James Graham (1741 - 1813)

Born 3 Jan 1741 in Donegal, County Tipperary, Ireland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Florence Graham — married 17 Feb 1762 in Cow Pasture, Rockbridge Augusta, VA

Descendants

Died 15 Jan 1813 at age 72 in Monroe, Virginia (West Virginia in 1863), United States

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James Graham was a Virginia colonist.

James Graham is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A131885.

Colonel James Graham performed Patriotic Service in Virginia in the American Revolution.

Biography

Origins

The tradition of the branch of the family to which Col. James Graham belonged is incomplete, but from all the facts gathered, James was born in Ireland in county Donegal. His father was a brother of John Graham, Sr., who settled on the Calf Pasture river. Whether or not the father of James Graham, Sr., ever moved to this country is not now known. Neither are all of his brothers and sisters known. It is, however, known satisfactorily that he had two brothers in this country, namely: David, who settled in Bath county, Va., before 1766, and Robert, who settled at Fort Chiswell in Wythe county, Va., before the time of the Revolutionary War. John Graham, Sr., of the Calf Pasture was an uncle to these three brothers and whether they all came to America together, or whether John Graham preceded his nephews is not known^[1].

James Graham is said to be the son of William Graham and Jane Mays, born Jan 3,1714 in Donegal, Ireland. According to one Graham researcher, James came to America as a young man with his father William Graham and mother Jane Mays. After his father's death, John Graham (William's brother) took his children in and raised them. John Graham was the father of Florence who would later become James' wife ^[2].

John Graham, the senior, in this country, had a family of four sons and five daughters. His oldest son's name was Lanty {Lancelot}; the other three sons were John, James and Robert. His will was probated in Augusta County, Virginia, on the 19th day of November, 1771. About the year 1770, James Graham, the son of said John Graham, moved to Greenbrier County, and settled in what is now this Summers County, just across the river opposite where the village of Lowell now stands on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. The house in which he lived is the same, together with the farm now owned and occupied by Bunyon L. Kesler, which is spoken of and described in another part of this book. It is immediately at Graham's Ferry on the Greenbrier River at Lowell." Notes from The "History of the Graham Family" by David Graham 1899[1]^[3]

Birth

Date: 1741-01-03

Place: Donegal,Ireland

Military Service

"James Graham was a prominent citizen in the affairs of this region; was created a colonel of militia under the laws then existing; assisted in the defense of Fort Donally when attacked by the Indians in Greenbrier County, and his name is largely connected with public affairs during his long life."

1781-- Revolutionary Publick Claims for Greenbrier Co lists James Graham and William Graham as claimants for various goods and services during Rev War.: Anne Waller Reddy, comp. WV REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS (Baltimore GPub Co. Inc. 1979)-names of those who furnished goods, services, or supplies to the American army for which they were paid.

Daughters of the American Revolution Record

GRAHAM, JAMES

Ancestor #: A131885

Service: VIRGINIA

Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE, CAPTAIN

Birth: 1-3-1741 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA

Death: 1-15-1813 MONROE CO VIRGINIA

Service Source: MCALLISTER, VA MIL IN THE REV WAR, P 207; STINSON, GREENBRIER CO, VA, LAND ENTRY BOOK, 1780-1786, P 214; JOURNAL OF THE COUNCIL OF THE STATE OF VA, VOL 2, P 257; ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 2, PP 419-420, 422

Service Description: 1) GREENBRIER CO MILITIA: CORONER; FURNISHED PROVISIONS

RESIDENCE: Created: 2002-03-27 23:23:55.3, Updated: 2009-06-12 09:40:37.0, By: 1494352 1) County: GREENBRIER CO - State: VIRGINIA

SPOUSE: FLORENCE GRAHAM; Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion 1)

Child daughter: ELIZABETH GRAHAM, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] JOEL STODGHILL

Child daughter: REBECCA GRAHAM, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] JOSEPH GRAHAM

Child daughter: JANE JENNIE GRAHAM, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] DAVID W. GARRED

Child son: WILLIAM GRAHAM, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] CATHERINE JOHNSON

Child son: LANTY GRAHAM, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ELIZABETH STODGHILL

Child son: DAVID GRAHAM, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] MARY POLLY STODGHILL^[4]

Marriage

On February 17, 1762, James married his cousin, Florence Graham, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Elliott) Graham at their home on the Little Calf Pasture River. The couple is said to have lived there between 8-10 years. Around 1770, the Grahams moved moved to Greenbrier River and settled on the western side of the river in what is now Summers County, WV, near Lowell, WV.

Married: 17 FEB 1762 in Monroe Co WV to Florence GRAHAM b: 1744 in PA. Their Graham fathers were brothers

Family

Known Children:

• 1] Rebecca GRAHAM b: 1/151786 Married: 1803 Joseph Graham
• 2] William GRAHAM b: 12/25/1765
• 3] John GRAHAM b: 12/22/1767 d: 1777 John was killed by Indians
• 4] Elizabeth GRAHAM b: 3/29/1770 d:3/22/1858 Married: 15 JAN 1793 Monroe VA Joel Stodghill # 5019088 1769-1844 They had five sons and four daughters.
• 5] David GRAHAM b: 3/24/1772 d: 1818 David was made a Lieutenant of one of the companies of the 66th Virginia Regiment. Married: 24 DEC 1807 in Monroe Co., WV Mary "Polly" STODGHILL Four known children: James, David, Harrison and Sallie.
• 6] Jane GRAHAM b: 9/04/1774
• 7] James GRAHAM b: 1777 d: 1815 m: 1800 in Greenbrier VA to Leah JARRETT
• 8] Samuel GRAHAM b: 1780 d: 1819
• 9] Lanty GRAHAM b: 1/15/1786 d: 1839 m: 1814 to Elizabeth STODGHILL
• 10] Florence GRAHAM b: 5/3/1789 m: 31 AUG 1802 in Monroe VA to William Taylor Known Children: John, James and Florence.

"The Graham House"

One of the earliest settlers in the area along the Greenbrier River, James built a large two story log house that still stands today as a museum. The Graham House was much larger than most log cabins of the period. The house measures 25 ft x 28 ft. and consists of two floors and an attic. Large stone chimneys are located at either end of the house. The house was likely built with a single door and no windows, but an additional door and several windows were added at a later date. The first floor consists of a single room, and at one point was split into three rooms; the second floor has three rooms. ^[5]

Here stands the house built, 1772, by Colonel James Graham, with walls pierced for rifle fire..." quoted from Summers County, West Virginia Vol. 3 at Lowell. ^[6]

Indian Attack

In 1777, the Graham home was attacked by Indians, who killed son John, a neighbor of the Grahams named McDonald, and a young slave boy and kidnapped his daughter, Elizabeth, who was ransomed eight years later.

During the night of this massacre, William, the oldest son, a lad of about twelve years, was not well, and being restless, had come in from the out house and, on his coming in, his mother remarked to him that he “had better go back to bed with the other children”. He replied that as it was nearly daylight he would lie down on the floor till morning, which, luckily for him, he did. otherwise, he no doubt, would have met the same sad fate of his younger brother.

Months of anxious and unceasing search located Elizabeth among the Shawnee tribes, whose wigwams were situated at what is now Chillicothe, Ohio. She had been adopted by a squaw of one of the chiefs of the Cornstalk family of that tribe and she had learned to love her savage home, and she was loved and doted on by her adopted mother. After fruitless efforts and at least two contracts, which were violated and backed down from by the Indians, Col. Graham finally succeeded in 1785 in ransoming and bring his daughter back home, after an absence of about eight years.

Upon the return of Elizabeth to her home, the customs she met there were new and strange to her, and ever and anon would clamor for the wild life of the wigwam. Once when she threatened to return to the Indians, her mother told her sister, Jane, to pretend as if she would go with her to see whether or not she would actually make the attempt. She readily accepted Jane’s proposal to accompany her to the Shawnee towns and the two sisters crossed the river in a canoe and proceeded but a short distance, when Jane inquired of her what they would eat on their journey, to which she replied by pulling up some bulb root herbs from the ground and eating them saying they could find plenty of the same kind along the way to keep them from starving. Jane remonstrated with her, saying that she had not been accustomed to eating herbs and would starve and finally succeeded in persuading her to return home. This account was given the writer substantially as stated by David W. Jarrett, who is a son of Elizabeth’s sister, Jane, and he says he has it from the lips of his mother. At least 3 of the Graham children and one grandchild married Jarretts.

Greenbrier Co, WV Record

• 1774, Mar 8: Survey for James Graham- 175 acres Botetourt Co, VA Surveyors Records 1774-1808 Reel 42:38 VA State Library
• 1782 - Greenbrier Co,VA/WV Personal Property Tax List: Mr. Wm Hamilton's District. James Graham with 16 horses and 29 cattle (the most of any in the district) Also living in same district are Michael Sea, Peter Shoemaker, John Hardy, William Morris Jr., Conrod Yochim, John Shoemaker, Wm and Leonard Morris, George Yoacham, George Six?, Jarrett brothers - David, Owen, James, and Jesse.
• Graham, James appears in 1782, 1783, 1786, 1788, 1792, 1796 Greenbrier PPTs.
• 1785, July 19:-James Jarrett, James Graham, John Vanbebber and others on jury. (p155)
• James Graham is listed as one of the land owners in Greenbrier at the end of the Revolutionary War--900 acres (4 tracts

Death

Death:

Date: 1813-01-15

Place: Monroe,, West Virginia, USA

• Burial: Old Graham Cemetery - Lowell, Summers County West Virginia ^[7] James is said to have died Jan 15, 1813 in his 73rd year. By then he was a very wealthy man with at least 10 slaves which he left to his children in his will.

Col James Graham

BIRTH 3 Jan 1741

Augusta County, Virginia, USA

DEATH 15 Jan 1813 (aged 72)

Monroe County, West Virginia, USA

BURIAL Old Graham Cemetery, Lowell, Summers County, West Virginia, USA

MEMORIAL ID 135522196 ·

Married: 17 FEB 1762 in Monroe Co WV

Florence GRAHAM b: 1744 in PA

Their Graham fathers were brothers

Known Children:

1] Rebecca GRAHAM b: 1/151786 Married: 1803 Joseph Graham

2] William GRAHAM b: 12/25/1765

3] John GRAHAM b: 12/22/1767 d: 1777 John was killed by Indians

4] Elizabeth GRAHAM # 5019086 b: 3/29/1770 d:3/22/1858 Married: 15 JAN 1793 in Monroe Co., WV Joel Stodghill # 5019088 1769-1844 They had five sons and four daughters.

5] David GRAHAM b: 3/24/1772 d: 1818 David was made a Lieutenant of one of the companies of the 66th Virginia Regiment. Married: 24 DEC 1807 in Monroe Co., WV Mary "Polly" STODGHILL Four known children: James, David, Harrison and Sallie.

6] Jane GRAHAM b: 9/04/1774

7] James GRAHAM b: 1777 d: 1815 Married: 1800 in Greenbrier Co., West Virginia Leah JARRETT

8] Samuel GRAHAM b: 1780 d: 1819

9] Lanty GRAHAM b: 1/15/1786 d: 1839 Married: 1814 Elizabeth STODGHILL

10] Florence GRAHAM b: 5/3/1789 Married: 31 AUG 1802 in Monroe Co., WV William Taylor Known Children: John, James and Florence.

James Graham Home - built 1772 near Fort ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The History of Summers County WV pgs. 365-366 Published 1906 by Dr. James Miller

"John Graham, the senior, in this country, had a family of four sons and five daughters. His oldest son's name was Lanty {Lancelot}; the other three sons were John, James and Robert. His will was probated in Augusta County, Virginia, on the 19th day of November, 1771. About the year 1770, James Graham, the son of said John Graham, moved to Greenbrier County, and settled in what is now this Summers County, just across the river opposite where the village of Lowell now stands on the Chesepeake & Ohio Railroad. The house in which he lived is the same, together with the farm now owned and occupied by Bunyon L. Kesler, which is spoken of and described in another part of this book. It is immediately at Graham's Ferry on the Greenbrier River at Lowell."

"James Graham was a prominent citizen in the affairs of this region; was created a colonel of militia under the laws then existing; assisted in the defense of Fort Donally when attacked by the Indians in Greenbrier County, and his name is largely connected with public affairs during his long life."

James and Florence Graham’s Family[2]^[8]

We will now return to the genealogy of the Graham family. James Graham and Florence, his wife, had born to them ten children, six sons and four daughters, whose names were as follows: William, born December 25th, 1765; John, born December 22nd, 1767; Elizabeth, born March 29, 1770; David, born March 24, 1772; Jane, born September 4th, 1774; James, born 1777; Samuel, born 1780; Lanty, born 1783; Rebecca, born January 13, 1786; and Florence, born May 3rd, 1789.

William, the oldest, married in 1809, Catherine Johnson, daughter of Robert Johnson of Johnson’s Cross Roads, and settled on the farm more recently owned by the late D. M. Riffe. This tract of land containing four hundred acres, mostly river bottom, was surveyed and [58] patented by William Graham in 1785. At the first court held for the organization of Monroe county in 1799, William Graham was appointed Military Major of the sixty-sixth regiment of Virginia. He was also appointed Justice of the Peace at the organization of said county and held the office continuously for thirty-seven years or until his death. In the year 1809 he was elected as a Representative of his county to the General Assembly of Virginia and served acceptably in that body in the session of the winter of 1809-10. He had three children, James (No. 2), William and Betty. James was born in the year 1810 and married Patsy Guinn, daughter of Joseph Guinn. William, Jr., born 1812, married Rebecca Kincaid, daughter of Lanty Kincaid, and had three children, James Lanty, the Nimrod (see sketch of the Lanty Kincaid family), Katy and Julia. Both William, Jr., and his brother, James, moved to Missouri in the year 1841. William died there a few years later. James went from Missouri to California in the [59] great rush for gold in 1849. He again visited his native county about the year 1866. He died but a few years ago in Missouri. Bettie married Allen Ellis, son of Jacob Ellis, and moved to Ohio, where several years later they both died. They had three children, one of whom, Edgar Ellis, lived soon after the civil war on Wolf Creek, Monroe county, but later moved away.

William Graham, Sr., died in June 1836, in his seventy-first year.

John, the second son of Col. James Graham, was killed by the Indians in 1777, further mention of which will be made in these pages. To Elizabeth, the oldest daughter, who was captured by the Indians, will also be reserved further space.

David, the third son, married Mary Stodghill about the year 1795 and first settled at the mouth of Hungart’s Creek, on what is now the Woodson farm. The dwelling house now on that farm, was built by him. He was a competent land surveyor and held the office of Deputy Surveyor of Greenbrier County under Alexander Welch, as [60] principal Surveyor when he was but little more than twenty-one years of age. He was also made Lieutenant of one of the companies of the 66th Virginia Regiment. He had three sons whose names were: James (No. 4), David and Harrison; and one daughter named Sallie, who married Jonathan Gavy Tucker, a Methodist preacher. James married Jane, a.daughter of Archibald Armstrong, a son of the Emerald Isle, and settled on what is known as the Fluke or Bacon farm. It was he who built what is now Bacon’s mills.

David and Harrison moved to the west unmarried. David Graham, Sr., died in the year 1818, aged forty-six years. His widow, together with all his children moved to Schugler county, Illinois in the year 1836.

Jane, the second daughter of Col. James Graham, married David Jarrett about the year 1792 and first settled near Buffalo Lick (Pence’s Springs) on the farm recently owned by the late Edwin Mays. A few years afterward they moved to Kanawha county and after a brief stay then [61] moved to the falls of Tug River and still later they settled in the Levisa Fork of Big Sandy river in Kentucky, where their descendants still live.

David and Jane Jarrett raised three sons and eight daughters, namely: James, Ulysses and David W. were the sons. The daughters were: Polly, who married a Mr. Chambers. They had one daughter, who married a Mr. Vincent. The names of the other members of the Chambers family, with exception of Robert and Nancy, cannot now be recalled.

Florence, the second daughter, married Jarrett See and raised a large family: one daughter, of which Florence married Jas. Wellman, and resides in Cattlesburg, Ky.

Jane, the third daughter, married a Mr. Ratcliff; of her descendants we know nothing.

Nancy, the fourth daughter, married William Ratcliff; they had several children.

Hannah, the fifth daughter, married Charles Wilson.

[62] Elizabeth, the sixth daughter, married a Mr. Goff.

Sarah Ann, the seventh daughter, married a Mr. Patrick. Some of her children are living in Kentucky.

Minerva, the eighth daughter, married Chancey Kize. They had four children; Benjamin, David, Ulysses and Thomas.

James was twice married, but know nothing of his descendants.

Ulysses married Lydia Stafford; they had a large family, all of whom are dead, excepting one daughter, who lives in Missouri.

David W., the only one of the children of David Jarrett and Jane (Graham) Jarrett now living, married Nancy Dyer. The names of his sons are: Isadore, the oldest; Owen, Bernard P., Arnoldus, Ulysses, Michael M. and Lee and one daughter, Onolda, who married Jefferson Burgess. David Jarrett, Sr., born 1771, died about the year 1838 and his wife in the year 1853. They are both buried in a vault above ground on the [63] farm on which they lived. It was the writer’s pleasure to visit his aunt Jane Jarrett in Kentucky in the year 1844 and fifty-two years later he again visited the old home of his aunt, but found but few faces that greeted him a half century before. out of eleven cousins of the Jarrett family, but one, David W., as stated, remains. He occupies a portion of the farm owned by his father. There are many descendants of David Jarrett, Sr., and Jane Graham Jarrett to be found in Lawrence and adjoining counties of Kentucky. Among whom we might mention the names of Benjamin, Thomas and Ulysses Kize, who were sons of Minerva Kize and grandsons of David Jarrett, Sr.

Dr. York, living near Louisa, a prominent physician, is also a descendant, his mother being a Ratcliff. Also might be mentioned the Wilsons, Chambers, Vincents, Johnsons and others. Ulysses Jarrett, son of David, Dr., died some years after the civil war, and was in his day quite prominent, having one time represented his county [64] in the Kentucky Legislature and filled other positions of honor. It may here be observed that the name as claimed by this family is Garred, but they being a branch of the family now mostly of Greenbrier county, whose names are written Jarrett. We have adopted that orthography in this writing.

Leaving the further genealogy of the Jarrett branch of the family, we will now take up that of James Graham, Jr., fourth son of James Graham, Sr. James married Leah Jarrett, a sister of James Jarrett, Sr., of Greenbrier county, in the year 1800 and located on a portion of the farm recently owned by the late D. M. Riffe, he owning and occupying the upper portion and his brother, as before stated, the lower end of said farm. This farm at that day, and even for years afterwards, was believed to be the most productive bottom land on Greenbrier river.

To James add Leah Graham were born five sons and two daughters. The names of the sons: James, Hiram, Jehu, Ezra and Cyrus; and the [65] daughters, Cynthia and Betsey. Of these, James married a Miss Burdette of Monroe county; Betsey, a Mr. Heffner of Greenbrier county; and Hiram married Nancy Graham, daughter of Samuel Graham. The remaining children were unmarried prior to their moving to the west.

James Graham, Jr., died about the year 1815 of a disease known in local phraseology as “The Milk Disorder” or milk disease. This disease was believed to be contracted by drinking milk from cows which had eaten some poisonous weed, herb or grass. Strange to say, what this poisonous substance was could never be found out. A search of the pasture fields and the removal of every suspicious weed failed to prevent an attack of this disease. While some farms were believed to be infested with this plague and others to be free, the occupants of one seemed as liable to the disease as others. It was a dreadful malady and baffled the skill of all the physicians and generally proved fatal to those whose misfortune it was to take it. It was usually brought on [66] in its most fatal form by overexertion or overheating. Cattle were subject to it as well as their owners.

About the year 1827 the widow of James Graham, Jr., moved to Tippecanoe county, Indiana. Her son, James, was a Captain in the Black Hawk War of 1832, since which time but little is known of this family.

Next in order of the children of James Graham comes his fifth son, Samuel. Samuel married Sallie Jarrett, daughter of David Jarrett (this David Jarrett being the father of the David Jarrett that married Jane Graham), about the year 1808 and settled on the Greenbrier river on the farm owned and occupied by Joseph Nowlan. This land was entered and patented by James Graham, Sr., about the year 1785. To Samuel Graham were born five children: James Madison, the oldest; Nancy; Betsy; David and Susan.

Nancy married Hiram Graham, her cousin, who was a son of James Graham, a brother of Samuel. [67] Susan married Andrew Jarrett, who was a son of James Jarrett, Sr., a brother of the late James and Joseph Jarrett of Greenbrier county. Andrew and his family moved to Missouri in the year 1840. Madison (James Madison) went to Tennessee about the year 1835 unmarried. Samuel Graham was drowned in Greenbrier river while fording on horseback at a ford near his home, now known as Hayne’s Ford, in March 1819. His widow, after his death, married Benjamin E. Blaine and moved to Tennessee about the year 1835. The two remaining children, David and Betsy, went to Missouri unmarried.

The farm owned by Samuel Graham, containing about four hundred acres, descended to his son-in-law, Andrew Jarrett, and was by him sold to Madison Haynes in 1840 and a portion of it, including the Graham home, was purchased by Joseph Nowlan from the descendants of Madison Haynes in the year 1884.

Lanty, the sixth son of James Graham, Sr., married Elizabeth Stodghill in 1814, and re- [68] mained on the home place of his father at Lowell. The names of his children were as follows: James Jackson, born in 1815; Florence, born in 1817; Mary, born in 1819; Emma, born in 1821; Jane, born in 1823; Sarah, born in 1825; also John, Erastus and Martha; we cannot give the date of birth. Those who married before the family went to the west were Florence, who married John Guinn, son of Samuel Guinn, Jr., and grandson of Samuel Guinn, Sr. Mary married Thomas B. Guinn, son of Andrew Guinn, and also a grandson of Samuel, Sr. Mrs. Mary Guinn is the only member of the Lanty Graham family now living in this county. She lives as the home of her late husband, together with her daughter, Mrs. Louise Coiner, about a mile southeast of Lowell. She is now in her eightieth year and well preserved, both mentally and physically for one of her age. Emma married James Ballengee, son of Henry Ballengee, who formerly lived at the mouth of Greenbrier river, where a part of the town of Hinton is now located.

Lanty Graham died in 1839.

[69] After his death, his widow and all the unmarried children moved to Missouri, about the year 1840 to 1841. Those who were married also moved away about the same time and their descendants are now scattered over the Western States, with the exception of Mrs. Mary Guinn and her children, grandchildren, &c, who long since returned from their western home and settled in the county of her nativity, as already stated.

There are three of Lanty Graham’s children living in Davies county, Missouri, namely: John S. Graham; Jane, nee Graham; and Martha, nee Graham. We are indebted to John S. Graham for the following: he is living in Pattonsburg, Mo.; married a daughter of John Meadows, a granddaughter of Joseph Guinn of Monroe county, W. Va. He has two daughters living near him. He and his daughters, it is claimed, are in good circumstances financially. His sisters, Jane and Martha, are widows; they live near him. Their children are all married and scattered from home.

[70] Florence, younger daughter of James Graham, Sr., married William Taylor, son of (see comments of Natliff Taylor below under Special Notes), one of the earlier settlers of this locality and settled on Hungard's Creek[3][4] about one mile northwest of what is now Stock Yard Station on the farm now known as the “Bush place”. The dwelling house now occupied on this farm by C. E. Mann was built by William Taylor nearly ninety years ago. William and Florence Taylor had born to them several children, but as they left this country before they were grown, their names cannot now all be given. John, James and Florence are the only names now remembered. They moved to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and settled on the land where now extends a portion of the city of Lafayette. Florence Taylor, her son, John, and her daughter, Florence, visited their relations in their native county in 1851, since which time but little is known of them.

Died 15 JAN 1813. Monroe, Virginia, USA. ^{[7] [9] [10] [11]} 15 JAN 1813. , Monroe, West Virginia, USA. 18 JAN 1813. Monroe, Virginia, USA.

Residence 1716–1916 Monroe, West Virginia, USA. ^[12] 6 AUG 1810. Monroe, Monroe, Virginia, USA. ^[13] Monroe County, Virginia, USA. ^[11] United States. ^[14]

Military JUL 1779. Virginia, USA. ^[15]

Probate: 28 DEC 1812. Monroe, Virginia, USA. ^[11]

Buried Lowell, Monroe County, Virginia, USA. ^[7]

Marriage Marriage 17 FEB 1762. Rockbridge, Augusta, Virginia Colony. ^[10] Marriage 1792 Virginia, USA. Marriage 5 NOV 1829. Pendleton, Virginia. Marriage Mercer, West Virginia, United States.

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1. ↑ http://www.genealogymedia.com/transcriptions/history-of-the-graham-family/james-grahams-estate/
2. ↑ *Miller, James (1906)The History of Summers County WV" pgs. 365-366. The Graham House Lowell WV
3. ↑ http://www.genealogymedia.com/transcriptions/history-of-the-graham-family/
4. ↑ Ancestor #: A131885 i the DAR Genealogical Database
5. ↑ *Miller, James (1906)The History of Summers County WV" pgs. 365-366. The Graham House Lowell WV
6. ↑ West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.. Ordinance Index.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135522196/james-graham: accessed May 2, 2024), memorial page for Col James Graham (3 Jan 1741–15 Jan 1813), Find A Grave: Memorial #135522196, citing Old Graham Cemetery, Lowell, Summers County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by Walter Pack Family (contributor 47557175).
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9. ↑ Source: S236 Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) ions, 1889-1970 ions, 1889-1970. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. TID 0 Name: Footnote Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) Name: ShortFootnote Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Name: Bibliography Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
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11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2} Source: S1761 Fiduciary Records; Author: West Virginia. County Court (Monroe County); Probate Place: Monroe, West Virginia 158 Name: Page Fiduciary Records; Author: West Virginia. County Court (Monroe County); Probate Place: Monroe, West Virginia Name: Fiduciary Records; Author: West Virginia. County Court (Monroe County); Probate Place: Monroe, West Virginia
12. ↑ Source: S133 Ancestry.com, A history of Monroe County, West Virginia (Online publication - Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - Morton, Oren Frederic,. A history of Monroe County, West Virginia. Staunton, Va.: McClure Co., 1916.Original data: Morton, Oren Frederic,. A history of Monroe County, West)
13. ↑ Source: S145 Year: 1810; Census Place: Monroe, Monroe, Virginia; Roll: 70; Page: 574; Image: Vam252_70-0017; FHL Roll: 0181430 123 Name: Page Year: 1810; Census Place: Monroe, Monroe, Virginia; Roll: 70; Page: 574; Image: Vam252_70-0017; FHL Roll: 0181430 Name: Year: 1810; Census Place: Monroe, Monroe, Virginia; Roll: 70; Page: 574; Image: Vam252_70-0017; FHL Roll: 0181430
14. ↑ Source: S1763 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Indexes to Naturalization petitions to the U.S. Circuit and District Courts for Maryland, 1797-1951; Microfilm Serial: M1168; Microfilm Roll: 6 182 Name: Page National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Indexes to Naturalization petitions to the U.S. Circuit and District Courts for Maryland, 1797-1951; Microfilm Serial: M1168; Microfilm Roll: 6 Name: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Indexes to Naturalization petitions to the U.S. Circuit and District Courts for Maryland, 1797-1951; Microfilm Serial: M1168; Microfilm Roll: 6
15. ↑ Source: S1762 Ancestry.com, U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) erations, Inc. Note: <p><i>Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783</i>; Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls; NAID: <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/602384" target="_blank">602384</a>; War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; The National Archives in Washington, D.C.

See also:

• FamilySearch Person: L6VG-1L6

1. David Graham. A History of the Graham Family. [5]

2. Progeny of SAR. Revolutionary War Grave Register (#28373).

3. DEATH: Monroe County Records, Union, West Virginia.

4. DEATH: W.P.A. Records--Will of James Graham.

5. Johnston, Ross B. West Virginia Estate Settlements. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978

6. West Virginia Estate Settlements.

7. Miller, James Henry. History of Summers County, 1908.

8. Morton. A History of Monroe County, Virginia (West Virginia),c1916.

9. DAR Patriot Index-Centennial Edition, Part 2.

10. Virginia Marriages 1700-1799.

• Greenbrier Deed, Marriage and Personal Property Tax Records
• Botetourt Co, VA Survey Records.
• Source: S160 Godfrey Memorial Library, comp., American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Name: Godfrey Memorial Library; Middletown, Connecticut; American Genealogical Biographical Index; Volume Number: 66
• Source: S808 Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc) perations, Inc. Note: <i>Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940</i>. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. TID 0 Name: Footnote Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc) Name: ShortFootnote Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 Name: Bibliography Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.72 Name: Page

SPECIAL NOTES

A History of Monroe County--Morton c1916-p. 346--some mistakes. A History of Summers County, West Virginia by Miller, c1908--is pretty accurate. West Virginia. Estate Settlements--Johnson-Monroe, West Virginia.. Some Virginia Marriages 1700-1799-vol. 16--H & W date. Hardesty's West Virginia Counties, Greenbrier-Comstock, V. 6--James Graham and his family at Fort Donnally (This fort was located a few miles west of Lewisburg. It was built in

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A131885
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3ZW1-W7M "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3ZW1-7XL : accessed 7 October 2018), entry for Col . James /Graham/ Sr., cites sources; file (2:2:2:MMD5-BD1), submitted 4 July 2016 by Bobbi Jene Campbell [identity withheld for privacy].

Natiff Taylor not the father of William Taylor

The only entry for a Notliff Taylor is on a 1799 tax list for Monroe County, Virginia (West Virginia in 1863). Source: Morton, Oren Frederic, "A history of Monroe County, West Virginia"; Staunton, Va.: McClure Co., 1916. Transcribed by S. Montgomery, Genealogy Trails Transcription Team http://genealogytrails.com/wva/monroe/1799taxlist.html

As seen below others have investigated the origins of Notliff Taylor.

• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/taylor/24732/
• Re: John TAYLOR 1793 Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana.
• By Bonnie April 07, 2003 at 10:53:03 In reply to: Re: John TAYLOR 1793 VA, WVA, IN Anthony Simpson 4/05/03

Hi Francine, Thanks for writing. The confusion concerning the families of John Taylor and Notliff Taylor is an error that most likely can be traced to the Graham family history https://samgraham.org/History2.htm that was published over 100 years ago.

And here is the full text of this information this mistake in Morton's Monroe County History from 100 years ago: "To this primeval settlement might also be added the name of Notliff Taylor, who, while [54] he did not live in the immediate bounds of those already mentioned, he was near enough to be called a neighbor, especially in those days when neighbors were few and far between and sought each other for assistance for miles around. He settled at the Milburn place on Greenbrier river. The names of his children were Anne, who married William Johnson, of Cross Roads; Nancy, who married Isaac Milburn; Elizabeth, who married Samuel Guinn, son of Samuel, Sr.; Mary, who married Joseph Guinn, son of James Guinn, Sr., before mentioned, and William who married Florence Graham, daughter of James Graham, Sr."

That mistake was later included in Morton's Monroe County History and appears very often now on the Internet, but I have not seen any documentation to support the claims. John and Notliff were contemporaries and may have been brothers, but I am not aware if this has been proved either. However there is definite documentation of each man's descendants. Notliff Taylor's will is on file at the Monroe County courthouse and names his wife Susanna, son James and daughters, Rachel, Margaret, Sarah and Mary. Subsequent marriage records for these Taylor children confirm their connection to Notliff and Susanna. If you have a copy of Nancy Taylor and Issac Milburn's marriage record, you will note the permission was signed by her mother, Mary Taylor, who was the widow of John. (By the way, Isaac and Nancy are also my direct ancestors.) John Taylor died without a will, so his estate was settled by direction of the county court. There are numerous records on the disposal of his property and references to his wife by name, so there is no doubt Mary is correct. Both Taylor estates were recorded in the April 1809 term of the Monroe County Court. Issac Milburn, who married John Taylor's daughter Nancy, began to purchase each Taylor child's portion of their father's estate, as they came of age and after the death of their mother, Mary in 1824. There are several deeds on file and it is possible to determine the number and names of John Taylor's heirs by these documents. This property is owned by the descendants of Isaac and Nancy to this day. I hope this answers your question. Please contact me directly if you wish to compare other files on the Milburn family.

(signed) Bonnie

• Robert Taylor's father was likely John Taylor of Virginia or possibly Pennsylvania. His mother appears to be other than Mary Jarrell who John married in 1782. Robert was probably born in Virginia. There is genetic evidence his brother was William Taylor # 5193131. He (Robert Taylor) married Mary Reed in Virginia about 1797. It appears Mary was widowed since she had a daughter Nancy Reed born about 1795. They moved to Kentucky where their first child Sarah (nee Taylor) Parks was born in 1798 followed by John, Mary, James and William Robert also born in KY. They then moved to Ohio where Matthew, Henry, Jane and Robert were born between 1807 and 1819. I suspect they lived in Dixon Twp.

• Robert's will was written in Preble County, Ohio in 1831 naming all his kids as well as his step-daughter Nancy Reed, her daughter Lizabeth, and his daughter Jane's daughter Lena.

• Like their son John, Robert may have been buried in the Dixon Cemetery.

• Burial Details Unknown, Specifically: Probably buried in an unmarked grave on his farm Find a Grave Memorial ID 189505209, ; Maintained by Ray Vick (contributor 47252398)

Notliff Taylor, AKA Natliff Taylor, was born about 1760.

Sourced information that appears in these publications and the following genealogy research websites:

• https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Summers_County_from_the_Earli/vz8VAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Notliff+Taylor&pg=PA94&printsec=frontcover
• History of Summers County from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Book by James Henry Miller (b. 1856) &; Maude Vest Clark published in 1908
• Page 51: "To these primeval settlers might also be added the name of Notliff Taylor who settled at Henry Milburn place, eight or nine mile west of the Graham settlement on the Greenbrier River. His daughter, Ann, married Isaac Milburn, the grandfather of our present country man, Henry Milburn, Jr., and the father of the late..."
• Page 94: " William Taylor, son of Notliff Taylor, mentioned before, settled on Hungart's Creek, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungard_Creek a mile north of Pence's Spring Station, on what is now known as the Bush place, the dwelling-house now occupied on this farm by Mr. C. E. Mann was built by William Taylor nearly 100 years ago. The settlement by the Graham's at the present Clayton settle-...

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/summers/history/graham2.txt
• GRAHAM FAMILY HISTORY, PART II, SUMMERS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA, CS HINTON, WV, PART II
• Submitted by Glen Gallagher - 71056.1055 @Compuserve.Com, Jan. 4, 1998
• "Florence, youngest daughter of James Graham, Sr., married William Taylor, son of Natliff Taylor, one of the early settlers of this locality, [and] settled on Hungart Creek about one mile northwest of what is now [Stockyards] Station on the farm known now as the Bash place. See actual marriage permit handwritten document here: http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=1710518&ImageNumber=1413 The dwelling house [now] occupied on on this farm by C.E. Mann was built by William Taylor nearly [ninety] years ago. William and Florence Taylor had born to them several children, but as they left this country before they were grown, their names cannot be given. John, James, and Florence are the only names remembered. [They] moved to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and settled on the land where now [extends] a portion of the city of Lafayette. Florence Taylor, her son John and daughter Florence, visited their relations in their native county in [1851], since which time little is known of them."

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/monroe/vitals/birth/t.txt
• "TAYLOR Nancy 1788 (daughter of) Notliff/Polly

• https://www.geni.com/people/Notliff-Taylor/6000000001900645300
• "Notliff Taylor. Birthdate: estimated between 1732 and 1786. Death: Immediate Family: Husband of Polly Wife Taylor and Polly Taylor"

• https://genealogymedia.com/transcriptions/history-of-the-graham-family/other-early-settlers/
• "To this primeval settlement might also be added the name of Notliff Taylor, who, while [54] he did not live in the immediate bounds of those already mentioned, he was near enough to be called a neighbor, especially in those days when neighbors were few and far between and sought each other for assistance for miles around. He settled at the Milburn place on Greenbrier river. The names of his children were Anne, who married William Johnson, of Cross Roads; Nancy (Taylor), who married Isaac Milburn; Elizabeth, who married Samuel Guinn, son of Samuel, Sr.; Mary, who married Joseph Guinn, son of James Guinn, Sr., before mentioned, and William who married Florence Graham, daughter of James Graham, Sr."

• https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/mary-lotz-24-3b26274
• " Born in Loudoun County, Virginia, USA on 11 Nov 1760 to Samuel Wilhelm Taylor and Sarah Mandley. Mary Lotz married John Nimrod Notliff Taylor and had 4 children. She passed away on 25 Jan 1824 in Monroe, Amherst, Virginia, United States."

• https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/nancy-taylor-24-3d3hmbh
• "Nancy Taylor (1785 - 1874) Born in Monroe, Amherst, Virginia, United States on 12 July 1785 to John Nimrod "Notliff" Taylor and Mary Lotz. Nancy Taylor married Isaac Milburn and had 12 children. She passed away on 1874 in Monroe, Amherst, Virginia, United States."

• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/taylor/24724/
• "Re: John TAYLOR 1793 VA, W VA, IN
• By Anthony Simpson April 05, 2003 at 04:41:31
• In reply to: Re: John TAYLOR 1793 VA, WVA, IN
• Bonnie 9/19/01

"Bonnie, I have some of the same information that you do regarding the Taylor's in your line, with some exceptions. I have Elizabeth Taylor & Samuel Gwinn; Mary "Polly" Taylor & Joseph Gwinn; Nancy Ann Taylor & Isaac Milburn (my 6 gr-grandfather); and William Taylor & Florence Graham ALL being the descendant of Notliff Taylor and Mary "Polly" Taylor. I have seen in a couple of places that John and Notliff were brothers. So I'm wondering if the other people I don't have listed in my family ie. Jane, James, Sarah, Anna, John, Mary "Polly" and Matthew belong to John and others belong to Notliff ???? Or am I confused??? I pretty sure you and I exchange information on the Taylor/Milburn line and that one should be ok.. but when I "branch" out into relatives I'm always afraid I'll mess them up! (c: Francine Milburn-Simpson"

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/monroe/vitals/birth/t.txt
• "TAYLOR Nancy 1788 (daughter of) Notliff/Polly

• Isaac Milburn (1780 - 1851) in a few unconfirmed sources Nancy Taylor is Isaac Millburn's wife. Needs further investigation !
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Milburn-719
• Note N16 From the Monroe County Genealogy message board, June 6, 2001: " In his wonderful history of Monroe County, Owen Morton has incorrectly listed the descendants of Knotliff Taylor and this mistake has been often repeated. Morton was a historian, not a genealogist and he even notes in his book that the biographies were solicited by requests printed in the Monroe Watchman and were printed as submitted. As this initial printing was over one hundred years after the death of Knotliff, it is not unusual to have errors, but the Monroe County records are rather clear. Knotliff's will lists his wife, Susannah and his children (none of which are the ones Morton attributes to Knotliff). This will has been generously provided to the Monroe County Roots Website by Melinda Jacquier and I won't detail again here, but do want to note that marriage records for some of those children (after the death of Knotliff), list the consenting parent as Susannah. Nancy Taylor's mother also consented to her marriage to Isaac Milburn and her name was Polly Taylor. John and Mary "Polly" Taylor also lived on the Greenbrier River in Monroe County and John is listed in the same 1797 Tax List, with Nimrod, Knotliff, James and Adam. John died before April 7, 1809, when his estate was appraised for settlement (Monroe Will Book 1A). His widow, Mary is the administrator and the next year appears in the 1810 Monroe County census, age 45+ with two sons still at home. Mary Taylor's estate was filed for settlement in the September 1824 term of the Monroe County Court, so she died sometime prior to that date. Isaac Milburn purchased estate rights from two of John Taylor's heirs, on December 7, 1820. One was Robert Taylor and his wife Mary and he is identified as the son of John. The other was a child's part of the estate, held by Samuel Wright and his wife Jane, although he is not identified by connection to the deceased. After the death of Mary, Isaac Milburn also purchased the "yet undivided Greenbrier River property of John Taylor" from the remaining heirs on November 21, 1831. They are: Samuel and Elizabeth Gwinn Joseph and Polly (Mary) Gwinn William and Florence Taylor of Tippecanoe County, Indiana William and Anna Johnson Matthew and Elizabeth Taylor of Butler County, Ohio John and Polly Taylor Barnabus Curry of Logan County, Virginia (Though not identified, Barnabus was the husband of Sarah Taylor, who was deceased.) I apologize for this rather lengthy message, but I have wanted to clear this misconception for so long and this seemed a perfect format to begin. I appreciate any additional information of the family of John and Mary "Polly" Taylor."

Bonnie Duncan

Also from same source, same date:

"Found a few of these in 1850 Monroe, does anyone else have dates, locations, names of spouses?

Descendants of John Taylor

1 John TAYLOR b: 1755-1765 d: 1809 in Monroe Co., VA .. +Mary UNKNOWN b: Aft. 1765 m: Abt. 1783 d: 1824 in Monroe Co., VA Father: Mother: .... 2 Anna TAYLOR b: 1785-1805 ........ +William JOHNSON Father: Mother: .... 2 John TAYLOR b: 1785-1805 ........ +Polly UNKNOWN Father: Mother: .... 2 Mary TAYLOR b: 1785-1805 ........ +Joseph GWINN Father: Mother: .... 2 Matthew TAYLOR b: 1785-1805 d: in Butler Co., OH

........ +Elizabeth UNKNOWN Father: Mother: .... 2 Robert TAYLOR b: 1785-1805 ........ +Mary UNKNOWN Father: Mother: .... 2 William TAYLOR b: 1785-1805 d: in of Tippecanoe Co., IN

........ +Florence UNKNOWN Father: Mother: .... 2 Elizabeth TAYLOR b: 1784 in Virginia ........ +Samuel GWINN b: 1777 in Virginia Father: Mother: .... 2 Nancy TAYLOR b: 1788 in [Monroe] Co., VA d: 1874 in Summers Co., WV ........ +Isaac MILBURN b: 1780 in Maryland m: 11 January 1808 in Monroe Co., VA d: 1851 in Monroe Co., VA Father: Nathan MILBOURN Mother: Sally UNKNOWN .... 2 Sarah TAYLOR b: 1791 d: 1828-1830 ........ +Barnabus CURRY b: 1789 in Wolf Creek, [Monroe] Co., VA m: 06 February 1810 in Virginia d: 1869 in Barnabus, Logan Co., WV Father: John CURRY Mother: Mary "Polly" JOHNSON

Thanks for writing. Sandy in Florida

• https://www.wvgenweb.org/monroe/1998a.htm

Surnames: ROLES MILBURN/MILBOURN TAYLOR BECKNER HANSBROUGH Submitter: Melinda Roles Jacquier (rootdiggr2(at)juno.com) Date: 01 Jun 1998 Would love to hear from anyone with info on the families of Nathan and Sally Milbourn, Notliff and Polly Taylor, Isaac and Nancy Milburn, Modicai and Mary (Hansbrough) Roles, Mordicai and Susan Roles and Matthew and Elizabeth Beckner. Will gladly share what I have.