Submitted by Anthony Carter Ancestors of General Joseph Vernon Carter , US Army, Ret. First Generation 1. General Joseph Vernon Carter , US Army, Ret., son of John Washington Carter and Vesta Lee Vanzant, was born on 18 Sep 1927 in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. General Notes: Joseph was born at home, 1001 Walnut Street, Kingsport, Tennessee. Joseph Carter is a retired General in the United States Army and a vetern of World War II and Korea and he is also the retired President of the Peoples Bank of Polk County. Noted events in his life were: * AKA. Joe * Employment: Several employers, 1944-2004. US Armed Forces 1944 to 2004, Joseph rose from Private to General, with his last command being the United States Service Command. Joseph was also Executive Vice President of the Cleveland National Bank in Cleveland Tennessee. Then the founding President of the Peoples Bank of Polk County. Joseph married Maudine Barrineau, daughter of John Eruther Barrineau and Margaret Ellen Rebecca Wright, on 3 Mar 1951 in The Federated Church of Ayer, Washington St., Ayer, Massachusetts. Maudine was born on 2 Sep 1927 in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, christened on 22 Nov 1942 in Andrews Baptist Church, Andrews, Georgetown County, SC, died on 14 Nov 2004 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, at age 77, and was buried on 17 Nov 2004 in National Cementary, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Another name for Maudine was Deanie. General Notes: Maudine was a retired Kindergarten teacher. The Baptismal Certificates reads: This certifies that Maudine Barrineau has publicly confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and has been received into the full membership of the Andrews Baptist Church of Andrews, SC on this 22nd day of November in the year of our Lord 1942. Robert H. Ayers--Pastor, Andrews Baptist Church, Andrews, Georgetown County, SC Noted events in her life were: * Occupation: Several Employers from 1942 to 1985. From January, 1942 to May, 1945, Maudine worked 3 hours a day after school as a telephone operator at the Seacoast Telephone Company in Andrews, South Carolina. June 1945 to October, 1945, She was a telephone operator and receptionist at the Holston Valley Community Hospital, Kingsport, Tennessee. She had gone to Kingsport to live with her sister Patricia and her brother Dewey. September, 1946 to April, 1952, She worked as a stenographer and secretary at Tennessee Eastman Company, Kingsport, Tennessee. Her brother-in-law was the Medical Director there. Children from this marriage were: i. Anthony Dean Carter was born on 11 Jul 1952 in Holston Valley Hospital, Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Another name for Anthony was Tony. ii. Patricia Jo Carter was born on 16 Mar 1954 in Holston Valley Hospital, Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Second Generation (Parents) 2. John Washington Carter, son of James C. Carter and Mary Eliza Jane Moore, was born on 22 Sep 1891 in Rye Cove, Scott Co VA and died on 27 Jul 1967 in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee, at age 75. General Notes: John Carter was the Supervisor of Maintance for the Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee. Previously he was a policeman for the City of Kingsport. John married Vesta Lee Vanzant on 26 Dec 1915 in Scott County, Virginia. Children from this marriage were: i. General Joseph Vernon Carter , US Army, Ret. (born on 18 Sep 1927 Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee) ii. James Hoyt Carter was born on 31 Dec 1917 in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee and died in Apr 1986 in Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, at age 68. iii. Myrtle Kate Carter was born on 10 Oct 1920 in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee and died on 20 Apr 1965 in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee, at age 44. iv. John Keener Carter was born Sept 8, 1923 in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee and died on 24 Oct 1973 in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. John next married Josie Sloan. Josie was born on 12 Nov 1909 in Rye Cove, Russell Co. VA and died in 1994 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co, TN, at age 85. General Notes: Died at Kingsport,TN 1994. Children from this marriage were: i. Buddy Calvin Carter. ii. Jerry Wayne Carter. 3. Vesta Lee Vanzant, daughter of Felix Asbury Vanzant and Laura L. Herron, was born on 23 Jul 1895 in Scott Co VA and died on 10 Dec 1930 in Kingsport Sullivan Co, TN, at age 35. General Notes: Vesta Lee Vanzant was a homemaker. Vesta married John Washington Carter on 26 Dec 1915 in Scott County, Virginia. Third Generation (Grandparents) 4. James C. Carter, son of Pvt. Morgan C. Carter ,Co. C, 64th VA Cav., CSA and Nancy E. Cowden, was born on 25 May 1859 in Scott Co VA and died on 11 Mar 1907, at age 47. General Notes: James C. Carter was a farmer in Scott County, Virginia. James married Mary Eliza Jane Moore on 18 Jun 1882 in Scott County, Virginia. Children from this marriage were: i. John Washington Carter (born on 22 Sep 1891 Rye Cove, Scott Co VA - died on 27 Jul 1967 in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee) ii. Elic Ferdinando Carter was born on 24 Mar 1887 in Scott Co, VA, died on 26 Dec 1932 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co, TN, at age 45, and was buried in Dec 1932 in Oak Hill, Kingsport, Sullivan Co, TN. iii. Willie M. Carter was born on 16 Aug 1883, died on 19 Jun 1944, at age 60, and was buried in Jun 1944. 5. Mary Eliza Jane Moore, daughter of Pvt. Robert Moore ,Co. B, 25th VA Cav. and Elizabeth Horn, was born on 18 Jun 1864 and died on 5 Mar 1944 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co, TN., at age 79. Mary married James C. Carter on 18 Jun 1882 in Scott County, Virginia. 6. Felix Asbury Vanzant, son of Felix Vanzant and Irene Money, was born in 1861 in North Carolina and died in 1935 in Scott Co VA, at age 74. Felix married Laura L. Herron in 1891. Children from this marriage were: i. Vesta Lee Vanzant (born on 23 Jul 1895 Scott Co VA - died on 10 Dec 1930 in Kingsport Sullivan Co, TN) ii. Minnie E. Vanzant was born in 1898 and died on 18 Dec 1975 in Kingsport TN, at age 77. iii. Hugh Patton Vanzant was born on 2 Apr 1900 and died on 24 Aug 1948, at age 48. iv. George Carl Vanzant was born on 14 Aug 1902 and died on 7 Aug 1960, at age 57. v. Dora Etta Vanzant was born in Jul 1892 and died on 9 Aug 1957, at age 65. vi. Dewey Vanzant was born on 21 Apr 1900 and died on 13 Jan 1901. vii. Willie O. Vanzant was born on 19 Feb 1894 and died in Apr 1894. Felix next married Nancy A. Wolfe. Felix next married Alice B. Dishner Wolfe. 7. Laura L. Herron, daughter of William Henderson Herron and Caroline Tyree, was born on 6 Jun 1874 and died on 28 Mar 1905, at age 30. Laura married Felix Asbury Vanzant in 1891. Fourth Generation (Great Grandparents) 8. Pvt. Morgan C. Carter ,Co. C, 64th VA Cav., CSA, son of Pvt. Landon Charles Carter ,Co. A/K, 25th VA. Cavalry, CSA and Sarah "Sallie" Darnell, was born on 25 May 1839 in Scott Co VA, died on 27 Aug 1864 in Camp Douglas POW Camp, Chicago, IL, at age 25, and was buried in Oak Wood Cementary, Chicago, IL. General Notes: Name: Morgan C Carter , Residence: Scott County, Virginia Occupation: Farmer Enlistment Date: 23 September 1861 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Confederacy State Served: Virginia Unit Numbers: 770 770 825 825 825 825 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 23 September 1861 at the age of 40 Enlisted in Company C, 21st Infantry Battn Regiment Virginia on 23 September 1861. Transferred Company C, 21st Infantry Battn Regiment Virginia on 01 December 1862 Transfered in Company C, 64th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 01 December 1862. Deserted Company C, 64th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 25 March 1863 Returned in Company C, 64th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 30 June 1863. POW on 09 September 1863 at Cumberland Gap, TN Sent on 24 September 1863 at Camp Douglass, IL Died of disease while a POW Company C, 64th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 27 August 1864 in Camp Douglass, IL The 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment and its precursor unit, the 21st Virginia Infantry Battalion, were recruited in the autumn of 1861 in Lee, Scott, Wise and Buchanan counties, on the Kentucky frontier. The men jealously guarded their right to remain in their home area as a solemn promise, throughout the war, even while the infant Confederate States crumbled around them. The 64th Virginia Infantry was formally created on December 14, 1862, by the consolidation of the 21st and 29th Battalions of Virginia Infantry. The Regiment was reorganized September 1, 1863 at Cumberland Gap and became known as the 64th Virginia Cavalry. From a military point of view, the history of the entire regiment hinged on the first nine days of September 1863. The capture of two-thirds of the regiment's effective force at Cumberland Gap was never overcome. The 64th's first regimental commander, Campbell Slemp, was cashiered from service for disobeying orders. Auburn Pridemore and the other field and staff officers, however, were apparently no better at military discipline than Slemp was. In-fighting among the 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry's regimental and brigade officers destroyed a potentially valuable group of soldiers for the Confederacy. The regiment's men finally accepted more far-flung assignments, but it was too late to be of benefit or to redeem their reputation. The casualties taken in battle were among the lowest of any regiment in the Confederate Army. Despite the lack of shed blood, the regiment suffered a horrendous death rate, mostly at the infamous Union prison at Camp Douglas. The record of the regiment is mixed and so is the commentary. A group of men with no vested economic interest in Southern Independence served, but only served where they could care for the needs of their families. Camp Douglas, located on the south side of Chicago, became a place of brutal misery to many Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Rumors of crowded and unhealthy conditions, along with death and disease, were widely circulated in the southern press during the war. The camp soon earned what many people would consider a fitting nickname... “Eighty Acres of Hell”. Camp Douglas was named in honor of Stephen A. Douglas, the famed Illinois legislator and Lincoln rival, who passed away in Chicago in June 1861. Douglas was still well known for his recent Democratic presidential nomination, which had had lost to Lincoln the year before, as well as his previous 25 years in Illinois politics. During the last years of his life, Douglas and his wife had resided at Okenwald, their south side estate. It was located just east of the present-day intersection of Cottage Grove Avenue and 35th Street. Following Douglas’ death, the government took control of his property and constructed a training camp and a prisoner-of-war camp that was named in his honor. In the early months of the war, the outpost trained thousands of Union troops under the command of General Joseph H. Tucker. Soon, however, the camp became a place of misery for the Confederate prisoners. The camp received its first prisoners in February 1862, after the Battle of Fort Dickson and soon overcrowding, starvation, scurvy and a complete lack of medical attention made the place into a living hell. The death toll for the camp, during the last three years of the war, has been estimated at as many as 6,129 men, which is slightly less than one-third of the entire prison population at the camp. Most perished from scurvy and smallpox, despite the best intentions of relief workers, who organized a fund to care for the men in 1862. In 1864 alone, 1,156 inmates died at the camp. While many left the camp as corpses, others managed to escape. In November 1863, 75 very ragged prisoners managed to tunnel their way beneath the walls. In response, eight companies of the Veteran Reserve Corps and a regiment of Michigan sharpshooters were ordered to the camp for additional protection. There were no more tunnels dug out of the camp. To make matters worse, a great fear of insurrection at the camp concerned Chicago city officials. The city was filled with copperheads, spies and southern sympathizers who might do anything to arm the prisoners at the camp. The compound was only guarded by 450 Union enlisted men and officers. This was not a number large enough to make most Chicago citizens feel safe. Somehow though, the camp managed to make it through the war without serious incident and it was closed down in the summer of 1865. The remaining prisoners were asked to take a loyalty oath to the United States and then set free. For a short time, the post was used as a rendezvous point for returning Federal troops, but by fall, it was deserted. In November, the government sold the property and Camp Douglas ceased to exist. The remaining buildings were demolished a short time later. Today, the Lake Meadows condominiums are located on the site and a short distance away is a monument to Stephen Douglas that is located on the remains of Okenwald. The burial crypt is located between Lake Park Avenue and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks. The tomb was not completed until 1881 because of the failure to produce backers who would give private funds for its completion. The tomb was eventually funded by the state of Illinois and, as Richard Linberg in his book RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME notes... “the monument is the last visible reminder of Chicago’s hidden role in the War Between the States The South had Andersonville, an internationally known reminder of prison camp hardships and deaths, immortalized in song, literature, film and by many Union Monuments. The North had Camp Douglas, a little known civil war prison in Chicago that set records for prison mortality, hidden in lost and incomplete records and suppressed publicity. To the victor belongs the silence. Andersonville is the National Prisoner of War Historical Site, with white headstones for each of the 12, 912 Union prisoners who died there with a 475 acre park and monuments erected by every Union State and the National Government. All of the main highways of South Georgia have directional signs to aid the tens of thousand who visit there yearly. Look North to Chicago and you will find at least 6000 Confederate soldiers buried in a mass grave on one acre of land. There is only one monument to these prisoners who died, erected in 1895, 30 years after the war, by Southerners and their friends in Chicago and the North. According to Dorothy Wells Earlandson, writing in Chicago's Heritage Guest, few native Chicagoans knew of its existence, you see, Chicago has never publicized its one time camp There are no highway directional signs. We will never see a film about Camp douglas or any of the other notorious Northern prisons. The winners write the history books, and for 130 years they have been silent about their prison camps. The Oak Wood Cemetery monument, erected ATO THE MEMORY OF THE SIX THOUSAND SOUTHERN SOLDIERS HERE BURIED . . . WHO DIED IN CAMP DOUGLAS PRISON . . . 1862-65 sustains interest in the camp located near the shore of Lake Michigan. Before the camp closed, it has earned the dubious distinctions of Aundisputed first place in mortality among Northern prisons. Prisoners from Fort Donelson arrived at Camp Douglas in February, 1862, and within one year the monthly mortality rate was at ten percent, a rate unsurpassed by any other prison in the North or South. Ultimately, one in five prisoners died, establishing the camp's reputation for Aextermination. The highest death rate at Andersonville was nine percent set for August, 1864. Three traits distinguished Camp Douglas from other Northern prison camps: high mortality rates, extreme acts of cruelty, and a low official count of prisoners who died compared to documentation from other sources Historical articles and research texts have publicized these facts, but somehow Camp Douglas has escaped the notoriety of Andersonville. The most complete treatment of the horrors of Camp Douglas is contained in George Levy's To Die in Chicago (1994) from which some of the information for this article has been drawn. Levy was educated at the University of Chicago and he has served as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Illinois. The high mortality rate can be attributed to several factors: overcrowding, unhealthy living conditions, ineffective medical treatment, inadequate food supply, and brutality. The war lasted longer than expected, resulting in more prisoners tan anticipated. By late 1862 there were 8,962 prisoners in the camp with fewer than 900 guards. Over 200 prisoners were crowded in to barracks averaging 70 feet by 25 feet. As the number increased, tents were erected to house them, with little protection against below zero winds. Huge latrines were left open, so rain washed raw sewage into the drinking water supply. Wooden floors were removed to discourage tunneling, so vermin infected the dirt floors. Rats and mice were commonplace. Some unnamed inmates recollecting the camp 37 years later said that they raised the kitchen floor to catch Abig gray rats which were made into rat pies. When cholera and a smallpox epidemic erupted, free medicine sent by the South was withheld as contraband of war. Food rations were restricted, partly to cut costs and partly as retaliation for Southern victories. When control of the camp was finally passed to the Chicago Police department, medical supplies were cut off and food severely restricted. On June 30, 1862, Commandant Colonel Tucker was warned by D. V. McVickar, the Post Surgeon that Athe surface of the ground is becoming saturated with the filth and slop from the privies, kitchens, and quarters and must produce serious result to health as soon as the hot weather sets in. AColonel Tucker was overwhelmed; there were 326 patients in the hospital and many more in the barracks. Coincidentally, Henry W. Bellows of the Sanitary Commission sent a negative report on the camp to Colonel Hoffman the same day: Sir, the amount of standing water, unpoliced grounds, of foul sinks, of unventilated and crowded barracks, of general disorder, of soil reeking miasmatic accretions, of rotten bones and emptying of camp kettles, is enough to drive a sanitarium to despair. I hope that no thought will be entertained of mending matters. The absolute abandonment of the spot seems to be the only judicious course, I do not believe that any amount of drainage would purge that soil loaded with accumulated filth or those barracks fetid with two stories of vermin and animal exhalations. Nothin but fire can cleanse them. The Chicago Tribune wrote on September 22, 1862, AIt is not wonder they died so rapidly. It is only a wonder that the whole eight-thousand of the filthy hogs did not go home in pine boxes instead of on their feet. Civilian doctors, who inspected Camp Douglas on April 5, 1863, called it an extermination camp. They drew an unrelenting picture of Awretched inmates without change of clothing, covered, with vermin, in wards reeking with filth and foul air, and blankets in rags .. . . it will be seen that 260 out of 3,800 prisoners had died in twenty-one days, a rate of mortality which, if continued would secure their total extermination in about 320 days.Prisoners were deprived of clothing to discourage escapes. Many wore sacks with head and arm holes cut out; few had underwear. Blankets to offset the bitter northern winter were confiscated from the few that had them. The weakest froze to death. The Chicago winter of 1864 was devastating. The loss of 1,091 lives in only four months was heavies for any like period in the camp=s history, and equaled the deaths at the highest rate of Andersonville from February to May, 1864 (OR Ser-II-Vol. 8, 986-1003). Yet, it is the name of Andersonville that burns in infamy, while there exists a northern counterpart of little shame. Mortality rates increased as Colonel Sweet complained on October 11, 1864, that mortality at the camp was up to 35% since June. In November 1864, the death toll was 217; another 323 died in December, 308 in January 1864, and 243 in February. THE DEADLY DEADLINE The Sparrow diary specifically mentions the dead line at Camp Douglas. Prisoners were shot for crossing the line there just as at such other Federal prisons as Camp Morton, Indiana; Camp Chase and Johnson's Island in Ohio; Point Lookout, Maryland; Newport New, VA; and Fort Delaware for violating stated bounds, usually to answer the call of nature. Several Confederate prisoners were shot or bayoneted to death while in the very act of relieving themselves. The arctic weather led to additional suffering. AAnother punishment was to make the men pull down their pants and sit, with nothin under them, on the snow and frozen ground. I have know men to be kept sitting until you could see their prints of some days after in the snow and ice. When the [guards] got weary of this they commenced whipping, making the men lay on a barrel, and using their belts, which had a leather clasp with a sharp edge, cutting through the skin. A prisoner swore that when the men who were being punished this way attempted to sit on their coattails they were cruelly kicked in the back by the guards and forced to sit longer on their bare bones. Prisoners were forced to stand in the snow for hours without moving, and guards checked footprints to see if they had moved. Those who did received lashes. Some prisoners who arrived in the bitter cold weather lost toes, fingers and ears. One improvised two wooden pegs as substitutes for feet and hobbled around surprisingly well. The mildest cruelty took the form of random firing into the barracks to disturb the prisoners' sleep, shooting prisoners who moved too slowly, or hanging them by their feet to encourage them to take the Aoath to the United States. The more common severe tortures included Areaching for the grub, bending over without bending the knees for several hours, causing blood to gush from the prisoners nose and protruding eyeballs almost bursting from their sockets with pain, or being lashed a hundred times with the metal buckle end of a belt. ASolitary confinement meant being squeezed into a ten foot square room with twenty others, with only a ten-inch window for ventilation. A fearsome animal came to Prison Square on June 28, 1864. AThe Yanks have fixed a frame near the gate (to Prison Square) with a scantling piece of timber across it, edge up, and about four feet from the ground, which they make our men ride whenever the men do anything that does not please them. It is called The Mule. Men have sat on it till they fainted and fell off. It is like riding a sharp top fence. The Amule could be made more painful by adding weights. Sometimes the Yanks would laugh and say, AI will give you a pair of spurs which was a bucket of sand tied to each foot. Other prisoners confirmed that men had to ride the mule in the worst winter weather. By 1865 it had grown to 15 feet tall and required a ladder to mount. There was a mule for the garrison in White Oak Square, except there it was called the horse .. A SERIOUS FLAW IN THE RECORD OF CAMP DOUGLAS WAS IN COUNTING (OR MISCOUNTING) THE DEAD. From February 1862, till all the Secesh had left there, nearly all of the Medical Colleges in the northwest were supplied with the bodies stolen from the dead buried at the city cemetery and the appearance of the graves gives evidence of the truth of this statement. On June 9, 1862, a difference between the Chicago Tribune and Official Records was reported, with 1,480 men unaccounted for according to the Tribune. One of the reasons was that some deaths were unreported. On July, 1862, commandant Tucker, in taking command of Camp Douglas, reported, Athere is scarcely a record left at camp and it will be difficult to ascertain what prisoners have been at the camp or what has become of them. By March 31, 1863, mortality was again out of control, and diseases claimed 706 prisoners. If t rue, the toll in two months was only 277 short of the 1862 record. Suspiciously, there are not Camp Douglas ret urns in the official records for March 1863. The Tribune appears to have counted the dead carefully and indicated that the toll could have been Aupwards of 700. Unfortunately, record keeping was atrocious. It seems that in the period from February, 1862, to April, 1863, about 728 Confederates were missing. This in not the worst of it. If 700 died in early 1863, as the Tribune and some historians of the period believed, the superintendent should have found 1,636 graves. Various explanations were put forward for this discrepancy. The bodies were being washed into the lake, according to the Tribune, toward the water one mile south. The cemetery was also a favorite hunting ground for grave robbers. Another explanation is that the dead were dumped into unmarked gave and soon lost in the swampy soil. By 1864 about 2,235 prisoners had lost their lives since the prison opened according to the Official Records. This may be 967 short of the true figure at the time, based on the Tribune's figures. There were 23,637 cases of sickness in 1864, according to the study made at the time. This is more than three times the number shown in official records for the entire 700 days at Camp Douglas; August 1863 to August 1865. Since they were not reporting to Washington, the number is sick in the Barracks (Levy), a lack of reporting deaths would certainly follow. According to the History of Camp Douglas, close to 12,000 prisoners had suffered through the bitter winter of 1862, and 1863 when temperatures fell below zero. From 1,400 to 1,700 lay dead but only 615 could be counted in the desolate graves far from camp. Between 700 and 1000 had disappeared. On December 1, 1866, only 1,402 graves (of the earlier 2,968) could be identified. Very little care seems to have been taken in the interment of bodies. General A. Hoyt warned that close to 2000 bodies were now unaccounted for. Somehow Camp Douglas was exterminating the dead as well as the living. THE CONFEDERATE BURIAL MOUND Oak Woods Cemetery could have become the largest Confederate burial site outside of the South, but subsequent events made it impossible to learn the number buried there. The Oak Woods Cemetery simply buried whatever the O=Sullivans, (unqualified grave removers) brought in, and numbered the grave markers at Oak Woods according to City Cemetery records. These records cannot be verified because no Confederate burials were recorded with the City Clerk.2 Also the army failed to supervise, inspect or validate the removals. History had been blindfolded, and there is no way of knowing how many Confederates, or which ones, are at Oak Woods. On September 1, 1880, General Bingham reported, Amany of the graves are sunken dn many of the corner stakes are missing. There is evidences that one of the sections has been used as a roadway. The ground around these lots has been raised and improved which gives them the sunken appearance. The mound area was later filled in to the level of the rest of the cemetery. Other than the modest obelisk on this mound, completed in 1893 by sympathizers from the South, from Chicago, and other parts of the North, there was nothing to distinguish this burial site. Thirty years later, bronze tablets were added with a partial list of the dead. About 100,000 sympathetic persons, including President Grover Cleveland, attended the dedication of the edifice on Memorial Day, 1895. Since that time, nothing has been done to memorialize these unfortunate Confederate prisoners of war, other than a small gathering of supporters each year on Memorial Day. Camp Douglas has to be the North=s best kept secret of the Civil War B their Andersonville B but a camp that must be identified with extreme cruelty and Aconvenient@ record keeping of the dead. Researched by: C.B. Pritchett Jr. Pritchett Ford P.O. Box 200 Albany, Ga 31702-0200 NOTE: All of the above information is originally documented with footnotes. These did not transfer into html code. I will add these as soon as possible. Captured with most of his regiment at the battle of Cumberland Gap. He died from dysentary at Camp Douglas POW Camp in Chicago. His brother Dale William Carter, as well as several cousins were also captured at Cumberland Gap and died at Camp Douglas. Camp Douglas Prisoner of War Camp Camp and Years: Union 1862-1865 Area: Chicago, Illinois OVERVIEW: Camp Douglas was the largest training camp in Illinois. On the east side of the camp was the parade ground and administrative buildings: on the south side was the camp hospitals: on the west side was the actual prison camp. Camp Douglas, located near Chicago, was originally created as a rendezvous point to train and quarter regiments raised in the Chicago area at the beginning of the war. It was a sprawling training base. The camp was named in honor of Illinois statesman Stephen A. Douglas, whose residence was nearby. The camp was located on the south side of Chicago on grounds used for fairs. The Northern equivalent of the South's Andersonville Prison, Camp Douglas was the most notorious Federal POW camp of the Civil War. Camp Douglas was a gallery of horrors on the fringes of the bustling urban center of Chicago. When a very large influx of Confederate soldiers captured at battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson would add an another 15,000 prisoners to the Union's rolls, there was a frantic search for places to confine them. Camp Douglas was converted into a prisoner-of-war camp. The first group of 3,200 prisoners arrived at the camp on February 21. The camp enclosed about 60 acres, which were further divided by interior partitions to create compounds of various sizes. each of these compounds, or squares, was named according to its purpose. Garrison Square, wich was almost 20 acres, was lined on all 4 sides by the houses of the officers and men. It had a flat and level parade ground in the center of the square. Hospital Square contained 10 acres and served as the camp's hospital. Whiteoak Square contained 10 acres and originally served as the camp's prison. When word of larger number of prisoners were received, the square was combined with parts of the other squares, creating the Prison Square, a compound of 20 acres, along the west and south sides of Garrison Square. Prison Square contained 64 barracks sitting side by side. Each building was 24x90 feet, with 20 feet partitioned off as the kitchen. The remaining room held tiers of bunks along its walls. Each building was to hold 95 prisoners. The capacity of the camp was estimated at 6,000 prisoners. Eventually, each barrack would hold an average of 189 prisoners, with the average camp population being around 12,000. Within the first month of operation, the camp was at full estimated capacity. The camp is low and flat, rendering drainage imperfect. Its close proximatey to Lake Michigan, and consequent exposure to the cold, damp winds from the lake, with the flat, marshy character of the soil created a tendency for disease. Col. James A. Mulligan of the 23rd Illinois Regiment, who had been captured at the battle of Lexington and released on parole, was the first camp commandant. Within the first few weeks of the camp's opening, the escape attempts began. Camp commandants were rotated in and out, one after another, possibly in a feeble attempt to halt the increasing number of escapes and escape attempts. After Mulligan, Col. Daniel Cameron, captured at the battle of Harper's Ferry and released on parole, was the next commandant, followed by Col. JosephH. Tucker. Tucker used 2 detectives, under the guise of being camp prisoners, to inform him of any future escape attempts and the aides of escaped prisoners. Following the constant escapes, some of the next commandants in 1863 were Gen. Jacob Ammen, who took command in January; Col. DeLand in August; and Brig. Gen. William W. Orme in December. In May 1864, Col. Benjamin J. Sweet took over. He installed some radical changes to prevent escapes. To prevent tunneling, flooring was replaced in the barracks and the buildings were elevated on posts to 4 feet above ground.To prevent escapes by fence, an additional 12-foot high, solid-oak barricade was constructed with an elevated walkway for guards around the existing fences to create a triple plank enclosure from which the guards to look down into the pen. Security was also tightened within the camp. Candles were no longer issued and at daybreak, the prisoners were required to lay in bed until a bugle sounded to signal they were allowed to get up. At the end of the day, the prisoners were not allowed to talk to one another after the went to bed. LIFE & CONDITIONS: The Union victories at Shiloh and Island No. 10 in April brought almost 1,500 more Confederate prisoners into Prison Square. By late summer of 1862, the camp held nearly 9,000 prisoners, and the prison conditions deteriorated. The camp was built on low ground, and it flooded with every rain. During most of the winter months, when it wasn't frozen, the compound was a sea of mud. Steadily, illness and death began to increase. In January and February 1863 an average of 18 prisoners died every day, for a death rate of 10% a month, more than any other Civil War prison in any 1-month period. The Sanitary Commission pointed out that at this rate, all the prisoners would be dead in 320 days. The majority of prison deaths was from typhoid fever and pneumonia, the result of filth, the bad weather, and a lack of heat and clothing. Other prevalent diseases included measles, mumps, "epidemic" catarrh, and chronic diarrhea. The president of the U.S. Sanitary Commission inspected the prison and gave a dismal report of an "amount of standing water, of unpoliced grounds, of foul sinks, of general disorder, of soil reeking with miasmic accretions, of rotten bones and emptying of camp kettles.....enough to drive a sanitarian mad." The barracks were so filthy and infested, he said, that "nothing but fire can cleanse them." He proposed that a proper sewage system was needed immediately. Quartermaster General Meigs responded that such an undertaking would be much too "extravagant". After continued pressure by the Sanitary Commission, he finally relented and authorized the construction of a sewer system for the camp in June 1863. More than 7,000 prisoners were in the camp by September, many of them ill-clad and sick, with only one surgeon to care for them. Conditions at Camp Douglas were horrendous. Disease, hunger, poor sanitation, lack of adequate clothing, and miserably cold weather were endured by the men incarcerated there. By the end of 1863, epidemics of smallpox were emrging at the camp. The commandant and his subordinates worked in collusion with contractors to reduce the quality/quanity of prisoner rations for personal profits. About the time that Sweet took command of the prison, a reduction in prisoner rations took place by orders from Washington, D.C. The ration was typically 1/2 loaf of baker's bread daily, with about 4 oz. of meat and a gill of beans or potatoes. After the retalitory measures were adopted, the stoves were taken away and all vegetables were cut off from the rations. With the elimination of the vegetables, scurvy occured in epidemic numbers, followed by another smallpox epidemic. Because of the drastic prison conditions, local residents offered refief and assistance to the prisoners, not as a matter of politics but purely out of compassion. This went on for a little while until the Federal Government put a stop to it. The people of Chicago were curios about the camp and its prisoners. An observatory tower was built just outside the prison gate for onlookers to look at the prisoners, for 10 cents per person. The spectators would go to the top of the tower where, with the aid of spy or field glasses, they could look down upon the camp. Prisoners and nearby residents helping the camp accumulated enough books to set up a prison library system. Worst of all was the lack of stoves in the prisoners barracks. All the barracks were greatly in need of repair. Only 3 water hydrants were provided to supply fresh water for the entire camp. The camp was having escape problems just like any other major prison. When the camp was first opened, many escapes occured when a prisoner darkened his hands and face with charcoal or some other substance and walked out the front gate with other black prison laborers. The use of black loborers was soon ended after this was found out. Tunneling out of prison was the most popular way of escaping. Camp Douglas was one of many camps to to be involved in major Confederate plots to release all of the prisoners. Captured escapees were put in a place of close confinement, called the lockup cell. The lockup was a room 18 sq. feet large. It was lit by one closely barred 18x8 inch window about 6 feet above the floor. The only entry into the room was by a hatch about 20 sq. inches in the ceiling. The floor was constantly damp, and an intolorable stench radiated from the sink in the corner of the room. In late 1864, many political prisoners from the surrounding counties were added to the camp upon the discovery of several plots to release prisoners. By then, the camp had a prisoner population of 12,082. During the next 2 months, the camp continued to hold ovewr 11,000 prisoners. During the war, over 18,000 prisoners were held at the camp. Regiment: 21st Infantry Battalion VA Date Mustered: 24 November 1862 Regiment Type: Infantry Regimental Soldiers and History: Regimental History Battles Fought Fought on 16 March 1862 at Pound Gap Station, VA. Fought on 02 May 1862 at Russell County, VA. Fought on 09 September 1862 at Cumberland Gap, KY. Fought on 18 October 1862 at Kentucky. Fought on 18 October 1862 at Lexington, KY. Fought on 05 November 1862 at Harlan County, KY. Fought on 02 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. Fought on 03 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. Fought on 04 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. Fought on 09 September 1863 at Cumberland Gap, TN. Fought on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA. Fought on 02 March 1865 at Waynesboro, VA. Regiment: 64th Infantry Regiment VA Date Mustered: 01 April 1865 Regiment Type: Infantry Regimental Soldiers and History: List of Soldiers Regimental History Battles Fought Fought at Crab Orchard, KY. Fought at New Market, VA. Fought on 01 November 1862. Fought on 01 November 1862 at East Tennessee. Fought on 01 December 1862. Fought on 30 December 1862 at East Tennessee. Fought on 31 December 1862 at Jonesville, VA. Fought on 20 January 1863. Fought on 29 January 1863 at Chestnut Ridge, TN. Fought on 07 February 1863. Fought on 15 April 1863. Fought on 30 April 1863 at Morristown, TN. Fought on 16 May 1863 at Manchester, KY. Fought on 03 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. Fought on 09 September 1863. Fought on 09 September 1863 at Cumberland Gap, KY. Fought on 09 September 1863 at Cumberland Gap, TN. Fought on 01 October 1863. Fought on 05 November 1863 at Jonesville, VA. Fought on 11 November 1863 at Ocaquan, VA. Fought on 20 November 1863 at Mulberry Gap, TN. Fought on 25 November 1863 at Chestnut Ridge, VA. Fought on 25 November 1863 at Missionary Ridge, TN. Fought on 29 November 1863 at Chestnut Ridge, VA. Fought on 29 November 1863 at Jonesville, VA. Fought on 29 November 1863 at Lee County, VA. Fought on 11 December 1863. Fought on 12 December 1863 at Mulberry Gap, VA. Fought on 15 December 1863 at Lee County, VA. Fought on 16 December 1863 at Lee County, VA. Fought on 17 December 1863 at Jonesville, VA. Fought on 17 December 1863 at Tazewell, TN. Fought on 21 December 1863 at Tazewell, TN. Fought on 24 December 1863. Fought on 01 January 1864 at Jonesville, VA. Fought on 02 January 1864 at Jonesville, VA. Fought on 12 January 1864 at Cumberland Gap, TN. Fought on 24 January 1864 at Cumberland Gap, KY. Fought on 15 February 1864 at Cumberland Gap, KY. Fought on 13 March 1864 at Jonesville, VA. Fought on 01 April 1864 at Carter Station, TN. Fought on 04 May 1864. Fought on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA. Fought on 15 May 1864 at Louisa, KY. Fought on 01 June 1864. Fought on 21 June 1864 at Elk Creek, TN. Fought on 08 July 1864 at Jonesville, VA. Fought on 01 October 1864 at Winfield, WV. Fought on 02 October 1864 at Saltville, VA. Fought on 07 October 1864 at Lee County, VA. Fought on 01 November 1864. Fought on 25 January 1865 at Lee County, VA. Fought on 26 January 1865 at Lee County, VA. Fought on 06 February 1865 at Lee County, VA. Fought on 06 March 1865 at Tazewell County, VA. Fought on 12 March 1865. Fought on 20 March 1865 at Harlan County, KY. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Chimborazo Hospl, Richmond, VA. Fought on 29 April 1865. up arrow Morgan Carter was a farmer in Scott County, Virginia. Morgan married Nancy E. Cowden on 12 Aug 1858 in Scott County, Virginia. Children from this marriage were: i. James C. Carter (born on 25 May 1859 Scott Co VA - died on 11 Mar 1907) ii. Rosa A. Carter was born on 29 May 1861 in Scott Co, VA, died on 25 Jun 1937, at age 76, and was buried in Cowden Cem, Esg#26, Scott Co, VA. iii. Sallie M. Carter was born on 4 Mar 1864, died on 5 Aug 1927, at age 63, and was buried in Cowden Cem, Etg#31, Scott Co, VA. 9. Nancy E. Cowden, daughter of Calvin Cowden and Mary Snavely, was born on 23 May 1837 in Scott Co VA and died on 26 Mar 1916, at age 78. Nancy married Pvt. Morgan C. Carter ,Co. C, 64th VA Cav., CSA on 12 Aug 1858 in Scott County, Virginia. 10. Pvt. Robert Moore ,Co. B, 25th VA Cav. General Notes: 25th Cavalry Regiment was organized in July, 1864, using the 27th Battalion Virginia Partisan Rangers as its nucleus. Serving in McCausland's and Imboden's Brigade, the unit fought in numerous engagements in western Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. During April, 1865, it disbanded. Its commanders were Colonel Warren M. Hopkins, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Edmundson, and Major Sylvester R. McConnell. The 27th Cavalry formed and was later renamed as the 25th. Virginia 27th Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers. Nicknames: Virginia 27th Mounted Rifles Battalion and Virginia Trigg's Cavalry, Battalion, Partisan Rangers. Organized with six compaies ca. 01 Sep 1862; Co. G organized 27 Sep 1862; Co. H organized on 03 Oct 1863; Co. I organized on 18 Apr 1863; Tenth company added and the battalion redesignated as the 25th Cavalry Regiment on 08 Jul 1864, per S.O. #159, Adjutant and Inspector's General Office. First Commander: Henry A. Edmundson (Lieutenant Colonel) Field Officer: Sylvester P. McConnell (Major) Virginia 27th Battalion Partisan Rangers "was formed in September, 1862 with seven companies, later increased to nine. the unit served in General Hodge's and W. E. Jones Brigade and participated in various engagments in east Tennessee and western Virginia. During April, 1864, it contained 240 effectives, and in July it merged into the 25th Regiment Virginia Cavalry. Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Edmundson was in command." (page 375) H. E. Howard Regimental History on the 27th (25th) Virginia Cavalry; H. E. Howard Publishing Co., Appomattox, VA. Cavalry Lomax's Division-Maj. Gen. Lunsford L. Lomax Imboden's Brigade-Col. George H. Smith 18th Virginia Cavalry 23d Virginia Cavalry 62d Virginia Mounted Infantry Johnson's Brigade-Brig. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson 8th Virginia Cavalry 21st Virginia Cavalry 22d Virginia Cavalry 34th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 36th Virginia Cavalry Battalion McCausland's Brigade-Brig. Gen. John McCausland 14th Virginia Cavalry 16th Virginia Cavalry 17th Virginia Cavalry 25th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 37th Virginia Cavalry Battalion Jackson's Brigade-Brig. Gen. Henry B. Davidson 2d Maryland Cavalry 19th Virginia Cavalry 20th Virginia Cavalry 46th Virginia Cavalry Battalion 47th Virginia Cavalry Battalion Robert married Elizabeth Horn on 17 Aug 1826. Children from this marriage were: i. Mary Eliza Jane Moore (born on 18 Jun 1864 - died on 5 Mar 1944 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co, TN.) 11. Elizabeth Horn, daughter of Pvt. Jesse Horn Jr., Co. A, 43rd North Carolina Inf. and Jane Belcher, was born in 1833 in Scott County, Virginia. Elizabeth married Pvt. Robert Moore ,Co. B, 25th VA Cav. on 17 Aug 1826. 12. Felix Vanzant, son of Jacob Vanzant and Catherine Moon, was born about 1797 in North Carolina, died about 1867 in Scott Co VA, about age 70, and was buried in Nickels Cemetery, Looneys Gap, Scott Co., VA. General Notes: Death: ABT 1867 in Scott County, VA 2 of Exposure after 30 day trip in covered wagon from NC to VA 1867 Removed from Ashe Co., NC to Scott Co, VA. Left some children in North Carolina. Others later came to Scott Died soon after arrival in Scott Co, VA of Exposure Felix married Irene Money in North Carolina. Children from this marriage were: i. Felix Asbury Vanzant (born in 1861 North Carolina - died in 1935 in Scott Co VA) ii. Issac Vanzant was born on 25 Dec 1846 in North Carolina, died on 22 Apr 1931 in Scott County, VA, at age 84, and was buried in Nickels Cemetery, Loonys Gap, Scott County, VA. iii. Mary Vanzant was born on 10 May 1853 in Ashe Co, NC and died on 9 Feb 1932 in Scott Co VA, at age 78. iv. Sarahan Catherine Vanzant was born about 1844 in North Carolina. v. Jane Vanzant was born about 1847 in North Carolina. vi. Nancy M. Vanzant was born on 1 Mar 1848 in Surry Ciounty, NC and died on 22 Sep 1929 in Grayson County, Texas, at age 81. vii. Rachel Elizabeth Vanzant was born on 20 Jan 1850 in North Carolina and died on 28 Jan 1940 in North Carolina, at age 90. viii. John Vanzant was born on 25 Aug 1855 in North Carolina and died on 14 Jan 1941 in Kentucky, at age 85. ix. Joni Vanzant was born on 25 Aug 1855 in North Carolina. x. Martha J. Vanzant was born in 1858 in North Carolina. 13. Irene Money was born in 1817 in North Carolina and died in 1885 in Virgiania, at age 68. General Notes: A twin of Joni. Irene married Felix Vanzant in North Carolina. 14. William Henderson Herron, son of Pvt. James A. Herron ,Company A, 19th Infantry Regiment Virginia and Arianda Barksdale, was born in 1851 in Virginia. William married Caroline Tyree about 1872. Children from this marriage were: i. Alice Herron was born on 4 Dec 1876 in Scott County, Virginia and died on 28 Apr 1946 in Scott County, Virginia, at age 69. ii. Laura L. Herron (born on 6 Jun 1874 - died on 28 Mar 1905) iii. Sarah J. Herron was born in 1876 in Virginia. iv. Patton Herron was born in 1888 in Virginia. v. William Henderson Herron , Jr. was born in 1870 in Scott County, Virginia. 15. Caroline Tyree, daughter of James Tyree and Mary "Polly" Elizabeth Hall, was born on 28 Aug 1847 in Scott Co., VA and died on 6 Nov 1900, at age 53. Caroline married William Henderson Herron about 1872. Fifth Generation (Great Great Grandparents) 16. Pvt. Landon Charles Carter ,Co. A/K, 25th VA. Cavalry, CSA, son of Landon Carter and Molly Carter, was born in 1809 in Scott Co VA. General Notes: 25th Cavalry Regiment was organized in July, 1864, using the 27th Battalion Virginia Partisan Rangers as its nucleus. Serving in McCausland's and Imboden's Brigade, the unit fought in numerous engagements in western Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. During April, 1865, it disbanded. Its commanders were Colonel Warren M. Hopkins, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Edmundson, and Major Sylvester R. McConnell. Landon married Sarah "Sallie" Darnell on 17 Aug 1830 in Scott County, Virginia. Children from this marriage were: i. Pvt. Morgan C. Carter ,Co. C, 64th VA Cav., CSA (born on 25 May 1839 Scott Co VA - died on 27 Aug 1864 in Camp Douglas POW Camp, Chicago, IL) ii. Dale William Carter was born about 1834 and died on 26 Feb 1864 in Camp Douglas POW Camp, Chicago, IL, about age 30. iii. Aggy Carter was born in 1836. iv. Elizabeth Carter was born in 1840. v. Ibby Carter was born in 1842. vi. Joseph Carter was born in 1844. 17. Sarah "Sallie" Darnell, daughter of Raleigh Darnell and Elizabeth, was born in 1808 in North Carolina. Sarah married Pvt. Landon Charles Carter ,Co. A/K, 25th VA. Cavalry, CSA on 17 Aug 1830 in Scott County, Virginia. 18. Calvin Cowden, son of William Robert Cowden Jr. and Nancy Chaney, was born in 1809 in Wythe County, Virginia, died on 13 Oct 1852 in Scott County, Virginia, at age 43, and was buried in Cowden Cem., Scott County, Virginia. General Notes: Other Event(s): _FA1: 1822 Place: JOSEPH COWDEN GUARDIAN OF CALVIN _FA1: 13 Nov 1822 Place: BIND OUT TO JACOB SEAGEL TANNER & CURRIER _FA1: 1850 Place: CENSUS SCOTT CO.VA P.392 Calvin married Mary Snavely on 6 Jul 1836 in SMYTH Co. VA. Children from this marriage were: i. Nancy E. Cowden (born on 23 May 1837 Scott Co VA - died on 26 Mar 1916) 19. Mary Snavely,(1) daughter of Henry B. Snavely and Maria Katterina Groseclose, was born on 17 Nov 1813 in Wythe County, VA and was christened on 13 Feb 1814 in Kimberling, Wythe County, VA. Mary married Calvin Cowden on 6 Jul 1836 in SMYTH Co. VA. 22. Pvt. Jesse Horn Jr., Co. A, 43rd North Carolina Inf., son of Jesse Horn ,Sr. and Nancy Langley, was born on 31 Oct 1805 in North Carolina and died on 18 Dec 1886 in Scott County, Virginia, at age 81. General Notes: 43rd Infantry Regiment was assembled at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina, in March, 1862. Its members were from counties in Mecklenburg, Wilson, Halifax, Edgecombe, Warren, and Anson. During the war the 43rd was assigned to General Daniel's, Hoke's, and Grimes' Brigade. It fought in the Seven Days' Battles and saw action at Goldsboro, Gettysburg , Plymouth , Drewry's Bluff , and Cold Harbor . The regiment was then involved in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and the Appomattox Campaign. It was organized with 1,066 officers and men, lost twenty-six percent of the 572 engaged at Gettysburg , and had 4 killed and 13 wounded at Plymouth . On April 9, 1865, it surrendered 9 officers and 164 men. The field officers were Colonel Thomas S. Kenan, Lieutenant Colonel William G. Lewis, and Major Walter J. Boggan. Jesse married Jane Belcher on 17 Aug 1826 in Scott, Virginia. Children from this marriage were: i. Elizabeth Horn (born in 1833 Scott County, Virginia) ii. John W. Horn was born in 1840. iii. Nancy Horn. iv. Eleanor Horn. v. William Horn. vi. George Horn. vii. Jesse F. Horn. viii. Lucy Horn. ix. Eliza Horn. 23. Jane Belcher was born on 25 Dec 1807 in Kentucky, died on 30 Apr 1885 in Scott County, Virginia, at age 77, and was buried in Dungannon, Scott Co, VA. Jane married Pvt. Jesse Horn Jr., Co. A, 43rd North Carolina Inf. on 17 Aug 1826 in Scott, Virginia. 24. Jacob Vanzant, son of Garret Vanzandt and Mary Unknown, was born on 11 Dec 1751 in NC, died on 16 Jan 1818 in Winchester, Franklin Co. TN, at age 66, and was buried on 19 Jan 1818 in Old Bean's Creek Cemetery, Franklin Co. TN. General Notes: Notes for Jacob Vanzant: Was a Captain in the North Carolina Militia during the Revolution and fought at the battle of Cowpens. Jacob married Catherine Moon(Per Stephen Lawson, Port Orchard, WA) Moone name listed is shown on page 145 "Blackburns Today and Yesterday",By F.B.Hilliard. Davy Corckett was a witness to Jacob's will. Jacob and Catherine were buried in adjacent grave in Bean's Creek Cemetery, Franklin Co. TN Listed in 1812 Franklin Co. Census(see http://www.usit.net/tengenweb/franklin/frantax.htm) History of Lincoln County, TN-(Taken From Land of Bedford County, TN in 1810). 128 lots were platted on the 100 acres and they were offered for sale in September of 1810. Among the persons listed as having bought lots were the following" *Joseph Sumners Walter Kinnard Brice M. Garner Peter Looney Joseph Jenkins Joseph McMillan James Bright *Jacob Van Zandt Joseph Sumners was probably the ancestor of Hatton W. Sumners, long time member of the House of Congress from Texas; and Jacob Van Zandt was of that old North Carolina family represantatives of which became prominent also in later day Texas. In recent years the Van Zandt Society has discovered numerous records on the descendants of Garrett Vansant and his wife, Mary. Included in this group are large numbers of Vansants in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. Each contributor to our records asks the same question: Who were Garrett and Mary Vansant? Most records indicate that Garrett and Mary were living in Rutherford County ten to twenty years prior to the Revolutionary War. Garrett died there in 1787, while Mary lived until 1796. Both left wills in North Carolina. A few land transactions can also be found bearing Garrett's name. But where did they come from? From the name Garrett, we may assume that he is a descendant of the Garret Stoeffelse Van Zandt line of Bucks County, PA. The name Garrett did appear in New Jersey under the descendants of Bernardus Van Zandt and Belitje Laton and in the line of Joseph Janse Van Zandt in Albany, NY. We tend to eliminate the chance of Garrett of North Carolina being a descendant of the New Jersey or New York line, because we have traced their descendants and they did not leave their home states in those early years. Among the Bucks County, PA Van Zandts we have many Garrets. Some remained in Pennsylvania and we can trace them. A few disappeared from Bucks County and no further records are known. This could be a possible answer. Other Van Zandts traveled on to Maryland and Delaware. Here we again find several Garretts. Possibly Garrett of North Carolina came from here. In trying to piece together this puzzle we must ask several questions. What families had sons named Garrett of whom no further records have been found? When was Garrett of North Carolina born? What names did he give his children? Many clues can be found as to the identity of unknown parents because the Dutch tradition was to name the first two sons and first two daughters for the maternal and paternal grandparents. Garrett and Mary of Rutherford County, NC had a son Jacob (born about 1750) and a son Garret born, by some records, as early as 1745. If Garrett and Mary were 20-25 years old when their first child was born, Garrett must have been born between 1720 and 1725. The only Garrett who would fit that time period would have been the son of Albertus Van Zandt and Rebecca Vandergrift. Albertus' son Garrett was born about 1720 to 1722. Albertus, son of Garrett Stoeffelse Van Zandt, was born in New York, moved to Bucks County about 1698, married Rebecca Vandergrift in 1704, purchased land in St. George's Hundred, Delaware in 1708, and at some point moved to this land. We know who his four daughters married. We know that Albertus had five sons and one who died early. Of the other four, Harmanus, James, John, and Garrett, we have no further records. Could this be the Garrett of North Carolina? Age-wise he fits. Garrett and Mary named their children Jacob, James, Garrett, Mary, Elizabeth and Rachel. Not knowing Mary's maiden name or her parents' names, we can look only at Garrett's family for clues. If this Garrett was the son of Albertus and Rebecca, why did he not name a child after his parents. This would tend to tell us Albertus was not his father. Several of Garrett's and Mary's descendants claim that the Van Zandts came to North Carolina with a migration from the Moravian colony of Eastern Pennsylvania. This is questionable. The Moravians were located in the northeastern section of Pennsylvania and the Van Zandts in the southeast section of the state. The Van Zandts were of the Dutch Reformed or Presbyterian churches, while the Moravians were a small German sect located in the Bethlehem, PA area. Could Garrett and Mary have joined the Moravians if they passed through Bucks County on their way south? The Van Zandt Society would appreciate any comments or suggestions on this purely speculative report. We have hundreds of Vansants who want to know from which of the original Van Zandt lines they came. If we know where Garrett came from, we could very likely tie him into the original families. Jacob married Catherine Moon in 1782 in Rutherford Co. NC. Children from this marriage were: i. Mary Vanzandt was born about 1774 in Rutherford Co. NC and died after 1835 in Vermilion Co. IL, after age 61. ii. Elizabeth Vanzandt was born about 1772 in Rutherford Co. NC and died about 1830 in Franklin Co. TN, about age 58. iii. Abraham Vanzandt was born in 1777 in Rutherford Co. NC and died in 1853 in Grayson Co. TX, at age 76. iv. James Vanzandt was born about 1780 in NC. v. Isaac Vanzandt was born on 23 Jan 1780 in Rutherford Co, NC and died on 20 Jan 1849 in Franklin Co. TN, at age 68. vi. Jacob Vanzandt was born about 1786 in Rutherford Co. NC and died on 11 Mar 1834 in Franklin Co. TN, about age 48. vii. Felix Vanzant (born about 1797 North Carolina - died about 1867 in Scott Co VA) 25. Catherine Moon was born on 10 Dec 1751 in VA, died on 28 Oct 1829 in Franklin Co. TN, at age 77, and was buried on 30 Oct 1829 in Old Bean's Creek Cemetery, Franklin Co. TN. General Notes: Notes for Catherine Moon: LDS Records: Submitter: James Victor Kennedy Submission: AF92-104925 Lakeside, CA USA 92040 Submission: AF93-109153 Olga Carleton Harper Unit 78 Submission: AF97-122454 Arenas Valley Ruth A Mitchell Griffin Submission: AF92-106067 Benton, AR USA 72015 J. Gerald Miller Submission: AF94-101650 Memphis, TN USA 38117-3125 Catherine married Jacob Vanzant in 1782 in Rutherford Co. NC. 28. Pvt. James A. Herron ,Company A, 19th Infantry Regiment Virginia, son of Alexander Herron and Jane Colvin, was born about 1817 and died in 1900 in Albermarle County VA, about age 83. General Notes: James A Herron , Enlistment Date: 25 September 1863 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Confederacy State Served: Virginia Unit Numbers: 768 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 25 September 1863 Enlisted in Company A, 19th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 25 September 1863. Absent, sick on 01 June 1864 (With chronic dysentery) Returned on 15 September 1864 (Estimated day) Hospitalized on 27 February 1865 at Chimborazo Hospl, Richmond, VA (With dropsy) Regiment: 19th Infantry Regiment VA Date Mustered: 09 April 1865 Regiment Type: Infantry Regimental History Battles James A. Herron Fought Fought on 14 September 1863. Fought on 15 September 1863 at Fairgrounds Hospl, Petersburg, VA. Fought on 19 October 1863 at Braxton, VA. Fought on 14 November 1863 at Yorktown, VA. Fought on 26 January 1864 at Braxton County, VA. Fought on 12 May 1864 at Brooks Church, VA. Fought on 12 May 1864 at Richmond, VA. Fought on 12 May 1864 at Yellow Tavern, VA. Fought on 13 May 1864. Fought on 13 May 1864 at Brooks Church, VA. Fought on 01 June 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA. Fought on 03 June 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA. Fought on 04 June 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA. Fought on 11 June 1864 at Lexington, KY. Fought on 15 June 1864 at Fort Canton, VA. Fought on 16 June 1864 at Chester Station, VA. Fought on 18 June 1864. Fought on 20 June 1864 at Chester Station, VA. Fought on 23 June 1864 at Brooks Church, VA. Fought on 30 June 1864. Fought on 16 July 1864. Fought on 25 August 1864. Fought on 25 August 1864 at Howlett's House, VA. Fought on 19 September 1864 at Strausburg, VA. Fought on 22 September 1864 at Fisher's Hill, VA. Fought on 24 September 1864 at Harrisonburg, VA. Fought on 20 October 1864 at Brownsburg. Fought on 28 November 1864 at Clay's House. Fought on 05 February 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Fought on 22 February 1865. Fought on 15 March 1865. Fought on 28 March 1865 at Bermuda Hundred, VA. Fought on 28 March 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Fought on 29 March 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Fought on 31 March 1865 at Fairgrounds Hospl, VA. Fought on 31 March 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Fought on 31 March 1865 at Petersburg, VA. Fought on 02 April 1865 at Five Forks, VA. Fought on 02 April 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Fought on 02 April 1865 at Petersburg, VA. Fought on 02 April 1865 at Sutherland's Station, VA. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Fairgrounds Hospl, Petersburg, VA. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Fairgrounds Hospl, VA. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Petersburg, VA Hospl. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Richmond, VA Hospl. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Richmond, VA Hospl, Libby Prison. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Southside RR. Fought on 03 April 1865 at Sutherland's Station, VA. Fought on 04 April 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Fought on 04 April 1865 at Southside Railroad. Fought on 04 April 1865 at Sutherland's Station, VA. Fought on 05 April 1865 at Amelia Court House, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Amelia County, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Amelia Court House, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Burkes Farm, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Burkeville, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Farmville, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Farmville, VA Or Burkville, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Harper's Farm, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at High Bridge, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Prince Edward County, VA. Fought on 06 April 1865 at Sailor's Creek, VA. Fought on 07 April 1865 at Ford's Station, VA. Fought on 09 April 1865 at Jackson Hospl, Richmond, VA. Fought on 11 April 1865 at Farmville, VA. Fought on 13 April 1865 at Fairgrounds Hospl, Petersburg, VA. Fought on 15 April 1865. Fought on 16 April 1865 at High Bridge, VA. Fought on 16 May 1865 at Charlottesville, VA. Fought on 19 May 1865. Fought on 20 May 1865 at Charlottesville, VA. James married Arianda Barksdale in 1844 in Albermarle County VA. Children from this marriage were: i. Eliza J. Herron was born in 1844. ii. Mira Susan Herron was born in 1845. iii. Araminta F Herron was born in 1847. iv. Lucy R Herron was born in 1849. v. James M Herron was born on 5 Aug 1854. vi. John L Herron was born in 1855. vii. George F Herron was born on 14 Mar 1857. viii. Sallie M Herron was born in 1860. ix. Henry W Herron was born in 1862. x. William Henderson Herron (born in 1851 Virginia) 29. Arianda Barksdale, daughter of William Giles Barksdale and Elmira G. Wood, was born in Apr 1824 in Albermarle County VA. Arianda married Pvt. James A. Herron ,Company A, 19th Infantry Regiment Virginia in 1844 in Albermarle County VA. 30. James Tyree, son of David Tyree ,Sr. and Rachel Elizabeth Rogers, was born about 1814 in Scott Co., VA and died about 1877 in Scott Co., VA, about age 63. General Notes: It refrences Book 8 page 212, " In the name of God Amen, I James Tyree of the County of Scott and State of Virginia, being old of sound mind and memory knowing rthe uncertainty of life and the certainty of death do ordain and establish this my last will and testament in manner and form following. 1. I desire that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my money that I may have on hand at the time of my decease and personal estate. 2. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Polly Tyree, all my lands that I may die seized of during her natural life or widowhood also all my personal property exvept as hereinafter devised during her natural life or widowhood. 3. I give and bequeath to my daughter Malinda, deceased, son Robert Rogers, one dollar and no more. 4. I give and bequeath to all my daughters now living, Mary who intermarried with Nathan Bloomer, Ann who intermarried with Martin Vanburin Bloomer, Lucy Thompsons children, Malinda, Jane, and James Wesley Thompson, I desire to have their mother's part except sixty dollars paid their Mohter and James Thompson who intermarried with Lucy Tyree and to Louisa who intermarried with Elisha Dillion now deceased, I desire that her living children Sarah Katharine Dillion, John A Dillion, James Dillion and Robert S Dillion. Children and heirs of Louisa Tyree who intermarried with Elisha Dillion to have their within equal part of my estate to be equally divided among them. To Caroline Tyree who intermarried with Henderson Herron I give her equal proportation of my personal estate, to Elizabeth who intermarried with James Morris I give her equal proportation of my estate and to Martha I also give her equal part, to Louiesey Tyree, my daughter, I give her equal proportation of my personal estate and to Martha I also give her equal part. All these to have and deducted from what they are to receive, what they have received before my death to make all share aloke, and to my sons William, Jesse, and Hiram I give each an equal part of my personal estate deduction at my decease all that each one may have received up to that time. William having received to date thereof Two hundred and ten dollars the rest to be paid to them out of my personal estate so as to make an equal divide among all my children at the death of my wife Polly Tyree. I also desire that all my children both sons and daughters or their children named herein have an equal divide of my realestate at the decease of my wir\fe Polly Tyree upon the condition herein named that if they sell of my estate outside of my legal heirs children or grandchildren their transfer to be void and the one or ones to forfit their right to any part of my realestate. Malinda's son Robert Rogers is to have no part of my landed estate and in confidence of the integrity of Polly Tyree, my wife James Fugate, Nathan Bloomer, William Bloomer, James England, Campbell Johnson, Alexandra Riley, Andrew Bledsoe, Esqr, Hirom Roller, David J Robinette or any three of them who may be living in the county at the time of my decease shall be called on to make an equal divide of all my land but not till after the death of my wife and that no more than three of the above named persons be employed who may employ a surveyor to assist them and that my wife and Martin Van Bloomer and James Morris be guardian of my minor children and I desire that all my legal heirs be provided to settle any portion of my waste lands and that they have the benefit of all the improvements they make on the land but my wife the sole control of the open land that I now own. I further desire that my will be recorded at my death at the clerk's office in Estillville and that any of the persons named to divided my lands and all of them not to exceed three be executors of my will and see to that all my legal heirs get their equal share in property at my personal and realestate and that no sale of my property be made further than to pay my just debts and funeral expensives and that my executors be paid reasonable pay for their trouble. Intestomey whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal this 12th day of March 1874 James Tyree (seal) Tete Jesse Tyree John Tyree Hirom Tyree Robert P Tyler virginia Scott County Court 13th November 1877. The last will and testement of James Tyree, deceased, was this day proved. James is listed as 36 in the 1850 Scott County Virginia census. He is already married to Polly. James married Mary "Polly" Elizabeth Hall on 22 Jun 1836 in Scott Co., VA. Children from this marriage were: i. Malinda Tyree was born about 1836 in Scott Co., VA and died on 20 Mar 1855, about age 19. ii. Mary Tyree was born on 18 Jan 1838 in Scott Co., VA. iii. William M. Tyree was born about 1839 in Scott Co., VA and died in 1912 in Crawford Co., IN, about age 73. iv. Anna Tyree was born on 16 Mar 1840 in Scott Co., VA. v. Lucy Tyree was born on 1 Jul 1845 in Scott Co., VA and died on 10 Feb 1872, at age 26. Another name for Lucy was Lucinda Tyree. vi. Louisa Tyree was born about 1846 and died on 20 Aug 1871, about age 25. vii. Elizabeth Tyree was born about 1849 in Scott Co., VA and died on 5 Dec 1896, about age 47. viii. Caroline Tyree (born on 28 Aug 1847 Scott Co., VA - died on 6 Nov 1900) James next married Polly Young about 1850. Polly was born about 1825. General Notes: from the file of Nan Harvey - Nancestors@aol.com Children from this marriage were: i. Monroe Tyree was born about 1852. ii. Margaret Jane Tyree was born on 25 Mar 1853. iii. Jesse Tyree was born about 1856 and died about 1889, about age 33. iv. John Tyree was born about 1856. v. Lousey Tyree was born about 1857 and died in 1918 in Draw, SC, about age 61. vi. Hiram Tyree was born on 6 May 1861 in Scott Co., VA and died about 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah, about age 75. 31. Mary "Polly" Elizabeth Hall was born about 1825, died about 1850, about age 25, and was buried in Nichels Cem., Scott Co., VA. General Notes: In the 1850 census James has already remarried and all of Mary's children are being raised by the new wife. Malinda is listed as 14 Mary is listed as 12 Willialm is 10 Ann is 8 Kyct us 5 Kiyusa us 2 Elizabeth is 1. James is only 36 with all of these children and then remarries someone 11 years younger than himself. Mary married James Tyree on 22 Jun 1836 in Scott Co., VA. Sixth Generation (3rd Great Grandparents) 32. Landon Carter, son of Robert Wormley Carter and Heabard Smallwood Grayson, was born about 1779. Noted events in his life were: * Fact 1: : Proof He Was A Child From Virginia Soliers Of 1776, Vol. I. Ancestry. Com. Landon married Molly Carter. Children from this marriage were: i. Pvt. Landon Charles Carter ,Co. A/K, 25th VA. Cavalry, CSA (born in 1809 Scott Co VA) ii. Jemima Carter was born in 1801. iii. William B. Carter was born on 25 Nov 1811 in Grayson, VA and died on 14 Mar 1870, at age 58. 33. Molly Carter, daughter of Norris Carter and Agnes Allen, was born in 1786 in Virginia and died in 1842 in Virginia, at age 56. Other names for Molly were Mary, and Polly. Noted events in her life were: * Religion. m Landon Carter Molly married Landon Carter. 34. Raleigh Darnell, son of Morgan Darnell Jr. and Elizabeth Bronaugh, was born about 1770 in NC and died in Scott County, VA. General Notes: notes from JN Adams; I provided most of the info from Scott Co.,VA for the Darnell book apparently all the Darnells in Scott Co.,Va are descendants of Raleigh Darnell. Info from Darnell book, page 171, per Dr. H.C.Smith who laid the foundation for the book by Mr & Mrs Avlyn Dodd Conley 508 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd.,N.E.Glen Burnie,Maryland 21061 copyright 1979. This Raleigh Darnell is one of the Darnells whose children removed from North Carolina to Scott Co.,VA about 1830, and was named a son of Morgan, son of David. Since there is no evidence that David had a son Morgan and for the fact that the name Raleigh is indicative of the family of Isaac this family was place there. It does not seem practica l that the children all belong to the same mother,if,in truth,they all belong to Raleigh Darnell. Children: John "Morgan" ....b: 1790 - N.C. Sarah "Sallie"....b: 1808 - N.C. Edward "Ned"......b: 1814 - N.C. Noah..............b: 8/10/1818 - Scott Co., Va. Mary A."Polly"....b: 1822 - N.C. Adam Patton.......b: 12/28/1820 N.C. Frances Mahala....b: 1829 - Scott Co. Va. Raleigh A. (Horton) Rawley... b: 12/22/1832 - Scott Co. Va. Elizabeth.........b: 1835 - Scott Co. Va. John Henry........b: ? Raleigh married Elizabeth. Children from this marriage were: i. John "Morgan" Darnell was born about 1790 in , , NC and died in 1852, about age 62. ii. Edward "Ned" Darnell was born in 1814 in N.C. and died after 1870 in Scott County, VA, after age 56. iii. Adam Patton Darnell was born on 28 Dec 1820 in , , NC and died on 6 May 1883 in Scott Co., VA., at age 62. iv. Noah Darnell was born on 10 Aug 1818 in , , NC, died on 18 May 1897, at age 78, and was buried in Starnes Cem, Cp#37, Scott Co, VA. v. Frances Mahala Darnell was born in 1822 in VA, died on 18 Jan 1894, at age 72, and was buried in Jan 1894 in Hill Cem, #36, Scott Co, VA. vi. Mary A. "Polly" Darnell was born in 1825 in , , NC, died on 24 Dec 1860 in Clinch River, Scott Co, VA, at age 35, and was buried in Dec 1860 in Starnes Cem, , Scott Co, VA. vii. Pvt. Raleigh A. Horton Darnell Co. A, 25th Virginia Cavalry was born on 22 Jan 1832, died on 22 Dec 1917, at age 85, and was buried in Dec 1917 in Darnell Cem, #74, E. Of Fairview, Scott Co, VA. viii. Elizabeth Darnell was born about 1835 in Virginia and died after 1870, after age 35. ix. John Darnell. x. Sarah "Sallie" Darnell (born in 1808 North Carolina) 35. Elizabeth . Elizabeth married Raleigh Darnell. 36. William Robert Cowden Jr.,(2) son of William Robert Cowden and Unknown, was born in 1725 in Ireland. William married Nancy Chaney. Children from this marriage were: i. Calvin Cowden (born in 1809 Wythe County, Virginia - died on 13 Oct 1852 in Scott County, Virginia) 37. Nancy Chaney,(2) daughter of Ezekiel Chaney and Letty Dodson, was born in 1783. Nancy married William Robert Cowden Jr.. 38. Henry B. Snavely,(1) son of Peter Snavely and Elizabeth Cook, was born on 8 May 1784 in Rural Retreat (Wythe Co.) VA and died on 24 Jan 1837 in Smythe Co. VA, at age 52. Henry married Maria Katterina Groseclose on 12 Nov 1807 in Wythe Co. VA. Children from this marriage were: i. Elizabeth Snavely was born on 15 Dec 1808 in Wythe Co. VA and died on 7 Jul 1809. ii. Rachel Snavely was born on 12 Aug 1810 in Wythe Co. VA. iii. Peter Groseclose Snavely was born on 17 Feb 1812 in Wythe Co. VA and died on 16 Nov 1892 in Smythe Co. VA, at age 80. iv. Anna Snavely was born on 1 Oct 1815 in Wythe Co. VA and died on 29 Jul 1867, at age 51. v. Jernirna Snavely was born on 27 Jun 1817 in Smythe Co. VA. vi. Cathernine E. Snavely was born on 31 May 1820. vii. Elias J. Snavely was born on 12 Apr 1821 in Wythe Co. VA and died on 25 Mar 1845 in Wythe Co. VA, at age 23. viii. Jane E. Snavely was born on 11 Oct 1826 in Groseclose (Wythe Co.) VA and died on 10 May 1912 in Wythe Co. VA, at age 85. ix. Mary Snavely (born on 17 Nov 1813 Wythe County, VA) 39. Maria Katterina Groseclose, daughter of Peter Groseclose Jr. and Elizabeth Sluss, was born on 24 Jul 1788 and died on 5 Sep 1866 in WYTHE CO., Virginia, at age 78. Noted events in her life were: * Alt. Birth: 24 Jul 1788, WYTHE CO., Virginia. Maria married Henry B. Snavely on 12 Nov 1807 in Wythe Co. VA. 44. Jesse Horn ,Sr., son of John Horn and Sarah Perkins, was born about 1749 in Stokes County, Virginia and died before 1820 in Scott County, Virginia, before age 71. General Notes: SCOTT COUNTY VA 1850 CENSUS as of 1 June 1850 (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~drakefam/census/ Pat Drake Page 420(1) HORN - Jesse 45 NC $1500 Jane 35 KY John 21 VA Nancy 19 VA Elizabeth 17 VA Eleanor 13 VA William 11 VA George 9 VA Jesse F. 8 VA Lucy 6 VA Eliza 3 VA Nancy 80 SC Page 411(1) HORN - John 49 NC $-0- Rachael 42 VA Charles 16 VA Mary A. 13 VA Jesse 11 VA Jane 9 VA John 7 VA Caroline 5 VA William 6/12 VA HORN - Solomon O. 37 VA $30 Elizabeth 37 VA Frances M. 12 VA Margaret E. 11 VA Americas D. 9 VA Pleasant M. 4 VA W.P. 1/12 VA Jesse married Nancy Langley on 13 Jun 1797 in Stokes, NC. Children from this marriage were: i. Pvt. Jesse Horn Jr., Co. A, 43rd North Carolina Inf. (born on 31 Oct 1805 North Carolina - died on 18 Dec 1886 in Scott County, Virginia) ii. Nicholas Johnson Horn was born on 8 Nov 1798 in North Carolina and died on 16 May 1872 in Coeburn, Wise Co., VA., at age 73. 45. Nancy Langley, daughter of James Langley and Sarah, was born in 1775 in South Carolina and died on 14 Jun 1855 in Scott County, Virginia, at age 80. General Notes: William Horn from Coleburn, Wise Co. VA, brother to Nicholas Horn; father Jesse Horn; mother Nancy Langley: married 6-13-1797 in Stokes, NC. Jesse died before 1820; don't know when. Jesse and Nancy had 4 sons, Nicholas b. 11-8-1798; John 1801; Jesse(2) 1805; William 1810. Nancy Langley Horn was listed as head of household in 1820 Census, Scott Co VA. " "Nancy Langley was born in Kenly, Johnston Co. NC. She was the daughter of James Langley and Sarah Unknown. She married James Weddell. He died in Wayne NC. She married Jesse Horne 1797 in Stokes NC. James Langley was born abt 1746 in Virginia, and died 1822 in Kenly, Johnston Co. NC." 850 Scott Co VA Census Page 420a, Family # 935 Horn, Jesse 45 M Farmer 1500 NC Jane 35 F KY John 21 M Farmer VA Nancy 19 F VA Elizabeth 17 F VA Eleanor 13 F VA William 11 M VA George 9 M VA Jesse F 8 M VA Lucy 6 F VA Eliza 3 F VA Nancy 80 F SC. Nancy Langley Horne died on 6/14/1885 in Scott Co VA. See ""Scott Co VA Deaths - 1855"," Keith Nichols, http://keithnichols.tripod.com/deaths3.html Horn, Nancy Cause: Old age Place of Death: Scott Co., VA Parents: John Langly Informant: Jesse Horn Relationship: Son Death Date: June 14, 1855 Age : 90 yr Birthplace: South Carolina. Nancy married Jesse Horn ,Sr. on 13 Jun 1797 in Stokes, NC. 48. Garret Vanzandt, son of Gerret Vanzandt and Leah Nixon, was born about 1726 in Bucks Co. PA and died on 23 Mar 1787 in Rutherford Co. NC, about age 61. General Notes: Garrett and Mary Vansant of Rutherford County, North Carolina In recent years the Van Zandt Society has discovered numerous records on the descendants of Garrett Vansant and his wife, Mary. Included in this group are large numbers of Vansants in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. Each contributor to our records asks the same question: Who were Garrett and Mary Vansant? Most records indicate that Garrett and Mary were living in Rutherford County ten to twenty years prior to the Revolutionary War. Garrett died there in 1787, while Mary lived until 1796. Both left wills in North Carolina. A few land transactions can also be found bearing Garrett's name. But where did they come from? From the name Garrett, we may assume that he is a descendant of the Garret Stoeffelse Van Zandt line of Bucks County, PA. The name Garrett did appear in New Jersey under the descendants of Bernardus Van Zandt and Belitje Laton and in the line of Joseph Janse Van Zandt in Albany, NY. We tend to eliminate the chance of Garrett of North Carolina being a descendant of the New Jersey or New York line, because we have traced their descendants and they did not leave their home states in those early years. Among the Bucks County, PA Van Zandts we have many Garrets. Some remained in Pennsylvania and we can trace them. A few disappeared from Bucks County and no further records are known. This could be a possible answer. Other Van Zandts traveled on to Maryland and Delaware. Here we again find several Garretts. Possibly Garrett of North Carolina came from here. In trying to piece together this puzzle we must ask several questions. What families had sons named Garrett of whom no further records have been found? When was Garrett of North Carolina born? What names did he give his children? Many clues can be found as to the identity of unknown parents because the Dutch tradition was to name the first two sons and first two daughters for the maternal and paternal grandparents. Garrett and Mary of Rutherford County, NC had a son Jacob (born about 1750) and a son Garret born, by some records, as early as 1745. If Garrett and Mary were 20-25 years old when their first child was born, Garrett must have been born between 1720 and 1725. The only Garrett who would fit that time period would have been the son of Albertus Van Zandt and Rebecca Vandergrift. Albertus' son Garrett was born about 1720 to 1722. Albertus, son of Garrett Stoeffelse Van Zandt, was born in New York, moved to Bucks County about 1698, married Rebecca Vandergrift in 1704, purchased land in St. George's Hundred, Delaware in 1708, and at some point moved to this land. We know who his four daughters married. We know that Albertus had five sons and one who died early. Of the other four, Harmanus, James, John, and Garrett, we have no further records. Could this be the Garrett of North Carolina? Age-wise he fits. Garrett and Mary named their children Jacob, James, Garrett, Mary, Elizabeth and Rachel. Not knowing Mary's maiden name or her parents' names, we can look only at Garrett's family for clues. If this Garrett was the son of Albertus and Rebecca, why did he not name a child after his parents. This would tend to tell us Albertus was not his father. Several of Garrett's and Mary's descendants claim that the Van Zandts came to North Carolina with a migration from the Moravian colony of Eastern Pennsylvania. This is questionable. The Moravians were located in the northeastern section of Pennsylvania and the Van Zandts in the southeast section of the state. The Van Zandts were of the Dutch Reformed or Presbyterian churches, while the Moravians were a small German sect located in the Bethlehem, PA area. Could Garrett and Mary have joined the Moravians if they passed through Bucks County on their way south? The Van Zandt Society would appreciate any comments or suggestions on this purely speculative report. We have hundreds of Vansants who want to know from which of the original Van Zandt lines they came. If we know where Garrett came from, we could very likely tie him into the original families. Garret married Mary Unknown between 1740 and 1744 in Lincoln, Rutherford Co. NC. Children from this marriage were: i. Jacob Vanzant (born on 11 Dec 1751 NC - died on 16 Jan 1818 in Winchester, Franklin Co. TN) 49. Mary Unknown died on 29 Jan 1796 in Rutherford Co, NC. Mary married Garret Vanzandt between 1740 and 1744 in Lincoln, Rutherford Co. NC. 56. Alexander Herron, son of George Herron and Elizabeth Glaspey, was born in 1791 and died on 16 Nov 1868 in Albemarle Co Va., at age 77. Alexander married Jane Colvin on 21 Oct 1812 in Albermarle, VA. Children from this marriage were: i. Pvt. James A. Herron ,Company A, 19th Infantry Regiment Virginia (born about 1817 - died in 1900 in Albermarle County VA) 57. Jane Colvin, daughter of Alexander Colvin and Susannah, was born in 1793 and died on 7 Sep 1874 in Albemarle Co Va., at age 81. Jane married Alexander Herron on 21 Oct 1812 in Albermarle, VA. 58. William Giles Barksdale, son of Jonathon Barksdale Sr. and Lucy Rogers, was born in 1800 in Albermarle County VA and died on 2 Mar 1866 in Albermarle County VA, at age 66. William married Elmira G. Wood on 6 Sep 1821 in Albermarle County VA. Children from this marriage were: i. John Walker Barksdale was born about 1823 in Albermarle County VA. ii. Arianda Barksdale (born in Apr 1824 Albermarle County VA) iii. Arminta L. Barksdale was born in 1825 in Albermarle County VA. iv. Ann E. Barksdale was born in 1834 in Albermarle County VA. v. Thomas Benton Barksdale was born in 1835 in Albermarle County VA. vi. James Iverson Barksdale was born on 8 Sep 1834 in Albermarle County VA, died on 6 Apr 1921 in Albermarle County VA, at age 86, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville, VA. vii. William Issac Barksdale was born on 20 Jul 1840 in Albermarle County VA, died on 2 Sep 1920, at age 80, and was buried in Tinkling Springs Church, Augusta County, VA. viii. Sarah M. Barksdale was born in 1842 in Albermarle County VA. 59. Elmira G. Wood, daughter of John Wood and Mary Terrell, was born in 1799 in Albermarle County VA and died after 1871 in Albermarle County VA, after age 72. Elmira married William Giles Barksdale on 6 Sep 1821 in Albermarle County VA. 60. David Tyree ,Sr., son of John Tyree and Frances Voul, was born about 1785 in Wilkes Co., NC and died about 1870 in Letcher Co., KY, about age 85. David married Rachel Elizabeth Rogers about 1808 in Lee Co., VA. Children from this marriage were: i. William Tyree was born about 1808 in Lee Co., VA. ii. James Tyree (born about 1814 Scott Co., VA - died about 1877 in Scott Co., VA) iii. Jesse Tyree was born on 12 May 1818 in Scott County, Virginia and died on 23 Jul 1890 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, at age 72. iv. David Tyree Jr. was born on 2 Jun 1828 in Scott Co., VA and died on 30 Jan 1916 in Letcher Co., KY, at age 87. v. Frances Tyree was born about 1834. David next married Nancy Jones after 1835. Nancy was born WFT Est 1800-1820. General Notes: from the file of Nan Harvey - Nancestors@aol.com Children from this marriage were: i. Brittain Tyra was born about 1838. ii. Luatta Tyree was born about 1839. iii. Patterson Tyree was born about 1840. iv. Arta Tyree was born about 1842. v. Emaline Tyree was born about 1844. vi. Sarah Tyree was born about 1846. vii. Joseph Tyree was born about 1847. viii. Vowell Tyree was born about 1848. 61. Rachel Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Thomas Rogers and Nancy Cullor, was born about 1794 in NC and died about 1860-1870 in Letcher Co KY, about age 66. Rachel married David Tyree ,Sr. about 1808 in Lee Co., VA. Seventh Generation (4th Great Grandparents) 64. Robert Wormley Carter, son of John Carter of Sudley and Janet Hamilton, was born in 1733 and died in 1797, at age 64. General Notes: 1804-046 County Court of Chancery PLTF: CARTER'S Representives DEFT:CARTER'S Representives The Common Wealth of Virginia to the Sheriff ofFauquier co, VA. Greetings: You are hereby commanded to summon Moore F. Carter and Charles L. Carter to appear before the Justices of our County court of Fauquier at the Court House on the fourth Monday in June next to answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited against them by Robert Carter, Landon Carter, John Carter, William Fitzhugh Carter, Edward Carter jr. George Carter, Matilda Carter, and Elizabeth Carter which last five complaintants areinfants under the age of twenty-one years of age by Robert Carter, their next friend John B. Armistead and Ann his wife late Ann B.Carter and Edward Carter and Jane his wife and this they shall in no way omit under penalty of the one hundred pounds each and have then there this writ. Witness Francis Brooke Clerk of our said County Court at the Court Houseon the 27th day of April 1804 and in the 28th year of the Common Wealth.end document. [This collected by Anne at Annerupert@aol.com] Database: Prince William County, Virginia Wills, Part 1, 1734-1925 Year of first entry Surname Given Name Wills/Book Wills/Page Inventory and Appraisements/Book Inventory and Appraisements/Page Accounts/BookAccounts/Page Accounts/Book Accounts/Page Final Account/Book FinalAccount/Page Inheritance Tax/Book Inheritance Tax/Page List of Heirs/BookList of Heirs/Page 1815 Carter Robert K 479 K 533 K 544 Robert married Heabard Smallwood Grayson. Children from this marriage were: i. Landon Carter (born about 1779) ii. Hebe Grayson Carter was born in 1786. iii. William Grayson Carter was born in 1788. iv. Alfred Grayson Carter was born in 1790. 65. Heabard Smallwood Grayson, daughter of Col. William Grayson and Eleanor Smallwood, was born in 1766. General Notes: She has a cousin listed as William G. Orr. source court doc. 60-29Tidball & wife vs Henderson & R. Carter Admors located on Fredericksburg Historic court records website. Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Affidavits. Alfred G. Carter of Washington Co., Miss., William G. Carter and Robert G. Carter of Carter Co., Ken. appointed the same Atty. to obtain warrantdue them for service of their great uncle Heaberd Smallwood. 3 Aug.,1838. Witnesses, Sophia Carter, E. L. Carter and Lucy Berkeley.Acknowledged by the five grand children of Col. Graysons daughter Hebe(who married their father, Robert Carter, and that their said mother wasone of the heirs of Captain Heaberd Smallwood) before James McGuire, J.of P. 14 Sept, 1838. Attest, Peter Mark, Pres. J. of P. Carter Co. She also lived in KY. The Grayson Family by John Breckinridge Grayson Jr. 1877 Contributed by Margaret L. Edwards The first of the Graysons, in America, of whom there is any record at hand, was Benjamin, who with his sister, emigrated from England or Scotland to Westmoreland County Va., afterwards settling on the Occoquan River near the spot which later became Colchester. His family in England are now known to his descendants. Those gone before my time have told my elder relatives that Benjamin Grayson was a man of exceedingly fine address, and notably was of good blood. He came to America in the early part of the 18th century. He was supposed to be the younger son of a refined and wealthy family, if not of the nobility; and his acquirements, person and habits bore ample evidence of it. In his new home he became a merchant trading in tobacco largely with vessels in the then Bay of Occoquan, and carried on a large commission business for the captains and supercargoes. Seen the wants of the people in the new country, he planned and executed for their benefit and improvement. Among many branches of his extensive business he started a large wholesale trade in homemade crackers and sea biscuits, and wheat bread, which extended to every settlement from Occoquan to the mountains. At that time cornbread was the universal provision of the staff of life, and his starting the wheatbread and cracker branch of his business was gladly welcomed by both the colonists and the captains of the foreign vessels trading in the Bay of Occoquan and at Dumfries. His great industry and judicious management of his affairs enabled him to acquire a large estate; and the great esteem and popularity, which his probity and diligence obtained, were the cause of his being made executor to some very wealthy children of the gentry. Benjamin Grayson left Westmoreland County in 1710 or 20, and settled in the town of Dumfries, Prince William County, Va., where he was largely engaged in the merchantile and shipping business. Dumfries was at that time the county seat of Prince William County and a port of entry and export. The largest vessels for half a century were borne on the creek from the Potomac River to Dumfries, and her wharves and warehouses were scenes of great commercial activity. The decadence of Dumfries dates chiefly from the rise of Alexandria and Baltimore, and the gradual subsidence of the water entrance to her wharves. The once broad and deep water course has dwindled to an insignificant creek, and her wharves have disappeared, and where once stood her warehouses are fields of corn and waste lands. There still stands within her limits about a dozen of more handsome houses, built of English brick, with fine marble porches at the entrance evidence of the former opulence of Dumfries. Many of the other houses still standing are built of frame, and present still a good appearance. A destructive fire in 1848 swept over Dumfries and much of the town was destroyed. Benjamin Grayson resided at Dumfries where he married a rich widow, Mrs. Linton, of whom mention is made further on. Upon his marriage to the Miss or Mrs. Ewell, by whom he had no issue, he built a residence near the Occoquan and Potomac Rivers on a large tract of land he owned, and called the estate "Belle Air", in honor of the old place further up the county, which had been the home of his second wife. The residence was a fine large mansion, situated on a table land elliptical in shape, fronting the Potomac River, which is about one mile distant, and that point about four miles wide. The mansion was built in manorial style, with lofty columned front, and with massive carved oaken doors, and wainscoting. The estate was largely cultivated and noted for its fruits and flowers. After the death of Benjamin Grayson, it passed by inheritance to his son, the Reverend Spence Grayson, of the Church of England. He, Benjamin Grayson, was colonel of the militia in the year 1740, a large purchaser of lands in Virginia, ( and that part afterwards Kentucky) from persons with whom he had dealings and was first among the most popular and esteemed gentlemen in the county in which he resided, Prince William County. He married the rich widow Linton, whose maiden name was Susanna Monroe, sister of Spence Monroe the father of President James Monroe, who was from an old and distinguished Scotch family. Susanna Monroe first married a Mr. Tyler, and then Linton, both of whom left her on son and large estates. The sister of Benjamin Grayson married Mr. Harrison the ancestor of Col. Burr Harrison, of the Revolutionary Army, and of Matthew Harrison, lawyer of Dumfries. The name of Spence was introduced into the Monroe family by intermarriage to a Monroe with a lady of that ancient, wealthy and respectable family, as is evident from many of the descendants having been so named. The names of Susan M. And Susanna Monroe were also long adhered to in the several branches. After the death of Susanna Monroe, he, Benjamin Grayson, married the widow Ewell, by who he had no issue. This lady was of the same family as was the late General Ewell, of the Confederate Army. Benjamin Grayson departed this life 1757 at his residence "Belle Air" in Prince William Co., Va. The burial services were performed by the Rev. Mr. Scott, of the Church of England. He left a handsome estate; and an unblemished name for the glory of his posterity, for their edification and example. The Graysons of America, even if beyond the mighty ocean the name of the family of their progenitor is shrouded in uncertainty from them, which the Revolutionary War, time and neglect to investigate have but intensified, have indeed abundant reason to be satisfied with the broken link they find upon the old Bay of the Occoquan of Virginia, our noble mother country. There they meet with the energetic and resolute colonists having a home in the virgin country, and living a life of manly nobility, and bequeathing to posterity the most worthy example of good deeds and the character of an honest and fearless Christian gentleman. Let his descendants emulate his life and let it not be said that his energy, industry and worth have died out from the clan. John Tyler, the son of Mr. Tyler, and Susanna Monroe, was many years inspector of tobacco at Dumfries, and the founder of the Tyler family in (Prince William County). Her children by Linton were a daughter, who married a Dr. Nesbitt, of Colchester, a gentleman of large estate and left a large family, and a son, John Linton, Inspector of tobacco at Dumfries, and the founder of the Linton family in Prince William County. Some of the descendants have been very wealthy. The family of President Tyler are the stock of Susanna Monroe's first husband, as was President Harrison of the same stock as the ancestor, who married the sister of Benjamin Grayson. (Note. Mr. Lund Washington, the husband of my grandfather's sister, Susanna Monroe, lived during the times of the lives of most of the persons in this record, and in the main I am but relying upon the copying, the papers written by him about 30 to 40 years ago. I am also indebted to some data from my cousins, the late Col. Peter G. Washington, and Mr. Frederick Wm. Spence Grayson, of Philadelphia, and from what I have heard from older members and friends of the family. Benjamin Grayson and Susanna Monroe had the following children: Benjamin, Spence, William and Susanna Monroe. ( See appendix) Benjamin Grayson oldest son of Benjamin Grayson and Susanna Monroe, was born in 1730. He married a Miss Osborne and had on son, Benjamin, and a daughter, who married ---Bronaugh, of Loudoun County. After his death his widow married a Mr. Moree. Benjamin Grayson, the second, like hid father, was also extensively engaged in mercantile business, but was not successful. Becoming involved his half brothers, Linton and Tyler, and his brother, the Rev. Spence Grayson, became his security for large sums for which a great part of their fine estates had to be sold, his brother Spence was the heaviest loser. His sister, Susanna Monroe also lost heavily by him, he being her guardian, and all her large inheritance except her lands and some slaves, being lost in his hands. His brother, William was at College of Law in England at the period of these events, and fortunately was not involved by him. His widow in consideration of relinquishing her dower rights lost a valuable estate form her son, which included 22oo acres of the best land in Loudoun County, Va., and which belonged to the Rev. Spence Grayson, and formed a part of the property sacrificed by him for his brother Benjamin. The widow of Benjamin Grayson, the second, married the Rev. M. Moree and had some children. Her son, Benjamin Grayson, the third, married a Miss Brohaugh of Loudoun. He left a large family and five estates. His sons were the late Dr. William Grayson, who died in New York. ( He was a gentleman of rare culture and distinguished in his profession.) He left one son, who died single. The late Dr. Robert O. Grayson, who died in Stafford), and Dr. Richard O Grayson of Loudoun, and two daughters, the widows, Mrs. Bettie Carter and Mrs. Stevenson, of Loudoun County. All these had children and some are residing in Loudound Co., and some emigrated since the late War to the West. Alexander and Richard Grayson of this branch of the family, were officers in the Confederate States Army and died in battle. Mrs. Bettie Carter, died Sept. 1885, daughter of the third Benjamin Grayson, married a wealthy Mr. Lewis, who died leaving no issue; she then married Mr. Carter by whom she had two sons, Benjamin Grayson Carter and George Carter. She was before the late war wealthy and had two fine estates. "Oatlands and "Bellefield" in Loudoun County and Fauquier, which were the most beautiful and elegant places in Virginia. The writer was at Bellefield in 1861, and though never having met his relatives there before, was much gratified at their spirit of cordial clannishness and will always remember the kindness of cousins Bettie Carter and Josephine Stevenson, and Mary Grayson. The latter gave me a circlet of pressed flowers from the beautiful parterre in front of the mansion, which I long preserved in memory of my brief but delightful sojourn. Owing to the great increase in the families of the sons of the 1st Benjamin; the inconvenience and difficulty of travel in early times; emigration of many of the descendants to various parts of the South may have had a tendency to darken their memory as to direct traces of the 1st. Benjamin without the aid of a table of Genealogy, but it has never upon any of the name of blood chilled that warmth of fraternal feeling so evident between the tree sons of our great great grandfather Benjamin, and which they, the many descendants have inherited one toward another even to what some ten resole kinship, as has ever been evident in that spirit of clanship which has been the marked characteristic of the Grayson family. The fraternity and affection of the ancestors, have not, it is believed, been without its influence upon their descendants, or at least the blood after many generations has not lost its parent instincts, and however remote in degree of relationship, or separated by circumstances and distance, wherever there is a common name and blood, there is with most rare exception, a genial and kindly feeling the one toward the other. The same sentiment has also prevailed in the hearts of the descendants of John and Lawrence, the ancestors of General Washington and Lund Washington. Spence Grayson, second son of Benjamin Grayson and Susanna Monroe, was born in the year 1734, inherited and resided at "Belle Air", the former residence of his father in Prince William County, VA. About two miles from the Occoquan River. He married Mary Elizabeth Wagoner, a daughter of Dr. Peter Wagoner. The mother of this lady was a sister of Speaker John Robinson, memorable for the manner graphically described by Wirt, as presiding officer of the House of Burgesses, when he received General, the Col., George Washington upon the return from his Campaign in 1758. She was also the sister of Col. Beverly Robinson, so active as a loyalist in New York, who after the Revolutionary War returned to England and inherited a title on Nobility. The name of Beverly came from Catherine Beverly, the grandmother of Mary Elizabeth Wagoner ( See Appendix of Genealogy and Settlers) Dr. Wagoner was an English gentleman and settled on the Occoquan River. This latter fact appears from an Act of the Legislature of the Colony, passed in 1753, which sets forth upon representation to the Legislature that a town on the Occoquan Rive would be very convenient for trade and navigation, and it appointed Commissioners to lay out said town, and declared said town shall be called Colchester. Dr. Peter Wagoner is also mentioned by Bishop Meade as a member of the vestry of the parish, uniting with George Washington in a deed to the Rev. Lee Massey for a pew in Pohick Church. From this gentleman the name of Peter, with or without the addition of Wagoner, has been established in the family. The son of Dr. Wagoner, appears, was for sometime clerk of Fairfax Court House. A Captain Wagoner appears in the annals of the Revolution and though it cannot be said that he was the above Col. Wagoner, yet this very probable. Sometime after Spence Grayson had married, he studied for the ministry, left his young family at "Belle Air", and went to England where he had been previously educated and entered the scholastic seminary for clergymen at Oxford to study theology, and was ordained there or in London and admitted to the Anglican Ministry. He was in the habit of relating his London observations and adventures. An anecdote which he told illustrates the change, apparently, if not really, which has taken place in the habits of the clergy for the better, and in histrionic talent for the worse. On one occasion being at Covent Garden Theater, the common resort of the Anglican clergy of that day, the great Garrick performed so true to nature the part of Othello. That in the strangling scene a Scotch bumpkin unable to restrain his emotion, bolted up in the pit and exclaimed :Donna ye kill her, donna ye kill her, she is honest, she is honest, and that damned Iago is a go between. It convulsed the house, but to Garrick was the greatest tribute of admiration at his superb rendition of a most difficult part. Bishop Meade states that the Rev. Spence Grayson was chosen Minister or Rector of Dettingen Parish in Prince William County, Va. 1784. He had previously held a parish, supposed to have been Cameron in Loudoun County; and there he made that impression by his fine and manly figure, his dignity and rare scholarship upon the mind of young Lacock, a native of that county, but for many years a senator in Congress from Pennsylvania of which he was fond of speaking when in Washington. His sermons were masterpieces of composition, elegance of diction and forcible and should have been preserved to be given to the world as it was intended after his death they should be, but his sons had all emigrated or died and the purpose was delayed by his daughters, until from accident and removals the stock was much reduced in the habit of reading them to his family. He was a large finely made man, with elegance of manners and temper ant the most honorable principles. He was a personal friend and great favorite of General Washington, and universally esteemed by all. When General Washington's nephew, Major George Washington, married, there were three clergymen present and the General chose the Rev. Grayson to perform the ceremony and gave him a fee of $100.00 in gold. There was no family in closer communion with or more fraternally regarded by General Washington than the Grayson family ( this 1 copy from the papers of Uncle Lund Washington). The Graysons are fond of a good table, and it is thought that the Rev. Spence Grayson had the clerical penchant for the table, for in a lease which he granted for the"Incle Tract" so called, a little detached from the estate of "Belle Air", the rent reserved was seventy pairs of Canvass Back Ducks to be delivered between Nov. 15th and Feb. 1st. The old church, Christs Church, Alexandria, Va. Still stands where he preached often. This is the same church of which General Washington was a vestryman; the General's pew and the general appearance of the place remains the same as it was in their time. By paying the usual fee to the attendant, I visited the quaint old building in 1876, and felt in my heart how pitiable is that man who can visit these old and sacred places with cold and formal feeling, and not be imbued with that veneration for the great and good that can never be offensive to God. The Rev. Spence Grayson died at his residence, "Belle Air" in Prince William County, Va. In the fall of 1798, aged 64 years. His widow died at the residence of Lund Washington her son-in-law in Washington City 1810, and was interred with her husband in the family vault at "Belle Air". She was a lady of rare virtue of heart and mind, and the best type of the old Virginia lady. The insue of the Rev. Spence Grayson and Mary Elizabeth Wagoner will be given in the closing portion of this record. William Grayson third son of Benjamin Grayson and Susanna Monroe was born in the year 1736. Like his brother, the Rev. Spence Grayson, he received his classical and professional Education in England. Upon his return to Virginia, he commenced the practice of law at Dumfries, then a thriving town in Prince William County. Having a liberal education and a good estate, he exerted himself all in his power for the improvement of his young cousin James Monroe, and as he enjoyed the intimacy and esteem of General Washington to a large extent, no doubt the General was much influenced by him in bringing James Monroe forward in the arena of the worlds notice in the favorable manner he did. At the commencement of the War, he was appointed Captain and entered the general's military family as Aide-de-Camp. In 1776 he was appointed Colonel of one of the Virginia Regiments. This regiment suffered so much in the Battles of the Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, that it was broken up, and he was again in General Washington's staff. He was twice a member of the Board of War and President there of. He was a member of the Continental Congress, and a member of the convention which formed Our constitution, and a member of the Virginia Convention that ratified it and the First Senator elected by the Legislature of Virginia, under the present constitution, and held that appointment at the time of his death in 1790 aged about 56 years. He was a very large and remarkably handsome man, of noble appearance and manners, and was certainly among the most amiable and honorable and popular men of the day in which he lived. Uncle Lund Washington expresses the above. He met with and dined in the company of Col. Grayson at "Belle Air" in the fall of 1786. William Grayson married a sister of General Wm. Smallwood, Governor of Maryland, distinguished in the Revolutionary War, by whom he had issue (see appendix). Alfred William, son of Senator Grayson, married Miss Breckenridge (sister of the father of General John Cabell Breckenridge, vice-president of the U. S. States under President Buchannon, and General and Secretary of War in the Confederate States) and left on son, John Breckenridge Grayson, and officer in the U. S. Army, who was afterwards a general in the confederate States Army and died at Tallahassee in 1862. He died in the faith of the Holy Catholic Church. He left a son, but no record is at hand concerning him. Alfred William Grayson, third son of Col, Wm. Grayson, was born April 16th, 1780, at the family residence in Prince William County, Va. He received a thorough education and in 1801 went to Kentucky and commenced the practice of law at Lexington. On Oct. 24, 1804, he married Miss Letitia Preston Breckenridge, daughter of Hon. John Breckenridge, an eminent lawyer, Senator in the U. S. Congress, and attorney general of the U.S. in the cabinet of President Jefferson, by which union there were three children, all of whom died in infancy, except John B. Grayson. Alfred W. Grayson was a very talented and remarkably handsome man, and was regarded, considering his age, as one of the brightest lawyers in Kentucky. Political preferment was offered him, but he declined, preferring the practice of his profession. He died suddenly on Oct. 10, 1811, leaving his widow and son with a fine estate in Kentucky and Ohio. On Oct 16, 1818 Mrs. Grayson married General Peter B. Porter, of New York, a gentleman of high national reputation. He was a Member of Congress in 1810 and as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the famous resolutions of December 11th, 1811, which immediately conceded the Declaration of War of 1812, through which he served with distinction, and was commissioned Major-General in the regular army of the U. S. In 1816 he was appointed Commissioner by President Madison to settle the boundary line between Great Britain and the U. S. , and in 1828 he was Secretary of War under President John Quincy Adams. By this marriage Mrs. Porter had two children, both of whom are now 1877 dead. This estimable lady died July 27th, 1831 and was buried at Niagara Falls, New York. At this point, it is just and proper that the writer should particularly notice the character of his grandmother, Mr. Lititia P. Porter, and in so doing, will use the language of one who for years was her intimate friend- " She was a woman of noble presence and form, very gracious in her manners, and of a most benevolent and charitable disposition. She was a friend of the friendless, and the benefactress of all worthy institutions." At her decease, the papers of Washington, New York, Philadelphia, and Louisville spoke of her in terms of highest eulogy, and recorded her many virtues. Her correspondence shows her to have been the friend of Clay Webster, Clahoun, Scott and the most distinguished statemen of her time, all of whom wrote letters of condolence upon her decease, extolling those remarkable graces of person and mind, for which she was so justly distinguished. John Breckenridge Grayson, son of Alfred William Grayson and Lititia P. Grayson, was born at the family estate " Cabell's Dale" in Fayette County, Ky. On Oct. 18th, 1806. In 1822 he was appointed a cadet at the U. S. Academy at West Point, from which he graduated with distinction in the class of 1826, and was place upon Engineering Duty. ON the 10th of November 1828 he married in Washington D. C. Miss Caroline Searle, daughter of Sir Francis Searle, Baronet. Sir Francis was an English Nobleman, who came to this country with his family I 1808, to look after large purchases of lands, which he had made. He died suddenly in Boston in 1810. Lady Searle placed her children at school in this country and returned to England to settle up her husband's estate. The War of 1812 commenced, and finding it impossible to get her children to England, she returned to America and at the close of the War married Thomas Hewes, a wealthy merchant of Boston. Mrs. General Grayson was partly educated at the Convent in Georgetown, D. C. And in her young days was celebrated for her beauty and finely cultivated voice. At the time of her marriage, her husband's stepfather, General Porter was Secretary of War, General McComb, then Commander, and Chief of the U. S. Army, acted as father for her at the wedding, and the then President John Quincy Adams gave her an elegant dinner and reception at the White House. Mrs. Grayson now 1877 resides in New Orleans, La. It is a source of pleasure to hear her speak of the eventful periods through which she has passed, and to listen to her entertaining remarks of the great men of our country, with all of whom she had been on terms of friendship. General John Breckenridge Grayson was actively engaged in the Creek, Seminole, and Mexican Wars, was wounded in Florida at the Battle of Okechobee. On the breaking out of the Mexican War General Grayson was stationed at New Orleans, and at the request of General Zachary Taylor was especially assigned to duty as chief Quartermaster of that depot, the duties of which were very onerous, and required particular administrative qualities to perform the same. On the organization of the army of General W. Scott, Capt. Grayson was assigned as Chief of Staff, and served with General Scott from the siege of Vera Cruz to the capture of the City of Mexico. General Grayson was brevetted three times for "gallant and meritorious conduct: on the fields of Chapulteped, Charabusco and Contreras, and was wounded at the storming of the Garita Gate, immediately preceding the capture of the City. On his return to New Orleans, after the termination of the war, he was presented by the City with a handsome sword, " in recognition of his distinguished service, and as a token of their admiration and esteem for him as an officer and gentleman." Soon after he was assigned to duty at Detroit, Michigan, where he remained until 1856, and was then ordered to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The national difficulties which succeeded the election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency found General Grayson a strong southern man in his sentiments and he determined to resign his commission. Every effort was made by General Scott and others to induce him not to resign which he abstained from doing as long as the U. S. Government did not resort to coercive measures, but on the first demonstration of that character in April 1861, he promptly forwarded his resignation, and in company with twenty-five other officers started overland to San Antonio Texas, a distance of six hundred miles. In the winter of 1860 and 61 General Grayson had a sever attack of Typhoid Pneumonia, and had not recovered from the effects of the same at the time the overland journey was undertaken. He arrived in New Orleans in a very debilitated condition, and there remained sometime to recuperate. In the meantime, his services had been accepted by the Confederate Government, and he was commissioned Brigadier General, ordered to Richmond, Va., and the organization of his brigade. In February 1862 the State of Georgia and Florida made a demand upon the Confederate Government for the assignment of an experienced officer to command the troops and the line of coast defenses in those States. General Grayson was selected by President Jefferson, and proceeded at once to his command, the duties of which were very extended and arduous. Under his supervision the various fortifications were repaired or finished, and the troops organized and consolidated into regiments and brigades. The battles of Camden Brunswick and Tallapoo were successfully fought under his command. In the fall of 1862, the enemy made a determined land and naval attack upon Fernandina, Florida. General Grayson successfully resisted both attacks and drove the enemy to the gun boats and transports, capturing many prisoners and much material. The great exertion attending the defense of this point, and the personal fatigue upon one in his still debilitated condition, had a serious effect upon General Grayson and he fainted on the battle field from complete prostration. He was immediately removed to his headquarters at Tallahassee, where he died Oct. 21st 1862. The legislature of Florida, then in session, passed a series of resolutions regretting his death and extolling his efforts for the defense of the State. At his own request, his remains were subsequently removed to New Orleans, La. General Grayson was a man of very fine personal appearance and address, and was noted in the old Army for his high toned character and punctilious adherence to duty. He was warm hearted and amiable in disposition, a charming conversationalist, and a favorite with all. He died as he had lived a high toned Christian gentleman. General Grayson left one son, John Breckenridge Grayson, who was born in New Orleans, Sept. 9th, 1835 and is now 1877 residing in Demoplis, Alabama. -Alfred Grayson, son of Col, Wm. Grayson was a talented man, and remarkably handsome, and of very fine address. Hebe, daughter of Col. Wm. Grayson and Miss Smallwood, married John Carter, of Loudoun County, Va. He had a fine estate. They removed early to Kentucky, where she had lands from her father. Her eldest son, Alfred Grayson Carter resided in Tennessee, and was one of the most respectable and wealthiest men in the State. (Here commence papers of John B. Grayson, which start the same as this). Col. Wm. Grayson a few hours before his death emancipated all his servants. The emancipation delusion had taken root in the minds of many good men and the growth of it has inflicted great evils upon our country. ( from Uncle Lund Washington). He left a large and valuable estate. Tidball a merchant of Winchester, Va., one of his creditors became his administrator and sacrificed a great deal of it. His Kanawha lands soon became valuable on account of their salt springs. In 1820 Alfred Grayson was offered $40,000.00 per annum for lease of the works which he refused. A daughter of Hebe Grayson and John Carter married Dudley Mann, Asst. Secretary of State under the Pierce Administration and had issue. Wm. Grayson Mann now 1876 a lawyer in Charleston, S. C. The sons of Hebe Grayson and John Carter are William Grayson Carter and Alfred Grayson Caarter of Tennessee. The interesting history of Col. Wm. Grayson, which follows is copied from the papers of Col. P. G. Washington, in which he was assisted by our cousin Frederick Wm. Spence Grayson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "With the single exception of the father of his Country there was no more patriotic and enlightened man engaged in the Revolutionary struggle that Col. Wm. Grayson. There was none who rendered before and after it more useful and varied public services. There was none whose memory is more fondly cherished in his native state, and yet strange to say his name is scarcely mentioned in the early histories of that period. The solution of this neglect is perhaps twofold. In the first place he does not appear to have been ambitious of posthumous fame nor to have taken any thought or provision for it, and in the second he died before any of these histories were written and when they came to be written the minds of the writers naturally turned to the Marshals, the Monroes, and the Hamiltons, his compatriots, not more distinguished in the Revolution than he was, but who had survived and were then occupying high public positions and filling a large space in the public eye. All the patriots of the Revolution being now gone the latter consideration has ceased to operate. In place of former history's and biographies posthumous as to him, but contemporaneous as to other distinguished actors in that contest in which authors may have been led under the influence of personal motives or the absence of historic materials to panegyrize a living patriot and let down or ignore one that was no more. Documents, archives and papers of late years are being published in which Loosing, Schroeder and other searchers for original truth have found many remedial facts yielding partial but tardy justice to departed worth. Robert H. Harrison, of Maryland, in like manner not surpassed in patriotism and ability by any during the Revolution, dying as he did too soon after its close may be cited as another instance of this ill considered discrimination. It does not fall within the scope of this sketch to write a panegyric or even a biography of Col. Grayson. All that it can do is to present