“(F9 HAUGHEY GENEALOGY BY Edith W. Benjamin Bloomington, Ill . GENEALOG!CAL SOCIETY OFTHECHUQCHLDFJESUSCHRBT on LATTER-DAYsmms 54416 @,"Lt: C0m,0I'{€’V J'u~e I415‘/4 Biography is the only true History Emerson A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be rememberedwith pride by remote generations. Mccaulay HAUGHEY ARMS Wheat, emblematic of wealth Wheat in Fess, the belt or banner of a Commanding General Red Chief —signifies Royalty Peacock —signifies Pomp and Power The Motto is Irish and means "A Plain Honest Man" PREEACE The Haughey family in the U.S. is made up from emigrants who came from the ancestral home in County Armagh, and Down, Ireland. The name is derived from EOCHAIDHAwhichwas the name of the fifty— first king of Ulster. The name signifies a MountedKnight or a Horseman. The development from the ancient spelling to the modern spelling can be traced in Duald MacFirbis "Annals of the Four Masters" and in his ChronicumScotorum. In the index of the latter, fcllowing Ua Eochaidha in parenthesis is O’Hoey, Hoey, King of Uladh. The modern families are descendants of the O'Haugheys of the 11th and 12th centuries and of Eochaidha, King of Ulster in 1014. Mac Firbis in his "Four Masters" published in 1666 says O'Heoghy was the original nameof the rulers of Ulidia (Ulster) and that the name was still to be found in that County (Down)as Haughey, Hoey, etc. The prefix_Q in early times designated the son of or the descendant of. Surnames later were used and then at times the_Q or Mac was omitted. According to family lore the earliest membersof the Haughey family in America were brothers Thomas(the line of which this book­ let follows) and Patrick Haughey who came to Penn., Pbobably near Philadelphia about 1725. Haugheysare found in marriage lists of Delaware in 1752 and on tax lists in 1776. Delaware at that time, however, was called the three lower counties of Penn. Like the family in Ireland the first Haugheyswere Catholics but intermarriage soon results in finding names amongthe Quaker communities and the Presbyterian group, etc. Other Haugheyscamelater from the Irish Shores as research on the families here in America show. If family lore is correct, we knownothing of Patrick Haughey's descendants at this time, unless they are the Delawarefamilies. Thomas, the Emigrant, married and had a son John; how many more children we do not know. Thus John becomes the first of this family genealogy born in America and it is through his son, Thomas, a Revolutionary Soldier of Virginia, that the manybranches represented in the following manuscript can proudly trace their ancestry. Perhaps it is well here to say a word about the correct pro­ nunciation of the name Haughey. Someone said it is He—Haw (Horsemenll) backwards. Thus use two syllables Haw~He. True many have shortened the pronunciation and thus we get the Hoy, Huey, Hoey, etc. who may belong to our Haughey commonancestry. Haughey Genealogy Edith W. Benjamin SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA "SouthwestVirginia comprises all that portion of the state running down wedge—shapedbetween Kentucky on the north and North Carolina and Tennessee on the south, reaching the Alleghenies in the east to the Cumberland Gap in the west. This area is some 230 miles in length with an average width of about 100 miles and em­ braces 15 counties¢..of these counties Carroll, Grayson and Washington join N.C. ... Montgomery,Pulaski, Giles, Grayson, and Wythe are in what is known as the Valley of NewRiver; Smyth and Washington in the Valley of the Holston; Russell and Scott in the Valley of Clinch and Lee in Powell's Valley...The mountains of Carroll and Grayson are pregnant with copper and iron...Wythe is rich in iron, coal and lead. Smythand Washington...could glut the markets with salt and gypson...blue grass of Tazwell, Bland and Buchananwould fatten the cattle on a thousand hills...with rare exception this whole country abounds with limestone...No country under the sun is blessed with a more genial summerclimate, purer water or grander scenery."(l) This is the merest outline of Southwestern Virginia-—the land of the "Over the Mountain Men", the land of "Before the Gates of the Wilderness", the land of "Wilburn Waters, the Bear Hunter of White Top Mountain". It is to this land that the Haugheys about whomthis genealogy is concerned came, just when though, the writer is not sure. "England paid dearly for her Irish policy" says Jos. Waddell in his "Annals of Augusta Co. Va." The fiercest enemies she had in 1776 were the desccndents of the Scotch—Irish who had held Ulster against James II. The people of Ulster (the Haugheys came from ArmaghCo. Ulster, Ireland, according to family records) had heard of Pennsylvania and the religious liberty accorded there, so came to that region in droves. But the people of Pennsylvania seemed jealous at that time and strict measures were adopted against the Scotch—Irish element, so manymigrated into Virginia. Whether this was the case with the Haugheys is not knownbut it .could have been. This work maynot be the first organized effort to present this family as one of the early Ere-Revolutionary pioneers but up to new the writer is unable to find any public or published writings. Stephen G. Haughey (see 5th generation) who is at this writing (1954) 85 years of age, says that he visited the land of the Haugheys in ArmaghCo. Ulster, Ireland, while serving as Chaplain overseas in England during World War I. It is the hope of the writer that further research maybe done and added to this meager beginning. (1) "Annals of S.W. Va." Summers GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD of the DESCENDENTS OF JOHN HAUGHEY FIRST GENERATION John Haugheyl Little or nothing is knownyet concerning John Haughey. He is, family research says, the first of the 'clan' born on this side of the waters, a son of ThomasHaughey, the Emmigrant. Family history also says he was in Pennsylvania, probably Philadelphia. Also up to this point it is not knownwhether he took part in the Revolution. Whether he and the family were ever in Grayson Co. Va. (which was Fincastle 1772-1777 and Montgomery (l777—l790) where his son Thomasfirst appears on tax records (found in the Archives, Richmond, Va.) as early as 1794, Grayson Co. Va. is not known. Thomas is listed in the MontgomeryCo. Va. Militia l78l~l785. See Supplement. If further research reveals anything about the John Haughey whomtwo or three records say is the father of Thomas Haughey of Grayson Co. Va., it will be added as a supplement. Spellings are hindering somewhat early research and even now the name is found in various ways: O'Haughey, Houghery, Haghey, Hughey, Hocky, Hockhey, Heighe, Haughe, Hauge, even Haughhe, Hoy, Hoey, and Houie, etc. These spellings are on material definitely knownto be or mean 'Haughey'. Children: (1) Thomas b. 1759 d, 1847 There may have been others——oldfamily letters speak of Thomasas the only son of his father John, however. SECOND GENERATION (1) Thomas Haugheyz (Johnl) According to the tombstone record in Hussey Graveyard, Bowersville, Ohio, Thomaswas born July 20, 1759 and died Apr. 7, 1847. His wife Violet (Clanch) Haughey was born Dec. 21, 1769 and died Nov. 18, 1846. Records say Thomas was born in Virginia. There maybe some question about this. He was in Virginia it is true but depending on whether his parents came to Virginia hinge the truth of his birthplace. References in biographical sketches of his descendants, statements of Revolutionary service as found in several places, all state Virginia as the original home. As stated before ThomasHaughey appears on a personal tax list of Grayson County, Va. as found in the Archives at Richmond, Va. as early as 1794 and from 1802 until 1815 on the ‘Land tax’ list. Refer to the supplement for additional information. Thomasmarried Violet Clanch about 1786. They came to Ohio about 1815, leaving it is understood only one married daughter Jane Barber in Virginia. They settled in Greene Co. Ohio. Literature aboundswith manyinteresting stories of early times in the Ohio country. Onequite interesting story and typical of many others was found in some of the histories of Greene Co., Ohio. This is about the county seat Zenia (Greek word for Hospitality) and is substantially as follows: Zenia —Jail It was the 2nd day of bleak Dec. 1822. There was no person for debt in the debtor's room but there was a stove ~ to warm any of God's poor, if they should be thrown in, and the commissioners with an eye to economyand turning of everything to the public good, rented this stove to John McPherson, for 75 cents a month, to be returned any time, on the order of the jailer, (after a sufficient time being allowed for it to get cool). Children: (2) John b. 1787 or 1789 m. Patience Sturdyven (5) Barnett b. Apr. 4, 1792 m. Margaret Barber (4) Margaret (Peggy) b. 1796 m. Christopher Hussey (5) Susan m. Isaac Pearson (6) Sarah (Sally) b. Nov. 2, 1806 m. David P. Lee Jan. 17, 1828. She died Mar. 20, 1854 (7) Jane End wife of Allen Barber. Lived in Va. (8) Nancy m. lst. James Lee 2nd. John Ross Chapman (9) Alice b. IVQ4 m. lst. Sturdyven (Studevan) 2nd. John Bentley d. Aug. 11, 1855, 61 yrs. 6 mos. 12 days (10) Polly m- lst. Poasue <?) 2nd. John Hoblett (ll) Violet m. - Edward Pearson July 17, 1823 (12) Andrew M. b. 1805 m.