I9283: Sue ALVIS (AFT 1834

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Marriage 1 Mary JONES b: 18 SEP 1784 in Virginia Married: BEF 1808 (Mary Jones was a fourth cousin of Robert E. Lee.)
Children:
2 Thomas Anthony FLOOD b: ABT 1808 + Martha Smith JESSE b: ABT 1813
2 William Dibrell FLOOD b: 1810 d: 1880 + Jane W. JONES b: 5 NOV 1817 d: 2 OCT 1842 + Polly Ann HALL b: ABT 1822 d: ABT 1844 + Sally A. _____ b: ABT 1822
2 Joseph Lee FLOOD b: 2 NOV 1812 d: 16 NOV 1881 + Emiline M. OGDEN b: 6 JUN 1825 d: 6 MAR 1853 + Julia C. FRAME b: 10 SEP 1825 d: 18 APR 1863 + Sarah Catherine BEALL b: 18 DEC 1833 d: 14 NOV 1881
2 Leanna Dibrell FLOOD b: 1814 + Elijah SMITH b: ABT 1807 d: BET 1870 AND 1880
2 Elizabeth Ann FLOOD b: 1 FEB 1816 d: 1 AUG 1864 + Benjamin Franklin WASHBURN b: 30 NOV 1806 d: 3 JAN 1882
2 Louisa FLOOD b: 31 MAR 1819 + James M. JESSE b: 26 SEP 1816 d: 27 JUL 1859
2 George William FLOOD b: 10 OCT 1821 d: 26 JAN 1900 + Margaret E. BEALL b: 11 MAR 1826 d: 22 NOV 1897
2 James Monroe FLOOD b: 24 MAR 1825 d: 12 NOV 1911 + Susan Katherine BRYANT b: 11 MAR 1841 d: 28 DEC 1906

Cecily FORD

ABT 1730 - 10 Feb 1815

ID Number: I51952

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Cecily Ford, is found listed in the French Huguenot Vestry Book of King William Co. VA according to an index published in 1986.

John Jackson PATMAN

ABT 1810 - ____

ID Number: I14207

Gen. James TAYLOR

19 Apr 1769 - 2 Nov 1848

ID Number: I16577

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Newport, the county seat and principal city of Campbell County, was established in 1795 and is today a thriving, progressive city. Its most famous pioneer house, the General James Taylor mansion, was built in 1837 on the site of a log cabin built in 1795.

HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, by Lewis Collins, and J.A. & U.P. James, published 1847. Reprinted by Henry Clay Press, Lexington, Ky., 1968, pp. 227-228 [Campbell county].

GENERAL JAMES TAYLOR, one of the pioneers of Kentucky, resides in Newport. He has attained his seventy-eighth year, and is remarkably active and sprightly for a man of his age. His venerable consort, to whom he has been united for upwards of half a century, and who came to Kentucky in the midst of Indian troubles, still retains much of the vigor of her youth, and attends strictly to her household affairs. The mansion of these venerable pioneers, "Belleview," one of the most beautiful and costly in Kentucky, has long been distanguished for elegant hospitality.

Mrs. Taylor removed to Kentucky in 1784, in company with a large party of emigrants, among them the Rev. Augustine Eastin, of Bourbon county, who married an elder sister. In their progress through the wilderness, and after they had made their encampment for the night, the party of Mr. Eastin was overtaken about night-fall by a large body of emigrants, who were seeking new homes in Kentucky. Mr. Eastin advised the party to encamp with him, as Indian signs had been discovered through the day, and there were strong reasons to apprehend an attack.
The party, however, disregarded the warning, and having traveled about a mile farther, made their encampment. From some unexplain cause - probably incredulous of danger - they retired to rest without stationing a single sentinel to guard their camp, or warn them of the approach of an enemy. In the midst of the night, when the fatigued and jaded travelers were wrapped in the most profound sleep, the savages attacked them, and killed and scalped more than half the company, numbering altogether about forty persons. A man, his wife, and two children, of this company, beame separated at the instant of alarm. The mother, with her youngest child, effected her escape to the woods, and made her way back to the camp of Mr. Eastin. The father also escaped, and in a short time afterwards reached the settlements; the eldest child was slain. Two weeks after the arrival of Mr. Eastin's party in Kentucky, the husband and wife were re-united, each supposing, up to the period of their meeting, the other to be dead.

Gen. James Taylor is a native of Virginia, having been born at Midway, in Caroline county, on the 19th day of April, 1769. He was a quarter-master general of the north-western army in the late war, and was active in the discharge of the important duties which devolved upon him. When Gen. Hull surrendered Detroit to the British forces under General Brock, in August, 1812, General Taylor and Major (now General) Jesup, with other officers, were called upon to assist in drawing up the articles of capitulation; but they all indignantly refused any participation in an act so disgraceful to the American arms. General Taylor had previously taken an active part in the plan concerted by the field officers to displace General Hull, and confer the command of the fortress on General McArthur. Had the latter, with his command, reached Detroit in time, the plan would have been consummated. In the course of a long life, General Taylor has accumulated a very large estate, and is probably one of the most extensive landed proprietors of the west.

Taylor Eastin Hull Brock Jesup McArthur = Bourbon-KY Midway-Caroline-VA MI

Historic site a burial ground; Evergreen Cemetery a solemn place of lore
Pieces of the Past column by Jim Reis of the Kentucky Post Publication date: 06-15-98.
James and Keturah Taylor: Founders of Newport, they were influential in business and cultural activities in early Northern Kentucky and once owned much of Campbell County. Keturah Taylor's first husband, David Leitch - also buried at Evergreen - developed the first settlement in Campbell County along the Licking River at today's Wilder.

James TAYLOR, KY Militia, Quartermaster General and District Paymaster for KY and OH

Nettie Mae TURNER

23 May 1885 - 23 Jun 1954

ID Number: I899

Sally WASHINGTON

ABT 1764 - by 1797

ID Number: I55273

Mildred WHITE

23 Jan 1755 - BEF 1798

ID Number: I80477

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2 Mildred White b: 23 JAN 1755 d: BEF. 1798 + Isaac David

Lister WITHERSPOON

7 Jun 1848 - ____

ID Number: I30128

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Their first home in Woodford Co. KY burned and they bought a farm, "Loto Wano", near Versaille. Children: Warren Viley m. Lilly Herbert Fahs of VA, Ellen Douglas m. M. Allen Buffington, Lister, Jr. d. at age 22, Ethel m. O. L. Alexander of WVA.

"My Ancestors: A Brief Account of the Ancestry of Lister Witherspoon and his wife Martinette Viley of Woodford County, KY" by Martinette Witherspoon, 1922. Martinette Villey remembers William Holman Martin as a very large man, tall and fleshy (300 pounds?) with black hair and blue grey eyes. "He had a good kind open countenance and he was noted in all the neighborhood for his benevolence and generous kindness to every one. During the Cholera epidemic when so many of the neighbors sickened and died, the old people, I have heard them say, said 'they could have better done without the physician than they could have done without 'Brother Martin.'" He went night and day ministering to the sick and dying and never took the disease and I think my mother said there wasn't a case on the place. He was a man finely educated for his day, and had a fine library which he enjoyed. I can well remember the shelves full of books, and seeing him nearly always with a book in his hand when he sat in the house. He was a devout Christian and was a member of the "Old Crossing's Baptist Church." He was a deacon, led in prayer and sang well. He had a fine full voice and always led the sining or "started the humns," as they said in those days when there were no instruc\ments in the churches to lead and depend on. " He was an ordained minister, but had to care for his six small children after his wife's death and so did not preach. He lived first between Midway and Georgetown on the "Iron Works Rd" in a beautiful old home surrounded by flowers (he kept a man digging and hoeing all the time); Esther Antoinette also loved flowers, books, and music. He had a large farm and many slaves of all ages, "all living to enjoy themselves and do as little as possible. He would never sell or hire one out, for fear they might be mistreated, and they grew up in idleness and impertinence. No one ever corrected them for anything and they were an impertinent and very saucy set. I hated to go among them for they were too familiar. ..". I was afraid of both him and my step-grandmother, but why I do not know, since neither either spoke a cross word, or even talk to me or take the slightest notice of me. " The house was a very old fashioned brick, painted white with green shutters, with three front porches; three of the four front rooms had front doors opening on a separate porch, all connected by pavements.... He later married Mrs. Sallie Nuckols True, and lived in Scott Co KY

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My Southern Family

Sue ALVIS

AFT 1834 - ____

ID Number: I9283

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Mary BUTLER

Aug 1803 - Apr 1881

ID Number: I99336

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Margaret DANIEL

ABT 1695 - 6 May 1727

ID Number: I32498

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William FLOOD

12 Dec 1777 - 5 Dec 1845

ID Number: I103068

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Cecily FORD

ABT 1730 - 10 Feb 1815

ID Number: I51952

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John Jackson PATMAN

ABT 1810 - ____

ID Number: I14207

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Gen. James TAYLOR

19 Apr 1769 - 2 Nov 1848

ID Number: I16577

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Nettie Mae TURNER

23 May 1885 - 23 Jun 1954

ID Number: I899

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Sally WASHINGTON

ABT 1764 - by 1797

ID Number: I55273

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Mildred WHITE

23 Jan 1755 - BEF 1798

ID Number: I80477

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Lister WITHERSPOON

7 Jun 1848 - ____

ID Number: I30128

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