LILLARD A Family of Colonial Virginia
by
Jacques Ephraim Stout Lillard.
1415 to 1928
Including authentic Revolutionary service references, early marriage records, wills, deeds, legal documents, original family letters of early American Lillards, etc.
WILLIAMS PRINTING COMPANY,
RICHMOND, VA. Copyright, 192.8, By Jacques Ephraim Stout Lillard. Ii
Dedicated to HONORABLE EPHRAIM WALLACE LILLARD,
MY FATHER and to HONORABLE WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, whose conversation in the Senate Office Building, at Washington, D. C., more than fifteen years ago, inspired the undertaking of this genealogy.
THE AUTHOR.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I GLEANINGS FROM EUROPEAN HISTORY______13
Il BEGINNI?,G OF THE AMERICAN BRANCH OF LU.LARDS___ 26
III COLONIAL VIRGINIA LILLARDS______31
IV JAMES Lu.LARD------40
V THE BRYA.""<-LILLARD CoNNE<.'TIONs ______106
VI WILLIAM LILLARD------149
VII NANCY (LILLARD) GARRETT ______--- _ ------166
VIII MosEs LILLAim OJ" NoRTH CAROLINA ______167
IX&X THE BRADLEY-LILLARD CONNECTIONS ______172
XI CAPT. JOI-IN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY ______181
XII CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA-.. - 298
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Ephraim Lillard, II ______------····------Frontispiece Facing Page
General Christopher Lillard 16 Honorable Ephraim Wallace Lillard ______32
Rose Terrace ------··------48 Genealogical Chart of the First Four Generations of Lillards in America ------··------64 The Will of Thomas Lillard, I ------112 Jacques Ephraim Stout Lillard ------144 Gladys Kidd Lillard and Ephraim Wallace Lillard, IL____ 160 Signatures of Capt. John Lillard and His Sons______192 ·Early Kentucky Land Grant to Christopher Lillard______208
Margaret (Prather) Lillard ------256 Laura James (Stout) Lillard and Jane (Crawford) Lillard_ 272 A Commission of Capt. Benjamin Lillard______304
PREFATORY NOTE
Among the many who have assisted in the preparation of this Gene alogy especial acknowledgment is made to Honorable Jasper Worth Lillard, of Decatur, Tenn., and to Mrs. Ada Lillard Farmer, of Frank fort, Ky., ·whose invaluable aidance the author has found indispensable; whose untiring efforts, patient researches and generous suggestions have reinforced the authenticity of this record. The author also gratefully remembers the kind co-operation of Mrs. Thomas Stinson Allen, of Lincoln, Nebraska, (sister of Honorable William Jennings Bryan); Mrs. John S. Barbour, of Fairfax, Virginia, (daughter of Judge Daniel A. Grimsley); and Mrs. Frances Carter Smith, of Yonkers, New York, (daughter of Senator French Pendleton Carter, of Virginia). Nor does the writer forget his indebtedness to David Irvine Lillard, of Chicago, Ill., for per mission to use the information contained in his book, "The Lillards," which was published in 1906; to Attorney John Turner Lillard, of Bloom ington, Ill., for the same privilege concerning his book, "Lillard"; to Mrs. Thomas Glover Ivie, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and to others too numerous to name here. J. E. s. L. The Chalan, Seward Square, Washington, D. C. April 19, 1928.
INTRODUCTION
This is not a Social Register! Every tree, even family ones, must have roots as well as branches. There are some who descend while others scale the rugged wind-swept heights of success. All are included: the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the educated and the less fortunate. Who can say that the roots are not more vital than the high flung blossoming branches?
Ancestry of gentle breeding is the prime inheritance. Gentility is the most stable foundation on which a man can build his future. The back ground of an honorable name enriches the tapestry of life no matter how simple the pattern.
More and more Americans are asking "Who is he?" instead of "What has he done?" Our nation has fought and won its place in the sun. The mid-Victorian fashion of tracing pedigrees back to some noble or lady, regardless of whether a bastard son, a courtesan or noble's mistress, is quite past. We are Americans. Our country is old enough to have its own ancestry, its own gentry, and no greater honor can be bequeathed one than to be descended from those courageous men and women who haz arded everything in the building of our nation.
"The Lillards were among the pioneers of Virginia in its early his tory and when the struggle for independence came, a number of them rendered gallant services in the Colonial Army." (From "The Lillards," by David Irvine Lillard).
The real object of this book therefore, is not an effort to trace our lineage back to Adam, through William the Conqueror, but is an earnest endeavor to preserve for the future generations all American Lillard data. What has been located regarding our European antecedents while search ing for the American records, is given in a separate chapter.
Fifteen years of tedious searching has gradually piled up the in formation for this work. Hour after hour, day after day, since the Spring of 19 lJ, hunting through thousands of volumes in the Library of Con gress and elsewhere; writing thousands of letters and questionnaires to members of the family; searching diligently through the County Clerks' records in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee; miles into the country to visit old family "burying grounds" and cemeteries for tombstone inscrip tions, or to locate old family Bible records; all necessary to authenticate the names and dates. Fifteen years! a thankless task. Yet our children's children will be grateful.
I have sincerely tried to state only that which can be proved by authentic Court, military or State records, family Bibles, official histories, tombstcnes and family letters or papers. Otherwise I have stated that it is traditional or legendary. I have avoided hearsay to keep out any mis statements. If errors have crept in they were unavoidable. The record is incomplete as many names and dates are missing. This is not due to neglect in trying to locate the data concerning them, but because the mem bers of that branch were not traceable, or else were unwilling to reply to my communications. I shall be glad to hear from all of these, so if at a later date I should issue a revised edition, I may then include them.
That my work may be of service to the American Lillards and their descendants, I sincerely pray! JACQUES E. STOUT LILLARD, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. April 21, 1928. The Lillard Genealogy
CHAPTER I
GLEANINGS FROM EUROPEAN HISTORY
"Consider history with the beginings of its stretching dimly into the remote time, emerging darkly out of the mysterious eternity. The true epic poem and universal divine Scripture."-Carlyle.
Normandy, one of the northern provinces of ancient France, whose shores are bathed by the chill waters of the English Channel, was in the past an ever changing boundary between France and England. One of the richest and most fertile parts of France, it was for centuries the battle field of warring nobles. On the decline of the Roman Empire it was seized by the Franks, and afterwards in the tenth century, wrested from them by the Normans, from whom it received its name. Charles the Simple gave his sanction to the conquest made by the Normans, and Rollo, their chief, received the title of the Duke of Normandy. William the Bastard, sixth in succession from Rollo, having become king of England in 1066, Normandy became annexed thereto. On the death of William it was separated from England and ruled by his son Robert, and was afterwards ruled by the kings of England until Philip Augustus wrested it from John and united it to France in 1203. In the year 1415, when our interest begins, Harfleur, a town of north ern Normandy, on the banks of tlie Lezarde River near its entrance into the Seine, six miles east of Le Havre, was the chief. port at the mouth of the Seine. While the Burgundians and Armagnacs were fighting in France, King Henry V. of England judged the moment ripe for intervention in the struggle. He had need to secure by a foreign war the throne which his father had usurped. Remembering the great booty of a former century, war with France was always popular in England. When Henry proposed a serious ex pedition, he easily obtained 6,000 men-at-arms and 24,000 archers, among whom, according to family traditions, was our ancestor, Thomas Lollard. This army landed on the coast of France, near Harfleur, on August 14, 1415. After a heroic defense which lasted a month, Harfleur, left without help, was forced to surrender. But Henry V. had lost 15,000 men, almost half his army. Too weak to attempt anything, he resolved 14 LILLARD GENEALOGY
to reach Calais by a march across country, and to hurl a fresh and in solent defiance at French chivalry. The English left Harfleur on October 8, 1415. They crossed the district of Caux not without some opposition, though they were careful only to demand wine and food from the towns in order not to rouse the populace against them. They reached Abbeville on the 13th, hoping to cross the Somme, but found the fort of Blanchetaque so well guarded that they had to advance up the river as far as Amiens. Near Nesle a country man showed them a ford across a marsh, a difficult and dangerous passage. They would have been lost if they had been attacked while making this crossing, but the French army was far in their rear, while the nobles were not anxious for a fight in a marsh. They desired a pitched battle in open country, and the princes demanded from Henry that he should name the place and day. The English king replied shortly that there was no need to name either a day or a place, as they could meet him any day in the open field.
THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT Despite the English king's answer, there was some fear in the French army that the enemy would escape, and to ensure that he should be held, the princes posted themselves between the villages of Tramecour and Agincourt, in a narrow passage through which the English were bound to pass. The ground was newly ploughed and sodden with rain, and it was impossible for 50,000 men, of whom 14,000 were knights, to deploy and to manceuvre there. The Constable d'Albret disposed his army in three columns, but everyone wished to be in the first column; the princes and the chief nobles placed themselves in it and it was more than thirty two ranks deep. There were some thousand archers to meet the English bowmen, and there were cannon, but their place was occupied by the knights; archers and cannon were alike rendered useless. The day at last arrived. The English archers launched their arrows, but the French could give no reply. "The place was soft and ploughed up by the horses," says an eye-witness, Lefebvre de St. Remy, "so that the horse had great difficulty in moving from the spot where they stood. The French were so laden with harness that they could not advance; they were weighted down by long suits of steel, reaching to the knees and very heavy; they were pressed so closely together that they could not raise an arm to strike their enemies, unless it was those in the first rank." Finally 1,200' men on the two wings detached themselves from the mass and ad vanced against the English, but they were attacked by a force of English archers hidden in a neighbouring wood, while others slipped and fell in GLEANINGS FROM EUROPEAN HISTORY 15
the mud. Only 120 reached the enemy and they were vigorously repulsed. Their retreat spread ,disorder in the vanguard; the English archers pur sued them, and armed with axes, swords and maces fell upon men and horse, capturing those who could not fly. Little blood would have been shed if a report had not circulated that a new body of the French army had arrived and was pillaging the baggage of the English, whom they were about to attack from the rear. Henry gave orders that the prisoners should be killed and this massacre was only stopped when it was known that the alarm was false. The English left 1,600 men on the field of battle, the French 10,000, among whom were seven princes and 120 barons. Fifteen hundred pris oners, among whom were the Duke of Orleans and Bourbon; the Counts of Eu, Vendome and Richemont, fell into the hands of the victors. With this valuable booty, Henry embarked at Calais; his army, reduced to less than 10,000 men, could attempt no further enterprise, but this won derful victory was enough. (The above historical facts are taken from Victor Drury's History of France, London Edition). Winston's Cumulative Encyclopredia states:
"Agincourt, a village of Northern France, department Pas de Calais, famous for the battle of Oct. 25, 1415, between the French and English. Henry V. King of England, eager to conquer France, landed at Harfleur, took the place by storm, and wished to march through Picardy to Calais, but was met by a French army under the Constable d' Albret. The English numbered about 15,000 men, while the French numbers are variously stated at from 50,000 to 150,000. The confined nature and softness of the ground were to the disadvantage of the French, who were drawn up in three columns unnecessarily deep. The English archers attacked the first division in front and in flank, and soon threw them into disorder. The second division flew on the fall of the Due d' Alen<;on, who was struck down by Henry himself; and the third division fled without striking a blow. Of the French 10,000 were killed, including the Constable d'Albret, with six dukes and princes. The English lost 1,600 men killed, among them the Duke of York, Henry's uncle. After the battle the English continued their march to Calais." However, the most detailed account of this famous battle in which our ancestor is supposed to have fought, is given in the Encyclopredia Britannica, Volume 1, as follows:
"AGINCOURT (Azincourt), a village of Northern France in the de partment of Pas de Calais, 14 miles northwest of St. Pol by road, famous on account of the victory on the 25th of October, 1415, of Henry V. of England over the French. The battle was fought in the defile formed by the woods of Agincourt and that of Tramecourt, at the northern exit 16 LILLA1rn GENEALOGY of which the army under d'Albret, Constable of France, had placed itself so as to bar the way to Calais against the English Forces which had been campaigning on the Somme. The night of the 24th of October was spent by the two armies on the ground, and the English had but little shelter from the heavy rain which fell. Early on the 25th-St. Crispin's Day-Henry V. arrayed his little army (about 1,000 men-at-arms, 6,000 archers and a few thousand of others on foot). It is probable that the usual three 'battles' were drawn up in line, each with its archers on the flanks and the dismounted men-at arms in the centre; the archers being thrown forward in wedge-shaped salients, almost exactly as at Crecy. The French on the other hand, were drawn up in three lines. Each line formed in deep masses. They were at least four times more numerous than the English, but restricted by the nature of the ground to the same extent of front, they were unable to use their full weight; further, the deep mud prevented their artillery from taking part, and the cross-bowmen were as usual relegated to the rear of the knights and men-at-arms. All were dismounted save a few knights and men-at-arms on the flanks, who were intended to charge the archers of the enemy. For three hours after sunrise there was no :fighting; then, Henry, :finding that the French would not advance, moved his army further into the defile. The archers :fixed the pointed stakes, which they carried to ward off cavalry charges, and opened the engagement with flights of arrows. The chivalry of France, undisciplined and careless of the lesson at Crecy and Poitiers, was quickly stung into action, and the French mounted men charged, only to be driven back in confusion. The Constable himself headed the leading line of dismounted men-at-arms; weighted with their armour, and sinking deep into the mud at every step, they yet reached and engaged the English men-at-arms; for a time the :fighting was severe. The thin line of defenders was borne back and King Henry was almost beaten to the ground. But at this moment the archers, taking their hatch ets, swords and other weapons, penetrated the gaps in the now disordered French, who could not move to cope with their unarmoured assailants, and were slaughtered or taken prisoners to a man. The second line of the French came on, only to be engulfed in the melee; its leaders like those of the :first line, were killed or taken, and the commanders of the third sought and found their death in the battle while their men rode off to safety. The closing scene of the battle was a half-hearted attack made by a body of fugitives, which led merely to the slaughter of the French prisoners, which was ordered by Henry because he had not enough men both to guard them and to meet the attack. The slaughter ceased when the assailants drew off. The total loss of the English is stated at 13 men at-arms (including the Duke of York, grandson of King Edward, III) and about 100 of the foot. The French lost 5,000 of noble birth killed, including the Constable, 3 dukes; 5 counts and 90 barons; 1,000 more were taken prisoners, amongst them the Duke of Orleans (the Charles d'Orleans of literature)." It is the tradition that for his gallant bra.very in this battle, Thomas Lollard was knighted by King Henry V. In 141 7, the English had returned to France to renew their invasion.
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Henry V. had taken Caen. The Dukes of Brittany, Anjou and Burgundy had signed Treaties of neutrality with him. He was methodically con quering the kingdom. Having taken possession of all lower Normandy, of Falaise, Vire, St. Lo, Courance and Evereux, the invaders beseiged Rouen. This city held out for seven dreary months. Horses, dogs and rats were eaten; 12,000 old men, women and children were driven beyond the walls to die of famine between the city and the English camp; all the resources of the defense were exhausted and the government did nothing. The Duke of Burgundy received the oriflamme (ancient standard of France) from the King of France and advanced as far as Pontoise and Beauvais, but dared not go farther. In 1419, the heroic city surrendered. O:n hearing of the fall of Rauen all the towns and places of the province opened their gates. Henry showed himself lenient and gave good terms to all who took the oath of fealty. The assassination of the Duke of Burgundy by the French, which induced his son and successor to join Henry, greatly added to the English power, and the allegiance was soon followed by the famous Treaty of Troyes (May 21, 1420), which gave the crown of France to the King of England. It was during this period of the English invasion that Sir Thomas Lollard is supposed to have met a French lady of gentle birth with whom a romance started. She was from the Province of Touraine. This romance culminated in a marriage, and although Sir Thomas was an English knight, he was so enamoured of his French wife and the fair land of Touraine, that when King Henry V. made his triumphal return to England, Sir Thomas did not go with him but remained in France, not oruy giving up his knightly rights, but also changing his name from Lollard to Lillard. Thus goes the old legend. How much of this is true I do not pretend to state, although according to historical facts the dates tally. Also that the name has been changed from some original way of spelling there is no doubt, as that tradition is given by all different branches of the family. However, I am inclined to believe that the original name was Lilliard and that the extra i was dropped. At all events, the name was spelled Lilliard previous to its being spelled as we now do. This is set forth and proved by the following : (Copied from "Epitaphia," by E. R. Sufferling).
"Maiden Lilliard, Ancrum Moor, Roxburgh, N. B. (Scotland). Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stone · Little was her stature, but great was her fame. Upon the English lions she laid many thumbs And when her legs were cutted off she fought upon her stumps." 18 LILLARD GENEALOGY
"Ancrum Moor was fought in 15 44, and was the outcome of the atrocities of Sir Ralph Evers, who had entered Scotland at the head of 3,000 mercernaries of Germans, Spanish and Scots (700 of the last), and had burnt and slain all before him; a mere wanton havoc. A battle at length, was fought at Ancrum Moor, during which the 700 Scots threw off their badges and fought for their own countrymen. The English were defeated and scattered, 800 killed and 1,000 made prisoners. It was during the fight that Maiden Lilliard killed several of the English with her own hands, and fell at last as described. She was buried on the field of battle and a stone -still marks the spot." This is also authenticated by Walsh's "Heroes and Heroines of Classi cal, Medireval and Legendary Stories": "Maid Lilliard, a Scottish maiden, whose feats at the battle of Ancrum Moor ( 1544) in which the English invaders, under Sir Ralph Evers and Sir Bryan Layton, were repulsed from the borders, are celebrated in the verses, still legible on the memorial stone erected on the spot. 'Fair Maiden Lilliard lies beneath this stane; Small was her stature, but mickle her fame. Upon the English loons she laid full many thumps; And when her legs were cuttet off she fought upon her stumps.' It is a historical fact that a body of women did join in the battle, and the stout little maid of Maxton was probably the first in the fray and distinguished herself in a fashion that naturally led to the humorous exaggeration in these verses." Maxton, a parish and village of 473 people, is situated 359 miles from London. It is in northern Roxburghshire, Scotland, five miles to the southeast of Melrose. The shaft of an ancient cross marks the spot where the men of the barony assembled for warlike expeditions. A Roman road also passes through this village, and a Roman camp can be traced. Littledean Tower, an ancient fortress of the Kers of Nenthorn, frowns down from its perch on a lofty rock beside the Tweed river. The ruins include a strong circular tower. This is where the Maid of Maxton lived the home she died defending. This is not mentioned as an assumption to her renown for our name, ·but merely to prove that the patronymic Lilliard was existent in Scotland in the year 1544. That it was also extant in England is evidenced by the information taken from the "Domestic MSS. of Queen Elizabeth: Articles Against Lady Lennox. Vol. XXIII, Rolls House, London, England," and from pages 378-9, Chapter V, Vol. 7, History of England (Vol. 1, Reign of Elizabeth), by James Anthony Froude, M. A. ( Edition of Charles Scribner & Co., New York, 1871): "September, 1561. Very swiftly Mary Stuart understood her situation. In Scotland, as throughout Europe, the Reformation was the creed GLEANINGS FROM EUROPEAN HISTORY 19
of the towns, of the merchants, the tradesmen, and the artisans. It had grown with their growth; it was the expression of their thoughts; and be tween them and the Catholic Queen there was a chasm which no ingenuity could bridge over. Half a dozen noblemen at most were really Protestants, and even these were still liable to be influenced by many motives external to religion-by patriotism, by national pride, by loyalty, chivalry and the natural courtesy of gentlemen. The residue of the lords and gentlemen who acted with the Congregation believed only in Protestantism as an ex cuse for laying hands upon the Church lands; and they dreaded a Catholic reaction only because reaction menaced their chance of filling their lean ~~ . The Queen had only therefore to avoid creating alarm by a display of Catholic fanaticism, and her course would be comparatively easy. It was useless to contend against the Reformation so long as England was a Protestant power, but the mass of her own subjects was ready to support her claim on the English succession. The reversion of the crown once secured the English Catholics would rally to her; Philip in all likeli hood would give her Don Carlos for a husband, and the rest would speedily follow. Or if Don Carlos was unattainable, there was Lord Darnley, the favorite at present among the great English nobility; and the union of the two claims would bring with it double strength. A thousan·d causes recommended Darnley to the Scots. He was the heir of two great houses, and would command the feudal allegiance of the families of Lennox and Douglas. Before Mary's return, his busy mother, Lady Margaret, had sounded Seton, Huntley, Sutherland and others of the Catholic nobles, on the marriage. Seton had replied 'that he would not only spend kis lii1ing but give his blood towards setting forth the Lord Darnley,' and, a few days only after the Queen's landing, the Earl of Sutherland intro duced her to a special messenger, ARTHUR LILLIARD, Darnley's tutor, with a direct proposal from Lady Margaret herself. Lord Darnley was but a boy of fifteen, and Mary Stuart's ambition soared to the Spanish throne; but he might be useful as a resource if her other expectations failed her. She received LILLIARD characteristically, 'sitt-ing on an old trunk.' She asked innumerable questions of his pupil's 'stature, age, qualities, abilities, and of my Lady Lennox's friends in England and Scotland,' and she dismissed him at last without a definite answer, but with an impression that he had been favourably .received." Hon. John T. Lillard, of Bloomington, Ill., in his book entitled .."Lillard," states:
"I have been informed, but have not .verified the records, that the family of Lillards in America were originally Welshmen. That two brothers, John and Benjamin, came from Wales to Virginia at an early day, bearing the name of Lollard, and that the name was changed to Lillard by special act of the House of _Burgesses of Virginia, at the in stance of the two brothers, who were determined to be so thoroughly remodeled to their new allegiance that they desired a change of name. One of the Lillards says that he visited the Lollards of Wales and found them, or some of them, of high station and large estates, though, 20 LILLARD GENEALOGY
be it understood here, this is stated merely as an alleged fact, and not because of any pride we draw from it. From another source it is stated ·that there are many Lillards in the south of France, who were formerly called Lollards. How much of fact and what of fiction these reports contain, or what connection, if any, they have with our family, I do not pretend to know." Careful search of the Virginia State Records fails to bring to light any special act of the House of Burgesses of Virginia making such change of the name from Lollard to Lillard. So if there are any Lollards still residing in Wales, the connection with our American branch of the family must come from the early days of Sir Thomas Lollard, who ( according to a Genealogical record compiled in 1893 by Benjamin Lillard, of New York), "fought under Henry the Fifth at Agincourt, and five years later returned to France and settled at Saumur, and married, changing his name from Lollard to Lillard." Colonel Benjamin F. Lillard,' Attorney of Murfreesboro, Tenn., com piled a brief family outline from information told him by his aunt. He states: "My father's youngest half-sister, Rhoda Lillard Pulliam, gave me the facts set out . . . her mind was bright and clear, and my grand father Benjamin Lillard lived with her for many years before he died, at the age of ninety years, and practiced law up to near the time of his death, and he having also been an Officer in the Revolution, I would suppose her statements of the family history to be correct. She informed me that only two brothers emigrated from England, John and James, and the latter died unmarried. Old cousin James of Harrodsburg, Ky., said there were only two but he insisted that our ancestor was named Benjamin instead of John. I now think he was mistaken. I see that the tradition you have, that you call him John. So this is two sources, besides my Aunt would be more likely to know, as he was her grandfather. All the Lillards in America, except a French family in Louisiana descended from this Progenitor. I have been informed that there is a lawyer and Planter in Louisiana by the name of B. F. Lillard whose ancestry were French." (This is an excerpt from a letter to Hon. J. W. Lillard, of Decatur, Tenn. It is dated July 16, 1897). Regardless of the fact that Rhoda Lillard Pulliam's mind was "clear" at the age of eighty-eight, there were many errors in this outline of B. F. Lillard's. Whether they crept in after Mrs. Pulliam told him the facts, or whether she was a little confused in the many branches of the family, we shall never know. At all events as a genealogical work it is practically valueless, lacking sufficient dates; being in general a list of the male de scent of the family, omitting in the majority of cases the names of their wives, or else only giving their. surname.. That there was another family of Lillards in Louisiana, which was GLEANINGS FROM ~UROPEAN HISTORY 21 distinct from our Virginia Lillards is also mentioned in the Genealogical Record of Benjamin Lillard of New York, as follows:
"The French family of Lillards live in Tangagipaho, Louisiana. They came from Bayonne, and in an interview I had with one of them, he stated that there were ·quite a number of his name living near Marseilles and Lyons. And there is some of the family still living there today (1893) on the banks of the Loire as I read in a French paper while I v.:as with March and, the account of ihe graduating exercises at St. Cyr., where one Lieu tenant Hypolite Lillard of France was the first in his class." On the banks of the Loire River is situated the town of Saumur, where Sir Thomas Lillard lived. While I was in France, during the World War, when on leave I visited the old feudal Chateau of Luynes, and saw carved in the stone of one of its pepper-box towers, the name of Alfonse Francois Lillard. I asked the old keeper about it, but be could tell me nothing. He said it had been there ever since he could re member. From this tower one can see the River Loire winding it's silver stream through the fertile valley toward the sea. Also the name is cut deeply into the stone of the lantern tower of that lovely old Cathedral of St. Gatien in Tours. The following is written on information gathered from Ephraim Lil lard, I, of Lawrenceburg, Ky., (born in Culpeper County, Va., in 1772); from old Squire Lillard, of Lillard Mills, Tenn.; Ben Lillard, of Mur freesboro, Tenn.; Joseph Lillard, of Frogmore Plantation, Louisiana ( of the Virginia Line); from the Genealogical Record compiled by Benj. Lillard, of New York; from old family papers an~ letters. From a chronological standpoint there must have been at least four generations between Sir Thomas Lillard, of Saumur, France, and his direct descendant, Jasper Lillard, who resided on the Loire River near Angers, France. Jasper Lillard was a vine grower, and in addition to tending his vine yard, owned and operated a line of boats up and down the Loire riV1er from Angers to Nantes, and from Angers to Tours. Unfortunat~no one has preserved the name of Jasper's father, but it is known that Jasper prospered and that he married a Miss Isaacs. What her first name was is unknown, but she must have been a woman of extraordinarily strong char acter, as she gave up her religion to marry Jasper, who was an avowed Huguenot. Jasper Lillard and his wife had at least five sons: l. Jean Lillard. 2. Benjamin Lillard 3. Moise Lillard. 4. Joseph Lillard. 5. David Lillard. 22 LILLARD GENEALOGY
SECOND GENERATION
Moise Lillard (No. 3) remained with his parents and assisted in the cultivation of the vineyards, the making of the wine, and the commercial business of the boat line. Like his father, he was a Huguenot. Moise, the equivalent in English being Moses, also prospered and bought himself a small vineyard nearby his parents. He then married Lilli ( or Lillian) Balssa ( or Balsa or Balsas, spelled differently in various records). Lillian Balssa was the aunt of Bernard Franc:;ois Balssa, and great aunt of his son, Honore de Balzac, the famous French novelist, author of "Eugenie Grandet," "Droll Stories," "Comedie Humaine," "Les Chouans," "La Phy~ siologie du Mariage" and many other equally well known works. The father of Honore de Balzac was really named Bernard Franc:;ois Balssa. Bernard never called himself de Balzac and Honore only assumed the particle after 1830. However the father did change his name to Balzac, but he had equally little right to the name of Balzac at all for his birth certificate has recently been discovered proving that the true name was Balssa, which appellation has been traced for more than a century before the novelist's birth as that of a family of small peasant proprietors in: the parish of Canezac, Department of Tarn, in Languedoc, a province of southern France. In and after the French Revolution Bernard Fran(_)ois Balssa attained positions of some importance in the Commissariat and Hospital De partments of ·the French Army and in 1 797 he married Anne Charlotte Laure Sallambier, who was a beauty, an heiress and a woman of con siderable faculty. Two years later, on May 20, 1799, their son, Honore de Balzac was born in a large stone residence on Rue Nationale, in Tours,_ France. There were also two daughters. Laure, the elder, became the favorite sister of the author and later wrote his Memoirs. She afterwards married and became Madame Surville. There was also a younger son named Henri, of whom we hear very little and that not very favorable. Honore de Balzac, great-nephew of Lillian (Balssa) Lillard, married the Countess Eveline de Hanska, the "Polish Lady." At the death of Jasper Lillard, Moise succeeded his father in the ownership of .the boat line1 whic:h later he passed on to his .eldest son, Moise, II. This boat line had been in operation over one hundred years. when the last communication between this family in France and the family in Virginia was received in 1759, which letter broke up all communica tion between the families on account of Virginia furnishing troops to fight with Wolfe at Quebec against the French. Old Squire Lillard, of Lillard Mills, Tennessee, stated that during the Revolutionary period com munications were renewed by one of the Virginians, and that these letters GLEANINGS FROM EUROPEAN HISTORY 23
when last he heard of them, were in the possession of Mildred Lillard Layton, in Linnville, Ohio. Correspondence with Mildred Layton's de scendants has failed to disclose these original letters so it is to be presumed that they have been destroyed or lost.
THE EDICT OF NANTES In the year 1598, King Henry IV. of France issued at Nantes, an edict which secured to the Huguenots freedom of conscience, and equal rights and privileges with the Roman Catholics. So Jasper Lillard and his wife reared their children and imbued them with the spirit of Cal vinism, and his son, Moses Lillard, did likewise. Two years after the death of Colbert, King Louis. XIV. of France committed the great error of his reign, the revocation of the edict of Nantes. The Protestants had remained quiet during the troubles of the Fronde, and in 1652, Louis XIV. had solemnly renewed the undertaking not to disturb their liberty of conscience. But he hated them as heretics and because they were thought to have little affection for absolute monarchy. Religious unity seemed to him to be as necessary as political. "I formed my scheme of conduct towards my subjects of the reformed faith as early as 1661," he says in his Memoirs, "and I felt that the best means would be to reduce them gradually; not imposing any new hardships upon them, and observing the liberties granted by my predecessors, but granting them nothing beyond those liberties and confining the exercise of their privileges within the narrowest limits that justice and kindness permit. As to their privileges which depended upon me, I resolved to grant them none in order to force them to consider of their own accord and without violence if they had any good reason for voluntarily depriv ing themselves of the advantages which they might enjoy in common with my other subjects." - He was Jong true to this ungenerous policy. Colbert protected the Protestants as useful and industrious subjects. He employed many in the arts, manufacture, and navy. Duquesne, the worthy rival of Ruyter, and Van Robais, the great manufacturer of Abbeville, were of the reformed faith, and Colbert even suggested to Louis XIV., the appointment of the Protestant Perrot d'Ablancourt to the position of court historian. After the Treaty of Nimwegen, various influences, which combined to affect Louis, already growing old, served to lead the government to .a more rigorous policy. The king was then engaged in a lively dispute with the papacy on the subject of regalian rights and was aIL' THIRD GENERATION THE BEGINNING OF THE AMERICAN BRANCH OF LILLARDS Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determined to be free.-Southey. The exact date of the arrival of Jean (John) and Benjamin Lillard in colonial Virginia is still an open question, but doubtless it was as soon after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, as their father could plan and arrange for these two fugitives to be smuggled out of France. For a boatman it should have been comparatively easy to take his soris down the Loire River to the open sea, thence to some port where negotia tions might be completed for their transportation to the land of the Free. Just how this was accomplished and what happened in the en suing years we shall never know. Perchance some older man--a Hugue- not friend of Moise Lillard-was fleeing to America, and these two boys were placed in his care, which may explain why the record of their voyage is still unfound. Or they may have braved the dangers of the uncertain and lengthy voyage entirely alone, using another name. At all events they were two courageous lads. There is a strong family tradition that John and Benjamin Lillard landed at Fredericksburg, Virginia, having come up the Rappahannock River, and after a brief sojourn there, went south to near Richmond, where they took up lands on the James River. Unfortunately the Civil War caused the destruction of practically all of the records of this date in that region, and we are therefore unable to determine just where on the James river they resided. That these two brothers came from France and not from England, as many claim, is set out ve:ry clearly in the following letter from John F. B. Lillard, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, who possessed more authentic data concerning the family than anyone else: "Poverty Flat, Harrodsburg, Ky., June 25, 1925. My dear Cousin: Your letter was read to me as I am nearly blind and cannot see to read or write. In reply I would say that the Lillards are French Huguenots, who came from France to Virginia. You will not find the name in either Hatt'on's List nor the list of the Virginia Company, Ltd., BEGINNING OF AMERICAN BRANCH OF LILLARDS 27 which contains the names of all the emigrants from Great Britain & Ireland from the landing of John Smith up to the commencement of the Revolutionary War. Ask Mrs. Jennie Morton to let you see my pedigree from the one I sent her for the Kentucky State Historical Society. I have a mass of documents, papers, letters and newspaper clip pings in regard to the family going back to 1750. Yes, both the wills you refer to are recorded here in the County Clerk's Office. I am sorry I cannot aid you further in this matter. With best wishes I beg to remain Your Kinsman, John F. B. Lillard." This is further strengthened .by the Genealogical Record compiled by Benjamin Lillard, of New York, in which he states: "John Lillard came from near Nantes, France, his family were farm ers and cultivated a vineyard on the banks of the River Loire near that city and spelled the name Lillart. Outside of one family in Louisiana all the Lillards in the U. S. are his descendants. He was a Huguenot." It is my belief, although I do not presume to state definitely, that John and Benjamin Lillard who came to Virginia from France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, were the two youngest children of Moise (Moses) and Lillian (Balssa) Lillard, and that all of their other children had already attained their majority or were married; that John and Benjamin were still minors and were therefore in grave danger of being tom from their parents or perhaps massacred. John, the elder, was nearing manhood, presumably about seventeen or eighteen years old in 1685, and Benjamin was a year or two younger. Aiding with the work in the. vineyards, or on the boat line, had doubtless. made these boys sturdy, courageous and resourceful lads of good physique. If they came to America under the guidance of some older man, they may have· lived with him until John .Lillard became of age, and then he took up his land on the James River. At all events we know that they resided' there and that one day Benjamin went out to the James River and' stripped off his clothes to bathe, went into the water and was drowned. Christopher Marian Lillard, of Lawrenceburg, Ky., who was born in 1820, stated in a letter written in 1895: "I have heard both father and gr;mdfather talk about our ancestors. There were only two brothers came over together and at first settled near Richmond, Virginia. The younger brother was drowned while bathing in the James River, and our family have all sprung from the other brother." The :first authentic knowledge .we have of Jean Lillard in America is. in the year 1700, when with his name Anglicized to John, he married Mildred Jones, a relative of the Monroe family which later was to produce 28 LILLARD GENEALOGY the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, the originator of the Monroe Doctrine. About 1701-2 a son was born of this union. He was named Benjamin Lillard, evidently for John's younger brother who had met with such an untimely death. Several other children were born to John and Mildred (Jones) Lillard, who died in infancy, and perhaps there were some daughters who reached the age of maturity whose identities have been loot in the dim haze of the past. A:t all events John's wife, Mildred Lillard, died circe 1720, and shortly thereafter John Lillard, with his son Benjamin moved further northward to Prince William County, Virginia, near the present town of Manassas. Here John married a second time, to a young widow named Mrs. Martha Littlejohn, who already had two children by her first husband. By this wife, John Lillard had only one child-a daughter named Sarah Lillard. There is a tradition told in all branches of the family that John Lillard, the progenitor of the American Lillards, lived to be 120 years old. That this is true cannot be determined as no record of his death has been preserved. However, Martha Littlejohn Lillard's will, dated and probated in 1734, does not mention her husband. She wills herr property to her two children by Mr. Littlejohn, and to her one daughter by John Lillard. It is possible, of course, that John Lillard was still living. It may have been decided that she should leave her mite to the three children all of whom were minors at the time of her death which evidently was caused by an illness and not old age. However, that he was yet alive is hardly probable, for in that event would he not have been made her executor "and to take: care of my children," instead of Martha Littlejohn Lillard's brother-in-law, Thomas Bosman? And in the event of the death of all three children, would not she have wanted her property to haV'e passed to John Lillard, her husband, instead of to her sister, Mary Bosman? THE WILL OF :MARTHA LILLARD. Jan. 17, 1734. (Will Book C, page 19, Records of Prince William Co., Va., at Manassas) "In the name of God, Amen, I, Martha Lillard of the Parish rJ. Truro in the County of Prince William, being sick and weak of body but perfect sence & memory do ordain this to be my last Will and 'flesita ment in manner following: Item: I comend my soul to God who gave it me in ho~ of pardon for all my sins at the resurrection; by the merits of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who died for me. Item: I give and bequeath to my sone Marcellus Littlejohn one third part of all my Estate to be paid him at the age of twenty-one years. BEGINNING OF AMERICAN BRANCH OF LILLARDS 29 Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Littlejohn one third part of all my Estate to be paid her at the age of Elighteen years or at the day of her marrage. Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Lillard one third part of all my Estate to be paid her at the age of Eighteen years or at the Day of her Marriage. And if it should happen that either of my children should die before they arrive to the age as aforesaid my will is that his or her part slhall gre to the survivour or survivours o,f them and if it should so happen that they should all die before they arrive to the ages aforesaid then to goe to my loving sister Mary Bosman and Heirs. Item: I do appoint Thomas Bosman to be my Executor and to take care of my children untill they shall arrive to the ages as abovesaid. Ratifying & confirming this to be my last Will and Testament Revoking all other Wills formerly made by me. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seale this seventeenth day of January one thousand seven hundred thirty & four. ' MARTHA M LILLARD her mark signed & sealed in presence of John ffarguson John Hergford Francis Coffer At a Court continued and held for Prince William County the Twentieth Day of ffebruary, 1734. This will was presented into Court by Thomas Bosman, Executor therein named who made Oath thereto acc-0rding to Law and being approved by the Oaths of the Witnesses thereto it is admitted to Record & on the motion of the said Thomas and his performing what is usual in such cases certificate is granted him for obtaining a Probate thereof in due form. Teste: Catesby Cocke, Cl. Crk." Then follows bond of Administrators of Thomas Bosman and Jeremiah Bronaugh to Robert Jones, First Justice in the Commission of Peace for Prince William County, in the amount of £50. MARTHA LILLARD'S INVENTORY. (Book C, page 27, Records of Prince William Co., Va.). "Pursuant to an order of Prince William Court, dated 20th of ffebruary, 17 34, we the subscribers being first sworn before Wm. Payne, Gent, one of his Majesties Justices for the said county have appraised and lnventoryed in money all & Singular the Estate of Martha Lillard, Deceased, as was presented to our view, vizd: £ s. d. To 1 old £feather Bed & Boulster, 1 Rugg, 1 pr Blankets ____ 3 10 O To 1 Old Ditto, 1 Rugg, 1 pr Old Blankets ______2 10 O 30 LILLARD GENEALOGY To 1 Old Do. & Boulster ------1 2 0 To 14° Pewter at 12d ------~ 0 14 0 To 12° Old Pewter at 9d ------0 9 0 To 1 Belmettle skillet 1 brass Ladle ______O 6 0 To 11 head sheep------3 6 0 To 1 old Mare & old Horss ------2 0 0 To 1 Young :Mare & 1 young horss ______4 10 0 To 12 head of Cattle ------8 14 0 To 7 head of Iioggs ------1 8 0 To 1 sow & 6 Piggs ------0 12 0 / To 6 Large Shoats ------0 12 0 To a parcell of Earthen Ware ------0 S 0 To 1 box & heaters 1 old gun ------0 12 6 To 2 pails & 2 firkins ------0 8 0 To 1 broken side saddle and bridle ______0 4 0 To a parcell of Old books ------_ 0 3 0 To 1 spinningi wheel ------0 10 0 To 1 pr old Stilliards ______0 2 6 To S pr of Knitting pins, 2 p• old Wool cards ______0 2 0 To 1 old Trunk, old chest, old box ______0 10 0 To a sett of Iron ·wedges & 1 fro ______0 6 0 To 77° Pott Iron at 2d ------0 12 0 To a parcell of old Lumber ______2 S 6 March 8, 17 34. John ffarguson John Hergford William Peake At a Court continued & held for Prince William County the 20th Day of March, 17.34, Thomas Bosman returned & made Oath to this In ventory & Appraisement which is admitted to record. Teste: Catesby Cocke, Cl. Crk." Genealogical data contained in this chapter: I. JOHN (Jean) LILLARD, the progenitor of the family in America, born near Nantes, France, circe 1668, settled in Virginia. and in 1700 married Mildred Jones, who died in 17 20. He married secondly, Mrs. Martha Littlejohn, who died in 1734, in Prince William Co. Va. Issue: (By first wife, Mildred Jones Lillard): II. BENJAMIN LILLARD. (See next chapter) And others who died in infancy. Perhaps daughters of whom we have no record. (By second wife, Martha. Littlejohn Lillard): III. SARAH LILLARD, of whom we have no further knowledge. CHAPTER III COLONIAL VIRGINIA LILLARDS BENJAMIN LILLARD (No. II), the only son of John and Mildred (Jones) Lillard, who lived to maturity, was born in Virginia, circe 1701. He served in the French and Indian Wars at Fort Duquesne with the Virginia troops under George Washington; also fought in Lordi Dunmore's War under Colonel William Fleming, and later vvas at Fort Pitt under Cresap. In 1724, Benjamin Lillard married Elizabeth Lightfoot, daughter of William Lightfoot. She was the younger sister of Philip Lightfoot who married Mary Warner Lewis, only daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis and his wife Lucy Taliaferro. Elizabeth Lightfoot .Lillard was a first cousin of "Light Horse Harry" Lee, of glorious Revolutiona.ry fame, who was the father of General Robert E. Lee. She was also related to Richard Henry Lee, the mover of the Declaration of Independence and the Cicero of the American Revolution; another of her relatives was Francis Light foot Lee, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. In the "Genealogical Record" compiled by Benjamin Lillard, of New York, it is stated that his father said: "that the Lees were related to the Lillards through the Lightfoots," and that in the book "The Life of Light Horse Harry Lee," mention is made of Elizabeth Light foot, his cousin, who later married Benjamin Lillard. It is from this Colonial Virginia couple that all American Lillards are descended. They resided, after their marriage, in Culpeper County, Virginia, and here it was that all of their children were born. THE LIGHTFOOT ARMS. "Barry of six or. and gu. on a bend sa. three escallops or sinister. (Corbin as on a chief or, three ravens ppr.) The crest is the head di an animal with ears pointed forward and tongue protruding." THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN AND ELIZABETH (LIGHT FOOT} LILLARD: IV. JAMES LILLARD, born circe 1725, married KESIAH BRADLEY. ( Revolutionary Soldier) . V. THOMAS LILLARD, born circe 1726, married ANNE ______(Revolutionary Soldier). VI. WILLIAM LILLARD, named for his maternal grandfather, WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT, married ANNE ------· VII. NANCY LILLARD married ______GARRETT. VIII. MOSES LILLARD. IX. ELIZABETH LILLARD married LA \VRENCE BRADLEY. 32 LILLARD GENEALOGY X. SARAH (Sally) LILLARD married ______BRADLEY. XI. Capt. JOHN LILLARD, born 173.7, married 1st. SUSANNA BALL; 2nd. ANNE MOORE THOMAS. (Revolutionary Soldier). XII. Capt. BENJAMIN LILLARD married 1st. FRANCES CROW; 2nd. ELIZABETH HENSLEY. (Revolutionary Soldier). ( The descendants of each of these children will be found in the chapter numbered corresponding to the numeral beside their name, viz. James Lillard and his descendants will be found in Chapter IV, while Capt. John Lillard and his descendants will be found in Chapter XI, etc). In "The Field Genealogy," page 1103, No. 6944, it is stated that Molly Field married a Lillard. He was evidently another son of Benja min (II) and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard. Molly Field Lillard vras the daughter of Hon. Henry Field, Jr., who was born in St. Marks Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, and his wife, Mary (------) Field. Hon. Henry Field, Jr., was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1775. He died October, 1785. He had thirteen children. One of Molly Field Lillard's brothers was Thomas Field, who married Ann (Mason) Scott, mother of General Winfield Scott. Hon. Daniel Field was another brother of Molly Field Lillard. He married Judith Yancey. He was a member of the Virginia bench and Magistrate. He also served in the Virginia General Assembly. Yet another brother of Molly Field Lillard was Henry Field, a Revolutionary soldier, born in Culpeper County, Va., in February, 1755, who married Miss Cardwell. Molly (Field) Lillard was a first cousin of Colonel John Field, who married Anna Rogers Clark, sister of General George Rogers Clark, the Conqueror of Illinois. Molly (Field) Lillard was also related to President Thomas Jeffer son, his mother being Mary A. Field, daughter of Major Peter Field. This is the same Field family from which Marshall Field, of Chicago, Ill., descends. History is built on testimony and we weigh testimony by the char acter of the testifier. Therefore I will proceed to quote the testimony of some who have received undisputed recognition for their accuracy. On page 919, History of Kentucky, Edition of Morris Company, 1887, it is stated: ". . . Capt. John Lillard, a native of Culpeper County, who died in 1801 . . was the son of Benjamin Lillard . . The family was well represented in the Revolutionary war. Benjamin's children were Thomas, James, William, Moses, Benjamin and John." COLONIAL VIRGINIA LILLARDS 33 Captain John Lillard, was a. native of Culpep~r Co.:, Va., and he did die in 1801, as is proved by his Will in Ch.apter XL That the family was well represented in the Revolutionary War is also attested by the fact that the Revolutionary Records prove that Thomas Lillard was a sergeant, John and Benjamin Lillard were Captains, and Thomas' son John was a private. Also the son of their sister was. a Revolutionary soldier. This can all be proved, and verified. The same History of Kentucky in another place sbtes: ''Capt. John Lillard was a son of Benjamin." •. Judge D. A. Grimsley, distinguished jurist and author, in a letter dated June· 28, 1897, states: "The records of our county (Culpeper) show that from 1760 to about 1800 there lived in this county James, John, Benjamin and Thomas (Lillard) I think the indications are that J a.mes, John, Ben jamin and Thomas whose names appear on the records here from 1760 to 1790 were brothers . . . I only have such information as the record here discloses." Benjamin Lillard, of New York, who was born in 1847, Publisher of the Practical Druggist and the Popular Science News; who was gradu ated from Kentucky University, and from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1868; connected with the American Druggist for eight years, and with the Druggists Circular for ten years; who contributed largd.y to medical and scientific journals, and was an author of a number of volumes, compiled a "Genealogy" from an old record of his father, James Madison Lillard, who was born in Culpeper County, Va., on June 14, 1807. This was verified by Martha (Lillard) Sanford, and old Ephraim Lillard, I, of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, who was born in Culpeper County, Va., on October 12, 1772, before the Revolutionary War, and who died at Lav\l'renceburg, Ky., on September 8, 1838, and whose grave is still to be seen near Lawrenceburg. James Madison Lillard, the fat'her of Benjamin Lillard, of New York, went to Kentucky from Virginia in 1827, and lived within twenty miles of Ephraim Lillard, I, for about eleven years before his death. This record is also verified by statements of old Squire Lillard, of Lillard Mills, Marshall County, Tennessee, a grandson of Moses Lillard, who was born in 1807. It is also corroborated by the word of Joseph Lillard, of Frogmore Plantation of Louisiana, one of the earlier members of the Virginia family of Lillards. This record I quote in its completeness: "Benjamin Lillard (of New York) son of J runes Madison Lillard ( 1) and Margaret McAfee Neeld · Grandson of 34 LILLARD GElli"EALOGY Benjamin Lillard; die Ybunger (2) and SARAH James (3) Great Grandson of James Lillard ( 4) and Kesiah Bradley ( 6) ,, , . Great Great Grandson of , . Benjamin Lillard, Senior ( 5) and Elizabeth Lightfoot ( 7) Great-Great-Great-Grandson of John Lillard ( 8) and Mildred Jones. (1) Organized Company for Services in Mexican War and was a Major in the Kentucky State Troops. Company never called int6 active service. (2) A Lieutenant in Captain Wetherall's Company of Virginia Troops in War of 1812-15. Saw two years of Service at Norfolk anp. Suffolk, was wounded four times at the Suffolk and Norfolk fight. (3) Sarah James was a daughter of Thomas James of Orange Court House, Va.; a member of the Culpeper Minute Men. A member of. the Culpeper Minute Men commanded by Col. Law~ rence Taliaferro, the first company raised in Virginia. Served through the Revolutionary War, and was at Yorktown at the close. (5) Served in the French and Indian Wars at Fort Duquesne with the Virginia troops under Washington, also fought in Lord .Dunmore's war under Col. Wm. Fleming and later at Fort Pitt under Cresap. (6) Kesiah Bradley was a second cousin of James Madison, father of President Madison, so your grandfather, Benjamin the Younger ( 2). and President Madison were third cousins and neighbors, hence your father's name. (7) Elizabeth Lightfoot was a first cousin of Light Horse Harry Lee of Revolutionary fame, who was the father of General Robert E. Lee. (8) John Lillard came to Virginia from near Nantes, France. His family were farmers and cultivated a vineyard on the banks of the Loire River near that city, and spelt the name Lillai;t. Out side of one family in Louisiana all the Lillards in the U. S. are his descendants. He was a Huguenot. (9) Everything mentioned are from family papers or taken down from conservations except the relationship to the Lee family your grand father (Benjamin the Young~r) simply s.aid that the Lees were related to the Lillards through the Lightfoots, but in reading the life of "Light Horse Harry" mention is made of his cousin Eliza beth Lightfoot. I asked but he did not know whether they Were first or second co.usins. Your aunt :Martha says that President Madison attended your Great Grandfather's funeral (James Lillard, Sr) and that they addressed each other as Cousin 'Ben and Cousin James when living. TRADITIONS Gathered from your aunt Martha, old Ephraim Lillard of Lawrence burcr, the old Squire at Lillard Mills, Ben Lillard of Murphresboro, an..d Jos;ph Lillard of Frogmore Plantation, Louisiana ( of Virginii line). The French family of Lillards in La. live in Tangagipaho. COLON:i:At vi:Rhml:A LILLARDS 35 The Father of John and Benjamin Lillard, who came to Virginia; was Moses, who married a Miss Lilli or Lillian DeBalzac. She was a great aunt of the novelist. He was an agriculturist, owning a small vine yard near Angers on the River. Loire. His father was Jasper who ma.r ded a Miss Isaacs. They had four sons named Benjamin, Moses, Joseph and David; No one seems to know what her first name was. She must have been a woman of extraordinarily strong character as she hot only gave up her religion to marry, but embraced the religion of her husband who was a Huguenot. .. Jasper was a vine grower, and owned and ran a line of boats, from Angers to Nantes on the River Loire; and was succeeded by his son Moses and by his grandson, these had been in existence over 100 years when the last communication between this family in France and the family in America vias received in 17 59, which letter broke up all communication between the family on account of Virginia furnishing troops to fight with Wolfe at Quebec against the French. Old Squire Lillard says that during the Revolutionary period communications were re-commenced by your father's great uncle Benjamin" (Captain Benjall}in Lillard, No. XII this book) "and that these letters when last he heard of them were in the pos sessicm~ of the descendants of Mildred. Leighton (Layton) in Ohio. No one has preserved the name of Jasper's father and from a chrono lpgicai standpoint there must have been. at least four generations between Jasper Lillard and Thomas Lollard, who fought under Henry the Fifth at Agincourt, and five years later returned to France and settled at Saumur, and married changing his name from Lollard to Lillard .. By consul.ting a map of France you will note that all of these places are on the River Loire, which was the hot bed of the Huguenots at that time and day. Hence the "Edict of Nantes" and its Revocation was at Nantes and its adjoining provinces, and the Huguenots outnumbered the Papists three to one; and Nantes was the only city in France where there were no Huguenots massacred on St. Bartholomew's Eve. The Family at Tangagipaho, La., came from Bayonne, and in an interview I had with one of them he stated that there were quite a number of his name living near Marseilles and Lyons, and there is some of the family still living there today ( 1893) on the banks of the Loire as I read in a French paper while I was with Marchand, the account of the graduating exercises at St. Cyr, where one Lieutenant Hypolite Lillard of France was the first in his class." , _ ( Copied from Genealogical Record compiled by Benjamin Lillard, of New York, the son of James Madison and Margaret (Neeld) Lillard). The above record, so far as authentic data can be located is accurate. In fact, in one instance it aided me in correcting an error in the legal marriage records at Madison, Va. This record states that Benjamin Lillard, the younger; married Sarah James, yet when I was searching the marriage records at Madison, I found in their marriage register that this wedding was listed as "Benjamin Lillard to Elizabeth James." I asked Mrs. Patty, the Clerk, to please let me see the original bond, and when 36 LILLARD GENE.ALQGY we opened it up it revealed that Elizabeth James and Benjamin Lillard gave bond for the marriage of Benjamin Lillard to .Sally James. For years this old register had been wrong, and it would have remained in correct had it not been for this compilation of Benjamin Lillard of New York, from information his father furnished and corroborated by the older members of our family. Further proof of the accuracy of statements of James Madison Lillard is set forth in the following newspaper clipping, which appeared in the Harrodsburg (Ky.) Herald, June 17, 1927, about Old Fort Harrod, 177§- 1776: "An article written by the late Hon. W. W. Stephenson, reprinted by courtesy of the Kentucky State Historical Register, published Sept. 1907." An excerpt: "Mr. John F. B. Lillard, my friend, is the son of James M. Lillard, now deceased. He tells me that in August, 1860, he, with his father and brother, Robert, took dinner with Herrod Gore, deceased, son of Andrew Gore, deceased, from whom he had received the McGinty-Pogue property. After dinner, Mr. James M. Lillard, stepped off the north line of the Old Fort, as it had been pointed out to him by Gen. James Ray, and Herod Gore stepped it as it had been shown him by his father, and they practi cally agreed, differing only a few feet. According to the information in their possession, this north line began about fifteen feet west of the Old Town Spring referred to, and extended east to a point about the same distance west of Fort Street ( 264 feet). They agreed that there was a gate in the center of this line, and that the south line of the fort upon the hill was a solid row of log cabins, with a block house at each end, the east and west ends being stockades. This line nearly corresponded with the south line of Water street, being about a pole from the spring. Captain Phil B. Thompson (now in his 87th year), informs me that Ben Passmore, deceased, pointed ·out to him the north and west ends of the fort, and that the old town spring was in the northwest corner. Mr. John F. B. Lillard in the years 1872-3, saw a number of times in the Public Library of Kentucky (now the Polytechnic Society) in Louisville, Ky., an oil paint ing of the fort made from information furnished the artist by Dr. Chris topher C. Graham, in which the spring was shown in the northwest corner. When Capt. Phil B. Thompson, Margaret M. Neeld (Mrs. James M. Lillard, deceased) and others, in 1828, went to school on Seminary Hill, a part of the old Fort remained. The north part was a two-story log building 25 by 44 feet, with numerous portholes. This was adjoined .on the south by a one and a half story building, about 20 feet square. The north building with portholes was one of the original block-houses, and was so spoken of when Capt. Thompson, Mrs. Lillard and others went to school there. It stood about 60 feet north of the western extension of Lexington street, and about SO feet east of the east line of In-lots 1 and 2. Its site marks the southern line of the fort. Mr. Tobias Askew, who was COLONIAL VIRGINIA LILlARDS 37 born before 1800, and lived all his life at Harrodsburg, and taught ·school in the old Seminary, pointed out to Col. E. H. Gaither, when the latter was a boy, the east line of the fort as being a short distance ( about 15 feet) west of the eastern line of Fort Hill square. His statement corresponds with that of James Lillard and Herod Gme, as to its location. The proof taken in an old equity suit, filed in the Mercer Circuit Court in 1805, throws much light on the plan and situation of the fort, and supplements and corroborates the information £urnished by these gen tlemen, as to its size, plan and location." This Old Fort has been re-built in Pioneer Memorial State Park, at Harrodsburg, Ky., as these men described it. It was dedicated Thursday, June 16, 1927. The information contained in Benjamin Lillard's (of New York) Genealogical Record, is corroborated by the Pedigree of Dr. John F. B. Lillard, furnished to the Kentucky State Historical Society, as well as by original documents, letters and newspaper clippings regarding the family which went back to 1750. As to the Revolutionary record of James Lillard, Sr., son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard, Dr. John F. B. Lillard stated that he had original papers proving same and that he had in possession ( 1925) the sword which his great-grandfather, James Lillard, unsheathed in the cause of Liberty, during the Revolutionary War. Benjamin F. Lillard, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., claimed that the father of James, Moses, Benjamin, William and Thomas Lillard was John Lillard instead of Benjamin. However, the record of B. F. Lillard is very in complete. Made from information furnished him in 1885, by his half aunt, Rhoda Lillard Pulliam, he failed even to give the full names of those whom his own aunts and uncles married. He did not even give the full name of his own mother or grandmother, and there were no dates. Rhoda Lillard Pulliam was born in 1798, some twelve years after Capt. John Lillard left Virginia to go to Kentucky, and therefore although he ·was- a brother of her own father she did not mention him. Doubtless she knew there was a John Lillard, and perhaps confused Capt. John Lillard, of Kentucky, with the name of her grandparent. However, this record of B. F. Lillard's has been a most invaluable aid in this work, although I have proved many mis-statements in it. However, a statement made by James Lillard, III., of Decatur, Tenn., made a few days prior to his death in 1875, is as follows: "I was barned 17 March, 1795, in Virginia, Culpeper County, moved to Polk County, Tenn, in 1798, to Smithland Kentucky in 1811. · Re turned to Cocke County Tenn 1814 moved to Missouri in Dec 1817 Re turned to Rhea County Tennessee 1825 Married Polly Sandusky Feb. 1817. 38 LlLLAAD GENE,P,OG¥ My, fat\lt:tt> name was James Lillard bonie in Culpepper Co ¥a HS?. Married J ala Seal · My grandfatber was James Lillard died in Gulpep~r Co Va he married ~e.siah Eradley. My great grandfather w.as John i,illard emigrated fro~ England about t 700 with two other brothers. My father and ¥illy Lillard were brothers and sisters. I havt: two Un~les Austin and Ben. · (signed) James Lillard.lt His statements about his father, grandfather, and his Aunt Mildred Lillard Layton are correct, as well as to his two Uncles Austin and' B~n (Augustine and Benjamin). However, his grandfather, James Lillard, Sr., died in 1804, when James Lillard, III, the signer of the above, wa~ but nine years old, and from his own statement he was but three years old when he left Culpeper County, Virginia, to move to Polk County, Tenn., so he could not have been well versed in family genealogy at that time and evidently had been misinformed, according to more authentic infor mation now at hand. Nor is it incomprehensible when one sees in print the numerous Johns and James and Benjamins and Thomases in the Lil lard family, which are inclined to confuse one. In Culpeper County there were so many Benjamin Lillards for instance, that to identify them selves they were compelled to sign their legal papers, et cetera, with a qualifying title. In the old records Captain Benjamin Lillard signs "Ben jamin Lillard, Sr.", and in some places is referred to as "Eenjamin Lillard the Elder"; his son, Benjamin was known as "Benjamin Lillard, Jr.", while his nephew, son of his brother Thomas, was dubbed "Doctor "Ben jamin Lillard"; yet another nephew, son of his brother James, called himself "Benjamin Lillard, the Younger," (mentioned in the Genealogical Record of Benjamin Lillard, of New ¥ork), he was also called "Tennessee Ben'' because he removed to Tennessee, but did not like it, so returned to Virginia, thereby winning that nickname. Thus it is easy to see how con fused one might get in a maze of Johns and Benjamins. That B. F. Lillard was uncertain as to the name of the father of the Revolutionary generation of Lillards is evident, for although his, record clai~s that the name of their father was John, yet the following proves that he also claimed his name was Benjamin. · · "Extract from an interview between ~ cop-espondant Qf a Murfrees boro, Tennessee, newspaper and one Benjamin Lillard o,f Murfre~h,Qro, in regard to the' Lillard. Family; . --··• , -·· ' , ·-·· .. ' ' ·•· . . ' All the Lilla.rds in·· Afuerica except a French family who Uved in Louisiana probably descended from Benjamin Lillard vyho emigrated to ~merica about l'l20, and dkd at the age of 120 years. · · · He had six sons: Thomas, Moses, James, William, John and Ben jamin the younger. Benjamin commanded a Company at the Siege Qf Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis." COLONIAL VIRGINIA LILLARDS 39 And in his record of the family he eliminated the name of the son John, which by authentic records is conclusively proved to have existed and to be the progenitor of the large Kentucky branch of Lillards. · CHAPTER IV. JAMES LILLARD JAMES LILLARD (No. IV.), son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard, was born in Virginia about 1725. The date of his marriage is unknown, but he married Kesiah Bradley, a second cousin of James Madison, father of President Madison. They resided in the "County of Culpeper and Parish of Brumfield in the Colony of Virginia." On the 21st day of June, 1770, "James Lillard and wife Keziah, of County of Culpeper and Parish of Brumfield in the Colony of Virginia," deeded land to William Lucas. (Deed Book F, page 99, Culpeper County, Va. Records). On June 21, 1779, "James Lillard and wife Keziah," again deeded land in Culpeper County to John Brown. This was for a tract of one hundred and fifteen acres and the price they received for it was £55. (Deed Book I, Culpeper County, Va., Records). The lands of James Lillard evidently lay in that part of Culpeper County which later was made into Madison County. This estate was skirted to the west by the Blue Ridge Mountains, and even included some mountain land. In the same neighborhood lived Lawrence Bradley, who had married James Lillard's sister Elizabeth. Lawrence Bradley being a brother of Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard, J ames's wife. Other neighbors were the Browns, Captain Augustine Bradley, another brother of Kesiah's, and Thomas Smith. Then, too, the Yowells' and the Jenkins' families lived near by. James Lillard's brothers-all lived in this same Parish of Brumfield in Culpeper County, too, as did the Seal family. James Lillard's grandson, James Madison Lillard, stated that James Lillard was "A member of the Culpeper Minute Men, commanded by Colonel Lawrence Taliaferro, the first company raised in Virginia. Served through the Revolutionary War, and was at Yorktown at the close." On page 64, Yowell's "History of Orange County, Va.", it is stated that the Culpeper Minute Men was the first organization from this district. It also states that this body of men was under the command of Colonel Lawrence Taliaferro, of Orange County, and participated in the battle of Great Bridge, the first battle of the Revolutionary War on Virginia soil in 1775. It then gives a brief list of names, among which is the name: JAMES DEBORD which I believe is an inaccuracy in transcribing from the original records, and which should be written JAMES LILLARD 41 JAMES LILLARD. On page 134, List of Revolutionary Soldiers, Virginia State Library, is given: Debord, ______(Culpeper) Aud. Acct. 1779-80. 131. This is evidently taken from the same copy of the records as the other and is doubtless the record of James Lillard. The Revolutionary Record of Capt. John Lillard, brother of James, is misspelled also, and in the Virginia State Library List is copied: "Lillarard, John (Capt. Culpeper M.) War 23 (1778)." This proves that there were errors in the old records, and many of them in spelling. Upon writing about this to the Virginia State Library, at Richmond, Va., the following reply was received: July 22, 1927. My dear Sir:- I regret to say that we do not have a muster roll of the Culpeper Minute Men. I am Very truly yours, H. R. Mcllwaine, State Librarian." Regardless of the fact that in the official Lists the name of James Lillard does not appear, Dr. John F. B. Lillard, of Harrodsburg, Ken tucky, had in his possession original papers proving the services of James Lillard in the Revolutionary War, which had been given him by his father, James Madison Lillard, grandson of James Lillard, Sr. They also had James Lillard's sword. This fact is also mentioned in "The Lillards," a book published in 1906, by David Irvine Lillard, of Chicago, as follows: "James Madison Lillard, was born at Madison Court House, Vir ginia, and I have been informed that his grandfather was a Captain under "Light Horse" Harry Lee, in the Revolution and that the sword he un sheathed for liberty is still preserved in the family." After Madison County was cut off of Culpeper County, the following is recorded : "James Lillard and Keziah his wife" deeded fifty acres of land in Madison County, Virginia, to Mumford Stevens for £110 on December 19, 1795. (Deed Book 1, page 309, Madison County, Va., Records). On Nov. 27, 1800, "James Lillard and Keziah his wife," deeded ninety-five acres in Madison County to Richard Layton, their son.:in-law, 42 LU,LARD G~~HLOGY for £1000. (Deed Book 2, page 500, M.a,diso~ County, Va. Records). I believe this should re.ad for £100, but it was written in the record book £1000. In Deed Book 3, page 466, Madison County, Va., Records, "Augus tine Bradley and Franky his wife'' sold to James Liliard fifteen acres for "$33 & 33 cents" in Madison County, on December 10, 1803. This was witnessed by Paschal Early, Samuel 'Morriss, Richard Layton, Arge Cub- bage and Benjamin Lillard. . . ,. , · In Deed Book 4, page 63, Madison County, Va. Records; "James Lillard and Keziah his wife" deeded "½ a~re" in 'Madison Comity, to Thomas Smith for $2q.oo. This (lee~ w.as y.rit11esseq by Benjamin Lillard, Richard Layton, Aaron Nickolson, Dennis Lillard, Anthony Jenkins and Joseph Dodson. Dated June 2, 1804. This was most probably the last deed James Lillard signed. lie was then ~bo~t seventy-nine years old, and he died someti~~ bet~een the sigq ing of this deed on June 2, 1804, and August 23, 1804, wh~n his will was proved, which determines within less than three months the exact date of his death. THE WILL OF JAMES LILLARD, SR. (Recorded in Madison, Virginia, County Clerk's Office). "I, Jame$ Lillard, Senr, of the County of Madison, State of Virginia, being v,:eak of hody but of sound mind and memory do ordain this my last Will. and Testament hereby revoking all others heretofore by me made--my body t<> be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned. · ltem...:::r give and bequeath µnto my loving w,ife, Kesiah, during ))er life one hundred acres of land on. which my house now stands also· t~o negroes Simon and Betty, all of my' household and kitchen furniture ex cept one bed, also her choice of one half my stock cattle and all my hogs and sheep and one bey horse and one bey mare and one black mare--and at her de~ease to go to my son Benjamin. Item-I give and bequeath unto ·my son Benjamin, six hundred Acres of la:iid be the same more or less part of which l now. live on alsq half my st~}{ cattle and one young ~Y Illare Pne bed and furniture. Should lie die withoµt ~ La,wjyJ is.me i~ my; will and desire that all his part shall be equally divided between my son William Lillard's children to thew and their heirs fore"'.er. · · Item-I give and bequeath unto my daughter Milly Layton the tract of land I purchased of Thomas Corbin Containing one hundred and thir teen acres, and one white cow also one negro \'\'Oman nained Bridget to her and her heirs forever. · Item-I give and bequeath to my son \Villiam one negro by the name of Davie about seventeen years o1d to him and his heirs. forever...... • 1tem-I give and bequeath to my grandson Augustine Lillard one negro boy named Joe to him ·and his heirs forever. · J ~l'.[ES LILLARD. Iteµi-1 give imd bequeath unto ro.y daughter Be~y, Jenkins Twenty Shillings Virgincia Currency to be paid by my Exe.cutors. I do hereby O:rdain, Constitute and Appoint mi loving wife, Kesiah, my EX1',Cts. and my, son lk.njamin my executor. In witness w,h,ereof I hereunto set :iuy h,and and seal this fifteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and four. his Witnesses- JA.MES x LILLARD, Senr (Seal) mark · · Benjamin Lillard, Jn~ Augustine Bradley Anthony Lillard Dennis Lillard Thomas Lillard. Alexander Rider. At a Court held for Madison County the 23rd day of August, 1804. The J.,.i:s~ Will and Testament of James Lillard, senr. deceased, was exhibited into Court and proved by the oaths of Benjamin Lillard, Junr., .A:ugustine Bradley and Anthony Lillard, three ~f the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on motion of Kesiah Lillard, Executrix tb.erei~ n~{Iled ~ ceTTi¥~~te is gr~nteq Iler fpr obta.i~ing' ii. p~o~ate thtreQf in due form on her giving bond and security according to law which she did ~d qualified accordingly. Teste: John Walker1 Jr, ~- ~- ~- A copy, Teste: A. II. Cave, Clerk, Madison Co. Circuit Court." INVENTORY OF JAMES LILLARD'S ESTATE. (Will Book 2,, Madison County, V,a. Records). "Agreeable to an order of the Court of Madison County, we the subscripers, being duly sworn, do appraise the estate Qf J a.mes Lillard, as follows:' . , . . , ...... ·. 1' Neg~o )fan, Simon ______£100 Os. Od. 1 Negro Woman, Betty ------· ·75 0 1 black mare ______: 1S o oo· 1 Bay Horse ______:_ ___ ::______15 () 0 1 Red & White heifer ------~------. 4 10 0 2 Red Do· ------4 0 0 1 Red Do ------3 O 0 1 pide stear· _.:,______2 0 0 1 Brindle Do _:______1 16 0 12 smallBay Cpltyearlings __ ,:______------:______92 02 0 a small bulls ------2 O 0 1 Red Cow & yearling ------~------4 0 0 1 do w.itb do ------3 10 o 44 LILLARD GENJ!lA!,OGY 2 Sows & four shoats ______:__:__:_ _ _: __ _:_:_· 4 ·t6 0 3 young sows ------__ ._ : . 1 16' 0 7 Hogs ------______------· _. __ · -·8 8 0 5 sheep ______. ______· • 2 10 O 1 Desk ------· •---··-- 4 10 O 2 Tables ------· ____ • ____ · O 18 0 3 Chests ------1 16 O 6 Chairs ------0 18· 0 1 bed, bedstead & furniture ----'------7 10 0 1 do with do ------6 0 0 1 woman's saddle ------''--:... 1 4 O· 1 man's do ------' . 0 18 0 2 flax wheels ------. 1 · 4... o· 1 cotton do ------· . 0 15 0 1 Loom & Gear ------1 10 0 6 Water vessels ------0 14 .0 £288. ls. 0d. 1 Dozn pewter plates & 2 dishes______£1 Us. 0d. 1 Case knives & forks ------O 6 0 1 Dozn Spoons & Soop Do______0 6 0 2 Iron pots ______· · · __ · · 0 18 0 2 Dutch Ovens & 1 skillett ______: __ .:, __ · · 0 10 0 1 frying pan ------0 · 4 6 1 Grid Iron & Cakes ------0 4 0 1 pr. Saddle bags ------0. 12 0 2 pair pot hooks & Rack ------. 0 9 0 4 milk Bowles & 1 cream pot______. .,..:. ·o -10 · 0 2 Juggs & 1 Earthen pot______0 6 0 1 Churn & 1 flour tub ______.:__ - 0 9 0 1 ba1 1 meal sifter & tin pan______0 5 0 2 narrow ax• & 4 hillin,g hoes ______· 1 14 0 0 2 plows 2 pair chains & ···------_____ , • • 2.... 2 0 0 A parcel cups & ------·------0 12 0 1 Dozn plates & 3 dishes ------0 .. 7 - 6 1 brass candlestick ______.:, __ . 0 . 3 0 1 pair fire dogs ------.,. · 0 .3 0 1 pair flat irons ------· 0 6 0 1 Rifle Gun & 1 smooth do ______4 16 · 0 1 pair Steelyards & 3 tubs ------~-- . · 1 4 0 1 Hhd ------0 4. 0 Edward Sims William Hurt Thomas Smith 7th Novr 1804. At a Court held for Madison County the 27th day of December, 1804, This Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of James Lillard, deceased, was returned into Court and ordered to be recorded. · · · Teste: John Walker, Jr. C. M. · C." JAMES LILLARD 45 . Just when Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard .died is not known, but the last time. she signed a deed in Madison County was on January 22, 1806, when a deed was executed "between Benjamin Lillard yr and Kesiah Lillard (widow & relict of James Lillard, deed) of the County of Madison, Virginia," selling nineteen acres in Madison County to Joel Yowell for $111.50. This is signed by "Kezia Lillard" and "Benjamin Lillard yr". It was witnessed by Richard Layton, "Benjamin Lillard Junr" and "Ben jamin Lillard Senr" THE CHILDREN OF (IV) JAMES AND KESIAH (Bradley) LILLARD: (A) JAMES LILLARD married J ALA SEAL. (B) Colonel WILLIAM LILLARD married RACHEL McCOY. (C) Lt. BENJAMIN LILLARD the Younger m. Aug. 28, 1806, SARAH (Sally) JAMES. Also called "Tennessee Ben." (D) AUGUSTINE LILLARD m. Nov. 28, 1794, FRANCES CAMP BELL. (E) JOHN LILLARD married SARAH CAMPBELL. (F) MILDRED (Milly) LILLARD m. Aug. 8, 1799, RICHARD tAYTQN. (G) ELIZABETH (Betsy) LILLARD m. Mr. JENKINS. Possibly others. SIXTH GENERATION (A) JAMES LILLARD, II, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1752, married JALA SEAL, and removed to Tennessee in 1798 (Statement of his son, James Lillard, III). T. J. Lillard (born 1851) of Wister, Oklahoma, stated that his grandfather, James Lillard, II, originally lived in Culpeper County, Va., but moved from there to Cocke County, Tennessee, settling on a farm on Pigeon River; that his father told him that the worst thing James Lillard, II, ever did was when he whipped "a Tory in his own house (the Tory's). Grandfather was a very stout man. They all moved from Cocke County to Smith land, Kentucky, at the mouth of the Cumberland River. They were there when the great earthquake ( called New Madrid, Mo.) sunk. It was plainly noticed at Smithland. One of my aunts said she wished it was daylight so she could see h0w the Ohio River looked. In my old age I have just remarked that this ear_thquake was therefore at night." Hon. J. W. Lillard, of Decatur, Tenn., states: 46 LIL:tAflI) GEN'.EALOGY "This agrees vvith the statement of my grandfather that the family removed .from Culpeper County to Tennessee in 1798. The great 'earth quake which destroyed New }4adrid, Mo., and formed Reelfoot Lake is described in family traditions." . , . . - . " . . .. · James Lillard, II, died at Smithland, Keiituay, in 1811. Just when Jala (Seal) Lillard died is not known. As to her antecedents lion. J. w. Lillard remarks: ''I have never been able to get any definite information as to Jala Seal, wife of the second James. I recall talking with an old man by name of Hughes, who once lived near here and remembered John tillard, son of James and J ala (Seal) Lillard. He said that John Lillard was an old man when he knew him and was extremely proud of his descent from the "Seals," but for what reason he did not know or ever hear John Lillard say." NOTES ON THE SEAL FAMILY: (Deed Book 9, page 401, :Madison County; \7\1,, Records) Deed from John Seal and his wife Susanna, to John \Ye:akley, for $200 they sell land in Madison County, touching Bradley's old line orl. Hughes' River. Thomas Seal is on Roll of Capt. Henry Harrison's Co. July 13, 1756. Va. Troops in French and Indian Wars. Enlisted Sept. 13, in Suffolk Co. Va. Aged 3~. 6 ft. 1 in. in size. Smith in_trade; from Maryland. (Va. Mag. Hist. Biog. Vol. II, No. 1, July 1894 ). . Seal Marriages, Sep: 9, 1799. Willis Seale to Rhoda Brac;lley. Minister William Car- periter. Date of Marriage: Sept. 11, 1799. . Jan. 3; 1794. Nancy Seal, daughter of Jolin Seal to Phoima.n Yager. Date of marriage Jan. 10; 1794. . Nov. 4, 1869. Sarah Frances Seal, dau. Robt. A. & Jane Seal; to Monroe Walker. Residence of Robt. A. Seal. Nov. 14, 1816. French Seal to Lucy Hume. . . .. (All of these are recorded in Madison Co., Va., where members of the Seal family still reside. I include these brief notes as an aid to those who wish to go further in this work.) When James Lillard, II, left Virginia, to go to Tennessee, his two brothers, William and John went with him. His brother Benjamin also went to Tennessee, but returned to Virginia. Whether he went with them when they first went south or whether he went at a later date is not known. JAMES LiLLARD 47 THE CHILDREN OF (A) JAMES LII:.LARD; II & JAI:.A (SE2\L~ LILLARD: (a) LEWIS LILLARD. (b) M:ASON LILLARD. (c) JAMES LILLARD, III; ni: Feb. 16, 1818, MARY (Polly) SANDUSKY. (d) SARAH LILLARD, m. Mr. TAYLOR. {e) JOHN LILLARD, m. ELIZABETH TAYLOR. (f) JALEA LILLARD, m. Mr. TAYLOR. (g) WILLIAM LILLARD, m. NANCY ELDER. (h) MARY (Polly) LILLARD m. WILLIAM ROGERS. (B) Colonel WILLIAM LILLARD, son of James. and Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, 1744-54. He married Rachel McCoy; whose mother was a McAlister, Rachel (McCoy) Lillard died at the home of Jeremiah Lillard; about twelve miles. east of Benton, Polk County, Tennessee, in 1842. Colonel Willial:n Lillard died in Monroe County, Tenn., circe 1830. On page 261, History of Missouri, by Houck, is the following: "William Lillard, a member of the convention from Cooper County, was born in Virginia and lived near Abingdon, Washington County, in that State. He was a Colonel in the. Revolutionary War in command of Virginia Troops, and served under Washington and LaFayette and was also art officer of the Tennessee Militia in the War of 1812; he was a slave-owner and a man of considerable wealth. He first moved from Vir ginia. to Jefferson County, Tennessee, about 1797 and represented that County in the lower house of the .Tennessee legisbture and subsequently represented Cocke County for eighteen years. He s.ettled in the Missouri territory in what was then Cooper ( now Saline) County in 181 7, and was elected to the constitutional convention. He certainly was a man of magnetic influence, bec~use Lilla,rd (now LaFayette) County was named for him by those who knew him personally. In 1820 he was elected repre:. sentative of Cooper County to the first legislature and in that year Lillard Co,1;1rity ( now LaFayette) was organized. He .returned to Tennessee, ,to live; probably about 1824, on account of ill health due to malaria and died there about 1832. His wife's name was Rachel McCoy, and he appears to have had three sons, Austin, John and Jeremi.ah and one daughter, Nancy, who married Joseph Allen, all of whom died in Tennessee, but a daughter of the latter marrie4. Joseph .H.. Goodwin, who settled near Springfield., Greene Co., Mo., and. most of whose descendants yet live there .....:.:.(Jnformation from J. W. Blankenship, now residing at No. 52 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, Mass., furnished Missouri Historical Society)." On page 249, the same history, William Liliard is mentioned as a 48 LILLARD GENEALOGY delegate from Cooper County, Mo., to the Constitutional Convention, May, 1820. On page 185, same volume, it is stated that the county-seat of Lillard County, Missouri, (afterwards changed to LaFayette County), was at Mt.. Vernon on the Missouri River at a point below Talbot Creek; on the op posite side at Bluffton, two miles from the river was located the county seat of Ray. In a letter, J. W. Blankenship stated: "Col. William Lillard was born in Culpeper Co., Va., about 1744; served in the Revolution under Campbell and Sevier and was at the battle of Kings Mountain and later ( 1783) led a force against Cherokee In dians; was a Colonel in War of 1812; moved to Jefferson (now Cocke) Co., Tenn., about 1781 and doubtless entered land on soldier's scrip; member of Tennessee legislature 1797 to 1815, when he was defeated by one Allen and moved to Cooper (now Saline) Co., Mo. (1817); elected member of the Constitutional Convention held in St, Louis, June 12 to July 19, 1820, and Lillard County (now LaFayette), Mo., named for him; moved back to Monroe County, Tenn., 1825, and died there about 1830. He married Rachel McCoy, whose mother was a McAlister, and who died near Benton, Polk County, Tenn., about 1842." Jasper Worth Lillard, of Decatur, Tennessee, also states: "Col. Wm. Lillard of East Tennessee was born in Virginia either in 17 54 or 17 44; was a member of the Legislature of Tennessee from Cocke County from 1799 until 1811 and then again in 1815. Family tradition has it that he was defeated for next session and removed to Missouri be cause of his defeat. Our traditions also tell us that he was in Battle of Kings Mountain in Revolutionary War, but we can find no record. He was a Colonel in the War of 1812. And a member of the Constitutional Convention of Missouri during the short time he lived there. He returned to Monroe County and died there in 1830. It appears from information we have that William Lillard married a McCoy and that there was then a "McCoy's Fort" mentioned in Tennessee History in Cocke County. This William had a daughter born at Abingdon or "Wolf Hills," in Wash ington Co., Va. We have no official data concerning the Rev. service of William Lillard, but this has always been the family tradition that he was at 'Kings Mountain' with Sevier. As there are no records of soldiers in Kings Mt. fight it is difficult to get any data. I have read all published as to Kings Mountain battle that I could get my hands on but there is nothing that I! have found to aid. He never applied for pension, but as he died in 1830, this may account for that or he may have been in circumstances that did not justify it as pensions were given at first only to those in financial diffi culties. Ramsey's 'Annals of Tennessee,' page 280 or 230 gives an account of an expedition from the French Brood and Pigeon River settlements against Cherokee Indians in 1783, so far as date is fixed, and says that the expedition was under Major Peter Fine and Colonel Lillard. This l..:.1J\\· ;r, JAMES LILLARD 49 was William Lillard, so he was in the frontier settlements of East Ten nessee in 17 83, and prominent enough to have joint command of an ex pedition against Indians. There are no records of any of these services as East Tennessee at that time was to some a part of Virginia, to others North Carolina, and in both states, forbidden territory as belonging to the Indians. I am not certain as to date of birth of William Lillard. Blankenship gives it 1744. In another memorandum I have it as 1754. Where I got this I cannot now say. Another thing, the records we have give date of birth and place of birth of Nancy Lillard, who was his daughter and who married Sandusky, as 1786, at Abingdon, Va., while according to Ram sey's Annals he was in Cocke Co., Tenn. in 1783. I have no definite information as to whether he or his brother James was the older. However \\Tilliam Lillard had a granddaughter old enough to marry a son of James, and this son was I think the oldest of those who settled in Meigs Co. Tenn. James had two other sons, Lewis and Austin, and I think they were older than the ones who lived here, but I do not know." In the "Entry Book" of Hiwassee District, now in the Registers Office at Athens, Tenn., is the following record of Colonel William Lil lard's land: Entry Book A page 1. Entry No. 864, William Lillard, Sr., enters S. W. Qr Sec. 8 Tp. 1 \ R. 3 East. Date Jan. 22, 1825. "We assign to William Lillard Jr., all our rights in foregoing entry. Rachel Lillard x her mark. A. Coleman Nancy Coleman x her mark James Lillard Margaret Lillard Augustine Lillard Same book and page: Wm Lillard Sr, enters N. E. Qr Sec. 8 Tp. 1 R 3 'E Date July 26, 1824. Transfer same as above. These entries were made by Colonel William Lillard, and this land now lies in Monroe County, Tenn., and some of the descendants of Wil liam Lillard, Jr., son of Colonel William Lillard, Sr., still live there. Three other entries for land in Monroe County, Tenn., are: Book A Page 57. Entry No. 262. John Lillard 3/4N.W.Qr Sec 30 Fr. Tp. R. 3 E. April 16, 1824 Grant 1590 date Oct. 12, 1830. Entry 664. James Lillard N.E. Qr.Sec.30, Fr. Tp. 3 R. 3 E. Aug. 21, 1824, Grant No.2382 April 27, 1832. Entry 2354 James Lillard S.E.Qr.Sec 30, Tp Fr. 3 4.3 E. Dec. 27, 1825. so LTLLARD GENEALOGY These were doubtless entered by sons of Col. Lillard. In Deed Book M, page 239, Shenandoah County, Va., William Lil lard and Rachel his wife and James Leith son of said Rachel, all of Cocke County, Tenn., deeded to Isaac Hershberger, of Shenandoah County, Vir ginia, 586 acres of land in that county for £200. THE CHILDREN OF (B) Col. WILLIAM & RACHEL (McCOY) LILLARD: (i) JEREMIAH LILLARD, married MISS JENNINGS. (j) AUGUSTINE LILLARD married LORAIDA TAYLOR. (k) JAMES LILLARD. (1) NANCY LILLARD, m. 1st Mr. SANDAUSKY; 2nd. JOSEPH ALLEN; 3rd. ABSOLEM COLEMAN. (m) WILLIAM LILLARD, Jr., m. NANCY RUTH. (n) RACHEL LILLARD. (o) JOHN LILLARD. (p) MARGARET LILLARD. (C) Lieutenant BENJAMIN LILLARD, the Younger, (also called "Tennessee Ben"), was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and removed to Tennessee, but after a brief sojourn there returned to his native state, thereby earning the nickname of "Tennessee Ben." I have been informed that he went to Tennessee and did not like it there so returned to Madison County, Virginia, how ever from the data I have been able to locate, I believe that he removed to Tennessee in 1798, with his brothers James, William, and John, but being the only unmarried one when his father, James Lillard, Sr., became ill, he returned to Madison County, Virginia, to take care of his mother, Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard, and manage his father's estate. This would also account for the fact that his father willed him the bulk of his property. It also is evident from the fact that the descendants of Benjamin Lillard, the Younger, were in possession of the Revolutionary sword of James Lillard, Sr., as well as all the old family papers going back to 17 50. Doubtless after Benjamin Lillard, the Younger, returned to Madison County, Virginia, he became enamoured, for in the year 1806, just two years after his father's death, he married Sarah (Sally) James, daughter of Thomas James, of Orange Court House, Va., a member of the Culpeper Minute Men, commanded by Colonel Lawrence Taliaferro, the first com pany raised in Virginia, which company participated in the battle of Great Bridge, the first battle of the Revolutionary War on Virginia soil, in 1775. JAMES LILLARD 51 (Yowell's History of Orange). This was the same company in which James Lillard, Sr., had served during the Revolution, and doubtless the friendship of the two families had its beginning when these two men were soldiering together. In the Marriage Register at Madison, Va., I found their marriage incorrectly registered as Benjamin Lillard to Elizabeth James. This was an error. I carefuly examined the original bond, yellow with age, which stated that on August 28, 1806, "Benjamin Lillard and Elizabeth James give bond for the marriage of Benjamin Lillard to Sally James." The Clerk of Madison has therefore corrected same in the Register. Benjamin Lillard, the Younger, was a Lieutenant in Captain Wether all's Company of Virginia Troops in the War of 1812-15. Saw two years of service at Norfolk and Suffolk and was wounded four times at the Suffolk and Norfolk fight. In Deed Book 4, page 522, Madison County, Va. Records, on the 17th day of December, 1809, "Benjamin Lillard Yr and Sally his wife of Madison County," for $180 sold one hundred and nineteen acres to James Ramsbottom. This was "Land lyeing in the County of Madison adjoining the Lands of Capt. Augustine Bradley, Thomas Smith and the sd Ben jamin Lillard Yr." This deed was signed "Benjamin Lillard Yr" and "Sally Lillard." It was witnessed by Augustine Bradley, Jeremiah Jen kins, and "Benjamin Lillard, Senr." In Deed Book 5, page 356, under date of October 27, 1813, "Ben jamin Lillard, Younger," deeded to Edward Sims for $1.00, for the benefit of James Green, of Culpeper County, to whom he owed money, fifty acres in Madison County "Beginning at two white oaks ( one of them standing and the other down), comer to Doer Benjamin Lillard's land," etc. This was signed "Benjamin Lillard Yunr" and was witnessed by Doctor Benjamin Lillard, Elzey Sisk and Benjamin Lillard. In Deed Book 4, page 523, "Benjamin Lillard and Sarah his wife" sold one hundred and twenty-four acres in Madison County to Stephen Jenkins for $124.00. Dated 25 Sept. 1809. Signed Benjamin Lillard; Sarah Lillard. Witnessed by Joel Yowell, John Lillard, Thomas Smith, James Ramsbottom, Wm. Lillard, and Henry Jenkins. Same book, page 524, they make another deed on the same date with the same witnesses, selling one hundred and twenty-four acres in Madison County to Nimrod Jenkins, also for $124.00. In Deed Book 5, page 440, Jan. 19, 1815, Benjamin Lillard, Younger, swaps four acres of Land with Benjamin Lillard, Senr. Signed "Ben jamin Lillard, Younger." Witnessed by Augustine Bradley, Junior, Abso Iem Lillard, and Hedgman Lillard. In Book 5, page 461, a similar 52 LILLARD GENEALOGY transaction is recorded between Benjamin Lillard, Younger, and Benjamin Lillard, Senr. Deed Book 5, page 460, Benjamin Lillard, Younger, and Sally, his wife, deeded fifty acres in Madison County to Richard Layton "for one boy of colour about eleven years old." Dated Jan. 20, 1815. Signed by Benjamin Lillard Yr and Sally Lillard. Witnessed by Benjamin Lillard, Armistead Layton and Kezia Lillard. Deed Book 6, page 226, 13 Nov. 1817, Benjamin Lillard younger and Sally his wife for $180 sold nineteen acres to James Ramsbottom. Signed Benjamin Lillard Yr, and Sally Lillard. Witnessed by Benjamin Lillard, Thomas Smith, Augustine Bradley, Jr., and Lewis Yowell. Book 6, page 44, 10 June 1819, Benjamin Lillard, Younger, and Sally, his wife, deeded one hundred and ninety-one and a half acres in Madison County to Dennis Lillard for $1,912.50. Signed by Benjamin Lillard, Yr., and Sally Lillard. Witnessed by Benj. Lillard, Augustine Bradley, Junr, and Elizabeth Hensley. Just when Benjamin Lillard the Younger died, I cannot state, but in a letter dated Mar. 2, 1891, his son, James Madison Lillard, of Harrcxls burg, Ky., stated: "My father's name was Benjamin Lillard. I was born in Virginia. Three of my father's brothers the oldest, William, James and John moved to Tennessee before it was a state settled near Knoxville. Some years after my father's death my mother moved to this Mercer Co. (Ky) in November, 1827." Thus we know that after Benjamin Lillard, the Younger, died, his widow, Sally (James) Lillard, moved to Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, at the close of 1827, and it was there that she died. THE CHILDREN OF (C) BENJAMIN LILLARD, the Younger, (or Tennessee Ben) & SARAH (Sally) JAMES: (q) HEDGEMAN LILLARD,m.Jan.4, 1821, MARGARET BRAD- LEY. (r) LEFTAGE LILLARD, m.Feb.22, 1821, RETTA JENKINS. (s) ELIZABETH LILLARD. Died unmarried. (t) JAMES MADISON LILLARD,m.June 27, 1845, MARGARET McAFEE NEELD. (u) MARTHA LILLARD married HENRY SANFORD. (v) Dr. HENRY FRANKLIN LILLARD. (w) LEONARD BARNES LILLARD. (x) HAMPTON LILLARD. (y) MILDRED LILLARD (Milly). (z) NANCY JANE LILLARD. (E) JOHN LILLARD, born in Culpeper County, Virginia, went with JAMES LILLARD 53 his brothers James and William and possibly Benjamin to the Tennessee country, about the year 1798. However, John Lillard was married a number of years before he left Virginia, and be yond a doubt had several children by that time. He married Sarah Campbell, the daughter of Elias Campbell, as is proved by the following will: WILL OF ELIAS CAMPBELL (Will Book 1, page 46, Madison County, Virginia, Records) "In the name of God Amen, I, Elias Campbell, of the County of Madison, being Weak in body yet of a perfect sound mind & Memory do constitute this to be my Last Will & Testament (that is to say) I give in equal distribution between my two daughters Ann & Frankey all my Land & to be Laid of in such manner that my Orchard be equally divided between them. Two, I give also to my Daughter Ann my Two negroes namely Peter and Moses, I also give to my daughter Frankey Those negroes namely Arih, Daphney & Winney & their Heirs the above mentioned land & negroes to be to them & the Lawful begotten Heirs of their Body forever-I give to my grand-daughter Sarah She being Daughter of my son John Campbell my Negroe Boy Joseph to be to her & the Lawful be gotten Heirs of her Body forever. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Sisk my negroe boy Aaron with the negroe girl Amey which I have before given to her to be to her & the Lawful be gotten Heirs of her Body forever. I give to my daughter Sarah Lillard my negroe boy Arih which I think is her full proportion of my slaves with the one I have already given her to be to her & the Lawfull begotten Heirs of her body forever. I give to my daughter Mary Sisk my negroe girl Edee which I think her full proportion of my slaves with the one I have already given her to be to her & the Lawful begotten Heirs of her body forever. The Residue of my estate I direct my Executors to sell to the highest Bidder and the money arising thereon to go to the payment of all my just debts such money to be Equally divided amongst all my children. I do hereby constitute my friends, John Lillard, Bartlett Sisk and Elisha Berry, Executors of this my Last Will & Testament revoking all former Wills & Testaments here tofore by me made in Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand & seal this sixth day of November, 1793. ELISHA CAMPBELL (seal) Signed sealed & Declar'd by the Testator to be his Last Will & Testament. Thomas Sampson Dennis Crow Joel Yowell John Yowell. At a Court continued and held for Madison County the 25th day of April, 1794. The Last Will & Testament of Elias Campbell, deceased, was exhibited 54 LILLARD GENEALOGY into Court & proved by the oath of John Yowell and Ordered to be certified. And at a Court held for Madison the 26th day of June, 1794. The Last Will & Testament of Elias Campbell deceased further proved by the Oath of Joell Yowell and ordered to be recorded. Teste: John Walker, Jr. C. M. C." It is to be presumed that John Lillard and his wife, Sarah (Camp bell) Lillard resided in Culpeper County, most probably near the line of Madison County, for in the year 1 79 3, James Lillard, Sr., the father of John, "conveys to his son John Lillard" one negro man. ( Culpeper County, Virginia, Records). So John Lillard with his wife, Sarah (Campbell) Lillard, their fam ily, their slaves, and his brothers in 1798, moved to the frontier settle ments. In those early pioneer days, salt was a necessity not only for cooking and table use, but also was used in many ways, preserving meats, et cetera. It was also necessary for the stock. Thus these pioneers had to go miles and miles many times to procure a supply from the salt licks or wells. John Daniel Lillard in a letter dated Dec. 4, 1921, said: "I am 69 years old. A neighborhood story of old is that the father of this old family (John Lillard) . died while enroute to or from the salt wells in Virginia, from which all the supplies of salt came." John Daniel Lillard was the grandson of John Lillard, who married Sarah Campbell. In some notes on the family collected by Mrs. Lizzie Jane (Smith) Dougherty, are the following bits of information: "We are originally from France. After a war, these people were scattered into Scotland, Ireland and England. We were part Scotch. John (Lillard) (father of Abraham) . was a Freemason, and died at the 'salt works,' and married a Campbell." As to the Campbells, Col. Jasper Worth Lillard, in a letter, stated: "The Campbells, (at least two of them) are very prominent in the early history of Washington County, Virginia, and if the wife of John Lillard was related to them it is possible that they at least stayed a while in Washington Co., Va., but I have not found any definite data as to this." THE CHILDREN OF (E) JOHN & SARAH (Campbell) LILLARD. (za) MATTHEW LILLARD. ( zb) MARK LILLARD. (zc) LUKE LILLARD. (zd) JOHN LILLARD (called Jack) married Miss ALLEN. JAMES LILLARD 55 (ze) JAMES LILLARD. (zf) ABRAHA1\f LILLARD,m.Mar. 14, 1816, JANE HARRISON. (zg) SARAH LILLARD married ALLMAN GUINN. Possibly others. (D) AUGUSTINE LILLARD, son of James and Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard, was named for his maternal uncle, Augustine Bradley. He was a third cousin of President Madison. He was called "Austin," and was born in that part of Culpeper Ccunty, which later became Madison County, Virginia, where many of his de scendants still reside. On November 27, 1794, he secured the license to marry, and on November 28, 1794, he married to Frances Campbell, daughter of Elias Campbell, and sister of Sarah (Campbell) Lillard, the wife of John Lil lard, brother of Augustine. Minister William Carpenter performed the ceremony. (Madison County, Va., Records). In Deed Book 1, page 228, Madison County, Va., Records, Augustine Lillard, on the 12th day of May, 1795, gave a bond of £600 specie to Ann Campbell" agreeing to stand by the decision of the division of Elisha Campbell's estate "Between Ann Campbell and Frankey Campbell, now wife to the above bound Austin Lillard." This was signed "Augustine Lillard." Witnessed by Elisha Berry, James Yowell and Humphrey Yowell. (See Will of Elisha Campbell under No. E, this Chapter). THE CHILDREN OF AUGUSTINE (D) & FRANCES (Campbell) LILLARD. (zh) ELIZABETH LILLARD,m.Dec.16,1819,STROTHER LILLARD. (zi) AUGUSTINE LILLARD,Jr.,m.Sept.9,1832, ELIZABETH ANN LILLARD, daughter of Dennis Lillard. (zj) KESIAH LILLARD,m.Feb.27, 1823, JAMES LILLARD. son of Dennis Lillard. (zk) GABRIEL LILLARD. (zl) ROBERT T.TLLARD. (zm) WASHINGTON CAMPBELL LILLARD, m.SARAH JANE RICHMOND. (F) MILDRED (Milly) LILLARD, daughter of James and Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard, was a third cousin of President Madison. She was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in that section which later became Madison County. She was born on Decem ber 1, 1778. On August 6, 1799, Richard Layton secured a license to marry her, 56 LILLARD GENEALOGY and on August 8, 1799, Minister Lewis Conner performed the marriage ceremony of "Richard Layton to Millie Lillard ( daughter of James Lil lard)." ( Madison County, Va., Records). The name of Richard Layton is often to be found in the old records included in this book, as are others of the Layton family, which proves the nearness of the two families. In Deed Book 3, page 471, Madison County, Va., Records, "Richard Layton and Milly his wife," for £50 deeded ninety-five acres in Madison County to Argaton Cubbage, "on James Lillard's Line." Dated December 10, 1803. Signed by Richard Layton and Milly Layton. Witnessed by Pascal Early, Samuel Morris, James Lillard, and Benjamin Lillard. In Deed Book 6, page 136, Richard Layton sold for $12.50, three acres in Madison County to Fielding Smith. Dated March 4, 1817. Wit nessed by Benjamin Lillard and Samson Berry. (Madison County, Va., Records). In Deed Book 5, page 444, Madison County, Va., Records, Richard Layton leased to Dennis Corbin for four years, for one-fourth of crops, land in Madison County. Dated March 4, 1815. Witnessed by Benjamin Lillard, John Weakley, Senr., and Fielding Smith. In Deed Book 7, page 228, Madison County, Va., Records, Richard Layton and wife Milly, give deed of Trust to Belfield Cave for Leonard and Henry Barnes for "113 acres" which "was willed to the said Milly Layton by her father James Lillard, Sr., deceased, as will appear by his last will and testament," and another tract of land of fifty acres "which the same Richard Layton purchased of Benjamin Lillard, Jr., in 1815." Dated Nov. 27, 1821. In Deed Book 9, page 49, Madison County, Va., Records, "Milly Layton, wife of Richard Layton, acknowledges 2d day of Aug., 1823, her willingness to deed," referring to the above deed of trust. It is evident that at this time Richard and Mildred (Lillard) Layton had determined to close up their affairs and dispose of their property so they could move to a new home. However, although this deed of trust was originally executed in 1821, there seems to have been some trouble over it, and Milly Layton had to acknowledge her willingness to it again in 1823. Even so there was yet difficulty, and they h~d to delay month after month for almost four more years. Then in Deed Book 9, page 392, Madison County, Va., Records, under date of June 27, 1827, "Richard Layton and Milly his wife," again "acknowledge" this deed of trust to Leonard and Henry Barnes. This time everything went through, and in the same record book, page 402, under date of June 29, 1827, Richard Layton deeded to Faun- JAMES LILLARD 57 tain Layton and Armistead Layton, his sons, all 0£ his household furniture, stock and other things, to be sold to the highest bidder, paying his debts and giving the balance to Richard Layton. So as shortly thereafter as they could prepare for the long journey westward, they set out for Ohio, arriving at Linnville, in that state, on December 27, 1827, and with them were all of their children except their two eldest sons, Fountain and Armistead, who remained in Madison County, Virginia, to dispose of their property. Richard and Mildred (Lillard) Layton spent the balance of their days at Linnville, Ohio, where he died on March 31, 1849, and she died on Sept. 15, 1864. They are both buried in the little cemetery at Linn ville, Ohio. Richard Layton was born on August 10, 1772. Two different branches of the Lillard family claim that when Mil dred (Lillard) Layton left Virginia to go to Ohio that she carried with her the old original letters from the Lillards in France to the Lillards in America; that she prized them very highly and would not part with them, and that she gave them to one of her children to hand down as an heir loom. Inquiry has failed to· disclose their possessor. However, if the owner of these letters ever sees this record I trust that he will be liberal enough to make them known so that further research may be made into our family's past. Mildred (Lillard) Layton was called "Milly" or "Millie" until her real name of Mildred was almost forgotten. Her descendants in Ohio state that her name was Amelia, and her name is marked that way on her grave, but she was named Mildred, for her great-grandmother, Mildred (Jones) Lillard, who was a relative of President Monroe. Mildred is a name which runs through all branches of the Lillard family. Amelia is one that is almost foreign to us. THE CHILDREN OF (F) MILDRED (LILLARD) & RICHARD LAYTON (zn) FOUNTAIN LAYTON. (zo) ARMISTEAD LAYTON,m.Aug.26,1828, HANNAH HOSKINS. (zp) CHURCHILL LAYTON,m.lst.MARY McMULLEN; 2d.SUSAN POE. (zq) NANCY LAYTON,m.PETER COURSON. (zr) HARRIETT LAYTON,m. DOW TEAGARDEN. (zs) JAMES MADISON LAYTON,m.lst. Miss BRADY; 2d.MARY ANN LINN; 3d.LAURETTA; 4th. Louisa Robertson. (zt) HULDAH LAYTON,m. Nov.29,1838, WILLIAM FRANKLIN STEVENS. (zu) FRANCIS MARION LAYTON,m.lst. Jan.19,1844,HANNAH 58 LILLARD GENEALOGY MEREDITH; 2nd.Jan.17,1865,LUCINDA PRENTICE HER RICK. (zv) JANE LAYTON m. JACK TROUT. LAYTON MARRIAGES RECORDED IN VIRGINIA. 1899, Dec. 12. John F. Layton, 22, to Fannie B. Layton, 23, both single of Madison Co. Son cf John L. and Cremona F. Lay ton. Daughter of Henry and Bettie Layton. Minister A. J. Harlow. 1868, Dec. 23. Phoebe Ann Catherine Layton, daughter of Lewis Layton and Mary, nee Mary Lohr, aged 26 years, to John Fogel, 37, son of John and Sarah (King) Fogel. 1799, Aug. 6. Richard Layton to Millie Lillard (daughter of James Lillard). Minister Lewis Conner. Date of marriage: Aug. 8, 1799. (G) ELIZABETH (Betsey) LILLARD, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia. She was a third cousin of President Madison. She married a Mr. Jenkins, and was mentioned in her father's will: "I give and bequeath unto my daughter Betsy Jenkins Twenty Shill ings Virginia Currency to be paid by my Executors." She reared a large family of children, three of whom, Lillard Jenkins, Stephen Jenkins and Nimrod Jenkins, all married daughters of William Lillard, Sr., her uncle. Nothing further is known of her. JENKINS MARRIAGES RECORDED IN VIRGINIA. July 11, 1809. Susanna Jenkins ( dau. Abraham Jenkins) to John Seale. Minister Wm. Carpenter. Date of marriage: Aug. 10, 1809. Sept. 12, 1 795. Winnie Jenkins (dau. Jonas Jenkins), to Wm. Martin. Mar. 10, 1798. James Jenkins to Eliz. Parks (Wm. Carpenter). Date: Mar. 15, 1798. Feb. 4, 1799. Ezekiel Jenkins & Polly Smith. (Son of Elizabeth Jenkins. (Lewis Conner) Feb. 5, 1799. I believe this is one of Elizabeth (Lillard) Jenkins' sons, but cannot prove it. Sep. 4, 1801. Lucretia Jenkins ( daughter of Richard Jenkins) to Wil liam Smith. (Lewis Conner) Sep. 8, 1801. Dec. 19, 1804. Anne Jenkins ( daughter of Richard Jenkins) to Thos. Holder. Aug. 11, 1807. Jeremiah Jenkins to Blanche Jenkins. June 12, 1809. Joel Jenkins to Polly Wood. (Wm. Carpenter) Aug. 3, 1809. Oct. 22, 1812. Wm. Jenkins to Hannah Corbin. Mar. 31, 1814. Benj. Jenkins to Fannie Sisk. Nov. 24, 1814. Sallie Jenkins to J no. Good. JAMES LILLARD 59 Mar. 15, 1815. Mason Jenkins to Betsy Rider ( daughter Alex. Rider). June 13, 1815. Polly Jenkins to Dennis Corbin. Apr. 15, 1816. Lucy Jenkins ( daughter Abraham Jenkins) to Richard Ramsbottom. (M. Meyerhoffer) Apr., 1816. Dec. 28, 1816. Susanna Jenkins to Peter Bixlar, son of Michael Bixlar; daughter of Nat. Jenkins. Jan. 25, 1817. Coleman Jenkins (son of William Jenkins) to Nelly Ramsbottom, daughter of Wm. Ramsbottom. (Jno. Kabler) Jan. 28, 1817. Apr. 3, 1817. Nancy Jenkins to Joseph Dodson, Jr. (Amb. C. Boon ton) Apr. 8, 1817. Sep. 3, 1819. Wm. Jenkins (son of Richard Jenkins) to Nancy Morris. Feb. 4, 1820. Jno. Jenkins to Polly Rider (daughter Alex. Rider). 1821. Washington Jenkins & Eliz. Weakley ( daughter Frances Weakley. Dec. 30, 1823. Catherine Jenkins to Gabriel Smith. SEVENTH & FOLLOWING GENERATIONS: (a) LEWIS LILLARD, was born in Cocke County, Tennessee, about 1802. He was the son of James and Jala (Seal) Lillard. Noth ing is known of his history other than that he was a boatman on the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers after he moved to Smithland, Kentucky, with his parents. (b) MASON LILLARD, son of James and Jala (Seal) Lillard, was also born in Cocke County, Tenn., about 1804, and was taken to Smithland, Ky., at the mouth of the Cumberland River, by his parents. He also followed boating up and down the Ohio. He married and had a son Madison Lillard. Mason Lillard ran a Hotel at Smithland, Ky., for river boatman. Nothing further known. (c) JAMES LILLARD, III, son of James and Jala (Seal) Lillard, was born March 17, 1795, in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was taken to the frontier settlements of Tennessee in 1798. In 1811, he went to Smithland, Kentucky. His grandson, Hon. J. W. Lillard, of Decatur, Tenn., in a letter states: "As a boy I can remember a book that my grandfather prized very much. This was a book of Western Adventures, and in it were described some celebrated river boatmen of that period. One was "Mike Fink" and his partner whose name I cannot remember. One of their 'stunts' was to shoot a cup of whiskey off each other's heads, and in one of these per formances one shot too low and killed the other. I have heard that my grandfather was a keelboatman on the Mississippi River, and was but a boy when he went on the river. One of these characters, I think Fink, 60 LILLARD GENEALOGY took him under his protection and would not allow any one to impose on him because he was just a boy. He appreciated this and for this reason prized book I mention." According to his own statement James Lillard returned to Cocke County, Tenn., in 1814, and moved again in December, 1817, to Missouri. Hon. J. W. Lillard informs: "As I recall the stories told me, my grandmother, Mary Sandusky was reared by her grandfather, Colonel William Lillard, and when he removed to Missouri about 1816 he took her with him, and my grandfather (James Lilkrd, III) went to Missouri and there they were married on Feb. 16, 1818 coming back to East Tennessee in 1825, and entered land where town of Decatur was later located. The farm owned by my father adjoining the town was a part of this land and is now owned by my brother John Lillard." In the "Entry Book" of Hiwassee District, now in the Registers Office at Athens, Tenn., are the following entries for land: Entry Book B Page 27 5. Entry No. 653 James Lillard, Aug. 6, 1824. N. W. Qr Sec 2 Fr. Tp # 3 R.3 W. Grant No. 2271 Sept. 15, 1831. (This was the land of James Lillard, III, and is located at Decatur, Tenn.) Entry Book B page 276. Entry No. 432. John Lillard S.W.Qr.Sec 14 Fr. Tp 3 R. 3 W. July 20, 1824. Grant 2279 Sept. 15, 1831. Entry Book B page 273. Entry 3406 James Lillard. E ½ S.E.Qr. Sec 2 Fr. Tp 3 R 3 W March 2, 1827 Grant No. 915 March 6 1828. Entry Book B page 19 7. Tames Lillard. S.W.Qr.Sec 2 3rd Fr.Tp.3 R.W. August 6, 1826. Grant 914 March 6 1828. Entry Book C, page 10. Entry 2219 James Lillard l\T.E Or.c;;<"c ..H. R:/i~ ,v Fr. Tp.3 (2) Grant 913 March 6, 1828 Entry Book C, page 216. Entry 5121. James Lillard. JAMES LILLARD 61 S.W.Qr Sec 2. Fr.Tp 3 R.3 W Jan. 4, 1838. Grant No.407. Entry 5126. James Lillard. N.W.Qr.Sec 11. Fr. Tp 3.R.3 W. Jan.4, 1838. Grant No 4089 Entry No ------Return M. Lillard. S.W.Qr. Sec 14 Fr. Tp. 3 R.3 W. Feb. 28, 1850. Entry Book B Page 273 Entry N o.19 7. James Lillard. E ¾ S.E.Qr.Sec 2 Fr.Tp 3 R.3 W March 2, 1827. Grant No. 914. Entry 3406. James Lillard. N.E. ¾ S.W.Qr. Sec 2 Fr.Tp. 3 R. 3 W. Aug. 26, 1826. Grant No.915. A few days prior to his death James Lillard, III, made the follow ing statement : "I was barned 17 March, 1795, in Virginia, Culpepper County. moved to Polk County, Tenn, in 1798, to Smithland Kentucky in 1811. Returned to Cocke County Tenn 1814 moved to Missouri in Dec 1817 Returned to Rhea County Tennessee 1825 Married Polly Sandusky Feb. 1817. My fathers name was James Lillard, borne in Culpepper Co Va 1752. Married Jala Seal My grandfather was James Lillard died in Culpepper Co Va he married Kesiah Bradley. My great grandfather was John Lillard emigrated from England about 1700 with two other brothers. My father and Milly Lillard were brother and sisters. I have two Uncles Austin and Ben. (signed) James Lillard." Hon J.W.Lillard, of Decatur, Tenn, states in a letter: "As to the reference to "Polk" County in the statement of my grand father, I am sure that this was a mistake of my mother in writing from dictation of my grandfather. I talked with her about the matter and she agreed that it was likely that she misunderstood him. As a matter of fact, there was no Polk County in Tennessee until after 1836, and the territory that Polk comprises, was in the Cherokee Indian nation and was not purchased from the Indians until 1836. Cocke and Jefferson Counties covered the territory where (James) Lillard first settled in East Tennessee. My grandfather coming back from Missouri evidently went back there 62 LILLARD GENEALOGY for a short time only and almost immediately settled in Meigs, then Rhea County. That part of Rhea south and east of Tennessee had only been purchased from the Indians in 1819, opened for settlement in 1820, and he came here in 1825 and purchased occupant rights and grants of his lands were made direct to him." The wife of James Lillard,III, was Mary (Polly) Sandusky, daugh ter of Nancy(Lillard) Sandusky, and grand-daughter of Colonel William and Rachel (McCoy) Lillard. Mary (Sandusky) Lillard was born in Cocke County, Tenn., on Aug. 30, 1803, and died at Decatur, Tenn., on Dec. 20, 1872. James Lillard, III, died at Decatur, Tenn., on December 17, 1875. Issue: (1) Emily J. Lillard, b. July 22, 1820; d. Oct. 22, 1820. (2) Martha Jane Lillard, b. Oct. 3, 1822; m. Apr. 21, 1842, to Aaron King; d. Sept. 12, 1850. Issue: • (2a) Mary Elizabeth King, b. Apr. 25, 1843. (2b) Nancy Emily King, b. Feb. 13, 1845; m. Feb. 13, 1866, to V. C. Allen. She died in 1925. Mr. Allen was the author of "Rhea and Meigs Counties(Tennessee) in the Confederate War" and served in the Confederate Army in Capt. N. J. Lillard's Company, Third Tenn. Regt. He was also Chancellor of the 12th Chancery Division of Tennessee when he died in February, 1915. Issue: (2ba) W. B. Allen, b. June 5, 1869; m. Nov. 21, 1906, to Lucie Henegar. He is Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Rhea County, Tenn. Issue: (2baa) Margaret Emily Allen, b. Nov. 13, · 1907. (2c) Dr. Aaron J. J. King, b. Jan. 21, 1848; died in Atlanta, Ga., in 1912. (3) William C. Lillard, b. May 11, 1825; m. Oct. 31, 1849, to Julia Ann Madison Beagles of Bolivar, Ala. She was born Feb. 17, 1829. He joined Capt. G. W. McKenzie's Company from Meigs County, which became a part of McClellan's Fifth Tenn. Regt., in the Mexican War. He later became the adjutant of his com pany. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army, in Co.I, Third Tennessee Regiment. Issue: (3a) J. Moss Lillard, b. Feb. 1, 1853. (3b) Emily S. Lillard, b. June 20, 1855. (3c) Newton Jasper Lillard, b. March, 1859. His widow, Mrs. Newton J. Lillard resides at 120 West Chase St, Pensa cola, Fla. JAMES LILLARD 63 (3d) Mary Cynthia Almeda Lillard, b. Mar.17, 1862, married to James DeSha. Issue: (3da) Martha Julia DeSha, b. Feb. 14, 1880, at Waco, Texas; m. to Fred J asse at Houston, Texas. No issue. ( 3db) James Robert DeSha, b. Sept. 24, 1881 ; m. at San Antonio, Tex., Apr. 28, 1903, to Laura Campbell. Issue: (3dba) Robert Daniel DeSha, b. San An tonio, Tex. ( 3dbb) Alton DeSha, b. San Antonio, Texas. ( 3dbc) Lillard DeSha, b. San Antonio, Texas. (3dbd) Martha Almeda DeSha, b. San An ' tonio, Tex. (3dbe) Edwin DeSha, b. San Antonio, Texas. (3dbf) Evelyn Cecilia DeSha, b. San An tonio, Tex. (3dbg) Myrtle Ruth DeSha, b. San An tonio, Texas. (39-bh) Jesse DeSha, b. San Antonio, Texas. (3dc) Ida Myrtle DeSha, b. Aug. 8, 1885, at Waco, Texas; m. at San Antonio, Texas, on Apr. 15, 1902, to George Woodruff Hayes.Address: 2706 Fairmount, Dallas, Texas. Issue: (3dca) Dorothy Lillard Hayes,b.July 22, 1903, at Houston, Tex. , (3dcb) Margaret DeSha Hayes,b.July 1, 1908, at Dallas, Tex. (3dcc) George Woodruff Hayes,Jr. b.July 11, 1913,at Dallas, Tex. (4) Colonel JOHN MASON LILLARD, C.S.A.,was born May 14, 1827, and married on May 14, 1856, to MARY C.J.THOMAS. He died from the effects of wounds received in the Battle of Chic amaugua, Sept. 19, 1863. He was a member of the Legislature of Tennessee in 1853. On page 112, "Rhea and Meigs Counties in the Confederate War," by V.C.Allen, it is stated: "Colonel J.M.Lillard was thirty-four years old when he entered the Confederate Army as a Lieutenant in Captain Boggess' com pany. Colonel Lillard had seen service as a soldier boy in Mexico. After the close of the Mexican war he served one term in the Legis lature. He was a lawyer, and was engaged in the practice of his 64 LILLARD GENEALOGY profession when the war commenced. He was a strong advocate of "States rights," and was an active Southern sympathizer dur ing the excitement preceding the fall of Fort Sumter. When war between the States became a reality, Colonel Lillard, as stated before, entered the army in the second company leaving his native county, and upon the organization of the Twenty-Sixth Tennessee Regiment he was elected Colonel, and he commanded that regi ment until he fell mortally wounded in the battle of Chicamauga. In the battle of Fort Donelson Colonel Lillard had the oppor tunity to show his courage and military skill, and again at Mur freesboro, when Bragg had retired before Rosencrans from Mur freesboro to Chattanooga, and a council of war was held as to whether Chattanooga should be evacuated or not. Colonel Lillard, then in command of a brigade, was present and strenuously in sisted on fighting, stating a fact that has since become well known -that Chattanooga was the gateway to the South, and should be held by the Confederates at all hazards. Colonel Lillard was very popular with his men, who were ready at all times to follow where he led. He fell mortally wounded in the bloody battle of Chicamauga, whilst leading his regiment in a charge." "I would not pass the name of Colonel Lillard with the bare statement of his tragic death on the field of battle. He had con victions, and the courage at all times to maintain them, yet he at all times made it a point to weigh well all matters coming be fore him for decision impartially, and then decide for the right as his judgment dictated. He was modest and unassuming, yet firm and inflexible, brave, and at all times courageous, kind, affable, and polite to all, from the humblest private to the com manding General." "Colonel Lillard had been recommended for promotion and appointed Brigadier General, but fell before his commission ar rived. Colonel Lillard, had a short time previous to the war, married Miss Jennie Thomas, of Ashe County, North Carolina, who died whilst Colonel Lillard was a prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Delaware, he having been captured at Fort Donelson." In this same history, on page 20, it states that when the 26th Ten nessee Regiment was organized that John M. Lillard was elected Colonel, and that this Regiment was "ordered to Bowling Green, Kentucky, in September, 1861, and assisted in building fortifications around that town. In January, 1862, the Regi ment was ordered to Russellville, Kentucky, and from there to Fort Donel son, where it took a prominent part in that historic battle, fighting for two days amid snow and ice, and against heavy odds as to numbers; the sur viving members of the regiment were surrendered. The regiment lost heavily in killed and wounded, losing some of its best officers. The field officers were sent to Fort Warren, the privates and non-commissioned offi- JAMES LILLARD 65 cers to Indianapolis, and other officers to Johnson's Island. The regi ment was exchanged in September following. The Twenty-Sixth Tennes see reenlisted and reorganized at Knoxville, after -it was exchanged. Colonel Lillard was again elected to command the regiment. . . . The Regiment was assigned to duty in General John C. Brown's brigade at Murfreesboro, and took part in the four days' battle fought near that place the 30th and 31st of December, 1862, and January 1st and 2d, 1863. Brown's brigade being a part of Breckinridge's division, the regiment took part in the memorable charge made on the cedar thicket, where history says 'Breckinridge lost 2,000 men in this charge in thirty minutes.' The Twenty-Sixth lost heavily in officers and men. • In the battle of Chickamauga in September, 1863, the Twenty-sixth Tennessee Regiment maintained its character for bra very and again lost many of its best men. Among the number was the gallant Colonel Lillard, who fell while leading his regiment in a charge, pierced by thirteen shrap nel balls." In a letter written in 1914, A.W.Lillard of Knoxville, Tenn., said: "I was at Uncle Jim's when they brought Colonel John's body home a corpse. God never made finer men than Colonel John M. and Colonel Newt. J. Lillard." Colonel John M. and Mary C. J. (Thomas) Lillard had but one child, a son named: (4a) Thomas James Lillard, who was born Aug. 23, 1858. He married on June 15, 1887, to Mame Elizabeth Gwynne of Elkin, N. C., daughter of Richard Ransom and Mary Caro line (Dickenson) Gwynne. T. J. Lillard was educated in the common schools of Western North Carolina, and com pleted his education at Emory & Henry College, at Emory, Va., in 1879. After leaving college he went into business with his uncle and guardian David Worth of Western North Carolina and engaged in the mercantile business and manu facturing of carriages, buggies and wagons. After his mar riage he moved to Elkin, N. C., where he was Treasurer of the cotton mills for many years. He next moved to Char lotte, N. C., where he still was engaged in the cotton mill business until he sold out his interests the year following the World War, investing in Preferred stocks, since which time he has not been active in business. Since 1918 he has spent his entire time as Treasurer and Custodian of The First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Charlotte, N. C. His wife was born on Nov. 23, 1865. Issue: (4aa) Ruth Gwynne Lillard, b. Oct. 13, 1889, married on October 5, 1915, to Carlton Meredith Schoonover from South Bethlehem, Pa. Issue: 66 LILLARD GENEALOGY (4aaa) Carlton Meredith Schoonover, Jr., born Jan. 10, 1920. ( 4ab) Virginia Thomas Lillard, born Aug. 2, 1891. Un married. (4ac) Gwynne Lenoir Lillard, born Aug. 14, 1893, served in the World War as a Training Officer. He did not get overseas as he was on duty at training camps and in the typographical department of the Aviation Corps. On Sept. 17, 1922, he married to Agnes Miller Speights of Greenville, S. C. No issue. (5) JAMES S. VERNON LILLARD, was born March 28, 1829, and married on Oct. 17, 1847, to Mira Huff, by whom he had all his children. After her death he married to his second cousin, Jennie Layton, daughter of Fountain Layton, and grand daughter of Richard and Mildred (Lillard) Layton. (see No. zn, this chapter). Of their romance Hon. Jasper Worth L:illard, of Decatur, Tenn., writes: "Now my uncle, James S. Vernon Lillard, married the second time, Jennie Layton, in Rockingham County, Va. The story as I recall it was that he met her during the Civil War. His company, Co. I., 3rd Tenn. Inft., C. S. A., was in the Battle of Manassas or Bull Run, and was on duty close up to Washington during the first year of the Civil War, and during this period my uncle was sick and instead of coming home stayed for some time with the Laytons in Rockingham Co. Va., and there met his future wife. It is my understanding that the Laytons were in some way related to us and this was the reason for my uncle stoppling there." In a letter from E. M. Foster, Director of the Monticello Park Corporation, at Grottoes, Virginia, he informs: "Cousin Sam Layton who was a brother to cousin Jenny Lillard told me -before his death that his father, Fountain M. Layton came to Augusta Co., Va., from Louisa Co., Va., about 1830, and that some of his brothers settled in Ohio about that time, whom he visited a few years after the Civil War. I used to enjoy your uncle Vernon's visits here in Va., with counsin Jenny so much." James S. Vernon Lil1ard died at Decatur, Tenn., about 1908. Issue: ( All by first wife, Mira ( Huff) Lillard) (Sa) B:enjamin F. Lillard, died in Meigs Co., Tenn., 1910. Issue: Several children who died unmarried. (Saa) Nann!ie M. Lillard, m.Dec. 27, 1905, to Charles Crabtree; she married 2nd, on July 10, 1921, to Charles W. Johnson. Address; Decatur, Tenn. Issue: (By Mr. Crabtree) (Saaa) Lillard Crabtree, student at' Univ. of Tenn. (5ab) Mrs. Ellis Hornsby. Address: Peakland, Tenn. JAMES LILLARD 6'} (Sb) Newton J. Lillard, died in Texas. (Sc) Lee N. Lillard, died in Oklahoma. (6) JASPER WASHINGTON LILLARD, was born April 18, 1832. He was a twin to his brother Newton Jackson Lillard ( 7) . He married on Aug. 12, 1869, to Mattie E. Matlock, of Knoxville. Issue: (6a) John M. Lillard, b.Jan.8, 1872. (6b) James Lillard. (7) Colonel NEWTON JACKSON LILLARD, son ofJames and Mary (Sandusky) Lillard, was born on April 18, 1832, and was the twin brother of Jasper Washington Lillard ( 6) . On October 23, 1865, he married Elma Caroline Worth, who was born in Ashe County, N. C., on Dec. 5, 1845. She was the daughter of David Worth(b.1810, in Guilford Co.,N.C.;m.Jan.1,1839;d. Ashe Co.N.C.,1888) and his wife, Elizabeth (Thomas) Worth., b.Ashe Co.,N. C., 1821; d.1895). Colonel N.J.Lillard was born in Decatur, Tenn., and died there on October 22, 1905. His wife also died there on Feb. 20, 1920. In V.C.Allen's book "Rhea and Meigs Counties in the Con federate War," page 117, is the following: "COLONEL NEWTON J. LILLARD. N.J.Lillard entered the Confederate Army May 2, 1861, as Captain of the first company that left Meigs County for the Confederate service. He was a native of Meigs County, and a younger brother of Colonel John M. Lillard, of the Twenty-Sixth Tennessee. He had seen service in Mexico with General Scott, going with Captain McKenzie's company when only about sixteen years old. After his service in Mexico, Colonel Lillard returned to his home at Decatur, and after he had attained his majority, he served as county court clerk of Meigs County for one term. He was in the mercantile business when he entered the Confederate Army, and was about twenty-nine years old. His company became a part' of (Vaughn's) Third Tennessee Regiment, C. S. A. Soon after the organization of the Third Tennessee Regiment, it was ordered to Vir ginia, and took part in the first battle of Manassas, July 21; 1861. Colonel Lillard commanded his company in that memorable engagement. In May, 1862, the Third Tennessee Regiment reenlisted for the war, and at its reorganization N .J .Lillard was elected Lieutenant Colonel. The Third Tennessee Regiment, in August, 1862, met and defeated, in an open field engagement, General DeCoursey's brigade of four regiments. This en gagement caused the promotion of Colonel Vaughn to Brigadier General, and Colonel Lil1ard became commander of the regiment, and led it in the Kentucky campaign, at Baker's Creek, Big Black, Vicksburg, Morris town, Greeneville, Bull's Gap, and in the Valley of Virginia. 68 LILLARD GENEALOGY Colonel Lillard was a model officer-'-intelligent, cool, conservative, and brave. He never became excited, and was always in front wherever his command was required to go. Colonel Lillard's regiment was at Christiansburg, Virginia, when General Lee surrendered. He at once crossed the Blue Ridge with his regiment and attempted to join General J .E.Johnston, then in command of the remnant of the Army of Tennessee, whose unconquerable courage had never failed in defeat; but they had been forced to stack their arms before Colonel Lillard reached them, and then, as the last lengthening shadows of the sun of the Confederacy was sending forth a fading light, Colonel Lillard remained with its defenseless President, attended the last Council of War, at Abbeville, South Carolina, presided over by President Davis, and from there to Washington, Georgia, accompanied President Davis as a part of his escort. Reaching Washington, Georgia, President Davis advised the commanders of the Tennessee and Kentucky calvary men to stop and surrender their men, protesting against useless sacrifice for him or the cause. Here Colonel Lillard surrendered his reg,iment, on the 8th day of May, 1865, more than four years from the time he entered the service. He at once returned to his home at Decatur, Tennessee, and furnished, along with other ex-Confederates, an example of the fact that a good soldier invariably makes a good citizen. During the dark days of the Reconstruction period, he labored on a farm. It is impossible for the present generation to realize the difficulties that· an ex-Confederate soldier had to face during that period. When the ex-Confederate soldiers of Meigs County was enfranchised, Colonel Lillard was elected circuit court clerk, and served from 1870. to 1882, and he then served as clerk and master six years. · He married to Miss Caroline Worth, of North Carolina, in 1865, and died at Decatur, Tennessee, October 22, 1905, loved by his old com rades and respected by all who knew him." An article which appeared in a Tennessee newspaper in 1905, gives further facts concerning the life of Colonel Newton Jackson Lillard : "Col. N.J.LILLARD Sketch of Interesting Career of East Tennessean Who Died a Few Days Ago at Decatur. N.J.Lillard was born April 18, 1832, at Decatur, Tenn., and died at the same place, Oct.22, 1905. Col. Lillard was the son of James Lillard, Esq., who donated the land on which the town of Decatur is located. When he was only 15 years of age, he with two older brothers, left the farm for Mexico. They joined Capt. G.W.McKenzie's company from Meigs county, which became a part of McClellan's Fift'h Tennessee regi ment .in the Mexican war. The company's old flag, which Col. Lillard carried over the burning sands of Mexico, was draped on the pulpit during the funeral. The -older brother W.C.Lillard, became adjutant of his regi ment, the other brother, John M. Lillard, later, became colonel of the JAMES LILLARD 69 Twenty-Sixth Tennessee Regiment, C.S.A., and fell mortally wounded in front of his regiment on the bloody field of Chickamauga. Col. N.J.Lillard was the county court clerk of his native county from 1858 to 1861. vYhen Mr. Lincoln called for volunteers to coerce the southern states in April 1861, a company was organized in l\1eigs county to resist the force, proposed by the president, of which N.J.Lillard was elected captain. This company left Decatur for Knoxville, May 2, 1861, and became a part of the Third Tennessee Regiment. Soon after this, they left for the seat of war in Virginia, where they took part in the battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861. The regiment re-enlisted in the spring of 1862, and in its reorganization N.J.Lillard was elected lieutenant colonel. His regiment met and defeated Gen. DeCoursey's brigade of four regiments, at Tazewell, Tenn., in August, 1862. When Col. Vaughn was made a brigadier-general, then Col. Lillard became the commander of the regiment, and led it in the Kentucky cam paign at Baker's Creek, Vicksburg, Morristown and in the valley of Vir ginia. Lee's surrender came and Col. Lillard with the remnant of his brave boys, crossed the Blue Ridge and attempted to reach Gen. Johnston. He met President Davis and his cabinet at Charlotte, N. C. Davis in formed him that Gen. Johnston would be forced to surrender, and that he was going to try to reach the Trans-Mississippi department and perhaps Mexico. Col. Lillard and his command started with him as an escort, and accompanied him to Washington, Ga. Davis, ascertaining that he could not get through with his escort, advis,ed them to surrender, and he started on alone. Col. Lillard surrendered his regiment there May 8, 1865. When the Civil War commenced he was a merchant at Decatur, but the war swept away his property and left him heavily in debt. He carried into civil life the same heroism he exhibited on the battlefield, even surrendering his horse that had carried him so faithfully through storms of shot and shell, to pay a debt. By industry and economy his debts were all paid and he again accumulated a good estate. He was circuit court clerk of Meigs County from 1870 to 1882, and clerk and master from 1882 to 1888. He was married to Miss Callie Worth of North Carolina, Oct. 23, '.1.865, who survives him. He leaves six sons and one daughter-Hon. J.W.Lillard, James, David, John and Miss Bessie Lillard of Decatur, Tenn., and Mason and Vernon Lillard of Elkin, N. C. The funeral services were conducted from the Baptist Church by Rev. J.W.Repass, of the M.E. Church, South, and Rev. William White of the Baptist church and the body interred with Masonic honors at the cemetery at Decatur, Tenn." ISSUE: (7a) Hon. JASPER WORTH LILLARD, b. in Ashe Co.,N.C., on Nov.JO, 1866; educated at Decatur Academy, and at Law School of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., receiving LL.B, June, 1890; deputy Clerk and Master Chancery Court at Deca tur, 1882-88; Postmaster .at Decatur, 1893-97; member of House of Representatives, Tenn. Gen. Assembly, 1905; County Atty., Meigs Co.,Tenn.,1907-1928; several times Special Circuit Judge and Chancellol'. Member M. E. Church, South; Bar 70 LILLARD GENEALOGY Assn., of Tenn.; American Bar Assn.; Tenn. Historical Society. Has practiced law at Decatur, Tenn., since 1890. The entire Lillard family owes him a vote of thanks for his collection of Genealogical information on our family, which he so generously contributed for the information contained in this book, and without which such a work could never have been accomplished. On October 28, 1891, he married at Decatur, Tenn., to LET TIE JANE STEWART. Minister W.R. Snyder performed the ceremony,(Meigs Co.Tenn., Records). Issue: (7aa) STEWART LILLARD, born Aug. 16, 1892. Unmar ried. 1st Lieut, Engrs., World War. Was on trans port "The Tuscania," when it was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. He escaped injury. With the State Highway Commission, Nashville, Tenn. (7ab) CAROLINE WORTH LILLARD, born Sept. 13, 1897. Unmarried. Teacher at Decatur, Tenn. (7b) THOMAS MASON LILLARD, born March 27, 1870, married Dec. 17, 1902, to Kate Gwinn (D. Sept.10,1904). No issue by first marriage. He married a second time on Nov. 6, 1907, to MARION KELLEY, daughter of Thomas Lemuel and Mattie (Sterling) Kelley. Address: Elkin, N.C. Issue: (7ba) MARGARET STERLING LILLARD,b.Dec.11, 1909. (7bb) CAROLINE WORTH LILLARD,b.Oct.21, 1911. (7bc) MATTIE THOBURN LILLARD,b.Sept.13, 1914. (7bd) SARAH KELLEY LILLARD,b. June 24, 1918. (7c) JAMES LEWIS LILLARD, born Feb. 18, 1873, married on May 1, 1913, to IOLA KING, daughter of Jerome B. and Sarah (Haley) King. Address: Elkin, N.C. Issue: (7ca) JAMES KING LILLARD,b. Aug. 12, 1924. (7d) STEPHEN NEWTON LILLARD, b. Aug. 5, 1875; died in infancy on Dec. 23, 1881. (7e) Capt. DAVID WILEY LILLARD, born Feb. 7, 1879, was Cap tain of Co. L, 117 Inft., in World War, and was severely wounded at Poncheaux, France, Oct. 7, 1918. On account of his heroic courage in this battle he was awarded the D.S.C., by General Pershing, and the Croix de Guerre by the French Government. The .citation for Captain Lillard's valiant deed when des perately wounded is described in the following published com mand: "Capt. David W. Lillard, Company L, 117th Infantry. On the morning of Octob-er 7, 1918, when Capt. David W. Lillard was directed to attack and straighten out a line near Poncheaux, France, his company was moving forward under heavy machine gun and trench mortar fire, and reached within about 75 yards of its objective (a railroad cut), when Capt. JAMES LILLARD 71 Lillard, was hit by a machine gun bullet, which exploded two magazine clips containing fourteen shells. All of these shells entered his body, making a fearful wound. Although terribly wounded and knocked down, he got to his knees and waved and directed the further advance of his company to its ob jective. He then, while lying on the ground, wrote three orders and sent runners for assistance. The fire was so intense that his orderly carried him about 7 5 yards to the rear to a shell hole where he was up.conscious for a few minutes. Regaining con sciousness, he continued in command of his company, issuing verbal orders from time to time, and remained in command for about six hours. 'He was a chip off the old block,' said Col. Carey F. Spence, in commenting upon Capt. David W. Lillard's feat. 'His father was colonel of the old Third Tennessee, which fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Colonel Lillard was. commanding the Third Tennessee, which was with Jeff Davis when peace was declared,' continued Colonel Spence. 'In the eyes of the officers and men of our regiment he is not only the hero of the 30th division, but of the entire army as well'." Captain David '-N. Lillard married on May 24, 1922, to MARGARET MURPHY, daughter of John Walker and Mary (Franklin) Murphy. He is a lawyer practicing under the firm name of Lillard & Webb. Address: Etowah, Tenn. Issue: (7ea) MARY CAROLINE LILLARD,b.Sept.30, 1925. (7eb) MARGARET ELIZABETH LILLARD, b. Feb. 26, 1927. (7f) JOHN LILLARp, born Jan. 7, 1882, married Aug. 13, 1911, to ANNA MARY GALLAHER. Address: Decatur, Tenn. . Issue: (7fa) ELMA CLYDE LILLARD, b. Sept. 16, 1912. (7fb) EMILY RHEA LILLARD, b. Mar. 1, 1914. (7fc) EVALYN WORTH LILLARD, b. Mar. 3, 1916. (7fd) HENRY BESS LILLARD, b. July 30, 1917. (7fe) JOHN MASON LILLARD, b. Dec. 6, 1920. (7p;) VERNON CAROL LILLARD, born Oct. 29, 1885, married on Feb. 2, 1915, to ANNIE HAMILTON. No issue. Address: Creston, Ashe Co. N.C. (7h) BESSIE MAE LILLARD, born Oct. 16, 1887, married on June 25, 1912, to ROY P. ROBINSON. She died March 17, 1927. Issue: (7ha) DAVID WORTH ROBINSON, b. May 2, 1918. (7hb) ELIZABETH ROBINSON,b. Feb. 12, 1920. (7hc) MARGARET LYNN ROBINSON, b. July 20, 1923. (8) AMANDA LILLARD,b. March 17, 1831; d. Apr. 10, 1834. (9) MARY E. LILLARD, born Sept. 3, 18.35, married on August 1, 18:-0, to J. B. Boggess. Died in 1907. ,72 L.ILLARD GENEALOGY (10) LOUISA ELVINA LILLARD, born Jan. 15, 1837, married on Sept.1, 1858, to Beriah A. Frazier. Died about 1908. Issue: Several children who died in infancy. ( 10a) James Frazier. Died unmarried. ( 10b) John Frazier; Died unmarried. (10c) Mary Lou Frazier, b. Dec. 11, 1870, married to J. N. Ewing, on June 27, 1895. (Meigs Co.Tenn.Records). Issue: (lOca) Miss Ewing married Fred Ballard. Ad dress: Chattanooga, Tenn. Also three other children. (11) TEXANNAH LILLARD, born April 7, 1839, married on Feb.26, 1861, to William Stewart; died in New Mexico. Issue: (11a) Lula Stewart m.Oct.23, 1888, to C. P. Shearman. (11b) James V. Stewart m.June 15, 1893, to Betty Russell. (llc) Beriah Allen Stewart m.Nov.12, 1901, to Nettie Cath- erine Boggess. Address: Knoxville, Tenn. ( 11 d) Joseph Acuff Stewart. Address: Bakersfield, Calif. (lle) ].Wm.Stewart m.Apr.26,1900,Grace Blevins. (12) CRATON EVELYN (Evie) LILLARD, born April 20, 1845, married on June 6, 1867, to Dr. John W. Acuff. She was killed in an automobile wreck at Bell Buckle, Tennessee. No chil dren. (e) JOHN LILLARD, known as and called "Honest Jack" Lillard, was the son of James and J ala (Seal) Lillard. He was born in Cul peper County, Virginia, but was taken to Tennessee by his parents in pioneer days. He married ELIZABETH TAYLOR, and lived about four miles south of Decatur, Tenn. He died there prior to the Civil War. Issue: (1) ROBERT WESLEY LILLARD, born Dec. 20, 1820, was a lieutenant in the Civil War, his company being Co. D, of the 43rd Tenn. Regiment, C.S.A. Lieut. R.W.Lillard re sided at Decatur. He had sold out at Mouse Creek, Tenn., expecting to move to Texas in the spring of 1861, but the war changed his plans and he stayed to fight for the cause of the Confederacy. He married Feb. 24, 1848, to SARAH ADELINE RICE (b. Apr.JO, 1826). They both died on the same day. He died at noon and she died just four hours later at 4 p.m. They were buried in one g;rave. Issue: (la) TENNESSEE MINERVA LILLARD, b.Dec.29, 1848, m. Apr. 11, 1868, to JOHN TAYLOR. She died Mar.29, 1912. (lb) ALLISON WOODVILLE LILLARD, was born in McMinn County, Tenn., on April 3, 1850, but JAMES LILLARD 73 was reared in Meigs County, his father moving to Decatur in 1860-1. Was at one time Emigrant Agent at Knoxville, Tenn. He married Aug. 25, 1871, to LOU ELIZABETH GIVENS(b.July 25, 1857; d.July 11, 1925, at Knoxville, Tenn.). He resided at Knoxville, Tenn., where he died on Oct. 20, 1923. Issue: (lba) IDA MAY LILLARD, m. Mr. Pless. Address: Oklahoma Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. (lbb) ROBERT WESLEY LILLARD, b. Meigs Co.,Tenn., on Nov. 15, 1874, married Oct. 27, 1899, to HATTIE C. Ray(b.June 25, 1880). Address: 2240 6th Ave., N. St.Petersburg,Fla. Issue: (lbba) RAY ALLISO;N LILLARD, b.Sept.18, 1900, m. Aug. 27, 1918, to VELMA SAND ERS. Issue: ( 1bbaa) RAY ALLISON LILLARD, JR. (lbbab) ROBERT MAT THEW LIL LARD. (lbbb) ROSS NICHOLAS LIL LARD, b.Mar.13,1902. (lbbc) ROBERT WESLEY LIL LARD,Jr., b. Feb.24, 1904. (lbbd) VERNON WILLIAM LIL LARD, b.Mar.8,1909. (lbc) CHARLES LILLARD, b. Mar.17, 1875; d.Mar.11, 1893. Unmarried. (lbd) JOHN W. LILLARD. Cashier of Union National Bank at Columbia, S.C (lbe) Capt. ROSS NICHOLAS LILLARD, b. Feb.24, 1881, m. June 9, 1917, to DOROTHY EVANS. Lawyer, having offices at 401 Perrine Bldg., Okla homa City, Okla. Of his service in the World War, Capt. Lillard states: "I entered the Army in May, 1917, and was discharged March, 1919, was a Captain of Infantry; spent twelve months overseas and was with the 42nd or Rainbow Division, spending six months on the front and engaged in the 74 LILLARD GENEALOGY battles in the Champagne Drive, the Chateau Thierry-Marne Drive, in the Saint Mihiel Drive and the Argonne Forest, besides spending a good part of my time in the Toul Sector." · Issue: (lbea) ROSS NICHOLAS LIL LARD, Jr., b. Nov. 3, 1918. (le) SARAH JANE LILLARD, b.Mar.10, 1852, m. 1886, to P.M.PURSER. (ld) William Wesley Lillard, b. Feb. 13, 1854; d. May 8, 1891. He married in 1884. {le) Amanda Catharine Lillard, b. Dec. 21, 1856; m. 1875, to H.M. Purser. She died May 26, 1900. (lf) John Melville Lillard, b. Feb. 4, 1859; d. Aug. 8, 1885. Unmarried. (lg) Wigfall Davis Lillard, b. Apr. 18, 1861; m. July 26, 1891, to Ida Alice Walker. Address: Day ton, Tenn. (lh) Ashbury Franklin Lillard, b. Apr. 12, 1863; died July 1, 1863. (li) James Morgan Lillard, b. May 23, 1864; d. June 30, 1892; unmarried. (lj) Addie Victoria Lillard, b. June 7, 1867; d. Oct. 16, 1897; unmarried. (2) Captain William Wesley Lillard married first to Lucretia Blevins; he married secondly on July 29, 1873, to Mrs. Jacinta A. Casey, a widow. He was a Captain in the Con federate Army during the Civil War, commanding Co I, of the 5th Tenn. Cavalry, C.S.A. He was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was engaged in farming at the time he entered the Army. He served twelve months in McKenzie's company as Lieutenant before he became Captain of Co. I. He resided about three miles southeast of Decatur, Tenn. In "Rhea and Meigs Counties in the Confederate War," by V.C.Allen, it is stated: "The sixth company from Meigs County for the Confed erate service was a cavalry company, organized a few days after Captain Sandusky's company, and was mustered into service at Shiloh Church, Meigs County, Tennessee, on the 19th day of July, 1862, with the following then well-known citizens as commissioned officers: W.W.Lillard, Captain; Jesse Martin, First Lieutenant; J.M.McKenzie, Second Lieutenant; W.F.Blevins, Third Lieutenant. Captain Lillard's Company left at once for Chattanooga and joined General Bragg, who was organizing the Army of Tennessee for the Kentucky campaign. Captain Lillard's company remained at Chattanooga only a few days, and it was ordered to Sparta, Tennessee, and attached to Combs' JAMES LILLARD 75 battalion. On the advance of General Bragg, Captain Lil lard's company was detached and ordered to report, to Gen eral Bragg, and acted as escort for him on the advance into Kentucky, and until a few days after the battle of Perryville, when the fact was made known to General Bragg that the company had enlisted with the purpose of being attached to the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, Colonel G.W.Mc Kenzie's regiment. He ordered Captain Lillard to report to Colonel McKenzie and he did so at once, and the company became Company 'I' of the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry. Captain Lillard's company, after it became a part of the Fifth Tennessee, was with the regiment in all the battles and skirmishes from Perryville, Kentucky, to Greensboro, North Carolina, and formed a substantial part of the 'Fight ing Fifth Tennessee Cavalry'." Issue: (By Lucretia (Blevins) Lillard) ( 2a) Elmira Lillard, m. Jan. 1 7, 186 7, to William A. Smith. Died at Redding, Calif. (2b) Amanda Lillard, b. 1845; d. at Decatur, Tenn., 1921; m. 1867, to Bartholomew King Blevins. Issue: (2ba) Kittie Cleage Blevins, b. 1868; m. July 1, 1886, to John Breckinridge Cross. Ad dress: Decatur, Tenn. Issue: ( 2baa) Agnes Grace Cross. ( 2bab) Edna King Cross. (2bb) Martin Luther Blevins, b. 1869. Address: Chattanooga, Tenn. (2bc) Annie Susan Blevins, b. 1869; d. 1905; m. Apr. 25, 1896, to Thomas Prigmore Smith. Issue: ( 2bca) Annie Thomas Smith. Deca tur, Tenn. ( 2bcb) Frank Prigmore Smith, Deca tur, Tenn. (2bd) Mary Grace Blevins, b. 1876; d. 1906; m. Apr. 26, 1900, to John W. Stewart. No issue. (2be) Ira Mason Blevins, b. 1878; d. 1916. He married. His widow resides at Cleve land, Tenn. (2c) John Lillard was a soldier in the Civil War, Co. I, 5th Tenn. Cav. C.S.A. (2d) Susan R. Lillard, m. Sept. 30, 1871, to J. P. How ell, and removed to Texas. (2e) Mary Lillard, m. Oct. 1, 1876, to W.N.Holman of Birchwood, Tenn. (By Jacinta (Casey) Lillard) 76 LILLARD GENEALOGY (2f) Lucy Lillard, m. Oct. 20, 189Z, to John M. Lock.- miller of Riceville, Tenn. (2g) Belle Lillard, m. Mr. Huff of Roswell, N.M. ( 2h) Walter Lillard. Address: Champaign, Illinois. ( 2i) Addie Victoria Lillard, m. Mar. 12, 1911, to J. Haskell Lewis. Address: Decatur, Tenn. ( 3) Morgan Lillard. ( 4) Mack Lillard. Moved to Waco, Texas. ( 5 ) Monroe Lillard. (6) Asbury Lillard, m. Miss McCorkle. Moved to Waco, Texas. ( 7) Francis Lillard, m. Nov. 19, 1853, to Lucinda McCorkle. Moved to Waco, Texas. (8) Mary- Lillard m. Nathan Lawson. Moved to Waco, Texas. (9) Cynthia Lillard, m. William Gregory and moved to Texas. ( 10) Thomas K. Lillard married and moved to Waco, Texas. Issue: (10a) Minnie Lillard, m. Mr. Taylor. Address: 1414 N. 10th St., Waco, Texas. (g) WILLIAM LILLARD, son of James and Jala (Seal) Lillard, was born in Cocke County, Tennessee, about 1801, and was taken by his parents to Smithland, Kentucky, at the mouth of the Cumber land River. There is a tale about William and his two brothers, James and another, which states that while they were on their way back from Kentucky to Tennessee some Indians attacked them. During the fight which followed this brother whose name is not re membered, killed one of the red men. He ran away in fear of his life, and the two brothers, James and William never knew what became of him. James and William then walked on to Tennessee. William Lillard settled where the town of Decatur is now located, or near there, and married NANCY ELDER (b.Jan.12, 1809; d. June 24, 1888, and is buried at Decatur, Tenn). She was the daughter of Robert and Sarah (Moore) Elder, who resided on a farm adjoining that of William Lillard. William Lillard died on July 27, 1875, and is buried at Decatur, Tennessee. Issue: (1) MARY ANN LILLARD, b. Dec. 19, 1827; d. June 24, 1847. Buried at Decatur, Tenn. (2) JAMES E. LILLARD, b. Nov. 29, 1829; d. Mar. 11, 1899. Married January 19, 1860, to SARAH MARTIN. He was a Civil War Veteran, having served in the Confederate Army in the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A. Issue: (2a) W. FRANK LILLARD, m. Dec, 27, 1898, to TEXAS BALL. Address: Decatur, Tenn. (2b) JAMES NEWTON LILLARD, b. Aug.23, 1870, JAMES LILLARD 77 m. Feb.13, 1895, to MARGARET HICKMAN. Address: Box 53, Calhoun, Tenn. Issue: (2ba) ALBERT JAMES LILLARD, b. Aug. 1, 1898, m.1921, to MARY WALKER. Address: Calhoun, Tenn. Issue: (2baa) EDWARD LILLARD, b. 1922. (2bb) WILLIAM M. LILLARD, b. Nov. 24, 1901. Address: Calhoun, Tenn. (2c) CHARLES A. LILLARD, m. Oct. 29, 1922, to MYRTLE POWERS. Address: Decatur, Tenn. (2d) THOMAS LILLARD, m. Feb. 9, 1913, to NEL LIE JORDAN. Address: Decatur, Tenn. (2e) JOHN M. LILLARD, b. 1872, m. MELL BORIEN. Lived in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Died and left a number of descendants. (2f) Another brother who died in infancy. (2g) SUDDIE LILLARD, m. Feb. 26, 1906, to W. OWEN FISHER. Address: Decatur, Tenn. c/o Charlie Lillard. ( 2h) EMMA LILLARD. (2i) CRATON LILLARD. (2j) NANCY LILLARD, m. Oct. 13, 1891, to HUGH A TCHLEiY. Address: Delta, Colo. (2k) LIZZIE LILLARD, m. Mar. 22, 1908, to SAMUEL H. FISHER. Address: Delta, Colo. (3) SARAH CRATON LILLARD, b. Dec. 31, 1831, married Mr. BUCKNER. Died Sept. 17, 1864. Buried at Dayton, Tenn. Issue: (3a) Alice Buckner married Mr. Neil. ( 3b) Tennessee Buckner married Joseph Martin of Min eral Heights, Weatherford, Texas. (4) ROBERT ELDER LILLARD, b. Sept. 8, 1835; d. June 29, 1847. Buried at Decatur, Tenn. (5) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LILLARD, b. Feb. 23, 1838, at Decatur, Tenn; married on Nov. 30, 1869, to EGLYNTINE (Tina) NEIL(d.June 23, 1919). He was a Civil War Veteran, having served in the Confederate Army in Co. I, 3rd. Tenn. Inft. as Lieutenant, with which company he fought in many famous battles at Manassas, Vicksburg, and in the Valley of Virginia. In "Rhea and Meigs Counties in the Confederate War," V.C.Allen states: "Lieutenant B.F.Lillard was severely wounded at Duval's Ford, on the Watauga River, in 1864, and was hauled in an ambulance to Bristol before his wound . was dressed, but the will power of this model soldier pulled him through, 78 LILLARD GENEALOGY and he was in a few months back with his command again." After the Civil War, Benjamin Franklin Lillard moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he became a contractor and deco rator. He died in Atlanta on June 2, 1900, and is buried there. The following obituary notice is copied from a news paper clipping: "RF.Lillard died at his home in Atlanta, Ga., June 2, 1900, aged 62 years. Deceased was born in Decatur, Tenn., where he spent most of his life, having spent only a few years in Dayton, Tenn., and some six years in Atlanta, Ga. As a citizen, soldier and Christian gentleman, Mr. Lillard had few equals. While in the prime of life he volunteered in Capt. N.J. Lillard's Company, May 2, 1861. Soon thereafter he was made lieutenant, where he served with honor until the sur render at Washington, Ga., May 11, 1865. When he re turned home and entered the more peaceful walks of life he ,proved himself as honourable and just as he had been brave and true in war. He was one of the type of south ern gentlemen who never faltered in halfway defiance to a foe or in halfway welcoming of a friend. For many years he had been an honoured member and Deacon of the Baptist Church." Issue: (Sa) NANCY ELLEN LILLARD, b. Decatur, Tenn., Oct.3,1870, m.Apr.23,1902, to Charles Francis Lincoln, of Providence, R.I. Mr. Lincoln was born in Upton, Mass., on Apr. 16, 1861. He died May 29, 1920, and was buried in Hunts Mills Cemetery, at Providence, R.I. He was· the son of Jesse B. Lincoln, who was born in Sutton, Mass., on Oct. 7, 1835, and died Feb. 10, 1916. Mr. Lincoln's mother was Amelia (Johnson) Lincoln. Address: 1838 North 16th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Issue: (Saa) Eglyntine Amelia Lincoln, b. Jan. 10, 1904, m. Jan. 10, 1926, to Burton H. Tobelman of East Orange, N .J. ( Sab) Ella Frances Lincoln, b. Oct.22, 1906. (Sb) WILLIAM WALLACE LILLARD, b. Decatur, Tenn, May 11., 1872; m. June 26, 1902, to RHET TA HOUSE, daughter of Joseph House of Knox ville, Tenn. He was in the contracting business in Atlanta, Ga. Died July 11, 1921. Buried East East Lake Cemetery, Kirkwood, Ga. No issue. (Sc) JOHN RUSSELL LILLARD, b. Jan. 2, 1874. Un married. Address: 1751 Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill. Was .a Spanish-American War Veteran, hav- JAMES LILLARD ing seen service in Cuba with the 3rd Georgia Regt. (Sd) MARY EMMA LILLARD, b. Mar. 9, 1876; m. July 25, 1900, to HARRY LOUIS BUMSTEAD, son of M. BUMSTEAD of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Bum stead was General Manager for the Heber Candy Co., Birmingham, Ala. He died Nov. 1924. Ad dress: General Delivery, Birmingham, Ala. Issue: (Sda) WILLIE MAY BUMSTEAD, b. Jan.13, 1904. (Se) FRANKLIN ROSE LILLARD, b. Decatur, Tenn., Feb. 2, 1878. Unmarried. Died April 5, 1922. (Sf) CHARLES LAFAYETTE LILLARD, b. Decatur, Tenn., Aug. 6, 1880, m. DELLA STAGGS of Greenville, S. C. Died May 2, 1926. Buried fam ily graveyard, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ga. No issue. He was an artist and interior decorator and served two terms as the President of the Artists & Decora;tors Union of Atlanta, which organization presented him with a gold medal upon his retire ment from office as their President. Mrs. Hauser of Cincinnati, writes: '"In some manner his name will appear on that great Memorial to Confederacy at Stone Mountain, Georgia." (Sg) GRACE CRATON LILLARD,b. Oct.3, 1883, at Calf Kiler, near Sparta, Tenn.; d. Sept. 19 20. Buried State Sanitarium, Milledgeville, Ga. (Sh) ZOA LILLARD, b. Decatur, Tenn, Mar.27, 1885; d. July 11, 1888. Buried at Dayton, Tenn. (Si) ROBERT LILLARD, b. Dayton, Tenn, Feb.26, 1887; d. June 20, 1888. Buried at Dayton, Tenn. (Sj) THOMAS ELDER LILLARD, b. at Dayton, Tenn., on June 6, 1891, married on July 22, 1911, to PAULINE ESTELLE WILBORN (b.Atlanta, Ga.May 6, 1891), daughter of Robert Marshall and Nellie May (Ducan) Wilborn. Address: 12 North Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. c/o F.J.Coolidge & Sons. Issue: (Sja) THOMAS ELDER LILLARD, Jr., b. Atlanta,Ga., Sept.4, 1912. , (Sjb) ELIZABETH EGLYNTINE LILLARD, b. Birmingham, Ala., Apr. 9, 1914. (Sjc) SARAH JANE LILLARD, b. Atlanta, Ga., Apr.9, 1916. (Sjd) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LILLARD, b. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 24, 1918. (Sk) ESTHER EGLYNTINE LILLARD, b. Dayton, 80 LILLARD GENEALOGY Tenn., on Feb. 17, 1894, married at Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 16, 1920, to FRANK GRIEBEL HAUSER (b.Jan.2, 1894). Address: Box 149, R.R.3, Station L, Handley Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. (6) AVA JANE LILLARD, b. May 22, 1840. Buried at De catur, Tenn. (7) JOHN MASON LILLARD, b. Aug. 7, 1842, married Jan. 1, 1861, to MARTHA MARTIN. Buried at Decatur, Tenn. Was a Civil War Veteran, having served in the 3rd Tenn. Inft. C.S.A. (8) A.O.P.NICHOLSON LILLARD, b. Feb. 3, 1845; d. June 24, 1847. Buried at Decatur, Tenn. . (9) WILLIAM LAFA;'YETTE LILLARD, b. July 8, 1847, mar . ried June 1, 1871, to MOLLIE A. NEIL, sister of EGLYN TINE NEIL who married B.F.Lillard (No.5). Address: Winter Haven, Fla. They have only one child, a son. (10) THOMAS JEFFERSON LILLARD, b. July 8, 1851, mar ried at Chicago, Ill., in March, 1897, to MARY ELIZA BETH JAIME ICE(b. Cook Co. Texas, Dec. 29, 1877). Address: Wister, Okla. Issue: (10a) BASS LILLARD, b.Apr.25, 1899; m. BERTHA WOODARD. Address: Heverner, Okla. Issue: (l0aa) Robert LILLARD. (l0ab) ANNA LILLARD. (l0ac) VICTOR LILLARD. (l0ad) M. LILLARD. (l0ae) LILLIAN LILLARD. (l0af) DAVID LILLARD. (l0ag) JOHN LILLARD, and several others. (10b) MAY LILLARD, b. July 21, 1899, married first on Nov. 1, 1916, to Oscar D. Lassiter, who died on Sept. 19, 1923. She married a second time to Alfred Jones on Oct. 2, 1924. Address :Wister, -Okla. Issue: (By Mr. Lassiter) ( lOba) ANNA MAY LILLARD LASSITER, b. Aug. 27, 1918. (10c) JOHN MASON LILLARD, b.June 3, 1901, Died 1906. (10d) MINNIE LILLARD, b. Jan. 8, 1904, married Mr. WASHINGTON, a full blooded Chucktwa Indian. Address: Wister, Okla. Issue: (lOda) Sclinia Washington, b. July 31, 1922. (l0db) David Washington, b. March 1, 1925. (l0dc) Fra:p.ces Washington, b. Apr. 25, 1927; d. May 5, 1927. JAMES LILLARD 81 (lOe) TATE LILLARD, b. Jan. 1, 1905; d. 1906. (lOf) EDNA LILLARD, b. Oct.11, 1907. Unmarried. Address; Wister, Okla. (10g) CHARLES OLIVER LILLARD, b. Sept.11, 1909. Died in infancy in 1909. (10h) NANCY CRATON LILLARD, b. Dec.8, 1912. Address: Wister, Okla. (i) JEREMIAH LILLARD, son of Colonel William and Rachel (Mc Coy) Lillard, lived on a farm about twelve miles east of Benton, Polk County, Tenn. He married a Miss Jennings. He died in Polk County, Tenn. Issue: (1) ROBERT LILLARD married a Miss Latimore and resided on his father's old farm place near Benton. (2) WILLIAM LILLARD. (3) JOHN LILLARD. ( 4) JAMES LILLARD. (5) CAROLINE LILLARD married Mr. Lauderdale. (6) MARY LILLARD. (j) AUGUSTINE LILLARD, called "Austin", son of Colonel William and Rachel(McCoy) Lillard, married LORAIDA TAYLOR, and removed to Illinois where he died. Hon. J.W.Lillard of Decatur, Tenn, states: "I think D.B.Lillard of Huntsville, Ala., must be a descendant: also James B. Lillard of Lamar, Mo.; John T. Lil lard of Spokane, Washington, and Thomas Lillard of Springfield, Ill., but am not sure and neither are they." (k) JAMES LILLARD, son of Colonel William and Rachel (McCoy) Lillard, died in Tennessee. Descendants (if any) unknown. (1) NANCY LILLARD, daughter of Colonel William and Rachel (Mc Coy) Lillard, was born at "Wolf Hills" or Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia, on May 7, 1786. She married first to Mr. SAN DAUSK:Y, by whom she had but one child. After his death she married a second time to JOSEPH ALLEN of Cocke County, Ten nessee, however he left her before the birth of their only child. Nothing further is known of him. Nancy Lillard Sandusky Allen married a third time to ABSOLEM COLEMAN. She died on Sept. 30, 1866 at the home of her daughter Mary (Sandusky) Lil lard, wife of James Lillard,III, near Decatur, Tennessee. Issue: (By first husband, Mr. SANDAUSKY) (1) MARY (Polly) SANDUSKY married JAMES LILLARD, 82 LILLARD GENEALOGY III. For her history and descendants see No. c, this chapter. (By second husband, JOSEPH ALLEN) (2) VIRGINIA ROSE ALLEN was born at Abingdon, Wash ington County, Virginia, on November 2, 1806, and mar ried on March 14, 1820, in Saline County, Missouri, to JOSEPH H. GOODIN. She died at St. Louis, Mo., on May 21; 1897. Issue: (2a.) Zerelda E. Goodin married George W. Cooper. Descendants mostly in Greene County, Mo. · ( 2b) Amos H. Goodin died without issue. (2c) Alexander V. Goodin died without issue. ( 2d) Margaret A. Goodin married Samuel Zumwalt. De scendants in Illinois. (2e) Nancy Lillard Goodin married Captain George Cook. Issue: (2ea) Frank Cook. ( 2eb) John Coleman Cook. (2f) Mary F. Goodin married Samuel M. Gilmore. (2g) Robert Allen Goodin married Harriet Perryman. Descendants in St. Louis, Mo. (2h) Elizabeth A. Goodin married Kinney Kelley. Issue: 3 children who died without issue. (2i) Ellen S. R. Goodin married Francis M. Watson. Descendants in Greene County, Mo. (2j) Celia M.C.Goodin married Hicks Ford. Descend ants in Missouri. (2k) Amanda H. Goodin married Hiram Blankinship. (Most of the Goodin descendants in southwest Mo.) Issue: (2ka) Mary E. Blankinship died in infancy. ( 2kb) Joseph W. Blankinship married Claire Farris. He is a botanist, formerly with the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station at Bozeman. ( 2kc) Nancy Ellen Blankinship m. John A. Neaves. Resided in Oklahoma. (2kd) Anna A. Blankinship m. James T. Fort ner. Address: Willard, Mo. -(2ke) Laura A. Blankinship m. W.L.Bonner. Address: Huntsville, Okla. (2kf) Robert Blankinship died in infancy. (2kg) Clyde M. Blankinship. (By third husband, ABSOLEM COLEMAN) ( 3) CHAN A JANE COLEMAN married George Kincannon. ( 4) WILLIAM LILLARD COLEMAN married Nancy Stubble- field. - (5) RACHEL R. COLEMAN married William W. Hilton. JAMES LILLARD 83 (6) LUCY MISSOURI COLEMAN married Joseph Dale. (7) NANCY ADALINE COLEMAN m. Dec. 7, 1837, John Haggard. (8) SARAH E. COLEMAN married William Haney. (9) JOHN A. COLEMAN died in infancy. (10) JAMES M. COLEMAN married first to MARY ELLEN HUGHES. He married secondly to SUSAN L. FAIR CHILD. He resided at Crystal Springs, Miss. Most of his descendants lived in Copiah County, Miss. Issue: ( By first wife, Mary Ellen Hughes) ( 10a) Rachel R. Coleman married H. E. Anderson. Moved to Texas. (10b) Absolem Coleman m. Elmira Manning. Went to Texas. ( 10c) Mary M. Coleman m. John Piozza. Went to Texas. (10d) Creighton E. Coleman m. John Anderson. Went to Texas. (l0e) Nancy Adeline Coleman m. Eugene Norton. Went to Texas. (10£) James A. Coleman m. Jesse Sherwood. Resided in Mississippi. (10g) Ellen M. Coleman m. James Palmer. (By second wife, Susan L. Fairchild) (10h) Martin W. Coleman married Jennie Broadwater. (l0i) James M. Coleman, Jr., m. Jennie Moffett . . ( lOj) William A. Coleman m. Sela Fairchild. (10k) Chana Jane Coleman m. Warren Miller. She mar- ried a second time to Jesse McClindon. ( 101) John Ira Coleman m. Carrie Morgan. (10m) Thomas Lillard Coleman. (10n) Robert Fairchild Coleman. ( 10o) George Washington Coleman. (!Op) Benjamin Harrison Coleman. (m) WILLIAM LILLARD, Jr., son of Colonel William and Rachel (Mc Coy) Lillard, resided in Monroe County, Tenn., where he died. He married NANCY RUTH and had seven children. Issue: (1) ANDREW JACKSON LILLARD, born in 1829, married to SAMANTHA TOLLIVER. They resided at Sweet water, Tenn., where he died in 1925. Issue: (la) JOSEPH LILLARD, lived at Philadelphia, Lou don County, Tenn. (lb) MOLLY LILLARD married Mr. HARRIS. Re sided at Dandridge, Tenn. (le) JOHN LILLARD, called "Jack", resides at his 84 LILLARD GENEALOGY father's old home place at Sweetwater,R.F.D., Tenn. (2) WILLIAM WASHINGTON LILLARD died unmarried. ( 3) CALLIE LILLARD died unmarried. (4) NANCY LILLARD married Mr. RAGON. Issue: (4a) MRS. JESSIE ROTHWELL of Decatur, Tenn. And several other children. (5) MURRELL LILLARD died in Monroe County, Tenn. Un married. (6) JULIA LILLARD married RILEY BURNS of Monroe Co. Tenn. (7) JOSEPH: B. LILLARD, resided near Philadelphia, Tenn. His widow and family still reside there. (o) JOHN LILLARD, son of Colonel William and Rachel (McCoy) Lillard, died in Tennessee. Nothing known of his descendants, if any. (q) HEDGEMAN LILLARD, son of Benjamin, the Younger, and Sarah (James) Lillard, was born in Virginia. He married on Jan. 8, 1821, to MARGARET BRADLEY, daughter of Captain Augustine and Sally (Lillard) Bradley. With the original marriage bond in Madison County, Virginia, Clerk's Office is the following note: "To the Clerk of Madison County Court is hereby authorized and required to grant unto Hedgeman Lillard License to marry my daugh ter Patsey Bradley. Given under my hand and seal this 8th day of Jany 1821. AUGUSTINE BRADLEY. Teste: William Weakley Paschal Bradley." (r) LEFTAGE LILLARD, son of Benjamin, the Younger, and Sarah (James) Lillard was born in Virginia. He married Feb. 22, 1821, to HETTA JENKINS. With the original marriage bond in the Clerk's Office at Madison, Virginia, is the following note: "The Clerk of Madison County is hereby authorized and required to grant license to Leftage Lillard (my son) to marry Retta Jenkins. Given under my hand and seal this 22nd day of February, 1821. BENJAMIN LILLARD. Teste: Armistead Layton Benjamin Lillard. Leftage Lillard lived in Rappahannock County, Virginia. In JAMES LILLARD 85 Deed Book A, page 319, Rappahannock County, Records, a deed is made which mentions that the land contained therein is: "bounded by property of Elizabeth Hensley, Augustine Bradley, Jr., Alexander Rider, deceased, and Leftage Lillard." This is dated Mar.31,1834. He must have moved sometime during the following five years for on May 30, 1839, in Deed Book 14, pages 234-5, Madison County, Virginia, Records, "Leftage Lillard and Heththy, his wife, of the County of Page, Virginia, of the one part," and "Milly Lillard, Elizabeth Lillard, Hamp ton Lillard and Nancy Jane Lillard" (his brother and sisters), of the other part make deed, whereby Leftage and Retta (Jenkins) Lillard re linquish to Milly, Elizabeth, Hampton and Nancy Jane Lillard for $50.00 ten and one-half acres of land located partly in Madison County and partly in Rappahannock County, Virginia. Leftage Lillard and his broth er, Hedgeman Lillard, went to Ohio, to visit another brother. See letter under No. w, this Chapter. Issue: (1) Benjamin Lillard moved to Champaign County, Illinois about 1859. (2) Silas Thomas Lillard, b. Sept. 10, 1839; m. June 22, 1867, to Mary Catherine Shenk (b.May 10, 1846 ). They lived in Page County, Virginia, where he died on Oct. 10, 1919. Silas Thomas Lillard served four years during the Civil War, as a member of Company D, 7th Virginia Cavalry. Issue: (2a) Emma Lillard, b. Oct. 18, 1868, married David Strickler. She died Feb. 2, 1917. Issue: ( 2aa) Elbert Strickler m. Anita Kibler. ( 2ab) Esther Strickler m. Everett Mauck. (2ac) Ruth Strickler, m. Charles Beam. (2b) John Lillard, b. June 19, 1869; m. Dec. 27, 1888, to Emma Louderback. Issue: ( 2ba) Amos Lillard m. Louise Ross. Address: Stev ens City, Va. ( 2bb) Mamie Lillard m. Howard Leath. ( 2bc) Sadie Lillard, m. Frank Huffman. (2c) Charles Gilbert Lillard, b. Feb. 12, 1871; m. Nov.17, 1892, to Annie Edith Aleshire, daughter of Thomas William and Mary Elizabeth (Parks) Aleshire. Address R. F. D.3, Box 102, Luray, Va. Issue: ( 2ca) Irah Pearl Lillard, b. July 19, 1894; m. Oct. 16, 1914, to Bishop Weaver Stearns. Address: Harrisonburg, Virginia. Issue: 86 LILLARD GENEALOGY (2caa) Bernard Weaver Stearns. ( 2cab) Aletha Davis Stearns. ( 2cac) Anna Marie Stearns. ( 2cad) John Gilbert Stearns. (2cb) Blanche Esa Lillard, b. Nov. 27, 1897; m. Aug. 29, 1918, to Floyd E. Jenkins, son of William N. Jenkins. Address: Route 3, Luray, Va. Issue: (2cba) Adrian Early Jenkins. (2cc) Mary Lillard, b. Mar. 15, 1902; m. Jan. 9, 1925, to Ray Perry Finter. Address: Luray, Va. Issue: (2cca) Ray Perry Finter, Jr. ( 2cd) Claude Robert Lillard, b. Sept. 9, 1904; m. Aug. 9, 1926, to Mrs. Mary Alice (Lightner)· Law, daughter of William Porter and Mary Louise (Wetmore) Lightner (m.Dec.28, 1871); grand-daughter of Judge Augustus Parsons and Caroline (Kidder) Wetmore; and great-great grand-daughter of Caroline Van Rensslaer of the old Knickerbocker family of that name. Mrs. C. R. Lillard is also a second cousin to Charles Devlin Wetmore, prominent American architect who built the Grand Central Terminal in New York City. (2ce) Zula Oleta Lillard, b. May 21, 1908; m. June 12, 1906, to Lorenzo Short. Address: Luray, Va. (2d) Annie Lillard, b. Sept. 11, 1872; m. Nov. 30, 1893, to Ernest Dovel of Reliance, Va. Issue: ( 2da) Grace Dovel. ( 2db) Neva Dovel. (2dc) Clark Dovel. ( 2dd) Eldon Dovel. ( 2de) Mary Dovel. (2df) Bernard Dovel. (2dg) Eileen Dovel. (2dh) Edwin Dovel. (2e) William Lillard, b. Apr. 14, 1876, married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Strickler. Address: Hagerstown, Md. Issue: (2ea) Fred Lillard, m. Elizabeth Baginor. (2eb) Retta Lillard, m. Carl Moyer. (2f) Elizabeth Lillard, b. Feb. 18, 1878; m. Aug. 22, 1899, to John Kite. Address: Luray, Va. Issue: (2fa) Olin Kite m. Jayne Kurtz. He died June 9, 1926. JAMES LILLARD 87 ( 2fb) Sina Kite. (2fc) Edna Kite. (2fd) Alma Kite m. Earl Jenkins. (2g) Fannie Lillard, b. Sept. 23, 1881; m. Jan. 15, 1902, to Dorfie L. Kaufman of Luray, Va. Issue: (2ga) Carl S. Kaufman. (2ga) Earl J. Kaufman. ( 3) Henrietta Lillard died unmarried. (t) James 1viadison Lillard, son of Benjamin, the Younger, and Sarah (James) Lillard, was born in Madison County, Va., on June 14, 1807, and was taken to Kentucky by his mother, Sarah (James) Lillard, after his father, Benjamin Lillard, the Younger, had died. They located at Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1827. On June 27, 1845, he married to Margaret McAfee Neeld, daughter of Margaret (McAfee) and Nathan Neeld, a member of one of of Kentucky's pioneer families-the McAfees. She was born on Jan. 24, 1819. James Madison Lillard organized a company for service in the :Mexican war, and was a Major in the Kentucky State Troops, but his company was never called into active service. He and his wife were devoted lovers. On the day that Margaret (Neeld) Lillard died, her husband, James Madison Lillard, who was himself ill, saw the undertakers entering his home. He had not yet been informed of his wife's death. He told them that he knew without being told, just what had occured and as he wept over his grief, he died within an hour after_ his wife's death, on November 13, 1901. Mrs. Ada (Lillard) Farmer informs that.they had so many devoted friends that a church funeral was had for this aged couple, and that as James Madison Lillard's coffin rolled slowly down one aisle, that of Margaret (Neeld) Lillard came down the other and they met at the altar just like a bride and groom. They were buried beside each other in the cemetery at Harrods burg, Ky. Issue: (1) Dr. JOHN F. B. LILLARD. (2) BENJAMIN" LILLARD, b. at Harrodsburg, Ky., on Jan.5, 1847, married in 1871, to Martha D. Hall. He was the Editor and Publisher of the Practical Druggist & the Popu- "l lar Science. Was educated at Kentucky University; graduate of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1868 (Non Phar. D. Maryland College of Pharmacy, 1873); connected with the American Druggist 8 years; Druggists Circular 10 years. Contributed largely to phar. medical and scientific journals. Author of "Practical Hints & Formulas" & "Druggists' 88 LILLARD GENEALOGY Pocket Price Book" & other volumes. Originator and manager of the Practical Druggists Course of Correspondence for Drug Clerks. Address in 1889-1902, 108 Fulton Street, New York, N. Y. (From Who's Who in America). Issue: (2a) WARREN L. LILLARD. Address: 160 West 14th Street, New York. N. Y. (2b) O.W.LILLARD. Address: 1448 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, Calif. (3) ROBERT LILLARD, of Cincinnati, Ohio. (4) ANNA LILLARD. Unmarried. Buried in Harrodsburg, Ky., Cemetery. (v) Dr. HENRY FRANKLIN LILLARD, son of Benjamin, the Younger, and Sarah (James) Lillard, was born in Virginia, but moved to Kentucky with his mother in 1827. He later left Mercer County and resided at Versailles, in Woodford County, Ky., where he died. (w) LEONARD BARNES LILLARD, son of Benjamin, The Younger, and Sarah (James) Lillard, was born in Virginia, but was taken to Kentucky by his mother in 1827. He died in Kentucky. A letter written in 1913, by Lewis Cass Lillard, of Marion, Indiana, sheds a little light on the descendants of this family: "My father was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, left there when 27 years old and moved to Ohio in 1825; in 1849 moved to this state (Indiana) and died in 1865. Our family lived in Virginia and Kentucky. My grandfather was Benjamin Lillard (the Younger). Father had two brothers that visited us in Ohio. Their names were Leftage and Hedges (Hedgeman) Lillard. We claim James Madison Lillard of Harrodsburg, Ky., a rela tive. I had a cousin Ben Lillard who moved to Cham paign County, Ill, about 1859. He was a son of Leftage Lillard. I am 67 years old (b.1846) have a family of three children, two girls and one son. One of the girls is married, also the son, leaving one girl home with us. In (18)76 I moved to Kansas and lived there 2 years near Wichita. I have three farms in Colorado and will visit them in harvest time. I have a brother living there. . . There were fourteen children in my father's family, of which 7 lived to man and womanhood. Three girls and four boys, of which four are now living. I am the oldest of the living. Two sisters and my brother William are living in Center, Colo. My two sisters live here, Mary E. Smith and S. A. Winsdon. I was a member of the 34th Indiana Vols. mus tered out at Brownsville, Texas at the close of the war. One brother who died in 18 73 was a member of the same regiment. He was older than I was. 1st a member of the 6th Reg. Vol. in the first battle of the war and our regiment participated in the last fight. So you see he was in the first and last fight. My father was a Universalist. My mother was a Baptist. I had two JAMES LILLARD 89 brothers Thomas, and a John, and one brother named Benjamin. My name is Lewis Cass named after General Lewis Cass, who was candidate for President in 44." (zh) ELIZABETH LILLARD, daughter of Augustine and Frances (Campbell) Lillard, married on Dec. 16, 1819, to STROTHER LILLARD, son of Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lillard. For her descendants see his record in Chapter XII. (zi) AUGUSTINE LILLARD, Jr.. son of Augustine and Frances (Camp bell) Lillard, was born in Madison County, Virginia, on Aug. 6, 1800. On .Sept. 9, 1832, he married to ELIZABETH ANN LILLARD, daughter of Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lillard. She was born on Aug.16,1806. In Deed Book 7, page 413, Madison County, Va., Records, Augustine Lillard, Jr., deeded seventy acres in Madison County to Strother Lillard "all and singular my part and legacy and interest of and in the Estate of Augustine Lillard, Deceased, late of Madi son County." Dated Nov. 15, 1822. Signed Augustine Lillard. Witnessed by Benjamin Lillard, James Ramsbottom, Evin Jenkins and Hedgeman Lillard . • _In Deed Book 10, page 447, Madison County, Va., Records, Leonard Barnes and Thomas Chapman deeded to Augustine Lillard on June 10, 1830, one hundred and fifty-four acres in Madison County. In Deed Book 25, page· 25, on the 6th day of March, 1871, Augustine Lillard, Jr., declared "Homestead Law" right of one hundred and fifty-four acres in Madison County on the north branch of Robinson River adjoining the lands of George Lillard. This land is at Syria, Madison County, Virginia, and his descend ants still live there. He died there on Feb. 23, 1875. Issue: (1) LOUISA W. LILLARD, born in Madison County, Va., on July 27, 1833, married ANDREW J. LILLARD, son of James and Kesiah (Lillard) Lillard, grandson of Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lillard. Address: Richmond, Ray County, Mo. Route 6. Issue: ( 1 a) ASA LILLARD (lb) JOHN HARRISON LILLARD. (2) JANE GRAY LILLARD, born August 16, 1834, in Madi son Co., Va., married Aug. 13, 1857, to ANDREW HAMP TON BROWN. In 1928 she resided, at Syria, Madison County, Virginia on the homestead formerly owned by her 90 LILLARD GENEALOGY father. For her descendants see No.Hlaa, Chapter V, The Brown-Lillard Connections. (3) GABRIEL HARRISON LILLARD, was born in Madison County, Va., on July 11, 1837. Served as'a soldier in the Civil War in the Confederate Army. He married on Jan. 19, 1866, at C. W. Rosson's in Madison County, to Eliza Ann Rosson, daughter of Christianna McAlester. Rev. Levi Keller performed their marriage ceremony. Eliza Ann (Rosson) Lillard was born July 21, 1839, and died Mar. 30, 1921, aged 81-8-9. G. H. Lillard died March 4, 1922, aged 85 years. Issue: (3a) CORA B. LILLARD b. Feb. 17, 1867; d. Nov.5, 1868. (3b) LAURA V. LILLARD, b. July 9, 1868, m. Dec. 21, 1892, to WILLIAM DANIELS CARPEN TER, son of C. G. & Mary E. Carpenter. He was a farmer of Madison County. T. F. Grims ley performed the marriage service. They removed to Washington, D. C. (3c) HIRAM McGEE LILLARD, b. Dec.25, 1869, m. BERTHA JACOBS of Orange County, Virginia. He married a second time to CORA COLVIN. Address: Shelby, Va. Issue: (By Bertha Jacobs Lillard) (3ca) LESTER BANKS LILLARD, b. Feb. 7, 1901. (By CORA COLVIN LILLARD) (3cb) ELIZABETH FRANCES LILLARD. (.3cc) WILLIAM HORACE LILLARD. (3d) CORNELIA F. LILLARD, b. Sept. 28, 1871, m. Mar.24,1892, to JOSEPH S. UTZ, son of A.S. & Bettie Utz. (Minister J. A. Flickinger). Ad dress: 2334 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore, Md. Issue: (.3da) Anna Utz. (3db) Janet Utz. ( 3dc) Marvin Utz. (3dd) Tommy Utz. (3de) Alvin Ut'z. (3e) IDA 0. LILLARD, b. Sept. 3, 1873. Unmarried. Lives at her father's old home at Syria, Va. (,H) HORACE W. LILLARD, b. Mar. 18, 1875, m. Mrs. Simms, a widow. No issue. He died Nov. 13, 1908. (3g) ASA H. LILLARD, b. May 29, 1877; d. Dec. 28, 1877. I 3h) MAUDE E. LILLARD, b. Apr.13, 1881; m. Nov. 29, 1904, to WILBUR MARVIN T\VYMAN, son of W.B. & S.D. Twyman, a farmer of Madi- JAMES tILLARD 91 son Co. She died Apr. 14, 1905. Issue: (3ha) Marvin E. Twyman, b. Apr. 2, 1905. (3i) MISSY LILLARD, b. Jan.22, 1879; d.when few days old. (4) HIRAM McGEE LILLARD, born June 4, 1840. Unmar ried. Died during the Civil War. (zj) KESIAH LILLARD, daughter of Augustine and Frances (Camp bell) Lillard, married on Feb. 27, 1823, t'o JAMES LILLARD, son of Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lillard, and grandson of Cap tain Benjamin Lillard, the Revolutionary soldier. For her descend ants see his record in Chapter XII. (zm) WASHINGTON CAMPBELL LILLARD, son of Augustine and Frances (Campbell) Lillard, was born in Madison County, Vir .ginia, on Dec. 9, 1811. He married SARAH JANE RICHMOND. He emigrated to Missouri in 1841. He died of apoplexy on Jan. 13, 1899, at his home near Blackburn, Layfayette County, Missouri, where he had resided for fifty-three years. Buried in Blackbum, Mo. Issue: (1) FRANCES LILLARD. (2) ADELAIDE LILLARD. Six other daughters and three sons. (zd) JOHN LILLARD, called Jack, son of John and Sarah (Campbell) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, but was taken to Cocke County, North Carolina (now Cocke County, Tenn.,) by his parents. He married Miss Allen, and settled on Cosby Creek. It is claimed that he had thirteen children. Many of his descend ants still live in the same locality. Issue: (1) MARK LILLARD married. Issue: (la) JOSEPH A. LILLARD. Spanish-American War veteran. Address: Cosby, Tenn. (2) JOHN LILLARD married. Issue: (2a) JOHN DANIEL LILLARD married. Issue: (2aa) JOHN LILLARD. (2b) I. E. LILLARD. (3) WILLIAM LILLARD. ( 4) MA TILDA LILLARD married Mr. Vinson. (ze) JAMES LILLARD, son of John and Sarah (Campbell) Lillard, was 92 LILLARD GENEALOGY born in Culpeper County, Virginia, but was taken to Cocke County, Tennessee, by his parents. He also married and settled on Cosby Creek. It is also claimed that he had thirteen children, the descendants of whom still reside in that locality. It is said that he married twice. He was a teacher. Issue: (1) MONROE LILLARD. (zf) ABRAHAM LILLARD, son of John and Sarah (Campbell) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Va., on April 15, 1791, and was taken to Cocke County, Tenn., by his parents. He enlist'ed in the war of 1812 as private on Nov. 13, 1814, and was discharged June 13, 1815. He was in Capt. Branch Jones' Company of the Tennesee Militia. He applied for a pension Mar. 31, 1871, which was granted. (U. S. Pension Bureau Records). He promised to buy a dress for each of his daughters and daughters-in-law out of his Pension money. Mrs. Mary Dan Lillard claimed that hers was the :first to be bought with this money. All together it took 120 yards of calico for these dresses. When Abraham Lillard was a young man he went down the Mississippi River, but became ill with rheumatism or fever and his father, John Lillard, had to go for him and bring him home to Tennessee. On March 14, 1816, he married to Jane Harrison, who was born in Virginia on June 25, 1796. She had three known brothers Dan, Reuben and Josiah Harrison who also went to Tennessee from Virginia. She was a second cousin of William Henry Harri son, the :first President of the United States to bear the name of Harrison. She claimed that her grandmother was also named Jane and that she was her namesake. Abraham and Jane (Harrison) Lillard settled with his brothers and sister at the mouth of Cosby Creek. They lived in an old log house about one and a half stories high with port-holes in the upper story to fight the Indians through. The children of Abraham Lillard and his brothers and sister became so numerous that he emulated old Abraham of the Bible and moved away leaving the others at the old location on Cosby Creek, selling his land to his brother John. Newton Lillard, his son, is claimed to have been three years old when the family moved to Polk County, Tennessee, from Cocke County; Harriett Lillard, his daughter, is said to have been twelve years old· at the time. Both claims would make the JAMES LILLARD 93 date of removal in 1833, and that is borne out by other statements. Some say that Abraham Lillard lived for a short time in McMinn County before going to Polk County. It is acknowledged that soon after the Indians left that locality that Abraham Lillard settled where his old home still stands on Lillard Creek, about four miles north of where Benton is now located. Some say that Abraham had one house built which was burned through the carelessness of his old slave "Bob," who left wood-shavings strewed around the house, and that the present old home was Abraham Lillard's second house, and that it was built by a Harrison, one of the brothers of Jane (Harrison) Lillard. This old slave "Bob" was born about 1786. He is supposed/ to have been brought from Virginia, and was Abraham's nurse although only five years older. He was either bought or given to Abraham Lillard by his father. Abraham appears to have been opposed to slavery and freed this slave years before the Emancipa tion was declared; even prior to this old "Bob" used to "hire his own time," and go to the gold mines at Dahlonega, Ga., and make money on the deal. He kept himself clean, and~ often went to the house of Newton Lillard, Abraham's son, and was allowed to sleep in a bed there; he was called a "cooper" and •also made furniture. He often left wood-shavings. strewn around and this it is claimed was the reason of the burning of Abraham Lillard's first home in Polk County. The children and grand children of Abraham Lillard had to mind this old darkey who was so well thought of. Once he took a bearskin and put it out side the doorstep after dark. He then called Luther Lillard out side. Luther stepped on the head of the bearskin and was so dreadfully frightened that he never quite recovered from it. Old Bob was buried in the Ocoee Baptist Church Cemetery at Benton, Tenn., in the family section with his master. He died Oct. 1868. His tombstone informs that he died at the age of 81 years. B. P. Rollins of Benton, Tenn., stated in 1921, that Abraham Lillard entered several parcels of land from the State of Tennessee, · and that he, Rollins, afterwards acquired some of this land. He also stated that he believed that Abraham Lillard gave each 0£ his children some of this land, and that Abraham Lillard owned from the North Branch of Horton's Branch to the foot of or onto Chilhowee Mountain. Abraham Lillard was the. first Trustee of Polk County, Tenn. He died on Dec. 17, 18 73, and his wife, Jane (Harrison) Lillard died on Aug. 15, 1875. Both are buried LILLARD GENEA.l,OGY in the family section of Ocoee Baptist Church Cemetery at Benton. · The inscriptions on their markers are still plainly visible. Issue: (1) ELIZA LILLARD, born March 5, 1817, married George Washington Harbison. She died Nov. 4, 1844. Issue: (la) William Harbison. ( 1b) Abraham Harbison. ( 1 c) James Harbison. (2) MINERVA LILLARD, born Aug. 3, 1818, married Berry Taylor. Issue: (2a) Mrs. Edwards. (3) JOHN LILLARD, born Feb. 3, 1820. Died .Sept.7,1846. Unmarried. (4) LUTHER LILLARD, born Feb. 1, 1822, married Partelia Coffee. Served in the Civil War in the 5th Tenn. Regt., under Boyd. (5) HARRIETT LILLARD, born Dec. 6, 1823, married James Smith of Polk, County, Tenn. Issue: (Sa) Christopher Columbus Smith was killed by a fall ing tree while serving as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. (Sb) Lizzie Jane Smith married Daniel O'Connell Dougherty. Issue: ( Sba) Harriet Eliza Dougherty married Cliff Cicero Hatcher. Issue: ( Sbaa) Eleanor Jeannette Hatcher m. Frank W. Allcorn. Issue: (Sbaaa) Frank W. All corn, Jr. (Sbab) Cliff Cicero Hatcher, Jr. ( Sbb) Edward Emmet Dougherty m. Blanche Bentley Carson.. Issue: (Sbba) Edward Carson Dougherty died in infancy. ( Sbbb) Girl died in infancy. ( Sbbc) Carson Dougherty. (Sbbd) Edward Emmet Dougherty, Jr. (Sbc) James Smith Dougherty m. Clara Belle Wilson. Issue: ( Sbca) Daniel Wilson Dougherty. JAMES LILLARD 95 (5bcb) James Smith Dougherty, Jr. (5bd) Daniel O'Connell Dougherty, Jr., m. Wilhelmina Seals Reins. Issue: (5bda) Wilhelmina Reins Dough erty. ( 5bdb) Girl died in infancy. (5bdc) Daniel O'Connell Dough erty, III. (5be) Lizzie May Dougherty m. Archer Wilson Little. Issue: (5bea) Martha Elizabeth Little. ( 5beb) Mary Dougherty Little died in infancy. (5bec) Josephine Wilson Little. (5bed) Virginia Ann Little. (5c) Eliza Lodusky Smith died aged one year. ( 5d) Isaac Newton Smith died unmarried. (Se) Abraham Lilliard Smith died aged Ollie year. (5f) William Grady Smith m. Fannie Churchill. Issue: (Sfa) Lee Smith. (Sfb) Harvey Smith. (Sfc) Lizzie Smith died unmarried. ( Sfd) Lillard Smith. ( 5fe) Edna Smith. (5g) James Luther Smith m. Julia Rymer. Issue: (Sga) Harry Smith. ( 5gb) Walter Smith. (6) JASPER LILLARD,,born Sept. 22, 1825, married Matilda Maddox. He was a little too heavy to join either Army during the Civil War. He weighed 370 pounds. He kept out of the way of both armies and went in behind the Yankees. Issue: (6a) Harriet Lillard m. Yancey Coleman. (6b) William Lillard m. Miss Dennis. (6c) Newton Lillard m. 1st Miss Queener; 2d Miss Haney. (6d) Rebecca (Becky) Lillard m. Matthew Russell. (6e) John Lillard (Jack) m. Miss Taylor, daughter of William Taylor. (6f) Molly Lillard m. John Taylor. (6g) Caroline (Cally) Lillard rn. Jarvis Hilliard. ( 6h) James Lillard m. Miss Brock. (6i) Bessie Lillard m. William Yancey Barnes. Is2ue: 96 LILLARD GENEALOGY (6ia) Lois Barnes. ( 6ib) Ruby Barnes. (7) JANE LILLARD, born July 8, 1827, married William Grady. She died Mar. 12, 1856. (8) ABRAHAM LILLARD, Jr., born Apr. 19, 1829. During the Civil War he started out as a Confederate and hired a substitute. Afterwards he enlisted in the Union Army and served. He married 1st to Sarah Clevenger on Oct.9, 1851. She died Oct. 3, 1876. On Dec. 15, 1878, he married to Sarah M. Couch. He died Dec. 16, 1913. Issue: (By Sarah Clevenger Lillard) (Sa) JOHN SMITH LILLARD, b. July 13, 1863, married Lizzie Love. (8b) ELIZA Jane Lillard, b. Octa. 8, 1865, d. June 13, 1869. (Sc) Russell L. Lillard, b. June 24, 1866. Went west. (Sd) Lizzie Lillard m. Mr. Bowman. (Se) Abraham Lillard, III, b. Mar. 20, 1872, m.lst Miss Love; 2d. Nora Kimbrough. ( Sf) Harriet Lillard m. Mr. Gillan. (8g) Minerva Lillard m. Isaac Leatherwood. (Sh) Florence Lillard m. Isaac Greene. (Si) Oney Lillard, b. Nov. 20, 1874, m. Joseph Gregory. (By Sarah M. Couch Lillard) (8j) James E. Lillard, b. Sept. 20, 1879, m. Ossie Austin. (8k) Daniel Garfield Lillard, b.Dec.1, 1881, m. Miss Kirksey. (81) Mark Lillard b. June 29, 1885, m. Eliza Feltzer, daughter of Hare Feltzer. (8m) Hazel Estella Lillard, b. June 28, 1892, m. J artrude Hale. (9) NEWTON LILLARD, born Dec. 26, 1830, married Minerva Kanester. During the Civil War he went to Kentucky and worked in some Federal· position. Issue: (9a) William Lillard married Miss Cook. (9b) Judge Li1lard married Miss Dennis. (9c) Mark Lillard died unmarried. (9d) Joseph Lillard m. Frances Rymer. ( 9e) Euclid Lillard m. Minnie Love. (9f) Robert Fleming Lillard m. Miss Johnson. He was a minister and a graduate of Carson-New man College. (9g) Jennie Lillard m. Isaac Harrison, brother of Noah Harrison. (9h) Livy Lillard. (9i) Eliza Lillard m. Arthur Love. (9j) Della Lillard m. Birch Biggs. JAMES LILLARD (10) SARAH LILLARD, born Jan. 4, 1833, married William O'Neal. She died Nov. 19, 1858. Issue: ( 10a) Elizabeth O'Neal m. Philip Carter. (11) DANIEL LILLARD, born Feb. 22, 1835, was in the Union Army during the Civil War and was honorably discharged. Married Mar. 25, 1858, to Mary Russell. Issue: (lla) James Lillard m. Susie Biggs. (12) NANCY LILLARD, born July 19, 1837, married Newton Green. Issue: (12a) Louisa Jane Green m. Tom Jenkins. Issue: (12aa) William Bealer Howard Jenkins. (12ab) Belle Jenkins m. Nelson Qualls. (12ac) Lizzie Jenkins m. Bert Loudon. (12ad) Joseph Jenkins m. Della Stone. (12ae) Gus Jenkins. (12af) Ida Mary Jenkins m. Mr. Sugards. (12ag) Viola Jenkins. (12ah) Frederick Jenkins. (12ai) Avery Jenkins. (l 2aj) Essie Jenkins. (12ak) Nelson Jenkins m. Miss Culpeper. (12b) Thomas Green m. 1st Miss Scatherin; 2d Mary Fields. (12c) Margaret Green m. Bartow Nix. Died 1921. (12d) Daniel Green. Died aged 40 years. Unmarried. (12e) Samuel Green m. Mary Triplets. ( 12£) Mary Green m. Sherman Bishop. ( 12g) Hattie Smith Green m. William Quinn. Issue: (12ga) Ida Luella Quinn. (12gb) Robert Newton Quinn. (12gc) William Quinn. (12gd) Jim Dan Quinn. (12ge) Minnie Quinn. (12gf) Onie Quinn. (12gh) Della Quinn. (13) ELIZABETH LILLARD, b. Nov. 3, 1839; d. July 8, 1853. (zg) SARAH LILLARD, daughter of John and Sarah (Campbell) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and taken to Cocke County, North Carolina (now Cocke County, Tenn.,) by her parents. She married Allman Guinn, and they settled at the mouth of Cosby Creek with Sarah's brothers and their wives. Issue: 98 LILLARD GENEALOGY (1) ABRAHAM GUINN, born Feb. 22, 1828, in Cocke County, Tenn., near the boundary line of Sevier County. Moved to Polk Co. about 1833. He married Cornelia Crawford. Issue: ( la) John Guinn m. Maggie --- ( 1 b) Mary Ann Guinn m. John Rymer. Issue: ( 1 ba) Julia Rymer. (le) Mandy Guinn. (ld) William A. Guinn. (le) Martha Guinn. (lf) George Washington Guinn of Cleveland, Tenn. (zn) Fountain Layton, son of Richard and Mildred (Lillard) Layton remained in Virginia when his parents moved to Ohio in 1827. Not much is known of him except Samuel Layton, his son, said before his death that his father, Fountain Layton, came to Augusta County, Virginia, from Louisa County, Virginia, about 1830, and that some of his brothers settled in Ohio about that time, whom he visited after the Civil War. Issue: ( 1) Samuel Layton. (2) Jennie Layton married James S. Vernon Lillard, son of James and Mary (Sandusky) Lillard. (For her history see his record under No. cS, this chapter). (zo) Armistead Layton, son of Richard and Mildred (Lillard) Layton, remained in Virginia when his parents moved to Ohio in 1827. However he later joined them in Ohio, and on Aug. 26, 1828, he married to Hannah Hoskins of Licking County, Ohio. He moved to Crawford County, Ill. His grandson John Layton resides in Leroy, Kansas. (zp) Churchill Layton married first to Mary McMullen, and after her death married secondly to Susan Poe. Issue: ( 1) Grant Layton, resides in Oregon. (zq) Nancy Layton, b. Apr.28, 1808; d. May 29, 1873; m. Peter Courson (b. July 4, 1803). Issue: (1) Albert Courson,b. Feb.28, 1833; d. Dec.5, 1920 ;m.lst Mar garet Franks. Married secondly Dec.25, 1868, to Sarah E. Shanafelt. Issue: (By Margaret Franks Courson) JAMES LILLARD 99 ( 1 a) Willis Courson. (By Sarah Shanafelt Courson) (lb) keggy E. Courson, b. July 11, 1871. (le) David 0. Courson, b. May 15, 1874, m. Oct.5, . 1904, to Clara J. Glumphy. (ld) Louisa A. Courson, b. May 6, 1877. (le) William E. Courson, b. Jan. 28, 1890, m. May 27, 1924, to Eunice Jelt. Address: Salem, Ill. (2) Elizabeth Courson, b. Jan. 27, 1832; d. Apr. 2, 1854; mar ried W. Harris. (3} Eliza Courson married Zack Orr. Issue: (3a) Ellen Orr. (3b) Alice Orr. (3c) Owen Orr. (3d) Eva Orr. ( 3e) Ola Orr. (4) Richard Courson, b. 1838; d. Feb. 26, 1914; m. Arrilla Burge (b.1844;d.Sept.S, 1921). No issue. (5) George W. Courson, b. Aug. 10, 1841; d. Nov. 23, 1913; m. Dec. 25, 1882, to Sarah Hershberger. Issue: (Sa) Edna Kathryn Courson, b. Nov. 6, 1883, married Harry Doan. Issue: (Saa) Paul Richard Doan, b. June 29, 1906. (Sab) Irma Agnes Doan, b. June 1, 1909, m. 1927, to Elmer Stevens. Issue: (Saba) Stanley George Stevens. (Sac) George Edward Doan, b. Dec. 8, 1910. (Sad) Kathryn Fem Doan, b. Jan. 31, 1918. (Sae) Imogene Frances Doan, b. May 17, 1925. (6) Frank Courson married Araminta McKee. Issue: (6a) Nettie Courson was a twin. The other child died at birth. She married Max Hartsough. No issue. (6b) William Franklin Courson, b. Nov. 21, 1879, m. on Aug. 5, 1898, to Eunice Covrett(b.Sept.28, 1880). Issue: (6ba) Frank Haven Courson, b. Dec. 24, 1899, m. Nov. 10, 1919, to Myrtle Brunner. Issue: (6baa) Gladys May Courson, b.Nov. 15, 1921. ( 6bab) Florence Louise Courson, b. Aug.22;1923. (6bac) Dorothy Courson, b. Oct. 18, 1925. 100 LILLARD GENEALOGY (6bad) Frank W. Courson, b. June 13, 1927. (6bb} Homer Lee Courson, b. July 13, 1901, m.Dec.9, 1918, to Edith Ferris. He married secondly on Sept.11, 1923, to Alma Chapman. Issue: ( By Edith Ferris Courson) (6bba) Eugene Courson, b. May 3, 1920. ( 6bbb) Edward Courson, b. Oct. 25, 1921. (By Alma Chapman Courson) (6bbc) Eileen Courson, b. Aug. 9, 1924. (6bbd) Franklin Courson, b.Oct.14, 1925. (6bbe) Marie Courson, b.Mar.31, 1927. (6bc} Walter William Courson, b.Apr.13, 1904,m. June 16, 1923, to Mabel Mc Donald. Issue: (6bca) Marjorie Courson, b. Apr.7, 1924. ( 6bcb) Ravmond Courson, b. Dec. 16, 1925. (7) Harriet Courson, married David Mehler. No issue. (8) Annanias Courson married Phoeba Orr. lssue: (8a) William Courson. (9) James Madison Courson, b. 1845; d. 1921; m. Katherine Watkins (died Sept.14, 1922). Issue: (9a) Frederick Loren Courson, b. July 4, 1877, m.Oct. 22, 1908, to Florence Hankinson. (Died Oct.20, 1919). Issue: (9aa) Louisa Margaret Courson, b. Nov. 15, 1909. (9ab) Bernice Georgia Courson, b. May 3, 1911, m. Paul Hughes. Issue: (9aba) Betty Jane Hu,,.hes. (9ac) Loren Wilbur Conrson, b. Nov. 2, 1913. (9ad) Gail Frederick Courson, b. Oct. 20, 1919. (9b) Ollie Courson, b. Jan. 14, 1879: d. Nov. 20, 1879. (9c) Annie Cour~m, b. May 21, 1882, married Law rence Parrish. JAMES LILLARD 101 Issue: (9ca) James Parrish. (10) Oliver Courscn, b. 1841; d. Jan. 26, 1924; m. Jan.23, 1873, to Ella Griffith. Issue: (10a) Jessie Courson, b. Nov. 6, 1876; d. Oct. 9, 1883. (11) Amos Courson, b. Sep:. 10, 1850; d. Sept.30, 1922; married on Sept. 17, 18 74, w Druzilla Myers. Issue: (lla) Clarence Courson, b. Jan. 26, 1877, married to Etta Howell. (llb) Lillie Vearl Courson, b. Feb. 2, 1882, married Jesse Woolard. ( 12) Millie Courson died in infancy. (zr) Harriett Layton married Dow Teagardrn of Linnville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Richard and Mildred (Lillard) Layton. Issue: ( 1 ) Lon Teagarden. ( 2) Lucretia Teagarden. (zs) James Madiscn Layton, sen of Richard and Mildred (Lillard) Layton, was born Oc:. 17, 1816, and died Oct. 6, 1869, at Steuben ville, Ohio. He married first to Miss Brady, daughter of Dr. Gil bert and Mary Brady of Licking County, Ohio. He married sec ondly to Mary Ann Linn (b.July 19,1818; d.May 11, 1845). He married a third time to Lauretta J. ------(d.Apr.24, 1860, in her 23rd year, at Steubenville, Ohio). He married a fourth time to Louisa Robertscn (b. June 15, 1829; d. Oct.14, 1918) on Oct. 1, 1861, at Steubenville, Ohio. Issue: (By Mary Ann (Linn) Layton) (1) Adelaide Layton, b. July 16, 1839; d. Aug. 24, 1845. (2) Augustar Layton, b. Sept. 3, 1840; d. Sept. 20, 1842. ( 3) A daughter who died in infancy. (By Lauretta J. Layton) (4) Paschal Early Layton, b. Jan. 5, 1857; d. Apr. 14, 1911. ( 5) Anna Layton married and had two children Earl and Lulu. (By Louisa (Rcbertson) Layton) (6) William Layton, b. Feb. 10, 1865; d. May 17, 1915. (zt) Huldah Layton, born March 3, 1819; died May 2, 1896; married on Nov. 29, 1838, to William Franklin Stevens (b. May 29, 1811; d. Sept. 17, 1895). Issue: (1) Wilson Shannon Stevens, b. Jan. 30, 1840; d. May 10, 1913; married Mar. 30, 1879, to Ida B. Stewart. Issue: 102 LILLARD GENEALOGY (la) Faye Stevens, b. Mar. 18, 1880; m. Mar. 3, 1904, to Robert F. Gutridge. Issue: (laa) Mary Margaret Gutridge, b. Feb. J, 1908; m. Oct. 1, 1925, to John Ellis. (2) Mary Ann Stevens, b. Nov. 10, 1841, m. Joseph Lawrence. (3) William Franklin Stevens, Jr., b. Feb. 17, 1844; d. Feb. 21, 1845. (4) Anderson Smith Stevens, b. Mar. 5, 1846; d. Apr.16, 192S; m. Dec. 8, 1881, to Lenora Coulter. Issue: (4a) Fred Hermann Stevens, b. Oct. 6, 1882; m. Jan. 25, 1917, to Anna Estella Osborn. Issue: (4aa) Wilda May Stevens, b. Apr. 21, 1926,. ( 4b) Guy Pumphrey Stevens, b. Dec. 11, 1886; d.Aug. 14, 1910. (4c) Florence May Stevens, b. May 19, 1891. (5) Churchill Stevens, b. Jan. 13, 1851; d. Oct. 27, 1926; m. Apr.11, 1883, to Jane Goldsmith. Issue: (Sa) Pansy Stevens, b. July 3, 1884. (Sb) Mayme Stevens, b. July 20, 1886; m. 1918, to Dr. W.P.O'Brien. Issue: ( Sba) Paul Stevens O'Brien, b. Dec. 4, 1925. ( Sbb) Mary Kathleen O'Brien, b. Feb. 16, 1927. (Sc) Besse Stevens, b. Sept. 3, 1888; d. Mar.17,1912. (Sd) Elizabeth Maude Stevens, b. July 15, 1890; m. Aug. 1915, to Maurice Helser. Issue: · (5da) Carolyn Jane Helser, b. Mar. 23, 1918. ( Sdb) Margaret Elizabeth Helser, b. Apr. 28, 1922. (6) John Franklin Stevens, b. Sept. 12, 1853; d. Sept.12, 1854. (7) Thomas Lee Stevens, d. Sept. 2, 1856. · (8) Logan Stevens, b. Feb. 7, 1858; m. May 26, 1898, to Bertha. Bixler. Issue: (Sa) Flora Irma Stevens, b. Jan. 23, 1901; m.Mar.10, 1928, to Walter B. Ice. (Sb) Indus Alma Stevens, b. Nov. 27, 1902. (Sc) Edwin Hugh Stevens, b. Jan. 22, 1906. (9) Martha S'evens, b. Dec. 26, 1861; m. Feb. 8, 1888, to Charles Parr. Issue: (9a) Harry Franklin Parr, b. Dec. 19, 1888; m.Sept.4, 1910, to Ora Iden. Issue: JAMES LILLARD 103 (9aa) Evelyn Pauline Parr, b. Nov. 2, 1911. (9ab) Katherine May Parr, b. Apr. 28, 1914. (9ac) Charles Robert Parr, b. Jan. 25, 1921. (9ad) Harry Franklin Parr, Jr., b. Aug. 21, 1922. (9b) Oliver Stevens Parr, b. Aug. 21, 1890; m. Sept.8, 1921, to Patricia Studsdale. (9c) Homer Shannon Parr, b. Nov. 6, 1894; m. Oct. 1, 1912, to Mary McCoy. Issue: (9ca) Esther Helen Parr, b. Apr.11, 1914. (9cb, Frances Elizabeth Parr, b. Feb. 12, 1916. ' (zu) Francis Marion Layton, born Apr. 26, 1821; died Jan. 5, 1904; married on Jan. 19, 1844, to Hannah Meredith (b. Mar.18, 1825; d. Dec. 20, 1853). He married a second time on Jan. 17, 1865, to Lucinda Prentice Herrick, daughter of Samuel Herrick, and grand-daughter of General Samuel Herrick, who was a lawyer and commissioned by President James Madison as District Attorney for Muskingum County, Ohio, including six or eight other Counties in Eastern Ohio. General S:ci.muel Herrick resided in Zanesville, Ohio, and made a very interesting and honorable record. Myron Herrick, U.S.Ambassador to France is another of their relatives. Issue: (By Hannah (Meredith) Layton) (1) Angeline Layton, b. Mar. 24, 1845; d. Aug. 23, 1893; mar ried Morton Rankin of Terre Haute, Indiana. Issue: (la) Nettie Rankin, d. Dec. 18, 1893. (lb) Morton Rankin, Jr. (Deceased). (2) James Knox Polk Layton, b. Aug. 13, 1846; killed in acci dent in Terre Haute, Indiana, on July 27, 1882. married Sarah A. Felger (b.1850; d. Jan. 11, 1923). Issue: (2a) Emma Elizabeth Layton, b. Jan. 24, 1871; m. Dec.1916, to John Masson. Address: New York, N.Y. (2b) Samuel Francis Layton, b. Jan. 5, 1874; m.Oct.6, 1913, to Pearl Merrick. Address: Newark, Ohio. (2c) Edward J. Layton, b. Aug. 15, 1877; m. Adelia Powell. Address: Columbus, Ohio. (3) Efo:a Jane Layton, b. _Tune 10, 1847; d. July 7, 1921; m. Feb. 4, 1865, to William Thomas Bonham (b. Mar.20, 1846; d. Mar: 11, 1910). Issue: (3a) Charles Edwin Bonham, b. Aug. 4, 1866; m. Dec. 26, 1889,to Artie Clark. Address: Newark, Ohio. 1 Issue: (3aa) Emerson Bonham, b.Mar.5, 1900; d. June 10, 1903. (3ab) Lawrence Bonham, b. July 5, 1904; m. Oct.19, 1923, to Freda Burton. Issue: (3aba) Lawrence Weldon Bonham, b.Jan. 28, 1925. {3b) Emmitt Augustus Bonham, b.Aug. 2, 1868; m. Frankie k11ey. Aadress: Dublm, Ohio. Issue: (3ba) Paul Bonham. (Jc) George Washington Bonham, b. Oct. 1 7, 1869; m. Dec. 2 5, 18 9 7, to Sadie Jones. Address : New ark, Ohio. Issue: (3ca) Frederick Bonham, b. Aug. 4, 1906. (3d) James Carey Bonham, b. Apr. 1, 1871; m. Mar. 13, 1901, to Mary Bowman. Address: Outville, Ohio. Issue: (3da) Esther Marie Bonham, b. Apr.1, 1907. (3db) Florence Evelyn Bonham, b. July 13, 1909. (3dc) Marien Amos Bonham, b. Nov. 24, 1911. (Je) Thomas Rankin Bonham, b. Sep. 8, 1872; m.Oct. 2, 1891, to May Swinehart. Address: Newark Ohio. Issue: (3ea) Jesse F. Bonham, b. July 17, 1892. Died Jan. 5, 1918, at Base Hospital No.16, A.E.F., France. He was a Pri vate in the 166lh Infantry, 42nd Di vision. (3eb) Hazel May Bonham, b. Dec. 15, 1907; d.N ov.28, 1908. (Jf) Perry Ellsworth Bonham, b. Nov. 6, 1874; m. Sept.27, 19C0, to Effie Snelling. Address: New ark, Ohio. Issue: (3fa) Herman Bonham, b. Feb. 4, 1903; m. Sept.27, 1921, to Velma Foregraves. Issue: (3faa) Maxine Bonham, b. May 24, 1922. (3fb) Wayne Bonham, b. Dec. 25, 1909; m. Nov. 5, 1927, to Mildred Wixom. (3fc) Sarah Bonham, b. Jan. 6, 1918. (3fd) Geraldine Bonham, b. Nov. 27, 1921. JAMES LILLARD (3g) Lillie Dell Bonham, b. Jan. 7, 1877; d. Oct.15, 1901; m. Oct. 4, 1900, to Charles Albert Myers. (3h) William Henry Bonham, b. Jan. 31, 1879; d. Oct. 24, 1907; m. Feb. 5, 1904, to Cora Filker. Issue: ( 3ha) Francis Bonham, b. Aug. 5, 1904. (3hb) Lucille Bonham, b. Apr. 26, 1906. (3i). Emma Nettie Bonham, b. Dec. 28, 1880; d. Jan. 2, 1907; m. Dec. 31, 1903, to Eber McPeck. Issue: (3ia) Raymond McPeck, b. Nov. 17, 1904 (deceased). (3ib) Lillian McPeck, b. Aug. 5, 1906 (de ceased). (3j) Lida Bell Bonham, b. Sept. 15, 1883; d. Nov.17, 1902. (3k) Clarence Cleveland Bonham, b. May 30, 1886; m. 1906, to RosP. Kunkle. He married a s 0 cond time 0n July 22, 1922, to May Evangeline Bieber. Address: Newark, 0. (4) Amelia Laytcn, b. Mav 2, 1850; m. SPpt. 3, 1873, to Isaac Rankin of Licking County, Ohio. She married a second time to Joseph C. Har'unee, on August 24, 1880. Issue: (By Isaac Rankin) (4a) Burlie Rankin. Deceased, 1905. ( 4b) Edward Rankin nf Plymouth, Irdiana. ( 4c) Belle Rankin of South Bend, Indiana. (By fosPph C. Hartupee) ( 4d) CharJes Hartupee, deceased. ( 4e) R1rl Hartup~e of w;nter H:civ 0 n, Florida. ( 4f) Clinton Hart1·pee of Leroy, Kansas. (4g) Ernma Hartupee married Mr. Nichols of Newark, Ohio. ( 4h) S•anley Hartupee. (4i) Myrtle Hartupee. (5) Susan Pee Layton, b. Sept. 3, 1851; d. Apr. 24, 1924; m. 1877, to Thomas Ben·on Kirk. No issue. (By Lucinda Prentice (Herrick) Layton) (6) Samuel Herrick Layton, born Oct. 16, 1866. Attorney of Newark, Ohio. Married Nov. 26, 1896, to Minnie M;nerva Brashares, the daughter of Rev. I.M.Brashares, Ph. D. It was Samuel Herrick Layton who so kindly collected the data for this branches of the family, and to whom we should all be very grateful. Address: 156 North Fourth Street, Newark, 0. (zv) Jane Layton, married Jack Trout of Linnville, Ohio. Issue: ( 1 ) ·James Trout. died in Muncie, Indiana. (2) Rev. Henry Trout, minister, died in Cincinnati, Ohio. CHAPTER V. THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS. THOMAS LILLARD (No.V.) son of Benjamin & Elizabeth (Light foot) Lillard, was born in Virginia about 1726. The date of his marriage is unknown, as is the surname of his wife, however her name was Anne. On May 19, 1763, Captain John Lillard and his wife, Susanna, for £15 deeded "one hundred acres situate, lying and being in Culpeper County and Bromfield Parish on Hughes's River," adjacent to the plan tations of Colonel Francis Thornton and William Green, to his brother, Thomas Lillard. (Deed Boak D, Pages 225-8, Culpeper Co., Va., Records). This deed in full is given in Chapter XI. It was here that Thomas Lillard, Sr. and his wife Anne resided, and here their children were born. Thomas Lillard, Sr., was a sergeant in the Revolutionary War. He never became a pensioner of the government and his name appears on only one army roster. This may be found on, page 270, List of Revolu tionary Soldiers of Virginia (Virginia State Library): "LILLARD (THOMAS) War 4, 257." On November 22, 1785, Thomas Lillard's brother, Cap:ain Benja min Lillard (No.XII) executed a deed of trust in favor of his children, in which Captain Benjamin Lillard named Thomas Lillard and Captain John Strother as Trustees thereto. This deed of trust was destined to cause a rift in the family and long after Thomas Lillard's death the two families were fighting the legal battle over the ownership of slaves. This law suit, which was started in 1803 by the children of Captain Benjamin Lillard stretched out year after year until in May, 1826, when Doctor Benjamin Lillard, son of Thomas Lillard, "Now desireous of purchas ing his peace and of ending the said suit," transferred property to the heirs of Captain Benjamin Lillard in settlement of their claims. The legal records of this suit will be found in Chapter XII, in which it may be seen that Thomas Lillard was in no way responsible for the same, as he not only did not sign the deed of trust, but also never acknowledged his willingness to be a Trustee. Also Captain Benjamin Lillard himself tried to release Thomas Lillard and his heirs from all claim by the following statement: "9th Day of }.fay, 1812. I sold Nan (mentioned in a deed of trust' by me made) to Thomas Lillard in the year 17 91, and before the oldest of the Plaintiffs became of age. BENJAMIN LILLARD." In a deposition of Thomas Corbin. taken at the house of, Thomas THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIOKS 107 Lillard on the 19th day of September, 1807, he states that Benjamin Lillard, Sr., for "want of real money sold the disputed Negro, Nan, to his brother Thomas Lillard for .£65 and that there was no fraud in the action." Thomas Pulliam stated "that Nan was sold to Thomas Lillard; Gabriel was sold to Thomas Smith in 1791, and that Nan an old negro woman was sold unto John Lillard in 1793." In a sworn statement, made under oath by William A. Brown and John Fincham is the following: "Thomas Lillard departed this life the said 22nd day of November, 1814." His will, recorded in Culpeper County, Va., was proved and sworn to by Benjamin Lillard, Sr., and Elizabeth Hensley on May 15, 1815. THE WILL OF THOMAS LILLARD (Culpeper County, Va. Records) "In the Name of Gcd Amen, I, Thomas Lillard, of the County of Culpeper County being in perfect health sound mind and memory and callmg to mind to morlallity of the Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men Once to die do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testa ment in manner and form following (Vizt) In 'he first place I 'Recommend my soul into the hands of the Almighty God who gave it to me Trusting in the Merits of a Crucified Redeemer to Raise me from the death of sin to the life of Ri,2hteousnc.ss and as touching such worldly goods as it hath pleased Almighty God to Bless me with do Give and Dispose of them in the following manner. Item 1st. I lend unto Anne Lillard my Beloved Wife my Whole Estate both real and personal for and during her natura] life and at her decease I give and Bequeath the same unto my three sons (namely) John Lillard Benjamin Lillard and Thomas Lillard to be divided in the m~nuer following (Vizt) That my sons John Lillard and Benjamin T,illard shall have the sum of thirty three pounds each before my son Thomas Lillard has anything of my Estate he having Received the sum aforesaid Already more than either of them but when each of them Receve the sairl Snm of thirty three pounds the Residue of my Estate to be equally divided amongst my children before named to them their heirs and assigns forever. Item 2nd. I appoint Anne Lillard my Beloved wife Executrix to this my last Will and Testament hereby Disannuling: and Revoking all former Will or Wills by me heretofore or b~fore made and declare this my last Will and Testament this 18th day of FebY 1806. THOMAS LILLARD. Signed, sealed and acknowledged In the presence of Benjamin Lillard, Sen• Elizabeth Hensley Absolem LiUard John Seale, J unr, 108 LILLARD GENEALOGY At a Court held for Culpeper County the 15th day of May, 1815. This Last Will and Testament of Thomas Lillard deed was exhibited to the Court and proved by the Oaths of Benjamin Lillard, Senr, and Elizabeth Hensley, two of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be Recorded And en the motion cf Anne Lillard the Ex,cmtrix therein named Certificate is gran'.ed her for obtaining a probate thereof in due form she having made Oa'.h thereto and given bond & s::curity accordin.~ to law. Teste: Wm. Broadus, C.C. A Copy teste: Th. W. Lightfoot, C.C." The Inventory of the Personal Estate of Themas Lillard. (Culpeper County, Va., Reco1ds) "Pursuant to an Order of the Court of Culpeper we the subscribers being duly sworn have made the annexed app: aisement and Inventory of the slaves and Personal Estate of Thomas Lillard, deed, to wit: Negro George valu.:d at______$ 450.00 Negro Milly valued at______300.00 8 head cows yearlings & calves at______080.00 8 head sheep & lambs aL______012.70 12 head Hogs at_ __ ------030.00 4 shoa'.:s aL------·--- ·------______004.00 1 sorrel Horse _____ at______045.00 1 Bay Mare & colt aL______030.00 ,1 Bay colt at______012.00 1 Bed & stead & furniture______033.33 ,1 ditto without furniture______020.00 1 ditto & furnitu~e______027.00 1 Cupboard $1.66 cents l Table $1------00?.66 1 chest 50 cents 1 flax wheel $2------002.50 l pair flat irons at 50 cen.s______.50 6 chairs at $2 parcel pewter $7.25 cents______009.25 Parcel plan''ation tools______007.50 Steelyards & Bell $1 parcel old irons at $8.33______009.33 Parcel old gear $2 1 Old WheeL---$1------003.00 2 Sythes & Cradles $2 Auger 7 5 cents______002. 75 ,1 half bushel 25 cents 1 pair tongs 25 cents______.50 parcel Woodware $1.25 cents Old saddle $1.50______002.75 ,Z po:s & 1 oven $1.7 5 cents 2 old guns $2______00.P 5 10 geese at ------:------003 00 $1041.92 Thomas Pulliam Alexr Gordon, S::nr, Jchn Carter. At a Court held for Culpeper County the 19th day of June, 1815. This Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Lillard, dee", was returned into Court and Ordered to he Recorded. T-este: Wm. Broadus, C.C: A Copy, Teste: Th. W. Lightfoot, C.C." THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 109 The wife of Thomas Lillard lived about eleven years after his death. She died between Sept. 12, 1826, and May 22,. 1827. Her will TP....Corded in Will Book G, page 404, Culpeper County, Virginia, Records, is as follows: "In the name of God, Amen, I Ann Lillard, in the County of Cul peper, being sick and weak of body but of perfect sense and memory do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament in the following manner and fonn following: Item: I give and bequeath to my son Benjamin and his heirs for ever my share of the perishable part of the property which I have in possession which is one third part and all the corn, wheat, rye, Hemp and flax which is made on the farm that I now reside on. I constitute ordain this my last will and testament as witness I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of September in the year of our Lord 1826. ANN LILLARD. In presence of Richard Layton William Lillard Thomas Lillard At a Court continued and held in Culpeper Countv, the 22nd day of May, 1827, this last Will and testament of Ann Lillard, deed, was ex hibited to the Court and proved by the Oaths of Richard Layton and William Lillard two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded." The witnesses of the above will were the nephews of Thomas and Ann Lillard. Richard Layton was the husband of Mildred Lillard, daughter of James Lillard. William Lillard was the son of William Lillard, Sr., brother of Thomas Lillard, Sr. It is impossible to say which Thomas Lillard was the other witness. He may have been the son of Thomas Lillard, Senior's brother :Moses. THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS LILLARD AND HIS WIFE, ANNE: (A) JOHN LILLARD,m.July 25, 1786, RACHEL GARRETT. (B) BENJAMIN LILLARD, m. Mar. 3, 1799, LUCY BROWN. (C) THOMAS LILLARD,Jr., m. Jan. 5, 1800, DELILA RIDER. Possibly others. SIXTH GENERATION: (A) JOHN LILLARD, son of Thomas and Anne Lillard, was born "in Culpeper County and 'Bromfield Parish on Hughes's River," in the year 1764. The Declaration of Independence came when he was but a boy of eleven years, and the following strenuous years of the Revolutionary War evidently aroused his patriotism, for whe.!1 he was but fifteen years old he joined the continental army. He 110 LILLARD GENEALOGY served the last two years of the war and was present during the siege at Yorktown and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis. His service is on record in the Pension bureau at ·washington, D. C., and also at the Virginia State Capitol at Richmond. It may also be found on page 270, List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia: "LILLARD (JOHN) (Rappahannock) S. of W. 1835, Pen. 2, 192. (Va. State Library)." Also on page 248,"Virginia Militia in the Revolution" by J. T. McAllis ter, in "Pensioners residing in Virginia in 1335 ," who received pensions as Virginia militia men is the name of "John Lillard, Rappahannock County. 71 years old." After the Revolutionary war, John Lillard returned fo Culpeper County, Virginia, and became a farmer. On July 25, 1786, he married his first cousin, Rachel Garrett, daughter of Nancy (Lillard) Garrett ( see Chapter VII). Minister William Mason performed the marriage ceremony. (Vol.1, Culpeper County,Va.Records). This is also mentioned in Dr. Slaughter's St. Marks Parish History and Notes on Culpeper County (RT.GREEN), in a brief outline by Judge D.A.Grimsley on "The Bryan-Lillard Family." John and Rachel (Garrett) Lillard resided near the present town of Sperryville, now Rappahannock County, but which was then in Culpeper County. In the same neighborhood lived William Bryan, the Brown family, the Rider family and John's mother and father, Thomas and Anne Lillard. On October 15, 1798, John Lillard and wife Rachel for £52 sold to William Brown sixty-two acres in Culpeper County. (Book V, page 129, Culpeper Co.Va.Record). Just what property John Lillard possessed we know not, other than that he possessed lands in Virginia. That' he was a slave owner is obvious from the statement of Thomas Pulliam: "that Nan an old negro woman was sold. unto John Lillard in 1793." In the latter part of his life John Lillard was crippled from the bite of a neighbor's dog. He never became wealthy. His wife, Rachel (Garrett) Lillard, evidently died before he did as ·she is not mentioned in his will. THE WILL OF JOHN LILLARD. (Page 25, WILL BOOK A, Rappahannock Co.,Va.,Records) "Dec. 21, 1833. I, John Lillard, do hereby make and leave this my last will and testa ment revoking all other will or wills here to fore made by me- Item. In th~ first place it is my wish a~d desire that all my just debts shall be paid out of my estate one of which I heare name of sixty THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 111 dollars I owe to my daughter Frances Miller and interest thirteen years thereon. Item. It is my wish and desire that my daughter Polly Carter shall heir the remainder of my estate after paying all my just debts as named\ in the first item. Item. I do hereby Will Mr. Benjamin Tutt to act as my executor to this my last will and testament. JOHN LILLARD. Paul Yates Solomon Davis George \V. Carter." "Virginia. In Rappahannock County Court. 3rd Feb. 1834. This last will and testament of John Lillard, deceased, was this day exhibited to the Court and proved .by the oaths of Paul Yates and George W. Carter, two cif the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be re corded." Thus we know that John Lillard died between the dates of Dec. 21, 1833 and Feb. 3, 1834, at the age of seventy, regardless of the fact that in the list of "Pensioners residing in Virginia in 18.35," he is listed. This discrepancy in dates is doubtless due to the fact that the information for the list was collected just prior to John Lillard's death and the data was not published until 183 S. THE CHILDREN OF JOHN and RACHEL (GARRETT) LILLARD: (a) SILAS LILLARD .m. AMELIA ---- (b) NANCY LILLARD,m.July16,1807, JOHN BRYAN. (c) FRANCES LILLARD,m.Dec.19,1811, ZACHARIAH SHACKEL FORD. She married 2nd. Mr. MILLER. (d) Capt. BENJAMIN LILLARD,m.Dec.17, 1819, ELIZABETH BROWNING. (e) MALINDA LILLARD.m.EARLY CORBIN. (f) CATHERINE LILLARD,m.Jan.29,1829,RICHARD STONE. (g) ELIZABETH LILLARD,m.Jan.3, 1813, WILLIAM PITT YATES. (h) MARY (Polly) LILLARD,m.Nov.16,1815, LANDON CARTER. (B) Doctor BENJAMIN LILLARD, son of Thomas and Anne Lillard, was born "in Culpeper County and Bromfield Parish mi Hughes's River." He took a very active part in the suit against his mother by the heirs of Captain Benjamin Lillard, and is mentioned in many of the papers in Chapter XII. On March 3, 1799, Dr. Benjamin Lillafi1 married Lucy Brown, daughter of Capt. Daniel Brown, a Revolutionary soldier, and his wife, Elizabeth (Hill) Brown. (For further information regarding the Brown family see "The Brown-Lillard Connections" by Izza May (Brown) Rec tor, at the end of this chapter). 112 LILLARD GENEALOGY Dr. Benjamin Lillard and his wife, Luty(Brown) Lillard resided in Culpeper County, Va. On Dec. 30, 1824, Dr. Benjamin Lillard of Culpeper County, Vir ginia, of the first part, and \,Villiam Pulliam and Maria his wife, late Maria Lillard daughter of the said Benjamin Lillard, and Sally Lillard, Isabella Lillard, and Lucy Anne Lillard other daughters of Doctor Ben jamin Lillard parties of the second part acknowledge a deed of gift to them from their father. This gift is property in Culpeper County. It was Recorded January 29, 1825, Deed Book RR, page 366, Culpeper County, Va., Records. In Deed Book J, page 234, Madison County, Va., Records is the following: "Memoradum of an agreement entered into this 15th day of May, 1826, Between Dennis Lillard, Clara Lillard, George Thomas & Lucy his wife and Mordecai Lillard by Richard H. Field their att'orney of the first part and Benjamin Lillard sometimes called Doctor Ben of the second part the said Benjamin Lillard being one of the children of Thomas Lillard, deceased . . . ( de2ds) . . . for the ~,se of the said plaintiffs one half of a certain tract of land lying in Culpeper County, adjoining the lands of Wm. A. Brown, Reuben M. Strothei, i.he widow Thornton and William Brown, containing about 227 acres, and was conveyed by the said Thomas Lillard to the said Ben & John Lillard. And said Dr. Benjamin Lillard further agrees to convey by bill of sale with special warranty one negro man named Danger- field, now hired to Rowland Yowell also one negro girl by the name of Sally who is to be delivered immediately but is to be redelivered to said Dr. Benjamin Lillard on a loan for the use of his mother Ann Lillard for life and to be returned after her death if said negro be still living. And the said Dr. Benjamin Lillard further agrees to release to the said R. H. Field as aforesaid for the use of the plaintiffs all his right, title and interest in the two negroe slaves named George and Milly children of Nan now in the possessi0n of said Ann Lillard, and also all his right, title and interest in the estate of said Thomas Lillard, deceased, now in the hands of his said Administratrix. And also to pay to R. H. Field attorney as aforesaid . . . the sum of five hundred dollars. And in consideration whereof the said Dennis Lillard, Clara Lillard, George Thomas & Lucy his wife and Mordecai Lillard by their said Attorney do hereby release all title and claim which they now have or may recover in said suit against said Dr. Ben Lillard and do hereby release him from all responsibility to them on account of the said suit the subject matter of Controversy In Witness whereof, etc. 15th day of May, 1826. Dennis Lillard l Clara Lillard I All signed for Geo. Thomas & Lucy Jr his wife by R. H. Field. M 0rdecai Lillard Benjamin Lillard." THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 113 A similar agreement is signed by John Lillard (No.A) the other . son of Thomas and Anne Lillard. Thus these two sons forfeited any inheritance from their father, Thomas Lillard. Wnrn out and disgusted with the whole affair, Doctor Benjamin Lillard decided to try his fortune elsewhere than in Virginia, and shortly after signing the above release, left the Old Dominion and went to Missouri. Just how many of his children went with him cannot be determined. John Turner Lillard in his book "Lillard," states that "Benjamin Lillard afterwards removed to either Lewis or Audrain county, Missouri, and there died, leaving a large family of children." There is a "Lillard Association of Lewis County, Missouri," and it is to be presumed that they, or some of them are the descendants of Doctor Benjamin and Lucy (Brown) Lillard, but communications ad dressed to them have never been answered. THE CHILDREN OF DR. BENJAMIN & LUCY (BROWN) LILLARD: (i) WILLIAM LILLARD, m.Feb.13, 1833, WINIFRED QUAINT- ANCE. (j) ISABELLA LILLARD,m.Jan.8, 1836, LLOYD WALLER. (k) MARIA LILLARD, m. WILLIAM PULLIAM. (1) SARAH (Sally) LILLARD. (m) LUCY ANNE LILLARD. Possibly others. (C) THOMAS LILLARD, son of Thomas and Anne Lillard, was born in "Culpeper County and Bromfield Parish on Hughes's River," in the year 1780. On January 5, 1800, he married in Madison County, Va., to Delila Rider, daughter of Alexander Rider, of Madison County, which adjoins the county of Culpeper. Minister Lewis Conner performed the marriage ceremony. Hon. John Turner Lillard of Bloomington, Ill., in his book "Lillard," says: "Thomas Lillard was an industrious and respected man, though he had that serious fauilt-and the then common vice-of drinking to excess, which prevented his financial success, and was the cause of his family being left poor. The given name' Thomas, is a very common one in the Lillard family; it occurs in the last five successive generations, being the name of our Father, the subject of these annals, of his father and grand father, also of a son and grandson of our Father. How much further back in the family this given name runs, in unbroken succession, I cannot learn; but I am told by my Father it was a frequent name in the family from the earli~t tradition. Thomas Lillard (Senior) , the grandfather, was a man of good reputation and standing in Culpeper county, Virginia, where, 114 LILLARD GENEALOGY it is said, he owned a valuable farm, upon which he resided until his death. In some way, I know not why or how, no part of the estate of the grandfather, Thomas Lillard, was ever received by any member of the family of his son Thomas, who was the youngest of his father's family, and who had two older brothers, Benjamin and John, each of whom remained in Virginia long after their brother Thomas had migrated to Kentucky; and, Thomas having died before his father's death, it is probable that his brothers, Benjamin and John, received their father's estate. Benjamin Lillard afterwards removed to either Lewis or Audrain County, Missouri, and there died, leaving a large family of children. John, so far as known, remained in Virginia, near his birth place, where he had a family of six or more children." In 1808, Thomas Lillard with his family moved westward from Cul peper County, Virginia, to near the village of Kirksville, on Silver Creek, in Madison County, Kentucky. Here, in March, 1816, Thomas Lillard died at the age of thirty-six, leaving his widow with a three months old son. Of Delila (Rider) Lillard, his grandmother, Hon. John Turner Lillard, says: "The mother of our Father was of stronger mind and character than her husband, possessing a high degree of energy and mental force. She struggled as a poor widow, unable to give her youngest son even the rudiments of an education." Delila (Rider) Lillard died in 1829, leaving "her youngest child, Thomas Madison Lillard, at fourteen years of age, without patrimony and with no legacy, except a clear head, an honest heart, a good consti tution, and well-directed energy and industry." On January 19, 1841, Thomas Madison Lillard of Madison County, Kentucky, conveyed to Alexander Rider, land allotted to Delila Lillard ( mother of said Thomas M. Lillard), as one of the heirs and legal repre sentatives of Alexander Rider, deceased, and devised to Thomas (by mother) and two sisters, Elizabeth Lillard and Nancy Morris, wife of Branch Morris. (Deed Book D, page 261, Madison County, Virginia, Records). THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS & DELILA (RIDER) LILLARD: (n) NANCY LILLARD,m.BRANCH MORRIS and went to California about 1839. . (o) ELIZABETH LILLARD, died at the age of twenty-four. Unmar ried. (p) CHRISTOPHER LILLARD,m.LUCY PORTMAN. (q) CATHERINE LILLARD,m. Mr. PATTERSON. THE .BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 115 (r) THOMAS MADISON LILLARD,m.Oct.23,1848, Mrs. MARY (BRIGHT) WILLIAMS. (s) MATILDA LILLARD. SEVENTH AND FOLLOWING GENERATIONS: (a) SILAS LILLARD, son of John & Rachel (Garrett) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Va., but removed to Mississippi, where he became an extensive cotton planter. He married Amelia ------, and died in Mississippi before the Civil War, leav ing no children. He was very wealthy. After his death, Amelia Lillard m.Mr.Brown. (b) NANCY LILLARD, daughter of John & Rachel (Garrett) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in the year 1788. On July 16, 1807, she was married to John Bryan. Minister Lewis Conner performed the marriage ceremony, (Vol.1, Culpeper County, Virginia, Records). John Bryan was also born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in the year 1790. He was the son of William Bryan, who lived in Culpeper (now Rappahannock) County, Virginia, near the town of Sperryville. William Bryan was a neighbor of Nancy (Lil lard) Bryan's father, and owned a large tract of timber land in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He belonged to the Baptist Church in that neighborhood, which was known as the Bryan Meeting House. John Bryan and his wife, Nancy (Lillard) Bryan, owned a farm in the same neighborhood. Here, after the custom of the time, they built a log house in which all of their children were born except their youngest daughter, Elizabeth Bryan, who was born in Cabell County, West Virginia. In 1826, John and Nancy (Lillard) Bryan removed to what is now Cabell County, West Virginia, and later settled permanently in Mason County, West Virginia, opposite Gallipolis, Ohio. Here Nancy (Lillard) Bryan died in 1834, and her husband, John Bryan passed away two years later, in 1836. · THE CHILDREN OF JOHN & NANCY (LILLARD) BRYAN: ( 1) William W. Bryan,b. Dec.3 0, 1808. Moved to Troy, Mo. Married and had the following children: Issue: (la) William Hamilton Bryan, m. Mary Ann Fentor. (lb) Carrie Mable Bryan, m. Mr. Preston. (le) Emily Ormond Bryan, m. · Mr. Riddle. ( 1d) Helen Josephine Bryan. 116 LILLARD GENEALOGY (2) John Lillard Bryan, b. Apr.23, 1811. Died in Mason County, W. Va. Unmarried. ( 3) Howard Bryan, b. April 27, 1813. (4) Jane Bryan, b. Mar. 24, 1814; married Joseph Cheney. They lived at Gallipolis, Ohio. She died there in 1889. ( 5) Nancy Bryan, b.N ov. 4, 1816 ; married Silas Baltzell. They lived in Marion County, Illinois. Issue: (Sa) Russell Baltzell. (Sb) Silas Baltzell. (6) Martha Ann Bryan, b. June 14, 1818; married Oct. 17, 1839, to Homer R. Smith. She died Dec. 24, 1859. Resided at Gallipolis, Ohio, later moving to Marion Co., Ill. Issue: (6a) Jane Elizabeth Smith, b.June 7,1843; m. Henry Gray. Issue: (6aa) Anna Gray. ( 6ab) Mary Gray, m. Mr. Farley. (6ac) George Gray. (6b) Mary Ann Smith, b. Sept. 16, 1847; m.Feb.1, 1870, to George H. Webster. She died in 1921. Issue: (6ba) Lee Frank Webster,b.Nov.18, 1874, m.Aug.31, 1901, to Olive Blanche Chambers. Issue: (6baa) Henry Lee Webster,b.Sept.8,1905. (7) Robert Bryan, b.April 2Q, 1820. Physician. Was killed in a steaµi• boat explosion when a young man. Unmarried. ( 8) SILAS LILLARD BRYAN, was born in a log house near Sperry ville, Va., on November 4, 1822. When he was four years old his parents took him to a farm at Point Pleasant, W. Va., near the mouth of the Kanawha River. His mother died when he was twelve years old and his father died when he was fourteen, after which he lived with his uncle, William Bryan, at Troy, Lincoln County, Mo., and with a sister in Marion Co.,Ill. He early developed an am bition to secure an education, and having to make his way, he worked as a farm hand between terms while he went to school. Later he alternated between teaching and going to school until he was able to enter Montgomery College at Lebanon, Ill. He continued to teach part of the time and attend college part of the time, earning what he could while at college, until he was graduated in the classical course in 1848 at the age of 2 7. While he studied law he became Superintendent of Schools of Marion Co.,Ill., in 1852, at the age of thirty. On November 4, 1852, his birthday, he mar ried to Mariah Elizabeth Jennings, who had been one of his pupils when he taught school at Walnut Hill. After he began practicing law he soon rose to prominence in the profession; was elected to the Illinois State Senate and served eight years. In 1860 he was elected circuit judge, his circuit including half a dozen counties in that section of the state. While judge he was in 18 73 chosen a THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 117 member of the constitutional convention of Illinois and helped write the organic law of the state. In 1872 he was a candidate for Con gress, but was defeated. They resided at Salem, Marion County, Illinois. Mariah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan was born May 24, 1834. She died June 26, 1896. Judge Silas Lillard Bryan died Mar. 30, 1880. Issue: (Sa) Frances Maria Bryan, b.Mar. 18, 1858, married Mar. 6, 1878, to Alfred Millson. He died Oct.12, 1887. Shem. June 8,1893, James W. Baird. Issue: . (Saa) Laura Bryan Millson, m. Mr. Spangler . (8ab) Frank Marshall Millson. (Sac) William Bryan Millson married. Issue: (8aca) Francis Baird Millson. (Sb) William Jennings Bryan, b. Salem, Ill, Mar. 19, 1860; A.B (highest honors and valedictorian), Illinois College, 1881, A.M., 1884; LL.B. Union College of Law, Chicago, 1883; (LL.D. Univ. of Neb., Md., and Univ. of Ariz.); married Mary Elizabeth Baird(b.June 17, 1861 in Perry, Ill; daughter of John and Lovina (Dexter) Baird; they were married on Oct. 1, 1884. Admitted to Ill. bar, 1883; practiced at Jacksonville, Ill., 1883-7, then at Lincoln, Nebr; mem. 52d & 53d Congresses (1891-5), 1st Nebr. District; received Dem. vote for U.S.Senator in Nebr. legislature,1893; nominated in Dem. Conv. for U.S.Sena tor, 1894, but was defeated in legislature by John M. Thurston; editor Omaha World-Herald, 1894-6; del. Dem. Nat. Conv. 1896; wrote the "silver plank" in its platform, made a notable speech, and was nominated for President of U.S.; travelled over 18,000 miles during campaign, speaking at almost every stopping place; received 17 6 electoral votes against 271 for William McKinley; lec tured on bimetalism, 1897-8; raised 3rd Regt. Nebr. Vol. Inf. for Spanish-Amer. War, May, 1898, becoming its colonel. Again nominated for President, 1900, by Dem. Populist and Silver Rep. Convs.; "imperialism" was de clared to be the paramount issue; he made an active can vass, but was again defeated, receiving in electoral college 155 votes against 292 for William McKinley. After the election established a political magazine, "The Commoner" at Lincoln. Made tour of the world, 1906, and contributed to newspapers. Nominated 3d time at Denver, 1908, and received 162 electoral votes against 321 for William How ard Taft. Secretary of State in Cabinet of President Wil son, Mar.4, 1913 to June 9, 1915 (resigned), during which time negotiated 30 treaties with governments, representing three-fourths of world's population, providing for investi gation of all disputes. Author: The First Battle, 1897; 118 LILLARD GENEALOGY Under Other Flags,1904; The Old World and Its Ways, 1907; Heart to Heart Appeals, 1917; The Menace of Dar winism, and the Bible and Its Enemies, 1921; In His Image, 19 22. Also many articles in mags. and newspapers. Pres. Nat. Dry Federation, 1918. Died at Dayton, Tenn., July 26, 1925. His wife, Mary Elizabeth (Baird) Bryan, was a student at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill, 18 78-9; graduate of Presbyn. Acad. for Young Women, Jacksonville, Ill., 1881 (also valedictorian); spl. work Ill. Coll. and Univ of Nebr. She studied law after her marriage to Mr. Bryan in order to enter more fully into her husband's work, and admitted to practice in Dist. Ct. and Supr. Ct., Nebr., but never practiced. She was a Presbyterian, Y.W.C.A., W.C.T.U. Assn. for Equal Suffrage, and belonged to the following clubs: Woman's Fortnightly, Sorosis (all of Lincoln, Nebr) and was a member of the Women's Club (Miami and Cocoanut Grove, Fla). Address: Miami, Florida. Issue: (Sha) Ruth Bryan, married Major Reginald A. Owen of the British Army. Address: Coral Gables, Florida. (8bb) William Jennings Bryan, Jr. (Attorney). Ad dress: Van Nuys Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif. (8bc) Grace Bryan, married Richard L. Hargreaves. She has four children ( 2 sons). Address: Beverly Hills, Calif. (Sc) Charles Wayland Bryan, born Feb. 10, 1867, educated U. of Chicago, and Ill. Coll. (non-grad); married Bessie Louise Brokaw, of Salem, Ill., on Nov. 29, 1892. Settled in Lincoln, Nebr., 1896; mem. Governor's Staff, rank of colonel, 1897-1902; publisher and associate editor of "The Commoner", 1901-23; editor and proprietor American Homestead 5 years; actively engaged in farming; mayor of Lincoln 1915-17; City Commissioner, 1921-22; served as Chairman Park Bd. Municipal Ownership League, etc.; Governor of Nebraska, Jan. 19 23-J an. 19 25; established municipal coal yard, municipal employment bu. and legal aid dept., in Lincoln. Democrat, Baptist, Odd Fellow, Woodman. Club: Country. Address: State Capitol, Lin coln, Nebraska. Issue: (Sea) Silas Millard Bryan; address: Minneapolis, Minn. ( 8cb) Mary Louise Bryan, married Mr. Hamsberger. Address: Ashland, Nebr. (8d) Nancy Bryan, born Nov. 4, 1869; died Jan. 1904. Un married. (Se) Mary Elizabeth Bryan, born May 14, 1872, married June 28, 1898, to Thomas Stinson Allen, a lawyer, who was THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 119 born at Paynes Point, Ogle Co. Ill., on April 30, 1865; son of Benjamin Franklin and Harriet Maria (Ely) Allen. Mr. Allen was graduated, A.B., U. of Nebr. 1889 (Class Orator), LL.B., 1891. Admitted to Nebr. bar, 1891; mem. Talbot, Bryan & Allen since 1896; chmn. Dem. State Cen tral Comm.Nebr., 1904-9, 1921-25; U.S.Dist. Atty. for Nebr. by appt. of President Wilson, Aug.1, 1915-July 1, 1921; dir. & Treas. Woodman Accident Assn. since 1898; Baptist, Mason. Home: 1260 S. 20th Street. Office: Terminal Bldg., Lincoln, Nebr. (9) Andrew Russell Bryan, was born near Sperryville, Virginia, on March 24, 1824, and when only two years old was taken to Cabell County, West Virginia by his parents. He later moved to Salem, Ill. On Nov. 27, 1845, he married to Amanda Lavina Tully(b.Jan.9, 1829; d.Nov.2, 1892). He died Oct. 6, 1901. Issue: (9a) Ann Eliza Bryan, b.Apr.18, 1847, married in 1868, to John Torrance( d.1884 ). (9b) Alice Jane Bryan,b.Sept.7, 1849; d.Feb.17,1917. Married May 13, 1875, to Julius Keip. Issue: (9ba) Percy Keip. (9bb) George C. Keip. (9bc) Berthal Gustave Keip. (9bd) Charles Russell Keip. (9c) John Edwin Bryan, b. July 4, 1851, married Mar. 26, 1877, to Josephine Pace. (9d) Lewis Oscar Bryan, b. Jan. 1, 1853, m. Dec. 19, 1878, to Sarah Frances Thompson(b.Jan.12,1858; d.Jan.30,1905). Address: Van Buren, Ark. Issue: (9da) David Thompson Bryan, b. June 16, 1880, m. Nov. 2 7, 1913, to Anna Wallace Fleeman. (9db) Bertha Eno Bryan, b. Nov.22, 1882, m.Sept.26, 1911, to Lt. Commander Samuel Lenow Hender son, U.S.N. Issue: (9dba) Frances Wilcox Henderson, b. Dec. 8, 1914. (9dbb) Jean Wright Henderson, b.May 26, 1916. (9dc) Rebecca Wilcox Bryan, b.June 7, 1889. (9dd) Henry Wilcox Bryan, b.Apr.21, 1893, m.Aug.20, 19 2 7, to Susan Bell. (9e) Andrew Russell Bryan, Jr., b.Mar. 24, 1851, m. Dec.29, 1880, to Virginia Moore. Issue: (9ea) Blanche Bryan, b. Mar.8, 1884, married to Harvey Patterson. Issue: 120 LILLARD GENEALOGY (9eaa) Russell Patterson. ( 9eab) Virginia Patterson. ( 9eac) Alberta Patterson,m.Mr. Misenbince. (9ead) Henry Patterson. (9eb) Leota Bryan, b. July 23, 1886, m.Nov.1,1922, to Frederick Ansley. Issue: (9eba) Lewis Ansley. (9ec) William E. Bryan, b. Oct. 5, 1890, m.June 28, 1913, to Neva Crippen. Issue: (9eca) William E. Bryan, Jr., b.Oct.16, 1924. (9ed) Georgia Bryan, b. May 13, 1895. (9£) Mark Tully Bryan, b. 1857; d. 1862. (9g) Rosa Amelia Bryan, b. Apr.17, 1859, m. Dec.24, 1882, to John Daniel Kagy. Issue: (9ga) Clyde Bryan Kagy, b. Apr.16, 1884, m. Alice Nash. Issue: (9gaa) Alma Louise Kagy. (9gab) Nash Kagy. (9gb) Andrew Edwin Kagy, b. Apr. 8, 1886, m. Lydia Stewart. Issue: (9gba) Stewart Kagy. (9gbb) Evelyn Kagy. (9gbc) John Kagy. (9gc) John Russell Kagy, b. Oct. 5, 1887, m. Gertrude Oldham. Issue: (9gca) John B. Kagy. (9gcb) Treva Kemp Kagy. (9gd) Lillard Hite Kagy, b.Feb.27,1890;d.Aug.11, 1890. (9ge) Reuben Hays Kagy, b. July 24, 1891, m. Sarah Langford. (9gf) Lewis Howard Kagy, b. Nov. 29, 1895; d. Nov. 4, 1918; m. Ruth Lannan. (9h) Silas Lillard Bryan, b. 1863; d. 1864. (9i) Minnie Bryan, b. Feb. 26, 1865, m. Nov.18, 1885, to John Reed Fisher. Issue: (9ia) John Bryan Fisher, b.Aug. 18, 1886. (9ib) Irene Louise Fisher, b. Sept.30, 1888. (9ic) Minnie Elizabeth Fisher, b. Apr.4, 1891. (9j) Emma Adelia Bryan, b.Apr.11, 1867, m. May 9, 1888, to Robert Shepard. Issue: (9ja) Ruby Shepard, m. Gus Langenfeld. Issue: THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 121 (9jaa) Josephine Langenfeld. ( 9j ab) Robert Langenfeld. ( 9j ac) James Dick Langenfeld. (9k) Addis Milton Bryan, b. July 25, 1870, m. May 31, 1891, to Mary Eliza Hall. Issue: (9ka) Henry Russell Bryan, b.Aug.21, 1892, m.Apr.22, 1915, to Mary M. Bellamy. Issue: (9kaa) Anna May Bryan, b.1921. (9kb) Mary Lucille Bryan, b. 1894; d.1896. (9kc) Lucy Addis Bryan, b. Feb. 14, 1897, m. 1916, to Floyd B. Cain. · Issue: (9kca) Mary Virginia Cain, b,Nov.24,1922. (9kd) Mildred Bryan, b. Mar. 7, 1899, m.Apr.26, 1920, to Robert Eugene Burson. (10) Elizabeth Bryan, was born in West Virginia, on Nov. 4, 1827. In 1844 she married to George Baltzell. Issue: (10a) Mary Baltzell, m. Mr. Starr. ( 10b) Florence Baltzell, m. Mr. Sears. ( 10c) Silas E. Baltzell. ( 10d) George H. Baltzell. {c) FRANCES LILLARD, daughter of John & Rachel (Garrett) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia(now Rappahannock Co), and on Dec. 19, 1811, was married to Zachariah Shackelford in Culpeper County. Minister Lewis Conner performed the ceremmi.y. (Vol.1, Culpeper, Va. Records). They removed from Virginia to Ohio, and after Mr. Shackelford's death, she married a second time to Mr. Miller, of Millersport, 0. (d) Capt. BENJAMIN LILLARD, son of John & Rachel (Garrett) Lillard, was born near Sperryville, Virginia. He married on Dec. 17, 1819, to Elizabeth Browning, daughter of Nicholas Browning. Minister William Mason performed the ceremony (Vol.1, Culpeper, Va. Records) . He died in 186 7. Issue: ( 1) CHARLES HENRY LILLARD, born in Va. Moved to Mississippi. He married to Charlotte Gurley. Issue: ( 1 a) Henrietta Lillard. And four other daughters. (2) LUCY MILDRED LILLARD, married on Feb. 13, 1844, to James Morris O'Bannon (Rappahannock Co.Records). ( She married second time to Cornelius Smith. No issue) . Issue: 122 LILLARD GENEALOGY (2a) Hon. Pressley Henry O'Bannon, born May 16, 1848, married to Josephine Miller, daughter of Middle ton and Anna Louisa (Hubbs) :Miller. Address: Sperryville, Va. Issue: (2aa) Louise Middleton O'Bannon. (2b) Roberta J. O'Bannon, born June 17, 1850, in Rap pahannock Co.Va., married Silas Lillard Cooper. Died Mar.11, 1928 in Culpeper, Va. Issue: (2ba) Henry O'Bannon Cooper, General Attor ney, Southern Railway System, Washing ton, D. C. Born July 8, 1877, married Virginia Fisher Leach of Front Royal, Va. (2bb) John Robert Cooper married Pearle Tay lor of Rocky Mount, N. C. Address: Rocky Mount, N. C. (3) MARGARET A. LILLARD, married June 15, 1843, to Wil liam L. Browning, her first' cousin. (Rappahannock Co.Va. Records). Issue: (3a) Elizabeth Alcestus Browning, born May 30, 1845, married in Culpeper Co., Va., Sept. 1 7, 1866, to her cousin, Daniel Amon Grimsley (b.Apr.3, 1840;d.Feb.5,1910). She died Aug. 24, 1919. Daniel A. Grimsley entered the Confederate Army in April, 1861, as a private, and was present at Fairfax Courthouse, May 27, 1861, where the first blood of the Civil War was shed. He was in the same company with Peyton Anderson the first man to be wounded in the Civil War. In the same company also was the uncle of Elizabeth Alcestus (Browning) Grimsley, William Jackson Lillard, who was the first man captured in that war. (See No.6) Mr. Grimsley became 1st Lieutenant, then Captain, Major and finally Colonel of the 6th Virginia Cavalry. After the Civil War, Col. Grimsley studied law and practiced in Culpeper,. Virginia; was a member of the Virginia Senate, 1869-79;Circuit Judge in 1881, serving a portion of an unexpired term. What was known as "The Readjl.lster Party" controlled the state about 1882, so for two years he was not elected. However, in 1886 he was re-elected Circuit Judge and remained on the bench until the time of his death on Feb. 5, 1910. He was quite an authority on local history and wrote a contribution "The Bryan Lillard Family," which is included in RT.Green's "Notes on Culpeper County," as well as a history THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 123 of Virginia troops in the Civil War. He was the son of Rev. Barnett and Ruth U. Grimsley. Issue: (3aa) Margaret' Ruth Grimsley, b.Apr.23,1868, m.Nov.2, 1892, George Drewry. Ad- dress: Bay Port, Mich. Issue: (3aaa) Elizabeth Browning Drewry, b.May 8, 1894,m.June 10, 1914, W i 1 1 i a m Carson Maher. Issue: ( 3 aaaa) Margaret R o s s Maher, b.Apr. 13,1918. ( 3aab) Edwin Grimsley Drewry, b. May 9, 1898. (3ab) Virginia Louise Grimsley, b.June 19, 1869, m.Oct.9,1902,Henry Griggs Burckmyer. Address: Beaufort,S.C. Issue: (3aba) Henry Grimsley Burckmyer, b.S ep.8,1903 ;d.J u n e 17, 1904. (3abb) Margaret Lloyd Burckmyer, b. Sept.3, 1907. ( 3abc) Virginia Grimsley Burck myer, b. Sept. 11, 1911. (3ac) Thomas Edwin Grimsley, b. Aug. 4, 1871, in Culpeper, Va. Educated at U. of Va. Admitted to bar, 1892. Captain of 3rd Va.. Inft., Spanish-American War. Attorney. Address: Culpeper, Va. Married Apr.4, 1899, Mary S. Edelin. No issue. Divorced, 1914. :Married at Orange, Va., Jan. 15, 1920, to Mrs. Claudia Dennis (Scott) Blake man, a widow. No issue. (3ad) Mary Browning: Grimsley, b. Mar. 12, 1873; married Apr. 4, 1894, to John Strode Barbour, an attorney of Washing ton, D. C., nephew and namesake of Senator John S. Barbour, and a direct descendant of Governor Barbour. Ad dress: The Oaks, Fairfax, Va. (3ae) Frances Greaner Grimsley, b. Mar. 8, 1875, married Oct. 8, 1908, t:o Caddell Smith. No issue. Address: Drake Apt. House, H St., N.W., Washington, D. C. (.3af) Elizabeth Barnett Grimsley, b. July 2, 124 LILLARD GENEALOGY 1880; m. Nov. 28, 1926, to Percival Theus. No issue. Address: Beaufort, s.c. (3ag) Lucy Ethel Grimsley, b. Sept. 14, 1882. Died of typhoid fever Aug. 17, 1894. (3b) Annie Margaret Browning, b. Jan. 1848; married Burrell Frank Bywaters. Issue: (3ba) Hugh Bywat'ers. (3bb) Elizabeth Bywaters. (3bc) William F. Bywaters. (3c) Lucy Catharine Browning, b. Jan. 10, 1850, mar ried on Nov. 14, 1869, to Capt. Robert Russel Duncan (b.Apr.23, 1832). Issue: (3ca) Margaret Agnes Duncan, b. Sept.21,1870; married Sept.30, 1896, to John Young Button. Address: Culpeper, Va .. Issue: (3caa) Duncan Young Button, b.Aug. 1,1897. (3cab) Robert' Button, b. Nov. 2, 1899. (3cb) Rosa Mildred Duncan, b. Oct. 8, 1873, married Feb. 20, 1901, to Clarence Edwin Parr. (3cc) James Franklin Duncan, b. Oct. 12, 1875, married May Boney on Nov. 2, 1905. Issue: (3cca) James Franklin Duncan, Jr., b. Aug. 29, 1906. (3ccb) Laura Crump Duncan, b.Aug. 31,1909. (3ccc) Richard Boney Duncan, b. Jan.10, 1911. (3cd) Jacob Eggborn Duncan, b. July 13, 1877. (3ce) Lucy Russel Duncan, b. Apr. 17, 1890; m. Jan. 15, 1912, to Walter Eugene Morrison. Issue: (3cea) Elizabeth Browning Morri son b. Dec. 14, 1915. (3d) Benjamin William Browning, b. Oct. 1852, married to Ella Rixey. Issue: (3da) Lloyd Southerland Browning. ( 3db) Harris Browning. (3e) Silas H. Browningi, b. Jan. 15, 1854, married to Lizzie Simms. Issue: THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 125 (3ea) Olive Browning. (3eb) William L. Browning. ( 3ec) Montcalm Browning. (3ed) Carrie Browning. (3ee) Silas Browning. ( 3£) Elocia Edwina Browning, born Dec. 1856, married to William J. Timberlake. Issue: (3fa) James Timberlake. (3fb) Margaret Timberlake. (3fc) Elocia Timberlake. (4) SILAS BROWNING LILLARD, born in Culpeper Co.,Va., married on Feb. 27, 1853, to MILDRED ROBERTS DUN CAN, daughter of Eldridge Duncan, in Culpeper, Va. (Vol. 2, Culpeper Marriage Records). The following article is copied from a newspaper: "The Vice-President and a Di rector of a Bank, Silas B. Lillard, was born in Culpeper County about sixty years ago, being[ the son of Benjamin F. Lillard and Elizabeth Browning. He has spent the greater part of his life in his native county, the progress, improvement and development of which he has always been closely identified with. With Mr. G.L Berry, a promi nent citizen of the county, he, soon after the Civil War, organized the firm of Berry & Lillard, who operated largely in lumber in Culpeper County, afterwards extending their operations to Pittsylvania county, where, for years, they ranked high in the commercial world, retiring from business after having accumulated considerable fortunes. Mr. Lillard owns extensive agricultural properties in Culpeper, Rappa hannock and Pittsylvania counties. He is also Vice-Presi dent of the S.B.Lillard Milling Company, being one, of the stockholders in the latter concern and in the Culpeper Na tional Bank. Mr. ·Lillard is, a type of the successful busi ness man of Virginia, and his name and reputation lends strength and prestige to any institution with which he is connected. He lives in the county, near Boston." Issue: (4a) LAURA MARGARET LILLARD married in Cul peper, Va., on Jan. 2, 1879, to SAMUEL RUSSELL BROWNING. Rev. A. C. Barron performed the ceremony. Mr. Browning was the Mayor of Culpeper, Va., 1926-27. He was the son of Lafayette Browning (b.Aug.24, 1825) and his wife, Ellen (Stallard) Browning. Lafayette Browning was a brother of John I. Browning 'who married a sister of Eldridge Duncan; thus Laura Margaret (Lillard) Browning and her husband were cousins from both sides. Address: Culpeper, Va. Issue: 126 LILLARD GENEALOGY ( 4aa) Ellen Roberts Browning, married Jack A. L. Fray. Address: Culpeper, Va. Issue: (4aaa) Laura Lillard Fray. ( 4aab) Ellen Fray. ( 4aac) Virginia Fray. (4aad) Jack Fray. ( 4aae) Samuel Russell Fray. ( 4ab) Irma Browning, married Rev. Edwards, a Methodist minister. Address: Cul peper, Va. Issue: ( 4aba) Russell Browning Edwards. (4b) Elizabeth I. Lillard, b. May 20, 1859; m. July 27, 1879, to George Franklin Pulliam, son of Benja min Franklin and Caroline (Willis) Pulliam, and grandson of John Ransome and Rhoda (Lillard) Pulliam. For her descendants see his record in Chapter XII, Ll. (4c) LUCY E. LILLARD, b. 1862, married July 7, 1886, to James: Miller, son of Dr. D.D. and L.B. Miller. Mr. Miller was a farmer. He was born in 1859. Rev. M.B.Grimsley performed the mar riage ceremony. (Vol.3, Culpeper Co., Va. Records). Issue: ( 4ca) Brown Miller. ( 4cb) Silas Miller married Dolly Thornton. ( 4cc) Lib Miller married Philip- Thornton. ( 4cd) James Miller. ( 4ce) Margaret Miller. (5) VIRGINIA LILLARD. Died unmarried. (6) WILLIAM JACKSON LILLARD entered the Confederate Army early in 1861, and was present at Fairfax Courthouse May 27, 1861, where the first blood of the Civil War was shed. Peyton Anderson, a member of his company, while on duty with William Jackson Lillard, was wounded. A bronze tablet has been erected on the spot on the road to Fairfax, near Falls Church, stating that Peyton Anderson was the first wounded in the Civil War. W'illiam Jackson Lillard, at the same time was captured and was the first prisoner taken during the Civil War. Shortly after being captured he was exchanged and became 1st Lieutenant of Co. B, 6th Virginia. Cavalry. He was born at Laurel Mills, Va. During the Civil War he was wounded once in the leg. On May 20, 1866, he married Virginia. Estella Brown ing, ( also born at Laurel Mills), daughter of Mason R. & Catherine Browning. (Rappahannock Co.Va.Records). He died July 3, 1887, and she died May 9, 1909. Issue: THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 127 (6a) BENJAMIN M. LILLARD. Address: Castleton, Va. (6b) SILAS BROWNING LILLARD, b. at Laurel Mills, Va., on May 10, 1883, married July 17, 1913, to Ada Merchant, daughter of Walter N. & Roberta (Weir) Merchant. She was born at Manassas, Va. No issue. (6c) VERNON LILLARD, b. 1868, m. Aug.13, 1890, to Frank M. Jolliffe. On that date they were both of Rappahannock County. Both were aged 2 2 years as is set forth in affidavit as to their ages made by C.D.Jolliffe. Minister W.F.Davis officiated. (Vol.3, Culpeper Co.Va.Records) . She married a second time, to Mr. Lear. (6d) HELENA E. LILLARD married Mr. Harrison. (6e) ROBERTA C. LILLARD married Mr. Funk. (6f) ELTIE LILLARD, died in infancy. ( 6g) LOTTIE LILLARD, died in infancy. (6h) FLORA LILLARD, died in infancy. (7) EDWINA C. LILLARD, born 1837, married on July 5, 1855, to Richard Henry Browning(b.1827), son of John Isle Browning. He was a farmer in Culpeper County, Va. B. Grimsley performed their man-iage service. Issue: (7a) OPHELIA VIRGINIA BROWNING, married, Mar. 28, 1877, to WILLIAM EDWARD LIL LARD, son of William Absolem and Sarah Jane ( O'N eale) Lillard, and a direct descendant of Captain Benjamin Lillard, the ReiVolutionary Soldier. For her descendants see record of W.E. Lillard in Chapter XII. (7b) Sarah (Sally) Browning married George Han-ison. (7c) Edward Browning: moved to Missouri. (7d) Frank Browning married Miss Denton. Moved to Mo. (7e) Lessie Jane Browning married Richard Duncan. (7f) Robert Lee Browning. (7g) Eva Browning. (7h) Lucy Browning. (Deed Book B, page 5.39, Rappahannock Co.Va.Records, in 1836, Capt. Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth (Browning) Lillard deeded land in Rappahannock County to Mason Browning). (Will Book F, page 309, same records, William Jackson Lillard mentions his brother Silas Browningi Lillard, wife and children in his will). (e) MALINDA LILLARD married Early Corbin and died without issue, was daughter of John & Rachel (Garrett) Lillard. (f) CATHERINE M. LILLARD, daughter of John & Rachel (Garrett) Lillard, was man-ied on Jan. 29, 1829, to RICHARD .STONE. 128 LILLARD GENEALOGY Minister Garnett performed the ceremony (Madison Co.Va.Records). They moved westward. (g) ELIZABETH LILLARD, daughter of John & Rachel (Garrett) Lillard, was born near Sperryville, Va., on Apr. 5, 1795. On Janu ary 3, 1813, she was married to William Pitt Yates (b.Jan. 6, 1786) a near relative of Sir Willliam Pitt', ( Culpeper Marriage Records, Vol. 1). In 1826, they emigrated to what is now Cabell County, West Virginia, where she died on Dec. 24, 1882, leaving numerous descendants who are scattered through West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Missouri. Minister Lewis Conner performed their marriage ceremony. B.F.Lillard of Murfressboro, Tenn., in his family record states that Elizabeth (Lillard) Yates left descendants at Orea, W. Va., among whom are the Burdettes. (h) MARY (POLLY) LILLARD, daughter of John & Rachel (Garrett') Lillard, was born near ~rryville, Va. On Nov. 16, 1815, she was married to LANDON CARTER. Minister Lewis. Conner per formed their marriage ceremony (Vol.1, Culpeper Co.Va.Records). Landon Carter was the son of Thomas and Susannah (Gaines) Car ter, of Culpeper County, Va, and also descended from Capt. Thomas and Katharine (Dale) Carter. It is through Katharine Dale that the Carters derive their royal lineage and trace back to King Hemry III. In Green's "Notes on Culpeper County," the abstract of the Will of Susanna Carter is given which mentions her husband Thomas Carter, and her children: William Carter, Landon Carter, Thomas Carter, James Carter, Abner Carter and Robert Carter. It was proved on June 19, 1820. About 1826, Landon Carter and his wife, Polly (Lillard) Carter moved westward to where is now Cabell County, West Virginia. Later they removed to Ohio. She died at' Millersport, Ohio, before the Civil War and left three known chil dren. Possibly others. ( 1) George Carter, died in Cabell County, W. Va. (2) Jane Carter, lived in Lincoln County, W. Va. (3) Andrew Carter, lived in Lincoln County, W. Va. (i) WILLIAM LILLARD, son of Dr. Benjamin & Lucy (Brown) Lil lard, married Feb. 13, 183.3, to WINIFRED QUAINTANCE. (Rap~ pahannock County, Virginia, Records). (j) ISABELLA LILLARD, daughter of Dr. Benjamin & Lucy (Brown) Lillard, married Jan. 8, 1836, to LLOYD WALLER. (Rappahan nock County, Virginia, Records). (k) MARIA LILLARD, daughter of Dr. Benjamin & Lucy (Brown) Lil lard, married WILLIAM PULLIAM. THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 129 (1) SARAH (Sally) LILLARD, daughter of Dr. Benj. & Lucy B. Lillard. (m) LUCY ANNE LILLARD, daughter of Dr. Benj. & Lucy (Brown) Lillard. Of these children of Dr. Benjamin & Lucy (Brown) Lil lard nothing is known except that Mrs. Andrew Hampton Brown of Syria, Virginia, (nee Jane Gray Lillard), who was born Aug. 16, 1834, sfated: "Doctor Benjamin Lillard married Lucy Brown, and they had a son, William Lillard, who married a Quaintance. They also had a daughter called Ibby (Isabella)." She said that these people were grown when she was just a child, and she remem bered seeing them often. She did not know whether they remained in Virginia or went elsewhere, but she was positive that "Doctor Benjamin Lillard and William and Ibby belong in our Brown-Lillard Branch." (See Brown-Lillard Connections at th~ end of this chap ter). (n) NANCY LILLARD, the oldest daughter of Thomas Lillard, Jr., and his wife, Delila (Rider) Lillard, married BRANCH MORRIS and went to California about 1839. (o) ELIZABETH LILLARD, daugh:er of Thomas Lillard, Jr., and his wife, Delila (Rider) Lillard, died at the age of twenty-four. Un married. (p) CHRISTOPHER LILI.ARD, son of Thomas Lillard, Jr., and his wife, Delila (Rider) Lillard, married LPCY PORTMAN of Madi son County, Kentucky, and made his home about four miles south west of Louisville, Kentucky, on the Ohio river, and there died about 1849. Issue: (1) BENJAMIN LILLARD. Lived in Kentucky. (2) GEORGE LILLARD, removed to Tennessee. Also two daughters of whom nothing further is known. (q) CATHERINE LILLARD, married Mr. Patterson. Nothing further known except that in 18 8 7, they were living in Shelby County, Illi nois. She was the daughter of Thomas Lillard, Jr., and his wife, Delila (Rider) Lillard. (s) MATILDA LILLARD, daugh~er of Thomas Lillard, Jr., and his wife, Delila (Rider) Lillard, died unmarried. (r) THOMAS MADISON LILLARD, youngest child of Thomas Lillard, Jr., and his wife, Delila (Rider) Lillard, was born Dec. 5, 1815, near the small town of Kirksville, on Silver Creek, in Madison County, Kentucky. "Lillard", by Hon. John Turner Lillard, of Bloomington, Ill, contains the following excerpts: "In stature he (Thomas Madison Lillard) is six feet high; his normal 130 LILLARD GENEALOGY weight two hundred pounds. He has dark gray eyes, Roman nose, the best and most even set of teeth I ever saw; he never had a decayed tooth and never lost a tooth; his hair was naturally coal black, and inclined to curl. He has always been very robust, his only weakness being a tendency to dyspepsia." "Thomas M. Lillard went to school three months before his mother's death, and never afterwards; his entire school education consisted of the dual accomplishment of reading print poorly, and writing his name. Though, in after-life, he acquired the completest of all educations-a broad knowledge of men and affairs, supplemented by a love of books, and a varied and considerable reading. The lessons I learned from him, amid the corn and grass and golden sheaves, the horses and cattle and surroundings of the farm, were more useful and intrinsically as grand as the discourses and lessons of Socrates to the youth of Athens; as beau tiful as the thoughts of Burns." "He sent his children to the best schools and colleges; we each re ceived at his ,hands a liberal school-room and academical education. But at home we were sitting at the feet of Gamaliel." "I have constantly felt the impress of his strong personality and pre cepts." "When our Father was left alone in the world by the death of his mother, he was a very young boy (fourteen years of age) to rely entirely upon himself, but this he did, his sisters and brother having already mar ried, leaving him only remaining with his mother . . . as early as 1829, when Thomas M. Lillard was an orphan of fourteen years, Madison County, Kentucky, was one of the oldest and wealthiest counties in the state, a county of proud families with large belongings and landed estates, and many negro slaves. Its people were allied to, and copied after, the magnificent slave-holding aristocracy of the "Old Dominion." This youth of poverty, thus situated outside of the exclusive circle of the first fami lies, was not 'standard by birth,' as the horse-fanciers of Kentucky say, and it was his lot to become 'standard by performance.' He was individually, if not by family, proud and warm-blooded, and there was a germ born within him by whose virtue he burst through the steel bands of caste into the ranks of the first families." "For two or three years he worked at whatever employment he could obtain in the neighborhood of Kirksville. He then went to Lexington, Kentucky, where a railroad was being built from Louisville, via Frank fort, to Lexington, as a terminal point. He obtained work in the labor of grading this railroad at thirteen dollars per month. After working six months at this wage, he was made overseer of a crew of men, at two dollars per day, and was so employed for about six months longer, when a cholera epidemic broke out and stopped the work on the railroad, and he returned to Madison county. He had saved almost every dollar of his earnings, and, upon his return to Madison, began trading in a small way in stock. Shortly afterwards, when he was only nineteen years of age, Carey Haw kins, a prominent citizen of Madison county, seeing that the young man was a good trader and had ability, engaged him to take thirty mules to Georgia and sell them. The mules were sold for some twenty dollars more each, six hundred dollars more in the aggregate, than was expected THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 131 to be realized for them. As selling mules in the southern market was then one of the large industries of the Kentucky farmer, the young trader came back to find himself, a boy in his teens, with a local reputation and in demand among stockmen and traders." "At the age of twenty three he went into partnership in the live-stock business with Waller Chenault, an extensive farmer and stock-dealer, and they continued as such partners for ten years." "On Oct. 23, 1848, at the age of thirty-three, Thomas M. Lillard, was married to Mary Bright Williams, a young widow twenty-five years of age, living at Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Her maiden name was Mary Bright. She had first married a young man named Williams who soon after died of consumption . . . on the day of their marriage (T.M. Lillard and his wife) started for Charleston, S.C. and spent the winter there, returning to Kentucky on May 27, 1849." "Mary (Bright) Lillard, wife of Thomas Madison Lillard, was born on March 16, 1823, on her father's farm about one mile from Stanford. Her father, John Bright, was born in 1776, of Dutch parents. He was a man of unusually large size, being over six feet in height, and his normal weight being over three hundred and fifty pounds. He was a soldier and Captain in the war of 1812 . . . and all his after life was called 'Cap tain Bright.' . he died in 1848 . he was a man of social disposition, and for that day, a rich man. . . . " Captain John Bright's wife, Elizabeth (Morrison) Bright, was of French descent. She was a tall, strong, commanding woman, physically and mentally, and after her husband's death she conducted his business and affairs, which passed to her, with marked ability and prosperity. She died about 1880 at the age, I think, of eighty-four." Mary (Bright) Lillard had four brothers and four sisters: Henry Bright, a respected farmer and resident of Lincoln Co. Ky.; George Bright who removed to Texas; John Bright, farmer and civil engineer, who re sided upon his father's old homestead near Stanford, Ky.; William M. Bright, who lived at Normal, McLean Co. Ill.; Elizabeth Bright who married Logan Carpenter; America Bright who married Frank Gentry; Margaret Bright who married James Givens; and Sarah Francis Bright, who married John Metcalf of Nicholasville, Kentucky. In a Biographical Sketch, page 918, History of Kentucky (Morris Co.) Edition of 188 7, is the following: "Thomas Madison Lillard was born Dec. 5, 1815, in Madison County (Ky.), where he lived until 1849, when he located on the Stanford pike, four and one half miles southeast of Danville, Boyle County, (Ky) where he has since resided. His father Thomas Lillard, Jr., a native of Cul peper County, Virginia, removed to Madison County, Ky., in 1808; en listed in the War of 1812, but was prevented by sickness from service; was a farmer and died March 3, 1816. Aged about thirty-five years. He was the son of Thomas Lillard, Sr., who was a farmer and large slave owner in Culpeper County, and whose children were Benjamin, John and Thomas, Jr. Thomas, Jr., married Deborah (this is incorrect and should read Delila), daughter of Alexander Ryder, of Madison County (Va.) (died in 1835, aged fifty-six) and from their union sprang Christopher, Elizabeth (deceased), Matilda (deceased) , Nancy (Morris) of Colorado, 132 LILLARD GENEALOGY Catherine (Patterson) of Shelby County, 111, and Thomas M. On Oct. 23, 1848, Thomas M. Lillard was united in marriage with Mrs. Williams, nee Miss Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Morrison) Bright, of Lincoln County, born March 3, 1823, and to them have been born Eliza beth B. (Erwin), Fannie (Robinson) of Belton, Mo; John T. of Bloom ington, Ill.; Henrietta; Mary T. ( Adams, deceased) ; Maria (Hargis) of Belton, Mo. ; Catherine (deceased) ; Thomas L. ; Nancy B. (Adams) of Louisville; Stonewall J. (deceased) and William H. From 1839 until 1848, Mr. Lillard spent his winters in Charleston, S.C., and his summers in New York City, dealing in live stock, in partnership with Waller Chenault, their business often reaching $300,000 per annum. Mr. Lillard is now engaged in farming, owning 490 acres of exceedingly well improved and very productive land, devoted mainly to grazing. From observations, he concludes that the farmer in the blue grass regions in Kentucky can not better his condition in the same business elsewhere. In youth Mr. Lillard had an even start with the world, and by industry, frugality and careful attention to business has amassed an ample competency. With only a limited education, he has improved his opportunities by reading and is possessed of a valuable miscellaneous Library. He has always been an emancipationist though he lost eighteen slaves by the late war (Civil). He is a member of the Christian Church and a Prohibitionist. He is remotely related to Rev. Joseph Lillard, who in 1793, preached the first Methodist sermon in Illinois." THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS MADISON & MARY (BRIGHT) LILLARD: (1) ELIZABETH BRIGHT LILLARD,m.Sept.1,1869,SAMFORD ER WIN. (2) SARAH FRANCES LILLARD,m.Dec.22,1870, FRANK G. ROB INSON. (3) JOHN TURNER LILLARD,m.Oct.15,1878, SALLIE E. WIL LIAMS. (4) HENRIETTA LILLARD. Unmarried. (5) MARY THOMAS LILLARD,m.Apr.27,1880, JOSHUA B. ADAMS. (6) MARIA (Pet) LILLARD,m.Apr.27,1880,BENJ. F. HARGIS. (7) KATHARINE LILLARD, died in infancy. (8) THOMAS LOVE LILLARD. (9) NANNIE B. LILLARD,m.Dec.3,1884, JOSHUA B.ADAMS. (10) STONEWALL JACKSON LILLARD.Unmarried. (11) WILLLIAM HENRY LILLARD,m. MARY BURKE. (1) ELIZABETH BRIGHT LILLARD was born on Sept.8, 1849. She was educated at Caldwell Institute (now Kentucky College for Women), and there was graduated June, 1867. She married Sept. l, l~-69, to Samford Erwin(b.July 8, 1830;d. Mar. 20,1883.) Sam ford Erwin was a native of Georgia, and was a merchant in Carters ville, with a considerable property acquired wholly by his own exertions, when the Civil war swent it largely from him. He then THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 133 became a resident of New York City, and as a dealer in stocks in Wall Street, again acquired a competency. After some travel, he bought and setded upon a farm in Lincoln County, Kentucky, where he died. Issue: (la) Fannie Lillard Erwin, b. Jan.14,1878; d. July 28, 1878. (lb) Mary Thomas Erwin, b. Oct. 8, 1879; m. Jno.W.Yeager. (le) Samford Erwin, Jr., b.Aug.24, 1881. (ld) Eliza Finney Erwin, b. May 22, 1883, married and had two children. (le) John Lillard Erwin, b.Apr.22, 1885. (2) SARAH FRANCES LILLARD (Fannie) b. Jan. 11 1 1851, near Danville, Ky.; was graduated from Mrs. Tevis' School for Young Ladies at Shelbyville, Ky., at eigh•een years of age. Here, on the day she finished school, she met Mr. Frank G. Robinson, of Win chester, Ky. On Dec. 22, 1870, they- were married and immedi ately went to Kansas City, Mo. He was in ihe mercan·ile business. Later removed to Belton, Mo. He was born Sept.1, 1850. Issue: (2a) Thomas Lillard Robinscn, b.Mar.31, 1872. (2b) Mary Rcbinson, b.Aug.23, 1875;d.Jan.24,1881. (2c) Fannie Robinson,b.Mar.16, 1883. (2d) Pet Robinson, b. Jan.2, 1885. (3) JOHN TURNER LILLARD, b. near Danville, Ky., on Apr.1, 1852; educated Centre College, Danville, Ky., and was graduated there in Tune 1872. After spending one year as a clerk in the stor<' of his brother-in-law, F. G. Robinson, at Belton, Mo, having pre vicusly read law, he p:-osecuted the study of law in the oftice of Williams & Burr, at Bloomington, Ill, and was admitted to nrac t;r-0 ;,, ·be ronr's of Tl'inois. in SeD·. 1874, and in the crmrts of Kentucky, in Tune, 1874. Since 1874, he has continuous!\· prac ticed his profession at Blooming'on, Ill. On Oct. 15, 1S7S, he was married to Sallie E. Williams (b.Jan.4, 1854; d.May 4, 1907) daughter of Robert E. & Martha (Smith) Williams. Issue: (Ja) Robert Williams Lillard, b.Julv 25, 1879, at Bloomington, Ill., m.Sept.6,1901, to Nannie Lwkhart(b.Jnlv28,1878) daughter of Amos J. and Annie (Little) Lockhart. Ad crf'ss: 72 \V. 37th St., New York City. Issue: (Jaa) Rebert Williams Lillard, Jr. b.1902. (Jab) Urban L. Lillard, b. 1908. (Jb) Thomas M. Lillard, Jr. b.July 29, 1881 ;m.Elsie Hooper. ( 3c) Erwin Rcbinson Lillard, b. Dec. 1 7, 1883. (3d) Paul Lillard, b. Oct.26, 1885. (Je) John Turner Lillard, Jr., b. Am.27, 1888. (3f) Charles Parke Lillard, b. 1891. (4) HENRIETTA LILLARD, called "Annette", b. Jan. 1, 1854. Edu cated at Caldwell Ins'itute and at Eminence College,Ky. (5) MARY THOMAS LILLARD,(Mollie), b.Feb.29, 1855; educated 134 LILLARD GENEALOGY at Caldwell Institute, Danville, Ky. O;n Apr.27, 1880, she mar ried to Joshua B. Adams(b.Mar.2,1849); she was a woman of judgment, of skill, of tenderness, of social and business tact. She died Nov.17, 1882. Issue: (Sa) Mollie Annette Adams, b. Nov.I, 1882;d.Aug.7, 1883. (6) MARIA LILLARD (Pet), was born Oct. 9, 1856; educated at Caldwell Institute, Danville, Ky. On April 27, 1880, she was married to Benjamin F. Hargis, a banker and lumber merchant of Belton, Mo. Benjamin Finley Hargis, her husband,was born May 29, 1852. She died Mar. 27, 1890. Issue: (6a) Benjamin Lillard Hargis, b. May 13, 1881. (6b) Mary B. Hargis, b. Apr.9, 1883. (6c) William Henry Hargis, b. Nov.12, 1885. (7) KATHARINE LILLARD, b. Oct. 10, 1858; d. Nov.8, 1862. (8) THOMAS LOVE LILLARD, b. Sept. 23, 1860; educated at Centre College, Danville, Ky. Farmer, and bank director; m. Alice Hub bell. Issue: (Sa} Alice Lillard. (Sb) William Lillard. (9) NANNIE B. LILLARD, b. June 27, 1862; m. Dec. 3, 1884, to Joshua B. Adams, the widowed husband of her sister Mary (Lil lard) Adams. Educated at Bell Seminary, Danville, Ky. They lived on a farm in Lincoln Co.Ky. Issue: (9a) Martin Adams, b. July 29, 1888. (9b) Thomas Lillard Adams, b. Apr.22, 1890. (10) STONEWALL JACKSON LILLARD, b. Nov.13, 1865. He and his younger brother, Will, were in the timber, where the men were felling trees; a tree fell in an unexpected direction and crushed him. Died on Feb. 2, 1878. (11) WILLIAM HENRY LILLARD, b. July 13, 1867. Educated Centre College. Was a farmer and stock trader. He married Mary Burke. THE BROWN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS. By IzzA MAY (BROWN) RECTOR. At the very beginning of the Brown-Lillard connections, I wish to stress that William Brown, son of Captain Daniel and his wife, Elizabeth (Hill) Brown (whose mother was a Coleman), married Lucy White, NOT MARY GRIFFIN, as is stated in Rahleigh Travis Green's "Notes on Culpeper County." I have before me the statement of Andrew Hamp ton Brown, aged 94, signed before W. E. Bohannon, Notary Public, as follows: THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 135 "We or I the undersigned declare William Brown (brother of Armistead Brown who married Mary Ann Russell Meredith, both being sons of Captain Daniel Brown, Revolutionary soldier) and his wife Lucy White Brown, to have been our or my legal and lawful Grandfather and Grandmother. (signed) Andrew Hampton Brown." The above William and Lucy (White) Brown lived on and owned land in the F.T.Valley, now owned by Hite and James Quaintance, which was part of the grant to John Brown by Lord Fairfax. Regarding this grant, the following excerpt is taken from Green's "Notes on Culpeper County": "There lies before me a patent for land in the South Fork of the Gourdvine River, from Lord Fairfax, proprietor of the Northern Neck, to John Brown; he paying every year the fee rent of one shilling sterling for every 50 acres, on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. It is dated 22d June, in the 20th year of our Sovereign Lord George II, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, and Defender of the Faith, A.D 1749. (Signed) FAIRFAX." This land was surveyed by Major Philip Clayton, and adjoins the land of Thomas Howison and William Brown. It appears in the vestry book that Daniel Brown was Sheriff and collector of the parish levy. Coleman Brown was clerk and lay reader in the church. Thomas Brown was undertaker of a chapel in the Little Fork; and Capt. William Brown was the contractor for an addition to Buck Run Church. These are the ancestors of the late Armistead Brown and Daniel Brown and their families." They are also the ancestors of Andrew Hampton Brown, James Marshall Brown and Susan Virginia Brown, all three being · grand children of William and Lucy (White) Brown. The above mentioned Lord Fairfax grant to John Brown is on record at Richmond, Virginia. In the will of Richard Burdyne, dated July 2, 1761, he bequeaths to his son Reginald, a tract of land on the west side of the "ragged". moun tain, adjoining the lands of Dick and Bogle; to his son, Samuel, lands adjoining John and Martin N alle, William and Francis Gaines and Cap tain William Brown. This will proved in 17 61 contains a section which shows where Capt. William Brown owned land. Some of the land granted by Lord Fairfax to John Brown, descended to William Brown; eldest son of Captain Daniel and Elizabeth (Hill) Brown. The will of John Brown, to whom Lord Fairfax granted lands in the South Fork of the Gourdvine River, was dated Jan, 7, 1774. It was proved Nov. 20, 1780. In it he mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and chil- 136 LILLARD GENEALOGY dren: John Brown, Elizabeth Dickerson, Ann Brown, Mary Brown, Daniel Brown, Coleman Brown, Thomas Brown, William Brown and Richard Brown. The first John Brown, to whom this land was granted, married his cousin, Elizabeth Brown, whose mother's maiden name was Coleman. James Marshall Brown and Susan Virginia Brown, aged respectively 86 and 84 years, also testify that their grandfather, William Brown, son of Captain Daniel and Elizabeth (Hill) Brown, married Lucy White, and not Mary Griffin as is stated in Green's "Notes on Culpeper County." It will be observed that all of the descendants of Captain Daniel Brown are not given here as some may be found in Rahleigh Travis Green's "Notes on Culpeper County." There are others that I have not been able to trace. THE CHILDREN OF JOHN & ELIZABETH (Brown) BROWN: (D) John Brown, m. 1st Sallie Gibbs; 2nd Phoebia Brown. (E) Elizabeth Brown, m. Mr. Dickerson. (F) Ann Brown. ( G) Mary Brown. (h) ( ~1YTl\P. n<\7\:IEL B"ROWN, was High Sheriff an.--J rrllrctnr of the Parish levy; received pension for services in the Revolutionary War; married Elizabeth Hill, daughter of William and Frances (Wood) Hill, and grand-daughter of Russell Hill and his wife, whose maiden name was Miss Towles of Middlesex County. Vir ginia. The will of William Hill, dated Jan. 25, 1809, proved Apr.20, 1812, mentions his wife, Frances Hill, and children: Ann, wife of George Rcberts; Russell; Armis'ead; Sally; Lucy Nalle; Elizabeth (Betsy) wife of Cap~ain Daniel Brown; William and Patsey Colvin. Cap~ain Daniel Brown signed the protest against the Stamp Act on Oct. 21, 1765. (I) Coleman Brown was clerk and lay reader in the church. (J) Thomas Brown was "undertaker of a chapel in the Little Fork"; married Susan PoweH of Prince Edward Co.Va. He married a second time to Mrs. Eleanor (Yancey) S:ubble:field, widow of Ed ward Stubblefield, by whom he had one daughter Eleanor Brown. The will of Edward Stubblefield, dated Oct. 19, 17 50, proved Mar.21, 1750, mentions his wife "Elener," and brother-in-law, "Lewis Davis Yancey." The will of Thomas Brown, dated Aug. 16, 1758, proved Dec. 21, 1758, mentions his wife "Eleanor, the widow of Edward Stubblefield", his daughter Eleanor Brown, and speaks of his bro'.hers Daniel Brown, Coleman Brown and William B-ow.,,., ·,nct },ic niece, "Elizabeth Farrerson." (K) Capt. William Brown, was contractor for an addition to Buck Run Church. "1768. Captain William Brown was lowest bidder for addition to Buck Run church." Captain William 1Brown was in the French and Indian War. The names on record of those hav- THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 137 ing served in a campaign against the French and Indians, 1753 to 175 7, is as follows: "Col. Robert Slaughter, Lieut. Col. William Russell, Captain William Brown, Cap'.ain John Strother, Lieut. John Field, Lieut. William Slaughter, Martin Nalle, Charles Yancey, WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT, Reuben Long, Thomas Slaughter, William Robert son, William Yager, Henry Gaines, Henry Stringfellow and Wil liam Roberts." Robert Slaughter, Robert Coleman, Daniel Brown, Philip Rootes, Reuben Long and William Williams were neighbors. Capt. William .Brown also signed the protest against the Stamp Act and Taxation without Representation on Oct. 21, 1765. He married Miss Vaughan and removed to Tennessee. (L) Richard Brown. THE CHILDREN OF CAPT. DANIEL & ELIZABETH (Hill) BROWN: ( Hl) William Brown married Lucy White, sister of Susannah White, who in 1792, married Thomas Broadus. Another of her sisters was Peggy White, who married Newman Allen, while yet another sister was Elizabeth White who married Willis Browning and was the mother of all his children, namely, John A. Browning who married Miss Willis; Chas. H. Browning died unmarried; and Cassandra Browning, died unmarried. Andrew Hampton Brown, Susan Virginia Brown and James Marshall Brown state that William Brown their grandfather was a soldier during the Revolutionary war and was at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis. William Brown was born in 17 59. (H2) John Brown married Sarah Hill. (HJ) Armistead Brown married Mary Ann Russell Meredith, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Baptist) Meredith, and sister of William Meredith. She was from Middlesex Co. Va. (H4) Thomas Coleman Brown, married Frances Griffin. (HS) Daniel Russell Brown, married in 1818, Lucy Powell of Prince Edward Co.Va. (H6) Frances Brown married in 1811, to William Slaughter, son of William and Lucy (Brown) Slaughter, and a brother of Eliza beth Slaughter who married Paul Yates. (H7) Mary Ann Brown married Newman Allen. She was his second wife. (HS) LUCY BROWN, married Mar. 3, 1799, Dr.BENJAMIN LIL LARD, son of Thomas and Anne Lillard of Culpeper Co.Va. Thomas Lillard, his father was a Revolutionary soldier. Dr. Benjamin Lillard's brother, John Lillard, was also a Revolu tionarv soldier. who married Rachel Garrett. It is from John and Rachel (Garrett) Lillard that the Bryan-Lillard Family de scends. (See Chapter 5, Nos.A & B, this volume). I have in formation that Dr. Benjamin and Lucy (Brown) Lillard had at least two children: William Lillard and Ibby or Ibbie Lillard, 138 LILLARD GENEALOGY and possibly a son named Benjamin Lillard. (See No.B, Chap ter V). (Hl) THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND LUCY (White) BROWN: (Hla) William White Brown married Juriah Yager, daughter of Jeremiah and Jemima (Berry) Yager, and grand daughter of Nicholas Yager, a Revolutionary soldier. Issue: (Hlaa) Andrew Hampton Brown, b.Nov.18, 1832, m. Aug. 13, 1857, to JANE GRAY LILLARD (b. Aug.16, 1834) daugihter of Augustine (Jr) and Elizabeth Ann (Lillard) Lillard. Her paternal grand-parents were Augustine and Frances (Campbell) Lillard, while her maternal grand-parents were Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lillard. Captain Benjamin Lillard, Revolutionary soldier, was her ma ternal great-grandfather ( See Chapter XII) ; while her paternal great-grandparents were James and Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard, ( See Chapter IV). For more than 50 years Mr. Brown was a school teacher. He died at the advanced age of 95 years. Issue: (Hlaaa) Florella Brown, unmarried. (Hlaab) Henrietta A. Brown, b.Apr.3, 1869, m. 1st: Lewis Utz; · 2nd: C o 1 u m b u s Fillmore Leathers. Issue: (By Mr. Utz) (Hlaaba) C 1 yd e Gray U t z,b.J un.1, 1890,m.D e c.1, 1 9 1 5, Wm. Ernest Brown. Issue: Russell Wm. Brown. Eugene L. Brown. Ernest ' Brown, Jr. (Hlaabb) Nora Agnes U t z,b.J an. 25, 189 6. m.Aug. 23,1923,Englar Kite Leathers. Issue: Ger al dine THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 139 Virginia Leathers, b. Apr. 22, 1925. (Hlaac) Elizabeth Juriah Brown,b.Mar. 19, 1872, m. Aug. 29, 1903, William Louis Berry. Issue: ( Hlaaca) W inn ie Edrie B er r y, b.J an, 24,1904. (Hlaad) W i 11 i am Austin Brown, m. Cornelia Berry. He is the Postmaster at Old Rag, Madi son Co.Va. Issue: (Hlaada) I r a Hester Brown, m. Ger tie Weakley. Issue: Hattie Lee Brown, m. Sy 1 v ester Dyer. Aubrey Hes ter Brown. Mary Irene Brown. James Ford ice Brown. Frances M a r i e Brown. Address: Syria, Va. (Hlaadb) Wayman Lee Brown, m. Maysie Nichol son. Issue: Lin a Mer dell Brown. Homer Clin ton Brmvn. H e l e n Marian Brown. Cecil Boyd Brown. Grady Lin coln Brown. 140 LlLLARD GENEALOGY (Hlaadc) Dewey Andrew Brown. m. Inez Jenkins. Issue: Joe Ivan Brown. (Hlab) Lucy Ann Brown, b.Oct.19, 1830. (Hlac) Mary Jane Elizabeth Brown,b.Oct.20,1834, (Hlad) Margaretta Frances Brown,b.Oct.ll, 1836. (Hlae) William Henry Brown. Civil War veteran. (Hlaf) George Brown, Civil War veteran. (Hlag) Mildred Summerville Brown. (Hlah) Susan Virginia Brown, b. Mar.1, 1843, m. her first cousin, Henry Durrett'e Brown, ( Oct.3, 183 6) son of George and Mary (Yates) Brown. (For her children see his his record) . (Hlb) George Brown married Mary Goodloe Yates, daughter of Paul Yates and his first wife Nancy Durrette. The second wife of Paul Yates was Elizabeth Slaughter, daughter of William and Lucy (Brown) Slaughter. The father of Paul Yates was Charles Yates of Caroline, Co. Va., and his mother was a Goodloe. There is the tra dition in this family that the Yates were of English nobility, and that one of them wishing to destroy all allegiance to England during the Revolutionary war, did away with all papers proving this. George and Mary (Yates) Brown moved to Kentucky but returned to Rap pahannock County, Va., about 1846. Issue: · (Hlba) William Waller Brown removed to Missouri. He was betrothed to his cousin Ann Pendle ton, grand-daughter of Frances Slaughter, but died before the date set for the wedding. (Hlbb) Henry Durrette Brown, was with Stonewall Jackson in Civil War; married Susan Vir ginia Brown (Hlah), his cousin. Issue: (Hlbba) Marceline Intha Brown died in infancy.- (Hlbbb) Marv Virainia Brown, b.Nov.2, 1868, m.Charles Kuhn(b.May 20, 1868). Issue.: ( Hl bbba) Henry Goodloe Kuhn, b.Feb.23, 1895. (Hlbbbb) George Lester Kuhn, b. Oct.4, 1897. THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 141 (Hlbbbc) Charles Edward Kuhn, b. Nov. 6, 1909. (Hlbbc) Emerson Goodloe Brown, rn. Emma Woodward. Issue: Winnie Brown; Fay Brown; Ju 1 i a Brown; Dorothy Brown; Hazel Brown; Woodrow Brown; and Yager Brown. (Hlbbd} Georgia Durrette Brown died in infancy. (Hlbbe) Paul Warner Brown,b.July 12, 1879, m. his first cousin, Eule lia James Brown, daughter of J a m e s Marshall and Mary Florence (Ryan) Brown. Issue: Paul Frank Brown,b.Jun.8, 1907. (Hlbbf) James Brown. Unmarried. (Hlbc) James Marshall Brown,b.Feb.6,1841. En tered Confederate Army, May, 1861; Co.B, 7th Va. Infy.Col. Patten, Kemper's Brigade, AP.Hill's Division, Longstreets' Corps, ccrn manded by General Robert E. Lee; was severely wounded at Gettysburg. Married Aug.11,1867, to Mary (Mollie) Flor::nce Ryan(b.Sep.27,1846) dau. of James A. and Elizabeth (Woodward) Ryan. James A. Ryan's parents were Daniel Ryan who married Agnes Singleton, daughter of Al bert Sinrrleton. Elizabeth Woodward was the daughter of James Woodward who in 1800 married Ann Young, daughter of Dr. Young, a Baptist minister. Ann Young was grand-daughter of Nellie Scott of Scot land which tradition says was descended of Scotch nobility. William Woodward, father of James Woodward, came from Ireland. His wife was a Miss Heninrr. and was widow Dacon when she married him. JI.Iary Florence (Ryan) Brown died May 22,1918. Issue: (Hlbca) Lorena Ardella Brown. b.May, 17,1868. m.June 3, 1891, Tohn E. Wayland(b. Dec.2, 1870). Issue: ( H 1bcaa) Florence M a y 142 LILLARD GENEALOGY Wayland,b. Feb.19, 1902, m. A 1 l e n Washer (b. 1894). (Hlbcab) Ju 1 i an Way land, b. Oct. 7, 1 8 9 6, m. Katherine Van Zandt(b.Oct.S, 1896). • Issue: Katherine L o r en a Wayland,b. May, S, 1 9 1 8; James Wil liam Way land,b.Oict. 1, 1 9 2 5. Julian Earle Way land,Jr., b. Feb. 11, 1927. (Hl bcac) James Marshall Wayland, b. July 22, 1898. (Hlbcad) John Hamilton · Wayland, b. Jan. 17, 1901, m. May 13, 1925, Kathryn Aber (b. Oct. 1902). Issue: John David Wayland, b. Feb. 18, 1926. (Hl bcae) M a r g a r e t Lorena Way- 1 a n d,b.N ov.3, 1904,m.J oh n Richard Har ris, U:. S. N. (b. June 29,1899) Issue: John Rich- THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 143 ard Harris, Jr., b. June 19,1925; J a me s Wayland Harris, b. Mar, 6, 1927. (Hl bcaf) Beatrice Claire • Wayland, b. July 14, 1908. (Hl bcb) Izza May M.E. Brown,b.Aug. 12,1869, m.Dec.24,1889, Wal ter Nelson Rector (b.Aug.18, 1868). Issue: (Hlbcba) Raymond Rec tor, b. Sep. 21, 1900, m. Dec. 12;,1912,Mary lee Melton (b. Apr.30,1891). Issue: Raymond Lyle Rec tor,b.J u n e 24, 1914; James Nel son, Rector, b. Nov. 11, 1921. (Hlbcbb) Lelia Rector,b. Feb. 22, 1902, m. July 18, 1914, Scott Wilson Good man (b.Ap r. 1901) of Pow hatan Co.Va. Issue: Scott Wilson Goodman, Jr., b. June 4, 191 6; Alice May Go adman, b.J u 1 y 18, 1917; Wal ter Nelson Goodman, 144 LILLARD GENEALOGY b. Mar. 19, 1922. (Hlbcbc) Claudia Perle Rector,b. June 11, 1906. (Hlbcc) Eulelia James Brown, b. Sep. 24,1871, m.Paul Warner Brown, June 21, 1905. Issue: (Hlbcca) Paul Frank Brown,b. June , 8, 1907. (Hlbcd) Claudia Josephine Brown, b. Feb.24, 1877, m. Oct.3, 1901, Charles Burroughs Ashby. Issue: (Hlbcda) C 1 au d ia Bur roughs Ashby, b. Ju 1 y 18, 1902;d.July 2, 1920. (Hlbcdb) James Marle Ashby, b. Aug. 9, 1907. (Hl bee) Clara Pear1e Brnwn,b.May 20, · 1884, d. Oct.1885. (Hlbd) Paul Conner Brown. b. 1843, married Mary Harrison Brown, daughter of Pressley and Ann (Popham) Brown, his first cousin. Issue: (Hlbda) Ida Brown, married Mr. Sulli van. Issue: (Hlbdaa) Ruth Sullivan, m. Jam:cs and had a th i 1 d Dorothy James. (Hlbdb) Hattie Brown married Clar ence Hudson. Issue: (Hlbdba) Pauline Hud son. (Hlbdbb) Cecille Hudson m. Leroy Nor ris. (Hlbdbc) Robert Hudson. (Hlbdbd) Lee Hudson. (Hlbdbe) James Hudson. (Hlc) Pressley Brown married in 1821 to Ann Popham. Issue: THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 145 (Hlca) John William Brown, Baptist Minister, Civil War veteran, married Jessie Stoddard. Moved to Texas. Issue: Pressley Brown; George William Brown; James Brown; and two daughters. (Hlcb) George Brown, Civil War Veteran, married Elizabeth Popham. Issue: John Pressley Brown; Mollie Brown mar ried James Harris. (Hlcc) Mary Harrison Brown married her first cousin, Paul Conner Brown ( Hl bd) son of George and Mary (Yates) Brown. See his. record for issue. (Hlcd) Haseltine Brown, married :first: Andrew Bol ing; married second; John Taylor. Issue: ( By Andrew Boling) Annie Boling married Mr. Yowell; (By John Taylor): George Taylor; Thomas Taylor. (Hld) Susan Brown ma1Tied James Glascock of Culpeper Co.Va. Issue: (Hlda) Frances Glascock, married William Apperson. Issue: (Hldaa) Virginia Apperson m. Mr. Grims- ley. (Hl dab) George Apperson. (Hldac) Lee Apperson. (Hldad) Walter Apperson. (Hldb) Lish Glascock married Thelbert Lewis. Issue: (Hldba) Mildred Lewis, (Hldbb) Earle Lewis. And others. (Hldc) Mildred Glascock. Died unmarried. (Hle) Frances Brown married Benjamin Berry of Madison Co.Va. (Hlf) Lucy Brown married Hiram Popham and went to Kentucky. Issue: (a) John Popham; (b) James Popham; (c) Victoria Popham. (Hlg) Margaret Brown. Never married. (Hlh) James Brown. Never married. (Hli) Mordecai Brown. Never married. THE CHILDREN OF (H2) JOHN and SARAH (Hill) BROWN: (H2a) William Brown married MARY GRIFFIN. ( H2b) Dr. Mordecai Brown married Nancy Henry Hill. (H2c) Adaline BroJVIl married Reverend Dudley. (H2d) Jane Brown married Colonel Hamlin of Dinwiddie Co.Va. .146 LILLARD GENEALOGY (H2e) Armistead Brown. (H2f) Sarah Brown married Bernard Todd. (H2g) Robert Brown married Sallie Walker. Lived in Dinwiddie Co. THE DESCENDANTS OF (H3) ARMISTEAD AND MARY A. R. (Meredith) BROWN: (H3a) Capt. Joseph Daniel Brown married Parmelia Summerville Yancey. Issue: (H3aa) Mary Catherine Brown married Rufus Carpenter. Issue: (a) Stacy Carpenter; (b) Harris Carpenter; ( c) Joseph Daniel Carpenter; ( d) Ellie Florence Carpenter; (e) Frank Hill Carpenter; (f) Leslie Parmelia Carpenter. (H3ab) Lily Banks Brown, married Thomas M. Henry, Atty., of Pittsburgh, Pa. Issue: Lucy Maxwell Henry and Pamela Brown , Henry. (H3ac) Josephine Brown married Benjamin Flippin, clerk, Cum berland Co. Va. Issue: Sue Gray Flippin; Elise Josephine Flippin; Marjorie Parmela Flippin. (H3ad) Benjamin Armistead Brown married Frances Todd , Faunt Le Roy of King and Queen County, Va. Issue: (a) Virginius Faunt Le Roy Brown; (b) Joseph Daniel Brown; ( c) Juliet F aunt Le Roy Brown. (H3ae) Andrew Edward Brown. (H3af) Gertrude Pamela married John Bannister Sparrow. (H3ag) Florence Armistead Brown married Oliver G. Flippin, Treas. Cumb. Co., Va. (H3b) John Armistead Brown. (H3c) William Russell Brown. (H3d) Andrew J. Brown. (H3e) Caroline Elizabeth Brown married John James Porter, artist of Beaver, Pa. Issue: (H3ea) William Armistead Porter married Nannie Fran cisco. Issue: (a) Robert Francisco Porter. (H3eb) Mary Eliza Porter married C. Louis Dohme, Chem ist of Baltimore, Md. Issue: Carolyn Louise Dohme. THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS COLEMAN (H4) AND FRANCES (Griffin) BROWN: ( H 4a) Virginia Brown. (H4b) Martha Brown m.William Lewis. (H4c) Emily Brown married Madison Duncan. ( H 4d) "Rev. John William Brown married Miss Rector of Texas. THE BRYAN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 147 ( H 4e) Julia Frances Brown married Robert Covington. (H4f) Betsy Coleman Brown. (H4g) Burgess Brown m. Miss Lewis. (H4h) Mary Russell Brown married Reverend A.H.Spilman. (HS) THE CHILDREN OF DANIEL RUSSELL & LUCY (Powell) BROWN: (HSa) Sarah Bumbrey Brown. (HSb) Robert Brown married Susan Coons. (HSc) Elizabeth Ann Brown married James 0. Harris and lived in Atlanta, Ga. (HSd) Dr. Walker A. Brown married Jane Allen. (HSe) Armistead Hill Brown m.arried Mit Chapman. (H6) THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM & FRANCES (BROWN) SLAUGHTER: ( H6a) Lucy Slaughter married Washington Pendleton. Issue: (a) George Pendleton; (b) Ann Pendleton. Went to Missouri. (H6b) Elizabeth Slaughter married Mason Bohannon. (H6c) Capt. Daniel Slaughter, C.S.A., m. Mary Berry of Madi- son County, Va. (H6d) Frances Slaughter married William Robson. (H6e) Catherine Slaughter married William Armstrong. (H6f) Albert Slaughter, Principal of Prairie Home Institute, Mo. He married Miss Abbott. (H7) THE CHILDREN OF NEWMAN & MARY ANN (BROWN) ALLEN: (H7a) Jane Allen married Dr. Walter Brown. (H7b) Elizabeth Allen married Edward Burgess. (H7c) Edward Allen married Lula Butler of Baltimore, Md. (H7d) Jennie Allen married General A.S. Roberts. (H7e) Ida Allen married Jacob S. Eggborn. (HS) THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN & LUCY (BROWN) LILLARD: (HSa) William Lillard, m.Feb. 13, 1833, Winifred Quaintance. (HSb) Isabella Lillard,m.Jan.8, 1836 Lloyd Waller. (HSc) Maria Lillard married William Pulliam. (HSd) Sarah Lillard. (HSe) Lucy Anne Lillard. (HSf) Benjamin Lillard. (?) NOTES ON THE BROWN-LILLARD CONNECTIONS AND ALLIED FAMILIES: , William Slaughter, who married Frances Brown (H6) was the 148 LILLARD GENEALOGY brother of John S. Slaughter who married a daughter of Captain William Brown(K). Both William Slaughter and John S. Slaughter were sons of John Slaughter(Francis, Robert) who married Milly Coleman, daughter of Robert Coleman. Another brother of William Slaughter was Robert Slaughter who married a sister of Governor Gabriel Slaughter of Ken tucky, and Thomas Lillard, son of Capt. John Lillard, Revolutionary soldier, married Susanna Slaughter, another sister of Governor Slaughter of Kentucky. (See Chapter XI) (No.A). Andrew Hampton Brown (Hlaa) was taught the cabinet makers trade by William Meredith, a brother of his aunt, Mary Ann (Meredith) Brown, wife of his uncle Armistead Brown. He also remembered visit ing at his uncle Armistead Brown's home. James Marshall Brown (Hlbc) learned his trade with William Arm strong of Woodville, Va. William Armstrong married Catherine Slaughter (H6e) daughter of William Slaughter and his wife, Frances (Brown) Slaughter ( H6). The will of John Brown, dated June 20, 1803, and proved Sept.21, 1807, mentions his wife, Mary, and children: John Brown and Ann Lightfoot. Andrew Hampton Brown (Hlaa) remembered his grandfather and grandmother, William and Lucy (White) Brown. TAKEN FROM AN OLD BROWN FAMILY BIBLE: "Juriah Yager born June 13, 1803. Lucy Ann Jemimah Brown born October 19th 1830. Andrew Hampton Brown was born November 18th 1832. Mary Jane Elizabeth Brown, was born October 20th 1834. Margaretta Brown was born Oct 11 1836. William W. Brown, son of William and Lucy Brown, and Juriah Yager, daughter of Jeremiah and Jemima Yager, was married the 6th day of August 1829." William White Brown was born in the year 1800. Andrew Hampton Brown died December, 1927. CHAPTER VI. WILLIAM LILLARD. WILLIAM LILLARD, (No. VI) son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, ai;id was named for his maternal grandfather, William Lightfoot. Very little is known of him. His wife's name was Ann, but he called her Nancy. He died between March and July in the year 1793. From the inventory of his estate it would appear that he was a very religious person as it men tions that he owned "Three Bibles" and one psalter. In Will Book 1, Madison County, Virginia, Records, page 3, is the following will of William Lillard: "In the name of God, I, William Lillard, being very sick & week of Body but of sound mind and memory and calling to mind The Mortality of my Body & knowing it is appointed for all men once to die, do make & Ordain this my last Will & Testament in the manner & form following (Vizt) I leave and bequeath unto Nancy Lillard my Dearly Beloved wife my whole estate to Enable her to Educate & Raise my children provided she continues unmarried but in case she again marries then an Equal Division to be made amongst the whole of my children, & I hereby De clare That my Intent & Meaning is that my Beloved wife shall have, hold, occupy, & Enjoy, all my Estate untill the youngest of my children arive to the age of majority & then an Equal Division to be made amongst my Children all, & I hereby Revoke & disannul all former Wills & Testaments and Declare this to be my last will & Testament the 20th day of March, 1793. WILLIAM LILLARD. Benjamin Lillard William Jenkins. Henry Jenkins. Thomas Lillard. "At a Court held for the County of Madison at the house of John Yager, Jr., on Thursday the 25th day of July, 1793, this last will and testament of William Lillard, deceased, was proved by the Oaths of Ben jamin Lillard, William Jenkins & Thomas Lillard witnesses thereto & is ordered to be Recorded and on station of Ann Lillard who made Oath and together with William Jenkins and Benjamin Lillard her securities entered into and acknowledged their Bond in the Penalty of two hundred pounds as the law directs a Certificate is granted her for obtaining Letters of Administration on the said decedents estate with his will aforesaid an nexed in due form. Teste: John Walker, Jr., C.M.C." Thus 'we know that when William Lillard was ill in March, 1793, that his two brothers, Benjamin and Thomas Lillard went to his home 150 LILLARD GENEALOGY and witnessed his will. Henry Jenkins the son-in-law of William Lillard was another witness. In July, Benjamin Lillard accompanied his sister in-law Mrs. William Lillard, to the home of John Yager, Jr., and there went on her bond. This is further stated in Will Book 1, page 4, Madison County, Virginia, Records: "Know all men by these presents that we Ann Lillard, William Jenkins, and Benjamin Lillard are held and firmly bound to James Bar bour, William Walker, Robert Alcocke and Reuben Fry, Gentlemen, Justices of the Court of Madison County now sitting in the sum of two hundred pounds to the payment whereof, will and truly to be made to the said Justices, and their Successors, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our :rnd each cf our heirs. Execu~ors and Administrators, Jointly and sever ally, firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this 25th Day of July Anno Domi one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, and in the 18th year of the Commonwealth. The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bound Ann Lillard, Administratrix, with the will annext of the last will and treatment of William Lillard, deceased, do make or Cause to be made, a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits, of the said Deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of any other person or persons for her, and the same so made do exhibit in the County Court of Madison at such time as she shall be thereto required by the said Court, and the same goods, Chattels and Credits, and all other the goods, Chattels, and Credits of the said Deceased; which at any time there after shall Come to the hands, possession or knowledge of the said Ann Lillard or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons for her do will and truly administer according to law, and farther, do make a just and true account of her acting and doings therein, when thereto required by the said Court, and also shall will and truly pay and Deliver all the legacies contained and specified in the said testament as far as the said goods, Chattels and Credits will thereunto ex tend, and the law shall charge, then this Obligation to be Void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and Virtue. ANN LILLARD (seal) WILLIAM JENKINS (seal) BENJAMIN LILLARD (seal) Sealed and Delivered in the presence of John Walker, Jnr. At a Court held for the County of Madison at the house of John Yager, Junr, on Thursday the 25th day of July, 1793, this bond of Ann Lillard, William Jenkins and Benjamin Lillard was acknowledged by the sd Ann, Wm & Benjamin & ordered to be recorded. Teste: John Walker, Jr., C.M.C." In Will Book 1, pages 5-6, Madison Co.Va., Records, is the follow ing inventory: "In Obedience to an Order of the Worshipfull Court of Madison, WILLIA~! LILLARD 151 bearing date the twepty-iifth July One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Three directed to Joseph James, Michael Klug, Henry Gaitskill and James Stewart, or anything of them. We, Joseph James, Michael Klug, and James Stewart being first legally sworn proceeded to appraise the Estate of William Lillard, Deceaa. 21 Head of Hogs ______£ 7 16s. Od. 6 Head of Sheep ------1 16 0 1 Horse ·------6 0 0 1 Mare and Colt ------8 0 0 1 Horse ------7 0 0 3 Cows and Calves ------9 0 0 2 yearlings ------,------3 0 0 8 Hoes ------1 0 0 4 Axes ------0 12 0 1 pair Wedges------0 4 0 2 ploughs ------0 12 6 1 Sett Cooperstools ------1 4 0 Shoemakers tools ------0 6 0 12 plails ------0 12 0 3 dishes ------0 10 0 6 Basons ------0 10 0 1 7 Spoons 2 poringers) gill potts ) 1 Salt Seller )------0 9 0 A parcell of Earthen Ware ------0 6 0 1 churn 2 tubs & 3 trays------0 6 0 2 Juggs ------0 6 0 5 Hogsheads------0 12 0 1 pair Steelyards ------0 12 0 7 bottles & 2 Juggs ------0 8 0 A parcell of Bowles, Muggs, etc. ______0 8 6 1 pair flat Irons ------0 4 0 1 Doz. Knives & forks ------0 5 0 1 Gun ------·------0 10 0 2 chests ------0 12 0 1 Table ------0 10 0 4 chairs ------0 3 0 Amount carried forward ______£ 54 10 6 (page following) Amount brought upward ______£ 54 10s. 6d. 1 Seive and Biddle ------0 3 0 1 Bed and furniture ------6 0 0 1 Ditto " Ditto ------7 15 0 2 Ditto " Ditto ------4 0 0 1 Woman Saddle ------·------2 0 0 1 Hackle ------0 2 0 4 Reap-Hooks------0 3 0 1 Mans Saddle ------0 - 6 0 152 LILLARD GENEALOGY 1 Slate ------0 1 0 3 Slays ------0 6 0 1 pair Wool Cards ------0 1 0 3 Bee Gums ------0 10 0 1 Loom------0 10 0 2 Linen Wheeles ------1 0 0 pair of Tubs & 1 Table ______0 12 0 4 potts 1 oven 1 pan ------ 1 10 0 In Money 3 Half Dals) 3 Guineas & 64 dollars)------30 12 0 £110 17 6 Jos. James Michael Klug James Stewart Appraisers. At a Court held for the County of Madison at the house of John Yager, Junr, on Thursday the 26th of Sept 1793. This Inventory and appraisment was returned & ordered to be recorded. Teste: John Walker, Junr C.M.C." For the next eleven years Ann Lillard was left undisturbed by the Court in the settlement of her husband's estate. However in 1804, the Court of Madison ordered another appraisment which is recorded in Will Book 1, page 429, Records of Madison County, Virginia: WILLIAM LILLARD INVENTORY. Agreeable to an order of the Worshipfull Court of Madison County, we the subscribers being first sworn have appraised the personal estate of William Lillard, deceased. One negro girl named Fanny ______£ 65 Os 0d. One cow & calf £3.15 One do £4______7 15 0 One cow and yearling ------5 5 0 One Heiffer and Steer ------4 7 6 Nineteen Head of Hoggs ------8 14 0 One Mare and Colt ------12 O 0 One Colt Two years old ------7 10 0 One Horse ------8 10 0 One Bed and furniture & Bedstead______6 2 6 One Do £12.0. One Do.£11.0. One Do.£5.0______28 0 0 One Womans saddle ------1 4 0 Three Linnen Wheels ------1 16 0 One Wooling Do ------0 15 0 Three Chests and One Case ·------1 6 0 One Cupboard------0 15 0 One gun------0 12 0 WILLIAM LILLARD 153 One Table ------__ 0 7 0 Three Bibles One Psalter ------ 0 12 0 One pair Steelyards ------ 0 13 6 Two Flat Irons ------0 0 7 Half Dozzen Tin Measures & Gill pot ______0 4 6 One looking glass ------'------0 3 0 One pr. Cotton cards 2/2 one slate 1/3 four chairs 4) ___ _ 0 7 9 Three pots One Oven ------1 12 0 One frying pan one grid iron one ladle ______0 5 0 Three ads one hatchet ------0 13 6 One lock chain and old tools ______1 13 0 Case knives and forks ------0 2 0 Three tubs One powdering tub ______0 6 0 Three piggins one can one churn and table ______0 11 0 Three washing tubs ------ 0 7 6 Four Mobby Hogsheads ------1 0 0 £170 3s. 9d. To amount brought forward ______fl 70 3s. 9d. Three bells ------0 5 0 Seven weeding hoes One grubbing Do______0 9 6 Two Ploughs ------0 15 0 One loom and three slays and shickles______2 2 0 ·Two bee gums ------0 12 0 One tight cask two powdering tubs ______0 12 0 six Juggs ------0 8 0 Three Butter Pots one earthen pan______0 8 0 Six pewter Basons one poriger ------~-- 0 18 0 four Dishes one dozen pewter plates and spoons______1 16 0 ·Cash ------0 64½ £178. 5s. 71/zd. Joseph James Richard Layton Augustine Bradley. At a Court continued & held for Madison County the 27th day of January, 1804, This Inventory and appreaisement of the Estate of Wil liam Lillard, deceased was returned into Court and ordered to be re •corded. Teste: John Walker, Jr. C. M. C." Two of the above appraisers were relatives of William Lillard. Augustine Bradley was his nephew, being the son of William Lillard's ·sister Elizabeth who married Lawrence Bradley. Richard Layton was a nephew by marriage. He married Mildred (Milly) Lillard, the daughter -of William's brother James. It is likely that William Lillard's wife, Ann, died during the winter 154 LILLARD GENEALOGY of 1803-4 and that this was the cause of the Court order for a second ap praisement of his estate. At all events she had died previous to 1806, when Henry Lillard, her son gave the following bond as recorded in Will Book2, page 75, Madison County, Va., Records: "Know all men by these presents, that we Henry Lillard, James Fincham and Benjamin Lillard, Jr., are held and firmly bound to Daniel Field, Paschal Early, John Walker and Daniel James, Gentlemen, Justices of the Court of Madison County now sitting in the sum of five hundred dollars to the payment whereof, well and truly to be made to the said Justices and their successors, we bind ourselves and each of us our and each of our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, this 23rd day of January Anno Dom. One Thousand 806 and in the 30th year of our Commonwealth. The Condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bou~d Henry Lillard, his Executors and administrators, shall well and truly pay and deliver, or cause to be paid and delivered unto Milly Lillard, orphan of William Lillard, deceased, all such Estate or Estates as now is or are or hereafter shall attain to Lawful age, or when thereto required by the Justices. of the said County Court, as also keep harmless the above named Justices, their and every of their heirs, executors and administrators from all trouble and damages that shall or may arise about the said Estate then the obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force. HENRY LILLARD (seal) James Fincham (Seal) BENJAMIN LILLARD, JR. (Seal) Sealed and delivered In the presence of the Court. At a Court held for Madison County the 23rd day of January, 1806. This Bond was in Open Court acknowledged by the parties thereto and Ordered to be recorded. Teste: John Walker, Jr. C.M.C." In Will Book 2, Page 133, Madison County, Va., Records, Henry Lillard gives a similar bond for guardianship of his sister "Polly Lillard, orphan of William Lillard, deceased." This bond is dated Oct. 22, 1808. It is evident that after Ann Lillard died her son, Henry Lillard, became the head of the family, and the administrator of his father's estate. In addition to assuming the guardianship of his sisters, Mildred and Mary (Polly), he divided the estate of William Lillard in such a manner that his old homestead and other lands went to those children re maining unmarried at the time of the division. This is set forth in Deed Book 4, page 370, Madison County, Va., Records, viz: "To all whom these presents may concern know ye that we Henry Lillard admr., to the estate of William Lillard, deceased, William Lillard, Nancy Lillard, Betsey Lillard, Stephen Jenkins, and Lucy his wife (late WILLIAM LILLARD 155 Lucy Lillard), Polly Lillard, John Lillard, Thomas Smith and Milly his wife (late Milly Lillard), have mutually, Maturely & Willingly divided both the real & personal estate of William Lillard, deceased, which de volved to us heirs & Legatees to the sd Estate of William Lillard, deceased, we have divided the sd Estate according to our desires & do hereby ac knowledge ourselves fully satisfied at the said division-and it is hereby declared, that it is our true interest and meaning that William Lillard, Nancy Lillard, Betsey Lillard and John Lillard shall forever hereafter have hold occupy and enjoy all the land which did belong to the said William Lillard at the time of his departure, to them their heirs & assigns forever free & clear off & from the claim of them the said Henry Lillard (Exor. as aforesaid) Stephen Jenkins & Lucy his wife, Polly Lillard, Thomas Smith & Milly his wife & their heirs forever for & in con sideration of parts of the aforesaid Estate by them recd in Lieu of their title in the said lands. In Witness whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands & seals this 7th day of October, 1807. HENRY LILLARD (seal) WILLIAM LILLARD (seal) NANCY LILLARD (seal) BETSEY LILLARD (seal) STEPHEN JENKINS (seal) POLLY LILLARD (seal) JOHN LILLARD (seal) THOMAS SMITH (seal) Signed, sealed & Delivered In the presence of Thomas Smith, Sr. Benjamin Lillard, Sr., Benjamin Lillard, Jr., Nimrod Jenkins. Edward Sims. At a Court held for Madison County the 26th day of November, 1807. This Instrument of writing was produced into Court & proved by the oaths of Benjamin Lillard, Jr., Nimrod Jenkins, and Edward Sims three of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. Teste: John Walker, Jr., C.M.C." The Benjamin Lillard, Senior, who was a witness to this instru ment was the younger brother of William Lillard, deceased, and was better known as Captain Benjamin Lillard. The Benjamin Lillard, Jr., was his eldest son. Nimrod Jenkins, one of the other witnesses, married Polly Lillard, daughter of William Lillard, Sr, less than three weeks after she signed this agreement; he was also the brother of Steven Jenkins, one of the signers, and husband of Lucy Lillard. It should be understood that William Lillard (No.VI) was born in Culpeper _County, Virginia, and that when he reached maturity he pos sessed lands in that County. However when the County of Madison was 156 LILLARD GENEALOGY formed it included part of what was formerly Culpeper County. There fore William Lillard's property although located in identically the same place, changed to Madison County. THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM & ANN LILLARD: (A) NANCY LILLARD married Dec.30, 1816, LILLARD JENKINS. (B) WILLIAM LILLARD,Jr. Died unmarried. (C) JAMES LILLARD. (D) ELIZABETH LILLARD,m.Jan. 15, 1818, HENRY JENKINS. (E) LUCY LILLARD,m.Feb.19,1802, STEVEN JENKINS. (F) MARY(Polly) LILLARD,m.Oct.22,1807, NIMROD JENKINS. (G) MILDRED(Milly) LILLARD,m.Jan.23, 1806, Thos.Smith,Jr. (H) ANTHONY LILLARD,m.Feb.24,1803,MARY(Polly) LILLARD, his first cousin. (J) HENRY LILLARD,m.Mar.6,1807, ELIZABETH BRADLEY, daughter of Augustine Bradley. (K) JOHN LILLARD,m.Jan 15,1818, LUCY GAINES. SIXTH GENERATION. (A) NANCY LILLARD, daughter of William and Ann Lillard, mar ried in Madison County, Virginia, on Dec. 30, 1816, to LILLARD JENKINS. Minister John Kabler performed the ceremony. Evi dently there were no children. Lillard Jenkins, her husband, lived less than three years after they were married. He died Oct. 23, 1819, after a severe illness, according to the following certified statement' in ,vill Book 4, page 8, Madison County, Va., Records: "Nimrod Jenkins & Joseph James of Madison County" certify that when Lillard Jenkins was sick he stated he wanted his wife Nancy to have his Estate during her life. They also certify: "Lillard Jenkins did not recover from his then sickness but died there" ( at his home) "on the 23rd inst." Dated Oct. 27, 1819. The abstract of Nancy Lillard Jenkins' will is: She mentions her husband's brother, Nimrod Jenkins, and his wife "Mary ( or Polly as she is generally called)", "who is my sister." This will is recorded in Madi son County, Va. It was witnessed by Alexander H. Sim.ms, Fielding Smith (Nancy's nephew) and Howard Yowell. It was dated Oct. 15, 1847, and was proved Nov. 27, 1847. Executor mentioned was Nimrod Jenkins, her brother-in-law. (B) WILLIAM LILLARD, Jr. son of William and Ann Lillard, died intestate, his property passing to his brothers and sisters. He was unmarried. In Deed Book 18, page 180, Madison County, Vir ginia, is the following: WILLIAM LILLARD 157 "Memorandum of agreement between Aaron Jenkins, Administrator of William Lillard, Deceased, of the one part and the heirs at law of the said William Lillard, deced of the other part Witnesseth that whereas the said Aaron Jenkins has administered on the estate of the said William deceased which said estate consists of nine and ¾ acres of Land the title of which said Land is not perfected being an equitable title simply there fore it is agreed between the aforesaid Aaron Jenkins and the heirs at Law of the aforesaid William Lillard, dec'd who are: Viz: Nancy Jenkins sister of the said William Lillard deceased, her husband being dead; Elizabeth Jenkins also a sister who is a widow having married Henry Jenkins; Lucy Jenkins also a sister who intermarried with Stephen Jenkins also a widow; Nimrod Jenkins and Mary his wife who was also a sister of the said William Lillard, dec'd; Fielding Smith, Thos. Smith, John Smith, Riddy wife of Simon Hurt who was a daughter of Milly Smith also a sister of William Lillard, dec'd; Simeon Hurt the husband of the said Ridy, Rody Rider & John L. Rider the said Rody being the only child of Henry Lillard dec'd, who was one of the brothers of the said William Lillard, dec'd; Jno. Lillard, Jas. Lillard, William Lillard, Henry Lillard, Nancy Lillard, Ellen Lillard and Sarah Lillard all of whom last mentioned-are children of Jno. Lillard, dec'd, one of the brothers of the said William, dec'd, that the said .c\.aron Jenkins shall advertise and sell the aforesaid tract of Land, the property of the said William Lillard, dec'd after six weeks notice to the highest bidder on 12 months credit and divide the same in ratiable proportion according to the equitable share of each. In witness whereof the parties have here subscribed their names and affixed their seals in the penal sum of one hundred dollars each on this 27th day of May in this 1847. JOHN L. RIDER (seal) Rhoda Rider (seal) NIMROD JENKINS (seal) MARY JENKINS (seal) NANCY JENKINS (seal) Witnessed: WILLIAM W. LILLARD (seal) FIELDING JENKINS. HENRY F. LILLARD (seal) LILLARD JENKINS. JOHN B. L.ILLARD (seal) EDMOND SMITH. NANCY LILLARD (seal) JAMES M. LILLARD (seal) LUCY JENKINS (seal) ELIZABETH JENKINS (seal) THOMAS SMITH (seal) FIELDING SMITH (seal) SIMEON HURT (seal) RIDDY HURT (seal) JOHN SMITH (seal) Madison County Court Clerk's Office, Aug. 26, 1847. This paper writing was proved in the office aforesaid by the Oaths of Fielding Jenkins and Lillard Jenkins Witnesses to the same. And on the 5th day of February, 1848, said paper was further proved in said 158 LILLARD GENEALOGY office by the oath of Edmond Smith a witness to the same and thereupon said paper was admitted to record. Teste: Belfield Cave, Clerk." On Page 115, Deed Book 18, this same instrument is mentioned in which it names John Lillard, brother of William from whom he bought this land. It also mentions Lucy (Gaines) Lillard and other heirs of John Lillard. (F) MARY (Polly) LILLARD, daughter of William and Ann Lillard, married in Madison County, Va., on Oct. 22, 1807, to NIMROD Jenkins. Four Jenkins brothers-Lillard Jenkins, Henry Jenkins, Steven Jenkins and Nimrod Jenkins-married four of the daugh ters of William and Ann Lillard: Nancy, Mary, Elizabeth and Lucy, And they were all first cousins, the four brothers being the sons of William Lillard's niece, Elizabeth (Lillard) Jenkins, daugh ter of James and Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard. In Will Book 8, page 210, Madison County, Va., Records, is a statement of Nimrod Jenkins, wherein he requests that on· account of his "bodily in firmities (being nearly blind and old withall)" his son, Aaron Jenkins, be made Executor of Nancy (Lillard) Jenkins Estate in his stead. THE CHILDREN OF MARY (POLLY) (LILLARD) & NIMROD JENKINS: (a) Aaron Jenkins. (b) Nimrod Jenkins. (G) MILDRED (Milly) LILLARD, daughter of William & Ann Lillard, married in Madison County, Va., on Jan. 23, 1806, to Thomas Smith, Jr. Minister Josh Leathers performed the ceremony. With the original marriage bond is this note: "To the Clerk of Madison County: Sir: You are hereby Authorized and Required to grant unto Thomas Smith Jun' (my son) License to Constitute Marriage Between himself and Milly Lillard. Given under my hand and seal this 30th day of December, 1805. THOMAS SMITH." This note was witnessed by Benjamin Lillard, Sr., Anthony Lillard and James Fincham. The marriage bond states that Millie Lillard is the daughter of William Lillard, deceased. Benjamin Lillard, Sr., was the uncle of Milly Lillard, while Anthony Lillard was her brother. James Fincham the other witness of the note was the brother-in-law of Thomas WILLIAM LILLARD 159 Smith, Jr., having married his sister Catherine (called Catey) on Oct. 28, 1798. THE CHILDREN OF MILDRED (LILLARD) & THOMAS SMITH, JR. (c) Fielding Smith. ( d) Thomas Smith, III. ( e) John Smith. (f) Riddy Smith, m.Simeon Hurt. (H) ANTHONY LILLARD, son of William & Ann Lillard, applied for a marriage license to marry his first cousin, Mary (Polly) Lillard, on Feb. 24, 1803. However whether this marriage was ever consummated is unknown as there is no record at the Madison County, Va., Clerk Office, of the minister's return. (J) HENRY LILLARD, son of William & Ann Lillard, married on March 6, 1807, to Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley, daughter of Augus tine Bradley. They had but one child. THE CHILD OF HENRY & ELIZABETH (BRADLEY) LILLARD: (g) RHODA LILLARD married on June 26, 1838, in Madison County, Va., to John L. Rider, son of John Rider. (K) JOHN LILLARD, son of William & Ann Lillard, was born in Madison County, Va., and resided there. On Oct. 16, 1817, Wil liam Lillard, Lillard Jenkins and Nancy, his wife, and Elizabeth Lillard for $604.50 sold to John Lillard, their brother, sixty-two acres of land in Madison County, Va. Shortly thereafter John Lillard sold this property to William A. Brown. These transac tions are recorded on page 214, Deed Book 6, Madison Co., Va., Records. On January 15, 1818, John Lillard married to Lucy Gaines, in Madison County, Va. He was a £aimer. Just when he died is unknown, but it must have been previous to August, 1847, when the following instrument was recorded in Madison : "This Indenture made & entered into this 7th day of August, 184 7, between Lucy Lillard, widow of the late John Lillard, dec'd; William Lillard and Jane his wife, Nancy B. Lillard, John Brown Lillard, James M. Lillard, Elizabeth E. Lillard and Sarah A. Lillard, children and heirs at law of John Lillard, deed, all of the County of Madison and State of Virginia of the one part and Henry F. Lillard of the County and State aforesaid of the other part," for $200 parties of the first part sell land to Henry F. Lillard. This is signed by Lucy Lillard, William W. Lillard, Jane Lillard, 160 LILLARD GENEALOGY John B. Lillard, James M. Lillard, Nancy B. Lillard, Elizabeth E. Lillard and Sarah A. Lillard. It was witnessed by William Slaughter. THE CHILDREN OF JOHN & LUCY (GAINES) LILLARD: (h) WILLIAM W. LILLARD,m.Aug.30, 1846, MARY JANE RIVER COMB. (i) HENRY F. LILLARD,m.lst: Jan.2, 1847, ELLEN YOWELL. m.2nd: Mar.24,1891, MARTHA BUTLER. (j) JOHN BROWN LILLARD,m.Mar. 1, 1855, FRANCES WALLER. (k) NANCY B. LILLARD,m.Jan. 10,1852, ELZY WEAKLEY. (1) JAMES M. LILLARD,m.Jan.19,1854, FRANCES HUFFMAN. (m) ELIZABETH ELLEN LILLARD,m.Jan.15,1857,Wm.G.THORN HILL. (n) SARAH ANN LILLARD,m.Dec.19,1850, DILLARD G. THORN HILL. (o) LUCY LILLARD. SEVENTH AND FO,LLOWING GENERATIONS: (h) WILLIAM WILSON LILLARD, son of John & Lucy (Gaines) Lillard, was married in Rappahannock County, Va., on Aug. 30, .1846, to MARY JANE RIVERCOMB. He was a farmer. Issue: (1) JOHN WILSON LILLARD, and his wife Bettie, live in Madison County, Virginia. Issue: (la) Fannie May Lillard, married Dec. 1, 1923, to George Robert Nethers, son of Wm. C. & Inez Nethers. (lb) Alice Marie Lillard, married June 30, 1923, to Moffett H. Brady, of Flint Hill, Va., son of R.J. & Lucy D. Brady. (2) ·SARAH ANNE LILLARD, born 1853, married Feb. 16, 1875, to JOHN ROBERT NETHERS, son of Arnold and Ellen (Huffman) Nethers. He was a farmer of Rappahan nock County, Va. She died in 1925. (3) JAMES ROBERT LILLARD, born in Culpeper County, Va., May 5, 1848, married in Culpeper, Va., on Dec. 18, 1871, to MARY ELLEN BOWIE of Rappahannock Co., Va. Issue: (3a) LIZZIE MAUDE LILLARD, born Nov.7,1872, married Aug. 7, 1896, to CLARENCE 0. WAR FEL. Address: Barnesville, Montgomery Co., Md Issue: ( 3aa) Edna Warfel,b.Apr.11,1898, m.Mar.20. 1920, to Cecil Allnutt. Address: Wash imrton. D. C. WILLIAM LILLARD 161 (3ab) Elsie Warfel,b.Sept.23,1899, m.Sept.24, 1919, to E.C.Burke, (Baptist Minister). Address: Hamilton Square, N.J. (3ac) Hazel Warfel,b.Mar.6,1901, m.Jul.3,1925, L.O.Heck, and they live in Philippine Islands. He is an Episcopal Minister. (3ad) George Warfel, b.Nov.17,1902. Address: New York, N.Y. (3ae) William Carroll Warfel,b.Sep.23, 1904. Address: Birmingham, Ala. (3b) ERNEST LILLARD, born Aug. 5, 1874, married in Baltimore, Md. to RUBY NEAL. She was from Prince George County, Md. He died Jan. 15, 1913. Issue: (3ba) MILDRED NEAL LILLARD, b.Aug.5, 1901. Graduated from Goucher Col lege; was dramatic teacher. Actress. (3c) ANNIE MARY LILLARD, born in Virginia, mar ried 0. White Reid. Address: Tennleytown, Md. Issue: (3ca) Ralph Reid married Jennie Thompson. ( 3cb) Virginia Reid married Miles Gerhardt. (3d) ED LILLARD, born in Virginia, Nov.7, 1879; died July 12, 1902. Unmarried. (3e) JOHN FRANKLIN LILLARD, born near Lees burg, Loudon Co., Va., Feb. 3, 1882, married MARY LILLIAN WALTERS. Lawyer at Hy attsville, Md. Address: Hotel Roosevelt, Wash ington, D.C. Issue: (3ea) JOHN FRANKLIN LILLARD, Jr. b. May 28, 1911. Attends Friends School, Washington, D.C. (3eb) BOWIE WALTERS LILLARD, b.Nov. 17, 1920. (3£) IDA CLEVELAND LILLARD, born in Virginia, Sep.25, 1884, married Apr.13, 1904, to WILMER L. COOK. Address: Roanoke, Va. Issue: (3fa) Ruby Marshall Cook, b.Apr.13,1906. (3fb) Albert Watson Cook, b.Jan.21,1909. (3fc) Dorothy Arline Cook,b.Jul.1,1910. (3fd) Mary Ellen Cook,b.Feb.11, 1912. (3g) FANNIE FULSOM LILLARD,born in Virginia, Dec. 19, 1886, married June 22, 1912, to HEN DERSON DOAK. Address: Cumberland, Md. Issue: (3ga) Ralph Bowie Doak,b.Apr.27,1913. 162 LILLARD GENEALOGY (3gb) Margaret Elizabeth Doak,b.Dec.28,1915. (3gc) Robert Linwood Doak,b.Nov.28, 1917. (3h) BESSIE LILLARD, born in Virginia, Dec.24, 1890; died July 27, 1905. (Ji) JAMES ROBERT LILLARD, Jr., born in Mary land, Jan. 22, 1892, married Oct. 6, 1917; to STELLA RENN. Address: Barnesville, Md. Issue: (3ia) ERNEST RENN LILLARD,b.Feb.5, 1919. (3ib) EDITH REBECCA LILLARD,b.Apr.2, 1922. (3ic) MARY ELLEN LILLARD,b.June 19, 1924; died Jan. 3, 1926. ( All of the dead of the above branch is buried in Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville, Montgomery Co. Md.) ( 4) WILLIAM HENRY LILLARD ( called Henry) was born in Madison County, Va., on April 20, 1858; married on April 13, 1881, to SARAH ALLEN NETHERS, daughter of Arnold and Ellen (Huffman) Nethers. She was born Aug. 26, 1863. William Henry Lillard was a farmer. He died April 14, 1906. Issue: (4a) WILLIAM ASHBY LILLARD, born Oct. 16, 1882, married June 30, 1906, to Mamie B. Comer. Ad dress: Luray, Va. Issue: ( 4aa) Hazel Virginia Lillard. ( 4ab) Lillian Lillard. ( 4ac) Mary Ellen Lillard. ( 4ad) Helen Elizabeth Lillard. (4ae) WILLIAM ASHBY LILLARD, Jr. (4b) MAJOR P. LILLARD, born June 13, 1884, mar ried Oct. 2, 1913, to Ella Matthew. Died Feb. 7, 1923. Issue: (4ba) MAJOR ELWOOD LILLARD. ( 4bb) Ellen Frances Lillard. Address: Sav age, Md. (4c) GEORGE ROBERT LILLARD, born Jan. 18, 1887, married Nov. 9, 1914, to STELLA G. WEAKLEY, daughter of J.W. & Mary F. Weak ley. Druggist. Address: Culpeper, Va. Issue: (4ca) GEORGE ROBERT LILLARD,Jr., b. Feb. 8, 1925. WILLIAM LILLARD 163 (4cb) LEWIS ARCHIE LILLARD,b. Aug.10, 1916. (4d) KATE LILLARD, born Apr.11, 1890, married June 8, 1921, to Mark Reed Petty. Address: Boston, Va. Issue: ( 4da) Carrol Humphreys Petty . (4e) . HARRY CLIFFORD LILLARD, born Apr.16, 1893; married Nov.26, 1919, to Ruth Virginia Petty, daughter of M.R. & Eliza G. Petty. Min ister E.W.Winfrey officiated at the ceremony. (Cul peper, Va., Marriage Records, Vol.V, page 26). Address : Boston, Va. Issue: ( 4ea) CLIFFORD REED LILLARD. ( 4eb) Hilda Ruth Lillard. (4f) ANNA LILLARD, born May 14, 1895, married Mar. 29, 1913, to Walker B. Jenkins. Address: W ashington,Va. • Issue: ( 4 fa) Mary Ellen Jenkins. ( 4fb) Catherine Jenkins. (4fc) Ruby Jenkins. (4fd) Elizabeth Jenkins. (4g) HENRY BRYAN LILLARD, born Feb. 13, 1897, married Ruth V. Murray. Address: Clarendon, Va. Issue: ( 4ga) Ruth Gertrude Lillard. (4h) JAMES MARSHALL LILLARD, born Mar. 28, 1899, married June 25, 1921, to Lily Bert Manuel, daughter of Robt. E. & Anne F. Manuel. Ad dress: Washington, Va. Issue: (4ha) JAMES MARSHALL LILLARD, Jr. (4i) CARROL CLYDE LILLARD, born Feb. 6, 1901, married May 12, 1923, to Annie I. Herd. Address: 1609 H Street, S.E. Washington, D.C. No issue. (4j) WILLIS NETHERS LILLARD, born Jan 14, 1903. U.S.Army Co.B, 13th Engrs. Fort Hum phreys, Va. Unmarried. (4k) NELLIE LILLARD, born March 27, 1905, mar ried Dec. 11, 1922, to Harold T. Hawkins. Ad dress: Brandy, Va. Issue: ( 4ka) Annie Elizabeth Hawkins. (5) GEORGE RICHARD LILLARD, born in Madison County, Virginia. Married. 164 LILLARD GENEALOGY Issue: (Sa) WILLIAM LILLARD, of Falls Church, Virginia. (i) HENRY F. LILLARD, son of John & Lucy (Gaines) Lillard, was born in Madison County, Va., in 1822. He was a farmer. On Jan. 21, 1847, he married to Ellen Yowell, daughter of Ellen Yowell, and a few months thereafter (Deed Book 18, page 210, Madison Co., Va., Records) Mrs. Ellen Yowell deeded property to Henry Lillard "and Ellen his wife (my daughter)" and to George River comb and Susan his wife (another daughter). On March 24, 1891, Henry F. Lillard, widower, aged 69, married to Martha Butler, 36 years old and single. She was the daughter of James H. & Jane Butler. Issue (by first wife) : (1) LETITIA LAMON LILLARD, born 1849, married May 25, 1869, to Champ Marcellus Yowell of Madison County, Va., son of Daniel A. & Lucinda (Yowell) Yowell. He was a farmer. (2) LUCY ANN LILLARD, born 1854, married Nov. 23, 1871, to JOSEPH COLUMBUS LILLARD of Madison County, son of Howard & Nellie E. (Yowell) LILLARD. On Oct. 26, 1889, Lucy Ann (Lillard) Lillard, widow, married John R. Jenkins, aged 22, of Madison County, Va.; son of Wash ington and Sallie Jenkins. (j) JOHN BROWN LILLARD, son of John & Lucy (Gaines) Lillard, was born in Madison County, Va., in 1825. He was a farmer. On March 1, 1855, he married to Frances Waller, daughter of William Waller of Rappahannock County, Va. Minister Wm. Thos. Leavell performed the ceremony. Issue: (1) Mary Frances Lillard, born 1857, married Dec.19, 1878, to Joseph L. Yowell, son of Joel & Margaret Yowell. He was a farmer of Rappahannock County. (2) Sarah E. Lillard, born 1860, married Feb. 7, 1878, to James R. Story, son of Joseph & Eliza Story. He was then thirty eight years old, and was a farmer of Madison County. (3) Jane Alice Lillard, born 1864, married Feb. 20, 1888, to Joseph H. Thornhill, son of Dillard G. & Sarah (Lillard) Thornhill. They were first cousins. He was a farmer. (4) JOHN E. LILLARD, born 1866, married to Sallie Nora Gooding, daughter of Ben W. & Louisa Gooding. He was a farmer of Madison County. Date of wedding: Dec. 22, 1891. (5) J. R. LILLARD, born 1868, married Dec. 14, 1907, to Sallie B. Finks, daughter of S.H. & P. Finks, of Madison County. (k) NANCY B. LILLARD, daughter of John & Lucy (Gaines) Lillard, Wil.LIAM LILLARD 165 married on January 15, 1852, to Elzy Weakley. Minister Silas Bruce performed the ceremony. (1) JAMES M. LILLARD, son of John & Lucy (Gaines) Lillard, was born in Madison County, Va., in 1826. He was a farmer, residing in Madison County. On January 19, 1854, he married to Frances Ann Huffman, daughter of John Huffman of Madison County. Minister Silas Bruce performed the ceremony. Issue: (1) Lucy Ann Lillard, born 1857, married Oct. 12, 1874, to John Lewis Rivercomb, son of Geo. L. & Susan (Yowell) Rivercomb of Madison County, Va. (2) GEORGE R. LILLARD, born 1862, married in 1892 to Louisa F. Weakley, daughter of B.F. & Nancy E. Weakley. (m) ELIZABETH ELLEN LILLARD, was born in Madison County, Va., in 1833. She was a daughter of John & Lucy (Gaines) Lillard. On January 15, 1857, she married to William G. Thornhill, son of Robert Thornhill. He was a farmer of Madison County and at the date of marriage was 26 years old. Minister William Thomas Leavell performed the ceremony. (n) SARAH ANN LILLARD, daughter of John & Lucy (Gaines) Lil lard, married Dec. 19, 1850, to Dillard G. Thornhill. Minister Silas Bruce performed the ceremony. Issue: ( 1) Joseph H. Thornhill, married Feb. 20, 1888, to Jane Alice Lillard, his first cousin, daughter of John Brown & Frances Ann (Huffman) Lillard. CHAPTER VII NANCY (LILLARD) GARRETT. NANCY LILLARD (VII), daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Va. She married a Mr. Garrett. She died in Culpeper County, leaving children, one of whom, Rachel Garrett, married her first cousin, John Lillard, a Revolutionary soldier, who was the son of Thomas Lillard, Nancy's brother. In the old Virginia families it was quite the vogue for cousins to marry. In some cases this was due to clannishness, however as the population of localities was small and travel difficult it is easy to understand that after a gen eration or two of large families nearly everyone in a settlement would in some way be connected. For further records of Nancy (Lillard) Garrett, and her daughter, Rachel (Garrett) Lillard, see Chapter V. During searches in the County Records for data the following mar riage licenses were found in Culpeper Co., Va. No claim is made that they are children of Nancy Lillard Garrett. However they may be. I therefore include them as an assistance to anyone who should endeavor to trace their lines: Dec. 27, 1791. John Garriatt to Elizabeth Kinnard. Minister Lewis Corbin. Oct. 23, 1792. James Garriott to Susanna Campbell. Minister Lewis Corbin. Nov. 19, 1792. Polly Garrett to Benjamin Long. Minister Frederick Kablan. (Book 1, page 137). May 1, 1800. James Garrett to Lydia Haynes. Fred'k Kobler. Jan. 18, 1802. Joseph Garriot to Caty Hudson, (Lewis Conner). CHAPTER VIII. MOSES LILLARD OF NORTH CAROLINA MOSES LILLARD, (VIII), son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Light foot) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, but removed to Rockingham County, North Carolina, shortly after the Revolutionary War. No record has been found of his services as a soldier, and the name of his wife is unknown. Whether he married before he left Virginia or after he arrived in North Carolina is also not known. However we know that in 1790 he was residing in the Salisbury District of Rockingham County, N. C., with his wife, one daughter and six sons, one of whom was over sixteen years of age. Proof of this is to be found on page 168, in "Heads of Families, 1790, North Carolina," Census, wherein Moses Lillard is listed as the head of a family having "two free white males of 16 years and upwards (including head of family); 5 free white males under 16 years, and two free white females." No further facts are known concerning him. THE CHILDREN OF MOSES LILLARD (VIII) OF NORTH CAROLINA: (A) JOSHUA LILLARD married Miss Forrest. (B) MOSES LILLARD. (C) JAMES LILLARD married SUSAN HUTCHISON. (D) ELIZABETH LILLARD married Mr. ELAM. (E) JOHN (Jack) LILLARD married REBECCA HUTCHISON. (F) THOMAS LILLARD. ( G) Another son. Possibly others. SIXTH GENERATION. (A) JOSHUA LILLARD, son of Moses Lillard (No. VIII) married Miss Forrest, the only sister of Joseph Abraham Forrest, father of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the celebrated Confederate Gen eral. The Encyclopredia Britannica states that "next to Stuart and Sheridan he (General Forrest) was the finest Cavalry leader of the whole (Civil) war." While the "Americana" informs; "Gen eral Joseph Johnston whcse greatness lay above all in calm and critical judgment, said that Forrest, had he had the advantages of a thorough military training, would have been the great central figure of the Civil war." When he skilfully outwitted his enemy and destroyed over six million dollars worth of their supplies he 168 LILLARD GENEALOGY won the sincere admiration of Sherman. During the war he cap tured over 31,000 of the enemy. THE CHILDREN OF JOSHUA LILLARD AND HIS WIFE, MISS FORREST: (a) JOSEPH ABRAHAM FORREST LILLARD married MAHALA (RAINEY) CLIFFT. (b) JESSE LILLARD died at an early age. (c) MARTHA LILLARD married DANIEL ELLINGTON. (E) JOHN LILLARD, called Jack or Jackey, son of Moses Lillard (No. VIII) married Rebecca Hutchison, who was the sister of Susan Hutchison Lillard, wife of James Lillard (C). THE CHILDREN OF JOHN LILLARD AND HIS WIFE, REBECCA HUTCHISON: (d) ALBERT LILLARD. Died unmarried. (e) JOSHUA LILLARD. (f) MOSES LILLARD. (g) JAMES LILLARD. (h) JEFFERSON LILLARD. (i) MINERVA LILLARD married MARCH GATES. (j) EMELINE LILLARD married 1st, PASCAL ELLINGTON, brother of DANIEL ELLINGTON, the husband of MARTHA LILLARD ( c) Emeline (Lillard) Ellington had a son James Ellington of Obion Co., Tenn. She married 2nd, JOHN Y. WILLIAMS, and left descendants by him in Obion Co., Tenn. (k) ELIZABETH LILLARD married Mr. GOOLSBY. Shortly after their marriage they went back from Tennessee to North Carolina. (1) MARTHA LILLARD married WILLIAM CHADWELL of Obion Co., West Tennessee. They had several children. SEVENTH GENERATION. (a) JOSEPH ABRAHAM FORREST LILLARD, son of Joshua Lil lard (No. A), was born Nov. 5, 1807, in Rockingham County, N. C. He was named for his maternal uncle. He died in Marshall County, Tennessee, on June 1, 1894, aged 86 years and 6 months. Was known as Squire Lillard of Lillards Mills, a town of his own in Marshall County, Tenn. He was a Representative at the Tennessee State Legislature for two terms just after the Civil War, and for 52 years was Postmaster. Part of the information of this genealogy was obtained from him, regarding the earlier generations in America and their French origin, and the legend of Sir Thomas Lollard. ~OSES LILLARD OF 1-:0RTH CAROLIKA 169 On Oct. 6, 1840, he married Mrs. MAHALA (RAINEY) CLIFFT, a young widow who already had two daughters by her first husband. She was born in Caswell Co., N.C., April 11, 1805, and died Aug. 30, 1885. No issue. (c) MARTHA LILLARD married DANIEL ELLINGTON of Ken tucky, brother of Pascal Ellington who married Emeline Lillard ( j ) . Martha Lillard Ellington bad three or more daughters. The following letters contain much information regarding this branch: "Lewisburg, Tenn. Sept. 8, 1927. Sir: In regard to reply or request concerning the whereabouts of our Grand father A. F. Lillard, I will be mme than glad to give a11 the mformation I am able. Abraham Forrest Lillard . was born in Rockingham Cty., N.C., Nov. 5, 1807, and came to Marshall Cty., Tennessee in early life; he was married to Mabala Clifft (nee Mahala Rainey) Oct. 6th, 1840. She was born in Caswell Cty., N.C., April 11, 1805. They were ,•ery happy with her two little girl&. My mother was only ten years old, her name was Emily Jane Clifft; her sister, Ann Clifft, was younger. They reared these children and educated them through college at Columbia, Tenn. He (Jo;;eph Abraham Forrest Lillard) ,vas then a clerk at Caney Spring for my mother's uncle; became Postmaster there, and was an old ·whig, before the Civil War; he moved lH miles on Duck river where he ran a sawmi11 then bought the old river :Mill and built a new one on each side of the river dam. He also had a wool carding factory and saw mi11 combined. He next built an office over at his homepiace-a beautiful site--where he raised all kinds of fruit and 1ove1y flowers. You may guess he was tasty about home and everything. Well, my mother married to W.U.Cundiff. They became partners. Father died in January, 1865, just after the (Civil) war, we had a :flood on the river and it washed all the property away, and while Grandpa was gone, to make a swap with Lincoln.; as he was Republican, and exchange Northern prisoners for Southern. \,Ve lost each side of the river property. It was then my father contracted blood-poison and died from working in the water, but he had the greatest confidence in Grandpa-would not put other parties in-just gave him all to care for mother again, with five girls. Grandpa then educated all of us and we all married and left, but I, the second oldest, wen: again to his ;term: tc live, ar_:i he- helped H.J.Davi~, my hus bwd, and me :o rear four of our m•m to be se,·eral yea:s, ,.,,bJe he was paralyzed \':.lightly for ten years; yet I was raised in the post office and helped him. He was postmaster when Cleveland was in; the Democrats wouid not let him resign. He was Postmaster 52 years of his life, and we kept it for him while he was Representative in the Legi5latme for· two tenns after the CiviJ War. Kcminated Republican. I will be 75 years .old this coming hirthday and my husband is now 83 and is in good health. J.A.F.Lillard was a highly honored citizen, a)most seventy years at his ov.-n town, known as Lillards Mills, and loved enterprise, alway& ready 170 LILLARD GENEALOGY to give the poor as well; we all loved him as our own grandpa. I kept he and Grandma until their death and it was twenty-two years after our marriage we kept them when he was last conscious and sensible, yet he never could be satisfied that he had done enough for us and told everyone that we were his children and that God would reward us. I am proud to know we did wait on him although he was broken up and then owned but a small portion of his home because he had been over-liberal in extending credit at the store he owned and because he had gone on the security for another man and was too honest not to pay. He was often in receipt of a letter from his only sister, Mrs. Daniel Ellington of West Tennessee. Her name was Martha. He was always able to answer these letters for he was quite a business man. He mailed these himself. I have her picture and she had some three or more daughters. I have tried for a long time to get in touch with one of them, but as Grandpa has been dead a long time I cannot locate them. Once I had a young man named Lillard to visit us. He was a second cousin of Grandpa's and was from Nashville. I am in receipt of this letter of yours from my sister, Belle Hargrove, Chapel Hill, Tenn. She was also reared by Grandpa & Ma, but as I have always lived with them she sent it to me to answer, for being the second oldest I know more of him. You can reasonably believe it has been so long since Grandpa talked about his people that I have almost forgotten but will see an old lady who often visited in our same neighborhood whose family is related to Aunt Susan Lillard who lived after Uncle Jimmie died. Grandpa called him Uncle Jimmie. Grandpa's cousin by name of Albert Lillard built a shoeshop on our place. He made shoes and boarded with us. Every week Grandpa went to Uncle Jimmie's from Saturday until Monday. Grandpa called Albert Lillard 'Cousin Albert,' so did all of us chaps. They are all gone now, but I will try to see this older lady and find out if she can tell me anymore. . . I know this is of no use to you in making out a family record, but just give out some of Grandpa's good deeds. He was a Methodist in high standing, and was perfectly sensible until death. (signed) Mrs. H. J. Davis, 401 Limestone Street, Lewisburg, Tenn." "Lewisburg, Tenn. Oct. 26, 1927. Dear Sir:- 1_ have gathered all perhaps that will interest you about the family of Lillards. I waited quite long for the lady to return from her visit; then I went ten miles out and brought her in to get my husband and her together as they were each reared right by the family of Lillards and can tell more than I can, except about Grandpa. My husband is 83 since June and she is 81. They are cousins, and as each remembers they say Grandpa was Joshua Lillard's son, and his father had four brothers, J ackey, Jimmie, Moses and Thomas. They were Grandpa's own Uncles, and his own Aunt Elizabeth Lillard married an Elam and moved away address not known. Jimmie and Jackie each married sisters. Jimmie MOSES LILLARD OF NORTH CAROLINA 17l " married Susan Hutchison. J ackey married Rebecca Hutchison, and to this union were born five boys: Albert, never married; Joshua; Moses; J aines and Jefferson. Do not know addresses. And their sisters: Emeline, first married Pascal Ellington, a brother of Daniel, who was grandpa's brother-in-law. They had one child, James Ellington, and if he is not dead he is very old (but our neighbor here has sisters who live in Obion Co. This man says that he, Ellington, is not dead, if so it is lately,) Now his mother was J ackey's daughter and her second marriage was to John Y. Williams. This is Cousin Emeline Williams, the mother of both the Ellington and Williams families, post office is Hom-Beake, Obion Co, West Tennessee. I rather think she is dead. Uncle Jackey's other daugh ters were Minerva, Elizabeth, Martha. Martha married Bill Chadwell in Obion Co., too, did well and left several children. Elizabeth married Goolsby and moved back in early marriage to N.C. Minerva married March Gates. He left several in family, and has one grandson who is a fine man and a good citizen and has a much respected and large family in our community-a good well-to-do citizen. Now I will just say that Grandpa's father was not Moses, but Joshua, and his name was Joseph Abraham Forrest Lillard. General Forrest's father was a brother of Grandpa's mother. She was the only sister and named him for his uncle; the General's name was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a great man. J.A.F.Lillard was born in Rockingham Cty. N.C., Nov.5, 1807; died June 1st, 1894, 86 years and 6 mos, and married in Marshall Co, Tenn. Oct. 6, 1840 to Mahala Clifft (nee) Mahala Rainey. She was born in Caswell County. N.C. April 11, 1805, and died Aug. 30, 1895. No chil dren. Only reared two little Clifft girls. J.A.F.Lillard had one sister and one brother. Martha married Daniel Ellington of Kentucky, and Jesse died at an early age. I am a dear lover of Grandpa's and have one old time bed-stead of his. He was very particular about his furniture. It was his delight to have nice things and to keep them so. When he knew that he was very ill he gave my baby girl that one piece and an old mantle mirror, so when I moved after he died she took these and still has them. While there in Chicago I was offered $500 for the bedstead. It is very heavy and high. My son just stands fingers stretched to the top and he is six feet two inches tall. Hope you can be somewhat informed from these lines, and I, the step-granddaughter, will be pleased to have a complete copy of the record when it is completed. (signed) Mrs. H.J.Davis, 610 Limestone Avenue, Lewisburg, Tenn." CHAPTERS IX & X. THE BRADLEY-LILLARD CONNECTIONS. There were three known Bradley brothers and one sister, who were neighbors of the Lillards in Culpeper County, Virginia. The Bradleys were second cousins of James Madison, the father of President Madison, and the families were all neighbors. Kesiah Bradley, the sister, married to James Lillard, son of Ben jamin Lillard,!, and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard. For her history and descendants see Chapter IV. Lawrence Bradley, one of the brothers, married Elizabeth Lillard, daughter of Benjamin,!, and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard. His will is recorded in the Culpeper County, Va., Records, as follows: "In the name of God, Amen, I, Laurence Bradley of Broomfield Parish in the County of Culpeper, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory Thanks be to Almighty God for the same do make and or dain this my last Will and Testament in manner form following: Im Primis, I do with all Humility recommend my soul to God who gave it Trusting that Through The Merits and suffering of Jesus Christ, I shall, Receive, Pardon, and Remission of my sins and Enjoy Everlasting Felicity and my body I commit to the earth to be decently entered accord ing to the direction of my Surviving, Friends and as for such worldly wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me, I dispose, Thereof in the following manner. Item. It is my Desire that my funeral charges & Just Debts bee first Paid and Discharged. Item. I give to my beloved wife Elizabeth Bradley the Track of Land I now live on and all my stock of all kinds horses, cattle, &c, and all my household furniture to her Duering her life & after her death I give the sd Land and stock & household furniture to my son Augustin Bradley forever. Given from under my hand. and seal this first day of June, 1784. I leave my wife Exrx. (signed) Lawrence Bradley (L.S) Teste: Joseph James, Archabud Rider, William Brown, Wm. Am brose Brown." "At a Court held for Culpeper County, June 16, 1788, This last will & Testament of Lawrence Bradley, deceased, was exhibited into court ' by Elizabeth Bradley, the Executrix namedtherein and was proved by the Oaths of Archibud Rider & William Ambrose Brown, two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and on motion of the said Executrix Certificate is granted her for obtaining a probate thereof in due form, she having made Oath thereto and given Bond & security according to law. Teste: John Jameson, Ct. Clk." THE BRADLEY-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 173 Issue: (1) Augustine Bradley married in 1788, to Frances Hurt; he married secondly on Feb. 26, 1805, to Mary(Polly) Lillard (b.Nov. 23, 1786; d. Nov.30,1879, aged 93 years and seven days). Augustine Bradley was much older than his second wife. He died June 23, 1849. Polly (Lillard) Bradley was a daughter of Captain Ben jamin and Elizabeth (Hensley) Lillard, hence she and Augustine Bradley were first cousins. Issue: (la) Elizabeth Bradley m. Daniel Judd of Page County, Vir ginia. Issue: (laa) James Henry Judd, m. Apr.11, 1870, to Rhoda Columbia Pulliam (b.Nov.2, 1849; d.June 8, 1903) daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Caroline (Willis) Pulliam. Issue: (laaa) Caroline Judd. (laab) Anne Franklin Judd,m. June 7, 1905, to Fisher Henry Crittenden (b.May 22, 1879) son of Henry A. and Sarah Rebecca (Bell) Crit tenden. Address: Catlett, Fau quier Co., Va. Issue: (laaba) Elizabeth Henry Crit tenden, b. Jan. 8, 1908. ( laabb) Rebecca C o 1 u m bi a Crittenden, b.Feb.21, 1909. ( laabc) Fisher Henry Critten den, Jr., b. July 4, 1910. (laabd) Fran~es Bell Critten den, b. Apr. 11, 1912. (laade) Ann James Critten den, b. Oct. 11, 1915. (laadf) John Alfred Critten den, b. Mar. 3, 1917. (laac) Harry Weston Judd,b.June 21, 1880, M.D.(1902) North Caro lina Medical College. Asst. Sur geon U.S.Navy,1903-6. Surgeon C. & 0. R.R. President of Louisa County, Va., Medical Society. Married Dec. 16, 1903, to Mary Henry Crittenden (b.Jan.4, 1884) daughter of William L. and Laura Lee (Amiss) Crittenden of Fau- 174 LILLARD GENEALOGY quier County, Va. Now practic ing at Mineral, Va. Issue: (laaca) Harry Weston Judd, Jr., b. Oct. 6, 1904. (laacb) Crittenden Totten Mc Master Judd, b. Oct. 17, 1906. (laacc) Mary Merle Critten den Judd, b. July 4, 1910. (laacd) Lottie Crittenden Judd, b. June 1, 1912. (laace) Doris Lee Crittenden Judd, b. Sept. 4, 1914. (laacf) W i 11 i am Crittenden Judd, b. Oct. 24, 1919. (laad) James Alfred Judd married Mary Simms. Address: Quinque, Green Co., Va. Issue: (laada) James Leake Judd, b Apr. 23, 1923. (1 aadb) Donald Alfred Judd, b. Oct.5, 1927. About the Judd family, Mrs. Frances Carter Smith of Yonkers, N.Y.,states: "The Judds of Page County, Virginia,are descendants of Polly Lillard Bradley. Cousin Angeline Judd who lived a short distance from Luray had, I think, a son Theodore who I believe married a Miss Broadus. He lived at one time in Washington, D. C. and also had a home near Luray." Stanl~y Shugert of the University of Pennsylvania, informs: "James Henry Judd (No.laa) served in the Confederate Army in Mosby's Command, enlisted 1862 at 16 years of age and died at the Confederate Reunion in Richmond, Va., in 1922-3." He also says: "The Bradleys have all lived in Page County, Va. Nathan Bradley of Charles Town, W. Va., who is prominent in politics in West Virginia, is a descendant." (lab) Sarah Judd married Mr. Kibler of Page Co.,Va. (lac) Emily Judd, m. Trenton Graves of Page Co.,Va. (lad) Samuel Judd. (lae) Joseph Judd. (laf) Daniel Judd. (lag) Willis Judd. (lah) Thomas Judd. (lb) Willis Bradley, b. June 15, 1807; d. 1891; m. Nov. 19, THE BRADLEY-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 175 1827, to Frances Britton (b.Apr.20, 1810; d. Feb. 22, 1869. They left Virginia to move to Ohio, about 1855. They had seventeen children. Issue: (lba) William H.M.Bradley, b. Aug. 20, 1828; m. 1st Mar. 14, 1851, to Emily C. Smith; m. 2nd Oct. 4, 1857, to Catherine Redman; m. 3rd Lucretia Heisey. (lbb) Mary E. Bradley, b. Jan. 10, 1830;d. Sept. 30, 1875; m. Jan. 10, 1847, to Robert B. Clark; m.2nd Feb. 4, 1859, to Samuel Holmes. (lbc) George A. Bradley, b. Feb. 3, 1831; m. Dec.25, 1851, to Harriet Smith. He died at Luray, Va. (lbd) Martha Frances Bradley, b. July 23, 1832; m. Jan. 22, 1852, to Robert Rivercomb; m. 2nd Aug. 8, 1867, to James Shaw. (lbe) Sarah J. Bradley, b. Sept. 7, 1833; ·m. Aug. 31, 1854, to Curtis Fisher Lillard, son of Strother and Elizabeth (Lillard) Lillard. For her record see Chapter XII Cl. (lbf) S. Willis Bradley, b. Feb. 8, 1835; m. 1858, to Rebecca Simons. (lbg) Rhoda A. Bradley, b. July 19, 1837; m. Apr.7, 1861, to William Hughes. (lbh) Eliza E. Bradley, b. Jan. 28, 1839; m. Jan.29, 1856, to Samuel Lees. There is a tradition in this family that Eliza E. Bradley Lees went to school to John Bryan, grandfather of Wil liam Jennings Bryan. Mrs. Lees still lives ( 19 28) near Newark, Ohio. Issue: (lbha) Joseph M. Lees, b.Apr.l, 1857;m. Sept.17 ,1888, to Dora Wharton. Issue: ( 1bhaa) Murlie Blanche Lees. ( 1bhab) Annie Florence Lees. (lbhac) Gladys Lees. ( 1bhad) Charles Lees. ( 1 bhae) Harry Lees. ( 1bhaf) Laurence Lees. ( 1bhag) Sanford Lees. (lbhb) William L. Lees,b.Aug. 25, 1858. (lbhc) Willis Bradley Lees, b. Dec. 10, 1859; cl.Mar. 9, 1925; m. Apr.IS, 1891, to Olvia Burge. Issue: ( 1bhca) Russell B. Lees mar ried Florida Davis. 176 LILLARD GENEALOGY ( 1bhcb) Elsie M. Lees m. B. Franklin Moos. (lbhcd) Denzill 0. Lees mar ried Blanche Clag gett. (lbhd) Wesley Curtis Lees, b. Feb. 14, 1862; m.Apr. 24, 1890, to Aura Fetzer. Issue: (lbhda) Wesley Grant Lees m. Susanna Ferry. ( 1 bhdb) Harold Ross Lees, m. Eva Lyle. (tbhdc) Robert Ogle Lees m. Pauline Claskey. (lbhdd) Samuel Fetzer Lees. ( 1bhde) Frederick Dillon Lees. ( 1bhe) Frank S. Lees, b. Sept. 1 7, 186 7 ; m. Jan. 11, 1893, to Lillie Belle Davis. Issue: ( 1bhea) Lillie Lees. ( 1bheb) Mildred Lees m. Clar ence Davis. ( 1bhec) George Howard Lees m. Pearl Atwood. (lbhf) Blanche M. Lees, b. June 9, 1874; m.Oct.7, 1896, to Ora Hillman. Issue: ( 1bhfa) Phoebe Ellen Hillman, m. J.T.Edwards. (lbhg) Thomas D. Lees, b. Aug. 1875. (lbi) Joseph R. Bradley, b. Feb. 6, 1840; m. Feb.2, 1860, to Rachel Daniel. (lbj) Lucy Bradley, b. Aug. 27, 1841 ;m.Sept.25, 1862, to Daniel Varner. (lbk) Sophronia Bradley, b. Apr. 18, 1843; d. Apr. 27, 1854. (lbl) Mildred C. Bradley, b. Feb. 8, 1845; m. Sept. 2, 1862, to Jacob Brown. (lbm) Andrew J. Bradley, b. May 17, 1847; d. Apr. 27, 1849. (lbn) Virginia F. Bradley, b. Apr. 11, 1848; m. Apr. 1, 1875, to Vanda Vastine Rittenour. Still living in 1928, at 121 Franklin Ave., New ark, Ohio. Issue: (lbna) Fannie Rittenour, b. Aug. 15, 1876, m. George Forsythe. Address: THE :BRADLEY-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 177 121 Franklin Avenue, Newark, Ohio. (lbo) James Britton Bradley, b. Nov. 28, 1850; m. Jan. 5, 1873, to Sarah E. Lake. (lbp) J~hn M. Bradley, b. Apr. 18, 1852. (lbq) Emily B. Bradley, b. July 20, 1855; m. Mar. 17, 1871, to Thomas Wadsworth. (le) Margaret Bradley married on Jan. 8, 1821, to Hedgeman Lillard, son of Benjamin, the Younger, and Sarah (James) Lillard. For his record see Chapter IV, Cq. In Will Book A, page 274, Rappahannock County, Va., Records is the inventory of Margaret (Patsey) (Bradley) Lil lard's personal estate as follows: "An inventory of the personal estate of Patsey Lillard, deceased, made by me as Administrator thereof on the 26th day of January, 1839, with a column on the right hand for the appraiser to annex the several items, to wit: One cow ------· ______10.00 One heifer------6.00 One crump homed mw ______11.00 One Bed, Bedstead, Bed & furniture ______4.00 One Bedstead, bed & furniture ------ 7.00 Four counterpanes and one sheet ------ 9.00 One small spinning wheel ------3.00i One table ------1.00 One flour barrel of apples & chest______1.50 One box & lumber ------1.25 2½ Barrels of Com at $3 per barrel ______7.50 One pan & lumber ------ .75 One barrel offley( ?) tow ------ .50 One big wheel ------2.50 ·one chest ------2.50 One pot, oven & kettle ------1.50 one Pr. of warping bars & boxes ______1.0() Two washing tubs & churn ------ .75 One cupboard __ ------ 1.00 Two small buckets------.50 ,1 set of knives & forks ______1.25 1 parcel of old earthenware ------1.50 Three chairs ______.75 ;1 Loom and weaving gear ------5.00 1 sow & five pigs ------3.00 A parcel of flax ------1.00 1 Bedstead and two hoes ------ 1.00 '! tub and trough------ .50 Fodder & Straw ------'------ 1.50 Grain sowed on the Land ------7.00 :\,110.75 (signed) Willis Bradley. 178 LILLARD GENEALOGY Rappahannock County, viz., We the subscribers persuant to an order of the County Court of Rappahannock, have, being sworn before a Justice of the Peace for that purpose, truly and justly to the best of our judgment viewed & appraised all the personal estate of Patsey Lillard, deceased, produced to us by the said Willis Bradley, and comprised in the said Inventory, and we have annexed the price to the several items thereof in the columns left for that purpose. Given under our hands, this 26th day of January, 1839. (signed) Lewis Jenkins. Wm. Weakley. Augustine Bradley." "Rappahannock County, to wit: Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid Lewis Jenkins, William Weakley, and Augustine Bradley, and were sworn truly and justly to the best of their judgment to appraise the personal estate of Patsey Lillard, deceased. Given under my hand this 25th day of January, 1839. (signed) John L. Partlow." "Rappahannock County Court, 11 February, 1839. This Inventory of the Estate of Patsey Lillard, deceased, was this day produced to the Court and ordered to be recorded. Teste: W.J.Menefee,Clk." (ld) Sarah (Sally) Bradley married Jonathan Rowe. (le) Henry Bradley who died in Virginia. (lf) Augustine Bradley, Jr. (lg) Frank Bradley. ( 1h) John Bradley who moved to Illinois. (li) Nancy Bradley. (lj) William Bradley. (lk) Polly Bradley, m. Mar. 25, 1813, to William Weakley. Possibly others. William Bradley, was another brother of Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard. He also resided in Culpeper County, Virginia. In Book D, page 113, Culpeper County, Va., Records, is the will of William Bradley in which he mentions his wife Judith Bradley; son, Absolem Bradley; and two youngest children William Bradley and Smith Bradley. Absolem Bradley and David Jameson were named executors.. It was signed William Bradley. Witnessed by Richard Williamson; Thomas Catlett; Francis Hackley; Kemp Catlett and Thomas Carter. Dated 14th of January, 1786. A codicil was added by him on Nov. 27, 1793. This was witnessed by William Mitchell; Michael & Gabriel Wilhoite. His will was proved on May 17, 1794. Issue: (1) Absolem Bradley, m. 1824, to Rebecca Ramsbottom. THE BRADLEY-LILLARD CONNECTIONS 179 (2) William Bradley, m. Dec. 10, 1812, to Nelly Watts, daughter of Fannie and John Joseph Watts. (3) Smith Bradley m. Mar. 3, 1798, to Sallie Klingle daughter of Michael Klingle. Captain Augustine Bradley, another brother of Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard, married Sarah (Sally) Lillard, daughter of Benjamin, I, and :Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard. Not much can be learned of their descend ants except that they had several sons who fought in the Revolutionary war, one of whom was Major John Bradley who emigrated to Tennessee and died near Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Tenn., about 1852, and left many descendants. The Bradleys' and the Pattersons of Huntsville, Alabama, were also descendants of Sallie (Lillard) Bradley. Issue: ( 1) Major John Bradley, a Revolutionary soldier. (2) Rhoda Bradley, m. Dec. 28, 1799, to Willis Seale. (3) Lucy Bradley, m. Dec. 28, 1795, to Abner Delaney. (4) Sallie Bradley, m. Aug. 15, 1805, to John L. Gordon. The following marriage, licenses are given as it is impossible to tell to which Augustine Bradley these daughters belong. 1809. Apr. 10 Jno. Weakley, Jr. & Nancy Bradley, daughter of Augustine Bradley. Minister Wm. Carpenter. Date of marriage: Apr. 13, 1809. 1818, Dec. 1. Jno. Jasper & Sally Bradley, daughter of Augustine Bradley. 1824, May 28. Hickerson Ramsbottom & Frances Bradley, daughter of Augustine Bradley. Another unplaced marriage license recorded in Culpeper, Va., is: John Bradley, m. 1799, to Rosamond Botts. NOTES ON THE BRADLEY FAMILY: From 1835 to 1840, south of the Hiwassee River in Tennessee was Bradley County, and before that it was Indiari Country or lands. It is claimed by some members of the family that this was named for Major John Bradley who went from Culpeper County to Tennessee, but Ii have not verified the same. The Bradleys of Woodford County, Kentucky, went from Culpeper County, Virginia, to Kentucky. Abraham Bradley remained in Culpeper County, Virginia, while one of his brothers, Thomas Bradley went to Tennessee, and another brother, 'Charles Bradley went to Kentucky in 1800 and settled in Woodford County (p.47, Vol.19, Register, Kentucky Historical Society). Hon. Jasper Worth Lillard of Decatur, Tenn., in a letter states : "I have the idea, from what source I cannot say now, that Senator Bradley of Kentucky, is of the family of Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard. Don't know that there is anything to it." 180 :VILLARD GENEALOGY William O'Connell Bradley, Governor of Kentucky, and United States Senator, and an unsually brilliant man, was born near Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky,on Mar.18, 1847, and for years after his mar tiage lived next door to Colonel Ephraim Wallace Lillard. Mrs. Christine Bradley South, the daughter of Senator W. 0. Bradley, writes: "As to the Bradley records I can tell you very, very little. My father's father was named Robert Bradley. My father's mother was Ellen Totten. She was a Garrard County woman. My father has told me that his grandfather was named Isaac Bradley; that he came to Madison County, Kentucky from Virginia and that is all that my father seemed to know of his family records. If he knew the name of Isaac Bradley's. wife, I do not remember ever having heard him mention it'. My father never believed in patriotic societies and felt that these things were a type of snobbishness. I never agreed with his position on this question but ] attributed his total indifference to old family records to the fact that fhev never interested him in the least. Robert Bradley and Ellen Totten had the following daughters: Mary, Margaret, Maria and Virginia. They had but one son, my father. There were a number of infant children who passed away in infancy. The Totten family lived in Garrard County in the lower end of the county in a small village known as Sugar Creek. The old family burying ground was there and I went there once in an endeavor to secure records from the grave stones. I found that the old burying ground had been plowed over and all grave markers had been destroyed. One thing I do rocall. I believe that Isaac Bradley was married twice, but the name of his wife I have never known." CHAPTER XI. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY. Captain John Lillard, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on November 3, 1737. He owned a great deal of land and resided in the "County of Culpeper in the Colony of Virginia," in the Parish of Bromfield on Hughes' River. He married on December 22, 1758, to Susanna Ball (b.1738; d. 1782), youngest daughter of Samuel and Anne (Taylor) Ball of Culpeper County, Virginia. According to the records Samuel Ball, like his an cestors was a strict adherent to the crown and the established church; he was "one of the first vestry of St. Marks :Parish, Culpeper County, Jan. 1, 17 31." Samuel Ball came to Culpeper, Va., and was the progenitor of a numerous family, both male and female who are inhabitants of the Western and South-Western states. It would seem that Samuel Ball, like many of his descendants "struck out for himself," early in life and located at Culpeper, Va. He is the first of the earlier Balls to migrate any considerable distance from their ancestral home "Millenbeck." Of the personality and character of Samuel Ball very little is known except what has been gleaned from tombstones, church records and other musty sources of information. In the records and correspondence of the earlier Balls, very little is mentioned of him, on account it is assumed, of his isolation from the rest of the family, Culpeper being quite a distance from Millenbeck. Samuel Ball was born Sept. 26, 1686, and married on Nov. 25, 1717, to Anne Taylor. He died about 1750, when James Pendleton was elected vestryman of St. Marks "in place of Samuel Ball, deceased." Also William Ball (son of Samuel) and Henry Field, Jr., "having in the court at Culpeper County, taken the oath to his Majesty and subscribed the test & in the vestry subscribed to be conformable to the doctrine of the Church of England, as by law established, took their places as vestrymen accordingly." These two were made church wardens the ensuing year and William Ball for the year of 1 776. He was also vestryman in 1785. That Samuel Ball was a well-read man is evident by the fact that at the time of his death he possessed one of the largest and finest of the Colonial libraries in Virginia. Samuel Ball was the sixth child of Captain William Ball of Millenbeck, and his wife Margaret (Downman) Ball, daughter of Raleigh Downman of "Morattico," in Lancaster County, Va. He was the grandson of Colonel William Ball who came_ from England between 1649 & 1660, and settled in Lancaster County on the Corotman River, a branch of the Rappahannock River, 182 LILLARD GENEALOGY and called his home estate "Millenbeck." Colonel William Ball mar ried Hannah Atherall of Burgh, Suffolk, England, who was the mother of his children. Hayden gives the names of only two of Samuel Ball's children as William and Patty. However old authentic records, and family papers reveal that Samuel Ball and Anne Taylor Ball had the following children: 1. William Ball, m. 1741, to Martha Bromfield; 2. John Ball m. Mary Richards; 3. Hannah Ball m. Joseph Holloway; 4. Abigail Ball m. Peter Gilbert; 5. Mary Ball m. George Smith; 6. Sarah Ball m. Paul Custer; 7. Anna Ball m. John Campbell; 8. Elizabeth Ball who died unmarried; 9. Susanna Ball m. Dec. 22, 1758, to Capt. John Lillard; possibly others. Benjamin Ball, the brother of Samuel Ball, and the uncle of Susanna (Ball) Lillard, with his family were in the company with Daniel Boone and settled near Boonesboro in 17 80. He established the first mill in the Territory of Kentucky. The description of the Ball family's coat of arms is a rampant lion holding a globe in his paw, a helmet and shield, a visor strong and a coat of mail and other emblems of strength and courage and for a motto the words from Ovid "Coelumque Tueir." Burke's Heraldry gives the Ball coat of arms: "Argent a Lion passant sable on a chief of the second, three mullets of the first. Crest: Out of clouds proper a demi lion rampant sable powdered with estoiles argent holding a globe or." This is the same Ball family from which George Washington descended. There fore Susanna Ball and George Washington were cousins. There is a tradition in the family that George Washington and Cap tain John Lillard were friends and that it was through George Washing ton that Captain John Lillard met Washington's cousin who later became his wife. It is also traditionary that at the commencement of the Revo lutionary War George Washington requested Captain John Lillard to form his own company of Virginia Militia for service, and permitted him to select his own men. This Captain John Lillard did, accepting as eligibles in his company only those men who were such expert marksmen that they could shoot out the eye of a squirrel. The statement that John Lillard was a captain in the militia of Culpeper County, Virginia, during the Revolution may be found in the 8th Annual Report of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library, on page 270 and is attested by the records at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va. In the Annual Report it is as follows : ':John Lillarard (Capt. Culpeper m.) War 23, (1778)." In Deed Book D, pages 225-28, Culpeper County, Va., Court Records, is the following deed: CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 183 "Indenture made the 19th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & sixtv-three between John Lillard and Susannah his wife, of the County of Cuipeper in the Colony of Virginia of the one part and Thomas Linard of the same county of the other part Witnesseth that the said Tohn Lillard and Susannah his wife for and in consideration of the full and Just sum of fifteen pounds Currant money of Virginia to them in hand paid by the said Thomas Lillard the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge and themselves fully contented and paid Have granted, Bargained and Sold enjoined and confirmed and by these Presents Doth Grant, Bargain & Sell Express and confirm unto the said Thomas Lillard, his heirs and assigns that piece or parcel of Land containing one hundred acres situate lying and being in Culpeper County and Brom field Parish on the Branches of Hughes's River and bounded as follow eth: (Viz) Beginning at a white oak a Spanish oak & Chestnut in Thorn ton's line and runs thence with his line South forty degrees West one hundred & forty poles to one hickory and two white oaks Corner to ( Colonel Francis) Thornton & (William) Green thence North seventy Degrees West sixty poles to two white oaks and one Red oak Corner to Green & Wedtherall thence with Weatheralls Line North forty degrees West One Hundred and fifty poles to three chestnuts in Weatheralls line thence North sixty six west Thirty poles to three chestnut trees on the side of a mountain thence to the Beginning place with all houses Edifices, Buildings, Inclosures, Water and Water Courses Profits and Emoluments whatsoever to the same. Belonging or in any wise appertaining and the Reversion and Rever sions Remainder and remainders thereof and every Part, and Parcell thereof and all the Estate Right, Title and Interest whatsoever of them the said John Lillard and Susannah his wife of or in And to the said Bargained Premises and every part and Parcell thereof to have and to Hold the said track of Land and all and singular the premises and ap purtenances unto the said Thomas Lillard his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and Behoof of him the said Thomas Lillard, his heirs and assigns forever and the said John Lillard and Susannah his wife their heirs and assigns the said Tract of Land and Premises with the ap purtenances unto the said Thomas Lillard his heirs and assigns shall and will warrant and forever Defend by these Presents against all or any other person or Persons whatsoever and the said John Lillard and Susannah his wife for themselves their heirs and Exrs & assigns Doth covenant and agree to and with the said Thomas Lillard his heirs and assigns in manner and form following ( to wit) That they t.he said John Lillard and Susannah his wife at the time of sealing and Delivery of these Presents is and Stands Seized of an Indefeaseable Estate of Inherit ance in fee simple in the said Land and Premises and hath full power, good Right and Lawfull authority to sell and convey the same in manner and form aforesaid and the said Thomas Lillard his heirs and assigns shall and may forever hereafter peaceably and Quietly have, hold, possess and enjoy the said Land and premises with the appurtenances thereto belonging without the Set Suit hindrance or Molestation of any Person or Persons whatsoever and that the said land and Premises Shall forever 184 LILLARD GENEALOGY hereafter Remain unto the said Thomas Lillard his heirs and assigns freed and Discharged from all former Estates, Rights, titles, Debts, Dow ers, Judgements and executions in whatsoever and lastly that the said John Lillard and Susannah his wife their heirs and assigns shall and will at any time hereafter make and Execute such further act or acts con veyance and conveyances necessary in the Law for the Better and further assuring and conveying the land and Premises with the appurtenances unto the said Thomas Lillard his heirs and assigns as by the said Thomas Lillard his heirs and assigns or as by his or their Counsel Learned in the Laws shall be Devised advised or required in Witness whereof the parties to these presents have set their hands and fixt their seals the day and year first above written. Signed Sealed and Delivered in presents of us. (signed) John Lillard (L.S.) (signed) Susannah Lillard (L.S.) Memorandum that on the 19th day of May one thousand seven hun dred and sixty-three peceable and Quiet possession and seisen of the land and Premises within mentioned was had and taken by the within named John Lillard and by him was Delivered unto the within mentioned Thomas Lillard to be held by him, his heirs and assigns forever according to the true Intent and meaning of the within Witness my hand and seal the Day and year first above written. Test: (signed) John Lillard (L.S.) Then Received of Thomas Lillard fifteen pounds current money of Virginia being in full the consideration in the with in Deed mentioned Received By me. Test: (signed) John Lillard (L.S.) At a Court held for the County of Culpeper on Thursday the 19th day of May, 1763. This Indenture of Pcssessment from John Lillard and Susannah his wife to Thomas Lillard was acknowledged by the said John and Ordered to be Recorded Previous to which the said Susannah was first Prively Examined as the Law Directs. Exd. Test: Roger Dixon, Clk." In Deed Book D, page 2 23, Culpeper County, Va., Records : On May 19, 1763, John Lillard and Susannah, his wife, deeded 100 acres\ of land in Culpeper County, to John Bradley for £15. In Deed Book F, page 221, Culpeper County Records, on Sept. 10, 1770, John Gordon and Betty, his wife, and Robert .Stuart and Mary, his wife, sold 262 acres in Culpeper County to John Lillard for £35. It is signed John Gordon, Betty Gordon, Robert Stuart and Mary Stuart. This deed was witnessed by Benjamin Pulliam, George Wetherall, John Slaughter and James Lillard. In the same book on page 3 49, on Oct. 21, 1771, "John Lillard CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 185 and Susanna, his wife of the County of Culpeper and Colony of Vir ginia," for £100 deeded land to Jacob Sligler which John Lillard had! bought from John' Gordon and Robert Stuart. In the same book on page 344, John Gordon and Betty, his wife, deeded on Dec. 2, 1 771, to John Lillard 3.5 acres of land in Culpeper County for £15. Signed by John Gordon and Betty Gordon. This deed was witnessed by James Sherar, Thomas Lillard, Jonas Jenkins, James Barnett. The years following were strenuous and trying, during1 the Revolu tionary war, so no more deeds. were made until on the 20th day of September, 1782, when John Lillard and his wife made the final sale of their property in Culpeper County preparatory to moving to the then new Territory of Kentucky. In Deed Book L, page 204, Culpeper County Records, on Sept. 20, 1782, John Lillard and Susannah his wife deeded to George Gray, 163 acres on Hazel River in Culpeper County, Virginia, for £54. This was witnessed by Hemy Hill, Benjamin Lillard, John & Robert Slaughter. In the same book page 19 9, John Lillard and Susanna his wife John Filson, in his history, "The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky," printed in London in 1793, stated: ., "The first white man we have certain accounts of who discovered this province was one James }.fcBride, who in company with some others in the year 1754, passing down the Ohio in canoes, landed at the mouth of the Kentucky river and there marked a tree with the first letters of his name, and the date, which remains to this day (1793). These men reconnoitered the country and returned home with the pleasing news of their discovery of the be.st tract of land in North America and probably in the world. From this period it remained concealed un til about the year 1767, when one John Finley and some others, trading with the Indians fortunately travelled over the fertile regions now called Kentucky, then but known to the Indians by the name of the Dark and Bloody Ground, and sometimes as the Middle Ground. This country greatly engaged Mr. Finley's attention. Some time after, disputes aris ing between the Indians and traders, he was obliged to decamp, and 186 LILLARD GENEALOGY returned to his place of residence in North Carolina, where he communi cated his discovery to Col. Daniel Boon and a few more, who conceiving it to be an interesting object, agreed in the year 1769 to undertake a journey in order to explore it. After a. long fatiguing march over a moun tainous wilderness, in a westward direction, they at leng~h arrived upon its borders; and from the top of an eminence with joy and wondefl descried the beautiful landscape of Kentucky. Here they encamped, and some went to hunt provisions, which were readily procured, there being plenty of game, while Col. Boon and John Finley made a tour through the country, which they found far exceeding their expectations; and :returning to camp, informed their companions of their discoveries, but in spite of this promising beginning, this company meeting with nothing but hardships and adversity, g~·ew exceedingly disheartened, and was plundered, dispersed and killed by the Indians, except Col. Boon who continued an inhabitant of the wilderness until the year 1771, when he returned to his home (North Carolina). About this time Kentucky had drawn the attention of several gentle men. Doctor \\Talker of Virginia, with a number more, made a tour westward for discoveries, endeavoring to find the Ohio river; and after wards he and General Lewis at Fort Stanwix, purchased from the five nations of Indians the lands lying on the North side of Kentucky. Col. Donaldson of Virginia being employed by the state to run a line from six miles above the Long Island on Holstein, to the mouth of the Great Kenhawa, and finding thereby that an extensive tract of excellent country would be cut off to the Indians, was solicited by the inhabitants of Clench and Holstein to purchase the lands lying on the north side of Kentucky ,river from the five nations; this purchase he completed for five hundred pounds specie. It was then agreed to fix a boundary line running from the Long Island on Holstein to the head of the Kentucky River thence down the same to the mouth of the Great Kenhawa; but this valuable purchase the state refused to confirm. Col. Henderson of North Carolina being informed of this country by Col. Boon, he and some other gentlemen held a treaty with the Cherokee Indians at Wataga in March, 177 5, and then purchased from them the lands lying on the south side of the Kentucky river for good and valuable rates, to the amount of six thousand pounds specie. Soon after this purchase the state of Virginia took the alarm and agreed to pay the money Col. Henderson had contracted for and then disputed Col. Henderson's right of purchase as a private gentleman of another st'ate in behalf of himself; however, for his eminent services to this country and for having been instrumental in makin,g so valuable an acquisition to Virginia, that state was pleased to reward him with a tract of land at the mouth of the Green River to the amount of two hun dred thousand acres; and the state of North Carolina gave him the like quantity in Powel's Vally. This region was formerly claimed by various tribes of Indians, whose title, if they had any, originated in such a man ner, as t'o render it doubtful which ought to possess it; hence, this fertile spot (Kentucky) became an object of contention, a theatre of war, from which it was properly denominated the Bloody Grounds. Their conten tions not being likely to decide the right to any particular tribe, as soon CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 187 as Col. Henderson and his friends proposed to purchase, the Indians agreed to sell; and notwithstanding the valuable consideration they re ceived, have continued ever since troublesome neighbors to the new settlers. ( 1793)." In 17 82, when Captain John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard left Vir ginia over the old Wilderness Road, they took with them their twelve children, their slaves, and some household furniture, and enough stock to begin life in the new region. Susanna Lillard was then an expectant mother. The hardships of travelling, the danger of Indians were endured by all. "The year, 1782 may be justly styled in Kentucky, 'The Black Let ter Year'. Only seven years had elapsed since the permanent settlement of the Commonwealth, reckoning permanent settlement from the time when women and children came into its' borders, showing that the men who brought them had determined to establish here their domestic shrines. It was hardly two years since the territory had been divided into three counties." "In 1782 there were only about a thousand fig;hting men in the entire state. One hundred and fifty of these were in Fayette County; that is all the territory east of the Kentucky River and its middle fork. Five hundred more were in Lincoln County, substantially bounded West and North by the Salt and Kentucky Rivers, and the remainder were in Jefferson County, principally in and around the then town of Louisville. The vast territory comprised within Fayette County had only five forts within its boundaries. Savage invasion had caused the remainder to be evacu ated and now only Lexington, McClellan's, McConnell's, Bryant's and Boone's were left to assert the demands of the whites for the ownership of the land. General George Rogers Clark was at Louisville. He was the rank ing officer in the territory. He had built the Fort at the Falls of the Ohio, and constructed a row-boat, on which, were a few pieces of artillery. The boat could be pulled up and down the Ohio River by fifty oarsmen to the point where danger was most imminent." (Filson Club Publica tions). After days of weary travel and grave dangers and doubtless incle ment weather, Captain John Lillard, his family and slaves, arrived at Fort Harrod (now Harrodsburg), in Mercer County, Kentucky. It was then Lincoln District of Virginia. And almost immediately he located on a grant of land made to him by Patrick Henry which was located in the county of Lincoln, on the west side of Salt River. The grant is as follows: "Patrick Henry, Esq., Governor of the Commonwe.alth of Virginia, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREET ING: KNOW YE that by virtue and in consideration of pa.rt of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 1191 issued the 2nd day of March, 17 8 2, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto John Lillard a certain 188 LILLARD GENEALOGY Tract or Parcel OF LAND, containing Five hundred acres, by survey, bearing date the 25th day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four lying and being in the county of Lincoln on the Wiest side of Salt River adjoining Arnolds survey of four hundred and fifty-eight acres on the Westwardly side and a survey made for the heirs of Thomas Grant on the North and bounded as followeth to wit-Beginning at a dogwood and two white oak trees comer to the said Heirs and with their line North twenty poles to a sugar dogwood and black oak tree comer to Arnold and with his line North twenty-five degrees West two hundred and twenty eight poles crossing a branch to three white oaks thence West three hun dred and thirty-six poles crossing the dividing ridge of Chaplains fork and .Salt River to a poplar mulberry and walnut tree near a drain thence South two hundred and twenty poles crossing a branch to a walnut sugar and cherry tree near a large branch thence east two hundred and eighty six poles crossing two branches and the dividing ridge passing the heirs' corner four hundred and twenty-eight poles to the Beginning:, with its' appurtenances to Have and TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, with its appurtenances to the said John Lillard and his heirs forever. In Witness WHEREOF the said Patrick Henry, Esq., Governor of the Commonwealth of Virg1inia, hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the 14th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun dred and eighty-six, and of the Commonwealth the Eleventh. (signed) P. Henry." (seal) A copy attest Robt. L. Greene, Auditor. This land grant is recorded in Book 10, page 254, in the State Capitol, Land Office, Frankfort, Kentucky. For rights to land in Kentucky it was necessary for the proprietors of the Kentucky land to obtain their patents from Virginia, and their rights were of three kinds, namely, those which arose from military service, from ~ettlement and pre-emption, or from warrants from the treasury. The military rights were held by officers or as their representatives as a reward for services performed in the French and Indian or the Revolutionary War. The settlement and pre-emption rights arose from occupation. Every man who before March, 1780, had remained in the country one year, or raised a crop of corn, was allowed to have a settlement of four hundred acres, and a pre-emption adjoining it of one thousand acres. Every man who had only built a cabin, or made any improvement by him self or others was entitled to a pre-emption of 1000 acres where such im provement was made. In March, 17 80, the settlement and pre-emption rigp.ts ceased and treasury warrants were afterwards issued, authorizing their possessor to locate the quantity of land mentioned in them wherever it could be found vacant in Virginia. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 189 The mode of procedure in these affairs was: After the entry was made in the land office, there being one in each county, the person mak ing the entry took out a copy of the location, and proceeded to survey when he pleased. The plot and certificate of such survey had to be returned to the office within three months after the survey was made, there to be recorded; and a copy of the record had to be taken out in twelve months after the return of the survey and produced to the assistant register of the land office in Kentucky, where it' must lie six months, that prior lo cators might have time and opportunity to enter a caveat, and prove their better right. If no caveat was entered in that time, the plot and certificate were sent to the land office at Richmond, Virginia, and three months more were allowed to have the patent returned to the owner. On page 578, Book 10, Land Office, Frankfort, Ky., may be foundi the following grant: "Beverly Randolph, Esq., Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING; KNOW YE That by virtue and in consideration of part of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 10397 issued the 25th day of December, 1781, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto John Lillard Assignee of Mathew Hawkins a certain Tract or PARCEL OF LAND, containing One hundred acres, by survey, bearing date the 25th day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, lying •and being in the county of Lincoln on the waters of Thompsons fork or Chaplains fork and bounded as followeth, to wit-Beginning sixty poles East of his Eastwardly comer of his two hundred acre survey at t'wo ashes and a white oak and running thence North one hundred poles to three sugartrees thence West one hundred and sixty poles to a sugiar cherry and hickory trees thence South one hundred poles to two walnuts and a mulberry in said Lillards line thence East with the said Lillard's lines one hundred poles to his North East corner and passing his corner and continuing the course in all one hundred and sixty poles to the beginning, with its appurtenances: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, with its appurtenances, to the said John Lillard and his heirs forever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Beverly Randolph, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the lesser seal of the Commonwealth to be affi:imd at Richmond on the 7th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Commonwealth the Twelfth. (signed) Beverly Randolph." (seal) (A copy attest Robert L. Greene, Auditor.) The following land grant may be found in Book 13, page 391, Land Office, Kentucky State Capitol at Frankfort: "Beverly Randolph, Esq., Lieutenant Governor of the Common- 190 LILLARD GENEALOGY wealth of Virginia, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING: KNOW YE, That by virtue and in consideration of part of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 10397 issued the 25th of December, 1781, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto John Lillard, Assignee of Mathew Hawkins, a certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing Two hundred acres, by survey, bearing date the 20th day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, lying and being in the county of Lincoln on the waters of Thompsons fork of Chaplains fork and bounded as followeth, Tb Wit: Beginning at an elm and two walnuts standing on Patrick Dorins North line of his one thousand acre survey and running from thence North forty-eig;ht poles to Cinnichels corner and passing his corner and continuing the same course in all one hundred and eighty poles to an ash and hickory trees thence East one hundred seventy seven and three quarters poles crossing a branch to a white oak and two sugartrees thence South one hundred and eighty poles to a honey locust and elm trees thence West one hundred seventy seven and three quarters poles to the beginning, with its appurtenances: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract or Parcel of Land, with its appurtenances, to the said John Lillard and his heirs forever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Beverly Randolph, Esq., Lieu tenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the 7th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Commonwealth the Twelfth. (signed) Beverly Randolph. (seal) A copy attest Robt. L. Greene, Auditor." In deed book I, page 27, Mercer County, Ky., Records, on June 26, 1787, Ann Lindsey sold to John Lillard, Sr., 400 acres in Mercer County for £120 current money of Virginia. This Ann Lindsey was the widow of Joseph Lindsey who was killed in the battle of Blue Licks. She after wards married James McGinty, and is the same Ann McGinty mentioned in Collins' History of Kentucky as a woman of great' energy and self reliance, who brought the first spinning wheel to Kentucky, and made the first linen ( from lint of nettles) and the first linsey ( from nettle lint and buffalo wool) made in Kentucky. She is buried in Kentucky's first cemetery beside old Fort Harrod, at Harrodsburg, Ky. This fort which has recently been restored and dedicated at a memorial park was one of the strongest refuges in time of danger. While the settlers lived on their farms in the surrounding country, in time of Indian raids or invasion all of the settlers went into the log barricade of the fort until the danger was over. In "My Ancestors," by Martinette Viley Witherspoon is the fol lowing: CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 191 "The family of Lillard, members of which intermarried with the Kentucky Witherspoons, were long settled in Culpeper County, Virginia. The first of the family in Kentucky was Captain John Lillard of the Revolution, one of the 'Culpeper Minute Men.' His first wife and mother of all his children was Susanna Ball. Capt. John Lillard emigrated in pioneer days from Yirginia to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in the neighbor hood of which many of his descendants are to be found to the present time. He was a man of splendid physique and distinguished himself in border warfare against the savages, earning for himself the sobriquet 'The Indian Fighter'.'' Susanna (Ball) Lillard, wife of Captain John, died either in child birth or shortly afterward, when their youngest child David Lillard was born on November 18, 1782. Whether this was enroute to Kentucky from Virginia or whether it was shortly after their arrival at Harrodsburg is not known. However Captain John Lillard married a second time to Mrs. Anne (Moore) Thomas, widow of Capt. Robert Thomas, who had eleven children. Anne Moore Thomas was the daughter of Colonel Francis Moore, of Orange County, Virginia, who was a Colonial officer commis sioned under King George of England. Anne Moore Thomas Lillard was a sister of Sarah Moore Spencer, wife of Joseph Spencer, also a Colonel of Orange County, Virginia. Capt. Robert Thomas and Anne Moore were married in Orange County, Va., on April 9, 175 7. Another of her sisters, Mary Moore married William Price. Her brothers were Reuben, Francis and Bernard Moore. The following are old original family papers still to be seen in the possession of Mrs. Ada Lillard Farmer and myself: "Burk to Lillard, Receipt, £17 10 s.'' Recev'1 of John Lillard, the sum of seventeen pounds Ten shillings to be laid out in such good as Said Lillard Shall Derect Witness my hand this 20th day of March, 1785. Thomas Burk. Teste: Thomas Lillard.'' "Lillard and Willis Articles. Articles of Agreement made and Entered Into Between John Lillard of Lincoln County and State of Virginia of the one part and Edward Willis of the County and State aforesaid of the other part, Whereas the said Edward Willis Hath Entered Two Hundred Acres of Land for the s'd Lillard which he hath received pay for and is to make the location good and if taken by prior Claim he is to Enter it on Vacant Land of Equal Quality. He Also has entered Two Thousand Three Hundred Acres on the Halves One thousand of which is Entered in Christopher Lillard's name One Thousand in Joseph Lillard's naine and the other three hundred in the s'd John Lillard's name, which lands is to be divided Equal in Quantity and Quality, and in case any of the above Lands 192 LILLARD GENEALOGY should be taken by prior claims the Sd Willis is to locate the same on Vacant Land Fit for Cultivation Now KNOW YE that the Sd Lillard is to make the Sd Willis a Conveyance of half the Two Thousand three hundred acres above mentioned Each Person to pay a proportionable part of Expence, and for faithful performance Each party doth bind them selves their heirs and assigns in the Just sum of Two Hundr Pounds Current Money of Virginia in Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals This Twenty-Second Day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Four. (signed) John Lillard (seal) (signed) Edward Willis (seal) Signed in presence of Thomas Lillard Elisabeth Lillard." "Know all men by these presents that we, Edward Willis & John Lillard of the County of Lincoln & State of Virginia do promise to pay or Cause to be paid to Abraham Bruer of the County & State aforesaid the sum of one hundred pounds Current money of said State, to which payment well and truly be made, we bind ourselves, our Heirs, Exors & Admrs firmly by these presents, in witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & Seals this the 29th day of March, 1785. . . The Con dition of the above Obligation is such that if the above bound Willis and Lillard shall make a good right & title to Two Hundred Acres of Land lying on the waters of Chaplains forke Land that John Buckhannon now lives on Clar of all Expence, then the above Obligation to be Void Other ways to remain in full force and Virtue. Signed Sealed and Delivered in pi:esence of (signed) John Lillard. (signed) Edward Willis. Thomas Lillard Christopher Lillard." "Thomas Burke to John Lillard-Power of Attorney. Know. all men by these presents that Thomas Burke of the State of Virginia and County of Essex, for divers good causes and considerations, me hereunto moving have made, ordained, authorized and appointed, and by these presents do make, ordain, authorize and appoint John Lillard, my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name, and to my use, to ask, demand, sue for, recover and receive all sums or sum of money which are due, or may become due to me the said Thomas Burke, and also to obtain rights of lands by Indenture, Pattent or otherwise, as likewise to alien sell and dispose of Lands in my name, as he shall from time to time see convenient for the interest of me, the said Thomas Burke, and to agree, compound, acquit, and discharge for same, for me and in my name to make Seal and deliver and to do all other lawfull acts, and things whatsoever concerning the premises, as fully in every respect as I myself might or cou'd do if I were personally present. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this 28th day of January, 1756. (si!rned) Thomas Burke. A Commission of Captain Benjamin Lillard, Signed by Benjamin Harrison, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. ( Original in Emmett Collection of Co:onial Papers, New York Public Library). CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 193 N.B. This Letter of Attorney is only to have effect in the District of Kentucky. Signed, Sealed and Delivered in presence of Albion Throckmorton; Edon Duling. State of Virginia, Essex County, to wit, We do certify that Thomas .Burke did acknowledge the Letter of Attorney to John Lillard of the District of Kentucky. Given under our hands and seals this 28th of January, 17 56. (signed) John Edmonson (seal) (signed) James Edmonson (seal)." Although the date of 17 56 on this old original paper is written very plain and clear, I feel confident that it should have been 1786, for Capt. John Lillard did not go to Kentucky until 1782. And in 1756 Capt. John Lillard was only nineteen years of age. "Reed to Lillard-Rec'd for fees on land. February 1st, 1786. Received into the Deputy Registers Office the following Plats and Certificates of Survey (viz) Three hundred acres Surveyed for Christ0 Lillard Two hundred acres Surveyed for John Lillard and One hundred acres Surveyed for John Lillard also the fees thereon. Fees. 31/10¼ John Reed. C.D.Regr." "To Mr. John Lillard in Linchorn County living on Dry Branch. Ham Shea County, May 1, 1786. Dear Sir I m Braise this opportunity of Righting to im form you that I am well at this present time thanks be to God for the same hope ing these few lines will find you in the same state of health and all your famley I have nothing to Right to you only De Siem of you to get the Bond of King kaid & Wilson Be shore to get the Bond out of ther hands if possible. Dont make yourself oneasy a Bout my not coming to that Countree for I shall shore to be ther this fall if the Lord spares me to live as long I never reseve any of Thomas Lillard's money in Culpeper Cty only Seventy Six pounds Sertificet wich I made sail at one third. Due make im quiere af ten mike lavender he has 2£ worth of goods wich I sent you & I never have reseve any answar from you n lavender. Due send me answar Back By the first opportunity Direct it to Essex County. I have nothing more at present But Remaining your love ing Frind untill Death doth us part Thomas Burke." "Capt. John Lylard, Kentucky, Mercer County near Herod's old town pr. favour Mr. Jno. Clarkson. Sir After my compliments to you & family I shall inform you that Mr. Jno. Clarkson has purchased a tract of Land of me lying on the Buck forke of Salt River Opposite to the mouth of Hardins Creeke which land you will be kind enough to show to this sd Clarkson this Land, I set the price of it.& if you and him cant agree on the price of the sd Land you are to Choose one man and the sd Clarkson another & if they dont 194 LILLARD GENEALOGY agree choose the third Themselves if he likes the land you will make the sd Clarkson a right to the sd tract of Land if he choose to take it or any other land of mine that he likes and I shall Rec Satisfaction for the same in this country it has never been in my power to come to that country as yet for I have been very Sickly till jest now but thanks be to God I have got my health Tolerable well again Expect to see you in a short time. This from your Friend and very Hmble St Thomas Burke. October the 15th, 1790. Test: Caleb Higgenbotham." "Capt. John Lillard. Watts to Lillard, order for Rochester. Danville, February 6th, 1793. Dear Sir I am indebted to Mr. John Rochester Twelve Shillings and if you will pay him it will much oblige your humble servant. Peter Watts." "Capt. John Lillard, Kentucky. Favor of Mr. Wilbourn. Nashville .1st Oct. 1796. Dr. Sir I am happy have so favorable an opportunity of leting you knowe that length of time has not eraised you from my memory, therefore shall present the compliments of my self and family to you and yours and hope they all enjoy health contentment and by leave mention to you Mr. \Vilbourn, the bearer of this letter as an acquaintance and a good citizen and any services you can render him will greatly oblige your hum'l servant. You will please to excuse the want of particulars in this letter as I now write with but one eye & Mr. Wilbourn being acquainted can inform you any you may wish to know, to whom I beg leave to refer you. I am Dr Sir Your sincere friend (signed) John Gordon. Capt'n John Lilard." "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky. For'd by M. Stevenson. Capt. John Lillard Dr/S One thing I omitted in Our letter to you and that is you will be so good as to keep that copy of Col. Moore's will sent you by Reuben Moore by the hand of M. Burros & bring it with you to the Trial which we think It will be a good witness against the will offered for probate. Your Complyance will much Oblige your most Obt. & humble Servt &c. (signed) Joseph Spencer & William Ford." The Will of Colonel Francis Moore. "In the name of God, Amen, I, Francis Moore, of Orange County, being of sound mind and memory, and in consideration of the uncertainty of life, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in form and manner as follows : 1st. My desire is that my body be decently buried, then my funeral expenses and all my just debts and lawful debts be first paid and the residue of my estate to be left and divided as follows: CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 195 IMPRIMIS. I give and bequeath unto my son, Reubin Moore, all that tract of land whereon he now lives, also to him two hundred acres of my poisan field lands, the same to be taken in one survey at the upper end of my tract of land in the poisan fields. Also to him, my desk and bookcase with all my books. 2ndly. My will and desire that the land and plantation whereon I now live including all the lands I purchased of Spotswoods Trustees in this county; also the remainder of my poisan field lands be sold, and the moneys arising from the sale of such lands to be divided into five equal parts, and given one part to my daughter Mary Price, one part to my daughter Ann Thomas, one part to my son's, Francis Moore, decsd, chil dren, one part to my daughter Sarah Spencer, and one part to my son Reubin Moore. 3rdly. I give to my granddaughter, Lucy Barbour Gaines, one shill ing cash as her part in full of all my estate, having hereto fully complied with the request of my son, Bernard Moore, deceased, respecting her. 4thly. My will and desire that all my negroes with the residue of my estate be equally divided in five parts, and given as above directed for the moneys arising from the sale of my lands, To Mary Price, to Ann Thomas, to Francis Moore decesd. children, to Sarah Spencer and to Reubin Moore. 5thly. My will and desire is that William Price and Joseph Spencer shall in no case have anything to do with that part of my estate left to their wives, either to sell it or appropriate it to any use of their own; but that it be entirely to the use and discretion of the aforesaid Mary Price and Sarah Spencer. . 6thly, & lastly I constitute and appoint my brother, Harbin Moore, my friends, Andrew Shepherd & Alexander Downey, Executors, to this my last will and testament, Revoking and Making Void Every Will or Wills• heretofore by me made; but publishing and declaring this my last Will and Testament. As witness my hand and seal this 15th day of August, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Two. (signed) Francis Moore. (seal) Signed and acknowledged My last Will and Testament in presence of J.A.H.; William Head; George Ransdell. A copy. Teste: AB.Yates, Clerk. (Will Book of District Court at Fredericksburg,Va. page 126 ). Inventory and appraisement of the Sundry Slaves belonging to the Estate of Colonel Francis Moore, Deceased. ______£ Jeffrey, about 36 years of age 90.0.0 Jacob, " 23 " " " 110.0.0 Jack, " 23 " " " 100.0.0 ADAM, " 30 " " " 50.0.0 Peter, " 20 " " " 110.0.0 Harry, " 15 " " " 80.0.0 Jude, " 30 " " " 65.0.0 Daniel, " 10 " " " 60.0.0 Anthony, " 7 " " " 36.0.0 196 LILLARD GENEALOGY Charlotte, " 4 " " " 25.0.0 Jacob, " 2 " " " 18.0.0 Peter " 3 mos. " " 12.0.0 Milly, " 20 yrs. " " 70.0.0 Jane, " 3 " " " 20.0.0 Joshua, " 2 mos. " " 11.0.0 Sylvia, " 18 yrs. " " 75.0.0 Lucy, Sylvia's child 6 mos. " 15.0.0 Cal any, about 16 years of age 75.0.0 Venus, " 14 " " " 70.0.0 Old Rose, " 60 " " " 15.0.0 £1107.0.0 Pursuant to the order .annexed we the subscribers have appraised the Estate of Col. Francis Moore, deed, presented to us as above stated. Given under our hands this :fifteenth day of January, 1800. Uriel Mallory, Benj. Willis. John Gibson. A copy. Teste: A. B. Yates. "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Ky. Dear Sir: Just this moment as I was about to close my letter to you the following came to hand Mr. Reuben Moore Sir Take notice that we shall proceed to take the depositions of John Alfred Head and Elizabeth his wife, Carey Ransdell, John Head, Edward George, William George, Thomas Coleman and Susanna his wife and Wharton Ransdell, at the Court House of Fayette County in the State of Kentucky on the first, fourth and Eighth's days of November next between the hours of eight in the morning and six o'clock in the evening Witness's in behalf of us in contesting the last Will and Testament of Francis Moore, offered for probate in the district court of Frederg by you at which time you will attend if you please we ar sr Your hbl Servt's Joseph Spencer William Ford. Oct. 13, 1796. Tst. Henry Samuel Reuben Gaines. Now Sir if this comes to hand in time to you I most earnestly beg that you and my sister and Richard M. Thomas and in fact every connection my Father has in that country would attend and hear the testimony of the above mentioned Witness's and then you'll see who has imposed upon the Will and Desire of my dear Father and Mother and pray dear Sir you or Richard Thomas ask every witness if they did not hear my father CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 197 declare that Reuben Gaines should not enjoy one penny of his estate and the reason why he did so disenherit him and also if they did not hear the same by Joseph Spencer and the reason of his disenheriting and pray have the reply set in every deposition and inform the Magistrate it is my Request and to the interest of the Will and desire of the deceased and I can assure you that it will not effect the interest of my Sister Spencer or her children but more than 300 pounds advance to every surviving child mentioned in his Will. It is a momentous concern to you, to my Sister Nancy and her children. Therefore dear Sir attend to it. My wife's father is dead also and I am obliged to attend there in next month thus I am as before with every &c to you all Your brother & hmbl svt Reubin Moore. NB It seems almost impossible for me to be done writing this & to beg you to get a lawyer in behalf of the will on the Examination of the Wit nesses. If Mr. Ransdell as aforementioned answers the probate of the will please to take it as I have before directed and bring it or send if by some safe hand before the appointed time and it will save an Immense expense, but above all If Mr. Ransdell will come in it will answer the best purpose and he will be fully satisfied for every expense and trouble. It will make a great difference to divide such an estate into six parts in stead of four there is 22 likely negroes besides the land mentioned in the Will. I am dear sir to you & my sister as before Reubin Moore. October 14th Morning." "Capt. John Lillard Orange County, Virginia. Dear Sir: I think it will not be Improper for you to Remind Mr. Head and his son of the number of wills which Reuben hath got his Father to Execute in his Insanity. You remember the Examination of Mr. Head before therefore I charge you to Be Garded against Frances Moore's Insinuations and if the old gentleman Answers the questions that I have given you to your satisfaction do not Extende the Examination, But if he should answer them to the Reverse Cross Examin him all that in your Power Lys for I know that he cannot stand a Cross Examination and if you can Nick them in the bud I know there will Be an end To the Business without a Tryal and a division will Take Place next new year therefore I charge you my Friend to Spare Know Panes to Defeat them In there Designs in that Country as you may Rest yourself assurd that I will not do as Jobs wife wish him to do Curse God and Die But Shall Still Retain my Intrety against all oppositions that can be Brought Against me untill I hear from you I am with Due Respect your Hble Servt Reuben Gaines." "Capn. John Lillard Questions to be asked by our Counsel in the State of Kentucky of the Witnesses in taking there Depositions returnable to the Court of Appeals in the City of Richmond in the State of Virginia, beginning the 10th day 198 LILLARD GENEALOGY of Octr Next & the Question will come on the 10th day of that Court Respecting the will of Col. Fras. Moore offered for probate in the District Court of Fredericksburg by Reuben Moore & from the judgment of which Court we appeald. Wharton Ransdell. Ql. Did not you tell Capt. Reuben Moore of Culpeper, F. Moore & John Lylard that; the will of Col. Fras. Moore Left Lucy B. Gaines one or five shillings as Reuben Moore Read the will to his Father. Q2. Did not Robert Bigsit ask you as you left the house going through the yard gate what you thought of CoL Moore this morning, was he capable of Executing his will or not as we shall have to Sware Cbncerning it Some Day or other and your reply to Mr. Bigsit was I do not know wheather he was or not. Q3. Was not you offered a negro and the negro named to you to come in to Virginia Last fall by James Sleet and a Bill of Sail for the same. Q4. What Reward was you offered By Sleet to Come to Virginia Before and after you had given your Deposition or what was he Promised to pay or give you how many & who of Col. Moore's Famaly was present when you witnessed the will." "Capt. Jo. Lillard Orange County, Va. Sir These leaves me and my family in a tolerable good State of Helath through marcy, & am in hopes it will find you & yours in full enjoyment of like blessing-Reuben Moore carried his point, in the Dis trict Court of Fredericksburg, owing t'o this onlucky circumstance, their was but one Judge & he a very old man & had then been 50 days on business at different Courts in a very bad state of health-our business t'ook up four days of the court, our Counsels spoke first and last upwards of Eight hours, upwards of thirty odd witnesses & Deposi tions, & the Judge's sickness came on so fast that he could not .2;0 through the whole of the testamony he had noted down and made a mistake in his notes of three of our most principle witnesses, he after wards confest to Col. Randolph & Self, our Counsel. Col. Randolph & W. F. Brooke-appeald in our absense and entered for us being so shure of the cause. Randolph offered to buy out any or all df the Legattees, it now comes on in the Court of Appeals the 10th day of that Court which begins at set the 10th day of October next. We shall pro ceed to take Depositions & arrange the business in hear a& fast as pos sible, & have sent out a Commission & Powers for your friend in Kentucky to take Depositions agreeable to notice a Copy of which we send you hoping you will not be in want in yr parts. I received of Joseph Steven son in acct, for Seven Pounds five shillings & which is placed to your credit. I would urge you to come in t'o the Tryal at all advents or wme other person to represent you with full power of attorney, as Reuben Moore is shur to sell out all his rights to the Lands, &c., yet if he dose will be ful of moneys & we very scearse therefore we must call on you all in Kentucky for yr parts for money you know makes the ~fare go, is the old & true Saying. We have a number of very active enemys that has joined R. ~foore who swears through thick and thin & we can CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 199 get a fite from them at any time. I had ruther you would come in your self as I expect Dr. William Price will be there and a full meeting of all the Legattees, I think absolutely Necessary, at the Tryal for a more full detail of the matter. I refer you to Mr. Harbin Moore, the bearer hereof who can give you some further detail. My wife and children joines me with there tenderest love & Esteem to your wife & family & all connections & am D. Sir with every sentiment of Esteem Your Most Obedt. Hmbl. Sarvt. Joseph Spencer. August 11th, 1797." "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky Favd by Mr. Jas. Crain. Spencer. 8 Jany (17)98. Capt. John Lillard Sir These leaves me & my family well through Marcy, hoping they will find you & yours in the full enjoyment of like blessings. Nothing very Extronery had happened in here since you left us, Except the Death of Robert Bigsit, one of the witnesses to the will, & one of the Estate's Negro men, by the name of Glassons dyed the first of January & Robert Moore & myself had a misfortune to luse a fine new house we had rented from Mr. Abhett. It was burnt down the week before Christmas with Twenty Barrels of Corn & some Wheat in it, belongiing to Mrs. Abbett. It happened luckey we had not moved to it before the Misfortune took place, it is judged to have been burnt down by some Ill disposed person (paper torn), that is mere conjecture. All the Negroes are Hired again for another year, the Committee would have it so, notwithstanding Reuben Moore, myself & wife & Barnett Price all joined in requesting them to hire them only till the first of May . . agreeable t'o your wish, but they would not they hired amazingly high, more so than they did last year, the Committee said it' was more advantageous to the Estate to hire them by the year & if a Division took place after the Court of Appeals in April that the Negroes, could easily be got from those per sons that had them in possession. I have just received a letter from Col. Randolph & agreeable, to his advice make use of this opportunity by Mr. Crnin to send you herein inclosed a commission to take depositions with the Notice to W. Nfoore, it was the best and earliest Opportunity I could obtain & hope you will spear no pains to get Mr. Wharton Ransdell's Deposition, in taking of which you will ask him this question, which Robert Bigsit has sworn to, Did Reuben Moore tell you and Robert Bigsit, at Downey's Still house that he Reuben Moore was agoing him self to make his Father's will & had chose you two and Robert' Bigsit for Witnesses, & that he should send for you two, to his father's barn but to keep it a great secret this was about' ten days before you witnessed the will. I also want to know the Exact time Mrs. Coleman movd from her house in Orange County for Kentucky & that' sworn to by one or more persons, they are striving all they possibly can to invalidate some of our principle witnesses, they have given us two notices t'o take deposi tions in Fredericksburg & the Gum Springs, but has countermanded the 200 LILLARD GENEALOGY notice before the times took place. You may relie, that every attention in my power shall be paid to the business & dear Sir hope you will make what discovery you can respecting my lands in your country & stir up my son Francis to use every exertion in his power to obtain them, so as to be able to give me an acct. of them in April next. I shall look for you at my house some days before the Tryal comes on but at all advents I shall expect to meet you in Richmond the 12th day of April, for it is my opinion from every discovery I can make, that, let the cause go as it will a Division may be had in the Course of May next, provided, every Branch is represented at the Tryal, Barnett Price has ,been in with full powers from his Father & Mother him attorney & has promised to attend at the tryal. You please to give my & my wifes & family kindest love to your wife & family & am with every sentiment of esteem Dear Sir your friend & Hble Sarvt. Joseph Spencer. Jan. 18th, 1798." "Capt. John Lillard. Dr. Sir I cald on agreeable to my promise and you not being at home I could not have the pleasure of seeing you I have been down to Green River and surveyed the Lands between you and I and it appears that it is very Clear of Disputes and in a fine part of the world I will give you acre for acre Rolling forke of Salt River Sure Land for your chance of what you have in my hands. lam Sir your Sv. Zach Dozer. September 12, 1798. To Capt. John Lillard. N.B. I shall be Down next month In order to sett the plots you must be in readiness to pay up your part of the money." "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky. Handed by Mr. Price. Orange County, Virginia. October 6th, 1798. Dr. Sir This will inform you as well as Mr. Price that Reuben Moore hath hired Francis Moore to assist him to Prove another will for which he is to give him Two Hundred Eachors of Land or the amount of it in value for His assistance. The will is dated 15th day of Augt 1792 and Old Mr. John Olphread Head and his son vVm. Head & George Ransdell is the witnesses to it Ransdell is dead and the probate of this will De pends on the Other two and from the acquaintance we have of Wm. Head & his son though they are good honest men yet Francis Moore is not too honest to state the matter to them in such a light as will Change their Opinions from what I believe it Is at this time for when he was examined before he said he was witness to But One Will and then the decsd. Col. was no more than a Child. Remind him of this before his examination and he will .never depart from it and if possible see him before Francis Moore for the Death of the Will Depends on that for Francis Moore hath the will now in his possession with a Commission Enext thereto CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 201 for the examination of the subscribing witnesses as soon as he Returns take Counsil with you such as a Randolph if you can get one and loose nothing in the examination for you know the ground work Depends on them. Col. Spencer was with us at the District Court and attended to the business in strict opposition but After the Entry was made Sir Richard overtook him in the street and his Insinuations hath detained him ever since. We could by know means send for him and weight until he was capible of Doing Business for fear Frank Moore would have started out <1.nd taken you in surprise. These few Observations I hope will surfise for the Priasent and shall Rest my self assurd that you will use Every effort that in your Power Lys to obtain Justice. I shall send you two or three blank Commissions for the Purpose of taking other Depositions in that Cuntry Have a copy of the subscribing witnesses Depositions and send them in by Larkin Price and We Shall Be Better Able to know In What Manner to Perceed. All Friends and Relations are well as Far as I know. Lucy joins me in Remembrance to you and Ant Lillard & all Inquiring friends and remain your Ever faithfull Nephew & Friend Till Death Reuben Gaines." "Capn. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky. Saterday Evening 6th Octr ( 17) 98. Capn Lillard Sir I was at Capn Gainses today and wrote to you but not thinking Anything about the horse obliges me to take this way to inform you that I aplyed to the Legattees to have the matter settled thay all appear willing to leave to me Exce~t W R Moore And he says he knows that the horse was left as Payment for sum tobacco that Capn. Thomas owed to his farther, I then got the advise of Mr. Robert Taylor and showed him the Depezision of Mr. Jos. Thomas, and he gave it as his opinion That it would be best not to bri11;g, suit Except Better witness than I had it was his opinion that the Mr. Thomases would Beloked on as men of Interest and that in that case would not be allowed to come forward as witnesses is throwing money -away, there fore have let the matter rest til further Instructions from you no more but Remaines your friend & H.S. Goe. Petty. Capn. John Lillard." "George Petty. Mr. George Petty, Attorney in fact for John Lillard and the legatees of Colo. Francis Moore, deed, sir please to take notice that I shall pro ceed to prove the Will of said deed. now exhibited in the District Court of Fredg for probate at the house of Elisha Woolridge in the town of Ver sailles in Woodford County, the place of holding court for said county in the state of Kentucky on friday and saturday the twentithird and twentifourth days of November next between the hours of eight O'clock in the morning and six O'clock in the evening of the same days at which time and places you may attend if you chuse. from yours Francis Moore Oct. 10th, 1798." 202 LILLARD GENEALOGY "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky. Favr Wharton Ransdell. Orange County, 14th Octo.1798. Capn. Lillard. Sir: After my Compliments to you & famaly this will inform you that myself and family is all in tolerable health as is all Friends in this Quarter as far as I know. Mrs. Gaines is delivered of a son. I have nothing material to add since I wrote you by Mr. Price only that I Recd. a N" otice, which I here Inclose, tho did not Receive It as Notice in order that he should give you a notice. But for fear he should fail to do so thought proper to send you this in order that you should have a chance to oppose Mr. Moore in the Business as he had turnd his coat for the sake of interest as common to mankind. I think it would be well to see Mrs. Catherine Ransdell, Mother to the deces. George Ransdell, who was Witness to the said writing they offer, as she was near Neighbor and well a Quainted with the deceasd. Coln. Moore; that we will give notice and send a conumssion and you may take the depizitian of such persons as you think Proper, there has been a great deal said about a Comprimise but no offer that I think generous therefore thought Proper to Let the Business rest till I here from you, for it atp pears to be the wish of sum of the parties that I should Make a Sacrafise of part of your rite to thro the Balance in their favour and If you think . so Pray say so. I am informed by Capn. Gaines who has been a great deal in Company with the Opposed Partie that they Intend to make the Business very short, that after Takeing the Examination of the Witnesses that if they do not Answer the Questions Required by Law in the affirma-. tive they intend to Come Back and Have a settlement and Division by new yers day But whether his infirmation is Correct I cannot say, as Coln. Spencer has wrote so brief Shall Close With my respects to you and yours from Hble S. George Petty." "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky. Handed by Mager Welch. Orange County, Virginia. Nov. th 21, 1798. Dr uncle This Leaves us all well at Present hoping the Reception of this will find you & your family & all friends enjoying the Same Blessing. Pray Sir Make •all the inquiries you can upon the State of mind that Frances Moore was In when this Will was Executed for Be you well assured that the justice of this is as groundless as the other from the conduct of Reuben & Frances Moore. After it was known that La:rlkin Price had started for Kentucky They Instantly Draught wrighting The Conditions of which is that Reuben Moore Is to Give Frances Moore 200 Hundred Eachors of Land and the fifth Part of the .Six Part for his Survices to assist him to Prove this Will. I saw Col. Spencer last Monday. His family was well. I had Know K:nowledg~ of this Chanct of Con veying you a Line Till this moment. I hope Sir you will Persevear In well doing and to Over Set them and to Obtain justice for all. I am Dr. Uncle, Sincerely yours Reuben Gaines. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 203. Capt. John Lillard." "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky. Pr. Mr. F. Moore, C.P. 15 June '99. Orange County, 15th June, 1799. Capn Lillard Sir, this will inform you that the Contes of the will is at last ended, that a Compremise took place between Mr. Moore and Mr. Gaines Viz Mr. Moore gives Gaines one Hundred and fifty pounds to let the Will Be established, and for my part I thought it most to your ad vantage to Close the business that There might be a Division at the close of the Present year, at which time I shall Expect to see you Pre pard to receive your Part from the Hand of Mr. Downey, who is sole Exctr. of the Estate. I am informed, the Lands will be sold Between the 20th Augt. and the first of September next. Mr. Downey has had Counsel on the Will that Counsel says, according to the letter of the Will sel for Cash but Mr. Downey condescends so far that if the Bulk of the Legattees think it' there Interest to give credit he will Doe so which appears to be the opinion at preasant. If you think otherways and have opper tunity Please say so. No more to add But hope this will find you & Famely well as mine. I am your &c. George Petty. Capn John Lillard." "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky. Handed by Mr. Moore. Orange County, Virginia. D Bror Lillard Throug Marcy this leaves me and family in a tolerable State of Health hoping it will find you & yours in the enjoyment of health & every other Marcy. Relative to the onhap;y disputes amoungst the_ Heirs of our Desest Pearent of hapy Memorrey I have been Governed by the Genl Love of the famaly has fair as ·I could hear it-except Reuben Gains whose base treatments to me in persuing the other Will & since left me with though confidence in him & Experience taught me to believe he has gotten more from the two W. Moores than ever was aloted him by our deed Father. My. & Yr friend Mr. George Petty, having tole you fully on that Busness, whos letter is now before me endues me to :refer you for particulars to it. I do intend out myself as soon as pos sible & probably in few weeks but if not shall be happy to see or hear from you. My wife & famaly joins in their tenderest love & affection to you, wife & famaly, and with the same sentiment I am Dr John yr loving Bro. Joseph Spencer June th 24. 1799. Capt. John Lillard." "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, by favor of Mr. Casey. July Ye 19th, 1799. Dr Sir Major Allon hath sent to me for my part of the money we agreed to pay to save Mrs. Harris Negroes from being sold. I have paid £22-7-6 204 LILLARD GENEALOGY which is all I cold spair at present. I believe each of our shears is £26-Ss. as we pased our words to pay our parts. I think is more bind ing on us than our bonds that I hope you will send your part I am Sir, your Hum1 Svt George Caldwell." "Capt. John Lillard, Mercer County, Kentucky, hannd. by Mr. S. Brock man." "Orange County" "Capt John Lillard Sir These leaves me & my famaly in a Tolirable state of health through marcy & am in hops it will find you & your famaly in the full enjoyment of helth & every other blessing. Col. Moores Estate is to be Divided the first of January next & I am in hops to see you in at my house by that time or sooner, to Receive the Legese for your branch of the famaly, the manner Lands sold for £1201 the rest of the lands will be sold this fall & the Committee & Executor doth most Solemnly promise to have their Accts settled up so that nothing is to prevent a Division of the Estate 5 Equal Bonds is & will be taken for the amount of the sails of the Lands & for what has been sold as Good Bond & Security as any in Virginia is given to pay the last day of August next'. A you:n~ negro garl by the name of Cate & old Cupper is dead & old Lucy since your Departue from us. I & my wife have come to a determined resolu tion God permitting to set out in abt' March or the first of Apereal next for Kentucky with our famaly, & as my son Francis has neglected to write me what I have to expect about my Lands, this being the case I have to request the favour of you, my Brother, to make inquiry as fair as you can Respecting in what stage it is now & if it appears to you that: I cant settle on my Lands when I come out then, Sir, I wish to have a plantation rented for the coming year & should prefer givin part' of the Crop for the rent also Corn & meet engaged for us at least what will sarve for a while, till I can make better arangements. I have wrote my children on that head & have directed them to consult you on what you think most advisable. If any thing should interfear that you do not come in yourself ( which I hope will not be the case) then to write me a letter in answer to this, youl please to give my comppliments to all enquiring friends. My wife & all my chrldren in heare joins me in their tenderest love to you & your wife & famaly. I am D Sir yr friend & Bror in law. Joseph Spencer. Octr 28th, 1799." "Capt. John Lillard near Danville Kentucky favour of Mr. Hill. Sunday July 12th-1800. D.Sir At the time you passed this place and mentioned to me the circum stances of your lands-I did not at that moment perfectly comprehend your meaning-I think you said you had paid me about Eight pounds to secure your lands & that the lands were all lost or could not be re covered, and in that case I ought to return you your money, upon reflec- CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 205 tion on the business-I think that the lands alluded to were surveyed & the fees paid and carried into Grants, if so, or if the monies, dewsited by you in my hands has ever in any manner been paid out, or Out of obtaining the titles to those lands, and admitting the lands now to be lost I do not think myself accountable for the money, but on the other hand If I have received money of you to secure lands and' that money has never been appropriated to that use I ought most certainly to refund it to you. I wish you to state these circumstances: particular before you draw on me for the money. I am D Sir With respect Your most obt. svt. George James. Capt. John Lillard." (A curious old paper found among the original Lillard family pap~rs) "Take Ember oile put it on your worms when Fishing is of Grate benefit towards making fish bit'e so says Thos. Simpson. Take one oz. of fish burys Grind them fine mix Then with light Bread and Whiskey is a Compleat Bate for fish. January." "To Mr. Lillard Au. th 23 1800. D Sr You need not be afraid of Tom having the foul Disorder for the Doctor has not doctored him for that complaint', altho he thou,ght at first it mite be it but soon found that it was not you would, if it has been it, have seen it on his wife before this time. (signed) J onethan Jenkins." "Sir As you undertake to clear Tom of having the Foul disorder if it should be the case then his wife should get it by him I shall look to you to see to her Cure and make good to me. Sir, if you see cause to do so well if not keep your negro at home and not suffer him to come on my Territory Sir if you intend to do so let me know by writing to me the second time, if you do not do so I shall shoot your negro if I catch him on my place. No more at present but remaining your friend John Lillard." "Sir this is a true Copy of Mr. Jenkins note to me and my answer to him John Lillard. Witnessed: Bearnard Spencer. David Lillard. Daniel Lillard." "Willis Bond. I do hereby assign over my Right of title Of the within bond to John Lillard it being for Value Received August this 19th Day 1785. John Buckhannon. Teste: Thos. Lillard." 2'06 LILLARD GENEALOGY "Know all men by these Pr.esents that I Edwd. Willis of Lincoln County and State of Virginia, Do Stand and Am firmly Bound unto John Buc hannon of Sd County in the Just and full sum of fifty powids good and Lawfull money of Virginia to be paid unto the sd John buchannon his certain Atorney, his heirs, Ex.tr, admtrs and asigns, firmly by these presents seald with my seal and Dated this 27th Day of November Ano Domini Seventeen Hundred and Eighty four. The condition of the above obligation are as such whereas the above bound Edwd. Willis Doth agree Bargain and sell unto sd John Buchannon one hundred and fifty acres the one half of a certain tract of Land Lying and being in the County of Lincoln and on Chaplains fork of Salt River which adjoins Joseph Willis' survey of 200 acres on the upar side likewise fifty acres on the waters of the Dry fork. The sd. Land to be Divided Equal in quantity and quality. The sd. Willis to make the sd. Buchannon a clean Deed clear of all Expences to the said Buchannon. It being for value Received of him to which payment will and truly to be made I bind myself my heirs Executors, administrators firmly by these Presents to which I hereunto set my hand and seal. This 27th Day of Novmr, 1784. Signed Seald and Delivered in the presents of us · Edward Willis (seal) William Pope Jos. Hale." ' (Acct. Capt. Lillard. Captain Lillard, dr to John Couzine. Jim Ivie's Smithing. &c ______£ s. d. 1797, March 26, to pointing Colter, Laying another______1 9 Mar.28. To laying shovel 3/9 with 1 3/1 to iron 1/J___ _ 6 Apr. 6 to 19 Iron 1/3 settle x ______1 3 To making chief part of Colter ______May 18 To making shovel ------3 0 Cr by Cash __ . ______·------12 12 May 19 To Sharpning Shovel______6 6 Decmr 18 To up setting 2 axes at 1/3______2 6 To trimmin-g bell shortening clapper______9 23 To making ladle ------3 9 1798, Janr 9 to BeB .Staple & Clapper______9 Fehr 8 Making Sett of Harrow teeth ______9 Mar. 23. to making 8 horse shoes & Driving______10 29 to cutting Screw tap & freeing rod______1 cutting rod & screw tap 1 ld welding piece in______1 2 mending pothooks ------6 31 to mending 2 Clevises ------1 9 making Clevis pin 6d mending fire shovel 6d______1 welding six links dog chain & sundry links made strait_ 1 6 up setting ax ------1 CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 207 Apr.11 Dressing Hoe 6d pieing(?) Hoe & welding Eye__ 1 6 18 Laying Hoe 1/6 welding eye 9d______2 3 To Laying hoe ------1 9 26 To Laying Hoe 1/6 & making new Eye 1/0______2 6 Aug.24 to 6 Moirs at 1/6 ------4 6 to 6 moir & his nail iron______3 6 Sharping Shovel ------6 1799 to steeling Ax m Steel ------5 To Laying Ax his iron My SteeL ______6/6______6 6 To making flesh fork ------1 9 £3 4s. lld. March 29, 1799 Cr by Cash paid Isaac Taylor the sum of ______fl 4 0 Cr by 34 Lb.Iron ____ 11 1 4 11 John Cozine's Rect. Balance due ______-- 1 4 0 2 0 11 1800. Jan. 19th. Then received on the within the full amount I say due me. John Cozine." Capt. John Lillard was a very wealthy man in his day. The Mercer County Tax Lists for 1795 (Vol. 25, Jan. 1927, No. 73, R~gi:ister, Kentucky State Historical Society) list him as possessing 18 slaves, 12 horses and 33 cattle. While in "Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds," by Willard R. Jillson, listed in the Lincoln County Entries 177 9-17 8 7 is the following: John Lillard 200 acres on Chaplins Fork. ( 17 82). John Lillard 300 acres on Branch of Chaplins Fork. ( 17 83). John Lillard 1000 acres on Thompson Run. ( 1783). John Lillard 1000 acres. ( 1 783) . In addition to this Captain John Lillard was a distiller and many similar bonds are among the original Lillard papers: "No. 257 No. 257. District of Ohio, I certify that John Lillard, JLG owner of a distillery situated in Mercer C. has paid No 2. the duties imposed by law, on one Barrel of whiskey Containing Thirty-Two gallons, distilled from Domes tic materials, of the first proof, and marked as per margin, Nov. 22, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Six. Robert Irvin, Ck." (seal of the United States of America) . 208 LILLARD GENEALOGY His account books for whiskey include the names of practically all of the pioneer families in that section of Kentucky. Whiskey in those days was almost as necessary to those sturdy pioneers as food. Capt. John Lillard died May 30, 1801, and was buried on what was known as the Joseph Lillard farm on Salt River, on that part later known as the old Dr. Powell farm) and which is now owned by Mr: Rankin ( 19 2 8). To get there take the State Pike from Harrodsburg to Lawrenceburg. About 4 miles north of Harrodsburg turn left into the old Jackson Pike. Follow this to the railroad marked Croydon. Here one has to walk north along the railroad track over a trestle for about half a mile. There in a large cornfield is the old Lillard burying ground. The grave nearest the railroad track and above the others, a little apart from the rest, is the last resting place of Captain John Lillard, Revolu tionaq soldier. Marion W. Ripy of New York, tells the following story about Cap tain John Lillard: "After he had located in Kentucky one of his brothers1 a preacher in Virginia, came out to visit him. It was in the fall of the year_ and the night that he arrived one of Captain John Lillard's slaves, a young colored gir1 1 was stolen or kidnapped by the Indians. More with the idea of pro tecting the members of his household than to recover the negro girl, John Lillard and his preacher brother got their guns and started to make a circle around the house. · This circle was enlarged each time. Finally, feeling that they were safe, the preacher brother told John that they had better bend their knees in thanksgiving to the Lord. 'Whereupon Captain John Lillard replied 'That's very fine, but you'd a damn-sight better keep· your eyes open'." THE \iVJLL OF CAPTAIN JOHN LILLARD (Mercer Co.Ky. Records). 1 ' In the name of God Amen, the Twenty-:-fourth day of February; in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and, one, I, John Lillard, of Mercer County, and State of Kentucky, being of perfect and sound mind and memory, thanks be to God for the same, and knowing it is appointed of all men once to die, do hereby make and ordain this my last will and testament, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose: IMPRTMIS, it is my will that in the :6.rst place All my just debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied. The same in manner and form follovving item1 I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Anne, all the whole of property she was possessed of when I married her: also all the property that is left to her by her father by will or otherwise) to have and to hold the same to her, her heirs and assigns forever. The property above mentioned is to include the house hold furniture and stoves she had when I married her, as well as the whole of what may be got of that her father left ,:i,,·hether it be cash 1 landi stores 1d' ( 1 ·.q,L I CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF RENTUCKY 209 or any other property after paying my executors hereinafter named, all and so much money as I may have expended in law or otherays in secur ing the same, and further it is my will that my said wife Ann shall have and keep full free and peaceable possession and benefit and profits thereon from all that part or tract of land where on I now live, namely lying on the eastern part of my tract and to include the houses, the dividing line to be along the lane as it now stands to the end from John Chiles, and thence to make the left hand fence the line to the end of my land joining Jesse Shy, and that during her life or widowhood if she chooses so long to live on the same, but at either of the periods of her marriage or re movable it shall revert to my estate and be disposed of by my executors as hereinaftei;- directed. I also give to my said wife one roan_ mare, one sorrel horse which came of a roan mare which she was possessed of when I married her. ITEM: It is my will and I do order that the land whereon I now live shall be sold within one year after my decease, by my executors herein after named, except the part I have already reserved. for the use of my wife as aforesd, and a credit of one year to the purchaser or purchasers, of those giving bond with sufficient and approved security to my executors, and at the same time shall be sold by my executors all and singular my stoves, household furniture, stock, farming utensils and in short all my property of every kind I die possessed -of, of which is not herein before given or' granted, and the money arising from the sales of the same to be equally divided among my children, in the following manner, to wit: Nancy Lil lard, daughter of my son Thomas Lillard, which he had by his first wife, and in his stead, Elizabeth Chiles, John Lillard, Anna Pulham, Mary McGinnis, .Susanna Jones, Joseph Lillard, E'phraim Lillard, James Lil lard, Patsey McGinnis, Daniel Lillard & David Lillard, so that each shall be equal and one shall have as much as another. Agreeable to what they have received respectfully, which is to be settled according to accounts in a book herewith left and inclosed, which bears on the front page the 22d day of August, 1791, and wherein is stated the different accounts of my said children respectful beginning with the folio on page 1 to 12 both included, and I do order that my executors do pay the several sums which may be due the several legatees agreeable to the settlement of each as before described so that each may have an equal share at the final settlement and as soon as collected from the sale aforesaid & that not to exceed one year for the said sales. And whereas my son James 108 acres of land which is now a part thereof in law. Now if my said son James should be evicted off the land or part thereof, it is my will and I dOI order that he be made equal with the rest of the legatees by making up what may be lost as aforesaid. ITEM: I likewise do hereby constitute, make and ordain John Lil lard, Joseph Lillard, Ephraim Lillard and Thomas Freeman, my execu tors of this my last will and testament. And I do hereby disallow, revoke and dis annul all former wills, testaments, executors at any time before. This named, willed and bequeathed, ratifying and allowing this and no other to be my last will and testament, in witness whereof I hereto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. (signed) John Lillard (seal) 210 LILLARD GENEALOGY Signed, sealed and declared by the said John Lillard to be his last will and testament in presence of us. (signed) Joseph Willis; Jonathan Jenkins; Able Jenkins. Mercer Set. August County Court, 1801. The last will and testament of John Lillard, decsd, was exhibited into court and proven by the oath of Joseph Willis, and Jonathan Jenkins, two subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded. Teste: Thomas Allen, C.C." Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of John Lillard, deed, taken this 27th day of August, 1801. £ s. d 7 Large Horses and one bulL ______32 0 0 10 cows and 10 calves ______------___ _ 30 0 0 23 head of youn~ cattle ------34 10 0 4 Sows and pigs ------2 8 0 138 head of hogs ------22 16 0 45 head of sheep ------22 10 0 11 Sorrel Mares and Colt ------40 0 0 1 white mare and Roan Colt ------·------20 0 0 1 Roan Filly ______z years old ______15 0 0 11 roan filley, one year old ______-:. __ 10 0 0 1 read roan filley, one year old ------8 0 0 1 Sorrel Colt ------4 0 0 2 yong horses one a brown and one a roan ______24 0 0 1 Bay horse------15 0 0 1 Bay Do ------25 0 0 1 Dark Bay Do ------15 0 0 1 Gray------7 4 0 £327 8 0 Negro Man named James ------·------£2') 0 0 Negro woman named Sary & two children ______120 0 0 Negro Garl named Fanner ------60 0 0 Negro Boy named Ben ______------30 0 0 Negro Garl named Nelly ------20 0 0 Negro Man named Aaron ------120 0 0 1 Barshear Plow ------1 10 0 3 shovel plows ------1 16 0 1 Grind Stone ------O 15 0 Wagon and hind geers & tar bucket ______18 0 0 And Iron Tooth Farrow ______2 10 0 Two pairs of geers, two blind bridles and old saddle______1 13 0 1 Loom ------__ 1 0 0 2 Pots ------1 5 0 1 Kittle ------1 0 0 3 dutch ovens and 1 Led______1 7 0 CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 211 2 iron pot racks 2 pot hooks frying pan & ladle and flesh forks 1 16 0 2 pales 1 piggan and can ______0 7 6 f407 19 6 £ s. d 1 Washing tub & meal tub and neading trough ____ and meal sifter ------0 8 0 1 pare of Stillards ------0 18 0 1 Table Cloth ------0 9 0 1 Counterpin ------·------·---·-- 0 18 0 1 do ------______-·------0 10 QI .1 sheet ______------0 10 0 .1 Cotton Sheet ------0 15 0 1 Muslen do ------· ----- 0 15 0 1 Cours do------0 10 o, 1 Liney Blanket ------0 15 0 1 Cover Lid------1 0 0 1 Cover Liney Bed Cover ______0 15 0 1 Rouse (rose) Blanket------0 15 0 1 Liney (linen) Bed Cover ______0 15 0 12¼ yards of full doth ------5 10 3 1 desk------6 0 0 Saddle sursingle Bridle Mastingil and spurs ______4 10 0 1 Corner Cobard (cupboard) ______3 0 0 1 saddle bags ------0 14 0 1 Womans saddle ------3 0 0 £31 18 3 12 Brass Candle stikes and snuffers ______1 4 0 1 Coffee Mill ------0 9 0 8 Case knives and 11 forks ______0 9 0 2 Tankards and salt seller ----·------0 4 6 Case of Rasor hone and shaving box ______0 12 0 3 boles 6 plates sugar dish Tea pot cream pot 3 cups and sassers 6 tea spoons ------1 1 0 2 Dore bolts ------·------ 0 2 6 Barrel of books ------0 6 0 2 Smoth bourd guns and Snar Barrils ______3 16 6 1 Table and Liney (linen) Cover ______0 10 0 1 Bed, 2 Sheets, 2 pillars, Bolster and Liney Cover and stompt cover and under bed & Stid______11 0 0 One do, 2 sheets, liney cover, Bolster under bed and s.tid __ _ 8 0 0 30 yards of cotton Cloth at 3/ ______4 10 0 2 Cover lids ------2 0 0 £34 4 6 £ s. d 1 Chesf ------·-- __ 0 18 0 212 LILLARD GENEALOGY Teakittle ______1 0 0 1 Table------0 15 0 1 Silver Watch ------ 6 0 0 Sugar Box------0 18 0 43½ of 600 Thread ------4 17 0 27¼ of Corse Toe Thread ------1 1 0 5¼ of finest do ------0 6 3 9½ of 7 Cotton Thread ------3 0 0 1 Twill Bag ------0 9 0 2' Little Wheel Chef Reel & 17 spools ______1 10 0 1 Trunk------0 14 0 1 Bed and under bed 2 sheets & Cover Lid & Stid ______8 0 0 1 Bed do do do & liney blanket, bolster & stid ______8 10 0 1 do do do do Bolster & pillar & stid______10 0 0 140½ lbs wool------14 1 0 140 lbs of fethers a. 2/6 pr pound and tick______s 6 0 1 old bed quilt ------0 6 0 1 Bag------0 3 0 1 Twild Bag ------0 s 0 1 Falling Leaf Table ------1 4 0 £68 17 3 Two plane Rackoon hats ------2 14 0 1 lb. salt 1 lb. Capries 7 lbs Ginger and Brimstone ______0 5 6 3 Bottles ------0 5 0 2 pkse of Cards ------0 s 0 8 Chears (chairs) ------0 16 0 1 Slate------0 3 0 1 Looking Glass 2 towels & comb case 1 brush______0 7 6 Tobacco Box Fors flees Ink Powder and silver stock buckle and other Trumpery ------0 12 0 4 Barrels of salt 17 bushels a 10/ pr. bushel______8 10 0 2 axes 1 hoe frow and Rowel ______1 1 0 2 axes ------0 18 0 2 hackels ------0 18 0 1 handsaw drawing knife 2 sheers and lock______1 1 0 Shovil tongs and panhandeL ______0 12 a 2 Iron wedges foot ads and pinchers ______0 12 0 4 Clevises ------0 10 0 Lock Chair and other lumber ______0 16 0 Flaet Iron Cock Sa and other lumber______0 7 6 8 Reaphooks ------0 12 0 f 21 S 6 No.1 a parsel cloths ____ J ohn Lillard ______£1 13 0 No.2 do David Lillard ______3 0 t) No.3 do Daniel Lillard ____ :.______4 10 0 No.4 do Samuel McGinnis ______2 2 0 CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 213 No.5 do William McGinnis ------1 13 0 No.6 do Joseph Lillard ______2 0 0 No.7 do Thomas Lillard ------1 4 0 No.8 do one old hat to this John Chiles ______1 7 0 No.9 do one hat knpt. aded t'o this Ben Pulliam __ 2 11 0 No.10 do James Lillard ------1 10 0 No.11 do Ephraim Lillard______1 19 0 No.12 do David Jones ______1 16 0 1 lb. salts 1 lb. Copsir( ?) 1 ½ lb. Ginger & Brimstone _____ 0 5 6 3 Bottles ------0 5 0 £25 12 6 5 6 £25 7 0 (sigifl.ed) Jno. Cowan. James Harlan. Joseph Willis. A List of Obligations Payable to the Executors of John Lillard, Deceased. Benjamin Robinson & William Robinson for ______£ 21s. 0d. Ezekiel Smith & Uriah Taylor ______6 4 Gideon Higgins & Jesse Yocum ______36 12 James Wilson & James Harlan ______11 0 Thomas Monday & John Arnold ______3 0 do do ------4 7 John Hale & John Embree ______3 5 Edmond McKinney & Stephen Hanna ______2 15 4 Moses Rice & William D. Irwin______6 17 6 Stephen Hanna & James Hanna ______106 10 do & John Chiles ______: ______2 1 Chris Ludwick & Nimrod Stone ______9 8 Elias Fisher & George Butler ______3 14 James Lumpkins & John Lillard ______1 4 Jacob Woodson & John Thompson ______7 7 James Rice & Moses Rice ------"'"---- 10 10 6 Benjamin Fisher & Edw. Hughes ______15 0 Henry Cosat & James Curry ______4 6 Joseph Thomas & James Lillard ______29 15 Stephen Arnold & William Robinson ______18 18 Isaac Lansdale & John Thompson ______10 0 Joseph Allsup & John Thompson ______5 17 6 Thomas Durham & Edw. Pennington ______4 4 Edw. Hughes & Benj. Fisher ______2 15 John Eccles & James Thompson ______1 13 6 William Ray & James Harlan ______1 16 0 Robert Brown & Thomas Smith ______10 2 0 Barnard Deven & Arch Hamilton ______9 4 0 214 LILLARD GENEALOGY Isaac Coffman & James Davis ------2 12 0 A. Watkins & William Robinson ______9 6 0 James Murray & Saml. Shy ______13 0 0 Thomas West & James Hanna ______6 12 4 Richard Lewis & William Wood ------1 5 3 Aaron Conn & Dennis Wright ______1 5 0 James Hanna & Stephen Hanna ______1 10 18 William Savier & James Harlan ______2 0 2 John Cozine & James Harlan ______3 13 10 Stephen Arnold & William Robinson ______5 17 0 Mary Burton & David Jones ______1 11 0 Joseph Spencer & Nimrod Stone ______2 10 0 Johnson Pulliam & Robt. Slaughter ______6 0 0 do do ______2 16 0 Amt carried over ______£418 18 7 Amount Brt Over ______£418 18 7d. James Whitehouse & William McGinnis______5 0 O Lawrence Love & William Alexander______1 O 4 Arthur Burns & William A. Fry ______13 6 O James _Whitehouse & James Clark ______1 4 0 John Curry & William Adams ______3 12 O Thomas Owen & Joseph Willis ______9 16 O John Jordan & Fielding Delaney ______2 5 18 Nimrod Stone & Joseph Spencer ______4 1 2 James Davis & Henry Banta ______2 8 3 John McGinnis------10 6 6 John Lattimer ------7 19 3 Philip Bush ------7 12 O Dennis Wright & William Eastland ______5 9 1 Ann Lillard ------7 10 O Thomas Smith & Robert Brown ______7 8 3 ,Isaac Lansdale ------1 4 O James Harlan ------4 17 O Anthony Prewitt ------O 11 O Cash received at the Vendue ______5 19 0 Amount of bonus & Costs ______£525 19s. Legattees John Thompson & Joseph Willis______1 2 8 Thomas Lillard for Nancy Lillard ______57 11 0 John Chiles ------8 9 2¼ John Lillard ------29 1 10 David Jones ------81 7 2 Joseph Lillard ------3 1 3 Ephraim Lillard ______.______535 15 2 David Lillard ------182 17 4 James Lillard ______.:______38 11 4 Samuel McGinnis ------242 9 2 CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 215 William McGinnis ------70 5 3 Daniel Lillard ------165 16 6 Amount of the purchase of the Legatees ______f933 5 2½ 525 19 0 Total amount of Sales ______fl459 4 2½ 1 2 8 £1460 6 10½ THE CHILDREN OF CAPT. JOHN & SUSANNA (BALL) LILLARD: ( A) Lieutenant Christopher Lillard. Killed by Indians in 1794. (B) Thomas Lillard, m. Nov.23, 1791, to Susanna Slaughter. (C) John Lillard, m. May 4, 1786, Agnes Chiles. (D) Elizabeth Lillard, m. Mar. 7, 1785, John Chiles, Jr. (E) Anna Lillard, m.Apr.10,1794, to Seth Carson; m. 2nd on Dec. 8, 1796, to Benjamin Pulliam. (F) Mary (Polly) Lillard, m. Samuel McGinnis. ( G) Rev. Joseph Lillard, m. Elizabeth (Betsy) Hughes. (H) Susanna Lillard, m. Mar. 25, 1793, to David Jones. (I) Ephraim Lillard, I, m. Feb. 19, 1795, to Margaret Prather. (J) James Lillard,m. Apr. 18, 1795, to Elizabeth Moore Thomas. (K) Margaret (Patsey) Lillard, m. Feb. 19, 1795, to William McGinnis. (L) Daniel Lillard, m. Nov. 22, 1801, to Sarah (Sally) Gates. (M) Rev. David Lillard, m. Dec. 10, 1801, to Mary (Polly) Spencer. SIXTH GENERATION. (A) Christopher Lillard, son of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and came to Kentucky with his parents in 1782. He was never married. "Fayette County, July 1, 1794. Dear Father: I am happy to inform you of my good health and hope for the health and prosperity of your self and family. I have heard nothing worth com municating but knew your interest in all your children would make you anxious to hear from me. I had an experience similar to the one you had with the savages. While hunting game became separated from the others and discovered that I was in a savage infested locality, so climbed into a tree until they passed. Poor John Green was captured and dragged into the plain in full view from my perch. They were many so I was helpless to interfere in any way. They fell to Torturing their Captive John, after a very diabolical manner. They stripped him, they scalped him alive and after a castration they completed his 'ainoascon' ( old Indian for a man's member) in the punishment of Traitors· upon him. They slit him · with knives between his toes and fingers. They gashed him cruelly in the most Fleshy parts of his body, and stuck burning firebrands 216 LILLARD GENEALOGY in the open wounds. After viewing such a spectacle I thanked God when they departed and I could return to my company. Tomorrow we are ad vancing again. I am dear father your affectionate son &c. Christ0 Lillard. Capt. J. Lillard." An original land grant written on sheepskin is now in the possession of the writer, as follows: "Beverly Randolph, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Common wealth of Virginia, TO ALL WHOM these Presents shall come, Greeting, KNOW YE, that by Virtue and in Consideration of Part of Land Office Treasury Warrant Number Eleven Thousand one hundred and Eighty six Issued the Second day of March one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty-two, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Christopher Lillard, a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Three hundred Acres by Survey bearing date the Twentieth day of January one Thousand Seven hundred and eighty-five, lying and being in the County of Lincoln on Chap lains fork and Bounded as followeth To Wit, Begining at two White Oaks and hickory trees, Joseph Willis's South most corner of his Two hundred Acre Survey on said fork and running from thence South Twenty Degrees East Twenty Poles to Chaplains fork and crossing said fork and continuing the Course thirty-eight Poles to said fork and crossing said fork and con tinuing the course one hundred Eighty Poles and three eighths of a pole to a hickory, ash and sugar tree thence North Seventy Degrees East Eighty:five Poles to said fork and crossing the said fork and continuing the course in all Two hundred and Sixty Six Poles to a white Oak, Sugar and hickory trees standing on a branch thence North Twenty degrees West one hundred Eighty Poles and three eighths of a Pole to a Hickory tree corner to said Willis's survey thence South Seventy Degrees West Two hundred and Sixty six poles along said Willis's line to the beginning, with its Appurtenances; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land with its Appurtenances, to the said Christopher Lillard and his Heirs forever. IN WITNESS whereof, the said Beverley Randolph, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of VIRGINIA, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the lesser Seal of the said Common wealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the Seventh Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven and of the Commonwealth the Twelfth. (signed) Beverley Randolph. (seal)" On the back of this original grant is written very faintly "Rachel Lillard's land." In pencil is written the name "Florence Bowen," and almost obliterated is another handwriting, the only words of which can be read "Strong probability of love." This land grant is recorded in the Land Office at the State Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky and is also giv~n as follows in "Old Kentucky CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 217 Entries and Deeds," by W. R. Jillson: "Christopher Lillard, 300 acres, Book 1, page 330, entry 1-1, 1782, on Chaplin's Fork." On pages 48-9, Will Book II, Mercer County, Ky., Records is the will of Christopher Lillard: "Cincinnatti, July 25, 1794. Dear Father: I gladly inform you of my good health and ardent wishes for the health and prosperity of your self and family. I have advanced this: far without meeting any diffrculties more than what are common on such enterprizes. Should I be so unfortunate as not to return off the present expedition my wish is that Elizabeth Chiles and her children Heir the land I bought of Daniel Brodhead and the ballance of my property to be equally divided Between the whole of my other sisters and Brothers after paying all my debts. I have heard nothing worth ·communicating to you but what you have already been informed off I went to see Mr. Taylor who owns the Land on the upper side of Licking and adjoining the North East end of my and Popham's Land & from what information I am able to gather from him together with what I have had already, I am of opinion we shall hold all the Land on the east side of Licking except the part interferring with Mr. James Taylor from the knowledge you have of the Situation of my business together with the µapers I have left behind, in case I should not return you will know in what manner to proceed to the settlement of my business. I came by Mr. Will Vauters but thought it most proper not to have a platt of Popham's Land and mine returned to the surveyor untill I had got some account of this inter fearing claims on the upper side Licking but my wish is now that you or some of the boys go immediately to Mr. Vauter with the inclosed let ter and instruct him to .return the platt' directly and pay the ballance of the fee which I will repay on sight. I have already paid' Mr. Vanter fl' 2s. the ballance is owing me. I am well pleased with the appearance of the volunteers and thinki if they are not able to prevail against the savage arms that it will be useless ever to send out any less number against them. I am determined to serve the expedition in Capacity of a private as I have too much pride to wish to occupy any office that no other person covets. I am dear father your affectionate son &c. Christ0 Lillard. Capt. J. Lillard." On page 50, same record book, is the inventory of the personal estate of the Late Christopher Lillard, Deceased, appraised the 27th day of December, 1794: To Surtout Coat ------£1 16s. 1 Green Coat Jackett and Breeches Casimore______4 0 1 Blue Do. Velvet Breeches & Nankeen Jack______3 0 1 Striped· Nankin Coat & Vest & Breeches______3 0 1 Short Coat Strip Jackett & Breeches______3 0 218 LILLARD GENEALOGY 1 Pair Overalls and Hunting Shirt ______0 18 2 Check shirts ------··-·-- 0 18 4 ·white Shirt's __ ------3 12 ;Match Coat Blanket & Leggins ______0 6 Hat and Cover------ 0 12 Scalping Knife & 2 combs ------ 0 2 Pair Saddle Bags ------0 6 Saddle and sursingle ------··------. ______1 16 Horn ______- ____ ------15 0 Neck Cloth------0 6 £38 12s. (signed) Thomas Freeman. Joseph Willis. William Gates. Regardless of the fact that Christopher Lillard desired to be a. mere private, he was made Lieutenant' in Captain Arnold's Company on the Campaign of 1794 against the Indians, and on this perilous expedition he was killed by the savages. On pages 181-2, Will Book II, Mercer County, Ky. Records: "Thomas Lillard & John Chiles, Administrators of the late Christopher Lillard, Deceased, in a/c with the Legatees of the said Estate ______Dr. To the Amount of the Inventory and appraisement returned to the court------£38 12s. To Cash received of the Paymaster on Act'. of the service of the Deceased as Lieutenant in Capt. Arnold's Campy. on the Campaign, 1794 & Rec'd Novr (17)95 ______43 4 To ditto Received of Gabriel Slaughter______18 £82 14 Feb.7, 1795. CONTRA By Cash Paid John Lillard for Patsey Lillard Daniel & David Lillard as per receipt______9 3 By ditto Paid ditto as per receipt ______7 5 By ditto Paid Anna Carson do ______3 1 By ditto Paid Ephraim Lillard do______3 1 By ditto Paid Samuel McGinnis. do ______3 1 By ditto Paid David Jones do ______3 1 By ditto Paid John Lillard do ______3 1 By ditto Paid Joseph Lillard do ______3 16 By ditto Paid James Lillard do ______3 1 By ditto Paid Thomas Hanna, Sheriff, pr do______3 1 By ditto Paid Bart Conyiers as per Amt. & ReceipL 2 10d. By ditto Paid Warren H Barbee as pr Receipt_____ 3 5 By ditto Paid the Register & Survey fees in Regard CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 219 to Popham as per Article of Agreement & Receipt 6 1 3 By ditto Paid Ephraim Lillard as per acct______1 6 8 By Ballance Due ------29 8 3 £82 14 Od. 1800 Feb. 15. To Ballance due as per Contra------~------£29, 8s 3d There are Likewise in the Hands of the Administrators two bonds, one of Thomas Burke for the sum of £52 14s. 7d. due Sept. 5, 1794, which Burke is an inhabitant of Virginia and said to be insolvent in that State, the other is a Bond against Thomas T. Swain for the sum of £34 16s. which said Swain is an officer in the Continental Army and has been before the death. of the Decedent. Mercer County Set. Pursuant to an Order of the Court of Mercer County to us directed we have carefully examined the p,a pers and vouchers to us shuon we have settled the acct as is above stated. Given under our hands the 15th Feby 1800. Thomas Freeman. D. Knox. Mercer Set. July County Court, 1800. This settlement of the Estate of Christopher Lillard, deed, was exhibited into Court which examined and allowed of by the Court is orderedt to be recorded. Teste: Thos. Allen. C.C. (B) Thomas Lillard, son of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was brought to Ken tucky by his parents in 1782. On March 5, 1790, he was married' to Susanna Slaughter, sister of Governor Gabriel Slaughter of Kentucky. Minister J. Sutton performed their wedding ceremony. In the year 1796, Thomas Lillard was the Commissioner of Taxes for the lands lying south of the Kentucky River in Franklin County. (Register, Ky. State Hist. Soc.). In the Mercer County Tax List of 1795, Thomas Lillard is listed as possessing 6 slaves, 7 horses and 2 2 cattle. In the War of 1812, Thomas Lillard was a member of Capt. James C. Price's Company, Lewis' Regiment of Kentucky Volun teers. Issue: (1) NANCY LILLARD, mentioned in Capt. John Lillard's will, married on Sept. 15, 1806, to Samuel Thompson. This wedding is given in Early Franklin County Mar riages, "Sept. 15, 1806, Samuel Thompson & Nancy Lil- 220 LILLARD GENEALOGY lard. Attest: Daniel Weisiger. Bondsman: Thomas Lil lard." (C) John Lillard, Jr., son of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on August 16, 1760, and came to Kentucky with his parents in 1782. On May 4, 1786, he married in Mercer County, Kentucky, to Agnes Chiles, daughter of John Chiles, Sr., a neighbor of Capt. John Lillard, who resided on an adjoining farm. Agnes (Chiles) Lillard was a sister of John Chiles, Jr., who married John Lillard's sister Elizabeth Lil lard. This is the family for which Chiles Street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was named. John Lillard, Jr., ancir his wife, removed from near Harrods burg to what is now Lawrenceburg, and died in Anderson County, Kentucky, on May 7, 1842, and was buried in the old Lillard graveyard out on Carpenter's Lane where it crosses Salt River. This is the lane which passes in front of the present home of Harrison Boyle Carpenter, Sr., called "Wildwood." Major McKee stated that John Lillard, Jr., and his brother Ephraim Lillard, I, were the outstanding fighters of Anderson County (then Frank lin County). In those days they had meetings of the military forces in each county. The one in Anderson County took place on one of the Salt River bottoms. While to all intents and purposes it was a meeting for military training, in fact it was a meeting in which the consumption of liquor and fist fights predominated. After these fights it was the rule for the victor to thumb out the eye of his victim. It is sufficient to say that John and Ephraim Lillard had perfect eyesight up until the time of their deaths. Another story told by Christopher Marion Lillard to Marion W. Ripy of New York, is as follows : "John Lillard's home on Salt River was located on a hog-back, to the north and to the south were springs. The cattle and slaves used the spring to the south while the northern spring was used by the white · people of the house. Someone poisoned the southward spring so John Lillard went to a soothsayer to find out' about it. My grandfather in telling me about this, walked up the hillside. He said that John Lillard was told by the soothsayer that if he would go on a certain night to this. pair of bars at eleven o'clock, two men would climb over the bars and they were the people who had poisoned the spring. Just before we got to the place where the bars then were, my grandfather told me they went to the bars on the night named and he indicated by pointing, and said: 'they were buried there.' It is sufficient to say that no more cattle or slaves were lost." CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 221 John Lillard's will was probated in the Anderson County Court on June 12, 1843, in which are mentioned: Daughters, Elizabeth McGinnis, Susanna Collins; g,randchildren: Clement Lillard, Frances Lillard ( now Frances Butts) & Elizabeth Lillard ( now Elizabeth Walker), children of my son John Lillard, deceased; sons Chistopher Lillard and Garland Lillard; grandsons John McClain and Orastus McClain, sons of daughter Sarah McClain, deceased; son, Thomas J. Lillard; grandchildren, John and Ellender Dawson, children of my daughter Agnes Dawson, de ceased; son James Chiles Lillard; grandchildren, John Whittington son of Martha Whittington, deceased; Agnes McGinnis, daughter of Eliza beth McGinnis, and Elizabeth Ann Lillard, daughter of son Christopher Lillard; son David M. Lillard. Executors: Wife, Aignes Lillard andi sons Christopher and Thomas J. Lillard. Issue: (1) John Lillard, III, m. Elizabeth Penny, daughter of John Penny, Sr. His will recorded in Will Book 7, page 23, Mercer County Ky., Records, sets forth the following relationships: Son, Clement Lillard; father-in-law, John Penny, Sr; wife, Elizaibeth Lillard. In the settlement of his estate page 318 Vol. 9 are mentioned: "William S. Butts, and his wife the late Frances Lillard, daughter of the deceased; Clement Lillard the only son of the deceased; and Elizabeth Lillard, the youngest child." His will was dated Jan.17,1821, and probated in the Mercer County Court' in July, 1821. Issue: (la) Frances Lillard, m. William S. Butts. (lb) John Clement Lillard,m.Aug.14,18.34, Frances Ann Buck ley. (le) Elizabeth Lillard, m. Oct.6, 1835, John Walker. ( 2) Agines (Aggie) Lillard, married Mr. Dawson. Issue: (2a) John Dawson. (2b) Ellender D::.wson. (3) Elizabeth Lillard, m. Feb. 2.3, 1807, to William McGinnis. Issue: (3a) Agnes McGinnis. (4) .Susanna Lillard, m. Nov. 21, 1809, to Robert Collins. ( 5) Sarah (Sally) Lillard, m. Mr. McClain. Issue: (Sa) John McClain. (Sb) Orastus McClain. (6) David Monroe Lillard, m. July 14, 1835, to Mary Ann Piper, daughter of Thomas H. Piper. ( 7) Garland Lillard married. Issue: '(7a) John Lillard of Lexington, Ky. 222 LILLARD GENEALOGY (8) Martha A. Lillard, m. Dec. 5, 1831, to James H. Whittington. Issue: (Sa) John \,Vhittington. (9) General Chistopher Lillard, b. July 19, 1795; d. Aug.17, 1855 of cholera. Married Jan. 5, 1819, to Sallie Ann Blackwell (b. Oct.8,1799; d. May 5, 1833). In the War of 1812, Christopher Lillard was a member of Captain Ellerston's Mounted Infantry, also served under Capt. Robtt. McAfee, Colonel Richard M. Johnson's Regiment; also served in Capt. Thomas Moore's com pany under Major Peter Dudley. He enlisted three times during the period of this war. He was commissioned from a lieutenant through the grades to commanding General of Kentucky troops. The original Commissions are now in the possession of Marion W. Ripy of New York. These commissions bear the signatures of Governors Shelby, Adair, Slaughter, Desha and others and are countersigned by John Breckinridge and T.T.Crittenden. Gen eral Lillard was· sent as a member of a reconnoitering party to try and capture Proctor when he fled after the Battle of the Thames. They followed Proctor back into the wilds of Canada some eight or ten miles and then returned without capturing him. During this advance General Lillard killed an Indian and also a British dragoon. Dr. Gustavus Dedman Lillard of Lawrence burg, Ky., has the old pistol taken from the British dragoon; while Christopher Marion Lillard, Jr., has the tomahawk taken from the Indian. This tomahawk, by the crosses scratched on the handle, indicates that it has killed; at least a dozen men, women and children. This information is gotten from the crosses; a large double cross indicates a man; a large single cross a woman; a small single cross a child. For years the family had the Indian's scalp. On August 16, 1835, General Christopher Lil lard married his first cousin, Minerva Lillard, daughter of James and Elizabeth Moore (Thomas) Lillard. Minerva (Lillard) Lillard died Aug. 19, 1855, just two days after the death of General Christopher Lillard, her husband. Issue: (By Sallie Ann Blackwell Lillard) (9a) Christopher Marion Lillard, b. Oct. 22, 1819; d. June 19, 1910; m. Oct. 26, 1843, to Frances McGuire (b.July 28, 1825; d. Jan. 2, 1897). Issue: (9aa) Mary Eliza Lillard, h. Dec.22, 1844; d.Jan.11, 1845. (9ab) Sarah Helen Lillard, b. Aug. 14, 1846; d. Oct. 18, 1927; m. Aug. 25, 1869, to James Porter Ripy (b. Apr. 2, 1844; d. Feb. 11, 1922). Issue: (9aba) James Beebe Ripy, b. May 23, 1870; m. Jan. 24, 1923, to Flora A. Elkington. No issue. With CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 22J Louisville Trust Company, and resides in Louisville. (9abb) Marion Wallace Ripy, b. Nov. 14, 1873; m. Dec. 22, 1921, to Charlotte Millett Jacobi of Man chester, Vt. Mr. Ripy is a promi nent lawyer of New York City. Address: 42 Broadway, New York, N. Y. (9abc) Hardie B. Ripy, b. Sept. 27, 1875; m. 1st. Feb. 9, 1898, to Ethel Gist; m. 2nd, Jan. 1, 1923, to Bessie Harkins. Resides at 1621 Euclid Street, Washington, D. C. Issue (9abca) Margaret Ripy, b. Feb. 18, 1899; m. Dec. 28, 1922, to George Elgin Morrison. Ad dress : F r a n k f ort, Kentucky. Issue: (9abcaa) G e o rge Elgin Morrison, Jr., b. Oct. 15, 1923. (9abcab) Et h e 1 Kathleen Morri son, b. Oct. 19, 1927. (9abd) Col. Francis Lillard Ripy, b. Sept. 23, 1878; m. Oct. 12, 1923, to Mrs. Elizabeth Hazelrigg Hall, daughter of Judge Hazelrigg. No issue. Was Lieutenant-Colonel in World War, 88th Division. (9abe) Helen Ripy, b. Jan. 4, 1883; m. Dec. 27, 1916, to Thomas A. McWhorter. Address: Magnolia, Texas. Issue: (9abea) Frank R. McWhorter, b. Feb. 19, 1918. (9abeb) Thomas Osborn Mc \\Thorter, b. Feb. 27, 1920. (9ac) Robert Mortimer Lillard, b. Nov. 17, 1848; d. Oct. 13, 1866. Unmarried. (9ad) Mary Wallace Lillard, b. Aug. 13, 1851; d. May 29, 1895; m. May 15, 1879, to Alexan- 224 LILLARD GENEALOGY der C. Miles (b. July 1, 1850; d. Nov. 4, 1921). Issue: (9ada) Fannie Mae Miles, b. Feb. 4, 1880; m. Nov. 10, 1919, to John William Jones. No issue. (9adb) Frank Lillard Miles, h. May 16, 1881; m. Dec. 8, 1909, to Mae Laura Hodges. No issue. (9adc) Helen Ripy Miles,m. Jan. 20, 1909, to Jesse Woolfolk Gulley. She died Jan.12, 1910. Issue: (9adca) Robert Lillard Gulley, b. Jan. 1, 1910. (9add) Ella Agnes Miles, m. Dec. 2, 1915, to William H. Carter. Issue: (9adda) William C. Carter, b. Jan30, 1918. (9addb) Jane Lillard Carter, b. Dec. 18, 1923. (9addc) Francis M. Ca.rter, b. Oct.22,1926; d. Feb. 13, 1927. (9ae) Christopher Marion Lillard, Jr., b. Nov. 28, 1853; m. June 6, 1883, to Sallie Hawkins. Issue: (9aea) Mary Frances Lillard, b. Apr. 14, 1884; m. B.R.Bacon of Frank fort, Ky. Issue: (9aeaa) Sarah Lillard Bacon, b. Nov. 22, 1913. (9aeb) James RipyLillard, b. Sept. 3, 1885. (9af) Sammie Lillard, b. Nov. 27, 1859; d. Aug.8, 1860. (9ag) Fannie Martha Lillard, b. June 26, 1861; m. July 4, 1883, to James Thomas Boswell. Issue: (9aga) Nell Duncan Boswell, b. June 2, 1884; m. June 12, 1912, to Robert A. Burton. Issue: (9agaa) George Claypool Bur ton, II. (9agb) Ina Mae Boswell, b. June 16, 1885; m. Nov. 29, 1911, to George Claypool Burton. No issue. (9agc) Marjorie Boswell, b. Jan. 4, 1887; CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 225 m. June 23, 1914, to Charles S. Bell. Issue: (9agca) Robert Lansford Bell. (9agd) Robert Rhodes Boswell, b. July 24, 1889; m. Jan. 10, 1920, to Lillie Vivian Snodgrass. Issue: (9agda) William Rhodes Bos well. (9agdb) James Thomas Bos well. ( 9agdc) Marion Lillard Bos well. (9agdd) Nancy Lynn Boswell. (9age) Marion Thomas Boswell, b. June 3, 1891; m. June 26, 1917, to Breene Gale Loughridge. Issue: (9agea) Thomas Gale Boswell. (9ageb) Mary Breene Boswell. (9agf) James Robinson Boswell, b. May 1, 1893; m. Dec. 10, 1919, to Theresa Pawelski. Issue: (9agfa) James Robert Bos well. (9agg) Fan Lillard Boswell, b. Oct. 3, 1894; m. Oct. 6, 1915, to Wil liam Biggs Tabler. Issue: (9agga) James Boswell Tabler. (9aggb) William Biggs Tabler, Jr. (9ah) Dr. Gustavus Dedman Lillard, b. Dec. 14, 1864; m. Nov. 14, 1917, to Ola Bullock Bowles. Practicing physician at Lawrence burg, Ky. No issue. (9b) John Horre Lillard, b. Jul.20, 1821; d. Feb. 9, 1855; m. Oct. 5, 1848, Artemesia Hamilton. He died in Missouri; was a 49'er; fought in Mexican war. Had a daughter, Mary Lillard who resided in Texas. (9c) Martha Frances Lillard, b. Oct.10, 1823; d. Mar.27, 1866; ; m. Oct. 5, 1841, to Coleman J. Jennings, who was killed by a runaway horse on a rocky hill in Stout's woods, on Get. 16, 1850. She married 2nd., Oct. 20, 1857, to John C. Bettersworth (d.1882). No issue by second marriage. Issue: (By Coleman J. Jennings) (9ca) John Milton Jennings, b.Dec. 15, 1842; d. 226 LILLARD GENEALOGY June 28, 1889; m. May 5, 1864, Martha Ellen McCoun, (b. Sept.to, 1842; d. Nov. 8, 1911. Issue: (9caa) Mary Lizzie Jennings, b. Mar.26, 1865; m. Oct. 15, 1885, John T. Skeldon. Issue: (9caaa) Golden Skeldon, Madi son, Ind., and others. (9cab) William Coleman Jennings, b. May 29,1866; d. Mar.18, 1892. (9cac) Charles Jennings,b.Sep.22,1867 ;d. Apr.1, 1868. (9cad) Ella C. Jennings, b. Aug. 13, 1869; m. James S. Garrett, Sept. 8, 1892. Issue: (a) Leonard Wilson Garrett,b. 1896; d. June 10, 1900. · (b) Jessie Jensen Gar ret,b.Sep.3, 1893; m. Dec. 26, 1912, William John son and had Dorthy Mae J ohnson,b. Aug. 7, 1914; Billy Lou Ella Johnson, b. May 1, 1920; and Jack Johnson, b. Feb. 6, 1923. (9cae) Infant b. June 12,1871 ;d.Feb.1, 1872. (9caf) Harvie S. Jennings,b.Nov.20,1874; d. Mar.6, 1882. (9cag) Dolly Jennings, b. Oct. 13, 1876;d. Feb. 20, 1878. (9cah) Margaret Jennings,b.Apr.5, 1879;d. Feb.22, 1926. (9caj) Ula Jennings, b. Jan. 19, 1880; d. Jan. 15, 1882. (9cak) Nettie Jennings, b. Dec. 27, 1882; m. Dec. 17, 1902, to Strother L. McGinnis. Issue: ( a) Lois Mc Ginn is,b.Feb.2, 1904; (b) Ellis McGin nis, b. Apr. 1.3, 1906; (c) John Milton McGinnis, b. Oct. 29,1908; (d) Strother L. McGinnis, Jr.,b. May 24, 1911. (9cb) Mary Adeline Jennings, b.1846; d. 1854. (9cc) Coleman Christopher Jennings,b.Mar.16, 1851; CA1Y£. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 227 m. 1st, Apr. 12, 1876, Alice E. Rowlett(d. Nov.1904); m.2nd, Nov. 23, 1905, Catherine Sledge. Issue: (By Alice (Rowlett) Jennings) ( 9cca) Carey Jennings, b. Jan. 18 77 ; m. 1904 to Pearl Curtner and had: (a) Lillard C. Jennings, b. 1907; (b) Delma Jennings, b. 1910; (c) R. S. Jennings, b.1915 ;d. 1926. ( 9ccb) Charles C. Jennings, b. Oct. 18 7 9 ; d. 1925, unmarried. (9ccc) Jasper Jennings, b. 1881; m.1912, .Edith Sappington, and had: (a) Dwight A. Jennings, b. July 23, 1913, d.Sep.24, 1915; (b) Alice Belle Jennings, b. July 24, 1916; (c) Raymond Jennings, b. Sept. 26, 1918; (d) Linn A. Jennings, b. Mar. 12, 1922; ( e) Jasper K. Jennings, b. Sept. 7, 1925; d. Nov.4,1926; (f) Bertha Mae Jen nings, b. June 8, 1927. ( 9ccd) Susie E. Jennings, b. Mar.1884; m. D.A. Sullivan. (9cce) Coleman Christopher Jennings,Jr., b.Oct.23, 1888;m. Mar. 15, 1914, Mabel Harmon, and had (a) Les lie Floyd Jennings, b.Mar.1 7, 1915; (b) Marion K.. Jennings, b. Feb. 27, 1907; d. in infancy; ( c) Rowena Mildred J ennings,b. Dec. 3, 1920; ( d) Coleman Christo pher Jennings, III, b.Sep.4, 1923. (By Catherine (,Sledge) Jennings) (9ccf) Sarah S. Jennings., b. Mar. 30, 1907. (9ccg) Martha Frances Jennings, b. Sep. 24, 1909. (9cch) Mary A. Jennings. b. Mar. 22, 1912. (9cci) Thomas S. Jennings, b. June 6, 1916. (9d) Robert Rhodes Lillard, b. Jan. 10, 1826;d. June 27, 1849. Baptist minister; educated Georgetown(Ky) Col lege; asst. editor of the Western Review, Baptist paper. M. to Ann Whitley of Boyle Co., Ky. Buried Boyle Co. They had one son, Robert W. Lillard, who mar ried 1st. Susie Craig ( d.1904) and had two children Ashley Lillard and Sadie Lillard. He married second/ 228 LILLARD GENEALOGY to Fannie Graves and had one son, Robert W. Lillard, Jr. (9e) Mary Agnes Lillard, b. Sep.8, 1827 ;d.Mar.15, 1901; m. Oct.4, 1848, to Thomas Phirl (d. Aug.1855, of cholera). Shem. 2nd Oct.20, 1857, to Major John Draffen, law yer, a 49'er, and a member of Congress. Issue (By Thomas Phirl): (9ea) Lulie Phirl m. Jasper Lyons of Lawrenceburg, Ky., and had (a) Mabel Lyons m. Roscoe Fiegei and had a son Stanley Lyons Fiege of New Orleans, La. (b) Mary Lyons m. Wil liam R. Covington, a Baptist minister and had Mabel Louise Covington and Cecil Cov ington. ( c) Stanley Lyons, died unmarried. (9eb) Maude Phirl m. John Coulter of Lawrence burg, Ky., and had (a) Wallace Coulter, d. unmarried; (b) Phirl Coulter married and had a son John Coulter; (c) Edwin Coulter, of Louisville, Ky. (By Major John Draffen.) (9ec) Edwin Draffen m. his 1st cousin, Alma Phirl. He m. 2nd Lula Storts, who resides at the old home in Anderson County, Ky. Issue: (By Alma (Phirl) Draffen) (9eca) Hazel Draffen m. John Irvin Blakemore. (9ecb) Ima Draffen, m. John Harold Bevan of Fort Worth, Texas. (9ecc) Errol W. Draffen m. Marzette Gudgel. He is Asst. Federal Dist. Atty., for Eastern Dist. of Ky. Nominated for Congress. but was defeated. Address: Harrods burg, Ky. (9ecd) Edna Draffen m. James Simpson. (9ece) John Draffen d. 1921. (9ecf) Mary Lillard Draffen m. Claud Lane. (By Lula (Storts) Draffen) (9ecg) Edythe Draffen. (9ech) Margaret Draffen. ( 9eci) Robert Draffen. ( 9ecj) Jennie Lee Draffen. (9eck) Ruth Draffen. (9f) Ann Elizabeth Lillard, b. Dec. 20, 18.30; d. Jan. 21, 1856. m. Smyth Myers. Resided in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Issue of General Christopher Lillard (By Minerva (Lil lard) Lillard) (9g) Sarah Pauline Lillard, b. Nov. 1, 1840; d. July 14, 1904; m. May 11, 1858, to Dr. Robert Irvine McQuiddy, a CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 229 physician and druggist of Lawrenceburg, Ky., who was the brother of Mrs. Martha (McQuiddy) Lillard, wife of Ephraim Lillard, II. Dr. McQuiddy was born in 1831. They are buried in the Lawrenceburg Cemetery. Issue: (9ga) Percy McQuiddy, b. 1859, d. aged 10 years, of scarlet fever. (9gb) Albert McQuiddy, d. in infancy, of scarlet fever. (9gc) Wallace McQuiddy, d. when 18 months old of membraneous croup. (9gd) Robert Bell McQuiddy contracted measles when ten days old and died aged 1 month. (9h) Minerva Christine Lillard, b. Mar. 5, 1844; d. May 5, 1897; m. 1864, to Cale Miller. They resided in Kansas City, Mo. · Issue: (9ha) Elton Miller, Kansas City, Mo. (9hb) Amye Miller, Kansas City, Mo. (9hc) Percy Miller, Kansas City, Mo. (9i) Alma Thomas Lillard, b. May 15, 1848; d. Jan. 6, 1926; m. Aug. 24, 1869, to Judge John I. Felix. Issue: (9ia) John Cecil Felix, b. Feb. 16, 1871. (9ib) Albert Thomas Felix, b. Jan. 5, 1873; d. 1927; m. Apr. 18, 1895, to Della Whitney. He was a minister of the Christian Church. (9ic) Christine Jene Felix, b. May 10, 1874; m. James 0. Shouse of \Voodford County, Ky. Issue: (9ica) John Felix Shouse. (9icb) James Lillard Shouse. (9id) Lucien Lillard Felix, b. Mar. 10, 1879; m. June 22, 1910, to Evelyn Greenwood. Issue: (9ida) Alma Sue Felix, b. Nov. 11, 1911. ( 9idb) Evelyn Lillard Felix, b. Aug. 7, 1918. (10) James Chiles Lillard, b. Sept. 24, 1809; d. Apr. 16, 1875; m. Feb. 3, 1842, to Rebecca Jane Case (b. Aug. 20, 1826; d. July 2, 1902). He ·went from Kentucky in early life, shortly after his marriage, to Missouri, later moving westward to Kansas. Issue: (10a) James Henry Lillard, b. in Barry, Kansas, May 15, 1851, m. July 11, 1872, to Mary Jane Janes(b.Dec. 24, 1854). He settled in Rossville, Kansas, where he died; July 29, 1915. Issue: ( lOaa) John Andrew Lillard, b. Rossville, Kansas, May 17, 1873; m. Oct. 31, 1900, to Mary Martin,(b.Jan. 6, ·1882). 230 LILLARD GENEALOGY Issue: (l0aaa) John Lee Lillard, b. Sept.22, 1901. (lOab) Ophelia Lillard, b. Feb. 21, 1876; m. Oct. 31,1900, to Edward L. Willie. After his death she married Frank Lane. (lOac) James Monroe Lillard, b. Sept. 8, 1877; m. Apr. 18, 1906, to Myrtle May Marney (b. Apr. 14, 1886). He is a farmer, Valencia, Kans. Issue: ( lOaca) Mildred M. Lillard, b.Augi.28, 1907. .. (lOacb) Thelma Lucy Lillard, b.July 4, 1909. (l0acc) James Monroe Lillard, Jr., b. July 7, 1919. (l0acd) Margie Jean Lillard, b. Mar. 8, 1927. (lOad) Lucinda Jane Lillard, b. Oct. 9, 1879; d. Aug. 16, 1908; m. Charles Dunnaway of Lawrence, Kansas. Issue: (lOada) Gladys Dunnaway,m. Herbert Bruce. (lOadb) Ruby Dunnaway, m. Percy Parr. ( 10ae) Thomas M. Lillard, b. Nov. 18, 1881 ; d. July 11, 1882. (lOaf) Rufus Allison Lillard, b. May 22, 1883; m. Apr. 2 7, 1907, to Nellie Martin (b. Oct. 8, 1892). He is a farmer. Issue: (l0afa) Mary Jane Lillard, b. Feb. 2, 1908. Schoolteacher. (l0afb) Glendon Louis Lillard, b. Apr. 27, 1910. (l0afc) Lucie Vernadele Lillard, b. Oct 1, 1914. (lOag) Hiram Christopher Llllard, b. Sept. 5, 1885; m. Apr. 3, 1907, to Jennie Marney (b.Sept. 14, 1890). Issue: (lOaga) Viola Lillard, b. July 25, 1909; m. Mar. 3, 1926, to Foss Strimple (b. Oct. 6, 1903). Issue: (l0agaa) Duane Strimple, b. Jan. 4, 1927. (lOah) Martha Lillard, b. July 30, 1888; d. July CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 231 12, 1921; m. Arthur Schroeder, & had 1 child. (l0ai) Benjamin Bradley Lillard, b. May 9, 1890. Married and had many children one of whom was a son named Warren Lillard. (l0aj) Rebecca Ann Lillard, b. June 29, 1892; d. June 25, 1918; m. Frank Emanuel. Issue: (lOaja) Edith Emanuel, b. July 3, 1909. (10b) Jane Lillard, married Mr. Perry. Address: Holton, Kans. Doubtless others. ( 11) Thomas Jefferson Lillard married Nancy Mountjoy. They re sided near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Issue: (lla) Dr. William Wallace Lillard, m. Harriet King of Bour bon County, Ky. Practiced medicine at Columbus, Ky. Served in the Confederate Army and was wounded; died before the close of the Civil War. Issue: ( 11 aa) Robert Lillard. (llab) Thomas Lillard. ( 11 ac) King Lillard. (11b) Emrin Lillard, b. Apr. 1, 1830; d. June 15, 1917; m. Feb. 1850, to Charles Nicholas Kavanaugh (b.1822; d. 1863). Issue: (llba) Dr. Charles William Kavanaugh,b. Apr.7, 1858; m.lst. Susan Mullins; 2nd. Rhoda Caldwell. Principal of Kavanaugh School at Lawrenceburg, Ky. Issue: (By Susan (Mullins) Kavanaugh) (llbaa) Dr. Charles Nicholas Kava naugh, b. Feb.13, 1893 ;m. Apr. 1924, to Elizabeth Chenault. Address: Lexington, Ky. (By Rhoda (Caldwell) Kavanaugh) (llbab) Aileen Kavanaugh, b. June 13, 1896; m. June, 1921, to Dr. S. R. Boggess. Batesville, In diana. (llbac) Lucy Emrin Kavanaugh, b. July 27, 1901; m. Sept.8, 1922, Jerre Beam, Russellville, Ky. (llbb) Aileen Kavanaugh, b. Sept. S, 1854; m. Feb. 1, 1876, to Dr. John Webster Gilbert(b.June 6, 1851; d. Feb. 7, 1893). Address: 229 E. Woodford Street, Lawrenceburg, Ky. Issue: 232 LILLARD GENEALOGY {llbba) Emrin Gilbert, b. Feb. 20, 1877. Unmarried. (llbbb) Dr. John Whitting,ton Gilbert, b. Sept.19, 1880; m. Nov. 19, 1913, to Agnes McKee. Ad dress: Lawrenceburg, Ky. Issue: (llbbba) Aileen Kavanaugh G i 1 b e rt,b. Aug. 24, 1914; d. in infancy. (llbbbb) Betty McKee Gil bert, b. Nov. 4, 1915. (llbbbc) Agnes Mor an c y Gilbert, b. Mar. 15, 1917. (llbbbd) Madeline Gilbert, b. Aug. 31, 1918. (llbbbe) John Webster Gil bert, b. Nov. 21, 1920. ( 11 bbbf) G e or g e Freeman Gilbert, b. Nov. 13, 1922. (l lbbbg) Allan Carlton Gil bert, b. Feb. 1, 1924. {llbbc) George H. Gilbert, b. Sept. 19, 1883. Unmarried. Address: Baltimore, Md. (llbbd) James Freeman Gilbert, b. Jan. 2,1892; unmarried. Address: Osgood, Indiana. (llc) Christopher C. Lillard, b. Dec. 22, 1832; d. July 27, 1896; m. Aug. 2, 1854, to Susan Margaret' Bond . .Issue: (llca) Roger ·Hanson Lillard, m. June 14, 1888, to Mary Louise Burrus, daughter of Preston Burrus of Mercer County, Ky. She died on May 9, 1927. Issue: ( 11 caa) Margaret Elizabeth Lillard, m. William Edward Dowling, of Lawrenceburg, Ky. Issue: ( 11 caaa) Ann E 1 i z a b e th Dowling. ( l lcaab) Mary Dowling. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 233 (llcab) Jessie May Lillard. Unmar ried. (llcac) Mary Louise Lillard, m. 1927, to Duke Webb Young of Car lisle, Ky. (llcb) Wallace Lillard, b. Apr. 15, 1867; d. Oct. 9, 1919; m. June 29, 1886, to Dr. J. Sprole Lyons, (b. Feb. 8, 1861) son of Jonathan and Nancy (Alexander) Lyons. Jonathan Lyons came to America from the North of Ireland when he was seven years old. His mother was then a widow and came to America with her three small sons. One of them died a bachelor in Philadelphia, another went to sea and was never heard from again, and the third was Jonathan Lyons. He studied for the ministry at Union Seminary, New York. His second wife was Nancy Alexander of East Tennes see. They had eight children. The Alex anders were from Mechlenburg Co., Va., where three of Dr. J. Sprole Lyons' direct ancestors were signers of the Mechlenburg Declaration of Independence. Issue: (llcba) John Sprole Lyons, Jr., b. Sept. 21, 1888; m. June 27, 1917, to Maysie Sloan Lyles (b.Apr.9, 1890) daughter of W i 11 i am Strother and Mi r i a m Mays (Sloan) Lyles. He was gradu ated L o u i s v i 11 e Male High School,1907; Centre College, Danville, Ky.,A.B. 1911; Co lumbia Theological Seminary B. D., 1915; pastor of 4th Presbyterian C h u r c h, Green ville, S.C. Served in World War as 1st Lt. Chaplain, 118th Infy. Disabled while in line of duty in France, also gassed. Resident Director of Asheville School, N. C. Issue: (llcbaa) Mary Wall ace Lyons, b. May 29, 1921. (llcbab) Maysie Sloan L y o n s, b. Sept. 19, 1924. 234 · LILLARD GENEALOGY (llcbb) William Wallace Lyons, b. July 8, 1894; m. May 4, 1926, to Alice Whipple(b. at Cordele, Ga., Jan.19, 1902). Attorney, Candler Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Associated with Underwood, Haas & Gambrell. Educated at Louisville, Ky., Male High School ( 1913) ; Centre College (1913-14); then Princeton Univ., graduating there, A.B., 191 7; attended First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Mc Pherson, Ga., 1917; sailing for France as casual Sept. 7, 1917. Student at Saumur (France) Artillery School Oct.-Dec.1917; Jan.-Apr., 1918, with 6th Field Artillery, 1st Div.; May-Dec. 1918, Instructor at Saumur Ar tillery School; Jan. -June, 1919, with 124th Field Artillery, 33d Div. Army of Occupation in Luxembourg. Discharged June, 1919. Graduated 1922, Harv ard Law School. Practiced one year in Washington, D.C. Moved to Atlanta, Ga., where he has p r a c t i c e d ever since. Member of First Presbyterian Church. Issue: {llcbba) Alice Whipple L y o n s, b. May 26, 1927, at Cor dele, Ga. (11cc) William Franklin Lillard married Louise Parlin Lillard. Mrs. Louise Parlin Lil lard is the President of the Snow King Bak ing Powder Co. She resides at Flat J, 2508 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. · Issue: ( 11 cca) William Parlin L i 11 a rd, m. Margaret Stahl of Lexington, Ky. He is Vice-Pres., Snow King Baking Powder Co. Ad dress: 1256 Paddock Hills Ave., Cincinnati. Issue: CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 235 (llccaa) William Parlin ' Lillard, Jr. (llccab) Marg are t Stahl Lillard. (llcd) Ophelia Lillard married D. L. Merriwether of Louisville, Kentucky. Issue: (llcda) Lily Tryon Merriwether, m. George Digge. Address: New York,N.Y. (llcdb) Roger Lillard Merriwether, m. Marguerite-----. Ad dresss : Asheville, N. C. Issue: · (llcdba) Roger Lillard Mer riwether, Jr. (llce) Frankie Lillard married Dr. Ambrose Henry Witherspoon. Issue: (llcea) Eugenia Witherspoon, m. June Givens. Issue: , (llceaa) Ambrose Wither spoon Givens. (llceb) Emma Adelia Witherspoon, m. Dowling S t e w a r t, Frankfort, Ky. Issue: ( 1 keba) Jean Hall Stewart. ( 1lcebb) John D o w 1 i n g Stewart. {llcf) Jessie Mallette Lillard, b. at Riverside, their home place, Lawrenceburg, Ky., on Aug. 18, 1875; m. Nov. 1, 1894, to George MacLeod of Louisville, Ky., (b.Florence,Ky., Jan. 27, 1868) son of John MacLeod(b. July, 1837 at Marlborough, Md; d. Jan.21,1900, at Louisville) and his wife, Mary Lizzie (Doom) MacLeod (b.Bardstown,Ky.,Dec.6, 1847; d. Dunkirk,N.Y.,Jan.17,1926). Mr. McLeod's parents were married at Cane Spring, Bullitt Co., Ky., on Nov.21,1864. Issue: , (llcfa) Mary MacLeod, b. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 28, 1896; m. at "Dunweg:an," their home near Versailles, Ky., June 9, 1920, to Joseph Nelson van Buren (b. Aug.16, 1894, d. Apr. 27, 1926.) Issue: 236 LILLARD GENEALOGY ( l lcfaa) M a r g a r e t v a n Buren, b. May 26, 1921. (llcfab) Julia Nelson van Buren, b. Mar. 7, 1923. ( 1 lcfac) Mary McLeod van B u re n, b. Feb. 14, 1925. ( 11 cfb) Margaret Lillard MacLeod, b. "Dunwegan," Dec. 24, 1900. Unmarried. Address: 710 Cen tral Avenue, Dunkirk, New York. ( lld) Ophelia Lillard, died unmarried. (lle) Susan Agnes Lillard married W. H. ~fontgomery. Issue: (llea) Frank Lillard Montgomery, lived at the old home place in Sherman, Texas. Later prac ticed law at Muskogee, Okla. Now an at torney. Address: Eufaula, Okla. (llf) Mildred Alice Lillard, b. Jan. 5, 1842; d. June 12, 1926; m. October 17th,1878, to John Phillip Conner, her brother-in-law. No issue. (llg) Mary E. Lillard, b. Jan. 1, 1843; d. Mar. 1, 1901; m. Aug. 25, 1863, to William Graves of Simpsonville, Ky., (b. May 1, 1816; d. Jan. 28, 1894). Issue: (llga) Sallie Lillard Graves, b. July 9, 1864; d. Aug. 17, 1864. This entire record is taken from the bible of Mary E. Lillard Graves. (llh) Sarah (Sally) Lillard, b. Nov. 19, 1843; d. Jan.28, 1876; m. Sept. 28, 1869, to John Phillip Conner, (b. Sept. 14, 1840; d. Jan. 8, 1920). Lived in Simpson ville, Ky., where both of them died. Issue: (llha) Mary Alice Conner, b. Augi. 1, 1870; m. Oct. 11, 1892, to Minnis Griffith of Carroll Co., Mo., (b. Jan. 14, 1870; d. July 6, 1926). She resides at Anchorage, Kentucky. Issue: (llhaa) John Harold Griffith, b. May 12, 1895; m.Oct. 28, 1915, to Ethel Cox of Middletown, Ky. Address Route 18, Anchorage, Ky. Issue: ( 11 haaa) S a r a h A d e 11 Griffith, b. May 18, 1918. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 237 ( 1 lhab) Lillard King Griffith, b. Aug. 2, 1897; d. Aug. 10, 1897. ( llhac) Mary Maurice Griffith,b.Aug.24, 1898; m.Feb.28, 1917, to Henry Thornton Quisenberry of Rich mond, Ky. Address: Simpson ville, Ky. Issue: (llhaca) W au nit a Blain Qui s enberry, b. Aug. 20, 1918. (llhacb) Mildred Thornton Q u i s e nberry b. Jan. 15, 1920. (11hacc) Irma Quisenberry, b. Feb. 15, 1924. (llhb) Lemuel King Conner, was private Secretary to Congressman George Gilbert for 5 years, having to give up this work the last year of his life on account' of ill health. He was a staunch Democrat and took an active part in politices. (lli) Ann Adelia Lillard, nicknamed "Cordie," and therefore by some was thought to be named "Cordelia," b. 1842; m. Dec. 8, 1868, to Lewis Johnson Witherspoon, son of Dr. Lewis Johnson and Susanna (Lillard) Wither spoon. He was born in 1840. They were second cousms. Issue: (llia) Cordie Witherspoon married Orrie Moore. ( llib) Miss Witherspoon married Bernard Griffy. (D) Elizabeth Lillard, daughter of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lil lard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and brought to Kentucky by her parents in 1782. She married on March 7, 1785, to John Chiles, Jr., who lived on a farm adjoining that of her father. This marriage is given on page 81, Vol. 12, No. 35, Register, Ky. State Hist'. Society, in Lincoln County Marriages. · In Will Book 3, pages 36-8, the will of John Chiles mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and their children William Chiles, Thomas Chiles, Susanna Chiles, Sa1ly Chiles, John Chiles, Elizabeth Chiles, and Polly Chiles; also deceased's brother-in-law, Christopher Lil lard. Executors of this will were Elizabeth (Lillard) Chiles and son William Chiles. Witnesses to the will were Thomas Freeman, William Gates, James Gates. It was dated Dec. 19, 1803; proved in the Mercer Set. March County Court, 1804. (E) Anna Lillard, daughter of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard, 238 LILLARD GENEALOGY was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and brought to Kentucky by her parents in 1782. On April 10, 1794, she married to Seth Carson. Minister Rice performed their marriage ceremony, (Mercer County, Ky., Records). On Dec, 8, 1796, Anna (Lillard) Carson married to Benjamin Pulliam. Minister Rice also performed their marriage service, (Mercer County, Ky., Records). (F) Mary (Polly) Lillard, daughter of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was brought to Kentucky, by her parents in 1782. She married to Samuel McGinnis. Nothing further is known. (G) Reverend Joseph Lillard, son of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1768, and was brought to Kentucky by his parents in 1782. He married Elizabeth (Betsy) Hughes. On page 919, History of Kentucky, Edition of 1887, John Morris Co., it is stated that Rev. Joseph Lillard: "was among the first to receive license as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Kentucky; joined the Western Conference in 1790, and travelled two years; preached the first Methodist sermon, and organized the first class in Illinois in 1793. He contributed largely for the erection of 'Joseph's Chapel,' and a similar church at Salvisa, which later he dedicated. In 1852 he started on a journey to Missouri, and was never afterward heard of by his friends. He was the son of Capt. John Lillard, a native of Culpeper County, Va., who died in 1801, and who was the son of Benjamin Lillard The family was well represented in the Revolutionary War." On page 448, Collins' History of Kentucky is the following: "Joseph Lillard was born in Virginia and came to Kentucky when he was quite young. He entered the itinerant ministry in 1790, and was appointed to the Limestone Circuit. His next and ( as a result of ill health) last appointment was to the Salt River Circuit. He located and then settled near Harrodsburg, and lived to a good old age. In his local :relations to the Church, altho as a preacher, unpretending, yet, by thr sanctity of his life and devotion to the church, he was very useful. He died about 185J, while on his way to Missouri. It is not known when, where or how he died. His friends think he was murdered." In Reynold's Pioneer History of Illinois, pages 257-8: "REV. JOSEPH LILLARD, Preacher of 1793. The next preacher who visted the Illinois Country was Rev. Jos. Lillard, a Methodist. Mr. Lillard had been in the 'traveling connection,' of the Methodist' Episcopal for several years. In l 790 he was placed on CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 239 the Lime-stone Circuit, Kentucky, a new one, and in 1791 on Salt River Circuit. In 179.3 he visited the Illinois, Country preached to the people, and spent some time there: Either then or at a future time he withdrew from the traveling connection, not being in favor of the government of that church. He organized the first class ever formed in this territory, and appointed Capt. Jos. Ogle class leader. The Captain not being a ready writer, his sister, Mrs. Tolin, kept the records for him. J\fr. Lillard: was esteemed by all as a pious and exemplary man; but while in Illinois he became afflicted with aberation of mind, made his escape from the house, and tho pursued, he outran his friends and followed the trail toward Kaskaskia. On the route he came across the body of a man by the name of Sipp, whom the Indians had killed and scalped, and while looking on this horrid picture, he became calm, his consciousness was restored, and he returned to his frieni:ls at New Design and made report of the discovery. The people made up a party and visited the spot and buried the unfortunate man. Mr. Lillard continued to preach the gospel as a kind of independent Methodist in Kentucky. Abouil twenty years or more since he made another visit to Illinois and preached in this county." On page 446, Collins' History of Kentucky,"Joseph Lillard, Henry Birchett, David Haggard and Samuel Tucker were appointed preachers." An original paper in the possession of Stout Lillard of Washing ton, D. C., is as follows: "A Discharge of J. Lillard--Miliatour(militia). I do hereby certify that Joseph Lillard base sarved a fifteen days touer as a Substitute for Samuel Bontour (Banta) at Stephen Lyens and is discharged given under my hand this 8th November, 1788. (signed) Ezekiel Lyens, Sarg." It is on the farm owned by Rev. Joseph Lillard, near Harrodsiburg, Kentucky, that the old Lillard graveyard is located. It is now called the old Dr. Powell farm. Here Capt. John Lillard and many others of the pioneer Kentucky Lillards were buried. Issue: (1) John Lee Lillard, b. Mercer County, Ky., May 9, 1797, m. Jan. 3, 1826, to Nancy Armstrong. He died Aug. 21, 1842. He was a farmer residing on the State Highway to Louisville, four miles north of Harrodsburg. Na11cy (Armstrong) Lillard died Aug. l, 1881. Issue: (la) Joseph Roland Lillard, b. June 27, 1827; d. Aug. 10, 1898; m. Feb. 12, 1852, to Mary Jane Wade (b. Jan. 2 2, 183 2 ; d. Aug. 16, 1910) daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Taylor) Wade. Issue: (laa) Jeremiah Wade Lillard, b. Jan. 17, 1853; d. Aug!. 26, 1853. 240 LILLARD GENEALOGY (lab) John Lee Lillard, b. July 20, 1854; d. June 30, 1883; m. Nov. 6, 1879, to Sally D. Vanarsdell, daughter of Jack V anarsdell. No issue. (lac) William Pierce Lillard, b. July 28, 1856; m. 1st, Feb. 14, 1884, to Florence Gritton (d. May 9, 1890); m. 2nd, Nov. 21, 1900, to Hester Dean (b. Apr. 13, 1859) daughter of J.C.H. & Elizabeth (Vandiver) Vanars dell Dean. Address, Box 88, State Pike, Harrodsburg, Ky. Issue: (By Florence (Gritton) Lillard) (laca) Elizabeth Lee Lillard, b. June 25, 1889. (lad) James McAfee Lillard, b. Mar. 4, 1860; m. June 25, 1885, to Nannie Gritton, cousin of Florence (Gritton) Lillard. Issue: (lada) Mary Davis Lillard, b. Aug. 29, 1890; m. Dec. 19, 1912, to J. Sprole Lyen, son of John T. and Alice (Birdwhistle) Lyen. Ad dress: Burgin, Kentucky. Issue: (ladaa) Lillard Lyen, b. July 21, 1917. (lae) David Clay Lillard, b. Mar. 18, 1867; m. Dec. 26, 1889, to :Maggie W. Cornish. No issue. ( 1b) Elizabeth (Betty) Lillard married James McAfee of McAfee, Ky. Issue: (lba) Nannie McAfee m. Mr. Davis. Issue: (lbaa) Miss Davis, m. W.R.Lapsley of McAfee, Ky. (le) John Lee Lillard. ( 1 d) Mary Liliard. (le) James Lillard, b. June 21, 1836; d. Aug. 21, 1840. He is buried in the old Lillard graveyard on the old Dr. Powell farm, about four miles north of Harrodsburg, and although his tombstone is of limestone and hand made it is still readable as follows: "James Lillard, DC Aug. 21, 1840; AGE 4 YRS 10 MOS." This stone was erected over eighty-eight years ago. (lf) Charles Alexander Lillard, b. Oct. 4, 1838; d. Apr. 4, 1903. Page 919, John Morris Company History of Kentuckv states: "Charles Alexander Lillard was born on the place where he resided on the Lousiville Turn pike, four miles north of Harrodsburg, where he grew CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 241. up to manhood, and always lived. He remained un married. He obtained a common English education at the school in the vicinity where he was reared, and by careful reading became familiar with the history of the past. He was engaged in farming and was the possessor of 100 acres of good land. In politics Mr. Lillard was a Republican." (2) Nancy Saven Lillard married J. F. Rynerson of Vanarsdell Sta tion, Kentucky. Issue: (2a) James F. Rynerson,b. July 26, 1846; married. Issue: (2aa) James Lillard Rynerson. Vanarsdell, Ky. Others. ( 3) Sallie Lillard married T. C. Moore and moved to Missouri. (4) Rev. Asbury Lillard m. Sept. 21, 1825, to Rebecca Long. He is is buried in the old Lillard Graveyard on the old Dr. Powell farm four miles north of Harrodsburg. After his death his widow went to Texas and took their two children with her. Issue: ( 4a) Samuel Lillard. ( 4b) Mary Lillard m. Mr. Woods. ( 5) Joseph Lillard died unmarried. ( 6) Samuel Lillard died unmarried. ( 7) Jemima Lillard married Mr. Smith. ( 8) Prudence Lillard married Mr. Armstrong. (H) Susanna Lillard, born about 1770 in Culpeper County, Virginia, was taken to Kentucky in 1782 by her parents. She married on March 25, 1793, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to David Jones. Minister J. Sutton performed their marriage ceremony. David Jones was born in North Carolina, and likewise had been brought to Mercer County, Ky., by his parents at the age of seven years. He was early a magistrate and member of the Court of Claims, also High Sheriff, and was a member of, the first Constitutional Convention; was a farmer and slave owner; member of the Chris tian Church; a ·whig; and was the son of Robert Jones of North Carolina. David Jones died in 1855 at an advanced age. His wife, Susanna (Lillard) Jones died about 1852, aged 82 years. Both are buried in the old Jones graveyard on a farm back of McAfee, Kentucky. Issue: (1) Dr. Christopher Lillard Jones, b. Feb. 1800; m. Lucy Betts May (b. 1792; d. May 2, 1889, aged 97 yrs) daughter of David and Mary (Meredith) May. Dr. Jones re ceived a common English education and was graduated in 242 LILLARD GENEALOGY medicine at the Medical Department of the University of Transylvania. He was not a student, but a man of good common sense, which enabled him to become a successful and respected physician. He died July 9, 1867, aged 67 years and 6 months. Both he and his wife are buried in the Harrodsburg:, Ky., Cemetery. Issue: (la) Dr. Augustus Jones, b. Aug. 1, 1828. Graduated in medicine at the University of New York. Married Bettie Lawrence (b. Feb. 24, 1838; d. Nov. 1, 1877). Dr. Jones died July 31, 1895, and. is buried beside his wife in the Harrodsburg, Ky., Cemetery. Issue: (laa) Christopher Lawrence Jones, b. July 2.3, 1855; d. Sept. 8, 1857. Buried in Harrodsburg Cemetery. (lab) Mary Belle Jones, b. June 6, 1857; d. Aug. 22, 1875. Buried in Harrods burg, Ky., Cemetery. (lac) Christopher Lillard Jones, b. Nov. 20, 1862; d. Oct. 7, 1865. ( 1b) Mary Bell Jones. (2) Patsy (Margaret) Jones married Mr. Shy. ( 3) Beriah M. Jones. ( 4) Samuel M. Jones. (5) William C. Jones, b. 1808; farmer and slave owner in Mer cer County, Ky.; member of Christian Church; Whig; mar ried Mary Owsley (b.1818) daugih,ter of William Owsley of Lincoln County, Ky. He died 1858-9. Issue: (Sa) Welch Jones, b. Apr. 24, 1835. In 1861 he en listed in Co.E, 1st Ky., Confederate Cavalry un der command of Colonel Ben Hardin Helm, and in 1863 was captured in Mercer County, remain ing a prisoner at Camp Chase and Rock Island! until near the close of the war. He married Dec. 15, 1872, to Amanda Owsley (b.Dec.29, 1843) daughter of Mason H. and Anna Owsley of Platte County, Missouri. He was a farmer in Mercer County and owned 102 acres of productive land land near Harrodsburg. He was a Democrat. Issue: ( 5 aa) Anna M. Jones. (Sab) William M. Jones. (Sac) Sarah C. Jones. (Sad) Pearl A. Jones. (Sae) Mary Jones. (Sb) David M. Jones. Unmarried. (Sc) Squire Bryant Owsley Jones, b. Dec. 4, 1839, was CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 243 elected Magistrate and member of the Court of Claims of Mercer County, Ky., in Aug. 1866, which honorable position he retained in 1887. He was a farmer and owned 130 acres of farm lands in the McAfee precinct Member of the Chris tian Church; a Mason; a Democrat Married\ Feb. 15, 1876, to Mary E. Morgan (b. Apr.29, 1851) daughter of Wilkes and Martha (Farris) Morgan of Anderson County, Ky. He married a a second time to .Alice Crossfield. Issue: (By Mary (Morgan) Jones) ( 5ca) Wilkes M. Jones. ( Scb) Bryant R. Jones. (5cc) Mary E. Jones. (Scd) Welch H. Jones. (See) Nannie B. Jones. (Sd) William C. Jones. (Se) Eliza~eth C. Jones married Milton Jones her third cousm. (Sf) Beriah Mason Jones married Onie Rose. (Sg) Samuel Hamilton Jones married Kizzie Zachary. Issue: ( 5ga) Samuel Beriah Jones. ( 5gb) Hetty Lou Jones. ( Sgc) Mary Susanna Jones. ( 5gd) Lloyd H. Jones. (6) Polly W. Jones, m. June 17, 1817, to Henry P. Horene. One of the witnesses at this wedding was Andrew Knox. They were married in Mercer County, Ky. Henry P. Horene was the son of Dr. George and Nancy(Higgins) Horene of Mercer County, Ky. (I) Ephraim Lillard, I, son of Captain John and Susai;ma (Ball) Lil lard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on October 12, 1772, and was brought to Kentucky by his parents in 1782. His youth was spent near and around Harrodsburg, during those strenuous days of the pioneers of Kentucky. He was one of the outstanding fighters at Fort Harrod during troubluous times, and belonged to the militia. In "Old Kentucky Deeds and Entries,," by W.R.Jillson, is the record of the following grant in Jefferson County, Kentucky: "Ephraim Lillard, 1000 acres, Book A, page 269, entry 3-28, in the year 1783, on Rolling Fork." This land was evidently sold for when he left his father's home afteii his marriage he removed to McMurtries Fort in Jefferson County, which later became the town of Lawrenceburg:, in Anderson County, Ky. His estate o1 a·thousand acres included the land which is now the Main Street 244 LILLARD GENEALOGY of Lawrenceburg. His home was situated about two blocks from the present main street. After his death this home was burned, but the depression in the ground where the foundation was, is still to be seen, as well as the old spring from which they obtained all of their water. About three hundred yards from this home which is situated almost exactly back of the present Baptist Chuoch, in a large field, now owned by the Witherspoon family, is the old Lillard graveyard, surrounded by a high stone wall. There was formerly a. beautiful old apple tree situated where the graveyard now is. Ephraim Lillard had an old negro slave who helped rear his children and of whom the family was especially fond. This old slave used to go every pretty evening and sit under this apple tree, and it was her request that wp.en she died she wanted to be buried beneath this tree. When she died the family obeyed her request and her's was the first grave in the family's hallowed spot. Here Ephraim Lillard, I, lies buried just to the left of his wife Mal'.giaret (Prather) Lillard. Her stone is still standing, but his has fallen and crumbled with age. Here also Susanna (Lillard) Witherspoon, their daughter is buried as well as many others. In the Mercer County Tax List for 1795 (State Archives) is the following: Persons Taxed Slaves Horses Cattle Lillard, Ephraim 2 Lillard, Edward 1 Lillard, John 18 12 33 Lillard, James 3 Lillard, John, Jr. 3 4 13 Lillard, Thos. 6 7 22 This is Captain John Lillard and his sons. Who the Edward Lillard is cannot be determined as no other mention can be located concerning him. In "Heads of Families in Franklin Co., Census of 1810" are the following: Heads of Families. No. of Persons in family Slaves Lillard, Ephraim 8 12 Lillard, John (II) 8 12 Lillard, John (III) 2 1 Lillard, Thomas 8 9 McQuiddy, Thomas 6 Prather, Thomas 7 6 Pulliam, Benj. 5 1 Collins, Robert (Jr.) 2 Collins, Robert 6 10 On Page 919, History of Kentucky, John Morris Co. 1887 Edition CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 245 it is stated that Ephraim Lillard "was a large farmer and distiller; he reared a large family from whom spring many families of that name in Kentucky . was a son of Capt. John Lillard, who was born in Culpeper County, Va., and removed to Mercer County., Kentucky, between 1782 and 1784, and settled on Salt River near the line of Boyle, near Harrodsburg. Capt. John was a son of Benjamin Lillard." On Feb. 19, 1795, Ephraim Lillard, I, married Margaret Prather, who was born in Prince George County, Maryland, on Apr. 20, 1777, and died in Lawrenceburg, Ky., on Apr. 24, 1859, aged 82 years ancli four days. She is buried in the old Lillard graveyard at La.wrenceburg. Her tombstone still stands and bears the following: "Our Mother Margaret Lillard, Born Apr. 20, 1777. Died Apr. 24, 1859. Gone Home." There is a weeping willow tree carved on the stone. Ephraim Lillard, I, her husband died at Lawrenceburg, on Sept. 8th, 1838, and is buried in the grave directly to her right side, and to the left of a person standin~ at the foot of her grave. Margaret (Prather) Lillard was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Prather. The Prather Family. Coat of Arms: "Prater (Prather)-Water Co. Wilts, England. .Sable three wolves' heads erased argent on a chief or. a lion passant of the first. Crest: A pegasus courant sable ducally gorged or." Burke's Heraldry. This was also traced and proven by Francis B. Culver, Historical Registrar at that time of the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Md. Thomas Prather, father of Margaret (Prather) Lillard, was born in Maryland on Dec. 16, 1751. He was a Revolutionary soldier, having signed the Oath of Fidelity in Washington County, Maryland, in 1778. He is No. 25 on Richard Davis' list of Revolutionary soldiers of Wash ington County, Md. (Md. Hist. Mag. Vol. X to XVI) mentions his, an cestors. Thomas Prather came from Virginia, having previously removed from Maryland. He settled at Fort Harrod, and was a contemporary and friend of James Harrod and other of the earlier settlers of that vicinity. "Certificate Book. The very large number of entries in this old record ind~cates that perhaps every pioneer who had made actual settle ment in Kentucky prior to Oct. 13, 1779, the date when the Commission began its hearing, proved his claim and secured his certificate. It is, of course possible that there are many bona fide settlers who did not prove their claims before this Commission, but it is very improbable. This record emphasizes the fact that it reads the title clear of every pioneer 246 LILLARD GENEALOGY mentioned in it. The list of land claimants contains the name of prac tically every man who played a part in the stirring drama of Kentucky's. early settlement. It is an Honor Roll of pioneer heroes who took their lives in their hands as they moved the outposts of civilization hundreds of miles into a savage infested wilderness. Then follows records among which is: Thomas Preather by Henry Preather this day claimed a preemption to a tract of Land at the State price in the District of Kentucky on acct of Marking & Improving the same in the year 1776 lying on the waters of Harrods Creek a Branch of Dicks River adjoining the land1S of James Harrods on the west to include his improvem't satisfactory proof being made to the Court they are of opinion that the sd Preather has a right to a preempt of 1000 Acres of Land to include the above Location & that a Cert issued accordingly. (Cert issd for l000pd &c)." Register, Ky. State Hist. Soc. Thomas and Mary Prather were married in Maryland but no trace of her family name has been located. His life of exposure weakened his constitution and he died at the age of thirty-five years, leaving his wife Mary with a family of ten children. He died in 1786. His wife did not survive him long. The Children of Thomas and Mary Prather: (A) Margaret Prather m. Ephraim Lillard. (B) Eleanor Prather, m. June 7, 1796, Abraham McKinney. (C) Betsy Prather m. William Evans. (D) Stephen Prather. (E) Nancy Prather. (F) Harriet Prather. ( G) Maria Prather. (H) James Prather. (I) Mary Prather. (J) Elizabeth Prather. The Will of Thomas Prather is the :first will recorded in Mercer County, Kentucky, and perhaps the :first recorded in the state as Harrods burg is Kentucky's oldest town. It is as follows: "In the name of God Amen, I, Thomas Prather of the Parish of Kentucky and County of Lincoln, being weak of body but of sound mind and memory do make this my last will and testament. 800 Acres of land which I hold by patent bearing date 1st of June, 1782, on warrant 2590 and on survey made 4th Sept. 1781, which said 800 acres I had a right to as my portion in 2000 acres on the same warrant and same date of patents which said 800 Acres is to be laid{ off to said Phillips on the upper part of my upper tract on Hardin's creek so as to leave my 200 acres in a convenient farm ad'joining my tract of 1000 Acres which lie below the land I give (but do not warrent) to the Theopilus Phillips to him and his assigJns forever. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 247 I tend to my beloved wife Mary Prather the use of the tract o.f land whereon I now live and all my slaves and furniture and movable estate of every kind, during her widowhood for the maintenance of herself and support and education of my children while she remains a widow. If my said wife should marry I give her all my best house hold furniture and horse and saddle. I will and devise my whole estate not heretofore given shall be divided between all my children so as my sons shall have two shares and my daughters one share so as one son shall have twice as much as one daughter. The above division shall take place as soon as one of my children shall become of age or marries. I appoint my wife Mary Prather to be my executrix of this my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th day of 1£ay, 1786. Thomas Prather (seal) Acknowledged before us: James Speed; Malcolm Worley; Thomas Speed, John Speed. Codicil to his ,vill made 25th June, 1786. I do hereby appoint James Coburn and Henry Prather to be executors with my wife of this my last will and testament. Witness my hand and seal. Thomas Prather (seal). Acknowledged in presence of James Speed, James Harrod, John Chiles. At A Court held in Mercer County, at the Court House 1st day of August, 1786, this last will and testament of Thomas Prather, decest, was produced into court and proven by the oath of James Speed and John, two of the subscribing witnesses thereto with the codicil endorsed proved by the oath of James Speed which to~ther with the said will is ordered to be recorded. Thomas Allin, C.C." Ancestors of Thomas Prather. Thomas Prather was the son of Lieutenant Thomas Claggett Prather, a colonial soldier, who was born in Frederick County, Maryland on May 9, 1726, and who was killed in the Battle of Loyalhanna on Oct. 11, 1758 (See Md. Hist. Mag. Vol.V, page 284). This is also stated in the prayerbook record of Margaret (Prather) Lillard. Thomas Claggett Prather married Margaret------, and Thomas was their only son. Thomas Prather's mother, Margaret Prather, after the death of his father, Lt. Thomas Claggett Prather, married a second time .to Thomasi Freeman, Esq., who came to Kentucky in pioneer days from Virgiinia. Thomas Freeman was a personal friend of George Washington, and at one time served as his private secretary. When Mr. Freeman left Virginia to come to Kentucky, George Washington presented him with a chair which George Washington had used in his office. This chair was given to Margaret (Prather) Lillard, by her grandmother, Margaret (Prather) Freeman; and from her it passed to Ephraim Lillard, II, and is now in 248 LILLARD GENEALOGY the possession of the daughters of Ephraim Lillard, II, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. It is a ladder ba.ck chair with arms and a cane seat. Paternal grandparents of Thomas Prather. Lt. Thomas Claggett Prather was the son of Colonel Thomas Prather, Jr., (b. 1704) who married about 1725 to Elizabeth Claggett, daughter of Capt. Thomas Clagget (b.1675-6; d.1732) and his wife Mrs. Mary (Nutter) Hooper; granddaughter of Capt. Thos. Sr., and Sarah (Patter son) Claggett of London, England, (b. 1663-4). Capt. Thomas Claggett Sr., and his wife emigrated from England about 1670, t'o Maryland. He was the son of Colonel Edward and iMargaret (Adams) Claggett. Colonel Edward Claggett, eldest son of George Claggett, Mayor of Canterbury, England, was born about 1605-7. Col. Edward Claggett was an ardent Loyalist and held a commission in the Army of Charles I. He is said to have been imprisoned at one time in London Tower by the Puritans. Margaret (Adams) Claggett was the daughter of Sir Thomas Adams, Lord Mayor of London. George Clagget, father of Colonel Edward, was three times Mayor of Canterbury, in 1609, 1622 and in 1632. The name of his wife is not known. George Claggett was the son of Richard Claggett,(b. 1525-30), and his wife, who was the daughter of Sir Robert Gouder. Richard Claggett was the son of Robert Claggett (b. 1490) in Malling, Kent Co. England. According to tradition the Claggett family is sprung from Norman stock, the progenitor of the race having landed in England with William the Conqueror in 106 7, and participated in the Battle of Hasting/,. Clagett of Houghton, County Cambridge, England, born prior to 1100 assumed in 1104 the arms as since borne by the family, namely: Ermine on a fesse sable, three pheons, or; crest, an eagle's head erased; ermine ducally crowned, or, between two wings sable. Motto: Gratia Dei Grata (The acceptable Grace of God.) This description of the Claggett arms corre sponds with that given in Burke's Heraldry. Margaret (Prather) Lil lard was the great-great niece of Bishop Cla t, the first Bishop of Maryland. 7 In Land Surveys taken from Lord Baltimore's Rent Rolls it speaks of Margaret (Prather) Lillard's great-grandfather, Capt. Thomas Claggett as "Thomas Claggett, Lord of Godlington Manor, Kent County." Colonel Thomas Prather is mentioned in the Maryland Archives many times in connection with Colonial Army Service. On page 258, Vol. 2, Scharf's History of Maryland, in referring to Thomas Johnson's scheme of opening the Potomac River to navigation, it is stated that CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 249 the managers of this company were: For Maryland: Thomas Cresap, Jonathan Hager, Robert Peter, Evan Shelby, David Ross, Christopher Loundes, Benjamin Chambers, Casper Schaaf, Rev. Thos. Bacon, and Thomas Prather. For Virginia: Col. George Mason, Jacob Hite, Abra ham Hite, James Hamilton, John Hough and John Patterson. Col. George 'Mercer and Col. Thomas Prather were elected Treasurers. Col. Thomas Prather was the son of Colonel Thomas Prather, Sr., who died 1712 in Prince George Co., Md. His mother was Martha ,Sprigg Prather, daughter of Col. Thomas Sprigg and his wife Eleanor (Nuthall) Sprigg. Col. Thomas Sprigg, b. 1630, in Kethering, North amptonshire, England, came to America about the middle of the 17th century. His will dated May 9, 1704, was probated Dec. 29, 1704. He was High Sheriff for Calvert Co. Md., 1664. Justice, 1669; and in 1674 (Md. Archives). There is a full length painting of him still in the possession of his descendant, Lord Alfred Kirby Fairfax, twelfth Baron Fairfax of Cameron, who resides near Washington in the old Manor House which was the home of Col. Thomas Sprigg. This portrait of Col. Sprigg is in full court costume, and shows him to be a man of1 handsome mien and elegant bearing, while the Archives of Maryland give abundant proof that the original was, a gentleman of official dis tinction and social importance. Col. Thomas Sprigg was the brother in-law of Governor Stone of Maryland. Colonel Thomas Prather, Sr., was the son of Jonathan Prather who ,died about 1780 in Calvert County, Md. His wife was named Jane, and! after Jonathan Prather's death she married a second time to John Smith who died in 1707 in Prince Georges County, Md. She died there in 1713. When the parents of Margaret (Prather) Lillard died, she and all of her brothers and sisters were yet children, so her step-grandfather and'. her grandmother, Thomas Freeman, Esq., and Margaret (Prather) Free man, took them to live with them. Thus when Margaret (Prather) Free man died, her granddaughter's husband, Ephraim Lillard, I, was made Administrator of her estate. Ephraim Lillard, I, was also the Acting Executor of Captain John Lillard's estate. The following are some of the original papers still in existence: Copy of order Qualification of Exrs. to John Lillard, deed. August County Court, 1801. Mercer Set. On the motion of John Lillard and Ephraim Lilla.rd, Executors named in the last will and testament of John Lillard, deed, who made oath as the law directs, certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in 250 LILLARD GENEALOGY due form who together with Henry Prather, Thomas Lillard, John Chiles and William McGinnis, their securities, executed their bond in the penalty of £5000 conditioned as the law directs. A copy Teste B.W.Casey, D.C. Ann Lillard to E. Lillard, Receipt. Received of Ephraim Lillard, Executor of John Lillard, Deceased, one share plow instead of a car share plow possessed of when he the decedant maryed me as Witness my hand this 22 day- of September, 1801. Ann Lillard. Teste: Joseph Speer. Articles of the sale of land and other articles, &c. ARTICLES OF THE PRESENT VENDUE. Article 1st. The highest bidder to be the Buyer. Article 2d. Any person Buying/ any article or Articles the amount of which is under twenty shillings to be Ready Money, all above that sum the Purchasers to have one year Credit on giving Bond & Aiµproved Security. Article 3d. The Land is to be made over to the Purchasers By Deed with a special Warrenter and if the same should be lost b;y any other or Better Claim or any part thereof and the purchaser Evicted by due course of Law, then and in that Case, he the said purcha.ser or Purchasers shall be repaid the same sum per Acre for all such Land as may be lost as aforesaid that shall be given by the Purchaser ort Pur chasers for the same & no other Cost or Damages, whatever. Article 4th. All and every Person Purchasing and not complying with the above Articles are to return the property immediately to the Cryer to be set up to sale again & forfeit the sum of five shillings to the pound for disappoint'ment to (signed) ·Ephraim Lillard Acting Executor. February the 5th, 1802. Account of Money at Sales By T. Freeman & Lillard. Cash Received at the Sale by Thomas Freeman Rec. of Joseph Thomas ______£0 6s. Od .. JohnSaml. CombsAnderson ______------0 2 6 2 3 Jeremiah Briscoe------O 12 0 Will Jennings ------O 12 10 Thos. Stone ------O 18 6. Abel Jenkins ------O 9 0 £3 3 1 Received by Ephraim Lillard Cornelius Banta ______O 2 0 Joseph Hughes ---·------O 12 0 Thos. Prather ------1 1 0 Ben Talbot ------~----- 0 0 9 CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 251 John Dine------0 3 7 Daul. Brewer ------·- 0 1 6 Peter Banta ------0 4 2 0 Do ------0 8 £2 13 0 3 3 1 £5 16 1 By John Lillard, Dr. To Bell ------3 £5 19 1 October the 4th, 1802 Recevd of John Acels one pound thirteen and six pence for the use of Ephraim Lillard acting Executor for John Lillard Deceast. (signed) John Chiles. Richard M. Thomas to K Lillard, Bond. I Richard M. Thomas of Woodford County and State of Kentucky At torney in fact for my mother Ann Lillard, do hereby oblige myself, my Heirs, Executors & Administrators to pay to Ephraim Lillard, Acting 1Executor of the late John Lillard, deceased, or to his certain Attorney, his Heirs, E.-.,:ecutors, Administrators or Assigns the sum of :five hundred pounds Current Lawfull money of Kentucky. It Witness whereof I here unto Set my Hand and seal the 17th day of August in the Year Eighteen Hundred & Two. The Condition of the above Obligation is such, that whereas the above Parties have left to an Arbitration all disputes arising between the heirs of the said John Lillard deceased and Ann Lillard, the widow and Relict of the said John Lillard, deceased aforesaid, now if the said Richard" M. Thomas shall, will and truly pay on demand to the said Ephraim Lil lard any and all such sum or sums of money as shall be made appear hereafter by sufficient vouchers that was. not brought into their present settlement of Arbitration; and which ought to have been so br~.mght in & settled, agreeable to the agreement made for the said settlement by Arbitration aforesaid, then their present obligation to be void else to re main in full force & virtue. Sealed and delivered (signed) Richd M. Thomas (seal) in presence of 'Attorney in fact D.R.Nooe for Ann Lillard. Tho. Allin. David Lillard to Ephraim Lillard. Bond for £14 2s. 7d. I bind myself, my heirs, Executor (paper tom) to pay or Cause to be paid unto Ephraim Lillard, Executor of John Lillard, Deceased, the just and full sum of Fourteen Pounds, two shillings and seven pence to be paid on Demand as witness my hand seal this 26th day of Decem ber, 1803. (signed) David Lillard, Esq. Test: Stephen Prather. 252 LILLARD GENEALOGY Amt. $104.10. Ephraim Lillard stands charged in the Commissary Book returned for the year 1804 with one white above twenty, 4 blacks under sixteen and nine Total Blacks. For George Madison Apa. Daniel Giles, Clk. Auditors Office, 11th June, 1812. August the 19th, 1820. Then received of Elizabeth Chiles, Thirty Dolar:, in part of a Bond due me as Executor by John Chiles, Deceased. (signed) Ephraim Lillard, Acting Executor. E. Lillard to J. Lillard Order June the 4th, 1821. Dear Sister Pay to James Lillard for me twenty dolars Ef you have the money by you and their order shall have credit on your Note for the same & obl yr fred. Ephraim Lillard, Acting Executor. To Elizabeth Chiles. Ephraim Lillard, I, was one of the founders of the Baptist Church in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, according to "A Historical Sketch" published in the Anderson News on April 3 0, 1914, as follows : This Church was organized June 23, 1834. "The first bus,iness session was held on July 5th, 1834, when the constitution and decorum was read and adopted. The first clerk was William S. Hickman and J.P.Lancaster was the first Moderator. The first' persons to join the church were Garland Lillard, Ephraim Lillard, Chris. Lillard, Dicy Lillard, Eli Penny and Polly Penny. Eli Penny and J.G.White were elected the first deacons of the church. The church joined the Bap,'tist Association in August, 18.34, and at this meeting the church appointed a building com mittee consisting of J. L. Witherspoon, C.C.Lillard, Eli Penny, W.S. Hickman and J.S.White. Bro. William Blair was licensed to preach the first Saturday in August, 1842, and Bro. Robert R. Lillard the first' Saturday in October, 1842. Bro. Lillard entered Georgetown Col lege and graduated in 1845 and on Oct. 24th, 1846, he was ordalined! to the full work of the ministry. Bro. Lillard was very apt and possessedl an unusual ability in writing1 and for that reason was elected assistant editor of the Western Recorder in February, 1842. He displayed marked ability for one so young and rapidly distinguished himself as a writer. But he did not live long to pursue his_brilliant career. He died of typhoid fever at his home near Crab Orchard, Ky., June 7, 1849. In 1860, Rev. S. T. Thompson and Rev.W.B.Smith held a great meeting and several were admitted to memberhip. At this meeting Miss Sarah Helen Lillard, now Mrs. J.P.Ripy, was baptized and Miss Mary Bowen went into the re-organization, hence they are the two oldest members of this church. Miss Cordelia Lillard, now Mrs. L.J.Witherspoon joined by letter in A,ugust, 1862, and so she is our third oldest member. In the Lawenceburg fire in October, 1884, the Church had the misfortune to get all the records burned from 1879 t'o April, 1885, but Bro. C.M.Lillard, who was clerk, says the Church held two protracted meetings," etc. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 253 "McAfee to E. LILLARD. Bill of Sale for Slaves. Know all Men by This Present That we Susann~ McAfee, wife of George McAfee, Deceased & Children Mary Armstrong, James McAfee, Margaret McAfee, George McAfee & Susanns McAfee, Legatees of sd Decedent, all of Mercer County and State of Kentucky, have this day Bargained and Sold unto Ephraim Lillard A Certain Negro woman by the name of Charlot, and four children named as follows: Nanny, Channey, Lucrecy & Lucy for the sum of two hundred and fifteen p-0unds to us in hand paid The Recet wharof we Do here by A)cknowledge which N egros we warrent and for Ever Defend to said Lilla.rd Against the Claim of all & Every Person or persons whatever Also W arrent Them sound and Clear of Eny Known Impidiment. Given under out hands & seal This 23th day of April, 1803. Susanna McAfee, J as. McAfee, Peggy McAfee, Geo. McAfee, Susanna McAfee." Ephraim Lillard and wife, Hrs. or Devisees of Thomas Freeman. $4.12 Franklin. Ephraim Lillard and Margarette his wife, late Margarette Prather, Abra ham McKinney and Elenory his wife late Elenory Prather, William Evans and Betsy his wife, late Betsy Prather, Stephen Prather, Nancy, Harriet, Maria, James, Mary and Elizabeth Prather, infant heirs of Thomas Prather, deed., by their next bext friend Ephraim Lillard, devisees of Thomas Freeman, deed. (Mercer). 1822) To the Clk. of the Ct. of App.Dr. April) To fee rec. on App'n Roberson ______.25 To fee errors 35 doc; 16 ent.Atte ______------.67 " Copy rec; 260 errors 35 ______2.95 " ent ord of continuance ------.25 $4.12 E.E.Achilles Sneed,C.C.A. Received payment in full. V.Bateman. An original letter from Eleanor (Prather) McKinney to Margaret (Prather) Lillard, is as follows: "To Mrs. Margaret Lillard, Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Kentucky. Missouri, Randolph City Smith Land March 10th, 1842. Dear Sister: Once more I will try to let you know how myself & family are doing it may be the last time as we are both very old and life uncertain perhaps you may wish to know how I feel in regard to Death and futurity. I will give you my views on it. I 'think that is a matter of too much im portance Jor m9rtals to meddle with. By God's will I was brought here and by His will I expect to be taken away, and by his will I expect to 254 LILLARD GENEALOGY be pleased after death and I am perfectly resigned to his will boath here and hereafter. I am living on my own farm with Charles McKinney and his wife who are very agreeable. My daughters, Margaret, Polly and Sally are living near me. Euphemia is living about forty miles from me. They are doing tolerable well. My sons Thomas F., James P. and Abraham McKinney are living in Texas where they are doing well at present, but owing to the unsettled state of Government I fear they will not do well long. I would be glad to hear' from you and your children, particularly Thomas, he says he would wryte me if he 'knew how to address me. Tell him to address me as a plain, honest and sincere friend that would be glad to see him at any time & Sister when you write let me know how brother Thomas' children are doing. Tell me all the particulars, be it good or bad, also how their mother is doing. I have property enough to support me very well what little time I have to live. I remain your affectionate · Sister Eleanor McKinney." After her husband, Ephraim Lillard, I, died and her youngest son married, · Margaret (Prather) Lillard broke up housekeeping and went to live with this youngest son Ephraim Lillard, II. It was while she was liwng with them that a travelling photographer passed through the neighborhood and Mrs. Ephraim Lillard, II, had him take a photograph of Margaret (Prather) Lillard. She did not want it made as she believed that this was an indication that they thought she would not live much longer, hence the pouting expression in the picture. The original is now in the possession of Mrs. W. S. Farmer, Frankfort, Ky. It is also repro duced in "My Ancestors," a book published by Martinette Viley Wither spoon. In this photograph she is seated in the chair which belonged to George Washington, and which was brought across the mountains to Kentucky by Thomas Freeman, Esq. Issue: (1) Mary Lillard, b. Jan. 5, 1796; m. Edmund Collins. He was a soldier during the Civil War and was killed. She died July 4, 1833. They resided in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (2) Margaret Lillard, b. Mar. 2, 1798; d. Nov. 18, 1798. (3) Margaret Lillard, Jr., b. Nov. 17, 1799, m. Richard Collins, brother of Edmund Collins. They lived in Franklin County, Ky., and owned the farm which was later owned by James Neville Blake more, the husband of Margaret Lillard Collins' niece, Mary Ellen (Molly Lillard) Blakemore. Issue: (3a) Steven Collins. ( 3b) Ezra Collins, m. Martha Redden, daughter of Funnel Redden. (3c) Ephraim Collins m. Martha Thomas. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 255 (4) Elizabeth Lillard, b. Feb. 25, 1802; m. John McClure. They resided on a farm near Lawrenceburg, Ky. John McClure died of something like dropsy. She died Apr. 13, 1890, and is buried in Lexington, Ky., cemetery. Issue: ( 4a) Lucretia McClure. Died unmarried. In her old age she resided with her nephew by marriage, John Rogers and his daughters. ( 4b) Susan McClure married Daniel Jackson Williams, Jr., son of Daniel Jackson and Sallie (Hicks) Williams; grandson of Daniel Williams who came to settle in Pen dleton County, Ky., from Virginia, shortly after the Revo lution. Daniel J. Williams, Sr., was one of the leading citizens of Woodford Co. He owned a large farm, but also taught school and was a surveyor; was of high character and rare intellectual force, possessed a wonder ful mathematical mind, and was a member of the Baptist church. He received a fall when attempting to mount his horse, from which he never recovered. D.J.Williams, Jr., was born July 10, 1821; d. Oct. 6, 1881. He received his early tutorage under his father, and was g;raduated from Georgetown College, 183 7 ; grad. of medicine and of law, Transylvania Univ. \Vas a farmer,.-taught school and was a surveyor. Prior to and during the Civil War he acquired quite a fortune in real estate, stock and money. Before the war he was affiliated with the Whigs, but dur ing the conflict his sympathies were with the So_uth. He, too, was noted for his executive ability and fine business judgment. When he died he owned over 2000 acres of land in Woodford County, Ky., as well as much real estate in other states. He was a member of Glenn's Creek Baptist church; was one of the founders of the Woodford Bank and one of its directors from its organization until his death. He donated $15,000 toward the maintenance of the Cleveland Orphan School. He married first in 1851 to Amanda Weathers, by whom he had one daughter, Laura Williams who married Rev. A. Frank Baker, a Baptist minister who resided on the Frankfort pike just· outside the limits of Versailles. After his first wife's death he married a second time to Susan Elizabeth Mc Clure. Issue: (4ba) Sarah Elizabeth Williams, b. Oct. 11, 1861; m. John 0. Rogers, whose farm adjoined that of Rev. A. Frank Baker, and near the tollgate. She died June 11, 1893. Issue: (4baa) Lucille Rogers, b. Feb. 2, 1884. (4bab) Elizabeth Rogers, b. Sept.2, 1885. 256 LILLARD GENEALOGY (4bac) Daniel Jackson Rogers, b. Jan.24, 1887. (4bad) Joseph Rogers, b. Apr. 1, 1889. ( 4bae) Bernice Rogers, b. May 28, 1891. ( 4c) Albert McClure, only son of Elizabeth (Lillard) and John McClure, was killed during the Civil War. Mrs. Ada Lillard Farmer says that "He was shot by Union soldiers. He was a rebel and was called a gorilla. They shot him when they found him trying to keep out of their way as they were trying to make him surrender and take the oath. He was hauled into Lawrenceburg on a farm slide; placed in the Court house and guarded by Union soldiers. His mother and sister Lucretia went to him and begged to be allowed t'o take him home to die. This was refused. He clasped his mother's hand and said 'I am dying mother. You and sister do the best you can.' Aunt Elizabeth left her home only a few times during her life. She always kept this son's hat hanging on her bed post (a four-poster antique). I have often seen it hang ing there and heard her recount this awful tragedy. She said that the hat was a protection against itinerant ped dlers or stragglers so common through the country after the war, as well as strangers coming in. They would take for granted a man was around when they saw this hat. She buried this boy in her yard where she could look out upon his grave. She had a large farmbell put on top of her house with rope coming through the roof so she could ring: it in case of needed help. The neighbors understood when they heard this bell that she was in distress. She was old and feeble and one morning arose, dressed and walked to her window and looked out at the grave and went back to her bed and lay down, closed her eyes and folded her hands across her breast and breathed out her life. Her daughter Lucretia rang the bell and the neighbors gathered in. (My father) her brother (Ephraim Lillard, II) was sent for. Then the sad news sent out. I went as soon as I heard it. Her daui:;hter, Susan Williams, came. She had her mother buried in the Lexington cemetery, and all of her dead moved to that cemetery, and with them Albert was moved from the vard and his monument erected by his mother, taken too. Only one who was there can know the first burial place." ( Copied from an original letter). (5) Thomas Lillard, born June 5, 1804; m. Mar. 9, 1828, to his first cousin, Rachel Black Givens (b.June 8, 1806; d. Nov. 7, 1831, aged 25 years, 5 months and one day) daughter of William and Elizabeth (Prather) Givens. Elizabeth (Prather) Givens was the sister of Margaret (Prather) Lillard. Rachel (Givens) Lillard died of tuberculosis. Thomas Lillard died June 24, 1870. Both he and his wife are buried in the old Lillard graveyard at Lawrenceburg CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 257 on the old Witherspoon farm about two blocks from main street. Thomas Lillard was the first historian of the Kentucky branch of Lillards, and he made a very complete and accurate record of the older Kentucky Lillards. This record was kept in a notebook. At Thomas Lillard's death this record passed to his sister Elizabeth (Lillard) McClure. It was titled "Register of Ages,". Elizabeth (Lillard) McClure gave it to her daughter Susan Elizabeth (Mc Clure) Williams, who in turn gave it to her daughter, Sarah Eliza beth (Williams) Rogers. From her it passed to her children by John 0. Rogers. They had lost interest in it so gave it to Mrs. Ada (Lillard) Farmer in whose possession in 1928 it now re mains. After passing down five generations it returned to the compiler's, Thomas Lillard's niece, Mrs. Farmer. After the death of his wife, Thomas Lillard led a sad and lonely life. Issue: (Sa) William Prather Lillard, b. Jan. 25, 1829; d. Oct. 26, 1858, aged 29 years, 9 mos 1 day. Had tuberculosis. Un married. Buried in old Lillard graveyard with his par ents. (Sb) Ephraim Lillard, b. Oct. 9, 1830; d. of tuberculosis, on May 8, 1852. Aged 21 years, 8 months, 1 day. Buried in old Lillard graveyard with his parents. (6) Stephen Lillard, b. Sept. 17, 1806; d. Sept. 4, 1807. (7) Stephen Lillard, b. June 23, 1808; m. Sept. 18, 1832, to Rose Anna Hudgins (h. Nov. 15, 1816; d. Feb. 21, 1896), daughter of William Hudgins, a merchant of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. He died Oct. 1, 1889. Issue: · (7a) William Hudgins Lillard, b. Sept. 4, 1833; m. March 20, 1856, to Elizabeth F. Turner. Issue: (7aa) William Hudgins Lillard, Jr., b. Jan. 4, 1857. (7ab) George Bernard Lillard, b. Apr.21, 1858; d. Mar.9, 1859. (7b) Laura Ellen Lillard, b. July 28, 1836; m. Feb. 9, 1865, to David W. Adams. Issue: (7ba) Stephen Adams. (7c) James Warren Lillard, b. Apr. 2, 1838; m. Jan. 20, 1858, to Cynthia Ford. Died Aug. 18, 1911. Issue: (?ca) Stephen A. Lillard, b. Feb. 9, 1859, Pres. of City National Bank of Decatur, Texas. Married. Issue: (7caa) J. Warren Lillard, Cashier of City National Bank of Decatur, Texas. ( 7cb) Zack Lillard. (7cc) Annie Lillard. (7cd) James Foster Lillard, Vice-Pres., City National Bank of Decatur, Texas. 258 LILLARD GENEALOGY (7ce) Blake Lillard. (7d) Susan Mary Lillard, b. Nov. 29, 1839; m. Aug. 21, 1859, to Felix G. McGee. Issue: , (7da) Sim McGee. (7db) Annie McGee. (7e) Martha Ann Lillard, b. Feb. 22, 1842; m. July 7, 1859, to - William E. Davis. Died Oct. 6, 18ti3.. No issue. (7f) Margaret Prather Lillard, b. Oct. 22, 1844; m. Feb. 8, 1866, to William M. Oliver. Issue: Warren M. Oliver. (7g) Ephraim Thomas Lillard, b. June 23, 1847; m. June 22, 1870, to Elizabeth Nooe, daughter of Thomas Nooe. Ephraim Thomas Lillard died on_ Wednesday, Apr. 6, 1921, at 5:25 P.M. The following day there appeared in the Lexington (Ky) Leader: "Eph Lillard, with Goebel when Assassinated, Dies. Frankfort, Apr. 7. Eph Lillard, 74, former warden of the Frankfort Re formatory, and one of the men who was with Senator William Goebel, when he was killed, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Newton, Chicago. Mr. Lil lard, a native of Jessamine County, enlisted in the Con federate Army when he was 15 years old and served with the fifth Kentucky Cavalry. He later joined Morgan's men and was wounded and captured. He was exchanged and was with Lee at his surrender. He represented Jessa mine County in the Legislature and later served as Store keeper and gauger, and as Deputy Revenue Collector. He was the first' warden of the reformatory (Kentucky State Penitentiary) under the prison board. Besides his daughter, he is survived by two sons, Eph Lillard, Jr., and Al Lillard." Elizabeth (Nooe) Lillard died on Mon day, Jan. 28, 1924, at 6 :40 P.M. Issue: (7ga) Lucy Lillard, b. May 9, 1871; d. Jan. 8, 1878. (7gb) .Stephen Lillard, b. Mar.22, 1876;d. Aug.2, 1876. (7gc) Lucy Lucille Lillard, b. Oct. 23, 1878; married Joseph R. Newton. Address: 7246 Princeton Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Issue: (7gca) Ephraim Newton, b. Oct. 14, 1902; d. Oct. 15, 1902. (7gcb) Sarah Lillard Newton, b. Dec. 20, 1905. (7gcc) Joseph R. Newton, Jr., b. July 6, 1908. , (7gd) Ephraim Thomas Lillard, Jr., b. May 5, 1880; m. Aug. 11, 1902, to Georgia Graham (b. Mar. 4, 1880). They lived at 61 W. 61st Street, CAPT. JOHN. LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 259 Philadelphia, Pa. He died May 12, 1928, of pneumonia. Issue: (7gda) Lucille Linwood Lillard, b. June 10, · 1903; m. Apr. 12, 1923, to Max T. Harrison (b. Aug. 29, 1900). (7gdb) Ephraim Thomas Lillard,III, b.Jan. 19, 1910. (7gdc) John Blake Lillard, b. May 2, 1919. (7ge) Alvah Sears Lillard, b. Nov. 11, 1881; m. Dec. 24, 1914, to Alice Lillard Fanner, daughter of William Silas and Ada Bettie (Lillard) Farmer. They were second cousins. No issue. (7h) Stephen Simpson Lillard, b. Apr. 8, 1849; d. July 16, 1870. (7i) Nannie Blake Lillard, b. June 29, 1851; d. May 31, 1886; m. Feb. 25, 1873, to Thomas J. Nooe. Issue: (7ia) Lillard T, Nooe, b. Feb. 2, 1874, (7ib) Rose Linwood Nooe, b. Dec. 25, 1881; married Paul Brother. (7j) David Newton Lillard, b. Feb. 11, 1854; m. Mar. 24, 1886, to Margaret Feness. (7k) Eugene Linwood Lillard, b. Feb. 20, 1857; m. July 7, 1879, to Susan Harriet Davis of Woodford County, Ky., daughter of Dr. Allen Fielding and Katherine (Fur) Davis. Mr. Lillard is a prosperous farmer and stockman residing at Versailles, Ky. Issue: (7ka) Katherine H. Lillard, b. Aug. 16, 1896, in Texas; m. Oct. 8, 1917, to James M. Mc Creight. Address: Versailles, Ky. Issue: (7kaa) Susan Mary McCreight, b. Aug. 14, 1918, in Versailles, Ky. (7kb) Eugene Allen Lillard, b. Nov. 16, 1898, in Texas. Unmarried. Address: Nashville, Tenn. (71) Rosalind Hortense Lillard, b. Mar. 26, 1860; d. Nov. 24, 1899; m. Dec. 20, 1880, to John Allen Davis (b. Feb. 3, 1849; d. Nov. 18, 1920) son of Thomas and Ellen (Gray) Davis; grandson of Fielding and Susan (Overstreet) Davis. John Allen Davis was a large land owner in Woodford County, Kentucky and one of the leading mer chants of his section. Rosalind Hortense Lillard was educated at Science Hill, Shelbyville, Ky., which was then under the direction of Mrs. Julia A. Tevis. She was the salutatorian of her graduating class. Issue: (71a) Stephen Thomas Davis, b. Nov. 28, 1883; m. Oct. 11, 1905, to Susan Hickman McKinley (b. 260 LILLARD GENEALOGY in Winchester, Ky., Feb. 25, 1883; d. Mar.22, 1926) daughter of Dr. I.H. McKinley,a promi nent Winchester physician ( d.1908) and his wife, Lucy Aylett (Taliaferro) McKinley. S. T.Davis was graduated from Kentucky Wes leyan College at Winchester, Ky., receiving de grees of B.A. and M. A.; studied law at Univ. of Va., Charlottesville, Va., graduating 1904, Bachelor of Law. Since 1905 he has practiced law in Winchester, Ky.; now member of the :firm of Benton & Davis; elected County At torney which honorable position he filled from 1909-16. Member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Issue: ( 71aa) Lucy Taliaferro Davis, b. J an.3, 1908. Graduated Hamilton College, Lex ington,Ky., now student at Ky. Wesleyan College. (7lab) John Lillard Davis, b. Mar. 24, 1918. (71b) Eugene Allen Davis, b. Jan. 21, 1887; m. Dec. 23, 1915, to Nellie Belle Pinkerton. Educated at Georgetown (Ky) College. Is President of Kentucky Retail Lumber Dealers Association. Resides at Versailles, Kentucky. Issue: (7lba) Elizabeth Woolfolk Davis, b. June 2, 1917. (7lbb) Eugene Allen Davis, Jr., b. Nov. 16, 1925. (8) Ellender Lillard, b. April 22, 1810; m. Jan. 25, 1829, to Dr. Lewis Johnson Witherspoon (b. Nov. 22, 1800; d. May 25, 1852). She died Mar. 9, 1842, soon after the birth of their eighth child, an infant son. Issue: (8a) John Allen Witherspoon, b. Dec. 11, 1829; m. Mary Mc- Kee of Missouri. · (8b) William Horatio Witherspoon, b. Dec. 21, 1831; d. June 2, 1833. ( Sc) Mary Ellen \Vitherspoon, b. Dec. 28, 1833; m. Joseph McKee. (8d) Ambrose Henry Witherspoon, b. Dec. 26, 1835; d. Oct. 9, 1841. (8e) William Horace Witherspoon, b. Dec. 16, 1837; d. Aug. 11, 18 74; m. Elizabeth Elliott. Issue: (Sea) Mary Witherspoon, m. Thomas J. Ballard, son of Harrison and Mary (McQuiddy) Ballard. He is a druggist of Lawrenceburg. ( 8eb) Gertrude Witherspoon m. Thomas J. Ballard, CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 261 her brother-in-law, son of Harrison and Mary (McQuiddy) Ballard. Issue: (Seba) Elizabeth Ballard m. William Ripy. ( 8ebb) Nell Ballard m. Jerry ----. (Sf) James Franklin Witherspoon, b. Dec. 20, 1839; married Nancy Penny. (8g) Infant son, b. Feb. 14, 1842; d. FeD. 17, 1842. Shortly after his !}irth, the mother, Ellender (Lillard) Wither spoon died. (9) Susanna Lillard, b. May 5, 1812; m. Nov. 3, 1836, to Dr. John Witherspoon, brother of Dr. Lewis Johnson Witherspoon. When her mother, Margaret (Prather) Lillard, decided to break up house keeping t'o go to make her home with her son Ephraim Lillard,II, Dr. John Witherspoon bought out the interest of the other heirs, and purchased the old Lillard homestead, which later burned. He built a new house on this farm, a large Colonial home which isl still t'o be seen on the Frankfort Pike not far from the city limits. Dr. John Witherspoon was born in 1807, and died 1882. Moved from Franklin County to Lawrenceburg in 1835. Followed his; profession until the end of the Civil War, and was then a banker until his retirement several years later. Both he and his wife, Susanna (Lillard) Witherspoon, are buried in the old Lillard grave yard near Lawrenceburg. Issue: (9a) Lewis Johnson Witherspoon m. Ann Adelia Lillard, his second cousin, daughter of Thomas J. and Nancy (Mount joy) Lillard. For their issue see her record. (9b) Dr. Oran Witherspoon, m. Miss Eddie Offut of George town, Ky. Issue: (9ba) Dr. Ezra Witherspoon of Louisville, Ky. (9c) Ally Witherspoon married Fannie Gatewood. Issue: (9ca) Ella Witherspoon married Rev. Shipman, Baptist minister. (9cb) Walter Witherspoon. Unmarried. (9cc) Florence Witherspoon. (9cd) Lillard Witherspoon. (9d) Elizabeth Jane Witherspoon m. William Henry Shipman, a merchant of Lawrenceburg. Issue: (9da) Susie Witherspoon Shipman, m. Guy Clarence Sibley. Issue: (9daa} Guy Clarence Sibley. (10) Nancy Lillard, b. Mar. 15, 1815; d. Dec. 1, 1830. (11) Martha Lillard, b. Nov. 5, 1817; d. Oct. 20, 1856; m. Aug. 17, 1843, to Dr. Lewis Johnson Witherspoon, the widower husband of her sister Ellender (No.8). They resided in Lawrenceburg, Ky. ,262 LILLARD GENEALOGY Issue: (lla) Anna Maria Witherspoon, b. Sept. 28, 1844; d. Dec. 17, 1846. (llb) Newton Holly Witherspoon, b. Apr. 28, 1846; d. 1920. He married first to Emma Offut, who died about a year later losing an infant son. He married secondly to Laura Johnson. At this time he was living in Owen ton, Ky, where. he was a banker. He later moved to Winchester where he married a third time to Patty French of Winchester. He was a banker. Issue: (By Laura (Johnson) Witherspoon) (llba) Luma Witherspoon, m. John Stevenson. Ad dress: Winchester, Ky. (llbb) Martha Witherspoon, m. William R. Sphar. Address: Winchester, Ky. (llc) Lister Witherspoon, b. June 7, 1848; m. Dec. 8, 1869, to Martinette Viley (b. Jan. 22, 1859; d. Jan. 31, 1923). She was a sweet, spiritually minded woman, and very handsome. She was the author and compiler of a book of genealogy entitled "My Ancestors" which traces her pedigree back to many kings and queens. Overwork on this volume shortened her life. They lived on a beautiful farm and owned a lovely home which was built by Powhatan Woodridge. The name of this country estate was "Lato Wana", Woodford Co.Ky. Issue: (llca) Warren Viley Witherspoon m. Lilly Fahs. Issue: (llcaa) Lister Witherspoon, III, b. July 24, 1909. (llcb) Infant daughter, d. Feb. 6, 1873. (11cc) Ellen Douglas \Vitherspoon, m. M.A. Buff ington. No issue. (llcd) Lister Witherspoon, II, b. Mar. 3, 1878; d. Dec. 17, 1899. Unmarried. (llce) Ethel Witherspoon, m. O.L.Alexander. Ad dress: Yonkers, N. Y. (lld) Ellen Johnson Witherspoon, b. Nov. 10, 1850; d. July 9, 1856. (lle) Mary Prather Witherspoon, b. Dec. 22, 1852; d. May 7, 1853. (12) Ephraim Lillard, II, twelfth and youngest child of Ephraim,!, and Margaret (Prather) Lillard, was born on May 1, 1820, at the old Lillard Homestead near Lawrenceburg, Ky. He lived at the old homestead with his mother until he married and after a few years Margaret (Prather) Lillard broke up housekeeping, sold her property to Dr. John Witherspoon, and went to live with Ephraim,II, and his wife. Ephraim Lillard, II, was mar ried in Anderson County, Ky., to Martha McQuiddy, on Dec. 22, 1842. She was born Oct. 22, 1819; d. May 19, 1907. He CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 263 died Aug. 18, 1901, and both are buried in the Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, Cemetery. Martha McQuiddy was the daughter of James McQuiddy (b. 17 88; d. 185 9) and Jane (Perry) Mc Quiddy (b. 1793; d. 1858); granddaughter of John McQuiddy a Revolutionary soldier, and his wife Sallie Elizabeth (West) Mc Quiddy. THE McQumoY FAMILY John McQuiddy, Revolutionary Soldier was born in Culpeper County, Va., on March 22, 1760, and removed from Virginia to Kentucky settling in Woodford County, where he died on Dec. 24, 1841. He married first to Sallie Elizabeth West, a near relative of Benjamin West the famous American artist. By her he had the following Children: ( 1 ) Mary (Polly) McQuiddy m. Mr. Thomas; (2) James McQuiddy m. Jane Perry, daughter of Lewis and Jane (Bourne) Perry, of Orange County, Va.; (3) Susan McQuiddy m. Mr. Thomason; (4) John McQuiddy, Jr.; (5) Benjamin West McQuiddy; (6) Sallie Elizabeth McQuiddy m. Jeremiah Nash; after the death of his first wife, John McQuiddy married secondly to Nancy Hawkes Smith of Versailles, Ky., by whom he had: (7) Nancy McQuiddy m. Mr. Tillory; (8) David McQuiddy. At the time of his enlistment in the Revolutionary war he lived in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. A pension was applied for and granted in 1833. The follow ing are authentic references as to the Revolutionary Service of John Mc Quiddy, grandfather of Martha (McQuiddy) Lillard: Page 243. Year Book of Kentucky Society, 1896. "John McQuady(McQuiddy), private, Virginia Line. Oct. 26, 1833. $40.00 Age 74." Collins History of Kentucky, Vol.I, page 9. "John McQuiddy. Age 80. Revolutionary Soldier living in Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1840." Taken from application of Sons of American Revolution and U. S. Pension Office Records: "John McQuiddy was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, March 22, 1760. Died in Woodford County, Kentucky, De cember 24, 1841. He enlisted in 1776, Aug. 10, for two months; 1778 four months; Aug. 10; 1779 to June 4, 1780; in 1780 two additional months; in 1781 two months and was at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis; was pensioned." This is further authenticated in the United States Pension ~oll, Vol. 3 (543) 145, as follows: "John M'Quady (McQuiddy) is given in statement of Woodford County, Ky., as Rank: Private; Allowance $40.00; sums received $100.00; description of service: Virginia Line; when placed on pension roll, Mar. 4, 1831. Age 74." James McQuiddy, eldest son of John and Sallie (West) McQuiddy, married Jane Perry, daughter of Lewis Perry. There is a tradition in the family that Lewis Perry was a Revolutionary soldier and rel~ted to Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, but I have been unable to find authentic records of this. James and Jane (Perry) McQuiddy had the following children: ( 1) Jackson McQuiddy m. Roxanna Reynolds, and the fol lowing is copied from a page of her album. The handwriting is that of her husb;md Jackson McQuiddy: "Roxanna Reynolds was born the 22 of March, A.D. 1824-Jackson McQuiddy was born the 28th of August, 264 LILLARD GENEALOGY A.D. 1814. Roxanna Reynolds was married to Jackson McQuiddy at her grandfather's residence Col. James Ballards in Shelby Co. Ky., on the 22nd day of Jan. A. D. 1846. Roxanne McQuiddy died the 11th of May, 184 7. If goodness was any security against misfortune she would have lived long and happy. By her husband (signed) Jackson McQuiddy." On another page: "Roxanna McQuiddy died in the tuwn of Kansas, Mo. on the 11th day of May, 1847. The bright month of May will ever be dark to me. J3y all the ties that bind my widowed heart to the mem ory of my darling Roxanna; I entreat all into whose hands this Album, which was once hers, but now is sadly mine, may chance to fall, unless it is some near and dear relative, to write no more in it. (signed) Jackson McQuiddy." On another page: "Roxanna was horn the 22nd of March, 1824. Her mother died when she was an infant only a few weeks old. She was raised by her grandfather Col. James Ballard of Shelby County, Ken tucky, with whom and with all who knew her she was a favorite. On account of her sweet disposition; and in a word for all the goodness, holi ness, purity, innocence and lovliness which she possessed without any mix ture of the coarser and baser passions of humanity. While she was· yet a tender flower she became a member of the Baptist Church which she re mained a devoted member. She was married on the 22nd day of Jan. 1846, to Jackson McQuiddy to whom she was the kindest and most de voted wife until the 11th of May 1847 when death with relentless grasp tore her away." (2) Martha McQuiddy m. Ephraim Lillard,Il, as before stated. ( 3) Frank McQuiddy died unmarried. ( 4) Mary McQuiddy m. Harrison Ballard, widower and had William H. Ballard who m .. Bettie Cartwell; Frank Ballard died unmarried; Barney Ballard died unmar ried; Jackson Ballard; Thomas J. Ballard, druggist of Lawrenceburg who married 1st Mary Witherspoon; 2nd, her sister, Gertrude Witherspoon. ( 5) Robert Irvin McQuiddy ( b. 1831 ; d. Apr.13, 191 7, and is buried in the Lawrenceburg, Ky., Cemetery) m.May 11, 1858, Sarah Pauline Lil lard, daughter of General Christopher and Minerva (Lillard) Lillard. ( 6) Alexander McQuiddy m. Sallie Norris. ( 7 ) James McQuiddy, Jr., died unmarried. ( 8) Elizabeth (Bettie) McQuiddy died in young woman hood, unmarried. The McQuiddys were of Scotch-Irish descent, and the tradition handed down is that they belonged to one of the ancient clans. In records the name is spelled in many various ways: McQuoddy, Mc Quittie, McQueritie, McQuady and McQuiddy. I am inclined to be lieve that they belonged to the Clan Mackirdy of Scotland, which in 163 2 spelled it "Clan M'Quritei." Robert Irvin McQuiddy, passed the last years of his life with his nieces, Misses Rachel and Jennie Lillard, and before his death he wrote the following statement: "I, Robert I. Mc:Quiddy, son of James Mc Quiddy (who married Jane Perry) who was the son of John McQuiddy who lived in Woodford County, Ky., and whose daughter Elizabeth (or Betsy) married Jerry Nash. My grandfather John :McQuiddy died after the year 1840. (signed) Robt. I. McQuiddy. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 265 This May, 1911. I am now eighty years old. Witness: Rachel Lillard." A joint letter written to Ephraim Wallace Lillard, by his parents, Ephraim,II, and Martha (McQuiddy) Lillard is as follows: "My dear son Eph :- If you could come to Molly's sale without too great sacrifice, I would be glad for you to do so as you are the only brother she has, and can't expect anything of her son-in-law . . . just for the looks of the thing if nothing more. Love to all, John (Stout) & his wife included. Your father, E. L." "Dec.11th, (18)'98. My dear son: We received yours and Lula's letters and I tell you we were truly glad to get them. It is the only way we here at home can hear from you all, away from any telephones, telegraphs or anything of that kind. We are all well at present. Jenny and Ray went to see Mollie Friday last. Jen came home sick, kept her bed all day yesterday. After resting she is up & has gone to church with Ray and Harry Carpenter. They found Mollie and Neva well & trying to do the best they can. The darkies do very well for them sometimes, and then sometimes they don't and then they had to feed and do it themselves. They had to do it last Sunday evening, that awful weather, but they are cheerful and seem determined to hold out. We are looking for you down to her sale. Be sure to come. Your presence will be to her advantage. Come, if you have to go back the same day. I will now tell you something about myself. I have been very much out of fix someway. My tongue was sore and seemed too large, was coated, my neck hurt when I turned my head. I didn't complain as much as I felt for they watch me so close expecting all the time that I will hav'e to give up, but I find that to exercise moderately is best for me, and then it does me so much good to see and know that I am not a burden to anyone, and I hope I never will be. Jen got me some yellow root. I used it liberally, and it helped me very much, but this itching is not cured, but with the salve you sent me and Resinol I use alternately. When I use one some time it seems to lose its effect. I then use the other, and by so doing I get along very well. Many thanks to you for your kindness in letting me have it. \Ve are through hog-killing. Your Pa held out fine. He helped them clear through and did not take cold. Ray & Jen· tended to the lard and other things and did it in two days. Well, Xmas is almost here. It would seem Xmc!,S indeed to me if you all would just step in. It seems I see so little of you all. Write to us again soon and tell us when you are coming. Love to all. Your de voted, Mother." Another letter written by Martha (McQuiddy) Lillard is: 266 LILLARD GENEALOGY "Oct. 7th, 1899. My dear Lula: I have been trying to get a chance to answer that nice letter you sent me, inviting me to meet your mother at your home. I was sincerely sorry that I have not been able to do so. Jennie wrote to you then or I should have written to you long before this. I have long wished to see your mother, one that is mutually interested in a family such as you all are to me, and the love and devotion that I feel in myself toward you, would be happy to make her acquaintance and hope the day is not far distant when that event will transpire. Ada and Mollie have claimed a visit from me ever since I went to see Ida last June a year since. When I received your invitation I was looking for them to come after me every day and it was so that Jenny could not leave home at that time so we had to forego that pleasure, then it seems that Jenny has her hands full to overflowing; the farm had to change (work)hands. Machinery has to be provided, this and that and every thing that is done on the place goes through her hands, even the diggings and dividing 'taters.' Lister left and she had to hunt another boy. Miss Lucy Bush offered him more than we were giving him and of course he became dissatisfied. Jen has not made a visit anywhere this year except a short one to Lister Witherspoon's. While at Ada's I went to Frankfort and visited Eph Lillard's family. He seems to be doing well. Went over part of the penitentiary. It was a sight for me. Went to the cemetery. It is a lovely spot. I was impressed more fully that 'rich and poor, high and low,' will all come down to the same level soon or late. I have received two letters from cousin Martha Torbit, also her and her brother's pictures. I got sister Mary's picture yesterday. Ray and Jen had it framed. I am so proud of it. They are going to have cousin M.D.J.'s framed. Mollie has spent two nights with us lately while Neva was with you. Ida has just made us a visit of a week. Oh! you do not know how happy it makes us old folks feel to have the dear children drop in whenever they can make it convenient to do so. Give my love to my dear boy and all the children. Write soon and be assured that you all are always remembered in my prayers. Devotedly your Mother. I will be eighty years old the 22nd of this month.'' Ephraim Lillard,II, was a farmer and stockman. His farm named "Cave Hill," was about five miles northeast of Lawrenceburg, near the Kentucky River. He owned about five hundred acres of which the greater part was virgin forest. When he first went there to live he erected a two story log house, but later erected a large brick dwelling atop another hill near the old house. Both of these houses are still standing in 1928. Ephraim Lillard, II, was a man of commanding appearance in his youth, six feet two inches in height, broad shoulders, blue eyes, and brown hair with red lights in it when the sun gleamed on it. As he grew older his hair darkened, and when he became old it turned snow white and he let his beard grow long as was then the fashion. In his CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 267 younger days he was clean-shaven. His normal weight was about 180 pounds, but he became thinner as his age advanced. His wife, Martha (McQuiddy) Lillard, was a dainty, refined woman of unusual intellect. She was about five feet three inches tall, and was always slender. She had an unusually large circle of friends, and their home "Cave Hill," in Anderson County was constantly the scene of hos pitality. When she was about eighty years old the Governor of Kentucky, who was a personal friend of Ephraim Lillard,II and his wife, came to Lawrenceburg. A wooden platform was erected in front of the Court house, from which the Governor was to give an address. Ephraim Lil lard,II, and his wife were invited to sit on the platform with the Governor. During the Governor's speech the whole platform collapsed and Martha (McQuiddy) Lillard suffered a broken limb. Even at her advanced age, she asserted her enormous vitality, and after a while was able to walk again with only the aid of a cane. On Apr. 24, 1907, in the Louisville· (Ky) Evening Post, on the front page, appeared the following: "Mrs. Martha Lillard Is Ill. Lawrenceburg, Ky. April 24.-Mrs. Martha Lillard, wife of the late Ephraim Lillard, one of the best beloved women of the county, it criti cally ill at her home near this city. She is suffering from a complication of diseases. The attending physicians entertain no hope for her recovery. She is eighty-eight years of age." She died about three weeks later of cancer of the stomach. Issue: (12a) Margaret Jane Lillard, born at Cave Hill, Mar. 19, 1844; d. Mar. 10, 1862. Educated at Daughter's Col lege, Harrodsburg, Ky. Died the spring she was to be graduated. Unmarried. Buried Lawrenceburg Ceme tery. ( 12b) Mary Ellen (Molly) Lillard, born in the old log house at Cave Hill, Oct. 22, 1845. Married Feb. 4, 1868, to James Neville Blakemore (b.Feb.27, 1837; d. Nov. 5, 1898) son of Madison and Frances (Gill) Blakemore. This wedding was solemnized in the old log house at Cave Hill. She died Apr. 3, 1919, at 4 p.m., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lafayette Crutcher, in Frankfort, Ky., and lies buried beside her husband in the Blakemore lot in the Frankfort Cemetery. The funeral was held on Sat. Apr.5,1919. She was grad uated from Daughter's College, Harrodsburg, Ken tucky, which later was called Beaumont College. It was the idea of her parents to give the older children the best education possible so they could aid in rearing and educating the younger members of the family. Issue: (12ba) Carrie Neville Blakemore, b. May 27, 1870; 268 LILLARD GENEALOGY d. Jan. 19, 1905; m. George C. Grady of Versailles, Ky., the son of Henry Grady. She is buried in the Blakemore lot in the Frankfort Cemetery. Died of lockjaw. Issue: (12baa) George Neville Grady, b. Mar. 2, 1895. Served in U.S.Navy, World War, until disabled by injury to hand when he was honorably discharged from the service. (12bb) Mary Geneva Blakemore, b. Aug. 16, 1875; m. Feb. 6, 1901, to Lafayette Crutcher,II, (b. May 4, 1867; d. Apr.17, 1923) son of Lafayette,!, and Anna (Graves) Crutcher. He was a merchant of Frankfort, Ky. He is buried in the Blakemore lot in the Frank fort Cemetery. Issue: (12bba) Lafayette Crutcher, III, b. Feb. 6, 1905, in Frankfort, Ky. (12c) Thomas Irvin Lillard, b. Oct. 22, 1848 in the old log house at Cave Hill; d. Oct. 18, 1884. Buried in the Lawrenceburg Cemetery. Married Oct. 23, 1873, to Alice Boyle Carpenter (b. July 22, 1847) daughter of John Boyle and Sarah White (Penny) Carpenter of Boyle County, Kentucky. They lived in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Issue: ( 12ca) Flora Bell Lillard, b. Lawrenceburg, Sept. 2, 1874; m. Lawrenceburg Baptist Church, June 27, 1899, to Henry Bryan Cassell. They reside on a farm near Harrodsburg, Ky. Issue: ( 12caa) Alice Elizabeth Cassell, b. Feb. 12, 1904. Schoolteacher at McAfee, Ky. (12cab) Frances Carpenter Cassell, b. Aug. 6, 1907. (12cac) Flora Lewis Cassell, b. Jan. 23, 1913. ( 12cb) Anne Boyle Lillard, b. Lawrenceburg, Apr. 27, 1876. Unmarried. Died Oct. 14, 1915. Buried in Lawrenceburg Cemetery. (12cc) Hallie Mary Lillard, b. Lawrenceburg, Oct. 22, 1877. Married Oct. 12, 1910, to Aaron Mikalson of Eureka, Mont. Issue: CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 269 ( 12cca) Norman Lillard Mikalson, b. Eureka, Mont., Aug. 12, 1911. (12d) Martha Florence Lillard, b. in the old log house at Cave Hill, June 22, 1849; d. Oct. 17, 1896, and is buried in the Nooe lot at Harrodsburg Cemetery. Married Apr. 30, 1872, to John Augustus Nooe (b.1843; d. 1917) son of Joseph and Polly (Hopper) Nooe. He is also buried in the Harrodsburg Cemetery. Mr. Nooe was a Deacon and Elder of the Christian Church at Burgin, and was one of the men who were responsible for the erection of the Burgin Graded School, which is now a High School. He also aided in the building of the Christian Church there. He was a graduate of the old Kentucky University. A brick gate post in his memory has been erected at the school which he helped to found. Issue: {12da) Mary Irvine Nooe, b. Feb. 7, 1873; d. Oct. 28, 1884. Buried in Harrodsburg Ceme tery. {12db) James Franklin Nooe, b. Apr. 21, 1874; m. May 22, 1901, to Lillie Smith. Address: Cynthiana, Kentucky. Issue: (12dba) Delos Eddie Nooe, b. Feb. 22, 1902; m. Dec. 4, 1926, to Mary Frances Johnson. Issue: Elliott B. Nooe. (12dbb) John Augustus Nooe, b. Oct. 5, 1904. {12dbc) Mary Amanda Nooe, b. Oct. 24, 1911. {12dc) Martha (Mattie) Lillard Nooe, b. Sept. 1, 1876; d. Oct. 4, 1918. Married on Jan. 21, 1904, to John Shelby Buster, son of Nimrod Buster. Issue: {12dca) Nimrod Shelby Buster, b. June 23, 1906. Educated at Centre College, Danville, Ky. {12dcb) Jack Ingram Buster, b. Oct. 1, 1908. (12dcc) Granville Robards Buster, b. May 23, 1911. (12dcd) William Lillard Buster, b.Oct. 10, 1916. . (12dd) Walter Ray Nooe, b. Apr. 6, 1878; d. May 6, 270 LILLARD GENEALOGY 1925. Married Dec. 23, 1903, to Susan Mary Crews (b. Aug. 1, 1875). Issue: (12dda) Virginia Crews Nooe, b.Oct.19, 1904. ( 12ddb) Gilbert Ray Nooe, b. Oct. 4, 1906. (12ddc) Morgan Lillard Nooe, b. Apr. 17, 1908. (12ddd) Mary Elizabeth Nooe, b. Feb. 3, 1912. (12de) Stanley Otis Nooe, b. Oct. 6, 1879; m. Sept. 9, 192 5, to Mattie Belle Scott. He enlisted in the Spanish American War, Aug. 6, 1900, at Indianapolis, Ind., in Co. G, 19th Inft., later transferred to Co.C, 11th Inft. Dis charged at Angel Island, Calif., on Aug. 20, 1903. Pensioned. No issue. (12df) Joseph Robert Nooe, b. July 31, 1882; m. Burke Henderson. No issue. Divorced. He enlisted in the Spanish American War Aug. 6, 1900, at Indianapolis, Ind., in Co. G, 19th Inft., later transferred to Co.C, 11th Inft. Discharged at Angel Island, Calif., on Aug. 20, 1903. Pensioned. In vented an electric sign Dec. 28, 1926. Patent No. 1612645, also copyrighted a Bible Chart. Was an ordained preacher officiating in the Missions of Chicago. Now President of the Perma System. Address: 4158 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Ill. (12dg) Maggie May Nooe, b. Aug. 20, 1884; d. Feb. 10, 1886. Buried in Harrodsburg Cemetery. (12dh) Lula Ephraim Nooe, b. Apr. 2, 1890; m. Jan. 28, 1915, to John William Scott ( called Jack). They reside on a farm in Garrard County, at Buena Vista, Ky. She is a D.A.R. Issue: (12dha) John William Scott, Jr., b. Nov. 5, 1919. (12di) Florence Augusta Nooe, b. Jan. 8, 1893; m. Feb. 25, 1913, to David Walter Coleman, son of Thomas Clelland,Sr., and Lulie (Walters) Coleman. T.C.Coleman, Sr., held the offices of Sheriff of Mercer Co; Commissioner of Agriculture; Auditor of the State of Kentucky. Florence N. Cole man is a D.A.R. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 27lr Issue: ( 12dia) Thomas Clelland Coleman, II, b. Dec. 4, 1913. (12dib) David Walter Coleman, Jr., b. Feb. 17, 1916. (12dic) Hunter Lee Coleman, b. Oct. 2, 1920. (12did) Jack Lillard Coleman,b. May 23, 1924. (12e) James Franklin Lillard, b. Mar. 10, 1851 in the old log house at Cave Hill; d. June 20, 1852. (12f) James Franklin Lillard:b. Oct. 26, 1852; m. 1880, to Susan Hughes, daughter of Willis Hughes. They moved to Sedalia, Mo., where he died. Issue: , ( 12 fa) Leonora Lillard. ( 12fb) Mary Lillard. ( 12fc) Willis Lillard. (12g) Rachel Black Lillard, b. Sept. 18, 1854. Unmarried. Born in the old log house at Cave Hill. Resided at Cave Hill until they sold it to move into Lawrence burg where they now live. (12h) Leonora (Nora) Angelina Lillard, b. in the old log; house at Cave Hill, June 25, 1856; d. Feb. 13, 1927. Married Sept. 20, 1881, to Harrison Boyle Carpenter (b. Aug. 5, 1858) son of John Boyle Carpenter (b. 1812; d. Nov.2, 1864) and Sarah White (Penny) Carpenter (b. Mar.19, 1816; d. May 9, 1907). John Boyle Carpenter and his wife moved to a farm just south of Lawrenceburg, and the road to their home "Wildwood," was named Carpenter's Lane. Here all of their children were born. Here also were born all of the children of Harrison Boyle and Leonora Angelina (Lillard) Carpenter; as well as all the children of their son RB.Carpenter, Jr. John Boyle Carpenter of Boyle County, married on Mar. 23, 1837, to Sarah White 'Penny. Nora (Lillard) Carpenter was a poet. She was President of the Pierian (Woman's) Club, 1922-3, and at the time of her death was one of the oldest members. Member of the Baptist Church in which she was an ardent and energetic worker. They lived at "Wildwood," near Lawrenceburg, Ky. Buried in Lawrenceburg Cemetery. Issue: (12ha) Harrison Boyle Carpenter, Jr., (Harry) b. Nov. 9, 1883; d. Oct. 30, 1927 at Wild wood. Married Oct. 23, 1912, to Nell Sweeney of Louisville, Ky.,(b.Nov.28, 1889) daughter of James and Julia (Buckley) 272 LILLARD GENEALOGY Sweeney. He was in the insurance business in Lawrenceburg. Resided at Wildwood. Issue: (12haa) Sarah . James Carpenter,b. at Wildwood, on Oct. 22, 1914. ( 12hab) Julia Lillard Carpenter, b. Wildwood, June 14, 1916. (12hac) Eleanor Irving Carpenter, b. Wildwood, Oct. 1, 1918. (12hb) John Irvin Carpenter, b. at Wildwood, July 9, 1889; m. Nov. 26, 1925, to Janice Mere dith Reynolds (b; Jan. 18, 1904) daughter of Charles Washington and Elizabet'h (Harrold) Reynolds. Charles Washington Reynolds was born July 18, 1858; m. Jan. 22, 1882, to Elizabeth Harrold (b. Apr. 9, 1865). John Irvin Carpenter served in the World War, with the A.E.F. in France 1918. 1st Lieutenant, 134th Machine Gun Btn. He is in the automobile business at Enid, Oklahoma. No issue. (12i) Ephraim Lillard,III, b. in the old log house at Cave Hill, Mar. 20, 1858; d. Feb. 20, 1859. Buried in Lawrenceburg,Ky. Cemetery. (12j) Ada Bettie Lillard (twin of Ida Alma) born in the old log house at Cave Hill, Jan. 20, 1860. Married Apr. 29, 1884, at Cave Hill, to William Silas Farmer (b. May 28, 1864) son of Benedict and Lucy (Thomas) Farmer. He is a merchant of Frankfort, Ky. She is a D.A.R. Member of Baptist Church. They reside on W apping Street in Frankfort. She aided greatly in the preparation of this genealogy, lending much time, money and energy towards its successful completion. Issue: (ll2ja) Cecil Theobald Farmer, b. at Farmdale, Ky., June 22, 1885. Educated at Centre Col lege, Danville, Ky. Married at the old Lee residence on Fourth Street in Danville, Ky., on Oct. 3, 1906, to Susan Lee Rowland (b. Sept.17, 1884) daughter of David Pitman and Lizzie Amelia (Lee) Rowland of Dan ville. After the ceremony there was a re ception for them at the home of his uncle, Colonel Ephraim W. Lillard. They reside in Frankfort. Issue: (12jaa) Virginia Rowland Farmer, b. in Frankfort, Oct. 4, 1908. Edu cated at Ward-Belmont. Ltmra Samt:e:;. C~lo;_d ·f 1..illai·d, \VH\' uf Hon. ~'phr.-i,im -\Va1lt{,>,! T,iHnr,l (fr1rw Mr:--:. J. B. }'a:;ur:i, J)ir,:•n, Dt•t,C(hlhtnt nf 1'.¥1.iMmay Fan~~. S•.~~c,nd ·1-t:~,rl ,,f w~•\n1ur,,1,.p•d, aw1 Hi;-• Daur,;hlt'r . .Latly Dii~ n,:.. ]t},TH'·. ~, '~i~<.' 2"F,}. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 273 ( 12jab) William Silas Farmer, b. Frank fort, Jan. 3, 1912. ( l 2jac) Alice Cecil Farmer, b. Frank fort, Feb. 28, 1923. (12jb) Alice Lillard Farmer, b. at Farmdale, Ky., on Sept. 22, 1886, m. at First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., by Dr. F. W. Eberhardt, on Dec. 24, 1914, to her second cousin, Alvah Sears Lillard, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth (Nooe) Lillard; grandson of Stephen and Rose Anna (Hudgins) Lillard. He is in the oil business in Chicago. (12k) Ida Alma Lillard (twin to Ada Bettie) b. in the old log house at Cave Hill, Jan 20, 1860. Married in Covington, Ky., on Oct. 10, 1883, to William Shelby Barriger (b. Jan. 20, 1861; d. Jan. 29, 1916) son of .Shelby and Maranda Lucile (Hackworth) Barriger. He is buried in Shelbyville, and his widow still re sides there. Issue: (12ka) Nellie Lillard Barriger, b. July 29, 1884; d. Feb. 28, 1887. (12kb) Virginia Lillard Barriger, b. Apr. 10, 1886; m. June 25, 1918, to William Crawford Baskett, son of William Thomas and Sarah (Guthrie) Baskett. Virginia Baskett is the society editor of the Shelby Sentinel. ( l 2kc) Linda Barriger, b. Dec. 17, 1890 ;m. Sept. 13, 1911; to Lester Sleadd Money, son of Amanthus Francis and Jennie (Sleadd) Money. He is a farmer. Linda Barriger Money was educated at Kentucky College for Women. Issue: (12kca) Virginia Frances Money, b. Feb.11, 1915. (12kcb) Lester Sleadd Money, Jr., b. July 15, 1927. (12kd) William Lillard Barriger, b. Feb. 1, 1897. Entered West Point U.S.Military Academy, 1915; was graduated June 12, 1918, and commissioned 2nd Lieut. Commissioned First Lieut, June 26, 1918. Served in World War. Served with 12th Cav. Colum bus, N.M.; Short time with Casual Co., in Sib.eria. Other service: Philippine Islands and Mexican Border. Present status (1928) 1st Lt. Cavalry, on duty as Instructor at U.S.Military Academv at West Point. He 274 LILLARD GENEALOGY married on June 5, 1919, to Eva Collins, daughter of James Collins. Issue: (12kda) William Lillard Barriger, Jr., b. San Antonio, Texas, July 22, 1923. (121) Colonel Ephraim Wallace Lillard, b. in the old log house at Cave Hill, on Jan. 1, 1862. Page 919, History of Kentucky, John Morris Co., 188 7, edition, states: "E. '\N. Lillard was reared on a farm, and received a com mon English education, which was finished at the Ken tucky University. At the age of eighteen he entered the drug business at Lawrenceburg (in the drug store of his uncle, Dr. Robt. I. McQuiddy), where he re mained three years; then went to Richmond (Ky) and engaged in the same business eighteen months" (in Ramsey's Drug Store, during which time he completed his course in Pharmacy, attending Centre College, Rich mond, Ky.) "E. W. Lillard is a member of the Bap tist Church." "In January, 1885, he located in Lan caster, where he operates one of the finest drug stores in the county. Oct. 30, 1885, he was elected Captain of Company G, 2nd Regt. Ky., State Guards (this Company was known as the Lillard Rifles). He served in this capacity during the years 1885-6, during which time he was placed in command of the troops at the Greenwood Mines; he resigned his commission soon after the withdrawal of the troops. He was the son of Ephraim Lillard of Lawrenceburg, Ky., who was one of the leading farmers of Anderson County, and be fore the (Civil) war owned considerable slave property, and who was a devoted member of the Christian Church . " Colonel Ephraim Wallace Lillard's drug store was located in the Central Square at Lancaster. His home, a large white frame house called "Lillardale," was on the Danville Pike. About 1892 he sold his property in Lancaster and removed with his family to Danville, Ky. Here he also organized a company of State Guards of which he was commissioned Captain, advancing through the grades to Lt. Col., 2nd Ky., Regiment. He was recommended by the Governor to become Adjutant General of Kentucky, but was defeated. He took an active part in the Jedd-White Feud, having charge of the Troops at Jackson, Ky. He was also in joint com mand of the troops during the Nightrider suppression, during which he narrowly escaped being killed by the Nightriders. During the trouble with Mexico he re quested the Secretary of State at Washington to per- CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 275 mit him to organize a volunteer regiment to aid, but the Secretary of State declined his offer claiming that only the regular U.S.Troops were necessary to handle the situation. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, he was Capt. of Co.G, 2nd Ky. Regt., but did not see active service. In command of his company they went no further than Lexington, Ky. He was Representa tive of Boyle County at the Kentucky State Legislature, during which time he was the author and originator of many bills tending to benefit his people. The most famous of these of which he was author and originator was the Kentucky Pure Food Law. Being a druggist he realized the adulterants which were being used in the manufacture of medicines and foodstuffs, he there fore sought to eliminate such a deplorable condition. Among his original papers are hundreds of letters from all over the United States complimenting him on his farsightedness in introducing such a measure, and that if he never did another thing during his whole life that this Act was one of the greatest "advancements in the cause of humanity ever presented." This Bill became a Kentucky law and later became nationalized as the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act. He was a Mason; also member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, Chap ter Kentucky Chi, 1881; Private Secretary to U.S. Senator William O'Connell Bradley at Washington; was a Registered Pharmacist both in Kentucky and in the District of Columbia; owned and operated a theatre, a cafe, soda parlor and drugstore in Danville. Also owned and edited the Kentucky Advocate, and the Danville News which he founded. This latter news paper later changed its name to the Danville Messenger. Both of these newspapers are still in existence. He was a patriotic and generous man, always aiding all causes for the good of the people. He died at his ho:qie, Rose Terrace, in Danville, Ky., on Feb. 17, 1915, and was buried with his parents in the Lawrenceburg Cemetery after services at the Baptist Church in that town on Feb. 19, 1915. He was also Commissioner for the Kentucky School for the Deaf. On Aug. 4, 1886, he married Laura ( called Lula) James Stout (b. New York,N.Y., Sept. 11, 1870) daughter of Dr. John Benjamin and Mary Jane (Molly Horene) Stout. They were married at the home of her step-father, Capt. Samuel Merle Sanders near Buffalo, Ky. Laura James (Stout) Lillard was christened in old Trinity church in New York City, and was brought to Kentucky by her parents. She was educated at the Millersburg Female Seminary and Garrard Female College. She is an Episcopalian, but became a member of the Baptist 276 LILLARD GENEALOGY Church on account of her husband. She was an active clubwoman, belonging to the Arts Club; United Daugh ters of Confederacy; Daughters of the American Revo lution, St. Asaph's Chapter; Chafing Dish Club; Woman's Club. THE STOUT FAMILY. The St'out Coat of Arms: Argent, a pale gules, surmounted by a saltire az. Crest: A talbot passant or. (Burke's Heraldry). The talbot is the insignia bourne by Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, of the family of Talbots of Bashall, senior line of Shrewsbury. Captain John Stout, shipmaster, settled in New Amsterdam (now New York,N.Y.) and married on June 24, 1714, to Abigail Bill(bp. Nov.13,1695) daughter of Benjamin and Gessie Frans (Brevoort) Bill. Her father, Benjamin Bill, was born about 1674, in Boston, and was the son of Thomas and Abigail (Willis) Bill, who are buried in Boston. There are paintings of them in Boston. Abigail Willis was the daughter of Michael and Mildred Willis. Thomas Bill was the son of John and Dorothy (Tuttle) Bill, and was born in England about 1618. He re sided in Boston (Pulling Point), and attended the Second Church. John and Dorothy Bill came to the colony in America about 1634, bringing with them their three sons, James, Thomas and Philip Bill. John Bi:1.1 died in America in October, 1638. John Bill was the son of John and Anne (Mountford) Bill. John Bill was born in the Parish of Much Wenlock, England, and was baptized in 1576. He appears in London in 1613 as a "Publisher to King James I, Most. Excellente Majestie." One of the earliest volumes showing the imprint of this John Bill is one written by King James I. Anne (Mountford) Bill, his wife, was the daughter of Thomas Mountford, D.D. She was born in London,about 1588, and was the author of "The Mirror of Modestie." She was a lady of some celebrity, greatly skilled in music, possessing eminent virtues and was held in high esteem. She died on May 3, 1621, and was buried at St. Peter's under St. Paul's. John Bill, Publisher to King James, I, was the son of John Bill, one of Middlesex, England's Landed Gentry. He married to Lady Diana Fane, daughter of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmoreland, and widow of John Pelham, Esq., of Brookelsby, Lincoln, England. Mrs. Diana Bill had some verses dedicated to her in which a wish is expressed that "the noble race of Westmoreland might spread," etc. Thus the Stouts are all direct descendants of Mildmay Fan¢, 2nd Earl of Westmoreland, and his daughter Lady Diana Fane. The Bill family of Boston, Mass., is to this day a prominent one. The Bill Coat of Arms: Erm. two woodbills (battle axes) sa. with long handles; ppr. in saltier on a chief az. a. pale, or charged with a rose, gu. betw. two pelicans' heads erased at the neck ar. There is a very comp[ete genealogy of this family in the Library of Congress, Washington. The records of the Old Dutch Church of New York show that Capt. John and Abigail (Bill) Stout had the following children: 1. Anna Maria Stout, baptized Mar. 4, 1715; 2. Benjamin Stout,bp.June 2, 1717; 3. John Stout, bp. Feb. 10, 1720; 4. Catharina Stout, bp. Mar. 26, 1722. 1. Anna Maria Stout m. Jacob Somarindike. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 277 2. Benjamin Stout m.Apr.29, 1738, Phoebe de Forest. 4. Catharina Stout, m. Sept.6, 1740, Teunis Somarindike. Benjamin Stout ( 2) was a witness to a will in 1751, N. Y.Wills. Jan. 21, 1768, Benjamin Stout, James Waterman, and sixteen others, petitioned for a tract of 18,000 acres of land on the west side of the Connecticut River. 1770,1771,1773, Benjamin Stout was appointed executor in N.Y. Wills. July 9, 1770, Benjamin Stout and aJSsociates petitioned for a grant of 30,000 acres of land, about eighteen miles to the west of the Connecticut River, and South of Kent, and that the same be erected into a township by the name of Virgin Hall. July 27, 1770, return of Survey of Benjamin Stout and associates, of a tract of 26,500 acres of land on the West side of the Connecticut River, in the County of Cumberland, ad joining the township of Kent (now Andover, Windhanco, Vermont), with a map of the same Virgin Hall. 1783, Nov. 10, Benjamin Stout made his will which was proved May 7, 1788. Sept. 28, 1805, Mrs. Phoebe Stout, widow of Benjamin Stout, died at Brooklyn, N. Y., in the 94th year of her age. Benjamin Stout was the brother of John Stout who married Ann Dodameed, who was baptized in the Fir:st Presbyterian Church of New York City, Aug. 24, 1766. John Stout (3) was a sea captain and com manded the British Privateer "Harlequin" of 16 guns, in the Revolu tionary War. John (3) and Ann (Dodameed) Stout had a son John Stout, b. Nov.1, 1765. Phoebe (de Forest) Stout(b.1714) was the daughter of Barent de Forest(b.1684;d.1726) and Catalina (Sarley) DeForest; she was the grand-daughter of Hendrick de Forest (b.1657; d.1715) and Barbara (Fiammettia) van Flaesbeek; great-grand-daughter of Isaac de Forest (bp. at Leyden, Holland, July 10, 1616) and Sara du Trieux of New Amster dam; and great-great-granddaughter of Jesse de Forest the Huguenot of Avesnes, France, whose statue now stands in Battery Park, New York City, and his wife, Marie du Cloux. A very complete genealogy of this family can be found in the Library of Congress in Mrs. E. J. DeForest's book "A Walloon Family in America." Thus Laura James (Stout) Lillard is a distant cousin of Robert W. de Forest, President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; President of the Russell Sage Foundation; President of the Welfare Council of New York City; President of the American Fed eration of Arts; President of Survey Associates and the National Hous ing Assn; Vice-Pres of the American Red Cross, and many other philan thropic organizations. Benjamin and Phoebe (de Forest) Stout had the following children: (a) John Stout, b. 1740; m. Jan. 23, 1772, to Effie Varick. (b) Benjamin Stout, Jr., m. Aug. 22, 1766, to Jemima Brevoort. (c) Jacob Stout: m. 1st Elizabeth Carpender; m. 2nd, Frances Carpender, his first wife's sister. (d) Abigail Stout, m. 1st, June 19, 1758,John Agnew; 2nd. Apr. 12, 1762, to Caleb Hyatt. She was his second wife. ( e) Sarah Stout m. Nov. 1, 1756, to James Taggart; 2nd t'o John Carpender. (f) Helena Stout m. Sept. 29, 1766, to William Grigg. No issue. (a) John Stout was a Revolutionary soldier. March, 1776, he was First Lieutenant of the 22nd Regiment of the New York City Militia. In 1776 he was also a volun) teer Fireman of the City. Effie Varick Stout, was the daughter of Andrew 278 LILLARD GENEALOGY Varick(b.Sept.2, 1716;d.1762) and his wife Effie TenEyck(m.Apr.23, 1738). Effie (Varick) Stout was the first cousin of Colonel Richard Varick, lawyer of New York City; Colonel in the Revolutionary War; Mayor of the City of New York, 1789-1800; President of the American Bible Society; President of the Society of the Cincinnati; Secretary to Benedict Arnold. Col. Richard Varick married Maria Roosevelt. Varick Street in New York was named for him. John and Effie (Varick) Stout had the following children: (I) Phoebe Stout, died unmarried in 1855; (II) Benjamin Stout, bp. Nov. 15, 1772. He was lost in the West Indies. His body was buried in Trinity Churchyard. (III) Andrew Varick Stout m. first Jane ______; 2nd Almira A. Hanks. (IV) James De Forest Stout,b. July 22, 1783; d. July, 1868; m. Jane Disney (b. 1781; d. Dec. 25, 1815). Mrs. Jane Disney Stout is buried in Trinity Churchyard, New York City. James De Forest Stout was the nephew of Capt. Jacob Stout, who during the Revolutionary war commanded the following, privateers be longing to New York, "Lively" of 14 guns, "Britannia" of 20 guns, "De light" of 8 guns, "Triumph" of 16 guns. Capt. Jacob Stout owned and resided in the famous Philipse manorhouse, now the city hall of Yonkers. Capt. Jacob Stout died in 1823. His son Jacob married Susan, daughter of Arthur Breese of Utica, and had a son Edward Stout who married a daughter of Commodore Aulick. Edward Stout was a Lieutenant in the U.S.Navy and was lost on the ship "Levant." Another son of Capt. Jacob Stout was Aquilla Giles Stout who married his cousin, Ann Morris, daughter of William Morris. Their daughter Sarah Morris Stout married Monsieur de Veatt Gringues, Baron de Vaugrigneuse, of the French Lega tion. He died during the siege of Paris, and she died April 22, 1904. Aquilla Giles and Ann (Morris) Stout also had a son named Francis Aquilla Stout of whom the following appeared in Vol.XXVIII, No.3, Sept. 1892, Magazine of American History, page 226: "HON. FRANCIS AQUILLA STOUT In the death of Mr. Stout, suddenly from pneumonia, at the Thousand Islands, ~lexandria Bay, New York, July 18, 1892, the American Geo graphical Society has lost its Senior Vice-President, and one of its ablest and most efficient supporters. Mr. Stout was educated as an Engineer in Paris, and as a barrister in New York; he was one of the founders and Commissioners of the New York State Survey, and formerly President of the Nicaragua Canal Company, was one of the Commissioners to the French exposition in 1889, and one of the Vice-Presidents to the Geographi cal Congress at Berne in 1891. The Galignani Messenger, Paris, France: says of him: 'Possessing an ample fortune, he devoted himself assiduously to scientific studies, and to charitable works and was president and director of many important charitable associations in New York. His vigorous intellect, his large experience, his varied culture, his charming manners and his honorable character, won him a multitude of warm friends both in America and Europe, who will deeply feel his loss. Mr. Stout belonged to a historic family. His paternal grandfather owned and resided in the famous Philipse Manor-house, now the city hall of Yonkers. His maternal great-grandfather, Colonel Lewis Morris, signed the Declaration of Inde- CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 279 pendence, whose grandfather, Richard Morris, was founder of the Manor of Morrisana. Mr. Stout's great-grand uncles were General Staats Long Morris, M.P., and Governor of Quebec, who married the Duchess of Gordon; and Gouverneur Morris, a member of the Continental Congress, assistant minister of finance in the Revolution, one of the framers of the Constitution of the United States, and Minister to France in the trying period from 1791 to 1794. It was Gouverneur Morris who endeavored to save the life of Louis XVI, failing in which he loaned 200,000 francs to Louis Philippe and performed many other generous acts towards the French people. Mr. Stout married the eldest daughter of General Meredith Read, great-great-granddaughter of George Read, the signer of Independence, who survives him, also his widowed mother at the age of 87 in full pos session of her vigorous faculties, and a sister Madame de Vaugrigneuse, widow of Baron de Vaugrigneuse, formerly French Charge d'Affairs at various European Courts." In Vol. XXVIII, No.6, Dec. 1892, same magazine, appears a photograph of the Hon. Francis A. Stout, from the Imperial Photograph, by Eugene Piron, Paris, in the Figaro's Gallery of Distinguished Men. James De Forest Stout (IV) and Jane (Disney) Stout had the fol lowing children: (i) Dr. John Benjamin Stout, b. May 11, 1805; d. Nov. 26, 1877; m. 1st. Rose Anna Naghel; m. 2nd. Apr. 5, 1869, to Mary Jane (Molly) Horene,(b.Dec.16, 1841; d. Dec. 4, 1923) daughter of Horatio Nelson and Mary(Baunta) Horene. (ii) George Stout, artist and en graver, died unmarried and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. (iii) James Varick Stout, artist and sculptor, died unmarried. After the death of Jane (Disney) Stout, her husband, James De Forest Stout married a second time to Susan Smith. Dr. John Benjamin Stout was a highly educated and cultured man, having been graduated from the University of Vermont, University of New York, University of Pennsylvania, and other colleges. He possessed fourteen different diplomas, some of which were honorary ones. He was a graduate dentist, pharmacist, physician and surgeon. At the time of the Civil War he was sixty years old so was not eligible to servrce, but having travelled a great deal throughout the South his sympathies were with the Confederates and he generously contributed to their cause. He was married first to Rose Anna N aghel, a very accomplished and beautiful woman of French descent, by whom he had the following children: (a) Andrew Jackson Stout, died in infancy; ( b) Theodore Stout, died in in fancy; (c) Anna Maria Stout, b. in New York City, m. Charles S. Todd of New Albany, Ind., and had a daughter, Aline Todd; (d) Adelina Hunter Stout, b. in New York City, m. George 0. Hart of Paducah, Ky., and had two children; (e) Emma Black Stout, b. Franklin Co.,Ky., m. 1st John Rieniking; 2nd Nathan Richardson; 3rd. Mr. Kirtsinger. No issue. She died in 1917. Dr. John Benjamin Stout and his second wife Mary Jane (Molly) Horene had the following children: ( f) Laura James (Lula) Stout m. Col. Ephraim Wallace Lillard; (g) Stella Augusta Stout, b. Covington, Ky., June 30, 1872; educated at Lancaster Female College, and Miss Noel's Finishing School for Young Ladies, m. Sept. 1, 1891, ito Professor John Montgomery Rupley (b. Apr. 24, 1865) son of William Wallace and Margaret Rupley. Professor Rupley was educated at Centre 280 LILLARD GENEALOGY College, and was Principal of Centre College Academy. Issue: (ga) Lula Margaret Rupley, b. Paris, Texas, Jan. 21, 1899; educated at the Har rodsburg School, Beaumont College and Bowling Green Normal and Teach ers' -College. (gb) John Fred Rupley, b. Feb. 12, 1902, Harrodsburg, Ky.;m. Apr. 15, 1923, to Margaret Dickerson Fosdick, daughter of Chas. P. & Mary (Dickerson) Fosdick. Issue: (gba) Charles Thomas Rupley, b.Mar.17, 1924; (gbb) Margaret Fosdick Rupley, b. Aug. 23, 1925; (gbc) John Fred Rupley, b. Apr. 15, 1927. (h) Dr. John Benjamin Stout, b. Capitol Hotel in Frankfort, Ky., on Feb. 28, 1877, educated at the University of Louisville, graduating in both pharmacy and medicine. Druggist. Master Commissioner of Boyle County, Ky. Married first on June 9, 1897, to Pattie Bell Gentry, daughter of Valentine and Susan (Engleman) Gentry of Stanford, Ky. She died on Monday, May 12, 1919, and is buried in Danville. Issue: (ha) John Benjamin Stout',b. Dan ville, Ky., June 23, 1898; d. Apr. 5, 1899. (hb) Richard Helm Stout, b. Danville, Ky., Aug. 18, 1900. Educated at Centre College andi Harvard University. Banker. Vice-President of the Bankers Associa tion, Louisville, Ky. Dr. John Benjamin Stout married a second time to Emma Dom. Dr. Stout has recently been appointed Admiral of Her rington Lake, an honorary title bestowed upon him by Lt. Governor James Breathitt of Kentucky. Mamie (Molly Horene) Stout was the daughter of Horatio Nelson Horene(b. June 21, 1810; d. May 3, 1890) and Mary (Baunta) Horene (b. 1812; d. Sept.17, 1896). H.N.Horene and Mary Baunta were married! on July 18, 1829. He was the son of Dr. George Horene (d. 1815) and Nancy(Higgins) Horene (d. 1846) who were m. May 12, 1796, in Mercer County, Ky. Nancy Higgins Horene was the daughter of Henry Higgins, one of the pioneer settlers at Fort Harrod, and one of the men who wtent on the perilous expedition from Harrodstown on Jan. 2, 1777, to get powder to establish Kentucky's First Arsenal (Collins' Hist. of Ky.). Mary Baunta was the daughter of Henry Baunta (b. 1778; d. 1843 in Illinois) and his wife Charity (Baunta) Baunta (bp. Dec. 15, 1778). They were cousins. Henry Baunta was the son of Samuel Banta (b. June 13, 1753) and his wife Dyna Dorland (b. Apr. 7, 1753; d. May 25, 1812). Samuel Banta was a Revolutionary Soldier. In the application for a pension on file in the Bureau. of Pensions at Washington, D. C., appears the following: "Samuel Banta, 1776. In May 1833, he was r~siding in Mercer County, Kentucky, aged eighty years, where he had lived for more than forty years. He entered the service in December, 177 6, at York County, Pa., under Captain Van Arsdale, marched to Philadelphia; from there in ten or twelve days, he was ordered to Trenton, N.J., and when about eight miles from Philadelphia they met some Hessian prisoners who had been taken at the battle of Trenton (Dec. 26, 1776 ). He joined the army of General Putnam, whose headquarters were at Princeton, N.J., at which place and at Kingston, he was stationed to guard the lines and was out in scouting parties to protect the inhabitants from the incursions of the British occupying New Brunswick." Samuel Banta was the son of Hendrick (b.1718;d.1805) and Ann (Demarest) Banta. Ann Demarest was born Dec. 23, 1733, and was the daughter of Samuel David Demarest CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 281 of New Jersey, from which family descends the present Vice-President Demarest of the Huguenot Society of America. Hendrick Banta and Ann Demarest were married in 17 50. He was the son of Hendrick (bp. 1696) and Gertrude (Terhune) Banta, daughter of Alb_ert Terhune, Jr., who in 1696, was a member of the Colonial East New Jersey Legislature. Mrs. Lula (Stout) Lillard, m. 2nd Jan. 15, 1924, to John Ben Payne, son of George R. and Naomi (Brooks) Payne. Mr. Payne is Supervisor of Boys, and Athletic Instructor at the Kentucky School for the Deaf, and a member of the N.A.D. fraternity. Colonel Ephraim Wallace and Laura James (Stout) Lillard had the following issue: (121a) Mamie Augusta Lillard, b. Aug. 3, 1887, Lancaster, Ky. Educated at Miss Reed's Private School, Neville & Wilson's Private School and Caldwell College.- President of the Senior Class, graduating 1907; elected Queen of the Centre College May Carnival by the varsity men, 1907. Married at "Rose Terrace," on Feb. 9, 1910, to Tom Wynns French, son of Foster and Molly (Polly Wynns) French of Fulton, Tenn. Issue: ( l 2laa) Lillard French, b. Sibley Hos pital, Washington, D.C., Jan. 14, 1914. (121b) Lula McQuiddy Lillard, b. Lancaster, Ky., Nov. 12, 1889. Educated at Neville & Wilson Private School, and Kentucky Col lege for Women, graduating June 1909,BA, cum laude, President of her Junior Class. Member of Phi Chi Phi sorority. Married at the home of Colonel Lillard in Washing ton, D. C., on Dec. 26, 1913, to George Harrison Braddock, son of Austin Alexan der and Marie Antoinette (Cushman) Braddock of Maryland. Mr. Braddock is a patent attorney. Address: Wauwatosa, Wis. Issue: (12lba) George Harrison Braddock, Jr., b. Miles City, Mont, Jan. 21, 1916. Died Jan. 23, 1916. Buried in Miles City. ( 12lbb) William Austin Braddock, b. Washington, D.C., Apr. 11, 1917. ( 12lbc) Robert Lillard Braddock, b. 282 LILLARD GENEALOGY Bridgeport, Conn., Apr. 24, 1920. (121c) Ephraim Stout Lillard, b. Danville, Ky., n.e. corner of Main and McGroty Ave., Nov. 3, 1894. Educated Neville & Wilson Private School, Eastern High School, Washington, D. C., and Centre College Academy, Dan ville, Ky. Author of short stories and magazine articles; "The Isle of Hidden Men;" compiler of this genealogy. As sumed the pen name of "Jacques Lillard." Professional dancer both in America and Europe. On account of spine injured in football game was offered limited service in one of the American cantonments. Refused. Served in World War as A.F.C., A.G.O., first at Governor's Island, N.Y., and then in France for a year. Was in Paris the day the armistice was signed. Married at 109 First St. N.E., Washington, D. C., on Dec. 22, 1919, to Jane Walton Crawford (b. Api:. 11, 1896; d. June 27, 1921; buried in Bellevµe Cemetery, Danville, Ky), daugh ter of Pattie Craig (Green) and Dr. Clar ence Kerr Crawford. Jane(Crawford) Lil lard was educated at Kentucky College for Women, and Kentucky State University. Member of t~ Alpha Xi Delta Sorority. She was the granddaughter of Thomas Marshall and Nannie (Butler) Green. Her grandfather Thomas Marshall Green was the author of a book of genealogy entitled "Historic Families of Kentucky," from which her ancestors may be obtained. Jane (Crawford) Lillard was the great-grandniece of John Marshall, the first Chief Justice of the United States whose statue sits before the U.S.Capitol at Washington; she was the great-niece of General John Kerr; direct descendant of Augustine Warner, grandfather of George Washington; direct descendant of Col. John Allen and Jane Logan, and of Col. Thomas Butler ( d. Sept. 7, 1805) a Revolutionary soldier, and his wife Eleanor(Parker) Butler. Dr. Clarence Kerr Crawford was one of five men in the United States who was an expert in Old Testament Exegesis. He was a professor at the Louisville Theological Seminary, and later held a chair at the University of Edin- CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 283. borough, Scotland. While her parents were in Scotland, Jane (Crawford) Lillard, and her only sister, Nancy Butler Crawford (now Mrs. Vance Towler of Cincinnati, 0.) were sent to a boarding school in Belgium. Mrs. Crawford was a Colonial Dame. Stout Lillard is the Assistant Chief, Book.keeping Division, Copyright Office, at the Library of Congress. On Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1928 he married to Evea Gladys Kidd (b.Dec.17, 1892) daughter of Hannibal Hamlin and Martha Isabel (Hartley) Kidd of Catlin, Ill. They were married at The Chalon, Seward Square, Washington, D. C. Han nibal Hamlin Kidd (b. Oct. 27, 1860) son of Willis Nicholas Kidd, a Professor and Methodist Episcopal Minister, and Nancy Luvina(Parks) Kidd, was educated at Val paraiso (Ind.) University, specializing in Latin, Geometry and Trigonometry. First taught school at Plainview, later becoming Principal and Superintendant of the Catlin High School, Ridgefarm High School and Westville High School. Teaching for a period of sixteen years. Studied Law and Medicine. Mayor of Catlin, Illinois, for over 12 years. Commissioned by Governor Oglesby of Illinois as a representative to Springfield as State Advisor in Agriculture, which he declined. On Oct. 22, 1884, he married to Martha Isabel Hartley (b. July 4, 1865), daughter of Adolphus and Eliza beth (McMillin) Hartley, and had issue as follows : (a) St. Elmo Emmet Kidd, b. July 5, 1886, served in the World War. (b) Forrest Fremont Kidd, b. March 9, 1888. (c) Evea Gladys Kidd. (d) Harlan Hamilton Kidd, b. Apr. 28, 1906. Adol phus Hartley was a soldier in the Civil War, 125th Volunteers. Evea Gladys (Kidd) Lillard was educated Catlin High School, having highest grades for all four years, was given a four year Scholarship to Oxford (0.) College. Attended Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at Charles ton, Ill. Honorary Member of Phi Delta Gamma sorority. Member of Lambda Tau Delta Sorority. Taught at Tilton School, Danville, Ill, 7 years; Editor, Dept. of 284 LILLARD GENEALOGY Comm., Wash., D.C., 1920; statistician U.S.Shipping board; Sang with Washing ton Opera Company for two seasons; author of book of poems "From My Treas ure Chest."; Recorder in Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Issue: (By Jane Walton (Crawford) Lil- lard) · (12lca) Ephraim Wallace Lillard,II, b. at Villa Phebe, 8 rue Pasteur, Trouville-Deauville, Cal va dos, France, on Sept. 26, 1920. (12m) Edward Collins Lillard, b. at Cave Hill, June 30, 1863, m. Nov. 2, 1886, to Emma Bond, daughter of David and Lucy Jane (McCoy) Bond. Died Apr. 8, 1889. Buried in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Issue: (12ma) Irene Lillard, b. July 11, 1888, m. June 2, 1909, to Will Hagin Maddox, son of Wil liam Clay and Eliza Ann (Hagin) Maddox. Mr. Maddox is a prosperous Shelby County farmer. Address: 1005 W. Main Street, Shelbyville, Ky. Issue:• ( 12maa) William Edward Maddox, b. May 2, 1915. ( 12mab) Frances Irene Maddox,b. Jan. 6, 1918. (12mac) Lillard Bond Maddox, b. Sept. 18, 1921. (12n) Jane Perry Lillard, fourteenth and youngest child of Ephraim,II, and Martha(McQuiddy) Lillard, was born at Cave Hill, on Mar. 29, 1865. Taught school in Anderson County. After Ephraim Lillard, II, became too feeble to run his farm, this burden fell to her lot. She managed it as well as a man could, and when labor was impossible to obtain she worked right in the fields with the workhands. She and her sister remained on the farm after the death of their parents, until about 1925, when they sold it to move into Lawrenceburg, where they now reside on Woodford Street. Unmar ried. (J) James Lillard, son of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard, wafi bom in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was brought to Kentucky by his parents in 1782. In the War of 1812, he was a sergeant in Capt. Jeremiah Brisco's Company under Colonel Samuel South. On April 18, 1795, he married to Elizabeth Moore Thomas, daughter of Capt. Robert and Anne (Moore) Thomas, and grad- CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 285 daughter of Colonel Francis Moore of Orange County, Va. Col. Moore was, commissioned Major in 1741. In 1749, he was King,'s Justice and High .Sheriff ( one of the Justices usually acted as Sheriff). Later he was commissioned Colonel. Mrs. Anne Moore Thomas came to Kentucky after her husband's death, and was married a second time to Capt. John Lillard. On page 146, Vol. 7, Mercer County (Ky) Records is the will of Mrs. Anne (Moore) Thomas Lillard in which she leaves property to her daughter Elizabeth (Thomas) Lillard and her heirs, "and in either case it is my will that Nancy, Violet, Polly, George be paid $50 each." James Lillard is also mentioned. Her will is dated Oct. 3, 1818; proved Nov. 1822. On page 542, Vol.10, Mercer County (Ky) Records is the will of James Lillard in which he mentions his "daughter Artemecia Willis; daughter Lucinda Hamilton and her sons James and W:i.1- liam Hamilton," "six Willis grandchildren", "James T. Lillard, Barnett Lillard, Nancy Lillard, Minerva Lillard, Eliza Hamilton, and Lucretia Walker." In the settlement of his estate are men tioned: Artemecia Willis; Lucretia Walker; Lucinda Hamilton; Eliza Hamilton; James T. Lillard; Barnett Lillard; Nancy San ders; Minerva Lillard. His will was proved Mercer County SCT, April County Court, 1837. Issue: (1) Artemecia Lillard, m. Mr. Willis and had six children. Possibly others. (2) Lucinda Lillard m. Mr. 1Iamilton. Issue: (2a) James Hamilton. (2b) William Hamilton. ( 3) James Thomas Lillard. ( 4) Barnett Lillard. ( 5) Nancy Lillard m. Mr. Sanders. (6) Minerva Lillard, m. General Chistopher Lillard. For her descendants see his record. (7) Eliza Lillard, m. Mr. Hamilton. ( 8) Lucretia Lillard m. Mr. Walker. (K) Margaret (Patsey) Lillard, daughter of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was brought to Kentucky in 1782, by her parents. She married on Feb.. 19, 1795, to William McGinnis. Minister Rice performed their wedding ceremony. (Mercer County records). (L) Daniel Lillard, son of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard, was 286 LILLARD GENEALOGY born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and brought to Kentucky in 1782, by his parents. On Nov. 22, 1801, he married to Sally Gates. (M) Reverend David Lillard, the thirteenth and youngest child of Capt. John and Susanna (Ball) Lillard, was born on Nov. 18, 1782, either while his parents were on their way from Virginia to Ken tucky, or shortly after their arrival at Fort Harrod. It was just after his birth that Susanna (Ball) Lillard died, and David was reared :first by his eldest sister, Elizabeth Lillard, who later married John Chiles, Jr. After Capt. John Lillard married a second time to Mrs. Anne (Moore) Thomas, David became her protege. On Dec. 10, 1801, he married to Mary (Polly) Spencer, daughter of Colonel Joseph and Sarah (Moore) Spencer. Sarah Moore Spen cer was the daughter of Colonel Francis Moore of Orange County, Va., and a sister of Capt. John Lillard's second wife, Anne (Moore) Thomas. Vol. VII, Va. Mag. Ifist., page 24, Francis Moore is given as Captain in the War of the Revolution. In 1757 he was a Major in the Provincials, and later become a Colonel. See his Will among original papers relating to Capt. John Lillard, this chapter. Col. Joseph Spencer was born in Virginia in 1739, his father having emigrated from England to Virginia. Col. Spencer commanded a regiment of Colonial troops and served with dis tinction in many of the battles against the British in the Revolu tionary war. Mary(Spencer)Lillard was said to have been quite a literary genius as ~ young lady. She wrote a number of poems narrating the important event's of the day and time, and was especially fond of ridiculing in rhyme the Tories and British. Sh~ was a charming hostess even before her marriage and ranked as one of the most accomplished women of the state which has maintained its reputation for beautiful and intellectual women. David Lillard, a year or two after his marriage, removed to Galla tin County, Kentucky, and located about a mile from the village of Napoleon, on the Boone County Road. By the year 1806, he had erected a log house on a tract of several hundred acres #!ere.• He was a frugal and industrious farmer, and, had while at school, laid the foundation of knowledge that was to make him a famous pastor and leader of the Baptist Church. In 1806 he joined the Ten Mile Church and soon became an active and zealous worker in Church affairs, and in June, 1817, was ordained to the work of ministry. Immediately after his ordination he took charge of the Church, to which he continued to minister for forty two years. In 1854, aged 72 years he retired from active ministry, CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 287 although he continued to preach as his strength permitted until Jan. 30, 1861, when he died, aged 78 years, 2 months and 12 days. He was appropriately laid to rest just back of the church he had served where a neat slab marks his grave. His faithful first wife had preceded him years before. Issue: (1) John P. Lillard, b. Sept. 2, 1802, m. America Jack. Issue: (la) John Franklin Lillard died in infancy. (lb) David Irvine Lillard. Served ,vith the U.S.Army in War with Mexico, 1849. This war was of short duration, but through it the United States acquired the territory now known as Texas, Cali fornia, Nevada, New Mexico and part of Colo rado. David Irvine Lillard was one of the first to enlist and at the Battle of Buena Vista, one of the most desperate fights of the war, was killed in the defense of his country. (le) Mary Spencer Lillard, m. Mr. Johnson, and lived in Holden, Mo. ( 1d) Joseph J. Lillard, evidently died without issue. He lived in Boone County, Ky., where he died July 21, 1905, having accumulated quite a for tune which he bequeathed to his sister Mary Spen cer (Lillard) Johnson, long since a widow, "she being his only immediate living relative." (2) Captain Joseph Spencer Lillard, b. Oct. 31, 1804, m.Jan. 17, 1826, to Elizabeth Campbell of Indiana(b.Dec.12, 1812; d. May 1, 1845). He :first earned the title of Captain by being the owner of a steamboat, but acquired the military title when he commanded a troop of cavalry in the Mexican War, called the Gallatin Rangers, under command of Col. Humphrey Marshall. They participated in many of the fiercest fights with the Mexicans. During the campaign Capt. Joseph Spencer Lillard was stricken with Mexican fever and was taken home in a serious condition from which he never entirely recovered. He laid out and named the village of Napoleon, and there conducted a store of general merchandise. He was a Mason. Capt. Lillard married a second time in the autumn of 1846, to George Anne Hughes, daughter of George Hughes of Boone County, Kentucky. She was born Jan. 8, 1817, and was a zealous member of the Methodist Church and as long as she lived materially assisted that organization. She died Nov.18, 1855. George Hughes her father was born Oct. 1 7, 177 3; died Oct. 17, 1816. Capt. Joseph Spencer Lillard married a third time time to Margaret Keene. Capt. Lillard died on July 7, 1861. 288 LILLARD GENEALOGY Issue: (By Elizabeth (Campbell) Lillard) (2a) America M. Lillard, m. 1849, to Alonzo Thomas, a young attorney. They lived in Crittenden County, Ark., where he was a district attorney, and appointed District Judge by Governor Tell. They moved to Hannibal, Mo., and thence to Santa Rosa, Calif. Mr. Thomas was also elected Judge of the Circuit Court when in Arkansas. He died Nov. 7, 1880, aged 63 years. Issue: ., (2aa) Elizabeth Thomas, b. Roanoke, Mo, 1850; m. Sept. 30, 1875, to A.. W. Riley. Lived in Santa Rosa, Calif. (2ab) Joseph K. Thomas, b. Santa Rosa, Calif, 1867. (2b) William Campbell Lillard. Educated at Hanover College, Indiana. m. Emma Merrill. Issue: (2ba) Joseph Edward Lillard, resided at Napoleon and owned a portion of his grandfather's old plantation. (2bb) John Lillard, killed in a railroad acci dent. ( 2c) John Lillard, educated at Crittenden School andl graduated from Louisville Law School. He en listed in the Confederate Army under General Morgan and served until the close of the Civil War. (2d) Jeremiah David Lillard, educated at Crittenden School and graduated from the Louisville Law School.\ Lawyer. Was Representative to the Kentucky State Legislature from Owen Co., 1865- 69, resigned 1868, succeeded by William Lusby (p.670, Collins' Hist. Ky. Vol.II). Was Com monwealth's attorney for a long period of years. His circuit comprised of Owen, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and Boone Counties, Ky. Married Mallie Holton. They resided at Owenton, Ky. Issue: (2da) Ida Bell Lillard. (2db) Arthur St.Clair Lillard. (2e) Thomas Marshall Lillard, m. Melissa Waller. He enlisted in the Confederate Army under General Morgan and served until the close of the Civil War. , Issue: ( 2ea) Courtland Lillard. Resided on a farm a few miles from Elliston Station, Ky. Also three daughters. · (2f) Permelius C. Lillard, m. Fannie Castleman. Issue: CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 289 (2fa) Price Lillard, Supt. Street Ry.Coving ton,Ky. (2g) Josephus Lillard enlisted in the Confederate Army under General Morgan and served until the close of the Civil War. Unmarried. Resided in Orange, Texas. (By George Anne (Hughes) Lillard) ( 2h) Walter Huston Lillard. ( 2i) David Thaddeus Lillard. (2j) George Hughes Lillard, b. Aug. 31, 1847. (2k) David Irvine Lillard, b. Mar. 22, 1849; m. Sept. 1876, to Emma Ada Huston, second daughter of of Dr. Paul and Lucy (Weisiger) Huston. Edu cated at Wesleyan University, Millersburg, Ky. Taught school i,tt Suddeth House on the Hughes farm, 1870. Fanner two years, then went to Paris, Ill., where he engaged in the grocery busi ness. For many years engaged in editing and publishing a newspaper in Chicago,Ill. Con nected for years with the Chicago Branch of the Travelers Insurance Co., of Hartford. Author of book of genealogy "The Lillards," from which a great deal of the information of this branch is obtained. Resided in Evanston, Ill. Issue: ( 2ka) George Ann Lillard. (2kb) Walter Huston Lillard, b. Paris, Ill., Nov.20, 1881. Educator. B. S., Dartmouth, A.M., 1910; studied Ox ford University, England, 1909-10; m. Ethel Augusta Hazen of Hanover,N. H., Sept.5, 1907. Secretary of Dart mouth College Club, also Grad. Stu dent, Dartmouth and Grad. Mgr. Athletics, 1905-7; instr. later asst. to Phillips Academy; Headmaster Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass., since June 1916 ; developing Tabor Acad. as a preparatory school with nautical train ing. The large, new dormitory at Tabor Academy, dedicated in 1926, is named "Lillard Hall." He was U.S. Guard at Paris (France) Exposition, 1899-1900; enlisted in Battery D, 1st Mass. Field Artillery, Feb. 1916- Commd. Lt. Co.L,8 Mass.Inf.Apr.1916; served on Mexican border June-Aug. 1916. Captain, Co.D, 17th Regt. Inf. Mass. State Guard,May 26, 1917; appt'd. Comdt. Camp Cleveland (junior ,NO LILLARD GENEALOGY Naval Training School) Marion, Mass; field supervisor of development battns; Adj. Gen's Dept. U.S.A., .Sept. 1918; Commd. Capt. and assigned as div. personnel adj., Oct. 1918; Major, O.R.C. Acting chief seascout Boy Scouts of America, 1922. Member of N. E. Assn. Colls. and Delta Kappa Epsilon, Casque and Gauntlet; Re publican; Conglist. Address: Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass. His wife, Ethel Hazen Lillard, is the daughter of Prof. Hazen, teacher of mathematics and Engineering at Dartmouth College. Issue: (2kba) Walter Huston Lillard, Jr., educated at Tabor Acad emy and Dartmouth Col lege. (2kbb) Virginia Lillard. (2kbc) Jane Lillard. (2kbd) Barbara Lillard. (2kc) David Thaddeus Lillard was educated at Dartmouth College. He was a brilliant and lovable young man, very prominent in athletics. Injured in football game. A broken rib punctured his lung from the effects of which he died a few years later. {21) Michael Holton Lillard, b. Mar. 12, 1851; d. Aus tin, Texas, Sept. 16, 1906. Married Jan. 10, 1877, to Annie Gex (b.Apr.29,1851). For years he was General Manager of the Texas & Sabine Valley & Northern Ry. Issue: (21a) Gex Lillard, b. Oct. 29, 1877; m. at Ghent, Ky., Apr. 8, 1913, to Lily Gex Byers, daughter of Robert Elliston and Lily ( Gex) Byers. Gex Lillard was born at Napoleon, Ky. For some years was with the Frisco Railway Co. Pharmacist in Denver, Colo. Address 1465 Cook .St., Denver, Colo. Issue: (2laa) Lily Grigsby Lillard, b. Mar. 17, 1914. ( 2lab) Robert Dan Lillard, b. Mar. 31, 1915. (21b) Maude Hughes Lillard, b. July 11, 1880; d. at Ghent, Ky., on Mar. 5, 1907; m. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 291 June 20, 1900, to James Hiram Diuguid, a well-to-do young farmer. They resided near Ghent, Carroll Co. Ky. Issue: (2lba) William Edward Diuguid, b. May 20, 1901. ( 2lbb) Gex Lillard Diuguid, b. July 6, 1903. (By Margaret (Keene) Lillard) ( 2m) Charles Keene Lillard, was born after his father's death. Is a successful farmer living on the old Keene farm near Warsaw, Kentucky. For four years was Sheriff of Gallatin Co. Issue: ( 2ma) Keene Lillard was one of the first re cruits to enlist in the World War from Gallatin Co; was among the first to be sent overseas and was in the fight ing, line of several of the most severe battles. Wounded by exploding shell. ( 3) Reverend James M. Lillard, b. Sept. 2 7, 1806 ; married Sept. 7, 1827, to Martha Cox, of Grant County, Ky. "Moved! with his young wife to Lewis County, Mo., in 1833. He had commenced going forward in public in Kentucky, and was likely licensed to preach by Ten Mile (Church). He soon founded a church in his new home and namecL it Ten Mile after the one he left in Kentucky. In 1845, he organized) the Wyaconda Association, which has become one of the largest and most efficient bodies in Missouri. Elder James Lillard founded church after church in this new West, and while his father was at work in Kentucky he was equally active in Missouri. In 1849 he journeyed to the gold regions of California. Here he dug gold during the weeki and preached to the miners on Sundays for two years. On returning to Missouri, he continued to work for his Master until he went to his rest October 10, 1896, aged 90 years." He located in Lewis County, Mo, and acquired a large farm and was successfully prosperous. Martha (Cox) Lillard died Dec. 28, 1896. Issue: (3a) Mary S. Lillard, b. July 7, 1828; m. Jan. 28, 1853, to David M. Fuller. He died June 5, 1855. She married secondly on Mar. 13, 1865, to G.W. Mathews. Issue: (By G.W.Mathews) (3aa) Martha K. Mathews m. Mr. Vickers. (Jab) C.G.Mathews. 292 LILLARD GENEALOGY (Jae) G.F.Mathews. (Jad) Mary L. Mathews, d. Oct. 2, 1885. (3b) Nancy C. Lillard, b. Feb. 3, 1830; d. Dec. 13, 1911; m. Nov. 2, 1854, to Dr. Buford C. Hub bard. Issue: (Jba) Patty Hubbard m. Mr. Wiley. (Jc) Narcissa G. Lillard, b. Feb. 10, 1833; d. May 6, 1904; m. Mar. 3, 1856, to Thomas G. Wallace. Issue: (Jca) John Wallace. (Jcb) Fuller Wallace. (3cc) Cora Ella Wallace. (Jed) Walker Wallace. (Jee) David Wallace. (3d) David S. Lillard, b. Nov. 13, 1854; rl. June 13, 1924; m.Jan. 19, 1865, to Mary Ellen Yates. Issue: (Jda) James M. Lillard. ( Jdb) Hiram Yates Lillard. (Jdc) Edwin Lillard. (Jdd) Mary G. Lillard m. Mr. Wilson. ( Jde) Lillie Lillard. (Je) James M. Lillard, b. Dec. 5, 18.36. Died in in fancy. (Jf) Artemecia G. Lillard, b. June 15, 1839; m. July 11, 186 7, to Dr. H. C. Smith. No issue. (Jg) Martha A. Lillard, b. July 20, 1841; d. Nov. 17, 1914; m. Aug. 3, 1897, to John Garnett. No issue. , (3h) Virginia G. Lillard, b. Sept. 19, 1843; m. Mar. 19, 1874, to John Garnett. After her death, her husband John Garnett married her sister Martha (See 3g). Issue: (3ha) James L. Garnett. ( 3hb) Virginia B. Garnett m. Mr. Painter. (3hc) Mary C. Garnett and Martha A. Gar- nett, twins. Martha A. Garnett m. Mr. Bland. (3hd) Lou Ella Garnett m. Mr. Shannon. ( 4) Jeremiah Vardiman Lillard, b. Kentucky, June 25, 1808; d. 1868; m. 1827, to Louisa Farrow Bain (b. 1806;d. 1893). They moved to Lewis County, Missouri, where he was a successful and prosperous farmer. Issue: ( 4a) David Baldwin Lillard rn. Hettie Allen. ( 4b) Joseph Reynolds Lillard, b. Feb. 8, 1831; d. May 25, 1903; m. Feb. 18, 1864, to Mary Frances Landram (b. Jan. 11, 1845; d. May 27, 1926). CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 293 Issue: .(4ba) Maria Louisa Lillard, b. Jan.15, 1865; m. Nov. 11, 1887, to Robert L. Bur ford. Address: Monticello, Mo. Issue: ( 4baa) Vesta Lee Burford. ( 4bab) Mary Elizabeth Burford. ( 4bac) Andra Lillard Burford. ( 4bad) Gladys Belle Burford. (4bae) Nina Landram Burford. ( 4bb) Ella Landram Lillard, b. Feb. 4, 1867; m.Nov.23, 1921,Rev. A.S.Ingman. No issue. Address :LaGrange,Mo. (4bc) Mary Frances Lillard, b. July 16, 1869; m.1888, to Emmet E. Shumate. Ad dress: Wyaconda, Mo. Issue: ( 4bca) Ella May Shumate. ( 4bcb) Joseph Ernest Shumate, served in 5th Div., Co.L, World War; gassed while s e r v i n g in the Argonne Forest. ( 4bcc) Ethel Shumate. ( 4bcd) Ruby Shumate. ( 4bce) Frank Shumate. ( 4bcf) James Shumate. (4bd) Jeremiah David Lillard, b. Dec. 26, 1870; m. Oct. 189.3, to Emma Lusima. Address: Williamstown, Mo. Issue: ( 4bda) Evard David Lillard, served in the World War, 3rd Div. Co.H. Wounded while on duty in Argonne Forest. ( 4bdb) Ward Ingman Lillard. ( 4bdc) Joseph Lilard. ( 4bdd) Leona Lillard. ( 4dbe) Eldon Lillard. ( 4bdf) Gladys Belle Lillard. ( 4be) John James Lillard. (4bf) Lulu Belle Lilhrd, b. May 14, 1875; m. Joseph Lee Ford (b. Apr. .3, 1869). Address: La Grange, Mo. Issue: ( 4bfa) Arthur Lillard Ford, b. Oct. 8, 189.3, enlisted in World War June 22, 1917; served in 41st Inft. Band as band corporal from .Sept.22, 1917 294 LILLARD GENEALOGY to Jan.22, 1919, when hon orably discharged. ( 4bfb) Roy Lee Ford, b. Dec. 2, 1895; d. Apr.3, 1917. ( 4bfc) Alonzo Francis Ford, b. July 25,1898; d. Nov. 2, 1900. ( 4bfd) Hattie Belle Ford, b. Feb. 27, 1903; m. Feb. 27, 1924, to Willard Zahn. (4bg) Joseph Francis Lillard,b. Aug. 28, 1877; m. Oct. 6, 1912, to Andra Staples. Address: Williamstown, Mo. Issue: (4bga) J.W.Lillard. ( 4bgb) Robert Lillard. ( 4bgc) Mary Retta Lillard. ( 4bgd) J erre Porter Lillard. ( 4bge) Frances M. Lillard. ( 4bh) Hattie Sawyers Lillard, b. June 16, 1880; m. June 4, 1921, to O.P. Turner. Address: Hale,Mo. No issue. (4bi) Vesta Carlisle Lillard. Deceased. ( 4bj) Porter Grover Lillard, b. Dec. 17, 1884; m. 1908, to Lola Brown. Address: Canton, Mo. Issue: ( 4bja) Lola May Lillard. ( 4bjb) Russell Lillard. ( 4bjc) Margaret Lillard. ( 4bjd) Ernest Lillard. (4bje) Zelma Ruth Lillard. ( 4bjf) Jaunita Lillard. ( 4c) John James Lillard. ( 4d) Harriet Phoebe Lillard, m. Mr. Sawyer. (4e) Narcissa Hamilton Lillard, m. Mr. Carlisle. ( 4f) William Thomas Lillard, Santa Rosa, Calif. ( 4g) Edward Spencer Lillard. ( 4h) Granville Hurley Lillard, Norwalk, Calif. (4i) Mary Nancy Lillard, m. Mr. Mays. ( 4j) Jeremiah Vardiman Lillard, Jr. Resided at Wil liamstown, Missouri. ( 4k) Walker Greene Lillard, resided at Williamstown, Mo. (5) Capt. David Spencer Lillard, b. Sept. 28, 1810; m. Sept.9, 1829, to Sarah Cox of Grant County, Ky. He died on Aug. 10, 1896. Removed from Kentucky to Lewis County, Mo., where he owned a large farm and became successfully prosperous. He married a second time to Kate ----. Issue: (By Sarah (Cox) Lillard) (Sa) .Samuel S. Lillard. CAPT. JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 295 (Sb) Mary Ann Lillard. ( Sc) Arfemecia G. Lillard, m. Mr. Pulliam. ( Sd) David W. Lillard, died in infancy. (Se) James T. Lillard. ( Sf) William H. Lillard. (Sg) David E. Lillard. ( Sh) Joseph S. Lillard. ( Si) Carmillus Cecil Lillard. (Sj) Thomas M. Lillard. ( Sk) Alonzo C. Lillard. (By Kate (----) Lillard) (SI) Clarence Albert Lillard, resided in St. Louis, Mo., in 1906. ( 6) William Harrison Lillard, removed from Kentucky and settled in Louisiana, and some of his descendants located in Texas. (7) Thomas 1\1. Lillard, b. 1817; d. 1884; m. Mary Coleman of Kentucky. He was afflicted with inflammatory rheumatism and could not take part' in the Mexican or other wars, so tended his farm as best he could with the aid of the slaves he owned. He moved to Arkansas about 1860, and settled near Van Buren, and lived there during the Civil War. He died at the home of his son Benjamin Darling Lillard in Ottawa, Kansas, 1884. He was very prominent in Masonic work in Kentucky and was a Knight Templar. Issue: (7a) Annie Lillard, m. Mr. Conner and resided in Rich mond, Va. (7b) Agnes Lillard, m. P.M.Reed and resided in Ottawa, Kansas. (7c) Miss Willie Lillard. (7d) Emma Lillard. (7e) Benjamin Darling Lillard, b. Gallatin Co., Ky., on Feb. 1, 1846; d. June 10, 1915; m. July 5, 1880, to Pet Crawford, daughter of Evan Miller and Sarah (Jackson) Crawford. The Crawfords came from Maryland, while the Jackson family were from North Carolina and Virginia. Benjamin Darling Lillard served through the Civil War in the Confederate Army. He ran away from home with a negro slave named Green who st'ayed with him until the war was over. He was too youn~ to go into the Army in the regular way so made a way of his own. At the close of the war he was a Major of Cavalry, and was attached to the 1st Arkansas Mounted Infantrv under Col. Sterl ing Price. He was wounded at the Battle of Pine Bluff, Ark. After the war he returned to Kentucky for a while, but later returned to the west going to Kansas in 1878. He was a Knight 296 LILLARD GENEALOGY Templar and had held every office that the Ma sonic Lodges could confer upon him. He died in Caldwell, Idaho, and was buried here with Masonic honors. His widow lives at Idauha Hotel,Boise,Ida. Issue: (7ea) Mark Well Lillard, b. Ottawa, Kans., July 30, 1881; m. in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 9, 1909,to Eudora Cham bers Daly (b.Mar. 30, 1886) daughter of John J. and Margaret Daly. Eudora (Daly) Lillard was educated at Na tional Park Seminary, Washington, D. C. Mark Well Lillard is a Mason, resides in Los Angeles, Calif., and is a proseperous lumber and door merchant. Issue: (7eaa) Mary Evelyn Lillard, b. Salt Lake City, Utah, on Dec. 31, 1911. (7eab) Barbara Ripley Lillard, b. Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 15, 1919. (7eac) Mark Well Lillard, Jr., b. Jan. 26, 1922, in Los Angeles, Calif. (7eb) Panzie Kathryn Lillard, b. Mar. 5, 1883; m. Nov. 23, 1904, to H. Richard Fuller, druggist of Oakland, Oregon. Issue: (7eba) Richard Lillard Fuller, b. Sept. 23, 1905. (7ebb) Robert Balyeat Fuller, b. Jan. 26, 1908. (7ebc) Helen Jane Fuller, b. Apr. 26, 1915. (7f) John Lillard was drowned in the river at Ottawa, Kansas. 1881. (7g) Sterling Price Lillard, died in Cincinnati, 0., in 1890. ( 8) There were also three daughters whose names are not known. I sincerely trust that all in the family will keep me informed of all additional birth, marriage and death dates so that we may keep this record up, and in event of a second edition will have the additional data rea-dy for it. My permanent address is J. E. Stout Lillard, Library of Congress, Washington,D. C. Any members of the family not included in this book will pllease CAPT, JOHN LILLARD OF KENTUCKY 297 communicate with me and send in their information so it also may be included in the next edition, thereby completing the record. Anyone desiring a copy of any of the coats of ·arms given in this volume may obtain a handpainted copy by sending a request to me with .a r~ittance of five dollars. CHAPTER XII. CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA. Captain BENJAMIN LILLARD (No. XII), son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Va., about 1740, and married about 1772 to Frances Crow, daughter of James, Sr., and Elizabeth Crow. James Crow being seized of a considerable real and personal estate made his last will and testament in writing bearing date "on the eleventh day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety- seven," recorded at Madison, Virginia, whereby he gave to his wife Eliza beth the whole of his real and personal Estate to be held and enjoyed by her during her life or widowhood and in the event of her death or subse quent marriage after several specific limitations, is the following residuary clause: "Item. It is my will that the residue of my estate shall be sold and the money arising from the same to be equally divided among my children as follows: Dennis, John, Frances Lillard, Sarah Thomas, Elizabeth Crigler and my son William." "James Crow departed this life some time in the year of 1798." Men tion is also made of Benjamin Lillard and Frances, his wife; Reuben Thomas and Sarah, his wife; Reuben Crigler and Elizabeth, his wife. Also on Nov. 1, 1814, and the 39th year of the Commonwealth, Elizabeth Crow, administratrix of John Crow, deceased, sued in the Clerks' office in Madison County, Virginia, for settlement. Frances' share was £367 4s. Sd. on May 19, 1822, on which date she gave the following receipt: "May 19th, 1822, Received of William Crow as an Administrator to the estate of .Tames Crow, the sum of $200.00 it being in full of my part of the said estate. (signed) Frances Lillard." Captain Benjamin and Frances ( called Frankey) Lillard resided in that part of Culpeper County which in 1790 became Madison County, Virginia. Captain Benjamin Lillard was a Captain in the Revolutionary war as is attested by the records at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. It can also be found on page 270 in the Virginia State Library List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia, as follows: "Lillard, Benjamin, Capt. Culpeper M. Aud. Acct. IV,451." Captain Benjamin Lillard commanded his company at the siege of Yorktown and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis in 1782. CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF vmGINIA 299 He was the youngest child of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Lillard. In Deed Book H, page 560, Culpeper County, Va., Records Benjamin Lillard and Frankey, his wife, of the County of Culpeper and Colony of Virginia, on Jan. 9, 1778, deeded for £40 to William Lillard fifty seven acres in Culpeper County. In the same book, on page 573, Benjamin Lillard and Frankey, his wife, on Feb. 16, 1778, deeded for £30 thirty acres in Culpeper County to Colonel William Champ. Deed Book 1, page 214, Culpeper County, Va., Records, on Mar. 15, 1779, Benjamin Lillard and Frankey, his wife, for £250 deeded one hundred and fifty acres in Culpeper County, to Paul Leather. In Deed Book I, page 412, Culpeper County, Va., Records, on Aug. 23, 1779, Benjamin Lillard and Frankey, his wife, for £7 50 deeded twenty two and three-quarters acres in Culpeper County, to Colonel William Champ, who was their neighbor. In this deed it is stated: "Whereas the said Frankey cannot conveniently travil to our said County Court of Culpeper to make acknowledgment of the said convey ance" John Slaughter and George Wetherall were sent to see her on August 21, 1779. Captain Benjamin Lillard was a trader and lawyer, practicing law up ~til shortly before his death. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Culpeper County. His original commission as the latter is still to be seen in the Emmett Collection of Colonial Papers in the New York Public Library at New York City. This original commission of Capt. Benjamin Lillard is signed by Benjamin Harrison, one of the Signers of the Decla ration of Independence. It reads as follows: "The Commonwealth of VIRGINIA To ALL to whom these present Letters shall come Greeting. KNOW YE, That our Governor on recommendation from the Court of the County of Culpeper having, with advice of our Council .of State, this day issued a Commission constituting and appointing James Browning and Benjamin Lillard, Gentlemen, Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, in addition to those then holding the said office, doth now also constitute and appoint the said James Browning and Benjamin Lil lard, Gentlemen, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer for the trial of Slaves in the said County, in addition to those now holding the said office, with authority to be of any Court of Oyer and Terminer to be held for the said <;:ounty from time to time for the purpose of trying, condemning and executing, or otherwise punishing or acquitting, any slave committing a capital crime within the said County, of which said Court one of the JOO LILLARD GENEALOGY said Commissioners heretofore appointed and now holding the said office shall be one. In TESTIMONY whereof these our letters are made patent: Witness BENJAMIN HARRISON, Esquire, our said Governor at Rich mond, on the 31st day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1783. (seal of Virginia) (signed) BENJAMIN HARRISON." In the year 1785, Captain Benjamin Lillard and his wife, Frances (Crow) Lillard evidently had some kind of a misunderstanding and she left him to return to the home of her parents, James and Elizabeth Crow. At this time Captain Benjamin and Frances Lillard had six children: Frances, Clara, Dennis, Lucy, Mordecai and Benjamin, III, who was then but a year old. Doubtless the mother took with her Frances, Clara, Lucy and the baby Benjamin, III, but left with Captain Benjamin his two sons Dennis and Mordecai. After Frances Crow Lillard had left Captain Benjamin Lillard's home their seventh child, Elizabeth Lillard was born. Captain Benjamin Lillard made a settlement on his wife which would provide for her and for the two babies. He then executed the following deed of trust, which can be found in Deed Book N, page 106, Culpeper County, Virginia, Court Records: "22 Nov. 1785. This indenture in Tripartite made the Twenty Second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun dred and Eighty Five Between Benjamin Lillard of the County of Cul peper and Commonwealth of Virginia of the first part, Capt. John Strother & Thomas Lillard of the County and Commonwealth aforesaid of the second part, and Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Lucy Lillard and Mordecai Lillard ( children of the said Benjamin Lillard) of the third part Witness eth that the said Benjamin Lillard as well for and in consideration of the su.rn of Fifty Pounds Specie to him in hand paid by the said Capt. John Strother & Thomas Lillard before the sealing and delivery of these pres ents the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and himself there with fully satisfied & paid as for the natural love and affection he hath and bear to the said Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Lucy Lillard & Mor decai Lillard Hath Bargained & Sold, Given and Transferred and by these presents so Grant Bargain & Sell Give & Confirm unto the sd Capt. John Strother & Thomas Lillard and their Heirs and assigns forever the following parcels of Land (to wit) the quantity of Twenty Acres whereon the sd Benjamin Lillard formerly lived Lying in the County aforesaid on Pophams run adjoining to the Lands of John Seale & John Thomas and all that parcel of Land belonging to the sd Benjamin Lillard Lying on Rocky Run adjoining to the Land of Mary Champe, James Crow, Senr, and the aforesaid John Seale together with the following Slaves & Stocks of horses & Hogs and Household Furniture & Utensils of Farming & Plant ings. (Vizt) One negro man named Will, one woman named Nane one ditto named ditto & one Yallow Boy named Gabriel (son of Nane) and their increase one dark Bay horse about four feet nine inches high called Useless and one Bay ditto about four feet five inches high called Fidler two white sows and their increase three feather beds & Furniture Three CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD QF VIRGINIA 301\ Pewter Dishes fifteen ditto plates Three ditto Basons Two large China dishes Six ditto Plates .. Three pots one Dutch oven one copper Tea Kettle one frying Pan three Chests two Tables half dozen chairs Three axes Three hoes two cases Knives & forks and two shovels Plows To have and to hold the said Lands, Slaves, horses & Hogs Household Furniture & Utensils of Farming to the sd Capt. John Strother & Thomas Lillard and their Heirs and assigns forever to the following uses Intents and pur poses and to and for no other use Interest or purpose whatsoever That is to say that the sd Capt. John Strother & Thomas Lillard and their heirs and assigns shall have and hold the said lands, Slaves and their Increase horses & hogs Household Furniture & Utensils of Farming for the use and Benefit of them the sd Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Lucy Lillard and Mordecai Lillard & their Heirs, Executors, Administrators & assigns & employ the profits and emoluments arising therefrom toward the support and education of them the sd Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Lucy Lillard & Mordecai Lillard untill they shall respectively arive to the age of major ity or till they shall Respectively enter into the state of Matrimony That upon either of the sd childrens arriving to the age of Twenty-one years or enter mariage an equal Division as near as the nature of the case will admit of be made of the sd Slaves & their Increase Stocks Household Furniture & Utensils of Farming and the Share and proportion of the said child so arriving to age or mariage be given up to him or her to hold the same in his or her absolute Right of Ownership but so that no Sale be made to either of the sd Slaves or their increase until the majority or Marriage of all the sd children or the Survivors of them and that in case: either of the sd children shall die before h~ or she shall arive to the age of majority or marry in that case his or her part shall Dissolve to and be vested in the survivor or survivors of them the sd Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Lucy Lillard & Mordecai Lillard their Heirs, Executors, Admr• & Assigns and in the case of the Death of the whole of the said children before they arive to the age of majority and before either of them enter into the State of Matrimony then to the use and behoof of them the sd Benjamin Lillard or to the use and behoof of such person or persons as he shall by any writing under his hand and seal before two witnesses or by his last will and testament appoint and Direct and further it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of the above Deed of Trust that untill the sd Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Lucy Lillard & Mordecai Lillard shall arive to the age of majority or shall enter into the State of Matrimony that he the sd Benjamin Lillard, if he remains alive, shall have the management and direction of the sd Lands, Slaves and their Increase, Stocks, Furniture, &c, and apply the profits arising from the sd Lands,-Labour of the sd Slaves & Increase of the sd Stock to his own use or in any other manner as he shall judge most expedient and may at any time before the sd Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Lucy Lillard & Mordecai Lillard arives to the age of majority or Marry Sell & Convey the whole or any part of the sd Lands, Slaves and their Increase Stock Furniture or Utensils in fee simple and apply the money arising from such sale or sales as, he shall think proper to make of the sd Lands, Slaves &c., to the pur chase of other Lands, Slaves, Stocks or other Furniture of Equal value for the use of the sd Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Lucy Lillard & Mordecai 302 LILLARD GENEALOGY Lillard anything herein contained notwithstanding. In Witness whereof he the sd Benjamin Lillard hath hereunto set his hand & seal the day and year above written. (signed) Benjamin Lillard (L.S.) Signed, sealed & delivered In the presence of Received of the within named Capt. John Strother and Thomas Lil lard the sum of fifty pounds specie it being in full consideration the money within mentioned Deed. (signed) Benjamin Lillard. At a Court held for Culpeper County, 22nd Nov. 1785, This Indented Deed of Trust from Benjamin Lillard to John Strother & Thomas Lillard was acknowledged by the said Benjamin and ordered to be recorded. Teste: John Jameson, C.C." Captain Benjamin Lillard and his wife Frances (Crow) Lillard thus became estranged and separated, and after providing for his chil dren by his first wife, he married a second time about 1786, to Elizabeth Hensley, a widow who had several children of her own by her first hus band. She had a daughter Elizabeth Hensley and one named Polly Hensley, and doubtless several others, some of whom are mentioned in some of the Lillard deeds or as witnesses to legal papers. Some of the property Captain Benjamin Lillard had bought when married to Frances Crow Lillard was recorded in his name and hers. Consequently when he sold this property it was necessary for him to have her sign the deeds. We thus find in Deed Book 2, page 67, Madison County, Va., Records, under date of 1797, where Benjamin Lillard and Frances Lillard for £30 deeded thirty-six acres in Madison County to her brother William Crow. This was land on Rocky Run. It is signed by Benjamin Lillard and Frankey Lillard. It was witnessed by Clara Lillard, George Thomas and Dennis Lillard. In Deed Book 3, page 139, Madison County, Va., Records on Jan. 1 1802, Benjamin and Frankey Lillard deeded for $40 one acre in Madison County to Peter Fox. In Deed Book 2, page 479, Madison County, Va., Records, on June 26, 1800, Benjamin and Frankey Lillard and John Seale of Madison County deeded for $266.66 forty acres in Madison County to George Thomas. This is signed by Benjamin Lillard, Frankey Lillard and John Seale. It was witnessed by James Yager, Jeremiah Yager and John Seale. Frances (Crow) Lillard died about 1832. Her will recorded at Madison, Virginia, under date of Oct. 16, 1821, mentions her daughter CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 303 Elizabeth (Betsy) Lillard; her daughter Clara Lillard, and her grand child Patsy Lillard. It was probated on April 26, 1832. Madison County was cut off of Culpeper County in 1790, and part of the land Captain Benjamin Lillard owned was in this new county while some of it still lay in Culpeper County. There was a law in Madison County that before anyone could build a mill he must obtain per mission from the court. The first grant made in the county was to the Madison family permitting them to build the mill now owned and operated by T. 0. Gillum. This permission was given in 1793 to four of the Madison family, two of whom were James Madison and his son James l\fadison, Jr. This is perhaps the oldest mill in the county still in opera tion. In the year 1794 six legal grants were made as follows: Samuel Rouse to build a mill on Stoney Run; Daniel Mauck to build a mill on Robinson River; Captain Benjamin Lillard to build a mill on Hughes' River; Christopher Dickens to build a mill on Robinson River; John Henshaw to build one on Deep Run; and Ephraim Fray to build a mill on Deep Run. (page 161, History of Madison County, Va., by C. L. Yowell). In Deed Book 4, page 99, Madison County, Virginia, Records., on May 25, 1790, Benjamin Lillard deeded to his step-daughter, Elizabeth Hensley, certain stock, household furniture, etc., for £38 9s. It is signed by Benjamin Lillard. Recorded under date of June 27, 1805, and was witnessed by Boswell Pulliam, James Lillard, Senr., and Thomas Lillard, Senr. In Deed Book 1,page 127, Madison County, Va., Records Elizabeth Hensley of Madison County, Va., for £165 sold sixty-three acres of land in Madison County to her step-father, Captain Benjamin Lillard. Wit nessed by Augustine Bradl~y, Dennis Lillard, John Lillard, and James Lillard. It is dated Sept. 25, 1794. In same book, page 199, Thomas Sampson for £50 sold forty-three acres in Madison County to Capt. Benjamin Lillard. In Deed Book V, page 406, Culpeper County, Va., Records, on Nov. 7, 1800, Captain Benjamin Lillard of Madison County, Virginia, deeded for £24 forty acres in Culpeper County to John Davis. Signed by Benjamin Lillard. Witnessed by Dennis Lillard, Polly Hensley, Jonas Jenkins and Elizabeth Hensley. Same book, page 404, Benjamin Lillard of Madison County for $40 deeded twelve acres in Culpeper County to Abraham Jenkins. Deed Book 3, page 6, Madison County Records, on Nov. 6, 1800, Captain Benjamin Lillard for £20 sold fifty acres in Madison County 304 LILLARD GENEALOGY to Abraham Aylor. Signed Benjamin Lillard. Witnessed by John Davis, and Polly and Elizabeth Hensley. Deed Book 6, page 356, on June 12, 1818, Capt. Benjamin Lillard for $40 sold twenty acres in Madison County to William Weakley. Signed Benjamin Lillard. Witnessed by John Weakley; SuiSlanna Weakley; Leiza Weakley. In Deed Book 7, page 52, Madison County Records, on Nov. 23, 1819, Capt. Benjamin Lillard sold for $200 forty acres of land in Madi son County to Benjamin Nickolson. Signed Benjamin Lillard. Witnessed by William Weakley; Edward Morris; Layton Sisk; Dennis Corbin; Thomas Holder; Jacob Cubbage; Bluford Corbin; Thomas Sisk. Same book, page 167, on June 19, 1820, Benjamin Lillard, Senr., and Elizabeth Hensley of Culpeper County sold to Leftage Lillard for $100 ten and one-half acres in Culpeper and Madison Counties. Signed 'by Elizabeth Hensley and Benjamin Lillard. Witnessed by Augustine Bradley, Junr., Polly Bradley, Oliver Lillard, Hedgeman Lillard, Lewis Yowell, and Armistead Layton. Recorded July 26, 1821. In Deed Book 8, page 211, Madison County Records, Captain Benjamin Lillard for $400 sold one acre of land in Madison County to Charles Weaver. Signed Benjamin Lillard. Witnessed by Hedgeman Lillard and Jacob Cubbage and Moses Smith. Recorded May 27, 1824. Captain Benjamin Lillard died sometime between the dates of Nov. 6, 1828, and Mar. 26, 1829, when his will was recorded in Will Book 5, pages 257-8, Madison County, Virginia, Records, as follows: "In the name of God Amen, I, Benjamin Lillard of the Couu'ty of .Madison, being of sound mind and memory, calling to God, the mor tality of the body, and knowing that' it is appointed for all men once to die, do make this my last will and testament of manner and form follow ing, (Viz) In the first place I commend my soul to the hands of Almighty God, who gave it me, and my body to the ground to be buried in a decent like manner at the discretion of my Executor, nothing doubting in the merits of a crucified Redeemer to raise me from the death of sin, to the life of Righteousness. And as touching those worldly goods as it hath pleas{'.d God to bless me with, do give & dispose of them in manner & form following (Viz) My will & desire is that all my just debts shall be paid out of my estate, by my Executor, and the residue and remainder, both real and personal, together with all debts due or which may become due, I give and bequeath to Ransom Pulliam and Rhoda his wife, to them, their heirs and assigns forever. I appoint Ransom Pulliam & Rhoda, wife, Executor & Executrix to this my last Will and testament, and hereby revoke and disannul all Wills heretofore or before made and declare this my last will & testament. Generatwn 3 Generation 4- Generation 3 Generation 4 (James Lillard, Rev- (James Lillard, II, m. Jala Seal. Iolutionary soldier, m. \ Col. Wm. Lillard, m. Rachel (McCoy) Leith. Kesiah Bradley, cou- Lt. Benjamin Lillard, m. Sally James. sin of President 1Augustine Lillard, m. Frances Campbell. Madison. lJohn Lillard, m. Sarah Cam.pbell. Mildred Lillard, m. Richard Layton. Elizabeth Lillard, m. Mr. Jenkins. Thomas Lillard, ser- geant in Revolution- (John Lillard, m. Rachel Garrett. ary army, m. Anne 1Benjamin Lillard, m. Lucy Brown. ------· lThomas Lillard, II, m. Delila Rider. Nancy Lillard, m. Lillard Jenkins. William Lillard, m. William Lillard, II. Unmarried. Anne (Nancy) ______James Lillard. He was named for Elizabeth Lillard, m. Henry Jenkins. his maternal grand Lucy Lillard, m. Steven Jen kins. father, William Mary Lillard, m. Nimrod Jenkins. Lightfoot. Mildred Lillard, m. Thomas Smith, Jr. Anthony Lillard, m. Polly Lillard. Henry Lillard, m. Elizabeth Bradley. John Lillard, m. Lucy Gaines. Nancy Lillard, m. {Rachel Garrett, m. John Lillard, Mr. Garrett. son of Thomas Lillard. Joshua Lillard, m. Miss Forrest. Moses Lillard, II. Moses Lillard mar James Lillard, m. Susan Hutchison. ried and moved to Elizabeth Lillard, m. Mr. Elam. North Carolina .. !John Lillard, m. Rebecca Hutchison. f;pnpr:;ition 2 IThom::i,; T,ill::irrl _ Generation l Generation 2 lThomas Lillard. Jean (John) Lillard. Huguenot, progenitor Elizabeth Lillard, m. {Augustine Bradley, m. Frances Hurt; ofallAmericanLillards, (Benjamin Lillard Lawrence Bradley. 2nd to Polly Lillard. came from France and I married in 1724, settled in Virginia, ] Elizabeth Lightfoot, ~ (Major John Bradley. where he married, in I cousin of General Sally Lillard, m. ~ Rhoda Bradley, m. Willis Seale. 1 7 0 0 , to M i l d re d l Robert E. Lee. !Capt. Augustine 1 Lucy Bradley, m. Abner Delaney. Jones, cousin of Presi- Bradley. lSally Bradley, m. John L. Gordon. dent Monroe. ______Lillard, m. Molly Field. Lt. Christopher Lillard. Killed by Indians. Thomas Lillard, m. Susanna Slaughter. John Lillard, m. Agnes Chiles. Capt. John Lillard, Elizabeth Lillard, m. John Chiles, Jr. m. Susanna Ball, Anna Lillard, m. Seth Carson; cousin of George 2nd Benjamin Pulliam. Washington. They Mary (Polly) Lillard, m. Samuel McGinnis. moved to Kentucky. Rev. Joseph Lillard, m. Elizabeth Hughes. He was a Revolu Susanna Lillard, m. David Jones. tionary soldier. He Ephraim Lillard, I, m. Margaret Prather. m. 2nd Anne Moore James Lillard, m. Elizabeth Moore Thomas. Thomas. Margar.et Lillard, m. William McGinnis. Rev. David Lillard, m. Mary Spencer. lDaniel Lillard, m. Sally Gates. Frances Lillard. Clara Lillard. Dennis Lillard, m. Phoebe Gray. Lucy Lillard, m. George Thomas. Capt. Benjamin Lil Mordecai Lillard, m. Virginia Burke. . lard, Revolutionary Benjamin Lillard, m. Lucy Gassaway. soldier, m. Frances Elizabeth Lillard, m. Nimrod Apperson. Crow; 2nd Elizabeth Mary (Polly) Lillard, m. Augustine Bradley. [Hensley. NanGy Lillard, m. Francis Willis: . Absolem Lillard, m. Frances (Pulliam) Hisle; 2nd Nancy JfoUand. Margaret Lillard, m. Jdhn ·Rid¢r. ~hoda Lillard, m. John Ransom Pulliam. CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 305 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 6th day of November, 1828. BENJAMIN LILLARD (seal) Teste: Thomas Pulliam. Kesiah Lillard. At a Court held for Madison County the 26th day of March, 1829. The last Will and Testament of Benjamin Lillard, deceased, was produced info Court and proved by the oath of Thomas Pulliam, a witness thereto. And At a Court for the said County the 25th day of June 1829, the said will was fully proved by the oath of Kesiah Lillard, a witness thereto, and ordered to be recorded. Teste: Belfield Cave, C.M.C." Thus Captain Benjamin Lillard willed all his property to his youngest daughter, Rhoda (Lillard) Pulliam, with whom he had lived during, the declining years of his life. In her home were Captain Benjamin Lillard's Revolutionary sword, his family bible, and silver knee buckles, but all were destroyed when her home burned. THE CHILDREN OF CAPTAIN BENJAMIN LILLARD:, (By Frances Crow) (A) FRANCES LILLARD. (B) CLARA LILLARD, b. 1775. (C) DENNIS LILARD,b.1777,m.Mar.17,1797, PHOEBE GRAY. (D) LUCY LILLARD,b.1778,m.Feb.8,1796, GEORGE THOMAS. (E) MORDECAI LILLARD,b.1782,m. 1808, VIRGINIA BURKE. (F) BENJAMIN LILLARD,III,b.1784,m.LUCY GASSA\VAY. (G) ELIZABETH LILLARD,b.1785,m.May22,1822, NIMROD APPER SON. (By Elizabeth Hensley) (H) MARY (Polly) LILLARD,b.l 786,m.Feb.26,1805, AUGUSTINE BRADLEY. (I) NANCY LILLARD,m. FRANCIS WILLIS. (J) ABSOLEM LILLARD,b.1790,m.July 21, 1810, FRANCES (PUL LIAM) HISLE. m.Oct. 31,1816,NANCY HOLLAND. (K) MARGARET LILLARD, m.Jan.23, 1806, JOHN RIDER. (L) RHODA LILLARD,b.1798,m.Mar.1819, JOHN RANSOM PUL LIAM. The Deed of Trust which Captain Benjamin Lillard executed in favor of his children was the cause of a rift in the family. It pJunged all into a law suit which lasted for years. The evidence and testimony is too long and tedious to give in full but from it the following notes bear ing upon the family were taken from authentic Court Records. In sworn statements dated Sept.22, 1823, made under oath William 306 LILLARD GENEALOGY A. Brown and John Fincham both certified that "Clara Lillard was born July 2, 1775; Dennis Lillard was born Feb. 5, 1777; Lucy Lillard was born Dec. 24, 1778; and Mordecai Lillard was born Nov. 22, 1782." "Thomas Lillard departed this life the said 22nd day of November, 1814." (His will was proved and recorded in Culpeper County, Va.., May 15, 1815). Henry Lillard is mentioned. In a deposition of Thomas Corbin, taken at the house of Thomas Lillard on the 19th day of September, 1807, he stated that Captain Ben jamin Lillard for "want of real money sold the disputed negro, Nan, to his brother Thomas Lillard for £65 and that there was no fraud in the action." "9th Day of May, 1812. I sold Nan (mentioned in a deed of trust made by me) to Thomas Lillard in the year 17 91, and before the oldest of the Plaintiffs became of age. (signed) Benjamin Lillard." Thomas Pulliam stated "that Nan was sold to Thomas Lillard; Gabriel was sold to Thomas Smith in 1791, and that Nan an old woman was sold unto John Lillard in 1793." ''Elizabeth Apperson saith that her father, Benjamin Lillard, Sr., asked her sister to lend him $100." Clara Lillard asked Strother Lillard, son of Dennis Lillard: "Do you not believe that Polly Bradley is a daughter of Elizabeth Hensley?" He answered: "I do." Clara Lillard then asked: "And that she inter married with Augustine Bradley (Her first cousin)?" Answer: "I do." Question: "Do you not believe that you are a son of Dennis Lillard?" Answer of Strother Lillard: "I do." At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the capitol in Richmond, Virginia,on the 24th day of June, 1808, Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Mordecai Lillard, and George Thomas and Lucy his wife, late Lucy Lillard, were named as the plaintiffs against Benjamin Lillard and Thomas Lillard, surviving trustees of John .Strother, and Thomas Lillard and others, defendants, as follows: "This cause was this day heard upon the bill, answer and exhibits and examinations of Witnesses and was argued by Counsel: On con sideration whereof, the court, being of the opinion that the defendant Benjamin Lillard had no authority to sell any part of the lands, slaves, Goods or Chattles mentioned in the indenture of trust, read as an exhibit, unless he had applied the money produced by such sale to the purchase of other property as mentioned in the said deed for the use of the plain tiffs; And that the purchase by Thomas Lillard of the negro woman called Nan, at the price of £65 cannot divest the plaintiffs of their title to her and her increase unless that sum had been so applied, as he was CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 307 one of the trustees, and had notice thereof, doth adjudge, order and decree, that the defendants or such of them as are in possession of the lands, slaves, goods and chattles in the said Indenture mentioned, and the increase of the female slaves, do deliver up the possession thereof to the plaintiffs and account with them for the rents and profits thereof, which the defendants are to render before William Thornton, John S. Slaughter and Thomas Broadus, who are appointed Commissioners for that purpose Any two of whom may act, and they are directed to examine, state and settle the same, and to credit the defendant, Benjamin Lillard, with any advances made or maintenance afforded the plaintiffs or either of them by him, and also to debit him with any of the goods and chattels con veyed by this indenture of trust as aforesaid which he may have sold, unless the proceeds have been applied as aforesaid, and report their pro ceedings to the Court with any matters thought pertinent by themselves or required by the parties to be specially stated. January 4th 1813 This cause came on this day to be heard upon the papers formerly read and the report of William Thornton and John S. Slaughter two of the Commissioners named in the decreetal order pronounced in this cause on the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eight, with exceptions thereto and was argued by Counsel: On consideration whereof the court doth recommit' the said report with the exceptions there unto to one of the Commissioners of the Court to be by him reformed agreeable to the said order of the twenty-fourth of June one thousand eight hundred and eight, with this direction that he is, in stating the account of rents and profits to commence at the time the youngest of the plaintiffs arrived at age: And to make a report thereof to the Court as the said order directs. A Copy Teste: Wm. W. Herring, C.C." "Commissioners Office, June 2, 1824. The parties interested in the above decretal orders will attend at my office in the Town of Fairfax, Culpeper County on the 2nd day of August next prepared with their evidence and papers to support their respective pretentions and enable me to perform the duty required of me by the Court. Jeremiah Strother, C.C.C." "Commissioners office, Fairfax, Culpeper 30th April, 1825. Copies of the foregoing decretal orders and notice was on the 2d day of June 1824 appointing the 2d day of Augt. for the parties to attend, and returned executed on all the parties except Mordecai Lillard, who is reported not to be an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, and on the 12th day of June Benjamin Lillard, Jr., called and at sundry times before said 2d day of August the said Lillard Jr & Benjamin the elder called for· information and supeonas which were granted, and on the 3rd and 6th days of August the defendant Lillard attended and the cause was ad journed, untill the 23rd day of August when the defendant B. Lillard and the plaintiffs Clara Lillard and Dennis Lillard with sundry witnesses attended, and affidavits were taken, the account was then adjourned and kept open to afford the parties an opportunity to collect their evidence, and sundry affidavits were taken and returned, and on the 23rd day 308 LILLARD GENEALOGY of this present month the agent of the executrix of T. Lillard, deceased, called and on an examination of the testimony asked leave to take further testimony which was granted and on this day having returned t'he evidence taken, your Commissioner proceeded to finish the account, which will be seen ( with the several notes made thereon, on the following; pages; in stating the account your Commissioner has laboured under much difficulty, as well on account of the want of positive testimony, as from his ignorance of the Law in relation to many points that occur in the cause, he there fore respect'fully submits the law and evidence to the court he has. made several accounts agreeable to the views of the plaintiffs-defendants and himself with some notes at the bottom, the court will make its selection or refuse all at pleasure, the account for raising young slaves and shewing the value of the trust fund will be seen on pages 6 & 7. The accounts stated on pages 8,9,10 & 11 shew the state of the account with each plaintiff respectively which accounts your Commissioner humbly conceives ought to prevail. The account stated on pages 12 & 13 is made at the instance of the defendant which he conceives to be correct for reason stated on the said pages-the account stated on pages 14 & 15 are made to suit the views of the plaintiffs and shews a balance of $2038.03 cents due them. in stating s~id acct. Nan and her increase are charged at their value with the exception of George & Milly who are said to be the only slaves whose residence is Known, their only is charged, whether the others be dead or alive is unknown to your Commissioner-on pages 16 & 17 the last ;result shews the plaintiffs to be endebted to the defendant the sum of $671.73 cents, after charging them with support at prices and for periods which he thinks reasonable. this charge, as well as that made for raising young slaves is made under the order of the Court in 1808, directing the Commissioners to debit the plaintiffs with advances and maintenance. As the slaves as soon as they were worth hire are charged at their value and hire also against the defendant, it is deemed but fair and reasonable that he should have credit for raising them, in making that charge regard is paid to the periods at which they attained the age of 10 years re pectively. The testimony recently taken shews that Benjamin Lillant Junr. had possession of the negroe boy Barnett in 1805, and sold him in 1807, before the institution of the suit. The estate of Thomas Lillard, deceased, is now in the possession of Ann Lillard the executrix. Thomas Lillard never signed the Trust deed. Your Commissioner further states, that if the view of the account stated on pages 16 & 17 should be adopted by the court, that the slaves, George and Milly will belong to the plaintiffs, upon their paying to the defendant the sum of $671.73 cents, and as the land has not been in the possession of the defendant since 1803 the plaintiffs have their remedy against the occupants one of whom is. a plain tiff, It will be observed by the court that Mordecai Lillard settled with his Father (the defendant) after this suit was brought-granted a full discharge, took a negro woman U rsela &c, and went to the West from whence, it is said, he has never returned. All which is respectfully submitted to the court by its H 1 Servt Jeremiah Strother, C.C.C.F." CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 309 Then follows an itemized account or the charges for raising the young slaves, etc. At the conclusion of these tedious accounts is the following: "Note. The sum of $594 gives to each of the plaintiffs $148.50 a smaller sum than any of the legatees or plaintiffs have received. The defendant Benjamin Lillard contends, that under his convenetion that the Trust deed authorized him to exchange or sell all or any part of the said fund he did for reasons good in his judgment sell the slaves above mentioned and Laid out the money in land and a negro woman. That so soon as the plaintiffs were entitled to receive or made a demand he promptly paid them what he did in his conscience believe more than they had a right to claim, but as they were his children it afforded him pleasure to aid them all in his power, that the land and all its profits has been in the possession of Clara Lillard & her mother, unmolested by him both before and since they had a right to claim-therefore if the court should, be of opinion that the money arising from the sale of the above slaves, has been aplied to the use of the plaintiffs, the above balance Will stand with the Father, tho' Will never be claimed further than to protect him against cost which he humbly conceives he has been forced to incur most unrighteously. He further states that altho' $200 are charged for Stock, Furniture & Utensils, that a part of the furniture ever has been and now is in the possession of the plaintiff Clara & her mother. And all or the greater part of what remained in his possession was dead or worn out & broke by use before the plaintiffs had a right to claim." In a deposition of Rowland Yowell taken at the house of Benjamin Lillard, the Younger, son of Thomas and Ann Lillard, in Culpeper County, Va., on August 20, 1824, he states that he was in conversation with Nimrod Apperson concerning this suit, and that he asked: "Mr. Apperson how he thought it ·would go Apperson replied, as its gone before; Deponant asked him if Dennis Lillard would have all; he said Apperson replied no; that all the Legatees would have an equal part. The Deponant saith; that he was at the house of Benjamin Lillard, Yr, about the month of April 1823, when two Justices of the peace (for the County of Culpeper) were there to take testimony, and execute depositions, one of the justices asked Dennis Lillard, why he did not give his Father a receipt for what he had paid him; he the said Dennis Lillard replied, my Lawyer, told me not to do it, that if I had not done it, not to do it. The Deponant further states, that Dennis Lillard, one of the Plaintiffs and Benjamin Lillard (his father) one of the defendants, were at the house, that the said Dennis Lillard without any cause or provocation given by his Father abused and wished him in hell, using other expressions both horrid and contemptible. The Deponant further states, he has understood (by the best of his friends information) that Benjamin Lillard, the Dft. was formerly in the habit of trading and it was supposed by them he ac quired the greater part of his competency, by speculation, exertion, and industry; and further the deponant saith not. (signed) Rowland Yowell." 310 LILLARD GENEALOGY _In a deposition taken on the same date at the same place, Mary Polly (Lillard) Bradley: "saith that the negroe woman Ursela, which the defendant Benjamin Lillard purchased of Barth° Conyers was paid for, by the Deft afsd from the sale and proceeds of Nan a woman sold by the Deft Benjamin to Thomas Lillard for the sum of sixty five pounds. Also a bay horse which the Defendant bought of Richard Jenkins was paid for by the Defendant Benjamin from the proceeds of Nan, sold to Thomas Lillard, afsd and that the said neg0 Ursela & the said Horse was sold by the Defendant Benjamin Lillard to Mordecai Lillard ( one of the Plts) for the sum of sixty pounds in Lieu of Lands, Slaves, &c mentioned in a Deed of Trust made to John Strother & Thomas Lillard, and for which sum of sixty pounds the said Mordecai Lillard Executed his Receipt (for the purpose therein mentioned) to which said receipt she (Polly Bradley) was a sub scribing witness. And further, the deponant saith, that she is disinterested in the cause depending as afsd that she has not got, nor never had in her possession any part of the property mentioned in the deed of Trust. And further, the Deponant saith, that in the years 1795 & 1796, Dennis Lillard one of the Plts and herself lived in the house of Benjamin Lillard the Deft and that sundry times he applied to her, to put his better sort of Cloths (than them he usually laboured in) at the window to the Room in which he generally lay in. That at night, he would pretend as though he was going to bed, go to the window, shift his Cloths (as he said) take his Fathers Horse (which was in keeping for sale) Ride him Twelve or thir teen miles out & Return by next morning, shift his Cloths and come in rubing his Eyes, as though jest got from his bed, in order to deceive his Father, that at another time the said Dennis Lillard borrowed of his Father the same horse to ride to a place about twelve miles off & promised to return in the evening of that day, but did not come home untill four days was expired. The Deponant further states that the Deft Benjamin Lillard was supposed to be active in trading, that he made the greater part of his fortune by speculating and further the Deponant saith not. (signed) Polly Bradley." In a deposition taken at the same time and place, Hedgeman Lillard: "saith that he heard Dennis Lillard say that during the time he lived with his Father that sometimes at night he would pretend he was going to Bed, but would take his Fathers horse which his Father was endeavoring to fatten for the purpose of selling, and ride him twelve or thirteen miles out & return next morning pretending as though he had just got off of bed and that his Father knew no better, but was alarmed that his horse became poorer instead of fattening which was often the case . " In an affidavit John Smith (called Stone House because his home was of stone, and used to identify him from the other John Smiths in the neigh borhood) stated that the slave George, son of Nan, "who is now in the pos session of Ann Lillard," was worth $265. It is signed "John Smith 0 0 (St H )." CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 311 The affidavit of Nimrod Jenkins "of Legal age," taken at the home of Frances (Crow) Lillard, on Friday the 13th of August, 1824, to be read before Jeremiah Strother, Master Commissioner of the Superior Court of Chancery states : "The affi.ant, upon being asked by the Plaintiff whether he knew negro George, saith he does. Question by the Plaintiff In whose possession is this negro? Ans. In the possession of Anne Lillard ( relict of Thomas Lillard) Question as above. What is the name of George's mother. Answer Nan. Question as above. What do you think negro George is worth. Ans. I think he is worth Three Hundred Dollars, and I would give that sum if I wished to buy. Question as above. Do you know anything of negro Gabriel. Ans. I do. Question as above. Whose son is this negro? Ans. The son of young Nan. Question &c. Were George and Gabriel brothers. Ans. They were the sons of young Nan. Question. How much do you think Gabriel was worth. Ans. About two Hundred & fifty Dollars. Question &c. Do you know anything of a girl named Milly. Ans. I have seen her. Question &c. Whose daughter is she. Ans. Young Nans. Question &c. In whose possession is Milly. Ans. In Anne Lil lards Ques. &c. What do you think she is worth. Ans. Two hundred dollars. Ques. Do you know any thing more of N ans children? Ans. I knew a negro boy named Barnett her son. Ques. What was he worth when sold? Ans. About Two hundred Dollars. Ques. To whom was he sold? I do not know. Ques. Do you know anything of a daughter of Nan named Clara. Ans. I do. Ques. In whose possession was she when you knew her. Ans. In that of Anne Lillard. Ques. Has she been sold or taken away. Ans. She has been taken away. Ques. Did you understand who took her away? Ans. Thomas Lillard, J unr. Ques. What do you think she was worth when you knew her. Ans. About One Hundred and seventy Dollars. Ques. Whose daughter was she. Ans. She was said to be young Nan's. Ques. Do you know anything of her having had increase since she was taken away. Ans. I have heard, that she has had. Ques. Did you ever hear or do you know, how many chil dren she has had. Ans. I have heard she had four. Ques. Did you ever hear in whose possession she is? Ans. In the possession of the widow of Thomas Lillard, Junr. Ques. Did you know anything of a negro man named Will? I did. Ques. How much do you think he was worth when sold. Ans. Nothing. And further the affiant saith not. (signed) Nimrod Jenkins. William Crow, the brother of Frances (Crow) Lillard made affidavit on Sept. 13, 1824, before Commissioner Strother at his office in the town of Fairfax, County of Culpeper, in which he swears to the following: "There were four negroes conveyed by Benjamin Lillard to John Strother & Thomas Lillard in Trust for the purposes mentioned in the deed, their names were \Vill, about 25 years of age when the deed was made, old Nan & one they called Long Nan & Gabriel. Will was sold by said Benjamin Lillard to Strother Lillard in whose possession he died two or three years ago at which time he was of little or no value the said 312 LILLARD GENEALOGY negro would have hired from the year 1803 up to the time of his death for about $20 pr annum upon an average. Old Nan was not fit for plantation business but was a good house servant & would have hired for about $10 a year in 1785, but in the year 1803 she could have been of no value. Nan was as valuable a negro as any in this or any other Coun try, she was a strong, healthy woman & could do any sort of work, Cut Mall, plow or Grub. She was sold by Benjamin Lillard to said Thomas Lillard one of the Trustees, she was worth upon an average from 1803 up to this time $30 a year if living notwithstanding her bearing Children in the meantime for she was an uncommonly valuable woman for work the said Long Nan was carried off some years ago and sold as this affi.ant understood where and to whom this affi.ant does not know, the said Long Nan had several children that this affi.ant knew to wit Milly now about 25 or 26 years of age a likely woman now in the possession of Anne Lillard, the widow of said Thomas Lillard in Culpeper County. George a very likely fellow now in possession of said Anne Lillard, he is older than Milly, say he is about 28 or 30 years, of age. The other negro named Gabriel mentioned in said deed, he was a very likely fellow & was carried off to Kentuckey by Alexander Gordon, Jr., (son of old Sawney Gar.don) some time about 18 months or two years, he was carried off at the time John Ball removed from Culpeper, at the time of being carried off he was worth $400 at least, he would have hired for $60 pr annum upon an average from 1803 up to this time, Gabriel was sold by said Benjamin Lillard to old Tom Smith the Apple Seller of Madison County. Tom Smith swaped him with Gordon for a negro woman & child. This affi.ant does not recollect at what time said Gabriel was sold by said Benjamin Lillard to said Thomas Smith but it was before the com mencement of this suit. The above mentioned negro George was worth about $40 a year on an average from 1803 untill this time, & Milly about $15 pr annum. As to the other personal property mentioned in said deed this affiant does not remember the value thereof, he remembers there was property there, the beds were tolerable good ones and in those times such beds and furniture were worth about $30 a piece. Question by the Com missioner, In stating the annual hire of Long Nan, do you intend to be understood that she was worth $30 upon an average from 1803 till 1824, Answer, In m:1king my statement I confined myself in that statement' to the years of 1785 & upwards, but as the plaintiffs were not entitled to claim untill 1803 of course her hire would be worth less say $25 pr year upon an average up to 1824. Question by the same. have not the beds &c & a part of the household furniture remained in the possession of Frances Lillard the mother of the Plaintiffs from the time the deed was made to this date. Answer. A part may have been & may now be in her possession for all that I know, but how much I know not, & further this affiant saith not. (signed) William Crow." Strother Lillard, in an affidavit taken at the office of Commissioner Strother in Fairfax, County of Culpeper, on the 23d of August, 1824, stated: CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 313 "that about the month of April, 1821, he purchased of Benjamin Lillard, the defendant in this cause an old. negro man by the name of Will, for whom he gave 10 lbs. of Tobacco in the leaf, but considered that he was in fact worth nothing, and was induced to make the purchase because he belonged to the family and had been a faithful servant. Ques tion by the Commissioner. How long had you known Will before you purchased him. Ans. between 12 & 14 years. Question by same. If you had been disposed to have hired Will when you first knew him say 14 years ago, what would you have thought would have been a reasonable hire for him per annum. Ans. From 45 to 50 $ but as he advanced in years and infirmity I consider his annual value was lessened and when I got him that he was worth nothing. Question by the same. did you or do you now know a negro by the name of Gabriel formerly owned by the defendant Benjamin Lillard. Ans. I did know him from the same period that my acquaintance commenced with Wi_ll, until 1822, when he was carried out of the State by Alexander Gordon. Question by the same. What was his age when you first knew him and what do you suppose he would have hired for annually. Ans. He was probably between 25 & 30 years old when I first knew him, and that he would have hired for about $60 pr annum upon an average. Question by same. D'.o you or do you not know that the negro Gabriel of whom you speak was the same conveyed by the defendant Lillard by a trust .deed executed for the benefit of the plaintiffs. Ans. I have always lived in that neighborhood and un derstood he was the same. Question by the defendant Lillard, You say that you were measurably induced to buy Will from the circumstances of his having belonged to the family, what particular friendship for him & · what other reason operated on your mind to buy him. Answer. I had been raised by him and thought his fare not so good as it might be and from a belief his situation might be bettered and your proposing to sell him to me I made the purchase. And further the affiant saith not. (signed) Strother Lillard. Richard Layton, in an affidavit taken at the office of Commissioner Jeremiah Strother in Fairfax, County of Culpeper, Virginia, on Aug. 23, 1824: "saith that about 28 years ago he became acquainted with the plain tiffs and defendant's both, and has lived near them ever since, that he was from the same period acquainted with the slaves named in a trust deed executed by the defendant Lillard for the benefit of his children the plaintiffs. Question by the plaintiff Dennis Lillard. What was the value of Will in 1803 when Mordecai Lillard arrived at age. Answer. I do not consider that he was worth more than about $50. Question by the same. What would you consider his hire would have been worth during his life from 1803 annually upon an average. Ans. I suppose about ,$10 pr annum. Question by the same. Did you know Gabriel from 1803 where he now is and in whose possession. Ans. I did know a man by the name of Gabriel, who was owned by Thomas Smith in 1803 and was said to be one of the slaves conveyed by said Deed to the chil dren of the defendant, he was sold by Smith to A. Gordon and by him \ 314 LILLARD GENEALOGY carried to Kentuckey in the fall of 1822. Question by the same. What do you think Gabriel was worth in 1803 and what would have been a reasonable hire for him during your acquaintance with him. Ans. I think he was worth about $300 in 1803 and that he would have hired for about $50 per annum on an average. Question by the same. What do you suppose Nan was worth in 1803 and what would have been a rea sonable hire for her from 1803 during your acquaintance with her. Ans. About $100 & as to hire I can only answer to 4 or 5 years about which time she was carried away and as I have understood was sold, she was probably worth on an average while I knew her about $20 per annum. Question by the same. Did you know the children Nan had while the property of Thomas Lillard. Ans. I knew four that are said to be her children. Question by the same. In whose possession are they and what do you suppose they are worth. Ans. I know a woman by the name of Milly and a man by the name of George, now in the possession of Mrs. Lillard, the widow of Thomas Lillard, deceased. Milly is now a likely young woman at this time and worth about $15 per annum. George is a young and very valuable man and is worth about $50 per annum at this time, the other 2 children I know nothing of affiant further saith that Nimrod Jenkins a witness sworn in this cause, informed him that he was very uneasy about the determination of the suit now pending between the plaintiffs Lillard vs. Lillard &c., for that he was security for Strother Lillard, son of Dennis Lillard and that if they did not gain the suit he should be likely to be very much injured and that he should act with all the policy he could to exonerate himself. Question by the plaintiff Dennis Lillard. Mr. Layton, have you not reason to believe that the defendant B. Lillard has raised his second family of children on the property con veyed in Trust for the benefit of the plaintiffs ( children by his first wife) . Answer. I know not. The old man Will is the only ·property embraced in the sd trust deed that I ever knew to be in the defendants possession. Question by the defendant. Is it not generally believed in the neigh borhood that the plaintiffs have received of the defendant the full value of the trust property from the proceeds of what was sold of that fund. Answer. I have, and I have always thought that they were seeking to re cover from Thomas Lillard what they were not entitled to, I have further thought that if they have any further claim that the defendant Benjamin Lillard ought to pay it if he was worth it. Question by the Commissioner. Tn whose possession has the land conveyed in the said Trust deed been since the year 1803. Ans. In the possession of the plaintiffs and their mother, the Mother and Clara Lillard have enjoyed it the greater part of the time and all of them whenever they pleased, and further this affiant saith not. (signed) Richard Layton." In an affidavit taken at Commissioner Strother's office in Fairfax, on Aug. 23, 1824, William Brown, aged sixty-five: "saith that he has lived many years a neighbour to Thomas Lillard, deceased, during his life and now lives near his widow, & that he saw a negro woman by the name of Nan whom the said Thomas Lillard pur chased of Benjamin Lillard, that the said woman from report had four CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLA.RD OF VIRGINIA 315 children while in the possession of Thomas Lillard, to wit, George, Milly and Barnett, George and Milly are now in the possession of the widow of the said Thomas Lillard at this time. Barnett I know nothing of at this time and the youngest was carried to Kentucky whose name affiant does not know. George in 1803 was worth about $200. Affiant further saith he does not know the ages of those children and the!efore can form no idea of their value at this time except George. Affiant further saith, that George would at this time sell for $300 and would hire for about $40, that the woman is worth at this time $200 and would hire for about $15. Question by the defendant. Have you not generally understood that the property sold by the defendant B. Lillard that was embraced in a Trust Deed executed by said defendant for the benefit of his four children the plaintiffs has been Reimbursed to them by the purchase of other property with the money and that they have had the benefit of it. Answer. I have always understood so. Question by the plaintiff Dennis Lillard. Have you not understood that the defendant B. Lillard has raised his second family of children on the estate conveyed for the benefit of the plaintiffs. Answer. No. I know nothing about it, and further the affiant saith not (signed) William Brown." The affidavit of Reuben Crigler, aged 71 years, was also taken at Fairfax, in August, 1824, in which he "saith that Gabriel the negro mentioned in the trust deed from Ben jamin Lillard to Strother & Thomas Lillard was born while the negro Nan, named in said deed was in the possession of the said Benjamin Lillard and while the said Benjamin Lillard resided upon the Land now in the possession of Frances Lillard, the Mother of the Plaintiffs, which land was also conveyed in said Deed of Trust, that the said woman was sold to Thomas Lillard by the said B. Lillard for £65 that he understood that the boy Gabriel was sold to Thomas Smith and from having seen him often at Smith's had no doubt of the fact. Old Nan was an old negro woman and at that time could have been worth very little, and if she had lived untill 1803 would have been an expense. Affiant does not know what became of her. Old Will in 1803 was a very GOQ{i hand of his age and for about ten years did tolerable good work, and :ifterwards was of very little value for the balance of his life. This affiant further saith that he was not acquainted with Nan or her children for many years, that when he returned to the neighborhood he found George a likely man and Milly a likely young woman in the possession of Mrs. Lillard the widow of Thomas Lillard, deceased, and was informed that they were the chil dren of Nan. . . . Question by the Plaintiff D. Lillard. Did not my Father raise another family on part of the deeded property. Answer. You said he did, but I do not know it. He bought Land in the neighbor hood on which he raised the family alluded to by the plaintiffs. Question, by the Commissioner. Did not the defendant Lillard purchase of Conyers a negro woman by the name of Ursela. Answer. I know he the said Lillard owned one by that name but do not know where he got her. Ques tion by Benjamin Lillard, Younger. Was not Benjamin Lillard the de- 316 LILLARD GENEALOGY fendant a man of considerable enterprise and made a great deal of money by trading previous to the year 1803. Answer. All his acquaintances will acknowledge that to be a fact, and further this affiant saith not. (signed) Reubin Crigler." In an affidavit made at the home of Benjamin Lillard, Younger, in the County of Culpeper, on Oct. 9, 1824, Rowland Yowell of Lawful Age: "saith that the current reports of the neighborhood was that Ben jamin Lillard, defendant, paid twenty-eight pounds to William Corbin for Land conveyed by said Corbin to Clara Lillard one of the plaintiffs and by her conveyed to Benjamin Lillard, Junr. From whom she re ceived the sum of sixty pounds and also a negro woman named Ursela & a horse sold to Mordecai Lillard another of the plaintiffs by the Defendant Benjamin Lillard for the sum of sixty pounds, all from the proceeds of an negro woman named Nan, sold by the said Benjamin Lillard to Thomas Lillard for the sum of sixty-five pounds, and the deponant fully believes the report to be just and true and further states that he does not believe the report that the negro man named Will or the old woman called Nan was worth any thing at the time Mordecai Lillard arrived or attained the age of twenty-one years, both the said negroes are mentioned in the trust Deed. And the Deponant believes that the plaintiffs have received in full the proceeds or price of Nan sold by Benjamin Lillard to Thomas Lillard and that the plaintiffs are unjustly seeking to obtain that to which they have no right. The affiant further saith that some time in the course of the last Spring he was in company with Dennis Lillard one of the plain tiffs when he said Lillard told this affiant that if he the said Lillard suc ceeded in the suit against Benjamin Lillard, Senr, that Richard H. Field, his Lawyer was to have an equal part with the plaintiffs of the amount recovered and that he the said Field was to carry on said suit for the said equal part of the property that might be so recovered. (signed) Rowland Yowel." At the house of Benjamin Lillard, Junior, Richard Layton made a similar statement to which he added: "that the plaintiffs are unjustly seeking to obtain that to which they have no right. And the deponant further states that he was at the House of Edward Simms on the 30th day of September and Benjamin Lillard, Junr, applied to the said Edward Simms for a copy of articles between the plaintiffs and their Counsel Henry Field and whom it is presumed is to have a share or part of what is gained by ptfs., if any, and his elo quency and the said Simms refusd to give a Copy as aforesaid. (signed) Richard Layton." John L. James makes a similar statement under oath. Also John Corbin makes affidavit in which he stated: "that his father William Corbin made a deed to Clara Lillard one of the plaintiffs, by the consent of Benjamin Lillard, defendant, for forty acres of Land and my father gave me forty pounds of the purchase money which I receivede. Question by Dennis Lillard, one of the plts. CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 317 How much land did Benjamin Lillard, Junr, purchase of your father. Ans. About one hundred acres. (signed) John Corbin." Thomas Pulliam also made affidavit on Oct. 9, 1824, at the home of Benjamin Lillard, Junior, in Culpeper County, which is similar to the above. He also stated that he "believes that plaintiffs have received in full the proceeds or price of Nan sold by Benjamin Lillard to Thomas Lillard and that the plaintiffs are unjustly seeking to obtain that to which they have no right. (signed) Thomas Pulliam." William A. Brown and Allen Sisk made similar affidavits. In an other affidavit John Corbin stated: "that Benjamin Lillard the defendant purchased of William Corbin, his father, One hundred acres of Land, that his Father William Corbin gave unto him ( the deponant) forty pounds of the purchase money and that almost immediately after the defendant Benjamin Lillard sold sixty acres of the said Land to Thomas Corbin, his the affiant's Brother and son of the aforesaid William Corbin, that the aforesaid William Corbin instantly discounted with the defendant Benjamin Lillard the price of the sixty acres of Land which his son Thomas had bought as aforesaid and exonerated and discharged Benjamin Lillard off and from the same and executed his deed of Conveyance to Clara Lillard(at the said Benjamin Lillard's request) for forty acres, the residue of the aforesaid one hundred acres of Land. The sum of forty pounds was paid by the defendant Ben jamin Lillard for the land conveyed by William Corbin to Clara Lillard and Twenty eight pounds of which was paid in cash from the proceeds of Negro Nan sold by the defendant Benjamin Lillard to Thomas Lillard for the sum of sixty-five pounds and further this affiant saith not. (signed) John Corbin." Augustine Bradley and Alexander Rider made similar statements. "Messrs Dennis Lillard, Clara Lillard, George Thomas and Mordecai Lillard, Take Notice that on the 6th day of this present month (December) at the house of Benjamin Lillard, Junr, in the County of Culpeper, be tween the hours of 10 O'clock in the morning and eight O'clock in the evening of that day, We shall take the affidavit of Alexander Rider and others to be offered as evidence before Master Commissioner Strother . . . in which you are plaintiffs and myself and others are defendants, When and Where you may attend if you please. (signed) Ann Lillard, Admrx." "Culpeper County to wit This day Rowland Layton made oath before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County that on the 2d day 0£ the present month (October) he left a true copy of the within notice at the house of the within named plaintiffs. Given under my hand this 9th day of October, 1824. John Turner." 318 LILLARD GENEALOGY Richard Layton, in an affidavit made at the home of Benjamin Lillard, Younger, in Culpeper County,on Apr.29, 1825, "saith that Thomas Lillard, dee\ gave unto Benjamin Lillard (his son) a male slave, then a child & son of Nan mentioned in a Deed of Trust, executed by Benjamin Lillard, Sen', to John Strother & Thomas Lillard, that in the early part of the year 1807, the said Benjamin Lillard, Yr., sold and transferred the said child, Barnett, to Joel Yowell and at that time, the said slave Barnett was not claimed nor any claim whatso ever made for a Title to him as he ( the affiant) had heard of nor does he believe has ever been done. And the affiant further states that the Estate bequeathed by Thomas Lillard, deed, to his wife, Anne Lillard (for and during her natural life) has not been divided since the death of the said Thomas Lillard. (signed) Richard Layton." "Culpeper County to wit. This day personally appeared before me Richard Layton and made oath that the above affidavit contained the truth to the best of his knowledge and belief. Given under my hand this 29th day of April, 1825. (signed) Newman Allen." William A. Brown made a similar affidavit on the same date. "The affidavit of Hedgeman Lillard of Lawful age, taken at the same time and place, being sworn saith that Tho•. Lillard, deed, gave Benjamin Lillard, Yr., a negro boy Barnett (said to be a son of Nan) in the year 1805, and said Benjamin Lillard sold sd. Barnett to Joel Yowell early in the year 1807, and as this affi.ant believes before suit was brought. Question by Lillard. Was not this Boy Barnett sold to said Yowell for Land, and if so who were ·the subscribing witnesses to the deed of conveyance. Ans. The said boy was sold to said Yowell in payment for Land and Benjamin Lillard, Thomas Lillard, William A. Brown and Dennis Lillard were the subscribing witnesses. Question by same. Was Dennis Lillard or any of the plaintiffs apprised of the sale and if so did they put up any claim at that time. Answer. Dennis Lillard was ap prised of the sale and I never heard of his putting up any claim at that time. (signed) Hedgeman Lillard." "Culpeper County to wit This day Hedgeman Lillard personally appeared before me, and made oath that the within affidavit contained the truth to the best of his knowl edge and belief. Given under my hand this 29th day of April, 1825. Newman Allen." "Messrs. Clara Lillard, Dennis Lillard, Mordecai Lillard & George Thomas. Take notice that on the 29th day of this present month (April) at my house in the County of Culpeper between the hours of Eight O'clock CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGL>qIA 319 in the morning and ?O'clock in the evening of that day I shall proceed to take the affidavits· of William A. Brown and others to be used as evi dence in which you are plaintiffs and Benjamin Lillard and others are defendants, when and where you May attend if you please. (signed) Benjamin Lillard, Yr." "Culpeper County to wit. This day William Lillard personally appeared before me and made oath that on the 25th of this month that he left a true copy of the within notice at the house of George Thomas and Dennis Lillard in the possession of their wives, and delivered a copy to Clara Lillard. Given under my hand this 29th of April, 1825. Newman Allen." In Deed Book J, page 234, Madison County, Va., Records is the following: "Memorandum of an agreement entered into the 15th day of May, 1826, Between Dennis Lillard, Clara Lillard, George Thomas & Lucy his wife, and Mordecai Lillard by Richard H. Field their attorney of the first part and Benjamin Lillard, sometimes called Doctor Ben of the second part, whereas the said' Benjamin Lillard is eventually, or may be eventually rendered liable to the above mentioned parties of the first part by the final decision of the suit pending in the Chancery Court of Fredericksburg in which suit the above mentioned parties of the first part are plaintiffs, the said Benjamin Lillard, being one of the children of Thomas Lillard deceased, whose admrx. is a party defendant in said suit. And the said Dr. Ben Lillard being now desirous of purchasing his peace and of ending the said suit, so far as he is or may be concerned therein or in the conse quences thereof, either directly or indirectly, either in the present suit or any other which may or could be hereafter instituted by the said plaintiffs or any of them in consequence of said suit or the determination therein, or in relation to the subject matter of controversy in said suit. Now in order to effect that object he hath agreed & by these presents doth agree to convey with special warranty to the aforesaid RH.Field Attorney as aforesaid for the use of the said plaintiffs one half of a certain tract of land lying in Culpeper County, adjoining the lands of William A. Brown, Reuben M. Strother, the widow Thornton, and William Brown, contain ing about 227 acres, and was conveyed by the said Thomas Lillard to the said Ben & John Lillard by deed of record in the County Court of Culpeper. And said Dr. Benjamin Lillard further agrees to convey by bill of sale with special warranty and to deliver to said Field Attorney as aforesaid one negro man named Dangerfield, now hired to Rowland Yowell, to be delivered at the end of the present year together with his hire of the present year; and also a negro girl by the name of Sally who is to be delivered immediately, but is to be redelivered to said Dr. Ben jamin Lillard on a loan for the use of his mother Ann Lillard for life and to be returned after her death if said negro still be living. And the said Dr. Benjamin Lillard further agrees to release to said R. H. Field Attorney as aforesaid for the use of the plaintiffs all his right, title and interest in the two negro slaves named George and Milly children of Nan, now in 320 LILLARD GENEALOGY the possession of said Ann Lillard, and also all his right, title and iil! terest in the estate of Thomas Lillard, deceased, now in the hands of his said Administratrix. And also to pay to R.H. Field Attorney as aforesaid upon demand the sum of five hundred dollars. And in Consideration whereof the said Dennis Lillard, Clara Lillard, George Thomas & Lucy his wife and Mordecai Lillard by their said Attorney do hereby release all title and claim which they now have or may recover in said suit against said Dr. Benjamin Lillard and do hereby release him from all responsi bility to t):iem on account of the said suit in the subject matter of contro versy. . In witness whereof, etc. . 15th day of May, 1826. Dennis Lillard l Clara Lillard George Thomas & J All signed for by Lucy his wife. R.H.Field Mordecai Lillard Benjamin Lillard." On page 236, same volume, John Lillard of Culpeper County, the brother of Dr. Benjamin, and son of Thomas and Anne Lillard also signed over his right, title and interest in the personal estate of his father, Thomas Lillard, on the same date. Thus ended the suit, after dragging through the Courts for over eighteen years. (B) CLARA LILLARD, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on July 2, 1775. She was the daughter of Captain Benjamin Lillard and Frances Crow. In 1794, on April 16, Clara Lillard bought from William Corbin and wife Sarah, forty acres of land in Madison County, for £44. On January 26, 1804, Clara Lillard for £67 current money deeded to Benjamin Lillard, Junior, her brother, forty acres in Madison County. This was witnessed by Henry Lewis, Moses Garrett, and William Crow. (Deed Book 3, page 498, Madison County, Va., Records). She lived with her mother, Frances (Crow) Lillard and evi dently ran their small farm. She had a daughter Margaret who married John L. Partlow. She died in 1832-3. (C) Dennis Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Va., on Feb. 5, 1777. On March 9, 1797, Dennis Lillard, son of Capt. Benjamin and Frances Crow Lillard, married to Phoebe Gray, daughter of George · and Mary A. (Strother) Gray. The mother of Phoebe (Gray) Lillard was a sister of French Strother, of Revolutionary fame. CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 321 She was the daughter of James Strother. The Strother family is in cluded in Green's Notes on Culpeper County. In Book 7, page 15 7, Madison County Records: Dennis Lillard, "owing $1120.22 to Benjamin Lillard, Younger, makes a deed of trust to Thomas Chapman for notes to pay his debt, allowing Thomas Chapman to sell 175¼ acres in Madison County to pay same. It was signed by Dennis Lillard. Witnessed by Augustine Bradley, Jr., Benjamin and James Lillard. Dated Feb. 23, 1820. In Book 10, page 246, under date of Feb. 1, 1827, Dennis and Phoebe Lillard for $700 deeded land in Madison County to their son Strother Lillard. Dennis Lillard died about 1843, and in deed book 18, page 345, Madison County Records, on August 15, 1843, "Phoebe Lillard, widow and relic of Dennis Lillard, deed .. & late of the County of Madison and State of Virginia, of the first part and Strother Lillard, George Lillard, Howard Lillard, Austin Lillard and Betsy his wife and James Lillard, all of Madison County whereas Dennis Lillard departed this life not long since intestate leaving considerable real & personal estate . Phoebe Lillard desires whatever portion is due her & is also desirous that her said children above named shall receive & enjoy as large a portion of the estate of their father Dennis Lillard, deed, as may be consistent with a proper regard for her own right," etc. This was signed by Phoebe Lillard, Strother Lillard, George Lillard, Howard Lillard, Augustine Lillard, Betsy Lillard and James Lillard. Issue: (1) Strother Lillard, b. 1798, m. Dec. 16, 1819, to Elizabeth Lillard, daughter of Augustine and Frances (Campbell) Lillard, and grand daughter of James and Kesiah (Bradley) Lillard. In Deed Book 16, page 535, Madison County Records, James Lillard, Administrator of Dennis Lillard, deceased, for $66 deeded to Strother Lillard 16¾ acres in Madison County, part of a large tract of land which B~njamin Lillard died possessed of, being the same conveyed to the said Benjamin by two several deeds; one part from Benjamin Lillard, The Elder, the other from Augustine Bradley. Dated Nov. 15, 1844. In Deed Book 18, page 144, Madison County Records on Dec. 24, 184 7, Strother Lillard deeded land to Henry Quaintance of Rappahan nock County. In Deed Book A, page 172, Rappahannock County, Va., Records, Dennis Lillard and Phoebe, his wife of Madison County, conveyed to Strother Lillard, in RapDahannock County, iand adjoining lands of Ben- 322 LILLARD GENEALOGY jamin Lillard, Benjamin Pulliam, Churchill Allen, Henry Barnes, Leonard Barnes and Reuben White, land formerly belonging to John and Benjamin Lillard and they relinquished it to Richard H. Field, Dennis Lillard, George Thomas, Clara Lillard and Mordecai Lillard. Witnessed by Reuben White, Dennis Jenkins and Howard Lillard. Dated Oct. 19, 1833. Deed Book C. Rapp. Co. Records. Page 299. Strother Lillard and Elizabeth his wife, in 1834, deeded land in Rappahannock County to Dennis Corbin. On page 17S, same book, Strother Lillard and Eliza beth his wife in 1838, conveyed land to Joseph Yowell. Witnessed by Howard Lillard, his brother. Deed Book D, page 143, Strother Lillard and Elizabeth his wife, in 1837, deeded land to Morgan Jenkins. In Deed Book B, page 452, Strother Lillard and Elizabeth his wife deeded land to John Turner. Issue: (la) Jane Lillard, m. Dec. 22, 1842, to George Shoultice. Minister Robert Garnett performed the service. ( 1b) Frances Lillard, m. Dec. 26, 1844, to Franklin Gearer. Minister Robt. Garnett performed the service. (le) Martha Lillard, m. Nov. 1848, to James J. Rouse. Minister Robert Garnett performed the service. (ld) Curtis Fisher Lillard, b. July 8, 1826, married Aug. 31, 1854,; to Sarah J. Bradley (b.1833) daughter of Willis and Frances (Brit ton) Bradley of Page County, Virginia. He was a farmer re siding in Madison County. He was a soldier in the Mexican war, and also served in the Civil War under Stonewall Jackson. Minister James McMullen performed their marriage ceremony. Fortune impaired by the Civil War he removed to Ohio in 1870. He died March 8, 1918. Issue: (lda) Ella Lillard, b. June 5, 1856, married Oct. 18, 1878, to Aaron Fetty. They had two children who died in infancy. ( ldb) Robert Worth Lillard, b. Sept. 19, 1860, married Aug. 7, 1890, to Iva Wise. Issue: (ldba) Grace .Lillard, b. July 7, 1893, m.Sept.11, 1911, to Harvey Cordray. (ldbb) Mabel Lillard, b. Jan. 25, 1903, m. Feb. 21, 1920, to Frank Lovell. She married a sec ond time on Apr.20, 1927, to Wilbur Zeiher. Issue: (By Frank Lovell) (ldbba) Paul Lovell, b. May 24, 1923. (ldc) Martha Lillard, b. Oct. 5, 1865, m. Oct. 18, 1883, to William Ross Fetty. Issue: CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 323 (ldca) C. Ross Fetty, b. Feb. 2, 1887, m.Apr.20, 1910, to Lillie Shannon. Issue: (ldcaa) Eugene Fetty, b. Apr.29,1911. (ldcb) Bernard Fetty, b. March 29, 1886, married to Maude Barton. Issue: (ldcba) GeorgeW. Fetty,b.Nov.25, 1915; d. Jan. 3, 1916. (ldcbb) Bernard Fetty, Jr., b.Oct.9, 1917. (le) Elizabeth Ann Lillard,b. 1837, m. Nov. 14, 1861, to Thomas William Bolen (b.183 4) son of Edward and Mary Bolen. Paul W. Yates performed their marriage ceremony. Mr. Bolen was a farmer. (lf) Lutetia Lillard, b. 1841, m. June 17, 1866, to Edward Bolen (b. March, 1815) son of Nathaniel and Nancy Bolen. Paul \V. Yates performed their marriage cere mony. Mr. Bolen was a farmer. (lg) Clarinda }\r1. Lillard (b. 1842), m. Sept. 10, 1863, to Othniel Jones (b.Apr.16, 1816) son of Rebecca Jones of Madison County, Va. He was a farmer. Paul W. Yates performed their marriage ceremony. (2) George Lillard, son of Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lillard, was born in Madison County, Virginia, on Aug. 25, 1803. He mar ried Jan. 23, 1829, to Permelia Williams Yowell, (b. July 18, 1810; d. Jan. 3, 1887) daughter of Christopher Yowell. Minister Robert Garnett performed their marriage ceremony. George Lil lard died July 27, 1891. Issue: (2a) Mary M. Lillard, b. May 4, 1830; m. Jan. 12, 1854, to Madison Colvin. Minister Robert Garnett performed their marriage ceremony. Issue: (2aa) Missy Colvin. (2ab) George Colvin. (2b) Elizabeth C. Lillard, b. Apr. 1, 1832; married to Robert Rush. (2c) Stanton B. Lillard, b. May 8, 1834; married to Louise Allison and moved to Missouri. He returned to Vir ginia Oct. 30, 1894. During the Civil War he served with the Virginia troops in the Confederate Army. (2d} Howard Mason Lillard, b. Apr. 25, 1836; married Eliza beth C. Kite. He was a Confederate soldier Co. L, 7th Va. Infy. during the Civil War. Will Book 4, page 18, Madison County Records, his will mentions his wife Elizabeth C. Lillard, and sons, Wm. D. Lillard; F. R. Lillard and E. M. Lillard. , Dated Apr.8,1914; proved Feb. 25, 1915. Issue: 324 LILLARD GENEALOGY (2da) Lizzie L. Lillard,b.1875; m. Mar. 24, 1902 to Thomas T. Early (b. 1875), son of Wm. M. & Ida Early. He was a farmer of Madison County. (2db) Martha Lillard married Emmett Daniels. (2dc) Ruth Lillard married Wilkie Daniels. (2dd) Thomas Lillard married Carrie (Patsey) Utz. ( 2de) Frank R. Lillard married Nora Spicer. ( 2df) Dr. Edward M. Lillard. (2dg) William D. Lillard married Annie Parry. (2e) George W. Lillard, b. Nov. 22, 1838; was a Civil War veteran, joining the Confederate Army in 1862, served in Co. C. 4th Virginia Cavalry; was wounded, shot in the back. He married 1st to Obelia Prince. He married 2nd on July 9, 1891, to Eliza B. Estes, daughter of James & Jane E. Estes. At this time G. W. Lillard was a Merchant in Madison County. He married 3rd, on Dec. 24, 1903 to Lucy Nicol (b.1868) daughter of L.A. & M.C.Nicol. He married 4th, to Susan Adelaide Meade. In the Will of George W. Lillard Book 4, page 63, Madison County Records he mentions his pres ent wife Susan Adelaide Lillard, and his children Basil W. Lillard, Gladys L. Lillard & George W. Lillard, Jr., also Esmond Lillard who has one child whose mother is dead. Dated 4th Nov. 1914; proved Sept.13,1915. Issue: (Zea) Basil W. Lillard. ( 2eb) Gladyf L. Lillard. (2ec) George W. Lillard; Jr. ( 2ed) Esmond Lillard married. Issue: ( 2eda) A child. (2f) Franklin Marion Lillard, b. May 24, 1840, served in Co. L, 10th Va. Cav, C.S.A., and died during the Civil War on Sept. 4, 1862. Unmarried. (2g) Sarah Louvina Lillard, b. Jan. 30, 1842; married 1st to Robert Woodruff of Missouri. She married 2d to Mr. Ensley. (2h) Clarissa Garnett Lillard, b. Mar. 18, 1845; m. Dec. 7, 18~7, to James William Coats (b.1846) son of Foun tain and Lucinda (Burton) Coats. He was a farmer of Madison County, Va. Thomas W. Lewis performed their marriage ceremony. Issue: ( 2ha) Henry M. Coats; b. Nov. 8, 1869; d. July 10, 1870. (2i) Louisa Victoria Viola Vashti Lillard, b. July 21, 1847; rn. Dec. 28, 1871, to William Lewis McAlester (b.1846) son of James M. and Eliza (Grimsley) McAlester. He was a farmer of Madison County, Va. ·cAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 325 (2j) Sidna Eudora Lillard, b. Jan. 8, 1849, married to Gratner Coats. (2k) Jumima Williams Lillard, b. July 10, 1852, m. Mar. 8, 1883, to John William Weakley (b.Dec.22, 1847; d. Jan. 16, 1927) son of Joseph Andrew and Susan E. Weakley. They resided in Madison County on a farm near Syria. Issue: (2ka) James Daniel Cleatus Weakley, b. May 15, 1885. Unmarried. (2kb) Clement Cecil Weakley, b. June 16, 1887; m. June 10, 1919 to Maud Ella Dodson, daugh ter of S. Wise and Eliza (Bates) Dodson. Mr. Weakley is a farmer residing at Elly, Va. Issue: (2kba) Roy Weakley, b. July 7, 1920. (3) James Lillard, son of Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lillard, was the administrator of his father's estate. On Feb.27, 1823, he married to Kesiah Lillard, daughter of Augustine and Frances (Campbell) Lillard, and granddaughter of James and Kesiah (Bradley) Lil lard. Tbev were second cousins. In his will (Vol. II, page 84, Madison County Records) James Lillard mentioned his wife Kesiah Lillard, and his children: Andrew J. Lillard; Sarah A. Rush; Martha H. Rush; Lucy E. Yowell; James R. Lillard; John H. Lillard; Judith F. Shotwell; Sinclair M. Lillard; and Laura A. Lillard. Dated July 12, 1859. Probated under bond of $20,000 on Aug. 25, 1859. Issue: (3a) Andrew J. Lillard. (3b) Sarah Ann Lillard, married Dec. 16, 1846, to John Rush. Minister Daniel B. Ewing performed the ceremony. (3c) Martha H. Lillard married Mr. Rush. ( 3d) Lucy E. Lillard, m. Nov. 7, 1849, to Christopher S. Yowell, son of Christopher Yowell. (3e) James R. Lillard, b. 1834, married on Nov.25, 1858, to Sarah Utz (b.1830) daughter of A. & J. Utz. He mar ried a second time to Mrs. Sarah F. (Smith) Ryner, daughter of John Smith, on July 9, 1876. Issue: (By Sarah (Utz) Lillard) (3ea) Thomas F. Lillard, b. 1860, m. Feb. 4, 1885, to Annie B. Mitchell (b.1863) daughter of James L. & M. A. Mitchell. He was a farmer of Madison County, Va. Issue: (3eaa) R. L. Lillard, b. 1893,m.Sept.ll, 1916, to N. M. Yager, daughter of J.M.& S. S. Yager. (3eab) C.A.Lillard, b. 1894, m. Oct.17, 1912, to R. H. Hawkins, son of A. & E. Hawkins. He was a farmer of Rappahannock County. 326 LILLARD GENEALOGY (3eac) Claude Lillard, b. 1897, m.July 5, 1921, to Iralu Weaver (b. 1901), daughter of J .A. & Alice G. Weaver. He served in the World War. ( 3ead) Nannie B. Lillard, b. 1905 ,m. June 19, 1925, to Reuben B. Weaver, son of J.A. & Alice G. Weaver. (3eb) John A. Lillard, b. 1865, m. Dec.24, 1891, to Helena J. Yowell, daughter of William P. & Nancy Yowell. (3f) John Henry Lillard, b. Mar. 10, 1837, married on Aug. 8, 1869, to Sophia Jane Carpenter (b.1849) daughter of Urial and Sarah (Utz) Carpenter. He was a farmer in Madison County. His wife died Apr.15, 1917. Issue: (3fa) Thomas E. Lillard, b. July 26, 1870, married Miss Herring. His widow now lives in Staunton, Va. T. E. Lillard died July 20, 1906. Issue: (3faa) Maude Lillard married Dr. Thomas of N.C. (3fab) Ruth Lillard married Mr. Lewis of Staunton, Va. ( 3 fac) Elsie Lillard married Mr. Lewis of Clifton Forge, Va. (3fad) Britten Lillard, resides in Staunton, Virginia. Unmarried. (3fb) James U.L.Lillard, b. Apr.5,1872; d. Apr.28, 1877. (3fc) John Heber Lillard, b. Feb. 2, 1874, married on Dec. 24, 1902, to Lucy Jane Weaver (b. 1883) daughter of Robert H. & M. Weaver. She was a school teacher and he was a farmer. J obn Heber Lillard was drowned in Robin son River at Criglersville, Madison County, on the fourth Thursday in May (May 24), 1901, as he tried to drive through a ford after a storm. (3fd) Rufus (Jack) Lillard was born March 28, 1876, unmarried. He was a private in Co.B, 3rd Va. Inft. under Capt. Edwin Grimsley, in the Spanish-American War. His name is on the Roll of 1898 Minute Men of Virginia. Address : Madison, Va. ( 3fe) Sallie Anne Lillard, b. Feb. 7, 1882, married on Feb. 7, 1911, to Ernest Marvin Schwartz, (b.1884) son of John M. and Lucy E. (Ruda- CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VffiGINIA 327 sell) Schwartz. Mr. Schwartz is a merchant at Sperryville, Va., where they reside. Issue: (3fea) Cornelia Jane Schwartz, b. Mar.24, 1912. ( 3feb) Louise Catherine (Billy) Schwartz, b. Feb. 12, 1913. (3g) Judith Frances Lillard (b.1838) married Oct.29,1857, to Ethelbert L. Shotwell (b.1834) son of William Shotwell. They lived at Front Royal, Va. (3h) Sinclair Lillard was a soldier in the Civil War, serving in Brook's Battery, Poagner Battalion, in Capt. George Boonton's Artillery Company. (3i) Laura Alice Lillard, b. 1844, married Mar.9, 1861, to John W. White (b.1840) son of J.P.& M. White. He was a farmer of Madison County. ( 4) Elizabeth Ann Lillard, daughter of Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lil lard, was born Aug. 16, 1806, and married on Sept.9, 1832, to her second cousin, Augustine Lillard, Jr., son of Augustine and Frances (Campbell) Lillard. For her descendants see N o.zi, Chapter IV. ( 5) Howard Lillard, son of Dennis and Phoebe (Gray) Lillard, married on Feb. 6, 1845, to Nelly Yowell. Minister Silas Bruce performed their ceremony. Issue: (Sa) Joseph Columbus Lillard, b. 1849, married Nov.23, 1871, to Lucy Ann Lillard, b. ,1854, daughter of Henry F. and Ellen (Yowell) Lillard, and a granddaughter of John and Lucy (Gaines) Lillard. They were second cousins. (D) Lucy Lillard, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Frances (Crow) Lillard, was born on Dec. 24, 1778, and married on Feb. 8, 1796, to George Thomas, son of John and Elizabeth Thomas. In Book 1, page 12, Madison County Records, in his will John Thomas mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and children: Jesse Thomas; Massa Thomas; Elisha Thomas; George Thomas; William Thomas; Bet sey Thomas; and Rhoda Thomas she being the wife of Joshua Barlor, also Jemima, she being the wife to Benjamin Rush. Execu tors: George Thomas and Josht1ca Barlor. Dated Sept.9, 1793. Proved Oct.24,1793. Witnessed by Christopher Crigler, James Crigler and Edward Leavitt. Issue: (1) Elizabeth Thomas married on Jan. 16, 1805, to Madison Daniel Kabler. Also others whose descendants yet reside in Madison County, Va. (E) Mordecai Lillard, son of Captain Benjamin and Frances (Crow) 328 LILLARD GENEALOGY Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on Nov.22, 1782. During the suit against his father he signed a release and took as his share of the property a slave named Ursela, and a bay horse and departed for Tennessee. In 1808, he married to Virginia Burke, daughter of William Burke, II, and settled near Murfrees boro, Tennessee, where he died in 1852. He returned to Virginia in the fall of 1826 to visit his mother, when he signed papers giving to her his share of the property won in said suit, for her use during her life, after which it was to pass to his sister, Elizabeth Lillard Apperson. Issue: (1) Colonel William Burke Lillard, born in Tennessee, about 1809. Was Colonel of the State Militia. He married in 1833 to Mary Smith. After her death he married 2nd. about 1844, to Delia Blackman, daughter of Alfred and Elizabeth (Crawford of N.C.) Blackman. About the Blackman family, Med. Ransom of Nashville, Tenn, in forms that: "Roger Snell had two daughters, first Ann, who was born Feb. 8, 17 3 7, was married to Henry King, who died not long after their marriage. In 1766 Ann (Snell) King married Stephen Blackman, who was born 1724, and died Mar.11, 1776. Their son James Blackman married Elizabeth Oates, and their son Alfred Blackman, Esq., married Elizabeth Crawford. Their daughter Delia Blackman married Colonel William Burke Lillard. Roger Snell's second daughter married Michael King, brother of Henry King. Their son William King married and had a son William Rufus King who was the Vice-President of the U.S., under Frank lin Pierce. In Fairbank's Crests, the Blackman coat of arms is recorded." Colonel William Burke Lillard died in Rutherford County, Tenn., in Feb. 1877. Issue: (By Mary (Smith) Lillard) ( 1 a) Mary Jane Lillard died at the age of 19 years. (lb) Mordecai Lillard, b. May 20, 1834, m. 1870, to Susan Haliburton. He died in Rutherford County, Tenn., on March 18, 1899. Issue: (lba) William Haliburton Lillard, b. July 30, 1871, m. Miss Drain of Piedmont, W. Va. He died in May, 1914. No issue. (lbb) R. Ernest Lillard, b. Oct. 22, 1883, m. May 1, 1910, to Georgina Wat son F ounin. He is a prominent citizen of Fort Smith, Arkansas, also Manager of the Fort Smith Cotton Oil Co. Issue: ( 1bba) William Haliburton Lillard, b.Apr. 5, 1911. (lbbb) Louise Lillard, b. Feb. 11, 1917. (le) Elizabeth Lillard, b. 1840. Died unmarried at the age of CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 329 59 year~, in 1899. Med. Ransom states: "She was a plucky little· individual. She was a dainty little creature, but stood on the stairway of the old smoke house at Locust Grove and held a carriage whip high in the air and defied any damned yankee to take a step toward her, thus saving her father's beautiful carriage horses during a raid in the Civil War." Issue: . (By Delia (Blackman) Lillard) (ld) Julia Lillard, b. May 30, 1844, m. Mar. 9, 1876, to Dr. Med. Ransom, son of Benjamin Clevius and Sarah (Jar ratt) Ransom. Dr. Ransom was educated in Paris, France, and was a great linguist. He was a descendant of Peter Ransom, who was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1652. Dr. Ransom was a second cousin of Mat. Ransom, U.S.Senator, Brigadier General in the Civil War, Minister to Brazil, and Governor of North Carolina. Dr. Ransom was also a second cousin of General Robert Ransom who organized the first militia in North Carolina during the Civil War. Dr. Ransom was the grandson of Captain Richard Payne Ransom, a Revolutionary soldier. Julia Lillard Ransom died on Nov. 18, 1888. Issue: (lda) Lillard Ransom, b. 1877,-died aged 7 months. (ldb) Delia Ransom, b. May 20, 1878, m. Mar.10, 1897, to Charles Thomas Gannaway. Issue: (ldba) Julia Lillard Gannaway, b. Dec.24, . 1897, m. May 23, 1923, to Jesse Hall Thomas, Jr. (ldbb) Jane Ransom Gannaway, b. May 5, 1899. (ldbc) Delia Elizabeth Gannaway,b. June 17, 1904, m. Oct. 2, 1925, to Joris McDonald White. (ldbd} Virginia Ann Gannaway, b. July 27, 1909. (ldc) Med. Ransom, b. June 19, 1880. Principal of Ransom School, Lynwood Blvd., Nashville, Tenn. Poet and author. Unmarried. (ldd) Julia Mary Ransom, b. Sept. 1884, m. Jan.11, 1911, to Hugh Mc Veigh Craig. Issue: (ldda) Julia Lillard Craig, b. May 17, 1919. (le) William Giles Lillard, b. July 23, 1849. Was a Confed erate soldier during the Civil War. He married in Feb ruary, 1869, to Elizabeth Evelyn Crockett (b.July 23, 1849; d. Dec. 19, 1904) daughter of John Anthony and Margaret (Ransom) Crockett of Murfreesboro, Tenn. He died Apr. 23, 1925. Issue: 330 LILLARD GENEALOGY (lea) Aline Lillard, b. Aug. 25, 1870. Unmarried. (leb) John Crockett Lillard, b. Apr.28,1872; d.1873. (lee) Margaret Ransom Lillard, b. Feb. 14, 1874, m. Dec. 18, 1894, to Martin Clark (b.Mar.14, 1870), son of Dr. W.M. and Elizabeth (Black man) Clark. He is a newspaper man, being associated with the Nashville Banner. Address: Caldwell Lane, Nashville, Tenn. Issue: (leca) William Martin Clark, b. Oct.l, 1895, m. Jan. 28, 1925, to Helen McKinney of Tipton, Ga. Issue: (lecaa) Helen Clark, b. Apr.17, 1927. (lecb) Dr. Sam Lillard Clark, b. Oct. 5, 1898, m. Sept. 4, 1924, to Nettie Lee Petrie of Fairview, Ky. He is a professor in the Medical Depart ment of North-Western University, Chicago, Ill. Issue: (lecba) Sam Lillard Clark, Jr., b. June 9, 1926. (led) Thomas Overton Lillard, b. Mar. 8, 1876, d. Sept. 29, 1908. Unmarried. (lee) Sam Benjamin Lillard, b. Mar. 28, 1878, d. Oct. 28, 1897 .. Unmarried. (lef) Mark Hill Lillard, b. June 18, 1880, m. Jan. 5, 1908, to Nellie Corbett. He is the General Agent of the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, Western Railway of Alabama & Georgia Rail way, at Jacksonville, Fla. Address: 2337 Park, Jacksonville, Fla. Issue: (lefa) Mark Hill Lillard, Jr., b.July, 1917. (leg) Cordelia Lillard, b.Apr.2,1882; d.Sept.12,1884. (leh) Julia Lillard, b. June 12, 1884, m. Dec. 18, 1908, to Fount H. Rion. Lived at Nashville, Tenn. She died Jan. 5, 1921. Issue: (leha) Nettie Elizabeth Rion, b. May 11, 1910. (lehb) Evelyn Lillard Rion, b. Dec.17,1913. (lehc) Julia Caldwell Rion, b. Feb. 8, 1915. (lehd) Fount H. Rion, Jr., b. Feb. 26, 1920. (lf) Thomas Overton Lillard, b. Jan. 11, 1852, m. Feb. 1, 1870, to Harriett Calhoun Hill, daughter of Thomas and Susan Calhoun (Wade) Hill, of Murfreesboro, Tenn. He died at Murfreesboro, Tenn.on Nov. 12, 1922. '.::APT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 33.1 [ssue: (lfa) Lillian Lillard, b. Sept. 8, 1872, m. Nov. 13, 1890, to William Douglas of Burkenhead, Eng land. She married a second time to Frank White, and a third time to Venerable Pitts. No issue by the last two. Issue: (By William Douglas) (lfaa) Gertrude Douglas, b. Aug. 13, 1892, m. Nov. 13, 1913, to Richard Stick ney of Anniston, Ala., son of Rich ard and Alice (Walker) Stickney. Issue: (lfaaa) Lillian Walker Stick ney, b. Feb. 3, 1916. ( lfaab) Richard Stickney,III, b. May 13, 1921. (lfb) Delia Blackman Lillard, b. Aug. 1, 1875, m. Oct. 2, 1895, to Watson G. Templeton of Beech Grove, Tenn., son of Dr. John Wiley and Susie (Jones) Templeton. Issue: (lfba) J. Lillard Templeton, b.Apr.8, 1901. (lfbb) John Wiley Templeton, b. Nov.14, 1903. (lfc) Susie Lillard, b. Feb. 18, 1877, m. Oct. 26, 1898, to Edward Hugh Murray of Pulaski, Tenn. Issue: (lfca) Maurine Murray, b. Sept.25, 1899, m. June 25, 1919, to Dr. Wyatt Martin of Pulaski,. son of Edward Martin. Dr. Martin's mother was a McNary, and his grandfather McNary was one of the first Judges of the Supreme Court. His mother was from Pulaski. Issue: (lfcaa) Edward Martin, b. Aug. 6, 1922. (lfcb) Thomas Lillard Murray, b. July 14, 1902, m. May 20, 1922, to Pris cilla Dumas. This was a runaway marriage. Issue: (lfcba) Hugh Dumas Murray, b.Feb.6,1923. (lfcc) Harriett Calhoun Murray, b. Sept. 15, 1908. . (lfcd) Martha Murray, b. Sept. 4, 1915. (lfd) Lura Hill Lillard, b. Feb. 18, 1881, m. Dec. 17, 332 LILLARD GENEALOGY 1901, to Thomas Glover Ivie, son of Thomas Glover and Sallie Crichlow (Lawingi) Ivie, of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Address: Murfreesboro, Tenn. Issue: (lfda) Harriett Calhoun Ivie, b. May 13, 1903, m. Sept. 20, 1923, to Daniel Muse Post, of Newman, Ga, son of William Glen and Rosa (Muse) Post. Issue: (lfdaa) Daniel Muse Post, Jr., b. July 13, 1924. (lfe) Hattie Calhoun Lillard, b. Oct. 16, 1884, m. June 5, 1912, to Edward C. Cannon of Mur freesboro, Tenn., son of Edward C. and Sallie (Lytle) Cannon. Issue: (lfea) Edward C. Cannon,III, b. Feb. 11, 1916. (lfeb) Eba Lillard Cannon, b. May 9, 1923. (lff) Eba Erwin Lillard, b. Feb. 3, 1887, m. at Mur freesboro, Tenn., on Nov.22, 1916, to Alma 0. Quinn of Anniston, Ala., son of Charles H. and Annie (Priest) Quinn. Address: Annis to;n, Ala. (lg) Temperance (Tempie) Lillard, b. 1859, m. 1872, to Wil liam Madison Smith, son of Squire George Washington and Elizabeth (Henderson) Smith of Rutherford County, Tenn. Issue: (lga) Lmard Smith, b. 1873, married and lives in Texas. He had a son named Oscar Smith. (1gb) George Smith, b. Jan. 20, 1875, married to An nie Laurie Rierson. Is with the Mortgage In vestment Company, El Paso, Texas. Issue: (lgba) DeWitt Smith. ( lgbb) George Rierson Smith. (lgbc) Charles Smith. (lgc) Robert DeWitt Smith, b. 1879, married to Ruth Crutchfield, the granddaughter of Governor Beverly Randolph of Virginia. Address: Stokes Lane, Nashville, Tenn. Issue: (lgca) James DeWitt Smith, b. 1915. (lgcb) Robert DeWitt Smith, b. 1918. (lgcc) William Madison Smith, b. 1926. (lgd) Thomas Smith, b. 1877. Unmarried. Address: Kaufman, Texas. CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 333 (lh) Sarah (Sally) Lillard, b. 1856, rn. Nov. 1887, to Noah A. BrannoR. Died May, 1911. Issue: (lha) Julia Brannon, b. Dec. 16, 1888, m. June 12, 1913, to Richard C. Wharton. Address: 113 Greenway Ave., Richland Addition, Harding Road, Nashville, Tenn. (li) Mary Lillard, b. Apr.17, 1858, rn. Oct. 1884, to Joseph Alfred Ransom, son of William K. Ransom and Sarah (Wilson) Ransom of Bedford County, Tenn. He · was also the nephew of Dr. Med. Ransom who married Julia Lillard (No.ld) daughter of Col. William Burke and Delia (Blackman) Lillard. Issue: (lia) Charles Joseph Ransom, b. Feb. 16, 1887, rn. May 3, 1905, to Jirnmia Davis, daughter of Colonel James Davis. Address: Woodmont Blvd.; Harding Road, Nashville, Tenn. Issue: (liaa) James Ransom, b. 1906. (liab) Fay Ransom, b. 1917. (lj) Delia Lillard, b. Apr. 30, 1862; d. Nov. 27, 1891; rn. Dec. 17, 1886, to D.Watson Butler, son of Colonel Thomas Overton and Pamelia (Ware) Butler of Rutherford County, Tenn. Issue: (lja) Saidee Butler, ni. May 11, 1910, to Paul Cham bers, a prominent attorney of Jackson, Miss., son of William Richard and Nellie (Huddles ton) Chambers. Address: 711 Pinehurst Place, Jackson, Miss. (lk) Alfred Blackman Lillard, b. Feb. 6, 1866, was top Ser geant of his Company, 2nd Tenn. Inft., in the Spanish American War. He married Dec. 15, 1904, to Marnie Florence Van Der Braak. Address: 5124 Morris Avenue, Birmingham, Ala. Issue: (lka) Eugene Tl;i.omas Lillard, b. Mar. 14, 1906. (11) Frances Burke Lillard (Fannie), b. Jan. 20, 1868, m. Oct. 14, 1896, to Harrison Hopper,II(d.Apr.1, 1910) of Hop kinsville, Kentucky. Issue: (lla) Jean Maxwell Hopper, b.Sept.3, 1897, d. Feb. 24, 1899. (llb) Harriet Maxwell Hopper, b. Nov. 26, 1898, rn. Sept. 9, 1918, to Ralph E. Richards, an attor ney of St. Petersburg, Fla. Issue: (llba) Frances Harrison Richards, b.Nov.8, 1919. 334 LILLARD GENEALOGY (llc) Frances Lillard Hopper, b. Jan.10, 1902, m. June 12, 1924, to Dr. Milton D. Anderson, of Huntsville, Ala. Issue: (llca) Milton D. Anderson,Jr., b. Apr.1, 1926. (lld) Harrison Hopper, III, b. Jan. 22, 1906. (2) David Lillard died in Tennessee leaving one son. (3) George Lillard, died in Madison County, Tenn., leaving one son. (4) Frances (Frankie) Lillard, m. 1839, to Thomas Gray Vaughn (called Uncle Vaughn). She died in 1886. Issue: (4a) Richard Mordecia Vaughn. (4b) Tabitha Vaughn, b. 1847. Unmarried. Resides in Mur freesboro, Tenn., at the home of Albert King, Sr. (4c) Nancy Vaughn. (5) Elizabeth (Betty) Lillard, b. 1811. Unmarried. Died in 1888, at the home of her nephew, Thomas Overton Lillard, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. (6) Nancy Lillard married Mr. Statler. Lived in West Tennessee and died there. (7) Mary Ann Lillard married Mr. Pirtle. Lived in West Tennessee and died there. (8) Lucy Lucinda Lillard married Mr. Nuckolls. Lived in West Ten nessee and died there. (9) Martha Lillard married William Rucker. Died in Texas. Issue: (9a) Tennessee (Tennie) Rucker married Mr. Brooks. (9b) William Rucker, Jr., m. Mattie Anderson. (9c) James Rucker died unmarried. ( 9d) Elizabeth Rucker died unmarried. (9e) George Rucker, moved from Tennessee to Texas. (10) Sarah (Sally) Lillard married Mr. Crawford. (F) Benjamin Lillard, III, son of Captain Benjamin and Frances (Crow) Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1784. He married Lucy Gassaway, and resided in that part of Culpeper County which later became Rappahannock County, Virginia. He was commissioned Constable for Rappahannock County, in 1833, under Governor John Floyd (Deed Book A, Page 1, Rapp. Co., Va., Records). In the same book, page 366, he was. commissioned Constable for Rappahannock County under Governor Dittleton W. Tazewell, and under Governor David Campbell in 1837. In Deed Book D, page 445, Rapp. Co., Va. Records, Ben jamin Lillard and Lucy his wife, deeded to John Turner 469 acres, land situated in Rappahannock and Madison Counties adjoining that of Elizabeth Sisk, Willis Bradley, Benjamin Pulliam, Henry CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 335 Barnes and Henry Lillard; dividing comer between Benjamin Lil lard's mansion tract and that which formerly belonged to Ambrose Brown. This was dated 1836. Benjamin and Lucy (Gassaway) Lillard moved from Virginia to Tennessee, where he died in 186 7, in his 83rd year. Issue: (1) Alexander Lillard married Martha Ivie (b.Dec. 27,1812; d.Nov.21, 1898). He died in Tennessee about 1847. Issue: (la) Virginia Elizabeth Lillard, b. Jan.11, 1842, m. July 1, 1870, to James T. Guffin (b.Nov.8,1836, near Abbeville, N.C.; d. June 28, 1918, at Giddings, Texas). She died Nov. 14, 1881. Issue: (laa) Mattie Guffin, b. July 12, 1870; m. Dec.19, 1889, to Dr. Edward Mercer Hicks. He died Mar. 22, 1927. Mattie Guffin was legally adopted in 1881, by her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Burr Fagans Paty. Address: 503 N. Spring St., l\furfreesboro, Tenn. Issue: (faaa) Virginia Lillard Hicks, b. Sept.2, 1894, m. Mar. 21, 1912, to William Baskett Tompkins. Issue: (laaaa) Martha Hicks Tomp kins, b. Oct. 29, 1913. (lab) Jimmie T. Guffin, b. May, 1872. Died when about two years old. (lac) William P. Guffin, b. 1874, killed at Fort San Telipi Caveli, P.I. during the Spanish-Ameri can \Var, on Sept.30, 1898. (lad) Flora Guffin, b. 1876, died when about five years old. (lae) Dr. Paty Lillard Guffin, b. Oct. 27, 1881, m. Apr. 23, 1907, at Columbia, Tenn., to Louise Cherry. Address: 1002 Rio Grande Street, Austin, Texas. Issue: (laea) Frank Cherry Guffin, b.Jan.22,1909. (laeb) William Lillard Guffin,b.Apr.8, 1911. (laec) John Edward Guffin, b.Feb.22, 1918. He was a twin to Virginia. (laed) Virginia Guffin, b. Feb.22, 1918. She was a twin to John Edward. (lb) Tennessee Lillard died when about four years old. (le) Flora Alexander Lillard, b. Mar. 2, 1844, m. June 7, 1871, to Burr Fagans Paty. She was killed in a cyclone near Viola, Tenn., on April 18, 1877. No issue. 336 LILLARD GENEALOGY (ld) Mary Davis Lillard, b. Jan. 10, 1846, m. Aug. 20, 1878, to her brother-in-law, Burr Fagans Patty. They had no children, but in 1881 legally adopted their niece, Mattie Guffin. Mary (Lillard) Paty died on June 28, 1895. He died on Jan. 30, 1916. ( 1e) James Lillard. (2) Mary Lillard, married July 10, 1845, to Jesse B. Sanders. Issue: (2a) James M. Sanders. ( 2b) Helen Sanders. ( 2c) Sue Sanders. (2d) Callie Sanders. (2e) Sarah Sanders. All of whom lived in Rutherford County, Tennessee. (3) Frances Lillard, married Aug. 30, 1843, to Richard F. Wasson. Issue: ( 3a) Victoria Wasson. ( 3 b) Ella Wasson. (3c) Frank Wasson. (3d) Muse Wasson. All of whom died without issue. (4) Thomas W. Lillard, married on Aug. 3, 1853, to Mary E.P.Howard. He moved to Texas and died in Dallas County. Issue: ( 4a) John Lillard. ( 4b) Jennie Lillard. ( 4c) Snow Lillard. ( 4d) Howard Lillard. (4e) Benjamin Lillard. ( 4f) Nannie Lillard. ( 4g) Anna Lillard. ( 4h) Zanaida Lillard. Also a son whose name I do not know. All reside in Texas. ( 5) Martha E. Lillard married Mr. Wasson. She died at Snyder, Texas. Issue: ( 5a) Walter Wasson. (Sb) Henrietta Wasson. (Sc) Virgil Wasson. (Sd) Sylvester Wasson. (Se) Irving Wasson. (Sf) Luella Wasson m. Mr. Baugh. (Sg) Gertrude Wasson, m. Mr. Giliam. ( 6) Sophia Lillard married Mr. Sanders. No issue. (7) Dr. John Hamilton Lillard, b. 1827, married on Dec.23, 1852, to Frances Jane TaJiaferro (b.Jan.8,1832;d. June 18, 1908) daughter of Zachariah Taliaferro. :br. John H. Lillard resided at Murfrees boro, Tenn, where he died on Mar. 28, 1880. Issue: (7a) John Lillard, b. Sept. 29, 1860, married Pamelia Camey CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 337 of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Address: Murfreesboro, Tennes see. Issue:· ( 7 aa) Frances Lillard married Owen Alexander. Issue: ( 7 aaa) John Overton Alexander. (7ab) John Butler Lillard. Unmarried. (7b) Dr. Reese Q. Lillard, b. Aug. 5, 1863, married Mrs. Mattie Macey of Nashville, Tenn. He is United States Marshall of the Middle District of Tennessee. Address: Lebanon, Tenn. (8) Mordecai Lillard married Miss Howard. He died in Tipton County, Tenn. Issue: (8a) Ada Lillard married Mr. Ross. (9) Ellen Lillard married Mr. Clardy. Issue: (9a) Lillard Clardy of Claibum, Texas. (9b) Noble L. Clardy of Murfreesboro, Tenn. (9c) Ida Clardy married Mr. Land. Issue: (9ca) Benjamin Lillard Land, Carmi. Ill. (9cb) Lucy Land, Carmi, Ill. (10) Benjamin F. · Lillard of Murfreesboro, Tenn., who in 1885, com piled an outline of the Lillard family. He was a lawyer. He was a member of the 45th Tenn. Infy.C.S.A., and was severely wounded at the battle of Chicamauga. Unmarried. (11) Margaret Lillard married Mr. Watts. Issue: (11a) Mollie Watts. (1 lb) Ellen Watts. (llc) Charles Watts. (llc) Lewis Watts. (H) Mary (Polly) Lillard, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hensley) Ullard, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on Nov. 23, 1786, and died Nov. 30, 1879, aged 93 years and seven days. She married on Feb. 26, 1805, in Culpeper County, Virginia, to Augustine Bradley. Minister Lewis Conner performed their marriage ceremony. Augustine Bradley was the son of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Lillard) Bradley, so they were first cousins. For record of her descendants see Chapter IX. (I) Nancy Lillard, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hens ley) Lillard married to Francis Willis. In Deed Book A, page 319, Rappahannock County, Virginia, Records, Francis Willis and his wife Nancy, deeded to Patsey Lillard and her present heirs of Rappahannock County, land bounded by property of Elizabeth 338 LILLARD GENEALOGY Hensley, Augustine Bradley, Jr., Alexander Rider, deceased, and Leftage Lillard. Dated Mar. 31, 1834. Nothing is known of her descendants except that she had a daughter who married M.A. Summerville. (J) Absolem Lillard, son of Captain Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hensley) Lillard, was born in 1790, and died in Rappahannock County, at Washington, Va., in 1864. On July 21, 1810, he married to Mrs. John Hisle, nee Frances Pulliam, daughter of Thomas and Kesiah (Brown) Pulliam. Thomas Pulliam was the grandson of Capt. John Holladay of Spottsylvania County, Virginia, Captain of the Virginia Rangers. Absolem Lillard married a second time on Oct. 31, 1816, to Nancy Holland. He was the Sheriff of Rappa hannock County, Virginia, until the time of his death. Issue: (By Frances Pulliam Hisle Lillard) (1) Kesiah Lillard married on July 29, 1847, to John W. Lockhart. (2) Frances Lillard, b. Feb.10, 1812; d. Dec. 1, 1889, married on Feb. 22, 1832; to John Ferguson Carter, (b. Sept.9, 1803; d. Apr. 4, 1885) son of Alexander and Tracy (Settle) Carter of Frederick County, Va. John Ferguson and Frances (Lillard) Carter lived in Washington, Va., in a house which burned down, and afterwards in the house now owned and occupied by Mrs. F.B.Dudley. Later they moved to Culpeper County, Va., where they both died. Issue: ( 2a) William Hamilton Carter, married Lavinia Hamrick. Issue: (2aa) Wade Carter. (2ab) Mary ("Saintie") Carter, married F.B. Dudley. They live in the old home of her parents at Washington, Va. (2b) James Boswell Carter married Emma Fox. They resided near Culpeper, Va. Issue: (2ba) Emma Carter, died in infancy. ( 2bb) Elizabeth Carter married Hamilton Spilman. Address: Culpeper, Va. (2bc) Frances Carter married Cornelius T. Gibson. (2bd) Jennie Carter married John Bolen. (2be) James Barrett Carter, b.Feb.28,1881; m.Oct.18, 1910, to Mabel Adelaide Walker. He is a prominent attorney of ·washington, D. C. No issue. (2bd) Tracy Carter died in infancy. (2c) Alexander Pulliam Carter died in infancy. (2d) Hiram Walker Carter died in 1897. Unmarried. ( 2e) Roberta Carter died in infancy. (2f) Frances Carter died in infancy. CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 339 (2g) Turner Carter died in infancy. (2h) John Carter died in infancy. (2i) French Pendleton Carter, b. Apr. 13, 1845; d.Dec.17, 1920; m. June 12, 1879, to Judith Terrier Miller, daughter of William H. and Anne (Taylor) Miller, of "Poplar Shade" Rappahannock County, Va. She was born Sept. 1, 1852. French Pendleton Carter enlisted when but sixteen years old in the Confederate Army and was a member of Co.G, 12th Va. Cavalry. He took part in 23 engagements, his life being saved once by a Bible which he carried in his vest pocket. He carried a bullet in his leg through life. During a skirmish near the close of the Civil War he captured a horse from a Yankee soldier, which he recognized as having belonged to Dr. Reade of Washington, Va. He returned the horse to Dr. Reade, who persuaded him to read medicine with him. This did not greatly interest him however, so he turned to law, became an able lawyer and was elected Common wealth's Attorney for Rappahannock County. Later he represented the 15th Virginia District in the Virginia State Senate. · Issue: (2ia) Frances Elizabeth Carter, b. Oct 17, 1880, at "Poplar Shade," Rappahannock County, Va., married June 16, 1908, at Washington, Va., to Vincent Smith of New York City. Mr. Smith was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on Jan. 14, 1875, son of Alpheus Vince'nt and Fanny (Allen) Smith. Address: 25 Hillcrest Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. Issue: (2iaa) Vincent Carter Smith, b.Jan.2,1912, in New York City. (2iab) Corbin Jewett Smith, b. Feb.14,1917, at New York City. (2ib) French Taylor Carter, b. Nov.10, 1882; d. Nov. 15, 1893. (Zic) Hill Carter, b. Apr.21, 1885, m. July 21, 1917, at Washingon, D. C., to Robert Desha Lucas, son of Joseph and Ada (Desha) Lucas, former ly of Cynthiana, Kentucky. They reside in Richmond, Va. Issue: (2ica) Judith Carter Lucas, b. Aug.27, 1918, at Norfolk, Va. (2icb) Robert Desha Lucas,b.Dec.11,1920, at Richmond, Va. (2icc) Joseph Desha Lucas, b. Nov.7, 1921, at Richmond, Va. 340 LILLARD GENEALOGY (2id) John Ferguson Carter, b. Aug. 25, 1887. Lives at Washington, Va. Unmarried. (2ie) Louemma Carter, b. Jan. 7, 1890, m. June 30, 1919, to William Francis Moffett, son of Horace G. & Ida (Menefee) Moffett. Address: Washington, Va. Issue: (2iea) William Francis Moffett, Jr., b. Sept. 20, 1920. (2ieb) Anne Carter Moffett, b.Dec.15, 1921. (2if) Curry Carter, b. Apr. 17, 1892, m. June 9, 1923, to Constance Dana, daughter of Charles Dana of Staunton, Va. Address: Staunton, Va. (2ig) French Pendleton Carter, Jr., b. Nov.30, 1895, member of Co.G, 5th Reg. E.T.S., U.S.Army. Died at Camp Humphries, Va., on Oct.8, 1918. (2j) Edgar Carter, unmarried. Issue: (By Nancy (Holland) Lillard) (3) William Absolem Lillard, married June 13, 1850, to Sarah Jane O'Neale, daughter of Daniel C. O'Neale and Sarah (Jennings) O'Neale. Deed Book F, page 60, Rappahanock County, Va., Records, William Absolem Lillard was commissioned Constable for Rappahannock County in 1844, which position he held until the time of his death. In Will Book H, page 305, Sarah J. Lillard bequeathed all to her son William E. Lillard. Witnessed by French Pendleton Carter, Charles H. Fox. Proved May 9, 1917. William Absolem Lillard was also Sheriff of Rappahannock County. This office was first given to his uncle, Benjamin Lillard,111, and when he left Virginia to move to Tennessee, it was given to William Absolem Lillard, who held this office until his death. It then passed to his son Charles Henry Lillard, and after his death it passed to Charles Edward Lillard. Thus since the creation of the County of Rappahannock, Virginia, a Lillard has always been the Sheriff. Issue: (3a) Charles Henry Lillard, b. Apr. 1, 1851, Sheriff of Rapp., Co., Va., married June 24, 1880, to Phoebe Alice Clark, daughter of Washington and Matilda J. Clark. Issue: (3aa) Clarence Eugene Lillard. ( 3ab) Clifford Lillard. (3ac) George Lillard. (3ad) Annie Jane Lillard. ( 3 ae) Franklin Lillard. (3b) John Franklin Lillard, b. Jan. 6, 1853. Unmarried. Lived at Washington, Va. (3c) William Edward Lillard,b. July 21, 1854, married Mar. 28, 1877, to Ophelia Virginia Browning., daughter of Richard Henry and Edwina C.(Lillard) Browning, and granddaughter of Capt. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Brown- CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 341 ing) Lillard(See Chapter V). William Edward Lillard is Deputy Commissioner of Revenue, Rappahannock County, and resides in his father's old home at Washing ington, Va. Issue: (3ca) Aubrey Browning Lillard, b. Feb. 12, 1878. {3cb) Charles Edward Lillard, b. Sept.24, 1880. Sheriff of Rappahannock County. (3cc) Richard Henry Lillard, b. June 13, 1885. (3d} Sarah Catharine Lillard, b. July 17, 1857. Unmarried. Lives with W.E.Lillard at Washington, Va. (3e) Annie Jennings Lillard, b. Feb. 21, 1860, married July 15, 1878, to Warren Montgomery Peake, a merchant of of Fauquier Co., Va., son of Joseph W. and Mary A. Peake. Issue: (3ea) Ethel May Peake married Mr. Cox. (3f) George Willis Lillard, b. Aug. 27, 1863. Died in infancy on Feb. 22, 1871. ( 3g) Elizabeth (Lizzie) May Lillard, b. May 20, 186 7, married Sept. 18, 1894, to Jeremiah Enright', a widower, son of Daniel and Mary Enright of Ireland. They resided at Washington, D. C. Issue: (3ga) Charles Pope Enright, died in infancy. ( 4) Sarah Catharine Lillard died unmarried. ( 5) Mary Elizabeth Lillard married Sept. 27, 185 2, in Washington, Rappahannock Co., Va., to Walker Hamilton Holland. Issue: (5a) Kate Walker Holland. (Sb) James Holland. (6) Delia Anne Lillard married Samuel Lamerson. For about thirty years prior to her death she made her home with R. D. & Frances (Pulliam) Shugert in Charles Town, W. Va. .She died in 1915. Issue:. (6a) John Lamerson. Unmarried. ( 7) John Jackson Lillard died unmarried. (K) Margaret (Patsey) Lillard, daughter af Captain Benjam5.n and Elizabeth Hensley Lillard, was born in Culpeper County, Va., andi married against the wishes of the family, on Jan. 23, 1806, to John Rider. Minister Lewis Conner performed their marriage ceremony. (L) Rhoda Lillard, the youngest child of Captain Benjamin and Eliza beth (Hensley) Lillard, was born on June 22, 1798. In March, 1819, she married to John Ransome Pulliam, son of Thomas and Kesiah (Brown) Pulliam, who were married in Culpeper County, Va., on Jan. 18, 1786. Thomas Pulliam was the son of Thomas 342 LILLARD GENEALOGY Pulliam,Jr., and Frances Bosworth; and grandson of Thomas Pulliam, I, and Winnifred Holloday. Mrs. Absolem Lillard (Frances Pulliam Hisle) was the aunt of John Ransome Pulliam, and the sister of his father Thomas Pulliam. In his declining years Captain Benjamin Lillard made his home with Mr. & Mrs. John Ransome Pulliam near Sperryville, · Va. Rhoda Lillard Pulliam was the one who when 87 years old furnished the informa tion from which the family tree of B.F.Lillard of Murfreesboro, Tenn., was compiled. In Book Y, page 238, Culpeper County, Va. Records, is recorded the will of Rhoda (Lillard) Pulliam in which she be queaths all personal property to her son Benjamin Franklin Pulliam, and wants all real estate sold and the money divided among her five children. It was dated May 28, 1884, and proved on Feb. 21. 1887. In the settlement of her estate in May 1886, Annie Pulliam is mentioned also M. Pulliam. Rhoda Lillard Pulliam died on May 13, 1885. John Ransome Pulliam died about 1829. Issue: (1) Benjamin Franklin Pulliam, b. Dec. 24, 1819; m. Oct. 29, 1846, to Caroline Coleman Willis(b.Apr.18, 1823; d. June 6, 1895). He was but ten years old when, his father died, so he was reared by his widowed mother, and received most of his education from a Reverend Mr. Fox, a Baptist minisister. When the Civil War occurred he was too near-sighted for service but performed civilian work in looking after the families of those who were in the Army. After the war he served continuously either as Sheriff or High Sheriff of Culpeper County for a period of twenty-three years and at his death "willed" ( as one of his friends said) the position of Sheriff to his eldest son Alfred W. Pulliam who was continued in this office by the voters for nineteen additional years. B.F. Pulliam was a man of education and culture and continued to read his Tacitus in the original to the end of his days. He died April 24, 1889. Issue: (la) Mary Jane Pulliam, b. Nov. 21, 1847; d. Dec.11, 1851. (lb) Rhoda Columbia Pulliam, b. Nov. 2, 1849;d. June 8, 1903; m. Apr.11, 1870, to James :Henry Judd, son of Daniel and Elizabeth(Bradley) Judd. See his record in Chapter IX for descendants. (le) Judith Ann Pulliam, b. Oct. 19, 1851; d.Feb.11, 1854. (ld) John Ransome Pulliam, b. Nov.6, 1853; d.Nov.22, 1856. (le) Alfred Welch Pulliam, b. Dec. 16, 1855; d. Dec. 10,1921. m. Dec. 23, 1886, to Lucy Ellen Roberts, daughter of Robert and Jane Mary (Eastham) Roberts of Culpeper County, and granddaughter of Major Roberts of the Revo lutionary Army. A.W.Pulliam served as Sheriff of Cul- CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 343 peper County for nineteen years. He resided on his farm in Culpeper County whi.ch he had inherited from his ma ternal great-grandmother Elizabeth (Coleman) Triplett. He served several terms as a Councilman of Culpeper. During the World War he was an official on the local Draft Board and discharged his duties so conscientiously that he overworked and his health failed. Issue: (lea) Alfred Roberts Pulliam. Banker. Address: Culpeper, Va. (leb) Jane Mary Pulliam, m. 1927, to John Willis. (lee) Lucy Russell Pulliam, m. May 30, 1927, to Kent Davis. (led) Byrd Coleman Pulliam, b. 1895, m. Charles Moore. Issue: (leda) Ellen Roberts Moore. (lf) George Franklin Pulliam, b. Apr. 27, 1858; died in Calif. Mar.31,1924. Married July 27, 1879, to Elizabeth I. Lillard (b. May 20, 1859), daughter of Silas Browning and Mildred (Duncan) Lillard. (See Chapter V.) Issue: (lfa) Mildred Caroline Pulliam, b. Feb. 26, 1880; m. Mar.14, 1900, to Charles O'Bannon (b.Dec.18, 1877). Address: Rixeyville, Culpeper Co., Va. Issue: (lfaa) Silas Lillard O'Bannon, b.Apr.10, 1901. (lfab) Mary Sampson O'Bannon, b. Mar.27, 1905. (lfac) Virginia Davis O'Bannon, b. Apr. 15, 1907. (lfad) Sandy Thomas O'Bannon, b. Dec. 18, 1911. (lfae) Lucy Coleman O'Bannon, b. May 5, 1916. ( lfaf) Caroline Eggborn O'Bannon, b. Aug. 4, 1919. ( lfag) Laura Margaret O'Bannon, b. Jan. 10, 1922. (lfah) Emily Bradford O'Bannon, b. Nov. 5, 1925. (lfb) Alfred Franklin Pulliam, b. Dec. 9, 1882; m. Oct. 12, 1906, to Katherine Wallingsford of Missouri. Farmer. Address: Camden Point, Mo. Issue: (Hba) George Robert Pulliam. (lfbb) Edgar Pulliam. Three other children. 344 LILLARD GENEALOGY ( lfc) Lucy Ctileman Pulliam, b. Oct. 26, 1883; m. Feb. 12, 1902, to Raymond G. Quaintance (b. June 13, 1878), son of James and Julia (Brown) Quaintance. Fanner and fruit grower. Address: Woodville, Rapp.Co.,Va. Issue: (lfca) Carroll Burgess Quaintance, b. July 29, 1904. E. E. 1924, William & Mary College. Married Sept. 1926, to Artie Pancoast of Woodstown, N.J. Teaching Woodstown (N.J.) High School. Graduate student, Univ. of Penna, 1926-28. (lfcb) Julia A. Quaintance, b. Aug. 1, 1906. (lfcc) Raymond G. Quaintance,Jr., b.Oct. 20, 1909. (lfcd) John W. Quaintance, b. Mar.to, 1912. (lfce) George Lillard Quaintance, b. June 20, 1915. (lfd) Silas Benjamin Lillard Pulliam, b. Mar. 1, 1886, m. May 22, 1913, to Laura Coates (b. Nov.30,1898), daughter of James William and Gertrude (Cannon) Coates of Culpeper Co., Va. Merchant. Address: W oodvi11e, Rapp Co. Va. Issue: (lfda) George William Pulliam, b. Nov. 18, 1916. (lfdb) Laura Lillard Pulliam, h. May 25, 1919. (lfdc) Franklin Preston Pu11iam, b. Mar.4, 1922. (lfdd) Victoria Evangeline Pulliam, b. Nov. 5,1925. ( lfde) Eugene Lindbergh Pulliam, b. Dec. 27, 1927. (lfe) James Preston Pulliam, b. Mar. 23, 1893; m. to Dorothy Kensey Smith (b. Oct. 2, 1906), daughter of Harry B. and Mary Elizabeth (Shotwell) Smith of Culpeper, Va. Merchant. Address: Culpeper, Va. (lg) Mark Preston Pulliam, b. Aug. 18, 1860; d. Oct.12 ,1925. Was a prominent citizen of Culpeper, Va. Married on June 3, 1891, Mary Sampson Wood, daughter of Montague and Annie Wood. Married 2d. to Bettie Fry Twyman. Issue: (lga) Mark Preston Pulliam, Jr., b. July 1, 1895. (1gb) Benjamin Pulliam.Address: Norfolk, Va. (lgc) James Wood Pulliam died in infancy. CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 345 (lh) Frances Coleman Pulliam, b. Oct. 21, 1864; m. Oct. 28, 1884, to Rezin Deel Shugert (b.Mar.18, 1854, at Shep herdstown,Va; d. July 22, 1923, at Charles Town, W. Va), son of Reason and Elizabeth (Miller) Shugert. Ad dress: Charles Town, W. Va. Issue: (lha) Stanley Pulliam Shugert, b. Dec. 21, 1885, at Berryville, Va. A. B. ( 19 0 5 ) Roanoke College; A.M. (1909); Ph.D.(1914)Univ. of Penna. Professor of Mathematics, Univ. of Penna. First Officers Training Camp, U.S.A., May & June, 1917. . Discharged. Instructor in N avi gation, U.S.Shipping Board, Sept. 1917 to Aug. 1919. Unmarried. (lhb) Benjamin Rezin Shugert, b. Dec. 30, 1888; d. Jan. 26, 1926, at Charles Town, W. Va. Jus tice of the Peace ( 1925-26). Metropolitan In surance Co, (1914-24). Served in Hq. Co., ,3rd, 7th & 8th Engrs. Training Regiment. (Limited service due to the loss of the sight of one eye). (lj) Ap.other child who died at birth. (2) Mark Pulliam married. He died of yellow fever at Lagrange, West Tennessee. Issue: ( 2a) Annie Preston Pulliam, who died of yellow fever on June 28, 1866. (3) Matthew Pulliam, b.in Sperryville, Va., on Apr. 13, 1824, died March 19, 1910, married Feb. 1, 1848, to Eliza Virginia Newton Berlin (b. July 22, 1830;d.1895). Issue: (3a) Frances Elizabeth Pulliam, b. Dec. 25, 1848; d. Feb. 7, 1856. (3b) Mary Virginia Pulliam, b. Nov. 7, 1850; m. Feb.14, 1872, to George C. Rickmore. She died Aug.6, 1926. Issue: (3ba) Lena Elizabeth Rickmore. (3bb) Philip Matthew Rickmore. (3bc) George Herman Rickmore. (3bd) Wilfred Pulliam Rickmore. ( 3be) Clifford Edgar Rick.more. (3c) Phillip Ransome Pulliam, b. Nov. 7, 1853; m. Nov. 20, 1877, to Elizabeth Lee Grant. He died Jan. 10, 1922. Issue: (3ca) Janie May Pulliam. (3cb) Edna Grant Pulliam. ( 3cc) Robin Grey Pulliam. (3cd) Beverly Ransome Pulliam. (3ce) Rufus Elmer Pulliam. (3d) James Aylette Pulliam, b. July 5, 1855; d. Aug.30,1869. 346 LILLARD GENEALOGY (3e) Rhoda Emily Pulliam, b. Sept. 15, 1857; m. Nov. 18, 1879, to R. D. Shugert. She died Nov. 3, 1880. (3f) Martin Berlin Pulliam, b. Apr. 17, 1860; d. Apr.29,1860. (Jg) Lucie Jackson Pulliam, b. June 7, 1862. (3h) Anna Imogene Pulliam, b. Aug. 15, 1864. (Ji) Mark Benjamin Pulliam, b. Sept. 29, 1867; m. Oct. 10, 1897, to Louise Hoskinson. Issue: (3ia) Catherine Elizabeth Pulliam,b.Apr.23, 1901. (3ib) Matthew Pulliam, b. Mar. 14, 1910. (3j) John Matthew Pulliam, b. June 17, 1871, m. Oct. 27, 1906, to Mary Lee. Issue: (3ja) Lucie Lee Pulliam, b. Dec. 8, 1909. ( 4) Gabriel Pulliam, b.Apr.17, 1826, on a farm near Sperryville, Va. He was affected with rheumatism in his early youth and was a cripple all through life. He moved in the early fifties to that .part of Virginia which later became West Virginia, and settled at Keyser, then known as Patty Town. In 1856 he moved to Preston County, and started a store. He was elected Assessor in 1880, and again in 1884 and 1892. He was Overseer of the poor for a num ber of years. On Aug. 20, 1863, he married at the Deakins Home- · stead on Cheat River, W. Va.; to Anna Rebecca Deakins, (b.June 20, 1841; d.Apr.5, 1904) daughter of Francis Deakins. Her grand mother's maiden name was Clare Cook and she came from England. Clare Cook was a cousin of Gen. Washington's grandfather. She was the daughter of Leonard and Rebecca Cook of Calvert County, Md. Gabriel Pulliam died Apr. 7, 1912. Both he and his wife are buried in the old family burying ground at Cheat Bridge, West Virginia. Issue: (4a) Mary S. Pulliam, b. Mar. 5, 1864; m. June 15, 1892 to Wilbur S. Shore, at Oakland, Maryland. Issue: (4aa) Virginia Leora Shore, b. Oct. 26,1895, married Stanley Maylo (b. May 6, 1891). Isdue: (4aaa) Stanley Wilbur Maylo, b. Aug. 1, 1917. (4ab) Albert Shore, b. Mar. 18, 1893;d. Jan.27, 1908. (4b) Frank C. Pulliam, b. July 1, 1865; m.Apr.30, 1895, to Rosa Liscorpp. Issue: ( 4ba) Lola Pulliam. i 4bb) Hilda Pulliam. ( 4 be) Harry Pulliam. (4c) Julia C. Pulliam, b. May 21, 1867; d. May 30, 1881. (4d) Parron Claude Pulliam, b. Nov. 26, 1868; m. Nov. 20, 1901, to Cora Wilt. Issue: CAPT. BENJAMIN LILLARD OF VIRGINIA 347 ( 4da) Margaret Anna Pulliam, b. Mar. 10, 1903; m. June 24, 1926, to William Calhoun. Issue: ( 4daa) Carol June Calhoun, b. Sept. 2 5, 1927. (4e) Glovina Deakins Pulliam, b. May 1, 1870; m. Apr. 30, 1895, to Thomas Jeffers. She married a second time on April 16, 1918, to Jacob McDonald. Issue: (By Thomas Jeffers) (4ea) Violet Jeffers, died in infancy. (4eb) Mark Jeffers, b. Jan. 23, 1897; m. May 15, 1918, to Julia Crist. Issue: ( 4eba) Harold Benton Jeffers. ( 4ebb) Richard Jeffers. (4ec) Marie Jeffers, b. Apr. 23, 1901; m. Oct. 30, 1918, to Daniel Rumer. Issue: t4eca) Edward Rumer. ( 4ecb) Glovina Rumer. (4ecc) Ruby Lee Rumer. ( 4ecd) Mary Frances Rumer. (4f) Maude C. Pulliam, b. Apr. 19, 1871; m. Mar. 8, 1893, to Thomas J. Johnson. Issue: (4fa) Kathleen Johnson, b. Aug.14, 1895; d. Feb.1918. (4fb) Thomas J: Johnson, Jr., b. Nov. 12, 1896. (4fc) Richard D. Johnson, b. Nov. 12, 1897, m, to Violet Powell of Frostburg, Md. (4fd) Julia Rebecca Johnson, b. Mar. 8, 1899; m. to Johnson Sites of West Virginia. ( 4fe) Bryan C. Johnson, b. Mar. 12, 1900. ( 4ff) Maud Waltrude Johnson, b. 1901. (4fg) Elizabeth Johnson, b. June 27, 1904. ( 4fh) Nina Oliv1a Johnson, b. May 8, 1903; d. Aug. 8, 1903. (4fi) Rhoda Lillard Johnson, b. June 27, 1906. (4fj) Carolina Virginia Johnson, b. June 19, 1907. (4g) George W. Pulliam, b. Sept. 19, 1872; married to Ozella Deakins Endler. No issue. (4h) Howard S. Pulliam, b. Oct. 19, 1874; m. Dec. 24, 1899, to Dorce Ellen Kooken (b. Nov. 23, 1861), of Western port, Md. Issue: (4ha) Alyce Rebecca Pulliam, b. July 15, 1901; m. Jan. 21, 1924, to Harold Dean Perry of Way cross, Ga. Address: Keyser, W. Va. (4hb) Walter G. Pulliam, b. Oct. 6, 1903. (4i) J. Albert Pulliam, b. June 9, 1876, m. Dona Forteny. Issue: 348 LILLARD GENEALOGY ( 4ia) Lucy Pulliam. ( 4ib) Alberta Pulliam. ( 4 ic) Fain Pulliam. (4j) Patrick Pulliam, b. Oct. 1, 1878; d. Oct. 30, 1883. He was drowned in Wolf Creek. (4k) Rhoda Eugenia Pulliam, b. May 8, 1884; m.Nov.22, 1905, to James Aaron Loughrie (b.July 22, 1884). Issue: ( 4ka) Elizabeth Loughrie died in infancy. ( 4kb) William Harold Loughrie, b. Aug. 17, 1909. (4kc) Howard Pulliam Loughrie, b. Sept. 14, 1914. (4kd) Rhoda Alice Loughrie, b. Dec. 29, 1916. (41) Ransom E. Pulliam, b .. Oct. 9, 1885; d. Nov.22, 1914. Married June 29, 1910, to Lucy Burkhiser. Issue: ( 41a) Richard Augustine Pulliam. _( 4lb) William Eagle Pulliam. (4m) Ethel p. Pulliam, b. July 6, 1880; m.Dec. 23, 1903, to James R. Teets (b.Dec. 19, 1864). Issue: (4ma) Lucy Teets, b. Aug. 2, 1910. ( 5) Hiram Pulliam, born in Sperryville, Va., married twice and had a son by each marriage. Issue: ( 5a) James Pulliam. (Sb) Jack Pulliam.