Appendix 6: The Shumate Family

The Shumate Family

Honest John Martin’s sister Mildred Waggoner Martin married Lewis Shumate, Jr. He was in the fourth generation of French Huguenot immigrants with an extensive family of descendants in Fauquier County.

The Shumate Immigrant Jean de la Chaumette

The Shumate family in Fauquier County has a rich heritage beginning in the early 18th century. “The immigrant Jean de la Chaumette and his three immigrant sons have thousands of descendants spread throughout the United States today. … all living Shumates and Shumate descendants can take great pride that their ancestors were pioneers who departed their home in Virginia–Fauquier County—and migrated southward and westward. … The Shumates and their descendants have contributed much to our great land, and they can be justifiably proud of their ancestors’ accomplishments.”[530] [531] The name is also spelled as Shoemate and Shuemake.

Two of his children were Daniel DeLa Shumate, Another son was John Shumate (II) who married Judith Bailey. Neither John nor Daniel could read.

Daniel Shumate

“… Daniel Shumate (b. circa 1712, England or Martinique …, son of Jean de la Chaumette and Mrs. Elizabeth Bourgeois Bouvet. Tabitha [Dodson] and Daniel Shumate were married about 1769-1772 [They were married 8 October 1776 in Fauquier County {find bond}. He died 25 January 1802 in Fauquier County. She was born in 1749 in Richmond County and died 22 October 1803, also in Fauquier County.[532]] His other wives were Elizabeth Taliaferro and Mary Elizabeth Hoffman [who he married 1 February 1757 in Frederick, Maryland[533]]. By his three marriages, Daniel Shumate had sixteen children. Seven children were born to Tabitha Dodson. Tabitha was his third wife. Note that Ripley doubts this marriage.[534]

“When these seven children were born Daniel was in his sixties and seventies. These children were complainants in a suit filed against the executors of Daniel Shumate’s estate. The matter was settled and the executors, Thomas Shumate and Joseph George, were exonerated by the court of Fauquier Co. on 25 Jan 1802.”[535] The children of Lewis and Tibitha were:[536] 1. Mary Shumate, born circa 1770 in Fauquier County. Her will was dated 10 December 1802 and proved on 22 October 1804. On 24 December 1787, Mary married Martin Parker in Fauquier County. She “died 1838, Lawrenceburg, Anderson Co., KY. …[He was] b. circa 1762/66; d. June 1833, Lawrenceburg, KY.”[537] 2. Margaret “Peggy” Shumate was born about 1771 in Fauquier County. She died in Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1819. On 4 May 1790, she married Harris Whitecotton (“b. 1769; d. circa 1803, Augusta Co., VA, son of George Whitecotton.”[538]) in Fauquier County. Harris and Peggy had James and Tabitha. Peggy moved to Oak Flat in Pendleton County. Peggy died suddenly as a result of hauling logs three miles to her cabin. James was over at Circleville courting the daughter of James Raines. Tabitha, about 15, rode bareback to fetch him and with the assistance of neighbors, buried their mother under the doorstep of her house.[539] James Whitecotton married Nancy Raines in 1820 and had eight children. 3. Lewis Shumate, born 1772. (See below). 4. Nancy Shumate, born in Fauquier County. She Married Edward Kinney in Fauquier County 26 July 26 1796. “Nancy was born circa 1770. She was “under age” when she married Edward Denny (Kinney) on 25 July 1796. They apparently left Fauquier County after 1803, and it is presumed they moved “west.” Their descendants have not been located.”[540] 5. Strother D. Shumate. He was “born 20 Jan 1781, Fauquier Co., VA and died 3 Dec 1834, Greenville Co., SC. He married in April 1, 1803 Anna McDavid (born circa 1787 Greenville, Co., SC; d. 3 Dec 1883, Anderson Co., SC.”[541] 6. Charlotte Shumate (Conway.) “ Charlotte was born circa 1773 and died 1885, aged 102. She married on 26 Oct 1801 Peter Conway (d. circa 1825/27), son of Peter Hack and Mary James Conway.”[542] 7. Daniel Shumate. “Daniel was born circa 1783 and died circa 1843 in Kemper Co., MS. He married in Oct 1805, Jane McDavid (d. circa 1854/60, Kemper Co., MS) daughter of David McDavid.”[543]

Tabitha Dodson, Wife of Daniel Shumate

Charles Dodson, Sr.

“The ancestry of the Dodsons of Pittsylvania, Halifax, Henry and patrick counties has definitely been traced back to Charles Dodson, Sr. …who lived in Old Rappahannock County and was born circa 1649 …and married Ann ___ …about 1678-80.”[544] They had nine children including Thomas Dodson, Sr.

Thomas Dodson

Thomas was “born 15 May 1681 in Old Rapppahannock (now Richmond) Co. VA. He died circa 1739/40 [21 November 1740 in North Farnham[545]] in Richmond County. He married Mary Durham …the daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Smoot Durham [1 August 1701 in North Farnham, Richmond County[546]] …[she was] born 5 June 1868 in Old Rappahannock County [and died 1 January 1717 in Richmond County[547]]. Her father, Thomas, [was born 6 March 1661 in North Farnham, Richmond County and died 30 May 1715 in Richmond County.] … [Her mother was the daughter of] William and Jane Smoot… After the death of Thomas Dodson, the widow Mary Durham Dodson married Robert Galbreath on 29 Sept 1743, Richmond Co., VA.”[548] Thomas and Mary had nine children including Abraham.

Abraham Dodson

“Abraham was born 4 April 1723, Richmond Co., VA. He moved with others of his family to Fauquier Co. where he died about 1768 [25 October 1768 at Hamilton, Fauquier County. His will was proved in Richmond.[549]]…He married Barbara (surname unknown but perhaps Russell [Barbara Russell was born 9 November 1727 in Farnham, Richmond County and died after 1780 in Fauquier County.][550]) in Richmond Co. where their first child was born. On 4 Dec 1762, Abraham and Barbary Dodson were received by baptism into the fellowship of Broad Run Baptist Church, Fauquier Co. Abraham died while a member of this congregation. Barbary Dodson evidently had problems with her faith, for the notation is given beside her name on the membership roll “consigned 1772.” The meaning of this is not clear but it could mean she as banished or excluded from membership because of some nonconformity. On 29 July 1780, Joseph Drury was appointed to the task of bringing Sister Barbary Dodson “to our next meeting to answer her Censor which has laid a long time. “In 1768, shortly before his death, Abraham Dodson and William Stamps were two of the trustees of the Baptist Church to whom Jacob Hays and wife, Katherine, sold one acre ‘being part of the land where Hays now lives.’ Apparently this was the site of Broad Run Church.”[551] They had five children one of whom was Tabitha who married Daniel Shumate and one of whom was Mary who married Bailey Shumate, nephew of Daniel.[552]

Lewis Shumate

Lewis Shumate was the son of Daniel Shumate and Tabitha Dodson. Lewis was born circa 1772 in Fauquier County. He died in [probate date?] May, 1861.[553] [554] “He married circa 1792 Mary Chadwell, who was born at sea, circa 1772/3 and was the daughter of Joseph Chadwell.”[555] [take another look for mar. bond.]

“Lewis served in the War of 1812 in Captain Seth Comb’s Company, 85 Regt., Virginia Militia, and was later attached to Bramham’s 41st Regt. At Camp Alexandria outside of Washington, D.C. He was enrolled on 30 July 1814 and was dismissed on 2 August 1814. He lived the remainder of this life on his farm near Warrenton, VA.”[556]

Circa 1800 he married Fanny Stallard, probably in Rockingham County where he may have lived for a few years. Fanny was born circa 1772 and died circa 1815.

His Home

He and Fanny lived near Bleak in Fauquier County off Rt. 602 near the Warrenton-Fauquier airport. The home is described as follows:

Location: From Bleak, Virginia, proceed northwest 3.5 miles on Route #602 thence northeast .6 miles on private road. [Now Timbuktu Lane.] Built 1809. Owners: Lewis Shumate, 1809-1863; William A. Cowne, Sr. 1863- ; Wm. A. Cowne [check spelling] , Jr., and Cameron Cowne. Present owners Edger Messick and Cameron Cowne. It is a two story frame house with attic. There are two big stone chimneys at the ends of the original part of the house. A later edition gives the house the form of the letter T… The house has immense oak sills big enough for a barn. The oak framing is put together with wooden pins. The old part of the house with the two big chimneys was built in 1809 by either Lewis Shumate or his father. Lewis Shumate was the grandfather of Lathem Shumate, the present auctioneer who lives about two miles above Opal on Route #15. William A. Cowne, Jr. built the addition to the house.”[557] [558]

Lewis’s will was probated in 1861. Eleven children were listed in his will: Charlotte, Triplett, Polly, wife of Richard W. Gains, Murphy, Duff, Augusta, wife of Mr. Davis, Lewis [husband of Mildred Martin], Minor, Amanda and Walker.

By his wife Mary Chadwell he had: 1. Charlotte Shumate. “Born circa 1793, Fauquier County, VA; died 1861.”[559] 2. Triplett Shumate, born circa 1801 in Fauquier County and died sometime after 1850 (the date of his[560] father’s will.) “… he does not seem to be living in Fauquier County.”[561] “Married an Evans or a Milton.”[562] 3. Tiftesta (Polly) Shumate, born circa 1797 in Fauquier County. She may have married 22 December, 1822, Richard H. Gaines of Fauquier County, although there is some doubt. “The Gaines family was spread largely over Culpeper, Stafford, Fauquier, and Prince William Counties and seems to trace its many branches back to a common ancestor, Richard Gaynes who came to Jamestown about 1620.”[563] “…moved to Brentwood TN.”[564] 4. Murphy Chadwell Shumate, “born 7 Dec. 1799, Fauquier County, VA; died 12 Feb. 1883, Leesburg, Va.; married (1) 27 Nov 1827, Maria Hutchinson (b. 7 April 1806; d. 15 Sept 1818), daughter of Reuben Hutchinson; (2) 27 October 1831, Margaret Elgin (b. 22 Feb 1800; d. 1 March 1837) daughter of Gustavus and Elizabeth Hamilton Elgin; (3) 12 Dec 1837, Diadema Elgin (b 30 Nov 1803, Loudoun Co., VA; d. 13 Nov 1886, Loudoun Co.) daughter of Walter and Diadama Pancoast Elgin.”[565] In 1848, Maria Louise Shumate, Murphy’s daughter, presumably by his first wife, married Redmond F. White also in Loudoun County. Von Stauffenberg cautions that we do not have proof that this Murphy was the son of Lewis and Ann, but the later research by Williams and Lucas provides specifics that are convincing that Murphy is their son. By his wife Fanny Stallard, he had: 5. Lewis Shumate, Jr. (See below.) 6. Duff Shumate, born circa 1802 in Fauquier County and died after 1850. On September 22, 1823, he married Harriet Hickerson, also of Fauquier County, daughter of Hosea Hickerson. Perhaps his first name was Elias “…we have no record of Duff’s will in Fauquier county, so it is probable that he settled elsewhere.”[566] 7. Augusta Anne Shumate, born 28 February 1803.[567] She married Robert Davis on 17 March 1823 in Fauquier County. “They settled at Antioch, TN, near Nashville.”[568] 8. Augustus Shumate, born circa 1804 in Fauquier County and died in 1892 in Highland County, Virginia. He is believed to have married Elizabeth Pence about 1836 in Rockingham County. He is believed to be a son of Lewis’s, but he is not mentioned in his father’s will so there is an element of doubt. They had nine children. Von Stauffenberg details the children.[569] 9. Minor Shumate, born probably in 1808 in Fauquier County. He may have settled in Highland County, Virginia and had a wife named Elizabeth. “ … he may well have moved westward, emulating his brother Walker Shumate, who settled in Missouri”.[570] 10. Walker D. Shumate, born 12 October 1809 and died 27 July 1872 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He married Sarah Wheeler Williams, youngest child of William Walter Williams and his wife Henrietta Wheeler. The Williams were originally Fauquier County people and a grandfather and a great- uncle of Sarah’s were revolutionary veterans. “(Charles Williams, the great uncle was General Charles Williams, an associate with Anthony Wayne at Fallen Timbers battle.)[571] Sarah’s elder brother did not move westward. Instead he went to law school at William and Mary, set up his practice at Norfolk and married the socially prominent Martha Armstead there.”[572] Sarah died 30 April 1836 leaving two children. Walker then married Susan Quisenberry, daughter of James and Eliza Quisenberry, formerly of Orange County, Virginia. Walker married a third time, 9 September 1851, to Louise (Dorsett) Massy, a widow, whose husband Captain Massy had died. Massy is believed to have been Captain Mathew Strong Massey, formerly of Pennsylvania, a Revolutionary ‘mascot’, War of 1812, commissioned Captain in 1823 and stationed at St. Louis. He died in 1832. “Walker D. Shumate died at Saint Louis on 27 July 1872. He left several children.”[573] Williams says she was “Mary Louise born 1800 in Ohio, widow of Matthew Strong Massey and daughter of Walter Dorsett.”[574] 11. Amanda Mary (Fanny) Shumate, born circa 1815 in Fauquier County. On 18 August 1835, in Fauquier County, she married a cousin, John Taliaferro Shumate, who was the son of Taliaferro Shumate. “They moved to Nashville, TN.”[575]

Lewis Shumate, Jr. and his Wife Mildred Waggoner Martin

Lewis Shumate, Jr. was born in 1801 in Fauquier County and died 24 December 1877 also in Fauquier County at age 76.[576] He was the son of Lewis Shumate and his wife Fanny Stallard.

He married Mildred Waggoner Martin, daughter of Elias Martin and his second wife Mary. (See Elias Martin chapter.) Mildred Waggoner Martin was born 22 September 1806. Her death date is unknown, but is after 1880 as she is listed in that census. Her will is not recorded in Fauquier. Oddly, she was not mentioned in her husband’s will dated 22 March 1850. [577] Rev. John Ogilvie, pastor of Upper Goose Creek Baptist church, married Mildred and Lewis Shumate 15 January 1829.[578] She was 22, he was about 28.

Lewis and Mildred became members of the Broad Run Baptist Church and, on Sunday, 6 November 1847 were “received and baptized.”[579] In 1849, Lewis and Mildred were “dismissed to form a new church about to be constituted at Warrenton.”[580]

They had the following children, about every two years, like clockwork:[581] [582] 1. Elias Martin Shumate, born 11 November 1829. He died in infancy 8

October 1832. He was named after his mother’s father.

2. George Henry Shumate, born 6 December 1830. He married Mary N.

Ogilvie 31 May 1853. He served in the Black Horse Cavalry.

3. George Harden (Henry?) Shumate Y N Enl. April 25, 1861; cpl.;

discharged October 31, 1861 deafness.Y 3rd Cpl.

“George Harden Shumate .. was the husband of Mary N. (Ogilvie) Shumate whom he married May 23, 1853.”[583] [check Fq. Marriages for names. Harden or Henry? Probably just initial.]

Mrs. Caldwell, in an undated letter written in 1862 notes: “A few days ago several prisoners were brought in, they were captured at Culpepper Co House. George Shumate was one, they were put in the Court House and strictly guarded. Most of them, 7 in number, were without coats - the gentlemen and ladies supplied them with clothing and eatables - they were taken to Washington. I could freely shed tears on account of Mr. Shumate - he was not allowed even to write to his family & had not time sufficient between his being brought to town and his leaving in the cars for Washington for his wife to learn of the news of his capture so as to have come in town. I am sorry for both of them -separation is too painful under easy circumstances, but doubly so under these severe trials.”[584]

[LDS sites says he son of Lewis Shumate and Mildred W. Martin. See The Martin Boys…. } From Elias Martin Family Bible. George Henry Shumate, born 6 December

1830. 4. Mary Elizabeth Shumate, born 10 December 1832. She married John B.

Burroughs 5 January 1853. Their children were: [check Fauquier Births] a. Mary E. Burroughs, born 10 December 1853, (on her mother’s birthday). b. Mildred S. Burroughs, born 9 August 1857. c. S. S. Wilton Burroughs, born 10 December, 1858. (again, on his mother’s birthday!) d. ___ G. Burroughs, daughter, born 23 June 1860. e. John B. Burroughs, born 19 December 1861. f. Nannie Burroughs, born 21 January 1865. g. Ethel Alice Burroughs, born 23 December 1874. Her mother would have been 42 at this birth.

5. John Walker Shumate, born 4 September 1834. He married Mary Weaver

at St. James Episcopal Church in Warrenton in 1863. Their daughter Alice Shumate married Howard Johnson of Opal. Their daughter Louise Mabel Johnson married James Clinton Buchanan, parents of Alice Jane Buchanan who married Ernest Lee Childs, Jr. (See chapter 6.) [585]

6. James William Shumate, born 12 December 1836. He died 3 November

7. Nancy Martin Shumate, born 30 September 1838. 8. Jane Amanda Shumate, born 29 December 1840. 9. Lucy M. Shumate, born December 1842. 10. Mildred W. Shumate, born October 1844. 11. Alice Shumate, born June 1846. 12. Ella Shumate, born 26 June 1848. 13. Lewis Baylor (or Bagby) Shumate, [His correct name is believed to be

Bailey] born 15 July 1850.[586]

Bailey Shumate lived near Catlett.

Located one and one fourth miles southeast of Catlett, Virginia, in the south angle formed where the railroad crosses over cedar Run, cross railroad at first by-road on southeast and proceed several hundred yards to house on the hill. Date built not known. The rear of the house with the dormer windows and big stone chimney is very old. The Federals destroyed all but this part of the old house. Bailey Shumate, father of Daniel, rebuilt the front part after the War. Bailey Shumate must have built the original. Owners: Bailey Shumate; Daniel Shumate; Golder Shumate, present owner. The house stands on high ground overlooking Catlett to the northeast and part of Calverton to the southwest. It faces northwest. … It is a two story house. The front part is frame and the rear log. … The place consists of 155 acres but Bailey Shumate probably owned from Calverton to Cedar Run. His son, Sidney, owns the part nearest Calverton. Sidney Shumate is manager of the town of Warrenton. During the Civil War, the Federals camped on the part of the farm now owned by Sidney Shumate. They cut down some of the stumps of oak trees into the shape of chairs. Formerly one could see where they had thrown up dirt around the edges of tents to keep out water; in the grove of trees near the railroad, they dug a long trench. A Nocturnal Visit. At one time General Pope had his headquarters in the house described above. One rainy night, several of Jackson’s men managed to elude the Union pickets and got to the Shumate house. General Pope was asleep. They took his coat, cap and sabre and escaped. Mr. Sidney Shumate says that this incident is related in one of the school histories. The Ruins. When Bailey Shumate returned after the War, he found that the Federals had destroyed most of his house, so he had to rebuild. The Graveyard. About 75 yards northeast of the house is the family graveyard, with tombstones to Bailey, Daniel Shumate, and others.[587] [588] [visit cem.]

[Look for Lewis Hardin Shumate as possible relation. See BH Roster. “George Harden [Henry?] Shumate .. was the husband of Mary N. (Ogilvie) Shumate whom he married May 23, 1853. But we have George Henry as Mary’s husband. [LDS says Lewis Hardin is son of Mildred and Lewis!.]

Insert Family Tree diagram of Shumate Family.