THE GENEALOGY OF GENERAL J. E. B. STUART; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 6, No. 3 Transcribed by Barb Hill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3. (Jan., 1898), pp. 155-158. page 155 The Genealogy of General J.E.B. Stuart, Etc. John Tayloe departed this world 12th April, 1779, at 11 o'clock at night, aged 58. He was born 1721 Rebecca Tayloe, his wife, departed this world on the 22 Jan. in the year 1787, aged 55, at half-past one in the afternoon. Ralph Wormeley, Sr., died August 19, 1790 THE GENEALOGY OF GENERAL J. E. B. STUART, AND OF HIS COLLATERAL RELATIONS ON HIS MOTHER'S SIDE - PANNILL, STROTHERS, BANKS, BRUCE, Etc. (Continued from page 116) James Ewell Brown Stuart, sixth child (son is a typographical error on page 116) of Hon. Archibald Stuart and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill, was born in Patrick county, Va., on the sixth day of February, 1833. On the recommendation of Mr. Averett, who then represented his district in Congress, he received the appointment of cadet to West Point. On completing the course he was commissioned a lieutenant, and sent to the western plains, where he was wounded in an encounter with the Indians. While in the west he married Miss Flora, daughter of Col. Philip St. George Cooke. As soon as Virginia seceded, he returned to his native State, and was raised first to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and ordered to report to Col J.E. Johnston at Harper's Ferry. His subsequent career is matter of general history. On May 11, 1864, he was mortally wounded at the battle near Yellow Tavern. he was taken to Richmond, where he lingered until the evening of May 12th, when death ended his sufferings. William Letcher Pannill, the second child of David Pannell, was born September 10, 1803, about two months before his father's death. He married Maria Bruce Banks, the daughter of W.B. Banks, before mentioned. He died September 9, 1875, lacking only one day of being seventy-two years old. Like his paternal granfather, the second William, he had fourteen children, ten of whom, or their children, are now living. Their names are 1, David Henry; 2, James Bruce; 3, Susan P. Rucker; 4, Bethenia P. Martin; 5, Fanny Pl Ficklen (dead, leaving children); 6, Louisa Banks Griffith; 7, Nannie P. Ballard; 8, Ruth H. Gordon; 9 John Taylor; 10, Alexander Stuart. Notes on Above Genealogy by D.H. Pannill 1. I saw recently a native of Ireland, who informed me that all the Pannells of Ireland were Roman Catholics. page 156 William and Mary College Quarterly 2. I am indebted to Judge Philip Strother for copies of records of Culpeper county. 3. General Taylor had a brother, named William Dabney Strother Taylor, after the gallant soldier who fell at Guilford. This brother was also an officer in the United States Army. The Duke of Wellington says that General Z. Taylor was the greatest of modern generals, because when confronted by overwhelming numbers at Buena Vista, and his council of was had advised him not to risk a battle, he said: "Gentlemen, I adjourn the council until tomorrow - after the battle." = Sheil's Irish Bar, note by McKensie, Vol. II., p. 309. The military sash worn by General Braddock in the battle near Fort Duquesne (July, 1755), in which that brave but unfortunate British General was mortally wounded, fighting for the American colonies against the French and Indians, having become the property of a gentleman of New Orleans, he delivered it to General Gaines of the same city, with the request that he should give it to the general who became most distinguished in the Mexican War, then in progress. General Gaines accordingly presented it to General Taylor. It was of red silk, and so large that it could be used (and was so intended to be) as a hammock to bear the officer who wore it in battle off the field, if it should be necessary; and it was so used in the case of General Braddock. "In the meshes of the splendid red silk that composed it," says the historian of Western Virginia," was the date of its manufacture, 1707, and although it was on hundred and forty (now one hundred and ninety) years old, it glistened as brightly as if it had just come fro the loom - save the dark spots that were stained with the blood of the hero who wore it." (History of Western Virginia, by Willis De Haas, in 1847.) This sash is now owned by General Taylor's daughter, Mrs. Betty Taylor Dandridge, of Winchester, Va. (Baltimore Sun, February, 1897.) General Taylor had a son name Richard Taylor, after Gen. Taylor's father. He was a brave soldier, and rendered valuable service to the Confederacy in the Valley of Virginia and in Louisiana. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general and showed himself a worthy son of the hero of Buena Vista, and a worthy kinsman of the gallant Stuart. he was generally known as General "Dick" Taylor, and he wrote an account of that portion of the war in which he was engaged, called "Destruction and Reconstruction," which is very popular. page 157 The Genealogy of General J.E. B. Stuart, Etc. 4. William Bruce Banks was the son of Gerard Banks of Stafford county, Va., who married Fanny Bruce. This Gerard Banks was the son of Gerard Banks, Sr., who was the son of Adam Banks. The record of Stafford county show that Gerard Banks, Sr., conveyed land that was bought by his father Adam Banks in 1674. W. B. Banks, on the Rappahannock, near Banks' Ford, famous in the Chancellorsville campaign in the late Civil War. he died on the fourth of August, 1852, being nearly seventy-six years old. He was educated at William and Mary College, and graduated in 1796. The catalogue of the alumni of the college issued before the war mentions him as having been judge of the superior court. But this was a mistake. After he was admitted to the bar he first settled in Lynchburg, Va. After a residence there of several years, persuaded by his cousin, James Bruce, he removed to Halifax county, Va., where he married. he was for many years commonwealth's attorney of the superior court of Halifax, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Franklin, Patrick, Henry and Pittsylvania. His sister married Mr. Hening, author of Hening's Statutes at Large, a work frequently referred to by Bancroft in his history of the United States. He also had a gifted niece, who was Mrs. Eliza Schermerhorn, of Indiana. She wrote a beautiful piece of poetry on the death of her uncle, W. B. Banks, commencing as follows: "Last of a household, that whilom side by side Sprang, where the Rappahannock rolls its tide. Where widowed love and filial fondness weep, Would, too, my tender vigils keep," etc. Another of John Pannill's daughter's married Mr. Love, a prominent lawyer of the same bar with W. B. Banks. But he soon died, leaving only one child - a daughter. She married the late Col. T. S. Flourney, of Halifax county, Va. 5. This third William also had a son name William, who moved to Petersburg, Va., where he spent his life, being at one time President of the Southside Railroad Company. he was also pro-vost-marshal of Petersburg during the late Civil War. His only daughter married a son of Hill Carter of Shirley. A daughter of the third William, of North Carolina, married the late Bishop Otey, of Tennessee, and her daughter married B. B. Minor, now of Richmond, Va., and formerly editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. 6. Archibald's Stuart's father was Judge Alexander Stuart, and page 158 William and Mary College Quarterly his grandfather was Major Alexander Stuart. Major Stuart was severely wounded at the battle of Guilford C.H., and taken prisoner. He was, however, soon exchanged, and his sword, which was returned to him, is now preserved as a valuable relic in the family of his grandson, the late Hon. A.H.H. Stuart, of Staunton, Va. 7. Thus, as seen, General J.E.B.Stuart, was of revolutionary stock on both sides of the house. There is some resemblance between him and his maternal great-grandfather in the manner of their deaths. Both of them were engaged in a war for independence, and were killed in the prime of life, in the spring of the year, and in the year in which the contest was practically decided, and when their country was overrun by hostile forces. Col. Letcher was assassinated, and General Stuart virtually so, being deliberately shot, after the battle was over, by a single man, separated from the troops to which he belonged, and whose life Stuart had spared, thinking he would surrender. Chatham, Va., March 1897. LIBRARY OF CO. WILLIAM FLEMING. Miss Louisa Baxter, of Lexington, Va., a great-granddaughter of Colonel William Fleming, has an account book which Miss Maria Pendleton Duval was kind enough to copy the following list of Fleming's library. He kept an account of these books, to whom loaned, etc. A short diary (1787) precedes the list. Colonel William Fleming was born in Jedborough, Scotland, in 1729. He came to Virginia, 1755, after taking his degree as M.D. in the University of Edinburgh. In August, 1755, he entered Washington's regiment. he ditstinguished himself as ensign, lieutenant, and captain until 1762, when the regiment was disbanded, and he resumed the practice of medicine. He held a warrant from Governor Dinwiddie to act as surgeon, and was sometimes detailed for special services. During Tarleton's famous raid he was acting governor for a short while. In 1779 he was commissioned to settle land claims in Kentucky. (For a fuller sketch, see Grigsby, Convention 1788.) A List of Books and What they Cost Vols. l s d 1 A large Bible, -----------------------------1 8 0 1 Wat's Psalms and Hymns --------------- 7 6 1 Dyches' Dictionery ---------------------- 15 0 1 Tale & Brady's Psalms ------------------ 6 0 Book-Case, Shelf No. 1 --------------- 2 16 6