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The Kentucky Keenes intermarried with the Crittendens, Fauntleroys, Theobalds, Buckners, Sayres, Johnsons, Will- motts, Conns and Warrens.
An interesting and highly-prized coat-of-arms has de- scended in several branches of the Keene family. Recently an old silver coffeepot of colonial design was accidentally found in an old antique shop with the Keene arms on one side and a Keene monogram on the other. Unfortunately, a stranger secured this interesting and valuable heirloom before one of the family could rescue it.
THE KIRWAN FAMILY. SOLOMON F. KIRWAN.
The first settlers of the family of Kirwans who came to Maryland about 1650 were three brothers, John, Thomas and David, who came from England and first located in Somerset County, near Dame's Quarter. A short time thereafter, John, the great-great-grandfather of Solomon F. Kirwan, came over to Dorchester and settled near Pritchett's Cross- roads, in that part of the county now called Lakes district. He had several sons, Peter, John and Thomas. Descendants of John and Thomas now live in Lakes.
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Peter Kirwan, grandfather of Solomon F. Kirwan, set- tled in a locality in Lakes, now called Kirwan's Neck, on the premises now the home of Capt. S. A. Tyler. He married a Miss Taylor, by whom he had six sons, John, Peter, Daniel, Thomas, Solomon and Mathias. By his second wife, who was a Miss Keene, he had one son, Zebulon.
He was interested in maritine pursuits as well as in farm- ing. He built a large sea-going vessel named the "Mason" about 1788, on World's End Creek, where there was a public landing and shipyard for many years. Hand-sawed timber was the staple commodity of that section in those days. At his death his son Solomon became the owner of the home- stead, which, at his death, became the property of his son, Solomon F. Kirwan.
Solomon Kirwan, son of Peter and the father of our sub- ject, Solomon F. Kirwan, was a seafaring man for nearly half his life, in the coasting and West India trade.
After he retired from the sea and settled on shore, he entered political life. He was Justice of the Peace for five years; elected Sheriff in 1817, and reelected in 1821; he was County Commissioner for four years. He died at the age of seventy-five years.
Solomon F. Kirwan, son of the deceased, was born June 10, 1814, being now eighty-eight years of age. Like his father, when a young man, he embarked as a sailor on the sea for some years, but returned home and engaged in farming and the sailing vessel trade. Following in the polit- ical footsteps of his father, he was ten years a Justice of the Peace; four years a County Commissioner, and four years one of the Judges of the Orphans' Court.
He married Susan Travers, daughter of Col. John Travers, of Hooper's Island. He is now retired from active busi- ness, but is enjoying good health where he now resides, at Lloyds, Dorchester County, Md. His children are William E. Kirwan, shipchandler in Baltimore; he married Annie Meekins, daughter of George H. Meekins, of Dorchester
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County; A. C. Kirwan, United States Shipping Commis- sioner at Baltimore, married Miss Koefoed, of Taylor's Island; John F. Kirwan, Captain of the steamer "Susque- hanna," who married Miss Edmonds, of Baltimore; Solomon F. Kirwan, Jr., merchant at Lloyds, married Miss Robinson, daughter of A. J. Robinson, of Dorchester County.
The surviving daughters, Martina Kirwan, married S. Cowart, of Northumberland County, Va., and Sallie C. Kir- wan married H. H. Travers, of Dorchester County.
Of the brothers of Peter Kirwan, John and Thomas, who settled near what is now called Lakesville, John was Ensign in Capt. Timothy McNamare's militia company, called "Friends to America," during the Revolutionary War. His son, John Kirwan, called Big John, died about 1856, he married Sallie Pritchett, daughter of Elijah and Rachael Pritchett; she died at Crapo, at the advanced age of 96 years, in 1880. Their children were Katie (who never married, died at the age of eighty-two years), John, Thomas William and Jane. John, now deceased, married Elizabeth Pritchett. daughter of Henry and Manie Pritchett. Their surviving children are Arthur J., Jennie (Kirwan) Foxwell, George E., Fannie (Kirwan) Hart and John S. Kirwan.
Thomas Kirwan, now deceased, married three times; first, Sallie Evans, by whom were born two children, Eliza (Kir- wan) Denny, deceased, and Thomas H. Kirwan, now living at Lakesville. His second wife was Mary Dean; left no sur- viving children; and his third wife was Nancy (Phillips) Wroten, widow. Their children are Martha (Kirwan), Wheatley and Benj. F. Kirwan.
William Kirwan married Elizabeth Jones, of Baltimore.
Jane Kirwan married Alza Willey, who left one surviving daughter, Sarah E. Willey, who first married John Simmons, who died, leaving widow and three sons, viz: William H., James E. and Charles W. Simmons. Sarah E. Simmons, widow, married Capt. Henry Nicely, of Virginia, who was accidentally killed on a sail vessel in Chesapeake Bay.
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Thomas Kirwan, a brother of Peter and John, also lived in Lakes; he married a Miss Wheatley; one of their children, John D. Kirwan, married Lavina Wingate, daughter of Pritchett Wingate. Their children were John S. Kirwan and Andrew Washington Kirwan. Capt. John S. Kirwan now resides in Baltimore, is engaged in the oyster trade and commission business. He married Mary A. Windsor, daughter of William and Elizabeth Windsor. Their chil- dren are William C. Kirwan, oyster and fruit commission merchant; he married Miss Lynch, of Baltimore. John E. Kirwan, oyster and West India fruit merchant; married Miss Dora Stein, of Baltimore. Della Kirwan, deceased, married Capt. Samuel Todd. Fannie G. married Capt. Sam. Smith, now deceased. Capt. Charles S. (single), engaged in the oyster and West India fruit trade. Mary Flora married Jacob Barnes. Capt. Fred. N. (single), engaged in the oys- ter and West India fruit trade.
Andrew Washington Kirwan, brother of Capt. John S., was a volunteer in Company B, under Capt. John E. Graham, in the First Eastern Shore Regiment of Infantry, during the Civil War. He died soon after the close of the war.
The Kirwans have universally borne an enviable reputation through successive generations as patriots, soldiers, mariners, merchants and in other business relations, wherever engaged.
THE LAKE FAMILY.
The Maryland branch of the Lake family, who left England on account of religious persecutions following the death of Charles I., have a family tradition that they descended from the old established family of that name in England, of which Edward Lake, LL.D., Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln, a devoted adherent of Charles I., for whom he fought at the battle of Naseby, and was there wounded sixteen times, was given by the King a coat-of-augmentation, and an addi- tional coat-of-arms, and was also made a baronet, with the privilege of naming his successor to the title. However, no
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patent was taken out by him before the time of his death in 1674. He was succeeded by his grandnephew, Sir Bibye Lake, Sub-Governor of the African Company, who was also created a baronet, October 17, 1711. (See coat-of-arms.)
Some members of the Lake family are said to have left Maryland and settled in Virginia and New Jersey, of whom descended Capt. George Blocker Lake, late of Edgefield, S. C., Thomas Harden Lake, of Mobile, Ala., and Mrs. Julia Lake Crawford, of New York.
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Lake Arms.
The first of the name of Lake found of record in Maryland, is "Robert Lake," an inhabitant of the Isle of Kent, Planter, mentioned in Court proceedings February 12, 1637, as hav- ing been engaged in Claiborne's Rebellion in 1635. He was then seventeen years of age as appears by his deposition February 22, 1639. There are also three emigrants named on Brewer's list of early settlers, 1634 to 1689, to wit: "John Lake, 1658," "George Lake, 1661," "John Lake, 1661." Various tracts of land were patented by the Lakes; Robert Lake, tract called "Luck," in 1713; Rev. Charles Lake, tract
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called "Lake's Discovery," in 1742; Henry Lake, tract called "Lake's Enclosure," in 1749; Henry Lake, tract called "Lake's Hazard," in 1760; Henry Lake, tract called "Tar Kiln Ridge."
Robert Lake's will proven August, 1716, wife, Jane Lake, executrix. Henry Lake, Sr., will proven July 7, 1760; to his daughters, Sarah Lake and Arana Hooper, he bequeaths personal property, stock, etc. Had only one son, "Henry." Does not mention any land by patent name. He closes his bequest as follows:
"I give and bequeath unto Mary, my beloved wife, and my son, Henry Lake, my royell and parsinal estate during her life or widowhood which shall first happen, my parsinally estate to be equally divided between my wife and her son if ever she should marry, and if not, all to my son Henry after her death, to him and his heirs forever if he live the longest."
By request of his mother to Mr. James Auld, commissary of Dorchester County, August 11, 1760, Henry Lake was appointed administrator.
Rev. Charles Lake, Rector of St. James Parish and Royal Clerk Anne Arundel County, will proven August 15, 1764, leaves books, papers, etc., to the Rev. Samuel Keene and Mr. William Keene. His lands in Dorchester having been pre- viously sold.
Henry Lake, only son of Henry Lake, Sr., was born 1739, died November 20, 1804, married Rhoda Jewett about 1762, commissioned Captain of a company, Dorchester County Militia in Col. Wm. Travers' Battalion, Brigadier-General Henry Hooper's Corps, May 16, 1776; recommissioned Cap- tain July, 1778.
During the Revolutionary War a force of British led by some Tories came in a boat to Captain Lake's house for the purpose of arresting him and destroying his property. His daughter Lovey, a handsome and spirited girl, was so in- censed at the mistreatment of her father, and of herself in their trying to take the silver buckles off her shoes, be- came so defiant that she was pushed into a back room of the
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dwelling and so enraged the Tories that they set the house on fire. She succeeded in putting out the fire and escaping by a back window; running across the fields back of the house, she found some of her father's company who came to his rescue, and firing upon the British and Tories, drove them back to their boats without their prisoner.
Captain Lake's wife, Rhoda, also resisted the arrest of her husband and took hold of him by the arm and said that he should not be taken prisoner. She held him so securely that a soldier in trying to force her to turn him loose, stuck a bayonet in her arm. (The foregoing is a tradition, authen- ticated by the older members of the family.)
Capt. Henry Lake was appointed by Governor Smallwood, State's Judge or Justice of Dorchester County, qualified May 6, 1786. He was appointed "High Sheriff" of the county, and qualified after executing a bond of Ten Thousand Pounds, current money, October 24, 1797. Capt. Henry Lake and wife, Rhoda, are buried in the Lake Homestead on Honga River, Lake's District. The inscription on his tomb is as follows:
Here lieth the body of the once very ufeful
-HENRY LAKE
A lover of juftice, Truth, and the Religion of Jefus Christ, who departed this life November 28th., 1804., about the 65th. year of his age.
"The serpent need not gape for prey, Nor Death his Vict'ry boalt, For Jefus takes the fting away, And all their power is loft. Then let the Juft with Jefus fleep, In undisturbed repole, And only lie thus buried deep, To rife as once he rofe."
Capt. Henry Lake believed it to be unjust to hold servants in perpetual bondage, hence he manumitted several of his slaves before his death.
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QUALIFICATIONS OF HENRY LAKE-STATE'S JUDGE OR JUSTICE.
Messrs. Benjamin Keene and Henry Lake, two of the gentlemen nominated in the Commission of the Peace here- inafter recorded, came into Court and accepted the said appointment and were accordingly qualified as two of the Justides of the Peace in and for this county by taking, repeat- ing and subscribing to the Oath of Fidelity and support of the State of Maryland by repeating and subscribing the Declaration of their belief in the Christian Religion, and by taking and repeating the Oath of Judge or Justice.
Record-Minutes of Court of 1786, Tuesday, May 16. folio 32.
State of Maryland, Dorchester County, Sct :
I, Charles Lake, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorches- ter County do certify that the foregoing are truly copied from the records of Dorchester County and now on file in . this office.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, this seventeenth day of October, A. D. 1898.
CHARLES LAKE, Clerk.
Lake's District appears to be the only district in Dorches- ter County bearing the name of an individual, that honor and distinction having been conferred upon the County's High Sheriff and "useful" citizen, Capt. Henry Lake.
CHILDREN OF CAPT. HENRY LAKE AND WIFE RHODA.
I. Henry, drowned at sea.
2. Elizabeth, married Thomas Barnes.
3. Mary, married Moses Barnes.
4. Lavina (Lovey), married John Stewart McNamara.1
John Stewart McNamara was an officer in the Revolutionary War. He was a man of means and influence and was bondsman for Capt. Henry
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5. William, married Elizabeth Hart, October 24, 1791.
6. Levin, married, I, Mary Keene; 2, Maria Muir.
7. George, married, Mary Boyne Slacombe1 (Slacum).
8. Washington, married Margaret Slacum.
CHILDREN OF JOHN STEWART MCNAMARA AND WIFE, LOVEY (LAKE), DAUGHTER OF HENRY LAKE.
I. William, married - Partridge.
2. Susan, married, 1, John Hooper; 2, Capt. George Mis-
ter. Beverly W. Mister, Esq., of Baltimore, is a descendant.
3. Zippora, married John Hooper.
4. Rhoda, married Slater Cowart.
5. Henry L., born April 30, 1803; died, December 27, 1844; married Harriett Lake.
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM McNAMARA AND WIFE (PARTRIDGE). .
I. Sarah, married Benjamin F. Cator, of Baltimore, one of the founders of the firm of Armstrong, Cator & Co.
2. Susan, married, 1, - Wilcox; 2, Gov. Holliday Hicks, of Maryland.
SLACOMBE NOTES.
Gabriel Slacom (Slacombe) was an officer of the crew of the Privateer "Sturdy Beggar," sailing under Letters of Mar- que, commissioned in 1776 and 1777. He was captured and imprisoned for several years in England; finally escaped to France and reached his home after an absence of seven years, broken in health from serious wounds received at the time
Lake on bond for 10,000 Pounds, current money, as High Sheriff for Dorchester County in 1797. Colonel McNamara died July 8, 1823, in the 68th year of his age.
1 Mary Boyne Slacombe (Slacum) Lake was the daughter of Gabriel Slacum, of Maryland, and Catherine Boyne, his wife, daughter of Dr. Boyne, of Dublin, Ireland, of the old Irish family of Boyne.
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of his capture. His family had long since thought him dead. His ancestor was George Slacombe, "A German Borne." Citizenship was given him by Naturalization Act, passed June 11, 1697. (See Maryland Archives.)
Others of his descendants were loyal to King George III. during the Revolutionary War. (See Memorial of Capt. Thos. Sparrow, 1777, relating to mistreatment received by him in Dorchester County, "in recruiting for matrosses," from Mr. George Slacombe and others; Mr. George Sla- combe afterwards moved to Alexandria, Va. His daughter married Col. Charles May of the U. S. Army. Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, Sr., of Baltimore, was their descendant.)
Several families of Slacombes, who are descendants of the old family above-named, are residents of Lake's District at this time.
Some of the descendants of Capt. Henry Lake, of Revolu- tionary fame, were in the War of 1812, and others were loyal Southerners; of them, the following named served in the Confederate Army :
Levin Lake, Captain and Quartermaster, second officer commissioned by State of Mississippi in 1861; served throughout the war, especially distinguished in supplying Gen. Jos. E. Johnston's army with provisions at Rome and Atlanta in spring of 1864.
Albert Crawford Lake (son of Levin), Private in Stan- ford's Battery.
Charles Henry Lake (son of Henry S.), Private in Stan- ford's Battery.
Geo. W. Lake, Jr. (son of Geo. W.), Private in Stanford's Battery.
George Lake (son of William), Private in Stanford's Bat- tery, and chief clerk in army works, Demopolis, Ala.
Robert Pinkney Lake, M.D., Surgeon Army of Northern Virginia.
Gabriel Perry Lake, Captain Company Mississippi Cavalry (George and Armstrong's Brigade).
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Augustus Washington Lake (son of William), Private Fif- teenth Mississippi Regiment, wounded at battle of Shiloh, afterwards chief clerk in surgeon's office at Grenada, Miss., to close of war.
Walter Scott Lake (son of William), with General Jack- son's escort and Ordnance Sergeant, Seventh Tennessee Regiment.
Richard Pinkney Lake (son of William), Second Lieuten- ant, Capt. R. E. Wynne's Company, Mississippi Cavalry, and Second Lieutenant detached service, in command of dis- mounted men of Brigade Mississippi Cavalry (age 17), at close of war.
Edwin B. Lake (son of Captain Levin), with Texas forces, was drowned and frozen in an expedition to capture a Fed- eral gunboat off Brownsville, Tex., in winter of 1863.
James Bushrod Lake, Jr. (son of Jas. Bushrod), Captain and A. D. C. Staff Gen. Bushrod Johnson.
Craig Lake (son of Jas. Bushrod), Maryland Regiment. Died in service in Virginia.
Alexander Fridge Lake (son of Henry, of Memphis), Ten- nessee Regiment. Killed in battle of Shiloh.
Levin Lake, Jr., Volunteer A. D. C. Staff General Early's Army of Northern Virginia.
James F. Mister, captured in army of Northern Virginia, after exchange was Major in Battalion Mississippi Cavalry.
Matthew Keene Mister, Captain and A. A. G. Brigade Mississippi Cavalry.
Wilbur F. Mister, Chaplain Army of Tennessee.
William Henry McNamara, Private Mississippi Cavalry.
Lake - McNamara, Chaplain Army of Northern Vir- ginia; died in service.
George W. Lake, clerk in Quartermaster's Office, Gren- ada, Miss.
In addition to the foregoing, Hon. William A. Lake, of Vicksburg, Miss., was a candidate for member in Confederate Congress, when he was killed in a duel with his opponent, Colonel Chambers.
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LAKE FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS.
Light or red hair, florid complexions, well built, very ener- getic, attentive and capable in their business occupations. They revered the Christian religion and were members of the Church of England until the days of Bishop Asbury, who swept the Eastern Shore with a religious wave of Methodism soon after the Revolutionary War, and most of them have been members of the Methodist Church since that period.
They were noted for their integrity and independence, kind and indulgent to their families, lovers of horses and the own- ership of land; were patriotic, and have served their country in all of its wars-not less than twenty members of whom served in the Southern Army during the late Civil War.
GEORGE LAKE, SON OF CAPT. HENRY LAKE.
George Lake (son of Henry Lake and Rhoda his wife), born 1776, died November 21, 1831. Married Mary Boyne Slacum, marriage license issued October 23, 1802. She was born June 3, 1784, and died September 21, 1872, buried at Grenada, Miss. (He was buried at "Locust Grove" Farm, Lake District, Dorchester County, Md.) Mary Boyne Sla- cum was the daughter of Gabriel Slacum, a sailor in the Rev- olutionary War, who married Catherine Boyne, daughter of Dr. Boyne, of Dublin, Ireland. George Lake was Captain Dorchester County Militia in War of 1812-15; Forty-eighth Regiment (Jones) Maryland Detached Service. In an en- gagement with General Ross' forces, at Honga River in 1814, his horse was shot down in their attack. He was a farmer and merchant and also member of Maryland Legislature 1827-28; was an ardent admirer of Andrew Jackson.
CHILDREN OF CAPT. GEORGE LAKE AND WIFE, MARY B.
I. Harriet, married Daniel Barnes; 2, Henry L. Mc- Namara.
2. Miriam, married John Cowart.
3. Catherine, married Isaac Creighton.
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4. Clarissa H., married, I, William Washington Lake; 2, John S. Staplefort.
5. Julia A., married Matthew Keene Mister.
6. Clementine, married William Lake.
7. Georgeanna, married, 1, Henry S. Lake; 2, Major Aug. Newton; 3, Dr. Joseph B. Tarpley.
8. Gabriel Perry Lake, married, I, Henrietta Crawford; 2, Mrs. Kate B. Connelly; 3, Mrs. Nannie K. Moore.
9. Robert Pinkney, married Virginia Lightfoot, of Vir- ginia.
10. Louisa, married Col. George E. Austin.
WILLIAM LAKE, SON OF CAPT. HENRY LAKE.
William Lake (son of Capt. Henry Lake and Rhoda his wife), born August 1, 1767; died April 5, 1810; married Elizabeth Hart. License issued October 21, 1791. She was born in 1772; died May 4, 1833, in the 62d year of her age. Both buried in the Lake Homestead Graveyard, Dorchester County, Md. ¢
INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBSTONES.
"In memory of William Lake, who was born August 1, 1767, and departed this life April 5, 1810, aged 42 year-8 mos-4 days.
Dear travelers all who pass by me Think on that great eternity, I am not dead, but here do sleep, Tho' buried in this earth so deep, Till the Archangel rends the skies And Christ my Saviour bids me rise."
"In memory of Elizabeth Lake, who departed this life May 4, 1833, in the 62d year of her age."
Lavinia (Lovey) Lake, daughter of Capt. Henry Lake, born 1766, died November 17, 1843. Married John Stew-
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art McNamara, license issued January 21, 1783, Dorchester County, Md.
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM LAKE AND WIFE ELIZABETH (BETTY HART).
I. Henry, born, -; died, -; married Janet Armour, of Baltimore; died in Memphis.
2. Robert Hart, born, -; died, -; married Mary San- ders, of Jackson, Tenn.
3. William Washington, born, 1812; died, April 12, 1839; married Clarissa H. Lake, Dorchester County.
4. William Washington Lake was a member of the Mary- land Legislature; was a popular merchant and farmer at Lakesville, Lake's District, Dorchester County.
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM WASHINGTON AND WIFE CLARISSA H. LAKE.
I. Charles, born 1836.
2. Cordelia, born, -; died, -; married J. Adrian Snider, Coffeeville, Miss.
CHARLES LAKE, SON OF WILLIAM WASHINGTON 'LAKE.
Charles Lake (son of William Washington and Clarissa H. Lake, his wife) was born in Lake's District, January 14, 1838. He was educated in the public schools of Dorchester County, Cambridge Academy and Washington College, Chestertown, Md .; and married Miss Wilhelmina Phillips, of Cambridge, Md., daughter of Richard and Mary (Applegarth) Phillips, his wife, in 1860. Of the children of Charles Lake and his wife, four of them are dead and four are living, namely: Clara S., wife of Daniel E. Dail; Edwin S., who married Eliza- beth Mace; Virginia C., wife of Levi D. Travers Noble, and Hattie Pattison Lake, who married William H. Medford.
For some years, Charles Lake was engaged in merchan- dising and farming at Lakesville prior to 1879, when he was elected Clerk of Dorchester County Court, and has been
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reelected three times in succession to the same office. His fourth term will expire in the fall of 1903, when he will have completed twenty-four years of service as Circuit Court Clerk. :
LEVIN LAKE, SON OF CAPT. HENRY LAKE.
Levin Lake (son of Capt. Henry Lake and wife Rhoda) was born January 25, 1774, died February 14, 1826. First married Mary Keene, license December 24, 1800, both of Dorchester County. He was a planter and lived in Draw- bridge, Dorchester County, near Salem, Md., a prominent and successful business man. Second marriage was with Maria Muir.
CHILDREN OF LEVIN LAKE AND WIFE (MARY KEENE).
I. William Augustus, born January 6, 1808; died October 15, 1861.
2. James Bushrod, born December 13, 1811; died July 24, 1884; married Louisa Hooper Craig, December 13, 1832. She was born May 13, 1815; died, January 4, 1892.
CHILDREN OF LEVIN LAKE AND WIFE (MARIA MUIR).
I. Annie Lavinia, born, -; died, -; married, I, Daniel Nye; 2, Col. M. K. Mister, Grenada, Miss.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, SON OF LEVIN LAKE AND WIFE (MARY KEENE).
William A. Lake (son of Levin Lake and wife Mary), born, January 6, 1808; died, October 15, 1861; married Anne Eliza Craig, sister of his brother James Bushrod's wife, and was born December 25, 1810, and died June 30, 1896. He was a member of the Maryland Legislature in 1831. Re- moved to Vicksburg, Miss. Member of Mississippi Legisla-
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ture and Mississippi Senate. In 1856 was a member of United States Congress, Fourth Congressional District, a Whig in politics, though elected in a Democratic district. Was can- didate for the Confederate States Congress in 1861. Killed in a duel by Col. Chambers, of Mississippi, opposing candidate, October 15, 1861, at Hopefield, Ark., opposite Memphis, Tenn. He was a prominent lawyer and planter, and an influ- ential citizen, greatly beloved. It is believed that his death, which caused a thrill of horror throughout the Southern States, was the cause of putting a stop to the custom of duelling, which had been previously so much practiced in the South.
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