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ST. LAURENCE CHURCH, HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND.
In this Church many of the Nourse Family worshipped, and some of them are buried near it.

JAMES NOURSE

AND HIS DESCENDANTS

COMPILED BY
MARIA CATHARINE NOURSE LYLE

PRINTED BY REQUEST

LKXINOTOH, KT.
TRANSYLVANIA PRINTING CO.
1897.

PREFACE.

This volume is presented to aU interested in the history of "James
Nourse and His Descendants," with the hope that they will kindly
overlook any imperfections they may chance to discover, remember
ing the work was not undertaken for money Every effort has been
made to secure the best results. We were not discouraged, although
forewarned at the beginning that there was a " great deal of hard
work in store and an almost thankless task" before us. Very few
refused to give the information asked, while many took special pains
to add words of approbation and encouragement. Instead of being
a task, it has proved a pleasure. The necessary correspondence has
in many instances led to personal acquaintance and lasting friend
ship. It would be impossible to give the names of all to whom we ai'e
indebted for assistance. First among them, however, must be men
tioned Mr. James B. Nourse aud his sisters, Misses Mary and Rosa
M. Nourse, of " The Highlands." Washington, D. C. Relatives have
been ever welcome to their lovely home and given free use of family
records, which were so carefully preserved by their grandfather,
Joseph Nourse, and handed down to them as a precious legacy by
their father, Major Charles J. Nourse.
Many thanks are due to Mrs. Anita Newcomb McGee, M. D.,of
Washington, D. C, for a eery large contribution of data collected
by herself at the expense of many years of work ; also, for numerous
sketches. Mr. W J McGee made valuable suggestions. Rev. James
M Nourse, of Manassas ; Mrs. Albert D. Brockett, of Alexandria,
Virginia; Judge R. 0. Cravens, of Sacramento, California; Mr.
Abner M. Sisson, of Hannibal, Missouri ; Mrs. S. A. McDonald, of
Jameson, Missouri; Mrs. Martha Susan Elliott, of Spalding, Mis
souri ; Rev. M. B . Riddle, D. D. , of Alegheny, Pennsylvania ; Miss

iv PREFACE.
Lavinia Riddle, of Vernon, Texas; Mrs. Susan M. Marshall, of
Nashville, Tennessee ; Miss Jane Nourse, of Bardstown ; Miss Anne
Nourse, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and many others, are gratefully
remembered for their cheerful and prompt assistance .
It may be well to mention some others bearing the same name,
though not related to James Nourse . The first to come to America,
so far as known to the writer, were Francis Nurse (born 1618) and
Rebecca Nurse . It is said they came from Yarmouth, England.
Many of their descendants are scattered throughout the United
States. Miles Nourse and wife with three sons and a daughter came from
Manchester, England, to New York in 1856.
Reverend Robert Nourse, the popular lecturer, came from Norfolk,
England, about 1873, and resides in Fairfax county, Virginia. It
has been said that there is a " striking likeness between members of
his family and some of the descendants of James Nourse in physical
feature and mental and moral peculiarity."
Mr. Samuel Osborne Nourse (died July 31, 1872) came from Bar
badoes, West Indies, and settled in Pennsylvania. His wife was
Jane Barnes Green, an aunt of John Fiske, the historian. A daugh
ter, Mrs. H. B. Jacobs, aud son, Charles Frederick Nourse, live in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Their other children are Clarence Atlee
and Misses Victoria Louise and Florence Ada Nourse of Washing
ton, D. C. They have the same coat of arms as James Nourse with
this motto : "Virtu non Artifice" (" By courage, not by cunning.")
It is said, a " Nourse" came to this country from Cork, Ireland,
some years ago. If there are any others, an extensive correspond
ence with persons of the name has failed to discover them.

KEY TO NUMBERING OF DESCENDANTS.

James Nourse is number one of both consecutive and exponent
numbers. Consecutive numbers from one to one hundred and twenty-seven
show every one whose surname was Nourse, who became the head of
a family. Exponent numbers mark the generations, for example :
Charles3 Nourse, (Gabriel2, James1). Charles3 is grandson of
James1 ; Gabriel2 is son of James1.
Descendants not named Nourse are given immediately after their
parents, and are marked by indentations, exponent numbers and
small numbers.
The second generation are the children of James and Sarah
(Fouace) Nourse, and each one of these, with his or her descendants
makes a separate chapter ; so that there will be very little tracing
necessary to find the third, fourth or even the sixth and seventh
generations.

CONTENTS.

Chapter. Page.
I. Parish of Weston-under-Penyard, Herefordshire, England  1
II. James Nourse, Immigrant  8
III. Joseph Nourse and his Descendants  24
IV. James Nourse, Jr., and his Descendants.  33
V. Catharine Burton (Nourse) Cooke and her Descendants  44
VI. Robert Nourse and his Descendants  58
VII. William Nours.e and his Descendants  69
VIII. Elizabeth (Nourse) Chapline and her Descendants  77
IX. Susanna (Nourse) Riddle and her Descendants  93
X. Gabriel Nourse and his Descendants  100
XI. Michael Nourse and his Descendants  112
Genealogical Table  140
Index  157

Illustrations.

" St. Laurence" Church, Herefordshire, England  Frontispiece. Page.
" Weston House," Herefordshire, England  2
Nourse Arms  5
Fac-simile Autographs  7
Portraits of James Nourse and Mrs. Sarah Fouace Nourse  8
Portraits of Joseph Nourse, Mrs. Maria Louisa Bull Nourse, Major Charles
Josephus Nourse  24
" Mount Alban" and " The Highlands," Washington, D. C  28
Portrait of Mrs. Cathariue Burton Nourse Cooke  44
Portrait of Mrs. Susan Mary Winn Marshall  50
Portraits of Rev. Joel Kenney Lyle, Mrs. Maria Catharine Nourse Lyle, Miss
Lizzie Agnes Lyle, Miss Helen Lyle, Charles Nourse Lyle  75
Portrait of Rev. Matthew Brown Riddle, D. D  97
Portraits of Charles Nourse, Joseph Gabriel Nourse, John Daniel Nourse,
Charles Clinton Nourse, Mrs. Susan Nourse Vimont  101
Portraits of Michael Nourse and Mrs. Mary Rittenhouse Nourse  112
Portrait of J ohn Rittenhouse Nourse  113
Portraits of Rev. James Nourse, Mrs. Sarah North Harvey Nourse, Rev.
James Michael Nourse, Mrs. Sarah Frances Blackman Nourse, Mrs. Hat
tie Nourse Brockett  114

CHAPTER I.

PARISH OF WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD,
HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND.
"Weston is bounded north by Upton Bishops; south by Walford
and Hope Mansel ; east by Linton and Lea, and on west by Ross.
The word 'Westune' denotes the position of its vill towards Brome-
ash, the place where the Hundred Courts in this district were once
held, and its adjunct is allusive of the elevated woody eminence
under which it is placed."
Or, as given in Robinson's "Houses and Manors in Herefordshire,
England," " 'Weston-under-Penyard,' as its name indicates, is a town
built on the west side of the Roman settlement of Onconium, and is
beneath the wooded slopes of 'Penyard Chase.' "

Westune and Ponchille estates were taken from the Saxon owner
Gunner, and given to Durand of Gloucester, the first Norman sheriff
of that county .
The lessee of these manors was Bernard (New-march), a favored
friend, if not a relative, of William I., who had accompanied the
invaders and assisted at Hastings. In A. D. 1092, collecting a party
of resolute companions, he invaded Breconshire.
In the twelfth century a family whose name is mentioned in
records as De Brett, Britte, Brut and Brute, were lessees of the manor
of Weston . In the war between King John and the Barons, the
sheriff of Herefordshire was directed to give Richard Talbot, Lord of
Eccleswall manor, the lands and tenements in Westune occupied by
Matthew La Brett, who was with the king's enemies. After the
compact of Runnymede, this writ of confiscation was reversed. The
Manor of Weston Brette was part of the Rudhall estate in the
fifteenth century.

2 WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD.
*Lower Weston was the seat of the Nourse family from pre-
Reformation date to the present century [nineteenth]. In A. J).
1531 William Wylles, of Peterstow, obtained an Episcopal license
for his marriage with Johanna Nourse, of Weston, at which period
a John Nourse (of Weston) occupied as tenant, lands in the parish
belonging to a charity founded in the Cathedral Church at Hereford.
Weston-under-Penyard a parish in the hundred of Greytree, county of Here
ford, 2% miles E. S. E., from Boss. The living is a rectory, in the Archdeaconry
and Diocese of Hereford, rated in the King's book at £18, and in the patron
age of the Bishop of Hereford. The church is dedicated to fSt. Laurence.

Walter Nourse, who married Christiana, daughter of Sir Fred
erick Wall of Lintrige, of Gloucestershire, was buried in the church
in 1609, aged 65, and his son,
John held at the time of his death the house of Lower Weston
with 70 acres, the farms Brook, Walton and Woodend, lands in the
parishes of Dymock, Newent, and Whit Church. He married Joan,
daughter of Sir John Kyrle [of JMuch Marcle in the county of
Hereford] , who became his widow in 1630, with seven sons, the eld
est of whom, John, was then thirteen years of age. The wardship
and marriage of her son was purchased by his mother for £40,
and she obtained a lease of the family estates, during the minority
at rental of £9, for the support of her children. This John married
Lettice, third daughter of William Jones of Treowen, in the county
of Monmouth (Wales). He died in 1670. John Nourse, having
aided the King's party in the civil troubles, was deprived of his
possessions. In January, 1646, his submission is thus noticed by
the Committee of Sequestration for the county :
"John Nourse, Gent., a delinquent to the Parliament, hath delivered to the
commissioners a statement of his real and an inventory of his personal estates,
except what is a sufficient maintainance for his wife and children, according to
the ordinance of Parliament. We having sequestered his estate for the use of
the Commonwealth, in consequence of his delinquency, and he having submitted
*Lower Weston is 201 feet above the mean tidal level, while at Lawn's farm the ground rises at
once to 573 feet and maintains an altitude of upwards of 600 feet around that neighborhood.
+S. Lewis's Typographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
J"Much Marcle Is about seven miles N. E. of Ross. According to old documents, the name
passed through many tranBitioiiS : Crul, Crulle, Oryll, Curl, Kyil, Kirle, Kyrle. The family came
originally from Flanders, (Callaway's Hist. Heraldry) and settled In Herefordshire about the
reign of Edward I. About the reign of Henry VII. permanent change of name to Kyrle. "—Taken
from Memoir of John Kyrle, the " man of Rots." p. 133.

'WESTON HOUSE/' HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND.
Birthplace of James Nourse,

WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD. 3
himself to us, we hereby grant and demise to the said John Nourse, the mes
suage and lands in Llanwarne and Pencoyd, now in his occupation; and also
his lands in Whit Church, Ganaren, Wilton, HopeMansel, Linton, Cellach, Ross,
Newent and Dymock, at a rent of €13, to be paid to the Treasurer of the
County," a penalty that ceased at the Restoration.
John Nourse, who succeeded to these estates on the decease of his
father in 1670, identified himself with the political occurrences of
his time, and was one of the nineteen county gentlemen by whose
interference an unopposed election to the county was secured in
1681. . . The result of this conference was to secure the election
of tbe two former members, Lord Scudamore and Sir Edward Har-
ley, the latter being the candidate of the anti-Catholic party. One
record said this John Nourse died in 1697 ; others give the date as
1683. He married Ann, daughter of John Smith, of North Nibley,
in the county of Gloucester. His son,
John Nourse, died 1715 ; was born in 1670 ; married, May 9,
1695, Elizabeth, daughter of James Gregory, of Woolhope, in the
county of Hereford. His son,
John Nourse (d. 1751) married Apr. 11, 172J, Eliza, his first
cousin, daughter of * William Gregory, of How Caple, in the county of
Hereford. These were the parents of James Nourse, who came to
America in 1769. Eliza Gregory (the mother of said James Nourse),
daughter of William and Elizabeth Gregory, was half sister to Ed
ward Cope Hopton by the marriage of her mother to Richard Hopton.
Edward Cope Hopton's daughter Ann married Michael Clements.
Their son, Michael Hopton Clements, was, therefore, collaterally a
cousin of the children of James Nourse. In 1841, the said Michael
Hopton Clements was a lunatic in London Hospital, possessed of a
very large property. As the elder Elizabeth Gregory was the ma
ternal great-grandmother of James Nourse's children, as well as of
Michael Hopton Clements, they, in case they survived him, could
inherit a share of the lunatic's property. He died in 1846, and
Elizabeth Nourse (Mrs. Chapline) , Susanna Nourse (Mrs. Riddle) and
*(An extract from the original inventory of the estate of William Gregory:
"A true and perfect inventory of all the Good3. Chattels, Cattle (?), Household stuffs, Rights,
Credits and other personal estate of Sir William Gregory. Knt., lately deceased, taken and apprised
by as, Thomas Mansfield, John Sberriffe and John Rogers, this fifteenth (?) day of June, m the year
of our Lord, One Thousand Six Hundred and Xinety six;
(1st items) His Wearing Apparel, Gowns and Robes; £30. In the Hall at How Caple; 3 tables, 2
long — and one Bible; £1.10," etc. There is still in England a portrait of William Gregory in his
scarlet robe, trimmed with white ermine. How Caple and Woolhope are both Gregory places,
¦jrithin six miles , more or less, of Ross, Herefordshire, England.

4 WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD. •
Michael Nourse being survivors, each received on a final distribution,
in 1849 and '50, about $14,000. The personal estate of Michael
Hopton Clements amounted to £70,000 in the bank in the name of
the accountant general, and of a copy hold farm at Worcester held
under renewable grants and producing, net, about a hundred pounds
per annum. There were twenty persons who came in for a share in
England and three in America. His real estate consisted of landed
property. In this the descendants of James Nourse had no interest.
John Nourse and Eliza (Gregory) Nourse (m. April 11, 1721), had
ten children ; 1. John Nourse died unmarried, 1753 ; 2. William
Nourse, married Ann Mayo, daughter of John Mayo of Stantway, in
the county of Gloucester, 15th of June, 1747; 3. Eliza Nourse,
and 4. Philip Nourse, died young ; 5. Ann Nourse, married William
Jenkins; 6. James Nourse (b. 1731, m. Sarah, daughter of Gabriel
Fouace, of London, 1753 ; came to America in 1769 ; d. 1784) ; 7.
Robert Nourse ; 8. Timothy Nourse ; 9. Susanna Nourse, 10. Eliz
abeth Nourse, married William Hughes of London .
When John Nourse died unmarried, in 1753, his brother *William
succeeded to the estate ; also to the property given to John by
the will of his cousin, Rev. John Nourse of Damaham South, in the
county of Wilts, dated July 31st, 1752. Rev. John Nourse was the
son of one Walter Nourse, who married Dorothy Bourne.
Robert Nourse (son of John and Eliza [Gregory] Nourse) was
a lieutanant in the British navy. He died, unmarried, prior to 1787,
under which date reference is made to the unsettled estate of " Lieu
tenant Robert Nourse, deceased," by his nephew, William Nourse of
Kentucky .
There are no descendants of William Nourse and Ann Mayo, his
wife, named Nourse, living, though there are descendants of theirs liv
ing in England, i. e. Underwood and Harvey, and one of the Under
woods lives in Lancaster, Pa. William Nourse served as sheriff
of Herefordshire in 1769, being the only one of his family who held
that office.
Col. John Nourse (son of William and Ann [Mayo] Nourse), who
succeeded, in 1788, made Coughton his place of residence, and devoted
*From History of Hereford, vol. 3, p. 225, " Monumeits or gravestones in Weston Church. [+S\
Laurence]  North aisle. William Nourse, Esq., +1783 aet. 65. Mary Nourse, his daughter, +18 H
aet. 82."
+Mrs. Anita Newcomb McGee, M. D., secured from another family of Nourses in England a copy
of the St. Laurence church register (as mach as related to the Nourses), which was taken from
a copy made about forty years ago, and which it is said shows the connection between the Hereford
shire Nourses and the Oxfordshire Nourses.

NOURSE ARMS.

WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD. 5
much time and money to the improvement of his estate and of cider
fruit. An apple in the Ross district is still known as the Nourse
kernel. He held the rank of Colonel in the Ross and Archen-
field "Volunteer Corps, and died at Bath, having survived his only
brother, who died childless in America. The estate descended to his
sister Mary Nourse in 1808. When she died at the xge of ninety-
two, Weston-under-Penyard passed to William Partridge of Bishops
and by the trustees of the marriage settlement of William Partridge
of Wyelands to Rev. James Aldrich Blake of Welsh Bicknor, the
present proprietor.
The residence, an interesting specimen of a Tudor mansion, has over the door
way the arms of Nourse, carved— gul.-afesse between two chevrons— arg. crest,
an arm embowed, vested az. cuffed arg. grasping in the hand ppr. a snake of
the last environed around the arm.
" Weston house is one of the most perfect examples of Elizabethan archi
tecture in England. The porch and bay windows on either side are specially
well designed, and the interior has undergone so little alteration that there is
no difficulty in realizing what was the domestic economy of a Tudor squire.
The house, built of local sandstone, was erected by Walter Nourse, about 1600,
who is described asayounger son of Richard Nourse of Chilling Place and Wood
Eton, County Oxon. He, Walter, married Christiana, daughter of Sir Frederick
Wall, of Lintrige, England" (in Gloucestershire.)*
fCastle End estate, on which there exists a substantial family residence, be
longed, in the early part of the last century [the eighteenth], to the Nourse family
by purchase of the Duke of Kent. It passed from Robert Gregory, Esq. (son of
William Gregory, Esq., of the Hill House in Woolhope), on his marriage with
Laetitia, only daughter of John Nourse, Esq. On the death of Mr. Gregory, in
A. D. 1731, without issue, it reverted to his nephew, Philip Nourse, of Bristol,
who, on succeeding to this estate, retired from commercial pursuits and made
Castle End his residence. Dying in A. D. 1742, without issue, he entailed the
property after the decease of his widow (Mary, daughter of William Garmorns,
of Trelough), on his nephews, Timothy, William, Robert and James Nourse,
entail male. Mrs. Mary Nourse survived until A. D. 1769, and Timothy Nourse,
dying in 1778, unmarried, was succeeded by his brother, William Nourse, of
Lower Weston. On the death of this gentleman in A. D. 1783, Castle-End
passed to his son, Colonel John Nourse, who sold it to William Matthews, of
Barton, Esq. — John Matthews, Esq., M. D., disposed of the property in 1819 to
William Rudge, of Weston, Gent., whose representatives still retain the residence
and about 100 acres of land. The remainder of the estate was purchased 1841,
by the first Lord Ashburton. BENEFACTIONS.
"Thomas Nourse, of Long Hope, Gent., by his will, dated 20 April, 1675,
devised to the Church Wardens, overseers of Lea, a house and orchard in trust,
that they, with the consent of three of the most substantial inhabitants,
should every year apply the rents thereof to the poor of the Parish, to be laid
•Robinson's "Houses and Manors of Herefordshire." See also " Herefordshire Directory."
+History of Hereford, vol. 2, p. 899.

6 WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD.
out in wheaten bread, and give the one-half on the Sunday before Christmas
day, and the other the Sunday before Candlemas day.
Note— This Thomas Nourse was of a family seated at Lower Weston, whose
arms, viz.: gules a fesse between three chevrons arg. were engraved on his tomb
in Long Hope Church."*

The statement of the parentage of Walter Nourse and his connec
tion with the Lower Weston is taken from " Burke's Landed Gentry,"
Vol . 2 :
"John Nourse, of Chilling Place, County Oxford, married Phillipa, daughter
of Sir Edward Tyrrell, of Thornton Bucks. Phillipa derived from Arch-bishop
of Chichels and several of the Nourses in consequence of their being of Founder's
kin were admitted Fellows of All Souls. John Nourse left a son named Rich
ard, who left a son named John, seated at Wood Eton, and a younger son
named Walter, who purchased an estate at Weston-under-Penyard when a
young man."
This, it is believed, is accepted by the descendants of Walter
Nourse, in England, and by many of them in America. The dates
given below, however, do not seem to confirm it.
Sir Edward Tyrell diedf in 1605 at the age of 32, at which date his supposed
great-grandson was 61 years old. Phillipa, fourth daughter of Sir Edward
Tyrrell, was second wife of John Nourse and they had no surviving issue.
Richard, eldest son of this John and his first wife, died at Wood Eton in 1673,
and his son John was buried in that church in 1708.
?Dumcomb & Cooke's " Hist. Hereford," vol. 2, p. 404.
[+Ext-acts from "Collections towards the Histories and Antiquities of the County of Hereford,"
by W. H.Cooke 1822, p. 210, vol. 3, in Library of British Museum.]

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Children of James and
Sarah Fouace Nourse.

1. Joseph Burton, of London, England, Father of Sarah Burton.
2. James Nourse, Emigrant Ancestor.
3. Joseph Nourse, Registrar, Washington, D. C.l
4. C. B. Cooke, Eldest Daughter, Kentucky.
5. Robert Nourse, Kentucky.
6. Wm. Nourse, Mercer County, Kentucky.
13. James Nourse, Jr., Bardstown, Kentucky.
15. Elizabeth Chapline, Missouri.
18. Gabriel Nourse, Maryland.
19. Michael Nourse, Washington, D. C.
11. Gabriel Fouace, brought to England from Caen, Normandy, by his par
ents, 1685.
12. Sarah Burton. (The Fouace and Burton autographs are taken from the
Marriage Articles of Gabriel Fouace and Sarah Burton, dated "10th
day of 8, 1720.")
7. J. Nourse, of Herefordshire, England, Eldest Brother of James Nourse,
Emigrant. (Written 1751).
8. Wm. Nourse, of Herefordshire, England, Next Oldest Brother of James,
the Emigrant. (Written 1773).
9. Mary Nourse, Daughter of William. (Written 1808).
10. John Bull, Father of Maria Louise Bull Nourse. (Written 1770).
21. Benjamin Rittenhouse, Father of Mary Rittenhouse Nourse. (Written 1800.)
14. J. D. Nourse, Grandson of James Nourse, Jr.
16. Rev. D. H. Riddle, D. D., Son of Susanna Nourse Riddle.
17. Rev. M. B. Riddle, D. D., Son of Rev. D. H. Riddle, D. D.
20. Rev. J. E. Nourse, Son of Michael Nourse.

CHAPTER II.

JAMES NOURSE, IMMIGRANT.
1. James Nourse (third son of John Nourse and Eliza Greg
ory, his wife, m. April 11, 1721) was born at Weston-under-Pen-
yard house, county of Hereford, England, July 19, 1731. There
is no record of his childhood and youth. The first mention of his
early manhood is in a letter written to him by his brother John
Nourse, which follows :
My Dear Jimmie— I have received yours ye 19th and have on that occasion
looked over some of your letters to my father, by which you seem to stand thus
from February 23 to November 19, which fe at ye rate of more than £85 a year,
while the interest of your fortune at 5 per cent, does not amount to £20 
I know that your present — or at least late — situation must of necessity run you
into several expenses beyond what would be prudent at another time. Upon
which account, I shall willingly discharge all your present debts, with some
what over for pocket money. But I suppose that you need not be told that
you must retrench for the future. If you think that you must live somewhat as
a gentleman's son, pray think of my condition, who am expected to live as my
father did, with about one-third of what they took to be his income, and with
out any future prospect of increasing it, by trade or profession.
Dick Hopton (as my uncle Gregory informs me) is of opinion that I can
not pay your fortune until you are of age  The sum of the whole is this,
I will pay your debts, and send you as much money as you think will be neces
sary for your expenses for the next eight months, and on the 19th of July you
will be of age, when, if you think fit, you will receive it, i. e., your fortune
(£300). I hope, Dear Jimmie, I need not tell you that I love you very well, but
in this ye utmost that common prudence will permit me to do for you. And
therefore I hope you will be contented with it and do (as I am continually
striving to do) bring your mind to the bounds of your fortune,
I am your affectionate brother,
Weston, Nov. 29, 1751. J. Nourse.
James Nourse married, Sept. 30, 1753, Sarah, daughter of Gabriel
Eouace, of London, and Sarah (Burton) Fouace, daughter of Joseph
Burton. Concerning his maternal grandfather, Joseph Nourse said
in his journal :
"My mother's father, Gabriel Fouace, esq., (magistrate of the city of West
minster) was born at Caen, Normandy, and brought away at the time of the
revocation of the Edict of Nantz."

JAMES NOURSE.
SARAH FOUACE NOURSE.

Taken from an Oil Painting done in London in 1754.

JAMES NOURSE. 9
In the same journal he wrote, in 1834 :
"The godly person whom I have named was my mother's grandfather,
Joseph Burton, who had, early in life, made an independent estate in trade and
retired to Hoxton, near London, where he lived about forty years, so that he
died at an advanced age. His writings, or commonplace books, are a good
evidence of his piety." He was born about 1645, and was living in 1720.
His commonplace books are remarks on his readings uninterruptedly car
ried on at least forty years. They are evangelical. They are written in a legible
regular hand, and paper and ink are now inagood state of preservation (1896).
Soon after his marriage, James Nourse went into trade in the city
of London, as woolen draper. He engaged in this business for
fifteen years. In 1768 he was church warden of parish, Bedford
street, fronting Henrietta street, Covent Garden. The church was
St . Paul . Just when the thought of coming to America presented
itself to his mind is uncertain, but in a memorandum book, bearing
date of April £, 1768, he wrote :
"The trade here a comfortable livelihood, but little provision for a large
family. The Omnipotent, Beneficent Father of all will and doth give to all
their daily bread. No distrust then on His Providence  Tho' the race
is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, yet he that runs not can
not gain the prize. To tempt God is to live inactive and expect that by His
providence he will feed you without using the means he has put in your power.
That the hearts of all men are in the hand of God and that sometimes in His
divine wisdom, he inclines the heart of man (yet leaving the will free), to parti
cular subjects by which be brings about the great intentions of his providence
appears upon the whole face of the sacred writings, both Old and New Testa
ments. And Cffisar caused all the world to be taxed. That the heart of Colum
bus might be inclined by sacred influence to attempt the discovery of an
unknown country, and by that means to plant the knowledge of the true God
and his son Jesus Christ is a thought I presume no ways superstitious. How
far any of the first settlers or them that have found a strong inclination since
to settle there may be supposed under the same influence, I will not presume to
determine. But if to that strong inclination, a reasonable, well grounded pros
pect of providing for a numerous family be joined ought it not to be
encouraged rather than a too great dependence on the care of Providence here
¦with little prospect  Shall we fear the winds and the waves? Do
they not obey him? Can human fears or providence hinder our being liable to
the fatal summons the next moment? But providence says take all the care
you can, that you leave not a real for an imaginary good. You know this;
know something also of the other to a certainty, before you quit it — examine
what you have — examine what you expect  . . I must go.
I have a comfortable livelihood, a want of no necessaries and the enjoyment
of some conveniences of life, but with little improvement of fortune, so as to
enable my children to set up for themselves, and if they should, provisions so
very dear and trades all so overstocked, that 'tis five to one they succeed 
By removing I expect to be able to purchase land sufficient for their, mainte
nance, if employed with industry, to divide between them all— and as all places

10 JAMES NOURSE.
we find by history have had their rise and fall— it may be supposed that Ameri
ca (without the gift of prophecy), is a rising, Europe a declining state. 
By going over first myself, tho' it be additional expense, yet the following
satisfaction may be had — the different purchases to be made, the climate,
produce, and advantages to be had, before I quit my present situation and
a place ready to receive my family. (It will cost me £40 passages.)  What
schools, and terms, by which I can better determine if I shall take the younger
children, what things had best be taken out, and what best bought there;
what kind, quantity and dimensions of furniture, what height the rooms. U
back settlements, to consider carriage to and fro, nature of roads, what kind of
wheels and carriages best. To settle the disposal of produce of the plantation,
in England, upon good terms, as also the buying of returns here, a very neces
sary point." 
Tbe following seems to be a list of articles brought to America by
James Nourse :
" 2 bags, two striped linsey, a bundle blankets, a bundle stockings, 1 ream
brown [paper], 2 do. thin foli — 1 do. foolscap, 1 do. white brown, 30 wrought
iron nails, porter 5 stampt I. N., seeds, cask, harness, windowglass, cart harness,
2 ploughs, chaise, saddlery, 2 crates stone ware, 200 lb shott, % lb powder, 2
chests of tea, 1 barrel sugar, 3 pier glasses, 3 do., 2 card tables, 2 stools, a dining
table, a do., and 3 stools, a box candles, family pictures, an escretoir, a mahog
any cupboard, a spinnet, 2 table clocks and a lanthern, [No's] 65, 66, 67, 68, two
chairs each, a bureau with books, pair of globes, a small cabinet with paper
and accounts, a writing table with the papers of accounts, writing desk with
do., press wearing apparel, do., do., 4 chairs, 2 chairs, 1 armchair, 1 do., a bed
stead, bureau with bed furniture, box cutlery, 22 chairs, 2 stools, press with
blankets, etc., a couch, bedstead, bedstead, do., 4 cheeses, a bedstead, do., do., 2
tables, bureau with apparel, a bedstead, cupboard, 2 Jacks, 2 hampers, cyder,
raisin wine, do."
In all, 116 bundles, crates, boxes, cases etc., every one numbered.
With a family of nine children, James and Sarah Fouace Nourse
left London on the 16th of March, 1769, and arrived at Hampton, in
Virginia, on the 10th of May following. He resided one year near
Hampton, in the Sheldon house, and thence he removed with hia
family to Piedmont, a plantation which he purchased near Charles
ton, "Virginia (now Berkeley county, West Virginia) . Mr. Nourse
paid considerable attention to raising stock at Piedmont. His book
of accounts shows that in 1774 he owned eighty-four head of "Horn
Cattle" valued at £151 15s, and fifty-six hogs valued at £26.
In 1775, he visited " Kentuke," with a company of which he was
leader, to locate lands The beginning of his journal is missing. A
letter to Mrs . Nourse follows :
"Easter Day, 5 Mile Beyond Fort Cumberland, 1.775.
" My Dear LovE-^Having met a gentleman bound for Winchester-, I catch, the
opportunity of letting you know I am well  dined yesterday at Old Town.

JAMES NOURSE. 11
 Mr. Taylor is a very obliging, kind fellow-traveler. My dear love, trust
with confidence that I shall see yon about harvest. My heart rises and my
eyes run over, when I think of the Joy of meeting my love again. Adieu, the
support of the Almighty be with you all.
"From your most affectionate husband, "James Nourse."
April 22d, he was stopping with Mr. " Gist," and states that the
inhabitants were " so distressed that they are going over the moun
tain continually with pack horses for flour."
EXTBACTS FROM JOURNALS.
Tuesday 25 — did little else but mend my tent. Wednesday 26 — went to the
Youghegany — workt a little at the canoes. .Thursday 27th prepared for mov
ing our things to-morrow in a waggon. Tom Buby acquainted me he was
afraid to go. Some acquaintance had told him it was dangerous. Fryday
28th — Sett off with the waggon  a very disagreeable day I had of it, walkt
all the way, and what was worse, Johnston's horses not drawing well, was
obliged at every bad place, which was very often, to put my shoulder to the
wheel; however, by dark, we arrived at Simpson's, overseer for Geo. Washing
ton, at Washington's Bottom where he is building a large grist mill . . . Sat.
29th April — embarqued about two miles from Simpson's — joined there Mr.
Cresswell, an Englishman. .. .the river so low and shallow at places, that a
dozen times a day all hands were obliged to jump overboard and lead the
canoes  encamped at the mouth of Sweetly 's Creek  Sunday Apr. 30th —
breakfasted upon Bacon Soup thickened with crumbs of bread. Kained hard,
kept my tent up  read and walked. May 1st. Monday — embarked again;
again obliged to wade several times, dined at Little Sweetly creek, past on to
the mouth where it loses its name by joining the Mohongahala constituting a
fine river, nor obliged to wade any more; had we taken water at Redstone
Fort upon this river we should have entirely avoided it . . encamped seven
miles short of fort Pitt  Tuesday May 2d — the trees began to look green 
at fort Pitt by 12 o'clock. Lord Dunmore had the assurance to attempt the
Changing its name to fort Dunmore. He in some measure repaired it, rebuild
ing the points of the Angles, which with a handsome brick house etc., had
been destroyed by orders from Lord Hillsborough, tis said, whilst Secretary of
State for America  passed by McGee's (the Indian Agent's) plantation  and
came to Montcure Islands  where we parted with Robt. Beale and Benj. Har
rison, who had lands a few miles back from this. . .Thursday May 4th — rowed
to Wheeling, a tolerable good Stockade, on a high situation, called Fort Fin-
castle . . . went on board a little before sunset and floated to Grave Creek.
Friday May 5th — The gentlemen went to the Indian grave. It appears to them
to be an artificial mount about 100 ft. hight, and % mile round  Tom and I
cooked, G. Rice helping me, small fish, the two, the liquor being made into
soup, dined 9 of us ; the most delicate meal I had made, sauce melted butter
with walnut pickle; passed Capitaine Creek, and 4 mile below, Fish Creek;
being obliged by the weather to stop, we came not to the Straight Reach till
dusk, or we should there have had a View 17 or 18 Miles down the river . . .
Sunday May the 7th — I alone Shaved and Shirted — past 2 Islands, and on the
3d went on shore, where on the right hand side of the island is a large Tree,
which a foot from the ground, measured 51 foot circumference, about breaMf"""

12 JAMES NOURSE.
high 8 foot less ; it forks about twenty foot high, and its forks are larger than
most trees. From thence we came to little Muskingum, then great Muskin
gum. . . .Johnston near an hour taking the latitude, in the meantime the dogs
eat his dinner  found Dr. Briscoe's servants fishing — delivered the two letters,
the sons gone for Berkeley. Stopt at little Kanaway. . . .overtook a man in a
canoe solus, bound for the Nachez, from little Kanaway past several Islands ;
the bottom opposite little Hocking Col. Washington's  Tuesday May 9th —
arrived early at fort Blair on the point at the mouth of the big Kanaway ;
breakfasted and dined with Capt. Russell, Lieut. Shelby, ensigns Roberts and
Sharp  Wednesday morning May 10 — arrived at the mouth of Sandy Creek
 At a cabin on the lower point of Sandy river we found Charles Smith and
ten others surveying and dividing soldiers' rights to lands by lots  Thursday
llth May — our hunters went out but killed nothing; brought home some turkey
eggs. Fryday, May 12— Bacon Frays with the turkey eggs for breakfast.
Capt. Cressop with six men arrived. Wrote by Capt. Smith.
the letter.
"From Our Camp at Smith Point,
May 10th, 1775, at the Mouth of Great Sandy,
about 40 miles below the Great Kanaway.
"My Dearest Love — We arrived here this morning and found ten persons,
most from our part of the country, among whom is Capt. Smith, who promises
to send you this as soon as ever he gets home, but I flatter myself I may possi
bly be at home near as soon as he, for he talks of calling at some places
to make improvements, but whether I shall go down to Kentuke is at present
uncertain, we having a report that some Indians have done mischief that way.
If it prove true, and I find it dangerous to proceed, shall take the first opportu
nity to return overland by Staunton  Friday ye 28th, we set off from
Gist's, our things in a waggon, for Washington's bottom that we might be
below the falls in the river, but our horses being bad  we got only to the
overseer's (Simpson's), by dark  Sat. 29th;  went on board the charm
ing Sally, I. N., Ed. Taylor, Nich. Creswell, and Tom Ruby. On board the
Molly, Benj. Johnson, Reuben Taylor, George Rice and George, a servant of Mr.
Taylor  May 2d, arrived at Fort Pitt. Saw the fort and Indians in
prison, and one fine one dealing in a store (and have set eyes on never a one
since) ; proceeding down the Ohio, encamped opposite an island called Mont-
cures — this night instead of camping, lashed our vessels together and floated
down stream all night, 2 always keeping watch (tho' 'tis not uncommon
for people to float down and all go to sleep) and in that manner proceeded
when the weather would permit, if wet or windy went ashore and pitched our
tents; tell Kitty her tent does very well. I am writing in it no w  Fri
day 12th  We are bad fishers and bad hunters, we have had but 6 cat fish
(and catched but two of them ourselves), no venison, 2 ducks, and but one
turkey; we have lived very well yet, but unless we mend, our hands shall be short
of meat. . . '.'  I long most ardently to hear of you all. I hope to God, the
small-pox keeps clear of you. I am ready to beat myself, that I did not desire
you to write by Capt. Shelby, as I hope to be around by his plantation in about
three weeks. Adieu, my dear love, Capt. Smith is leaving us  Once more
Adieu my dear love from
" Your most affectionate and faithful Husband, James Nourse."
"Mrs. Nourse, Berkeley Church."
 (Journal continued.) "Tuesday 16th May. A great fogg  The
wind being fair for us, we cut a mast and hoisted sail  May 17th, Shot at

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a turkey standing on the shore, out of the canoe ; two others also shott at it,
but it walked away very composedly  — Came to Bracken's creek  Rice
and Taylor killed a very large bull buff aloe, Clarke a Buck ; the buffaloe tho' not
very fatt was supposed to have weighed 1000 . . . — here we resolved to stay and
barbecue and jerk our meat — and have had no fresh meat lately, and all along
upon allowance as to bread, we eat all day long from turkey to beef, from beef
to venison, fish, &c, &c. Friday the Wth — came to little Miamme, then eight
mile farther to Salt like creek or rather river  — saw a Bear crossing the
Ohio, rowed hard but was too late to kill it  rowed to. the Miamme 
Saturday May 20th  moored to a stump all night for fear of passing Ken tuke.
Sunday May 21. Half past nine arrived at the mouth of Kentuke river . . . Set
in to raining — rowed up about one mile and encamped, spent the rest of the
day in my tent; it continuing raining, stayed there all night, had no fire
on account of the Indians, but the Dogs barked so incessantly (being abundance
of Wolves in all these parts), that had any Indians been near they might have
found us by the Dogs. Monday May 22nd— about 20 mile up the river landed on
a high shore, young venison killed, made a fire, bnt it got dark before the cook
ing was over ; the Company promising to put out the fire when it was over, I
went to' sleep in my tent, but was waked by the blaze between 3 and 4 in the
morning  Friday 26th May, 1775; Loaded our canoes; came to a bad
ripling — at which place are very large slabs of very fine stone. Sat. May 27th,
passed two riplings — dined at a good sprtngr-rproeeeded to a place that is an
island when the river is high — getting around it, a considerable ripling, above a
creek on the upper side, supposed to be Elkhorn — where we encamp, pitched my
tent, the others did not ; about midnight, violent thunder and lightning. Tay
lor and Johnston crept into my camp  Sunday May 28th — fine morning
 saw great quantity of buffalo  got on board Monday May
29th by six o'clock — rowed till ten. Rice and Cresswell quarrelled  when
I came to them, neither would have discredited a Billingsgate education 
 Tuesday 30th of May 1775 ; set off on foot with E. T. and G. R., walked
three miles and came to the river — struck off again by the paved landing along
a buffalo path, which soon led to good land  on top of the hill,
the land is level and well timbered with oak. Afterwards it is light with
timber — little oak — mostly sugar tree — walnut — ash and buckeye (called horse
chestnut in England),  the surface of the ground covered with grass all
along the path, which was as well trod as a market town path for about
twelve miles ; the farther we went the richer the land. Tho' of the same sort
of timber the ash very large and high, and large locusts of both sorts— some
cherry — the growth of grass under amazing — blue grass and white clover.
Buffalo grass and reeds knee and waist high: what would be called a fine
swarth of grass in cultivated meadows, and such was its appearance without
end  Wednesday May 31st. Returned to our camp 
Thursday June 1st. Called them all up by day break, and got in the canoe
before five o'clock  Went on shore to a spring ; examined the Virginia
Spider Wort — 3 feet high — beautiful stem and leaf and fragrant smell. Still the
banks every now and then walled with regular stone, in beds horizontal with
the river which in some places appears to be paved all across. Saw several
buffaloes — shot at one, but when after other shots, he having stood at bay, the
dogs found him ; old and poor, so took none of him  Rowed till one 
ate cold junk and a cup of broth for dinner— rowed again. Stopped soon on
acct. of getting some meat. The Hunters went out on both sides but no suc
cess  Friday June 2d Cloudy— set pff about 6 o'clock— met 5 canoes—

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one gave us the best half of a Buck ; rowed to where they had camped, found
good part of a doe and a fire still burning   June 4th Cloudy — set
off about 6 o'clock — rowed about 3 hours — rained again ; went under a cave in
the rocks — stayed about 2 hours  Monday June 5th breakfasted upon
thickened broth  walked along 15 miles to Harrodstown,* which con
sists of about 8 or 10 log cabbins without doors nor stopt— about 70 Acres In
Corn, the land most part of the way rich — weeds as high as your head 
 When we got there, an acquaintance of Johnstone's treated us with bear-
fat and hot bread for dinner (their meat being just out), and hominy for supper
— hominy also for breakfast. Wed. June 7th B. J. drew out his two shares,
which left us only about 20 pounds of flour a hand, and about a gallon of Corn,
and no prospect yet when I can attend to my business, the Surveyor being out
a surveying and not knowing where to meet with him or when he will return
 Friday, June 9th. Creswell left me  Tom and I set off once
more for Harrodstown — very hott — mett about half way 3 young Men who
told us of the Boston engagement, and of thirty-nine Negroes being hanged
near Williamsburg; said to be 900 of the English troops killed  Sun
day June llth. Dressed  Read the service (communion excepted) to a
sick man. Dressed a bitt of bacon with Billy Slaughter's buffalo beef— and
dined with him, eat hominy and corn bread made of corn only beat — the only
way they have of making it — at Boonsburg, they say they have no bread at all.
Monday ye 12th of June  undetermined what to do — sometimes talk of
going to Boonsburg to enquire further after the surveyor Capt. Floyd, at other
of getting Capt. Harrod to show us Eagle creek upon Kentuke where they say
are no surveys made. Tuesday 13th — built an Arbor  Wednesday
June 14th — cleaned my Gun. Capt. Harrod and a Mr. Moore, of Dunmore,
arrived — dine under my Arbor — boiled beef and buffalo, bacon and young cab
bage plants. Fritters and hominy and wheat bread  , 
Thursday June 15. Taylor, Johnstone and self all resolve to attend Capt.
Harrod to Boonsburg, if we can possibly get horses  Wednesday 21st
 came to Col. Henderson's at Boonsburg  Fryday 23  
rode through a fine land and fine timber and with running creek  Col.
Harrod missed a little the tract he wanted but soon recovered— saw some buf
faloes. The Colonel soon shot one down, I made the fire and to cooking we
went  June 24. Resolved to lay my warrant  Centd at the
buffalo crossings of Eagle or Licking creek. Beginning I markt a large white
oak on north bank, and a shell bark hiccory on the south bank, as Corner
trees between Mr. B. Johnstone and myself  Thence about three mile up
the river on the north side, then cross the river to the South bank markt two
hoop ash trees and a sycamore markt then back for Quantity 3000 Warrant—
700 Head rights  before I came away, markt the upper corner on the
south side the river on the sycamore tree between the hoop ashes I N ; then
returned south which brought us to a dry run, which running South is pretty
near my eastern boundary — and being our way home, blazed the buffalo path
all the way — traveling near due south came back to Gist's camp at a buffalo
lick where on one of the trees is markt I. R. another the path to be taken
I. N  memorandum for going to the land I have taken up on Licking
river or Eagle creek — cross at Boonsburg — keep the left hand path to David
and John Gist's cornfield and spring — from thence keep a north course across
the brows of two or three hills down to a run — up the north and main branch
?In journal he first wrote Har wooda town and Harwood; then changed to Harrod.

JAMES NOURSE. 15
a good way— then keep still north— cross some highish land to a buffalo path-
trees blazed all the way, at about fifteen miles come upon a running creek,
where there are some trees markt and Johnstone wrote upon one of the trees —
surveyed 10,000 acres by order of council— continue the buffalo path still keep
ing the whole way north — where the buffalo path fails continue course till you
meet with paths that run that way, follow them and they will lead you to a
very plain buffalo path (by a wett lick and old camps) continue till you come
to a broad run — blazed a tree upon the path to be taken — markt I. N. which
will lead to the upper corner tree — the other is about three mile down the river —
the corner a large fork elm, and on a large white oak wrote on at the corner
tree between Johnstone and myself. Instead of keeping down the run, you
continue the plainest buffalo path to the westward of North. I believe it will
lead to lower corner as it appears to be at the largest buffalo Crossings.
Monday June 26  Agree with Cols. Henderson and Harrod that the latter
is to look me out a place on Cumberland River  Tuesday 27 at 12 o'clock,
having waited for getting up horses, set off for my return with Wilson, Alex
ander, Jennings and two sons full grown and negro boy. I was glad tafind
our company increase ; at first I had engaged only Mr. Wilson — and they alL
agreed that the most likely place of seeing Indians is at the head of Cumber
land  June 28— set off by five  arrived at the old fort Trytty s
[Twettys] stopped not— left the road and fell into a buffalo path— passed
through very fine land and spme water, to a lick called the Blue Lick in order
to kill to barbecue for our journey — disappointed — found no buffalo there.
 Thursday 29th  Jennings killed a buffalo cow  Barba-
cued the beef and each packed up for his own carriage whatever he chose —
traveled about 10 miles to headwaters of Rockcastle. Fryday 30th June 
 camp about sunset — I took care Jennings should stop his bells — being by
all acknowledged to be in as great likelihood to see Indians as any where on
our journey  Saturday July 1st — Got up at 4 all safe  Monday July 3.
Crossed Cumberland river; . . ..traveled over the mountain — a good gap, and
having left the Indian warpath about a mile, my fellow travelers thought
themselves safe, but the next morning we had not traveled 8 miles, before we
learnt that the Indians had been doing damage in the neighborhood. Here we
found cornfields and settlements, the first we had seen since we left Boonsburg.
 July 7. Provisions scarce. Wilson and Alexander left us 
passed over Powell's mountain  came to cross roads where we met other
passengers, and having breakfasted together, and one Ambrose Fletcher intend
ing to go by Capt. Shelby's, parted with my fellow-travellers."
Mr. Nourse was one of thirteen trustees of Berkeley springs,
when Bath, Morgan county, was laid out (which claimed to be the
first town laid out after the Declaration of Independence), Oct. 1776.
During the Revolutionary War, James Nourse was an ardent
patriot .
" Friday Dec. 27, 1776. Resolved : That $3,333.33^ be advanced to Mr. James
Nourse, for the use of the. militia of Berkeley and Frederick counties in Virginia,
who are about to march to reinforce Gen'l Washington. The said Mr. James
Nourse to be accountable for the expenditure."*
L  ¦¦- W ' ¦  I-I..-1 - ..u. i.  .  ... Ji . -i l  .in.  —•  "  "  —  — ^-^— .—
* Amerlcun Archives, Sth ieries, Vol . 8, pp. 1511-13. War Dept.

16 JAMES NOURSE.
In Joseph Nourse's "rough waste book A. 13." dated March 29, 1777, is the
following: "Debit my father James Nourse to money in my hands, &c. for a
ballance due by him to the Treasury Board being the residue of £1,000 Virginia
money, received by him tp equip and furnish forth Volunteer Companies from
Berkeley and Frederick counties in Virginia agreeable to his estimate of the
ballance Virginia currency, £229."
"3d Apr. Paid some time last month the postage of a letter covering sundry
receipts for money paid by father to the Captains of the Frederick and Berkeley
Co. Volunteers to be deducted out of public money in my hands."
1777. Oct. 8. Sold on my mother's account in Philadelphia : 1 Silver girdle :
£3: Silver: £4.17.6 (Same date) Pd. on my mother's account in Philadelphia,
for 3 red and white pocket handkerchiefs ; £2.12.6.
Page A. 22. 14th Oct., 1777. Memorandum: My mother sent me down a piece
of Gold, 1 of mace, 3 oz. of cloves, to be sold on her account, and to be placed
when sold to her credit.
Page A. 26. 3d Feb. 1778. Rec'd for a piece of gold on my mother's account :
£2.5 ; allowance for a breast buckle £1.10 : For spices namely, cloves and mace,
£3.15. Mr . Nourse represented Berkeley county in the Virginia house of
delegates in 1778. Sat. Oct. 10, 1778, "was put on Committee of
Propositions and Grievances, and afterward on various special com
mittees."* EXTRACTS FROM LETTER OF JAMES NOURSE TO MRS. NOURSE.
" Williamsburg, Va., Nov. 5th, 1778.
"KrY Dear Love, As Maj. Hunter leaves this place tomorrow morning, I am
sate down to write, tho' no tidings of your health (2 afternoon on a committee,
so was prevented going on). The post is now arrived and have the pleasure to
hear you are better  I thank my dear James for his great attention to
you. I most heartily wish it was in my power to relieve him ; at present it is
inconsistent with my duty and interest  A bill is preparing to prevent
the return of the Scotch and other tories  The bill is violent, but I
hope to get it softened. I told a whole committe this morning, that I per
ceived it is supported by envy, hatred and malice ; I laugh at them and argue
with them, but still I fear it will be violent. I have made the acquaintance in
town with a Gentleman, the owner of a tolerable collection of books; not that I
have much time on my hands, as Committees sit before and after the House.
When other people are going to supper, I am going to bed; in the morning
I often open the doors  The Major is going, so must bid my dearest
Love adieu, and believe me the greatest pleasure I can receive will be to return,
and find you in health  "
Mr. Nourse was appointed Commissioner to settle the claims of
Maryland against the United States, about 1781, and removed to
Annapolis for that purpose.
From Joseph Nourse's book of Accounts, p. 18: "Philadelphia, Nov. 4, 1783:
"Cash Dr. to James Nourse, Sen.: Received of the United States for his salary
*See " Statistical Gazetteer of the States oi Virginia and North Carolina," 1865, by Edwards.

JAMES NOURSE. 17
and that of his clerk to 30 Sept., as Commissioner for Settling the accounts
of the United States in the State of Maryland" (amount not given).
Extracts from journal of James Nourse :
"Annapolis, Jan. 13th, 1784. Breakfasted at home  fed my horse at the
highlands  arrived at Baltimore about 6 o'clock."
Next day he went to Bushtown  crossed at Susquehanna
ferry, passed through Charlestown, and arrived at 
" at half after 4  sent a note to Mr. Hollingsworth  said he believed
I could do no business here ; the vouchers that he promised me, he says he has
Col. Pettit's receipts for. Showed meacopy of aletter transmitted to him by Mr.
Pettit, wherein Mr. Morris said that Mr. Nourse has only to settle claims of
individuals, not being employed in departments  no chance of having the
vouchers, so determined to return to-morrow morning ; on which I wrote the
following advertisement and sent a copy of it with the following letter to
Col. H." "Jan. 16, 1784.
"James Nourse, Commissioner for settling the accounts between the State of
Maryland and the U. S., and the claims of individuals against the United States,
for provisions, &c, furnished the army within said State, Maryland, has returned
to Annapolis without waiting the advertised time, as he cannot, as he had rea
son to expect, obtain of Col. Henry Hollingsworth the vouchers on which
the said claims and the certificates for the same were founded."
"Sir, it appears proper on my not attending here the advertised time to leave
answer to any claimants that may apply for the liquidation of their accounts,
and as I have taken the liberty of using your name, you should be acquainted
with it before I leave town, tho' I have no doubt of your approbation.
"lam, Sir, &c, J.N."
Col. Henry Hollingsworth.
"Sat. 17th. At Jacob Hollingsworth's tavern as I pass was standing the
French Minister's Coach  they arrived before I had obtained my breakfast
 eat some of their cold pye and they some of my hot broil, walk overthe
river, they choosing to walk after, I mounted and rode on  supper at
Bushtown with the minister  Sunday 18 passed through Baltimore,
but found I could not cross on the ice, it having thawed all day ; went back to
Grant's  Monday Jan. 19th. rain and snow violently; set out least that
I should not be able to ford at the falls of P   the wind getting toN.
W. it froze as it came down  Afternoon blew a storm with difficulty reached
home. Total expense £5 10."
A short extract from his instructions about his garden at Pied
mont is here given :
"Sow carrot seed, radish seed, small salad herbs, dress asparagus bed and
plant cabbage and coleworts in the alleys. Propagate gooseberry and currant
trees by cuttings  transplant strawberries, raspberries; plant tulips,
hyacinths, ranunculus, enemones, crocus, snowdrops, narcissus, johnquils,
hardy flowering shrubs, roses, honey suckle, jasmine."

18 JAMES NOURSE.
Another journal of James Nourse bearing dates from July 11,
1784, to Aug 9, 1784, gives an account of a horseback trip he took
from Annapolis to Piedmont, and of his attention to business while
on the way and while in Berkeley county. His wife's letter of Aug.
4 and 5 covers the same period.
In the same journal there is a drawing showing the improvement
he intended making in Piedmont house, which he thought would not
be expensive and would "make both cool and convenient*"
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER OF ELIZA HILL, OF LONDON, ENG. TO MRS.
JAS. NOURSE. "May 21, 17J4.
"I am quite ashamed my Dear Madam when I recollect how long it is since
our governors have made us friends, and that I have not yet congratulated you
On the happy event, happy certainly to all, but more so to you, since you have
obtained what you fought for  God grant that it may be a lasting Peace,
and that you may never repent that liberty you have so dearly Purchased, and
I hope we shall find you as generous friends as you have been inveterate enemies
 I make no doubt you will soon recover and grow flourishing, perhaps
at our expense  your family I hope will shine like stars of the first mag
nitude as I believe the head was as zealous in the cause as the most forward,
may you at present that the danger is over find the good effects of it, 
it would be very hard if you did not reap those advantages that may justly be
expected from your success. I should not have said so much if all was not per
fectly settled.
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER OF JOSEPH NOURSE TO HIS MOTHER AT
ANNAPOLIS. "Philadelphia ye 18th July 1784.
"My Dear Mother  This is in order to be delivered to the first care
ful person going to Annapolis  The packet  contains two letters
from my brother James and one from Mrs. Fouace received under cover from
Richmond where he took it from the post oflice. His journey having been
attended with the desired success, affords me much satisfaction. He returned
to Kaintucke, lamenting that his engagements there prevented his coming onto
Annapolis and Philadelphia. May I my Dear Mother repeat my thanks for the
very affectionate letter you wrote me in answer to mine by my father 
I believe that the return of the sultry season has brought on those wearied sensa
tions and weakness to which you are peculiarly subject, but am happy to find
that your commodious house affords somewhat of an alleviation. I could wish
that you had a cave at command* 
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to observe that you are pleased
with Annapolis. I know that you are not fond of a town, but the relief from a
family of blacks, the cool, refreshing breezes from the sea, the diversity of
•Tradition tells as thit there was a cave at Piedmont, furnished and arranged Ioi her eoaiort
during tbe heated terms.

JAMES NOURSE. 19
objects, have all added to this agreeable change  I hope to be favored
with a letter soon acquainting me where I may direct to my father. His
absence altho' painful to you, will I am in hopes be of service to him 
Letter from Mrs. Fouace is very long. As it comes from an old friend, cannot
but be very acceptable. William whose conduct is acknowledged entitled to
encomium is yet you will find a theme for her epistle  Brother John
having obtained leave of absence of the Comptroller, Mr. Milligan, I am happy
in placing the packets with 150 dollars, part of Papa's salary, under his care.
He leaves the city on Wednesday and you will have the pleasure to see him
towards the last of the week  If you have no proper school at Annap
olis, we should be glad to have Master Michael with us to go to one here.
Adieu my Dear Mother,
"From your very affectionate and dutiful "Joseph Nourse."
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER OF MRS. JAMES NOURSE TO HER SON JOSEPH.
" Aug. 5th, 1784.
" My Dear Joseph, Your having so kindly obtained leave of absence foryour
brother John to pay us a visit during your Dear father's absence from me, gave
me a pleasure on his arrival last Saturday morning that I did not expect to
enjoy till His return. The finding him not only so much grown, but also so
much improved and with all his unexpected arrival raised sensations in me that
I think none but a parent could experience, and then yours and Dear James'
affectionate letters and the once more hearing from my poor unhappy friend
Mrs. Fouace was no small addition, although these enjoyments were succeeded
with the usual consequences on such occasions, namely a bad headache for two
days after. To prove the old saying 'that it never rains but it pours' so it
happened on Saturday  a box was brought with the things from Mr.
le Bas from on board a ship that had arrived at the dock ten days before, and
which we had been in hourly expectation of receiving all that time; but as it
contained (to all our disappointments) nothing but the linen drapery sent for,
and the invoice, the flutter of that was soon over  I have received a let
ter from your father of the 19th ult. from Frederick Town. He staid but a day
and a half at George Town, no claims coining in the 2d day and then went to
Piedmont whence he was also to return to Frederick Town, and perhaps like
wise from Hagerstown, if he met with no more business than he did at George
Town. I expect he is now at Old Town, which tho' it is the last place he is at
present to be on the oflice business, I must not expect him here he tells me, till
ye 20th or 21st of the month for that sooner he cannot, having advertised to
receive Col. Sam's debts ye 13 and 14, and the 17th is the last day when he wants
to attend, that he may put those affairs in a train, so as one of these days to
be finished. John is much concerned at this delay to his father's return, and
seems inclined to stretch a point in respect of his leave of absence. But tho' I
am full as desirous of his staying as he can be  yet I am unwilling he
should so far encroach on the present indulgence as to stay so long without
permission  I am very much [disappointed] I assure you from the little
encouragement you give to my hopes of seeing you and your wife this fall 
 however, if the mountain does not move to Mahomet, I think tis proba
ble (and alas, but probable) that Mahomet may move toward the mountain
 'Tis unfortunate that notwithstanding a convenient, airy, roomy
house, my constitution is still such, that I have suffered as much as ever this
summer from its heats, and the nights as bad asthedays  Surely my dear

20 JAMES NOURSE.
Joseph, no one can wonder that suffering as I do from heat, I should be desir
ous to try a climate that by all accounts is more temperate. I need not say I
mean Rhode Island  believe me at my time of life ye changing of abode
would be very far from desirable, only that I feel (with Lord Chesterfield) that
'to be or not to be,' is of much less consequence than 'to be or not to be well.'
Adieu my dear son, my most sincere affection to your little woman (I think I
have heard you say you liked that epithet) , believe me yr. truely
"Affectionate mother, S. Nourse."
" Thanks for the remittance, it came very apropo for I was very near being
out of cash; this is a most extravagant place for everything, as John will tell
you when you see him."
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER OF JOSEPH NOURSE TO HIS FATHER.
"Commissioner of Public Accounts of
United States with Maryland
Philadelphia ye 2d Sept. 1784.
"Dear and Hon'd Sir,
Brother John arrived here ye day before yesterday  I was in hopes sis
ter Betsey would have come up with him  Should my last winter's com
plaint increase so as not to let it remain a choice whether to continue in public
life or not, please let me know whether Col. Washington's place will be let — and
the rent. I am going on with Mr. Morris' accounts, and shall get through them
I hope before the meeting of Congress. Annapolis I find, by Mamma's letter
has been very sultry ; the ensuing season will I hope be more agreeable in Rhode
Island. I am happy to find it is be made tryal of  "
JAMES NOURSE TO HIS SON JOSEPH. "Annapolis, Sept. 9, 1784.
"My Dear Joseph, The excessive heat has at length been too much for your
poor mother ; it brought on a fever which her usual medicine the saline mixture
not removing, I applied to Dr. Morray but his medicine had no better effect.
She expired on Tuesday* morning like a lamp whose oil was exhausted. If I
thought any climate could have restored her strength and afforded her a com
fortable existance, I should be grieved I had not sooner acquiest in removing
with her to any part of the globe. Mine, William's, Michael's and your sister's
love to you, Maria, John and B. and am Dear Joseph your very
"Affectionate Father, James Nourse."
Before his death, James Nourse said to his son Joseph : "I lived
in trade in London 15 years and have lived 15 years in America. I
limited in expectation my time to that period, and now it has ar
rived." He died October 10, 1784, at Annapolis, Maryland. During
bis residence at Annapolis, he occupied an elegant house owned by
Mr. Hammond a short distance from town. His character for
integrity in all his dealings, his respectability as a magistrate of the
county and the kindness of his disposition caused him to be univer
sally esteemed and beloved.
*On this letter was written by Joseph '• Tuesday, Sept. 7."

JAMES NOURSE. 21
COPY IN PART OF THE WILL OF JAMES NOURSE. " March 25, 1784.
"In the name of the only supreme God, of His Christ Jesus and of His Holy
Spirit. "I, James Nourse of Piedmont in the Co. of Berkeley Va., and of Annapolis
in the State of Maryland, formerly of Bedford st. Covent Garden London, and
3rd son of John Nourse of Weston in the Co. of Hereford Eng., being of sound
mind do make this my last will and testament, appointing my wife, Sarah
Nourse, Ext., and my sons Joseph and James Nourse, joint Exts. of this my
said will.
"Imprimis, To my wife Sarah Nourse, exclusive of her settlement, Piedmont
House with all its appurtenances, plate, furniture etc.
"2. To my seven younger children £100 each.
"3. I desire that all the negro and mulatto children who have been or shall
be born from Jan. 1st 1781, shall be free at the age of twenty-five years.
"4. The rest of my estate to be divided among all my children, share and
share alike, to them and their heirs forever.
"In witness whereof 1 have set my hand and seal this twenty-fifth day of
March 1784. James Nourse."
"In presence of
Horatio Gates,
A. Paca,
Chris'r Richmond.
Sworn to before Thos. Gallaway, Register of Wills."
"An inventory of the goods, chattels and effects of James Nourse, late of
Ann Arundel county, State of Maryland, deceased, and appraised by James
Tootle and James Williams in presence of Joseph Nourse and William Nourse,
the execu tors to the last will and testament of the deceased." (A few items
only are copied.) "1 large mahogany bedstead at £4 10s. 1 ditto £3; 1 ditto
£3; 1 large arm chair £2; 5 mahogany chairs with hair bottoms and brass
nails £3 2s. 6d; 3 ditto ditto green stuff £2 5s; 1 large mahogany table £2 10s;
1 mahogany cupboard £5; 1 mahogany bureau and chest of drawers £5 10s; 1
ditto ditto ditto £4 10s ; 3 blue and white copperplate window curtains £1 ; a
family sword 2s. 6d; eleven family pictures £3; 168 oz. of silver plate £67 4s:"
there was also a long list of books.
The appraisement of the personal estate at Piedmont as per inven
tory amounted to £1,036 16s. 6d. Sale of personals at AnnapDlis
£323 10s. lid.
From Joseph Nourse's account book. "Philadelphia, Mar. 11, 1799.
"William Nourse Dr. to estate of James Nourse deceased for 20 dollars which
he drew upon me the 4th of July, 1798 ; and which I had charged to his account,
but which being on account of a suit in which our cousin *James Hughes is
employed as counsel for the recovery of lands taken up by our honored father
in 1775 is a proper debit to the estate."
?This James Hughes was the son ot Elizabeth Nourse, who married William Hughes In England .
Said James Hughes married and left lour daughters; two of them married but left no children.

22 JAMES NOURSE.
From Joseph Nourse's Ledger A. Folio 36, p. 435.
" Dr. Accounts in relation to the estates of the family of James Nourse, Esq.,
and John Nourse. " (Date 1806. )
"Ballance due to me on the consolidation of accounts, on which it may be
observed that on the decease of our honored parent his real estate was divided
amongst his children on a division of the same by order of the Court of Berke
ley in Virginia as the will gave no power over his real estate. In like manner 1
divided the real estate of John equally. The personal estate of our father was
insufficient by a large sum to pay his debts including those in England; the
deficiency was made up by applying a part of our mother's estate, for which
purpose our brother William Nourse went to England, and settled the affairs of
that estate and paid the debts. Brother John's effects as per accounts "have been
consolidated, and thus I close these long standing concerns, debiting indeed a
ballance to exhibit a close, not with an intention of calling on the parties for
their proportion of the same. 198.50." "6 Sept. 1820.
" It may be as well to remark in addition to the above note that all the claims
against our honored father of every description were paid off.
"[Signed] Joseph Nourse."
CHILDREN.
1. Joseph2 Nourse, born in London, England, Tuesday, July 16, 1754, in ye
morning at 8 o'clock; Christened Sunday, July 28; Godfathers, Mr. Joseph
Burton and William Gregory ; Godmother, Elizabeth Nourse.
2. Elizabeth3 Nourse, born in London, England, ye 7th July, 1755, 9 o'clock in
the morning ; Christened Fryday, July 25th ; Godmothers, Mrs. Elizabeth
Lucas and Miss Anne Nourse ; Godfather, Mr. William Nourse ; and died
ye 8th December, the same year, of small-pox ; buried at Hammersmith.
3. Sarah2 Nourse, born in London, England, ye Saturday, 14th August, 1756,
at 3 o'clock in the morning; Christened Thursday, September 9th; God
mothers, her mother and Miss Anne Nourse; Godfather, Michael Cope
Hopton ; died March following, of violent cold and fever.
4. James2 Nodrse, born in London, England, Saturday, March 11, 1758, at 5
in ye morning; Christened March 23d; Godfathers, his father and Mr.
Robert Nourse ; Godmother, Miss Le Bas.
5. Catharine Burton2 Nourse, born in London, England, May 9, 1759, at 9
at night ; Christened May 29 ; Godmothers, Mrs. Burton and Miss Layard;
Godfather, Mr. Hughes.
6. Charles2 Nourse, born in London, England, May 8, 1760, about 1 o'clock,
afternoon ; Christened 5th June ; Godfathers, Mr. Charles Fouace and Mr.
 ; Godmother, Miss Anne Layard. Charles Nourse rendered service in
the War of the Revolution, during the year 1777; was killed by the
Indians in Kentucky, after 1779. He was in Kentucky with his brothers,
James and Robert, part of the winter of 1779-80.
7. William2 Nourse, born in London, England, Sunday, August 16, 1761;
died August 31st, of the gripes ; buried at Hammersmith.
8 & 9. Robert2 and Sarah2 Nourse, born in London, England, 25th Sept. 1762;
Christened at home Sat. Feb. 15th. Sarah dyed Sept. 1763.
10. William2 Nourse, born in London, England, Oct. 30, 1763 ; Christened at
Covent Garden Church; Godfathers, Mr. William Symonds and Mr. Will
Hughes; Godmother, Miss Nancy Le Bas.

JAMES NOURSE. 23
11. Ej.izabeth2 Nourse, born in London, England, Jan. 23d, 1765; Godmothers,
Mrs. Foley and Miss Bowman.
12. Susanna2 Nourse, born in London, England, Feb. 9, 1766 ; Christened at
home ; Godmother, Mrs. Susanna Gregory.
13. John2 Nourse, born in London, England, Sunday, Jan. 17, 1768; Christened at
home; Godfathers, Mr. Hughes and his father; Godmother, Mrs. Hughes.
American Archives, series 5, vol. 3, p 1569. "Continental Congress, Nov. 13,
1776: "To John Nourse for ferriage of himself and of Gen. Lee and his servants,
horses, &c, over Hoes ferry 49%o dollars, to be paid to Col. B. Harrison. "
John Nourse joined an Independent church in New York in 1787 ; died un
married, Oct., 1789. " He was useful in life and honored in death. "
14. Gabriel2 Nourse, bom in Virginia 24th Jan. 1770; Christened the 18th of
March following at Hampton Church, Elizabeth City county in Virginia;
Godfathers, Mr. Gabriel Cary and Mr. Jacob Wray for Mr. Robert Nourse;
Godmother, Mrs. Cary.
15. Philip2 Nourse, born 30th June, 1771; Christened at home, Piedmont, Frede
rick Co., Va.; dyed ye 8th Nov. following.
16. Sarah Anne2 Nourse, born in Frederick Co., Va., 16th July, 1773; Christened
at home by Mr. Sturges ; Godfather, Col. Horatio Gates ; Godmothers,
Mrs. Anne Washington and Mrs. Eliz. Gates ; died 24th April, 1777.
17. Horatio2 Nourse, born in Frederick county, Va., July 29, 1774, about 3
o'clock in the morning; Christened September 5th; Godfathers, Maj.
Horatio Gates and his uncle Robert Nourse; Godmother, Mrs. Gates;
died 27th April, 1777.
18. Michael2 Nourse, born in Frederick county, Va., September 1st, 1778,
about 4 o'clock in ye afternoon ; Christened September 6th ; Godfathers,
his father and Mr. Cooke; Godmother, his sister, Mrs. Cooke.
Three children died unnamed.

CHAPTER III.

JOSEPH NOURSE AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

2. Joseph2 Nourse (James1) was born in London, England, July 16,
1754 ; died at his country seat a few miles northwest of Washington,
D. 0., Sept. 1, 1841. His journal relates how, as a boy, he attended
school in and near London, until in 1767, he was taken into his
father's business. In the following year, however, the business was
sold and, in 1769, the whole family emigrated to America. In 1770,
they removed to " Piedmont," where he helped his father on the
plantation until 1772, when he removed to Philadelphia. On March
14, 1776, he went south in the capacity of military secretary to Gen
eral Charles Lee, then Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Depart
ment of ihe American Army, and was present at the attack on Fort
Moultrie, near the city of Charleston . During this period he found
the card playing and other habits of the officers around him very
distressing to his pious mind .
The early Journals of Congress contain the following entries,
which may be given in full, as correcting the slightly erroneous
statements printed hitherto :
Dec. 30, 1776 — "Resolved, That the board of war be empowered to agree with
and employ, as an assistant clerk, Mr. Nourse, late General Lee's Secretary."*
Jan. 18, 1777 — the salary fixed for the assistant clerk of the board of war was
continued to Mr. Nourse, and $266.60 additional on account of " extraordinary
expenses. "t
June 17, 1777 — Joseph Nourse was appointed deputy secretary to the board of
war ; the salary, $780.00 per annum, to commence from the tenth of the previous
May.J Feb. 12, 1778 — Mr. Nourse was elected secretary of ordnance and paymaster
to the board of war and ordnance, at a salary of $90 a month. §
?Vol. 2, page 612. " *
+Vol.3,page28. JVol.S, page 240.
$Vol. 4, page 89.

JOSEPH NOURSE.
Mrs. MARIA LOUISA BULL) NOURSE. Major CHARLES JOSEPHUS NOURSE.

JOSEPH NOURSE. 25
At various dates in February and March, several hundred .thousand dollars
were advanced to him as paymaster.
September 4, 1778— Joseph Nourse requested leave to resign ; the resignation
was accepted on September 16.*
October 9, 1778— Joseph Nourse was allowed $300, in addition to his salary, in
compensation for "risques" taken as paymaster.!
May 29, 1779 — Mr. Nourse was elected assistant auditor general, with salary
as such ($10,000 per annum), from October 24, 1779.$
Septemper 19, 1781 — Mr. Nourse was elected register of the
Treasury. He held this office until May 31, 1829, when he was
removed by President Jackson, whose avowed intention was to
"swbep out the nursery" — meaning thereby the register's office, where
five ' Nourses" then held positions. Two members ofthe family,
however, escaped the sweeping process.
During the earliest period of his office holding, Joseph Nourse
lived in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Yorktown. With the seat of
government, Mr. Nourse removed to New York in 1785, to Philadel
phia in 1790, and to Washington in 1800.
Among the Private Acts of the 5th Congress of the United States
is the following under date of May 22, 1798 :
"Beit enacted, etc., That there be paid to Joseph Nourse, Register of the
Treasury, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury of the United
States, the sum of $250, to indemnify him for the extra expense incurred by him
in removing his family from Philadelphia in the years 1793 and 1797, to avoid
the epidemic fever ; and the extra expense incurred by him in attending to the
business of his office during the same periods. "§
Although at the time of his dismissal from office, Joseph Nourse
was accused of defaulting, yet it was proved that in fact the govern
ment owed to him over eleven thousand dollars . This money was
paid to his heirs by order of Congress after a delay of twenty-nine
years, but without interest. Mr. Nourse was interested in the
building of the great Washington monument and had gone, south in
its behalf when the false accusations were made. Under the law
favoring revolutionary officers, he was in 1832 granted a pension as
former secretary to General Lee.
Joseph Burton had instilled into the mind ot Joseph Nourse an
early piety, which was constant through life.
*Vol. 4, page 543.
flbid, page 
{Vol. 6, page 'JS I.
$Publlo Statutes at Large, 1789-1846, vol. VI., Boston, 1848, page  .

26 JOSEPH NOURSE.
He was appointed a vice-president of the American Bible Society
at its organization in 1816, and, though not often enabled to attend
its meetings in person, he manifested his abiding interest in it and
was ever ready to advance the same cause in his own vicinity. Rev.
Dr. Van Eensselaer in a "Discourse on Old Age ; with a Tribute to
the Memory of Joseph Nourse" (1841) said of him 7
"Everybody who knew him, felt that he was a holy man. His whole de
meanor was one uniform, consistent and contmued illustration of the controll
ing and consoling power of Christianity in every department and in every
vicissitude of life."
Hon. Antony Morris spoke thus of him :
"He was early a subject of divine grace. His parents belonged to the Episco
pal church, which he himself attended until his religious preferences induced him
to become a Presbyterian. This was in New York in 1787."
Shortly afterward Mr. Nourse assisted in forming the church in
Brooklyn of which he became a member. In 1790 he was elected an
elder in a Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, and on his removal to
Washington in 1800 he was chiefly instrumental in organizing the
"F Street" Presbyterian Church (1803), and was one of the original
elders of that church .
Mr. Nourse was a patron and vice-president of the Bible, Educa
tion, Domestic Missionary and Colonization societies, a corporate
member of the American Board of Foreign Missions and a general
supporter of every good work.
*Mr. Nourse was an efficient co-operator under the immortal Hamilton in
arranging the details of the Treasury Department, and in setting in motion and
perfecting the system of our finances.
Joseph Nourse married at "Bullskin," Berkeley Co., Va., (now W.
Va.) April 22, 1784, Maria Louise Bull, born in Philadelphia Co.,
Pa., Jan. 25, 1765 ; died near Washington, D. C, March 1850. Her
father, John Bull, was born June 1, 1731 in Providence township,
Philadelphia county (now Montgomery Co.) Pa. The names of his
parents are not certainly known, though it has been learned that his
father died before 1752, while his mother lived to the age of 96. He
had two brothers,]William and Thomas, both of whom have descend
ants now living ; also sisters, one of them named Elizabeth Betson.
John Bull married Mary Phillips, who was of Welch parentage,
August 13, 1752. May 12, 1758, he was appointed captain in the
provincial service, and was at the taking of Fort Duquesne (Pitts-
*Discourse on Old Age, Dr Van Eensselaer,

JOSEPH NOURSE. 27
burg) with the Pennsylvania and other troops under General
Forbes. He was reappointed and served again the following
year. After "1761, he was a justice of the peace and after 1T68 a
Justice of the Court of Quarterly Sessions of the county. In 1771
he bought 543 acres on the site where Norristown now stands, and
removed there from Limerick township.
During the Revolution his services, military and civil, were
various and active. In 1774 he was one of the Committee of In
spection of the county ; in 1775 a member of the second provincial
convention, which determined on open rebellion. From Nov. 25,
1775 until his resignation Jan. 20, 1776, he was Colonel of the
first Pennsylvania Battalion of the Continental troops. In Feb
ruary he carried money to Cambridge, Mass. ; in June he was a
member of the third provincial convention which framed the
Pennsylvania constitution ; in July he was made Colonel of the
Sixth Associators' Battalion of the state, was elected member of the
fourth convention ; was made chairman of the committee of inspec
tion of Philadelphia county ; became a member of the Council of
Safety of the State, and was a justice of the peace. In September
he was appointed General Superintendent of the construction of
defenses at Billingsport, which work he conducted at intervals until
1779, being appointed "Colonel Commandant" there in Feb, 1777.
In Jan. 1777 he was a commissioner to treat with the Indians at
Easton, Pa. ; in February he was elected member of the Assembly
of Pennsylvania, and in March, when the Council of Safety gave
place to the Executive Council as the real governing body, he was
not in the latter body though he served a month on the Board of
War. May 2, he was appointed Colonel of the Pennsylvania State
Regiment of Foot, and on June 17 was made Adjutant General of
Pennsylvania. Meantime his wife had charge of the estate, all but 55 acres of
which was sold to the University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 2, 1776.
On Sept. 23, 1777, the British army, under Howe, burned several
buildings and confiscated servants and property on its way to
Philadelphia (Bull was afterward reimbursed £2080 for the damage) .
Tradition is rife with Mrs. Bull's bravery on this occasion ; how she
was interviewed by Howe and scorned his offer of rewards if her
husband would desert the American cause ; how she put out the fire
that was started in the house ; how she saved some things by hiding
them, and how her eldest daughter escaped on horseback with their

28 JOSEPH NOURSE.
title deeds. The following winter was spent by the family at
Hummelstown near Lancaster, Pa., whither the State gun-lock
factory, of which Bull's son-in-law, Benjamin Rittenhouse, was
superintendent, had been moved .
In December, 1777, Bull was temporarily in command of the
Second Brigade of Pennsylvania Militia. January 13, 1778, the
Council decided that an Adjutant-General was no longer necessary.
After serving again as Justice, in September he took up again the
direction at Billingsport, which had been interrupted by his service
as Adjutant-General, and in 1780 was commissioner of purchases of
Philadelphia county, and one of three commissioners to limit prices
of merchandise .
Between 1780 and 1784, Bull removed to his estate on Opequan
creek, Berkeley Co., Va. (now West Va.) near " Piedmont, " and was
still there in 1795, although his place at Northumberland, Pa., was
occupied in 1785. In 1805 he was elected to the State Assembly-
and in 1808 was defeated as Federal candidate for Congress.
Mary Phillips Bull died at Northumberland, February 23, 1811,
aged 80 years. John Bull died there August 9, 1824. They had one
son, Ezekiel William, Surgeon U. S. Army, who died unmarried in
1819 or 1820, and five daughters, viz., 1. Elizabeth married Benja
min Rittenhouse ; 2. Anna married General John Smith of Va. ;
3. Mary married Joseph Nourse ; 4. Rebecca married Captain John
Boyd ; 5. Sarah Harriet married three times but has no descendants
living .
1. Anna Marie Josepha3 Nourse, born at "Bullskin, " Berkeley Co., Va., April
10, 1785; died, unmarried, at Staunton, Va., June 25, 1805.
2. Charles Josephus3 Nourse, born at Brooklyn, N. Y., June 1, 1786.
3. Joseph3 Nourse, born at Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 12, 1791; died June, 1791.
4. Rebecca Louise3 Nourse, born at Philadelphia, Nov., 1792; died three weeks
later.
5. Joseph Augustus3 Nourse, born at Trenton, N. J., July 10, 1797; died July
26, 1797.
6. Joseph John Washington8 Nourse, born at Georgetown, D. C, Oct. 21,
1800; died at Georgetown, July 21, 1802.
3. Charles Josephus3 Nourse, (Joseph,2 James,1) born at Brook
lyn,N. Y., June 1, 1786 ; died at his country home, a few miles north
west of "Washington, D. C, March 19, 1851 ; married at Philadelphia,
Pa., May 9, 1816, Rebecca Morris, (born near Philadelphia, Pa., Sept.
6, 1793, died at "The Highlands," Washington, D. C, Feb. 4, 1885)

"MOUNT ALBAN," WASHINGTON, D. C.
Home of Joseph Nourse, First Registrar of the United States Treasury.

'THE HIGHLANDS," WASHINGTON, D. C.
Home of Major Charles Josephus Nourse.

JOSEPH NOURSE. 29
daughter of Antony and Mary (died Feb. 29, 1808, aged 38) (Pem
berton) Morris.
In 1808 Mr. Nourse was sent to England by President Madison as
bearer of dispatches .
In 1809, he was commissioned second lieutenant, U . S. Army;
in 1812, first lieutenant ; August 15, 1813, brevet captain ; in
1814, brevet major and assistant adjutant general ; June 17, 1816.
captain, and the same year assistant adjutant general of the army,
Major Nourse took an active part in the war of 1812, but at the tjme
of the entrance of the enemy into Washington (1814), he was on the
great lakes, serving as aid-de-camp to Major-General Wilkinson.
For a number of years after the war ho was stationed at Bristol,
Bucks Co., Pa. His regiment was the Second Artillery. On Feb.
20, 1827, Maj . Nourse resigned to become chief clerk in tho War
Department, from which he was turned out by Gen. Jackson iii
1829. After this time, his life was more retired, but he managed a
flour mill in Georgetown. Iu 1842, he was elected a resident member
of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science, established
at Washington ; was a justice of the peace from 1839 until his death.
Mrs. Nourse possessed quite a talent for painting. Her wild flowers,
painted from nature (without instruction), in water colors, were well
done. When about eighty years old she became interested in china
painting. One piece of her work, done after she had entered her
ninety-second year, was exceptionally fine in delicacy and harmony
of color and artistic arrangement. It pleased her to paint both
flowers and china for the benefit of "St Albans" Church, and she
always had more orders (unsolicited) than she could fill .
I. Mary Josepha4 Nourse, born at Bristol, Bucks Co., Pa., Oct. 16, 1817, living
at "The Highlands," 1897.
2. Caroline Rebecca* Nourse, born at Bristol, Pa., June 13, 1819.
3. Louisa4 Nourse, born at Bristol, Pa., Sept. 29, 1820.
4. John4 Nourse, born on Governors Island, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1821; died at Bris
tol, Pa., Aug. 11, 1S22.
5. Rosa Morris4 Nourse, born at Bristol, Pa., Oct. 10, 1823; living at "The High
lands," Washington, D. C, 1897.
6. Charles Joseph4 Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, June 23, 1825.
7. Phoebe Pemberton Morris4 Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, Dec. 8,
1826; died, unmarried, March 13, 1850.
8. James Burn4 Nourse, born at "The Highlands, "(D. C, Sept. 18, 1828; living
there in 1897; was clerk in the Quartermaster-General's office, War
Department, from about 1852 until 1858; now a farmer, also a lay
reader in the Episcopal Church.
9. Elizabeth4 Nourse, born at "The Highlands," D. C, Jan. 13, 1831.

30 JOSEPH NOURSE.
10. Henrietta4 Nourse, born at "The Highlands," D. C, Nov. 21, 1833; died,
unmarried, at Columbia, Pa., Nov., 1870.
11. Israel Pemberton Morris4 Nourse, born at "Melrose Castle," Fauquier
Co., Va., Aug. 17, 1836; died about the 28th of July, 1861, of a wound
received in the first battle of Bull Run or Manassas, while protecting
women and children.
4. Caroline Rebecca4 Nourse, (Charles Josephus,3 Joseph,2
James1) born at Bristol, Pa., June 13, 1819; died at "Mount Alban,"
W. Washington, D. C, July 27, 1893 ; married at Georgetown, D. C,
Feb. 2, 1843, Bladen Dulany, born at Alexandria, Va., about August
16, 1793 ; died at Washington, D. G, Dec. 26, 1856.
Bladen Dulany (born 1793 [?] ; died 1856) was appointed mid
shipman, U. S. Navy, May 18, 1809 and was promoted successively
to lieutenant, Dec. 9, 1814, to commander, March 3, 1831, and to
captain, then the highest rank in the navy, Sept. 8, 1841. He was
also brevetted for bravery after the battle of Craney Island, near
Norfolk, Va. His last sea duty, which ended April, 1855, was as
Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Squadron, the frigate "Independ
ence" being his flag ship. His total sea 'service was eighteen
years and three months ; shore or other duty one year and nine
months.1. Caroline Rebecca5 Dulany, born at Washington, D. C, May 25, 1845; died
in Fauquier Co., Va., Oct. 18, 1846.
2. Phoebe Pemberton5 Dulany, born at Washington, Feb. 1, 1850; died at
"Mount Alban," near Washington, Dec. 22, 1883; married at "Cloverland"
near Thoroughfare, Prince William Co., Va., Oct. 18S3, (his second wife,)
Thomas John Chew, farmer, born in Calvert Co., Md., April 18, between
1842 and 1845. He was married a third time.
3. Rosa Morris Romilly5 Dulany, born at "The Highlands," near Washing
ton, May 25, 1852; died at "Cloverland," Prince William Co., Va., April,
1879; married at "St. Albans" church near Washington, May 17, 1872, (his
first wife,) Thomas John Chew, [see above 2.]
1. Rosa Dulany6 Chew, born at "Mount Alban " Apr. 25, 1874; living at
"Cloverland," 1895.
2. Bladen Dulany6 Chew, born at "Cloverland," Prince William Co., Va.,
died in infancy at "Cloverland."
3. Jeanette6 Chew, bom at "Cloverland," Feb. 3, 1877; living at "Clover
land," 1895.
4. Thomas Joiix6Cnrc\v, Jr., born and died in infancy at "Cloverland."
5. Louisa* Nourse (Charles Josephus,3 Joseph,2 James1), born at
Bristol, Pa., Sept 29,1820; died at Washington, D. C, June 12,
1851; married at " The Highlands, " near Washington, D. C, Oct.,
1847, Charles Wayman Forest, born in Fairfax Co., Va., March 18,
1802 ; died at Georgetown, D. C, Jan. 31, 1883..

JOSEPH NOURSE. 31
Charles Wayman Forest (1802-1883) was appointed by President
Jackson clerk in the Treasury Department and retained his office
until his death, though for a long time previous his failing health
had not permitted attention to his duties.
1. Rebecca5 Forest, born at Washington, D. C, Aug. 19, 1848; died March, 1850.
2. Elizabeth Forest5 Forest, born at Washington, D. C, Dec. 7, 1849; died,
unmarried, at the same place, Feb. 11, 1879.
3. Louisa Rebecca Nourse5 Forest, born at Washington, June 9, 1851; living
at "The Highlands," 1897.
6. Charles Joseph4 Nourse, (Charles Josephus,3 Joseph2 James1)
born at Washington, D. C, June 23, 1825 ; living at "Weston," Fau
quier Co , Va., 1897 ; farmer, also lay reader in the Episcopal
Church. Mr. Nourse married first, at New York City, 1849, Mar
garet T. Kemble (died at "Weston," Dec. 12, 1883) ; married second,
at Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co.,Va., Aug. 12, 1885, Anne Carroll
Simpson .
1. Charles Joseph5 Nourse, born at New York City, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1850.
2. Anne Constance5 Nouhse, born at " Weston " farm, Fauquier Co., Va., Dec.
8, 1886.
3. Mary Pemberton5 Noursr, born at "Weston,,' July 12, 1891.
4. Walter Burton5 Nourse, born at "Weston," April 23, 1893.
5. Charlotte St. George5 Nourse, born at "Weston," Dec. 20, 1S94.
7. Elizabeth4 Nourse, (Charles Josephus,3 Joseph,2 James1) born
at "The Highlands," near Washington, D. C, Jan. 13, 1831 ; living
at Washington, D. C, in 1897 ; married at "The Highlands," Nov.
18, 1852, Charles Carroll Simms, born in Stafford Co., Va., March
30, 1824 (died at Georgetown, D. C, Dec. 18, 1884).
Charles Carroll Simms (1824-1884) was ^appointed midshipman,
U. S. Navy, Oct. 9, 1839, and promoted to past midshipman,
July 15, 1845 ; to master, Jan. 15, 1854, and to lieutenant, Aug. 12,
1854. His various voyages took him to Brazil, the Mediterranean,
the coast of Africa, the Pacific, the polar regions in command of the
propeller "Arctic" in 1855, the Spanish main, the East Indies, and to
various ports on Coast Survey duty . On April 22, 1861, Lt. Simms
left the navy, though his resignation was never officially accepted,
to join the Confederate navy, in whicli he was appointed lieutenant.
The first shot in the famous Monitor-Merrimac engagement was
fired by Lt. Simms. After the close of the war, he ran a boat on the
Mississippi river for two years, then went to Cumberland, Md . ,
where he managed a stave factory . Farming occupied his attention

32 JOSEPH NOURSE.
from 1868 to 1878, at "Weston," Fauquier Co., Va. From that time
until his death, he was a clerk in the health office of the District of
Columbia.
1. Charles Nourse5 Simms, born at "The Highlands," near Washington, D. C,
May 1, 1854; hardware commission merchant at Ronceverte, W. Va., 1895;
married at Brook Ridge, Prince George Co., Md., June 25, 1880, Catharine
Ella Burroughs, daughter of John William and Mary Ella (Posey*) Bur
roughs.
1. Charles Carroll-}-8 Simms, born at Ronceverte, W. Va., June 2, 1884.
2. Richard Douglas5 Simms, born at "Mount Alban" near Washington, D. C,
March 29, 1868; clerk in office of engineer commissioner of the District of
Columbia.
8. Charles Joseph5 Nourse, (Charles Joseph,4^ Charles Josephus3,
Joseph,2 James ,*) born at New York City, N. Y., Feb. 14,1850;
living at New York City 1897 ; auditor and one of the directors of
the Kansas City Smelting and Refining Co. ; married at New York
City, April 14, 1887, Julia Livingston, daughter of Judge Charles
and Julia (Livingston) Peabody.
1. Charles Joseph6 Nourse, born at New York, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1888.
2. Julia Livingston0 Nourse, born at New York, N. Y., Oct. 1891.
*The mother of Mrs. Charles Nourse Simms wan a descendant of Gen. dePoisette, who lough t in
the American army during the Revolutionary War; hut the name has heen corrupted to Posey.
¦(•Charles Carroll Simms, Jr., is named for his grandlather, whose mother was Eleanor Carroll Lee
Brent (known as "pretty Nelly Brent" all over Virginia in her day), and whose grandmother was a
Carroll.

CHAPTER IV.

JAMES NOURSE, Jr., AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

9. James2 Nourse (James1) was born in London, England, March
11, 1758 ; died near Bardstown, Ky., July, 1799. The extracts given
below are taken from a diary of a trip to Kentucky by a son of
James Nourse, of "Piedmont" doubtless the subject of this sketch.
"Monday, Dec. 27, 1779. — Arrived with wagon and team at Col. Shelby's; the
fore wheel broke the 29th; set to making pack-saddles, getting bells, etc., and
Wednesday set off with our pack-horses; got to Major B's. where we had our
horses shod. Thursday proceeded over a very ugly hill; two or three of our
packs troubled us. Sunday a cold snowy day; arrived at the block house about
12 o'clock; it is nothing but a common log house with the upper part built
¦wider than the under; not one wagon had been this far for these three years
past, whicli much surprised us ; nothing to be had here, so proceeded over the
north fork of Holstein to the last cabin in the settlement, and for the first time
turned our horses to cane  Monday cloudy and snow about ankle deep 
Tuesday morning our horses looked as well as when I paid ten dollars for
fodder. Yesterday Alexander Reid killed two turkeys, and this morning
Charlie, to his satisfaction, brought down to the ground a large cock.
Sunday, Jan. 9, [1780]  this day we were so unfortunate as to break our
Dutch oven a.nd lose the lid in the snow. Monday morning I went back to
look for the lid of the Dutch oven but could not find it. — Wednesday, a bitter
cold day; endeavored to keep ourselves warm by a good day's march; reached
by night a good cabin one mile from Trading creek across Powell's river. This
retreat very acceptable, for my brother Charles, Mr. Eston and Antony, -when
they came to the Are, found they had got their toes frost-bitten, which obliged
us to remain at this cabin the four following days. (Tuesday) Brother Charlie
killed a deer.
" Wednesday, Jan. 19— -Could get no further than the foot of Cumberland
mountain, (here we parted with our ;company.) Being out of fresh meat,
Brother Charles and I agreed to go and try to kill some buffalo. Tuesday a
cold and cloudy day  Saturday got to Boonesburg  bought two
bushels of corn, gave as high as sixty dollars a bushel — went 10 miles to
Stroud's station. Found by making inquiries at Boones and here, that the
lands my papa located on Licking are in all probability taken up by pre-emp
tions and settlements.
"Sunday, Feb. 13, 1780. — Enjoyed myself with reading — got acquainted with
some of the people in the fort. Took a view of the fort and the lands about;

34 JAMES NOURSE, JR.,
think it very heavy clearing, and a vast quantity of cane to ambush the enemy.
The water, moreover, is very indifferent, and in all likelihood will be dried up in
the summer. Neither do I think the garrison strong enough for a frontier
station. For these reasons Brother Charles and self agreed to move to some
other. Monday, Mr. Stroud, with Charles and Bob, went a-hunting. Myself
intended to go to Harrodsburg to see the commissioners, and to endeavor to
get a pre-emption for my father for his journey here in 1775  Bros. Charles
and Robert killed two bulls  Set off with Capt. Swearingen for Harrods
burg, by way of Lexington and Bryan's stations  As we came upon
Elkhorn waters, got upon lands which seemed to me to be of the very best
quality. I thought I had got into a garden spot, but found the lands nearly
the same all the way to Bryan's  Found the station so full of inhabitants
there was no chance of my getting in." (The diary ends abruptly here).
From a letter of James Nourse, Jr., to^Mrs. Joseph Nourse :
"Danville, Lincoln Co., [now Boyle] Ky., Aug. 1, 1784. "Brother Robert and
myself are keeping a sort of bachelor's hall on Goose creek, about eight miles
from the Louisville falls of the Ohio.
A political club was formed at Danville, Ky., in 1786 with a
membership of thirty, elected by ballot. James Nourse was admitted
Feb. 7,1789*
"The muster roll of Capt. James Brown's company of mounted Kentucky
volunteers, in the service of the United States against the Wiaw Indians, com
manded by Brig.-Gen. Charles Scott 'mustered in at the Rapids of the Ohio'
June 15, 1791,— is still preserved." On this roll the name of James Noure
appears as one of seventy-one privates present. f
James Nourse was admitted a member of the Greensburg, Ky.
bar at the August court, 1794. He was spoken of by those who
knew him, as a good lawyer, an excellent surveyor, and as highly
esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances. He lived in Bardstown,
Ky. James Nourse married Sarah Benois in 1789. After the death of
her husband, Mrs . Nourse received from his relatives in England a
mourning pin ; described thus : "A weeping willow, and beneath a
tomb with this inscription : -He is gone to rest ;' a lovely female
figure weeps by its side ; all done in the most exquisite hair painting.
On the margin is the name and date, ' James Nourse, departed this
life July, 1799, aged 41 years . ' On the back is their monogram in
gold, J. S. N." [i. e. of James and Sarah Nourse] . This quaint old
heirloom measures two inches by two and a half, and is owned by

•"Fllson Club" papers.
?Collins' History of Ky., vol. 2, p. 887.

JAMES NOURSE, JR. 35
Mrs. John MacLeod, of Louisville, Ky., a great granddaughter of
James Nourse.
Sarah Benois, wife of James Nourse, was of a Huguenot family.
She came to Kentucky in 1786 from South Carolina, with her niece,
who was the wife of John Adair. John Adair was elected Governor of
Kentucky in 1820. Mrs. Nourse died at an advanced age at Bards-
town, Ky.
1. Charles Benois8 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Ky., Aug. 5, 1792.
2. John8 Nourse, born at Bardstown; died in infancy.
3. Charlotte8 Nourse, born at Bardstown ; died at the age of fourteen years.
10. Charles BenoisS Nourse (James,2 James1), born at Bards
town, Ky., Aug. 5, 1792; died near Louisville, Ky., July 11, 1864.
He was a prosperous merchant of Bardstown ; and a faithful elder
in the Presbyterian Church for thirty-four years. He removed to
Jefferson Co., Ky., in 1857, and engaged in farming. Mr. Nourse
was three times married. His first wife was Delia McLean, daughter
of Duncan McLean (James Duncan Nourse, the author, was her son) ;
his second wife was Nancy Ewing, daughter of Charles and Sarah
Wickliffe Ewing (Sarah was the daughter of Charles and Lydia or
Sarah (Hardin) Wickliffe) ; the third was Rosa Logan (bom in Lin
coln Co., Ky., Feb. 1, 1805 ; married in Shelby Co., Aug. 25, 1831),
daughter of William* and Priscilla Christian (Wallace) Logan,
and a grandaughter of Gen Benjamin Logan, f whose wife was
Anne Montgomery. J
Mrs . Nourse, a charming intelligent woman, lived to the advanced
age of ninety years, and died in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 1895 .
1. James Duncan4 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Ky., Sept. 26, 1817.
2. Sarah Ewing4 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Aug. 16, 1823.
3. Charles Ewing4 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Feb. 14, 1826.
4. William,4 died in infancy.
?Judge William Logan, son of Gen. Benjamin Logan, was born in the fort at Harrodsburg, Dec. 8
177(1; he was the most gifted and eminent of the early born sons of Kentucky. He was twice a judge
of tbe Court of Appeals, also a U. S. Senator, and when he died in 1822, was looked forward to as the
next governor of Kentucky. (Collins' History of Ky.) His wife was Priscilla Christian, daughter of
Hon Caleb Wallace .
H-Benjamin Logan (born in Augusta Co., Va.,) was among the earliest and most distinguished of
those bold pioneers, who, penetrating the western wilds, laid the foundation of arts, civilization,
religion and law, in what was then the howling wilderness of Kentucky; to which he moved his
family in 1776, a year memorable in the history of the district as one of peculiar peril." (Collins'
History of Ky.) "In him generosity, benevolence and self-sacrifice were as characteristic as the
courage which never feared the face of man," (Green's Historic Families of Ky., p. 130 .)
tGreen's Historic Families of Ky., p. 183.

36 JAMES NOURSE, JR.
5. Wallace Logan* Nourse, born at Bardstown, Nov. 30, 1834.
6. Robert Charles4 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Feb. 25, 1837.
7. Virgil McKnight4 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Aug. 5, 1839; unmarried,
and living at Chicago, 111. in 1891.
8. Joseph William4 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Oct. 31, 1841.
9. Mary Priscilla Nourse, born at Bardstown, Oct. 31, 1843.
10. Anne Jane4 Nourse, born at Bardstown, March 6, 1848; died Nov. 30, 1857.
11. James Duncan* Nourse (Charles Benois,3 James,2 James1),
born at Bardstown, Kentucky, Sept. 26, 1817 ;died at St. Louis, Mis
souri, June 1, 1854 ; married Jan. 18, 1842, Sarah Jane Wickliffe (died
Dec. 1844), daughter of Nathaniel Wickliffe and his wife Ann, the
youngest daughter of Gen. Benjamin Logan. "Mr. Nourse was
graduated at St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Ky., in 1836 ; studied
both law and medicine, but abandoned both for journalism, and at
different periods edited three newspapers iu his native town. He
subsequently became connected with the St . Louis Intelligencer and
was its associate editor at the time of his death . He was the author
of the novels, ' The Forest Knight, ' and 'Leavenworth, a Story of
the Mississippi.' His Work, 'God in History, or the^Past and Its
Legacies,' was highly recommended by critics in this country and
abroad."* The following notice was printed shortly after hin death,
but the name of the paper in which it appeared has been lost :
"A number of very remarkable articles have, for some months past, appeared
in the St. Louis Intelligencer. They bore evidence of a decidedly original and
powerful intellect; the matter being of a material newly quarried, while the
style was both strong and beautiful. One of these articles — the subject Ne
braska territory — was quoted by Mr. Everett in his speech '.on the Nebraska
bill. Mr. Everett acknowledged indebtedness to this article, which he pro
nounced 'quite remarkable,' for one of the best and most beautiful ideas of
his speech. The writer of these productions was James D: Nourse, associate
editor of the Intelligencer, a native of Nelson county, Kentucky, and related to
some of the most influential families in the State. And thus has death sud
denly snuffed out the light of an intellect that was an honor to our honorable
profession."
1. Anne Logan5 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Kentucky, October 29th, 1842;
living in Bardstown, 1895; unmarried,
2. Jane5 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Kentucky, December llth, 1844; living in
Bardstown, 1895 ; unmarried.
12. Sarah Ewing4 Nourse (Charles Benois3, James2, James1),
born at Bardstown, Kentucky, August 16, 1823 ; died at Cane
Spring, Kentucky, March 25, 1862 (buried at Bardstown) ; mar
ried at Bardstown, June 6, 1843, James Madison Doom (was his
"(Appleton's Biographical Dictionary.)

JAMES NOURSE, JR. 37
second wife), born at Bardstown, Jan. 8, 1813 , died at Lebanon,
Ky., July, 1895. Mr. Doom was descended from Holland Dutch, a
good substantial plaiu people. He was a man of great intelligence
and of stern integrity. He was a wealthy manufacturer at the
beginning of the civil war, and owed an immense tannery, sawmills,
stone quarries ; was offered large sums for his property, but not
knowing the future, refused them and was left without wealth so far
as this world goes.
1. Charles Nourse5 Doom, born at Bardstown, Kentucky ; died at " Cane
Spring," Bullitt county, Kentucky, aged eighteen months.
2. Mary Lizzie5 Doom, born at Bardstown, Kentucky, December 12th, 1845;
living at Louisville, Kentucky, 1897; married at "Cane Spring," her
father's home, in Bullitt county, November 28th, 1865, John MacLeod, a
civil engineer (born at Georgetown, D. C, July 21st, 1836), son of George
MacFarlane MacLeod (born at Washington, D. C, 1813, a civil engineer,
died at Louisville, Kentucky, June 13th, 1877) and Amelia Deakins (born
in Prince George county, Maryland, 1813) MacLeod.
1. John Clieton0 MacLeod, born at "Cane Spring," Bullitt county, Ken
tucky, August 4th, 1866; died in Boone county, Kentucky, March 25th,
1867.
2. George" MacLeod, born in Boone county, Kentucky, January 27th, 1S68;
married at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, October, 1894, Jessie Lillard ;
living at Louisville, Kentucky, 1895.
1. Mavf MacLeod, born at Louisville, Kentucky, August, 1896.
3. Sally Doom6 MacLeod, born at Louisville, Kentucky, April lxth, 1872 ;
married there June 6th, 1X95, Arthur Moore, lawyer, of Fredonia, N, Y.
1. Muthew Singleton7 Moore, born March 17th, 1S97.
4. Lily0 MacLeod, born at Louisville, Kentucky, December 28th, 1X74.
5. John0 MacLeod, Jr., born at Louisville, Kentucky, April 2.sth, 1880.
3. Martin Ewing5 Doom, born at Bardstown, Kentucky; died at "Cane
Spring," Bullitt county, Kentucky.
4. Charles Ewing5 Doom, born at Bardstown; unmarried in 1891; farmer,
near Fort Worth, Texas.
5. John Phillips5 Doom, born at Bardstown, November, 1851; railroad super
intendent at Middlesborough, Kentucky, 1895; married, 1X77, Anne Milam.
1. Lily0 Doom, born 1878.
2. Sallie0 Doom, born 1880.
3. Elizabeth0 Doom, born 1883.
6. William Logan5 Doom, born at Bardstown, Kentucky; died at "Cane
Spring," Bullitt county, Kentucky.
7. Charlotte Rose5 Doom, born at Bardstown; died at "Cane Spring,"
Bullitt county.
13. Charles Ewing4 Noukse (Charles Benois,3 James 2 James1),
born at Bardstown, Ky., Feb. 14, 1826 ; died at Elizabethtown, Ky.,
March 20, 1866. In 1847 Mr. Nourse joined the Ky. volunteer
troops that went to the Mexican war, this company entered the city

38 JAMES NOURSE, JR.
of Mexico with Gen . Winfield Scott . The following extracts are
from letters written while there. "December 25th, 1847.
" Dear James : — I am now in the great celestial city, of which there has been
much said by the newspapers, political, religious and literary, histories and
tongues. The trip from Jalapa has been a forced march, being on an average
of eight leagues per day. We have passed many beautiful and interesting
places. Our first day's march from Jalapa brought us to LaHoya, where
Santa Anna, like Leonidas of old, with 300 men, (Mexicans not Spartans) deter
mined to defend the pass; a traveller passing this way would suppose it impos
sible to carry it manned by a small determined band. What nature has
neglected, art supplied, sharp rocks, cliffs, walls, ditches and sinkholes cover
the pass for half a mile or more leaving a space about large enough for one
wagon to pass; at this almost impassable gap Capt. Walker, with sixty men
drove Santa Anna and his 300 heroes to the winds  [Here is a description
of the castle of Perote.]
"One day whilst in the valley of Perote, after having marched 25 weary miles,
we pitched our tents and commenced cooking, etc. We heard the report of
guns in the distance. The Indiana Regt. was encamped about 5 miles off and
It was supposed that they were attacked by Mexicans; the long roll was beat,
every man, unconscious of fatigue or sickness, rushed to his tent, shouldered
his gun and fell into line ready to march into battle; it was but the work of a
moment to form a regimental parade; whilst in line some guns which had been
loaded in hunting expeditions, were in the hurry of the times, accidently dis
charged. One charge severely wounded a young man named Moore, from
Eddyville, in the company on the left; another charge proved mare fatal,
killing a young man by the name of C. W. Peterson, of Louisville. After these
accidents we were marched off at a run for about a mile, when we were halted
to await further orders, which when they came 'were, that we should go back
to our quarters and go to bed. This was the first alarm we ever had; the
alacrity with which the men turned out showed pretty conclusively that they
took into consideration what we came for. It is to be hoped that we have no
more such alarms.
"On the 5th day's tramp we reached Pueblo  Pueblo has 80,000 inhabi
tants, covering more space than the city of Louisville, the streets being flanked
by continuous blocks of buildings  There is much of interest here,
statuary, fine buildings, fountains where the water is led through statues of
men, beasts and birds and thrown high in the air  It is worth the trip I
have taken, to go through the church in Pueblo, to describe it would be
impossible. Paintings, sculpture and all that is magnificent that the imagina
tion of religious devotion can devise, is there. After a rest of 3 days, we had to
move on to the city, where we arrived in 4 days, having marched an estimated
distance of 110 miles. On the third day of our march from Pueblo we came to
the top of the mountain which overlooks the valley of Mexico; there is no place
in nature more beautiful than this ; imagine the scene, an unobstructed view of
50 miles in extent, a wide extended fertile valley, six or seven large cities, with
glistening domes and spires, three large lakes, a winding stream, snow-capped
peaks and ranges of mountains spread out in one vast picture  Your
brother, Chas. E. Nourse^"

JAMES NOURSE, JR. 39
Also this to his little brothers — February 29, 1848.
"My Young Brothers — It has been five long months since I have been at
home  I haye seen a great deal in my travels  Have been down the
great Mississippi, sailed over the Gulf of Mexico out of sight of land for ten
whole days" [in which time they endured a severe storm and saw a whale] 
 "We staid in Vera Cruz 4 or 5 days, then commenced marching, going over
large bridges, high mountains, and through some large cities, the first of which
was Jalapa, which is larger than Louisville ; it is situated on the side of a high
mountain on whose top there is snow all times of the year  You can see
here oranges ripe, green and flowers all growing on the same tree at
the same time  I have now been in the City of Mexico since the
19th da.y of last December  You ought to be here and see the fine things
that are here, the fine churches, the crowded streets, the museum and the
schools; you would be pleased. In the churches are the finest pictures in the
world, statues, gold and silver in abundance adorning the sides, the ceilings
and the altars. In the museum, are all kinds of birds, animals and fishes 
 Was at one of jthe schools the other day, and there I saw about 20 little
fellows sitting as still as mice, some studying, some writing, some ciphering,
and some doing nothing at all; they ;were mostly little pug-nosed, fat-cheeked,
black-eyed and shaved-headed little chaps and very funny  suddenly a
little fellow about the size of Logan, jumps, calls a little boy to his desk and
gives him a good whipping, what for I could not see, and this little fellow was
the teacher  You would be amused to see the Mexicans carrying wood
and such large loads; they have a rope which they tie up the wood with;
and have a strap which goes across the forehead, they sling a pile of
wood which would take five negroes to lift and pace off with it. I saw n Mex
ican who had killed two beeves, he had a mule, upon the mule he put three
quarters of a beef and took upon his own back the other five quarters, drove
the mule ahead and paced off to the market place. Out in the country they let
nothing go that will sustain life, they make sausages out of mules, horses, dogs
and cats, the rats have been eat out of house and home long ago. They milk
all kinds of animals that give milk, such as mares. How would you like to eat
dog sausage and mare's milk for breakfast? You may think that I have eaten
dog sausages, but I have not, I have drunk some milk tho  I forgot to
tell you that oranges sell for a picayune for ten large fine oranges, apples two
for four pence  and chickens half a dollar apiece  Remember your
brother in Mexico and write to Chas. E. Nourse."
On his return to Bardstown, Mr. Nourse edited the county
paper for several years then was a civil engineer ; married at
Bardstown, Sept. 26, 1850, Mary Eliza Brown (born at "Mt.
Prospect," Nelson Co., Ky., Apr. 29, 1832 ; died at Elizabethtown,
July 18, 1894 ,) daughter of Judge Henry Ormsby (born in Bour
bon, Co., Ky., Dec. 10, 1787; died at "Mt. Prospect," June 26,
1852) and Lucy Ann Gaither (his second wife, born at "Mt.
Prospect," March 23, 1804 ; married June 4th, 1828 ; died Novem
ber 16, 1848) Brown.

40 JAMES NOURSE, JR.
1. Henry Ormsby5 Nourse, born at Bardstown, Kentucky, July 13th, 1852.
2. Sallie Ewing5 Nourse, born in Hardin county, Kentucky, October 15th,
1854 ; died 1855.
3. Charles Allen5 Nourse, born in Hardin county, June 22d, 1856.
4. Anne5 Nourse, born at Louisville, Kentucky, October 9th, 1859; living in
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, unmarried, in 1897.
5. Byrum Ewing5 Nourse, born in Bullitt county, Kentucky, June 15th, 1861 ;
civil engineer at Chicago, Illinois, 1891.
6. Mary Ella5 Nourse, born at Elizabethtown, August 3d, 1862.
7. Lulie Lee5 Nourse, born in Hardin county, Kentucky, February 20th, 1865.
8. Kate Lindsey5 Nourse, born at Elizabethtown, August 29th, 1866; living
there, unmarried, in 1897.
14. Wallace Logan4 Nourse, D. D., (Charles Benois8 James,2
James,1) born at Bardstown, Ky., Nov. 30, 1834 ; minister in the
Southern Presbyterian Church at Hopkinsville, Ky., 1897 ; married
first, Nov. 30, 1864, Louisa Bell (died Jan. 1, 1874), daughter of
William (born in Ireland) and Louisa (Ewing) (born in Pennsyl
vania) Bell ; married second, Aug. 25, 1875, Sadie  .
1. Illa Tripplette5 Nourse, born Oct. 8, 1866.
2. William Bell5 Nourse, born Aug. 20, 1868; died in Christian Co., Ky., Sept.
27, 1X94.
3. Charles Logan5 Nourse, born March 21, 1872.
4. Louisa Bell5 Nourse, born Nov. 1, 1876.
5. Elizabeth5 Nourse, born April 1, 1879.
6. AVallace Logan5 Nourse, born November, 1881.
7. Virgie McKnight5 Nouuse, born August, 1883.
8. Carrie Champline5 Nourse, born March 22, 1885.
9. James Bartrim5 Nourse, born March 15, 1888.
10. Sadie5 Nourse, born 
11. P^dgar5 Nourse, born  ; died in Christian Co., Ky., July, 1894.
12. Rosa Logan5 Nourse, born Jan. 20, 1895.
15. Robert Charles4 Nourse (Charles Benois3, James2, James1),
born at Bardstown, Ky„ Feb. 25, 1837; farmer near Owensboro,
Ky., 1891 ; married in Jefferson Co., Ky., at the home of her uncle,
Rev. Richard Neale, of the Methodist Church,®Nov. 15, 1859, Jennie
Evelyn Washington (born at Elkton, Ky., Feb. 11, 1838), daughter
of Warner Washington, who was born at Fairfield, Va„ the farm
home of his father, Fairfax Washington, March 25, 1801 ; died at
Elkton, Ky., Dec. 6, 1880 ; his wife, Louisa Enfield Neale, was born
at Culpepper, Va., June 8, 1802. She was married first to Samuel
Boone, a nephew of Daniel Boone, and lived in Todd Co., Ky., till
hi3 death in 1835. She married Mr. Washington, Feb. 14, 1837;
died at Elkton, Sept. 19, 1887. Fairfax Washington was second
cousin to General George Washington.

JAMES NOURSE, JR. 41
1. Lou Ellen5 Nourse, born in Daviess county, Kentucky, August 4, 1860.
2. Rosa Logan5 Nourse, born in Daviess county, August 14, 1862.
3. Charles Robert5 Nourse, born in Daviess county, April 27, 1865.
4. Sallie Smith5 Nourse, born in Daviess county, March 16, 1869.
5. Anne Wilson5 Nourse, born in Daviess county, March 27, 1874.
6. Sam Neale5 Nourse, born in Daviess county, April 30, 1877.
16. Joseph William4 Nourse (Charles Benois3, James2, James1),.
born at Bardstown, Ky . , October 31, 1841 ; living at Rockport, Ind.,
1895 ; married at Rockport, October 5, 1875, Nettie Fee (born at
Felicity, Ohio, July 13, 1854), daughter of John S. and Almira
(Moore) Fee.
1. Archie Logan6 Nourse, born at Rockport, Indiana, August 1, 1876.
2. Robert Fee5 Nourse, born at Rockport, December 16, 1878.
3. Myra Moore5 Nourse, born at Rockport, November 25, 1880.
4. Annetta Logan5 Nourse, born at Rockport, August 27, 1893.
17. Mary Priscilla4 Nourse (Charles Benois3, James2, James1),
born at Bardstown, Ky., October 31, 1843 ; living at Louisville, Ky.,
1895 ; married there January 24, 1867, Joseph Glass Wilson (born
near Bardstown, December 8, 1833 ; died at Louisville, June 23,
1879), son of Jonathan Wood and Elizabeth (Muir) Wilson .
1. Anne Jane5 Wilson, born at Louisville, Kentucky, November 11, 1867;
married there December 16, 1891, Lawrence Lewis Anderson, insurance
agent, son of Lawrence and Minnie (Lewis) Anderson.
1. Joseph Wilson6 Anderson, born at Louisville, Kentucky, October, 5,
1892.
2. Lawrence Lewis9 Anderson, born at Louisville, Kentucky, July 30,
1896.
2. Joseph Glass5 Wilson, Jr., born at Louisville, November 8, 1875.
18. Henry Ormsby5 Nourse (Charles Ewing,4' Charles Benois,3
James,2 James1), born at Bardstown, Ky., July 13, 1852; commission
agent for railroad supplies, Chicago, Illinois, 1891 ; married at
LaGrange, Kentucky, June 25, 1878, Polly Ann Bain (born at
LaGrange, December 29, 1854), daughter of Thomas Jefferson (born
in Trimble county, July 2, 1814 ; died at LaGrange, Kentucky,
November 11, 1877) and Eunita Ann (Foree) (born June 14, 1826,
living 1891) Bain (formerly Mrs . Geogheghan) .
1. Annita8 Nourse, born at LaGrange, Kentucky, June 9, 1879.
2. Henry Ormsby9 Nourse, Jr., born at LaGrange, February 28, 1883.
3. Mary Brown8 (or Bain) Nourse, born at Beards, near Pewee Valley, Ken
tucky, May 3, 1884.

42 JAMES NOURSE, JR.
4, Leonora Boies9 Nourse, born at Chicago, Illinois, August 12, 1888; died at
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, June 22, 1895.
5. Lourania Foree9 Nourse, born at Chicago, August 28, 1890.
19. Mary Ella5 Nourse (Charles Ewing,4" Charles Benois,3 James,2
James1), born at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, August 3, 1862 ; living
at Elizabethtown, 1897; married at Elizabethtown, February 25,
1885, John Peyton Hobson, lawyer, (born in Powhatan county,
Virginia), son of W. W. and Arabella (Boiling) Hobson.
1. Charles Nourse8 Hobson, born at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, February 15,
1886.
2. John Peyton8 Hobson, Jr., born at Elizabethtown, November 19, 1888,
3. Mary Belle8 Hobson, born at Elizabethtown, January 13, 1890.
4. Willis Ewing8 Hobson, born at Elizabethtown, December 20, 1891.
5. Robert Pusey8 Hobson, born at Elizabethtown, September 7, 1893.
6. Joe8 Hobson, born at Elizabethtown, February 17, 1897.
20. Lulie Lee5 Nourse (Charles Ewing, 4 Charles Benois,3
James,2 James1), born in Hardin county, Kentucky, February 20,
1865 ; living at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1895 ; married at Eliza
bethtown, November 20, 1889, William Hutchison Sale, Jr.,
life insurance agent (born at Louisville, Kentucky, July 10, 1867),
son of William Hutchison (born at Louisville, July 17, 1836)
and Delphine Naghel (born September 12, 1840 ; died March
3, 1889) Sale.
1. Lulie Nourse8 Sale, born at Louisville, Kentucky, February 16, 1891.
2. Della Mary6 Sale, born at Chicago, Illinois, November 7, 1892.
.3. William Hewitt8 Sale, born at Louisville, Kentucky, December, 1895.
21. Charles Allen5 Nourse (Charles Ewing,4" Charles Benois3
James2 James1) born in Hardin county, Kentucky, June 22, 1856 ;
railroad stenographer ; married at Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 1894,
Bertha Foster (born in New York) .
1. Charles Enos9 Nourse, born at Chicago, Illinois, March 11, 1897.
22. Illa Tripplette5 Nourse ( Wallace Logan,4" Charles Benois,3
James,2 James1) , born October 8, 1866 ; living at Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, 1895 ; married October 26, 1886, Thomas Green, Jr., son
of Thomas and Mary (Moore) Green .
1. Louisa Bell9 Green, born at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, August 20, 1£87.
2. Thomas Logan8 Green, born at Hopkinsville, October 13, 1889.
3. Logan Nourse8 Green, born at Hopkinsville, June 23, 1892,

JAMES NOURSE, JR. 43
4. Martha Moore8 Green, born at Hopkinsville, February 10, 1895.
2S\ Lou Ellen5 Nourse (Robert Charles,4" Charles Benois,3 James2
James1), born in Daviess county, Kentucky, August 4, 1860 ; living
near Owensboro, Kentucky, 1891 ; married in Daviess county,
December 29, 1886, William Jonas Kruger, farmer, born in Daviess
County, January 20, 1859.
1. Mary Evelyn8 Kruger, born in Daviess county, August 2, 1889; "and is at
rest."
24. Rosa Logan5 Nourse (Robert Charles4", Charles Benois,3
Jamea,2 James,1), born in Daviess county, Kentucky, August 14,
1862 ; married at Owensboro, Kentucky, in the Methodist church,
March 24, 1891, James Harvey Hurley, real estate agent, born Sept
ember^, 1859 ; living at Salt Lake City, Utah, 1895.
25. Sallie Smith5 Nourse (Robert Charles,4" Charles Benois,3
James,2 James1) born in Daviess county, Kentucky, March 16, 1869 ;
living at Owensboro, Kentucky, 1891 ; married in Daviess county,
June 8, 1886, George Albert Mowrey, carpenter, born in Jefferson
county, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1860.
I. Kenneth R8 Mowrey, born at Lewisport, Kentucky, March 16, 1890.

CHAPTER V

CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE AND HER
DESCENDANTS.

26. Catharine Burton2 Nourse (James1) was born in London,
England, May 9, 1759 ; died at Lexington, Kentucky, June, 1833 ;
married in Virginia, April 30, 1778, John Esten Cooke,* of Virginia,
a widower with children. They lived for some years on a farm in
the near neighborhood of "Piedmont," and Mr. Cooke was the confi
dential agent of his father-in-law, James Nourse, during his residence
in Annapolis. It is said that Mr. Cooke was a man of wealth at
the time of his marriage, but lost heavily by his liberality in going
security for his friends in Virginia. In 1793, Mrs. Cooke came to
Kentucky on horseback, bringing her negroes and her five children,
the youngest an infant of a few months. She reached Lexington in
April. As late as August, 1793, Kentucky was infested by maraud
ing bands of Indians, they still refusing to make a treaty of peace
with the United States government.!
Mr. Cooke came to Kentucky in 1794 and located or bought lands
on Glenn's creek in Woodford county where he died in 1817.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Cooke returned to Lexington,
and lived for a while in a building located where the Northern Bank
now stands. At the time of her death, she was in her own home on
the north side of Main street, about half way between Limestone and
Upper streets.
•Origin of the name of Cooke. "At this town (Beeston) flourished an ancient family of Gales,
which name was numerousin the Parish, yet several branches at Beeston, Hernsfleet, Holbeok and
Mildsnay as ap [pearsj by P. Register, are writ Gale alias Cooke  " The same writer adds that
Robert and Alex . Cooke who were vicars of Leeds, though registered at baptism by,' name Gale, were
matriculated at the University by the name of Cooke. The name appears in 1150 in England. From
the History of Leeds, (p 53) by Thoriaby . Given as a ourions bit-of history. May not be this family.
+Marshah's History of Kentucky, vol. II, pp. 31-2 .

CATHARINE BURTON NOURSE COOKE.

CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE. 45
In August, 1827, Mrs. Cooke wrote to her sister Elizabeth Chap-
line as follows :
"I may say with truth, when I was in trouble and called on my Redeemer, he
heard my prayer, and my latter days are crowned with peace, and I am now
waiting for His divine call, with the blessed hope that my sins are covered with
His righteousness." Mrs. Cooke was a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. 1. John8 Cooke, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, January 2, 1779; died there
January 5, 1779.
2. Sarah Force3 Cooke, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, March 4, 1781;
died at Versailles, Kentucky, October 27, 1867; married in 1812 or 1813,
Bernard Gaines (son of Daniel Gaines,* of Amherst county, Virginia),
born in Amherst county, June 22, 1767; died at his farm in Woodford
county, Kentucky, June 22, 1839. Bernard Gaines rendered nine years
service in the regular army of the United States; reached the rank
of captain and was honorably discharged. Sarah Force Cooke was
twelve years old when she came to Kentucky with her mother, making
the journey on horseback behind her half sister, Mary Cooke. In after
years she often entertained her grandchildren with the story of her adven
tures. Mrs Gaines had great decision of character, was just and honor
able in all her dealings, and successfully managed her estate after her
husband's death. She retained her membership in the Protestant Epis
copal church, though living so far away that she was for years, in great
measure, deprived of church privileges, until a congregation was gathered
in Versailles. After the negroes deserted her in 1865, she removed to Ver
sailles. In the summer of 1867, though in her eighty-seventh year, Mrs.
Gaines could sew and make tatting without glasses. She was strong
and well preserved, and but for a fall, would probably have lived to be
a hundred years old.
1. Elizabeth Ward* Gaines, born January 2, 1814; died in Woodford
county, Kentucky, April 16, 1849; married first in Woodford county,
March 10, 1830, Charles Force Nourse;t married second in Woodford
county, February 13, 1840, Sylvanus W. Johnson (born near Nashville,
Tennessee, April 9, 1809; died in Lee county, Virginia, February 27,
1894).
1. Sarah Elizabeth5 Nourse (married Sargent).
2. Maria Catharine5 Nourse (married Lyle).
3. William Bernard5 Nourse.
4. Bernard Gaines5 Johnson, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
November 28, 1840; he was with Morgan's cavalry, and died,
unmarried, June 27, 1864, from the effect of a wound received in a
skirmish at Cynthiana, Kentucky.
5. Susan Cooke5 Johnson, born in Woodford county, July 6, 1842; died
in Lee county, Virginia, September 15, 1887; married in Woodford
county, Kentucky, October, 1871, George Robert Rutherford, farmer.
+In "Old Churches, Ministers, and Families in Virginia," by Bishop Mead, the name of Daniel
Gaines appears In a list of Vestrymen, page 58, volume II, article 12, Amherst and other counties.
In the Appendix, page 428, the name of Gaines Is fonnd among those of old and leading families.
Daniel Qalnes served as major and as colonel of mi'itia previous to and daring the Revolutionary
War. "The Cabells and their Kin," pages 117, 194.
(See William Nourse genealogy.

46 CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE.
1. Lettie Sharp6 Ratherford, born in Lee county, Virginia, Septem
ber 28, 1872; married there May 31, 1891, Henly Francis Garrett,
farmer.
2. Maria Belle6 Rutherford, born in Lee-county; died aged 4 years.
3. Charles Kenney9 Rutherford, born in Lee county; died in infancy.
4. Sarah Ella0 Rutherford, born in Lee county, March 13, 1877.
5. Helen Agnes9 Rutherford, born in Lee county, March 27, 1879.
6. Susie9 Rutherford, born in Lee county, December 4, 1883-
6. Ella Emmeline5 Johnson, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
April 24, 1847; died, unmarried, in Hardin county, Kentucky, May
21, 1879.
2. Catharine* Gaines, born about 1816; died in Woodford county, Ken
tucky, June, 1839; married in Woodford county, Oscar Pepper, farmer
and distiller.
1. Laura Adelia5 Peppeb, her only child, died June, 1839, aged 6 months.
3. Gustavus Cooke* Gaines, born in Woodford county; died at Dixon,
Kentucky, January 14, 1866; was a farmer for a number of years; read
law and practiced that profession for some time; married first at
Woodburn,in Woodford county, Kentucky, August 29, 1843, Ann Gib
son (died atEminence, Kentucky, in 1855), daughter of William and
Fannie (Samuels) Gibson; married second, near Morganfield, Kentucky,
February 7, 1856, Kate Cromwell* (born in Jefferson county, Virginia,
February 20, 1831; died in Webster county, Kentucky, March 15, 1881),
daughter of Richard Arthur and Rachel (Myers) Cromwell. Even as a
child Kate Cromwell's manners were characterized by a gentle and
benevolent spirit, and to this was added the careful training of
Christian parents.
1. Fannie Catharine5 Gaines, born at " Woodburn," Woodford county
Kentucky, December 2, 1845; died in infancy.
2. Bernard5 Gaines, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, March 16,
1847; living there, unmarried, 1^97.
3. Fannie5 Gaines, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, December 25,
1849; living there in 1897; married at "Woodburn," February 9, 1871,
William Samuel Fogg, farmer (born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
March 29, 1871, livingin 1897), son of Elij ah andAnnReed(Ware)Fogg.
1. Anne Belle9 Fogg, teacher, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
December 27, 1871; living there, unmarried, 1897.
2. Jennie9 Fogg, teacher, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
July 16, 1874; living there, unmarried, in 1897.
3. Fannie Gibson9 Fogg, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
December 23, 1876.
4. A daughter,9 born April 21, and died May 6, 1879.
5. William Ware9 Fogg, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
December 12, 1883; died there February 28, 1895.
6. Lucy9 Fogg, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, June 18, 1886.
7. Mary Breckenridge9 Fogg, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
May 28, 1890.
4. Lucy Belie6 Gaines, born 1852; died in infancy.

•Kate Cromwell was a Huguenot by descent in two distinct linen, Risteau and Benois. It is Bald
that her ancestors were closely related to the famous Oliver Cromwell. Thev have a Cromwell
family tree running back nearly a thousand years. She was also a descendant of Rev. Thomas Crad-
dock (elder brother of John Craddock. Archbishop of Dublin) whose wife was Catharine, daughter of
John Risteau, high sheriff of Baltimore County, Maryland.

CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE. 47
5. Sarah Cooke5 Gaines, born in 1855; died same year.
6. John Cabell Breckenridge5 Gaines, born in Union county, Kentucky,
March 20, 1857; living in Leesburg, Florida in 1897; married at Union-
town, Kentucky, June 15, 1887, Mary Kendall Davidson (born at Hawes-
ville, Kentucky, November 15, 1860; living in 1897), daughter of Benjamin
Crosby (born in England) and Barbara Temple (born in England;
married in Hawesville) Davidson. Mr. Gaines obtained his education
almost wholly by his own exertions, receiving but little aid from the
schools. He was admitted to the practice of law in Union county,
Kentucky, 1882; appointed judge of the Lake county (Florida) criminal
court, 1889. Mr. Gaines, wherever known, is recognized as a lawyer of
marked ability.
1. Isabel Cromwell9 Gaines, born at Uniontown, Kentucky, May 6,
1888.
2. Bernard9 Gaines, born at Leesburg, Florida, January 22, 1891; died
there December 31, 1891.
3. Mary Catharine9 Gaines, born at Leesburg, Florida, November 4,
1892.
7. Nannie Elizabeth5 Gaines, born in Union county, Kentucky, April 23,
1860; a successful teacher. She is now (1895) at the head of a large
girl's school in Hiroshima, Japan, under the care of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
8. Gustavus Nourse5 Gaines, born at Dixon, Kentucky, November 17, 1862;
died unmarried in Woodford county, Kentucky, July 18, 1892,
9. Rachel Cromwell5 Gaines, born at Dixon, Kentucky, November, 17,
1865; living, unmarried, at Leesburg, 1897.
Maria Bull8 Cooke, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, March 4, 1784; died
in Hickman county, Kentucky, October 2, 1853; married in Woodford
county, Kentucky, September 15, 1811, Thomas Winn, farmer (born in
Hanover county, Virginia; died in Hickman county, Kentucky, July 7,
1862; aged 76), son of Hezekiah Winn, who came from the north of Eng
land and settled in Hanover county, Virginia.
1. Catharine Nourse* Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, August
17, 1812; died December 24, 1858: married first in Woodford county, Albert
Young; married second Edward Mobley Petree (born in Todd county,
Kentucky, August 7, 1812; died in Texas, November 18, 1889).
1. Sidney5 Young, died, unmarried, in Hickman county, Kentucky,
February 24, 1853; aged about 24.
2. Mary Belle5 Young, married Mr. Kinchloe.
3. Bettie Walker5 Young, married Valentine Yoakum, and went to
Parker's county, Texas about 1850.
4. Gertrude5 Petree, born in Todd county, Kentucky, October 12,
1845; died, unmarried, August 8, 1865.
5. Edward Downer5 Petree, farmer, born at Larissa, Texas, March
4, 1849; living near Alum creek, Texas, 1895; married December 17,
1873, Sarah Abigail Sharpe ( born in Burleson county, Texas,
May 6, 1848),. daughter of John (a Texas veteran) andMinerva
Sharpe. 1. Edward Reid9 Petree, born in Burleson, county, Texas, Sep
tember 7, 1874.
2. Bettie Long9 Petree, born in Burleson county, Texas, Jan
uary 4, 1880.

48 CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE.
3. Oscar Sharpe9 Petree, born in Burleson county, Texas, Sep
tember 8, 1882.
4. Kate Winn9 Petree, born in Burleson county, Texas, August
27, 1855.
6. Kate Hazel5 Petree, born near Larissa, Texas, May 10,1851; living
at Independence, Kansas, 1895; married February, 1874, James
Polk Dye; no issue.
2. Hezekiah* Winn, farmer, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, November
ber 27, 1813; died at "Winnfield," Woodford county, July 15, 1893;
married first at Lexington, Kentucky, February 13, 1851, Matilda Hug-
gins (died in Woodford county, Kentucky, November 6, 1S63), daughter
of Thomas Huggins (born in Belfast, Ireland; died in Woodford county,
Kentucky) and Matilda Crowe (born in Ireland); married second in
Woodford county, Kentucky, January 12, 1865, Elizabeth Sarah
Vaughan (born in Franklin county, Kentucky, September 8, 1833; living
1897), daughter of Edmund (born in Franklin county) and Sytha
(Blanton) (born near Bryan's Station, Kentucky, May 28, 1795; married
December 21, 1815; died October 1, 1837) Vaughan.*
1. Fannie Ware5 Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, November
10, 1851; died at Nashville, Tennessee, April 25, 1895; married in
Woodford county, August 23, 1870, Zachary Brown, now Superin
tendent of public schools in Nashville, Tennessee (1897).
1. Charles Murry9 Brown, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
August 21, 1871.
2. Mason Hezekiah9 Brown, born at Nashville, Tennessee, Janu
ary 1, 1880.
2. Sallie Belle5 Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, May 30,
1853; living in Nashville, Tennessee, 1897; married in Nashville,
June 23, 1887, John Allen.
1. Isola9 Allen, born in Nashville, July 17, 1889.
3. Charles Ware5 Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, No vem-
" ber 25, 1854; died at Nashville, Tennessee, January 15, 1893;
married first at "The Hermitage," May 18, 1880, Sarah Jackson
Lawrencef (born at "The Hermitage;" died in Maury county,
Tennessee, May 8, 1882); married second, June 16, 1885, Mary Polk
BranchJ (born at Columbia, Tennessee; living 1897). Charles Ware
Winn received his early education in the county schools and with
Professor Henry, of Versailles, Kentucky. When nineteen years
old, he took charge of a ten months school at Gower's Chapel,
eight miles from Nashville, Tennessee; was engaged for another
term, but the citizens of the neighborhood petitioned him to open
at the old church on "The Hermitage" farm, offering to double
"Cornelius Vaughan was sent by King George of England as solicitor to America ; he married in
Virginia and had two sons, Edmund and Thomas. Edmund married Sarah Samuel. Edmund, his
son, married Sytha Blanton. Thomas Bettled in South Carolina.
+Sarah Jackson Winn was the eldest daughter of Dr. John and Rachel Lawrence. Rachel was the
daughter of Andrew Jackson, Jr., adopted son of President Jackson, aud was named for the beloved
wife of the old general. Mrs. Winn Is burled in "The Hermitage" garden, in the shadow of Gen.
Jackson's tomb.
JMary Polk Winn is the daughter of Joseph aDd Mary Jones Branch. Her father was reared by his
uncle. Gov. Lawrence Branch, of North Carolina; he was attorney-general of Florida when but
twenty-one years old. Her mother, Mary Jones Polk, was a noted beauty, daughter of Dr. William
Polk and granddaughter of Col. William Polk of Revolutionary fame.

CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE. 4ft
his salary; procuring a release from Gower's, he taught at the
church successfully for two years, He began the study of medi
cine with Dr. Carter, of Versailles, Kentucky, afterward tooji a
course in the medical department of Vanderbilt University; grad
uating in 1879 with tbe honors, of his class. He practiced^ in Maury
county until 1885, when he went to New York and spent the
winter in the Polyclinic; lectured on venereal diseases in Vander
bilt University, 1886-87.
1. Charles Lawrence9 Winn, born in Maury county, Tennessee,
March 17, 1882.
2. Lawrence Branch9 Winn, born at Nashville, Tennessee, Feb
ruary 28, 1887.
3. Marian Polk9 Winn, born at Nashville, February 19, 1891;
died there January 16, 1892.
4. Thomas Huggins5 Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
February 7, 1858; in 1895 cultivating a large rice plantation near
Jennings, Calcasein parish, Louisiana., He graduated about 1884
from the school of pharmacy of Vanderbilt University, and for
several years was one of the best prescription clerks in Nashville,
Tennessee.
5. Henrietta Upshaw5 Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
October 30, 1859; died September 26, 1861.
6. Hezekiah5 Winn, clerk, born in Woodford county, June 28, 1862;
living in Nashville, Tennessee, 1897, unmarried.
7. Matt5 Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, Gctober 21,
1863; first a farmer, keeping livery stable in Midway, Kentucky,
1897; married at Midway, December 8, 1886, Gertrude (born at
Georgetown, Kentucky, June 20, 1864), daughter of George and
Cordelia (Woolfolk) Trimble.
1. Leonora Thomas9 Winn, born in Scott county, Kentucky,
November 27, 1888.
2. Robert Marshall9 Winn, born at Midway, Kentucky, Decem
ber 26, 1890.
3. Paul Eberhardt9 Winn, born at Midway, April 23, 1895.
8. John Blanton5 Winn, farmer, born in Woodford county, Kentucky,
April 7, 1867; living near Versailles, Kentucky, 1897, unmarried.
9. Lucy Marshall5 Winn, teacher, born in Woodford county, May 11,
1869.'
10. Nellie Vaughan5 Winn, teacher of music, born in Woodford county,
April 27, 1873,
3. Sabella Boles* Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, May 12,
1815; died in Hickman county, Kentucky, January 3, 1852; married in
Missouri, 1832, George E. Taylor. Sabella Winn was very superior
intellectually, and there was a true nobility of soul about her which is
rarely equaled.
1. John5 Taylor, enlisted in the southern army; died about 1864;
married his cousin, a widow Taylor.
1. George E.« Taylor, Jr.
2. Philip Harrison9 Taylor.
2. Maria5 Taylor, died in infancy.
3. Philip Harrison5 Taylor, served through the Civil War in the Gen-
federate army; died at Calvert, Texas, 1870.

50 CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE.
4. Susan Mary5 Taylor, died in 1864; married in 1862, a Mr. Arnold, of
Todd county, Kentucky; no children.
4. Susan Mary* Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, November 28,
1816; living in Nashville, Tennessee, 1897; married first, September 25,
1837, Benjamin F. Crutchfield (died October 4, 1855), of Lexington, Ken
tucky; married second, January 13, 1858, John C. Marshall, of Louis
ville, Kentucky; no children.
5. Elizabeth Scott Humphreys* Winn, born October 18, 18J8; died May 31,
1843; married 1832; was the first wife of Edward Mobley Petree.*
1. Thomas Hazel5 Petree, born in Todd county, Kentucky, October
10, 1839; died at Larissa, Texas, April 11, 1883; married at Larissa,
February 27, 1S68, Ottie Jordon (born at Dadeville, Alabama,
February 3, 1845), daughter of Dr. John and Jane (Ross) Jordon,
originally of South Carolina. Mrs. Petree has since married Mr.
McVicker, and lives in Bosque county, Texas.
1. Early9 Petree, born at Larissa, Texas, December 4, 1868.
2. Zim Whine Petree, born at Larissa, October 25, 1870.
3. AW Archie9 Petree, born at Larissa, September 18, 1875.
4. Nellie Anzinia9 Petree, born at Larissa, January 25, 1878.
5. Tom Hazel9 Petree, (daughter) born at Larissa, Ma.y 3, 1883.
2. Bettie Winn5 Petree, born in Todd county, Kentucky, May "0,1843;
living at Mt. Selman, Texas, 1890; married first, in Cherokee
county, Texas, July 31, 1861, John B. Ledbetter (bornin Alabama,
1841; died in the Confederate army, near Little Rock, Arkansas,
August 24, 1862); married second, January 19, 1871, Benjamin A.
Long, farmer; born iu Nacogdoches county, Texas, August 31,
1838. 1. John Edward9 Ledbetter, born in Cherokee county, Texas,
October 25, 1862.
2. Hazel Dallas9 Long, born in Cherokee county, February 26,
1873,
3. Wade Shambline Long, born in Cherokee county, January 15,
1775.
6. Martha Ann* Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, May 12, 1820;
living at Hickman, Kentucky, 1897; married first, at the home of her
aunt Susan Cooke, at Louisville, Kentucky, January 8, 1840, James
McConnell (born at Louisville, January 8, 1817; died October 22, 1850),
son of Robert McConnell; married second, at Columbus, Kentucky, Feb
ruary 26, 1856, William K. Hall, born at Trenton, Tennessee.
1. Mary Elizabeth6 McConnell, born at Louisville, Kentucky, October
18, 1840; died at Columbus, Kentucky, May 5, 1863; married at
Columbus, November 1858, Mckeen Hubbard.
1. Joseph S.9 Hubbard, born at Columbus, October 10, 1860;
living at Columbus, 1891; married at Columbus, September 3,
1885, May Pierce.
1. McKeen"1 Hubbard, born at Columbus, April, 1887.
2. Sallie5 McConnell, born at Clinton, Kentucky, July 25, 1842; living
at Hickman, Kentucky, 1897; married in Hickman county, Ken-
*See Catharine Nourse Winn genealogy.

Mrs. SUSAN MARY WINN MARSHALL.

CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE. 51
tucky, August 31, 1862, Dr. Charles'Henry Hubbard* (born Decem
ber 25, 1832). Mrs. Hubbard is a prominent, influential and
enthusiastic worker in the W. C. T. U.
1. James McConnell9 Hubbard, M. D., born at Hickman, Ken
tucky, August 5, 1863; has a good practice in the town where
he was born and reared; married May 10, 1887, Rosa B. (born
at Hickman, December 30, 1863), daughter of Samuel White.
1. Lily McConnelP Hubbard, born at Hickman, Decem
ber 31, 1888 or 89.
2. Charlotte'' Hubbard, born at Hickman, Kentucky,
August 13, 1891.
3. James Hezekiah5 McConnell, farmer, born at Clinton, Kentucky,
March 13, 1844; living in 1891 on an island in the Mississippi river,
near Columbus, Kentucky; married near Columbus, November 8,
1870, Louisa Elizabeth (born in Hickman, county, Kentucky,
April 22, 1840), daughter of Nicholas Merriweather Kerr (born at
Georgetown, Kentucky, July 1, 1804; died at Wolf Island, Ken
tucky, November 13, 1876) and Ann Elizabeth Edrington (Decem
ber 30, 1818; January 16, 1834; February 22, 1861) Kerr; no children.
Mr. McConnell was a soldier in Company A, Second Kentucky
Regiment, Confederate army, under Colonel Hanson ; was taken
prisoner at the battle of Fort Donelson, sent to Chicago, Illinois,
and held seven months; after exchange was in battle of Stone
river and all the engagements back to Atlanta. His skull was
fractured over the left eye at the battle of Chickamauga. After
three years and one month of infantry service he joined John
Morgan's cavalry in West Virginia, traveling alone from Atlanta,
Georgia, in twenty days, a journey of thrilling adventure — was
once arrested as a spy — with an admixture of fun. He was with
General Morgan when he was killed at Greenville; surrendered
May, 1865, at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky; "footed" it to near Lexing
ton, and finally reached home in fine health and spirits.
4. Thomas Winn5 McConnell, born at Columbus, Kentucky, Decem
ber 24, 1847; living at Arlington, Kentucky, 1890; married at
Louisville, Kentucky, October 15, 18S4, Mary B. (born at Louis
ville, Kentucky, January, 1861), daughter of William and Mary
Frazer.
1. Mary Embry9 McConnell, born at Arlington, December 31, 1886;
died there March 2, 1895.
2. James Hubbard9 McConnell, born at Arlington, June 21, 1892.
3. Sara Winn9 McConnell, born at Arlington, July 25, 1S94.
5. Anna Belle5 McConnell, born at Columbus, Kentucky, May 15,
1850; died December 10, 1860.
6. William K.5 Hall, Jr., born at Columbus, April 28, 1857; living at
Fulton, Kentucky, 1890; married at Fulton, September 8, 1880,
Anna P. McCall; no children.
7. John Franklin5 Hall, druggist; born in Dyer county, Tennessee,
May 6, 1860; living at Fulton, Kentucky, 1890; married at Fulton,

*Dr. Charles Henrv Hubbard removed to Hickman, Kentucky, in 1845. He was the son of Rev
Ebenezer and Charlotte Hubbard. James McConnell Hubbard inherited his love of medicine from
his father's family, many of whom were physicians some of them combining medicine and divinity.

52 'CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE.
Mrs. Jennie ( Grief;) Robertson (born ;at Paducah, Kentucky,
August 4, 1858 ), daughter of Frank ( born at St. Wendle,
Saxe Coburg, Germany, September 29, 1808; died at Paducah, Ken
tucky, August, 1882) and Mary Tanner ( born in Muhlenberg,
county, Kentucky, February 28, 1820; married January 2, 1838;
died April 15, 1865) Grief.
7. Charles Humphreys* Winn, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, April
24, 1822; died in Texas, March 9, 1876; married in Texas, 1856, Margaret
Colston.1. Samuel5 Winn, born in Texas.
2. Elizabeth Victoria5 Winn, born in Texas; married in Texas, Jasper
M. Harris.
1. Beulah9 Harris.
2. Hezekiah9 Harris.
3. William9 Harris.
3. Maria5 Winn.
4. Thomas5 Winn.
5. James5 Winn.
6. William5 Winn.
7. Charles5 Winn. (Four of these children are dead, 1891. )
8. Thomas* Winn, farmer, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, February
27, 1824; living near Columbus, Kentucky, 1891; married at Milburn, Ken
tucky, March 23, 1862, Kate Higby Greene (born at Harrodsburg, Ken
tucky, December 8, 1840), daughter of Thomas Bryant (born at
Harrodgburg, May 7, 1809; died at Milburn, March 27, 1884 and Nancy
Higby (born at Lexington, Kentucky, 1811; married 1829; died at
Glasgow, Kentucky, February 5, 1845) Greene.
1. Maria5 Winn, born at " Pleasant Level, " near Columbus, Kentucky,
April 1, 1863; living at St. Louis, Missouri, 1891; married near Colum
bus, April 11, 1883, Samuel T. Redman; no children.
2. Susan Mary5 Winn, born at "Pleasant Level," March 2, i866; living
at Columbus, Kentucky, 1895; married at "Pleasant Level," near
Columbus, November 27, 1883, Ben Montgomery Monroe, station
work on a railroad, born at Frankfort, Kentucky, December 31,
1849.1. Vera Wood9 Monroe, born at Columbus, Kentucky, December 15,
1884.
2. Maria Redman9 Monroe, born at Columbus, November 7, 1886.
3. Andrew9 Monroe, born at Columbus, October 18, 1888; died Octo
ber 19, 1888.
4, Ben Winn9 Monroe, born at Columbus, October 8, 1889.
5. Mory Miller9 Monroe, born at Columbus, November 12, 1892.
9. Sa«ah Gaines* Winn, born January 4, 1826 ; died, unmarried, in Hickman
county, Kentucky, September 16, 1849.
10. John Cooke* Winn, born August 19, 1829; died September 23, 1829.
4. No-rbou-rne Berkeley3 Cooke, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, April 14,
1786; died in Henry county, Kentucky, February 26, 1866; married in Ches
terfield county, Virginia, July 12, 1810, Judith Virginia Markham (born near
Ricnmbnd, Virginia, July V1785; died in Henry county, Kentucky, August
1, 1871), daughter of Bernard and Mary (Jefferson) Markham.
Under date tit October 23, 1814, Catharine Burton Cooke wrote as follows
toiler Bister Elizabeth Cha'pline; " Norbourne has postponed getting goods

CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE. 53
till we are blessed with peace, and is now trading up the Kanawa for salt,
by which I expect he will make two or three thousand dollars. Should he
come in for goods, it is probable I shall have it in my power to accompany
him." Mr. Cooke was a farmer for years.
1. Bernard Fletcher* Oooke, physician, born December 28, 1811, died,
unmarried, at Yazoo, Mississippi, September 27, 1835 or 1836.
2. Mary Markham* Cooke, born near Richmond, Virginia, November 2,
1814; died at St. Joseph, Missouri, March 8, 1884; married near Frank
fort, Kentucky, May 27, 1834, John McNair Morton, born at Lexington,
Kentucky, November 4, 1814; died in California, December, 1850.
1. William5 Morton, born at Lexington, Ky., March, 1835; died in
infancy.
2. Mary Eliza5 Morton, born at Lexington, June, 1837; died at Boone-
ville, Missouri, September 11, 1848.
3. Susan Catharine5 Morton, born at Lexington, May 25, 1839;
living at Topeka, Kansas, 1891; married at Booneville, Missouri,
October 25, 1859, Benjamin Franklin Callaway, brick contractor,
(born at Madison, Indiana, March 15, 1840), son of Joseph Wallace
(born in Delaware, August 18, 1806) and Eliza Anne Callaway (born
May 16. 1817, married at Cincinnati, Ohio, February, 1835; living
1891) Callaway; no children. Mrs. Callaway's maiden name was
also Callaway.
4. George Norbourne5 Morton, brick contractor, born near Frankfort,
Kentucky, April 18, 1841; living at Topeka, Kansas, 1891; married at
Booneville, Missouri, February 11, 1868, Anne Rauch (born at St.
Louis, Missouri, February 2, 1849) who was reared by her uncle,
Virt Epstein.
1. Edward Francis9 Morton, born September 5, 1870.
2. Georgia Anna9 Morton, born at Hiawatha, Kansas, July 10,
1883.
3. Carrie May9 Morton, born at Hiawatha, December 2, 1885.
5. Edward Redwood5 Morton, farmer and stock raiser, born at
Booneville, Missouri, August 23, 1844; living near Robinson, Kansas,
1891; married at Brookland, Michigan, February 7, 1870, Meadie
Fosdic (born at Saline, Michigan, October 5, 1848), daughter of
John (died September 15, 1873) and Einmeline Whiting (died at
Saline, 1859) Fosdic.
1. John Franklin9 Morton, born in Brown county, Kansas. Decem
ber 29, 1870.
2. George Norbourne9 Morton, born in Brown county, October 20,
1873.
3. Bernard Cooke9 Morton, born in Brown county, December 29,
1876.
4. Thomas Shreve!9 Morton, born in Brown county, November 26,
1880.
5. Marion Markham9 Morton, born at Hiawatha, Kansas, January
8, 1885.
6. Edward Harrison9 Morton, born at Robinson, Kansas, March
19, 1887.
6. Virginia Markham5 Morton, born at Booneville, Missouri, August
13, 1847; died May 18, 1877; married April 9, 1867, Charles Franklin
Van Buskirk, merchant, born in Marion county, Ohio.

54 CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE.
1. Mary Markham ("Daisy")9 Van Buskirk, born at White Cloud,
Kansas, April 4, 1868; living at Topeka, Kansas, 1891.
7. John Franklin5 Morton, born at Booneville, Missouri, April 13,
1849, one of the firm of Morton, Lausha & Company, Savannah
Mills, Savannah. Missouri, 1891; married at Troy, Kansas, January
1, 1878, Gambie Breckenridge (born in Andrew county, Missouri,
April 10, 1854), daughter of John (born in Henry county, Kentucky,
1801; died at Troy, Kansas, 1885) and Eliza Post (born in Vermont,
1811; living 1891) Breckenridge; no children.
3. Norbourne Leneans* Cooke, born at Versailles, Kentucky, September
22, 1816; living at Denison, Texas, 1891; married first at Fayetteville,
Tennessee, 1840, Amanda Clayton (died February 24, 1849); married
second at Charleston, West Virginia, January 29, 1854, Mrs. Rhoda
Hersburg, daughter of W. A. McMullin.
1. Norbourne Berkeley5 Cooke, tobacco dealer, bom May 4, 1841;
living at Owensboro, Kentucky; married Nora Allen; no children.
2. William Eugene5 Cooke, born February 24, 1843; died February 25,
1879; married 1871, Mary Helen McLean, who is now Mrs. Fleming,
of Delaware, Kentucky.
1. Owen Eugene" Cooke, born June 1876.
2. Needham Hatchett9 Cooke, born January 24, 1879.
3. Stephen Clayton5 Cooke, born May 21, 1846; died in Daviess county,
Kentucky, February 19, 1883; married first at Delaware, Kentucky,
September 26, 1873, Emma Josephine Allen (born at Curdville, Ken
tucky, August 10, 1855; died at Delaware, April 15, 1879), daughter of
Andrew Moore i born in Brown county, Ohio, June 10, 1826; living
1891 ) and Elizabeth Mary Brown (born at Dale, Indiana, January
10, 1833; married at Rockport, Indiana, September 2, 1 851; living
1891) Allen; married second at Newburgh, Indiana, Mary (bora near
Rockport, Indiana), daughter of William and Emma (Hall) Brown,
who afterward married Charles Luther Cooke.
1. Rudy Allen9 Cooke, born at Delaware, Kentucky, June 29, 1874;
living at Owensboro, 1891.
2. Norbourne Eugene9 Cooke, born at Delaware, May 12, 1876; living
at Owensboro, 1891.
3. William Clayton9 Cooke, born at Delaware, April 5, 1879; living at
Delaware, 1891.
4. Stephen Lambert9 Cooke, born at Delaware, June 18, 1883; living
at Denison, Texas, 1891.
4. Bernard Berkeley5 Cooke, locomotive engineer, born in Daviess
county, Kentucky, January 5, 1853; living 1891 ; married in Daviess
county, December 10, 1882, Mary Hambleson.
1. Jessie9 Cooke.
2. Lucy White9 Cooke.
3. Ernest9 Cooke.
4. Bernard9 Cooke.
5. Mary Judge5 Cooke, born in Daviess county, Kentucky, January 1,
1859; living in Indian Territory 1891; married first Joseph Canico;
married second "James Thompson of Kiowa," farmer or cattleman.
1. Rose Cooke9 Thompson.
2. Theo Tee9 Thompson.

CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE. 55
6. Rose5 Cooke, married iu Indian Territory, November 27, 1888, Richard
Smallwood, a Choctaw Indian of a historic tribe (See printed treaty
with "Old Hickory" i; no children.
7. Charles Letcher5 Cooke, born at Henderson, Kentucky; living at
Denison, Texas, 1891; married at Delaware, Kentucky, December 29,
1885, Mrs. Mary (Brown) Cooke.
1. Maria Judith9 Cooke. '
2. Clarence Eugene9 Cooke.
4. John Eugene* Cooke, farmer, born at Versailles, Kentucky, December
20, 1818; died at Portland Mills, Putnam county, Indiana, July 12, 1890;
married at Louisville, Kentucky .December 30, 1803, Mary J ane Butch(born
at Newcastle, Kentucky, July 27, 1845), daughter of John Leonard (born
in Germany, December 21, 1815, came to the United States in 1836; living
1890) and Eleanor Malcomb (born March 18, 1824; married September 21,
1840; living 1890) Butch; no children.
5. Judith Virginia* Cooke, born February 17, 1821; died March 19; 1821.
6. Judith Virginia* Cooke, born April 28, 1822; died December 4, 1836.
7. Martha Catharine* Cooke, born in Henry county, Kentucky, Septem
ber 28, 1825; living at Denison, Texas, 1891; married at Drennon Springs,
Kentucky, August 25, 1853, James Thompson Hogg, grocer, born in
Edinburg, Scotland, March 1, 1S23; died at Denison, Texas, May 14,
1890. He was the son of Peter and Janet Matheson Hogg, and a cousin
of James Hogg, the poet.
1. James Cooke5 Hogg, farmer, born at Drennon Springs, Kentucky,
August 5, 1854; living near Denison, Texas, 1891; married at Denison,
September 17, 18S4, Mattie Haruest (born in Illinois, November, 17,
1866), daughter of Daniel (born in Virginia) and Anna Harper (born
in Indiana) Haruest.
1. Mabel Vinita9 Hogg, born at Denison, Texas, August 13, 18S5.
2. James Francis9 Hogg, born at Denison, August 3, 1887.
3. Anna Janet9 Hogg, born at Denison, June 5, 1S89.
2. Martha Frazer5 Hogg, born at Nashville, Tennessee, October 29,
I860; living at Denison, Texas, 1891; married at Denison, December
25, 1885, Jesse Calvin Chambers, passenger conductor, on railroad,
born at Losantville, Indiana, May 21, 1862.
1. Martha Cannon9 Chambers, born at Denison, September 13, 1887.
2. A son,9 Chambers, born at Denison, February 18, 1891.
3. Janet Matheson5 Hogg, born at "Oak Lawn," Henry county, Ken
tucky, March 30, 1863; living at Denison, Texas, 1891 ; married at
Denison, December 25, 1885, Deptford Dento Cannon, passenger con
ductor on railroad, born at Jackson, Alabama, October 5, 1860; no
children.
8. Lucy Frances Emily* Cooke, born in Henry county, Kentucky, Novem
ber 5, 1828; living at Denison, Texas, 1891: married at "Oak Lawn,"
Henry county, Kentucky, Jauuary 12, 1S64, Joel White, farmer, (born
in Henry county, December 3, 1*24" son of Joel (born at Lexington,
Kentucky, 1801; died Henry county, March 2, 1848) and Jennie (Ford)
White; no children.
9. Laetitia* Cooke (twin of Lucy), bora in Henry county, November 5,
1828; died March 12, 1829.

56 CATHARINE BURTON (NOURSE) COOKE.
5. Susan Nourse3 Cooke, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, September 23,
1788; died, unmarried, at the home of her nephew, Hezekiah Winn, in Wood
ford county, Kentucky, October 27, 1868. She was a woman of unusual
energy and vivacity; ever ready to help those needing sympathy and aid.
She kept a boarding house in New Orleans, Louisiana, also in Louisville
and Lexington, Kentucky. She was an Episcopalian.
6. John Francis Whiting3 Cooke, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, December,
20, 1792; married Sallie Mosby; she died in Mercer county, Kentucky, July
20, 1849, in her fifty-third year.*
1. Norbourne Rerkeley* Cooke, farmer, born June 25, 1817; died in Mercer
county, Kentucky, September 24, 1854; married Henrietta Singleton, of
Jessamine county, Kentucky.
1. Rebecca5 Cooke, died at Frankfort, Kentucky, February 2, 1888,
aged 48; married at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, May 12, 1857, W. H.
Waggener, merchant, living 1891.
1. Victor9 Waggener, died at Frankfort, aged seventeen years
and five months.
2. Bertie9 Waggener, died aged five years and five months.
3. Etta9 Waggener, died aged twenty-seven days.
4. Lucien9 Waggener, Jr., teacher, born at Harrodsburg, Ken
tucky, June 9, 1865; living unmarried, 1890; graduated from
Princeton College, June, 1887.
2. Alleen5 Cooke, married.
3. Luella5 Cooke, married.
2. William Alexander* Cooke, farmer, born in Tennessee, December, 11,
1819; died in Florida, March 2, 1873; married May 2, 1843, Sallie Ann
Grant (born in Fayette county, Kentucky, January 13, 1822; died May
14, 1862), only daughter of Squire Boone (born in Fayette county, Ken
tucky) and Nancy Lewis Mosby (born in Fayette county, Kentucky,
December 3, 1803; married December 12, 1820) Grant.
1. Nannie5 Cooke, born in Mercer county, Kentucky, February 4, 1844;
living near Burgin, Kentucky, 1891; married in Mercer county, Sep
tember 20, 1870, Thomas, son of Abraham and Nancy Gatewood
Bowmanf. 1. William Cooke9 Bowman, farmer, born in Mercer county, Ken
tucky, June 18, 1872.
2. Sara Gatewood9 Bowman, born in Mercer county, November 6,
1873.
3. Thomas9 Bowman, Jr., born in Mercer county,INovember 24, 1881.
4. Nancy Grant9 Bowman, born in Mercer county, October 15, 1886.
2. William Grant5 Cooke, farmer, born in Fayette county, Kentucky,
May 23, 1848 ; died in Mercer county, Kentucky, January 11, 1888 ;
married October 1, 1872, Anne Eliza Parker, born in Bourbon county,
Kentucky, August 20, 1852; living near Burgin, Kentucky, 1891.
1. Mary Ho ward" Cooke, born near Burgin, Kentucky, September
27, 1873; died September 10, 1874.

*Mrs. Sallie Mosby Cooke afterward married Buckner Miller, and had four children: Kate
Samuel, Susau and Tuny. Kate married Dr. T. W. Radford, a millionaire of Kansas City, Missouri.
f Mr. Bowman served through the war in the Confederate army ; was in the battles of Mansfleld,
Baton Rouge, Little Rock, etc.; attained the rauk of major.

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2. Rebecca" Cooke, born near Burgin, July 15, 1875.
3. Grant9 Cooke, born near Burgin, August 28, 1878.
4. Anne Louise9 Cooke, born near Burgin, September 20, 1880.
5. The baby "Tott, "9 born near Burgin, April 18, 1882; died Decem
ber 31, 1882.
6. Nellie'' Cooke, born near Burgin, September 26, 1883.
7. William Alexander" Cooke, born near Burgin, January 12, 1885.
7. Charles Nourse3 Cooke, born in Kentucky, December 3,1795; died in infancy.

CHAPTER VI.

ROBERT NOURSE AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

27. Robert2 Nourse (James1) was born in London, England,
September 25, 1762 ; died in Logan county, Kentucky, January 4,
1836. He could remember living in London, and crossing the
ocean. He visited Kentucky at an early date, as the following in
structions of his father, dated 1779, will show :
"N. B. — It is at the ferry of New river, called now, or formerly, Maj. Engle's,
which is twelve miles from Col. Preston's, that you are to inquire and leave
word for Robert. Robert may come in with Pharaoh, as soon as he has
secured the three thousand seven hundred acres, and assisted James and Charles
to secure theirs and Joseph's. If Robert choose to stay and improve the land,
Pharaoh must be sent by some neighbor."
It is said that Robert Nourse first located in "Woodford county,
Kentucky, but removed to a farm ten miles north of Russellville,
Logan county. "The old homestead belongs now to strangers; all
the buildings have been removed, nothing remains but the grand old
spring, and the graves of Robert and Rebecca Nourse, and of their
daughter Nancy Rust . Mr. Nourse was a warm advocate of the
temperance cause ; 'he was a man of prayer, as were his sons and
grandsons,' and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church."
He married Rebecca Jameson (died in Logan county, Kentucky,
February 7, 1833), daughter of Andrew and Martha (Stevenson)
Jameson, of Mercer county, Kentucky. Andrew Jameson*came to
Kentucky from Botetourt county, Virginia.
*Andrew Jameson had six sons and six daughters. After the marriage of some of them, he re
moved to Logan county, Kentucky. Soon afterward his wife visited Lexington 011 horeeback ,
accompanied by her sons-in-law, Robert Nourse and William Ward. On their return, as they were
endeavoring to escape an approaching storm, she suddenly fell from her horse and was instantly
killed. The hardy old pioneer was crushed by this affliction and soon passed away.

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1. James Hervey8 Nourse, born in Logan county, Kentucky, January 30,
1791.
2. Nancy8 Nourse, born in Logan county, Kentucky.
3. William Wallace3 Nourse, born in Logan county, Kentucky.
4. Joseph Robert3 Nourse, born in Logan county, Kentucky.
5. Lucinda8 Nourse, born in Logan county; died in Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, aged about 16.
6. Maria8 Nourse, born in Logan county; died there aged seven years.
7. Ralph Erskine8 Nourse, born in Logan county about 1801 .
8. John Newton3 Nourse, born in Logan county, January 29, 1804.
9. Andrew Jameson8 Nourse, born in Logan county, March 5, 1806.
28. James Hervey3 Nourse (Robert,2 James1), born in Logan
county, Kentucky, January 30, 1791 ; died in Butler county, Ken
tucky, January 16, 1853 . He was a farmer ; married December 16,
1841, Mrs, Hill, widow of — . — Hill, formerly Sarah Wilson Neel
(born in Virginia, September 13, 1804 ; died in Hopkins county,
Kentucky, Jauuary 12, 1S89), daughter of Thomas (born in Ireland
in 1760) and Mary (Bell) Neel . Her third husband was Philip
SimonB. 1. Sarah Helen* Nourse, born in Butler county, Kentucky, December 14, 1842.
2. James Robert* Nourse, born in Butler county, 1845.
29. Nancy3 Nourse (Robert,2 James1), born in Logan county,
Kentucky ; died there about 1854 ; married John Rust.
1. Martha Jane* Rust, married Andrew Jameson.
1. Epaphroditus5 Jameson.
2. Cinderella5 Jameson.
2. Catharine* Rust married Mr. Hyler and went to Hancock county, Illinois.
She took with her the Bible of Robert Nourse containing the family record.
30. William Wallace3 Nourse (Robert,2 James1), born in Logan
county, Kentucky ; died at Lexington, Kentucky, 1835 ; jeweler ;
married first Mary Echols ; married second, 1833, Alethea Rowland
(born in Woodford county, Kentucky, 1811 ; died at Versailles, Ken
tucky, 1877) , daughter of Richard and Ruth Rowland . In 1840,
Mrs. Nourse married Henry Mortimer Sellers ; their only daughter
Marian, married Oscar Kennard, ol Cynthiana, Kentucky.
1. Joseph* Nourse.
2. Rebecca Jane* Nourse, born about 1822; died at Versailles, Kentucky, Octo
ber 10, 1842. After the death of her father she became by adoption, a greatly
beloved daughter of Mrs. Tillery, of Versailles, whom she assisted by taking
charge of the musical department of her large school. She was a lovely
Christian and a woman of more than ordinary culture and ability.

60 ROBERT NOURSE.
3. Mary Crawford* Nourse.
4. Charles Echols* Nourse, died in infancy.
5. William Marion* Nourse, born at Lexington, Kentucky, 1835.
31. Joseph Robert3 Nourse (Robert,2 James1) , born in Logan
county, Kentucky, died at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, March,
1831 ; married probably at Washington, D. C. in 1822, Caroline
Josephine Bull Young (born at Northumberland, Pennsylvania,
before 1806 ; died there February, 188.8), daughter of Dr. Benjamin
Flower Young and Sarah Harriet (Bull) (died August 5, 1821, aged
49) Young (formerly the wife of Josiah Haines who died May 14,
1795).. Mr. Nourse was clerk in the Register's Office, Washington,
D. C. from 1821 to 1825, and in 1827 he removed to Northumberland
to look after his wife's interests in certain large properties which
had come to her from her mother, specially "Hopefield" and "The
Valley" farms . He was decidedly partial to scientific agriculture,
and displayed good judgment in its pursuit.
Mrs. Nourse lived half a century after the death of her husband,
many years of which she was left childless. Her life would make a
wonderfully interesting story if sympathetically told. There seemed
to be a strange fatality about her property and her relations to it.
Though she was the recognized heiress of an immense estate, she
lived in comparative poverty, because conflicting claims prevented a
settlement. She was Dot able to attend to her business herself, and
agents in whom she trusted, combined . to mislead her and to cheat
her out of what was rightfully hers.
1. Elizabeth* Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, July or August, 1823; lived to
be over thirty-five; became a fine scholar.
2. Josephena4 Nourse, died probably on Easter Sunday, 1872; she was plan
ning a school wherein many trades and professions should be taught; the
chief study was to be the Holy Scriptures. The school was to be industrial
and self-sustaining, and it was her desire that the whole of her estate
should be applied to its establishment, never doubting that her mother
would ultimately get posession of her property.
3. Harriet* Nourse did not long survive her father.
32. Ralph Erskine3 Nourse (Robert2, James1), born in Logan
county, Kentucky, about 1801 ; died in Johnson county, Arkansas
January 2, 1852 ; married in Logan county, 1823, Rebecca Jame
son (born about 1805; died December 20, 1882), daughter of John
Jameson. Mr. Nourse removed to Arkansas in 1835. He was,
to use a common phrase, "Jack of all trades ;" in the use of broad

ROBERT NOURSE. 61
axe, drawing knife, plane and the stonemason's hammer, few
could equal him.
1. Matilda Caroline* Nourse, born in Logan county, Kentucky, April 3,
1824; died April 21, 1824.
2. William Chesterfield* Nourse, born in Logan couuty, May 17, 1826; died
unmarried in Johnson county, Arkansas, November 12, 1846.
3. Joseph Andrew* Nourse, born in Logan county, September 15, 1S28.
4. Alney Jameson* Nourse, born in Logan county, June 9, 1831.
5. James Presley* Nourse, born in Logan county, February 27, 1834; died
September 17, 1835.
6. Robert Milton* Nourse, born in Johnson county, Arkansas, September 21,
1836; died, unmarried, 1858.
7. Martha Elizabeth* Nourse, born in Johnson county, May 24, 1840.
8. John Buchanan* Nourse, born in Johnson county, October 1, 1846; died, un-.
married, April 15, 1867.
33. John Newton3 Nourse (Robert,2- James1), born in Logan
county, Kentucky, January 29, 1804 ; died there October 24, 1876,
married in Washington county, Kentucky, May 6, 1828, Rachel
Crawford Ewing (born in Washington county ; died there May 6,
1878), daughter of Thomas Ewing.
1. Robert Thomas* Nourse, born in Logan county Kentucky, March 9, 1829;
died there April 14, 1843.
2. Lucinda Elizabeth* Nourse, born in Logan county, October 2, 1830.
3. James Ewing* Nourse, born in Logan county, February 11, 1X82.
4. Charles William* Nourse, bora in Logan county, January 21, 1834.
5. Joseph* Nourse, born in Logan county, March 27, 1839; died July 22, 1839.
6. Rice Tilford* Nourse, born in Logan county, January 2G, 1847.
34. Andrew Jameson3 Nourse (Robert2 James1), farmer, was
born in Logan county, Kentucky,. March 5, 1806 ; died in Butler
county, Kentucky, December 24, 1882 ; married May 24, 1832, Arte
misia Guinn Guffy (born May 25, 1814 ; died in Butler county,
Kentucky, May 14, 1893), daughter of James and Melinda (Jame-.
son) Guffy.*
1. Ormazinda* Nourse, born iu Logan county, Kentucky, April 16, 1833.
2. Josephine Clemextixr* Nourse. born in Logan county, October 16, 1834;
living unmarried, in Butler county, Kentucky, 1895; had charge of the farm
and the care of her aged mother, after the death of her father.
3. Artemisia Ann* Noursi;, born in Logan county, November 3, 1839.
4. Wesley Templeton* Nourse, born in Logan county, May 3, 1842.
5. Armida Jane* Nourse, born in Logan county. May 15, 1844.
*Mlnorya Kennedy Guffy, sister of Mrs. Andrew Nourse, was the third wife of Lt-Governor James
Hardy, of Barren county, Kentucky.

62 ROBERT NOURSE.
35. Sarah Helen* Nourse (James Hervey,3 Robert2 James1),
born in Butler county, Kentucky, December 14, 1842; living at
Tecumseh, Oklahoma, 1895 ; married in Hopkins county, Kentucky,
May 3, 1864, Richard Leander Peytoq, farmer, who was born in
Hopkins county, Kentucky, October 23, 1833 and died in Oklahoma
territory, June 17, 1892. His last words were : ''Thy will not mine
be done."
1. Pauline Wilson5 Peyton, born in Hopkins county, Kentucky, April 19,
1865; married June 19, 1892, Leonidas Burnside Jones, grocer (born in Adams
county, Ohio, July 22, 1863), living at Altoona, Kansas, 1895.
2. Minnie Grace6 Peyton, born in Hopkins county, Kentucky, February 19,
1867; assistant cashier of the State Bank of Fredonia, Kansas, 1895.
3. Robert Ira5 Peyton, bom in Hopkins county, February 14, 1870,
4. Charles Nourse5 Peyton, born at Fredonia, Kansas, October 22, 1873.
5. Francis Marion5 Peyton, born at Fredonia, August 23, 1875.
6. Clarence Leander5 Peyton, born at Fredonia, February 17, 1878.
7. Ralph Edgar5 Peyton, born at Fredonia, March 23, 1881; engraver and job
printer at Fredonia, 1895.
8. Lena Ellen5 Peyton, born at Fredonia, February 8, 1885.
36. James Robert4 Nourse, (James Hervey3, Robert,2'. James1),
born in Butler county, Kentucky, 1845 ; died near Madisonville,
Kentucky, May 13, 1890 ; married about 1868, Harp Davis.
1. Elvin5 Nourse, born near Madisonville, Kentucky.
2. John5 Nourse, born near Madisonville.
3. William5 Nourse, born near Madisonville.
4. Peter5 Nourse, born near Madisonville.
37. Joseph4 Nourse (William Wallace3, Robert,2 James1) , left
Kentucky before the Civil War and went to Galena, Illinois ; proba
bly lived in Chicago, Illinois, twenty-five or thirty years ago ; and
it is said that he removed from that place to Kansas with all his
family .
38. Mary Crawford4 Nourse (William Wallace,3 Robert,2 James1)
married Dr. Alexander; one or two children.
39. William Marion4 Nourse ( William Wallace 3 Robert2
James1), born at Lexington, Kentucky, 1835 ; living at Knoxville,
Tennessee, 1890 ; married at Cynthiana, Kentucky, 1860, Mary
Eliza West (born 1841), daughter of Jackson and Catharine
(Murphy) West; no children.

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40. Joseph Andrew4 Nourse (Ralph Erskine3, Robert2, James1),
born in Logan county, Kentucky, September 15, 1828 ; died Janu
ary 22, 1893 ; was a farmer near Lamar, Arkansas ;he was a Cumber
land Presbyterian, and never used tobacco or whiskey in any form .
Mr. Nourse married first in Johnson county, Arkansas, April 29,
1852, Elizabeth Crutchfield Hamilton (born in Johnson county, June
20, 1830 ; died there July 21, 1863), daughter of James Hamilton ;
married second, July 11, 1865, Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges Hall (born
in east Tennessee, June 19, 1838 ; died in Johnson county, Arkansas,
March 23, 1868) ; married third in 1870, Mrs. Susan (Towel) King
^born in middle Tennessee, January 30, 1835), daughter of Samuel
and Nancy Towel.
1. Georgiana5 Nourse, born in Johnson county, Arkansas, June 8, 1853; died
unmarried, September 13, 1875.
2. William Milton5 Nourse, born in Johnson county, June 1, 1855; died April
7, 1874.
3. James Erskine5 Nourse, bora in Johnson county, December 13, 1857.
4. Walter Austin5 Nourse, born in Johnson county, April 16, I860; unmarried
in 1890; postmaster at Miami, Texas, and Commissioner of Roberts county,
1890.
5. Mary Rebecca5 Nourse, born in Johnson county, September 22, 1866; died
there, unmarried, December 2, 18S9; was a. teacher, a fine musician and very
active in church work.
41. Alney Jameson4 Nourse (Ralph Erskine3 Robert,2 James1),
born in Logan county, Kentucky, June 9, 1831 ; millwright and
carpenter at Chinese Camp, California, 1890 ; married in Johnson
county, Arkansas, February 10, 1852, Eliza Ann Blackwell (born in
Lawrence county, Tennessee, April 4, 1831 ; died in Tusculum county,
April 23, 1887), daughter of William David (born in North Carolina)
and Nancy (Gilbert) (born in South Carolina) Blackwell. Mr.
Nourse removed to California in 1853, crossing the plains in a wagon
train.
1 . Ormazinda Caroline5 Nourse, born in Tuo Cumne county, California, Nov
ember 27, 1855.
2. William Erskine5 Nourse, born in Tuo Cumne county. August 23, 1857;
farmer and stockraiser near Chinese Camp, California, 1890, unmarried.
3. John Franklin5 Nourse, born in Tuo Cumne county, July 6, 1859; farmer and
stockraiser near Chinese Camp, 1890; unmarried.
4. Alney Jameson5 Nourse, born in Mariposa county ."California, January 19,
1865; attending Stockton Business College 1890; unmarried.
5. Orphah Lee5 Nourse, born in Tuo Cumne county, California. June 7, 1871;
living unmarried, at Chinese Camp, California in 1890.

64 ROBERT NOURSE.
42. 'Martha Elizabeth4 Nourse (Ralph Erskine,3 Roberta-
James1), born in Johnson county, Arkansas, May 24, 1840; died in
Yell county, Arkansas, November 12, 1868 ; married Thomas Haines.
1. Robert Lee5 Haines.
2. Thomas5 Haines.
43. Lucinda Elizabeth4 Nourse (John Nexuton3 Robert,2 James1),
born in Logan county, Kentucky, October 2, 1830 ; living in Auburn,
Kentucky, 1895 ; married first in Logan county, December 5, 1848,
Charles Holliday Baird, farmer (born in Logan county, March 24,
1823 ; died there January 31, 1863), son of David and Winnifred
(Sloss) Baird ; married second in same county, December 5, 1879,
John Harrison Marrs, farmer and stockraiser (born in Logan county,
December 26, 1819), son of William and Margaret (married 1818)
Buchanan Marrs.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Marrs are active members of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church and strong advocates of prohibition.
1. jAMes David Newton5 Baird, born in Logan county, Kentucky, July 15,
1851; died there, August 8, 1852.
2. Mary Rachel5 Baird, born in Logan county, March 17, 1854; died there,
February 2, 1876. She was an earnest Christian.
3. Ella Ewing3 Baird, bom in Logan county, April 4, 1858; died April 23, 1864.
4. William Rice5 Baird, born in Logan county, January 24, 1860; clerk in
Louisville, Kentucky, 1892; unmarried.
5. Charles Holliday5 Baird, born in -Logan county, October 8, 1863; died
there, July 31, 1885.
44. James Ewing4 Nourse (John Newton,3 Robert,2 James1), born
in Logan county, Kentucky, February 11, 1832 ; died there, August
28, 1875 ; farmer, married in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky, April
11, 1864, Margaret Ann Nourse.* No children.
45. Charles William4 Nourse (John Newton,3 Robert,2 James1),
born in Logan county, Kentucky, January 21, 1834 ; farmer near
Russellville, Kentucky, 1897 ; married near that place October 4,
1853, Elizabeth Curd (born in Logan county, April 17, 1834)
daughter of William and Ann Maria (Ely) Curd, both of whom came
to Kentucky from Virginia. Mr. Nourse is a member of the Bap
tist church. He is highly esteemed in the community in which he
lives. *See Gabriel Nourse genealogy.

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1. Richard Newton5 Nourse, born in Logan county, Kentucky, June 17, 1854.
2. William Curd5 Nourse, born in Logan county, January 1, 1857; farmer;
living unmarried near Russellville, Kentucky, and county surveyor of Logan
county in 1891.
46. Rice Tileord4 Nourse (John Neivton,3 Robert,2 James1),
born in Logan county, Kentucky, January 26, 1847 ; died there,
March 27, 1889 ; farmer, married at Louisville, Kentucky, Decem
ber 21, 1871, Mary Ewing Riley (born at Springfield, Kentucky,
September 3, 1847), daughter of William Ewing and Elizabeth Ann
Riley. Mrs. Nourse lives near Homer, Kentucky, 1895.
1. Sallie Clark5 Nourse, born in Logan county, Kentucky, May 24, 1873; living
near Homer, 1892; unmarried.
2. John William5 Nourse, born in Logan county, October 1, 1876; died April
25, 1897.
3. Mary Lizzie5 Nourse, born in Logan county, February 12, 1878.
4. Charles Clayton5 Nourse, born in Logan county, October 16, 1879.
5. Rachel Ewing5 Nourse, born in Logan county, May 18, 1881; died there
March 7, 1888.
6. James Benjamin5 Nourse, born in Logan county, December 7, 1883.
7. Henry Daniel5 Nourse, born in Logan county, October 7, 1885.
8. Rice Tilford5 Nourse, born in Logan county, August 11, 1889.
47. Ormazinda4 Nourse (Andrew Jameson ,3 Robert,2 James1), born
in Logan county, Kentucky, April 16, 1833 ; died in Butler county,
Kentucky, December 17, 1894 ; married there, January 2, 1858,
John Penrod, farmer.
1. Theodore Nourse5 Penrod, born in Butler county, Kentucky, November 7,
1860; farmer and teacher; died near Hunts ville, Kentucky, September 17, 1893;
married in Butler county, June 4, 1885, Dixie Rowland, daughter of John
and Lydia Rowland.
1. Pansy Venera" Penrod, bom in Butler county, June 14, 1886.
2. Maria Belle5 Penrod, born in Butler county, Kentucky, March 29, 1862;
died there, unmarried, September 24, l^Ol.
3. John Dee5 Penrod, born iu Butler county May 10, 1867; died there, unmarried
May 14, 1892; was a farmer near Huntsville, Kentucky.
4. Jane Artemisia5 Penrod, born in Butler county, April 12, 1870; living there
1893; unmarried.
5. George Wesley Templeton5 Penrod, born in Butler county, May 20, 1874;
farmer, near Huntsville, 1893.
48. Artemisia Ann4 Nourse (Andrew Jameson3 Robert,2 James1),
born in Logan county, Kentucky, November 3, 1839; living near
Rochester, Kentucky, 1891; married at "Beech Knoll," Butler

66 ROBERT NOURSE.
county, Kentucky, March 26, 1861, William Grandison Abbott,
farmer (born in Butler county, April 30, 1835).
1. Caledonia Ermine5 Abbott, born in Muhlenburg, county, Kentucky, June
16, 1862; died in Ohio county, Kentucky, February 26, 1882; married in But
ler county, November 11, 1880, George Albert London.
2. Cordelia Ann5 Abbott, twin of Callie; living at Rochester, Kentucky, 1895;
married in Butler county, March 16, 1886, James Henry Flewallen, farmer
(born July 1, 1853), son of Job and Serena (Bradley) Flewallen.
1. Rose" Flewallen, born near Rochester, December 18, 1887; died 
2. Gertrude9 Flewallen, born at Rochester, November 8, 1890.
3. Celestenie Sherman5 Abbott, born in Muhlenburg county, November 24
1863; living near Hartford, Kentucky, 1895; married in Butler county, Ken
tucky, October 5, 1882, Richard Hardin Wallace, farmer, born in Ohio
county, Kentucky, August 9, 1858.
1. Frenche9 Wallace, born in Butler county, Kentucky, November 12, and
died November 15, 1883.
2. Wesley Clayton" Wallace, born at Fordsville, Kentucky, December 18,
1884.
3. Nancy Ermine" Wallace, born in Ohio county, Kentucky, January 16,
1887.
4. William Grandison" Wallace, born in Ohio county, November 13, 1889.
5. Rhoda Ann" Wallace, born in Ohio county, December 28, 1892.
4. Olive Artemisia5 Abbott, born in Butler county, Kentucky, April 14, 1866;
died in Ohio county, Kentucky, August 10, 1889; married at Rochester, Ken
tucky, September 9, 1885, Shelly Rock.
1. Roy" Rock, born in Ohio county, Kentucky, June 29; died June 30, 1886.
2. Caledonia" Rock, born in Ohio county, July 2, 1887.
3. Lucy Ellen9 Rock, born in Ohio county, September 26, 1888.
5. Inez Rebecca5 Abbott, twin of Olive ; living near Rochester, Kentucky, 1890;
unmarried.
6. Etta Josephine5 Abbott, born in Butler county, April 18, 1868; died in
Muhlenberg county, Kentucky, June 11, 1890; married in Ohio county, Dec
ember 26, 1888, Napoleon Bonaparte Poole.
1. William Pincney9 Poole, bora in Muhlenburg county, May 25 and died
June 22, 1890.
7. Nolie Onega5 Abbott, born in Butler county, September 1, 1871; living at
Rochester, Kentucky, 1895; married in Ohio county, March 6, 1890, Cyrus
Newton Brown.
1. Tessie9 Brown, born in Ohio county, Kentucky, January 21, died January
26, 1891.
2. Artie Ruth9 Brown, born in Ohio county, March 21, 1892.
8. Mernie May5 Abbott, born in Butler county, June 26, 1874; living near
Rochester, 1895; married in Ohio county, Kentucky, December 4, 1891,
Napoleon Bonaparte Poole, born in Rochester, Kentucky, July 22, 1868.
1. Otho Nemore" Poole, born in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky, January 21,
1892.
2. Winnifred Eloine" Poole, born in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky, Feb
ruary 28, 1894.

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49. Wesley Templeton4 Nourse (Andrew Jameson3 Robert,2
James1) , born in Logan county, Kentucky, May 3, 1842 ; died in
Muhlenberg county, Kentucky, January 25, 1883 ; married Decem
ber 31, 1875, Ann Ward. Mr. Nourse served in the Federal army
during the Civil War.
1. Delilah Pearl5 Nourse, born in Butler county, Kentucky, November 21,
1878.
2. Jessie May5 Nourse, bora in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky, September 10
1881.
50. Armida Jane4 Nourse, (Andreiv Jameson,3 Robert,2 James1),
born in Logan county, Kentucky, May 15, 1844 ; died near Roches
ter, Kentucky, August 1, 1893 ; married at "Beech Knoll," Butler
county, Kentucky, January 28, 1864, Capt. William Flan Ward,
farmer, born in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky, January 22, 1835.
Capt. Ward served three years in the Federal Army ; was elected
first lieutenant of Co . B, llth Regt . Kentucky Volunteers, at organi
zation ; after one year was promoted to captaincy.
1. Farrell Andrew5 Ward, bora in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky, January
29, 1867.
2. Atlanta Beatrice5 Ward, born in Muhlenburg county, December 23, 1868.
3. Omer Lincoln5 Ward, born in Muhlenburg county, October 10, 1871.
4. James Garfield5 Ward, born in Muhlenburg county, July 4, 1877.
51. James Erskine*"*- Nourse (Joseph Andrew,4" Ralph Erskine,3
Robert,2 James1) , born in Johnson county, Arkansas, December 13,
1857, merchant at Lamar, Arkansas, 1895 ; married June 17, 1885,
Mollie Durrum, daughter of Terrell Lay and Susan Victoria (Tipps)
Durrum .
1. Lizzie Corinneo Nourse, born in Johnson county, Arkansas, March 23, 1886.
2. Joseph Layo Nourse, born in Johnson county, September 9, 1888.
3. Herbert Hugho Nourse, born November 17, 1892.
4. Mamies Nourse, born July 25, 1894.
52. Ormazinda Caroline5 Nourse ( Alney Jameson,4" Ralph
Erskine,3 Robert,2 James1), born in Tuo Cumne county, California,
November 27, 1855 ; living at Stockton, California, 1890 ; married in
Tuo Cumne county, November 27, 1889, William Henry Hosmer,
born at Stockton, February 28, 1853. Mr. Hosmer was a farmer
till 1887 ; now with one of the largest lumber firms in California.
He is closely related to the Hosmers of Massachusetts, some of whom
were connected with the United States Arsenal at Springfield.

68 ROBERT NOURSE.
53. Richard Newton5 Nourse (Charles William,4" John Newton,3
Robert2 James1), born in Logan county, Kentucky, June 17, 1854;
farmer near Russellville, Kentucky, 1897 ; married near Pembroke,
Kentucky, November 27, 1887, Ida Ross Morrison (born in Christian
county, Kentucky), daughter of Colonel Eugene and Elizabeth Ann
(Tandy) Morrison. Mrs. Nourse is a great-granddaughter of
Elder Reuben Ross, who was a Baptist preacher of note in southern
Kentucky. Elder Ross was born in Martin county, North Carolina,
May 9, 1776, and was of Scotch descent.
1. Eugene Morrisons Nourse, born near Russellville, Kentucky, August 11,
1891.
2. Elizabeth Curds Nourse, born near Russellville, Kentucky, August 18, 1894.

CHAPTER VIL

WILLIAM NOURSE AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

54. William2 Nourse (James1) was born in London, England,
October 30, 1763 ; died on his farm in Mercer county, Kentucky,
August 30, 1836. He was a midshipman in the United States Navy
during the Revolutionary War. From entries in Joseph Nourse's
account books it seems probable that he enlisted October, 1780.
William Nourse was captured by the British, carried to England and
put in a dungeon, where many of the prisoners died before he was
liberated ; was released through the influence of his English rela
tives, as is shown in the following extracts from old letters which
have been preserved at "The Highlands," Washington, D. C.
"Dear Cousin. — I received a letter from Mr. Harley, with one enclosed from
Mr. Stevens, the Secretary of the Admiralty, to him, who says, you being
taken in an American armed ship are committed by the Civil Magistrate,
therefore cannot have an order for your parole from that Board. I wrote
yesterday to Mr. Fouace to desire he will enquire and let me know what
method I can take to procure your release, and as soon as I can inform myself,
will set about it. I am, dear Will, yours affectionately,
Wm. Nourse."
Weston, September ye 11, 1781.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fouace to William Nourse, of Weston.
"Hungerford Park, March 10, 1782.
Sir. — I have the pleasure of informing you that I hope, at last, I have
obtained my cousin William Nourse's liberty. I received last night from my
friend Mrs. Holroid, sister to Lord Sheffield, a letter wherein is the following
article: My Lord says, 'Lord Hinchinbroke has this moment acquainted me
that the release of your young American friend is arranged as follows.'"
Details are omitted, but the writer said she had forwarded money to William,
for him to go to his uncle William's house, as he could not return to America
immediately. She said further: "Any letter directed to me under cover to his

70 WILLIAM NOURSE.
Grace the Duke of Ancaster,* Saville Row, London, will reach me  Your
most obedient humble servant, Eliza Fouace."
From Joseph Nourse's book of accounts. "Philadelphia, 2d April, 1783.
Cash Dr. to William Nourse. Received of Mr. Joseph Pinnell, Paymaster of
the Navy, 3 months pay at 8 dollars."
In 1784, William Nourse was employed as clerk in hi? father's
office at Annapolis. In 1787, he was sent by his brother Joseph to
England with power of attorney to settle the estate of his maternal
great aunt Mrs. Eliza Lucas, deceased. He paid passage money in
full to Thomas Carberry, roaster of ship "Flora", £18 18s. on June 9 ;
July 24 paid passage from ship to Waterford, Ireland , 16s. 6d, at
which place he stopped in order to secure "some necessary credits to
the account depending between the estate of our late honored father
and the estate of Lieutenant Robert Nourse, deceased." August 14,
Mr. Nourse paid 2s. 6d. for landing trunks at Swansea. He reached
New York on his return about June 24, 1788, "having effected
the object of his mission to the entire satisfaction" of his brother
Joseph. In a letter to Joseph, written in 1808, he refers with
gratitude to the many kindnesses he received from his uncle William
Nourse's family during his stay in England on this occasion, and
also when he was a prisoner. In the same letter, referring to a
certain proposed investment, he said, "here I would beg leave to
differ with you (for the first time, I believe, in all our transactions)."
Mr. Nourse was a member of the Presbyterian church from "the
time of his first coming to Kentucky." It has been said by one
who knew him, that "he very much resembled his brother Joseph ;
that he was a true Christian without ostentation." Mr. Nourse
married, February 9, 1789, Elizabeth Jameson, daughter of An
drew and Martha Jameson, f of Mercer county, Kentucky. In a
letter to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Nourse, dated Grange, near
Danville, August 9, 1790, he said :
"  I am not quite so happy as when I had the pleasure of last addressing
you. Why? Because I am againt my will going in about three weeks a soldier
*The Duke was Lord Brownlow Bertie, flfih and last Duke of Ancaster and Kestaven, Marquis and
Earl of Lindsey. See Burke's Extinct Peerage. The Dutchess of Ancaster was a schoolmate and
intimate friend of Mrs. James Nourse.
fSee.Roben Nourse genealogy.

WILLIAM NOURSE. 71
against the Indians; but hope, which the poet says, 'never quits us till we die,'
flatters me that I shall get off. A court martial is to sit a day or two before
we march, to receive reasonable excuses and I hope I shall be able to make one.
The campaign we are told is to hold sixty days. It is supposed by many that
we shall not see an Indian, as was the case the last time we went; the Indians
upon the approach of an army forsake their towns, etc."
Mrs. Elizabeth Nourse died April 24, 1811, and in May, 1813,
Mr. Nourse married Rebecca Kyle, daughter of Thomas Kyle, of
Mercer county, Kentucky. She died July 20, 1864.
Mr. Nourse was "unanimously chosen clerk of session (Harrodsburg church)
April 5, 1806, and held that office until Saturday, 29th of August 1833, when he
asked to be released on account of advanced age and bodily infirmities. His
death is recorded August 29, 1836. Mention is made of his having long been
ruling elder and stated clerk of the session He wrote a plain and beautiful
hand as shown in records kept by him so faithfully for 27 years.* "
In the Sons of the Revolution Year Book for 1896 is the fol
lowing :
"William Nourse, midshipman, Frigates 'Confederacy' and 'South Carolina,'
received pension September 27, 1833, $144; age 71."
1. Joseph3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, Kentucky, December 24, 1789; died
there, January 4, 1790.
2. Gabriel3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, February 1, 1792; baptised by Rev
David Rice; died December. 1812.
3. William3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, April 20, 1794; baptised by Rev.
David Rice; died March 10, 1795.
4. Andrew8 Nourse, born in Mercer county, February 11, 1790; baptised by
Rev. David Rice; died June, 1798.
5. Martha3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, February 12, 1798.
6. Robert3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, May 15, 1800; died, unmarried, at
Harrodsburg, Kentucky, June 10, 1S27. He owned a cotton-spinning and
wool-carding factory, and was also contractor for several mail routes.
7. Elizabeth3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, August 10, 1802,
8. William3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, September 21, 1804, died March 5,
1809. •
9. Maria Josepha3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, October 19, 1806.
10. Charles Force3 Nourse, born in Mercer county, December 5, 1809.
55. Martha3 Nourse ( William,2 James1), born in Mercer
county, Kentucky, February 12, 1798 ; died in Fayette county,
Kentucky, August 28, 1829 ; married in Mercer county, April 2,
1822, John McClay Irwin, farmer (born July 5, 1785 ; died in
Fayette county, Kentucky, December 4, 1856), son of William
*M. W. Curry, Harrodsburg, Ky., 1889.

72 WILLIAM NOURSE.
(born in Ireland ; died in Fayette county, Kentucky, 1830) and
Catharine (McClay) (born in Pennsylvania ; died in Fayette
county, Kentucky in 1837) Irwin. Mr. Irwin was an elder in
Bethel Presbyterian church, Fayette county, for thirty or forty
years ; was a member of the General Assembly at the time of the
"new school" schism, and adhered to the "old school". Mr.
Irwin was four times married, Martha Nourse being the second
wife. 1. Elizabeth* Irwin, born in Fayette county, Kentucky, June 18, 1823; died
there, March 18, 1825.
2. Robert* Irwin, born in Fayette county, June 7, 1824; died there, November
29, 1833.
3. Martha Jane* Irwin, born in Fayette county, December 6, 1825; died, un
married, in 1851.
4. Charles Nourse* Irwin, born in Fayette county, August 30, 1827; living at
Mt. Sterling, Illinois, 1897. He was educated in the common schools of
Kentucky; attended Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and coniT
menced the practice of medicine at Mt. Sterling, Illinois, in 1850. He was
surgeon in the Federal army about two years.
Dr. Irwin* married at Mt. Sterling, Illinois, September 18, 1851, Isabella
Clay Dunlap (born at Lexington, Kentucky, March, 1834, living 1897),
daughter of Rev. Lattin Ware (born at Bridgeton, New Jersey) and
Rebecca(Bell) Dunlap. f
1. John5 Irwin, born at Mt. Sterling, Illinois, June 24, 1852; died there
August 29, 1852.
2. Charles Nourse5 Irwin, born at Mt. Sterling, July, 1853; died there
September 11, 1853.
3. Robert5 Irwin, born at Mt. Sterling, October 1856; died there, December
31, 1856.
4. Charles Dunlap5 Irwin, born at Mt. Sterling, November 5, 1861; died
there, unmarried, November 13, 1890.
5. Eleanor Rebecca5 Irwin ("Nellie"), born at Mt. Sterling, October 7,
1865; married at that place April 8, 1897, William Collins Fowler, a
physician of high standing in Vermont, Illinois.
5. George Ebenezer* Irwin, born in Fayette county, Kentucky, March 9, 1829;
died at Fairbanks, Florida, February 5, 1893. He obtained his medical
education at St. Louis, Missouri; commenced the practice of medicine in
Illinois in 1855; removed to Sabetha, Kansas in 1859; he was elected to the
legislature of Kansas by the Republicans in 1861 and 1862, and again in
1869. He was a very popular and successful physician.
Dr. Irwin married in Brown county, Kansas,' August 21, 11859, Sarah
(Small) (born at Limington, Maine, November 17, 1823; living 1897), widow
of George C. Ross. She was the daughter of Joseph (of Strowdwater,
Maine) and Sallie (Nash) (born at Abington, Massachusetts) Small.
*Dr. Irwin's half-brother, James S. Irwin, a distinguished jurist, died January 4, 1894.
+Rev. Mr. Dunlap was educated at Maryvillc College,Teunessee. He preached at Paris, North Mid
dletown and Versailles, Kentucky, removed to Illinois In 1834, aud organized the first church in
Mt. Sterling, of which he was pastor for twenty-Uve years. His wife was a daughter of Joseph Bell.

WILLIAM NOURSE. 73
1. Eleanor Estelle Chambers5 Irwin, born in Brown county, Kansas,
September 22, 1861; living, unmarried, at Sabetha, Kansas, 1897.
2. Laura Lois5 Irwin, born in Brown county, Kansas, December 17, 1864;
living at Sabetha, 1897; married there, October 28, 1888, George Wash
ington Hook, lawyer (born in Wisconsin, March 26,1864), son of William
Henry (born at St. Thomas, West Indies, February 14, 1818; died at
Sabetha, Kansas, January 27, 1889) and Rebecca (Arnett) (born 1826;
married December 21, 1843) Hook.
1. Irwin" Hook, born at Sabetha, Kansas, October 28, 1889.
2. Heber Hartley9 Hook, born at Sabetha, August 15, 1891.
3. Hugh Lyle" Hook, born at Sabetha, October 6, 1895.
3. Prevost5 Irwin, born in Brown county, Kansas, November 13, 1869;
living at Sabetha, unmarried, 1897.
56. Elizabeth3 Nourse (William,2 James1), born in Mercer
county, Kentucky, August 10, 1802 ; died there on Sabbath morn
ing, September 9, 1832 ; married there January 4, 1830, William
Chambers (born December 15, 1802 ; died at Macomb, Illinois,
June 14, 1855). In a letter to a favorite cousin, dated July 16,
1829, Elizabeth Nourse wrote :
"I was sorry to hear that you had cooking done on the holy Sabbath; and
that you still sit down and eat your meals without asking for the blessing of
the kind and gracious Giver. 1 beg you, cousin, that you will read a small
portion of God's word and sing a hynm every day . . .There is a promise to
those who wait on the Lord, in reading his word, as well as in hearing it from
the pulpit."
1. Mary Elizabeth* Chambers, born in Fayette county, Kentucky, November
1, 1830; living at Chicago, Illinois, 1897; married first, March 21, 1850, George
Washington Parkinson, farmer and stockraiser, merchant and banker
(born at Jacksonville, Illinois, April 30, 1825; died April 22, 1856), son of
James and Elizabeth Parkinson; married second, April 19, 1864, John Bow
man Cummings, first circuit clerk, then bank cashier, afterward a manu
facturer (born in Cecil county, Maryland, January 17, 1824), son of James
and Rachel Cummings.
1. Charles Henry5 Parkinson, born April 26, 1851; died at Macomb, Illi
nois, October 16, 1851.
2. Anne Elizabeth5 Parkinson, born August 21, 1854; died at Macomb,
February 11, 1855.
3. William Chambers5 Cummings, born at Bushnell, Illinois, June 16, 1865;
living, unmarried, at Chicago, Illinois, 1897.
57. Maria Josepha3 Nourse (William,2 James1) , born in Mercer
county, Kentucky, October 19, 1806; died there May 24, 1836;
married there December 17, 1829, Thomas McLanahan, farmer, who
was born December 20, 1783, and died in Mercer county, August
12, 1846.
1. Thomas* McLanahan, born in Mercer county, Kentucky, January 20, 1831;
died August 14, 1849.

74* WILLIAM NOURSE.
58. Charles Force3 Nourse, ( William,2 James1), farmer ; born
in Mercer county, Kentucky, December 5, 1809 ; died there April 20,
1836. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church at Harrods
burg, having united with the church February 24, 1828. Mr.
Nourse married in Woodford county, Kentucky, March 10, 1830,
Elizabeth Ward Graines (born January 2, 1814 ; died in Woodford
county, April 16, 1849), daughter of Bernard and Sarah Force
(Cooke) Gaines*.
1. Sakah Elizabeth* Nourse, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, January
25, 1831.
2. Maria Catharine* Nourse, born in Woodford county, August 9, 1833.
3. William Bernard* Nourse, born in Mercer county, Kentucky, September
8, 1835; died in Woodford county, April 12, 1837.
59. Sarah Elizabeth4 Nourse (Charles Force,3 William,2 James1),
born in Woodford county, Kentucky, January 25, 1831 ; living in
Nelson county, Kentucky, 1897 ; married in Woodford county, Jan
uary 4, 1860, Robert Moore Sargent, farmer (born May 31, 1838),
son of Capt. Robert and Mildred Watts (Guynn) (married November
18, 1828) Sargent.
1. Charles Robert Nourse5 Sargent, born in Hardin county, Kentucky,
November 10, 1860; died there December 20, 1860.
2. Maurice5 Sargent, born in Hardin county, September 16, 1862; died there
October 21, 1862.
3. Harry5 Sargent, twin of Maurice; died in Hardin county, October 25, 1862.
4. James Ella5 Sargent, born in Hardin county, February 15, 1864; clerk in
Louisville, Kentucky, 1894; married in Hardin county, May 4, 1887, Frances
Marilda Spink.
1. Mary Edna Alden9 Sargent, born in Nelson county, Kentucky, April 30,
1890.
2. Charles Arthur9 Sargent, born at Louisville, Kentucky, February 28,
1893.
5. William Gardner5 Sargent, born in Hardin county, Kentucky, March 5,
1866; farmer; living in Nelson county, Kentucky, 1895; married at Louisville,
Kentucky, March 16, 1893, Lelia Estelle Walthers, daughter of Clay and
Emma Newton Walthers.
1. Ruby Emma" Sargent, born in Nelson county, January 5, 1894.
2. John Raymond" Sargent, born in Nelson county, Kentucky, February 6,
1896.
6. Irene Ashton5 Sargent, born in Hardin county, Kentucky, January 9,
1871; died in Louisville, Kentucky, December 19, 1891; married March 4, 1891,
William H. Woods, carpenter, born in La Rue county, Kentucky, December
15, 1866.
*See Catharine Burton (Nourse) Cooke genealogy.

Rrcv. JOEL KENNEY LYLE. Mrs. MARIA CATHARINE NOURSE) LYLE.
Miss LIZZIE AGNES LYLE.
Miss HELEN LYLE. CHARLES NOURSE LYLE.

WILLIAM NOURSE. 75
1. Roy Ashton9 Woods, born at Louisville, Kentucky, December 18, 1891;
died there July 3, 1892.
60. Maria Catharine* Nourse (Charles Force,3 William,2 James1),
born in Woodford county, Kentucky, August 9, 1833; living at
Lexington, Kentucky, 1897 ; was for twelve years corresponding
secretary of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Pres
bytery of Ebenezer and for three years its president ; registrar of the
Lexington Chapter of D . A. R. , December, 1895-June, 1898 ; being
also a charter member of the National society. Miss Nourse married
at Lexington, Kentucky, December 22, 1852, Joel Kenney Lyle, who
was born at Paris, Kentucky, July 17, 1824; died at Lexington,
April 19, 1872. Mr. Lyle graduated at Centre College, Danville,
Kentucky, September 25, 1845, with the honors of his class ; grad
uated at Princeton Theological Seminary, May 13, 1849, and was
ordained by the presbytery of West Lexington, at Frankfort, Ken
tucky, April, 1853. He was pastor of the Nicholasville church from
April, 1853 to November, 1855 ; of Horeb church, Fayette county,
from September, 1857 to November, 1863; of Hopewell church,
Bourbon county, Kentucky, from September, 1857 to October, 1868.
Mr. Lyle was an earnest preacher and a faithful and sympathizing
pastor. He was peculiarly acceptable as a member of. synod and
presbytery, owing to his minute and extensive knowledge of ecclesi
astical law, his punctual attendance, methodical business habits and
genial manner. He was a frequent contributor to the religious and
secular newspapers ofthe day. During the civil war he was a strong
union man, and in the division of the Presbyterian church, adhered
to the Northern Assembly. He was the son of Joel Reid* Lyle (born
in Rockbridge county, Virginia, December 19, 1774 ; .died at Paris,
Kentucky, January 18, 1849) and Agnes McCreary (Kenney) who was
born January 22, 1783 ; married April 1, 1807 ; died September 19,
1849. Mrs. Lyle was a granddaughter of James Huston. f
1. Lizzie Agnes5 Lyle, born at Nicholasville, Kentucky, October 10, 1853; living,
unmarried, at Lexington, Kentucky, 1897. Miss Lyle has been employed in
*Joel Reid Lyle came to Kentucky about 1800; he engaged in teaching for a time, and about 1809
purchased the "Western Citizen," Paris, Kentucky. As its editor, Mr. Lyle helped to mould public
opinion in Kentucky in the interest of religion as well as of the Whig party. Rev. John Lyle, whose
name is so closely connected with the early history of Prcsbyterianism in Kentucky, was a brother
of Joel Reid Lyle. Their father was "Elder" John Lyle, of Rockbridge county, Virginia, and their
mother was Flora Reid, maternal aunt of Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D., of Princeton, New
Jersey .
+James Huston rendered valuable service to Virginia and Kentucky during a period of forty years
ias an Indian spy.

76 WILLIAM NOURSE.
the city schools of this place for a number of years. Having taught with
great acceptance in several grades, she was, in 1895, elected assistant prin
cipal of "Johnson" school (the largest public school in the city) and during
several months, pending the election of a principal, fulfilled the duties of
that position satisfactorily. Miss Lyle is treasurer of the woman's mis
sionary society of the Second Presbyterian church, a member of the Filson
Club (historical), of Louisville, Kentucky, and a charter member of the
National society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
2. Flora Reid5 Lyle, born at Lexington, June 10, 1857; died at Laird Parson
age Fayette county, Kentucky, June 10, 1863.
3. Helen5 Lyle, born at Laird Parsonage, November 29, 1858; living unmarried,
at Lexington, Kentucky. Registrar of Bryan Station Chapter of D. A. R.,
1897.
4. Emma5 Lyle, born at Laird Parsonage, Fayette county, May 13, 1862; died
at Lexington, April 28, 1864.
5. Charles Nourse5 Lyle, born at Lexington, December 22, 1865; living there,
unmarried, 1897. Mr. Lyle has been with the Transylvania Printing Com
pany for a number of years.

CHAPTER YIH.

ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE AND HER
DESCENDANTS.

61. Elizabeth2 Noukse (James) was born in London, England,
January 23, 1765 ; died in Clark county, Missouri, September 9,
1846. Extracts from the diary of Mrs. Chapline.
"They [her parents] lived strictly up to the church of England, instructing
their children in all the duties of religion, and holy life, setting them every good
example and precept. I have to this day, May 7, 1819, abundant reason to
return thanks to my heavenly Father that I was born of Christian parents and
early dedicated to Him; but above all, that he was pleased at a very early age
to make me feel some droppings of his Holy Spirit. I can look back, when 1
was about eight years old, and remember the first gospel call he gave me,
whicli opened my eyes to seek after Him  It pleased the Lord to bruise me
sore in the loss of my ever dear parents  My sister Susan, and brother
William (and Michael, a child), with myself, were all that were then living at
home  As soon as my brother could settle my father's business, we [Elizabeth
and Susan] returned to Berkeley county, Virginia, to make our home with our
brother-in-law, Mr. John Cooke; he and sister Catharine were very affectionate
to us . . .1 now became acquainted with Mr. Jeremiah Chapline  I returned to
my sister Cooke's in February, 1786, and the 20th of March following was
married at her house, the third day afterward returned to Maryland, where I
found a large farm, good house, and everything that heart could wish to make
us happy  On this place I lived thirty-three years, experiencing a great mix
ture of joy and grief, hope and fear. In 1809, I was left a widow with eight
children, one only married [The old homestead in Washington, county, Mary
land, was sold June 4, 1818]  1 came to Smith Creek, Rockingham county,
Virginia, October 9, 1818 . . .have some thoughts of joining the Methodist class;
it is now thitty-seven years that I have been a member of the Episcopal church
 I became a full member of the Methodist church in 1819.
January 1, 1822: Bless the Lord O my soul; I am spared to see another New
Tear's day.
October, 1826: Came to Brook county, Virginia, with my sons-in-law, Sisson
and Roach,

78 ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE.
September 23, (1840): I have had the happiness once more to see my dear
daughter, Catharine Price, it is twenty years since I saw her last. She and her
daughter Mary, who is a charming young woman, came and staid with us one
week. November 18, 1841: We are still living in Brook county, Virginia. My nephew
Da,vid Riddle came to see us a few days ago. He had letters with him from
England, inquiring for the surviving children of my father, James Nourse, who
had left London in the year 1770 [69], stating that, if any, they were entitled to
a share, with others, of a large estate in that country.
I have received a letter informing me of the death of my dear brother Joseph;
he died aged 87  I was much blessed this morning while son Sisson was hold
ing family worship. I bless God that ever he came into my family.
April 6 [1842]: We started for Missouri the twenty-first day of last month.*
January 23, 1844: I have now entered my eightieth year in good health."
Extract from a letter to her daughter Sarah (Chapline) Evans
dated May 27, 1845.
"I am now in my eighty -first year  I expect ere long to be called to walk
through the valley and shadow of death; but as He has promised to be there
with His rod and staff to comfort me, I fear no evil  How do Isaac and
Joseph come on? ... I hold them every day, with all my other dear grand
children, on the arms of faith and prayer to a throne of grace, praying that we
may all meet in heaven."
Jeremiah Chapline (died in Washington county, Maryland, 1809)
was a son of Joseph (a surveyor) and Ruhama (Williams) Chapline ;
he was an enterprising man. The Chapline manor was said to be
one of the finest estates in western Maryland.
1 Sarah Force3 Chapline, born in Washington county, Maryland, March 11,
1790; died in Hancock county, West Virginia, December 15, 1862; married
there, February 9, 1808, William Worthington Evans, merchant and farmer,
born in Maryland, March 30, 1787; died in Hancock county, West Virginia,
October 12, 1861.
1. Elizabeth Ann* Evans, born near Shepherd stown, Maryland, April 26,
1809: died in Hancock county, West Virginia, August 5, 1815.
2. Martha4 Evans, born in  ; married Samuel McCown; removed to
Ohio; a large family.
3. Jeremiah Chapline4 Evans, farmer, born in Washington county, Mary
land, August 15, 1813; died in Hancock county, West Virginia, March 21,
1881; married November 24, 1840, Elizabeth Sarah Sisson. t
1. James Madison5 Evans, farmer and carpenter, born in Hancock
county, West Virginia, 1841; married at New Cumberland, West Vir
ginia, June 27, 1871, Emma Elton Evans (born at Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, November 17, 1839), daughter of Lambert and Margaret
(born 1818; married about 1830) Evans.
?Settled near Winchester in Clark county.
+See Sisson descendants.

ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE. 79
1. Robert Chapline9 Evans, born in Hancock county, West Virginia,
June 4, 1872.
2. Lambert Gilkison" Evans, born in Hancock county, January 22,
1874.
3. Charles Madison" Evans, born in Hancock county, August 26,
1876.
4. Jessie Sisson9 Evans, born in Hancock county, June 24, 1879.
5. Margaret Lewis9 Evans, born in Hancock county, April 10, 1881.
6. Harry Dawson9 Evans, twin of Margaret.
2. Elizabeth Sarah5 Evans, born in Hancock county, West Virginia,
July 20, 1843; living there, unmarried, 1890.
3. John Burns5 Evans, born in Hancock county, September 27, 1845;
living near Fairview, West Virginia, unmarried, 1890.
4. Frank Sisson5 Evans; born in Hancock county, July 17, 1859; farmer
near Fairview, West Virginia, in 1890; married at Fair Chance, Penn
sylvania; June 2, 1887, Jennie Morris (born near Uniontown, Penn
sylvania, December 17, 1869,), daughter of Thomas (born January
23, 1845) and Annie Nixon (born April 7, 1851; married March 19,
1868) Morris.
1. Carl Morris9 Evans, born in Hancock county, March 31, 1888.
2. Jay Chapline9 Evans, born in Hancock county, December 3, 1889.
4. Isaac* Evans, born in Hancock county, West Virginia; married  .
5. William Jackson* Evans, born in Hancock county; married  .
6. Joseph* Evans, removed to Ohio; married, but left no children.
7. Sarah Ann* Evans, married  .
8. Elizabeth Chapline* Evans, married  .
9. Mary* Evans, born in Hancock county, West Virginia, June 10, 1825;
living there, 1890; married there, June 2, 1842, George Dawson Swearin
gen, farmer (born in Hancock county, May 3, 1823).
1. Lizzie5 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, December 15, 1843.
2. William Warington5 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, May
16, 1845; died, unmarried at Cumberland, Maryland, April 23, 1864;
served four months in 12th Virginia Infantry.
3. Samuel Martin5 Swearingen, farmer, born in Hancock county,
February 3, 1847; married February 22, 1875, Cinda Pugh.
1. Agnes.9
2. Roy9
3. Mary" (d).
4. George."
4. Owens Absalom5 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, September
20, 1848; farmer in 1890; married April 15, 1870, Emma Gibbs.
1. George9 Swearingen, died January 4, 1890.
2.  ,6 died, aged 14 months.
3. Edward9 Swearingen.
5. George Dawson5 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, May 18,
1850; living in Ohio, 1890; married May 15, 1872, Maggie Brunton; no
children.
6. Agnes Sarah5 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, March 25, 1852;
died there January 3, 1863.
7. Ruth Anne5 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, December 5,
1853; living at East Liverpool, Ohio, 1890; married in Hancock
county, West Virginia, February 23, 1871, Stewart Collins.

80 ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE.
1. Maude Emma9 Collins (d.).
2. Edwin Wilson9 Collins.
3. Mary Bertha9 Collins.
4. Cora Ann9 Collins.
5. Elizabeth Isadora9 Collins.
6. Agnes Willis9 Collins.
7. George William9 Collins.
8. Samuel Stewart9 Collins.
8. Jeremiah Chapline5 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, West
Virginia, September 15, 1855; living there 1890; married September 21,
1876, Sarah Leonia Mercer (born in „ Hancock county, June 8, 1857),
daughter of Robert (born 1822; died 1889) and Barbara Barclay
(bora 1831; died 1884) Mercer.
1. Thomas Allen" Swearingen, born in Hancock county, West Vir
ginia, October 27, 1877.
2. George Dawson" Swearingen, born in Hancock county, January
17, 1880.
3. Robert Lee9 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, December 19,
1881.
4. Charles Clyde9 Swearingen, born in Hancock county, June 2,
1884.
5. Barbara" Swearingen, born in Hancock county, December*17,
1887.
2. Catharine3 Chapline, born in AVashington county, Maryland, March 11,
1792; died  ; married in Washington county, Maryland, about 1812,
Samuel Daniel Price.
In letters to her mother, dated 1827, 1836 and 1837, Mrs. Price mentions
the names of several children: Elizabeth, Mary, Samuel, Asahel, Susan.
Her youngest son, Benjamin Franklin* Price, was living at York, Penn
sylvania, in 1891; he has two sons.
1. Samuel Addison5 Price, manufacturer of cigars at York, Pennsylvania.
1891; is married and has four children.
1. Nellie Louisa" Price.
1. Blanche May" Price,
3. Paul Frederick" Price.
4. Franklin Addison" Price.
2. Charles Alexander5 Price; married; one daughter.
1. Jennie May" Price.
3. Joseph3 Chapline, born in Washington county, Maryland, June 10, 1794;
died October 1, 1815.
4. James Nourse3 Chapline, farmer, born in Washington county, Maryland,
September 30, 1796; died near Sharpsburg, Maryland, May 26, 1830; married
near there in spring of 1815, Catharine Hebb (born near Sharpsburg, Mary
land, 1796; died there 1864), daughter of Edward (died 1835) and Polly
Thomas (died 1834) Hebb.
I . Indiana* Chapline, born near Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1816; died 1836;
married near Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1835, Luther Bradley; no children.
2. Jeremiah* Chapline, born near Sharpsburg, 1818; died August, 1877;
married 1866, Malinda Marshall. His widow married again.
3. William Richardson* Chapline, born near Sharpsburg, Maryland,
March 6, 1820; living at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 1891; married
there September 14, 1843, Margaret Ann Hout (born at Sharpsburg,

ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE. 81
August 18, 1825; died September 3, 1885), daughter of John (born Jan
uary 12, 1796; died December 21, 1836) and Sarah Catharine (Barnhart)
(married December 1, 1822; died February 18, 1868) Hout.
1. Charles Edgar5 Chapline, born in Maryland, February 8, 1845; died
at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, January 4, 1853.
2. William Rufus5 Chapline, born in Maryland, January 30, 1847; died
September 7, 1867.
3. John Nourse5 Chapline, born in Maryland, December 30, 1848.
4. Anzonetta5 Chapline, born in Maryland, April 13, 1851; living at
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 1890; married there May 15, 1868,
John Stipp, born August 18, 1848.
1. Mary Ophelia" Stipp, born at Shepherdstown, November 21, 1871.
2. Katie May" Stipp, born at Shepherdstown, September 3, 1873.
3. Charles Martin9 Stipp, born at Shepherdstown, November 4, 1876.
5. Sarah Catharine5 Chapline, born at Shepherdstown, West Vir
ginia, March 24, 1853; living at Bel Air, Maryland, 1891; married at
Hagerstown, 1876, William Harrison Staley, miller (born at Shep
herdstown, May 12, 1854).
1. Harry Chapline9 Staley, born at Shepherdstown, November 5,
1876; graduated 1895: book-keeper at Baltimore, Maryland.
2. Leonard Clifton9 Staley, born at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia,
August 28, 1879.
3. John William" Staley, born at Harper's Ferry. October 29, 1882.
4. Margaret Lilian" Staley. born at Harper's Ferry, April 22, 1885.
5. Lester Butler" Staley, born at Bel Air, Maryland, June 17, 1890.
6. Ida Virginia5 Chapline, born at Shepherdstown, West Virginia,
October 8, 1856; living near Purgitsville, West Virginia, 1891;
married April 10, 1878, James Henry Rogers, farmer (born in Mine
ral county, West Virginia, February 6, 1858).
1. Luther Chapline9 Rogers, born in Hardy county, West Virginia,
October 10, 1883.
2. Dallas Foster" Rogers, born in Hardy county, September 22, 1886.
3. Armond Marvell" Rogers, born at Purgitsville, West Virginia,
September 27, 1893.
7. Lilian Lee5 Chapline, born at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Nov
ember 25, 1863.
8. Charles Luther5 Chapline, born in Jefferson county, West Virginia,
March 20, 1865; living at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 1891; married
April 15, 1885; Mamie Deloider, of Baltimore, Maryland.
1. Charles Clifton9 Chapline, born at Harper's Ferry, November, 1888.
4. Mandlebert* Chapline, born near Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1823; died
1833.
5. Edgar Howard* Chapline, born near Sharpsburg, October 5, 1831 ; farmer
near Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1895; married at Frederick City, Maryland,
March, 1866, Hannah Boyd (born near Sharpsburg, Maryland, June,
1839; died there June, 1892), daughter of Henry (born 1802; died 1886) and
Elizabeth Harmon (born 1808; married 1827; died 1846) Boyd; no chil
dren.
5. Elizabeth H.3 Chapline, born in Washington county, Maryland, July 15,
1798; died near Hannibal, Missouri, December 3, 1864; married near Hagers
town, Maryland, June 1, 1815, Jesse Sisson, farmer (born in Rock
bridge county, Virginia, August 7, 1789; died in Clark county, Missouri,

82 ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE.
November 27, 1864), son of Caleb (born in England; died September 17, 1807)
and Sarah (Roach) Sisson.
Extract from a letter of Jesse Sisson to his brother Abner, August 9, 1812:
"I have joined the light infantry at Martinsburg, and expect to be called
upon soon. General Hull has given up all of our army at Detroit to the
British. There is another army now raising which will be under the com
mand of General Harrison in Kentuc ky.
1. Asbury Chapline* Sisson, farmer, born in Rockingham county, Virginia,
August 13, 1816; died near Kahoka, Missouri, May 4, 1894; married at
Alexandria, Missouri, March 18, 1852, Rachel Johnson (born at Shelby-
yille, Kentucky, June 2, 1818), daughter of David (born in Kentucky)
and Mary A. (Withers) (born in Kentucky) Johnson.
1. James Franklin5 Sisson, born in Clark county, Missouri, March 12,
1853; farmer near Kahoka, 1891; married near Kahoka, September
15, 1872, Maria Willis Bash (born in Clark county, December 7, 1854),
daugher of Jacob (died 1880) and Elizabeth Harris (died March 20
1877) Bash.
1. Rachel Willis" Sisson, born in Clark county, Missouri, January
26, 1874.
2. Mary Elizabeth" Sisson, born in Clark county, October 19, 1875.
3. Wade Hampton" Sisson, born in Clark county, November 8, 1877.
4. James Franklin" Sisson, born in Clark county, May 16, 18S0.
5. Hugh Asbury" Sisson, born February 21, 1882.
6. Raleigh" Sisson, born in Clark county, February 27, 1884; died
November 30, 1885.
7. OIlie" Sisson, born in Clark county, January 27, 1888.
2. Mary Elizabeth5 Sisson, born in Clark county, Missouri, April 27,
1858; living at Kahoka, Missouri, 1890; married near there October
3, 1878, J. August Bott, grain merchant.
1. Laurence Asbury" Bott, born at Kahoka, November 12, 1879;
died aged 9 months.
2. Charles W.9 Bott, born at Kahoka, May 11, 1883; died in infancy.
3. Lola B." Bott, born at Kahoka, June 9, 1886; died in infancy.
2. Elizabeth Sarah* Sisson, born in Rockingham county, Virginia, Nov
ember 21, 1819; living near Fairview, West Virginia, 1890; married her
cousin Jeremiah Evans*
3. Martha Ann Mary* Sisson, born in Rockingham county, May 13, 1821;
living near Louisiana, Missouri, 1890; married in Hancock county, West
Virginia, February 16, 1842, Joseph Mackey (born in Ohio, September
22, 1816; died March 3, 1884), son of James and Jane (Quinn) Mackey.
1. Albert Sisson5 Mackey, born in Hancock county, West Virginia,
August 21, 1844; physician and surgeon at Louisiana, Missouri, 1891;
married in Clark county, Missouri, January 18, 1868, Caroline Vir
ginia Young (born at Farmington, Iowa, December 28, 1847),
daughter of Andrew Nelson (born April 30, 1813) and Mary Eliza
beth (McElhany) (married March, 1843) Young.
1. Charles Andrew" Mackey, born at Kahoka, Missouri, October 14,
1868.
•See Evans genealogy.

ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHPLINE. 83
2. Mabel Martha" Mackey, born at Montrose Iowa, November 24,
1871.
2. Jane Elizabeth5 Mackey, born in West Virginia, June 24, 1847; living
at Fresno, California, 1890; married in Clark county, Missouri,
March 26, 1868, Theophilus Harmon, carpenter (born in Pennsyl
vania, August 1, 1843). •
1. Chester Melven" Harmon, born in Clark county, Missouri, Febru
ary 15, 1869.
2. Elmer Ellsworth" Harmon, born in Clark county, July 13, 1871;
died there November 5, 1879.
3. Emma, Bell" Harmon, born at Ashton, Missouri, October 19, 1872.
4. Clarence Edson" Harmon, born at Ashton, December 6, 1874.
5. Mary Myrtle" Harmon, born in Clark county, Missouri, February
27, 1879.
6. Gilbert Reginald" Harmon, born in Clark county, November 17,
1881.
3. James5 Mackey, born in Ohio, June 28, 1849; living at Kahoka,
Missouri, 1890; married first in Clark county, Missouri, January 16,
1873, Edmonia Ballard (died May 3, 1874); married second in Pike
county, Missouri, December 19, 1879, Miss Richmond.
4. Amanda Melvina5 Mackey, born in Ohio, April 12, 1852; living at
Kahoka, Missouri, 1890; married in Pike county, Missouri, February
21, 18v4, William Garrison Fahringer, farmer, born at Wrightsville,
Pennsylvania, December 12, 1S55.
1. Arthur Alburtis" Fahringer, born in Clark county, Missouri, May
31, 1885; died November 5, 1885.
2. Jesse Mackey9 Fahringer, born in Clark county, November 17,
1889; died the 22d.
5. Emma Belle5 Mackey, born in West Virginia, April 19, 1856; living
at Kahoka, Missouri, 1890; married in Pike county, Missouri, Janu
ary 24, 1878, Peter Freed, carpenter, born in Pennsylvania, December
2, 1849.
1. Clara Belle9 Freed, born in Clark county, Missouri, December 11,
1879.
2. Harry Edgar9 Freed, born in Clark county, December 31, 1881.
3. Grace Gertrude" Freed, born in Clark county, March 31, 1884.
4. Albert William" Freed, born in Clark county, October 26, 1887.
5. Howard Leander" Freed, born in Clark county, July 13, 1890.
6. John A.5 Mackey, born in Clark county, Missouri, February 13, 1859;
died August 10, 1859.
7. Edward Evert5 Mackey, born in Clark county, January 8, 1862;
captain in Salvation Army at Monmouth, Illinois, 1890; married in
Pike county, Missouri, January 10, 1882, Mary Belle Richmond (born
in Ralls county, Missouri, January 3, 1860), daughter of Francis
(born in Maryland, August 28, 1826) and Mary Jane (Boyd) (born
October 16, 1829; married 1847) Richmond.
i . Rexford Linton" Mackey, born in Pike county, June 29, 1883.
2. James Ollie9 Mackey, born in Pike county, January 18, 1885.
3. Leila Augusta9 Mackey, born in Pike county, September 25, 1886.
8. Minerva Annie5 ("Minnie") Mackey, born in Clark county, Missouri,
August 28, 1863; living near Louisiana, Missouri, 1*90; married in

84 ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE.
Pike county, December 8, 1886, Peter Winston Dudley, farmer, born
in Pike county, May 7, 1862.
1. William Emory9 Dudley, born in Pike county, December 17, 1887.
4. Abner Morgan* Sisson, born in Rockingham county, Virginia, June'22,
1823; farmer, near Hannibal, Missouri, 1891; married May 18, 1852 Eliza
beth Harley Slifer (born in Frederick county, Maryland, August 14,
1830), daughter of Ezra (born in Frederick county, 1804) and Matilda
(Harley) (born at Burkitsville, Maryland, 1803) Slifer.
1. Carl Ezra5 Sisson, born in Marion county, Missouri, May 20, 1853;
unmarried 1890; dining car conductor, headquarters, St. Louis,
Missouri.
2. Matilda Elizabeth5 Sisson, born in Marion county, December 29,
1858; living near Sedalia, Missouri, 1890; married in Marlon county,
October 3, 1876, James Henry Doyle (born in Susquehanna county,
Pennsylvania, June 21, 1842), son of Patrick (born in county Clare,
Ireland) and Bridget Nugent (born in county Clare, Ireland) Doyle.
1. Henry Sisson9 Doyle, born at Hannibal, Missouri, August 12,
1817.
2. Elizabeth Nourse9 Doyle, born at Hannibal, November 3, 1880.
3. James Horace9 Doyle, born at Hannibal, February 24, 1882.
3. Emma Alverda5 Sisson, born in Marion county, Missouri, February
2, 1860; died August 20.
4. Abner Marvin5 Sisson, born in Marion county, December 5,1869; died
March 20, 1870.
5. Carrie Viola5 Sisson, born in Marion county, November 28, 1870;
married there October 22, 1890, Mark Gorden Bird (born October 21,
1860), son of William and Mary Bird, living at Palmyra, Missouri,
1895.1. Ellis Sisson9 Bird, born at Oakwood, Missouri, January 26, 1893;
died October 2, 1893.
2. William Howard" Bird, born April 1, 1895,
5. Almyra Susan* Sisson, born in Rockingham county, Virginia, December
6. 1825; living at DesMoines, Iowa, 1895; married in Clark county, Mis
souri, February 15, 1846, Montgomery Pike Resor (born August 2, 1813;
died January 16, 1873), son of John and Mary (Moss) Resor. Mr. Resor
was a merchant at Troy, Iowa, until 1865; then stockraiser in Davis
county.1. Mary Eliza5 Resor, born in Clark county, Missouri, October 2, 1846;
living at Bloomfield, Iowa, 1890; married near Troy, Iowa, May 19,
1874, William Butler Sibley, merchant (born near Bedford, Kentucky
August 31, 1831), son of Albert Gallatin (born in Virginia, 1806) and
Harriet (White*) (born in Kentucky, May 22, 1812; married 1827; died
January 1, 1872) Sibley.
1. Stella Virginia9 Sibley, born at Memphis, Missouri, May 8, 1875.
2. Charles Ernest9 Sibley, born near Kahoka, Missouri, March 9,
1878.
3. Jessie Resoi* Sibley, born near Palmyra, Missouri, September 11,
1880.

•Harriet White was u daughter of David White, a lawyer of Lexington, Kentucky, who was a
judge of the circuit court, and a member of Congress for several terms; her mother was a daughter
of Major William Butler, who was well known throughout Kentucky.

ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE. 85
4. Mahel-Almyra9 Sibley, born near Kahoka, October 11, 1884.
5. Laura Emma9 Sibley, born near Kahoka, August 29, 1886.
2. Cynthia Ann5 Resor, born in Clark county, Missouri, February 18,
1850; died December 27, 1875; married in Davis county, Missouri, 1871,
Nelson Sidrlons, merchant at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1. Nellie9 Siddons, born June, 1874; died at Victoria, Manitoba,
March 8, 1895.
3, James AVooster5 Resor, born in Clark county, Missouri, July 13,
1851; forman of Lumber and Steel yards, Rio Grand Railroad, Den
ver, Colorado; married in Davis county, Iowa, December 31, 1874,
Florence Dye (born in Davis county, February 3, 1856 , daughter of
Eli (born iu Morgan county, Ohio) and Melissa (Winton) Dye.
1 . Harry James9 Resor, born near Troy, Iowa, February 3, 1876.
2. Frederick Clay9 Resor, born in Pulaski, Iowa, January 16, 1878.
3. Minnie" Resor, born in Davis county, Iowa, April IS, 1881; died
April 22.
4. Minie9 Resor, twin of Minnie; died April 25, 1831.
5. Ethel Almira" Resor, born near Eldon, Iowa, January 11, 1834.
6. Pansy Fay" Resor, born at Denver, Colorado, December 25, 1888.
4. Emma Minerva5 Resor, born in Clark county, Missouri, July 18,
1854; living at Phoenix, Arizona, 1895, married in Davis county,
Iowa, October 27, 1874, Levi Loveland Plank, dealer iu real estate
born in Lee county. Iowa, November 21, 1852.
1. Mary Ethel" Plank, born at Denison, Texas, August 3, 1876.
5. Jesse Thurston5 Resor, born at Troy, Iowa, June 29, 1856; died
August 20, 1859.
6. Walter5 Resor, born at Troy, May 12, 1858; died 31st.
7. Jessie Ella5 Resor. born at Troy, August is, 1859; living at Guthrie
' Centre, Iowa, 1890; married near Troy, Iowa, May 12, UNI, Albert
Lemmon, registered pharmacist, born at Millersburg, Ohio, April 3'
1857.
1. Roy Albert9 Lemmon, born at Guthrie Center, Iowa, July 15,
; 1882.
2. Lulu Emma9 Lemmon, born at Guthrie Center, February 27, 1885.
3. Glenn Resor9 Lemmon, born at Guthrie Center, July 10, 1892.
4. Lois lone" Lemmon, born at Guthrie Center, April 4, 1895.
8. Laura Beck5 Resor, born near Troy, Iowa, September 22, 1861; clerk
in art store, Desmoines, Iowa,, 1895.
9. Alice Mariam5 Resor, teacher, born Dear Troy, July 20, 1866.
6. John Milton* Sisson, born in Rockingham county, Virginia, January 23,
182F; farmer near Kahoka, Missouri, 1895; married near Athens, Missouri,
March 16, 1854, Martha, Ann Sibley (born in Oldham county, Kentucky,
March 15, 1833), sister of William Butler Sibley.
1. Ada Albertine5 Sisson, born in Clark county, Missouri, April 9,
1855.
2. Anne Belle5 Sisson, born in Clark count.y, April 4, 1^57; living near
Kahoka, Missouri, 1895; married there October 13, 1881, John William
Resor, hardware merchant (born in Clark county, Missouri, June 14,
1849), nephew of Montgomery Pike Resor.
1. Ethel Sisson" Resor, born in Clark county, Missouri, April 12,
1885.

86 ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE.
2. Elsie Annie" Resor, born in Clark county, November 27, 1887.
3. John Earl" Resor, born in Clark county, October 5, 1890.
3. William Bake k5 Sisson, born in Clark county, Missouri, August 4,
1859; physician at Kahoka, Missouri, 1895; graduated from Missouri
Medical College, St, Louis; married at Colony, Missouri, September
16, 1880, Mamie Rebecca McMurry(born at Muscatine, Iowa, Septem
ber 11, 1857), daughter of Thomas Pettis (born in Kentucky, July
14, 1829; died September 27, 1887) and Elizabeth Drusilla (Wright)
(born in Kentucky, October 22, 1835; married July 29, 1853) McMurry.
1. Gertrude Rebecca" Sisson. born in Knox county, Missouri, July
31, 1881.
2. Milton McMurry" Sisson. born in Clark county, Missouri, June 23,
1883.
3. Thomas William9 Sisson, born in Clark county, September 22,
1885.
4. Josie Evaline9 Sisson, born in Clark county, December 19, 1888.
4. Josie Virginia5 Sisson, born in Clark county, Missouri, March 6,
1870; married October 7, 1891, Almon Curtis Thompson, druggist
and county treasurer (born November 5, 1867).
1. Laurence Almon9 Thompson, born March 23, 1893.
t. Ruhama Catharine* Sisson, born in Rockingham county, Virginia,
November 20, 1830: died in Clark county Missouri, July 6, 1847.
8. Amanda Malvina* Sisson, born iu Rockingham county, Virginia, Octo
ber 19, 1832; died at Fairmont, Missouri, December, 1893; married May,
1865, James F. Laughlin (second wife).
1. Herbert T.° Laughlin.
2. Jesse S.5 Laughlin.
9: EvalinE Samantha* Sisson, born in Hancock county, West Virginia,
October 14, 1834; living at Kahoka, Missouri, 1890; married in Clark
county, Missouri, November 5, 1857, James Harvey Taylor (born in
Pennsylvania, February 18, 1827"), son of Arthur Huhe (born in Penn
sylvania, 1785; died 1863) and Nancy McCown (born in Pennsylvania;
died August 22, 1890) Taylor.
1. Arthur Huhe5 Taylor, born at Alexandria, Missouri, December 5,
1858; died December 6, 1859.
2. Jesse Sisson5 Taelor, born in Clark county, Missouri, April 21, 1861;
farmer near Selina, California, 1890; married at Kirksville, Missouri,
February 29, 1880, Rannie Chappell (born at Fairmont, Missouri,
April 17, 1865), daughter of George A. (born in Kentucky, November
1, 1827) and Jane (Henton) (born in Missouri, January 8, 1837; mar
ried October, 1856) Chappell.
1. Charles Chappell" Taylor, born December 31, 1888.
3. Matthew Franklin5 Taylor, commercial traveler, born in Clark
county, Missouri. September 25, 1866.
4. Charles Clarence5 Taylor, born in Clark county, March 17, 1868;
died November 21, 1875.
5. James Morgan5 Taylor, born in Clark county, June 28, 1870.
6. Nancy Eliza5 Taylor, born in Clark county, March 17f 1873.
10. Emily Minerva* Sisson, born in Rockingham county, Virginia, March 7,
1837 : died August 20, 1863 ; married November 3, 1859, James F. Laughlin
(first wife).

ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHPLINE. 87
1. Elmer5 Laughlin, married at Colony, Missouri, 1891, Jennie Mc-
Murry.
11. Mississippi* Sisson. born June 15, 1839 ; died unmarried at Troy, Iowa,
March 11, 1874.
12. Strother Washington* Sisson, born in Clark county, Missouri, June 26,
1842; teacher at Keokuk, Iowa, 1891; married at Bunker Hill, Illinois,
August 31. 1865, Lucy Ann Burton (born at Bunker Hill, April 29, 1846),
daughter of William A. 'born in Virginia, December 8, 1S23) and Mary
(Sisson) (born in Kentucky, January 8,1828; married January, 1844;
died October 1, 1873) Burton.
1. William Jesse5 Sisson, born at Bunker Hill, Illinois, April 14, 1868;
died August 31, 1K68.
2. Ellet Orrin5 Sisson, born at Bunker Hill, September 4, 1871; dem
onstrator of Pathology in College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Keokuk, Iowa. 1895 ; in practice, a specialist.
Susan3 Chapline, born in Washington county, Maryland, 1800; died in
Berkeley county, West Virginia, July 29, 1824; married in Rockingham
county, Virginia, April, 1821, John Wilson, of Martinsburg.
Joseph Nourse to his sister, Elizabeth Chapline: "August 27, 1824.
"My Dear Sister: — Your letter .. I received yesterday, in which you
give an interesting and affecting account of the departure of your daughter
Susan, who was willing to depart and be with Christ . . .lived a servant of
the Lord Jesus Christ."
Mrs. Wilson left no children ; in Mrs. Chapline's diary, mention is made of
the death of an infant daughter of Mrs. Wilson; in giving an account ofthe
last hours of her child, she surely would have mentioned the orphan grand-*
children had there been any living.
Mary Ann3 Chapline, born in Washington county, Maryland, October 20,
1802; died in Hancock county, West Virginia, April 7, 1833; married in Rock
ingham county, Virginia, December 13, 1821, Jesse Roach, farmer, born in
Virginia, 1800; died October 11, 1878.
1. James Alfred* Roach, born in Virginia, September 10, 1822; died March
30, 1826.
2. Susan Chapline* Roach, born in Virginia, September 26, 1824; died un
married, August 4. 1J47.
3. William McKinney* Roach, born in Hancock county, West Virginia,
July 6, 1826; died September 17, 1853; married at Fairview, West Vir
ginia, June 8, 1847, Mary Prout. In 1854 Mrs. Roach removed to Canada,
where her parents were then living.
1 . Susan5 Roach went with her mother.
2. Hannah Maria5 Roach, died aged five months.
3. Sarah Elizabeth5 Roach went to Canada also.
4. Elizabeth Ann* Roach, born August 24, 1828 ; died April 6, 1864; married
in Hancock county, West Virginia, November 24, 1847, David Mackey,
fruit grower ( born March 13, 1818). He is a brother of Joseph Mackey,
who married Martha Ann Sisson.
1. Mary Susan5 Mackey, born in Columbiana county, Ohio, February 2,
1849; living near New Cumberland, West Virginia, 1890; married,
first, February 13, 1872, George Washington Manypenny (born in
Ohio, November 12, 184S; died February 18, 1887); married, second,

88 ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE.
November 2, 1889, George William Earp, dealer in brick, born in Mary
land, January 11, 1854.
1. Charles Avory" Manypenny, born at New Cumberland, West Vir
ginia, November 7, 1872; "died February 3, 1874.
2. David Mackey9 Manypenny, born February 10, 1874.
3. Jesse Emmerson" Manypenny, born April 22, 1877 ; died May 4.
4. Susanna Bertha9 Manypenny, born February 17, 1879.
2. Albert Roach5 Mackey, born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Decem
ber 1, 1850, pilot, living at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1S90; marriedin
Hancock county, AVest Virginia, October 27, 1875, Ella Patterson
(born in West Virginia, April 18, 1857 , daughter of Robert (born
January 26, 1824; died January 3, 1887) and Margaret (Thornburg),
(born October 31, 1829; married September, 1849) Patterson.
1. Mary9 Mackey, born at New Cumberland, West Virginia, Novem
ber 11, J 876.
2. Nora" Mackey, born February 5, 1879.
3. Robert" Mackey, born March 26, 1«84.
4. William James9 Mackey, born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Au
gust 19, 18S6.
3. Laura Jane5 Mackey, bornin Hancock county, West Virginia, August
15, 1853.
4. Jessie P5 Mackey, born in Hancock county, No vember 23, 1856; living
there 1891 ; married in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1876,
William Leslie McClurg, brick shipper, born at Fairview, West Vir
ginia, October 20, 1851.
1. Avory Graham9 McClurg, born at New Cumberland, West Vir
ginia, April 18, 1877.
2. Mary Elizabeth9 McClurg, born January 13, 1879.
3. Em~e Maria" McClurg, born January 17, 18d5 ; died January 19,
18^6.
4. Albert Mackey" McClurg, born May 16, 1889.
5. John Cowl5 Mackey, born in Hancock county, AVest Virginia,
December 2, 1862; grocer at New Cumberland, 1891; married in Han
cock county, July 9, 1889, Ora Brown.
5. Sarah Ruhama* Roach, born in Hancock county, West Virginia, July 23,
1831, living near Science Hill, Kentucky, 1891; married in Hancock
county, West Virginia, January 9, 1862, Hiram Matthews Figley,
farmer (born -in Jefferson county, Ohio, January 26, 1830;; removed to
Kentucky in 1887.
1. Mary Elizabeth5 Figley, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, March 3,
1866; married at New Cumberland, AVest Virginia, June 3, 1888; Clem
V. Herron.
1. Frank Figley" Herron, born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, Octo
ber 22, 1889.
2. Anna Laura5 Figley, born in Hancock county, West Virginia, Jan
uary 28, 1868.
3. Sophie Belle5 Figley, born in Hancock county, February 25, 1870.
4. Maria Jane5 Figley, born in Hancock county, May 25, 1873.
6. John Emory* Roach, born in Hancock county, West Virginia, January
21, 1833; died same year.
8. Ruhama3 Chapline, born in Washington county, Maryland, March 26, 1805;
died at Gallatin, Missouri, November 26, 1882; married at Harrisonburg, Vir-

ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE. 89
ginia, February 15, 1821, John Cravens,* physician, born at Harrisonburg,
October 28, 1797; died at Gallatin, Missouri, March 15, 1882. The ancestors
of Dr. Cravens were probably among the first settlers of Rockingham
county, Virginia. He practiced his profession for many years in Virginia,
before his removal to North Western Missouri, where he became well known
as a fine physician and surgeon. Dr. Cravens and wife celebrated their
sixtieth wedding anniversary in 1881. His father, Joseph Cravensf, born at
Harrisonburg, Virginia, was a prominent physician there for about fifty
years; his wife was Mary Nichol (born 1765), of Augusta county, Virginia.
1. Mary Elizabeth* Cravens, born at Harrisonburg, Virginia, September
23, 1822; died at Gallatin, Missouri, March 1, 1868, married at Gallatin,
April 23, 1842, Philip Richard Wirt, merchant, (born in Kentucky, April
8, 1815; died February 22 1866) and son of John Wirt who married Mary
Simms of Kentucky.
1. Mary Ruhama5 Wirt, born at Gallatin, Missouri, April 24, 1843;
living there 1891; married September 3, 1862, Thomas Johnson
Brown, born at Richmond, Missouri, September 3, 1832; died Janu
ary 14, 1886.
1. Maggies Brown, 8born at Gallatin, Missouri, June 10, 1864; married
there June 10, 1890, Thomas J. Ray, merchant, born in Daviess
connty, Missouri, January 23, 1864.
1. Mildred7 Ray, born at Gallatin Missouri, April 14, 1891; died
there January, 1893.
2. Rowena1 Ray, born at Gallatin, October 24, 1893.
2. Bessiee Brown, teacher of music, born June 20, 1867.
3. Corinne9 Brown, teacher, born at Gallatin, January 25, 1870.
4. Ethel9 Brown, teacher, born at Gallatin, March 21, 1872.
5. Winnifred9 Brown, born at Gallatin, September 9, 1877.
6. Benjamin Wirt9 Brown, born at Gallatin, October 5, 1879.
7. Roe" Brown, born at Gallatin, September 12, 1884.
2. William5 Edwards Wirt, born at Gallatin, Missouri, September 8,
1847; real estate dealer at Horton, Kansas, 1891; married at Gal
latin, January 8, 1873, Ella Marie Stark (born at Hiram, Ohio, Sep
tember 17, 1853; died at Horton, Kansas, April 1, 1889), daughter of
J.Carroll and Emily M. (Burdick) (born 1831; married 1852; died
September 9, 1885) Stark.
1. Edna Marie9 Wirt, born at Allenville, Missouri, November 12,1873.
2. Richard Carroll9 Wirt, born at Gallatin, Missouri, October 22,
1875; died September 16, 1876.
3. Frederick Cravens9 Wirt, born at Gallatin, August 15, 1878.
4. Edith Elizabeth9 Wirt, born at Gallatin, July 7, 1881.
5. William Edward9 Wirt, born at Gallatin, August 5, 1883.
6. Robert Leroy9 Wirt, born at Gallatin, March 28, 1886.
3. Samuel Andrew Ringo5 Wirt, born at Gallatin, June 15, 1862;
drowned by accident in Grand river, August 7, 1875 ; one of the
"dearest and brightest" of boys.

•John Cravens had two brothers, Robert and James, who removed to Indiana when quite young
men . Several of their descendants have been prominent in the public affairs of that State.
•(¦Joseph Cravens had three brothers and several sisters. Robert and James removed to Tennessee
where they left families. William became a Methodist preacher and removed to Indiana, while it
was a territory.

90 ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE.
2. Susan Caroline* Cravens, born at Harrisonburg, Virginia, No vember 15,
1824 ; living at Gallatin, Missouri, 1891 ; married in Daviess county, Mis
souri, September 19, 1854, John A. Leopard (born in Morgan county,
West Virginia, December 24, 1828), son of Jacob (born in Virginia, and
Delilah (Dowdan) (born in County Donegal, Ireland) Leopard.
1. Jacob Oscar5 Leopard, born at Gallatin, Missouri, August 10, 1855;
grocer at Springfield, Missouri, 1890; married at Springfield, April
17, 1877, Belle Buckner.
1. Mattie Cravens" Leopard, born at Gallatin, November 23, 1878.
2. Augusta Eunice" Leopard, born at Bolivar, Missouri, September
15, 1880.
3. Lulu" Leopard, born at Bolivar, January 29, 1882.
4. Ethel Frankie" Leopard, bora at Bolivar, January, 1888.
Charles William5 Leopard, born August 29, 1857 ; farmer near Gal
latin, 1890; unmarried.
3. Frank Biddle5 Leopard, born March 4, 1859 ; grocer at Kansas City,
Missouri, 1890 ; married there, November 14, 1888, Mary Meredith.
4. John Chapline5 Leopard, born July 20,1861; lawyer at Pattonsburg,
Missouri, 1890; unmarried.
5. Holmes Dowdan5 Leopard, born April 20,1863; farmer near Gallatin,
1890; unmarried.
3. Robert Oscar* Cravens, born near Harrisonburg, Virginia, January 13,
1827; living at Sacramento, California, 1891. He went across the plains from
Missouri in 1850, and located at Georgetown, Eldorado county, Cali-
ifornia ; was a placer miner two years ; then removed to Yankee Jim's
and engaged in merchandising thirteen years. In 1853 he was elected
justice of the peace at Yankee Jim's and was re-elected again and again.
In 1865 he went into the law office of General J. Hamilton, and soon
became a successful practitioner. He removed to Sacramento in 1871,
was elected state librarian and held the position twelve years. During
President Cleveland's administration he served as deputy United States
internal revenue collector. In November, 1890, he was elected police
judge in Sacramento on the Citizens' ticket.
Judge Cravens is a vestryman in the Protestant Episcopal church.
He is a man of unimpeachable character, an educated and refined gen
tleman, a well read lawyer and a good judge of law. Judge Cravens
married at Auburn, California,, March 4, 1855, Mary Jane Robinson (born
in Wayne county, New York, 1841), only daughter of Marion Minor
(born in New York, 1820; died 1863) and Almira (Van De Car) (born in
New York, 1820; married 1840) Robinson.*
1. Fanny Elizabeth5 Cravens, born at Sacramento, California, Sep
tember 23, 1870 ; died there July 23, 1892, in the certain hope of a sure
faith.
2. Mary Ruhama5 Cravens, born at Sacramento, July 19, 1880. She is
said to resemble strongly the portrait of her great-great-grand
mother, Sarah Fouace Nourse.
4. Joseph Chapline* Cravens, born at Franklin, Virginia, September 17,
1829 ; killed by lightning in Daviess county, Missouri, May 28, 1848.

•Mr. Robinson removed to California in I860. He was English by descent ; his wife's ancestors
came from Holland to New York while it was a Dutch province. In 1866 Mrs. Robinson married

Joseph Middleton

ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE. 91
5. Sarah Amanda* Cravens, born at Franklin, August 29, 1831 ; living at
Jameson, Missouri, 1891 ; married, first, February 3, 1843, James Henry
Darnall, farmer (born in Woodford county, Kentucky, February 13,
1823; died  ); married, second, at Gallatin, Missouri, October 12,1858,
William Douglas McDonald, farmer, (born in Ross county, 0., August 6,
1826), son of William (born in Virginia; died in Ohio, 1832) and Mary
Willis (born in Maryland, died in Ohio, December, 1880) McDonald.
1. Mary Ella5 Darnall, born at Gallatin, Missouri, October 24, 1850;
living at San Francisco, California, 1890; married at Gallatin, Sep
tember 26, 1871, John Nelson Howe, printer (born at Kirksville,
Missouri, February 6, 1847), son of Thompson Boyd and Zipporah
Jane (Thatcher) (born in Kentucky, February 19, 1823; married
September 14, 1842) Howe.
1. Russell Boyd" Howe, born at Macon City, Missouri, November 1,
1872.
2. Robert Cravens" Howe, born at Sacramento, California, July 16,
1875.
3. Frederick Nelsono Howe, born May 19, 1881.
2. John Cravens5 McDonald, farmer, born in Daviess county, Missouri,
August 24, 1859.
3. Effie5 McDonald, born in Daviess county, April 7, 1861; died October
15, 1862.
4. William Douglas5 McDonald, born December 25, 1862; dealer in
horses at Jamesport, Missouri, 1890; married in Grundy county,
Missouri, August 29, 1888, Hattie Janet Etter (born in Will county,
Illinois, March 9, 1866), daughter of Jacob (born in Pennsylvania,
December 21, 1834) and Delpha Jane (Ferguson) (born in Illinois,
September 25. 1845) Etter.
1 . Effie Delpha9 McDonald, born in Daviess county, October 9, 1889.
5. Amanda5 McDonald, born in Daviess county, January 1, 1864.
6. Ruhama5 McDonald, born in Daviess county, October 6, 1866.
7. Elizabeth5 McDonald, born in Daviess county, February 26, 1868.
8. Julia5 McDonald, born in Daviess county, March 7, 1871.
6. William James* Cravens, born at Franklin, Virginia, November 19,
1833; died at Springfield, Missouri, August 10, 1883; married at Gallatin,
1855, Mary Rebecca Bryan.
1. Mary Ruhama5 Cravens, married J. H. Hyatt.
7. John Marshall* Cravens, born in Virginia, December 14, 1835; died at
Gallatin, Missouri, April 23, 1876; married there August 23, 1870, Georgia
Lowe, daughter of Dr. Alexander (born in Tennessee, 1803) and Susan
Boyd (born in Tennessee, 1815) Lowe. In 1879, Mrs. Cravens married
James Leeper, of Chilicothe, Ohio.
8. Jeremiah Chapline* Cravens, born in Saline county, Missouri, February
18, 1838; lawyer at Springfield, Missouri, 1891; graduated from the Uni
versity of Missouri, July 4, 1860, taking the degree of A. B., afterward
that of A. M. In 1861, he entered the Southern army as a private; he
served on the staff of General Slack, was aide-de-camp to General
Greene, and in October, 1864, was made lieutenant-colonel, which rank
he held till the close of the war. He fought in numerous battles, both
in the South and in Missouri; among them were Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn-
Tavern, Arkansas, and the bloody battle of "Lone Jack," Jackson
county, Missouri.

92 ELIZABETH (NOURSE) CHAPLINE.
Colonel Cravens began the study of law at Batesville, Arkansas, Sep
tember, 1865, and has practiced successfully at Springfield, Missouri, since
September, 1868. He married, August 11, 1864, Annie DeslogeSmith (born
in Laurence county, Arkansas, September 16, 1843), daughter of Robert
(born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, May, 1800) and Susan Horde
(Mcllvaine) (born at Potosi, Missouri, August, 1818) Smith.*
1. Susan5 Cravens, born at Batesville, Arkansas, March 13, 1866 ; living
at Springfield, Missouri, 1891; married there October 11, 1887, Will
iam Edwin Bowden, a lawyer of fine promise (born in Henry county,
Tennessee, September 22, 1851; died at Thomasville, Georgia, Decem
ber 7, 1889). No children.
2. Mary Belle5 Cravens, born at Batesville, May 13, 1867; living at
Springfield, Missouri, 1891; married there October 11, 1888, Henry
Clay Crow, lawyer, born in Pike county, Missouri, April 17, 1860.
1. Robert Henry" Crow, born at Springfield, July 7, 1889.
3. Elizabeth AVirt5 Cravens, born at Springfield, Missouri, August
29, 1870.
4. Irene Lee5 Cravens, born at Springfield, August 2, 1872.
5. Robert Oscar5 Cravens, born at Springfield, February 4, 1874.
6. Jeremiah Desloge5 Cravens, born at Springfield, January 19, 1876.
7. Zoe Louise5 Cravens, born at Springfield, June 15, 1879.
9. Edgar Holmes* Cravens, born in Daviess county, Missouri, September
13, 1840; farmer, near Gallatin, Missouri, 1891; married there in 1873,
Love Keene, of Kentucky.
1. Effie5 Cravens.
2. John Marshall5 Cravens.
3. Roberta5 Cravens.
4. Corinne5 Cravens.
5. Dean Douglas5 Cravens.
10. Oscar Fitzallen* Cravens, born in Daviess county, Missouri, March 19,
1843 ; died at Gallatin, Missouri, January 26, 1855.

?Robert Smith was a planter, and was a member of the first Constitutional convention of Ar
kansas in 1887. Colonel Cravens Is said to be very much like his grandmother Chapline.

CHAPTER IX.

SUSANNA (NOURSE) RIDDLE AND HER
DESCENDANTS.

62. Susanna2 Nourse (James1) was born in London, England,
February 9, 1766 ; died in Ralls county, Missouri, 1848 ; married
March 26, 1793, William Riddle, merchant and teacher (born August
20, 1759 ; died at Martinsburg, Virginia, now West Virginia, Sep
tember 28, 1821) , son of James Riddle, who was born in parish Rea,
County Donegal, Ireland, and removed to Scotland after the siege of
Derry. Mrs. Riddle lived in Martinsburg from the date of her
marriage until the death of her husband.
Mrs . Riddle united with the Scotch Presbyterian Church on Spruce
street, above Third, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when her brother,
Michael Nourse, joined. She was called a "queen" among women ;
a "perfect" woman ; one whom the last chapter of Proverbs, begin
ning at the tenth verse, would accurately describe ; one combining a
strong Christian faith and trust with the greatest fortitude and
simplicity. She was always cheerful, always interested in the joy
or sorrow of loved ones, and ever ready to accommodate herself to
circumstances. Although she lived to be very old, she was never
childish or fretful. On account of deafness, she did not attend
church for a number of years. The last sermon she ever heard, her
son David preached, while on a visit to her at her home the summer
before her death. He stood by her side, and his text was taken from
the eighth chapter of Romans .
William Riddle, to his Aunt Elizabeth Chapline. "Wheeling, Va., Sept. 20, 1837.
" When James left [for Missouri in 1837] mother and Sister Catharine went to
Pittsburg, and are now living there with Brother David."
Rev. D. H. Riddle, D. D„ to his Aunt Elizabeth Chapline:

94 SUSANNA (NOURSE) RIDDLE.
"Pittsburg, December 7, 1839.
They [his brothers John and James] live about half a mile apart, in Mario n
county, back from the Mississippi river about fifteen miles, about equally dis
tant from Hannibal and Marion City, Missouri. Mother has heretofore been
living with James [since 1838], but she and Catharine and William have now a
house built in the same yard with John's and will hereafter live together  In
all the letters I receive, I hear that mother is well and quite contented."
1. Sallie Force3 Riddle, born at Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia),
February 2, 1794; died March 14, 1795.
2. James Nourse8 Riddle, born at Martinsburg, January 25, 1796; died there
May 10, 1863; married at AVheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), February
27, 1834, Eloise Nadenbousch (born at Martinsburg, October, 1803; died there,
January 15, 1856), daughter of Philip F. and Agnes ('Mendenhall) Naden
bousch. It is said that they were married at the home of a Chapline who
was related to them both. James Riddle removed to Marion county,
Missouri, in 1837, and engaged in farming, remaining there until 1846, when
he returned to Martinsburg, Virginia, where he was a hardware merchant
until his death.
1. Susan Nourse* Riddle, born at Wheeling, Virginia, June 1, 1835
died at Oak View, near Martinsburg, West Virginia, July 26, 1894.
2. Anne Elizabeth* Riddle, born in Marion county, Missouri, July 5, 1838
living near Martinsburg, West Virginia, 1897 ; married there September
15, 1863, Cornelius Stribling (born at Norfolk, Virginia, March 27, 1831
died at Baltimore, Maryland, December 15, 1875 >, eldest son of Cornelius
Kincheloe and Helen (Payne) Stribling. Mr. Stribling was an earnest
member of the Presbyterian church. He spent the most of his life in the
mercantile business ; made two sea voyages, one on the "Ohio" during
the Mexican war and was naval storekeeper whilst his father was com
mandant of the navy yard at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1850-53.
1. Charles Riddle5 Stribling, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
August 23, 1864; married November 7, 1889, Jane Baxter Armstrong
(born at Capon Springs, West Virginia), daughter of Colonel Ed
ward McCarty Armstrong (born in Hampshire county, Virginia,
October 18, 1816; died at Salem, Virginia, April 1, 1890) and Louisa
Tapscot White (daughter of Judge White of Virginia) (born at
Romney, West Virginia, July 7, 1836; married October 23, 1856; died
August 20, 1887) Armstrong. Mr. Stribling graduated from Hamp
den Sidney College, in 1883 ; from Union Theological Seminary, in
1889; was pastor of Elk Garden Church in 1890, of Presbyterian
church at Berryville, Virginia, 1891, and missionary to five other
points in Mineral county, Virginia.
2. John Maxwell5 Stribling, born September 14, 1866 ; died August 1,
1867.
3. James Maxwell5 Stribling, born May 15, 1868.
4. Mary Calvert5 Stribling, born September 6, 1870.
5. Susan Brown5 Stribling, born November 27, 1872. Miss Stribling is
an accomplished Latin and French scholar and excels in drawing.
6. Philip Nadenbousch5 Stribling, born November 23, 1874; died De
cember 13, 1874.
3. Charles David* Riddle, born in Marion county, Missouri, died at Jeffer
son College, Pennsylvania, November 16, 1857, in his nineteenth year.

SUSANNA (NOURSE) RIDDLE. 95
He was a remarkably promising youth ; was a senior and had the min
istry in view.
4. Mary Brown* Riddle, born in Marion county, Missouri, died at Knox
ville, Tennessee, January 3, 1871; married March 29, 1870, Dr. T. H.
Hunter.1. James Riddle5 Hunter, died June 16, 1871.
5. Agnes Jane* Riddle, bora in Marion county, Missouri ; married Novem
ber 24, 1881, Rev. James Andrew Armstrong (died at Salem, Virginia,
July 14, 1883, son of Colonel Edward McCarty Armstrong), pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
1. James Andrew5 Armstrong, Jr., born October 20, 1883.
6. John Nourse* Riddle, born in Marion county, Missouri, died near New
Market, Virginia, September 24, 1864. He was in "Stonewall" Brigade,
Second Virginia Infantry, Confederate army.
3. Joseph8 Riddle, born at Martinsburg, Virginia, March 18, 1798; died in
infancy.
4. William Nourse3 Riddle, born at Martinsburg, April 10, 1800 ; died there,
May 20, 1886 ; married April, 1849, Elizabeth Brooks Ragan (died December
28, 1856), of Hagerstown, Maryland. No children.
September 20, 1837, AVilliam Riddle wrote to his Aunt Elizabeth Chapline
from Wheeling, Virginia, as follows :
" Since you were here, our family have dispersed very much. . . .1 am now
alone, living here a confirmed old bachelor, but think it quite probable I
will emigrate to Missouri also."
Mr. Riddle went to Missouri in 1839, and expected to engage in raising
fruit trees. He probably returned to Martinsburg with James in 1846, for
he was his partner there in the hardware business. After the death of his
wife, he made his home with his niece, Mrs. Stribling.
5. John Nourse8 Riddle born at Martinsburg, Virginia, January 24, 1803; died
near West Ely, Missouri, April 14, 1845; married at Martinsburg, Vir
ginia, March 6, 1828 ; Susan Tabb (born at Martinsburg, September 10, 1802 ;
died near AVest Ely, Missouri. August 14, 1875>, daughter of William and
Martha Tabb* Mr. Riddle was a woolen manufacturer from 1828 till 1835,
when he removed to Marion county, Missouri, where he engaged in farming.
He helped to build a church at West Ely, in which he was ordained an elder.
1. Martha Susan* Riddle, born at Martinsburg, A'irginia, December 15,
1828 ; living near Spalding, Missouri, 1895 ; married near West Ely, Mis
souri, April 18. 1854, Samuel McGinley Elliott, farmer (born atFannetts-
burg, Pennsylvania, March 29. 1825), son of Samuel (born in Chester
county, Pennsylvania) and Lilias Skinner i.born in Franklin county,
Pennsylvania) Elliott. No children.
2. AVilliam Tabb* Riddle, born in Pennsylvania, December 20, 1830, farmer,
near Vernon, Texas, 1895; married first in Monroe county, Missouri,
February 9, 1852, Sarah Emerine Wilkerson (born there July, 1836 ; died
at Florida, Missouri, June 1872) daughter of Mason (born in Madison
county, Kentucky) and Amelia Donaldson (born in Kentucky) Wilker
son ; married second at Hannibal, Missouri, October, 1873, Elizabeth
Stone. Mr. Riddle is an elder in the Presbyterian church.
*Martha (Mc Alister) Klrkpatrick came to this country a young bride, and was widowed at the age
of fifteen . She married William Tabb, whilst he was on a visit to his mother in Ma rtinsburg ; he
never returned to Kentucky to claim a section of land he owned near Lexington.

96 SUSANNA (NOURSE) RIDDLE.
1. Alice Holmes5 Riddle, born in Monroe county, Missouri, December
5, 1853; died there in 1877; married in Ralls county, October, 1876, J.
R. Sumner.
2. Mary Virginia5 Riddle, born in Monroe county, Missouri, October 7,
1856 ; living near Vernon, Texas, 1890 ; married at Rensselaer, Mis
souri, January 1, 1880, J. R. Sumner, born in Audrain county,
Missouri, February 4, 1853.
1. Williams Sumner, born June, 1881.
2. Addie6 Sumner, born April, 1885.
3. Frances6 Sumner, born July, 1887.
4. Susie6 Sumner, born February, 1889.
5. Ernest Riddle6 Sumner, born near Vernon, Texas, 1890.
3. Mason Wilkerson5 Riddle, born at Florida, Missouri, August, 1859;
living near Vernon, Texas, 1895; married in Grayson county, Texas,
September, 1886, Kate Douglass.
1. Mattie Tee6 Riddle, born near Vernon, 1887.
2. Douglas6 Riddle, born near Vernon, September, 1889.
4. Susan Amelia5 Riddle, born in Monroe county, Missouri, June 25,
1864 ; died at Rensselaer, August 6, 1882.
5. Martha5 Riddle, born at Florida, Missouri, May 20, 1866; living near
Vernon, Texas, 1891 ; married October, 1887, J. R. Wood.
1. Jennie8 AVood, born near Vernon, Texas.
6. Anne5 Riddle, born in Monroe county, Missouri, October 6, 1868; died
November 19, 1869.
7. John Travis5 Riddle, born in Monroe county, July 20, 1871; died July
24, 1872.
3. Catharine Burton* Riddle, Dorn at Martinsburg, Virginia, December 9,
1832; living, unmarried, near Vernon, Texas, 1895. Catharine and Eliz
abeth Riddle are artists, as is shown in the beautiful and tasteful
arrangement of their plants and flowers.
4. Joseph Nourse* Riddle, born at Martinsburg, November 23, 1834;
died March 14, 1859.
5. Mary Matthas* Riddle, born near West Ely, Missouri, April 3,1837;
died near Rensselaer, Missouri, December 4, 1891 ; married there,
October 25, 1874, John Peter Stone, carpenter and builder (born in Fau
quier county, Virginia, January 28, 1826), son of Morgan and Isabella
(Kemper) Stone, both of Virginia.
1. Mary Tabb5 Stone, born at Quincy, Illinois, August 15, 1876.
2. Alice Riddle5 Stone, born at Rensselaer, Missouri, December 17,
1878.
6. Elizabeth Frances* Riddle, born near West Ely, Missouri, March
18, 1839; living, unmarried, near Vernon, Texas, 1895.
7. Lavinia Anderson* Riddle, born near West Ely, Missouri, February
19, 1841 ; living, unmarried, near Vernon, Texas, 1895. She is one of
the ever busy workers in church and school and home.
8. David Hoge* Riddle, born near West Ely, Missouri, December 18, 1843;
living 1891 ; married November 28, 1873, Alice Virginia Gentry.
1. Lena Esther5 Riddle, born November 1, 1876.
2. Susan Maud5 Riddle, born August 13, 1883.
6. David Hunter8 Riddle, born at Martinsburg, Virginia, April 14, 1805; died at
Falls Church, Virginia, July 16, 1888. Dr. Riddle graduated at Jefferson
College in 1823 ; studied theology at Princeton Seminary ; was pastor at

Rev. MATTHEW BROWN RIDDLE, D. D.

SUSANNA (NOURSE) RIDDLE. 97
Winchester, Virginia, 1828-1833; of Third Presbyterian church, Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, 1833-1857. From 1857-1862, pastor First Reformed Dutch
church, Jersey City, New Jersey. From 1862-1865, president of Jefferson
College; professor at Washington and Jefferson College 1865-1868. Pastor
at Martinsburg, West Virginia, 1868-1879. Moderator of the General Assem
bly in 1850.
Dr. Riddle was an attractive preacher, a faithful and greatly beloved pas
tor, a tender and affectionate parent, a diligent student. Wrote but little,
except addresses and sermons, &c, published in pampplet form. His ministry
was greatly blessed. A memorial stone has been placed in the Third Pres
byterian church of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, by Mrs. William Thaw, whose
husband was a lifelong friend of Dr. Riddle. It was completed May 19, 1894,
and bears this inscription: "Rev. David H. Riddle, D. D. LL. D., the first
pastor of this church. 1834-1857."
Rev. Dr. Riddle married at Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, November, 1828,
Elizabeth Blaine Brown (born at Washington, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1806;
died at Jersey City, New Jersey, December 3, 1858), eldest daughter of Rev.
Dr. Mathew and Mary (Blaine) Brown.*
1. Mary Brown* Riddle, born at Winchester, Virginia ; died there 1832.
2. William Carroll* Riddle, born at Winchester, February 17, 1832; died
at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1837.
3. Susan Nourse* Riddle, born at Pittsburg, November 1, 1834.
4. Matthew Brown* Riddle, born at Pittsburg, August 17, 1836; living at
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1897 ; married at Heidelburg, Germany, Aug
ust 21, 1862, Anna M. Walther (born there September 11, 1845), daughter
of Joseph (born at Heidelburg) and Elise Gumbel (born at Mannheim,
Germany) Walther.
" Dr. Riddle could read Latin at the age of ten and Greek at eleven.
He graduated from Jefferson College, August, 1852, with second honor,
though not quite sixteen years old. He studied at the AVestern Theo
logical Seminary, 1854-1856, but was graduated from New Brunswick in
1859, and was licensed to preach by the Bergen Reformed Dutch church.
From 1862 to 1869, he was pastor successively of the Dutch Reformed
churches of Hoboken and Newark, New Jersey. In both places his labor
was attended with abundant success.
"As a preacher, Dr. Riddle has many qualities that contribute to
his prominence, but his power lies in exposition, and God's word as
expounded by him, has in it something vital for the living, thinking man
of the present. He shows not only that the truth is to be practiced but
how it may be practiced. His writings are mainly exegetical treatises
on the Scriptures, and are recognized as highly authoritative in the
world of Biblical scholarship. From 1871 to 1887, he was professor of
New Testament Exegesis in Hartford Theological Seminary. Here the
great bulk of his literary work was produced, and he had the honor of
being appointed a member of the New Testament Revision Company

*Rev. Matthew Brown, D. D. L L. D , was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and afterwards lived
in Northumberland, western Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dicfcerson College, Pennsylvania,
in 1794 or 1795; was licensed to preach October 3, 1799; was pastor at Mifflin and Lost Creek, Pennsyl
vania till 1805; then pastor at Washington, Pennsylvania, 1805-1822; president of Washington College,
1806-1817; president of Jeffei son College, 1822-1815. He was a man of immense power as teacher and
preacher; not a great scholar, but a master of men; impulsive, irrascible, dyspeptic, yet greatly be
loved, and perhaps the greatest force in western Pennsylvania, for more than twenty-five years.

98 SUSANNA (NOURSE) RIDDLE.
formed in 1871. He translated and edited the Epistles to the Romans,
Galatians, Ephesians and Colossians, for the American edition of
"Lang's Commentary" (published 1869 and 1886). He contributed to
Rev. Dr. Schaff 's " Popular Illustrated Commentary on the New Testa
ment," published in New York and Edinburg, in 1878; and also to his
"International Revision Commentary." In 1883-1884, he revised and
edited Robinson's " Harmony" both in Greek and English; and edited
parts of Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe's edition of the "Anti-Nicene
Fathers" contributing the "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles" and the
"Second Clement." He also made valuable contributions to other
works of note, and has been, both over his own name, and anonym
ously, a constant writer for the periodical press. In 1887, he became
professor of New Testament Exegesis in the Western Theological Semi
nary of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1890, he was appointed by the
Presbyterian General Assembly on the Bible Revision Committee.
" While the services of Dr. Riddle as a preacher are in such demand
that he is engaged every Sabbath; and while the books he has written
and edited would alone make a valuable library, yet the fact must be
emphasized, that both of these are only incidents in his life. His true
life work is teaching. It is in the Seminary class room that his great
learning, genial humor, and rare eloquence shine in their true splendor."*
1. Eldest Child5-, died July 4, 1863.
2. Mary Moorehead5 Riddle, born at Newark, New Jersey, January
25,1867; married at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 25, 1891, Rev.
Herman Page, an Episcopal clergyman of Boston, Massachusetts ;
living at Falls River, Mass, 1895.
1. Herman Riddle" Page, born at Coeur De Alene, Idaho, May 3, 1892.
3. Walther5 Riddle, born at Hartford, Connecticut, October 6, 1872 ;
Doctor of Philosophy at University of Hiedelburg, Germany, Novem
ber 28, 1894.
4. Sue5 Riddle, born at Hartford, Connecticut, March 14, 1874.
5. Catharine Burton* Riddle, born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, living at
Bound Brook, New Jersey, 1889; married at Jersey City, New Jersey,
1863, Guisbert Bogart Vroom (died 1864), a descendant of the first white
child born on Manhattan Island.
1. Elizabeth Brown5 Vroom, born November 9, 1864; living at Bound
Brook, New Jersey, 1889; married at Falls Church, Virginia, 1884,
William Wells Jordan, Congregational minister, born in Iowa, edu
cated at Marietta, Ohio; studied theology at Yale; preached first at
Falls Church, afterward at Bound Brook.
1. Guisbert Vroom9 Jordan, born at Falls Church, Virginia.
6. Alexander Brown* Riddle, born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, December
31, 1840; died March 2, 1841.
7. Elizabeth Brown* Riddle, born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, September
8, 1843; living at St. Louis, Missouri, 1895; married at Cannousburg,
Pennsylvania, April 25, 1867, Rev. Mead C. Williams of the Presbyterian
church. He is now (1896) editor of the Mid Continent, St. Louis, Mis
souri.
1. David Riddle5 Williams.
2. Jesse L.B Williams.
?Washington and Jefferson College "Pandora" 1891.

SUSANNA (NOURSE) RIDDLE. 99
3. TyrrelF Williams.
4. Susan C.5 Williams.
5. Burton5 Williams.
8. David Hoge* Riddle, born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1847;
living at Falls Church, Virginia, 1890. "Mr. Riddle was installed pastor
of Lewinsville church, Virginia, 1871. In February, 1873, the members
of that church who resided in or near Falls Church were organized into
a church of that name, when Mr. Riddle withdrew from Lewinsville,
devoting his time to the new organization, and soon after to preaching
also at Ballston, where a branch of Falls Church was formed*."
9. Henry Alexander* Riddle, born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1850;
living at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 1890; married Martha Hunter,
of Martinsburg. Several children.
'. Catharine Burton3 Riddle, born at Martinsburg, Virginia, February 26,
1807 ; married in Missouri, 1846 or 1847, Richard Stone ; they removed to
Texas, where she died early in the summer of 1865, very soon after the death
of her husband. No children.
?History of Washington Presbytery, by Rev. J. E. Nourse.

CHAPTER X.

GABRIEL NOURSE AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

63. Gabriel2 Nourse (James1) was born near Hampton, Eliza
beth City county, Virginia, January 24, 1770 ; died at Sharpsburg,
Maryland, April 1839 He was a colporteur, a book agent and, to a
limited extent, a book publisher, and also author of several religious
and political tracts. He was one of the first to sell books by sub
scription. One of his grandsons remembers him as round and jolly.
On one occasion Mr. Nourse had borrowed a saddle (stuffed with
straw) to ride to camp meeting. "While he was listening to the
preacher, some animal discovered the straw to the injury of the
saddle. He reported to the owner in these words :
"Whilst I was there the Gospel hearing,
For nothing else about me caring ;
Some man or beast, for want of meat,
Came and ate your saddle seat."
Mr. Nourse was a Baptist preacher of the old school ; a man of
great earnestness and deep piety. If his daughters spent much
time on their toilet, when preparing for church, he would ask : "Have
you spent as much time preparing your souls for the worship of God,
as you have in adorning your persons 1" He had no fixed congrega
tion, but often went on long preaching expeditions, crossing the
mountains and frequently camping out. He was sometimes accom
panied by his youngest son, Michael, who well remembered that his
father never started in the morning without prayer, sometimes
kneeling on the snow, with his boy by his side.
Mr. Nourse married at Winchester, Virginia, about 1790, Ann
Double (died about 1853). He removed with his family to Frankfort,
Kentucky, in 1798 or 1799, but returned to Sharpsburg, Maryland, in
1805 or 1806, and was postmaster there in 1810. The family record

JOSEPH GABRIEL NOURSE.
First son of Charles.
Born June 25, 1826.
Died March 28, 1P63.

CHARLES NOURSE.
Son of Gabriel, son of James.
Born April 15, 1801,
Died January 3, 1880.

SUSAN (NOURSEj VIMONT.
Daughter of Charles.
Born August g, 1833.
Died February 8, 1891.

CHARLES CLINTON NOURSE.
DES MOINES, IOWA.
Third son of Char tes.
Born April r, 1829.

GABRIEL NOURSE. 101
was torn from the Bible during the Civil War and lost or destroyed,
and on that account some dates are either missing or inacurate.
1. James8 Nourse, died  .
2. William8 Nourse, died  .
3. Margaret8 Nourse, died  .
4. Charles8 Nourse, born at Frankfort, Kentucky, April 15, 1801.
5. Ann8 Nourse, born at Frankfort, 1803.
6. John8 Nourse.
7. Joseph8 Nourse.
8. Rebecca3 Nourse, was fatally burned at the age of nine years.
9. Sarah8 Nourse, born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, August 20, 1811; died at
Washington, Washington county, Iowa, November 27, 1896. Miss Nourse
taught school for many years.
10. Michael8 Nourse, born at Sharpsburg, August, 1813.
64. Charles3 Nourse (Gabriel2 James1), born at Frankfort, Ken
tucky, April 15, 1801 ; died at Reynoldsburg, Ohio, January 3, 1880.
He was brought up at Winchester, Virginia ; was clerk in the
Treasury Department, "Washington, D. C, about two years, but
made teaching his profession until 1875, having taught in Sharps
burg, Frederick City, Burkitsville, Maryland ; Shepherdstown, Vir
ginia ; Lancaster, Rushville, Somersett, New Lexington, Marietta,
Ohio ; Keosauqua, Des Moines, Mitchellville, Carlisle, Iowa ; Millers-
burg, Winchester and Lexington, Kentucky.
Mr. Nourse married first at Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West
Virginia), June 10, 1825, Susan Cameron (born at Shepherdstown,
October 25, 1803 ; died there, October 10, 1835), daughter of Daniel
(born in Scotland, October, 1753) and Susan (Clinton) (born Feb
ruary 13, 1772 ; married at Shepherdstown, November 6, 1788 ; died
there July 20, 1855) Cameron ; married, second, at Lancaster, Ohio,
August 28, 1846, Hetty Jane Herron, born at Lancaster, September
23; 1814; died near Des Moines, Iowa, March 16, 1896.
1. Joseph Gabriel* Nourse, born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, June 25, 1826.
2. John Daniel* Nourse, born at Sharpsburg, November 30, 1827.
3. Charles Clinton4 Nourse, born at Sharpsburg, April 1, 1829.
4. Sarah* Nourse, died in infancy.
5. Susan Ann* Noukse, born at Frederick City, Maryland, August 9, 1833.
6. William Sumner* Nourse, born at Lancaster, Ohio, April 7, 1849.
7 Jambs H.* Nourse, twin of William, died July 3, 1849.
8 Mary Miller* Nourse, born at Millersburg, Kentucky, May 8, 1852.
9. James* Nourse, twin of Mary, died at Millersburg, May 28, 1852.
10. Charles Richie* Nourse, born at Somerset, Ohio, December 2, 1854.
65. Ann8 Nourse (Gabriel2 James1), born at Frankfort, Kentucky,
1803 " died at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, December 22, 1872 ; married at

102 Gabriel nourse.
Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1828, Joseph Austin (born in Maryland,
1798 ; died at Mt. Carroll, January 28, 1849), son of Joseph and
Mary Austin.
1. Mary* Austin, born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, May 29, 1829; living at Mt.
Carroll, Illinois, 1890; married there, November 27,1851, William Brotherton,
house and sign painter (born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, September
26, 1826), son of William and Eliza (Castel) Brotherton.
1. Ella5 Brotherton, born at Mt. Carroll, July 7, 1860; living there,
unmarried, 1890.
2. Ezra* Austin, grocer, born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, June 25, 1831 ; died at
Winfield, Kansas, February 6. 1887; married at Chambersburg, Pennsyl
vania, February 19, 1861, Anne E. Stouffer, born at Chambersburg, February
10, 1836.
1. Minnie K.5 Austin, born at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, December 4, 1862.
2. Frank Wilbur5 Austin, born at Morrison, Illinois, January 26, 1868;
hardware merchant, living, unmarried, at Winfield, Kansas, 1890.
3. Grace May5 Austin, born at Laurence, Kansas, April 26, 1874.
4. Anne Bertha5 Austin, born at Indianola, Iowa, December 9, 1876.
3. Ann* Austin, born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1833 ; living, unmarried, 1890.
4. Joseph* Austin, died in infancy.
5. Charles Doudle* Austin, born at Sharpsburg, July 28, 1837; living at Win-
field, Kansas, 1890; married October 23, 1862, Josephine Chase (born in
Seneca county, New York, October 4, 1846), daughter of Bengemen Kyler
and Clara (Mioore) Chase.
1. Clinton Bengemen5 Austin, born at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, February
21, 1864; living at Winfield, Kansas, unmarried, 1890.
2. Clara6 Austin, born at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, May 25, 1870.
6. Sarah Araminta* Austin, born at Sharpsburg, Maryland, April 29, 1839;
living near Washington, Washmgton county, Iowa, 1890; married February
2, 1865, John Logue, farmer, born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
1835. 1. Charles Austin5 Logue, born in Washington county, Iowa, May 1, 1866.
2. Maud Austin5 Logue, born in Washington county, Iowa, April 20, 1868 ;
living at Washington, Iowa, 1890; married there, April 20, 1887, Eugene
Schneider, grocer (born 1865), son of Eugene (born in France) and
Margaret (born in New York) Schneider.
1. Earle" Schneider, born at Washington, Iowa, March, 1888.
3. Frank6 Logue, born in Washington county, Iowa, March 10, 1870.
4. George6 Logue, born in Washington county, January 2, 1872.
5. Mary6 Logue, born in Washington county, January 19, 1874.
6. Lona6 Logue, born in Washington county, December 22, 1876.
7. Ida6 Logue, born in Washington county, May 1, 1878.
7. Susan* Austin, born at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, June 15, 1847; living there, 1890;
married there, May 6, 1869, Nelson Rinedollar (born at Louden, Pennsyl
vania, October 12, 1838), son of John and Nancy Rinedollar. He clerked in
a drug store sixteen years ; enlisted in Company I, 92d Illinois Volunteer In
fantry ; served as hospital steward ; upon his return home, studied medicine,
graduated from Chicago Medical College, 1869, and has been examining
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1. Flavius Austin5 Rinedollar, born at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, Septem
ber 16, 1870 ; druggist at Mt. Carroll and unmarried, 1890.
2. "Baby Boy"5 Rinedollar, born at Mt. Carroll, August 17, 1879; died
January 4, 1880.
66. John3 Nourse (Gabriel2, James1) was clerk in the Treasury De
partment at "Washington, D. C, for a number of years ; removed to
Frankfort, Kentucky, about 1856 ; it is said that he was a major in
the Military Institute, Farmdale, near Frankfort, and that he died
there. He married at Washington, D, C, about 1838, Araminta
Dickens or Dickson. No children. His widow married again.
67. Joseph3 Nourse (Gabriel2, James1) born  ; died in
Kentucky : according to one statement, in 1848 ; but there is a
gravestone in the old burying ground, on the farm of his uncle
William Nourse, in Mercer county, Kentucky, bearing this inscrip
tion : " Joseph G. Nourse ; died January 9, 1844 ; aged about 32."
The widow of William Nourse was then living there, and he was
probably visiting his aunt at the time of his death. Reckoning from
other dates, he has about thirty-seven. Mr. Nourse was a clerk in
the Treasury Department, Washington, D. C, in 1821 and in 1825.
He married Joana Lamona of Pennsylvania.
1. Mary Washington* Nourse, born at Winchester, Virginia, September 25, 1833.
2. Lucretia Elizabeth* Nourse, born in Centreville, Pennsylvania, Decem
ber 25, 1834.
3. Leroy* Nourse. It is not known what became of him; it is said that he
was drowned in childhood.
68. Michael3 Nourse (Gabriel,2 James1), born at Sharpsburg,
Maryland, August, 1813; died in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky,
September 24, 1886 ; farmer and teacher ; married at Washington,
D.C., November 26,1835, Sarah Crozier Gibson (died in Ohio
county, Kentucky, August 12, 1891) . Her father, Joseph Gibson
(born in "Wilmington, Delaware), was a colonel in the war of 1812;
he was a man of great influence, and was much beloved because of
his pious and benevolent spirit. He was at one time possessed of
considerable wealth. His wife was Margaret Armstrong, of "Wil
mington, Delaware ; they removed to "Washington about 1812.
1. Joseph Gibson* Nourse, born November 26, 1836; died in infancy.
2. Sarah Helen* Nourse, born at St. Louis, Mo., May 11,1838; died in
Logan county, Kentucky, in infancy or childhood.
3. Margaret Ann* Nourse, born at Buena Vista Springs, Logan county,
Kentucky, July 21, 1841.
4, Mary Rebecca Cramer* Nourse, born in Logan county, September 3,
J843.

104 GABRIEL NOURSE.
5. Gabriel Augusta* Nourse, born in Logan county, April, 1846.
6. Henrietta Helen* Nourse, born in Logan county, September, 1848.
69. Joseph Gabriel4 Nourse (Charles,3 Gabriel,2 James1), born at
Sharpsburg, Maryland, June 25, 1826 ; died at Cincinnati, Ohio,
March 28, 1863 ; buried at Rushville. Ohio. Mr. Nourse was a mer
chant ; he married at Clearport, Ohio, April 4, 1850, Achsah Sophronia
Abbott (born at Rock Mill, Ohio, February 3, 1827 ; living at Des
Moines, Iowa, 1892), daughter of Oren and Rosana (Hay) Abbott.
1. Eugenia Susan5 Nourse, born at New Salem, Ohio, April 29, 1851.
2. Charles Oren6 Nourse, born at Rushville, Ohio, February 12, 1853.
3. Clinton Lafayette6 Nourse, born at Rushville, July 5, 1855.
4. Salem Abbott5 Nourse, born at Rushville, February 9, 1858.
70. John Daniel* Nourse (Charles,3 Gabriel,2 James1), born at
Sharpsburg, Maryland, November 30, 1827 ; died at Lancaster, Ohio,
February 27, 1897. He received the degree of M. D. at Cleveland,
Ohio, February 26, 1851 ; also graduated with high honor in 1863 at
Jefferson College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a surgeon
as well as a physician, and practiced at Lancaster, Ohio. He was a
prominent and influential member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, of the I. 0. O. F. and other organizations. Dr. Nourse
married, first, at New Salem, Ohio, May 1, 1851, Catharine Minerva
Berry (born at New Salem, December 15, 1821 ; died at Lancaster,
Ohio, January 21, 1893), daughter of Edward (died June, 1849)
and Catharine (Eakle) (married about 1803 ; died April 19,
1852) Berry. Dr. Nourse married, second, at Lancaster, Ohio, Sep
tember 19, 1895, Emma Guseman.
1. Charles Edward5 Nourse, born at Baltimore, Ohio, March 17, 1854; died
March 19, 1854.
2. William Vimont5 Nourse, born at Baltimore, Ohio, June 5, 1855 ; died
. August 12, 1856.
3. Darlington Berry6 Nourse, born at Baltimore, Ohio, February 11,1858.
4. John Homer5 Nourse, born at Reynoldsburg, Ohio, April 19, 1865.
71. Charles Clinton4 Nourse (Charles3, Gabriel2, James1), born
at Sharpsburg, Maryland, April 1, 1829 ; living at Des Moines, Iowa,
1897 ; received his education entirely from his father, supplemented
by his own private studies ; removed with his father to Lancaster,
Ohio, in 1841 ; to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1844 ; was assistant
teacher in the Lexington city school, from 1845 to 1848, and gradu
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1850. Removing to Keo3anqua, Iowa, in 1851, Mr. Nourse com
menced the practice of law, and was admitted to practice in Supreme
Court of the State, June 1851. He was elected public prosecutor of
Van Buren county, August 1852 ; clerk of the House of Representa
tives of Iowa, December 1854 ; and secretary of the Senate, in 1856.
He removed to Des Moines, Iowa, March, 1858 ; was elected attorney
general of that State in 1860; re-elected in 1862. In 1865, he was
appointed judge of the District Court but resigned the office the
same year. He was admitted to practice iu the Supreme Court of the
United States, in 1875 .
The Governor of Iowa appointed Judge Nourse to represent the
State at the Centennial Exposition, at Philadelphia, 1876, and to
deliver the State address. He also delivered the address to the
students of Iowa Agricultural College at Ames, Centennial Day,
April 30, 1889 ; which was " alike worthy of the author, the audience
and the occasion."
Judge Nourse has for the past twenty-five years avoided political
life, finding it unprofitable, and has practiced his profession contin
uously at Des Moines; has also paid some attention to farming, and
the raising of pure bred short-horn cattle. In the prohibition move
ment he was a leader, and a sentence from one of his speeches was
used as a campaign motto : " A school house on every hill top and
no saloon in the valley." Charles Clinton Nourse married, at Lex
ington, Kentucky, April 15, 1853, Rsbecca Ann McMeekin (born in
Fayette county, Ky., March 21, 1827), daughter of William (born
1801 ; died in Kentucky, 1879) and Sarah (Watson) McMeekin.
1. Clinton Charles5 Nourse, born at Des Moines, Iowa, February 18, 1863.
72. Susan Ann4 Nourse (Charles3, Gabriel2, James1), born at
Frederick City, Maryland, August 9, 1833 ; died at Tuscola, Illinois,
February 8 , 1891 ; married at Winchester, Kentucky, January 26,
1853, "William Henry Vimont, farmer (born at Millersburg, Kentucky,
December 4, 1827), son of Jefferson Thomas* (born at Millersburg,
October 7, 1801) and Elizabeth (Montelle) f (born December 14, 1801 ;
married at Lexington, Kentucky, September 18, 1823 ; died at Mil
lersburg, October 29, 1869) Vimont.
*Jefferson Thomas Vimont was a eon of Lewis Vimont, who was born on the island of Corsica.
+Mrs. Elizabeth Vimont's father, Waldemar Montelle, of Paris, France, left his native country
about the beginning of the Revolution of Louis XVI. He married Charlotte LeClerc, an only child,
and one of their daughters, Marie, married Thomas Hart Clay, eldest son of Hon. Henry Clay, of
Ashland , Kentucky.

106 GABRIEL NOURSE.
1. Catherine Sumner5 Vimont, born at Millersburg, Kentucky, December 4,
1854 ; living at Des Moines, Iowa, 1892, married there October 23, 1889, Louis
(or Lowell) Chamberlain, of the firm Chamberlain & Co., of Des Moines.
2. Rose Montelle6 Vimont, born at Millersburg, Kentucky, December 17, 1856 ;
teaching at Des Moines, Iowa, 1891.
3. Charles Jefferson6 Vimont, born at Millersburg, August 24, 1859 ; had a
cattle ranch near Ritchey, Missouri, 1890; married at Ritchey, August 9,
1887, Mary Inez Smith (born at Sarcoxie, Missouri, June 6, 1868), daughter
of Hiram Abiff and Mary Elizabeth (Burress) Smith.
1. Thomas Montelle" Vimont, born at Ritchey, Missouri, August 1, 1888.
2. Clara Inez" Vimont, born near Ritchey, Missouri, April 15, 1890.
3. Floy Louise" Vimont, born near Ritchey, Missouri, January 28, 1893.
4. Lewis Alexander" Vimont, born near Ritchey, Missouri, November 16,
1894.
4. Elizabeth5 Vimont, born at Milliersburg, Kentucky, February 10, 1862;
living at Terre Haute, Indiana, 1890; married at Tuscola, Illinois, June 9,
1885, Walton Albert Woody, clerk (born at Annapolis, Indiana, June 9,
. 1860), son of George and Mary (McClure) Woody.
1. Guy Vimont" Woody, born at Annapolis, Indiana, June 9, 1886.
2. Laura Marie" Woody, born at Terre Haute, Indiana., December 15, 1887.
3. Catharine Sumner" Woody, born at Terre Haute, August 25, 1889.
5. Susan Nourse5 Vimont, born at Millersburg, Kentucky, January 14, 1865 ;
living at Louisburg, Kansas, 1S95 ; married at Tuscola, Illinois, June 25,
18?5, Alexander Hamilton Baldwin, telegraph operator (born at Manchester,
Illinois, September 22, 1860), son of John Milton and Euphemia (Martian)
Baldwin.
1. Charles Frederick" Baldwin, born at Ludlow Falls, Ohio, September
30, 1886.
2. John Vimont" Baldwin, born at Louisburg, Kansas, December 10, 1892.
6. William5 Vimont, bom at Millersburg, Kentucky, November 15, 1867 ; car
penter; living, unmarried, at Tuscola, Illinois, 1891.
7. Louis5 Vimont, born at Tuscola, Illinois, August 4, 1870 ; clerk, unmarried, at
Tuscola, 1891.
8. Charlotte Clay5 Vimont, born at Tuscola, January 6, 1873: went to Chili
as a Methodist Episcopal missionary, June, 1894, to remain five years.
9. Laura Batterton5 Vimont, born at Tuscola, August 16, 1875; died there,
September 23, 1887.
10. Marie Louise6 Vimont, born at Tuscola, February 10, 1877 ; living at Des
Moines, Iowa, 1892.
73. "William Sumner* Nourse (Charles,3 Gabriel,2 James1) , born
at Lancaster, Ohio, April 7, 1849 ; merchant at Columbus, Ohio,
1890 ; married there, March 2, 1875, Mary Jane Compton (born in
Franklin county, Ohio, July 5, 1856), daughter of Thomas (born
April 2, 1813 ; died September 3, 1866) and Mary Jane (Grubbs)
(born at Rushville, Ohio, January 13, 1819 ; married March 16,
1837, living 1891) Compton.
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GABRIEL NOURSE. 107
74. Mary Miller4 Nourse (Charles,3 Gabriel 2 James1) , born at
Millersburg, Kentucky, May 8, 1852 ; married at Des Moines, Iowa,
January 1, 1889, Christopher Mathes, farmer (born at Pella, Iowa
son of Philip (born in Germany) and Mary Christinia (Buerkins)
(born in Holland) Mathes.
1. Willie James5 Mathes, born at Des Moines, Iowa, September 20, 1889;
died 1889.
2. Nattie Sumner5 Mathes, twin of Willie, died September, 1889.
75 . Charles Richie* Nourse (Charles,3 Gabriel,2 James1) , born
at Somerset, Ohio, December 2, 1854 ; farmer, near Des Moines,
Iowa, 1891 ; married at Columbus, Ohio, April 16, 1878, Mary Liv
ingston (born at Reynoldsburg, Ohio, March 6, 1857), daughter of
Alexander W. (born 1822) and Matilda (Graham) (born 1823) Liv
ingston .
1. William Livingston5 Nourse, born near Des Moines, Iowa, January 29 ,
1879; died February 26, 1882.
2. Hetty6 Nourse, born near Des Moines, January 10, 1882.
3. Ruth5 Nourse, born near Des Moines, October 10, 18S5.
4. Roy Livingston6 Nourse, born near Des Moines, November, 1888.
76 . Mary "Washington4 Nourse (Joseph3, Gabriel2, James1), born
at "Winchester, Virginia, September 25, 1833 ; living at Winlock,
Washington, 1891 ; married in Crawford county, Pennsylvania,
"William Thompson Byham (born at Mt. Hope, Pennsylvania, De
cember, 31, 1834), postmaster at Winlock, in 1891.
1. Smith Leroy5 Byham, born in Crawford county, Pa., February 5, 1859; car
penter at Kane, Pennsylvania, 1891 ; married at Dubois, Pennsylvania,
September 23, 1885, Katie Agnes Hays (born in Venango county, Pennsyl
vania. July 26, 1866), daughter of Nathan (born In county Donegal, Ireland,
1820; died June 5, 1886) and Mary '.Hays) (born in county Donegal, Ireland,
about 1830; married in Pennsylvania, October 9, 1856) Hays.
1. Charles White" Byham, born at Kane, Pennsylvania, August 9,1886; died
November 8, 1886.
2. Mary Nourse" Byham, born at Kane, October 20, 1887.
3. Bessie Guendolia9 Byham born at Kane, February 8, 1890.
4. George Hayes9 Byham, born at Kane, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1893.
5. Clara Frances9 Byham, born at Kane, April 15, 1895.
2. Elnora Makiah5 Byham, born in Randolph county, Pennsylvania, November
14, 1861 ; living at Corry, Pennsylvania, 1891 ; married at Warren, Pennsyl
vania, August 14, 1883, William Brightman Storer, manufacturer of Dr.
Storer's medicines, born at Asheville, New York, May 28, 1852.
1. William Leroy9 Storer, born at Kane, Pennsylvania, July 26, 1885.
2. Arthur Brightman9 Storer, born at Corry, Pennsylvania, November 26,
1888.

108 GABRIEL NOURSE.
3. William Jonas6 Byham, carpenter and fruit raiser, born June 7, 1864 ; living
at Vancouver, Washington, 1895; married there, February 9, 1892, Mary
Arwilda Woolf (born January 20, 1868, at Vancouver).
1. Gladys Marian9 Byham, born at Vancouver, Washington, February 6,
1893.
4. Charles White5 Byham, born January 9, 1867; dealer in meats at Kane,
Pennsylvania, 1895 ; married at Winlock, Washington, May 7, 1890, Mary
Sorenson (born at Spring Valley, Minnesota, July 25, 1870), daughter of
Ananias (born in Norway) and Anna Corinda (born in Norway) Sorenson.
1. William Arthur9 Byham, born at Winlock, Washington, January 26,1891.
2. Ethel Elnora" Byham, born at Winlock, December 20, 1892.
3. Ralph Raymond" Byham, born at Kane, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1894.
77. Lucretia Elizabeth4 Nourse (Joseph,3 Gabriel2 James1),
born at Centreville, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1834 ; died at Mead
ville, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1879 ; married at Spartansburg,.
Pennsylvania, September 2, 1853, Thomaa Googe, born in England,
March 6, 1824 ; living at Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1891 .
1. Cjbarles Albert6 Googe, born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1854;
died December 8, 1856.
2. William Harry5 Googe, engineer, born at Meadville, December 9, 1856; died
at Watson Run, December 31, 1887; married at Meadville, January 15, 1880,
Alice B. Brown, who was born at Watson Run, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1854.
1. Harry Bernard9 Googe, born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1883;
died September 22, 1884.
2. Charles David" Googe, born at Meadville, December 11, 1886.
3. Clara Eva5 Googe, born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1859 ; living
near the main divide of the Rocky mountains ; postoffice, Helena, Montana,
1895 ; married at Meadville, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1881, Jacob Randolph
Whitmire, who was general manager for Mullen Pass Company, and was
born at St. Clair, Missouri, August 27, 1856.
1. Mary Celeste" Whitmire, born at Junction City, Montana, October 13,
1882; died September 10, 1883.
2. Louise" Whitmire, born at Indianapolis, Indiana, April 15, 1885.
3. John" Whitmire, born at Blossburg, Montana, December 15, 1886.
4. Ruth" Whitmire, born at Blossburg, June 1, 1888.
5. Bertha" Whitmire, born at Blossburg, November 13, 1889 ; died Septem
ber 1, 1890.
4. Mary Lillian5 (called Mellie) Googe, born at Meadville, Pennsylvania,
June 27, 1862; died there June 7, 1892; married there January 18,1882, Harry
K. McCluer, agent (born at Freedonia, New York, May 20, 1860), living at
Meadville, 1892.
1. Victor S." McCluer, born at Salamanca, New York. March 4, 1883.
78 . Margaret Ann4 Nourse (Michael3, Gabriel2, James1), born at
Buena Vista Springs, Logan county, Kentucky, July 21, 1841 , living
near Bevier, Kentucky, 1895; married first, April 21, 1864, James
Ewing Nourse;* married second, February 21, 1889, John Dunn
*See Robert Nourse genealogy.

GABRIEL NOURSE. 109
Casebier, farmer (born in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky, March 8,
1843; living 1891), son of Benjamin and Mary (Helsey) Casebier.
Mr. Casebier served in the Union army, through the Civil War, in
the llth Kentucky Regiment.
79. Mary Rebecca Cramer4 Nourse (Michael3, Gabriel2, James1),
born in Logan county, Kentucky. September 3, 1843; living near
Drakesboro, Kentucky, 1897; married September 20, 1883, Judge
John Carpenter Townsend (born iu Warwick county, Indiana, March
26, 1822 ; died in Ohio county, Kentucky, May 7, 1894), son of Noah
Townsend, of Massachusetts. John Carpenter Townsend settled in
Ohio county, Kentucky, 1843. He was a lawyer, and acted as judge
in both Circuit and Criminal courts. He was a strong prohibition
ist. His grandfather married a daughter of Ethan Allen in 1765 .
Mrs. Townsend was called "Rebecca Cramer" for her grandmother's
sister, Rebecca (Doudle) Cramer, of Virginia. Mrs. Townsend
married second, 1896, Mr. Helsley, farmer, of Muhlenburg county,
Kentucky .
80 . Gabriel Augusta4 Nourse (Michael3, Gabriel2-, James1), born
in Logan county, Kentucky, April 1846 ; living near Rochester, Ken
tucky, 1890 ; married at Paradise, Kentucky, May 25, 1870, William
Lewis Brown, farmer, son of Samuel and Jane (Taylor) Brown.
1. Michael Nourse6 Brown, born in Ohio county, Kentucky, May 17, 1871 ; died
July 4, 1871.
2. Samuel Ellsworth6 Brown, born in Ohio county, March 11,1874; died July
24, 1874.
3. Halley Ewing5 Brown, born in Ohio county, July 30, 1875.
81. Henrietta Helen4 Nourse (Michael3, Gabriel?, James1-), born
in Logan county, Kentucky, September, 1848 ; living near Paradise,
Kentucky, 1890 ; married Andrew Glenn, son of Moses Glenn.
1. Gabriel Gibson5 Glenn, born November 12, 1880.
2. Michael Nourse5 Glenn, born October 28, 1883.
3. Andrew Moses5 Glenn, born August 18, 1885.
82. Eugenia Susan5 Nourse (Joseph Gabriel,4" Charles,3 Gabriel,2
James1), born at New Salem, Ohio, April 29, 1851 ; living at Dea
Moines, Iowa, 1891 ; married at Rushville, Ohio, December 29, 1875,
Jacob Anderson Jackson, real estate broker (born at North Berne,
Ohio, April 29, 1848), son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Collins) Jack
son. Samuel Jackson was a farmer, and was buried at North Berne,
Ohio, August, 1878 ; his wife was buried there in 1863.

110 GABRIEL NOURSE.
1. Charles Clinton" Jackson, born at Des Moines, Iowa, October 30, 1876.
2. Collins Frank" Jackson, born at Des Moines, October 30, 1889.
83. Charles Oren5 Nourse (Joseph Gabriel,4" Charles,3 Gabriel,2
James1), born at Rushville, Ohio, February 12,1853; financial broker
at Des Moines, Iowa, 1890 ; married there, January 7, 1886, Lizzie
Althea Christ (born at Elkader, Iowa, January 20, 1865), daughter
of George (born 1841) and Mary Catharine (Forney) (born 1843)
Christ.
1. Paul" Nourse, born at Des Moines, Iowa, April 16, 1888.
2. Virginia9 Nourse, born at Des Moines, June 23, 1889.
84. Clinton Lafayette5 Nourse (Joseph Gabriel,4" Charles,3 Ga
briel,2 James1), born at Rushville, Ohio, July 5, 1855 ; partner of his
uncle, Judge C. C. Nourse, at Des Moines, Iowa, 1891. He gradu-
" ated from the law department of the State University of Iowa ;
married at Des Moines, October 27, 1886, Eva Miller (born at Bur
lington, Iowa, May 23, 1862 ; received a classical education at the
State University ; living 1891) , daughter of Rev. Emory Miller, D .
D., LL. D., of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Miller married
Mary Millar (born at Portsmouth, Ohio, 1844) .
1. Emory Miller9 Nourse, born at Des Moines, Iowa, February 12, 1889.
85. Salem Abbott5 Nourse (Joseph Gabriel,4" Charles,3 Gabriel,2
James1) , born at Rushville, Ohio, February 9, 1858 ; grocer at Ames,
Iowa, 1890 ; removed to Carbonado, Washington, same year ; mar
ried at Ames, October 6, 1886, Mary Hurin Wynn (born at Mendota,
111, January 9, 1868), daughter of William Hilles and Elizabeth
(Coles) Wynn.
1. Claribel" Nourse, born at Ames, Iowa, September 29, 1887.
2. Wynn Abbott" Nourse, born at Ames, March 18, 1889.
3. Joseph Dubois9 Nourse, born at Carbonado, Washington, April 14, 1891.
86 . Darlington Berry5 Nourse (John Daniel,4- Charles,3 Gabriel,2
James1), born at Baltimore, Ohio, February 11, 1858 ; senior active
partner in largest dry goods house in Lancaster, Ohio, 1895 ; mar
ried at Lancaster, Ohio, June 22, 1887, Margaret May Pickering
(born at Lancaster, September 23, 1866), daughter of Samuel (born
in New Hampshire) and Susan (Ozenbaugh) (born and married in
Hocking county Ohio) Pickering.

GABRIEL NOURSE. Ill
1. Catherine May9 Nourse, born at Columbus, Ohio, April 19, 1889.
2. John Darlington9 Nourse, born at Columbus, August 10, 1891.
3. Joseph Clarence9 Nourse, born at Lancaster, Ohio, June 29, 1894.
87. John Homer5 Nourse (John Daniel4*, Charles3, Gabriel2; James1) ,
born in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, April 19, 1865 ; salesman in dry goods
house at Lancaster, Ohio, 1895; married there, May 10, 1893, Sarah
Amanda Dunn (born at Roseville, Ohio, October 3, 1868), daughter
of Henry Harrison and Mary Eleanor Dunn.
88 . Clinton Charles5 Nourse ( Charles Clinton4", Charles3, Gabriel2,
James1-) , born near Des Moines, Iowa, February 18, 1863 ; architect
at Des Moines, 1891; married at Fort Dodge, Iowa, June 7, 1889,
Elizabeth Baehring, daughter of W. C. (born in Germany) Baehring.
1. Clinton Baehring" Nourse, born near Des Moines, Iowa, April 14, 1890; died
there, September 10, 1895.
2. Laurence Baehring9 Nourse, born at Des Moines, October 5, 1893.

CHAPTER XI.

MICHAEL NOURSE AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

88 . Michael2 Nourse (James1) was born in Frederick county ,
Virginia, September 1, 1778 ; died December 6, 1860, in Washington ,
D. C. "In early youth he gave his heart to God, and devoted
himself to His service. For fifty-three years he was a ruling elder
in the Presbyterian church. The father of a large family, he had
the pleasure of hearing three of his sons preach the Gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ. A man of the strictest integrity, truthful and
upright in all his dealings, he commanded in tbe highest degree the
respect and confidence of all who knew him. For fifty-seven years
he was connected with the Treasury Department of the United
States. Into all tbe relations of life he carried the ornament of a
meek and quiet spirit ; but his crowning glory was his faith in
Christ and devotedness to his cause . His closing hours were radi
ant with a light from heaven. Preparation to die had been the
prayerful work of his life, and when the pins of the earthly taber
nacle began to be removed, and the structure seemed just ready to
fall, his soul was kept in perfect peace. His last words were : 'Do
come, dear Lord Jesus, and take Thy redeemed servant home.' "
Michael Nourse married at Washington, D. C, June 21, 1800,
Mary Rittenhouse (born September 2, 1779 ; died at Washington, D.
C ., February 17, 1867), daughter of Benjamin Rittenhouse (1741)
and Elizabeth Bull (married 1770) .
1. Elizabeth8 Nourse, born near Washington, D.C., January 5,1802; died same
place, January 30, 18,02.
2. John Bittenhouse8 Nourse, born at Washington, September 1, 1803.
3. James8 Nourse, born at Washington, April 30, 1805.
4. Benjamin Franklin8 Nourse, born near Washington, April 15, 1807.

MICHAEL NOURSE.
MARY RITTENHOUSE NOURSE.

JOHN RITTENHOUSE NOURSE.

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5. Mary Phillips3 Nourse, born near Washington, April 12, 1809 ; died there,
unmarried, November 16, 1843.
6. Sarah Harriet3 Nourse, born near Washington, January 20, 1811.
7. William3 Nourse, born near Washington, October 23, 1812.
8. Anna Josepha3 Nourse, born near Washington, October 21, 1814.
9. Charles Howard3 Nourse, born near Washington, December 1, 1816.
10. Joseph Everett3 Nourse, born near Washington, April 17, 1819.
11. David Boyd3 Nourse, born near Washington, October 29, 1820; died there
October 15, 1821.
12. Henry Michael3 Nourse, born near Washington, September 25, 1824.
Three other children who died unnamed.
89. John Rittenhouse3 Nourse (Michael2 James1), born at Wash
ington, D. C, September 1, 1803 ; died there April 7, 1871.
Mr. Nourse left school at the age of fifteen and became teller in
the bank which is now called the Metropolitan . In 1848 , he was ap
pointed first-class clerk in the the register's office, treasury depart
ment. In 1856 he was removed from office, and emigrated to
Davenport, Iowa, where he went into the agricultural and seed
business. In the year 1857, which is memorable in the financial
world as one of numerous business failures, Mr. Nourse met the fate
of many others and lost nearly all of what was left of a comfortable
estate. He had formerly owned valuable property in Washington
City and coal mine stock in Maryland. In the fall of 1857, Mr.
Nourse returned to Washington, and the following spring he
was reappointed to office in the treasury department, where
he held a responsible position until his death. He was a
" gentleman of the old school," whose quiet, affable manners
commanded respect; he never forgot the courtesy due alike to
those under him and above him in official life. He belonged
to the "new school" of the Presbyterian church; was an
abolitionist, though not a believer in the equality of all men ; and
was an advocate of total abstinence from intoxicating drinks. He
was an omnivorous reader, taking in every class of literature. He
was beloved and honored for his Christian character. After his death,
at a meeting of the clerks of the register's office, resolutions of
respect and admiration were offered. Remarks were made by the
register and others in testimony of his high character, and his long
and honorable service in the department.
Mr. Nourse married, first, at Washington, June 13, 1826, Eliza
beth Skinner (born at North Coventry, Connecticut, October 24,
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Ichabod Lord Skinner;* second, at Washington, November 17, 1830,
Lucretia Colt Skinner (born at North Coventry, March 18, 1807; died
at Washington, January 25, 1872), a sister of his first wife.
1. Mary Fbances* Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, July 14, 1827.
2. John Frederick* Nourse, born at Washington, August 20, 1829; died there
July 18, 1830.
3. Elizabeth Hannah* Nourse, born at Washington, November 23, 1831 ; died
there January 14, 1833.
4. Anna Josepha* Nourse, born at Washington, February 28, 1834.
5. Hannah Elizabeth* Nourse, born at Washington, September 5, 1836; died
near Frostburg, Maryland, August 15, 1845.
6. Helen Lucretia* Nourse, born at Washington, December 5, 1838. "
7. Sarah Lord* Nourse, born at Washington, August 31, 1841.
8. Ada Caroline* Nourse, born at "Hillside," Allegany county, Maryland,
April 27, 1844; died at Washington, D. C, August 9, 1860.
9. Edward Michael* Nourse, born at "Hillside," January 6, 1847.
90. James3 Nourse (Michael2, James1), born near Washington, D.
C, April 30, 1805; died at Salem, Iowa, July 5, 1854. Was an A.
B. Jefferson College, 1823; A. M. same college; for further insi ruc
tion he attended Dickenson College one year, and while there united
with the church under the care of Rev. Dr. Duffield; and at once
determined to enter the ministry.
Mr. Nourse studied theology at Princeton, New Jersey; was
licensed by tbe presbytery of the Dictrict of Columbia, of which his
uncle, Joseph Nourse, was then a member, who, in writing to his
sister Elizabeth (Nourse) Chapline, July, 1827, said :
"I was gratified more than I can tell you at his trial; he was unanimously
accepted." "Ichabod Lord Skinner (born at Marlboro, Connecticut, September, 1767; died February, 1852) was
a descendent of John and Mary (Loomis) Skinner; both oi whom emigrated from Essex county,
England, in 1634. He graduated fr m Yale College in 179S; received the degrees of D. D. and L.L.D.,
from Yale; was at one time settled as minister of a Congregational church at North Coventry, Con
necticut; where he made large purchases of land, and built an elegant home. He removed to Hart
ford, Connecticut, about 1808. Dr. Skinner engineered the old national road from Baltimore. Mary
land, to Wheeling, West Virginia. He removed to Washmgton, D C, 1824, where he taught school
for several years; removed afterward to Allegany county, Maryland; here his wife died March, 1848,
in the seventy-ninth year of her age. He lived afterward with his eldest daughter at Brooklyn,
New York, where he died suddenly in church, as had been his wish. His wife was Hannah, daughter
of General Joseph Spencer,-)- of East Haddam, Connecticut, and his second wife, Mrs. Hannah South-
maid, of Waterbury, Connecticut.
-(-General Joseph Spencer was born October, 1714. at East Haddam, Connecticut. He served his
country in various capacities from about 1750 until his death. His civil and military offices were
honorable testimony to his abilities, but not his greatest glory. He loved pure doctrine and the
gospel of Christ. His deep toned piety, with that of many of his compatriots, contributed much to
throw around the fearful struggle for our liberties the sacred sanction of religion . Happy will it
be for our country if such men are raised to office In future. General Spencer died January 13, 1789,
having been a member of the Coatinental Congress for ten years. See "Military History" In the
Hartford, Connecticut, library.

Reverend JAMES NOURSE.
(Second son of Michael Nourse.)

Mrs. SARAH NORTH HARVEY NOURSE.

Mrs. HATTIE NOURSE BROCKETT.

Reverend JAMES MICHAEL NOURSE. Mrs. SARAH FRANCES BLACKMAN NOURSE.
(Son of Reverend James Nourse.)

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The history of James Nourse is that of an accurate and laborious
scholar, an humble and devoted Christian and a faithful preacher of
the Gospel. After nearly twenty years' service as pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Milroy, Pennsylvania, he resigned on account
of a serious bronchial affection, and returned to Washington, D. C,
in 1849.
Mr. Nourse edited with great care and labor "The Paragraph
Bible*" (the first edition of a Paragraph Bible published in the
United States) ; prepared for the press a critical commentary on the
"Epistle to the Galatians ;" and an abridgment of Lowth's lectures
on Hebrew poetry. He also wrote several tracts, one of which,
entitled "Messiah and His Family," was received by scholars with
universal approbation. "Uncle Hugh ; or, Twenty Years Ago," a
temperance story, was from the pen of Rev. James Nourse, whose
talents and influence were used with success for the promotion of
temperance reform . He believed in total abstinance to the extent
of not even taking stimulants when ill . He became principal of
Central Academy, a school for boys, combined with a book store, on
the northeast corner of Tenth and E streets, Washington, D. C, in
1850, and was assisted by his son, Joseph Harvey Nourse. In 1854
he visited Iowa, with a view to a settlement as pastor, and his sudden
death at Salem from cholera filled many hearts with grief.
Mr. Nourse married at Germantown, Pennsylvania, October 1,
1829, Sarah North Harvey (born at Germantown, May 18, 1810; died
at Perryville, now Milroy, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1871), daugh
ter of Samuel and Ann (North) f (born March 28, 1773; died Sep
tember 21, 1810) Harvey. \
1. Joseph Harvey* Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, July 7, 1830.
2. Elizabeth Rooker* Nourse, born at Milroy, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1832.
3. Mary Anna* Nourse, born at Milroy, December 25, 1833 ; died September 5,
1844.
4. Margaret McClay* Nourse, born at Milroy, December 11, 1835.
?Entered according to act of Congress, 1834, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massa
chusetts ; Boston ; published by Perkins & Marion ; Philadelphia ; Henry Perkins, 1836.
•(-Ann North's father, Rogers North, of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, was "a man of classical
education, a Presbyterian, and of great respectability and good property." Her uncle Caleb North
was quite a prominent man; was at one time president of the society of Cincinnati; her grandfather
Samuel North is described in an old record as "a very fine person of a man— as very wild, spending
freely his own and his wife's estate, yet not intemperate." His "wildness" consisted in not working,
but entertaining his friends in princely style at his home . The Norths were among the earlier
settlers of Pennsylvania.
JSamuel Harvey, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served in Col . Proctor's Artillery, American Rev
olution; took a severe cold while the army was stationed at White Marsh and died of lnng fever
May, 1778. His great-grandfather, Benjamin Harvey, came from Derbyshire, England, in 1682, and
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5. Sarah Harriet* Nourse, born at Milroy, October 23, 1837.
6. James Michael* Nourse, born at Milroy, May 14, 1840.
7. Eva Maria* Nourse, born at Milroy, November 28, 1841.
8. John Thomas* Nourse, born at Milroy, February 24, 1845.
9. Mary Rittenhouse* Nourse, born at Milroy, September 29, 1847; died July
18, 1864.
10. Ann Caroline* Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, June 9, 1854.
91. Benjamin Franklin3 Nourse (Michael2, James1) , born near
Washington, D. C , April 15, 1807 ; died at Key West, Florida, May
19, 1836 ; A. B., Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, 1825 ; A. M., same
college ; M. D., Medical Society of Washington, D. C. (now Medical
Department of Columbian University), 1829. Dr. Nourse was, for a
while, physician in his brother William's drug store at Washington ;
at another time he was a teacher in Dr. Henderson's school for girls.
Extract from a letter of his, to his mother, dated Springfield,
Ohio, November 19, 1834 :
" Our rainy and stormy season has commenced, and I have the prospect, until
April, of long, cold, dreary rides ; sleeping sometimes in log huts, with the wind
driving through the crevices ; having my limbs so cramped and drawn up by
morning that they can scarcely be straightened ; in short, riding day and night,
and then having to wait and wait for my pay, and may be never get it. This
is a country doctor's life! And yet I grow fat upon it."
Dr. Nourse was an elder in the Presbyterian church at Spring
field, January 1, 1836 ; he was commissioned assistant surgeon in
the United States Navy and ordered to Key West, Florida, where he
died of yellow fever. At a meeting of the citizens of Key West,
May 20, 1836, the following resolutions, among others, were adopted :
"Resolved, That the amity of his manners, the purity of his life, and his
usefulness, have justly entitled the memory of the deceased to our affectionate
regard ;
"Resolved, That as a token of respect, we will attend the funeral obsequies
of Dr. Nourse and wear crape upon the left arm for thirty days."
Dr. Nourse married at Washington, D. C, January 3, 1832, Jose
phine Stansbury (born at Montgomery, New York, December 10,
1813), daughter of Arthur Joseph Stansbury (born at New York,
October 28, 1781 ; died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September
27, 1865), and Susanna (Brown) (born at Boston, Massachusetts, May
29, 1784 ; married there, August 3, 1803 ; died at Washington, D. C,
February 20, 1852), who was a daughter of Dr, Benjamin Brown, of
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of Joseph and Sarah (Ozier) Stansbury. Mrs. Nourse was married
at Burlington, New Jersey, September 14, 1846, to James Morse,
and resides in New York City (1895) .
1. Emma Josepha* Nourse, born at CannonsDurg, Pennsylvania, November 15,
1832.
2. Susan Stansbury* Nourse, born at Springfield, Ohio, November 13, 1834.
92. Sarah Harriet3 Nourse (Michael,2 James1), born near Wash
ington, D. C; January 20, 181-1; died. June 10, 1839; married at
Washington, 1833, George W. Stettinius, a dry goods merchant,
whose father came from Stettin, Germany. Mr. Stettinius married
again and had other children.
1. George W*. Stettinius, born April 30, 1834; married, first, Mary Sarah
Ford (born about 1838; died in Illinois, April 8, 1872); married, second,  .
He had a large family, but we have been unable to trace them.
93. William3 Nourse (Michael2 James1), born near Washington,
D. C, October 23, 1812 ; died at Washington, March 2, 1892 ; mar
ried at Abingdon, Maryland, September 15, 1840, Isabella Lucretia
Bond (born at Abingdon, December 19, 1821 ; living at Washington,
1895), daughter of Thomas W. (born May 4, 1781 ; died February 4,
1861) and Sallie York (Scott) (born May 8, 1791; married January
13, 1806 ; died October 4, 1833) Bond.
Mr. Nourse was established as a druggist by his father, but after
a few years he abandoned that business and took a position in the
General Land office, Washington. In 1851 he visited California, and
on his return established the banking firm of Pairo and Nourse.
This bank failed in 1857, but Mr. Nourse was chosen by the creditors
to settle the accounts ; and paid all debts in full with considerable
interest besides. Subsequently he became senior partner in the firm
of Nourse and Barr, wholesale provision merchants. From 1864 or
'65 until his death he was a clerk in the Commissary General's office,
War Department, where his valuable services were retained until his
death, notwithstanding his age, failing health, and the changes of
administration. He belonged to the " new school" of the Presby
terian church.
1. Emily Josepha* Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, July 2, 1841.
2. William Bond* Nourse, born at Washington, December 11, 1843.
3. Edward Fell* Nourse, born at Washington, November 11, 1847; died in
Montgomery county, Maryland, August 12, 1848.
4. Anna Isabella* Nourse, bom at Wa-shington, November 2, 1852.
5. Mary Wilson* Nourse, born at Washington, March 22, 1858.
6. Alice Stanley* Nourse, born at Washington, January 28, 1860; died same
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94. Anna Josepha3 Nourse (Michael,2 James1), born near Wash
ington, D. C, October 21, 1814 ; died at Tustin, California, June 17,
1885 ; married at Washington, October 4, 1837, Charles Augustus
Hassler, who was born at Schenectady, New York, February 2, 1810.
Degrees: A. B. Rutger's college, New Jersey, 1829; A. M., M. D.,
medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, 1833. He
was commissioned by the President as assistant surgeon in the
United States Navy, on November 4, 1834, and was ordered to the
Vandalia on December 3 following. This was a sloop of 18 guns,
cruising in the West Indies, from which he was detached June 29,
1837. From then until July 26 he was at Pensacola, but obtained a
leave of absence on August 17. March 12, 1839, he was ordered to
the Navy Yard at Washington, D. C. June 3, 1841, he passed the
examination which led to his promotion to the rank of passed assist
ant surgeon, and on August 30 was ordered to the Delaware. This
was a ship of the line, on the coast of Brazil. From May 27, 1842,
to February 24, 1843, he was in Africa on the sloop of war, Decatur.
Then followed a leave of absence until May 24, when he was ordered
to the Naval Hospital opposite Norfolk, Virginia. July 22, 1844, Dr.
Hassler was commissioned as surgeon, but remained at the hospital
until December 10. His next duty was on the sloop of war Falmouth,
of 20 guns, which belonged to the home squadron and which took
part in the Mexican war. After leaving the Falmouth, and while
on his way to join his family, Dr. Hassler was drowned near Fisher's
Island, Long Island Sound, in the wreck of the steamer Atlantic,
November 27, 1846 . His was an early but a noble death, due to his
care for others, to the detriment of his own welfare.*
Mrs . Hassler was exceedingly fond of writing ; and after her
husband's death, she did quantities of law copying for Caleb Cush
ing and R. H. Gillet. She wrote a "Life of Ferdinand Rudolph
?Charles Augustus Hassler was the fourth child of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, whose name is
found in all Biographical dictionaries. He was born at Aarau, Switzerland, October 6, 1770, where
his ancestors had held local offices for centuries. He received an excellent scientific and linguistic
education in France, Germany and Switzerland, and made a most exact trigonometrical survey of
western Switzerland. February, 1708, at Morat, Switzerland, he married Mariane Gaillard de Long-
jumeau (born at Morat, March 8, 1772), a brilliant and highly accomplished woman, and the last rep
resentative of a noble French Huguenot family descended from the French kings In 1805, Mr.
Hassler came to America, landing at Philadelphia, where a lifelong friendship with the eminent
scientific men of the country began. From 1807 dates the prosecution of his great life work— the
founding of the Uni.ed States Coast and Geodetic Survey. After many interruptions, during which
different positions were held and much work was executed, after a journey to Europe, and in spite of
oppositions and trills that would have daunted a less brave and independent spirit, he succeeded in
establishing the Coast Survey on a permanent basis in 18S2. He was superintendent 01 the Survey and
also chief of the Bureau of Weights and Measures until his death, which occurred at Philadelphia,
November 20, 1843. Mrs. Hassler died at Miller's Place, Long Island, Fehruary 25, 1868.

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Hassler" ; also translated Chateaubriand's " Atala" from one of the
first French editions, and was making arrangements for the publica
tion of both at the time of her death. It is to be regretted that
they have never been published. Shs wrote a life of her son-in-law,
Simon Newcomb, which was published . Mrs . Hassler was an earn
est member of the Presbyterian church.
1. Charles William* Hassler, born at Washington, D. C, July 16, 1838; died
at East Winstead, Connecticut, February 19, 1888. He received the degree
of A. B. from Columbian college, Washington, D. C, in 1859, and A. M. from
the same in 1875. He was tutor in the preparatory department of that col
lege in 1858—9, and was at one time a student at Princeton Theological
Seminary, New Jersey. He was commissioned assistantpaymaster, United
States Navy, on August 29, 1861, and paymaster on April 14, 1862, which
position he held until his resignation from the navy February 9, 1870.
During the years 1862. '63 and '64, he served in the Gulf and Mississippi
squadrons, being in the engagements at New Orleans, Vicksburg and
Mobile. After resigning from the navy he became a broker in Wall street,
New York, where he edited aud published, from January 1, 1871 to 1883, a
journal known as " Hassler's Weekly Financial Report." He graduated
from the Columbia Law School, New York, in 1870, and made a specialty
of railroad litigation. During this time his home was at Euglewood, New
Jersey, but he removed to Brooklyn, New York, a few years before his
death. The last years of his life were clouded by illness, and by business
reverses, caused by a defaulting clerk. It was said of him, that he was too
good a Christian to succeed in Wall street.
Mr. Hassler married at Brooklyn, New York, May 17, 1866, Clara Brace
Smith (born at Brooklyn, July 9, 1841; living at Newton Centre, Massachu
setts, 1895), daughter of David Walter (born 1810) and Clarrissa (Brace)
(married October 4, 1837) Smith.
1. Anna May5 Hassler, born at Brooklyn, New York, August 10, 1867.
2. William Hosford5 Hassler, born at Englewood, New Jersey, Septem
ber 17, 1869; died there, September 27, 1869.
3. Walter5 Hassler, born at Englewood, March 5, 1871; died near New
York City, August 9, 1871.
4. Edith Dwight5 Hassler, born at Orange, New Jersey, December 8, 1874.
5. Clarissa Brace5 Hassler, born at Englewood, February 3, 1878.
2. Mary Caroline* Hassler, born at Washington, D. C, June 16, 1840; living
there, 1895; married at Washington, August 4, 1863, Simon Newcomb, who
was born near Wallace, Nova Scotia, March 12, l^o ; the eldest child of
John Burton Newcomb, teacher (born at Picton, Nova Scotia, July 10, 1808
or 1809; died at Saltillo, Mexico, November 20, 1882), and Emily (Prince)
born at Moncton, New Brunswick, September 10, 1813; married at Moncton,
March 13, 1834; died at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, October 31, 1851). Professor
Newcomb's father and grandfather were devoted students of mathematics,
and he early showed fondness for that science. In 1853, he came to the
United States, his degrees are: B. S. (Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard,
1858); LL. D. (Columbian University, 1874, Yale, 1875, Harvard, 1*84, Colum
bia, 1887 and Edinburg, Scotland, 1891 ; Ph. D. (Leyden, Holland, 1875 and
Heidelburg, Germany, 18S6); Doctor of Sciences (Dublin, Ireland, 1892). In
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120 MICHAEL NOURSE.
remained at the United States Naval Observatory from that time until 1877.
Since then he bas been senior naval professor and superintendent of the
American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac Office, Navy Department, Wash
ington, D. C. He has also been professor of mathematics and astronomy
in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, from 1884 to 1894. Pro
fessor Newcomb was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences
in 1869, and was its vice president from 1883 to 1889. He has received gold
medals, memberships of all the highest scientific societies abroad and at
home, gifts from foreign governments and other honors too numerous to
record here; indeed, he is known as the greatest astronomer America has
yet produced. His best known books are: "Popular Astronomy" (1877),
"School Astronomy" (1879), and a series of mathematical text books (1881
to 1887). As apolitical economist, Professor Newcomb has written "Prin
ciples of Political Economy" (1886), "A B C of Finance" (1877), "A Plain
Man's Talk on the Labor Question" (1886), etc. The " Popular Astronomy"
was reprinted in England and also translated into German. Many brief
biographies of this distinguished author and astronomer have been pub
lished.1. Anita Rosalie5 Newcomb, born at Washington, D. C, November 4, 1864 ;
living there 1897; married at Washington, February 14, 1888, W J
McGee, who was born near Farley, Dubuque county, Iowa, April 17,
1853, son of James McGee, farmer (born at Market Hill, county Armagh,
Ireland, June 6, 1808; died near Farley, Iowa, November 13, 1893), and
Martha Ann (Anderson) McGee (born in Warren county, Kentucky,
September 13, 1817; married at Sherrill's Mound, Iowa, August 7, 1844;
living near Farley, 1895). Miss Newcomb, after graduating from a
private school at Washington, spent the years 1882-S5 in Europe, partly
in traveling with her father or mother and partly in study at Newnham
College, Cambridge, England, at the University of Geneva, Switzerland,
at Berlin, Germany, and elsewhere. Mrs. McGee is author of several
scientific and magazine articles, chiefly on the communistic societies of
the United States, and is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and elected one of its secretaries in 1894; a
member of the National Geographic Society, the Anthropological
Society of Washington, the Women'*! Anthropological Society of
America, the Medical Association and Society of District of Columbia,
etc. Also Surgeon General, Daughters of the American Revolution
1894-'96,and Librarian General 18J6-'97. She received the degree of M. D.,
Columbian University, 1892, studied at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and
is now practicing medicine at Washington. Her husband, Mr. McGee,
is entirely self-educated, and is a man of wide and thorough learning.
As a young man, he engaged in various occupations, yet spent a part of
each year in examining the geology of Iowa. These expeditions were
made on foot, a thousand miles a month being his customary rate of
walking and work. His writings soon attracted the attention of geol
ogists, and in 1881 he was appointed a geologist on the United States
Geological Survey. Since the first >ear, which was spent iu Utah and
Nevada, Mr. McGee's office work has been in Washington, D. C, and his
field work on the Atlantic slope, along the Gulf and in the Mississippi
Valley. He visited Charleston, South Carolina, during the great earth
quake of 1886, for the purpose of studying the phenomena. In 1883 he
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stands in the front rank of the younger American geologists, and has
come before the public as a centributor to the "Forum," "Popular
Science Monthly" and other magazines. He was for some years editor
of the National Geographic Magazine and of the Bulletins of the Geo
logical Society of America, and is officer or member of a large number
of scientific societies. His most important published work is an official
report on The Pleistocene History of Northeastern Iowa, which forms
the greater part of the Eleventh Annual Report of the United States
Geological Survey. Other works are: The Lafayette Formation in the
Thirteenth Report, and Polable Waters of Eastern United States in the
Fourteenth Report of the same survey. His minor publications exceed
100 titles. In July, 1894, he resigned from the Geological Survey, and
became Ethnologist-in-charge in the Bureau of American Ethnology,
Smithsonian Institution.
1. Klotho9 McGee, born at Washington, D. C, July 10, 1889.
2. Donald9 McGee, born at Washington, September 10, 1*95; died at
Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 25, 1896.
2. William Bartlett5 Newcomb, born at Georgetown, D. C, September
23, 1867 ; died the same day.
3. Emily Kate5 Newcomb, born at Washington, D. C, June 30, 1869; living
at Boston, 1895; married at Washington, April 8, 1890, Francis Asbury
Wilson (born at Laurence, Massachusetts, August 28, 1857;, son of
George Pickering (born at Lowell, Massachusetts, January 29, 1830;
died 1873) and Emily Orilla (Fiske), born at Nashua, New Hampshire,
December 7, 1831 ; married there April 7, 1853) Wilson. Francis Wilson
was formerly a business manager of "The Youths' Companion ;" now
manager of Advertising Department of The Doliber-Goodale Company,
Boston, Massachusetts (1895).
1. Marjorie Newcomb9 Wilson, born at Boston, Massachusetts, Feb
ruary 28, 1892.
2. Mildred9 Wilson, born at Boston, November 23, 1894.
4. Anna Josepha5 Newcomb, born at Washington, D. C, September 27,
1871 ; married at Washington, April 11, 1896, Edward Baldwin Whitney,
lawyer.
3. Anita (or Anneta) Rosalie* Hassler, born at Washington, D. C, May 13,
1842; died there, unmarried, December 17, 1861.
4. Ferdinand Augustus* Hassler, born at Naval Hospital, opposite Norfolk,
Virginia, March 6, 1844 ; living at Santa Ana, California, 1895. He received
the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, in 1866, and of Ph.
D. in 1875 ; practiced medicine about ten years in Philadelphia and in Wash
ington city. In 1873, he was professor of materia medica at Lincoln
University, Oxford, Pennsylvania, has also held membership in the College
of Physicians of Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences and Pathologi
cal Society, of the same city, and Philosophical and Biological societies of
Washington, D. C. He taught in West Philadelphia Medical Institute for
several years, and graduated at the "Lying-in Charity" of Philadelphia,
1866. He has contributed medical and scientific papers to various maga
zines ; published nearly a hundred short poems ; has copyrighted and is
publishing a long series of articles (No. 52 now on hand, 1890) on the origin
and use of words ; and wrote nearly all of the literary portion of the
"Medical Register and Directory of the United States," published by the
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Dr. Hassler married, first, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1868,
Annie Kate Burnett (born at Philadelphia, May 27, 1846; died there, Novem
ber 9, 1878), daughter of Eli Seal (died December 28, 1868) and Hannah
Kenedy (Mustin) Burnett.
In 1881, Dr. Hassler removed to Tustin, California, and married, second,
June 27, 1882, at Santa Ana, Elizabeth Emily Hall (born at Batavia, Illi
nois, January 28, 1865), daughter of Orren Buell (born February 27, 1828)
and Emily Maria (Potter) (married January 26, 1858) Hall. Mrs. Hassler
has published a number of humorous sketches in newspapers under the nom
de plume of "Cousin Janie."
1. Elfreda Irene5 Hassler, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October
6, 1872; died thesame day.
2. Charles Ferdinand5 Hassler, born at Tustin, California, June 25,1885.
3. Arthcr Egbert5 Hassler, born at Santa Ana, California, June 30, 1887.
4. Ferdinand Orren5 Hassler, born at Santa Ana, November 12, 1889.
95. Charles Howard3 Nourse (Michael,2 James1), born near
Washington, D. C, December 1, 1816 ; died at Georgetown, D. C,
July 12, 1876. He graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania,
in 1835 ; taught school for a time in Virginia, but returned to the
District, where he founded the "Rittenhouse Academy," a school for
boys, on Indiana avenue, Washington. Some years later he taught
at Rockville, Maryland . He was licensed to preach by the presby
tery of the District of Columbia in 1845. His father, in a letter to
his son James, dated September 26, 1848, says :
" Your brother Charles is laboring hard — too hard, I fear, for his constitution,
both in preaching and teaching, and in attending to building a place of wor
ship ; indeed. I may say two, for he is taking up subscriptions for a second."
" Previous to 1850, for several years, Rev. Charles Howard Nourse gave much
ministerial labor to this region (Montgomery county, Maryland), preaching at
Middlebrook, Darnestown and Poolesville, at which last named place he gath
ered a congregation and secured the erection of the present church building*."
After his second marriage, Mr. Nourse lived for some years at the
old homestead of his wife, and in 1854 or '55 removed to Leesburg,
"Virginia, where he taught school till the close of the Civil War.
In 1863, Charles Howard Nourse was arrested as a spy, and placed
in the old Capitol prison, Washington, D. C. He was released
through the influence of Speaker Colfax. He afterward taught in
Culpepper, Virginia, West River, Maryland, and Georgetown, D. C.
Wherever he was, he engaged in ministerial work with fervor.
Rev. R. H. Bittinger, D. D., of Washington City, under date of
March 8, 1891, wrote :
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MICHAEL NOURSE. 123
"Rev. C. H. Nourse was an earnest, acceptable preacher, although he was
engaged principally in teaching, in which he excelled."
Mr. Nourse married, first, near Rockville, Maryland, October 14,
1841, Maria Robertson (born 1823; died November 11, 1847),
daughter of William G. (died about 1852) and Harriet (Cooke) (died
1877) Robertson ; married, second, at Montevideo, Maryland, March
5, 1849, Elizabeth Jane (Henderson) (born at Williamsburg, Vir
ginia, 1811 or '12 ; died at Washington, D. C, April 20, 1877), widow
of John Park Custis Peter ; she was daughter of James B. (died
about 1817) and Elizabeth (Peter, widow Hasborough) (married
about 1809 ; died 1814) Henderson.
1. Charles Howard* Nourse, Jr., born at Washington, D. C, July 26, 1844.
2. Harriet Robertson* Nourse, born at Rockville, Maryland, September 22,
1846 : died there July 14, 1847.
3. Mary Rittenhouse* Nourse, born at Montevideo, Maryland, July 6. 1852.
4. Lucy Holcombe* Nourse, born at Montevideo, August 18, 1854; died at
Leesburg, Virginia, April 24, 1857.
96 . Joseph Everett3 Nourse (Michael2, James1) , born near
Washington, D. C, April 17, 1819 ; died at West Washington, D.C.,
October 8, 1889. He graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsyl
vania, in 1837. His eyesight being impairied, he engaged tempora
rily in the dry goods business at Georgetown, D. C, with Mr.
Stettinius. In 1840, he taught in the Rittenhouse Academy, of
which he was afterward principal. In May 1849, he was licensed by
the presbytery of the District of Columbia, and went west for minis
terial work, having sold the academy. In August, 1850, Mr. Nourse
was appointed professor of Ethics and English studies in the United
States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, and also acted as
chaplain there. When the academy was at Newport, during the
Civil War, he was chaplain of the infantry at Fort Adams, and he
subsequently, at irregular times, supplied churches in Virginia**and
in the District of Columbia ; under his ministry, a new organization
and a house of worship were secured at Manassas. In 1864, he was
commissioned professor of Mathematics, United States Navy, and
left the Naval Academy for work at the Naval Observatory, Washing
ton, D. C, where he remained until his retirement in 1881, with the
exception of a term of special duty in the Navy Department. But
it is as an author that Professor Nourse is best known ; for, besides
contributing to many magazines and newspapers, he has published
the following books : "The Maritime Canal of Suez ; Brief Memoir

124 MICHAEL NOURSE.
of the Enterprise, and Comparison of its Probable Results, with
Those of a Ship Canal Across Darien" (Washington, D. C, 1869) ;
" Astronomical and Meteorological Observations" (1871); "Memoir
of the Founding and Progress of the United States Naval Oberva-
tory" (1873) ; " Medals Awarded to American Arctic Explorers by
Foreign Societies" (1876) ; " Narrative of the Second Arctic Explo
ration by Charles F . Hall" (1879) ; " American Explorations in the
Ice Zones," prepared from official sources (Boston, 1884) ; and "The
Maritime Canal of Suez, from its Inauguration, November 17, 1869,
to the Year 1884" (Washington, D. C, 1884).
"The death of Professor J. E. Nourse, late of the United States Naval
Academy, and, more recently still, on duty at the Naval Observatory, removes
from the public service, a man of great attainments, indefatigable industry,
and thorough devotion to the interests of mathematical science. He represented
this government at the International Geographical Congress, which met at
Paris in 1875, and his books and reports are regarded as exceedingly valuable.
Not only was he a man of learning, but he was especially a man of gentle
spirit, and of deep and unaffected piety."*
Mr. Nourse married at Georgetown, D. C, December 23, 1841,
Sarah Wright (born at Georgetown, August 21, 1821 ; died there
June 1, 1892), daughter of Thomas Crofts (died 1840) and Judith
Sayse (died 1842, aged 65) Wright.
"Mrs. Nourse was a member of the West Street Presbyterian
Church and was noted for the lively interest she always manifested
in works of benevolence and charity. As treasurer of the Benevo
lent Society of Georgetown she devoted many years of faithful service
to distributing aid to the needy, and as a manager of the Aged
Women's Home did much toward the success of that institution."
1. Mary Alice* Nourse, born at Washmgton, D. C, October 20, 1842; died at
Annapolis, Maryland, April 20, 1856.
2. Annie Wright* Nourse, born at Washington, June 2, 1845.
3. Sarah Hassler* Nourse, born at Washington, March 2, 1847.
4. Mary Rittenhouse* Nourse, born at Washington, March 28, 1849; died there,
December 17, 1849.
5. Maria Josepha* Nourse, born at Annapolis, Maryland, September 22, 1853;
died there, April 5, 1854.
6. Charles Joseph* Nourse, born at Annapolis, December 15, 1854.
7. Emma Jane* Nourse, born at Annapolis, May 24, 1856 ; living, unmarried, at
Georgetown, D. C, 1895.
8. Frank* Nourse, born at Annapolis, Maryland, July 29, 1858; died at New
port, Rhode Island, October 7, 1863.
9. Henry Dumont* Nourse, born at Newport, January 30, 1863.

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97. Henry Michael3 Nourse (Michael,2 James1), born near Wash
ington, D. C, September 25, 1824 ; died at Lafayette, Indiana, Octo
ber 16, 1868. He graduated from Yale College and Yale Law
School, and practiced his profession for a time at Washington. He
was the district attorney of Warren county, Indiana, for several years.
He enlisted at Indianapolis, Indiana, and served through the Civil
War, first as private, and by promotion, as adjutant, of the Sixty-third
Indiana Infantry. After the war he was editor of the Lafayette,
Indiana, " Daily Journal" until a short time before his death. He
was noted for his courteous manner and kindliness. Mr. Nourse
married at Burlington, New Jersey, September, 1846, Cora Stansbury
(born at Washington, D. C, August 8, 1826 ; died at New York City,
December 18, 1879), daughter of Arthur Joseph Stansbury and sister
of the wife of his brother, Benjamin Franklin Nourse.
After the death of her husband and the marriage of her sons,
Mrs. Nourse supported her three daughters, one a confirmed invalid,
with her pen and brush. She was an excellent artist and contributed
illustrated articles to the leading magazines of New York ; was at
one time editor of " The Ladies' Floral Cabinet," published by Bow
man & Co., New York.
She was noted for her intelligence and high moral character ; was
a fine Latin and French scholar. Mrs. Nourse was a Presbyterian,
but for several years was a member ot the "Church of the Strangers,"
New York. She ever held firmly to her belief in a God who is
merciful to the widow and fatherless.
1. Henry Stansbury* Nourse, born at Marshall, Missouri, August 3, 1847.
2. Laura Hagner* Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, January 2, 1849; died
at Louisville, Kentucky, August, 1885.
3. Benjamin Franklin* Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, March 27, 1853.
4. Emma Hilgard* Nourse, born at Oxford, Indiana, November 18, 1858; died
September 8, 1859.
5. A son*, born September 18, 1860 ; died same day at Williamsport, Indiana.
6. Cora Howard* Nourse, born at Williamsport, August 2, 1862; died December
4, 1875.
7. Anna Saint Clair* Nourse, born at Lafayette, Indiana, June 16, 1866.
98. Mary Frances* Nourse (John Rittenhouse3, Michael2, James1),
born at Washington, D. C, July 14, 1827 ; clerk in Register's office,
Treasury Department, Washington, D. C, 1892 ; married, first, at
Washington, September 24, 1855, Matthew Smyth, a Presbyterian
minister (born in North Ireland ; died at Centerville, Iowa, August
11, 1859) ; married, second, March, 1860, in Pennsylvania, Adam

126 MICHAEL NOURSE.
Clarke McCaffrey, farmer, who was killed in battle at Murfrees
borough, Tennessee, December 31, 1862.
1. John Clarke5 McCaffrey, born at Powhatan Point, Ohio, December 14,
1860; died at Washington, D. C, June 14, 1882. He was wharf agent for a
stemboat company at Washington.
99. Anna Josepha* Nourse (John Rittenhouse3, Michael2, James1),
born at Washington, D C, February 28, 1834 ; living at Washing
ton, 1897 ; married there February 15, 1872, Richard Henry Hall
(born at Baltimore, Maryland, March 31, 1834 ; died at Washington,
D. C, January 15, 1897), who was traveling agent for D. Appleton
& Co., book publishers, New York . No children .
100. Helen Lucretia4 Nourse (John Rittenhouse3, Michael2,
James1), born at Washington, D. C, December 5, 1838; living at
Sligo, Montgomery county, Maryland, 1897 ; married at Washington,
June 2, 1859, William Thompson (born at Montreal, Canada, June
14, 1833 ; died in Montgomery county, Maryland, July 23, 1896). He
was vice-president of the Metropolitan Bank, Washington, D. C. No
children .
101. Sarah Lord4 Nourse (John Rittenhouse3, Michael2, James1),
born at Washington, D. C, August 31, 1841 ; living at Minneapolis,
Minnesota, 1895 ; married at Washington, September 18, 1866,
Electus Abijah Pratt (born at Oak Hill, New York, September 1,
1836). Mr. Pratt took the degrees of A. B. at Yale, 1858, and L.L.
B. at Columbian University, Washington, 1873 . He was a captain,
United States Army ; was clerk in the War Department, 1865-'83 ;
and is now a lawyer and real estate agent.
1. William Norman5 Pratt, born at Mount Pleasant, D. C, June 19, 1867; died
there August 22, 1867.
2. Edward Electus5 Pratt, born at Washington, D. C, October 4, 1870.
3. Charles William5 Pratt, born at Washington, March 7, 1875 ; died at Min
neapolis, Minnesota, May 9, 1886.
4. Helen5 Pratt, born at Washington,,May 19, 1877; died there February 25,
1880.
102. Edward Michael4 Nourse (John Rittenhouse3, Michael2,
James1), born at Hillside, Allegany county, Maryland, January 6,
1847 ; died at Washington, D. C, December 6, 1886 ; real estate
agent; married at Washington, D. O, December 12, 1872, Julia
Moore (born at Washington, August 11, 1847 ; living there, 1891),
daughter of William Walker (born 1803 ; died 1886) and Lucinda
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1. Robert Willett5 Nourse, born at Washington, D. C, December 4, 1873.
2. Ida Moore5 Nourse, born at Washington, September 19, 1877.
3. Julia De Pass5 Nourse, born at Washington, January 5, 1880.
103. Joseph Harvey4 Nourse (James3, Michael2, James1), born at
Washington, D. C, July 7, 1830 ; died at Bayfield, Wisconsin, June
22, 1891 ; married at Washington, March 15, 1853, Isobel Laurie
Rittenhouse (born at Washington, January 17, 1833 ; living at Bay
field, 1892), daughter of Benjamin Franklin (born at Milton, Penn
sylvania, August 7, 1805 ; died at Washington, D . C, February 27,
1883) and Isobel (Laurie) (born 1810 ; married about 1828 ; died
1833) Rittenhouse. The officiating clergyman was Rev. James
Laurie, D. D.,* grandfather of the bride. Shortly after their marri
age, Mr. Nourse and wife left Washington to go as missionaries to
the then far distant Indian Territory, where supplies, such as needles,
thread, etc., could be procured from New York but once a year. Mr.
Nourse taught at Spencer Academy, among the Choctaw Indians. It
was here that his usual good health broke down . In 1856, he was
sent to Bayfield, then a town on paper only, by the Bayfield Land
company, to transact business. The climate suited him, and the
following year he located there. In 1864, he went to Rockland,
Michigan, remaining there two years. In 1868, he took charge of
an academy at La Crosse, Michigan. In 1869, he returned to Bay
field as receiver in the United States Land Office. Since 1872, Mr.
Nourse was engaged in merchandizing. An elder in the Presby
terian church, he was very active in Sabbath-school and all church
work. Mainly through his efforts, the handsome Presbyterian church
building was erected at Bayfield, Wisconsin .
1. William5 Nourse, born in Indian Territory, April 5, 1854; died at Leesburg,
Virginia, February 22, 1855.
2. Isobel5 Nourse, born at Milroy, Pennsylvania, November 11,1855; living,
unmarried, at Bayfield, Wisconsin, 1892.
3. Henrietta5 Nourse, born at Bayfield, Wisconsin, June 10, 1858 ; died same
day.

* In March, 1803, a number of Christians of the Associate Reformed body, who had removed to
Washington when it became the seat of government, invited the Rev. James Laurie, of Edinburgh,
then visiting them, to assist them in gathering a congregation. The city was as yet with scarcely
an inhabitant or dwelling. Mr. Laurie was accustomed to relate that when, on his way thither, he
had asked his driver how far off it was, he received the answer: "Sir, we have been driving
through it for two hours 1" He was Installed pastor in 1801, received the degree of D. D. from
Williams College in 1815; his pastorate extends over a long period, ending in 1853, when he closed a
life of seventy-five years, with the words: "It is well." Prom the history of the Presbytery of
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128 MICHAEL NOURSE.
4. Emily5 Nourse, born at Bayfield, June 12, 1859; living, unmarried, at Bay
field, 1892.
5. Sarah5 Nourse, born at Bayfield, November 12, 1861 ; died February 17, 1863.
6. Edward E.5 Nourse, born at Bayfield, December 24, 1863.
7. Franklin Rittenhouse5 Nourse, born at Rockland, Michigan, August 17,
1866; died at Lewistown, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1867.
8. Harvey5 Nourse, born at Bayfield, Wisconsin, February 20, 1870.
9. Laurie5 Nourse, born at Bayfield, January 18, 1872.
10. Louise5 Nourse, born at Bayfield, December 25, 1873.
11. Bessie5 Nourse, born at Bayfield, June 10, 1876.
104. Elizabeth Rooker4 Nourse (James3, Michael2-, James1 ,
born at Milroy, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1832 ; died at Washington, D .
C, October 7, 1861 ; married at Washington, November 3, 1853, John
Wilson Nairn (born at Washington) . He married again.
1. Mary Wilson5 Nairn, born at Washington, D. C, September 21, 1854; living
at Washington, D. C, 1892; married at Washington, September 3, 1878,
Franz John Heiberger, Jr., tailor, born at Washington, February 9, 1852.
1. Elizabeth Flora9 Heiberger, born at Washington, March 7, 1880.
2. Franz John9 Heiberger, born at Washington, October 11, 1882.
3. Addie9 Heiberger, born at Washington, January 21,1885; died June 24,
1885.
4. Fanny9 Heiberger, born at Washington, August 22, 1886.
2. John James5 Nairn, born at Washington, D. C, October 23, 1856; wholesale
dealer in drugs and oils, at Hartford, Connecticut, 1891 ; married at Hart
ford, November 19, 1884, Gertrude Hastings Sisson (born at Hartford, Octo
ber 2, 1860), daughter of Thomas (born June 15, 1828) and Gertrude L.
(Hastings) (born at Suffleld, Connecticut, August 4, 1831) Sisson. No
children.
3. Joseph5 Nairn, died in infancy.
4. James5 Nairn, died in infancy.
5. Thomas Shields5 Nairn, druggist, born at Milroy, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1860;
married at Philadelphia, April 8, 1884, Sallie Louise Garretson (born at
Philadelphia, August I, 1864), daughter of Cornelius (born in Potsville,
Pennsylvania, March 31, 1832; died February 18, I8S6) and Emma Louise
(Nessenger) (born April 7,1845; married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
September 19, 1863, died June 15, 1886) Garretson.
1. Thomas Gilbert9 Nairn, born at Washington, D. G, April 14, 1885.
2. Hattie Louise" Nairn, born at Washington, D. C, August 6, 1887.
6. Elizabeth Rooker5 Nairn, born at Washington, September 1,1861; died
there, October], 1861.
105. Margaret Maclay4 Nourse (James 3 Michael,2 James1),
born at Milroy, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1835 ; died at Bayfield,
Wisconsin, December 6, 1862 ; married at Milroy, May 30, 1861,
Robert Mayne Patterson, Presbyterian minister, born at Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, July 17,1832. Degrees: D. D. (Princeton,
New Jersey); L. L. D. (Lafayette College). Dr. Patterson is an
author, and editor of "The Presbyterian Journal." No children.
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106. Sarah Harriet4 Nourse (James,3 Michael2 James1) , born
at Milroy, Pennsylvania, October 23, 1837 ; died at Milroy, De
cember 25, 1870 ; married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19,
1863, General John P. Taylor, who was born near Reedsville, Kish-
acequillas Valley, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1827. The land on which
he now resides, was located and the original warrant laid by his
great-grandfather, Robert Taylor, February 5, 1755, the year after it
was ceded by the Indians. He is the son of John (born March 6,
1775 ; died October 22, 1843) and Elizabeth (McManigle) (born June
5, 1787 ; married February 12, 1813 , died October 30, 1869) Taylor.
He was educated at Tuscarora Academy ; is very prominent in G. A.
R. circles, and is president of the Pennsylvania Board of Commis
sioners on Gettysburg monuments. He entered the service of the
United States August 6, 1861, as first lieutenant of Company C, of
First Pennsylvania reserve cavalry ; was promoted through the vari
ous grades to brevet brigadier general, in 1864 ; was mustered out
with the regiment, September 9, 1864. He participated in all the
battles successively, from Drainsville to Boynton Road, about fifty-
six in number; was slightly wounded at Cedar Mountain. No
children. General Taylor has married again .
107. James Michael4 Nourse (James,3 Michael,2 James1), born
at Milroy, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1840 ; pastor of Presbyterian
church at Manassas, Virginia, 1897 ; graduated from Lafayette Col
lege, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1862 ; from Princeton Theological
Seminary, April, 1865 ; married at Port Republic, New Jersey, May
18, 1865, Sarah Frances Blackman (born at Port Republic, February
3, 1844), daughter of Hon. David Somers (born 1815; died 1884)
and Abagail Holmes (Doughty*) (born IS 21 ; married 1841 ; died
1851) Blackman. J From 1865 to 1874, Mr. Nourse was district
•Abigail Holmes Doughty was the second daughter of Enoch Doughty, a worthy landholder of
Absecon, New Jersey, who was the son of a Revolutionary sire; also served his country in the war
of 1812. and the commonwealth in different capacities. Holding the office of Brigadier General, he
was honored by appointment as escort to General La Fayette when h e visited this country in 1824,
riding at the right of General La Fayette from New York to Philadelphia, it being before the days of
railroads. Of a fine martial bearing, be was a marked man upon many public occasions. General
Doughty died in 1871, where he had always lived, upon the large estate which had been handed down
from father to son for four generations.
4-David Blackman was born, lived and died in Port Republic, New Jersey, upon the original patri
mony of his forefathers (including a fine water power), for which grant was made to his family by
King George III, March 11, 1774. There are five generations buried within a few feet of each other.
Besides conducting a large shipbuilding interest, he served the commonwealth as justice for many
years, and as state senator; and was appointed judge by Governor Parker. His family were among
the pioneers of the M. E. church in New Jersey, while three uncles went to the new states of Ohio
and Illinois, where their names appeal in the annals of Methodism,

130 MICHAEL NOURSE.
missionary in the presbytery of West Virginia ; from that time till
1881, he was pastor of Presbyterian church at Athens, Ohio, aad at
the same time chaplain of S. E. Ohio Insane Asylum at that place.
From 1881 to 1883, he was superintendent of Children's Homes in
Athens and Meigs counties, aud pastor of Middleport Presbyterian
church ; from October, 1883, to May, 1885, principal of Andrew
Small Academy and pastor of a church at Darnestown, Maryland ;
from 1885 to October, 1889, pastor of a church at Alexandria, Vir
ginia ; October, 1889, he became pastor of Madison Avenue church
at Elizabeth, New Jersey. God has crowned his labors with his
approval, and many times with very marked favor.
1. Hattie Foster5 Nourse, born at Charleston, West Virginia, February 22,
1866.
2. Alpheus Homer5 Nourse, born at Bull Creek, West Virginia, December 3,
1867; mechanical engineer.
3. Clarence Doughty5 Nourse, born at Bull Creek, July 14, 1870 ; civil engineer
in Pennsylvania Bailroad Company.
4. Edith Holmes5 Nourse, born at Cairo, West Virginia, September 20, 1872.
5. James Francis5 Nourse, born at Athens, Ohio, November 18, 1874.
6. Mary Abigail5 Nourse, born at Athens, November 21, 1879.
108. Eva Maria4 Nourse (James3, Michael2, James1), born at
Milroy, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1841 ; died there December 26,
1864 ; married there March 11, 1863, Dr. James P. Burchfield who is
. living at Clearfield, Pennsylvania (1891). He entered the Federal
army as assistant surgeon in the 53d Pennsylvania Volunteers ; was
promoted to corps surgeon, and chief of staff.
1. James Nourse5 Burchfield, born 1864; practicing law at Clearfield, Pennsyl
vania, 1891.
109. John Thomas4 Nourse (James3, Michael2, James1), born at
Milroy, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1845 ; living at Santa Ana, Cali
fornia, 1892 . He was educated in the common schools, except one
terra at Tuscarora Academy, Academia, Pennsylvania ; served in
the Federal army, 13th and 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry ; enlisted
first in 1863, again in 1865 ; finally discharged at Raleigh, North
Carolina, July 27, 1865 ; was first military postmaster of Fayette
ville, North Carolina. Mr. Nourse read law with Hon. P. P. Morris
of Philadelphia, and attended the law department of the university
of Pennsylvania, where he graduated June, 1868; was admitted to
practice in the District Court and Court of Common Pleas of Phila
delphia in March of the same year. In 1869, he removed to Parkers-
burg, West Virginia, and was there associated with Hon. J. N. Hutch,-

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inson, and practiced in the courts of Richie and Wood counties till
November, 1872, when a disease of the optic nerve compelled him to
retire from business . For some years he assisted his father-in-law,
in his extensive business in Academia, Pennsylvania, and managed
the same after his death ; removed to Santa Ana, California, 1886.
Mr. Nourse is an elder in the Presbyterian church ; he represent
ed his presbytery in the General Assembly, at New York in 1889.
He is a prominent speaker in G. A. R. meetings. Mr. Nourse mar
ried at Academia, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1871, Eleanor Maclay Pome
roy (born at Concord, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1848; died at
Santa Ana, California, July 20, 1891), eldest daughter of the Hon.
Joseph and Ann (Crawford) Pomeroy.*
1. Sarah Harvey5 Nourse, born at Cairo, West Virginia, July 2, 1872.
2. Joseph Pomeroy5 Nourse, born at Academia, Pennsylvania, November 15,
1873.
3. James Eittenhouse5 Nourse, born at Academia, August 19, 1875.
4. John Thomas5 Nourse, born at Academia, March 3, 1877.
5. Bayard Everheart5- Nourse, born at Academia, January 10, 1880.
110. Ann Caroline4 Nourse (James3, Michael2, James1), born at
Washington, D. C, June 9, 1854 ; living at Santa Ana, California,
1892 ; married at Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October
26, 1880, Isaiah George Marks (born at Milroy, Pennsylvania, Octo
ber 26, 1850), son of William (born June 28, 1823 ; died October 30,
1858) and Catharine (Copeland) (born August 26. 1830 ; married
October 11, 1849) Marks. Mr. Marks is a very successful insurance
agent. He ia a justice of the peace and a member of the Board of
Education at Santa Ana.
1. Reba Warren5 Marks, born at Patterson, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1884.
2. Anna Lucille5 Marks, born at Patterson, June 1, 1886.
3. George Nourse5 Marks, born at Santa Ana, California, October 14, 1887.
4. William Jay5 Marks, born at Santa Ana, December 27, 1889.
111. Emma Josepha4 Nourse (Benjamin Franklin3, Michael2,
James1), born at Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1832 ;
died at Georgetown, D. C, January 17, 1862. "For many months,
*Mr. Pomeroy represented Franklin county in the legislature of Pennsylvania, in 1840. He re
moved to Junietta county, 1850, and in 1861, was elected associate judge, being the only successful
candidate on the Republican ticket. He representjd his Congressional District in the Philadelphia
Convention of 1872, which nominated Grant and Wilson. "He was one of the old style of men and
merchants — unpretentious, honest, reliable, and exact in all business dealings. Although a self-
made man, yet by his untiring industry and indomitable perseverance, he became successful in
business, influential in society, and, by the blessing of God, a faithful worker in the church In
which he was an elder." He was president of the Junietta Valley bank .

132 MICHAEL NOURSE.
her house was set in order," and " with cheerfulness, confidence"
and " perfect resignation to the will of her Heavenly Father" she
waited the summons, "come home ;" married at Washington, D. C,
December 7, 1852, Cornelius Stribling (born at Norfolk, Virginia,
March 27, 1831 ; died at Baltimore, Maryland, December 15, 1875),
son of Admiral Cornelius Kincheloe and Helen Maxwell (Payne)
Stribling.*
1. Helen Josepha5 Stribling, born at Washington, D. C, October 25, 1853 ;
died there March 11, 1855.
2. Cornelius Kincheloe5 Stribling, born at Georgetown, D. C, August 9,1857;
in the printing business at Frederick, Maryland, 1891; married at Hagers
town, Maryland, November 18, 1886, Mamy Bell McDaniels, born at Martins
burg, West Virginia, June 6, 1867.
1. Mary Bell9 Stribling, born at Frederick, Maryland, November 25, 1887.
2. Helen Maxwell" Stribling, born at Frederick, February 23, 1890.
3. Louisa Payne5 Stribling, born at Georgetown, D. C, December 13,1858;
married, first, at Martinsburg, West Virginia, June 25, 1881, William Henry
Criswell ; divorced and married, second, to Dr. Kirksey ; living at Pickens,
South Carolina.
4. Benjamin Nourse5 Stribling, born at Georgetown, D. C, July 17, 1860; died
there, July 5, 1861.
112. Susan Stansbury4 Nourse (Benjamin Franklin,3 Michael,2
James1) , born at Springfield, Ohio, November 13, 1834 ; the clergy
man, by mistake, baptized her Susan, instead of Susette, for her
grandmother Stansbury ; she was at one time a missionary to Alaska,
afterward matron of State Orphan Asylum, at Salem, Oregon ; mar
ried, first, at Washington, D. C, July 27, 1853, Jacob Watkins
Winans (born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, February 7, 1824 ; died July
20, 1855), son of Aaron \ and Elizabeth (Watkins) (born in New
Jersey, married about 1818; died aged 68) Winans.. Mr. Winans
was educated at Princeton College ; he graduated at Princeton The
ological Seminary, in 1852, and was licensed the same year by the
presbytery of Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was sent by the Board of
Home Missions on a tour of inspection up the St. Lawrence and
down the Mississippi rivers ; was called to the pastorate of the first
Presbyterian church at Memphis, Tenn. After a few months, he was
stricken with Memphis fever, and was sent, unconscious, to Spring
field, Ohio, where relatives cared for him until his recovery. In the
spring of 1853, he settled in Washington, D. C, becoming a partner
in " Central Academy." He never fully recovered from the effect of
the fever, In 1894, Mrs. Winans married John Burrows.
*See genealogy of the Riddle branch .
fAaron Winans was a large land holder, owned a brickyard, also a sloop, running to New York, to
carry produce.

MICHAEL NOURSE. 133
1. Benjamin Franklin Watkins5 Winans, born at New York City, February 8,
1856; living at Mount Vernon, New York, 1892; married at Greenwich, Con
necticut, June 27, 1880, Esther Dickson Bowen (born June 27, 1857),
daughter of Edward Richard (born 1824; died 1890) and Charlotte Amelia
(Bonnell) (born July 23, 1823; married December 24, 1848) Bowen.
I. Esther Mabel" Winans, born at Greenwich, Connecticut, March 22, 1881 ;
died at Mount Vernon, New York, June 8, 1885.
2. Ralph Franklin9 Winans, born at Greenwich, October 21, 1882.
3. Ada Stansbury9 Winans, born at Mount Vernon, July 7, 1884.
113. Emily Josepha4 Nourse ( William3, Michael2, James1), born
at Washington, D. C, July 2, 1841 ; living at Washington, 1892 ;
married first, at Washington, September 4, 1860, Alexander Somer
ville Steuart, ranch and stock owner (born 1839 ; died in Neuees
county, Texas, July 3, 1865); married second, at Washington, Decem
ber 16, 1868, William Augustus Meloy, lawyer (born at Chenango
Forks, New York, August 26, 1832). Degrees : A. B. (Yale), 1864;
A. M. (Yale) 1857. He was admitted to the bar of the United
States Supreme Court, in 1862. Mr. Meloy was a member of the
Maryland House of Delegates, 1889-'91.
1. William Mott5 Steuart, born at Corpus Christi, Texas, October 2, 1861 ;
living at Washington, D. C, 1891 ; L.L. B., Columbian University, 1884; L.L.
M., Columbian, 1885; admitted to the bar, District Columbia, 1886; clerk in
Census Office 1890 ; married at Washington, May 2, 1888, Florence May Hei
berger (born at Washington, May 29, 186H), daughter of Franz John Heiber
ger, Sr., (born 1819) and Emma Jane (Baker) (born 1827; married 1847; died
1882) Heiberger.
1. William Heiberger9 Steuart, born at Washington, November 22, 1890.
2. Alice Nourse5 Steuart, born in Live Oak county, Texas, September 5, 1863 ;
living at Bryan, Ohio, 1892; married at Washington, D. C, June 21, 1887,
John Milton Killits; born at Lithopolis, Ohio, October 7, 1858; L. L. B.
Columbian University 1885; L. L. M. Columbian, 1886; lawyer.
1. Alice Milton9 Killits, born at Bryan, Ohio, March 28, 1888.
2. Edith Steuart9 Killits, born at Bryan, Ohio, December 4, 1891.
3; Alexander Somerville5 Steuart, born at Washington, D. C, September 2,
1865; patent attorney at Washington, 1892; L. L. B. Columbian University,
1886; L. L. M., Columbian, 1-87; married at Washington, June 26, 1*89,
Linda Hogue (born at Zenia, Ohio, March 15, 1868), daughter of John
Thomas (born 1835) and Mary Elizabeth (Marsh) (born 1840; married 1858)
Hogue.
1. Marjory" Steuart, born at Washington, D. C, April 15, 1891.
4. Edith Willard5 Meloy, born at Washington, October 8, 1869; living at
Washington, 1892; unmarried.
5. Isabella Rittenhouse5 Meloy-, born near Muirkirk, Maryland, April 15,
.1871.
6. Guy Stanley5 Meloy, born at Washington, D. O, July 9, 1874.
7. Francis Edward5 Meloy, born at Washington, May 23, 1876.
8. Emily Gertrude5 Meloy, born at Washington, October 23, 1879.
9. Hugh Brian5 Meloy, born at Washington, June 6, 1881.

134 MICHAEL NOURSE.
114. William Bond* Nourse (William3, Michael2-, James1), born at
Washington, D. C, December 11, 1843 ; farmer near Suitland, Mary
land, 1892 ; married near Abingdon, Maryland, September 21, 1875,
Rosa Hazelherst Raymond (born near Abingdon, June, 1853), daugh
ter of Samuel Wilson and Mary Louisa (Allen) Raymond. They
have an adopted daughter named Ray, born May, 1885 .
115. Anna Isabella4 Nourse ( William3, Michael2, James1-), born
near Washington, D. C, November 2, 1852, living 1892; married
at Washington, October 11, 1870, Samuel Henry Meloy (born in
New York State, September 8, 1840) ; formerly of Washington, D. C,
now a farmer near Forestville, Maryland .
1. Arthur Nourse5 Meloy, born at Washington, D. C, March 8, 1872.
2. Helen Scott5 Meloy, born at Washington, January 15, 1874.
3. Ralph Nourse5 Meloy, born at Washington, September 20, 1877.
116. Mary Wilson* Nourse (William3, Michael2, James1) , born at
Washington, D. C, March 22, 1858 ; living at Baltimore, Maryland,
1892 ; married at Washington, December 23, 1879, Thomas Bowie
Brookes ; born at Bladensburg, Maryland; dry goods merchant.
1. Arthur Bowie5 Brookes, born at Baltimore, Maryland, December 14, 1880.
2. Bessie Nourse5 Brookes, born in Prince George county, Maryland, Septem
ber 16, 1882.
3. Mary Rittenhouse5 Brookes, born at Baltimore, Maryland, January 26,
1884; died there February 27, 1885.
4. William Thomas5 Brookes, born at Gaithersburg, Maryland, August 18,
1887; died Washington, D. C, September 27, 1888.
5. Nellie Russell5 Brookes, born at Baltimore, Maryland, August 10, 1889.
117. Charles Howard4 Nourse (Charles Howard3, Michael2,
James1), born at Washington, D. C, July 26, 1844; received the
degree of M. D., 1869 ; physician at Darnestown, Maryland, 1892 ;
married at Darnestown, January 15, 1871, Alice Darby (born in
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1845), daughter of Upton
(born in Carroll county, Maryland, August, 1823) and Ann E.
(Cooke) (born October 16, 1825; married February, 1844) Darby.
1. Anna Currie5 Nourse, born at Darnestown, Maryland, December 8, 1873;
died at Seneca, Maryland, August 6, 1875.
2. Upton Darby5. Nourse, born at Georgetown, D. C, June 8, 1876.
Mary Helen5 Nourse; born at Washington, D. C, October 5, 1879.
118. Mary Rittenhouse4 Nourse (Charles Howard3, Michael2,
James1), born at Montevideo, Maryland, July 6, 1852 ; living at
Washington, D. C, 1895 ; married at Culpepper Court House, Vir-

MICHAEL NOURSE. 135
ginia, October 20, 1869, Otho Magruder Muncaster, M. D., born at
Baltimore, Maryland, October 12, 1843. Dr. Muncaster received
his degree from the University of Maryland in 1865 ; he is a special
ist in the treatment of the throat, nose and ear.
1. Charles Nourse5 Muncaster, born at Wasliington, D. C, October 19, 1870';
died there March, 1876.
2. Mary Elzabeth5 Muncaster, born at Washington, March 2, 1873 ; died at
Waveland, Maryland, June, 1873.
3. Ida Rachel5 Muncaster, born at Washington, December 27, 1875.
4. Harriet5 Muncaster, born at Washington, May 8, 1880.
119. Annie Wright4 Nourse (Joseph Everett3, Michael2-, James1),
born at Washington, D. C, June 2, 1845 ; died at Georgetown, D. C,
March 13, 1870; married at Georgetown, July 19, 1866, Richard
Despard Dodge, born at New York, New York, September 6, 1839.
Mr. Dodge graduated as civil engineer, from Rensselaer Polytectic
Institute, Troy, New York, in 1860; was one year with E. A.
Stephens of Hoboken on Morris and Essex Railroad and Stephens'
Battery ; July 1862, he entered the Engineer Corps of United States
Navy ; had eighteen months sea service on " Juniata" and "Pequot"
in the West Indies, and on blockade of North Carolina; he was two
years at the Naval Aeademy, at Newport, and at Annapolis, as
instructor in Philosophy and Steam Engineering; two and a half
years in Bureau of Steam Engineering, at Washington. In 1868, he
resigned and went back to civil engineering; was seven years in
Jersey City and vicinity on railroad and city surveying ; three years
superintendent of Dodge and Olcott's Essential Oil Works, Jersey
City. He was for five years principal of Prospect Park Institute
for boys, Brooklyn ; and in 1890 was treasurer of Home Benefit As
sociation, New York, and living in Brooklyn .
1. Frank Despard5 Dodge, born at Georgetown, D. C, January 14,1868; living
at Brooklyn, New York, 1895; graduated in 1888, Ph. B. Columbia College,
School of Mines, New York ; for two years was assistant instructor in
Organic Chemistry at School of Mines. Mr. Dodge married at Brooklyn,
New York, April 18, 1895, Ella Belle Patterson (born February 8, 1867),
daughter of Thomas Howard (died about 1S69) and Sophie Durbrow (born
1826, married 1854) Patterson.
2. Richard Joseph5 Dodge, born at Georgetown, D. C, March 11, 1870; died at
Greenwich, Connecticut, September 13, 1890.
120. Sarah Hassler4 Nourse (Joseph Everett,3 Michael,2 James1),
born at Washington, D. C , March 2, 1847 ; died at Georgetown, D.
C, November 7, 1887 ; married at Georgetown, September 13, 1871,
Cornelius Stille Ramsburg, stock broker (born at Georgetown, Au
gust 2, 1839) ; living at Georgetown, 1892.

136 ¦ MICHAEL NOURSE.
1. Karl Hassler5 Ramsburg, born at Georgetown, D. C, July 9, 1872; died
April 12, 1891 ; was a student in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University
when he died.
2. Charles Joseph5 Ramsburg, born at Georgetown, May 30, 1877.
3. Alice Louise5 Ramsburg, born at Georgetown, June 22, 1880.
4. Josephine Nourse5 Ramsburg, born at Georgetown, February 29, 1884.
5. Elizabeth Thayer5 Ramsburg, born at Georgetown, October 4, 1885.
121. Charles Joseph4 Nourse (Joseph Everdt3, Michael,2 James1),
born at Annapolis, Maryland, December 15, 1854 ; died at Hart-
monsville, West Virginia, July 23, 1880 ; married at Brooklyn, New
York, June 26, 1879, Emily Louise Homans (born at Cincinnati,
Ohio, October 4, 1856) daughter of Benjamin (born January 25,
1826) and Frances Ellen (Williams) (born February 10, 1833 ; mar
ried August 15, 1854) Homans. Mr. Nourse received the degree of
A. B. from Lafayette College in 1874, obtaining also the astronom
ical prize; M. D., Columbian University, 1876, and took the
anatomical prize. June 1, 1876, Dr. Nourse was appointed assist
ant surgeon in the United States Navy. An early death cut short
a promising career. Mrs. Nourse is (1895) a clerk iu the Treasury
Department at Washington. No children.
122. Henry Dumont4 Nourse (Joseph Everett3, Michael2, James1),
born at Newport, Rhode Island, January 30, 1863 ; died at Darnes
town, Maryland, September 15, 1890 ; M. D., Columbian University,
1887 ; married at Darnestown, August 24, 18£9, Sarah Agnes Peter
(born at Darnestown, Maryland, March 5, 1863), daughter of Alex
ander (born March 24, 1833) and Jane Alice (Gassaway) (born June
8, 1835 ; married November 10, 1857) Peter.
1. Henry Dumont5 Nourse, born at Darnestown, Maryland, June 23, 1890; died
same place, December 24, 1890.
123. Henry Stansbury4 Nourse (now Norse) (Henry Michael3
Michael,2 James1), born at Marshall, Missouri, August 3, 1847. He
enlisted in the army, February, 1864; belonged to Company F,
Seventy-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteers ; he participated in
most of the battles fought by Sherman, between Nashville and At
lanta, but was never wounded ; was mustered out May, 1865. He
entered the United States Coast Survey, and from February, 1868,
to March, 1869, worked upon the survey of the west shore of Chesa
peake Bay. He then began railroad surveying in New Jersey, under
Mr. R. P Dodge. He took charge of a division of the Montclair
railway, November, 1869 ; was injured in a railroad accident Sep-

MICHAEL NOURSE. 137
tember, 1872, and had to abandon surveying in 1876 as a consequence.
He went to Missouri and wrote for the "Tribune" for a time, and
finally, in 1879, secured the position of librarian of Harlem Library,
New York City. Meanwhile, Mr. Norse studied art, and has exhib
ited pictures at the Academy of Design. One of his paintings was
purchased by the Crescent Club of Baltimore, Maryland, for its
banqueting hall, for $1,000. He writes for newspapers and maga
zines under the name of "Stansbury." He is now (1895) director of
The School of Design, connected with the State Normal and Training
School at Potsdam, New York.
His name was legally changed from Nourse to Norse in 1873,
because of his aversion to "Nurse," the common pronunciation ; he
also regarded Norse a better business name. He married at Pomp-
ton, New Jersey, April 25, 1871, Victoria Monroe (born June 6, 1846),
daughter of Charles and Leah (Lozier) (born July 21, 1820 ; died
November 30, 1872) Monroe . Mrs. Norse is a descendant of Gillis
Jansen de Mandeville, whose son, Hendrick, came from Holland to
New Jersey in 1701*.
1. John Francis5 Norse, born at Pompton, New Jersey, April 28, 1872.
2. Susan Ludlum5- Norse, born at Pompton, October 9, 1875; died January 6,
1877.
3. Orlando Monroe5 Norse, born at New York, New York, August 25, 1877.
124. Benjamin Franllin4 Nourse (Henry Michael,3 Michael,2
James1), born at Washington, D. C, March 27, 1853 ; living at New
Orleans, Louisiana, 1895, where he settled in 1885. He studied
civil engineering and worked with his brother at Pompton, New
Jersey. In 1873 and '74, he was a contractor for buildings ; he now
(1890) represents shoes and other goods, for H. Darlinghouse , of
Louisville, Kentucky; he married at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3, 1871,
Harriet De Bow (born at Pompton, New Jersey , August 25, 1854) ,
daughter of Henry J. (born 1809; died 1885) and Malinda (Freder
icks) (born 1818 ; living 1890) De Bow.
1. Anna Gertrude5 Nourse, died in infancy at Louisville, Kentucky.
2. William Kent5 Nourse, born at Louisville, Kentucky, March, 1873.
3. Mabel Scott5 Nourse, born at Louisville, June 8, 1879.
125. Anna Saint Clair4 NouRSE(iTenri/ Michael3, Michael2, James1),
born at Lafayette, Indiana, June 16, 1866; married at Baltimore,
Maryland, November 13, 1885, John Barbour Mendenhall, telegraph
 p  = — , 
•See Mandeville genealogy; published by Horsford & Sons, New York.

138 MICHAEL NOURSE.
operator, born in Orange county, Virginia, February 5, 1866. Mrs.
Mendenhall is studying art. Her paintings in oil show decided
talent.
1. Algernon Sydney5 Mendenhall, born at Vandalia, Illinois, July 14, 1889;
died at Paris, Kentucky, October 1, 1892.
2. John Saint Clair5 Mendenhall,, born at Paris, Kentucky, June 12, 1891.
126. Edward E.5 Nourse (Joseph Harvey4-, J ames3 , Michael2, James1),
born at Bayfield, Wisconsin, December 24, 1863 ; living at Bayfield,
1892 ; Presbyterian olergyman ; finished his theological course at
Hartford, Connecticut, May 15, 1891 ; married at Bayfield, May 16,
1891, Ettie Fay Silvernail (born at Hudson, Michigan, October 29,
1866), daughter of John B. and Susan Carver Silvernail.
127. Hattie Foster5 Nourse (James Michael4-, James3, Michael,2
James1), born at Charleston, West Virginia, February 22, 1866 ; mar
ried at Alexandria, Virginia, February 12, 1889, Albert Doyle
Brockett, merchant broker (born at Enfield, North Carolina, July 15,
1863), son of Edgar Longden (born 1825; died 1887) and Georgianna
(Seymour) (born 1827 ;married 1850) Brockett.* Mrs. Brockett has
been for some years an active and interested member of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution . She was elected register general
of the National society in February, 1896, and in 1897, vice-president
general in charge of organization of chapters. She is also a mem
ber of the Virginia Historical Society. "Her home is in Alexandria,
Virginia, her residence being just across the street from old Christ
church, where George Washington attended, and her pew in that
sanctuary a few seats back of the original Washington pew."
?Robert Brockett, Senior, son of William, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1752, and for a
few years resided near Glasslongh, Armagh county, Ireland; returned to Scotland in 1784, and the
same year emigrated to America, and settled at Alexandria, Virginia. He had three children,
Walter, Margaret and Robert. The latter married Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Longden and
Nancy Craig, December 14, 1815. Robert Brockett, senior, as a member of Brooke lodge A. F. and
A. M., was present at the funeral of George Washington, Decemher, 1799,and was also present at the
Masonic banquet given in honor of La Fayette at Claget's hotel, Alexandria, Virginia. Robert
Brockett, Jr., waR born July 24. 1792. During the late war with England, he performed two tours of
service; first as private in Captain Moreland's company (1814), and second as a lieutenant in a com
pany of volunteer infantry commanded by Captain James Meguire. He was a member of city
council for twenty years, and for several years president of council. In connection with others, he
represented for several years his native town before Congress, and in 1846 and '47, Mr. Brockett and
Mr. F. L. Smith were elf cted commissioners to represent Alexandria before the legislature of Vir
ginia, with a view io the retrocession of that city from the district to the stale of Virginia; died
June 22, 1867, aged 75. One of his sons, Edgar Longden Brockett, married Georgianna C. Seymour,
of Norfolk, Virginia, December 5, 1850, and during the war between the states, he served as major of
the Twelfth Regiment, Virginia Infantry. The Brockett homestead, "Aspen Grove," is situated on
the popular resident street of Alexandria, and has belonged to the family for over one hundred
years.

Kichard Nourse,
of Chilling Place and
Woodeaton, Oxfordshire,
England.

married

1
Walter Nourse,
of Weston, Herefordshire,
younger son; obiit 1609;
aetat 65.
Christiana,
daughter of Sir Frederick
Wall, of Lintrige, of Glou
cestershire.
married
1
John Nourse,
of Weston, Esquire.
obiit 1629; aetat 29.
Joan,
eldest daughter of Sir.lohn
Kyrle, of Much Marcle,
Herefordshire, Baronet.
married
1
John Nourse,
of Weston.
obiit 1670 ; aetat 54.
Lettice,
third daughter of William
Jones, of Treowen, Mon
mouthshire, Esquire.
married
John Nourse.
of Weston.
obiit 1683.
Ann,
daughter of John Smith,
of North Nibley, in Glou
cestershire, Esquire.
married
1
John Nourse,
of Weston.
born 1670; obiit i715.
Elizabeth,
daughter of James Greg
ory, of Woolhope, in
county of Hereford.
mar
'led
John Nourse,
of Weston.
obiit 1751.
Eliza,
daughter of William Greg
ory, of How Caple, in
county of Hereford.
married
I
James Nourse,
born at "Weston." Here
fordshire, Eng., July 19,
1731 ; died at Annapolis,
Md., October 10, 1784.
married
Sarah,
daughter of Gabriel Fouace
of London, Eng; died at
Annapolis, Md., September
7, 1784.
married

married
married
married
married
married
married
married
INDEX.

Abbott, William Grandison, Caledonia
Ermine, Cordelia Ann, Celestenie
Sherman , Olive Artemisia, Etta Jose
phine, Nolie Omega, Mernie May, 66.
Abbott, Achsah Sophronia, Oren, 104.
Adair, John, 35.
Alexander, Rev. Archibald, 75.
Alexander, Dr., 62.
Allen, John, 48.
Allen, Nora, Emma Josephine, 54.
Ancaster, Duke of, 70.
Anderson, Lawrence Lewis, 41.
Armstrong, Rev. James Andrew, 95.
Armstrong, Jane Baxter, Colonel Ed
ward McCarty, 94.
Arnold, Mr., 50.
Austin, Joseph, Mary, Ezra, Charles
Doudle, Sarah Araminta, Susan, 102.
Autograph page, explanation of, 7.
Baehring, Elizabeth, W. C, 111.
Bain, Polly Ann, Thomas Jefferson, 41.
Baird, Charles Holliday, David, 64.
Baldwin, Alexander Hamilton, John
Milton, 106.
Ballard, Edmonia, 8.3.
Bartrim, Sadie, 40.
Bash, Maria Willis, Jacob, 82.
Bell, Louisa, 40.
Benois, Sarah, 34, 35.
Berry, Catherine Minerva, Edward,
104.
Bird, Mark Gorden, William, 84.
Bittinger, Rev. R. H., 122.
Blackman, Sarah Frances, Hou. David
Somers, 129.
Blackwell, Eliza Ann, William David,
63.
Bond, Isabella Lucretia, Thomas W.
117.
Bott, J. August, 82.
Bourne, Dorothy, 4.
Bowen, Esther Dickson, Edward Rich
ard, 133.
Bradley, Luther, 80.
Branch, Mary Polk, Joseph, Governor
Lawrence, 48.
Breckenridge, Gambie, John, 54.
Brockett, Albert Doyle, Edgar Long
den, Robert, 138.
Brookes, Thomas Bowie, 134.
Brown, Alice B., 108.
Brown, Cyrus Newton, 66.
Brown, Elizabeth Blaine, Rev. Mat
thew, 97.

Brown, Mary, 54.
Brown, Mary Eliza, Judge Henry
Ormsby, 39.
Brown, Ora, 88.
Brown, Susanna, Dr. Benjamin, 116.
Brown, Thomas Johnson, Maggie, 89.
Brown, William Lewis, Samuel, 109.
Brown, Zachary, 48.
Brunton, Maggie. 79.
Bryan, Mary Rebecca, 91.
Brotherton, William, 102.
Bowman, Thomas, 56.
Bowden, William Edwin, 92.
Boyd, Hannah, Henry, 81.
Burnett, Annie Kate, Eli Seal, 122.
Bull, Elizabeth, 112.
Bull, John, Maria Louise, 26.
Bull, Sarah Harriet, 60.
Burroughs, Catharine Ella, 32.
Burchfield, Dr. James P., 130.
Burton, Joseph, 25.
Burton, Joseph, 9; Sarah, 8 and 9.
Burton, Lucy Ann, William A., S7.
Butch, Mary Jane, John L., 55.
Butler, Major William, 84.
Byham, William Jonas, Charles White,
108.
Byham, William Thompson, Smith Le
roy, Elnora Mariah, 107.
Callaway, Benjamin Franklin, 53.
Cameron, Susan, Daniel, 101.
Canico, Joseph, 54.
Cannon, Deptford Dento, 55.
Casebier, Benjamin, 109.
Castle End estate, 5.
Chambers, Jesse Calvin, 55.
Chambers, William, Mary Elizabeth, 73.
Chamberlain, Louis, 106.
Chapline, Anzonetta, Sarah Catharine,
81.
Chapline, Catharine, James Nourse, 80.
Chapline, Elizabeth, 93, 114.
Chapline, Ida Virginia, Charles Luther,
Edgar Howard, Elizabeth H., 81.
Chapline, Indiana, Jeremiah, William
Richardson, 80.
Chapline, Jeremiah, 77.
Chapline, Joseph, Sarah Force, 78.
Chapline, Ruhama, 88.
Chapline, Susan, Mary Ann, Elizabeth,
87.
Chappell, Rannie, George A., 86.
Chase, Josephine, Bengemen, 102.
Chew, Thomas John, 30.

158

INDEX.

Christ, Lizzie Althea, George, 110.
Clay, Hon. Henry, Thomas Hart, 105.
Clayton, Amanda, 54.
Clements, Michael Hopton, 3.
Collins, Stewart, 79.
Colston, Margaret, 52.
Compton, Mary Jane, Thomas, 106.
Cooke, Bernard Berkeley, 54.
Cooke, Catharine Burton, John, 44.
Cooke, John Francis Whiting, 56.
Cooke, Maria Bull, 47.
Cooke, Martha Catharine, Lucy Fran
ces Emily, 55.
Cooke, Mary Judge, 54.
Cooke, Mrs. Mary Brown, John Eugene,
55.
Cooke, Mary Markham, 53.
Cooke, Norbourne Berkeley, 52, 54, 56.
Cooke, Norbourne Leneans, 54.
Cooke, Rebecca, William Alexander,
Nannie, 56.
Cooke, Rose, Charles Letcher, 55.
Cooke, Sarah Force, 45.
Cooke, William Eugene, Stephen Clay
ton, 54.
Cooke, William Grant, 56.
Cravens, Sarah Amanda, William
James, John Marshall, Jeremiah
Chapline, 91.
Cravens, Dr. John, Dr. Joseph, Mary
Elizabeth, 89.
Cravens, Susan, Mary Belle, Edgar
Holmes, 92.
Cravens, Susan Caroline, Robert Oscar,
90.
Criswell, William Henry, 132.
Cromwell, Kate, Richard Arthur, Oli
ver, 46.
Crow, Henry Clay, 92.
Crutchfield, Benjamin F., 50.
Cummings, John Bowman, James, 73.
Curd, Elizabeth, William, 64.
Darby, Alice, Upton, 134.
Darnall, James Henry, Mary Ella, 91.
Davidson, Mary Kendall, Benjamin
Crosby, 47.
Davis, Harp, 62.
De Bow, Harriet, Henry J., 137.
de Longjumeau, Mariane Gaillard, 118.
Deloider, Mamie, 81.
de Mandeville, Gillis Jansen, 137.
Dickens, or Dickson, Araminta, 103.
Dodge, Richard Despard, Frank, 135.
Doom, James Madison, 36.
Doom, Mary Lizzie, John Phillips, 37.
Doudle, Ann, 100.
Douglass, Kate, 96.
Doughty, Abigail Holmes, Enoch, 129.
Doyle, James Henry, Patrick, 84.
Dudley, Peter Winston, 84.
Duffield, Rev. Dr., 114.
Dulany, Bladen, 30.
Dulany, Phoebe Pemberton, 30.

Dulany, Rosa Morris Romilly, 30.
Dunlap. Isabella Clay, Rev. Lattin
Ware, 72.
Dunmore, Lord, 11.
Dunn, Sarah Amanda, henry Harri
son, 111.
Durrum, Mollie, 67.
Dye, Florence, Eli, 85.
Dye, James Polk, 48.
Earp, George William, 88.
Echols, Mary, 59.
Elliott, Samuel McGinley, Samuel, 95.
Etter, Hattie Janet, Jacob, 91.
Evans, Emma Elton, Lambert, 78.
Evans, Frank Sisson, Isaac, William
Jackson, Joseph, Sarah Ann, Eliza
beth Chapline, Mary, 79.
Evans, Jeremiah Chapline, James]
Madison, 78.
Evans, Sarah Chapline, Martha, Will
iam Worthington, 78.
Ewing, Nancy, Charles, 35.
Ewing, Rachel Crawford, Thomas, 61.
Fahringer, William Garrison, 83.
Fee, Nettie, John S., 41.
Figley, Hiram Matthews, Mary Eliza
beth, 88.
Flewallen, James Henry, Job, 66.
Fogg, William Samuel, Elijah, 46.
Forest, Charles Wayman, 30.
Ford, Mary Sarah, 117.
Fosdic, Meadie, John, 53.
Foster, Bertha, 42.
Fouace, Mrs. Elizabeth, 69.
Fouace, Gabriel, Sarah, 4, 8.
Frazer, Mary B., William, 51.
Fowler, William Collins, 72.
Freed, Peter, 83.
Gaines, Bernard, Elizabeth Ward, 45,
74.
Gaines, Catharine, Fannie, Gustavus
Cooke, 46.
Gaiues, Daniel, 45.
Gaines, John Cabell Breckenridge, 47.
Garrett, Henly Francis, 46.
Garretson, Sallie Louise, Cornelius, 128.
Gentry, Alice Virginia, 96.
Gibbs, Emma, T9.
Gibson, Ann, William, 46.
Gibson, Sarah <!rozier, Joseph, 103.
Glenn, Andrew, Moses, 109.
Googe, Thomas, William Harry, Clara
Eva, Mary Lillian, 108.
Grant, Sallie Ann, Squire Boone, 56.
Green, Kate Higby, Thomas Bryant, 52.
Green, Thomas, Jr., 42.
Gregory, James, Elizabeth, 3.
Gregory, William, Eliza, 3.
Guffy, Artemisia Guinn, James, Minerva
Kennedy, 61.
Guseman, Emma, 104.

INDEX.

Haines, Josiah, 60.
Haines, Thomas, 64.
Hall, Elizabeth Emily, Orren Buell, 122.
Hall, William K., 50, 51.
Hall, Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, 63.
Hall, John Franklin, 51.
Hall, Richard Henry, 126.
Hambleson, Mary, 54.
Hamilton.Elizabeth Crutchfield, James,
63.
Hardy, Lieut. Governor James, 61.
Harmon, Theophilus, 83.
Harnest, Mattie, Daniel, 55.
Harris, Jasper M., 52.
Harrison, General, 82.
Harvey, Sarah North, Samuel 115.
Hassler, Charles Augustus, Ferdinand
Rudolph, 118.
Hassler, Charles William, Mary Caro
line, 119.
Hassler, Ferdinand Augustus, 121.
Hayes, Katie Agues, Nathan, 10?.
Hebb, Catherine, Edward, 80.
Heiberger, Florence May, Franz John,
128.
Hersburg, Mrs. Rhoda, 54.
Herron, Clem V., 88.
Herron, Hettie Jane, 101.
Hillsborough, Lord, 11.
Hinchinbroke, Lord; 69, 70.
Hobson, John Peyton, 42.
Hogue, Linda, John Thomas, 133.
Hogg, James Thompson, James Cooke,
55.
Hogg, Martha Frazer, Janet Mathe
son, 55.
Hollingswoi'th, Colonel Henry, 17.
Homans, Emily Louise, Benjamin, 136.
HoOk, William Henry, George Wash
ington, 73.
Hosmer, William Henry, 67.
Hout, Alargaret Anu, 80.
Howe, John Nelson, Thompson Boyd,
91.
Hyler, Mr., 59.
Hubbard, Dr. Charles Henry, James
McConnell, 51.
Hubbard, Joseph S., McKeene, 50.
Hugging, Matilda, Thomas, 48.
Hughes, William, 4.
Hull. General, 82.
Hunter, Martha, 99.
Hunter, Dr. T. H., 95.
Hurley, James Harvey, 43.
Huston, James, 75.
Hutchinson, Hon. J. N., 130.
Irwin, Dr. Charles Nourse, Eleanor Re
becca, 72.
Irwin, Dr. George Ebenezer, 72.
Irwin, John McClay, William, 71.
Irwin, Laura Lois, 73.
Jackson, General, 48.

Jackson, Jacob Anderson, Samuel, 10'. .
Jameson, Andrew, Rebecca, 58, 59, 70.
Jameson, Elizabeth, 70.
Jameson, Rebecca, John, 60.
Johnson, Susan Cooke, Sylvanus AV.,
45.
Johnson, Rachel, David, 82.
Jones, Leonidas Burnside, 62.
Jones, William, Lettice, 2.
Jordan, Ottie, Dr. John, 50.
Jordan, William Wells, 98.
Keene, Love, 92.
Kenney, Agnes McCreary, 75.
Kerr, Louisa Elizabeth, Nicholas M.,
51.
Kemble, Margaret T., 31.
Killits, John Milton, 133.
Kinchloe, Mr.. 47.
Kirksey, Dr. 132.
Kruger, William Jonas, 43.
Kyle, Rebecca, Thomas, 71.
Kyrle, Sir John, Joan, 2.
Lamona, Joana, 103.
Laughlin, James F., 86.
Laurie, Reverend James, 127.
Lawrence, Sarah Jackson, Dr. John.
48.
Ledbetter, John B., 50.
Leeper, James, 91 .
Lemmon, Albert, 85.
Leopard, Jacob Oscar, Jacob, John A. ,
Frank Biddle, 90.
Lillard, Jessie, 37.
Livingston, Mary, Alexander W., 107.
Logan, General ^Benjamin, William,
35, 36.
Logan, Rosa, 35.
Logue, John, Maud Austin, 102.
London, George Albert, 66.
Long, Benjamin A., 50.
Lowe, Georgia, Dr. Alexander, 91.
Lyle, Rev. Joel Kennev, 45, 75.
Lyle, Joel Reid, Rev. John, "Elder"
John, 75.
Mackev, Albert Roach, Jessie P., John
Cowl, 88.
Mackey, David, Joseph, Mary Susan,
87.
Mackey, Jane Elizabeth, James.
Amanda Melvina, Emma Belle, Ed
ward Evert, Minerva Annie, 83.
Mackey, Joseph, James, Albert Sisson,
82.
Mac Leod, John, George, Sally Doom,
37.
Manypenny, George Washington, 87.
Markham, Judith Virginia, Bernard,
52.
Marks, Isaiah George, William, 131.
Marrs, John Harrison, AVilliam, 64.
Marshall, John C, 50.
Marshall, Ainlinrln, > 0.

i no

INDEX.

Mathes, Christopher, Philip, 107.
Mayo, John, Ann, 4.
McCaffrev, Adam Clarke, 126.
McCall, Anna P., 51.
McCluer, Harry K., 108.
McClurg, AVilliam Leslie, N*.
McConnell, James, Mary Elizabeth, 50.
McConnell, James, Hezekiah, Thomas
AVinn, 51.
McConnell, Sallie, 50.
McCown, Samuel, 78.
McDaniels, Mamy Bell, 132.
McDonald, William Douglass, AVilliam,
91.
McGee, AV J, James, 120.
McLanahan, Thomas, 73.
McLean, Delia, Duncan, 35.
McLean, Mary Helen, 54.
McMeekin, Rebecca Ann, William, 105.
McMurry, Mamie Rebecca, Thomas, 86.
Meloy, Samuel Henry, 134.
Meloy, William Augustus, 133.
Mendenhall, John Barbour, 137.
Mercer, Sarah Leonia, Robert, 80.
Meredith, Mary, 90.
Milam, Anne. 37.
Miller, Eva, Rev. Emory, 110.
Monroe, Ben Montgomery, 52.
Monroe, Victoria, Charles, 137.
Montelle, AAraldemar, Elizabeth, 105.
Moore, Arthur, 37.
Moore, Julia, William AValker, 126.
Morris, Jennie, Thomas. 79.
Morris, Hon. P. P.. 130.
Morris, Hon. Antony, 26, 28, 29.
Morris, Rebecca, 28.
Morrison, Ida Ross, Colonel Eugene. 68.
Morse, James, 1 17.
Morton, George Norbourne, Edward
Redwood, 53.
Morton, John Franklin, 54.
Morton, John McNair, Susan Catharine,
Virginia Markham, 53.
Mosby, Sallie, 56.
Mowrey, George Albert, 43.
Muncaster, Otho Magruder, 135.
Much Marcle. 2.
Nadenbousch, Eloise, Philip F., 94.
Nairn, John Wilson, Mary AA'ilsou, John
James, Thomas Shields, 12s.
Neel, Sarah Wilson, Thomas, 59.
Newcomb, Anita Rosalie, 120.
Newcomb, Emily Kate, Anna Josepha,
121.
Newcomb, Simon, John Burton, 119.
North, Rogers, Ann, 115.
Nourse, Alney Jameson, 63.
Nourse, Andrew Jameson, 61.
Nourse, Anna Isabella, 134.
Nourse, Anna Josepha, 1 18, 1 26.
Nourse, Anna Saint Clair, 137.
Nourse Ann, 101.
Nourse, Ann Caroline, 131.

Nourse, Annie Wright, 135.
Nourse, Armida Jane, 67.
Nourse, arms of, 5.
Nourse, Artemisia Ann, 65.
Nourse, Benjamin Franklin, 116, 125,
137.
Nourse, Caroline Rebecca, 30.
Nourse, Charles, 101.
Nourse. Charles Allen, 42.
Nourse, Charles Benois. 35.
Nourse, Hon. Charles Clinton, 104, 105.
Nourse, Charles Ewing, 37.
Nourse, Charles Force, 45, 74.
Nourse, Rev. Charles Howard, 122,123,
134.
Nourse, Charles Joseph, 31, 32, 136.
Nourse, Charles Josephus, 28, 29.
Nourse, Charles Oren, 110.
Nourse, Charles Richie, 107.
Nourse, Charles AVilliam, 64.
Nourse, Clinton Charles, 111.
Nourse, Clinton Lafayette, 110.
Nourse, Darlington Berry, 1 10.
Nourse, Rev. Edward E.*, 138.
Nourse, Edward Michael, 126.
Nourse, Elizabeth, 4. 31, 73, 77.
Nourse, Elizabeth Rooker, 12s.
Nourse, Emily Josepha, 133.
Nourse, Emma Josepha,, 131.
Nourse, Eugenia Susan, 109.
Nourse, Eva Maria, 130.
Nourse, Gabriel, 100.
Nourse, Gabriel Augusta, 10'J.
Nourse, Hattie Foster, 13s.
Nourse, Helen Lucretia, 126.
Nourse, Henry Dumont, 136.
Nourse, Henrietta Helen, 109.
Nourse, Henry Michael, 125.
Nourse, Henry Ormsby, 41.
Nourse (Norse), Henry Stansbury, 136.
Nourse, Ilia Trippette, 42.
Nourse, James, 3, 4, 8, 9, 22, 33—35, 78,
114.
Nourse, James, children of, 22, 23.
Nourse, Rev. James, 114.
Nourse, James Duncan, 35, 36.
Nourse, James Erskine, 67.
Nourse, James Ewing, 64, 108.
Nourse, J ames Hervey, 59.
Nourse, Rev. James Michael, 129.
Nourse, James Robert, 62.
Nourse, John, 2, 3, 4, 103.
Nourse, Johu Daniel, 104.
Nourse, John Homer, 111.
Nourse, John Newton, 61.
Nourse, John Rittenhouse, 113.
Nourse, John Thomas, 130.
Nourse, Joseph, 24, 25, 26, 62, 87, 103,
114.
Nourse, Joseph Andrew, 63.
Nourse, Rev. Joseph' Everett, 99, 122,
123, 124.
Nourse, Joseph Gabriel, 104.
Nourse, Joseph Harvey, 127.

INDEX.

161

Nourse, Joseph Robert, 60.
Nourse, Jdseph William, 41.
Nourse, Lou Ellen, 43.
Nourse, Louisa, 30.
Nourse, Lucinda Elizabeth, 64.
Nourse, Lucretia Elizabeth, 108.
Nourse, Lulie Lee, 42.
Nourse, Maria Catharine, 45, 75.
'Nourse, Maria Josepha, 73.
Nourse, Margaret Ann, 64, 108.
Nourse, Margaret Maclay, J 28.
Nourse, Martha, 71.
Nourse, Martha Elizabeth, 64.
Nourse, Mary, 5.
Nourse, Mary Crawford, 62.
Nourse, Mary Ella, 42.
Nourse, Mary Frances, 125.
Nourse, Mary Miller, 107.
Nourse, Mary Priscilla, 41.
Nourse, Mary Rebecca Cramer, 109.
Nourse, Mary Rittenhouse, 134.
Nourse, Mary AVashington, 107.
Nourse, Mary Wilson, 134.
Nourse, Michael, 93, 103, 112.
Nourse, Nancy, 59.
Nourse, Ormazinda, 65.
Nourse, Ormazinda Caroline, 67.
Nourse, Ralph Erskine, 60.
Nourse, Rice Tilford, 65.
Nourse, Richard, 5.
Nourse, Richard Newton, 68.
Nourse, Robert, 4, 58, 59, 108.
Nourse, Robert Charles, 40.
Nourse, Rosa Logan, 43.
Nourse, Salem Abbott, 110.
Nourse, Sallie Smith, 43.
Nourse, Sarah Elizabeth, 45, 74.
Nourse, Sarah Ewing, 36.
Nourse, Sarah Harriet, 117, 128.
Nourse, Sarah Hassler, 135.
Nourse, Sarah Helen, 62.
Nourse, Sarah Lord, 126.
Nourse, Susan Ann, 105.
Nourse, Susanna, 93.
Nourse, Susan Stansbury, 132.
Nourse, Thomas, 5, 6.
Nourse, Wallace Logan, 40.
Nourse, Walter, 2, 6.
Nourse, Wesley Templeton, 67.
Nourse, William; 4, 69, 117.
Nourse, William Bond, 134.
Nourse, William Marion, 62.
Nourse, William Sumner, 106.
Nourse, William Wallace, 59.
Page, Herman, 98.
Parker, Anne Eliza. 56.
Parkinson, George Washington, James,
73.
Patterson, Ella, Robert, 88.
Patterson, Robert Mayne, 128.
Peabody, Judge Charles, 32.
Peabody, Julia Livingston, 32.
Penrod, John, Theodore Nourse, 65.
Pepper, Oscar, 46.

Peter, Elizabeth Jane (Henderson),
John Park Custis, 123.
Peter, Sarah Agnes, Alexander, 139.
Petree, Bettie Winn, Edward Mobley,
Thomas Hazel, 47, 50.
Petree, Edward Downer, 47.
Petree, Kate Hazel, 48.
Peyton, Richard Leander, Pauline
Wilson, 62.
Pickering, Margaret May, Samuel, 110.
Pierce, May, 50.
Plank, Levi Loveland, 85.
Pomeroy, Eleanor Maclay, Hon.
Joseph, 131.
Poole, Napoleon Bonaparte, 66.
Pratt, Electus Abijah, 126.
Price, Catharine, 78.
Price, Samuel Daniel, Benjamin Frank
lin, Samuel Addison, Charles Alex
ander, 80.
Prout, Mary, 87.
Pugh, Cinda, 79.
Ragan, Elizabeth Brooks, 95.
Ramsburg, Cornelius Stille, 135.
Rauch, Anne, 53.
Ray, Thomas J., 89.
Raymond, Rosa Hazelherst, .Samuel
Wilson, 134.
Redman, Samuel T., 52.
Resor, Cynthia Ann, James Wooster,
Emma Minerva, Jessie Ella, 85.
Resor, John AYilliain, Montgomery
Pike, 85.
Resor, Montgomery Pike, John, Alary
Eliza, 84.
Richmond, Aliss, Alary Belle, Francis,
83.
Riddle, Alice Holmes, Mary A'hginia,
Alason Wilkerson, Alartha, Alary
Alatthas, David Hoge, David Hun
ter, 96.
Riddle, David, 78.
Riddle, Rev. David Hunter, 93, 96, 97.
Riddle, Henry Alexander, Catharine
Burton, 99.
Riddle, James Nourse, Anne Elizabeth,
94.
Riddle, Mary Brown, Agnes Jane,
AVilliam Nourse, John Nourse, Alar
tha Susan, AA'illiam Tabb, 95.
Riddle, Alary Alorehead, Catharine
Burton, Elizabeth Brown, 98.
Riddle, Rev. Matthew Brown, 97, 98.
Riddle, AVilliam, James, 93.
Rinedollar, Nelson, John, 102.
Rittenhouse, Isobel Laurie, Benjamin
Franklin, 127.
Rittenhouse, Mary, Benjamin, 112.
Riley, Mary Ewing, AA'illiam, 65.
Roach, Jesse, William McKinney, Eliz
abeth Ann, 87.
Robertson, Alaria, William G., 123.
Robertson, Mrs. Jennie Grief, 52.
Robinson, Mary Jane, Marion Minor,90

162

INDEX.

Rock, Shelly, 66.
Rogers, James Henry, 81.
Ross, Elder Reuben, 68.
Rowland, Dixie, John, 65.
Rowland, Alethea, Richard, 59.
Rust, John, Martha Jane, Catharine, 59.
Rutherford, George Robert, 45.
Rutherford, Lettie Sharpe, 46.
Sale, William Hutchison, Jr., 42.
Sargent, James Ella, William Gardner,
Irene Ashton, 74.
Sargent, Robert Moore, Captain Robert,
45, 74.
Schneider, Eugene, 102.
Sharpe, Sarah Abigail, John, 47.
Sheffield, Lord, 69.
Sibley, Martha Ann, William Butler, 85.
Sibley, William Butler, Albert Gallatin,
84.
Siddons, Nelson, 85.
Silvernail, Ettie Fay, John B., 138.
Simms, Charles Nourse, 32.
Simms, Charles Carroll, 31.
Simpson, Anne Carroll, 31.
Singleton, Henrietta, 56.
Sisson, Abner Morgan, Matilda Eliza
beth, Carrie Viola, Almyra Susan, 84.
Sisson, Annie Belle, John Milton, 85.
Sisson, Caleb, Asbury Chapline, James
Franklin, Mary Elizabeth, Elizabeth
Sarah, Martha Ann, Mary, 82.
Sisson, Elizabeth Sarah, 78.
Sisson, Gertrude Hastings, Thomas, 128.
Sisson, Jesse, 81, 82.
Sisson, Strother Washington, Martha
Ann, 87.
Sisson, William Baker, Josie Virginia,
Amanda Malvina, Evaline Samantha,
Emily Minerva, 86.
Skinner, Elizabeth, 113.
Skinner, Ichabod Lord, Lucretia Colt,
114.
Slifer, Elizabeth Harley, Ezra, 84.
Small, Sarah, Joseph, 72.
Smallwood, Richard, 55.
Smith, Annie Desloge, Robert, 92.
Smith, Clara Brace, David, 119.
Smith, John, Ann, 3.
Smith, Mary Inez, Hiram Abiff, 106.
Smyth, Matthew, 125.
Sorenson, Mary, Ananias, 108.
Spencer, General Joseph, Hannah, 114.
Spink, Frances Marilda, 74.
Staley, William Harrison, 81.
Stansbury, Joseph, 117.
Stansbury, Josephine, Cora, Arthur
Joseph, 116, 125.
Stark, Ella Marie, J. Carroll, 89.
Stettinius, George W., 117.
Stipp, John, 81.
Steuart, Alexander Somerville, William
Mott, Alice Nourse, 133.
Stone, Elizabeth, 95.
Stone, John Peter, Morgan, 96.

Stone, Richard, 99.
Storer, Wm. Brightman, 107.
Stouffer, Anne E, 102.
Stribling, Rev. Chas. Riddle, 94.
Stribling, Cornelius, Cornelius Kin
cheloe, 94, 132.
Stribling, Louisa Payne, 132.
Sumner, J. R., 96.
Swearingen, George Dawson, Samuel
Martin, Owens Absalom, 79.
Swearingen, Ruth Anne, 79.
Swearingen, Jeremiah Chapline, 80.
Tabb, Susan, William, Martha, 95.
Taylor, George E., John, 49.
Taylor, Susan Mary, 50.
Taylor, James Harvey, Jesse Sisson,
Arthur Hugh, 86.
Taylor, Gen. John P., John, 129.
Terrell, Lay, 67.
Thaw, Mrs. William, 97.
Thompson, Almon Curtis, 86.
Thompson, James, 54.
Thompson, William, .126.
Trimble, Gertrude, George, 49.
Towel, Susan, Samuel, 63.
Townsend, John Carpenter, Noah, 109.
Tyrell, Sir Edward, Phillipa, 6.
Underwood, 4.
Van Buskirk, Charles Franklin, 53.
Vaughan, Elizabeth Sarah, Edmund,
48.
Vimont, Catharine Sumner, Charles
Jefferson, Elizabeth, Susan Nourse,
106.
Vimont, William Henry, Jefferson
Thomas, 105.
Vroom, Guisbert Bogart, Elizabeth
Brown, 98.
Waggener, W. H., 56.
Wall, Sir Frederick, Christiana, 2, 5.
Wallace, Richard Harden, 66.
Walther, Anna M., Joseph, 97.
AValthers, Lelia: Estelle, Clay, 74.
Ward, William, 58.
Ward, Ann, Capt. Wm. Flan, 67.
Washington, Colonel, 11, 12.
Washington, Fairfax, Jennie Evelyn,
40.
West, Mary Eliza, Jackson, 62.
Weston House, description of, 5.
Weston-under-Penyard, parish of, 1 , 2.
AA'eston, Lower, 2.
AVhite, Harriet, David, 84.
AVhite, Joel, 55.
White, Rosa B., Samuel, 51.
AA'hitmire, Jacob Randolph, 108.
Whitney, Edward Baldwin, 121.
AVickliffe, Sarah Jane, Nathaniel, 36.
Wilkerson, Sarah Emerine, Mason, 95.
Williams, Rev. Mead C, 98.
AVilson, Francis Asbury, George Pick
ering, 121'.
Wilson, John, 87.
Wilson, Joseph Glass, Anne Jane, 41.
Winans. Jacob AVatkins, Aaron. 132.

INDEX.

163

Winans, Ben jamin Franklin AVatkins,
133.
Winn, Charles Humphreys, Thomas,
Elizabeth Victoria, Maria, 52.
Winn, Elizabeth Scott Humphreys,
Martha Ann, 50.
Winn, Hezekiah, Fannie Ware, Sallie
Belle, Charles Ware, 48.
Winn, Maria, 52.
Winn, Matt, Sabella Boles, 49.
Winn, Susan Mary, 50, 52.
Winn, Thomas, Catharine Nourse, 47.
Wirt, Philip Richard, John, Mary Ru
hama, William Edwards, 89.

Wood, J. R., 96.
Woods, William H., 74.
Woody, Walton Albert, George, 106.
Woolf, Mary Arwilda, 108.
Wright, Sarah, Thomas Crofts, 124.
Wynn, Mary Hurin.William Hilles, 110.
Yoakum, Valentine, 47.
Young, Albert, Bettie Walker, 47.
Young, Dr. Benjamin Flower, 60.
Young, Caroline Josephine Bull, 60.
Young, Caroline Virginia, Andrew Nel
son, 82.
Young, Mary Belle, 47.

ERRATA.

On page 48, line 4, for "1855 " read "1885."
On page 52, line 42, for " Mory " read " Mary."
On page 54, line 31, for " Luther " read "Letcher."
On page 100, line 26, for Ann " Double " read Ann " Doudle," or "Dowdall."
On page 123, line 10, for " Hasborough " read " Hosborough."