DINWIDDIE FAMILY RECORDS with especial attention to the line of William Walthall Dinwiddie 1804-1882 Compiled and Edited by ELIZABETH DINWIDDIE HOLLADAY KING LINDSAY PRINTING CORPORATION CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 1957 AFTER READING GENEALOGY Williams and Josephs, Martha, James, and John, The generations' rhythmic flow moves on; Dwellers in hills and men of the further plains, Pioneers of the creaking wagon trains, Teachers, fighters, preachers, tillers of the earth, Buried long in the soil that gave them birth. New times, new habits; change is everywhere. New dangers tour the road, new perils ride the air. Our day is late and menacing. The lateness Breeds fatalistic weariness until Joy shrivels into fear. But faith knows still Each new-born child renews the hope for greatness. LmllARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG NUMBER 57-9656 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Preface Edgar Evans Dinwiddie, my father, for many years collected data on the history of his family. His niece, Emily W. Dinwiddie, became interested and they shared their findings. In the last years of his life, when he was an invalid, she combined their most important papers in­ to one voluminous file. After both of them died I found myself in possession of the fruits of their labors, and the finger of Duty seemed to be pointing my way. From their file I learned of the long search made in many places, of the tedious copying of old records, and in many cases the summarizing of data in answering in­ quiries from others. Also Emily had made typed copies of much of the handwritten material. A chart showing some of the early descendants of the William Dinwiddie who settled in Campbell Co., Va., had been prepared by my father, Emily, and Harman A. Din­ widdie, and printed by J. Adger Stewart of Louisville, Ky. It was a bedrock foundation on which to build. Genealogy has never been my hobby. I had no con­ ception of what was involved, so decided I would settle for the ancestors they had already found and just add all of my grandfather's descendants to bring the record up to date. This was not so easy as I had thought. My grandfather had eleven children. With such a start, even a few genera­ tions can become widely scattered and lose touch. Any researcher finds that the world is divided into two kinds of people, those who answer questionnaires and those who do not. I had to treat briefly persons from whom I could not get information, but thanks to the helpfulness of many others, I believe we have the names of all the de­ scendants of William Walthall Dinwiddie, though not the histories of all. Delving into the mass of old documents, I discovered that there were in early Virginia several groups of Din­ widdies who seemed to be related but whose degree of kinship is not yet known. I did not want to write the record of our part of the tribe like a silhouette against a background of vacancy, so I have tried to give some of the perspective in the picture. There was data on those other lines in the file, and I was fortunate in reaching some of their descendants with whom my father or Emily had corresponded. Their co-operation has been generous and is acknowledged in those chapters for which they fur­ nished much material. When the Scotch-Irish settlers landed in Pennsylvania, our ancestors were apparently called Dunwoody or Din­ widdie interchangeably. In Scotland at the same period we find the name Dinwiddie as at present, and some tombstones in the old Marsh Creek Cemetery near Gettysburg are said to spell the name Dinwiddie. It may be that the Dunwoody form of the name was a dialectal result of their sojourn in Ireland. Be that as it may, the various Virginia lines quickly became Dinwiddies, though descendants of the eastern Pennsylvania settlers still use the name Dunwoody. Spelling as a fixed art is quite modern. In the early days it was not unusual to find the same man's name spelled more than one way in the same official document. My great grandfather remembered when Dinwiddie and Dunwoody were used indiscriminately. To avoid entangle- ment, we have not indexed both ways and have in most cases used the present spelling only. Probably the reason libraries contain books with so many different ways of arranging genealogical material is because nobody yet has discovered a really satisfactory method of organizing it to let the reader relax. Necessity forced on me the use of identification numbers. Given names are repeated with such monotony that the chapters about different lines vary as one snowflake from another, almost like the same cards reshuffled. Cross references would have brought on avalanches of confusing verbiage if there were no short cut to the positive identification of the persons mentioned. This book's system of arrangement and numbering was arrived at by combining and modifying previously used ideas and adding a touch of invention. Making friends among cousins with whom I had had little or no previous acquaintance has been a happy recom­ pense for hard work. If I started naming the relatives who have earned my gratitude I would not know where to stop and the list would unbalance the book. They know I am grateful, for every helper has been thanked by mail, except the cousins in Charlottesville and my husband. He not only contributed helpful ideas, but patiently served as a trial ground for my fledgling thoughts, and endured with understanding kindness the domestic discomforts resulting from my preoccupation with this task. Elizabeth Dinwiddie Holladay 1713 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, Virginia. Table of Contents PART I. BEGINNINGS. Chapter Preface. Family Portraits. Page 1. Origins and Immigrants. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. 1 2. Dinwiddies in Virginia in the Seventeen Hundreds .. .. ... .. ..... .... .. .. .. .. .. ... .... .. 10 PART II. LINE OF WILLIAM DINWIDDIE OF CAMPBELL COUNTY 3. William Dinwiddie of Campbell County, Va., and his Family .... ........ ................ .... .. ...... ............ 17 4. Major Joseph Dinwiddie (b.1775) and his Family ................................. ................... 23 5. Descendants of Elizabeth Hunter Dinwiddie ( 1799-1875) ...................................................... 29 6. Children of William Walthall Dinwiddie ~QA•"1'.:n1'Ri) ; I I.(· - ;j· ~. ··.1.-i:,-=~·ro::,'!, t: ......':5- ' ;.... .........................................J '2..-) . 37 7. Descendants of Francis Dinwiddie (1828-1893) 47 8. Descendants of Rev. William Dinwiddie (1830-1894) ...................................................... 51 9. Descendants of Dr. Joseph Dinwiddie ( 1832-1906) ...................................................... 65 10. Descendants of James Dinwiddie ( 1837-1907) 74 11. Descendants of Marshall Dinwiddie ( 1845-1916) ...................................................... 84 12. Descendants of Walthall Dinwiddie ( 1847-1909) ...................................................... 90 13. Descendants of Edgar Evans Dinwiddie (1852-1942) ····················"································ 102 14. Descendants of William Dinwiddie ( d.1865) and Nancy Acree ................................................ 105 15. Descendants of John Dinwiddie (m.1809) and Mildred Campbell ...... ..... ... .. .. ..... .. .... .... .. .. .... ... 113 PART III. OTHER DINWIDDIES 16. Descendants of James Dinwiddie ( d.1806) and Isabella Galbreath,,. ... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....... ........ .... 123 17. Descendants of James Dinwiddie (1755-1842) and Sarah Helm ................................................ 126 18. Descendants of Greenbier County Dinwiddies* 139 19. Descendants of Robert Dinwiddie of Bath County (d.1796) ............................................................ 142 20. Descendants of Rockfish Valley Dinwiddies* .... 149 21. Miscellaneous Dinwiddies .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 151 22. Undetermined Relationships .............................. 158 List of Sources of Information .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 166 Index .................................................................. 167 Addenda . .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 187 "'Data Scarce. Family Portraits MAJOR JosEPH DINWIDDIE PoLLY WALTHALL BAss 1775-1861 DINWIDDIE ( Chapter 4, No. 2 ) 1783-1840 ( Chapter 4, No. 2) NANCY BRYAN DINWIDDIE WILLIAM WALTHALL DINWIDDIE 1809-1878 1804-1882 (Chapter 4, No. 11) ( Chapter 4, No. 11) JAMES DINWIDDIE MARIA FRANCES JoHNSON FoRE 1782-1860 1845-1933 (Chapter 17, B9) ( Chapter 5, J4) EMILY WAYLAND DINWIDDIE DANIEL E. AND FRANCES 1879-1949 DINWIDDIE BRYAN Chapter 8, No. 34) d. 1861 1828-1893 (Chapter. 6, No. 13) REV. WILLIAM DINWIDDIE EMILY BLEDSOJ,~ DINWIDDIE 1830-1894 1840-1913 (Chapter 6, No. 14) ( Chapter 6, No. 14) DR. JOSEPH DINWIDDIE ANNA ANDERSON DINWIDDIE 1832-1906 1846-1928 ( Chapter 6, No. 15) (Chapter6,No.15) HARMAN DINWIDDIE REV. JOHN DINWIDDIE 1841-1861 1834-1898 (Chapter 6, No. 18) ( Chapter 6, No. 16) JAMES DINWIDDIE BETTIE CARRINGTON DINWIDDIE 1837-1907 1841-1898 ( Chapter 6, No. 17) (Chapter 6, No. 17) LUCY LEAKE DINWIDDIE MARSHALL DINWIDDIE. 1849-1886 1845-1916 (Chapter 6, No. 19) ( Chapter 6, No. 19) WAL THALL DINWIDDIE ELIZA SHEPHERD DINWIDDIE 1847-1909 1851-1923 ( Chapter 6, No. 20) (Chapter 6, No. 20) EDGAR EVANS DINWIDDIE ANNA BLEDSOE DINWIDDIE 1852-1942 1851-1923 (Chapter 6, No. 21) (Chapter 6, No. 21) Four Dinwiddie Brothers, Taken about 1906. WALTHALL JAMES EDGAR MARSHALL 1847-1909 1837-1907 1852-1942 1845-1916 CHAPTER I ORIGINS AND IMMIGRANTS Dinwiddie is an old and honorable name. This state­ ment is meant to include the