  hunters  and  emigrants  in  the  thirty-five 
yeai-s  ftdlowing  tlu'  year  1748. 

In  the  years  1 771-1 77S  the  ^IcAfees  made  an- 
nual or  semi-annual  trips  to  their  lands  on  Salt 
River,  Kentucky,  and  the  Wildei-ness  Road  was 
inobably  their  ])rineipa]  route  to  and  fi-oni  their 
new  home  in  the  West.  And  when  in  the  tall  of 
177!)  they  at  last  moved  their  families  and  elTects  to 
Kentucky,  they  went  by  this  old  road,  (u-  that  called 
"Long  Hunters'  Road,"  Ihiough  Cumberland  (!ap. 
Py  this  route, or  the  Long  Hunters'  Road, went  Siun- 
ucl  \\  oods,  Sr.,  and  other  \\oodses — a  large  com- 
pany— in  the  year  1782.  In  17!»4  or  1795,  Nathan 
Dedman  most  probably  tiavelled  ihis  i-oad  on  his 
way  to  Versailles,  Kentucky,  where  he  settled.  In 
.Mercer  (Jounty,  Kentucky,  this  highway  passed 
only  a  few  miles  to  the  west  of  the  ^McAfee  settle- 
ment as  it  led  on  to  (he  I'alls  of  the  Uhu>.  Hence, 
it  is  not  too  much  to  say  lluiL  there  has  never,  per- 
haps, lived  in  I'ither  N'irgiuia  or  Kentucky  any  two 
families  who  had  a  closer  connection  with  the 
Wilderness  Road  Ihioiighoiil.  nearly  its  entire 
course    than    the   Woodses   and    .McAfees. 

For  all  coming  time  this  historic  highway  will 
be  associated  with  the  name  of  that  genial,  schol- 
arly geullenian,  the  late  Ca[itaiii  Thomas  Speed,  of 
Louisville.  He  brought  inio  his  debi  all  who  love 
the  story  of  Kentucky  and  Souili-western  N'irginia 
by  giving  to  the  world,  in  188(!,  his  most  interesting 
monograph  on  The  W'ildeniess  Road,  ])ublished  a.s 
Number  Two  of  the  Filson  ("liib  Series.  The  au- 
thoi"  of  this  werk  is  pi'oiid  t(»  haAc  claimed  Captain 
Speed     as     his     friend.      I'roni     him     he     derived 


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458  THE    WOODS-McAPEE   MEMORIAL. 

valii;ibl(»  ;iKsishnic(^  in  Uk^  ]iV('])iU"ati(>ii  of  tliis  vol-  tansa  and  Lower  TTolston  in  East  Tonnossee,  begin- 

iiinc.     He  was  one  of  tlic  (ii-iiiiiial  suhscrihcis  to  tliis  iiiiig'  in   IKiO,  and   tlie  rapid  development  of  that 

puldicat  ion,  ami  I  lie  r(  ader  will  find  a  brief  sketch  section  as  a  civilized  coniniTiuity,  with  well-manned 

of  him,  and  also  his  poilrait.   in   I'art   III   of  the  forts,  ma<le  this  hiiihway  a  ijreat  public  necessity 

same.  Sketch  No.  o.  and   ccmvenience.     It  was  these  varions  favoring 

Tlie  Wilderness  Ikoad,  as  already  intimated,  was,  conditions   which   rendered   the   AVilderness   Koad 

for  ji(  ncralions  jnior  lo  tlu    advent   of  the  Ani^lo-  popnlar,  as  far  down  as  Big  Moccasin  (!ap  and  the 

Saxon,  an    IndiaTi  and   liiHTalo  trail,  along  whose  Long   Island  of  Ilolston,   before  Kentncky  had  a 

conise   ti'avellcd     Die    Indians  between    tlie  North  single  permanent  white  settlement,  and  gained  for 

and  Soiiili.     In  Ihc  (■arli(  r  Coldiiial  days,  before  the  it  the  distinctive  title  of  "The  Great  Road." 
Indians    became   liosiile    lo   Ihe  ^\■hites,  it  Avas  a  The  lollowing  table  gives  a  list  of  the  stations  of 

fa\(irite  ront<' for  the  ( 'lierokces,  ( "atawbas,  etc.,  of  this   road   from   I'hiladel]iliia    to   Lonisville,   based 

the  South   in   going    (o    l'liiladel])hia    to  purchase  mainly  njton  Filson"s  itinerary  to  be  found  in  ('ol. 

needed   goods,    lor   hadeis  going  t(»  the  Southern  Dnrrelt's  Life  of  John  I'"'ilson   (pages  ti(!  and  G7), 

Indiaiis,  and  as  a  war-iiath  when  the  Northern  and  elucidated  with  exidanations  to  enable  any  one  not 

Southern   tribes   were  engaged    in   bloody  contests  very  familiar  with  tlie  subject  to  understand  read- 

with  each  oilier.     The  earliest    instance  the  writer  ily  ihe  local  ion  of  the  several  stations.     It  should 

has  been  aide  to  discoNcr  of  white  men  using  this  be  b(irne  in  mind   llial    in   the  various  old    journals 

trail  i)rior  to  the  conunencenu'nt  of  white  immigra-  ncv\    accessiiile   to   us.   giving  the  stopjiing   places 

tion  to   South-western   A'irginia    is   that   of  a    .Mr.  passed  on  this  roa<l,  we  do  in>t  find  all  travellers  to 

Vaughn,  (d'  Amelia  County.  \'irginia.  who,  in  the  have  gone  exact ly  t hi' sanu^  track  all  the  wa}'.   Here 

year  171(1,  was  employed  by  certain  traders  to  go  and    there,   it  is  a]iparent,  there   w<'i'e    alternative 

witli  them  as  a  i)ack-nian  to  the  Cherokees  to  what  routes  for  slnu't  dislances.soine  travellers  going  one, 

is  known  as  The  Long  Island  id'  Ilolston  River,  in  and  some  another.      .Moreiner,   no  two  of  the  old 

wlial     is    now   Sulli\an    County,   Tennessee.      ^Ir.  .jonrnals  give  the  same  names  to  stations,  and  some 

Vaughn  made    many   tii|)s  along  I  hat  trail    until  mention   stations    which   others    wiio  passed   them 

1754.     lie  stated  that  it   was  an  old  trail  when  he  l':iil  to  lefer  to.     In  the  list  given  in  Speed's  Wil- 

first    saw    it    in    1740.      i  See   Ramsey's   Tennessee,  dcrness     Koad    I  page     17),   one    omission    occurs, 

jiage  (i4;  and  Sunimi  rs"  South-west   N'iiginia,  jtage  namely;  the  stage  of  the  road  from  the  North  fork 

4(1.)      The    trail     Ihen    crossed    New     Kiver   where  of  .lames   River    (near   Lexington),   to   the  .lames 

Ingles   localed    his    famous   firry    in    17r)4,   though  Ki\er,    ]>iopir — a   distance  of  eighleen   to   twenty- 

this   feriy   was   not    established   by   law  till    17<>2.  tivi- miles — is  not  given  at  all.      I'ilson  gives  it,  and 

I  See   Hale's  Trans-.Mleghi  uy   Pioneers,   jiages  1^52  niakis  Ihe  dislance  eighteen  miles,  but  if  the  James 

and  2r)S.  I      This  highway  had  several  things  in  its  \vas  crossi  d  at  Ruchainin, and  the  North  Fork  about 

favor.     I''or  one  thing,  it  was  about  the  best  route  Lexington,    it     is    nearer     twenty-live    miles     than 

a\ailable,  because  it    had,  as  a  rnl(>,  but  few  very  eighteen.     I.nt   we  have  to   remember  that  nearly 

dithcnlt  passages  for  pack-horses.     The  mountains  -'H    "'•'  distances  noted    in   those  days   were  mere 

and    streams,   whilst    \eiy    troublesome    here  and  guesses,  and  sometimes  \'ery  wild  ones  at  that, 
there,   did    noi    in    anv    iilace   iireseiit    insuiierable 

dilliculiiis.     In  then..;,  place,  gatne  was  abundant  ^'l^^^^i^i<»^'^    <>1-'    '''Hl'^     WILDERNESS    RUAD, 
along  most  of  its  course,  which  was  a  matter  of  the  I'll  I  LAIHOLIMllA   TO   FALLS   OF  OHIO, 

tirst  importance.     Again,  lo  the  \\  bites  it  ottered  via   CF.MRERLANI)   OAR. 

fewer  disadvantages  than  the  Long  Hunters'  Road  miles. 

(The  Clinch   N'allev  L'oi!te),in  I  he  wa  v  of  host  ile  l*li''"<l'''l'liiii  <"  l-nicaster   66 

Indians.     Must  uf  the  time  the  dani,..r  was  greatest  v '"I'f  J*  ^'^,^"^'1. IW  '  \:  \ '?, 

,•„  ,       ,1  ,,      ,         •,-,.,  ^  ork  to  \\  adkius  Ferry — (at  the  Ro  omaci  .  .  .    74 

•i-on,     Ihe    northerly    snle  of    the    rout,.,   as    the  Wadkins  Ferrv  to  Martinsburg,   Va .        13 

Shawnees   and    Helawares   were   beyimd    the   Ohio,  .MaMinsburg  to  Winchester   .  .  .' 13 

and  the  Wilderness  Koad  was  not  as  easily  reached  ^^'im■hester  to  Shenandoah  Iviver  i  .Main  I!r.  )  .  .    45 

by  their  raiilint;  i.arties  as  was  the  more  northerly  ►''^'"'"''li'l'-'li  River  to  Staunton   44 

'■""'■-""■ ' ^-  """"■■■»■  '■-'^  I'"'.  «.-".v,  .1.;  St.ri<tt,!;;fKfv;',""'"-'''''"''"''""'  % 

.^Mlv  s,.||l..|iic,il  „r  ||,„  fviiil,.  lall.vs  „f  iLi.  Wa-  ,Iaiii..»  i;iv,.r  li,  ];,rk'l,.urt  C.  ll.— (Fiutastk-) .   U> 


APPENDIX    R— TIIKEK    I'loXKKK    IJOADS.  ^'>^ 

MU.KS.  '""^'•-S 

Botetourt  (\  II.  lo  Woods's  on  (":it;i\vha 21  From    New    Kivcr  lo  Iti-   .Mo<casiii  (laii 141 

Woods's  to  I'atcrsoirs  on   Koanokc   it  From    I'.iii;  Moccasin  ( lap  lo  <  "iniihcrhind  Cap.  .    ij. 

Patcrsons    to    Alh-hanv    ilonnlain— (  Fdacks-  I'rom   ('nmlM  rland  ( Jap  lo  lla/,cl  I'alcli t.l 

hnrt;)     "...." S  I'rom    lla/.cl    I'alcli    lo  <  >lii(.   Falls 14») 

Alleghany   .M(tuntain  tcv  New    Kivcr 12  , 

Xcw  Kivir  to  Forks  of  tiie  Koad 1<">  Total     '"*-'* 

Forks  of  Koad  to  Fort  Chiswcll 12 

Fort  Cliiswcll  to  Stone  .Mill 11  (1»)    Tlit:    l,()N<i    1 1  IN'I'FKS'    \U).\\>. 

Ston<'  Mill  lo  liovd's 8  .         ,      i  ,    ,i,     .,i„.,-,.  iWi,. 

I.       1-     -      II       1    \-  ij    1   f           ,\i:iii      r   ..I- ,              -.  he  p:i"i    winch   we  dcsi;nnalc  li\    1  lie  al»o\  c  t  it  le 

liovd  s  to  Head  of  lI<dstoii — (Middle  loi'k  I  .  .  .      .)  i                                         ■             . 

lleadof  llolstontoWashin.ut.n.  ('.  H.-lAhin-  and  which  cM.-n.led  fr.nn  N.^w  i;,v<  r  up  Hm' courses 

j„u)     ir.  ,:f  a  nundici-  of  streams  lo  1 1 lcvalc(l  divide  near 

"Wasliinuton  (\  II.  to  I'lock-hoiise :>")  tlie  site  of  the  prcseiil   low  n  of  Ta/.ewell,  and  from 

Pd<ick-honse  to  North  Fork  of  llolstini '5  ilience  down  the  ("lincli    Valley  to  ("aslle's  Woods 

North  Fork  of  Ilolston  to  Moccasin  (lai* (i  ,^j^^,    |„,^,,,„,_   „..,^_   without    doidil,  an    Indian    irail 

^loccasin  (xap  to  Clinch  River   ( l''ord  i 12  .'        ,,      ,        ,,      wi-,    .    „,.,.,  i  n ,,i,(i-v 

,,,.      ,    ,,.        \r^      1  V  *-    T^      1     c  cji^     1    ,',.     i.            •>  c(nurics  old  when  the  W  lutes  entered  the  counti\. 
(Imcli  River  (Ford)  to  lord  of  Stock  <  reek  ..  .      _ 

Ford  of  Stock  (^reek  to  North  Fork  of  Clinch.  .      T  I'.i.kley,    in   his    ilisL.ry   ot      la/.ewell     (  oiinly.   as 

North  Fork  of  Clinch  to  Powell's  .Mountain.  .  .      :'.  i\\uAtH]  l.y  Sninmers  (pa.ii('2S),  says,  "The  iirincipal 

Po\V(drs  Moimtain  to  Wallen's   Ridtre ;{  Indian  Hails  ihnui^h  Tazewell  Cuiinty  led  thronjj;h 

Wallen's  Ridii'e  to  Valley  Station 4  |^,jp  .jj^j  down  |  Climh  N'alley;  hut  after  the  Whites 

Valley  Station  to  Powell's  River _     2  ,^^^  ^^^  ^^,,j,^.^  ,,^^,^^,  ^^..^.^^  .,,,  ,,.,j  f,.,„„  ,,„.  ,)l,io 

Powcdl's   River  to  .lunction   of   Lonti'   Hunters  ."                        .                   ,,           ,,              n   i-        ,\ 

jj^^.^^j                                                   ■                         4  River.'      Tliat  is  to  say,  the  i)aths  paralleling:  the 

Juneticm  of  L.il.  Road  to  .Martin's  Cahins.  ..  .    lit  Clinch    wrvr   ahamlomd    l.y    them,   and    they    now 

:Martin's  Cahins  to  Cumherland  (ia]> 20  nsed  others  which  came  into  them  at  an  ani^le  from 

Cumherland  ( iap  to  Cumlierland  Kiver  (  I'ord  1  .    R?  ^]^^>  nortli-west  or  north,  so  as  to  avoid   travelling 

Cumherland   iJiver  to  Flat  Lick — (where  War-  roads  on  which  Ihev  wcrelikelv  to  meei  their  white 

riors-  Road  turned  due  north  ) 9  ^,^^,,^5,.^     ,  „„,  „|. ,  |„,,,,  ,„.,,.,,.  adoj-ted  trails  cam,,  up 

Flat  Lick  to  Stinkiu"-  Creek ^  ,,,.-.,      ,          ,     ■    '                 m        ■-     1           1 

Stinkiim-  Cre,.k  1..   R^.-hhuul  Creek 7  ^'h>  Bi^  ^an.iy  branch,  known  as  Tu-  1- ork,  ami 

From  Point  on    Ki.hland   Creek,  first    reached,  led  over  into  Ahh's  Valley,  twenty  miles  north-east 

to  a  i>i!int    I'ai'lher  u]i  its  course S  of  Ta/.ewell  Court    House.     Anolher  of  these  trails 

From  I'pper  I'oint   on   Richland  Creek  to  Rac-  came  up  the  Louisa  I'oi'k  of  Sandy  Kiver,  and  came 

coon  Sprin^r »'>  !„(-,>  ^\y^,  white  seltlemeiils  on   Clinch    Kiver  near 

From  Racco.m  Si.rin- to  Laurel  River.  ..  .              2  ,,.j„t,,,.^   ^Voods.      Il.iice    we    mav  safelv    assume 

From     Laurel     River   to   Hazel     Patcli    (where  ,,     ,  ,,        ,,,■,,■  ,           ,    1    '      ,m"  1    \-   n 

Boone's   Trace   diver-ed    from    Wilderness  tliat  the  ohi   (rail   which  w.mt   down  (  linch  \  alley 

Road,  the  forim  r  -idinii  nearly  .lue  north,  and   hecame   ihi'    l.on.u    Hunters'    Koa<l    in    l.ti!»-(2 

and  the  latter  hearing  to  the  ma'th-west  )  .  .    L")  was  not  hlazed  hy  white  hunters — they  simjily  dis- 

Froin  the  Hazel  Patch  to  Rockcastle  River....    10  covered  it,  and  adojited  il   for  their  own  pur|Hises. 

Fnnn  Rockcastle  River  to  English's  Station..  .    2.")  j,,.;,,^.    j,,     j-;-,;,)    ,„.,„^,    ^,||.,|i     p;,,Mies    of    daring 

From    English's    Station    to  Col.    Fdwards's-  frontiersmen  had  travelh.l  this  trail  d.nvn  into  (he 

(Crah  Orchard)    -^  .                   . 

1^          ,,   ,    ,,  ,      ,.  I,-,,     \\i,;ti,.,.v.  sji^.i(i,>ii                 f^  howhug  wilderness   111   search   ol    Im;-  ^ame,  and    it 

1  roiu  COL  Edwards  s  lo  \\  Intlejt  s  tnuuion o  >^                                                    ■    ■ 

From  Whitley's  Station  to  Logan's  Station ">  seems  to  have  gradually  (akeii  (he  name  "jlunleis' 

Frcuii  Logan's  Station  to  Clark's  Station 7  Path";   hut   after  the   famous    trip  of    the  "Long 

From  Clark's  Station  to  Crow's  Station 4  Hunters"  into  Kentucky   (in  17((it-72),  it  got  to  he 

From  Crow's  Station  to  Ilarrod's  Stat  ion 3  kuowu  as  "The   l.oii-    Hunters'   Road."      (See  the 

Friun  Ilarrod's  Station  to  Harlan's  Statitui...      4  ^        m    4?      r            1       r  ,-— >     v            i-      i               1 

i  loiii  mill     '                    ^     ,,     ,  •       .    o.    i-            1A  two  .McAfe(>  .lonrnals  of  1  ((.!,  Ai.peiidix  .\,  records 

From  ILirlan  s  Station  to  Harhison  s  t^tation.  .    10  ...    .  ,          ,   ,- 

Fnuu   Harhis<.n's  Stathui  to   F.ardstown 2.^.  "I  -^'i^i'i'^t  !•>,  ^^,  and  1...) 

From  P.ardstown  to  (RuUitl'si   Salt   Works...    l'.")  In  later  times,  however,  this  trail  lost  its  former 

From  Salt  Works  to  h'alls  of  Ohio  (  Louisville)    20  titles  to  a  large  extent,  and  ilifrercni  ]iorlions  of  it 

"  came  to  have  separate  distinctive  names.     A  large 

Total S2(>  section  of  it  took  the  name  of  "The  Tazewell  Road," 

and  retains   it,   to   this  dav.     The   Long  Hunters' 

From  Philadelphia  to  the  Potomac 162  I^'>'i'l  <^<»'-«  ""*  »^^'™>  ''^'''^'  <"  '''i^''  ^'^^^  '»">'  ""^  ^'^■ 

From  the  Potonuic  to  New   Kiver 239  elusive  point   of  (hpartniv  on   New   Kiver.  hut   we 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


know  of  sovoi-iil  (•rossiiii:;^  wliicli  wcvo  used  by  dif- 
ferent (lersons.  I"i-(>iii  llie  nioulh  of  I'oplar  Camp 
('reck  in  W  yllie  Connly,  to  the  sonlli,  on  li>  tlie 
niontli  (if  the  IMnestone  Kiver,  in  what  is  now  Sum- 
mers ('oniily.  West  \'ii'!iinia,  thei'c  were  doubtless 
a  iiuiiiber  of  fords  and  ferries  whicli  liunters  from 
the  cast  side  of  Xew  I{i\'er  in  both  Carolina  and 
\'iri,'inia,  made  use  of  iu  ii'ettini:;  across  into  the 
wilderness.  J'ut  it  is  extremely  likely  that  Pep- 
per's I'^erry  was  the  ]prin(ipal  crossins^  place  for 
those  who  wer(>  bound  for  Clinch  Valley.  In  mod- 
erate staires  of  water  the  New  Ifiver  was  fordable 
at  Inijles"  i-'erry.  a  sliort  distance  above,  as  we  learn 
from  tile  Joiii-nal  of  William  lli-own  (ITSl.'),  which 
is  in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  Mr.  (!eoriie  G. 
r.rown,  of  Louisville,  and  which  we  have  had  the 
pri\  ilejie  of  perusiufi;  and  the  same  was  probably 
true  of  l*e|iper"s  Ferry.  Some  of  the  hunters, 
whose  homes  were  a  considerable  distance  to  the 
north  <n'  south  of  this  ferry,  no  doubt  found  it  de- 
sirable to  reach  the  (li\ide  near  Ta/.ewell  by  li'oiug 
directly  up  some  of  the  numerous  streams  which 
head  in  that  vicinity,  and  there  strikin;;-  the  trail 
leading  down  the  Clinch  N'alley.  Hence  it  is 
scarcely  exact  to  say  that  this  road  liegan  at  some 
(me  point  on  New  IJiver,  but  at  several,  and  that 
the  miiin  part  began  near  the  head  brancli(>s  of 
('liiu-h  liiver,  having  several  feeders,  or  contribut- 
ing ](allis,  leading  n]i  to  it  from  a  number  of  the 
foi'ds  r,v  ferries  of  New  IJivi'r,  as  just  stated. 

It  should  lie  undi'rstood  as  we  i)roceed  that  the 
claim  of  this  road  to  consideration  does  not  rest, 
except  in  very  small  measure,  upon  the  mere  fact 
that  certain  bands  of  hunters  selected  it  as  best 
suited  to  their  purjjoses.  Its  importance  arises 
from  the  fact  that  it  was,  for  some  years,  a  rival  of 
the  more  southerly  trail — the  HoLst(m  Valley  lioute, 
better  known  as  "The  Wilderuess  iiuad,"  for 
emigrant,  travel  to  the  Kentucky  country;  and  that 
after  it  had  be(  n  <.utst  i  ijipcd  in  iiopnlarit\  and 
usefuhu'ss  by  that  road  for  purposes  of  interstate 
commerce,  it  became  an  important  N'irgiuia  high- 
way; and  at  this  day,  under  the  name  of  "The 
Tazewell  lioad,"  it  is  in  constant  use  as  the  main 
thoroughfare  of  the  Clinch  Valley,  not  including 
railways. 

The  exact  year  in  which  this  trail  was,  for  the 
tirst  time,  used  \>y  exjilorers  and  hunters  bouud  for 
the  Climli  N'alley,  it  would  be  impossible  to  de- 
termine at  this  late  day,  Imt  there  are  some  well- 
ascertained    facts  in   connection   with   the  earliest 


settlements  close  to  and  on  both  sides  of  New  River 
which  throw  considerable  light  on  this  question. 
])r.  Hale  in  his  Trans-Alleghany  Pioneers  (pages 
13-17),  treating  of  this  subject,  gives  us  some  in- 
formation of  value.  He  says  that  it  was  a  tradi- 
tion iu  the  New  River  region  that  Thomas  Ingles 
and  his  S(Ui  William  made  a  tt)ur  of  observation  as 
far  as  that  stream  in  the  year  1744.  It  is  known 
that  in  the  year  174S  Dr.  Thomas  Walker  led  a 
company  of  explorers  and  huntei's  down  into  South- 
western A'irginia,  then  an  uninhabiti'd  wilderness, 
and  the  route  he  travelled,  as  Dr.  Hale  shows,  was 
not  the  trail  known  in  after  days  as  the  Wilderness 
Road,  but,  beyond  reasonable  doubt,  one  (jf  the  sev- 
eral paths  which  led  from  New  Ri\er  up  to  about 
where  Tazewell  Court  House  now  stands.  Un  this 
tour  (Avhich  was  made  two  years  prior  to  the  one 
on  whiih  he  passed  through  Cumberland  Gap  into 
Kentucky)  he  went  up  the  creek,  an<l  north  of  the 
mountain  range,  which  for  generations  has  borne 
his  ow  n  luime.  Dr.  Hale,  in  a  letter  to  the  present 
writtr,  dated  ;\Iay,  I'.IOl,  speaking  of  this  tour, 
says:  "In  the  same  year  (174S|,  Dr.  Thomas 
Walker  and  ]>arty  nuade  a  land  and  exploring  ex- 
pedition to  Soutli-west  Mrginia.  1  have  nevei' 
seen  the  itinerary  vf  Dr.  Walker's  tirst  journey,  but 
tradition  says  that  he  crossed  New  River  at  the 
Horse  Shoe  Rend  [near  Draper's  Meadows,  now 
Blacksburg],  went  down  the  river  to  Walker's 
Creek  (so  named  by  him),  and  up  that  creek  and 
over  to  Clinch  and  llolston  Rivers,  etc".  In  his 
book  Dr.  Hale  asserts  that  Walker's  Creek  and  Lit- 
th'  ^^'alker's  Crc  (  k,  and  Walker's  Mountain  and 
Little  Walker's  ^lountaiu  were  all  named  by  Dr. 
Walker  on  this  tour  of  174S.  From  New  River,  at 
Goodwin's  Ferry — w  here  the  party  probably  turned 
to  the  westward,  and  within  six  miles  of  which 
place  they  struck  Walker's  Creek — to  where  the 
two  head  streams  of  Clinch  River  unite  near  Taze- 
well Court  House,  is  about  seventy-five  miles,  by 
the  country  road  now  in  use.  That  I'oad  goes  up 
\^'alker's  Creek  to  its  head,  at  Sharon  Sjirings; 
crosses  Brushy  Mountain  and  Garden  Mountain 
into  Burke's  Garden ;  jjasses  across  that  historic 
garden  to  the  north-west;  crosses  Rich  Mountain; 
then,  turning  south-west,  g(*ts  on  to  th(»  South  Fork 
of  Clinch  near  its  junction  with  the  North  Fork, 
aud  two  miles  south-west  of  that  point  comes  to 
Tazewell  C.  H.  How  far  Dr.  Walker  travelled 
down  Clinch  ^'alley  we  do  not  know,  but  he  may 
have  gone    nearly  to    I'owcH's    Kiver.     That    Dr. 


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X 


Walker  and  party  did  not,  blaze  ont  ;ni  entirely 
new  trail  themselves,  l)ut  followed  one  of  tlie  old 
Indian  tviiils  on  tliis  tonr,  seems  rrasoii.ilily  (■(  r 
tain.  We  know  there  is  a  rei^iilar  connty  road 
from  Goodwin's  I'erry  to  Tazewell  ('.  11.,  as  just 
detailed,  and  Dr.  Walker  and  party  probably  fol- 
lowed it  in  174S.  Now  this  tonr  certainly  siic;i;esls 
to  ns  that  at  that  early  day  there  was  a  praetieab"!(> 
bridle-path  to  the  ( 'lineh  Valley  from  New  Kiver. 
It  is  well  known  that  in  this  sann>  year  (174S) 
was  made  that  famons  setth'meni  a  lew  miles  east 
of  the  Horse  Shoe  I>end  of  New  lUver  known  in 
former  times  as  Draper's  Meadows,  bnl  now  oeeu- 
pied  liy  the  town  of  Blaeksbnri;.  The  founders 
were  Thomas  Ingles  and  his  three  sous,  Airs. 
Draper  and  her  son  and  daughter,  Adam  Harmon, 
Henry  Lt'naid,  and  .lames  Rurke.  Let  it  here  be 
noted  in  passing  that  Dr.  Hale  spells  the  name  of 
the  principal  fonnder  of  Draper's  ;Meadows 
"Ingles,"  not  Engles,  nor  Inglis,  nor  English;  and 
as  lu'  was  a  great-grand  sou  of  Tluauas  Ingles,  and 
was  b(!rn  and  reared  at  Dra])er"s  Meadows,  it  is  safe 
to  assume  that  he  knew  the  pro))er  sjK'Uing  of  this 
name  whicli  has  been  so  badly  handled  by  nearly  all 
the  writers  whom  we  have  had  oecasiou  to  find 
using  it.  It  was  also  in  this  same  year  that  James 
McAfee,  Hi:,  who  is  treated  of  at  length  in  Part  II 
of  this  work,  jjurchased  the  old  Indian  Camp  farm 
on  Cataw'ba  Creek,  only  twenty  luiles  north-east  of 
Draiier's  ^leadows.  That  the  New  IJiver  was  at 
that  date  the  e.\treme  south-westerly  frontier  of 
Virginia,  and  that  there  ^\■as  i)r(ibal)ly  not  a  single 
family  of  Whites  then  living  west  of  that  stiram, 
will  hardly  be  (piestioned  by  any  one.  This,  how- 
ever, does  not  mean  that  no  Indian  traders  or  hunt- 
ers or  explorers  had  yet  gone  inio  the  wilderness. 
The  tmth  almost  certaiidy  is  that  individual  ad- 
venturers, here  and  there,  for  some  years  before  this 
date  had  been  tempted  by  the  prospect  of  gain,  or 
the  l(»ve  of  exciting  sport,  or  a  desire  to  accpiire  a 
knowledge  of  unexplored  regiiuis  to  journey  fai'  |o 
the  south-west  of  New  Piver  at  the  risk  of  their 
lives.  We  may  be  sure  there  was  no  lack  of  foot- 
paths and  bridle-ways,  and  we  feel  confident  that 
there  were  then  in  existence;  several  of  these  roads 
having  their  starting  places  at  points  on  New 
River,  converging  at  some  jmint  near  tlii'  head  of 
Clinch  Piver,  and  leading  on  down  that  stream  to- 
Avards  Kentucky.  See  Haywood's  account  of  a 
hunting  party  in  17(!-,  who  travelled  down  Clinc-h 
Piver  (page  48). 


Tile  couulry  lying  between  New  Wiver  and  Taze- 
well ( 'oni'l  I  louse  is.  for  lln'  imisl  pai-i,  so  extremely 
iiiniiul a i iKJUs  iliai  no  largi-  |)ro|ioi'l  ion  of  i1  is,  as  a 
rule,  adapted  to  agricultural  pur|)oses.  'I'liis,  no 
doubt,  acciMiuls  for  (he  fact  (hat  it  was  not  settled 
as  i'a])idly  as  (he  couii(i-y  farther  (o  the  west  and 
soulh-wi'st.  '['here  arc  rich  \allcys  liei'e  aud  ther(\ 
and  the  i-egiou  is  most  ])ic(  ures(|ue,  but  (he  monn- 
(aiu  ranges  are  ](!f(y,  and  are  set  in  close  rank  one 
bcliind  anodici'.  Itut  settlers  beiian  to  take  up 
choice  lands  soon  aflci"  I  )t'.  Walker's  first  tour 
(  ITlSl.  Tile  l)oc(or.  himself,  had  excelleid  vision, 
and  kTicw  a  ini/.e  when  he  saw  it.  foi-  exam]ile,  in 
Mai'cli,  IT.'O,  he  surveyed  for  himself  a  tract  of 
l),7S()  acres  in  that  lovely  "oasis,"  i'.urke's  (Jarden 
(see  Summers,  ]iage  4~>],  ludy  about  ten  <m"  twelve 
miles  eastof  Tazewell  Couit  House,  and  t  lii'ce  yearf? 
later  dirt:!),  .lames  P.ui-keand  his  family  settled 
in  (hat  ]>lace,  which  e\er  since  has  been  called 
■■r.nrke's  (iarhn."  The  famous  Hunkard  Settle- 
ment on  (he  west  side  of  New  l>i\ei'  at  Ingles' 
I'ei-ry  was  made  in  174'.t,  and, in  17.'"(0,oTie  Stalnaker 
erected  his  cabin  to  the  north  of  (he  Wilderness 
Poad  (with  Dr.  ^^'alkeI•'s  assistance),  west  of 
>Vytheville,  ami  he  was  (hen  the  last  settler  on  that 
route  to  the  sou(li-wes(.  In  1 7(iS,  Ca]it.  .Tosepli 
Martin,  a  most  adventurous  woodsman,  penetrated 
to  Avithin  twenty  miles  of  Cumliei'land  Gap,  and 
erected  cabins  with  the  aid  of  more  than  twenty 
companions.  The  Indians  soon  drove  him  back  to 
the  settlements  on  the  llolston,  but  his  cabins  were 
re-occupied  (  ]M)ssilily  re-lmilt)  not  long  after,  and 
his  jdiice  \\  as  foi-  many  years  a  nivled  sto|iping-])lace 
for  people  going  into  Kentncky  through  Cundier- 
land  Ga]t.  In  17(!(),  a  i>arty  of  hunters  visKed  (he 
Clinch  N'allcy,  two  of  whom  erected  a  cabin  at  <  "rab 
Orchai'd,  three  miles  west  id' Tazewell  (Vuiit  House, 
and  one  of  these  hunters  built  him  a  house  Ww 
miles  east  of  (hal  cabin.  (See  Summers,  pages  4(i 
and  S4.  I  The- place  on  Clinch  jfiver,  which  was  at 
lirs(  called  Gaslle's  NNdods  (now  known  as  Castle- 
wood,  a  I'ailway  s(a(ioni,  was  f(Minded  in  1771,  or 
jiossibly  (hree  years  earl iei-,  by  a  man  named  Castle. 
(See  Summers,  page  :>(!7. )  This  jdace  is  in  Rus- 
sell County,  forty-five  miles  south-west  of  Tazewell, 
and  twenty-two  miles  north-west  of  .Vbingdon  (the 
distance  gi\(  u  being  air  line  in  each  case).  This 
place  is  one  of  s])ecial  imporlam-e  to  this  discus- 
sion, as  we  shall  see  presently.  The  records  of 
Washington  County,  X'ii'giuia,  show  nnmei'ous  sur- 
vevs  of  hind   which  were  made  on  ('Much   Pi\(M'  in 


4r,2 


TUE    vVUUDSMcAFEK    MEMOKIAL. 


1774  imd  177r>,  some  (if  tlu'iii  ns  far  down  as  Fort 
lUackiiioic  at  (he  luoutli  of  Stony  Croek.  (See 
SniiuiK  IS,  jiajics  SOS-SIT).) 

The  scl  I  Iciiiciils  from  (he  lieail  hraiiclies  of  the 
Clinch  l»i\-er  down  to  Powell's  N'allev  I'ajiidly  in- 
ci'eascd,  (hercliy  augment ini;-  eontiniially  the  need 
of  a,  ureal  thoroiit-hfare  down  thai  way.  Snch  a 
thoi'oujihfare  was  more  and  more  fully  (  stahlished, 
and  it  was  the  Lon^i^  llnnters'  IJoad.  In  1772, 
James  .Moore  and  James  I'oaii'e  settled  in  Abb's 
X'alley  (wlicre  .Misalom  l>ooney  had  settled  the 
yeai'  hefoi-el,  silnaled  eiiihteen  miles  n(!rlh-east  of 
Tazewell ;  two  families  on  the  North  Fork  of  Clineh 
River;  seven  families  near  Tazewell ;  one  at  Maiden 
Sprinu',  twelve  (;r  fourteen  miles  soutji-west  of  Taze- 
well; and  doubtless  many  others  in  neighboring 
eommnnities  on  or  close  to  (he  (Uineli  Kiver.  We 
may  not  he  able  l(^  ascei'(aiii  I  he  names,  or  even  the 
nund)er,  of  all  the  settlers  who  came  to  the  Clinch 
Valley,  but  we  ean  by  A'arious  criteria,  arrive  at  a 
jiretty  fair  estimate  of  the  deiisity  of  the  ]iopula- 
li(5n  thr(Hijihont  the  exteiKlrd  I'c^ion  under  review, 
and,  conse(|uentIy,  <d"  the  need  for  such  a  highway 
as  we  contend  the  Loni^-  Hunters"  Koad  actually 
was.  One  criterion  was  the  ofticial  acts  of  the 
county  i]i  rej;ard  (o  (he  cons(ruction  or  nianai;('- 
meiit  of  r(jads  to  or  in  (he  Clinch  ^'alley.  In 
.Maich,  177:?,  six  citizens  (d'  the  county  (then  Fin- 
eastle,  later  Wasliington )  were  (trdered  "to  view  (he 
nijihest  and  l)es(  way"f(U-a  road  from  a  ixnut  on  (he 
^^'ildern(ss  Koad  not  far  frcun  where  the  ju'esent 
town  td'  Mari(m  stands,  across  Walker's  and  Clinch 
Mountains  in  a  north-westerly  direction  to  Elk 
(larden,  on  Clinch  Kiver;  and  in  July  of  that  A'ear 
a  report  was  made  liy  (he  commissioners  to  the  ef- 
fect that  they  had  attended  to  the  business;  and 
(he  road  was  ]iarlly  estaidishcd.  The  distance  was 
about  twenty-five  miles.  In  November  of  that 
same  year  another  road  was  ordered  to  be  viewed 
from  :Mai(h'n  Sprinji',  which  is  in  Tazewell  County, 
on  the  Lon.n  Hunters'  Koad,  by  the  best  way  to  the 
Creat  Koad  (Wilderness  Koad).  That  road  was 
aix/iit  (wenty  miles  long-,  and  probably  came  into 
(he  Wilderness  Road  not  far  from  the  same  place 
as  the  one  just  mentioned.  Roth  of  these  new 
nsads,  it  should  be  noted,  connected  the  Wilderness 
lioad  and  the  Lcmg  lluiders'  Road,  and  the  de- 
mand for  (hem  proved  (ha(  both  of  the  great  trails 
or  highways  at  which  they  terminated  were  of 
great  importance.      (  See  Summers,  i)ages  1:32-134.) 

We  may  also  get  some  fair  notion  of  the  charac- 


ter of  the  settlements  along  the  Clinch  River  for 
nearly  a  hundred  miles  of  tlie  course  followed  by 
the  Long  Hunt<'rs'  Koad  by  noting-  the  character 
and  exlcnt  r.\'  (he  milKary  pro(ec(ion  which  the 
|)ublic  audierities  felt  it  was  needful  to  ])rovide  for 
the  settlers  along  Climdi  River.  I'''r(un  Summers' 
South-west  N'irginia  ( ]iages  l.")(;-7l  we  learn  that 
from  (he  m(Ui(h  of  S(ony  Creek,  in  wha(  is  now 
Sco(t  C(ninty,  all  (he  way  to  (he  neighborhood  in 
which  Taz(nv(dl  Coui't  Ilonse  \\<>\\  stands — a  dis- 
(ance,  by  (he  Long  Hunters'  Koa<l,  of  about  lunety 
miles — there  was  in  1774  a  string  of  forts  or  sta- 
tions occu]ded  by  regulai'  militia  who  were  there 
to  pr(!tecl  the  settleis  and  trav(dlers  against  the 
Indians,  as  follows:  Foi't  Rlackmore,  at  the 
month  (d'  Stony  Creek,  sixteen  men.  Sergeant 
]\Ioore,  commanding;  at  Vovi  ^looi-e,  twenty  miles 
east,  with  twenty  men.  Lieutenant  I)ani(d  Boone, 
commanding;  Fort  Kussell,  four  miles  farther  to 
(he  east,  twenty  men,  Sergeaid  ^^'.  Poage,  com- 
manding; b^irt  (ilade,  twelve  miles  farther  east. 
Sergeant  John  IMincau,  commanding;  Elk  Gar- 
den, fourteen  miles  farther  (ast,  fifteen  men.  Ser- 
geant Jcdm  Kinkead,  commanding;  .Maiden  S]iring, 
twenty-three  nules  farther  east,  hve  men,  Sergeant 
J(din  Crow,  c(unmanding;  Whitlow's  Crab  Or- 
cliai'd,  Ihree  men,  Ensign  John  Campbell,  com- 
manding. How  far  east  (d'  .Maiden  Spring  Whit- 
low's <  'lab  ( )rchard  w as  we  can  not  say,  but  it  only 
needed  (o  be  about  twelv<'  miles  in  order  to  be  in 
the  immediate  vicinity  (d"  Ihe  sjiot  on  which  Taze- 
well Court  H(!us(>  now  stands.  That  this  striuir  of 
forts  marked  Ihe  course  of  an  ini[)ortant  highway, 
and  was  maintained  in  large  degree  for  the  protee- 
ti(m  of  all  who  resided  or  travelled  on  it,  one  can 
not  doubt  for  a  moment.  \Miat  these  fijrts  meant 
to  the  ipe(!ple  along  that  valley  we  may  learn  from 
the  fact  that  in  the  fall  of  the  year  (1774),  when 
all  the  available  IMncastle  men  who  could  be  spared 
had  joined  in  the  exiiedition  to  Point  Pleasant  to 
aid  in  defeating  the  army  of  savages  there,  a  series 
of  raids  was  liegun  by  In.lians  (believed  to  have 
been  Chercdceesj  and  a  nundier  of  the  citizens  of 
(he  Clinch  Valley  were  slain.  (See  Summers, 
pages  15(1-7.) 

\\\-  diuilit  not  tliat  the  reader  has,  ere  this,  been 
wondering  as  to  what  may  be  our  warrant  for 
speaking  so  jiositively  of  a  (rail  oi-  highway  called, 
indilferently,  "The  Hunters'  I'ath,"  and  "The  Long 
Hunters'  Road,"  as  tlunigh  it  had  actually  existed, 
under  one  or  both  of  these  titles,  for  more  than  a 


APPRNnix  B— TiiKKi-:  n(>xi;i:i;  i;(>ai>s. 


4«.3 


Imiidrcd  years.      Tliis  is  a    iialiiral   and   pi-(i|)<T  in- 
quiry; and    we  liav(^  lairpdscly   Icfi    it    unanswered 
till  now,  iK'lieviug  thai  (lie  lads  we  have  licei:  pic 
seniinj;-  wduld,  if  first  ('(insidered,  make  onr  expla- 
nation  HKire  easily   iindei-sloed    than    would   other- 
wise have  lieen   jiossiide.      It    is  not    at    ail   strange 
that  even  well  inftn'nied  stndcnts  of  the  histoi'y  of 
yir<j;inia  and  Kentucky  should  have  to  confess  that 
they  have  never  lu^ard  of  the  jialh  or  r(.ad  we  are 
dealing-   with;    for   we  have  so    fai-  heeii    nnaide   1o 
find,  in  any  of  the  many  volumes  we  have  consuUed, 
a  single  sentence  in  rej^ard  to  its  name,  its  oriijjin, 
its  (le\(doi)nient,  oi'  its  uses.      We  do  not  jirofess  to 
have   consulted    all    of    the    histoi-ies  of     the    three 
States  travei'sed  hy  this  road,  hnt  we  have  studied 
the  ]irinci]ial  ones  with  a  i^ood  deal  of  care;  and  all 
of  (hem  mainlain  an  uuaccountalile  silence  on  this 
subject.      It   is   simply   ine.\plicalile   that   one   can 
not  find  any  allusion  to  "The  Hunters'  Path''  or 
''The  Lon<;-  Hunters'  Koad"  in  the  fullest  and  most 
popular  histories  of  Kentucky,  Soulh-wcsteru  \'ir- 
"inia,   and   Tennessee.     And  the  anomaly   is  only 
ajij^ravated  hy  the  fact   that  every  one  of  the  his- 
tories  referred    t(»   <loes   mention    the    famous   com- 
pany   of  "Jjong    Hunters, "    of    17(ii)-17T2,   whose 
choice  and  use  of  this  trail  caused  it  to  be  called  in 
honor  of  them — "The  l.oui;'  Huutei-s'  Koad."     Mar- 
shall, r)Utler,  Collins,  Smith  and  nundierless  other 
writers  on  Kentucky  history;   Haywood,   Ramsey, 
I'helau   and  others,   of  Tennessee;   and    Summers, 
Preston  and  others,  of  South-western  Viruinia,  all 
tell  us  about  the  "Long  Hunters"  themselves,  but 
give  no  int(dligible  account  of  the  trail   they  fol- 
lowed from  New  Kiver  to  Cundierland   (lap.     As 
has  been  intimated  on  a  previous  page,  this  silence 
would  not  have  been  wholly  excusable  even  if  this 
road  had  ceased  to  exist  the  day  after  that  famous 
company  passed  over  it;  but  when  we  kn(»w  that 
it  ^^■as  for  many  years  an  alternal  ive  route  with  set- 
tlers travelling  from  New  Kiver  to  Kentucky;  that 
for  several  generations  it  has  ])ractically  been  the 
only  east  and  west  thorough fai-e,  noi'tli  of  the  W'il- 
deruess   Koad,    for  jieople  \\lio   live   in   the  ("lincli 
Valley;  and   that  it  is  still   constantly  used  and 
known  as  "The  Tazewell  l\oad"  for  a  large  part  of 
its  course^ — when  we  think  of  these  incoiitroverti- 
ble  facts — we  are  at  a  loss  to  comin'chend  why  si> 
many  prominent  and  trustworthy  historical  writers 
had  nothing  to  say  on  this  point.     H  one  will  take 
the  pains  to  examine  all  of  the  histories  we  men- 
tion, in  order  to  note  what    they  say  of  the  "Long 


Ihinlers,"  he  will  prnhalily  he  st  rui-k  with  the  fur- 
ther fact  that  n<it  one  uf  them  riles  an\  oi'iginal 
authorities  for  his  statements  i-oncerniiig  them, 
iiul  all  sjieak  as  though  cojiying  what  some  one 
early  writer  had  said.  I*ei-haps.  if  llii'  ri'al  author 
of  the  account  of  the  i.cuig  liunlers,  which  we  tind 
repeated  ill  so  many  \nlumes,  could  lie  discovered, 
we  might  ascertain  the  source  of  his  information, 
but  the  present  writer  has  nut  had  the  time  to 
make  as  thorough  a  search  as  he  would  ha\e  been 
glad  to  coniliict  if  he  had  liml  moi-e  leisure.  I'.ut 
we  have  in  oiii"  possessiini  copies  of  rertain  ioiirnals 
of  the  most  1!  ni  ni|i('achal)le  kind,  written  by  tw<i 
well-known  ]>ioiieers  of  high  character  in  the  sum- 
nier  of  ITTH,  \\hicli  not  only  meiiti(ui  this  road  by 
name,  but  which  iiif(U"m  us  where  at  least  forty 
miles  of  its  c(nirse  can  be  found.  I'.esides  the  tes- 
timony of  these  two  journals  we  have  reliable  and 
convincing  corrolMU'ati\c  evidence  from  (he  journal 
of  another  pioneer,  and  several  otln^r  sources  which 
enable  us  (o  speak  widi  reasonable  certainty  of 
(he  course  (hat  (rail  pursued  fiu'  a  dislance  of  at. 
least  two  hundred  miles.  To  these  ma((ers  the 
reader's  kind  aKeiition  will  presently  he  in\i(ed. 

The  numerous  histoi*ie,s  we  have  nienti(ui(d,  in 
their  notices  of  the  "T-ong  Hiiniei's"  of  ]7(i'.l-1772 
are  not  exactly  at  one  in  all  (heii-  statements. 
Some  acce]>(  (he  year  ]7(ilt  as  (he  date  of  this  tour, 
whilst  others  mention  the  year  1770;  some  ^peak  as 
if  there  w(  re  only  about  twenty  men  in  the  party, 
and  others  claim  (here  were  as  many  as  forty;  some 
seem  to  incline  (o  the  uoti<ui  that  this  c(nn]ianv 
travelled  down  (he  liolston  N'alhy  for  at  least  the 
fii'st  few  days  of  (heir  journey  from  New  Kiver, 
whilst  others  arc  ('it  her  silent  on  this  ])oint  cut  i  rely, 
or  leave  <iii  the  reader's  iiiind  the  somewhat  \ague 
iiniiression  (hat  (hey  went  down  (he  ('lincli  X'alh-y. 
In  the  inaiii  parliciilars,  liowi-ver,  (here  is  almost 
exact  agreement  as  to  (he  fidlow  iug  points,  to  wit  : 
That  (he  c(au]iany  was  made  u|i  of  some  men  from 
ivockbridge  ('(amly,  N'irginia,  of  others  from  the 
New  Uiver  neigiilxirhood,  and  of  s(ill  odiers  from 
North  Carolina;  that  the  ]iarty  eiitei'ed  Kentucky 
by  way  of  ("nniberland  <ia|(;  (hat  some  of  tliese 
men  left  (he  main  body,  and  embarked  on  the  Cum- 
berland Kiver  for  New  Oilcans,  and  returned  (o 
X'ii'giiiia  by  sea;  that  some  of  ilieni  hunted  as  far 
as  Dick's  Kixcr  to  the  Northward,  and  to  (ireen, 
IJarren  and  llait  ('ountiesto  the  west  ward  ;  and 
that  siuiie  id'  t  hem  did  not  ret  urn  to  t  In -ir  homes  for 
two    or    three    \ears,    whence    the   name    of   "boni; 


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Hniitors,"    by   wliich    tlicy   have   ever   since   been 
known.     Tlie  names  of  only  a  i)art  of  the  company 
are  j^iven  by  any  of  the  \\  liters  referred  to.     Dr. 
Hah>,   alone,   of  all    the  writci-s,    |>ositively   states 
(see   paj^e  102   of  his   Traiis-Alle<iiieny   Pioneers) 
that  tile  place  of  rendezvous  was,  for  some  of  the 
comjiany,    Draper's    iMea(hiws     (now    lilaeksburjj, 
Virginia),  a  few  miles  to  the  east  of  New  River, 
and  that  others  fell   in  with  them  at  tlie  ITolston 
and    Clinch    settlements.     As    the   settlements    on 
both  these  rivers  extended,  at  that  date,  from  their 
head  branches  well  down  towards  Powell's  Valley 
— a  distance  of  more  than  a  hnndred  miles — this 
statement  is  rather  vaj^ne.     Dr.  Hale  and  several 
others  make  Col.  James  Kno.x  the  commander  of 
the  i)aity.     As  Draper's  Jleadows  was  less  than  a 
day's  ride  from  the  liomes  of  the  McAfees,  whose 
Jonrnals  of  their  tour  of  1773  constitnte  our  main 
authoi'ities  for  our  present  contention;  and  as  the 
Rockbridge  members  of  the  party  most  likely  had 
to    pass    their   very    doors    in    reacliini;    Draper's 
Meadows;  and  as  the  :McAfees  were  probably  then 
contemplatinji  their  own  tour  to  Kentucky,  which 
they  took  a  few  years  thereafter;  and  especially, 
as  we  learn   fmm  the  two  McAfee  Journals,  above 
mentioned,  that  the  McAfees,  on  coining  into  the 
path  or  road  which  those  hunters  had  travelled,  at 
Powell's  River,  August  13,  1773,  at  once  recognized 
it,  and  called  it  by  its  ])ro])er  names,  it  is  most  rea- 
sonable to  believe  that    some  of  the   Mc.\fees  saw 
and  conversed  with  some  of  the  men  of  the  famous 
hunting   comj)any   and   learned    from   them   some- 
thing of  their  plans.     The  McAfees  were  uncom- 
monly   intelligent    frontiersmen,    and    masters    of 
woodcraft ;  and  in  that  early  day  no  such  an  assem- 
blage of  adventurers  bound  for  the  Kentucky  wil- 
derness could  rendezvous  in  their  immediate  vicin- 
ity, and  at  such  a  jniblic  ])lace  as  the  supply  store 
at  Draper's  Meadows  without  their  being  apjirised 
of  it  in  advance,  and  making  sure  of  learning  all 
about  it.     The  spet' !  'with  which  gossip  travelled 
from  cabin  to  cab'      .,nd  from  station  to  station 
on  the  frontiers   in  those  days  puts   our  modern 
newsjiaper  endeavors  to  the  blush.     We  may  most 
safely  assume  that  when,   in  Powell's  Valley,  on 
the  tliirteenth  of  August,  1773,  the  McAfees  stum- 
bled on  to  the  trail  which  the  Long  Dunters  had 
followed  on  their  way  to  Cumberland  Cap,  a  few 
years  before,  they   were  like  men  meeting  an  old 
ac(]naintance,    and    needed    no    introduction — they 
instantly  realized  tliey  were  at  the  trail  once  called 


"The   Hunters'   Path,"   but  after  1772  known   as 
"The  Long  Hunters'   Road,"   and    needed   only  to 
fcdlow  it  themselves  in  order  to  reach  their  homes. 
The  tour  of  the  McAfee  Comiiany  from  N'irgiuia 
to  the  Kentucky  Wilderness  in  1773  is  recounted 
with   tolerable  fulness  by  all    the  larger  histories 
of  Kentucky,  Collins  being  the  fullest.      (See  Vol. 
2,   pages   OOrj-filO.)      Having  concluded   their  sur- 
veys on  Salt  River,  they  set  out  for  home  on  the 
31st  day  of  July,  striking  across  the  country  on 
foot.     They  struck  Kentucky  River  in  a  few  days, 
and  August  4  they  began  to  ascend  the  banks  of 
that  stream  at  a  point  about  three  miles  above  the 
site  of  the  present  town  of  Irvine,  and  stuck  to  it 
till  noon  of  August  11.     They  set  down,  in  writing, 
the  estimated   distance  day   by   day.     They  aver- 
aged, according  to  their  figures,  about  twenty-two 
miles  a  day  for  seven  days  and  a  half,  aggregating 
about  one  hundred  and  sixty-live  miles  by  noon  of 
August  11,  when  they  took  final  leave  of  the  (North 
Fork    of)    Kentucky    River.     By   actual    measure- 
ment on  the  large  scale  U.  S.  majfs  in  our  posses- 
sion— scale   two   miles   to   one   inch — the  distance 
from  the  point  at   which  Uh'v  began  to  ascend  the 
river   near    Irvine   to   the   mouth   of   Leatherwood 
Creek,  in  Perry  ('(uinty,   K(  ntncky,   is  alnntst  ex- 
actly one  hundred  and  sixty-five  miles,  as  any  one 
can   see   who  cares   to   look    into   the   matter.     Of 
course,  they  were  not  infallible  in  guessing  the  dis- 
tances travelled,  and  we  could  not  be  so  in  measur- 
ing the  river  on  the  map.     Hut  the  coincidence  is 
striking.     It  is  possible  the  creek  at  which   they 
left  the  river  August  11  was  Macie's — we  think  it 
was  Leatherwood.  eight  miles  above  blade's.     We 
are  sure  it  was  not  any  creek  above  Leatherwood, 
for  none  above  it  can  possibly  meet  all  the  require- 
ments of  the  case,  due  regard  being  had  both  to  the 
known  conditions  of  the  river,  and  those  (jf  the  ad- 
jacent country,  as  \\ell  as  the  records  of  the  two 
Journals.      Any  attempt    to    bring    them   out    on 
Powell's  River  above  Stone  Gai)  must  end  in  con- 
fusion.    They  went   up  that   creek    (Leatherwood, 
or,  possibly,   Macie's)    to  its  head,  six  miles,  and 
then  through  the  roughest  and  most  diflicult  laur(d- 
clad  mountains  six  miles  farther,  and  camped  that 
evening.     Next  day,  August  12,  they  went  on  six 
miles  farther  through  terrible  laurel  hills  and  came 
to  "a  large  creek  at  a  big  fork  at  the  falls  of  it." 
This,    we   confidently   believe,    was    Poor    Fork    of 
Cumberland  River,  just  where  Clover  Lick  Creek 
enters  it  from  the  south;  and  just  there  is  a  falls, 


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exactly  aiiswi'Tiiiy  to  tlie  ,J(!unial  of  .lames  .MeAfee. 
A  picture  of  the  spot  is  given  in  Aiipeiidix  A.  Kj) 
tliat  creek,  two  miles,  they  came  to  some  salt 
s])riiigs  with  iinmerous  wide  elk  ]>alhs  h'adiiiii'  from 
them  U])  tlie  iiorflieni  front  of  "an  exceediiig  liigli 
mountain."  There  are  now  siicli  sjirinns  and  llie 
traces  of  elk  ])aths  on  Clover  Lick  ('reek,  jiisl  two 
miles  aliove  its  month  at  Poor  Fork;  and  at  llios(> 
springs  there  rises,  on  the  south  side,  the  rocky 
front  of  Bi^"  Black  Mountain,  reaching  an  allitn<]e 
of  about  four  thousand  feet  above  the  sea,  and 
twenty-three  hundred  feet  above  the  creek  at  the 
licks  nientioiied.  F])  and  over  that  "exceeding 
liigli  moinilaiu"  they  cliiidied,  going  nearly  due 
south;  and  after  inci-edilile  bar(lslii]is,  and  acnie 
sutfering  diu'  to  hunger,  thirst,  lacei-ated  arms  and 
legs  and  scalded  feet,  tlu>y  cam]K»d  that  <'veiiing  at 
the  south-easterly  base  of  that  mountain,  not  far 
north  of  Clover  Fork.  Friday,  August  lo,  they 
crossed  Clover  I'^irk,  the  Little  P>lack  .Mountains, 
Bt(tue  Mountain,  and  tlien,  tinally,  to  li\e  head  of 
Powell's  Valley,  where  they  reached  "The  Hunters' 
Path,"  as  James  ^Ic.Vfee  states  in  his  Journal. 
That  day  they  made  only  eight  miles,  owing  partly 
to  theii"  exhausted  condition,  partly  to  the  exceed- 
ingly rough,  laurel-clad  UKnintains  they  had  to 
cross,  and  partly  to  thi'  blinding  rain  which  fell  on 
them  as  they  dragged  their  Aveary  limbs  along.  At 
th('  risk  of  wearying  the  r<'ader  with  details  already 
presented  in  the  jireeeding  A])pen(lix  [A],  we  have 
given  this  summary  of  the  journeyings  of  the  three 
days  prior  to  the  ari-ival  of  the  company  at  Powell's 
River,  because  upon  our  conclusions  coucemiug  the 
exact  point  on  that  stream  at  which  they  camped 
the  night  of  the  Ljth  nuist  depend  the  location  of 
the  "Hunters'  I'ath,"  as  James  McAfee  calls  it,  or 
the  "Long  Hunters'  Boad,"  as  Bobert  designates  it 
in  his  Journal.  We  can  not  determine  just  where 
that  trail  ran  unless  we  know  about  what  point  the 
:McAfees  camped  Friday  night,  August  13.  After 
the  most  painstaking  study  of  the  whole  case,  and 
tbe  most  Ihoi-ough  e.xaniinatiou  of  the  excellent 
maps  in  our  possession,  and  after  ccmsidering  evei'y 
other  possible  route  the  ^McAfees  c(udd  have  trav- 
elled from  the  Kentucky  to  Powell's  IMver,  we  feel 
fully  convinced  that  they  could  not  have  struck 
Powell's  Biver,  August  13,  anywhere  along  its 
course  except  at  some  point  above  Dryden  and  be- 
low Big  Stone  Cap.  The  writer  has  been  on  tbe 
ground  as  far  up  as  the  town  of  Rig  F»tone  (Jap, 
and  then  up  the  South  Fork  of  Powell's  Biver  for 


some  miles  abo\-e  that  low  n.  cxiircssly  to  study  this 
|H'oblem  ;  and  any  llicory  wliirli  dors  nol  make  the 
cam|>  of  llic  .Mr.\rccs  oil  ilii'  iii^bl  of  .\iigiisl  13  on 
tile  bank  of  FowcH's  Uiver  al  a  point  scAci-al  miles 
below  Ilig  Stone  <i;i|(  :md  al   least  one  oi'  two  miles 

aiio\c    |)|-y(lrli    illl  rod  llrcs   roiifiisioll    illli;    lllc    |i|-oIi- 

Icm  and  raises  diHiciiilies  alisolnii'l\  irnconcilable 
willi  se\-ei*al  of  llie  i^iiowii  lads  and  conditions  of 
I  lie  case.  These  I  wo  .liHinials  arc  unimpeachable 
dociimeiils,  written  l»y  men  of  large  cxiicricnce  in 
woodcrafi,  and  we  iiiiisl  credil   lliem  as  reliable. 

I.cl  lis  now  Slim  ii|i  I  In-  jioinls  made  entirely  clear 
by  llic  records  in  Ihe  Iwo  .McAfee  JoiiT'iials.  I'or 
con\-enience  we  will  (|llole  Ihe  exact  words  of  both, 
lieariiig  on  this  one  i|iieslioii  as  lo  the  exisleiice, 
location  and  t(i](ogi-a]iliical  features  of  the  particu- 
lar trail  we  have  nndei-  re\  iew.  First  fi-oiii  .lames 
.McAfee:  "August  J3lli.  I'riday.  We  left  that 
cam])  and  travelled  8  miles  across  Ihe  head  of 
Powell's  N'alley  to  the  hunters'  jiath.  August  14th, 
Saturday.  We  look  lliat  |>alli,  crossed  two  little 
mountains  o\er  to  Clinch  water;  travelled  li5  miles 
that  day.  August  L")th,  Sunday.  We  travelled 
that  path  about  1.")  miles  and  struck  the  ford  of 
Clinch  at  Castlewood's,  12  miles  below  James 
Smith's;  we  came  eight  miles  that  night  to  the 
ford  of  David  (iuest.  August  Kith,  Monday.  We 
came  but  live  miles  to  Captain  Bussell's.  Our  feet 
wcvt-  much  scalded  ami  so  lame  that  we  could  not 
travel." 

Bobert,  in  his  -Journal,  covering  the  same  period, 
says:  "The  13th  we  travelled  about  S  miles  in  ex- 
ceeding bad  laurel  mountains,  which  seemed  to  be 
hard  to  get  out  of — and  it  raiued  very  hard.  The 
14th  we  got  in  the  bead  of  Powell's  Valley  on  the 
i.,ong  llnnlers'  Koad,  and  we  had  two  mountains  to 
ci'oss  on  a.  small  paili,  and  the  l.-jih  wt'  got  to  a 
house  in  the  morning,  which  was  a  glad  sight 
to  us." 

( >iie  lliiiig  made  clear  by  t'  se  records  is  that 
there  was  Iheii  a  narrow  trail  'oad  in  exisieiiee, 
leading  from  rowcll's  \'alle\-  lo  Clinch  Kiver  {'2~-> 
milesl,  and  llieii  \'.]>  that  stream  tifleen  miles  to  a 
ford  known  as  Castlewood's;  aiul  that  somehow 
the  ,Mc.\fees  were  able  to  recognize  and  identify 
that,  trail  as  Ihe  "Hunters'  I'alli,"  according  to 
.lames,  and  the  "Long  Hunters"  iload,"  acc(M'ding 
to  iJoberl.  .\iid  a  necessary  inference  is  that  lliose 
ex]iei'ienced  and  intelligent  woodsmen  had  had  a 
very  delinite  knowledge  of  thai    trail  prior  to  Au- 


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gust,  1773,  so  (hilt  tlic  inninciit  t]icy  canie  into  it 
tlicy  knew  what  it  was. 

.\nother  (liiiisi-  made  clcai'  by  tliese  records  is  that 
ill  i;(iiim-  IVdiii  I'dwcU's  Kiver  to  Clinch  Kivcr  by 
that  trail— a  distance  of  ahout  twenty-five  miles 
there  are  two  separate  and  distinct  mountain 
ranji'es  to  he  crossed  aloni;-  a  narrow  path.  This 
iii,.;iiis  thai  I  lie  I  rail,  as  travelled  by  them  An.u'ust 
14,  conld  not  have  jiO"e  either  nji  or  down  the 
Powell's  Jviver  vei'y  far  without  seriously  increas- 
iiiii  the  dislaiHc  llicy  would  need  to  travel  in  order 
to  reach  Clinch  Iviver  within  twenty-tive  miles.  If 
they  really  struck  Powell's  Piver  a  few  miles  above 
Di.yacn— say,  at  the  mouth  of  ^lud  Creek— then 
they  did  not  pi  uji  the  river  more  than  two  miles 
before  they  came  to  Pnck  Creek  (which  puts  in 
from  the  east)  and  there  turned  sharply  to  the  right 
( the  east)  and  began  the  ascent  of  Wallen's  Ridge; 
and  having  gotten  to  its  eastern  base,  at  once  began 
(he  ascent  of  Powell's  ^Mountain,  at  whose  eastern 
foot  (hey  came  to  Stock  Creek  in  what  is  called 
"Hunters'  Valley,"  not  (piite  half  way  to  the  point 
at,  which  they  struck  the  Clinch  Piver.  Thus  forty 
miles  of  the  Pong  Hunters'  Poad  are  identified,  and 
we  are  also  furnished  with  data  feu-  extending  it  in 
h((th  direcdons  for  a  great  distance  when  other 
known  facts  come  to  be  considered. 

^Ir.  ^V.  J.  Uickinson.  of  Castlewood.  to  whose 
kindness  the  author  is  iiiiich  indebted  for  valuable 
iiiformation  used  herein,  thinks  that  by  the 
]ihrase,  "head  of  Powell's  N'alley,"  which  is  em- 
ployed in  both  of  the  McAfee  .Journals  to  designate 
the  locality  in  which  I'owell's  Piver  and  the  Long 
Hunters'  Poad  (or  Hunters'  I'atli)  were  reached, 
we  are  bound  to  understand  a  region  considerably 
above  Pig  Stone  Gap;  hut  in  (U'der  to  confirm  this 
theory  .Mr.  Dickinson  is  obliged  to  adopt  a  route 
for  tile  .McAfees  from  .\iigiist  Kith  to  the  15th 
which  can  not  possibly  conform  to  the  plain  re- 
quirements of  the  records  in  the  two  Journals. 
For  one  thing,  from  the  lower  end  of  the  jiass 
called  Pig  Stone  (iap  clear  to  the  remotest  head- 
springs of  Powell's  Piver  on  the  divide  north-west 
of  Gladeville — a  distance  of  at  least  twenty  miles 
— the  country  is  so  exceedingly  mountainous,  and 
the  river  so  closely  hemmed  in  on  both  sides  by 
lofty  ranges  and  peaks  that  it  is  doubtful  if  at  a 
dozen  ](laces  throughout  that  entire  distance  there 
could  he:  found,  near  the  river,  spaces  fit  for  a  game 
oi'  golf,  much  less  anything  that  we  could  call  a  real 
valley.     A  more  interminable  network  of  closely 


connected  ranges  of  mountains  from  two  thousand 
to  thirty-tive  hundred  feel  high  could  scarcely  be 
found  in  America.  In  all  that  region,  from  Big 
Stone  Gap  to  the  north-west,  the  north  and  the 
north-east,  not  a  village  of  a  hundred  souls  can  he 
found  within  a  distance  of  twenty  miles,  with  the 
single  exc(  idion  of  (i]a<levil]e;  and  that  village  (of 
two  hundred  souls)  is  not  on  Powell's  River  at  all. 
It  is  idle  to  talk  of  that  little  river  having  anything 
worthy  of  being  designated  as  a  valley  above  Pig 
Stone  tJa](  of  sufficient  width  to  s]»eak  of  as  the 
Journals  do — it  is  siiiiiily  a  rushing,  roaring,  tum- 
bling mountain  stream,  with  high  mountains  on 
both  sides,  descending  nearly  Ave  hundred  feet  in 
ten  miles  of  its  course  between  Little  and  Big 
Stone  Gaiis.  What  soi't  of  speed  this  indicates  may 
be  inferred  from  the  fact  (hat  the  Falls  of  the 
Ohio,  at  Louisville,  which  cover  a  distance  of 
three  miles,  and  render  boating  impracticable, 
show  a  descent  of  less  than  !l  feet  to  the  mile,  about 
one-lifth  that  of  Powell's  Piver  at  the  ]ilace 
named.  Nothing  of  a  valley,  deserving  even  to  be 
called  the  "head"  of  one,  can  be  seen  till  Pig  St(Uie 
Ga]>  is  passed,  and  that  "head"  is  at  least  ten  miles 
long — it  is  but  a  narrow-  valley  even  there,  and  till 
we  pass  Stocker's  Knob  and  reach  Drydeii.  There 
the  real  valley  of  that  stream  begins,  and  the  re- 
gion above  Dryden  for  ten  miles  is  but  its  head. 
The  ]iresent  writer  personally  inspected  that  beau- 
tiful region  a  few  years  ago  for  the  purpose  of  get- 
ting at  the  truth  in  regard  to  this  ])oint,  going  from 
Cumberland  Gap  to  Pig  Stone  Gaji  on  the  cars, 
and  then  on  horseback  up  the  South  l^irk  of 
Powell's  Piver  some  miles  into  what  is  called  the 
( 'racker  Neck,  and  all  that  he  there  saw  and  learned 
only  lielped  to  confinn  the  theory  lie  has  adojited, 
and  which  he  has  sought  to  illustrate  in  two  of  the 
maps  contained  in  this  volume.  He  put  the  ques- 
tion to  a  citizen  of  the  town  of  I5ig  Stoue  Gap,  at 
the  time  of  the  visit  just  refeiTed  to,  as  to  where 
the  head  of  Powell's  Piver  was  thought  to  l)e,  and 
he  replied,  in  substance:  "Below  this  town." 
About  five  years  ago  he  wrote  to  the  Rev.  R.  G. 
Matheson,  who  was  then  the  ]iastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  at  Pig  Stone  Gap,  and  asked  him  for 
his  opinion,  and  his  re]>]y  was  in  these  words: 
"Big  Stone  Gap  is  properly  spoken  of  as  at  the 
head  of  Powell's  ^'alley."  That  is  the  verdict  of 
men  who  live  on  the  ground. 

A  strong  confirmation  of  our  views  on  this  par- 
ticular point,  as  well  as  of  the  general  position  we 


APPENDIX    R— TIIPvEE   PIONEEK   ROADS. 


4G7 


Iiavc  soiijilil  1(1  maintain  in  regard  In  llic  l.oni: 
Ilnntcrs'  Kuad,  is  to  be  fonml  in  I  lie  jdnnial  of 
a,  William  ("aik,  whn  travelled  li-diii  New  \l\\r\-  (n 
Central  Kentnekv  in  tlie  si)rin,n-  (if  177."),  less  than 
two  years  after  the  liomeward  trip  of  the  .Me.MVe 
Company.  It  is  a  sinij,nlar  fact  that  ('alk"s  -lonr- 
nal  is  jaiblislied  in  that  delightful  and  valnahle 
monoi;ra])li  of  the  late  rajitain  Thomas  S]ieed,  de- 
N'oted  to  the  AN'ildei-ness  Koad  (see  ])aii('S  ;!:>-:)S), 
when,  as  a  matter  of  fact.  Calk's  joiiimey  was  an  il- 
Instration  of  the  imixn-tanoe  of  the  Loui;  llnnlers' 
Koad.  Calk  crossed  New  River  at  Pe])]ier's  l'\'rry 
(the  crossini;'  place  nn)re  ]>articnlarly  connected 
w  ith  the  Lonii  Ilnnlers'  Ifoad  )  March  iM,  and  after 
tra\elliiiy  two  days  (aliout  sixty  miles)  alonti'  the 
Wilderness  Road  lie  turned  ont  of  it  near  where 
.Marion  now  is  and  set  his  face  to  tlie  nortii  west, 
towards  Clinch  Riv(  r.  At  the  evenini;  of  t  he  second 
day  after  leavinii;  that  lii.i;hway  he  inot  to  one 
Daniel  Smitli's,  on  Clinch  River,  and  he  did  not 
even  see  the  Wilderness  Itoad  again  till  he  got 
down  into  I'oweH's  Valley  near  where  the  town  of 
-Tonesville  now  is.  He  got  to  Elk  (Jarden  .March 
oO,  passed  ('astle's  Woods  the  next  day,  and  late  in 
the  night  of  April  1  he  readied  Cove  Creek,  which 
is  jnst  eleven  miles  east  of  Powell's  River  at  the 
month  of  i'.nck  Creek,  where  the  .McAfees  ])assed, 
going  homeward  on  the  fonrteenth  of  .\iigust. 
Calk's  brief  record  of  April  l'.  the  day  after  he 
reached  Cove  Creek,  is  as  follows:  "This  nu)rning 
is  a  very  hard  frost  and  we  start  early,  travel  over 
Powells  .Mountain  and  camp  in  the  head  of  Powell's 
\'alley,  where  there  is  very  good  food."  Now  we 
contend  that  tliis  Jonrual  ijrovcs  s(  V(  ral  things: 
first,  that  there  was  at  that  day  a  practicable  horse- 
back trail  down  the  Clinch  Valley  to  Cuniberlaud 
(ia]>  sviiled  to  emigrants  going  to  Kentncky;  sec- 
ondly, that  Calk  travelled,  for  many  miles,  the  very 
road  the  McAfees  had  passed  over  in  177:'>;  thirdly, 
that  he  cunld  not  possibly  have  gone  by  Rig  Htone 
(lap  without  needlessly  increasing  the  length  of  his 
journi'y;  and  fourthly,  that  he  considered  the  re- 
gi(ni  below  Big  Stone  Gap  as  the  "head  of  Powell's 
N'alley."  His  Journal  shows  that  he  covered  in 
one  (hiy  the  distance  from  the  place  where  he 
struck  the  head  of  that  valley  to  where  the  \Vilder- 
ness  Road  and  the  Long  Hunters'  Road  came  to- 
gether near  the  site  of  Jonesville;  and  as  we  know, 
from  other  sources,  that  it  is  just  about  twenty- 
three  miles  from  the  mouth  of  Ruck  Creek  down 
the   valley   to   the  junction    with    the   Wilderness 


Road  and  Itoone's  Trace — a  coinfoi-lablc  day's 
J(nirney  with  luavily  laden  jtack-lioiscs,  "n\er  very 
bad  hills,"  asC'alk  says — I  he  com-lnsioii  is  iri-esist- 
ible  that  Calk  came  from  the  uipimm-  Clinch  N'alley 
by  the  Liiiig  Hunters'  Itoad.  ami  llial  lie  got  into 
I'owell's  \'allcy  al  the  \ery  |>lacc  where  Ihe  Mc- 
,\fc('s  lefl  il  .\iigiisl  II,  177.">,  as  lliey  were  going 
back  home  lo  Rolclcurt   ('onnly,  X'irginia. 

Additional  light  is  Ihrown  upon  this  (|Uestion 
by  the  rcciii-ds  we  lind  in  \arious  works  t'oncerning 
the  i>aiiiful  disaster  Daniel  P.oone  suffered  in 
Powell's  N'alley  October  10,  177:?,  as  he  and  a  large 

comjiany  of  | pic  were  on   their  way  to  make  a 

settlement  in  l\ciiln<'ky.  1  n  all  t he  fuller  histories 
We  tind  S(une  account  of  it.  (See  Summers's 
South-western  X'irginia,  |iagcs  142-3;  and  Colliiis's 
Kentucky,  \'ol.  '2,  page  711.)  Not  long  after 
Roomy's  return  fnnn  his  sojourn  of  1709-71  in  the 
Wilderness  of  Kentncky  to  liis  home  on  the  Yadkin, 
in  North  Carolina,  he  made  u|i  his  mind  to  sell  out 
his  interests  there  and  mo\e  to  Kentucky  for  the 
]Miri»ose  of  making  his  permanent  home  in  that 
lieanliful  coiuitry.  .Vcccn-dingly,  he  left  the  Yad- 
kin September  2."),  177:!,  taking  along  all  of  his 
family,  his  household  effects,  and  his  cattle  and 
horses.  .\  number  of  other  families  and  a  goodly 
company  of  armed  men  joined  him,  so  that-  by  the 
time  he  reached  Towell's  N'alley  his  party  was  the 
most  foi'inidalde  one  that  had  ever  ventured  that 
far.  The  (|uestion  before  us  is  this:  Did  Roone 
and  his  associates  travel  the  Long  Hunters'  Road 
on  that  journey'?  We  do  not  hesitate  to  give  it 
as  our  confident  judgment  that  he  did  travel  that 
road,  and  esiiecially  that  the  part  of  that  road 
which  was  followed  by  the  McAfees  August  14  and 
15  was,  beyond  all  reasonalde  doubt,  the  precise 
route  of  Roone  in  October,  1773.  In  the  light  of 
the  facts  before  us,  we  do  not  see  how^  it  would 
be  possible  to  make  e\en  a  |ilausible  argument 
in  favor  of  any  other  route.  Whether  he 
came  that  road  all  Ihe  way  from  New  IJiver  by 
way  of  Walker's  Creek  and  the  arte  of  Tazewell 
Court  House,  or  whether  he,  like  Calk  (already 
considered),  got  into  i]u^.  Long  Hunters'  Road  on 
the  Upper  Clinch  some  miles  below  that  place,  we 
can  not  positively  assert;  but  we  believe  that  the 
Long  Hunters'  Road,  at  least  from  whei-e  Calk  got 
into  it,  was  the  one  he  chose,  and  we  think  it  can 
be  proven. 

One  reason  whi(  li  const  rains  us  to  judge  thus  is 
that,  according  to  the  concurrent  assertions  of  all 


468 


THE  WOODS-McAFEE  MEMORIAL. 


the  histories  inciif ioniiiii'  tlic  matter  nt  nil,  so  far 
as  we  have  been  able  to  exaiuine,  the  disaster  wliieh 
overtook  Boone  and  pai'ty  Octolter  10,  1773,  oc- 
curred in  Powell's  Vallev,  and  at  a  point  forty 
miles  from  a  certain  settlement  on  Clinch  River, 
whither  they  retired,  and  at  which  Roone  made  his 
home  for  the  next  eiyliteen  months.  Some  writers 
fjo  so  far  as  to  say  that  this  sorrowful  event  oc- 
curred riijht  under  the  shadow  of  Cumberland 
^fountain,  ])roper,  and  only  alxmt  two  miles  east 
of  Cuml)erland  Cap.  We  understand  there  is  a 
spot  Just  there  to  which  citizens  of  that  vicinity 
are  in  the  liabit  of  pointinc;  in  our  day  as  the  scene 
of  the  tragedy  referred  to,  and  the  place  where  the 
six  murdered  white  men  were  buried — Boone's  own 
son,  James,  beinii;  one  of  them.  We  do  not  believe 
that  any  S]>ot  within  less  than  fifty  miles  to  the 
north-east  of  Cnmberland  Cap  can  possibly  he  the 
place.  Let  any  man  take  a  reliable  map  and  tiy 
to  find  some  place  on  Clinch  River  which  is  only 
.about  forty  miles  from  that  tiap,  and  at  which 
there  was,  at  that  date,  a  settlement  offering  shel- 
ter for  families  of  women  and  children,  and  he  will 
soon  discover  the  utter  hopelessness  of  the  task. 
Even  the  crossing  of  Clinch  River  reached  by  the 
^A'ilderuess  Road  is  more  than  sixty  miles  from 
Cumberland  Gap,  and  there  an^  other  reasons  for 
rejecting  the  supposition  that  Boone  and  party 
-w-eut  tliat  way.  There  is  every  reason  for  assum- 
ing that  the  discouraged  company  would  retreat 
over  the  very  path  they  had  just  come  in  safety  up 
to  the  moment  the  savages  waylaid  them,  and  not 
attempt  some  untried  trail  in  the  wilderness. 
There  were  but  two  mads  back  to  the  settlements, 
namely:  the  Wilderness  Road  on  the  sonth,  and 
the  Long  Hunters'  Road  to  the  north.  That  there 
was  a  settlement  on  Clinch  River  which  did  offer 
shelter  to  families  at  that  vevy  date  is  absolutely 
certain;  and  that  place  was  Castle's  Woods,  whicli 
is  just  forty  miles  from  Powell's  River,  and  which 
the  McAfees  reached,  to  their  great  joy,  August  15, 
1773.  That  forty  miles,  we  need  not  stay  to  prove, 
was  but  one  stage  of  the  Long  Hunters'  Road. 
There  were,  in  later  years,  several  bloody  scenes 
enacted  close  to  Cumberland  Cap,  along  the  road 
in  f|uesli(.ii,  and,  we  doubt  not,  numbers  of  scalped 
and  murdered  white  men  were  buried  there;  but  we 
insist  that  those  mournful  events  came  after  the 
one  \\(«  are  considering  now. 

A  snuill  volume  published  in  1868  by  the  Apple- 
tons,  of  New  York,  as  one  of  "The  Youno-  Ameri- 


can Series,"  \\-ritten  by  the  author  of  Uncle  Philip's 
Conversatifuis,  gives  some  details  of  this  sad  affair 
in  I'owell's  Valley  which  we  have  never  met  with 
elsewhere.  It  is  therein  related  (page  54)  that 
in  about  a  fortnight  after  Boone  and  party  left 
their  old  home  on  the  Yadkin  they  reached  Powell's 
^fountain;  and  having  passed  that  ridge  and 
c]iiiLl)('(l  AN'allen's  Ridge,  they  began  the  descent  of 
this  last  nanu'd  mountain.  While  quietly  going 
down  tlie  same,  passing  through  a  dark  and  nar- 
row gap,  they  were  smldenly  greeted  with  the  yells 
of  savages,  rushing  down  from  their  rear,  and  a 
shower  of  arrows.  Six  of  the  company  fell  dead 
in  their  tracks,  one  of  tlu^  slain  being  James  Boone, 
the  eighteen-year-old  son  of  Daniel.  The  In- 
dians either  killed  or  frightened  away  into  the  for- 
est all  the  cattle  belonging  to  the  party.  The 
slaughtered  men,  as  we  know  from  other  sources, 
constituted  a  small  rear  guard,  charged  with  the 
care  of  the  stock,  and  the  rest  of  the  company  were 
some  distance  in  advance — some  of  them  several 
miles  ahead.  By  the  time  the  main  body  of  armed 
men  readied  the  scene,  tlie  savages  had  finished 
their  deadly  work  and  taken  flight.  The  shock  to 
the  main  body  of  the  party  was  so  overwhelming, 
as  they  gazed  ujion  the  six  ghastly  corpses,  that, 
despite  the  courageous  jn-otests  of  Boone — who  was 
for  going  on  to  Kentm'ky — the  sentiment  was  al- 
most unanimous  in  favor  of  retreating  back  to  the 
nearest  white  settlement  on  Clinch  River,  forty 
miles  distant.  To  this  sentiment  Boone  was  com- 
pelled to  yield,  and  after  sorrowfully  burying  the 
six  dead  comrades  and  loved  ones,  they  l)egan  the 
tedious  journey  ba<-k  over  tlie  mountain  to  ("linch 
River.  If  any  one  will  again  consult  a  good  map, 
and,  selecting  a  point  anywhere  he  may  choose  at 
the  western  base  of  ^^■allen's  Ridg<',  and  seek  for  a 
settlement  on  ("linch  River  i  tlien  existing),  just 
about  forty  miles  towards  the  regi(ni  whence  Boone 
liad  come,  he  will  find  that,  by  the  A\'ilderness  Road, 
he  would  land  at  what  was  then  the  Blockhouse  at 
least  twenty  miles  south  of  Clinch  River.  If  he 
will  try  the  other  road,  he  will  find  he  reaches  Cas- 
tle's Woods,  which  is  on  the  Long  Hunters'  Road. 
It  should  be  added  that  the  little  volume  from 
which  we  have  gathered  these  facts  expressly  states 
that  the  trail  they  followed  over  Powell's  Moun- 
tain was  one  the  Boones  had  blazed,  from  which 
we  infer  that  it  was  this  ^\•ay  Boone  and  party  had 
travelled  in  1769.  The  Long  Hunters  of  1769  cer- 
tainly went  that  way,  and  so,  probably,  did  Boone 


APPENDIX   B— TIIKEE   riONEEK   KOADS. 


469 


(•11  liis  tonr  of  t.liat  same  year.     In   fa( 


Boone, 


wliilt^  not  widi  Col.  Knox's  party  in  17(ii>,  went 
into  KentiK-ky  tliat  same  year  and  reniaiiicd  nearly 
as  loni;-  as  Knox,  and  was,  in  tlie  eoiiniion  esiiniate 
of  tile  puljlie,  liimself,  one  of  tiie  "Long  Ilnnters." 
Tlie  bearing  of  all  this  on  onr  contention  is  that 
Booue  not  only  chose  this  route  for  the  large  com- 
pany composed,  in  part,  of  woiiien,  cliiidrcii  and 
cattle,  in  1773,  hnt  almost  certainly  liad  gone  (hat 
way  in  17(19,  showing  that  the  Long  Ilnnters'  Koad, 
in  (he  judgment  of  the  most  noted  and  ca[)al)le 
woodsman  of  the  eighteenth  century,  was  not  only 
a.  route  to  Kentucky,  but  the  best  one  of  which  he 
had  knowledge  for  (he  use  of  families.  Let  it  he 
nott'd  l]ia(,  if  we  take  two  figures  shaped  like  (he 
first  letter  of  the  alphabet,  one  taller  (han  (he 
other,  and  set  them  side  by  side  with  their  bases 
touching  (tlius  A.\)  we  will  hav(!  a  good  repre- 
sentation of  Powell's  Mountain  and  Wallen's 
Bidge,  the  former  being  the  taller  of  the  two  at 
the  [toint  where  the  trail  in  (question  crossed.  Un 
reaching  the  foot  of  Powell's  Mountain  coming 
west  one  begins,  probably  in  the  course  of  a  few 
hundred  yards,  to  ascend  AV'allen's  Bidge.  This 
})hysical  fact,  which  obtains  just  at  that,  point,  does 
not.  obtain  at  any  point  to  the  south-west  of  it;  and 
the  language  employed  in  tlie  narrative  above 
(luoted  from  is  just  such  as  we  would  expect  where 
the  two  mountains  were  thus  related  to  each  other 
— there  is  no  valley  between  them,  but  the  one  be- 
gins where  the  other  ends. 

Summers  tells  us  that  when  Boone  reached  Cas- 
tle's >Voods  after  the  disaster  at  the  western  base 
of  Wallen's  Bidge  in  Powell's  Valley  he  found  the 
cabin  of  David  (Juest  vacant.  The  truth  is,  many 
of  the  settlers  (as  is  stated  by  Coale,  above  (piotedj 
did  not  remain  all  the  year,  in  that  early  day,  in 
that  ijlace.  Their  custom  was  to  spend  the  sum- 
mer so  as  to  raise  a  crop  at  Castle's  Woods,  a  level, 
fertiU',  easily  cultivated  section  of  the  valley,  and 
in  the  fall  move  back  to  the  settlements  to 
the  eastward.  There  Boone  made  his  home  till 
.March,  177r>,  when  he  mo\ed  into  Kentucky,  blaz- 
ing his  "trace"  for  Ilenderson  to  the  Kentucky 
Biver.  From  June  to  August,  1774,  he  was  in 
Kentucky  with  one,  Michael  t^toner,  at  (iov.  Duu- 
more's  rcipiest,  to  warn  and  conduct  out  of  the 
country  tlu^  sur\'eyors  then  there,  as  the  Indians 
were  planning  an  extensive  campaign,  which  cul- 
minated in  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant  in  October 
of  that  vear.     The  records  of  Washington  Countv 


(which  couidy  af(cr  177t;  for  many  years  em- 
braced (he  whcjc  (if  whal  is  iniw  ^i!n(li-west<'rn 
N'ii'ginia,  anil  iiiii<-h  <>{'  what  is  imw  Wcs(  \'ir- 
ginia)  show  (ha(.  in  1771  Daniel  Boone  was 
a.  citizen  of  (he  Clinch  X'allcy  and  in  command  of 
Fort  Moore  and  Ihc  (w('n(y  men  who  c(iiis(i(u(ed 
the  garrisdii.  That  fort  was  eidier  at  Castle's 
Woods  or  \-ery  near  it.  (See  Siimiiiers,  pages 
ir)tI-7. 1  Pioone  started  to  Kentucky  in  June,  1774, 
at.  (!o\'.  Duiiniiire's  re(|iies(,  and  got  hack  in  Au- 
gust, 1771  ;  and  tiiiding  that  the  Clinch  Valley  men 
had  all  gone  to  meet  (he  Indians  a(  Point  Pleasant, 
ha  set  out  for  (hal  place  widi  a  Imdy  nf  men.  lie 
was  ordered  hack,  howoscr,  (o  |iro(ect  the  settlers 
on  Clinch,  and  (here  he  seems  (o  have  I'emained  (at 
<'astle's  Wo(!(lsi  till  about.  I''ebriiarv,  177."'>,  \\  lit  ii  he 
went.  o\('r  unto  Ihc  Walanga  Id  assist  ('nl.  Ilen- 
derson in  his  (rea(y  wi(h  the  Indians,  pre[iaratoi'y 
to  his  linal  move  (o  Kentucky.  (See  Summers, 
pages  ir)(;-ir)7. 1  The  signilicance  of  all  these  facts, 
so  far  as  cniiceins  our  contention,  is  that  Boone 
used  the  same  trail  to  and  from  Powell's  Valley  as 
(he  McAfees  did  in  1778,  and  Calk  in  177").  The 
Long  Hunters'  Ivoad  passed  that  way,  and  we  ha\e 
good  reason  fm*  sujiposing  that  Boone  and  family 
had  used  it  in  the  fall  (J"  177:?  all  the  way  from  New 
Kiver  to  Powell's  Valley. 

Of  course,  it  is  not  to  be  tli<)Ught  for  a  moment 
that  there  was  but  a  single  trail  in  the  Clinch  Val- 
ley leading  to  the  wilderness  beyond.  It  is  un- 
doubtedly true  that  there  were  many  different 
trails  crossing  the  monnlains  to  the  west  and  north- 
west of  Castle's  Woods.  One  went  up  Guest  Biver 
and  crossed  to  where  the  I'ailroad  station,  Norton, 
now  is  and  wi'iiL  <iil  towards  P()uiid  (!ap  or  the 
Big  Sandy  Biver.  One  went  nearly  due  north- 
west over  I'owell  .Moniilain  from  the  Hunters'  \'al- 
ley  into  what  is  called  the  "Cracker  Neck,"  on  to 
Big  Stone  Gap,  and  then  north  (owards  Pound 
Gap,  etc.  And  it  is  nearly  cerlain  that  these  trails 
wvvv.  so  often  used  by  hunters  that  the  name  "Hun- 
ters' l'ath"ma.y  have  been  applied  to  them.  Our  con- 
tention is,  simply,  that  theri>  was  one  trail  which, 
hy  pre-eminence,  was  called  "The  Long  Hunters' 
Boad,"  after  the  return  of  the  Long  Hunters  from 
Kentucky  in  1771';  and  (ha(  (his  iiar(icular  road 
was  continuous  from  New  Biver  to  Kentucky  by 
way  of  the  Clinch  N'alley;  that  it  was  from  about 
17tiO  onward  the  (inli/  east  and  west  thoroughfare 
in  (hat  whole  seclion  of  the  country  excepting  its 
more  southerly    ii\al,   the  Wilderness  Boad;    and 


470 


THE   WOODS-McAFEE   IMEMOKIAL. 


that  it  was,  to  some  extent,  a  rival  of  tliat  other 
road  for  eiiu.i;ran(s  lioiiiid  for  Kentucky. 

Tlie  Lonj-  lluuters'  Jioad  did  indeed  lunc  i(s  lie- 
ciiliai-  drawbacks  and  disadvantages,  whicli  easiiv 
accoinil  foi-  llie  larger  poinilarity  of  the  llolston 
N'alley  route.  One  was  tlie  exceedingly  rugged 
character  of  the  cduniry  it  jiassed  tlirough  frdiii 
New  K'iver  u|>  (<i  I  lie  divide  at  Ihe  site  of  Tazewell 
Court  House,  a  distance  of  about  seventy-five  miles, 
or  more.  It  was  fearfully  rugged  a  century  and  a 
third  ago,  and  il  is  ilial  now.  Here  the  llolston 
\'alley  Koule  had  a  decided  advantage.  Then, 
again,  the  character  of  the  country  farther  down 
("linch  N'alley,  and  es])ecially  for  the  last  tifteeii 
miles  before  reaching  I'owell's  N'alley  was  much 
the  same.  The  ascent  of  Powell's  Mountain,  and 
then  of  Wallen's  K'idgc,  right  next  to  it  on  the  west. 
was  \('ry  li-yiiig.  A  man  on  foot  found  it  sleep,  in- 
deed; but  llie  iiack-horse,  loaded  (low  II,  found  it 
more  disagreeable.  .\s  for  wagons,  il  is  doubtful 
if  one  ever  has  crossed  I'owell's  Mountain  from 
Stock  Creek  down  into  the  narrow  delile  at  its 
"westerly  base,  along  which  the  railway  now  passes. 
This  need  sur])rise.  no  (Uie,  for  Indians  |)referred 
crossing  ridges  rathei'  than  rivei's,  and  this  road 
was  no  doubt  made  by  them.  I>y  diverging  to  the 
left  at  the  crossing  of  Stock  Creek  at  the  western 
end  of  Hunters'  \'alley  and  going  through  Love- 
lady  (ia])  and  on  to  Powell's  Valley  at  Dryden,  the 
use  of  wheeled  Vehicles  is  practicable,  and  (here  is 
a  wagcni  r(;ad  that  way,  at  this  day  called  the 
Tazewell  JJoad.  Hut  these  topographical  difticul- 
ties  served  to  dwarf  the  usefulness  of  this  great 
thoroughfare,  especially  for  jmrposes  of  interstate 
(■(unmerce.  Then  there  was  another  objection  to 
this  road  :  It  was  (doser  than  the  ( ireat  K'oad  was  to 
(he  si<le  I'rom  which  Indian  attacks  were  most 
likely  to  come,  down  almost  to  the  close  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  Near  Tazewell  there  were  In- 
dian trails  coming  up  the  several  branches  of  the 
Big  Sandy  Kiver,  along  which  numerous  murdering 
and  plundering  bands  were  wimt  to  come.  The 
same  was  true  uH  the  country  from  Castle's  Woods 
down  to  Powell's  N'alley:  There  were  several  gaps 
lo  the  north-west  through  which  ran  Indian  trails 
w  hicli  the  Northern  Indians  often  made  use  of,  and 
by  means  of  which  the  travellers  on  the  Long  Hunt- 
ers' Ifoad  could  he  moic  easily  ]Mit  in  ]>eril  than  was 
likely  along  the  other  highway  to  the  south.  True, 
these  (wo  roads— (he  Clinch  Valley  and  the  Holston 
A'alley  Koutes— \\-ere  not  so  very  far  apart— not 


more  than  fifteen  to  twenty  miles,  as  a  ride — but 
between  them  ran  I'anges  of  lofty  mountains,  and 
nnmei-oe.s  streams  which  were  natural  barriers  to 
(lie  mox'emeiits  of  host  ile  in!  rnders.  (  M'  course.  Ibis 
l»articular  drawback  ceased  to  have  any  impor- 
tance aftei-  th(  Indians  wer(«  diiven  far  to  the  west 
and  troubled  N'iiginia  and  Kentucky  no  more;  but 
it  bad  its  effect  in  fixing  the  condit  ions  id'  life  in  (he 
Clinch  Valley.  The  main  (rouble  with  (he  Clinch 
\'alley,  howe\'er,  was  one  which  no  civilizing 
agencies  can  ever  entirely  remove;  and  (hat  was 
Ihe  small  |iro])or(ioii  of  arable  land.  In  (his  re- 
gai'd  it  comiiares  unfa\(>rably,  on  the  whole,  with 
the  rcuite  down  (Ik-  llolston.  ^Vhilst  there  are  here 
and  (here  some  s])len(li(l  \alleys  and  meadow  lands 
of  greater  or  less  extent  along  the  Clinch,  some  of 
w  hicli  are  e(jual  to  the  choicest  in  the  world,  the 
fact  renmins  that  the  mountains  hold  sway  as  a 
general  lule,  and,  aftei-  all  the  progress  of  a  cen- 
tury and  a  half.  Clinch  \'alley  has  mithing  like  the 
lH»]Milation  of  tlu;  other  route.  .Alines  may  affect 
the  wealth  nf  that  section,  liut  they  can  hardly  add 
to  the  arable  lands. 

Put  after  all  is  said  that  truthfully  can  be  said 
<tn  the  subject,  our  conteidion,  as  we  believe,  stands 
fast,  that  from  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury unto  this  dav  there  has  been  a  notable  hich- 
way  from  PeiijK'r's  Ferry  on  New  River  up  to  Taze- 
well, I  hen  down  the  Clinch  to  ('astle's  AA'oods,  then 
across  Stony,  Cove  and  Slock  Creeks  to  I'owell's 
N'alley,  (Ikmi  through  Cumberland  (Ja])  into  Keu- 
tiu-ky,  which  highway  has  played  a  very  consider- 
able jiart  in  the  early  settlenumt  of  south-western 
Mrginia  and  Kentucky,  and  whose  history  deserves 
to  be  n'scued  from  the  oblivion  in  which  it  has  so 
long  been  allowed  to  lie.  The  testimony  of  two  liv- 
ing authorities  of  high  character  will  conclude 
what  we  have  to  say  on  tJiis  subject. 

One  of  these  is  \\'illiam  J.  Dickinson,  Esq.,  of 
Castlewood,  I{ussell  County,  A'irginia.  This  gen- 
tleman's great-grandfather  was  one  of  the  first  of 
the  early  settlers  (d'  that  region;  and  there  is  prob- 
ably not  a  man  in  the  Clinch  Valley  who  is  more 
thoroughly  informed  in  regard  to  the  early  settle- 
ment (d'  that  ])articular  sectiou  of  A'ii-ginia  than  lie. 
The  iilace  at  which  he  lives  is  historic.  The  name 
"Castlewood"  now  applies  only  to  a  small  village, 
one  of  the  stations  of  the  Clinch  Valley  Division  of 
the  Norfolk  &  Western  Railway,  but  in  the  olden 
days  the  name  was  Castle's  Woods,  and  was  meant 
to  signify  a  magniticent    piece  of    forest    largely 


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owned  by  a  man  named  Casllc.     Tlmt  man  Tasllc 
settl<-d  there  alioni  ITdS-lTTl.  and  llie  lar^v  wooded 
traet  he  took  ii|)  iKcaiiie  faiiMMis,   mainly   becanse 
the    hmd   was    so    e\(i-ciiiely    IVrlib'   and     so    well 
adapted  to  enltivation.     Tlie  liniliei-  has  been  aboul 
all  cnt  down,  but  the  laml   is  luifed  for  its  Itixnri- 
aut  grass  and  fine  crops.    Hence  ibis  name  "( "aslie's 
AA'oods"  attached  not  lo  one  larni  or  a  village,  or  a 
ford,  bnt  lo  a  region  which  extended  along  the  bank 
of  Hie  Clinch  lor  some  distance.     The  earliest  set- 
tlers in  that  vicinity  were,  besides  Castle,  Henry 
Dickinson,   Charles    Bickley   and    Simon    Ocsher. 
Near  by  is  a  village  calle<l  for  Dickinson,  and  an- 
other   called    r.ickley's    Jlill.     In  177<l  a  foil    was 
erected  theie  called  Bush's  Fort,  at  a  place  now 
known  as  Mud  Store.     In  1771  tliis  fort  was  at- 
tacked by  seventeen  Indians,  who  were  repidsed  by 
the  Whites,  and  that  region  was  visited  by  the  sav- 
ages   again  and  again    neai'ly  to  the  close  of    the 
eighteenth  century,     t ^^^t"  l^itV  and  Adventures  of 
^lilburn  Waters,  by  C.  B.  Coale,  printed  by  Gary 
&  Co.,  Kiclimond,  Va.,  1878.)    As  previously  shown, 
the  McAfee  Company  passed  there  going  east   in 
August,  1773,  and  I'.oone  and  party  going  west  in 
October  following,  only  to  return  a  few  weeks  later 
and  occnju'  the  vacant  cabin  of  David  <  Juest,  which 
was  Boone's  home  till  early  in  177.").     This  place  is 
now  the  home  of  Mr.  Wm.  J.  Dickinson,  who  has 
gi\ en  the  present  writer  the  benetit  of  his  extensive 
knowledge  of  matters  relating  to  the  early  history 
of  that  region.     Mr.  Dickinson  says  that  the  Long 
Hunters'   Koad  led   fioni   I'liqier's  I'ei'ry  down  the 
Clinch,  then  over  to  I'owell's  N'alley,  and  dow  n  that 
Valley  to  Cumberland  Cap,  and  he  gives  it  as  his 
oiiinion  that  this  was  the  route  which  the  McAfees 
travelled  going  home  in  August,  1773.     Mr.  Dickin- 
son does  not  think,  however,  that  the  Long  Hunters' 
IJoad  ran  directly  wi-st  from  Clinch  Biver  at  Dun- 
gannon    across    Stony,    Cove,    and    Stock    Creeks, 
direct  to  Bowell's  Kiver,  as  we  have  it,  but  made  a 
long  detour  to  the  north-west  ami  got  into  I'owell's 
Kiver  u])  west  of  the  site  of  Norton,  about  twehe 
niih  s  above  Big  Stone  Cap.     To  I  hat  \  iew  be  seems 
lo  have  been  inclined  mainly  becanse  he  feels  that 
the  phrase  "head  of  I*o well's  N'alley,"    previously 
discussed,  compels  him  to  go  considerably  above 
said    Gap.     This    view,  however,  as    any  one    can 
readily  see  who  studies  the  i-ecords  in  the  two  Mc- 
Afee Journals,  renders  it  absolutely  imjiossible  to 
make  any  consistent  interpi-elal  ion  of  said   .Jour- 
nals— it.  throws  Hie  whole  of  the  records  from  .Vu- 


gnsl  1(1  lo  Angiisl  ]T,  inin  a  hopeless,  unintelligible 
Jiiniiile.  II  would  do  llie  same  foi"  the  .Tournal  of 
('alk,  177."'(,  with  this  e,\ce|il  i(in,  linwexcr,  llial  his 
\iews  as  In  Ihe  course  of  llie  Long  lliinlers"  Koad 
agree  ill  all  essentials  with  thai  adopted  by  the 
aiilhoi'  of  lliis  Aolunie.  This  discussion,  it  is  need- 
less lo  i-cniaik,  can  be  inlelligible — not  to  say  en- 
dni-able  -only  lo  lliose  wlio  are  willinu  lo  make 
conslant   use  of  i^ood  maps  as  lliey  proceed. 

The  last  anilioi-ily  we  shall  (|noie  is  ihe  lion. 
David  I"],  .b.hnslon,  all<iniey  al  law,  llliielield, 
Wesi  N'irgiiiia.  This  geiil  leman  kindly  wroledown 
his  views  lor  Ihe  anilior  in  .laniiary,  I'.tIM,  and  we 
feel  sure  llial  he  is  an  iim-omnionly  well  iiifoi'med 
]ierson,  and  every  way  trustworthy.  .Judge  .Johns- 
ton says  there  are  several  well  known  roads  from 
New  River  u|)  to  Tazewell  Conn  House,  hiii  he 
names  two  llial  W(-re  used  diii-ing  Ihe  latter  pari  of 
the  eighteenth  century  as  feeders  I o  the  Clinch  N'al- 
ley road  (Long  llnnlers"  Koadi,  going  down  to 
rowell's  N'alley  and  Cnmlierland  Ga]).  He  holds 
that  this  road  actually  e.xisled  in  those  early  days, 
and  was  used  by  i)ersons  passing  from  Xew  Ifiver 
to  Kentucky.  He  siieaks  of  it  not  as  a  men  trail 
for  hunters,  but  as  a,  highway  Irom  east  to  west. 
One  of  the  feeders  (d'  the  main  i'oa<l — we  consider 
the  nuiiii  ]iart  of  the  Long  llnnlers"  Ifoad  to  have 
begun  on  Clinch  Ki\cr,  near  Tazewell  Coiirl  House 
— was  a  continuation  of  a  road  from  (he  ( Ireenbrier 
and  Moni'oe  County  section  (d'coiinlry.  It  crossed 
New  River  just  above  the  mouth  <;f  Kich  Creek, 
went  (low  n  ihe  Xew  about  ihree  mih  s  to  the  iiKnith 
of  lOast  River,  Ihence  up  (he  latter  and  over  onto 
Bliiestone  K'iv<'i-,  and  u]»  Ihat  stream  (o  its  source, 
and  then  over  onto  (he  head  of  Clinch  River.  This 
(rail,  .Judge  .Johnslon  positively  s(;i(es,  was  used 
as  far  back  as  177'.t,  and  how  much  earlier  he  knows 
nol.  Af(er  the  RevoluHon,  a  considerable  time, 
this  trail  was  made  a  i-egnlar  wagon-road,  and  is 
now  in  cons(an(   use. 

The  most  ancieuL  I'oad,  however,  of  which  he 
knows,  which  stiirted  at  New  River,  cami  ii]i  io 
Tazewell,  and  weii(  (aidown  (lie  ( 'limh  (o('nmlier- 
land  (ia]i, was  one  which  lefl  New  River  at  Bejijier's 
I'^erry,  wen(  along  down  the  liank  of  that  stream  a 
few  miles  (ollie  mirllieni  side  of  Cloyd's  Moiinlain, 
lla  n  tiii-ncd  lo  ihc  westward  and  wen(  up  lo  Walk- 
er's Creek,  up  (hat  Cicek  lo  the  moiKh  (d'  Ivimber- 
ling  Creek,  up  Kimberling  to  the  wilderness  sec- 
tion (lirongh  i;o<k\-  Cap  lo  ('lear  I'ork,  Ihence  up 
( "Icar  Fork  lo  I  he  head  oC  ( 'liiidi.  and  dow  ii  ( 'I  inch 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 


to  Castle's  Wnnds,  I'dwcU's  Valley,  Cuniberlaud  dovoted  to  the  Wilderness  Road,  and  thousands 
fiup  and  Kentucky.  This  (rail,  like  that  np  East  cmild  peruse  it  without  suspecting  that  it  had  al- 
and r.lucslone  Kivcrs.  was  made  a  wagon-road  long  nutst  wholly  to  do  witli  an  entirely  different  high- 
arici-  liic  Kcvnlutinn.     r.oiii  led  iiilu,  and  were  feed-  way — the  rival  of  llic  (ither. 

ers  of,  the  Long  Hunters'  Ivoad.      If  any  one  feeder.  In  (trder  to  see  this  jxiint  fully,  we  should  remem- 

however,  must  be  called  the  Long  Hunters'  Road,  her  that  of  all  tlie  tens  nf  thousands  of  settlers  and 

that   from  I'(>])i»er's  ferry  is  the  one.  travellos   who  came  "through    the  (ireal    Wilder- 

Tiiat    siicli  ail  ancient,  extensive  and   important  ne.ss"  to  Kentucky  from   ITTo  to  ISOO,  iierhaps  not 

iiiuhwav,  as    we    lliink  we    have   proved    the  Long  one  in  a  thousand  kept   a   written  journal   of  the 

Hunters'  Road  to  have  been,  should  liave  received  triji,  no  matter  which  of  the  two  i>ossible  roads  he 

no  mention  in  any  of  ilic  fullest  and  iiuist  poimlar  travelled;  and  that  of  the  few  journals  kept   ](rob- 

histories  of   the  two  great   St^ites   it    traversed    is  ably  not  one  in  a  hundred  is  now  extant  and  ac- 

one  of  the  most  unaccountable  of  anonuilies.     It  is  cessible  to  the  jiublic.     Think  of  it — there  are  now 

a  fact,  which  can  hai-dly  b(>  questioned,  that  thou-  extant,  so  far  as  we  know,  but   three  journals  of 


sands  of  emigiants  and  travellers  from  ^■irginia 
and  Carolina  must  lunc  followed  this  road  on  their 
way  to  Kentucky  during  the  last  ([uarter  of  the 
eighteenth  centui-y;  and  it   would  scarcely  be  pos- 


trips  over  the  ^^■ilderncss  Koad,  projiei';  and  there 
is  but  one  of  a  tri]»  by  the  Long  Hunters'  Koad'. 
If  we  may  nuike  a  rough  guess  wv  may  say  we  have 
one  extant  j(Uirnal  f(U'  each  thirty  thousand   per- 


sible,  at  this  day.  to  tind  a  single  intelligent  citizen  sons  who  passed  either  ujioi-down  the  llolston 
of  mature  ytai's  in  the  entire  region  through  which  Route,  and  one  for  the  ten  thinisand  who  went  by 
this  T'oad  passed,  who  was  reared  in  that  country  the  other  road.  For  one  hundred  thousand  pil- 
and  is  possessed  of  even  a  sul.-iII  uiciisure  of  anii-  grims.  four  j(uiruals.  of  course  we  have  here  and 
quarian  taste,  that  has  not  sonu'  knowledge  of  its  there  numberless  brief  references  to  the  trips  of 
origin  and  locati(m.  And  yet  one  nuiy  search  the  jun'sons  coming  and  going,  but  these  furnish 
most  highly  valued  of  those  histories  from  cover  to  scai-cely  any  detinite  information  bearing  on  the 
covei-  without  being  able  to  tind  a  single  sentence  jiroblem  we  ai'e  de.-iling  with.  Is  it  any  great 
on  this  subject.  Theic  is  but  one  explanation  of  wonder,  then,  that  within  a  few  decades  after  these 
this  omission,  and  that  is  one  which  we  consider 
not  at  all  adeciuate,  namely,  that  the  larger  popu- 
larity and  userulucss  of  the  llolston  N'alley  lloute 
(The  Wilderness  Road,  or  tireat  Koad)  simiily 
overshadowtd  that  of  the  Long  Hunters'  Road. 
One  result  of  this  was  that  there  graduallv,  and 


old  pioneer  roads  had  ceased  to  have  much  im- 
pen'tanci'  for  the  uses  they  had  served  in  pioneer 
times,  peojde  c(uupletely  lost  sight  of  the  ditference 
between  the  two  rival  routes  we  have  under  review, 
and  contented  themselves  with  the  loose,  indefinite 
notion  that  a  jouru<'y  through  the  (Jreat  Wilder- 


iilmost  unconsciously  to  the  i)eople,  grew  up  a  habit  ness  was  sinii)lj  a  journey'  from  New  Ri\er  through 
of  using  the  phrase  "came  through  the  wilderness"  Cumberland  Cap  into  Kentucky,  regardless  of  the 
as  synonymous  with  "came  by  the  Wilderness  particular  route  through  South-western  Virginia. 
Road."  In  other  words,  the  journey  from  New  A  single  other  fact  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  men- 
River  through  South-western  \'irginia  to  Ken-  tion  in  closing  this  discussion.  It  should  be  b(U*ne 
tucky  got  to  be  understood  as  a  journey  by  the  one  in  mind  that  probably  no  wheeled  vehicle  ever 
road  which  led  down  the  llolston  Valley;  or  at  passid  over  Cumberland  Cap  into  Kentucky  before 
least  the  distincthm  between  the  Clinch  Nalley  and  the  dawn  of  the  nineteenth  century.  Fairly  good 
the  llolston  Valley  was  dropped  out  of  mind.  The  wagon-roads  did,  indeed,  exist  along  the  llolston 
only  very  clear  and  detinite  conception  of  the  mat-  N'alley  Route  from  New  River  all  the  way  down  to 
ter  which  the  nu)sl  of  the  [leoplc  had  was  that  the  .Vbingdou  long  before  the  close  of  the  eighteenth 
journey  was  from  \'irginia  to  Kentucky  through  century.  We  know  that  Col.  Richard  Henderson, 
the  Creat  Wilderness.  In  this  way  a  man  like  when  on  his  way  into  Kentucky  in  April,  ITT."), 
Calk  (see  his  Journal  in  Speed's  ^Vilderness  Road)  brcuight  his  wagons,  with  great  difficulty,  as  far  as 
could  come  down  the  Long  Hunters'  Road  in  the  Martin's  Cabins,  only  twenty  miles  east  of  Cum- 
siiring  of  1775,  and  not  even  see  the  AVilderness  berland  Cap,  but  he  had  to  leave  them  there,  and 
Road  tor  more  than  a  hundred  miles  of  his  journey,  the  rest  of  the  trip  to  Boouesboro  he  went  on  horse- 
and  yet  his  Journal  could  appear  in  a  monograph  back.    Hence,  down  to  the  nineteenth  century,  these 


APPENDIX   B— TIIREIC 

two  rival  roads  were  aliout  on  a  par  so  far  as  con- 
(•criKMl  iiiodi's  of  convoyance  for  movers  iioiii<i  into 
Kentnclvv;  for,  altli(ini;h  it   was  |)racli(ali!i'  in  use 
waii'ons  on  tli(>  Wilderness  Knad  all  the  way  from 
Injiles"   Ferry  to  Abingdon   lonii   Ipefnre   llial    was 
possible  from  Pepper's  Foi'ry  dnw  n  Clinch    Kiver, 
and    iii'tlin^-   over   PowelFs  .Monnlain    where   Calk 
crossed  it  (Ui  horseback  in  ITTo  was  ni»  ibinht  very 
tedious,  owinj;-  to  the  ste(>]»ness  of  the  way,  yel    no 
man  would  care  to  ceme  lialf  the  way  in  waiions, 
and  then  have  to  resort  to  pack-horses — it  was  one 
mo(h»  or  the  other  the  whole  way.     The  ngly  place 
at  Powell's  Mountain  and  Wallen's  lJid!>"e  belwe<Mi 
Stock  Creek  on  the  one  side  and  Buck  Creek  on  the 
other  was,  in  after  years — we  know  not  how  soon — 
avoided  by  cutting  a  good  road  around  to  the  south- 
west from  the  crossiug  of  Stock  Creek  by  the  site 
of  Duffield, ascending  the  North  Fork  of  the  Clinch 
a  few  miles  to  Ward's  :Mill,  and  then  going  through 
Lovelady  C.ai>,   due  west  to   Powell's   Uiver,  near 
Dryden.     Thai    road   is  now  a   fairly  good    wagon 
road  for  a  rough  country.     II  was  made  before  emi- 
grant travel  to  Kentu<ky  had  ceased;  it  did  away 
with  a  serious  objection  to  the  Clinch  Valley  Route. 
Calk,  in  177."),  avoided  Ihe  main  ditficulties  of  the 
road  from  Pepper's  Ferry  to    the  head  of    Clinch 
Kiver  by  taking  the  AVildern(=ss  Koad  as  far  as  to 
Marion    (site)    and    then   crossing  over   to   Clinch 
Iviver. 

The  truth  probably  is  that  this  norliierly  route 
was  used  by  i)erhaps  one-tifth  of  the  whole  number 
of  travellers — certainly  by  mauy^and  the  failure 
of  the  historians  to  take  any  notice  of  il  is  a  re- 
nmrkable  fact  which  demands  fuller  exiilanation 
tlian  we  have  offered.  At  all  events,  the  writer  be- 
lieves that  in  matters  of  this  kind  the  whole  truth 
ought  to  1)0  told  if  we  are  to  understand  the  real 
history  of  communities,  and  he  has  felt  it  w(U'th 
while  to  give  mud  I  thought  and  labor  lo  ascertain- 
ing what  was  trm^  and  setting  it  down  U>v  Ihe  bene- 
fit of  posterity. 

STATIONS  UN  ]J)N(i  IIFNTEBS'  ROAD,  NEW 
RIVER,  VA.,  TO  ROCKCASTLE  RIVER,  KY. 

MILES, 

Pepper's  Ferry  to  Cloyd's  :M<Mintain 10 

Cb)yd"s  Mountain  to  Walker's  Creek 10 

Walker's  Creek  to  .Moutli  of  Kindierling  Creek.  1- 
]\[(mth    of   Kimberling   to   Wolf   Creek,  at   the 

:\Iouth  of  Clear  Fork 1<> 

Mouth  of  Clear  Fork  to  its  Source 21 

Source  of  Clear  Fork  to  Tazewell  C.  11 8 

Tazewell  C.  H.  to  Maiden  Spring 15 


iMoxi:i;i:  iihads.  ^~^ 

.MILES. 

.Maiden  Spring  to  Elk  (Jarden 2y 

Elk  tiardeii  io  Castle's  Woods --^ 

Castle's  N\ is  to  Stanton  Crei-k   lf> 

Stanton    Creek    bv    Hunters'    N'aiiey,    to    stock 

Creek     : 1-1 

Slock  Creek  lo  Buck  Creek  al  FowelTs  Kiver.  .    10 
.Moiiih  r.nck  Creek  to  .Funcl ion  of  Three  Roads.    :.':> 

.ill  union  ot  I  loads  lo   .Martin's  Cabins 1'.' 

.Mania's  Cabins  to  Cuniberland  C.a|> -0 

Cnniberland  ( laj)  to  I'lat    Lick 22 

Fiat   Lick   lo   Koikeasile  Kiver 50 

Crand   lolal    "'I'"' 

Of  ((Miise,  it,  is  not  ]n'et.endeil  ilial  Ihe  above  ex- 
hiiiit  is  accui-ale  in  all  respects — we  do  claim  that 
it  is  substantially  correct  as  to  all  essential  details. 

(ci  p.ooNE'S  TK.\ci:.  oi;  i;o.\i). 

There  is  |ierlia|ps  no  oilier  road  in  existence  in 
wliicli  Keiilnckians  feel  lli.-  i.ecnliar  seiilinienlal 
interest  which  they  have  in  I'.oone's  Trace.  The 
very  mention  of  its  name  cari'ies  them  back  to  the 
pioneer  period  of  their  native  State,  and  awakens 
visi(nis  of  Indians,  and  tomahawks,  and  long  bar- 
relled, liinl-lock  ritles,  and  hunting  shirts,  and 
coon-skin  cajis.  It  makes  them  think  of  those  old 
days,  a  century  and  a  liiird  ago,  when  there  were 
no  human  habitations  in  their  Stale,  and  wiieii  tlie 
buffalo,  the  elk,  the  deer,  the  bear,  and  the  itanther 
were  in  full  possession  of  the  laml.  i'>y  il  Ihey  are 
reminded  of  niagniticent  virgin  forest.s  (d'  vast 
areas  of  land,  unlo\iched  as  y<'t  by  ]dow  or  ho(>  and 
covered  with  hixuriaid  grass,  and  of  even  the 
larger  streams  as  being  as  limpid  as  the  clearest 
monnlain  brooks  one  can  lind  to-day.  The  Wild- 
erness Itoad  and  the  Long  Hunters'  Road  (h),  in- 
deed, remind  us  of  all  these  tilings,  but  they  had 
mostly  lo  do  willi  \irginia.  I*.o(Uie's  Trace  is  pre- 
eminently of  Kentucky. 

This  road,  however,  can  never  lie  entirely  dis- 
sociated, in  our  minds,  from  the  oilier  iwo  great 
highways  we  have  been  considering.  The  three  are 
indissolubly  connected,  and  we  must  know  sonie- 
Ihiiig  of  all  of  Ihem  in  lU-der  to  know  mucli  of 
either.  The  manner  in  which  ihey  overlap  and  co- 
incide is  (piite  peculiar — thei-e  is  nothing  just  like 
it  in  any  other  highways  with  which  we  are  famil- 
iiir.  Their  origin  and  liist(uw  are  not  Ihe  same, 
and  vet-  they  so  blend  and  harmonize  ami  run  to- 
liclher,  that  we  are  compelled  lo  think  of  them  as 
a,  trio  whose  several  tones  can  not  be  considered 
jipjii-t — each  one  coniribules  its  share  to  ilie  ju'o- 
duclion  (d'  crtects  which  owe  their  sweetness  to  all. 


474 


THE    >YO()I)S-:\rcAFEE    MEMOKIAL. 


Ami  (lie  llircc  <ivca(,  States  whidi  wci-c  ii-iversed 
l),v  one  ov  ;ill  of  llicsc  old  picuicci-  tlionmiilifares — 
N'liiiiiiia,  I\('nhi<k,v  and  'rcimcssoc — have  all  of 
these  niads  li'imid  up  willi  llieir  own  liisloi-y  ami 
develo|iineiil,  and  tlmaiiili  all  llie  coininii'  years  men 
who  love  llie  story  of  any  one  of  these  splendid 
('(iinnionwealths  nnisl  lind  a  eertain  pleasure  in 
reading  aJKiul  this  trio  of  mads.  How  euiineiilly 
tiding  il  is,  llien,  that  tlie  one  locality  (d'  ureatest 
notoriety  and  distinetion,  which  is  coininon  to  all 
of  these  histoi'ie  thoronghfarcs  is  also  the  jioinl  at 
which  liic  tiiree  Slates  coiicerucMl  come  together — 
(in  The  crest  of  that  magniticent  pass,  t'nnd)erland 
(ia]),  at  which  one  may  stand  with  his  feet  toncliing 
each  of  these  Stal(  s  at  once,  and,  at  the  same  time, 
their  three  greatest  ]iiniieer  r^ads.  The  stone 
which  marks  this  liajipy  cinijunction  of  States  and 
roads  can  lie  s(>en  Ihei-e  at  Ihis  day. 

Hoone's  Trace  liegan  im  the  W'atanga  Kiver  in 
what  is  now  Carter  Connty,  Tennessee,  at  a  place 
Umiwn  as  Sycamore  Slnials;  ran  mainly  in  a  north- 
erly direction  till  il  reached  the  liig  Aloccasin  (!ap, 
at  the  site  of  the  tnwn  of  Gate  City,  Virginia;  then 
aci-oss  the  Clinch  and  Powell's  Kivers  to  Cnndier- 
land  ( iap;  and  then  more  than  half  way  across  Ken- 
tucky to  the  Kentn<ky  Kiver,  in  what  is  now  .Aladi- 
son  County — a  distance  of  almnt  two  hundred  and 
thirty-three  miles. 

In  one  important  particular  this  road  differed 
greatly  from  Ihedlher  Iwn;  it  was  not  gradually  de- 
velop<'d  and  extended  through  a  long  course  tA' 
vears,  hut  was  determined  u]»on  and  laid  out,  frnm 
Ik  ginning  Id  end,  within  tlii-ee  weeks"  time.  ()f 
course,  like  the  other  two  roads,  it  was  for  the  most 
part  an  old  Indian  or  buffalo  trail,  which  had  been 
used  more  oi-  less  liy  savag(  s  or  wild  beasts,  one 
or  both,  for  centuries;  but  there  was  a  cc  rtain  time 
— the  month  of  .March,  1775 — when  this  route  intn 
Kentucky  c(  ased  to  be  merely  what  it  had  been  f(ir 
general iiais  befons  and  took  on  a  lotall\-  new  char- 
acter, and  began  to  ha\'e  a  new  and  most  important 
use  which  it  had  never  known  before.  From  the 
day  Hoone  ami  his  assistants  decided  njion  the  ex- 
act Idcatidu  df  his  "Trace"  it  assumed  a  distinctive 
character  as  a  highway  by  which  white  men  df  the 
then  colonies  of  Virgiiua,  and  the  two  Carolinas 
in  the  South,  and  others  far  to  the  North,  were 
guaranteed  access  to,  and  egress  from,  Kentucky 
on  horseback. 

\\dien  Uoone  markeil  out  his  I'dad  thrdugh  Cum- 
berland (Jap  to  the  Kentucky  Kiver,  he  marked  also 


the  point  at  wliioh  we  may  say  the  real  settlement 
of  Kentucky  began.  And  we  can  not  justly  over- 
look the  imjxirtant  ])art  played  in  this  di'ama  by 
anolhci-  man  df  force  and  ability  wlm  stood  back  of 
l>aniel  Udone  and  employed  him  to  act  for  him  in 
this  uinlertaking.  We  refer,  of  cotirse,  to  Col. 
Kichard  Henderson,  of  North  Carolina,  the  father 
of  the  short-lived  "Transylvania  Colony."  He  it 
was  that  took  the  lead  in  planning  and  executing 
the  imrchase  from  the  Chei-okee  Indians  of  the  best 
jiart  (d'  what  we  now  kudw  as  Kentucky — abdut 
seventeen  million  acres — for  the  sum  of  ten  thou- 
sand pounds,  sterling.  AVitli  him  were  associated 
a  nundier  of  gentlemen — Haywo<id  (page  oOl,  men- 
tions nine,  including  Col.  Ilendeison — and  one  (if 
the  ludst  pi'dminent  of  the  company  was  Nathani(d 
Hart.  The  negotiations  were  begun  in  the  fall  of 
1774,  and  finally  concluded  by  the  Treaty  of  Wa- 
tauga, March  17,  177ri,  at  the  Sycamoic  Shoals. 
This  i)lace  is  in  the  jireseid  County  of  Cartel-,  near 
the  town  (d'  Elizabelhton.  When  Col.  Henderson 
and  Cdl.  Hart  visited  the  Cherokee  towns  to  ar- 
range for  the  council  to  be  held  at  Sycamore  Shoals 
they  took  Daniel  P.oone  with  them.  ISoone  had  by 
Ihis  lime  be(  II  iclieved  of  his  duties  as  commander 
of  Hie  three  forts  on  Clinch  Kiver  near  Castle's 
\\dods.  .Monette,  ([noted  by  Kamsey  (page  117), 
stales  that  there  were  twehc  hundred  Indians  ac- 
tually present  on  the  lie  aty  grounds.  The  elo([uent 
and  pathetic  address  of  the  ( 'heidkee  chief  and  ora- 
Idi',  Ocoiiostota,  so  often  i-eferred  to  in  the  liis- 
li.rics,  was  made  at  this  great  council,  in  which  he 
picliind  w  ith  great  jiowei-  and  feeling  the  gradiuil 
decline  df  the  Red  Man,  and  foretold,  with  prophetic 
accuracy,  the  final  extinction  of  his  race.  He, 
in  his  speech,  sdlemnly  jirdtested  against  the  ces- 
sion (if  tin  ir  lands  to  the  \\'hites,  but  his  name  was, 
after  all,  sigiud  to  the  treaty — he  saw  he  was  in  a 
hojieless  mimu'ity.  Though  Boone,  (hmbtless,  put 
no  nidiiey  into  the  undertaking  he  did  invest  what 
was  (|uitc  as  essential  to  success;  his  knowledge  of 
the  savages  to  be  dealt  with,  and  his  uiienualled  ac- 
(piaintance  with  the  region  transferred  by  the 
Cherokees  to  the  Henderson  Company.  It  is  not 
easy  to  see  how  I>(i(jiie's  services  could  have  been 
disiiensed  with  either  in  bringing  about  the  pur- 
chase in  a  peaceable  and  satisfactory  manner,  or  in 
opening  up  a  suitable  thoroughfare  to  the  heart  of 
Kentucky  which  would  invite  settlers  from  the 
various  sections  of  countrv  on  which  Heudei"son 
expected  to  rely  for  purchasers  and  settlers.     By 


APPENDIX   B— TllKEK   PloNEEK   EOADS. 


47:) 


some  writers  it  is  ass(>rt('(l — witli  good  reason,  as 
we  believe — tliat  the  visit  liooiie  liad  iiuuie  1o  Ken- 
tucky in  17()!t  was  at  tlie  sug'^'eslioii  of  ("ol.  ilciidcr- 
son,  and  for  the  express  purjxvsc  ol'  |ii-c|iariii.ii'  Ihc 
way  for  tlie  Watanjia  Treaty  of  177."). 

It  slionld  he  remenihered,  as  has  lieen  inliiiiat(Ml, 
tliat  llic  real  settlement  of  Keniiuky  liad  not  been 
liciiun  wlien  Boone  started,  about  Marcli  10,  177."'>, 
witli  his  company  of  men  from  tlic  \\'ataui;a  Sel- 
tlemeut  to  marlc   out   his  famo\is  "'rracc"    lo   the 
Kentucky  Kiver.     True,  the  ^McAfees  had    localcd 
and   surveyed  their  settlement  on    Sail    Kiver,    in 
what  is  now  fiercer  County,  in  July,  177:>.  and  had 
visilcd  tjicir  lands  lo  im]iro\('  and  lonl<  al'lci-  ihciii 
in   1774,  and  sevcu'al  weeks  prior  lo   rioonc's  Icav- 
iuL;   \\'ataui;a,  in  March,  1775,  they  were  in  Ken- 
lucky  iilanting  crops.     It  is  also  true  that  Capt. 
Ja,mes  Harrod  luul  made  an  attem](l  lo  efl'ect  a  set- 
tlement at  Ilarrodsburji'  in  1774,  but  he  had  been 
c(.m]K  lied  In  aliandnu  liis  cabins  a  few  weeks  after 
their  ei'ection,  and  not  I  ill   Hie  sjtrini;  of  177.">  did 
the  pernmnent  possession  of  them  begin.     Hence, 
we  nuiy  truthfully  say  that  Boone's  road-making 
journey  to  the  interior  of  Kentucky  in  March,  177."), 
was  epochal,  marking  the  dawn  of  a  new  day  for 
that  fair  jiortion  of  Virginia  whicii  lay  to  Ihe  west 
of  the  Cumberland  .Mountains.     I'rom  that  day  on- 
ward   Kentucky    had  something     she    had    never 
boasted    liefore — a  highway,  at    least    in  embryo, 
which  was  in  some  real  sense,  the  work  of  men  of 
the  all-con(|uering  Saxon  race.      Indian  trails  and 
bulTalo  ])allis  without  mnaber  she  hail  liad  for  ages 
— now,  for  the  first  time,  she  f>ossesse(l   the  sem- 
blance of  at  least  one  road,  jiartly  due  to  the  efforts 
of  civilized  man. 

The  region  from  which  Boone's  Trace  took  its 
departure  was  that  lovely  valley  on  Ihe  \Valanga 
Kiver  in  which  the  Beans,  and  llobertsons.  and 
Carters,  and  Seviers,  and  ^^■()macks,  elc,  had,  prior 
to  1772,  created  the  fanu)us  ^^'atauga  Association, 
and  made  a  start  in  the  settlement  of  East  Tennes- 
see, which  ante-dated  that  of  Kentucky  by  several 
years.  In  that  part  of  the  country  several  forls  had 
been  erected,  and  a  few  homes  eslabiished  as  far 
north  as  the  Long  Island  of  llolslon  Kiver;  and 
about  Abingdon,  some  forty  miles  to  the  north- 
east of  that  place,  a  very  considerable  population 
had  grown  up,  with  churches  and  the  other 
nmrks  of  a  civilized  community,  several  years  be- 
fore Boone  began  his  road-making  tour  to  Keu- 
tuckv.      l!ul    the  frontier  of  civili/.al  ion   was  then 


at  Ihe  Xorlh  Fork  of  ITolslon  Biver,  or  at   I'.ig  .Moc- 
casin (iaji,  a  couple  of  miles  north  ni'  it.     That  dar- 
ing ad\ciit  iirer,  ('aptain  .losepli    .Martin,  as  before 
nnleil.     had,    ilideiMl.    guiie     right     llji    into     the    N'el'y 
shadow    of   ( 'n  niberla  nd     .\lciniit;iin.    twenty     miles 
east    of  ( 'umliei-land    <Ia|i.  and    imili    his  labiii,    in 
I7(IS,  bnt   the   Indians  had    Inrced   him   hack  a  very 
U'W   inonlhs    al'li'r    he   j;ot     ihere,    cnmpeljing    Ihe 
ahaiidonmeni   of  iiis  (iiii|iiist    for  a   time.     The  title 
"W'ildeiaiess  itoad"  could  ha\e  had  nn  very  delinite 
meaning,  as  we  heliivc,  in   .\lar<h,   177."),  as  ajiplied 
to  tlie  mere  Indian  trail  going  west   from  that  (Jap. 
o\'er  which  there  was  i)raclically  no  trallic — a  path 
wiiich  was  not,  onl\^  in   the  wihleniess  at    Itig   .Moc- 
casin   Cap    lint     whose    remotest     termini     touched 
nothing  else  hut    Ihe  w  ilderues.s.     In  other  words, 
for  all  the  purposes  of  civilization  there  was  as  yet 
nothing  in  llie  way  of  a  road  west^  or  north  of  llial 
Cap,    but    only    a    jialh     for    savages    and     wild 
beasls.     The    name    ••Wilderness    Boad"    did    not 
signify    a    road    that    was    wholly    within   a    howl- 
ing   wilderness,   bnl     a    highway   which    led    to  a 
country  at  least  partially  settled,  beyond  which  lay 
a  wild  and   uniidmbited  region.     After  Kentucky 
had  been    partially    occupied    liy  white    mi  ii,  and 
inter-communication    between    il    and    the    .Mother 
State  had  been  fairly  established,  the  nana'  ••Wild- 
erness Boad"  was  more  and   more  applied  to  the 
whole  route  to  the  h'alls  of  the  Ohio,  and  the  names 
••Long     llunter.s'     Boad"     and     "Boone's     Trace" 
dropped  more  and  more  out  of  |)opidar  usage. 

The  accounts  of  Itooiie's  marking  his  Trace,  as 
we  tind  them  in  Haywood,  llamsey.  Summers,  Col- 
lins, etc.,  substantially  agree  as  to  the  following 
particulars:  First,  the  Trai-e  began  at  Sycamore 
Shoals  on  the  Watauga,  though  Boone  and  parly 
had  no  marking  or  culling  to  do  till  they  got  to 
Long  Island,  about  twenty  miles  north-Mfst  of 
Sycamoi-e  Shoals.  This,  because  there  was  already 
a  road  to  that  point.  There  was  then  a  fort  at  the 
upper  (or  southern)  end  of  that  Island,  and  an- 
other aliout  seven  miles  to  the  east;  and  though 
tliese  were  the  out-])osts  of  ci\iliy.alion  then,  we 
can  understand  that  fairly  good  bridle-paths  ex- 
tended that  far.  Secondly,  Boone  and  party 
started  fill-  Kentucky  on  I  his  I'oad-making  mission 
^larcli  10,  whicli  was  a,  week  in  advance  of  the 
actual  conclusion  of  Col.  Hendei'son's  treaty  with 
the  ('herokees,  and  |iroceede<l  to  Boonesboro  (to 
be  I,  where  they  arrived  about  Ihe  first  of  Ajiril, 
about  three  weeks  in  advance  of  Col.  Henderson  and 


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THE   WOODS-McAFEE   MEMORIAL. 


party.  Thirdly,  Rooiie's  party  cousisted  of  thirty 
men,  of  wlmiu  tweuty-two  were  his  owu,  aud  eiglit 
were  of  Capt.  Twetty's  compauy.  Fourthly,  the 
only  iniplciiicuts  these  men  liad  for  "road-making" 
were  luiiclicts  and  toniuhairks.  I'ossihly  they 
had  axes  also.  They  had  no  i)l()\\s,  scrapers, 
or  e\eu  hoes,  much  less  any  appliances  for 
blasting.  This  at  once  suggests  that  \\\vAt  they 
did  was,  for  the  most  part,  to  cut  away  some  of  the 
smaller  limbs  and  undergrowth  along  trails  or 
paths  already  in  existence.  Fifthly,  the  most 
laborious  work  they  performed,  and  the  only  woi'k 
worthy  of  being  designated  as  original  road-mak- 
ing, occurred  between  Rockcastle  Kiver  (where 
they  crossed  it)  and  the  Kentucky  l{i\er.  For 
twenty  miles  north  of  Rockcastle  liiver  they  cut 
their  way  through  a  region  covered  with  dead 
brusli,  which  must  have  extended  nearly  to  the 
Gai>  in  Rig  Hill  which  bears  Boone's  owu  name. 
The  remainder  of  the  way  to  Kentucky  lUver,  a 
distance  of  about  thirty  miles,  Avas  through  thick 
cane  and  reeds.  Lastly,  Col.  Henderson,  who  fol- 
lowed Boone  aliout  three  weeks  after  he  started, 
took  wagons  as  far  as  Martin's  Caliins,  twenty 
miles  east  of  Cumberland  Gap,  which  point  he 
reached  only  with  much  ditticulty.  The  rest  of  the 
journey  to  Bi>onesboro  was  made  on  horse-back, 
occui»yiug  fifteen  days.  On  reaching  Bocmcsboro 
he  fitund  the  Indians  had  already  attacked  Boone's 
comiiany  twice,  killing  Captain  Twetty  and  three 
other  men,  and  wounding  a  tifth  man. 

This  Trace,  after  passing  Big  ^[(jccasin  (Jap  f(d- 
lowed  the  same  trail  l»r.  ^^'alker  had  gone  in  1750, 
and  which  in  after  yeai's  came  to  be  called  the 
Wilderness  Road.  About  four  miles  west  of  Pow- 
ell's River,  and  two  miles  east  of  the  site  of  the 
present  town  of  Jonesville,  this  Trace  came  into 
the  trail  which  the  Long  Hunters  of  17(J9  had  trav- 
eled on  their  way  down  Clinch  and  PoweH's  Rivers 
to  Cundterland  Gaj)  and  Kentucky.  There  are 
nundjerless  places  on  the  present  wagon-road  along 
the  course  of  this  old  Trace  which  can  be  identified 
beyond  (luestiou  as  having  been  trodden  by  Boone 
and  party,  and  by  Henderson  and  party,  in  March- 
April,  1775,  and  by  thousands  of  immigrants  to 
Kentucky.  The  author  of  this  volume,  after  consid- 
erable effort,  procured  good  photographs  of  Cumber- 
land tJapj  ^Vasioto  Gap  (Piueville),  and  a  view  of 
Boone's  Trace  on  Cumberland  River  in  Wasioto 
Gap,  all  of  which  have  been  reproduced  in  half- 
tone engravings  for  this  work.    They  can  be  read- 


ily found  in  this  volume  by  referring  to  the  index. 
The  interest  which  the  descendants  of  both  the 
A\'oodses  and  McAfees  naturally  have  in  \\\e  Wild- 
erness Road  is  largely  the  same  as  to  Boone's  Trace, 
since  the  two  are  one  and  the  same  from  Big  Moc- 
casin Gap  to  the  Hazel  I'atch,  a  distance  of  nearly 
one  hiindi'ed  and  IVirty  miles.  At  the  Hazel  Patch, 
a  few  miles  south  of  Rockcastle  River,  the  Wilder- 
ness Road  diverged  to  the  north-west,  and  Boone's 
Trace  went  on  in  a  northerly  direction.  The  Wild- 
erness Road  seems  to  have  turned  directly  west- 
ward from  the  Hazel  Patch  and  to  have  crossed 
Rockcastle  River  aboiit  the  mouth  of  Skeggs's 
Creek,  and  then  proceeded  on  towards  Crab  Orchard 
and  the  Ohio  Falls.  It  was  that  way  nearly  all  the 
older  Woodses  came  in  migrating  to  Kentucky  in 
1780-1795.  That  way  went  the  McAfees,  again  and 
again,  both  going  and  returning,  and  just  there  at 
the  Hazel  I'atch  occurred  one  of  the  most  impres- 
sive little  incidents  in  the  history  of  the  McAfees. 
As  Col.  Henderson  and  his  company  were  follow- 
ing I>oone's  wake  on  their  way  to  Booneslioro, 
about  three  weeks  beliind  him,  he  met  here  and 
there  along  the  Trace,  numbers  of  settlers  hurriedly 
coming  l)ack  on  tlieir  way  to  their  old  homes  in  Vir- 
ginia or  the  Carol inas.  Most  of  them  were  leaving 
Kentucky  in  great  alarm  because  of  the  bitter  hos- 
tility of  the  savages.  ^Vhen  Col.  Henderson 
reached  the  Hazel  Patch  Sunday,  April  10,  at  noon, 
he  met  a  considei"ible  comi»any  of  men  who  had 
come  fr(un  the  \Mlderness  Road  and  were  return- 
ing to  Mrginia.  Among  them  were  James  Mc- 
.\.fee,  and  his  three  Itrothers,  George,  Robert  aud 
William,  i  See  Col.  Henderson's  Journal,  as  given 
by  Collins,  \'ol.  1',  page  lt)U.  j  General  R.  B.  McAfee, 
in  his  autobiography,  says  this  meeting  occun-etl 
"at  the  crossing  of  Skeggs's  Creek  (a  branch  of 
Lioclccastle  River''),  but  he  must  have  meant  to  say 
it  was  "just  after  the  crossing"  of  said  creek,  for  it 
is  almost  certain  that  Boone's  Trace  did  not  cross 
Roi-kcastle  at  the  mouth  of  Skeggs's  Creek,  which  is 
two  miles  to  the  west  of  Hazel  Patch,  but  nearly 
tlve  to  ten  miles  north  or  north-east  of  Hazel 
Patch.  In  this  case,  as  Col.  Henderson  was  going 
north  b}-  Boone's  Trace,  the  two  parties  could  not 
have  met  at  all  except  at,  or  south  of,  Htuel  Patch, 
s\here  the  two  trails  separated.  The  McAfees,  of 
course,  had  come  vkh  Crab  Orchard  on  the  ^^'ilder- 
ness  Road.  But,  be  that  as  it  may,  there  is  no  sort 
of  doubt  that  the  McAfees  and  Col.  Henderson  met 
then    and    there   on   that  Sabbath    day,  April    10, 


APPENDIX   B— TUKEE   PIONKi;j;    KOADS. 


177."),  and  that  the  Coloiiol,  spoinj];  that  ho  was 
dealing  witli  intcllincnt,  serious  iiicii  of  tlie  Iicltcr 
class — men  who  were  not  Icavinii  Kciiliirky  in  a 
panifky  state  of  mind  hecanse  of  the  savages,  l)iil 
simply  becanse  they  had  visited  their  lands  on  Salt 
River,  put  in  their  crops,  and  concluded  all  liii' 
business  for  whirh  they  had  visited  ivcnincky.  and 
were  returning  to  their  families  in  \'irginia. 
Shrewd  a  man  as  Co].  IIeiid<'rson  was,  ii  probably 
did  mit  take  him  but  a  few  moments  to  see  that 
these  McAfees  were  the  very  kind  of  jieople  it 
would  be  advisable  to  enlist  in  his  venture  at 
Boonesboro.  So  he  invited  them  to  listen  to  him 
while  he  unfolded  to  them  his  plans.  He  i-ecounted 
to  them  the  Treaty  of  Watauga,  whereby  he  thought 
he  had  secured  a  sure  title  to  about  two-thirds  of 
Kentucky,  and  pictured  to  them  the  advantages 
they  would  secure  iu  going  with  him  to  Boonesboro 
aud  there  castiug  iu  their  lots  with  the  Transyl- 
vania Colony.  The  shrewd  Cidonel's  logic  won  the 
favcn-able  attention  of  George,  Eobert  and  William 
McAfee,  aud  they  agreed  to  go  with  him.  l>nt 
James,  who  was  tlie  elder  brother,  and  a  mau  of 
about  forty,  shook  his  head,  and  decliued  the  pro- 
posal. He  told  the  Colonel,  and  his  own  brothel's, 
that  the  Treaty  of  Watauga  lacked  the  sanction  of 
the  Colony  of  Virginia,  and  hence  could  not  be 
valid.  His  three  younger  brothers  listened  to  Col. 
Henderson,  but  James  refused  to  yield  his  judg- 
ment. The  result  was  the  three  younger  ^McAfees 
went  on  to  Boonesboro  with  Col.  Henderson,  and 
James  pursued  his  journey  home  without  them.  It 
took  those  three  younger  brothers  only  about  two 
mouths  to  learn  that  the  advice  of  their  brother 
James  was  sound — Virginia  and  North  Carolina 
repudiated  the  Treaty  of  Watauga,  and  the  Tran- 
sylvania Colony  bubl)le  suddenly  burst,  and  the 
Avhole  scheme  proved  a  failure.  That  conference 
at  the  Hazel  Patch  that  April  day  a  century  and 
a  third  ago  has  made  Boone's  Trace  an  object  of 
interest  to  every  McAfee  for  all  time  to  come. 
What  a  scene  that  would  have  l)een  for  an  artist 
to  transfer  to  the  cam-as! 

The  route  Boone's  Trace  followed,  going  north 
from  Rockcastle  River,  led  up  Roun<lstone  d'ci-k, 
a  considerable  stream,  which  heads  up  in  the  Big 
Hill  near  Boone's  Gap,  and  close  to  tlie  juvsent 
Madison  County  line.  Here  was  the  stretch  of 
twenty  miles  which  lay  through  "ilead  brush." 
From  that  gap  on  to  the  Kent  inky  Kiver — about 
thirty  miles    distant — Boone's  party    had    to  use 


their  hatchets  almost  conslaidly  to  clear  a  bridle- 
liiith  tlirough  the  rich  cane.     This  looks  as  if  there 

was    I Id     ll-;iil     n|i     Kuii  mlsl  one.       ("See    Speed's 

Wilderness  l{oad,  i>age  2(». )  The  fifty  miles  from 
Kockcastle  liiver  to  the  Kentucky  l^at  P.oones- 
boro),  as  it  seems  to  us.  i-epresente<l  almost  the 
whole  of  Boone's  n-al  road  making.  (See  Collins, 
\'ol.  '2,  ])age  1!*7. i  I  le  could  ha\e  chosen  to  get  onto 
Station  Camp  Creek,  about  twenty  miles  north- 
cast    of    the    Jilace    al     wllicll     lie    cl'ossed     the     IJock- 

castle,  wlieic  lie  would  ha\'e  gotten  into  the  old  In- 
dian trail,  leading  to  the  Kentucky  River  at  tlie 
site  of  the  ]u-esent  town  of  Irvine — the  same  trail 
Dr.  Thomas  Walker  struck  .May  1!»,  17."0— (see 
Johnston's  I'irsI  I'.xplorat  ions  of  Kentucky, 
Page  til) — but  he  evidently  preferred  to  locate 
the  proposed  "Cajiital  of  Transylvania''  right  in 
the  "Bluegrass,"  and  so  was  willing  to  cut  his  own 
road,  if  need  be.  that  last  fifty  miles.  The  picture 
of  a  "Typical  Pioneer  Fort."  to  be  ftuind  in  this 
work,  is  i-egai'ded  as  a  fair  reproduci  icm  of  the  one 
Boone  (-(uistructed  at  l>oonesb(U"o  in  177."). 

That  this  so-called  road  which  Boone  marked  out 
in  1775  was  an  exceedingly  superficial  sort  of  thor- 
oughfare is  a]>|)ai-ent  fiom  the  estimate  which  the 
^'irginia  Legislature  seems  to  have  had  of  it  only 
a  few  years  after  it  was  constnicted.  Captain 
Speed  says  of  it,  in  liis  WildeT-ness  Road  (page 
20  I  :  "The  road  marked  out  was  at  host  hut  a 
trace.  No  vehicle  of  any  sf)rt  passefl  over  it  be- 
fore it  was  made  a  wagon-road  by  action  of  the 
State  Legislature  in  170")."  The  action  of  Vir- 
ginia, however,  just  referred  to,  reads  as  if  Boone's 
Trace  was  not  even  a  foot-i>ath — almost  as  if  it  had 
neyer  been  heard  of  at  all.  In  October.  1770,  a  lit- 
tle more  than  four  years  after  Boone  did  his  work 
for  Hendei'son,  we  find  the  A^irginia  Legislature 
passing  an  act,  entitled  "An  act  for  marking  and 
opening  a  road  over  the  Cumberland  ;Mountain 
into  the  County  of  Kentucky.''  By  said  act  Evan 
Shelby  and  Richard  Callaway  were  appointed  com- 
missioners to  explore  the  country  adjacent  to,  and 
on  both  sides  of.  the  Cumbe7-land  ^lountains,  and 
to  trace  out  and  mark  the  most  convenient  road 
from  the  settlenu-nts  on  the  east  side  of  said  moun- 
tains over  the  same  into  the  open  country  in  the 
said  county  of  Kentucky,  and  to  cause  such  road, 
with  all  convenient  dis])atch.  to  be  openerl  and 
cleared  in  such  mannei-  as  to  give  passage  to  trav- 
ellers with  pack-liorse.s.  etc..  etc  The  act  provided 
an  armed  guard  of  fifty  men  to  lie  subject  to  the 


478  THE    WOODS-McAFEE    MEMORIAL. 

call  of  (lie  coiniuissioiicrs.     Tf  we  could  ])('rsonify  uess  Koad   from   New  IMvcr  ilivoiiuli   CniiibcrlaiKl 

the  tiii-cc  m'cat  pioneer  roads  of  wliicli  wc  have  been  Oa)>  to  Kockcasllc  llivcr,  and  llicn  liv  Ihc  \\ildcr- 

treatiii.u,  and  conid  (hink  llicin  cai>alilc  of  such  nn-  ucss    Koad   on    lo    Salt    Kivcr.     The   road    was   no 

dignified  i;ni;lish,  as  is  some  of  the  liand\   slaniiof  donht    ron^li   and   steep    in    places — it    is  uot  all   u 

onr  da.v,    we   could    r(adilv    imaiiine   them   as   con-  smooth,   deaddevel    hiiihway   to-day — hnt   it  was  a 

fi'onlinii-    llic    N'ii'iiinia     Koad    ( "ommisssioiiers    as  i)racticahl('  trail  for  "travellers  with  jiack-horses." 

they  clindH([  the  sleep  -rade  al   Cundierland   (ia|>  ^<'t   lis   lio|ie   it   was  a   most    (leli;L;ht  fully   jdeasaut 

on  their  mission  to  "lrac(M)iit  and  mark  a  road  such  thoronuhfare  when   those  A'irninia    Koad   <-ominis- 

as    would   ji'ive    ]iassai;-e   for  travellers   with    pack-  siouers  of   ITTH-lTSl  yot  thr(ni,iih   with   their  task 

horses'"    with   (he  rather  viiiorous   in(|niry:      "^Ve  fr(un  the  foot  of  Cnmherlaiid  Mountain  on  the  east 

wiiuld    lie    pleased    lo   know,    licutlemeu.    where   icc  to  the  li'vel  lands  in  I  he  intericu- of  I  he  "( "ounty  of 

come  in."     They  mii;ht  e\cn  ha\'e  ventured  to  re-  Kentucky." 

mark:     "We  like  your  nerve."     I'.nt  certain  it  is,  STATION'S  ( H"    IlooXIO'S   TKACE. 

those  commissiouei's  obeyed  the  (U'der  of  \'irninia,  mii.i:s. 

and  on  l>(.(Mnber  1,  1781,  they  reported  to  the  Leg-  l''i*"'i"    Sycamore    Shoals    (oL(Uig     Island  of 

islature  that   thev   had  comideted  tludr  task,  and  Holstou    2."> 

I     ,   ,.       ,,  '  t-        1       ,1  ,o       IT  1  rom  Long-  Island  to  Big-  .Moccasin  (iap 10 

asked  f(n'  the  (-(uupensation  due  them.        See  Hen-  ,,           ,,.    ',,            ■     ,i        ,      r        ^-          ,.  ,r„ 

'  I'r(un   I>ig  .Moccasin  dap  to  .Innction  of  Three 

iiig's   Slalules  at    Large,    \  ol.   X.,   page    143;   and  Koads                                                                         3" 

SumuKi's"  Sontli-west  Virginia,  page  2S0. 1     There  Fnuu   .Junction  of  Koads  to  (Mimberland  <iap.      :>!» 

is  certainly  in  these  transacticnis  a  ]iretty  clear  in-      From  ("iimberland  (lap  to  Mat  Lick 2- 

dicatiou    that   PwMUie's  Trace  and    the   Long  Ilnn-      '''i'*""   Flat  Lick  to  the  Hazel  I'atch 40 

te.-s-  Koa.l  and  the  Wilderness  Koad,  all  combined.  ''''""i  1 1:'^-''!    I'>i<<-li   <"  <^n'ssing  of  K.M-kcasth' 

\\cre  regarded   bv   IIk    N'irginia    Legislature  as  al-      i...         i,,    i  WW-  '    '  V  ' t,'  '  '  '  '.  '  A ->„ 

•  ^  ^  tnun  Kockcastle  luver  to  l.oone  s  (Jap 20 

most  e(|uivab-id  to  no  road  at  all;  as  .-ertainly  not      p,,un  I'.oone's  ( ia].  to  l!oonesb<u-o 30 

eipial     to    "the   ]iassage  <d'     travellers    with    ]iack-  . 

horses."      lint   it   is  beyond  all  (|uestion  that  before  Total 23."5 

the  above   mentioned   act    was   canied    into   effect  From    I'.ig   ^loccasin    (iaj)   to   Hazel    Tatch    this 

tlnmsands   of   setlliM-s,    with    women    and    childi-en  road  coincides  with  the  Wilderness   Koad.     From 

and  catlle  and    household  effecis,   had    come   into  the  jnuction  of  the  three  roads  in  I'oweirs  Valley 

Keuiuck\   b\  (uie  or  another  of  the  three  old  roads  fi>  the  Hazel  I'atch  it  coincides  also  with  the  Lou£r 

We   ha\('  been  discussing.      I-'(U-   instance,   the   .Mc-  Hunters'   I'ath.      It  is  sejiarate  and  <listinct  from 

Afees  and  their  associates,  in  the  fall  of  1770,  trav-  cither   n][\y    from    the  Watauga    to    Big    :Moccasin 

elled  either  the  Long  Hunters'  Koad  or  the  Wilder-  *':il'.  ;iiid  from  ihe  Hazel  I'atih  to  Booueshoro. 


APPENDIX  C— SOMi:   .\N<"li:N"r   DoCr.MHNTS.  470 

APPENDIX  C. 

SOME  ANCIENT  DOCUMENTS  OF  SPECIAL  INTEREST  TO  THE  WOODSES. 

We  have  repeatedly  had  dccasidii,  in  llic  iinccd-  liav.-  hnnulil   hind  llici-c  llini    vcar,  hiil   the  cai-licsl 

inn- ]>aLi('S  (if  this  work,  (()  make  rclVfcncc  lo  i-crlain      puitIlisc    \\c    lia\r    rcr.u-d    <ir    was    hL-nh-    of    • 

ohl  papers  h(d(int;ini;-  l«>  .Mr.  J.   \Valsoii  \\'(i(i(ls,  nf      Cliailcs  llndsnii  d •   10.    17:'.7.      ili-  paid    llndsun 

Mississippi,  and  some  of  lliciu  ai'c  hclic\c(i   lu  he  ••iiiiicly  |iciiiiids  cmiTnl  nmnry"  rm- a  li-ari  of-lwo 

of  sufficient  iiiiportauee  to  warrant  our  (plot  iuii'  (pi-  ihdiisand   a(  n  s  lyinu  and    iHin-    in    ilic  cminty  of 

suuunarizint;-  tlieni  in  such  manner  as  to  jireserve  (idochJand    (ai  ilic  Inandics  of    l\y  ('nek  and  on 

for  posterity  their  principal  parts,  in  case  llie  oris-  the  .si(h'  dl'    llic   IJiv.r   i;i\aniia."     'I'Im'    ilml  cdn- 

inals  sliould  he  h>st  or  destroyed.     We  have  taken      tains  all    df  tlic   liicn   custiunary   | ipmis   n-dnn- 

-reat  care  to  make  a  perfectly  reliahle  exhiidt,  he-  (hincies  and  rci.d  il  ions:  and  it  iM-ins  in  these 
lieviug  that  in  eoming  years  some  oi  the  descend-  \\(a-(ls:  '-Tiiis  Indenture  made  this  lentil  day  of 
ants  of  the  Woodses  might  find  it  extremely  desir-  dune  in  the  Tenth  year  id'  the  Ki  i-ii  ..f  dur  Sover- 
ahle  to  use  this  record  in  proving  i)ortions  of  the  <'ign  Lord  ( Jcdrge  the  Second  l>y  the  Crace  of  (lod 
history  of  their  ancestors.  Mr.  J.  Watwm  Woods  (d'Oreat  I'.ritain.  I'rance  ami  Ireland  King  De- 
is a  sou  of  the  late  \\'illiam  Moffett  Woods,   who      fender  df  tiie  laitli  v^e  .\nnd  I lini  one  Thousand 

was  horn  in  18()S,  and  died  in  ISdl];  and  (he  sahl  s(  ven   hundred  and    lliirty  seven    between  Charles 

William    .Moffett    Woods    was    a    son    of    .Michael  llndson  of  the  ( 'dniily  df  llanovei- ( ieul  :  (d' the  one 

Woods,   Third,   of  Ncdson    ("dunly,    Virginia,    who      I'.i'l  and  .Michael  W Is  of  the  Cdunly  of  (iooch- 

was  h(iru  ahout  174(1,  and  died   in    1S2.-.;  and   (he  I'nid  df  ijie  ..tlier  I'art   Wii  nesset  li,"  etc.,  etc.     The 

said  Michael  Woods,  Third,  was  a  sondf  Cdl.  dohu  deed  is  signed  hy  (diaries  lludson,  and  on  tlietwen- 

Woods,  who  was  horn  in  1712,  and  died  in  17111,  li''fl>  <l:iy  v(  Septemher.  17:'.7,  it  was  duly  recdrde.l 

and  who  was  the  main  executor  of  his  father's  es-  at  the  Coochland  Cdurl  llcnse. 

tate;  and  the  said  Col.  John  ^\■dO(ls  was  a  favorite 

son  (d'  Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park,  who  died  in  '*'>' '^  .MKXT  No.  2. 

17(ili,  and  was  the  main  executor  of  his  father's  es-  dnly  ;'>0,  174:! — 1  teed  of  .Michael  \^■ddds  to  His  Son, 

tate.    The  idd  papers  in  (|uesti(ni  consist  ])artly  of  •'"'m  ^^'<"'ds. 

those  which  came  into  Col.   dolin   Woods's  hands  [„    j7|;j_    Mi,.!,;,,.]    ,,f    Itlair    Park.    Iieiiig    then 

from  his  father;  partly  of  the  recidpts  (_'ol.  John  tiftyiiine  years  (dd,  and   having  a  large   nnndter 

Woods  took  as  executor  of  his  father's  est a(e;  and  ,,(•  ciiii,!,-,.,,   orown    lo   maturity,   (h'eded    tracts  of 

partlyof  those  which  Michael  Woods, Third,  took  as  i.,,,,]  ,,,  several  of  tlieni.     The  original  conveyance 

executor  of  the  estate  of  his  father.     These  papers  m;,,],.  |,,  hjs  son  dohii  is  the  didy  diie  oi'  tlie  lot  made 

have  heen  handed  down  from  Col.  .John  ^\'(^o(ls  to  |ii;|(,  year  which  is  in  the  hnndle  (d"  jiajiers  in  tlie 

his' great-grandson,  J.  ^^'atson  Woods,  in  a  direct  \\vitei''s    ]iossession.     It    conveys    to  dohn    Woods 

line.     The    genuineness    and    authenticity    of    the  t  hree  hnnd red  and  tifty  acres  of  the  tract   .Michael 

locuments  can   not  he  (luestiimed.     The  external  i,,.,,]   pnrdiased  of  Hudson  ahoiil   six  years  hefori 


:ind  internal  evidence  in  their  favor  is  complete.    A  ||„.  sjune  lieiiig  and  lying  on  hoth  sides  of  Mechnm's 

few  of  them  have  heen  reproduced  in  fac-simile  ex-  |;iver.     The    consideration    mentioned    is    "thirty 

pressly  f(U- this  work,  that  coming  generations  may  |„,|inds   Current    .Money   (d'   \'irgiiiia."     This   sum 

see  the  exact  chirography  of  their  remoter  forhears  was  mentioned,   wcdmilit    iidt.  merely  td   indicate 

as   well   as   the  subject  matter  of   the   papers  re-  th(.    value   of    the   gift,    and    |>roliah|y    no    money 

feiTed  to.  ])assed.     The  signature  of   .Midiael,    which   occurs 

DOCUMENT  No.  1.  ,1,,.,.,.  (j,,,,,^  j,,   n,,.  ,|,,,.,i_  j^  .,^  ..p.,,,.  ,,,,,1  j,.!.!,];,,.]. 

June  10,  1737 — Deed  of  Charles  lludson  (o  Michael  after  one  hundred   and   sixty  two  yeai's  as  it   wa.s 

Woods,  of  Idair  Park.  Il„.  ,|jiy  it  was  wrilten;  hut  i(  jireseids  some  rather 

Michael    A\'oods    settled    in    (iooddand    ('onnly  peculiar  features.    The  grantor  spells  his  Christian 

(noAV    Alhemaile),    Virginia,    in    1731.     lie    may  name  "Miclu'al,"   and   also  ".M  ieheall" ;  and   after 


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tliat  name  lie  writes  a  small  "iii,"  apparently  as  the 
initial  of  a  middle  name.  This  small  "m,"  in  eaoh 
of  the  fliree  cases,  looks  as  if  it  were  a)i  after- 
tlKMlliht,  llie  sjiace  l)el\\<'eii  the  ".MiclieaH"  and 
"A\'(io(ls"  is,  in  each  ease,  too  eramjied  to  admit 
of  the  "111"  lieini;-  wi'itten  fnll  size.  In  one  ease 
I  he  spare  is  So  narr((\v  that  the  "m"  is  written  be- 
low the  rt  st  of  the  name,  as  will  be  seen  in  tlie  fac- 
simile of  it  to  be  fonnd  in  I'art.  I  of  this  work. 
Tlien,  in  two  cases,  he  writes  his  Christian  name 
"Mieheall,"  and  once  ".Micheal."  Snch  marked 
variations  in  the  s])ellinii'  of  one's  own  innne  in  a 
sinjile  docnment  are  (piite  nnnsnal,  and  wonld  al- 
most indicate  thai  the  siij,ner  was  in  his  dotajje, 
thoi'.iih  snch  con  111  hardly  ha\'e  been  the  case.  We 
can  scarcely  say  with  ceitainty  \\liat  his  e.xaet 
name  was.  Fonr  men  witnessed  each  on(^  of  the 
three    siijninns,   to    wit:    ('has.    Lynch,  .Vrchibald 

W Is,   L'libert     .McNeley    and    William    Wallace. 

If  the  small  "m"  in  all  three  of  the  si.cnatnres  stood 
for  a  middle  nam<',  we  have  no  idea  \\hat  that  name 
\\as.  It  occnrs  now  here  else  in  any  pajier  or  record 
we  have  seen. 

DOCUMENT  No.  ?,. 

Nov.  1."),  17(14 — Keceipts  of  John  Woods's  Pastors. 

The  Kev.  Samuel  I'lack,  a  Presbyterian  minister, 
<j;ives  John  ^^'oods  a  receipt  in  17(14  for  his  "prom- 
ised stipend,"  which  amoniited  to  fifteen  shillincjs 
per  annum.  Several  such  reeeipts  were  iii'iven  iu 
subsecpient  years.  Mr.  Black  was  the  i>astor  of 
the  church  at  Kocklish  which  John  ^Voo(ls  at- 
tended part  of  the  time,  his  own  chnrcli  beinii-  that 
at  ilouutaiu  IMaius,  (piite  near  his  lu)me,  which  he 
and  his  father  and  near  kin  had  founded.  Mr. 
Black  calls  him  "Captain"  John  ^^'oods  in  17(')4 
and  17()."'),  but  in  17(J7  it  is  "Major"  John  Woods, 
for  in  17(i(>  he  had  been  commissioned  Major  of  the 
.Mbemarle  .Militia  by  (iov.  I'aminier.  After  1770 
lie  was  called  "Colonel"  John  Woods,  as  in  that 
year  he  had  been  made  Lieutenant  Colonel.  The 
])astor  of  Co\(',  Bockfish  and  ^Mountain  I'lains 
churches  alnnii  about  177l'-17S2  was  the  Bev.  Will- 
iam Ir\in;  and  he  also  <;ives  se\'eral  receijits  to 
"Col.  John  ^Voods,"  for  twenty  shillings  each  year, 
towards  his  "stipend."  lioth  .Mr.  B>lack  and  ^Ir. 
IiTin  iuvariably  append  to  their  names  the  mystic 
letters  "^^  D.  M."  I  \'n-hi  Ihinihil  Miiilstcrinin — 
Minister  of  the  Word  of  (!od  I.  Col.  AVoods  was  a 
Scotch-Irish  I'resbyterian,  and  he  paid  his  pastors 


accoi-dinii-  to  promise.  There  were  unhappy  dis- 
sensions in  the  churches  named  dnring  both  of  the 
pastorates  just  referred  to,  and  in  each  case  the 
miiuster  was  bitterly  o])]»osed  by  some  of  his  peo- 
ple, but  it  seems  Col.  AVoods  stood  by  the  preachers 
in  both  instances  by  paying  them  their  "stipends." 

DOCTTyiENT  No.  4. 

]\Iay  la,  17(;2--^P.ill  of  Sale  for  a  Slave. 

Our  Old  Virginia  ancestors  were  slave-holders, 
and  this  document  shows  that  Col.  John  Woods,  in 
.May,  17(')2,  ]mrchased  a  boy  about  thirteen  years 
old,  named  .Vllen,  not  from  a  S(mtherner,  but  from 
a  citizen  of  that  section  of  our  country  in  which  the 
traftic  in  m'groes  was  most  vigorously  denounced — 
mainly  after  their  slaves  had  been  converted  into 
good  hard  cash.  The  writing  shows  that  the  gentle- 
man from  whom  he  bought  ".Vllen"  was  a  certain 
John  Kidd,  of  the  city  ni  I'hiladeljihia,  and  the  con- 
sideration i>aid  was  "Sixty-five  pounds  current 
money  of  the  Proxince  of  Pennsylvania."  The  bill  of 
sale  was  executed  "at  (Joopers  Ferry  in  I  he  New 
Jerseys,"  and  was  witnessc^l  toby  Hubert  Anderson 
and  William  Dallas.  The  writing  is  perfectly  clear 
and  legible  after  <nie  hundred  and  forty-three  years, 
and  it  may  serve  to  remind  jiosterity  of  an  institu- 
tion whose  departure  wc  can  all  be  glad  of,  what- 
(-ver  our  views  as  to  the  ethical  character  of  the 
means  by  which  the  South  was  forced  to  accept  its 
abrogation. 

DOCUMENTS  5-0-7. 

Nov.  27,  17(;(; — Tune  9,  1770— Dec.  10,  1770. 

Colonial  Commissions  Issued  to  John  Woods. 

Prior  to  17(i(i  John  Woods,  sou  of  Michael,  of 
Blair  Park,  was  called  "Captain  John  ^Voods," 
and  there  is  good  reason  for  believing  that  he 
had  earned  that  title  by  actual  service  iu  the 
I'rencli  and  Indian  Wars  (1754-1703),  and  that 
the  ex[ierience  he  gained  during  that  contest,  to- 
getlnr  with  his  known  high  character,  accounted 
for  till'  hcmors  conferred  upon  him  by  three  of  the 
('(ilonial  governors  of  ^'irginia  in  gi\'ing  him  com- 
missiinis  in  the  militia,  (a)  The  tirst  was  from 
"Francis  Fau(piier,  Es(ir.,  his  ^lajesty's  Lientenaut- 
(i(»vernor,  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Colony 
and  Dominion  of  Virginia,"  appointing  him  "to  be 
.Major  of  the  ^lilitia  of  tlie  County  of  .Vlbemarle." 
This  commission  is  dated  at  Williamsburg  the 
twenty-seventh   day   of  November,   in   the  seventh 


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year  of  liis  Mnjcsty's  lAcisi'ii,  .1  unoqiic  Domini.  ITOfi. 
(t()\'t'i*in)i'  l'';ui(iiiici-"s  signature  is  (juite  distinct 
still,  (hi  The  second  Colonial  commission  he  re- 
ceived made  liim  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Albe- 
marle Militia — "whereof  Thomas  Jefferson,  Esqr., 
is  Lieutenant  and  Chief  Commander."  It  is  dated 
at  Williamsburg  the  ninth  (hi.v  of  June,  and  in  tlie 
tenth  year  of  his  ^Majesty's  IJeign,  Amtoquc  Domini 
1770.  It  has  appended  in  large  and  distinct  char- 
acters the  simple  name,  "Botetourt,"  though  the 
printed  heading  of  the  commission  reads  thus: 
"Norborne  Baron  dc  Botetourt,  his  Majesty's  Lieu- 
tenant and  Ciovernour  General  of  the  Colony  and 
Dominion  of  Virginia,  and  Vice  Admiral  of  the 
,sanie."  (c|  The  third  and  last  commission  is 
dated  Decemlx'r  10,  1770,  and  is  signed  by  "Will- 
iam Nelson,"  who  was  then  President  of  his  Ma- 
jesty's Council  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the 
Colony  and  I)omini(»n  of  Virginia.  Like  the  other 
two  it  is  given  at  AVilliamsburg.  The  position  to 
wliich  Col.  W\)ods  is  hereby  assigned  is  that  of 
"Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Militia  of  the  County 
of  All)cmarle,  whereof  Thonuis  Jefferson  is  Lieu- 
tenant and  Chief  Commander — the  same  position 
given  liim  some  months  previously  by  Lord  Bote- 
tourt. (Jlol.  AA'oods  was  fifty-eight  years  old  when 
this  commission  was  issued,  but  he  lived  twenty- 
one  years  after  receiving  it.  When  tlie  I\evolution 
began  he  was  about  sixty-four,  and  it  is  hardly 
likely  he  rendered  service  in  the  field  during  that 
great  contest.  His  active  years  were  given  to  the 
Colony  and  not  the  State  of  ^'irgiuia. 

DOCU.AIENT  No.  8— see  ]>age  4S1. 
July  1(1,  17(;7 — Receipt  to  John  Woods,  Executor. 
The  husliand  of  Hannah  W(»ods,  daughter  of 
Michael  of  Blair  Park,  was  William  Wallace,  Sr., 
and  this  couple  had  a  sou,  AVilliam  Wallace,  Jr. 
This  son  gave  John  Woods,  executor,  a  receipt  for 
liis  portion  as  the  grandson  of  Michael  Woods  of 
Blair  Park,  July  10,  17G7.  See  facsimile  of  Docu- 
ment 8,  page  481.  The  :Mary  Woods  and  James 
Woods,  who  sign  as  witnesses,  were  cliil- 
dren  of  Col.  John  Woods.  The  signature  of 
AVilliam  Wallace,  Sr.,  father  of  AMlliam  Wallace, 
Jr.,  can  be  seen  in  the  fac-simile  of  part  of  a  deed 
Michael  Woods  made  in  1743,  which  appears  on 
next  page. 

DOCLMEXT  No.  !»— see  page  48L 
July  10,  17G7 — Receipt  o.  John  Woods,  Executor. 
This  paper  is  a  receipt  which  Col.  John  Woods 
gave  as  a  legatee  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park  to  him- 


self as  executor  in  full  of  his  expenses  and  tnmble 
in  winding  u])  his  fatlier's  estate.  The  same  day 
he  gave  a.  like  Tcceijit  for  tlie  legacies  of  bis  two 
(laughters,  Sarali  and  Anna  Woods.  His  signa- 
tures to  the  two  I'cceipts,  respectively,  are  almost 
identical,  the  jteculiar  form  of  the  J.  and  the  W. 
Ipcing  found  the  same  in  both.  The  witnesses  to 
liotli  are  tlie  same,  (me  being  David  Lewis,  Jr.,  and 
the  other  his  son,  Michael  AVoods,  Jr. 

DOCT'.MENT  No.   10— see  page  4Sl, 
July  10,  17t)7 — Hannah  Wallace's  Receipt. 

This  lady  \\as  a  daughter  of  .Michael  Woods  of 
Blair  Park,  and  the  wife  of  William  Wallace.  It 
seems  she  had  rendered  personal  services  or  in- 
curred ex]i('nses  in  connection  w  itli  the  settlement 
of  her  father's  estate  for  which  she  received  three 
piamds,  fourteen  shillings  and  eight  jjence.  The 
James  and  Maiy  Woods  who  sign  this  receipt  were, 
beyond  all  doubt,  the  children  of  Col.  John  Woods, 
of  whom  an  account  will  be  f(uuid  in  Part  I  of 
this  volume. 

DOCUMENT  No.  11— see  page  483. 

July  15,  1707 — William  Woods's  Recei])t. 

The  eldest  son  (and  second  child)  of  ^Michael  of 
Blair  Park  and  Mary  ncc  Canipliell,  was  William. 
He  gave  two  recei])ts  to  his  lirother  John,  executor 
of  their  father's  estate,  July  15,  1707;  (me,  as  shown 
in  the  accompanying  fac-simile,  for  his  legacy;  and 
the  other,  for  certain  other  claims.  The  latter  is 
a  quaint  document,  and  runs  thus: — "Then  received 
of  Brother  John  ^^'oods  the  sum  of  twenty  shillings 
in  full  of  all  debts.  Dues  and  Demands  fr(uu  the  be- 
ginning of  tlie  world  till  the  day  of  date  hereof.  I 
say  received  by  me  all  errors  excepted."  One  of  the 
witnesses  in  each  of  these  rec(dpts  was  James 
A\'oods,  the  son  of  his  brother  John. 

DOCC.MENT  No.   12— see  ].age  483. 

Nov.  1(1,  1707 — Receipt  of  Robert  Poage. 

The  wife  of  Robert  Poage  was  Jean,  ncc  Wal- 
lace, a  daughter  of  William  'Wallace,  by  his  wife 
Hannah,  ncc  \\'(io(ls,  and  a  grand-dauglitci'  of  old 
Michael  of  Blair  Park.  Attention  is  called  to 
a  deceased  son  of  Archibald  A\'oo(ls.  That  son 
was  probably  alive  when  Michael's  will  was  made 
in  1761,  but  died  before  Michael  himself  did;  and 
as  Michael  had  said  in  his  will  his  "living"  grand- 
children should  inherit  under  the  will,  it  was  a 
question  whether  that  grandson  had  any  claim. 


APPENDIX  C— SOME  ANCIENT  DOCUMENTS. 


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FAC-SIMILE  OF    DOCU;HENT  NO.    n. 


RECEIPT  OF  ROBERT  POAGE. 

FAC-SIA\ILE   OF   DOCU.MENT  NO.    12. 


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DOCUMENT  No.  i;]~-s('e  i)ase  4S.5. 

July  2,  1708— Receipt  of   John  Woods,  of    South 
Carolina,  for  a  Brother  and  Sister. 

This  John  AVoods  A\-as,  as  seems  almost  certain, 
a  son  of  Arcliihald  Woods,  the  son  of  ^Michael  of 
Blair  Park.  That  he  was  a  ij;randsou  of  jNIichael  is 
absolutely  certain,  as  appears  in  a  receipt  which 
he  gave  Jolin  Woods,  executor,  on  receiving  the 
legacies  of  William  Woods  and  Isabella  Woods 
who,  we  know,  were  cliildren  of  Archibald  Woods, 
grandchildren  of  Michael,  and  citizens  of  South 
Carolina.  The  South  Carolina  John  Woods  is  fully 
discussed  in  Part  I  of  this  work,  in  connection  with 
his  father,  Archibald  Woods.  The  records  show- 
that  he  lived  in  Granville  County,  South  Carolina, 
and  in  July,  17(>S,  he  collected  six  legacies — five  be- 
sides his  own — for  as  many  grandchildren  of 
Michael  of  Blair  Park. 

DOCl'MENT  No.  14— see  ]iage  485. 

July  18,  17G8— Receipt  of  John  Woods,  of  South 
Carolina,  for  Three  Married  Sisters. 

The  John  Woods  already  referred  to  above  gave 
receipts  for  three  ladies  Avhom  we  regard  as  his 
sisters,  Mrs.  Brazeal,  Mrs.  Cowan  and  Mrs. 
Trimble.  It  is  deemed  most  probable  that  six  of 
Archil)ald  Woods's  children  were  living  in  Carolina 
in  17(i8,  and  that  the  John  Woods  mentioned  in 
this  document  came  to  Virginia  to  collect  the  six 
legacies,  Archibald,  his  father,  being  still  a  citizen 
of  Albemarle  County,  Virginia.  The  William 
AVoods  who  is  one  of  the  witnesses  to  this  receipt 
is  old  Michael's  son,  and  the  Susannai  Woods  who 
also  witnessed  to  it  was  the  A\idow  of  Col.  John 
Woods. 

DOCUMENT  No.  IH^sec  ].agc  480. 

July  2,  1708— Bond  of  Andrew  Wallace,  of  Albe- 
marle, and  John  Woods,  of  South  Carolina. 

The  John  Woods  whose  name  is  signed  to  the  two 
last  named  documents,  and  whose  home  was,  in 
1708,  in  South  Carolina,  is  a  puzzle  to  all  who 
study  the  lists  of  Michael  Woods's  children  and 
grandchildren.  This  question  is  fully  discussed  in 
Part  I  in  dealing  with  Archibald  Woods,  son  of 
Michael.  When  he  collected  from  his  uncle  John 
Woods  the  legacies  coming  to  bis  l)rother  William 
Woods  and  his  sister  Isaljella  A\'oods  he  was  re- 
quired to  give  the  execut(n'  an  indemnifying  bond, 
and  Andrew  Wallace,  a  brother  of  AA'illiam  Wal- 
lace, husband  of  Margaret  AV'oods,  and  ancestor  of 


Genera  1  Lew  Wallace,  recently  deceased,  joined 
John  in  this  bond.  The  bond  recites  that  said  John 
Woods  was  then  a  citizen  of  Granville  County, 
South  Carolina,  and  that  the  William  Woods  and 
Isabella  AVoods  whose  legacies  he  had  collected  for 
them  from  his  uncle  John  were  children  of  Archi- 
bald ^\do(ls.  and  ilieii  (July,  17()8|  living  in  Soulh 
Carolina,  It  is  strange  that  six  of  Archibald 
Woods's  children  should  have  migrated  to  the  low, 
swamp  lauds  of  the  extreme  southern  sea-coast 
part  of  South  Carolina,  leaving  their  father  in 
Albemarle.  But  we  know  that  Archibald,  a  few 
years  after  this  bond  was  executed,  left  Albemarle 
and  settled  on  Catawba  Creek,  in  what  is  now 
Roanoke  County,  and  there  spent  the  rest  of  his 
days;  and  we  feel  it  not  entirely  improbable  that 
his  son  John  died  soon  after  executing  this  bond ; 
and  that  .Vrchiluild  had  a  son  borne  to  him  in  1708 
to  whom  this  same  name  (John)  was  given.  This 
bond  was  witnessed  to  by  >\'illiaiM  '\\'allace  and 
Micliael  AN'allace,  Avho,  as  we  believe,  were  brothers, 
and  the  sons  of  AVilliam  Wallace  and  Hannah,  nvc 
Woods.  The  concluding  jiortion  of  this  bond  is 
herewith  jiresented  in  fac-simile. 

IMKU'MEXT  No.    K;— see  page  4S0. 

Nov.  20,  1793 — Receipt  of  Susannali  Woods. 

Susannah  was  the  youngest  child  of  Col.  John 
Woods.  It  is  not  unlikely  tluit  she  wrote  her  name 
Susannah  ^^'oods  for  the  last  time  when  she  signed 
this  receipt,  for  she  \\as  married  a  day  or  two  after- 
wards to  Daniel  Miller.  She,  a  few  years  later, 
removed  A\'ith  her  husband  to  Madison  County, 
Kentucky,  and  there  became  the  ancestress  of  a 
numerous  posterity'.  She  was  a  favorite  child  of 
her  father.  Her  lirothei-s,  James  and  Michael,  were 
the  executors  of  her  father's  estate,  though  James 
migrated  to  Kentucky  before  the  estate  was  settled 
up. 

DO<'rMENT  No.  17— see  page  48(>. 
October  5,  1797 — Receipt  of  Dan'l  Miller. 

This  is  the  man  A\ho  married  Susannah  Woods, 
as  mentioned  in  connection  Avith  the  preceding 
document.  The  William  Woods  who  appears  here- 
in as  one  of  the  witnesses,  was  not  William,  the 
son  of  INIichael,  nor  the  son  of  that  William 
("Beaver  Creek  ^^'illiam  Woods"),  but  probably 
William,  the  son  of  "Beaver  Creek  ^^'illiam,"  who 
came  to  be  known  in  Albemarle  as  "Beaver  Creek 
William,  the  Second."  We  reason  herein  almost 
entirely  from  the  signatures  to  lie  found  in  the  old 
papers  we  have  been  dealing  with. 


Ai'i'KNDix  ('    so.Mi:  a.\cii:nt  i>(»('r.\ii;xTs. 


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INDEX. 


I'Ac.i; 

Abell,  Dr.  C.  S 274 

Abell.  Dr.  Russell   274 

Abell,  Mary 274 

Adams.    Anna    118 

Adams,   Samuel    118-1 04 

Adams,   Thomas    57 

Adams,  William   lis 

Adamses,  The   181 

Adventurers,  and   Hunters    213 

,\iken,  Maria   355 

Alamance,  Battle  of   115 

Alderson,  George   217 

Alderson,  Rev.  John    180 

Alderson.  West  Virginia  180 

Alexander,   Anita    204 

Alexander,   Betty    38 

Alexander,   Emma    275 

Alexander,    Fanny    ....<. 275 

Alexander.    Gabriel    81 

Alexander.    .James    275 

Alexander,   ,Iin.ger 275 

Alexander,   Major  John    49 

Alexander,  Mildred    275 

Alexander,  Rev.   Arciiibald    44 

Alexander,  Richard    275 

Alexander,  William   275 

Allen,   Ann    5 

Allen,  James   45 

Allison,  Jennie    137 

Allison,    Joseph     133 

Anderson,   Archer    273 

Anderson,  Jean  Hamilton   273 

Anderson,  Rebekah    7 

Anderson,  Rev,  James   99 

Anderson,  Susannah    99 

Andrews,  John    46 

A])pendices,  The    423-486 

Armagh  County.  Ireland    156 

Armstrong,  J.  M 276 

Ai  mstrong.  J.  M..  Jr 277 

Armstrong.   Joseph    276 

Armstrong.,  Joseph  l.apsley   277 

Armstrong,   Lotta   H 277 

Armstrong,  Martha  A 277 

Armstrong,    Priscilla    210-249 

Armstrong,   Richard  T 277 

Ai  mstrong,    Robert    276 

Armstrong,   Rufus  V 277 

Armstrong,  William   190-196 

Armstrong,  William    276 

Ai  nold,   Major  ,Iohn    146 

Arnoux.   Anthony   308 

Attack  by  Indians  on  McAfee's  Station    187 

Atcherson,  Thomas    272 

Augusta  Academy,  Va 128 

Aylett,    Rebecca    130 

B. 

Bagnell,   Anne   .• 2 

Bailey,   Anna  W 24» 

Baileiy,    Margaret    273 

Baker,   Esther    5 

Baker,   James    320 

Baker,   Maria  C 124-320 

Baker,    Samuel    •  •  •  ^320 

Balcony  Falls,  Va 19-43-52-64 

Baldridge.  Susannah    136 

Ball.    Amanda    48 

Ballard.    Bland    47 

Banks.  Anita  Moore   ^60 

Banks.   Clinton    S 260 

Banks,  Jennie  Moore   ^bti 


PACK 

Banks,  Laura  Alice   260 

Banks,   Marvin    R 260 

Banks,  Mary  Robert    260 

Banks,  William   Rochester    260 

Barclay,    Hugh    106 

Barclay,  John  W 106 

Barclay,  Micliael  W..  M.  I) 106 

Barclay,  Mike   108 

Barnett,   Arthur    264 

Barnett,  Carl  Price   264-266 

Barnett,  Robert  McAfee    246,264 

Barnett,  Susan  J 109 

Barrett,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  of  Ireland    3-141 

Bates,  Mary   Iii8 

Beard,   .\lice  Woods    116 

Behre,  Daniel   Henderson    413 

Behre,  Florence  Gnstavia   412 

Behre,  Frederick  Gustavus   412 

Behre,   Gen.   Christian    412 

Behre.  Joanna  W 413 

Behre,  Sallie  Henderson    411 

Behre,   Susan   Webli    413 

Bell.   Elizabeth    419 

Bell,   Henderson    45 

Bell,    John    419 

Pen   Hur    359 

Ben  Hur  Beech    357 

Bennett,  Genevieve  Davis   255 

Beanett,  Joel  D 204-255 

Bennett,    Joseph    256 

Bennett,  Mary  McCIung,  nee  McAfee   256 

Benton,  Hon,  Thomas  H 51 

Berry,  Daniel,  M.  D 307 

Berry,    Susan    120-307 

Beverly,    Manar    42-53 

Big   Black   Mountains    173-207 

Big  Bone  Lick    167 

Birkhead.  Alice,  and  Family  410 

Birney,  James  G 47 

Black,  Judge  Gideon  B So-86-147 

Black,   Rev.   Samuel    22 

Black.  Thomas    86 

Blackburn.  Mrs.  James    374 

Blair  Park.  Va 20 

Bohon,  George — married  Anne  Woods   89 

Bond,   Annie  Bovle   397 

Bond,  William  Franklin   397 

Boone,  Daniel — Estimates  of  his  achievements 212 

Boone,    Letitia    410 

Boonesboro,    Ky 179 

Boone's  Road,  or  Trace   1 77-473 

Borden,    Ben,    Jr 47-54-144 

Borden,  Ben,  Sr 42-54 

Borden,  Hannah   55 

Borden.  John  54 

Borden,  Joseph   54 

Borden,    Martha     47-54 

Borden's    Grant     42-53-54 

Boston,  Addle  Woods   116 

Bowyer,   Col.  John    55.  56-145 

Boyce,  Sarah  Ann    60 

Bovce,  Susan  Jane  60 

Boyne,  Battle  of  the   156 

Brashear,    Dennis     46 

Brazeal,  Mrs.  Willis    114 

Breckinridge,  Rev.  Dr.  R.  J 51-161 

Brevard.   Albert    338 

Brevard,   Lizzie   A 338 

Briscoe,   William    7 

Brison,   Mary    1 23-320 

Brison.  Rebecca   123 

Brown,    Charles    88 


488 


INDEX. 


Brown,  Charles  Hamilton 

Brown,    Elizabeth    

Brown,  Elizabeth  E 

Brown,    Eugenia    

Brown,  Hattie  L 

Brown,  James   McAfee 


rAor: 
263 

320 

136 

282 

250 

263 

Brown,   Joseph    263 

Brown,   J.    Shannon    263 

Brown,    Lillie    354 

Brown,  Mary  Ann    263 

Brown,  Mrs.  Mandy    261 

Brown,  Professor  W.  G 143-289 

Brown,  Robert  McKarney   263 

Brown,  William    263 

Bruce,  Elizabeth  Barbour   289 

Bruce,  Helm    288 

Bruce,  Hon.  H.  W 289 

Bruce,  Helm,  Jr 289 

Bruce,   James   White    289 

Bruce,  Louise  Reid   289 

Bruce,  Mrs.  Helm   144-288 

Bryan,   Mary    316 

Buchanan.   Alexander    201.  209 

Buchanan,  Alexander  H 239 

Buchanan.  Anna  Maria  239-244 

Buchanan,    Annie     209 

Buchanan,    Caleb    245 

Buchanan.  Charles  Allen  246 

Buchanan,    Claiborne    244 

Buchanan,  Dorcas    209 

Buchanan,  Floro  Alma 3S6 

Buchanan.  George,  the  Pioneer   163-190-196-209-235 

Buchanan,  child  of  George,  the  Pioneer 209 

Buchanan.  George  McAfee  239-242 

Buchanan,  George  McAfee.  Jr 240 

Buchanan,  George  Watkins    246 

Buchanan.   Getirge  William    245 

Buchanan,   Henry   Rives    246 

Buchanan,  James,  child  of  George  and  Margaret 190-209 

Buchanan,  James,  child  of  James  M.  and  America 239 

Buchanan,  James  McAfee  246 

■Ruch  lan,   James    Milton    236 

Buchanan.  James  S 240 

Buchanan    Jane    209 

Buchanan.  John,  who  married  Margaret  Grant 204 

Buchanan.  John,  child  of  George,  the  Pioneer 209-236 

Buchanan,  John  W.,  child  of  J.  M.  and  America 239-244 

Buchanan,  Lee    236 

Buchanan.  Lizzie    236 

Buchanan,  Margaret,  child  of  George,  the  Pioneer 209 

Buchanan,  Mary,  who  married  Peter  Dunn 236 

Buchanan,    Mary   Yoder    239-243 

Buchanan.   Mary   Louise    386 

Buchanan,  Mary,  child  of  George,  the  Pioneer 209 

Buchanan.   Mildred    244 

Buchanan,  Nancy  McAfee,  child  of  George,  the  Pioneer.       209 

Buchanan.  Nancy  McAfee,  child  of  J.  M 239-243 

Buchanan,  Nellie   386 

Buchanan.    Nora    236 

Buchanan,  Queen   239 

Buchanan,    Sarah    E 239 

Buchanan.  Thomas,  child  of  J.  M.  and  America 239 

Buchanan,  Thomas  S.,  child  of  James  and  Rebecca 240 

Buchanan,  Victoria  N 240 

Buchanan,  Warren  244 

Buchanan,  William,  child  of  Alexander  and  Nancy 245 

Buchanan,  William,  child  of  J.  M.  and  America 239 

Buchanan,  William,  child  of  John   236 

Buchanan,  William  Terry   246 

Buchanan,  Wood  H 236 

Buckner.   Hon.   Richard   A 147 

Buckner.  Catherine   387 

Buford,   Charles   S 50 

Buford,  Col.  Abraham  50 

Buford,    Mary    50 

Buford,  William   S 50 

Bullitt,  Captain  Thomas    167-212-437 

Bullitt,  Hon.  Thomas  Walker   440 

Burnham.   Edmund  H 108 

Burnham,    Eugenia    108 

Burkes,  General  Armory    141 

Bush,  Anne   47 


pAci; 

Buster,  John    70 

Butler's  Kentucky   (History  of)    147 

Butler,  Mann   376 

Butler,  Mary  Malvina  379 

Butler,    Richard     439-440 

Burrows,    Mary   Jane    418 

Burrows,  Rev.  Reuben,   D.   D 419 

Burton,  Beulah   325 

Butts,    Mary     105 

C. 

Cabell,  Elizabeth    49 

Cabell,  Nicholas  (Colonel)  49 

Caldwell,  Abraham  1 48 

Caldwells,  The,  in  Virginia   42 

Campbell,   Given    120-307 

Campbell,    Given,   Jr 303 

Campbell,  James  (Judge)    308 

Campbell.  John  Poage  (Doctor)    46 

Campbell,  Magdalen   31-92-96 

Campbell,  Susan  E 307 

Campbell,    Susan    Woods    308 

Campbell,  Mary,  of  Ireland    9-23 

Campbell,  William    67  91-93-96 

Campliell,  William  (Colonel)    51 

Campbells,  The,  In  Virginia  42 

Canfield,  Carrie  Imogene   250 

Caniield,    Elizabeth    240 

Caperton,    Andrew     60 

Caperton,   Archibald    60 

Caperton.  Doctor  A.   C 60 

Caperton,  Green    60 

Caperton,   Hugh    60 

Caperton,    Huldah    60 

Caperton  James  W.  (Colonel)    309 

Caperton,  John   60 

Caperton,  Katherine  Phelps   313 

Caperton,   Mary  James    313 

Caperton,  Mary  P 312 

Caperton,  Milton  T 60 

Caperton,  Sallie  G 60 

Caperton,    Susan    60 

Caperton,  Thomas  Shelton   60 

Caperton,   William    (Colonel)    59-309 

Caperton,  William  H 60 

Caperton,   William,   Sr 309 

Cardwell,  John  R 275 

Cardwell,   Mary    209-275 

Carroll,  Nora  325 

Carrington.   Hannah    49 

Carson,  John   (Captain)    52 

Carson,  Samuel  P.   (Hon.)    52 

Carthrac,   Miss    47 

Caruthers,   Esther    105 

Caruthers,    Margaret    105 

Castleman.  Laura 389 

Castle's  Woods,  Virginia   174 

Casualties  in  Kentucky  due  to  the  Indians   189 

Catapas  (or  Catawba)   Creek,  Virginia  159 

Chandon,  Gaston  de   60 

Chapline,  Mary  338 

Chauvin,  Lise   344 

Chenault.    Elviree    36S 

Chenault,  Mattie  McDonald    403 

Chenault.    Susan    108 

Chenault.  William  0 403 

Cherokee  Indians    179-180 

Chrisman,    Betsy    45 

Chrisman,  Joseph,  Jr 52 

Chrisman,    Polly    46 

Christian,   Mary    51 

Christian,  AVilliam  (Colonel)    180 

Clack    ( Clok-Clock) .   Moses    375 

Claiborne,  Nathalie  244 

Claiborne,  Nathaniel  C.   (Colonel)    244 

Clark,  Agnes,  who  married  James  McAfee,  Jr 89,194,195 

Clark.  Bennett    256 

Clark,  Genevieve   Bennett    (See   Preface) .  .201-204-255-257,  260 

Clarlc,  Genevieve  B.,  child  of  Champ  and  Genevieve  B..  .  259 

Clark,  Hon.   Champ,  M.  C 256-257 

Clark,   George   Rogers    (General)    186-211-271 

Clark,   James  M 336 


INDEX. 


isli 


PAC.IC 

Clark,  James  W 105 

Clark,   Martha  W 336 

Clark.    Susan    B 58 

Clarke,  Judge,  of  Alabama  47 

Clav,  Annette   47 

Clay,  Henry   (Lt.  Colonel) 47 

Cleaver,  Louise  328 

Cleland,    Charlotte    131 

Cleland.  Thomas,  Rev.   Dr 193-368 

Cleland,  Thomas.  Rev.,  of  Missouri    42 

Clinch  River  Valley  174 

Clover  Lick  Creek,  Harlan  County,  Ky 173 

Cloyd,    David     121 

Clovd,    Elizabeth    50 

Cloyd,  James   129 

Clunendike,  with  the  McAfees  in  1781   187 

Coates.  Arthur  Edward    360 

Coat  of  Arms  of  one  branch  of  the  McAfees 152-155 

Coat  of  Arms  of  one  branch  of  the  Woodses xvi,     3 

Cochran,  George  M 52 

Cochran,  H.  P 32-34 

Cochran,   James    52 

C'ockrell,  Martha  Shannon    360 

Cockrill,   Benjamin   F 313 

Cockrill,  Susan   313 

Coleman.  William  Oscar   243 

Collins,  Barbee  J.  (Colonel)    58-60 

Collins,  Thomas   7 

Collins,  History  of  Kentucky  by  188-202-212 

Cook,   I^izzie    268 

Cooper,  Rachel   58 

Cornett,  Roliert   N 451 

Cornstalk,  Chief  of  the  Shawnees   171-175-439 

Council  of  the  McAfees  and  Col.  Henderson.  April,  177.")  17!» 

Coudert,  Catharine   60 

Coudert.   Frederick  R 60 

Cowan,  James  (Mrs.)    117 

Cowan,  John    70 

Cox,  Elizabeth  Dillwyn    325 

Craig.  George  E 387 

Craig,  Margaret  A 387 

Craig,  Elijah    211 

Craig.  W.  W 60 

Crawford,  Alex.  W.   (Rev.)    387 

Crawford,   Adne   Mitchell    387 

Crawford,   Irvine  Craig   387 

Ci  awford,  Lawrence   387 

Crawford,    Margaret    387 

Crawford,  Robert  Irvine   387 

Crawford,   Robert   Taylor    387 

Crawford.  William  H 95 

Crawford.  William  Harris  309 

Creel,    Eliza    392 

Creel,    Henry    E 404 

Creel,   Mary   Miller    406 

Creigh,   Sabina  L,   S 348 

Crocket.   Anna  E 277 

Crocket,  Anthony    (Colonel)     146,  277 

Crocket,  Samuel   277 

Crozet,  Virginia    314 

Crurapacker,   KSry   Ellen    337 

Crumpacker,  Richard    337 

Cumberland,  Duke  of  154 

Cumberland   Gap    74-75 

Cumberland   Mountain,  Rock  Wall  of  181-1S2 

Cummings,  Magdalen  Campbell  Wallace   31 

Cunningham,  Mary    275 

Currv,    Rebecca    -10 

Curry,  Susan   202 

Currys,  The   181 

D. 

Dabney,  Louisa  Elizabeth   106 

Daingerfield,  ,Toseph    F.,    M.    D 270 

Daingerfleld.  Joseph  F.,  Major   271 

Daingcrtield.   LeRoy    271 

Daingertield.   Miss   Sallie   201-270 

Daingerfield,  William,  Col 271 

Dalaney,  Robert 277 

Danville,    Kentucky     46-1S3 

Darnall,  Elizabeth  S 360 

Davenport,   Sarah   Harris    94 


PACK 

Davenport.  William   94 

Davenport,    William    201 

Davidson,    George    57-62 

Davidson,  History  of  Presbyterianism  in  Ky..  by 147 

Davies,  Samuel.  Rev 2? 

Daviess,  Annie  T 210-273 

Daviess,  Hannah     273 

Daviess,  name  properly  spelt  "Daviess"   273 

Daviess,  Jean  Hamilton   274 

Daviess,  John  Burton  Thompson    274 

Daviess.  Joseph    274 

Daviess,  Joseph  Hamilton.  Colonel  273 

Daviess,  Maria  Thompson   274 

Daviess,  Mortimer  Hamilton    274 

Daviess,    Nannie    274 

Daviess,  Samuel,  Captain  or  Judge  210 

Daviess,  Samuel,    (Jr.)     274 

Daviess,  William    (Major)    273 

Daviess,  William  J 274 

Davis,   John   W 236 

Dawn  of  New  Bra  for  Kentucky  167 

Dean,   Susie  T 240 

Dean.  Grace  L 25 J 

Bedman,   Anderson    377 

Dedman,  Anna  Daviess   379 

Dednian.  liartolelt   S 379 

Dedman,  "Birdie"   (M.  A.)    379 

Dedman,   Charles   McBrayer    231-379 

Dedman,  Dixon,  of  Albemarle   374 

Dedman,  Dickson  Gooch.  M.  D 4-377 

Dedman.  Old  Homestead  of  Dr.  Dickson  G 378 

Dedman,    Eliza    (Eloisa)    379 

Dedman-Gooch  Marriage  Bond — Fac-simile 370 

Dedman.   Henry    379 

Dedman,  James  Gustavus,  Captain  in  the  C.  S.  A 379 

Dedman,    John    37G 

Dedman,   Julia   Anderson    379 

Dedman,  Lucy   (or  Lucinda)    377 

Dedman,   Martha    376 

Dedman,   Marv    377 

Dedman,  Natlian    368-372 

Dedman,  Richmond,  who  married  Mary  W.  Woods  . .  ,  ,       406 

Dedman.  Samuel,  of  Albemarle 27-371 

Dedman.   Sarah   Everett    89-368 

Dedman,   Susanna    379 

Dedman.    William    379 

Dedman,  AVilliam,  son  of  Gus  and  Josephine 379 

Dedmans,  The.  m  Virginia  and  Kentucky   371-375 

Democratic  Ideas,  the  Rise  of,  in  Virginia,  Due  to  the 

Scotch-Irish    10 

Description  of  Kentucky    in    Pioneer    Period,    by    Col. 

Durrett  194 

Destitutions.  Spiritual,  of  Kentucky,  in  1783  189 

Dickey.  Julia  Ann    275 

Disaster  to  Boone  in  Powell's  Valley,  Oct.  1773 468 

Dickinson,  W.  J 466-470 

Dissenters.  Persecuted  by  EJnglish  Bigots 1 

District  of  Kentucky    78-190 

Documents.  Ancient,  of  Interest  to  Woodses   479-486 

Dodd,   John   L 131 

Dodd,   Joseph    C 131 

Donegal    Presbytery    22-99 

Doneghy,  Susan,  w'ifo  of  N.  D.  Woods,  Sr 380 

Doom's  Station,  Virginia 12 

Loosing,  William   116 

Dorsey,  Dr.,  of  Fleming  Co.,  Ky 46 

Drake,   Elizabeth    360 

Draper's   Meadows,   Virginia    19-77161 

Ilreaming  Creek,  Ky 59 

Drennon's  Lick,  Ky 167-217 

Drowning  Creek.  Kentucky    107 

Dubsith,  Gaelic  for  Mc.\fee   153 

Du  Bois  (or  Dubose)  French  form  of  Woods  name 1 

Duke  of  Argyle  9 

Duke.  Basil,  M.  D 50 

Duke,   Lucy    50 

Dulaney,    Frances    58 

Duncan,   Blanch    244 

Duncan,  B.  F.   (Professor)    244 

Duncan,  Emily    315 

Duncan,  Jame.s  R 244 

Duncan,   Mary  Eva   244 


490 


INDEX. 


PACE 

Dunn,   George    236 

llnnn.   John    237 

Diinn,  Nancy   236 

Dunn.  Peter  R 236-264 

Punn.   Snsan    236 

Durrett.  R.  T..  A.  M..  LL.  D 220-221 

Durretfs  (R.  T.)  Centenary  of  Kentucky 147-194-212 

Dyzart,  John,  who  married  Martha  Woods   85 

E. 

Edmunds,  Edwin   Short 270 

Edmonds.  John  Thomas  271 

Edmunds,   Meo    270 

Edmunds,   Sallie,   Mrs 252-271 

ICdinston,   Sarah  Jane    H*) 

lOlderslie.  King  George  Co.,  Va 4-142 

Elkin,   Anice    109 

Ellis,  Thomas   S 108 

Ellison,  Julia  Grayson   314 

Ellison,   James  Monroe   314 

Ellison,  John 315 

Elston.  Isaac  C 355 

Elston.  Susan  Arnold   355 

Embrv.  Allen.  Rev 108 

Embry.  John  H 108 

Eno   River.  North   Carolina   133 

Eras  of  Kentucky  History 169 

Estill.    Abigail     57 

Estill,  Eliza   309 

Estill,   Eliza  H 60 

Estill,    Elizabeth    60 

Estill,    Florence    60 

Estill,  James,   the   Pioneer    58-309 

Estill.  James   M 60 

Instill.    Josephine    60 

Estill.  Martha   60 

Estill.  Martha  Woods   60 

Estill.    Maud    60 

Estill.  Rodes    60 

Eulogv  of  Adam  Wallace   9 

Eustis.  Mary  Tyler   404 

Eustis.  Joseph  Tracy   404 

Eustis.  William  Tracy   404 

Everett.    John     374 

Everett,  John,  Jr 374 

lih'erett,    Nathan    374 

Everett,  Peter  374 

Everett.   Richmond    374 

Everett.   Sally    374 

Everett.   Samuel   Dedman    374 

Everett.   Sarah    374 

Eves,  who  married  Sallie  Wallace 360 

Ewing.  Mary    360 

Ewing.   Margaret    200 

Ewing.  Samuel.  Sr 204 

Ewing.  Samuel,  Jr 200 

p:wing,   William    204 

Exploration  and  Settlement  of  Kentucky 167-212 

F. 

Fac-simile  of  J.  M.  Buchanan's   Signature    242 

Fac-simile  of  Mrs.  J.  M.  Buchanan's  Signature   242 

Fac-simile  of  Dertman-Gooch  Marriage  Bond   370 

Fac-similes  of  Eleven  Ancient  Documents  479 

Fac-simile  of  McAfee  Coat  of  Arms   152 

Fac-simile  of  Wallace  Chart   487 

Fac-simile  of  Woods  Coat  of  Arms  xviii 

Fac-simile  of  Will  of  Michael  Woods,  Jr 65 

Falling  River  Church,  Virginia  49 

Falling  Spring  Churcli,  Virginia   67 

Farwell,    Lynn    325 

Fauquier,    Governor    98 

Fauntelroy,  Apphia   271 

Faust,    Cornelia   J ' ,  ,  354 

Ferguson,   Edwin    269 

Field  Family,  The  Kentucky  Branch  of 298 

Filson's  Map  of  1784    ". 185 

F'ilson's  Stations  of  Wilderness  Road    112 

Fiske,  Prof.  Jchn,  on  the  Settlement  of  Virginia.  . .  .11-141-155 

Fleming.   Anna    316 

Foolo's  Account  of  Woodses  and  Wallaces 4-15 

Foote's  Sketches  of  North  Carolina   150 


PAGE 

Foote's  Sketches  of  Virginia 10-15-44-141-159 

Forsyth.  Andrew   204-268 

Forsyth.    Ben    Travis    270 

Forsyth,   James   Fulton    270 

Forsyth,  Marv  Julia   270 

Forsyth,  William    Slockwell    204-269 

Forsythe.   Anne   E 269 

Forsythe.  George  McAfee   268 

Forsythe.  Joseph  H 269 

Forsvthe.   M.  L 269 

Forsythe.   Mary  JV  Lee    269 

Forsvthe.   Matthew    268 

Forsythe,  Robert  B 269 

Forsythe.    W.   Etta    269 

Fort  Pitt   71 

Fort,  or  Station,  Pioneer.  View  of  a  Typical   184 

Forwood.  T>illy    316 

Foster.  Edward  West  313 

Foster.  Ellen  C 313 

Foster.   Prances    120 

Foster.  R.  C 120 

Foster.  Robert  C 313 

Foster.  Robert   Coleman.  M.  D 313 

Founding  of  Kentucky.  Part  of  McAfees  in  the 215 

Frankfort.  Ky..  Site  of  Visited  by  McAfees 205 

Eraser.   Charlotte   M 415 

Fraser.   R.    Ludlow    415 

Fremont.  Gen.  John  C 51 

Frohman.  Abraham   88 

Prohman.  Jacob    78-88 

Fuller.    Mildred     360 

Fulton.  Anna  Maria 269 

Fulton.  John  Milton    269 

G. 

Cachet,   Capt.   Charles    420 

Gachet,   Dr.   Charles    421 

Gachet.   Tallulah    420 

Gaines.  Frank  Pendleton   364 

Gaines.  Lucv  Briscoe  360 

Galey.    Benjamin    88-98 

Garland.   James .  102 

Garland.  Mary  102 

Garnet.  George   92 

Garrison.    Commodore    60 

Garrison.  Estill 60 

Garrison.   Minnie    60 

Garrison.  William.  Jr 60 

Garrison.  William  R 60 

Garth,   James    95 

Germans  Led  to  Settle  in  Virginia 10 

Gilmore.  Lucretia  D 320 

Gilmore.   Col.   John    7 

Gilmore,  Capt.  John    91 

Given.    Mary    308 

Glasgow.   Ann    360 

Glasgow.  Elizabeth    360 

Glenn,    Mourning    309 

Goldsby.  J.  W.  W 289 

Gooch.  Sir  William   (Governor)    10-53-158 

Gooch.  William,  and  Children   375 

Gooches,   The.  in  Virginia  and  Kentucky    871-380 

Good,   John   A '338 

Good,    Sarah    338 

Goodall,   Mrs.  Julia  Grayson   61-62-145-314 

Goodall.  McChesney 315 

Goodloe.  David    108 

Goodloe,    David     316 

Goodloe.    Elizabeth    108 

Goodloe.   Elizabeth    315 

Goodloe.   Emma    316 

Goodloe,  George  White   315 

Goodloe,   Harvey    315 

Goodloe,   Henry    316 

Goodloe,  John  Duncan 304-315 

Goodloe,    Lucy    315 

Goodloe,  Margaret  F 315 

Goodloe.   Mohrning   Shelton    316 

Goodloe.    Paul    Miller    315 

Goodloe.  William    60 

Goodloe.  William   31 5 

Goodwin,  Brower  G 354 


I 


INDEX. 


4:1 1 


I'M'.:-; 

Goodwin.  Grover  Cleveland    354 

Goodwin,  James  Dennis   354 

Goodwin.  Mrs.  James  Dennis   13S 

Goodwin,  Wesley    3r)  ( 

Gordon,   lAiey 92 

Gordon.    "William    81 

Gough,   Nellie    315 

Grant    (Gaunt) .  Margaret   204 

Grant  (Gaunt),  Thomas  l(;2-189-204 

Granville   Count.v,   South   Carolina    112-113 

Grave  of  Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park  24 

Grave  of  "Mother  McAfee"    218 

Graves  of  James  and  Agnes  McAfee  199 

Gray,    David     97 

Gray,  Elizabeth  CO 97 

Gray,   John   Courts    97 

Gray,  Peyton   95 

Gray,  Sam  Marshall   97 

Gray.  Theresa  D 97 

Gray.  Versailles    97 

Gray.  William    97 

Grays  and  Woodses    149 

Greathouse    Family,    The    238 

Greathouse,   Nancy    201 

Greaver,    Elizaleth    348 

Green,  Col.  Thomas   M 41-51-55-144 

Greene.   Eliza    402 

Greenlee.  Grace,  or  Grizelle    57 

Greenlee,  Mrs.  James  (Mary)    41-42-143 

Greenwood.   Va 4-5-12 

Griffin.  Bettie 269 

Grimsley.  William    379 

Gross,  Doctor,  the  Famous  Surgeon  48 

Guilford  C.  H.  N.  C 7-71 

Guthrie.  Margaret  D 201-261-263 

Guthrie.  D 360 

H. 

Haggin,  J.  B 268 

llag!;in.  Mrs.   Lena   268 

Hale.  Dr.  John  P 165.  216,  217.  231 

Hall,   John    129 

Hailiiiurton,   Agnes    826 

Halliburton,   Eulalie    326 

Hallilnirton.  John  M 326 

Halliburton.   Margaret    826 

Halliburton,   Mary    826 

Hallilj\u-t(m,    Orlanilo    325 

Halliburton,  Orlando,   Jr 326 

Halliburton,   Walker    826 

Hamilton,   Ann    204 

Hamilton,    Jean    274 

Hamilton,   Leonora    274 

Hamilton,  Ninian   274 

Hamilton,   Robt 274 

Hamilton,    Vess    272 

Hamilton,    William    274 

Hankins.   George    88 

Hanks.  Susan  M 397 

Hann,   Robert    108 

Hanover  Presbytery   22 

Harbison,   Agnes    379 

Harbison,   Albert    379 

Harbison.  Rev.  J.  B 379 

Hardin.  Judge  M.  R 315 

Hardlsty.  Thomas    377 

Hardrick,  Fannie   275 

Hardy,  Charles  B 245 

Hardy.  Charles  B.,  Jr 245 

Hardy.  John  B 245 

Hardv.  J.  Warren    24;) 

Hardv,    Oscar    24o 

Hardy,    Wm l"*! 

Hare.   Sarah    Elizabeth 49 

Hare,  Dr.  William  Bordley   49 

Harris,  Mrs.  Angeline  B 108 

Harris.  Benjamin    82 

Ham's,  Elizabeth    11^3 

Harris,  Isabel    806 

Harris,   Frances    1  "8 

Harris,  Francis  Bond    305 

Harris,  James    lO'* 


I'AGlC 

Harris.  Jan©  Woods   305 

Harris.  John  Woods   103. 104.  301 

Harris.  Martha  Maiipin    305 

Harris,   Martha  Overton    306 

Harris,   Martha  Ryland    104 

Harris,  Mary    60 

Harris.  Mary   Elizabeth    306 

Harris.  Mary   Frances    30fi 

Harris.   Mary  Frances    104 

Harris,  Judge  Overton   302 

Harris.  Overton    1 03 

Harris,  Overton   Michael   104 

Harris,   Overton    Thomas    306 

Harris.   Robert    309 

Harris,  Sarah  Elizabeth   104 

Harris,  Sallle  Tyre   306 

Harris,  Susan    306 

Harris,  Tabitha    108 

Harris,  Thomas  Berry   306 

Harris,  Tyre   3(»(; 

Harris,  Tyre  Crawford   306 

Harris,  Virgil    McClure    305 

Harris,  William  Anderson    104 

Harris,  Wm.   B 82 

Harris.  William  Christopher 306 

Harrison.   Charles   B 343 

Harrison.  Jennie  Clyde   343 

Harrison,  Margaret ta   Ross    274 

Harrod,  Capt.  James   169-206 

Harrodsbur.g.    Ky.    78.  183. 187,  190 

Harrodsburg   Presbyterian   Church    191 

Hart,  David  P 349 

Hart,  Nathaniel    349 

Harvey,  Maria  Hawkins    47 

Harvey,  Matthew   55 

Harvey,  Robt S5 

Hatfield,  Mary  Woods    11|| 

Haupt,   Anna  47 

Haw  River,  N.  C 133 

Hawkins,    Ben     47-55 

Hawkins,    Magdalena     55 

Hawkins,    Martha    48 

Hawkins,  Miss,  Daughter  of  Ben  and  Martha 55 

Havden's   Virginia   Genealogies    142 

Hazel   Patch,  Meeting  at,  of  the  McAfees  and  Hender- 
sons in   1775    1''9 

Head,  Elizabeth    402 

Head,  Rev.  Jesse   402 

Henderson.   Alexander    7 

Henderson,  Col.  Campbell  G 4M 

Henderson,  Caroline  W 412 

Henderson,   Charlotte   M 415 

Henderson,  Daniel  S 414 

Henderson,  Hon,  Daniel  S..  Jr 415 

Henderson,  Dorcas    59 

Henderson,   Edward   P 415 

Henderson,   Franklin   B 415 

Henderson,  Col.  Richard    169-179 

Henderson.   Sarah  Webb    41.5 

Henderson,   Sophie    415 

Henninger.  Charity  E 342-343 

Henninger.  Christo])her  G 343 

Henninger.    Conrad    342-343 

Henninger,  Henry    342 

Henninger,  Henry  Harrison   ■ 343 

Henninger,   Jacidi    342 

Henninger,  Jane   ( Hines)    343 

Henninger,    viohn     342-343 

Henninger,   Katharine    343 

Henninger,  Mary  (Dougherty)   343 

Henninger,  Samuel    343 

Henninger,   William    343 

Henry,  Gov.  Patrick   59-86 

Henton.   William    108 

Herron.    John    84 

Hibler.  Mrs 105 

Hickman.  Catharine   50 

Hickman.   John   L 50 

Hickman.  Josephine   379 

High  Bridge  Church.  Va 67 

Hillsboro,  N.  C 133-150 

Hindman.  Lucy  H 250 


49:; 


INDEX. 


VMX, 

Hin(]man,   Rev.   John    21-99 

History  of  Kentucky.  True  Place  of  McAfees  in  211-215 

Hocker,  Mary  Jane  1^^ 

Hoden,   I^o    1*^^ 

Hoge,   Nellie    297 

Hoge,  Rev.   Janies   ^22 

Holman,  Richard    ^9 

Holmes,   John    ^^ 

Holmes,   Margaret   85 

Houser,  Anna  Sophia  394 

Houser,  Anthony    394 

Houser,    John    394 

Houston.    Matthew    120 

Houston,   Matthew  Hale    121 

Hudson,    Sallie    336 

Huffman,  Eliza  Woods   116 

Hughes,  Laura   239 

Hume,  Stanton    108 

Hume,   Thomas   R 109 

Humphreys,   Capt,   John    95 

Hunters'   Path    lSl-459 

Hurricane  Gap,   Ky I'^'S 

Hycotee  River  133 

I. 

lan's  Costumes  of  Clans 216 

Indian  Attack  on  Boone's  Company   463 

Indians  Attack  McAfee's  Fort  May,  1781   187 

Indian  Camp  Farm   89-111-159 

Indian  Depredations  in  Kentucky,  1794    189 

Indian  Rock,  Va 64 

Irvine,    Abraham    204 

Irvine,    Abram    47 

Irvine,  Anna   47 

Irvine,  Anna 297 

Irvine,  Major  David  C 49 

Irvine,  Ky 173 

Irvine.  Margaret  41 

Irvine,  Mary  E 269 

Irvine.  Sarah   47 

Irvine.  Rev.  William  103 

Ivy  Depot,  Va 6,  94 

J. 

Jackson,  John    402 

Jackson,  Mary  Ann   401 

Jackson,    Thomas    402 

Jackson,  Thomas  Cleland   402 

Jackson,  Thomas  C,  Jr 402 

Jacoh,  Col,  Richard  T 51 

James,   John    360 

Janies,   Thomas   R 362 

James   River    64,  89,  181 

Janny,   Mary    393 

Jarman,  Mary   62 

Jarman,  Thomas  62 

Jarman,   William    62 

Jarman's  Gap  (formerly  Woods's  Gap)   12 

Jefferson,  Thomas   94 

Jenkins,    Margaret   Jane    288 

Jennings,    Ann    91 

Jennings  Creek  64 

Jennings,  Jonathan   91 

Johnson,  Benjamin  F 274 

Johnson,  Dr.  James  48 

Johnson,  Samuel  D 274 

Johnson,   William    McAfee    275 

Johnston,   Judge  David   B 471 

Johnston,  Col.  J.  Stoddard  214,  224 

Johnston,  Col.  Richard  M 209 

Jones,  Dana  60 

Jones,   Eleanor    355 

Jones,   Elizabeth   Everett   385 

Jones,  James  M 92,  385 

Jones,   John    Paul    6, 355 

Jones,  John  S 92 

Jones,   La  Grand    83 

Jones,  Mildred  62,314 

Jones,  Nancy   g9 

Jones,  Sarah  Ellen 62 

Jones,  Thompson   211 

Jones,  Capt.  William  R 62 


PACE 

Jouett,   John    73 

Journals  of  James  and  Robert  McAfee,  1773   425-453 

Joyes,  Judge  John   277 

Joyes,   Stella    277 

K. 

Kavenaugh,   Anna    57 

Kavenaugh,    Joel 57 

Kavenaugh,  John  M 60 

Kavenaugh,  William  63 

Kav,  Elizabeth    307 

Kay,  Elizabeth  A 120 

Kay,   Reuben    120 

Keene,   Mary    108 

Keene,  Oliver    46 

Keeth,  Julian  C 282 

Keith,  Mary  Randolph   50 

Kelley.  Abner  0 360 

Kelly,  Isaac   121 

Kelties,  Highland  Clans  and  Regiments   216 

Kentucky    164, 165, 188. 194 

Kentucky  Court  of  Appeals  49 

Kentucky,  Founders  of    215 

Kentucky  History,  Place  of  McAfees  in 211,  215 

Kentucky  Land   I^aw    59 

Kentucky  River,  Course  of  McAfees  on  173-214 

Kentucky  River  at  Mouth   167 

Kentucky  River  at  Mouth  of  Drennon's  Creek  178 

Kentucky  River,  Three  Forks  of  78 

Kevil,  Mattie  348 

King.  Thomas   210 

King's   Mountain    52 

Kinnard.   Mary   F 352 

Kirk,  Capt.  Robert 52 

Kirkwood,   Mrs.   Jessie    414 

L. 

Lambert,  Charles   67, 97 

Lambert,  Gen 68 

Lampkin.    Tallulah    420 

I,ancaster,    Pa 15, 158 

Land  I^aws  of  'Virginia,  in  Kentucky 148, 149 

Land    Office   at   Frankfort    73, 78 

Landrum,  Gen.  W.  J 131 

Lang,  Shelburn   420 

Lang,    Susan    419 

Langsford,  Mrs.  N.  B 105 

Lapsley.  David  Nelson   131,288 

I.apsley,  Isabel   282 

Lapsley,  James   129,  132 

I.apsley,    James    2S2 

Lapsley,   James  Woods    278,  282 

Lapsley,   Jean    129 

Lapsley,  John    129 

I^apsley,  John  A 130 

Lapsley,  Col.  John  P 284,  286 

Lapsley,  Joseph    7-27,  37,  82,  126-132 

Lapsley,  Joseph,  Jr 129 

Lapsley,  Joseph   B 130 

Lapslev,  Judge  J.  W 120,  126 

Lapsley,  Dr.  J.  Y 282,  288 

Lapsley,    Mary    129 

Lapsley,  Mary  Albert!   282 

Lapsley,  Mary  C 131 

Lapsley,  Mary  Elizabeth  288 

Lapsley,    Norvell    282 

Lapsley,   Priscilla  Catherine    130 

Lapsley,  Robert  Armstrong    131 

I.apsley,   Robert  Alberti    282 

Lapsley,  Dr.  Robert  McKee  131 

Lapsley,  Rutherford    282 

Lapsley,  Dr.  R.  M 288 

Lapsley,  Samuel  Norvell   282 

Lapsley,   Sarah    31 

Lapsley,   Dr.  William    J 284 

Lapsley,  Zaidee     282 

I.arned's  English   in   America    150 

Laughery,    Capt 74 

Leatherwood  Creek,  Kv 173 

Lee,   Willis   A 211 

Leftwich,   Mildred    337 

Le  Grand,  Lucy   45 


INDEX. 


493 


Leonard,  Leila 

Letcher,  Hon.  Robert  P 

Lewis,   Gen.    Andrew    

I.«wis,   George  W 

Lewis,    John     11, 

Lexington,  Va 

Lincoln's  Emancipation  Proclamation  

Lipscomb.   Thomas   C 

Lisle,  Sarah  Catherine  

Lisle, 

Little  River,  N.   C 

Little  River  Presbyterian  Church,  N.  C 

Livingston   County.   Ky 

Locke,  Martha  Jones    

Loftus,   Sir  Adam  and   Jane  Vaughn    

Loftus.   Adam   and   Jane   Purden    

Loftus,  Sir  Dudley  and  Annie  Bagnell  

Loftus,   Rev.   Edward    

Loftus,  Letitia  and  Richard  Parsons  

Logan,  Elizabeth  J.  Lee 

London   Medico-Chirurgical  Review    

Ijong  Hunter's  Road   

Lord,  Eliza  Selden 

Lowery,  Mrs.,  married  William  McAfee  

Lulie,  Jane  

Lupton,   Alice  May    

I..upton,  Thomas  Neill    

Lusk,  Jane  Kavenaugh  

Lyell, 

Lyle,  Capt.  John   

Lyle,  Mary  Paxton    

Lyles,  The.  in  Virginia 

Lyon,  Joseph   


P.M.I' 

344 

147 

175 

11  r, 

42,53 

54,57 

256 

260 

390 

45 

133 

134 

94 

419 

2 

2 

2 

2 

2 

390 

48 

459 

47 

210 

50 

393 

393 

294 

45 

45 

45 

42,45 

190 


M. 


McAfee. 
McAfee. 
McAfee. 
McAfee, 
McAfee, 
McAfee, 
Mc.\fee, 
McAfee. 
McAfee. 
McAfee. 
McAfee. 
McAfee. 
McAfee,  John, 


McAden,  Rev.  Hugh   55, 127. 133 

McAfee,  Agnes,  nee  Clark  194-199 

McAfee,    America    201 

McAfee,  Anna  Helen    250 

McAfee,    Anna   Ruth    250 

McAfee,  Anne,  child  of  William  and  Rebecca 211 

McAfee,   Annie    277 

McAfee,  Annie,  child  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 210 

McAfee,  Blanch,  child  of  William  L.  and  Cornelia 272 

McAfee  Brothers  meeting  with  Col.  Henderson 179 

McAfee,  Captain  Samuel   12 

McAfee,   Cornelia  Lawson    204 

McAfee,  Catherine  Agnes   250 

McAfee,  Clarke  William,  child  of  Thomas  C.  and  Martha  268 

McAfee,    Cleland    Boyd    250 

McAfee  Colony,  The,  Removal  to  Kentucky  in  1779  ....  175 

McAfee   Company,  The    163 

McAfee,   Cora    272 

McAfee,  Cornelia   268 

McAfee,  Dwight  A 275 

McAfee,   Edwin    262-268 

McAfee,  Elizabeth,  child  of  R.  L.  and  Jane 204 

McAfee,  Elizabeth,  child  of  James  and  Agnes 201 

McAfee,  Elizabeth  R.,  child  of  T.  C.  and  Nancy 201 

McAfee,   Emile   Wadsworth    254 

McAfee,  Esther  Lucille  250 

McAfee,  General  Robert  B 47-90-156-180-193-196-207-216 

McAfee,  George,  child  of  Col.  George  and  Ann 204 

McAfee,  George,  Jr.,  child  of  George,  Sr.,  and  Susan  . . .  204 

McAfee,  George,  M.   D 269 

McAfee,  George,  child  of  James  and  Agnes 201 

McAfee,  George,  child  of  James  and  Nancy  268 

McAfee,  George,  child  of  James,  Sr..  162-190-193-202-203-259-276 

McAfee,  George  G.,  child  of  T.  Clark  and  Nancy 201 

McAfee, 
McAfee, 
McAfee. 
McAfee, 
McAfee, 
McAfee, 
McAfee, 
McAfee, 


Grace  Deane 

Hannah,  child  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 

Hannah,  who  married  Judge  Daviess  . 

Harriet   Lanier    

Helen  Bailey    

Helma  Louise    

Howard   Bailey    

Hugh  Bailey   

McAfee,  Isaac,  childof  T.  Clark  and  Nancy  . . . 

McAfee,  James    Alexander    

McAfee,  James  Ben  Ali  Haggin   

McAfee,  James— "Big   Jim."    


Armstrong    2a0 

CL-irk    247-251 

268 


254 

210 

273 

277 

253 

2.50 

250 

250 

201 

277 

268 

.203-204-260 
McAfee,  James,    Jr 86-89-154-162-180-183-187-190-193-195 


I'Ar.-; 

James    Philip    204-264-268 

James,    Sr 156-157-159-161-162 

James,  child  of  James,  Jr.,  and  Agnes 201 

Jane,  child  of  L.  L.  and  Jane  204 

Jane,  child  of  Samuel  and  Hannah   210 

Joseph   Ernest   -^^ 

Joseph,  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth 247-248-251 

John 

John    Clark 

Joiin   B. 

John,   Jr..   of  Ireland    155-156 

John,  child  of  John,  Jr 156 

Sr..  of  Scotland    154-156 

McAfee!  John!  child  of  Col.  George  and  Anne  204-269 

McAfee.  John,  child  of  James  and  Agnes 200 

McAfee,  John,  child  of  James,  Sr 161-162-202 

McAfee,  John,  child  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 210 

McAfee,  John,  child  of  George,  Sr.,  and  Susan  203 

McAfee,  J.  J.,  of  McAfee.  Ky 210 

McAfee,  Kennotli   Bailey   250 

McAfee   Knob.    Virginia    159-160 

McAfee,  The   Village   of    214 

McAfee,  Lapsley  Armstrong    250 

McAfee,  Lapsley    P^y    250 

McAfee,  Laura,  child  of  R.  L.  and  Jane  204 

McAfee.  I^aura    268 

McAfee,  Leal    277 

McAfee,  Lewis    Carroll    268 

McAfee,  Lou  Marie   250 

McAfee,  I^well   Mason    250 

McAfee,  Malcolm,  head  of  McAfee  Clan  153 

McAfee,  Malcolm,  who  died  at  sea 157-202 

McAfee,  Malcolm,  child  of  John,  Jr 156 

McAfee,  Margaret,  child  of  Col.  George  and  Anne 204-269 

McAfee,  Margaret,  child  of  George,  Sr.,  and  Susan  ....       204 

McAfee,  Margaret,  child  of  James,  Jr.,  and  Agnes 201 

McAfee,  Margaret,  child  of  James,  Sr 163-209 

McAfee,  Margaret,  child  of  William  and  Rebecca 211 

McAfee.  Mary  B.,  child  of  Col.  George  and  Anne 269 

McAfee,  Mary  E.,  child  of  T.  C.  and  Nancy 201 

McAfee.  Mary  McClung.  child  of  Col.  Geor.ge  and  Anne.       204 

McAfee,  Mary  Rochester,  child  of  R.  L.  and  Jane 26ii 

McAfee.  Mary,  child  of  George.  Sr..  and  Susan    2(14-276 

McAfee,  Mary,  child  of  James,  Sr 163-204 

McAfee,  Mary,  child  of  Samiiel  and  Hannah 210 

McAfee,  Mary,  child  of  William  L.  and  Cornelia 272 

McAfee,  Mary,  child  of  William  and  Rebecca 211 

McAfee,  Mary,  child  of  James,  Jr..  and  Agnes  86-181 

McAfee,  Mary,  who  married   Banks    268 

McAfee,  Mary,  who  married  Hon.  T.  P.  Moore   273 

McAfee.  M.  E..  who  married  Geo.  M.  Forsythe 268 

McAfee,  Mrs,   James,   Sr.,   her   grave    162-1S9-218 

McAfee,  Mrs.   William   1 272 

McAfee.  Nancy,  child  of  James.  Jr.,  and  Agnes 201 

McAfee.  Nancy  Clark,  child  of  T.  C.  and  Nancy   2iil 

McAfee.  Nareissa  W.,  child  of  Col.  George  and  Anne. .  .204-268 

McAfee,  Paul   Hindman   2.">0 

McAfee.  Philip,  child  of  James  and  Nancy  26S 

McAfee,  Priscilla.  who  married  McDowell    47 

McAfee,  Ralph    Canfield    250 

McAfee,  Rev.  Dr.  John  A 249 

McAfee.  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  L 253 

McAfee.  Robert  Livingstone   203-268 

McAfee,  Robert  W 251-254 

McAfee,  Robert  W..  Jr 254 

McAfee,  Robert,  child  of  Samuel  and  Hannah   210 

McAfee,  Robert,  child  of  James,  Sr..  .163-186-187-190-193-205-207 

McAfee,  Ruth  Myrtle   250 

McAfee,  Ruth    Winchell     254 

McAfee,  Samuel,  child  of  James,  Sr.  163-166-180-187-190-193-209 

246 

McAfee,  Samuel,  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth 247,  251 

McAfee,  Samuel,  Jr.,  child  of  Samuel,  Sr..  and  Hannah.       210 

McAfee,  Sarah  Jane,  child  of  T.  C.  and  Nancy 201 

McAfee    Stone  House  of  1790   194,  197. 198 

McAfee,  Susan,  child  of  George,  Sr.,  and  Susan   203 

McAfee   Family,    The — Their    true   place    in    Kentucky 

History   .211-215 

McAfee,  Thomas  Clark,  child  of  James,  Jr.,  and  Agnes. 2ul,  271 
McAfee,     Thomas  Cleland,  child  of  Thomas  Clark  and 

Nancy 201,  268 

McAfee,     Wallace  Taylor   250 


494 


INDEX. 


TACK 

McAfee,  William  A 277 

McAfee.  William  H..  child  of  Col.  George  and  Anne 204,  269 

McAfee,  William  Lewis,  child  of  T.  C.  and  Nancy 2i)l,  272 

McAfee,  William,   child  of  James,   Sr lliS,  106,  1S6,  193,  210 

McA.fee,  William,   child   of  John,   Jr 156 

McAfee,  William,  child  of  Samnel  and  Hannah   210 

McAden,  Rev.   Hugh    55  127,  133 

McAlpine,  Sarah   45 

McAnult.v,  David  W 350 

Mc..\nulty,  Joseph    S 350 

McAnulty,  Robert  A 350 

McBraver.  Mrs.   Marv  Lea   379 

McBride.  Albina   ..." 290 

McBride,   Judge   Ebenezer    293 

McBride,  Albina,  portrait    292 

McCarney,    Margaret     210 

McCauslands,  The.  in  Virginia   42 

McClung.  Mary   45,  50 

McClungs,  The,  in  Virginia  42 

McClung,  Mary   45-50 

McCormick.  Hannah    210 

McCown,  James,  Sr 186,  190  196 

McCown,  James.  Sr 187 

McCown,  James,  Jr 164,  190 

McCown,  John 165,  179 

McCown,    Joseph    ]  80 

McCown,    Phoebe    Ann    245 

McCoy,  Pitt  Y 297 

McCue.    Rev.    John    52 

McCue.  Sarah  Allen  52 

McCues.  The,  in  Virginia 42 

McCnllongh,   Mary   W 122 

McCntcheon.    Mary   J 269 

McDonald,    Adam     264 

McDonalds,   of  Islay    154 

McDowell,  Abram  Irvine   47 

McDowell.  Alexander  K.  M 47 

McDowell.  Ale.x.  K.  M 295 

McDowell.  Anna,  married  Caldwell   48 

McDowell,  Betsey    45 

McDowell,  Betsey,  child  of  John  and  Lucy 45 

McDowell,  Betty,  married  Dr.  Welch   47 

McDowell,    Caleb   Wallace    48 

McDowell,  Caleb  W.,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary 49 

McDowell.  Celia    52 

McDowell.  Gen.    Charles    51 

McDowell,  Charles,  son  of  John  and  Lucy  45 

McDowell,  Clarissa    52 

McDowell.  Edward   Irvine   47 

McDowell.  Elizabeth    49 

McDowell.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth.  .  50 

McDowell.  Elizabeth,  married  Hon.  Thomas  H.  Benton.  51 

McDowell,  Ephraim,   of   Ireland    41-42 

McDowell.  Ephraim.   world  famous   surgeon    47,48.40 

McDowell.  Ephraim.  M.  D..  nephew  of  the  famous  phy- 
sician      46 

McDowell,  Henry   Clay    47 

McDowell,  Rev.  Hervey   294 

McDowell,  Maj.  Hervey   46 

McDowell,  Hetty     46 

McDowell,  Hugh  Harvey   52 

McDowell,   Isabella    46 

McDowell,   Gov.   James    9 

McDowell,  James,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Margaret 42 

McDowell,  James,  who  married  Susan   Shelby   45 

McDowell,  James,  child  of  John  and  Magdalen 50 

McDowell.  Col,   James    45, 46 

McDowell,  James,  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth   50 

McDowell,  James,  son  of  Col.  James  and  Sarah 51 

McDowell,  Col.  James,  of  Yancey  County 52 

McDowell,  James    78, 81 

McDowell,  Col.  Joe.  of  North  Carolina 49 

McDowell,  John,  first  husband  of  Magdalin  Woods, 

15,19,40,42,  43,53 

McDowell,  John,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary   45 

McDowell,  John,  married  Sarah   McAlpine    45 

McDowell,  John,  of  Rutherford   county   52 

McDowell.  John  Adair    47 

McDowell,  Joihn    Lyle     46,  295 

McDowell,   ( Hunting)    John    51 

McDowell,  Col.   Joseph    47 


PACE 

McDowell,  Joseph,   Sr 51 

McDowell,  Joseph     47 

McDowell,  Joseph    J 52 

McDowell,  Joseph   Nashe    45 

McDowell,  Juliet     46 

McDowell,  Louise    Irvine    294 

McDowell,  Lucy    45 

McDowell,  Magdelen,  married  Caleb  Wallace    48 

McDowell,  Magdalen,  married  Andrew  Reid   49 

McDowell,  Margaret    52 

McDowell.  Margaret   Irvine    48 

McDowell,  Margaretta    42 

McDowell,  Martha    50 

McDowell,  Mary,  married  Thomas  H.  Sheldon 45 

McDowell.  Mary    47 

McDowell.  Mary,   married  Judge   Clarke    47 

McDowell,  Mary,  married  Mr.  Young   49 

McDowell.  Mary,  child  of  Samuel  and  Mary   50 

McDowell.  Mary  E..  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Margaret.  42 

McDowell,  Mrs.  Mary  Moifett   52 

McDowell.  Sallie     45,46,47 

McDowell,   Samuel    32 

McDowell,   Samuel,   married  Mary   McClung   44,  50 

McDowell.  Samuel,  married  Betsey  Christman   45 

McDowell.  Samnel.  son  of  James  and  Mary  P 46 

McDowell,  Samuel,  of  Mercer  county   47 

McDowell.  Samuel,  son  of  Col.  Joseph   48 

McDowell.  Sarah,  married  John  McDowell   45 

McDowell,  Sarah,  married  Michael  Sullivant   48 

McDowell.  Sarah,  married  Judge  Caleb  Wallace 49 

McDowell.  Sarah,  daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth   ...  50 

McDowell.  Sarah,   daughter  of   John   and    Magdalin....  51 

McDowell.  Sarah    52 

McDowell.  Sarah   Shelby   47 

McDowell.  Susan    51 

McDowell.  Judge    William    46,  47 

McDowell,  William  Adair   47 

McDowell,  William    Preston     47 

IVIcElroys,    The.    in    Virginia 42 

McGary,    Col.    Hugh    187 

McGavock.    David    50 

McGee,  John    190,  206 

McKamey,  James  I.,  portrait,  first  view    261 

McKaraey,  James  I.,  portrait,  second  view   265 

McKamey.  James    1 263,  264 

McKamey,  John    201 

JIcKamey.  Nancy  203 

McKamey,  Robert    204 

McKee,  James   131 

McKee,  Joseph    328 

McKee,    Margaret     328 

McKee.  Margaret   274 

McKee,  Mary  Charlotte   131 

McKee,   Mary    (Polly )    Wear    130 

McKee.    Mary 328 

McKee.  Robert  A 328 

McKee.  Samuel   78.  81 

McKee,    Samuel    328 

McKee,  Thomas    328 

McKee,  William    130 

McKnine,   Zilpha   E iSS 

McLarty,   Annie  E 350 

McLarty,  Lillie    350 

McLarty,    Willie     350 

McLaryo,  Miss 86 

McLaughlin.  Judge  Wm 32 

McLure.  Ann  Mary   104 

McMichael.  Jane 156,  161 

McNair.   J 360 

McPheet.ers.   Wm 45 

McPheeters.  The.   in   Virginia 42 

McRoberts,  Thomas     108 

Maefarlane.  Charles  Itoy   301 

Mcfarlane.  George  B 300 

Maefarlane,  Mrs.   George   B 104,  1 06,  299 

Maefarlane,  George  Locke   301 

Maefarlane,  Wm.  L 301 

Macgowan,  Basil    Finis    418 

Macgowan,  Birkhead   417 

Macgowan,  Carrick  Bell    418 


INDEX. 


■IK 


B. 


pAc.i-: 
419 

417 

418 

417 

418 

417 

418 

417 

418 

County,  Ky 58,  59 


/ 


Macgowan,  David    

Macgowan,  David  Bell   . 
Macgowan,  Ebenezer    .  . 
Macgowan,  Mrs.   Emma 
Macgowan,  Evander  Ij. 
Macgowan,  Eiverett    ,  .  .  . 

Macgowan,  John     

Mac.gowan,  Mary  Locke 

Macgowan,  Thomas     .  ,  . 

Madison 

Madison, 

Madison, 

Madison, 

Magoffin, 

Magoffin, 

Magoffin. 

Magoffin, 

Magoffin, 

Magoffin. 


Gal)riel     73 

John,  brother  of  President  Madison   46 

Margaretta     46 

Beriah   210 

Gov.  Beriah   273 

Beriah  III 273 

Ebenezer    273 

Gertrude   273 

Sue     273 

Malone,   Johnson    377 

Map  ot  All>emarle  County,  Va at  end  of  book 

Map  of  Central  Kentuciiy   at  end  of  book 

Map  of  Kentucky  at  site  of  Irvine  at  end  of  liook 

Map  of  Mercer  County,  Ky at  end  of  book 

Map  of  Parting  of  the  Ways,  New  River,  Va at  end  of  book 

Maji  of  S.  W.  Virginia  and  S.  E.  Kentucky at  end  of  l)Ook 

Map  of  Three  Pioneer  Roads  at  end  of  book 

Marble.  Mrs.  Marv  A 349,  95 


Bond  of  Nathan  Dedman  and  Elizabeth  Gooch,  370 

Alexander    Keith    50 

who  married  Burch  Woods   92 

Charles    Thomas     50 

Charlotte     50 

Humphrey   175,  205 

James  K 50 

Jane    50 

Jennie  M 201 

John    50 

Lucy    50 

Maria 50 

Marv    McAfee    260 

Neai  B 260 

Capt.   Thomas    50 

Geor.ge    82 

Margaretta    H 274 

Wm.  H 274 

Alfred   D 325 

Mrs.   Alfred   D 120,  324 

Alfred   D.,    Jr 324,325 

Esther    106 

James  W lO*" 

Mary     106 

Nathan     lO'i 

Nathaniel   H 106 

Matthews,  John    338,  52 

Matthews,  Leonora    33S 

May,  Charlotte    276 

Mebane,  Ann  Loney   135 


Marriage 

Marshall, 

Marshall. 

Marshall. 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Marshall, 

Martin, 

Martin, 

Martin, 

Mason, 

Mason, 

Mastm, 

Massie, 

Massie, 

Massie, 

Massie, 

Massie, 


Mercer   County,   Ky..   in    1787    

Merri*ether,  Francis    

Methodist  Cemetery,  Lexington,  Va. 

Miles,   Richard    

Milford,    Ky 

Miller,  Appeline    

Miller,  Christopher    I 

Miller,  Daniel 


46 

73 

96 

95 

59 

60 

1(18 

.1(12,107,150 

Miller,  Elizabeth     108 

Miller,  Garland    oO 

Miller,  Hannah     5^ 

Miller,  James     \li 

Miller,  John,   of   Augusta    lol 

Miller,  Gen.  John  10* 

Mille.'-.  John,  and  his  ten  children   108 

Miller,    John    M {"O 

Miller,  Malinda     ]'!^ 

Miller,  Mamie    Patterson    4(i^ 

Miller,  Mar.garet    10° 

Miller,  Polly    1'" 

Miller,  Robert     10 ' 

Miller,  Susan     JO^ 

Miller,  Susannah     

Miller,  Thomas    H 


108 
60 


p.\r,R 

Miller,  Thomas  W 108 

Miller.  Judge  Wm.    C 402 

Miller,  W.   H 101,107,150 

Mmter,  Jeremiah    47 

Mitchell,   Ariadne   B 385 

Mitchell,  Basil    B 385 

Mitchell,  James     42 

Mitchell,   Louisa     42 

Mitchell,  Thomas     42 

Mitchell.  Virginia    W 385 

Moffett,  Elizabeth    52 

Moffett,  Col.    George    51 

Moffett,  George,   Jr 52 

Moffett,  James    52 

Moffett,  Capt.    John     51 

Moffett.  Ma.gdalin     52 

Moffett,  Margaret     49 

Moffett,  Margaretta    51 

Moffett,  Martha     52 

Monk,   Rebecca  W 354 

Montgomery  County,   Va 71 

Montgomery,  Elizabeth     155 

MonLgomery,  Eliza  A.   M 283 

Montgomery,  Col.    James    283 

Montgomery.  Rev.  Dr.  John   368 

Mont.gomery,  .Joseph     82 

Montgomery  Presbytery,  The  Woods  Legacy  to 118 

Moon,  J.  Bailey  106 

Moore.  Hannah    Ellen    274 

Moore.  James    J 274 

Moore,  Jane  M.   R 204 

Moore,  Jane  Rochester    268 

Moore,  Hon.    Laban    374 

Moore,  Lawson     268 

Moore,  Mrs.    Mary    Eliza    385 

Moore,  Mary    Lock    274 

Moore,  Thomas     96 

Moore,  Hon.  T.  P 147,  210,  275 

Morgan,  C.  America   90 

Morris,  Matilda  M 347 

Morrow,  Florrie    282 

Mosby,  Nancy     "2 

Mount   Zion   Church,  Kentucky    108 

Mountain    Plains     29,57,140 

Mountain    Plains   Church    20, 98 

Moyes,  Wm.  P 269 

Mud    Meeting   House    204 

Mulberry  Hill,  Homestead  of  Andrew  Reid   49 

Mullins,  Col.,  married  Susan  Woods   58 

Munday,   Elizabeth    92 

Munday,  George     92 

Munday,  Harry,   married  Nancy  Woods    ^'-^t 

Munday,   Harvey    

Munday,  James     

Munday,  Katharine    

Munday,  Mary     

Munday,  Patty    

Munday,  Woodson     

Murray,  Jane    


92 
92 
92 
92 
92 
92 
203 


N. 

Nail,  Rev.  Dr.  James  H 

Nail.  Rev.   Dr.   Robert    H 

Nail,  Rev.    Robert     

Nash.   Hon.   Francis    134, 

Natchez,    Miss 

Natural  Bridge,  Va 

Navigation    Laws     

Neal,  Sallie    

Nelson,  Eliza     

Nelson,  Governor  of  Virginia 

Netherlands,    Richard     

Nevins,  Rev.  Henry  Van  Dyke   

New  Castle.  Del -  •  ■ 

New  Providence  Cemetery   89,172-193 

New  Providence  Church.  Ky 190-196, 

New  Providence  Church,  Mo _ 

New    River    77 

Noble,    Margaret    

Noel,    Bernard     

North  Carolina,  what  it  included  in  early  days   


122 

122 

122 

150 

8S 

64 

86 

95 

106 

98 

82 

271 

157 

369 

368 

247 

20'J. 

355 

91 

113 


496 


INDEX. 


PACK 

Notes  by  the  Editor  on  Mc.Vfee  Journals   440,  453 

Niinrally,    Victoria    240 

Nutty,  Gale    Richard    297 

Nutty.  Gale   Richard,   Jr 297 

Nuttv,  Mrs.    .Tessie    297 

Nutty,  Pitt   McCoy    297 

O, 

O'Bryan,  Barsha    121 

OBrvan.    G.    G l'.il 

O'Bryan.  Susan     121 

O'Coillte.  Irish  for  Woods 1 

Octoraro    Creek,    Pa 202 

OHart,    John     141 

Old  and  New  Style  of  Reckoning   144 

O'Neil,   Margaret   51 

O'Rear,   Alice  F 299 

O'Rear,  Allen    B 301 

O'Rear,  Aroma     301 

O'Rear,  Charley    Wayman    301 

O'Rear.  Daniel     299 

O'Rear,  Louella     SOI 

O'Rear,  Mattie    301 

O'Rear,  Mary  Varina   301 

O'Rear,  Rohert     301 

O'Rear.  Susan   Allie    301 

O'Rear.  'Williani  Alexander    301 

O'Rear,  •^'illiam    T 299 

O'Rear.  'Woods    Slavin     301 

Orange  County.   N.   C 132 

Orange  County.  Virginia.  Records   41 

Orange  Presbytery,  Manual  of,  by  D.  I.  Craig 150 

Oronsav.  Isleaf   154 

Ould.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Wallace   31 

Ovariotomy,  by  Ephraim   McDowell    4S 

Owsley,  John  Samuel   108 

Owsley,  Gov.  William   309 

P. 

Page,  Thomas  Nelson    347 

Painter.  Harriet 116 

Painter,  William    275 

Paint  Lick   Presbyterian  Church,  Ky 104 

Pantops   Academy.   Va 321 

Paris    Treaty  of.  17S3   72 

Park  College.  Mo 249 

Park,   Junius    B 109 

Parker,   Elizabeth    271 

Parks,  Catherine,  and  Andrew  Wallace   5 

Parsons,   Elizabeth,   and   Thomas  Worsop    2 

Parsons.  Richard,  and  Letitia  Loftus    2 

Partman,  Kate   108 

Path  of  Buffalo  Elk   455 

Path    Hunters     459 

Patrick.    Col.   Wm lOG 

Patrons,  Descended  from  Woodses   278,  36C 

Patrons,  Descended  from  McAfee   234 

Patrons.  Sketches  of   219 

Patterson.    Sallie    D 274 

Pawling.   Col.   Henry    5 

Pawling.   James    165 

Paxton.  Isabella    45 

Paxton.  James    Alexander    50 

Paxtons,  The.  in  Virginia  42 

Peaks  of  Otter 64 

Penn.  William     10 

Pension   Laws.   lSlS-20    145 

Pension  to  Samuel  Woods.   Sr 71 

Perkins.  Bertha     97 

Perkins,  Campbell     97 

Perkins.  China    97 

Perkins.  Fanny     97 

Perkins.  Rev.    George   K 97 

Perkins.  Havana  E 97 

Perkins.  John    97 

Perkins,  Mollie     97 

Pepper's  Ferry,  New  River   !66,  472 

Permanent  Settlement  of  Kentucky  begun   167,212 

Perry,  J.  M.,  of  Staunton   322 

Persecutions  of  Scotch-Irish    141 

Pettus.  Gen.  E.  W 138 

Pettus,  Gertrude  108 


PACK 

Pettus,  Dr.    William    108 

Peyton 10, 12.  53 


Phelps,   Katheriae  Cobb    

Phelps.    Thomas    

Phillips.  Ariadne    

Phillips,  Everett  De  Hart 

Phillips,  James    G 

Phillips.  Laura    Castleman     

Phillips.  Mary     

Phillips.  Robert    

Phillips,  Wm.    Castleman    

Phillips,  Mrs.   Will    

Picture  of  Early  Kentucky,  by  Col.  Durrett 


313 
313 
389 
389 
389 
389 
389 
275 
389 
388 
185 


Piedmont.    Va 10, 11 


Pillson.  Mary,  married  Wm.  Wallace 

Pinckney,   Family,  The    

Pine  Mountain  at  Wasioto  Gap   

Pineville,  Ky.,  at  Wasioto  Gap    

Pioneer    Forts     

Pioneer   Graveyard    


5 

416 

183 

77 

184 

194 

Pioneer    Roads    454-473 

Piqua,  Ohio    211 

Pittman,    Asa    274 

Pittman,    Cora    274 

Pittman,  Marie        274 

Pittman,  Marie    D 274 

Pittman.  Nannie    Trabue    273 

Pittman.  Trabue     274 

Pittman.  William  Daviess  274 

Pittman,  William   D.,   Jr 274 

Pittman,  William    H 273 

Pittman,  William   H.,   Jr 274 

Pittman,  Velona     274 

Pitzer,  William  W 256 

Place  of  McAfees  in  Kentucky  History  211,  215 

Pleasant  Garden,  N.  C 51 

Pleasants,    Martha   B 315 

Poage,  James  and  Mary,  their  children   327 

Poage,  Rev.  Josiah  B 254 

Poage,  Margaret     326 

Poage,  Martha    Il3 

Poage,  Mary    Esther    254 

Poage,  Robert     73, 159 

Poage,  Robert,  married  Jane  Wallace   

Poem,  Cumming's,  on  Sword  of  Adam  Wallace 

Point  Pleasant,  Battle  of   

Polhemus,    James    S 

Poor  Fork,  of  Cumberland,  McAfee  Crossing  in  1773 

Porter,  who  married  Patsy  Woods  

Porter.  Jimmie     

Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portrai 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portrai 


t  of.  Barnett,  Carl  Price  

t  of.  Barnett,  Robt.  McAfee 

t  of,  Bennett.  Joel  D 

t  of,  Bennett,  Mrs.  Joel  D 

t  of.  Bennett.  Mrs.  Joel  D 

t  of,   Bennett.   John   McAfee    

t  of.  Bennett.  Sadocia  B 

t  of.  Brown.   Edwin   McAfee    

t  of.  Brown.  Mrs.  Mandy   

t  of.  Buchanan.  Geo.  M.  and  family 

t  of.  Buchanan.  James   

t  of.  Buchanan.   Mrs.   James    

t  of.  Buchanan.  James  M 

t  of.  Buchanan.   Mrs.   James  M 

t  of.  Buchanan.  James  S 

t  of.  Buchanan.  John  W 

t   of,   Caperton,   James  W 

t  of,  Caperton,  William  H 

t  of.  Caperton.  Woods   

t  of  Clark.  Bennett  

t  of  Clark.  Hon.  Champ  

t  of.   Clark.   Mrs.   Champ   

t  of   Clark.   Genevieve    

t  of.   Durrett.  Col.  R.   T 

t  of.  Edmunds.  Mrs.  Sallie  McAfee 

t  of.  Enstis.  Mrs.  Mary  T 

t  of.  Goodloe.  Hon.  J.  D 

t  of.  Goodwin.  Grover  C 

t  of.  Goodwin.  James  D 

t  of.  Goodwin.  Mrs.  Jas.  D 

t  of.  Guthrie.  Mrs.  Margaret  D 

of,  Hale,  Dr.  John  P 


5 
8 
171 
320 
438 
92 
92 
266 
266 
258 
258 
257 
258 
250 
262 
261 
242 
241 
241 
242 
242 
241 
241 
310 
310 
310 
257 
257 
257 
257 
220 
252 
405 
304 
353 
353 
353 
261 
230 


INDEX. 


497 


Portrai 

Pnrtra: 
Portrai 
Portra 
Portra; 
Portra 
Portrai 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portra: 
Portrai 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portra; 
Portra; 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portra 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portra: 
Portrai 
Portra 


Portrait  of 


Portra 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra: 
l\)rtra: 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portra 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portrai 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra 
Potitra 
Portra 
Portrai 
Portra 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra: 
Portra 
Portra 


t  of,  Hai-ris,  John  Woods   

of,  Harris,  Mrs.  Mary  Frances 
of,  Jolmston,  Col.  J.  Stoddard  . 
of,  I.apsley,  Col. 
of,  I.apsley,  Rev 
of,  Lindsay,  Mrs. 
Mrs. 


.1. 


t 

t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of. 


John 
William 

Nancy  H 

Anne  Hamilton 

President  John  A 

John  Clarke   

Joseph   


Lan  t  y 

B 

W.    .  ., 


of,  McAfee, 
of,  McAfee, 
of,  McAfee, 
of,  McAfee, 
I  of,  McAfee,  Samuel 
of,  McAfee.   Samuel 
of,  McAfee,  Gen.  R. 
t  of.   McAfee,   Robert 

t  of,  McKamey,  James  I 

t  of  McKamey,  James  I 

t  of.  Mason,  Mrs.  Alfred  D 

t  of.  Mason,  Alfred  D.,  Jr 

t  of.  Rickenbaugh,  Jacob   

of,   Rickenbaugh.  James   McAfee 
Riclvenbaugh,  Nancy  Clarke  . . 

Royster,  Mrs.  Lily  "f 

Royster,  Samuel  B 

Royster,  Samuel  B.,  Jr 

Thompson,  Mrs.  Bettie  R 

Tyler,  John  Tip   

Tyler,  Nancy  T 

Walker,  Creed  T 

Walker,   Mrs.   Eulalie  V 

Walker,  Robt.  W 

Wallace,  Gen.  Lew    

Wallace.  Hon.  Oliver  T 

Wallace,  Thomas  B 

Wallace,  Thomas  J 

Wallace,  Judge  W.  C 

Williamson,  J.  P 

t  of  Williamson,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  T.  S. 

t  of  Woods,  Alice  B 

t  of.  Woods,  Anna  Sophia   

t  of,  Woods,  Catherine  Lisle  

t  of.  Woods,  Col.  Chas.  A.  R 

t  of.  Woods,  Clarence  E 

t  of.  Woods,  Cortlandt  B 

of.  Woods,   Mrs.   C.   B 

of,  Woods,   Cortlandt   B 

Woods,    David    

Woods,  David,  Sr 

Woods,  David,  Jr 

Woods,  David   S 

Woods,  Elizabeth  Lee 

t  of.  Woods,  Frances  Seraphica  .  .  .  . 

t  of.  Woods,  Harry  E 

James   Harvey    

James  P 

John  D 

Dr.  John  R 

John  W 

t  of.  Woods,   Joseph  Lisle   

t  of.  Woods,  Mrs.  Lizzie   

Woods,  Mary  McAfee 

Woods.  Mary   Miller    

Woods,  Maud   Coleman   

Woods,  Hon.  Micajah    

t  of.  Woods,  Rev.  Dr.  Neander  M.  . 

t  of.  Woods,  Sallie  H 

t  of.  Woods,   Sarah  E 

of.  Woods,  Thomas   C 


t 
t 
t   of. 


of, 
of, 
of. 


of, 

of, 

it  of, 

it  of, 

it  of. 


Woods, 
Woods, 
Woods, 
Woods, 
Woods, 


t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of, 
t  of. 


t 

t  of.  Woods,  Thomas  J. 


it  of.  Woods,  Will  C 

it  of.  Woods,  Rev.  W.  H 

it  of.  Woods.  Rev.  Dr.  W.   H,    .  . 

it  of.  Woods,  Dr.  Wm.  Stone    .  . 

it  of.  Woods.   Mrs.   Wm.    Stone 

it  of  Yantis,  Rev.  Edward  M.   .  . 

It  of,  Yantis,  Rev.  Dr.  John  L.  .  . 

it  of  Yates,  Gretchen   

it  of.  Young,  Col.  B.  H 

it  of.  Young,  Chalmers  R 

Portwood,   Dudley    

Poulson,  John    

Poulson,  Margaret   

Powell,  Hattie  


PACK  PACK 

303       Powell,  Dr.  John  W 236 

303  Powell.   Mary  Hlla   352 

229       Powell's    Vallev    174 

284      Pratt,  Sarah  E 278 

284       I'riiidergrasts    Cromwellian    Settlement    141 

311       Presbyterian  Chur<-h,  Danville,  Ky 47 

267       I'r.-sbyterian   Church    in    Valley   of  Virginia    42 

251       Presbyterianism  in  Kentucky    190 

251       Presbytery  of  Transylvania   83 

251       Preston.  Gen.    John    S 51 

251       Preston,  Lucy  Waddcll    289 

251        Preaton,  Sarah     51 

208       FroBton.  William    161 

251       Preston,  C^I.   William,   Surveyor    51 

261       PresUHi,  Hon.  William  C.   .  .  ." 51 

265       Province.    Ann     86 

324       Prince  of   India,   The    359 

321       Proprietary  Government  of  Pennsylvania  10 

265       Pugh,   John    Barrv    336 

265 

265  Q. 

317       Quaker's    Meadows,    N.    C 51 

317       tjualicrs   in   Pennsylvania   158 

317 

317  R- 

405       Ramsey,  Wm..  married   Mar.garet  Wallace   7 

405       Ray,  Elvira  Jane   138 

324      Ray,  Elvira  Jane   354 

323      Rayburn,  Elizabeth  S 109 

323      Rayburn.    Nancy    120 

361  Redd,   Miss,  married   Charles   McDowell    45 

304  Red  House,  Va 54 

362  Reed   Creek,   Va 202 

362      Reese,  Miss   86 

361       Regulators,  The,  of  North  Carolina 11.^,  134,  135 

311       Reid,  Agnes     59 

311  Reid,  Agnes,  married  Rev.  Dr.  Beverly  Tiicker  Lacy   . .  49 

407      Reid,  Andrew,  of  Rockbridge  County,  Va 49 

396       Reid,  Ann     62 

396      Reid,  Hannah     57 

331  Reid,  John     104 

400      Reid,  John  N 106 

395      Reid,  Mary  Iv(Hiisa,  married  Jas.  J.  White  50 

395  Reid,  Mary   Louisa    288 

396  Reid,  Samuel     106 

332  Reid,  Samuel    McDowell    49 

331       Reid,  Sarah,  who  married  Andrew   Moore   49 

331  Religious  Privileges  in  Kentucky  in  early  days 189 

332  Revolutionary  Service  of  Sanil.  Woods,  Sr 45 

396       Revolutionary  Soldiers  flock  to  Kentucky  189 

396       Reynard,  Andrew   Woods    344 

331  Reynard,  Augustine   E 344 

407  Reynard,  Claude   Faviot    344 

304       Reynard,  Wm.   H 344 

400       Rhodes,   Sarah    105 

345  Rice,  Rev.  David  187,  190 

304       Richardson,    Mary    51 

391       Richmond,  Ky..  Battle  of   108 

391       Rickenbaugh,  Eli/.al>eth     264 

396       Rickenbaugh,  Jacob     264 

400       Rickenbaugh,  James  McAfee   265 

346  Rickenbaugh,  John  Thomas   264 

345       Rickenbaugh,  Laura   Anna   264 

408  Rickenbaugh,  Margaret   C 264 

407       Rickenliaugh,  Maria    Jane    264 

407       Rickenbau.gb,  Martha  .-^nne   264 

399  Rickenbaugh,  Mary    McKamey    264 

332  Rickenbaugh,  Miss    Sara    264 

400  Rickenbaugh,  Sara  Frances   264 

391       Rickenbaugh,  Susan   Harriet    264 

391       Richer,    Mehetabel     420 

291  Riggs,  Catherine     394 

292  Riggs,  David     394 

284       F;ising  Sun,  Indiana   74 

284       Road,    Boone's    473 

266  Road  from  Catawba  Creek  to  Greenbrier  River 217 

230       Road,  the  Long  Hunters'    459 

267  Road,  The    Wilderness    456 

108       Roads,  Antiquity   of    455 

63,  204       Roads,  Significance    of    454 

204       Roads,  Three   Ancient   Pioneer    454 

352       Roanoke  County,  Va 89 


498 


INDEX. 


PACE 

Roanoke,  Red   Sulphur   Springs    S9, 101 

Roanoke  River,  South  Fork   71 

Roble,    Mary    230 

Robertson,   Hon.   George   50 

Robinson,   James    138 

Robinson,   Martha    3S5 

Robinson,  Mary     138 

Robinson.  Mary    237 

Robinson,  Michael     13S 

Robinson,  Starkey     B4,  67 

Rochester,   Jane    2GS 

Rochester,  Nancy     46 

Rochester,  Nathaniel    47 

Rockbridge    County,    Va 3,  5 

Rockcastle  River   179 

Rockfish  Gap  Church    22, 98 

Rock  Wall  of  Cumberland  Mountains   181,  182 

Rodman,  David     402 

Rodman,  Nancy  Rogers  402 

Rogan,   Edgar    264 

Rogers,  Mrs.   .lane   Harris    102,  301,  306 

Rogers,  John  Johnson    301 

Rogers,  Martha   Hendrick    305 

Rogers,  Mary     156 

Rogers,  Mary  Evelyn   305 

Rogers,  Virgil  Johnson    305 

Rollins,  Hon.  James   S 309 

Routes,  to  Kentucky  from   Virginia   74 

Rowland,   Sidney  V lOS 

Roy,  Margaret     138  - 

Roy,  Mary    138 

Royster.  Bettie   316 

Royster,  Ella     321 

Royster,  Ellen     316 

Royster,  John   Madison    316 

Royster,  Lavinia     316 

Royster,  Mitchell     316 

Royster,  Samuel  Bryan   316 

Royster.  Samuel  Bryan,  Jr 316 

Royster,  Wm.    Goodloe    316 

Russell,    Col.— 1776 59 

S. 

Sale,   J.   W 275 

Salt  River  Settlement   184, 194 

Salter,    Susan    420 

Salvisa.    Ky 1S3,  185,  202 

Sampson,  Alice   Merle    321 

Sampson,  Anne  Russell   321 

Sampson,  Edgar   Woods    321 

Sampson,  Rev.   F.   R 321 

Sampson,  Prof.  John  R 321 

Sampson,  Mrs.  John  R 321 

Sampson,  Marie   Dudley    321 

Sampson,  Mary  Baldwin   321 

Sampson,  Merle  D'Aubigne   321 

Sampson,  Richard,    Sr 321 

Sampson,  Richard,  Jr 321 

Sampson,  Thornton    Rodgers     321 

Sandridge.    William    375 

Sawyers,  The,  in  Virginia   42 

Scotch  Clan  of  Campbell    9 

Scotch-Irish  encouraged  by  Gov.  Gooch    10 

Scotch-Irish  oppressed  by  Pennsylvania  authorities..,.  10 

Scotch-Irish    Race     1,  55 

Scotch  Tories  in  North  Carolina   52 

Scott,  Martha  J 106 

Scott,  Nancy   Vance    45 

Scottish  Clans  and  Tartans   216 

Schuerman,  Mrs.    Robbie    260 

Schuerman,  Prof.  William  H 260 

Settlement  and  Exploration  of  Kentucky   167,  212 

Settlement  and  Preemption   73 

Shackelford,  Edmund    L 108 

Shackelford,  Elizabeth     60 

Shackelford,  John    H 108 

Shaker  Fork  of  Shawnee  Run  73 

Shaker   Town,   Ky 73,  86 

Shaker  Village   . " 73,  86 

Shaler's,  Kentucky  72,  212 

Shallcross,  Ida    240 


^.^r.p 

Shannon,  Sally   366 

Shawnee  Indians   43 

Shawnee  Run    gg 

Shearer,  Nancy  E 366 

Shearer,    William     366 

Sheely,  Mrs.  John  J 90 

Sheely,  John,  Jr gg 

Sheely,  Van     90,  91 

Shelby,  David  Hart  349 

Shelby,  Edmund   Pendleton    349 

Shelby,  Edmund  Pendleton,  Jr 349 

Shelby,  Evan  349 

Shelby,  Evan   1 75 

Shelby,  Gov.    Isaac    40,349 

Shelby.  Isaac  Prather   349 

Shelby,  Lucy  Goodloe  349 

Shelby,  Mary  Bullock   350 

Shelby,  Sarah    48 

Shelby,  Susan    45 

Shelby,   Mrs.    Susan   G 349 

Shelby,  Susan  Hart 350 

Shelby,  Major  Thomas  Hart 45 

Shelby,  Thomas  Hart  349 

Shelby,  Vily  de  la  Pontine   349 

Shelby,  William   Kinkead    349 

Shelton.  Mourning     57 

Shenandoah  River,   South   Fork    12 

Shepherd,  Dalertus     67,  93 

Shepherd,  Joanna     94 

Shepherd,  Magdalin     93 

Shepherds  Island  Farm   64,  87,  93 

Sherando   River    53 

Shirkey.  Col.    Nicholas    62 

Shirkey,  Mr 57 

Short,    Martha    271 

Shrodes.  Martha  Amelia   72 

Shryock,  Adaline   269 

Silence  of  Histories  as  to  Long  Hunters'  Road 472 

Simms,  John    375 

Simrall,  Col 46 

Singleton,   Frank    273 

Sinking  Creek,  Va 126 

Skeggs  Creek    179 

Sketches  of  Patrons 219 

Slavin,  Elizabeth    301 

Slavin,  Elvira  F 299 

Slavin,  James   Rice  Woods    301 

Slavin,  John 299 

Slavin,  John  Addison   301 

Slavin,  Martha   Rachel    301 

Slavin,  Mary   Jane    301 

Slavin,  Sarah  Margaret  301 

Slavin,  Susan    Overton    301 

Slavin,  William     299 

Slavin,  William     104 

Smelser.  Dr.    James   W 394,  411 

Smelser,  Leila     394 

Smiley,  Mattie    321 

Smith,  Delia     360 

Smith,  Rev.   Dudley  D 320 

Smith,  Elizabeth     115 

Smith,  Prances    A 320 

Smith,  Rev.  James  P.,  D.  D 320 

Smith,  John    91 

Smith,  Rebecca   G 239 

Smith,  W.  C ^ 282 

Snidow,    Mrs ^     36 

Snoddy.  Dora  Lee   336 

Snoddy,   John    T 336 

Society  for  Suppression  of  Vice   254,  255 

Somers,   Ruth    419 

Sommers.  Edward   180 

South  Carolina,  area  in  early  days    114 

Speculators  not  ranked  with  settlers  213 

Speed,  Thomas   228 

Speed,  Thnrmas,   portrait  of   229 

Speed,  William  T 355 

Spessard.   Major   M.   P 116 

Spring.   McAfee's,  at  Frankfort    205 

SpO'tswood,   Governor    Ill 

Stamp  Act   86 


INDEX. 


499 


r.M'.l: 

Stanford.    Ky 183 

Starling.  Lucy  Todd   47 

Starling,  William   47 

Station.s,  Boone's   47S 

Stations,  Long  Hunters'  Road   473 

Stations  of  James  McAfee   183 

Stations,   Wilderness   Boad    458 

Stephens,   Charles    108 

Stone,  Martha  Jane 103,  290 

Stone,   Matilda   Caroline    293 

Stone  House  of  James  McAfee    197.  198 

Stuart,    Elizabeth    A 110 

Stuart,  Col.  John    110 

Stuart,  Miss,  sister  of  Col.  John   38 

Stuarts.   The,   in   Virginia    42 

Suddarth,  Napoleon  B..  M.  D 384 

Suit  by  heirs  of  Sara  Woods,  Jr.,  to  recover  land   88 

Sweeny,  Lizzie    108 

Sullivan,  J.  H 342 

Sullivant,  Joseph    48 

Sullivant,  Michael    48 

Sullivant,  William   S 50 

Surveyors  under  Col.  William  Preston   50 

Surveys  of  McAfee's  Company    171.  175 

Switzler,  Jane 360 

Sword  of  Adam  Wallace  used  at  Waxhaw   7,  8 


129 


Talbott,   Leonidas   B 

Talcott,  W.  Va 

Talmage.    Ky 

Tanner,  Isadore   •  •  •  • 

Tanner,    John    

Tanner,   Julia  Butler    

Tanner,  Wm 

Tanner,    Wm.    Atticus    

Tarlton's  Troopers  at  Waxhaw,  S.  C 

Taylor,  Mrs.    Adne    

Taylor,  Col.  Aylett  Buckner  

Taylor,  Basil  Mitchell,  M.  D 

Taylor,  Ella     

Taylor.  Elizabeth  Winn   

Taylor,  Eulalie  V 

Taylor,  John  Young   

Taylor,  Richard    

Taylor,  Dr.  Richard  Aylett  

Taylor,  Sarah  Francis    

Taylor,  Thomas  Wallace  

Taylor,  Col.    William    

Taylor,  William  Woods    

Taylor.  Virginia  Everett   

Templin.    John    

Terry,  Emily  R 

Test,  Esther  French   

Thackeray,  notice  by.  of  effect  of  Braddock  Defeat 

Thames.  Battle  of  the 

Thomas,  Charles    

Thomas,  John  W 

Thomas,  Susannah    

Thompson,  Agnes     

Thompson.  Calliavnie   

Thompson,  Charles    

Thompson,  Elizabeth    

Thompson,  Francis    

Thompson,  George  

Thompson,  Major  George  C 

Thompson,  Jane   

Thompson,  Hon.  John  B 

Thompson,  John  Hill    

Thompson,  Malcolm    

Thompson,  Mariah   

Thompson,  Martha    

Thorpe,   Stanton   H 

Timber  Ridge,  Va •• 

Timber    Ridge    Church    ^^ 

Timber  Ridge  Church  Yard   

Toleration,  Act  of ;;•■;•, 

Tour  of  the  McAfee  Company  to  Kentucky 

Trabue.  Charles   C 

Trabue,  Martha    

Trace,  Boone's     • 

Tragedy,  First  in  Salt  River  Settlement 


312 
180 
185 
380 
380 
380 
380 
380 
7,8 
385 
386 
3S6 
250 
386 
325 
3S7 
387 
387 
386 
386 
51 
386 
386 
,425 
245 
355 
19 
209 
116 
116 
402 
121 
121 
121 
121 
121 
121 
46 
121 
273 
121 
316 
273 
121 
109 
43 
55,56 
56 
10 
163 
121 
121 
473 
186 


p.xr.i-; 

TraiLs,  Indian,  in  Kentucky  before  advent  of  white  men  454 

Travis,  Rev.  Dr.  J.  M 270 

Trickery   in    the   way   Samuel    W<X)ds   was   deprived  of 

land  at  Shakertown    88 

Trimble,  Allen,    Gov 51.52.74 

Trimble,  James    51 

Trimble.  John     51 

Trimble.  Mrs.  John   117 

Tryon.  Governor,  of  North  Carolina 115 

Turner,    Mary    Vincent    276 

Turpin,  Eliza  J 365 

Turpin.  William   366 

Twvman.   Dr.   Wm 379 

Tyler,  Henry  S 404,  406 

Tyler,  John    Tip     *04 

Tyler,  Nancy   Thompson    404 

U. 

Ulster,  men  of,  how  treate<i  by  English 15S 

Underwood,  Josephine   320 

V. 

Vance.  Dr.  Robert  P 52 

Van  Sant,  Dr.  J.  A 306 

Varner.  Major  J.  A.  R 30.  37,  142,  150.  321-327 

View  of  "Ben  Hur  Beech."   357 

View  of  Boone's  Trace  or  Wilderness  Road    177 

View  of  Burial  Ground  of  Michael  Woods  of  Blair  Park  25 

View  of  Cumberland  Gap  from  the  Keniucky  side   192 

View  of  Cumberland  Gap  from  the  Tennessee  side 75 

View  of  Dr.  Dickson  G.  Dedman's  old  home,  Lawrence- 
burg,   Kv ; 378 

View  of  "Elmwood,"  old  homestead  of  R.  W.  Walker  . .  323 

View  of  "Ellerslie  Farm"  361 

View  of  Harrodsburg  Presbyterian  church   191 

View  of  Home  of  W.  C.  Woods  in  Lawrenceburg,  Ky 399 

View  of  James  McAfee's  Spring  170 

View  of  James  River  at  farm  of  Michael  Woods,  Jr 65 

View  of  Kentucky  River  at  Mouth   168 

View  of  Kentucky  River  at  Mouth  of  Drennon's  Creek.  .  17? 

View   of  McAfee  Knob    160 

View  of  Nathan  Dedman's  old  home   373 

View  of  New  Providence  Cemetery  looking  north    ....  172 

View  of  New  Providence  Cemetery  looking  south   369 

View  of  Rock  Wall  of  the  Cumberland  Mountain 182 

View  of  the  McAfee  Stone  House  of  1790  197 

View  of  the  Poor  Fork  (of  Cumberland  River)    438 

View  of  Typical  Pioneer  Fort  184 

View  of  Wasioto  Gap.  Pineville   '9 

View  of  Woods  Gap    J^ 

View   of  Woods   Gap    J,; 

Vivian,    Willis    ^" 

W. 

Waddell 10, 12,  38,  41,  .'•.3,  55,  74,  141 ,  147,  150 

Wade,  Miss   Belle    j-" 

Wade,  Henry     ^^■' 

Wade,  Henry   Harrison    ■*'' 

Wade,  Mrs.  H.  H "^ 

Wade,  Henry   H.,   Jr *!^-^ 

Wade,  Munson  Lang    y-^ 

Wade.  Nathaniel     

Wade.  Neander   Woods    ^^' 

Wade,  Susie   L *^  ' 

Wagnan,  C.  L „ 

Walden,   Judge   Austin    ^J 

Walker,  Beulah     ^- 

Walker,  Catherine   E.   H ^-» 

Walker.  Catherine  R ]A\^ 

Walker.  Cornelia    ^^^ 

AValker.  Creed     ^f 

Walker,  Creed ^;^ 

Walker.  Creed   Taylor    "*•  j^-J" 

Walker,  Elizabeth     ^^u 

Walker,  Elizabeth   R ^:° 

Walker,  Eulalie    ic'i,.;  i^r 

Walker,  Henry    36, 125,  126 

Walker,  James   Mosby    ^^° 

Walker,  James   Norvrll    •  ^^^ 

Walker.  John    M 120.  325 

Walker,  Joseph  W l-" 


500 


INDEX. 


Walker,  Joseph  Wootis    

Walker,  Joseph  Woods.  Jr 

Walker,  I^iicy    

Walker,  Margaret  Eulalie  

Walker,  Mary   Agnes    

Walker,  Mary    Kulalie    

Walker.  Mary   Virginia    

Walker,  Mazie    

Walker,  Reuben  Kay   

Walker,  Robert  Burton    

Walker,  Robert    Dillwyn     

Walker,  Robert   Woods 

Walker,  Robert  Woods,   Jr 

Walker,  Samuel  Taylor 

Walker,  Sarah    Epps    

Walker,  Dr.    Thomas    56,  154 

Walkers,  The,  Early  Settlers  of  Virginia  

Wallace,  Adam,  son  of  Peter,  Sr.,  and  Elizabeth   

Wallace,  Adam,  son  of  Peter.  Jr..  and  Martha 

Wallace.  Andrew,  son  of  Peter,  Jr.,  and   Martha 

Wallace,  Andrew,  son  of  Peter,  Sr.,  and  Elizabeth   .... 

Wallace,  Andrew,  son  of  Samuel  and  Esther 

Wallace.  Andrew,  son  of  Peter,  Sr 

Wallace,  Andrew    C 

Wallace,  Andrew    F 

Wallace,  Anna  CLenault   

Wallace,  Arthur   Andrew    

Wallace,  Benjamin  F 

Wallace,  Judge  Caleb  

Wallace,  Caleb,  son  of  Samuel  and  Esther 

Wallace,  Caleb,  of  Danville   

Wallace,  Celia   Ann    

Wallace,  Charles   L 

Wallace,  David   

Wallace,  Edgar  Thomas    

Wallace,  Eliza  Brown   

Wallace,  Elizalieth,  daughter  of  Peter,  Jr.,  and  Martha. 
Wallace.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Margaret. 

Wallace,  Elizabeth,  nee  Woods,  in  Virginia 

Wallace,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Esther  .  .  . 

Wallace,  Elizabeth  Brown 

Wallace,  Elizabeth  W 

Wallace,  Elveree  Shearer   

Wallace,  Erasmus  D 

Wallace,    G.   W 

Wallace,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Margaret  .  . 
Wallace,  Hannah,  daughter  of  William,  Sr.,  and  Hannah 

Wallace,  Henry    Lane    

Wallace,  Henry  N 

Wallace,  Hugh  Campbell   

Wallace,  James,  son  of  Peter,  Jr.,  and  Martha 

Wallace,  Jane  or  Jean,   daughter   of  William,   Sr.,   and 

Hannah    

Wallace,  Janet,  daughter  of  Peter,  Jr.,  and  Martha     . . 

Wallace,  Jean,  who  married  Wilson   

Wallace,  Jennie    Turpin    

Wallace,  John,  son  of  Peter,  Jr.,  and  Martha 

Wallace,  John,  son  of  William,  Sr.,  and  Hannah   

Wallace,  John,  Jr 

Wallace,  John  Chilton   ' 

Wallace,  John  G 

Wallace.  John  Walker   

Wallace,  Josiah,   Sr 

Wallace,  Josiah,  Jr 

Wallace,  Josiah,  son  of  William,  Sr.,  and  Hannah 

Wallace,  Lee  Ewing   

Wallace,  Major  Gen,  Lew   4,  6,  31,  110, 

Wallace,  Lew,   Jr '..'...'.. 

Wallace,  Lewis  T 

Wallace,  Malcolm,  son  of  Peter,  Jr..  and  Martha 

Wallace,  Margaret,  who  married  William  Ramsey   

Wallace,  Maria   H 

Wallace,  Mary,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Margaret  .... 

Wallace,  Mary,  who  married  Archibald  Woods 

Wallace,  Mary   Belle    

Wallace,  Mary  M 

Wallace,  Mary    S .'.'.'.""' 

Wallace,  M.   B 

Wallace,  Melville  W.  F 

Wallace,  Mildred  Fuller . 

Wallace,  Michael,  son  of  Andrew  and  Margaret 
Wallace,  Michael,  son  of  William,  Sr.,  and  Hannah.... 


PAC.!; 

325 

326 

94 

325 

325 

325 

32G 

274 

325 

326 

325 

325 

325 

325 

325 

,  212 

42 

7,9 

7 

6,7 

6 

5 

109 

360 

360 

366 

360 

360 

4 

5 

48 

360 

363 

355 

360 

4 

7 

7 

3 

5 

377 

360 

366 

360 

116 

7 

5 

355 

360 

360 

7 

5 

7 

7 

366 

7 

5 

360 

360 

360 

360 

360 

360 

5 

360 

355 

356 

360 

7 

7 

360 

7 

58 

360 

360 

360 

366 

360 

360 

6 

5 


PAr.i'. 

Wallace,  Michael,    M.    D 2,  4 

Wallace,  Michael  W *  32 

Wallace,  Nettie  Briscoe 360 

Wallace,  Newton    350 

Wallace,  Hon.  Oliver  Terrill 365 

Wallace,  Oliver   T.,   Jr 366 

Wallace,  Peter,  Sr.,  and  his  descendants  3,  4,  82 

Wallace,  Peter,   Jr 7,  9 

Wallace,  Peter,  Sr.,  and  Jr 30 

Wallace,  Rose  Ann    360 

Wallace,  Salem   355 

Wallace,  Samuel,  son  of  Andrew  and  Margaret 6 

Wallace,  Samuel,  son  of  Peter,  Jr.,  and  Martha   7 

Wallace,  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Esther  5 

Wallace,  Samuel,  son  of  Peter,  Sr.,  and  Elizabeth    ....  5 

Wallace,  Sarah,  daughter  of  William,  Sr.,  and  Hannah.  .  5 

Wallace,    Sarah    Lapsley    321 

Wallace,  Shannon  Phillips   366 

Wallace,  Sarah     62 

Wallace,  Susan     359 

Wallace,  Susan,  who  married  Thomas  Collins   7 

Wallace,  Susannah,  who  married  Wni.  Woods   56 

Wallace,  Susannah,  daughter  of  Peter,  Sr.,  and  Elizabeth  5 

Wallace.  Susannah,  daughter  of  Peter,  Jr.,  and  Martha,  7 

Wallace,  Thomas   Bates    359 

Wallace,  Thomas   Bates    (No.   2)    360 

Wallace,  Thomas  Bates   (No.  3)    360 

Wallace,  Thomas  Josiah    359 

Wallace,  Thomas  Josiah  (No.  2)   360 

Wallace,  Wilbur  B 360 

Wallace,  Sir  William   8 

Wallace,  Capt.  William  B 377 

Wallace.  William,  Sr.,  son  of  Peter,  Sr.,  and  Elizabeth.  ,  4 

Wallace,  William,  Sr 5 

Wallace,  William   (the  2nd)    5 

Wallace.  William    19, 97 

Wallace.  William  A 360 

Wallace.  William  Anderson    366 

Wallace,  William  Brown   4 

Wallace,  William  C,  Jr 360 

Wallace,  Judge   William    Cyrus    357 

Wallace,  William  F 363 

Wallace,  Miss,  who  married  Josiah  Wallace   5 

Wallaces,  How  connected  with  the  Woodses  3 

Wallaces,  The  King  George  Co.,  Va 142 

Walter,  Mrs   David    92 

Warren,  Sallie  Hare   289 

Warfield,  Ruth    108 

Warren,  Clara  244 

Warren,  James  Buchanan   243 

Warren,  Jean  Hamilton   274 

Warren,  Letitia  Craig 274 

Warren,  Marie    274 

Warren,  Mary    243 

Warren,  Mollie  A 355 

Warren,  William      274 

Warren,  Dr.  W.  C 243 

Washington,  Gen 212,  355 

Washington    Academy     128 

Washington  College   128 

Washington  and  Lee  University   51, 128 

Wasioto  Gap    77,  79, 183 

Watauga,  Treaty  of 179 

Watkins,  Henrietta  R 246 

Waxhaw,  S.  C,  where  Peter  Wallace,  Jr.,  was  killed..  7 

Wayt,  Twymonia   62 

Wear,  Celia   360 

Wear,   Miriam    130 

Webb,  Caroline    Rebecca    414 

Webb,  Charles     416 

Webb,  Family   The    416^ 

Welch,  Doctor,  of  Galveston  47 

Wiieelers,     North  Carolina  134 

White,  Agnes  Redd    289 

White,  Rev.  Dr.  Alexander  53 

White,  Isabelle   289 

White,  James  Jones    50,  289 

White,  Jennie   Faulkner    315 

AVhite,  Reid    289 

AVhitefield,    George    162 

Whitsitt,  Dr.  W.  H 5,  49,  142 


INDEX. 


)01 


rAi'.i'. 

Wilderness  Road    12.  1 1 1 ,  tfil ,  180,  456,  458 

Wilkinson,  Samuel   F 354 

Will  of  .Tames  McAfee  198 

Will  of  Michael  Woods,  Jr 64 

Williams,  Henry    96 

Williams,  Martha  Jane 354 

Williamson,  Prof.  A.  W 36 

Williamson,  Andrew  Woods    326,  327 

Williamson  County,  Tennessee   59 

Williamson,  Elizabeth    Poage    327 

Williamson,  James   Gilliland    327 

Williamson.  Mary    Poage    327 

Williamson,  Nancy  Jane   327 

Williamson,  Smith   Burgess    327 

Williamson,  Rev.  Thomas   S.,  M.  D 326 

Williamson,  William  Blair    327 

Wilson,  General   John    95 

Wilson.  Wallace  T GO 

Wilson's    Station    183,  206 

Winchester,  Va.,  settled  1732  11 

AVinn,  Kittle   Byrd    97 

Winter  of  1779-1780  in  Kentucky    186 

AVitt,  D.  R 342 

Witzmann,   B ''-0 

Witzmann,  Mrs.  E '*-'' 

Wood.  Cordelia     228 


Wood,  Eleanor 


328 


Wood.  Henrv  Cleveland  118 

Wood,  Col.  James   10,  71, 146 

Wood.  Mrs.  John  M J30 

Wood.  Mrs.   J.   M 326 

Wood,  Judge  John  McKee 3-S 

Wood,  Louise    3-8 

Wood,  Richard   Julian    3-8 

Wood.  Sallie    ^^l 

Woodfor.1  County,  Ky oj 

"Woodlawn",  home  of  Col.  J.  W.  Caperton   ii-i 

Woods.  Absalom,  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth   lib 

Woodsi  Adam,  child  of  William  and  Susannah 57 

Woods,  Agnes  Grear,  child  of  James  and  Nancy  121 

Woods,  Alice   338 

Woods,  Alice  Behre    •  ■ *Vi 

Woods    Anderson,  child  of  James  and  Mary   i^i 

Woods'  Andrew,  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park  34, 119, 126,  318 

Woods'  Andrew,  child  of  William  and  Susannah 57-60 

Woods'  Andrew,  child  of  Archibald  and  Isabella lis 

Woods',  Andrew,  Jr.,  child  of  Andrew  and  Martha 122 

Woods,  Andrew  Alford    - 337 

Wioods,  Andrew  Chevalier   (No.   1.)    ^" 

Woods.  Andrew   Chevalier   (No.   2.)    ^44 

Woods,  Andrew  Chevalier  (No.  3.)    ... ■  •544 

Woods.  Andrew   (and  James),  brothers  of  Michael  and 

Elizabeth     

Woods,  Ann,  widow  of  Michael,  Jr 

Woods,  Ann.  child  of  Archibald  and  Mourning 

Woods,  Ann  Eliza  

Woods,  Ann  Elizabeth   :;  '  '  ' .' ." 

Woods,  Anna,  child  of  Archibald  and  Mourning 

Woods!  Anna,  child  of  Col.   John 


2.3 

77 

61 

320 

294 

61 

106 

Worfds,  Anna  L.,  child"of  William  and  Sarah  J 116 

63 


Woods,  Anna  Sophia    

Woods,  Ann,  wife  of  Michael.  Jr 

Woods,  Anne,  child  of  Michael,  Jr.,  and  Ann   ■)< 

Woods    Ann,  child  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Mary »S 

Woods!  Ann,  child  of  David  by  first  wife 91 

woods.  Archibald,    child   of   Michael.^^    ^^^    ^^^^  ^^^^    ^^^_  ^^^ 

Woods.  Archibald,  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth  116 

Woods    Archibald,  Jr.,  child  of  Archibald  and  Isabella.  .  118 

Woods!  Archibald,  child  of  James  and  Jane       118 

Woods    Archibald,  child  of  Andrew  and   Martha   12Z 

Woods'  Archibald,  child  of  Andrew  No.  3   337 

Woods!  Archibald,  child  of  Adam  and  Anna _  .  . . .  58 

Woods    Archibald,  child  of  William  and   Susannah....  57-59 

Woods    Archibald,  child   of  Archibald   and   Mourn-ing.  .  60 

Woods'  Archibald,  child  of  William  and  Mary   GO 

Woods'  Archibald,  child  of  William  and  Harriet 116 

Woods.  Archiliald  Douglass   -5^6 

Woods,  "Baptist    Billy."  •••■•■■ •■•;. ^^•H 

Woods,  Barbara,  who  married  George  Martin X^ 

Woods,  Barbara  A.,  child  of  S.  R.  and  Zilpha 138,  351 

Woods.  "Beaver  Creek  Billy,"  first  and  second  315 


Woods,  Benjamin  F 137,  354 

Woods,  Bessie  Devall   344 

Woods,  Burch.  oliild  of  John  and  Nancy  92 

Woods,  Carrie  Webb    ^l" 

Woods,  Catharine   Lisle    394 

Woods,  Oliarles   A.   R.    (Colonel)  .  .56.  58.  59,  61,  62.  145.  328.  337 

Woods,  Charles   Edward    294 

Woods,  Charles  Lewis   348 

Woods,  Charles     Cachet,     child     of     Neander     M.     and 

Talhilah     ^21 

Woods,  Charles  Walker  381 

Woods.  Clarence    Kverett 402,  404 

Woods,  Cortlandt  Barrett   393 

Woods,  Cortlandt  B 394 

Woods,  Daniel  S.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  L.  E 106 

Woods,  David,  child  of  .Micluu'l.  .Jr..  and  Ann. 

77,  86,  87,  91,  181,  2ii0 

Woods,  David,  child  of  John  and   Ann   135 

Woods,  David,  child  of  William  and  Joanna 95 

Woods,  David,    Jr 335 

Woods,  David    (No.   1.)    348 

Woods,  David   (No.  2)    94,  348 

Woods,  David    (No.   3.)    95,  97,  348 

Woods.  I>avid  Everett   348 

Woods,  David  J.,  Rev 123 

Woods,  David    Sidney    138.  351 

Woods,  David,  child  of  John  and  Nancy   92 

Woods.  Doak   133 

Woods,  Edgar    338 

Woods,  Edgar,   Ph.   D.,   Rev., 

5.  10,  16,  37,  .57,  i;i,  711.  nil.  123,  145,  318 

Woods,  Edgar.  Jr.,  M.  D 320 

Woods.  Edwaril   Morris    347 

Woods.  Edward   Orin    352 

Woods.  Edward    Payson    383 

Woods,  Eliza,  child  of  John  and  Nancy 92 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  and  the  Wallaces   3 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  child  of  David  and  Mary   89, 93 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  child  of  Micajah  and  Lucy 95 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  who  married  William  B.  Harris   82 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  child  of  James  and  Mary 103 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  child  of  Andrew  and  Martha 121 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  child  of  William  of  North  Carolina.  .       134 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  who  married  Samuel  Woods 137 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  child  of  David  and  Mary   93 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  child  of  Michael.  Jr.,  and  Ann 93 

Woods,  Elizabeth,  child  of  Micajah  by  his  first  wife 95 

Woods,  Elizabeth  A.,  who  married  Rickey 342 

Woods,  Elizabeth    Ann    354 

Woods,  Elizabeth   Hannah    380 

Woods,  Elizabeth   I^ee    394 

Woods,  Elizabeth  Lisle   343 

Woods,  Ellis  Jackson   398 

Woods,  Emma  Birkhead    410 

Woods,  Everett    Dedman     410 

Woods  Family,  Brief  Summary  of  139, 140 

Woods.  Fannie  Everett   384 

Woods.  Fannie  L.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  L.  E 106 

Woods.  Florence  Boone 410 

Woods.  Frances,  child  of  James  and  Mary 103 

Woods,  Frances.  Jr 294 

Woods.  Frances  J..  M.  D 293 

Woods,  F.  M..  Rev.,  D.  D 123.337 

Woods,  Frances   S 394 

Woods,  Frederick  338 

Woods,  Frederick  Davis   352 

Woods    Gap    11, 13, 15,  16,  17,  21 

Woods,  Gertrude    354 

Woods,  Gladys  Aubrey  336 

Woods,  Hannah,  child  of  Adam  and  Anna  58 

Woods,  Hannah,  child  of  Michael,  of  Blair  Park   4,97 

Woods,  Hannah,  who  married  William  Kavenaugh 63 

Woods,  Harry  B 335 

Woods,  Harvey,  child  of  .loseph,  of  Mercer  County.  Ky.      118 

Woods.  Henry,  child  of  Micajah  and  Lucy  95 

Woods.  Henry,  child  of  Micajah  by  his  first  wife 95 

Woods.  Henry  McKee,  D.  D 320 

Woods,  Henry  W.,  child  of  David  and  Sallie  95,348 

Woods,  Henry,  Rev.  Dr.   . '. 337 

Woods,  H.  K 348 

Woods,  Hugh    Phillips    354 


:)02 


INDEX. 


PACr; 

Woods.  Hugh,  child  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth   138,  354 

Woods.  Ina  348 

Woods,  Isabella,  wife  of  ArchihaUi   Ill 

Woods,  Isabella,  child  of  Archibald  and  Isabella 114 

Woods,  James,  who  lived  in  Albemarle  in  1749 2 

Woods.  James,   who  married  Mildred  Jones 314 

Woods,  James,  child  of  Andrew  and  Martha 120 

Woods,  James,  child  of  Archibald  and  Isabella 117 

Woods,  James,  son  of  John  and  Susannah    101-104 

Woods.  Child  of  "neaver  Creek  Billy,  tlie  2nid." 62 

Wooils,  James,  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth   116 

Woods,  James   Baker,  M.   D 320 

Woods,  James  Brison.  child  of  Andrew,  Jr.,  and  Mary  .  .        123 

Woods.  James  Brison.  Jr 339 

Woods,  James  Garland,  child  of  James  and  Mary 103 

Woods.  James  Croodloe,  child  of  William  and  Mary  ....         60 

Woods.  James  Karris  290,  293 

Woods,  James  Harvev,  child  of  Samuel.  Jr..  and  Mary, 

73,  89,  200,  367 

Woods,  James,  Jr.,  child  of  James  and  Nancy   120 

Woods.  James    McAfee    410 

Woods,  James  Michael,  child  of  Michael  and  Esther  .  .       105 

Woods,  James  Moses   293 

Woods,  James  P.,  child  of  William  and  Sarah  J 16,  338 

Woods,  James  and  Samuel,  probably  related  to  Michael        28 

Woods,  J.    Watson     106,  479 

Woods,  Jane,  child  of  Michael  and  Ann   70 

Woods,  Jane,  child  of  Michael  and  Esther 106 

Woods.  Jane,  who  married  Joseph  Montgomery   82 

Woods,  Jane,  wife  of  James  117 

Woods,  Jane    Creigh     348 

Woods,  Jane  Lynn    348 

Woods,  Jennie  M 342 

Woods,  John,  of   Ireland — His    children    2-9 

Woods,  John,  of  Ireland — Coat  of  arms    3 

Woods,  John,  child  of  William   and   Susannah    57,  58 

Woods,  John,  child  of  David  and  his  first  wife 77 

Woods,  John,  child  of  William,  of  North  Carolina 134 

Woods,  John,  child  of  Col.  John  ,    107 

Woods.  John,  child  of  Archilmld  and  Isabella 114-117 

Woods,  .lohn,  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park 22.97-109,141 

Woods,  John,  child  of  James  and  Mary 103 

Woods,  .Tohn,  child  of  David  by  his  first  wife   92,  95 

Woods,  John,  child  of  David  by  his  first  wife 92 

Woods,  John  B.,  child  of  Samuel,  of  Albemarle 82 

Woods,  John  Caruthers,  child  of  Michael  and  Esther  , .       105 
Woods.  John  Christopher,  child  of  William  and  Mary.  .  60 

Woods,  John  D.,  Hon.,  of  Tennessee   133,  138.350 

Woods,  John   G 338 

Woods,  John  H.   McKee   320 

Woods,  John  H.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  Elizabeth   137 

Woods,  John  Harvey    351 

Woods,  John,  Jr.,  child  of  John  and  Ann    135 

Woods,  John    M 337 

Woods,  John  Michael   352 

Woods,  John  N.,  child  of  David  and  Sallie 95,  349 

Woods,  John  Raiford,  child  of  S.  R.  and  Zilpha 138 

Woods,  John  Rodes,  of  "Holkham"    95,  344,  348 

Woods,  John  William,  Judge   Ill,  116,  338 

Woods,  Johnson  P.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  Elizabeth 137,352 

Woods,  Joseph,  child  of  James  and  Jane   117 

Woods,  Joseph,  child  of  Archibald  and  Isabella 118 

Woods,  Joseph,  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth  116 

Woods,  Joseph   Bond    397 

Woods,  Joseph    Hammel     354 

Woods,  Joseph    Lisle    394 

Woods,  Joseph  R.,  child  of  William  and  Sarah  J 116 

Woods,  Julia  H.,  who  married  Coleman   313 

Woods,  Kitty     348 

Woods,  Joseph,  legacy  of,  to  Montgomery  Presbytery..       119 

Woods,  lyena 348 

Woods,  Leo   Bennett    381 

Woods,  Leon  E 335 

Woods.  I.eonona     338 

Woods,  Leslie  Neill  393 

Woods,  Lettie  Page    347 

Woods,  Lillian   E 352 

Woods,  Lindsey,  child  of  William  and  Nellie 135 

Woods,  Lucy,  child  of  William  and  Mary  60 

Woods,  Lucy,  who  married  Caperton   309 

Woods,  Lucy,  child  of  Archibald  and  Mourning   59 

Woods,  Luther   Todd    337 


PACE 

Woods,  Lydla  B 320 

Woods,  Lynn    Creigh    343 

Woods,  Madison  D 294 

Woods,  Magdalen,  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park.  .7,  31,  40,  53 

54^56 

Woods,  Magdalen,  who  married  William  Campbell   96 

Woods,  Mary  Miller    403 

Woods,  Margaret,  child  of  Michael,  Jr.,  and  Ann 97 

Woods,  Margaret,  who  married  Richard  Netherland    .  .         82 

Woods,  Margaret,  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park 109 

Woods,  Margaret,  child  of  John  and  Nancy    92 

Woods,  Margaret,  who  married  Andrew  Wallace 6 

Woods,  Margaret,  wife  of  Samuel,  Sr 70 

Woods,  Margaret   Holmes,    who    married     Samuel,    of 

Paint    Lick     85, 86 

Woods,  Margaret   Jane    354 

Woods,  Margaret   Lynn    348 

Woods,  Mariah,  child  of  David  and  Sallie 95 

Woods,  Martha    ("Patsy"),    child   of    Samuel,    Jr.,    and 

Mary     90 

Woods.  Martha,  who  maiTied  Thomas  Moore 96 

Woods,  Martha,  child  of  Archibald  and  Elizabeth 60 

Woods,  Martha,  child  of  Michael,  of  Blair  Park   119 

Woods,  Martha     294 

Woods,  Martha,  child  of  Micajah  and  Lucy   95 

Woods,  Martha,  child  of  Andrew  and  Martha 125,  126 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  William  and  Joanna 96 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  James  and  Mary 103 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  William  and  Susannah    62 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  Col.  John  and  Susannah    104 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  Michael  and  Esther 106 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  William  and  Susannah   57 

Woods,  Mary     338 

Woods,  Mary,  who  married  Benjamin  Harris   82 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  Micajah  by  his  first  wife 95 

Woods,  Mary,  who  married  a  Mr.  Campbell   96 

Woods,  Mary,  ohild  of  Archibald  and  Mourning   60 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  Micajah  and  Lucy    95 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  Andrew  and  Martha 124,  125 

Woods,  Mary,  child  of  William,  of  North  Carolina  ....        134 

Woods,  Mary  Ann.  child  of  William  and  Mary 60 

Woods,  Mary  E.,  child  of  Samuel  and  Zilpha 138 

Woods,  Mary    C 320,  342 

Woods,  Mary  Ellen   354 

Woods,  Mary    Ethel    352 

Woods,  Mary  Lupton    393 

Woods,  Mary  Louisa,  child  of  W.  M.  and  L.  E 106 

Woods,  Mary   McAfee    381,  394,  404 

Woods,  nee    McAfee     77,  89 

Woods,  Mary  Rice,  child  of  James  and  Mary   103 

Woods,  Mary  Watts    347 

Woods,  Matilda    294 

Woods,  Maud    Coleman    346 

Woods,  Micajah,   Hon 63,  68,  70,  96,  344 

Woods,  Micajah,  child  of  William  and  Joanna 94,  95,  348 

Woods,  Michael,   of   Blair   Park    9,  28,  S3,  85 

Woods,  Michael,  child  of  Col.  John  and  Susannah   ....       105 

Woods.  Michael,  child  of  James  and  Mary 103 

Woods,  Michael,  child  of  Michael  and  Esther 105 

Woods,  Michael,   child  of  William  and   Susanna   57,  58 

Woods,  Michael,    who    married    Hannah    Wallace    (and 
whom  Collins,  in  his  history  of  Kentucky,  probably 

refers  to  on  page  477  of  volume  2)    5 

Woods,  Michael,    Jr.,   child   of   Michael,   of   Blair   Park, 

28,  63,  65,  68,  70,  97 
Woods,  Miss,   child   of  John   and   Nancy,   who   married 

Garnett    92 

Woods,  Minerva    A 294 

Woods,  Mourning,  child  of  William  and  Mary   60 

Woods,  Mourning,  child  of  Archibald  and  Mourning.  ...         61 

Woods,  Nancy,  child  of  William  and  Mary 60 

Woods,  Nancy,  child  of  David  and  Mary   89,  92 

Woods,  Nannie  S.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  L.  E 106 

Woods.  Nannie,  child  of  John  and  Nancy  92 

Woods,  Nathaniel,  child  of  James  and  Mary    103,104 

Woods,  Nathaniel    Dedman    380 

Woods,  Nathaniel  Dedman,  M.  D 381 

Woods.  Neander   M.,   Rev.,   D.   D 89,  409 

Woods,  Neander  M.,  Jr 410,  420 

Woods,  Nellie    297 

Woods,  Oliver    Brison    337 


INDEX. 


503 


PAC.I-; 

Woods,  Oscar  W..  child  of  William  and  Sarah  J 11 G 

Woods,  Owen  S.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  Elizabeth 137,  354 

Woods,  Patrick,  child  of  Adam  and  Anna  58 

Woods,  Patsy,  child  of  John  and  Nancy 92 

Woods,  Peter,  child  of  ,Iohn  and  Nancy  58 

Woods,  Peter,  child  of  William  and  Snsannali    57 

Woods,  Peter  A.,  child  of  "Beaver  Creek  2nd." 62 

Woods,  Rebecca,  child  of  Andrew  and  Martha 121 

Woods,  Rebecca     338 

Woods,  Rhodes,  child  of  John  and  Nancy   92 

Woods,  Rice,  child  of  James  and  Mary   103 

Woods.  Rice  Garland,  of  Paint  Lick,  Ky 103 

Woods,  Richard    82 

Woods,  Richard,  child  of  Michael,  of  Blair  Park 110 

Woods,  Richard,  of  Albemarle    38 

Woods,  Richard,  son  of  Richard  of  Albemarle   39 

Woods,  Richard,   why   regarded   son   of   Michael    37 

Woods,  Robert,  child  of  Andrew  and  Martha   122 

Woods,  Robert,  child   of  James  ami   Nancy    120 

Woods,  Robert   Emmet    342 

Woods,  Robert  Emmet,   Jr 343 

Woods,  Robert   F 354 

Woods,  Robert   H.,  child  of  Micajah  and  S.  H.  D 95 

Woods,  Robert  Harris,  child  of  William  and  Mary   ....  60 
Woods,  Robert  Harris,  ohild  of  Micajah  and  his  second 

wife      95,  348 

Woods,  Robert  James    343 

Woods,  Robert  Kay 307 

Woods,  Sallie    348 

Woods,  Sallie,  child  of  Adam  and  Anna  58 

Woods,  Sallie   Stuart    347 

Woods,  Sallie   Rodes    348 

Woods,  Sally,  supposed  by  some  to  have  been  the  name 

of  one  of  the  children  of  Samuel.  Jr.,  and  Mary  ....  89 

Woods,  Samuel,  of  Augusta  county,  Va 82 

Woods,  Samuel,  of  Amherst  County.  Va 82 

Woods,  Samuel,  of  Botetourt  County,  Va 82-86 

Woods,  Samuel,  of  Rockbridge  County,  Va 83 

Woods,  Samuel,  of  Paint  Lick,  Ky 83, 147 

Woods,  Samuel,  of  Albemarle  82 

Woods,  Samuel,  child  of  John  and  Anna  L 137 

Woods,  Samuel,  Sr.,  child  of  Michael.  Jr..  and  Ann, 

TO.  77.  7S.  87,  102.  145.  14fl.  20(1 
Woods,  Samuel,  Jr.,  child  of  Samuel,  Sr..  .71,  73,  78.  86, 149,  200 

Woods,  Samuel  Caruthers.  child  of  Michael  aad  Esther  105 

Woods,  Samuel,  child  of  William  of  North  Carolina  ...  134 

Woods,  Samuel  Baker   320 

Woods,  Samuel  Dickson    3S0 

Woods.  Samuel  M.,  child  of  David  and  Mary   138 

Woods,  Samuel  R.  F 354 

Woods.  Samuel  Ray,  child  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth. .  .138,  3al 

Woods,  Sarah,  who  married  Joseph  Lapsley   7 

Woods,  Sarah,  child  of  James  and  Mary 103 

Woods,  Sarah,   who   married    Charles   Lambert    96 

Woods,  Sarah,  child  of  Archibald  and  Mourning 60 

Woods.  Sarah,  child  of  William  and  Susannah    57 

Woods!  Sarah,  child  of  Col.  John  106 

Woods,  Sarah,  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park 126-132 

Woods,  Sarah,  child  of  William  and  Susannah   62 

Woods!  Sarah  A.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  Elizabeth 137 

Woods!  Sarah  J.,  child  of  "Beaver  Creek  2d."   62 

Woods,  Sarah    M 320 

Woods.  Semiramus  S.,  child  of  William  and  Mary CO 

Woods!  Senoria  D.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  L.  E 106 

Woods,  Shelby   Watkins    352 

Woods    Sidney,  child  of  John  and  Nancy  92 

Woods!  Stephen  W.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  Elizabeth 137,351 

Woods!  Sue    ■  ■ • 381 

Woods,  Suita,  child  of  Col.  John  and  Susannah 106 

Woods!  Susan,  child  of  William  and  Susannah 62 

Woods    Susan,  child  of  Michael  and  Esther 106 

Woods!  Susan,  child  of  William  and  Susannah 57 

Woods!  Susan,  child  of  Adam  and  Anna  58 

Woods,  Susan  M.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  L.  E 106 

Woods,  Susan  McKay,  child  of  Samuel  and  Zilpha 138 

Woods!  Susan    McKuine    351 

Woods    Susannah,  child  of  James  and  Mary   103 

Woods'  Susannah,  child  of  Michael  and  Ann   70 


PACP, 

Woods,  Susannah,  child  of  William  and  Joanna 96 

Woods.  Susannah,  who  married  Henry  Williams   96 

Woods,  Susannah,  child  of  Archibald  and  Mourning  ...         60 

Woods,  "Surveyor  William"   HO 

Woods.  Tallulah  Gachot,  child  of  Noander  M.  and  Tal- 

lulah    421 

Woods,  Tavnor,  child  of  David  and  Sallie  95 

Woods,  Theodore    320 

Woods,  Thomas    320 

Woods,  Tliomas,  child  of  John  and  Ann  L 136 

Woods.  Thomas,  child  of  Archibald  and  Mourning   ....         61 

Woods,  Thomas  Cleland    380,  398 

Woods,  Thomas    Creigh     348 

Woods,  Thomas  Dabncy,  child  of  "Beaver  Creek  the  2d"         G2 

Woods,  Tliomas  Harris,  child  of  Wliliam  and  Mary 60 

Woods,  Thomas  J.,  child  (jf  W.  M.  and  Elizabeth 137 

Woods,  Thomas  James,  M.   D 332,  351 

Woods.  Thomas  James   LeGrand    342 

Woods.  William,  of   Ireland    2, 132-140 

Woods.  William,  child  of  "Beaver  Greek  the  2d" 62 

Woods,  William,  child  of  James  and  Mary  103 

Woods.  William,  child  of  David  and  Mary  89,  93 

Woods,  William    82 

Woods,  William,  who  married  Sarah  J.  Edington 338 

Woods.  William,  child  of  Michael  of  Blair  Park 35,56,63 

Woods.  William,  child  of  William  of  North  Carolina  .  .  .       134 

Woods.  William,  child  of  John  and  Anna 135 

Woods,  William — "Heaver  Creek  Billy"  57,  61 

Woods,  William,  child  of  Adam  and  Anna 53 

Woods,  William,  child  of  Archibald  and  Mourning 60 

Woods.  William,  chilil  of  Archibald  and  Isabella 112,114 

Woods.  William,  child  of  John  and  Elizabeth 116 

Woods.  William,  child  of  David  and  Mary   93 

Woods.  William,   child  of  Michael,   Jr..   and   Ann 61,94 

Woods.  William  A.,  child  of  W.  M.  and  Elizabeth 137 

Woods.  William  Benton,   wife  of  Ellison    314 

Woods,  William  Clarence   397 

Woods,  William  Cleland    393 

Woods,  William  C,  child  of  William  and  Mary   60 

Woods,  William    Doak     " 135 

Woods.  William    Gayle    338 

Woods,  William    Harvey     380,  389,  392 

Woods,  William  Hervey,  Rev.,  D.  D 392 

Woods,  William  M..  child  of  W.  M.  and  L.  E 106 

Woods.  William    Mitchell    352 

Woods,  William  M..  child  of  Thomas  and  Susannah  ....  136 
Woods.  William  Moffett,  child  of  Michael  and  Esther..  105 
Woods.  William  Price,  child  of  James  and  Mildred  ...62,314 
Woods,  William  S..  child  of  Micajah,  by  his  second  wife         95 

Woods,  William  S.,  child  of  Samuel  R.  and  Zilpha 138 

Woods.  William   Shepherd    348 

Woods.  William   Stone.   M.  D 103,  290,  293 

Woods,  William — many  of  this  name   61,  94 

Woods,  Woodford,  child  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Mary  ....         90 

Woodson,    David    M 45 

Woodson,    Sallie     374 

Worsop,  Elizabeth  and  her  husband,  John  Woods 2-9 

Worsop.  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Parsons   2 

Wrig'ht.   Kate    47 

Y. 

Yandes  (Yant.is)    130 

Yantis.  Rev.   Edward    284,285 

Yantis,  Col.  John   130.283 

Yantis,  Rev.  John  Lapsley  283.  284 

Yates,   Miss   Gretchen    264,  266 

Yates,  Mrs.  Randolph   264 

Young,  Mr.,  who  married  Mary  McDowell  49 

Young.  Col.  Bennett  H 226 

Young.  Col.  Bennett  H.,  portrait   230 

Young,  Chalmers  B 264,  266 

Young,    Robert    264 

Z. 

Zane,  Cornelia 272 

Zane,   Elizabeth    272 

Zane,  Noah  272 


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