West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: #1 BIO The Caperton Family, Monroe Co [SSpradling@aol.com] #2 BIO Charlton Family, Monroe County [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 BIO Henly Chapman, Monroe County [SSpradling@aol.com] #4 BIO John Burnside, Monroe County [SSpradling@aol.com] #5 BIO Byrnside Family, Monroe County [SSpradling@aol.com] #6 BIO Zachariah Callaway, Monroe Cou [SSpradling@aol.com] #7 BIO Robert Campbell, Monroe County [SSpradling@aol.com] #8 Fwd: BIO John Burnside, Monroe Cou [SSpradling@aol.com] #9 BIO Samuel Pack, Monroe County [SSpradling@aol.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from WV-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to WV-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the WV-FOOTSTEPS-D list administrator, send mail to WV-FOOTSTEPS-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:43:27 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO The Caperton Family, Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. CAPERTON The Capertons are derived from a French ancestor who went from the south of France to the British Isles. The progenitor of the Monroe connection was John who crossed the Atlantic about 1725 and at length found his way from Philadelphia to the Valley of Virginia. His wife was Mary Thompson, whom he met on the ship that conveyed him to America. In 1759 we find mention on Christian Creek of John Caperton, a yeoman, whose wife was Mary. The following year John "Capbritton" is spoken of as in the vicinity of Peaked Mountain. His final location was on the east side of New River, below the mouth of Rich Creek and very near the line of Summers county. His children were Hugh, William, Adam, and Elizabeth. Hugh and Adam were in the Dunmore war and the Revolu-tion. The former, whose wife was Rhoda, lived on the homestead. His children were Hugh, John, Thompson H., Elizabeth, Polly, Augustus W. J., Green, Washington and Overton. Some of their descendants are to be found in Mercer county. William, who married Lucy Woods in 1790, went to Kentucky. Elizabeth married James Gibson and went with him to Tennessee. Gibson county of that state is named for John H., one of their sons. Adam was a deputy sheriff of Greenbrier in 1780. His wife, who was of German parentage, was Elizabeth, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Fudge) Miller. He went to Kentucky, where he was killed in 1782 in the battle with the Indians known as Estill's defeat His widow married a minister named Smith. The children of Adam were Mary, Elizabeth, John, George, and Hugh. "Mary, who married George Swope, went to Louisiana. Elizabeth and John went with their consorts to Ten-nessee, and George to Alabama. Soon after the death of his father Hugh returned to his uncle's home on New River, but after the organization of this county he established himself at Union. As a merchant, even in the face of the formidable competition of the Beirnes, he was very successful, and became wealthy in land, slaves, and other forms of property. In physique he was large, and he is spoken of by Mrs Royall as handsome. He built "Elmwood," near Union, and bequeathed it to his son Allen T. It was here that he is said to have entertained Henry Clay about 1845. Mr. Caperton died in 1847 at the age of 66 years. His first wife was Jane Erskine, to whom he was married in 1806. The second, married in 1834, was Delilah Alexander, widow of George Beirne. His children, and their consorts in marriage, were as follows: Elizabeth, married (1) William Steenbergen, (2) Anders R. Rude; Lewis E., married Frances C. Alexander; Allen T., married Harriette Echols; Margaret M., married Oliver Beirne; William G., married Harriette B. Alexander in 1843, John A. married Mary E. Coke Guthrie; Hugh, married Eliza J. Mosher; Mary J., married John Echols; Sarah A., married James F. Preston; George H., married Mary E. Henderson. The children of Lewis E. are Hugh, Elizabeth, Bettie, Henry, and Lewis. Hugh married Catharine A. King, Bettie, Andrew P. Beirne, and Lewis, Mary W Carr. The children of Allen T. are Eliza J., Mary, wife of Tomlin Braxton, Harriette E., wife of William A. Gordon, Me-linda, wife of James Patton, and later of E. F. Bingham, Allen, who mar-ried Elizabeth V. Rowan, Ella, and Lelia, wife of Robert Stiles. William G. had John, Alice B., wife of Frank Hereford, Jine E., James A., Will-iam G., who married Rosa A. Stiles Christian, and Isabel, wife of John B. Hereford, brother to Frank. John A's children are John H., Mary E., Sarah J., and Hugh S., the first of whom wedded Virginia Standiford. Hugh had James M., Jane, Hugh, Imogen, and Mary. Of these, James married Emma S. Ratchife and Hugh married Mattie Booth Kyle. The children of George H. are Eliza H., Walter, Allen T., George H. (mar-ried Anna P. Chambliss), Jane E. (wife of William M. Warrick), Sarah P. (wife of Isaac P. Wailes), Florence, and William G. (married Mary A. Austin). At an earlier day the Capertons were very wealthy and possessed great social and political prestige. Among their best known rural seats are Elmwood, Walnut Grove, and Idlewilde. Allen Taylor Caperton was born at Elmwood Nov.21, 1810, and died at Washington, D. C., July 26, 1877. When a boy of fourteen he rode horseback to Huntsville, Ala., to attend school. In 1832 he was grad-uated from Yale College, standing seventh in a class of fifty-three. He studied law at Staunton and took up the practice of that profession in his native county. In 1841 and again in 1859-1861 he represented Monroe in the Virginia Assembly. In 1844-8 he was state senator, and in 1850 he was a member of the constitutional convention, representing Monroe, Giles, Mercer, and Tazewell. In the controversy which divided that body he stood with the western counties in advocating the white basis of represensation. In the secession convention of 1861 he was present as a delegate. When the crisis came he voted for secession. At the close of hostilities he counseled his constituents that it was the part of wisdom and patriotism to accept the logic of events. In 1876 he was elected to the Federal Senate, thus enjoying the unique distinction of sitting in both the Federal and Confederate senates as the choice of two different state governments. His term of service at Washington was brief, a sudden illness cutting short his career. In person Mr. Caperton was of rather more than medium size and he wore a long beard without a mustache. He was well groomed and was regarded as handsome. He delighted in horseback riding and in natural scenery, and was fond of agricultural pursuits. Socially he was aristocratic and exclusive, yet was courteous and affable. He was a close student of political science, a good talker, a ready debater, and a promi-nent lawyer. Like his father before him he was a Whig, adhering to that creed until political lines were modi~ed by the war. After that event he adhered to the Democratic party. A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 322-324 ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:52:39 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <91327bad.25154787@aol.com> Subject: BIO Charlton Family, Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. CHARLTON The Charltons crossed the ocean to Philadelphia about 1750. One of them was Thomas, who died in that city in 1791, leaving to his cousin Thomas 30 pounds and all his wearing apparel. His benevolence is illustrated by his legacy of 60 pounds to the poor among the communicants of his church. The second Thomas (1741-1819) (Alice Perry, 1763) came here about 1792 and settled on a large tract between Hillsdale and New Lebanon. It is said he was the first pioneer to arrive in a wagon. It was a four-horse conveyance with a canoe-shaped bed, and it held hinnseIf and wife, their eight children, and their household goods Heis also credited with bringing the eglantine to Monroe. The two roomed log house he built stood by the spring near the home of S. R. H. Irons. The only one of his children with descendants in the county was his youngest son, Joseph (b. 1784, m. Janet Ewing, 1807)-C: Frances Oliver-Thomas-Jennie-Letti-Joseph P E-James E. Like three of the sisters of their father, the three daughters of Thomas, Sr., never married, but lived most of their lives in a home of their own. The door of John's house was made like a slat curtain or a stave hammock, and in the day time was rolled up and fastened by pins above the door. A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 325 ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:58:54 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <60991d52.251548fe@aol.com> Subject: BIO Henly Chapman, Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. Henly Chapman Henly married Mary Alexander. Their children were: Augustus A. (1803-1876) (Mary B. Beirne, 1830)-Manilius (Susan Beirne)-Mrs. French-Mrs. Albert G. Pendleton-Mrs. P. Cecil. C. of A. A.-Henley C-William C.-George B-Christopher J. (Ark.)-Ann (Col. John J. Wade)~Frances F. (Michael A. Steele, Mo.)-Susan (s)-Ella J. ( Orr). Augustus A. Chapman was a gentleman of fine presence, cultivated manners, and ripe scholarship. He was an able lawyer, a finished orator, and almost invincible in courts or in political debates. His memory is held in great respect, largely because of the fact that in criminal cases he was always the defender and never the prosecutor. He served his county in the Virginia Assembly and his state in the 28th Congress (1843-45). At the outbreak of the American war he was a brigadier general of militia. As such he took the field with his command in 1861 and per-formed good service during the campaign of that season in the Kanawha valley. He died of apoplexy on his way to Charleston to nominate for the governorship his friend H B Mathews His oldest son died in 1858 just after his graduation. The second died in boyhood The third, best known as Beirne, was a young man of great promise a natural orator, and looking forward to the profession of law At the opening of hostilities he quit his studies to become first lieutenant of Lowry's Battery. After some months he resigned in order to organize the artillery company ever since known as Chapman's Battery. This command did gallant service un til almost annihilated and its beloved captain mortally wounded at Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864. A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 324-325 ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:05:48 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO John Burnside, Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. BURNSIDE John Burnside came from the north of Ireland in his boyhood and found employment in a store at Fincastle. It was here that Oliver Beirne met him casually, and being very favorably impressed, the young man entered the Beirne store as a clerk. After a few years he hcame a partner. Finding this business field too narrow for the powers of which he felt himself capable, he and Andrew Beirne, Jr., established at New Orleans the large dry goods house of Beirne and Burnside. Andrew Beirne was succeeded as partner by his brother Oliver. Burnside had an ambition to become the greatest sugar planter in the world, and a few years before the war he paid one million dollars cash for the Preston plantation in Louisiana. To this he added nine other estates, so that if he did not quite realize his ambition, he became the largest sugar planter in the United States, his holdings being valued at $6,000,000 and producing 7500 hogs-heads yearly of sugar and about 14,000 barrels of molasses. He was unmarried and at his death at White Sulphur in 1881, he left his estate to Oliver Beirne. Though a man of remarkable business qualifications, John Burnside seemed to be without human sympathy or public spirit It was said of him that he professed to be a British subject and used this claim to avoid confiscation of his goods during the regime of General Butler. Yet he took out naturalization papers in 1830. He was morose and reserved, and it was one of his peculiarities that he would tell his age and place of birth to no one. A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 318 ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:09:50 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO Byrnside Family, Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. BYRNSIDE Esther, the mother of James, married for her second husband Archi-bald Clendennin, who died on the Cowpasture in 1749, and whose son Archibald by a former wife was murdered in 1763 at the massacre at the Great Levels. The name of Esther's first husband was probably Robert She had also a daughter by him whose name was Rachel. The two children lived with their stepfather, who provided for them in his will, leaving James 300 acres on the Bullpasture. In the colonial time the family name was spelled Burnsides. Another of the same name was John, who was living at the Stone Meeting House in Augusta in 1765. He had an only daughter, and a nephew John died on the upper Greenbrier in 1809. James moved here from the Bullpasture soon after 1760, his second child John being by his own statement born near Union April 15, 1763. There is a family tradition that he dreamed his cabin was on fire and waking to find the dream correct he returned to his former home. At all events his settlement was marked for destruction in the Pontiac war of 1763. About 1770 he returned and built a blockhouse a little south of Union. But for a while he was living on the farther side of New River in what was then Montgomery County. He was an alert land prospector, active in business, and his name often occurs in the record-books of Augusta and Greenbrier. His latter years appear to have been clouded by reverses. He died at Union in 1812. His wife's name was Isabella. C: Esther (Will-iam Shanks, 1782)-John (1763-1816) (Elizabeth Alexander, 1797)-James (Anne)-Rachel-Sarah-Martha (?Joseph Carlisle, 1809)-Mary. The above are mentioned in the will of James, Sr., and in the order of age. But we are told of another, William (Malvina Alexander). He moved to Texas, James, Jr., to Boone. John lived on the large plantation immediately south of Union which was deeded him by his father. He became a deputy surveyor in 1785 and was the first county surveyor of Monroe. For his time he was a very wealthy citizen, his estate including seven slaves and personalty to the amount of $5037.19. C: Isaac (b. 1798) (Mary Vanstavern), Jane, (b. 1799) (Andrew Alexander)-Eliza (b. 1802) (Thomas Edgar, 1821)-Juli-ana (b. 1804) (Absalom S. Bolinger)-John (s)-James M (1814-1873) (Eliza Peters, 1833). The latter was a business man of Peterstown and mem-ber of the constitutional convention of 1872. C: Elizabeth J. (b. 1834) (Wil-liam T. Akers, 1852, Henry S. Shanklin, 1868)-Cynthia (Matthew H. Walkup, 1856)-Margaret J. (s)-Cynthia A. (Lewis F. Clark, 1855)-Henry C. (b. 1843) (Jennie Wiseman, 1866). A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 318-319 ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:13:47 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <12954723.25154c7b@aol.com> Subject: BIO Zachariah Callaway, Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. Zachariah CALLAWAY Zachariah (d. 1816) (Ellender) had a blockhouse on Trigger Run near Peterstown. C: Andrew, Margaret, Nancy, Patty, Polly (?James Ellison, 1796c), Sarah, Joshua (Rebecca Campbell, 1808, Nancy Roads, 1813), James, Priscilla (Delaney Swinney, 1806), Elizabeth (Epbraim Simmons, 1802), Charles (Ellen Garten, 181Z). Richard may have been in this locality in 1775. He was a resident of Fincastle, which then included the southern extremity of Monroe. A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 319 ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:30:11 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO Robert Campbell, Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. Robert Campbell Robert (1760-1847) was born at Armagh, county Antrim, Ireland, his parents, Archibald and his wife Jean Meathers, being of Scottish blood. In 1781 he came to Philadelphia, and thence by way of Fincastle to Pickaway, where he at length owned 1500 acres of the best land in that local-'ty and from 30 to 40 slaves. Owing to an unpleasant experience in his early life he never afterward incurred a debt. He was a heavy owner of livestock and a great lender of money. He was a hard trader yet charitable. He was a justice and otherwise prominent in the social and political life of the county. In religion he was a Presbyterian and in poli-tics a Democrat. Since there was no local bank in his time he kept large sums of money in his home. In November, 1846, he had $13,000 in his possession, a heavy payment having been made a few days before a visit by five robbers. One of them broke into his sleeping room, tore the money drawer from the table and tossed it through the window to his compan-ions. The aged man grappled with the robber, and two others came through the window to his relief. But his son Andrew Campbell, a very large, powerful man, heard the noise, rushed into the room, pitched two of the would-be thieves out of the entrance they had used, and pursued the third. The negro men came to the rescue and the robbers fled, nothing more being heard of thena They secured no booty, the money being in another room. During the affray the old gentleman was severely cut on the head with a club and the son received several slight bruises. The wife of Robert was Lydia Jeifries, a native of Wales, whom he was mar-ried to in 1791. C: Archibald (Susan Jones)-Robert (1801-1880) (Sarah McDowell, 1830)-Matthew (Virginia Brown)-Andrew (Ann Hawkins) -Isaac (Mary A. Jenness, 1831)-Lewis (Mary Brown)-Caperton (Re-becca Jennings)-Sarah (John Skaggs, 1817)-Jean (John Holsapple)-Mary (William Patton). C. of Archibald: Robert, Dr. William, John, Allen, Wentworth, Mar-garet, Mary. All these left the county. C. of Robert: James (d. 1899)-Mary J. (Clark Johnson)-Ann (Cal-vin Young)-John (d. 1903) (Alcesta Black)-Dr. Robert (d. 1862)-Marga ret S. (Kenneth Williams) -Isabella (Thomas Williams)-Alcesta -Sarah C. (Henry Dunn)-Burnett-Thompson (d. 1906)-Zerilda E-(Joseph Brown)-Dr. Clark R.-Everttt L. C. of John of Robert: Edwin (Frap)-Gertrude-Burnett-Catharine (James B. Mason). C. of Matthew: Elizabeth, Jane, Amanda (Smith), Nannie, Henry, William. C. of Andrew: Mary J. (N. H. Roberts)-Frances A. (William Boyd) -Archibald-Andrew N. (Eliza J. Leach)-James P. (Fannie Crews)-Lewis E.-Isaac N. (Mrs. Elizabeth Parker)-Nathaniel B. (Bettie Davis). C. of Andrew N.-Nannie E., Nettie G., Andrew A., Kenna C., Wal ter R., Crete H. C. of James P.-Gertrude, Nannie M., Hattie, James, Carey. C. of Isaac N.-Georgia. C. of Nathaniel B.-Frank, Annie ( Shanklin). C. of Isaac: Dr. Christopher C., John E., William H. H., Virginia 3. (Robert Humphreys, 1841). C. of Lewis: Charles R., Henry B., Isaac, Andrew L., John, Mary A. C. of Caperton: Elizabeth (James Parker), Ella D., John H., Lewis C. Andrew N. Campbell served throughout the war of 1861 and was grad-uated from the law school of Washington College during the presidency of General Robert E. Lee, with whom he was personally acquainted. By reason of the test oath restriction he was not admitted to the bar until 1870. As an attorney he acquired a statewide reputation. He has repre-sented his county in the state legislature and has been a member of the Board of Regents of the West Virginia University. In 1888-1896 he was judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, and was unanimously I nominated by his party. In 1912 he retired from the active practice of his profession. Judge Campbell enjoys the esteem and respect of those who know him by reason of his kindly social qualities and his abundant store of anecdote and reminiscence. Of the 29 grandsons of Robert Campbell all but one were in the Con-federate army. The sole exception was a resident of Illinois and a South-ern sympathizer. Two great grandsons, David Skagga and Cephalus Black were also in the same service. Samuel (Margaret) died, 1814. C: Sarah (George Steele, 1800)-Sam ud (Elizabeth M. Steele, 1805)-Maty A. (Matthew Ellison, 1806)-Jane (Michael Smith, 1808) -William-Rebecca-Isaac (1786-1860) (M ) -John. The above John was the father of Jesse (1813-1909) and Anderson; [saac, of Clement, Calvin, Emily ( Vass), Elizabeth (Robert Humphreys, 1841). Samuel (Elizabeth M. Steele) lived on Indian a mile and a half above Red Sulphur. C: Robert D. (b. 1818) (Mary K. Johnson, 1850) Isaac-( Vass) -Thomas-William-Eliza (Wilson Shumate, 1841) - Agnes ( Wheeler)-Polly ( Dunbar)-Amanda (Morgan Barger, 1847)-Adaline (Christopher Handley). Thomas and Isaac were proprietors of Red Sulphur Springs. They died before the war, William in 1879. C. of Robert D.-Elizabeth M. (J. Oscar Neel)-Margaret E. (John D. Beard-Charles W. (Jennie E. Ratliff of Wayne Co.)-George C. (Susan Wylie, Eliza VanBuren)-Ann R. (Clark 0. Neel)-Lewis M.-Robert E. (Annie McClaugherty)Eldridge H. (Elizabeth Spessard)-Walter (Mary Bowner)-Roxie (James Miller). L. M. and E. H. are physicians. W. M., an attorney, lives in Cal. and 0. C. in Arizona. Charles W., an attorney of Huntington, is a circuit judge. C: Nannie M., Ruth R., Rolla D., Jennie E., Charles W.C. of R. E.-Catharine K., Robert M., Walter M., Mary E., Agnes M., William L. C. of E. H.-Eldridge H., Elizabeth. C. of Isaac: James A. (Margaret Rutherford)-William (k. '61)-Thomas-Henry-Lewis-Robert-(0)-Mary (Ballard). C. of William of Samuel: Walter I., Edgar H., William, Emma. Still another Campbell was William (d. 1827). C: James (Sarah Young, 1806) -William-Thomas-Sarah (Alexander Hutchinson, 1807)- Polly ( Caldwell)-Mattie E. (William Chanley, 1811)-Rebecca (Joshua Callaway, 1808). A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 319-322 ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:40:11 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <85b88cc5.251552ab@aol.com> Subject: Fwd: BIO John Burnside, Monroe County Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part1_85b88cc5.251552ab_boundary" Return-Path: Received: from rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (rly-zb01.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.1]) by air-zb02.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:37:41 -0400 Received: from smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (smtp7.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.128.51]) by rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (v61.9) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:37:37 -0400 Received: from carol60 (user-2ives8i.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.113.18]) by smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA23531 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:37:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <013201bf0215$5a24e780$1271f7a5@carol60> From: "Carol" To: Subject: Re: BIO John Burnside, Monroe County Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:35:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Dear List There is still the "Bierne Estate" outside of Union WV.I wonder if it this family? carol -----Original Message----- From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 4:06 PM Subject: BIO John Burnside, Monroe County >This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site >or genalogical organization. > >BURNSIDE > >John Burnside came from the north of Ireland in his boyhood and found >employment in a store at Fincastle. It was here that Oliver Beirne met him >casually, and being very favorably impressed, the young man entered the >Beirne store as a clerk. After a few years he hcame a partner. Finding this >business field too narrow for the powers of which he felt himself capable, he >and Andrew Beirne, Jr., established at New Orleans the large dry goods house >of Beirne and Burnside. Andrew Beirne was succeeded as partner by his brother >Oliver. Burnside had an ambition to become the greatest sugar planter in the >world, and a few years before the war he paid one million dollars cash for >the Preston plantation in Louisiana. To this he added nine other estates, so >that if he did not quite realize his ambition, he became the largest sugar >planter in the United States, his holdings being valued at $6,000,000 and >producing 7500 hogs-heads yearly of sugar and about 14,000 barrels of >molasses. He was unmarried and at his death at White Sulphur in 1881, he left >his estate to Oliver Beirne. Though a man of remarkable business >qualifications, John Burnside seemed to be without human sympathy or public >spirit It was said of him that he professed to be a British subject and used >this claim to avoid confiscation of his goods during the regime of General >Butler. Yet he took out naturalization papers in 1830. He was morose and >reserved, and it was one of his peculiarities that he would tell his age and >place of birth to no one. > >A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 318 > > >==== WV-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ==== >********************************************************************** >WV-FOOTSTEPS/USGENWEB NOTICE: >These messages 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. >********************************************************************** > X-Message: #9 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:05:54 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38c75a21.251558b2@aol.com> Subject: BIO Samuel Pack, Monroe County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. Samuel Pack In England this name is historic. One of the Packs was in the Long Parliament. Another was one of Wellington's generals. Samuel wan-dered into this region from Tidewater Virginia, and in 1763 was trapping with Swope and Pitman on New River. A son was Samuel, Jr. (1760-1833) (Mary Farley), who settled on that stream. The Packs were large slaveholders and owned much New River bottom from the mouth of the Greenbrier up to and around the mouth of Bluestone. C. of Samuel, Jr. -John (d. 1830c) (Elizabeth Lively, 1812)-Matthew-Samuel (Sarah Wyatt, 1802)-Bartley (d. 1834) (Dicea Harvey)-Loammi (1791-1858) (Jane Lively, 1811)-William-Anderson (Rebecca Peters) -Elizabeth (Jacob Dickenson)-Polly (Joseph Lively, 1812)-Jennie (Jonah Morris). Anderson and Loammi owned a large body of land on Brush in the vicin-ity of Cashmere. The latter was a zealous Methodist, and built and did very much to maintain the Pack church. The wife of President Hayes was a daughter of Jennie Pack Morris. While Hayes was in this region as a general in the Fedral army he recognized Captain John A. Pack as a relative and gave him the freedom of his camp at Raleigh C. H. After the death of Anderson, his sons moved to Kansas and Oklahoma. Since then the name is locally extinct in the line of Loammi. C. of Anderson: Conrad B., Samuel B., John A., Allen C., Loammi C., Charles H., Virginia (Dr. Charles G. Manser), Clara (E. B. Meador), Kate (Capt. Robert Saunders) C. of Loammi: Cynthia (1812-1882) (James McGue, 1839)-Lucinda (Archibald Swinney, 1833)-Sarah (1818-1885) (Lorenzo D. Martin, 1849)-Bartley (Hester E. Carper, 1844)-Polly (Vincent Callaway, 1863)-Eliza J. (Andrew J. Carper, 1849)-Samuel C. (1829-1903)-Lorenzo D.(Mary J. Douthat, 1858)-John L. (1833-1895) (Elizabeth J. Ellison, 1867). C. of L. D.-Annie M. (Henry Brown), Jennie L. (C. A. Brown), Henry W., James J., Charles B., Mary L. (Robert Green), Lucy P., Thomas R~ C. of J. L.: Walter J (Lida Ralston, 1901), Charles H. (Nora Miller), Luther J. (Eva Broyles) . These sons began life as teachers, secured academic or collegiate education, and became ministers of the Baptist Church. A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. 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