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(Jan., 1914), pp. 182-191 Notes on Hardwick (Hardridge), Kincheloe, McCarty, McConathy, Crook, Dawson, Lawson and Relatef Families. Page 182. NOTES ON HARDWICK (HARDRIDGE), KINCHELOE, McCARTY, McCONATHY, CROOK, DAWSON, LAWSON AND RELATED FAMILIES. BY ARTHUR LESLIE KEITH, NORTHFIELD, MINN. The following notes consist almost wholly of unpublished records. They are quite fragmentary and incomplete, but through fear of the accidents of time I am led to put them in permanent form. While I cannot vouch for their entire accuracy, I believe they are substantially correct. Several years ago Thomas McCarty Murdock, of Davidson, Harrison County, Ind., loaned me some old papers that had been in his family for many years. The oldest of these papers was a letter written on the two sides of a foolscap paper, the upper half of w hich is lost. Of the remaining half, part is undecipherable. It is signed by William Hardwick (sic) and one page is apparently intended for his sister, Susanna McCarty (grandmother of Mr. Murdock) and the other half for her husband, Cornelius McCarty. I shall quote the significant portions with my own comments in brackets: "Your stepfather [William Turley] whom your mother [the word your suggests that her mother was not his; perhaps they were only half- brother and sister] married moved up to goose creek near Rectortown [Virginia]. On my return I found you, brother John and Sister Elizabeth playing in the negro house which was the first time I ever saw you [somewhat confirms the conjecture that he was an older half-brother]. I lived with William Turley that winter and in the spring of the year I parted with you and our poor brother John -- who is no more and in the year 1783 in the faul (sic) was the last time I ever saw you. Neither did I hear that you were married [interesting as showing how effectually distance divided in thos days; his sister had been married twenty-four years] until Ellen Kincheloe wrote to me last winter and as our stations are so far apart I Page 183. expect that I shall never see you again. Our niece Ellen Kincheloe [Elizabeth Hardwick mentioned above married a Kincheloe] informed me * * * We have five sons and four daughters, been married 35 years the 26th day of next June [the date of the letter is lost but was probably 1811, as I make it out below, hence William Hardwick probably married in 1776-7] and have never had a death in our family. Old Sarah the negro that nursed me is still with me * * * 500 miles separate us [she in what is now Meade County, Ky., and he near Louisville, Georgia] * * * I pray for my two sisters that is (sic) parted from me." The other page is intended for his brother-in-law, Cornelius McCarty. "that you had moved from Fauquier County,Virginia to Kentucky in Harden (sic) near Elizabethtown [Meade was later formed from Hardin] and that you with your wife and one of your children had embraced religion * * * I became a Methodist in 1788 and in 1792 went into the ministry and for nineteen years [whence I infer the date of the letter as 1811] have been trying to persuade sinners. My son William P. Hardwick (sic) having business in Kentucky * * * is a good surveyor but makes no pretension of religion -- I have directed him to hand you this letter * * * Methodist Church flourishing in Georgia. We live near Louisville near our eldest son Garland Hard- wick (sic) * * * if we cannot get acquainted personally [had probably never met his brother-in-law] * * * ." The William P. Hardwick mentioned in the above letter is undoubtedly identifical with the great-grandfather of the Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick, member of Congress from Georgia, who gives me the following data. "My great-grandfather was William Park Hardwick who lived near Louisville, Georgia. He married Sarah Baker Cheatham about 1820. My grandfather was Thomas William Hardwick who married Mary Elizabeth Davis in 1848, and my father was Robert William Hardwick who married Zemula Schley Matthews in 1870." Another letter is loaned to me by Mr. Murdock is dated Decem- ber 30, 1817, but is unsigned. It is addressed to aunt Susan Page 184. [McCarty] and speaks of a visit from uncle Cornelius [McCarty] who is to bear the letter. The writer sends a message to her uncle Sampson [Turley] and mentiones her sisters Louisa and Polly who send gifts to Peggy and Nancy. The writer sends a gift to Elon (sic) [the connection implies that she is the writer's namesake]. Little Emily sends gifts to Effalina (sic). Mentions the great distance between them and her expectation that they shall never meet again. I think this letter was written on the occasion of a visit of Cornelius McCarty to the Kincheloes in Virginia. Peggy, Nancy, Eleanor and Evalina, who receive gifts, are his four daughters. From Mr. Murdock I received a deed dated Dec. 23, 1816 between Cornelius McCarty and Susannah his wife late Susannah Harridge (sic) of Hardin Co., Ky on the one part and James Kincheloe of Fauquier Co., Va., on the other part. The sell 200 acres in Fauquier Co., Va., that had been purchased by Margaret Hardridge (sic) while a widow of Thomas Glasscock, which said Margaret afterwards intermarried with William Turley who is now tenant of said tract by the curtesy of said Susannah being one of the children of the said Margaret by her first marriage. This deed is apparently not recorded in Fauquier Co or elsewhere so far as I can ascertain. Reliable tradition makes the above Margaret an Orear. Cornelius had a son named Enos Orear McCarty. Her family history may probably be reconstructed as follows: Margaret Orear, born about 1745, md. 1st -------- Hardwick (who was probably a widower with son William) and had Susanna Hardwick, wife of Cornelius McCarty; John Hardwick; Elizabeth Hardwick, wife of James Kincheloe. Margaret md 2nd. William Turley and had Sampson Turley and others. There is an unconfirmed tradition that the mother of the above Elizabeth Hardwick was a Glasscock, a sister of George Glasscock. If this tradition is to be accepted I can explain it only on the hypothesis that she was but a half-sister of Susannah who md. McCarty and a daughter of ---------- Hardwick by a first marriage. I find various Turley items. John Turley was a vestryman of Truro Parish, 1749-56. James and John Turley appear on a list Page 185. of voters at an election in Fairfax Co. Va., in 1744. Sampson Turley, Lt., an inhabitant of Fairfax Co. was paid a claim in 1756. John Turley and Susanna Squires were granted license to marry in Fauquier Co., Va., Mch, 18, 1783. James Turley of Va. was in 1835 a pensioner for Revolutionary services. Harve Turley, living in 1907 at Congdon, Indiana, at an advanced age, was a grandson of William and Margaret Orear Turley. Sampson Turley who lived with the McCartys in Ky. seems to have been unmarried. There are numerous Hardwick (Hardridge) references in early Virginia history. Col. Wm. Hardwick and Margaret, dau. of Col. Nathaniel Pope, circa 1660? Wm. Hardidge Gent. and wife Frances had daughter Eliza- beth, born 1678, died 1722, who md. Henry Ashton. William Hardwick md Elizabeth Sturman, dau. of Thomas Sturman prior to 1645 (apparently the same Hardwick who later married Margaret Pope), and had son Wm. Hardwick. Christopher Hardwick in Goochland Co., Va., in 1739. Haswell (also Hasel) Hardwick and Mary Northcutt md. in Overwharton Parish about 1750 had Ann born Jan. 4, 1752; William, born Sept. 5, 1753; Elizabeth, born Sept. 8, 1755. [Possibly this William is identical with the one married in 1776-7]. I have not proved these Hardwicks of the same family referred to above. License to marry was granted in Fauquier Co. Va., on Dec. 12, 1787, to Cornelius McCarthy (sic) and Sukey Hardwick; on Oct. 9, 1787, to Archibald Glasscock and Hannah Kincheloe; on Dec. 7, 1790, to James Kincheloe and Elizabeth Hardwick. The Glasscock-Kincheloe marriage is mentioned as affording a possible explanation of the Glasscock con- nection preserved by tradition among the descendants of the Kincheloe- Hardwick marriage. An extended account of the Kincheloe family appears in the Baltimore Sun of Dec. 29, 1907, which is the main source of my information on this family. The first of the name was probably John Kincheloe of Prince William Co., Va., who md. Margaret Foote, dau of George Foote. John Kincheloe died prior to Sept. 26, 1764. He had children John; Margaret, who md. George Foote of Fauquier Co., and probably others. John Kincheloe Page 186. Jr., had George, Elijah and James Kincheloe, who md. Elizabeth Hardwick in 1790. James Kincheloe and Elizabeth had Brandt, Hardwick, Eleanor Kincheloe and others [Louisa and Polly?]. Brandt was the father of Julius, died May, 1867; Wm. James, born 1836; Wickliffe, d Sept 22, 1862; and Robert W. P. Kincheloe of Rectortown, Va. Possibly another son of John Kincheloe, the emigrant, was William Kincheloe, born May 26, 1736, died in Nelson Co., Ky., in 1797. He md. Molly White, born Feb. 9, 1744, died Nov. 21, 1831. They had Thomas, Peggy, Stephen, Molly, Lewis, Clarissa, Elias, Sally and William Kincheloe. There was also a connection between the Kincheloe and Wickliffe families. One Nathaniel Wickliffe, late of Prince William County, Va., died intestate in Nelson Co., Ky., in 1790, and his land passed to his next of kin, namely, John Kincheloe; Daniel Kincheloe; Cornelius Kincheloe and wife Dorcas; Robert Kincheloe; William Wheatley and wife Elizabeth; Presley Smith and wife Nancy; Joshua Ferguson and wife Mary; Arrington Wick- liffe; Moses Wickliffe; Robert Wickliffe and wife Sarah; and Henry Davis and wife Mary. The Kincheloe heirs are the children of Daniel Kincheloe and wife Sukey [Wickliffe?]. Said Daniel who may have been a son of the emigrant John, died in Fairfax Co., Va., about 1785, leaving John; Daniel (born 1750); Elizabeth Prince (md. Wm. Wheatley?); Nancy (md. Presley Smith?); Sarah Wickliffe; Mary (md. Joshua Ferguston?); Cornelius; Robert; Nestor; Hector; and Jesse Kincheloe. Nathaniel Wickliffe who died in 1790 was the son of Elijah Wickliffe and had brothers Moses, Aaron, Robert, Charles; sister Sarah, Sukey (md. Daniel Kincheloe?), and one other. In regard to the McCarty family much as already been published by Hayden in his Virginia Genealogies, in the WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, passim and elswhere. The following items have probably not been published before: Thadeus McCarty of Loundoun Co., Va., makes will Aug. 4, 1812, probated Dec. 14, 1812, wherein he mentions wife Sarah Elizabeth; children Dennis, William R.; George Washington; Saran E. Russell; and Mary McCarty. Mentions land on Goose Creek. Page 187. This Thaddeus was undoubtedly the son of Dennis McCarty who in 1724 md Sarah Ball (see Hayden) and died about 1743. Thaddeus McCarty md. April 20, 1768 to Sarah Richardson, the marriage taking place, according to tradition in the home of George Washington, who was related to the McCartys through the Balls. This Thaddeus must be dintinguished from Thaddeus McCarty, sen'r who with wife Ann sold land in Loundoun Co., Va., on Oct. 8, 1773, which said Ann had inherited from Rawleigh Chinn, her father. This Thaddeus was a cousin of the other and is identical with Thaddeus McCarty who in Lancaster Co., Va., on May 19, 1758, was granted license to marry Ann Chinn, with William Glasscock, Jr., signing as security. Said Thaddeus was born April 1, 1739, and was the son of Billington McCarty. In Prince William Co., Va., on Nov. 20, 1733, Alexander McCarty bought land of Ben Grayson. lying on Goose Creek. On Aug. 9, 1749, Cornelius McCarthy bought land of B. Ewell. I have not yet ascertained how these Prince William McCarthys connect with the ones last referred to or with Cornelius McCarty who in 1787 md. Susannah Hardwick; nor how this last Cornelius with his brother Thomas and his sisters Nancy and Betsy connect, if at all, with Thaddeus, Dennis and Billington. Traditional connection with the Glasscock family and Goose Creek suggests that there was a relationship. Betsy, sister of Cornelius, md a McConathy and is buried in the McConathy family burying-ground near Lexington, Ky., and in the same place is buried Daniel McCarty Paine and the younger generations preserve a tradition of a close intimacy between the McConathy and Paine families in early times. The connection between the Paine and the Daniel-Dennis-Thaddeus McCarty line goes back to a very early beginning. Cornelius McCarty was born about 1766 (md in 1787 and not yet 45 in 1810). With his wife Susannah and family he removed to Fayette Co., Ky., in about 1797. In 1809 he is found on Otter Creek, Hardin Co., Ky., (now Meade). He made will Sept. 20, 1830, probated in Meade Co., Ky., Feb. 28, 1831. His wife Susannah died about 1854 at the age of 87, therefore born about 1767. Page 188. They reared a large family, as follows: 1. Margaret, md Samuel Lane, July 15, 1811 [dates of marriage given are in many cases the dates of the issuance of the license] and had Cornelius; Thomas; James; Samuel; Susannah; Ellen; Mary; and Margaret Lane who md. Jackson (she was still living a few years ago at Topeka, Kansas, aged above 90 years). 2. Aaron Hardridge McCarty, born 1792, died 1889 md. Nancy Beaver, Dec., 1814, and had Elizabeth (md. Humphrey Wyatt); Susan (md Henry Sandy); Evelyn (md. Wm. Sandy); Cornelius (md. Melissa Combs); Margaret (md. 1st John Asher 2nd ------- Lundy); Aaron (md his first cousin Mary McCarty dau. of William); Beckie (md John Evans); Kitty (md. Till Hampton); Moses (md Dora Morris); and James McCarty, died single. 3. William McCarty, born 1799, died Mch. 16, 1880 md July 13, 1824, to Sophia Bentley born July 4, 1802 died 1873, and had Susan Jane; Mary Ellen (md her cousin Aaron McCarty); George, died Dec. 22, 1875; Harvey, died Jan. 1, 1870; John; Levi; Newton; and Sarah McCarty. 4. Nancy McCarty md Middleton Dawson, Nov. 13, 1817, and had John Calvin; Cornelius M.; Wm. Hopkins; Theophilus; Mannasseh; Mary Wade; Margaret; Susannah; Martha Jane; Annis Evaline; Ellen; and Nancy Dawson. 5. Enos Orear McCarty md. Artemisia Dawson, July 16, 1819. He moved to Lagroe, Wabash Co., Ind., died about 1852. They had Thomas Bozeley, one time State Auditor of Indiana (md a widow Livina Oldham; no issue, he died in 1875); Susan (md Samuel Anthony); Priscilla, died young; Cornelius Riley (md Elizabeth Rowan); Emma (md Thomas Randall); Enos (started to California about 1850 and never heard of again); John, Laura (md 1st Boston, 2nd Foxworthy, 3rd Blood); Anna (md. James Burke); William (md Anna burke); Jennie (md David Tyner); and Julia McCarty, died single, Jan., 1906. 6. Manassah McCarty md Lydia Worthington and moved to Texas. They had Thomas; James; Evaline; Lovicia; and Joann McCarty. 7. James McCarty md 1st Rebecca Murdock, Aug. 25, 1827, and had James Hardwick McCarty, born May 9, 1831, died Dec. 18, 1903, father of Judge Wm. M. McCarty, of Salt Lake City; James McCarty md 2nd Lucinda Brown and had Susannah; Emarine; William; and Cornelius McCarty, Page 189. killed in the battle of Nashville. 8. Eleanor McCarty md. Richard Moreland, no issue. 9. Evaline McCarty md. William D. Murdock, Sept. 19, 1833, and had Thomas McCarty (of Davidson, Indiana); Susannah H.; Rebecca M.; Laura E.; Nancy E.; and James W. Murdock. 10. Thomas McCarty, died single (?). 11. John Calvin McCarty died single before 1832. We take up next Thomas McCarty, an older brother of Cornelius. His family Bible shows that he married Elizabeth ------- on Dec. 5, 1777. He came with Cornelius to Fayette Co., Ky., about 1797 and in 1909 was on Otter Creek. He died Feb. 23, 1828, and his wife Elizabeth died in 1836. Aside from the dates of birth of his twelve children, which will be given below, the family Bible has few other records which will be noted first: Nancy McCarty, mother of Thomas McCarty, died April 18, 1813. We shall present some conjectures as to her maiden name later. John Crook was born Jan. 20, 1789. This is his sister's son who was reared in his home, apparently having been left an orphan. Strother Lee, born July 29, 1812. Elizabeth Jane Lee, born May 26, 1814. Jemima Ann Lee, born Jan. 14, 1818. These are the children of Sarah McCarty, dau of Thomas, who md William Lee. It is not apparent why these grandchildren and not the others, should be recorded in Thomas McCarty's Bible. We now give the twelve children of Thomas McCarty: 1. Ann McCarty, born Jan. 1, 1780, md Feb. 15, 1798 to John Jewell. He was closely related to William Jewell, born Jan. 1, 1789, in Loudoun Co., Va., founder of William Jewell College and his sister Hannah Jewell who md. Charles Hardin, father of the Hon. Charles Henry Hardin, born July 15, 1820, died July 29, 1892, one time Governor of Missouri. John Jewell and Ann McCarty, his wife, had Asa Hickman, born Dec. 9, 1798; Emily, born Jan. 9, 1800 (md James Higbee); Elisha, born July 27, 1801; Moses, born Oct. 15, 1803; Elizabeth, born April 14, 1805; Artimesia Cloud, born Feb. 7, 1807 (Cold Friday); John, born May 9, 1812; Liza Jane, born Nov. 23, 1813; Sallie W. Jewell, born Jan. 15, 1819. 2. James McCarty, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born Oct. 17, 1781, died Feb. 16, 1842. He md Page 190. Nancy Luck who died Feb. 21, 1865. They had Elizabeth McCarty, born 1803, died 1865, who md 1st Wm. McMurtry, 2nd Wm. Hamilton Smith, 3rd George Stevenson; Mary Rose, born April 9, 1805, died Jan. 26, 1893. She md Sept. 13, 1827 to Lewis Withers, born Dec. 5, 1799, died Oct. 2, 1882; James Warder who md 1st Vizona Lusk, May, 1837; 2nd Margaret Algood; Warner Washington McCarty, born 1811, died 1895 single. 3. Margaret McCarty, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born May 31, 1783,md Gideon Kelley and had Thomas who md his cousin Artimesia Jewell; Mary who md Jacob Shafner; Martha Kelley who md David Shafner, brother of Jacob; and perhaps others. 4. Jane McCarty, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born May 11, 1786, died Nov. 9, 1873. She md Asa Chambers, born Jan. 2, 1785, died Oct. 18, 1832. They had James McCarty Chambers who md Mary Pate; Endomile C., born Nov. 2, 1807, died Nov. 29, 1872, md David Partlow, born Feb. 4, 1802, died 1852; Asa Windsor; and Thomas Chambers, born April 24, 1817, died Mch, 19, 1875, md his second cousin Jane Swinford, daughter of Betsy Crook Swinford, daughter of James and Nancy McCarty Crook. 5. Elizabeth McCarty, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born May 17, 1788, died Oct. 1, 1823. She md John Todd Lusk, brother of Nancy who md James McCarty. They had Thomas Huston who md Nancy Higbee; Vizona Nevitt, born Mch. 25, 1815, died Nov. 13, 1855, and md her double cousin James Warder McCarty; and George Williams Lusk, born Mch. 21, 1818, died July 14, 1895. 6. Sarah McCarty, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born July 5, 1790 and md William Lee. For her children, see above. 7. Jemima McCarty, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born Mch. 25, 1793, and md James Dawson, April 24, 1826, and had Newton Dawson and perhaps others. Polly McCarty, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born May 29, 1796, and md Wm. Mahan and had Elizabeth; Thomas; Ellen; and Albert Mahan. 9. Susannah McCarty, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born July 5, 1798, died about 1866. She md Stephen Steele (son of Thomas and Susan Parcutte Steele) who died about 1858. They had a large family Page 191. to whom they applied names very curiously. It was the father's original intention to give his sons names beginning with the letter A and his daughters names beginning with Z. He almost succeeded. The children were as follows: Zerelda, died single at age of 22; Alphonso P. born Apr. 9, 1817, died at Mexia, Texas, July 8, 1911; he md Mary Ann Powell, Sept. 28, 1838 (see below for account of him); Zorada, md John Gray; Zerena, md James Lecompt; Zelinda md Isaac Rea; Alvorado P. born about 1825, died 1886, md Rebecca Reed; Alvaro, died young; Alvin, died single in Texas about 1865; Alexis (said also to have gone by the name of Thomas) died in 1873; and Angeline Steele, who seems to have died young. Alphonso Steele, born 1817, died 1911, referred to above was for many years the last survivor of the battle of San Jacinto, fought in 1836, whereby Texas achieved her independence. In this battle he did effective service and was severely wounded. In his honor the letislature of Texas placed in the capitol at Austin, a life-size portrait of him. At his death he had 170 descendants, most of whom were living. 10. Keziah (Kizzie) McCarty, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, born July 23, 1801, md ------ Wilson. 11. Nelly Stonestreet, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, born Sept. 4, 1803, md Charles Ihrie, May, 1824, and had but one child, Mary Elizabeth Ihrie, born Mch. 20, 1826, died Oct. 10, 1909, at Fox Lake, Wisconsin. She md D. F. A. Wallace. 12. George William McCarty, second son and youngest child of Thomas and Elizabeth, was born Feb. 17, 1806, died Aug. 1, 1833. He md Elizabeth Greer, Mch., 1826, and had Albert and Thomas McCarty. (To be continued)