Life on the Frontier, KY 1804

THE STITHS: LIFE ON THE FRONTIER

MEADE, HARDIN AND BRECKINRIDGE COUNTIES,

KENTUCKY 1804

The children and grandchildren of Richard (1727-1802) and Lucy (Hall) Stith

1. Ann Stith [Hardaway] 12 2. Joseph Stith 28 3. Lucy Stith [Jordan] 47 4. Elizabeth Buckner Stith [Moreman] 59 5. Mary Stith [Hightower] 68 6. Benjamin Stith 69 7. Thomas Stith 80 8. John Stith, M.D. 96 9. Catharine Stith [Jones] 104 10. Martha Stith [Saunders] 106 11. William Stith 111 12. Richard Stith Jr 129

Compiled by Harriet Fast Scott McLean, Virginia July 2004 [back of cover]

1 Richard Stith -- Lucy Hall md 1756 1727-1802 1736-1815

THEIR 12 CHILDREN......

Kentucky 1812 Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky 1. Ann Stith 2. Joseph Stith 3. Lucy Stith 4. Elizabeth Buckner Stith 1757-1831 1759-1837 1761-1822 1762-before 1830 md md md md Drury Hardaway Nancy Cocke William Jordan Jesse Adams Moorman _____ Hightower 1762-1843 to Ky 1804

Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky 5. Mary Stith 6. Benjamin Stith 7. Thomas Stith 8. John Stith, M.D. 1764- 1766-1837 1768-1821 1770-1840 md md md 1793 md Richard Hightower Phoebe Cox Rhoda Jones Susan Hightower Sally Paul 1777-1851

Virginia Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky 9. Catharine Stith 10. Martha Stith 11. William Stith 12. Richard Stith Jr 1773- 1775-1843 1777-1854 1778-1843 md md md 1796 md 1798 James Jones M.D. Daniel J. Saunders Nancy Jones Elizabeth Jones 1781- 1779-1844

2 THEIR 89 GRANDCHILDREN......

Kentucky 1812 1804 she was 43 1. Ann Stith 1757-1831 md 1) Drury Hardaway 2) Hightower

Ann 1-1 Lucy Ann Hardaway 1784-after 1860 Ann 1-2 Richard Buckner Hardaway 1785-1856 Ann 1-3 Joseph Edwin Hardaway 1789 Ann 1-4 Benjamin Hardaway 1791-1813 Ann 1-5 Thomas Parsons Hardaway 1795-1857 Ann 1-6 William Henry Hardaway 1800

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Kentucky 1804 he was 41 2. Joseph Stith 1759-1837 md Nancy Cocke

Joseph 2-1 William Bathurst Stith 1784-1829 Joseph 2-2 Richard L. Stith 1786- Joseph 2-3 Thomas Stith 1778-1819 Joseph 2-4 John (Rev Jack) Stith 1790-1833 Joseph 2-5 Mary "Polly" Stith 1792 VA Joseph 2-6 Elizabeth Stith 1794-1869 VA Joseph 2-7 Buckner Jones Stith 1796-1807 dsp Joseph 2-8 Ann "Nancy" Stith 1798-1855 VA Joseph 2-9 Joseph Stith 1800-1818 dsp Joseph 2-10 Martha "Patsy" Stith 1803-1882 VA

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Kentucky 1804 she was 39 3. Lucy Stith 1761-1822 md William Jordan

Lucy 3-1 Woodson Jordan 1782- Lucy 3-2 Lucy H. Jordan 1785- VA Lucy 3-3 Samuel Jordan Lucy 3-4 Elizabeth Ann Jordan 1788- Lucy 3-5 Charles Jordan 1790-1872 Lucy 3-6 Mary "Polly" Jordan 1795-1859 VA Lucy 3-7 Catharine Jordan 1798-1867 VA Lucy 3-8 Richard Stith Jordan 1802-

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3 Kentucky to Ky 1804 1804 she was 38 4. Elizabeth Buckner Stith 1762-before 1830 md Jesse Adams Moorman 1762-1843

Elizabeth Buckner 4-1 Jesse Paxton Moorman 1792-1856 Elizabeth Buckner 4-2 Achilles Venable Moorman Elizabeth Buckner 4-3 Lucy H. Moorman 1785-1843 Elizabeth Buckner 4-4 Elizabeth Ann Moorman ca 1788- Elizabeth Buckner 4-5 Mary "Polly" Moorman 1794-1867 Elizabeth Buckner 4-6 Judith Moorman Elizabeth Buckner 4-7 Richard Stith Moorman Elizabeth Buckner 4-8 Alanson Venable Moorman 1803-

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Kentucky 1804 she was 36 5. Mary "Polly" Stith 1764 md VA 1789 Richard Hightower

Mary "Polly" 5-0 no daughters Hightower Mary "Polly" 5-1 ?John B. Hightower b ca 1800

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Kentucky 1804 he was 34 6. Benjamin Stith 1766-1837 md 1) Phoebe Cox 2) Sally Paul

Benjamin 6-1 Mary "Polly" Watkins Stith Benjamin 6-2 Matthew C. Stith 1807 KY -1867 Benjamin 6-3 Rachel Watkins (M.?) Stith 1811-1900 KY Benjamin 6-4 Rosina M. Stith 1813-1852 KY Benjamin 6-5 Lucy Stith Benjamin 6-6 Ann Elizabeth Stith 1818-1844 Benjamin 6-7 Richard Marcus Stith Benjamin 6-8 Caroline "Carrie" Stith

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4 Kentucky 1804 he was 32 7. Thomas Stith 1768-1821 md 1793 Rhoda Jones 1777-1851

Thomas 7-1 Richard Stith 1794- Thomas 7-2 Elizabeth Stith 1796- VA Thomas 7-3 Martha Stith 1798- Thomas 7-4 Thomas J. Stith 1800 - VA Thomas 7-5 Mary W.(alker?) Stith 1802- Thomas 7-6 Harriet Stith 1804- Thomas 7-7 Nancy W.(illa) Stith 1806- VA Thomas 7-8 William Jones Stith 1809 -1840 Thomas 7-9 Joseph Stith 1811- dsp? Thomas 7-10 Lucy Katharine Stith 1814- Thomas 7-11 Benjamin Buckner Stith 1816-

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Kentucky 1804 he was 30 8. John Stith, M.D. 1770-1840 md VA 1801 Susanna Hightower -1861

John 8-1 Sarah Stith 1802-by 1841 John 8-2 Caroline Stith John 8-3 George Hightower Stith John 8-4 Robert Stith 1813- John 8-5 Jane Stith 1815-1895 KY John 8-6 Mahala Ann Stith ca 1815- KY

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Virginia 1804 she was 27 9. Catharine Stith 1773- md James Jones M.D.

Catharine 9-1 Richard S. Jones Catharine 9-2 Agnes Walker Jones Catharine 9-3 Katherine Jones

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5 Kentucky 1804 she was 25 10. Martha Stith 1775-1843 md Daniel J. Saunders

Martha 10-1 Richard Saunders - ca 1830 Martha 10-2 William Stith Saunders 1798-1840 Martha 10-3 Martha Saunders Martha 10-4 Elizabeth Ann Saunders Martha 10-5 Lucy Saunders Martha 10-6 Nancy Saunders Martha 10-7 Catharine Saunders ca 1799 VA Martha 10-8 Daniel J. Saunders

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Kentucky 1804 he was 23 11. William Stith 1777-1854 md 1796 Nancy Jones 1781-

William 11-1 ?Robert Stith ?? b 1798 William 11-2 Thomas Hawfield Stith 1800-1874 William 11-3 Griffin Stith b 1802 VA - 1860 William 11-4 Benjamin W. Stith 1803- William 11-5 Katherine Stith William 11-6 Martha Stith 1808 KY William 11-7 Elizabeth Ann Stith 1811 KY William 11-8 Richard W. Stith 1813- William 11-9 William Stith dsp? William 11-10 Henry D. (B.?) Stith 1815-1890

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Kentucky 1804 he was 22 12. Richard Stith Jr 1778-1843 md 1798 Elizabeth Jones 1779-1844

Richard 12-1 Lucy Stith 1802-1876 VA Richard 12-2 Elizabeth "Betsy" Stith 1803-1840 Richard 12-3 Buckner Jones Stith 1807 KY-1856 KY Richard 12-4 Susan Stith 1808-1843 Richard 12-5 John Craig Stith 1810 KY -1880 Richard 12-6 William Banks Stith 1812-1880 Richard 12-7 Edmund J. Stith 1814-1860 also called Edward Richard 12-8 Martha Ann Stith 1816 KY Richard 12-9 Jesse Jones Stith 1818- 1895 KY Richard 12-10 Mary Ann Stith 1820-1873

6 Was 1804 the year Stiths first emigrated to Kentucky? One way to try to solve this question is not very scientific but worth examining. The oldest, Ann (Stith) who married Drury Hardaway, had a son, Benjamin Stith Hardaway, who died in 1813 at age 22 "removing to Kentucky." He was born on Dec. 30, 1791 in VA. Was he by himself or with his family? Another note says: "came to Kentucky in 1812" according to Thos. Foster Hardaway." Joseph Stith's wife, Nancy Cocke (1761-1842) followed the usual colonial pattern of a baby every other year. Her children were born in the pattern: 1784 - 1786 - 1788 - 1790 - 1792 - 1794 - 1796 - 1798 - 1800 (Dec) - 1803 (June). She was then 42 years old, so that may indicate a natural reason she had no more children. It could also indicate the men could have gone first to Kentucky without their wives. Lucy (Stith) Jordan's (1761-1822) record is not as clear. However, her youngest was born about 1802. She was 41 at that time. Next, Elizabeth B. Stith (1762-1830), who married Jesse Adams Moreman, appears to have had her last child in Virginia Nov. 18, 1803. She was 41 years old. Benjamin Stith and his wife, Phoebe (Cox), had Matthew C. Stith, born in Kentucky in 1807 according to the 1850 Census records. There is no birthdate for their first child, Mary Watkins Stith, but Ben and Phoebe were married in 1800 and Mary Watkins was married in 1817, so she was born at least by 1802. So there is somewhat of a gap between Mary (1802) and Matthew (1807). Thomas Stith and Rhoda Jones, in whose house the meeting was held, pose a problem. Nancy W.(illa) Stith, their seventh child, was born in 1806, the census says in Virginia. William Jones Stith was born in 1809 and Joseph Stith in 1811 but both died before the census would have revealed their birthplaces. Three years later, Lucy Katharine Stith arrived, 1814, with Benjamin Buckner Stith in 1816. William Stith and Nancy Jones had a son, Griffin Stith, born in 1802 in Virginia. Next was Benjamin, born in 1803, state not found. Katherine followed but with no birthdate or state. Daughter Martha Stith was born in 1808, in Kentucky. Richard Stith and Elizabeth Jones daughter, Lucy Stith was born in 1802 in Virginia. Elizabeth "Betsy" Stith was born in 1803, state unknown. The next child was Buckner Jones Stith, born in 1807 in Kentucky. From then she had children in 1810 - 1812 - 1814 - 1816 - 1818- and 1820. Note the gap between 1803 and 1807.

These dates place the women in Virginia or Kentucky, but not necessarily their husbands.

Redford's History of Southern Methodism reports this: "During the Conference-year commencing in the fall of 1804, this circuit was blessed with extensive revivals of religion. They swept, like fire in dry stubble, all over the country. The people went from far and near to attend them -- were awakened and converted to God. During this year, Mr. Walker entered Breckinridge County and organized a society at Thomas Stith's, on the road from Hardinsburg to Louisville, 16 miles from the former place. The names of the members who composed this society were:

Thomas and Rhoda Stith, William and Nancy Stith, Richard and Betsey Stith, Matthew Sanders, Mrs. [Lucy Stith] Jordan and her two daughters (Lucy and Katy). Little Dick Stith and his wife, and [son of Joseph?] Betsey Hardaway --- thirteen members."

The year, 1804, has been questioned and must be a few years off. Rhoda Jones Stith had a daughter born in Virginia in 1806. But that does not mean some of the families did not arrive in 1804.

7 The 1999 collection of excerpts about the Stiths from William Byrd's Secret Diaries "The Stiths: Colonial Life in Charles City County, Virginia 1709-1741", covered the life Major John and Jane Stith's sons, John II and Drury I. Life in Virginia in the 1600s was often short. Jane had already buried two husbands before she met and married John Stith. Passage was claimed for the young couple, Thomas Gregory and Ja. Gregory, in February 1653. (Claims were often several years after the actual passage took place). She was the second wife of Joseph Parsons. Parsons died before 1656. Probate records show that widows remarried very quickly because women in Colonial Virginia were in short supply. Life in the early days being so uncertain, women often gave a son, or even a daughter, their family name, to make sure they would be remembered by their children. Hence it is surmised that Jane's maiden name was Drury. As a result, blended families were more the rule than the exception.

A note on Virginia counties: Charles City was one of the 8 original shires formed in Virginia in 1634. In 1703, Prince George County was separated from Charles City. It was located south of the James River. In 1732, Brunswick County was formed from Prince George, followed by Amelia and Dinwiddie. In 1746, Lunenburg split from Brunswick. From Lunenburg, Halifax (1752), Bedford (1754), Charlotte (1765 and Mecklenburg (1765) were formed. Bedford gave rise to Campbell County in 1782 and Franklin in 1786. Drury I. In the early 1690s, Drury I married Susanna Bathurst, the daughter of Lancelot Bathurst. It was at the March Court of Charles City County in 1741, that his will was presented by his widow, Susanna, and son, William, the executors. Unfortunately the will was badly mutilated. Colonel Drury Stith II, son of Drury Stith I and Susanna, was born about 1695 and married Elizabeth Buckner, daughter of Major William Buckner about 1717. In 1723 the boundary between Brunswick and Surry was surveyed with Col. Drury Stith II in charge of the party. Stith was at this time a justice in Prince George County, but owned 892 acres in Brunswick which he purchased from Robert Bolling for "5 shillings and the natural affection he bare unto the said Stith." Robert Bolling had married to Drury's aunt, Ann Stith. (Robert Bolling's first wife had been Jane Rolfe, the grandaughter of Pocahontas.) Colonel Drury Stith later accompanied William Byrd on his commission to settle the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina in 1728. Drury Stith II and Elizabeth moved to Brunswick. Colonel Drury Stith II was Brunswick County's first Clerk of Court from May 1732 until his death in June 1740. He was also the county's surveyor. The people who came to try their luck in the wilderness were adventurous and resourceful. Colonel Drury Stith II and Elizabeth (Buckner) had the following children, recorded in the Bristol Parish Register: (Bristol Parish was in Prince George County)

1. Drury Stith III b 1718 d 1770 md 1) Martha 2) Mrs. Elizabeth (Jones) Eldridge 2. Griffin Stith b 1720 d 1784 md Mary Blaikley 3. Buckner Stith b 1722 d 1791 4. John Stith b 1724 d 1773 5. Richard Stith b 1727 d 1802 md Lucy Hall 6. Bathurst Stith b 1729 7. Thomas Stith b 1731 d 1801

In a way, these pages are about Richard Stith I. He was born 30 September 1727. He married his cousin, Lucy Hall, daughter of John Hall and Ann Bolling, on 29 December 1756. They were the parents of the 12 children, all but one traced to Kentucky in this collection. Richard Stith I was appointed a justice of the peace and surveyor for Campbell County, Virginia, when it was formed in 1782. Prior to that time, He had been deputy surveyor to his brother Buckner in Bedford County, the parent county. Richard's first job was to run the dividing line between the two counties. Richard acquired a large estate in land. He began writing his will twenty years before his death. It is considered the best prepared will in the clerk's office. He died in 1802. The exodus of most of his children from Virginia began soon thereafter.

8 In commemoration of the bold children of Richard I and Lucy Hall Stith who travelled Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road to the new frontier of Kentucky in the early 1800s: "In 1774 an empire building venture of the Transylvania Company sent Daniel Boone and some 30 heavily armed woodsmen to mark out a road through the Cumberland Gap of Virginia into Fincastle County (now Kentucky). By 1775, after much hardship and several skirmishes with Indians, Boone's men had blazed the first trail through the Cumberland mountains and into the lush valleys of Kentucky. Unlike the soil along the Great Valley Road, the Kentucky topsoil was rich and plentiful and Kentucky was thought to be a farmer's paradise. "The fame of these Kentucky valleys created an almost frantic rush of migrations into this new territory. The Wilderness Road provided the means for the first settlements at Boonesboro, Harrodsburg, and many other sites to follow, mainly along or near the Kentucky River. "In spite of numerous Indian raids on these early settlements, the lure of Kentucky persisted. The Wilderness Road became the extension of the Great Valley Road. "It did not matter that the first Wilderness Road was not really a road. It was a crude trail. Only pack teams could cross the mountains until 1796 when the first trail was widened enough to allow a Conestoga wagon to pass. Many travelers before 1796 learned this fact only after traveling the length of the Great Valley Road and were then forced to abandon their Conestoga Wagons at Sapling Grove [Bristol] and pack their belongings on horses to undertake the arduous trek into Kentucky. "Daniel Boone's contribution to American history was significant. At the time of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Britain ceded to the United States the vast area from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River mainly because the U.S. had thousands of settlers living in Kentucky by then. By 1792, when Kentucky became a state, over sixty thousand people had taken the Wilderness Road into Kentucky. They did it with great courage. "They travelled in sturdy Conestoga Wagons constructed of oak, with eight-inch-wide wheels, five feet high, and pulled by six draft horses." [Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735-1815, William Dollarhide, 1997]

I would like to add a sad note: on July 10, 1798, Barbara Overton Terrill Fontaine died en route to Kentucky at age 41. She was the wife of Aaron Fontaine, mother of twelve children. She was the great- great-grandmother of Ruth Fontaine Scott [Aaron (Barbara Terrill)-James Terrill (Deborah Hobbs)- William Maury (Martha Foushee)-Charles Beauregard (Irene Stith)-Ruth-(Walter Scott)]

Dedicated to my mother, Frances Shacklett Fast, her sister, my aunt Irby Shacklett Hardin, my mother-in-law Ruth Fontaine Scott, Cousin Allen Stith and especially Estie Stith Crabbe. These descendants of Major John Stith, and his wife Jane (Drury), spent many hours gathering data on the Stith family. John Stith appeared in the records of Charles City County, Virginia, about 350 years ago. He was one of the most influential men in the region along the James River. His five children married well and prospered in the new land. His great grandson, Richard Stith, settled in Campbell County, Virginia, where he owned huge tracts of land. But eleven of his twelve children headed west to Kentucky and settled in or near Stith Valley. There they raised large families, many of whom pioneered further west. Today there must be thousands of Stith descendants in America.

In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the settlement in Stith Valley, and in an effort to present a clear picture of the Stiths who came there, I searched through the papers and letters of the family historians named above in order to trace each settler and his/her children and their children. Luckily I found a notebook with "Stith" written on the cover, my mother's effort to set out each one. I merely copied each one on my computer, adding to them data produced by the Ancestral Trails Historical Society -- census records, marriages records and wills from Meade, Hardin and Breckinridge Counties. To this was added information from the priceless correspondence of Estie Stith Crabbe. What she could have done with modern copying machines and electronic data processing! How many hours did this wonderful woman spend copying letters, articles, books for the many people with whom she corresponded! She tirelessly tracked down Stith cousins anywhere she could find them to get their family connections. Even though here life work never reached final publication, Estie, we owe you!

9 Trace anyone's ancestry back ten generations and they will have over a thousand ancestors. This is about the heritage from one family. The Stiths. There are still many blanks to be filled in this family legend. Where did the Stiths come from, for example. And was the maiden name of our ancestress Jane, who married John Stith, her third husband, Drury? Many think she was Jane Drury.

So if your name is Stith, Hardaway, Jordan, Moreman/Moorman, Hightower, Saunders, Nall, Board, Tarpley, Bolling, Dowell, Wrather, Hoskins, Johnson, Anderson, Peters, Howell, Cain, Moore, Wiseheart, Blanford, Cocke, Hall, Sprigg, McGehee, Hynes, Buckler, White, Harl, Howard, Preston, Polk, Pasley, Harris, Purcell, Greer, Pulliam, Davis, Walton, Shrewsbury, Thorpe, Jupin, Morgan, Van Cleave, Scifres, Allen, Gray, Stehl, Crume, Alverson, Boling, Dent, Skillman, Robinson, Jones, Herndon, Truman, Gill, Cox, Dean, Lewis, Gullett, Clarkson, Woolfolk, Summers, Geohegan, Paul, Gilkey, Ferguson, Chiles, Park, Evans, Brown, Hooper, Isenhour, Lampton, McGuffin, Miller, Jaggers, Elliott, Henderson, Shacklett, Lochinour, Patton, Haynes, Kincheloe, Jenkins, Coffman, Buford, Withers, Kendall, Ball, Young, Partlow, Rawlings, Watts, Read, Buchanan, Reese, or Scott, you may be a Stith! (Or related to one!)

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In August 1954, Geo. M. Wilson in his "Just Ramblin" column in the Breckinridge weekly News, printed a letter from a former Breckinridge Countian, Mary Peyton Dent, a Stith cousin, and dear friend of Estie Stith Crabbe. She began it as follows:

"I have enjoyed your editorials at the beginning of recent months, telling the various happenings of historic interest which have occurred in each of said months. I consider them informative and educational, and think they should be clipped for future reference, "Lest We Forget" as we are so prone to do. I didn't remember the exact date of Lee's surrender, altho' I knew it was in the Springtime, for I recall that Gen. Lee, in discussing the terms with Gen. Grant, requested that his men be allowed to retain their horses, which were their personal possession and almost their only means of transporting back to their homes, and which would be sadly needed for the Spring plowing. And Gen. Grant acceded to this request.

"Gen. Lee's wife, the former Mary Anne Randolph Custis, known before their marriage as "The Heiress of Arlington", did not fare so well. She lost her beautiful estate, which she had inherited from her father, George Washington Parke Custis, that he had built from his own design, said to have been modeled after the Greek temple of Theseus in Athens, and which was the "Show place" of the surrounding country. This place beautifully located above the Potomac River, was taken over and made into a hospital for sick and wounded Federal soldiers, and its sweeping grounds became a National Cemetery, and was forever lost to its owner, and her children. She was granted a sum of money after the war was over, but her priceless antiques, and irreplaceable personal mementos which her father had inherited from Mt. Vernon, from his step-grandfather, Gen. George Washington, were never returned. Mrs. Lee requested of President Johnson the return of such of the relics as are in the Patent Office, but her application was refused, and Congress decided to keep them. Some are still exhibited in the National Museum in Washington, I have read. [NOTE: in the late 1940s, when my mother-in-law, Ruth Fontaine Scott, had a government job in Washington, she lived in dormitories built for female government workers called "Arlington Farm", located on the lower level of the Lee property. As Arlington National Cemetery grew, the "Farm" were swallowed up by the military dead of later wars. She sent me this article - HFS.]

"I was interested to read in "the News" recently that some Homemakers Club had reviewed a book, a recent best-seller by Harnett Kane, entitled "Lady of Arlington" a history of Mrs. Lee's life. It was one of my presents to myself, last Christmas, together with "Gone With the Windsors" two rather widely separated eras and persons. I wanted the Harnett Kane book for two reasons. One was the fact that I had another book by Harnett Kane, called "Woman of Fortune" a history of the life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis,

10 the Second, and the two books went together I thought. My mother was six years old when the Civil War began, and ten when it closed, and she had very vivid recollections of those troubled times, and, like Margaret Mitchell, who wrote "Gone With the Wind", I was brought up on stories of those happenings.

"Another reason I was interested in Mrs. Lee, is that we have many mutual ancestors. She is related to the Stiths, Hardaways, and that branch of the Moorman family who are descended from Jesse Adams Moorman, who married Elizabeth Buckner Stith, in Virginia, and came with the Stith and Hardaway emigration to Kentucky, and settled in Meade, Hardin, Jefferson and Breckinridge Counties.

"There came from England to Virginia, in 1660, a boy of fourteen, who grew up to Col. Robert Bolling of Kippax and Farmingdale, and married first, Jane Rolfe, a granddaughter of the Indian Princess, Pocahontas, she died after three years leaving a son, John Bolling. In 1681, Col. Bolling married Anne Stith, daughter of Major John Stith, of Charles City County, the first of the name in Virginia. [The Bollings] had seven children, their eldest son was Col. Robert Bolling, Jr., of Bollingbrook, and he had seven daughters and one son. [Robert Bolling Jr.'s] second daughter, Elizabeth, married James Munford, their fifth daughter, Jane, married "Hugh Miller, a Scotchman". Their third daughter, Anne Bolling of Bollingbrook, married "John Hall, Gentleman, of Amelia County., and later of Edgecombe Co., North Carolina." Their fourth daughter, Lucy Bolling, married Peter Randolph, of "Chatsworth."

"Anne Bolling and John Hall, had, among other children, two daughters, also named Anne and Lucy. Lucy Hall married Richard Stith, son of Lieut. Col. Drury Stith of Brunswick Co., and his wife, Elizabeth Buckner. Richard Stith, a graduate of William and Mary College, removed to Bedford Co., and with his brother, Buckner Stith, surveyed Campbell Co., which was made from part of Bedford, and later surveyed the City of Lynchburg, around which he had large holdings of land. Many of his twelve children came to Kentucky after his death, and settled in STITH'S VALLEY, and other places in the counties mentioned above. Anne Hall, sister of Lucy, married Joseph Hardaway, cousin of Richard Stith, and their son, Drury Hardaway, married his first cousin, Ann Stith, daughter of Richard and Lucy Hall Stith, and came to Kentucky with the Stith emigration, and became the ancestors of the Hardaways, living in the same counties.

"Lucy Bolling, who married Peter Randolph of "Chatsworth", remained in Virginia, (very sensibly, in my opinion). His father was William Randolph, Jr., and his mother was Elizabeth Peyton Beverly, a daughter of Peter Beverly and his wife Eliza Peyton of Gloucester Co. The second son of Lucy Bolling and Peter Randolph was named Beverly Randolph, and became Governor of Virginia Dec. 1, 1788. He was succeeded by Gen. "Light Horse" Harry Lee. Anne Randolph, daughter of Peter and Lucy (Bolling) Randolph married William Fitzhugh, a man of large wealth, owning several estates in various counties, besides "Chatham" where he made his home, removing to "Ravensworth" in Fairfax Co., in the latter years of his life. Their daughter, Mary Randolph Fitzhugh, married George Washington Parke Custis, of "Arlington", and they were the parents of Mary Anne Randolph Custis, who became Mrs. Robert E. Lee.

"Sir John Randolph, brother of William, Jr., married Susanna, another daughter of Peter and Eliza Peyton Beverly, and their son, Peyton Randolph, was Attorney Gen. for Virginia, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and President of the first American Congress. A sister of Sir John and Wm. Randolph, Jr., Mary Randolph, married Capt. John Stith, son of Major John Stith, of Brunswick Co., and a brother of Anne Stith, 2nd wife of Col. Robert Bolling, of Kippax & Farmingdale. He died young, leaving a son, who was brought up by his mother, with the assistance of her brother Sir Randolph, who sent him to Edinburg, Scotland, to finish his education. He became Rev. William Stith, an Episcopal minister, President of Wm. & Mary College, and author of the first history of Virginia. A tablet to his memory is in old Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Va. He married his first cousin, Judith Randolph of Tuckahoe. His wife and himself were both first cousins of Jane Randolph, of Dungeness, on the James River, (she a daughter of Isham and Jane Rodgers Randolph) who married

11 Peter Jefferson, of Shadwell, and became the mother of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the U.S. as well as other noteworthy things, too numerous to mention.

"It will be remembered that Gen. George Washington, sometimes called "Father of his Country" had no children of his own. He married a widow, Mrs. Daniel Parke Custis, nee Martha Dandridge, mother of four children, two of whom were dead, and the two whom she brought with her to Mt. Vernon both died young. John Parke Custis, the son, while still in his teens married Eleanor Calvert, of Mt. Airy, Maryland, daughter of Benedict Calvert, he a son of Charles Calvert, Sixth Lord Baltimore, and a great grandson of Benedict Calvert, fourth Lord Baltimore, who married Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, daughter of Sir Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Litchfield. Eleanor Calvert is said to have been only sixteen at the time of her marriage, which union proved to be very brief, as Mr. Custis died about seven years later, leaving four young children. Gen. Washington, promptly adopted the two youngest, his namesake, only six months old at the time of the father's death, and Eleanor Parke Custis, just older. "Nelly" Custis, as she was always called, grew up to be a great beauty, and much a favorite of her foster- father, and step-great-grandfather. She further gratified him by marrying a favorite nephew of his, Lawrence Lewis, son of Fielding and Elizabeth (Betty) Washington Lewis.

"So, it would seem that with all these Patriots and Builders of the Nation in her background, Mrs. Lee might have had more leniency shown her, and not had her possessions confiscated as "Spoils of War" since she, herself, had not taken up arms against the country for which her forebears had done so much.

"This letter began with an apology, and will have to end the same way. I started it July 1st, as you may see from the date. I came down with "flu" - Virus infection - whatever you may call it, the same day, and only now have been able to finish it, and get it off. I am fully prepared to attest to the fact the "Summertime colds are the worst ones." Regretting this turn of events from my point of view, as well as yours, hoping for better luck next year, I remain, sincerely yours, Mary Peyton Dent, Los Angeles, Calif."

12 fa Richard Stith 1. Ann Stith 1757-1831 mo Lucy Hall "came to Kentucky in 1812" according to Thos. Foster Hardaway

Marriages 1. STITH, Ann b Nov. 12, 1757 VA d Jan. 14, 1831 Bedford Co VA md 1) Mar. 23, 1779 Hardaway, Drury b Aug.13, 1756 d Hardin Co Bk B Nov. 15, 1816 son Joseph Hardaway - Ann Hall md 2) ______Hightower

======Children:

Lucy Ann Hardaway b 1784 VA d after 1860 Campbell Co VA md Sept. 17, 1806 Rev John "Jack" Stith b Jan. 21, 1790 d Nov. 22, 1833 son of Joseph Stith - Nancy Cocke

Richard Buckner Hardaway b Sept. 18, 1785 VA d May 24, 1856 KY Breckinridge Co KY md Nov. 15, 1810 Elizabeth Stith b June 16, 1794 d 1869 dau Joseph Stith - Nancy Cocke

Joseph Edwin Hardaway b 1789 VA md 1) ?? did he marry before? Breckinridge Co KY md 2) May 23, 1811 Mary Board dau William Board - Meade Co KY Bk A 41 3) July 14, 1831 Martha Ann Stith b May 14, 1816 dau Richard Stith - Elizabeth Jones

Bristol Parish VA Benjamin Stith Hardaway b Dec. 30, 1791 VA d 1813 removing to KY ag 22

Hardin Co KY Thomas Parsons Hardaway b 1796 d Nov. 7, 1857 ag 61 Bk A68 md Feb. 19, 1818 Ann "Nancy" Stith b Sept. 5, 1798 d Dec. 4, 1855 ag 57 dau Joseph Stith - Nancy Cocke

William Henry Hardaway b May 13, 1800 d Dec. 5, 1871 Breckinridge Co KY md July 4, 1822 Harriet Stith b July 10, 1804 d Oct. 15, 1843 dau Thomas Stith - Rhoda Jones

Hardin Co Minute Book F. 1828-1831 May 1829 Drury Hardaway's heirs emancipated a slave. Richard B., Joseph E., Thomas P., William H., John Stith Jr

1870 Census Breckinridge Co KY #169 Hardaway, William H. 70 VA Blanford, Chas. 30 Rosa E. 28 Cain, Rhoda B. 32 [Rodah]

13 fa Drury Hardaway Ann 1-1 Lucy Ann Hardaway 1784- mo Ann Stith

Marriages HARDAWAY, Lucy Ann b 1784 d after 1860 Campbell Co VA md Sept. 17, 1806 Rev John "Jack" Stith b Jan 21 1790 VA d Nov. 22, 1833 KY

======Children:

Marriages Meade Co KY Milton Stith b 1807 d 1881 Book A p 25 md July 28, 1828 Martha Stith dau William Stith - Nancy Jones

Meade Co KY Drury Stith b d Will 9 July 1841 Hardin Co KY Bk E p 55 (99) Bk A pg 23 md Feb. 14, 1828 Elizabeth Ann Stith b 1811 "wife Ann" in Will dau William Stith - Nancy Jones

Breckinridge Co Ky Edwin Stith b d md Dec. 19, 1837 Emerine Hardaway dau Joseph E. Hardaway

Meade Co Ky Daniel L. Stith b 1817 d Sept. 13, 1862 Bk A pg 75 md Feb. 1, 1838 Jane L. Saunders b d Nov. 7, 1869 E.A.Shacklett's bible dau Stith Saunders - Elizabeth Stith

Hardin Co KY John H. Stith b d Book A #234 md 1) May 12, 1834 Martha Hardaway dau Joseph E. Hardaway Book B #360 2) Sept. 12, 1837 Mary Nall

Meade Co KY Charlotte A. Stith b 1815 Bk A pg 47 md Sept. 20 1832 William Nall

Hardin Co KY Elizabeth B. Stith Book B #1310 md Feb. 13, 1845 John M. Nall

Hardin Co KY Archer Stith Book B #1146 md Feb. 27, 1843 Susan Malinda Tarpley dau William Tarpley

Hardin Co KY Joseph Stith Book B-1356 md Aug. 7, 1845 Amanda Boling dau John Boling

Meade Co KY Deed Book B Oct 21, 1831 John Stith & Lucy Ann his wife to Helm the tract...where Stith has resided for many years on Otter Creek in line of Ben Stith's survey

Hardin Co KY Will Book p 213 Wife Lucy; 9 children not named. wit James Stith, Thomas A. Hardaway Oct, 31 1833 Dec 1, 1833

14 Kin-II 139, Deed Book T p 526 24 July 1837 Hardin Co KY heirs of Rev John "Jack" Stith and Lucy Ann his widow Edwin Stith and Emerine (Hardaway) Daniel L. Stith and Jane L. (Saunders) Milton Stith and Martha Drury Stith and Elizabeth Anne Charlotte A. Stith md William Nall John H. Stith and 2) Mary (Nall) Lewis Co MO 1842 Elizabeth B. Stith md John Nall Archer Stith and Susan Malinda (Tarpley) Joseph Stith and Amanda (Boling)

Hardin Deed Book 2 p 151 Children of John Stith who signed deed of partition: John H. Stith & Mary in Lewes Co MO; Milton & Martha; Drury & Elizabeth Ann; Charlotte & William Nall; Daniel & Jane L.; Edwin & Emerine; Elizabeth B.; Archer; Joseph. Sept. 22, 1842

1850 Census Hardin Co KY #21 Dis #3 Nall, William 42 Charlotte 35 John T. 16 Lucy 13 James A. 10 Milton 6 Martha 3 Charles M. 4/12

1860 Census Hardin Co KY #317 Dis #2 Nall, J.W. 53 Charlotte 45 1860 Census Hardin Co KY #318 Dis #2 (page break here -- all one family?) Nall, James A. 20 farm laborer Milton M. 15 Martha E. 13 Chas. M. 10 Sarah E. 3 Stith, Lucy A. 77 b VA

1870 Census Hardin Co KY #48 Allison Precinct Big Spring PO Nall, William 62 Charlotte 57 Martha 23 Charles M. 19 Sarah E. 14 Rorayda 22 f Stith Luther 20 son of Daniel Stith?

15 fa Drury Hardaway Ann 1-2 Richard Buckner Hardaway 1785-1856 mo Ann Stith

Richard Buckner Hardaway b Sept. 18, 1785 VA d May 24, 1856 KY Breckinridge Co KY md Nov. 15, 1810 Elizabeth Stith b June 16, 1794 d 1869 dau Joseph Stith - Nancy Cocke

======Children: Benjamin Stith Hardaway b 1812 d July 25, 1812 inf

John Hardaway b May 18, 1814 d Mar. 28, 1817 2yr 10mo

Griffin Hardaway b Dec. 11, 1815 d Oct. 2, 1842 md Nov. 14, 1833 Cinderella Dowell b 1816 she md 2) Daniel Stith dau George Dowell - Polly Wimp

Adeline Hardaway b Nov. 30, 1817 d Oct. 1, 1820 2yr 10mo

Thomas Hardaway b Oct. 28, 1819 d 1880 md Aug. 26, 1841 Mary H. Stith b Dec. 23, 1822 dau Richard L. Stith - Sarah Sprigg

Ezra Hardaway b April 20, 1822 d Aug. 25, 1844 md Dec. 24, 1841 Nancy Stith b Mar. 10, 1817 dau Richard L. Stith - Sarah Sprigg

Agnes Joiner Hardaway b July 9, 1824 d July 30, 1825 1 yr

Edna Hardaway b May 18, 1826 d 1875? md Dec. 24, 1844 Charles Madison Saunders

Marcus Linsey Hardaway b Dec. 26, 1827 d Feb. 12, 1828 6wk

Milton Hardaway b Jan. 1, 1829 d Aug. 26, 1852 md Mar. 15, 1849 Mary Wrather

William Hardaway b Dec. 18, 1830 d Aug. 17, 1831 8 mos

Jesse Hardaway b Mar. 28, 1832 d July 20, 1894 to MO md 1) Nov. 17, 1853 Elizabeth Shrewsbury b July 5, 1837 d Apr. 13, 1856

Hardin Co KY Bk C/D 2) Mar. 11, 1869 Louisa Nall b May 5, 1833 d Dec. 13, 1922

Elizabeth Buckner Hardaway b Sept. 9, 1834 d Dec. 24, 1843 9 yrs

Richard Stith Hardaway b Sept. 15, 1836 d Oct. 5, 1836 3 wks

unnamed b & d Sept. 5, 1837

James Leach Hardaway b July 23, 1839 d Jan. 21, 1844 4yrs 6 mos

Breckinridge Co KY Will Book 1 p 235 Richard B. Hardaway: dower of wife to be protected; son Jesse, Dec. 21. 1849 to my gr.dau. Elizabeth Ezra Hardaway, son Milton, dau. Edna Saunders, Sept. 15, 1856 Chidren of Griffin, dec'd, and Thomas.

16 1850 Census Breckinridge Co KY #586 Dist #2 Hardaway, Richard B. 65 VA farmer Elizabeth 56 VA Jesse 19

1850 Census Breckinridge Co KY #582 Dist #2 Hardaway, Thomas 30 farmer Mary F. 27 John B. 8 Edna 6 James M. 4 infant 5/12 m

1850 Census Breckinridge Co Ky #581 Dist. #2 Stith, James 36 farmer Eliza 23 [ 2] wife (Harris) md in 1849] Christopher 8 Nathan B. 5 James W. 2 Hardaway, Nancy 33 [sister of James][widow of Ezra] Elizabeth E. 6 Harris, Benjamin 20 [brother of wife]

1850 Census Breckinridge Co Ky #587 Dist. #2 Stith, Daniel J. 30 farmer Cinderella 34 William B. 3 Sarah C. 1 Hardaway, Rachel 15 Mary 13 Griffin 8

1850 Census Breckinridge Co Ky #624 Dist. #2 Hardaway, Milton 21 farmer Mary 21 VA

1860 Census Breckinridge Co KY #707 Stith, D.J. 41 Cinderella 45 Margaret 15 William 12 Nannie 6 Hardaway, Rachel 24 Lockhard, A. 14 m

17 1860 Census Breckinridge Co KY #851 Morris, A.R. 27 Mary 22 Vitala 2 Sarah 6/12 Hardaway, G. 18 m [Griffin?]

1860 Census Breckinridge Co KY #593 Hardaway, Jesse 28 Elizabeth 22 VA Mary 4 Charles 2 Edna 3/12 Elizabeth 66 VA

1870 Census Breckinridge Co KY #110 Hardaway, G.F. 27 Caroline 25 Clarence 5 Rosettie 3 Mary 1

1870 Census Breckinridge Co KY #168 Hardaway, Jessie 38 Louisa 36 Mary H. 14 Chas. W. 12 E.S. 10 dau Nathan S. 8 Hardaway, Thos 51 Mary 14 Thos. 12 Frank 8

18 fa Drury Hardaway Ann 1-3 Joseph Edwin Hardaway 1789 mo Ann Stith Joseph Edwin Hardaway b 1789 VA d 1862 md 1) unknown but listed as 3rd marriage when he got license in Meade Co Breckinridge Co KY md 2) May 23, 1811 Mary Board d 1830 dau William Board - Sally Mayse Meade Co KY Bk A 41 3) July 14, 1831 Martha Ann Stith b May 14, 1816 she md 2) Thomas B. Nall dau Richard Stith - Elizabeth Jones by Mary Board Sarah "Sally" Hardaway b 1812 Breckinridge Co KY md Feb. 10, 1831 Robert Board son Elijah Board

Martha Emily Hardaway b Hardin Co KY md May 12, 1834 Jack Stith (John H.) son John Stith - Lucy Ann Hardaway

Zerelda Hardaway b 1819 md Green M. Dowell

Emeline Hardaway b Dec. 20, 1820 d Sept. 19, 1879 Colorado Springs CO Breckinridge Co KY md Dec. 19, 1837 Edwin Stith b Dec 15, 1810 d Feb 18, 1872 AR son John Stith - Lucy Ann Hardaway

Lucy Ann Hardaway b 1823 Breckinridge Co KY md Oct. 29, 1846 Alfred Hoskins

Nancy Hardaway b 1825 d before 1862

Meade Co KY Henry C. Hardaway Bk A pg 96 md Feb, 17, 1842 Mrs. Evalina Jones Stith she md 1) William Jones Stith dau William Jones

Joseph Edwin Hardaway b 1828 d drowned swimming river, shot by yanks Civil War by Martha Ann Stith James Matthew Hardaway b 1832 Breckinridge Co KY md May 16, 1854 Evalina V. Hardaway b July 17, 1839 d July 23, 1909 dau William Hardaway - Harriet Stith

Mary J. Hardaway b Mar. 26, 1837 d Dec. 7, 1915 md 1) Col. Benjamin Emmett Johnson 2) W.D. Cunningham (he deserted her; she resumed name Johnson)

Frances Victoria Hardaway b 1840 Breckinridge Co KY md Mar. 8, 1855 Samuel H. Anderson b 1819 Nelson Co

Richard Windham Hardaway b 1841 md Jan. 31, 1868 Frances Peters dau Edwin Peters

Charles H. Hardaway b 1848 md Mary Washington Hardaway b Oct 12, 1854

19 1850 Census Breckinridge Co KY #527 Dist #1 Hardaway, Edwin 61 VA farmer Martha A. 26 Joseph E. 23 James M. 18 Mary J. 13 Fransis V. 11 f Richard 9 Charles 1

1850 Census Meade Co KY #375 Hardaway, Henry 30 Evelina 30 Elizabeth 7 Mary 6 James 2 Stith, William 11

1860 Census Breckinridge Co KY #997 Moorman, Jesse A. 39 Josephine 31 John A. 11 Martha A. 9 Jesse A. 8 David C. 6 Emma D. 4 Mardiway, Joseph E. 31 horse trader

1860 Census Meade Co KY #450 Brandenburg PO Hardaway, J.M. 26 farmer (James Matthew) Evelene V. 21 Martha B. 3 Ruth Vernon 4/12 Reese, James 15 farm laborer

1860 Census Meade Co KY #325 Brandenburg PO Hardaway, Henry 45 farmer Evalinal 44 VA Elizabeth J. 17 Mary A. 14 James C. 10 Ed. A. 8 Richard L. 5 Walter W. 1

1870 Census Meade Co KY #1 Ashcraft District Brandenburg PO Hardaway, Martha 54 Windham R. 28 Fannie S. 22 James E. 1 Anderson, Victoria B. 14 MO

20 1870 Census Meade Co KY #121 Big Spring Hardaway, Henry 55 Evelinah 54 Edwin A. 19 Richard L. 15 Walter W. 11 Hawkins, Caleb L. 26 Mary A. 24

1870 Census Meade Co KY Big Spring Saunders, Charles M. 44 Edna 44 Elizabeth F. 21 Cordelia A. 19 Nannie E. 17 Malvina A. 14 Amanda H. 12 Hardaway, Albert L. 20 KY

**************************************************************************************** fa Drury Hardaway Ann 1-4 Benjamin Hardaway 1791-1813 mo Ann Stith

Bristol Parish VA Benjamin Stith Hardaway b Dec. 30, 1791 VA d 1813 removing to KY ag 22

21 fa Drury Hardaway Ann 1-5 Thomas Parsons Hardaway 1795-1857 mo Ann Stith

Thomas Parsons Hardaway b 1796 d Nov. 7, 1857 ag 61 Hardin Co KY md Feb. 19, 1818 Ann Stith b Sept. 5, 1798 d Dec. 4, 1855 ag 57 dau Joseph Stith - Nancy Cocke

======Children

Hardin Co KY James Leach Hardaway b Feb. 12, 1819 (S.) B #746 md 1) Apr. 30, 1840 Martha Ann Howell b 1821 dau James Hunter Howell - Elizabeth Etter Book C/D 2) June 7, 1853 Elizabeth Pawley dau James Pawley Meade Co KY 3) Aug. 11, 1858 Margaret Jane Cain b 1832 B #901 dau John Cain - Olive Dismore

Hardin Co KY Benjamin Stith Hardaway b Dec. 7, 1820 B-938 md 1) Dec. 8, 1841 Mary Howell b May 13, 1821 d Apr. 19, 1874 dau Claybourne Howell - Temperance Holliday 2) ca 1886 Mary Elizabeth Johnson

Adalisa Hardaway b Mar. 29, 1824 Hardin Co KY md Feb. 2, 1841 Jesse C. Howell b 1819 B #837 son James Hunter Howell - Elizabeth Etter

Hardin Co KY Joel Hardaway b Sept. 3, 1826 C-185 md Oct. 8, 1849 Hannah Moore b 1829

John S. Hardaway b Feb. 27, 1829

Meade Co KY William Hardaway b Nov. 4, 1831 d Aug. 21, 1874 Bk B #932 md Dec. 27, 1858 Elizabeth Hardaway b 1853

Nancy Hardaway b Aug. 18, 1837

1850 Census Hardin Co KY Dist #3 # #288 Hardaway, Thomas P. 53 VA farmer Nancy 51 VA William 18 KY Harrison, Delphy 70 VA black

22 1860 Census Hardin Co KY Dist #3 Elizabethtown Hardaway, William 28 KY farmer Elizabeth 16 MO Stith, John 11 KY Delphia 74 VA black

1860 Census Meade Co KY #325 Brandenburg PO Hardaway, Jas. L. 40 KY farmer M.J. 28 KY Thos. A. 16 AR Wm. B. 11 AR Jesse 10/12 KY

1870 Census Meade Co KY #34 Big Spring Adams, William W. 27 farmer Martha E. 22 Hardaway, William B. 20 AR miller Multop, William H. 30 engineer Prussia Anderson, Anthony 27 store keeper Milburn, Jacob 21 wagoner

1870 Census Meade Co KY #38 Big Spring Hardaway, M.J. 38 Jesse S. 10 Henry 7 Laura A. 4 Maggie H. 3 Nelson, Vere 21 Cain, Bruce 18

1880 Census Meade Co KY #25 Big Spring Hardaway, Georgia 47 Jesse 20 Henry 17 Louisa 14 Maggie 13

1850 Census Hardin Co KY Dist #3 # 36 Hardaway, Ben 29 KY farmer Mary 28 Elizabeth 7 James 4 Adalign 2

1850 Census Hardin Co KY Dist #3 # 14 Hardaway, Joel 24 KY farmer Hannah 21

23 1860 Census Hardin Co KY Dist #3 Hardaway, Ben 39 farmer Mary C. 39 James 14 Ada L. 12

1860 Census Hardin Co KY Dist #3 Hardaway, Joel 33 farmer Hannah 29 Nancy 8 Mary W. 5 Wm. H. 3/12

1870 Census Hardin Co KY #26/25 Hardaway, Benjamin 48 farming Mary 49 Adalissa 22 Vertrees, Benjamin 3 Stith, John 21 works on farm

1870 Census Hardin Co KY #26/25 Hardaway, Joel 43 farmer Hannah 38 Mary 14 William H. 10 Martha 8

24 fa Drury Hardaway Ann 1-6 William Henry Hardaway 1800 mo Ann Stith

William Henry Hardaway b May 13, 1800 d Dec. 5, 1871 Breckinridge Co KY md July 4, 1822 Harriet Stith b July 10, 1804 d Oct. 15, 1843 dau Thomas Stith - Rhoda Jones

======Children:

Mary Walker Hardaway b Oct. 7, 1825 d Oct. 29, 1850 md Sept. 23, 1843 William Henry Cain b May 2, 1822 he md 2) her sister

Rhoda Ann Hardaway b Aug. 31, 1827 d Sept. 5, 1847 unmarried

Benjamin Acres Hardaway b Feb. 26, 1830 d Jan. 18, 1909 Breckinridge Co KY md Dec. 7, 1853 Susan C. Wiseheart

Hardin Co KY Thomas Parsons Hardaway b Feb. 10, 1832 d Feb. 8, 1920 B #700 md 1) Oct 18, 1855 Judith Cordelia Elliott b 1837 dau William H. Elliott - Meade Co KY 2) Dec. 23, 1858 Evalina Stith widow of James H. McQuoun B #925 dau Buckner J. Stith - Cinderella Moreman

Lucy Catharine Hardaway b Apr. 27, 1834 d Jan. 11, 1885 md Mar. 11, 1852 William Henry Cain b May 2, 1822 he md 1) her sister

Evaline V. Hardaway b July 17, 1837 d July 23, 1909 md May 16, 1854 James Madison Hardaway b 1832

Rosina Elizabeth Hardaway b July 1, 1842 d Nov. 26, 1923 md Nov. 12, 1867 Charles Blanford

1850 Census Breckinridge Co KY #521 Dist #1 Hardaway, William 50 VA farmer Benjamin 20 Thomas 18 Catherine 16 Evaline 13 Roxana 8

1860 Census Breckinridge Co KY #576 Stephensport Hardaway, William 60 VA Rosina 17 Stith, Rhoda 21

25 1860 Census Meade Co KY #451 Brandenburg PO Hardaway, Ben 30 farmer Susan C. 27 Robert M. 5 Harriett E. 2 Wm. E. 9/12

1870 Census Meade Co KY #100 Ashcraft Dist, Brandenburg Hardaway, Benjamin A. 40 farmer Susan C. 37 Robert M. 15 Harriet E. 12 William E. 10 Florence T. 8 Benjamin F. 5 Thomas H. 6/12 Nov Robinson, John 30 PA farm hand

1870 Census Meade Co KY #143 Court House Meadeville Tewell, James 37 farmer Martha 30 Kendall, Eliza E. 8 Hardaway, Isham 20 farm hand Kendall, Minnie 13 domestic servant

1860 Census Breckinridge Co KY #589 Hardaway, Tho. P. 28 Eveline 23 Charles 4 Cordelia 2 McQuoun, Emma 5 unknown 1/12 f Stith, Albert 14

1870 Census Breckinridge Co KY #161 Bewleyville PO Hardiway, T.P. 38 Eveline 34 Emma 18 Chas 13 Cordelia 12 Bettie 10 Glen 8 Logan 6 Hunter 4 Earnest 1 Stith, Albert 24 wof Hardiway, Chas 21 wof

26 1880 Census Meade Co KY #229 Meadeville Hardaway, Ben A. 50 farmer KY VA KY Susan C. 47 wife KY MD MD Harriett E. 29 dau William E. 20 son Ben F. 15 son Thomas H. 10 son

1880 Census Meade Co KY #231 Meadeville Hardaway, James M. 38 farmer KY VA KY Eveline V. 42 wife KY VA KY Martha B. 22 dau Ruth V. 20 dau Jack 17 son William 14 son David 6 son Paul K. 2 son Anderson, Lora 4 gr/dau

1860 Census Breckinridge Co KY #564 Blissett, G.A. 26 Mary 28 Hardaway, Sarah 8 Richard 7 Blissett, Margaret 1

1870 Census Breckinridge Co KY #226 Blisset, Geo. 36 Mary 41 VA Margt 10 Emma 8 Martha 6 Georgia 4 Frank 2 Hardaway, Sarah 20 Buckner 18 [Richard Buckner]

27 BLACK HARDAWAYS 1870 Census Meade Co KY #25 Hardaway, Caroline 45 Henry 27 Eliza 45 Morris 13 Anna 14 1870 Census Meade Co KY Meadeville #134 Hardaway, Wilson 47 Susan 37 Mary 15 Judy 13 Caroline 8 Ada 6 Ben W. 2 Delia 1/12 May 1870 Census Meade Co KY #147 Court House Meadeville with Stith, Joseph 26 farmer white Laura 25 white Radar, Mathias 9 Hardaway, Milton 22 farm hand black 1870 Census Meade Co KY #98 Big Spring Hardaway, Nelson 60 B Buckner 19 B Adlisse 13 B Clarkson, Milton 21 M [m=mulatto] Adaline 24 B Samuel R. 8/12 M Meadow, Polk 22 M Edna 22 B Alice 7/12 M

1880 Census Meade Co KY #135 Meadeville Hardaway, Milton 32 B M Ellen 30 B F wife Wilson 10 B M son Mary A. 7 B F dau Susan 5 B F dau Hattie 3 B F dau Smith, Adam 14 Mu M step/son Davenport, Sarah 15 B F sister/law

1880 Census Meade Co KY #189 Meadeville Hardaway, Nancy C. 31 B F KY VA KY Nelson 75 B M father VA Meador, Mary 5 B F niece KY KY KY 1880 Census Meade Co KY #236 Meadeville Hardaway, Wilson 56 B M VA VA VA Susan A. 48 B F wife VA VA VA Ada W. 15 B F dau KY VA VA Ben W. 12 B M son Susan A. 5 B F dau

28 fa Richard Stith 2 - Joseph Stith 1759 - 1837 mo Lucy Hall All children have "Bathurst" as middle name, recorded in old English Bible, pub London 1799

Marriages STITH, Joseph b Sept. 6, 1759 d Nov 3, 1837 Bedford Co VA md Sept. 8, 1782 Nancy Cocke b April 29, 1761 d Feb. 16, 1842 dau George Cocke - Agnes Will dated April 9, 1836 prov Jan. 1838 Book A Pension Record Soldier in Rev Ensign, Bedford Co militia Aug. 28, 1780 Jesse J. Stith's bible

======Children

William Bathurst Stith b May 2, 1784 d Oct. 6, 1829 Bedford Co VA md 1) Mar. 29, 1806 Harriet Bolling Hall b Nov or Dec 27, 1783 d dau Robert Hall- Mary Hardin Co KY 2) Oct. 2, 1810 Polly Jordan b July 28, 1795 d Aug. 12, 1853 Book A7, A35 dau William Jordan - Lucy Stith; md 2) John Graham

Richard L. Stith b Jan 26, 1786 d Oct 25, 1844 md 1) May 20 1804 Elizabeth Ann Jordan b July 1, 1788 d Sept. 12, 1818 dau William Jordan - Lucy Stith Hardin Co KY 2) July 16, 1819 Sarah Sprigg Book A #90 dau Leven Sprigg

Hardin Co KY Thomas Stith b Jan. 23, 1788 d Oct 6, 1819 in MO Book A7, A35 md April 15, 1810 Ann McGee dau Samuel McGee

Marriages Rev John "Jack" Stith Jr. b Jan 21 1790 VA d Nov. 22, 1833 KY Campbell Co VA md Sept. 17, 1806 Lucy Ann Hardaway b 1784 d dau Drury Hardaway - Ann Stith

Breckinridge Co KY Mary "Polly" Stith b Mar. 7, 1792 md Nov. 26, 1808 Nehemiah Board

Elizabeth Stith b June 16, 1794 d 1869 md Nov 15, 1810 Richard Buckner Hardaway b Sept. 18, 1785 d May 24, 1856 son Drury Hardaway - Ann Stith

Buckner Jones Stith b Sept 12, 1796 d Oct 26, 1807 between 1-2 AM

Hardin Co KY Ann "Nancy" Stith b Sept. 5, 1798 d Dec. 4, 1855 ag 57 Hardin Co Book A68 md Feb. 19, 1818 Thomas P. Hardaway b 1796 d Nov. 7, 1957 ag 61

Joseph Stith b Dec. 27, 1800 d June 8, 1816

Hardin Co KY Martha "Patsy" Stith b June 3, 1803 d Aug. 12, 1882 Book A #126 md July 25, 1821 Isaac L. Hynes b 1793 d

Meade Co KY State of KY, Meade Co. Saturday 24 Sept. 1832 personally appeared before the County Court Clerk's office of Meade Co. now sitting held at the Courthouse in the town of Brandenburg in Co. aforesaid,

29 Joseph Stith, a resident of said county, 73 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make to following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by an Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

"That the said Joseph Stith enlisted in the Winter or Spring of 1776 in the Continental Service for two years, in the company of Capt. Harvey Terrell of Bedford Co. VA 5th Virginia Regiment commandered by Col. Josiah Parker. In the Spring of 1776 ordered to Hobbs countermanded to Williamsburg, thence to Jones Town from that by Portsmouth to Norfolk and from there back to Williamsburg to the College Camp." from Joseph Stith's discharge. (In pension record copy, Filson Club, p 28 Meade Co.)

Bible record from Bible Edinburgh printed by Sir J.H.Blair & J. Bruce, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty 1799

Joseph Stith son of Richard and Lucy Stith b 1759, Sept. 6 md Sept. 8, 1782 d Nov. 3, 1837 Nancy b April 29, 1761 (d Feb. 16, 1842) dau George and Agnes Cocke

William Bathurst Stith b May 2, 1784 d Oct. 6, 1829 Richard Bathurst Stith b Jan. 26, 1786 Thomas Bathurst Stith b Jan. 23, 1788 d Oct. 6, 1819 at a place West of Miss. River John Bathurst Stith b Jan. 21, 1790 d Nov. 22, 1833 in Missouri Territory Polly Bathurst Stith b Mar. 7, 1792 Elizabeth Bathurst Stith b June 6, 1794 Buckner Bathurst Stith b Sept 12, 1796 d Oct. 26, 1816 at 2 AM Nancy Bathurst Stith b Sept. 5, 1798 Joseph Bathurst Stith b Dec. 27, 1800 d June 8, 1816 Patsy Bathurst Stith b June 3, 1803

Nancy dau of Bathurst and Harriet Stith was born Nov. 3, 1809 Harriott B. Hall, the dau. of Robert and Mary Hall b Nov or Dec 27 1783 William B. Stith and Harriet B. Hall md March 29, 1806 Thomas Stith - Ann McGee md April 15, 1810 Nancy Stith and Thomas P. Hardaway md Feb 19, 1818 Nancy Stith d Feb. 16, 1842 (Joseph's wife)

30 fa Joseph Stith Joseph 2-1 William Bathurst Stith 1784-1829 mo Nancy Cocke

STITH, William Bathurst b May 2, 1784 d Oct. 6, 1829 Stithton Cem Bedford Co VA md 1) Mar. 29, 1806 Harriet Bolling Hall b Nov or Dec 27, 1783 d dau Robert Hall- Mary Hardin Co KY 2) Oct. 2, 1810 Mary "Polly" Jordan b July 28, 1795 d Aug. 12, 1859 (53?) Book A7 A36 dau William Jordan - Lucy Stith; she md 2) Dec. 14, 1837 John Graham By Harriet Bolling Hall: Joseph Stith ? b 1807

Meade Co KY Nancy Stith b Nov. 3, 1809 d 1852 ag 44 Bk A pg 16 md Nov. 7, 1826 Allen Talbot Buckler b 1807 d June 1881 ag 74 son Henry Buckler - Letitia F. By Polly Jordan: Meade Co KY David Stith b Dec. 28, 1811 d Bk A pg 34 md May 6, 1830 Nancy Sprigg Leven Sprigg

Meade Co KY Naomi Stith b Nov. 7, 1813 d Sept. 16, 1879 Bk A pg 62 md 1) Apr. 2, 1835 Augustus White b 1798 d Aug 10 1856 ag 58 his 2) son William White & Mary Bk B #861 2) Nov. 23, 1857 William Blakely b 1812

Learner B. Stith b Oct. 27, 1815 d in Arkansas md Sally ______in AR, DSP

Hardinsburg Hardin Co KY William B. Stith b April 15, 1818 d Dec. 1, 1889 Bk B-442 md Mar. 8, 1838 Eliza N. Harl b June 9, 1815 d Aug. 17, 1895 80y 2m 3d dau John Harl - Nancy d 1874 in Bear Valley CA

Marriages Samuel Stith b June 30, 1820 d Apr. 17, 1894 Garnetsville Cem Meade Co KY md 1) Oct. 29, 1840 Elizabeth Howard b 1823 d Dec. 24, 1856 ag 33 in childbirth Bk A pg 87 dau George Howard & - Sarah? 2) Feb. 10, 1859 Adaliza Preston dau _____ Preston - Ann

Thomas Stith b Oct. 27, 1822 d md 1) Hester Ann ______b d after 1852 2) Eliza/Liza ---- b ca 1825 widow of ?George W.? De Witt

Marriages Felix H. Stith b April 16, 1825 d March 20, 1891 Hardin Co KY md March 16, 1850 Frances Z. Preston b 1826 d Book C #244 dau ___ & Ann

James Harvey Stith md Sarah Polk

Deed Book H p 598 Heirs of William B. Stith sign deed Samuel Stith and Elizabeth; Felix Stith and Frances; David Stith and Nancy; Thomas Stith and Hester Ann; Augustus W. White and Naomi; Wm. B. and Eliza N.; James Harvey Stith and Sarah; also Thomas White,

31 Learner B. Stith. Nov. 29, 1852

Equity #79 David Stith, his father Wm. B. Dec'd, wid Mary since md John Graham Nov. 8 1849 Naomi - Augustus White, Wm.B., Samuel, Thomas, Felix H., Learner B. Learner B. dsp

1850 Census Hardin Co KY #327 Dist #3 Graham, John 61 farmer Penn Mary 57 VA Frances 30 Penn Buckler, Marcus 22 KY

32 fa Joseph Stith Joseph 2-2 Richard L. Stith 1786-1844 mo Nancy Cocke buried Jasper Co Missouri STITH, Richard Luther b Jan. 26, 1786 d Oct. 25, 1844 md 1) May 20, 1804 Elizabeth Ann Jordan b July 1, 1788 d Sept. 12, 1818

Marriages dau William Jordan - Lucy Stith Hardin Co KY Bk A #90 2) July 16, 1819 Sarah Sprigg dau Leven Sprigg by Elizabeth Ann Jordan Bolling Stith b Dec. 27, 1805 d Oct. 15, 1807 1 yr 10 mos

Meade Co KY Jordan Stith b June 7, 1807 Bk A pg 22 md Nov. 15, 1827 Mary Ann Pasley dau Rev Henry A. Pasley

Breckinridge Co KY Jane "Jincy" Stith b Nov. 21, 1809 md Nov. 18, 1827 Henry M. Pasley

Edna Stith b Dec. 29, 1811 md Pasley

Breckinridge Co KY James Stith b Sept. 24, 1813 md 1) May 28, 1835 Nancy Board dau Micajah Board - Judith Hardin Co KY Bk C #190 2) Oct. 15, 1849 Eliza Harris dau Ben Harris

William Fletcher Stith b Aug. 12, 1815 md 1837 Malinda Purcell

Breckinridge Co KY Nancy Stith b Mar. 10, 1817 d ca 1848 md Dec. 26, 1841 Ezra Hardaway b April 20, 1822 d Aug 25, 1844 son Richard B. Hardaway - Elizabeth Stith

Breckinridge Co KY Lucy Elizabeth Ann Stith b May 21, 1818 md Aug. 14, 1839 John Purcell by Sarah Sprigg Ellen D. Stith b July 5, 1820 md 1) Nov. 24, 1842 Henry Greer 2) Stanley Trent

Mary F. Stith b Dec. 23, 1822 md Aug. 26, 1841 Thomas Hardaway Sr b Oct. 28, 1819 son Richard B. Hardaway - Elizabeth Stith

Sarah Stith b Aug. 15, 1824 d Aug. 31, 1834 ag 10

Breckinridge Co KY Richard Otho Stith b April 22, 1826 d Mar. 15, 1849 ag 22 yrs 11 mos md June 10, 1847 Martha B. Pulliam

Breckinridge Co KY Katharine "Callie" Stith b April 21, 1827 Md Feb. 25, 1851 James E. Davis

Rebecca Stith b Aug 25, 1831 d Dec. 17, 1833 2 yrs 4 mos John L. Stith b Oct 13, 1836 d Mar. 5, 1840 3 yrs 6 mos

Breckinridge Co Ky Will Book 1 p 163 Feb. 5, 1849 Richard Otho Stith, wife Martha B., son James 6 weeks old

33 Mar. 19, 1849 dec'd father Richard L. Stith James Taylor Hiram Bruce

1850 Census Breckinridge Co Ky #581 Dist. #2 Stith, James 36 farmer Eliza 23 [ 2) wife md in 1849] Christopher 8 Nathan B. 5 James W. 2 Hardaway, Nancy 33 [sister of James] Elizabeth E. 6 Harris, Benjamin 20 [brother of wife]

1850 Census Breckinridge Co Ky #136 Dist. #2 Pulliam, Elizabeth 55 VA Richard 15 Stith, Martha 20 (widow of Richard Otho)

34 fa Joseph Stith Joseph 2-3 Thomas Stith 1778-1819 mo Nancy Cocke

Marriages STITH, Thomas b Jan. 23, 1788 d Oct. 6, 1819 at a place West of Miss. River Hardin Co md Apr. 15, 1810 Ann Gains McGee b 1789 d Aug. 29, 18__ Book A #35 dau Samuel McGee - Martha Stafford she md 2) _____ Barnett

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Susan H. Stith b 1811 d 1892 Brown Co TX md Oct. 21, 1830 Thomas Goode Walton b Nov. 16, 1805 d Aug. 12, 1864 son Jacob Walton - Jane Goode son William Walton dau Thomas Goode Jasper Co MO

1850 Census Jasper Co MO #426 1860 Census Jasper Co MO Thomas G. Walton 44 GA Walton, Thomas 54 TN

Susan 38 KY Susan H. 48 KY

William Walton 18 MO William 28 MO md Ann E. Hudson dec'd Crafton J. Walton 14 Eva T. 3

Martha Walton 11 Martha A. 20

Richard Walton 6

Ruth Walton 2 Susan Ruth 13

Susan Hawkins Walton 7

Ganville Walton 3 Lucy Turner 19

Ann Barnett 61 KY Anna Barnett 70 KY

35 fa Joseph Stith Joseph 2-4 John (Rev Jack) Stith 1790-1833 mo Nancy Cocke

Marriages STITH, Rev John "Jack" Jr. b Jan 21 1790 VA d Nov. 22, 1833 KY Campbell Co VA md Sept. 17, 1806 Lucy Ann Hardaway b 1784 d dau Drury Hardaway - Ann Stith ======Children:

Marriages Meade Co KY Milton Stith b 1807 d 1881 Book A p 25 md July 28, 1828 Martha Stith dau William Stith - Nancy Jones

Meade Co KY Drury Stith b d Will 9 July 1841 Hardin Co KY Bk E p 55 (99) Bk A pg 23 md Feb. 14, 1828 Elizabeth Ann Stith b 1811 "wife Ann" in Will dau William Stith - Nancy Jones

Breckinridge Co Ky Edwin Stith b Dec. 15, 1810 d Feb. 19, 1872 AR md Dec. 19, 1837 Emerine Hardaway dau Joseph E. Hardaway