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The journal of the Virginia Convention of 1776 contains a petition from him stating that he had removed from Augusta county, Va., to the western country in the previous year with a drove of cattle, intending to settle there. He located in Lincoln county, Ky., and died there in 1862, describing him- self in his will as being very old and infirm. The name of his wife is not known, but she is believed to have been either an Allen or an Anderson. The baptismal register of the Rev. John Craig previously referred to shows that William Craig, son of John, was baptized Aug. 10, 1746, and James, son of John, was baptized Jan. 24, 1748. He had other children than these, but their names do not appear upon the register in question, which only covers the period between 1740 and
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1749. William is said to have been the eldest son, and was the magistrate of that name who sat in the first court ever held in Kentucky at Harrodsburg, in the year 1781. He is believed by his relatives to have been killed in a duel near Danville in the year 1788. James, the second son, is, de- scribed in a decision of the court of appeals of Kentucky as having been an efficient soldier and a capable and energetic officer, but whether this service was rendered during the Revolution or in the Indian wars following is unknown.
Mary, daughter of John, married Col. John Cowan, one of the most intelligent of the carly pioneers of Kentucky.
John, the youngest son of John, was born in Augusta in 1756. He married there Elizabeth Beard, daughter of Edward Beard, whose wife was a descendant of William Bell, the pro- genitor of the Stone Church Bells of Augusta. John did not remove to Kentucky with his father and older brothers, but remained in Augusta until 1790. One of his daughters mar- ried Mr. Welch. His son William was born in Augusta in 1786, and was a student at the old Liberty Hall Academy at Lexington, Va., in 1804-6, a student at Transylvania Uni- versity in 1808-10, and studied medicine in Philadelphia in 1810-12 ; he was a surgeon in the War of 1812 in the regular army, a member of the legislature of Kentucky in 1814-15, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, president of the Danville branch of the bank of Kentucky, a large farmer and a fine physician. One of his daughters married Hon. Thomas M. Green, of Danville, Ky., author of Historic Families of Ken- tucky, etc., and a son is the Rev. Dr. Willis Green Craig, now President of the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago.
CHARLES E. KEMPER.
Washington, D. C., July 26, 1900.
NOTE .- James Craig, second son of William, the immigrant (see page 294), was a member of the County Court of Augusta county, Virginia, appointed by Lord Dunmore, then Gov- ernor of Virginin, December 6, 1774, which said court was adjourned as of that date from Staunton, Virginia, to Fort Dunmore-now Pittsburg, Pennsylvania-(See Annals of Car- negie Museum, Vol. I, No. 4, 1902). It does not appear from the minutes of the court holden at Fort Dunmore that James Craig ever sat as a member at that place. Again, on January 17, 1776 (Order Book 16, of Augusta county, Virginia, page 30), and on March 19, 1776 (same book, page 128), he was named in the Commissions of Peace and Oyer and Terminer, and on February 17, 1778, he declined, for reasons best known to himself, to qualify.
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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF JOHN ANDERSON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
Seven or eight heads of families who bore the name of An- derson were among the earliest settlers of Augusta county, Virginia. Whether related to each other in any degree is not definitely known, but four of them, whose Christian names were John, George, William and James, settled in the Stone Church neighborhood and are believed to have been brothers. The other Andersons referred to settled on Borden's grant, in what is now Rockbridge county, and are not believed to have been related to those who located on or near Middle river, in Augusta county.
The Anderson who is the subject of this sketch was named John. The Christian name of his wife was Jean, but her sur- name is unknown. In the year 1738 William Beverly, by deed dated June 5th, conveyed to John Anderson 748 acres of land, which is believed to have been his home farm upon which he lived and died. This land is located on Middle river, at the crossing of that stream by the Valley turnpike and the Valley railroad, and that portion of his estate where he resided is now the property of Andrew Bowling, Esq.
John Anderson was of Scotch-Irish descent, and so, doubt- less, was his wife. He probably came to Virginia from Pennsylvania with the first wave of Scotch-Irish immigration which followed in the wake of John Lewis, the pioneer settler of Augusta county. Few of the details of his life are known. In 1742 he was a soldier in Captain John Smith's company of militia in Augusta county, and in 1756 his name appears as a soldier in Captain Christian's company of militia. When Augusta county was created in 1745 he was appointed one of the first magistrates who composed the county court. In 1772 John Poague conveyed 27 acres of land upon which the old Stono Church stands to the Rev. John Craig and the
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session of that church. In this deed John Anderson is named next after Parson Craig, from which it may be fairly inferred that he was one of the first elders of that congregation. This inference is strengthened by the fact that Captain James Allen, his son-in-law, is also named as a member of the session, and three or four names intervene between him and John Ander- son. James Allen is known to have been one of the elders of this church as early as 1746, and the fact that his father- in-law precedes him in the deed referred to makes it almost certain that John Anderson was not only the senior elder of the church at that time, but one of the first elders originally elected. His will was made in 1787 and probated at Staunton, Va., in 1789. His wife was then living, but the date of her death is unknown. His children, as named in the will, were as follows : 1st, Robert ; 2d, James; 3d, Andrew ; 4th, Wil- liam ; 5th, Margaret, and 6th, Jean.
1. MARGARET is believed to have been the eldest child of John and Jean Anderson. She was evidently born prior to 1740, because no record of her baptism occurs in the register of Rev. John Craig, pastor of the old Stone Church, which record is now in the library of General John E. Roller, of Harrisonburg, Va. Besides, her eldest child, Jean, who married Captain James Trimble, was born in the year 1756, which would indicate that Margaret Anderson was born at some time during the period between 1735-40. She married, as stated, James Allen, son of William Allen, who was among the earliest settlers in Augusta. James Allen was a captain of militia in 1756, and also participated in the battle of Point Pleasant. He died in 1810, 94 years of age, having been an elder of Augusta Stone Church for 64 years. Their children were :
1. Jcan, wife of James Trimble, a captain of rifle rangers during the war of the Revolution. He removed with his family to Kentucky in 1784 and resided there until 1804, when he died upon the eve of his contemplated removal to Hillsboro, Ohio. Issue : Allen, born in Augusta county, Va.,
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Nov. 24, 1783, and died in Highland county, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1870. Allen Trimble was clerk of the courts and recorder of Highland county in 1809-16. In the war of 1812 he com- manded a mounted regiment under General William Henry Harrison and rendered efficient service. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1816, State Senator in 1817, and Speaker of that body, holding the position until Jan. 7, 1822, when he became Acting Governor, and served to the end of that year. In 1826 he was elected Governor, and re-elected in 1828. His brother, William A. Trimble, was born in Woodford county, Ky., April 4, 1786, and re- moved with his family to Ohio. He graduated at Transyl- vania University, and then returned to Ohio and spent some time in the office of his brother Allen. At the outbreak of the War of 1812 he was chosen major in the Ohio volunteers; was at Hull's surrender and liberated on parole. He was after- wards exchanged and commissioned major in the 26th regi- ment. In the defense of Fort Erie he acted with signal gallantry, and received a severe wound, which was the cause of his death years afterwards. He remained in the army until 1819, with the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel, and was then elected to the United States Senate; took his seat in December, 1819, and gave promise of much future usefulness. He died, however, Dec. 13, 1821, aged 35 years, being prob- ably the youngest man ever elected to the United States Senate. Captain James Trimble and Jean, his wife, had other children, but the writer is not acquainted with their history.
2. Ann, wife of Col. William Poague; and their children were : Allen, John, William, Jean, Mary, James, Thomas, and Hugh. The writer has but little information concerning the children of William and Ann (Allen) Poague, but Thomas was a lawyer of distinction in southwest Virginia, and during the Civil War was colonel of the 50th Virginia regiment when he was killed in battle on Black Water in February, 1863.
3. Elizabeth, married the Rev. John McCue, pastor of Tink- ling Spring church. They had issue as follows : James A.,
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John, and Franklin, long prominent citizens of Augusta ; Dr. William McCue, of Lexington, Va., and Cyrus, a lawyer, who died young ; the daughters were Mrs. Matthews, Mrs. Porter- field, Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Miller, and Mrs. McDowell, wife of General Joseph Jefferson McDowell, of Hillsboro, Ohio.
4. Rebecca, who married Major John Crawford. Issue : Elizabeth, wife of Captain William Ingles; Sallie, wife of John Hyde ; Margaret, first wife of Cyrus Hyde; James, who mar- ried Cynthia McClung, of Greenbrier county ; John, who married Harriet McClung, of Greenbrier; George W., died unmarried ; Ann, second wife of Franklin McCue; Mary, wife of Dr. Edward G. Moorman ; and Rebecca, wife of Stuart McClung, of Greenbrier.
5. Margaret, who married Major William Bell, of Augusta. Issue: Elizabeth Allen, wife of Joseph D. Keyser, of Allegheny county, Va .; Susan, first wife of James Craig, of Mount Meridian, Augusta county, Va .; Mary, wife of Addison Hyde; Margaret Allen, who married first John Crawford, and he dying childless she married, second, Colonel James Crawford ; Nancy, wife of Zachariah McChesney ; Sarah, second wife of John Wayt, Jr .; Rebecca, wife of Benjamin T. Reid ; Julia, wife of Alexander W. Arbuckle, of Greenbrier county, Va .; Jane, wife of Rev. John A. Van Leer, of Augusta county, Va. The only son of William Bell and Margaret, his wife, was William Joseph Davies Bell, who married Lucy Shipp, of Orange county, Va. Nearly all these children of William Bell and Margaret, his wife, left issue, but it would be impos- sible to enumerate them within the limits of this sketch.
6. Mary, who married Colonel Nicholas Lewis, and removed to Kentucky. If there was issue of this couple, their descend- ants are unknown to the writer.
7. Nancy, who married Captain Samuel Frame, of Augusta, whose children were John, Thomas, and Nancy.
8. Sarah, first wife of James Bell, and mother of the late Colonel William A. Bell, of Augusta county.
9. William, married Susan Bell, of Kentucky, and removed
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to that State in 1783, and settled at Lexington. He was the father of six children. His eldest daughter was the wife of Matthew Jouett, the distinguished Kentucky artist, and her oldest daughter married Richard Menifee, the celebrated Kentucky orator. Another daughter was the wife of Dr. Alexander Mitchell, of Frankfort, Ky., and one of her daugh- ters married Oliver Frazer, the artist. One of Captain Wil- liam Allen's sons was Colonel William H. Allen, formerly of Augusta, and another was Colonel James Allen, of Missouri.
10. James, who married Elizabeth Tate. Issue : William, who married a Miss Poague ; John, who married, first, Polly Crawford, and second, Ann Barry, widow of Dr. William McCue, and, removing to Michigan, was the founder of Ann Arbor, so named for his wife; Mary, who married Captain John Welsh; Margaret, second wife of Major William Poague, of Augusta ; Nancy, wife of Charles Lewis; Sarah, who mar- ried George Mayse, of Bath county ; and James T., who mar- ried Miss Maynard, of Michigan.
The descendants of Captain James Allen and Margaret Anderson, his wife, are very numerous, and they are scattered all over the west and southwest. Many of them still remain in the Shenandoah Valley, and the posterity of this worthy couple have been noted for their intelligence and devotion to right principles in all the avocations of life. Much of the foregoing information was derived from Mr. Joseph A. Wad- dell's invaluable work, The Annals of Augusta County, Vir- ginia, to whom due acknowledgment is hereby made.
II. JOHN. The Rev. John Craig's record of baptisms pre- viously referred to shows that on October 19, 1740, John, the son of John Anderson, was baptized at the old Stone Church, but no mention is made of him in his father's will, and no tradition concerning him is known to the writer. Therefore, it is believed that he died unmarried, probably in infancy.
III. ROBERT, who was baptized November 15, 1741, by the Rev. John Craig at the old Stone Church. He married Ann Thompson, of Augusta, November 4, 1765, and removed to
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South Carolina a few years prior to the Revolution and settled in the western portion of the state near Pendleton. He first located on Long Cane Creek, in what is now Abbeville county, but after the massacre in the neighborhood of Fort Ninety- six he removed to the Waxhaws, now Lancaster county, South Carolina, and after quiet was restored about Fort Ninety-six returned to that neighborhood, finally making his permanent home near Pendleton, as above stated. He served with dis- tinction as a Colonel in the war of the Revolution under his friend and neighbor, General Andrew Pickens, and after the Revolution was made general of the State Militia. His children were :
1. Anne, who married Dr. William Hunter. Issue : Dr. John, who married Kittie Calhoun and removed to Selma, Alabama ; William, who married a Miss Clayton ; Ann, who married John Smith; Mary, who married Rev. David Humphreys ; Andrew, who married, but the name of his wife is unknown.
2. Lydia, who married Samuel Maverick. Issue: (1) Elizabeth, married Mr. Weyman. This couple had three children, a son named Joseph, and a daughter who married a Mr. Thompson, of Memphis, Tenn. Joseph Weyman mar- ried Emily Maxwell, of Pendleton, South Carolina, and their son Samuel now resides in New York City. (2) Lydia, who married William Van Wyck, of New York. Issue : Samuel Maverick, who married Miss Margaret Broyles and had two sons. He was a surgeon in the Civil War and was killed in battle in Tennessee. Zemah, married a gentleman of New York, name unknown, and died leaving two daughters. William, married a Miss Battle, daughter of President Battle, of the University of North Carolina. Augustus, of New York City, for years a judge of one of the superior courts of New York ; in 1898 the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, but was defeated by Theodore Roosevelt, now President of the United States, by 18,000 majority, in one of the largest votes ever polled in the state. Robert Anderson,
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Democratic Mayor of New York, and the first Mayor of the greater city. Lydia, who married Mr. Holt, of North Caro- lina, son of ex-governor Holt of that state. (3) The third child of Lydia Anderson and Samuel Maverick was named Augustus. He removed to Texas and became one of the largest land and cattle owners in the world.
3. Elizabeth, third child of General Robert Anderson, mar- ried General Robert Maxwell of the Revolution. Issue : John, married Elizabeth Earle; Robert, married Mary Earle ; Anne, married Dr. Andrew Moore. Elizabeth (Anderson) Maxwell married, second, a Mr. Caruth, and had by him a daughter named Louisa, who married General James Gillam, of Greenwood, South Carolina.
4. Robert, fourth child of General Anderson, married Maria Thomas, of Nassau, New Providence Island. They had ten children : Robert, married Mary Pickens, granddaughter of General Andrew Pickens; Edward; Edmund, who was a Presbyterian preacher ; Thomas; John; Julius; William Henry. The three daughters were, Ann, who married Joseph Harris ; Caroline, who married Dr. Leroy Halsey, a Presby- terian minister of prominence, and at the time of his death a professor in the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago; and Martha, who married Samuel Pickens, grandson of Gen- eral Andrew Pickens, of the Revolution.
IV. JEAN, fourth child of John Anderson and Jean, his wife, was baptized April 29, 1744, by the Rev. John Craig, at the old Stone Church, in Augusta county, Va. She married, first, Lieutenant ITugh Allen, of Augusta, Nov. 6, 1765, by whom she had three sons, John, William and Hugh, all of whom emigrated to Kentucky, and a daughter whose Christian name is unknown to the writer. Jean Anderson Allen married, second, in 1778, William Craig, of Augusta county, Va., brother of Agnes, who married Captain James Anderson. (For the descendants of William Craig and Jean Anderson, his wife, see sketch of the Craigs.)
V. JAMES, born in Augusta ; was baptized in the old Stone
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Church March 6, 1748. He married, December 10, 1771, Agnes, daughter of James and Mary (Laird) Craig. It is stated by his descendants that he removed to South Carolina a few years previous to the Revolutionary War and settled, first, near Rock Mills, in what was then Pendleton District, but which is now known as Anderson county, so called for his brother, General Robert Anderson, previously mentioned in this sketch. After residing a few years at Rock Mills, James Anderson removed to the head waters of Rocky river, on Beaver Dam creek, and his plantation is now owned by Richard H. Anderson, his grandson. James Anderson served as a captain in the Revolutionary army and died September 9, 1813. He is buried in the old Carmel Church graveyard, not far from Pendleton, South Carolina. Agnes Craig, his wife, was born April 10, 1754, and died in 1838. The chil- dren of James Anderson and Agnes, his wife, were as follows:
1. Mary, who was born in Virginia. She married James Watson, and their children were: James, married three times, names of his wives unknown ; Samuel, married Harriet Jones ; Robert, died unmarried; Cynthia, married Mr. Bennett; Mary, married Mr. Oliver; Eliza, married Mr. Berry ; Sarah Ann, married John Couch ; Andrew, never married.
2. Robert, who removed to Mississippi when a young man, married there, and was the father of three children, one son and two daughters ; Christian names unknown.
3. Sarah, married William Orr, who removed to Jackson county, Ga., and afterwards to Talladega, Ala. Issue, six children, as follows : Sarah Ann, married James Montgomery ; Anson, married Mary Ann Thompson ; James Laird, married Elmira McLester; Craig, married Cynthia Montgomery ; Columbus, married Elizabeth McAllister ; Caroline, married Hugh Montgomery. Nothing is known by the writer as to the issue of the foregoing children of Sarah Anderson and William Orr.
4. Jane, married Mr. McKensie. Issue : William ; Robert ; Jane; a daughter, name unknown. After the death of her
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husband Mrs. McKensie removed to Mississippi with her family, and nothing further is known of her descendants.
5. James, removed to northern Alabama where he married a Miss Kinkaid. He was accidentally shot and killed while duck hunting on the Tennessee River. It is known that he left two sons, the eldest of whom was named William.
6. Nancy, married John Matthews and removed to Jackson county, Ga. Issue : Elizabeth Caroline, married Mr. Mullins ; Sarah Ann, never married ; John James, married twice, sis- ters, named Trayler. John James Matthews served in the Confederate army as colonel of a regiment.
7. George, removed to Benton county, Mo. He was fond of adventure and enjoyed the life of a frontiersman. He mar- ried in Missouri, but the name of his wife is unknown, and in 1849 removed to Texas and settled near Henderson. He was the father of eleven sons and one daughter, the latter of whom he named Missouri Ann, for his adopted state and his favorite sister. Nothing further is known of his descendants, but they are probably numerous in the state of Texas.
8. Ann, who married James Orr, of South Carolina, and after residing there several years subsequent to their marriage, finally removed to Jackson county, Ga. They had five chil- dren, as follows : Adolphus James, married Martha Fannin ; Gustavus John, married Eliza Caroline Anderson ; Caroline Agnes, married Madison Mitchell ; Augustus, died in infancy ; Sarah Ann, never married. Of these children, some are worthy of note. The oldest son was a Methodist minister, and the second a most successful educator and professor in Emory College at Oxford, Ga., for a number of years, and president of a female college at Covington, Ga., and afterwards a professor in Oglethorpe University, of Atlanta, Ga. He founded the public school system of the state of Georgia, and was State Supt. of public schools of that state for sixteen years. He died Dec. 11, 1887.
9. William, who will be mentioned later in this sketch.
10. Elizabeth, married Saxon Anderson, who was not re-
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lated to her. They removed from South Carolina to Marietta, Ga., and afterwards to Talladega, Ala. Issue: Augustus, died in infancy ; Mary Elizabeth, not married ; George Wash- ington, died in infancy ; Eliza Caroline, married Frank Carter ; Margaret Taliaferro, married Mr. Wills ; David Laird, married, name of wife unknown; James Laird, married Augusta V. Anderson.
11. Margaret, died in infancy.
William Anderson, 9th child of James and Agnes Craig Anderson, mentioned above, was born in South Carolina, June 9, 1790, and died in that state May 12, 1853. He was mar- ried to Miss Mary McEldowny Hunter, Sept. 16, 1824. She was born May 25, 1802, and died June 1, 1884. They are buried in the family graveyard on the homestead of his father, Captain James Anderson. Issue :
1. Eliza Caroline, born in Pendleton District, now Ander- son county, S. C., July 10, 1825, and was married to her cousin, Gustavus John Orr, Dec. 30, 1847. He was born in Anderson county, S. C., August 9, 1819, and died in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 11, 1887. Issue : (1) William Anderson, born in Anderson county, S. C., Dec. 31, 1848, and died in Newton county, Ga., May 25, 1849. (2) Edgar Harold, born Sept. 25, 1850 ; married Martha Reynolds, of Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 5, 1885. She was born Feb. 10, 1858. Their children were : Martha Reynolds, born Jan. 10, 1887 ; Nellie Orr, born Oct. 31, 1889; Edward Harold, Jr., born Dec. 31, 1892; Mary Gertrude, born Nov. 9, 1899. (3) Alice Gertrude, born Feb. 28, 1853 ; died July 11, 1854. (4) Mary Eliza, born May 1, 1855 ; died Dec. 21, 1900. (5) Anna Gustavia, born Nov. 2, 1856; died July 12, 1858. (6) James Harrison, born June 26, 1858 ; died Jan. 20, 1859. (7) Gustavus John, Jr., born Jan. 12, 1860 ; married Minnie Felda Pou, of Auburn, Ala., May 6, 1886. She was born August 24, 1867. Issue : Gustavus John, born Oct. 5, 1887; Samuel Joseph, born Sept. 25, 1892. (8) Jessie Olivia, born March 29, 1862; married July 16, 1889, Howard Linton Bass, born Dec. 27,
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1860. Issue: Anne Frank, born Oct. 23, 1890; Gustavus John, born July 16, 1895; Howard Linton, born July 18, 1897. (9) Cornelia Agnes, born July 17, 1864. (10) Angus Elgin, born June 19, 1867.
2. Sarah Cornelia, second child of William Anderson, was born May 5, 1827, and married the Rev. John McLees, Jan.". .. 1, 1850. He was a Presbyterian minister, and was born March 5, 1812, and died June 6, 1882. Issue : (1) William Anderson, born Sept. 29, 1850; married Caroline Adele De Vose, of Edgefield, S. C., Jan. 17, 1878. She was born March 24, 1853. Their children were : John De Vose, born Jan. 24, 1879 ; James Maxcie, born Feb. 23, 1881; Edith Sheppard, born March 31, 1883; William Anderson, born Feb. 21, 1885; Sarah Louise, born Oct. 12, 1887; George Leslie, born Oct. 25, 1890 ; died Oct. 23, 1892. (2) Mary Hunter, born Nov. 16, 1851 ; not married. (3) Anna Lucia, born Nov. 3, 1853 ; died June 26, 1855. (4) John Logan, born May 24, 1855 ; married Annia Leah Cornelson, Feb. 2, 1892. She was born Feb. 21, 1873. Issue : Anna Louise, born Nov. 10, 1892; Cornelia Anderson, born Sept. 9, 1894; George Cornelson, born Dec. 10, 1896; John Logan, born Oct. 5, 1899. (5) James Thornwell, born May 23, 1859. (6) Robert Andrew, born Feb .. 25, 1861. (7) Howard Maxwell, born Jan. 15, 1863. (8) Richard Gustavus, born Dec. 4, 1864. Of these sons of the Rev. John McLees and his wife, two, John Logan and Richard Gustavus, are Presbyterian ministers. The other sons are successful farmers residing near Greenwood, S. C.
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