[1] The Black Horse Cavalry was Company H, 4th Virginia Cavalry, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart’s Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A., and became famous as escorts and scouts for Generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Stuart.
[2] Lynn Hopewell, “Cavaliers and Lawyers Formed the Famous Black Horse Cavalry,” Fauquier Magazine, volume 5, number 12 (Winter 1992-93): 25-27.
[3] Katherine Isham Keith, “The Record of the Black Horse Troop,” Fauquier Historical Society Bulletin, volume 1, number 4 (June 1923): 426- 460. The author was the daughter of Black Horseman Isham Keith.
[4] Colonel John Scott, “The Black Horse Cavalry,” The Annals of the War (Philadelphia: The Times Publishing Company, 1879): 590-613. Col. Scott was the first captain of the Black Horse. This is the only history of the Black Horse written by a member of the company.
[5] Lewis Marshall Helm, Black Horse Cavalry Defend Our Beloved Country, (Higher Education Publications, Falls Church, Virginia, 2004.)
[7] Lynn Hopewell, “The Bravest Man in Lee’s Army,” Fauquier Magazine, volume 1, number 8 (June 1988): 16-22.
[8] “Chasseur,” “The Man Who Killed Lieut. Meigs,” undated clipping from The Stanton Spectator¸ page 52, column 1, from the Ella Skinner scrapbook, Dresdan, Virginia, now in the library of the Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation, Marshall, Virginia. Chasseur was the pseudonym of Black Horseman and author, Alexander Hunter.
[9] Marmaduke Langdale (1598-1661), Royalist Cavalry Brigade Commander under Charles I and Charles II during English civil wars of 1642-51.
[10] Maj. General George Stoneman (1822-1894). Noted Union cavalry commander who suffered the distinction of being the highest-ranking officer that the Confederates captured during the war.
[11] John Richard Martin obituary, undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, in John K. Gott collection of John K. Gott, Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation, Marshall, Virginia.
[12] Scott, “The Black Horse Cavalry,” 590. Scott points out that the date was the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The Black Horse had been informally organized about 1858.
[13] Keith, “The Record of the Black Horse Troop,” 434-460.
[14] Alexander Hunter, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank; (New York and Washington: The Neal Publishing Company, 1905), 418-24. The entire second half of this book is about the Black Horse Company and its many adventures.
[15] Scott, “The Black Horse Cavalry,” 590. The granddaughter of Black Horseman Moses Magill Green,Green told me that, according to her family tradition, the ball was held at the Warren Green Hotel. This is the only reference found to the ball’s location. It could also have been held at the Fauquier Springs resort. Letter from Lillian (Lightner) Norman, (deceased), (Mrs. Joseph E. Norman, 630 Broadview Avenue, Warrenton, Virginia 20186); to author, 31 August, 1983.
[16] Emily G. Rainey and John K. Gott, The Years of Anguish, Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1865 (Warrenton, Virginia: Fauquier County Civil War Centennial Committee, 1965), iv.
[17] Lynn Hopewell, A Biographical Register of the Members of Fauquier County Virginia’s Black Horse Cavalry, C.S.A. 1859~1865. In preparation.
[18] Lynn Hopewell, The Bravest of the Brave: a History of the Black Horse Cavalry, in preparation.
[19] “More About the Terrible Blackhorse,” Dailey Inquirer, Richmond, Virginia, 10 August, 1861.
[20] Gen Order #29, Hqs. Army of N. Va. February 28, 1863. The War Of The Rebellion: A Compilation Of The Official Records Of The Union And Confederate Armies (O. R.): Series I, Vol. XXI, Chapter XXXIII, 1114.
[21] O. R.- Series I-Volume XIX, Chapter XXXI, 952, September 3-20, 1862.- The Maryland Campaign. No. 264.-Reports Of Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, C. S. Army, Commanding Army Corps, Of Operations September 5-27.
[22] James Keith, Addresses on Several Occasions, (Richmond, Virginia: Appeals Press, Inc, 1917).
[23] John Richard Martin Family Bible, publisher unknown, marriage, birth and death record pages only. The bible pages passed from Dick Martin, (Bob Martin’s brother) to his daughter Mamie (Martin) Burge, then to her daughter, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, who gave them to the author.
[24] Kenneth L. Stiles, 4th Virginia Cavalry, (Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1985), 124.
[25] Hunter, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, 664.
[26] Robert Randolph was the son of Charles and Mary Mortimer Randolph, of “The Grove” in Fauquier County, an estate on Meetz Road near Casanova, now owned by Randolph Scott E. Carter. Robert Randolph had previously commanded the Black Horse. His father was Gen. Robert E. Lee’s first cousin. Col. Randolph was killed, commanding the 4th Virginia Cavalry at Meadow Bridge near Richmond and is buried at “Eastern View,” also on Meetz Road.
[27] The rifle is in the hands of a Fauquier family. The author has examined it.
[28] Scott, “The Black Horse Cavalry,” 595.
[29] Robert D. Minor Letters, 1862-1863, Accession 20194, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Robert Dabney Minor was the son of Garrett Minor II and his wife Eliza McWilliams. Robert was born 13 September 1827 and died 25 November 1871 in Richmond. He was an 1821 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy and a distinguished U. S. and Confederate Naval officer. On 17 December 1850 he married Landonia Randolph who was born 24 March 1830, and who was the sister of Col. Robert Randolph. Extract found on CSS Virginia web site http://cssvirginia.org, accessed 5 May 2002.
[30] From Virginia. Born 1821. Attended US Naval Academy at Annapolis as a member of the class of 1841 with roommates Robert C. Duvall, Abercrombie, and John McIntosh Kell and classmate William H. Parker. Married Landonia Randolph in 1850 and had five children: Mollie, Donie, Annie, Bessie C., Roberta. Died 1871. See the Robert D. Minor Letters, 1862-1863, Accession 20194, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia. Archives Branch, Richmond, Virginia 232219. Online, http://cssvirginia.org. Downloaded 8 August 2005.
[31] General Clement A. Evans, editor, The Confederate Military History, 12 volumes (Atlanta, Georgia: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899), 12. On March 9, 1862 the USS Monitor engaged the CSS Virginia in Hampton Roads. The Virginia was the Union warship Merrimack captured by the Confederates and renamed. Flag Lieutenant on the CSS Virginia, Minor was severely wounded attempting to fire the Congress. In his after action report, Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan commended the bravery of Lt. Minor. Minor, Flag Lieutenant on March 8, 1862, was severely wounded attempting to fire the Congress.
[32] Report to Hon. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, by Flag-Officer Franklin Buchanan, C. S. Navy, Concerning the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac, 27 March 1862. “To that gallant young officer Flag-Lieutenant Minor I am much indebted for his promptness in the execution of signals; for renewing the flag-staffs when shot away, being thereby greatly exposed; for his watchfulness in keeping the Confederate flag up; his alacrity in conveying my orders to the different divisions and for his general cool and gallant bearing.” http://www.civilwarhome.com/buchanan.htm
[33] Robert D. Minor, “The Plan to Rescue the Johnson’s Island Prisoners”, Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume XXIII (January- December 1895): 283- 290. Minor gives an extended account of the expedition.
[34] “A Tribute to Merit and Gallantry,” unidentified, undated newspaper clipping in the scrapbook of Lt. Robert D. Minor, Minor Family Papers, Mss1M6663a809, Virginia Historical Society.
[35] Landonia Minor Dashiell’s note, Minor Family Papers, Mss1M6663c, Virginia Historical Society.
[36] J. Michael Welton, Editor; “My Heart Is So Rebellious,” The Caldwell Letters, 1861-1865. (Warrenton, Virginia: privately printed, 1991), 217. Welton notes that the actual letter, dated 1863, was an error. The year should be 1864.
[37] Hunter, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, 666.
[38] Jack Cade lead a rebellion against king Henry VI in 1450. He was later dramatized by William Shakespeare in his play, Henry VI.
[39] Alfred Thomas Archimedes “Daisy” Torbett (1833-1880), Union cavalry commander.
[40] Minor papers, Virginia Historical Society Mss1M6663c 1054,
[41] Kitsch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County 1840-1919, 252. The Rev. Henry H. Wyer became pastor of the Broad Run Baptist Church, in May 1871. His arrival is noted in the minutes of the church. Also see Moore, A History of Broad Run Baptist Church, S.B.C., 1762-1987, 53.
[42] Fauquier County Marriage Book 7: 90. Both were born in Fauquier County. He was a farmer. His parents were John and Susan Martin. Her father is listed as Thomas Childs. This is an error. Her obituary correctly identifies her father as William. The space in the record for the first name of her mother is blank. Henry H. Wyer married them. [How do I know that?]
[43] John Richard Martin Family Bible.
[44] John Martin household, 1870 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, First Revenue District, Warrenton post office, page 492, dwelling 406, family 403; National Archives micropublication M593, roll 1645.
[45] John Richard Martin Family Bible gives middle name.
[46] Annie R. Martin entry, Fauquier County Births, 96, line 40, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. Born near 3 Mile Station [Casanova], parents Robert E. and Mary B. Martin. Reported by John Martin (her grandfather). The B. in Mary’s name should be a V.
[47] John Richard Martin Family Bible; gives birth and death date. She is not listed in Fauquier County death records.
[48] J. K. Taliaferro, “How Lieutenant Meigs Came to His Death,” Confederate Veteran, 22:128; this reference discusses the Martin family, and the Meigs incident involving Josh Martin. It mentions that Robert E. Martin “died a few years after the war.”
[49] Interview, Alice Jane (Buchanan) Childs, (Mrs. Ernest Lee Childs, Jr., 5272 Casanova Road; Casanova, VA 22017), by Lynn Hopewell, July 11, 1999. Her husband, Earnest Lee Childs, Jr. was Honest John Martin’s great- grandson.
[50] Interview with Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright (Mrs. Roy A. Wright, 1002 W. Lafayette Ave., Jacksonville, IL 62650, by Lynn Hopewell, 2 December, 2000. As told to her by her mother.
[51] John Richard Martin, handwritten obituary of his brother, copy provided by James C. Fresca, (P. O. Box 151, 13311 Foundation Road, Croton, OH 43013-9775,) obtained by him from Dick Martin’s granddaughter, Aileen Burge Wright. In his family bible, Dick Martin recorded his brother’s death date as 30 January.
[52] A reference to the English king known as Richard the Lionhearted, leader of the Third Crusade.
[53] “Datebook, Misc. Notes About Most Anything, Journal of Randolph Hicks Carter,” (MS, 1951-1973; Warrenton, Virginia), 13. Owned 2005 by his son Randolph Scott E. Carter; 5338 Balls Mill Road; Midland, VA 22728.
[54] Melrose Castle is on the National Register of Historic Places and is located on Rt. 602 in Casanova Virginia. It dates from around 1854 and is situated on a fifty acre parcel of land. It was built by the Murray family who named it Melrose after their homeland in Scotland. During the War Between the States, the castle was occupied by forces of both the North and South.
[55] Bob Martin’s accident took place on the modern-day Old Carolina Road (Rt. 602) (also known as Rogues Road) where it crosses Turkey Run, one mile from the intersection of Old Carolina Road and Weston Road (Rt. 734). The spot is about 50 yards south of the modern-day intersection of Old Carolina Road and Spring Hill Lane.” Coordinates: 38° 40’ 18.2” N, 77° 42’ 49.3” W. The spot is also about 3/4 mile from his wife’s parent’s farm, Ajax. The part of Ajax is now owned by Edward P. Evans and renamed “Spring Hill.” The Childs family cemetery is located there.
[56] By the time he was 8, both his parents were dead.
[57] William L. Childs household, 1880 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Cedar Run, enumeration district 48, supervisor’s district 3, sheet 202A, dwelling 285, family 286. National Archives micropublication T9, roll 1365. Ernest Lee’s last name is mistakenly given as Martin. Mary’s age is given as 43, giving a birth year of 1837.
[58] William L. Childs household, 1900 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Cedar Run Township, enumeration district 24, supervisor’s district 8, page 15B, dwelling 255, family 256. National Archives micropublication T623, roll 1708. Mary’s age is given as 60 and that she was born in May 1840. She has lost three years in age, perhaps a little “fudge.” Ernest Lee Childs is show as age 29, born August 1870.
[59] E. L. Childs household, 1910 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Cedar Run District, enumeration district 39, supervisor’s district 8, page 8A, dwelling 151, family 152. National Archives micropublication T263, roll 1708. Mary Virginia is shown as 75, indicating a birth year of 1835. She is listed as never having a child. Obviously the person giving the information did not know of her daughter Annie.
[60] 1910 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Cedar Run, enumeration district 39, supervisor’s district 8, page 8A, dwelling 151, family 152.
**[61]**James H. Childs Family Bible, The Holy Bible Containing the New Testament, Holman’s Edition, (Philadelphia: A. J. Holman and Co., 1873); original owned by in 1999 by Ernest Lee Childs, Jr. (5272 Casanova Road, Casanova, VA 22017). This bible passed from James H. Childs to his son Ernest Lee Childs to his grandson Ernest Lee Childs, Jr. There is no record of her death in Fauquier County Death records.
[62] See Margaret Ann Martin chapter.
[63] Helen Jeffries Klitch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County 1840- 1919, (San Antonio, Texas: Phil Bate Associates, 1989), 216. The obituary confirms the day of death, but makes no mention of the month or year. Her obituary says she was 81, making her birth in 1831. However, in the 1850 U.S. census, her age is given as 14, make her birth in 1836. In the 1860 census she is shown as 23 giving an 1837 birth year. In the 1870 U. S. Census, her age is given as 33 making her birth in 1837. In the 1880 census, she is 43, giving a birth year of 1837. In the 1910 census, she is 75, making her birth about 1835.The obituary likely was in error.
[64] One wonders why she was not buried next to her husband in the Martin family cemetery.
[65] Letter, Aileen Linn Burge Wright, to Carl Sciortino, (1922 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220,) 28 May 1975, citing textbooks in possession of letter writer. Letter now in possession of author.
[66] John Richard Martin entry, Fauquier County Deaths 1912-1917; volume 4: 1201, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. Died 5 January 1916. He was 74 years, 7 months and 17 days. [Incorrectly calculated.] He was born in Fauquier County. His father was named as John Martin and his mother, Susan Fisher, both born in Fauquier County. He was listed as married, [however, he was a widower.] His comrade in arms, Hugh Hamilton gave the information.
[67] Kenneth L. Stiles, 4th Virginia Cavalry, 124.
[68] Roster of the Black Horse Cavalry, loose papers, Fauquier Historic Preservation Society Library, Marshall, Virginia, provided to the author by John Gott. Hereinafter cited as “Roster of the Black Horse Cavalry, circa 1874—1878.
[69] Letter, Aileen Linn Burge Wright to Carl Sciortino, (1922 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220,) 27 June 1975. Letter in possession of author. In the letter, Mrs. Wright notes: “Grandpa is in the upper right of the tin type picture & Alexander Hunter in the upper left. Many years ago, he had a picture of himself made from that tin type, enlarged a little & mounted on cardboard. On it he had written “Taken in 1864.”” Letter in possession of author.
[70] Missouri, Adjutant General’s Office, “Confederate Pension Applications And Soldiers’ Home Admission Applications,” (Missouri Department of Records and Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri,) Microfilm #1021109, Confederate pension applications, approved, “M” surnames, State of Missouri, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
[71] Hunter, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, 668. Hunter discusses the exploits of the Black Horse Cavalry in many places in the book.
[72] Hunter, The Women of the Debatable Land; 208-209. This book is sprinkled with many anecdotes about the Black Horse Cavalry.
[73] Date Book, Misc. Notes About Most Anything, Journal of Randolph Hicks Carter.
[74] Unsourced excerpt from, apparently, a memoir by an unnamed cavalryman; received with packed from Charles Andes, Jan. 2003 (Stone family correspondent). [Citation unverified. Possibly: Keith Papers; MSS 1k2694cFA2; Virginia Historical Society.]
[75] “Pedagogue 44 Years Fulton Teacher’s Record,” undated clipping, but hand marked 1910, from unidentified newspaper, in family papers of Lucy Ann Martin Smith (Mrs. Nathaniel D. Smith) of Owasso, Missouri; inherited 1969 by her son N. DeWitt, Jr., of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, who bequeathed his family papers to the author.
[76] John Richard Martin obituary, undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, in family papers of Aileen Burge Wright, now in possession of the author.
[77] Hunter, The Women of the Debatable Land; 208-209.
[78] Fauquier County Deed Book 89: 125, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. He was living in Audrain in March 1897 when his brother Josh’s land was divided among his heirs. The deed mentions J. R. Martin’s second wife, Mary Martin.
[79] Mary Martin Obituary, Fulton Missouri Telegraph, January 31, 1913, page 1, column 1. A similar obituary was in Fulton Gazette, January 31, 1913, page 8, column 4. See obituary under Mary Martin below.
[80] Pike County Marriage Register, 1865-1879, page 495, entry 2331, Bowling Green, Missouri. Copy from Family History Library Film No. 974635. Marriage solemnized by James W. Duvall, Minister of the Gospel. This record records her name as “Pinkie J. Gilmore.”
[81] John Richard Martin Family Bible. Her name is recorded as Jemima. Jemima is from the Old Testament—one of Job’s daughters.
[82] “Mrs. C. O. Kinney Passes Away,” undated clipping from unidentified newspaper in family papers of Jemima Gilmore (Mrs. Charles O. Kinney), inherited by her daughter, Lucy Ann Martin (Mrs. DeWitt Nathaniel Smith) of Owasso, Oklahoma; owned in 2005 by Albert Allie Scott (Rt. 1, P.O. Box 86, Wesley, AR 72773) He was the husband of Lucy’s deceased granddaughter, Nadine Loretta Smith.
[83] His father had died three months earlier, on 25 July of that year. Did Dick not know of his father’s death? That is unlikely. He may have been referring to his family, rather than literally, his parents.
[84] Letter from J. Richard Martin (Concord, Callaway County, Missouri) to Lucy A. Gilmore, 22 October 1875, in family files of N. DeWitt Smith, now in possession of the author. Ten months later, Dick’s father died.
[85] Handwritten note, by Lucy Martin Smith. Lucy Martin Smith family papers, now in possession of author. This note provided information on her mother’s parents. She also mentions Frank Pocoke, born 6 December 1880; and Joe Pocoke, b. 6 December 1882 and died 16 November 1936, her cousins, presumably from her mother’s family.
[86] Handwritten note, by Lucy Martin Smith. Lucy Martin Smith family papers.
[87] Bettie Martin obituary, Owasso Reporter, Owasso, Oklahoma, 3 April, 1969, page 7, column 6. This obituary gave Lucy’s middle name.
[88] Fauquier County Deed Book 69:170, Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. He and his wife deeded Licking Run land that he inherited from his father to Edward M. Grove, 12 November, 1877.
[89] J. Richard Martin household, 1880 U. S. census, Montgomery County, Missouri, population schedule, Middletown, Prairie Township, enumeration district 113, supervisor’s district 3, sheet 157B, dwelling 19, family 19; National Archives micropublication T9, roll 0705. Jemima was born in Missouri, her father in South Carolina and her mother in Missouri. Lucy is three and Bettie is one. Dick is teaching school, Jemima is keeping house. Dick was thirty eight and Jemima was twenty four.
[90] Letter from J. Richard Martin to his daughters, dated 10 September 1883, inherited by Nathanial DeWitt Smith, Jr., now in possession of author.
[91] Kinney-Gilmore marriage, Pike County Marriage Register, 1891-1895, Volume 9. County Clerk’s Office, Bowling Green, Missouri.
[92] Charles O. Kinney death certificate no. 55-1888 (1930), State Department of Health, State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City. His occupation was listed as “merchant.” Informant was Bettie Martin. His mother’s place of birth was listed as U.S.A., so Bettie did not know any details. However, from the 1900 U.S. census, we learn that his mother was born in Illinois.
[93] Charles Kinney household, 1900 U. S. census, Pike County, Missouri, population schedule, Cuivre, Bowling Green ward, enumeration district 87, supervisor’s district 9, sheet 7A, dwelling 148, family 150; National Archives micropublication T623, roll 882.
[94] Charles Kinney household, 1900 U. S. census, Pike County, Missouri, population schedule, Cuivre, Bowling Green ward, enumeration district 87, supervisor’s district 9, sheet 7A, dwelling 148, family 150. Charles was born November 1864, was thirty five, and had been married nine years. Jemima was born March 1854, was 46, and was the mother of two living children. Charles was born in Illinois, his father in New York and his mother in Illinois. Jemima was born in Missouri, her father in South Carolina and her mother in Kentucky. The two girls were born in Missouri, their father in Virginia and their mother in Missouri. Charles was a farmer, Lucy was teaching school.
[95] Ruth F. McCarty, Brief History of Owasso, Indian Territory and Owasso, Oklahoma to 1919, (Unpublished document, November-December, 1980) p. 1. Information Abstracted from: Tulsa County Historic Sites, July 1982: Prepared by the Community Planning Division Indian Nations Council of Governments for the Tulsa County Historical Society. Also see: C.B. Douglas, History of Tulsa, Oklahoma, vol. 1 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1921), pp 683-684. Quoted on US GenWeb for Tulsa County Oklahoma, http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2/cities/owasso.html.
[96] Owasso Historical Society, web page http://www.rootsweb.com/~okohs/Pictures/palace.html.
[97] Interview with Nathaniel DeWitt Smith, Jr. (811 W. Elgin Street, Siloam Springs, AR 72761), by Lynn Hopewell, 24 April 2001. Mr. Smith was Dick Martin’s grandson. He is now deceased.
[98] Charles O. Kenney, death certificate.
[99] Charles O. Kinney, death certificate no. 55-1888, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
[100] Interview with Shelma White; (Memorial Park Cemetery, 13400 North Kelly Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK, 73131), by Lynn Hopewell, 3 April 2001. Ms. White kindly provided burial information and photographs of the family tombstones. The cemetery is at the boundary of Edmond and Oklahoma City. The Kinneys and Bettie are buried in Lot 268, Section 16.
[101] Charles O. Kinney obituary, Edmond Booster, Edmond Oklahoma, 13 November 1930, page 1, column 2. A similar obituary was in the Edmond Sun, Thursday, 13 November 1930, page 6, column 2. Oddly, his stepdaughter Bettie was not mentioned.
[102] Bettie Martin obituary, Nowata Daily Star, 24 March 1969.
[103] Not true. Dick Martin did not die until 1916.
[104] Their marriage certificate says 24 May.
[105] Jemima Gilmore Kinney obituary, Edmond Star, Edmond Oklahoma, 20 October 1938, page 2, columns 2, 8.
[106] Jemima Gilmore obituary, copy of newspaper clipping, source unknown, provided to author by N. DeWitt Smith.
[107] Bettie Martin obituary, Nowata Daily Star, Nowata, Oklahoma, 24 March 1969, page 4, columns 4-5.
[108] Social Security Death Record, 440-48-7224, residence at death was Owasso, Oklahoma. It names her father and mother and noted that she was born “near Vandalia, Mo.
[109] Interview with Albert Allie Scott (Rt. 1, P.O. Box 86, Wesley, AR 72773), by Lynn Hopewell, 18 April 2001. Mr. Scott was DeWitt Smith’s son- in-law.
[110] Owasso Reporter, Owasso, Oklahoma, 23 September 1965, page 1, column 1. Copy given to author by N. DeWitt Smith, Jr. Also in The Collinsville News, 23 September 1965.
[111] Owasso Reporter, Owasso, Oklahoma, 22 September 19 66. Clipping given to author by N. DeWitt Smith, Jr.
[112] Betty Bowen Martin funeral record sheet; Tulsa-Whisenhunt Funeral Home, (Tulsa-Whisenhunt Funeral Home, 2211 E. 6th Street, Tulsa, OK Tulsa, Oklahoma). Copy provided to author by funeral home, 3 April, 2001.
[113] Interview, Shelma White, 3 April, 2001.
[114] The 1880 census records her age as one year. Her tombstone says her birth was in 1879. Only the 1900 U. S. census records her birth year as 1880. Her death certificate states 7 April 1879. Betty Bowen Martin, death certificate no. 05188, local registrar’s file no. 253, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Informant, Dewitt Smith.
[115] Nowata Daily Star, 24 March 1969
[116] Owasso Reporter, Thursday, 3 April 1969, page 1, column 6.
[117] Interview, Albert Allie Scott, 18 April 2001.
[118] Interview with Wildeana (Mohr) Smith (Mr. Donald Glenn Smith), 1221 East Main Street entry, AR 72734-8212, by Lynn Hopewell, 16 August 2001. Mrs. Smith is no relation to N. DeWitt Smith, but purchased his home when he moved to the nursing home and befriended him. Information provided to her by N. DeWitt Smith.
[119] 1880 U. S. census, Montgomery County, Missouri, population schedule, Middletown, Prairie Township, enumeration district 113, supervisor’s district 3, sheet 157B, dwelling 19, family 19. Jemima was born in Missouri, her father in South Carolina and her mother in Missouri. Lucy is three and Bettie is one. Dick is teaching school, Jemima is keeping house. Dick was thirty eight and Jemima was twenty four. This census says Lucy is three, implying 1877 as her birth year. Her tombstone says 1877. Only the 1900 census says her birth year is 1878.
[120] Marriage License, No. 948, United States of America, Indian Territory, Northern District with Certificate of Marriage by S. W. Marr, a minister of the gospel. Copy provided author by N. DeWitt Smith. The license says Lucy was 25.
[121] Smith-Martin wedding invitation 3 April 1903, at the residence of the bride on Main Street, Owasso, I. T.; supplied 10 October 2002 by Nathaniel DeWitt Smith, Jr.; held by author.
[122] Social Security Death Record, 448-36-8809, b. 4 February 1877, residence at death, Owasso, Oklahoma. Did not give day of death.
[123] Patsy Davis Burns and J. Paul and Tulaire Ressie Foreman, submitters, “John Jackson Smith family group record,” (undocumented): ancestral file number CPTD-K0, Ancestral File, version 4.19, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah. Nathaniel’s maternal grandfather was Moses Wa-Sah Fields of the Cherokee Nation. This file has rather complete information on this family. John and Penelope were married 20 October 1859 in the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; she was born 2 April 1842.
[124] Homestead Deed 13305, Cherokee Citizen, Roll Number 638, filed for record on the 22nd day of Sep., 1906 at 11 o’clock AM, and recorded in Book 21, Page 434. Copy of deed provided to the author by Nathaniel DeWitt Smith, Jr.
[125] Unidentified newspaper clipping in papers of Lucy Martin Smith. Given to the author by her son N. DeWitt Smith.
[126] Artilce and photo from: www.rootsweb.com/~okohs/Pictures/insch.html. Owasso Historical Society.
[127] Photo from: www.rootsweb.com/~okohs/Pictures/insch.html. Owasso Historical Society.
[128] “All eight of we children got the most of our education in a little one room school called South Greer school. It was called that name because as it was in the south part of Greer county, on the North fork of the Red River. The same school was later moved a few miles north and became Hess school. This name came from my mother’s family who started the first post office. In Hess, old Greer County Oklahoma.” Memoirs of Addie Wilson Brown. Research compiled by: Linda Gayle Wilson Heuckendorf, 190 N. Henney Rd; Choctaw, Oklahoma 73020, www.southerngrace.com/bornnbred.htm.
[129] Letter from Lucy Ann Martin Smith to her mother, Jemima Gilmore Kenney, 21 January 1928, now in possession of author. Elmer is about 130 miles southeast of Edmond, Oklahoma. Altus is about 11 miles north of Altus.
[130] Tulsa Tribune, Wednesday, 23 June 1965.
[131] Tulsa Tribune, Wednesday, 25 June 1965. Also in Tulsa Daily World, Friday, 25 June 1965.
[132] Letter from Marcia Boutwell (City of Owasso, 207 South Cedar, Owasso, OK 74055) to Lynn Hopewell, 10 April 2001, summarized Smith tombstone information.
[133] Fairview Cemetery, Owasso, Oklahoma tombstone listings, Owasso Historical Society, online, < http://www.rootsweb.com/~okohs/Fairview/fairvw.html >. Smith data downloaded 17 June 2003.
[134] Social Security Death Record, 448-36-8809, b. 4 February 1877, residence at death, Owasso, Oklahoma. Did not give day of death.
[135] Nathaniel DeWitt Smith obituary, The Tulsa Tribune, Saturday, 14 February 1970
[136] Letter from Wildeana Smith (Mrs. Donald Smith; 1221 East Main Street, Gentry, AR 72734-8212) to author, 29 August 2002..
[137] Letter from Wildeana Smith (Mrs. Donald Smith; 1221 East Main Street, Gentry, AR 72734-8212) to author, 24 April 2001. Mr. & Mrs. Smith bought DeWitt’s home when he moved to the nursing home. Mrs. Smith befriended DeWitt and visited him often.
[138] Interview with Albert Allie Scott (Rt. 1, P.O. Box 86, Wesley, AR 72773), by Lynn Hopewell, 18 April 2001. Mr. Scott was DeWitt Smith’s son- in-law. The obituary was in error. She was a resident of nearby Gentry, Arkansas.
[139] The Morning News, Tuesday, August 8, 2000. From web site: http://www.nwaonline.net/pdfarchive/2000/August/08/8-8-00%20A4.pdf.
[140] Nathaniel DeWitt Smith obituary, Siloam Springs Herald-Leader, Siloam Springs, Arkansas, Sunday, 9 March 2003, page 2, column 5. The author provided the information on his grandfather before DeWitt died.
[141] Nineteen miles north of Owasso.
[142] Interview with N. DeWitt Smith, by Wildeana Smith, April 2001, transcribed and provided in letter from Wildeana Smith (Mrs. Donald Smith; 1221 East Main Street, Gentry, AR 72734-8212) to author, 24 April 2001.
[143] Scott-Smith marriage announcement, Free Press, Greenfield, Iowa, Wednesday, 4 October 1960. p. 4. Copy of newspaper clipping provided to author by Albert A. Scott.
[144] Interview, Albert Allie Scott, 18 April 2001. All information on his wife and himself came from Mr. Scott.
[145] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December, 2000.
[146] Mary A. Martin death certificate, registration district no 104, file no 421, primary registration district no. 3008, registered no. 18, Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Missouri Department of Health, Jefferson, Missouri. She died of tuberculosis. Her occupation was “housekeeper.” Her birthday was given as 1 April 1860. This conflicts with the March, 1859 information in the 1900 census. The information was given by Mary’s daughter Mamie. Her father was John B. Gregory, born in Missouri. Mamie did not know the maiden name or birthplace of Mary’s mother. Mary’s tombstone says she was born in 1861.
[147] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000. She lived in at least one foster home.
[148] Mary Gregory entry, Unidentified orphanage household, 1870 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, First Revenue District, Warrenton post office, page 746, dwelling 124, family, 103; National Archives micropublication M593, roll 824. Mary Gregory, age 14. She was born in Missouri, and both her parents are shown as foreign born.
[149] Doring cemetery records, Email message from Barbara Zimmerman, cityhall@wrightcity.org (Town Clerk, City Hall, 203 East North Second Street, Wright City, Missouri), to author 27 December 2000. He is buried next to Mary A. Martin. Mary was interred 17 January 1913. Plot owned by Mary Doring Burge. Mamie Burge paid for this plot for many years. That must be how the name Burge was added to the cemetery records.
[150] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000.
[151] Karen Harvey and Thomas Allen Groshong, submitters, “Samuel Jeremiah Groshong family group record,” (undocumented): ancestral file numbers 1CW3-25C and 1CW3-26K, Ancestral File, version 4.19, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah. The marriage date of Mary to Samuel is uncertain as it is also attributed to another marriage of Samuel’s.
[152] Highland Prairie Cemetery, Lincoln County, Missouri, compiled cemetery information, online http://www.rootsweb.com/~molincol/mocems/highland2.htm, Groshong data downloaded 17 June, 2003. Louisa Groshong - died Feb. 23, 1877, 33 y. (Wife of S.J.); Susannah E. Groshong - died Dec. 22, 1860, 22 y (Wife of S.J.). Samuel Jeremiah Groshong not listed.
[153] John R. Martin household, 1900 U.S. census, Audrain County, Missouri, population schedule, Salt River Township, enumeration district 13, supervisor’s district 150, sheet 11B, dwelling 226, family 228; National Archives micropublication T623, roll 837 Dick owned his own home, and had a mortgage. He was a school teacher. Callie was a dressmaker. They lived at 723 Buck Harren (?) Street.
[154] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000.
[155] Fauquier County Deed Book 89: 356, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia.. Deed is dated 16 May 1898. He sells to his sister Mildred part of the land he inherited from his brother George. 21 November 1898, he deeds “Lot 2, woodland” he also received from his brother George to his nephew, Ernest Childs (Fauquier County Deed Book 90: 104). He is now domiciled in Audrain County, Missouri.
[156] Fauquier County Deed Book 90:104, Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia.
[157] 1900 U.S. census, Audrain County, Missouri, population schedule, Salt River Township, enumeration district 13, supervisor’s district 150, sheet 11, dwelling 226, family 228.
[158] Mary E. Martin obituary, Fulton Missouri Telegraph, 31 January 1913, page 1, column 5. An almost identical obituary was in the Fulton Gazette, 31 January 1913, p. 8, column 4. This last obituary confirms she was born in Warren County, Missouri.
[159] Mary A. Martin, death certificate, registration district no. 104, file no. 421, primary registration district no. 3008, registered no. 18.
[160] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000. Mary owned a cemetery lot there.
[161] Tombstone. “Mary A. Martin wife of J. R. Martin 1861-1913.” Email message from Barbara Zimmerman, cityhall@wrightcity.org (Town Clerk, City Hall, 203 East North Second Street, Wright City, Missouri), to author 7 February, 2001.
[162] Fulton Missouri Telegraph, 31 January 1913, page ??. The middle initial seems to be an error. The Martins lived at 726 Bluff St. according to a subscription label on a copy of Confederate Veteran magazine, belonging to Dick Martin, now in the possession of the author.
[163] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000.
[164] Morgan County Register of Marriages, page 315, County Clerk’s Office, Jacksonville, Illinois.
[165] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000. Corrected month from February to January.
[166] Fauquier County Will Book 47: 418. Mentions niece Mamie.
[167] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000.
[168] James Burge obituary, Jacksonville Daily Journal, Thursday May 24, 1962. This source says he was born in Jacksonville.
[169] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000.
[170] James Burge household, 1920 U.S. census, Morgan County, Illinois, population schedule, Jacksonville City, enumeration district 135, supervisor’s district 12, sheet 4-A 354, dwelling 94, family 98. They lived at 591[an error according to Aileen Burge Wright.] South Church Street. He was a proprietor of a grocery store. They lived next to William H. Burge, his brother, who worked as a salesman for James.
[171] Morgan County Register of Marriages, page 315.
[172] Clara Burge household, 1880 U.S. census, Morgan County, Illinois, population schedule, Jacksonville City, enumeration district 168, supervisor’s district 6 sheet, dwelling 304, family 340. Family History library Film 1254238, National Archives Film Number T9-0238, page number 149B. 10 June 1880. The census taker mistakenly listed Sarah as Clara. Sarah was widowed, age 43, born in England as were her parents. James was 11, born in Illinois. Ella was 10, born in Wisconsin. William was 13, born in Illinois. All the children were “in school.”
[173] Records of Jacksonville Cemetery East, Myrtle St, Jacksonville IL 62650.Tombstone records of James Burge’s parents and brother and sister: John Burge, 1822-21 March 1887; Sarah Burge 1836-1918; Emma Burge 1864- 1917; William Burge 1867-1952. www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/morgan/cemetery/east_jax/jaxe_br_by.html. Downloaded 20 September 2003.
[174] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000.
[175] ___________Jacksonville Daily Journal, Thursday May 24, 1962. page and column?
[176] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000. Aileen last saw her half brother at her father’s funeral. She has not talked to him since.
[178] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 20 September 2003. James and Mamie Burge lived at 531 South Church Street near their grocery store at
South Church Street. When their daughter Aileen was in Jr. High School,
they moved to 1022 West College Ave., all in Jacksonville.
[179] [Anonymous], Diamond Grove Cemetery (Reprinted by Jacksonville Area Genealogical & Historical Society, Jacksonville, Illinois). This record give death dates of 26 May 1962 for James and 20 September 1968 for Mamie. These are interment dates. Their daughter Aileen gave death dates shown.
[180] James Burge obituary, Jacksonville Daily Journal, Jacksonville, Illinois, Thursday 24 May, 1962. A funeral notice was in the Jacksonville Daily Journal 25 May 1962.
[181] Letter from Aileen Wright to Lynn Hopewell, 27 July 2002.
[182] According to Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, the reference is to her half-sisters from her mother’s earlier marriages, not her two half-sisters from her father’s earlier marriage to Jemima Gilmore. This lends weight to the notion of estrangement with Dick Martin’s children of his first marriage.
[183] Mamie Martin obituary, Jacksonville Journal, Jacksonville, Illinois, no date. Copy provided by Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright.
[184] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000. Roy’s parents are buried in Hickory Grove Cemetery, Wrights, Illinois. Wrights Illinois is about twenty-five miles south of Jacksonville. Wrights was named after Roy Wright’s family.
[185] “New Director of Nursing Service Appointed”, Newsette, volume 16, number 22, 24 June, 1966, (Jacksonville State Hospital, Jacksonville, Illinois): 1. Copy provided by Aileen Wright.
[186] “Aileen B. Wright State President of Medical Group”, Jacksonville Journal, Jacksonville, Illinois, 6 May 1955, page 3. Copy provided by Aileen Wright.
[187] “Aileen Burge Wright Accepts Passavant Post,” Jacksonville Journal, Jacksonville, Illinois, unidentified issue, 1958. Copy provided by Aileen Wright.
[188] “Name Passavant Technologist For National Award,” Jacksonville Journal, Jacksonville, Illinois, unidentified issue, 1960. Copy provided by Aileen Wright.
[189] Kenneth Weant, “Ex-Confederates Meet and Discuss the Exploits of Other Days,” Missouri Telegraph, 19 September 1899, Callaway County Missouri: The Veterans, Volume 5A. (Orem, Utah, Ancestry, Inc., 1999), online <Ancestry.com>, accessed 10 July 2002.
[190] Kenneth Weant, “Confederate Gets Pensions,” Callaway Gazette, 26 September 1913, Callaway County Missouri: The Veterans, Volume 4, online <Ancestry.com>, Lists J. Richard Martin of Fulton. “Each will receive $10 a month.”
[191] Missouri, Adjutant General’s Office, “Confederate Pension Applications And Soldiers’ Home Admission Applications,” (Missouri Department of Records and Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri,) Microfilm #1021109, Confederate pension applications, approved, “M” surnames, State of Missouri, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. He states that he was “shot through the wrist and in breast and above hip.” He took part in the battles of “Bull Run, Second Manassas, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, 7 days fight around Richmond, [unreadable], Harpers Ferry, Haws Shop, Appomattox, Gettysburg.”
[192] J. Richard Martin application, Southern Cross of Honor. Certificate is in possession of author. The author stumbled across it by chance at a Civil War show and bought it for $12 in 1983.
[193] “Pedagogue 44 Years Fulton Teacher’s Record,” undated clipping, but hand marked 1910, from unidentified newspaper, in family papers of Lucy Ann Martin Smith (Mrs. Nathaniel D. Smith) of Owasso, Missouri; inherited 1969 by her son N. DeWitt Smith, Jr., Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Now in the possession of the author.
[194] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000.
[196] Fauquier County Deaths 1912-1917; volume 4: 1201.
[197] John Richard Martin obituary, The Fauquier Democrat, Saturday, January 22, 1916.
[198] This date is an error. The newspaper for this obituary was dated three days earlier.
[199] This is the Licking Run Farm of Honest John Martin near Hurleyville and the location of the Martin Family cemetery.
[200] John Richard Martin obituary, undated clipping from unidentified newspaper clipping, in family papers of Aileen (Burge) Wright (Mrs. Roy A. Wright) of Jacksonville, Illinois; now in the possession of the author.
[201] Hunter, Women of the Debatable Land, 668.
[202] “Sans Coulette” was a term loosely applied to the lower classes in France during the French Revolution. The name was derived from the fact that these people wore long trousers instead of the knee breeches worn by the upper classes. www.answers.com.
[203] Fisher’s Hill battle summary, American Battlefield Protection Program, National Park Service, www.cr.nps.gov.
[204] O. R., Series 1, Volume 40 (Part III), Chapter LV, page 223, July 14, 1864.
[205] O. R,. Series 1, Volume 43 (Part I), Chapter LV, page 917, August 26, 1864.
[206] O. R Series 1 , Volume 43 (Part I), Chapter LV, page 308, Oct 7, 1894.
[207] Roy Morris, Jr., Sheridan: The Life and War of General Phil Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), 209.
[208] Morris, Sheridan: The Life and War of General Phil Sheridan, 184.
[209] Thomas J. DiLorenzo “The Other Reparations Movement,” August 19, 2002, www.plpow.com/Atrocities_OtherReparations.htm.
[210] Peter Cline Kaylor, “The Killing of Lieutenant Meigs, 1864.” Reprinted in John W. Wayland, Virginia Valley Records, Rockingham Supplement; Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc, 1930, pp 187-96. This is the most extensive, contemporary account of the Meigs incident published. The full account is also available on-line at http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jrmeigs.htm.
[211] Peter Cline Kaylor, “The Killing of Lieutenant Meigs, 1864.”
[212] Dan Wright, “Lt. John Meigs,” The Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia, online special section, “The Valley Aflame., on-line, <www.dnronline.com/civilwar/part-2/peo-mil-meigs.htm>. Frank Shaver is buried in the Early family cemetery near Pleasant Valley.
[213] Montgomery C. Meigs, while a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, was the principal superintendent of construction for the new dome on the U.S Capital building. He was regarded as one of the 19th century’s most outstanding engineers.
[214] Dan Wright, “Lt. John Meigs,” online, <www.dnronline.com/civilwar/part-2/peo-mil-meigs.htm>.
[215] Phillip H. Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General United States Army, (New York: Da Capo Press, 1992), 308.
[216] Jubal A. Early, “A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America, (Lynchburg, Virginia: Charles W. Button, 1867), 95-96.
[217] Southern Historical Society. Its Papers. Richmond, VA. v.9 (1881), p. 77-79. p. 77. In Virginia Historical Society.
[218] Scott, “The Black Horse Cavalry,” 612. Scott gives an extensive account of the Meigs incident.
[219] Alexander Hunter, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, 670-673. Hunter gives an extensive account of the Meigs incident.
[220] J. K. Talliafero, “How lieutenant Meigs Came to His Death,” Confederate Veteran Volume XXII, No 3 (March, 1914)”: 128-29.
[221] Date Book, Misc. Notes About Most Anything, Journal of Randolph Hicks Carter, “The Grove,” Warrenton, Virginia. “Written principally for my children as it may be of interest to them later on as my mother’s diary was interesting to me, when I found it, when I was nearly fifty years old.” Started 1 December 1951.
[222] William L. Ficklin was the son of Ann Coleman Martin (Josh Martin’s father’s sister) and William Phillips Ficklin. See Elias Martin chapter.
[223] Virgil Carrington Jones, Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders, (Owl Publications, Inc, 1956) p.303-4.
[224] “Killing of Lt. John R. Meigs,” author unknown, undated clipping from The Stanton Spectator¸ from the Ella Skinner scrapbook, Dresdan, Virginia, page 93, column 2, now in the John Gott papers, Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation, Marshall, Virginia.
[225] “The Man Who Killed Lieut. Meigs,” Chasseur, undated clipping from The Stanton Spectator¸ from the Ella Skinner scrapbook, Dresdan, Virginia, page 52, column 1. Chasseur was the pseudonym of Black Horseman and author, Alexander Hunter. Chasseur means hunter in French.
[226] Peter Cline Kaylor, “The Killing of Lieutenant Meigs, 1864.”
[227] John L. Heatwole, The Burning, Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, Rockbridge Publishing, an imprint of Howell Press, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia, 1998, pp 89-95. Another extensive account of the Meigs incident. Heatwole too, reports that Shaver killed Meigs.
[228] Dan Wright, “Lt. John Meigs,” The Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia, online special section, “The Valley Aflame,” Frank Shaver is buried in the Early family cemetery near Pleasant Valley.
[229] See Mildred Lee Martin chapter.
[230] Affidavit, by Eileen Linn Burge Wright. Affidavit and pistol are now in the possession of the author.
[231] Interview, Aileen Linn (Burge) Wright, 2 December 2000.
[232] ACCESSION NO.:1990.100.30, Maryland-Steuart Collection. “Colt Revolver or Model 1860 Colt Army Revolver. Colt .44 calibre Army, 6 shot, regulation type with stock cut out for lanyard. Serial #12135.”
[233] George W. Martin household, 1880 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Rappahannock, enumeration district 48, supervisor’s district 3, sheet 258B, dwelling [not given], family 382. National Archives micropublication T9, roll 1365.
[234] 1880 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Cedar Run, enumeration district 48, supervisor’s district 3, sheet 202, dwelling 285, family 286.
[235] Charles Wood, “When Father Was a Boy,” The editor noted: “Charles Wood, 84, a retired mechanical engineer, lives at the University Club in New York City. He is the brother of Dan P. Wood, retired hardware dealer of Warrenton.” Newspaper clipping in a scrapbook of the Black Horse Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Scrapbook in possession of Grace Schrader, President, 2006.
[236] George W. Martin tombstone, Martin Family Cemetery, Fauquier County, Virginia. There is no record of his death in Fauquier County [Check Again.] court records.
[237] The Warrenton True Index, 29 February 1896.
[238] The Black Horse Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, The Black Horse Troop of Fauquier County, (Warrenton, Virginia: privately printed, 1972), 14. This is a booklet of unidentified newspaper clippings collected over the years by the chapter. The text in the booklet misidentifies Josh as the brother that received the rifle for being the “bravest man in Lee’s army.”
[239] Clarke Courier, Berryville, Virginia, 4 March 1896. Clipping in the archives of John L. Heatwole.
[240] “Monument to G. W. Martin,” The True Index, Warrenton, Virginia, 16 October 1897, page 2, column 2.
[241] Black Horseman Moses Magill Green.
[242] Charles W. Eliot, The Harvard Classics, “Chronicle And Romance,” Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed. With Introductions And Notes”, (New York, P F Collier & Son Company). Volume 35. “Jean Froissart, the most representative of the chroniclers of the later Middle Ages, was born at Valenciennes in 1337. … it is as the supreme chronicler of the later age of chivalry that he lives.”
[243] His daughter Minerva Winston Payne had died three days earlier, on
October 1897. She married Eppa Hunton, Jr., son of Gen. Eppa Hunton.
“Erva” played the harp. A stained glass window showing her playing the harp is in St. James Episcopal Church in Warrenton. Four years later, in 1901, Hunton later married Erva’s sister, Virginia Semmes Payne. See Paynes of Virginia. Hunton’s children were said to be the only persons with two Confederate generals as grandfathers.
[244] George W. Martin tombstone, Martin Family Cemetery, Fauquier County, Virginia.
[245] The name is also found in records spelled as Marton and Marten.
[246] John W. Wayland, “Germanna: Outpost of Adventure 1714-1956,” The Germanna Record 7 (1956): 17. This reference is an extended treatment of the history of the settlement. The colony of 1,200-1,300 acres was located in a peninsula of the Rapidan, on the south side, above where state route 3 crosses the river. The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, Inc., whose members are mostly descendants of the original settlers, bought some of the original land and erected a memorial. Germanna Community College is on property donated by the foundation. The Germanna Record was published by the foundation and chronicles the history of the settlement and the genealogies of the settlers, including those who moved to Germantown. In 2001, the Foundation opened the Browdus Martin Germanna Visitors Center and library, at Germanna, Virginia, next to Germanna Community College.
[247] Arthur L. Keith, “The German Colony of 1717,” William and Mary College Quarterly, series 1, volume 26, issue 2 (October 1917): 79-95; volume 26, issue3 (January 1918): 178-195; volume 26, issue 4 (April 1918): 234-249.
[248] Rush W. Boyer, “The Pioneer Village of Germantown: A Tour of Fauquier Counties’ First White Settlement,” Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, June 9, 1955, E-1.
[249] H. C. Groome, Fauquier During the Proprietorship” (Richmond, Virginia: Old Dominion Press, 1927): 113-130.
[250] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw, “Germantown Revived,” The Germanna Record 2 (April, 1962): 11-76. This is the most extensive treatment of the settlement and land transactions of Germantown.
[251] “First German Settlement in Virginia,” from the web site of The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, online http://germanna.org/history.html, accessed 24 April, 2002.
[252] Diane Gulick, C. M. Crockett Park, Fauquier County Parks and Recreation, Warrenton, Virginia. Sponsored by The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies In Virginia, Inc. This is a small flyer for distribution to the public.
[253] Wayland, “Germanna: Outpost of Adventure 1714-1956,” 69-70.
[255] William A. Martin, A Martin Genealogy, Tied to the History of Germanna, Virginia (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1995): 23-24. This is the most recent published research on the early Martin family. This reference has an outstanding narrative on the establishment of Germanna and Germantown.
[256] Martin, A Martin Genealogy, Tied to the History of Germanna, Virginia, 18-19.
[257] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw, “John Joseph Martin of Germanna and Germantown,” The Germanna Record 1 (July, 1961): 43.
[258] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw, “Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau- Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750, The Germanna Record 5 (1964): 409- 422. Here Holtzclaw examines the early roots of the Martin family in Germany and extends his earlier Martin family study, especially of John Joseph Martin.
[259] William J. Hinke, “The 1714 Colony of Germanna, Virginia,” The Virginia Magazine of Biography and History 40 (1932): 317-327, and 41 (1933): 41-49.
[260] Martin, A. Martin Genealogy, Tied to the History of Germanna Virginia, 16.
[261] The Germantown name faded quickly with the onset of World War I and the adverse association of the name with Germany.
[262] Woodford B. Hackley, “The Plat of Germantown,” The Germanna Record 2 (April, 1962): 77-81. Germantown location plotted on modern map using Hackley map.
[263] Groome, Fauquier During The Proprietorship, 130. “The Germantown tract was a parallelogram the sides of which were 2 & 1/3 miles long and the ends 1 & 1/16 miles long.” This yields only 1,586 acres. Later research showed this was not correct.
[264] Hackley, “The Plat of Germantown,” 77-81.
[265] Wayland, “Germanna: Outpost of Adventure 1714-1956,” 70. The map in this reference is credited to Charles Herbert Huffman. Huffman was a former editor of The Germanna Record.
[266] Wayland, “Germanna: Outpost of Adventure 1714-1956,” 69.
[267] This cemetery is located at 10137 Rogues Rd., Midland, VA, and is on land that was owned by Jean Heingardner, and in 2002 by Merle Fallon.
[268] Note that lot 11 is identified as belonging to Martin. However, it is not the location of the Martin Family Cemetery discussed in Chapter 4. [269] The Martin family of Germantown has been the subject of extensive genealogical research. The most recent is the book by William A. Martin, already cited. The interested reader is encouraged to pursue this book for a fascinating demonstration of genealogical exploration and reasoning. See this work for the ancestors of John Joseph Martin in Germany.
[270] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families 1759-1799, (Iberian Publishing Company, Athens, Georgia, 1994) v.
[271] Holtzclaw, “Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750,” 409-422. Holtzclaw concludes that Elias was the son of John Martin, Tilman Martin’s brother. William Martin refutes this conclusion. Martin, A. Martin Genealogy, Tied to the History of Germanna Virginia, 312-14. An addendum revised the assessment given in the main body of the text. He concludes that Tilman was the son of John Joseph Martin.
[272] Martin, A. Martin Genealogy, Tied to the History of Germanna Virginia, 312-14. This addendum revised the assessment given in the main body of the text. He concludes that Tilman was the son of John Joseph Martin.
[273] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records: Fauquier County Minute Books 1787 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1997), 38. Cites the court’s determination that Elizabeth is mother of William who died in the Continental Army, and that Elias Martin was his heir at law.
[274] “Elias Martin Family Bible, 1764-1874,” National Historical Magazine (February 1944) 78-2: 102-03. All dates for the Elias Martin Family in this chapter are from this bible, unless otherwise noted. This magazine was published by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. “The following entries are copied from on old Bible now in possession of Ethel Maddox Byrd [of Manassas, Virginia.] November 1943: Elias Marten His Booke Bot of B. Roe 14th June 1809. Printed and published in Philadelphia by Mathew Cary, No. 122 Market Street 1808.” Very late in my research, after months of searching, this bible turned up. I found it by searching the Periodical Source Index (PERSIS) available on line from <www. Ancestry.com>, sponsored by Broderbund, Banner Blue Division, Novato, CA 94948-6125. In a search of the index, I found a reference to an Elias Martin bible. There were many Elias Martins scattered around the country, so it was a shot in the dark, but I obtained it anyway through an interlibrary loan. Sometimes you get lucky. It is the source of most of the specific information on the Martin family and cleared up many mysteries.
[275] Elias Martin tombstone, Martin Family Cemetery, Fauquier County, Virginia. The cemetery is on Honest John Martin’s Licking Run Farm, located .4 miles north of the intersection of the modern day Warrenton Stage Rd. (Rt. 674) and Edwards Rd. (Rt. 636) south of Hurleytown. Black Horseman Lane ends in the more or less center of this Farm. The cemetery is in the field to the South at the end of the lane. (Coordinates: 38° 37” 37.9 N, 77° 46” 15.3 W.) The stone is marked “E. M./ Age 68/ Died Nov. 26, 1832.” The fieldstone is leaning up against the N.W. wall of the cemetery. We know this is Elias’s tombstone because it corresponds to his death information in his family bible. I had known of the existence of this tombstone for many years, but could not identify it with certainty until the Elias Martin bible surfaced.
[276] Nancy Baird, Carol Jordan and Joseph Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2 volumes (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 2000) 2:144.
[277] Fauquier County Marriage Book 1: 332, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. John Herndon was the bondsman for 50 pounds. This is the date of the bond. Herndon was her stepfather, second husband of her mother Sarah Chapman. (See Appendix 5 on Mountjoy family.)
[278] Elias Martin Family Bible. Birth calculated based on death information, “aged 71 years, five months and six days.”
[279] Elias Martin Family Bible.
[280] Mary Martin estate appraisal (1852), Fauquier County Will Book 24: 246, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. Date of appraisal was October 26, 1852. The total value of her estate was $678.95. Her will was not found.
[281] Mary Martin estate sale (1852), Fauquier County Will Book 24: 248, November 24, 1852, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. Many items sold to Lewis Shumate and William P. Ficklin, her sons-in-law.
[282] Deaths were not recorded in Virginia until 1853.
[283] Mary Martin household, 1850 U.S. Census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Ashby District, page 256, dwelling 836, family 853, National Archives micropublication, roll 930. The census data for 1850 was as of October 1. The census taker spelled her name Marton and the census is indexed under that spelling. Note that her household was listed next to the household of her daughter Ann Ficklin’s, dwelling 837.
[284] Elias Martin will (1832), Fauquier County Will Book 129-30, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia..
[285] Martin, A Martin Genealogy, Tied to the History of Germanna, Virginia, 18-19. The author speculated that Elias Beverly Martin who married Elizabeth J. Kennard and Jane G. (or E.) Scott in Fauquier County was a possible son of Elias, but now agrees with me that, given that he is not mentioned in Elias’ bible or will, this is unlikely.
[286] Elias Martin Family Bible, records his birth, death and marriage dates.
[287] In Martin, A Martin Genealogy, Tied to the History of Germanna, Virginia 18-19, the author identifies William E. Martin, who married Elizabeth W. Browne, as a son of Elias Martin, but notes that the conclusion is tentative. Author Martin now agrees that William E. Martin is not a son of Elias, but thinks “he is still most certainly descended from John Joseph Martin, the Germanna immigrant of 1714.”
[288] Interview with Terry D. Smith; (1978 Miner Way, Las Vegas, Nevada 89104-5214), by author, 2 November 2002. This William E. Martin died about 1863 near Catlin, Parke County, Indiana. He and Elizabeth had thirteen children. Mr. Smith is a descendant.
[289] John Martin death notice, Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria Virginia, Monday July 31, 1876. Clipping in the possession of John Gott, Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation, Marshall, Virginia. “John Martin died at his farm in lower Fauquier on the 25th inst.”
[290] His sobriquet “Honest” is found in several obituaries. See John Richard Martin Chapter 9.
[291] John Martin will (1875), Fauquier County Will Book 35: 403. County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. His will is dated November 4, 1875. It was probated 31 August, 1876.
[292] Susan’s middle initial was A. in some records and E. in others. The initial A. was used in both Elias and Richard Martin Family bibles and on her tombstone. In several obituaries of her children, the middle initial E. was used, perhaps in confusion because her daughter was named Susan Elizabeth.
[293] Elias Martin Family Bible. Her name is shown as Nancy Coleman Martin when her birth was listed, but Ann C. Martin for her marriage to Ficklin and her death. She appears as Ann C. in various other records. Nancy is not mentioned again in the bible nor is she found in Fauquier County records. No Nancy is mentioned in Elias’ will. N and Ann are often used interchangeably. I have chosen Ann since it appears most often in records.
[294] George W. Martin will (1836), Fauquier County Will Book 15: 159, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. Various accountings were reported by John Martin, George’s executor and brother; Fauquier County Will Book 19: 253-254.
[295] It is curious that he did not mention his sister Mildred.
[296] 1850 U.S. Census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Ashby Township, page 256, dwelling 836, family 853. Her household was listed next to the household of her daughter Ann Ficklin’s, dwelling 837. Dwelling 842 was John Martin’s. Dwelling 827 was Lewis and Mildred Shumate’s. In dwelling 848 were John Martin’s wife Susan’s father and family. See Appendix 3, 4 and 6 for details. Interestingly, four doors away, dwelling 832 was the family of Charles Randolph, father of Robert Randolph, the third captain of the Black Horse Cavalry.
[297] Now the home of Randolph Scott E. Carter, The Grove, 5338 Balls Mill Road, Midland, VA.
[298] After standing over 170 years, the early nineteenth century frame house burned to the ground in the Fall of 2001.
[299] Elias Martin Family Bible.
[300] Donald G. Martin, compiler, “John Martin-Susan A. Fisher family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers 29CK-C2 and 29CK-D7, Ancestral File, version 4.19 (1999), Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah. This source incorrectly connects the line of Francis Melvin Martin to John and Susan Martin. There was no such connection. I note it to alert other researchers.
[301] Susan Elizabeth Martin Bowen, death certificate no. 11346 (1933), Registration District No. 303C, Registered No. 3. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia. The information was given by her adopted son Malcom Bowen, “of Midland, Va.” The maiden name of Susan’s mother is given as Susan E. Fisher. Susan’s gravestone and bible entries all use the middle initial A.
[302] John Richard Martin obituary, previously discussed. He is referred to as the son of “Honest” John Martin. He is also so referred in his son Josh’s obituary cited in Chapter 10.
[303] “Elias Martin Family Bible, 1764-1874,” 78-2: 102-03.
[305] Fauquier County Marriage Book 4:10, Clerk of the Court’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. Return of marriages by Revd. John Ogilvie 24 August 1829. A list of the marriages solemnized in the County of Fauquier. Ages and names of parents not recorded. No middle name was given for either of them. This was the minister’s report of who he married. The date of the marriage is recorded as 12 January. Book 4:279 records the actual bond. Its date is also 12 January, as is the bond for John’s sister’s marriage to Lewis Shumate. Susan’s father Thomas Fisher was bondsman with John Martin. However both the Elias Martin Family Bible and the John Richard Martin Family bible say the date was 13 January.
[306] John S. Moore, A History of Broad Run Baptist Church, S. B. C. 1762- 1987 (no place: privately printed, 1987), 53. It is one of the two oldest Baptist churches in Virginia. See this reference for a history of the church and its ministers, several of whom were involved in the marriages of subjects in this book; Cumberland George, H. H. Wyer and John Ogilvie all have extensive biographies in the reference. John Ogilvie was ordained in 1824 and became a pastor of Goose Creek Baptist (now Pleasant Vale Baptist) Church in Fauquier County. He cared for four churches each of which he would visit once a month. He later was pastor of Broad Run Baptist church from 1841 to 1849.
[307] Klitch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County 184, “Brief History and Complete Minutes of the Broad Run Baptist Church, 1762-1872,” part nine, 284.
[308] [Anonymous], “Pleasant Vale Baptist Church: Two Hundred Years of History 1799-1999,” Fauquier Heritage Society News, volume6, number 4 (July 1999): 1-5. “Pleasant Vale Baptist Church, according to the original records was organized on 24 November 1799, as Upper Goose Creek Baptist Church. The name … was used to distinguish this body from a church organized in 1775 near the same stream near Upperville. The church … moved into the village of Upperville in 1819 and took the name Upperville Baptist Church … The minute book (a copy of which is in the archives of the Fauquier Heritage Society) reveals that the famous Elder John Ogilvie was called to the pastorate on July 15, 1826 and continued as a pastor until his death in 1849 … After the death of John Ogilvie … the church called Elder Barnett Grimsley to the pastorate.” This reference has an extended history of Pleasant Vale Baptist Church.
[309] John Gott, “Carter’s Run Baptist Church 1768-1962, Part I,” Fauquier Heritage and Preservation News, Vol. 7 No. 1, (October, 1999) . See this reference for Ogilvie’s service with Carter’s Run Baptist Church.
[310] John Richard Martin Family Bible. “Elias Martin Family Bible, 1764- 1874,” 78-2: 102-03. All children’s dates are from these sources.
[311] John Martin household, 1850 U.S. Census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Ashby District, page 257,dwelling 842, family 859; National Archives micropublication, roll 943. The census data for 1850 was as of October 10. His name is spelled Marton in the census.
[312] Neither Martin bible has his death date.
[313] John Richard Martin Family Bible is only source for his middle initial. This source says he was born 16 December, but the Elias Martin Family bible records his birthday as 15 December.
[314] John Richard Martin Family Bible. The Elias Martin Family Bible records 13 January 1836.
**[315]**Martin, “John Martin-Susan A. Fisher family group sheet” Ancestral File. His middle name comes from this ancestral file. All the information in this file seems to come from the Elias Martin family bible, so the submitter may have made a conjecture based on the likelihood that his father named him for his uncle who died seven years earlier.
[316] John Richard Martin Family Bible. The Elias Martin Family Bible records only the month February, no day.
[317] 1850 U.S. Census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Ashby District, page 257,dwelling 842, family 859.
[318] Hunter erred. He meant six miles south.
[319] John Martin was sixty-four when the war began.
[320] Alexander Hunter, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank (The Neal Publishing Company; New York and Washington, 1905), 666-669. Almost one half of this book is devoted to Hunter’s experiences while a member of the Black Horse Cavalry. He discussed the Martin brothers in detail.
[321] “Chasseur,” “The Man Who Killed Lieut. Meigs,” undated clipping from The Stanton Spectator¸ page 52, column 1, from the Ella Skinner scrapbook, Dresdan, Virginia, now in the library of the Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation, Marshall, Virginia. Chasseur was the pseudonym of Black Horseman and author, Alexander Hunter.
[322] J. K. Talliafero, “How lieutenant Meigs Came to His Death,” Confederate Veteran Volume XXII, No 3 (March, 1914)”: 128-29.
[323] George W. Martin obituary, The Warrenton True Index, Warrenton, Virginia, 29 February 1896, page 4, column 3.
[324] Eugene M. Scheel, The Civil War in Fauquier (Warrenton, Virginia: The Fauquier Bank, 1985), 88.
[325] Eugene M. Scheel, The Civil War in Fauquier, 89.
[326] John Martin household, 1860 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Southwest Revenue District, Warrenton post office, page 145, dwelling 71, family 65; National Archives micropublication, M653, roll 1344.
[327] 1870 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, First Revenue District, Warrenton post office, page 492, dwelling 406, family, 403; National Archives micropublication M593, roll 1645.
[328] 1870 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, p. 64, line 36.
[329] John Richard Martin obituary, previously discussed. He is referred to as the son of “Honest” John Martin. He is also so referred in his son Josh’s obituary cited in Chapter 10.
**[330]**John Richard Martin Family Bible. Also Alexandria Gazette, 31 July, 1876. His death was not listed in the Elias Martin Family Bible. The last entry in the Elias Martin bible was dated 1874.
[331] Fauquier County Will Book 35:403.
[332] John Martin will (1876), Fauquier County Will Book ___:403, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia.
[333] Susan A. Martin tombstone, Martin Family Cemetery, Fauquier County, Virginia. “Elias Martin Family Bible, 1764-1874,” 78-2: 102-03. John Richard Martin Family Bible.
[334] Neither John nor Susan Martin is recorded in Fauquier County death records. Nor is their son Robert or his wife Mary. This is surprising since John’s will was probated in 1876 and his death noted by the clerk of the court. Even though he had no will, surely the county noted the death of such a famous soldier when Robert was accidentally killed after the war.
[335] The Home Farm occupied the S. E. and S. W. corners of the intersection of the modern day Meetz Road (Rt.643, old name, Fredericksburg- Warrenton Rd.) and Beach Road (Rt.616, old name Shumates Mill Road). (Coordinates: 38° 39” 8.5 N, 77° 44” 21 W.)
[336] The Licking Run Farm was located about 2.5 miles away on Licking Run where the Martin Family Cemetery is located.
[337] Danny and Bonny Scott own the Licking Run Farm land in 2005. See Fauquier County Tax Map, PIN 6991-13-2173-000. 74 acres, transferred by Fauquier County deed 775: 1569 and plat recorded in deed 775: 1571, March 23, 1997. The previous owner was Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp. who received the property from Greg Britto, Trustee in deed 749: 572, 20 December 1995. Most deeds in the chain of title note the exception of the cemetery from the sale.
[338] Fauquier County Deeds, 69: 170. John Richard Martin reserves the one-half acre cemetery from the sale.
[339] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:144. The marker’s dates are not given in this reference.
[340] Perhaps another Mary Frances (Susan Martin’s mother’s name.)
[341] James H. Childs Family Bible. An entry gives her birth year as 1836, but nothing else.
[342] She would be born in 1838 based on her age in her marriage record.
[343] Fauquier County Marriage Book 17: 55. Date is December 20. He is listed as age 33 and she as age 28. Both were born in Fauquier County. His parents were John and Susan [Fisher] Martin. Hers were Wm. H. and Nancy M. Childs. The marriage was by John W. Pugh.
[344] James H. Childs Family Bible. The date here is also recorded as 20 December 1866.
[345] Margaret A. Martin married Lt. Jas. H. Childs, True Index, Fauquier County, Virginia, 5 January 1876, 3.
[346] James H. Childs Family Bible. His birthday is noted in the bible.
[347] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:40. No record of his death is found in Fauquier County death records. The Childs cemetery is located west of Casanova on the north side of route 616, on “Spring Hill,” property now owned Edward P. Evans
[348] J. Ogden Murray, Maj., The Immortal Six Hundred: A Story Of Cruelty To Confederate Prisoners Of War (Winchester, Virginia, The Eddy Press Corp., 1905), 237.
[349] Martin F. Graham, “The Immortal 600: the Long Journey to Freedom,” The Civil War Quarterly 10: 50
[350] James H. Childs Family Bible. Margaret died in childbirth on the date of the birth of her son James.
[351] No record of her death is found in Fauquier County records.
[352] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:40, Lists following: John W. Childs, born .May 22, 1874, died October 5, 1874; James H Childs, Jr., infant son of James H. Childs, died September 27, 1874. Ida May Childs, born December 22, 1871, died December 8, 1874. These three children’s deaths in a three-month period probably identify the time of the typhoid epidemic. Also listed; Nancy Childs; William H. Childs, born 1859, died 1906. A recheck of the cemetery tombstones shows a Wm. H. Childs born April 23, 1783, died February 19, 1859. Nancy Childs, born September 6, 1795. This is obviously the father and mother of James H. Childs. Many tombstones are not standing, and the William H. Childs (1859-1906) tombstone listed in Baird is not standing. This latter William H. Childs relationship is not clear from existing records on family.
[353] Interview, Alice Jane (Buchanan) Childs, July 11, 1999.
[354] James H. Childs Family Bible.
[355] Ernest Lee Childs Obituary, The Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 4 February 1954, page 1, column 5 and page 6, column 2.
[356] The obituary was in error. Her father was Alpheus W. Strother son of Alpheus Jackson Strother and his wife Ann Childs, daughter of William Childs. Alpheus Jackson Strother was the son of John Strother and Sara Jackson. John Strother was the son of James Strother and Jane Gibson.]
[357] Anna Montgomery Strother Childs obituary, The Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 11 April, 1968, page 10, column 6.
[358] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1:84.
**[359]**All James H. Childs family dates above were also confirmed by the James H. Childs Family Bible.
[360] Ernest Lee Childs Jr. obituary, Fauquier Times Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, Wednesday,14 August 2002, page A10, column 1. An identical obituary was in the Fauquier Citizen, 15 August, 2002.
[361] Jill Orndoff, Fauquier Times-Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 21 August 2002, page C4, column 4.
[362] Interview, Alice Jane (Buchanan) Childs, July 11, 1999.
[363] Interview with James Barr Nixdorff, Jr. (7153 Pine Ridge Road, Marshall, VA 20115), 21 May 2002. Mr. Nixdorff provided the sketches of himself, his parents, his brothers and his wife; and of his father’s obituary.
[364] Interview with James Barr Nixdorff, Jr. (7153 Pine Ridge Road, Marshall, VA 20115), 21 May 2002. Mr. Nixdorff provided the sketches of himself, his parents, his brothers and his wife; and of his father’s obituary.
[365] Mildred L. Martin will (1919), Fauquier County Will Book 47: 418, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia.
[366] Mildred Lee Martin, death certificate no. 29282 (1919), Registration District No. 303, Registered No. 63, Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health, Richmond. Virginia. She died of pneumonia. Her nephew E. L. Childs of Casanova, Va. was the informant. He states her birthday was
March 1838, not 21 October 1838, as given in the Martin family bible.
The day agrees, but not the month. The death certificate also state that she was “Age 80 yrs., 8 mos., 3 ds.” This would yield a date of 27 March 1839. If she was 81 as her obituary stated, the calculation yields a date of 27 March 1838. Thus, the calculation is incorrect. If she was born in October, then she would have had her 81st birthday a month before her death. Her nephew probably knew her birth month. I use his date as more reliable.
[367] George W. Martin household, 1880 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Rappahannock, enumeration district 48, supervisor’s district 3, sheet 258B, dwelling [not given], family 382.
[368] Minnie L. Martin household, 1910 U.S. census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Lee District, enumeration district 44, supervisor’s district 8, sheet 23A, dwelling 450; family 453. National Archives micropublication T624, roll 1628.
[369] Interview, Alice Jane (Buchanan) Childs, July 11, 1999.
[370] Letter from Mildred Lee Martin (Casanova, Virginia) to William L. Childs, 11 March 1876; held in 2005 by Alice Jane Childs (Mr. Ernest Lee Childs, Jr.) (5272 Casanova Road; Casanova, VA 22017). Mr. Childs was the grandson of Mildred’s sister Mary Virginia Martin Childs.
[371] Interview with Alice Jane (Buchanan) Childs and her husband Ernest Lee Childs, (5272 Casanova Road; Casanova, VA 22017) 25 May 2002. Seldon Johnson was the brother of Alice Jane Child’s grandfather.
[372] William G. Pendleton was Rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Warrenton from 1913-1920. His photograph and dates of service are displayed in the church.
[373] There were only three of her brothers in the Black Horse.
[374] Mildred L. Martin obituary, The Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, December 13, 1919, page 7. Her middle initial is misstated. The reference to the niece is to her brother Dick’s daughter, Mamie Martin BurgeNno mention is made of Dick’s daughters Lucy and Bettie.
[375] Mildred L. Martin will (1918), Fauquier County Will Book 47:418, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. Mildred’s will was handwritten by her.
[376] Fauquier County deed book 122:84.
[377] Fauquier County Will Book 47:418.
[378] Susan Moore will (1963), Fauquier County Will Book 93: 50, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia.
[379] Land records, Fauquier County Tax Map, PIN No. 6992-81-7014.
[380] Anna M. Craig obituary, The Fauquier Citizen, January 3, 2002, p. 33. She died Dec.26, 2001.
[381] Interview with Thomas F. Jenkins (9248 Meetze Road, Midland, VA 22728), by Lynn Hopewell, 22 August 1999. This address is for the Martin residence on the Home Farm.
[382] Interview with Cassius Carter Blue, interview (5576 Beech Road; Midland, VA 22728) by Lynn Hopewell, 10 July 2000. Mr. Blue was raised by Susan Allen Moore and grew up at the Martin home inherited by Susan. He is now deceased.
[383] Fauquier County Marriage Book 7:75. He was 27 and she was 25 [her tombstone birth date makes her 27.] Her parents were John and Susan Martin and his were W. A. and Ellen D. Bowen. Henry H. Wyer married them. Her name is spelled as “Bettie.”
[384] John Richard Martin Family Bible
[385] Interview, Charles H. Bowen, Jr., June 4, 1988.
[386] Fauquier County Marriage Book 7:75.
[387] Bowen family bible, Get data from Ray Gill#.
[388] Kenneth L. Stiles, 4th Virginia Cavalry, 100.
[389] “Roster of the Black Horse Cavalry, circa 1874—1878.
[390] Alexander Hunter, Women of the Debatable Land (Washington D.C., Corden Publishing Company, 1912): 58-59.
[391] Interview with Russell C. Bowen, (Remington, Virginia), by Lynn Hopewell, June 4, 1988. He was the grandson of Henry Clay Bowen and conducted extensive research on the Bowen family. Certificate shown to author. Mr. Bowen is now deceased.
[392] “85th REGT. VA. MILITIA”, The True Index, Warrenton, Virginia, 23 June 1866, page 2, column 1..
[393] Klitch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County, 1840-1919, 103.
[394] Bowen family bible, Get data from Ray Gill.
[395] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:144. No dates are on marker.
[396] Susan Elizabeth Martin Bowen, death certificate no. 11346 (1933), Registration District No. 303C, Registered No. 3. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia. The information was given by her adopted son Malcom Bowen, “of Midland, Va.” who misstated her birth year as 1840.
[397] Susan Elizabeth Bowen obituary, The Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, May 6, 1933, page 1, column , microfilm no.#, frame ___, Fauquier County Public Library, Warrenton, Virginia. She was 91.
[398] Interview with Charles H. Bowen, Jr., (Remington, Virginia), by Lynn Hopewell, June 4, 1988. He was a grandnephew of William A. Bowen. Mr. Bowen is now deceased.
[399] Interview, Charles H. Bowen, Jr., June 4, 1988. Note left with baby on doorstep, “October 11, 1879. Mrs. Bowen, This child is given to you as yours by his Mother,” note shown to author. Mr. Bowen is now deceased. Mr. Bowen said that according to family tradition, Malcolm’s parents were a poor couple living on the Bowen farm.
[400] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1: 101. Gravestone, Warrenton, Cemetery, Warrenton, Virginia.
[401] Malcom Bowen Obituary, The Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, microfilm reel ___, frame ___, Fauquier County Public Library, Warrenton, VA.22 April 1954, page B-1, column 4.
[402] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1: 101.
[403] The Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 22 April 1954, microfilm reel ____, frame ____, Fauquier County Public Library, Warrenton, Virginia.
[404] Clara Ann Bowen obituary, Fauquier Times Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 15 July 1965, page B10, column 2, microfilm January –December 1965, frame 126.7 Fauquier County Public Library, Warrenton, Virginia.
[405] Interview with Helen (Fifield) Helm, (Mrs. James Arnold Helm: 11889 Cemetery Road, Remington, VA 22734-2128), by Lynn Hopewell, 18 May, 2002. Unless otherwise noted, Mrs. Helm provided the information on Malcom Bowen and his descendants.
[406] The True Index, Warrenton, Virginia, 14 July, 1900, page 3, column 4.
[407] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1:101.
[408] J. Arnold Helm obituary, Fauquier Times Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 17 May 2000, page A8, columns 5-6, microfilm January-June 2000, frame 177.3, Fauquier County Public Library, Warrenton, Virginia.
[409] Interview, Charles H. Bowen, Jr., 4 June, 1988. Much of the Bowen family information in this chapter came from this interview.
[411] Rev. Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia (Harrisonburg, Virginia: C. J. Carrier Company, 1978), 147-148. The book was copyrighted in 1901. The 1978 version is a reprint.
[412] Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 147.
[415] Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 147-148.
[417] Ray Gill suggests he may be related to Sarah Ficklin.
[419] Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 147.
[420] See Culpeper Co. Homes (need exact reference #) for description of Fishback home place.
[421] Interview, Russell C. Bowen, June 4, 1988.
[422] Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 147.
[424] Stiles, 4th Virginia Cavalry, 100
[426] Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 147.
[427] Administrator’s Sale of Personal Property notice, True Index, 3 March 1866, page 2. William H. Payne, as administrator of the estate, offers to sell on the farm of the “late William A. Bowen, near Rappahannock Station, several head of Horses, Cattle, Cows, Hogs and Sheep: also Farming Utensils.”
[428] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:10. “Consort of William A. Bowen, who departed this life February 27, 1836, in the 31st year of her age.” Buried in the Bowen Cemetery, Calverton, Virginia. Located 3 miles S.E. of Calverton , Route 616, N.E. 330 yards, by private road, 120 yards to cemetery. This cemetery is on land later owned by Black Horseman Jesse Mauzy Peters.
[429] The Works Projects Administration, Old Homes and Families of Fauquier County Virginia (Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Company, 1978), pp?. The following epitaphs are found in a graveyard on Mrs. Alma Peter’s Farm about three miles southeast of Calverton on Route #616. The spot is easily distinguished by two graceful elm trees about three hundred yards northeast of the road. The house is about one hundred twenty yards northwest of the graveyard. There are two graveyards enclosed by wire fences but the inscriptions given below are on tombstones just outside the fence on the southeast side.
[431] IGI 1761049. Born 1808, Culpeper county, VA.
**[433]**The VMI New Market Cadets, The Michie Co., Charlottesville, Va., 1933. [Describe Battle.]
[434] Interview, Russell C. Bowen, June 4, 1988.
[435] Register of Former Cadets, VMI, Memorial Edition, (Lexington, Virginia: Virginia Military Institute, 1957), 56.
**[437]**Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:10; p. 84, for listing on daughter, Georgia Bowen Brittle, d. 1958. Husb. Leslie Meade Brittle.
[438] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1: 215.
[439] Interview, Charles H. Bowen, Jr., 4 June, 1988. From his notes on Henry Clay Bowen.
**[440]**UDC application. Black Horse Chapter. Check with Krick.
[441] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2: 172. Other Bowens buried in this plot.
[443] Except where noted, most information in for Henry Clay Bowen came from Ray Gill.
[444] Letter from Mrs. Lewis Rosser, (430 Holland Road, Sequim, WA 98382) to Lynn Hopewell, January 21, 1985; held by Lynn Hopewell (82 Erin Drive, Warrenton, VA 29186-2829). Most of the material on the Childs family was provided to the author by this letter. The author’s inserted information is in brackets.
[445] William H. Childs tombstone, Childs Family Cemetery, Casanova, Fauquier County, Virginia, transcribed by Lynn Hopewell. There is no record of his death in Fauquier County death records.
[446] Fauquier Marriage Book 3: 9. William Childs and Wm. Lewis give bond anticipating marriage between Wm. Childs and Nancy Lewis. Dates unreadable, but sequence in book makes bond date in December, 1808.
[447] Tombstone, Childs Family Cemetery.
[448] Look up chancery suit that settled his estate per John Gott.
[449] George Thomas Strother obituary, The Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, Wednesday, March 29, 1933, page 1.
[450] Per John Gott, told to the author.
[451] Klitch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County, 1840-1919, 205.
[452] Fauquier County Marriage Book 5: 119.
[453] Letter, Gail Rosser (Mrs. Lewis Rosser; 430 Holland Road; Sequim, WA 98382) to Lynn Hopewell, 21 January 1985.
[454] History of Pike County, Missouri, Biographical Sketches, (Des Moines, Iowa: Mills & company, 1882), 844.
[455] Dee Ann Buck, Fauquier County, Virginia Birth Registry 1853-1896 (Fairfax, Virginia; privately printed, 1996), 31.
[456] Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., ““’Strangers and Pilgrims’”, The Diary of Margaret Tilloston Kemble Norse 4 April-11 November1862,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography volume 91, number 4 (October, 1983): 466- 7.
[457] Births, marriages and deaths from Childs family bible owned by Mrs. W.F. Rosser, Hannibal, Missouri. Information provided by Gail Rosser, op. cite. [fix cite]
[458] There is no evidence that Frank Childs ever held the rank of Captain. This was probably a post war “promotion.”
[459] Letter, Gail Rosser to author, 21 January 1985.
[460] Walter Homan Ficklin, A Genealogical History of the Ficklin Family, (Denver, Colorado: The W. H. Kistler Press, 1912). This is a charming book on the Ficklin family with much information. Over 594 individual Ficklin descendants are identified. In 2002, Ficklin’s book was available on the internet at <www.ficklin.org>.
[461] Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, Virginia Genealogies, A Genealogy of the Lewis family (1891. Reissued Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing company, 1973), 58. An excellent source for the Lewis and Phillips family. Almost all the information in this chapter came from this source.
[462] Ancestry File No. LH6D-T7 gives his family. Fix cite.
[463] The Fowke and Phillips family is extensively described in the Hayden reference.
[464] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:211. The Nelson-Withers-Ficklin Cemetery is “located 2 miles N. of Opal on East side of Route 29 to right end of farm road, fenced, being restored by owners, boxwood, trees and periwinkle on what was called Licking Run Farm, when people were buried there.” [Find Cem.].
[465] Fauquier County Deaths, 1853-1896: 1444. Ficklin, Gustavus S. died
Nov. 1891 in Warrenton of grippe at age 77. He was the son of Lewis and
Susan Ficklin and was born in Fauquier County. He was a farmer. Information given by Virginia E. Ficklin, his wife. The date of his death here 13 November vice 18 November in Baird. The tombstone is probably difficult to read.
[466] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:211. Her parents are named on her tombstone.
[467] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:211.
[468] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:211.
[469] Mary Kay Ficklin Holterman (3401 Iva Ada Dr. Hillsborough, NC 27278), information on his three wives provided by email message to author, January 19, 2000. She is the great-granddaughter of Lt. William Lewis Ficklin.
[470] Fauquier County Deaths, 1853-1896: 64. He died of heart disease. His consort was Frances Ficklin. His son William L Ficklin gave the information. He was the son of Lucius [Lewis] and Rosa E. [Simphah Rosah Enfield] Ficklin.
[471] Hayden, Virginia Genealogies, 158.
[472] Elias Martin Family Bible. “She departed this life Feby. 22 ___, aged 48 years, 10 months, 15 days.” Based on her birthdate given in the bible, this calculates exactly to 22 February 1854.
[473] A William P. Ficklin appears in various Fauquier records as a Justice of the Peace. See for example, Fauquier Wills, Book 24, page 246, Mary Martin estate, October 26, 1852. Mary Martin would have been Ficklin’s wife Ann’s mother.
[474] Fauquier County Marriage Book 5: 107. “ William P. Ficklin and Ann C. Martin, …daughter of Elias Martin, deceased.” Bondsman John Martin [Ann’s brother.] Bond dated 6 April 1836, the same day as the marriage return.
[475] Fauquier County Marriage Book 5: 12. This was not a bond but the license.
[476] Elias Martin Family Bible. This is the same date as noted in the bible.
[477] Fauquier County Marriage Book 7:2.
[478] Kimmarie Lewis, “Collector Holds History’s Beauty,” Fauquier Magazine, November 1991: 18. Donald R. Tharp now owns “Great Marsh”. Mr. Tharp advised that the architectural style was a “typical Virginia planter’s-style house,” and that the name of the plantation was alternatively Marsh Plantation and Marsh Quarter.
[479] George M. Ficklin entry, Fauquier County Deaths 1854-1896: 30. He was unmarried. His father gave information. His parents were William P. and A[nn]. M[artin]. Ficklin. He died at his father’s home. The day of the month was not given.
[480] The 1850 census record selection shown earlier in this chapter for the Ficklin family gives John’s middle initial as W vice M. The W is an error. His middle name is given as Marshall in the Elias Martin Family Bible and his Confederate records consistently use M. U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall was from Fauquier County.
[481] R.A. Hart newspaper article, undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, in scrapbook of the Black Horse Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Warrenton, Virginia.
[482] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1:176.
[483] Klitch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County, 1840-1919, 194. The citation noted that he died in 1904, but the month was not stated. Death year is from tombstone.
[484] IGI film record 190439 and 1903993. [improve cite.] Also check IGI: 457936 film: married Frances Jane Elizabeth Rixey, 30 August 1833 in Virginia.
**[485]**Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2:211.
[486] The Works Projects Administration, Old Homes and Families of Fauquier County), 460.
[487] Hayden, Virginia Genealogies, 158.
[488] Telephone interview with William M. Ficklin (182 Apple Road, Boones Mille, VA 24065), by Lynn Hopewell, 5 July 1999. Mr. Ficklin is the son of George Ficklin, son of William L. Ficklin and his wife Lucy S. Eastham. Mr. Ficklin gave much of the information on his grandfather’s family.
[489] Holterman, 19 January, 2000.
[490] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1:114.
[491] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1:176
[492] Holterman, 19 January, 2000.
[493] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1:182.
[494] Holterman, 19 January, 2000.
[495] Holterman, email to author, January 19, 2000.
[496] Holterman, 19 January, 2000.
[497] Holterman, 19 January, 2000.
[498] Interview, William M. Ficklin, July 5, 1999. The next children named by Mr. Ficklin. They are not in Hayden.
[499] Welton, “My Heart Is So Rebellious,” The Caldwell Letters, 1861- 1865, 217.
[500] The Works Projects Administration, Old Homes and Families of Fauquier County Virginia, 460. Research by M. D. Gore, Summerduck, Virginia February 21, 1938. Need publisher, city.
[501] General William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, second captain of the Black Horse.
[502] Klitch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County, 1840-1919, 194.
[503] Susan A. Martin tombstone, Martin Family Cemetery, Fauquier County, Virginia.
[504] Fauquier Marriage Book 2: 227; County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. Bond dated January 12, 1801. Bondsman was William Gordon. “Sir, please grant license for my daughter Frances who is to be married to Thomas Fisher …. Signed by Margaret Gordon. Margaret was her sister. Also signed by Francis Brook and George “Gordain” and William “Gordain”.
[505] Donald G. Martin, compiler, “William Fisher-Mary Frances Fisher” family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers BP71-H7 and BP71- JD, Ancestral File, version 4.19 (1999), Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah. This file names them as William Fisher (rather than Thomas) and Mary Frances Fisher. However, Fauquier records refer to them as Thomas and Frances. That he was William Thomas and she was Mary Frances also supported by the fact that their daughter Susan Fisher Martin named her first son William Thomas and her first daughter Mary Frances.
[506] Determination of Thomas Gordon’s heirs. Fauquier County Minute Book, 1834-35, 29 September 1835, 352-3. Since John Gordon’s heirs included no wife, we assume she had died.
[507] Fauquier Marriage Book 4: 149, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia.
[508] He was 73, but lowered his age for the census.
[509] Captain Thomas Fisher household, 1850 U.S. Census, Fauquier County, Virginia, population schedule, Ashby District, page 256,dwelling 838, family 865; National Archives micropublication, roll 930.
[510] See email correspondence with Tom Fisher, thf1@ra.msstate.edu. Has photos.
[511] Thomas Fisher entry, Fauquier County Deaths 1853-1896: 12. His consort was Martha A. Fisher. Information was given by F. Fisher, a son. His parents are listed as E. A. Flinn and Harriett, his wife, but this is an obvious transcription error as a distracted clerk dittoed the record above.
[512] Thomas Fisher will (1853), Fauquier County Will Book 25: 216, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia [Check name again, not Thomas R. ?]
[513] GEDCOM [which one?] file. All birth years except Susan’s come from this source. This source extensively develops the line of Dade Marcelus Fisher. Bible cited owned by Mrs. Emma Guthrie of Halifax County. Call!!
[514] Fauquier County Marriage Book 5: 218. Return of marriages by C[umberland]. George to Circuit Court, 1 January 1831.
[515] Moore, A History of Broad Run Baptist Church, S.B.C., 1762-1987, 65. Cumberland George was pastor of Broad Run Baptist Church 1826-1841.
[516] Baird, Jordan and Scherer, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 1:107.
[517] Sarah Francis Fisher entry, Fauquier County Deaths 1912-1917, volume 5: 879. Aged 71 years, 7 months, 28 days. She was a housekeeper and was born in Fauquier County. She was buried in Warrenton. [ No grave found.]
[518] The county seat of Halifax County is South Boston, about 150 miles south of Warrenton.
[519] The county to the immediate north of Halifax County.
[520] Fauquier County Marriage Book 5: 124. Bondsman was H. A. White.
[521] Fauquier County Marriage Book 5: 219. Marriage by Barnet Grimsley. Returns dated May 4, 1841.
[522] Margaret Hume entry, Fauquier County Deaths 1853-1896: 3. A. M. Payne gave the information, but this is probably a transcribing error. The same man is named as the informant on a Payne death on the line above.
[523] Fauquier County Minute Book, 1834-35, 29 September 1835, 352-3, Clerk of the Courts Office, Warrenton, Virginia.
[524] Film No. 445990, Page 806, says Thomas H. Fisher’s father (but Thomas H. Fisher not mentioned in his father’s will.) was Thomas Fisher and his mother Martha Ann Ball. Film 445992, Ord. No. 89181, Temple S.L. says Margaret Fisher born about 1826 and was a daughter of Thomas Fisher and Martha Ann Ball.
[525] Fauquier County Minute Book, 352-3.
[526] See chapter on John Martin’s Ancestors.
[527] Cite web page. http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/j/o/h/Stephen- C-Johnson/GENE8-0011.html
[528] Carolyn Mountjoy Butterfield, “Edward Mountjoy-Sarah Chapman family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers 2NBQ-5C and 2NBQ-6J, Ancestral File, version 4.19, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City Utah. Other compliers are Mary Lou Collier and John A. McCall.
[530] Robert S. Ripley, The Shumate Family, (Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Publications, 1992). This reference is an encyclopedic genealogy of the Shumate family with extensive analysis of its origins in France before the immigration as well as the American descendants. This is a “must have” book for anyone interested in the Shumate Family. Much of the information in this chapter comes from this source. This genealogy is lengthy and it is not suitable to reproduce it here in detail. We will give a basic outline and paraphrase the basics. The reader will have to look to this reference for supporting analysis and citations. Certain information is drawn from Von Stauffenberg. I have put extracts from his book in quotes to differentiate them from Ripley. [send note giving Mildred Martin’s issue.]
[531] Theodor-Friedrich Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, (Washington, D.C.; Phyllis E. Hendricks Duplicating Services, 1964), Privately sold by Haskell D. Shumate, Star Rt. 6, Box 78, Union WV 24983. Copy in Fauquier Heritage Society library, Marshall, Virginia. This book gives a more detailed narrative of the family of Lewis and Ann Shumate and their children in Fauquier. I have woven quotes from this book into the narrative.
[532] Multiple compliers, “Daniel Shumate-Tabitha Dodson family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers FHD6-32 and 8GHP-BD, Ancestral File, version 4.19, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City Utah. There is extensive information on all Shumate lines in various ancestral files in the Family History Library. Some of the information is more recent than any published in the genealogical histories cited herein. The author has selected only a few to illustrate the direct lines of Lewis Shumate, Jr. and his wife Mildred Waggoner Martin.
[533] Multiple compliers, “Daniel Shumate-Mary Elizabeth Hoffman family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers FHD6-32 and 1GTQ-H2L, Ancestral File, version 4.19, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City Utah
[534] Ripley, The Shumate Family, 159. Ripley notes that Daniel Shumate and his wife Mary Elizabeth Hoffman were alive on 22 October 1770 because of a deed recorded on that date, then Daniel could not have married Tabitha third because Lewis, Tabitha’s son was born 1772.
[535] Mrs. Sherman Williams and The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas,, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 2 volumes (Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1988), 1. This more recent book than the two cited above adds new information to the Shumate family. It is particularly expands the descendants of Daniel Shumate and Tabitha Dodson. I have directly cited information from this source.
[536] Ripley, The Shumate Family, 156. Most of the information on the children comes from this reference, unless otherwise cited.
[537] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, Volume One, 164. This reference lists twelve children.
[538] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, Volume One, 166.
[539] The author cites Pioneer Women of Western Virginia by Beadell. [Improve.]
[540] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 59.
[541] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 166. This reference lists nine children.
[542] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 167. This reference lists ten children.
[543] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 167. This reference lists eight children.
[544] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 4. This reference extensively develops the first three generations of Dodsons.
[545] Multiple compliers, “Thomas Dodson-Mary Durham family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers H98Q-GD and 12 TH-DQ, Ancestral File, version 4.19, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City Utah
[546] Multiple compliers, “Thomas Dodson-Mary Durham family group sheet” FHL Ancestral File.
[547] Multiple compliers, “Thomas Dodson-Mary Durham family group sheet” FHL Ancestral File.
[548] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 4.
[549] Multiple compliers, “Abraham Dodson-Barbara Russell family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers 4RV7-DF and 4RV7-FL, Ancestral File, version 4.19, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City Utah.
[550] Multiple compliers, “Abraham Dodson-Barbara Russell family group sheet” Ancestral File, FHL.
[551] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 21.
[552] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 93. This reference has a highly interesting account of Tabithia’s brother Enoch’s stormy relationship with his church, Turkey Creek Baptist, in Abbeville County, South Carolina.
[553] Lewis Shumate will (1850) Fauquier County Will Book 29: 214, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia. The will was dated 22 March 1850. He is explicitly identified as “Jr.” A 19 October 1855 codicil specified that the estate of his son Murphy to be held for Murphy’s daughter Mariah White in trust for her children. His explicit use of “Jr.” is not clear since his father was Daniel. It would make more sense for his son to use the term. Perhaps their was an older cousin living and his use of Junior was to distinguish himself from his cousin.
[554] The Lewis Shumate genealogy is drawn from the Shumate Family history by Ripley. Except, Ripley missed his marriage to Mary Chadwell.
[555] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 165. Inexplicably, this reference misses completely Lewis’ marriage to Fanny Stollard.
[556] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 165. The enrolled date of 1814 is probably an error and should read 1812. It is unlikely that he served only three days.
[557] The Works Projects Administration, Old Homes and Families of Fauquier County, 481-481. Research by M. D. Gore, Summerduck, Virginia, May 13, 1937. Cameron Crowne, Midland, Virginia, owner of the southeastern part of the farm provided the information.
[558] Cite interview with Ed and Betty Messick, 22 August 1999.
[559] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 165. However Ripley thinks she was born circ 1811. However, if children are likely to be named in wills in descending order of birth, then the 1793 date would be preferred.
[560] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 165.
[561] Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, 221. [562] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham
Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their
Descendants, 1: 165.
[563] Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, 223.
[564] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 165.
[565] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 166. This reference is much more detailed on Murphy’s family and seems the most reliable.
[566] Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, 221.
[567] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 166.
[568] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 166.
[569] Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, 228.
[570] Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, 223.
[571] Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, 224.
[572] Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, 224. The author notes that this branch of the family is written up in The Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume IV, compiled by the late Professor Liman G. Tyler.
[573] Von Stauffenberg, The Shumate Family: A Genealogy, 225. The children are given in some detail.
[574] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 166. Walker’s and Murphy’s descendants are developed in this reference, but none of their siblings’ are.
[575] Williams and Lucas, The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia: A History and Genealogy of Their Descendants, 1: 166. This reference says she was born 1806 and gives 1790- 1800 dates for her husband.
[576] Lewis Shumate entry, Fauquier County Deaths, 1853-1896: 81, Clerk of the Court, Warrenton, Virginia. He died of consumption. His mother was not named. His consort was Mildred W. Shumate. Information was by Bailey Shumate, his son. Their graves are unknown.
[577] ___________ will dated 22 March, 1850. Book, page et.c.
[578] Fauquier County Marriage Book 4: 10. The return of marriages by John Ogilvies, 24 August 1829. He also married Mildred’s brother John to Susan A. Fisher, perhaps, in a double wedding ceremony. Book 4:279 lists the bond. See John Martin Family chapter for discussion of the double wedding. The Elias Martin Family Bible records the date as the 15tth.
[579] Klitch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County, 1840-1919, 342. Reporting the minutes of the Broad Run Baptist Church, New Baltimore, Fauquier County, Virginia.
[580] Klitch, Joseph Arthur Jeffries’ Fauquier County, 1840-1919, 344.
[581] Elias Martin Family Bible. All dates given for this family are from the bible. The citations in the ancestral file citation cited next exactly match the bible entries with one exception. The ancestral file has a citation for a Bailey Shumate born about 1852. I have left this out. I believe that Lewis Baylor or Bagby and Bailey Shumate are the same person. Bailey Shumate shows up in later records, but not Baylor or Bagby. One suspects the ancestral file information came from the bible. [contact Marie Minton Hassell.]
**[582]**Donald G. Martin, complier, “Lewis Shumate, Jr.-Mildred Waggoner Martin family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers AFN: BP72-N7 and AFN-29CM-44, Ancestral File, version 4.19, Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City Utah. Other compliers: Marie Minton Hassell and William Darrell Kieffer. The citations in the source match the bible entries with the exception of Bailey Shumate mentioned in the previous footnote; and adds two children to John and Mary Burroughs, Nannie and Ethel. The birthdays for these two children are cited exactly, so one wonders what the source was. The ancestral file also has all the Burroughs children born in Philadelphia, clearly an error. [check F.C.]
[583] Welton, “My Heart Is So Rebellious,” The Caldwell Letters, 1861- 1865, 143.
[584] Welton, “My Heart Is So Rebellious,” The Caldwell Letters, 1861- 1865, 144.
[585] Interview, Alice Jane (Buchanan) Childs, 25 May 2002.
[586] Elias Martin Family Bible. The bible entry gives the two alternative Christian names.
[587] The Works Projects Administration, Old Homes and Families of Fauquier County Virginia (Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Company, 1978), 753-754. Sidney Shumate, Warrenton provided the information. Research by M.D. Gore, Sumerduck, Virginia, February 15, 1937. “The material included in this volume was compiled during the mid-1930’s, during the Great Depression by local, historically-minded workers employed by the Writers’ Program of the Works Projects Administration.
[588] Baird, et. al, Fauquier County Virginia Tombstone Inscriptions, 2: 181. “ Located 1.25 miles South West of Catlett, in the South angle formed where the railroad crosses Cedar Run, at the ‘Dan Shumate Place.’ Research by M.D. Gore, Sumerduck, February 15, 1937. Resurveyed August 15, 1994 by Mr. Feagans… About 75 yards North East of the house is the family graveyard, with tombstones to Bailey, Daniel Shumate and others.”
[589] William A. Martin, letter to Lynn Hopewell (6353 D Street, Springfield, OR 97478), May 23, 1995.
[590] Martin, A Martin Genealogy, Tied to the History of Germanna, Virginia, 126-127.
[592] Cuthbert B. Scott will (1825/26), Fauquier County Will Book 10: 236, County Clerk’s Office, Warrenton, Virginia.
[594] J. Montgomery Seaver, The Martin Genealogy, 41. “This is a record of the Martin family to immigrated to Connecticut.” [Investigate book more.], online <www. Genealogylibrary.com>, printout dated July, 1999. Previously published in hard copy (Philadelphia: American Historical Society, 1929). This source identifies him as Elias Beverly Martin who married Elizabeth J. Kennard. It does not identify his parents. It names all his children as well as the information for James Franklin Martin, the only child for which family information was given.
[595] Mark Wayne Martin, compiler, “Elias Beverly Martin-Elizabeth J. Kenneard family group sheet” (undocumented); ancestral file numbers 10GX- QJF and 10GX-QKM, Ancestral File, version 4.19 (1999), Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah. This source also identifies his middle name as Beverly. It does not show a marriage to Scott.
[596] Seaver, The Martin Genealogy, online, 41. This source identifies his wife and children. It also confirms Baynton and Elizabeth as his siblings, but does not mention Lucket or Beverly. It does not show a marriage to Scott.
----------------------- Warrenton, Virginia in front of the Courthouse, looking east, 1862
Lucy Ann Martin, age about 21 (N. DeWitt Smith, Jr.)
(N. DeWitt Smith, Jr.) (N. DeWitt Smith, Jr.)
Robert Edward Martin (Don Tharpe)
Mary Virginia Childs Martin
Writing on back of photograph: J. Richard Martin, B.H. Cavalry, C.S.A., taken 1864 (Aileen Wright)
Dick Martin about 1910 (Aileen Wright)
Robert Edward Martin after the war (Don Tharpe)
Josh Martin’s Pistol (Rusty Hicks)
Bettie Bowen Martin, age about 19 (N. DeWitt Smith, Jr.)
DeWitt Smith at his desk as a teacher, 1967. (N. DeWitt Smith, Jr.)
Four generations: Dewitt holding his daughter Nadine, her mother Lucy, her
grandmother Jemima
(N. DeWitt Smith, Jr.)
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Nadine Smith and Albert Scott on their wedding day
(Albert Scott)
Mamie Martin aged six (Aileen Wright)
James Burge (Aileen Wright)
Mamie Martin Burge as a lovely young woman (Aileen Wright)
Aileen Linn Burge Wright (Aileen Wright)
Roy Andrew Wright (Alieen Wright)
George Washington Martin (Don Tharpe)
Old grave at Germantown, possibley that of Rev. John Henry Haeger, who died
in 1737. C. H. Huffman photo, October 19, 1952.
The old Weaver House at Germantown, removed some years ago. On it was the
date 1721.
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Map Representing the Most Recent Research on Ownership of Germantown
Settlement Property By Woolford B. Hackley
The Germantown Settlement Boundaries on a Modern Map.
1850 U. S. Census, Fauquier County, Ficklin Family
John Martin and Susan Fisher Marriage Bond 1829
John Martin Family 1850 Census Record
On rear of photograph: Hugh and Cousin Minnie
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1836 Marriage Bond of William L. Ficklin and Ann Coleman Martin
Lewis Shumate and Mildred Martin Marriage Bond 1829
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