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CONTENTS

ARMSTRONG McADOO

BANNING McGHEE

BLOUNT MCMILLAN

BROWNLOW PHINIZY

CALHOUN POLK

DEADERICK SEVIER

GAINES SHIELDS

HOWARD STONE

KEY TURNLEY

LUTTRELL VANDYKE

LYLE

FOREWORD

The Southern States were settled by three great waves of emigration,
— CavaKer, Scotch-Irish and Huguenot. These types retain their charac-
teristics to this day, perhaps, largely, because groups of relatives, friends or
neighbors settled in one section and gave a dominant tinge in creed, and
church, and custom. The sons and daughters of these families married, and
creed and custom grew stronger from year to year. Thus the Scotch-Irish,
a people of Scotch origin, though living in Ireland for many years before
the American emigration, settled in certain parts of Virginia, North and
Sputh Carolina, and what is now East Tennessee, in great numbers and
impressed their Presbyterian faith upon their posterity.

In the chapters of this book examples will be given of each of these
groups — Cavalier, Scotch-Irish and Huguenot.

The early history of these well known Southern families is here pre-
sented, being published, at least in coUected form, for the first time. The
compiler takes no credit for authorship, as genealogy is not a science of
invention. The facts, however, are clearly stated, and in the case of each
family each line may be brought down to the present day from the earliest
settler in America.

The Colonial, Revolutionary, 1812 and War Between the States
record of each family is set forth succinctly. No space has been given to
tradition, though many traditions in the families mentioned are interesting
and doubtless could be foUowed up and proved. Many histories have
been consulted and many family documents studied, only reliable records
being used.

Though the chief endeavor of these chapters is to show the Colonial
or Revolutionary settler and his posterity, a brief line of his progenitors is
given in some cases, as the origin of name and family is always interesting.

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Hundreds of histories, court records and family documents have been
examined in the preparation of this volume, and the following family author-
ities have been consulted :

Robert A. J. Armstrong, Mrs. Martha Tumley Armstrong, Mrs.
Penelope J. Allen (who prepared the Deadrick and VanDyke data),
Pearson Banning (who prepared the Banning data), Mrs. Virginia E.
McNaught (who prepared the Gaines data), Mrs. Louise Sevier Gid-
dings, Mrs. J. F. Alexander, S. G. Heiskell, Calvin M. McClung (who
prepared the McGhee data) , John A. Kelly, the late Parmenas Taylor
Tumley, John Bell Brownlow (who prepared the Brownlow data), the
late Oscar K. Lyle, and many others.

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ARMSTRONG

The family of Armstrong derives its name from the following cir-
cumstance: An ancient King of Scotland, had his horse killed under
him in battle. Fairbaim, his armor-bearer immediately grasped the
King by the thigh and set him upon another horse. For the assistance
at such a critical moment the King rewarded him with lands on the
border, and to perpetuate the memory of so important a service, as well
as the extraordinary manner in which it was performed, the King gave
him the appelation Armstrong and assigned him for a crest an armed
hand and arm grasping a leg in armor. This is the left hand.

The hero of the exploit, "Siward, the Armstrong,'* Earl of North-
umberland, first of the name and ancestor of the renowned Border
family of Armstrong, was one of these stalwart figures who will never
pass away from the pages of history and tradition. In his physical
strength and prowess, wit and wisdom, loftiness of character, defiance
of danger and death, he was remarkable. He was undoubtedly a
Christian, for he built the minster of York, but he reminds us of those
old heroes of the Edda, from whom his ancestors were said to have
descended. He acquired honor for England by his successful conduct
in the only foreign enterprise undertaken during the reign of Edward
the Confessor. (Johannes Brinston, Saxe Gramatieur, George Steph-
ens). Duncan, King of Scotland, was a prince of gentle disposition,
and lacked the genius requisite for governing so turbulent a country as
Scotland, and one so infested by the intrigues and animosities of the
great Macbeth. Siward embraced, by Edward's orders, the protection
of the royal distressed family. He marched an army into Scotland and
having defeated Macbeth in battle, restored Malcolm, Duncan's son,
to the throne of his ancestors. This service, added to his former con-
nection with the royal family of Scotland, brought great accession to
the authority of Siward in the North.

Soon after his return from this campaign he was attacked by a fatal
disorder. As he felt his end approaching he said to his attendants,
"Lift me up that I may die on my legs like a soldier, not couching like
a cow. Dress me with my coat of mail, cover my head with my helmet,

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put my shield on my left arm and my battle aXe in my right hand that
I may die under arms."

Ingulf *8 record of his death reads as follows:

**In the year of our Lord 1056, Siward the brave carl of North-
umberland, departed this life and was buried in the cloister of the
monastery of Saint Mary, which he had built without the walls of the
city of York."

Siward was a Dane and he was much beloved by the Northum-
brians, who were chiefly of a Danish extraction.

Siward married twice. His son by the first wife, called Young
Siward in "Macbeth", was killed by Macbeth in the battle of Duns-
sinmore. Siward married for his second wife Aelfled, daughter of
Alfred Earl of Northumberland and through her, acquired that title
and great authority The Northumbrians were of Danish extraction
and rejoiced at being ruled by the greajt Earl who was of Danish
blood. His son by Aelfled, succeeded to the title and his daughter
by Aelfled, married David I, King of Scotland.

Here is a list of the different forms of Siward's name. In the
Irish records he was called the Strong, in the Terwinney records he
was called Fayborn and the Armstrong; in old manuscripts brought
over by Armstrongs to North Carolina from Londonberry, Ireland, in
1711, he was called the Strong.

In the old records the names most frequently given to the Arm-
strongs are Rolland, Geoffry and Robert, all showing the ancient
Norman extraction. Robert is the name most frequently used in every
branch of the family to this day.

From Siward the Strong Arm the Armstrong clan is descended.
The ancient border family grew and flourished and though, in the
years, and centuries that followed they roamed afar, even as Siward
himself roamed from his native land, they retained the spirit of Siward
and were always bold, courageous, war like and high principled.

Their adventures in the history of the Border are many and inter-
esting. They fought in every war and after their emigration to Amer-
ica they participated in every war undertaken by the United States,
from Indian fightifig before the Revolution to the present time.

In the fifteenth century, Thomas Armstrong, fifth Lord of Main-
gerton, had four sons, of whom the eldest, Alexander Armstrong
was the sixth Lord. He had seven sons. Thomas the eldest succeeded
and was Seventh Lord Maihgerton, but the second son was called
John Armstrong, of Gilnockie. All the Armstrongs in Ireland in
the seventeenth century are descended from him, and all the American
Armstrongs, who trace through the Scotch-Irish clan. He was Robin
Hood of the Border, and the stories of his exploits run through all
Scottish literature. Sir Walter Scott makes frequent reference to him.

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All descendants whose names are recorded in the following pages
are eligible to the Societies of the Colonies, Revolution, Mexican War,
1&12 and the War between the States. It is an interesting fact that
in the War between the States, in which the Armstrongs of the South-
em Clan fought on each side of the great conflict, that one Regiment
of Tennesseans was made up largely of Armstrongs and their kin,
and that every officer was an Armstrong by name. Siward the Strong
Arm therefore must be sleeping peacefully in his tomb after his eight
centuries to think that his descendants continue the game.

To return however, to Siward's immediate posterity. In the time
of James the First of Elngland, great bodies of land in Province of
Ulster, Ireland, were forfeit to the crown in consequence of the rebel-
lion of Tyrone and Tirconnell and these lands were offered to the
Scotch and Elnglish people for settlement.

Thousands of the Border Scots, including many Armstrongs, old
Siward's descendants, accepted the offer and went to the new land. It
was estimated in 1638 that there were forty thousand Scotchmen in
Ulster.

These are the people who became known subsequently as the
Scotch-Irish, though they had in most instances not a drop of Irish
blood. A hundred years or more they lived in Ulster and then early
in seventeen hundred an emigration to America began.

ROBERT ARMSTRONG THE FIRST

Robert Armstrong emigrated from the Province of Ulster, County
Antrim, Ireland, to America in 1 735, bringing with him his wife,
Alice Calhoun Armstrong, his four year old son Robert Armstrong,
the Second, and an older son, John Armstrong. Robert Armstrong
the First was born in Ireland, Province of Ulster, County Antrim,
about 1 700. He married about 1 728 Alice Calhoun (bom in Ulster,
County Antrim, about 1705). She was of the family that produced
Patrick Calhoun and John C. Calhoun. She was a sister of James
Calhoun, the emigrant of the Calhoun family and an aunt of Patrick
Calhoun.

The Calhouns emigrated from Ireland at almost the same time with
the Armstrongs going first to the same location in Pennsylvania selected
by the Armstrongs, and from there moving South to Abbeyville District,
South Carolina, an example closely followed by the Armstrongs. The
connection between the families was close for several generations
and when John C. Calhoun was Secretary of State he appointed to
office in Tennessee his cousins, Robert Armstrong, the Third, and
Robert Armstrong Houston, as will be noted later. The Calhoun
family is given in another chapter of this book.

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Robert Armstrong the First, who came to Pennsylvania in 1735,
landed in Philadelphia, went into one of the interior counties on the
Susquehannah River, and resided there for some years. From Penn-
sylvania, some time previous to 1760, the family went to Abbesrville
District South Carolina, now Anderson County, where Alice Calhoun
Armstrong's Calhoun kinsmen had preceded them by a short time.

Robert Armstrong, the First, died in Abbeyville District, South
Carolina, about the year 1 775, being close to his seventy-fifth year.
Alice Calhoun Armstrong is not mentioned again in the family record
and the date and place of her death are not known. Her older sons,
John Armstrong and Robert Armstrong, the Second, were born in
Ireland. Her younger children were bom in Pennsylvania.

All the Armstrongs and their connections were Presbyterians and
it is noted that a sister of Robert Armstrong, the First, whose first

name is not given marreid '• Holmes, a Protestant

preacher. It is recorded in the family Bible, that Robert Armstrong
and his son Robert Armstrong, "were of patriotic spirit and most reso-
lutely withstood, in the Carolinas, the aggressions and cruelties of the
1 ones.

The children of Robert Armstrong, the First, and Alice Calhoun
Armstrong were nine, namely:

( 1 ) John Armstrong.

(2) Robert Armstrong.

(3) James Armstrong.

(4) Benjamin Armstrong.

(5) Kate Armstrong.

(6) Hannah Armstrong.

(7) A daughter, name not known.

(8) Alice Armstrong.

(9) A daughter, name not known.

( 1 ) John Armstrong born In Ireland about 1 729 married and
settled in Georgia. A large family comes through him.

(2) Robert Armstrong, the Second, bom in Ireland in 1731 mar-
ried Margaret Cunningham in 1 767. Died in 1 796. A sketch of
him follows:

(3) James Armstrong married and settled in Louisiana.

(4) Benjamin Armstrong, married and settled in Tennessee.

(5) Kate Armstrong, married : Stuart (sometimes

spelled Stewart )and settled in South Carolina.

(6) Hannah Armstrong married Summers and

settled in Kentucky.

(7) Armstrong, married James Donaldson and

settled in North Carolina.

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(8) Alice Armstrong, (named for her mother, Alice Calhoun)

married Houston, and settled in South Carolina and

later in Tennessee. A large family comes through her. She had
several children, among others, Robert Armstrong Houston, bom in
Abbeyville District, South Carolina 1765, died April 2, 1834, who
was appointed by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, to the position
of United States Commissioner in the Indian Treaty at the same time
that Robert Armstrong, the Third, was appointed United States Sur
veyor. This was for the Indian Treaty of 1819.

Robert Armstrong Houston, married Margaret Davis (or Dallas)
and had four daughters and at least two sons, Alice, Amelia, Malinda,
Rutelia, James and Horace Houston. Of the daughters, each one, by
a coincidence, comes into the Armstrong Family again, either by her
own marriage or by the marriage of a descendant.

Alice Houston, the daughter of Robert Houston, married James
McMillan and had: Robert McMillan (who married twice and had
by his first wife, Martha Isbell, two children: Alice McMillan who
is not married and James Benjamin McMillan who married Cynthia
Cunningham and had William Cunningham McMillan, Alice McMil-
lan, Rutelia Isbell McMillan, Mary McMillan, and Kitty B. McMil-
lan; and had by his second wife, Missouri Isbell, two children: Robert
Houston McMillan, Second, who married Sarah Gray and left Robert
Houston McMillan, Third, who died young, Allen Gray McMillan
and Catherine McMillan; and Fannie McMillan who married J. F.
Wikle, and left Robert McMillan Wikle and Jesse Wikle) ;
Alice McMillan (who married Major Gaines McMillan as his second
wife and had no children) ; and- James White McMillan (who married
Laura Hendrick and had JuHa Hardin McMillan, Amelia Alice Mc-
Millan, -Annie L. McMillan, Mary Lurina McMillan, William Hen-
drick McMillan, Nannie Missouri McMillan, James White McMillan.
Second, Luke Hampton McMillan, Laura Houston McMillan, Frances
Louise McMillan and Frank Alexander McMillan).

Amelia Houston, second daughter of Robert Houston and his
wife Margaret Davis or, Dallas Houston married her cousin, Drury
Paine Armstrong and is mentioned later.

Malinda Houston, third daughter of Robert Houston and his wife,
Mai;garet Davis or Dallas married a McNutt.

Rutelia Houston, fourth daughter of Robert Houston and his
wife Margaret Davis or Dallas Houston, married James Isbell (see
Howard Family) and had Margaret Isbell (who married Major
Joseph Hardie, but had no children) ; Fannie Isbell (who married
William Boynton and had William Boynton, Second, and Dwight
Boynton) ; Houston Isbell (who never married) ; Thomas Livings-
ton Isbell (who married Mattie J. Norris and had Rutelia Houston

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Isbell, who married W. H. Lane and has one child, Rutelia Isbell
Lane) ; and Alice Isbell (who married her cousin William Park Arm-
strong and had William Park Armstrong, Second, who married
Rebekah Purvis and has children and lives at Princeton, New Jersey;
Houston Armstrong, who married Mina Lamar and lives in Selma,
Alabama; Margaret Hardie Armstrong, who married Ainslee Power
Ardaugh and lives in Orcilla, Canada, and Ann £. Armstrong, who
married Thomas Stoo Johnson and lives in New Orleans).

James Houston, the elder son of Robert Houston and his wife,
Margaret Davis or Dallas Houston married .

Horace Houston, the Second son of Robert Houston and his wife
Margaret Davis or Dallas Houston married .

(9) ^Armstrong, married Henry

and settled in West Tennessee.

This completes the list of the children of Robert Armstrong the
First. Some of the foregoing information was obtained from papers
left by his grandson, the late Drury Paine Armstrong, all being of
very great value. In the single instance of the Calhoun information
are his notes misleading. He mentions Alice Calhoun as a sister of
"the emigrant Patrick Calhoun", whereas the emigrant Cathoun was
named James ; also Alice Calhoun was a generation older than Patrick
who was a son of James, the emigrant, and who had no sister by the
name of Alice. It is therefore, very evident that Drury Paine Arm-
strong in his notes meant to say that Alice Calhoun was a sister of the
emigrant James Calhoun.

ROBERT ARMSTRONG. THE SECOND

Robert Armstrong, the Second, son of Robert Armstrong the
First and Alice Calhoun Armstrong, was bom in Ireland, in County
Antrim, Province of Ulster, in 1731. When he was four years old
he emigrated to America with his father and mother and at least one
older brother, John Armstrong, in the year 1 735, and settled with
them in an interior Coimty of Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River.
The party had landed in Philadelphia. Some time previous to the
year I 760, the exact date not being given, they followed the Calhoims
to Abbeyville District South Carolina, where the Calhoims had estab-
lished a settlement.

In August of I 767 being thirty-six years old, Robert Armstrong,
the Second married Margaret Cunningham, whose mother was a
McKamy or McCamy and whose father resided about sixty miles above
Charleston, S. C, on the Little River.

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Robert Armstrong the Second served in the Revolution, and prob-
ably before that time, in the Colonial Army. It is of him that the
Family Bible speaks in the quotation already given:, "He was of
patriotic spirit.** He was prominent in the military affairs of the state
(South Carolina) for many years. In Heitman's Historical Records,
Page 66, Robert Armstrong's name appears as First Lieutenant of the
First South Carolina Regiment. This was the regiment made famous
by such officers as Colonel Charles Pinckney and Major (afterwards
General) Francis Marion.

In the year 1784, with his wife and children, Robert Armstrong
the Second, moved from South Carolina to the waters of the Holston,
to what is now Washington County, Tennessee. There he lived for
three years* In the spring of 1 787 he moved again and this time for
die last time. He settled on a place five miles east of the present
site of Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee. On this plantation elevoi
years later, February 28, 1 798, he died, leaving his widow, Margaret
Cunningham Armstrong who survived him forty years. He is buried
in the old family cemetery. His grave though unmarked is the oldest
in the lot and a somewhat newer moimd beside it is that of Margaret
Cunningham Armstrong. Major Shed Armstrongs (Ethelred W. Arm-
strong ) remembered being present, a boy of ten, when his grand-mother,
Margaret Cunningham Armstrong was buried in this grave beside her
husband, who had predeceased her forty years. This establishes the
location of the two graves.

Margaret Cunningham Armstrong whose father Cun-
ningham "resided about sixty miles above Charleston on the Little River
and whose mother was a McKamy,** was a person of strong and splen-
did character. She lived to see all her children grown and performing
valuable service to the world and to see many of her grandchildren
grow up. She had red hair. She died June 3, 1873 being ninety-two
years of age. This would establisih her birth in the year I 745 and
would make her fourteen years her husband's junior. At the date of
her marriage 1 767, she would have been twenty-two, while Robert
Armstrong was already thirty-six. In some of the records she is given
as being ninety-seven at the time of her death.

The Cunninghams had removed from Augusta County, Virginia,
in 1 7 to their home on the Little River where they were estab-
lished in August 1 767, the date of Margaret's marriage. (A family
of McKamy settled in Virginia in the Lexington District, before the
Revolution. A McKamy, Francis McKamy was a native of Ulster
and emigrated to America like so many of the Ulstermen in the early
part of the eighteenth century. He was the first Presbyterian minister
in America. He helped to organize the first Presbyterian Church and
planted the germs of the Presbyterian Church in America).

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Robert Armstrong, the Second, and his wife Margaret Cunningham
Armstrong had seven children, four sons and three daughters, namely^

( 1 ) Robert Armstrong, the Third.

(2) Moses Armstrong.

(3) Aaron Armstrong.

(4) John Armstrong.

(5) Mariah Armstrong.

(6) Margaret Armstrong.

(7) Elizabeth Armstrong.

(1) Robert Armstrong, the Third, born 1774, married 1798
Elizabeth Wear. A sketch of him follows:

(2) Moses Armstrong, bom August 3, 1 787, married Amelia
Morrow. His descendants live on the East bank of the Holston River,
one mile from the place where his father settled at the Armstrong
Ferry. His children were: Lucy (who married William Goddard) ;
Martha (who married James Kennedy) ; John D. (who married Cynthia
Campbell) ; James Newton Armstrong (who married first Amelia
Armstrong and second May Turbeyville) ; Moses Houston Arm-
strong (who married Mary Jane Gibson) ; Aaron Armstrong, (known
as Tip, who married Nancy Bell) ; Margaret Armstrong (who mar-
ried first Jack Davis and second Jesse Nicodemus) ; Elizabeth Arm-
strong, (who married Jack Campbell) ; Robert Armstrong (who
married Polly Fisher) ; and Alexander Armstrong (who married
Patsey Merryman). •

(3) Aaron Armstrong, bom August 3, 1 787, a twin to Moses
Armstrong, married Elizabeth Bounds and settled in Tennessee on his
father's homestead. His children were Moses Armstrong, the Second
(who married Elizabeth J. McMillan) Frank B. Armstrong (who
married Eliza White) ; John W. Armstrong, who married Eliza Mc-
Millan) ; Ethelred W. Armstrong (known as Shed, who
married Mattie Carter) ; James M. Armstrong (who married Pricey
Monday) ; Eliza Armstrong (who married Richard Campbell) ;
Wallace Armstrong (who married Emma Effort) ; Margaret Arm-
strong (who married Alfred Ault) ; Betsy Armstrong (who married
Andrew McMillan) ; AmeKa Armstrong (who married her cousin
James Newton Armstrong as his first wife) ; and Martha Armstrong
(who married William Kennedy).

(4) John Armstrong born 1777, married 1800 Nancy Weir, a
distant kinswoman of Elizabeth Wear, whom his brother Robert Arm-
strong married, and settled in Indiana. His children were Ambrose
Newton Armstrong, married first Nancy Weir and married second
Ellen Curry; Alfred Weir Armstrong (who married first Margaret
Fulkerson and married second Jane Washfield and married third.

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Jane Willett) ; Pleasant Armstrong, (who was killed by Indians) :

John C. Armstrong (who married first Spofford and second

; — ^Webster) ; Margaret Armstrong (who married John Stone-
wall) ; Nancy Armstrong (who married Wilson Smith, but had no
children) ; Martha Armstrong (who married Joseph . Landes) ; Lethia
Armstrong (who married Felix Landes) ; Amanda L. Armstrong (who
married Joshua McDonald) ; Alvira Jane Armstrong (who married
Reverand J. P. May); Mary Emmelinc Armstrong (who married
Thomas McNamee) ; Robert Edwin Armstrong.

(5) Martha Armstrong, bom 1783 married James Churchweil
Luttrell (see Luttrell Family) and had six children namely: James
Churchweil Luttrell, Fourth ; Annie Luttrell who married Joseph Shields
Luttrell, Robert Armstrong Luttrell, died young, and Fannie Luttrell,
died young.

Of the foregoing: James Luttrell the Second, married Eliza Bell
and had six children, ( 1 ) James Churchweil Luttrell, Third, (who
married Josephine Brooks, (see McMillan Family) and had James
Churchweil Luttrell, Fourth, Annie Luttrell who married Joseph Shields
and had Josephine Shields who married Leonard Murphey;
Libbie Luttrell married Benjamin F. Moore and has Margaret Moore

and Benjamin F. Moore, Second; Fannie Luttrell, married

Powers; Samuel Bell Luttrell, Jr., who died unmarried; Ertiest
Luttrell; and Sophy Luttrell married Harry Harmon, Second, and
has Harry Harmon, Third) ; (2) Samuel ^Bell Luttrell (who mar-
ried Margaret McClung Swan and had Samuel Bell Luttrell, who
died yoimg; Margaret LuttrelU married William E. Suilins and has
Samuel Suilins and David Suilins; Jennie Luttrell, married Charles M.
Mitchell and )ias Margaret and Mary Mitchell ; Mary Luttrell married
Dr. Thomas ap R. Jones and Charles Luttrell died immarried) ; (3)
Elizabeth Saunders Luttrell (who married Dr. William Morrow and
had nine children, James Monx>w, Frank Murfree Morrow, Lillie Mor-
row, Emma Morrow, Sallie Hooper Morrow, Libbie Luttrell Morrow,
Ada Murfree Morrow, Walter S. Morrow and Margaret Bell
Morrow. Of the foregoing: James Luttrell Morrow married Jane
Ewing and their children are: Irene Ewing who married Dr. Essler
Hoss, a descendant of John Sevier, Elizabeth Morrow, who married
Arthur Timmons, William Morrow, Third, Jane Morrow and Orville
left one son William Leigh Morrow, who married Dolly Post. Lillie
Morrow married Judge James M. Anderson and has one daughter,
Emma Morrow Anderson who married Harold B. Whiteman.
Emma Mbrrow married John B, Atchison and has Thomas Ayres
Atcheson, Lillian Morrow Atcheson and Emma Morrow Atcheson.
Sallie Hooper Morrow married F. Ludlow Chrys tie and has Elizabeth
Ludlow Chrystie, Thomas Walter Chrystie and Frances Nicholson

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Qirystie. Libbie Luttrell Morrow is not married.^da Murfree Morrow
married D. F. Reeves and has Joseph S. Reeves and Daniel F.
Carter Reeves, Second, Walter S. Morrow is not married. Margaret
Bell Morrow married Clarence B. Simpson and has Isabel Simpson
and John Morow Simpson, (4) Martha Armstrong Luttrell, second
daughter of James Churchwell Luttrell and Eliza Bell Luttrell mar-
ried Stokeley Donelson Mitchell and had three children: Mabel W.
Mitchell, William M. Mitchell and Libbie Luttrell Mitchell, who
married John McMillan Moulden and has John McMillan Moulden,
jr., and Margaret Luttrell Moulden. (5) Eliza Bell Luttrell, daughter
of James Churchwell Luttrell and Eliza Bell Luttrell married Jesse H.
Thomas and had Jesse H. Thomas, jr., and James Luttrell Thomas.
(6) Mary M. Luttrell, daughter of James Churchwell Luttrell and
Eliza Bell Luttrell married Charles E. Griffith ^nd had four children:
Charles E. Griffith, jr., Sallie .M. Griffith. Lillian Bell Griffith and
a child that died young.

Margaret Luttrell married Matthew Ambrose Gaines, son of
Ambrose Gaines (see Gaines Family) and had five children namely:
Matthew M. Gaines, Martha Gaines, who married Richard Beardea,

Mary Gaines, who married ^Bearden, Ambrose Gaines,

Third, who married Mary Winston Townes and has six children:
( 1 ) George Gaines, married and has Ethel Smith Gaines and Katherine
Woodville Gaines; (2) Margaret Gaines, married Garland Buffington;
(3) Etta Gaines, who married H. B. Hogan; (4) Blanche Gaines,
who married F. J. Hoyle; (5) Mary Townes Gaines, who married
Reuben S. Payne, and (6) Ambrose Gaines, fourth who married
Edith Lucie Jenks and has Margaret Gaines, Ambrose Gaines, Fifth,
Edith Gaines, and Mary Townes Gaines, James Luttrell Gaines, (son
of Matthew Ambrose Gaines and Margaret Luttrell Gaines) married
Belle Porter. He was a gallant officer m the Confederate Army. He
had five children namely: Ambrose Porter Gaines, Matthew Gaines,
Lillian Gaines, who died young, and James Luttrell Gaines, Second.
Martha Luttrell daughter of James Churchwell Luttrell and Mar-
tha Armstrong Luttrell married Richard Bearden.

Amanda Luttrell, daughter of James Churchwell Luttrell and Martha
Armstrong Luttrell married Reverend George Horn and had three
children, Sarah Horn, married James Newman, James Horn, un-
married, and William Horn, married Kate Kelso.

(6) Margaret Armstrong married John Bounds and supposedly
married Thomas Lovelady for her second husband, they moved to
Oregon and all trace of the family is lost.

(7) Elizabeth Armstrong married William McKamy and had
Robert McKamy who married Jemima Park; Barton McKamy mar-
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Margaret Bradley) ;^eggy McKamy (not married); and Wil-
liam C. McKamy the Second (who married Polly Parks.) "

This completes the List of children of Robert Armstrong, Second,
and Margaret Cunningham Armstrong.

ROBERT ARMSTRONG. THE THIRD

Robert Armstrong, the Third, son of Robert Armstrong the Sec-
ond and Margaret Cimningham Armstrong, was born in Abbeyville
District South Carolina, December 1 3, I 774.

When he was ten years old he accompanied his father and mother
on their trip to the then unsettled territory which is now Tennessee. This
adventure was imdertaken in 1 784. Their first location in Tennessee
was only temporary and three years later they moved to a place near
Knoxville, upon which members of the family still reside.

Robert Armstrong the Third, as the family Bible says of his father
and grandfather was of * 'patriotic spirit." When he was eighteen
years of age, in 1 792 he served a term of three months under Captain
Hugh Beard and was stationed near Nashville. He was one of the
"gallant diirty-eight** who in September 1793 defended Knoxville
against fifteen hundred^ Indians, being then a lad of not quite nine-
teen. He was also one of the detachment of eight or ten who by order
of Colonel White and under Captain Gillespie, after lying in the pass
to defend Knoxville, went over to Bimcombe County, North Carolina,
scouting for Indians, after the burning of Carter's Station. He also
served in the United States Regular Army in a Cavalry Company
under Captain Nathanial Evans in the winter of 1 793. And not
content with service while he was still a young man, Robert Armstrong
was a member of Captain Davis' Company of local militia in 1828
when he reached the age of forty-nine.

October 19, 1798, Robert Armstrong, Third, married Elizabeth
Wear, born 1 780, died 1 820, daughter of the distinguished Tennessee
pionees» Colonel Samuel Wear. Robert and Elizabeth Wear Arm-
strong established themselves on a plantation one mile north of his
father's home on the West bank of the Holston River. Their old home-
stead is now in existence on this old plantation.

Robert Armstrong was an expert surveyor and was surveyor for
Knox County for forty years. In 1819 his cousin, John C. Calhoun,
then Secretary of War, appointed him United States Surveyor in the
famous Cherokee Treaty of 1819. Robert Armstrong Houston (his
first cousin) was at the same thne appointed United States Commis-
sioner for the same Treaty by John C. Calhoim.

Elizabeth Wear Armstrong, died February 13, 1820. After the

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death of his first wife, Robert Armstrong married Charlotte Perry
by whom he had no children.

Robert and Elizabeth Wear Armstrong had twelve children, five
sons and seven daughters namely:

Drury Paine Armstrong.
' Addison Wear Armstrong.
Robert Horace Armstrong.
James Houston Armstrong.
Samuel Thompson Armstrong.
Maria Armstrong.
Rutelia Armstrong.
Charlotte Armstrong.
Dialthea Perry Armstrong.
Malinda Armstrong.
Margaret Cunningham Armstrong.
Betsey Armstrong.

It is said that Robert Armstrong returned from a journey in con-
nection with his appointment as United States Surveyor October 19,
1819, to find his wife dangerously ill and three of his children dead.
They were: Robert Horace Armstrong, Samuel Thompson Armstrong,
and a new born child, Betsey. The death of his wife Elizabeth Wear
followed this tragic event in a few months, April 5, 1820.

Robert Armstrong the Third, died February 1 3, 1 849.

COLONEL SAMUEL WEAR AND THE WEARS

The father of Elizabeth Wear who married Robert Armstrong
the Third, was Colonel Samuel Wear. The first Wear whom we
know definitely is Robert Wear, the father of Samuel. The family
came from Ulster Province, Ireland, and was Scotch-Irish. Robert
Wear's wife was Rebecca.

The Wears reached Augusta County, Virginia, by way ot Penn-
sylvania and Frederick Coimty, Virginia, like many other emigrants.
The name Wear was originally de Vere which betrays the Norman
origm and it can be traced in that form for himdreds of years. It is
variously spelled in early histories Weir, Wier, Wear, etc., and this
variation causes confusion, but Robert Wear, ancestor of the Virginia -
Tennessee family and his son Samuel Wear spelled their name Wear
and both were men of education and have left written proof of this
spelling, though Ramsey's Annals and other volumes in giving Colonel
Wear full credit for his important service in the Revolution and early
history of Tennessee spell his name Weir. He was Clerk of the State

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of Franklin, a signer of the Constitution of Tennessee and Clerk of
the County of Sevier and signed his name literally hundreds of times.

In April 1719a Robert Weir was one of the settlers in Nutfield,
near Haverhill, Massachusetts, but in New Hampshire, under the lead-
ership of James McKeen. It is possible that this Robert Weir was the
father of Robert, whom we afterwards have located in Augusta
County, Virginia.

The settlement of Nuffield was thought to be in Massachusetts, but
the General Court of May, 1719, decided it was in New Hampshire.
James Gregg and Robert Wear, in behalf of the Scotch Irish at Nut-
field, asked the Governor and Court assembled at Portsmouth, N. H.,
for a township ten miles square. They and others obtained a deed from
Colonel John Wheelwright. Londonberry, N. H., was then incorpor-
ated Jime, 1 722. Robert Wear's name appears on petition. The
town in December, 1719, voted to grant a lot to each of the first
comers "which is the number of twenty." Robert Wear is one of these.

To Robert Wear and his wife, Martha, a daughter, Elizabeth, was
born in I 723.

Bolton gives the settlers of Londonderry, N. H., in 1 722, and
among the names are several of interest to people reading this volume, for
instance, Robert Armstrong, James, John and Robert Doak, Robert
Wear, etc.

Robert Weir, or Wear, probably this same Robert, was Commis-
sioner in Antrim County, Antrim, Ireland, in I 7 1 7.

In 1 752 a deed is recorded to Robert Wear and John Cunningham,
of eight hundred and thirty-three acres in Borden's Tract, Augusta
County, Virginia, and in 1 754 Borden's executors deeded two hundred
and forty acres to Robert Wear. So we have the family of Robert
Wear and his wife Rebecca settled in Augusta County close to the year
1 750. There their children were bom, including Samuel Wear, who
was destined to become a distinguished pioneer of the new state of
Tennessee, John Wear and probably other children whose names
have not been preserved. Robert Wear was still living in the year 1 789.
Samuel Wear was bom in Augusta County, Virginia about the
year 1753. In 1777 he was appointed Ensign of the Augusta County
Militia.

In the year 1 778, in Augusta County, Virginia, Samuel Wear
married Mary, sometimes called Polly Thompson, daughter of Wil-
liam Thompson and his wife Elizabeth Lyie Thompson, (see Lyle
Family) .

The birth of Elizabeth Wear, the eldest daughter, named evi-
dently for her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Lyle Thomi>son,
occured October 4, 1 780. A list of other children of Samuel Wear
IS given in the Lyle record and it is interesting to observe that Samuel

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Wear named his next daughter for his mother. Rebecca, and his
first SOD for his father. Robert Wear. It is also not uninteresting to notice
that Elizabeth Wear's birth took place when Colonel oamuel Wear
was already on his way to that famous ground. King's Mountain.
He probably did not know that he had a dau^ter until he was one
of the successful Captains of that famous engagement

Leaving Augusta County, Virginia, perhaps in the same year of
his marriage. 1778, Samuel Wear followed the tide of emigratioa
setting in toward the new country, which is now Tennessee.

John Sevier and Samuel Wear knew each other in Virginia and'
undoubtedly Samuel Wear's removal to Tennessee was mfluenced
by Sevier's enthusiasm. Their careers are singularly similar. They
were bom in the same neighborhood within a few years of each
other. They grew up to know each other well. They botfi entered
the Militia early, both married young, probably school girl sweethearts,
both entered into a second marriage. later in Tomessee. They
moved to the Mountains about the same time. Both served at King's
Mountain with rank and honor, both served in innumerable Indian
campaigns, both were instrumental in the formation of the State of
Franklin, were in fact, its leading spirits, both served in the early story
of Tennessee. Territory and State, and occupied high offices, both
were in the War of 1812 with rank and honor and finally died at
nearly the same time after each had named a son for the other. They
were through all this companionship intimate and confidential friends
and after the fashion of the South the children of Samuel Wear and
the grand— children were taught to call the Governor Uncle John. To
this day many of the descendants in writing to the author of this manu-
script have insisted that we are descended from the Seviers because we
have always called Governor Sevier "Uncle John."

Though we do not know the exact date that Samuel Wear moved
to the new country it was certainly between his marriage in 1 778 and
the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1 780. when he was already
a member of the new community and a man of property and position.
He was selected as one of the Captains, either at John Sevier's re-
quest, which is probable, or by election.

Lyman C. Draper in Kings Mountain and Its Heroes, page
424 says:

"Samuel Wear was another of Sevier's Captains at Kings Moun-
tain. He was an active participant in the Franklin Republic move-
ment; led a party in 1793 against Tallahassee, killing sixteen
Indians and taking four prisoners. In 1 793 and 1 794 he was a

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member of the Convention that formed the Constitution of Tennessee
and served many years as Clerk of Sevier County Court ; and lived
to a good old age. He was fully six feet in height, dark complexioned,
and possessed much energy of character."

In "Wear's Cove," protected by towering mountains and refreshed
by pure chalybeate water, Samuel Wear built his home and raised
his family. It is an instance of the dangers that beset him, that he
and his two yoimg sons were fired upon by a party of thirty sava-
ges. Again on June 19, 1793, a band of Indians entered "Wear's
Cove", cut down the growing com, stole one horse, killed ten and
destroyed the mill. Samuel Wear, with a party of friends pursued
these marauders and at Tallahassee a battle raged which resulted in
the death of sixteen Indians and the capture of four Indian prisoners.

In 1 784 Samuel Wear began his political history, for in that
year he was elected "deputy to the Convention to deliberate upon
public affairs." The convention met at Jonesboro, August 23,
1 794. At that convention the first which was held in what is now
Tennessee, was horn the State of Franklin.

Samuel Wear was thus a member of the first Legislative body
ever assembled in Tennessee, the first F ranklin Convention.
, When the State of Franklin had become a fact, its Governor,
John Sevier, in June, 1 785, appointed Samuel Wear Clerk of the
County Court of the County of Sevier, and Colonel of the Regi-
ment. In the summer of 1 786 he was one of the commissioners
appointed to negotiate a treaty with the Indians. This conference
between savages and Commissioners lasted four days and ended
August 3, at Coyton.

With Samuel Wear and the other commissioners at Chota Ford
I 786 for this treaty were Old Tassel and Hanging Maw. The land
claimed by the settlers in this treaty was the island in the Tennessee
at the mouth of Holston and from the head of the Island to die dividing
ridge between Holston, Little River and the Tennessee, sold to them
by North Carolina.

After the rise and fall of Franklin, of which Samuel Wear
was a leading spirit, an election was held in December 1 793, accord-
ing to the proclamation of Governor Blount. This resulted in Samuel
Wear becoming a member of the first assembly of the Territory of
Tennessee (representing the Coimty of Jefferson) which was called
to order in Knoxville in February 1 794. He was one of the Com-
mittee of five appointed by this assembly to draft an address to
Congress. In this address the people demanded a Declaration of
war against the Creeks and Cherokees.

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THE CHILDREN OF ROBERT ARMSTRONG THE THIRD

( 1 ) Drury Paine Annstrong, born 1 799, married 1 823, died
1836. Married his cousin, Amelia Houston, daughter of Robert
Armstrong Houston and Margaret Dallas Houston. His children
were: Robert Houston Armstrong (who married Louisa Franklin
and had Robert Franklin Armstrong, who married twice; first, iCelia
Houston and second Annie' Wetzel and had no children; Adelia
Armstrong who married J. Edwin Lutz and had Louise Lutz who
married Dr. Victor Holloway and Edwin Lutz, married Edith Atkin ;
and Elizabeth Rogers Armstrong, who married James P. McMillin,
second son of James P. McMillin and Nannie Cravens McMillin
and had Robert Armstrong McMillin, who died young, James
P. McMillin, third, who married Margaret Angeline Hayes, and
Laura McMillin, who married Thomas H. Wagner, and has Mary
Elizabeth and Anne McMillin Wagner) ; Marcellus Murat Arm-
strong (called Whack, who married Elizabeth C. McGhee, and had
Drury Paine Armstrong, second, died unmarried; Joseph McGhee
Armstrong married Mary L. Hampton; Leonidas Bruce Armstrong,
second, married first Pauline Feam and married second Margaret
Bradford ; and Amelia Armstrong, married J. H. Bankston) ;
Leonidas Bruce Armstrong, first (who died unmarried) ; and Adelia
Armstrong (who married William Calvert Hill and had George
Armstrong Hill, who married Georgia Ann Wallis and has children
and Amelia C. Hill who married Clement C. Douglass and has
children.)

(2) Addison Wear Armstrong, bom 1801, died 1873. A
sketch of him follows.

(3) Mariah Armstrong, born 1803, married first 1821, mar-
ried second 1851, died 1885. Married first John Brooks and
had children. Married second James MacMillan. By her second
marriage she had no children. By her first marriage she had John
Newton Brooks (who married Eliza J. McMillan and had William
A. Brooks and Mariah Brooks) ; Drury Armstrong Brooks (who
married first Mary Jane Anderson, married second Lizzie Shoemate) ;
Robert Brooks, (who died in Mexico in 1 874) ; and Moses Brooks
(who married Eliza Salmon and had Agnes Brooks, Moses, Marie
Brooks and Isabel! T. Brooks).

(4) Rutelia Armstrong, bom 1806, married 1828, died 1862.
Married Thomas Gillespie Craighead and had Elizabeth J. Craig-
head (who married Thomas K. Rawlings and had Edward A. IC
Rawlings and Margaret Rawlings) ; Mary Ann Craighead (who
married David O. Hoge and had William Edgar Hoge, Sarah R.
Hoge and Lena Hoge) ; Mary Clark ^Craighead (who married Alex-

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ander K. Alley and had Marcellus Murat Alley.) William Alex-
ander Craighead, who married Eliza Cox Doss and had Jack Doss
Craighead, who died young, William Alexander Craighead,
second, who died young, Thomas Gillespie Craighead, second, James
R. Craighead, Charles C. Craighead, Libbie Kate Craighead) ; Adelia
Craighead (who married Edwin F. Redfield and had Hal Linwood
Redfield, who married Marguerite Austin and has Evelyn Redfield,
and Maude E. Redfield, who married Allen L. Pitts and has Allen
Linwod Pitts.)

(5) Charlotte Perry Armstrong, bom 1807, married first 1825,
married second, 1829, died 1854. Married fiifet Samuel Arm-
strong,- by whom she had no children. Married second, Henry Bald-
win and had Robert Eisner Baldwin, Euel Erasmus Baldwin, Arm-
strong Wear Baldwin, Addison T. Baldwin, Susan Elizabeth Bald-^
win, Moses Marcellus Baldwin, and James Henry Baldwin, most
of whom married and had children.

(6) Robert Horace Armstrong, bom 1809, died 1819.

(7) Margaret Cimningham Ai'mstrong, bom 1811, married
1832, Samuel Hannibal Love, died 1856, and had Elizabeth Wear
Love (who married O. H. Caldwell) ; William Armstrong Love (who
married Lou Luttrell) ; Drury Paine Love (who married, first, Jesse
McMillan and second Anna Green) ; Emma Love (who married
Samuel Webb) ; Jlutelia Love, (who married Andrew L. McCamp-
bell) ; John Armstrong Love (who married first Martha McCampbell,
and second, Ellen Reatherford) and Hannibal Jasper Love, second.

(8) Dialthea Perry Armstrong, bom 1814, married 1831, died

. Married Pleasant M. Love and had Robert Love Armstrong;

Nancy Jane Love; Bridgett Love; James Love; Samuel Love; Han-
nibal Jasper Love.

(9) James Houston Armstrong, born 1815, married 1839, died
1872. Married Anne E. Park, of Knoxville (daughter of William
Park and Jennie Armstrong Park, who was not a close kinswoman, but
was a descendant of "Trooper" Armstrong of Revolutionary fame),
and had children: Frank Armstrong (who married Lazinka E. Martin
and had Mary Armstrong who married Howard Ijams) ; Robert Arm-
strong (who never married) ; William Park Armstrong (who married
his cousin, AKce Isibell, daughter of James Isbell and Rutelia Houston
Isbell and a descendant of Robert Armstrong, the first, and Alice
Calhoim Armstrong, and had William Park Armstrong, second, who
married Rebekah Purvis and has Rebekah Purvis Armstrong, William
Park Armstrong, third, George Purvis Armstrong, Ann Elizabeth
Armstrong, and Jane Crozier Armstrong; Houston Churchwell Arm-
strong married Mina Lamar and has Houston Churchwell Armstrong,
second, Alice Isbell Armstrong and Mina Cary Armstrong; Marga-

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ret Armstrong, who married Ainslee Power Ardagh and has Margaret
Ardagh, Ainslee Power Ardagh, Jr., Alice Ardagh, Kathleen
Ardaugh, Edith Ardaugh; and Annie E. Armstrong, who married
Thomas Stoo Johnson and lives in New Orleans. *

(10) Malinda Armstrong, bom 1817, married 1840, died 1884.
Married Samuel Morrow and had: Robert Morrow (who was in
the United States army an3 was not married) ; Samuel Morrow (who
never married) ; Anna Hale Morrow (who married James Addison
Anderson) ; Mary E. Morrow (who married Captain William P.
Chamberlain as his first wife, but died without issue) ; and Amelia
Isabella Morrow* (who married Captain Hiram Sanborn Chamber-
lain, brother of her sister's husband, and had Minnie M. Chamberlain
who married Henry Overton Ewing and has Margaret, Rosalind and
Winnifred Ewing, Morrow Chamberlain who married May Douglass
and has Douglass, Louise and Nan Chamberlain; Louise Chamber-
lain, who married Richard A. Clifford and has Charlotte Clifford;
Susan Willie Chamberlain, who married a Hoskins and has no chil-
dren,' and Hiram Sanborn Chamberlain, second, who married Emily
Wright and has Hiram Sanborn Chamberlin, third.)

(11) Samuel Thompson Armstrong, born 1818, died 1819.

(12) Betsy Armstrong, born 1819, did not live.

Addison Wear Armstrong, bom 1801, married 1825, died 1873,
was the second son of Robert Armstrong, the third, and Elizabeth
Wear Armstrong. He was born at his father's homestead on the
Holston River.

He became an expert surveyor as so many members of his family
were and practically inherited the place of County Surveyor, of Knox
County, Tennessee, which was held for forty years by his father. His
grandfather, Samuel Wear, had also been a Surveyor, the profession
espoused by George Washington.

Addison Wear Armstrong married Nancy Jane McMillan,
daughter of John McMillan and Jane Meek, and a descendant of
Alexander McMillan, Revolutionary soldier. (See that family.)

He held a number of public offices and was for twelve years
Justice of the Peace. He was County Surveyer for twelve years and
owing to his accurate knowledge of the surroimding coimtry as well
as to his well-known fairness and his reputation for justice in all things
he was called upon to settle many land disputes, many disputants
preferring to leave the matter to Addison Armstrong's decision instead
of going to law.

He was an elder in the Presbyterian church at Spring Place from
the time of its organization near his home until his death in 1873.

He was an enrolling officer during the occupancy of East Tenn-
essee by the Confederate Army.

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He was polite and affable to all and extremely modest in dispo-
sition. He died on his plantation May 22nd, 1873, and is buried in
Spring Place Cemetery a few miles from his home.

Addison Wear Armstrong and Nancy Jane MacMillan Armstrong
had three sons and three daughters, Elizabeth Jane Armstrong; John
MacMillan Armstrong; James Monroe Armstrong; Margaret Evelyn
Armstrong; Amelia Armstrong; Robert Addison Armstrong (R. A.
J. Armstrong.)

Elizabeth Jane Armstrong, born 1826, married 1850, died 1899.
She married Shannon Anderson and had Isaac Howard Anderson (who
married Fannie McNabb and has Shannon Anderson, second, Clai-
borne Anderson, Howard Anderson and Edward Anderson). Minnie
Anderson (who married Henry Gauffon and has Elizabeth Gauffon
and Henry Gauffon, Second) ; Mary Anderson (who married her cou-
sin, William Brooks and has Lucile, Helen, Newton and Agnes
Brooks). Alice Anderson (who married Andrew Gamble and has
Emma Gamble) ; James Addison Armstrong (who married Anna
Hale Morrow and has no children) ; Nannie Anderson (who married
Dr. Samuel Love Tillery) and Evelyn Anderson (who married James
H. Crawford and has no children.)

John MacMillan Armstrong, born 1 828. A sketch of him follows.

James Monroe Armstrong, born 1831, died 1840.
* Margaret Evelyn Armstrong, born 1833, married 1856, died
1908. Married Patrick Henry Watkins arid had Anna (who mar-
ried James W. Berry and Lula (who married Thomas N. Doyle.)

Amelia Armstrong, born 1838, married 1881. Married Jacob
Kizer and had no children.

Robert Addison Armstrong, born 1844, married 1873, married
Anne Buffat. Robert Armstrong added a **J*' to his name as there
were many Robert Armstrongs in Knox County. He has been known
therefore all his mature life as Robert A. J. Armstrong. He has been
County Surveyor for many years and has held other positions of public
esteem. He has inherited the confidence his neighbors accorded his
father and grandfather and in consequence has been frequently appealed
to to settle land disputes, his extraordinary knowledge of the lands
in Knox County and the surrounding territory making his opinion
authoritative in practically every instance, the surveying and engineering
of this section having been in the hands of these three men, Robert
Armstrong, Third, Addison Wear Armstrong and Robert A. J. Arm-
strong for something more than a century. Like his forbears he is a
Presbyterian and an elder in his church.

He married Anne Buffat of an old French family resident in Knox
County and they have had six children, Wear Francis Armstrong (who
married Louisa J. Posey, became a physician and was achieving emi-

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nence in his profession when he died young leaving two daughters,
Louisa Posey and Sarah Francis), Robert Ariifistrong( who married
Marie Ferguson' and has Wanda Marie Armstrong) , Addison Mac-
Millan Armstrong (who married Augusta Wohlwend and has Charles
Wilbum Armstrong and Robert Addison Armstrong) ; and three
daughters, Clyde Evelyn Armstrong, Sylvie Elizabeth Armstrong and
Grace Anna Armstrong, neither of whom is married.

John MacMillan Armstrong, son of Addison Wear Armstrong and
Nancy Jane MacMillan Armstrong was bom November 30th, 1828,
in the homestead of his parents, Knox County, Tennessee. He gradu-
ated from Mar3rville College, Tennessee, June, 1848. He went to
Abbeville, District, S. C, where he lived for five years. Returning
to Knox County he resided there for five years and in 1858 he moved
to the then small village of Chattanooga where he engaged in business
and established his permanent home. At the breaking out of the War
Between the States he immediately offered his service to the Confed-
erate States and assisted in organizing a Battery of Light Artillery
which became known as Lookout Battery, Robert L. Barry com-
inanding, afterwards called Barry's Battery, Colonel Williams Reg-
iment of Artillery, Confederate States Army. He was a Lieutenant
and was a gallant and able officer greatly loved by officers and men.
He was present with the Battery at its first service in defense of Chat-
tanooga when the town was shelled by Union troops in June, 1862,
when Lookout Battery responded to the fire, and afterwards in all its
engagements until he was promoted to Major and Ordnance Officer
in 1863. He engaged in many battles and continued in the service
until after the last battle at Spanish Fort and was parolled v^th Gen-
eral Joseph E. Johnston's command at Meridian in 1865, having re-
turned to his battery (after his detail as Ordnance Officer), just before
the close of the war.

December 1 9th, 1 867, he married Martha J. Tumley, daughter of
Judge and Mrs. Mathew J. Tumley, of Jacksonville, Ala., a descend-
ant of Colonial and Revolutionary families on both sides of her house.
(See Howard and Tumley Families). John MacMillan Armstrong re-
tumed to Chattanooga after the war and re-entered business. He died
February 28th, 1897, leaving a son and daughter, Tumley F. Arm-
strong, who died immarried and Zella Armstrong.

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BANNING FAMILY

The name Banning b of great antiquity. It is probably of Dan-
ish origin, applying in very early times to a class called "Hero Wor-
shippers.*' It signifies a Home or Dwelling. Reference to it is found
in the Scot and Bard Songs, the earliest ballads on record, where
it says, "Becca Ruled the Banning." This Becca was no doubt
the Hero, or Ruler* of the Banning Clan of Vikings.

The distmctive Anglo-Saxon termination **ing" has always marked
the name and in general it has suffered very slight changes throughout
its many hundred years of existence and travel into different countries.
Whatever changes have occurred are due to misspelling or to the
natural accomodation to the language. The name appears with the
Ruling Families of Holland, from which country it went to West-
phalia, Scotland, England, Ireland and America. They have event-
ually taken a leading part in the countries settled in. *

We find Robert Banning living in Burbage, Wiltshire, England,
in 1339, and again, as an old man, in 1363. His son, John Banning,
was also found in Burbage, in 1565.

His son, John Banning,, we find in 1 61 3. John, the next gen-
eration, of Burbage and Magdalene College, Oxford Register, B. A.
1630— M. A. 1 634— Subsidary Roll 1642. His son, Stephen,
had a wife, Mary. He died 1688; they had Stephen, known of
in 1714. He had John, of Mitton Wilts, who married Elizabeth
Noyes of Wooten River Wilts, heiress of Noyes, in 1694, and died
in 1716. They had six children, Elizabeth, Mary Frances, John,
Martha and Susan. Their son John Banning was bom in 1 703
in Mitton, married Mary Ayres (Eyers) in 1 744, widow of H.
Ayres, sole heiress of John Griffin, and had three children. He died
1772; she in 1805, both buried at Mitton. They had John, Thomas
and Elizabeth Banning.

Two English Coats of Arms and four Holland Coats of Arms
have been granted the family at different periods.

In Talbot County, Maryland, and adjacent parts in Delaware,
as well as near Lyme, Connecticut, Bannings settled about 1650-60.
Edward Banning located in Talbot County about that time. He is
supposed to have b.een a cousin of John Banning who located at
Lyme, Connecticut, and brother of the father of James, John and
Richard Banning of Talbot County, Maryland. James Banning,
just referred to, had a son, Jeremiah Banning, who was a sea cap-
tain for many years. On one of his voyages to Elngland he brought
back with him various things from relatives whom he had been visiting.

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Among them was a "sampler" that had been given him by Mary Ay res
(Banning,) the wife of a couski of his father. This "Sampler** is
today in existence and is evidence that this line belongs to the early
English line first referred to. The facts sewed into the "Sampler"
verify the date of marriage of Jo^hn Banning to Mary Ayres and it
also had Mary Ayres' name worked into it. Edward, and the father
of James, John and Richard Banning were sons of Stephen Bannkig
and uncles of John Banning, who married Mary Ayres.

James Banning of Talbot County, Maryland, married Jane
Spencer and had three children, Jeremiah, Henry and Anthony Ban-
ning. Following his death his widow married Nicholas Goldsborough,
who made these boys his heirs.

Jeremiah Banning, bom March 25, 1 733, in Talbot County,
Maryland lived at "The Isthmus'* near Easton, Maryland, where
he died in 1 798. He was a sea captain and shipper for twenty
years. He had a most eventful life, retired wealthy and became a
man of the greatest influence locally. His home was one of the very
finest of the times. He was very intimate with Washington, and was
elected to represent Talbot County in the Ratification of the "Federal
Government of the United States." He was a Colonel in the Rev-
olution, Magistrate, Collector of the Port of Oxford, and held many
other positions of honor and trust. To quote an early reference, "The
Isthmus," the home of Jeremiah Banning, was the scene of great
hospitality during the early period preceding the Revolution. Here
Washington, Lafayette, William Morris, the financier, and others
of fame during that period, held nightly gatherings.

"The rooms of this noble old mansion could tell tales of State and
Society interest. The owner was a man of daring mind and adventur-
ous tendencies, which later on got him into trouble over smuggling
to this country of (Zakery) Hood and other piratical people. The
Isthmus was one of the finest houses of that early period and the
youth and beaUty of Maryland gathered there during the early days."
Jeremiah Banning's children were: Robert, Freeborn and Clementina.

Henry, brother of Jeremiah Banning, was bom 1736, in Talbot
County, Maryland, and held many public appointments. He died
in 1817. Issue, Anthony, Wesley, Jane and Thomas.

Anthony, the other brother of Jeremiah Banning, was bom 1 740,
m Talbot County, Maryland. He married Anna, the daughter of
James and Anna (Murray) Calder. He died February 27, 1 787,
in Chestertown, Maryland. Issue, Anthony, Katherine and Annie.

Robert Banning was bom in 1 776. He married first a Miss
Thomas, descended from the Oldham family. Their children were
Jeremiah, Robert, Alexander, Maria, Katherine F. and Susan. He
was married a second time to Mary Macky and of this marriage there

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were, two children, Matilda and Mary Elizabeth Banning. He died
in 1845, at Miles River Neck, Talbot County, Maryland. Was
Collector of Port of Oxford and Member of House of Delegates,
Captain, et cetera. ,

Freeborn Banning was bom May 24, I 777, in Talbot County,
Maryland. Married a second time Sarah Geddes, on November 14,
1814, in Talbot County, daughter of Captain Henry Geddes and
Margaret Latimer Geddes. He entered the Navy and June 1 , 1 799,
was made Lieutenant, resigned from the Navy in 1802. He died in
1826, and his wife May 19, 1855, both in Talbot County, Maryland.
Issue, Emily, Samuel and Henry Geddes Banning.

Clementina Banning married a Mr. Hopkins.

Anthony Banning, born April 2, 1 768, at Royal Oak, Maryland,
had four children, Emma, Annie, Caroline and James C. Banning.

Anthony Banning, son of James Banning, was bom May 1 3,
1 768, in Talbot County, Maryland. He married Sarah Murphy
(Pierce) June 30, 1791, in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. About
1812 he went to Ohio, becoming one of the founders of Mount Ver-
non, Ohio. He was a Methodist minister and a very successful business
man and leader in public affairs. Appointed Judge in 1827. He
was drowned February 4, 1844. His wife died June 4, 1844, both
deaths taking place in Mount Vernon. Issue, Sarah, Jacob Murphy,
Rachel, James Smith, Elizabeth, Mary, Priscilla and Anthony.

Katherine Banning, born July 6, 1 770, in Chestertown, Mary-
land; married Benjamin Chew, Jr., son of Chief Justice Chew, of
Germantown, December 11,1 788, at "The Isthmus.'*

Henry Geddes Banning, bom March 8, 1816, in Talbot County,
Maryland. Married Emilie Eschenburg, April 7, 1847. She was
bom April 8, 1825, in Buenos Aires. Lived in Wilmingon, Dela-
ware, where he was one of the leading bankers and citizens for many
years. There he died March 12, 1906. Issue, James Latimer and
John Henry Banning.

James Latimer Banning, born April 8,1848, in Wilmington, Dela-
ware. Married Emma Harris, June 3, 1879, daughter of Alex-
ander and Maria Spencer Harris. He died April 8, 1914, Wilming-
ton, Delaware. Issue, Henry Geddes and James Latimer Banning.

Henry Geddes Banning, born June 28, 1880, in Easton, Mary-
land, died unmarried, January 15, 1914 Wilmington, Delaware.

James Latimer Banning, born January 1 3, 1 882, at Easton, Mary-
land. He lives unmarried, in Wilmington, Delaware.

James Smith Banning, born June 11, 1 800, in Connellsville,
Pennsylvania, married March 12, 1822 to Eliza, daughter of James
Blackstone, in Connellsville. In 1812 they moved to Mount Vemon,
Ohio, where he died May 22, 1867, and she September 29, 1878.

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Issue, Anna, Sarah Davidson* James Blackstone, Anthony Rogers,
Priscilla, William Davidson, Henry Blackstone, Elizabeth Blackstone,
Thomas Davidson and Mary Blackstone.

Anna Banning, born 1 824, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Died young.

Sarah Davidson Banning, bom 1826 and died m 1881, at Mount
Vernon. Unmarried.

James Blackstone Banning, born April 5, 1825, died August 28,
1897, at Mount Vernon. No issue.

Anthony Rogers Banning, born August, 1831, Mount Vernon.
No issue. Was a director on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for
years. The town of Banning, Pennsylvania, was founded by him.
There he died, September 10, 1905.

Priscilla Banning, bom January 5, 1829, Mount Vemon, Ohio.
Married John D. Thompson, of Dublin, Ireland. Febmary 18,
1864. No issue.

William Davidson Banning, born July 29, 1830, Mount Ver-
non, Ohio. Married Mary Lake. Issue, Eliza, Priscilla, Mary
Lake, Anna Lake, Lake and William Davidson Banning.

Henry Blackstone Banning, bom November 10, 1836, in Mount
Vemon, Ohio. Was Brigadier General and Congressman. He
married Julia, daughter of Timothy Kirby, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
September 9, 1868. He died December 10, 1881, in Cincinnati,
Ohioi Issue, Kirby, Harry Byron, Ella Kirby and Clinton Kirby
Banning.

Elizabeth Blackstone Banning, born August 21, 1837, Mount
Vemon, Ohio. Married William Burr Brown, October 14, 1862,
in Mount Vemon, Ohio. Issue, Bessie, James and William Brown.

Thomas Davidson Banning, bom in 1840, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Died at Mount Vernon, November 21, 1913, and was unmarried.

.Mary Blackstone Banning, bom July 11, 1843, Mount Vemon,
Ohio. Married Frank William Watkins, December 12, 1875,
Mount Vemon, Ohio. She died July 27, 1911, Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts. He died October 29, 1914, Los Angeles, Califomia.
Issue, Lila Banning Watkins.

Lila Banning Watkins, bom February 28, 1878, Mount Ver-
non, Ohio. Married Pierson Worrall Banning (descended from the
John Banning line, immediately following this line) May 16, 1913,
in Los Angeles. William Dean Howell's mother was a sister of the
father of Frank William Watkins, while a sister of Frank Williams
Watkins was the mother of Vaughn and Paul Kester. William Wat-
kins, an uncle of Frank William Watkins, the famous miniature pain-
ter of London, Elngland, once painted the eye of Queen Victoria on
a piece of ivory no larger than his thumb nail.

John Banning, brother of James Banning, whose line precedes

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this, was pDobably bom in Talbot County, Maryland. He had the
following children: John, Benoni, Asa and James Banning, the latter
went to Edgartown, Massachusetts.

Benoni Banning lived for a long time on a point of land on the
Tred Avon River, Talbot County, Maryland, now known as
"Benoni's Point." He later went to Virginia, and was in the Battle
of Kings Mountain. His brother, John Banning, was a Captain in
the Virginia Militia. Benoni Banning had the following children:
Elizabeth, who married William Fullwood, and had seven children:
W. B. Pulaski, a descendant of hers now lives at Pulaski, Tennessee;
John Banning and Clark Banning.

John Banning, bom March 23, 1 764, in Talbot County, Mary-
land. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Martha Black,
October 24, 1797. From Maryland they moved to Rockbridge
County, Virginia, where he became a leader in local matters. He
died March 5, 1833, in Rockbridge County. Issue, William, Henry,
Salina, John, Martha, Asa, Ephraim and Mary Banning.

Ephraim Banning, bom June 2, 1811, in Rockbridge County,
Virginia. In 1824 he went to Wheeling, remaining ten years. From
there he went to McDonough County, Illinois, settling near the present
town of Bushnell. He returned to Wheeling and married Mary Pot-
ter, January, 26, 1836. Their children were William Frederick,
John and James Henry Banning. She died and he married secondly
Louisa Caroline Walker, May 12, 1842, in McDounough County,
Illinois. She was born near Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky,
daughter of Joseph Gilmer Walker and Martha Scott. Her father
and brothers were lawyers and public men. Judge Pinkney H. Wal-
ker, a brother, was for twenty years on the Supreme Bench of Illinois.
They moved « to Brookfield, Missouri, where he died November 8,
1878, and she August 10, 1887. He was a leader in civic matters,
holding several public offices. Issue, Joseph Gilmer, Pinkney Asa,
Elizabeth Mary, Ephraim, Thomas Allen, Cyrus Walker, Hubert
Ashley, Cynthia Ellen and Martha Bell Banning.

Joseph Gilmer Banning, bom March 8, 1843, in McDonough
County, Illinois. Married Letitia Ann Miller, November 3, 1870,
in Linn County, Missouri. He died May 9, 1908, in Brookfield,
Missouri. Issue, Ephraim Pinkney, Margaret Ellen, Letitia Louise,
Thomas Gilmer and Caroline Agnes Banning.

Pinkney Asa Banning, bom July 22, 1845, in McDonough
County, Illinois. He died in Nashville, Tennessee, unmarried.

Elizabeth Mary Banning, bom January 31, 1847, in McDonough
County, Illinois, married Charles Vertrees, September, 1881. She
died June 17, 1902. They had two children, both died young.

Ephraim Banning, bom July 21, 1849, in McDonough County,

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Illinois. Married Lucretia Thalia Lindsley October 22, 1878, in
Onarga, Illinois. She was bom June 5, 1853, in Medina, New
York, and Was the daughter of Thales Lindsley and Caroline Lucretia
Pierson. She died February 5, 1887, in Chicago. They had three
sons, Pierson Worrall, Walker and Ephraim Banning. September
5, 1889 he married Emilie Bartlett Jenne, in Elgin, Illinois. No
issue. He was a man of great prominence in the legal profession, a
leader in civic work and of the highest standing in the community. He
died December 2, 1907, in Chicago.

Pierson Worrall Banning, bom September 13, 1879, in Chicago.
Married Lila Banning Watkins, (of the James Banning line, already
given) May 16, 1913, in Los Angeles, Califomia.

Walker Banning, bom February 9, 1882, in Chicago. Married
Clara Louise Wahrer, July 30, 1 902, in Chicago. He was an attor-
ney; died January 19, 1918. Issue, Clara Louise and Walker Banning.

Ephraim Banning, III, bom August 7, 1885, in Chicago, Illinois.
Married Beatrice White Smith. June 22, 1909, in Chicago. He
is an attorney. Issue, Emilie Jenne, Ephriam IV. and Thalia Banning.

Thomas Allen Banning, born January 16, 1831, in McDonough
County, Illinois, married Sarah Jane Hubbard, December 21, 1875.
She was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, July 23, 1854. He is
an attorney of prominence in Chicago. Their winter home is m Ala-
bama. Issue, Samuel Walker, Edith, Helen Ruth, Thomas Allen, Jr.,
Sarah Louise and Dorothea-Esther Banning.

Cyrus Walker Banning, bom January 4, 1853, in McDonough
County, Illinois. Married Nancy Ellen Miller, April 18, 1878.
Issue, Bertha Lucile, Jennie Malvem, Thomas Ephraim, Alma Louise,
Cyrus Walker, Hubert Chajrles and Wayne Elson Banning.

Hubert Ashley Banning, born June 7, 1855, in Douglas County,
Kansas, married Viola H. Suydam, November 23, 1881, in New
York City. He died January 3, 1916, in New York. He was an
attomey. Issue, Hubert Temple Banning.

Hubert Temple Banning, bom October 24, 1882, in New York
City. Married Olga Kurzrock, daughter of Emest August Fredrich
Kurzrock and Theresa Alvina (Wolf) Kurzrock, of Berlin, Germany,
September 1 7, 1 909, in Bavaria. He is one of the three or four
greatest linguists of the present generation, and is living in New York
at the present time. Issue, Hildegard Banning, born November 19.
1913, in Ayas Pasha, Constantinople, Turkey.

Cynthia Ellen Banning, bom March 6, 1858, in Douglas County,
Kansas. Married Hiram Almanson Smith, November 16, 1882,
in Chicago, Illinois. Issue, Cynthia Ellen, Alice Marion and Hiram
Almanson Smith.

Martha Bell Banning, bom June 12, 1860, in Pettis County

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Missouri. Married George Augustus Lawton, September 6, 1887,
in Chicago. He died August 7, 1915, in Daphne, Alabama. Issue,
Sophia Louise, Helen Margaret, Grace, George Augustus, William
Ephraim, Walter Banning and Ruth Lawton.

The Banning COAT-OF-ARMS is described as follows: Ar-
gent, two bars sable, each charged with as many escallops or. CREST :
On a mount vert an ostrich argent, in the beak a key or. MOTTO:
Fidus et Audax ("Faithful and Bold'*). The coat-of-arms was
granted in 1588.

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The Blount family has been pronounced the oldest in North Car-
olina and this means of course in Tennessee also. No family, accord-
ing to Governor Henry T. Clark, genealogist and historian, came to
the Province earlier than James Blount, who settled in Chowan, North
Carolina in 1664. He was a younger son of Sir Walter Blount, of
Sodington, Worcestshire, England, and was a Captain in Life Guards
of Charles II.

In Elngland the family can be carried back for many generations,
to and through the conquest into Normandy and then for many years.
So the Blounts can truly boast of being an "old family'*. With Wil-
liam the Conqueror three young Blounds, sons of Blound the Lord of
Guisnes went to England. From two of them the Ejiglish family
sprang and in the succeeding years changed the family name less -than
most of the conquering Normans, for it now appears almost as written
then.

JAMES BLOUNT THE EMIGRANT

When James Blount, younger son of Sir Walter Blount, of Sod-
ington, came to the Province of North Carolina, he is said to have
been accompanied or followed by a brother who settled on Taw or
Pamlico River. Their adherence to the royal cause probably ac-
counted for their emigration.

James Blount the emigrant, son of Sir Walter Blount, is said to
have emigrated to America in 1664, though the settlement of Chowan
is given as in 1669. He settled on a tract of land there which re-
mained in the posession of his family until the death of his descendant,
Clement Hall Blount in 1842. James Blount was a member of the
Governor's Council and was one of the Burgesses of Chowan. He
married and left one son, John Blount.

John Blount, son of the Emigrant, was born in 1669. He died
in 1725. He married and left ten children, six daughters and four
sons. Three of the six daughters married and left children, the Wor-
leys. Midgets, Manns, and other North Carolina families come
through these daughters. The sons were: John Blount, Second,
Thomas Blount, James Blount, and Joseph Blount.

John Blount, Second, married and left three sons and two daught-
ers, namely, James Blount, Wilson Blount, Frederick Blount, Eliza-
beth Blount, and Mary Blount. Of these: James Blount married
Ann Hall and left three children, namely; Clement Hall Blount,

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who died in 1 842 unmarried, Sarah Blount left no issue and Fred-
erick Blount, who married Rachel Bryan, a widow, born Heritage,
and left children: Frederick S. Blount (who moved to Alabama and
became the ancestor of a large family) Alexander Clement Blount
and Heritage Wistar Blount of Lenoir County. Wilson Blount, son
of John Blount, Second, seems not to have married. Frederick
Blount, son of John Blount, Second, married and had a daughter,
Mary Blount, who married William Sheperd of Newberne, North
Carolina, and left children: Anne Sheperd (who married her cousin,
Ebenezer Pettigrew) William B. Sheperd, Charles B. Sheperd,
James B. Sheperd and a daughter Sheperd (who mar-
ried John H. Bryan. The recurring B in the names of Mary Blount
Sheperd's sons tempts one to think diat she gave each of them Blount
for a middle name. Elizabeth Blount, daughter of John Blount,
Second, married J. B. Beasley. Mary Blount daughter of John
Blount, Second, married Charles Pettigrew, first Bishop of North
Carolina, and left children: Ebenezer Pettigrew (Member of Con-
gress, who married his cousin Anne Sheperd and left children: Wil-
liam S. Pettigrew, General James Johnston Pettigrew, Charles L Pet-
tigrew and two daughters).

Thomas Blount, the son of John Blount, First, was born in I 709.
He married and left one daughter, Winnifred Blount, who married
Whitmed Hill, of Martin, North Carolina. They left numerous des-
cendants.

James Blount, the son of John Blount, First, (and grandson of
James Blount the Emigrant) was bom in 1710. He married and
left two daughters, Nancy Blount and Betsy Blount. Nancy Blount
married Dempsey Connor (son of Dempsey Connor and Mary Pen-
dleton Connor, great grand daughter of Governor Archdale) and
left one daughter, Frances Clark Pollock Connor, who married firstly,
her cousin Joseph Blount, Third and married secondly William HilL
Betsey Blount married Jeremiah Vail.

Joseph Blount, son of John Blount, First, was bom in 1715 and
died in 1 777. He married firstly Sarah Durant, a descendant of
George Durant, the first known '^ English settler in • North Carolina.
They had one child, a daughter, Sarah Blount, who married William
Little John. Joseph Blount married, secondly, Elizabeth Scarborough,
by whom he had two sons: Lemuel Edwards Blount, who was
drowned and Joseph Blount, Second, who married first Lydia Bonner
and had two children, John Bonner Blount (who married Mary Mut-
ter and had Thomas Blount and others) Mary Blount (who married
William T. Muse and left children, one of them, William T. Muse,
an officer in the United States and Confederate States Navies).
Joseph Blount, Second, married for his second wife Ann Gray,

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daughter of William Gray of Bertie G)iinty and left children: Joseph
Blount, Third, bom 1 785, (who married his cousin, Frances Clark
Pollock G>nnor and left one son, Joseph Blount, Fourth, who died
unmarried) ; Frances Lee Blount, (who married Henderson Standin,
left one son, William H. Standin) ; Sarah Elizabeth Blount, (who
married btit left no children). Elizabeth Ann Blount married John
Cheshire and left children) ; Eleanor Gray Blount (married John Cox
and left one daughter, Ann B. P. Cox, who married William J. Epps,
of Halifax, North Carolina.

THOMAS BLOUNT THE EMIGRANT.

Thomas Blount, said to have been a third son of Sir Walter
Blount, of Sodington, Worcestshire, England, also crossed to America
in 1 664. He settled in North Carolina on the Taw or Pamlico River
in 1 673, no record being given of the intervening .years. He married
though we do not know whom, and had six sons, namely: Thomas
Blount, Second, John, James, Benjamin, Jacob and Esau, the latter
being twins. It is said that the great Tuscarora Chief King Blount
who was devoted to the white people in the Indian wars
had his name in honor of one of these six Blounts, having formed a
deep attachment for him. Five of these six sons have left no record
obtainable.

The eldest, Thomas Blount, Second, married Ann Reading,
(given sometimes as Elizabeth Reading), and left four sons, Reading,
James, John, and Jacob Blount. All left descendants, but the last
named, Jacob Blount, through his sons, gave the name its prestige in
the Southern States for two of his six sons became Governor of Tenn-
essee, and by the similarity of their names have probably caused more
confusion in the minds of amateur students of the State's history than
any other two citizens. William, the first son of Jacob, became Ter-
ritorial Governor of Tennessee in 1 790, and Willie, the sixth son,
was elected Governor in 1809.

Jacob Blount, born 1 726, died 1 729, fourth son of Thomas
Blount and Ann Reading, was in the battle of Alamance in 1771,
was a member of the provincial Congress and an officer in the Revolu-
tionary War. He married, first ( 1 748) Barbara Gray, and second
a widow, Mrs. Hannah Baker, nee Salter, and third Mrs. Mary
Adams, by whom he had no children. He was the father of twelve
children: William, Ann, John Gray Blount, Louisa, who married
Richard Blackledge; Rea^ling, who married Lucy Harvey; Thomas,

who married, but died without issue; Jacob married Collins;

Barbara; Willie, who will be mentioned later, Sharpe, who married
Penelope Little and two others probably died young.

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TENNESSEE'S ONLY TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR

William Blount, first child of Jacob Blount by his wife, Barbara
was born in Craven County, North Carolina, in 1 749. He married
Miss Mary Grainger, of Wilmington. He was elected a member of
in legislature in I 783 and was elected to the Continential Congress
in 1 782-83-86-87. He sat in the convention that formed the con-
stitution of the United States in I 787. Immediately upon the cession
of what is now Tennessee by North Carolina, to the Federal Gov-
ernment President Washington appointed William Blount Territorial
Governor. This was, by the way, a somewhat important position for
he was appointed "Governor of the Territories of the United States
South of the Ohio."

He was elected Senator- from the State of Tennessee when the
territory became a state and he was expelled from the Senate, for
alleged treasonable practices in endeavoring to incite the Indians to
hostilities against Spain.

Despite this action of the Federal Senate he was admired and*
loved in Tennessee and iipmediately after his expulsion, the member
from Knox resigned his seat in the Tennessee House of Representa-
tives that William Blount might be elected to it and become its
speaker. This vindication by his own friends must have been a
pleasant thing for William Blount. Governor Willie Blount in 1835
wrote a full vindication of Senator William Blount, and placed the
papers in the hands of Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey. These, together with
other valuable papers, were burned when the home was burned during
the war. Mr. Lyman C. Draper made an exact copy of this paper,
which copy is now in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at
Madison, Wisconsin.

The house in which Governor Blount lived while in Knoxville
is still standing just as it was when it was the Governor's mansion.
His grave in the yard of the First Presbyterian church, of which he
was a member, is marked with a large marble slab and a similar stone
covers the remains of his wife.

No man except John Sevier was ever so much beloved by the
people of Tennessee as was Governor William Blount. In bearing
he was of Chester fieldian grace. His personal magnetism was won-
derful.

He was a member of the Convention which adopted the Consti-
tution of the United States, over which Washington presided. He
was honored with the personal friendship and confidence of Wash-
ington, who appointed him Governor of the Territory South of the
Ohio River. He and his wife, who was Mary Grainger, daughter of
Colonel Caleb Grainger, lie in the old church yard in Knoxville, which

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city they helped to found and where, while he was Governor, they
dispensed, for that age, a regal hospitality The Governors mansion
was the rendezvous for society, wit and politics and the Governor him-
self with his charming, courtly manners, with his beautiful wife, made
the center upon which all social life of the place and period turned.
The University of Tennessee was founded then and was firet known
as Blount College, afterwards. East Tennessee Universi^, and now the
University of Tennessee. In his honor a county and a town were
named Blount County and Blountville; while Gramger County and
Maryville were named for his wife who was Mary Gramger.

William Blount died in 1800 in Knoxville. It is believed that
only his death prevented his election to the office of Governor ot the
State, (he had been Governor of the Territory) as a vmdication. so
great were the love and admiration for him throughout the btate ot

William and Mary Blount left children, namely: Ann Blount.
Mary Louisa Blount, William Grainger Blount, Richard Black-
ledge Blount, Barbara Blount and Eliza Blount. Of these Ann
Blount married firstly. Henry Irwin Toole. Second, of Edgecomb,
North Carolina, and had children. Henry Irwin Toole, Third, (bom
1810. died 1850. married Margaret Telfair) and Mary Eliza
Toole (bom 1812, who married Dr. Joseph Lawrence) and mar-
ried secondly. Weeks Hadley. of Edgecomb by whom she had
several children. Mary Louisa Blount married Pleasant M. Miller,
and left several children, one of whom. Barbara Miller, married
William H. Stephens. William Grainger Blount, son of Governor
William Blount and Mary Grainger Blount was a member of Con-
gress from Tennessee. He never married. Richard Blackledge
Blount married and left children. Barbara Blount, daughter of
Governor William Blount and Mary Grainger Blount, married Gen-
eral Edmund Pendleton Gaines as his second wife and left one son.
Edmund Pendleton Gaines. Second, who never married. Eliza
Blount, daughter of Govemor WilHam Blount and Mary Grainger
Blount married Dr. Edwin Wiatt and left children.

John Gray Blount, second son of Jacob Blount and his wife,
Ann Reading Blount, was a companion of Daniel Boone but settled
in Washington, North Carolina. He married Mary Harvey, daughter
of Colonel Miles Harvey and left children namely: Thomas Harvey
Blount, John Gray Blount. Second. Polly Ann Blount. William Augus-
tus Blount. Lucy Olivia Blount and Baker Blount.

Reading Blount, third son of Jacob Blount and Ann R. Blount, was
bom 1 75 7. He was a Major in the War of the Revolution. He died
in 1807. He married Lucy Harvey, a daughter of Colonel Miles Har-
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vey). They left five children namely: Polly, Louisa, Willie, Caroline
Jones Blount and one son, Reading Blount, Second, who married and
left a son, Reading Blount, Third.

Thomas Blount, fourth son of Jacob Blount and Ann Reading
Blount was bom in 1759 and died in 1812. He was an officer in
the War of the Revolution, a Major in Colonel Buncombe's Regi-
ment. He married first Patsy Baker and second, Mary Sumner,
daughter of General Jethro Sumner. He left no issue.

Jacob Blount, second son of Jacob Blount and Ann Reading
Blount was born in I 760 He married firstly his cousin, Ann Col-
lins,, daughter of Josiah Collins and had children. He married
secondly Mrs. Augustus Harvey, a widow, but had no children.
by this marriage.

GOVERNOR WILLIE BLOUNT

Willie Blount, the ninth child of Jacob Blount was the first child
by his second wife, Mrs. Hannah Salter Baker. He was born in
1 768 and was twenty years younger than his distinguished brother
the Colonial Governor. The similarity of his name with that of
his elder brother causes confusion to the casual student of Tenne-
essee history. Though it was spelled Willie it was pronounced Wylie
and was probably a family name in his mother's line.

His first political position was Secretary to his brother then Gov-
ernor William Blount and he evidently made the most of his oppor-
tunities for at twenty eight he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee and at forty was elected Governor. He served as Gov-
ernor six years, (1809 tb 1815) in an exciting period of history.
During the War of 1812 he tendered to the United States, two thou-
sand five hundred volunteers, and it is from them that the State gained
its name, the Volunteer. He pledged his personal credit to equip three
regiments which went to General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans.
He was active in the Creek War also, raising almost as many vol-
unteers and three hundred thousand dollars which for that period was
a tremendous sum of money. He died at the residence of Wylie
Johnstop near Nashville in 1835 and is buried at Clarksville.

He married Lucinda Baker, daughter of John Baker and his
wife Anne Norfleet Baker. They had two daughters, one of whom

married Dr. J. T. Dabney and the other a Dortch. A son

of the latter, Willie Blount Dortch, married a daughter of Governor
Aaron V. Brown.

The monument in Clarksville erected by the State to the memory
of Governor Willie Blount gives his birth place and his brother's as

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Bertie CooDty, North Caioliiia, bot die Historian, Joim H. Wheeler
credits Blomt Hill io Pitt Granty as their birdiplace.

Sharp BloiBt was die tenth child of Jacob Bloont and the second
hj the second wife, Mrs. Hannah (Salter) Baker Blount He was
bom in 1 771 and died in 1810. He married Penlope Little, dau^ter
of Colonel George Little and had children: William Little Blount,
Jacob Bloont, and George Litde Bloimt. Of these, only the last
left children.

Few family names are more identified with North Carolina and
Tennessee. Heitman's Historical Register gives six Blounts as officers
m the Revolution and every one is given as a resident of North Car-
olina, showing that the Blount family in America is practically all
from this one North Carolina-Tennessee line, or at least, that during
the period of the Revolution diere were no odier Blounts in America.

The following names are in the Register:

Jacob Blount, Pajrmaster, North Carolina Militia.
Jesse Blount, Commissary, Elighth North Carolina Regiment
James Blount, Captain Second North Carolina Regiment
Reading Blount, Captain Third North Carolina Regiment.
William Blount, Paymaster, Third North Carolina Regiment.
Thomas Blount, Lieutenant, Fifth North Carolina Regiment

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All the people of the name Brownlow in the United States are
descended from James and Kate Brownlow, who emigrated to the
United States about 1 745, from the County of Antrim, North Ire-
land. They were both school teachers and members of the Pres-
byterian Church. James taught the boys and his wife the girls. James
was a classical scholar and taught Latin and Greek. He taught at
Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia, and among his pupils there
was the boy Sam Houston, the Hero of San Jacinto, Governor of
Tennessee, President of Texas and United States Senator from that
State after annexation and in 1861 Governor of Texas and the
only Governor of the eleven seceded States who opposed the seces-
sion of his State. After teaching several years at Lexington, the
Brownlows removed to Aj^ingdon, Southwestern Virginia, where they
followed the same occupation of school-teaching and here one of
James Brownlow's pupils was the afterward famous orator and Sena-
tor, William C. Preston, of South Carolina. Both of these distin-
guished men ever retained a grateful recollection of their faithful
teacher, two of whose sons, Alexander and Isaac, fought under
General Jackson at tjie battle of the Horseshoe, the most important of
the many battles Jackson fought with the Indians, and which led to
his command at the battle of New Orleans. Two others of them,
Samuel and William, died Naval Officers. Of the latter Commo-
dore Charles Stewart, "Old Ironsides," under whom he served as
a Lieutenant, said: **He wAs one of the bravest men I have ever
known."

James and Kate Brownlow had seven children, six sons and a
daughter, namely:

(1) Alexander Brqwnlow.

(2) Isaac Brownlow.

(3) Samuel. L. Brownlow.

(4) William L. Brownlow.

(5) John Brownlow.

(6) Margaret Brownlow.

(7) Joseph A. Brownlow.

(I) Alexander Brownlow is honorably mentioned in the history
of the War of 1812-15 as a Lieutenant in the regular Army in com-
mand of Fort Bowyer on the Mississippi. He so distinguished him-
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promoted to Captain and, like his brothers, William and Samuel of
the Navy, he was retained for gallant and meritorious service after
the war ended, when the regular Military and Naval Service was re-
duced by Congress. He died in the service and his remains are in the
Cemetery at New Orleans. Among the descendants of Captain Alex-
ander Brownlow is the wife of Honorable Andrieus A. Jones, United
State Senator from New Mexico. Senator Jones is a native of
West Tennessee.

(2) Isaac Brownlow, great-grand- father of Honorable Louis
Brownlow, one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, was
an inferior pfficer under General Jackson and bore his dispatches
from the Creek War to Huntsvillc, swimming the Tennessee River on
horseback. His numerous descendants in 1861 enlisted in the Con-
federate Army.

Among the descendants of Isaac Brownlow are Honorable Louis
Brownlow, one of die Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and
the late John F. Brownlow, Mayor, and a leading citizen of Colum-
bia, Tennessee. Poetry is not associated with warlike qualities, but
if the poems written and published in the newspapers of the period
by Lieutenant William L. Brownlow and Isaac Brownlow, Captain
of Scouts, under Jackson, were collected they would make a small
volume.

(3) Samuel L. Brownlow, was a wagon master under General
Jackson, and was in the battle of the Horseshoe.

(4) William L. Brownlow, who served as a Lieutenant under
Commodore Charles Stewart died a Captain in the Navy and his re-
mains repose in die Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia.

(5) John Brownlow was an inferior officer in the Navy and died
at sea.

(6) The only daughter, Margaret, married a Scotchman, John
McClelland. A son of theirs, Isaac Brownlow McClelland was for
about thirty years Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court at Som-
erville. West Tennessee, and an elder in the Presbvterian Church. A
grandson, Lawrence Sparks, was for many years Pastor of a Presby-
terian Church at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. All the descendants of
John McClelland and Margaret Brownlow were Presbyterians in
religion and were Confederates in the War Between the States.

(7) Joseph A.- Brownlow married Catherine Gannaway. His
first military service was as a private in the War of 1812. Later he
was given a Lieutenant's commission. His son, William Ganaway
Brownlow, is the most distinguished of the name. He was bom in
Wythe County, Virginia, August 29, 1805.

After ten years as a traveling minister (Circuit Rider) of the
Methodist Episcopal Church from 1826 to 1836 he located, that is

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ceased to be in charge of a congregation, and entered Journalistic
work. He became editor and publisher of a newspaper in the interest
of the Whig party. For years before the Civil War his Newspaper
had the largest circulation of any Journal south of the Ohio or Potomac
Rivers unless George D. Prentice's Louisville Journal be excepted.
People took it for its editorials as it was without Associated Press
Dispatches. That after the War Between the States he became Gov-
ernor of Tennessee and United States Senator is well known; but the
incidents of his early life, which contributed to the production of so
remarkable a character, and subsequent incidents of his career are not
so well known.

Brownlow believed in blood and was himself the offspring of that
sturdy race from the North of Ireland which has given to our country
three-fourths of its Presidents and its leading statesmen, editors, mer-
chants and soldiers — the race of Jackson, Monroe, Harrison
Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, the Prestons,
B lairs, Breckinridges, Moreheads, Stewarts, Porters, Greeley s and
many others who might be named, prominent in all the walks of Amer-
ican life. His mother's maiden name was Catherine Gannaway,
daughter of William Gannaway and his wife, Elizabeth Wright, who
were natives of Augusta County, Virginia, and large slave-owners.
They were a family distinguished for moral worth, good sense and
Christian piety. The father of William Gannaway Brownlow was
a Presbyterian. He died when his son was ten years of age. His
mother was a Methodist and he joined her church.

A nephew of the late Governor Brownlow was the Honorable
Walter Preston Brownlow, who died in 1910 while a Member of
Congress in the fourteenth year of his service. Walter Preston
Brownlow at the time of his death had had appropriated for his Dis-
trict more money than had previously been appropriated for the whole
state of Tennessee. This included more than two millions for the
National Soldiers Home at Johnson City, public buildings at Bristol,
Johnson City and Greeneville, a Fish Hatchery, the only one in
Tennessee, in Unicoi County, and he had the burial place of Andrew
Johnson made a National Cemetery. When he secured an appro-
priation of $35,000 for this purpose Congress had only made appro-
priation to mark or beautify the burial grounds of three Presidents.

It is in the military Service of the country that the Brownlows
have been especially zealous. Joseph A. Brownlow was third Lieu-
tenant in the Fourth Regiment, Tennessee Militia, in the War of 1812.

James Patton Brownlow, youngest son of Governor William G.
Brownlow, was Colonel of the first Tennessee Cavalry Volunteers,
U. S. Army, in the Civil War. After having been shot through both

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legs and four horses shot under him he was promoted to Brigadier
General when only twenty-three years of age.

As to the service of General James P. Brownlow, I quote the
following letter addressed to Andrew Johnson, Military Governor, by
the distinguished soldier who died as Commander-in-chief of the
United States Army:

Nashville, Tennessee, May 21, 1863.
"Governor :

"Having been informed that Lieutenant Colonel .Brownlow of the
First EUist Tennessee Cavalry is spoken of for Colonel of one of the
new regiments to be raised in your state, I desire to recommend him as
eminently qualified and deserving. I have rarely seen a cavalry officer
who excited my admiration in so high a degree. He is energetic,
daring and skillful. Success with him and his gallant command is
the mvariable rule.
**I am. Governor,

"Very respectfully your obedient servant,

"J. M. SCHOFIELD, Major General."

His Excellency, Andrew Johnson,
Governor of Tennessee.

General William H. Jackson and the late Rev. Dr. D. C. Kelley,
the latter the youngest and one of the most distinguished of General
Forrest's subordinate commanders, testified that the most intrepid
fighters Forrest's command ever encountered was the First East Tenn-
essee Cavalry under the command of Colonel James P. Brownlow.

The only other son of Governor Brownlow, Colonel John Bell
Brownlow, now residing at Knoxville, was Commander of the Ninth
Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A., in. the Civil War.
His regiment, under his command, was one-third of the Federal troops
numbering about 1 ,300 men, which on the fourth of September, 1 864,
completely surprised and attacked the Confederate brigade of General
John H. Morgan at Greenville, Tennessee. In this engagement Gen-
eral Morgan was killed and about eighty of his men killed and wounded.
The Federal ^force, about 1,300, was comprised in equal numbers of
the Ninth Tennessee, Thirteenth Tennessee and Tenth Michigan.
Only three men were killed on the Federal side ; two of Colonel Brown-
low's regiment and one of the Tenth Michigan, commanded by Major
Newell. Eighteen men were wounded on the Federal side, twelve
of whom were of Colonel Brownlow's command. Two pieces of the
Confederate artillery were captured in the fight and this was done by
a charge led by Colonel Brownlow. One of these guns was sent as
a present to Andrew Johnson, then Military Governor of Tennessee.

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The reason for the complete victory for the Federal troops on
this occasion was that the Confederates, before daylight, were com-
pletely surprised, their pickets having been captured asleep. Only a
few weeks later the Confederates surprised this Federal Brigade and as
completely surprised and defeated it as it had been surprised and de-
feated.

William Gannaway Brownlow married Eliza O'Brien who was
a descendant of the Gaines family (See Gaines).

The children of Governor William Gannaway Brownlow and his
wife, Eliza O'Brien Brownlow are: Susan Brownlow, Colonel John
Bell Brownlow, General James P. Brownlow, Mary Brownlow, Fannie
Brownlow, Annie Brownlow and Caledonia Temple Brownlow.

Of the foregoing:

Susan Brownlow married first Dr. James H. Sawyers and had
one child, Lillie, (who married Rev. Samuel D. Long, President of
Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Virginia, and married Dr.
Daniel T. Boynton as her second husband, and had four children:
Lucile Boynton (who married Clarence A. Benscoter and has Daniel
Boynton Benscoter) ; Edmee Boynton (who married Louis D. Hun-
toon) ; Ilia Boynton (who married Franklin Pierce Swindler and has
Franklin Pierce Swindler, Jr., and Jean Swindler) ; Dr. Emerson

Boynton (who married and has Daniel E.

Boynton, Lewis ^D. Boynton and Charles G. Boynton).

Colonel John Bell Brownlow married Fanny Fouche and had
three children; William Gannaway Brownlow); second (who married
for his first wife Miss Gertrude Mattingly of Washington City, and
has Fannie Fouche Brovkulow, who married Len G. B'roughton, jr.,
and married for his second wife, Isabel Sevier Williams) ; John Fouche
Brownlow (who married Miss Helen Clark, of Washington City, and
has John F. Brownlow, Jr., and Helen Clark Brownlow) ; and Jen-
nie Brownlow (who married Edward J. Ashe and has Jane Brown-
low Ashe.

General James P. Brownlow married Belle Cliffe* and had no
children.

Mary Brownlow married Henry M. Aiken and had Fannie B.
Aiken (who married Frank Camahan and has Elizabeth Camahan) ;
William Brownlow Aiken, Horace Aiken. Halmer Aiken, Frank
Aiken. Eliza Brownlow Aiken and Henry M. Aiken, Jr.

Fannie Brownlow married George G. Latta and had Georgia
Latta; William Brownlow Latta, Ernest Latta, and Vivian Latta.

Annie Brownlow married William F. Patrick and had William
Brownlow Patrick.

Caledonia Temple Brownlow married John C. Hale and had
John Boynton Hale.

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Nancy Brownlow, daughter of Joseph A. Brownlow and Catherine
Ganaway Brownlow, married John S. Martin, who was born m Vir-
ginia in 1795. He removed to Saleip. Illinois, in 1845 and died m
1865. From 1825 to 1845 he was Clerk of the County and Circuit
Courts of Scott County, Virginia. On removing to Illionis he emanci-
pated several slaves. His first wife was a Morrison. Their son. James
Stewart Martin was Colonel of the 1 1 1 th Illinois Infantry and Brevet
Brigadier General of Volunteers, elected as a Republican to Congress
in 1872 defeating Judge Silas Bryan, father of Honorable William

J. Bryao. i j- j •

John S. Martin's second wife was Nancy Brownlow, who died m
1846. leaving several children. Their third child, Nancy Rogers
Martin, married Samuel Bradford, of Illinois. They had two chil-
dren, John S. Bradford and Mary Bell Bradford, who died young.
John S. Bradford is now President of the Bank of Greenville, and has
two children, one of whom, Edgar Bradford, is now with the United
States Army in France.

Robert Martin, the fourth child of Nancy Brownlow Martin and
John S. Martin, was a Captain in the Union Army in the War Between
the States. He married Alice Scott, of Salem, Illinois. They have
three children, Dora Martin, Charles Martin and John Martin, and
four grandchildren, of whom the oldest. Louis Martin, is in France.

Catherine Martin, the fifth child of Nancy Brownlow lylartin and
John S. Martin, married C. R. Bennett, of Greenville, Illinois. They
had two children, Louis E. Bennett and Charles Courtney Bennett.
Courtney Bennett died unmarried.

Louis E. Bennett is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Regular Army
of the United States. He served in the Spanish-American War since
when he has been in the Regular Army. For two months he was in
command of a rgiment in France on the fighting line. He was then
transferred to an important position and is now Commander of the
Organization of Central Training No. 1, Heavy Artillery. He has
several thousand officers and men under his training.

Colonel Bennett married Josephine Tippin, of Greenville, Illinois.
They have no children.

Thompson G. Martin, son of Nancy Brownlow Martin and John
S. Martin, was a soldier in the Union Army in the War Between the
States and was in twenty-one battles. He married Jennie Wrenn. of
Salem, Illinois, and had four children, namely: Winifred Martin,
Nellie Martin, Edna Martin, and Harry Martin and seven grand-
children, the eldest of whom, Lawrence Martin, is in France.

Benjamin Estell Martin, the sixth . child of Nancy Brownlow
Martin and John S. Martin, was also in the Union Army in the War
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boy. He married Florida Cunningham, of Salem, Illinois. They
had several children, among them, Mary Martin, Bertha Martin,
Nancy Martin, Estelle Martin and John Martin.

Matilda Martin, the seventh child of Nancy Brownlow Martin and
John S. Martin, married John Gibson, of Alma, Illionis. They have
three children, Joseph Gibson, John Gibson and Jane Gibson. Matilda
Martin Gibson died while in the Philippines on a pleasure trip. Their
daughter, Jane Gibson, jnarried Frank Phillips and resides in Oklahoma.

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CALHOUN

The origin of the family and name of Calhoun can be traced
for seven hundred years to a younger son of King Conock of Ireland.
The name Gmock became G>k]aohoun, Colquhoun, Coihoun aiKl
finally Calhoun as the American family speU it now. In Great
Britain it is pronounced as if spelled Ca'houn.

Umphredies, the great ancestor of the family who obtained the
Barony of Calquohoun m Dumbartonshire, lived m time of Alex-
ander the II of Scotland. His son, Robert lived in the reign of David
and was ordered by that monarch to take the Castle of DunJ>arton.
He sent his answer to the king in three simple words **Si Je Puis!"
(If I can.) and that was the motto granted by the king in memory of
the exploit when he had succeeded in taking the fortified castle. H^
did succeed by a strategy. He organized a magnificent hunt and when
his clansmen and followers wete all out die defenders of the Castle
swept out also to join die gay throng and at a signal. Sir Robert
Calhoun's men ran back to the casde and captured it without a blow.
King David gave the clever huntsman a crest with a stag's head and
the three significent words ''If I can" for a motto.

After Robert, came Sir Humphrey (which of course is a revival
of Umphredies) and after him was John. A second Sir John was fol-
lowed by several James and Patricks, one following the other, one of
whom obtained an estate near Glasgow. Then came Sir James who
married Mary Falconer. They had among odier children Patrick
Calhoun, and he had a son, James Calhoun, who is the Founder of
the Family in America.

Of the founding of the family in America, John Ewing Calhoim's
brief account is authoritive. He says:

"In 1 733 James Calhoun emigrated from the County of Donegal,
Ireland, with his wife, Catherine Montgomery. They brought over with
them four sons, and one dau^ter, James, Ezekial, WilUam and Pat-
rick and Catherine. Catherine was married to a Mr. Noble, who left
two sons, Alexander and James Noble. The former was the father
of the late Governor Noble.

"The family came first to Pennsylvania; we next find them on
the waters of die Kanawha, probably within the limits of the present
Wythe County, Virginia. After Braddock's defeat they were driven
by the Indians, and arrived at Calhoun's Settlement in February, I 756.
Their settlement was again broken up in 1760.

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son's Brigade on Long Cane, and after a desperate engagement, a
large portion of the settlers, were killed, among them James Calhoun,
the eldest son.

**The father of James, the emigrant, was Patrick Calhoun, whose
father was James, and so on alternating with these two names for
several generations." (From the Memoirs of John Ewing Calhoun.)

The encounter with the Indians on Long Cane, Granville county,
took place February 1 , 1 760, as they were preparing to move for
safety to Augusta. Twenty- three members of the little party, including
Mrs. James Calhoun, (Catherine Montgomery), and her son, James
were massacred. Patrick Calhoun, one of the surviving Calhoun
brothers erected stones to mark the site of this massacre ,upon one of
which appears the following inscription:

Pat k. Calhoun. Esq..
In Memory of Mrs.
Catherine Calhoun
Aged 76 years Who
With 22 Others Was
Here Murdered By
The Indians The
First of Feb. 1 760.

James Calhoun, the Emigrant, who was born in Ireland about
1680, had evidently died some years before the Massacre. His wife,
Catherine Montgomery Calhoun, who was seventy-six years old in
I 760 was born in Ireland in 1 684.

Despite tribulation the party persisted and succeeded in establish-
ing the Calhoun Settlement in Abbeville District.

The Calhouns having emigrated to America in 1 733, there fol-
lowed very shortly (1735) their sister, Alice Calhoun, and her hus-
band, Robert Armstrong. They also came first to Pennsylvania and
like the Calhouns decided upon a more Southern clime, but they did
not follow the wave of emigration which had set out from Pennsyl-
vania to Virginia, but instead went directly to the Calhoun Settlement
in Abbeville District, South Carolina. This was after and just sub-
sequent to the massacre, 1 760.

Robert Armstrong and Alice Calhoun Armstrong are the progeni-
tors of the large Tennessee Armstrong family, for their son, Robert,
who married Margaret Cunningham, moved to Tennessee, and is num-
bered among the pioneers of the Volunteer State. His body lies be-
side his wife's on the place which he settled several miles above Knox-
ville.

The family connection was close for several generations and John
C. Calhoun, when Secretary of War, appointed his cousins, Robert

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Armstrong and Robert Armstrong Houston, both of Tennessee, United
States Surveyor and United States Commissioner in the Cherokee
Treaty of 1819.

The children of James Calhoun, the Emigrant and his wife, Cathe-
rine Montgomery Calhoun were:

I James Calhoun, Second.

II William Calhoun.

III John Calhoun.
LV Catherine Calhoun.

V Ezekiel Calhoun.

VI Patrick Calhoun.

I JAMES CALHOUN

James Calhoun, the Second, eldest son of James Calhoun, the
Emigrant and his wife Catherine Montgomery Calhoun, was born
in Donegal County Ireland about 1716. He was killed in the Indian
Massacle at Long Cane Creek, February 1 , 1 760.

II WILLIAM CALHOUN

William Calhoun, the second son of James Calhoun, the Emi-
grant and Catherine Montgomery Calhoun was bom in Ireland in
Donegal County Ireland, about 1718. He was in the Massacre and
suffered more than the other brothers for one of his children was
killed and two daughters were captured by Indians and held in cap-
tivity for many years. He was a Justice of the Peace for Granville
County and later for Ninety-Six District South Carolina under the
Provisional Government. He married Agnes Long, October 18,
I 749. They had eleven children :

( 1 ) Joseph Calhoun.

(2) Catherine Calhoun.

(3) Anne Calhoun.

(4) Mary Calhoun.

(5) Patrick Calhoun.

(6) Rachel Calhoun.

(7) Esther Calhoun.

(8) William Calhoun, Second.

(9) Ezekiel Calhoun.

(10) Agnes Calhoun.

(11) Alexander Calhoun.

( 1 ) Joseph Calhoun, son of William Calhoun and Agnes Long
Calhoun was born October 22, 1 750. He was a member of the

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Legislature of South Carolina, was a Colonel of Militia and in 1807
was elected to Congress where he served until 1 8 1 1 , when he was
succeeded by his cousin John Caldwell Calhoun. He died April 14,
1917.

He married first his cousin Catherine Calhoun and married, second
Martha or Patsey Moseley, daughter of William Moseley, of Vir-
ginia. His children by his first wife, Catherine Calhoun Calhoun,
were: Ann Calhoun (who married William Perrin) ; Joseph Cal-
houn, Second; Catherine Calhoun (who died unmarried) Mary Cal-
houn (who died unmarried) ; and by his second wife, Martha or Pat-
sey Moseley Calhoun, Eliza Calhoun (who married James Holt) ;
John Ewing Calhoun (who married Miss Speed) ; Martha Calhoun
(who married John Speed) ; Samuel Calhoun (who died unmarried)
and William Calhoun (died unmarried, was a captain in the Semi-
nole War).

Of the foregoing: Joseph Calhoun, Second, was bom July 22
1787. He was educated by Dr. Moses Waddell, was commisioned
in the United States Army and attained the rank of Captain. Was
in the Richmond Theatre the night of the Great Fire, December 26,
1 8 1 1 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lundy's Lane. He
married Frances Darricourt. They had nine children: Rebecca Cal-
hoim (who died young) ; Thbmas Smith Calhoun (who died young) ;
Joseph Selden Calhoun (who died young) ; Louisa Calhoun (who
died young) ; Eliza Calhoim (who furnished much of the early records
here quoted) ; Elizabeth Mary Calhoun (who died unmarried) ;
Frances Josette Calhoun (who married Dr. J. W. Marshall) ; Ann
Calhoun (who died young) ; and Joseph Calhoun (who married Mary
E. Sayre and had Mary Elizabeth Calhoun, died young; Harriet
Louise Calhoun, married . H. N. VanDeVander ; Lilla Frances Cal-
houn, married R. Morgan; William Sayre Calhoun, married V. B.
Loomis; Joseph Selden Calhoun; Marie Estelle Calhoun; and John
Joseph Calhoun.

John Ewing Calhoun married Miss Speed and had

Elizabeth Calhoun (who married James LeRoy) ; Martha Calhdun
(who married George Brown) ; Margaret Calhoun ; and John Ewing
Calhoun.

(4) Mary Calhoun, daughter of William Calhoun and Agnes
Long Calhoun was bom November I, 1757. She was captured and
carried away by Indians in the Long Cane Massacre and was never
heard of again. She probably died in the hands of the Indians.

(5) Patrick Calhoun, son of William Calhoun and Agnes Long
Calhoun, was born February 18th 1760. He was killed by Indians
June 26, I 776, while he was serving as an Ensign in Captain James
McCall's Elxpedition to the Cherokee Country. He was only sixteen
years old.

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(6) Radnd Calfco-. d»|ha of Wiffi-i Cai— «d Agies
bom ScDtaber 19. 1762. She wuml Pat-

nck Nonik ^ _ , .

(7) EAa CaOKM. aa^btar oi WSiaa CaBiaw awl Agnes
Lo.» Cafl—. was bom Si|ili»liff 30. 1765. Sbe mairied William

(8) WaHaa CalbiNB. Sccood. sm of IK^Siui CaDioan and
A0KS Lone CaDiow was boa Apia 5. 1768. He nuikd Rebecca
TcMcyUQ. Tbek cbiUn were: Ezddd CaBioM; CadieriDe Cal-
ho«i; Rachel CaDiow (who manied Haad^ Hanis); WnHam F.
Calbovi; JaMs Mootgomery Calbovi: Joseiili Calbovi: R^iecca
Cakoi; Soiah CaDiow; and Maiy Elizabedi CaBioM (who mar-
ntd Nathan Masey).

Of die foRCoiiig diOdren of WaUaa CalhoM. Second: Ezduel
CalhonB ■ufiied Ijmcf WeObom and had CaioIiBa Calhoan (who
■ufiied John S. Wnhams) ; Georgia Calhowi: Virgvia CaDioaa (who
■ufiied CMirer Cookh); InifiaBa CalhoiB; Edwaid Calhoaa; Pkk-
ens CaDiow; Missowi CaDicNB^ (who mained Dr. Maitm) ; and
Florida CaBkoon (who nuiried 'her sister MisaouTs widower. Dr.
Maitk).

JaBcs MootgCMBeiT CalhoiB nairied Ebbu Ffaahrth Dabney
aMl had WIDiam Lowndes CalhouB (who mairied Maiy Oliver and
Eflnna Carolna Calhoan, nurried Silas Conndlj; James Montgomery
Calhoan, Seccod, who married a TemfJeton; Mary Calhoan: William
Daboey CaDiow; IXrdHam Lowndes CafiKHm, Second; and Nettie
Alme Calhoan): Emma Calhoim; Anna Calhoun (who married
Dr. DoBose); Chattanooga Calhoan; Rdiecca Calhoan (who mar-
ried J. H. Matdiews); James V. Calhoim; Patrick H. Calhoan (who
married fiistly Frances S. Fnller and had Charles Aogostus Calhoun
and married secondly I<la Cole and had Rosa CaDkoim) ; Hannah
Calhoim; and John Dabney Calhomi).

Joseph Calhoim married Ann Cross and Inred is Mobile, Ala.
They had William Joseph Calhoun (who married Margaret Aleit-
ander and had Jolm CarroU Cralhoim; WilBam Joseph Calhoan; Ed-
ward Jones Calhoun; Gaines Calhoun; and Margaret Alexander
Calhoim); Amanda Abberille Calhoan; Ella Ann Calhoim {vfho
mairied William Hunter Harian) ; James Butler Calhoim (who mar-
ried Famy Barham) ; Isabella Cross Calhoun; John Carroll Calhoun;

Frank Howard CaDioim; AUne S. Calhoun (who married

McDoagald) ; and Lida Rebecca Calhoim.

(9) Ezrkiel Calhoun, son of William Calhoun and Agnes Long
Calhoun, was bom November 27, 1 770. He married Frances Ham-
ilton, dauber of Major Andrew Hamilton. Thdr children were
William Calhbon (who died unmarried); Joseph Calhoun (who

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died unmarried) ; Harriet Calhoun (who married Thomas Davis, of
Washington, D C.) ; Jane Hamilton Calhoun (who married Dr
Webb Simonds and had a son Andrew Simonds, who married his
cousin, Sarah Calhoun Martin) ; Ephriam Calhoun; Catherine Cal-
houn (who married Dr. John W. Parker, of Columbia, South Caro-
lina) ; and Andrew Calhoun.

Of the foregoing children of Ezekiel Calhoun:

Ephriam Calhoun married Charlotte Moseley, of Abbeville Dis-
trict, and had Motte Calhoun (who married Sallie Goodwin and had
William Goodwin Calhoun, Roland R. Calhoun and Augusta Cal-
houn) ; El\za Calhoun (who married Dr. John H. Logan the histor-
ian) ; Augusta Calhoun (who married Peter Goodwin) ; Franklin
Ramsay Calhoun (who married Annie E. Turpin and had Augusta
Calhoun, Dr. Alfred Turpin Calhoun, Annie Calhoun, married Wil-
liam David Link, of Erie, Pennsylvania; Daniel Calhoun, and Char-
lotte Moseley Calhoun, married W. T. Bates) ; Charles Moseley
Calhoun (who married Emily Nelson and had Ro'bert Edger Calhoun,
(married Mamie Ziegler), Ida Chicora Calhoun, Daniel Du Pre Cal-
houn, Eliza Elliott Calhoun, John Franklin Calhoun, Charles Ramsay
Calhoun, Motte McG. Calhoun, Waring Parker Calhoun, Nina Nel-
son Calhoun, and Faimy Emma Calhoun (who married Daniel Dupre).

Andrew Calhoun married Susan Wellborn, of Georgia, and had
Martha Frances Calhoun, (who married Dr. Divine) ; Ann Elizabeth
Calhoun (who married William Caldwell) ; Abner Wellborn Calhoun
(who married Louise King Phinizy, see Phinizy Family; and had Dr.
Ferdinand Phinizy Calhoun, who married Marion Peel and has Fer-
dinand Phinizy Calhoun, Jr., Lawson Peel Calhoun and Marion
Peel Calhoun; Susan Wellborn Calhoun, who married Junius Ogles-
by and has no children; Andrew Wellborn Calhoun, who married
Mary Trigg, of Chattanooga, and has James Trigg Calhoun, Abner
Wellborn Calhoun and Louise Phinizy Calhoun; and Harriet Cal-
houn who married Stuart Witham and has Stuart Witham, Jr).

(10) Agnes Calhoun, daughter of William Calhoun and Agnes
Long Calhoun his wife, was born August 29, 1 773. She married
General Hutton.

(11) Alexander Calhoun, son of William Calhoun and Agnej
Long Calhoun was bom December 21, 1776. He married Kitty
Johnson and had one child, Kitty Calhoun (who married Edward
Tillman) .

Ill JOHN CALHOUN

John Calhoun, son of James Calhoun, the Emigrant and Cathe-
rine Montgomery Calhoun was bom in Ireland about I 720. He mar-
ried and had two children.

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IV CATHERINE CALHOUN

Catherine Calhoun, the only daughter of James Calhoun, the
Emigrant and his wife Catherine Montgomery Calhoun was bom in
Ireland about 1718. She married John Noble in Ireland, (and
therefore was evidently not with her parents wKen they emigrated to
America in 1 732). She had three children, the eldest of whom Alex-
ander Noble was bom at sea as his father and mother came to Amer-
ica. Catherine Calhoun Noble became a widow early in life and made
her home with her brothers' families. She and her children escaped
the Massacre at Long Cane Creek and settled with other members of
the family in Abbeville District. Her children were, Alexander Noble,
James Noble, and a daughter whose name is not given.

( 1 ) Alexander Noble married his first cousin, Catherine Noble the
daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing Calhoun. They
had a son, Patrick Ndble, who became Governor of South Carolina.

(2) James Noble.

(3) Noble, a daughter.

V EZEKIEL CALHOUN

Ezekiel Calhoun, son of James Calhoun, the Emigrant and Cathe-
rine Montgomery Calhoun, was born in Donegal County, Ireland I 720.
He was with his family in all the Indian Persecutions. He married
Jane or Jean Ewing some years previous to 1 759 for in that year
September 3, his will is dated and in it he makes mention of his wife
Jean and his seven children:

( 1 ) John Ewing Colhoun.

(2) Patrick Calhoun.

(3) Ezekiel Calhoun, Second.

(4) Mary Calhoun, married Carr.

(5) Rebecca Calhoun (who married Andrew Pickens).

(6) Catherine Calhoun (who married her cousin, Alexander
Noble).

(7) Jean qrjane Calhoun, (who married John Steadman).

( 1 ) John Ewing Calhoun, son of Ezekiel Calhoun, and Jean or
Jane Ewing Calhoun, was born about 1 750. He joined Captain
Charles Drayton's Company of Militia for Revolutionary Service and
he signed his name to the roll of that Company "John Ewing Col-

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houn** and continued so to write his name until his death as his de-
scendants did after him. He died October the 2, 1802. He married
Floride Boimeau, daughter of Samuel Bonneau. Their children
were Benjamin Colhoun (who died young) Floride Bonneau Col-
houn (who married her cousin John Caldwell Calhoun) ; John Ewing
Colhoun, Second; James Edward Colhoun; (who marxied Maria
Simpkins, but left no children) and William Sheridan Colhoun (who
died young).

Of the foregoing children of John Ewing Colhoun: John Ewing
Colhoun married Martha Maria David and had John Ewing Col-
houn (who died young) ; Martha Maria Colhoun (who died young) ;
William Ransom Colhoun; Susan Colhoun; John Ewing Colhoun;
Florence Colhoun (who died young) ; Warren Davis Colhoun (who
died young) ; Henry Davis Colhoun ; Edward Boiseau Colhoun (who
married Sarah C. Norwood. He served in Lucas* Battalion of Ar-
tillery in the War Between the States and was a captain. He married
Sarah C. Norwood. Their children were: Martha Colhoun; Sarah
Louise Colhoun (who married Allen McShoen of Richmond, Va.) ;
Floride Bonneau Colhoun; Willie Norwood Colhoun.

VI PATRICK CALHOUN

Patrick Calhoun, son of James Calhoun, the Emigrant and
his wife Catherine Montgomery Calhoun was born in Donegal Coun-
ty, Ireland, in June 1727. He was seven years old when his parents
emigrated to America. Patrick was with his people in all their trou-
bles of settling the new home and was a leading spirit in the family
as well as in the community. Having survived the terrible Massacre
he erected some years later the monument to his mother and the twenty-
two victims at Long Cane Creek He was appointed by the provincial
Government Commander of a body of Rangers.

He was Justice of the Peace for Granville County and later for
Ninety-Six District, South Carolina under the Provincial Government.
At an election on the 7th and 8th of March 1 769 Patrick Calhoun
was elected to the Commons House of Assembly from Prince William's
Parish. He served until the next election in October 1 772 and was
the first representative from the Up-Country. He was sent as a Deputy
to the First Congress (January to November 1775) from Ninety-Six
District and was re-elected to the Second Provincial Congress (Nov-
ember 1 775 to March 1 776.) and was a member of the First Gen-

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eral Assembly (1776) of the State of South Carolina. He thereafter
served in almost every Assembly until his death. He died February
15, 1796, being in his sixty-ninth year.

Patrick Calhoun was married twice. His first wife, a Miss Craig-
head, daughter of Reverand Alexander Craighead, left no children.
His second wife was Martha Caldwell by whom he had five children:

(1) JAMES CALHOUN

(2) CATHERINE CALHOUN (married Rev. Moses "Wad-
dell and had only one child who died young.

(3) WILLIAM CALHOUN.

(4) JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN.

(5) PATRICK CALHOUN. Second.

( 1 ) James Calhoun, son of Patrick Calhoun and Martha Cald-
well Calhoun, married May 4th, 1802, Sarah Caldwell Martin,
daughter of Dr. James Martin, Surgeon of the 3rd, South Carolina
Continental Line. Their Children were: Patrick Calhoun, died young;
James Martin Calhoun; John Alfred Calhoun; Caroline, died young;
William Henry Calhoun; Benjamin Calhoun, died young; Sarah
Calhoun; George MsDuffie Calhoun, died young.

Of the foregoing:

James Martin Calhoun, married Susan Pickens and had Susan
Wilkison Calhoun ( who married Alexander Noble, a descendant of
Catherine Calhoun who married John Noble) ; Andrew Calhoun (who
married Frances E. Lee and had Susan Wilkinson Calhoun, Rebecca
Lee Calhoun, Julia Fishbum Calhoun, James Martin Calhoun, Second,
Harriet Eliza Calhoun, Sarah Pickens Calhoun, and Ellen Lee Cal-
houn. )Sarah Lee Calhoun married William T. Wade; James F.
Calhoun (who married Florence Oliver Lfie for his first wife and Emma
R. Lee for his second wife had by his first wife Mary Louisa Calhoun,
Martin Lee Calhoun, Marion Pickens Calhoun and Florence Oliver
Calhoun; and had by the second wife: Martha Eleanor Calhoun,
James Francis Calhoun, Andrew Pickens Calhoun and Julia Emma
Calhoun) ; and John C. Calhoun (who married Mary Graham and
had Annie Graham Calhoun, and Mary Kennon Calhoun).

John Alfred Calhoun married Sarah Morvin Norwood and had
JAMES CALDWELL CALHOUN (who married Blandina M.
Kirtland and had Isaac Kirtland Calhoun, James Caldwell Calhoun,
John Alfred Calhoun, Second (who married Mat North Colcock),
Lucy Calhoun, and Tredwell Ayers Calhoun.) MARY NOR-
WOOD CALHOUN (who married General William Lomax)
AURELIA CALHOUN (who married Alexander R. Rucker) ;
SARAH MARTIN CALHOUN (who married Andrew Simonds,
son of Jane Hamilton Calhoun and Dr. Joseph Webb Simonds) ;

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WILLIAMSON NORWOOD CALHOUN (who married Vir-
ginia Caroline Bownian. daughter of Reverend Peyton Green Bow-
man and had Sarah Norwood Calhoun, James Caldwfell Calhoun
Marie Bowman Calhoun, who married R. H. Baker, and Virginia
Calhoun): CAROLINE CALHOUN CALHOUN (who married
George Erskine Heard); JOHN ALFRED CALHOUN (who
died unmarried) ; ORVILLE TATUM CALHOUN (who married
Sallie P. Gilbert and had Gilbert Calhoun) ; ANNA SUSAN CAL-
HOUN (who married William A. Ancrum) ; WILLIAM PAT-
RICK CALHOUN (who married Gladys Boykin) ; TENNENT
LOMAX CALHOUN: and KATE CALHOUN (who married
Alonzo H. OTarrell.)

WILLIAM HENRY CALHOUN married Jane Orr and had
FLORENCE C. CALHOUN (who married John T. Tankersky of
Mississippi): JAMES LAWRENCE CALHOUN: MARTHA
J. CALHOUN; J. CHRISTOPHER CALHOUN; SARAH
CAROLINE CALHOUN (who married L. T. Taylor of Mississ-
ippi) ; JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN (who died unmarried);
and WILLIAM HENRY CALHOUN (who married Susan Reed
for his first wife, by whom he hod no children and married Clifford
Winston for his second wife by whom he had Fanny Calhoun).

(3) WILLIAM CALHOUN, the second son of PATRICK
CALHOUN and his wife, Martha Caldwell Calhoun, married Cathe-
rine Jenna de Graffenreid. Their children were: TESCHARNER
CALHOUN (who died unmarried) PATRICK CALHOUN (who
died unmarried) ; MARY CALHOUN (who died unmarried) ;
JANE CALHOUN (yiho died unmarried) ; LUCRETIA ANN
CALHOUN (who married first Dr. Henry Townes of Greeneville
and second Dr. Teschamer de Graffenreid of Alabama) ; THOMAS
CALHOUN: MARTHA CATHERINE CALHOUN (who
married Armistead Burt); JAMES LAWRENCE CALHOUN;
SARAH CALHOUN (who married Ezekiel Pickens Noble, a des-
cendant of Catherine Calhoun who married John Noble) ; EUGENIA
CALHOUN (who marrier Dr. Edwin Parker); and GEORGE
McDUFFIE CALHOUN.

Of the foregoing THOMAS CALHOUN married Margaret
Meek and had William Calhoun (who married Mary Bailey) James
Calhoun; Henry Townes Calhoun, Jane Calhoun (married Henry
Harper) ; Elizabeth Calhoun (married Rr. Robert Harper,) and
Margaret Meek Calhoun.

JAMES LAWRENCE CALHOUN married for his first wife
Mary Hunter and for his second wife Jane Verdier and had by his
first wife CATHERINE L. CALHOUN, (who married George
Jones of Alabama): EUGENIA CALHOUN (who married

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James Duncan) ; and THOMAS CALHOUN (who married Miss

Blakeford) and had by the second wife: Sallie Calhoun

(who married John G. Winter), and JAMES LAWRENCE CAL-
HOUN, Second ( who married Miss Moore).

GEORGE McDUFFIE CALHOUN, married Julia Goodwin
of Columbia. Their children were A. BURT CALHOUN (who
died young) -.ROBERT C. CALHOUN (who died young);
JOHN CALHOUN (who died young) ; GEORGE CALHOUN
(who married in Texas) ; and JULIA CALHOUN.

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, the son of PATRICK and
Martha Caldwell Calhoun, was born March 1 8. 1 782. He entered
Yale in 1802 and graduated two years later; he studied law at the
Litchfield Law School of Conneticut in 1805-06 and was admitted
to the Bar in 1 807 and elected to the House of Representatives of his
native state ^ the same year. The next, year he was appointed to the
staff of Governor Drayton. In 1810 he was elected to Congress and
was re-elected in 1812, 1814, and 1816. In 1817 he was selected
as Secretary of War by President Monroe and served until 1825, at
which date he was inaugurated Vice-President. In 1828 he was
again elected Vice-President and from that office he resigned in 1832
in order to serve as Senator from South Carolina, succeeding Robert
Young Hayne. the recently elected Governor of that State. He took
his seat in the Senate in 1833. was re-elected in 1834 ind in 1840; he
resigned in 1842, but served until the next year. In 1844 he was a
candidate for the Presidency, but withdrew and was appointed Sec-
retary of State by President Tyler for a year. From that office he
was again elected to the Senate succeeding Judge Daniel Elliott Huger,
who had resigned that Calhoun might be returned to that body. He
Died in Washington, March 31, 1850, having reached the age of
sixty-eight.

On January 8, 1811, he was married to his cousin, FLORIDE
COLHOUN. the daughter of JOHN EWING COLHOUN and the
granddaughter of EZEKIAL CALHOUN.

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, the First, and his wife
Floride Calhoun Calhoun had eight children, namely: ANDREW
PICKENS CALHOUN; ANNA MARIA CALHOUN, married
Thomas G. Clemson; PATRICK CALHOUN, died unmarried;
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, the Second; MARTHA
CORNELIA CALHOUN; JAMES CALHOUN, died unmar-
ried; WILLIAM LOWNDES CALHOUN.

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Of the foregoing:
' ANDREW PICKENS CALHOUN married first Miss Chap-
pell who left no children, and married second, Margaret Green,
daughter of Duff Green and a descendant of Mildred Washington
aunt and godmother to President George Washington, by whom he
had: DUFF GREEN CALHOUN (who married Elizabeth Bease-
ley, of Texas, and had Andrew Calhoun, who married his cousin
Floride Lee a grand daughter of Anna Maria Calhoun, Clemson.)
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, (bom July 9th 1843 served
in the Confederate Army from Fort Sumter to the surrender, entering
the service when he was only eighteen. He served as faithfully in the
interest of the South after the surrender. He makes his home in New
York. He married Linnie Adams, a grand niece of Vice President
Richard M. Johnson and has four children: James Edward Calhoun,
Captain in the United States Army, David Calhoun (who married
Olga Dininy and has John Caldwell Calhoun) John Caldwell
Calhoun and Julia Johnson Calhoun (who married Baron E.
deNagell of Holland of the Diplomatic Service of that Countrv) ;
MARGARET MARIA CALHOUN; ANDREW PICKENS
CALHOUN (who died unmarried) and PATRICK CALHOUN
(who makes his present home in Cleveland, Ohio, though he has Kved
in many other cities, Dalton, Georgia, Atlanta, Baltimore, Pittsburgh,
St. Louis and San Francisco. He married Sarah Porter Williams
and has six children, namely: Martha Calhoun; Margaret Green
Calhoun, (who married Scott Foster and has a son) ; Patrick Calhoun,
serving in the United Stales Army, George Williams Calhoun, serving
in the United States Army, Andrew Calhoun, serving in the United

States Army, and Calhoun serving in the United States

Army). James Edward Calhoun (who died unmarried; and Mary
Lucretia Calhoun, (who died young).

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN (son of Vice President
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN) married first Anzie Adams,
by whom he had no children and married second. Kale Kirby Put-
nam by whpm he had JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, and
BENJAMIN PUTNAM CALHOUN (who married Julia Peter-
man).

WILLIAM LOWNDES CALHOUN (who married first,
Margaret Cloud by whom he had no children and married, second,
his brother's widow, Mrs. Kate Kirby Calhoun, by whom he had a
son, William Lowndes Calhoun, Second.)

(5) PATRICK CALHOUN, son of PATRICK CALHOUN
and his wife Martha Caldwell Calhoun married Nancy Needham
de Graffenried, sister of his brother William Calhoun's wife. Their
children were: MARTHA CALHOUN (who married Dr. Bon-

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ncr) ; CATHERINE CALHOUN (who married Dr. WiUiam Ten-
nent): EDWARD CALHOUN; LUDLOW CALHOUN;
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS CALHOUN; BENJAMIN ALFRED
CALHOUN.

(Df the foregoing:

EDWARD CALHOUN, married Frances Middlelon and had
JOHN FRANCES CALHOUN who married ReEecca Noble and
had Frances Calhoun, Susan Calhoun, Caroline Calhoun, Rebecca
Calhoun (married Robert Shiver) Rosa Calhoun, Patrick Calhoun,
and Andrew Pickens Calhoun); PATRICK EDWARD CAL-
HOUN (who died young) ; EDWIN CALHOUN (who married
Sallie Tillman and had Kate Calhoun (married L. C. Haskell)
John Calhoun, Edwin Calhoun, Frances Calhoun, Lalla Calhoun,
Arthur Calhoun, Charles Calhoun, Eunice Calhoun) ; 'IDA CAL-
HOUN (who married Charles Alexander) and ROSA CALHOUN
(who married her sister's widower, Charles Alexander.)

LUDLOW CALHOUN married Margaret Teague. Their
children were LUDLOW CALHOUN. Second. NANCY NEED-
HAM CALHOUN; JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN (who
married a Miss Gilmer); PATRICK CALHOUN; EUGENIA
CALHOUN (who married Robert Middleton) ; THOMAS CAL-
HOUN; FRANCIS A. CALHOUN; EDWARD CALHOUN;
ARTHUR CALHOUN; BENJAMIN F. CALHOUN (who

married and had a son, Arthur Ludlow Calhoun

who lived in Beaumont, Texas) and ELLA CALHOUN (who mar-
ried S. B. Mays).

FRANCIS AUGUSTUS CALHOUN, married Laura Jones,
of Georgia. Their children were CATHERINE JENNA CAL-
HOUN; BENJAMIN A. CALHOUN (who married Josie Tucker
of Texas, and had Etta Virginia Calhoun, Francis A. Calhoun, Pat-
rick Calhoun and Carrie Lou Calhoun) ; CORNELIA CALHOUN
(who married Edward Yarborough) ; Emma Calhoun (who married
George C. Graves) ; PATRICK L. CALHOUN (who married Ida
Hankinson); FRANCIS AUGUSTUS CALHOUN, Second;
THOMAS JONES CALHOUN; KATE CALHOUN (who
married Marshall P. DeBruhl) ; and LOUISE CALHOUN.

BENJAMIN ALFRED CALHOUN, son of PATRICK
CALHOUN, son of PATRICK CALHOUN, married Miss
Yarborough.

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(DIETRICK)

The Deaderick family of Tennessee traces its ancestry to David
Dietrick, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, who emigrated to Amer-
ica in 1 747. He settled first in Philadelphia, but soon moved to
Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, which was settled by Pennsylr
vania Germans in 1 732. David Dietrick married about I 752 or 3
Rosanna Boucher, daughter of Michael Boucher, a descendant T>f
Jacob Boucher, to whom arms were granted in Germany in 1450.
From Cartwell's History of Frederick County and Shenandoah Val-
ley Pioneers we find that Michael Boucher, a German, subscribed to
Oath of Parliament for naturalization in Frederick County, at the June
term of court 1 744. Cartwell says on page 492 "The Bucher (Booker)
Family found about Newtown as one of the pioneers, and also in the
western section of the County, often spell the name Boogher. They
furnished soldiers for all the wars during the history of the County.

From an alphabetical list of the Poll of Frederick County July, 24,
1 758, Colonel George Washington and Colonel Martin were elected
Burgesses. David Deaderick's name appears as having voted for both
as did also James Knight, Christopher Wendel, August Wendel, and
Val Wendel, Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. VI., page 163 .

David Deitrick was a German Lutheran. He was one of the
founders of the historic old Stone Church of Winchester, and his name
appears upon the ancient Latin document bearing date, April 1 6, 1 764,
taken from its corner stone. His will made in I 767, was recorded in
the Court of Frederick County, May 4, I 768. The body of the will
is written in Elnglish, but the signature is in German characters.

The name Dietrick signifies Master Key. .Dietrick Von Bern,
King of the Ostragoths from 454 to 526, was the founder of a power-
ful and influential house in South Germany and it is from him that the
Dietricks of Wurtemburg claim descent. The descendants of David
Dietrick have Anglicized the name to Deaderick.

After the death of David Dietrick, his widow Rosanna Boucher
Dietrick married Dr. Samuel May, ap Englishman, from whom she
was later divorced. Their children were Samuel May, Second; Dr.

Francis May; and Rosanna May who married Perry, of

Staunton and had two sons, George and William Perry.

The Virginia Enumeration for 1 782 gives Samuel May as a
resident of Fredrick County, baving in family eight white souls and
four slaves. Mrs. Rosanna Boucher Dietrick May was living in Win-

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Chester in 1810. In 1806 David Deaderick, of Jonesboro, Wash-
ington Co., Tenn. made a trip to Baltimore and Philadelphia to buy
goods for his store at Jonesboro. In a letter to his wife dated Baltimore,

April 1806 he speaks of having visited his mother in Winchester.

This letter with other heirlooms including a minature of David Deade-
rick, Second, by the famous Peel is the property of Mrs. Adelia Scott,
of Knoxville, Tenn.

The children of David Dietrick and Rosanna Boucher Dietrick
>vere:

I David Deaderick, Second, y

II George Michael Deaderick.

III Susannah Deaderick.

IV John Deaderick.

V Thomas Deaderick.

VI Elizabeth Deaderick.

DAVID DEADERICK. Second

David Deaderick, Second, oldest son of David Deitrick, was bom
in Winchester, Virginia, October 1 0, 1 754, and it is from him that
the family in East Tennessee is descended. He was fourteen years
old when his father died. At the beginning of the Revolution, he en-
listed as a private in the Continental Army and served three months
under Colonel John Neville. He was in the 8th Virginia Regiment,
commanded by General Peter Muhlenburg. The regiment was com-
monly called the German Regiment. He was promoted, became adju-
tant of his regiment and, before the close of the war, was made Colonel
of a regiment of Virginia militia. How's History of Virginia p. 469
Smith's History of Virginia, 1st Ed. His wife Margaret Anderson
Deaderick was granted a pension for his Revolutionary services. In the
first census of Virginia, 1 782, David Deaderick's name is given as the
bead of a family consisting of five white people. This is the only
Deaderick given in the whole state of Virginia. In 1 784, David Dead-
erick married Nancy Knight of Winchester. She was a daughter of
James Knight, a Revolutionary soldier. She died in 1 787, leaving
one son, William Haney Deaderick.

The next year, David Deaderick, with his little son, left Virginia
and removed to Jonesboro, Tennessee, where he established himself
as a merchant. When Washington College was established, in 1 795,
by a bill passed by the Territorial Assembly at Knoxville, David Dead-
erick was appointed one of the incorporators. He heads the list of
eleven commissioners appointed by the legislature to manage the affairs
of Jonesboro, April 23, 1 796. He represented Washington and Car-

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ter counties in the State Senate in 1 799. In I 795 he married as his
second wife, Margaretta Anderson of Jonesboro. Six children were
bom to this marriage.

David Deaderick died in Jonesboro, October 23, 1823, and is
buried diere. His monument bears this inscription: **An honest man
is the noblest work of God."

The children of David Deaderick, Second were:

By his first wife, Nancy Knight Deaderick
William Haney Deaderick.

By his second wife, Margaretta Anderson Deaderick

David Anderson Deaderick

Amanda Frances Deaderick

Eliza Ross Deaderick.

Joseph Deaderick.

John Franklin Deaderick

James W. Deaderick.

WILLIAM HANEY DEADERICK

William Haney Deaderick, son of David Deaderick, Second, and
his first wife, Nancy Knight 'Deaderick, was born in Winchester, Vir-
ginia, November 30, 1 785.

He received the best education obtainable in those days. He
studied medicine and began the practice of his profession in Rogersville
and Greenville. For a period he lived in Jefferson County, Tennessee,
where he married, March 26, 1807, Penelope Hamilton, daughter of
Colonel Joseph Hamilton and granddaughter of Colonel Alexander
Outlaw, both pioneers of East Tennessee. She died April 10, 1836.
and is probably buried in the Hamilton graveyard, at Rural Mount.
Jefferson County, Tennessee, eight miles south of Morristown.

Dr. Deaderick married a second time Mrs. Lois Ashworth. Dr.
Deaderick was highly regarded in his profession. In 1810, he per-
formed the notable operation of removing the jawbone. This was be-
fore the introduction of Anaesthetics in surgery. His original notes
for his operation are now the property of Mrs. Fannie Cleage Mc-
Cleary. •

A document of interest to those whose ancestors lived in Jefferson
County, Tennessee is the Parish Register of St. Paul's Presbyterian
Church, near Jthe Nollichucky River.

In this register are enrolled the names of Deadericks, Hamiltons,
Campbells, Inmans, Blackburns, Bradfords and giany others.

The church was organized in April 1818. One of the first mem-
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Haney Deaderick and Penelope Deaderick were admitted on exam-
ination.

Birth Record:

To William H. Deaderick, March 29, 1 81 8, Joseph Hamilton
Deaderick, Baptisms August 8, 1819, Penelope H. and Eliza Ann
Deaderick.

In 1820 the Register shows William H. Deaderick was attached
to the New Salem Church.

Later Dr. William Haney Deaderick moved to Athens, Tennessee,
where he bought a farm which he called Prospect Hill. The main
portion of this farm he deeded to his daughter, Eliza Van Dyke and
it is now known as the VanDyke Place. He erected a brick house
on the corner of his farm nearest the town of Athens and continued
the practice of medicine until his death, October 29, 1857.

The children of Dr. William H. Deaderick and Penelope Ham-
ilton Deaderick were.

1 Penelope Hamilton Deaderick.

2 David Deaderick, Third.

3 Eliza Ann Deaderick.

4 Thomas Scott Deaderick.

5 William H. Deaderick, Jr., died in infancy.

6 Frances Nelson Deaderick.

7 Robert Hamilton Deaderick

8 William H. Deaderick.

9 Alexander Hamilton Deaderick.

Of the foregoing:

Penelope Hamilton Deaderick born March 20, 1809, married
November 6, 1825, Victor Morceau Campbell. Their children were
Kate Deaderick Campbell (who married S. B. Temple) Margaret
Deaderick Campbell (who married Hamilton Hale) ; Loretta Deader-
ick Campbell.

David Deaderick, Third, bom December 26, 1811, went to
Texas in the 30*s and was in the War of Independence of the Republic
of Mexico in 1 836. He was in the battle of San Jacinto under General
Sam Houston. He died in Athens, Tennessee in 1840.

Eliza Ann Deaderick, bom May 1, 1814 married May 23, 1833,
Thomas Nixon VanDyke, bom January 22, 1803, died 1891. They
lived at **Prospect Hill" near Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee.
Their children were:

(1) Penelope Sqiith VanDyke, bom August 21, 1834, died Au-
gust 11, 1907 (who married in Athens Tennessee Febraary 15, 1856
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12, 1900. After their marriage they removed to Chattanooga. They
had William Deaderick Cleague, Thomas A. Cleague, Jr., Richard
VanDyke Cleage, Nellie Cleage; Sue G)ffin Cleage; Francis Cleage;
Hamilton Cleage; Anna Mary Cleage; Letitia Cleage; Jose Cleage.
Of these: William Deaderick Qeage married his cousin Josie Sloss.a
descendant of Judge David Campbell and had Mary Louise Cleage
(who married E. E. Crum, of Mobile, Alabama), and married for his
second wife Carrie CHnton, and had five children who reside in Mem-
phis, Tennessee. Thomas A. Cleage, Jr., married his cousin Mamie
Deaderick, daughter of Frank Deaderick and grand daughter of Judge
James A. Deaderick and had Deaderick Cleage, Van Dyke Cleage,
Eldith Cleage, Penelope Cleage, all of whom live in St. Louis, Missouri.
Richard Van Dyke Cleage married Mrs. Lula Stover. Sue Coffin
Cleage married James Whiteside Johnson, of Chattanooga and had
Penelope Van Dyke Johnson who married Samuel Boyd Allen, of
Knoxville and has one child, Penelope Van Dyke Allen; Thankful
Anderson Johnson who married Frank C. Davies, of Chattanooga
and has two children John L. Davies Jr. and Sue Davies and now
resides in Youngstown, Ohio; Raymond Hamilton Johnson who died
unmarried at the age of twenty years; Helen Johnson, who married
William Polk Flower, Jr., A. M. Johnson, Second; Thomas John-
son and Foster E. Johnson. Frances Hamilton Cleage married Dr.
Wilber W. McCleary of Chicago and has one child, Josephine Mc-
Cleary. Anna Mary Cleage married Clarence Dumas, of Arlington,
Alabama, and they now reside in Mobile, Alabama. Letitia Cleage,
Josie Cleage, and Nellie Cleage died young.

(2) William Deaderick Van Dyke born October 20, 1836 mar-
ried Anna Mary Deaderick third child of Judge James A. Deaderick
and Adeline McDowell Deaderick. He was a Major in the Confed-
erate Army. Later he practiced law in Chattanooga where he died
August 1, 1883. Their children were Annie Clifton Van Dyke;
Thomas Nixon Van Dyke, who married Maud Farquhar and has
Louise VanDyke and William Nixon Nixon VanDyke ; Frances Lavinia
Van Dyke who married Milton B. Ochs and has VanDyke Ochs and
Adolph S. Ochs, Second, both officers in the 'United States Army and
Margaret Ochs; and Cary Shelby VanDyke.

(2) Letitia Smith VanDyke, bom October 12, 1838, died young.

(4) Richard Smith VanDyke bom October 14, 1840 was a
Major in the Confederate Army Isl Tennessee Cavalry and was
wounded in battle near New Market, Virginia. He died in Lynchburg,
Virginia, November 14, 1864, at the residence of his cousin, John
William Murrell.

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(5) John Montgomery VanDyke born October 7 1842 was Cap-
tain of 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry Confederate States Army.
He .was killed while in command of the Regiment in battle on the Sep-
tember 2, 1864 near Darkville, Va.

(6) Frances Lavinia Van Dyke, born October 8, ^6^^.

(7) Thomas Nixon VanDyke Jr. bom November 11, 1846
died February 3, 1863 at Prospect Hill. He volunteered October
4, 1862 in Captain Blavin's Company 63rd Regiment Tennessee
Volunteers Confederate Army and died from illness contracted in
camp at Cumberland Gap, February 3, 1863.

(8) Margaret Josephine VanDyke born August 3, 1849 married
May 23, 1871, Hugh T. Inman, of Atlanta, and has Annie Inman
(who married John' Grant, and has Margaret Grant married Richard
Wilmer; William Grant; Hugh Grant, Jr., and Ann Grant Josephine
Inman (who married Hugh Richardson and has three children among
them Hugh Richardson, Jr.,) Edward Inman, (who married Emily
McDougal. Their children are Hugh Inman and Edward Inman
Jr. Hugh Inman died young. Louise Inman died young.

(9) Mary Hamilton Van Dyke, bom April 4, 1853, married Oc-
tober 4, 1881, George M. Battey, of Rome, Georgia, and had George
Battey, Mary Battey (who married George Bonney, of Atlanta) ; Dr.
Hugh Battey, and Adrienne Battey.

Robert Deaderick Van Dyke, bom March 7, 1 86 1 , married Sue
Gwaltney, of Rome, Georgia, and has Marion Van Dyke; Robert
Van Dyke, Jr., William Van Dyke and Ann Van Dyke.

William H. Deaderick, Jr., bom May 1, 1816, died December
12, 1818.

Thomas Scott Deaderick, bom August 28, 1826, was a soldier in
the Mexican War.

Robert Hamilton Deaderick, bom January 21,1 829, served in the
Confederate Army and died unmarried.

Joseph Hamilton Deaderick, bom March 29, 1819.

Margaret A. Deaderick, bom October 17, 1 82 1 , married John L.
Bridges and had no children.

By his second marriage to Mrs. Lois Ashworth, December 1 3, 1 836,
Dr. William H. Deaderick had one child, Mary McKim Deaderick,
who was bom January 24, 1838, who married Uriah Lusk York, of
Bristol, Tenn. Their children were William Deaderick York, of
Bristol, Martha York, Mary Deaderick York, who married Rhea
Crawford, and lives in Knoxville, and Lois York.

Dr. William H. Deaderick died October 29, 1857, at his home
in Athens, Tennessee.

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DAVID ANDERSON DEADERICK

. David Anderson Deaderick, the first child of David Deaderick»
second, and his second wife, Margaretta Anderson Deaderick, was
bom at Jonesboro, Tennessee, 1 799. He married first in 1816, Ade-
laide Eliza Jackson, a daughter of Samuel Jackson, a Revolutionary
soldier and pioneer merchant of Elizabethton, Tennessee. They had
one child, Adelaide Deaderick, who married Reverend Dr. Lyon, an
eminent Presbyterian minister, and had several children, among whom
were: Dr. A. A. Lyon, of Nashville, and Mrs. John Childress, of
Nashville. After the death of his wife, Adelaide Eliza Jackson, in
1820, David Deaderick married Sarah A. Helms, who died soon after
giving birth to a son, whose name was William Deaderick. (He died
in 1835.) David A. Deaderick married July 21, 1831, for his third
wife, Elizabeth Crozier. A few years after this marriage David A.
Deaderick moved from Jonesboro to Knoxville. In 1839 he was
elected Cashier of the Southwestern Railroad Bank, of Charleston, S.
C, which established a branch in Knoxville that year. In 1 849 David
Deaderick, in company with 150 Knoxvillians, departed for the gold
fields of California. He remained in the West about two years, and
returned to Knoxville. He died August 27, 1873, and is buried in
Old Gray Cemetery. The children of David Anderson and Eliza-
beth Crozier Deaderick were:

John Crozier Deaderick.
Margaret Frances Deaderick.
Robert Von Albade Deaderick.
David Deaderick.
Annie Deaderick.
Alice Deaderick.
Inslee Deaderick.
Oakley Deaderick.
Chalmers Deaderick.

Of the foregoing:

John Crozier Deaderick has never married and lives in North Car-
olina. Margaretta Frances Deaderick married Frank Alexander Ram-
sey Scott, of Knoxville. Their children are Elizabeth Crozier Scott,
James Alexander Scott, Margaretta Naomi Scott, David Deaderick
Scott, Frank Ramsey Scott, Annie Scott, Mary Scott, John B. Scott,
Clarence Scott, Frederick Scott, and Edith Scott. David Deaderick
Scott married Ada Meek, the only daughter of Judge J. Monroe Meek.
They have one child, Elizabeth Meek Scott. They reside in Greene-
villc, Tennessee. Annie Scott married F. F. Nance. They have
one child, Margaretta Nance. They reside in Morristown, Tennessee.

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Robert Van Albade Deaderkk, third child of David Anderson
Deaderick and Elizabeth Crozier Deaderick, married Josephine Davis.
They are both dead and left no children.

David Deaderick, fourth child of David Anderson Deaderick and
ElUzabeth Crozier Deaderick, died in 1837 unmarried.

Annie Deaderick, fifth child of David Anderson Deaderick and
Elizabeth Crozier Deaderick, married Carrick W. Park. Their chil-
dren were:

David Deaderick Park, who died young, and Bettie Park who
married Dr. Stephen S. Willard. They have two phildren, Madeline
Willard and Stephen H. Willard. They make their home in Calonia,
California.

Alice Deaderick, sixth child of David Anderson Deaderick and
Elizabeth Crozier. Deaderick, married Charles McClung. Their chil-
dren are Pleasant Miller McClung (who married Margaret Dobbins
and lives at Water Valley, Mississippi), Deaderick McClung and
Lillie McClung (who married Kenneth R. Scott, of Knoxville),
Charles McClung died some years ago. Mrs. Alice Deaderick Mc-
Clung makes her home in Georgia.

Inslee Deaderick, seventh child of David Anderson Deaderick and
Elizabeth Crozier Deaderick, married Martha A. Nichols. Their
children are: Alice Deaderick (who married Moses Grainger, a
professor in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has one
child, Fanny Moses Grainger), David Anderson Deaderick, second,
and Inslee W* Deaderick, who is a prominent farmer in the southern
part of Knox County, near Shooks.

Oakley Deaderick, eighth child of David Anderson Deaderick and
Elizabeth Crozier Deaderick, married Margaret E. Dykes. They live
in Knox County. Their children are Elizabeth Jane Deaderick, Inslee
Chalmers Deaderick, Paul Stuart Deaderick and Oakley Raymond
Deaderick.

Chalmers Deaderick, ninth child of David Anderson Deaderick
and Elizabeth Crozier Deaderick, is a well known doctor of Knoxville.
He married Rebecca Williams, a descendant of Joseph Williams of
Revolutionary fame.

Amanda Frances Deaderick, second child of David Deaderick
and Margaretta Anderson Deaderick, was bom in Jonesboro, about
1800. She married Dr. David Nelson, a physician of Jonesboro, who
became a leading minister of the Presbyterian Church. Their children
were: Rosa Nelson, who married Dr. Clapp, Ejnma Nelson, who

married — Williams, Laura Nelson and Dr. Euf^ne Nelson,

who lives at Springfield, Illinois.

Eliza Rosa Deaderick, third child of David and Margaretta An*
•derson, was bom at Poplar Hill, Jonesboro, Tennessee, April 30, 1 602.

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She died in Knoxville, October 15, 1866. She married June 7, 1825,
General Alexander Anderson, a son of Honorable Joseph Anderson
(a brother of Margaretta Anderson Deaderick) and Only Patience
Outlaw, daughter of Colonel Alexander Outlaw and his wife* Pene-
lope Smith. G>lonel Outlaw was one of the pioneers of Tennessee and
took an active part in. the early history of the State. The children
of Eliza Rosa Deaderick Anderson were:

Cornelia Geraldine Anderson who for many years had a private
school in Knoxville.

Joseph Anderson died young.

Margaretta Anderson, who married Jacob S. Stuart, a native of
Washington County, Tennessee, and a grandson of Captain James
Stuart, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the first legislature
in the State of Tennessee. Jacob S. Stuart died in Knoxville in 1874
and Margaret A. Stuart died in 1890. Both are buried in Old Gray
Cemetery. Seven children were born to them : Annie Elizabeth
Stuart (who married Jason B. Kelley and had Addie Kelley, Nora
Kelley and Margaret Kelley) ; Rosa Stuart (who married Charles W.
Irby and has six children, Charles W. Irby, Jr., Edna Rembert Irby,
Margaret Stuart Irby, Stuart Chalmers Irby, Lois Irby and Philip
Erskine Irby. Charles W. Irby, Jr., married Grace Weldon and has
two children, Gertrude and Elizabeth) ; Fannie May Stuart (who lives
in Knoxville, Tennessee) ; Hampden Stuart (who died unmarried) ;
Adelia Stuart (who married, firstly Frederick North, of Asheville,

North Carolina, and married secondly Southern, a Baptist

minister) ; Jacob Gerald Stuart (who married Fanny Wray, daughter
of Dr. W. A. Wray, and has one child, Frances Stuart) ; and James
D. Stuart (who married Miss D. E. Lanny, of Savannah.

The descendants of Jacob S. Stuart are. eligible to the Sons and
Daughters of the Revolution through Captain James Stuart, who had
charge of a company of home guards in Washington County, Tennes-
see. His company had charge of the district from Greasy Cove to
Duggers Fort, which was located on the St. John property near the
village of Watauga, Tennessee. Colonel Hugh Montgomery, of Sal-
isbury District, North Carolina, was the father of Captain James
Stuart's wife. Montgomery Stuart married Hester Thompson, of New
Jersey, whose ancestors took an important part in the early history of
that state.

Rose Anderson, fourth child of Eliza Rosa Anderson and Alex-
ander Anderson, died young.

Fanny Von Albade Anderson, fifth child of Eliza Rosa Anderson
and Alexander Anderson married Thomas B. McMillan, of Camden,
Alabama. For several years they made their home in Knoxville. Their
children were: Von Albade McMillan (who married Virginia Spitza

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and has Virginia McMillan, Fay McMillan, Thomas B. McMillan,
second, Frances Lucile McMillan, Alexander Von Albade McMil-
lan and David Thomas McMillan (who married Ella Jenkins) ; and
Lorene McMillan (who married Major J. S. Robins.)

Alexander Anderson, sixth child of Eliza Rosa and Alexander
Anderson, died young.

Joseph Anderson, seventh child of Eliza Rosa and Alexander An-
derson, died young.

David Deaderick Anderson, ninth child of Eliza Rosa and Alex-
ander Anderson, married Fanny Deaderick, daughter of John Franklin
Deaderick. They had two sons who died in youth. David Dead-
erick Anderson served as Judge for one of the Knox County Courts
for several years.

Adelia Anderson, tenth child of Eliza Rosa and Alexander Ander-
son, married James Foster Scott. They had six children, namely :
Alexander A. Scott, Rosa Naomi Scott, James Foster, Jr., Kenneth
W. Scott, Ethel Lee Scott, and Edwin Ramsey Scott. The Scott
descendants of David Deaderick are also descendants of Dr. T. A.
Ramsay, one of the earliest settlers of Knoxville, and a soldier in the
Revolutionary Army. The mother of F. A. R. Scott and J. Foster
Scott was a sister of the late Dr. J. G. M. Ramsay, author of the
Annals of Tennessee.

Alexander A. Scott married Stella D. French. Their children are:
Dorothy Scott and Alexander A. Scott, Jr., James Foster Scott, Jr.,
married Fanny George, of Texas. Kenneth W. Scott married Lillie
McCIung, daughter of Charles McClung and Alice Deaderick Mc-
Clung. Their children are Alice Scott, Margaret Scott, Kenneth W.
Scott, Jr., Charles McClung Scott and Benjamin Scott. They live
in New Mexico.

Ethel Lee Scott married J. F. Thomas. They make their home in
Cauzan City, Colorado. Dr. Thomas is pastor of the First Presby-
terian church in that city. Their children are: Theodore Thomas and
Scott Thomas.

Edwin Ramsay Scott married Adelia Anderson.

Joseph Deaderick, fourth son of David and Margaretta Anderson
Deaderick, was bom at Poplar Hill, Jonesboro, Tennessee, May 12,
1804. He died October 18. 1835, and is buried on the Deaderick
lot at Jonesboro, near his father. He married Emiline Anderson.

John Franklin Deaderick, fifth child of David and Margaretta
Deaderick, was bom at Poplar Hill October 21, 1806, and died at
Jonesboro, September 12, 1884. He received his early training in
his father's store at Jonesboro. In 1840 he was appointed by Judge
Thomas L. Williams, (chancellor for East Tennessee), Clerk and
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years. In 1870 he removed from Jonesboro to Knoxville where he
lived for several years, but returned to Jonesboro shortly before his
death. He married Rebecca Williams, daughter of Judge Joseph
Lanier Williams and his wife Susan Taylor Williams, and grand-
daughter of Colonel Joseph Williams, of Granville County, North
Carolina. Rebecca Williams Deaderick died near Jonesboro, in 1 85 7.
Thirteen children were born to them, namely: Joseph Deaderick,
David Deaderick, William V. Deaderick, Sue L. Deaderick, Mary
Frances Deaderick, Eugene Deaderick, Eliza Rosa Deaderick, Isadore
A. Deaderick, Katherine Deaderick, Thomas O. Deaderick, and Cor-
nelia Deaderick.

Of the foregoing:
Joseph Deaderick never married. He enlisted in Captain Zed
Millet's company in the Confederate Army and died August, 1861.

David Deaderick married Florette Nelson, of Illinois. Their chil-
dren are Ernest Deaderick, who lives in Missouri, Bertha Deaderick,
who lives in California and Nina Deaderick. After the death of his
wife David Deaderick married Eva Clarkson, of Rogersvilfe, and had
one child, Margaret Deaderick, who lives in Morrislown, Tennessee.
David Deaderick died January 25, 1906.

William V. Deaderick married Eva Jackson, daughter of General
Alfred Jackson, of Jonesboro. William V. Deaderick was a lawyer
of note. After the War Between the States he formed a partnership
with his uncle, James W. Deaderick and his cousin, James G. Dead-
erick, which lasted until James W. Deaderick was elected to the Su-
preme Bench in 1870. William V. Deaderick lived in Blountville,
Tennessee. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of
the State of Tennessee, in 1870. He died September 27, 1883.

Sue Deaderick has never married. She makes her home with her
brother. Dr. Eugene Deaderick, at Poplar Hill, the Deaderick place
at Jonesboro, Tennessee.

Mary Frances Deaderick married Judge David D. Anderson. They
had two sons, Roy H. Anderson and Frank Deaderick Anderson, both
of whom are dead.

Eugene Deaderick married Rebecca Williams. They had seven
children. Dr. Eugene Deaderick practised his profession in Knoxville
for many years, but several years ago returned to Jonesboro, where he
lives at Poplar Hill.

Eliza Rosa Deaderick married, as his second wife, Edward Rogan.
She died October 24, 1899, leaving no children.

Isadore A. Deaderick was the first wife of Edward Rogan. She
died November 20, 1893, leaving two children, Carrie Rogan and
Sue Rogan, who live at Johnson City.

Thomas O. Deaderick married Josephine Heiskall, daughter of

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Colonel William Heiskall, of Knoxville. Their children are: WilKam
Heiskall Deaderick, a physician of Mariana, Arkansas, John F. Dead-
erick, of Lexington, N. C, Louise Deaderick (who married Reverend
A. C. Carr, a noted Presbyterian minister), and Edith Deaderick.
Thomas O. Deaderick was for several years a professor at the Uni-
versity of Tennessee. Later he was Professor of Latin and French at
Southwestern University at Clarksville, Tennessee.

Cornelia G. Deaderick, called Nina, married R. B. Glenn, of
North .Carolina, who served as Governor in 1 904 and 1 906. They
have two children, Charles C. Glenn and Rebecca Williams Glenn.

James W. Deaderick, seventh child of David Deaderick and Mar-
garetta Anderson Deaderick, was bom at Jonesboro, November 25,
1812. He was educated at Jonesboro and at East Tennessee College,
afterwards the University of Tennessee. Later he attended Center Col-
lege at Danville, Kentucky. There he met and married Adeline Shelby
McDowell, daughter of Dr. Ephriam McDowell. Sarah Shelbv Mc-
Dowell. (She was a daughter of Governor Isaac Shelby, of Kentucky
one of the Heroes of King's Mountain, and a leader of a Kentucky
regiment on the Canadian border in the War of 1812). James W.
Deaderick began life as a merchant at Cheek's Cross Roads, Jefferson
County, Tennessee, in 1833. Later he entered the legal profession
and in 1851 was elected on the Whig ticket to represent Carter,
Johnson, Sullivan and Washington Counties in the State Senate. In
1866 he moved from Jonesboro to Bristol where he practiced law.
In 1870 he was elected to the Supreme Bench. In 1875 he was
chosen by the Supreme Judges, Chief Justice of Tennessee. He was
re-elected in 1878 and held the position until 1886, when he declined
re-election. He retired to his home in Jonesboro, where he died Oc-
tober 7, 1890.

The children of Judge James W. Deaderick and Adeline Mc-
Dowell Deaderick were: Arthur V. Deaderick, Shelby M. Deaderick,
Anna Mary Deaderick, James G. Deaderick, David Franklin Dead-
erick, William Wallace Deaderick, Alfred Shelby Deaderick, Lewis
Deaderick, Charles C. Deaderick and Adeline McDowell Deaderick.

Of the foregoing:

Arthur V. Deaderick married Addie Walker. Their children are
James W. Deaderick, second, Hugh McDowell Deaderick, Mary E.
Deaderick, Lula C. Deaderick, Charles C. Deaderick and Monroe
Deaderick. Captain Arthur V. Deaderick and his family live at Unaka
Springs, Unicoi County, Tennessee. James W. Deaderick, second,
married Sabra E. Johnson. They live at Scarboro, Tennessee, near
Oliver Springs and their children are: Mary E. Deaderick, Anna
Deaderick, Louise Deaderick, Ada Deaderick, William Deaderick,
Rachel Deaderick, Arthur V. Deaderick, Jr., and Clara Deaderick.

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Hugh McDowell Deaderick married Carrie E. Clarkson. (They have
three children: Mary Clarkson Deaderick, William Clarkson Dead-
erick, and George M. Deaderick) ; Mary E. Deaderick married James
M. Brown. (Their children are: J. Fred Brown, Fanny Brown, and
Adeline Brown. They reside in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) ; Lula
Clifton Deaderick married William M. Martin. Their home is in
Bessemer, Alabama. Their children are: Deaderick Martin, Lee
Martin, Shelby Martin, Elizabeth Martin, Sabra Martin and Willie
Clifton Martin; Charles C. Deaderick married Maud Martin. (They
live at Jonesboro, Alabama. Their children are: Thomas Deaderick,
Alfred Deaderick and Mary E. Deaderick; Monroe M. Deaderick
married Hazel Miller; Shelby Deaderick married August 20, 1861,
Louise Brown, of Washington County, Tennessee, who was the daugh-
ter of Colonel Bird Brown and Louise Rebecca Sevier, daughter of
John Sevier, second, son of Governor John Sevier. See Sevier Family.
(They have one son, Wallace Deaderick) ; Anna Mary Deaderick
married her cousin. Major William Deaderick Van Dyke. They made
their home in Chattanooga, where Major Van Dyke practiced law.
Their descendants have been given; James G. Deaderick married Eliz-
abeth Sears. (They have two children, Ella Deaderick and Horace
Deaderick). James G. Deaderick was elected third lieutenant of Com-
pany B. 19th Tennessee Infantry, Confederate States Army. He rose
to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of his regiment. At the close of the
war he entered into partnership with his father and they practiced
law in Bristol. When his father was elected to the Supreme Bench,
James G. Deaderiok returned to Jonesboro and practiced law there
until the death of his father. He has since removed to California;
David Franklin Deaderick moved to Quincy Illinois, where he was
Mayor at one time. (He married Nannie Haines, daughter of Wil-
liam Haines, of Washington County, Tennessee. Their children werei
Mamie Deaderick, who married her cousin, Thomas A. Cleage, Jr.,
and lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and Fannie Deaderick, who married

; Nannie Deaderick who married Frank H. Betts, of Utica^

New York; Olive Lavenia Deaderick who married ELdward H. Martin,
of Utica, New York ; Frank Deaderick, Carrie Deaderick who married
Dr. Potts, of St. Louis, Missouri, and Fred Deaderick, of St. Louis) ;
William Wallace Deaderick is a lawyer. (He married Sarah Hardin,
of Kentucky. Their children are : Sallie Deaderick, Annie Deaderick,
Mary Deaderick and Robert Deaderick) ; Alfred Shelby Deaderick
was a prominent lawyer of Jonesboro, Tennessee. (He married Carter
Lester, of Virginia. Their children are: Kate Deaderick, Adeline
Deaderick, Day Deaderick, James Deaderick, and Felicia Deaderick) ;
Louis Deaderick resides in Washington County, Tennessee. (He mar-
ried Nannie Bayless. Their children are: Adeline Deaderick, Bird

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Deaderick, and Mary Deaderick) ; Charles Deaderick lives in Ham-
ilton, Missouri. (He married Lou Anderson and has one child, Pauline
Deaderick) ; Adeline McDowell Deaderick married Judge John A.
Moon, of Chattanooga, present congressman from the Third District
and in Congress continually for twenty years. (They have two children,
Anna Mary Moon, who is not married, and Lieutenant Deaderick
Moon, of the United States Army, who married Elise Chapin, only
daughter of Edward Young Chapin and Elise Hutcheson Chapin, and
their child is named Mildred Carrington Moon.)

The Deadericks as a family were Presbyterian. The First Pres-
byterian Church at Jonesboro has numbered them among its members
for more than a hundred years. When the present brick church was
built, they were among the most liberal contributors. This church was
dedicated Friday, August 16, 1850, by the Reverend Rufus P. Wells.
It was long known as the Hebron Church, which was organized in
1790.

The Deaderick homestead at Jonesboro is called "Poplar Hill."
It occupies the top of the hill in the center of the town. David Dead-
erick built his home on the hill top and his office and store were just
below it on the main street of the first town in Tennessee.

The charming old brick house, approached by a box wood hedge,
a century old, is now the home of Dr. Eugene Deaderick and his sister.
Miss Sue Deaderick.

The Deaderick family was Southern in sympathy in the War
Between the States and many of its members were in the Confederate
Army. David O. Deaderick had three sons with Colonel H. M.
Ashby in the Second Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A., namely, Robert
V. Deaderick, Inslee Deaderick and Oakley Deaderick. J. Franklin
Deaderick also had three sons in the Confederate Army, namely, Wil-
liam V. Deaderick, Joseph W. Deaderick and J. W. Deaderick. Judge
James W. Deaderick had five sons in the Confederate Army, namely.
Captain Arthur V. Deaderick, Company L 19th Tennessee Infantry,
Shelby M. Deaderick, Second Lieutenant of Captain Gillespie's Com-
pany, 19th Tennessee Infantry, Wallace Deaderick, who was severely
wounded in the Battle of Murfreesboro, James G. Deaderick, who
was orderly sergeant in Company B., 19th Tennessee Infantry, and
Alfred S. Deaderick, who was also in the Confederate Army.

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George Michael Deaderick, second child of David Deaderick, first,
and Rosannah Boucher Deaderick, was bom in Winchester, Virginia,
about 1 756. He probably married in Virginia. He emigrated to
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prosperous merchant. He was President of the Old Tennessee Bank
in 1810. Deaderick Street in Nashville is named for him. He served
under General Andrew Jackson in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend
in 1812* He died in 1816, leaving one son, George Michael Dead-
erick, Jr., and an adopted son. Fielding Deaderick. His will, dated
November, 1816, was recorded March, 22, 1817, at Nashville. It
was protested at the January term, 1817, by David Dunn, of Grundy
County, guardian for George Michael Deaderick, Jr., minor. This
very interesting document mentions the following relatives, son, George
Michael Deaderick, Jr., adopted son. Fielding Deaderick, Elvira I.
Searcy, Susan D. Searcy, Marcia F. McLean, daughter of Bennett
Searcy, nephews, George Murrell and George M. Perry, brother
David's children, including William, Sister Murrell's children. Sister
Perry's children, Samuel M. Perry, George Perry, Nephews William
Windle and William P. May and George M. D. Cantrell, David S.
Deaderick, son of brother Tom Deaderick, four sons of deceased niece,
Elizabeth Searcy. The Executors were Stephen Cantrell, Jr., Jesse
Warton and Robert Searcy.

III. SUSANNAH DEADERICK.

Susannah Deaderick, daughter of David Deaderick, first, and his
wife, Rosannah Boucher, was bom in Winchester, Frederick County,
Virginia. She married David Wendell, or Windle. Their children
were: David Wendell, second, (who married Sarah Neilson) ; Ra-
chell Wendell (who married J. P. Wiggins) ; Rosannah Wendell (who
married Judge Howell) ; Polly Wendell (who married Bennett Searcy)
her daughter was Marcia F. McLean ; and Juliet Wendell, born April
28, 1787, in Winchester, Virginia; died in Nashville July 3, 1839,
married January 2, 1803, Stephen Cantrell, Jr., born March 10,
1783, in Sumner County, Tennessee; died September 25, 1854, near
Pine Bluff, Arkansas. (Their children were: George Michael Can-
trell, bom October 9, 1 807 ; Mary Ann Cantrell, born 1 808, married
Dr. T. J. Howard, of Franklin, Tennessee. Emmeline Susannah Can-
trell, bom 1810, married, 1830, Alexander Cassidy, moved to Waco,
Texas; Elizabeth Searcy Cantrell, bom 1812, married 1830, Abraham
VanWyck, of New York) ; David Wendell; Matilda Carter Wendell
(who married William Mason) ; William Armour Wendell ; and Mar-
garet Armstrong Wendell.

IV. JOHN DEADERICK.

John Deaderick, son of David Deaderick, the first, and his wife,
Rosannah Booher Deaderick, was born in Winchester, Frederick

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County, Virginia. He was associated ki business with his brothers in
Nashville, but died shortly after his arrrval in Tennessee.

V. THOMAS DEADERICK.

Thomas Deaderick, son of David Deaderick and Rosanhah
Booher Deaderick, was born in Winchester, Frederick County, Vir-
ginia, in 1 765, and moved with his family to Tennessee. He married
about 1 790, before coming to Tennessee, Ann Julia Dangerfield, of the
distinguished Virginia family of that name.

Their children were:

( 1 ) David Samuel Deaderick, born February 22, 1 792 ; died
June 24, 1823.

(2) Mary Caroline Deaderick, bom. March 8, 1793.

(3) Ann Julia Deaderick, born April 6, 1795.

(4) William Murrel Deaderick, bom August 22, 1 797; died Oc-
tober, 1798.

(5) Emily Rosannah Deaderick, bora July 15, 1799.

(6) Loretta Charlotte Deaderick, born June 29, 1801.

(7) Leroy Dangerfield Deaderick, born November 29, 1803.

Of the foregoing:

Mary Cary (proline Deaderick, daughter of Thomas and Julia
Deaderick, born march 6, 1793, married March 181 1, James Clem,
bom October 19, 1786, died June 15, 1826. Their children were
Catherine Julia Ann Clem, bom December 6, 1811, (who married
September 28, 1 828, William M. Brown) ; William Thomas Clem,
bom April 11, 1813; John Eason Clem, bom September 10, 1817;
Eliza Augusta Clem, born March 27, 1 82 1 ; and Frances Narcissa
Clem, bom August, 1825; died August 12, 1827.

Julia Deaderick, daughter of Thomas Deaderick and Julia Ann
Dangerfield Deaderick, married John Eason. Their daughter, Julia
Eason, married William Lowry and had children:. John Lowry,
who died unmarried; Virginia Lowry married Ruben Arnold, Wil-
liam Lowry, who died unmarried, Robert James Lowry, who married
Emma Harkham and is one of the leading citizens of Atlanta, Georgia,
and is a banker and a capitalist of that city. Fannie Tolbert Lowry
married James Henry Porter, of Atlanta, (her children are William
Porter Lowry, who married Annie May Crass, of Chattanooga, and
has Margaret Porter; and Julia Lowry Porter, who married Edward
Bates Block, of Atlanta). Mary Lowry married Robert Campbell
Clark, Alice May Lowry married Walter A. Taylor, of Atlanta,
Georgia; Leila Prentice Lowry married James Freeman, Julia Lowry
married Thomas Bent Meador, of Atlanta, Georgia.

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Emily Deaderick, daughter of Thomas Deaderick, and Julia Ann
Dangerfield Deaderick, married twice; first. Captain James Stewart,
U. S. A., and second, John Drennan, who served in the Mexican War.

Loretta Charlotte Deaderick, daughter of Thomas Deaderick and
Julia Ann Dangerfield Deaderick, married Captain David Thompson.

David Deaderick, son of Thomas Deaderick and Julia Ann
Dangerfield Deaderick, served as a Captain in the Creek War in 1817,
under General Jackson and distinguished himself for gallantry and
bravery.

Leroy Dangerfield Deaderick, son of Thpmas Deaderick and Julia
Ann Dangerfield Deaderick, became a physician. He moved to Mis-
sissippi where he died unmarried.

Thomas Deaderick married again after the death of Julia Danger-
field Deaderick and had several children. He died October 15, 1831,
aged sixty-six.

VI. ELIZABETH DEADERICK.

Elizabeth Deaderick, sixth child of David Deaderick, the first, and
Rosannah Boucher Deaderick, was bom in Winchester, Frederick
County, Virginia, in 1 766. She died in Lynchburg, Virginia, March
17, 1841. She married John Murrell, bom July 27, 1 766. He died
May, 1842. They lived in Lynchburg, Virginia. Their children were:

Harding Murrell, who died unmarried.

David Gamble Murrell, who married Alice Tate.

John Dobbins Murrell, who died unmarried.

Rosanna Eliza Murrell, who married Samuel Slayton.

Onslow Glenmon Murrell, who married Elizabeth. (Their chil-
dren were: John D. Murrell, married Jenny Ross, granddaughter of
the famous Cherokee Chief, John Ross. They moved from Lynchburg
to Louisiana and settled at Bayou Gould where they owned a large
sugar plantation, and Kate Murrell, who married Mr. Ashe, of Lexing-
ton, Mississippi)*

William Murrell died young.

George Michael Murrell, bom April 8, 1808, died March 30,
1894, was the father of George Ross Murrell, of Bayou Gould,
Louisiana.

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For the early history of the Gaines family, as given here, we are
indebted chiefly to Major Richard V. Gaines, of Mossingford, Virginia,
who devoted many years to the study of this family and traced it
through an unbroken line to Brychan, who became King of Wales
early in the fifth century and reigned until his death in A. D. 450.
His lineage gave to Wales some of the foremost men in her annals and
the history of Wales is, in a large measure, the record of the achieve-
ments of his descendants, a few of whom were: Beli the Great, Em-
peror of Great Britain; Cadwalader, great grandson of Beli; St.
David, patron saint of Wales; Roderic the Great, from whom de-
scended King George V., of England; Howel the Good, who prepared
the first system of civil law which was put into operation in the territory
now embraced in the British Realm; Cradoc, of Llancarvon, the his-
torian; Sir Rhysap-Thomas, who commanded the forces under the
Earl of Richmond, and by his skill and gallantry at the battle of
Bosworth, where Richard III. was slain, placed Richmond (Henry
VII.) upon the throne; David-ap-Gwillam, the father of Welsh poetry,
and Llewellyn the Great, the last and probably the greatest of Welsh
kings, whose reign extended from 11 94 to 1 240. His administration
of affairs caused a great literary and educational revival in Wales,
and his achievements in arms were not less signal and masterful. To
no one man does Wales owe more for the deep foundation of her inde-
structible, invincible national spirit than to Lllewellyn the Great.

The Reverend Theophilus Jones in his history gives Brecon City,
Wales, as the home of the family at the earliest known period of its
history and also gives the genealogy of the family and many valuable
facts concerning it. From Howel the Good the line is traced to Einon
Sais (who had lived in England and inherited the estate of Castle
Einon Sais), his son Howel and his son, Llewellyn-ap-Hoel, the
father of Roger, Griffith, Richard, William, Helen and David-ap-
Llewellyn, later known as David Gam, a conspicuous and potential
personage in Wales in the early part of the fifteenth century, a man
of courage and judgment; of dauntless spirit and soldierly tact. By
his personal daring on the Field of Agincourt (1413) he saved the
life of Henry V., but was himself mortally wounded. He was knighted
by his King just before he died. He entered the King's military service
as David-ap-Lllewellyn, but having a squint eye, the word signifying

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it, "Gam," was applied to him and he was knighted Sir David Gam
and herein we find the origin of the name Gaines. The name remained
Gam through two generations. His great grandson added "es** and
thereafter it was Games; which form was adhered to in Wales, but
in ELngland it became Ganes, Gaynes and finally Gaines. Thomas
Jones, an eminent genealogist, in 1399, makes this important state-
ment: "From this Sir David Gam all ye Games of Brecknogshire,
all ye Vaughns, and all ye Herberts of South Wales are descended
and ye most part of all the nobility of England."

William Herbert and the Earl of Pembroke were great grandsons
of Gladis, daughter of Sir David Gam. They were the friends and
patrons of Shakespeare, and it was at Wilton, the home of the Earl
of Pembroke, that King James, on December, second, 1603, first
witnessed a performance of one of Shakespeare's plays. The Herberts
took an active part in the early settlement of America, and were mem-
bers of the Virginia Company organized by Sir Walter Raleigh. Mor-
gan, the eldest son of Sir David Gaines (Gam) was great-great-grand-
father of Sir John Gaines ( 1 559-1 606) of Newton, County of Brecon,
Wales< from whom the Gaines family of Virginia is believed to descend.

The children of Sir John Gaines were Catherine, Thomas, John,
Walter, Richard and Elizabeth Gaines.

From Virginia Land Office and State Library records we find that
six members of the Gaines family had located in the colony prior to
1650, one of whom, Thomas Gaines, is believed to have been son of
Sir John Gaines and father of Daniel, Robert, Thomas and James
(of 1620.)

DANIEL GAINES.

Daniel Gaines married Margaret Bernard and had ( 1 ) Elizabeth
(2) Bernard, (3) Margaret (who married Ralph Rowzee (4) Mary
(who married John Smith.)

Elizabeth, daughter of Dafiiel Gaines and Margaret Bernard
Gaines, married John Catlett, Jr., and had Rebecca Catlett who mar-
ried Francis Conway and they were parents of Eleanor Rose Conway,
who married James Madison and had James Madison, second Presi-
dent of the United States.

Bernard, son of Daniel and Margaret Bernard Gaines married
Martha Taylor, daughter of George Taylor. Two of their children
were George Gaines and Daniel Gaines, second, who married, firstly,
Mrs. Mary Doyle and had Mary Gaines (who married James Jame-
son and had Mary Jameson).

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JAMES GAINES.

James Gaines (1620) said to be son of Thomas and grandson
of Sir John Gaines, of Newton, is believed to have been father of
Richard Gaines who died in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1 750. The
children of this Richard Gaines were Francis Gaines, James Gaines,
William Henry Gaines, Thomas Gaines, John Gaines and Mary
Gaines, and some genealogists claim that Roger and Richard Gaines
were also of this family. Roger married a Miss Rawlings, and Richard
also married, a Miss Rawlings and had twelve sons, of whom Henry
(bom about 1733) married Mrs. Stipp (nee Wood.) One of their
children, Richard Gaines, (bom 1752) married Frances Jolly; their
son, James Gaines, married Margaret Close and had a son, Reuben
Gaines (who claimed relations-hip tto General Edmund Pendleton
Gaines).

Francis Gaines, son of Richard Gaines (of Culpeper) married
Dorothy, and had (1) Dorothy, (2) Susannah, who married a Mr.
Carter (3) Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Yates and they were grand-
parents of Mrs. H. L. Kinnison, (4) Anna, who married a Martin;
(5) Sallie, who married a Brassfield; (6) William; (7) Lucy, and
(8) James Gaines.

James Gaines, son of Richard Gaines, of Culpeper County, Vir-
ginia, married about 1730 Mary Pendleton, bom 1717, died 1803,
younger daughter of Henry Pendleton and Mary Bishop Taylor Pen-
dleton. They had twelve children, namely:

( 1 ) Henry Gaines.

(2) James Gaines, Second.

(3) Richard Edward Gaines, married Elizabeth Broadus.

(4) Edmund Pendleton Gaines, married Mrs. Tabitha Rucker.

(5) Joseph Gaines.

(6) William Gaines.

(7) Francis Gaines.

(8) Thomas Gaines

(9) Mary Gaines, married a Herndon.

(10) Sarah Gaines married James Broadus.

(11) Catherine Gaines married William Broadus.

(12) Isabella Gaines.

Of the foregoing:

Richard Edmund Gaines, who married Elizabeth Broadus, had a
daughter, Elizabeth Broadus Gaines, who married George Clasrton.

Francis Gaines, son of James and Mary Pendleton Gaines, married
Elizabeth Lewis and their son, Thomas Lewis Gaines married Lucy
Patterson Henderson ; their son, John Wesley Gaines, married Frances

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Maria Wair and their son is John Wesley Gaines, second, of Nash-
ville.

James Gaines, Second, son of James and Mary Pendleton
Gaines, married Mildred Pollard and had five children: (1) Nancy
(who married a Mr. Mathews) ; (2) Mary (who married a Mr.
Daniels); (3) a daughter who married a Mr. Garlick; (4) BenjV
min, and (3) Abner Gaines, who married, in 1792, Elizabeth Mat-
thews and had (a) Mildred Pollard Gaines (who married a Mr.
Davies and had a son, R. G. Davies, who married as his first wife
a Miss Gibbs, and had seven children; James, Charles, Harpin, Fannie,
Cornelia, Allen and Fulham Davies.) Another child of Abner and
Elizabeth Matthews Gaines was John Pendleton Gaines, Third Ter-
ritorial Governor of Oregon (who married Elizabeth Kincaid, and
had Abner Pendleton Gaines, who married Mary Ellen Looney. Among
their children are Chester, Richard L., Wilbur, John Pendleton, Ida

(who married a Mr. Wagnon) ; Hattie (who married Sims)

and a daughter (who married Job.)

Henry Gaines (1731-1811) son of James and Mary Pendleton
Gaines, married twice; firstly, Martha George and secondly, Sarah
Churchill. One son by the first wife was George Gaines (who mar-
ried Susannah Groves and had a son, William Gaines, who married
Janette Watts; their son was Joseph Addison Gaines, who married
Martha Lyne and their son was Albert Winston Gaines. Another son
of Henry Gaines* first marriage was Richard Gaines (who married
Mrs. Rebecca Gatewood Barrett; their daughter, Mary Gaines, mar-
ried John Neal; their daughter, Catherine Neal, married Mr. Hughes,
and they were the parents of Mary Gaines Hughes.) Other children
by Henry Gaines' first marriage were: Elizabeth, (who married Mr.
George), Nancy, William, Thomas and Augustine Gaines. By the
marriage of Henry Gaines to his second wife, Sarah Churchill, he had
Gabriel Gaines, Churchill Gaines, Fannie Gaines (who married

Bowler) and Mary Gaines (1768-1852) who in 1793

married John Clark (1767-1844), son of James Clark and Mildred
Gatewood, and had eight children: (1) Henry James Clark, (see
record later); (2) Mildred Clark, (1796-1860) who married James
Wilkerson Mansfield (1794-1853) (soldier in War of 1812 and
son of Robert Mansifield) and had eleven children, (a) William
Wesley (d.y.) (b) Susan Mourning Mansfield (who married firstly:
Pressly Allen Reese; and had Pressly Frances Reese (who married
Peter Deroy, and had seven children.) Susan Mourning (Mansfield)
Reese married secondly, Horatio Ford, and had ( 1 ) George Alexander
Ford (who married Charity Bemiss) ; (2) Eliza Ellen Ford (wha
married Henry C. TTiornbro) ; (3) Edna Amanda Ford (who mar-
ried Antoine De Larque; (4) John Wilkerson Ford (who married

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Belle Watkins); (5) Robert Lafayette Ford (who married Cornelia
Van Ausdall) ; (6) Mildred Jane Ford (who married Chauncey
Cobb.) (c) Mary Virginia Reese (who married Green Cole Reese
and had ( 1 ) William Allen Reese (who married Mary Ann Smith
and had Bessie and Grover C. Reese) ; (2) Susannah Jane Reese
(who married Isaiah J. Kimberlin and had Minora Reese Kimberlin
(who married Bal. Fielder, and has Byrd Joe Fielder, who married
Frank White Livingood), and Mary'R. Kimberlin (who married
W. A. Harvey and has Helen who married Clyde McGee.) (3)
Cornelia Ellen Reese (who married Armistead A. Neal and had
Virgil, Ardell L., and May Pearl Neal) (4) Henry Clark Reese
(who married Catherine Gregg); (5) Robert Joel Reese (who mar-
ried Catherine Morgan) ; (6) Narcisso Belle Reese (who married
Sherwood and had Lulu, Newell, Ralph, Lee and Catherine Reese;
(7) Charles Melvin Reese (who married Julia McNay and had Roy
Cole Reese) ; (8) Albert Smith Reese )who married Addie West and
had West Reese and Ella Reese.) (d) Nancy Elizabeth Mansfield
(who married Peter Baker, and had James, Ross and Robert Baker,
who married Nannie Wilson and had Mabel, Ray, and Eunice Baker.)
(e) Martha Jane Mansfield (who married Mortimer Jackson, one child
was J. R. Jackson.) (f) Sarah Ann Mansfield (who married Benja-
min B. Wyatt and had (1) Louise Mildred Wyatt (who married
Dr. J C. Cassidy) ; (2) James Henry Wyatt; (3) .Margaret
Ellen Wyatt who married Jasper W. Wyatt and had Margaret
Wyatt) ; (4) Brunetta Eugenia Wyatt (who married David
T. Byrd; (5) Emma Wilkerson Wyatt who married Henry
Machen and had Harry, Marguerite and Florence Machen) ; (6)
Fannie Belle Wyatt- (who married Walter Byrd); (7) Sallie P.
Wyatt (who married Needham Sykes) ; (8) Edward Sterling Wyatt

(who married and has a son, Hugh Wyatt. (g) Louisa

Anne Mansfield (1832-1906) (who married Dr. Henry Owsley
(1816-1901) and had: (1) Lee (who married and had twelve chil-
dren) ; (2) Luella (who married A. R. McGintie and had two sons) ;
(3) Alvin Clark Owsley (who married Sarah Blount and had eight
children: (1 ) Eunice Owsley (who married J. C. Wright and has one
son); (2) Louisa Sophia; (3) Jessie Owsley (who married Mr.
Boney and has one son) ; (4) Alvin Mansfield Owsley, of Denton,
Texas; (5) Stella Lee Owsley; (6) Clark Owsley; (7) Charlotte
Warmouth Owsley, and (8) Henry Owsley.) (h) Ellen Z. Mans-
field (who married Lyman C. Littlefield and had (1) Charles Ben-
jamin Littlefield (who married Theodosia C. Webb and had ( 1 )
Maud Ellen (who married Sterling Price Agee) ; (2) Charles Webb
and (3) Rose Amott Littlefield; (2) William Wallace Littlefield
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field) ; (i) Robert A. Mansfield (who married Aurelia J. Halleck and
had Elnora (who married Mr. Bogan and had two sons) : William,
Sidney, A. W., Carrie, Jennie, Walter and Minnie Mansfield) ; (j)
John Clark Mansfield (who married Margaret Maxwell and had Robert
John and James Wilkerson Mansfield (who married Bridget Welch
and their daughter, Etta Mansfield married, firstly William Francis
Miller and had Edward Roland Miller, who married Edna Hassinger;
married secondly Paul Hodge DeMange (First Lieutenant A. T. 87
Divisicm.) (3) Thomas Pendleton Clark, (4) William Fountain
Clark, (5) Mary Jane Clark (who married Zachariah Glass, of Ken-
tucky, and had (a) John Pendleton Glass (who married Emma Con-
row Ayres), (b) Susan Jamison Glass (who married Jack West and
had Alice West (who married Benjamin Moore and had Lizzie Moore
(who married Fleming Clardy and has two children), (c) James C.
(called ** Posey") Glass (who married Margaret Gant and had ( 1 )
James C, Jr., (2) William A., (who married Rose Dade), (3)
Sallie (who married Edgar McPherson) land (4) Annie Glass;
(d) Mary Jane Glass (who married James S. Phelps), (e) Eliz-
abeth Glass (who married Bathurst E. Randolph), (f) Virginia
Glass (who married Samuel C. Mercer), (g) Julia Glass (\^o
married John Jefferies McComb.) (6) Joseph Clark (who mar-
ried Frances Downer, one child was Mary Clark, who married
Robert C. Slaughter, and had ( I ) Coleman Clark Slaughter, of Nash-
ville, and (2) Francis Downer Slaughter (who married William Rhode
Hurt and had two children (a) Helen Hurt (who married Stuart
Brezee and has Berry Hurt and Harrison Pendleton Brezee) ; (b)
Harry Gamer Hurt (who married John Carter Walker and has Cole-
man Carter Walker and Helen Walker), (7) Eliza Francis Clark
(who married firstly; Mr. Brown; secondly. Dr. Frank Bell. (8)
Sarah Ann Clark (who married Henry Durett and had Mary Elizabeth,
John Clark and Henry Durett, Jr.)

Henry James Clark (1794-1874), (in War of 1812), oldest
child of John and Mary Gaines Clark married firstly, (in 1815)
Mary Lewis Mansifield; secondly^ Mrs. Mary Brown Bell.

Mary Lewis Mansfield (1795-1857) was daughter of Robert
Mansfield (1762-1833), Revolutionary War Soldier) and wife,
Mourning (Clark) Mansfield (J 763-1831) (daughter of Micajah
Clark, Jr, and wife Mildred (Martin) Clark.) The children of
Henry James and Mary Lewis (Mansfield) Clark were:

( 1 ) Elizabeth Jane Clark (who married John Price Beatty and
had (a) Lycurgus Beatty (who married Mona Branch and had Nina
and Guy Beatty) , (b) Mary Eliza Beatty (who married Lomas Gant
and had (I) Lizzie Ellen Gant (who married William Shirley), (2)
Laura Etta Gant (who married Homer J. Clark), (3) Ruth Moore

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Gant (who married Charles C. Craig), (c) Helen Louise Bealty (who
married Ira Hall), (d) Laura Melinda Beatty (who married Joseph
B. Ramp and has Oliver Ramp.) (e) James Robert Beatty (who mar-
ried Emma Moorhouse and had Ray, Minnie, Mary, Clara, Louise,
Dee, Price and Amy Beatty), (f) Oliver Pleasant Beatty (who mar-
ried Zona McKinney and had Fred, Oliver and Elizabeth Beatty.)

(2) John Pleasant Clark (1817-1898) (who married Mary L.
Muldrow and had (a) George Henry Clark (who married Marietta
M. Lackland and had (1) John Pleasant, Jr., (2) Ida Longuey; (3)
Marguerite Lackland and (4) Henry Grant Clark), (b) Mary Belle
Clark ( widow of Samuel Sterling Craig and has ClTarles Carroll Craig) ,

(c) John Muldrow Clark (1855-1893) ' who married Hattie Flye
and had ( I ) Harry Brown Clark (who married Emma Belle Faxon) >
(2) Mary Emma Clark (who married Fred M. Gifford), (3) Jennie
Flye Clark (who married Bert Wright), (c) Edward William Clark
{who married Josie C. Cudworth and had Louis John, Walter Price
and Jennie Crystal Clark.)

(3) Robert Mansfield Clark (1819-1865) (who married Cyp-
thia Mills Dickinson (1821-1891) and had twelve children: (a)
Henry Dickinson Clark (1839-191 3) (a soldier in Civil War, and for
many years beloved pastor of Christian Church in Mt. Sterling, Ken-
tucky, married Melissa McElhinney and had ( 1 ) Maude Mansfield
Clark, wife of Prof. William M. Forrest (U. of V.) and has a son,
Clark Forrest.) (2) Claude McElhinney Clark, (3) Lawrence Clark.

{4) Ruby (an adopted daughter married Walter Mackie) ;
(b) Mary Gertmde Clark (1844-1917) (who married Robert Mof-
fet Allison Hawk and hdd ( t ) Henry Clark Hawk (who married Ida
Whitmer. Their children are Lucy and Clark Hawk), (2) Hannah
Gertrude Hawk, (3) Egbert Burgess Hawk (who married Osyth
Lamoreaux) ; (c) Cynthia Elizabeth Clark (1843-1884) (who mar-
ried Lafayette Tweed Blair and had ( 1 ) Mary Idella Blair who mar-
ried John F. Sherman and had: Harold, Roger, Walter, Mary Olive
and Elizabeth Sherman) ; (2) Robert Ashton Blair and (3) Harvey
Blair) ; (d) Susan Jane Clark (who married Oliver Perry Darst and
had, (I ) William J. Darst (who married Hattie Gilbert), (2) Walter
Darst (who married Lou Gilbert), (3) Bert Darst (who married
Mary Shaw), (4) Bertha Darst (who married F. G. Switzer), (5)
Arthur Darst (who married Clara Day) ; (e) Emily Augusta Clark
(who married William Henry Crow) ; (f) Mildred Aiin Clark (1851-
1912) (who married John Taylor Smith and had (1) Austin Smith,
(2) Mary Blanche Smith (who married Dr. Latta), (3) Hal Clark
Smith, (4) Bert Smith) ; (g) Robert Mansfield Clark (who married
Emma Louise Russell) ; (h) Amelia Virginia Clark (who married
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Thomas Coleson, (3) Margaret Elmira Coleson), (4) Robert Clark
Coleson, (5) Marian Olive Coleson.)

(4) William Wallace Clark, (182M851) (died unmarried.)

(5) Virginia Ann Clark (1823-1900) married Charles Towar
Boggs (1812-1902) and had eight children; one of whom (a) Amelia
(widow of Norman T. Cassette) lives in Paris, and with her daughter,

Grace G. Cassette, was closely identified with the work in American
Ambulance Hbspital at Neuilly-Paris, from the beginning of the
World War until November, 1916, when Miss Cassette became
Directrice-Technique in the FrancorAmerican Corrective Surgical Ap-
pliance Committee; a position for which her wide experience during
the war eminently fits her. In June, 1917, the highest honor France
bestows for military or civic service, the Cross of the Legion of Honor,
was given to Miss Cassette in recognition of her heroic original work in
aid of the wounded soldiers of France. In November, 1917, Miss
Cassette was made Honorary Member of the 109th Infantry Regi-
ment, with title of Corporal Brancardiere and decorated with the four-
ragers of the Croiz de Cuerre which the 1 09th had received for braverj^
in the Battle of the Aisne. In November, 1917, Mrs. Cassette re-
ceived the Medaille d'Honneur from France for two years continuous
service in the American Ambulance Hospital), (b) Mary Elizabeth
Boggs (1842-1874) (who married Edward Mendsen and had Charles
Frederic Mendsen (who married Calista Louise Bryant and had Jessie
(who married Edwin Childs Conover and had John Charles Conover) ,
(2) Nellie Mendsen (who married Frederick A. Leland and has
Henry Sherman, Dorthea, Marion, Charlotte and Mary Leland); (3)

Edward Boone Mendsen (who married Cornelia , and has

John Mendsen), (c) William Mansfield Boggs, (1846-1914) (who
married Lillian Newman and had ( 1 ) Georgia Virginia (who married
Lewis James Morganstern, and has Lewis James Morganstem, Jr.)
and (2) Lillian Mansfield Boggs) ; (d) Emma Virginia Boggs
(widow of Melville R. Doty) has children, ( 1 ) Lois Cornelia Doty
(who married James Wetherell) ; (2) Bessie Virginia Doty (who
married Walter Deitz Connor and has Melville Doty Connor), (3)
Harold Darius Doty (who married Kathleen Herely and has Mary
Jane Doty) ; (e) Helen Moore Boggs, widow of Charles Robert
Stouffer, has daughters; Edith Aiken Stouffer (who married Jackson
Kemper Dering and has Jackson Kemper Dering, Jr.) and Leita Doro-
thy Stouffer (who married firstly: Clayton Sedgwick Cooper and had
Dorothy, Virginia and Gwendolyn Price Cooper and married secondly
John Dean Purdy, Second, and has John Dean Purdy, Third) ;
(g) George Towar Boggs (who married Grace Legrow Tobin and
ihcy have (I) Norman Towar (who married Ethel Fitzhugh and has
three children), (II) Allen Dearborn (who married Muriel Abbott

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Closson) (III) Mildred (doing war work in France) and (IV)
George Arthur Boggs (with Motor Truck Division in France) ; (f)
Fanny Iglehart Boggs (married Albert Greene Lester and their chil-
dren are: Helen (who married Emory S. Rockwell and have an
adopted son, Lester Rockwell) and Ruth Lester (with Hospital Unit
1 3 in France) .

(6) James Thomas Clark (1825-1850) married Louisa Stephen-
son, cousin of Adlai Stephenson and had (a) Edgar Poe Clark (who
married Margaret Wineteer and had (I) Myra Clark, (2) Vernon
Mansfield Clark (who married Vivi Lewis and has four children, (3)
Cora Clark, (who married Charles J. Weld) : (b) Flora Clark (who
married John H. Brubaker and had Flora Belle Brubaker (who mar-
ried Frank Mohr and has children: Adele, Ethel, Marjorie, Louise,
and John Alden Mohr).

(7) Louise Mildred Clark (1826-1878) married her cousin
John David Clark; children are: (a) Joseph Henry Clark (Civil War
Veteran) who married Jennie Eliz.abeth Mallett and had Fannie,
Joseph,. Horace, Ella, Frank, George, Cora and Robert; (b) Ella
Clark (who married James 'Stewart and has (I) William Clark
(served in Cuban War), (II) Lottie Bell, (III) Charles Oliver. (IV)
Harry C, (V) George Albert, (VI) Fannie Louise and (VII) Ella
Manita Stewart) ; (c) Frank (who married Mary E. Dormer) ; (d)
Lee (who married Olive Gambell and has son Nelson Clark) ; (e)
Albert Garth (who married Carrie Rindlaub and has Eva and Albert
Clark) ; (f) Clara Clark (who married Wilbur Mosena and has
children: Wilbur, Roscoe, Elizabeth, Albert, Ralph, Beulah and Eva
Mosena).

(8) Martha Augusta Clark (1828-1903) who married William
Dupre* Waynick (1823-1880). Their children were (a) Mary
Susan Waynick, (1850-1918) (who married Moses Folsom and had
Robert Oilman Folsom) ; (b) Albert Gallatin Waynick (who married
Florence Myrtle Watkins and had Elizabeth Avery Waynick (who
married Frederick Burton Ruble and had Frederick Warren and Her-
bert Waynick Ruble) ; (c) Gertrude Waynick (who married Abner
W. Johnstone ; children : Dwight and Howard Johnstone) ; (d) Emma
Isadora Waynick (who married John Skinner; children: Ralph, Jessie
and Martha Skinner) ; (e) Clara Mabel Waynick (married Abner
Goodhue and has Hugh, Paul and Burt Goodhue) ; (f) Harlan Du-

pont Wa)mick, (who married Chassie and has

Mark Anthony Waynick and Ella Waynick) ; (g) Robert Mansfield
Waynick (who married Emilie r- and had Robert Way-
nick) ; (h) Laura Jay Waynick (who married Will Livingston Ag-

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new; their children are Dupre Livingston Agnew (in Aviation Corps)
and Clark Mansfield Agnew) ; (i) Martha May Waynick (who
married Edward J. Watson).

(9) Emma Houston Clark (1830-1906) (who married Thomas
Bazil McLure (1828-1897) and had five children; (a) Helen Isora
(d. 1916) who married John William Vance; no children); (b)
Elizabeth Jane McLure (who married John Irvin Armour and has (I)
Frank Clark Armour (who married Delora Minor) ; (II) Nellie
Armour and (III) Margaret Genevieve Armour) ; (c) William Frank
McLure (d. unm.) ; (d) Joseph Eugene McLure (d. urim.) ; (e)
Emma Permelia McLure (who married Charles Edward Vance
(cousin of her sister's husband) and has Myra Louisa Vance and
Charles Clark Vance (who married Anna . Christina Block and haa
Charles Clark Vance, Second, and h'rederick Lawrence Vance).

(10) Henry Samuel Clark (1831-1898) (who married Frances
E. Cassidy and had three children: one of whom George Alfred
Clark married Manita O Bacon, and has Mary Elizabeth and An-
toinette Cassidy Clark).

(11) Charles Anderson Clark (1833-1902) who married Sabrina
Smith (1834-1889). Their children were (a) Harry Lee Clark
(1857-1917) (who married Etta V. Harsh and had Veda Almira
Clark (who married Jacob Petsch, August 2, 1911); (b) Frank
Wendell Clark (who married Katie A. Tuttle. Their children are

(I) Amy Grace Clark, (who married Frederick A. Rice) ; (II)
Mary Josephine Clark (who married Carl Sutorius and has Clark and
Helen Sutorius) ; (III) Jennie Gertrude Clark (who married Joe
Wesley Fitts, and has Joe Wesley Fitts, Jr.); (IV) Frank Wendell
Clark, Jr. (Battalion F. 63rd Artillery.)

(12) Mary Catherine Clark (1835-1914) who married Uriah
Shelby Hddge (1816-1881) and had. (a) Mary Louise Hodge
(1853-1909) (who married Edgar Antoine DeMange and had (I)
Ralph Charles DeMange (who married Emma Bradley Ewing) and

(II) Paul Hodge DeMange (1st Lieutenant 312A Ammunition train,
87th Dhrision, who married Mrs. E^tta Mansfield Miller). (b)
Virginia Eliza Hodge (who married Joseph Fletcher McNaught and
has (I) Helen Fairfax McNaught (who married Edward Hamilton
Geary, son of the late Major William Geary) and (II) Carl Shelby
McNaught (who married Ruth Taylor and their children are Nancy
and Joseph Taylor McNaught) ; (c) Alice L. Hodge (who married
William E. Rossney) ; (d) Amelia Gertrude Hodge (died young) ;

(e) Minnie Mansfield Hodge (who married Robert William Loudon.
Their son William Hodge Loudon married George Jenckes Wilson) ;

(f) Lillian Hodge (who married Francis Allen Bell. Their daughter
is Mary Catherine Bell); (g) Emma Hodge (1870-1901) (married

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Owen T. Reeves. Their child Marian Reeves died young) ; (h)
William Clark Hodge (1874-1882) ; (i) Julia Fairfax Hodge.

(13) (Died young).

(14) Susan Maria Clark (1840-1893) married Park Worden
(no children).

Henry- James Clark (son of John and Mary (Gaines) Clark
married (in 1860) as second wife, Mrs. Mary Jane (Brown) Bell
(1829-1914). Their children are (1) Alonzo Bell Clark (who
married Nettie Seibert; on^ child Bonnal)m B. Clark) ; (2) Amelia
Julia Clark (who married Frank Ewins. Their children are: John
A. Ewins (who married Irene Comfort Werner) and Mary Louise
Ewins) ; (3) Albertine Francis Clark (who married Charles E. Blank-
inship. Their children are (a) Leta C. Blankenship (who married
Robert Austin Ward and they have (I) Wallace Howard, (II)
Alice Esther. (Ill) Martha and (IV) Robert Elnore Ward) ; (b)
Dean Francis Blankinship (who married Grace Coriell and their
children are (I) Francis Aurelia, (II) Charles and (III) Don Rob-
ert Blankenship) ; (c) Nellie Blankenship (who married Albert
James Earl and have Charles Edward, and Nellie Albertine Earl),
(d) Clark Blankenship) ; (IV) Nellie Mansfield Clark (who married
S. E Altom and their son is Lawrence Dale Altom (who married
Eunice Marfin).

WILLIAM HENRY GAINES

William Henry Gaines, son of Richard Gaines of Culpepper
County, Virginia, and brother of James Gaines the First, was a mem-
ber of the House of Burgesses of Virginia. He married. Isabella
Pendleton, a sister to his brother's wife Mary Pendleton and a
daughter of Henry Pendleton and Mary Bishop Taylor Pendleton.
They had ten children namely:

I Benjamin Gaines

II William Henry Gaines

III Richard Gaines, married Jemima Pendleton.

IV Thomas Gaines, married Susannah Strother.

V Robert Gaines, married Elizabeth Long.

VI James Gaines, married Elizabeth Strother.

VII Anne Gaines, married Lieutenant Peter Steinberger.

VIII Isabella Gaines, married a Brown.

IX Philip Gaines.

X Frances Gaines, married Thomas Botts.

William Henry Gaines, Second, son of William Henry First and
Isabella Pendleton Gaines was a soldier of the Revolution.

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Frances Gaines who married Thomas Botts had a son Benjamin
Botts, who married Jane Tyler and their son was the Honorable John
Minor Botts of Virginia, Member of Congress.

Thomas Gaines, fourth son of William Henry and Isabella (Pen-
dleton) Gaines, married Susamnah Strother, dauighter of Francis and
Susannah (Dabney) Strother and grand , daughter of William and
Margaret (Thornton) Strother); they had at least nine children:
James Strother, who married Judith Easley and among their children
were: John Strother Gaines, who married Lfetitia Dalton Moore, his
cousin, and they had twelve children, of whom Amanda Melvina
Fitz-Alan Gaines, married Charles A. Rice and had several children:
Hugh Brown Rice, Susan Letitia Rice (who married John Baird
Clotworthy, late of Hillman, Georgia. They had three sons: Charles
W. Clotworthy (who married Mabelle Affleck), Hugh Alexander
Clotworthy (who married Salome Geiger Bell), and John Baird
Clotworthy, Jr.) and the Rev. Dr. William A. Rice, of New York,
Susan Letitia Gaines (who married Wylie Neal and their daughter,
was Parmelia Gaines Neal, (Mrs. John Abernathy) ; William Dab-
ney, who married Helen Toulmain and had a son Dr. Edmund Pen-
dleton Gaines, who married his cousin, Mary Toulmain; Francis Hen-
ry Gaines, who married May Henry and had an only child, Ellen
Gaines, who married Thomas St. John; and George Woodson Gaines,
Richard Thomas, Elizabeth Strother, Susannah Dabney, Henry Pen-
dleton, Francis Henry and Francis Thornton Gaines. George Wood-
son Gaines, son of James Strother and Judith (Easley) Gaines, mar-
ried Sarah Rhea and had (a) Wilham Strother, (b) Robert James»
(c) Augustus Pendleton, (d) Elizabeth McCuin and (e) John Rhea
Gaines who married three times: firstly, Sarah Rice (a sister of
Charles Rice, q.v.), secondly Elizabeth M. Blair and thirdly, Har-
riet Craig. By the first wife he had ( 1 ) Dr. Francis Henry Gaines
(Founder and President of Agnes Scott College), who married Mary
Lou Lewis and has a son Dr. Lewis Gaines of Atlanta) ; (2) Dr.
William Strother Gaines of Spokane, Washington (who married Laura
Brown and has (I) Sue Brown Gaines (who married Edward Frank-
lin Betz and has William Edward Betz), (II) Sarah Rice Gaines
(who married Reese B. Brown (IIO Harriet Pendleton Gaines (who
married Thomas W. Secrest, and has William Gaines Secrest), (IV)
Mable J. Gaines, (V) Minnie L. Gaines (who married J. Howard
Shubert). By his second marriage John Rhea Gaines had a daughter^
Mary Gaines, who married William Magill, of Chattanooga and
had children: Elizabeth, Sadie, William and Ensign Alexander Magill.
John Rhea Gaines by his third marriage had three daughters: Anne
Rhea, who married Charles Clark; Susan Rice, who married Francis
Knox Hutcheson; and Louise Gaines, who married John Gates.

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Elizabeth McCuin Gaines, daughter of George Woodson and Sarah
(Rhea) Gaines, married Dr. Franklin Bogart and their sons are Dr.
Walter Gaines Bogart and Dr. William M. Bogart of Chattanooga.
Dr. Walter Gaines Bogart married Lurella Magill and has two
children, Elizabeth Bogart who married T. C. Olney and Frank Bogart
who married Roberta 'Stauffer, Dr. William M. Bogart married Miss
Thompson and has Josephine, Eleanor and Franklin Bogart; Eliza-
beth Strother Gaines, daughter of Thomas and Susannah (Strother)
Gaines, married the Rev. Munford Smith; their daughter, Adaline
Smith, married, in 1 838, David Warren Smyth and they had a daugh-
ter, Susan Victoria Gaines Smyth, who married, in 1855, William A.
Payne; their son is William Jefferson Payne of Richmond, Virginia.
James Gaines, sixth son of William Henry and Isabella Pendle-
ton Gaines was bom in 1742 and died in 1830; he was a Captain
of the Culpepper County, Virginia, Minute Men (in which also served
his cousins, Henry and Nathaniel Pendleton, Jr.) He was also a
Member of the Convention of North Carolina for the Ratification of
the Constitution of the United States and of the North Carolina Leg-
islature. Captain James Gaines was one of the two favorite nephews
of Judge Edmund Pendleton, to whom the latter left most of his prop-
erty, consisting of an estate of six thousand acres of land, most of
which is now in Sullivan County, Tennessee, and thirty slaves.
Captain James Gaines moved in 1 788 and settled upon this estate ; he
was twice married; firstly, in 1762, to a Miss White; and, secondly,
in 1 776, to Elizabeth Strother, daughter of Francis and Susannah
Dabney Strother and sister to his brother's wife, Susannah Strother,
By the first marriage he had one daughter, Margaret Gaines who mar-
ried Samuel Edgeman.

Child of Captain James Gaines by his first wife, Miss White:

I Margaret Gaines, married Samuel Eldgeman.

Children of Captain James Gaines by his second wife Elizabeth
Strother:

ISusannah Gaines, died unmarried.

I I Elizabeth Gaines, married Samuel Moore.

III Lucy Gaines, married David Childress.

IV Francis Henry Gaines, died unmarried.

V James Taylor Gaines, married Anne McMinn and Frances
Rogers.

VI Frances Gaines, married Charles Lynn.

VII Edmund Pendleton Gaines.

VIII Behethland Gaines, married James Lyon.

IX Agnes Gaines, married Joseph Everett.

X Nancy Anne Gaines, married Nathan Ashworth.

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XI George Strother Gaines, married Anne Gaines.

XII Patsey Gaines, married Benjamin Everett.

XIII Sarah Gaines, died unmarried.

Of the foregoing:

I Susannah Gaines died unmarried.

II Elizabeth Gaines married Samuel Moore; their daughter Le-
titia Dalton Moore, married her cousin, John Strother Gaines, son of
James Strother Gaines and his wife, Judith Easley.

III Lucy Gaines married David Childress, an uncle of Mrs. Jame>
Knox Polk.

IV Francis Henry Gaines died unmarried.

V James Taylor Gaines ((793-1883) married firstly Anne Mc-
Minn, only daughter of Governor McMinn, of Tennessee, by whom he
had no children and married secondly Frances G. Rogers, daughter of
Joseph and Mary (Ames) Rogers, of Rogersville, Tennessee. Their
children were ( 1 ) Mary Elizabeth (who married James McKinney,
son of John A. McKinney, (bom in Coloraine, Ireland and wife Eliz-
abeth (Ayer) McKinney bom in Alva, Maine), and (2) Frances.
Children of Charles James and Mary E. (Gaines) McKinney were ( I )
Frances, (who married Joseph M* Logan (no issue), (2) Elizabeth
(who married Robert Spurrier Howard-Smith of Germantown, Penn-
sylvania. Their children were (a) L.ogan Howard-Smith, (b) Robert
Spurrier Howard-Smith (died young), (c) Elise Howard-Smith). (3)
Mary Gaines McKinney (who married James McKinney Phipps and
had (a) Ann Phipps (who married Colonel Samuel Lee King and
had (I) Samuel Lee King, Jr., (II) J. McKinney Phipps King (d.y.),
(Ill) John G. King and (IV) Charles Logan King), (b) Charles
McKinney Phipps (who married Anne Sevier Morrison and had Mary
McKinney and Margaret Sevier Phipps), (c) Kenneth Logan Phipps
(died aged 22), (d) James Gaines Phipps (married Mabel Sevier
Morrison (sister of his brother's wife), their children were Kenneth
Logan Phipps and James Gaines Phipps, Jr.) (e) Mary McKinney
Phipps (d.y.), (f) James McKinney Phipps, Jr. (g) Frances Logan
Phipps (who married Arthur S. Cosier and had Arthur S. Cosier, Jr.),
(h) Elise Phipps (who married George Felix Phillips.) (4) Susan
McKinney (who married William George Nice of Rogersville. Their
children (a) Charles McKinney Nice (who married Helen Gilberta
Adams of Philadelphia and had Mary Willis Nice and Helen Adams
Nice), (b) William George Nice, Jr. (d. y.), (c) Frances Logan
Nice (who married Robert Emmet Howe of Shamrock, Kentucky,
and had William George Howe), (d) Susan McKinney Nice (who
married Dr. Jacob Schultz, of Middleboro, Kentucky), (e) Mary
Elizabeth Nice (who married Kenneth Kenner and had Susan Nice

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Keimer). (5) Charles James McKinney, Jr. (who married Lady
Percy and had (a) William Percy McKinney, (b) Mary McKinney,
and (c) Charles James McKinney, Third.

VI Frances Gaines married in 1837, Charles Lynn, of Kingsport,
Tennessee; six of their children were: John Bell Lynn, who died in
1914; Martin Fleming Lynn, who married Samuel Cloud; Frances
Rogers Lynn, who married Thomas Graham Houston; Catherine
Jane Lynn, who married Frederick Cushman ; Mary Elvira Lynn, who
married George Logan; and Eliza Allen Lynn, who married Willis
McLaughlin.

VII Edmund Pendleton Gaines was bom March 20, I 777, and
died June 6, 1849; he was a distinguished General in the War of
1812 and was voted a sword by the Legislature of Tennessee for his
victory over the British at Fort Erie, Canada, August 15, 1814; he
was also voted swords by the Legislatures of New York and Virginia
and a Medal by the United States Congress. General Gaines married
three times: firstly, Frances Toulmain, a daughter of Henry Toul-
main, first Territorial Judge of the Alabama portion of the Mississ^
ippi Territory: secondly, Barbara Blount, a daughter of William
Blount, Governor of Tennessee (see Blount family), and, thirdly,
Mrs. Myra Clark Whitney, the daughter of Daniel Clark (a native
of Ireland who came to New Orleans in 1 776 as Consul) and his
wife, Zulime Carrier des Granges, a Creole. Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines became celebrated for her litigation with the city of New
Orleans in order to inherit the property of her faAer, worth millions
of dollars, much of which she recovered. By his marriage to Barbara
Blount General Gaines had a son, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Jr., late
of Washington, D. C.

BEHETHLAND GAINES

Behethland Gaines married James Lyon and had one son, the Hon
orable Francis Strother Lyon, was a member of the United States Con-
gress and later a member of the Confederate States Congress and
President of the Convention of Alabama which in 1861, adopted the
Ordinance of Secession; he married Serena Glover, and had: (a) Ida
A. Lyon, who married Dr. William Mecklenburg Polk, (a son of Leon-
idas Polk, the "Fighting Bishop") ; their son Francis Polk Lyon
(Counsellor of the Department of State) married Elizabeth Sturgis
Potter; Helen Gaines Lyon (daughter of Francis Strother Lyon), mar-
ried Zachery Canty Deas. Another son of James and Betheland
(Gaines) Lyon was James Gaines Lyon, (who married Rosina Fisher
and moved to Alabama; their daughter, Sarah Behethland Lyon, mar-

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ried the Honorable Charles King Foote, and Aeir daughter, .Helen
Gaines Foote, married the Honorable Richard Henry Clarke, of Mo-
bile, Alabama, member of Congress, etc. Their daughter, Helen
Gaines Clarke married Henry George Smith. William Henry Lyon,
another son of James and Behethland (Gaines) Lyon married Eliza-
beth Armstrong. Their son, Thomas Armstrong Lyon, married Mary
Coffee Hearst and their daughter, Mary Lyon, married George War-
ren Quarles. A daughter of BehetHand Gaines Lyon and James
Lyon, was Christina Harmon Lyon, who married Joseph Martin and
had John Lyon, Elizabeth, Edmund Pendleton, James Gaines, Augus-
tine, Sarah Ann, Mary Frances, William Francis, Martha Josephine,
Margaret Isabella, Amanda G. Misa, and Joseph Martin, most of
whom married and had children.

(9) Agnes Gaines, daughter of Captain James Gaines and Eliza-
abeth Strother Gaines was born in 1 780 and died in 1816. She mar-
ried in I 797, Joseph Everett, a son of Benjamin and Ann Dennis
Everett, of Delaware, and a brother of her sister's husband, Benjamin
Everett. After her death he married her cousin Phoebe Childress, a
daughter of David and Lucy Gaines Childress. By his marriage to
Phoebe Childress, Joseph Everett had five children; (see record of
Phoebe, third child of David and Lucy (Gaines) Childress.) By his
first marriage he had nine children:

( 1 ) Nancy Laton Everett, who died young.

(2) Elizabeth Strother Everett, (married Samuel Patton, (had
nine children: Agnes Patton, died unmarried; George Patton died un-
married; Samuel Patton married Margaret McDonald; Joseph Patton;
Susan Patton, married Hugh B. Campbell and had two children,
George Campbell married Elizabeth Rogers and Mary Campbell
married Ira Dillman, and has one child, Louise Dillman; Mary Patton
married Bryan Nesbit; Benjamin Patton died unmarried; Alfred Ev-
erett Patton died unmarried; James Gaines Patton married firstlv
Mary Foster, secondly Katherine Gray and thirdly Martha Thompson.

(3) Susan Dabney Everett married in 1816 James O'Brien whose
father was a Revolutionary soldier. Three of the sons of James and
Susan Dabney (Everett) O'Brien died unmarried prior to the War
Between the States. The youngest son, Alfred Gaines O'Brien, en-
listed as a private soldier in the 1 3th Mississippi Regiment, Confederate
States Army, and after being wounded several times was Colonel of
the Regiment when the war ended. Years ago the widow and chil-
dren of Colonel Alfred Gaines O'Brien resided at Kosciuska, Mis-
sissippi. The daughters of James and Susan Dabney (Everett) O'Briea
were EUiza O'Brien, Sarah O'Brien and Mary O'Brien. * Eliza
O'Brien married Governor William Gannaway Brownlow, of Tennes-
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Brownlow, James Brownlow, Mary Brownlow, Fannie Brownlow, and
twin daughters, Annie Brownlow and Caledonia Temple Brownlow.

Susan Brownlow married Daniel T. Boynton and had four children:
Lucile Boynton (who married Clarence A. Benscoter and has Daniel
Boynton Benscoter) ; Eldmee Boynton (who married Louis D. Hun-
toon) ; Ilia Boynton (who married Franklin Pierce Swindler and has
Franklin Pierfce Swindler, Jr., and Jean Swindler) ; Dr. Emerson

Boynton (who married and has Daniel E. Boynton,

Lewis D. Boynton and Charles G. Boynton) ;

Colonel John Bell Brownlow married Fanny Fouche and had
three children: William Gannway Brownlow, second (who married

for his first wife Park and has Fanny Park, married Len G.

Broughton, Jr., and married for his second wife, Isabelle Williams) ;

John F. Brownlow (who married and has John F. Brownlow,,

Jr., and Mary Brownlow) ; and Jennie Brownlow (who married
Edward Ashe and has Jane Brownlow Ashe.)

Colonel James P. Brownlow married .

Mary Brownlow married Henry M. Aiken and had Fannie B.
Aiken (who married Frank Carrahan and has Elizabeth Carrahan) ;
William B. Brownlow Aiken, Horace Aiken, Halmer Aiken, Frank
Aiken, Eliza Brownlow Aiken and Henry M. Aiken, Jr.

Fannie Brownlow married George G. Latta and had Georgia
Latta; William Brownlow Latta, Ernest Latta and Vivian Latta.

Annie Brownlow married William F. Patrick and had William F.
B^bwnlow Patrick.

Calendonia Temple Brownlow married John C. Hale and had
John Boynton Hale.)

(4) Alfred W. Everett, bom November 4, 1804, died July 12,
1859, (married Sarah Comer Griggs Mann, of Alabama, and had
Joseph Leonard Everett, died young; John Griggs Everett, died in
War Between the States, Sarah EUigenia Everett married Dr. Robert
F. Dominick; and had Mattie Comer Dominick, (who died young).
Annie Robinette Dominick, who married Francis Marion Lavendar, of
Greensboro, Alabama, and had Margaret Everett Lavender, John
Robert Lavender and Francis Marion Lavender, Junior. At the age
of fifteen Alfred W. Everett went to General Eldmund Pendleton
Gaines to make his home. He was familiar with several Indian dia-
lects and was connected with the transportation of the Indians from
Mississippi to their reservation.

(5) Sarah Ann Everett (daughter of Joseph and Agnes (Gaines)
Everett, married Dr. Robert Patton, son of John Adams and Mary
(Kelso) Patton, of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Their thirteen
children were : ( I ) Susan Gaines Patton (\^o married Littleton

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Henderson Rogan and had six children: Robert Patton Rogan,
Sarah A. Rogan, who married Robert Ambrose Wood, son of
Reverend John and Eliza Lynn Wood and had seven children : ( 1 )
Effie Davis Wood, (2) Eliza Lynn Wood, (3) Leonard Whitney
Wood (who married firstly, Louise Pendleton) ; secondly, Mrs. Emily
(Taylor) Canfield), (4) Susan Rogan Wood (who married the
Reverend Dr. John Rankin Herndon and had two children: Sarah
Eliza Herndon and Margaret Rogan Herndon) ; (5) Littleton Hen-
derson Wood, who married Stella Luikart, (6) Ada Lee Wood- (who
married William Franklm Taylor and had three children: Mary Lee
Taylor, Lillie Taylor and William Franklin Taylor, IL (7) P.everend
John Ambrose Wood (who married Leonora Whitaker and had a
daughter Sarah Katherine Wood, (c) Katherine Rogan died young,
(d) James Whitney Rogan, D. D. (1854-1916) (who married Lillie
Jackson, daughter of General Alfred and Katherine Taylor Jackson,
no children), (e) John Patton Rogan (who married Frances Young
and had a daughter, Sarah Rogan, (f) Alice Lee Rogan died unmar-
ried; (2) James Strother Patton, an officer in Mexican War, who
married Susan Vance. Their children were William Kirkpatrick Pat-
ton and Florence Patton (who married her cousin, William Jordan
(q. V.) son of Reverend Thomas and Helen Everett Jordan.) (3)
John Adams Patton (who married Denise Patton, daughter of Dr.
Samuel Patton, of Kingsport, Tennessee.) Their children were (a)
Samuel Patton, (b) Robert Patton, (c) Joseph Everett Patton; (4)
Ann Adelaide Patton (d. unm.) (5) Agnes Everett Patton (who mar-
ried Nelson P. Jordan, of. Iowa), (6) M^ry Kelso Patten (d.y.)
(7) Myra Clark Gaines Patton died young; (8) Rebecca Patton
(d.y.); (9) William, Kelso Patton (who married G)melia E. Powell
and had (a) Robert Lee Patton (who married Adelaide Broyles and
had (1) Catalina, (2) Maude and (3) Robert Patton, died young;
(b) William Lamont Patton (1867-1908) (who married Ida Phipps
and had (1) Pauline; (2) Hugh, died young; (3) Clyde; (4) Min-
nie, (5) Carl, (6) Reed, and (7) Cornelia Patton) ; (c) Charles
Sloane Patton (who married Ida Woodring and had ( I ) Helen.
(2) Pansy; (3) Rachel, and (4) Charles Sloan Patton, Jr. (d) Anne
Elizabeth Patton. (e) Claude Patton, (d.y.), (f) Wade Hampton
Patton (who married Agnes Self and had: (1) Cornelia Patton, (2)
James Duncan Patton, (3) Wade Hampton Patton, Jr., (4) Mary
Ruth Patton, and (5) Marjorie Lee Patton), (g) Minnie McFarland
Patton (who married Vincent Morgan Thomas and had : ( I ) Cornelia
Shelby Thomas, (2) Hazen House Thomas, died young; (3) Vin-
cent Morgan Thomas, Jr.) (10) Joseph Perry Patton, who died
young) ; (II) George Patton (who married Mary Vance, a niece
of his brother's wife, Susan Vance), (12) David Nelson Patton died

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young; (13) Eliza Strother Patton( daughter of Robert and Sarah
Anne Everett Patton married Francis Alexander Kelly ( a son of
Judge John Alexander and Martha Peck Kelly, of Marion, Virginia.)
Their children were (a) Martha Kelly (who died yowig; (b) Robert
Patton Kelly (who married Langbome Nowlin Crfsby (daughter of
William Woodson and Mary Langbome Nowlin Cosby), and had
a son, Robert Patton Kelly, Jr.), (c) Francis Marion Kelly (who
married Dorothy Elizabeth Mitchell (daughter of Daniel McRae and
Martha (Wooton) Mitchell, and had one child Dorothy Mitchell
Kelly), (d) Frederick Strother Kelly (who married Rebecca Chisholm
Ammons( daughter of James D. and Rebecca Chisholm Ammons),
(e) Josephine Hull Kelly, (f) Ann Kelly, died young (g) Professor
John Alexander Kelly of the University of Virginia, (h) Ruby Kelly,
who. died young.)

Letitia Moore Everett ( daughter of Joseph and Agnes (Gaines)
Everett) married John Adams Patton, a brother of her sister's husband,
Robert Patton. They had three children : ( 1 ) Sarah Everett Patton
(Mrs. Hunt), (2) Susan Gaines Patton (Mrs. Evans) and (3)
Robert Patton.

Lucy Gaines, daughter of Captain James and Elizabeth Strother
Gaines, married David Childress. Their children were (a) James
Childress; (b) Elizabeth Childress, and (c) Phoebe Childress. James
Childress married Letitia Gaines and had ( I ) Elizabeth Childress
(who married Duke Gibson and had ( 1 ) Olivia Gibson, who married
David Kinkaid, (2) Josephine Gibson, who married Charles Clark,
a Canadian, (3) Jerry. Gibson (married -. ), (2) Louise Chil-
dress married Jesse Childress, (3) Lucy Childress married Colonel
John Talbert Keyes and had: (I) Mary Virginia Keyes (b. 1844);
(2) Theona B. Keyes (b. 1845) (3) Letitia C. Keyes (d. inf.) (4)
Martha E. Keyes, (5) GeorgiJ A. Keyes, (6) John M. Keyes, (7)
Letitia Gaines Keyes), (4) Behethland Childress (who died unmar-
ried) (5) Matthew Moore Childress (married and had

Letitia Gaines, Tabitha, and Matthew Moore Childress, IL) (6)
George Childress ( married Sarah Norton; no issue), (7) Letitia
Dalton Childress (married David Waterman and had (1) Olivia
Waterman; (2) William Waterman; (3) Ann Waterman; (4)
Letitia Waterman and (5) Samuel Gaines Waterman, (b) Elizabeth
Childress married William Nelms. Their children were (1) David
Wallace Nelms (who married Lavinia Clyce (no living issue) ; (2)
John Henry Nelms (who married Letitia V. Pendleton, children
were: (L) Myrtle Nelms (who married Dr. Joseph Campbell and
had (A) Joseph Campbell, Jr., (B) James Preston Campbell and
(C) Allen B. Campbell); (II.) Kathleen Nelms married Dr. Z. E.
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E. Tarr and had Virginia F. Tarr) : (3) Joseph Monroe Nelms (who
married Helen Hoffman and had Bruce Nelms and a daughter), (c)
Phoebe Childress (married Joseph Everett (whose first wife was her
Aunt Agnes Gaines.) Their children by this marriage were: (1)
Adeline Everett (who married Andrew Gibson and had Elizabeth
Gibson (who married John Richardson), and Joseph Perry
Gibson (who married Susan Emmert), (2) Lucy Helen Everett (who
married Reverend J. Thomas Jordan and had: (I.) Alice Virginia
Jordan (d.y.), (II.) Gordan William Jordan (who married firstly,
his cousin, Florence Patton (daughter of James Strother Patton) and
had Hugh K. Jordan, Hattie Jordan and Perry Everett Jordan.)
Gordon William Jordan married secondly: Lelia Patton and had Eliz-
abeth Jordan (who married Jewell); married thirdly: Vir-
ginia French.) (III.) Phoebe Jordan (d.y.). (IV.) Everett Jordan
(d.y.) (V.) Hugh Chapman Jordan married Agnes Hatcher and had
Meta Jordan and Helen Everett Jordan) ; (VI.) Oscar Perry Jordan
married Nannie Wysor Morehead and had Oscar Perry Jordan, Jr.
(U. S. N.) (VII.) Andrew Henry Jordan married firstly Ella Darst
and had Harry Darst Jordan, married secondly Virginia Whitman
and their children were Virginia Elizabeth Jordan and Margaret Jor-
dan. (Vin.) David Childress Jordan married Mamie Edmondson.
Their daughter, Helen Jordan, married George Brandon. (IX.)
Thomas Lee Jordan (unm.), (X.) Barbara Helen Jordan married Dr.
R. H. Wooling. (3) Joseph Perry Everett (b. June 7, 1820) mar-
ried Jane Ayer Smith, niece of Elizabeth (Ayer) McKinney, whose
son, Charles James McKinney, married Mary Elizabeth Taylor
(daughter of Francis Taylor and Frances (Rogers) Gaines.) Their
children were: (I) Charles Smith Everett (who married Julia King
and had Lillian C. Everett); (II.) Joseph Dennis Everett (b. Jan.
5, 1840) who married Caroline E. Southworth and had Alice Couch
Everett ( died aged 14) ; (III.) John McKinney Everett (who married
Carrie Van Wagner and had (A) William van Wagner Everett
(who married Mary Brown and had a daughter), (B) Eula Everett
(who married Clarence Wimpenny and had William Baker Wim-
penny), (IV) Henry Childress Everett (d. inf.), (V.) Sarah Ann
Everett '(who married Dr. J. D. Bryan and their children were Perry
Everett, Arthur and Esther Bryan), (VI.) Thomas Andrew Everett
(who married Harriet Wait and had George Wait Everett) ; (4)
Virginia Everett who married Thomas Perry (no issue), (5) Barbara
Everett (who married Rev. Henry Procter Waugh and had I. R. Vir-
ginia Everett Waugh (who married (in 1879) John M. Boyd and had
(A) Henry Everett Boyd (d. 1899) (B) Eula Lee Boyd (who mar-
ried Frank P. Cogdal and has Ruth Elizabeth Cogdal) ; (C) Eliza-
beth Boyd (who married Ralph C. Chestnutt) ; (c) Behethland Chil-

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dress (who married Joseph Powell), (d) Reverend Eldward Childress,
(e) Henry Childress.

(6) Isabella Pendleton Everett (married John Graham, son of
James and Margaret Rodgers Graham. They had nine children,
namely: Mary » Frances Graham; James Gaines Graham; Margaret
Rodgers Graham; Isabella Graham; Myra Clark Graham; Alfred
Everett Graham; John Graham, Junior; Edmund Pendleton Graham;
Emma Graham, who is the only surviving member of the family. She
resides in Bloomington, Illinois. Only the eldest child, Mary Frances
Graham, married. She married James Montgomery Allison Higgins
Howe, son of Joshua Owen Howe and Lucinda Allison Howe. Their
children were

(a) Walter Howe, ( 1846-1 91 5T Brigadier General, U. S. A.,
who married Elizabeth Dunn, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Bat-
terton Dunn, and had Judge Walter Dunn Howe, of El Paso, Texas,
(who married Marie Hobson Shelton and has Harriet Elizabeth
Howe, Marion Shelton Howe, Walter Shelton Howe, Ethel Irene
Howe),; Professor George Maxwell Howe, of Colorado College
(who married Frances Chamberlain, and has Frances Elizabeth
Howe) ; and Alfred Graham Howe, Commander U. S. N., who mar-
ried Hilda Gregory and has Hilda Haywood Howe.

(b) Alice Howe married W. L. Polk, of Vicksburg, Mississippi,
and has Walter Howe Polk ; married Lillian Montgomery ; Susan Polk ;
Mary Polk; Lancaster Polk; Paul M. Polk married Alice Dunning;
and Clara G. Polk married George W. Roberts.

(c) Joshua Owen Howe married Ella Wetherby and had Ross
Maxwell Howe, died young; Owen Chalmers Howe, of Boston, mar-
ried Charlotte Kendall and has threr children; Louif P. Howe, of
Rockford, Illinois.

(d) Alfred Graham Howe married Mar; Belle Jennings and had
Alice Howe; married Dr. Charles Eller, of Albuquerue, New Mexico;
Hazel Howe married Dr. Homer Curry, of Bloomington, Indiana;
Irene Howe married Professor Karl Fischer, of the University of Penn-
sylvania; Lucille Howe; and Willafred Howe married Ralph Wellons.
They are missionaries at Lucknow, India. **

(e) James Howe.

(f) Lucy Isabella Howe.

(g) Minnie Howe married Judge Frank E. Hunter, of EU Paso.
Texas, and has Herbert Howe Hunter, who married Pearl Ellis and
has one child.

(h) Lillian G. Howe married James B. Troutman, of Chicago,
(i) John Montgomery Howe married Lula Sears and has Cecilt
Howe; married Harry Benner, of Chicago, and James Howe.

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(7) Martha Gaines Everett died young.

(8) Letitia Moore Everett married John Adams Patton.

(9) Mary Frances Everett married William Lynn.

(X.) Nancy Anne Gaines married, in 1809, Nathan Ashworth
and settled in Louisiana. .

(XL) George Strother Gaines married Anne Gaines.

XIL Patsey Gaines married Benjamin Everett. Of their children
four left descendants; (1) James Taylor Gaines, (2) John Ray, (3)
Elizabeth Strother, who married David Hite, and (4) George Gaines.

James Taylor Gaines Everett m. Elizabeth Hite. They had five
children, as follows: (1) David B. Everett (m.) (L) Caroline
Dugy; (II.) Ann Gutherie), (2) Gaines Meek Everett m. Ada Dent)
(3) James C, Everett (m. Frances Vincent) (4) Francis Strother
Everett (m. Alice Russell), (5) Eleanor E. Everett (m. Dr. Virgil
Russell. ,

XIII. Sarah' Gaines, born 1789, died, unmarried, 1870; she
was named for her mother's grandmother, Sarah Jennings, said to have
been a sister of William Jennings, the intestate English millionaire,
whose estate was settled after a century in the courts, in favor of Earl
Howe.

Richard Gaines, son of William Henry and Isabella Pendleton
Gaines, married his cousin, Jemima Pendleton, daughter of Philip and
Martha Pendleton, and granddaughter of Henry and Mary Bishop
(Taylor) Pendleton. They had eleven children: Lucy (Mrs. Botts)
Rowland, Jemima (Mrs. Speak), Benjamin, Nathaniel, James, Judith
(Mrs. Chancellor), Anne (Mrs. Crigler), John Cooke, Elizabeth
(Mrs. Benjamin Thomas), and William Henry Gaines, III. (who
married Jane Botts and had at least four sons: Richard, Nathaniel,
Cornelius, who married Susan Foster; and Augustine Gaines,
who was a soldier in the War of 1812 and married a daughter of
Captain Brawner, of Maryland.)

The King and Queen Connty Virginia, records mention under date
of 1 776, Harry Gaines, who was a brother of Lieutenant
Gaines, of **Green Way,** King William County, and of Robert
Gaines, of the "White House,** King and Queen County; he, Harry
Gaines, lived at Providence and died in 1 789. He married Elizabeth
Hemdon and had seven children: (a) Benjamin, who lived at "Plain
Dealing,'* and married Sarah Garlick; they had four children (1)
Mary Anne, (who married her cousin, Richard Gaines, and inherited
"Plain Dealing**), (2) Myra, (who married George Carlton, of
"Carlton's Store"), (3) William Fleming Gaines, III., and (4)
Sarah Jane (who married Major John Henry Steger), (b) Henry
(Harry) Gaines, Jr., (of whom later), (c) Robert Beverly, (who

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married Lucy Gaines, his cousin, a daughter of William Fleming Gaines
of Greenway; and they had three children, Sarah, Hemdon and Lucy
Gaines, all of whom died unmarried), (d) William Fleming Gaines,
Jr. (who died young) (e) Martha Fleming Gaines (who married
Robert Baylor Hill and they had a daughter, Catherine Gaines Hill
who married Samuel Peachy Ryland), (f) 'Elizabeth Hemdon (who
married Captain Thomas Miller, of Powhatan County, Virginia, and
died without issue), (g) John Gaines (who lived at Providence. He
was Commonwealth Attorney for Virginia, never married). Henry
Gaines, Jr., who was called "Harry" married Myra Muse and lived
at **Woodlawn." They had five children: Juliet (who married
Thomas Nelson Carter; Cornelia, (who married Dr. Meade), Henry
Mortimer (who died unmarried) , Martha Elizabeth Gaines (who died
unmarried) and Sarah Anne Gaines (who died unmarried.) Ambrose
Gaines, of Culpeper County, Virginia, had a son, Matthew Ambrose
Gaines, who moved to Tennessee and married Margaret Luttrell,
daughter of James Churchwell Luttrell, First, and Margaret Armstrong
Luttrell. (See Luttrell and Armstrong Families). They had five chil-
dren, namely: James Luttrell Gaines, M. M. Gaines, Martha Gaines,
Mary Gaines, and Ambrose Gaines, Third.

Of the foregoing:

M. M. Gaines I have no record of him.

Mary Gaines married Bearden.

Martha Gaines married Richard Bearden.

Ambrose Gaines, Third, married Mary Towns and had six children.

namely: George Towns Gaines (who married and had Ethel

Smith Gaines and Katherine Woodville Gaines) ; Margaret Gaines
(who married Garland Buffington) ; Etta Gaines (who married H. B.
Hogan) ; Blanche Gaines (vfho married F. J. Hoyle) ; Mary Towns
Gaines (who married Reuben S. Payne) ; and Ambrose Gaines, Fourth
(who married Edith Lucie Jenks and has Margaret Gaines, Ambrose
Gaines, Fifth, Edith Jenks Gaines, and Mary Towns Gaines.)

James Luttrell Gaines was a gallant officer of the Confederate
Army and lost his arm in the service. He married Belle Porter, daug^
tcr of Erasmus Porter and had five children: Ambrose Porter Gaines,
Matthew Gaines, Lillian Gaines, (who died young) ; and James Lut-
trell Gaines, Second.

It should be mentioned here that various members of the Gaines
family in England and in Wales were knighted by different sovereigns
and as a rule each one adopted his own coat of arms and crest; con-
:$equently there is some confusion on this subject in Works of Heraldry.
In Dunn*s "Heraldic Visitation of Wales," which was prepared by
order of the King, are given the Coat of Arms and the genealogy of
the family in Wales. We therefore give the one described by Dunn

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as that of 'the Gaines family; "A field of silver a black lion with a
crown on its head." This was the COAT OF ARMS of Sir John
Gaines, but many of the descendants of Sir David Gaines bore his
arms : Sable, three spear heads argent, gonttes de sang a chevron argent
Another Gaines COAT OF ARMS is described as follows : "Argent,
two chevrons gules. CREST: Out of a ducal coronet or, a lion
rampant sable.**

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HO>X^ARD FAMILY

The Howard family is given by Burke and other authorities as the
oldest and most illustrious in the world. The Head of the House of
Howard is the Duke of Norfolk, Premier Duke of England, with
precedence of all save the Princes of the blood, and with hereditary
honors and titles that would fill a page. The present Head of the
House, the little Duke, is only ten years old. The late Duke was
married twice, and this child is the son of his second wife. By an odd
chance the little boy, heir of the House of Howard and Premier Duke
of Great Britain is also a descendant of a Colonial Governor in Amer-
ica, John Winthrop. Through his mother, the Dowager Duchess of
Norfolk, he is in the tenth generation from Governor John Winthrop.

The history of the Howards goes directly through English history
for a thousand years, and through other lines of the family centuries
further still, to the time indeed when history begins to be chronicled.

Hereward was of a Saxon Family living in the Reign of King
Edgar, 957 to 973. They were Lords and Earls. Duke Oslac was
their close kinsman and their daughters were married to reigning fam-
ilies. Hereward's son was the great Lord Leofric and Leofric's wife
the famed Lady Godiva of Coventry. They had a son, Hereward the
Banished, one of the famous characters in early history. Charles
Kingsley's "Hereward the Last of the Elnglish" is the story of young
Hereward. A daughter of Leofric and Godiva was married to a son
of Siward the Strong Arm. The Armstrong Family is from Siward.

Hereward the Banished was permitted to return. He had a son,
Hereward, and a grandson, Hereward, who married Wilburga. Here-
ward and Wilburga named their son Robert. Robert's son was John,
who married Lucy Germond. They had a son, William de Hayward
or Hereward, who was Chief Justice. It will be seen that the name
Hereward had become Normanized to de Hayward, and from that it
became in time Howard.

William de Hayward, the Justice, married twice, firstly, Alice
Ufford who died without children, and second, Alice Fitten, who was
mother to John Howard who married Joan de Cornwall, sister to Sii
Richard de Cornwall. Their son was another Sir John Howard.

The foregoing pedigree is from Burke. Some students of the fam-
ily history, however, begin the line with Robert and his son, John, who
married Lucy Germund, and was father to William de Hayward, the
Justice. Still others give William himself credit for being head of the
family line. From his name, however, all authorities agree.

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Burke, however, is authority and his record, page 1 1 28, of the
Peerage, reads:

**Ingulf and Mathew Paris concur in stating that Howard, or
Hereward, was living in the reign of King Edward, 957 to 973, and
that he was a kinsman of Duke Oslac, and that his son, Leofric, was
the father of Hereward, who was banished by the Conquerer. Tht!
very ancient book of the Church of Ely, 'Historia Ecclesia Eliensis,'
entirely confirms this statement. It appears that Hereward was subse-
quently allowed to return and it is certain that his family returned to
Wigenhall and other portions of their inheritance in Norfolk. Here-
ward's grandson, Hereward or Howard and his wife Wilburga, in
the reign of Henry II., granted a carucate of land in Torrington, in
Norfolk, to the Church of Len (Lynn) and directed that prayers
should be said for the souls of Hereward, his father, and of Hereward,
the Banished, or the Exile, his grandfather. Robert Hereward, the
son of Hereward, was seized of Wigenhall, Torrington and other
estates in Norfolk and was the fathei^ of John Hereward or Howard,
of Wigenhall, who by Lucy Germund, his wife, was the father of Sir
William Howard, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, from 1297 to
1308.

Sir John married Alice de Boys, daughter of Sir Robert de Boys,
and their son was Sir Robert who married Margery Scales, daughter
of Robert, Lord Scales. They had a son. Sir John, who married
Margaret, daughter of Sir John Plaiz, and no sons surviving, married
for his second wife, Alice, daughter of Sir William Tendring. They
had a son. Sir Robert, who married Lady Margaret Mowbray, daugh-
ter of Lord Mowbray and heiress of the Mowbrays.

With this marriage to Lady Margaret Mowbray, begins the great
record of the Howards, for through her they heired titles and estates
innumerable.

Lady Margaret Mowbray was the elder daughter of Thomas de
Mowbray by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Richard
FitzAllen, Earl of Arundel and cousin and co-heir of John Mowbray,
Duke of Norfolk. Thomas de Mowbray was a son and heir of Lord
John Mowbray by Elizabeth Segrave ( a direct descendant of Robert
de Vere, who signed Magna Carta as surety for King John.) John
de Mowbray was directly descended from Henry de Bohun, Roge«^
Bigod, Hugh Bigod, William de Mowbray, Gibbert de Clare, Richard
de Clare, John de Lacies, Saber de Quincey and William de Albina
each of whom signed Magna Carta as surety for King John. Lord
de Mowbray, was a Crusader and fell in Battle in 1 368.

Elizabeth Segrave's father, John Lord Segrave married Margaret
of Brotherton, daughter and heir of Thomas Plantagenet, called Thomas
of Brotherton, son of King Edward I., and his second wife, Margaret

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of France, daughter of Phillip II., called Phillip Le Hardi, King of,.
France.

Margaret of Brotherton (Plantagenet) was created Duchess of
Norfolk, and she claimed through her father the office of ELarl Mar-
shall of England and was called the Marechale. She was the daughter
of Thomas of Brotherton and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir Roger
Halys.

Thomas of Brotherton (Plantagenet) was the son of Eldward of
Elngland and his second wife Margaret of France, daughter of King
Phillip II, of France, called Le Hardi. Thomas was bom in Brother-
ton Castle, and was called of Brotherton. He was the son of Edward
I, who was the son of Henry III, who was the son of King John,
who was the son of Henry IV (and Eleanor of Aquitaine) who
was the son of Empress Matilda, who married forJier second husband,
Geoffry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and first of the name Plantagenet
because of a sprig of the broom plant which he wore in his cap. Geoffry
was the son of Fulk, Count of Anjou and King of Jerusalem.

Matilda was the daughter of Henry I, and he the son of William
the Conquerer, whose queen was a descendant of King Alfred. From
Edward I the genealogical lines are so many and so accurate that they
are bewildering. Suffice it to say that the family is descended from
Charlemange, King Alfred, William the Conqueror, Rollo, all the
early French Kings and heroes, and countless English and Saxon
heroes.

Thomas of Brotherton, son of Edward I, was Earl Mars'hall of
England and his daughter and heir was Margaret of Brotherton who
claimed the office and was called the Marechale. She was created
Duchess of Norfolk. She married John Mowbray and her son Thomas
Mowbray became the first Duke of Norfolk of the Mowbray line. There
were four Mowbray Dukes of Norfolk, when the male line failing, the
title reverted to the first Duke's daughter, Margaret Mowbray's de-
scendants.

Margaret Mowbray had married Sir Thomas Howard, as stated
before, and their son. Sir John Howard, became by right of his mother
the Duke of Norfolk. He is the first Duke of Norfolk in the Howard
line and in history is always called the First Duke of Norfolk (though
four Mobray Dukes and the Duchess Margaret of Brotherton had
preceded him).

Sir John Howard, the First Duke of Norfolk, son of Sir Robert
Howard and the Lady Margaret Mowbray married Katherine Moleyns,
daughter of William Lord of Moleyns.

Their son, Thomas Howard, was first Earl of Surrey by which
title he acquired fame and after his father's death became the Second
Duke of Norfolk. He is often called also the Victor of Flodden and

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is famous in history for that battle. He married firstly Elizabedi Tilney,
daughter and heiress of Sir Frederick Tilney. and widow ot Sir Hum-
phrey Bouchier, and married secondly Agnes Tilney a cousin of hn
first wife. A number of children by both wives left descendants though
the Ducal Une comes through the first wife, Elizabeth, as does also the
Soudiem family in America.

Thomas Howard, the Third Duke was the eldest son. The Amer-
ican family traces through the third son. Lord Edmund Howard. He
married Joyce Culpepper, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Culp^per,
A daughter of the couple was Katherine Howard, one of the ill fated
Queens of Henry VIII, (another was her fir^t cousin Ann Bolyn,
daughter of Lady Elizabeth Howard and Sir Thomas Bolyn. Queen
Elizabeth was the daughter of Ann .Bolyn).

Margaret Howard, daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce
Culpepper, married Sir Thomas Arundel, and they became protestants
-in the reign of Henry VIII. In the next reign, th^t of ELdward VI,
Arundel was accused of conspiracy and was beheaded and his property
sequestered. They had one son, Matthew, and this Matthew assumed
his mother's name of Howard as his own was temporarily under a
cloud and with Mary's accession to the Throne and Crown, the How-
ard prestige was greater than ever. His great uncle, Thomas Howard,
was Duke of Norfolk and Counsellor of State, to Queen Mary. The
use of surnames was not yet so fixed a habit but that a man might take
one at his convenience, and the assumption of the mother's name was
a frequent occurrence.

Matthew, son of Margaret Howard and Sir Thomas Arundel mar-
ried Margaret Wiloughby, and had a son, Thomas, who was a soldier
of fortune in Europe. He married twice, firstly. Lady Marcia Wrioth-
esley, by whom he had Thomas, William and Elizabeth Howard, and
secondly, Ann Thoroughgood. By his second marriage he had three
sons, Matthew, Thomas and Frederick, who being younger portionless
off-spring had to seek fortunes for themselves. Emigration to America,
the Land of Promise, was the spirit of the day and in company with
the family of their mother, who had been Ann Thoroughgood they all
came to America and to Virginia. The only daughter, Ann Howard,
married Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore.

MATTHEW HOWARD

Matthew Howard eldest son of Thomas Arundel or Thomas

Howard, was settled in Virginia before 1623, on the East bank of

the Elizabeth River near the present Parish of Norfolk. He had a

large, tract of land and several white servants. He received a grant

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of land in 1 638. He was a close friend, neighbor and evidently kins-
man of Edward and Cornelius Lloyd. His first wife by whom he
seems to have had no children was named Elizabeth. His second wife,
the mother of several children was named Ann and she was possibly
Ann Hall, as Richard Hall seems to have been an inmate of Matthew
Howard's household and bequeathed his estate to Matthew and his chil-
dren. Matthew Howard's sister, Ann Howard, daughter of Thomas
Arundel Howard and Ann Thoroughgood was married to Cecil Cal-
vert Lord Baltimore, and the intimacy between the two families proba-
ly prompted the removal of the entire Howard connection from Virginia
to Maryland in 1649. Matthew Howard's name is not mentioned after
that date in the Maryland records but it is believed that he emigrated
there and it is a certain fact that all his xhildren did. ^ They all settled
around Annapolis, and each appears frequently in the Maryland records.

The children of Matthew Howard and his wife Ann Howard were
Henry Howard, Philip Howard, Samuel Howard, John Howard, Cor-
nelius Howard, Matthew Howard, Second, Ann Howard, who mar-
ried a Phillips, and Elizabeth Howard, who married a Ridgeley.

Cornelius Howard, the fifth son of Matthew and Ann Howard
became the most prominent member of the family in early Maryland
affairs. He was bom about 1 630, in Virginia and he died in Mary-
land in 1680. He married Elizabeth, a daughter or granddaughter
of Lawrence Todd. In his will, made in 1680, he mentions his chil-
dren, Joseph Howard, Cornelius Howard, Second, Sarah Howard,
Elizabeth Howard and Mary Howard. In his will he lists his estate
as including: Howard's Hope, South side of Severn, Howard's Hard-
ship, Howard's Hill, Hockley Branch, Tuckahoe on Clapstack River,
Howard and Porter's Range.

His will is witnessed by Phillip Calvert and John Howard, H2
was perhaps married to a daughter of Joshua Owen before he married
the granddaughter of Lawrence Todd.

He was an ensign in the Maryland Militia in 1661, (Maryland
Archives) and was a member of the House of Burgesses 1671 to 1673,
(Maryland Archives.) All his descendants are eligible to the Colonial
Societies. When he made his will in 1630, his eldest son was not
yet eighteen years of age and his second son was also a minor. This
establishes the approximate date of the birth of Joseph Howard, the
eldest son, as about 1663, and the second son, Cornelius Howard,
Second, as about 1663.

Cornelius Howard, Second, son of Cornelius Howard, First, and
Elizabeth (Todd) Howard was bom about 1563 in Maryland. He
married Mary Hammond. His children were, Charles Howard, Cor-
nelius Howard, Third, James Howard and John Howard.

Charles Howard, son of Cornelius Howard, Second, and Mary

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Second Duke of Norfolk

Probably on the morning of the Battle of Flodden

The Southern family is descended from the Second Duke through
his third son, Lord Edmund Howard

After the Painting by C. Hallmnndel

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Hammond Howard, married Mary . His son was Benjamin

Howard.

Proofs of the line of descent in the Howard family may be found
in J. D. Warfield*s * 'Founders of Anne Arundel County." See the
following pages: Matthew Howard page 7-1 1-29-30. Cornelius
Howard (First) 71. Cornelius Howard (Second) 76. Charles How-
ard 76. Benjamin Howard 76.

After Benjamin Howard, who married Prudence Sater, the de-
scent as given is in the family Bibles and private papers now in pos-
session of his descendants.

Benjamin Howard served in the War of the Revolution. The
records in Washington show that Benjamin Howard served as a private
in Captain Henry Gaither's Company First Maryland Regiment, com-
manded by Colonel John^H. Stone, Revolutionary War. He enlisted
March 3rd, 1777, and his name is borne on the Company rolls for
February, 1 799, dated Middlebrook, March 3rd, 1 779, with remarks
showing him in command.

Benjamin Howard married Prudence Sater and with her name
another long and interesting family connection must be traced. She was
bom November 25, 1743 and died September 22, 1822. She was
the second child and eldest daughter of Henry Sater and his wife
Dorcas Towson.

HENRY SATER

Henry Sater was born in England in one of the Western Shires
in 1 690 and was of Danish extraction. He came to America in 1 709,
and first settled in Virginia. He subsequently removed to Maryland
and became a well known colonist in that Province. He established
an estate ten miles north of Baltimore from grants of land received
from Lord Baltimore. He was probably of family and position before
he emigrated to America, as he possessed large means and lived in an
almost princely style upon his large plantation. There is no record
of his having performed military service, though it is believed that he
did serve his country and that his grants of land were in recognition of
military service.

He married twice, first. Miss Step-henson, by whom he had no
children and secondly, Dorcas Towson, by whom he had a large family.
Dorcas Towson was a daughter of William Towson. Henry Sater
died May 1 754, in the forty-sixth year of his age. He was a distin-
guished colonist and his gift of the the first Baptist Church in Maryland
and one of the first in America is most interesting. He made a deed
of the land to the Baptist denomination **to the end of the world."
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His SIX children were, George Sater, Prudence Sater, Henry Sater,
Discretion Sater, John Sater and Joseph Sater.

William Towson, father of Dorcas Towson, who married Henry
Sater was bom in Germany (in Mimich it is believed about 1695. He
emigrated to London and there married Catherine Allen, a descendant
of Oliver Cromwell. With his wife he came to America and estab-
lished a place now known as Towsontown. After the death of Cath-
erine Allen Towson he married for his second wife Dinah Wilmot,
He died June 1772. His children were: Ezekial Towson,
Rachel Towson, Dorcas Towson, John Towson, Thomas Towson,
Ruth Towson, Catherine Towson and Charles Towson. The child of
William Towson and his second wife Dinah Wilmot Towson was
Abraham Towson. Towsontown is near Baltimore.

Numbers of the Towson connection married Cromwells, all kins-
people, and all probably as a result of the first marriage of William
Towson to Catherine Allen, a descendant of Cromwell. Ezekial Tow-
son (son of William and Catherine Allen Towson) married, firstly,
Sarah Cromwell and secondly, Ruth Cromwell, his mother's kinswomen.
Sarah was a daughter of Joseph and Comfort Cromwell and Ruth was
probably her sister.

Joseph Cromwell had a brother, William Cromwell and they are
said to be direct descendants of Sir Oliver Cromwell of Hinchenbrook,
great uncle to the Protector. William Cromwell's will is dated May 9,-
1753, Anne Arundel County Province of Maryland. William Crom-
well's wife was a Wilmot, a sister to Dinah Wilmot, who was William
Towson's second wife.

General Nathan Towson, Paymaster General U. S. A. grandson
of William Towson and Catherine Allen Towson was also a descendant
of the Cromwell families through his mother who was a Cromwell,
daughter of a Richard Cromwell. Some authorities give her as a grand-
daughter of Henry Cromwell, son of the Protector, but Henry's son,
Richard, died unmarried according to genealogists. The same English
genealogists, Waylen and others, state that the Cromwell family of
America is not directly descended from Oliver Cromwell the Protector,
but from an older branch, though doubtless the same family. This refers
to those by the name Cromwell, as male heirs of the famous Protector
could not have been in America. Catherine Allen, however, does not
come under this general statement, as she was living in London when she
married William Towson, and she does not come in the male line which
is thoroughly known to genealogists.

Our records say positively that William Towson married Catherine
Allen in London, and that she was a descendant of Oliver Cromwell,
the Protector. Though it is not so stated I have always believed that
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Lieutenant of Ireland, and a man of distinguished ability. Henry's
daughter, Elizabeth, married her mother's first cousin, William Russell,
and had bom to her fourteen children. The Russells fell upon evil
times financially, and William escaped his numerous creditors by dying,
leaving Elizabeth with many surviving children, though several of her
sons died early. Of the fourteen only ten names are known. **The
widow with her children fled to London." The Restoration had thrown
all the Cromwells into disfavor, and as Elizabeth and her children were
in very straightened circumstances, their consequent obscurity has pre-
vented genealogists from picking up all their name and histories. I
believe that one of the daughters of this EUizabeth Cromwell (or pos-
sibly a granddaughter) married William Towson. Catherine Allen
may have been a middle name, the use, of middle names was beginning
them to be a custom, or she may have been a young widow by the name
of Allen when she married William Towson.

Her daughter, Dorcas Towson was bom about 1 720, showing
that she must have been married about 1713 or 1718, and a search
of the marriage records in London about that date might show more
data concerning her.

The family of Elizabeth Cromwell Russell is the only one of the
Protector's descendants which is identified with London. Also many,
if not all the others are pretty well accounted for.

Despite their poverty the kinship was doubtless fully recognized,
and when Catherine Allen Towson and her prosperous young husband,
William Towson established in America, near Baltimore, a plantation
home, it became a journey's end for emigrating Cromwells and a meet-
ing place for other Cromwells of the older branch already established
in Maryland. The result was a series of marriages, as chronicled above,
Ezekial Towson's marriage, to two Cromwells, Ruth and Sarah, and
many other alliances.

Henry Cromwell, fourth son of the Protector, (born 1623, died
1674) developed faculties which proved him a worthy son of such a
sire. Rapin's observation that had he succeeded to the Protectorate
instead of his elder brother, Richard Cromwell, history would have
worn a different tinge has been accepted by all historians. Henry
Cromwell married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Russell, Baronet.
Henry died in 1674. His widow styled the "good Lady Cromwell"
survived him thirteen years. Their daughter, Elizabeth married her
mother's first cousin, William Russell (grandson of Sir William Rus-
sell) August 30, 1681.

By the way, it is because of a Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell, next
to Oliver most noted of the name, that we are able to give dates of
births, marriages and deaths in early English history. It was he who
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entirely due to him therefore that after 1588 authentic dates may be
obtained. This Thomas CromWell and his sister, Catherine, were chil-
dren of Walter Cromwell. Catherine married Morgan Williams, and
her descendants took the name Cromwell as Thomas had already given
it fame. Henry VIII knighted her son, Richard Williams as Richard
Cromwell. The Protector is from this family.

BENJAMIN HOWARD

Benjamin Howard was born February 1 7, 1742. His tombstone
relates that he was bom on Long Island, but this probably means an
Island in Maryland.

He married Prudence Sater September 21, 1762, in Baltimore
County, Maryland, and it is believed by his descendants that this was
a run away marriage, for Miriam Isbell Turnley was told by her mother
that it was an elopement. To lighten tl^e gravity of this genealogical
statement be it observed just here that Prudence having run away with
Benjamin Howard named her daughter Discretion! and further that
Discretion ran away as you will sec if you read more of this family
story.

Prudence and Benjamin Howard went to Wilkes County, North
Carolina to reside. When the Wilkes was divided into two counties,
their homestead was thrown into Caldwell County and there it is standing
now in a very good condition.

Benjamin Howard died June 4, 1828, and is buried on his home
place.

Prudence Sater Howard died September 22, 1822, and is buried
beside her husband on the home place.

Benjamin Howard and his wife. Prudence Sater Howard had
twelve children, namely:

( I ) Discretion Howatd, bom July 29, 1 764, (who married ,
Thomas Isbell).

(2) ' Phillip Howard, born January 6, 1 766.

(3) Mary Howard, bom 1 768. , /

(4) George Howard, born Febmary 4, I 770.

(5) Sarah Howard, bom October 21, 1771.

(6) Elizabeth Howard, born February I, 1774.

(7) Rachel Howard, born December 27, 1776.

(8) Rebecca Howard, bom February 10, 1778.

(9) Benjamin Howard, Second, born March 11,1 780, married
Betsey Walker, lived and died July 21, 1825, in Wilkes County.
North Carolina, and had a son, George R.^ Howard.

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(10) Cornelius Howard, born April 7, 1782, married Delhia
Hagler.

(11) Nancy Howard, bom February 20, 1 784, married Joseph
Callaway. They had a son Thomas H. Callaway.

(12) Prudence Howard, died in infancy.

From these come literally hundreds, aye, thousands of descendants.
The line best known to the writer is that of Discretion Howard, afore
mentioned, who ran away when she became of marriageable age, de-
spite her name "Discretion" following her mother's example.

Discretion Howard is said to have been beautiful widi magnificent
red hair and a character that matched the vividness of her hair, for
on several occasions she displayed remarkable courage and quickness of
judgment.

Once when the Tories sought her husband, who had escaped from
them and had arrived breathless at his home just ahead of them, she
pushed him into place and went on calmly milking a white cow, as
though her heart was not beating its life out in anxiety. ,

They asked if she had, seen a rebel go by and she truthfully replied
that she had not, and continued to milk the cow.

So they passed by and Thomas Isbell was saved.

Thomas Isbell was known as **Captain of the Lighthorst," but
no proof to that effect has been found. However, his sword which he
carried throughout the Revolution, and described as a very sharp,
three sided spear which fitted into a cane with buck horn handle was
burned when the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Caroline Tucker
Johnston was destroyed in 1895.

The marriage of Discretion Howard to Thomas Isbell brings into
the family another interesting line. James Isbell, first of the Isbells in
America emigrated from England. His wife was Frances Tompkins
Livingston. Their eldest child was born September 27, 1748. Pre-
sumably they were married in 1 747. It is possible that they were mar-
ried in Virginia. They lived for many years in Albemarle County,
Virginia, where their children were all born. About 1 778 they moved
to Wilkes County, North Carolina.

James Isbell died November 2, 1780, in Wilkes County, North
Carolina. His wife, Frances Tompkins Livingston Isbell died January
2, 1 784, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. They had ten children,
six sons and four daughters and had the honor of having six sons in
the Battle of King's Mountain, namely, John Isbell, Livingston Isbel!,
Thomas Isbell, Francis Isbell, James Isbell, Second, and William
Tompkins Isbell, who was only fifteen years old. Only two other
families can boast such a record, the Seviers with seven members of the
family and the Shelbys with four. Note: As Martha Parkes, a

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granddau^ter of Livingston Isbell, married her cousin, Benjamin Is-
bell, a son of Thomas Isbell, several of the Isbell lines are descended
from two of the foregoing heroes of Kings Mountain.

FRANCES TOMPKINS LIVINGSTON ISBELL

Frances Tompkins Livingston, was born probably about the year

1 727. She was the daughter of Livingston and .

In Virginia say 1 747 she married James Isbell. Her eldest son, John
Isbell, was bom September 27, 1848. Another son, Thomas Isbell,
was bom in Albemarle County, Virginia, June 27, 1753. The family
continued residing in that county until about the year 1 778, when die>r
removed to Wilkes County, North Carolina. She died there January
2, 1 784. The Livingston family probably lived in Virginia, prioi
to the marriage of Frances. She had six sons and four daughters.

The children of James and Frances Tompkins Livingston were:

( 1 ) John Isbell. born September 27, 1 748.

(2) Milly Isbell. bom April 2. 1750.

(3) Livingston Isbell. bom November 17, 1751.

(4) Francis Isbell, bom February 12, 1755.

(5) Thomas Isbell.

(6) Edith Isbell, born November 1 7, 1 756.

(7) Mary Isbell, bom August 21,1 758.

(8) James Isbell, Second, zorn April 3, 1760.

(9) Elizabeth Isbell. bom October 19, 1762.

(10) William Tompkins Isbell, bom September 19, 1765.

Of the foregoing I have only the full record of Thomas Isbell and
a partial record of Livingston Isbell.

(3) Livmgston Isbell, the third child of James and Frances Tomp-
kins Livingston Isbell was bom November 17, 1 75 1 , in Albemarie
County, Virginia. As his brother Thomas Isbell made his first enlist-
ment in the war from Albemarle County, Virginia, it is possible that
Livingston Isbell also first went into the Army in Albemarle County.
Later, October 7, 1780, he was in the Battle of King's Mountain,
from Wilkes County, North Carolina, where the whole family of Isbells
had by that time emigrated. He married, about the year 1 774,

Martin and had at least one daughter, Frances Isbell,

whom he evidently named for his mother, who married Ambrose
Parkes. Their daughter, Martha Parkes married Benjamin Isbell as
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THOMAS ISBELL.

(5) Thomas Isbell, fifth child of James and Frances Tompkin?
Livingston Isbell was bom in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1753,
June 27th.

At the time of his enlistment in the Army of the Revolution, 1 776,
he still resided in that county.

Thomas Isbell with his five brothers fought under Colonel Cleve-
land in the battle of King's Mountain, October 7, 1 780.

At that date the youngest brother was fifteen, the oldest thirty-two,
and the family resided in North Carolina, where Cleveland's troops
were mustered.

Of Thomas Isbell's service we have this information.

The Pension Records show that Thomas Isbell was a private in
Captain Thomas Walker's (afterwards Captain William Henderson's)
Company, Ninth Virginia Regiment, Colonel George Mathews com-
manding. Revolutionary Army.

He enlisted, date not stated, to serve two years from April 10,
1 776, and his name is borne on the rolls to and including January 1 778,
when he is reported honorably discharged, date t not shown.

The widow's pension was allowed for his services as a private in
the Virginia troops for the period of two years.

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Albemarle County, Virginia.
Date of application for pension by widow January 26, 1843.

Benjamin Isbell writes that his father, Thomas Isbell, served five
years m the War of the Revolution. It is probable that after the de-
moval of his father's family to North Carolina, (between the years
1 776 and 1 780) he entered some command in that state. He was
in the Battle of King's Mountain.

February 21, 1782, Thomas Isbell married Discretion Howard,
who lived in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October
27. 1819, was torn down in 1897.

Thomas Isbell and his wife. Discretion, were members of the King's
Creek Baptist Church, Wilkes County. It was burned only a few
years since.

In Thomas Isbell's will he makes repeated mention of his "beloved
wife Discretion."

Thomas Isbell and Discretion Howard Isbell had nine children,
namely:

(1) Prudence Isbell.

(2) Benjamin Isbell.

(3) John Isbell.

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(4) Frances Isbell.

(5) Livingston Isbell.

(6) Elizabeth Isbell.

(7) Thomas Isbell, Second.

(8) Mary Isbell.

(9) James Isbell.

Of the foregoing:

(1) Prudence Isbell, bom 1783, married Ambrose Carelton.

(2) Benjamin Isbell. His record follows:

(3) John Isbell, bom February 11, 1788.

John Isbell (son of Thomas) who died unmarried about 1824
had been given tha^t tract of land around Duetto wn but the burning
of the courthouse with all records at Madisonville soon afterwards de-
stroyed all proofs and left the family nothing on which to base claims
for his estate.

(4) Frances Isbell, bom July 2, 1791. died October 23. 1871,
married September 25, 1808, Micajah Ferguson. They had several
children: Matilda Ferguson, Horton Ferguson, Linville Ferguson,
Salena Ferguson, Savannah Ferguson, Livingston Ferguson, Finley Fer-
guson, Stanford Ferguson, Kilby Ferguson, Jane Ferguson and Olive
Ferguson, all of whom married and left children. .

(5) Livingston Isbell, born April 15, 1749, died -; mar-
ried Mary Edwards and had three sons, namely: Tliomas Isbell
(who died unmarried) ; Boiling Isbell, who died unmarried) and Louis
Isbell, (who married and left one son).

(6) Elizabeth Isbell, bom November 1796, died July 19, 1884.
married October II, 1818, Nim^od Ferguson and had eleven children,
namely: Thomas Leeland Ferguson, Milton Ferguson, Polly Elmira
Ferguson, Vina Ferguson, John Wycliff Ferguson, Pinckney M. Fer-
guson, Casbum Ferguson, Caroline Ferguson, James N. Ferguson, Sarah
Catherine Ferguson and Discretion Rebecca Ferguson, almost all ,
of whom married and left children.

(7) Thomas Isbell, bojn January 29, 1800, married Lucinda
Petty and had two children, James M. Isbell and a daughter.

(8) Mary Isbell, born December 21, 1803, died January 6,
1891, married August 16, 1829, Joseph Tucker, ninth child of Wil-
liam and Nancy Grider Tucker, and had six children, namely:

George Livingston Tucker.
Jane Elizabeth Tucker.
Isabelle Minerva Tuckei
Martha Caroline Tucker.

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Julia Discretion Tucker.
Frances Rutelia Tucker.

Of the foregoing:

George Livingston Tucker, married Minerva McKamy Frazier
and had: Mary Emily Tucker, died young; Hannah Minerva Tucker,
(married Dr. W. W. Cunningham and had George T. Cunningham
and Ethel Cunningham) ; and Julia Frazier Tucker, died young ;

Jane Elizabeth Tucker, (who married John Hall and had ten
children: (1) George Tucker Hall, married Abigail Grant and had
an infant, died young, Anna Lou Hall married William Rodgers and
has William Rodgers, Second, and Virginia Rodgers; and John Grant
Hall; (2) Delano Tucker Hall, who married Cynthia Taylor and
had Vclma Hall, and Clapman Hall; (3) Joseph Tucker Hall mar-
ried Leonie Bamett; (4) Emmett Tucker Hall married Annie Brown
and had Annie B. Hall, married Coleman Rodgers, and Jane Hall; (5)
Ney Tucker Hall, who married Tulie McKamy and had Ruth Hall,
married Oscar Reynolds and John McKamy Hall, married Isabelle
Williams; (6) Lea Tucker Hall, married Lizzie Stewart and had
John Stewart Hall; (7) John Tucker Hall, died young; (8) Fate
Tucker Hall, married Emma Acobert for his first wife and married
for his second wife Icie Bryant Hall, the widow of his brother Isbell
Tucker Hall and had by her Isbell Hall; (9) Isbell Tucker Hall mar-
ried Icie Bryant as her first husband and had Icie Belle Hall; (10)

Isabelle M. Tucker married Christopher Lafayette Hardwick April
3, 1 85 1 , and had twelve children : ( 1 ) Frank Tucker Hardwick mar-
ried Caroline McCutcheon and had Wallace McCutcheon Hardwick,
married Lucy Maddox and has Frank Tucker Hardwick Second;
Johnnie Millard Hardwick, married John McChesney Hogshead and
has Frances Caroline Hogshead; Frances Tucker Hardwick married
Elmmett S. Newton and has Martha Caroline Newton; (2) Joseph
Henry Hardwick married Cooksey A. Harris and had Harrie B. Hard-
wick, married Oscar A. Knox and has Adela Knox, married Joseph
Jamagin, and Irene Knox; and Christopher Lafeyette Hardwick, Sec-
ond, married Clyde Johnston; (3) John Millard Hardwick, (who
died unmarried) ; (4) James Oscar Hardwick, married Ida Ruff and

had C. Lafayette Hardwick, married Ruby , Irene Hardwick

married Fred Beekham and had Ida Beekham; Laura Belle Hard-
wick; Julia Hardwick, John Houston Hardwick, died young, and
Garland Reeves Hardwick; (5) George Lee Hardwick, married
Fannie McCutcheon, a sister to his brother Frank's wife, and had
Lollie Belle Hardwick, married David Sullins Stuart and has Mary
Frances Stuart and Hardwick Stuart; Margaret Hardwick, married
Hal B. Moore and has Martha Frances Moore, George Lee Hardwick

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Second married Elizabeth Pyott and has George Lee Hardwick, Third,
and James Hardy Hardwick; Cicero McCutcheon Hardwick, who is
not married; Jennie May Hardwick, who is not married, Frank Tucker
Hardwick and Frances Hardwick; (6) Nora Isbell Hardwick, mar-
ried John C. Ramsey and had Maynard Ramsey, married Edith
Robinson and has Maynard Ramsey, Second; (7) Margaret Julia
Hardwick, married James Leonidas Caldwell as his first wife and
had four children: James Lafayette Caldwell, died young; Joseph
Hardwick Caldwell married Kathleen Pound and has two children:
Joseph Hardwick Caldwell, Second, and James Leonidas Caldwell,
Second; Margaret Caldwell married Mark Charles Morrison; and La-
fayette Hardwick Caldwell, who is not married; (8) French Mont-
gomery Hardwick died young; (9) Houston Lafayette Hardwick
died unmarried; (\0) Julius Holmes Hardwick married Estelle Jones
and had two children, Florine Hardwick, married Robert L. Smith
and Richard Holmes Hardwick, (11) Fannie Lucretia Hardwick,
died young; and (12) Anna Belle Hardwick, married Reeves Brown
and has Reeves Brown, Second.

Martha Caroline Tucker, married Emmett R. Johnston and had
Eugene Johnston, Mary Alice Johnston, (who married M. L. Beard
and had Frankie Beard, Carrie May Beard and Frank Beard) ; Esther
Johnston; Joseph Tucker Johnston, (married Ella Wehunt and had
Caroline Johnston) ; Carrie Belle Johnston ; and French Johnston.

Julia Discretion Tucker married James McGhee and had Benjamin
McCarthy MeChee; Horace G. McGhee, (married Hattie Hunting-
ton and had Mildred McGhee, Edwin McGhee H. C. McGhee,
Second) .

Frances Rutelia Tucker married Columbus A. Mee.

(9) James Isbell, bom September 12, 1806, married March 19,
1833, Rutelia Houston, a descendant of the Armstrong and Calhoun
Families, and had five children, namely: Houston Isbell, (who died
unmarried) ; Thomas Livingston Isbell, (who married Mattie Norris
and had three children: Rutelia Houston Isbell, married W. H. Lane
and has one child Rutelia Lane, William Isbell who died and Moss
Isbell who died unmarried; Margaret Isbell, (who married Major
Joseph Hardie and left no children) ; and Alice Isbell (who married
her cousin, William Park Armstrong; and had four children: William
Park Armstronk, Second, who married Rebekah Sellars Purvis and has
live children: Rebekah Purvis Armstrong, William Park Armstrong,
George Purvis Armstrong, Ann Elizabeth Armstrong and Jane Crozier
Armstrong; Houston Churchwell Armstrong married Mina Lamar and
has three children, Houston Churchwell Armstrong, Second, Alice Isbell
Armstrong, and Mina Cary Armstrong; Margaret Armstrong, married
Ainslee Power Ardagh and has five children, Margaret Ardagh, Ains-

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lee Power Ardagh, Second; Anne E. Armstrong, who married Thomas
Stoo Johnston and lives in New Orelans) ; and Fannie Isbell, who
married William Boynton and had William Boynton, Second, and
Dwight Boynton.

(2) Benjamin Isbell, the second child of Thomas and Discretion
Howard Isbell, married Martha Parkes, who was his first cousin once
removed, as she was the granddaughter of Livingston Isbell, brother
of Thomas Isbell. A brief record of her families is therefore inserted
here.

About 1670 there was living in Virginia Thomas Parkes. He
had two sons.

( 1 ) John Parkes who had seventeen children of whom ten were
sons, George, (grandfather of E. M. Parkes, of Memphis) and
others most of whom settled in North Carolina, and one went to Geor-
gia. George was the youngest child of the seventeen.

(2) Thomas Parkes, who lived in Wilkes County, North Caro-
lina, and had six children all of whom were sons.

( 1 ) John Parkes, the eldest son moved to and died in Tennessee.

(2) Thomas Parkes the second son remained in Wilkes County.

(3) Reuben Parkes, the third son, died in Tennessee.

(4) Aaron Parkes the fourth son died in Tennessee near Fay-
ette (Fay^tteyille?)

(5) Ambrose Parkes the fifth son went to Missouri.

(6) William Parkes the sixth son also went west.

The above information was furnished by E. M. Parkes, of Mem-
phis, who says he spent some time with members of the family in
Wilkes County, in 1 840 en route to school to study medicine in Phila-
delphio.

It is certain that Ambrose Parkes went to Missouri and there died.
Mrs. Missouri Isbell McMillan received her name Missouri from this
fact. She was born and named in 1837.

AMBROSE PARKES
Ambrose Parkes, fifth son of Thomas Parkes and has wife ■

married about the year I 790, Frances Isbell, daughter of Livingston
Isbell. This marriage took place in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
He lived during the Revolution and possibly served m the War.

Ambrose Parkes and his wife Frances Isbell Parkes went to Mis-
souri late in life and probably died there.

Ambrose Parkes gave to each of his daughters a slave. To his
daughter Martha he gave "Milly." She survived her mistress many
years and was a faithful servant to her children.

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Children of Ambrose Parkes and his wife Frances Isbell Parkes:

(1) Martm Parkes.

(2) Allen Parkes.

(3) Thomas Parkes.

(4) Martha Parkes, who married Benjamin Isbell.

(5) Susan Parkes, who married Lee Hubbard.

(6) Polly Parkes, who married George Barnes, of Kentucky.

(7) Ambrose Parkes.

(8) Lee Parkes

(9) Cynthia Parkes, who married Barnes.

MARTHA PARKES

Martha Parkes, daughter of Ambrose Parkes and his wife Frances
Isbell Parkes, was bom April 6, 1 799. She married m Wilkes County,
North Carolina, February 17, 1918, Benjamin Isbell. It is believed
that both the Parkes and Isbell families were members of the Kings
Creek Baptist Church of that county. This church was recently burned
and its records destroyed. She removed with her husband three years
after her marriage, (1821) to McMinn county, Tennessee, where
they established a handsome homestead. She had five sons and six
daughters. She died July 15, 1840, when only forty-one years old,
and is buried on the Isbell place in McMinn county.

FRANCES ISBELL PARKES

Frances Isbell Parkes, daughter of Livingston Isbell and his wife
Martin Isbell, was bom say about 1 770. She married Am-

brose Parkes about 1 790. Her daughter, who was presumably her
fourth child was bom April 10, 1779. This information is received
from Missouri Isbell McMillan who received it from Prudence Isbell
Carleton m February, 1861. Missouri Isbell McMillan also says:
"Some of my mother's (Martha Parkes Isbell) brothers settled at or
near Lewisburg, Tennessee. Some of the family moved to the State
of Missouri, and that is how I came to be named Missouri. When I
was the youngest child (1837) mother received a letter from grand-
mother telling her that she was coming to Middle Tennessee* on a visit
and for her to meet her there. For some reason it seemed mother felt
she could not leave home, and she wrote she could not go. But after
the letter was written she grieved so about it that my father -had her
get ready, and she with babe (Missouri), nurse, Frances and Martin,
took the carriage and made the trip, but on getting there, late one
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never saw her mother again. Sister Frances told me of this trip shortly
before her death."

Thus it will be seen that in 1837, the year of Missouri IsbelKs
birth, Frances Isbell Parkes was still living and made the trip from
Missouri to Tennessee. It is believed that she died in Missouri shortly
after this date.

Benjamin Isbell, son of Thomas Isbell and Discretion Howard
Isbell, married Martha Parkes, his first cousin, once removed. She
was the granddaughter of Livingston Parkes Isbell. They had eleven
children, namely:

(1) Miriam Isbell, bom February 25, 1819

(2) Thomas Martin Isbell, bom March 3, 1821.

(3) Frances Discretion Isbell, bom March 1 1, 1823.

(4) Martha Ann Isbell, bom November 9, 1825.

(5) Mary Louise Isbell, bom November, 1827.

(6) Sarah Elizabeth Isbell, born September 29. 1829.

(7) James Parkes Isbell, born July 20, 1831 ; died unmarried
April 19, 1850.

(8) Benjamin Howard Isbell, bom July I. 1833; died unmarried
September 8, 1864.

(9) John Williams Isbell, bom August 7, 1835, died unmarried
July 7, 1864.

(10) Lucinda Missouri Isbell. bom July 4, 1837.

(11) Dennis Rowan Isbell, bom September 1 , 1 839.

Of the foregoing:

(1) Miriam Isbell. born February 25, 1819, died January 9,
•1 898, married May 28, 1 839, Matthew Jacob Tumley (see Turnley
Family) and had eight children: Martha Julia Turnley, (who married
December 1 9, 1 867, John McMillan Armstrong (see Armstrong and
McMillan Families. Their children were Tumley Armstrong who
died unmarried and Zella Armstrong) ; George Isbell Turnley (who
married twice, first Willie Woodward and secondly, Emma Ross and
has no children) ; Mary Tumley (who married John Hughes Reynolds
and had six children : Hughes Tumley Reynolds, married Mary Tay-
lor and has two children: John Hughes Reynolds, Second, and Mar-
garhetta Reynolds; ,William Barton Reynolds died young; Mirani
Reynolds; May Reynolds, married Raymond Scott and had two
children, Reynolds Scott and May Scott; Ruby Reynolds, married
William Ogbum and has Reynolds Ogburn; and John Hughes Rey-
nolds, Jr., died young). James Benjamin Tumley (who married Lula
Phinizy (see Phinizy Family) and had five children: Louisa Turnley;
John Phinizy Tumley, Jane Tumley, married Charles E. Sedberry and
left an infant child who died. James Marco Turnley, married Nettie

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Brooks and has two daughters, Mary Florence Tumley and Lula
Turnlcy; and William Micou Tumley, married Lillian Crow and has
one child Lulu Elizabeth Tumley) ; William Franklin Pierce Turnley
(who married and left one son, Thomas Tumley) ; Thomas Howard
Tumley (who died unmarried) ; Frances Amelia Tumley (who died
in infancy) ; and Eppie Reynolds Tumley (who married Nathan Cal-
houn Say re and has no children).

(2) Thomas Martin Isbell, bom March 3, 1821, died June 19,
1859 He married December 21, 1843, Sarah Ann Terry. They
had children, among them, Mattie Isbell, who married "Tip" Forrest.

(3) Frances Discretion Isbell, bom March II, 1828, died Jan-
uary 29, 1886, married March 30, 1852, for her first husband John
Hughes, who died March 7, 1855, and married for her second hus-
band, 1867, William L. Rice, by whom she had no children. Her
two children by her first husband were: Benjamin Isbell Hughes, (who
married Sarah Park and had Phebe Hughes, married Capers Simmons;
Benjamin Isbell Hughes, Jr., married Frank Hawltiwanger, has two
children, Sallie Bonham and Julia Carouthers Hughes; Sophy Hughes,
who is umarried, John Hughes, United States Army; Park
Hughes, United States Army; Lucian Hughes, United States Army;
and Sarah Hughes) ; and Elizabeth Hughes, (who married Wallace
K. Shedden and left Elizabeth Shedden and Mary Shedden).

Martha Ann Isbell, bom November 9, 1825, died April 27, 1844,
married Robert Houston McMillan (see McMillan family) as his
first wife and had two children: James Benjamin McMillan, , (who
married Cynthia Cunningham and had William Cunningham McMil-
lan; Alice McMillan, Rutelia Isbell McMillan, Mary B. McMillan;
and Kitty McMillan) ; and Alice McMillan, (who is not married).

(5) Mary Louisa Isbell, born November 5, 1827, died

married November 5, 1844, Richard Franklin Malone Hampton and
had five children: Robert Isbell Hampton, (who married Effie Eliza-
beth Clabaugh and had Robert Richard Hamfrton and Elizabeth Cla-
baugh Hampton, married Charles Alden Rowland and has Charles
Hampton Rowland. Robert Isbell Hampton married for his second
wife Miss Comer, by whom he had no children) ; James Hampton,
(who died without issue) ; Frances Hampton (who married Rankin
Magill) ; Emma Hampton (who is unmarried) ; ^nd Richard Hamp-
ton.

(6) Sarah Elizabeth Isbell, bom September 29, 1829, died May
28, 1 864, married December' 26, 1 849, Judge Jesse Gaut as his
first wife had three sons : Thomas Isbell Gaut, Oscar Gaut and Orlando
Gaut. Of these Thomas Isbell Gaut married Mary Lee and had two
children: James Gaut who died unmarried and lone Gaut who mar-
ried James Mooney of Washington and has six children: Oscar Gaut

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married Annie Mills and left three children. Lieutenant Oscar Gaut,
Junior, now in France, Orlando Gaut, junor, also a soldier in the United
States Army and a daughter Elizabeth Gaut who is married and lives
in Texas. Orlando Gaut, son of Judge Jesse Gaut and Sarah Eliza-
beth Isbell Gaut, died unmarried.

(7) James Parkes Isbell, born July 20, 1831, died unmarried
April 19, 1850.

(8) Benjmain Howard Isbell, bom July I, 1833, died unmarried
September, 1 864. /

(9) John Williams Isbell, born August 7, 1835, died unmarried
July 7, 1864.

(10) Lucinda Missouri Isbell, born July 4, 1837, died April 25,
1918, at her home in Talledega, Alabama. She married July 9, 1 855,
Robert Houston McMillan (her sister Martha's widower) as his
second wife and had two children, both deceased: Robert Houston
McMillan, Second, (who married Sarah Gray and had Robert Hous-
ton McMillan, Third, died young, Allen Gray McMillaui and Cath-
erine McMillan) and Fannie McMillan, (who married Jesse F Wikle
and had Robert McMillan Wikle and Jesse F. Wikle, Second).

( 1 ) Dennis Rowan Isbell, bom September 1 , 1 829, died ;

married December 28, 1871, Emma Callaway. They had two chil-
dren, John Callaway Isbell and Ernest Isbell.

Other descendants of the Howard family through one of his daugh-
ters who married a Callaway, are Mrs. Susan Latimore Kline, of Chat-
tanooga, and her children, Mrs. Isaac Phillips and Captain Franklin
Kline, of the United States Army.

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The Tennessee family of Key is of Scotch origin, migrating first
from Scotland to Pennsylvania and later like so many of the Scotch
Irish people to Tennessee. The name of the emigrant was John Key,
a name borne by his descendants to this day. He came to America
prior to the Revolution, served in that War and was one of the early
settlers in what is now Greene County, Tennessee, but was then a part
of North Carolina. He married either before or directly after his
coming to Tennesse and had two sons, Peter Key and David Key.

David Key married and had a son, John Key, bom about 1810,
who was a Methodist preacher of renown throughout East Tennessee.
John Key married Margaret Armitage, daughter of Isaac Armitage.
Margaret Armitage was bom in Greene County February 1 8t^, 1814.
Her father Isaac Armitage was of an English family that had come
from Ejigland first to Pennsylvania and later to Tennessee, and he had
married Elizabeth Weston, daughter of Weston, a Ten-
nessee pioneer. Margaret Armitage Key died April 12 th, 1882.

John and Margaret Armitage Key had four children, three sons
and one daughter, namely: David McKendree Key, Simimerfield
Armitage Key, John Fletcher Key and Elizabeth Key.

Summerfield Armitage Key was bom October 1 4, 1 834. He died
June 14, 1890. He married in 1871 Mary Divine, daughter of John
L. Divine, and his first wife who was Elizabeth Williams, daughter
of Colonel Samuel Williams, a Tennessee pioneer whose wife was
Rebecca Davis, of Trenton, Georgia. Samuel Williams' father was
George Williams, and his father was Samuel Williams, who was a
Revolutionary soldier; served at King's Mountain and is frequently
mentioned in Ramsey's Annals and other Tennessee histories.

Mrs. Summerfield Armitage Key survives her husband. The three
children of Summerfield Armitage Key and Mary Divine Key are John
Divine Key, a prominent Chattanooga business man, Elizabeth Key,
who married James Francis Johnston of an old and Tennessee family;
(they have one son, Summerfield Key Johnston) and Mary Key, who
married Pearson B. Mayfield, of Cleveland, and has one son, Pearson
B. Mayfield, junior.

Summerfield Armitage Key entered the Confederate Service im-
mediately upon the breaking out of the War Between the States and
achieved rapid promotion, rising from a private in the ranks of the
Nineteenth Tennessee Regiment. He had the great distinction of
being a member of the faithful personal escort of the lamented President

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Jefferson Davis with whom he remained until the capture of the Presi-
clent. Judge Key after the War took up his residence in Chattanooga
where he was married to Miss Divine. He became a prominent lawyer,
was elected to the General Assembly of Tennessee and was later
elected Chancellor. He occupied diis office until his death June 14,
1890. He was greatly respected in the community in which he lived
so many years and his memory is treated with great honor* The Chan-
cery Court recently hung his portrait in the Court with other distinguished
jurists who have occupied the position of Chancellor of the District.

John Fletcher Key. son of John Key and Margaret Armitage Key,
made his home in Philadelphia where he was well known. His only
surviving child, Miss Nannie Key, resides in Philadelphia.

Elizabeth Key, daughter of John Key and Margaret Armitago
Key, married Reverend John Breunner, President of Hiwassee College
in Monroe County, Tennessee. Her only surviving child is Arthur
Breunner, who besides at Hiawassee.

David McKendree Key, son of John Key and Margaret Armitage
Key, was bom January 27th, 1824, in Green County, Tennessee. At
the breaking out of the War Between the States he immediately offered
his services to the Confederacy an^ was Lieutenant Colonel of the
43rd Tennessee attaining distinction as a gallant and able officer. After
the close of lihe War Between the States President Rutherford B.
Hayes appointed him Postrtaster General — a position which he also
filled with credit, and later he was appointed by President Hayes,
United States District Judge. He had the remarkable distinction of
being Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate Army, Chancellor, United
States Senator, Postmaster General of the United States and United
States District Judge, a position which he held at the time of his death,
February 3, 1900.

He married Elizabeth Lenoir (bom January 28th, 1838 at Lenoir
in Loudon County, Tennessee). She was the daughter of General
Albert S. Lenoir, of an ancient Huguenot family, who came from
North Carolina to Tennessee. He was a descendant of Waightstill
Avery, who was a member of the Mecklenburg Convention that made
the Declaration of Independence and was the first attorney-general
of North Carolina. The Averys were early settlers in America, Chris-
topher Avery having been bom in Salisbury, England* about 1600,
having arrived in Massachusetts Bay in 1 63 1 , accompanied by his
young son, James Avery, bom in Salisbury in 1620. Christopher
Avery left his wife in England and she never came to America.

James Avery went to Boston in 1643, and there married Joanna
Greenslade. They had ten children, one of whom, Samuel Avery
(bom August 14, 1644) married (in 1886) Susan Palmer, daughter
of Major Edward Palmer, and granddaughter of Governor John Win-
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throp. They had ten children, one of whom was Humphrey Avery
(bom July, 1 699) who married in I 724 his cousin Jerusha Morgan,
daughter of William and Margaret Avery Morgan. They had twelve
children, one of whom was Waightstill Avery (born May 10, I 74 1 ) ,
in Groton, Connecticutt, who is famous in North Carolina annals. He
moved from Connecticutt to North Carolina in 1 769. He changed
the spelling of his name by inserting gh. The name was formerly
Wait Still and he was named for Colonel 'Wait Still Winthrop.

Waightstill Avery married a widow, Mrs- Leah Frank. Waight-
still Avery died in 1 82 1 .

Mrs. David McKendree Key is also of Revolutionary and Colonial
stock through the Lenoirs, as her grandfather, General Lenoir was
President of the North Carolina Senate and a Captain of a Company
at King's Mountain. Mrs. Key's mother, Catherine Fruling Welcker,
was a descendant of German family which came from Germany many
years ago and settled in Roane County, Tennessee.

Judge David McKendree Key and Elizabeth Lenoir Key had chil-
dren, namely, Albert Lenoir Key, John Fletcher Key, David McKen-
dree Key, Junior, (who died young) ; Lenoir Key, Emma Key, Sarah
Key, Katherine Key, Margaret Key and Elizabeth Key.

Albert Lenoir Key is a Commodore in the United States Navy,
having graduated at Annapolis. He married Grace Condit-Smith, of
Washington, and their two handsome sons bear the family names
of David McKendree Key and Albert Lenoir Key, Junior. Lenoir
Key married Julia Adams. Emma Key married Colonel William B.
Thompson and died without children. Sarah Key married, Zeboim
Cartter Patten and has one son, Zeboim Cartter Patten. Katherine
Key married Samuel Robertson Read. Elizabeth Key married Gamett
Andrews and has four children, Gamett Andrews, the Fourth of his
name in a direct line, David Key Andrews, Elizabeth Andrews, and
Katherine Andrews. Margaret Key is not married.

The Tennessee Family of Key is probably, connected with the
Maryland Family which produced the author of the Star Spangled
Banner, Francis Scott Key. The emigrant in this Key Family was
Phillip, son of Richard and Mary Key of Convent Garden, St. Paul's
Parish, London. Phillip Key was bom in 1 764. When he was
between thirty and perhaps forty years of age he emigrated to America,
settling in St. Mary's County, Maryland. He was a member of the
Provincial Council and his descendants are eligible to the Societies of
the Colonies. Phillip Key married twice, first Susannah Gardiner
and secondly Thedosia Lawrence Humphries, a widow, though by his
second wife he had no children.

He had by his first wife seven children: Phillip Barton Key,

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Richard Ward Key, John Key, Francis Key, Edmund Key, Thomas
Key, and Susannah Gardiner Key.

Francis Key, the fourth of the foregoing seven children, married
Anne Arnold Ross and they had among other children John Ros«
Key, who married Anne Charlton. They had among other children
Francis Scott Key, the famous author of our National Hymn. He
was bom August I, 1779. He volunteered during the War of 1812.
During the Bombardment of Fort McHenry, which is near Baltimore,
he was on a British ship, having boarded her under a flag of truce,
hoping to obtain the release of a friend who had been made prisoner.
It was then that he composed the lines which are now famous the
world over.

Francis Scott Key married Mary Taloe Loyd and had eleven
children. He has many descendants.

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LUTTRELL

The Luttrell Family is of ancient origin and in history many dis-
tinguished persons bear the name. John Luttrell was Chancellor of
the University of Oxford in 1317 and occupied other high offices.
Edward Luttrell was an artist of note in the latter half of the seven-
teenth century and the first years of the eighteenth. He is said to have
invented the art of copper engraving.

Thomas Luttrell was head of a long and illustrious line of Luttrells.
He was succeeded by his son, Simon Luttrell, who was a gallant offices
under King James IL and was a member of the Irish Parliament of
1 698 from County Dublin and was appointed Military Governor of the
City of Dublin. He was succeeded by his brother, Henry Luttrell,
who was also a gallant soldier and became a Major General. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Halkin, of Flintshire. His
son, Simon Lutrell, Second, married Maria, daughter of Sir Nicholas
Lawes, and was raised to the Irish Peerage first as Baron Imham, later
as Viscount Carhamon, later still as Earl of Carhamon or Carhamp-
ton. He named his son, Henry Lawes Luttrell, who is accepted as
the greatest Luttrell in Brittain*s history. He left no children, however,
to succeed to the title which went therefore to his broher, John Luttrell.
A sister of these two Luttrells was Anne Luttrell, who married the Duke
of Cumberland, brother to King George III. John Luttrell, third Eajl
of Carhampton, died in 1829, without children, and the title became-
extinct.

There was, however, another brother of Henry Lawes Luttrell,
Temple Luttrell, who attained distinction in public affairs, first going
into the Naval service. He died in France in 1803 without children.

Another brother of Henry Lawes Luttrell, first Earl of Carhamp-
ton, was James, and, like Temple Luttrell, he adopted the Navy early
in life as his particular profession. He commanded the Portland and
the Mediator, and in an engagement in December, 1 782, with an
American squadron, he displayed great courage and resource and is
said to have taken his own ship and his prizes safely into an English
port.

Henry Luttrell was another scion of the family who achieved
fame and he took literature for his forte. He was the friend and
contemporary of Thomas Moore and wrote a great deal, though not
all he wrote has been published. He lived to a great age, was de-
scribed as a great wit, an ideal conversationalist and the greatest epi-
gram maker of his day.

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During the political upheavals in England, members of collateral
branches of the Luttrell family migrated to America. They were
younger sons, doubtless, of the family and possibly without fortune
other than name and courage. But the first Luttrell mentioned in Ten-
nessee history must have been closely connected with the ' rich and
powerful family of which Henry Lawes Luttrell was the first Erarl,
and Anne Luttrell, Duchess of Cumberland, for he was evidently
a man of wealth and position.

This John Luttrell was associated with Colonel Richard Henderson
and "other men of capital," namely Thomas Hart, John Williams,
James Hogg, Nathanial Hart, David Hart, Leonard H. Bulloch, and
William Johnston. They paid, it is said, ten thousand pounds sterling
in merchandise to the Indians for certain lands and at that time I 775,
such a sum was an enormous fortune. The purchase was called Transyl-
vania and the nine proprietors at first contemplated a separate and in-
dependent Government, but in a memorial addressed to the Continental
Congress of 1 775, they asked that Transylvania be added to the
number of the United -Colonies. "Having their hearts warmed with
the same noble spirit that animates the colonies and moved with indig-
nation at the late ministerial and parliamentary usurpations, it is the
earnest wish of the proprietors of Transylvania to be considered by
the colonies as brethren engaged in the same great cause of liberty
and mankind.*'

From the brother of this John Luttrell of the Transylvania purchase
the Tennessee family may have sprung.

The land purchased was "all south of the Kentucky River, be-
ginning at the mouth or junction of said river with the Ohio to its source,
thence south into Tennessee, until a westwardly line should cross the
Cumberland Mountain so as to strike the Ridge which divides the
waters of the Tennessee River from those of the Cumberland, and with
that ridge to the Ohio River, and with that river to the mouth of the
Kentucky River aforesaid."

This interesting estate purshased from the Cherokees included
most of the land, or at least a very large portion of the land now
known as Kentucky and Tennessee.

The Company took possession on April 20, 1 775, but the
Governor of North Carolina issued a proclamation declaring the
purchase illegal and Virginia did the same. Later the State of North
Carolina allowed the proprietors two hundred thousand acres in lieu
of their purchase and the State of Virginia declared a similar grant,
and the State of Tennessee gave them a similar grant. So, though
the proprietors did not own the whole of Tennessee and Kentucky
they had a large slice.

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Judge Henderson opened a land office in Nashville, then the
French Lick for the sale of these lands.

John Luttrell who was of Cheatham County, North Carolina,
was Clerk of the Crown at Hillsboro, I 770, before the Revolution, a
Colonel in the American Army, during the Revolution and he evidently
had no children. He willed his land to his widow and to his three
brothers. William, Hugh and Thomas of Westmorland County, Vir-
ginia. His widow paid William and Hugh cash for their share of

the land located in Tennessee. He had married Hart, a

daughter of John Hart, of North Carolina.

Begining with the Revolution we have in Virginia four Luttrells,
Rodham Luttrell, John Luttrell, Richard Luttrell and Michael Lut-
trell, all soldiers in that war.

Michael Luttrell moved from Virginia to Illinois after the Revo-
lution and lived there at least until 1855, so that he must have been
quite a young man when he served in the Revolution in Virginia.

WilKam and Elizabeth Luttrell were living in Virginia, probably
in Amherst County, from about I 788 to I 796. Elizabeth Witt was
the daughter of Jesse Witt, a soldier of the Revolution. William
Luttrell was bom about 1 770. He was possibly of the same family
as was Richard Luttrell, a soldier of the Revolution in Virginia, as
he named his second son Richard Luttrell.

William and Elizabeth moved to Tennessee in 1 796 and settled
in the "Fork** of the French Broad. Their eldest son was John Lut-
trell, which again shows the family name.

Their second son and third child was Richard Luttrell, who was
bom in Virginia, probably in Amherst County, January 6, I 792. He
was four years old when the family migrated to Tennessee. When he
was just twenty-one his father, William Luttrell, and the oldest brother,
John Luttrell died, leaving Richard with the care of his widowed
mother and a large family. Despite this he enlisted in Sharp*s Company
in the Campaign against the Creek Indian and served honorably. His
descendants are eligible to the Society of 1812 through his service.

He married November 17, 1817, Mary or Polly Tumley, daugh-
ter of George and Charlotte Cunningham Tumley (bom December
19, 1797, died July 18, 1831). Richard Luttrell and Mary Tum-
ley Luttrell had seven childen:

(1) William Cunningham Luttrell (born October 2, 1918).

(2) Louisa Jane Luttrell (bom December 10. 1819).

(3) John Haynie Luttrell (bora May 2, 1821).

(4) Harvey Wilkerson Luttrell (bom November 19, 1822).

(5) Charlotte Elizabeth Luttrell (bom January 25, 1825).

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(6) Albert Axley Luttrell (born December, 1826).

(7) Cordelia Matilda Luttrell (bom September 1. 1828).

Of the foregoing:

William Cunningham Luttrell, son of Richard Luttrell and Polly
Turnley Luttrell, bom 1818, married Mary Snow, daughter of Dud-
ley and Priscilla Snow, and their children were: Dudley Richard
Luttrell (who married Ella Hicks) ; Bessie Luttrell (who died un-
married) ; Annie Priscilla Luttrell (who married Edward S. Farmer
and had five children) ; Lucinda Snow Luttrell ; George William Lut-
trell (who married Anderson) ; Cordelia Caroline Luttrell

(who married George Washington Brock) ; Robert McMillan Lut-
trell (who married Dolly Dodd and had one daughter) ; Kate Gar-
land Luttrell (who married Prof. Cawthom and had one or two chil-
dren).

Louisa Jane Luttrell daughter of Richard Luttrell and Polly
Tumley Luttrell, married William Wilson Blaine. They had eleven
children, namely: James Wilson Blaine; John Howard Blaine; Rob-
ert Alexander Blaine; Richard Blaine; William Henry Clay Blaine;
Russell Franklin Blaine; Mary Elizabeth Blaine; Martha Parlee
Blaine; Frances Cordelia Blaine; Florence May Blaine; and Vivian
Sallie Blaine.

John Ha3mie Luttrell, son of Richard Luttrell and Polly Tumley
Luttrell, married Susan Brock and had twelve children, namely: Wil-
liam Haynie Luttrell; Martha Jane Luttrell; Sarah Cordelia Luttrell;
Margaret Joanna Luttrell; Lilboume Patty Luttrell; Polly Ann Lut-
trell; Frances Elizabeth Luttrell; John Wilkerson Luttrell; Harvey
Elmore Luttrell; George Washington Luttrell: Louisa Matilda Lut-
trell; Susan Elnora Luttrell.

Harvey Wilkerson Luttrell, son of Richard Luttrell and Polly
Tumley Luttrell, married Susan Frances EUston, and had chidren,
namely: Corrie Luttrell (who married Charles L. Sowell and had no
children) ; Oscar Fowler Luttrell (who married Mollie Magill Oden
and has three children, Oden Luttrell in the United States Navy, Oscar
Fomey Luttrell and Frank Alexander Luttrell) ; Ellston Luttrell (who
marriel Lucy Barbour and had five children: Randolph Luttrell,
Corrie Luttrell, Annie Laurie Luttrell, Harvey Luttrell and Alton Lut-
trell) ; Chester McCallie Luttrell (who married Gussie Harwell and
had Juliet Luttrell, Katie May Luttrell, Elizabeth Lynn Lutrell, and
Ethel Lucile Luttrell) ; Bruce Luttrell (who married Lena Crumpton
and had Sue Ellstoi! Luttrell, Ralphine Luttrell, Rush Luttrell, Lucy
Grace Luttrell and Marcie Luttrell) ; Rush, Katie, Marcie, Fred,
and Frank Luttrell all died unmarried.

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Charlotte Elizabeth Luttrell, daughter of Richard Luttrell and
Poller Tumley Luttrell, died unmarried.

Elbert Axley Luttrell, son of Richard Luttrell and Polly Turnley
Luttrell, married Mrs. Nancy Saylor and had no children.

Cordelia Matilda Luttrell, daughter of Richard Luttrell and
Polly Tumley Luttrell, was bom in Knox County, 1828. She mar-
ried George Washington Crumbliss, October 30, 1 856, at Locustdale.
fhey had nine children, nanjely: Vivian Walter Dewitt Cmmbliss
(who married Rosannah Weatherford and had eight sons) : James
Richard Crumbliss (who died young) ; Louisa Magnolia Crumbliss
(who married Charles L. Leader and had two children) ; Hugh Mar-
cus Cmmbliss; Oscar Leonidas Cmmbliss (who married Alice Mary
VanDoren and had eight children) ; Eliphalet Fortunatus Cmmbliss
(who married and had children) ; Ida Lavade Cmmbliss (who mar-
ried George Wunderlick) ; Ola Eugenia Crumbliss (who died young) »
and Oliver Morteaugh Cmmbliss.

JAMES CHURCHWEJLL LUTTRELL.

James Churchwell Luttrell was a resident of Tennessee early in
eighteen hundred. He married, about the year 1803, Martha Arm-
strong, the Second, daughter of Robert Armstrong, and his wife Mar-
garet Cunningham Armstrong. See Armstrong Family. They had six
children.

( 1 ) James Churchwell Luttrell, Second.

(2) Margaret Luttrell.

(3) Martha Luttrell.

(4) Amanda Luttrell.

(5) Robert Armstrong Luttrell, who died young.

(6) Fannie Luttrell who died young.

James Churchwell Luttrell, Second, son of James Churchwell Lut-
trell and Martha Armstrong Luttrell, married Eliza Carr Bell, daughter
of Samuel Bell and his wife, Eliza Carr Bell. They had seven chil-
dren, namely: James Churchwell Luttrell, Third; Samuel Bell Lut-
trell; Elizabeth Saunders Luttrell; Martha Armstrong Luttrell; Eliza
Bell Luttrell. Mary M. Luttrell and a child that died young.

James Churchwell Luttrell, Third, married Josephine E. Brooks,
daughter of General Joseph Bjooks and Margaret Almeda McMillan
Brooks; (see McMillan Family) ; and had: Annie Luttrell (who mar-
ried Joseph Shields and has one daughter, Josephine Luttrell Shields
married Leonard Murphy) ; Libbie Luttrell (who married Benjamin

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Moore and has Benjamin Moore, Jr., and Margaret Moore) ; Sophy
Luttrell /who married Harry Harmon, Jr., and had Harry Harmon,

Third) ; Fannie Luttrell (who married Powers and has

no children) ; James Churchwell Luttrell. Fourth ; Ernest Luttrell ; and
Samuel Bell Luttrell, Junior, (who died unmarried).

Samuel Bell Luttrell married Margaret McClung Swan, a descend-
ant of the distinguished McClung family and had Samuel Bell Lut-
trell (who died young) ; Margaret Luttrell (who married William B.
Sullins and has Samuel Sullins and David Sullins) ; Jennie Luttrell
(who married Charles M. Mitchell and has Margaret Luttrell Mitchell
and Mary Mitchell) ; Mary Luttrell (who married Dr. Thomas A. R.
Jones) ; and Charles Luttrell (who died unmarried) .

Elizabeth Saunders Luttrell married Dr. William Morrow, of
Nashville, and had nine children, namely: James L. Morrow; Frank
Murfree Morrow; Lillie Morrow; Emma Morrow; Sallie Hooper
Morrow; Libbie Luttrell Morrow; Ada Murfree Morrow; Walter S.
Morrow and Margaret Bell Morrow. James Luttrell Morrow married
Jane Ewing and their children are Irene Ewing who married Dr. Essler
Ho&s, Elizabeth Morrow, who married Arthur Timmons, William
Morrow, Jane Morrow, and Orville Morrow. Frank Murphee Mor-
row married Celeste Baylord and left one son, William Leigh Morrow,
who married Dolly Post. Lillie Morrow married Judge J. M. Ander-
son and has one daughter, Emma Morrow Anderson, who married
Harold B. Whiteman. Elmma Morrow married John B. Atchison
and has Tliomas Ayres Atchison, Lillie Morrow Atchison and Emma
Morrow Atchison. Sallie Hooper Morrow married T. Ludlow Chrys-
tie and has Elizabeth Ludlow Chrystie, Thomas Witter Chrystie and
Frances Nicholson Chrystie. Libbie Luttrell Morrow is not married.
Ada Murfree Morrow married D. F. C. Reeves and has Joseph S.
Reeves, and Daniel F. Carter Reeves, Junior. Walter S. Morrow is
not married. Margaret Bell Morrow married Clarence B. Simpson
and has Isabel Simpson and John Morrow Simpson.

Martha Armstrong Luttrell married Stokeley Donelson Mitchell and
had three children: Mabel W. Mitchell; William M. Mitchell; and
Libbie Luttrell Mitchell (who married John McMillan Moulden and
has John McMillan Moulden, Junior, and Margaret Luttrell Moulden).

Eliza Bell Luttrell married Jesse H. Thomas and had Jesse H.
Thomas, Junior, and James Luttrell Thomas.

Mary M. Luttrell married Charles E. Griffith and had four chil-
dren: Charles E. Griffith, Junior; Sallie M. Griffith, Lillian Bell Grif-
fith, and a child that died young.

Margaret Luttrell, daughter of James Churchwell Luttrell and
Martha Armstrong Luttrell, married Matthew Ambrose Gaines, son of
Ambrose Gaines, of Culpepper County, Virginia. (See Gaines and

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Armstrong Families). They had five children, namely: James Luttrell
Gaines, M. M. Gaines, Martha Gaines, Mary Gaines and .Ambrose
Gaines, Third.

Of the foregoing:

M. M. Gaines, I have no record.

Martha Gaines, married Richard Bearden.

Mary Gaines, married Bearden.

Ambrose Gaines, Third, married Mary Winston Towns
and had six children, namely: George Towns Gaines (who married

and has Ethel Smith Gaines and Katherine Woodville

Gaines) ; Margaret Gaines (who married Garland Buffington) ; Etta
Gaines (who married H. B. Hogan) ; Blanche Gaines (who married
F. J. Hoyle) ; Mary Towns Gaines (who married Reuben S. Pa3me) :
and Ambrose Gaines, Fourth (who married Edith Lucie Jenks and has
Margaret Gaines, Ambrose Gaines, Fifth, Edith Jenks Gaines, and
Mary Towns Gaines).

James Luttrell Gaines, was an excellant officer of the
Confederate Army and lost his arm in the service. He married Belle
Porter, daughter of Erasmus Porter and had five children: Ambrose
Porter Gaines, Matthew Gaines, Lillian Gaines, (who died young) ;
and James Luttrell Gaines, Second.

Martha Luttrell, daughter of James Churchwell Luttrell, and his
wife, Martha Armstrong Luttrell, married Richard Bearden.

Amanda Luttrell, daughter of James Churchwell Luttrell and
his wife, Martha Armstrong Luttrell, married Reverend George Horn
and had three children: Sarah Horn (who married James Newman) ;
James Horn (who never married) ; and William Horn (who married
Kate Kelso).

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH
LUTTRELL.

Just about the time that James Churchwell Luttrell, the First
married Martha Armstrong, a son was bom (1803) to William and
Elizabeth Witt Luttrell, on the "Forks" of the Holston. They chris-
tened the boy James Churchwell Luttrell. The name proves that there
was a close connection between the two families, though it has not been
determined what that connection was. Possibly William Luttrell was
a brother to James Churchwell Luttrell, the First, and the little new-
comer was a namesake-nephew. As stated earlier in the Luttrell article
the name Churchwell came into the family because of a marriage earlier
in its history and the father of William and James Churchwell Luttrell
may have had that name or their mother may have been a Churchwdl.

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The family of Richard Lutlrell, who married Polly Tumley, is also
closely allied with both the families of William and James Churchwell
Luttrell.

Richard was not, however, a brother to James Churchwell and Wil-
liam, as he was the eldest brother in his own family and they were both
of age and married before he came of age. He was very likely their
first cousin. His father and mother are given as William and Eliza-
beth and like the other William and Elizabeth Luttrell they also emi-
grated from Virginia.

William and Elizabeth Witt Luttrell emigrated from Virginia to

Tennessee about the year . They were accompanied by Elizabeth's

father, Jesse Witt, who had been a soldier of the Revolution. Jesse
Witt and his wife had a number of children of whom we know Eliza-
beth who married William Luttrell and Abner Witt.

William and Elizabeth Luttrell lived on the "Forks" of the Hols-
ton and raised a large family. William Luttrell died about 1814. Some
of their children were: Hugh Luttrell, Eliza Luttrell, James Church-
well Luttrell, Matthew Luttrell, and John Luttrell.

James Churchwell Luttrell, bom 1803, died 1866, married Eliza
Bounds as his first wife and had twin children, Frank and Eliza Lut-
lrell. He married for his second wife. Dicey Ann Murphey and their
children were John Luttrell, Lawson Luttrell, Creed Luttrell, James
Madison Luttrell, Louisa Luttrell, Brownlow Luttrell and Gideon
Luttrell.

James Madison Luttrell married Mary Jane Lockhart McMillan.
Their children were Walter Madison Luttrell (who married for his
first wife Jennie May Anderson and had Louisa Luttrell and Elnora
Luttrell, married Herbert Graf, and married for his second wife A.
Mariah Crawford) . James B. Luttrell, (who married Rena Good) ;
Laura Elizabeth Luttrell, (who is unmarried) ; Lucy A. Luttrell (who
is unmarried) ; C. Albertine Luttrell (who married Hugli Lyle Vance) ;
Mary Iva Luttrell (who married Otho Atkin and died in 1901 ) ; Anne
E. Luttrell (who married Edward Silver Maclin) ; William Eugene
Luttrell (who married Mattie Lee Walling) ; Ella Luttrell (who is
unmarried) ; Beulah Luttrell (who is unmarried) ; and Kate Luttrell
(who married Harvey A. McBath).

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The name Lyle is an ancient one. In the Eleventh Century the
people of the Isles of Wight and Ely in England and the Isle of Butte
in Scotland were called "de Insula." With the Norman conquest
the name became "dTIsle," and with passing of Norman rule the d
was lost and we have '*risle and later still the form in common use,
Lyle.

It has been claimed that the derivation comes from nobles in the
train of William, and this may also be true.

The earliest direct ancestor of the name Lyle whom we know is
Samuel Lyle who was living in Ireland where he married Janet Knox
in 1680. Of the family of Janet Knox, however, we have earlier
record. She was the daughter of John Knox, whose wife was Sally
Locke Knox (childless widow of Ephriam Knox), Sally Locke was
the daughter of David Locke, whose wife was Mary Wylie, grand-
daughter of William Wylie, and his wife, Janet Black.

The "earliest Lyle," Samuel and his wife Janet Knox Lyle, occu-
pied a stone house, which is still standing and is occupied by his de-
scendants. It is near Lame, on the west coast of Ireland.

Samuel and Janet Knox Lyle had six children. One of them,
James, married Margaret Snoddy (daughter of William Snoddy, and
his wife, Jane Adams). James and Margaret Snoddy Lyle had eight
children: Elizabeth, Jenny, Matthew, John, James, Robert, Daniel,
William. The Southern family, now scattered throughout this country,
is descended from four of these seven children, four sons. Three of
them, Matthew, John and Daniel, emigrated to America and Robert's
son, Samuel, emigrated probably with one of his uncles, or at least as
a result of their emigration.

Though living in Ireland in County Antrim, near Lame, on the
Irish coast, the family was of Scottish origin, and it is supposed that
the emigration from Scotland took place about 1616.

In I 700 there was a general movement in Ireland for emigration
to America.

MATHEW LYLE.

Mathew Lyle, first of the emigrant Lyles, son of James Lyle and
Margaret Snoddy Lyle, was born in Ireland, about 1711, in the
famfly residence at Browndood, near Lame, in County Antrim.' He
married, it is ^aid, before he was of age, in 1731, (it is from this

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tradition diat we team the probable date of his birth) Esther Blair.
(Esther Blair was bom about 1713, in Ballyvallah, County Antrim.
Ireland. She was the daughter of Samuel Blair, and his wife, they
were married in 1 690, Martha Campbell Lyle, a daughter of a James
Lyle, of Toreagh, and his wife, Martha Campbell. James Lyle's
father was John Lyle, and his wife was Florence Montgomery. Esther
Blair was a descendant on her father's side of Brice Blair of very
high lineage. Brice Blair married in Ayrshire, Scotland, Esther Peden,
in 1625, and went to Ireland).

About ten years after Mathew Lyle's marriage to Esther Blair
they emigrated to Virginia. The exact date is not known, but one
of their children, Robert, who died young, was baptized in Lame, ii
1 740, and on July 30, 1 742, Mathew Lyle's name is signed to i
petition to Colonial Governor Gooch in Virginia, and he was evidently
a resident of some standing in the colony at that time.

He settled on Timber Ridge, in what is now Rockbridge County,
Virginia. From Mathew Lyle's marriage to E.sther Blair there were
bom six children, four of whom grew to maturity. (William and
Robert died young).

( I ) James Lyle.

(2) Elizabeth Lyle.

(3) John Lyle.

(4) Martha Lyle.

Of the foregoing:

James Lyle, first child of Matthew and Esther Blair
Lyle, was bom in Ireland in 1 732, and died in Virginia. He
accompanied his parents to Virginia about 1 74 1 . He mar-
ried in Virginia about 1 764, Hannah Alexander. Their
children were: Joseph, Matthew, Elizabeth, Elsther, Mar-
garet, John and Archibald. Of these: Joseph Lyle mar-
ried Sarah Butt, in 1791, and had children; Mathew Lyle
became a Presbyterian minister, married his cousin, Sarah
Lyle, and had children; Elizabeth Lyle married her cousin,
William Lyle as his second wife and had children; Esther
Lyle never married; Margaret Lyle married James Alexan-
der and had children; John Lyle, a physician, went from
Virginia to Texas and nothing definite is known of him;
Archibald Lyle never married. He commanded a company
of cavalry in the war of 1 8 1 2.

John Lyle second son of Matthew Lyle and Esther
Blair, was born in Ireland about 1736; he died in Virginia
in I 793, was captain of a militia company in 1 778, accom-

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panied his parents to America and married twice in Virginia ;
first Isabella Paxton, and, second, Frances Stuart. He had
three children by Isabella Paxton; John, Esther and Mary
Paxton Lyle, and by his second wife, Frances Stuart, he
had two children, Alexander Stuart Lyle and Isabella Lyle.
(Of these: John Lyle married Nancy Thompkins and had
fourteen children, only three of whom, however, married;
Esther Lyle married Joseph Paxton and had children ; Mary
Paxton Lyle married James MacDowell, (son of Judge
Samuel MacDowell, and Mary McClung, and grandson of
Captain John McDowell, who first settled on Borden's Grant
in Virginia, in 1737), and had children; Alexander Stuart
Lyle probably did not marry; Isabella Lyle married John
McDowell and had a son, William McDowell, who mar-
ried but had no children.

Elizabeth Lyle, eldest daughter of Matthew
Lyle and Esther Blair Lyle, was born in Ireland about
1 734, and died in Virginia. She married twice and is an-
cestress of a large and influential posterity. Numbers of
Tennesseans and Georgians claim descent from Elizabeth
Lyle. She remained in Ireland, when her parents emigrated
to America, with her grandparents and her maternal uncle,
Daniel Blair. She married in Ireland, about the year I 750,
William Thompson, (died 1759), son of Thomas Thomp-
son (b. 1697, d. 1779), and his wife, Mary Black, (b.
1714, d. 1778), who was the daughter of Samuel Black,
(b. 1656, d. 1740), and his wife, Alice Murdock, (b.
1675, d. 1743). Elizabeth Lyle Thompson and her hus-
band, William Thompson, had three daughters, Esther, Jane
and Mary. Six years after the death of William Thomp-
son (in 1759), the young widow married (1765) for
her second husband, William Thompson's first cousin,
Mathew Donald, (son of John Donald, and Margaret
Black, Mary Black having been William Thompson's
mother). Eliabeth Lyle Thompson Donald and her hus-
band, Mathew Donald, emigrated to America in 1 775,
bringing with them her three Thompson daughters, Esther,
Jane and Mary, and her children by Mathew Donald.
Another child, Margaret, was bom at sea in 1775 and this
establishes the date of their crossing. The children of Eliz-
abeth and Mathew Donald were Mathew Lyle, John,
Samuel, Margaret, William Blair, James and Mark. Mar-
garet was bom at sea in 1 775.

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Of Elizabeth Lyle's daughters by William Thompson:
Esther Thompson (bom about 1 752) married about 1 778,
John McShadden; they went from Virginia to Tennessee
and settled near Dandridge, and had a large family, namely,
James, Thomas, Elizabeth, Jane, John, Mary, Samuel,
Elsther, Mathew, Archibald Thompson. A large connection
of East Tennessee people comes from this family.

Jane Thompson, second daughter of Elizabeth Lyle
Thompson, (b. about 1 755, d. near Dandridge, Tennes-
see), married James Walker, and had children: Jane and
Elizabeth, (both of whom married and had children), and
married a second time Andrew Cowan (who had, by a pre-
vious marriage, six children). She had three Cowan chil-
dren, Joel W., Thompson and Matthew, all of whom mar-
ried and had children. She married a third husband, Joel
Ellis, but had by him no children. Jane Walker, (eldest
child of Jane Thompson, by her first husband, James Wal-
ker), is the ancestress of the Inman family, through her mar-
riage to John Ritchie Inman, son of Abednego Inman; their
children were James Abednego, Maty A. Shadrack Walker,
James M.. John W., William M., Joel C, Walker P.,
Elizabeth, Jane, Susan, Hannah, Matilda, Sallie and Mary,
which was rather a nursery full, even for those prolific times.

Mary Thompson, daughter of Elizabeth Lyle and Wil-
liam Thompson, was bom in Ireland about 1 75 7 ; she died
in 1797. She is frequently called Polly Thompson in the
family record. She came with her mother and stepfather
to America in I 775. She married Samuel Wear, in Au-
gusta County, Virginia, in 1 778. Samuel Wear was a son
of Robert Wear. Mary and Samuel Wear moved to what
is now Tennesse and settled on Little Pigeon River, Sevier
County, Tennessee, which was then a part of North Caro-
lina. For history of Colonel Samuel Wear see Armstrong
Family).

Samuel Wear married twice. After the death of Mary
Thompson Wear he married Mary **Gilhan," or Gilliland,
and had by her several children, though this record deals
with the children by his first wife only, namely, Elizabeth,
Robert, Rebecca, Samuel, Junior, John and Mary.

Elizabeth Wear, daughter of Samuel Wear, and his first
wife, Polly Thompson, was born in Augusta County, Vir-
ginia, 1 780, and died in Tennessee, 1 820. She married
Robert Armstrong, the third, son of Robert Armstrong, sec-
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home, which is standings on the Tennessee River above
Knoxville. Their children were Dniry Paine Armstrong,
who married Amelia Houston) ; Addison Wear Armstrong,
who married Nancy MacMillan) ; Maria Armstrong, (who
married John Brooks) ; Rutelia Armstrong, (who married
Thomas G, Craighead) ; Charlotte Armstrong, (who mar-
ried first Samuel Armstrong, and had no children; married
second Henry C. Baldwin) ; Robert Houston Armstrong
(who died young) ; Margaret Cunningham Armstrong
(who married Samuel Hannibal Love) ; Dialtbea Perry
Armstrong, (who married Pleasant M. Love) ; James H.
Armstrong, (who manied Ann EUiza Park) ; Malinda
Armstrong, (who married Samuel Morrow) ; Samuel T.
Armstrong, (who died young), and Elizabeth Armstrong,
(who died young). From these sons and daughters comes
a large connection.

Robert Wear married Lucretia Thomas and had chil-
dren. Rebecca Wear married John Witt and had children.
Samuel Wear, Junior, married and had children. John
Wear, who was a^lso an officer in the War of 1812, married
Sussannah Mullendore and had children. He married for
his second wife Sarah M. Patty and had children.

Mary Wear, last child of Samuel Wear by his first wife,
Polly or Mary Thompson, married Colonel Simeon Perry
and had children. Simeon Perry married a second wife.

A very large connection of Tennessee people comes
through Samuel Wear's children.

Going back to Oizabfeth Lyle, who married
first William Thompson, and second Matthew Donald: By
her marriage to Donald she had seven children: Mathew
Lyle Donald, (who married Mrs. Nancy Walker, nee
Caughron or Cawhom, and had children) ; John Donald
(who married Nancy Paxton) ; Samuel Donald (who died
unmarried) ; Margaret Donald, who married William Keys,
who was a Colonel of an Ohio Regiment in the War of
1812; William Blair Donald, who married Mary Campbell,
and was a Captain in the War of 1812; James Donald,
who married Jennie McCorckle, and Mary Donald, who
married his cousin, Hannah Lyle).

Martha Lyle, fourth child of Matthew Lyle and
his wife, Esther Blair, was bom about 1 740. She accom-
panied her parents from Ireland to Virginia and married
there about 1 758, Matthew Houston, son of John Houston
and an uncle to General Samuel Houston. Their children

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were Jolm (who married Rachel Balch) ; Samuel (who
married Nancy Gillespie, married second Mary Mitchell,
by whom he had no children, and married third Annie
Hutchison, by whom he had no children) ; Matthew (who
married Margaret Cloyd) ; Robert D., (who died unmar-
ried) ; Esther (who married her cousin. Major James Hous-
ton) ; and Margaret (who married Captain James Gilles-
pie).

JOHN LYLE.

John Lyle, second of the emigrant brothers and sec-
ond son of. James Lyle and Margaret Snoddy, of Gjunty
Antrim, Ireland, was bom about 1 720, in Ireland. He mar-
ried in Ireland, Jean Owens, a daughter of William Owens,
and his wife, Matilda Knox, (of the same family of Janet
Knox, who was John Lyle's grandmother by her marriage to
Samuel Lyle in 1680, or about that date). John Lyle and
his wife emigrated to Virginia about 1 745. They settled
on Timber Ridge, now Rockbridge County, Virginia, ad-
joining the property of his brother, Matthew Lyle. Like all
the Lyles, John was a Presbyterian and helped to establish
the faith in Virginia. He worked on the Presbyterian
Church of Timber Ridge, which was built on lands given by
his brother, Mathew. He died in 1 758 and was survived
for forty years by his widow. Their children were:

(1) John Lyle.

(2) David Lyle.

(3) Martha Lyle.

(4) Elizabeth Lyle.

(5) Sarah Lyle.

(6) Esther Lyle.

Of the foregoing:

John Lyle married Flora Reid, and had children; Wil-
liam Lyle married Nancy Agnes Gilmore and had children;
Martha Lyle was left in Ireland with her maternal grand-
parents, Owens, when John Lyle and his wife emigrated
to Virginia, she married in Ireland, Robert Russell and emi-
grated with him to Virginia. She returned to Ireland,
however, and died there; she had children; Elizabeth Lyle
married Samuel Ramsey and had children; Sarah Lyle mar-
ried her cousin, James Lyk, son of Daniel Lyle, the emi-

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grant, and had children; Esther Lyie married Samuel Keys
and had children.

DANIEL LYLE.

Daniel LyIe, third brother and emigrant, was bom in Ire-
land about 1715. He was the son of James Lylc and Mar-
garet Snoddy. Daniel Lyle emigrated to Virginia about
1 745, when his brothers, Matthew and John, were already
settled there. He had a home on Timber Ridge in what
is now Rockbridge County, and helped to build the Timber
Ridge Presbyterian Church, land for which was given by

his brother, Matthew. He married in Virginia,

Paxton, and his children were:

(1) James Lyle.

(2) David Lyle.

(3) Robert Lyle.

(4) Samuel Lyle.

(5) John Lyle.

(6) Esther Lyle.

Of the foregoing:

James Lyle married his cousin Sarah Lyle and had chil-
dren.

David Lyle never married.

Robert Lyle (married Jane Ramsey and- had children).

Samuel Lyle married Elizabeth White, a cousin of
Hugh Lawson White, and had children, married second
Margery Hadley and had children. He was in the Revo-
lution.

John Lyle was a Presbyterian minister and a soldier of
the Revolution; he married Sarah Glass and had children.

SAMUEL LYLE.

Samuel Lyle, the fourth emigrant, was a son of Robert
Lyle, a brother of the three emigrants, Matthew, Daniel and
John and a grandson, therefore, of James Lyle and Marga-
ret Snoddy. Samuel Lyle was bom about 1 725, near
Lame, County Antrim. Ireland. He emigrated to Virginia
about 1 750, when his paternal uncles had been settled there
for some years. For a time he made his home with his uncle,
Daniel Lyle, but afterward settled land for himself on Tim-

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ber Ridge, in what is now Rockbridge County. His first
home stood a mile from Fairfield, Virginia. Later he moved
northeast of Lexington. He was an important member
of the community. Justice of the Peace, Vestryman, etc. ; he
married Sarah McClung, a daughter of William McClutig,
and his six children were:

(1) William Lyle.

(2) James Lyle.

(3) Mary Lyle.

(4) Jean Lyle.

(5) Elizabeth Lyle.

(6) Sarah Lyle.

Of the foregoing:

William Lyle married Julia Ann Stuart, and had chil-
dren. After her death William Lyle married for his second
wife, Elizabeth Lyle (his second cousin, daughter of James
Lyle and Hannah Alexander). They also had children.
William Lyle was a soldier of the Revolution.

James Lyle married Margaret Baker and had one
daughter who married Abram Smith, and had children.

Mary Lyle married John Dalhouse, and had children.

Jane Lyle married James Ramsey and had children.

Elizabeth Lyle married Michael Graham, a Revolution-
ary soldier, and had children.

Sarah Lyle married her cousin, Matthew Lyle, and had
children.

This completes a brief account of the Lyles. Each of
the lines mentioned can be carried out to the present date.

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John McAdoo, first of the name in America, was of the stock
known as Scotch Irish. He came from Ulster to Virginia in the
early part of the eighteenth century. He married perhaps in 1 756,
at a point where later the Norfolk and Virginia Railway crossed
New River, a bride who also was an emigrant from Ulster, whose
name seems not to have been preserved.

Their son, John McAdoo the second, was bom at that point in
Virginia, February 6, 1757, and on September 4th, 1787, he mar-
ried Martha Grills also a native of Virginia. They removed from
Virginia to what is now East Tennessee in the early settlement of the
colony. He served in the Revolution and was with John Sevier in
the Battle of King's Mountain. John McAdoo, the second, died in
his seventy- fourth year, December 26th, 1830, at his home, three and
one half miles from Clinton, Tennessee, from an injury he received by
falling from his hoFse. His wife Martha Grills McAdoo died Jan-
uary 8, 1838.

John McAdoo, the second, and his wife Martha Grills McAdoc*
had five children, one of whom was given the family name of John.
He was John McAdoo, the third. Another was William McAdoo.
He was bom May 28, 1 788. John McAdoo Ae third, was bora
in Jefferson County, Tennessee, June 21, 1 790. He was a soldier
under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek War. He married
about 1825, Mary Ann Gibbs, daughter of John Gibbs and his wife
who was Mary Aim Howard before her marriage.

The Gibbs family came from Scotland to Elngland with the Stuarts,
and in Cromwell's time were strong adherents of the royal cause. They
left England therefore for the continent, spending some years in Hol-
land and Germany. Nicholas Gibbs, the direct ancestor, was bora
in Germany in 1 735, but was not of German blood. He left Ger-
many for America in the early part of the eighteenth century and
stayed for a time in Maryland or Pennsylvania. He then went to
North Carolina and there married a Miss Elngland, of Elfland. In 1 782
or close to that date he moved again, settling this time in Tennessee.
He became prominent in the early history of Knox County. He lived
until he was past seventy years of age. One account describes him as
dying in his nineties and says he would have lived longer except for
asthma! He was buried two miles from House Mountain in Knox
County. He is said to have had twelve or thirteen children, the name^

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of the 80B8 being gireo; namely: ]cim, Jacob, Nicholas (Second)
Daniel, David, George Washington, and probably William Gibbs.
George Washington Gibbs became a prominent citizen and was the
father of Colonel Charles Nidiolas Gibbs, who was Secretary of State
for Tennessee. Another son of Nicholas, Captain Nicholas, the Sec-
ond, was killed at the Battle of Tohopka, called the Battle of the
Horse Shoe. Another son, John Gib1)s, moved from Knox County,
Tennessee, to Anderson County. He married Mary Ann Howard.
They had at least one daughter, Mary Ann Gibbs, who married John
McAdoo, the Third, August 16, 1815.

John McAdoo, the Third, whose wife was Mary Ann Gibbs Mc-
Adoo or "Polly," as she was called, lived in Anderson County save
for two years that they spent in Knoxville. He died at his home near
now within Clinton, Tennessee, October 11, 1854, in his sixty-fifth
year. His widow, Mary Ann Gibbs or "Polly** McAdoo, survived him
twenty years, dying at Clinton July 9, 1874. Both John and his
wife are buried in the family cemetery at Clinton.

John McAdoo, the third, and his wife, Mary Ann Gibbs McAdoo,
had eight children, five daughters and three sons. The eldest diild
was Malinda Emeline McAdoo. She was bom at the Island Ford
of Clinch River, Anderson County, Tennessee, August 8th, 1816.
She married Robert Morrow and had a son, William Morrow, who
was State Treasurer for Tennessee. He married Elizabeth Saunders
Luttrell, (See Luttrell, Armstrong, Lyle and Calhoun Families), and
had nine children, namely: James L. Morrow; Frank Murfree Mor-
row; Lillie Morrow; Emma Morrow; Sallie Hooper Morrow; Libbie
Luttrell Morrow; Ada Murfree Morrow; Walter S. Morrow; and
Margaret Bell Morrow. James Luttell Morrow married Jane Ewing
and their children are Irene Ewing, who married Dr. Essler Hoss
(See Sevier Family), Elizabeth Hoss, who married Arthur Timmons,
William Morrow, Jane Morrow and Orville Morrow. Frank Murfree
Morrow married Celeste Bay lord and left one son, William Leigh
Morrow, who married Dolly Post. Lillie Morrow married Judge
J. M. Anderson and has one daughter, Emma Anderson who married
Harold B. Whiteman. Emma Morrow married John B. Atchison
and has Thomas Ayres Atchison, Lillie Morrow Atchison and Emma
Morrow Atchison. Sallie Hooper Morrow married T. Ludlow Chrys-
tie and has Elizabeth Ludlow Chrystie, Thomas Witter Chrystie, and
Frances Nelson Chrystie. Libbie Luttrell Morrow is not married. Ada
Murfree Morrow married Daniel F. Carter Reeves and has Joseph
S. Reeves and Daniel F. Carter Reeves, Junior. Walter S. Morrow
is not married. Margaret Bell Morrow married Clarence B. Simpson
and has Isabel Simpson and John Morrow Simpson.

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his wife Mary Ann Gibbs McAdoo, was William Gibbs McAdoo.
He was born at the Island Ford, April 4th, 1 820.

The fifth child of John McAdoo, the Third, and Mary Ann Gibbs
McAdoo, was John David McAdoo, bom April 4, 1825, who be-
came a brilliant lawyer and moved to Texas, where he attained dis-
tinction and where he died. The next child was Elbert Hamilton Mc-
Adoo, bom September 7, 1827, who served in the same company with
Judge McAdoo, in the Mexican war, where he seems to have con-
tracted the disease of which he died at Clinton April 4, 1849, in his
twenty-second year.

William Gibbs McAdoo, first, was bora at Island Ford, April 4th,
1820, graduated in 1845 at East Tennessee University, now die Uni-
versity of Tennessee, represented Campbell and Anderson Counties
in the General Assembly, took part as a first lieutenant in the siege of
Vera Cruz, and later commanded the company at the battle of Cerro
Gordo.

He became a practicing lawyer in Knoxville in 1850 and becoming
a candidate for the office of district attorney-general received the aid of
"Parson," afterwards Senator and Governor William G. Brownlow,
was elected by the General Assembly and afterwards by the people,
and held the office till 1860, making an admirable record.

Adhering to the Confederate cause he removed during the Civil
War to Georgia, and entered the Confederate army, serving gallantly.
After the war he opened a law office in Milledgeville, and was appoint-
ed district attorney, and judge of the twentieth judicial district, held the
presidency of the St. Mary's Western Railroad Company, and finally
returned to Knoxville, where he became a member of the faculty of the
University at which he had been a student, and continued such until
failing health compelled him to relinquish his labors. He died in Knox-
ville and is buried in Gray Cemetery. Judge McAdoo was the author
of an Elementary Geology of Tennessee, as well as various other writ-
ings, largely joumalistic.

William Gibbs McAdoo was twice married, and there were chil-
dren by each marriage. He married in 1849 for his first wife, Anna
Cleopatra Horsley, eldest daughter of William and Catherine Arnold
Horsley who had four other children, John, Alfred, Eliza (who mar-
ried Helm) and Catherine (who married

McNutt.) The children of William Gibbs MacAdoo by his first
marriage to Anna Cleopatra Horsly were: Catherine MacAdoo
(who married Edwin F. Wyley and had Edwin F. Wyley, Junior*
married Garnet Noel and had Edwin F. Wyley, Third, and
Llewellyn Wyley; May Wyley; Eleanor Wyley, Catherine Wyley;
Virginia Wyley, who married Octave Letory and has no children;

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Ernest Wyley, Robert Wyley, and Noel Wyley) ; and Emma Mac-
Adoo who died unmarried.

After the deadi of his first wife, William Gibbs McAdoo married
Mary Faith Floyd McDonald, (widow of Randolph Gillies McDonald
who died at Savannah in 1854.) She was a great-granddaughter of
Charles Floyd of the St. Helena Guards of the Revolution, grand-
daughter of General John Floyd, who commanded the Georgia troops
called out at the outbreak of the Creek War in 1813 and who was
afterwards a member of Congress and daughter of Charles Rinaldo
Floyd who took part in the Creek Warfare at sixteen years of age,
afterwards went to West Point and was later appointed by General
Winfield Scott to chief command of the troops who removed the Chero-
kee Indians in 1838, discharging his duties so admirably as to receive
the warm commendation of the hero of Lundy's Lane. She married
Judge McAdoo in 1857. There were three sons and four daughters
of the marriage. She survived her husband.

The children of William Gibbs MacAdoo by his second wife, Mary
Faith Floyd McDonald, (widow of Randolph Gillis McDonald) were
Caroline Blackburn McAdoo, who died unmarried; John Floyd Mc-
Adoo, who died unmarried; Rosalie Floyd MacAdoo (who married
James Saunders 0*Neale and has Malcolm Lindsay 0*NeaIe who
married Ruby Hawthorne Alanson and has two children, Malcolm
Lindsay O'Neale, Second, and Caroline O'Neale; Mary Faith Floyd
O'Neale, and Lieutenant James Saunders O'Neale, Junior, married
Elizabeth V. Beresford) ; William Gibbs MacAdoo, Second. A
sketch of him , follows: Malcolm Ross MacAdoo (who married
Maggie Davis and had Mary, married Otis Wilson, Malcolm Ross
MacAdoo, Second, and Ann Brooks MacAdoo) ; Nona Howard
MacAdoo (who married George Frank Foster and has no children) ;
Laura S. MacAdoo (who married first Oscar Triggs and married
second Pierre Julian Gagey and died and is buried in Paris, leaving
one son, Edmond McAdoo Gagey who makes his home with his aunt,
Mrs. Rosalie Floyd O'Neale) ; Charles Lane McAdoo (who died
young.)

William Gibbs McAdoo, the second, is the Secretary of the United
States Treasury. He was bom in 1863 in Georgia while his familv
was temporarily residing there, and in the midst of the excitement of
the War Between the States in which his father was taking an active
part on the Southern side. His boyhood life in Georgia was a strenuous
one, in the hard times succeeding the war, but he early showed the pluck
that has distinguished his career. As a newspaper agent oil a small
scale he helped to take care of himself. Later he became a student
in the University of Tennessee, but did not take a full course. His
early professional life in Chattanooga was like that of many struggling

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young lawyers. At one time he was a partner of John T. Lupton, and
at another of the late J. H. Barr. From Chattanooga he went to
Knoxville, where he tried to give the people a first-class street railway
system, but things went badly, and he left for New York, where for
years he engaged in law practice. The inadequate means of transit
across the Hudson had long been a serious trouble to the Gothamites.
Twice had an attempt been made to establish tunnel communication, but
after spending a great amount of money the effort had been abandoned.
It was suggested to Mr. McAdoo to take up the task. The confidence
thus implied cannot be realized without remembering that he was without
any personal resources worth considering in such a matter, and that
his- training was entirely that of a lawyer and scholar, not at all diat
of an engineer. His success was brilliant. The two tunnels pushed
under the mighty Hudson, and which, though he persistently kept his
name off officially, the New Yorkers quite as a matter of course called
the **McAdoo" Tubes or Tunnels, the underground railway tracks
connected therewith, and the great Terminal Building which might have
been called the McAdoo Building had he been a less modest man,
the largest office building in the world at the time of its erection, and
perhaps even now, if the two connected buildings are considered as one,
accommodating about ten thousand people, all represent an expenditure
of some sixty million dollars, placed by capitalists in the hands of a
compartively young lawyer with no technical training, merely from
their faith in his integrity and capacity.

He accepted the office pt Secretary of the Treasury under Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson and his record is a bright page in our Nation's
history. Three great Secretaries of the Treasury appear in our annals,
Hamilton, who poured life through the sluggish financial veins of our
young nation; Chase, who so ably carried the country over the trying
period of the War Between the States, McAdoo, who has done so
great a work in connection with the reorganization of our whole na-
tional monetary system, and under whose administration has come the
period of the world war and the responsibility for raising and dispens-
ing billions.

Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo married twice, first Sarah Hazle-
hurst Fleming in Chattanooga November 18, 1885. (She was a

daughter of Fleming and his wife Hazlehurst

and a niece of Colonel Gearge H. Hazlehurst, of Chattanooga.) By
his marriage there were several children, namely:

Sarah Hazlehurst Fleming MacAdoo, Harriet Floyd Mac-
Adoo (who married Charles Taber Martin and has one child, Nona
MacAdoo Martin) ; Francis Huger MacAdoo married Ethel Mc-
Cormick and has two children, Francis Huger MacAdoo, Seccmd,
and Ann Preston McAdoo) ; Nona Hazlehurst MacAdoo married

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Prince Frederick de Morenschilte) ; William Gibbs MacAdoo, Third;
Robert Hazlehurst MacAdoo; and Sarah Fleming MacAdoo.

Sarah Fleming McAdoo died in 1910.

May 7, 1914, Secretary McAdoo married Eleanor Randolph
Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson and his first wife,
Ellen Axon, in the White House.

The child of William Gibbs MacAdoo, Second, by his second
wife, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, is Ellen Wilson MacAdoo.

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The McGhec family was founded in East Tennessee, by Barcley
McGhee, from Pennsylvania. He was of that numerous sturdy Scotch-
Irish people, which poured into America during the first half of the
eighteenth century, but whether he was a natiVe of Ireland or bom in
this country is not known. He was bom, according to the inscription
on his tombstone, in 1 759.

The people from whom he came were planted in Ireland from
Scotland in die Province of Ulster, probably eitlier in the County of
Donegal or Londonderry. Great numbers of the Scotch-Irish settled
in Eastem Pennsylvania, chiefly in Lancaster county, from which they
emigrated into certain portions of North and South Carolina, and very
largely throughout the entire Valley of Virginia, the stream extending
further southward through East Tennessee and into Northem Alabama.

Barcley McGhee, bom about 1 760, married in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, probably in 1787, Jane McClanahan, (1767) and
immediately after the marriage they set out, with some of their kindred
for the southwest, stopping probably first, for a very short time, in what
is now Sevier county, but very shortly afterwards settling in the present
Blount county, in the vicinity of Maryville. Barcley was a planter and
merchant, and lived the last years of his life in Maryville, his house now
standing on the main street, the property of Charles T. Gates, Senior.
He and his wife died in Blount County, he on August 17, 1819, aged
almost 60 and she September 8, 1835, aged 68 years, and their graves
may yet be seen in New Providence Presbyterian Church burying ground
in Maryville.

Barcley McGhee had five children who reached maturity: (1)
John, (2) Polly, (3) Betsey, (4) Alexander, and (5) Matthew Wal-
lace. Polly married William Lowry, and lived in or near Athens.
But little is known of her family, but she undoubtedly has descendants*
living in McMinn or Monroe county, Betsey married Thomas Hender-
son, from Jefferson county, his mother, or grandmother, being a Rus-
sell, closely related to, perhaps a sister of. Captain Andrew Russell,
who immigrated to Jefferson county, Tennessee, from Augusta county.
Virginia, whose very extensive progeny are now scattered nearly half
way around the world, a number of them noted for their achievements
in civic and military life, and some of the female members being women
of unusual beauty and charm.

The only child of Thomas and Betsey McGhee Henderson was
Jane, who became the wife of William P. H. McDermott, of Tellico

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Plains, Monroe county. Among their children was Penelope, who
married Judge J. Burch Cooke, and they are the parents of Thomas
Henderson Cooke and Robert Burch Cooke, of Chattanooga, and of
Mary, the wife of W. B. Swaney, Elsquire, and of Mrs. Penelope
Cooke Patty, also of Chattanooga.

Of the foregoing: Thomas Henderson Cooke married Elma Wiehl
and has no children. Mary Cooke married William B. Swaney and
ad children, Burch Cooke Swaney, who died young, Penelope Swaney
who married Marion Hope and has a son, William Green Hope, Mary
Elizabeth Swaney who is unmarried, Frances Louise Swaney, who
is unmarried, and Elma Roberta Swaney who is unmarried. Penelope
Cooke married a Patty and has one son, Burch Cooke Patty who i**
serving in the United States Army. Robert Burch Cooke married
Sarah Divine and has five children, Thomas Henderson Cooke, Junior,
Rachel Cooke, Adelaide Cooke, Sarah Cooke and Mary Cooke,
all of whom are unmarried.

Alexander McGhee became a physician, and practised the greater
part of his life in and near Maryville. He married three times, his
first wife being Nancy, the daughter of Judge Thomas Emmerson, one
of the Judges of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and the first Mayor
of Knoxville. His second wife was Anna Dent Lyle, and his third
Ann B. McLin, who after the death of Dr. McGhee, married Colonel
Reynolds A. Ramsey, a cousin of Tennessee's distinguished historian.
Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey. His descendants live in and about Maryville
and Knoxville, two of hb great granddaughters being Misses Annie
and Elizabeth McGhee, of Knoxville.

Matthew Wallace McGhee, the youngest son, lived near his brother,
John, and died unmarried in 1836.

John McGhee, the oldest child of Barcley McGhee, was bom
October 15, 1 788, in the present Sevier or Blount county, October 15,
1788. He was engaged in mercantile business with his brothers in
Maryville for a number of years, but his chief occupation was that
of a planter, owning at the time of his death several miles of fine lands
along the valley of the Little Tennessee river, up and down from the
present station of McGhee. Old Fort Loudon (1756-60), the first
station established by the Elnglish within the limits of the present State
of Tennessee, was upon land afterwards owned by him, on the south-
west side of the Little Tennessee river, a short distance above the mouth
of the Tellico. Quite a nimiber of the Overhill Cherokee Indian villages
were situated upon his lands along the river, when the whites first came
to diis section of the country, and he had intimate relations of one
kind or another with these Indians through the greater part of his life.
At the time of the removal of the Cherokces in 1838 from their old
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in conducting them to their new home. In 1820, he married Betsey
Jones McClung, a daughter of Colonel Charles McClung, first County
Court Clerk. of Knox County, and a member of the Convention which
framed the first constitution of Tennessee, and a granddaughter of Gen-
eral James White, the founder of Knoxville in 1 79 1 , and who was like-
wise a member of the Constitutional Convention. Betsey Jones McClung
MeGhee died in April, 1 829. John McGhee died in June, 1 85 1 ,
and both are buried in the family burying-ground near "Riverside,"
McGhee, Tennessee. John and Betsy McGhee had five children, two
of whom died in infancy. The three to reach maturity were ( 1 ) Mar-
garet White McGhee, (2) ^arcley McGhee, Second, and (3)
Charles McClung McGhee.

( 1 ) Margaret White McGhee was born in 1 82 1 , and her modier
dying when she was eight years old, she was brought up under the
direction of her father, who gave her unusual educational advantages,
her education being completed in New Elngland. In 1840, she mar-
ried Andrew Russell Humes, of Knoxville, a descendant of the Captam
Andrew Russell, before refererd to. After marriage, he became a
planter upon his wife's estate in Monroe county, but lived- only a short
time; dying in 1847. They had four children: Betsey Jones Humes,
now the wife of Captain Charles P. Storrs, of Knoxville; Thomas
W. Humes, of Knoxville; Margaret Humes, who married her step-
brother. Dr. S. D. G. Niles, of McGhee, Tennessee; and Andrea Rus-
sell, now Mrs. John L. Dismukes, of Nashville. Margaret McGhee
Humes married, in 1852, for her second husband, J, W. J. Niles,
a native of New England, but after his marriage to Mrs. Hume",
his home was partly in Tennessee and partly in Mississippi. There were
three children by this marriage: Charles McGhee Niles and Joseoh
Warren Niles, who are farmers near Venore, Tennessee, and Amelia
Gervais, now the wife of George H. Rogers, of Birmingham, Ala-
bama.

(2) Barcley McGhee, Second, born 1823, spent his life as a
planter in Monroe county, on the estate inherited from his father, near
die present station of McGhee. He attended the University of North
Carolina for one year, and afterwards married successively two sisters,
daughters of Arthur H. Henley, who owned a plantation in Monroe
county, on the Little Tennessee river, immediately above the McGhees.
The wife of Arthur H. Henley was Anna Evelina Moore, daughter of
Alexander Spotswood Moore and his wife Elizabeth Aylett, of die
Eastern part of Virginia. Alexander Spotswood Moore was son of
Bernard Moore of "Chelsea," King William county, Virginia, and his
wife Ann Katherine Spotswood, a daughter of General Alexander
Spotswood, one of the ablest and most picturesque colonial Governors
of Virginia, 1710-1 722. The home of General Spotswood was at

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Germanna, on the Rapidan river, in Eastern Virginia, near which he
established the first iron blast furnace in the Southern Colonies, by
reason of which he was sometimes called the "Tubal Cain of Virginia,"
There is some account of this Moore family in Browning's "Americans
of Royal Descent." Barcley McGhce's first wife was Elizabeth
Moore Henley, by whom he had but one child, a daughter named for
her mother, who became the second wife of J. L. Johnston, of Loudon,
Tennessee. Among their children are Hugh M. Johnston, who mar-
ried Mace Russell and has two daughters, Lynn Russell Johnston and
Elizabeth Evans Johnston, of Knoxville, Samuel M. Johnston, mer-
chant of Knoxville, and Thomas H. Johnston, whose wife was Nona
G. McDermott. They have Hugh Samuel Johnston and Louise Johns-
ton. Barcley McGhee's second wife was Mary Keller Henley, by
whom he had, among others, Margaret White McGhee, now the
widow of Charles C. Jones, of Monroe county, John Barcley McGhee,
living near Vonore, in Monroe county, and Lavinia Moore McGhee,
wife of the Honorable Joshua Rhett Jones, a native of South Carolina,
living now at Sunline, on the Little Tennessee river.

(3) Charles McClung McGhee was bom, January 23, 1818.
near the present station of McGhee, Tennessee, and died at his residence
in Knoxville, May, 1907. Hie graduated at the East Tennessee Uni-
versity in 1846, and became a planter in Monroe county until the War
Between the States, when he became a resident of Knoxville, and sub-
sequently made his^home in New York. He was a banker; Vice-
President of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad ; Pres-
ident of the Knoxville and Ohio Railroad, and President of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad; took an active part in the
development of the coal and iron interests of East Tennessee, and
was a promoter of manufacturing in Knoxville; was a member of the
House of Representatives in the Tennessee Thirty-seventh General As-
sembly; and founded the Lawson McGhee Library in Knoxville as a
memorial to a deceased daughter. He married successively two sisters,
daughters of Hugh A. M. White, af Knoxville, grandson of General
James White, the founder of Knoxville. The first wife was Isabella
McNutt White, who lived less than a year after her marriage. His
second wife was Cornelia Humes White, whom he married in 1857.
They had five daughters: (1) Margaret White McGhee, (2) May
Lawson McGhee, (3) Anne McGhee, (4) Bettie Humes McGhee,
and (5) Eleanor Wilson McGhee.

( 1 ) Margaret White McGhee was married to George W. Baxter,
a son of the late Judge John Baxter, of the United States Federal
Court. He was a graduate of West Point; Lieutenant of Cavalry;
saw service among the Indians in the West for several years; resigned
and engaged in cattle raising in Wyoming, living at Cheyenne; was

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appointed Territorial Governor of Wyoming by President Clevdard
in 1886; and afterwards lived for a number of years in Denver, G)lo-
rado. He and his wife now make their home in New York. Mrs.
Baxter, while she made her home in Knoxville, took an active interest
in the Daughters of the American Revolution, and held the office of
Regent for Tennessee. Their oldest daugfhter is Cornelia McGhee, whose
first husband was Hugh Tevis, of San Francisco. They made a wed*
ding journey to Japan, and Mr. Tevis died in Yokohoma, in less than
two months after the marriage, leaving her a widow in a strange land.
She returned with his body to California, and lived for a time at Monte-
rey, in a beautiful home Mr. Tevis had built by the sea just before his
marriage, and there her son, Hugh Tevis was born in 1902; Cornelia
subsequently made her home in Paris, where she became the wife of
Evelyn Toulmin, an Elnglishman, Paris Manager of Lloyd's Bank of
London. The second daughter of George White Baxter and Mar-
garet White McGhe6 Baxter was Margaret Lawson White. She
married Albert Volney Foster, of Chicago, and is the mother of twin
sons. The third daughter is Katharine Anne, the wife of Russell Bur-
rage, of Boston. The fourth of Governor and Mrs. Baxter's children
is Charles McGhee Baxter who married Marcella Virginia Andrews,
daughter of Mr. Matthew Andrews, of Cleveland, Ohio. They make
their home in New York. The youngest child is Eleanor Baxter, mar-
ried Perry Beadleston.

(2 Mary Lawson McGhee, the second daughter of Charles Mc-
Clung McGhee, married David Shelby Williams, of Nashville, and
she and her little daughter of the same name died in less than two
years after the marriage. It was as a memorial to her that her father
founded the Lawson McGhee Library in Knoxville.

(3) Anne McGhee, the third daughter of Charles McClung Mc-
Ghee, married her cousin, Calvin M. McClung, o^f Knoxville, and had
two daughters: Eliza Mills McClung, now the wife of William Cary
Ross, of Knoxville, and Lawson McClung, now the wife of Thomas G.
Melish, a manufacturer of Cincinnati.

Mrs. William Cary Ross is one of the beautiful young leaders of
Knoxville society and is as lovely in her life and character as in her
face. Mrs. Mellish is a talented young matron.

(4) Bettie Humes McGhee, fourth daughter, married Colonel
Laurence D. Tyson, at the time of his marriage a Lieutenant in ths
United States Army, but now Brigadier General in the United States
Army. He is a native of Pitt County, North Carolina; graduated at
West Point; became a Lieutenant of Infantry; and saw service among
the Indians for several years in the West; was detailed as Instructor of
Military Science at the University of Tennesse; studied law while at
the University, and was admited to the Bar; resigned from the Army in

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1896; at the beginning of the Spanish-American War was appointed
Colonel of the Sixth U. S. Volunteer Infantry and recruited that Regi-
ment in East Tennessee; took it to Porto Rico, and on its return was
mustered out at Savannah in 1899; was Member of the Tennessee
House of Representatives and its Speaker 1903-1905; he is now a
leading manufacturer in Knoxville. Mrs. Tyson is a member of the
Bonnie Kate Chapter of the D. A. R. and take an interest in all mat-
ters pertaining to die betterment of her city and in promoting its beauty.
Colonel and Mrs. Tyson have one son, Charles McGhee, a manufac-
turer of Knoxville, now in the Aviation Service; he married Betty
Carson; and one daughter, Isabella Tyson, who married Lieutenant
Kenneth Newcomer Gilpin.

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The McMillan family is of Scotch origin and famous in Scotland
for many centuries. The name is Gaelic and was originally Mhavil-
avin. In Scotland the McMillans were seated in Perth, Argyleshire.
Ivemess, Arran and Galloway.

The famous Martyr's Monument at Ayr, which was erected in
memory of the seven Scotsmen who suffered martyrdom December
27, 1666, for their adherence to the Word of God and Scotland's
G>venant, bears the name of Alexander McMillan, second of the
seven. Since that date there has always been an Alexander Mc-
Millan, or several of them in every generation and the name has been
handed down in a direct line to the men who bear it now.

When the McMillans migrated to Ireland they settled in Ulster
and from counties in that Province moved to America. Theyjhave
Been noted for piety, sturdiness of character, consistent Presbyterianism
and love of education and advancement for themselves and their fam-
ilies. One of their sons, William McMillan, was one of the fifst
graduates of William and Mary College.

Alexander McMillan was bom in G>unty Derry, Ireland, August
12, 1749. He emigrated from Ireland to America in 1775 and upon
landing at Boston offered himself immediately to the Service of the
Colonies. Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey, the noted historian of Teimessee, says
of him, ** Alexander McMillan on landing at Boston in 1 775 imme-
diately joined the Army of the Rebels, starting on the hazardous expe-
dition against Quebec (1776). This was the first service he per-
formed in the cause of American freedom and this was before die
Declaration of Independence. His last military service rendered to
that glorious cause, was in the hard-fought, but most decisive battle of
the Revolutionary War, ending in the defeat and death of Ferguson,
and the capture of his whole Army, October 7, 1 780. (King's Moun-
tain)."

During his Revolutionary service, probably in the Quebec Expedi-
tion, Alexander McMillan had his fingers frozen while holding his
gun on picket duty, so that they came off at the first joint. He refused
to accept a pension, however, saying, with characteristic decision, that
be *'did not need it, having ample, means of his own.**

Alexander McMillan left Ireland to join the McMillan relatives
who had preceded him and were settled in Virginia. His service in

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the Quebec campaign delayed his arrival in Virginia, but only for e
few years and before the close of the Revolution he did join these
relatives in Augusta County (Washington County) Virginia, and
there married his (irsrt cousin, Margaret McMillan, in I 778.

Alexander and Margaret McMillan moved to Tennessee soon after
their marriage and he was probably settled in the eastern part of the
state (which was then a part of North Carolina) , shortly after the
Battle of King's Mountain, in which he was a participant, but his name
is given as one of the soldiers in that batle from Washington County,
Virginia.

Alexander McMillan, not content with an excellent record in the
Revolution, volunteered again and fought with General Jackson in
1812 at New Orleans, though he was already past military age, being
then sixty-three years old. His descendants, therefore, are eligible to
the Society of 1812, as well as the Societies of the Revolution. Re-
turning to his home in East Tennessee he lived quietly upon his home
place, near McMillan's Station, and there died in 1837. His grave
is at the Philip Sherrod farm, near the Old Caledonia church, and is
marked with his name and age. His wife predeceased him by a year
and is buried beside him. In his will he left a half bushel of coined
silver to each of his children, except James and John, cutting them off
with the proverbial shilling — one dollar each.

Margaret McMillan, who married her first cousin, Alexander Mc-
Millan, in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1 778, was bom April 2,
1 762. She was the daughter of William McMillan, brother to Alex-
ander's father, and his wife, Mary Leeper McMillan. Mary Leeper
was the daughter of James Leeper and his wife, Margaret Leeper.
James Leeper was one of the earliest settlers in Augusta County, Vir-
ginia. He had lands surveyed (deed No. 31) May 13, 1838. He
died in 1 763, as his wife, Margaret Leeper, qualified as administratrix
of his estate, June 21, 1763. October 23, 1765 Margaret Leeper.
recorded settlement of the estate. A marriage record of Augusta
Coimty for September 4, 1731, is for Andrew Leeper, (the' bride's
name is not given in any of these early records in Augusta County).
This Andrew Leeper is probably a son of James and Margaret Leeper
and a brother of Mary, who married William McMillan, as she
named a son Andrew and the name thereafter continues in the Mc-
Millan family.

The marriage of an Edward McMillan is recorded May 1 6, I 759»

Mary Leeper married William McMillan about 1 759. Their first
son, William McMillan, Second, was bom I 760. William and Mary
Leeper McMillan were zealous patriots and Christians. They raised
their eldest son, William McMillan, Second, to be a Presbyterian
minister. They sent him to college early in life with that end in view

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and he was one of first graduates of William and Mary G)llege. Wil-
liam McMillan, First, served in the Battle of King's Mountain
(Sumner.)

Sumner says the first land surveyed on the Holston and Clinch
Rivers, of which any record was preserved was by William McMillan,
March 1, 1774, 200 acres on South Fork.

William McMillan, First, died in 1810. I have no record of
the death of Mary Leeper McMillan.

William and Mary Leeper McMillan had nine children, namely:

William McMillan, Second.

Margaret McMillan, married Alexander McMillan.

Andrew McMillan.

Francis McMillan.

James McMillan.

Mary McMillan, married James Bell.

Nancy McMillan, married Robert Davis.

Janet McMillan, married Andrew Willoughby.

Elizabeth McMillan married James Fulkerson.

Of the foregoing:

Francis McMillan survived others of his family and was living
November 30, 1835, in Barren County, Kentucky, when he wrote
to the Masons of Cincinnati assuring them of his interest and co-opera-
tion in the monument which they were then -about to erect to William
McMillan, Second.

James McMillan moved to Ohio with his brother, William, mar-
ried, and had a family, among other children William. He lived for
some years in Covington, Kentucky.

Margaret McMillan will be found in the continuation of this article,
as she married Alexander McMillan.

Nancy McMillan married Robert Davis and had James Leeper
Davis who married his cousin, Evelyn McMillan; Mary Davis who

married Eason; Margaret Davis who married

and Robert Earl Davis; James Leeper Davis, who married his cousin.
Maxwell; John Davis; William Davis; Frank Davis; Sarah Davis;
and Robert Earl Davis. James Leeper Davis, 'who married his cousin,
Evelyn McMillan, had ten children, namely: John Davis (who married,
firstly, Lizzie Clapp had Theo and Walter Davis and married
secondly Sally Payne and had Elizabeth Davis) ; Nancy Davis (who
married William M. Gray); Almeda Davis; Alice Davis (who mar-
ried Matt Roberts); Margaret Davis; Robert Davis; James Davis;
Rebecca E. Davis; Amelia Evelyn Davis; and James Leeper Davis,
Second (who married and has seven children).

William McMilliam, Second, first child of William and Mary
Leeper McMillan, bom Washington County, 1 760, became the most

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famous of the family. He graduated from William and Mary Col-
lege. Though raised to be a minister he decided upon the legal pro-
fession and studied law. He was admitted to the bar. He moved
to Fort Washington, which is now Cincinnati, in 1 787. He was
elected to several local offices and was elected to the first legislative
assembly in the Northwest Territory. He was elected to the Sixth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William
Henry Harrison and served from November 24, 1800, to March 3,
1801, declining re-election. He was elected United States District
Attorney for Ohio, but died before he assumed the duties of this
position.

He accumulated a good deal of real estate and a street in Cin-
cinnati, McMillan Street, bears his name to this day.

He was a man of great intellect and integrity and many testimonials
remain to his character. He married but had no children. He was
a devoted Mason and left in his will property to the Masons upon a
part of which the Masonic Temple in Cincinnati now stands. Thirty
years after his death the Masons erected a monument to his memory
and published a pamphlet giving his history.

He died in Cinciimati in June, 1804, leaving in his will his estate
to his nieces and nephews, with special bequest of property to the
Masons.

Three brothers who were cousins to Alexander McMillan, came to
America, either with him or about the same time. From them are
descended the Whortleberry Springs McMillan Family. Their names
were Thomas McMillan, Charles McMillan and "Irish Alexander Mc-
Millan."

The following letter was written to Irish Alexander McMillan
from Ireland in I 792, and is interesting as it shows various relation-
ships and connects the American Family with those left at home, shows
that McMillan and McMullen were interchangeable and also gives
interesting light upon taxes, values and educational facilities at that
time. The original of this letter belongs to R. A. J. Armstrong, son
of Nancy McMillan, daughter of John McMillan, son of Alexander
McMillan, for whom certain messages in the letter are intended.

Ireland County of Cavan, July 20, I 792.

Dear Uncle: I embrace this opportunity of writing once
more to you to inform you of my health we are all well at
present, thanks be to God for his mercies. My mother is
dead about eighteen months ago of a fever. I have four chil-
dren, only alive and six dead. Uncle John McMullen had
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present, his wife is also living. He has two sons at home,
Andrew and John. His eldest son, William and youngest
daughter, Elizabeth left Ireland last May with expectations
to see you. His brother, Andrew McMillan and my brother,
John White, is resolved, God willing, to go to America
next Spring and intend not to make much delay until they see
you, hoping they will find you and your family in good
health. I received your letter of October, 1 79 1 . Uncle
John McMullen received one also which gives a good deal
happiness to hear of the welfare of you and family. Inform
Alexander McMillan that his father is yet alive though very
frail, his brother and family is well. Our lands are out of
lease and we have taken it again for twelve shillings per
acre. I hold about eighteen acres. I commonly pay about
six shillings every year of Roads, two shillings of hearth
money and as much more won't pay all other taxes. Oat
meal is about ten shillings per cwt., potatoes four shillings
per barrel vs. thirty-two stone. Beef and pork about twenty-
five shillings per cwt. Butter about three pounds per cwt.
Linnen has been high this season, eleven hundred of yard
wide linnen will be from sixteen to eighteen pence per yard,
wool seventeen shillings per stone. The three children my
mother had by her last husband is married, the eldest son
lives with me, he has no trade. I would prepare for going
with my brother John and Cousin Andrew only the landlord
will not allow his tenants to sell their place and I have a boy
about fifteen years old which has been this three or four
years at Latin and Greek, and I suppose it is cheaper to
College a boy in Scptland than in America as the College is
kept up by the King here. When a boy is fitted for the
college he most commonly goes four seasons to Scotland and
if a boy is not extravagant he can after being prepared have
each winter learning for about 20 lbs. Sterling. I would be
glad to hear from you for advice as I have let you know
something concerning the cost that attends it here as you can
be a better Judge than I as you have had the experience
there, whether I shall have him colleged before he goes over
or not or if there is much call for young clergymen there
or not or what way they are kept up. Your brother, Brice
(or Brien) McMullen was alive but frail in May.

Uncle John was there and his wife, his children is all
married. Your sister, Margit, is alive and well, her husband,
John Bowze, is dead, she has only two children living. Write
as soon as possible and fail not. You may direct it to Doctor

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Wright for the person you directed to is dead, as the post
boy knows us, and then the (word letter omitted) will not
go astray as we commonly see the post once a week. You
advised in your last letter to fetch linnen whether is it better
to fetch it green or bleached, you may send word. No
more at present. But I hope you will remember me to
cousins in general. I have a sincere wish for prosperity for
you all.

WILLIAM WHITE.

It has long been a tradition in the family that about the year I 790
that a letter was recived from Ireland notifying the connection that a
young lady cousin was leaving Ireland in May for New York to join
the family in Tennessee and containing a request that she be met.
This is evidently the Elizabeth, youngest daughter *of "Uncle John
McMillan," referred to in the letter. Alexander McMillan left for
New York in a covered oxcart containing food and forage and drove
through to meet the young cousins and returned with them to Tennessee
in time to sow his fall crop of wheat.

By this letter the father of our Alexander McMillan was still
living, though "frail," July 20, 1 792, and a brother and family still
in Ireland were well. Alexander McMillan was bom in County Derry
and the letter is written from County Cavan.

Henning's Statutes of Virginia, Vol. VII, Pages 202 to 204,
shows that in 1 758 Alexander McMillan and others received pay for
being in the Militia of Albemarle County for protection of the inhab-
itants on the frontiers. This shows that an Alexander McMillan (or
McMullen, the spelling varies) was in the Valley, (Albemarle is the
next County East of Augusta and the settlers might easily go from
one to the other) in 1 758. This Alexander McMillan might have
been a brother to William McMillan, First, who was settled in Vir-
ginia in 1 759 and married Mary Leeper close to that date, or this
Alexander McMillan might have been father to William McMillan,
who married Mary Leeper, and grandfather to Alexander McMillan
who married Margaret McMillan. They were undoubtedly close
kinsman.

In this connection, John McMillan Brooks, of Knoxvjlle, wrote
in 1896 to Mrs. Boyd, of Knoxville, a letter in which he says that
his ancestors, Alexander McMillan and John Brooks came over from
Ireland together, settling first in Pennsylvania (as so many of the Irish
emigrants did) and later moving to Augusta County, Virginia, and
that his records show that John Brooks came over in 1 760.

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THE CHILDREN OF ALEXANDER McMILLAN AND
MARGARET McMILLAN. \

I. —Polly McMillan, bom 1779.

II. — ^John McMillan, bom December 25, 1781.

III._William McMillan.

IV.— Sally McMillan.

V. — ^Alexander McMillan, Second.

VI. — Betsey McMillan.

VII. — James McMillan.

VIII.— Andrew McMillan.

IX — . — McMillan, a daughter, probably died

young.

X. McMillan, a daughter, probably died young.

L— POLLY McMILLAN.

Polly McMillan, eldest child of Alexander and Margaret
McMillan, was born I 789. She married John Carpenter. Alexander
McMillan's Family Bible is now in possession of her descendant,
Mary Carpenter. Polly McMillan Carpenter died in 1 858.

I._jOHN McMILLAN.

John McMillan, eldest son of Alexander and Margaret Mc-
Millan was born December 25, 1781. He married Febraary 7,
1805, Jane Meek, daughter of John Meek and his wife, Jane Mc-
Cutcheon Meet, who had moved from Augusta County, Virginia, to
Tennessee, in 1 790, having been married in Augusta County, June
15, 1770. Jane McCutcheon lived in Rockbridge, Augusta County,
Virginia, before she married John Meek and was the daughter of John
McCutcheon. He is said to have been in the Battle of King's Moun-
tain. The McCutcheons had been settled in Augusta since 1745.
Revolutionary Records give three McCutcheons in the war, John,
William and Samuel McCutcheon (possibly sons of John McCutcheon)
w;ere all three in the Battle of King's Mountain.

John McCutcheon, the father of the family and the emigrant from
Ireland was settled in 1745 at Middlebrook on the headwaters of
Middle River in Augusta County, Virginia.

The family record is that "John McCutcheon, the emigrant from
Ulster Province, Ireland, was settled in 1 745 m Middlebrook, on the
headwaters of Middle River in Augusta County." However, by the
Virginia records, a Robert McCutcheon is the first of die name who
entered lands (1746.) Samuel McCutcheon made a deed in 1746.

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John McCutcheon in 1747 and 1746, James McCutcheon in 1731.
These were doubtless all emigrants and possibly all related.

John McCutcheon, who made the deed in 1 747 and 1 748, is
evidently our direct ancestor and the family historian who set down
1 746 as the date of his being settled in Middlebrook was evidently close
to the truth. He probably did not secure his lands until the next year
or so. Possibly he is the son of the first recorded Robert McCutcheon
and only took out lands in his own, name a year or so after settling
with his father.

John McCutcheon had a daughter, Jane McCutcheon, who married
John Meek, June 15, 1770. They remained in Augusta County for
twenty years and in 1 790 removed to Tennessee where they died and
are buried. John Meek served in the Revolution and was in the Battle
of King's Mountain.

We have the full list of the children of John Meek and his wife,
Jane McCutcheon Meek, namely: Thomas Meek, (bom March 2,
1772) ; Margaret Meek (bom March 1 774) ; Robert Meek, (born
August 5, 1 776) ; Agnes Meek, (bom March 5, I 779) ; Jane Meek
(bom June 12, 1782, married John McMillan, 1805; died 1875);
John Meek (born August 17, 1785); Joseph Meek (born Jime 21,
1787, or 1788); Rebecca Meek (bpm May, 1 790) ; Elizabeth
Meek (bom January, 1 793) ; Rachel Meek (bom September, 1 795,

married Black) ; and Sarah Meek (bom January 23,

1801, married Andrew Crawford).

John McCutcheon signed a call to Reverend Charles Cummings to
preach, as one of the heads of families in the settlement on the^
Holston (Virginia.) Also William McMillan signed this call.

Waddell's .Annals of Augusta Coimty gives this paragraph con-
ceming his son, John McCutcheon, who was bom August I 3, 1 750.

"John McCutcheon served three months in 1 777 or 1 778 against
the Indians, under Captain Andrew Lockridge, Lieutenant Andrew
Kincaid and Ensign James Gay and was stationed at Clover Lick
(Pocahontas County). He was called oiit again in June, 1779, by
the alarm about an assault by Indians on Donnelly's Fort, Greenbried,
and was stationed with others under John Wackub at Warm Springs
to protect that place."

The Meek family was also an old one of Augusta County, Virginia.
John Meek, (grandfather of the aforementioned John Meek, who mar-
ried Jane McCutcheon), the first of the name of whom we have posi-
tive record, was living on Little River in "Calf Pastures," Augusta
County, Virginia, in 1 750, with his son, Thomas Meek. John Meek
died in 1761. Their son, Thomas Meek was married to Agnes

, Thomas Meek was in the Battle of Kinir's Mountain.

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children were Daniel Meek (who married Elizabeth Allen) ; Samuel

Meek (who married Elizabeth ) ; Elizabeth Meek (who

married James Peak) ; John Meek (who married Jane McCutcheon) ;
and Mary Meek (who married John Vachub or Wachub).

The widow of Thomas Meek, Agnes Meek, died

in September, 1 794, and her eldest son, Daniel Meek, administered
the estate. Either Daniel Meek or his brother, Samuel Meek named
daughter, Agnes, for their mother and she married Alexander Forgey
September 3, 1 786. John Meek, who married Jane McCutcheon,
also named a daughter Agnes for his mother.

the children of john mcmillan and jane meek

McMillan.

(1) Nancy McMillan.

(2) Margaret Almeda McMillan.

(3) Evelyn Jane McMillan.

(4) Elizabeth McMillan.

(5) Gaines McMillan.

(6) John Alexander McMillan.

(7) Sarah Rebecca McMillan.

(8) James McMillan.

( I ) Nancy McMillan, daughter of John McMillan and Jan*
Meek McMillan, was bom August 23, 1806. She married March
29. 1825, Addison Wear Armstrong. She died August 28, 1880.
Her children were: Elizabeth Armstrong, John McMillan Armstrong,
Margaret Evelyn Armstrong, Amelia Armstrong and Robert A. J.
Armstrong. For all of these see Armstrong Family.

(2) Margaret Almeda McMillan, daughter of John McMillan
and Jane Meek McMillan, was bom August 2, 1808. She married
in 1828 General Joseph A. Brooks. Her children were: Margaret
Brooks (who married Reverend George A. Caldwell and had Joseph

Caldwell, married Vance, John Caldwell, married

Anderson, George Caldwell, died, a daughter, married

Wood, Margaret Caldwell married William MacFarland, Ada Cald-
well, Maud Caldwell married John Hager, Estelle Caldwell and Clif-
ford Caldwell) ; Agnes Brooks (who married first Dr. Harvey Baker
and married second Richard Wilson and had Maggie Baker, married
Dr. Samuel Boyd, Lillie Baker, married James Meek, and Harvey
Baker unmarried) ; Ann Elizabeth Brooks (who married Samuel

Davis and had Maggie Davis, married McAdoo. (See that

Family.) Joseph Davis married , and Georgia Davis married E.

N. Willard) ; Cynthia Almeda Brooks (who married William B.

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Rogers and had Minnie V. Rogers, married John L. Boyd, John

Rogers, married Alma Rogers married Herbert Mabrey,

T. Belle Rogers married Dan Lee, and Brooks Rogers, unmarried) ;
John McMillan Brooks (who married first Sophy Park and married
second Amelia Ervine McDowell and had James Park Brooks, un-

married. Alma Brooks married — Wcdon, John McMillan

Brooks, Second, unmarried, Robert Porter Brooks married Iris Porter) ;
Ademila Brooks (who married Joseph King and had Roy King,
Joseph King and three daughters) ; Josephine E. Brooks (who married
James Churchwell Luttrell, Third, see Luttrell Family for her chil-
dren) ; Lizzie Brooks (who married George Prater and had Hattie
Prater, married R. L. Peters, Mary Blair Prater and Robert Prater) :
and Fannie Brooks (who married J. C. Duncan and had Malcolm
Duncan, Joseph Duncan, Captain Gordon Duncan and Warren Dun-
can).

(3) Evelyn Jane McMillan, daughter of John McMillan and
Jane Meek McMillan, was born December 29, 1810. She married
her cousin James Leeper Davis, a son of Nancy McMillan, of Augusta
County, Virginia. Their children were: Nancy Davis (who mar-
ried W. M. Gray) ; John McMillan Davis (who married, firstly,
Lizzie Clapp and had Walter Davis and Theo Davis, and married,
secondly, Sallie Payne, of Richmond, Virginia, and had Elizabeth
Davis and Robert Davis) ; Alice M. Davis (who married Matt Rob-
erts) ; Rebecca E. Davis (who is not married) ; Amelia Davis (who
died young and unmarried) ; and James L. Davis, second, (who
married Amanda Headrick and had Bettie Davis, Evelyn Davis,
Boyd Davis, Alice Davis, Lee Davis, Earl Davis and Wade Davis).

(4) Elizabeth McMillan, daughter of John McMillan and Jane
Meek McMillan was bom June 12, 1813. She married in 1833
Thomas Thornton. She died in 1896. Her children were Jemima
Jane Thornton (who married Sterling Rose and had Elizabeth Rose»
Wyley Rose and James Rose) ; John McMillan Thornton (who mar-
ried Mary Campbell and had Thomas C. Thornton, married Anne
Jett, James W. Thornton, married Isabella Few, and John A. Thorn-
ton married first Mary Badge and married second Mary Bacey;
Wyley Thornton (who married first Susan Martin and married second

Sallie , and had Eliza Thornton, Wyley Thornton, Second,

and John L. Thornton) ; and Sarah Thornton (who married Thomas
McMillan).

(5) Major GaiTies McMillan, -eldest son of John McMillan
and Jane Meek McMillan was bom. May 14, 1813. He married
in 1 838 Mary Ann Goddard for his first wife, by whom he had
several children and married for his second, Alice McMillan, daugh-

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ter of James McMillan and Alice Houston, by whom he had no chil-
dren.

The children of Major Gaines McMillan and his first wife, Mary
Ann Goddard McMillan, were: Elizabeth McMillan (who married
John M. Meek and had Alexander K. Meek, married Fannie Ray-
mond, John Lamar Meek, married Mary Fleming and has one son.
Fleming Meek, Gaines McMillan Meek, married Cora Beckett, Daniel
White Meek, Mary E. Meek, unmarried, Eugene Holsinger, Mar-
garet B. Meek, unmarried, Nelly Meek, unmarried and Bertha C.
Meek, unmarried) ; Harriet McMillan (who maitied Lemuel M.
Dick and had Alice H. Dick, married C. C. Spears) ; Daniel Mc-
Millan (who married Margaret Roberts and had Henry G. McMillan,
married Louisa Barber, Kate A. McMillan, married Clarence Mul-
line and Robert H. McMillan, married Phebe Park) ; Cynthia Alice
McMillan (who married William H. Salmon, and had Mary Isabella
Salmon, who married Robert M. Williams and has three children) ;
Nancy Josephine McMillan (who married Drury P. Love and had
Bruce E. Love, married Matilda Gaines McMillan Love, married

Brace, Fred J. Love married Josephine Carter, Hugh G.

Love and Rose Love) ; Margaret E. McMillan (who married J. N.
Mast) ; Florence Roberta McMillan (who is not married) ; Anna
Gaines McMillan (who maried first, George K. Thompson and mar-
ried second Howard J. Johnston and had Stewart M. Thompson, in the
United States Army, Samuel J. Thompson married Eliza VanNess,
Lawrence Thompson married Phyllis Plyley and George K. Thomp-
son, second, married Elizabeth Jones and is in the United States Army) ;
and John William McMillan, (who married Elizabeth Gorman and
had William Gorman; Gaines McMillan Gorman, Carolee Gorman,
and Anne Goddard Gorman).

(6) John Alexander McMillan, son of John McMillan and Jane
Meek McMillan, was bom April 25, 1817. He married Elizabeth
Epps in 1841. He died in 1862. His children were: Almeda
McMillan, Adelia McMillan, Rebecca Isabella McMillan, Eldward
Epps McMillan, John McMillan, Thomas R. McMillan, Mary Mc-
Millan, Robert McMilan, Joseph Gaines McMillan, Nancy McMillan
and Elizabeth McMillan.

Of the foregoing:

Almeda McMillan married John McMillan Moulden and had
John McMillan Moulden, Second, (who married Libbie Mitchell) :
Belle Moulden (who married George Caldwell) ; Nannie Moulden

(who married J. K. Johnson) ; Fred Moulden (who married

Luttrell).

Martha Adelia McMillan married William Byerly and had Lizzie
Byerly (who married Doctor Hall) ; Edd Byerly, Lucy

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Byerly (who married Allen Roberts); McMillan Byerly; Thomas
Byerly; James Byerly; Robert Byerly and Annie Byerly (who mar-
ried Beets).

Rebecca Isabella McMillan married T. J. ^Thomas.

Mary McMillan married H. George and has Edgar George;
Albert George (who married Jessie Lady), and Solomon H. George,
Junior.

Edward Epps McMillan married Belle Welker, a daughter of
Judge James Welker and had Margaret Belle McMillan (who mar-
ried Hal Bartlett Mebane, Jr. and Edward McMillan Mebane) ;
Edward John McMillan (married Mamie Hennegar) ; and Helen
McMillan (who married Lucian Briscoe).

John Alexander McMillan, Second, married Elster Brownlee.

Nannie McMillan married William Pickle and had John Pickle;

Walter Pickle; Edna Pickle (who married Moore); Cal-

lie Pickle (who married Fine) ; and Thomas Pickle.

Thomas T. McMillan married Mayme Hearner and had John
McMillan (who married Margaret Todd) ; and Lillian McMillan

(who married first Lewis and married second

Haynes). Elizabeth McMillan married A. M. Treadwell and had:
Elizabedi McMillan Treadwell; Nelly Treadwell (who married J. R.
Booth) ; Mary Lois Treadwell ; Ester Treadwell and Louis Treadwell.
Robert L. McMillan married Adelia Smartt and had: Robert Mc-
Millan, Second, Edward McMillan (who married Ethel Mae Skeggs) ;
Allen McMillan (who married Lillian Groner) ; Bessie McMillan;
Mary McMillan and Margaret McMillan.

Joseph Gaines McMillan married Esther Brownlee McMillan, his
brother, John McMillan's widow.

(7) Sarah Rebecca McMillan, daughter of John McMillan and
Jane Meek McMillan, was bom January, 1820. She married Alexan-
der Gary Snoddy and had: Jdhn McMillan Snoddy (who was killed
while serving in the Confederate Army) ; Thomas Snoddy (who mar-
ried Mariah Biddel and had Corra Snoddy, married a Felkner, Re-
becca Snoddy married Reverend Charles McGill, JohnSnoddy mar-
ried Mary Caldwell, Stella Snoddy married John Caldwell, (^a
Snoddy married and Nelly Snoddy married Guy Wag-
land) ; and William Gaines Snoddy (who married Ida Clentine Black-
bum and had two daughters.

(8) James McMillan, son of John McMillan and Jane Meek

McMillan, was bora . He married, in 1845, Cynthia God-

dard. His children were: Mary Jane McMillan; Nancy lanthia
McMillan, John McMillan, Ademila McMillan, James D. McMillan,
Faimie F. McMillan, Cynthia McMillan, William McMillan, Sarah
McMillan, Lucy McMillan and Bettie McMillan.

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Of the foregoing:

Mary Jane McMillan married James Madison Luttrell. Their
children were Waller Madison Luttrell (who married for his first wife
Jennie May Anderson and had Louisa Luttrell and Elnora Luttrell,
married Herbert Graf, and married for his second wife A. Mariah
Crawford.) James B. Luttrell (who married Rena Good) ; Laura
Elizabeth Luttrell (who is unmarried) ; Lucy A. Luttrell (who is
unmarried) ; G. Albertine Luttrell (who married Hugh Lyle Vance) ;
Mary Iva Luttrell (who married Otho Atkin and died in 1 90 1 ) ;
Anne E. Luttrell (who married E-dward Silver Maclin) ; William
Eugene Luttrell (who married Mattie Lee Walling) ; Ella Luttrell
(who is unmarried) ; Beulah Luttrell (who is immarried) ; and Kate
Luttrell (who married Harvey A. McBath.)

Nancy lanthia McMillan married Jonathan Sherrod and had:

Robert Sherrod ; Grace Sherrod (who married Kidder) ;

Howard Sherrod; Dana Sherrod; Edward Sherrod; Elsie Sherrod;
Linda Sherrod; Annie Sherrod; May Sherrod, and Frank Sherrod.

John McMillan, married Bettie Epps and had: Maude McMil-
.lan; Charles McMillan; Bruce McMillan; and Frank McMillan.

Ademila McMillan married Reverend Mills and had :

Neva Mills and Brice Mills.

James D. McMillan married Sallie Davis and had: Claude Mc-
Millan (who married Alexander).

Fannie Fidelia McMillan married William Patillo.

Cynthia McMillan is not married.

William McMillan married Mary Beal and had: Brice Mc-
Millan.

Sarah McMillan is not married.

Lucy McMillan died unmarried.

Bettie McMillan married Adam Blake and jhad: Wremmie
Blake; James Blake (who married Minnie Swan); Charles Blake;
Harvey Blake; Luther Blake; Belle Blake (who married James
Vance); Robert Blake; John Blake and Ruth Blake (who married
Armstrong) .

iii_wiLLiAM McMillan.

William McMillan, son of Alexander McMillan, First, and his
wife, Margaret McMillan McMillan, was named for his maternal
uncle. Congressman William McMillan and for his maternal grand-
father, William McMillan, the Emigrant. He married a Davis.

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IV.— SALLY McMillan.

Sallie McMillan, daughter of Alexander McMillan, First, and
his wife, Margaret McMillan McMillan, married (krst, William
Thompson and married secondly, Pomain Lovelace.

v.— ALEXANDER McMILLAN, Second.

Alexander McMillan, Second, son of Alexander McMillan, First,
and his wife, Margaret McMillan McMillan; of him I have no record.

VI.— BETSEY McMillan.

Betsey McMillan, daughter of Alexander McMillan, First, and
his wife, Margaret McMillan McMillan, married Lecper.

viL— JAMES McMillan.

Major James McMillan, son of Alexander and Margaret McMil-
lan McMillan, was bom . He married Alice Houston, daugh-
ter of Robert Houston, and his wife, Margaret Davis, or Dallas. (See
Armstrong and Howard Families), and had three children, namely:
Alice Houston McMillan (who married her first cousin. Major Gaines
McMillan, as his second wife and had no children) ; James White Mc-
Millan (who married Laura Hendrick and had Julia Hardin McMil-
lan, Amelia Alice McMillan, Annie L. McMillan, Mary Lurena Mc-
Millan, William Hendrick McMillan, Nannie Missouri McMillan,
James White McMillan, Second, Luke Hampton McMillan, Laura
Houston McMillan, Frances Louise McMillan and Frank Alexander
McMillan; Robert Houston McMillan (who married twice, firstly,
Martha Isbell, by whom he had two children and secondly her sister,
Missouri Isbell, by whom he had two children. His children by his
first wife, Martha Isbell McMillan were: James Benjamin McMillan
(who married Cynthia Cunningham and had William Cunningham Mc-
Millan, Alice McMillan, Rutelia Isbell McMillan, Mary B. McMillan
and Kitty McMillan) and Alice McMillan, who is not married. By
his second wife, Missouri Isbell McMillan, his children were: Robert
Houston McMillan, Second, (who married Sarah Gray and had
Robert Houston McMillan, Third, died young, Allen Gray McMillan
aod Catherine McMillan) ; and Fannie McMillan (who married Jesse
F. Wikle. and had Robert McMillan Wikle and Jesse F. Wikle,
Second).

Major James McMillan married for his second wife, Mrs. Mariah
Armstrong Brooks, by whom he had no children.

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VIIL— ANDREW McMILLAN.

Andrew McMillan, son of Akxander McMillan, First, and his
wife, Margaret McMillan McMillan, married Mary Littleford and
had four children, namely: Margaret McMillan, Mariah Mc-
Millan, Alexander McMillan, and a son, John D. McMillan, who
died unmarried just as he reached his majority and finished college.
Mariah McMillan married Simpson Moffet. Her children were John
Moffett, Mary Scott Moffet (who married Robert Crouch). William
Moffet and Lula Moffat. Margaret McMillan married John Shields
and had eight children: Ella Shields, (who died young), Alexander
Shields, of San Francisco; Dr. Lawrence Shields, of Xenia, Ohio,
William Shields, of California; Mary C. Shields, Margaret Lea
Shields, Lizzie Shields and Samuel Shields. (See Shields Family).
Alexander McMillan married Margaret Alexander, daughter of Ebe-
nezer Alexander, a descendant of General James White, and had four
children, namely: Alexander McMillan (who married Caroline Sinclair
Gillem and has one son, Alexander McMillan) ; Margaret McMillan
(who married Martin John Condon and has two children, Mary
Condon, who is not married and Martin John Condon, Second married
Shirley Cummings and has two children, Martin John Condon, Third,
and Billy Condon) ; Annette McMillan (who married Herbert W.
Hall and has three children: Colonel Alexander McMillan Hall, of
the United States Army, who is not married, Margaret Hall, who
married Charles P. Amos, and Lucie Hall, who married Jesse Thomas
and has two children; Jesse Thomas, Junior, and Annette Hall
Thomas) ; and Mamie McMillan (who married Edward E. Hen-
negar and had six children: Margaret Hennegar, who died unmarried;
Anne Hennegar, who married Matthew Thomas, Mamie Hennegar,
who married Edward John McMillan, son of Edward E. McMillan
and Belle Welker McMillan, Martin Condon Hennegar, Herbert Hall
Hennegar, who married Josephine Kendall and Henry Hennegar.

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PHINIZY FAMILY

Ferdinand Phinizy, first of the name, first at least in America,
was an Italian gentleman who emigrated to America in the eighteenth
century. It is believed that he went first from Italy to France, where
he spent some time before embarking for America.

He married Margaret Condow and raised a family of five sons
and daughters. He established a home in Georgia and acquired great
wealth and made a reputation for honesty and integrity of character
which was also a legacy to his family, one of the most powerful in
Georgia.

Landing absolutely without fortune but possessed of indomitable
will and talent, he left his children the foundation of a fortune which
at the death of his grandson, Ferdinand Phinizy, the Second, was the
greatest in Georgia, if not in the South.

Ferdinand Phinizy, the First, and Margaret Condow Phinizy had
five children:

I. Jacob Phinizy.

II. Marco Phinizy.

III. John Phinizy.

IV. Sarah Phinizy.

V. Elizabeth Phinizy.

I. JACOB PHINIZY.

Jacob Phinizy, son of Ferdinand Phinizy, the First, and Mar-
garet Condow Phinizy was raised at the home which his father had
established in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. In Historical Collections
of Georgia, published in 1833, his name is given as First Lieutenant
of the Richmond Blues, having enlisted at Augusta, Georgia, or at
least having reported himself from there.

He married Matilda Stewart, daughter of General John B.
Stewart, of Virginia, who settled in Georgia after the War of the
Revolution in which he had obtained his title. General Stewart's wife
was Mourning Floyd of the famous Floyd family. Her nephew
was John B. Floyd, Secretary of War under President Buchanan,
and another nephew was John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky.

Jacob and Matilda Stewart Phinizy had four sons and two daugh-
ters, namely:

( I ) Ferdinand Phinizy, Second.

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(2) Sarah Phinizy.

(3) Margaret Phinizy.

(4) Marco Phinizy.

(5) Jacob Phinizy.

(6) John Phinizy.

Sarah Phinizy married John M. Billups of G>lumbu8, Mis-
sissippi, and died there during the War Between the States.
Margaret Phinizy, the second daughter, married Colonel T. D. Lock-
hardt, of Nashville, and died. Marco Phinizy, the second son, lived
at his brother's home in Athens, Georgia, until his death. Jacob Phinizy,
the third son, entered the G>nfederate Army, was Captain of the
Oglethorpe Rifles, and was killed in the battle of Manassas while
leading his men. The Oglethorpe Rifles was a part of the Eighth
Georgia which General Beauregard commended for unparalleled
bravery. John Phinizy, the fourth son of Jacob Phinizy, and Matilda
Stewart Phinizy, married Eliza Sherrod Watkins, oldest daughter of
Paul J. Watkins. They had at least five children, the eldest Eliza-
beth Phinizy, married Pointer; Maud Phinizy is not married,

Paul Watkins Phinizy has a son, ELarly Phinizy, of Huntsville, Ala-
bama, James Watts Phinizy and Margaret Floyd Phinizy who mar-
ried Strong.

FERDINAND PHINIZY, SECOND.

( 1 ) Ferdinand Phinizy, the Second, eldest son and child of Jacob
and Matilda Stewart Phinizy, was bom at Bowling Green, Oglethorpe
County, Georgia, in the home of his father and grandfather on January
twentieth, 1819. Shortly after attaining his majority he removed to
Augusta, Georgia, and entered business. He married, February twenty-
second, 1849, Harriet Hayes Bowdre, only child of Hayes Bowdre,
a citizen of Augusta. She bore eight children, seven sons and a daugh-
ter, namely, Ferdinand Bowdre Phinizy, Stewart Phinizy, Leonard
Phinizy, Louise King Phinizy, Jacob Phinizy, Marion Phinizy,
Daniel Phinizy, Billups Phinizy, and Harry Hayes Phinizy. After
the death of Harriet Hayes Bowdre Phinizy, Ferdinand Phinizy mar-
ried for his second wife, Anne S. Barrett, the second daughter of
Thomas Barrett and Savannah Glasscock Barrett, of Augusta. The
three children of the second marriage were Savannah Glasscock Phinizy,
who died young, Barrett Phinizy and Charles Henry Phinizy.

Ferdinand Bowdre Phinizy married Miss Mary Lou Yancey, of
Athens, Georgia. They had children: Bowdre and Harriet. After the
death of Ferdinand Bowdre Phinizy she married her late husband's
cousin, Charles Phinizy, and by this marriage had one daughter.

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Stewart Phinizy married Miss Marion Coles, of Columbia, South
Carolina. (There were seven children of this marriage, namely:
Ferdinand Phinizy, Third, who married Mary Porter; Eliza Pickens
Phinizy, who never married; Coles Phinizy, who married Mary Har-
rison; Marie S. Phinizy, who married J. M. Hull, Jr.; Lousie C.
Phinizy, who married R. C. Neely, Jr.; Isaetta Phinizy, who mar-
ried Henry B. Garrett; Stewart Phinizy, Jr., who never married).

Jacob Phinizy married for his first wife Miss Vannie E. Gartrell,
of Atlanta, and for his second wife Miss Mary Vason, of Augusta,
Georgia. (They had no children).

Billups Phinizy married Miss Nellie G. Stovall, of Athens, Geor-
gia, and had five daughters: Anne Barrett Phinizy (who married E.
H. Johnson and has Billups Phinizy Johnson and Nell Boiling John-
son) ; Boiling Stovall Phinizy (who married Hughes Spaulding and has
Eleanor Phinizy Spaulding and Hughes Spaulding, Junior) ; Martha
Susan Phinizy (who married Leroy Pratt Percy and has Walker
Percy and LeRoy Pratt Percy, junior) ; Nellie Phihizy (who mar-
ried Lieutenant Robert Malcolm Fortson) ; and Louise Calhoun
Phinizy.

Marion Phinizy never married.

Harry Hayes Phinizy never married.

Louise King Phinizy married Dr. Abner Wellburn Calhoun, of
Atlanta, Georgia, and survives her husband. The four children of
this marriage are Dr. Ferdinand Phinizy Calhoun, Susan Wellburn
Calhoun, Andrew Wellburn Calhoun, and Harriet Calhoun. (Ferdi-
nand Phinizy Calhoun married Marion Peel and has three children,
Ferdinand Phinizy Calhoun, Junior, Lawson Peel Calhoun, and Ma-
rion Peel Calhoun ; Susan Wellburn Calhoun married Junius S. Oglesby
and has no children; Andrew Wellburn Calhoun married Mary Guy
Trigg, of Chattanooga, and has three children, James Trigg Calhoun,
Abner Wellburn Calhoun and Louise Phinizy Calhoun; Harriet Cal-
houn married Stuart Witham and has one child, Stuart iWitham,
Junior. )

Charles Henry Phinizy married Miss Nellie Carter Wright, of
Atlanta, Georgia, and has two children, Charles Henry Phinizy, Junior,
and William Wright Phinizy.

Barrett Phinizy maried Miss Martha Glover, of Atlanta, and their
only child is named Laura Anne Phinizy.

IL MARCO PHINIZY

Marco Phinizy, son of Ferdinand Phinizy, the First, and Mar-
garet Condow Phinizy, married Mrs. Dancy and had a son, John F.
Phinizy.

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III. JOHN PHINIZY.

John Phinizy, the son of Ferdinand Phinizy, the First, and Mar-
garet Condow Phinizy, married Martha Creswell. They had nine
children, six sons and three daughters:

(1) Robert Marco Phinizy.

(2) John Phinizy, the Second.

(3) WilUam Jacob Phinizy.

(4) Thomas Burdell Phinizy.

(5) James Hamilton Phinizy.

(6) Charles H. Phinizy.

(7) Martha Patton Phinizy.

(8) Mary Eliza Phinizy.

(9) Jane Meek Phinizy.

(1) Robert Marco Phinizy, who married Louisa Hamilton Mus-
grove, had two daughters, Mary and Lula. Both parents died young
and the daughters were raised by their grandfather, John Phinizy, and
under the guardianship of their uncle, Charles H. Phinizy. Mary
married William Micou, of Alabama, and survives her husband, a
sweet and gracious example of the charming **old South" type. She
lives in Montgomery, Alabama. She has one daughter, Gussie Lou
Micou, who married Allen R. Gilchrist and has four children, Robert
Allen Gilchrist, Mary Ellen Gilchrist, Martha Augusta Gilchrist, and
Ann Monroe Gilchrist.

Lula Phinizy married James B. Turnley, son of Judge Mathew J.
Tumley. She died in 1917. She had three sons and two daughters,
namely: Louise Turnley, John Phinizy Turnley, James Musgrove
Tumley (who married Nettie Brooks and has two children, Mary
Florence Tumley and Lula Wilmar Tumley) ; William Micou Turn-
ley (who married Lillian Crowe and has one child, Lula Elizabeth
Tumley) ; and Janie Bones Tumley (who married Charles Sedbury
and died but has no surviving child.)

(2) John Phinizy, the Second, never married.

(3) William Jacob Phinizy never married.

(4) Thomas Burdell Phinizy married Fannie Hamilton and had
four children, two sons and two daughters, namely: James Hamilton
Phinizy, the Second, who is not married; John Phinizy who married
a Miss Irwin and has three sons, Irwin Phinizy, Thomas Phinizy and
Frances Phinizy; Margaret Phinizy who married William K. Miller
and has Hamilton Miller and William K. Miller, junior, and another
daughter who married a Gary and has two sons and one daughter.

(5) James Hamilton Phinizy never married.

(6) Charles H. Phinizy married his deceased cousin's widow.

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Mrs. Mary Lou Yancey Phinizy and had one daughter, Harriet
Phinizy.

(7) Martha Palton Phinizy married C. M. Kolb and had no
children.

(8) Mary Eliza Phinizy married W. S. Roberts and had one
son and one daughter: John Roberts, who married but has no chil-
dren; and Minnie Roberts, who married Frank Bean and has three
sons.

(9) Jane Meek Phinizy married twice, firstly. Captain John
Samuel Bones (by this marriage there was one son, John Phinizy
Bones, who is not married and one daughter. Maria McGran Bones
who married W. B. Mitchell, of Charleston, and has two daughters,
Dorothy Mitchell and Frances Mitchell), and secondly Captain James
Walker.

IV. SARAH PHINIZY.

Sarah Phinizy, daughter of Ferdinand Phinizy, the First, and
Margaret Condow Phinizy, married Thomas Burdell. They had three
sons and two daughters, namely, Thomas Burdell; Joseph Burdell,
who married his cousin, Eliza McGran and Ferdinand Burdell.

V. ELIZA PHINIZY.

Eliza Phinizy, daughter of Ferdinand Phinizy, the First, and

Margaret Condow Phinizy, married Thomas McGran and had two

daughters, Sarah McGran, who married Jackson; and

Eliza McGran who married her cousin, Joseph Burdell.

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POLK FAMILY

The Progeniler of the Polk family is John Pollock, a gentleman
of landed property near Glasgow, which he left to join the colony
often mentioned in these pages in the North of Ireland. His son
was Robert Pollock, who married Magdalen Tasker Porter, the daugh-
ter of Colonel Tasker, who was Robert Pollock's commander in Oliver
Cromwell's Army and the widow of his friend and fellow office/.
Colonel Porter.

When the great Protector passed away and Charles, II. came to
the throne, Robert Pollock, like so many adherents of the Protector,
decided to emigrate. In 1659 he "took ship" and sailed away from
Ireland to the new country. He landed in Maryland and was accom-
panied by his wife and children. Tt is about this date that **Polk"
was evolved fj-om Pollock, and thereafter all his descendants so write
the name. That Robert Pollock died in Maryland and that the use
of Polk had become fixed, is evident as his widow signs herself, Mag-
dalen Tasker Polk.

His eldest son, John Polk, married Joanna Knox and had William
and Nancy Polk.

William Polk, son of John, son of Robert, married Priscilla Rob-
erts and had six children, namely:

(1 ) Charles Polk; (2) Susan Polk, (who married an Alexander) ;
(3) John Polk; (4) Ezekial Polk, who married first Miss Wilson
and second Mrs. Leanard, widow of Major Leanard, who was Sophia
Neely; (5) Thomas Polk; (6) Margaret Polk, who married
McRee.

Of these— (1) Charles Polk, son of William Polk and Priscilla
Roberts, no record is given; (2) Susan Polk, daughter of William
Polk and Priscilla Roberts Polk, of him no record is given; (4)
Ezekial Polk, son of William Polk and Priscilla Roberts Polk, was
bom in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He served in the
Revolution commanding a company, and was an important member
of the colonies. He married twice and had eleven children. His

first wife was Miss Wilson, and it is probable that his

children, William and Louise Polk, were by this wife. He married
second Mrs. Leanard, widow of Major Leanard, of the United States
Army. She was before her marriage Sophia Neely. She had eight
children by Ezekial Polk.

Elzekial Polk's children were: William Polk, Louisa Polk, Mary
Polk, Charles Perry Polk, Benegna Polk, Eugenia Polk, Clarissa

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Polk, Samuel Polk, Matilda Polk, Thomas Polk, and Edwin Polk.
There is no authority for giving them in this order of birth, as their
names have been found in several different documents.

William Polk, son of Ezekial Polk, probably by his first wife.
Miss Mary Wilson, married Elizabeth Dodd and had Clarissa Polk
(who married a Taylor) , Oliva Polk (who married D. D. Berry) ;
Thomas Polk, Joseph Polk, Caroline Polk, (who married John Wirt) ;

Jackson Polk, Mary Polk (who married Howard) ;

Laura Polk (who married first Manly, and second

Taylor.)

Louisa Polk, daughter of Ezekial Polk', married Captain Charles
Neely and had two sons. Colonel Rufus Polk Neely and Colonel J. J.
Neely, both gallant officers in the Confederate Army. (John H.

Wheeler gives this Louisa Polk as having married first

McNeily, and second D. D. Collier, but he must have confused her
with some other Louisa Polk.

Mary Polk, daughter of Ezekial Polk, married Captain Thomas
Jones Hardeman, and left children, namely: Monroe Hordeman, Mary
Fentress Hardeman, Leonidas Hardeman, and William Hardeman.

Charles Perry Polk, son of Ezekial Polk, married and had chil-
dren, namely: Charles E. Polk, Eugenia Polk, Perry Polk, Ann C.
Polk, James Knox Polk, (not the President.)

Eugenia Polk, daughter of Ezekial Polk, married William Wood
and left a daughter, Benegna Wood, who married and had children.

Clarissa Polk, daughter of Ezekial Polk, married Captain Thomas
McNeal and had several children, namely: Jane McNeal (who mar-
ried Brown) ; Clara McNeal (who married

Fulton) ; Mary McNeal (who married Mark K. Roberts. )

Eugenia Polk, daughter of Ezekial Polk, married Alexander
Nelson and had children, namely: Sarah, Ada, Sophia, Charles, Wil-
liam and Hugh Nelson. Alexander Nelson died in Bolivar, Tennes-
see, and the widow Eugenia Polk Nelson, resided in Corinth, Missis-
sippi, until her death.

Matilda Polk, daughter of Ezekial Polk, married John Camp-
bell.

Thomas Polk, son of Ezekial Polk, of him no record is given.

Eldwin Polk, son of Ezekial Polk, was Speaker of the Tennessee
Senate at the time of his death, in 1850. He married Octavia Jones,
daughter of General Calvin Jones. Their daughter, Octavia Polk,
married T. F. Brooks.

Samuel Polk, son of Ezekial Polk and his first wife, Mary Wilson,
married Jane Knox, (a daughter of Captain James Knox of the Rev-
olution. They had ten children, one of whom was James Knox Polk,

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bom November 2, 1795; died June 15, 1849, was President of the
United States.

The children of Samuel Polk and Jape Knox Polk were: James
Knox Polk; Maria Polk; Marshall T. Polk; Eliza Polk; Franklin
Polk; Samuel Polk, second; John Polk; Ophelia Polk; Naomi Polk,

and William Polk. Of these Marie Polk (married ^Walker and

had Samuel Walker; J. Knox Walker; Marshall Walker; Andrew
Walker; Jane Walker, who married a Burnett; Mary Walker, who
married a Pickett ; Sarah Walker, who married a Green ; James Walker,
unmarried, and Annie Walker, who married a Phillips.) Eliza Polk
(married a Caldwell, of Richmond, and had two children, Samuel
Caldwell and James Caldwell.) Naomi Polk (married a Harris and
had four children, Maria Harris, Malvina Harris, Laura Harris, and
Amelia Harris.) Ophelia Polk (married a Hayes and had two chil-
dren, Jenny Haves and Naomi Hayes.) William Polk (married and
had three children, James K. Polk, second, William Polk and Tasker
Polk.) Franklin Polk (died without issue.) John Polk (died without
issue.) Samuel Polk (died without issue.) Marshall T. Polk (had
two children, Eunice and Marshall Tate Polk, second.)

PRESIDENT POLK.

President James Knox Polk was bom in North Carolina Novem-
ber 2, 1 795. He was the eldest son of Samuel Polk and Jane Knox
Polk. When he was eleven years of age, (1806), the family moved
to what is now Maury County, Tennessee. He went, however, for
his education to the University of North Carolina, where he attained
a remarkable record. He graduated there in 1818, was admitted to
the Bar in Tennessee in 1820, and was elected to Congress in 1825.
In 1835 he was elected Speaker of the House and held this office
for five sessions. In 1839 he was elected Governor of Tennessee,
which state he served ably and successfully. In 1844 he was elected
President of the United States. He married Miss Sarah Childress,
but left no children. He died June 14, 1849, and is buried in
Nashville. He left no children.

Thomas Polk, son of William Polk and Priscilla Roberts Polk,
was bom about 1 732, and died in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1 793.
He was a very prominent man in the colonies. He was Colonelof the
County and he represented Mecklenburg in the Colonial Legislature.
He was a member of the Assembly in 1 771 and in 1 775 from Meck-
lenburg. When the famous Mecklenburg Declaration of Independ-
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of the house in which the Assembly met. He was appointed by the
Provincial G)ngress in 1775 Colonel of the Second Battalion of
Minute Men. He was appointed Brigadier General in 1 77 1 . He died
in Charlotte m 1793. He married Susan Spratt and had four sons:
Ezekial Polk, Charles Polk, William Polk, and James Polk, and a
daughter. Of these the daughter married a Brevard. Ezekial Polk
was a member of the Convention which passed the famous declaration
of May 20, 1 775. He served in the Revolution. No record is given

of his marriage. Charles Polk married Alexander, and

had a son* Thomas Independence Polk, (because of the date of his
birth, May 20), who married Sarah Moore, and had Horace Moore
Polk and Charles Polk, Second) ; of James Polk, the fourth son, no
record is given. One son was killed at Cane Creek, and James may
have been the one.

WILLIAM POLK.

William Polk, son of General Thomas Polk and Susan Spratt, who
is called Colonel William Polk, was also a very prominent man in
Revolutionary history. Wheeler gives much space to his biography.
He was bom July 9, 1 758, in Mecklenburg County, as given by his
application for a pension, and he died January 14, 1843.

He was a gallant officer of the Revolution. He was a spectator
though not a member of the Assembly which at Charlotte in I 775
made the famous Declaration of Independence. He removed from
Mecklenburg County to Raleigh late in life,/ and he died there
January 14, 1834. He entered, though only seventeen years of age»
the Revolution in April, 1 775, as a Second Lieutenant of a Company
commanded by Captain Ezekial Polk, who was his uncle. Third Regi-
ment of South Carolina State Troops of Mounted Infantry, Colonel
William Thompson commanding. He was badly wounded at Eutaw,
or Cane Creek, where his brother was killed. In I 776 he was elected
by the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, Major of the Ninth
North Carolina Battalion. He served at Brandywine and German-
town, where he was wounded in the cheek. He went into the famous
winter quarters at Valley Forge. In 1 780 Governor John Rutledge,
of Soudi Carolina, appointed him Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth
and then the Third South Carolina. He married, for his first wife,
Griselda Gilchrist, (daughter of Judge Thomas Gilchrist and his wife,
who was Martha Jones, a daughter of Robin Jones.) They had
two children, Thomas Gilchrist Polk, bom in Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina, February 22, I 790, and William J. Polk. Thomas
Gilchrist Polk is called General Polk. He married Eloise Trotter and
they had Jane (who married Dr. Bouchelle) ; Mary (who

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was the first wife of George Davis, of Wilmington.) William, Ricl>-
ard, Emily and Thomas Gilchrist Polk, Second; William J. PoHe, (son
of Colonel William Polk and his first wife, Griselda Gilchrist Polk) , is
called Doctor William J. Polk, He married his cousin, Mary Lunsr
ford Long (daughter of Lunsford Long, (son of Nicholas L.ong» whd
was Commissary General of the North Carolina forces in the RevcJor
lion), and his wife, who was Rebecca Edwards Jones Long, who was
a daughter of Allen Jones, who was a son of Robin Jones. Dr. Wil-
Kam J. Polk and his wife, Mary Lunsford Long Polk, had children,
one of ^om was General Lucius Eugene Polk; of the Confederate
States Army who was bom m Salisbury, North Carolina, July 10,
1833.

Colonel William Polk married for his seoond wife Sarah Haw-
kins and had children, namely: Bishop Leonidas Polk, Mary (who
married George E. Badger) ; Rufus Knox Polk, Alexander Hamilton
Polk, George Washington Polk, Susan Polk, (who married Kenneth
Raynor), and Andrew J. Polk, and others.

BISHOP POLK.

Bishop Leonidas Polk was bom April 10, 1806, in Meddenburg
County, North Carolina; was a son of William Polk by his second
wife, Sarah Hawkins. He entered the United States Military Acad-
emy at West Point and graduated there in 1827. He served for
several years m the United States army, then feeling a strong kiclina-
tion to the church, gave up his military life to become a minister in
the Episcopal Church. He rose rapidly in his work and at the breaking
out of the War Between the States, he was Bishop of Louisiana. The
war re-awakened his martial spirit, however, and he offered his sword
and his service to the Confederate States. He was commissioned a
Major General and served with courage and distinction. He was
killed in battle June 14, 1864.

He married in Raleigh, North Carolina, Frances Deveraux and
had children, namdy: Hamilton Polk, (who married a Miss Buck) ;
Katherine Polk (who married William Gale) ; Frances Polk (who
married P., Skipwith) ; Sally Polk, (who married a Blake, of South
Carolina) ; Susan Polk (who married Dr. Joseph Jones) ; Lilly Polk
(who married William Huger) ; William Mecklenburg Polk (who
married a Miss Lyon, and Lucia Polk (who married Ed. Chapman.)

William Mecklenburg Polk, the last son of Bishop Leonidas Polk,
was bom in Ashwood, Maury County, Tennessee, August 15, 1844.
He was given the name Mecklenburg in memory of the County where
so many of his family lived and for the famous Declaration of
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faintly played important parts. He married Ida A. Lyon, of Ala-
bama. He served with gallantry in the Confederate Army. His son
is Frank Lyon Polk, of the Department of State. (See Gaines Family) .

Miss Daisy Polk recently married a French nobleman and Gen-
eral, Count de Buyer-Mimeure, whose Army title however is General
Marie Joseph Louis Robert deBuyer.

In marrying a Frenchman of title she followed the example of
her kinswoman Antionette Polk, niece of President Polk, and a heroine
of the War Between the States, who married the Marquis de Charette.
Her grandson, the present Marquis de Charette, is serving in the French
Army.

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The name Sevier, one of the best known in Tennessee's annals, was
originally Xavier.

Marie de Xavier, who was heiress of that name and house in the
time of the King of Navarre, was also heiress to her mother's
name and titles, Azpilueta, of Spain. Her great rank and fortune
made her a matrimonial prize in the Court of Navarre in the last years
of the fifteenth century. Don Jon de Jasse was the favored suitor, and,
as she was*sole heiress to the titles and estates of both her houses, he
assumed her name and rank. Of the very large family bom to Don
Jon and Marie de Xavier, the eldest sons took the Spanish names and
titles and the youngest sons the French name and titles, Xavier. Among
the younger sons was Francis, bom April 7, 1 506, famous now as St.
Francis de Xavier. He was bom, as were his brothers, in the Castle
of Xavier, which is still standing, eight leagues from Pampelon. Grown
to maturity he entered the priesthood, founded the Order of Jesuits, | '
and was subsequently pr ono up c ca a S a in t by the Catholic Church and
IS now the best known member of his family» iJtviu Julm JJUnitfT, First
Govemor of Tennessee. St. Francis Xavier, bom in 1506, was the
youngest of his many brothers and sisters.

The son of Antoine of Navarre and his wife is known as
Queen Jeanne d'Albert, was Henry of Navarre, afterwards King Henry
IV. of France.* The eldest of the sons \^4io assumed the name
Xavier, Philjpp, married the King's close kinswoman. The younger son
by some records, was Valentine Xavier, a name, which like John,
has remained in the family until the present time. Valentine and

* Centuries later a direct descendant of Don Jon de Xavier
even of the same name, though in a slightly changed form, Govemor
Jdhn Sevier of Tennessee was to entertain in a strange land, then un-
known or but dimly known, a direct descendant of that royal pair to
whom he had been counsellor and friend, like Henry of Navarre, a
King of France and bearing the same royal name of Bourbon. When
the exiled Princes of Bourbon, one of whom became King of France
afterward, came to America in the time of the French Revolution.
They were sent by President George Wa^ington on a trip through the
new territory which is now Tennessee and were guests in Knoxville of
Govemor John Sevier in the Govemor's mansion which was a crude
bit of architecture no doubt to these palace-bred young scions of the
royal house of Bourbon.

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Phillip both espoused the protestant cause and it is said that upon the
very morning of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572,
that Valentine fled from France, being apprised in some way of danger.
1685, or the year of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes is given
by others as the date that Valentine Xavier fled from France to Lon-
don, when so many of the Huguenots were practically exiled.

Whatever the date it was evidently a Valentine Xavier who fled
from France and took up his residence in London.

Valentine Xavier who escaped from France married in London
about the year 1 700, but this is obviously not the Valentine who was
bom about 1 507. Valentine Xavier married about 1 700,- a
Miss Mary Smith and had among other children, Valentine Sevier,
bom 1 702 and William Sevier. William and Valentine Sevier, (the
name had become Anglicized in the interval between that fleeing from
France and the London marriage to Mary Smith) ran away from home
and sailed for America, presuably in 1 740. Either they ran away some
years before sailing for America and ^pent the intervening time elsewhere
or else they came to America much earlier than 1 740, for it is improb-
able that men of thirty-eight and forty would have run away. The
family tradition, however, is that **they ran away from home while
they were still very young and took ship for America." It is certain
that they "took ship" about 1 740.

Another family record says they were born in London in 1 720
and 1722— William 1720, and Valentine, 1722, and that their
father, Valentine Sevier married Mary Smith in London in 1715.
Valentine Sevier's record however, has been carefully preserved and
he died December 30, 1803, aged one hundred and one years, which
clearly establishes his birth, 1 702.

Upon landing in Baltimore, Maryland, they each married. Wil-
liam Sevier had a son who married and had a son, William Pierre
Sevier who married Lucretia Weller. This William Pierre Sevier, also
ran away, which must have became a family habit by this time, and
fought in the War of 1812 when he was only a lad. He was taken
prisoner and was in the Dartmoor Prison at the time of the Massacre.
It is told of him that his friend, Granville Sharpe Townsend was shot
dead in the arms of Sevier who subsequently named a son for him.

William Pierre Sevier and bis wife Lucretia Weller Sevier had
among other children Granville Townsend Sevier, noted above, and
Theodore Francis Sevier who married Mary Benton Douglas and had
among other children : Frank Sevier (who died unmarried) ; Colonel
Granville Sevier, Second (who is unmarried and serving in the United
States Army); O'Neil Sevier; Jessie Sevier (who married J. S.
deBelle and has Jessie deBelle) ; and Louise Sevier (who married Fred-
erick Giddings and has Elizabeth Marshall Giddings, Mary Douglas

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Giddings, Helen Marshall Giddings, died yovmg, Louise Sevier Gid-
dings, Rom H. Giddings, and . Frederick Giddings, Junior).

Valentine Sevier, Second of die nane of record and perhaps fourth
or fifth even, married shortly after he landed in Baltimore, a **Bahi-
more lady" as the quamt old records say, some of them not mentianing
her name. She was, however, Joanna Goade, granddaughter t>f Jc^
Goade or Goode, who emigrated by way of Barbadoes in 1 650. Val-
entine and Joanna Goode Sevier moved from Maryland* following the
train of emigration to the South, and settled first, in Culpepper County,
Virginia, and then in Rockingham (Augusta) County, Virginia, early
in the decade between I 740 and I 750, for Jdhn Sevier, dieir eldest
son, was bom there September 23, 1 745.

Valentine Sevier and Joanna Goade Sevier had seven children,
namely :

John Sevier.

Valentine Sevier, Third.

Robert Sevier. ^

Joseph Sevier.

Catherine Sevier.

Polly Sevier.

Abraham Sevier.

There was possibly another daughter.

After the death of Joanna Goade Sevier, Valentine Sevier, Sec-
ond, emigrated to "the Mountains** in I 772, where his famous son,
John Sevier, had preceeded him and thereafter his history and that of
his sons is identified with what is now Tenn^see.

Valentine Sevier, Second, died in **the Mountains,'* December
30, 1803, aged one hundred and one years. It is by this statement
that we know his birth in London in I 702.

COLONEL VALENTINE SEVIER

Colonel Valentine Sevier, TTiird, son of the foregoing Valentine,
Second and Joanna Goade Sevier, was bom in Rockingham County,
Virginia, in 1 747. He served in the Revolution like other members
of his family and was Sergeant at the Battle of Point Pleasant. He
commanded a company at Cedar Springs, Musgrove*s Mill and King's
Mountain. He was Colonel of Militia,' first sheriff of Washington
County, Tennessee, and Justice of the Peace of Washington County.
He had moved from Virginia to Tennessee with other members of his
family between the year, 1 770 and 1 780, and after the Revolution he
moved again to Red River where ClarEsville, Tennessee, now stands,
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3remrs, dying in 1844, when she was one hundred and four shears of
i^e, showmg that she was bcnii in I 740 and that ^e was seven years
older than her husband, if the record has been properly set down.
They had several children. Their sons, Robert Sevier and William
Sevier, were killed by Indians at Clarksville, in January, 1 792,' while
on their way to join James Robertson's forces at Nashville. A third
son, Valentine Sevier, Fourth in the direct line, was killed also by
Indians in January, 1 792, but not on the same day or place. In
relating, the tragic event to his brother. Governor John Sevier, Valentine
Sevier writes of his great loss but speaks of other sons, '*small ones."

One of these "small bnes** was named JoJin Sevier for his distin-
guished uncle, John Sevier, and he had a son, Ambrose Hundley
Sevier. TTiis Ambrose Hundley Sevier was bom in Greene County,
Tennessee, November 10, 1801, moved to Arkansas and became
Senator from that state and Minister to Mexico to negotiate the Treaty
of Peace.

Valentine Sevier, Third and his wife Sevier had seven

children, five sons and two daughters, namely: Robert Sevier, Wil-
liam Sevier, Valentine Sevier, Fourth, Joseph Sevier, John Sevier,
Rebecca Sevier and one other daughter. Robert, Valentine and Wil-
liam Sevier were killed by Indians as related above. Joseph Sevier
was also killed by Indians, November 11,1 794. On the same date
Rebecca Sevier was scalped by Indians, but probably recovered. John
Sevier was the only one of Valentine's sons who escaped massacre by
the Indians.

CAPTAIN ROBERT SEVIER

Captain Robert Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier, Second and Jo-
anna Goade Sevier was younger than his brothers, John and Valentine,
Third, and was probably born about 1 749, in Rockingham County,
Virginia. He accompanied his father to the Mountains in 1 772. He
was in the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7, 1 780, and was there
mortally wounded. He was thought to have been killed out right, but
lived nine days. Captain Robert Sevier married Keziah Robertson,
daughter of Charles Robertson, one of the two famous brothers, Charles
and James Robertson, and had two sons (I) Major Charles Sevier
and (II) Valentine Sevier.

(I) Major Charles Sevier married Elizabeth Witt. He served
under General Andrew Jackson and had fourteen children, namely:

( 1 ) Robert Sevier whose family is all dead.

(2) Valentine Sevier married Anna Moumey.

(3) John Quinturf Sevier, who married three times, firstly a Hen-
derson, secondly, a Bisckle, thirdly, Sarah Sangster and had at least

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two smis, John Bisckle Sevier and Dr. Charles Henry Sevier who mar-
riecl Cora E. Anderson and had two sons, Charles Anderson Sevier«
of Jackson, Tennessee, and Dr. John Henry Sevier, of Brownsville,
Tennessee.

(4) Sevier, a daughter of Major Charles Sevier mar-
ried a Russell and had a son Robert Russell, a soldier in the Mexican
War and later in the Confederate Army.

I have not the names of the other ten children of Major Charles
Sevier.

II Valentine Sevier, second son of Captain Robert Sevier and his
wife, Keziah Robertson Sevier, was clerk of the Court at Greeneville
for fifty-two years. He married twice, firstly in 1804, Nancy Din-

widdie, by whom he had twelve children, and secondly

Cannon by whom he had two children. His children were:

( 1 ) Jane Sevier, married about the year 1 834, James H. Vance
of Kingsport, Tennessee, and had Charles Robertson Vance (who
married Margaret Nelson and had James Isaac Vance, Joseph An-
derson Vance, Charles Robertson Vance, Second, Margaret Jane
Vance, and Rebecca M. Vance) ; Maria C. Vance (who married
John R. King, of Leesburg, Virginia) ; Anna Elizabeth Vance (who
died young) ; Keziah Vance ; James N. Vance (who married Fannie
Miller); Nannie Vance; Joseph Vance (who married Mattie Fain
and had Charles Rutledge Vance) ; and Johnnie Vance.

(2) Robert Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier and Nancy Dinwid-
die Sevier was educated at West Point, served in the United States
Army and died in Missouri. He married Ann Hopkins Sibley.

(3) Charles Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier and Nancy Dinwid-
die, married Elizabeth Briscoe and died in Mississippi, leaving two
children, Thomas Sevier and Nannie Sevier.

(4) David Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier and Nancy Dinwiddic
Sevier, was Clerk and Master at Greeneville for many years. He
married Annie Netherland, daughter of George W. Netherland.

(5) William Robertson Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier and Nancy
Dinwiddie Sevier was a physician. He married firstly Martha Elleu
Cunningham, daughter of Dr. Samuel Cunningham, eminent physician
and First President of the East Tennessee and Virginia and Georgia
Railway, now a part of the Southern System, and married secondly,
Lucy Evans.

(6) James Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier and Nancy Dinwiddie
Sevier married twice, firstly Jane Simpson' and secondly Mrs. Eva
Moore Neil.

(7) Edward Sevier married Mary Neilson Garrett and resided
in Asheville, North Carolina.

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(8) Joseph Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier and Nancy Dinwid-
ide Sevier, married Nannie T. Broyles and lived in West Tennessee.
He served in the Confederate Army and was killed near Atlanta,
July 22, 1864.

(9) Keziah Sevier daughter of Valentine Sevier and Nancy Din-
widdie Sevier married, George Jones, of Greeneville, Tenn.

(10) Isabel Sevier, daughter of Valentine Sevier and Nancy
Dinwiddie Sevier married Frank A. McCorkle and had at least one
daughter, Nancy McCorkle, who married Cornelius Coffin, and had at
least one daughter, Isabella Coffin, who married Thomas Lanier Wil-
liams and has Ella Williams (who is not married and is now serving her
country in France) ; Isabel Williams (who married William Gannaway
Brownlow, Second, and has no children) ; and Cornelius Coffin Wil-
liams (who married Edwina Dakin and lives in St. Louis and has
Rose Isabella Williams and Thomas Lanier Williams, Second).

(11) Elizabeth Sevier, daughter of Valentine Sevier and Nancy
Dinwiddie Sevier, married Reverend John Whitfield Cunningham.

(12) Susan Sevier, daughter of Valentine Sevier and Nancy
Dinwiddie Sevier, never married, though she lived to a very great
age.

(13) Charles Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier and his second
wife, Cannon Sevier married Julia Brown.

(14) Henry Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier and his second wife,
— ' ^Cannon Sevier.

JOSEPH SEVIER, SON OF VALENTINE SEVIER,
SECOND.

Joseph Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier, Second, and his wife Jo-
anna Goade Sevier, was bom in Rockingham County, Virginia, about
1751. He served in the Battle of King's Mountain. (Draper Page
266.) I have no other record of him. He is frequently confused
with his namesake. Governor John Sevier's son, Joseph Sevier, who
also served in the Battle of King's Mountain.

ABRAHAM SEVIER, SON OF VALENTINE SEVIER,

SECOND.

Abraham Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier, Second and his wife,
Joanna Goade Sevier, was born like his brothers in Rockingham
County, Virginia, and was probably the youngest, probably bom
before 1 760. He also went with his father "to the Mountains"
in 1 772. He fought also in the Battle of King's Mountain, the

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ymagest of the five Sevier brothers, John, Valeirtine. Third, Joseph,
Robert and Abraham.

CATHERINE. SEVIER. DAUGHTER OF VALENTINE
SEVIER. SECOND.

Cathetine Sevier. datq;hter of Val«itiBe Sevier. Second, and his
wife Joanna Goade Sevier, was bom in Rockingham County. Virginia,

POLLY SEVIER. DAUGHTER OF VALENTINE
SEVIER. SECOND.

PoJIy Sevier, daughter of Valentine Sevier, Second, and his wife,
Joanna Goade Sevier, was born in Rockingham G>mity, Virginia,
married William Matlock.

GOVERNOR JOHN SEVIER.

John Sevier, son of Valentine Sevier, Second, and Joanna Goade .
Sevier, was bom in Rockingham, Virginia, September 23, 1 745. He
was the oldest diild and the most distinguished.

He attended the schools of Rockingham and when he was sixteen
finished his scholastic educaticm at the Academy near Fredericksburg.
He probably had the usual adventures of youdi in a pioneer com-
munity and at least one story is told of him that hinted of the romance
that seemed to accompany his life unto its end. When he was a lad
in Rockingham he fell into a mill race and would have been drowned,
but two young ladies rescued him; One of these young ladies sub-
sequently became the wife of Colonel Matthews, afterwards Governor
Matthews of Georgia.

Just after he had finished his education at Fredericksburg, and be-
fore he was seventeen years old, John Sevier married Sarah Hawkins,
daughter of Joseph Hawkins and granddaughter of Samuel Hawkins,
who was one of four brothers that came to America in 1665. Sarah
Hawkins was probably close to his own age. TTiis was in the fall
of 1 761, when as a matter of fact l^e was just past sixteen! A few
years after his marriage he was attracted by the stories told of life in
the "Mountains'* as the new settlement in the future Tennessee was
called, though it was supposed at that time to be a part of Virginia
and was only afterwards discovered to be North Carolina territory.
He made the hazardous trip to the * 'Mountains" and was still more
charmed with the prospect. That visit fired his interest and though he
returned to Rockingham County to his wife and children, he never
again called it home. He was from then a citizen and a leader of

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the new settlement. Sarah Hawkins Sevier, however, never left the
old home. There her children were born and diere in January or
February, 1 780, she died. She bore her husband ten children, five
sons and five daughters, all of whom lived and left descendants, many
of them naming daughters for her so that Sarah is a favorite and frequent
name in the family to this day.

John Sevier first settled at Newmarket in what is now Ten-
nessee and became famous almost at once among the Mountain people
as a leader and as an Indian fighter. Before he was thirty he was
Captain of the State Militia in I 772.

From Newmarket he moved to the Wautauga Settlement. Here
when he and a few other bold spirits resented the apparent neglect of
North Carolina, they organized the State of Franklin, the Free and
Independent State of Franklin! John Sevier was its first and only
Governor and Samuel Wear its Clerk. The little State was short
lived. He was subsequently the first Governor of die State of Ten-
nessee and when he had served six years and by the constitution was dis-
barred from another successive term the people waited two years and
triumphantly elected him for another six years ! He was one of the great
Captains of King's Mountain and indeed assembled the men of Wau-
tauga in that first great meeting when a draft had to be employed to
see which of them should not go to war ! Which of them should stay
at home to protect the women and children. He had four brothers,
Robert, Valentine, Joseph and Abraham Sevier, and two sons,
Joseph and James Sevier, at King's Mountain.

It is an interesting fact that seven Seviers served in the Battle
of King's Mountain, Governor John Sevier and his four brothers,
Valentine (Third), Robert Joseph and Abraham and his two sons,
Joseph and James. No otner family can show so many participants
though the Isbell Family comes next with its record of six brothers
in the Battle, John, Livingston, Thomas, Francis, James (Second) and
William Isbell, the last named being but fifteen years of age and the
youngest soldier in the Battle. (See Howard Family.)

Next in number is the Shelby family wirii a father and three sons,
Evan Shelby, Senior, Evan Shelby, Junior, Colonel Isaac Shelby and
Captain Moses Shelby.

He was in Congress from 181 1 until his death in 1815, while he
was still serving his country, almost a life time of service and in years
more than forty. His descendants are eligible to the Societies of the
Revolution, 1812, and King's Mountain.

August 1 4, 1 780 John Sevier married Catherine Sherrill, daughter
of Samuel Sherrill, of whom a chronicler says **she could out run, out
jump, walk more erect, and ride more gracefully than any other female
in all the Mountains round about or on the continent at large."

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John Sevier's life is as romantic and thrilling as that of any hero
of fiction. Adventure and thrills followed each other in succession.
Even his marriage with Bonnie Kate Sherrill was like a chapter from
romance. Pursued by Indians she leapt almost from their grasp to the
stockade of the Block House into her future husband's arms as he
cried to her "Jump, my Bonnie Kate, Jump!"

It is not surprising that Bonnie Kate whom he had saved and chris-
tened in a breath should attract him for his second spouse, and Bonnie
Kate on more than one occasion saved her husband's life in turn. Once
.a woman, whom she had befriended, though the wife of a renegade,
confessed to Bonnie Kate a plot upon the Governor's life and he was
saved, and again, his release or rather his escape from the North Car-
olina authorities was said to be of Madame Sevier's planning. She
was the daughter of Samuel Sherrill who is said to have been in the
Battle of King's Mountain and she had a brother, George Sherrill, who
is said to have been in the Battle of King's Mountain, and two other
brothers, Uriah Sherrill and John Sherrill.

It was during his marriage to Catherine Sevier while he was Gov-
ernor of Tennessee that he entertained in Knoxville the young French
Princes, descendants of his ancestor Don Jon de Xavier's royal friends,
the King and Queen of Navarre. (L#u»*-fUi1{ppa.,4uc d^li^vis,

Governor John Sevier was universally beloved. He possessed a
magnetism, and a charm, that drew all people to him. Even the In-
dians who feared him adored him and treated him as a god. He pos-
sessed extraordinary beauty and men have said that in a crowd of five
thousand he was instantly known by his majestic carriage and deep
sparkling blue eyes set in a noble face.

He died near Fort Decatur, Georgia, September 24, 1815, being
just one day past the alloted three-score years and ten.

His body was removed many years later to Knoxville and lies now
beneath a handsome monument in die Court yard of that city where he
dwelt as Governor, almost as King in the new Country.

In all the time that John Sevier served his country he served with
out pay and even equipped and maintained his companies and regi-
ments. Sometimes he was helped in this by the other pioneers who
were well to do, but often the entire expense fell upon him. Only in his
last years was he an enlisted member of the United States Army and
therefore on the pay roll. During all the other years his service was
purely voluntary.

John Sevier had eighteen children and all of them but one
left descendants. By the first wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier, there were
ten children; and by the second wife, Catherine Sherrill Sevier, there
were eight children.

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The names were ghren to Dr. Lyman C. Draper (author of King's
Mountain and Its Heroes) in a letter from George Washington Sevier
in 1 839. This letter is to be found with the valuable Draper Manu-
scripts of the Historical Library at Madison, Wisconsin.

Catherine Sherrill Sevier seems to have devoted herself to the chil-
dren of the first wife and to have been very much beloved by them.
More than one of them named a daughter for her.

She survived her husband many years, going after his death to
Middle Tennessee to live upon the magnificent estate of 57,000 acres
with her children and grandchildren around her and in die neighbor-
hood many of her brothers and sisters-in-law. At the age of eighty-two
years she went with a favorite son, Samuel Sevier, to Russellville,
Alabama, where he had established a home, to spend the remainder
of her days though they were not many, for she died in the same
year, October 7, 1836, in Russellville and is there buried. She was
bom 1754.

She had eight dhildren. The name Catherine is a most frequent one
throughout the connection.

Children of Governor John Sevier, by his first wife, Sarah Hawkins
Sevier:

I Joseph Sevier, married an Indian.

II James Sevier, married Nancy Conway.

III John Sevier, Second, married Sophia Garrette.

IV Betsey Sevier, married Major William H. Clark.

V Nancy Sevier, married Walter King.

VI Rebecca Sevier, married ^Waddell.

VII Sarah Hawkins Sevier, married Judge Benjamin Browm

VIII Mary Ann Sevier, married Joshua Corlin, perhaps Corland.

IX Valentine Sevier.

X Richard Sevier.

Children of Governor John Sevier, by his second wife, Catherine
Sherrill Sevier:

XI Ruth Sevier, married Colonel Joseph Sparks, and Daniel
Vertner.

XII Catherine Sevier married Archibald Rhea and

Campbell.

XIII George Washington Sevier married Catherine Heallierly
Chambers.

XIV Joanna Goade Sevier married Joseph H. Wendcl,
XV. Samuel Sevier.

XVI Robert Sevier.

XVII Polly Preston Sevier married William Overstreel, Junior.

XVIII Eliza Conway Sevier married Major WilHam McCleUan.

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I JOSEPH SEVIER

Joseph Sevier, first child of Governor John Sevier and his
first wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was bom in Rockingham County
in 1 762, as is shown by the fact that at the Battle of King's Moun-
tain (October 7, 1 780) he was just eighteen years old.

Joseph Sevier was with his father. General Sevier, in many of his
Indian Battles and Campaigns. At the Battle of King's Mountain
he was the last man to cease firing, disobeying the command to cease,
crying, **They have killed my father! They have killed my father!'**
It was his uncle, Robert Sevier, however, who had fallen and was
mortally wounded.

Joseph Sevkr married a Cherokee Indian girl, ElizabcA
Lowry. Elizabeth Lowry's father was George Lowry, a Scotchman,
and her mother was Octlootsa, daughter of the great chief, Oconstotau

Joseph Sevier, when he was only nineteen, was employed by Gov-
ernor Blount to keep watch on hostile movements. After JosejA Se-
vier's death at an early age his widow married John Walker, supposed
by many to be an Englishman, though Governor Blount calls him a
half breed. A son of this marriage was John Walker, Junior, who
eloped with Elizabeth Meigs.

Joseph Sevier and Elizabeth Lowry Sevier had at least two daugh-
ters, namely:

( 1 ) Margaret Sevier.

(2) Eliza Sevier^

( 1 ) Margaret Sevier, married Gideon Morgan and had Cherokee
America Morgan who married Andrew Lewis Rogers and had
Connell Rogers, (who married for his first wife Florence Nash
and had Ell Nash Rogers and Gertrude Whitman Rogers and mar-
ried for his second wife, Kate Cunningham and had Marion Sevier
Rogers, Lewis Byrne Rogers, Howard Cunnmgham Rogers and Con-
nell Rogers, Junior) ; Andrew Lewis Rogers, Junior ; Hugh Morgan
Rogers, John Otto Rogers; Lucy Rogers; Paul Rogers; and Clifford
Rogers.

(2) Eliza Sevier married Templin Ross, of Pennsylvania and had
two children, Hannah Ross and Joe Ross. Eliza Sevier Ross and
Templin Ross both died of cholera at the time of the emigration in
1 836. Their children were cared for by some people in Arkansas.

This story is also told of James Sevier, having evidently happened
to one or the other of Governor Sevier's sons.

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II MAJOR JAMES SEVIER

James Sevier, the second son and second child of Governor John
Sevier, by his first wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was bom in Augusta
G)unty, Virginia, October 25, 1 764. He joined his father in "the
Mountains** when he was still a lad and was with him in many
of the Indian campaigns, accompanying his brother, Joseph Sevier, who
was two years his senior. He was not quite sixteen when the Wau-
tauga men assembled for the campaign against Ferguson which resulted
in the Battle of King*s Mountain. He was too young to be included in
the list of men to go or men to stay at home and protect the women
and children, but !his stepmother. Catherine Sherrill Sevier, interceded
with Governor Sevier, sa3ring, * Mr. Sevier, here is another of your
s<Mis who wants to go with you.*' The Governor permitted him to
accompany the party and found a horse for him. He was thus one
of the two youngest participants in the battle, the other being William
Isbell who was only fifteen years old.

Governor Sevier gave to James Sevier the field glasses which Gen-
eral Patrick Ferguson wore in the Battle. His grandson gave them
to the Historical Society of Tennessee.

Major Sevier afterwards won his military title by a long and hon-
orable career in the service of the state. He was Clerk of the Court
of Waslhington County, Tennessee, for forty-seven years. He lived
near Jonesboro, Tennessee, and died there January 21,1 847.

He married March 25, 1 789, Nancy Conway, who was the
daughter of Colonel Henry Conway, bom 1749, died 1812. Nancy
Conway Sevier was bom March 22, 1 772.

They had eleven children, namely.

( 1 ) Elizabeth Cwiway Sevier, bom July 9, 1 790.

(2) Sarah Hundley Sevier, bom July 22, 1 792.

(3) Maria Antoinette Sevier, bom May 12, 1 794, died two years
later.

(4) Minerva Grainger Sevier, born May 30, 1 796.

(5) Pamelia Hawkins Sevier, bom March 15, 1798.

(6) Susanna!h Brown Sevier, bom June 25, 1800.

(7) Elbert Franklin Sevier, bom September 1 7, Iff02.

(8) Elbridge Gerry Sevier, bom March 19, 1805.

(9) Clarissa Carter Sevier, bom April 9, 1807.

(10) Louisa Maria Sevier, bom December 16, 1811.

(11) Mary Malvina Sevier, bom April 4, 1814.

Of the foregoing:

( 1 ) Elizabeth Conway Sevier married James S. Johnston, March
8, 1810.

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(2) Sarah Hundley Sevier, second ckild of Major James Sevier
and Nancy Conway Sevier, was bom July 22, 1 792, She married
January H, 1810, Hugh Douglas Hale (bom August 12, 1787, in
Farquahr County Virginia). He was a son of Phillip and Catherine
Douglas Hale. The children of Hugh Douglas Hale and Sarah
Hundley Sevier Hale were:

(1.) James W. Hale

(2) Phillip Perry Hale

(3) Eliza Jane Hale

(4) Catherine Anne Hale

(5) William Dickson Hale

(6) Lemuel Johnson Hale

(7) Sarah Amanda Hale

(8) Laura Evelyn Hale

(9) Hugh Douglas Hale, Second
(10) Franklin Sevier Hale

Of the foregoing:

1 . James W. Hale, son of Hugh Douglas Hale and Sarah Hundley
Sevier Hale died Sept. 9th, 1842, unmarried. It is told that he was
engaged in his young manhood to Miss Taylor, an aunt of Robert L.
Taylor, former Governor of Tennessee, and that she was struck by
lightning at a Camp Meeting and instantly killed. This is said to have
grieved him so deeply that shortly afterward he died.

2. Phillip Perry Hale, son of Hugh Douglas Hale and Sarah
Hundley Sevier Hale married Caroline Susan Gullege. Their children
were : ( 1 ) Sarah Hale, (who married L. B. Snyder and died without
issue); (2) Thomas Hale (who died yoimg) ; (3), Elizabeth Hale
(who died yoimg) ; (4), Franklin Sevier Hale (who died young) ; (5)
Laura Hale (who married Lieutenant Hundley Maloney and died
without issue) ; (6) Fred Douglas Hale (who married first Theodosia
Bell and had: Fred P. Hale, Frances Hale, Harriet Susan Hale, John
Weller Hale, Josephine Hale and Annie Lee Hale, and married
second, Mary Neal and had: Ruth Sevier Hale, Annie Lee Hale, and
Elizabeth Hale; and married third Minnie Eldwards and had; Phillip
Hale, Mildred Hale, Hugh Douglas Hale and James Hale). (7) Anna
Eliza Hale (who married Frank Gottseilig and had two children:
Bertha Gottseilig and Anna Lauria Gottseilig) ; (8) Joseph Hale (who
married Laura Beauchamp and had three children William Hale,
Joseph Hale, Second, and Carolina Susan Hale) ; (9) Hugh Lemuel
Hale (who married Emma Wilkinson and had three children: Philip
Hale, Douglas Hale and Eugenia Hale) ; (10) Phillip Thomas
Hale (who married Lena Lyie Bolinger and habd six children: Thomas

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Farris Hale. William Roy Hale. Phillip Theodore Hale. David Ward
Hale. Earl Douglas Hale and Franklin Sevier Hale).

(3) Eliza Jane Hale, daughter of Hugh Douglas Hale and Sarah
Hundley Sevier Hale, married David Wendel Carter and had eiorht
children: (1) James William Carter (who married Mary Lou Tindal
and had children: Mary Weller Carter; Janie Carter and John
Tindel Carter) ; (2) Alfred Moore Carter (who married first Chassie
King and had one daughter, Maud Carter, who married Ellis Crymbe*
and had two sons. Carter Crymbel and Ellis Crymbel. Second. Alfred
Moore Carter married for his second wife Nannie Zimmerman
whom he had no children) ; (3) David Wendal Carter, Second (who
married Cornelia Keith and has four children. Lieutenant Keith Carter,
David Wendel Carter, Third, and Anne Frazier Carter. Lieutenant
Douglas Carter) : Stanley Carter; Cornelia Carter; Franklin Alexander
Carter (who married Annie Laird and has one daughter, Davie) ; Ella
Douglas Carter (who married Dr. Samuel W. Rhea and has two sons,
Joseph Carter Rhea (who married Troupe Davis) and James Wendel
Rhea who married Helen Haynes and has one son, James Wendel
Rhea, Second.

(4) Catherine Anne Hale married Dr. Porter Jarnagin. Th-it
children were: (1 ) Dr. John Sevier Jarnagin (who married Katie Hub-
bard and had two children, Estelle Jarnagin who married Blair Naff and
Mary Kate Jarnagin who married Walter Harris) ; Mary Jarnagin
(who married David Swaggerty and had one daughter Katie Swaggerty
married Lome McSwain) ; Dr. Joseph Jarnagin (who married Ida Lester
and had Nanie Lester who married Clifford Farmer and had four
children; Joseph Jarnagin Farmer, Clifford Corbin Farmer, William
James Farmer and Catherine Hale Farmer) : Carolina Jarnagin (who
married Edward Markwalter and had two children, Edward Mark-
waiter, Second, and Rebecca Markwalter) ; Lester Jarnagin (who
married Daisy Cason) ; Itie Jarnagin (who married Milton Lufborrow
and had two children, Caroline Lufborrow and Charmian Lufborrow).

(3) William Dickson Hale, son of Hugh Douglas Hale and Sarah
Hundley Sevier Hale, died young.

(6) Lemuel Johnson Hale, son of Hugh Douglas Hale and Sarah
Hundley Sevier Hale, married Martha Powell and had children: Mary
Hale, Catherine Hale, Sarah Hale and Leila Hale who married
Joseph Green.

(7) Sarah Amanda Hale, daughter of Hugh Douglas Hale and
Sarah Hundley Sevier Hale, married Charles W. Meek. Their children
were James Hale Meek (who married Jennie Hensley and had one son
James W. Meek who married Carolina Corinne McWilliams and has
one son James W. Meek, Second) ; Daniel Kenny Meek (who died

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young) ; William Blair Meek (who married Martha Powers and has
two daughters, Vesta Sevier Meek, who married Robert Lee Davis and
has one child Katherine Davis, and Iva Douglas Meek who is unmar-
ried) ; Florine Cornelia Meek (who married James P. Evans and has

one son Hubert Evans who married Clara , and a daughter

Lula Evans who married William James for her first husband and for
her second husband married Dr. Paul Gheering and died at the birth
of a daughter) : Ida Sevier Meek (who married Jacob Orville Lotspeich
and had children Claude Meek Lotspeich, who married Helen Gibbons
and had three children: Henry Gibbons Lotspeich, Margaret Sevier
Lotspeich and Edgar Hale Lotspeich; Roy Douglas Lotspeich, who
married Ethel Weir and had children: Katherine Mildred Lotspeich,
Jacob Orville Lotspeich, Second, Helen Lotspeich, Douglas Weir
Lotspeich; Edgar Sevier Lotspeich married Ruth Moore and had
children: Caroline Lotspeich, Alberta Lotspeich, E.dgar Sevier Lotspeich
and Robert Orvill Lotspeich) ; Ella Douglas Meek married Charles
E. Lothrop and has two children, Ida Meek Lothrop and Douglas B.
Lothrop who married Ruth Dooley. Charles W. Meek married Adah
Jariel, and had two children: Joseph Meek and Sarah Meek. Franklin
Hale Meek married Almena McG. Smith and had two children : Charles
W. Meek died young and Bathurst Lee Smith. Joseph M. Meek
married Alma Burt Hughes and has two children James Hughes Meek
and Sarabel Meek.

(8) Laura Evelyn Hale, daughter of Hugh Douglas Hale and
Sarah Hundley Sevier Hale, married Thomas E. Gosnell and had
children: Lemuel Ward Gosnell (who married Mary Elizabeth Hill
and had children: Myroyn Aydlett Gosnell, Katherine Lisserand Hill
Gosnell, Clara J. Gosnell and Munsey Ward Gosnell., Katherine
Lisserand Gosnell married Dr. Sterling P. Martin and had Sterling
P. Martin, Second, and two daughters: Clara J. Gosnell married Dr.
Davis and has one child, Lemuel Ward Gosnell married for his second
wife, Mrs. Cullie Oglesby) ; Matthew Gosnell (who died young) ; and
Franklin Gosnell (who is unmarried).

(9) Hugh Douglas Hale, Second, son of Hugh Douglas Hale, first,
and Sarah Hundley Sevier Hale, married Sarah Vance, a sister of
Governor Zebulon Vance of North Carolina and had three children:
Margaret Hale, Sarah Hale and Franklin Hale.

(10) Franklin Sevier Hale, son of Hugh Douglas Hale and Sarah
Hundley Sevier Hale, was killed in the battle of Franklin, in the war
between the States.

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(4) Minerva Grainger Sevier married April 30, 1816, John
Nelson, who died 1830.

(5) Pamelia Hawkins Sevier (died 1822) married May 6, 181 7,
Alexander M. Nelson (who died in 1821.) They had a son, Alex-
ander Nelson, Junior, who was bom July 23, 1820.

(6) Susanna Brown Sevier married Richard A. Purdom, Novem-
ber 26, 1818. They had a son, James Alexander Purdom, bom No-
vember 12, 1819.

(7) Elbert Franklin Sevier married for his first wife, Matilda
Powell, August 9, 1 832, and had Elbert Powell Sevier (who married
and had a son, James Sevier) and a daughter Sarah Sevier, who died
of cholera with her mother Matilda Powell Sevier, in Knoxville in
1854. Elbert Franklin Sevier married for his second wife, Eliza
James, a daughter of Reverend Jesse James, of Chattanooga, and had
a son, -James Sevier.

(8) Elbridge Gerry Sevier, married November 13, 1827, Mary
Caroline Brown, bom Febmary 27, 1810, daughter of Thomas Brown
and Mary McElwee Brown. They had: Thomas Brown Sevier;
Henry Clay Sevier (wlio married Mary J. Tipton and had one son.
Dr. Sevier, who lives in Kansas City) ; Rowena Jane Sevier (who
married H. W. von Aldehoff and has a son, John Sevier Aldehoff,
who makes his home in Dallas, Texas). James Sevier, (who was
known as Judge, lived in Kingston, Tennessee, and never married) ;
Elbert Franklm Sevier, second, (who lived in Chattanooga, married
Bettie Taylor and had Taylor Sevier, unmarried; Edith Sevier, died
young; Ethel Sevier, died young; Hazel Sevier, died young; and Eve-
13m Sevier, who married Gray Gentry and has one son, Fenton Allen
Gentry, Junior) ; John Elbridge Sevier ; Charles Bascom Sevier (who
married Alice 21edder, lives in Harriman, Tennessee, and has one daugh-
ter, Mary Catherine Sevier; who married Thomas T. Reimer). Sam-
uel Conway Sevier, who lives in Kingston, Tennessee, and is unmar-
ried), and Mary Sevier (who died unmarried).

(9) Clarissa Carter Sevier married John Jones, May 7, 1 822, and
had at least one son, who had a son, Thomas E. Jones, of Knoxville,
and he has a son, Derrell E. Jones.

(10) Louisa Maria Sevier married James H. Jones, October 16,
1827.

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Five children are entered in die Bible, evidently bora to the above
coi4>les, but with no statemoit as to which coiqrfe are the parents.
They are:

Ann EJiza Jones, bora July 5, 1829.

William Elbert Franklin Jcmes.

Sevier James Elbridge Jones, born February 20, 1823.

Sarah Ann Jones, bom January, 1825.

James Sevier Jones, bom September, 1830.

Though by the dates of birth, Sevier James Elbridge Jones and
Sarah Ann Jones are childr^i of Clarissa Carter Sevier Jones and her
husband, John Jones.

(11) Mary Malvina Sevier married James Stuart, July 2, 1 829.
They had a daughter, Mary Stuart, who married J<^ Howard, of
Knoxville.

Ill JOHN SEVIER. JUNIOR.

Major John Sevier was the third child and diird son of Gover-
nor John Sevier and his first wife Sarah Hawkins Sevier. He was
bom June 20, 1 766, in New Market Virginia, and was given his
fadier*s full name. After his mother's deadi in 1 780, he joined his
father in the new home in the Moimtains where a few months later his
father married Catherine Sherrill for his second wife.

John Sevier, Junior, accompanied his father on several of his
Indian campaigns, though he was too young to go into the Battle of
King's Mountain. He was elected Reading and Engrossing Clerk
of the first Convention of the State of Tennessee.

He married Sophia Garette and had at least two daughters, namely :

( 1 ) Anna Maria Sevier.

(2) Louise Rebecca Sevier.

(1) Anna Sevier married Henry Hoss, of Jonesboro, Tennessee.
They had six children: Dora Hoss; Elijah Embree Hoss; Archibald
Hoss; Sop^hie Hoss; John Isaac Hoss and Mattie Hoss.

Of diese:

Dora Hoss married Samuel J. Kirkpatrick and had ten children:
namely, Minnie Kirkpatrick (who married Charles KiHcland and Had
five children: Isabel Kirkland, Winifred Kirkland, Jessie Kirkland,
Mollie Kirkland and William Kirkland) ; Hugh Henry Kirkpatrick
(who married Anna Belle Murphey and has two children, Mildred
Kiricpatrick, who married Max Maloney, also a descendant of Jc^
Sevier through James Sevier and has a little daughter, Anna Belle
Maloney, and Hugh Henry Kirkpatrick, Junior) ; Paul White Kirk-
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ris Kirkpatrick) ; Samuel Sevier Kirkpatrick (who married Anna
Marie Panhurst and has no children, Jessie Eugenia Kirkpatrick (who
married John Henry Bowman and has two children, William Bowman
and John Henry Bowman, Junior, who are unmarried); Archibald
Hoss Kirkpatrick (who married Bessie Cruikshanks and had four
children: Anna Kirkpatrick, William Kirkpatrick, Dorothy Kirk-
patrick and Bessie Kirkpatrick who are unmarried) ; Anna Kirkpatrick
(who died unmarried) ; William Reeves Kirkpatrick (^o died un-
married) ; Mary Kirkpatrick (who died young) ; and Charles Pres-
cott Kirkpatrick (who married Essie Annie Schuessler and is now a
Lieutenant in the United States Army in France).

Elijah Embree Hoss, son of Anna Sevier Hoss and Henry Hoss,
was bom in Washington County, Tennessee, April 14, 1849, and
is now Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for
Oklahoma. He married Abbie Clark, of Knoxville, and has three
children: Mary Hoss (who married John Headman, of Philadelphia,
and has two children, a son, John Headman, Junior, and a daughter,
Embree Hoss Headman) ; Dr. Sessler Hoss (who married Irene Mor-
row, of Nashville; see Luttrell and Armstrong Families, and has no
children) ; and Elijah Embree Hoss, Second (who married Blanche
Divine, of Chattanooga, and has one son, Elijah Embree Hoss, Third).

Archibald Hoss married Allie Susong and has three children:
Henry Hoss, Anna Hoss and Dorothy Hoss, all of whom are un-
married.

Sophie Hoss married George D. French, of Morristown, and has

two children, Dora French and Abbie French (who married

Taylor).

John Isaac Hoss died unmarried.

Mattie Hoss married P. H. Prince and lived in Arkansas. She
had two children, Anna Prince and William Prince.

(2) Louise Rebecca Sevier, second daughter of John Sevier,
Second, and his wife, Sophia Garrette Sevier, married Bsnrd Brown
and had at least one daughter, Louise Sevier Brown, who married
Shelby M. Deaderick, see Deaderick Family, and had a son, Wallace
Deaderick.

IV ELIZABETH (BETSEY) SEVIER.

Elizabeth or Betsey Sevier, daughter of Governor John Sevier and
his first wife Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was bom in Rockingham County,
Virginia, about 1 768. She married Major William H. Clark, a
veteran of King's Mountain and a distinguished soldier. They had
several children, namely: Sarah Hawkins Clark, named for the mother

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and a favorite sister, Elizabeth Clark, John Clark and perhaps Ruth
Clark.

Possibly Elizabeth Sevier Clark died shortly after the birth of
her daughter, Sarah Hawkins Clark as that child was raised in the
home of her grandfather. Governor John Sevier and his second wife,
Catherine Sherrill Sevier, and when she became of marriageable age
she was married from the Governor's mansion in Knoxville. I have no
record of the order of birth of the Clark children, but possibly Sarah
Hawkins Clark was die youngest.

( I ) Sarah Hawkins Clark was married in Knoxville about 1 788
to General James Rutherford Wyly, a grandson of Colonel Benjamin
Cleveland of King's Mountain fame. Therefore descendants of this
couple have three King's Mountain ancestors. General Wyly was
also a distinguished officer in 1812.

General James Rutherford Wyly and Sarah Hawkins Clark Wyly
had eight sons and four daughters, namely:

(1) William Clark Wyly.

(2) Oliver Cromwell Wyly.

(3) Benjamin Cleveland Wyly.

(4) John Henry Wyly.

(5) James Rutherford Wyly, Jr.

(6) Robert Wyly.

(7) Walton Wyly.

(8) Augustine Clayton Wyly.

(9) Elizabeth Wyly.
(10) Louisiana Wyly.
(ll).Mary Ann Wyly.
(12) Sarah Catherine Wyly.

Of Ae foregoing:

(1) William Clark Wyly married Amelia Starr and had two
children, Robert Wyly, who married and lived out West, and died
some years ago, and Eliza Wyly who married William Trammell and
died.

(2) Oliver Cromwell Wyly married for his first wife, Lucy Ed-
dins in 1828 and had three daughters and five sons, namely: Newton
Cromwell Wyly, bom 1829; Benjamin F. Wyly, bom 1830; James
A. Wyly; Carolyn M. Wyly; Sarah Amelia Wyly; Lula Wyly;
Robert A. Wyly; and William Sevier Wyley.

Newton Cromwell Wyly, bom 1829, married in 1849, Malmda
Townsend and had one son. Homer Virgil Miller Wyly.

Benjamin F. Wyly, bom in 1830. married in 1858, Sallie Wil-
liams and had three sons, Eugene Wyly, Newton Wyly and

Wyly.

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James A. Wyly married for his first wife a Miss Williams and
had no children and married for his second wife Miss Vemer and had
a son and a daughter.

Carolyn M. Wyly married Henry Alexander Fuller and had
three sons, Oliver Clyde Fuller (who married Kate Fitzhugh Caswell
and has Edythe Fuller, Elizabeth Fuller, Inez Fuller, Lytie Fuller,
Clyde Fuller, and Robert Fuller) ; Henry Walter Fuller ; Clarence
Paul Fuller; and Annie Railey Fuller (deceased).

Sarah Amelia Wyly married Henry Lamar Smith and had two
sons: Victor Lamar Smith (who married Carolyn Johnson) ; and
Alexander Wyly Smith (who married Ida Kendrick and has Alex-
ander Wyly Smith, Junior, married Helen Hill Payne and has three
children and is a Captain in the United States Army; Kendrick Smith
in the United States Aviation Corps ; and Elster Smith) .

Lula Wyly married and had a daughter, who mar-
ried Judge Carter, of Asheville, North Carolina.

Robert A. Wyly married Hatchett and has six sons.

William Sevier Wyly married Hatchett, a sister of his

brother, Robert Wyley's wife, and had two sons of whom only one
is now living.

Oliver Cromwell Wyly married for his second wife, Adeline Byrd,
a daughter of Colonel Thomas Byrd and had four children, two sons
and two daughters.

Oliver Cromwell Wyly married for his third wife

and had ten children, all but one of whom are now living in Texas.

(3) Benjamin Cleveland Wyly, son of James Rutherford Wyly
and Sarah Hawkins Clark Wyly, married firstly Ann McGhee and
had one son, John McGhee Wyly, who married Amelia Forney and
had four children: Annie McGhee Wyly (who married David Lowe
and has a daughter Annie Wyly Lowe, married Walker Willis) ;
Benjamin F. Wyly (who married Ellie Peck and has three children,

Lottie Wyly, Catherine Wyly, married , and Forney

Wyly) ; Sadie Swope Wyly (who married F. M. Billings and has
Wyly Billings and F. M. Billings, Jr.) ; and Henry Forney Wyly
(who married Sallie Dunlap and has two children, Henry Forney
Wyly, Jr., and Sallie Dunlap Wyly).

Benjamin Cleveland Wyly married for his second wife Eliza
Snow and had Samuel Snow Wyly; Frank Wyly (a daughter) who

married Tom Garlington; Ella Wyly married Brothers; Ida

Wyly, married Joe Clay King, and Jennie M. Wyly married William
Murray Davidson.

(6) Robert Wyly died unmarried.

(7) Walton Wyly married Mary Johnson and had no children.

(8) Augustine Clayton Wyly married Josephine Hamilton and

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had Madeline Wyly, who is not married, Nell Wyly, who married
Montagu Gammon and Thomas Hamilton Wyly.
(9) Elizabeth Wyly married Thomas Sparks.

(10) Louisiana Wyly married Byrd.

(11) Mary Ann Wyly married Judge William Henderson Un-
derwood and had Helen Underwood (who married M. A. Nevin and
had William Henry Nevin, deceased; Ida Clifton Nevin (who mar-
ried William A. Patton and is deceased) ; Thomas O'Connor Nevin,
deceased; Sarah Hawkins Nevin, deceased; James Banks Nevin (who
married first Alice Wells and married second Mary Bryan) ; Mary
Mitchell Nevin (who married Randolph Wright) ; Wyatt Holmes
Nevin, deceased) ; Annie Lou Underwood (who married Captain C.
Rowell and had William Sinclair Rowell; Neal Rowell, deceased;
Mary Wyly Rowell; Martha Cheatham Rowell, deceased; Florence
Underwood Rowell, deceased, Elizabeth Clifton Rowell, deceased;
and Annie Lou Rowell, deceased) ; Florence Wyly Underwood (who
married E. M. Eastman and has Zoe Eastman, married Charles
Robin Pitner, John Eastman married Laura Hume, Helen Eastman,
unmarried, and Guy Eastman married Emma Hume) ; Mary Cordelia
Underwood (who married D. D. Plumb and had Rosa Milledge
Plumb married J. H. O'Neill) ; Ida Underwood (who married George
H. Snyder and had Wyly Snyder, George Snyder and Clifford Snyder) ;
Wilhelmina Underwood (who married John H. Pitt and has no chil-
dren) ; Rosa Underwood (who married C. R. Clark and has one son,
Charles Richard Clark, Jr.) ; John James Underwood (who died
young) ; Charles Walton Underwood (who married Martha Moore
and has John Underwood, Charles Walton Underwood, Jr., William
H. Underwood, Robert Wyly Underwood, Valentine Xavier Under-
wood; Mary Underwood, married William Anderson and Evelyn
Underwood, married Ralph Tanner.)

(12) Sarah Catherine Wyly married William A. Rogers and
has Zoe Rogers, who married W. C. Mansfield and Alah Rogers
who married -. — Daniel.

John Clark is by accounts that some members of the family have
sent in, the son of Elizabeth Sevier Clark and Major William H. Clark.
He married and at least one daughter. Kiltie Clark, whom other de-
scendants of Elizabeth Sevier always called "Cousin Kittie."

Mrs. Florence Underwood Eastman, a descendant of Elizabeth
Sevier, writes that a sister of Sarah Hawkins Clark, who was named
Ruth Clark, married Allen Elston.

Elizabeth Clark, daughter of Elizabeth Sevier and Major
William H. Clark, married John Elston (bom July 20, 1789, died
November II, 1845.)

They had one child, John Clark Elston, bom July 4, 1822, died

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March, 1896, married January 21, 1847, Selina Jones and had one
daughter, Roxie Carolina Elston, bom August 14, 1849, married
November 23, 1868, Clark Snow, and had seven children, namely:
Kate Corinne Snow (who married Thomas Daniel Jackson and has
a daughter Joyce Elston Jackson) ; Ada EUston Snow (who married
C. C. Morgan and has two sons, Marechal Clark Morgan and Norman
Snow Morgan) ; Ruth Snow (who married Samuel Hallman and has
no children) ; Julius Fane Snow (who died young) ; Maxie Snow (who
is not married) : Norman Lee Snow (who is . not married) ; Mary
Winnifred Snow (who married James N. Griffith and has one child,
James Snow Griffith).

V. NANCY SEVIER.

Nancy Sevier, daughter of Governor John Sevier and his first wife
Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was bom in Virginia. She married Walter
King and was still living in 1818. She left children.

VI. REBECCA SEVIER.

Rebecca Sevier, the daughter of Governor John Sevier and his
first wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was bom in Virginia. She married
a Waddell and left children. She evidently died before 1818 as her
name is not included in the list of the Governor's children in the couit
record regarding sale of lands belonging to the heirs of John Sevier.

V. SARAH HAWKINS SEVIER.

Sarah Hawkins Sevier, daughter of Govemor John Sevier
and his first wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was bom in Rocking-
ham County, Virginia, in July, 1770. She received her mother's full
name. She married Judge Benjamin Brown and was probably a
widow in 1818, when the children of Govemor Sevier are cited, as the
other daughters are mentioned with their husbands, and she is men-
tioned alone.

She left children.

VIII. MARY ANN SEVIER.

Mary Ann Sevier, daughter of Govemor John Sevier and his first
wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was born in Virginia in 1771 or 1772.
She married Joshua Corlin or Corland. She was still living in 1818.
She left children.

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IX. VALENTINE SEVIER.

Valentine Sevier, the son of Governor John Sevier and his first
wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier was bom in Virginia about 1 773. I have
been unable to gather any information about him, other than that he
was living in 1818, that he married and left descendants.

X. RICHARD SEVIER.

Richard Sevier, son of Governor John Sevier and his first wife,
Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was bom in Virginia in 1 775. I have been
unable to gather any information conceming him except that he was
living in 1818 and that he married and left descendants.

XI. RUTH SEVIER.

Ruth Sevier, the daughter of Govemor John Sevier and his second
wife, Catherine Sherrill Sevier, was their first child. She was bom
1 78 1 at Plum Grove, John Sevier's residence on the Nollichucky. She
was a t3rpical frontier girl of the day, she was remarkable for
her strong characteristics and intelligence. She learned the Indian peo-
ple and their language and was of great assistance to her father on
numberless occasions. Govemor Sevier at one time kept several Chero-
kee Indians in his home for three years and from them Ruth acquired
fluent Cherokee. She married Colonel Richard Sparks, who in his
childhood had been stolen by the Indians and later released. He was
the intimate friend and playmate of Tecumseh and his brother, the
Prophet, and was given the name of Shawtunte. When he was sixteen
he was released and made his way to the Holston Settlement where
his mother recognized him by a birthmark. Governor Sevier befriended
him and secured him a commission in the army where his knowledge
of Indian life and language was of tremendous value. Ruth Sevier
taught him to read and write and married him. After his death she
married for her second husband Colonel Daniel Vertner and died in
1834. She is the only one of Govemor Sevier's children who left
no children.

XII. CATHERINE SEVIER.

Catherine Sevier, the daughter of Govemor John Sevier and his
second wife, Catherine Sherrill Sevier, was bom probably in 1 782.
She married twice, firstly, Archibald Rhea, and secondly a Campbell.

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Silt was living in 1818 /and was then the wife of Archihiild Rhea.
Later she married Campbell. She left children.

XIII. GEORGE WASHINGTON SEVIER.

George Washington Sevier, first son of Governor John Sevier by
his second wife, Catherine Sherrill Sevier, was the thirteenth child of
the Governor. *He was bom about 1783. He was Circuit Couit
Clerk of Overton County, Tennessee. (His mother had removed to
that County with her family after the death of Governor Sevier). He
was Ensign of the Second Infantry, March 26, 1804, Second Lieu-
tenant, August 22, 1805, First Lieutenant, May 31, 1807, Captain of
Rifle Company, May 3, 1808, Lieutenant Colonel, July 6, 1812, Col-
onel, January 24, 1814. He was still living in 1839, as in that year
Dr. Lyman C. Draper went to see him and he gave to Dr. Draper the
names of the eighteen Sevier children upon which this article is based.

He married Catherine Weatherly Chambers, by whom he had
eleven children, namely:

( 1 ) George Washington Sevier, Second.

(2) Catherine A. Sevier.

(3) William C. Sevier, never married.

(4) Thomas K. Sevier, never married.

(5) Cornelia V. Sevier.

(6) John Vertrees Sevier, never married.

(7) Eliza M. Sevier.

(8) Marion F. Sevier, never married.
X9) Laura J. Sevier.

(10) Putnam M. Sevier, never married.

(11) Henry Clay Sevier, never married.

Of the foregoing:

( 1 ) Dr. George Washington Sevier, Second, married Sarah
Knox, of Nashville, niece of Mrs. Andrew Jackson, who was
raised at the Hermitage by President and Mrs. Jackson. They
had six children, namely: George Washington Sevier, Third, Wil-
liam Sevier, Andrew Jackson Sevier, Mary Catherine Sevier, Eliza
Donelson Sevier and Jennie Vertner Sevier." Andrew Jackson Sevier
married Columbia Dobys and they had seven children: Columbia
Sevier (who married Willard H. Utz, of Louisiana) ; Andrew Jack-
son Sevier, Second (who married Mary Day, of Vicksburg) ; Annie
Sevier (who married J. S. Agee, of Alabama) ; Jennie Vertner Sevier
(who married T. F. Young, of Vicksburg) ; Mary Katherine Sevier
(who married W. J. Ward, of Arkansas) ; and Ada Elizabeth Sevier
who married A. C. Williamson, of Arkansas) ; one daughter, Sarah

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Kdox, diecj unmarried many years ago. Mary Catherine Sevier married
Robert Dunbar, leaving two children, Robert Dunbar, Second and Nan-
nie Bells Dunbar, both living in Missouri. Jennie Vertner Sevier mar-
ried George Clarke for her first husband and for her second husband
married Adolphus Harris, of Virginia. They had one daughter, Sarah
Knox Harris, who married Captain George Sager, of Port Gibson,
Mississippi. Eliza Donelson Sevier married W. T. Jeffries, of Port
Gibson, Mississippi, and left two children, Mary Sevier Jeffries and
Evan Shelby Jeffries. Mrs. Jeffries and Mrs. Utz are the only livmg
children of Dr. George W. Sevier and his wife, who was Sarah Knox,
and are among the oldest descendants of Governor John Sevier, and
the nearest to him in point of relation, being great-granddaughters. They
also represents other early Tennessee families in her relation to the
Jackson, Shelby, Knox, and Donelson families.

(2) Catherine Sherrill Sevier, bore her grandmother's full name.
She married Albigence Waldo Putnam, a grandson of General Israel
Putnam. They had two children: Julia (who married William
O'Niel Perkins, lived in Nashville for many years and had no children)
and Waldo Washington Putnam (who married Eliza Jane Smith and
had three daughters: Emma, Agnes and Caroline. Misses Emma and
Agnes Putnam are not married. Miss Caroline Putnam married Rob-
ert Morrison, of Chattanooga, and had four children, Kenneth Mor-
rison, who died young. Lieutenant Harold Morrison, who is serving
with the Army in France, Louise Morrison, who married Roy L.
Baker and has one child, Roy L. Baker, Jr., and Putnam Morrison,
who married Elizabeth Venneble and has five daughters: Elizabeth,
Agnes, Mary, Esther and Ruth.)

(3) William C. Sevier, never married.

(4) Thomas K. Sevier, never married.

(5) Cornelia V. Sevier.

(6) John Vertrees Sevier, never married.

(7) Eliza M. Sevier married John F. Donald.

(8) Marion F. Sevier, never married.

(9) Laura J. Sevier married Henry L. Norvell and had Joseph
A. Norvell (who married Mary Slinkard and had Louise Norvell and
Nita Norvell, of Colorado, neither of whom is married) ; Cornelia Se-
vier Norvell (who married Albert B. Pa3me and had Albert B. Payne,
Second, never married; Ida Payne, married Minor Scovel, Amy Payne,
married Charles Rose, and Douglas Pajme married Annie Alexander) ;
Aduella B. Norvell (who never married) ; Sarah Woods Norvell (who
married N. W. Leonard) ; Moselle Norvell (who married Frank Por-
terfield Elliott, and is now living in Nashville. Her children are Laura
Norvell Elliott and Elizabeth Porterfield Elliott).

( 1 0) Putnam M. Sevier never married.

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(11) Henry Clay Sevier married twice, first Mary Clark and
second Mary Nash.

XIV. JOANNA GOADE SEVIER.

Joanna Goade Sevier, daughter of Governor John Sevier and his
second wife, Catherine Sherrill Sevier, was bom in East Tennessee.
She married Joseph H. Wendle. She was living in 1818.

XV. SAMUEL SEVIER.

Samuel Sevier, son of Governor John Sevier, and his second wife,
Catherine Sherrill Sevier, was bom in Elast Tennessee. He was prob-
ably named for Govemor Sevier's intimate friend. Colonel Samuel Wear
who named a son, bom about the same time, John, for Govemor
Sevier. Samuel Sevier became a physician. He probably died before
1818, as his name is not included in the list of heirs when property
was sold in Knox County.

Samuel Sevier married and had a son. Dr. Daniel Vert-

ner Sevier, named evidently for Ruth Sevier's husband, Daniel Vertner.
Dr. Daniel Vertner Sevier had a son. Dr. Daniel Vertner Sevier, Jr.,
who has in his possession a very beautiful minature painted by Peale
of John Sevier for his second wife, Catherine, and given by her to
her son, Samuel, and inherited by Dr. Sevier.

XVI. ROBERT SEVIER.

Robert Sevier, the son of Govemor John Sevier and his second
wife, Cadierine Sherrill Sevier, was born in Elast Tennessee. He was
living in 1818. He left children, but I have not Ae names of his wife
or children.

XVII. POLLY SEVIER.

Polly Preston Sevier, daughter of Govemor John Sevier and his
second wife, Catherine Sherrill Sevier, married William Overstreet, Jr.,
September 18, 1 806. She was living in 1818 and she left children.

XVIII. ELIZA CONWAY SEVIER.

Eliza Conway Sevier, daughter of Govemor John Sevier and his
second wife, Catherine Sherrill Sevier, was born in East Tennessee

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about 1790. She married Major William McClellan of the United
States Army, August 9th, 1810, and had five children, namely:

(1) JoHh McClellan.

(2) Ann McClellan.

(3) Catherine McClellan.

(4) Mary Jane McClellan.

(5) Lida McClellan.

Of the foregoing:

John McClellan married a Miss Gregg and lived in Texas. He
had no children.

Ann McClellan married Judge Brown and had children. She
lived in Marshall, Texas.

Catherine McClellan married Pickett and lived in Van

Buren, Arkansas. She had children.

Mary Jane McClellan married Captain Gabriel Rains, United
States Army, afterwards General Gabriel Rains, Confederate States
Army. He was a son of General Gabriel Rains. Captain Rains was
a distinguished officer of the Army and a graduate of West Point. Im-
mediately upon the breaking out of the War Between the States he re-
signed from the United States Army and offered his service to the Con-
federacy and became a Brigadier General. General Gabriel Rains and
Mary Jane McClellan Rains had six children, namely: Stella Rains

(who died unmarried) ; Leila Rains (who married first ^Randall

and had a son, Charles Rains Randall, died unmarried, and married
secondly. Judge William Smythe, of Augusta, and has four children,
Jane Harris Smythe, died young, Bonita Smythe, married Lee Hankin-
son and has four children, Stella Smythe, married John Sherman, of Au-
gusta, and has two children, and Josephine Smythe, married James Wel-
born Camak, died, leaving one child, a son) ; Sevier McClellan Rains
(who was killed in the West in an engagement with Indians. He was an
officer in the United States Army and was unmarried) ; Catherine Mc-
Clellan Rains (who married twice, firstly, Colonel Paul of the United
States Army, by whom she has one child, Rosalie Paul, and, secondly.
Colonel Paddock, United States Army, by whom she has no children) ;
Gabrielle Rains (who married Kirby Tupper, of Charleston, South
Carolina, and has two children, Gabrielle Williams Tupper and Sevier
Rains Tupper, a Captain in the United States Army) ; and Fannie
May Rains (who married Colonel Walter Chatfield of the United
States Army.)

Lida McClellan married John Gregg, a planter in Texas and had
three children, Willie Gregg, (who was killed in Battle in the War
Between the States) ; Alia Gregg (who died unmarried and Nola
Gregg (who married Nelson) .

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FROM THE BORDEN GENEALOGY.

The Borden Genealogy, written by Hattie Borden Wells, gives
John Borden^, son of John and Mary Borden, and great-grandson of
Benjamin Borden, to whom Gov. Gooch, of Virginia, granted Borden's
Manor, as having married Catherine Sevier, daughter of Governor John
Sevier, about the year 1824.

This is manifestly not Governor John Sevier's daughter, as the date
is too late and also as his daughter, Catherine, is fully accounted for

in her marriage first to Archibald Rhea and second to —

Campbell.

The Catherine Sevier who married John Borden, about 1824,
might have been a granddaughter of John Sevier and in that case she
was the daughter undoubtedly of one of the three sons by the second
wife whose name was Catherine Sherrill, as an son would have
been more likely to name a child for Catherine Sherrill than a stepson
would. As the eldest son of Catherine Sherrill, George Washington
Sevier had a daughter, Catherine, who is fully accounted for, this
Catherine who married a Borden must have been the daughter of
Robert Sevier or Samuel Sevier. I think she was the daughter of
Samuel Sevier.

This is the record from the Borden Genealogy.
• Catherine Sevier, who married John Borden had six children,
namely: (1) Elizabeth Borden; (2) Euphemia Borden; (3) Wil-
liam Joseph Borden; (4) Mary Catherine Borden; (5) Andrew
Campbell Borden; and, (6) Joel E. Borden.

Of the foregoing:

Elizabeth Borden was bom November 3, 1823. She died Sep-
tember 5, 1831.

Euphemia Borden was born January 4, 1828. She died Sep-
tember 16, 1866.

William Joseph Borden was bom in Benton County, Alabama,
May 1 4, 1 830. He married Emma Gabriel Gosson, of New Orelans,

(*John Borden married twice, the first time Catherine Matlock
and the second time, Catherine Sevier, probably married both times
into the Sevier family. Catherine Matlock was the daughter of William
Matlock. Governor John Sevier had a sister, Catherine, and a sister,
Polly. Polly Sevier married William Matlock and as these people
lived in the same neighborhood it is more than probable that Catherine
Matlock, who married John Borden, was a granddaughter of Polly
Sevier, who married William Matlock, and that John Borden's second
wife was her cousin, Catherine Sevier, a granddaughter of Govemor
John Sevier.)

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and had Edwin Cosson Borden (yAo married CaioIiBe Moonck and
has Frederick William Borden, Henry Fomiey Borden* Elmma Claudine
Borden, and Harriet May Borden) ;

Willis C. Borden (married Treadway, of Newman,

Georgia) ; Malbert Troupe Borden (married Mildred A. Harris and

has Christine Borden) ; PeHiam Borden (married Harper) ;

Ann Borden , (married Prey) ; Ermine B. Borden (married

Martm) ; Joseph Borden (died young) ; Francis Borden

(died young) ; Benjamin Borden.

Mary Catherine Borden, married Bacon.

Andrew Campbell Borden married first Frances Knightm and
married second Frances Bufford, and had Lydia Cadierine Bordea
(died yotmg) ; Henry Allen Borden (who married Martha Bucking-
ham and had Adelaide Louise Borden, Alberta Lake Borden and
Henry Grady Borden) ; Nancy Lorena Borden (who died young) ;
Lula Ellen Borden (who died young) ; Charles Lewis Borden; Dora
Louise Borden (who married J. M. B. Trammell and has Chesley
Trammel!) ; Euphemia Tate Borden ; and John Pickens Borden. '

Joel E. Borden, married and has Patrick Donnelly

Borden.

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In the third or fourth century there were five kings of as many
divisions of Ireland, the King of Munster being O'Brien. Later, and
down to about 1200, the O'Briens were head kings of the whole
country.

The younger son of this third century O'Brien traveled throughout
Europe for twenty years, and then returned to claim his patrimony.

On account of his debonair manners, picked up at the Courts of
the Continent, he was dubbed **Siadhal," which means **The Gracious,"
and because there were so many O'Briens, he adopted the more mod-
ernized Irish form of the old word and called himself and his children
**Shiel". In Latin the name is Sedulius. We find a great many people
of this name prominent both in ecclesiastical and literary history. One
of them wrote the first of a series of treatises on Ethics that all the
Christian Princes were required to study.

One was attached to the Court of Charlemagne. One was prom-
inent in the Papal family of early times. One introduced Rhyme into
Latin poetry and is called the Christian Virgil to this day. He wrote
"Carmen Paschale". He had a good biography from the pen of Hell-
man, published in German in Munich in 1905. Six of them are men-
tioned by the Four Masters between the years 785 and 855.

A history of the Shields family is found in Rooney's Aristocracy
at the time of the Reformation 400 years ago. A copy of this was
known to be in America in Bishop Phalen's library, but after his death
his books were scattered.

One branch of the family moved to the North of Ireland, Ulster.
This family became Protestant and changed its name slightly. It be-
came Shields. It may be that it Anglicised the name **Shiel" because
the English were the promoters of the Reformation, and the oppressors
of the Catholic Irish.

There was an inter-marriage with the Norman family of Scyld
which meaiis "Shield" in Elnglish. This Scyld family was in early
days the reigning family in Denmark. Whatever the reason, the new
name was taken up. The Shiel, O'Shiel, Shiell, etc., are probably all
related to the old family that stayed in Munster. Cashel, in Tipperary,
is the seat of the old O'Brien Castle and Capitol.

The Irish family records and historical data are the best in exist-
ence in any country. This arises from the peculiar land tenure law.
The Irish are the direct descendants of the Phoenecians who invented
the alphabet and the science of mathematics; but were driven out by

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the Greeks. They had a custom of appointing a sort of Parliament
of Scholars who once each year checked iq> the facts of current history,
and particularly the genealogical records. Thus we have a mine of
information, much of it published. This is largely in the annals of the
Four Masters.

The Shields of Ulster were all closely connected, widK)ut doubt, and
seem to have kept the bond of blood even after emigration to America.
The four emigrants who are best known and who are ancestors of
the Southern families may be designated for convenience:

James Shields, of Rockingham County, Virginia, (probably an
emigrant.)

John Shields, of the Mayflower.

Shields, who married a Nesbit.

William Shields, of Armagh, Ireland.

JAMES SHIELDS, OF ROCKINGHAM

James Shields, probably an emigrant, died in Rockingham County,
Virginia, in 1749. His son, Robert, was a Revolutionary officer.
He had twelve children, eleven sons and one daughter. They moved
to Sevier County, Tennessee, about I 785.

The daughter married a Tipton, enemy of John Sevier, who was
partner of Daniel Boone. Their son was General and United States
Senator John Tipton, of Indiana, founder of Indianapolis, Logans-
port and Columbus. He married his cousin, daughter of one of his
mother's brothers, John Shields, the official scout and gunsmith of
the Lewis-Clarke Expedition to Oregon, 1803-6. There is a bio-
graphy of him in any good accoimt of that Expedition. His wife
Was a White, sister of Hugh Lawson White who ran for President
against Jackson and Adams in 1828.

JOHN SHIELDS OF THE MAYFLOWER

John Shields, the emigrant, married Margaret Finley, in 1 768.
They moved from Ireland, or Wales; came in the ship **The May-
flower." When they reached land, a babe was bom. They named
it "Thankful,** as diey were glad it was bora on land instead of water.
That is how the name originated in this branch of the Shields family.

The children of John Shields and Margaret Finley Shields were.
Thankful, John James, David, George, William Alexander, Robert
Francis and Rebecca. John James Shields married Elizabeth Hig-
ginbotham. Their children were, John James, Samuel, Egbert, Wil-
liam, Robert, Sallie and Nancy (twins), Peggy, Mary, Thankful
and Polly Ann. John James Shields son of the emigrant was twice
married, first to Francis Ann Plunkett, and second to Nancy Plun-

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kett. They were sisters. Samuel was twice married, first to Susan
Wakin Wheeler, and second to Maria Sterritt. Egbert was married
first to Ellen Brent, second to Ann Bibb. Sallie married James
Higginbotham, as his second wife. Nancy married William Smith.
Peggy married Willis Plunkett. Mary married James Marr, Thank-
ful married first Lafayette Johnson, second Robert Brooks, and died
at "Valley Rest," near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Robert and
Polly Ann never married.

John James Shields and his wife moved with their family to
Kentucky near Bowling Green in 1 836 or 1 837 from Nelson County,
Virginia. He bought 1,666 and two third acres of land. At
his death his land and slaves were equally divided among his children.

THE SHIELDS WHO MARRIED A NESBIT

Another emigrant Shields, a native of Ireland, was twice married.
The name of his first wife is unknown. His second wife was a Nesbit.
Their children were, John, James, George, David Robert, Isabella
and Elizabeth. No record has been kept of any except James. He
was born in Ireland in 1762 and came to America when young with
his parents. He lived in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, where
he enlisted in the Revolutionary war and is said to have been in the
Battles of King's Mountain, Hanging Rock, etc. He afterward
moved to Elbert County, Georgia. Later he went to Tennessee,
stopping for a while on Harpeth river, south of Nashville, moving
afterward to Giles County, where he and a large number of relatives
settled at Elk Ridge church, which they erected of logs and which
is still standing about two and a half miles east of Lynnville. In
Georgia he married a daughter of . Captain Samuel Montgomery, of
Shippesburg, Pennsylvania, an officer of the Revolution. Her

name was Jane Montgomery. Her sister Montgomery

married a Samuel Shields, said to have been a son of William Shields
of Armagh whose family record follows; but this Samuel Shields
is given as being married to Margaret Ware. Possibly he married
Montgomery as his second wife.

Leander Shields, son of the foregoing James Shields, went from
Georgia into Tennessee with his relatives. He married his cousin,
Ann King, also given as Elizabeth King.

With them went Samuel Shields, descendant of William Shields,
the emigrant, from County Armagh, of Ireland, this Samuel

Shields being, doubtless, the one who was married to

Montgomery and accompaning the family in consequence of that
marriage.

Leander Montgomery Shields, who married his cousin, Ann

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King, also ^iven as Elizabeth King, (she possibly bore both names)
had among other children James Montgomery $hields, who mar-
ried Eliza Frances Moore. They had a son. Will Mitt Shields, of
Columbia, Tennessee. The Kings, Montgomerys, Shields, Mc
Donolds, McKenziers and Alexanders of Middle Tennessee are
all closely connected and all identified with the early history of the
State.

Leander Shields, son of the foregoing James Shields, went from
Georgia into Tennessee with his relatives. He married his cousin,
Ann King.

With them went Samuel Shields, descendant of William Shield^,
the emigrant, from County Armagh, of Ireland.

WILLIAM SHIELDS, OF ARMAGH

William Shields, the emigrant, was bom in the County of Armagh
in the Kingdom of Ireland on Sunday, July 14, 1728. He em-
barked on a sloop commanded by Captain Alex Smith, for America on
the 26th of February, \ 737, being in the ninth year of his age. On
the voyage he lost his father and brother, Robert, who were taken
by death. After landing he dwelt in Newcastle County six years,
then removed to Cecil County, Maryland, where he remained four
years. He then, in 1 748, removed to Frederick County, Maryland.
He married April 25, 1 754, Jane Williams, daughter of John Wil-
liams, lately of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Jane Williams was
bom in Lancaster County, August I6di, 1736.

Their children were:

(l).John Shields, bom Thursday, March 20, 1755.

(2) James Shields, bom Tuesday, June 12, 1757.

(3) Henry Shields, bom November 3, 1 759.

(4) William Shields, Second, bom October 8, 1761.

(5) Samuel Shields, born March 13, 1764.

(6) Agnes Shields, bom December 13, 1766.

(7) David Shields, born June 12. 1769.

(8) Barnes Shields, born October 28, 1 772.

(9) Mary Shields, born January 2, 1 775.

(10) Ebenezer Shields, born December 22, 1778.

(11) Margaret Shields, born October 2, 1783.

Of the foregoing:

( 1 ) John Shields, eldest child of William Shields of Armagh and
Jane Williams Shields (bom March 20, 1 755, died January 23,
1833), married Mary McCoUum (bom February 18, 1769, died
April 20. 1820).

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Their children were:

Nancy Shields (who married Richard DeWilt) ; Jane Shields
(who married George Stuart of Wythe County, Virginia, and had
five children, James Harvey Stuart, Mary Stuart, David Marcellus
Stuart, John Howard Stuart, and George Stuart, Second) ; William
Shields (of Iowa) ; Hester Shields (who married James Anderson
of Knoxville) ; Mary Shields (who married Tighlman A. Howard,
and had four daughters, Margaret Howard, Ann Eveline Howard
Elizabeth Howard and Martha Howard) ; Eliza Shields, bom 1 803,
died September 21, 1878, (who married her first cousin, Samuel
Shields, of Grainger County, Tennessee, bom July 5, 1802, died
August \ 7, 1 886) ; John P. Shields, (of Cocke County, Tennessee) ;
and Henry D. Shields (who left one child, Elizabeth Shields).

(2) James Shields, son of William Shields, of Armagh, and
Jane Williams Shields. Of him later.

{4y William Shields, the Second, son of William Shields, of
Armagh, and Jane William Shields, married Jane Bentley. They
lived and died in Frederick County, Maryland. They had seven sons
and four daughters, among others John Shields, who married Mary
Collins, and had six daughters and four sons, and Eliza Shields, who
married her cousin, Samuel Shields, son of James Shields and Jane
Gilliland Shields.

(5) Samuel Shields, son of William Shields, of Armagh, and
Jane Williams Shields was bom March 1 3, 1 764. He married
Margaret Ware, of Blount County, Tennessee. They had several
children, some of them going to Oregon to reside. One of the daugh-
ters married a Killingsworth.

(6) Agnes Shields, daughter of William Shields, of Amiagh, and
Jane Williams Shields was bom December 13, 1 766. She married
Jacob Gilliland. • They had three children, namely: Betsey Gilli-
land (who married David Browne and settled near Asbury Church
in Washington County, Tennessee) ; William Gilliland (who lives in
Washington County, Tennessee), and John Gilliland, who lives in
Aberdeen, Mississippi. Jacob Gilliland moved from Maryland to
South Carolina. He went back to Baltimore and died there. His
wife then moved to Washington County, Tennessee, and married for
her second husband, Michael Woods. (A Michael Woods had mar-
ried Ester Shields.)

(9) Mary Shields, the daughter of William Shields, of Armagh,
and Jane Williams Shields was bom January 2, 1 775. She married
John Blair and lived in Frederick County, Maryland, later going to
Cleveland, Ohio, to reside. She had a son, William Blair, who
married an Evans, of Greene County, Georgia, and settled in Georgia.

(11) Margaret Shields, daughter of William Shields, of Armagh,

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and Jane Williams Shields, was born October 2, 1 783. She married
Evan Evans. They lived and died in Greene G)unly, Tennessee.
Their son, William Evans, lived in Indiana, and was an elder in the
Presbyterian Church. Their daughter, Hannah Evans, married New-
ton Magill, of Kentucky.

(2) James Shields, the Second, son of William Shields, of
Armagh, and Jane Williams Shields, was, bom in Frederick G)unty,
Maryland, July 12, 1757, and died in Greene County, Tennessee,
August 23, 1 840. He was a Captain in the War of the Revolution.
He married Jane Gilliland, of Chester County, Maryland, who was
bom October 15, 1764. They were married in Frederick County,
Maryland, Tuesday, April 1 , 1 783, the Reverend Mr. Martin officiat-
ing. Jane Gilliland Shields died at the residence of her daughter,
Joanna Shields Lea, in Grainger County, Tennessee, December 21,
1849.

James Shields and Jane Gilliland Shields had eleven children.

Jane GilHland Shields, mother of these eleven sons and daughters,
was the daughter of John Gilliland, who was raised in die County of
Athlone in Ireland. His wife was from Holland, and was named
Hester Romar. They had three sons, Jacob, John and Peter. It
will be seen that Jane Gilliland Shields named her first child *' Ester,
sometimes called Hester," for her own mother, Hester Romar Shields.

Elster Shields, (sometimes written Hester), first child of James
Shields and Jane Gilliland Shields, married Michael Woods.

William Shields, son of James Shields and Jane Gilliland Shields,
bom 1 787, is called William Shields, of Missouri. He married firstly
Eliza Conway; secondly, a Patterson, and is presumed to have married
a third time. A son by his second wife called Jefferson Shields became
a Doctor. Another son of William Shields, David Shields, married
Rachel Waddle of Washington County, Tennessee, and a son of
theirs married Jane Boyd.

Jane Shields, daughter of James Shields, and Jane Gilliland
Shields, bom March 2, 1 789, married Thomas Rankin.

John Shields, son of James Shields and Jane Gilliland Shields,
was bom 1 792. He married Mary Gill. Of him later.

Mary Shields, daughter of James Shields and Jane Gilliland
Shields, was born 1 795. She married William Graham.

James Shields, Third, son of James Shields and Jane Gilliland
Shields, was bom 1 797. He married Mary Cobb and had six chil-
dren. Mrs. Sarah J. Taylor is the only living child.

David Shields, son of James Shields and Jane Gilliland Shields,
was bom 1800. He married Mary Brabson. They had one daugh-
ter, Jennie Shields, who married a Mr. Jones, of Macon, Georgia.

Samuel Shields, son of James Shields and Jane Gilliland Shields,

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was bom July 5, 1802. He married his first cousin, Eliza Shields,
daughter of his father's brother, John Shields, Second, and Jane Bent-
ley Shields, October 28, 1828, in Cocke G)unty, Tennessee, Rever-
end William Minnis officiating.

Samuel Shields, eighth child of James and Jane Gilliland Shields,
died at his home near Blaine, Grainger County, Tennessee, August
1 7, 1 886. His wife, Eliza Shields Shields, died at the home near
Blaine, September 21, 1878.

They had a son, John Howard Shields, who was bom September
15, 1829, in Sevier County, Tennessee. He married Margaret
Amanda McMillan, daughter of Andrew McMillan and Mary Little-
ford, (See McMillan Family), January 15, 1852. They had eight
children, namely: Ella B. Shields, deceased; Lizzie L Shields, de-
ceased ; Samuel Shields, deceased ; Mary C. Shields, who resides in
Los Angeles; Alexander McMillan Shields, who resides in San Fran-
cisco; Margaret Lea Shields, who resides in Los Angeles; William
Shields, who resides in Mentone, California, and Lawrence Shields,
who is in the Medical Department of the United States Army.

Margaret McMillan Shields died in Cincinnati, Ohio, August
6, 1900. Her husband, John Howard Shelds, died near Jalapa,
Mexico, March 17, 1902.

Milton Shields, son of James Shields and Jane Gilliland Shields,
was bom 1804. He married Priscilla Jones Brabson, of Brabson's
Ferry, in Sevier County, Tennessee He had six sons and four daugh-
ters. Four sons and two daughters grew to maturity. Of these:
John B. Shields married Carrie E. Long and they lived in Jasper,
Alabama. Elizabeth Ester Shields married Reverend C. T. Carroll,
of Holston Conference. Joanna Shields married Dr. J. F. Haley.
David E. Shields married Lula Stubblefield and they live in Morris-
town, Tennessee. Henry Will Shields married Lizzie Rice and both
are dead. Samuel Shields married Lucy Word and both are dead.

Joanna Shields, dau^ter of James Shields and Jane Gilliland
Shields, was bom in 1808. She married Harmond G. Lea and her
mother's death is recorded as having taken place in her home in
Grainger Coiavly, Tennessee, December 21, 1849.

Henry Wood Shields, son of James Shields and Jane Gilliland
Shields, was bora 1810. He married firstly Susan Crosby and mar-
ried, secondly, Sallie Bible, and had no children by either marriage.

John Shields, the third child and second son among the eleven
children of James Shield and Jane Gilliland Shields, was bom I 782.
He served in the Revolution and died October 2nd, 1 829, at the early
age of thirty-seven. He married Mary Gill (daughter of Thomas
Gill, a native of Yorkshire, England, and his wife, Elizabeth Harrell,
daughter of Thomas Harrell). The two children of John and Mary

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Gill Shields were Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and James T. Shields,
was bom in Granger County, Tennessee, September, 1824.

JUDGE JOHN T. SHIELDS

•

Judge James T. Shields, of Clinchdale, near Tate, Tennessee,
was a distinguished citizen. He built a beautiful colonial home on his
estate, which is kept now in almost exactly the condition in which he
left it. His study where he sat surrounded by law books has not been
changed in the slightest. Beautiful old engravings worth a fortune
now, hang upon the walls probably as he placed them with his own
hands, of Lafayette, Jefferson Davis, Andrew Jackson, men who were
in public life during Judge Shields* time and who were probably his
guests as well as his friends. The old mahogany furniture in the resi-
dence as well as in the office is priceless.

Judge James T. Shields was twice married, first to Mary Aurelia
One daughter of this marriage, Aurelia, married W. D. Gammon, and
died in 1876, leaving three children. Judge Shields married for his
second wife, Elizabeth Simpson, of Rogersville, Tennessee.

They had ten sons, namely:

(1) William Simpson Shields.

(2) John Knight Shields.

(3) Robert Gill Shields, who died unmarried at twenty.

(4) James Thomas Shields, Jr., who died unmarried in Texas.

(5) Samuel Guthrie Shields, who died in Washington in 1915.

(6) Joseph Sevier Shields, who died in New York in 1916.

(7) Milton Lea Shields, who died in Greensboro, North Carolina,
in 1903.

Three other sons died when very young.

Of the foregoing:

( 1 ) William S. Shields, the oldest son, is a banker and leading
citizen of Knoxville. He is largely interested in mercantile and manu-
facturing interests in that city, and has taken an active part in the politi-
cal affairs of his distinguished brother. Senator Shields. He married
Miss Alice Watkins, of Chattanooga, and their horn/; is one of the
handsomest and one of the most hospitable in Knoxville.

(2) John Knight Shields, the second son, is the Senior United
States Senator from Tennessee and makes his home at Clinchdale in
Grainger County, the beautiful family estate, which he inherited from
his father, consisting of a magnificent farm of more than thirty-five
hundred acres. In his youth, he decided to follow his father's pro-
fession of law, and early in life, he took an active interest in politics.
He has been a delegate to two national democratic conventions, was

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appointed chancellor of his chancery division and later was elected,
without opposition, to the Supreme Court, where he served for thirteen
years. He was Chief Justice of the court for the last three years he
was on the bench, and was elected from that position to the United
States Senate in January, 1913, which position he is now filling with
'creclit to himself and with honor to his state. He first married Miss
Mary Fulkerson, of Rogersville, and his second wife was, before her
marriage to Senator Shields, Mrs. Jeanette Dodson Cowan, widow of
James D. Cowan, of Knoxville.

(4) James T. Shields, Jr., was a leading and successful mer-
chant in Knoxvile until his health failed him. He was never married.

(5) Samuel G. Shields, like his father and brother. Senator
Shields, pursued the profession of the law, and was a leading member
of the Knoxville bar until his death. He was at one time a special
judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. He first married Miss
Fannie Brown, of Greeneville, and his second wife was Miss Pauline
Woodruff, of Knoxville, who survives him.

(6) Joseph Sevier Shields was a wholesale merchant in New York
City for eighteen years, where he died in April, 1916. He married
Miss Annie Luttrell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Churchwell Lut-
trell, of Knoxville, a descendant of the Brooks, Armstrong, Wears Mc-
Williams and Calhouns. One daughter, Josephine Shields, survives her
father, and is the only grandchild of Judge James T. Shields, by his
second wife. Josephine Shields married Leonard Murphey, of Mor-
ris town.

(7) Milton L. Shields, who married Miss Rhoda King, of Knox-
ville, was, for many years, a merchant in Knoxville and Greensboro,
North Carolina, at which latter place he died.

The family of General James Shields, a leading Catholic, was of
the Northern Ireland family, re-converted to Catholicism. Most of the
emigrant Shields families are Protestant. General James Shields was
United States Senator from three states and is one of the two men
selected by the state of Illinois for the Hall of Fame. He was prom--
inent in the Mexican War; his picture is the central figure in one of
the great battle-pictures of the world, Chapultipec, hanging in the
Capitol at Washington. He is buried and has a fine monument at
Carrolton, Missouri.

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The Stone family name, it has been suggested, comes from resi-
dence near or in one of tHe ancient Elnglish towns by the name or from
similar proximity to one of the great historic stones, Stonehenge, for
instance. In any case, it is one of die oldest patronymics. There are
many Stones of record, and in America many have reached distinction;
at one time in recent years five Governors Stone sat in the executive
chair in as many States of the Union, and they were all descended from
Colonial Governor William Stone of Maryland.

GOVERNOR WILLIAM STONE

This progenitor of the Southern family, William Stone, was bom
in Ejigland in Northhamptonshire in 1603. He was the nephew of
Thomas Stone of that Shire. In 1 648 he emigrated from Elngland to
Virginia, where he settled on the eastern shore near Hunger's Creek,
and was called Captain William Stone. In the same year, 1648, he
negotiated the removal of a party of non-conformists like himself from
Virginia to Maryland and in August of .1 648 he was appointed Deputy
Governor of the Colony of Maryland by Lord Baltimore, the lord pro-
prietor and Governor. Sixteen forty-eight proved rather an eventful
year for the emigrant. He married, probably in England before his
emigration, and had at least two sons of whom we know: namely,
John and David.

David, the second son of 'the emigrant and Colonial Governor,
married Elizabeth Jenifer, daughter of Dr. Daniel Jenifer, and had
children: Michael Jenifer Stone, John Hoskins Stone (Governor of
Maryland), Thomas Stone (signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence), Frederick Stone and Ezekiel Stone.

GOVERNOR JOHN HOSKINS STONE

Of the sons of Governor William Stone, David was the father of
John Hoskins Stone, who also became a Governor of Maryland. He
was bom in Charles County, where the family resided in 1 745. He
was the son of David Stone, by his wife, Elizabeth Jenifer, daughter
of Dr. Daniel Jenifer. He became the eighth Governor of Maryland
and served from 1794 to 1797.

In November, 1774, he was one of the committee from Charles
County to carry out resolutions of Congress and was one of the Com-

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mittee of Correspondence for the County. He was a member of the
Association of Freemen of Maryland.

January 14th, 1776, he was elected Captain of the First Com-
pany of Colonel William Smallwood's First Maryland Regiment. He
was wounded in the Battle of Germantown, being disabled in that
encoimter. He was a member of the Society of Cincinnati. In 1 794
he was elected to the office of Governor.

He married a Scotch lady, a Miss Condon, and had at least one
daughter, Eliza Stone, who married Nadianiel Pope Causin. Their
son, Nathaniel Pope Causin, second, married Eliza Mactier Warfield,
and had children.

Michael Jenifer Stone, son of David Stone and Elizabeth Jenifer,
was elected to Congress (1789-1791), and was Judge of the Circuit
Court of Charles Coimty.

THOMAS STONE, THE SIGNER

Thomas Stone, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence,
was the son of David Stone and his wife, Elizabeth Jenifer Stone, and
was grandson of the Colonial Governor William Stone. He was bom
in the County of Charles, Maryland, in 1 743. He was elected dele-
gate to the First Continental Congress in 1 774, in Philadelphia, and
was one of die Signers of the Declaration of Independence. He died
in 1787.

He married and had one son, Frederick Stone, and two daughters,
Elizabeth and Mildred Stone. Frederick Stone inherited the family
taste for politics and was Congressman from Maryland.

Mildred Stone married Dr. John M. Daniel, of Virginia, and
was the grandmother of another congressman. Senator Daniel, of Vir-
ginia. Elizabeth Stone also married a Daniel, of Virginia, brother of
her sister's husband.

Michael Jenifer Stone, son of David Stone and his wife, Eliza-
beth Jenifer Stone, was bom in Charles County. Maryland, in the year
1 750. He was also a Congressman, a representative in Congress,
1791. He voted for the location of the National Capitol on Ae
Potomac river. He died in 1812. He had three sons, namely: Wil-
liam, John and Samuel.

Ezekial Stone, fourth son of David Stone and his wife, Elizabeth
Jenifer Stone, was bom in Maryland in Charles County in 1 760. He
enlisted in the Revolutionary War, though he was only sixteen xcars of
age, and served until the close of the conflict. He married Jane Wood,
of North Carolina, and removed from Maryland to the French Broad
River, in Sevier County, then North Carolina, now Tennessee, in 1 784.
Ezekiel and Jane Wood Stone had children, William, John, Richard,

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Thomas, Mary, Hannah, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Mary. 'He died
in Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee, in I860, at the advanced age of
ninety-nine years and eleven months. A sister of his wife!, another
Miss Wood, was the mother of General Wade Hampton.

William Stone, son of Ezekiel Stone, was bom in Sevier County,
when that county was a part of North Carolina. He married Mary
Randal, of the Randal family of Maryland; his children were Teresa,
Rebecca, Elvira, Louisa, McDonough P. D., John L., Rhoda Jane
and Spencer Clack Stone, who married Rachel Couch, whose mother,
Elizabeth Boone was a descendant of the Boone family of which
Daniel Boone was a member.

William Stone was a Captain in the Creek War, and was elected
Brevet- Brigadier General for gallantry at the Battle of the Horse Shoe.
He served with General Jackson in the Louisiana campaign, and was
present at the Battle of New Orleans. He was elected to Congress in
r836, and was re-elected in 1838. He died in 1853.

For bravery at the Battle of Tippacanoe he was presented with
a cane by Congress, which is now in the possession of his grandson,
Wm. M. Stone, of Chattanooga, a son of Spencer Clack Stone.
William M. Stone married Genevieve Dair of Ohio, and had five
children: Ada Genevieve, EfFie Maude, William Otto, Milton Dair
and Daniel McQuigg.

Thomas Stone, son of Ezekiel Stone and Elizabeth J. Stone settled
in the territory of Mississippi, and married there. His son, John M.
Stone, was Governor of that state from 1876 to 1882.

Richard Stone, son of Ezekiel Stone, settled in the territory of
Missouri. He married and had one son, * 'Little Ezekiel*'.

John Stone, another son of Ezekiel Stone, settled on Stone's River,
near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, but afterwards removed to Knox County,
where he married. He had three sons, viz: Ezekiel, Richard and
Oliver.

SOME OTHER TENNESSEE STONES

The first settlers of Washington County, Tennessee, came from
adjoining counties of Virginia and North Carolina. Among these early
pioneers was William Stone, who settled near Jonesboro. When
Captain William Bean organized his Company in 1 778, to protect
the settlement against the Tories and Indians. William Stone was one
of the company. The Court Journal of Washington County shows him
to have been Tax Assessor in 1 780. He received a grant of land
from the State of North Carolina in 1 784. After the Revolution, he
moved from Washington County and settled on Richland Creek in
Grainger County. He was a member of the Court of Grainger County
in I 799. This property is still occupied by his descendants.

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William Stone, bora in Virginia, died in Grainger County, Ten-
nessee, married in Virginia.
His children were:

Robert Stone, married Susan Everett.
Dorcas Stone, married Michael Massengale.
Mary Stone, married William Cox.
John Stone, married Susan Henderson.
Susan Stone, never married.

William Stone, married Nancy Highlander December 18, 1810.

Colonel James Smith, of Pennsylvania, explored the Cumberland
Country during the sumer of 1 766. The following is an extract from
his journal:

**I set out about the last of June, 1 766, and went in the first place
to the Holston River, and from there I travelled westwardly in com-
pany with Joshua Horton, Uriah Stone, William Baker and James
Smith, who came from near Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

**Wc explored the country south of Kentucky. We also ex-
plored the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers from Stone's River down
to the Ohio. Stone's River is a South braniph of the Cumberland and
empties into it above Nashville. We gave it this name in our Journal
in May, 1 767, after one of my fellow travellers, Mr. Uriah Stone, and
I am told it retains the same name unto this day."

Uriah Stone was the father of at least two sons, William Stone
and Archibald Stone. William Stone settled in Jackson County, Ten-
nessee, where he died in 1820. His will mentions his wife, Ann,
sons Uriah and Elijah; daughters Jane Roberts, wife of Edmond
Roberts and Ann Smith, a grandson, Asbury Stone, son of Uriah
Stone is also mentioned. The executors were Archibald Stone and
James Crawford, of Barren County, Kentucky. TTie will is dated
June 24. 1819.

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TURNLEY

The origin of the name Turnley is very clearly from the device
borne upon the shield, a turn or turned lily and its use dates to remote
times, long before surnames were adopted. The family is Norman
and its forerunners probably accompanied William the Conqueror.

In Ejigland, the Turnley family dates back to a remote period.
Prior to 1550 the name is recorded as a family with a coat of arms
in the register's office. When the Herald G)llege in London was
burned, this, with so many other recorded coats and blazonry, was
destroyed. Those interested in the preservation of these family ar-
morial ensigns, took measures to have those of their respective families
registered or recorded, and so preserved them. The Tumleys neg-
lected to do this for a great while. The attempt was at last made, and
after long search through the British Museum the record was found in
Randal Holme's Academy of Armory, published during the reign of
Charles the Second. The family record also was found bearing the
coat of arms.

The **Turn Cup Lily" as the arms represent, (page 480, vol. I
of Fairbaim*s Crests of Great Britain and Ireland) is the following:
TURNLEY" on a mount, vert, an oak tree ppr. pendent on (sinister
side) a shield, gu. charged with a 'cross pattee or perseveranda, pi. 75
cr. 2 cross pi. 141 or more clearly rendered: Tumley's coat of arms
consist of a green oak tree growing on a mound; pendent on left side
a reddened shield charged with a **pattee** cross; that is, a cross in
which the arms are very narrow at the inner ends and broad at the
outer ends.

In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, three branches of the Turnley
family appeared in Elngland. Richard Turnley belonged to the expedi-
tion, which, under the Earl of Elssex, embarked from Plymouth, agamst
Spain, and resulted in the capture of Cadiz. He was also in another
expedition under Essex, for the protection of Ireland from a threatened
invasion from Spain. He returned in 1599 to England, where he re-
mained in private Ufe.

Several members of the family held positions of honor and trust
in the state during this period.

We do not see anything more of the name until the Civil war under
Charles I. of Elngland. During the latter part of this reign, the Tum-
leys seem to have been divided between Charles and Parliament,
some being on the one side and some on the other. At last, when
Charles refused to answer the charges of Parliament, the Turn-

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leys are all found on the side of Parliament, and subsequently in
the army of Cromwell. John, Francis and Eldmund Tumley served
in the army of the Commonwealth, John and Francis as Ensigns,
Edmund as Comet in a squadron of cavalry. When Cromwell be-
came Lord Lieutenant, he dispatched reinforcements to the garrisons
in Ireland, and among these reinforcements we find the names of John,
Francis and Edmund Tumley. They participated in the little battle
near Dublin in 1649, and were present at Drogheda in the same au-
tumn. They remained in service in Ireland till 1651, when they all
obtained discharges. John, the eldest, remained in Ireland, married
there, and had children. His descendants are still to be found in
Ireland.

Francis and Edmund Tumley, after the discharge from the army
of Ireland, started to retum to Elngland, but stopped in Wales. Fran-
cis remained there, married and had children. During a portion of the
time he lived in Monmouth, where he died in 1690. His two eldest
children were sons, whom he named John and Francis. These two
are the progenitors of the Turaleys of America.

Edmund Tumley, the youngest of the brothers who left Elngland
in the Cromwellian service, married iii Wales, afterward retumed to
England, and stopped in the town of Bath.

About the same time, another branch of the family (cousin to the
one above) James Turnley, resided in the town of Gloucester, near the
head of the Bristol Channel. He had three sons, viz., Robert, Isaac
and Joseph. The record of these appears in 1 700. No accurate
account can be obtained of their issue nor of their deaths.

The name is still preserved in both Elnglish and Irish branches.
A Joseph Turnley was Lord Mayor of London.

John Tumley and Francis Tumley, Second, sons of Francis Tum-
ley, the First, and progenitors of the American family, were bom in
Monmouth, Wales, John in 1660; Francis in 1662. After attaining
their majority, they crossed the channel to the port of Bristol, where
they worked for themselves, and finally married, one in 1689, the
other in 1690. In 1692, having been tempted by the favorable in-
ducements offered by William and Mary, to emigrants to the Amer-
ican Colonies, they together embarked from the port of Bristol for
Norfolk, Virginia. John Tumley, the elder, settled in Botetourt
County, Virginia; Francis Tumley in Spottsylvania County. They
each had children, and named the eldest sons for themselves respect-
ively — John and Francis Turnley. John (the eldest son of John
Tumley of Monmouth), was bom in Bristol, 1690, and attained his
majority in Botetourt County, 1712. Francis Tumley (eldest son of
Francis Tumley, of Monmouth), was born also in Bristol in 1691,
and attained his majority in Spottsylvania County, 1713. These are

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the heads of the two American families of Turnley. The fathers, John
Tumley, First, and Francis Tumley, Second, of Monmouth, were
useful citizens in the new country.

John Tumley, of Monmouth, married in Bristol in 1689 and his
eldest son, John Tumley, Second, was bom in Bristol in 1690.

John Tumley, the First, of Monmouth, died at an advanced age
in his home. I have no record of whom he married in 1689, but he
had, among other children, John Tumley, the Second, bom in Bristol
in 1690, who is ancestor of the Tennessee Tumleys.

Francis Tumley, the Second, of Monmouth, died at an advanced
age in his home. I have no record of whom he married in 1 690, but
he left a son, Francis Tumley, the Third, bom in Bristol in 1691,
who is ancestor of the Virginia Tumleys.

Francis Tumley, the Third, married Grace — in

1 725 in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. They had six children,
namely:

Francis Tumley, the Fourth, bom February 1 0, 1 726 or 7.

Elizabeth Tumley, bom December 8, 1 728.

William Tumley, bom January 25, I 730.

Ann Tumley, bom February 28, 1 732.

Grace Tumley, bom June 9, 1 735.

John Tumley, bom November 9, 1 737.

Francis Turnley, the Fourth, eldest of the foregoing group

married Mary , and is said to have been the father of

eight children whose names are given in Ae family records. A list
was fumished Parmenas Taylor Tumley by Nelson G. Tumley in
1869, and a duplicate was found in the papers of John Tumley, of
Tennessee, showing that such a list was correct and from old records,
possibly a family Bible. This is the list as given:

. Susan, bom October 8, I 740.
Ellender, bom December 1 8, 1 744.
Sarah, born July 6, 1 75 1 .
Elizabeth, bom February 12, 1753.
Anne, bom March 23, 1755.
John, bom February 7, 1 757 ,
James, bom September 7, 1 759.
Francis, born December 31, 1763; died December 23, 1838.

Manifestly these children could not all have been the sons of
Francis Tumley, the Fourth, who was born in 1 726 or 7 as he would
have been a child of thirteen or fourteen at the birth of Susan. I
conclude that the two elder children, Susan and Ellender, are kins-
people, who grew up in his house or that he married a widow and that

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Susan and Ellender are her children, and possibly adopted by Francis
Turnley. A considerable period of years, seven, elapses between the
birth of Ellender and Sarah whom I conclude to be the first child of
Francis Turnley, the Fourth.

Francis Turnley, the Fourth, died November 7, I 796. His wife,
Mary, his **consort" as the old records give it, died February 27, 1 794.

FRANCIS TURNLEY, THE FIFTH

Francis Turnley, the Fifth, was bom December 31, 1763, and
died December 23, 1838. He married Susan Wall, of Orange
County, Virginia, April 3, 1 79 1 . They had eight children :

( 1 ) James Turnley, bom January 1 7, 1 792 ; died July 9, 1 862.

(2) Elizabeth Tumley, bom January 24, 1794; died in Rome,
Georgia, in 1879.

(3) Judith Tumley, born January 21, 1796.

(4) John Tumley, bom October 22, 1798; died in 1865.

(5) Mary Tumley, bom October 12, 1801.

(6) Whitfield Tumley, bom September 15, 1804.

(7) Nelson G. Tumley, bom August 8, 1810.

(8) Zachariah Tumley, bom February 22, 1813.

(1) James Turnley, the eldest son of Francis Turnley the Fifth,
and Susan Wall Tumley, was bom January 21, 1 796. He left
Spottsylvania County, Virginia, while still a young man. He married
Mahala Cosby, of Powhatan County, Virginia, November 15, 1832.
They had five children, namely: William Francis Tumley, born Sep-
tember 23, 1833; John Jefferson Tumley, bom March 15, 1835;
James Whitfield Tumley, bom May 2, 1837; Susan Williams Turn-
ley, bom July 4, 1841, and Georgia Eller Tumley, bom March 15,
1844. William Francis Tumley, the eldest son, married Virginia
Ann Franklin, of Henrico County, Virginia, and had eight children:
Mariah Turnley, died young; James Beauregard Turnley, who lived
in Chesterfield County, Virginia; Mary Ida Tumley, deceased; Cosby
Tumley; Francis Lee Tumley, who lived in Chesterfield County, Vir-
ginia; John Turnley, who lived near Swansboro, Virginia; William
Webster Tumley, who lived near Swansboro, Virginia; and Rosa Lee
Tumley. John Jefferson, second son of James Turnley and Mahala
Cosby Tumley married Helen Rowell, but had no children.
James Whitfield Turnley, third son of James Tumley and
Mahala Cosby Tumley, married Sarah Jennings, of Suffolk
County, Virginia, and had five children, namely: Luella W.
Tumley, Fitzhugh Lee Turnley, Julius Tumley, James Atford Tum-
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James Tumley and Mahala Cosby Turnley, married Benjamin Frank-
lin Wrenn, of Surry County, Virginia, July 20, 1 858. They had seven
children, namely: Atklier George Wrenn, Mary Mahala Wrenn,
Benjan^ Wrenn, Jr., Charles Nicholas Wrepn, Luellen Wrenn,
Thadeus , Wrenn, Oneder Wrenn. Georgia Eller Turnley, daughter
oF James Tumley and Mahala Cosby Tumley, married P. H. Wright,
November 27, 1859, and had two children, namely: Comelia Nelson
Wright and John Turnley Wright. (Comelia Nelson Wright mar-
ried James T. Garrow and had five children: JoKn Loomer Garrow,
Georgia Eller Garrow, Annie Gray Garrow, Patrick Henry Garrow
and William Francis Garrow). John Tumley Wright married Fannie
Jones, of Warwick County, Virginia, but had no children.

James Turnley died July 9, 1862. His wife, Mahala Cosby
Tumley, died March 4, 1864.

(2) Elizabeth Tumley, eldest daughter of Francis Turnley, the
Fifth, and Susan Wall Tumley, was bom January 24, 1 794. She
married James Heart, of Spottsylvania County, Virginia, and had five
children: James Heart, Silas Heart, Lucy Heart and two others who
died young. Lucy Heart married Prof. Morphin, of Charlottesville,
Virginia. Mrs. Heart died in Rome, Georgia, at the age of seventy-
five years in 1869.

(3) Judith Tumley, second daughter of Francis Turnley the
Fifth, and Susan Wall Tumley, born January 21, 1 796, died
at the age of twenty-five years, unmarried.

(4) John Turnley, son of Francis Tumley, the Fifth, and Susan
Wall Tumley, born October 22, 1 798, married Malinda Cowin,
of JSpottsylvania, Virginia, in 1821. They had five children, namely:
Judith Tumley, bom 1823, Martha E. Turnley, bom, 1825, James
M. Tumley, born September 14, 1833, John Turnley, bom 1835
and William Henry Tumley, bom 1837. Of these Judith Turnley
the eldest daughter married Andrew Williams in 1850, and had
three children, Comelius Williams, died young, Janetta Williams,
died young, and Judson Tumley Williams. Judson Turnley Williams
married Ida Watkins. Martha Tumley, daughter of John Turnley
and Malinda Cowin married Aaron Hall and had children: Eliza
Hall, (who married S. J. Tumer of St. Louis and had two children) ;
August Beverly Hall; Murry M. Hall (who married Isabelle Barger,
of Virginia, and moved to Los Angeles, Califomia. They had three
children, two of whom died in infancy. Their remaining child was Eva
Hall). James M. Turnley, son of John Tumley and Malinda Cowin
Tumley, married Matilda B. Thorn, of Thomton, West Virginia, and
had thirteen children: Mary Alice Tumley; Francis Calvert Tumley;
Lee Tumley; Charles Turnley; Luther Wright Turnley; Arthur
Peabody Tumley; Eunice I. Turnley; Lucy M. Tumley; Samuel

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Tilden Tumley; Thomas Hendricks Turnley; Lelia Luella Turnley;
Agatha May Turnley and James Wade Hampton Turnley. Of these:
Mary Alice Turnley died young. Francis Calvert Turnley died in
1881. Lee Turnley married Alice Fawcett and had two children,
Francis Calvert Turnley, Jr. and Bertha M. Turnley. Charles Turnley
married Sophronia Montgomery Luther Wright Turnley married
Mary Phillips and had two children, Lula Turnley and Mildred Turn-
ley. Arthur Peabody Turnley married Lizzie Shafferman and had one
child, Richard Paul Turnley. Eunice L Turnley died young. Lucy
M. Turnley lived in Virginia. Samuel Tilden Turnley married Agnes
Smijth and had one child, Parmenas Raphael Turnley. Thomas
Hendricks Turnley married Minnie Squires and had two children,
Irene Turnley and Carol Bryan Turnley. Lelia Turnley is unmar-
ried. Agatha May Turnley died unmarried. James Wade Turnley
did not marry. John Turnley, Jr., the second son of John Turnley
and Malinda Cowin Turnley was killed in the War Between the States.
William Henry Turnley, son of John Turnley and Malinda Cowin
Turnley died young and unmarried.

(5) Mary Turnley, daughter of Francis Turnley the Fifth and
Susan Wall Turnley was bom August 8, 1801. She married Addi-
son Gibson, and had one child who died young.

(6) Whitfield Turnley, son of Francis Turnley, the Fifth and
Susan Wall Turnley was bom September 15, 1804. He married
May Taylor Janway and had four children: Mary Susan Turnley;
Martha Ann Tumley; Melissa Agnes Tumley and Luther Watts

Tumley. Mary Susan Turnley married Clifford and had

one daughter (who married John Lunson and had two childisen,
Clifford Lunson and Mary Isabella Lunson). Martha Ann Turnley
died young. Melissa Agnes Tumley married David Furloin and had

no children. Luther Watts Tumley married — ^and

had two children, Ella Turnley and Hettie Tumley.

(7) Nelson G. Tumley, son of Francis Tumley, the Fifth
and Susan Wall Tumley was born August 8, 1810. He married
Ann Cox.

(8) Zachariah Tumley, son of Francis Turnley, the Fifth and
Susan Wall Turnley died young and unmarried.

It seems rather a pity that Francis Tumley, the Fifth in direct di-
rect succession failed to name a son Francis and therefore broke the gen-
erations' long line of "Francis Tumley".

John Tumley, Second, of Botetourt County, Virginia, son of

John Tumley, First of Monmouth, was left an orphan at the age of

eight years, with his brother Francis, who was younger. About

J 760, he married Mary Handy, of Botetourt County, Virginia,

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(bom 1725) by whom he had two children: George Tumley and
Elizabeth Tumley.

John Tumley, Second, served in the RevoFution and was honor-
ably discharged in 1779. John Tumley died in 1808 on the Turn-
ley place which he had established with his son, George Turnley,
near Mount Pleasant Tennessee. His widow, Mary Handy Turnley,
survived him many years and went after his death to make her home
with her only daughter, Elizabeth Tumley Graham, wife of George
Graham, who lived two miles away. There Mary Handy Tum-
ley died in 1829 at the age of ninety-four years. Her mother, Mrs.
Handy, who had also made her home in her declining years with
Elizabeth and George Graham died at the age of one hundred and
four years.

The two children of John Tumley and Mary Handy Turnley,
were:

George Tumley, born August 30, 1 762.
Elizabeth Tumley, bom 1764.

At the beginning of the Revolution (1776) George Tumley
was a robust .lad of fourteen years of age, well grown and a good
horseman. By 1 777 he had leamed df the war and the call for sol-
diers, and leamed that pack horses were needed and men to handle
them, for the purpose of carrying supplies into out of the way places
where wheeled vehicles could not go. George thought this kind of
work would suit him exactly, and he got his father's consent to enter
the military service and his assignment to the pack-horse transportation.
This service continued, in fact, \ through his entire three years' enlist-
ment, till about 1 78 1 , when he got his discharge and retumed home
to his father in Botetourt County, (not a very great way from the
little town of Fincastle), Virginia.

About 1 783 George Tumley left Botetourt County, and make
his way southeast as far as the headwaters of the French Broad River
to see wl^t kind of a country it was, and then retum and report to
his father and family. This trip occupied him nearly two years,
during which he visited the French Broad River, and the Pigeon and
Holston Rivers as far as **White's Fort" (that is, the present Knox-
ville). From there he started back on his course to retum. It was on
his retum that he finally fixed on a permanent home on the French
Broad River at a point thirty-five miles above "White's Fort," or
Knoxville. There were several settlers then in that region of new
territory, notwithstanding the numerous Indians who roamed over
the country in a semi-hostile spirit. There was then begining to
crop out a very hostile feeling in the minds of the Indians against
the whites, in the fear that they were to be deprived of their hunt-
ing grounds.

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George Tumley continued his return to Botetourt County, Vir-
ginia, where he arrived on his twenty-third birthday, or I 785. He
related to his father and mother all he had seen of the lovely and
inviting new country he had visited. It was not long before John
Tumley and his wife made up their minds to migrate to the new
Eldorado.

It was not till I 787 that the Turnleys got entirely ready to take up
the line of march southward.

Elizabeth Tumley, the second child of John Tumley and Mary
Handy Tumley was born 1 764, and was their second child. She
married in 1 783 in Virginia, George Graham, a Scotchman, who
was also desirous of moving to the French Broad country with the
Tumleys. The Grahams settled on a place not far from the Turn-
leys' Mount Pleasant home and there George and Elizabeth raised
their ten children and extended warmth of hospitality to Elizabeth's
mother, Mrs. Mary Handy Tumley in her old age, and grandmother,
Mrs. Handy in her extreme old age. Both died in Elizabeth Turn-
ley Graiham's home.

George and Elizabeth Tumley Graham had ten children, namely:

( I ) Mary Graham.

(2) William Graham.

(3) James Graham.

(4) John Graham.

(5) Priscilla Graham.

(6) Joseph Graham.

(7) George Graham, Second.

(8) David Graham.

(9) Elizabeth Graham.
(10) A son not known.

Of the foregoing:

(1) Mary Graham, daughter of George Graham and Eliza-
beth Tumley Graham was born in 1 748. She married John Se-
hom in 1802.

(2) William Graham, son of George Graham and Elizabeth
Turnley Graham was bom in October 1 786. He married Mary
Shields (See Shields Family) in 1814 or 1815. They had two
cKiIdren both daughters. Mary Shields Graham di^d in 1837.
William Graham lost his life when his store burned, September 1 7,
1857.

(3) James Graham, son of George Graham and EHzabeth
Turnley Graham was bom in 1 787. He married Mary McGort,
of Jefferson County, Tennessee in 1 81 6. He was still living in 1865.

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(4) John Graham, son of George Graham and Elizabeth Turn-
ley Graham was bom 1788. He married Mary Ross of Greene
County, Tennessee. She died and he married for his second wife
a Miss Farout, of Blount G)unty, Tennessee

(5) Priscilla Graham, daughter of George Graham and Eliza-
beth Turnley Graham was bom 1 790. She married John Gentry, of
Jefferson County, Tennessee. She lived near her brother, David
Graham and had several children

(6) Joseph Graham,, son of George Graham and Elizabeth
Tumley Graham was bom 1792. He married Sarah Hill in 1812,
before he was of age. He had several children, sons and daughters.
He died March 30, 1862, at his home two miles above Hays Ferry,
on the French Broad River.

(7) George Graham, Second, son of George Graham and
Elizabeth Tumley Graham was bom I 795. He married .

(8) David Graham, son of George Graham and Elizabeth
Tumley Graham was bom March 31, 1798. He married Mary
G. Lackins. August II. 1823. She died August 8, 1856. and he
married a second wife in February 1857.

David Graham followed the habit of living a long time.
He died at the age of eighty years and five months, August 27, 1878,
near Dallas, Texas, where he had moved late in life. He had nine
sons and daughters, among them. Eliza Graham, William Glenn
Graham and Lavinia Arminta Graham.

(9) Elizabeth Graham, daughter of George Graham and his
wife, Elizabeth Tumley Graham was born 1 802.

(10) The tenth child of George Graham and Elizabeth Tum-
ley Graham was a son, bom May 25. 1809. He died unmarried in
October 1833.

GEORGE TURNLEY

George Tumley, the first child and only son^ of John Turnley,
the Second and Mary Handy Tumley was born, August 30, 1 762.
He married Charlotte Cunnyngham in Greene County, Tennessee, a
short time after the Turnleys, Grahams and Cunnynghams had re-
moved from the same neighborhood in Virginia to the French Broad
Country, now in Tennessee The marriage took place according to
the family records, March 3, 1791. The license was procured as
was then the custom some weeks earlier as George Turnley had to
ride thirty-five miles to the County Seat to obtain it, then a consid-
erable joumey, taking into account the condition of the roads, etc.

Charlotte Cunnyngham was the daughter of James and Arabella
Cunnyngham natives of Ireland who had emigrated to America some

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years before with a family of four children, William H. Cumiyngham,
James Cumiyngham, Second, George Cunnyngham and Arabella
Cunnyngham. A fifth child, Charlotte Cunnyngham, was bom
shortly after their arrival in Virginia, April 1 3, 1 770, and later their
fourth son and sixth child, Jesse Cunnyngham was bom.

James Cunnyngham died in Virginia about 1 783, leaving a
widow and the six children, namely:

William H. Cunnyngham.
James Cunnyngham, Second.
George Cunnyngham.
Arabella Cunnyngham.
Charlotte Cunnyngham.
Jesse Cunnyngham.

The widow Cunnyngham and her children followed the Tumleys
to Tennessee and there George Tumley and Charlotte Cunnsmham
were married March 3, I 79 1.

Arabella Cunnynham married John Winton.

George Cunnyngham was killed by Indians in 1 792.

William H. Cunnyngham married possibly Mary as a

letter is preserved with her signature, M. Cunnyngham. They had
a son, Jesse Cunnyngham, who married Miss Ekter, daughter of
George Ettcr, an emigrant from Germany. . Jesse Cunnyngham be-
came a Methodist minister of note and named his son William Etter
George Cunnyngham who became in his turn a famous Methodist
minister and missionary to China. He married a Miss Litchfield, of
Virginia, who accompanied him to China, they had a son, Victor
Cunnyngham. William Etter George Cunn)mgham retumed from
China and died in Nashville in 1900.

Charlotte Cunnynham, who married George Tumley was the
mother of fourteen children. She was small of stature and possessed
great endurance. She had dark hair and black eyes and a dark
complexion. It is said that when her first child was very small she,
though suffering with the sorrow of her brother George CunnynhamN
massacre at the hands of the Indians, urged her husband to undertake
a journey to the Indian Council. She died in 18 — and was sincerely
mourned by her large family.

George Cunn)mham was killed by the Indians in 1 792 follow-
ing other outrages, and Governor William Blount (See Blount Family)
issued a call for a volunteer to go to the Council of the Cherokee
Indians, then south of the Big River, the Tennessee, to take messages
and try and conciliate them. Already two much messengers had been
sent and had never retumed, the presumption being that the Indians
had destroyed them.

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With the consent of his wife, George Turnley rode to the Gov-
ernor's headquarters and offered himself for the apparently almost
certain sacrifice.

That he lived to return seems almost a miracle. His journal
narrating the story has been preserved and it is an interesting historical
document.

GEORGE TURNLEY'S DIARY

"The Cherokee Indians had assembled on the south side, of the
Tennessee River. They were holding a council there and their in-
tentions were known to be hostile, and, helpless as the settlements
were, there was much to fear from an open declaration of war.
Many of the scattering Indians among us were friendly, but would be
hostile as soon as the council declared open war. Several attempts
to communicate with the warriors of this council had been made. Two
separate couriers has been started with propositions of peace. They
were never heard from, and the fact at last forced itself upon the
reluctant people that the Indians would hear no terms, and it was
suspected that they had murdered the messengers as a token of this
determination.

"None but a pioneer in that dangerous time could have any
conception of the panic that spread over the settlements.

"There was no possibility of retreat or succor. To fight to the last,
and be massacred at the last, was the only prospect. There was little
choice in the modes of death. The men did not appear to care for
themselves, but for the women and children.

"I was not the oldest nor the wisest man in the settlements; stilU
as a woodsman of many years, and an experienced trader among the
Indians, people looked to me for some expedient in the emergency.
One night my father and my brother-in-law (William Cunnyngham)
sat with me over our log fire till late. Our talk was of the impending
danger and the best way to avert it. I did not give my opinion; but
early next morning I rode over to the camp and proposed to start
as messenger, myself, depending upon my knowledge of the Indian
character, and the Indian tongue, to aid me in persuading them to
accept the terms of friendship and concilation offered by the governor.
The offer was accepted, of course. In this extremity any chance
would have been seized upon by the terrified people.

"Equipped with blanket and gun, and a knapsack filled with dry
venison and com bread, I mounted my pony and set out alone for the
Cherokee country. The distance was about two hundred miles. The
route lay from my place to the Clinch River, thence to the Tennessee,
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the Tennessee and into the Indian settlements. I reached die Ten-
nessee River on the 24th of December. The weather was bkter
cold, the river was" thick with running ice, there was no human hab-
itation near, no fords, and no possible way of crossing apparent but
to swim. I concluded to pitch camp for the night. I built a fire, fed
my horse upon green cane tops, which grew abundandy upon die river
bank, fed myself from my knapsack of dried venison, and made a
comfortable night of it, for the backwoodsman never troubles himself
with what is ahead.

"In the morning we (my pony and I) breakfasted as we had
supped. The ice was thicker than ever, coursing slowly and sul-
lenly down the stream, and seeming to preclude all hope of crossing.
Just as I had made up my mind to swim and was casting about for
come contrivance for conveying my clothes over dry, two white men
rode up like myself equipped for a journey. They had seen my
camp fire from a distance, and had sought it, hoping to find company,
and possibly, assistance, for they, too, wished to cross the river.
We talked the chances over; they could not swim, and would not
attempt it.

**A happy thought at length suggested itself — ^we might make
a raft. Here our hatchets were called into service, and by the next
day we had constructed a raft strong enough to carry all our lug-
gage and the two men, but it would not carry a third man.

"The luggage, consisting of our saddles, knapsacks, and die
greater part of my wearing clothes, were transferred to the raft. One
of the new comers pushed the raft with a pole, working and cutting
a way through the thick ice, while the other held their two horses,
which swam by the side. The raft was carried a great way down —
a full mile and ahalf — ^but finally reached the opposite bank in safety.
Of course it would have been impossible to return the raft for me,
and I had made up my mind to send all my traps and belongings on
die raft, excepting my underclothing, and then swim the river by the
side of my trusty little horse. The two men most strenously objected
to my attempting such a hazardous venture, but they finallv reluc-
tantly assented, when I assured them I knew better than they did what
my horse and I could do. Transferring all my traps to the raft,
excepting my undershirt and drawers, the men went on board, and
while one of them, with my assistance, pushed the raft from the land
out into the current, the other man held the bridle reins of die two
horses, while I, with a bundle of brush switches, made the two horses
plunge into the icy flowing river and they were soon out in die cur-
rent going down stream, of course, but also making some headway
across the river.

**I waited by my camp-fire till I saw the raft had reached the other

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shore, and till I saw the benumbed men start a fire in the drift pile of
dry wood we had seen on the <4>posite shore. I then plunged in with
my hor^. I swam on the lower side of the horse, with my left hand
holding to his mane near his withers. My horse swam splendidly, and
carried me along much faster than the raft had crossed over. On
reaching the shore near where the fire was, the two men came to my
assistance, and assisted me and my horse to dry land. There was a
roaring fire of dead, dry trees and brush, and the men were faithful
in their attentions to myself and my horse.

"We spent the night there by our cheerful fireside, and the fol-
lowing morning, after breakfast, we separated, each to pursue his
own course through the wilderness. Only yesterday unknown to
each other, through the labors and dangers of the day and night, com-
panions and brothers; and today again strangers for ever.

"I took my way to the Cherokee village, yet three days distant,
alone. On my arrival I delivered my message and dispatches, but
was not admitted to the council. An interpreter received my com-
munications, and I was led at once to an Indian hut, and placed under
guard of three strong warriors — later under the care of some squaws.

"They pretended they could not understand a word I said, al-
though I spoke pretty good Cherokee. I was well acquainted with
Indian ways, and from the manner of the guards and of the few
squaws that came about my place of conifinement, I understood that
there was an excitement in the council.

"At night I was placed under charge of a couple of old squaws,
doubtless as a temptation to escape. Three days passed; the suspense
was intolerable, for the delay was unquestionable evidence of their
hostile intent, and my poor little life was of very slight importance to
them, whatever it might be to me. My tact, skill and power of per-
suasion were of no avail, since they refused to hear me. I made up
my mind for the worst, when, at the end of three days, I saw two
warriors coming to my hut. They looked sullen and angry, while
in their laconic way they told me, in Cherokee, their Chief wished
to see me and they had come to conduct me to him. I believe the
certainty of bein^ conducted to the stake would not so have appalled
me. There was something in the dim uncertainty more terrible to a
brave man than actual and inevitable death.

"I walked to the council lodge with my attendants, two behind and
two before, while one walked by my side. The Chief received me
with the impassive gravity peculiar to the Cherokee tribe.

*Pale face,' he said in' pretty good English, 'you want peace;
your Great Chief promises many things, but we are afraid he will not
do what he promises. We want peace, too, but when we would have
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promises that he will not; go home and tell the white Chief that we
will not kill his squaws, nor his little ones, but his warriors must keep
away from our hunting grounds. The red man is angry, and will kill
you if he finds you on our grounds. We will send a warrior with you
to take you safe through to the Big River.' (The Tennessee River.)

**With all my knowledge of Indian character, I could not tell
whether this was friendly or hostile. The words were fair enough,
but the manner was far from reassuring, and did not become more so
in the appearance of the warrior who was to be my guide.

"I firmly believed, on quitting the lodge, that I had been destined
by the council to death, and that my guide was to be my murderer; still,
even that was better than the stake, and it left me a chance of es-
cape. The Chief also gave me a paper to deliver to my Chief, the
Governor.

"One Indian was not a match for me then, and I could have held
a pretty fair hand with two or three. The Tennessee River was then
considered the boundary of the Cherokee country. It was a three
days' ride, as I had come; the guide, however, took a shorter trail,
and we reached in less than two. I never for a moment believed in
the sincerity of the Indian Chief, and the watch that I kept up through-
out the journey to the Big River is painful to think of. Not a motion
or glance of the Indian escaped me. The last night we encamped
on the bank of the river, and I felt this to be the crisis. Here it was
my guide must leave me or execute his designs, whatever they might be,
but it is always dangerous to manifest distrust to an Indian.

"After our supper, we lay down, wrapped in our blankets, to sleep,
but I did not sleep, though I feigned it. I counted the breathing of
the Indian through the long night, believing that at any moment he
might make a spring for my life, and I was ready for him. Finally,
at daybreak, the leaves rustled, the Indian moved, rose, saddled his
horse, and prepared for his journey back. He then came to where I
lay. After satisfying himself I was asleep, he softly pulled the blanket
from over me. On his approach I stole a glance, enough to assure me
he had no weapon in his hand. I lay perfectly still while he disen-
gaged the blanket and walked away with it.

**He mounted his pony and was gone. This proved that his in-
tentions were not to murder me. You may ask why did I not rise
up and defend myself at his first approach? I could have done so;
my gun was ready and under my head, but there was just one chance
among many that the Indian did not seek my life. To defend my-
self by violence was to make him my mortal foe if I should fail to
kill him, and in any case to make certain the war which we were so
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act, except in defense of my life. My policy proved to be the cor-
rect one.

"I was left alone with my good pony to pursue my way to the
settlements. This time I kept the south bank of the river till I reached
a good ford that I knew of. My friends at home had long given me
up to the unknown fate of my predecessors, and my return was a
surprise scarcely short of a miracle.

"This trip was the means of effecting a treaty with the Cherokee
tribe, which secured peace for many years, and, in fact, a permanent
peace for that section evei after with all the Cherokee tribe.

*'I always regarded the Cherokee Indians as among the noblest
of the Indians of this continent.*'

Signed in diary, GEORGE TURNLEY

George Tumley died September 1 848.

George Tumley and Charlotte Cunnyngham Tumley had four-
teen chldren: "

( 1 ) John Cunnyngham Turnlcy.

(2) Mary Tumley.

(3) Elizabeth Jane Turnley.

(4) James Alexander Tumley.

(5) Polly Tumley,

(6) William Henderson Tumley.

(7) A child that died in infancy.

(8) Rachel Tumley.

(9) Hugh Lorenzo Tumley.

(10) Matthew Jacob Tumley.

(11) George Washington Turnley.

(12) Greenberry Madison Tumley.

(13) Andrew Jackson Tumley.

(14) Julia Ann Tumley.

( I ) John Cunnyngham Turnley, son of George Turnley and
Charlotte Cunnyngham Turnley was bom February 27, 1 792. His
birth just preceded the massacre by the Indians of his uncle, George
Cunnyngham.

In 1812, being but twenty years of age, when war with Great
Britain was declared,^ he walked to Nashville, a distance of one hun-
dred miles, volunteered in the United States Infantry and was mus-
tered into Captain John Kennedy's Company, which was afterwards
attached to the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers.

October 9, 1917, he married Mahala Taylor, a daughter of
Colonel Parmenas Taylor, who was among the first settlers of East
Tennessee. Mahala Taylor Turnley died in 1844 and in 1855

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John Cunnyngham Tumley married his second wife, Mrs. [X>rca8
Hayes, widow of James Hayes, but by his second wife he had no
children.

John C. Tumley espoused the cause of the South in the con-
flict of 1 861 , but was too old for active service.

The children of John Cunnyngham Tumley and Mahala Tay-
lor Turnley were:

Amanda Malvina Tumley, bom August 3, 1818, married
James Washington Mahoney and had nine children, and married

secondly Mitchell, and had one child. Oscar Livingston

Mahoney (who married Virginia Rosson and had no children) ;
Caroline Elizabeth Mahoney (who married William Hubbard and
had seven sons, who died young, Amanda Wilson, married George
McDonald, James Brooks Wilson, married and had several sons,
Oscar Mahoney Wilson, and David Martin Wilson married and
had several sons) ; John Cunnyngham Mahoney, died unmarried :
Parmenas Taylor Mahoney, died unmarried; Augustus Harris Ma-
honey died young; Amanda Malvina Mahoney; Mary Augusta Ma-
honey, died young, Cinderella Elvira Mahoney (who married
Gibson E. Blackburn, of Little Rock and had three children, two
daughters and a son. The son and one daughter married, the other
daughter entered a convent) ; Amanda Taylor Mahoney-Mitchell's
tenth child and first by her second husband was Emma Mahala
Mitchell.

Caroline Matilda Turnley, daughter of John Cunnyngham
Tumley and Mahala Taylor Tumley died young.

Parmenas Taylor Tumley, son of John Cunnyngham Turnley
and Mahala Taylor Tumley became one of the most distinguished
of the name. He entered West Point and graduated in the class of
1846. He was ordered at once to report to General Zachary
Taylor on the Rio Grande. Colonel Parmenas Taylor Turnley after
long and faithful service in the Mexican War and in the Army after
the close of the war was retired from active service. He married
Mary R. Rutter, of Chicago, and had five children: Emma G.
Turnley (who married Milton C. Lightner and had Milton Turnley
Lightner who married Josephine Prall and has nc children) ; Emest
Seymore Tumley, died young; and Ethel Turnley (who married her
cousin, George R. Nichols, Jr, and has two children; Ernest Tumley
Nichols and Mary Ethel Nichols).

To the patient investigation of the late Colonel Parmenas Taylor
Tumley, the collection of the Turnley data is due, as this record
was much of it secured from his histories of the family. Colonel
Tumley died in 1914 the oldest veteran of the Mexican War and
the oldest graduate of West Point, and lamented by all who knew him.

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Elvira Ann Turnley, daughter of John Cunnyngham Tumley
and Mahala Taylor Turnley married Martin Carpenter and had
one child, Alice Mahala Carpenter.

Elizabeth Charlotte Turnley, daughter of John Cunnyngham
Turnley and Mahala Taylor Turnley married Jesse R. Evans and
had five children: Mahala Caroline Evans (who married Dr. George
W. Monroe and had no children) ; Elvira Miranda Evans, died
young; Lilboume George Evans, died young; Mary Evans (who
married George R. Nichols and had three children, Ernestine Nichols,
Edith Grace Nichols and George R. Nichols, Jr., who married his
cousin Ethel Turnley) ; and Elizabeth Evans (who married John
S. Hoge and had one son, Frank Evans Hoge).

Lilboume G. Turnley, son of John Cunnyngham Turnley and
Mahala Taylor Turnley married Blendina Rumsey and had no
children.

Mary Jane Turnley, daughter of JoIhi Cimnyngham Turnley
and Mahala Taylor Turnley married George R. Moore and had
six children, a son and a daughter who died in infancy; Lilboume G.
Moore; Mary L. Moore (who married Shelby McCall) ; Ida G.
Moore (who married first Harry P. Murray and married secondly,
Henry C. Riggs, but had no children).

Miranda Elmira Turnley, daughter of John Cunnyngham Tumley
and Mahala Tumley died young.

Cinderella Livingston Turnley, daughter of John Cunn3mgham
Tumley and Mahala Taylor Tumley is living at the late home of her
brother. Colonel Parmenas Taylor Tumley at an advanced age. ' She
never married.

(2) Mary Turnley, second child of George Turnley and Char-
lotte Cunnyngham Tumley died young.

(3) Elizabeth Jane Tumley, third child of George Turnley
and Charlotte Cunnyngham Turnley was bom April 1 7, I 794. She
died unmarried.

(4) James Alexander Turnley,* fourth child of George Turn-
ley and Charlotte Cunnyngham Tumley was bom October 25, I 795.
He served in the Creek War when but seventeen years of age and
was in the Battle of the Horse Shoe. He married Mary Bates, and
married for his second wife, Atlanta E. Witcher, by whom he had no.
children. His ten children by his first wife were: Hugh Lawson
White Turnley, died young; Caroline Margaret Tumley (who mar-
ried George Blackwell) ; Prior Lee Turnley (who married Mrs.
Eliza Lamkin and had four children, only one of whom, a son,
reached maturity) ; James Alexander Tumley, Second, died unmar-
rie; Julia Ann Burlington Tumley (who married A. J. Powell and had
five children: Mollie Powell, Ida Powell, Julia Powell, James Powell,

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and Henry Wise Powell); William Henderson Tumley, died young;
Mary Bales Turnley (who married E. H. McCall and had three
children, William Turnley McCall, Mary Eureka McCall married
W. H. Callier and Elijah Lee McCall married Sallie Auxford) ;
Permillia Missouri Tumley (who married her sister Julia's widower,
A. J. Powell) ; Martha Jane Tumley (who married James H. Pitt-
man and had five children, Henry E. Pittman, Gertrude Myra Pitt-
man married Thomas J. Mimms and had six children, Lucile Martha
Mimms,, John Henry Mimms, Minnie Lee Mimms, Myra Gertrude
Mimms, Grace Marie Mimms, and Bemice Bates Mimms, Freddie R.
Pittman, died young, Claudia Bates Pittman, (who married R. C.
Brawner and had two children, Claudia Elizabeth Brawner and Mattie
Louise Brawner,) and Earl Tumley Pittman; and Laura Elvira
Turnley, who died young.

(5) Polly Turnley, the fifth child of George Turnley and Char-
lotte Cunnyngham Tumley was bom December 19, 1797. She
married Richard Luttrell (See Luttrell Family). She had seven
children :

William Cunnyngham Luttrell married Mary Snow and had Dud-
ley Richard Luttrell (who married Ella Hicks and had five children,
among them Maude Luttrell, C. E. Luttrell and Ruth Luttrell who
married Sandipher E. Jones); Bessie Luttrell, died young; Annie
Priscilla Luttrell, (who married Edward S. Farmer and had five
children); Lucinda Snow Luttrell; George William Luttrell married

J ^Anderson, Cordelia Caroline Luttrell married George

W.' Brock, Robert McMillan Luttrell married DoUie Dodd and
left one daughter, Katie Garland Luttrell married E. F. Cawthon.

Louisa Jane Luttrell married William Wilson Blaine and had
eleven children: James Wilson Blaine, John Howard Blaine, Robert
Alexander Blaine, Richard Luttrell Blaine, William Henry Clay
Blaine, Russell Franklin Blaine, Mary Elizabeth Blaine, Martha
Paralee Blaine, Frances Cordelia Blaine, Florence May Blaine» and
Vivienne Sallie Blaine.

John Haynie Luttrell was born May 2, 1 82 1 . He married Susan
Brock. They had twelve children: William Haynie Luttrell,
Martha Jane Luttrell, Sarah Cordelia Luttrell, Margaret Joannah
Luttrell, Lilboume Patty Luttrell, Polly Ann Luttrell, Frances Eliza-
beth Luttrel, John Wilkerson Luttrell, Harvey Elmore Luttrell,
George Washington Luttrell, Louisa Matilda Luttrell, and Susan
Elnora Luttrell.

Harvey Wilkerson Luttrell served in the Confederate Army. He
married Susan Frances Elston and married secondly, Mrs. Martha
E. Doyle by whom he had no children. His eleven children by
his first wife were: Corrie Luttrell (who married Charles L. Sowell

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and had no children), Oscar Fowler Lultrell (who married Mollie
Magill Oden and has Oden Lultrell, Oscar Forney Luttrell, and Frank
Alexander Luttrell) ; Elston Luttrell (who married Lucy Barber and
had Randolph Luttrell, Corrie Luttrell, Annie Laurie Luttrell, Har-
vey Luttrell and Alton Luttrell) ; Chester McAuley Luttrell (who
married Gussie Harwell and had Juliet Luttrell, Katie May Lut-
trell, Elizabeth Lynn Luttrell, and Ethel Luttrell) ; Bruce Luttrell
(who married Lena Crampton and had Sue Elston Luttrell, Ral-
phine Luttrell, Rush Luttrell, Lucy Grace Luttrell, and Marcie Lut-
trell) ; Rush Luttrell and Marcy Luttrell, who, died unmarried.

Charlotte Elizabeth Luttrell died immarried.

Elbert Axley Luttrell married but had no children.

Cordelia Matilda Luttrell married George Washington Crum-
liss. They had nine children: Vivian, Walter DeWitt Crumbliss
(who married Rosanna Weatherford and had eight sons) ; James
Richard Crumbliss, died yqung; Louisa Magnolia Crumbliss (who
married Charles L. Leader and had two children) ; Hugh Marcus
Crumbliss, Oscar Leonidas Crumbliss, (who married Alice May
Vandoren and had eight children) ; Elphalet Fortunatus Crimibliss
(who married and had children) ; Ida Lavade Crumbliss (who mar-
ried George Wimderlich) ; Olga Eugenia Crumbliss, died young, and
Oliver Martaugh Crumbliss.

(6) William Henderson Tumley, sixth child of George Turn-
ley and Charlotte Cunn3aigham Tumley was bom January 8, 1800.
He became a Methodist minister. He married Sophia Henree and had
by her one child, Laura S. Turnley and married for his second
wife Martha McCoy by whom he had eight children:

Laura S. Turnley, daughter of William Henderson Turnley by
his first wife, Sophia Henree Tumley married Samuel Kibbe and had
four children: William Kibbe, Amos Kibbe, Harriett Kibbe, married
L. S. Lake, Irene Cynthia Kibbe (also married L. S. Lake, presum-
ably her sister Harriett's widower).

Mary Eliza Tumley, first child of William Henderson Turnley
by his second wife, Martha McCoy Tumley married John E. Morris
and had five children: William Levy Morris (who married Lelia
Sarah Parker and had Helen Corinne T. Morris, John Clyde Morris,
Wilheminia Morris, and married for his second wife, Annie McLen-
don and had Lena Carolyn Morris and Lucile Morris) ; Rosa Lena
Morris (who married Robert Lafayette Reinhart and had Elsie Mary
Reinhart, Fred Ray Reinhart, Lucile Reinhart, Robert Morris Rein-
hart and Elizabeth Reinhart) ; Lucile Scale Morris (who married
William Kidd Duncan and had three children: Ben Morris Duncan,
Alma Donald Duncan, William Kidd Duncan, Second; Laura
Corinne Morris (who married Ernest Noble Faulk and had a daughter,

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Mary Faulk) ; and John Eraest Morris, an oHicer in the United
States Army.

Joseph Walton Tumlcy, second child of William Henderson
Tumley by his second wife, Martha McCoy Tumley died unmarried.

George Alexander Turnley, third child of William Henderson
Tumley by his second wife, Martha McCoy died young.

Margaret Frances Turnley, daughter of William Henderson
Tumley and his second wife, Martha McCoy Tumley married Har-
com Lincecum and had three children. Alma Rosalie Lincecum, Har-
mon Lincecum and Emily Lincecum.

William Henry Tumley, son of William Henderson Tumley by
his second wife, Martha McCoy Tumley married Mary Whatley and
and had nine children, William Virgil Turnley, Phineas Victor
Turnley, Walter Carrol Tumley, Parmenas Taylor Tumley,
Martha Elizabeth Turnley, Melissa Elizabeth Tumley, James Erwin
Tumley, Boswell Pearce Tumley, Mary Ellen Tumley.

Alice Tumley, daughter of William Henderson Tumley and
his second wife, Martha McCoy Turnley married Albert McCoy
and had ten children, Glendora McCoy, James Walton McCoy,
Mattie Lou McCoy, Richard Herbert McCoy, Ellen lone McCoy,
William Albert McCoy, Arthur DeWitt McCoy, Mary Frances
McCoy, Maud Alice McCoy, Edith McCoy.

Lucy Ellen Tumley, daughter of William Henderson Turnley
and his second wife, Martha McCoy Tumley married John Green
Walker and had five children, Linus Hugh Walker, John Walton
Walker, Moses Tumley Walker, Lucie Alice Walker, and Margaret
Ellen Walker.

James McCoy Tumley, son of William Henderson Turnley and
his second wife, Martha McCoy Tumley married Sarah A. Whatley
and had seven children, Alice Irene Tumley, Martha Ellen Tum-
ley, Joseph Wiley Tumley, George Henry Tumley, Jessie Inez Tum-
ley, James Dickson Turnley, and Newton Calvert Tumley.

(7) The seventh child of George Turnley and Mary Handy
Turnley died in infancy.

(8) Rachel Tumley the eighth child of George Tumley and
Charlotte Cunnyngham Turnley died in infancy.

(9) Hugh Lorenzo Tumley the ninth child of George Turnley
and Charlotte Cunnyngham Tumley was born March 29, 1804.
He died young and unmarried.

JUDGE MATTHEW JACOB TURNLEY

(10) Matthew Jacob Tumley, the tenth child of George Tum-
ley and Charlotte Cunnyngham Tumley, was bom November 30, 1805.

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He moved to Alabama, became a distinguished lawyer and served
the Government at the breaking out of war. Judge Turnley was
United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama
under the administration of President Buchanan, and when the State
of Alabama seceded he sent his resignation to President Buchanan
and identified himself with the Southern cause.

After the war Judge Turnley served as Judge for many years
in Alabama and had the great distinction of being the only Judge in
Alabama whose opinion was never reversed by a higher court. As
a great lawyer he was singularly free from the use of diatribes which
would make the criminal whom he defended, appear a martyr to
social forms or the victim of fanatical prejudices. His mind formed
in a large mold, was content to tread the labyrinth of constitutional and
common law and from its intricate mazes create a rational defense.

He died March 22, 1889.

He married May 30, 1839, Miriam Isbell, daughter of Benjamin
Isbell, of Tennessee, (See Howard Family), and they took their wed-
ding trip to their new home in Alabama on horse back. They had eight
children, and in addition raised, though they did not formally adopt,
three children of Judge Turnley's deceased sister, Julia Anderson
Turnley.

TTieir children were Martha Julia Turnley, who married John
McMillan Armstrong, See Armstrong, McMillan, Lyle and Calhoun
Families, and had two children, Turnley F. Armstrong, died unmarried,
and Zella Armstrong.

George Isbell Turnley, son of Judge Matthew J. Turnley, and
Miriam Isbell Turnley, served in the Confederate Army. He married
Willie Woodward and married for his second wife Emma Ross, but
has no children.

Mary Ann Turnley, daughter of Judge Matthew J. Turnley and
Miriam Isbell Turnley, married John Hughes Reynolds and had six
children: Hughes Turnley Reynolds (who married Mary Taylor and
has two children, John Hughes Reynolds, Second, and Margaretta
Re3aiolds) ; William Barton Reynolds, died unmarried; Miriam Reyn-
olds; May Reynolds (who married Raymond Gilmore Scott and had
two children, Reynolds Gilmore Scott and May Scott) ; Ruby Reyn-
olds (who married William F. Ogburn and has one child, Reynolds
Ogbum) ; and John Hughes Reynolds, Junior, died in infancy.

James Benjamin Turnley, son of Judge Matthew J. Turnley, and
Miriam Isbell Turnley, married Lula Phinizy, See Phinizy Family, and
had five children: Miriam Louisa Turnley, John Phinizy Turnley, Janie
B. Turnley (who married Charles Sedberry and left one child that
died) ; James Marco Turnley (who married Nettie Brooks and has
two daughters, Florence Turnley and Lula Phinizy Turnley) ; and

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William Micou Turnley (who married Sarah Crowe and has one
daughter, Lula).

William Franklin Pierce Turnley, son of Judge Matthew Jacob
Tumley and Miriam Isbell Turnley, married and left one son, Thomas
Turnley.

Thomas Howard Turnley, son of Judge Matthew Turnley
and Miriam Isbell Turnley, died unmarried.

Frances A. Turnley, daughter of Judge Matthew J. Turnley and
Miriam Isbell Turnley, died in infancy.

Eppie Reynolds Turnley, daughter of Judge Matthew J. Turnley
and Miriam Isbell Turnley, married Nathan Calhoun Sayre and has
no children.

(11) George Washington Turnley, the eleventh child of George
Turnley and Charlotte Cunnyngham Turnley, was born July 7, 1 808.
He married Mrs. Emily Grant Doyle.

(12) Greenberry Madison Turnley, twelfth child of George Turn-
ley and Charlotte Cunnyngham Turnley, was born May 9, 1 9 1 ; died
unmarried.

(13) Andrew Jackson Turnley, thirteenth child of George Turn-
ley and Charlotte Cunnyngham Turnley, died unmarried.

( 1 4) Julia Ann Charlotte Turnley, the fourteenth child of George
and Charlotte Cunnyngham Turnley, was born January II, 1817.
She was the especial charge and interest of her brother. Judge Matthew
Jacob Turnley and accompanied him to his new home in Alabama,
while she was still a young girl. She there married David Anderson,
a native of Scotland. She moved to Texas with her husband and
there they both died, leaving four infant children, David Matthew
Anderson, Frances Adelaide Anderson, Augustus Anderson and Julia
Elizabeth Anderson. Judge Matthew J. Turnley took the long and
hazardous trip to Texas and returned with the children, taking them
into his own home, one of them, Augustus, had died before the journey
began. David Matthew Anderson grew to manhood in his uncle's
home, entered the Confederate Army and was mortally wounded at
the Battle of Baker's Creek. He had not married.

Frances Adelaide Anderson married Judge S. P. Gaut and had
four sons, David Gaut (who died unmarried) ; Joseph Perry Gaut,
(who married Pauline Chambers and has one child, Pauline Gaut) ;
William E. Gaut, (whd married Mary Chambers, a sister of his broth-
er's wife, and died leaving one child, Mary Louise Gaut) ; and Frank
P. Gaut (who maried Mary Tillman and has one son, Tillman Gaut).

Julia Elizabeth Anderson married Joseph Callaway and had two
children. Sue Lea Callaway and Joseph Jacques Callaway (who mar-
ried Pauline Williamson and had three children, Elizabeth Callaway,
Julia Anderson Callawa}^, and Pauline Callaway).

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The Van Dyke family is one of the oldest and most prominent in
Tennessee. The genealogy of the family is traced in unbroken line
nearly three centuries to Jan Thomasse Van Dyck, II, (son of Thomasse
Van Dyck I, of Amsterdam,) who with his two brothers, Hendrick
Thomasse and Nicholas Thomasse, came to New Amsterdam ki
America in 1652. His wife, Tryntje (or Achias) and six children
accompanied him, on the good ship Bonta Ke (Spotted Cow). They
settled on Long Island. Their children were: Thomas Janse III, bom
1 646, Antje Janse, born 1 642, Anjenietje born 1 644, Carl born 1 646,
Achias bom 1648, Jan bom 1650, Hendrick bom July 2, 1653, in
New Amsterdam. In 1687 the three brothers took the oath of alle-
giance to their adopted country. Their descendants may be found in
New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and T«inessee, num- ;
bers of them having risen to prominence.

Thomas Janse Van Dyck III, oldest son of Jan Thomasse and
Tryntje Van Dyck married first — Claessen, daughter of Claes Claesen,
of Suit of Grarcsend. Their children were: John bom about 1667,
married Geesje Groot; Groot; Nicholas bom August 1 I, 1670, mar-
ried first Tryntje Reyneirs, second Fransyntje Hendrickse. Thomas
Johnse married second in 1671, Enorretje (Marie) Andrisen. Their
children were: Anjeltie bom 1672, married Joris Storm; Andrisen
baptised August II, 1675; married Geesje; Abraham born 1680;
married Elizabeth Huyck; Isaac baptized September II, 1681 ; mar-
ried Barbara Reyniers. Andriers and Nicholas settled in New Castle,
Delaware, previous to 1725.

Claes or Nicholas Thomasse Van Dyck, son of Thomas Janse
Van Dyck, bom August 11,1 670, married first April 20, 1 689,
Tryntje Reyniers in Flatbush, Long Island. They had one child,
Tryntje, baptised August 24, 1690, in Brooklyn. After her death,
he married Fransyntje (Frances) Hendrickse of Flatbush, June 4,
1692. They resided in Brooklyn, April 6, 1724. He sold
his farm of 200 acres and removed to Delaware. TTieir chil-
dren were: Thomas, baptised April 11, 1693; Geesje born
October 4, 1694, baptised November 16, 1694, in Brooklyn; Maria
bom July 3, 1696; Heuricus died before 1708; Johanna born March
22, '1700; Abraham bom January 22, 1702; Antje born July 5,
f 704 ; Nicholas bom January 6, I 706, Hendrick bom February 1 0,
1708; baptised April 5, 1708, in Brooklyn, married Marjrietje Teo-
hune and settled in New Jersey on the Loritan River, died before No-

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vember, 1 752 ; Marjrietje, bom January II, 1711; Daniel, born
November 3. 1713. Nicholas Van Dyck died October 27. 1729.
Frances Van Dyck, his wife, departed this life ye 25 day of January
in the year of our Lord God 1 749.

Nicholas Van Dyck, son of the foregoing, was bom January
6, 1 706, in Brooklyn. He married Rachel Atlee in New Castle,
Delaware, May 1 , 1 724. Their children were John Thomasse, bom
April 29, 1737; Nicholas, bom September 25, 1738; Abraham,
bom November 6, 1 740 ; Mary, born September 1 9, 1 745 ; Rachel,
born May 25, 1752, died February 15. 1795. Nicholas Van Dyck,
S«iior, departed this life the 20th day of Febmary in the year of our
Lord, 1755.

Nicholas Van Dyck, second son of Nicholas and Rachel Van
Dyck, was prominent in the history of his state during the Revolution.
He was a member of the Boston Relief Committee in 1 774. He was
present at the meeting of the Delaware Convention in 1 776. He was
a field officer in the Delaware militia, rose to the rank of Major in
1 799. He was a member of the assembly of Delaware and was
Speaker of the House in 1 779. He was Govemor of Delaware in
1 78 1 -3-4-. He married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth Nixon,
daughter of Thomas Nixon, of Passy, Dover, Delaware. They had
three children: Rachel, bom June 28, 1767, died July following i
Anne, born August 9, I 768 ; Nicholas, December 20, I 769 ; Eliza-
beth Nixon Van Dyke died January, 1 700 ; Nicholas Van Dyke then
married Charlotte Stanley. January 2. 1 774. Their children were
Susanna, Charelicus, bom December 27, 1775; Henry Hendrickson,
bom January 2, 1777; Mary, born February 6, 1779; Elizabeth
Allen, bom February 2, 1 781; John, born December 22, 1782;
Abraham, Bom January 6. I 784. Governor Nicholas Van Dyke died
Febmary 1 9, 1 789, aged fifty years. Abraham Van Dyke, son of
Nicholas ^d Rachel Van Dyke, born November 6, 1 730, married
Elizabeth. Their children were: Henry; Mary, born ' December 10,
1774; Rachel, bom December 12, 1776. died in 1777; Abraham
Van Dyke died March 8, 1777, his wife, died in 1777.

John Thomasse Van Dyck. oldest child of of Nicholas and Rachel
Atlee Van Dyke, was bom April 29. 1737. in New Castle, Dela-
ware. In I 775, he married Mrs. Letitia Nixon Rogerson, the daugh-
ter of Thomas Nixon, of Passy, near Dover. She was a sister of
Elizabeth Nixon, who married Nicholas Van Dyke. Thomas Nixon
had seven children : Nicholas, Charles, Thomas and Letitia, Elizabeth,
Rachel and Anne. Thomas Nixon and his sons were patriots during
the Revolution and fought for the independence of their country. Le-
titia Nixon was married three times. Her first husband was John Rog-
erson, a planter in the island of Jamaica in the West Indies, by whom

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she had one daughter, Fedilia, who married William Montgomery, a
lawyer in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her second husband
was John Van Dyl^c, by whom she had one son, Thomas John Van
Dyke, father of Chancellor Thomas Nixon Van Dyke, of Tennessee.
John Van Dyke resided in Talbot County, Maryland, for a few years
after he married Mrs. Letitia Rogerson. Their son was bom at her
father's home in Dover in 1777. In 1779, May 13, recorded in the
Tatbot County Record that John Van Dyke purchased a schooner,
Polly, from Alex Gordon. March 7, 1 782, he bought three and one-
quarter acres of land from John Dickenson. After his death in 1 785,
his widow moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to make her home with
her daughter. There she married Mr. John Coakley, by whom she
had one daughter, Letitia Nixon Coakley, who married Richard Smith
of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Letitia Coakley lived in Lan-
caster until her death in 1819. Here her son, Thomas VanDyke, re-
ceived his early education. He was then sent to Baltimore, where he
studied medicine with his uncle, Daniel Robinson. He obtained his
diploma in I 79 1 . The same year he was appointed an ensign in the
infantry service of the United States and was soon promoted to a cap-
taincy. In 1 798, he was stationed at Belle Canton, near the junction
of Tennessee and Little Tennessee Rivers, then in Roane County, Ten-
nessee. Here he married Penelope Smith Campbell, the oldest daughter
of Judge David Campbell and his wife, Elizabeth Outlaw, who were
then living where Lenoir's Cotton Mill subsequently stood. The Hon-
orable David Campbell was then Judge of the Superior Court of Ten-
nessee, and was afterwards appointed Judge of United States Court for
the District of Mississippi. In 181 1, Thomas Van Dyke resigned his
commission in the army and moved to Washington in Rhea County,
where he engaged in the practice of medicine. When war with Eng-
land was again declared in 1812, he was appointed Surgeon in the
United States army and was engaged in two campaigns in the south
under General Doughterty against the Indians in 1813 and 1814.
December 27, 1814, Dr. Thomas Van Dyke died at Fort Claiborne,
Alabama, while in the service of his country. His wife and family
then went to live with her mother, Mrs. Campbell, in Washington,
Tennessee, Judge Campbell having died a short time previously.

The childreh of Dr. TTiomas Van Dyke and his wife, Penelope
Campbell, were: Alexander Outlaw, bom 1799; Jefferson Campbell,
bom January 16, 1801; Thomas Nixon, born January 16, 1803;
Mary Hamilton, bom 1 805 ; Eliza Rhea, bom 1 807. Alexander
Outlaw Van Dyke entered the United States Navy and died at sea
off Carthagena, South America, while with Comodore Porter. He never
married. Jefferson Campbell Van Dyke married Miss Eliza Cocke in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1830. He died in 1861, leaving three

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daughters, who were: Sarah Gille Van Dylce, married Dr. Curry, of
Alabama. Their children, a son, who resided in New Orleans, and
Mrs. Tena Trippe, of Selma, Alabama; (b) Vandalia Van Dyke,
who married Mr. Rhoda Horlon, of Alabama, and after his death, she
became the wife of Dr. Pegram, of Dayton, Alabama; (c) Caroline
Van Dyke married Captain James Ford, of Bastrop, Louisiana; (3)
Thomas Nixon Van Dyke married Eliza Ann Deaderick, the second
daughter of Dr. William Henry Deaderick and Penelope Hamilton
on May 23, 1833. Their children were: (a) Penelope Smith, who
married Thomas A. Cleage; (b) William Deaderick married Anna
Mary Deaderick; (c) Letitia Smith died aged twelve years; (d)
Richard Smith Van Dyke, Lieutenant in Confederate Army, killed in
battle near Darksville, Virginia, in 1864, unmarried; (e) John Mont-
gomery Van Dyke, Captain in Confederate Army, killed in battle
near Darksville, Virginia, in 1864, immarried; (f) Frances Levinia
Van Dyke never married; (g) Thomas Nixon Van Dyke, Junior, died
in Confederate service; (h) Margaret Josephine Van Dyke' married
Hugh T. Inman, of Atlanta, Georgia; (j) Mary Hamilton Van Dyke
married George M. Battey, of Rome, Georgia; (k) Robert Deader-
ick Van Dyke married Sue C. Gwaltney, of Rome, Georgia. Judge
Thomas Nixon Van Dyke was educated in Pennsylvania. He studied
law and was admitted to the bar in Huntingdon, appointed an ensign
in the infantry Pennsylvania, in 1823. In the fall of 1828, he moved
to Alabama, and settled at Tuscaloosa, where he continued his pro-
fession. In 1 833 he returned to his native state, Tennessee, and settled
at Athens, McMinn County. Obtaining a license to practice in all
courts of the state, he at once entered on a long and useful career. In
1837, appointed director of a branch of the Bank of Tennessee, and
was elected President of a branch of the Bank of Tennessee and was
elected President of the Board. He was one of the originators of the
Hiawassee Railroad. He was a director and president of the com-
pany. In 1854, he was elected Chancellor of the 12th Chancery Divi-
sion of Tennessee (November 3), at that time comprising eighteen
counties. In 1864, Judge Van Dyke was arrested by order of the
military authorities of the United States Army and imprisoned as a
hostage at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio. His family had also
been arrested and sent north of the Ohio River. When he was re-
leased, in 1865, he joined his wife at Mineral Point, Wisconsin. In
1 866, they returned to Athens and Judge Van Dyke resumed his prac-
tice in Tennessee.

Mary Hamilton Van Dyke, bom April 7, 1805, was educated at
Nolichucky Academy, Jefferson County, Tennessee. With her mother,
she moved to Alabama in 1819. After her mother's death, she went
to live with her aunt, Mrs. Letitia Nixon Smith, at Huntingdon, Penn-

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sylvania. There, in 1824, she married General William R. Smith.
Later they moved to Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Their children were:
Rudolph, Richard, Penelope, Letitia, John.

Eliza Rhea Van Dyke, bom September 6, 1807, moved to Ala-
bama with her mother. She married Mr. Scott, of Natchez, Missis-
sippi. They had several children.

Among the living descendants of the Van Dyke family are: Mrs.
Hugh T. Inman, Mrs. John Grant, Mrs. Richard Wilmer, Mr. Wil-
liam Grant, Mrs. Hugh Richardson, Mr. Hugh L. Richardson, Mr.
Edward Inman, Mrs. George Battey, Mr. George Battey, Junior, Dr.
Hugh Battey, Miss Marion Van Dyke, Mrs. George Bonney, Miss
Adrenne Bonney, of Atlanta ; Mr. R. D. Van Dyke, Mr. William Van
DyJte, of Memphis; Mr. J. H. Smith, Mineral Point, Wisconsin; Mrs.
Helen Van Dyke, Kentucky; Mr. Theodore Van Dyke, Philadelphia;
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, New York; Dr. Paul Van Dyke, of New
York; Miss Anna Van Dyke, Mr. T. Nixon Van Dyke, Miss Lx)uise
Van Dyke; Mr. T. N. Van Dyke, Mrs. M. B.Ochs. Mr. Van Dyke
Ochs, Mr. Adolph Ochs II., Miss Margaret Ochs, Miss Gary Van
Dyke, Mrs. Sue C. Johnson, Mrs. W. P. Flower, Jr., A. M. Johnson,
Foster Johnson, of Chattanoga; Mrs. S. B. Allen and Miss Penelope
Allen, Williamsburg, Va., Mrs. Frank C. Davis, Master John Da-
vies, Miss Sue Davies, of Youngstown, Ohio; Mr. W. D. Cleage,
Miss Elizabeth Cleage, Miss Carrie Cleage, of Memphis; Mrs. Thomas
A. Cleage, St. Lx)uis, Missouri; Mr. Deaderick Cleage, St. Louis,
Missouri; Mr. Richard Cleage, Athens, Tennessee; Mrs. F. C. Mc-
Cleary, Chicago; Miss Josephine McCleary, Chicago; Mrs. C. P.
Dumas, Mobile; Mrs. E. E. Crum, Mobile.

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