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Another Arnot was John, who came from Sussex Co., N. J., and pur- chased land in Gap Valley in 1792. Some of his children married into neighboring families.
Jesse Arnot built with very limited resources the first stone building at Salt Sulphur Springs. In 1834 he went to Glasgow, Mo., and estab- lished himself in the stage business, which he pursued with great success, carrying the mails over a wide area. In 1848 he removed to St. Louis and for nearly 50 years conducted the livery business on a large scale in that city. His name is connected with many of the enterprises which are associated with the growth of St. Louis, yet he never purshed himself to the front except in his private business. He was a Freemason and Odd Fellow, a member of the Merchants' Exchange, and a lifelong Methodist. He was very charitable, especially toward orphans and the aged and friendless. It was through his exertions that the Methodist Orphan's Home of St. Louis was established in 1883, and he was a heavy subscriber to the fund for its maintenance. On Mr. Arnot was conferred the honor of burying President Lincoln at Springfield, Ill.
Charles, son of Elisha T., went to Nebraska in 1887, where he has been very prominent as an educator. During eight years he was county superintendent of Dodge county. For the same length of time he was in charge of the schools of Schuyler, where he won very high commendation. Recently he has gone into the banking business.
BABER
Powhatan (1824-1900) (Caroline Tuggle)-came from Bedford in 1830
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-Disciples minister of Red Sulphur Dist. C: George-Rev. Granville- Charles A. (Jennie Miller of W. F.).
C. of Granville: Mattie (E. L. Dunn)-Emma V. (J. P. Williams)- Frances (Charles Caldwell)-Ella N. (Charles M. Via).
BAKER
About 1787 Jacob came with the Lewis family from the Valley of Vir- ginia and was the first professional baker' employed at Sweet and Sweet Chalybeate Springs. Later he settled on the Faudree farm four miles west of Sweet Springs. He married Christina C. Goliday (1761c-1851) who never learned to speak English. Their son Jacob (Polly Hull, 1811) was born here in 1788 and died 1860. C: John (Nancy Calwell)-George W. (Mary Carter)-David (Rachel Tigert)-Henry (- - Argabrite) Lewis (Catharine Worsham)-Anderson (Mary Griffith)-Chapman (Ann Griffith)-Mary (Peter Carter)-Elizabeth (Conrad Piles)-Catharine (Adam Piles) .
C. of John: W. A. (Catharine Lugar)-C. O. (Caroline Kelly)- George (Mattie Lugar)-David O. (- Jones)-Joseph B. (Nicatia Baker, Amanda Wickline)-J H. (Mary E. Eggleston)-Julia A. (John H. Cook)-Mary E. (Daniel S. Wickline)-Amanda C. (F. L. Beckner) -Eliza J. (John E. Wickline, Jr.) .
Another Baker was David (d. 1840)-C: Jacob, Catharine - Ragland), Anne, Madison, Sarah. Still another was Frederick, naturalized 1811, d. 1830 (Elizabeth)-C: John-Frederick (Nancy Rains)-Joseph- Sarah (Jacob Pyles, 1818)-Elizabeth (- Given).
BALLANTYNE
Andrew and his wife, Agnes Smart, and their four children came from Dundee, Scotland, to Norfolk in 1801, and thence to the Sinks of Monroe. Their friends, Andrew Miller, May Broady, and others, came by the same ship and others had preceded them. Ballantyne was a skilled weaver. And like a true Scotchman of his time he was a great reader and student, es- pecially of the Bible. For many years he taught in an old schoolhouse that stood close to his home near Hillsdale. He and Andrew and James Miller would regularly walk to one another's homes on Sunday, a circuit of 10 miles, for the purpose of religious worship. They were elders of the first session after the Lebanon brick church was completed. The three daughters were as fond of reading as their parent. In order that a bor- rowed book might be promptly returned, they would read at night what their father had read by day. Their books, heavy both in binding and subject matter, are still in possession of their descendants. They also de- lighted in feats of memory. One of these was committing the 119th psalm, the Shorter and Longer Catechisms, and much of the Presbyterian Con- fession of Faith. C: Jean (Michael Beamer, 1824)-Elspeth (b. 1796)
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(Philip Beamer, Jr.)-Catharine (Robert Boyd)-Robert (Mary Harper) -Marjorie (born at sea 1801) (John Crawford).
C. of Robert: Isabel, Jeanetta, Elizabeth, Calvin, Andrew, James, Mad- ison, John. Andrew was a Methodist local preacher. Madison lost a leg at Cedar Creek and later became editor of the "Milton Star" at Milton, W. Va. His parents removed to the West.
BALLARD
William (1732-1799) (Elizabeth Step, d. 1830) was one of the 10 child- ren of William, Sr., who came from Scotland to the vicinity of where after- ward arose the city of Washington. With several of his brothers he served in the American Army of the Revolution. Shortly after that event he left his home on the Rapidan and after a short stay in Albemarle he jour- neyed to Indian Creek with two horses, one cow, and a few household goods, arriving at Benjamin Harvey's on Christmas night, 1793. He ac- quired no realty. The years in which he was born and died were precisely the same as in the case of the Father of his Country. C: Johnson (Ky.)- Jeremiah (1777-1867) (Jaley Thompson)-Lucy (John Stodghill, John Good- all)-Millie (Jacob Mann, 1804)-William (1784-1880) (Mollie Snow)- Nancy (William Farrell)-Mollie (Mathias Kessinger, 1803)-Willis (1791- 1880) (Isabel Thompson, 1813)-James (Jennie Keaton, 1804).
C. of Jeremiah: Elizabeth (Andrew Campbell)-Margaret (Anderson Keaton, 1831, Robert D. Shanklin)-John (b. 1818) (Jane Dennis)-Bald- win (b. 1821) (Emily Mann, 1847) (Leah Mann, 1850)-Riley (1823-1915) (Amanda Cummings)-Lewis (d. 1906) (Malinda J. Spangler, 1854)- Mary (1830-1914) (John Hecht)-Frank (1833-1915) (Lizzie Chapman, 1866).
C. of Baldwin: Allen T. by 2d w .- Simpson S. (s)-Marion C. (Kate Humphreys, 1878)-Henry (Jennie McNeer, 1885)-Jeremiah (Amanda Burdett, 1883, Mamie Hinkle, 1913)-Margaret (Charles Lingo)-Wallace (Cornelia Humphreys)-Isaac N. (Kate M. Walkup, 1893)-Emma A. (Henderson Reed)-Charles S. (Ida Borden, Nancy Buchanan).
C. of Frank: India W., Don B., Cora, Eva L., Roland E.
Willis and Jeremiah purchased in 1817 of the heirs of Daniel Jarrell, 280 acres for $350. This property still remains in the Willis branch. .
C. of Willis: Thompson (b. 1814) (Anna Miller, 1841)-Elizabeth (Henly Mann, 1833)-George (1819-1879) (Delilah Mann, 1838)-Wil- liam (1821-1914) (Elizabeth Riner, 1914)-Harrison (Huldah Mann, 1847) -Susan (1826-1914) (Samuel Miller)-Sylvester (Lucinda Riner, 1848)- Nancy (1830-1904) (Eli Mann, 1850)-Hugh (b. 1836) (Rachel Mann, 1866). All these sons except Hugh, who had the homestead, opened new farms on Stinking Lick.
C. of Thompson : Overton (d. '63), Willia, (d. '62), Isabella (b. 1844) (Lewis Campbell), John T. (b. 1845), Ellen (Dayton Humphreys), Mil-
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lard F. (Lydia Keatly), James K. (Mary Campbell), Agnes (Henry Wills), Sarah A. (James McClaugherty).
C. of George: Polly (1839-1861) (Garland Hurt), Isabella (Henry Humphreys), James (Mary Wills), Clayton (Ellen Spangler), Jarrett (Mary Spangler), Gaston (Catharine Spangler, Molly Thompson)
C. of William: Marinda (b. 1849) (Lewis Ellison), Amanda (Hen- derson Barton) Molly (John Spangler), Juretta (William Keatly), Mar- tha (John Keatly).
C. of Harrison : Maston (b. 1848) (- Barton, Ruth Smith), Mary (Wilson Davis), Isabella (Benjamin Tinsley), Delilah (Lewis Mea- dows), Nelson (Elizabeth Hanks), Grant (Lidia Bonham), Sylvester (- Chambers).
C. of Sylvester: George (Margaret Thompson).
C. of Hugh: Oliver (Kate Broyles), Molly (F. G. Lilly), Annie L. (Sylvester A. Miller).
The Ballards are remarkable for longevity and they constitute a nu- merous connection. The five brothers of William, Jr., came to Monroe before he did, but we have little knowledge of them. Curtis (Esther) moved from Hans Creek to Ohio in 1810. His daughter Sarah married Isaac Hutchinson in 1801.
Baldwin Ballard, 95 years of age as we go to press, is of striking per- sonality and has had an eventful career. A white swelling in his ankle made him a cripple at the age of 12. A few years later he removed a splintered bone by the free use of a razor and kept on hoeing corn to the close of the day. He learned to sew and to weave and followed the tail- oring trade more than 20 years, doing much of his work at the homes of his patrons. He thus traveled much territory on the east of the lower course of the Greenbrier. In partnership with his brother John he pur- chased in 1845 the farm on which he now lives. Previous to the war he carried on for a while a mercantile career in connection with his tailor- ing business. The latter came to an end with the appearance of ready- made clothing in the stores. Mr. Ballard was one of the three men at Greenville who voted against secession. His lameness rendered him ex- empt from military service but his opposition to the Confederate cause was uncompromising. His unconcealed sympathy with the North made his po- sition a trying one, yet he did not discriminate in the matter of hospitality. Many a time Confederate soldiers ate at his table while at the same time Union soldiers or runaways were concealed in the loft. On one occasion he was brought into Greenville under arrest and for a while it looked as though he would be hanged, but the intercession of neighbors who nev- ertheless were of Confederate feeling caused him to be let off with a lec- ture and a warning. At another time he was fired upon and his horse wounded. During the reconstruction period he was six years a justice of the peace and it has been his boast that not one of his decisions was ever
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reversed by a higher court. Mr. Ballard has been very successful as a business man and is one of the wealthiest stockgrowers of Monroe. He is quick at repartee, as is well known to those acquainted with him. His iron will and inflexible convictions have in political discussion made him able to give as well as take blow for blow. Yet he is a personage of kindly nature, and now that the tempestuous period of the 60's and 70's has receded almost half a century into the background, his relations with his neighbors are entirely cordial. With his second wife he lived happily for the remarkable span of 65 years.
Others of the connection also espoused the Federal cause. Frank, son of Jerry, became a captain of West Virginia state troops, and his was the first Federal command to enter Monroe county. He was at Cloyd's Mountain and in other engagements. During the reconstruction period he served as county superintendent, twice as delegate to the legislature, and once as prosecuting attorney. He secured the passage of a law permitting a landholder to pass through the land of another to reach a public road.
Lewis Ballard sat in the West Virginia legislature in 1863, and was the first sheriff of Monroe after the war. His property had been confis- cated in 1863, but he made his escape from the military prison at Salis- bury, N. C.
BARE
Samuel (1796-1874) came from Staunton about 1824 and settled on In- dian Draft. He was a son of Jacob (Eve) of Germany and could speak no English until seven years old. He was a captain of militia. His wife, Mary P. Smith (1808-1884) was of this county. C: Jacob W. (1827-1909) (Elizabeth P. Chambers, 1844, Amanda B. Baker)-Isaac E. (1831-1912) (Sarah F. Lynch, Margaret Surber)-Paulina (Joseph A. H. Ellison, 1853) -Virginia F. (William F. Nelson, 1861)-John H. C. (b. 1844) (Mary S. Thompson, Mary P. Kershner) .
C. of Jacob W. by 1st w .- Mary E. (b. 1848), Newton J., Margaret A., Samuel F., Elizabeth V., Georgia A., C. S.
C. of J. H. C .- Sarah E. S., Ellen M., Carol C., Frances M., Jennie A., E. G., Sarah C.
BARNETT
William A. (Lydia A. Boyd, 1865), a native of Harrison, and a mem- ber of the 19th Virginia Cavalry, came here during the war and settled on the Knobs. C: Eliza (Gordon Taylor), Harvey (Jessie Kuhn), Annie (Floyd Flack), Laura (- Flack), Mary (James DeHart), Jessie (- Bowyer), Porterfield (Mrs. Spencer), Archelaus, William.
BEAMER
Philip (1763-1838 (Elizabeth
-, d. 1840) left Reading, Penn., to
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go to Tenn., but not finding a suitable location the family came about 1799 to the Plank Cabin Draft near Hillsdale. The journey was made in a large four-horse wagon. On the land purchased were a hunter's cabin and an acre of clearing. Here the parents and two or three children lived two years until better quarters could be provided. C: Elizabeth (Conrad Cart, 1808)-Joseph (b. 1796) - Bayley)-John (1798- 1868) (Susan Cart, Harriet Stayley Fleshman)-Philip (Elspeth Ballan- tyne)-Michael (1801-1882) (Jean Ballantyne, 1824)-George (1805-1877) (Louise Byrd)-Henry (Oregon)-Benjamin (O.)-Sarah (James Crosier, 1820)-Mary (s)-Harriet (- Milholland) .
C. of John: Amanda (Nicholas Vanstavern)-Mary (Benjamin Vans- tavern)-Thomas-Calvin (Virginia Parker) -? Catharine S. (Thomas Brown, 1845).
C. of Philip: Andrew, Jean, Eliza, Mary C. (1833-1915) (George R. Williams, 1857), Franklin, Louise.
C. of Michael : Rev. Augustus B. (1826-1903) (Romanza Miller) -Eliza S. (s)-Robert M. (b. 1831) (Mary S. Young, 1853)-Benjamin (1832-1909) (Caroline Parker).
C. of R. M .- Isabel, Erastus (Elizabeth Baker), Byrd (Minnie Speil- man), Serena C. (George Anderson), William M., Hugh (Virginia Haw- kins), Laura (William Hawkins), Walter (Bessie Lynch), Edna L., Elsie L., Asa, Roy (Sarah Moore) .
C. of Benjamin of Michael: Alphonso, Ida, Virginia (William Wim- mer), Simpson, Joseph, Leslie, Dona, Mary.
C. of George: Clementina Handley), Mary (William T. Patton), Elizabeth (Charles Sydenstricker), Byrd (k. '64) .
According to the mortuary records of Monroe, John was born in Ger- many in 1798. Yet the deed-book records the purchase of the Larkin place in 1796 instead of three years later.
BEARD
John D. of David and Felicia was b. 1833, came from Augusta 1867, and acquired several good grazing farms, particularly at Johnson's Cross- roads. He was one of the oldest Masons in Monroe. (Mary M. Johnson, 1867, Mahala E. Dunn, Ella Campbell) C: Charles O., Rufus J. D., Hugh D., Robert E., and (by 2d w.) Richard P.
BECKETT
About 1785 three Becketts, said to be of a collateral branch of the fam- ily to which the celebrated Robert A. Beckett belonged, came from Eng- land, one settling in Connecticut, one in Maryland, and one in Virginia. Of the eight children of Daniel (Lydia Wade) of Blacksburg, William H. H. (Catharine D. Callaway, 1841, Margaret Tracy) came to Monroe before his first marriage. C: Amanda M. (A. C. Lynch)-Margaret
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(Rice Cart, Rev. P. S. Chandler)-Wilber F. (Jennie Devers)-James D. (A- - E. Peck, 1879)-George H. (Sarah M. Michie, Mrs. Eliza- beth A. Hodge)-Henry C. (Mary W. Crews)-A. W. (m. in Wood) -Elizabeth E. (George Kountz)-Erastus (Margaret Still) ; by 2d m .- Ballard P. (Elizabeth Harvey)-Samuel F. (Nannie Spangler)-Robert D. (Julia Robertson)-Catharine B. (William Martin)-Dora B. (Walter Dent)-Arthur T .- Willie H. (Charles Stromer). All but the first of the older family are yet living and none is under the age of 58. W. F. and J. D. were in the Confederate army, the former being present in 17 bat- tles. J. D. has spent much time in school work and has served three terms as county superintendent and two as circuit clerk; is now President of Monroe county court. Dr. H. C. studied at Holbrook and Vanderbilt universities and graduated in medicine at the University of Nashville. He has been a practitioner at Scottsburg, Va., since 1885, ranks high in his profession, and is author of several papers on medical topics. Samuel (- - Eddy), brother to W. H. H., married in Mon- roe. C. of J. D .: Ray P. (Lorna Miller) Mamie (R. M. Steele) and Emile.
BECKNER
Daniel (Elizabeth Evans) came from Botetourt to Sinks Grove about 1820. His children by this marriage were John (dy) and Lewis (1824- 1864)
C. of Lewis (Catharine Wickline of Daniel, 1849) : Napoleon L. (d) - Ferdinand L. (Amanda C. Baker, 1875)-Julian H .- Josephine M. E. (d)-Alfred A .- D. Powell, 1893-Spurgeon M .- Lewis F.
From 1873 to 1907, F. L. was concerned in the management of Sweet Springs, beginning under Oliver Beirne. J. H., now of Florida, was asso- ciated with Beirne and Burnside in the management of a sugar plantation. A. A., now of Baton Rouge, managed a Burnside sugar plantation 27 years. D. P. like A. A., managed the Lewis Place a while, was then transferred to Burnside, La., and at length returned to become manager of Sweet Springs. He was murdered by one John F. Wiley. S. M. is at Easton, Md. L. F., manager of Lewis Place 24 years, is now in Texas.
C. of F. L .- Currie L .- Nelson A .- Minnie B .- Mabel R .- Alfred C. (d)-Tilghman-Robert E .- Fitzhugh L .- John L .- Fred H .- Bessie M. -Lake S. T. and F. L. are foremen of the Myron Stratton Home Farm in Colorado. Their father is one of the most successful farmers of Sweet Springs valley.
The Beckners are of Lancaster county, Pa. Daniel was murdered by rangers in Nicholas.
BEIRNE
Andrew Beirne and his wife, - Plunkett, had three sons who built themselves largely into the history of Monroe. He was himself of
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the Irish gentry and of classical education and comfortable circumstances. Andrew, Jr., decided after coming to manhood that he would leave the old home in county Roscommon and come to America. He saw a better future for himself in the land that had just gained its independence than by remaining in his native Ireland which was so grievously oppressed by the British government. At the age of 22 he arrived at Philadelphia with about $150 in money. This sum he handed to a man who agreed to take him in a while so that he might have opportunity to gain a practical knowledge of the new country. The tradesman soon failed and the money was a total loss. Nevertheless the young man decided on a mercantile career, and a worthy countryman named Flanagan became his security for a few hundred dollars worth of goods. This supply he soon sold out and the same Quaker merchant, having faith in the young Irishman, furnished a larger stock. After about two years of very successful exertion Beirne found his way to this county and opened a small store on the farm of Edward Keenan, whose daughter, Ellen G., he married. As soon as Mon- roe and the town of Union were established, Mr. Beirne moved his store into the village, and his brother George arriving in 1800, the firm of A. and G. Beirne was formed and it continued many years. In 1824 Mrs. Royall speaks of its success as "without a parallel, taking into view the nature of the country."
Andrew Beirne soon became a great landholder. He acquired an estate of 2200 acres just north of the county seat, the half lying near the village being unsurpassed even in the famed bluegrass belt of Kentucky. There is running water in every field and the land is worth from $125 to $150 an acre. Near the Beirne mill, which is yet standing, he built a house which he painted red, and from this circumstance it was known as the "Red House." It has since disappeared. Later he built midway to Union a large brick dwelling which he painted white, and thus it became known as the "White House." As captain of a rifle company he led his command to Norfolk in 1814, all the more willingly because of his resentment at the injustice of England toward Ireland. But the news of peace came before there was any need for his further service. At the disbanding at Norfolk he very generously offered the homebound expenses of any member of his company who might need such help, regardless of whether it were repaid or not. Afterward he became colonel of the Monroe militia. His politi- Cal creed was Democratic and he was repeatedly honored with office. In 1807 he was a member of the Virginia Assembly. He was afterward a state senator, a member of the constitutional convention of 1829, and in 1836 a Presidential elector. He was also sent to Congress.
Colonel Beirne was not only a great financier but was of pleasing man- ners and high education. He took great interest in the affairs of his state and county. He died in 1845, aged 74, while on a visit to Hunts- ville, Ala. His possessions were then worth about $1,000,000. Beirne was
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of kindly impulses and much usefulness. Yet it must be added that this fortune, amassed while America was still a poor country, was not built up without recourse to grinding business methods. Such practices as his tended to deepen the inequality of wealth and to reduce the mass of the people to a condition little better than vassalage.
Of the ten children of Colonel and Mrs. Beirne the following attained maturity: Christopher (s)-Edward (s)-Mary D. (Biele Steenberger)- Susan (Charles H. Patton, 1833)-Nancy (William McFarland)-Oliver (1811-1888) (Margaret M. Caperton)-Ellen (-Turner)-George T. (Eliza Gray)-Andrew (d. 1872) (Mary A. Alexander, Ellen Gray) . Steenberger was once the owner of the celebrated Mimm's Bottoms in Shenandoah county. He was a financier after the order of Jay Gould and others of New York fame. On one occasion he borrowed $600,000 from the United States Bank with Col. Beirne and others as security. He failed but his indorsers won in a suit for relief from their obligation. He cor- nered the beef market in St. Louis and the flour market in San Francisco, where he sold flour at $50 a barrel. And yet he died at St. Louis a poor man. Patton was a distinguished physician of Alabama, and McFarland an eminent lawyer of Richmond. Turner was of Connecticut. George T. became a brilliant attorney of Huntsville, Ala. Oliver and Andrew were the only married sons who remained in Monroe.
The latter, known as "young colonel," lived on the Lewis place, where he was very successful as a grower of blooded livestock. He was not only a large slaveholder but an extensive employer of hired labor. But the war of 1861 was disastrous to him in a financial way. Andrew J. Beirne was over six feet tall, dressed like a planter, with brown slouch hat, highly polished boots, and large flaps to the pockets of his riding coat. He was known as the most superb horseback rider in the county. Mounted on "Honest John," he would lope in a single hour the eight miles between his house and Union, and to the schoolboys who envied his equestrianship it seemed as though horse and rider were one. His colored attendant, "Black Joe," riding "Peacock," could with difficulty keep up with him. His children were Mary G., Rosalie, Ellen, and Andrew. The one son died in a Federal prison in 1865. The first daughter married Thomas J. Mid- dleton, of South Carolina, the second married Col. Garrett Andrews, an eminent lawyer of Mississippi, and the third married Adolphus Blair of Richmond, whose son, Andrew B., is a prominent business man of that city.
Oliver had a college education and was a graduate in medicine, al- though he never practiced. On one of his return trips from school he met John Burnside at Fincastle, and this casual acquaintance led to the em- ployment of the latter by the colonel. At length Oliver Beirne formed a partnership with Burnside for buying and selling sugar, Burnside taking the New Orleans end of the business and Oliver the New York end. After
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making a great deal of money they closed out in 1847, Burnside then be- coming a sugar planter. Oliver enlarged the "White House" and lived there until the war, when he moved to Sweet Springs, where he was the owner of the hotel. To this property he gave the great benefit of his ca- pacity for business organization. Oliver Beirne was at length not only the proprietor of the family homestead and of Sweet Springs, but also of the Lewis place, the Burnside estate, and large holdings in Texas, the whole being worth some $6,000,000, and making him at that time the wealthiest man in the Virginias. All this property except Sweet Springs still belongs to his heirs. Mr. Beirne was a person of warm attachments as well as strong prejudices. He was large-hearted toward his friends, but could tolerate no petty meanness. In his later years he was known as an erect, well-groomed gentleman of somewhat more than average size and he wore a long, white, patriarchal beard. His children were John, Jane E., Bettie, Andrew, Susan, Nancy, and Alice. Bettie married Will- iam P. Miles, of South Carolina, a scholarly gentleman and a great book lover. He served in Congress and was one of the organizers of the Con- federate government at Montgomery. He was one of the near counselors of Jefferson Davis. Susan married Major Henry Robinson, and Nancy married Samuel B. Parkman, who was killed at Antietam. In 1869 she married Emil von Ahlefeldt, a German, and spent thirteen years in Eu- rope. The only living grandchildren are those of Mrs. Miles, two of whom spend their summers at the White House.
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